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pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-08#1563985 << and how! so eager, so hungry. the youf there are as close as i've seen first-hand to 'blue jeans'-level of adventurousness. whatever tensions between east and west are going on there are working like a charm. it's like the european philippines or something, everyone you meet from there is as friendly, hard-working and unpretentious as they come. ☝︎
pete_dushenski: he == Helmut Norpoth, a political science professor at SUNY Stony Brook
pete_dushenski: “The model predicted a Trump win in February and nothing has changed since then. Whatever happens in the real world doesn’t affect the model,” he said.
pete_dushenski: i bet a few different meatwotters on the us election outcome. shillary was shoe-in for 95% of 'educated' folks up north.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-08 20:18 mircea_popescu: incidentally - the trump flame will live on! jared kushner (trump's online campaign strategist, no less) bought a piece of property at 666 5th ave for 1.8bn in 2007. by 2009 its revenue couldn't face the debt servicing so he sold it for... 1bn. therefore he won't have to pay taxes for...
asciilifeform: 'Donald Trump's campaign moved to contest the election results of battleground Nevada, claiming the registrar of Democratic-heavy Clark County kept an early voting location open two extra hours to help boost Democratic turnout. The complaint alleges a polling location in a heavily Latino part of the county stayed open past its 8 p.m. closing time, allowing people to line up and vote until 10 p.m. The Republican poll watcher said the
mircea_popescu: incidentally - the trump flame will live on! jared kushner (trump's online campaign strategist, no less) bought a piece of property at 666 5th ave for 1.8bn in 2007. by 2009 its revenue couldn't face the debt servicing so he sold it for... 1bn. therefore he won't have to pay taxes for... ☟︎
mircea_popescu: hey, as close to a surogate of nationality as they can muster over there.
asciilifeform: 'evidence' means a very particular thing to these folx.
trinque: my node is back to accepting txn; looks like yep, just was gagged on a block ?
mircea_popescu: gotta find a combo that's unregistered
a111: Logged on 2016-11-08 18:43 asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/l8hg0/?raw=true << THIS type of blackhole is 'false blackhole', it comes from the idiot engine not knowing how to answer ANY message if a block is being verified
asciilifeform: ru -- now, apparently, exports, softened ruble made it a mega-deal.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they, like ru, produce own pipe, and ~none for export. it's a strategic commodity.
asciilifeform: eh that's not mega-seekrit. e.g., http://oper.ru/video/view.php?t=1774 , (mega-bl0gg3r d00d) puchkov interviews fella who runs a spin-molded steel pipe plant. they buy allows (internally, in ru!) by london market prices.
BingoBoingo: There's a monster in the AttiX
mircea_popescu: i think it's a decent meme. "don't make me make you suffer the."
mircea_popescu: "food replacement start up Soylent is suffering the in wake a a severe" << is it suffering the ?
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/l8hg0/?raw=true << THIS type of blackhole is 'false blackhole', it comes from the idiot engine not knowing how to answer ANY message if a block is being verified ☟︎
asciilifeform: the 'something to allcomers' days are drawin' to a close.
BingoBoingo: It's a weird thing because plants and proteins. It a slural
Framedragger: (modern english is not an inflected language; latin is more inflected. "phenomenon" is a latin word. suffix "on" here denotes singular; "a" denotes plural. but this is probably known, apologies if patronizing tone)
Framedragger: BingoBoingo: "Digestive intolerance of unfamiliar plant proteins is not an uncommon phenomena" -> phenomena, i thought, refers to the subject, i.e. "digestive intolerance", which is a singular (not many phenomena, but a single: intolerance)
asciilifeform: 'Barring a frightening and horrifying upset, later tonight Hillary Clinton will make history when she becomes the first woman to ever be elected president of the United States.' -- british fishwrap
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are you writing a qntra here ?
asciilifeform: quite a read.
mircea_popescu: lol. defendant's counsel is unable to review 1tb of data in a foreign language + 36k individual records also in a foreign language made available by prosecution a week before trial date.
asciilifeform: f July 5. Defense counsel received the discovery in a SCIF on June 13, 2016. This includes, however, a disc of emails that cannot currently be reviewed, as a secure computer has not yet been provided, as well as the files of the case agents, which are also classified and were not previously available to counsel..'
asciilifeform: e.g., 'This case is complex because it involves classified discovery that requires a top secret clearance to review. In order to make use of the classified discovery at trial, counsel will have to engage in CIPA litigation. This requires that defense counsel be able to review the discovery, determine a trial strategy and decide what discovery and evidence will be necessaryfor trial, in advance of the currentlyscheduled hearing date o
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> lol. but why, aren't you in a blue state ? << "Blue" areas for some reason have shit voting infrastructure though "Blue" Politicians talk of making voting easier. Meanwhile in "Red" areas voting just works.
