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mircea_popescu: and in other "stop this motherfucking spaceship i want to get off", try and find
a youtube tannenbaum that's not fucking lyrical to saccharine proportions.
mircea_popescu: "i can't see how crypto relates to me" is exactly how phantoms say "i think i mgiht be
a phantom masquerading as
a person". they're usually right, too.
BingoBoingo: Flynn talked the the Russian ambassador in December as part of preparing for office. Unnamed bureaucrat has been slowly leaking details to press from wiretap. Flynn sinned by lying to Pence. Lying to Pence is
a Cardinal sin.
mircea_popescu: if i wanted to be
a girly just like my dear papa i might be more interested.
ben_vulpes: in other news, the wsj is approximately the only place not using
a javascript paywall
mircea_popescu: if you're going there to shoot people, you will be in
a dome anyway.
mircea_popescu: eh. do you understand i produce about ONE QUARTER TON of water
a week through diligent application of electric power in this god forsaken shithole ?
mircea_popescu: places inhabited by
a thin sliver of idiots are essentially brackish water. canada, argentina, the us to
a large extent. they're neither fucking nor will get off the pig.
ben_vulpes: and that's coming from
a guy who grew up in portland
mircea_popescu: now, whether they kick you out once it settles down is indeed
a toss-up, but eventually at some point you're going to have to take
a chance.
mircea_popescu: think for
a second : ukraine is as large as texas. if someone were firing 1mn rounds each and every single day, that's still about one round each million square meters.
mircea_popescu: dude fills in forms. i'm like "hey, when's the last time you saw me fill in
a form ?". hilarity ensues.
mircea_popescu: rr ; b) goes to some derpy obscure "firm" and spends
A WHOLE DAY of his apparently priceless-worthess time doing the equivalent of posting naked selfies all day on twitter.
mircea_popescu: and for the record, every film with michael douglas in it is
a piece of shit ; but perhaps none as much as "the game". holy fucking shit, the premise is
a dour dude who "has it all", including
a disdainful relationship with his ex wife and two hotties vying for his attention at work nevertheless
a) lives in
a totally empty house. because how fucking hard & unthinkable it would be to get all the ex secretaries to live there hu
gabriel_laddel_p: one prior (many months ago) suggestion I liked: archive from that page to
a depth of 2.
mircea_popescu: now that's
a way to make money as
a etsy head, plant an acre of tomatoes, sell five or so tons of primo sundried tomato. 10k
a ton or such.
ben_vulpes: better dirt under your fingernails and
a cupboard full of tomatoes than rubber food and children with no immune system
mircea_popescu: what can i tell you. pdf gets displayed somehow. html is
a notation for display. convert.
BingoBoingo: Anyways pete may know someone with
a bogmine to sell
ben_vulpes: of course to effectively transport the dirt i'm going to need to buy
a trailer
ben_vulpes: "are open to anyone who want to create
a bright future that's rich with opportunity and freedom for all" << what if my bright future doesn't include towelheads, but it's still bright for everyone else, am i still welcome?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: More you buy it from
a mine of sorts, usually in Canada, and the fact of its extraction is why you must buy it while it still is cheap
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: do i hafta buy it from
a factory?
ben_vulpes: "when core democratic ideals feel under attack" << core democratic ideals! feel!
a+ "assuming the sale" right there
ben_vulpes: "
a line was crossed" nobody can use active voice anymore, saying your enemy's name doesn't give him power over you witchcraft isn't
a thing
ben_vulpes: "fuck, buddy. it's just
a coordinate transform, you can handle those right?"
ben_vulpes: hey i had
a blast with quaternions once upon
a time
ben_vulpes: "hi i have
a rudimentary understanding that some words related to mathematics exist and have spent too much time glomming strings together. please kill me!"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski first solid example of the tru power of crowd sourcing. except it's not exactly
a crowd.
a111: Logged on 2014-02-19 06:21 mircea_popescu: an old american moves to
a thai village.
a111: Logged on 2014-09-08 22:35 mircea_popescu: "Thank you for this clarification Mr. Nakamoto. It has been an honor to be labeled by my friends as "Satoshi's Drunk Uncle" and it's
a moniker I'll wear proudly until the day I retire from Crypto. The Goldcoin (GLD) developers truly admire your work and strive to continue improving upon its design as
a tribute to your unparallelled genius. Your admirer and relative in spirit, MicroGuy."
a111: Logged on 2015-01-09 07:49 mircea_popescu: "That's quite publicity for MP for
a mere 5 BTC (he owns half bitbet), maybe less. (It's obvious that bitcoin will go up faster, so not many will bet no)"
a111: Logged on 2014-12-10 00:51 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps
a thread here? but can't seem to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps
a pub somewhere in thailand, or cambodia, etc. the locals - drink for free. he fancies that if he begins to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in the back of his head he knows what will happen to his sorry arse if he were to do so.
