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bounce: pink on
the inside, yellow on
the outside, and a blackened soul?
thestringpuller: so my inner black man is very repressed. like in
the chappelle's "When keeping it real goes wrong"
mats_cd03: i get
this impression from you. perhaps i'm projecting.
bounce: what? it's where all
the feels are. obviously.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03
there's definitely value in educating
teenagers.
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mats_cd03: as misguided as
that is,
there's something
to be said for shared sacrifice
mats_cd03: these fucking
tumblr
things are why personnel advocate for
the draft
mats_cd03: perhaps because females are intimately familiar with
the particular sensation of gut wrenching?
mircea_popescu: the likeliness of someone having actually witnessed a savaging is pretty much inversely proprotional
to
the count of "gutwrenching"
they used over
their lifetime.
mircea_popescu: why's
this gutwrench[ing] construction become such a staple of chicklit anyway ?
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assbot: Girly
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw what did you
think of
the hour of battle rewrite ?
chetty: this beheading
thing is about at meme status
mircea_popescu: so
today i learned someone came up with
the following idea :
take n2o4, heat. it dissociates into 2no2. put
through
turbine, extract work. as it cools and loses pressure n2o4 reforms. compress, cycle.
mircea_popescu: suppose
there's at least
three different
types, and you can identify
them.
mircea_popescu: suppose you have an infinite supply of liars. can you construct an oracle out of
this ?
mircea_popescu: no, you just don't want
to apply management
to
the philosophical problem.
mircea_popescu: that analogy would hold if a) no aids could infect
trhe brain ever and b) all human parts were detachable, and cost less
than a pill in a us hospital.
mircea_popescu: "can i wear my pretenses with
this five dollar suit ?" "no" "wow what an EXPENSIVE suit!11"
assbot: Logged on 09-07-2014 00:50:59; asciilifeform: '…we need a word
that describes
the artifacts generated in response
to irrational actors who demand
to be fooled. As
the old saying goes, “A fool and his money are soon parted” – at
the fool’s own insistence, no less! If
the deer comes out of
the forest and walks up
to
the hunter, it is not proper hunting, and
this is not proper con artistry or grift or embezzlement or any other
term we use
to describ
mircea_popescu: puts
the whole pretense of representativity into question.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the fact
that
the eu even considered
that demand, and i don't mean answer
to it, but even considered it
mircea_popescu: i can almost imagine some guy in say 2035 having
to interact with
that.
mircea_popescu: Naphex: for all
that panic with bash not
too many exploits hitting <<
the good stuff happebed prior
to
the release.
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa: I just audited and apparently I made an assumption which is not
true << ahem.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: how does
that much lulz fit in one little screen cap?<< guy kinda looks like a walrus
mats_cd03: "The bitcoin community doesn't necessarily endorse U.S. foreign policy, and
the bitcoin community doesn't necessarily endorse everything
the U.S. intelligence community does." But, he said, "things
that are morally wrong, bitcoin rejects." ...
mats_cd03: i suspect it is not really
that valuable
mats_cd03: i wonder how easy it is
to fence diamonds
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mats_cd03: if not
terrible. almost as
though she read "Speaker of
the Dead", and
thought, "ill do
that, but better."
mircea_popescu: like a horrible war zone between ignorant users and frightened managers <<
the exact fucking problem.
mats_cd03: i
thought
the eulogy was beautifully written
ben_vulpes: financial freedom is
the only social good
mats_cd03: its social good
through financial freedom, man.
mircea_popescu: the one
thing all
those idiots will never say is exactly
the only
thing
they should be saying at all :
this other guy didn't do it, he is our king, our lord, our sovereign, and so much better
than we may even aspire
to one day be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this whole fiasco reminds me of naggum's discussion of
the y2k
thing.
mircea_popescu: none of
this "but mp, you never gave any proof".
there's your motherfuc king proof now stfu and shine my boots.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i seriously expect
the entire world
to now bow down
to my superiority and explicitly recognise its inferiority, as a wholy owned, substantive characteristic of
their own.
assbot: Logged on 08-12-2013 16:40:53; mircea_popescu: and
the same princuople goes
to
the "devteam" retards implememnting pki
mircea_popescu: not like
they'll cary on derping about "ux" and how
their shit is worth not just money, but billions of it.
mircea_popescu: i suppose every single entity in online finance, from paypal
to icbc will now come and leave a comment on
trilema saying "sorry, we're fucking stupid, you're right"
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mircea_popescu: the difference between
the shorts we want our shorts
to be and
the shorts our shorts actually are is
the one
thing
that sinks businesses.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu>
this is fundamentally different from what
the boy in question does, on forums and while commuting. << pah yup
ben_vulpes: sure, it guarantees cash in pocket instead of worthless paper when
the music stops, but all i'm left with when
the music stops is a company
that makes software in competition with all
the other shartup engineers.
mircea_popescu: and i mean both for VCs and for PUAs, and come
to
think about it
the difference is negligible.
mircea_popescu: the whole charade's a sort of "fine when we do it, evil/bad/wrong when
they do it"
thing.
mircea_popescu: this is fundamentally different from what
the boy in question does, on forums and while commuting.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> what is a rationalization hamster? << supposedly what women do when
they've been rejected by a magical boy of magic,
they go in a corner and worry and obsessively rethink
the experience.
ben_vulpes: this consulting short isn't really
that great of a short actually
mircea_popescu: <mats_cd03> but do uber, airbnb, dropbox, and
the like not deserve billion dollar valuations?" <<< i agree
that other people's shit stinks but isn't my doodoo all perfumed ?!