mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1299071 << more like smart people do stupid shit all the time and often enough it happens that you're impressed with something someone does only to discover they "did it" by pure coincidence later on.
mircea_popescu: http://imgur.com/a/D4A0n << im sure every internist in audience is thinking that's just about the size of an impacted shit.
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mircea_popescu: oh the cnet dude nm
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298986 << what exactly did the guy do to be veteran ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i suppose they could bid for a eulora copper merchant position like anyone else.
ben_vulpes: it's just the wwe yearly belt competition
ben_vulpes: obama doesn't actually have the mandate to negotiate; subtle fact of us presidency that most outsiders (and usians) miss.
pete_dushenski: might as well get it over with, burn the mess down already. but no, too stupid. too much 'hope'.
pete_dushenski: likewise, obama is smarter than your average nignog, but he can't negotiate himself out of a paper bag, much less prevent his 'country' from spiralling from despondency on downwards. in fact, if he were smarter, he'd be accelerating the process at every opportunity. instead, he just drags his dumb heels in the sand his father was born in.
pete_dushenski: yes, tlp is a smart dude, but no, he couldn't wrap his head around the concept of independence.
pete_dushenski: while pretty much everyone is stupid is ~some~ ways, this doesn't imply that there aren't vast disparities between the shades of gray.
pete_dushenski: wtf is this 'irrespective of their cognitive abilities' nonsense ? as if everyone in the world were equally stupid, and therefore equally intelligent, and therefore had equal rights and so on and so forth ?
pete_dushenski: "The relationship of intelligence and intelligent behavior has been the topic of recent debates, yet understanding why we call certain actions stupid irrespective of their cognitive abilities requires the understanding of what people mean when they call an action stupid. To study these questions empirically, we analyzed real-life examples where people called an action stupid."
brg444: I've lost track of time but it seems this one inning has been going on for the last hour
pete_dushenski: Frank Thomas @TheBigHurt_35 This is the craziest inning of baseball I've ever seen!! <<
brg444: that speaks to why he was so great though: dude had such an ego he thought there was nothing he couldn't do.
brg444: yep. was unheard of. kid was probably pulling more ratings on ESPN then this baseball game on now as a senior.
pete_dushenski: brg444 i remember watching him for the first time, while in a hotel room in mexico as it happens, during his senior year (of high school!) in the slam dunk competition. he was simply monumental. and i remember saying "watch out for this kid" without really knowing jack shit about pro bball
brg444: lebron the most impressive specimen I've seen
BingoBoingo: Right. But the Cards were eliminated by the fucking Northside Pedobears https://archive.is/oD37c
brg444: i get the same feelings watching Odell Beckham launch 45 inches in the hair grabbing footballs one handed during pre-game
pete_dushenski: the ones that 'don't make sense'
BingoBoingo: There was probably juice around then too, I mean Jose Canseco. Thomas though was a genetic freak.
BingoBoingo: Frank Thomas was with the OK Chicago team.
BingoBoingo: The card's elimination from the playoff wouldn't be so bad if it came at the hands of any team other than Shitcago
pete_dushenski: the WORLD watches WORLD CUP
pete_dushenski: @GreggZaun: Try to keep it classy Toronto. The WORLD is watching << bahaha. shut the fuck up zaun. you're a has-been and your little world and everyone you know doth not make up any ~useful~ fraction of the world extant. but whatever, enjoy your time in the sun, however brief it may be.
brg444: appeared to have called the play off then awarded the point on review. now checking out the replay, again.
brg444: refs made a terrible call on awarding a free run to the plate on a botched pitch back to the pitcher
brg444: people throwing beers on the field and stuff
pete_dushenski: orly ? missed the game.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 21:56:25; Duffer1: g2a is the sketchiest bullshit
pete_dushenski: how is that scam doing these days ?
