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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's the friction joints (hose to barb) that end up slowly leaking.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'correct' way to do it is to have an all-copper loop, soldered joints - like refrigerator. but, for some reason, no one does this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ground fault gizmos are SOP even in gringolandia now
mod6: o_O
benkay: <mircea_popescu> btw, if anyone's got 12 yos, get them "i sell the dead" // noted
punkman: mircea_popescu: assbot: Kickstarter project spent $3.5M to finish a working prototypeand ended in disaster | Ars Technica << punkman to be fair, that's not really either important or making a lot of sense. << indeed, who cares how much money they waste. the product was very lulzy though
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: 37coins does bitcoin over sms, bitpesa does bitcoin remittance to kenya
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: those old days when in order to have a view one first had to persuade >> http://jjlindal.net/jafl/nn_koan.php << obligatory
mircea_popescu: http://www.canoe.ca/Canoe/Money/News/2014/02/19/toonie_650.jpg will do
bitcoinpete: http://storage.canoe.ca/v1/dynamic_resize/?src=http://www.canoe.ca/Canoe/Money/News/2014/02/19/toonie_650.jpg&size=650x366&quality=85
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davout: mircea_popescu: lol didn't i show you this one ?
davout: mircea_popescu: don't even get me started
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: next, they order the blockchain whipped. and branded.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu can apparently reprocess anything into a useful feedstock. like the chicago stockyards famously used 'even the squeal of the pig.'
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: so what do some of the scenarios of pirate shenanigans look like?
benkay: Mats_cd03: how much time would making rest-y interface to bitc take?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: very pessimistic, but probably true. the inevitable conclusion is 'biodiesel.'
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: other than just having a mountain of coins and the ability to dispense of them erratically, how does pirate impact you?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha i recall, you described this lemma in the 'tin woman' essay
benkay: <asciilifeform> it isn't wasted 'correctly' though. it ends up feeding folks who ought to have gone hungry // <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform that's the minor part of the binomial. the major part is that it is removed from folks who shouldn't have had it. // wait how is taking the money from people who shouldn't have it and giving it to others who shouldn't have had it either not subtracting a from x and then adding a back to x?
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benkay: ;;rate mike_c 2
benkay: ;;rate mike_c 2
fluffypony: lol! https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10447408_891063467576825_1721796086288559289_n.jpg
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: if derpopolous, matonis, etc can jump ship, why not pierce
benkay: awesome mike_c you're a scholar
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: exactly for the reason and through the mechanisms any good investment is its own limiting factor. << this is a thought
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: if you want the babes to be REALLY impressed with your car, then it would be a pretty sweet thing. << like london. can't park your zonda anywhere
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: kako is a graybeard despite his tender years << nao i want to dox the guy, find out how tender...
BingoBoingo: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--lL5_3Pf---/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/z9z6weno6y6yyho61uvs.png
mircea_popescu: mike_c why scammer bet ?
pankkake: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2adssm/buttcoin_foundation_rocked_as_founder_exposed_to/
mircea_popescu: !up alex_c
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> tbh i don't get that bitcoinnews article. wtf is it supposed to be ? /// me either, it reads like it was sleepwritten
HyperChetty: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsQ_UDwCMAI6IBD.jpg
xmj: mike_c: I don't work >for< benkay. I work with him.
BingoBoingo: Foghorn Leghorn weeps http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/07/10/impotent_roosters_chicken_prices_are_rising_because_of_genetic_problems.html
mircea_popescu: mike_c lol why so suspicious ?
asciilifeform: and, perhaps - to decode mircea_popescu's post...
asciilifeform: mike_c: nope. you just need a squirrel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncWyA4s3r7I
mircea_popescu: also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_-iZYIofU
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: shannonizer test?
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> i just mean, one pic at a time picblogging stuff /// instagram is what people use for this
HyperChetty: <mircea_popescu> what is this medieval patriarchy// uuh isnt that what you claim it should be??
benkay: <mircea_popescu> mike_c i think the most peer review that's happened to date was me slapping around benkay's employees. // hey now that's a dangerous word to throw at americans
mircea_popescu: <Mats_cd03> Regulators almost everywhere need to do more research on the effectiveness of microprudential and other tools that could be used to deal with macroprudential problems.  << the best tool is for them to stfu.,
benkay: <mircea_popescu> benkay no, i just had a moment of drool at the thought someone somewhere is making me a dollie :D // good taste is good taste
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Customers can change their keys as often as they wish. The more responsible actually do' << seriously, people eat the 30 btc cost ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'ebury' << the interesting part is that the piece in the link is merely a payload. the actual anal opening through which the payload was inserted - was never, afaik, found.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i think the most peer review that's happened to date was me slapping around benkay's employees.
