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pete_dushenski: "To date,
the developers have raised just over $65m from nearly 700,000 backers, which makes Star Citizen
the largest crowdfunded project
there has ever been by a huge margin. (The next largest, a publishing platform called Ethereum, has raised a comparatively paltry $18m.)"
cazalla: and if
they did, it was merely so
they could
take
the game back for a refund after copying
the cd key
cazalla: pete_dushenski, no-one in
the history of Australia has ever purchase vidya games from kmart
undata: they're
trying
to re-evolve legs
mircea_popescu: a ? well i guess
that's something i learned
today
then
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Never forget
Tillikum,
the great freedom fighter.
undata: how rude
to deny
them
that
undata: mircea_popescu: maybe
the poor fucks were
trying
to commit suicide
pete_dushenski: if it weren't for "free willy" no one would bother with killer whales,
too "mean"
undata: target... recently infamous for a massive
theft of credit cards
pete_dushenski: there's really not much room in
the market between walmart and
the bay
pete_dushenski: target bought all
the zellers stores in canada and has failed miserably
to penetrate
the market
mircea_popescu: hopefully i'll get a price per head, so i won't have
to pay per pound.
mircea_popescu: ima
totally gonna go
to
target
to buy beached whales belabouring under
the delusion
that people laughing
them out of bars = "victims of violence"
pete_dushenski: then, while
they're
there, buy something
they didn't need
pete_dushenski: people walk in just
to see
the bare shelves with
their own eyes
mircea_popescu: is
this
target
trollbaiting in
the hopes someone's going
to like, go
to
their store ?
undata: it was among other
things an interesting look at how people waste away under socialist nanny states
undata: looks like it's called "Death
Town"
undata: I watched a documentary recently on
the prevalence of suicide in some dreary UK
town. I'm not surprised.
pete_dushenski: "Kmart has become
the second major retailer
to pull controversial video game franchise Grand
Theft Auto from its Australian stores...
Target said on Wednesday it would stop selling
the game in response
to customer complaints sparked by an online petition posted by
three women identifying
themselves as victims of violence in
the sex industry."
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mircea_popescu: ;;rate
thebroker -1 aka digicoins.io. Inept and unreliable smalltimer.
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undata: same chick
threatened me with airborne ebola once; I didn't bother
to find out whether she was serious
BingoBoingo wonders about all of
the angry postgrads with no money wishing
they could afford Watson's LSD
undata: I dated a black virologist for a
time; her prescription for Africa was 30 years of quarantine
undata: "The sale also became symbolic of a quest for redemption after he became what he called an “unperson” in
the scientific community seven years ago; he had
told
the
The Sunday
Times of London Magazine in an interview
that he was pessimistic about Africa because “all our social policies are based on
the fact
that
their intelligence is
the same as ours, whereas all
the
testing says not really.”
mircea_popescu: random romanian first
timer sold some painting for ~1.5mn
mircea_popescu: of course it was going
to break
the record. all "art" is going
through roof.
mircea_popescu: ndata> it wouldn't mount /home for example << prolly home didn't have
the right pid.
undata: and it kills
the competition between for example various implementations of cron
BingoBoingo: I dunno why if init is
the problem
the solution also replaces console kit and everything else
undata: I
tried systemd and bizarre breakage occurred which I couldn't be bothered
to debug
BingoBoingo: Also it
the honorific "Congress Man" was indeed intended over
the
title "Congressman"
undata: I like
the idea of declarative config, knowing dependencies and whatnot; upstart doesn't seem
too onerous
to me
BingoBoingo: Yeah systemd eventually is supposed
to eat
the entire userland, so Pulse audio works better or something.
undata: the guy might as well submit a bill
to bring back
the gold standard while he's at it
undata: BingoBoingo:
that he's proposing something in
the realm of sane is not surprising given
that he's on
the way out of congress :p
undata: needs more rain
though
undata: punkman: ours is way better
than
that rubbish
they grow
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Because not everyone can
Tyrone. link came
to you from lulzmines
punkman: "google @ 40,000 searches per second, 144m/hour, 3.456b/day, 1.2t/year" << lower
than I imagined
punkman: "In 50 years, US
trust in government dropped from 77% (1964)
to 24% (2014)" << is
that because everyone was high back
then?
assbot: High school league votes
to let
transgender athletes pick
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nubbins`: he could just rate assbot if
that were
the case.
bagels7: you have failed
to give me a coherent response
nubbins`: am i not allowed
to down him becaause assbot hasn't refreshed
the
trust list?
mats_cd03: your part of
the well isn't
the only spot in
town, you know
nubbins`: preach it
to your next can of frosting
bagels7: i must preach
to
the 144 corners of
the internet
bagels7: Feminism is
the new fascism and it needs
to be addressed before men are entirely pussified from birth
bagels7: i would just like
to point out what a burden it would be
to marry a crazy woman in
today's politically correct world where
the woman can do no wrong.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i
thought
the immortal words of
the dude were:
the dude abides
rithm: just make sure
the miners have a ul sticker on
them
tho amirite
mircea_popescu: day slightly
thus improved, we proceed
to
the waiting car!
mircea_popescu: arrange meeting for
today at 3 with kinda shaky individual, have secretary confirm it
today. wake up, check, confirmation comes in
the form of "in
the immortal words of dude, yes, 1500. he'll wait you."
assbot: fluffyponyza comments on Blockchain.info becomes
the second website (after Facebook)
to have been issued an HTTPS certificate by DigiCert for
their .onion address. ... (
http://bit.ly/1pXLZTI )
fluffypony: Hearn
tried
to debate
the point with me on Reddit
mircea_popescu: davout: cazalla: i don't even get why
they feel
the need
to
talk about bitcoin << virgins also feel a need
to
talk about
the cock.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I can't believe in 2014 we have GoDaddy leading
the way in managed DNSSEC and Facebook leading
the way in correct
Tor hosting for clearnet sites <<< bwahaaha
this IS a fucking point. and it goes on : microsoft leading
the way for linux, on it goes.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony:
that fuckwit infosec "expert"
that's helping
them irritates me <<< i don't recall an infosec expert of
the webz
that wasn't a sort of "assigned female at birth genderqueer individual".
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: my more immediate concern is...wtf is happening
to s.mpoe << ya srsly.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: So, what's
the hypothesis. Hardware breaking and mining farms being more selective about
the hardware
they keep on? <<< mining moved away from
the general public
to "specialised experts".
this always results in a drop of quality.
mircea_popescu: decimation: eh, flat makes
those famed 'afraid of volatility'
types happy <<< yet for every 500 guys
that went "o bitcoin i can not use it is
too volatile" for 3 years going, you don't hear as many as .5 guys
today "o, now i can use it"