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pete_dushenski: "here you are officer, i think you'll find this correspondance regarding the weather in peru to be in order"
shinohai: They like making you *feel* secure.
pete_dushenski: if you're just going to hand the unencrypted emails over the second the nydfs comes aknockin'
pete_dushenski: "The four banks will store duplicate copies of the decryption keys for their messages with independent custodians (i.e., custodians not controlled by the banks)."
brg444: what the fuck does that even mean
brg444: "22% of the world's publicly traded bitcoin has been transacted on our platform in less than 11 months"
brg444: Minor, too, predicts that bitcoin as a currency “will get destroyed.” He likens the coin’s current market cap—about $3.7 billion—to “an accounting mistake or rounding error that Bank of America makes.”
brg444: their fiat "rebranding"
brg444: my bad the recent one, would be bitreserve/uphold
Duffer1: g2a is the sketchiest bullshit
shinohai: Jeezus mircea_popescu you weren't kidding about the eulora wiki.
nubbins`: add BBC News to the list o.O
trinque: ship shinohai out on the barge
mircea_popescu: im still hopeful might manage to get a colo'd box there.
asciilifeform: would ~strongly~ prefer to put it in a place i can physically touch, but mircea_popescu does not much like this approach, iirc he said 'dont wanna trade with the enemy'
asciilifeform: shinohai: so far, nothing satisfactory. i continue the search.
asciilifeform: for some exposition of the general approach, see also my ancient article, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=309
asciilifeform: i could say more, but why ruin ~all~ of the surprise.
asciilifeform: 'p' (draft title) - for the old pgp.
mircea_popescu: the entire fucking point nsa even sponsored his nonsense is that it might perhaps prevent this manner of looking on asym crypto.
asciilifeform: there are no hardcoded implementations of ciphers, or hashes
phf: and then there's always bitcoind source, which is infinite rabbit hole. i'm studying the source by rewriting chunks in cl, and the more i learn, the more i know i don't know
asciilifeform: the - presently nameless - pgptron - is simply an emulator for a very simple but imaginary computer which performs arbitrary arithmetic on bignums.
shinohai: If help is still needed cleaning or writing some crap for the wiki I may can help.
asciilifeform: phf: 3 of these 4 are well underway right here.
mircea_popescu: and i am pretty certain the specwork for it will involve fireworks.
phf: so gossipd is "in progress", but fella's not been heard from in a very long time. gpg has not been started, but ascii presumably has a lot of ideas about it. then there's pie in the sky projects, like fabricating own cpus or rsa over udp routers.
mircea_popescu: women, sane women in sane situations, don't generally want another orgasm.
mircea_popescu: call me crazy, but the most often heard HONEST response to "would you like to cum ?" is no.
mircea_popescu: not even. "The Retired Life of Mr. Boody Wallen."
asciilifeform: 'the dreams of cthulhu'
mircea_popescu: keep[s having the same arguments with himself.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i think b-a is really the mental process of a nutty old guy
mircea_popescu: and the different apporoach is not on the part of the buggerers either, they still work nights and weekends with bare...
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> phf: the back side of this medal is that problems which require something more than poor buggerz working nights and weekends with bare hands - don't get solved. << the only problem that EVEN BENEFITS from a different approach is childbearing.
asciilifeform: the old saw, 'you own only what fits in one hand while firing with the other' is not applicable if using two-handed weapon. because then, you own only what fits in head (and arse...)
mircea_popescu: why do you want to rectally insert the creation, alf ?
mircea_popescu: fits in head, i suspect, is just your bait and switch to make the world "fits in ass".
asciilifeform: but this does not mean that other folks ought not to do it!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually i'll fess up to being a good chunk of the way into both of the above
mircea_popescu: there's also a bunch of large-ish stand-alone items, such as the gossipd (which might still be done by artifexd, haven;t heard from him for a while) and a proper redesign of pgp
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mircea_popescu: but i am positive that either mod6 or alf could give you huge chunks to do, if you're mostly into that. prolly mod6 more swamped tghan alf atm, even.
asciilifeform: phf: the back side of this medal is that problems which require something more than poor buggerz working nights and weekends with bare hands - don't get solved.
phf: i'm basically following along the logs, looking for things i can pick up and work on. last one i saw was memory limits in nursery
phf: whenever mp notices a problem, there's a active search for a solution
mircea_popescu: so why don't you do something ? here's alf bending over the task of routing circuits in the blockchain implemented in ada
mircea_popescu: so you're basically a nigger in prison (ie, timed out by the failures of this world!!1) except not actually black.
phf: that's one way of putting it, except i don't have enough leverage to last me to the end, so technically no
mircea_popescu: "not my proudest moment in retrospect, but hot damned that time i stripped naked and jumped in the pool was the greatest party ever!" said many a tall beauties.