HyperChetty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nOr2H6Dupk
asciilifeform: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/northern-virginia-officials-worry-cia-facility-may-scuttle-bid-to-land-fbi-headquarters/2013/03/23/867ce358-924a-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239_story.html << oldie but goodie. fbi wants to relocate, can't - turned out that the proposed new site already contains cia torture chambers.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: clearly a provocation! everybody knows mr. o has duly used his 'dulap.'
asciilifeform assumes mircea_popescu has enough sense to decide whether to answer this
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did the lookers-into ever deliver an interesting verdict from last time ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: compared drive firmware before & after ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can't imagine it would cost much to have 'biorobots' monitor the cams in shifts.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you have not previously installed cameras on the machine cabinet, now might be a good time.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> <benkay> latin, ballroom, the classics, various kinds of combat << is this a woman you're raising here ? // statistically likely
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if power supply issues can be ruled out entirely - it is entirely conceivable that zapping the drives was the actual goal of the enemy. why? perhaps to lead to new ones being bought from a diddled supply chain.
benkay: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/09/article-2685918-1F81EC6600000578-372_634x770.jpg
HyperChetty: <mircea_popescu> at this rate being a camwhore will be more respectable than being a scientist within our lifetimes.// I thought it already was
JorgePasada: mats_cd03 I like one and a half, maybe two of those
asciilifeform: http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/the_vault/2014/06/25/LgGanglandMap.jpg
jurov: !up samson_
jurov: !up ak_
jurov: ;;later tell mike_c in wol, adding 50% line into histograph would improve its readability
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: only worth reading if there's a source other than alexander lebed circa 1997. ☟︎
gribble: Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe: <https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multimedia/20041116/5049.html/_res/id=sa_File1/Nuclear_Terrorism.pdf>; Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe - Council ...: <http://www.cfr.org/terrorism/nuclear-terrorism-ultimate-preventable-catastrophe/p7410>; Graham Allison: "The Ongoing Failure of Imagination" - ABC (1 more message)
BingoBoingo: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/07/10/isis_uranium_iraq_rebels_seized_low_grade_nuclear_material_from_university.html
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can i now order her to unperiodize herself << minor nitpick. this is actually possible.
mircea_popescu: mike_c suppose you're in a restaurant with a chick you're trying to impress.
decimation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil#Bunker_fuel
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80262994/ << that's a good one.
mthreat: mircea_popescu: no chaos? here's the crowd on a city bus (and the bus didn't stop) - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152582727778245
mircea_popescu: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Frank_Costello_-_Kefauver_Committee.jpg << not bad.
benkay: mircea_popescu: you are the best candidate for the Frank Costello of bitcoin.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: techs and spooks << anybody dump the hdd firmware ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because no one else asked, i will. what did herr xapo say when you added him to s.derp ?
nam-shub: thanks for that mircea_popescu
mthreat: mircea_popescu: futbol para todos
mthreat: mircea_popescu: it was free
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: you need to at least repost your "Coinpeople bitplease..." rant somewhere else so I can link to it when appropriate.
mthreat: mircea_popescu: i watched the game at the big screen at plaza san martin... it was crazy
benkay: mircea_popescu: ping
justusranvier: https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/326400019257257985
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: When did you stop having a Twitter account?
mod6: mircea_popescu: on the near miss, it sounds like someone kicked it into the side of the net around the 75 mark.
mod6: mircea_popescu: it's tied nil-nil, @ 75 min
mircea_popescu: !up ak_
HyperChetty: <mircea_popescu> what im curious is, what tiny nation will suddenly be buying 50x its gdp worth of us bonds this autumn//the caliphate
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ua, who else.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 o bviously they're going for pr.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> i wonder why this is a common mistake // it turns out that making interfaces that normal humans find intuitive is actually hard.
punkman: hilarious lawyer: https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/233081133?access_key=key-WFujAqEI3BioFxNO43R3
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who's doing the speculative attacks against the dollar << 'a dead lion can be kicked even by a donkey'
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yes - the original method is no longer known, but the modern equivalent is still pretty awesome in terms of how it keeps its edge
colinistheman: http://knives4bitcoin.com/products/german_damascus_vg-10_knife,_speed_assisted_ao_large_folding_knives_pocket_g-10.php