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BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> http://qntra.net/2015/03/bitcoin-foundation-reaches-release/ << might be worth calling out why a static build is noteworthy << Vessenes foundation seemed to have been doing static builds for the binaries they distribute... Needs more informed finger too elaboarate why this is different...
ben_vulpes: (only efficient use of a jetpack is to go up as high as possible and then glide sidways as far as possible.)
ben_vulpes: quadrotor not even having a glide rate so to speak, and suffering from the jetpack problem.
mircea_popescu: i know there exists a us corp by that name. it originalyl did books, then junk, now hosting.
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: also probably i have to write an opinion piece as to what the fuck a reference implementation is for
ben_vulpes: http://qntra.net/2015/03/bitcoin-foundation-reaches-release/ << might be worth calling out why a static build is noteworthy
ben_vulpes: the good veggies, provided you step outside of the corporate-blessed brand sanctuary and actually go to a "farmers market" or the "first permanent tent structure within city limits" are -- surprise -- cheaper than the lettuces shipped up from cali.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> timisoara. it thinks itself a major romanian town, but it's more like... well... portland, basically. << dude the capital of the occupied coastal territories is remarkable only for being isolated from the retardation of both california and seattle
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> assbot: Young Adults Are Losing All Hope of Buying a Starter Home - check it out, being a twentysomething usian kid is a worse fate than being a 20something chinese kid. << tell me about
asciilifeform: ke a distinction between their observations and their conclusions, such that they are unable to change their conclusions about what they observed. They walk around like they had CD-Rs for brains.'
asciilifeform: 'Much could be said about this affliction of the mind that causes people to assume that what they do not understand does not matter, that they have reached such a level of omniscience that they no longer need to observe and listen and learn. Having learned enough, some people evidently stop learning altogether. What they learned first is the standard for everything that comes later. That the probably only _truly_ random ele
mircea_popescu: that could well be just a defense mechanism.
mircea_popescu: it bothers most thinking people, on a very fundamental and not necessarily conscious level, to interact with anyone exhibiting this particular idiocy.
mircea_popescu: it's a) exactly my experience and b) the fundamental reason the cattle is despised, actually.
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.
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: brendafdez: what is a trunk room ?
mircea_popescu: well, it's a historical accident. on one hand, "this wine is pretty good, could we add shit to it ? maybe make it thicker ?"
mircea_popescu: you can't have a basement in the swamp. or good cheese, for that matter.
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...
mircea_popescu: i had a friend with a cask of port.
asciilifeform: you will run into folks, for instance, who will whisper to you that they would have pistol range in their house if they could (a mighty fine idea, if you take care to separate the air flow)
mircea_popescu: brendafdez depends on what lifestyle. place to throw a party. place to store a lot of books. place to practice some indoor hobby - from kendo to rockstaring.
mircea_popescu: timisoara. it thinks itself a major romanian town, but it's more like... well... portland, basically.
mircea_popescu: the girlies that lived alone in town generally got 500 sqm apts running 300ish a month.
asciilifeform: 7k/y buys... a parking space. here
mircea_popescu: it came with my $7k a year two level + garden house in ro.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Working on a piece
mircea_popescu: "For the first time in New York City, a multi-unit building will (legally) consist entirely of what the city has dubbed "micro units," which are apartments of between 250 and 370 square feet." << this is almost exactly it!
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
asciilifeform: phun phact (also noted by al) - fella who holds the 'stop' sign all day makes 2x what a typical postdoc makes.
asciilifeform: state law (in more than a few states) is that, as al schwartz writes here, fines double (or in 'school zone', quadruple, etc)
mircea_popescu: dude, shakespeare had only part of it. not only is the world a stage, but the same old play is going on endlessly.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between "laughing is evil" (as aptly depicted by eco) and "we are wrong"
mircea_popescu: 'The authors of a new report from the Boston Foundation, a philanthropic organization that funds local nonprofits, prefer the phrase "millennial villages," dorm-like developments that maximize space by combining smaller living spaces with lots of common areas.
asciilifeform: in that a stable of parasites is still drawing fat salaries there, as if nothing whatsoever had happened
mircea_popescu: assbot: Young Adults Are Losing All Hope of Buying a Starter Home - check it out, being a twentysomething usian kid is a worse fate than being a 20something chinese kid.
asciilifeform: speaking of that article, notice that even stratfor is still a going concern
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo btw is qntra making a "first static bitcoin" post ?
mircea_popescu: which is why, in typical usian fashion, they're claiming currently that "austerity is not a way out" in the general.
mircea_popescu: it can't stop. this is a foregone conclusion, the us has no austerity way out
asciilifeform: and have enough 'immune system' remaining to avoid digestion by 'isis', pirates, or #b-a thus far
asciilifeform: both are 'going concerns' in the sense that they keep a great many folks out of the organ market
mircea_popescu: seems a very accentuated case of memory hole effect.
