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mircea_popescu:
<decimation> If USG doesn't consider failure to pay federal taxes a basis to deny a security clearance, one wonders upon what basis the clearance is granted?
<<< i don't think you understand how few people still pay their taxes.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> if easier to find bullet than coin, re-examine engineering priorities in project.
<<< ahah the foregoing was worth it.
mircea_popescu:
<cazalla> diablo has not looked like that for some time, she got a make over in diablo 3
<< sadly.
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> mthreat: mircea_popescu: has ars customs completely cut amazon off from delivering?
<< i've not yet tried mail.
BingoBoingo: justusranvier: From an article you linked >> "What they don’t understand is that Ebola is unlikely to spread very far because it is so fatal."
<< What makes this new strain particularly dangerous is it is only killing ~60% of patients
BingoBoingo: justusranvier: There are many reasons why homeopathy is a scam, mircea_popescu: but yeah, i suppose it's a good proof they don't grok objective reality.
<< Homeopaths make their cheddar on conditions that test well against placebo
mircea_popescu:
<ColinT> I'm not someone who thinks rationally in groups - because groups of people don't think rationally
<< depends on the group.
pete_dushenski: chetty: An English blogger writing for the Nomen Global Language Center in Utah was fired for posting about ?homophones? last week after his employer said the word was too close to ?homosexual? and ?homophobe.?
<< holy sweet mother of retardistan
thickasthieves:
<+mircea_popescu> what the fuck is with these social media people, srsly. they'll take the faintest hint of nothing as clear proof of their importance. //// If it's measurable, it has value!
Namworld: [16:22]
<+Namworld> I'm surprised they'd make they effort to attempt it, would have imagined a straight liquidation of assets for distribution in fiat.
Namworld: [16:21]
<+Namworld> What... Japanese trustee for MtGox's bankruptcy will look into if it is possible to do distribution in bitcoins?
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mircea_popescu: ziggamon: I mean religious in quotes. as in something that is within the realm of belief. you must trust the invisible hand that powers the consensus mechanism.
<< never trust a "mechanism". if you have to trust, pick someone to trust and trust them.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: follow-up thought on "cats don't love". Do babies love?
<< no. this is well studied, first they consume, then they deject, then they love.
mircea_popescu: ziggamon: curious about your feedback, been lurking around here and your blogs
<< i had nfi one could write on tumblr.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: well i'm just contrasting, two ways to write a bullshit article
<< word.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: "Upgrading encryption software might mask communications for al-Qaida temporarily, but probably not for long, Schneier said.
<< schneier is such an unmitigated twerp.
mircea_popescu: punkman: I thought unplugged laptop on shelf would be safe
< you know you can actually calculate the induced current as a function of speed, field and the conductors in question.
ben_vulpes:
<The20YearIRCloud> I hope that this test proves conservation of motion in space wrong
<< i think you mean conservation of momentum
ben_vulpes:
<kuzetsa> but why are you nesting pipes inside each other?
<< standing desk on the cheap
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: punkman: Depends on how big the event is where the laptop is, and whether it is plugged in.
<< not really. plug your laptop into 110kv, the transformer wil blow, maybe the power entry will blow, the hdd won't blow.
mircea_popescu: punkman: ahaha just figured it out, it's from the government's "social solidarity fund", no idea why I qualify for that shit
<< because you're poor!
mircea_popescu: punkman: yes my bank is gonna give me a different IBAN just for Paypal
<< that's lulzy. srsly, tell the bank some script indian said iban is ambiguous. maybe you need a new ipban
ben_vulpes:
<thickasthieves> follow-up thought on "cats don't love". Do babies love? what is love?
kakobrekla:
<BingoBoingo> Well I dunno that even kakobrekla can always anticipate assbot's actual workings
< - also the other way around.
chetty:
<thickasthieves> Big Data Firm Says It Can Link Snowden Data to Improved Security Behavior Worldwide// you think?
chetty:
<BingoBoingo> punkman: Not for that, for Data backup and having computing machine that will work after such an event/watch solar weather and have a nice big metal trash can to pop laptops and flash drives and stuff into
mircea_popescu: Sergio Antonio (@SergiConte) July 30, 2014 fuck you @examsoft i've been crying for two hours. i'm not even fucking kidding right now this is the worst night of my life.
<<< supposedly adult us male.
mircea_popescu: decimation> I can see why default is the most attractive option here
<< it is quite as the local elite presents it, a matter of "fuck you or else we might as well go home."
mircea_popescu: "The point the op was making is that adoni has mega millions in assets yet all their people posting here get negative ratings from broke losers mad they have no mega million dollar assets to dicuss deals on."
<< check it out, teh tortilla got moar competition.
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> unlike the us, Argentina doesn't have the ability to pretend to be solvent forever
<< it does have the ability to pretend. it doesn't have the hordes of idiots to pretend they believe the pretense.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes i was expecting a lot more obvious drunkedness tbh. but sober ? maybe you should write a book.