phf: mircea_popescu: i was being childish, but also under a lot of stress. at that point they didn't quite believe me that i really am only staying on long enough to wrap up the projects i was responsible for. the haircut cut off any attempts to bring me into meetings with new clients. in any case not my proudest moment, but it was my best halloween costume so far.
mircea_popescu: and otherwise... let's do a test to see if it comes out the way we want it to here it is it did!!11
mircea_popescu: and whoever took over's paying less for the copywriting and even less for the artwork.
mircea_popescu: what has changed in 7 years ? oh... the new yorker went out of business.
mircea_popescu: The fact that the experiment failed didn't stop The New Yorker from trying to portray Wolfowitz as a jerk anyway, even though his performance theoretically showed that he was not a jerk, by the outcome measure of the study. They even commissioned a caricature of Wolfowitz to accompany the article, because, well, he's a jerk, of course. No matter what science says."
mircea_popescu: "To illustrate this, consider the latest issue containing an article, "Power Hour." It describes an impromptu experiment on the world's powerful (i.e. Paul Wolfowitz) that unfortunately failed to show the intended result, namely, that he's a jerk.
mircea_popescu: i dun get why you'd want to big fuck you the firm you work for.
phf: shinohai: i think you want these if you're trying to buterin, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BLWW8A
phf: last year i did travis bickle for halloween, complete with haircut, which had a nice bonus of being a big fuck you to the firm i was working for. apparently it's fine to have purple hair if you're an agile manager, but not so much a "warhawk" for a project architect.
mircea_popescu: A hilariously low percentage of tech investment targets the SMB market (aiming instead at huge business, the web, and the consumer electronics tie-in (the only interesting part of the list)) <<< yeah, it's not JUST bitcoin that the VC circus misdirected the usg into losing out of.
mircea_popescu: "The elephant in the room being that the ad market is falling apart because it isn't worth anything near like what we imagined. If views were what mattered it would be impossible for Twitter to be in such trouble, Arstechnica be struggling to maintain its editorial standards, or sites like Huffington Post and Forbes to be forced to display clickbait panels and load 40 ~ 70 third party plants per page load."
shinohai: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/uosc-cbm101315.php <<< Once I went to a funeral (Jewish) and joked to my cousin that "He is in heaven with Jesus now". May as well have said the holocaust never occured.
mircea_popescu: so unless one';s willing to go "timecube is astrotech astrotech and some more astrotech", one shouldn't so refer to "click analytics" and the rest of that shit.
mircea_popescu: with the mention that it's not tech. it's voodoo.
mircea_popescu: "Most of that development is iterative rehashes of what everyone else has already done, though. This is a red flag to me. Social networks, messaging systems, click analytics, GIS frameworks for click analytics, and lots of other things called "analytics" but really boil down to adtech, adtech, adtech, adtech, and some more adtech, and marketing campaigns about campaigns about adtech."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298698 << depends if she ever posted tits. that usually makes the cut >D
mircea_popescu: no point confusing them.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298674 << "believe". there's two kinds of believe, the "pepsi is best pepsi that saves women's rights" believe and the "sit on a pineapple" believe.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 14:19:04; diana_coman: he he davout that is true in general of course, but it's a matter of personal efficiency in a field or another
mircea_popescu: the people pretending otherwise are also not legitimate people. ask for their fucking legitimations, the matter's not resolved by simply being there.
mircea_popescu: no there fucking isn't. "trivialization" is never a legitimate concern.
mircea_popescu: ". There's a legitimate concern that sauntering into a polling booth dressed like something out a low-budget nightmare might actually be trivializing or mocking the experience of those Canadian women who face regular harassment (or worse) as part of their religious devotion"
mircea_popescu: and capitalizing that shit is a lot more fucking bigoted than saying obama is just a slave put there to do his white master's bidding.
mircea_popescu: what the everliving fuck. closing down "status of women" offices is a fucking must for women's rights.
mircea_popescu: "I know they're billing it as a stand for women's rights, but that would be more convincing if they weren't also selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, hadn't shuttered 75 percent of the country's Status of Women offices, and weren't shrugging off the more than 1,200 Indigenous women who have been missing or murdered in Canada since 1980."
