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mircea_popescu: <HeySteve> as for the rest, mircea_popescu, you may dismiss everything that isn'
t Bitcoin 0.5 as a scam but I do not take this view without evidence << but note that none of that is in any sense what i said.
PeterL: but don'
t you do "the end . the beginning" on trilemma?
mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> and I don'
t get the space between the last word of a sentence and the punctuation << the wut ?!
☟︎ funkenstein_: re: xxxotica, the name sound like made for derps, and advertised to start at 8pm. iirc restaurants down there don'
t open until after that - for lunch
HeySteve: as for the rest, mircea_popescu, you may dismiss everything that isn'
t Bitcoin 0.5 as a scam but I do not take this view without evidence
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 22-10-2015 21:58:37; mircea_popescu: i can'
t from that piece discern what is supposed to be the revenue model of the banx thing.
danielpbarron: and what about footnotes at the end of sentences? I think it looks better after the punctuation, even if that isn'
t "logical"
danielpbarron: although since seeing that practice in here, I've adopted it for use around the colon sometimes. Can'
t bring myself to do it with the period
danielpbarron: and I don'
t get the space between the last word of a sentence and the punctuation
trinque: though I don'
t know what they thought would have prevented it
trinque: I don'
t speak with many that'd be unaware they were well off.
mircea_popescu: like hell! real sports fans think the sport outcomes OBVIOUSLY MATTER. they just don'
t think they matter to anything in particular, but that's fine, neither does the punditry fan.
mircea_popescu: Political TV punditry is like sports for the intellectual set. You get to keep track of who's on which team, who gets traded, who made what play last night...and none of it could possibly matter less to what actually makes the world go 'round. At least sports fans don'
t have the same delusion of their choice of entertainment "mattering".
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo pretty sure you don'
t need second  ...
pete_dushenski: "Who said smartphones weren'
t useful ?" v. "(Run moar winbloze!™)" << though i seem to only use a question/exclamation mark once every 4-5 articles, so maybe not a big deal.
trinque: I wouldn'
t want to take your crawler from you; I'd just prefer it were crawling structured data that is solely data
punkman: trinque: the whole semantic thing in html is horse-shit << well I can'
t say I prefer <div> and <table> to <article> and <nav>, but maybe that's because I write crawlers often
pete_dushenski: <b></b> for bold and <i></i> for italic << my dumdum wp install does <strong></strong> for bold and <em></em> for italic. don'
t ask why but it seems unnecessary to specify which precise tags to use if strong/em seem to work just as well as b/i, which they do.
trinque: punkman: I don'
t either, likely due to string quoting in programming.
BingoBoingo: It wasn'
t here till 2005 when Hersheys pushed the limit. Fucking Chicago bastards
BingoBoingo: For a while Hershey was advertising that shit as chocolate... since the ruling they just don'
t sell chocolate now, just "chocolate product"
☟︎ BingoBoingo: ^ Look what Qntra may or probably didn'
t do
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1305692 <<< meanwhile i xreferenced, he's the guy that wanted to do some hairbrained rent deposit insurance thing. i don'
t see anything actually negratable in there, so he's young and doesn'
t know all sorts of things. big whoop. everyone's born young. i don'
t see he did anything offensive past that.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: these fucktards have yet to understand that no, you don'
t allow access to dirt poor, solo/pack young males.
adlai: BingoBoingo: re: the content guidelines, maybe i'm too tired but i just can'
t parse the "Terseness" guideline
adlai: or, as eloquently put by theresa heinz kerry... "you said that i said something that i didn'
t say, so you can shove it"
BingoBoingo: Signature is nice, but if Hitler writes better than submitter I don'
t yet have objections to hitler giving submitter shares. But that is an issue
adlai: can'
t hurt to just require all submissions to be `gpg --armor --sign --encrypt`ed
mircea_popescu: if you invented the cure for cancer, the government invented the cure for cancer. if you got cancer ... well you shouldn'
t have been smoking now should you have!
