Joshua-I: I must have read at least 12ish trilemas today but mainly only gleaned that me and mp share similar views about the ending to True Romance
☟︎ thestringpuller: danielpbarron: I've wanted to go to porcfest, cause it's in new england, but I dunno how it'd vibe with me. I like burns, so I'd figure I'd like it. Dunno tho.
shinohai: I was going to go to the Xday fest, but didn't feel like driving to Ohio
thestringpuller: 3rd time i've heard that come up in topic in my life this week
a111: Logged on 2016-07-06 22:50 Joshua-I: Is there a directory of current projects / enterprises floating around somewhere?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-06 22:54 trinque: mircea_popescu: that transaction from earlier finally went through
a111: Logged on 2016-07-06 23:17 shinohai: My trb node drops connections one by one every few hours and needs restart to connect. I'm way behind.
danielpbarron: thestringpuller, you should absolutely go, especially since you know me :D
mircea_popescu: i thought the porcfest already was. is it coming up instead ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-06 23:18 mod6: <+trinque> mod6: hey maybe the mircea_popescutronic wordpress is a better way to post TRB tutorials/updates than wiki << perhaps. i was hoping that with wiki (which, I admin, is not ideal) people could help out a bit more easily - as opposed to a blog or wp thing.
mircea_popescu: of course, you still have to give them access, which reduces to the same thing. in the end, all these are php, wiki ~= blog ~= forum etc. what are they gonna do different, you know ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 00:04 Joshua-I: I must have read at least 12ish trilemas today but mainly only gleaned that me and mp share similar views about the ending to True Romance
a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 00:46 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-06#1498418 << fwiw i don';t see this behaviour ; however i have perhaps the most egregious example of "permanently behind" node : "blocks" : 414720
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wordpress is windowsy : auto-renaems things so they have a single dot in them
☟︎ mod6: <+mircea_popescu> of course, you still have to give them access, which reduces to the same thing. in the end, all these are php, wiki ~= blog ~= forum etc. what are they gonna do different, you know ? << yeah, true.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 01:36 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wordpress is windowsy : auto-renaems things so they have a single dot in them
trinque: asciilifeform: what's your uptime?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 04:12 trinque: asciilifeform: what's your uptime?
mod6: asciilifeform: what's the ip?
trinque: nice. deedbot's been up around 104 days.
☟︎ trinque: and however long before that reboot
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mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-07#1498473 << same EXACT reason we're keeping bitcoin alive. the imbecile fucktards that lived before us failed so fucking hard all they left us was this rotten gojineata. patching the holes in it so we have somewhere to get out of the rain while we build proper house.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 03:19 asciilifeform: remind me why we're keeping this thing alive..?
mircea_popescu: if everyone's mother and father were better people, we'd have better options. as it is, we got what we got.
mircea_popescu: shinohai speaking of that idiocy, certainly a prime candidate for a fix. nfi who thought that's cool.
☟︎ thestringpuller: life is a party that's never gonna end, and, and you're not hosting that
thestringpuller: party, you're there, so you can, you know take a-take a dump on the coats, and
thestringpuller: you know, you can leave your beer bottle in the toilet if you want, it doesn't
thestringpuller: matter, it's not your house! OK, we're just here to have a good time.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 04:16 trinque: nice. deedbot's been up around 104 days.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 11:47 mircea_popescu: shinohai speaking of that idiocy, certainly a prime candidate for a fix. nfi who thought that's cool.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, top authors by sales in ru, 2012 : 1. Daria Donțova – 2877,9 mii de exemplare 2. Iulia Șilova – 2078,1 mii de exemplare 3. Tatiana Ustinova – 1447,6 mii de exemplare 4. Arthur Conan Doyle – 1256,7 mii de exemplare 5. Tatiana Poleakova – 1022,1 mii de exemplare.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 12:03 mircea_popescu: 4 women and a long dead old guy. all pulp.
shinohai loves Conan Doyle, has a whole sheld of them.
mircea_popescu: o wait, ethereum is a shitcoin therefore bitcoin something something ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, my point was more along the lines of - books being dead. grant as much, than when the majority of practitioners in a field are female, that field is therefore dead.
