pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo can you check the qntra spam filter for a comment of mine ? i think it got scarfed.
mircea_popescu: ahaha. if "meets obama" clocktard comes back a decade later onboard a plane that slams into the wh and kills the us president, i WILL write the "obama trained a future terrorist" article.
mircea_popescu: and this isn't that far fetched, either : us is just about due for a dead president.
shinohai: I don't think it's far-fetched either.
pete_dushenski: middle east > usistan, despite lack of own brass bullets
mircea_popescu: of course, qatar is a reasonably rich, aspirational sort of arab world
shinohai: Also, mircea_popescu added a new term to my vocabulary: clocktard
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 22:16:14; jurov: maybe it's just me but i don't like porn zooming all in to genitalia and spending minutes there, especially in this time of huge HD screens
mircea_popescu: as alf pointed out, with the power chord still attached, it looks like one of those retard constructions
shinohai: Any other kid with half a brain would have written a cool clock script in python and showed his teacher.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu qatar is 'not exactly pakistan' for as long as it can fend off isis. so what, a few years ? a decade ?
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shinohai: s'ok Putin got it under control. He'll squash them like they did Afghanistan in the 80's
mircea_popescu: the LAST thing they want is rich people who are also muslims dislinkign them.
pete_dushenski: i'd take even money on qatar falling before athens, if anyone's interested
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Gotta resubmit. Last night means there's about 3/4 of a MB of fresh spam to dig through
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Not really. I mean if you can offer an hour and minute UTC.
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pete_dushenski: aite, i'm off to go bang my head against pergolesi's magnificat. such a bitch, this thing. later !
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 00:08:21; mircea_popescu: did you see the clock the kid made ?
mircea_popescu: well he didn't invent it, he still made it. if you got a fish in a fishtank and it makes a poop, it didn't make that poop ?
mircea_popescu: please buy his old junk so he can uproot already kthx.
phf: you're selling the whole orchestra, huh?
mircea_popescu: "Here's what happened on 9/12 at my hospital, and what happens in so many cases of high-emotion altruism: they take the day off in order to go to NYC, but then don't actually go (car wouldn't start; heard on the radio they were blocking volunteers, etc). They win: they get the reward of the sacrifice, perform no actual sacrifice, and get the day off. Meanwhile, someone else had to sacrifice to cover their responsibil
mircea_popescu: I think Rita Owens meant the statement "more Caucasian men stepping up" as a jab at blacks to get them movitated, but if it is factually accurate then these Caucasians are idiots. Really? Big Brothers? That's the call you heard? Whites seem particularly prone to manic devotions to faddish volunteerism inspired by celebrity that are transparently self-aggrandizing. And temporary-- they inevitably quit when the nex
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 23:22:28; mircea_popescu: phf and what's this say about inflation ? note that they are artwork in any sense.
phf: so what are you asking for whole orchestra?
phf: doesn't need to, i will pick it up from the door
BingoBoingo: <phf> assuming it's in DC << Awe, I though I would get a chance to open Bingo's courier service.
phf: delivery by dc bike messenger
BingoBoingo: phf: Nah, motor courier service operating out of the central US, but if you are closer...
phf: asciilifeform: well twenex was selling a handful of ivory's for ~5000k, so a 3620 with it's power requirements and refrigerator size will be some fraction of that
phf: well, it's fraction of a size
phf: i assume it's also significantly quieter ;)
phf: BingoBoingo: i'm actually moving to dc, so yeah, will be within shooting distance from ascii
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 23:50:06; mircea_popescu: If you agree with this, then you have to also face the fact that Wolf didn't consciously plan, "no matter what happens in this interview, I'm going to cover it up"-- it was a reflex, an instinct. Get a drink, think about this: a reporter's instinct wasn't to go for the truth, but to go with the scripted story.
BingoBoingo: phf: Ah. Entire appeal of Bingo's occasional courier service would largely be derived from proximity to US highways 50 and 40 facillitating broad range of lateral movement.
phf: could target ebay sales of oversized, hard to deliver items
BingoBoingo: Well that and carrying the payload the comfort only a reliable yet non-descript family sedan can provide.
