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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was plenty of the latter even a year or two ago
<< yeah, but "preponderence of derpitude" standard.
decimation: asciilifeform: re: cruise ship
< well, there's a reason they say it's for the 'newlywed and nearly dead'
PeterL: mircea_popescu:pete_dushenski they claimed circle defrauded them, threatened to sue. never sued, disappeared.
<< was Dwolla, I don't think Circle was a thing yet then, but same idea
pete_dushenski: "Ex-marine Jered Kenna has to be one of the most perseverant entrepreneurs in bitcoin. After his exchange TradeHill fell apart not once but twice, he also lost bitcoin.com – the flagship domain for the digital currency."
<< perseverant and retarded.
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> and the food was mediocre in quality, but great in quantity
<< in the 90s it was the best thing for avg romanian chick, work the cruise ships.
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> the amusing bit is that folks think they are trading in a 'free market', but then actually act like they are scared government lackeys
<< quite!
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> I think there might be some of that, but I also doubt that britian's 'good men' could get much done trapped in the crazy monkey house of a modern us bureaucracy
<< no, but they wouldn't be, see ? that's the very definition. "good men" is, obama comes and derps, they point and laugh, obama calls the national guard, they shoot it dead.
mircea_popescu:
<fluffypony> my supply chain is in my fridge
<< you eat molds ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: re: old parts
< yeah, especially since this particular shop specialized in making 'flyable' aircraft
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> the end result has maybe 30% 'original' parts
<< old men don't want the original parts of their wife, they just want a construct that looks like the wife did, in 72.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> or cultivate a relationship with an actual machine shop
<< this is how itworked in the 80s too lol. a guy had to have relatiuons with mechanics.
ben_vulpes:
<decimation> I asked 'why don't you just use a cnc mill to shape the parts'. the answer: 1.) they apparently don't 'do' computers and 2.) the aircraft were all half-ass made to the blueprints anyway, often with 'by hand' adjustments
<< uh yeah that's how hand machining worked
decimation:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/02/michael_munger_1.html < "Guest: And that--I do want to keep defending Buchanan. What Buchanan's worried about is a monolithic Leviathan. Because he thought, once you have a state, it will just eat all of the other choices. It will pull all of them inside, like a sort of great vortex. All of the choices will become public because that's the way that states work. That's the logic, is to expand.
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo> Studying CS would be a fine path if only the studiers would accept being deprived of computers until their 30's
< hehe my old man was writing code years before he first saw a computer.
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: "OMG I can make money programming compooters, i'd better jump on the CS bandwagon"
<< you tell me
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 02:14:01; asciilifeform:
http://kyristor.com << dumped my ancient derpage in there for archaeologists to derp on.
mircea_popescu: adlai from what i've heard, they want to form a Third Foundation. this is getting even thicker than asimov
<< lolz. the part where they carefully avoid the why of it, and how exactly the old one died is also the part that ensures they stay irrelevant.
danielpbarron: Nobody noticed the hat initially. Was the city too busy for the hat to be anything of interest? It took five or so hours of walking around different parts of Manhattan before anyone said anything. When it started to get dark out people reacted completely differently. One person came up to me, asked about the hat and then offered me a range drugs.
http://ecstaticpessimist.in/projects/4-forehead-gallery << LOLOL
mircea_popescu: "Multi legionari ar fi dat orice ca sa-i insoteasca in aceasta Cruciada. Insa lipsa fondurilor si previzibila impotrivire a guvernului fata de o expeditie de amploare au facut ca Legiunea sa trimita pe front o echipa alcatuita din numai sapte oameni."
<< "everyone wanted to go but too poor to afford the trip, and besides, parents wouldn't approve. so they had their own 7 man condor legion."
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> nah, the pentagon can barely intercept mail to Fat Kim that has "TOP SEKKREIT PLZ NO BULLY" written all over it
<< bwahahaha
mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`> can someone please explain to me why this is an issue?
<< because for as long as this is a pretend-issue, they can continue to pretend-ignore the various actual issues.
mircea_popescu:
<pete_dushenski> lol i think they're better than that. a broker i've done a few deals with swears by
<< it'd help if he were in wot
PeterL: pete_dushenski: two cents say 'sneezing baby panda' runs on the gop ticket against hillary
<< are you referring to one of the politicians, or an actual panda?
PeterL: nubbins`: FWIW i've used these methyl soyate products before
<< used as solvent?
danielpbarron: cazalla> danielpbarron, who is avatar x? steph?
<< no idea; some guy who sent me a private message on google+ who thinks he's important or something
cazalla: mircea_popescu: there was a fetlife "btc" fetish group
<<< buttcoin? at least it'd be a fitting name
gribble: xinxi was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 13 weeks, 6 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes, and 58 seconds ago:
<xinxi> no one is here?
cazalla: mircea_popescu> archive.today thing works fine.
<<< i have started to do this
gribble: wences was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 year, 37 weeks, 6 days, 3 hours, 4 minutes, and 47 seconds ago:
<wences> mircea, are you here?
decimation: asciilifeform: re: gyrojet
< lol "recoiless rifle" from your fist? Does the exhaust burn your eye out too?
mircea_popescu: trinque hence "
<mircea_popescu> well... maybe his uncle!"