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pete_dushenski: mats: ascii_field this is the city of edmonton's "we improved our asphalt technologee in the 1990s but it turned out to last 1/4 as long as the stuff from the 1960s"
adlai: pete_dushenski: why does the http response never terminate? it's a .txt...
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: but to answer question, my meatspace idiocy filter is simply not as strong as the conceptual one. to ask 'why' is like asking why my legs are not as long as mircea_popescu's
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: neato
pete_dushenski: ascii_field: http://contravex.com/Erik_Naggum_on_Atlas_Shrugged.txt << done just last month :)
ascii_field: <mircea_popescu> and YET you protest the hyena << so i had a quiet and physically clean upbringing. this is who i am. i get that it gives me a short life expectancy, yes. but jumping from cliffs doesn't grow wings, no.
ascii_field: adlai: https://web.archive.org/web/20150209100751/http://open.salon.com/blog/kent_pitman/2010/01/08/erik_naggum_on_atlas_shrugged
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: flexible figure
mircea_popescu: ascii_field 100 metres is tough. within 100 metres of me there's like 3 different theatres.
adlai: pete_dushenski: what?
mod6: funkenstein_: thanks for the info.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i srsly do not see ANY merit to this "location" bs << one of us is carrying suitcase of $gadgets to the other. that's -location-, l0l.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: it's the lack of cud chewing, not the hooves that makes pigs unkosher
adlai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)#Israel
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i am told that i did, but methinks it was a fraud
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you ever had bear btw ?
ascii_field: nubbins`: if i worked in a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy a pogo and mess with it << what did you buy and play with instead? a nagant, testing how it feels in the mouth, as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ok, but you know... kinda hard to herd a herd if you're so olfactorily intolerant
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i guess ascii_field has telecom reviving AND self-upping magical powers
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
nubbins`: pete_dushenski sounds like we use different methods to achieve same result
nubbins`: pete_dushenski not if you keep it on silent and in your pocket, instead of obsessively "checking" it.
nubbins`: pete_dushenski i bring a smartphone instead of a laptop precisely to limit my tech usage
nubbins`: pete_dushenski you traveled much?
nubbins`: pete_dushenski inorite? sold as "used", guessing they're either (a) returns or (b) just damaged packaging and unsuitable for shelf
pete_dushenski now wondering from whence mircea_popescu derives fiat profit in 5 jurisdictions to keep tax lawyers and accountants busy
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: definitely afterwards, don't have enough to say about it now
adlai: blessed art thou, ocr operator; though you skimped on the index, grep is also nice and will suffice: https://is.muni.cz/el/1456/podzim2013/MPM_FIM2/The_Misbehavior_of_Markets.pdf
assbot: Logged on 31-10-2014 18:13:19; adlai: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Ayn_Rand/Anthem/
adlai: mircea_popescu: no, that's the goal-withholding attack!
nubbins`: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Going_Galt
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: aha. naturally
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski in like 5 jurisdictions by various people who know their job.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: well there's some fiat aspect to your income that's reported, no ?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu join the club
nubbins`: mircea_popescu are you talking about working in an office? 8)
pete_dushenski: heya funkenstein_ your comment has been replied to :)
nubbins`: mircea_popescu agreed. i still work (from time to time), and it doesn't suck at all
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: it's all those sunrises that caused it !
mircea_popescu: see pete_dushenski ? we got nothing.
adlai: mircea_popescu: actually a control-typo triggered it, and i decided to learn from the happy accident :)
nubbins`: pete_dushenski implication being that all that extra money *almost* bought happiness
nubbins`: pete_dushenski closer to $0k per year
nubbins`: mircea_popescu so do i, but i also like not wanting to fucking kill myself every day
nubbins`: mircea_popescu guess how much money i saved per year while making $61k
nubbins`: mircea_popescu same.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu i pay off about $5k principal and $9k interest per annum
nubbins`: pete_dushenski how it works is that you realize what you need and don't need to get by
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski he sells used chicken fingers to make up the diff.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i mean they also happened in daytime, you know, cause the shops are closed at night. so daytime causes it ? meh.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: perhaps i'm ascribing too much causation to correlations
nubbins`: mircea_popescu sure, agreed.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i just don't credit that "resulted".