PeterL: The early earth astmosphere has been speculated to have been non-oxygen, before we could have aerobic metabolism first we needed
a bunch of anaerobes shitting out oxygen, E.G.
mircea_popescu: heh. but you understand what i mean yes ? biological processes are chiefly defined through turning one class of substance into
a narrower other class
PeterL: when I google for "biopump", I just get
a bunch of pictures of sexy womens' shoes
a111: Logged on 2017-02-13 14:25 mircea_popescu: !~later tell peterl since you're both in the field and unlazy, here's
a thought - i would like to see
a quantitative history of life in terms of biopumps. i dunno that this was ever done, and it's
a crying shame.
mircea_popescu: bitch. what the fuck DID you think of using it as,
a dildo ?
mircea_popescu: apparently i'm the first lightbulb to have come up with the theory that IF (and this is
a very doubtful if in the first place) your backup process should fail according to the size backed up, then it is logical for it to faill for it being TOO SMALL, not for it being too big.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-13 16:10 asciilifeform: in quite other noose,
https://archive.is/l7LmL >> e. voorhees apparently had been
a loud, unabashed gavinist for ages
mircea_popescu: hey,
a family by definition has different ranking members.
mircea_popescu: 7th year of nigger != 8th year of nigger. same as with prikoke, the lifespan of domestic animals is
a very peculiar nonliniarity.
ben_vulpes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-13#1613506 << in none of the experimentation and blather through which i dug did anyone posit 'coal' as
a carbon source. my limited understanding is that its role is threefold: surface area for bacterial colonization; surface area to ameliorate fertilizer runoff and leaching into the ground; and to improve porosity.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-02-13 13:06 mircea_popescu: consider that this is done on the very last limb of
a huge apparatus of idle losers, maintained at very great expense by
a tooth and claw fight to prevent trump appointments! the spy ustate rebells! etcetera!
mircea_popescu: anyway, the advantage of the above approach, at least from
a "teach smart kids biology, physics and systems design" pov, is that it scales extremely well. discussion can be made as short or as infinitely complex as the bright young mind has patience for.
mircea_popescu: shinohai the auschwitz reference is oddly on point, because it was the first large scale encounter with
a problem very much in this vein : if body goes long enough without sufficient intake, it eventually digests the proteins thatmake up the intake manifold for its protein digestion cycle, resulting in
a situation where the body is alive but not for long, even if you feed it it can't digest anymore.
mircea_popescu: so therefore,
a history of life in terms of "first, you gotta get natrium pump going, as seen in thiomargarita. then, when enough X is piled up, (no less than q) you can start xantophyl pump. when enough etc etc"
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 06:04 mircea_popescu: (guru meditation : whence does
a tree's mass come from ?)
mircea_popescu: but if i physically extinguish life, it will have to go through its whole ontogenesis, not strictly because of gnosis problem (ie, WHO is doing the jumps ? life's extinguished, there's n oreserve medium) but because of
a purely physical problem.
mircea_popescu: !~later tell peterl since you're both in the field and unlazy, here's
a thought - i would like to see
a quantitative history of life in terms of biopumps. i dunno that this was ever done, and it's
a crying shame.
☟︎ diana_coman: ftr each and every time I witnessed this sort of flailing it meant without exception that NOTHING was going to be done about it - people needed to let go of steam/put on
a show/whatever but basically to avoid doing something about it
diana_coman: but that supposes one actually has some businesses going from
a to b, some aim as in going exactly to b etc
mircea_popescu: diana_coman can't get from point
a to point b, what it usually means.
diana_coman: they get...disrupted? from what? by the sound of it, they just get one day of tv out of it; only twice
a year, too, how unfair
mircea_popescu: these idiots, they get entirely disrupted by admittedly heavy rains twice
a year, they flail about helplessly on tv about it THAT DAY and that's that, that's it, go right back to their regularly scheduled dickholding and netflix.
mircea_popescu: and in other hippy dippy weatherman, it's raining here with
a purely tropical intensity. the city's going to be flooded again.
jhvh1: stormy with
a chance of packeting
mircea_popescu: well, trilema has been online for
a long time, eventually you get over the immediacy of it all.
mircea_popescu: consider that this is done on the very last limb of
a huge apparatus of idle losers, maintained at very great expense by
a tooth and claw fight to prevent trump appointments! the spy ustate rebells! etcetera!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: every dick and jane's expectation that "we did it reddit" is the faint echo of, man walked on the moon and generally speaking drove
a wedge forcing
a reevaluation of the celestial peerage. "as eternal as the nile flood" is no longer equal to "as eternal as the tide".
mircea_popescu: the great "march of progress" narrative is fed off discrete bits. for instance -- the nile created
a flood plain. for tens of thousands of years. not anymore.
ben_vulpes: stand back everyone i'm just going to deform the crust to perform
a bit of geoatmospheric arbitrage
toki: Scenario : nanomechanical warfare evolved to
a point where artificial pathogens become indistinguishable from superbugs or bioterrorism. Solution?
davout: mircea_popescu: what was this article in which i remember you saying that the "super-rich" advocating for higher taxes was in fact
a way to hurt the "reasonably-rich"?
BingoBoingo: OMG it's been
a few hours since mircea_popescu got fleanoded!
mircea_popescu: and for the amateur geometrian in attenance : given
a radius r and
a distance d, specify the length l of the average square
a grille of total length d will cover the circle of radius r in.
mod6: Last summer I thought I would boil
a few days with wool. So, high time to get something ligher. :]
mircea_popescu: dat moment when one asks for
a timestamp and it comes out 13:37
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's
a sort of refugarium were US companies that are too white to rassle Chinesium maintaim production under their own management.
mircea_popescu: given all this :
a) war with chinese must start today ; b) internment camp for us lefties should have already been
a thing. the japs had no business being there in ww2. the us left has no business being alive.
mircea_popescu: and the whole of the "us" ie really all nato ie really all white world - russia (and - the muslims, if you think they're wwhite) works
a cycle which consists of two spinners