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assbot: Logged on 22-09-2015 00:17:16; phf: i think ping pong balls and badminton shuttlecocks (oh man european sport hobbies) was closest we've gotten to plastics
asciilifeform: i did the most ordinary fuses - rope soaked in saltpetre.
phf: we actually did have fuse at some point. one of the kids had one of those "engineer" fathers, who, i remember gave us, of note, soviet spectrum knockoff, rc plane engines of various sizes. he's also the one who converted part of forest glade into a "proper" badminton field, and then, with his wife as a partner, proceeded to regularly slaughter us in regular tournament matches
phf: oh man ping pong balls the versatile weapon manufacturing device, i'm surprised they are not yet banned in u.s. stores. make a small hole, fill it with stuff, attach a fuse
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: dropped << that's old hat. i was speaking of man-portable projectile weapons specifically.
phf: i think ping pong balls and badminton shuttlecocks (oh man european sport hobbies) was closest we've gotten to plastics ☟︎
asciilifeform: i've often wondered if a thermite-type reaction could be carried on in a liquid.
BingoBoingo: Spz. I need a harbor? How long would that take to dig with ANFO vs. Nuclear?
mircea_popescu: "the amount of engineering effort that went into these machines far outweighs what you might get in a modern computer, and that’s something i don’t think the world will ever see again" << he's wrong, fwiw. the amount of competent work that went into art as the empire got fucked in the ass exceeded the amount before.
asciilifeform: cazalla: except that dks is not rich. he is a very old man living in a very small house - and - at least when i visited - had a boarder.
phf: punkman: yeah, i've realised that i was wrong after seeing little trails on the ground
asciilifeform: cazalla: i have the 3620 (first photo)
hanbot: i've got a fever, and the only prescription is moar dakka.
mircea_popescu: i gotta teach her how to work the backpack flamethrower.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> this i gotta see.
mircea_popescu: *hanbot* i am going out there to tell them to shut the fuck up.
mircea_popescu: *hanbot* i'm dressing.
mircea_popescu: so dumbass "political campaign" for some twerp here tried to have a huge rally (which is how i woke up, fucking drummers). but it's been raining, and nobody gives a shit about their crap, so they took refuge under a huge awning and there they've been, playing this inept 2 minute political soundclip (lo que la gente quiere, blabla fuckhead rodrgues) etc. this for a while, until
asciilifeform: and here i was thinking that hearncoin was through
mircea_popescu: i don't aim to defend it.
mircea_popescu: hey, i count it like giving up drinking.
shinohai: Sent 20 emails out today regarding your art commission, get one chick to reply 10 minutes ago. I gave her a link to chat.
asciilifeform: gernika: i have a 1958 one, smells great
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i took a gamble of sorts. it kinda worked.
asciilifeform: to the point that if i travel for week+ and come home, it knocks me over nearly
mircea_popescu: when i was a kid, the #1 question hopeful spouse had to handle with the fambly was "are they smart enough"
mircea_popescu: anyway. if this works so well, i guess we need to sean more of sa then ?
mircea_popescu: guy got bored of being stupid, i get it, no need to pretend like HORRIBRU FORCES AFOOT.
mircea_popescu: i cant even.
punkman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPXUG8q4jKU "I dont wanna live in a city where a rat cant drag a hard-earned slice of pizza down a subway staircase without being tormented by the media"
lobbes: 'I'm going to try this. I've been pooping in the shower for years...' << lmao. I don't envy the plumber that finally gets called to snake that drain
phf: and here i am being upset that you can't find a bidet anywhere in u.s. except for muslim neighbourhoods
BingoBoingo: From the geniuses of Reddit https://i.imgur.com/pe5i8Mb.jpg
phf: i'm not paraphrasing the last bit by the way
phf: there's an organic food place here, ran by, i'm pretty convinced of that, former MOVE hangerons. black folk be talking about prana, and the power of positive thinking, that REALLY WORKS man. typical cliental involves angry black woman talking about taking her daughter to africa and how refreshing it was without all the white folk looking down on you ☟︎
BingoBoingo: So reading about how USG wants to expand VW's sphincter I can across this enviroscam for the first time http://www.volvotrucks.com/trucks/australia-market/en-au/trucks/environment/Emissions_technology/AdBlue/questions_answers/Pages/question6.aspx
phf: mostly amusing, at the local coworking i've probably seen all the stereotypes in flesh. girls with social sciences ph.d. doing research projects, guys pushing feminist rhetoric in every conversation, black transgender talking about white oppression, all manner of "you can do anything" mentality. it's like irl tumblr out there ☟︎
BingoBoingo: I see. That must be rough.
phf: i live in the area with apparently "highest number of lesbians after san francisco", so lots and lots and lots plus sized sjw types ☟︎
BingoBoingo: phf: By Philadelphia saturation levels I assume you are referring to the "cream cheese" which helps them bulk to their size?
phf: BingoBoingo: all the fat whites that i've seen in turkey were american, literally every one of them would start speaking english at some point while we were watching. in fact approaching u.s. the number and variety of fat people increased dramatically up to the philadelphia saturation levels
ascii_field: although i can easily imagine there being some disagreement among hitler's minions about the exact shape (1) ought to take
ascii_field: mike_c: typically i leave the thing grinding before going off to the minez and check on it in the evening.
trinque: "If I find fifty righteous people in Silicon Valley, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
ascii_field: i don't even have a garage.
mike_c: well, can't say that i'll be blowing 2 btc on it any time soon.
