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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.
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2015-09-26 at 7:38 AM UTC in Have any of you accomplished anything of significance?
Shut the fuck up lanny. The happiest moment of your life was when your alcoholic father took you to family fun center when you were a child.
I get fucked up and post repressed childhood memories on these boards on a regular basis. I know you can do better than that. Faggot. -
2015-09-26 at 7:36 AM UTC in Site is too slowI mean I agree, speed it shitty. Ironically the cause isn't my cheapie server (well maybe to some extent, but non-braindead devs could make software to support this level of traffic on this level of hardware easily) but because of vbulletins retarded cachebusting system. One of these days I'm going to get around to ripping the whole thing out and replacing it with something quasi-sane but then being an alcoholic and a straight G takes a lot of time so I'm not putting a definite ETA on it.
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2015-09-26 at 7:24 AM UTC in Suggest me some beer.I've have PBR before, it's just generic, inoffensive but uninteresting. I mean I'd drink it out of a red cup or something but I'd never order it in a bar simply because it's such the cliche hipster beer and people give me enough shit on that front anyway. I'd reliably pick heineken over PBR in a blind taste taste any day of the week.
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2015-09-26 at 7:17 AM UTC in Question for Libertarians/AnCaps
1.) Tough luck. Aggregates are what ultimately matter and no system is perfect.
Well there go all the justice and natural rights arguments for libertarianism. It might not matter to you since you're basically a nihilist (refusing, so far as I've been able to tell, to acknowledge an objective normative good) and all your political arguments basically boil down to trying to shame the opposition. But for people who have an actual ideological foundation to inform their beliefs (like soph) then admitting libertarianism naturally leads to "unfair" economic situations causes a number of problems. Firstly it defeats the idea that libertarianism is justified by some pre-held notion of the value of meritocracy and brings to light that the market does not, and never has, ensured a global optimum. Somewhat more philosophically, but I think more devastatingly, it forces the libertarian into forming a dichotomy between natural (inevitable, or permissible) monopolies and "unnatural" or "man-made" monopolies (like using martial force limit access to resources or markers (as governments do)). The issue natural demarcation is unresolved in philosophy, considered by many to be intractable; any political theory running afoul of it is basically a non-starter. -
2015-09-26 at 6:33 AM UTC in Suggest me some beer.IPAs are pretty hot at the moment. Lots of breweries make an IPA, Lagunitas' offering is my favorite (it's literally just sold as "IPA"). It's a good non-shit every day drinking beer that won't break the bank.
Sours are my prefered kind of beer, particularly Almanac which has pretty good distribution in the US but it's hard to find the same beer twice with them.
People shit on heineken but in absence of something better (like if all you've got is Bud and co.) it's my beer of choice, it actually has flavor even if it isn't the best and it's not some soupy dark ale bullshit. -
2015-09-26 at 3:47 AM UTC in Question for Libertarians/AnCaps
Suppose my company is the only supplier of water to a small town and owns all of the pumping, purification and supply infrastructure. I'm rather greedy and just raised my prices again, and some of my customers are now dissatisfied with my service. Another business thinks they can do better and wants to get in on the game. I refuse to sell them the right to use any of my infrastructure because it's not in my interest to have competition, and although they have the capital to build their own, it would be wasteful and inefficient to have multiple lines servicing the same area. They end up investing in a different area with less risk, and establish their own water supply monopoly.
Without a central regulatory body, how do you prevent this from happening?
I once posed almost exactly this question to the ancaps of the community. Interested in seeing what response you get. -
2015-09-26 at 3:43 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionWhile we're on the topic of vaporizers does anyone have any recommendations? My only real requirement is that it works off herb rather than liquid or whatever, something cheap and dinky is find as long as it isn't total shit. Don't care about portability or anything. I technically have asthma but the only time it's bothered me in years is when smoking pot (funny enough cigarettes do nothing).
My education in home repair consisted of my stepdad telling me 'just try everything and mess around with it until it works again'
I know that feel braj. Both my parents were middle class college graduates and while they weren't like world class geniuses I grew up in an atmosphere where intellectual pursuits were considered to have like some sort of moral primacy while anything physical, "handy" or whatever, was a distraction or waste of time. I mean I firmly believe that I have a better life for it but every now and then I feel like I kinda missed out on an interesting corner of human activity. When I was in high school I did some weaving on a loom in an art class mostly just to kill time but I got really into it, the mechanics of operating the loom, the thousands of little actions, each giving immediate feedback, good or bad, feeling something take shape under my hands. It's very different from how I normally operate but there was a rhythm to it, a kind of blissful emptiness of thought that wasn't idleness (doing nothing will drive me up a wall). I wouldn't want to spend every day like that but every now and then I find myself doing something slow, mechanical but methodical, feeling that way and it's a really nice change of pace. -
2015-09-26 at 2:22 AM UTC in Freedom or Security
Sure, but if private gun ownership would be widespread. The more severe crimes which actually involve two people facing each other(Think murder, rape robbery) would decline because of the increased risk to the would be rapist or whatever.
You'll need to demonstrate that, and the degree of such a decline (because the benefit will need to be weighed against any increase in rates of gun violence or general crime for which the police are a deterrent today).Sure, a specialized group of people would have a better chance of catching a criminal but not stopping the crime from happening.
Spectrals argument was deterrence from the start, if you're going to say that guns are good because criminals will be deterred by threat of being shot then you seem to owe us an account of why the threat of capture by the police (which you to admit is more reliable) is less effective.You seem to have little faith in people, but that's a topic for another day. Here's my argument: I am pretty sure, that a regular citizen can recognize a situation wherein the use of deadly force would be appropriate. It's kind of hard to miss that you're being robbed when you have a gun or a knife in your face for instance.
Fine, most people would probably never commit murder in a modern society with widespread gun ownership that was otherwise unchanged. But the issue is that there are enough people who aren't "regular citizens" to make such policy a win. One person with a gun can do a significant amount of damage and consider that even normal people have moments of poor decision making, they might be under the influence of something or momentarily enrage to the point of being willing to kill where they usually wouldn't.
