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mircea_popescu: mike_c hey, you never made a banner for the analysis page ?
mike_c: i made one yesterday. it sucked, so i need to make another one.
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mike_c: " If for some reason I do decide to use any of the existing graphic components, a quick search on Google for 'clipart of man holding clipboard' and 'blue wiggly line for no apparent reason' should suffice." lol
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu well it does have that stock market growth resembling line.
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mike_c: and a happy androgenous person!
mike_c: ascii: i now have your fingerprints on file and can hack ur iphone
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform's iphone does things with the milkman ?!
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mircea_popescu: dude wtf tolerances are those, 10% resistence 20% inductance
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ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you refrain from mocking me, humans can learn, etc etc etc
ben_vulpes: kinda funny that your fingerprint's in focus but the millmarks not though
ben_vulpes: thing about machining and code is that a pro is always going to tell you a number of ways to make it look better without materially improving the thing
ben_vulpes: not really an engineering criteria, that.
ben_vulpes: i'm guessing that only two sides really need to be orthogonal
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ben_vulpes: the face to which the thing bolts, and the face which bolts to the other thing
ben_vulpes: in that situation you mill one face flat on top of your spacers or whatever they're called (i've forgotten), mill the opposite face parallel, clamp in a vise and then mill the remaining important face perpendicular to either of the two previous
ben_vulpes: well, a face, and then rotate 180 setting the piece down on the spacers again before clamping to get the machine to define your planes of perpendicularity.
ben_vulpes: not really articulating clearly, as i've been fabricating all day as well.
ben_vulpes: but i, spice racks, and with hand tools as this hovel has no machine shop.
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decimation: yeah turns out the 'advanced' battery pack is just a pile of standard lithium batteries wired in strings
decimation: I'm not sure if the guy did a schematic, would be helpful
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ben_vulpes: would never pass muster in any of the design or fabrication classes that i've taken, but i'll be surprised if it doesn't move from shack to shack for at least half a decade.
ben_vulpes: mind you i had no hand in the actual design or most of the fab outside of the cutting of pieces to dimension (and the insisting upon of dimensioned pieces for cutting)
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mats_cd03: re: sr gonzalez - imagine if he had a special vest on, rather than a knife.
mats_cd03: would he have caught a bullet, or successfully delivered head to obama post-explosion?
mats_cd03: i wonder what secret service sop is.
mats_cd03: for those that don't know -- suicide vests tend to make head pop off, mostly intact, and land in the vicinity of explosion.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> yeah turns out the 'advanced' battery pack is just a pile of standard lithium batteries wired in strings << i have no idea what's so advanced about it, basically the whole car is powered offa one of those 4.5 volt things discussed here previously
mircea_popescu: but im curious wtf happens if one of the cells goes to shit and starts heating. turn off whole battery ?
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ben_vulpes: musk made some interesting claims about battery safety behavior in the presence of overheating during the Boeing fire saga.
ben_vulpes: overheating doesn't cascade in the T batts, but who knows if the thing stays online.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: only the ones who've not bought their own vaporiser company.
ben_vulpes: and didn't we already do the aerosol/vaporizing thing?
ben_vulpes: is it forbidden or just not practiced?
ben_vulpes: i was under the impression that it was the latter.
ben_vulpes: apropos only of retarded usian laws, i'm looking into employee-ing up.
ben_vulpes: turns out, i'm liable for unemployment benefits if i fire someone for doing a poor job.
mats_cd03: im not laughing. i served, once, in usg war machine.
ben_vulpes: anyways, there's "art" and cute undercontracted ladies parading around tonight. adieu!
mats_cd03: its only free if you are kia iirc. otherwise, its... 700usd? lol.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that you feel the love and understanding of a bunch of similar mouthbreathers ?
mircea_popescu: ibm actually has a nice building down here. my lawyer rents a floor from them
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decimation: i bet they will sell you a power5 turd too
decimation: they probably are in the business of trying to scam the ar gov't
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure they're just managing real estate left over from the 80s
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decimation: asciilifeform: heh yeah, looks like gulag
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decimation: I thought they were going to get rid of that
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decimation: all of those potential relocation sites are shitholes
decimation: but they got 11,000 'federal jobs' so everyone wants
decimation: I wonder how those fbi employees feel about being seen as meat for consumption by the local political elite
decimation: as I recall the fbi headquarters is a block away from the theater where lincoln was murdered
decimation:
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decimation: asciilifeform: did you ever show up at the dc 'maker space'?
