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gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: We shall see. I would like to put 8 of them in your hands. S.NSA needs
a R&D project.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: No. Thefts are rentals that just don't get returned. Talked to
a couple people who did the scary work of "rental car recovery"
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: not only are you not
a progressive now, but you've clearly never been one either. while it's true that some fall into the 'prius/tesla' camp, others fall into the 'i'd never drive
a sedan or wagon because that's what my parents did and that's old-fashioned and/or otherwise bad mkay' camp
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Magnum is
a good old fashioned station wagon.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: The cobalt was basically
a cavalier refresh which was
a familiar, dependable kind of shitty. The aveo was an alien kind of suck.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski:
A lot of the charger/etc thefts are from rental agencies
BingoBoingo: I mean it was understandable when they did it with the Aveo because they wanted
a bottom end car to scare people into buying up.
BingoBoingo: Meatspace friend had boring v6 one for
a while. Beat it all to hell then "upgraded" to one of the daewoo crossovers rebadged as
a chevy.
pete_dushenski: magnum r/t for sure. probably less than $10k for
a decent one.
pete_dushenski: easier to park, better on fuel, and have lower tco. whichever way you go, driving them each and finding
a used car with known providence (receipts!) are the two most important factors.
BingoBoingo: Also when done
a well earned sense of superiority over other locals who are less accomplished in the clearing
BingoBoingo: Ah, the big snows are much more fun. Only been through
a couple snows between 18-24 inches.
mircea_popescu: and then by the time i cleared it, there was
a slight melt an d i got
a futher two tons off the roof.
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
☟︎ BingoBoingo: It's not spectualarly fun, but its
a way to be outside in the cold without feeling cold
BingoBoingo: When we got our snow earier this week I was the only person the on our street civilized enough to shovel his drive way. Now that there's been
a few days for it to melt and refreeze neighbors are complaining they can't get into or out of theirs because they've become too slick. Also precious few sidewalks have been shoveled in town.
thestringpuller: Ugh. Can Roger Ver just go the fuck away, this prick is more of
a douchebag than Weev.
mircea_popescu: yeah, well, as
a matter of fact some cows do make it out!
ascii_butugychag: wasn't it in mircea_popescu's recent article where 'common man must be pumped through
a sewer tunnel but oughta have
a small escape hatch' ?
ascii_butugychag: i've never seen
a human woman land by mistake in
a cow pen and end up processed for beef
mircea_popescu: "the beef is not
a playing character for not having escaped from its pen ; the waitress is
a playing character for not having escaped from its pen." << shall need some more sandbags. why hate the cow, what, if you prick it does it not bleed ?
ascii_butugychag: but i find
a good bit of what these people do to themselves to be readily optional, at least in the sense that eating one's nagant is optional
ascii_butugychag: i can readily observe at least
a subset of things they choose to do, when i find myself readily able to avoid doing them
mircea_popescu: consider. the first major invention that "revolutionized" mankind was... agriculture. it reduced the societal bolus from "whole bison, if you get it" to "
a fraction of
a crop, if you well save it".
ascii_butugychag: (it isn't about whether the pellets are small, as in
a zoo, or large, as in
a harvest season - but that zoo ~answeres prayers~ and rewards wheedling)
ascii_butugychag: because land doesn't actually behave so differently from
a food dispenser
mircea_popescu: suppose now
a desert with small pellet dispensers, where
a little food can be had.
mircea_popescu: let's see. suppose
a land, fertile but unimproved. to get anything, you have to actually get it.
mircea_popescu: this isn't
a castigation of them. but the system is
a chute down not
a chute up.
ascii_butugychag: ... isn't that sorta like 'toilet is
a magnet for shit' ? yes, sometimes people plant flowers in one. but speaking as to its purpose.
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: the observation about 'camgurlz are
a magnet for the attention of subhuman bois' seems unsurprising
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone sane was seriously thinking the situation may survive. it was painfully obvious we're riding
a self-limiting wave.
ascii_butugychag: reading mircea_popescu's recollections of the '90s porn set feels
a little like another one of my predilections, memoirs of su physics/math folk
ascii_butugychag: the observation about 'girl is not annoying because it is
a girl' is spot-on
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: that article makes me think of (i entirely forget the source) - approximately - 'every man's life has
a time when things were working correctly'
trinque: AWS being the host was certainly
a problem.
mircea_popescu: so in that sense, my os copies files
a lot faster than that.
ascii_butugychag: but really in his harem scenario i'd imagine he would build something more like
a horseshoe shape, so the users can face one another
ascii_butugychag: it would probably look something like
a nagant cylinder turned up
punkman: terminal2: Now everyone has
a toilet << not true, and good chance you'll make more money investing in toilets than ETH
ascii_butugychag: trinque: if it's not
a seekrit: why does deedbot use
a heathen bitcoinatron ?
thestringpuller: If you have expected behavior there should be
a way to measure if that behavior changes due to something introduced into the system.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: wouldn't unit testing coverage prevent some of this from becoming
a problem?
mod6: I think it's vital that we all gain
a good grasp of what the intricacies are in this code - myself included.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> my one question, and not to mod6 in particular, is : can unsigned int nSize = ECDSA_size(pkey); be trusted to not fuck up the size ? << Just to touch back on this again - I'd like to see more of this. If you happen to be reading through the code, and there is
a question, ask - let's discuss.
terminal2: Only takes
a couple of breakout successes to make ETH take off I think
terminal2: Migrating
a DAO off of ethereum would not be an easy thing to do in most cases
terminal2: I've never had
a GPG key before lol. I will make one tonight. On ETH: While I don't see
a reason for established companies to re-use ethereum - I think you need to account for all the companies nerd kids will create ontop of it - which will grow
trinque: ascii_butugychag: sounds like
a centralized CVS/SVN repo where sigs "vote" for what constitutes the master branch
ascii_butugychag: it is not enough, for
a classic bureaucrat, to avoid accountability; he has to put in scar tissue that gives the appearance thereof
mircea_popescu: well... as much as
a car without combustion as possible.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag ever met
a govt employee that welcomed accountability ?
thestringpuller: AdrianG: actually it's mostly
a lot of java/vb code written by indian d00ds.
mircea_popescu: it's
a delusion, born fundamentally out of
a lack of business experience.
thestringpuller: except ethereum assumes all individuals in
a contract act as machines. Better yet why not make them all machines!
AdrianG: and signing the normal ledger, is just
a small part, programmability gives you
a lot more flexibility to code business logic in.
AdrianG: PeterL: it would be just
a private instance, or
a federated peg at best.
AdrianG: ethereum as
a cryptocurrency itself is probably useless.
AdrianG: they can just basically automate
a lot of regulatory compliance and cut out humans
thestringpuller: AdrianG: Yes but you are arguing for trying to teach
a sickly man to learn how to dunk
a basketball.
mircea_popescu: neveretheless... have you used it as
a door ? will you ?
mircea_popescu: take your window, on the presumption that you are currently located in
a room with one. this window of yours COULD be used as
a door, to
a larger degree than ethereum could be used to anything.
AdrianG: mircea_popescu: i think
a programmable ledger has legitimate uses. unfortunately for ethereum holders, those ledgers are going to be private and inaccessible from outside.
thestringpuller: Most Bitcoin VC cirus shows are like watching
a very long episode of the Profit without Marcus Lemonis.
thestringpuller: AdrianG: there is sanity and insanity. You don't try to run
a business with insanit expecting it to function.
AdrianG: thestringpuller: good is subjective. its just
a perception.
mircea_popescu: the only problem with their "needs" is that their needs are
a certain path to their own doom.