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trinque: I once sold a car for $125, was probably in way worse shape than yours
mod6: the car we saw in .ar with the clubs, that's probably a $3 car. lol
mod6: i actually got a decent deal on it for $100, it would probably be $1000 if i bought it from a used car lot or something. bought it from a friend.
mod6: yeah, it's not good. its a 2000 oldsmobile.
mod6: i guess i did throw in a quart once. but that doesn't count. sob is probably dying to have the filter & oil changed.
mod6: my old man would be horrified that i don't fix the shit on my car. he was a "car guy". used to wrench on stuff, build his own racecars, was an expert mechanic.
mod6: i used to wrench on stuff a lot myself, but now (last ~15 years) have no time. too much comp stuff to work on.
mod6: *nod* i went so long without a car, it's hard for me to spend any money on that stuff at all. if i could still get away with not having one, i would.
mod6: i have a $100 car that the drivers side window doesn't roll down, and the passenger side doesn't roll up. no rear view mirror (it fell off) and the side mirror is taped on with Ninja Turtle ductape.
mod6: <+danielpbarron> it's surprising how many sentences I can type without access to the letter 'b' but ultimately I end up needing it quite a bit (barron, bitcoin, bible) << reminds me of my broken 'O' key on my asus laptop these guys saw at c3. i still havent fixed it. haha.
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: generally, i won't even keep a laptop in the house unless i have several 'organ donors' for it
asciilifeform: '-- my tyre has a nail in it. car won't go straight. -- have you tried finding a swap? -- haven't looked'
danielpbarron: it didn't occur to me to even try replacing a keyboard on a laptop
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: what laptop is it you have where you can't find a new kbd on, e.g., 'ebay' ? a 'tadpole' ?!
danielpbarron: it's surprising how many sentences I can type without access to the letter 'b' but ultimately I end up needing it quite a bit (barron, bitcoin, bible)
danielpbarron: I now have to use a full size keyboard plugged into my laptop; thing might as well be a desktop now especially since wifi hasn't worked ever since I switched from ubuntu to gentoo
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2015 01:27:23; asciilifeform: today's disposables have no springs, only rubber bulbs (molded into a sheet)
assbot: shitco.in | Life Is A Pump And Dump, Front Run The XCP Pump ... ( http://bit.ly/1L5NfK4 )
danielpbarron: http://shitco.in/2015/06/13/life-is-a-pump-and-dump-front-run-the-xcp-pump/ << ah, this explains why
danielpbarron: http://kaykurokawa.blogspot.com/2015/06/front-running-decentralized-exchanges.html >> But they are wrong because a centralized exchange faces serious damage in its reputation and business if it is revealed that they are front running. Bitcoin hard liners will scoff at this idea but believe it or not, some systems work fine based on reputation and trust.
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2015 06:56:20; punkman: Eulora would work nice as a MUD
asciilifeform if knew how to program gurlz, would be doing it now, rather than writing a list of items to fetch from maths lib. before it closes for the night
mircea_popescu: you know, YOU should probably start a harem
asciilifeform: everything else is a 'middle'.
asciilifeform: everything 'archaeological' i have could probably fit in a small car boot.
asciilifeform: and more than a handful of 'cosmac's
asciilifeform: sometimes, literally (i'm getting a crate of east german z80 in the post a month or so from now)
mircea_popescu: i suppose a version of the above "make it now" is what drives your hoarding behaviour
asciilifeform: the 'unlikely in the future' thing is why i view the present situation as a dire one. at present, 'we' don't have access to any of these things.
mircea_popescu: just like if you wanted a good plate mail, have it made in 1650.
asciilifeform: it isn't a '500 trillion collider' but definitely more than '500 printer'
asciilifeform: better example of 'middle'. my local uni has a 1980s-style ic fab. just sitting there.
asciilifeform: most practical work in experimental-anything actually happens on the 'middle' (as in, 'more than a car, less than a house' (tm) machinery)
mircea_popescu: no, it's a great example, for this reason.
mircea_popescu: so if i want a 3d printed item, which university i call ?
asciilifeform: we mostly have a broken motorbike and making 'zoom, zoom' sounds
asciilifeform: this is not a defense of the 'old model', but merely pointing out that 1) it is dead, yes 2) we have no replacement for it, not even in the sense that a horse can replace a broken-down motorcycle
asciilifeform: aha but this requires a chum with access.
asciilifeform: we don't actually have a replacement for the former, to pick off the shelf and screw in.
mircea_popescu: university is important because the close physical proximity is a requisite for fucking in retards, and students are yet retarded
assbot: Logged on 23-06-2014 00:11:01; mircea_popescu: After seven years of the new regime, I had the opportunity to compare the class of 1999 with the class of 1992. In 1992 I set an course in Artificial Intelligence requiring students to solve six exercises, including building a Prolog interpreter. In 1999, six exercises had shrunk to one; which was a 12 line Prolog program for which eight weeks were allotted for students to write it. A special class
asciilifeform: sorta reminds me of how i, as a boy, saw a brass band, and asked my father why they don't simply connect a compressor to the tuba and avoid the strain. and answered 'from this, just one step to dispensing with the tubist entirely'. and hence just the same here, from this just one small step to asking 'why even do this university thing'
mircea_popescu: specifically that it is not merely cheating to be given in advance the questions which will constitute the exam (which, to my undying amazement, i found out is by now actually standard practice in the us), but even to be given any sort of selected reading material that contains a larger density of answers than the average for the entire world text.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: footnote 2 is a winner
danielpbarron: >> This is in large part due to a nostalgia for the Bitcoin of the past. As Bitcoin grows, we cannot guarantee which parts of the accidental benefits will still be present. However, the fundamental properties must remain. Without it, Bitcoin offers nothing that isn't already offered.
danielpbarron: >> Ultimately this is yet another reason why Bitcoin is not money; it is something that is collectively controlled by consensus, unlike money which is accepted by consensus. In any new definition of money there should be a clause saying that its nature is independent of anyone's opinion or act.
