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2015-09-30 at 3:18 AM UTC in IN MEMORY OF METAmeta was a faggot, I hope his neckbrace got caught in an escalator. That nigger closed the first thread I ever made.
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2015-09-30 at 3:06 AM UTC in Site is too slow
Ole emmy is my pick, it's my fantasy to seduce her with a fat bag of coke and fuck for hours in a cheap hotel room.
Runner up is Wata of Boris, maybe the only asian girl I could do without feel awkwardly like I had a repressed thing for submissive chicks
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2015-09-28 at 4:52 PM UTC in The tea party is everything wrong with America
Q. What destroyed every great empire ever?
A. poor people, minorities, and foreign ideas
True story.
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2015-09-28 at 4:49 PM UTC in Question for Libertarians/AnCaps
That local farmer could bring his case to committee , and they could possibly decide to remove the parties engaged in price-gouging, by force if necessary. It would be up to each locality to handle it in the way they see fit, of course.
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2015-09-28 at 5:39 AM UTC in Question for Libertarians/AnCaps
It's not the slippery slope. Incrementalism is a legitimate and commonly used strategy, and I'm referring to realistic/probable outcomes. In an ideal system political authority/government power would never be abused and mistaken/destructive policies would never be enacted, but that clearly isn't the case.
It is a slippery slope fallacy though. Limited trust busting causes exactly one thing: limited busting of trusts. If you're not a dogmatic anti-statist then you should have no problem admitting we should empower the state where evidence suggests doing so will lead to better outcomes, and you yourself have admitted state intervention would lead to a better outcome in OP's hypothetical.
Oh how the cool rational facade cracks under the pressure of a case you can't wave the holy sacrament of the free market at and declare solved.In a free world it wouldn't be a problem to pick up your bags and move a town over if you prefer their lower water costs. I'd argue a regional monopoly isn't a monopoly at all.
Well who's being idealistic now?
In the real world, free or not, up and moving as local prices fluctuate is not a feasible strategy for nearly any sort of business. In OPs example, how can you expect a farmer to sell their land, go find new land, and start farming when the only local supplier of something starts engaging in price gouging? How is price gouging at whatever level is less expensive than the cost of people with enormous sunk costs moving town supposed to be the optimal solution here? -
2015-09-27 at 11:36 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition101 now
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2015-09-27 at 9:27 PM UTC in Should fraternities be banned?I don't see any real reason to ban them, people are entitled to spend their time how they like I suppose but it always seemed like a pretty stupid tradition to me. Kinda like paying a decent chunk of money for people to be your friend and do stupid shit with you, seems depressing.
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2015-09-27 at 8:36 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Dont. Oculus comes out at the beginning of next year. Im not sure whether the pricing i saw was rift or Samsung VR gear but i saw $99. In any case, itll definitely be cheaper than the dev kits.
Thought about it but I mean $300 or $100, it's not a huge investment either way. And if there ends up being a developer branch of the hardware (this is standard operating procedure for consoles) at consumer release then I'm going to end up buying the devkit anyway. I'm more unnerved by the facebook acquisition and how feisty competitors have become. My money is still on oculus though, I'm a huge Carmack fanboy and this really is the project he was born to work on. It's tempting to jump camp based on specs for unseen hardware but the quality of the SDK is just as, if not more important (that is, attracting talented devs and enabling them to do interesting things) than hardware specs. -
2015-09-27 at 7:49 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
I was thinking of posting this: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/09/im-obsessed-with-san-franciscos-bunk-bed-craigslist-ads/407281/
And mentioning how pathetic it is that adults are sharing rooms with bunk beds due to SF's economic retardation. You can even find couples sharing rooms with other people. This will seem particularly shocking to people that have never lived in extremely high cost metropolitan areas, people that live n very low cost regions (actually most of the US in terms of land mass).
I'll be the first person to call out how fucktarded SF's development policy is and the total circus that is the housing market. But you have to admit that ad is a bit melodramatic, I mean has this nigga never heard of living in a dorm? There are a number of professions that necessitate communal living (like oil rig workers live in barracks and stuff while they're on the job). I'm not saying this is great but it's both over dramatic and close minded to describe sharing a room with someone as a "nightmare".Which leads to my main point: Let's assume that housing price increases continue long-term and that purchasing your own home will be an absolutely nightmarish financial scenario. Actually, before that, what are your peak earnings projected to be? Difficult question, you probably don't know what your potential is or whether you'll be able to or want to deal with the pressure and workload, especially if you decide to start your own company. I recall reading something very interesting about an experiment done with low doses of LSD for creativity, where they had professionals use it in a group setting to develop ideas and solve problems from their line of work. Did you ever read this? Reason I bring it up is because I think you're the kind of person that may legitimately receive a very positive impact on the trajectory of your life from psychedelic use, it could change everything. Oh, and you could commute, but traffic could become worse and it could already eat up hours, although self-driving cars would allow you to do other things, even use virtual reality, but it's still kind of gay. Then again by that time maybe telecommuting really could become the standard and people may be spending a surprising amount of time inside virtual reality..