mats: i knew asciilifeform would enjoy that
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that last time is early 1900s if memory serves. huxley made it
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 13:26 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that last time is early 1900s if memory serves. huxley made it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform prolly they have some oversized office leftover from the glory days of the fulda gap
mircea_popescu: (you'd think this ridiculous, until you review the documents and notice over half us deployments of any kind are determined by what money is available)
mircea_popescu: ethiopes would be one thing. they keep hiring sarmatians.
mircea_popescu: a sort of reverse-manhattan-purchase, where the empire ~imagines~ it is buying something ; whereas the tribes accept the tribute, AND rape the women.
mircea_popescu: been ongoing in the middle east for a while, now they're gonna give money to the iranians because no longer happy with the dudes they fed prior.
mircea_popescu: such choice on this cow, which house on the street to be milked at tonight.
mircea_popescu: they were very hurt, by the way, to find out they're hated, and with a burning hatred, for participating, by the apparent hot core of coolness of the very people they thought they were emulating.
mircea_popescu: rome (ie, TMSR) is a famous center of culture and shining lights. because it is, but because of me not because of hussein bahamas.
mircea_popescu: the peasants (ie, here, azns) aim to go to you know, THAT place.
mircea_popescu: unscrupulous swindler (ie, usg) promises the latter that he's representative of the former, meanwhile he doesn't even have film in the "camera".
mircea_popescu: this swindle is supposed to work in the sense that corriere della sera (ie, trilema) doesn't make it to castellamare in shitlandia.
mircea_popescu: but when it does, the peasants (ie, same azns) are quite distraught to discover that what they did with the swindler not only DIDN'T get them any closer to their intended destination,
mircea_popescu: but in point of fact constitutes an absolute bar to ever getting there.
gribble: Error: We broke The Google!
deedbot: covertress voiced for 30 minutes.
covertress: covertress means female spy... but, I'm no spy. am head of Krypton, KR
covertress: doing to ETH what you all are doing to BTC
danielpbarron: aren't you afraid that by the time you snip out all the shit from eth there won't be just an empty file?
covertress: I'm at ground zero here, looking for volunteer devs
mircea_popescu: covertress how familiar are you with the technical matters involved ?
covertress: not much, I've been awol from IT for 15 years... just getting back in
covertress: but, ppl are really nice, holding my hand
covertress: think they like to watch me fall on my face a lot. lol
mats: so you're what, PR?
mircea_popescu: covertress noob founder in the sense you've not founded anything else before ?
covertress: I have industry connects, mad networking skills and no money. lol
☟︎ thestringpuller: danielpbarron: re porcfest. Do you attend any other similar events? Maybe not like porcfest? But like burning man type stuff?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 14:44 covertress: I have industry connects, mad networking skills and no money. lol
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: I really love the survival aspect of events like that, and just existing. Porcfest sounds like it takes it a step further with sessions and panels or what not...
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yeah, it'll take it the first step once they actually hunt something.
thestringpuller was really intrigued by danielpbarron 's blog entry on the matter
mircea_popescu: ok, so you've been out of it 15 years doing what, raising a coupla kids ? what were you doing before that ?
danielpbarron: thestringpuller, nope just the one, and the panels sucked. I only 'attended' the few that were just cover for me to get assassination intel/kills
covertress: I took time off from IT to explore other lives... was deckhand on historic schooner, 1st mate on PT boat, therapist, rest mgr. etc
covertress: Most of bitcoin and blockchain c-level exec are in my network ;)
mircea_popescu: covertress well, your attitude's lovely and all, but unfortunately a) you've bit on something you can't actually swallow and b) i see no direct way to explain this to you in such a way it'd make sense, owing to your complete lack of even vaguely related experience. what'd i build on ?
covertress: mircea_popescu: I get that a lot. but, no one knows how determined I am. :)
mats: fun fact, ethereum is a scam
mats: good luck with that
mircea_popescu: anyway, the situation here is that you're a restaurant manager doing ok, and one day a guy walks in and convinces you to go into business to open your own chain of restaurants built inside tessaract buildings.
mats: btc history repeats on small intervals, 'ripple' and 'stellar' were ethereum before ethereum, etc...
