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nubbins`: as if somehow it makes more sense to bring a goddamn mattress on a train instead of your only link to the outside world
nubbins`: most of the cost is in components; a frame is a frame (to some extent), but having your brake discs machined vs stamped from sheet makes a big difference for longevity as well as maintenance
nubbins`: $100 will buy you what is commonly referred to as a BSO -- a Bicycle-Shaped Object
nubbins`: asciilifeform: re: the cost of bicycles -- i'm reminded of your rant about how in computing, there's no "professional grade equipment", i.e. people who code for a living are using the same hw as people who check facebook all day long
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ... << it has a keyboard. and this was before the age of 'must use a toothpick for this qwerty' idiocy. << It is truly a more impressive machine than I was anticipating. The screen is actually usefully large.
thestringpuller: “The C.E.O. has to be the virus,” Mr. Huang said. “To build a great company, you have to kill it a bit every day.”
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/nvidias-boss-kill-your-company-a-bit-every-day/
asciilifeform: (and NO it can't exist as txt, fuck you, buy a printer.)
asciilifeform: e to attempting to match the TI-89's level of automation. The fact that Mathematica, Sage, etc. also will not perform these simplifications without a 'hint' makes me feel a little better, but the question remains: How on earth did the TI engineers manage to do this with literally a tiny, tiny fraction of the computing power a desktop has?' ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'In my own CAS development experience, I've found it nearly impossible to do what the TI-89 does, that is, automatically perform these simplifications without wrapping them in a 'hint' function. I've found that both in terms of computational cost, and in pure software engineering difficulty, this is basically impossible to do. Every CAS I've ever built has involved horrendous debugging of infinite recursion and similar bugs du
chetty: << it has a keyboard. and this was before the age of 'must use a toothpick for this qwerty' idiocy.// is there a thumb equivalent of carpal tunnel yet?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-09-2015#1272528 << it has a keyboard. and this was before the age of 'must use a toothpick for this qwerty' idiocy. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 07:35:35; mircea_popescu: What the “reformers” promote, that is open-ended problems, “real-world” problems with clouds of answers, activities instead of problems, create a fuzzy world, ~~~in which students always have to guess the teacher’s mind and can not learn to discriminate between right and wrong by their own means. ~~~
assbot: 51 results for 'clos' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=clos
mircea_popescu: but that aside : 500k in cash is still a better deal than what present day usians get. they still have no education, but -500k in cash to go with it too.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the moral therein being : it's much better to spend stormy weather in a lake than in an ocean. which is why people figuring on doing the whole "survivalist" schtick in the us are basically retarded.
phf: i suspect that mp made profit on the decade since he's a bit older then myself, i started at the tail end, and when king yeltsin abdicated that was pretty much the end of it
phf: unless you come across a genuine opportunity (e.g. your uncle is a general, or your dad was director of a factory/storage/pipeline), imho it was basically like throwing out genuine education for half a million dollars in cash
phf: ben_vulpes: reference material http://michaelgmunz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/thats-a-paddlin-30027.jpg
cazalla: i wonder if there is a tanzanian bitcoin embassy
cazalla: punkman, well it was for a laugh, not to actually scam monies
cazalla: you know, a few years ago i put an advertisement in gumtree (aussie craigslist) for free psychic readings and you would not believe the barrage of phone calls
cazalla: Naphex, not even worth your time, they want to be scammed - my mother is/was into John Edwards as is an aunty, and they rave about him, went to a live show and all
mircea_popescu: so didja get him to invest in a new invention like quantum teledildonics or something ?
deedbot-: [Trilema] A bunch of assholes. - http://trilema.com/2015/a-bunch-of-assholes/
Naphex: they are in a rush also to give him money so..
mircea_popescu: well honestly... i'd much rather a deranged tranny get all the moneys, than a bunch of retards getting to keep it.
Naphex: mircea_popescu: it's a full blown cult, and the programs are extended with training and all other social bullshit that will cost everyone
assbot: How one man’s invention is part of a growing worldwide scam that snares the desperately ill | The Seattle Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1XYTZ4E )
Naphex: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/how-one-mans-invention-is-part-of-a-growing-worldwide-scam-that-snares-the-desperately-ill/
mircea_popescu: this thing is starting to sound like a bitcoin!
mircea_popescu: this seems a little short of 100mn.