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: how not ? how many pogo purchases and gnupg downloads have resulted from time spent here ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no.
nubbins`: pete_dushenski again:
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: this channel could be considered a forum
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski if someone's ready to i dunno, buy a new car, then he has specific questions which a forum might answer, and he's buying cart with our without forum. so forum didn't DO anything.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: aha. more a property of the observer
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski being persuasive is like being tasteful. not a property of the painting.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: by being persuasive ?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu aw shucks
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is more like exhortation, to downed pilot in desert, 'throw out that stale water in your flask'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: implies a woman-generator that will produce replacement
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the exhortation to walk is the l0l here
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wasn't expecting an answer. hence answer 'not enough lsd'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: his point, so far as i can surmise, is 'be theoretical physicist'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the long-term question is 'can i do something with it and continue to eat.' if fiat world turns sufficiently hostile, the answer, simply based on my pre-existing work here, may be a 'no.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was a philosophical question
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because nubbins` has this incomplete thread with me, re: 'you too can learn to be me'
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 18:05:42; mircea_popescu: ascii_field so this would be in demand either a) by the nsa or else b) independent work a la s.nsa
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 18:05:27; ascii_field: ^ most of it, in my particular case
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i haven't even envisioned solution to the problem of escaping the event horizon of the black hole resulting from the idiot's implosion
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'ju-jitsu' ?
asciilifeform: nubbins`: in mircea_popescu's world, as i understand, every soldier is naked but for his parachute, and ought to take what he needs from the locals
asciilifeform: adlai: mircea_popescu does not appear to be interested in defending anything (other than own house)
asciilifeform: adlai, mircea_popescu: 'patriotism' etc is a human plankton concept
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the fact is, not everyone has the biography, talents, and education of a self-funding deep-cover operative; and physical sovereignty has its uses. it would not take very many 'don dunphy'ings to make #b-a very empty other than for mircea_popescu..
adlai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flier_(BEAM)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm not entirely sold on this being so
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whichever. let's say defeat germany3.
asciilifeform wonders what mircea_popescu would do if put in command of the red army. imagines that he would order it to disperse, with no more than one man per square km, and operate only as saboteur groups.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: meant something like a 'mircea_popescu as stalin' scenario
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... looky here, I have no doubt i could probably pass some "new bitcoin country" real estate scam or other. i do not wish to. this, deliberately, and upon consideration, and against what random idiot may interpret as my patrimonial interest. << leads into the mega-question - what is the opposite of a real estate scam? or is this like the maxwellian hypothetical 'monopole magnet', where you have a mystery alien
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:he wasn't looking for any answer. he was trying to shoehorn disorganised remains of broken history into the future. as he keeps trying to do this he'll figure it out. <<< "you can't bribe the future with nostalgia"
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:i want to reconsider that about as much as windows user wants to compile from source. <<< i recall hearty lels when whatever chunk of windows source code came out
mats: 6:50:29 <+mircea_popescu> since mats brought it up : yeah, currently people can't audit bitbet's reserves. this is unfortunate, but i'm not going to do anything about it. << i was going a bit crazy auditing the code, thought id bungled it somehow
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 05:24:05; pete_dushenski: no more does the term mean 'cultured' or 'worldly' it seems
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 05:19:55; pete_dushenski: http://www.timesofisrael.com/is-supporters-post-cartoon-depicting-obama-beheading/ << and it looks like isis beat la serenissima to the punch!
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 04:08:26; ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: confirmed for imaginationless except in regards to his own means of death
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 04:06:20; ben_vulpes: ;;later tell chetty i'd be much obliged if you could procure me a phone and a sim - the cheapest that makes and receives calls will be more than adequate
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 02:12:24; ben_vulpes: provincia pagos sent my reciprocity fee system password in plaintext again
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 01:56:44; ben_vulpes: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392073
asciilifeform: l0l, why ben_vulpes even needs a phone
asciilifeform: so mircea_popescu's atomic dirigible has not very much room for friends
decimation: as 'la wik' says: "Medieval juries were self-informing, in that individuals were chosen as jurors because they either knew the parties and the facts, or they had the duty to discover them. This spared the government the cost of fact-finding" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_trial#cite_ref-14
asciilifeform: reading the logs; reading sites such as mircea_popescu's; same as you and i did
felipelalli: ben_vulpes: so, supose you are a usg agent and everybody knows your ability, you rate 10 the user br-8d255152, even if that user had 20x -10, I'd trust in your rate. The point is just the standard. The WoT serves as a natural filter.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the original thread concerned traditional identity papers issued by, e.g., usg
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: whose key ?