decimation: it seems the hype for those things outstrips the actual usefulness - usefulness defined as meeting actual people working on interesting ideas
decimation: could buy on ebay at that quality level
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thestringpuller: I'm looking for a liquidity source. Seems coinvoice is a good shot.
thestringpuller: What it boils down to is many people feeling upset that the video game space has been so heavily politicized with a left-leaning, feminist-driven slant," he said.
mircea_popescu: i could be him, if i ever deign to write for forbes, which seems unlikely unless i buy it and then it'll be Popescu
thestringpuller: it's just funny to me that even "gamers" are sick of the feminist...
mircea_popescu: who gives a shit what a bunch of libtards say, seriously.
mircea_popescu: this is like junior high courtyard bs. the girls get upset that the boys ignore them so they complain. which the boys ignore, because the girls stink and are stupid and who wants to be involved with one.
mircea_popescu: so the girls build their girlclub to support each other through puberty and dream of one day being married.
chetty: well if girls got actual armor they might play more :P
chetty is totally sick and tired of the girls vs. boys crap
bounce: here, take a happy pill
bounce: amazing how formulaic comics are. just like hollywood.
bounce: (says me, having studiously avoided both for the last couple of years, as much as possible anyway)
mircea_popescu: bounce now why'd that be amazing. it's supposed to be cheap and replicable.
bounce: a series isn't a series without a reboot or two, apparently.
thestringpuller: i'm almost certain hanbot is a partial robot though you say she is human ~_~
bounce doesn't really want to know but can't help but wonder what the top reboot count is, and which series.
xmj: thestringpuller: interesting question
mircea_popescu: bounce well to be honest (and i've unstudiously avoided both for two decades or more), they're all the same one thing, and so the classics have been badly reimplemented by the us pulp industry many times, and they keep rebooting it
xmj: thestringpuller: do the people from the other gender you attract mostly exhibit craziness?
mircea_popescu: but hey, why should it even work, when you got a whole reboot process.
xmj: thestringpuller: then you're legit crazy
xmj: if you mostly pull crazy women
xmj: you're crazy yourself. law of attraction, like attracts like, all that
xmj: "Opposites attract" is a lie.
bounce: no real reason why really. donald duck dun' need no steenkin' reboots, and has been around since what, 1934
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chetty: <mircea_popescu> chetty well you're not in the demographic you know ?// you mean libtards? I dun have to be in it to be sick of it
bounce: could have to do with the demographic, where teen memory is slightly longer than pre-teen memory so they (feel they) need regular reboots to capture the demographic or something. could also have to do with the writers not being on a short enough leash. dunno really.
bounce is sure there's a libarts dissertation or two in there somewhere
mircea_popescu: donald is one of the very few well managed franchises.
bounce: to the point that as soon as the mouse threatens to go out of copyright, copyright gets extended
xmj: bounce: define reboot ?
mircea_popescu: at the cost of killing the whole copyright notion altogether.
mircea_popescu: people have this constant naive approach, a pipe breaks ? push your palm on it.
mircea_popescu: yeah dude, im sure your magical palm will relieve pressure out of a badly designed, failing apparatus.
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thestringpuller: why make the movie yourself when someone will pay you to make it for you
mircea_popescu: why fuck your own wife when someone will pay to fuck her for you, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: maybe because you don't wanna sleep in the bed where all the random bacteria off random cocks collect and pool.
thestringpuller: i think the end they made a business on letting his wife get fucked by millionaires but I'm fuzzy
mircea_popescu: "He ran in to some very serious problems that poisoned his existence for many years, and made him lose faith in humans. These problems (I won’t go into details, let sleeping dogs lie) would have agonized anyone, but most people would, in time, have come to terms with life’s injustice and cruelty." << asciilifeform what, was the guy in jail or something ?
mircea_popescu: tho i guess it actually sounds more like a messy divorce, with a child involved. did he have kids ?
mircea_popescu: if turing is a good (and in fact the only) good reason to dismantle the statally organised repression of gayness
mircea_popescu: i'll readily contend that naggum is a sufficient, if by no means the only good reason to dismantle any statal revenue service.
