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mike_c: in
a lot of public companies the market cap is related to what you could acquire the whole company for.
danielpbarron: i thought it seemed high too, but i'm not in
a rush to sell my 204 shares, so...
mike_c: all you can buy is
a few shares. at an inflated price.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suspek jurov is perhaps in the best position to write you
a short of some kind.
mircea_popescu: it's
a nonsense statement, "mkt cap is fine, stock price too high"
mircea_popescu: anyway jurov may be able to write you
a contract, seeing how he probably has
a large chunk
mike_c:
a lot can change in
a year. but i don't think there are enough shares in existence to make it worth it anyway. i mean, what, bingo maybe has 50k shares?
mike_c: maybe
a bitbet would be interesting.
mike_c: but i was more thinking i should borrow shares from
a founder and short it.
thestringpuller: funny what
a little demand will do to the price of something
mike_c: i'm
a fan, but that stock price! idk.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> danielpbarron: in other news, i got netbsd ramdisk to build. << great work! & thanks for posting
a tarball.
adam_obrien: I have to run here, if any of you need Bitcoin give me
a ping adam@btcsolutions.ca
decimation: do you have
a relationship with those cavirtex guys?
mircea_popescu: didn't the atms recently get shut down or is that
a different country ?
danielpbarron: i can get it soldered, i just thought that unit might have been
a good fit for people without access to one
adam_obrien: I own bitcoin solutions (www.btcsolutions.ca) we operate some Bitcoin ATMs as well as
a margin trading platform
mike_c: i made it unlisted, but it will get the link from b-
a log..
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adam_obrien: Glad everything is set up and verified! I had
a whale of
a time doing so
adam_obrien: Thats right.
A friend of mine will up me later.
danielpbarron: ordering
a few of these things now; i needed to get some other stuff anyway / added to order
danielpbarron: there was
a cheaper one, but this one has more reviews
danielpbarron: how can i repeat this? i'm stuck on your last tip about something in
a TOOLS directory
decimation find this to be
a good reason to buy
a pogo and play along
decimation: asciilifeform: so you are still using the u-boot copy-to-ramdisk method if you don't have
a driver for the eeprom?
mircea_popescu: sely because the longer he stays in any one place, the better chance he'll be discovered to be
a loser. Time to go where the grass is greener, somewhere people don't know you're there to crap on it.
mircea_popescu: The entire spirit of the book can be summarized by Dean's words: "Sal, think of it, we'll dig Denver together...!" That's what
a man who is trying to con
a woman into running off with him would say. Denver, really?? Really? Why? Because it starts with D? I'd at least momentarily entertain the theory that D cities are great places to get to, but the real reason he wants to get to Denver, or anywhere else, is preci
cazalla: seems
a bit suss he would say he is unsure what happened with the servers but is already moving forward to relaunch
mircea_popescu: this, fwiw, is patently false. even now is being advertised
a device which, iof placed on tank, will make the car not use fuel.
thestringpuller: We all know the reason : Disproving or confirming others finding won't get you very far in
a scientific career. One needs to have novel finding to get published in Nature , Cell or Science, which are powerful tickets for next round of NIH funding. Because research resources are scarce, no scientists can survive by examining others papers. Therefore, faking
a cute and novel discovery is effective to survive the academia with min
mircea_popescu: it holds the same logical strength as "the very reason why 'identity theft' is
a real problem for anybody is that women are whores"
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2015 03:02:19; *: asciilifeform once worked with
a nearly-penniless foreign postdoc whose departure from usa was hastened by some bureaucrat (who handled his papers) deciding to... buy
a house in his name
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suppose
a better framed debate would then be this exactly, as above. "is this engineering or is it just dumbery"
mircea_popescu: i can readily live with
a complete demonization of chromogambling. it would not do anything, in my head, to either engineering or genetics.
mircea_popescu: bons being synthetised. the plan kingdom is, historically, the largest producer of poisons on the planet and to
a large degree
a controller of animal population counts and animal species survival rates, which is why you even need
a liver in the first place - notice that your imune system doens't REALLY have an organ (thymus, w/e)." this is not "genetic engineering", this is chromogambling.
mircea_popescu: decimation: out, that we should think very carefully about eliminating or demonizing genetic engineering." << to
a large degree, the debate is sorely misstated. nobody is seriously discussing "genetic engineering". what's being discussed is, "let's make random combinations of genetic material we do not at all understand and see what happens. this will necessarily result in novel/ununderstood proteins and other hydrocar
mircea_popescu: no i don't. i used to, but then my mother threw
a shitfit once she realised why her aunt's entire chicken population was dizzy
mircea_popescu: decimation: he's getting kinda old and tired frankly << yeah we should have
a linus retierment betting pool
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: Frankly, handing off to
a reference counting system <<< "One day
a student came to Moon and said: I understand how to make
a better garbage collector. We must keep
a reference count of the pointers to each cons. Moon patiently told the student the following story: One day
a student came to Moon and said: I understand how to make
a better garbage collector..."
mircea_popescu: "You have no idea how much we can fuck with the US government if we wanted to," Love told
a hacking colleague in one exchange over Internet relay chat, prosecutors alleged. "This... stuff is really sensitive. It's basically every piece of information you'd need to do full identity theft on any employee or contractor" for the hacked agency.
mircea_popescu: "as
a matter of policy, we don't comment on rape cases" should be the new rape trial defense.
mircea_popescu: "As
a matter of policy, we generally do not comment on extradition-related matters."
mircea_popescu: grossed 30mn over
a 5mn budget. not exactly
a killer anyway.
thestringpuller: i guess the media portrayal of the sorority bwg places
a false imagination
mats: i've read
a few things here and there about 'the white man's asian fetish' and 'the hyper-femininity of the asian woman'
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: although it is the most common item on the menu, there is still some "allure" as
a minority "banging one out"
thestringpuller: most highly sexual girls I've met spoke portuguese as
a first language
mats: i've been on the search my whole life for
a proper descriptor
mats: although its
a reasonable segue into building other toys ... like shock gloves for bum fights
mircea_popescu: you can basically build
a taser out of
a battery and
a capacitor
mats: ever since, i've wanted to buy
a taser, but modern things have tags now
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this actually explains quite
a bit << why did you think the pentagon spends so much.
mats: as
a boy i found
a guide for modifying
a disposable camera into
a single-use taser
mircea_popescu: i explained
a little about the difference between imperative and notation, i think she got the gist.
mircea_popescu: you know, for
a cult this chan is one of the most diverse places in the world.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: what's
a young anti-consumerist to do ;/ << shit look at that, "mother earth news" is actually
a thing.
mircea_popescu: but this is
a quantitative discussion and he was making
a qualitative challenge
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: you know i took
a ninety per cent pay cut two years ago? << you actually made money at some point ?!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: now *that*s tears. << i met
a chick that quit her previous job, is learning to program in html nao.
ben_vulpes: i am tempted to make
a vm for this ruby project.
fluffypony: it becomes
a circlejerk when "preaching to the choir" devolves, and here we are
danielpbarron: my portugese speaking american samoan born connecticut raised friend apparently had an aunt that owned land in rodesia (phew what
a mouth full)
fluffypony: so Apple is saying -shit- about
a language, and fuck, it's their language (inasmuch as they're the only ones still using it)