BingoBoingo: phf: Qntra takes too much of my time for that.
BingoBoingo: Need the trifecta of over weight item, hard to insure, actually demands delicate treatment beyond UPS or USPS can provide
☟︎ phf: might as well transport drugs
BingoBoingo: Nah, seizure risk is too much along with risk to qntra from lockup time
BingoBoingo: But endangered computing equipment, might be a niche market
BingoBoingo wishes more contemporary machines weren't afraid to be loud in the name of cooling.
☟︎ phf: requires one of those futuristic syd mead houses, with an office room overlooking alpha centauri landscape, that's where you put the console. the computer is in the basement, calculating landing trajectories, for the private spaceship of your visiting friends
mircea_popescu: IF spaceships ever become a thing, then therefore surface living will be sort-of like mountain living today.
mircea_popescu: no sane people wanted to live in the plain, for all of history, until machinery.
mircea_popescu: it's prohibitively expensive and also nonsensical to land a spaceship. and so...
mircea_popescu: live in orbit, visit the surface like you visit the seaside today.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no sane people wanted to live in the plain, for all of history, until machinery. << On a hill by a river or coast has always been and forever will be ideal on earth
BingoBoingo: Of course. Good people though only keep a townhouse in the city
phf: mircea_popescu: well, yes, in the above narrative it's a summer house, you go there if you want to be alone and study migration patterns of some quirky local species, which is your hobby. all the action is in the orbit
BingoBoingo: St Louis tried the city on a hill thing and only got Ferguson and a bunch of outlying areas that flood from time to time
mircea_popescu: i suppose in the south of the future the masters live in orbit and the slaves roam below. to be abducted now and again for sexual services or w/e.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: And further in the future quality slut breeders get a place in orbit without the good view.
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 01:02:21; *: BingoBoingo wishes more contemporary machines weren't afraid to be loud in the name of cooling.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: It does if you need to cool all the power
BingoBoingo: Sure one can quietly cool even a great machine.
BingoBoingo: Sure, but if the monster wants to idle at 300C you need moar than a heatsink. I'm disappointed there aren't many if any new chips like this
mircea_popescu: (think about it - temperature helps its function, that's how it works).
kakobrekla: hot air will raise creating some draft
BingoBoingo: But if air heats faster, there's gotta be a limit before you bring in the noise to bend air to your will
mircea_popescu: the only time you have to fan it is when the thing is INTOLERANT of temperature. the higher temperature it can tolerate the less fan you need.
BingoBoingo: Also a wouldn't a 250 GHz chip cooled by having a small jet engine intake pull away the hot air be cool?
☟︎ BingoBoingo: I mean an oil cooling system that burn the oil (Jet A only)
phf: new ricer fad, how loud your system is, neighbors call cops, "bro, i'm compling gentoo with -O10"
BingoBoingo: Seriously, except you tell the Po-Po you are curing cancer by donating your spare cycles
phf: verifying gavinblocks
mircea_popescu: if you move the air fast enough it will actually add heat.
BingoBoingo: To both previous non join/part lines actually
BingoBoingo: Randiant heat from the engine also a hazard.
BingoBoingo: Fuck, radiant heat. We are talking about engines in general, not John Galt's in particular.
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assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 01:10:25; mircea_popescu: i suppose in the south of the future the masters live in orbit and the slaves roam below. to be abducted now and again for sexual services or w/e.
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 01:28:08; BingoBoingo: Also a wouldn't a 250 GHz chip cooled by having a small jet engine intake pull away the hot air be cool?
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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Actually right now I'm working on a qntra piece on biological limits. originally targeted it for end of the month, but should be out by end of the week
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Tis a new site. The biological limits part involves US Law enforcement and clearnet markets they seem to like vs dislike.
BingoBoingo: i.e. WHy are Darknet busts full og C IV xanax paraded while clearnet C III busts not so much an only involve... to be revealed
BingoBoingo: And if asciilifeform gendarmie predictions come true the still will like...