mircea_popescu catches glimpse of 2028 when he has to decide whether he goes to nobel ceremony for b-a person or oscar prize for b-a person because hey, assholes don't understand they gotta deconflict schedules for b-a.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 13:30:20; nubbins`: davout i've been on cbc, yahoo news, huffington post, several local rags... vice article is the best one
mircea_popescu: strangely, somehow, no one seems to notice THAT is the premier, perhaps the only appeal of crypto.
mircea_popescu: "James LaFonda little prick I never much cared for anyhowis dead, and I am the ghost animating his tottering corpse." << you know, this is pretty typical schizo stuff and im willing to bet the guy kills someone.
mod6: Alright, wot-sync removed, some other minor changes. Everything resigned and posted for review, enjoy!
mircea_popescu: just, not for the future husband she [thinks she] wants. certainly for the one she deserves
mircea_popescu: in other words, america is building its leaders of tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: she'll get the even more valuable experience of impunity, IN SPITE of a lot of verbiage and to and fro from the soi dissant "legal system", "community" etc.
mircea_popescu: so basically the girl's plan was to be an activist, and she figured since all the verbiage is "you can't discuss X because you don't KNOWWHATITSLIKE" she'd really help her chances by having a bf off himself.
punkman: attempts such as: “I was on the phone with him and he got out of the car” because the carbon monoxide was working, she said. She added that she “told him to get back in.”
trinque: me: "And what if they could punch him back? Do you think he'd continue?" him: "hmmmmmm"
trinque: ben_vulpes: my brother yesterday was telling me about this "autistic" kid that punches teachers at his high school
assbot: ‘It’s now or never': Texts reveal teen’s efforts to pressure boyfriend into suicide - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1LMrVrK )
mircea_popescu: in order to work, it DEPENDS on it. better dakka just guarantees more of the same.
asciilifeform: break it, by choosing a different reading of the talmu^H^H^H^Hstandard, and it dies.
asciilifeform: thereby every single program beyond the schoolbook trivium depends on just such behaviour.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only problem is that it takes me ~20 minutes to translate one. it maybe takes me 15 minutes to read and fix his, except i'll also get angry. so it's a sort of economical problem.
asciilifeform: 'I don't care if your language lawyers tell you gcc is right. THIS WILL CAUSE PEOPLE TO GET HACKED.' << this is not hundred percent idiotic. the c programming language is specified in such a way, with sufficiently pervasive 'undefined behaviours' and nonstandardized but inescapable routines, that it is ~physically impossible~ to program in it as-specified
asciilifeform: it still beats the shit out of 'google trans'
mircea_popescu: your ennumerations must be balanced, either ennumerate nouns or adjectives.
mircea_popescu: this is broken in at least two places. one of the most x nonsense is bad grammar. the X and otherwyse Y z's is bad style
mircea_popescu: "One of the most ridiculous nonsense passed with pious self-importance by the neophytes and likewise unwarranted people"
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 22:07:28; mircea_popescu: i never knew i could equally hate both sides of a "debate" to the degree.
mircea_popescu: are these people off their rocker ? you can't name yourself a hedge fund with under 1 bn just like you can't call a thing a car if it's under 1 meter long.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is a "hedge fund" issuing stock and who the fuck heard of a 10 mn "hedge fund"
davout: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/hedge-fund-borrows-10m-in-stock-via-the-bitcoin-blockchain/ <<< god knows what happens when some of these colored coins get haxxored
davout: yeah, the whole thing materializes a government grant
punkman: not rly, I was just wondering about the prize
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 05:57:35; BingoBoingo: Just remember everyone, if you sell out to Gawker Media they will treat you like trash until and past your natural death https://archive.is/wvcwZ
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 04:36:41; BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently the freaks with super natural muscle were on to something, and that something was male birth control. I feel lied and cheated to.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298540 << could go straight for the castration and skip the organ damage...
asciilifeform: it isn't hard. ask in your local gym. the down sides are well documented.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 04:06:28; BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently male bc, is just liek woman bc, up the hormones
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298508 << folks who want to join the endocrine freakshow know where to go...
