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undata: that's what I'm anticipating; bezzleland seizes up, and there's a horde of superstitious morons suddenly available
as a resource
mircea_popescu: the important point here isn't that such plans exist,
as they always do.
undata: I don't see why the Russians have to be involved
as boogeyman
BlueMeanie4: i imagine
as a Romanian you are not exactly keen on 'greater Russia'?
undata: asciilifeform: so someone can surely be beaten into this state; what I'm asking is whether they don't become useless
as a tool in that state
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2014 05:15:13; asciilifeform: it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according
as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?' '
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2014 05:15:13; asciilifeform: 'Winston made another convulsive movement. This time he did not say anything. O'Brien continued
as though answering a spoken objection: 'For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away. But what of it? Do
mircea_popescu: "Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun: but sun it is not, when you say it is not; and the moon changes even
as your mind. What you will have it named, even that it is; and so it shall be so for Katharina."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a lot of fucking debate
as to whether 1000s of individual pieces are or are not electroplatred.
mircea_popescu: this is not like saying "go on a blind date with an unqualified woman", but like saying "take a random dude
as a slave 5.8mn times"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Challenge Preet in single's combat to take over
as Bezzel Arbiter for Manhattan
undata: what I am trying to do in my own work is at least write lisp
as the primary thing from which I derive the braindead shitpile
undata: asciilifeform:
as I've learned lisp, I've started to wonder why there's anything else in the higher-level language space
undata: I'm starting to see Google Chrome
as a trojan
BingoBoingo: What was wrong with excite.com and yahoo
as a phone book?
BingoBoingo: Thing was moderately interesting
as RSS for dummies, but...
danielpbarron: what's the deal with ethereum going to counterparty? I'm curious
as to how your short contracts will play out..
jurov: oh mod6 i forgot to suggest to send it
as "patch" so that people can just add signatures.. nm, i'll add it there somehow
jurov: lol i realized the foundation's activity last month can be best described
as "DNS scavenging"
decimation: yeah
as far
as I know, except for extremely expensive bezzlar rockets usg owns, there is very little that can be done to intercept ballistic missile once it is past its initial acceleration phase
mircea_popescu: dude this is like saying guy has to "subjugate" woman,
as she needs nothing etc.
decimation: there are loads of major and minor cities that were hollowed out
as part of the dekulakization program
mircea_popescu: im sure they picked on them over disagreements
as to how to treat bitchez.
mircea_popescu: decimation listen, the market in security is such that various groups always tend to posture
as you know
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> they are seen
as 'legionaires' standing between him and the horde. << Very true in the case of Ferguson particulars
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> difficulty drops << expect others,
as usg torches miner farm after farm. << USG dealing with CHina and Russia, won't seize but torch. Owner torches.
BingoBoingo made the mistake of going to Library school. "All of these old people are going to retire soon" they said. "People want technology skills they said"
as they sort applicants by facebook.
BingoBoingo: I think they tend to still sell themselves
as a broker
BingoBoingo: I'm coming around to this maybe being newsworthy, but
as someone without a bank account I think another USian could do a fairer take.
BingoBoingo: The Aussie stuff though did come
as a huge dump.
adlai: guessing here: you don't need a subpoena to browse the internet during an investigation, but you do need it to take that same internet page to court
as evidence?
assbot: Australia: The Tax Institute Calls for 'Voluntary' Bitcoin Registry, Treating Bitcoin
as Currency | Qntra.net ... (
http://bit.ly/1FL4pch )
BingoBoingo: My nostrils can testify that this
as of this fall turds were still a more popular fertilizer in my area for corn and soybeans than anything other.
undata: adlai: use it
as fertilizer, grow something more palatable
mircea_popescu: how about the cia's strength and effectiveness
as a potato ?
