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assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 04:06:09; mircea
_popescu: next thing you know wife gets too confident of her position and the kid's covered in helmets.
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 03:48:22; ben
_vulpes: i'm not interested in it, it's interested in me.
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 03:41:07; mircea
_popescu: i find the pastoral images soothing
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell ben
_vulpes heyo any measurements on the little v-man to report ? length, weight, etc. ?
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_dushenski
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> here's a bit of truth for one bb : "Note that when scienticians talk about, say, the increase in alcoholism, they never go back before WWII, otherwise they'd have to label most ancient Greeks, all Vikings and everyone in colonial America as alcoholics. "Well," they'll explain, "it wasn't until then we started rigorously treating people as data points." " << Or the society is broken as illustrated by the differing
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: except pretty much everyone can be made to develop mouth herpes by stressing the liver in a particular manner
assbot: Logged on 03-11-2015 02:59:23; mircea
_popescu: hp SELECTED fiorina.
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: source for that claim of yours?
assbot: Logged on 18-06-2015 14:04:54; mircea
_popescu: except pretty much everyone can be made to develop mouth herpes by stressing the liver in a particular manner
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes recent rms/everyone else fallout over whether llvm is good or not and gcc should or shouyld not expose the ast
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> almost qntrable. << Someone give it the right treatment it could be.
assbot: Logged on 03-11-2015 01:10:03; mircea
_popescu: asciilifeform what do you mean it breaks v!
assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 23:21:00; mircea
_popescu: "Welcome, kiddo, to how the real world works. You go ahead and place your crazy protest bids way off in the bottom of the sociological order book and scream that someday, SOMEDAY, the market will come down to meet you, and you will be vindicated.
ben_vulpes: wahaha mircea
_popescu sauce for the nyt bit?
assbot: mike
_hearn comments on Linus regrets how insults damaged the Linux community and we can do better ... (
http://bit.ly/1KUUwKD )
lobbes: ascii
_field: I can now confirm that both verify, and the checksums match. odd indeed
assbot: Logged on 21-06-2013 22:58:29; mircea
_popescu: "The relationship between the fandom and the actual profession is always, absolutely always and without exception one of extraction. Specifically, resources are sucked out of the fandom for the benefit of the profession."
lobbes: ascii
_field: I *was* able to verify mpi-genesis.tar.gz.sig (downloaded from IE); yet to diff with wget version
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 14:52:37; mircea
_popescu: inexplicably, tlp doesn't think Kristen Wiig is funny
lobbes: ascii
_field: I can confirm the same behavior on my graphical winblowz browsers (Firefox, Chrome). On Firefox, I get additional message of 'MrTAHIXE.sig.part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.'
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 20:16:13; mircea
_popescu: leaseweb netherlands ? srsly ?
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: confederated tribes of grande rhonde is a convenient political box for a myriad of small tribes along the length of the willamette and parts of the columbia.
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: "repatriation schemes" would be "kiss the ring and the usg will pressure holders of your holy artifacts to return them"
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: "curation standards" would be "lock all of your holy relics up in slidy climate controlled shelving units and never let anyone touch them"
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes not that i imagine i can keep up with the vulpes, but - i ok'd remodelling of a bathroom. in wax.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: 'Worse, cynicism and aspirational branding aren't two opposite ends of a pole, they form a cycle: the chasm between your cynical view of real life and the perfect definition of the aspirational images in ads makes you even more cynical towards real life; which drives you further into the safety of branding. Which is why you drink.' << y'know, i'd appreciate tlp moar if he were not talking, in every odd
thestringpuller: ascii
_field: My Russian piano teacher enjoys your writing.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field wasn't it in that time traveling british thing with the guy with wild hair and the two kids ?
keyless: just listening today (mike
_c at work). Don't have my key accessible.
punkman: mircea
_popescu: also "I wish I was rich, maybe if I had an offshore trust"
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 13:55:14; mircea
_popescu: eagerly awayting the amir taaki - mike what's his name NEWTHEREUM!!11 next spring.
punkman: mircea
_popescu: it's not so bad for the competent, is it?
btcdrak: mircea
_popescu: BashCo is a r/bitcoin moderator
punkman: ben
_vulpes: not yet but seems like it might come in handy
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 03:47:46; mircea
_popescu: "What is actually going on is that Apple is attempting to signal to the derps who willingly buy their fashion goods that actual rich people also buy those things." etc
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 03:37:59; phf: mircea
_popescu: i think there are two movies about computers that are kind of worth watching, because they manage to broadly capture the period, the hackers and war games.
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes no, because try as one might, the genders may be interchangeable but the sexes - not.
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: did you actually read the "i spent thousands learning to be a wealth manager" piece? she touches on signaling.
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes but anyway, your intuition is broadly correct, the one thing that can make your shop flourish / ensure its survival is heavy duty investment in IP. the real thing, the sort of IP that can't be intellectually-protected.
phf: mircea
_popescu: i think there are two movies about computers that are kind of worth watching, because they manage to broadly capture the period, the hackers and war games.
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