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298580 << i dun get it. why there has to be a 'pack' of whatever sort, why not simply nuke the idiot xml rpc thing once and for all ?
asciilifeform: learn it the way you would learn sapping
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298586 << at this point, i hesitate to recommend gentoo to a n00b. the problem is that there is not actually an alternative to gentoo.
asciilifeform: the whole thing, to the degree it shows any evidence of design at all, is optimized for vermin at every level.
asciilifeform: punkman: precisely the disease that gave us microshit
punkman: one case it doesn't mention is that clueless client demands to use AWS and mongodb and hadoop, because "I heard these were popular and next week when I am a big multinational I'll need to hire 10k developers and they'll only know how to use those"
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 11:25:15; funkenstein_: i'm not sure if this was the goal but at this point general USian populace won't believe there's a shooting until the bullets hit them directly
asciilifeform: and, iirc, to this day runs the swedish national telephone grid.
asciilifeform: other than this, it is, imho, very spiffy
asciilifeform experimented with erlang at great length, on multiple occasions, but cannot bring himself to use it for anything on the battlefield because 1 ) ONE IMPLEMENTATION and 2) IT DOES NOT FIT IN HEAD
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 08:49:41; punkman: http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-videogames-are-saving-the-symphony-orchestra-1444696737
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298589 << we have this here. i even attended one performance, had no idea what it was, the playbill stated 'music from games', i recognized ~not one~ - because i never had 'console'
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 05:29:18; Duffer1: does he say what the injuries were that lead him to change? "2. Submission to the pigs is no longer an option. Any time I put myself at the mercy of a law officer this may result in me being jailed or imprisoned. These are options that, to me, are now infinitely less desirable than death by cop."
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298566 << fella may have taken one too many hits in the head - from his logic, it seems that he ought to be carrying a frag, rather than a knife...
diana_coman: fwiw I have been following Trilema from pretty much its beginning so I'm quite familiar with most of it (not that I wouldn't benefit from re-reading a lot of it) and I think there are many articles that would be worth translating
diana_coman: alternatively it might simply be that I just hate translating - I'd much rather rewrite the thing in my own words as an exercise in understanding it
diana_coman: he he davout that is true in general of course, but it's a matter of personal efficiency in a field or another
diana_coman: jurov, I think gabrielradio means that he is interested in doing the translation
TheNewDeal: !down TheNewDeal
davout: "Sucks, but I don't want to sterilize perfectly good satire just so people don't have to worry or think." <<< the world would be a much better place if this stance was more common
nubbins`: this election is seriously the most fun i've had since i don't know when
nubbins`: only media outlet that actually bothered to publish my thoughts beyond the superficial ones
nubbins`: davout i've been on cbc, yahoo news, huffington post, several local rags... vice article is the best one
nubbins`: ^ in which a single photograph and a facebook event allowed nubs to spread his views on civil liberties from one coast of this fine country to the other two
assbot: Newfoundlanders are Trolling the Fuck Out of Harper With This ‘Barbaric Cultural Practice’ | VICE | Canada ... ( http://bit.ly/1MzsBWt )
nubbins`: http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/newfoundlanders-are-trolling-the-fuck-out-of-harper-with-this-barbaric-cultural-practice
assbot: Digital minister wants to 'break some clichés' about the French startup scene (interview) | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Chris O'Brien ... ( http://bit.ly/1MziYqD )
punkman: I was wondering what a digital economy minister does and ended up here http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/13/digital-minister-wants-to-break-some-cliches-about-the-french-startup-scene-interview/
funkenstein_: i'm not sure if this was the goal but at this point general USian populace won't believe there's a shooting until the bullets hit them directly
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 00:37:45; asciilifeform: http://www.demotix.com/news/5506846/police-destroys-37-tons-seized-drugs-chacarita-cemetery << oldie, re: the mega-graveyard
funkenstein_: a good old lecture on the topic is "Dead doctors don't lie" - joel wallach
assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: One Of These Things Is A Straw Man, And The Other Is On Fire ... ( http://bit.ly/1LLv7Uk )
funkenstein_: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/11/one_of_these_things_is_a_straw.html <-- thanks for that one.
assbot: Logged on 09-10-2015 01:49:22; mircea_popescu: the notion that people may read "newpspaers" made by people they don't know.
funkenstein_: if you understand this you'll see there's no time to be anxious
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 14:16:05; thestringpuller: for people with anxiety disorders: what works for you other than drugz?
