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assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 22:07:46; ag3nt_zer0: this is just standard confirmation time?
a general warning about services like bitpay?
ascii_field: 'The piecemeal approach of requiring individual borrowers to apply for loan forgiveness seemed unacceptably burdensome. “The right thing to do would be to issue
a classwide discharge and understand that this happened to
a group of people,” says Ann Larson, 41, one of the organization’s leaders.' << win !
ascii_field: nobody says 'i'ma grow up to be
a small-time cutpurse'
ascii_field: what next? 'there is little evidence of being
a wolf having consistent earnings from hunting'
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:32:54; pete_dushenski: "After the release of iOS 9.0.2 on Wednesday, which fixed
a number of bugs including
a lock screen exploit, Apple stopped signing iOS 8.4.1 and iOS 9.0 firmware for compatible devices, prohibiting users who updated from downgrading." << no going backwards !
ascii_field: apparently (and this is not widely known, i think) - the tolerances for
a 'correctly feeling' lego brick are astonishingly low.
mircea_popescu: if sold with
a time machine to take us back to 1992, this'd actulalywork.
ascii_field: you need the precision of
a $1M injection molder.
mircea_popescu: neighbourhood kids pitch together buy
a printer, make all the legos they';ll ever need, on the cheap.
ascii_field:
a skilled craftsman can do surprising things with this horrid material - diametric once gave me
a bolt and nut that screwed without much friction, on first try
mircea_popescu: (my curiosity on the topic so far was assuaged by breakingapart some 3d printed matter and reading
a little on the chemistry of the "ink")
ascii_field: (
a '3d printer' is not so different from
a hot glue gun on programmable wheels.)
ascii_field: but they mostly reduce to 'need plastic bracket to hold pcb, in
a hurry, don't care how ugly, no one will see it'
ascii_field: there ~are~ constructive uses for '3d printer', we even have one here, in
a closet, at $rupturefarms
ascii_field: quite seriously, it is an astonishing enabler of 'zero in
a fancy bottle'
ascii_field: in
a hypothetically sane future, '3d printer' will have vaguely unsavory connotations, just like the term 'patent medicine' does today
ascii_field: it is
a cargo cult in
a very literal sense
ascii_field: also it is
a (solely psychiatrically!) interesting cargo cult. for instance, the most successful scams had video posted of
a '3d printer' going, going...
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: 'kickstarter' has turned into
a kind of barometer of public illiteracy
mircea_popescu: im not sure what is going on there, mentally. conflating the sharpness of
a blade with the sharpness of
a laser is not unlike confusing "strict discipline" in
a bdsm setting with the strict discipline of the woodchipper cutters.
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 18:52:13; ascii_field: addendum now has film of the sc4mz0r burning his skin with what is - bet your arse -
a hot nichrome wire
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:10:56; mircea_popescu: derps shouldn't get
a vote srsly. whosever can't appreciate the scent of diesel is neither
a man nor allowed to discuss cars.
ascii_field: perhaps it was
a case of 'soviet elephants are the biggest elephants'
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the magic is that
a) you don't need it everywhere and b) people move
a lot.
mircea_popescu: "i've always just went into my basement, what do you mean it's
a radiocooker now".
mircea_popescu: ask first time home buyers looking for
a detached house if they know what
a radon area is or not.
mircea_popescu: and this is universal. ask people if they have
a foot of air behind their fridge, and if they say yes ask them why, and see.
ascii_field: even these typically have
a 'tight beam' setting
ascii_field: picture an animal trainer, perhaps in
a circus, who were to somehow forget that his 'patients' are animals.
mircea_popescu: and then, because this is the lulzy part, it's like
a fucking prion this thing. then! people who should fucking know better try and cater to it! and then they get used to THAT and get all agressed when you don't.
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 01:41:52; mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 it's just standard confirmation time. the problem with technology is that it works
a certain way, which people actually understand. users, however, which are eminently NOT people, but fucking animals, don't care about all that. instead they "try" things, and then "come to expect" on the basis of you know, two attempts last Sunday. and then get all aggitated if their unfounded, poorly resea
ascii_field: this is
a disgraceful and perhaps little-known thing, but very many american streets do not have piped gas.
ascii_field: my current understanding is that usg has been specifically squeezing diesel heat users - they get untaxed fuel that is theoretically usable in trucks, and folks often 'cheat'. it has
a colouring agent, and in parts of usa where this type of heater is common, policemen will often dip
a wooden stick into
a truck's tank to test for cheat
mircea_popescu: prolly more
a "you know what could help real estate values ? if other people couldn't build sane houses anymore"
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:23:34; mircea_popescu: punkman iirc they bury
a 20-50 cubic metre tank for you if you ask.
mircea_popescu: trinque> dude, I leave for
a weekend and
a chick with great tits from TX shows up called AgentScully WITH THINKPADS << prolly shortlived
mircea_popescu: all this timswansonism i swear. "we are so and so" because words and things so we don't have to wot or anything. we could put the nonsense in
a pdf if you prefer, that makes it more legit!
mircea_popescu: <trinque> and I'll tell you what; this country is gorgeous. It'd be quite
a nice place under new management. << word. nothing wrong wih the states mostly on the grounds the mob stuck to the coasts.
