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mircea_popescu: apple aren't engineers,
they're like yahoo. a media buying company.
nubbins`: apparently it's worse
than
the old one.
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nubbins`: interesting how
they capitalize Good Samaritans
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mircea_popescu: me either. but from reading
this i can't imagine
the woman under 200ish lbs
mircea_popescu: so basically in rothbard's reading,
this rand character is
the quintessential balabusta, a staid, obnoxious, overarching yet profoundly ignorant and puritanical fat old woman.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` supposedly
this is how art evolves. mistakes end up baked in by
their success.
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nubbins`: we usually buy skin-on salmon and it gums
the fuck out of
the pan
nubbins`: fish is
the one
thing
that i dislike frying in cast iron
mircea_popescu: ahaha
this shit's
too good. did
this one actually happen ?
mircea_popescu: it could be inspected in detail, his doom as a member of
the movement was effectively sealed."
mircea_popescu: information and after spending a sleepless night,
the girl rushed
to inform
the
top leadership of
this
terrible
transgression. Promptly,
the leading participants were called on
the carpet by
their Objectivist Psychotherapist and bitterly denounced in
their "therapy" sessions: "After all," said
the
therapist, "you wouldn’t mock God." When
the owner of
the
tape refused
the
therapist’s demand
to relinquish it so
that
mircea_popescu: "Driven by
their conception of rational duty, every Randian lived in – and indeed was himself – a community of spies and informers, ready
to ferret out and denounce any deviations from Randian doctrine.
Thus, one
time a Randian, walking with a girl friend,
told her
that he had attended a party at which several Randians had made an impromptu
tape imitating
the voices of
the
top Randian leaders. Stricken by
this dire
mircea_popescu: which you know, is what
the economy of
the bankrupt world degenerated into,
the economy of views. of which unit of account is one "mom look at me! mom look! mo-om!"
mircea_popescu: im sure while it fails
to produce much coin if at all, it produces
tons of definitely very valuable "views"
mircea_popescu: it yields
the illusion of being "part of
the community"
ThickAsThieves: see
the latest in whose advertising and what Erik has
to say
ThickAsThieves: i imagine many were saved merely cuz
they downloaded it
to
their phones
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves someone was saying a few days ago about all
the bitching
that
thing caused in ##mtgox
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mircea_popescu: notrly, let enough do
that
then slap a surcharge on
them
mircea_popescu: chris christie wants
to protect his career, he can't piss off
the larger players
mircea_popescu: also, afaik nj is an important lobby stronghold for importers in
that market.
ThickAsThieves: if it's about more opportunities
to
tax, why dont we have 3 layers of middle man
ThickAsThieves: but isnt
this about whats in
the interest of
the consumer?
mircea_popescu: but
the middle man makes some money, of which it pays some money.
mircea_popescu: nj wants
to extract
taxes out of
the deal. if nj people get hurt, nj wants
to profit at least.
nubbins`: the future is dangerous
to middlemen
too
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:
TIL saltyspitoon was 16 when pirate left
that feedback :o
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mircea_popescu: "In a development eerily reminiscent of
the organized hatred directed against
the arch-heretic Emanuel Goldstein in Orwell’s 1984, Rand cultists were required
to sign a loyalty oath
to Rand; essential
to
the loyalty oath was a declaration
that
the signer would henceforth never read any future works of
the apostate and arch-heretic Branden."
mircea_popescu: open source infallibility,
the notion
that wikipedia is in any sense an encyclopedia, everyone's obsession with crowd-sourcing and usg...
mircea_popescu: people firmly believe
that codebases magically improve just by adding
to
them
the *possibility*
that someone might have read
them
mircea_popescu: amusingly,
this is narrowly mirrored by
the all
too fashionable ideea
these days
that
there's some sort of wisdo min
the crowds.
mircea_popescu: "Lenin seems
to have believed
that
the party, as organized consciousness, consciousness as a decision-making machinery, had superior reasoning power. Indeed, in
time
this collective body
took on an aura of infallibility, which was later elevated
to a dogma, and a member’s loyalty was
tested, in part, by his acceptance of it. It became part of
the communist confession of faith
to proclaim
that
the party was never wron
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell bitcoinpete ah i see it's in
the footnote. but yeah,
the select from a page process is very dubious (natural languages don't have equally distributed words, it's actually how zipf curves were discovered in
the first palce)
nubbins`: or buy one on ebay from a rube who never bothered
to learn how
to use it
nubbins`: you gotta do all
the legwork yourself
nubbins`: shamefully, it's impossible
to buy a proper cast iron pan (i.e. one with a machined bottom)
these days
ozbot: Octopus omlette pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
nubbins`: it SLID off
the fucking pan onto
the plate.
nubbins`: i was in awe
the first
time i saw someone cook an omelette on cast iron
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell bitcoinpete bt otherwise your article suffers from a very strangely naive approach. ever heard of a dicelist ?
mircea_popescu: you can never get
the shrimp properly cooked other
than in a cast iron pot.
nubbins`: teflon and other non-stick coatings are
the biggest con
nubbins`: anyone who spent any amount of
time writing java is likely familiar with
the site; few realize
the guy who runs it is a real simple-living guy
nubbins`: it's funny,
the guy who runs javaranch.com (a friendly place for greenhorns!)
turned me onto cast iron
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell bitcoinpete yul killed in
that king of siam role :D
nubbins`: deep frying in
the home is fuckin gross
nubbins`: i may switch
to canola for frying
ThickAsThieves: Sony always flirting with being known for quality,
then always fucking it up by being weird
nubbins`: i use evoo (a waste for frying, really) and it smokes
too quickly
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform currently a 21 inch dell
thing. i used
to have a splendid 24 inch sony but hey.
nubbins`: say, what
type of cooking oil does everyone use?
mircea_popescu: pLambert well yeah, but still. what's
the average dividend across nyse index, 1950
to 1970 ?
pLambert: says
the guy who has
the best
track record of paying divs in bitcoins?
pLambert: just
this quarter? how bout
this year?
nubbins`: pLambert: fifty cents say no divs
this quarter