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ben_vulpes: tbqh every time i hear about what the wizards are up to it sounds like something from a parallel universe
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punkman: asciilifeform: from recent ghost in the shell actually
punkman: can't wait for USPS to finally say "fuck it, we'll email this junk to you and burn it"
BingoBoingo: Post Office so cash positive made to pay pensions 75 years in advance.
BingoBoingo: USPS delivered parts for the AmazingPlasticar over priority mail just fine.
BingoBoingo hears postman's Grumman LLV when it reaches neigborhood, allows for mail to spend little stale time in box.
punkman: do any postmen ride bikes in US?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> grumman ?!! << Post truck was sold by Grumman.
BingoBoingo: Grumman llv is actually bastardized GovernmentMotors product based roughly on Chevy S10
BingoBoingo: llv seems like it coul be fun to drive if it will take v8 swap
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punkman: "President Obama, who regards tackling climate change as a central element of his legacy, spoke of the deal in a televised address from the White House. “This agreement sends a powerful signal that the world is fully committed to a low-carbon future,”"
mircea_popescu: what did carter regard as a central element of his legacy, i forget
mircea_popescu: other than "probably still a better option than dan quayle"
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assbot: BitBet - Cardano to Ship in 2015 :: 4.97 B (11%) on Yes, 38.3 B (89%) on No | closing in 3 days 18 hours | weight: 1`109 (100`000 to 1) ... (
http://bit.ly/1Y6qgZZ )
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mircea_popescu: "Together, we've shown what's possible when the world stands as one," he said. << doom. the only thing possible when the bureaucrats unite is doom.
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assbot: Combination of Anabolic Steroids, Amphetamines, Benzos, and PCP. Perfect combo for bodybuilding and euphoria or asking for a death sentence? : DarkNetMarkets ... (
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punkman: "She is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the plants from growing."
☟︎ punkman: "She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her that solar panels didn’t cause cancer."
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mircea_popescu:
https://archive.is/7rXTw << typical 15yo doing the typical 15yo thing : put two-three stories together in a new combo, passes them off as "real" to adults to see what they say.
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assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 06:39:45; asciilifeform: 'Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion, although we expect to only spend a tiny fraction of this in the next few years.' << lulzy
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 06:40:55; asciilifeform: 'We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as is possible safely.' << interesting turn of phrase
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assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 06:46:40; asciilifeform: one day i would like to read a cookbook published by mircea_popescu. which will show the foods not only as they are on the table, but as they are in the stomach, small intestine, large, and onward...
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 06:48:43; asciilifeform: (why would the smaller machine fall into the net dragged by the larger - slower - one ?)
mircea_popescu: but hey, don't look at the paris attack and say "lol, i guess we can dismantle all us secret services". say something else! anything else! how about "o noers, should be giving the slow, inept macfhine more $$$!"
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 07:28:56; punkman: "She is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the plants from growing."
☟︎ gribble: You have not yet rated user btcdrak
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mircea_popescu: !rate btcdrak -1 it's one thing to have opinions. it's another to misrepresent yourself. next time you want to discuss the stupid shit you do, start with linking
https://archive.is/760r4 rather than silently pretending you're not an idiot.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.btcdrak.-1:3b1794d51d794b8eb613810c31577043169905c1c574df92747f302f9d11afab
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for btcdrak from 1 to -1 with note: it's one thing to have opinions. it's another to misrepresent yourself. next time you want to discuss the stupid shit you do, start with linking
https://archive.is/760r4 rather than silently pretending you're not an idiot.
mircea_popescu: and seriously, see the part where the mp of this space says "This can not be emphasized enough : you can not be building any type of business on any sort of Gavinism, because they will not survive on the middle term. It's not just the Bitcoins, that you would have lost had I not murdered "XT". Everything - every hour you spend "developing" atop the crud USG agents try to stick in Bitcoin is a wasted hour, because the s
mircea_popescu: tuff you build upon has the consistency of smoke and the life expectancy of... well, I was going to say ephemerides, but I guess we could just as well say Pieter Wuille.", because what mp says goes.
mircea_popescu: and as the de-turdification process continue, expect more and more of these "highly principled" shitheads crawling out of the woodwork. because this is what ethics means to the present crop of retarded kids, it's just a word, and it ain't got jack shit to do with what one does. just as long as the pharisee does his ablutions right all's good.
mircea_popescu: funny thing, apropos : pharisees used to be a nation. you know, like the ustards used to be a nation. today they only thing they're remembered for is their manner of living, they're a byword for hypocrisy and a delusional magical belief in empty ritual and naming things.
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assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 19:06:33; asciilifeform: bip64, aside from complicating the protocol and giving relevance to the gavin shitgang, is also a jam-tomorrow chumpatronic engineering structural element
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 13:21:05; mircea_popescu: but hey, don't look at the paris attack and say "lol, i guess we can dismantle all us secret services". say something else! anything else! how about "o noers, should be giving the slow, inept macfhine more $$$!"
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 13:21:57; assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 07:28:56; punkman: "She is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the plants from growing."
