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mircea_popescu: a reasonable engineering approach
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> (or rather, upper bound thereof) << your house doesn't collapse the moment a tile hanger in the bathroom falls off, but still,
Vexual: is it a scoop?
Vexual: youll need a secretarty that sounds like shes ovulating, and a jeb bush voice
Vexual: why not call the sherrif, stephen colbert wallpaer is either a derranged fag or a troll
Vexual: sounds like some good investigative journalism, when did they get the money to afford such a bid tho?
Vexual: well considering shafts and orbits, cruising in a sub is possibly the best of both worlds if money isn't an option
BingoBoingo: If you have a chance to resolve your deficit swiftly versus waiting for a problem to happen, doing the former offers leverage while doing the latter lets fucking New England win the superbowl.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Most of Iowa is set upon a radio material goldmine, atm it is ust more economical to get food from the topsoil
asciilifeform: sell the Pu, buy a cuba.
asciilifeform: a large rtg is about 1kW.
asciilifeform: the concept of clandestine 'farm' with electric lights is a sufficiently familiar one that folks ought to be able to take a napkin calculation and say
asciilifeform: except in the 'fuck you i'm a dragon' (tm) sense, i suppose
asciilifeform: i get that it's a price signal
mircea_popescu: substantially the same thing wil lcost substyantially the same in a free market. and this is one.
BingoBoingo: Vexual: A river is near. One navigable by small craft... Maybe...
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the funny thing is, that the cost of a reasonable death bunker is nearly equal to the cost of escape. << if you think about it, this is necessarily so.
Vexual: arent u on a river?
Vexual: ive got a nice new inkjet
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> the funny thing is, that the cost of a reasonable death bunker is nearly equal to the cost of escape. << Yeah, seems at least as much as cost of escape.
asciilifeform: the funny thing is, that the cost of a reasonable death bunker is nearly equal to the cost of escape.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there's ordinary chumpatronics, where someone at least showed a bit of effort, and there's utter rubbish that falls apart after thinking about it for ten seconds if you've half a clue
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron and actually, since im in a great mood : you get 100 bucks worth of bitcoin bet on any bitbet of your choice, lemme know what you want. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: hey, tell her i'm a fan, see if she'll do http://trilema.com/2014/ill-pay-for-your-tits/
assbot: 32 results for 'stoya' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=stoya
BingoBoingo: Although in that example with their allocation of floor space I like how they in a historically justified manner unspokenly conceed the "dental Room" to all manner of surgery
asciilifeform: caveat is that the ancient truce whereby usg would not openly fuck with a church - no longer really holds
BingoBoingo: In USia there is a golden middle of Churches, generally for resource use you want an installation which is part of a larger mainline organization which happens to be helmed by a person favorable to yourself.
asciilifeform: i was briefly a member of a kind of electronics club that met in a huge old church
asciilifeform: incidentally, if you want a mailing address inside an actual, historically-mapped church - it is trivial to arrange.
BingoBoingo: Sure any idiot can print a card, but special is the third pary that will keep a record of having issued such a card and affording it officialdom.
asciilifeform: any idiot can print a card.
asciilifeform: where, exactly, does one get in by virtue of having such a thing, that you would wish to go ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's issued by a (actual) church publication. What n00b would deny it?
assbot: Do I know anyone who knows a bitcoin expert?
asciilifeform: point re: herr torvalds was, that a healthy culture doesn't consist of a corral of helpless pets and one wizard waving iron staff standing on a bridge doing the 'thou shall not pass' thing
mircea_popescu: lol get a hat.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: You want a press credential, yes?
mircea_popescu: single point of failure of a meanwhile obsolete position, but hey. enemy loves to pat himself on the back over having "Conquered" the strongpoints of yesteryear, meanwhile abandoned.
BingoBoingo: Maybe Linus's ace in the whole just might be counting "STFU" as a resolution, but my hope for that is dim
BingoBoingo: Well, since the 1800's Krupp has done a lot to improve steel strengths and specializations...
mircea_popescu: well it's a problem.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: As did Doc Holliday and other Western gunfighters who lived more than a few weeks into their careers
mircea_popescu: nasty thing, too. could definitely cut down a small amr.y
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2015#1048052 << i knew a chick who kept arbalest. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: was a great fun time.
asciilifeform: '2015-03-10 20:02:29One or More Panels Have Entered Into a Pick And Place Machine'
asciilifeform: we still need a goxoinbase ehem.
mircea_popescu: welcome to late 2012 early 2013, i imagine a btc/usd run-up is coming ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. so teh usg-vc-turdatron is "building prediction markets" and usgavin is "building consensus" among the "core developers" of a meanwhile obsoleted branch of bitcoin core.
mircea_popescu: a buncha morons were all over "neo bee revolution" last spring.
mircea_popescu: a buncha morons actually believe the song and dance about "ethereum investment"
mircea_popescu: a buncha morons are running ripple, what's your point ?
