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BingoBoingo: <thickasthieves> yknow i'm ok with qntra being all barebones design, but why on god's green earth is it left-aligned? << As opposed to...
mats_cd03: zipperhead hailing from 'nam, i think, and as seen in American movies like Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Gran Torino
thickasthieves: doesnt meta count as abstraction?
mircea_popescu: just as long as they don't have to interact with it abstractly, of course.
bounce: huh. bcoinnews is serving up a sack of html as text/plain. no wonder it doesn't render.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blighter | Perhaps the word is related to "blight", a plant disease that ruins potatoes (as a " blighter" tends to ruin things in which he's involved). The word appears to be ...
mircea_popescu: because you definitely care as much as they do!!! because you must, because otherwise are you implying they're fucking idiots ?!?
pete_dushenski: "The furore comes just days after Top Gear producers apologised for a "light-hearted" joke by Clarkson during filming in Myanmar and Thailand, in which he referred to a "slope" on a bridge as an Asian man crossed a makeshift structure built by the presenters."
pete_dushenski: "Clarkson, 54, was called before BBC bosses this week after The Mirror newspaper reported he was heard using the word "nigger" as he recited an old version of the rhyme Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe to choose between cars in filming two years ago."
pete_dushenski: so turns out the size of teh eligible us labour force is ~243 mn as of 2012
mthreat: Personally I think it's all staged, just as the Tesla battery dying incident was staged
gribble: Jeremy Clarkson, Master-Level Troll, Trolls Entire Nation Of Argentina: <http://jalopnik.com/jeremy-clarkson-master-level-troll-trolls-entire-nati-1641630169>; Actress Wants Top Gear Off The Air Over 'Racist' Joke - Jalopnik: <http://jalopnik.com/actress-wants-top-gear-off-the-air-over-racist-joke-1553626493>; Jeremy Clarkson lays into British as Twitter trolls mock death of his (1 more message)
mthreat: "He added that the numbers 646 on James May's Lotus could be taken as a reference to the 649 Argentinian casualties."
assbot: Jeremy Clarkson 'stoned' as Top Gear crew abandon cars and flee Argentina - Telegraph
mthreat: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top-gear/11137879/Jeremy-Clarkson-stoned-as-Top-Gear-crew-abandon-cars-and-flee-Argentina.html
gribble: Nick 'pete_dushenski', with hostmask 'pete_dushenski!~pete_dush@unaffiliated/pete-dushenski/x-8158685', is identified as user 'pete_dushenski', with GPG key id 165749929F9A6BDD, key fingerprint E6625CC14638C4CA404694E9165749929F9A6BDD, and bitcoin address None
pete_dushenski: which, if taken as a recognition of my numeracy rather than my grandparents' ibm tats, is fairly complimentary
punkman: ben_vulpes, you don't need to mess with genetics, just use them as biomass, feed into machine
pete_dushenski: "US Unemployment rate falls to 5.9% as labor force participation drops to 62.7%, a new 36 year low. Record 92.6 million no longer in labor force"
ben_vulpes: does the recruiter then interview my team as well?
ben_vulpes: maybe someday i'll outsource leadgen, but i've yet to find anyone to trust with the job because they all sound as full of shit as you.
ben_vulpes: we identify target hires as a group and then fucking hire them.
ben_vulpes: for companies with reputations for quality, it's not nearly as guaranteed as you claim.
RagnarDanneskjol: they are often generalized as being staffing agencies
RagnarDanneskjol: ok. this is like having a bad experience with a front desk secretary and holding it against every secretary you ever encounter. Recruiters are just doing the work of sorting and moving candidates through the interview process. How else would you ever get another job? at some point everyone has to deal with a recruiter (or whoever acts as company recruiter/hr generalist) -otherwise st
BingoBoingo: Also as coole as an Ole Miss upset over Bama would be... It's getting talked up so much Bama moneyline might be the better value
BingoBoingo: Well, I generally look for underdogs priced too generously. As an example there is no spread or odds that would make me think of Picking Kansas over West Fucking Virginia
BingoBoingo: RagnarDanneskjol: I'm going to have to give games a thought when I wake up. As much as Purdue sucks though... Illinois just might suck even more.
