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polarbeard: make is a build tool, it can build the press
ben_vulpes: electron beam and a good set of sights
asciilifeform: emacs is a thick enough, barbed enough broomstick, that this is not hard to pull off
ben_vulpes: some "we're going to revolutionize editing text by pretending emacs was never a thing"
asciilifeform: i thought 'atom' was a www syndicatron thing
ben_vulpes: you can smell the users of fashionable editors a mile away
asciilifeform: a much stronger ownership than ANYBODY in usa has of ANY real estate
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 23:19:18; asciilifeform: incidentally 'predator' is a very slow machine, a toy chopper could quite likely catch up with it
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381723 << which is mind-boggling given the thing has a what turbofan? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 02-05-2014 03:15:33; asciilifeform: basic course on russian privatization. 'your formerly state-issued flat is now yours. you are a millionaire!' - 'neato. but my salary hasn't been paid in a year. gotta buy something to eat. what does dinner cost?' - 'half a million.'
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 23:07:57; asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: actually these are cheap, esp. in that when they explode, nobody's widow gets a pension
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381688 << 'tis just a step on the road to the obvious solution of entirely disposable versions of all the above ☝︎
asciilifeform: so that folks could eat a little in the hungry '90s
assbot: 12 results for 'privatization' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=privatization
ben_vulpes: yes. that's a joke about stock in startups.
asciilifeform: also i am quite amused thinking about how ben_vulpes quasi-offered me work in a shop where the toilet paper is supposed to be an appealing perk
asciilifeform: he ~could~ put the 500 in his pocket instead of mortgaging his anal virginity to a 10m cardboard 'house'.
asciilifeform: a 500k/y chump is just a slightly higher-powered chump
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 01:40:55; mircea_popescu: they didn't want to make a simple "stock ownership for employees is STRICTLY reserved for employees making over 500k a year and over the age of 50" for obvious reasons
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382055 << you kill the queen of the hive and eat the royal jelly. this gives you five extra appendages, with which to kill other pretenders, and +5 vorpal sword of virility, and a +3 willpower. ☝︎
asciilifeform: in a sufficiently intense collapse one might expect the toilets themselves to disappear, eventually
asciilifeform: there are tales of truck stops in finland being picked clean, early '90s, even of fixtures like mirrors and toilet paper ~holders~, for a while. then they were re-equipped sov-style to have nothing worth taking
asciilifeform: oh and you're not running a proper sov-collapse shop until the workers have to bring own shitpaper
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 20:50:17; BingoBoingo: We only got 3 or 4 inches of snow. Yet rather than remove it derps drive over it until it refreezes into a slick that doesn't remove so easily
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: living in a rising, rather than falling, empire
ben_vulpes: years of slaving for nuggets of insight once or thrice a quarter
mircea_popescu: their needs (represented by copper in this diagram) and the realities of owning stock in a small venture (represented by iron in same) have very different reactions to a change in financial context (represented as temperature)
ben_vulpes: explain the parallel in a little more detail?
mircea_popescu: imo you're trying to make a copper-iron thermostable alloy.
ben_vulpes: and as a result, my equitizing the staff is miserably difficult.
mircea_popescu: but the alternative is drinking straight crazy from a toilet bowl.
mircea_popescu: they didn't want to make a simple "stock ownership for employees is STRICTLY reserved for employees making over 500k a year and over the age of 50" for obvious reasons ☟︎
mircea_popescu: the problem here, and it's a fundamental problem, is that the derps that get employed aren't usually investor grade.
ben_vulpes: wall street and congress got a hold of the notion and now there are all sorts of arcane bezzle-quirements like "must get valued by a state-blessed valutron", "must be investment grade paper" etc.
mircea_popescu: sounds ever more like a co-op :D
ben_vulpes: i don't see the problem with embezzling a reasonable amount of toilet paper. it's a valid business expense, and the staff don't get taxed for it.
mircea_popescu: then again john was quite a miserable manager.
mircea_popescu: "What are you, you're a secretary, John. Fuck you. That's my message for you."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381724 << if anyone in afghanistan etc were not fully employed in countig rocks and fucking goats thus managing to find their way here, i'd definitely finance a project to fly a quad to a drone and use the old komet trick ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: what is the animal, a pig ?
pete_dushenski: ndergoes intense, strict training. None of them had any watchmaker experience before. In short, not only did Shinola create jobs, they gave Detroit natives the training to do those jobs. That’s a pretty fucking noble cause, if you ask me."
pete_dushenski: from the mines : "Make no mistake. Shinola watches are battery-powered, quartz movement watches. They’re not automatics. One could question whether or not a battery-powered watch justifies a $550-$1,000+ price. However, the quartz movements are made by their Swiss partners, Ronda AG, and then are sent to the 30,000 square foot Detroit factory where Shinola created dozens of jobs for Americans. Each Shinola watchmak
mircea_popescu: or a red one.
pete_dushenski: must be a blue moon
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: OKC is where a lot of fatfishing happens
gribble: fiat500 was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 years, 4 weeks, 2 days, 5 hours, 43 minutes, and 54 seconds ago: <fiat500> protein with a side of agony
gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 39 weeks, 2 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes, and 40 seconds ago: <artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got to where it is.
mircea_popescu: he has a point dun he.
assbot: 210 results for ';;seen nubbins`' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=%3B%3Bseen+nubbins%60
asciilifeform: the other takeaway is that ~nsf~ specifically is a magical thing in that the dean had nothing whatsoever to worry about, even if the grant were for reprocessing babies into lollipops, he would never be answerable for it - washington ~signed~, aha
asciilifeform: quite enough to run a large lab for a year+.
asciilifeform: as a former participant in the racket, i will say that 8m - even in ~today~'s watered-down usg - is a princely grant bag.
asciilifeform: quite enough to feed two derpatronicists and a dozen slave labourers
assbot: On the Elaine Shi and Andrew Miller scam ring on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1ZSVkgK )
mircea_popescu: i guess ima make a top nao. brb.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dunno, it looks more like a job (and a shitty one at that) than entertainment to me.
