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mircea_popescu: The brilliant Finnish-Canadian computer science professor / blogger Ilkka Kokkarinen has taken
down his popular blog, presumably to keep his job after his campus newspaper noticed his heterodox views. His skepticism about the intellectual consistency of lesbian-feminist theory and practice would appear to have been his biggest crime.
☟︎☟︎ decimation: I wrote too soon, qntra and trilema are both
down for me now right now
joecool: it's been up and
down for past day
undata: cazalla: looks
down here
decimation: one wonders what would have happened if apple actually went
down the lisp machine route
decimation: running gentoo certainly gives you a motvation to scale
down the lines of code in your system
mircea_popescu: PeterL so what about scoopbot uptime ? what keeps taking it
down ?
assbot: Coinbase Rumoured To Raise $50 Million Bezzlars,
Down From $150 Million Bezzlars | Qntra.net
mircea_popescu: i dunno how banned it'd be if the city closed
down a major street for it.
mircea_popescu: what the next line should be ? "we suck, and we're stepping
down. sorry we couldn't do what we wanted to."
mircea_popescu: wanting is the sign of intellectual health, just like erections are the sign of reproductive health. if you're lying
down with teh nekkid gals and get no pang to trash them around it doesn't mean you reached nirvana, it just means you're not long for this world.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: is there, somewhere, a smoky bar where they
down hard drinks and tell anyone who'll listen how 'it was all a sham11!1!' ? << not afaik, tho i'd like to have a hard drink myself. tho i imagine that'd ruin it huh.
BingoBoingo: No, easy feel goods are $75 at the massage parlor
down by the strip club
decimation: it seems to come
down to a question of economics, it's generally cheaper to pay a master craftsman to labor over one item, but if one is building thousands it is worth the start-up cost of the robots
decimation: imagine 'future war' where your squad as a 'laser machine gun'. In order to take the next hill, you need to lay
down suppressing fire. the laser machine gunner opens up, and the enemy doesn't notice
decimation: qntra.net is
down for me now, trilema too
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 05:39:14; mircea_popescu: internet needs a canoniucal
down domain
gribble: canonicaldowndomain.com is
down assbot: its been
down for 20min
ben_vulpes: that i can use to track
down potentially unwedging commits i should say.
nubbins`: i still want to print this if/when the time comes that the chicken is whittled
down to edible meat and bone
joecool: yep, everything on bitcoin-assets.com
down for me
undata: here's a doubling
down of it: NSA intends to take over the hashing power of the network and implement coin validation
undata: mircea_popescu: and the lamb laid
down with the lion
Adlai: well my initial random was "certain within decades", but then I toned it
down a few orders of fartitude
mircea_popescu: the #2 reason it is idiotic is that discussion has remanence, poker hands do not. expert 30 years in has a fucking string of noted
down examples of having done this, people with an ideologic interest can use to strangle him with
mircea_popescu: cazalla: so.. is qntra
down for others? << uh i just looked at it.
cazalla: davout, it's
down atm or are you speaking generally
assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 22:25:37; mircea_popescu: rithm: it's cryptowall now and from what i can tell it's infected sites like mom & pop's ruinning old WP/drupal/some CMS <<< yeah, stuff the shitheads in question don't maintain, then i have to answer biweekly questions of "is qntra
down". off with their heads i say!
cazalla: so.. is qntra
down for others?
decimation: one can inspect the patches, if one is willing to sit
down and do the work
decimation: mircea_popescu: what stripped
down version of wordpress do you use?
gribble: ml.therealbitcoin.org is
down cazalla: mircea_popescu, they kicked
down the door of one muslim family for having a plastic sword so yeah
mircea_popescu: rithm: it's cryptowall now and from what i can tell it's infected sites like mom & pop's ruinning old WP/drupal/some CMS <<< yeah, stuff the shitheads in question don't maintain, then i have to answer biweekly questions of "is qntra
down". off with their heads i say!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: " If we could even get ourselves
down to a Western European level of car dependence, we would cut road fatalities to a third of their present value and improve our quality of life in innumerable ways."
saifedean: nubbins no, i'm not. you're the one who is setting up charicatures of arguments for you to tear them
down. i don't give two shits what you eat, you don't have to convince me. You should be trying to challenge yourself to understand what I'm saying it, or ignoring it. That you dismiss it like that is silly
saifedean: nubbins, you have no idea how many times i have heard these non-sequiturs of arguments. briefly, no, you do NOT need to emulate a caveman's life to
down to its little details. The idea is to eliminate from your diet as much as possibel all the things that are relatively recent additions to our diet, to which our bodies have not adjusted very well, and which are proven to cause most of our modern illnesses. it fucking works
nubbins`: you're pulling the ceiling
down, vs lifting something heavy up
mike_c: omg, that one does. it scrolls
down then sideways then
down decimation: asciilifeform: "fiat 'was
down'" << sometimes this happens because a geomagnetic storm knocks
down a satellite - for example most gas stations in the us clear credit cards through satellite
mircea_popescu: then flush it
down the drain for all it matters, you just want to meet the people involved.
assbot: "Pick-Up Artist" pushing Japanese women's heads
down to his crotch 白人が日本で大暴れ「日本ではHしほうだい」(字幕) - YouTube
mircea_popescu: something that happens with regularity to fiat banks, "sorry, we can't process txn, our so-called system is
down"
thestringpuller: what about the case when someone goes
down for "due cause"
mircea_popescu: so in teh bitcoin future, a financial services firm is not allowed to be
down, for anyone and for any reason, or else risks losing its license.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell richih listen, your blog is
down. there's no point sending broadcasts if your thing can't take the traffic.
assbot: Logged on 26-02-2014 06:23:40; asciilifeform: channelling herr naggum: 'It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut
down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an inspiration to future authors.'
Vexual: xiando, I'm black and I hand out
down by the canl in stockholm after sunset sometimes, you haven't seen me?
mircea_popescu: so the sad news is, argentina has bad peaches
down to a fucking artform. this set here, properly juicy, smell great, taste like fucking corcoduse
saifedean: you lay
down the law and the bikers disappear, mp... just book your ticket
PeterL: I might just break
down and get a newer computer sometime
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, "we're ~cracking
down~ dontcha know, notwithstanding that we have no authority. this activity without effect could nevertheless which could affect scams we sponsored to try and destroy this thing but it didn't work out".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, because the scams hadn't already been cracked
down upon a year ago, right here.
kakobrekla: incloudibly ? i think they are the ones that
down allow irc bots
decimation: that's good for microseconds, what if you want to have low jitter
down to nanoseconds?
BingoBoingo: If BTC goes
down too much there's still African Somalia
kakobrekla: .just kinda wondering how much further
down it's gonna go xD < not enough for kako to get a real job
Azelphur: I'm still sitting on my BTC...just kinda wondering how much further
down it's gonna go xD
saifedean: but of course the vast majority of people who play this circle jerk end up sucking and not getting sucked, somewhere along the line, funding dries up, a department closes
down, a professor dies and you're left unemployable and with nothing useful to contribute to anyone