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mircea_popescu: i guess this qualifies in the same line. but at least it was fucking customs, not the airline.
mircea_popescu: a decade or w/e ago i last visited the us, they wanted to know if i have any real clothes.
mircea_popescu: such nuts. "wtf dude it's not your business how much money i got"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i can see that point yeah.
mircea_popescu: this is in no sense what i said, however.
mircea_popescu: i don't think it ever reached the level. i mean it's been trying, ever since the 80s winter games etc. but...
nubbins`: mircea_popescu i'll blithely respond by gesturing to all the people in my life who came here by chance and never left again 8)
mircea_popescu: uni being cool don't enter into it. florida and arizona party schools are very cool, i would visit, i would not ever stay lmao
pete_dushenski: i'd argue that uni is currently very 'cool'
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2015 13:24:00; jurov: now i am interested at the exact tradeoff factor "X% faster" vs. "crashes in 1 of Y cases" under which our civilization operates
mircea_popescu: naked woman just bent to pick up my garbage. i forget, what were we saying ?
mircea_popescu: no but i mean, do you qualify for free degree irrespective of any exam, grades, etc ?
nubbins`: why, indeed, would i want a bunch of fresh grads kicking around
punkman: nubbins`: i mean like countries where post-secondary is free, for everyone << Greece is one
mircea_popescu: nah, that i can see paying for. what i can't see ever paying for is "social studies", "womens studies" etc.
nubbins`: i.e. your ph.d. in medieval folklore would definitely not be free
nubbins`: i feel like an educated populace isn't a terrible idea, as long as it's educated in things that aren't fucking out to lunch
nubbins`: i mean like countries where post-secondary is free, for everyone
mircea_popescu: nubbins` generally you don't have to pay if you're very very good. at least the ones i'm familiar with.
pete_dushenski: ^ the one i was thinking of
pete_dushenski: i seem to recall there being a trilema on spam filtering
pete_dushenski: "Erik is a famous individual of the Bitcoin community online forum (screen title- evoorhees), as well as presently benefits Coinapult, derived in Panama." << lulziest spam comment i ever did see
pete_dushenski: i just noticed that each article in the feed was set to show "full text"
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell peterl who do i have to blow to get contravex and scoopbot talking to each other ?
nubbins`: the other day i watched a docu about a florida election worker who was lynched
mircea_popescu: i think he was a chad once too
nubbins`: actually what i've been humming since that "braaaaaaaih" earlier
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i may be like, the first owner in human slavery history to actually discourage drug use by teh chattel.
nubbins`: i recall seeing one of the flicks at some god-awful "grand ole" type place in the southern usa
mircea_popescu: see ? it was all captn sanders. i keep sayin' it...
mircea_popescu: new pick=up line. "i'm a pedant. wanna wear my pendant ?"
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: I'm discounting functional retards from that set
nubbins`: i'm talking humans with penises
mircea_popescu: i guess so huh.
mircea_popescu: i guess it'll soon surpass it.
nubbins`: but seriously though, i don't think we should have merged the foundation tax thing into the code
nubbins`: i mean uh
asciilifeform: incidentally, i suggested this not long after first coming to #b-a.
jurov: i'm going afk, pm me
BingoBoingo: https://i.imgur.com/4ZA1hua.jpg?1
PeterL: or, where in the code might I learn how downloading the blockchain logic works?
BingoBoingo: cazalla: I'm telling you that is the appcoin scam that will undoo coinfire
jurov: now i am interested at the exact tradeoff factor "X% faster" vs. "crashes in 1 of Y cases" under which our civilization operates ☟︎
jurov: heh... i remembered feeble attempts by uni prof "but really, don't call it sorting but ordering"
cazalla: i'm sure i've read someone already put kiddy porn in it
cazalla: i'm taking a sabbatical from drinking in any case
cazalla: wish i had the sense to do that the other night lol
mircea_popescu: i had teflon wire at some point
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: So most teflon I ever saw in my life... was pulling shifts at Mcdonalds...