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 13:06:20; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342262 << this very strange stupid number games thing. "they've commited a billion they'd never pay and i'll do things i'm never actually doing". мы делаем вид что работаем а государство делает вид что платит нам зарплату for the new soviet generation.
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mircea_popescu: "rapper, BUSINESSMAN OR WOMAN, musical, sport, politician" << oddly, hacker's been omitted.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dawg get the hell out with this "everything is an arm of the meta-hittite empire"
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mircea_popescu: the fallacy here is that you wish to attribute action to "ownership" because this is a fundamental pillar of your otherwise broken "action is not the measure of phenomena". if only it were possible that the mujahedeen were "a puppet" then so many things you wish to be true would also perhaps be attainable.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, in afghanistan the only NOT puppets were the afghanis.
mircea_popescu: and im not sure what the diff between m and p is here.
mircea_popescu: but, to be perfectly clear, the man who goes to work hard so he can buy a diamond ring so he can "muppet" a woman into staying put for sex is not some sort of mastermind.
mircea_popescu: this is the relationship of actual active tribes with soi-dissant empires.
mircea_popescu: and i would know, because this is what romania's been doing for about a millenium.
mircea_popescu: course, not the same as greece's two, but nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: that red indians wanted to sit around and smoke peace pipe, whereby these guys wanted to rape your wife.
mircea_popescu: or to bring the captive mouse back into all of this, whether it succeeds or not at chewing its way through plain steel and glass, and whether it has any chance at succeeding or not aren't considerations. it simply lacks any capacity of being my puppet, and for this reason it can't be, and that's that.
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mircea_popescu: and it's a miserable state of affairs, when i say argentines are too dumb to live i mean exactly this :
mircea_popescu: they're drastically incapable of making themselves useful.
mircea_popescu: what else is the job of human industry since forever, but to separate the wires.
mircea_popescu: and so... we industriously retrain their youth. it's slow and unrewarding, but then again what else is the human condition, idem since forever.
mircea_popescu: note how this also happens to be exactly the male expectations of females, generally. "she should be pliable to no one but me", which then gets repackaged in weird things like madonna/whore compelx by sick societies, which is how "slut" works : to indicate that she's exactly the antiwoman (ie, pliable to all but me) and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: this is why dudes hang out with bitches (hey, she might not be pliable to me, but she sure as fuck ain't pliable to anyone else - so that's 50%. spreading, works.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is why anal sex being painful to teh woman is actually THE REASON it's practiced and so on
mircea_popescu: fractal reality, it really doesn't have that many tropes.
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 17:04:29; mircea_popescu: this is why dudes hang out with bitches (hey, she might not be pliable to me, but she sure as fuck ain't pliable to anyone else - so that's 50%. spreading, works.)
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punkman: asciilifeform: [...] << makes EXACTLY the same amount of sense as the 'oh noez gmo!111' thing. << dunno, I'd rather not eat DowDuPont for breakfast
punkman: not yet at least, not really opposed to gmo food in principle
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punkman: so there's a Mr Sleeve in the neighborhood, and apparently he makes shirts
punkman: it's only bad if you "hope nobody thinks I'm gay"
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punkman: "In fact, I was (and am) a GOLD STAR GAY ie a gay man who's never had sex with a woman" except all these persons with vaginas
mircea_popescu: the notion that teenager kid that beat up some fatty in his class needs therapy, but this nutjob with sirens and perimeter fence does not strikes me as outright self-parodic.
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BingoBoingo guesses he will have to do another draft of the Qntra style guide, "Bitcoin" gets capitalized.
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Bingoboingo: cool, just got some light touches of editing so make sure to read it.
whaack: BingoBoingo: looks great, thanks
whaack: BingoBoingo: At the time, this amounted to approximately .290 Bitcoins per student. With roughly 4,500 undergraduates, this was MIT's way of showing that they were in a position to easily let go of about 1,300 Bitcoins at the time. << I think the double "at the time" reads weird, but not too big a deal.
whaack: ben_vulpes: Sure I'll try.
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assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 21:25:08; mircea_popescu: who the fuck gets acquihired by "hootsuite"
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ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski are you taking this "no infants sleeping on their bellies" thing seriously?
ben_vulpes: the whole SIDS thing reeks of idiopathic "we don't know what's going on but here try these things so that you feel in control"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: well yes, that was the nucleating input
ben_vulpes: i'm also expecting he-who-knows-all-about-raising-children-without-ever-having-had-any to chime in
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: ever get company-mode working?
ben_vulpes had to beat emacs into supporting ruby this week, company-mode served well
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform has yet to march in an army so hungry it's drawing lots for the pots apparently
ben_vulpes: the latter, and has been for many years.
ben_vulpes: well no thats why you eat the mats when you find them
gribble: mats was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 weeks, 1 day, 19 hours, 49 minutes, and 32 seconds ago: <mats> rolling off the cheeks of the slaves doncha know
☟︎ ben_vulpes: laird pete_dushenski chased him off with the +1 blog of intimidation
ben_vulpes: 'clever' fucking developers and their miserable abstraction naming schemes
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 23:22:38; gribble: mats was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 weeks, 1 day, 19 hours, 49 minutes, and 32 seconds ago: <mats> rolling off the cheeks of the slaves doncha know
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