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mircea_popescu: decimation do you have any idea what size constraints that;'d put on say la ?
assbot: A Digest of the Public General Statutes from Magna Charta - Robert P. Tyrwhitt, Thomas William Tyndale - Google Books
decimation: or for suppressing some disorder of which he is eye or ear witness on some adjoining stand, &c. in absence of the persons keeping watch, &c. therein, nor then longer than necessary, s. 19."
decimation: "29. Where persons so keeping watch or ward, shall want assistance therein, any other persons on like duty, having knowledge thereof, by the rattle,signal, outcry, or otherwise, shall repair to, and assist by all means in their power; but no person, during his time of duty, shall absent himself from his particular stand or walk, without consent either of the constable or special constable of the night, unless on the above occasion;
BingoBoingo: Right now here it is a nice 18.3333 C Tomorrow it is only supposed to get up to 29 C
TheNewDeal: which is why I have not bet on the negative
TheNewDeal: very true
BingoBoingo: The thing about betting for a negative is that even if nextchange is estimated negative the first many days of a period, new hash is going to bleed all over your whites the last couple days
mircea_popescu: tbh i don't get that bitcoinnews article. wtf is it supposed to be ?
mircea_popescu: bfl trols sa lmao. idiots.
BingoBoingo: But how does it taste? Usually it takes some work to make a Capon Aviagen sent a team of scientists to Sanderson last autumn to study the issue and has acknowledged that an undisclosed change it made to the breed's genetics made the birds "very sensitive" to being overfed, he said. "We fed him too much. He got fat. When he got big, he did not breed as much as he was intended to," Cockrell said about the breed of rooster.
decimation: england was very well policed before the telegraph
decimation: and apparently the backup is ... sit in the cop station and eat donuts
decimation: then the fact that DC can't keep its radio system running
decimation: well, the taxi inspector who encouraged a high speed chase to settle some paperwork
TheNewDeal: and they refer to all their customers as "friends"
decimation: Isn't Lyft the one that works on "donations"
decimation: one wonders about the remarkable tolerance supposedly rich people in the US have for such poor public services
TheNewDeal: was trying to get a ride home from the airport, brother was asleep, ended up paying $9 after the $25 first time discount
TheNewDeal: on a similar note, I just used Lyft for the first time last week, and it worked out without a kidnapping
TheNewDeal: decimation "When they left their meeting there, they thought about taking Uber, but the wait was too long, so they took a cab instead."
asciilifeform: decimation: they're meant to work with hand-holding (if you ask me, that defeats the purpose of a robot)
asciilifeform: decimation: believe or not, the sub-$10k (new) chinese machines seem to lack optics.
decimation: I don't think you would be placing fine pitch parts without optics
asciilifeform: decimation: less than $5k << one with no optics, yes
decimation: "The normal external power feed appeared unreliable Monday, so officials switched to generators until the issue could be addressed. But, 13 hours later, the generators failed, leaving police briefly without radio coverage, 911 callers on hold, and 311 callers totally out of luck for 16 minutes."
assbot: Radio silence in D.C. - The Washington Post
decimation: "A side note: Waters said the hack inspector tried to radio for help from other agencies, but his attempt coincided with an outage of the city?s emergency communications system. "
assbot: Man visiting D.C. says Uber driver took him on wild ride - The Washington Post
ThickAsThieves: "The next day we noticed that our most popular article on the entire site, the "The $22,484.00 Butterfly Labs Mini Rig bitcoin miner is a huge, broken, unstable piece of shit." had been edited and now read The Butterfly Labs Mini Rig is a sexy Bitcoin mining machine."
ThickAsThieves: "So that's the whole story. I was tricked into selling Buttcoin.org to BFL and no longer have access to the site so I've set up camp on the subreddit instead so I can shitpost about bitcoins still."
decimation: asciilifeform I tought you could pick up a chicom pick'n place machine for less than $5k
mike_c: how the hell am i supposed to make any money.
assbot: BitBet - And Then There Was One :: 7.59 B (56%) on Yes, 6.04 B (44%) on No | closing in 4 months 5 days | weight: 35`178 (100`000 to 1)
mircea_popescu: kako is a graybeard despite his tender years
mike_c: random aside: I am now a 0MQ fanboy thanks to kako. fast, versatile, easy to use in any language. solves all your pubsub, message queue, and lonely nights problems.
mike_c: only 0.5 BTC for version 2 kit. i am tempted, but know i have no time to play with it.
mike_c: asciilifeform: no wai. the facebook oculus rift is 3d!
mircea_popescu: well, this and the surgery.
mike_c: i figure that is how simpleminded psychopaths have fun.
asciilifeform: and, perhaps - to decode mircea_popescu's post...
asciilifeform: today we have technology, no longer need squirrel to see colour. but still necessary for 3d, etc.
asciilifeform: that was among the first ads i saw when i came to the us
cazalla: wow, that dude was that fat that long ago
mike_c: omg i remember that commercial
mike_c: i need the paper with holes cut out in the right spots.
mike_c: i tried reading letters down the edges, but nothing.
mike_c: this trilema post needs a OTP to decode, yes?
