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Namworld: [18:46]
<+mircea_popescu> next thing you know you're either making your firebolt wands vibrate or go out of the mage business.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310888 << let me explain something to you. slave had some old bitties over for coffee, recounted the story to me. they wanted to know if she's married or has a man. she said no. i suggested she should have said he died in the war. "what war ?" "you know, the war". and then we joked about how it'd play from there, and eventually it came to me the thing to say to prevent fu
☝︎ BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> ...
<< more like "state promised us that if we smoke the pipe all will be fine. well... pipe is going out and what is this!11"
<< I refer to this phenomena as Shrem's Bong
ascii_field: 'В подполье можно встретить только крыс'
<< mega-b00k. 'in the underground one meets only rats.'
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> but this isn't what this is. this is a doctor claiming he's being a contemporary rendition of fucking mengele because "the jews and the dogs expected it"
<< "Standard of care"
jurov: how is that comparable
< BingoBoingo:
<jurov> guess i should learn to submit such bits while they're hot myself
<< Please do.
BingoBoingo:
<jurov> if BingoBoingo aims to demask sordid state of the IT "industry", describing the intel mandatory rootkit would do more than failed windows port of some obscure game
<< This has to go "bigger"
BingoBoingo:
<jurov> BingoBoingo: how is the batman exceptional?
<< Dollars sunk into broken software.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 13:58:56; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310704 << the n00b put in front of von neumann machine is told that the deterministic circuits will behave... well, deterministically. then five minutes later he learns about threads and the scheduler, and then never believes anyone again..
Garmin: pete_dushenski
< is tricked by shinohai meat bot AI =)
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 13:44:50; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310319 << how's this work? tlp is not a cocooned insect / teenage gurl, waiting to transform into some other type of creature, but - at least if his writing is any clue - a grown man with many-figured bills to pay.
assbot: Logged on 22-10-2015 16:54:16; ascii_field:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-10-2015#1305362 << nobody abolished slavery, ever. but a few generations of ascendant industrial degenerates ~did~ find a way to dispense with the parts they disliked - the ones where you have to actually care for your pets
davout: "store and play the correct bach fugue depending on what emacs modeline is set"
<<< i thought emacs could *generate* bach fugues
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 07:47:18; mircea_popescu: "0. The diagnosis will make the parents want to try and help the child. This is axiomatic. No parent with access to services will be told their kid has a diagnosis of "PDD" or Asperger's and say, "not interested, let's wait a few years and see how this goes." Once a diagnosis is made, the psychiatric juggernaut is activated. "
<< no MOTHER.
mircea_popescu: " They don't give his age, they give a physical description. Media-- and The New Yorker is probably the wost offender of this-- offers a physical description of their subject as a code about their character in exactly the way the media would never allow a regular person to do."
<<< right, because it's not about anythihng but trying to misrepresent themselves as powerful. the only reason random derp can't say "nigger"
mircea_popescu: "0. The diagnosis will make the parents want to try and help the child. This is axiomatic. No parent with access to services will be told their kid has a diagnosis of "PDD" or Asperger's and say, "not interested, let's wait a few years and see how this goes." Once a diagnosis is made, the psychiatric juggernaut is activated. "
<< no MOTHER.
☟︎ BingoBoingo:
<vulpes_a_hopital> and perhaps a link to "so you want to start a bitcoin business" there at the end
<< It is at the start
vulpes_a_hopital: feature bloat, fueled by what consumers have come to expect,
<< top kek
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> who the fuck takes the woman to the hospital before she floods the room i want to know!
<< Person who has to clean the room?
mircea_popescu: and I don't know any guy in the world who has an extra pack of socks available "just in case."
<< now you do. chicks (that don't even wear underwear!) carry spare socks and similar stuff around for my convenience. so there!
pete_dushenski: "Prozac was found to be superior to placebo in only a third of studies." Boom-- Associate Professor. When meta-analyses look at only a few studies (e.g. N=4), if even one of them is a poorly designed study you can overwhelm-- or purposely extinguish-- what might actually be a real effect."
<< this one phf ?
mircea_popescu:
<davout> i can't wait for this to actually be a thing on TV once 3D printing is advanced enough
<< when i was a kid there was a 1hour midnight show that actually played z80 tapes