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assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 02:30:16; asciilifeform: forgot the title
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 00:47:53; BingoBoingo: Need the trifecta of over weight item, hard to insure, actually demands delicate treatment beyond UPS or USPS can provide
mircea_popescu: derpy "social worker" just gave himself a monopoly. he is needed, don;'t you know, because parents aren't "political proxies" for their children. heck, parents don't exist at all.
BingoBoingo: ^Carl Mark Force IV leniency tour is starting
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: which is the article in which you discuss what a "supermarket" is?
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ben_vulpes: hey y'all want to hear a funny article title?
ben_vulpes: "Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money"
mircea_popescu: how about "stop pretending like you're gonna be doing things and go to bed." ?
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mircea_popescu: "Medical journals are rarely accused of ideological bias, they are accused of financial bias. The press are rarely accused of financial bias, they are accused of ideological bias. If you studiously spend one month looking for the opposite bias in both, what will happen is that you will become an alcoholic. "
mircea_popescu: the source talking about bias is not a legitimate debiasing approach.
mircea_popescu: but, in the interest of postmodernism, the kernel should have a futher /u/bias/ which should contain bits describing the bias-ness of the /u/rand
BingoBoingo: Same for electical cable. I pity the fire departments.
mircea_popescu: it's expensive. it was good money 20 years ago, and it's not going away.
mircea_popescu: comes from br, the ancient ur word for sawdust, and ead, which is rat droppings in maori.
BingoBoingo: ;;google Until then, Id only heard of alcohol showers. Turns out 70% isopropyl alcohol is about the only thing that can even touch a scent like that once its soaked into your skin. It takes four or five bottles to get really clean, but its worth it. Its probably the only scenario I can honestly endorse drinking a little of it, too.
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mod6: "harshly reprimanded, and convicted"
mircea_popescu: <mthreat> search is down because linode is rebooting due to a Xen security thing <
mthreat: linode cutting into my beauty sleep
mthreat: i won't be storing any btc on this node!
mircea_popescu: myeah. replacements are hard, apparently, i still need one for nsa.
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HeySteve: crumbs, the new buttcoin desktop background
assbot: Unusual happenings with inactive radio stations, signaling something big about to happen? : conspiracy ... (
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HeySteve: #InternetOfThings is when your toaster mines bitcoins to pay off its gambling debts to the fridge (twitter.com)
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mircea_popescu: shoulda took better care of things, by which i mean, shoulda sucked elite cock moar, dear usarmy.
mircea_popescu: it allows arbitrary of whoever by whoever already anyway.
mircea_popescu: "give me an example of X in non-X and i'll pretend i mean something else by non-X. see, you can't, go me!"
punkman: you could bring your own shitter
mircea_popescu: your ideas of goatfucking are unwelcome, in that you don't even judge you could survive on your own in buenos aires.
mircea_popescu: i might as well ask what 12 yo virgins think of handling households.
mircea_popescu: (you realise "goat country" is a proxy for disability right ? we don't call them cruthces, we call them mechanical mobility aids! )
mircea_popescu: of the 12 mn people living here, NONE owns personal reactor.
mircea_popescu: fact is they survive, and if asked to discern what is and isnt a goatfuckingstan i'd take their word above yours
mircea_popescu: but you aren't, and this discussion wasn't in any sense germane.
mircea_popescu: hm, eikther i recall this wrong or the world has forgotten a decade later
mircea_popescu: and to think marlboro spent a billion on those stupid billboards and gave that schmuck cancer.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what do you even know of mexico ? you ever been there ? and i don't mean fucking cancun with arizona university sluts.
mircea_popescu: how trhe heck would you know. fucking chiapas is one of the best places on earth.
mircea_popescu: and no, i didn't go there in airforce one. i went there BY BUS
mircea_popescu: thanks fucking god i had the presence of mind to do that when i was 20
mircea_popescu: chiapas is mostly forrested hills with most of hte world's amber.
mircea_popescu: oh also, it's "the free and sovereign state of chiapas"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31900 @ 0.00053783 = 17.1568 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: (they make most of the mango you;ll ever eat in the us)
mircea_popescu: also, in 1994, they rose up in armed rebellion. you know why ?
