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mircea_popescu: that's what's so attractive about the newsman job. you get to rape a bunch of people's heads.
mircea_popescu: news, dood. doesn't ask you anything. it just puts the burden upon you to make room for it in your gestaalt as it were
thickasthieves: i mean i'd love for it to be true
thickasthieves: or the conspiracy theory page
mike_c: seems stylistically like a piece for the opinion page.
mircea_popescu: aww shit, it bottomed out too ?
mircea_popescu: it's definitely not going to be a sort of citation-needed retardopedia, for that end of things
mircea_popescu: i dunno thickasthieves, let the editor figure it out neh ?
thickasthieves: or is qntra to be like zerohedge
asciilifeform: nd I felt the secret influence of an idea that the two were destined to live and die together.'
asciilifeform: 'The exhibitor, Professor Faber, was a sad-faced man, dressed in respectable well-worn clothes that were soiled by contact with tools, wood, and machinery. The room looked like a laboratory and workshop, which is was. The Professor was not too clean, and his hair and beard sadly wanted the attention of a barber. I had no doubt that he slept in the same room as the figure—his scientific Frankenstein monster—a
assbot: Title: After defeating it in the Bitcoin market, La Serenissima bleeds the USG a - Pastebin.com
thickasthieves: but i suspect there's a reason it aint done this way
thickasthieves: i mean i like the idea n all
thickasthieves: this share method is bound to prop up more problems
mircea_popescu: i think ima submit my first qntra article. this should be fun.
TomServo: Oh, you thought you were milking the cow? We don't have a cow.
mircea_popescu: annnnnnd next time, before thinking about fucking with the bull, think about the horns.
mircea_popescu: i'm not sleepy and there is no place i'm going to
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mats_cd03: Market indexes dive, erasing 2014's gains << good thing i only have to worry about BTC taking a dive
mircea_popescu: that way he could APPEAR to get better and better to his audience
bounce: "who is the zombie now, mister moviegoing fan?"
mircea_popescu: the one thing any entertainer in the world would pay for, would be a memory zap device.
asciilifeform: (and, occasionally, lift old wine and sell in new bottle, when no 'up and coming' retard needs to be merit-washed at a given moment)
TomServo: of course, not when you can 're-imagine' and resell the same POS.
asciilifeform: they would much like to magic away the past. year zero.
asciilifeform: the shitmongers are not interested in competing with their grandfathers.
asciilifeform: incidentally, the apple emulator ban is an instance of a much larger and more interesting phenomenon.
assbot: Apple KILLS SUPER MARIO. And Zelda. And Sonic The Register
Apocalyptic: thickasthieves, the picture is priceless
bounce: it's a ploy to get people to buy more cryptome dvds, I'm telling you
asciilifeform: somebody really doesn't like the schneier piece? or was it the crown jewels catalogue circa '03?
asciilifeform: in other news, 'cryptome' appears to be under heavy ddos.
asciilifeform: apple was kept alive to play 'good cop' to microshit in the '90s, yes.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo cazalla http://pastebin.com/8QQRp1wH trololo < rolfcopter
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're both dogs of the same sled so to speak
mircea_popescu: !up TheBroker
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo cazalla http://pastebin.com/8QQRp1wH trololo ☟︎
asciilifeform: apple could not manufacture its current x86 product line without access to at least a good subset of intel's 'real dirt', no.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: amd hired away most of the original dec alpha team. but not all.
mircea_popescu: "Of note is the 3.2GHz Pentium 4, coming in competitive with the G5, but significantly behind the Opteron and Athlon 64 systems."" << i wonder if these two share tech.
mircea_popescu: do not even joke about it, it's too soon etc.
mircea_popescu: like saying you enjoy the feel of 17yo pussy giving way or something
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: it's a business owned woman << i think stating that is a top taboo in teh us.
mircea_popescu: easy enough fix, just bring back the mp education system. examine the kids aged 7, 11, 15 and 19. kill a tenth each time.