ascii_field: incidentally, i would not be the least bit astonished if the miner die contains a second, inactive circuit for an alternative workfunction
ascii_field: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91aUgUqFTIL._SL1500_.jpg << daughterboard separate. middle of photo
phf: i.e. target audience is rpi crowd with no unix, bitcoin, etc. experience. see also "maker" thread
phf: ascii_field: i think it's just written for "guy on a street" layman. "no you can't mine bitcoins anymore, because it's totally unprofitable without a giant asic farm, but you can use this thing to buy and sell bitcoins"
thestringpuller: I'm pretty sure ASICminer tried this with the USB miners ☟︎
ascii_field: i lack the lsd to properly grasp what is being spoken of here.
phf: i did technical review for it, which was pretty stressful. barsky is a poliglot and writes with a lot of grahamisms, so i rewrote a lot of bits to make them more "common lisp", though i don't think i fully reached that goal
phf: i guess that's why dadaist groups all have long history of denouncement, usually ending with the original founder remaining. otherwise you always have some entrenched fuck proposing a markdown jet, because useful and doesn't hurt and shrug. but when it's the founder itself.. ☟︎
ascii_field: i followed the project for years largely on account of NOBODY-else-is-pissing-on-backwards-compat
phf: on technical merits i thought it was kind of like if evola fans started writing their own operating system in INTERCAL (with apologies to don woods) hosted on top of brainfuck vm, a dadaist project where impracticality and absurd were the main driving force behind decisions. the reality turned out to be a lot more banal
ascii_field: i am not sure about the political, but on technical questions it was DOA
shinohai: I found it to be a mealy-mouth article. Was wondering if it had been discussed and I missed those bits.
ascii_field: i just think it is grimly hilarious how everything we've spoken of here ~will~ be implemented in bastardized usg versions ☟︎
ascii_field: i suppose destroyers and frigates were too right-wing yet, for the new mr mold
thestringpuller: i guess I don't fully grok ascii_field
thestringpuller: am i close? (that's what she said)
thestringpuller: ascii_field: so it doesn't actually validate all the blocks? if I'm reading correctly it goes through all blocks in "best chain" if checkblocks is selected...
thestringpuller: ascii_field: I will find out when I do --validate on the blocks on my local machine.
thestringpuller: i.e. soup won't be poisoned
thestringpuller: at least I have valid blockchain :P
thestringpuller: who cares if I have to eat like a dog for a single sync
thestringpuller: i.e. more uptime, not all of us have business internet in our houses :P
ascii_field: ftr i don't get the point of running a node on vps
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 04:55:05; asciilifeform: http://www.contravex.com/2015/09/20/the-disadvantages-of-funding-translated-and-adnotated << i dare say the ro was more readable !!
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 02:07:13; mircea_popescu: hm you know i think you're right, this is an older thing
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 11:43:36; kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-09-2015#1280729 < hope i got this right http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/the_real_bitcoin/nodes
mircea_popescu: i never named it.
VariaVarietatis: mircea_popescu: so he gets 200k cash 800k goes into the company account richard gets 80% peter gets 20% going from PP1 to PP2 here? also how does the note part work I thought notes didn't get converted into equity until the company investors or is he filling his own note? still lost.
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-09-2015#1280729 < hope i got this right http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/the_real_bitcoin/nodes ☝︎☟︎
VariaVarietatis: mircea_popescu: I got a question about one of the footnotes in that article vi if peter is trading away 80% of his company to Richard for 1m at a 5m valuation?(number she used) but selling it at a 20% discount does that mean the term value is 4m and the valuation is 5m how does that work?
kakobrekla: i lost track of node, are dulap, zoolag and incitatus still in game?
mircea_popescu: punkman looking at it i guess she must have.
cazalla: i get the impression charlie lee and bobby lee are brothers in the sense some white american couple bought them from an orphanage or something
shinohai: How have I been here ~6 moths and never found the trilema twitter account.
jurov: hi davout, i requested x.eur delivery, still not on paymium
mircea_popescu: shinohai not bad but wrong proportion. i need landscape that's portrait.
shinohai: I like this one too, and she is Spanish female: http://orig05.deviantart.net/e250/f/2012/314/8/0/angel_of_death_by_maiarcita-d4vfk40.jpg
davout: every single time I think reddit has hit the bottom, it out-stupids itself
mircea_popescu: anyway, i don't really want line art. i want stuff more like that yeah
shinohai: http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs17/i/2012/171/b/6/angel_of_death_aka_grim_reaper_by_sinslave-dimt0u.jpg <<< I like this death already.
mircea_popescu: oh, i thought you meant jason juta, the guy that made the thing http://minigame.bz/splash.png was based off.
mircea_popescu: but i'd rather give some guy a chance to strike a conversation with deeply disturbed 16 yo girls first.
shinohai: I'll trawl some and see what I find. That artist that drew your bitcoin collage can't draw "death" ?
mircea_popescu: if i like em, ask the author if he'd like to have it featured in game, bring him over here, he gets some btc dust, all is well.
mircea_popescu: specifically : i need a large drawing to illustrate "death" in eulora. the job is to trawl the entire fucking site until you find GOOD, gothy-like drawings of at least 2k px wide, and show them to me
shinohai: mircea_popescu: What sort of social media work may I ask?
mircea_popescu: that, i know.
fluffypony: and I didn't become a certified anything :-P
fluffypony: so did I
cazalla: fluffypony, shut up, i got 10/10 ok, i'm a certified expert now http://i.imgur.com/D5lGwFS.png
shinohai: I like mircea_popescu 's quiz better.
shinohai: http://www.coindesk.com/quiz-do-you-know-the-basics-of-bitcoin/ <<< For so,e reason I can't see this
punkman: "How many investments did auto-invest make for you?" "About 30 on BTCJam. I'm hoping to turn the loss into profit with the Law of Big Numbers though I'm not optimistic."
punkman: I thought you were supposed to only lose ~20% a year