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asciilifeform: he put it back in the evidence room with the other sandwiches
mircea_popescu: i wonder what became of schmuck who bought the silk road pound of coke.
asciilifeform: ( then sold it to infamous schmuck. wonder what became of him )
mircea_popescu: it's almost like that tyime when mp said silk market is a joke and then it turned out couldn't sell a pound of coke over xmas.
mircea_popescu: same as then. you bought right ?
asciilifeform has nfi who , if anyone , is buying these nao
mircea_popescu: could be an apple, all this putative equivalency bs.
mircea_popescu: hey, by the time nobody's buying the blades of grass, this uppity tortilla v2.0 will be just about ready for the abstruse tardstalk posts.
ben_vulpes: what not sinking, that's a tidy pile of usd is it not?
mircea_popescu: well of course it's sinking, wtf. fiatola turds.
asciilifeform: so massive sense of 'to the moon', apparently, among the adherents.
asciilifeform: so asciilifeform's sold for 4.5 btc. today urbit wants 500 usd worth of btc for ~star~.
mircea_popescu: dude also wrote a book. about coffee tables.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that kramerica industries aka the new york living wage dept funded a decade of kramer's reading and beach shitting.
asciilifeform looks up the latest names :
mircea_popescu: !~google things that sam sold
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did yarvin / urbit EVER do anything other than selling "space" of various description ? it's like reddit by now, wut. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: not like dude's threatening to go around the cemetery and make you be alive against your will...
mircea_popescu: in other news, wtf are they talking about, "death threat." they call it "life insurance", why the fuck is it a death threat. it should be a life threat.
ben_vulpes: i wonder if my old ship still works on their network
asciilifeform: in other idiocies, https://sale.urbit.org is selling address space, this time Officially, and for btc. ( what good scamola ain't sold for btc ) . ( link won't display unless you enter code. 8112.7bd0.7ae6.6f17.b65d.3cb5 should work . )
asciilifeform: 'This year, I’ve been thinking about prime numbers, and my hosting provider has run another sale on domain names. So, I’ve bought isthisprime.com. You can probably guess what I’ve made it do.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: ^ this is a costly diode btw. 150 $ in small qty.
asciilifeform: 'what's the use of a comp with no command prompt' -- asciilifeform 20y ago ( and now ! )
asciilifeform: marveled at the 50 $ ( good money in those days ) scsi cables etc
asciilifeform: that one was to be found at, e.g., 'comp usa' ( i sometimes went there, marveled )
ben_vulpes: i was raised under the glorious unified apple toolchain
ben_vulpes: no i don't actually remember any of these marvels
asciilifeform: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1995/h188.html << watch how they slowly switched from bundling useful/fun things, to microshit appz
asciilifeform: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1994/h049.html << remember these ? analogue!
asciilifeform: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/1994/h192.html << moar tandy.
mircea_popescu: kickass burners, too, mechanically adjustable for flame temp!
mircea_popescu: mortar and pestle, graded pipettes, tube for your own burning, bunsen burners you could hook to same thing as stove, etc.
asciilifeform: but legend has it that usa at one time had such shops.
asciilifeform: not on asciilifeform's home planet, either -- there folx simply stole glass from work
mircea_popescu: pretty sure i took girl through walk among erlenmeyer glasses etc.
asciilifeform: i suspect that in not too long, ratshack will be remembered the way the folx who sold, openly and for cash on barrel, chemical glassware are remembered - which is to say not at all, 'you gotta be shitting me, there were never'
mircea_popescu: proper research should be conducted in proper lab with note from hitler and those inept access control lulz.
asciilifeform: and why sell electronic parts : Only A Terrorist would want such a thing.
mircea_popescu: "leveraging the synergies" or how's it called, "ironing out the waste and inefficiency" ? anyway. why need apple when has windows and intel ? samsung can make the tablets as usg.intel profit center.
asciilifeform: phunphakt : asciilifeform bought his first soldering iron on setting foot in usa, and the various junk to do with it, at ye olde ratshack
mircea_popescu: should be funny because bureaucracy also seems to think 1 microsoft and 1 intel also suffice.
asciilifeform: and that 1 bank suffices. etc
asciilifeform: can still do -- at lolmart. which is how it died -- or how westinghouse died, usg decided that 1 GE suffices
mircea_popescu: both legal and sane, like the dual aspect of particles.
asciilifeform: ( who pays for the servers, the censor monkeys, etc. ? )
mircea_popescu: kinda hard to sell the whole "corporate and venture capital" VHS tape to idiot kids considering "their future" if the radio shack goes bankrupt.
asciilifeform: a little like how reddit lives on, unharmed by the depth of its -ev
asciilifeform: not only this: the very same ratshack actually died once (i went to the same liquidation sales, bought the furniture, etc) and then somehow came BACK from the grave, (no prizes for guessing how -- printolade) undead, to live for another 3y ☟︎
mircea_popescu: remember back when obamschev days, apple had like 30bn hoard of cash, the "economy" had "recovered" from crisis etc ?