Naphex: btw, i'm hiring angular/javascript coders for the frontend. if anyone interested shoot me a /m \
danielpbarron: https://medium.com/bitcoin-think/the-bitcoin-gauntlet-e9e721297aca << starts off with a link and quote from trilema
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron bingoboingo an' any other b-a single gentlemen - if you want to try this out ima give you a bitcent to tip the chciks and then you can pester naphex with how broken it is. dump addies.
Naphex: mircea_popescu: a lot more to clean up and annoying js bugs around but yeha went fine:D
fluffypony: I have a love/hate relationship with Angular
mircea_popescu fires up a normal browser
mircea_popescu: a few years
mircea_popescu: menahem what you don't likely know is that i lived a decade and change of my life previously also with people tastiung my food etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: believe or not, i once read a (ru) ph.d. dissertation on this subject.
mircea_popescu: and i intend to withdraw long before advanced age makes the crown too heavy to carry. i have a fucking life to live outside of public service.
mircea_popescu: something photographed with a potato ?
asciilifeform: http://i.imgur.com/TLvwKz1.png << mysterious object i saw in a movie. wonder if mircea_popescu can identify.
mircea_popescu: i'd like a brother like that.
asciilifeform: ^ this is a known problem in this part of the world. once there was even a colony infesting side mirror of my brother's car. it was actually nifty, he could pull the mirror adjustment joystick and release swarm at passing cyclists
asciilifeform: templeos isn't a unix
mircea_popescu: you know templeos is only a step in that direction, i'd like to see unix skinned by valley girls, upper east side hipsters, mexicans, etc.
mircea_popescu: so then does it have a knob
kakobrekla: would moving the file to ramdisk make a diff?
asciilifeform will have to stitch a new bag
asciilifeform: 'ten pounds of shit in a two-pound bag' (tm) (r)
asciilifeform: phuctor is really a severe abuse of 'sqlite'
mircea_popescu: just set the db to ram, it has a switch
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: it's on a box mircea_popescu supplied, subcontracted from some orc
kakobrekla: > folks keep trying to offer me mining gigs in exotic places < lol, yeah i also can get a job as a diaper changer in a local nursery
assbot: Logged on 06-06-2015 18:55:43; ascii_modem: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-06-2015#1156199 << -if- you know how. otherwise it's a waste of precious and entirely nonrenewable resource (model m)
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-06-2015#1156223 < you can have that done by a 'pro' for a few bucks btw. totally worth it if your time has any value. ☝︎
Vexual: i dont remeber a shanxigirl in nanjing
punkman: Eulora would work nice as a MUD ☟︎
Vexual: theres a jap demo for that
punkman: well everyone would want to use a headset looking under women's skirts
Vexual: i heard about screenshots, but now that the logs are a 4 drink minimum, i missed em
Vexual: its a 3rd person 3d thing huh?
Vexual: yes yes, a different affair from 12 months ago where i attempted to build
Vexual: trollish fuckers would surely time a bound to land on one or your lions heads mario style
asciilifeform: i had it as a parallel port widget for a while.
decimation: heh. I wonder if that's a serial output
decimation: still you could use his mod as a starting point
asciilifeform: decimation: i don't want a usb controller...
asciilifeform: decimation: but not a modernized controller for it
decimation: asciilifeform: you ever heard of a 'model f'
asciilifeform: ^ apparently 'ibm model m' was itself a cheapening of a previous ancestral tech
cazalla: with no guns, having to spear or tackle a roo could get you killed, fucking things kick
mod6 straps on a napkin and eats a sack of dead crows
mod6: i had a problem with my disk paritions
decimation: cazalla: yeah I guess my point is that they could start a new city there
decimation: in the us the effect is worsened by the fact that near most major us cities you need to have dual incomes to 'earn' a spot in a decent school
cazalla: decimation, yeah most people are slaves.. 30 years ago it was possible for the average sole income working father, stay at home mum to buy a 1/4 acre block in the suburbs and raise 2-3 kids
decimation: wouldn't such a couple then be poor if they took such a 'deal'?
decimation: at least, not a good interest rate
decimation: you can't get a loan unless you have %20 and good credit
cazalla: nah you don't need 200k salary, you can borrow a million on like 50k
cazalla: decimation, at least the shit homes are somewhat cheaper there.. here you pay a cool million for place with no front/back yard made of straw
danielpbarron: for example, when clicking a stack of items > 1, it should just pick up the whole thing by default
danielpbarron: i haven't played a game that's like this in a long while