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ben_vulpes: "get a house, settle down, give up on fun, otherwise you're a retarded child."
<< Dimsler
HeySteve: +The20YearIRCloud> One of the groups at my church goes to Africa every few years to teach people how to build basic water filters from sand/rocks/ect and when they do it , they save a immense number of lives due to cholera/disentery
<- cool, here's something else you might be interested in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM0d2EsVehQ mircea_popescu: The South-Western Bathhouse Local family business in Mississauga, Ontario
<< is this the canadian equivalent of the mystical massage parlour ?
mircea_popescu: 22:23:09 hanbot: mircea_popescu: kakobrekla did paranoia or w/e it's called lose any bitcoin this month yet ?
<< llamacea
gribble: (bcverify
<signedmessage>) -- Verify the latest authentication request by providing the
<signedmessage> which contains the challenge string signed with your bitcoin address of record. If verified, you'll be authenticated for the duration of the bot's or your IRC session on channel (whichever is shorter).
gribble: nanotube was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 2 days, 4 hours, 21 minutes, and 29 seconds ago:
<nanotube> heh sure because 'nature' doesn't have volition to do anything 'deliberately' :)
mircea_popescu: Dimsler how'd this go "hello everyone, pleased to meet you, i'm
<snipped>" ? who are you meeting then.
gribble: (changeaddress
<bitcoinaddress>) -- Changes your registered address to
<bitcoinaddress>. You will be given a random passphrase to sign with your new address, and submit to the bot with the 'bcverify' command. You must be authenticated in order to use this command.
The20YearIRCloud:
<12hrs from boat to truck, truck drive from say maine or somewhere is less than 12hrs here to Ohio
mats_cd03: 14:14:38
<+mircea_popescu> mats_cd03: inquiring minds want to know - is it even possible to do SEO these days? without blackhat methods, that is.
<< trilema ranks for pretty much any noun i deign to use, so yes.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: should be "how else are we gonna tell them their password when they forget it?!"
<< totally.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: inquiring minds want to know - is it even possible to do SEO these days? without blackhat methods, that is.
<< trilema ranks for pretty much any noun i deign to use, so yes.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: does anyone know who this idiot is?
<< you know, the proof of idiocy is circular reasoning, not disagreement.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: maybe put the whole roll on the wall if it comes to it.
<< ahahaha kako got tired of digging
nubbins`: kakobrekla:maybe put the whole roll on the wall if it comes to it.
<<< good idea, collectors love original packaging
BingoBoingo:
<mats_cd03> inquiring minds want to know - is it even possible to do SEO these days? without blackhat methods, that is.
<< What do you think /. is?
mircea_popescu: decimation: why lock yourself in a tiny box when you have the tools to build a mansion?
<< because you're a vampire and the casket with your home dirt feels cosiest ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: trololol...
<< he's not trolling, he's just new and clinging to it like it's his foreskin or something.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: honest in the sense that water, shit need to run.
<< the spanish right would disagree.
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform derps atoms in unheated wooden hovel with 0-phase (extension cord from house...)
<< mp lives in land of currently spring. forgets the rest of the world has autumns and shit
mircea_popescu: * ben_vulpes pays 575 covering deskspace for 6
<< not bad deal.
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> mircea_popescu: i'm always confused by your "copyright and IP lolol" attitude contrasted with the "these contracts are copyright MPEx 20**" lines in the MPEx contracts
<< there are some places ip makes sense.
decimation: asciilifeform: re: "emacs aptitude test"
<< yeah I'm realizing I need to remap everything to become more productive, like a young apprentice ought. It is good to learn the default keybindings in case one needs to use some strange terminal without your own .emacs though -- not a situation where one should expect to be productive
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> 'never hire man with fewer than seven or greater than nine fingers' shop ?
<< they were proud to offer the opportunity to sacrifice my parts on the shrine of their stock price
ben_vulpes: * asciilifeform derps atoms in unheated wooden hovel with 0-phase (extension cord from house...)