mircea_popescu: fact is... you're now fucked. it's not trivial to explain to restaurant manager why abstract 4 dimensional figures can not be built down the street.
covertress: if you all think ETH is a scam, then I think I found the right room :)
thestringpuller: mats: unfortunately, it seems the trend has revealed more people like to spend time hyping things up rather than actually building something useful for customers.
shinohai: thestringpuller: eg, "cryptocurrency"
thestringpuller: "blockchain" "internet of things" "easy money" "get rich quick" "work from home 2 hours a day"
covertress: I met so many companies at Concensus who are convinced they need blockchain because it's the latest thing (internet 2.0 in their minds) but, they have no idea how to implement
mats: thats a clue you're in a room full of dunces
mircea_popescu: so how long have you been doing the "being excited online" + "going to conventions" bit ?
mircea_popescu: mats i recall the last time i was in a roomfull of engineers who decided they needed concrete but didn't know how to pour it. we were about seven, playing on riverside.
mats: i'm sure these were just mbas
mats: but i concede thats hopeful
covertress: then explain the obscene amounts of money being thrown at blockchain tech
mircea_popescu: covertress a) it's not actual money and b) a dying empire bleeds money. they spent some on the taliban, too.
mircea_popescu: if you find the time to read the log, the whole turkey dollars thing's discussed periodically. even recently re the linkedin "billion" sale.
covertress: ok, now we're just getting into a semantic debate.
covertress: I'll be back... going to play with my little project now. nice chatting with you all. :)
deedbot: webbyz voiced for 30 minutes.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: If consumers revolt against an obfuscated enemy, what ends up happening to the consumer overall?
mircea_popescu: i dunno. if a bunch of blondies decide to inspect the abandoned house in the middle of the night, what usually happens to them ?
thestringpuller: i mean yes. but the "future of the consumer" seems nonexistent.
shinohai: You say that like it's a bad thing.
thestringpuller: Not at all. It just seems there is no room at all for consumerism, if you use Bitcoin correctly.
thestringpuller: As chappelle once said, "You can't just choke all your problems away. It takes hard work."
trinque thanks covertress for today's lesson on money printing and malinvestment
shinohai: For only $19.95 trinque I can sell you money tree!
thestringpuller: Consumers rely on blind trust based on recent observations. That is they want to deposit money in black box X, to retrieve Y. If black box fails their expectations, its because they didn't perform their due diligence in researching the black box.
thestringpuller: you know cause if you know anything about krypton, jal-el superman's dad, told the great kryptonian cousuel "the world is going to end and we can prevent it" and they were all like "Um no. You're insane".
thestringpuller: Well he sends kal-el (superman) to earth, cause krypton goes boom cause people didn't listen.
phf: death to videodrome! long live the new flesh!
mircea_popescu: well, all i know on the topic is that "krypton" is a superman thing
shinohai: ^ he just wanted to be cucked.
mats: covertress: you should direct your efforts to something more productive than trying to jam your hands in a money printer not meant for you
mircea_popescu: "First launched on 31 August 2012 at Bali Strait, 63M Carbon Fibre Composite Trimaran Fast Missile Boat (Indonesian: Kapal Cepat Rudal [KCR]) named KRI Klewang (625) - a traditional Indonesian single edge sword, was the first stealth trimaran of the Indonesian Navy built by North Sea Boats at Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia. This ship combined a number of existing advance technologies into a single, unique platform; a wave-p
mircea_popescu: iercer trimaran hull from, constructed exclusively of infused vinylester carbon fibre cored sandwich materials for all structural elements, with external "stealth" geometry and features intended to reduce detection. The KRI Klewang (625) caught fire because of an electrical short-circuit in the engine room during a maintenance period on September 28, 2012 and was a total loss."
mircea_popescu: basically, ustards came up with this genius idea of "build warship on form of amateur raft", everyone's copying it now.
mircea_popescu: maybe next they build a cherry bomb shaped aircraft carrier. complete with the fuse.
mircea_popescu: anyway. this entire idiocy started with the triton in the late 90s. british engineering.