Naphex: but it's pure crazyness you shouldn't even be able to fall for this shit with a IQ higher than 75
Naphex: i was trying to explain my retarded rich friends that he was a scammer and gave them resources
Naphex: has a 8 story block in budapest that houses everything from the programmers and device developers, to makeshift porn studios
Naphex: his lakeys play it like his a insane genius
Naphex: he is scamming europeans as a tranvestite
Naphex: well before he was a tranvestite
mircea_popescu: wait. a transvestite scammed a bunch of retarded usians for 100mn ?
Naphex: actually met this guy in Budapest when a friend of mine got sent by his rich mother to help solve his cluster headaches
mircea_popescu: What the “reformers” promote, that is open-ended problems, “real-world” problems with clouds of answers, activities instead of problems, create a fuzzy world, ~~~in which students always have to guess the teacher’s mind and can not learn to discriminate between right and wrong by their own means. ~~~ ☟︎
mircea_popescu: actualy, drones that broadcast the cries of injured children / burn unit victims / rape victims etc would make a pretty decent terrorism application.
mircea_popescu: assbot> Want to make a big cash withdrawal? Don’t bank on being allowed | << the advantage of the internet. what "bank run" ? sit at the computer and cry like the little bitch that you are.
cazalla: http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/04/ad-blocking-in-apples-ios-9-highlights-rift-over-ads-with-app-publishers/ <<< what's in it for apple to support this? just a measure to get people to buy the next iphone or what
pete_dushenski: £500 buys what in england these days, a sweatshirt ? a rental car for the weekend ?
assbot: Want to make a big cash withdrawal? Don’t bank on being allowed | Money | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1Kj0bi3 )
pete_dushenski: "Nationwide The building society says its customers can withdraw up to £2,000 per account a day. “However, if they want to withdraw more than £500, it is best to pre-book the amount with the branch to ensure that it has the cash available." << derp/
gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 20 weeks, 3 days, 6 hours, 32 minutes, and 26 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.
pete_dushenski: "The old Celtic practice today known as chasse au brame, troat-hunting, involved placing a rutting stag in a U-shaped trap of trees and nets; when the stag began to troat, does and other stags would approach and be caught."
assbot: A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium - Paul Veyne - Google Books ... ( http://bit.ly/1K4GbMD )
asciilifeform: i tried at one time to find some info re: 'troat hunting' where a deer is coralled and its screams attract others - mentioned therein
pete_dushenski: i also recently cracked open ~2kg of dead tree goodness : a history of private lives, volumes i-iv
asciilifeform: 'air' is a dream to open compared to the old g4 'powerbooks' where you needed a spudger
pete_dushenski: 1. 'air' is sealed tighter than an 80yo nun, 2. it's like once a month for some reason.
asciilifeform: somewhere there is also a set of his correspondence, a good chunk of it in fr, that i don't yet have.
asciilifeform: you can get this for somewhere north of a benjie.
asciilifeform just popped a crate with ~2kg of orwell. before anyone asks, no, nothing like even 20% of his output is on the net. in the 1968 four-volume set, there is perhaps 90% of it. ☟︎
pete_dushenski: i'm just doing web, text, odd bit of video, once-in-a-blue-moon editing
pete_dushenski: and '13 'air' with two keys that have their bad days (delete, a) and a weird screen deformity that makes everything a bit washed out but isn't worth $1k to fix
pete_dushenski: i have '08 aluminum that's a bit bogged down with cruft but otherwise excellent
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: i'm similarly skeptical but there's been nary a hiccup in the first season at least. it'll take another few before i can say much more than that.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 03:04:05; pete_dushenski: http://sheldonbrown.com/s-a/sa-cutaway.gif << internal hub
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-09-2015#1272333 << interesting... sorta like a motorbike gearbox ☝︎
pete_dushenski: there were smokes that were actually ~less than a penny per~. i was tempted to pick up the habit then and there
pete_dushenski: http://sheldonbrown.com/s-a/sa-cutaway.gif << internal hub ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:52:36; williamdunne: She was dressed up all goth-like and spoke like a retard so can't imagine she was that good
pete_dushenski: cazalla: no worse than a full-size pick-up
pete_dushenski: and now with no rust on front fenders thanks to a fortuitous shop accident that resulted in denting the hood, which needed to be painted after being replaced, and allowed me to piggyback on paint shop time and repair a cosmetic deficiency i may never have bothered with!