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mircea_popescu: "In those days, nobody bought Macintoshes. But strangely, our office was besieged by people wanting us to demonstrate the Macintosh and its nifty features.
mircea_popescu: Would these people buy a Macintosh? No. But they would take up a lot of our time asking “What is the benefit of Mac? Why is it superior to Windows? Explain why we should I buy one for each employee.” And no matter how interested they seemed, and no matter what we said or did, they would weigh their options… and then buy a Windows computer."
mircea_popescu: "What they really meant was, Nobody ever got fired for buying a Windows Box."
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mircea_popescu: this is what the idiotic us puritan obsession with propriety has gotten. this. it's a scourge upon humanity and a shameful macula of untold disgrace.
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mircea_popescu: there's nothing more shameful than being a good usian.
chetty is glad you put the 'good' modifier in there
mircea_popescu: but it starts looking badly if they somehow manage to stay.
mircea_popescu: "They weren’t interested in finding out whether Macintosh would be useful for them: They were interested in being able to say to the world that they have an open mind and researched all the possibilities, but somehow, somehow, they finished up back where they started, using the same damn thing that everyone else is using."
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mircea_popescu: didja do your homework ? yessir. didja learn anything ? o, no, i wouldn't do that!
mircea_popescu: "You can’t simply ask someone if they have no intention of buying a Macintosh. Everybody lies, especially to salespeople." << the funny thing in there is, people generally despise SALESMEN for being lying scumbags. but, in fact, people lie to them as an article of faith, and in sheer volume necessarily exceed anything the salesman could push out.
mircea_popescu: same thing with cops. people don't like the psychopatholgy of policemen, but then again the same "people" are lying and trying to beat down the cop two dozen times a day
mircea_popescu: not the sorts of jobs one can do and remain in possession of his wits.
mircea_popescu: So the easy question to ask is this: “Are you trying to figure out whether to change? Or trying to figure out which change to make?” << good point. first category needs to hire a manager, not talk to salesmen.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform course, that's his off the cuff interpretation of what happened.
mircea_popescu: i have little faith the man was actually apt to follow the legal intricacies, which altogether require a different mind than one which wilfully chose lisp over say basic.
mircea_popescu: the cleanest way to represent the legal tradition, as well as the legal implementation of that tradition in any extant sovereign of the fiat, geographical, obsolete kind,
mircea_popescu: well, amateur in the "this is what i think the law should be" school of amateurship, or amateur in the "trying to figure out what this thing is" school of amateurship ?
mircea_popescu: their deal is, "we have all this oil, we will spend the proceeds on welfare, in exchange we also take everyone's money"
chetty: if you actually figured out all your tax in us wouldnt be much diff
mircea_popescu: so you know, most people making a buck and getting by this scheme a buck fiddy are happy with it,
mircea_popescu: the politico leeches sucking that fiddy cents for nothing are trilled
chetty: usa is a reverse robinhood
mircea_popescu: yeah, the us is a different system. it doesn't have mega natural wealth to prop itself, so it works as a "buffettlying to prevent the children of the middleclass pushing him out" system
chetty: well thats kinda what I meant about counting ALL the tax. The property 'owner' pays tax and passes it along in your 'rent' amount and so forth
Duffer1: driving 1mph over limit that's a taxin
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and didn't forthwith set sail for argentina because ...
Duffer1: i got a 175$ ticket for failing to come to a complete stop before exiting a driveway once
xmj: Duffer1: Friday I paid a ticket for 1km/h too much.
mircea_popescu: pretty sure it was the superhighway something or the other
kakobrekla: asciilifeform you current job/s require physical presence?
chetty: hmm most of the standards groups at that time met on phone ...