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/hings-that-happened-to-sam-chapter-8-sam-finally-gathered/ << Trilema - hings That Happened To Sam. Chapter 8 - Sam finally gathered
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't mind chasing some usians around a little from a truck before finally shooting to maim and leaving them for dead.
asciilifeform: that anyone would want to eat, that is
asciilifeform: only 1 problem mircea_popescu -- there's very little meat to be had on this safari.
mircea_popescu wonders if he'll actualy be going on american safari this decade, no less.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform bought up the lithium thionyl chloride batteries, for pennies
mircea_popescu: hey, the great again is going great, all the us "corporation!!!" turds popping like overstuffed frogs.
asciilifeform: these were the folx who sold resistors etc for their weight in gold. and when this did not bring in megabux, added phone and various rubbish.
mircea_popescu: which is this ?
asciilifeform: in other lulz, the venerable rat shack, american retail chain, that survived great depression ( founded 1921 ) -- is finally dying. ( for 2nd time ! 1st time had last-minute reprieve, a telco bought it )
a111: Logged on 2017-05-16 18:40 shinohai: https://medium.com/@jonaldfyookball/an-open-letter-to-bitcoin-miners-c260467e1f0 <<< /me doesn't know why he lolz so much at smacktards that write this drivel.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-16#1657058 there we go ☝︎
mircea_popescu goes to check
mircea_popescu: because we didn't take seriously whatever random dork last made a social media post about things and matters and saving bitcoin.
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/things-that-happened-to-sam-chapter-7-the-actual-paddling/ << Trilema - Things That Happened To Sam. Chapter 7 - The actual paddling
asciilifeform: because the actual proof of this ~in re the practical incarnation~ appears to be absent.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-19 15:26 asciilifeform: (interest in the subj is slim, on account of miller-rabin probabilistic test provably converging - i.e. probability of catastrophic failure can be made smaller than probability of machine flattened by asteroid the same night)
asciilifeform: in unrelated noose, asciilifeform recently investigated state of the art re primality testing, and did not like what he found
mircea_popescu: i try to have a little for everyone!
asciilifeform: 'the fact that the back wheels were attached to the outside of the body rather than any kind of axle, as per the latest fashions and discoveries of French technology at the time' << l0l!!!
asciilifeform: the lulzy bit is that lem's future is the actual one -- where buncha idiots get brain-wrecked into believing themselves robots , while similar number of similar idiots -- believe that they are served by robots, etc
mircea_popescu: except -- of the mind.
asciilifeform: upstack : iirc in one of n. stephenson's tales, future spamola is decoupled entirely from human hands, is shat forth by long-unmanned and fully autonomous self-propagating 'ai virii'
asciilifeform: asciilifeform ain't in the mechanizing-away-your-brain business.
mircea_popescu: and be right some of the time, and write the regexp for it.
asciilifeform: 'purpose' in this sense is not an attribute of the object, but of the object-and-maker system. see also the thread re 'rng entropy'
asciilifeform: i can still observe sharpened stick and guess, likely correctly, that it was made so as to go into flesh; vs different stick, that - again correctly - i will say broke off a tree, by the wind.
mircea_popescu: now, let us quote that idiocy with "either everyone has justice, or no one does" ? or leave it for later.
mircea_popescu: once it's obvious that either everything has a purpose or nothing does, it's therefore established there is no such thing as purpose.
mircea_popescu: the clear proof (for the expert) that purpose is meaningless is the simple fact that if you accept it, then it follows as universal, whereas if you don't accept it, it's universally absent. this is always and everywhere the fate of null notions.
mircea_popescu: but -- wild beast "purpose", to reproduce, to eat, etc.
mircea_popescu: which is why a good hospital is the one where the doctor says "well mr p, here's what we could do to you" as opposed to "here's what we want to do "
mircea_popescu: pasteurization exists not because l. pasteur WANTED TO {preserve milk ; get recognition ; fuck more chicks} but because pasteur COULD.
mircea_popescu: purpose is an after the fact construction. like "religious artefacts"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this theory of yours is flawed. there is no such thing as purpose in nature.
mircea_popescu: leaving the aesthetics aside for a minute to focus on the technical -- i imagine these are testers, ie, "whether it works". no links.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what can i tell you ben_vulpes , i'm a writer not an engineer. i don't know so much about engines, just seemed to me like the right number. why, is it wrong ? << This actually might be most right
asciilifeform: ( with the 1 diff that a spambot has some sort of constructive purpose, if only to detune filters, whereas redditus has none )
mircea_popescu: i did not strip, hence the lulz.
trinque: asciilifeform claiming a distinction must still point to the distinction!
asciilifeform: ( also where did it put the viagra link ?? or did mircea_popescu strip it manually )
mircea_popescu: adds to the amusement. is it me who talks to bots unknowingly ? or is it...
mircea_popescu: moreover : can you prove they're not redditards ? how exactly.
mircea_popescu: no i know. i find them amusing.
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2012/o-hai-i-was-justing-doing-a-penetration-test-of-your-site/#comment-122056 << ftr these are bots
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/things-that-happened-to-sam-chapter-6-that-was-too-much/ << Trilema - Things That Happened To Sam. Chapter 6 - That was too much
mircea_popescu: also amusingly, but on purpose, this sam story is becoming quite the intertextual lulz. it's a joy.
mircea_popescu: (amusingly -- flaubert allegedly spent $longinterval trying to decide which temperature reading is the correct number, between 19 and 17 or somesuch. or maybe it was proust. anyway.)
mircea_popescu: what can i tell you ben_vulpes , i'm a writer not an engineer. i don't know so much about engines, just seemed to me like the right number. why, is it wrong ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: a three stroke engine?! ☟︎