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asciilifeform: entirely absent from the peanut gallery, and voted down into oblivion in the particular spots where i personally tried to insert it.
asciilifeform: 'Mice found themselves born into a world that was more crowded every day, and there were far more mice than meaningful social roles. With more and more peers to defend against, males found it difficult and stressful to defend their territory, so they abandoned the activity. Normal social discourse within the mouse community broke down, and with it the ability of mice to form social bonds. The failures and dropouts congregated
jurov: obv that won't work if it's going down
gribble: 8ch.net is down
bitstein: "Democratic state Rep. Senfronia Thompson criticized the company by saying that 'it would have been wiser if Mr. Tesla had sat down with the car dealers first.' But there is no 'Mr. Tesla' involved in the company, which is named after the late inventor Nikola Tesla and is founded and run by Elon Musk." https://fortune.com/2015/05/18/tesla-texas/
bitstein: whoops, my irc chat wasn't scrolled all the way down
bitstein: "Mr. Lawsky, who has spent his entire two-decade legal career in government, plans to open his own firm and serve as a lecturer at Stanford University, people briefed on the matter said." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/business/dealbook/benjamin-lawsky-to-step-down-as-new-yorks-top-financial-regulator.html
mike_c: found the original article on nyt: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/business/dealbook/benjamin-lawsky-to-step-down-as-new-yorks-top-financial-regulator.html
mircea_popescu: Defense spending analyst Winslow Wheeler concluded from flight evaluation reports that the F-35A "is flawed beyond redemption"; in response, program manager General Chris Bogdan suggested that pilots worried about being shot down should fly cargo aircraft instead.
mircea_popescu: "In March 2013, USAF test pilots, flying with pre-operational software that did not utilize the all-aspect infrared AAQ-37 DAS sensor, noted a lack of visibility from the F-35 cockpit during evaluation flights, which would get them consistently shot down in combat."
mircea_popescu: everyone's a dancer while sitting down.
Hasimir: that would be such a let down
cazalla: they tried to ban em down under but no luck
ben_vulpes: besides, securing physical things comes down to guns.
BingoBoingo: !down tidus
pete_dushenski: and 'gbtc' is back down to $29. for 'approximately' 0.1 btc.
mod6: then straight down to 0.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> ahahaha "Waco police claim the violence could have prevented if Jay Patel, the operating partner at the independently owned Waco franchise, had simply banned the Confederation of Clubs from meeting there"//of course that would work, would have happened at the place down the street instead.
mircea_popescu: either you have the whole contract written down, or i'm not signing.
justJanne: Wait until the UK leaves, and their tax-haven-economy breaks down.
williamdunne: Don't think we all should be equal in fairyland but creating additional barriers is about the equivalent of kicking a man while he is down
mircea_popescu: i get it, you got how to throw a great party down, once someone prepares the cupboards. very impressed.
justJanne: Every. Single. Time. A governmentally owned institution got sold to a US investor they either closed down 2 days later, became shit, or just expensive. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: best burn down any large scales of that kind.
justJanne: we got it down to 8 operations, but others got it in 7
ascii_field falls down
mircea_popescu: if it needs to be scaled down you say, i scale.
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: Everything it seems, comes down to human trust evaluation.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-05-2015#1135608 << everywhere someone hopes to get something for nothing and figures govt's the answer to that quandry there's an enemy of b-a. amusingly, this boils down to really very few people and traceably so. ☝︎
ben_vulpes: got it down to 35 minutes.
alphonse23_: but this, the mod manipulating titles -- for whatever reason. There's ton of down voting too.
asciilifeform: allowed. I sat down; took my Samsung Galaxy SII (white) out of my pocket, and recorded the entire
mircea_popescu: you know, just a line down from where i say "i have my doubts 4096 keys will EVER be factored."
mircea_popescu: if anything shows the value of hard work and just sitting down and doing it, in the present environment of financial "futures" and just-in-time everything, this would be it.
asciilifeform: we don't crap out the product often, it dances on the disk and slows things down
asciilifeform: and it was actually in snarf-only mode when it fell down
mod6: speaking of which... is nosuchlabs.com down?
mod6: oh no. yeah, it was probably thrown up and down, left and right. gotta have a solid box & styrofoam enclosures.
ben_vulpes: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/05/wolf-richter-why-the-heck-is-the-trucking-business-slowing-down.html
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: scoop's down! how'm i to know
williamdunne: If people could see that beauty is on the inside then most of the models in the world would have Down syndrome <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Oh dear jesus. Too dumb to be dicks?
trinque: jurov: I dicked it up messing with it and it made a new sqlite db nobody further down the assembly line cared about
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu dulap down ?
cazalla: plus this idea of down sizing just helps them fit more people in
cazalla: we have a high minimum wage here (down under) but people still struggle on account of insane cost of living so can't really blame people for indulging a little, not like it's worth their time to save a deposit for a house anyway
mircea_popescu: cazalla i had an entire fucking lulz with the elec corp in romania. they wanted to give me a deal if i prepaid, so i prepaid for like a year. then the eu elec price explosion happened, and so they paid me to get out of the prepay deal. then prices went back down.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, lulz no but for anyone else, retention staff often have better deals than pay on time ask no questions customers, so you port your electricity/gas to another provider, old provider comes back to you during cool down period and offers something better
cazalla: BingoBoingo, not cups but i vaguely remember about 25 years ago that they did a big song and dance about biodegradable plastic bags here down under and how they would be phased in and the old ones phased out, yet to this day they still carry on about plastic bags
trinque: then make reference to that deed when you use that schema later down the way
trinque: ah crap it's down
mircea_popescu: trinque essentially, an application of "bitcoin is bitcoin" is what sunk gavin. they still mostly can't believe it happened, but it did. it will again. in practice, you either implement a broken, pared down version of bitcoin, in which case bitcoin defeats you, or else you implement a correct version, in which case... you've implemented bitcoin.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down; that's not my department, said werhner von braun...'
pete_dushenski: ok, so mebbe it doesn't burn houses down, and mebbe everyone has a half dozen of these chips wedged into their various appliances...