BingoBoingo: This year as everything has been parlays not much success. Two weeks ago I had a chance at least. Last week I made a suicide slate and attached a point about phantom mining hardware.
mircea_popescu: or joystick as the case may be
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski_ depends where. not for as long as stays safely behind her keyboard.
mircea_popescu: yeah, something like that. i think they mostly perceive it as a combined fuckhole/shithole/eatery
decimation: I imagine that most countries perceive the us as a 300 pound giant with the brains of a 12 year old boy
decimation: I guess I pictured it as basically peopled by Inca
decimation: if the average us guy even knows where south america is, he perceives the cities as basically gigantic barrios with constant death
pete_dushenski_: mircea_popescu: and i also like that you linked "contravex" directly to the troll article rather than the homepage. i take that as a seal o' approval :)
pete_dushenski_: mircea_popescu: just landed on http://trilema.com/2014/people-have-made-blogs/ and noticed that it could use an update vis-a-vis "bitcoinpete" being retired as such
decimation: again in 1992 to comply with the 1988 public law 100-418, setting the standard U as 44.5mm (15.9mm + 15.9mm + 12.7mm), making each "U" officially 1.752 inches.[5] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19-inch_rack
asciilifeform can always tell who did a tour of duty as a sysop in this, among other, ways.
decimation: it would demean women to treat them as objects to measure, rather than measure as objects
decimation: a bit wobbly as a ruler don't you think?
mircea_popescu: that no natural measurement of length works as the distance between the nipples
mircea_popescu: as in, o honey, 'sthematter ?
mircea_popescu: right. for many years men gathered together, trying with their humble powers to implement as much of a bitcoin-assets as possible.
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as "the people" any more than there are "women" or "blacks" or "jews" or "strippers" or "sluts" or "coeds" or so forth
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?' ' ☟︎
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 you suppose ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'independent' here just means you're funded via something other than science-as-day-job
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you know if you first join as d.shawcable.net the entire cloak thing loses its point
mircea_popescu: problem i nthe usa isn't as much the per se combustibility, more like, all the evil shit sandwiched in there
mircea_popescu: Dimsler firemen have as much history as the french.
mircea_popescu: actual doctors today are about as hacky/harmful as they were cca 1714.
decimation: as the link I put up yesterday explained, most doctors did more to hurt than heal before 1900, the 'talented amateur' was the local nurse lady who would try to keep you comfortable
mircea_popescu: for just as long as they depended for pay on their own customers.
gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'DanielKrawisz_', with hostmask 'DanielKrawisz_!~quassel@184.75.223.42', is identified as user 'DanielKrawisz', with GPG key id 101BBC10F86C4A64, key fingerprint 26AB6711E0325283DBC0C8BA101BBC10F86C4A64, and bitcoin address None
gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'DanielKrawisz_', with hostmask 'DanielKrawisz_!~quassel@184.75.223.42', is identified as user 'DanielKrawisz', with GPG key id 101BBC10F86C4A64, key fingerprint 26AB6711E0325283DBC0C8BA101BBC10F86C4A64, and bitcoin address None
decimation: might as well label themselves "I am a kulak, crush my shit"
mircea_popescu: "If Kentuckians write-in Robert Ransdell as their choice for Senator in the 2014 election they will support my plan to fix America by pursuing the ..." bla bla bla. write-in candidates for kentucky elections ?! holy shit, it's almost as if... i dunno, my similes fail me. i don't have something for this nonsense.
Dimsler: I teach bitcoiners about the implications of Bitcoin so as to alter their behavior in a way that improves the overall health of the Bitcoin network.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: surprised nobody's yet acting as if they invented hitler << americans used to. huey p. long was supposed to be 'original hitler' << Long himself had a prototype in William Jennings Bryant
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: surprised nobody's yet acting as if they invented hitler << americans used to. huey p. long was supposed to be 'original hitler'
mircea_popescu: i'm surprised nobody's yet acting as if they invented hitler, back in iowa or something
mircea_popescu: <mats_cd03> why does freenode suck so much << because they essentially gave up ? just riding things as they are into the night, as it were.