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 16:26:56; mike_c: yeah.. my available gaming time is down to nil right now. Busy working on
a sekrit project.
trinque: and I'll tell you what; this country is gorgeous. It'd be quite
a nice place under new management.
trinque: (all of #b-
a replies "LEAVE MORE OFTEN!")
trinque: dude, I leave for
a weekend and
a chick with great tits from TX shows up called AgentScully WITH THINKPADS
mircea_popescu: it is conceivable, if the same pencildicks keep on with the tail up, "regulate" blablabla that we WILL have
a market in stolen daughters traded around to prove
a point for
a few years.
mircea_popescu: things normalized by 1995 or so, which is why this is
a derp field now.
mircea_popescu: the car theft thing was very briefly +ev, right after fall of su when
a lot of otherwise powerful and important people didn't have their power and importance correctly credentialled by the western pencildicks
mircea_popescu: "The lack of transparency and regulatory oversight raises
a number of risks for users and also poses risks for the payments system, the integrity of the financial system and the erosion of the tax base.
pete_dushenski: have been quite the political heavyweight. i'm expecting it to be quite
a splashy affair.
mircea_popescu: "If I sell you
a few kilograms of depleted uranium and you use it to create
a dirty bomb that renders most of the East Coast inhabitable, how is that my fault?"
pete_dushenski: "After the release of iOS 9.0.2 on Wednesday, which fixed
a number of bugs including
a lock screen exploit, Apple stopped signing iOS 8.4.1 and iOS 9.0 firmware for compatible devices, prohibiting users who updated from downgrading." << no going backwards !
☟︎ pete_dushenski: and while i've had my fun on the beach in puerto vallarta, god invented beach chairs for
a reason !
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mircea_popescu: course greece (esp stuff like crete) is
a bit of an outlier. no gas lines, which is unheard of in yurp, and no real need to heat.
mircea_popescu: punkman iirc they bury
a 20-50 cubic metre tank for you if you ask.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (salt content is
a function of intended maturation period, the longer you wanna keep it around the saltier. still, within some bounds)
pete_dushenski: punkman i have
a propane bbq but only because 45 year-old condos don't have natural gas lines here. most houses do though.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the cheese, as apparently it's unknown other than "that south transylvanian cheese" : sheepmilk cheese is cut up thinly, salt is added and ths is mixed (often, by hand). the result is placed in
a tube made out of pine bark. it may or may not be smoked. it can also be placed in
a sheep's stomach. inthis arrangement it keeps indefinitely, it is geenraly consumed after about
a year.
punkman: I want
a gas kitchen/stove but I'd have to refill tanks which kinda sucks
pete_dushenski: compressed gas adoption was growing quite steadily in n.
a. the last ~5 years.
pete_dushenski: giving better people just
a bit more money to play with and voila.
mircea_popescu: what happens is that throughout the 90s, diesel fuel was 50% the price of gasoline, and gpl conversion was not
a mass market thing like it is now. you could get it, like you could get nox.
pete_dushenski: sorta playing the idiot as
a means of catalysing 'debate'
punkman: queso de cabra is also fun in omelette, even has
a rind similar to brie
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu baruth is
a bit of
a troll. he's baiting here. and hooking 'em too by the looks of the comments.
mircea_popescu: derps shouldn't get
a vote srsly. whosever can't appreciate the scent of diesel is neither
a man nor allowed to discuss cars.
☟︎ cazalla: not sure, but that sure is uncanny, wonder what the odds are of someone posting
a pic of
a chick naked in
a car park you know of
pete_dushenski: west edmonton mall, for
a number of years, held the record at the world's largest indoor shopping mall. still holds several worlds records iirc.
pete_dushenski: and for what it's worth, the car looks to be
a nissan altima coupe. ~$35k off the dealer lot.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 21:17:06; mircea_popescu: for that matter, the average painting is
a fuzzy gray.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 21:12:50; ben_vulpes: 2023: #bitcoin-assets has migrated to xotika, queue to perform is longer than
a human lifespan
pete_dushenski: first, it was C02 MATTERS GUISE, which was
a convenient trojan horse for black-smoke belching diesels.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 19:44:52; AgentScully: piercings are old... those were
a pain in the ass
cazalla: pete_dushenski, yeah, but that can be
a sexy look too.. think winona ryder with short hair
cazalla: dunno, looks
a bit androgynous but nice tits anyway
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290779 << how could la ancien regime americane not want
a third bush ? he knows how to play the part. he's seen it done. imo it'll be
a close contest between trump and jeb. no one else has
a chance. but it's jeb's to lose. trump has to stay out in front of the spotlight being outrageous day in and day out FOR ANOTHER YEAR, which is nigh on impossible. i give trump
a ☝︎ assbot: Nobody could have foreseen their using
a plane like
a rocket on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
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mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 it's just standard confirmation time. the problem with technology is that it works
a certain way, which people actually understand. users, however, which are eminently NOT people, but fucking animals, don't care about all that. instead they "try" things, and then "come to expect" on the basis of you know, two attempts last Sunday. and then get all aggitated if their unfounded, poorly researched, biased, badl
☟︎ ag3nt_zer0: this is just standard confirmation time?
a general warning about services like bitpay?
☟︎ ag3nt_zer0: BingoBoingo what does it mean practically to "wait for confirmation through mining before accepting
a Bitcoin transaction."?
ben_vulpes: subject of traditional b-
a threads, the corvette started honking uncontrollably last night.
ben_vulpes: average bagel topping is
a poisson schmear
ben_vulpes: 2023: #bitcoin-assets has migrated to xotika, queue to perform is longer than
a human lifespan
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