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pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: all hail the benevolent socialist state of oregon
<< ontario, biggest province, has this as well. since gm and ford went to mexico this is the only thing keeping their head above water.
pete_dushenski: decimation: mircea_popescu: growing up in the 90's I witnessed Brahmin culture shift from vaguely rock 'n roll to thug rap
<< now it's all skinny jeans, flanel shirts, piercings, tats, and drinking from mason jars
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo doubt that'll work.
<< If anything seems like it has greater capitol requirements and a lesser return than slinging carnitas
mircea_popescu: *BingoBoingo wonders as a lifelong USian what professions might exist in actual economies
<<< here's one. while sitting idly after a dinner of delicious empanadas, i did the math with the girls. the profit selling them in the street (like people do)'d have been 5 to 10 pesos a pop. any one of them could have easily cleared 2-3-5k pesos a day, more than enough to live by.
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> the us is too poor to afford leeches who climatederp all day
<< they doin';t really cost as much as all that.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> ^ was used at least as much for academwankage as for any military purpose.
<< Academewagen
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo inasmuch as you know that there's a phase 4, you also know your addressing didn't work.
<< You know sometimes this works a la Dallas. Sometimes this doesn't like Dennis Rodman.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> it's like, what's the difference between phase 2 and phase 4 lymphoma ?
<< The chance of addessing the problem completely with a knife and some anti-folates?
BingoBoingo: decimation> yes, it's useful anyway. By that definition, the usg 'anti-communists' I mentioned above are quite simply socialists with a beef against the soviets
<< I dunno any other explanation for Patton's political positions.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes> BingoBoingo: for the poor student - what is a real economy?
<< One that doesn't resemble the dating environment in a prison
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> "white hierarchy collapsed"
<< seems legit. I blame complacency & wealth that came after the destruction of WWII
<< ALso the decades of persistent paranoia through the cold war
decimation: "white hierarchy collapsed"
<< seems legit. I blame complacency & wealth that came after the destruction of WWII
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> a more interesting question is: how does 'black music' go from louis armstrong to thug rap in 50 years?
<< CIA corruption
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> what's this fresh danielpbarron drama BigBitz ?
<< My best impression is he is trying to WoT up a bunch of local acquaintances and... old tensions and dramas come forth, but I lack context to interpret severity...
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> is professor a criminal or part of the overclass?
<< to be a criminal he'd have to commit a crime. what's the crime here ?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: phun phact. in usa, the popular 'm16/ar' rifle is not legally 'arms' if it is missing the little aluminum part that holds the clip and trigger mechanism.
<< According to US definitions that part IS the rifle
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> mircea_popescu: growing up in the 90's I witnessed Brahmin culture shift from vaguely rock 'n roll to thug rap
<< wut ?!
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> Also ""WARNING: Do not attempt to take any firearm into Mexico
<< i carried a .45 all through the us customs, into mexico and back into europe. nobody gave a shit. costa rica exit checks made an older french woman throw away her clearly rare & expensive cream. i put the thing right on top of the pile, explained to the guy it's got no clip. the guy was "a ok, if it has no clip..." waved me through. woman's
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> re: yarvin's OV-BDH model: I'm not so sure the mob would count as Dalit, I was thinking more underclass non-black minorities
<< why not ?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes> they bill the same for choose your own adventure degrees
<< I tried to do this and major in "reality studies" a combination of mathematics and philosophy
ben_vulpes:
<pete_dushenski> ;;later tell vexual that's wonderful that you *can* now *may* you recommend some restaurants in syd/mel?
<< *would*
BingoBoingo:
<ben_vulpes> that's barely a single year at a nominally high-end school
<< It isn't any particular year, but the number of consecutive years you can stack together.
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> it'd be a sad world if white chicks were all fucktarded,
<< we're all born so, and either have it beaten out of us or...
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> 50k in debt, social sciences degree and a history of opining in the press is the qualification.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> asciilifeform see, why not go the whole distance, go live in a master's basement
<< Some homo spiens apparently idolize Procyon lotor lifestyle
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> buffett's nobel prize >> might wanna check out what happened to nobel prize in past 50y or so
<< Maybe the point of fiat and inflation was to turn the Nobel reward into a "blue ribbon" at the science fair
ben_vulpes:
<pete_dushenski> that convinced me they were too fragile and i ended up with a 350z for a few years
<< how was it? >? new subies?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> chomskis and whatnot "brahmins" has produced exactly 0 cultural output >> does an arsonist contribute to a city ?
<< Oftentimes. StL Brick theives have contributed tremendously to Atlanta suburbs, and Florida.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> he has phobias.
<< Some people come to Bitcoin out of their technical knowledge. Some people like myself come because crazy. A Yarvin beats around the bushes because of an uncomfortable median?
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: he wouldn't have been out there trying to make a bitcoin-...
