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assbot: Judge Forrest ended
the first week of
the Silk Road
trial by reminding
the jury not
to watch
the Princess Bride over
the weekend.
mircea_popescu: decimation it's as fucking unbriliant as a lump of coal. at
the end of
the week, instead of having a decent steak and a game of bridge with intellgient people,
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decimation: mircea_popescu: it makes
the little people feel like
they are getting
their money's worth, as
their stock valuation rises, while
the management cashes out
mircea_popescu: socialistoids of all flavours praise
this system of "dilute ownership"
decimation: exactly. in
the us system it's even worse, given
the pervasive nature of index-fund investing by derps with retirements
mircea_popescu: hire some derp
to work your company, pay him by share price, next
thing you know he;'s buying up your stock.
mircea_popescu: buffett explained
this scam back when he was still you know, possessed of himself.
decimation: curiously
they are all compensated directly in stock options & equivilents...
decimation: mircea_popescu: conversely, it makes 'total sense' for
the management of apple or whoever
to buy back stock
mircea_popescu: "well i guess
that's fair,
they also sell for 20-30mn"
mircea_popescu: x company sells for 100 mn. you
talk
to
the founders...
they made 50k off
the deal.
mircea_popescu: these magical money
that make anyone rich up
to
the point where
they'rer
to be spent...
decimation: hey little engineer derp! here's $5k for us supressing your wage for a decade - it's cool because
the newspapers have said google is bad
mircea_popescu: but
they're suddenly NOT
the same
thing if
they leave
the circuit, are
they.
mircea_popescu: why's google, apple and etc not pay a
trillion ? it's just bezzlars anyway.
decimation: of course, esteemed professors in USG law explain how
this is good: Ms. Lobel said. “But it’s a good result in
that
there has been much media attention
to
the illegality of such retention practices, real monetary consequences and promises
to cease all such practices in
the future.”"
mircea_popescu: but
they can spend A
TRILLION for a shitty plane,
those people ?
decimation: have amounted
to a few
thousand dollars for each of
the 64,000 class members."
mircea_popescu: thus it's more productive energy-wise
to use faster bullets, not larger slower ones.
mircea_popescu: problem with idiots is
that even middlingly executed parody is indistinguishable from
their actual creeds.
mircea_popescu: ??! I don’t want him
to hate me because I have a crush on his hot friend, but rape is not ok. I let him continue and we both came, but it’s natural
to have sensations even when raped. I can’t even
think straight anymore idk what
to do.
Thinking about posting his Facebook here."
mircea_popescu: "So I
think I was raped last night…. Or sexually assaulted. I was hooking up with
this guy I regularly hook up with since
the break up, but I’m not really into him and just kinda want him
to satisfy me u know? So we were having sex like usual…. But
then he
turned me around and began penetrating me from behind “doggy style.” He kept going. Not ONCE did he ask if it was ok
to change positions. What should I do
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mircea_popescu: generally
the paper revolutionaries looking for a little "investment"
tend
to make it clear
they don't actually wish
to rock
the boat.
decimation: that doesn't mean
that hardware isn't interested in him!
decimation: my dad recently had his kitchen floor rebuilt.
the wooden floor carpenters were apparently all romanian
mircea_popescu: dude check it out,
the only extant country he actually mentions is romania
BingoBoingo: ON SECOND
TIME MANY DRINKS OF VODKA
TO MAKE GIRL WANT FUCK; MATCHING ENOUGH DRINKS MAKES DANGEROUS
TO CARRY SIDEARM.
mircea_popescu: somehow it seems
to me he uses conscript as
transliteration of ciolovek
mircea_popescu: IN RUSSIA WE ALSO HAVE RULES OF COURTING. DO NOT BRING SIDEARM
TO FIRST
TIME WITH GIRL. SENDS WRONG MESSAGE,
THAT YOU ARE BAD CONSCRIPT WHO WILL RAPE GIRL.