ben_vulpes: > car bon fibre cored sandwich materials for all structural elements
ben_vulpes: i'm going to be someone tried to ground to the frame.
ben_vulpes: or or or lazily clipped something to the frame figuring "hey, it's plastic-y, should be insulative."
ben_vulpes: anyways, shame about the brits. they once made wonders like the black arrow.
mircea_popescu: but no, how'd ground to frame short it ? carbon fibre's a dielectric
ben_vulpes: well randomly distributed means that there's not quite as much surface area of c/c in the matrix
ben_vulpes: whereas sheet cf is simply high resistance once you scratch through the epoxy and touch some carbon
mircea_popescu: you know, that'd be pretty lulzy if that's how it went down.
ben_vulpes: sure. does imply a closed circuit. eg someone else doing the same thing elsewhere
ben_vulpes: i forget the specific details of what caused the fire i saw.
ben_vulpes: but the core element was "cf is a resistor it turns out!"
mircea_popescu: the insanity of going to war in something mom croched for you however.... the mind boggles.
ben_vulpes: to the mechanical engineer, an insulator is just a resistor with a high ohmic value.
ben_vulpes: that is before he lights the cf panels aflame with current.
ben_vulpes: not actually a fence i pissed on myself.
mircea_popescu: lucky him he didn't live these days, what a fine hitler icon they could have cut out of his hide.
mircea_popescu: nah. he wouldn't understand how carbon fiber catamaran "warships" work.
mircea_popescu: nah, he'd be friends with bahamas. "oh look, clever guy ALSO built capital in middle of swamp"
mircea_popescu: i suspect so did the colonists. "make it shitty so nobody wants to be there"
mircea_popescu: early us history is deeply against everything the us ended up.
mircea_popescu: ie, the original idea was much more a la tmsr than a la usg.
mircea_popescu: one pennsylvania mutiny each decade'd have kept the cancer in check.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, the summa of the thing being that they (stupidly) decided to give the feds ten mile square ; the northerners wanted it in a big city, the slave interest down south. eventuyally hamilton managed to trade the south undertaking a share of the northern foreign debt in exchange for putting the capital down by virgina.
mircea_popescu: dun seem washington has much into all of this, does it ?
mircea_popescu: my #1 wonderment leaving the country, incidentally, was that ~nobody uses these.
mircea_popescu: it was an utter shock, they're so cheap and effectual i fully expected EVERY shoreline EVERYWHERE is protected by them
mircea_popescu: i want to be a ru citizen just about as much as i want to be an us citizen.
mircea_popescu: in general "get free land" sorta deal is you know, a jew-targetted thing. also how china started its rise.
mircea_popescu: also, a hectare ? wtf is that. we're talking by the dc, 10kmsq.
mircea_popescu: it is written in teh torah, "you gotta interface with the locals."
mircea_popescu: 05.07.2016 Подано более двух тысяч заявок на получение «дальневосточного гектара» << lol.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha "grow open field strawberries. initial investment 1mn rubles"
mircea_popescu: so what, take 14k usd, go to eritrea, buy 700 women and 700 donkeys ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the deal'd only be interesting if it came with renounciation of ru sovereignity claims.
mircea_popescu: "buy enough land - get your own autonomous oblast" would be a decent deal.
mircea_popescu: note the deeply pernicious nature of fiat pretenders. they'll yield, BUT ONLY TO ANOTHER ONE.
mircea_popescu: how exactly do they expect to not be massacred like the jews, when they behave exactly like the massacred jews ?
mircea_popescu: much like "corruption". when derps destroy ro nuclear agency, it's fine. when derps organize booing of hilary's podium, OMAYGERD CORRUPT OFFICIALS
mircea_popescu: lmao til alecsandri (romanian poet) hated pushkin also!
mircea_popescu: apparently there's a lot of bad blood there. i had nfi.
mircea_popescu: "Fiind mai negru ca ţiganii ce-ai tot cerşit la noi cu anii, tu, cel primit cu dor de sus nici bogdaproste nu ne-ai spus. Cu dar de pâine şi de sare, cu vin din beciul nostru mare te-am ospătat. Iar tu în zori râzând, te-ai scîrnăvit în flori. Apoi prin codri de milenii ai tot umblat de dragul lelii. Ei, vezi atunci? Pun mâna-n foc: tu n-ai fost cal arab, ci porc!"
