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mircea_popescu: !down dpb_reddit
decimation: I guess it goes down to 10 mhz so you could do HF
decimation: "Washington's MRAP, valued at $733,000, was as "free" to the city as a diesel monster with a 74-gallon gas tank that guzzles down the road at 5 miles per gallon can be."
asciilifeform: but has fallen down since
pete_dushenski: iirc it was dr. down who came up with the term "mongoloid"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: let the permanent record permanently reflect the permanent fact that the economist is a piece of toilet paper upon which down syndrome patients scribble whatever shit happens through their head. << kablamm!
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point i had buried under all that failpaste is... wtf, "petrodollar scam breaking down plz send me paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr dollar instead" ?
assbot: Petrodollar Scam Breaking Down - YouTube
mircea_popescu: which is how things work in moronia, down is up, etc.
jurov: mpex.ws down atm
nubbins`: "clouflare: you'd better hope we don't go down"
asciilifeform: they want in. on the cheap. hence, chumpatron enlisted to drive down price.
mircea_popescu: For Mencken, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the finest work of American literature. Much of that book relates how gullible and ignorant country "boobs" (as Mencken referred to them) are swindled by confidence men like the (deliberately) pathetic "Duke" and "Dauphin" roustabouts with whom Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi River. These scam-artists swindle by posing as enlightened speakers on temperance (to ob
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> eventually. once ben_vulpes figures out the basics of how to install servers and stuff << i've got the basics down pretty well. sifting through the midden without bringing the whole heap down on oneself is far beyond basics.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal shitty coin. people wanna advertise on bitbet, might as well either outright buy it or else put some money down.
mircea_popescu: let the permanent record permanently reflect the permanent fact that the economist is a piece of toilet paper upon which down syndrome patients scribble whatever shit happens through their head.
gribble: #002 - Honda Accord insulation to cut down road noise. - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epzsMv95ebg>; Noise pollution - Property Law: <http://www.findlaw.co.uk/law/property/other_property_law_topics/8962.html>; Quiet, Please! How to Cut Noise Pollution at Home - Houzz: <http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/13825501/list/quiet-please-how-to-cut-noise-pollution-at-home>
nubbins`: still went down for the second dive ;(
asciilifeform: ... it didn't work. ad revenue from the fine scotch drinkers did not suffice. magazine was: sold, dumbed down hilariously
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: how many btc are you willing to put down to run an image ad?
HeySteve: hmm assbot not going !down
BigBitz: !down HeySteve
nubbins`: ;;later tell pete_dushenski i've been to berlin and la candelaria in botoga, and i agree -- bogota wins, hands-down
RagnarDanneskjol: thought it was here, maybe he took down
mircea_popescu: wild swings up and down
mircea_popescu: right. so if you're not interested in bitcoin, why should i care what you wrote down somewhere ?
TimSwanson: Then on the right side there is a "scroll bar", go down to the bottom
ben_vulpes: if i want to turn my paper dollars into paper gold, i'm just going to whelk my fiat down to Schwabe and let them do what they do
mjr_: passed that down to gavin
asciilifeform: '...people who hate parts of the language, some of the people who created it, or some of the process that created it, who hold personal grudges they cannot let go of, or who think the best way to "improve" the language is to stay in the community and spread negativity and tear down everybody else's enthusiasm, do just that. No improvement at all will take place when such negativity rules because everybody is af
gribble: mpex.co is down
nubbins`: i'm down to like
nubbins`: i was actually printing a run of posters earlier (pix to follow) and stopped mid-poster to scribble down a couple paragraphs of ideas
mircea_popescu: What can it do? Matrix math, basically. Obviously, even thinking about this in the most hand-wavey manner, optical computers should be good at image processing. When you break down what is involved in image processing, matrix math and Fourier transforms come to mind. We know how to do matrix math with optical computers. The limiting aspect is how many elements you can encode and modulate quickly. An optical matrix mu
the20year: Yeah, supposedly the state got sued by the FOP and they may strike it down, although the supreme court decision was a re-affirmation of basic self defense laws, and against the police idemnity laws
kakobrekla: !down the20year
kakobrekla: !down the20year
nubbins`: opt for maximum strength, save yourself a hassle down the road
khersonus: what's the reason for mpex.co being down for so long?
pete_dushenski: RagnarDanneskjol afaik, an idea wherein the big bad man shakes you down for your private keys no matter where you store them
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i used it for a while until payouts slowed down and then were being claimed as paid out yet were not even unconfirmed
nubbins`: i saw this guy and his mother walking down the street last week
nubbins`: SLOW DOWN
mircea_popescu: in other objectifying women news, i just poured down the drain a whole bottle of mumm because i got fucking scammed. here i am, naively buying stuff from major colonials store, only to discover i am being sold local knockoffs. shit was flat and tasted like llama piss to boot!
nubbins`: you lost me at the part where someone has a bunch of btc and they're selling them off in order to keep the price down
BingoBoingo: !down moarrr
ben_vulpes doubles down on black
ben_vulpes: mike_c, pete_dushenski, BingoBoingo, fluffypony: i'm taking van down for a bit.
BingoBoingo: Though... a heparin is probably the opposite of something you want to take if you come down with Ebola
mircea_popescu: closed down a decade into it. author realises she'd rather be a mommy than a ho.