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: burn down from having flammables near cable boxes, toasters, etc ?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: burn their houses down how? these won't be packaged as traditional miners, recall. it'll be in cable boxes, etc. that folks get 1 or 2 of
pete_dushenski: because a few 'early adopters' will jump on board, burn their houses down, and the thing'll fizzle out
trinque: world's upside down
copypaste: That's really what it comes down to.
mircea_popescu: dude pete_dushenski has his moments. whodda thunk he has such subtle points down pat as "the most important thing is to not overprice".
asciilifeform: !down ascii_field
BingoBoingo: Oh, reddit is down for emergency maintenance
asciilifeform: submarine has the virtue of not falling down and exploding if it runs out of juice
decimation: I bet if you went down to the grounds with a metal detector you could find 1000 knives
cazalla: and with the imminent aussie budget due, muh country slide further down the drain.. "A new tax on bank deposits to build a fund that could be used in the event of a banking collapse. In a handy little boost, the money would also sit on the budget balance sheet. "
mircea_popescu: jurov serbians shot down a stealth plane ?
jurov: well, serbians did use passive radar to shoot one down. and then 2.4ghz sources were far not so plentiful
ascii_field: or do you consider any box where you can't suck down prebuilt packages from the net, to be 'a bitch to run'
assbot: Bucharest Warriors înving categoric Mureș Monsters | First Down | Fotbal american în România ... ( http://bit.ly/1zT5rWB )
assbot: China’s Smartphone Market Slows Down - WSJ ... ( http://bit.ly/1PC9UyS )
ben_vulpes: http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-smartphone-market-slows-down-1431296873 << modern manufacturing can crank out so many units as to completely overwhelm demand. this, i believe, is what's actually driving apple into the 'watch market', such as it is
assbot: Bucharest Warriors înving categoric Mureș Monsters | First Down | Fotbal american în România ... ( http://bit.ly/1EvQbL4 )
asciilifeform: one can debate the solar panels - but this seems like a hands-down defeat.
danielpbarron: doesn't jump down to that part of the page and doesn't select the text
livegnik: You can only up/down-vote the identifiers themselves. Next, you can say anything about them under ratings.
assbot: Anonymous Tor Cloud project closes down ... ( http://bit.ly/1E0TsBy )
jurov: heh, just got this tab open: http://betanews.com/2015/05/09/anonymous-tor-cloud-project-closes-down/
asciilifeform: don't scale - down ?
fluffypony: and they were like "SORRY SIR, THE HOBBY STORE IS DOWN THE ROAD"
asciilifeform: dig down, and you will find that most of integrated circuit industry on planet3 ultimately lives and dies by the work of a handful of people.
mod6: !down asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: !down asciilifeform
asciilifeform: i tried to track down which of these mr mold may have read,
mircea_popescu: cazalla i missed ratings i made after gribble went down, on gribble's wot. like for instance the phantomcircuit one i discovered missing yest, was made in february.
mircea_popescu: for now it'll be "no, really, you can't take wikileaks dump down. even if it does 'endanger the lives of agents'".
mircea_popescu: dude this shit, where i say something and it gets confirmed two lines down. ima go have a drink.
mats: this kinda shit is my #1 time-waster. i find something neat and go down the rabbit hole for a week.
assbot: Beatboxing Didgeridoo - "Wilcannia Mob - Down River" - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1JTmdrU )
BingoBoingo: The fiat fail is a pattern though. People near the top like Blair and Bradley with ItBit or Altman with CoinBase say they are cool with the law and people lower down in Utah and Iowa say STFU they have laws too.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> unrelated >> http://newsru.com/world/01may2015/mexico.html << (possibly) zetas shoot down a chopper << how convenient for the us that mexico is actually going through the motions ahead of it.
asciilifeform: unrelated >> http://newsru.com/world/01may2015/mexico.html << (possibly) zetas shoot down a chopper, torch a few random things
asciilifeform: that one can sit down on a breadboard
asciilifeform falls down
cazalla: BingoBoingo, i'm hoping to replace everything here with edible plants.. axed down some random tree here (went axe instead of chainsaw) to make room for maybe a mulberry in the spring.. stump was a cunt to get out the ground
funkenstein_: if netscape goes down, the internet is broken right?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony so are the twinkletwins of bitcoin taking this one sitting down ?
nubbins`: (talk by typing in the box down there ----v)
decimation: well, if you can live on a hardware baseline, then you have the luxury of clamping down on software upgrade shit
mircea_popescu: yeah, im aware really good scientists can listen to a two hour lab report, write down three lines and then reproduce it exactly.
mircea_popescu: if indeed "they" signed wrong domain, as opposed to matt rude being derpy, we will know down the road.
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for schmidty with note: saw a provocative looking comment about the blocksize and is now falling down a rabbit hole