Posts by Lanny

1. 2015-08-28 at 4:30 AM UTC in Why minimum wage is bad.
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   Free enterprise works. The more government regulation on it the more it resembles fascism.

   
   
   Yeah, nothing screams fascism more than policy that aims to lift huge swaths of the working class out of poverty...
2. 2015-08-27 at 5:48 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   I bet you fifty bucks that he doesn't do this,and tries to eyeball a dose
   
   roshambo is a crazy nigger

   
   
   Benzo overdose isn't supposed to be that bad right? I remember reading somewhere that's one of the reasons they've largely replaced barbiturates.
3. 2015-08-27 at 5:36 PM UTC in Why minimum wage is bad.
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   The problem with laffer curve arguments and their ilk (like this anti-minimum wage argument) is that they always presume to know the shape of the curve and that we're on the suboptimal right side of the peak which, so far, we've been presented with absolutely no evidence of. An exhaustive list of things that could happen to employment rates if we increase minimum wage: they go down, they stay the same, they go up. The onus is on you to demonstrate why the former is the case. So far you've given us "employers will automate" which assumes that the tipping point for automation cost-efficiency is somewhere between the current and proposed minimum wage (although we don't even know what you think those are since they very place to place) AND that the cost of investment in automation is zero or trivial. Neither of these are obvious, in fact the latter is obviously false.
4. 2015-08-27 at 2:10 AM UTC in Who runs this motherfucking website??
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   someone call?
5. 2015-08-27 at 2:08 AM UTC in TTFN I had it.
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage
   Lol, you'll come back although I wouldn't mind if you didn't
6. 2015-08-26 at 5:49 PM UTC in nootropics and a developing brain
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   my second guess is that physicist guy who picked locks as a hobby. I forget what his name is. those are the only two famous math nerds that I know of.

   
   You're probably thinking of Richard Feynman, but that's not who's in the picture. James Gleick, who's kind of a mediocre writer on the whole but writes about interesting shit, wrote a book that's kinda half biography half pop-sci about Feynman which was a pretty fun read. If you have an interest in that era of physics and the mythos around it but don't want to read a gnarly physics textbook it's a good book.
7. 2015-08-26 at 5:15 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   1mg makes me relaxed, 1.5 makes me goofy, and 2mg knocks me the fuck out.

   
   Yeah, 1mg just relaxes me, but going up from there is just more and more drowsy, there is no goofy point for me for some reason.
   
   

   gonna get a lifetime supply of this stuff for 60$, and burn through it in two months. that's my plan.

   
   You know this shit is highly addictive and the withdrawals are in the same general ballpark as opiates right?
8. 2015-08-26 at 5:11 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   http://www.wsj.com/video/serbia-albania-soccer-game-abandoned-after-drone-incident/B8ED992A-46A9-4589-A399-FEE84E51E3C5.html
   
   
   I know shit is more tense over there in the Balkans, but these guys actually got the match "abandoned" meaning there is no result, but the crowd was practically in riot mode to begin with. I can't really imagine any kind of political flag that would turn an American stadium full of people in party-mode to riot. It would most certainly delay the game a substantial amount of time though.

   
   
   Fly an ISIS flag on a drone through the stadium and disperse four or some other fine white powder either from the drone or somewhere in the audience, everyone will think its anthrax or some shit. It could be as simple as filling a jack in a box with flour or something, doesn't have to be explosive, just a nice visual of a cloud of white dust.
9. 2015-08-26 at 5:04 PM UTC in nootropics and a developing brain
   

   Lanny Bird of Courage

   is it that faggot methimatician that was all crazy n shit, and had a beautiful mind? can't remember the name…oh wait, is it nash?>

   
   
   Nope, this nigga still be alive.
10. 2015-08-26 at 4:55 PM UTC in Yelling "He's got a gun!" at public venues.
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Something something, freedom of speech doesn't work.
11. 2015-08-26 at 4:53 PM UTC in nootropics and a developing brain
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Show spoiler
12. 2015-08-26 at 4:49 PM UTC in nootropics and a developing brain
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    
    