lobbes: <mircea_popescu> also, in 1994, they rose up in armed rebellion. you know why ? << looks like they weren't having none of that NAFTA stuff, huh?
mircea_popescu: someone, somewhere, actually took up arms to resist nafta. and the respect they're paid is, "oh, goatfuckistan". who in oregon ? who in california ? who, anywhere ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "oh but it wasn't on reddit". of course it wasn't on fucking reddit.
mircea_popescu: the way these things work is that they try to cover as much as possible.
pete_dushenski: this was the essential dispute over canadian softwood lumber vis-a-vis regulatory jurisdiction under nafta
pete_dushenski: canadian provinces wanted to subsidise their industry via 'stumpage fee' but usistan said that this was 'unfair' and imposed a compensatory duty on canadian softwood lumber. much fur flew but canada eventually agreed to 'anti-dumping' price schemes.
pete_dushenski: actually, the 'softwood lumber agreement' expires this month.
pete_dushenski: well, it's the same thing in the sense that u.s. wanted tightly controlled and self-advantageous 'free trade'. canada complied. argentina didn't.
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assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 14:51:03; assbot: US charges hacker with providing ISIL info on US military personnel | Ars Technica ... (
http://bit.ly/1RW9je1 )
pete_dushenski: i hope we can still be friends and push through that keystone xl pipeline business ;p
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 15:02:33; mircea_popescu: and to think marlboro spent a billion on those stupid billboards and gave that schmuck cancer.
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 15:06:41; asciilifeform: sounds appealing. what does a 4GB SDRAM stick cost there ?
pete_dushenski: "Chinese cross-border investment in greenfield projects and in expansion of existing projects in Africa fell by 84 per cent in the first half of this year compared with a year earlier, from $3.54bn to $568m." << the waterfall is drying up.
pete_dushenski: "VC investment in bitcoin companies dropped 41% from $145m to $85m – the lowest total of the last four quarters" << in more than one place.
mircea_popescu: and no bitcoin investment into "vc companies" or any other fiat bullshit is going to happen until we get some serious structural reforms.
mircea_popescu: on the table : fiat sovereigns renouncing their alleged power to coerce taxation.
mircea_popescu: recognition of b,tmsr~ supremacy in commercial legal matters ; personal immunity to members, the lot.
mircea_popescu: read up on the original merchant's guilds for a broad idea.
pete_dushenski: i can see renouncing taxation of income and capital gains, sure, but real estate tax would still seem to be on the table, no ?
mircea_popescu: no. first, they admit they do not have the right to steal.
mircea_popescu: THEN we might turn the other way for a little time over a little tax leftovers to make the transition smoother.
mircea_popescu: and if real estate holders think pooling THEIR moneyt is such a great idea, guess what ? they will.
mircea_popescu: if they really need a lot of their agents hung we'll hung them alright.
pete_dushenski: i agree that it doesn't exist per se in practical terms, too expensive to implement, but property 'owners' are cattle
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assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 15:48:08; mircea_popescu: someone, somewhere, actually took up arms to resist nafta. and the respect they're paid is, "oh, goatfuckistan". who in oregon ? who in california ? who, anywhere ?
ascii_field: to take up guerilla arms, your life needs to have meaning outside of the electric grid.
assbot: Logged on 05-07-2015 21:37:26; mircea_popescu: war means, i fear i have to remind, spending the next 5 years without a woman eating your belt and shitting in a hole you dug yourself.
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ascii_field did not know that these were today rare enough to make nyooz
mircea_popescu: lemme guess. "sex assault" means he fucked his own maid.
punkman: "Neighbors reported seeing a bleeding woman screaming for help as she tried to scale an 8-foot-high wall that surrounds the property at the end of a cul-de-sac"
mircea_popescu: Generally, if someone doesnt do something wrong, they dont get arrested, he said. Just the simple human aspect of it, he couldve apologized
for doing what he did.
mircea_popescu: "he could have at least apologized so i could say "hey, someone doesn't apologize if they didn't do anything" instead of this weak sauce "they don't get arrested if they didn't do anything".