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: strange that anyone would even for a single second propose the usg even exists as a going concern,
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.
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2015 04:14:00; asciilifeform: it was a mindfuck. went to see this one place, it had... 8 bois/gurlz
asciilifeform: 'Here's why millennial villages might be a good idea. Boston doesn't have enough small apartments to satisfy demand from young adults and their boomer-parents. Millennials in particular have responded to the small-unit shortage by doubling and tripling up in housing originally built for middle-income families. That trend has helped drive up the average sales price of a single unit in one of Boston's distinctive triple-decker h
asciilifeform: that's my old flat minus a room.
asciilifeform: 370 is not a 'coffin hotel' by any measure
decimation: http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2013/01/7284318/bloomberg-unveils-those-tiny-tiny-manhattan-apartments < related "For the first time in New York City, a multi-unit building will (legally) consist entirely of what the city has dubbed "micro units," which are apartments of between 250 and 370 square feet."
decimation: asciilifeform: perhaps the dorms can be designed like a soviet apartment block
asciilifeform: '... In that light, building smaller units for cash-strapped millennials who need to live in a tight housing market sounds like a sensible solution—helping young people find more affordable housing and preserving larger units for the families that need them. Still, as the single-family starter home becomes less viable, do initiatives like this doom millennials to spending their twenties living in dorms?'
asciilifeform: usic practice, or launching a technology startup. For young tenants really interested in cutting costs, some could be built with shared kitchens.'
asciilifeform: 'The authors of a new report from the Boston Foundation, a philanthropic organization that funds local nonprofits, prefer the phrase "millennial villages," dorm-like developments that maximize space by combining smaller living spaces with lots of common areas. Specifically, the report suggests building 10,000 units that make up for cramped living quarters by including shared lounges, health clubs, and shared areas for study, m
assbot: Young Adults Are Losing All Hope of Buying a Starter Home - Bloomberg Business ... ( http://bit.ly/1MM0P72 )
decimation: asciilifeform: the $maxint bubble is growing even larger > http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-18/young-adults-are-losing-all-hope-of-buying-a-starter-home > "The student loan debt burden rose 8 percent, to $1.16 trillion, last year. Most of that debt—65 percent—was owed by borrowers under 40 years old. "
asciilifeform: what's a $300 book compared to the $100k tuition.
asciilifeform: this was, as i understand, a reaction to folks scanning bookz
asciilifeform: where a used copy of the book literally doesn't let you pass the class because its homework account code (yes) is already spent.
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
asciilifeform: the basic 'zoological' observation here is that there is no such thing as a chumpatron of this size which stays 'single-layered' indefinitely. at a certain point, smaller fleas show up to go on the backs of the fleas, and so ad infinitum
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.
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2014 01:51:50; asciilifeform: 'One of various ways of organizing work that economists have identified, a tournament market "offers participants the chance of winning a big prize--an independent research career, tenure, a named chair, scientific renown, awards--through competition," writes Richard Freeman and co-authors. Tournament markets amplify "small differences in productivity into large differences in recognition and reward,"
assbot: 8 results for 'tournament market' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=tournament+market
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
BingoBoingo: decimation: It is more the University admins who budget for this hoping they might have someone on the faculty to wins their lottery ticket for them. It is essentially exactly a lottery mentality.
decimation: BingoBoingo: the libraries are in on it insofar as they are a funnel of cash to the journal houses
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: and to the extent it isn't a problem, it is solely because academia is mostly dead as a going concern
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: certainly a problem if one wishes to 'compete' for bezzlars
decimation: well, no problem for a hobbyist
asciilifeform: but even if it were true - still a joke. picture, full year's embargo.
asciilifeform: which is a mega-laugh
asciilifeform: decimation: it's threatened to happen for more than a decade, yes
mod6: have a good night ben_vulpes, thanks again. :]
ben_vulpes: have a good night, you all.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: mod6 lives too far away from civilization to make keeping a harem practical :P
ben_vulpes: this is a pretty good set to get started with - mostly snips.
ben_vulpes: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/patches.html << please take a look at this list, and the patches we've rolled out with the 0.5.3.1 RI build. if you've time, inclination, and capability - review the patches and submit your sigs.
ben_vulpes: i've a whole lifetime to decruft my emacs mail situation.
asciilifeform: decimation: subbed a dead short for your capacitor << not a dead short, an inductor-capacitor chimera. perfectly legit item, just not what was specced.
ben_vulpes: i'll take a few
BingoBoingo: Quite a bit prolly
ben_vulpes: bitcoin parity with various things is now a sexy bet.
mircea_popescu: actually clown car is probably the worst description. for one thing, b-a's not funny.
decimation: so he basically subbed a dead short for your capacitor
ben_vulpes: (perhaps a link to the email list page for the email in which a given patch/signature was transmitted would be even better)
brendafdez: I read the trilema posts, that's a start
gribble: Error: "Market" is not a valid command.
gribble: Error: "marker" is not a valid command.
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.