Hah, funny, I was actually just looking at real estate listings recently. There's were a handful of places I could buy today where the mortgage and associated costs would be less than what I pay in rent today. Almost tempted to go for it, but I expect to be making more before too long, push my price point up a bit, could spring for a place I wouldn't feel the need to trade in after a couple of years. I'm not sure I could enjoy telecommuting, I can work from home in my current job any time I don't have to be in the office for a meeting which is usually a couple of days a week but I never like it. Hard to focus on work, the setting just prompts me to do other things, plus there's something to be said for the ritual of going somewhere else, doing something else, and returning, like it just structures things better. And then there's a social factor, sometimes problems are best resolved by talking them over with someone else and there's something depressing about going full days without talking to another living soul.Okay, detour aside, given how enormously expensive that would realistically be, keep in mind that the effort of what I'm proposing may still have a far far lower lower new cost than this, making it very lucrative, and that this isn't as absurd as it may initially appear and has relevant real world cases that can be used for information. Illegal underground housing. We could become the first literal mole people and squeal with delight at what we've accomplished, like children who have built a secret base. Do a google search for bank robberies committed using tunnels. We could get plans from the city to avoid pipes and other infrastructure, water/moisture, gas/ventilation, structural integrity could all be dealt with. I'm thinking parks may be an ideal place for this because there would likely be less underground infrastructure to get in the way and with SF's political climate they're probably pretty unlikely to be developed, particularly deep enough to effect us. We could probably find a way to tap into the water and power supply as well. Then we'd have a neat secret entrance where we could enter and exit without suspicion, along with a nifty conveyor and tunnel to rapidly take us to the dwelling and carry items.We could start tunneling from within the sewers or underground tunnels: http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/4056-a-rare-look-at-the-tunnels-under-san-francisco
Or, another idea. What if we found/picked an optimal tunnel or room and sealed it off. Sure, urban explorers, homeless people, whoever may have known about them and visited/wanted to visit may be like, WTF?, but they'd probably just assume the city did it. Realistically, what would they do about it? It doesn't seem likely that the city would be informed or discover this had occurred and that they hadn't done it, then break in. This would be much easier, but likely wouldn't be in a prime location.
"If it's such a good idea why hasn't anyone else done it?" For all I know they have. But, really, you should have a general idea of the psychological profile of the common man, the lack of imagination/creativity, drive, daringness. Is it really anywhere near as difficult as the decades you'd have to work and save, the effort of going through school and working your way up a career, or building a company? He who dares, wins.
Haha, access would probably be an issue, I don't really want to go crawling through a storm drain every morning and evening. Would be an interesting idea to build down on a building you already own so access wouldn't be a problem, the mole people would just look like other tenants coming and going, but then doing the construction in secret would be pretty much impossible, you can't do indoor excavation. -
2015-09-27 at 6:29 AM UTC in You guy wont ever believe who just sent me an email<h1 style="font-size: 64px">THE LIVING END FAGGOTS</h1>
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2015-09-27 at 6:28 AM UTC in Hard work or Smart work - Which is important?~~india~~
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2015-09-27 at 6:26 AM UTC in Can anyone here please talk to me im about to kill myselfdo
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2015-09-27 at 6:26 AM UTC in Have any of you accomplished anything of significance?Since we're on the topic of trusting lanny with your IPs it's worth restating the official policy: I will never give up a poster's IP until legally compelled to. I will fight any legal mandate to turn over any non-public records (like if you post your name and shit that's public niggas, LEO isn't even going to ask me) in so far as I can (I have a little cash taken out of my pay check each month for an aggregate legal service type thing where I get a lawyer once I land in legal shit which isn't great but better than sending joe programmer(me) into a court room) but I can be put under a gag order and compelled to turn over records under threat of imprisonment. I sure as shit don't want to rat anyone out but I won't be going to jail for yall niggas and my host will probably be giving up my records before it comes to that point anyway.