mircea_popescu: no fucking body traveled to sit on a rfc comission unless they really wanted to visit a gf or something
jurov: that would be advice for BingoBoingo
jurov: hire doppelganger, walk out
chetty: there was that guy recently, worked for the epa I think, claimed he was also cia and just took off for months whenever he wanted
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what the fuck are you doing working without a company anyway, and why is it not registered in gibraltar or w/e the fuck they do
kakobrekla: and you cant sell your skills, which we all know are plentiful, outside usa ? hard to believe.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no because argentina consists of pampas cats
mircea_popescu: and spanish is like alien, can't be learned by humans, unlike lisp and scheme
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and what's more, the argentine govt doesn't have like 5 bn in usd cash, nor does it have a horrid starvation of talent.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so ? hire ms boring to sit in that office and split
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and what the fuck are you doing owning companies in own name anyway
mircea_popescu: in short : ditch this mentality where the other party matters, in any sense, and make a sport out of rubbing its hopes, aspirations and legitimate expectations into the dirt.
mircea_popescu: it's not marriage, it's not a love affair. it's an exercise in destroying everything whatsoever and mocking the rest.
mircea_popescu: business partners with the usg, god help us. what will fiction produce next, the harem of wolves, flying to the moon on own farts, mind boggles.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> hire doppelganger, walk out << incidentally, you know they did this in the times of the good soldier svjek ?
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mircea_popescu: o yeah. you were simply required to not alter the headcount.
mircea_popescu: generally everyone produced a replacement for military service
mircea_popescu: just as long as you had someone to serve for you, all is well.
mircea_popescu: "I wish people would get more interested in _knowing_ the world they want to change. I can't keep lecturing obnoxious morons forever just because they have these wild-eyed desires that they think can be accomodated if they start a revolution or something."
mircea_popescu: "here's a lithmus test on "good ideas": if it were applied to you, would you still think it's a good idea? in other words: if you can't imagine yourself as the vendor, maybe it's time to drop the good idea stuff, too?"
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mircea_popescu: it's mindblowing just how clever, on the point and far seeing reginald braithwaite is, while at the same time how idiotically fixated on "equality" and "empathy" and all the rest of that pointless drivel.
mircea_popescu: rarely has the imbecile/genius duality been more pointedly on display.
mircea_popescu: not that he's that much of a genius, or that much of an imbecile. but then again, to display dynamic equilibrium you aren't particularly better served by a VERY LONG lever.
mircea_popescu: much more instructive is a lever of reasonable length that sits put on its support a long time.
mircea_popescu: it will work. call him your legal representative, or w/e.
mircea_popescu: people often thought mpoe-pr is me, or male, or so forth.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal that is merely good discipline on the part of the actor in question.
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mircea_popescu: i do, but you're really arguing a lot on a very narrow square inch of footing.
mircea_popescu: i don't care how deeply anchored in the core of the world it may be. it's a square inch and it's getting flattened.
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mircea_popescu: at the time i was a 16yo with his own driver, my father earned an impressing $680 a year.
mircea_popescu: and it WAS impressive, for the time and place. because hey, the russians tried to build an utopia of empathy and equality, and failed.
mircea_popescu: the result being, that everyone involved with the attempt earned peanuts. just like your average gi joe today earns whatever hundred bitcoins and thinks it a big deal.
mircea_popescu: (yes, yes, i know, bitcoins aren't inflationary etc. but the hundreds to peanuts comparison is not there)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a lot of value in looking for the easy way out, a point easily missed by naggum and im sure gauss, and many other very smart people.
mircea_popescu: ie, one that is actually homologous with the solution, not merely easy.,
mircea_popescu: there's no prizes for doing things the obvious, hard way, outside of a heartfelt obituary by an age worn woman with beautiful blue eyes
mats_cd03: or, 'how to engineer paranoia into a pleb still using facebook'
mircea_popescu: fucktard is so affraid of this world he's stuck in "empathy" and "equality" and herpy-derp because god forbid, what if!!11
mircea_popescu: if i step on a snail, strictly for the purpose of stepping on the snail, he'll prolly go berserk on me just out of the need to somehow resolve the anxiety he feels
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform his life is dedicated to their inexistence.
mircea_popescu: hence he hates "racists", those people who say things like "it's just a fucking snail"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's a whole swath of other nonsense built on nonsense.
mircea_popescu: because if it hired disruptive, fearless folks... well... who knows what rocking the boat could do.
