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Wed Sep 30 19:26:57 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> don't wait until you're falling from plane to build parachute ?
Wed Sep 30 19:26:31 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> you familiar with all the alf parachute talk ?
Thu Sep 17 20:08:02 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> because they get 'gold parachute' and yacht, while engineer works 100 hr/wk and dies of coronary at 39
Thu Sep 17 18:47:18 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> aha, not a problem until falling from sky sans parachute
Wed Sep 02 21:23:06 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> shinohai: this is like comparing jumping from plane with and without parachute.
Tue Aug 25 17:27:33 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> parachute!
Tue Aug 18 20:44:42 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> yes. when you design "a parachute" you design it for "every".
Tue Aug 18 20:44:19 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> mircea_popescu designs a parachute, and reasons using 'all' and 'every' ?
Sat Aug 08 03:11:35 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> but this is one of those 'yes, possible' but 'no, no one is inventing this parachute and we're already thrown from window' affairs.
Fri Jul 24 03:59:56 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> more "ba parachute jit" stuff.
Mon Jul 06 23:44:35 UTC 2015 <assbot> Three men convicted in parachute jump from New York's 1 World Trade Center | Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/1H5k8Ur )
Wed Jul 01 04:21:04 UTC 2015 <decimation> asciilifeform: let this be a wake up call, if you don't have your parachute ready...
Sat Jun 27 21:11:16 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> of course folks often forget the other thing about the parachute thing - in sov army, they usedta make you sign it, 'i folded this parachute myself. signed, pvt. schmuck'
Sun Jun 21 00:19:40 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: come to usa incognito (parachute?) sometime, i'll take you on a tour of 'what they escaped'
Wed Jun 17 13:37:14 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu's point about the 'excluded middle' ( http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=13-06-2015#1163457 << thread ) is valid, but it simply means that we are falling from skyscraper and trying to invent parachute on our way down.
Thu May 14 21:33:27 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> aha, to upgrade key, mircea_popescu has to take a ???????? ?-27? to orbit, and unscrew the old one, then retro-thruster and parachute capsule back to b-a
Tue May 05 04:11:46 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> because came up with it in the dark, used chewing gum, knife, remains of his parachute straps, and bones of travelling companion to build it.
Wed Apr 22 02:39:22 UTC 2015 <ascii_lander> BingoBoingo: there is not a spare parachute for the spare parachute of the spare parachute.
Wed Apr 22 02:39:05 UTC 2015 <ascii_lander> BingoBoingo: point was, at some point you trust the parachute
Tue Apr 14 13:12:24 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> nubbins`: in mircea_popescu's world, as i understand, every soldier is naked but for his parachute, and ought to take what he needs from the locals