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (so long as it isn't messily done on the premises, i suppose) << If was taking torch to pren]mises would have lance of great concrete cutting
asciilifeform: (so long as it isn't messily done on the premises, i suppose)
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (where i live, a traditional 19 inch by 40 'u' rack starts at a few $k / mo.) << I'm contemplating $200/month for offering welded shut case
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Still Maybe 3 mosins max in "collapse" an I have "longline" tower.
asciilifeform: (where i live, a traditional 19 inch by 40 'u' rack starts at a few $k / mo.)
mircea_popescu: "i didn't know they stacked shit that high"
mircea_popescu: anyway, a slim chance i end up with my own dc.
mircea_popescu: they claimed that it's not properly drawn up. meanwhile i discovered that the dc in question (worth ~1.7mn) is actually owned by the same holding company that owns ccbill, which is a "high risk" cc payment processor, which has a business relationship with fetlife.
asciilifeform: oser distance between two points than a rectangular or square pattern. That still doesn’t help you find a star efficiently once you find the sun and slew to the star. So it was determined that the best, quickest and most efficient search was a “prolate hypercycloid.” I think you’d call it a clover pattern. Actually it is very special search, and with that shape has the highest percentage of quick find of a star of any
asciilifeform: 'Part of the mathematics of the Kollsman was a search program built into the VERDAN to help the Kollsman find a star, lock on to it, then find a second star and third, to use for triangulation. If I remember correctly, we tracked stars like Canopus, Sirius, and Procyon. I don’t remember for sure. But I do remember that there had to be a most efficient way to find a star. If you knew the time of the day (the G&N could give yo
asciilifeform: interestingly, even though ianal, i do so enjoy a good hardcopy iso standard (that describes something useful, naturally)
asciilifeform: i recall the original trololol
BingoBoingo: Why am I still alive??? Sheet 26 of 63 is the single lulziest thing I have ever
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I like the exact right use of a radiator there
asciilifeform: https://illuminutti.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/us20050027316-resurrection-burial-tomb.pdf << the patent i was actually looking for
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i know several folks who work or have worked at uspto. they will swear that the only -individuals- still seeking patents are certifiable lunatics << I recently considered taking community college classes just to cross the patent examiner threshold
asciilifeform: i know several folks who work or have worked at uspto. they will swear that the only -individuals- still seeking patents are certifiable lunatics
ben_vulpes: life is educational if you keep your eyes open, what can i say.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: lol i do now.
mats: guess i needa catch up huh
ben_vulpes: granted, hardware in the wild that did the same thing cost ~1000x what i built, didn't work nearly as well.
ben_vulpes: "but i don't really know that--" "fill out these papers, kid. we'll send you a check and something for your home office wall."
ben_vulpes: because i asked them to put an nda together for a vendor i wanted to communicate some things to
ben_vulpes: legal caught wind of what i was doing
ben_vulpes: actually now that i think of it the bulk of my career has been blessed by sages of various stripes who didn't particularly mind my derping around, or at least found me entertaining enough to tolerate.
ben_vulpes: i learned much from the sage japanese ee in that shop.
decimation: ben_vulpes: I was reacting to your statement about third parties looking to 'create value'
ben_vulpes: decimation: oh yes? this i'm not quite familiar with.
ben_vulpes: i saw a company offering to "create research equity" for other companies.
BingoBoingo: I'm just glad I didn't do law school
BingoBoingo: Block 326760, Fri Oct 24 05:32:44 2014 was OOM kill as I slept last night of indeterminant length
decimation: mats: I think they get free housing overseas
BingoBoingo: The thing is if you have a brain and can't get a perfect score on the GRE math portion with a BAC under 0.5 I dunno why you'd try college
mats: BingoBoingo: i thought that's for grad school?
thestringpuller: i blame girls gone wild for that
mats: i get off on it too buttie
thestringpuller: mats: actually asians were a majority at the school I went to.
mats: i poured >500 hours into sat prep only to get trounced by suffering minorities
mats: i got a 2k+ SAT score, took 10 odd APs and honors classes
mats: i can develop a wicked tan
mats: or do i have to be hispanic or black
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> the guy who wrote templeos is living on that racket << terry davis. and schizophrenia is still one of the more reliable ways a white man can get usg payola. though it's still an 'achievement', on part with getting a $1M research grant on your lonesome << Who knows, if it wasn't for glorious tobacco maybe I'd be on that golden ticket
decimation: I'm sure you would need several signed and stamped notes from the 'mental health' chumpatron
mircea_popescu: last time i was in an access controlled building they had to provide an intern to run behind me holding my fucking card.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker, i don't even wear those idiotic card things.
mircea_popescu: ok this is the lulziest thing i read al lweek!
danielpbarron: i'm too lazy for all that work; it's easier to just do something useful in exchange for money
decimation: I think asciilifeform said that the guy who wrote templeos is living on that racket
mircea_popescu: i hope he steals it all.
mircea_popescu: well wtf do i care, some guy steals some back ? more power to him.
decimation: yes I agree