mircea_popescu: if i went to work for google/apple/pepsi/w/e and in the first month a hundred employees killed themselves, i'd just welcome the news, and definitely blog about it.
mircea_popescu: perversion is the only enduring contribution of mankind to the universe.
mircea_popescu: "for every breathtakingly hot woman you ever see, there's a cock somewhere flacid at her mere memory"
mircea_popescu: "He and I became fast friends and life was rather wonderful. We were both self-employed and often worked from home together in our own little co-working space. We occasionally would hang out with friends together and one day he decided to have some fun with me." <<< WE BUILT OUR OWN CUBICAL!!1 out of materials found in every home! read the secret that has all middle managers jealous!
mircea_popescu: well i used to be friends with this nutso who built his own.... guillotine.
mircea_popescu: he didn't use it, but it was illegal. somehow, i still don't know how this worked, tbh.
mircea_popescu: guy was well disturbed tho, and the puzzlement of teh authorities threw him over the edge
nubbins`: lit candle placed diagonally under the rope
mircea_popescu: seems the best would be, immerse penis, use displaced volume to actuate, watch porn
nubbins`: glue piezo element to butthole, feed burritos
nubbins`: thousand solutions to this problem
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mats_cd03: 'Army officials are also looking into how to grade the new tests, with a simple "excellent," "good" or "poor" potentially replacing a pass-fail or a point score.'
mats_cd03: reminds me of some charter schools i had interacted with as a little one. no more grades, nobody can fail, everyone's a winner.
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mats_cd03: seems a poor way to run a warrior class, imo.
mircea_popescu: "EDIT: I’ve told this story at conferences and in bars for months and absolutely love teaching through humor, but I’ve always been extremely self-conscious about my writing. I want to thank the absolutely amazing people on the /r/marketing subreddit and those in commenting below for giving me such profound feedback and encouragement on this article. I guarantee you that there will be MANY more like it in the very n
mircea_popescu: ear future. Thank you for your support and your laughter."
mircea_popescu: the problem with the facebook ads being that they are absolute rubbish
mircea_popescu: to the degree even the people trying to sell them are trying on the basis of "humor", ie, complete marketing failure.
mircea_popescu: yes fb, tyvm for having built a car that can't move but is a great guillotine counterweight.
mircea_popescu: if i ever need a way to counterweight a guillotine i'll think of you!
TheNewDeal: just heard a 25 yr o girl that received an "enlarge p3n1s pillz!!"
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal it is always the ready excuse of the manufacturer of a bad car that "people just don't know how to drive"
mircea_popescu: somehow the same people that know how to game google into the dirt "don't know how to target".
TheNewDeal: google's pretty good. they just query my searches, repeat in ad form
TheNewDeal: I search "gold," all of next week I see gold rubbish
nubbins`: targeted advertising is mirthful
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nubbins`: my wife has very little info on her FB page and posts very infrequently
nubbins`: so the algos just default to "xx year old woman" and show her ads for weight loss and wedding planning
xmj: your wife needs wedding planning?
xmj: she's about to serve you a divorce, mate
nubbins`: she's married and can bench press more weight than me ;(
mircea_popescu: nubbins` more weight than you weight or more weight than you press ?
nubbins`: nah, she can barely bench half my weight right now
xmj: she's about to serve you a divorce, mate
nubbins`: i'm eating potato chips right now to help defend myself
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly, i don't see the problem. let them read everything i write and make sense to me.
nubbins`: altho she can pick me up, so there's that
mircea_popescu: i expect no less of a human, why would i deter this of a computer ?
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nubbins`: just wait until they turn on the rest of the farm
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, am i the only one to find it shocking that the hollow earth crowd hasn't squeezed in on btc mining yet ?
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal there's this group that believes the earth is hollow inside, and stuff lives there.
TheNewDeal: so I'm trying to test out this mycelium trader bullshit
TheNewDeal: requested a buy from this asshole 4 hours ago
nubbins`: ;;google penis envy p. cubensis
TheNewDeal: thats a head I wouldn't mind swallowing
nubbins`: bitcointalk.org blocked in china!