So the point here is I'm not selling any info to third parties or LEO without a fight but if you're posting something that could land you in jail (protip: no one filing a subpoena gives a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut about petty crime or drug use, I post about being fucked up every other day from my unproxied home connection) you really should proxy up and post as an alt and take any other precautions that make sense. I'm not blocking tor, I'm not blocking proxies, I'm not banning anyone for being an alt, you have to tools you need to cover your ass if your freedom depends on it (and obviously it does not for most of us). When it comes to your legal safety you really shouldn't trust me or any other web host, not because we're all out to get you but because US law permits our records to be taken without our consent and even with precautions in place, the state can compel us to give up evidence against you on threat of jail time.
Aaaanyway, if we're talking accomplishments, I wrote a novel algorithm for constructing adjustable polygon meshes from contiguous voxel-sets with applications in biomedical imaging and published a short paper on it. It's a minor improvement from the former state of the art in a small subfield but it's actually one of the few things I've ever done and felt proud of, advancing the edge of human knowledge even if by some tiny portion. -
2015-09-27 at 5:52 AM UTC in Question for Libertarians/AnCaps
If political authority is required to produce an optimal outcome in this scenario, but the aggregate effects of what political authority will realistically lead to in other realms outweigh the benefits, it doesn't follow that you should support the existence of government.
Slippery slope fallacy matie, your cognitive biases are showing.
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2015-09-27 at 5:47 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionFuck. The circle is closed and I have become malice, fantasizer of worlds.
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2015-09-27 at 5:47 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionPicked up a little overtime in the last week, made sense for political reasons but a nice bonus is that I have this thing where I can never buy stuff that I haven't budgeted for unless I pick up non-regular income to compensate, even if I have plenty in savings or whatever. So I'm going to spend my unexpected windfall on an oculus rift dev kit and some drugs. Take a little time, however much I need, to shake off any potential disorientation from the VR experience, get comfortable with simulated vision. Then I'll take a respectable dose of a psychadelic, not like ego-shattering or anything, but enough to get fully and totally lost in the experience, strap on my VR set, and see how real another world can seem. Obviously I'll be developing something for VR during the adjustment phase as well, I may even make myself an experience beforehand time permitting. Maybe a nice simulation of Muir woods, always somewhere I've wanted to trip but transit logistics make it difficult. Or maybe something more surreal. Just thinking about the generative worlds I could make with good VR, it's amazing. Maybe even a framework for building infinite spaces built out of whimsy for people to create and explore as whimsy strikes them under the influence of drugs. Think about it, someone could say they want to explore a vast empty favella, set some simple parameters like density, joint conditions, terrain parameters, perhaps most of this set by people with some limited technical modeling/technical expertise, and it becomes a reality. Every quaint italian villa, every dreary atlantic shore, every quaint shack in the woods and luxury penthouse apartment could be yours or anyone else's and the only blocker would be a cheap VR set and the ability to articulate your desires,
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2015-09-27 at 1:53 AM UTC in Question for Libertarians/AnCaps
Natural rights is so passé. It's a decent introduction for beginners, but among the serious anarcho-capitalist theorists it hasn't been the standard position for a while. Of course, as with any ideology, the majority aren't particularly well informed, knowledgeable, intelligent, have a very good grasp of their preferred ideology in general. Your standard run of the mill minarchist/minimal state libertarian, internet libertarian, is like this; they're a very poor representation of us, just as you would likely feel an enormous cringe if you heard your typical early 20 redditors discussing (parroting feel-good quotes back and forth) Bernie Sanders and we're unfairly grouped in with them, if others assumed that they represented your views.
It's funny, this sounds familiar for some reason... almost like something I've said before... repeatedly...Consequentialism is a much better position from which to argue: www.google.com/search?q=david+friedman+consequentialism
Great, I'm a true blue consequentialist myself. The issue is that consequentialism requires that you cede the necessity of government intervention in situations like OP has brought up, since monopoly is obviously not optimal. -
2015-09-26 at 8:34 PM UTC in Suggest me some beer.
If by PBR you mean Pabst Blue Ribbon I'm laughing at it being called a hipster beer. That stuff is straight up redneck, white socks, and blue ribbon beer.
Yeah, that's what everyone laughs about. It was, and maybe in most of the country still is, a redneck beer but in urban centers where you see more hipsters than rednecks it definitely has a reputation as a hipster beed. Mostly because "hipsters" really do drink the shit like nothing else. -
2015-09-26 at 7:45 AM UTC in ATTN: PLEBS4chan is the other way m8, you seem lost.
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2015-09-26 at 7:44 AM UTC in Have any of you accomplished anything of significance?At this point your particular brand of self-hype/shit-talk really just feels nostalgic of like the early 2000s internet. It could almost be pleasant to reminisce on if not for the fact that it was cringy as fuck than and it's cringy as fuck now.
