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davout: i recall it being mentioned that this was only the "default" deposit address, too lazy to !s it ☟︎
ben_vulpes: and in the meantime, i'm going long this girl.
ben_vulpes: i'm going to focus on murder and mayhem for my shartup business plan
ben_vulpes: and you i i think
mircea_popescu: you know what i mean.
ben_vulpes: i'm kind of horrified at the notion that aws will outlive the usg.
ben_vulpes: anyways. point i'm trying to make is that the fuel cost for putting boxes in trucks and moving them around is vastly lower than fuel costs for putting boxes on quadrotors and derping them around town.
mircea_popescu: i know there exists a us corp by that name. it originalyl did books, then junk, now hosting.
ben_vulpes: i...apparently cannot argue this one effectively.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> but they don’t understand what the calculations are really telling them, like Searle’s chinese room but with numbers. << i tried to have a conversation about amazon's quadcopter delivery system, using an ergodic analysis
ben_vulpes: i knew when my pinky was stretching for enter that something was wrong
ben_vulpes: also probably i have to write an opinion piece as to what the fuck a reference implementation is for
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> and just about everyone i know has some version of this << my parabolic testing facility, f'r instance.
asciilifeform: ment in anyone's life is the order in which they experience things, seems not even to be underststandable -- they somehow believe that the order they run into them is universalizable and important, that first impressions really tell you everything you need to know about something. I have seen people who have the mental capacity only for the transition from "have not experienced" to "have experienced", and who are unable to ma
mircea_popescu: ilometers. No one would notice when answers were wildly wrong. [...] Since I began working in the business world I’ve noticed that most people never develop that skill. Stick a number in a sentence and people just mentally run right over it, you might as well have inserted some klingon phrases. Some of the better actuaries do have some nice numerical intuition, but a surprising number don’t. They can calculate,
mircea_popescu: The first time I taught undergraduates I was surprised to learn that most of the students had no ability to judge if their answers seemed plausible. [...] You could ask a question about a guy throwing a football, and answers would range from 1 meter/second all the way to 5000 meters/second. You could ask a question about how far someone can hit a baseball and answers would similarly range from a few meters to a few k
asciilifeform: re: square metrage: on a number of occasions i spoke with tourists and visitors of various kinds from 'orc' lands. who marvelled at hearing of 'american salary' etc. i patiently explained that it's rather like a shabbier version of where they came from with a zero or two welded on to both sides of the household balance sheet. like zimbabwe 'dollar'. normally folks grasp it and face lights up.
BingoBoingo: Etoh has blessed me with plenty of forward moving "time machine" jumps. Never given me the backwards jump to 2003 I'd make so much out of.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: schnapps << i once suggested a drink, 'the kapo' - one part schnapps to one part 'manischewitz'
BingoBoingo: I'm not a big fan of ticker booze. Higher Etoh content is great. Just thicker devolves into schnapps.
asciilifeform: i, for instance, tried to find a thing with a basement, here. but this was just beyond reach. instead i have a shipping-container-shaped 'garden shed'
brendafdez: yes, I bet when you have something you end up finding some use for it. My previous apartment had a trunk room, I used it to keep a lot of shit...
mod6: BingoBoingo: ah, I see. looks good.
mircea_popescu: i had a friend with a cask of port.
asciilifeform: and just about everyone i know has some version of this
asciilifeform: brendafdez: i have entire things that i cannot do, for instance, because, while can afford the equipment - cannot, the space.
asciilifeform: 500 m^2 is ~6 times the space where i live now.
mircea_popescu: i raised my own artichokes!
gabriel_laddel: I always wonder about the people who see this sort of thing everyday but never connect the dots, how do they internally deal with actual reality? I once flipped through the book Dangerous Thoughts by Yuri Orlov. He claimed that in the soviet collapse people would have multiple "selves". When they would break the law that would be their "off work" I, vs. the at work I who would report such a transgression to the poli
gabriel_laddel: <asciilifeform> we have these here in abundance << I saw one outside the Palo Alto four seasons just the other day... 20 guys just standing around more or less.
mircea_popescu: i'm curious if it's going to yield some sort of ragnarok-like "the world is doomed" (seems to jive with the "austerity won't work for us so it doesn't work period" self-seeking ignorance) or some sort of ultraviolent civil war of six sides, like in japan
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for all i care people are still paying to visit graceland.
nubbins`: oh right i was gonna fiddle with that
assbot: Logged on 19-03-2015 04:18:01; decimation: I can't believe any moral person would sign up for this kind of thing
mircea_popescu: when confronted with stuff such as, you know "quite a few 'civilians' don't believe me when i explain that the 'publishers' do not edit, or - in most cases - even typeset the submissions; and that not only do authors receive no royalties, but often -pay- page costs"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but even if it were true - still a joke. picture, full year's embargo. << i actually don't see much of a problem with this. most "science" is worthless anyway, i currently don't read it if it's less than a coupla decades old on general principle. a year's embargo wouldn't do anything.