TheNewDeal: 5,000 "bitcoin china ban" threads result
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nubbins`: read an article earlier today that coal burned in china accounts for 20-30% of environmental mercury in usa
TheNewDeal: didn't the us allow mercury around for many decades?
nubbins`: TheNewDeal: pollution drift from asia is well-understood at this point
nubbins`: fwiw, the US (and canada, and every other country) still allows mercury "around", you just need to put it in a light bulb
TheNewDeal: wikiderpia says largest contribution is from burning fossil fuels
TheNewDeal: "Currently, only Minnesota has a use-restriction law providing that mercury sold in the state will be used only for medical, dental, instructional, research, or manufacturing purposes." Well, what teh fuck else is it going to be used for?
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> fwiw, the US (and canada, and every other country) still allows mercury "around", you just need to put it in a light bulb <<<
nubbins`: i live in fucking canada, i have my heat on for maybe 7-8 months of the year, and soon it will be illegal for me to buy a lightbulb that produces heat
mircea_popescu: they kept derping about this in the eu. as i left romanian, proper lightbulbs were still on sale.
nubbins`: now i have to buy a bulb that contains mercury, and the power plant has to burn more coal to keep me warm
mircea_popescu: you couldn't buy them in the foreign supermarkets. which romanians don't buy from anyway.
nubbins`: you're not allowed to manufacture or import 100W incandescents in canada right now
nubbins`: once current stock depletes, that's it
TheNewDeal: they're gonna kick me out if I try and bring a bulb across the border?
TheNewDeal: They only allow you to bring in one carton of smokes
TheNewDeal: you can buy them for ~40USD per carton (10 packs), then they sell em for ~11 CAD
mircea_popescu: the serbs been doing this for a while in timisoara. (serbia not b eing part of the eu)
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nubbins`: cheapest i've seen is japan, $14 for a carton of marl
TheNewDeal: had a friend that would import smokes from china, sell them to his frat memebers
TheNewDeal: said approx 3/10 shipments would get confiscated at the border
nubbins`: ehh i think people who bring in contraband smokes are fucking dickheads
nubbins`: like your friend's chinese smokes
bounce: makes'em better. double the sin!
nubbins`: move to a country with free universal health care and see how you feel about it 8)
TheNewDeal: It's just a joke that they're the exact same shit
mircea_popescu: well on the neutral industrial basis of it, a pack is like 20 cents or something.
TheNewDeal: I'm not going to get into the arguement, but smokers are less of a health care burden. They die early and quick
bounce: so only pull that trick in countries that don't have universal healthcare
mircea_popescu: this argument is broken against smoking. it's an argument against universal health care.
bounce: "I hate the local healthcare system, let's smuggle some smokes!"
TheNewDeal: Anyways, I wasn't the one smuggling in the smokes. Co-worker was the one, except he legitimately smoked them. Type of brainset that thinks he is saving $X whilst smoking through 9 packs in 10 days
TheNewDeal: Anyways, guy bums a smoke from him outside the hotel, gives him a looney
TheNewDeal: people try to give you quarters in the us
nubbins`: i used to do 9 packs in a week
nubbins`: it'll be 3 years since my last on october 16
mircea_popescu: wait i've been bloggibng for longer than you've been not smoking ?
nubbins`: i recall approaching the one-month mark, and a friend suggested i celebrate by smoking all the cigarettes that i hadn't in the past month
nubbins`: had a lel, did some mental math, realized that'd be like 700+ cigarettes
nubbins`: realized what i'd been doing to my body :0
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mircea_popescu: then after a month have all the radiation you missed out on
TheNewDeal: so, just because he hasn't been bathing in radiation, smoking 700 cigarettes in 10 days isn't bad?
mircea_popescu: no, but the damage in smoking 700 ciggs in one go has more to do with the one go than with the ciggs
nubbins`: probably need an ambulance around the third pack
mircea_popescu: keep a diet for a month, then eat all the food you didn't eat in one sitting. course you'll burst your stomach. etc
TheNewDeal: your esophagus would just swell closed
mircea_popescu: none of this to propose smoking is healthy or anything
nubbins`: anyway, obv all in one go is worse, point is i smoked 700 cigs a month
TheNewDeal: kind of reminds me of the monkeys that died from smoking cannabis
nubbins`: technicality club: "can i take your coat sir?" "it's a blazer"
nubbins`: TND is that one of those face-mask-pumping-pure-smoke deals?
