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mircea_popescu: once one actually promotes cold callers and phone marketeers
to govt positions,
there are bound
to be problems.
mircea_popescu: cue successive list of idiotic, bureaucratic "attempts"
to "in good faith" "make progress
towards fixing going forward"
mircea_popescu: bureaucrats looked at cost
to fix problem vs
try and get rid of him, miscalculated.
tried
the latter.
mircea_popescu: master in charge of saying "this key is ok
to be used in production" refused
to say so.
mircea_popescu: t find a briefcase, or paper for forms, or a currier or gas for
the plane.
mircea_popescu: *: asciilifeform is still waiting for
the first leak from
the u.s. dept. of wherever-the-stoolie-reports-from-btc-exchanges go. <<
there was recently a dump of everyone-on-coinbase, for instance.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: because? << specify what are you
trying
to accomplish. impossible
to explain what's wrong with any given methodology
to resolve an undefined problem.
mircea_popescu: i mean, i kept mpex online for a few days more
than
the consensus'd have expectd or called reasonable on occasion.
assbot: Ukraine Got
Talent -
The world's best pole dancer - Anastasia Sokolova - YouTube
mircea_popescu: then i wondered how
to fix, and
then i realised
that well... no way really, best wait
to be
taken
to
task for my business insider
treatment of science.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah i realised as i was
typing
that
the connection is actually not as close as i'd have liked.
RagnarDanneskjol: They reestablished contact
today once
they put Ragnar & me
together, want
to retain me again, sent a job order. So, I am withholding final judgement pending a come-to-jesus conversation we're scheduled
to have
tomorrow so I can get
to
the bottom of what
transpired.
RagnarDanneskjol: I actually have a history with
those guys and would be derelict in my b-a duties if I didn't raise a cautionary flag…
THey hired one of my best devs
to adapt a python arb model… Payment commitments
to said dev got a little squirrely. Also, I volunteered my own
time
to fix
their website, redid all
the html, css, wrote most of
their content and
they kind of blew it off without even a
RagnarDanneskjol: speaking of - mp -
Thanks for
the referral; what more could a guy ask?
think I'm gonna be a dork like pete &
throw
that up on my website.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate kyrio -3 does not understand how
the wot works or what it's for.
cazalla: anyone know kyrio (left me -10) because of something
to do with danielpbarron
mircea_popescu: now let's wonder why exactly is
the usg dept of facebook able
to spend 20bn on some random purchase of a valueless firm
mircea_popescu: As
the protests in Ferguson, Missouri over police fatally shooting 19-year-old Mike Brown have raged
through
the past several nights, more
than a few people have noticed how relatively quiet Facebook news feeds have been on
the matter. While #Ferguson is a
trending hashtag, Zeynep
Tufekci pointed out at Medium
that news about
the violence was, as best, slow
to percolate
through her own feed, despite people posting libe
mircea_popescu: decimation: mircea_popescu: minor nitpick - I don't
think USG employees get dental actually << generally no, but afaik nsa folk do.
decimation: yeah, but if you are going
to build a module purporting
to provide
timing it would be nice
to provide
typical allan variance at various intervals, etc
decimation: asciilifeform:
the datasheet artfully declines
to provide any spec for
timing accuracy - long or short
term
decimation: asciilifeform: generally only in
the big cities
though
decimation: asciilifeform: I
think
they make a version with
TCXO, doubt cheap chinese version has
ben_vulpes: kid's probably just retarded
to begin with.
mircea_popescu: it's like reading curtis bouvard, guy read alot but never had any sort of help
to become a systematic
thinker.
ben_vulpes: <nubbins`> how about
the marijuana supports
terr.. oh, wait` << from a conversation with a client earlier
today: "pot makes you stupid! if my son keeps smoking, i'm going
to cut him off."
mircea_popescu: that much doesn't even annoy me, my problem is
that he without exception ends up pleading
to ignorance,
to numbers,
to baculum,
to some fallacy.
decimation: yeah, he has a
tendency
to "drive-by" interesting points without actually making a point
mircea_popescu: curtis yarvin a footnote of meaninglessness in a larger discussion, as every fucking
time.
mircea_popescu: now grant one more
thing :
there's going
to be no space until long after
the ocean floor is alma mater.
☟︎ decimation: one
thing I would certainly grant: it would be far easier for humanity
to escape
to
the ocean floor
than
to
the harshness of space
mircea_popescu: i nearly got done in in romania by a 5 sq inch, 100 gram piece of
tile
that fell a foot in front of me, from
ten or so floors up.
mircea_popescu: no
thing can kill you by fallling on your head under water.
mircea_popescu: no living
thing underwater was ever pierced by a
tootphick
turned into a pike by "unseasonable" winds.
decimation: nor do hurricanes, earthquakes, etc make much difference
to
the fish
mircea_popescu: doesn't say anything useful.
to fish water is as unremarkable as air
to you.
mircea_popescu: whereas
the neptune inconveniences appear uncommon and
thus remarkable,
mircea_popescu: specifically : just because you're used
to zephyr's inconveniences
to
the point you don't notice
them anymore
mircea_popescu: living makes one live,
this much is agreed. merely pleading
to ignorance isn't much contribution (and his
tendency
to plead
to nonsense is why i dislike curtis)
decimation: good point. or worse,
those who worship statues of
themselves
decimation: as ascii's quote of Mr. Yarvin points out, one would
then make
themselves a slave
to Neptune, who isn't a forgiving master
mircea_popescu: in
this sense, global warming would be a boon for humanity, if it weren't a wholly concocted piece of nonsense.
decimation: you need an energy source
to break
the water bonds
mircea_popescu: burning
the resulting hydrogen in your own atmosphere a) purifies
the air and b) makes water.
mircea_popescu: you don't need "air", you need oxygen. oxygen is in water, and not expensive
to get out.
decimation: yeah such a
thing is probably near
the realm of possibility, I agree
mircea_popescu: decimation let's put it
this way : long before 2050 it will be feasible
to build a submersible
that never surfaces, can host one redditard and weighs under 1k
tons.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> well, lettuce see.
the submarine is submerged. it does not care about "weather" in either fluid sense. with
the new fleshlights and
tumblr pr0nz... i defy you
to find a bunch of 20somethings whose current life would be differen if
they were subbed. < ah