<< book? what book. "hey. tits? they're worth 0.1 btc now, which i'll hold for you indefinitely. let's tits. tits everyone? great."
<< precisely. why book when you can blog?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: decimation intellectuals SHOULD run everything. the only problem is that the courtiers of the french republic are not intellectuals.
<< indeed. contemporary courtiers are but lengthily-educated jesters
pete_dushenski: FoOdies5: but seriously tho, seenig what kids these days grow up on, we're pretty much fucked
<< has said everyone since forever. not that i'm removed from this
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: my philosophy is not that it should be hard, but merely that if anyone complains, of anything, it should be made worse for them.
<< be grateful.
ThickAsThieves:
<+coltan> I read that already the guys doesn't seem to be into bitcoin 2.0 that much /\\/ o dear...
ThickAsThieves:
<+FabianB> omg, lol, sorry for posting that /// pay the assbot!
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> 'sed' artists, Amazing!
<< ki8nda reminds me of any kid's first hacking, replacing strings in binaries.
mircea_popescu:
<coltan> I read that already the guys doesn't seem to be into bitcoin 2.0 that much
<< nor into web 2.0, for that matter.
rithm: none of this chained shit work earth
<--> mars
mircea_popescu:
<ThickAsThieves> your brand is so dynamic
<<< ahahahh good one.
mircea_popescu:
<ThickAsThieves> you put moosecocks in my mouth
<< he's canadian, it's what they do.
gribble: pigeons was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 days, 20 hours, 37 minutes, and 12 seconds ago:
<pigeons> so far that seems accurate
mircea_popescu: HeySteve: I think so, yeah. not sure why Web of Trust hasn't been more widely adopted over CAs
<< because CAs come with master keys.
mircea_popescu: although, granny can't remember whose carkeys she chose
<< lmao
chetty:
<mircea_popescu> "The cultural divide between the positive and the negative erodes, as it should." what the fuck is wrong with these idiots. why exactly SHOULD the "cultural divide" between the failed and the successful "erode" ?// so we cna get to the great sameness
t_a_t: ;;later tell ben_vulpes "
<< has won over //" You can't cramp my style.
chetty:
<t_a_t> "14 days Matonis. 14 days Foundation. Come clean with what your executive directors// plural??
thickasthieves:
<+mircea_popescu> reddit is not a race. /// it's a picture of the finish line
thickasthieves:
<+ben_vulpes> riding my bike all over town (what american child can ride a bike around their town?!) /// more than would like to admit
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes i was expecting a lot more obvious drunkedness tbh. but sober ? maybe you should write a book.
<< book? what book. "hey. tits? they're worth 0.1 btc now, which i'll hold for you indefinitely. let's tits. tits everyone? great."
BingoBoingo:
<ben_vulpes> moving the goalposts on me boss this is not how you run a business
<< Check my tweets to Ben Lawsky I am running a charity
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform shudders to think of what kind of 'bitcoin' could be seen on u.s. tv
<< I'll get you a video most horrifying
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu>
<ben_vulpes> hard screens off at 1045 pm
<< holy shit !?
<< early to bed, early to rise...
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> hard screens off at 1045 pm
<< holy shit !?
mircea_popescu:
<jwSchool> by not being an organic chemist?
<< not bad.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: i dodge - shit you not i kick his ankle and then run into the parking lot, where (again, not shitting in the slightest) he chases me in circles while his friend smokes a cigarette next to my friend.
<< this sounds like a happy childhood.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Fucking BitBet authors can make anything seem close
<<< clearly a conspiraci.
BingoBoingo: Bottom shelf vodka is more drinkable than top shelf.
<< Reason for this is cheap American vodka starts with close to pure ethanol and is them water down to vodka
mircea_popescu: 1 double cherry truck of bitcoins = 960149127168 satoshi = 9601491.27168 mBTC = 9601.49127168 BTC
<< ahahh o kako!
mircea_popescu: FoOdies5: are all crypto enthusiasts doing drugs ?
<< i'm not.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo i doubt you can have anything drinkable in the us for under 1k a bottle.
<< I don't drink much wine, because I'm too picky for the normal local selection, but I'll get five bottles of Egri Bikaver at the supermarket in hopes I can three are palatable.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> you count retail do you not. I count versus package liquor store prices
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> but when you do your winning math
<< I try to blackjack to the house edge.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: but not before people made payments that were 1/100000 of what they meant to pay
<< fucking idiots for srs. 5 zeros ? why, because 8 and 5 are mutually prime ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo that's not winning, that's getting drunk on your own success.
<< What is a greater example of winning than losing exactly the house edge over 8 hours and drinking to success on the top shelf?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: the ones that need to peg to another blockchain for security
<< this is not really all that true, in general the best use of resources should be mining the chain rather than attacking it.
BingoBoingo:
<kakobrekla> dont do hd porn, you will end up on wiki searching up all the diseases.
<< Good reason to avoid whores willing to negotiate prices (in the april and may logs)