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asciilifeform: this is why i always say that victory is far, that 'we' are small and 'they' are - stupid, yes - but gigantic. the entire s.nsa ipo would not have bought a proper pick'n'placer, not even talking about real estate to house it in a place which i could economically get to, etc.
asciilifeform: see, if i were the kind of fella who has money, would not have been having any of the problem described in this tale. would have either seen the boards made within a week (actual business relationship with factory, sleep ad libitum and fly in to supervise in person with own eyes) or would have a legit conveyor with requisite machinery in-house, and same
mircea_popescu: no, i know. the problem with gedanken experiments is that they necessarily won't fit the reality
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i switched through a number of offered substitute parts, one of which may well have been this inductor-capacitor combo (erroneously offered as circuit-equivalent)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha! i wonder what the bug would have been
asciilifeform: i did notice weird side terminals on the caps, thought it was a manufacturing artifact.
kakobrekla: if you are going to write to @bitbet.us , i will be reading it
coinking: I'm not sure who is directly involved in this project so I'll just me sending an email
coinking: Social media management, that's what I was inquiring about
coinking: no I don't
coinking: how do I enter?
coinking: I have a lot of good contact within crypto and have current and past clients as references. It's about perspective, the leads I bring as crypto enthusiasts yet building your social pages is never a bad move. It just depends on how much you think it's worth. It think long term it is something important in a business and has a direct impact on the bu
kakobrekla: well here is the thing, i am not paying a flat fee to someone to derp around on btc-poor social sites to gather 'likes', 'digs', 'twits' and 'impressions' which do not bring in bettors. but if you actually can bring in people with btc, use affiliate program to collect your reward.
coinking: cool, I'll check it out
coinking: oh maybe I was looking at a different one
coinking: I found one that was pretty inactive
coinking: ok cool, sure. I wanted to inquire about Content Management for BitBet - and if there was a want for Social Media Marketing & Management
mircea_popescu: it is incidentally the model upon which i see the most serene republic coming to an agreement with the obsolete "states" : bitcoiners are outside of lay jurisdiction, and to be judged by bitcoin court.
asciilifeform: there was perhaps a few shredded flaps of still-chromosomally-passable tissue when i was a student there, a decade ago.
GlobalSolutions: Its ok, I can type
mircea_popescu: chetty i guess so does all your dust plus the cats, huh
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was thinking btw, faraday cage is essentially a passive radiator element. what if made active ?
asciilifeform: i looked into keyboards made of optical fibres, and found none in commercial circulation. looked if anyone has admitted to experimenting with such, and found no credible data - but, interestingly, folks have built mice on this principle, for use inside mri scanners.
mircea_popescu: i was simply thinking a 2nd kbd with a rng tied to it closing circuits.
funkenstein_: i'm sure She won't mind
mike_c: ben_vulpes: I do have complete history, and was the only paying customer of kako's socket when he turned it off.
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> because the hot peppers are like lsd + speed << haha yes! I tripped out from eating too much hot sauce once; home made ghost pepper salsa or something
thestringpuller: i'm much moar experienced with jazz and hip-hop music tho
Vexual: yes, i've seen clear nights hundred of kilometers from the nearest campfire
Vexual: i probably have and didnt know it
mircea_popescu: motherfucker. i am so sick and tired of this cloying tiresome pedestrian understanding of genetics.
thestringpuller: this is what I got from old story
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i have great idea for mpex listing. i pretend to own hash power, so i take investor money and pay new investors with it!
ben_vulpes: anyways, i'm off.
thestringpuller: i had to drink myself into a stupor
ben_vulpes: i'm going to think about it for days, come up with some interpretation, regurgitate it in public to many guffaws
ben_vulpes: well hey i hang out here.
ben_vulpes: if i understand you correctly, i find myself surrounded by 'me too monkeys'.
ben_vulpes: if i can do nothing on my own, i can learn from those who do understand strategy.
ben_vulpes: "fly your jet through here, i dare you." type of approach.
ben_vulpes: perhaps i misspeak when i say "superiority" rather than pointing at the value in denying others ownership of a space.
ben_vulpes: i'm thinking about floaty things that map out battlefields when floating unpricked around the battlefield.
ben_vulpes: ugh i can't unsee that pun
ben_vulpes: myriad applications i'll leave for eager students.
mircea_popescu: do not hate me because i'm an abstract thinker
ben_vulpes: fucking disgusting, i tell you.
mircea_popescu: to my great shame, those eyebrows are the only thing i recall of this girl.
ben_vulpes: stahp i'll wake the girl
ben_vulpes: so actually entertainingly, one of the decent sex parties happens in the warehouse where i used to house the boys.