mircea_popescu: this obviously gives way to a very interesting twist : if you ever were in prison, it is the gov'
t's option to CLAIM that if you build a business, you didn'
t build a business - because you had come up with it during your stay and well, hid it from them. which should bring a fine, right ? on top of restitution, correct ?
mircea_popescu: inmates can'
t own copyrights of their own ideas while imprisoned because "they are in service of the state".
mircea_popescu: "Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now, there is a whole, entire generation that never knew anything that didn'
t come out of this tube. This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers. This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world. And woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong peopl
mircea_popescu: i can'
t from that piece discern what is supposed to be the revenue model of the banx thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: then one wonders why you can'
t buy milk chocolate in the us.
mircea_popescu: But perhaps there's a different explanation: there may be an assumption that if a guy asks such a basic/stupid question, then he's an idiot and not worth bothering with; but if a girl asks it, well, a college girl isn'
t held to the same standard/ expected to know as much."
mircea_popescu: "I'll add that the majority of the people I email are male; the few women I've emailed haven'
t been any different. I've confirmed this by waiting a long time (month) and re-emailing a different (but still simple) version as a woman.
BingoBoingo: Well, I guess Hawaii wasn'
t quite US soil until after the war and even then moar volcanic ash than soil
mircea_popescu: i don'
t see the difference. obama 3rd term is probably a better outcome than trump vs hilary or w/e.,
mircea_popescu: "You can'
t imagine how you, one guy, can be the problem-- the government is much bigger than you, isn'
t it? But there are millions of people exactly like you. One byproduct of modern narcissism's reliance on finite media is that countless other people are modeling their lives on the same template you are. You think you are unique in your thoughts and identity, turns out you are a clone. You think you're the only g
mircea_popescu: "The problem isn'
t the government, the problem is you. It is always you. "
mircea_popescu: some people are fucked in the head, that's all. this isn'
t socieity.
mircea_popescu: which in and of itself is an unexpected result - when you think soaps you don'
t think "judicious remuneration of contributors" first and foremost.
mircea_popescu: no, sadly. i liked it originally. by the time i was done i squarely didn'
t like it anymore.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t either. but i did study that show, like meade studied gorilla cock or whatever the fuck she studied.
mircea_popescu: i guess you could readily say, seinfeld, baywatch, "dwfs" or whatever - i didn'
t look that one up, bite me - are the same thing.
mircea_popescu: somehow it doesn'
t occur to him he really is watching too much fucking tv.
mircea_popescu: "If I was a woman of, say, 30, overwhelmed by hidden ambivalence, making next to nothing while spending next to everything, simultaneously unfulfilled by my excellent material possessions while protected from facing my actual social position; if I had to choose a direction in life but realizing that my choice probably didn'
t matter because the outcome had already been decided by the audience, yeah, I'd be on Abilify,
t mircea_popescu: (gotta remember - it doesn'
t snow here. consequently, their ideas of tolerance is not 3.5 to 5x)
mircea_popescu: this is why you can'
t have nice things. i end up with them and i don'
t even like them.
ascii_field: (if there were a recovery prompt, as in normal sys5-style init, it would be fixable. as it is, whole thing - os lives on nand flash for which i haven'
t the emergency reflash clips - is a writeoff)
mircea_popescu: you're only a bagholder inasmuch as the shit you made wasn'
t worth anything anyway.
thestringpuller: "hey guise don'
t sell your stock" - to the employees, while all big investors sell out
mircea_popescu: which is stupid in the first place. it's like dispensing with the part of your food that you don'
t like - where it nourishes you.
assbot: Logged on 22-10-2015 16:22:03; mircea_popescu: "oh, slavery meant immunity from foreclosure ?" "be a good non-slave jobsman and don'
t thionk about that!"