asciilifeform: interestingly, the thing had a counter display
mircea_popescu: lol. but why, aren't you in a blue state ?
asciilifeform: '“Banks will be closed tomorrow. It will cause some hardship to you….Let us ignore these hardships… In country’s history, there comes a moment when people will want to participate in the nation building and reconstruction. Very few such moments come in life,” Modi said.'
mircea_popescu: much like black mold, they took advantage of a dirty environment and spread.
mircea_popescu: once that's done, 98 to 99.9% of all "costs" suddenly vanish, and suddenly you get a sane health system.
mircea_popescu: the us health care problem has only one solution, and it's compressive not expansive. a) shoot all the malades imaginaires (such as, fine example, https://archive.is/yyQny). these literally have to be shot, no possible two ways about it ; b) make it impossible for doctors to give the patient benefits. no days off from work ; no financial payments dependent on what doctor says on paper. nothing. no more painkillers of any kind
trinque: it's a poll tax
trinque: but it is not a tax y'see!
mircea_popescu: it all balances out, so that the usg can pretend it has a gdp and the oligarchy can pretend it's in business.
PeterL: well, there was a visible change in the reported polls over the last couple weeks, that is what I am referring to
mircea_popescu: the result of letting the kids on reddit instead of keeping them chained to a pole half the day with water and quarterly whippings.
mircea_popescu: basically the whole thing was about govt corps needing a new prop for their feltering bezzle fortune. and he acquiesced. and the idiots think he's a democrat.
Framedragger: what a clusterfuck
mircea_popescu: it never works. but what's a bureaucrat to say.
mircea_popescu: somehow they ALSO all omit to point out that a) they were wrong and b) the others were right ; or propose any sort of penitence, such as you know, hanging themselves.
Framedragger: but i thought it was just a negotiating tactic by the republicans - had happened before
Framedragger: sure, that was a shitshow
mircea_popescu: so a) all their friends will think they're fucking a submarine AND b) they won't actually get torn cunts.
mircea_popescu: the girls just think he's a tall black man with a small dick.
PeterL: and the girls think he has a sexy speaking voice
PeterL: Obama remais a clean slate, everything just slides off him, and the progs still project all their pet policies onto him despite his actual actions to the contrary
mircea_popescu: or the time he destroyed the last shreds of respectability for the supreme court, what with the tax that's not a tax.
mircea_popescu: they also seem to forget the five or so times putin pulled his pants down and fucked him like a little bitch in front of intl orgs.
PeterL: I have seen a bunch of memes popping up on arsebook praising Obummer for having "8 years with no scandals", they seem to forget that the scandals plaguing Hillary stem from her time as part of the Obummer administration
mircea_popescu: generally in bipartisan systems a vote downlist has principally the effect of hurting the favorite. that much is correct. nevertheless, the notion that hillary's a favourite is ludicrous.
mircea_popescu: PeterL those people read way too much myspace, which is how they ended up with the notion that hillary has a chance or something.
PeterL: people keep telling me that a vote for Johnson is a vote for Trump (because it is somehow stealing a vote from Hillary, who we only want to vote for to stop the monster Trump), so I guess I voted for TrumpReich too
mod6: Mr. Popescu, Lords, and General Assembly: Today, I'd like to take a moment to observe and congratulate The Most Serene Republic on it's Second Independence Day!
mircea_popescu: what, "i make a loss on every sale but i hope to make it up on volume" ?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger mind you : he has a 32-25 margin over clinton IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Framedragger: yeah! such a nice day
Framedragger: the latter appears more rational and therefore to a degree more sexy, but the former may be into s/m
mircea_popescu: hey, given two 16yo friends, one of which is in full "he is totally satan evil guy" and the other "hey, my current bf is buying me a car, but maybe once he loses his job", which do you think you fuck first ?