mircea_popescu: no, i'd rather pester you :D
ben_vulpes: mk well i've got my intel applied to 'milongas that don't mind shitty enthusiastic gringos too much' and also 'milongas where i should just sit and watch' as backup so i'm not terrifically concerned.
ben_vulpes: look i'm making a reference to the plethora of local fauna.
ben_vulpes: on a previous branch, i'm far more interested in a) vino b) carne and c) tango than the local whatever whatever
mircea_popescu: i, see.
ben_vulpes: oh i'm bashing that
mircea_popescu: oh, swinger's club. the local thing i visited and cursed closed meanwhile.
ben_vulpes: anyways, no, thank you, i'll not impose that on the gentle asshats
ben_vulpes: i'd not presume to encroach on your area
mircea_popescu: if it makes you feel any better i was saying the same in teh us.
mircea_popescu: that i want to share ?
ben_vulpes: all i hear is "jesus fuck these people are retarded"
ben_vulpes: i've club sesso right down the street.
ben_vulpes: i am emailing my father right now to see if that model is still in his basement
ben_vulpes: i'm...aware.
ben_vulpes: i brought my own last time so didn't have cause to go seeking, and no time this time.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i was talking about the nodes they were using tro "spy on bitcoin" aka "repackage freely available information for the bezzle idiots"
ben_vulpes: <pete_dushenski> i'd never had a ball boy before and it. was. sweet. < heh.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell nubbins "if i had a vanilla linux box here, it'd likely be no sweat" << heard of a thing called "vagrant"? "virtualbox"?
ben_vulpes: <nubbins`> if i had a vanilla linux box here, it'd likely be no sweat << heard of a thing called "vagrant"? "virtualbox"?
ben_vulpes: <mod6> i have this idea in my mind that people know what stuff is i guess. << i keep falling for this one too.
mircea_popescu: i imagine it sucks.
BingoBoingo: Oh, I'm not talking the crops
decimation: I've heard that chicken farmers actually become somewhat immune to the extreme ammonia smell
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno, so they can claim the most valuable email address in bitcoin space as "a customer" ?
decimation: I'm sure they found a way to game the feds out of bezzlars in exchange for piles of fake weed
mircea_popescu: i am not a customer.
asciilifeform: to round out the keyboard thread, i am quite close to being convinced of the necessity of keyboard with optical fiber for mechanism
decimation: I have the 1000, it's a good unit
asciilifeform: decimation: what do you suppose i was using.
asciilifeform: i only have the equivalent of a 'copper toilet' here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i understnad how the matrix thing works.
decimation: asciilifeform: I understand, I'm talking about the connection between the microprocessor and the scan array
decimation: www.yccc.org/Articles/W1HIS/CommonModeChokesW1HIS2006Apr06.pdf < I recommend this
asciilifeform: i knew they are loud, did not know -how-
mircea_popescu: i think it's being done already.
danielpbarron: i'm reading the quoted radio text in that alex jones voice in my head
BingoBoingo: decimation: I thought it made contact about 24 hours ago, not quite finished with contact?
BingoBoingo: <decimation> BingoBoingo: I don't mind python, but realize it's just kind of a c with lisp ideas thrown in << I'm just looking to populate a toolbox.
decimation: BingoBoingo: I don't mind python, but realize it's just kind of a c with lisp ideas thrown in
BingoBoingo: decimation: On St. Patricks day? After mircea_popescu lost the Berkshire bet? I'm fine taking in the Aurorae as a faint green glow.
BingoBoingo drilling python some more realizing to do what I want prolly need to drill perl and C
decimation: ah, I see.
BingoBoingo: decimation: My one legit referendum petition I remember signing was when I was living in Missouri. It is Mardi Gras and I signed the legalize the marijuana petition because fuck west county
decimation: BingoBoingo: actually that reminds me of a funny quote on the econtalk podcast: "Reminds me of when I tried in 1976--I was in a shopping mall in North Carolina trying to get the Libertarian candidate, Roger McBride, on the ballot. One of my few forays into politics. I would accost passers by and ask them if they would like to see a third party and have another choice, and many of them would say: We have too many already."
BingoBoingo: I'll check again in a couple hours, bu we may have aurora building visible here
decimation: I haven't used it, but it ought to deliver a gentoo-like experience (uses the same repository afaik)
danielpbarron: i have pulseaudio though; why is that bad?
danielpbarron: 09:48 <+asciilifeform> summary: add '-systemd' to USE flags << ah yes i forgot i had done this
nubbins`: decimation i'm just outta range
nubbins`: and my last job, most of the place was mainframes running IBM i