    Bonus points if you can identify the dude in the pic without looking it up.
13. 2015-08-26 at 4:47 PM UTC in nootropics and a developing brain
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Huh, I guess it can give them botulism. Guess that means it's back to the crystal meth idea.
14. 2015-08-26 at 4:45 PM UTC in How is babby formed?
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    It starts with some yahoo exec coming up with their latest and greatest idea to redeem the world's shittiest company, followed by 9 months of bikeshedding and offshore development, and ends with something truly wretched being inflicted upon the world.
15. 2015-08-26 at 6:02 AM UTC in Python
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Also yeah, python has superior official documentation on all the core libraries. It's definitely worth getting to know early.
16. 2015-08-26 at 6:01 AM UTC in Python
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    My personal pick in python learning material is Think Python: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/index.html
    
    It's probably the most "theoretical" popular resource, not in the sense that it doesn't have practical content but I think it covers more classically interesting content up front; recursion is covered in an early chapter whereas more traditional resources hide it away like some deep dirty secret which I think is both misguided a disservice to the novice since it's an interesting and important concept (consider that the pinnacle of introductory materials, SICP, uses a language that has no non-recursive looping construct).
    
    The other two other books which are popular are Learn Python the Hard Way (which I think is bullshit, Zed Shaw is a cunt and shits FUD all over the place with his subpar understanding of the language and its idiom) and Dive Into Python (which is good but a little blue collar for my tastes, perhaps the superior learning material but Think Python is more high minded IMO).
17. 2015-08-26 at 5:01 AM UTC in ATTN: Malice
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Fulfillment from a skill based activity is predicated on investment. Artists, scientists, craftsmen, no one is born with subject mastery and no one enjoys difficult tasks they can't do at first but the process of skill acquisition and recasting previous experience in the light of new knowledge/competency gives a deep sense of intellectual fulfillment that you simply can't get without putting the effort in up front.
    
    Epicurus (my favorite ancient philosopher, coined the term "atom", was an early atheist, and in many ways was the forefather of utilitarianism) taxonomized pleasure in the kinetic and static varieties, the former are those pleasures that are reduced by satiation, like eating, it becomes less enjoyable the fuller you get. By contrast static pleasures are those that becomes more intense as you partake in them. I think many people have never experienced that, activities that become more and more rewarding, seemingly without bound, the more you do them. But that's the quality of most skill based activities, master painters enjoy painting more than amateurs, the same goes for authors, scientists, programmers, pretty much anything without a clear skill ceiling. When I'm having a really bad day or week I come home and I pull out a hobby project because in the absence of meaning or progress in the day to day at least I can work on improving in an area I care about. It's kinda like that feeling of being rewarded while playing an RPG except without the nagging sensation that you're wasting your life on something pointless.
    
    I'm not saying become a programmer, but I think finding a skill based hobby, and specifically an open ended one, is something everyone should do.
18. 2015-08-26 at 3:42 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    also, etizolam is fucking great.

    
    cool you like it but man, the effects are very different for me. No euphoria at all, even at fairly high doses. The only effects I ever experience are drowsiness and bringing a trip's intensity down, which are I can certainly appreciate, but it's not a fun drug to me in the least.
19. 2015-08-25 at 5:35 PM UTC in Bitcoins
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    Read the link, coin.mx was busted last month.

    
    Lol, shit, that's a bummer. Well I guess I have a good reason to sign up for circle now, supposed to be lower rates than coin.mx
20. 2015-08-25 at 5:33 PM UTC in Domain name change suggestion.
    

    Lanny Bird of Courage

    I wonder if there were any hidden domains that pointed to Totse.

    
    I seem to remember a darkweb clone of totse but it wasn't a proper mirror so it moved really slow (like not many posts, in addition to everything in the tor network running slow)