Framedragger: it's a funny set of "countries"
mircea_popescu: is that a dildohat ?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Haynes, Chilton, or is there a more exotic third party manual because cool car?
mircea_popescu: ironically this makes army (at least in the pre 90s implementation) very much a college ; which is a determination i stand by.
asciilifeform: a bit more complicated, where i went to school we had ~both~ types, on one campus
adlai: i've yet to witness a student getting thrown out of a lecture at TAU (was done reasonably often by certain teachers at exeter), although - they often basically tell students to shut up and ask questions privately afterwards
adlai will keep a rough headcount as the years pass
mircea_popescu: a fake college is on the contrary, one built on the insane premise that there's a space and a future for all walkers.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-08 06:25 adlai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-07#1563302 << what passes for 'real college' these days? ("anything outside of usgschwitz" is a bit of a cop-out)
mircea_popescu: lly resulting in something like a sugar cube ; hanbot's formal in form, which either through inhabituation or because poetry is an actual and legitimate artform (which seems rather dubious to be honest) is less grating than the other two.
mircea_popescu: it is an interesting task, because the entries all suffer from the same affliction, which is formalism, but suffer from it in very different ways. bingoboingo's has a very formal composition - he's deliberately and evidently put anything & the kitchen sink in there ; diana's very formally constructed, she starts from a tiny base in stark contrast to bingoboingo's all-engulfing endlessness then follows all the angles methodica
ben_vulpes waits for adlai to ask "what the heck kind of chain has a single link, anyways"
ben_vulpes: hydrocarbons refine well into high-grade fun and a fine fog of single-link carbon chains.
adlai: but iiuc combustion is a pretty total obliteration of chains. co2 isn't often referred to as 1,1-methandione, is it?
ben_vulpes: burning them is a further reduction in chain length.
ben_vulpes: yeah, i'm aware that it's a term of art in the refining biz.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-07 20:24 ben_vulpes: semi tempted to spin up a portland/oregon city water taxi just to crack more hydrocarbons apart.
ben_vulpes: i have 2 smallish repairs on the docket: replacing the seatbelt and fixing the blend door in the HVAC system. coming up with a plan for the first was trivial, once i had assembly plans for the seats and restraints in hand. i have a bead on how to diagnose the hvac blend as well, similarly derived from the heat control actuator harness assembly diagrams.
ben_vulpes: the car is ~intact. the AIM is a reference tome on how it went together in the first place.
ben_vulpes: repro, but a very fine one.
ben_vulpes also went for a ride in a friend's lotus elise, a car that basically does not change from year to year
ben_vulpes received his assembly instruction manual for the corvette today, has been a solid remedial american cars course so far
adlai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-09#1554171 << meanwhile a tale from the local unreal-college-cum-kindergarden: "in this class, i teach you classical mechanics. we will not cover quantum mechanics, which tells you how small things behave over small distances; nor special relativity, which describes the behavior of things at high speeds; nor general relativity, which describes the effect of standing next to ☝︎
adlai: also !~later tell vexual or whatever you call yourself these days, telling me "you can PM me too" but then never being online, and changing nicks, is not a great way to get PMed
a111: Logged on 2016-11-07 12:26 mircea_popescu: kids who go to real college where they learn real science also learn intrinsically this, that to asq a question is to beg for money, and to disguise your questions as anything else is felonious. so they get an over-active self censor. meanwhile the idiots who do not go to real college, but to fake empire college learn that they can overpower their better peers through sheer gab. because "human rights" and "freedom of speech"
adlai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-07#1563302 << what passes for 'real college' these days? ("anything outside of usgschwitz" is a bit of a cop-out) ☝︎☟︎
soneelks: okay so now i look like a total faggot. just let me know if you need anything
soneelks: can we stuff ballets or does the lordship have a preference?
mircea_popescu: i shall however presently dump teh irc for ... well, a sweet embrace.
ben_vulpes: gotta kill a bunch of dreams first
mircea_popescu: there's also no evidence that a bunch of dorks can make rules for people with money.
ben_vulpes: a) "do you really think that will last?" b) "that's pretty amusingly accidentally regressive, as ~all companies 'serving' the poor satisfy that"
ben_vulpes: oh and in other glorious socialist republics of oregon, a 2% tax on corporate sales made it to the ballot this year.
mircea_popescu: not that there isn't a ton of these. but "mary elizabeth williams" lol. to quote, http://trilema.com/2013/queers/#selection-135.0-135.108
trinque: meanwhile every other search result was some barista crowing about what a man of the people to see such wisdom in a slave, and isn't this such an insight into the nature of *humans*
mircea_popescu: mark twain is as much a threat to "our" democracy as trump could ever hope to be.
mircea_popescu: trinque that piece is particularly scandalous. imagine, the only writer worth two shits to ever crawl out of that god forsaken hole, not only a living testament to how smoking twenty cigars a day doesn't give you cancer ; but even daring to represent black slavery as a carefree life of exact equivalency to the shenanigans of today's barristas and waitresses with jezbel aspirations!