<< i came too close to sacrificing too many valuable human-parts derping on atoms on salary to go back to it.
atcbot: >> No data returned from CoinMiner.net
<< [PityThePool Hashrate]: 124.61 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.05 TH/s
mats_cd03: ;;later tell kakobrekla can we get a multiline up? e.g. 18:30:48
<+nubbins`> !up gilgameshugga mius pactr mike_c
BingoBoingo: jurov: that would be advice for BingoBoingo, jurov: hire doppelganger, walk out
<< I'll decline to comment on whether this option has been considered already...
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: but only those who committed the crime can be held liable for it - there's no sense in holding "a people" or "a community" liable for actions of their ancestors, is there?
<< in that case what makes the indians' land the indians' ? they can't be held liable for their ancestors appropriations.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: (also horrible is how os x handles new windows for application a when application a is full screen on a monitor somewhere: nondeterministically!)
<<< i'd be happy if people just came to some sort of consistent treatment of focus
mircea_popescu: decimation: Note that even in the 'dark ages', the employer accepted her skills and hired her.
<< that was exactly my note.
ben_vulpes: "human" sizes, for instance: multiples of 1000, instead of 1024.)"
<< this is what human means on unix?!
mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`> fwiw, the US (and canada, and every other country) still allows mercury "around", you just need to put it in a light bulb
<<< mircea_popescu: "He and I became fast friends and life was rather wonderful. We were both self-employed and often worked from home together in our own little co-working space. We occasionally would hang out with friends together and one day he decided to have some fun with me."
<<< WE BUILT OUR OWN CUBICAL!!1 out of materials found in every home! read the secret that has all middle managers jealous!
mircea_popescu:
<jurov> hire doppelganger, walk out
<< incidentally, you know they did this in the times of the good soldier svjek ?
mircea_popescu: So the easy question to ask is this: “Are you trying to figure out whether to change? Or trying to figure out which change to make?”
<< good point. first category needs to hire a manager, not talk to salesmen.
mircea_popescu: "You can’t simply ask someone if they have no intention of buying a Macintosh. Everybody lies, especially to salespeople."
<< the funny thing in there is, people generally despise SALESMEN for being lying scumbags. but, in fact, people lie to them as an article of faith, and in sheer volume necessarily exceed anything the salesman could push out.
mircea_popescu: "He ran in to some very serious problems that poisoned his existence for many years, and made him lose faith in humans. These problems (I won’t go into details, let sleeping dogs lie) would have agonized anyone, but most people would, in time, have come to terms with life’s injustice and cruelty."
<< asciilifeform what, was the guy in jail or something ?
chetty:
<mircea_popescu> chetty well you're not in the demographic you know ?// you mean libtards? I dun have to be in it to be sick of it
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> yeah turns out the 'advanced' battery pack is just a pile of standard lithium batteries wired in strings
<< i have no idea what's so advanced about it, basically the whole car is powered offa one of those 4.5 volt things discussed here previously
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> why do we have floating point hardware instead of rational arithmetic towers?
<< but we don't. we have rational arithmetic towers pretending (unconvincingly) to be floating point hardware
decimation: re: model being horeshit: "Because, we know that with theoretical cherry picking someone can come up with a set of assumptions that produces a result that may logically follow from those assumptions, but if the assumptions really don't have much traction in the real world, that result really doesn't have much to say about what we are actually looking at. "
<< from my econtalk link above
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> 'lesswrong' would be a harmless heathen pit if not for the inescapable fact that it is a tarpit for a good number of otherwise intelligent folks
<< this is a major problem in search for a solution.
mircea_popescu: bounce: apropos earlier point, you need the idiots though. how else are you going to know you're not?
<< this is such nonsense. why would you care ?
mircea_popescu:
<moriarty> asciilifeform, to be fair it was somewhat of an adjustment coming from the open world of academia and studenthood into proprietary work
<< that'd explain why you so drastically overestimate the "conversation" going on between empty barrels rolling downhill.
mircea_popescu:
<Gigs> Usage: !wire
<AWG>, gives stats for copper wire of
<AWG> size
kakobrekla: >Kako, please forward idiots to #bitcoin-assets instead of my inbox.
< fyi did not such thing.