DanielKrawisz: Basically, we started out as an econ discussion group at a university called the Mises Circle, but then I got everyone talking almost exclusively about bitcoin.
BingoBoingo: Dimsler: My understanding of it is that in US prisons Scandanavian lore is appropriated so as to be "Whiter than the Brits"
Dimsler: as much as i love swedish girls
nubbins`: "labeling of the company as bogus and scammers"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> actually, the better question being, what IS left anymore anyway. << Honestly as an alternative to fleeing the US staying back to oversee partitioning is becoming an attractive option
mircea_popescu: the thing with that is... people have waited for a while. as a result the sides are weight-unbalanced. the seed 1k on yes has a 100k weight whereas current bets only get 40k
mircea_popescu: more like, the derpage in charge has been nominally identified as "left" for so long.
decimation: press organs are about as accountable as usg 'leaders'
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mircea_popescu: no i meant it as an expression of general oy vey.
RagnarDanneskjol: as with previous updates, he had to backup the deed list and reinstall I believe. please discuss with him - I dont want to misrepreset
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment" http://bitbet.us/bet/786/ Odds: 40(Y):60(N) by coin, 57(Y):43(N) by weight. Total bet: 2818.19563162 BTC. Current weight: 40,254.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla nah to the bundle as signed.
mircea_popescu: violations of your legal rights, such as copyright or trademark. If you filed that
asciilifeform: the real lulz - idiot lifts ancient material from ru forums, passes it off as fresh turd!
mircea_popescu: davidlatapie i have nfi idea what monero is because in spite of being invited fluffypony doesn't want to give the group a presentation. the comment is just as to the improbable nature of the name. why mew and what's someone not in on the jokes to make of it. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: yeah, as in, came in here as rpietilla to see if we bite head off and how many times.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not proper 'plant', as in factory, but a place related to one of my day jobs.
strp: thickasthieves, if (as anyone normal) you would prefer to do it privately you can also PM me an introduction. I don't know anything about you other than that you hang out in -assets and were recomended as responsible and level-headed.
mircea_popescu: strp free "equity" in reddit is worth abut the same as free equity in ethereum,
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/cisco-the-internet-needs-more-control/ <<< this from the company that lost 90% of its sales because it turned out they worked as usg spies.
strp: I don't know anything about you, and I'd assume you wouldn't want to discuss it in a logged forum. It is difficult to have an uknnown as a business partner without sharing anything, don't you think?
strp: thickasthieves, I told you what I'm looking for. You got a recommendation as a level-headed, responsible person, and if you would like to partner with an ambitious, mercurial, head-strong, impulsive, capricious one who has wildly expansive plans, then tell me. If not, it's okay.
strp: as I'd written, "I just read somewhere that business partners should have known each other for years. My opinion, is, naaaah."
strp: Just as above. A level-headed responsible business partner to my ambitious, head-strong business ideas that are crazy ambitious, impulsive, capricious, and mercurial.
strp: I don't know why I got voice in here. I'd written, hey. you got recommended as level headed and responsible. do you want an ambitoius, impuslive, capricious, mercurial, expansive partner?
mircea_popescu: it ain't washing as presented.
dub: boring old bgp jacking yeah, using it as an attack would be new to me
mircea_popescu: lol you should run it as a hate site.
assbot: Draghi Devaluing Euro Cheers ECB as Inflation Seen Fading - Bloomberg
thickasthieves: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-28/draghi-devaluing-euro-cheers-ecb-as-inflation-seen-fading.html
mats_cd03: and now they're mad the mainlanders are rich as fuck and hong kongers have to suck dick to live
mats_cd03: it'll be about as successful as anon declaring war on HBGary
pete_dushenski: Vexual: problem: women don't age as well as men.
mats_cd03: id trust you about as far as i could throw you
nubbins`: between three and five, as a guess
mircea_popescu: in the shapes of costs that'd be "recoverable" had they been booked, but are pure profit as they weren't.