asciilifeform: 'airplane in which an american, czech, scotsman, and russian, begins to fall. scotsman suggests, 'let's swear that he who remains alive, will give the dead men 200 pounds sterling for the road to heaven, and to thank god.' they all agreed. airplane falls, everybody but the scotsman lived. at his burial, the american and the russian put 200 pounds each, like they promised. the czech comes, writes a cheque for 600 pounds, puts i
asciilifeform: as if there were any shortage of cultural icons they could build a museum for
asciilifeform: was revolted when saw a smarmy and profoundly cocksucking pamphlet advertising a general patton memorial.
trinque: "A thousand years of failure, a thousand years they bled. To the bear, the blitzkrieg, and the holy father, they just bowed their heads." << I don't know how accurate an assessment of the Czechs that is, but it makes me lol
trinque: heh, Randy Blythe of Lamb of God was locked up with that guillotine for supposedly killing a kid by shoving him off the stage
ben_vulpes: at which point the paddlers may attempt to paddle or they may beat a hasty retreat.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 22:29:17; phf: quitting school? that's a paddling
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 20:57:45; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271285 << i hear emplacing a workstation is the first step to building a Dark Spire of Darnkess, from which as we all know all atomic dirigibles must proceed.
asciilifeform: pick up a 1950s 'popular xyz' and the thing is full of'em
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: used to be, the 'back pages' were a kind of bazaar, that had pyramid schemes, cock machines, and legit things alike, all in one gigantic pile.
ben_vulpes: i'm sure those prices had a great deal to do with the market value of the things, advertising to chumps alongside the cock lengtheners and pheromone emitters
asciilifeform: modern bicycle has existed for slightly more than a century
ben_vulpes: what, ten dollars a hundred years ago?
ben_vulpes: i have a hydroformed aluminum frame because i like to taunt death.
ben_vulpes: a robust fixed-gear with durable parts will set one back 300.
mircea_popescu: but you can spend as much as you want to spend on a bike. consumer item.
kakobrekla: i bought a cheapest usable bike this spring, its 500+.
asciilifeform: something a grown man would ride
ben_vulpes: what is a computer worth today?
ben_vulpes: one can in fact have a bicycle just for the asking there. no purchase or transport needed!
ben_vulpes: a hundred dollar bicycle is barely worth trucking to the playa.
asciilifeform: wow what a scrap heap
williamdunne: She was dressed up all goth-like and spoke like a retard so can't imagine she was that good ☟︎
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: It certainly does, just yesterday I heard a girl maybe a few years older myself bragging (in a thick western accent) about her mother doing Cocaine and Ecstasy while heavily pregnant, and how "she turned out alright"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: very easy in md. just takes a while (~3 mo.)
asciilifeform: but disobeying a written order is one of the few simple ways.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if there exists such a jurisdiction in usa, it is a well-hushed-up fact.
ben_vulpes: of which there remain a few, your outrageous claims to the contrary aside.
cazalla: http://www.theage.com.au/national/sex-workers-at-risk-of-violence-as-the-internet-cuts-demand-for-their-services-20150909-gjj54s.html "They say violence is a daily part of their life. The most common forms are biting, slapping, pinching, hair pulling, verbal abuse and rough sex, which they say is present in almost every interaction." sounds like sex to me
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: when i worked, briefly, for a megacorp (it bought the little outfit i was in at the time) we were moved to a virtually EMPTY building, placed - all two dozen of us - in the middle of an EMPTY floor, having forty or so proper door-closey offices, and a flunkie was sent JUST TO WATCH THAT NO ONE MOVED INTO THEM
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 19:20:34; asciilifeform: if you ask for a closing door, or to work remotely, it is usually seen as a demand to play tetris instead of work.
mircea_popescu: lol that poor guy, looks like a scrap metal yard.