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mircea_popescu: perfectly fine definition of arithmetics, "+0 and /1 are not permitted ops"
mircea_popescu: but not allowing 1 as a divisor is not some sort of big deal.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you could just make it 4096. p can never be 1.
mircea_popescu: either they use your money or else they don't get shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform obviously, you didn'[t expect the actual USG has any resources ?
mircea_popescu: only suckers pay retail. ustards pay something else entirely.
mircea_popescu: dja understand that had they paid 1k per phone, which a) the ipad never cost and b) volume discounts, they'd have justified less than ONE QUARTER of what they actually spent.
mircea_popescu: where;'s that lulz about bloomberg's "beat cops need catpics, costs 200mn, throwaway in 3 years" nobody-goes-to-jail-for-buying-terminals thing ?
mircea_popescu: (laugh if you will, but about 99% of fiat "government" business consists of google and wikipedia searches)
mircea_popescu: is this the first case of an actually molested package ?
mircea_popescu: or maybe he just cashed in whatever was left and paid usg for a new mortgage, or maybe was actually shot and left to bleed somewhere, or or or.
mircea_popescu: eh, suggests nothing. what does it suggest in mike's case ?
mircea_popescu: if that means she'd at least put some fucking doing into the fucking, i'm all for it.
mircea_popescu: by the way, since we're doing PSAs : how about NOT doing dumb shit like this, as a matter of well maintained policy, so we have a chance in hell of knowing whether you've been fucking kidnapped as opposed to you know, merely unreliable in the family way.
mircea_popescu: he said something about a new job or moving or something, i'm foggy on details.
mircea_popescu: phf ben_vulpes Framedragger excepting deedbot from the "don't read out bods" ? feasible ?
mircea_popescu: maybe it's legitimate to except deedbot from "bots" then, seeing how it'll never read loglines which is what the ocncern was.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform both salient points (the multi-try mod ; the divide powers of two by p) were part of a larger discussion where you defended tooth and nail teh impossibility!
mircea_popescu: sounds like the whole discussion coupla weeks ago actually found its way into actual practice.
mircea_popescu: i don't think it can be put into words, how much of the whole "poor people need help" the pay-for-your-tits disabused in my mind.
mircea_popescu: there's half a billion of them, and what, one a year manages to find her way to a hundy ?
mircea_popescu: an honest man, he is ; actually functional in any proper sense, they aren't.
mircea_popescu: i don't expect they can fly in this. eagle isn't a swallow.
mircea_popescu: these pair of eagles came to say good morning erry day, nowehre to be seen this morn.
mircea_popescu: the avian biodiversidad is pretty fucking sad looking, i'll tell you that.
mircea_popescu: aaand in other "global warming" lulz, costa rica has been beset by an... anti-tropical storm, with temperatures 10 degrees below period averages and winds in the 50kph+ range since yest.
mircea_popescu: experience is a valuable teacher absent for most experts.
mircea_popescu: and a lot of redditors would be surprised at how bouncy tits are.
mircea_popescu: hy not advertise honestly? Nonprofits are allowed a 3% management fee so VC firms can still afford disgusting salaries and daily crudité delivery. Maybe that decreases the likelihood that endowments and pension funds allocate assets to Silicon Valley, but LPs allocate less than 0.5% of their funds to this subset of private equity anyway. Venture capital is already a tax writeoff." << check out who gets how the whole pile of
mircea_popescu: "Venture capital isn’t an asset class, it’s a system to transfer wealth from state pension funds into the pockets of general partners. Some of the wealth moves into the pockets of kids working on new technology. This part is important, because that technology can have a moonshot chance of improving the world. Someone’s gotta fund moonshots, and it’s not gonna be banks. Venture capital, then, is a charitable service. W
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform whatever, "investors displeased with key figures" if you prefer the in-universe formulation
mircea_popescu: !!v A3C339306287A0EF5DB3FF8AAE9B8B025273132697C1BCB814C3EFC1AE30E984
mircea_popescu: !!withdraw 0.0120199 14PywEwC84oBNn4fZiFJssjDPQTokgdGE7
mircea_popescu: but i'll lol, which is comparatively the larger part anyway.
mircea_popescu: nor will they ever raise the acumen to confront the plain reality of how they ~should~
mircea_popescu: all the fucktards going around wikipediaing for the past decade won't chase me around so i step on their worthless bodies instead of the pavement, of course.
mircea_popescu: not only for the direct reason, but for the implicit hope that maybe... wikipedia follows suit ?
mircea_popescu: moving towards "advertising agency" in desperation is perhaps the lulziest fiat conceit yet.
mircea_popescu: in other great news, looks like the politruks got together, decided they really only have the office space for one of the two, and axed twitter.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform character in true romance. thinks he's black.
mircea_popescu: kinda why any serious graduate programs in the us should include 6 months assbatical, spent twinking for drexl in baltimore.
mircea_popescu: the high level "fuck you, i own this world and everything in it and you will either adapt or fucking die, bitch" is... not really accessible, mentally, to kids with college degrees.
mircea_popescu: by the same angular measure, they tried to nearly not be v.
mircea_popescu: da fuck i care about the extra... what is it, mb ? i got a 200gb blockchain ffs.
mircea_popescu: prolly cheaper to re-package the damned thing as a tar than to bake in bzip2 dependencies
mircea_popescu: why is this required though ? is it just because random idiots decided they need a SPECIAL rar for their ever so special code farts ?
mircea_popescu: well, gf knew what's gonna happen, so no makeup, wine blush. hireling didn't know, full make-up in tub, eye and cheek.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the lulzy part is that it's so plainly obvious who's the gf and who's the hired ho.
mircea_popescu: she's a fucking workout trainer, but whatevers, can be anything amirite.
mircea_popescu: interesting perhaps not the right word. nigerian prince a lot more like bangbros porn ; these idiots a lot more like jane fonda trying to pretend she's srsly acting in a srs film.