mircea_popescu: seriously, that's what he got ? woulda sorted a lot of fergusson problems, this logic.
mircea_popescu: these fucktards already gave humanism a bad name, they'll manage to shit simple "human" too ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field but the important point you're not making re mexico is that... it worked.
mircea_popescu: this is how this thing works : always better than you expect it to, and the inconvenience is never quite as significant as you imagined.
punkman: @wikileaks ANNOUNCE: We have obtained the contents of CIA Chief John Brennan's email account and will be releasing it shortly.
assbot: Wealth therapy tackles woes of the rich: 'It’s really isolating to have lots of money' | US news | The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1OSJOKz )
ascii_field recalls scene from 'silicon valley' where a rich fella (fictionalized steve jobs) compares his troubles to that of jews in germany
mircea_popescu: you know, in my experience beauty is A LOT more isolating. i spent my fucking youth doing psychotherapy on six foot, one gallon titted blond 17 to 22 yo beauties who wanted to be PEOPLE
ascii_field: if mircea_popescu can help them, perhaps he could even cure mathematicians!
pete_dushenski: he has to lay the foundation before i can build the house
ascii_field: wai wat, pete_dushenski is a languages aficionado ?
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: ukr is not so hard. just learn ru and swap all the vowels with ы !
ascii_field: laugh, but this is the language most of the actual ukr elite speaks (into the microphone. ru at home, without exception)
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the romanian vernacular unarticulated agreement is ihi
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: and you can make it norse! swap out the t's for ð's.
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: not a bad gig, really. actually does more for 'the people' than gov't ever did.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller if i wanted to be a usian slumlord, i'd buy a decrepit building, hold auditions for (nude) black women under 25, on the premise that they get to stay there free, but they don't get to say no to any cock.
mircea_popescu: prolly make pretty decent rent off all the state kid support.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: how is this any different than a ghetto brothel?
ascii_field: wasn't there a thing where chicago police dept. had one.
mircea_popescu: heck, actually you could run the whole affair as a "clothes free zone".
assbot: The People We Trust to 'Save' Women From Prostitution Keep Paying Them for Sex—and Worse - Hit & Run : Reason.com ... (
http://bit.ly/1OSMqbn )
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i wouldn't trust whatever a reason.com reporter misunderstood on a topic he imagined.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, it probably could be translated to ukrainian. just... english doesn't curse nearly enough.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field so apparently amd not on provider's list. you can live with supermicro ? or want to mail your own box ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: can live with just about anything, old box was an intel
mircea_popescu: SuperMicro SuperServer 5018D-MTF Intel® XeonTM 4-Core E3-1231V3 3.30GHz Processor with 8MB Cache 5GT/s 80W 4x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM sockets 32GB DDR 3 1600MHz ECC Memory 4x 3.5" Hot-swap SATA3 HDDs w/ RAID 2 x Seagate 3.5" 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 7.2K RPM 128MB. 3 year warranty, to be delivered in 3 weeks (?!), < 4 btc + colo (3 ips, 100mbit) ~1 btc/mo.
mircea_popescu: i think the colo price is a little overboard, myself, but hey, maybe they're worth it.
mircea_popescu: yeah, except we're 4 btc burned if it doesn't work out. i think.
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ascii_field: phun phakt of the day: gnupg 1.4.10 permits dynamically loaded turds, in a manner similar to openssl.
ascii_field: (appears to be switched off in a default build, but re-enabled if use of 'idea' cipher is enabled.)
mircea_popescu: incidentally, if anyone else was wanting these... now when i have the pen in hand, i can write five like i write one, so speak up.
mod6: ben_vulpes: should we get one for the foundation?
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ascii_field: funnily enough this is about what colo costs in gringolandia
mod6: better not for the time being.