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TheNewDeal: Can't remember where I heard of it first, but thats the tldr I guess
TheNewDeal: looked like an emaciated schwarznegger (sp)
mircea_popescu: i wonder if smoking will ever be replaced by something equally insane
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mircea_popescu: vodka is no good, but spritz will definitely loose up any woman.
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TheNewDeal: At my old job, got to see a manufacturing process for high strength power lines (for longer spans than normal, like a wide river). They had to extrude these extremely fine threads, over hundreds of meters in length, and if a few broke, it was all scrap
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: do you have background for naggum's "Free Software is a protest movement. Open Source is just a weapon." comment in that "business plan" thread?
ben_vulpes: "human" sizes, for instance: multiples of 1000, instead of 1024.)" << this is what human means on unix?!
xmj: ben_vulpes: GNU's not unix
xmj: GNU tools are pretty much invariant across all linux distributions, if that's what you mean
ben_vulpes: i'm coming to the conclusion that i'm an alien
ben_vulpes: i started playing with tiling window managers recently, to the horror of the golden cage people surrounding me
ben_vulpes: "but there are tools for manipulating your workspace!"
ben_vulpes: just enough to uncover their wholesale inadequacy and go back to the miserable rodential dragging and resizing of windows around monitors
TheNewDeal: I found it mildly convenient that you could drag and smash the windows to the edge and get it to cover half
TheNewDeal: windows usability is just going through teh roof
ben_vulpes: i read too much about lisp machines this weekend
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decimation: mircea_popescu: Your "a woman's story" link is a nice story, but it does not present a picture of usg employment law today.
nubbins`: hard to beat osx app expose for workflow
decimation: Note that even in the 'dark ages', the employer accepted her skills and hired her.
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ben_vulpes: try working with a text editot full-screened, nubbins`.
decimation: ben_vulpes: using emacs on a mac - I find the most fustrating thing is the "C-up arrow"
decimation: I often switch between "C-p,C-n" and the arrow keys
decimation: a mistype will move my desktop or minimize my window or whatever
nubbins`: ...have you considered changing your osx keyboard shortcuts?
decimation: I did take your suggestion of switching caps lock and ctrl, makes my 'emacs pinky' go away.
decimation: yeah I've been eyeing the useless 'super' binding
ben_vulpes: (also horrible is how os x handles new windows for application a when application a is full screen on a monitor somewhere: nondeterministically!)
decimation: yeah I use two monitors and osx is crazy with window management
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ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski but only those who committed the crime can be held liable for it - there's no sense in holding "a people" or "a community" liable for actions of their ancestors, is there?
bounce: happens all the time. like "compensation" for slavery that happened hundreds of years ago.
bounce: (which is of course the embodiment of the white man's evil nature that needs urgent atonement, and nevermind that the scary brown people down in africa practiced it just as much if not more... and to an extent still do)
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bounce: bot doesn't allow for multiple names on an !up line?
nubbins`: !up gilgameshugga mius pactr mike_c BananaLotus guruvan belcher Azelphur
jurov: okay, this is closed
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mircea_popescu: decimation: Note that even in the 'dark ages', the employer accepted her skills and hired her. << that was exactly my note.
mircea_popescu: boo hoo racism, horribru how they hired the woman after all.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: (also horrible is how os x handles new windows for application a when application a is full screen on a monitor somewhere: nondeterministically!) <<< i'd be happy if people just came to some sort of consistent treatment of focus
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: but only those who committed the crime can be held liable for it - there's no sense in holding "a people" or "a community" liable for actions of their ancestors, is there? << in that case what makes the indians' land the indians' ? they can't be held liable for their ancestors appropriations.
BingoBoingo: jurov: that would be advice for BingoBoingo, jurov: hire doppelganger, walk out << I'll decline to comment on whether this option has been considered already...
ben_vulpes`: mircea_popescu: regarding the north american indians - is their land theirs? is it not granted to them by the arms which surround, and worthless even at that?
mircea_popescu: "These are the Functional Kingdoms, including Haskellia, Ocamlica, Schemeria" ok that's not bad.