asciilifeform: but they did replace it (with the headers-only crap) and even a buncha morons are running the thing
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2015 18:05:42; thestringpuller: "I’m actually, right now, working on just getting consensus among the five, what I call, core developers — the five developers who have push access to the git code. I think I’m getting close to convincing them that we have a plan that will work. I’m probably going to have to write some more code . . . I think we have a year to eighteen months. I would love the next release of bitcoin — the
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but formally, as far as writing is concerned, as far as the art of blogging is concerned, it's a good piece.
mircea_popescu: jurov kukuruku is a great name. used to be this shitty wafer when i was a kid, most ridiculous advertisements.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2015 14:59:37; asciilifeform: http://www.railslove.com/stories/my-way-into-clojure-building-a-card-game-with-om-part-1#Other_Misgivings << mega-l0l (from server logs)
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2015#1047818 << actually this is a remarkably good piece on the textual merits. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 05:49:56; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if you were planning to kill someone, would you helpfully tell him first ? << that's not the point. in a normal society, the threat is a fundamental tool to hierarchy building.
cazalla: for any baldur's gate lovers.. pillars of eternity out in a few weeks, looks interesting http://youtu.be/roK1wzOLT-k?t=15m16s
BingoBoingo: But a better throw baseball isn't always a faster baseball.
asciilifeform: (think about micrometeorites, etc. and occasionally there is a cosmic ray travelling with the energy of a well-thrown baseball.)
asciilifeform: one could literally pierce a tank with a compressed turd
asciilifeform: it is interesting to remember that, at a certain velocity, it no longer really matters what a bullet is made of
jurov: get a pipe, seal one one side but connect it to electrolyzer, jam bullet into other side,
BingoBoingo: These still require something of a piston system though?
BingoBoingo: tooling in the big challenge it seems. requires a finer grit than bastard file offers
asciilifeform: but there is no particular reason why the principle cannot be applied to a man-portable small arm
asciilifeform: at any rate this is a golden toilet
asciilifeform: 'light gas gun' is its own animal, where a gas where speed of sound is faster than in air is used as a 'piston'
BingoBoingo: At one point in Civ II I edited the files to add the yellow truck as a unit type
BingoBoingo: Ah, you mean like that time Uhaul rented a truck from their yellow competitor to sully that brand
asciilifeform: eventually a 'multicopter' (perhaps usg provocateur-piloted) will be used in some loud, public vandalism (graffiti of $landmark or wtf) and it'll be 'reichstag fire'
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Of course, but maybe it might make sense USG-ified on a boat
asciilifeform: what will almost certainly be usg-banned quite soon - and banned the way chemistry as a class was, rather than as specific types of small arm were - is flying machines
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: good physical reasons why you would not want to be standing even behind such a thing, much less holding it, when fired
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure, but if sufficiently crazy/monied/intelligent crackpot produces solid state laser pistol with more than anti vehicle firings per charge that isn't too portable they would likely consider it a purchase
asciilifeform: trinque: it isn't like one could cut through a phalanx of usg stormtroopers and stay legally in the clear simply because the machine is not banned per se
trinque: BingoBoingo: eh probably just hasn't been a problem yet
BingoBoingo: At the moment I imagine there is no explict ban because USG wants to see what Boeing might buy for them off of a sufficiently advanced crackpot while it is still safe to assume such things are minimally portable.
asciilifeform: trinque: i have a 'class 4' laser right in this room
asciilifeform: still not sure how anything the size of a 1990s laptop can be called a 'pistol' with a straight face
asciilifeform: and this apparently is a great irritant to many marksmanship types who would much like electrical striker for a few percent decrease in mechanical jitter
asciilifeform: on account of being a software patch away from full auto
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Still a lot of blame for this goes to the fuckers who made AR-style pistols. Some feasibe civilian arms in the US are simply not made due to the legal/regulatory cascade which would follow. (ex. 'smart' guns)
asciilifeform: only retracted when found a new use for the armed thugs
cazalla: danielpbarron, it could be the beard, i'd wager there is a higher ratio of men with beards than not in #b-a and higher ratio of men with bikini wax at /r/bitcoin
asciilifeform: that'd be like a lion un-eating a gazelle
BingoBoingo: That's a good one
BingoBoingo: lol, looks like in the case of bullets vs. ATF bullets have recieved a reprieve http://www.atf.gov/press/releases/2015-03-021015-advisory-notice-those-commenting-armor-piercing-ammunition-exemption-framework.html
ascii_field: in fact (not big secret!) professional 0day-diggers regard microshit's patches as a golden source of goodies
ascii_field: but did you really expect microshit to patch without opening a new orifice? because that'd be a first.
davout: go marry a french legionnaire
davout: or just come, hang around naked on a beach, pretend you're amnesiac
davout: (and technically you could also marry a french dude!)
davout: thestringpuller: why do you want a communist nation's passport anyway?
davout: thestringpuller: marry a french chick i guess
thestringpuller: davout: how do I get a French passport?
mircea_popescu: davout it can't hurt but i'm about to hop in a car. will make a deed when im back later