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 23:08:54; asciilifeform: about what a truck costs
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381690 << nah, they're 2-3 tons at 5-10k a kg. a truck is 5-10 tons at maaaybe a few hundies a kg. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> for any innocents : bingo is this activity where you get a bit of paper printed with numbers, there's a loudspeaker saying numbers, and you cross out the matches. << Aha, yes. It's like lottery as in person activity.
asciilifeform: i suppose if a megatonne of hardcoded hashes can be called 'build process'...
polarbeard: you get a signable build process though
asciilifeform: you lose a good bit of important side functionality, and become dependent on a gigantic gnuturd
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he wrote a makefile maker
mircea_popescu: "make has a 100000 targets limit written into the code"
mircea_popescu: that'd be a sight.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he included a test suite, and a list of its outputs, which is impressive.
polarbeard: this script generates a single makefile to verify, press and build, without using v
mircea_popescu: actually that's a neat little script. what dja think trinque mod6 ?
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mircea_popescu: !rate polarbeard 1 Managed a V press.
mircea_popescu: for any innocents : bingo is this activity where you get a bit of paper printed with numbers, there's a loudspeaker saying numbers, and you cross out the matches.
polarbeard: I've been toying with trb's building scripts, and I've managed to do a whole build, including sig verification and pressing by generating a makefile
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 22:37:55; BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Arm fat, usually associated with older ladies that frequent Bingo halls. Now Obesity is prevalent enough the young and under exercised frequently have them. The arm fat in a bingo wing typically "flaps" when moving hence "wing"
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381658 << i went to a bingo hall for the first time in my life recently. made it for like half an hour. mostly in dazed bewilderment that people actually DO this. ☝︎
asciilifeform: sorta like a fella i once knew who had a 'new computer if this one dies' warranty, and had a handy electrostatic wand'o'death he built for new-computer-gettin'
asciilifeform: 'i want a new one. let's oops this'
asciilifeform: incidentally 'predator' is a very slow machine, a toy chopper could quite likely catch up with it ☟︎
pete_dushenski: just imagine the conversation at lizard hitler hq : "sir, we have reports that the bitcoin xtcoreclassic team isn't providing adequate lulz to our enemies at #b-a. we've expended all the resources we had at our disposal and it still isn't enough. they're indefatigable sir!" "send in... the drones. it might not be a perfect plan, but it's all we have right now. at the very least, it'll buy us some time." "right away,
pete_dushenski: also, "The Reaper carries an emergency battery backup system. But the batteries last only for about one hour. If a malfunctioning drone needs more time than that to reach an airfield, it is in trouble."
pete_dushenski: "In March, the Air Force’s program manager for its Reaper fleet filed a report with the Pentagon noting that there had been “a dramatic increase” in starter-generator failures since 2013." <--> "General Atomics spokeswoman Kimberly Kasitz said the firm “stands behind the proven reliability” of the Reaper."
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: shanghai is a 'special' place.
pete_dushenski: $4 mn for a truck ??
asciilifeform: about what a truck costs ☟︎
pete_dushenski: not so. a pension is just a promise, a predator costs money today, in today's dollars
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: actually these are cheap, esp. in that when they explode, nobody's widow gets a pension ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Could also be a reflection of how many 'Muricans go planetary after birth requiring truck suspensions to hold their ass.
BingoBoingo: Well. might actually make sense when children get to school if personally delivering them. May deter other parent's driving aggression if their baby wagon is insuffiecient to take yours in a fight for space.
asciilifeform: i still think 'babywagon' is a constructed meme, like the diamond ring idiocy
asciilifeform: (anyone ever throw a party in a converted garbage truck? and then see if guests piss themselves when you show that the hydraulics STILL work ??)
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 21:45:32; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381552 << i never understood this idea - what is wrong with a normal passenger car ? you can fit even 2x as many children as adults in it
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381575 << he likes to shop for shelf stable stuff at sam's club, once or twice a quarter. needs the space. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Arm fat, usually associated with older ladies that frequent Bingo halls. Now Obesity is prevalent enough the young and under exercised frequently have them. The arm fat in a bingo wing typically "flaps" when moving hence "wing" ☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what is a 'bingo wing' ?
mod6: '-has a couple songs in the rear bumper' wat?
BingoBoingo: Can roll the window down and jsut drop a turd on the highway
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i grew up in a suburban
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Gas is cheap. Just get a Ford Excursion and be done with it.
pete_dushenski: korean shitboxes tend to rattle and groan like very poorly maintained vacuum cleaners at 15-20 years of age and find themselves in the scrap yard as a result
pete_dushenski: there's a good reason you don't see many 15-20 year old hyundais on the road