mircea_popescu: ~ darker than the gypsies (slaves, at the time), you spent years begging around here, you, well received yet failed to profer as much as thanks. we fed you bread and salt (i dunno, it's a romanian thing) and wine from our ample cave, but when the morn came you took a shit in the flowerbed, laughing. then through thousand year old forests walked to no apparent benefit (literally, for love of the ho), and so there you see : no
mircea_popescu: talented fellow, this, managed to get everyone pissed off.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the moldavians are apparently pissed because he said the boo boo about chisinau.
mircea_popescu: not that a) i can even for a second imagine it wasn't entirely merited nor b) reached at any point the level of my disdain for argentinians.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno, really. it's a pot calling kettle black situation, neither side of this debate is in much position to claim cultural ancientitude.
mircea_popescu: moldavia is no transilvania much like the philippines are no japan.
mircea_popescu: god damned thing was created centuries ago. by the fucking maramures people, the rough equivalent of being the darian colony, founded by the scots.
mircea_popescu: here's something for the historian in alf! there's ancient statement of the principle, recorded in 1970 milwaukee journal : "You make yourself ridiculous by thinking you can do anything. The word is divided in two. The Russians and the Americans, no one else. What are we? Americans. Behind me there is the government, behind the government is NATO, behind NATO is the US. You can't fight us, we are Americans."
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: spoken by greek military junta man to political prisoners.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, ended ~exactly same way the argentinian right wing military experiment ended : with the loss of an island
mircea_popescu: ironically - democratic greece is a fucking eyesore when compared to "tyrannyzed" greece.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but at least the "common man" got beaten regularly.
mircea_popescu: catering to the common man is the capital fucking crime.
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : bronco riding is a time-dependent event. do it for too short intervals, the bronco gets the idea it's tough.
mircea_popescu: whereas all these shitty attempts - not a decade in greece, not a decade in argentina etc. bullcrap.
mircea_popescu: twenty years and 10% or more civillian casualties. THEN you'll see the difference
mircea_popescu: otherwise, it's just gonna be typical "democratic" drivel.
mircea_popescu: it's quite in-fucking-credible, to compare newsprint of 1970 to 2016.
thestringpuller: "Quite funny that a random altcoin exchange like poloniex is far more profitable than a company that has raised more than 100 million USD." << in coinbase "we need more money plz" news.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol, they cautiously avoided noticing this while mpex was publicly traded, NOW it's a point of discussion ? color me flattered, what.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 18:42 thestringpuller: "Quite funny that a random altcoin exchange like poloniex is far more profitable than a company that has raised more than 100 million USD." << in coinbase "we need more money plz" news.
mircea_popescu: and now in the lulz of all time, argentine government pays youtube to advertise to argentinians about how 200 years ago they gained their independence "y lo es muy bueno"
shinohai: "Freud suggested that the project's success or failure would be determined by the impact on those receiving welfare payments." which will be zero, I'm certain.
mircea_popescu: in the general sense, bitcoin taking over everything mainstream is unavoidable ; in the same general sense, various fiat pretenders etc doing most of the work involved for entirely no benefit is also how things work.
shinohai: I kinda thought Bitcoin is supposed to *destroy* the welfare state, not perpetuate it.
trinque: poison kills well before the ratio of poison to person is 1
trinque: look at 'em imitate; it's cute!
mircea_popescu: shinohai well, while the fiats last, they get to play.
phf: i'm tired of asciilifeform's abuse, i'm getting log recovery squared away
mats: ;;ticker --market all
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 618.0, vol: 12077.46820124 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 604.559, vol: 11371.05227 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 618.7, vol: 68145.21388952 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 595.0, vol: 6.69 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 619.367936, vol: 48181.48080000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 617.87, vol: 2779.5680272 | Volume-weighted last average: 617.721224152
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 619.09, Best ask: 619.94, Bid-ask spread: 0.85000, Last trade: 619.0, 24 hour volume: 68146.85134638, 24 hour low: 610.1, 24 hour high: 682.0, 24 hour vwap: None
pete_dushenski: blame the septagenarian struggle to lead the lemmings off the cliff or mordor's highest peak. or just blame potato science 'experts' spouting off about whatever the fuck happiness is in the first place.