mircea_popescu: so then.
asciilifeform: how did << in precisely this way, yes
mircea_popescu: how did it get to be crowded ?
asciilifeform: actually, the dogfood mechanism being selective for born seo experts is not a necessary hypothesis
mircea_popescu: because all the seo experts of his time were dogfood by age 6
asciilifeform: in what company, think.
asciilifeform: jurov: nah, i think the y2k crap has all been snipped out by now
mircea_popescu: in fact, expectancy of quality of life has more than halved
mircea_popescu: the current day progressive averages all that out and comes up with o wow, "life expectancy has doubled"!!!1
jurov: asciilifeform was there a "damage from incorrect date calculation", like in my household insurance?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, one of the major pillars of the fallacious theory of "progress" is exactly this. back in 1700, a bunch of retarded kids that should never have lived died before being 21.
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> asciilifeform statistics is perhaps the hardest thing for the monkey brain to grok << +1
asciilifeform: this is why the machine guns will eventually be taken away from the monkeys.
mircea_popescu: harder than crypto, tho the fonts of difficulty be well related
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform statistics is perhaps the hardest thing for the monkey brain to grok
asciilifeform: i'm not particularly interested in the chances of having died while 5
mircea_popescu: they're the numeric equivalent of nitric acid
mircea_popescu: averages are really only to be used by qualified people.
nubbins`: oh, hm. infant mortality. that's a valid point
asciilifeform: if you never lived, you're not part of the equation.
asciilifeform: ussr did not calculate life expectancy using the retard formula
mircea_popescu: if this happened in the us, too, it'd be a much better place to be.,
mircea_popescu: nubbins` as i was explaining to gabriel_laddel coupla days ago, averages are slippery. in sierra leone it's 35 because a bunch of retarded infants die young.
asciilifeform: and the ones not underwater - are one wave away from being under
mircea_popescu: and in most of the world, 30s is the peak age.
mircea_popescu: no, because 100mn europeans and 80mn usians are a tiny sliver of a 600mn population in their 30s
asciilifeform: majority, i think
mircea_popescu: well sure, plenty of people in their 30s are underwater
bounce: in-hand can be higher while total worth is considerably less.
nubbins`: i suppose i do, too
nubbins`: we talking in-hand or total life's possessions?
asciilifeform: in fact, i know many folks with less than 9 bits of usd at any given moment.
nubbins`: i had a prof get overcome once when a student presented a surprisingly succinct proof in ring theory
asciilifeform: well normally the 'problems' generator is used very sparingly, because most folks lack $maxint
mircea_popescu: only thing i ever heard an excited mathematician say was
mircea_popescu: other than problems.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one can theoretically try this in usa, but it will cost $maxint. and at the end of the day can end up 'having problems.'
mircea_popescu: so in the end i only overturned the dumbass "regulation" they had invented in the first place.
mircea_popescu: and so they dropped it.
mircea_popescu: and i said that either they drop it or i sue them and overturn THAT idiocy too
mircea_popescu: and in a dispute with the romanian immigration service five years ago or so, they brought this objeciton in court, specifically, that i can't sue them before i do arbitration
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these are SOP today, for things as mundane as telephone service.
asciilifeform: bounce: feel free to try this. the flunkie will show you the door.
asciilifeform: 'arbitration' in usa is a term where the folks who fuck you over with the contract specify that you agreed to use tame judges, of their choosing (who are not in fact judges of the crown) in any dispute.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: lady: "maybe you should take a nap before our dinner party" << translation "fuck me!"
mircea_popescu: gotta love these people.
mircea_popescu: o the arbitration thing
mircea_popescu: maybe im behind the times, this was a 2000s event
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform umm well you need a better contract then
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asciilifeform: and these have held up in court, too
asciilifeform: the particular contract i saw specifically waived the right to sue anybody for anything.
mircea_popescu: gotta help the enemy breed loyalty after all.
mircea_popescu: that's why you name the people in question. see if they're willing to lie for the bank or not.