TheNewDeal: ill even put down a deposit on this
mircea_popescu: it's going to lead to a splendid conundrum down the road, because from the pov of bankruptcy/anti-asset protection legal practice, the preferred avenue would be to declar bitcoin wiorthless
mircea_popescu: uh. im still trying to pin down exactly what it was you do. originally figured some coder guy, then you wanted to do 3d models, now you want to translate
pete_dushenski: it came down to privilege
BingoBoingo: Hangovers? Easy way to sit the fuck down and keep quiet.
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea how all these murican types mange to get through college. seems to me the most, the BY FAR MOST difficult thing for them is sitting the fuck down, keeping quiet and paying attention.
mircea_popescu: step 1. set down bottle without looking. part 2. set it down on usb stick. step 3. bottle overturns and falls over, exactly cork down. part 4. nothing further happens.
kakobrekla: decimation scroll down that github page it should be clear
fluffypony: then you drive down the streets with these beautiful purple blossoms everywhere
decimation: well, going down this road would be a good first step
fluffypony: RebeccaBitcoin: again - for ordinary users you simply need something that is completely under your control, and for your purposes Electrum is fine. It is small and lightweight, it doesn't download the full blockchain (about 20mb in downloads is all it needs thus far), and it has a 12 word mnemonic you write down to backup your wallet. It's literally all I need.
mircea_popescu: you wanna see jewfro, http://trilema.com/2011/fototeca-de-haur/ and scroll down
ben_vulpes: up up down down right a b bitcoin!
Vexual: up down left, yeah got it
pankkake: someone told me the source, but I didn't bother writing it down
fluffypony: "My expectation: Just like any dot-com era VC funding scam. They have created impossible expectations in the mindes of the money people who will end up controlling them. They will run in different directions at once, chasing blue sky, have a series of management changes, blow a lot of money on tiki bars and conference splashes. The layoffs will start about the same time as the death march starts. Goals will be scaled down ad hoc to things
mircea_popescu: then scaled down about 6x or so
mircea_popescu: well they gotta push costs down.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, Some go down 93-80 = B and then steps of ten, but that
mike_c: in order to win, somebody has to lose. having two funds trying to win might bring the average down.
mircea_popescu: upside down fucking nonsense, srsly, there is exactly zero difference between reading literotica and reading r/theredpill r/feminism etc. same purple prose, same "sammy was a 95lb triple D tits and fiery red pubic hair cut in a landing strip pattern" dependencies.
assbot: Johnny Dronehunter: Shotgun-toting vigilante shoots down drones in absurd ad.
BingoBoingo: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/07/30/johnny_dronehunter_shotgun_toting_vigilante_shoots_down_drones_in_absurd.html
mircea_popescu: well this isn't a problem of up or down, just, wtf am i going to do with all this capital.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i already live five blocks down from it, im already taking the sophomores out for a ride... mgith as well. pretty much everyone's a lawyer here anyway. << WHy not, one needs hobbies
mircea_popescu: i already live five blocks down from it, im already taking the sophomores out for a ride... mgith as well. pretty much everyone's a lawyer here anyway.
mircea_popescu: so, aids "had no cure" for a while in the disco era. but then, late 80s/early 90s a certain thing was found that'd slow down its rate, adding 5 maybe 10 years le if well managed. after much hand wringing this was released to the public,
ben_vulpes: van going down for deploy
mircea_popescu: "I'm not surprised you get along well with all the other neighbours. If you put fifty children with Down's syndrome in a room there is going to be a lot of hugging." << hawthorne should be quoted more often.
Vexual: you couldn't flip a house if it was already upside down
peterl: currently US banks require a large down payment to get a mortgage, USians have no savings, therefore they can't buy a house
ben_vulpes: s/p down 3% over the month, MPOE flat.
gribble: Bitstamp | The weighted average price of BTC, 10000.0 coins up and down from the spread, is 581.65632 USD. | Data vintage: 84.6930 seconds
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/критика-и-самокритика/ << re asciilifeform diametric i finally got it written down. there's perfectly good thermodynamic reason for "change".
mircea_popescu: just for sitting down, keeping "the decorum" and wearing the right powertie.
ThickAsThieves: MPEx "We'll Go Down First"
RebeccaBitcoin: and shot down the plane
decimation: 9. The only feasible option for your own Benefit (is "come back" and surrender Here in the U.S.A. AS WELL AS "FACE THE MUSIC," as alleged by the Interviews to you on television on or about May 2014 (TO FACE THE CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST YOU). Then, I will try to TONE THE MUSIC DOWN FOR YOU SO THAT YOU CAN DANCE EASILY WITH YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC AS WELL AS DANCE WITH (YOUR "PARTNERS") HEREIN.
pete_dushenski: yup, it's pretty much been 6 months since i dropped down here, so right on track as per http://contravex.com/2014/03/17/irc-yeshiva/
pete_dushenski: brings to mind douglas adams' : "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
assbot: Police: Do not call us if Facebook is down - WFSB 3 Connecticut
chetty: http://www.wfsb.com/story/26174225/police-do-not-call-us-if-facebook-is-down
assbot: I won't back down - Johnny Cash (lyrics) - YouTube
mircea_popescu: get lined paper, set it down, draw a circle.
mircea_popescu: A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down [...] But the stranger drew his gun and fired before he even saw.
ziggamon: Hey guys! Here’s some thoughts I wrote down on why people sometimes sound religious around bitcoin http://ziggamon.tumblr.com/post/93502914957/why-bitcoin-is-religious
BingoBoingo: Though with the non-waiver trade deadline having passed yesterday hot stove slows down for a bit
fluffypony: throw the assbot down the well!
diana_coman: now I'm curious whether it will voice me down in ~30 min or not, lol
mircea_popescu: just like canada down there huh.