pete_dushenski: "In 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that a middle-income American family is likely to spend $234,900 to raise a child born in 2011 to age 17. If the kid goes to college, that figure may double." << though half a mil on a sjw you couldn't bring yourself to kill would suck the life force out of a sultan.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "The good news, the researchers say, is that there is nothing inevitable about the parental happiness gap. And there may be some relatively achievable solutions for improving the happiness of American parents – like subsidizing childcare, or expanding access to paid vacation and sick leave." << moar socialism is the problem, researchers say. the solution ? even moarrrr!
pete_dushenski: right points at left saying "those solutions worked in the past, but times are different and they'd never work THIS TIME". left points at right saying "your solutions have never worked and will never work because the only thing that's changed is the colour of your smelly socks"
pete_dushenski: huh. coulda sworn it was in here before. not the first i've heard of it but ah well.
pete_dushenski: looks like the last pre-halving broomstick is right on schedule
pete_dushenski: of course, it would be given that russ roberts and yuval levin are both jooz.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-06 16:56 ben_vulpes: also panda?
deedbot: luke-jr voiced for 30 minutes.
pete_dushenski: in other titties, bitbet2 is finally ratcheting up their fee to 2% come august
pete_dushenski: and goddam frenchies beating ze germans. wtf was that about ? colour me unimpressed with the negroes in blue who only won because the crowds and refs won it for them
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> blame the septagenarian struggle to lead the lemmings off the cliff or mordor's highest peak. or just blame potato science 'experts' spouting off about whatever the fuck happiness is in the first place. << Or give in and get a set of potato nails
deedbot: Chicago voiced for 30 minutes.
trinque: ignoring unused arguments; it's a feature!
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Because Stan is used to the captital swamp region. Compared to that Chicago is likely paradise.
pete_dushenski: i think a wet cardboard box would be paradise compared to dc
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: DC is a swamp so wet box could very well be in DC
pete_dushenski: seems like a sane way to cook the inside of the tater so it's not mushy and gross but wdik
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: bitbet 'twas in the log!
pete_dushenski: i get that it's like 13sec of reading per day, but still.
ben_vulpes: because kakobrekla takes such dreeeeeamy pictures
shinohai: Yup thought I'd never catch up on those #b-a lawgz lately
Joshua-I: Serious lag on deedbot for a min
BingoBoingo: Sure they do. It's what counsin Sal(ly) picked up when zhe was on the swim team and show choir.
Joshua-I: True BingoBoingo last time I had to do that it was at least 15mins signing the thing not to mention the pointless talk before hand
☟︎ trinque: deedbot is responding for me in about 1sec
deedbot: Bad URL or network outage.
trinque: depends on what ya command
pete_dushenski: "Microscopic investigation suggests the possibility that the tip of the hyper-elongated penis is softer than the rest of it, and our numerical model confirms that this type of distribution of stiffness gradient aids in faster propulsion than other types. This result indicates that previously ignored physical properties of genital materials are of crucial importance in evolutionary studies of genitalia." <
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-07#1498935 << more like a case of "ustards telling you something enmasse, they're DEFINITELY lying. much better odds they are saying it for some meta reason (such as, they read it in the latest cookbook, is the way to make friends out of plywood and influenza people) than for the direct.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: well... technically speaking word magicians, but the difference's negligible.
pete_dushenski: lying to themselves first, infecting each other with rabies second.
pete_dushenski: so of course, "don't beat them, they're people too" persists. it's self-perpetuum-immobile!
a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 22:14 pete_dushenski: "In 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that a middle-income American family is likely to spend $234,900 to raise a child born in 2011 to age 17. If the kid goes to college, that figure may double." << though half a mil on a sjw you couldn't bring yourself to kill would suck the life force out of a sultan.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: 'we'd share more recent data but it's an electionocution year and we're busy making bonfires out of our research'
pete_dushenski: after 2012, it's just write down the highest number our impoverished bureaucrats can count to and go with that.