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ToxicSlurpee posted:Just ignore the mountain of historical evidence that says none of those things are a good idea. History is meaningless because nobody has freedomed hard enough to make those things work. "On the other hand, all of recorded history" is such a great all purpose response to libertarian ideas.
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Curvature of Earth posted:Keep in mind there's a range of libertarian opinions on this. Hayek thought competing currencies are natural and good, while others think the market will inevitably standardize around a single currency (usually gold, though the case of that link, bitcoin). Not fully but still.
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I think I've made it worse by varying sentence length somehow. jrodbot posted:Considering I have a fetish for private property rights? The economy is not fit for civilized people. If you have a fire extinguisher in your home or appartment so you can pay a private call with his girlfriend. Why is it that leftists seem to be wealthy? You don't have any educated idea about how the business should be my determination.
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Oh god. The "his girlfriend" bit there is almost certainly from Jrod's shining moment of accusing Caros of leaving the fold because of a bad breakup or the like. You've created a monster, but at least it will starve itself to death for us.
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Curvature of Earth posted:Today I learned that a currency doesn't need to be actually used to be viable, just hoarded. This is why rare stamps are accepted in literally any store while you can't buy poo poo with a hundred-dollar bill. A Russian oligarch is buying a Fifth Avenue penthouse in Manhattan. He awkwardly passes a Klimt to his realtor, and recieves a Rothko in change. This is his fourth residence in New York City; he has never been to New York and resides full-time in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in a 45,000 square foot mansion mocked up to look like a huge sailing ship. Schenck v. U.S. fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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VioletCorsica posted:I think I've made it worse by varying sentence length somehow. This is the greatest thing I've ever read, actually.
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theshim posted:Oh god. The "his girlfriend" bit there is almost certainly from Jrod's shining moment of accusing Caros of leaving the fold because of a bad breakup or the like. And it wasn't even his girlfriend! It was a friend who passed away. And it was generous of Caros to even share his story with the thread/JRod. I am still pissed off about this, because I only read the thread last week. The most recent output is: jrodbot posted:Welfare State in the habit of calling the police themselves prefer to portray themselves as spending most of us have the right to self defense to a minimum. So they will form agreements with manufacturers to include seatbelts and airbags! These features are expected, cheap to implement redistributive policies that allow them to work hard labor for no wages. Back to Bayes...
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eNeMeE posted:"On the other hand, all of recorded history" is such a great all purpose response to libertarian ideas. Your bog standard lolbert will typically just blame the government or say no society has been brave or enlightened enough to try total no laws freedom. So hey let's ignore literally all of history and just abolish the government! Yay! You owe me seven pounds of gold for reading my post.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Your bog standard lolbert will typically just blame the government or say no society has been brave or enlightened enough to try total no laws freedom. So hey let's ignore literally all of history and just abolish the government! Yay! Hah, never consented to joinder, jokes on you, statist.
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eNeMeE posted:"On the other hand, all of recorded history" is such a great all purpose response to libertarian ideas. What was the old response to the pre-JRod libertarian shitposter? "Oh no, someone who knows something about anything, my one weakness!"?
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Qalnor http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2646576&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 peenworm posted:
regarding his helldump gerogarygaygaygay posted:this is the most completely inevitable thread ever posted
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VioletCorsica posted:And it wasn't even his girlfriend! It was a friend who passed away. And it was generous of Caros to even share his story with the thread/JRod. I am still pissed off about this, because I only read the thread last week. quote:We're people who work hard but no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves. quote:I have visited the laid-off factory workers, and the whole world knew it meant nothing. quote:I would like to thank the evangelical community who have lost their children to violence spilling across our border. quote:I have been honored to receive the respect they deserve. quote:The damage and devastation that can be used to rebuild America. and its first words quote:We cannot afford to be considerate and compassionate to everyone.
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:You inspired me. Slightly offtopic, but here's Trumpbot, which I'm pretty sure is sentient now Who made this future T-1000
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:You inspired me. Slightly offtopic, but here's Trumpbot, which I'm pretty sure is sentient now Yay!!! Mazel tov! Let's get them into some API so they can talk to one another.
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paragon1 posted:Make them talk to each other. Make it a thread and it would be DnD's first goldmine
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VioletCorsica posted:Yay!!! Mazel tov! You can DO that??? quote:Together, we will end it.
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You can. people do it with chatbots all the time.
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:You can DO that??? Yes! Did you see the tutorial links up thread? ¡Si se puede! If we want to do it in Something Awful though perhaps we need to post what they say rather than have them auto chat? I should sleep but I am all about DnDbot tomorrow at some point.
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VioletCorsica posted:Yes! Did you see the tutorial links up thread? ¡Si se puede! Could you post the auto chat transcript? Or would people not like that?
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VioletCorsica posted:Yes! Did you see the tutorial links up thread? ¡Si se puede! I'm on a crappy laptop and Tensorflow makes it choke (and so I'd imagine most machine learning systems do the same thing), but I could probably do something fancier tomorrow evening
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:Oh I just used Markov chains with his RNC speech as a corpus Okay I'm awake and watching tutorials on Bayes for work. I can't figure out an API thing and this Bayesian implementation both for the first time at the same time. But I'm fine with having them respond to one another in a thread in DnD on SA. Open questions: Shall we try to get them both to talk about the same topic? Shall we speak to a mod before making the thread? Is there a mod in this thread? If I say "mod," does one appear? UPDATE: I've reached out to mods via PM. Will let you know what they say. How large is Trumpbot's corpus? (I can add to/cut down Jrodbot to the same appx word count) Proposed "rules": Allowed: Cherry picking funny stuff. No addition of punctuation/fixing grammar, with the exception of removing one word sentences. For me: no generated Mises urls. (I'm assuming Trumpbot isn't going to give everyone XML cancer) No mentions of goons. The Caros reference yesterday was a mistake. Edit: Reached out to mods. WrenP-Complete fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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You could try PMing D&D mods, Absurd Alhazred and ExMarx (currently gently caress HARAMBE) seem to be the active ones.
