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pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: like the old u.s. army ad, 'be an army of one.'
<< i remember these well, wondered if they were effective..
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, the process through which girls become wives and us citizens usg informants.
<< and who precisely did the wives piss off? their fathers?
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> which is why you believe the burning man is good :)
<< never said that "burning man" was good
peterl: mircea_popescu lab where countermeasure was very large h2so4 vat. // decimation: how is that going to help? melt your face?
<< The acid will absorb the borohydride and deactivate it, makes boric acid
ben_vulpes: "sex positive"
<< one of the reasons i spent so much time with 'em
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> someone affiliated with those who attend burning man regularly.
<< sluts make a much better tribe imo.
decimation: re: engineering thinking
< taleb makes this point, if you want to learn about reality, ask someone who has tried to get things done, not someone who is a bureaucrat
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> solar flare ? atmosphere expands even 500kms.
<< see, this is why i read the logs obsessively.
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform wonders if this could even be carried out mechanically, with something like a wirbelrohr.
<< you'd need a good ion engine, actually.
chetty:
<asciilifeform> so now there's two of us peasants here with dayjobs.// might as well while they last
punkman: RagnarDanneskjol: probably better to make your own educated decision
<- looking at other's bets is an educated decision
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: did you and pascale hate it?
<< if the girl's frail and the guy big it dun work.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: I actually think the endgame a portion in Ferguson seeks is a police department like East St Louis's which see falling crime in spite of near complete inactio
<< it's not in spite. it's BECAUSE.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and unlike, say, yugoslavia or ussr, there are no conveniently-drawn ethno-geographic bantustans for it to cleanly collapse to.
<< sure there are.
ben_vulpes:
<BingoBoingo> Well, my pet theory is that much of the continued racial separation in the US is related to treating race as an inventory management problem
<< out in the burbs recently, noticed while walking by a softball game while emptying the dogs tanks how the white folks sat on the left side of the field and the black folks on the other. this being in one of the few neighborhoods with actual black folks in portland, the ration was
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> enemy might be covered in magical armour, but he still has, presumably, a visor
<< this reminds me, you know the horny bear joke ?
mod6:
<+asciilifeform> as in 'pour la canaille la mitraille.'
<< haha!
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> the .22 (for non-usians, the familiar 'olympic' caliber) rifle is also explained by cost: roughly 1/2 - 1/3 of a 'proper' m16. low pressure round, can use garbage metals.
<< In police department purchasing general practice is buying actual M-16 type and them getting .22LR uppers to go with them
mod6: 290-round flat pan magazines
<< hahaha
mod6:
<+thestringpuller> dat snow
<< i basically piss ice cubes
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> H2 Airship is probably near the Platonic form of of cheap and angry
<< or in any case, a good rendition of a very large matchstick.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> or mircea_popescu finally bought atomic dirigible.
<< i've not actually sold any bitcoin, still.
BingoBoingo: (soviet atomic dirigible would've probably flown with H2 from sea water. because cheap and angry.)
<< H2 Airship is probably near the Platonic form of of cheap and angry
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: well we don't know the full story. there could be large withdrawals going out of MPEx
<< as opposed to…?
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> copyright covers performance you ninny. unless you're listening to an amphora capture of original greek choruses, it's covered alright.
<< oh, bitcoin recognizes copyright but not patents?
TomServo: gave Berkshire a reputation as a lender of last resort when financial markets come under strain
<< Hadn't heard that line before.
gribble: (eregister
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mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: that's a premium upgrade
<< cut glass. 10 bux in any mirror shop.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: BingoBoingo: the hospital would have taken note of who took the bullet, no?
<< well if they didn't, either the police comissioner hangs or they got themselves a police state.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: decimation: 'pep rally'
<< been to a few of these myself. because morale! at least our school had the bestest cheerleaders in the city
<< because they were... immoral ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: is that the app that lets you anonymously tell women you want to cum on their tits?
<<< you know, this is very popular with a large section of the female population, but the woman that wants dribbling by random people she doesn't know is quite rare.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (other than a library)
<< "there isn't where t og oin the usa for aspirin other than pharmacy". o woe ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> well fuck.
<< there is no such thing as a perfect wife, horse or business idea.
punkman: mike_c: my computer is retarded. 3056 / 10000 = 0.3056, but 3056 * 0.0001 = 0.30560000000004
<< javascript?
gribble: (eregister
<nick>
<keyid>) -- Register your GPG identity, associating GPG key
<keyid> with
<nick>.
<keyid> is a 16 digit key id, with or without the '0x' prefix. We look on servers listed in 'plugins.GPG.keyservers' config. You will be given a link to a page which contains a one time password encrypted with your key. Decrypt, and use the 'everify' command with it. Your passphrase (1 more message)
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: at the time in question, you literally could not go on a date if you sucked in school.
<< sounds like some kind of miracle land compared to the anti-intellectual "i are sportsstar" culture here
pete_dushenski: decimation: 'pep rally'
<< been to a few of these myself. because morale! at least our school had the bestest cheerleaders in the city
nubbins`:
<- CS degree, wrote exactly two working programs as part of my CS curriculum
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the students are asked to simply memorize the book of, e.g, organic reactions.
<< myeah. tis perfect med skool prep
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: 'homo redditicus'
<< lulz. let's make this term canonical
pete_dushenski: decimation: heh perhaps I should pick an orthogonal basis
<< there's always the ol' first_last!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: and by too clean i mean the sort that doesn't bareback random whores because "who knows what may happen"
<< this point has me reflecting. am i scanning the world of business ideas for puuurfect? when non-broken will suffice? well fuck.
chetty:
<mircea_popescu> cnat even find someone to dump water on her head, figures someone gives a shit about her tits.//problem is of course that they do, at least next time she wants a job or smthn
mircea_popescu:
<RagnarDanneskjol> I know more than a few highly competent pool hosts if this one proves unreliable
<< so hook something up
☟︎ Apocalyptic:
<RagnarDanneskjol> maybe I'm missing something, how are there no txs // there are plenty
nubbins`: ben_vulpes:
<nubbins`> how about the marijuana supports terr.. oh, wait`
<< from a conversation with a client earlier today: "pot makes you stupid! if my son keeps smoking, i'm going to cut him off."
<<< ahh my sides
mircea_popescu: ryguy_`> do you think high frequency trading or polling type strategies would or will be prominent ?
< in a word, no.
mircea_popescu: Aug 11 23:50:49
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mircea_popescu: Antibiotics were administered directly into the peritoneal cavity
<< holy shit fucking soviets.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1: it was quite painful, and i refused pain meds until the ct scan results came back and the dr said "your appendix is all messed up, we're transfering you to a different hospital, ambulance is en route, take pain meds now"
<< there is this legendary romanian surgeon who supposedly sutured his own appendix. this may be apocryphal, in any sense i wouldn't try to undergo surgery w/o painkillers, tis nonsense.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1: my stomach isn't a basketball anymore
<< poor duff.
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: be moar vigilant with teh monies
<< the problem with that article, as with all "studies" of its ilk, is that it makes the (generally reasonable, now not) herbi mistake, as detailed here :
http://trilema.com/2014/no-argument/ mircea_popescu: Vexual: roundup resistant ganja? i think someones trolling
<< think more, roundup resistant coke.
mircea_popescu: *: asciilifeform is still waiting for the first leak from the u.s. dept. of wherever-the-stoolie-reports-from-btc-exchanges go.
<< there was recently a dump of everyone-on-coinbase, for instance.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: because?
<< specify what are you trying to accomplish. impossible to explain what's wrong with any given methodology to resolve an undefined problem.