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mircea_popescu: Suppressing U.S.-mandated seat-belt warning tone
<< holy shit that rules.
mircea_popescu: "Features that make CockroachDB unstoppable What a database needs in 2015"
<< fuck that nonsense, what's the year got to do with anything.
mircea_popescu: "The fact is that the economic growth we had in the last quarter was in line with expectations. Of course it bounces around from quarter to quarter but it was in line with our overarching expectation."
<<< bwahaha who is this ignorant twerp. he looks like an indigent and speaks like an indigent, too!
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 01:13:47; mircea_popescu: trinque>china for example builds its *first* aircraft carrier, and people talk about the chinese being a military threat
<<< you don't understand how this works. the aircraft carrier is irrelevant. china bet on the winning strat (missile defense) and bet a lot more than the us can afford, and as a result now has unchallangeable area denial ability throughout the shores. this means it can pursue its
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 00:51:01; mod6: mircea_popescu can scarcely believe all the ustards have to talk about is whether men sit like this or like that
<< ikr! i heard some lawyer say to another lawyer on the train, "mind your man spread bro".
BingoBoingo:
<trinque> I'll never purchase another Lenovo product
<< try the X1?0e education series. Cheap AMD options available and honest tough plastic for those damned kids.
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform takes off hat
<< To inspect in head?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> now, old dog hands inform me that the absolutely irresistible treat, to dog, is cat shit.
<< Any kind of shit really.
mod6:
<+asciilifeform> rich has ~the option~ of ignoring.
<< yah, & alarm clock, job, et al.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:08:18; mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> the other interesting thing is that the market is segmented in such a way that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~ the alt-crackpotteries, not merely the logical ones
<< this is a very valid point, and the one spot where alf's ideas re meta-lizzards sound most persuasive. i do not believe the market is gerrymandered as it is by accident.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> funkenstein_: comfortable when empty but for you.
<< ro anecdote. many years ago /me went to pick up new slavegirl, decided on train for return trip. rented out whole compartment. upon entering ordered girl to strip and masturbate. cue VERY amazed train conductor guy checking tickets, level with and two feet away from rubbed clit.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> everyone just eats from bag, like a horse, whenever.
<< good enough for the pakistani's rapemeat warehouse.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> f everyone were to come by car.
<< the city as we know it is before that a creation of the "not everyone's invited" principle.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> mcturd costs a dollar or two.
<< look at how "inflation" is calculated sometime.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> the other interesting thing is that the market is segmented in such a way that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~ the alt-crackpotteries, not merely the logical ones
<< this is a very valid point, and the one spot where alf's ideas re meta-lizzards sound most persuasive. i do not believe the market is gerrymandered as it is by accident.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<mats> the argument is often made that 'healthy food' in us is expensive
<<< healthy food is expensive if you imagine yourself me but for the grace of god, and then attempt to remedy this lack of grace by papering over with money. yes you'll have to pay a lot for someone who doesn't want to, to cook at home for you.
mats: 21:57:42 — +funkenstein_ stood shoulder to shoulder in packed train today comfortably reading book
<< reminds me when i'd catch a nap in the cattle car during movements between barracks and training site, fully burdened by gear and supported on all sides by other dudes
mats: 21:49:57
<+asciilifeform> ... the nuance here is that the city as we know it is fundamentally a creation of mass transport. as in, you would have to demolish almost all of new york or london to park cars, if everyone were to come by car.
<< you ever been to LA?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> (with a third, hastily wired in like an iraqi ad hoc mine, 'grow own')
<< Not so bad, cheap monetarily and in terms of time for the veggies, get expensive quickly for the proteins
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> tho they have nfi about dairy.
<< that one italian place had some decent cheese iirc... but perhaps it was imported.
mats: guilty-plea-after-package-tracking-breaks-opsec
<< what an idiot crime. you gonna set up a stooge at the drop and hope he can outrun the black van?
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> fedex all the people!
<< haha
mod6: mircea_popescu can scarcely believe all the ustards have to talk about is whether men sit like this or like that
<< ikr! i heard some lawyer say to another lawyer on the train, "mind your man spread bro".
☟︎ mod6: shinohai takes mod6 camping, gets neg trust rating.
<< haha, wat?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> dawg im not reading that idiot yale grad's bland prose.
<< It's from their forum. User asks why upgrade left them with a bunch of .js and Derpomatic says if you don't like it install a plugin