BingoBoingo: "YUGOSLAV
TYPE HAS SPECIAL GAS
TUBE LEVER AND GRENADE SPIGOT ON END OF BARREL. I
THINK LIVE GRENADE FOR CIVILIAN IN AMERICA IS PROBABLY ENOUGH REASON FOR GULAG, SO IS PROBABLY NO REAL USE FOR GRENADE SPIGOT
TO YOU. "
mircea_popescu: SURE, IS ONLY YUGOSLAV COPY
TYPE BUT IS STILL PROUD DESIGN OF SERGEI SIMONOV.
THIS IS LIKE SENDING HIM BIRTHDAY CARD WITH SEVERED OFF
THUMB OF DAUGHTER IN ENVELOPE. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SERGEI! I PISS ON ALL YOU CREATE!"
undata: the guy's right about
the mosin
mircea_popescu: that's a good fucking question lmao. sks fired from
the hip by
teenage boys in rural
texas ? no wonder people can't land fucking rockets.
mircea_popescu: WHAT IN FUCK IS DONE
TO
THIS POOR RIFLE? STUPID HICK AMERICAN WITH
TEN GALLON HAT AND GIANT PICKUP
TRUCK LOOKS AT PERFECTLY FINE SIMONOV KARBIN AND SAYS "NO, RIFLE NEED MORE DUMB SHIT ON IT"?
undata: "MAYBE YOU PUT SEX DILDO ON
TOP
TO FUCK YOURSELF IN ASSHOLE" << ahahaha oh god, my sides
decimation: really, moldbug 'needs' at least a few $bil
to make hardware
undata: heh I don't know,
there could be interesting ideas in
there; I haven't looked
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> why
this obsession with new programming languages <<< same reason every us chick has had
three prior sex partners.
ben_vulpes: why
this obsession with new programming languages
undata: reminds me of
the ruby ass-dungeon
undata: then you'd have
to memorize
their goofy names for
things
too
decimation tried
to run urbit after it was publicized, got
tired of
the entire world collapsing every other day
undata: what a
terrifying syntax
decimation: well,
the problem is
that every ounce of
that
tank costs $$$
decimation: okay so
there's a pre-pressurized
tank
that is at
the
top of
the rocket, it runs out of pressure after pissing out its fluid
ben_vulpes: turns out, pv=nrt is
tricky in practice.
ben_vulpes: cursory research indicates
that pressurization during powered flight comes from
the onboard
turbopump and
that when not under powered flight
there's some pressure reservoir.
ben_vulpes: decimation: i don't
think it's "leaking" so much as it's not a
traditional "closed" hydraulic system.
decimation: lol. yeah I wish I knew wtf
this 'leaking fluid' stuff means
mircea_popescu: i dunno why you ppls keep reading/linking
this crud, srsly.
they're broken, we know
they're broken... i guess it's decent comedy
ben_vulpes: business insider is, unsurprisingly, unable
to parse straightforward rocket engineering reports.
mircea_popescu: npw i finally understand what
they mean by boosting
the economy.
ben_vulpes: i'm only seeing
two occurences of
the string "slow" and neither in
the context you quoted.
decimation: but
the guy who wrote it could be a 'tard
decimation: from your article: "In September 2013, SpaceX successfully fired boosters as
the rocket fell
to Earth, slowing it down so it could land softly."
ben_vulpes: this leaves you with vectoring which is...not really enough for
the
task at hand.
ben_vulpes: SRBs are not (afaik) extinguishable, relightable or
throttleable.
decimation: ben_vulpes: ah, it seems
they also have external retrorockets
ben_vulpes: if biting off
the braindamage, why not eat all layers of
the cake.
ben_vulpes: decimation: i
think
they *do* have vectored
thrust, but
the relight operation is risky and adds complexity
to reentry
trajectory.
ben_vulpes: these fins are at
the
top of
the stage.
decimation: seems like you would want vectored
thrust
decimation: actually if
the rocket lands 'face up', won't
the fins be facing
the 'wrong way'?
ben_vulpes: perhaps
the add'l costs of sealed systems?
ben_vulpes: if you have
to carry
the shit use on
the way down, why...
assbot: /alankerlin Hydraulics are usually closed, but
that adds mass vs short acting open systems. F9 fins only work for 4 mins. We were ~10% off.