asciilifeform: how they will be designed - is no mystery, there were already built here where i live
decimation: I can't believe any moral person would sign up for this kind of thing ☟︎
asciilifeform: this was, as i understand, a reaction to folks scanning bookz
asciilifeform: decimation: the latest scam i personally know of is the 'www homework membership'
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I've heard the latest scam for undergrads is to 'custom publish' a book for each class, which consists of portions of older texts with all of the sections and excercises renumbered
BingoBoingo: <decimation> BingoBoingo: yeah that makes sense, I always wonder why the administration seems 'friendly' to spending large piles of money on the publishing scamzors << As a class nearly all librarians dislike this because even when they publish anything is too niche to win. Spending on this stuff is also an extraordinary part of their budget.
decimation: BingoBoingo: yeah that makes sense, I always wonder why the administration seems 'friendly' to spending large piles of money on the publishing scamzors
asciilifeform: quite a few 'civilians' don't believe me when i explain that the 'publishers' do not edit, or - in most cases - even typeset the submissions; and that not only do authors receive no royalties, but often -pay- page costs
decimation: I'm a member of the communications society - you have to pay more to get access to their journal
decimation: I'm personally pissed that the IEEE (I pay for membership) only gives me a tiny, tiny slice of their papers
asciilifeform: the same folks who were paying the parasites (i will not call them publishers, they withhold only - performing not a single one of the traditional functions of a publishing house save the physical printing) - will continue to pay.
decimation: yeah, and even then I expect all of those words don't mean what you think they mean
decimation: I'm sure that some kind of loophole will protect the existing publishing empires
ben_vulpes: i *really* have no idea.
ben_vulpes: i think it comes of me supplying application/gpg manually for attachment content type
ben_vulpes: i'm sure mircea_popescu will take me to task for that but w/e
mod6: I think so too.
mod6: And anyone who I'm leaving out... thanks again.
ben_vulpes: nonsense i didn't do nuffin
ben_vulpes: i've a whole lifetime to decruft my emacs mail situation.
decimation: I like mod6's ascii-style
ben_vulpes: or...i would.
ben_vulpes: i'll take a few
decimation: I wonder how much manipulation is going on before some of those ETFs hit the pink sheets
gabriel_laddel: I'm (in an ad-hoc manner) catching up on logs.
decimation: "We are in contact with the University chapter of Kappa Sigma and they have taken swift and decisive action in this matter. At their request, the University has committed to provide educational training on diversity and respect for the entire fraternity." << asciilifeform: I could imagine this exact phrase being written in the soviet union
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wasn't aware anyone thinks ww2 was avoidable ?
ben_vulpes: as in: i'd like the sole entry under submitted by to link to the appropriate sig, as well as all of the entries under 'signed by' as well.
brendafdez: I read the trilema posts, that's a start
brendafdez: I'm missing out on bitbet, never cared much about it
TheNewDeal: I was wondering how long it would take the No side to take https://bitbet.us/bet/1129/light-sweet-crude-oil-wti-to-drop-under/#b8
danyalos: I thought spammers would not be allowded here.
danyalos: Do I know you, danielpbarron?
danyalos: So here I am.
danyalos: I am here because a close friend of mine told me that I should read #Bitcoin-assets often to learn a couple of things.
mircea_popescu: heh, believing that is how i end up dumb.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> danielpbarron well i certainly didn't go in as far as that << This is why we read. You've got more important stuff to read most of the time.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron well i certainly didn't go in as far as that
danielpbarron: you use. you are not being nice. i do not understand what you expect
danielpbarron: "i'm somewhat unhappy to hear you say what you are saying, or the tone
danielpbarron: "Charles, i feel your answer to be a rather virtiolic flame."
fluffypony: clearly I'm practicing for the upcoming conference circuit :-P
fluffypony: I was just rambling
fluffypony: I have no idea who she is
mircea_popescu: lol o wait, singer-songwriter/actress/newswoman/political activist. i see.
fluffypony: what can I say, I'm a juddist
fluffypony: I think we're all ashley judd in our own special way
mircea_popescu: i guess they didn;t teach perl.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: where i went it was the 'credit-hour'
assbot: WTF, Evolution?! • "I think I’m kind of over heads." "You’re ‘over’... ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lw3bKa )
mircea_popescu: http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/post/100079923190/i-think-im-kind-of-over-heads-youre-over << great lol
ben_vulpes: i'm the idiot today
mats: ben_vulpes: i was responding to mircea_popescu there
ben_vulpes: i must not be reading anything closely enough today.
mats: i thought the same thing
ben_vulpes: i was thinking of the money sitting in NY, intended for bondholders.
ben_vulpes: clearly i don't understand the term of art.
asciilifeform: mike_c: the other half of that thread was that i had serious doubts re: whether the service offered by mf inc. was actually economically possible as described, and ergo i might be a chump
mike_c: i'm not interested in blaming anyone. but if these guys can speed up the schedule, let's keep them working.
asciilifeform: mike_c: understand, i cannot blame this particular vendor for the overall pace of the work - only self. (in particular, i am not clever enough to escape from having a fairly intense day job)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was thinking of doing this.
mike_c: i didn't actually think I knew all the details. so schedule for getting it by c3 is blown?
asciilifeform: mike_c: but i'm still empty-handed for C-III
mircea_popescu: i know a little girl who is a princess.