<< claims that he tried (and gave up, because 'can have problems')
<< lies. what is the urbit thing ?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> pete_dushenski no, that's still the chadians. show me one of these fucktarded, social sciences major chick twerking.
<< If I still used the Facebook thing this might be possible.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: at least chadians dance and shit.
<< usians twerk
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> no but im seriously offended. the entire fucking pile of a century worth of chomskis and whatnot "brahmins" has produced exactly 0 cultural output.
<< I blame Husserl and Derrida
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> dignork functionally, this is idiocy (denying the fruits of reason lest they interfere with the desires of emotion)
<< Amazing how the Yarvins don't separate their reasoned arguments from their emotional rants
BingoBoingo:
<pete_dushenski> twas available on all gm vehicles and even some volkswagens, such as the phaeton
<< In undergrad our College's president had a phaeton as his College supplied vehicle.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> (what's it about in reality? real-time tracking of all meat inventory. and, with a little more magic - your car is own gasenwagen when time comes.)
<< they already had a pilot for this. amusingly, it was sold as an expensive ad on for luxury brands. northstar or something.
<< northstar was the name of a fairly awful gm v8, onstar was their tracking device
mircea_popescu: On Friday, the peso recovered a smidgen, and the reported “blue dollar” rate dipped below 14 ARS/USD, after the central bank had reportedly blown $10 million of its foreign exchange reserves to prop it up.
<< to put this in perspective : the argentine natl bank foreign reserves went up 2.5 bn in the interval since i wrote im supporting them and the reporting cutoff for q2. (ie, early august)
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> so - how long does conformal corp. have before one should conclude they failed the 'test' (approved mircea_popescu's comment) ?
<< Another possibility may be retarded/ovezealous/otherwise poisoned spam filtering.
BingoBoingo:
http://www.bnd.com/2014/08/27/3370370/lawsuit-deputies-coerced-confession.html << Yates, who has diminished cognitive ability, was repeatedly told that they knew he was involved in the robbery and that he could avoid being put into jail by confessing, the lawsuit states. A visibly shaken Yates eventually agreed to admit to the crime to end the psychologically brutal interrogation, his attorneys said. The defendants had to repeated
mircea_popescu: jurov: it's beneath them to concern with individual and personal key verification
<< yeah, because everyone wants to talk to people it can't even learn the name of. totally.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: then later "hey did you get my message?"
<< they don't have gribble where they live. because barbarians.
mircea_popescu: punkman: ben_vulpes: oic, they put everything in btcwire library, but btcd won't use it
<< bitwire is iirc todd's thing to make network move faster
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: TheNewDeal: the site has a profit motive in having big showdowns. in cash games it increases rake taken on the hand.
<< it's not just that. most poker players are idiots. they like to see the pretty pictures. makes them feel better about themselves.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: xanthyos whenever I played SWC I also suspected that good hands came too often
<< as long as they come equally often for everyone, i imagine the argument goes, this isn'tr cheating but promotion.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i suspect Cavirtex is doing fundraising or such and wants to fuck over the real early angels
<< if this is true, the published announcement opens all the directors to pretty serious criminal liability, not to mention that any court would undo the "sale".
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: dvsdude dont worry about your chumphood, we all got chumped at some point
<< orly now :D
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: in making the election to accept $20 for a cab ride home, you will be deemed to not have been drugged and assaulted at my house last night
<< sounds legit.
mircea_popescu: dub: a bartender can't legally serve someone thats already drunk as fuck, a bank only has its own criteria
<< actualkly a bank also can't lend to the bankrupt, so...
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: blaming banks for bubble is like blaming bartenders for alcoholism
<< this has a lengthy tradition in the puritan world.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: is price-to-income a good way of evaluating a housing bubble?
<< it's an indicator. tho it also reflects the center/periphery balance (ie, in any realm, the capital is cheapest and the fringes most expensive. that's where mining happens or w/e, higher risk adventuring. easier money, less boring people, higher risk so many explanations for larger rents)
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i don't get how bip0064 compromises nodes
<< Allows very memory intensive requests which can crash nodes.
Apocalyptic:
<ben_vulpes> not 64 // that's obvious from what you pasted
ThickAsThieves:
<+nubbins`> dvsdude: i think it's safe to say that keeping the shares will offer you no tangible benefits whatsoever //i dont think i agree with this
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> asciilifeform: once again, the real reason is that the measures required to get the locals to work for you would be forbidden by usg
<< not so. the locals are just shitty stock.
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> asciilifeform: one wonders why enterprising individuals from civilized countries don't invade africa, clear out locals, and start a proper city-state
<< !s balls
mircea_popescu: hearnright. i think that's the definition of a successful attack :) don't get me wrong. i'd like to see core restart itself if it crashes
<<< riiight.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> (what's it about in reality? real-time tracking of all meat inventory. and, with a little more magic - your car is own gasenwagen when time comes.)
<< they already had a pilot for this. amusingly, it was sold as an expensive ad on for luxury brands. northstar or something.