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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes prolly best wait a bit for that, as bitcoin isp mainstreamizes will be easier.
diametric: is the previous managed provider being phased out in favor of colo?
diametric: okay. i'll give this some thought. the colo offering is tempting.
mircea_popescu: the thing being... if it's any good it won't be going anywhere, and if it goes away just means you saved a penny.
ascii_field: dks is apparently alive, and symbolics has quadrupled its yearly revenue,
mod6: shinohai: ya what up
shinohai: If you have free time later, want to get with ya on v
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: d'you recall which piece of ballas' had the line about the "if it weren't this highly credentialed person, it'd be someone indistinguishable from him"?
mod6: shinohai: sounds good, just hit me up.
mod6: thanks too btw! it needs some exercise.
shinohai: No worries, I'm kinda behind tbh
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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ie, the guy lies because that's what the system needs said ?
jurov: do i understand right, the bisp box is 1btc/mo?
jurov: and the box is bought extra?
jurov: thx for info, not interested atm
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: not that the guy lies, but that the guy exists because the system needs a guy like that to exist.
mircea_popescu: i recall it. should be an article from mid to late 2008
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mircea_popescu: dja happen to have a link to my comment here about that article ben_vulpes ?
mircea_popescu: i usually include lengthier phrases specifically to ease searching
shinohai: Thanx kakobrekla, probably not worth the time since he still hasn't named a price that he will pay for testing.
pete_dushenski: "Mileage cards tended to be marketed at college graduates, while cards with teaser APR rates were sent to the less educated. Cash-back and point-reward cards were offered equally to people at every education level."
shinohai: Whereas rich or poor, you still get dick-pill spam pete_dushenski
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: lulzy, i get this crud by the shovel-full
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pete_dushenski: ascii_field: i can't say i've ever seen one in my mailbox. ever.
pete_dushenski: sorry, i exajamarated : "average Albertan owes $24,271 not including their mortgage."
pete_dushenski: "BMO’s annual debt report pegged average household debt in the province at $124,838 in 2014 (compared to a Canadian average of $76,140.) Among Albertans, half held credit card debt, 53 per cent had mortgages, and 17 per cent held student loans."
pete_dushenski: ascii_field: that first figure was only consumer debt, didn't include student loans
shinohai: lol pete_dushenski I had no idea contravex had opined on that xD
pete_dushenski: i'm always amazed how many people don't even read them
shinohai: I usually read footnotes, there are always good tidbits there and on trilema.
pete_dushenski: ah well, literacy is hard, even when everyone 'learns' it
shinohai: Just hadn't read that article yet.
pete_dushenski: you'd think a comment about dick pills would've ended up in the 'how to suck a cock' but nope, ended up in 'jennifer lawrence needs to grow up' piece :)
pete_dushenski: and speaking of jlaw and the gender pay gap, i'll leave you with a research abstract
pete_dushenski: "Male lawyers bill ten percent more hours and bring in more than twice the new client revenue than do female lawyers. We demonstrate that the differential impact across genders in the presence of young children and differences in aspirations to become a law firm partner account for a large share of the difference in performance. We also show that accounting for performance has important consequences for gender g
pete_dushenski: aps in lawyers earnings and subsequent promotion. Whereas individual and firm characteristics explain up to 50 percent of the earnings gap, the inclusion of performance measures explains a substantial share of the remainder. Performance measures also explain a sizeable share of the gender gap in promotion."
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ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: if i could find the comment, i'd have found the link
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ascii_field: gabrielradio, mircea_popescu: lulzy piece. ought to be accompanied with a drawing of 'man of the future' - a two-metre cock with small legs (like caterpillar's)
ben_vulpes: anyone tracking the safe harbor shitshow?
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gabrielradio: not sure about the poem tho. the way i saw this whole translation thing was that mircea_popescu wanted the ro articles translated because he didn't want to spend the time to do it himself, so that's where i would come in
gabrielradio: but in the case of the poem, time isn't the issue, and if he deems it unfit for translation in his own hand, i doubt it would make sense for me to try & translate it
ascii_field: there are a few of my attempts in the logz.
ascii_field: english is perhaps one of the worst things to translate them to, though.
ascii_field: gnarly ball o'shit language, doesn't want to rhyme at all.
ascii_field: 'spermatozoa, those lonely noahs!' (tm) (r)
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gabrielradio: what say you mircea_popescu? am i suited for translating the old testament of trilema?