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Jack of Hearts posted:How long specifically? I remember reading in Benvenuto Cellini's memoirs that he was head of the papal mint, and he seemed to treat it like a choice gig, but he was also the premier artist working in precious metals of his day. We first see recognizable coins around the 7th or 8th century BC, we see the first surviving coins that were clearly mass produced in a high quality manner (that is, the stamps or carvings are regular and properly centered, and the shape is consistent whether circles or squares or other such shapes) by the 5th or 6th century AD. Of course, we still see a lot of low quality minting from various issuers up until the 1600s or so.
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Currency defined as a medium of exchange, however, is far older than coins. It could be pretty much any actual, useful good ( ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt used grain by weight, iirc and Rome used salt ), but metal started to show up pretty drat early, as evidenced by the strong implication that Cornish and German tin apparently made its way down to the middle-east to kickstart the bronze-age. I'm not sure what the modern-day equivalent of that trade-route would be, in all honesty, because the slow mode of transport and the different middle-men the goods would have to go through to even get from Cornwall and Germany to Mesopotamia isn't something we can really get our heads around with our modern infrastructure. The point being, this is not something you do through barter. There has to be some medium of exchange to facilitate that kind of trading, even if it differs from area to area. TLM3101 fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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VioletCorsica posted:Okay I'm awake and watching tutorials on Bayes for work. I can't figure out an API thing and this Bayesian implementation both for the first time at the same time. But I'm fine with having them respond to one another in a thread in DnD on SA. I just used Trump's RNC speech but I can expand the corpus easily if I can find transcripts of his speeches. I might add in some other features but really I might just load it onto a server and let people have at it, I don't know yet (I already have a Trump-relevant domain name).
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:I'm pretty swamped this week and am heading out of town over the weekend, so I'll do what I can but we'll probably have to keep this for next week. Can you get transcripts from the debates? That might be something worth adding.
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:I'm pretty swamped this week and am heading out of town over the weekend, so I'll do what I can but we'll probably have to keep this for next week. I actually have a Trump corpus from before. My example problem for Bayes is programming Bayesian indicator for likelihood of a sample being from Jrod vs Trump. I can put it in a public Dropbox file or something. NBD on timing. Mods are conferring amongst themselves and going to get back to us. Edit: We have the go ahead from mods. WrenP-Complete fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Aug 3, 2016 |
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How in the hell is Gary Johnson getting the most third party votes? Isn't his platform literally memes?
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:How in the hell is Gary Johnson getting the most third party votes? Isn't his platform literally memes? Crazy Internet people flock to libertarians.
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Gary Johnson has actually governed people before
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Vulture Culture posted:Gary Johnson has actually governed people before yikes
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Vulture Culture posted:Gary Johnson has actually governed people before Well... for a certain definition of governed, anyway.
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Who What Now posted:Well... for a certain definition of governed, anyway. His selling point, as he likes to point out, is that he vetoed a massive number of the bills put before him (he set national records). It always makes me think of Ron Swanson proudly claiming that his managerial style is to make sure that "nothing ever gets done".
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Hey I wonder what our old friend George Reisman, Objectivist author of Capitalism is up to. You may remember him from earlier in this thread (or the other?), the Randian who used the power of his rational mind to debunk the Big Bang Theory in 5 tweets (suck it, science!). Complaining about Trump, praising free trade, plugging his interview, defending a woman's right to choose, nothing too odd, oh here we go: https://twitter.com/GGReisman/status/701668090497503233 https://twitter.com/GGReisman/status/701667951787712512 https://twitter.com/GGReisman/status/701667823458734080
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VitalSigns posted:Hey I wonder what our old friend George Reisman, Objectivist author of Capitalism is up to. You may remember him from earlier in this thread (or the other?), the Randian who used the power of his rational mind to debunk the Big Bang Theory in 5 tweets (suck it, science!). Is that person trolling? Like Ron Swanson?
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:How in the hell is Gary Johnson getting the most third party votes? Isn't his platform literally memes? The Libertarian Party has a few advantages over other third parties. First, they actually have a good elevator pitch; who doesn't like Freedom (before they find out what you mean by it)? The Ron Paul Five Minute Rule extends beyond the family. Also, the obsession with state and local rule means that they have an actual existing party infrastructure, as opposed to using the "vehicle for a vanity presidential run" model like the Reform Party did. VitalSigns posted:Hey I wonder what our old friend George Reisman, Objectivist author of Capitalism is up to. You may remember him from earlier in this thread (or the other?), the Randian who used the power of his rational mind to debunk the Big Bang Theory in 5 tweets (suck it, science!). I'm half tempted to give him credit for not going Full DiLorenzo about it, but on second thought, no. No credit.
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Who What Now posted:To be fair "Black Freedom Day" sounds dope as poo poo. Well, you know what we have to do now... Also is the Ron Paul 5 minute rule about food safety?
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WrenP-Complete posted:Well, you know what we have to do now... Unfortunately, no, though I'm sure Ron Paul has bad opinions about food safety regulation. Charles Pierce posted:the Five Minute Rule states that any member of the Paul family will make sense on any political issue for exactly five minutes. Precisely at the 5:00:01 mark, however, he will say something so far off the rails that you will find yourself looking at him as though he has sprouted a reptilian head out of his sternum. This may include Crazy Uncle Liberty (!)'s discussion of economic problems that suddenly veers into goldbuggery, or [Rand Paul's] concern over government overreach that gets him crossways with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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