mircea_popescu: "wait, for them and their grandkids ? my family was foreclosed on five times in three generations! " "don'
t you have it so much better ? FORTY ACRES AND A MULE!!1"
mircea_popescu: "oh, slavery meant immunity from foreclosure ?" "be a good non-slave jobsman and don'
t thionk about that!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and getting back to slavery (as a historical consturct this time) and the subtle perversion of culture : in the ten billion discussions of how badly antebellum slaves had it that point out that they were being educated (misrepresented as "beatings" and horror, of course), how many stop to point out that a) they didn'
t starve periodically like their northern counterparts and b) if they behaved had lifetime, even GENERAT
mircea_popescu: (more precisely : not giving enough of a shit to cave - mowing down the dumb people doesn'
t count.)
mircea_popescu: i have the blessed chomsky advantage. apparently this is rare, but, i don'
t mind bothering people.
ben_vulpes: yeah but i also don'
t care to have that conversation every single day
mircea_popescu: he can'
t see all this because reasons, of the TYPE of the reason that's "raceysm" even if not exactly identical.
ben_vulpes: "i don'
t care how long you sleep or how long it takes you but this place better be clean and my underwear rolled in that drawer"
shinohai: Fulfilling because her fat American ass wasn'
t going to do any of that.
ben_vulpes: what the work of cooking and cleaning and throwing dinner parties isn'
t work somehow?
mircea_popescu: who a) should not be driving ; b) want to be driving ; c) can'
t find a sane way out of this.
BingoBoingo: Here bear alternates. Bear you can punch and Bear you can'
t punch co-exist.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> there's a huge gap between the split and agriculture. you're missing the voice, pastoral life, a lot. << A lot, but fuckers didn'
t write shit down
BingoBoingo: We didn'
t "descend" from them. We split after an angry christmas holiday.
mircea_popescu: i also don'
t happen to think that "anthropology" conducted on the various types of monkey has any value whatsoever. it's roughly on the level of freud's practice, bored rich impotent folk want to play with their cock "elevatedly".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo just between you and me and anyone who might care to listen in, i don'
t like monkeys. none, at all. would not object to a plan to exterminate all monkey types, nor do i see much value in preservation of images, records and such.
BingoBoingo: Still doesn'
t lurk here so probably getting scammed in at least 1 shart up
pete_dushenski: au contraire, i just don'
t play with wimminz who aren'
t sufficiently independent and self-made to warrant losing their maiden names !
pete_dushenski: being around this much crying isn'
t without consequences !
pete_dushenski: all's well but the claim that 'pete said i stole', for whatever that's worth, which probably isn'
t much truth be told
mircea_popescu: so then he linked and whatever, isn'
t disputing you inspired him or w/e ?
pete_dushenski: y asks me for feedback on an article. i tell him do 1-2-3-4 and we'll talk. no answer. more time passes. then he shows up here with 'pete said i stole but i didn'
t', which i happen to agree with. he plagiarised.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: ok so travispatron grabbed a quote from an article of mine without proper attribution or link. i wouldn'
t have known had he not left a comment on my original article with an embedded link back to his rip-off. the gall. anyways, i do up an 'unprofessional' article clarifying the do's and don'
t of blogging and commenting. he continues to ostrich. life goes on for another few months. he hoity-toitel
mircea_popescu: whole lotta "nothing can justify killing so lalalala i can'
t hear you whatever you say is gonna be 'can'
t logically and realistically link' blabla!11"
mircea_popescu: "The purpose of the note isn'
t to convey information, it is to convey mood, and the seemingly random and contradictory positions he takes on issues is all in an attempt to win you, the reader, over to his side. He knows for sure he is angry, he knows for sure he feels wronged, but he can'
t logically and realistically link the real world events to his level of anger."
mircea_popescu: <liquidassets> investors don'
t even want to HEAR the word bitcoin anymore, you guyz are ruining it! << said investors' daughters coming up next.
liquidassets: but seems that it doesn'
t pay dividend anymore?
mircea_popescu: TravisPatron dun sweat it too much, i don'
t think pete_dushenski aims to be all that professional