mircea_popescu: well, sadly, i can't use any of the stuff you produced so far. going through this latest one, it's still easier / faster for me to do the whole translation than to correct it.
ascii_field: ;;later tell ben_vulpes re: article: usg won't 'hand out cash' for the same reason that comcast et al doesn't actually promise 1Gb/s at 100% dutycycle. (the rest of it, i have failed to make sense of)
mircea_popescu: but also, you shouldn't take this as a bad light on yourself, i think you did a reasonable job, just, the requirements are insanely tight.
mircea_popescu: but, i dun want you to walk away poor from the exercise either, so post an address an' i'll send you a bitdime or something.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: every escapee from 'amazon' i've personally spoken with, said essentially same thing: 'run like sov uranium mine'
mircea_popescu: that's the only way you can run something with muricans.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: complete with 'ударники', firings of 'bottom x%', etc.
mircea_popescu: not bezos' fault they're essentially rus empire peasants.
ascii_field: well the interesting part is that people go to work there.
ascii_field: rather than packed into vans and forcibly pressed, yes.
ascii_field: but, as i understand, they come in, and soon come out of the other end.
ascii_field: 'Bezos runs a company, not a playground for millenials. He runs it to make a profit...' << the last bit is technically a mistake...
ascii_field: amazon has not, for most of its existence, turned a profit in the customary sense of the word.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i am willing to bet the complaints are ALL "oh we were defrauded, landlord kept our deposit and we didn't really piss on the parquet. it was not our fault!"
mircea_popescu: as you say, wake me up when inept woman is stripped, whipped and left tied to the office door over the weekend.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i only met a few of these folks. but they all said strictly same things, described something quite like the practices that breathed life into the labour unions of 100 years ago...
mircea_popescu: jurovconsider i have there one cdg with q 465, storage shows 240 << grass is 60, q 100, and cft is 180, q 100. no idea why it shows 240, atm. but we KNOW that the prices shown are broken atm, and chetty was going to fix them, but then got some health problems. it's still on the list to fix, and will be fixed asap.
ascii_field: 'fire bottom x%' decimations; 'promote top y%, defined in asinine quantitative metrics', misc. sovietisms
mircea_popescu: if they were human beings this sort of thing wouldn't be needed. they aren't.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: from my distant perch i cannot say whether the butugychag school of thought has given amazon any advantage vs the other great halls'o'humancompilers.
mircea_popescu: no thinking / respectable person would run the farm of muricans any other way.
ascii_field: (if it did, one might expect to see it copied by other firms)
mircea_popescu: the only thing you may expect groups of muricans to do is a) whine and b) ask for govt money.
ascii_field: why not? it would taste especially great with google's reintroduction of factory dorms
mircea_popescu: copying what works is so high up on the "never EVER do" list it might as well be racism.
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ascii_field: i met schmidt twice, once to buy machine, then some parts
BingoBoingo: I'll drop a message and see if he replies.
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trinque: BingoBoingo: typo in headline? "quandruple"
ascii_field: afaik there are exactly three of these people. now listed.
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mircea_popescu: "The New York Department of Financial Services "BitLicense" scheme was a flaming disaster that drove out no less than 15 bitcoin-related businesses from the state and cost leader of the charge, Ben Lawsky, his political career."
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin price volatility in 2015 is roughly half what it was in 2014." << oh we so desperately need the usg tards.
mircea_popescu: here's what : the greatest growth potential for usg & associated retardation is ... subsaharan africa.
mircea_popescu: take your obamas, bhararas and whatever other oratanii and go the fuck back to kenya, dear usg.
gabrielradio: If youve no debts and have $10 in your pocket you have more wealth than 25% of Americans. More than 25% of Americans have collectively that is.
mircea_popescu: in fact i just made this point to cab driver here who wanted to know "how the us really is" :
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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo prolly could include comments of deeply regretting taking the no position etc.
BingoBoingo: That's what blog comments are for, referencing the bet comments.
BingoBoingo: Having a lol in the qntra piece's comment section at the expense of the lamentation in the BitBet comment section
BingoBoingo: I believe this is what webmarketing tards call "driving engagement"
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