TheNewDeal: Jack Black is pure talent
mircea_popescu: i really dunno, kinda obscure how this shit works.
TheNewDeal: it's not betting on a full time win, is it?
mircea_popescu: maybe it means if they end up in penalty.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea how "draw" odds are supposed to work on all these betting sites tho. this is the wc final, wtf draw ?
mircea_popescu: im seeing germany at 11/8, !germany at (23/10 + 5/2). this comes to 1.375 for, 2.5 against.
assbot: BitBet - Germany wins World Cup :: 10.62 B (64%) on Yes, 5.94 B (36%) on No | closing in 2 days 23 hours | weight: 83`530 (100`000 to 10`000)
mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/993/germany-wins-world-cup/ << dude look at that, bitbet actually covered.
TheNewDeal: its a tarp!
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal everything on the internets is a trap
mircea_popescu: which is an atrociously bad movie i had the misfortune to watch earlier.
TheNewDeal: have abouts one in particular called The Food of the Gods?
TheNewDeal: hipsterset of historpy. oh my, going to have to reuse some of these
TheNewDeal: West Niphomanian - that's too good to be an accident
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: markov chain text gen
TheNewDeal: asciilifeform what is that?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: shannonizer test?
TheNewDeal: can I get a period please, or a semicolon, or something of the like?
assbot: Image tagged in lawgs - Imgflip
kakobrekla: august the 3rd it is.
mike_c: uh, did you read the links he posted?
kakobrekla: do you want me to ask mp?
TheNewDeal: just wondering about any resolution plans for http://bitbet.us/bet/951/ , as I'm tired of reading all the derp comments
mircea_popescu: 250k is about... roughly 30 btc, at today's exchange. covers five years.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves re the uif thing, best part is their raport of activity. it has a 2000-2009 and 2010 - 2014 section, somehow this makes sense. scroll to page 6, admire the fines (multas in original)
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> i just mean, one pic at a time picblogging stuff /// instagram is what people use for this
mircea_popescu: fingertrap them!
mircea_popescu: incredible how actually useless the 2.0 web is.
HyperChetty: <mircea_popescu> what is this medieval patriarchy// uuh isnt that what you claim it should be??
mircea_popescu: what is this feminist postmodernism!
mircea_popescu: what is this medieval patriarchy
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know you probably get the girl her own handle.
asciilifeform removes pet from console, plants back on throne
asciilifeform: anyway. *steps away from keyboard now cause this isn't relevant*
asciilifeform: or 'reblogging' any of the above which is actually most common
asciilifeform: post = 1 through 10 pics, or a text post, or a video, or several different formats of text
asciilifeform: well okay. but that's not what tumblr is
mircea_popescu: the way tumblr works is that a post = 1 pic.
asciilifeform: i have seen the porn pics, but that's not all or even most of the site
asciilifeform lends keyboard to pet to explain...
asciilifeform: people actually post text there.
mircea_popescu: i just mean, one pic at a time picblogging stuff
asciilifeform: doesn't support comments, in the usual sense. instead, when you 'comment', it... reposts the turd on your own 'tumblr'
mircea_popescu: wait tumblr is the pic posting service.
asciilifeform shows to pet, who reads it habitually, she nods
asciilifeform: afaik it's the only turd of its kind.
mircea_popescu: that site's too retarded
mircea_popescu: anyone wanna recommend a tumblr equivalent ?
mircea_popescu: for the sake of nohomo.
benkay: 'contractor', please. for the sake of my taxes.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> mike_c i think the most peer review that's happened to date was me slapping around benkay's employees. // hey now that's a dangerous word to throw at americans
mircea_popescu: <Mats_cd03> Regulators almost everywhere need to do more research on the effectiveness of microprudential and other tools that could be used to deal with macroprudential problems.  << the best tool is for them to stfu.,