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mircea_popescu: very common problem people have on
the internet,
the "everyone is as stupid as me / everyone's a goat
the same gender and age as me" issue.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: a) do not make
too
tiny cuts
that wouldn't have survived mechanically b) clean
the fucking piece.
mats: sand
the damn
thing?
mats: is concealing
the laser job hard?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` at
this point, expecting a "well of course SOME PARTS were done with a laser but
that's not what we were
talking about" pivot for
the entire "you're a bad person for hurting my feelings and i'm putting
together a lynch party"
talk
mircea_popescu: He did
the BTC from memory << ok
that's pretty good lol
mircea_popescu: this one is just as plausible. all you need is
to be stupid.
nubbins`: "You can clearly see
the line by line marks left on
this piece
that are definitely, without a doubt, with 100% certainty left by a laser engraver exactly
the same as a printer does:"
nubbins`: "I happen
to be a woodworker of 40+ years myself (yes, I really am
that old) and I contacted WoodCollecter just a couple days ago
to see if he was interested in buying some Ironwood, although I never looked at his work. Now i see
this and my mind is completely boggled. I did not read every post here, but I can affirm
the opinion of a few I saw
that have said
that
the intricate carving in question is done with a laser. I am 100% sure about
mircea_popescu: you know,
the fucking exchanges send like an email on everything now?
mircea_popescu: so if
they're willing
to commit
to
the same level,
they'll get
the same result.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the "ukrainian government" still exists right ?
mircea_popescu: this is fine,
the us wants
to be humiliated on
this front
too, let it be humiliated on
this front
too.
mircea_popescu: but yes, im sure gavin "talked"
to everyone handled by
the same office.
mircea_popescu: "Edit: On IRC, Gavin explained he already
talked
to most (all?) big merchant processors and exchanges, and
they were all onboard." derp.
felipelalli: how can I fix
that? I can't delete or update it.
mircea_popescu: da finally came out and said, here's how
the president is linked
to
the whole
thing.
mircea_popescu: teheran was behind it. first investigation said so. presidency (same fambly since forever)
tabled it.
mircea_popescu: davout here's
the story : big bombing here in
the 70s, at
the jewish center. dozens of victims.
kakobrekla: >the best guess from our devs is
that
the bid was filtered out because
the highest bid was > lowest ask.
mod6: davout:
thx for posting.
davout: but if
this murder
thing is
that obvious, zero is indeed very low amount of protest
davout: mircea_popescu: "but for
the sake of argument, explain
to me how exactly is
this any less
than some derpy cartoonists being shot by some random idiots ?" <<< easier for
the media
to blame
teh arabs
than
to blame
their president i'd say
mircea_popescu: hopefully
they get replaced, and
the replacements get raped and impaled as well.
mircea_popescu: so... love food riots. if president + government get raped and impaled, all
the better.
mircea_popescu: whereas individual
terrorism is regarded as ordinary and perhaps welcome.
mircea_popescu: i am personally in favour of so much individual
terrorism until it is inconceivable for
the slightest hint of
the state doing it,
mircea_popescu: turns out, when a government is
the
terrorist, all is ok. but if individuals are
the
terrorists, oh noes, gotta make
the press
talk of nothing else for a month.
mircea_popescu: i would expect a degree of magnitude more pressure as a result of
this rather
than
that.
mircea_popescu: but for
the sake of argument, explain
to me how exactly is
this any less
than some derpy cartoonists being shot by some random idiots ?
ben_vulpes: yeah i
think i'm going
to hold off on moving
to argentina until
the next round of food riots clear out.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
to get a couple aweek you gotta scrape pretty
thin yea ?
mircea_popescu: clearly
the population is not naturally represented in
this process.
ben_vulpes: oh,
this shit goes down for arcane policy points?
mircea_popescu: and
then simple political murder, of
the most shameless sort, fails
to stir
three dudes.
mircea_popescu: you can't get me
to seriously
think
that some intricate point of policy yields 500 people holding signs in
the street,
jurov: i'll return
to
these patches later, now i have
to finally fix
the s3 suffering
mircea_popescu: you familiar with
this
thing where a bunch of people holding signs walk or stand ?
ben_vulpes: you might consider using
the patch names as a handle
ben_vulpes: or
to say, run an lxr instance for each successive patch?
ben_vulpes: jurov: how about you hold off on publishing
the patched set for now.
jurov: was
there any idea how
to refer
to patched releases? i need some handle under which
to publish
them in lxr
mircea_popescu: so i am satisfied
that all
the "manifestations" are just so much empty
theatre.
mircea_popescu: but
tell you what, da got assassinated by president (there's absolutely no doubt cristina kirschener ordered it, and it was an assassinate) and... no manifestation.,
jurov: ben_vulpes ahh it's
the ersatz hosting
mircea_popescu: something like, "a bunch of people who appear bussed in, and some derps organizing". ie, it looked
to me like astroturf.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, it's clarified some
things for me. i live within blocks of
the center of all "manifestations" "public meetings" and so forth.
there's on average
two a week of
these.
they're not all political, but
the political ones seemed quite suspect
to me
☟︎ ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: have you seen much actual derping in public about
this nisman
thing?
jurov: it will get reorganized, so far only upstream 0.5.3 for
testing
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: would
this be like cartoon where someone
threatens
to fire nuke. presses button, and out pops confetti and lil' jon yelling "YEAAA BOMBS!!!!" ???
mircea_popescu: only real difference being
the idiots don't have sense enough
to chicken out right before
the jump
mircea_popescu: hard
to
tell,
the one
thing cowards and idiots have in common is
that both
talk
the
tough
talk all
the way
through.
mircea_popescu: it's funny what vanity does
to people. is he actually blind
to how his entire position reduces
to "i wish
to be relevant, damn
the world" ? neat.
mircea_popescu: so wait, "you must accept MY altchain because otherwise you get a CHOICE of alt chains" ?
this is
the gavin pro-fork argument ?
joecool: that are stored separate from
the original WoT db?
joecool: thestringpuller: so does
this bot support ratings as well?
joecool: thestringpuller: ah, is
there a particular reason why it was useful
to fork?
joecool: thestringpuller: probably for
the best, is
the db still centralized
to
the WoT or is it a new system?
joecool: o you guys upgraded
the bot
BingoBoingo: undata: Nah, just some group forked it and is hosting
the
thing on google code
ben_vulpes: (i suspect
that when you increase road surface by 10%, road miles go up far more
than
that)
mircea_popescu: "nothing substantial has changed anywhere else but where we want you
to look. please infer"
mircea_popescu: "when divorce occurence in a population increases by 10%,
the per-capita dependent children figure goes up by 10%. when 12%, 12%. clearly, divorce causes fertility."
mircea_popescu: academics in
the scholarly academic
topic of correlation is causation.
mircea_popescu: If a city had increased its road capacity by 10 percent between 1980 and 1990,
then
the amount of driving in
that city went up by 10 percent. If
the amount of roads in
the same city
then went up by 11 percent between 1990 and 2000,
the
total number of miles driven also went up by 11 percent. It’s like
the
two figures were moving in perfect lockstep, changing at
the same exact rate."
mircea_popescu: “We found
that
there’s
this perfect one-to-one relationship,” said
Turner.
mircea_popescu: "to
take a closer look at
the problem. In 2009,
two economists—Matthew
Turner of
the University of
Toronto and Gilles Duranton of
the University of Pennsylvania—decided
to compare
the amount of new roads and highways built in different U.S. cities between 1980 and 2000, and
the
total number of miles driven in
those cities over
the same period.