BingoBoingo: Just remember everyone, if you sell out to Gawker Media they will treat you like trash until and past your natural death https://archive.is/wvcwZ
BingoBoingo: There are pieces he has where he chronicals getting hit in the nuts more than any person should.
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: He has a long chronicle of past injuries. This sudden decline is new though and he ofers no new injury. I may be a combination of age and the past injuries.
Duffer1: does he say what the injuries were that lead him to change? "2. Submission to the pigs is no longer an option. Any time I put myself at the mercy of a law officer this may result in me being jailed or imprisoned. These are options that, to me, are now infinitely less desirable than death by cop."
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: Try his older shit. Up until a couple weeks ago he wrote as though he were some sort of white ape from the Congo. This is a precipitous decline
BingoBoingo: Also the entire Lafond life plan just shifted http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=3087
BingoBoingo: Who doesn't, far more to be learned than from the winners?
Duffer1: i'd be impressed if they could find a way, who wants to read the story of the games losers?
BingoBoingo: This is like I'd like you to with you experience spot and write up some shit for qntra. You have the history to carry it
BingoBoingo: Men had hormonal birth control first and the 1960's were a lie
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently the freaks with super natural muscle were on to something, and that something was male birth control. I feel lied and cheated to.
Duffer1: anyone watch the first dem debate?
BingoBoingo: <Duffer1> the glue developed to be injected into the vas deferens and dissolved when reversal is wanted/needed << Defo not that
Duffer1: the glue developed to be injected into the vas deferens and dissolved when reversal is wanted/needed
Duffer1: is that the nut glue?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently the gold standard for male birth control nao is called Trenbolone
BingoBoingo: Or love each other... Gotta turn em gay.
BingoBoingo: It's what all the good schools do nao
BingoBoingo: Nah, make them gay.
Duffer1: my iguanas are doing great, but it turns out they're both male so i'll have to re home one :(
Duffer1: there's a conspiracy afoot
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently male bc, is just liek woman bc, up the hormones
BingoBoingo: Also, not quite news, but someone is finally trying decentralized mixer that's been planned since late 2012 at the latest http://bitcoin-p2pool.com/joinmarket_orderbook.html
BingoBoingo: Apparently male birth control has been a thing longer than women's birth control, but the gubmint has just been depriving people of it
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> steroids are still legal otc right ? << Reason why not in the US is starting to look more like no because, lol feminism
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa, 'severance' typically means a lump sum of usd. 'unemployment' is something quite else (financed partly by a tax on the employer, partly by state, it is a meagre pension that one draws for precisely so long as one remains Officially unemployed.)
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 00:24:55; mircea_popescu: it's gone now, mostly because newer refineries slice the column differently
mircea_popescu: so go into drugs, you'll get so fucking tired of shoveling the crap...
asciilifeform: (how? what's to keep anyone from washing it? ask them - not me.)
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 23:42:57; mircea_popescu: who the fuck gives a shit about "sourcing" of diamonds outside a very cultish narrow segment of bored middle class art majors/social scientards ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-10-2015#1298374 << nitwits who think that their resellable-for-penny-to-the-dollar debeers crud could somehow become valuable if given a spray of provenance perfume
gribble: The operation succeeded.
punkman: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8389523.stm "was capable of laundering 6.5m litres of fuel a year."
BingoBoingo: ANd the new low sulfur requirement
BingoBoingo: Well, there's the standard clear to yellow-ish. Some tanks produce a bit a blue-green tinge because infected...
punkman: BingoBoingo: what other diesel colors do you have?
BingoBoingo: Long haul trucks here often get pulled over by the "Secretary of State (of Illinois)" police to check for the dye.
mircea_popescu: it's totally not a case of "if you're willing to put 15% ethanol in there anyway, like fucking hruschov wanted, fuck you and shut up, we'll paint it blue and you can pretend it's fine"
BingoBoingo: Still fractions the same way, but diesel and even tar fractions get cooked into gasoline
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> (basically, you're burnhing the diesel as gasoline and have no fucking idea)\ << You break it into smaller gasoline hydrocarbons with heat and pressure
pete_dushenski: then vw's (and several other, mostly german, automakers') pivot to electric propulsion seems like a way to absorb the laptop battery capacity that's in excess from kids buying smartphones and only smartphones.