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Might
as well go. They'll prolly station you in Russia.
thestringpuller: "The CIA's strength and effectiveness
as an agency depends upon its ability to employ a workforce
as diverse
as the nation it serves."
cazalla: jurov: what's with the submissions to qntra containing lengthy documents verbatim? <<< anything contained in a <blockquote>
as those length documents are, do not count towards word count
mircea_popescu: not that i'm against oxen or anything. but seriously, trying to sell me on braindamaged chickens with three beaks
as a sort of unavoidable oxen ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
as i said afore, " you'd have to be insane to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have the fucking dc handle it if you don't give a shit"
mircea_popescu: i just never ran into this sort of edge myself. i guess count it
as a blessing an' move on.
mircea_popescu: finding a fucking nat router that's not backdoored by design is a fucking hassle
as it is.
mircea_popescu: "If you have ever been F#CKED using BTCitcoin for something this would be a great way to memorialize that
as well."
jurov: grr it linked other image
as i meant
jurov: i guess mircea meant pople working for general public
as opposed to their master
mircea_popescu: it had its political importance at the time, these aren;'t really remembered today, but at some point i had to go into fucking something awful forums and argue with the idiots
as to why bitcoin actualy is valuable.
mircea_popescu: something tells me this is going to be the biggest problem of bitcoin finance. to earn a living
as a rentier you'll have to own a shitton of 'em.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose in all fairness the byzantino-rabinical approach to the written text
as deployed for the needs of bitbet is a special kind of hell for all esl speakers.
mircea_popescu: well i don't know the future for sure,
as it happens. just kinda close.
leen_: i know that will not happen but just
as an example
BingoBoingo: The odds move anyway, the calculator is just to be used
as a rough guideline.
leen_: Bitcoin to drop under $250 before 2015 The price of one Bitcoin in USD will drop below $250 before January 2015
as per Bitstamp . If the difference between a given "Yes" bet time and the bet's closing time is less than one week, such bets will be refunded minus fee. First two "Yes" bets are excluded from this rule.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> oh, nevermind. those are minimums. you can't be closer than that, but have no responsibility to be particularly close? << well not stated
as obligations, but generally it's his job to get close.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> dear ddoser, please add more bots
as it is not clear if you are still ddosing or not <<< yeah this srsly. i was half considering replacing the voice model with a ddos model, but srsly, you gotta provide better servcice for free if you wanna be part of infrastructure here!
BingoBoingo: Well, they aren't getting "theirs" anyway so might
as well for the charity of it.
mike_c: my estimate seems a bit high at the moment. i gotta do some digging into why. I would use the october statement
as a closer NAV right now.
gribble: Nick 'BingoBoingo', with hostmask 'BingoBoingo!~BingoBoin@unaffiliated/bingoboingo', is identified
as user 'BingoBoingo', with GPG key id 309BB8D7F3251143, key fingerprint ADD7A9A28F85E5EF1F51904F309BB8D7F3251143, and bitcoin address None
kakobrekla: dear ddoser, please add more bots
as it is not clear if you are still ddosing or not
jurov: pms should have same latency
as all irc, no?
xanthyos: you can think of all numbers
as having +bi but if b = 0 it doesn't matter
jurov: <adlai> slight tangent (from reading about impedance) - why on earth are complex numbers introduced
as a+bi << easy addition and multiplication?
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 03:30:52; asciilifeform: how come we never hear anyone arguing that there is no such thing
as 'strength'
mircea_popescu:
as i said, all sorts of heuristics can be useful. i tend to not pursue relations with the intellectually slow, which i often judge in seconds on simple cues such
as eye movement.
adlai: slight tangent (from reading about impedance) - why on earth are complex numbers introduced
as a+bi when (magnitude,phase) is an infinitely more INTELLIGENT way of understanding them?
mircea_popescu: belongs
as a subset obscure philosophy, right there with aesthetics.
mircea_popescu: (ie, stuff nobody would intuitively accept
as intelligence)
adlai: there may not be any such thing
as "beauty", but "sexual selection" exists
badon: It has a mintage of 200 for the silver version, and only around 10 specimens are known to have survived so far. More will probably show up
as time goes by, but $4000 price tag did not bring any new ones to the market, which is strong evidence most of them are either melted or permanently in someone's collection.
badon: I was wrong. The "museum" is actually the Emperor's palace, also known
as "the forbidden city".