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mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-01#1877053 << the "AriseBank" reason. there's this large class of idle idiots who think "secrecy" might be confused with value. much like there's a cloud of fat stupid old women not even the dogs would fuck, who imagine they're being coy. ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-11-29 17:55 mircea_popescu: led to the usual symptoms of imperial decay -- monetization of real estate (a bad idea throughout, even if it repatriated the money japs made selling toyotas/sinking detroit in the 70s -- sorta like arsenic is bad for you even if it "keeps syphilis inactive" and so on) ; the star model driving and being driven by the fashion cycle, and so the fuck on.

a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 00:38 asciilifeform: jp was a hair's width away from picking up the torch that anglotardistan dropped, and anglos knew this, and so in late '80s they engineered an economic implosion for'em

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-01#1876942 <<->> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-29#1876009 ; also ended anglo finance and ~everything else. there's a ushinski story about the cat fighting a falcon, end results similar. ☝︎☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: plasticar whose glove compartment held a dime bag. whole item weight -- counts".

mircea_popescu: "Rice, 30, first claimed to have raised $300m from AriseBank's coin offering, then upped that figure to $600m, and later promised this could be the first billion-dollar crypto-dosh offering. However, despite all that publicity and hype, it is claimed hundreds of punters invested just $4.25m in exchange for the bank's tokens." << keks. and this is after usg multiply-magic, "we found 777 kgs of cocaine in the shape of a toyota

a111: Logged on 2018-11-30 23:14 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it's a biz, there are folx who do it, i've talked to half dozen of'em last yr ( all in cn , 0 in latrine america ) -- but i dun presently know how to break into it

a111: Logged on 2018-11-30 23:03 BingoBoingo: Having a rebuilt caterpillar is usually a result of it being inconvenient to rent when it brings the most convenience

mircea_popescu: \http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-30#1876891 << kinda the problem, this is how airports end up owning a fleet of eg iceploughs : "we only need them 3 days each decade -- but as it happens it's always the exact fucking three day you can't possibly fucking find one to rent, of these items that otherwise go for 500 a day." ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2018-11-30 22:56 asciilifeform: it's rather like a 'caterpillar'. how many folx do you know who have own 'caterpillar' and dun work it erry day for daily bread.

a111: Logged on 2018-11-30 22:37 asciilifeform: i still can't fucking believe that d00d. 'my experiment requires 3 litres of virgin tears' 'hey al, i took 300 virgins and ran then rom-coms until they cried 3L, here it is in a mason jar' 'but! reasons!'

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-30#1876836 << whole fucking idea is to a) lighten the load of dying empire ; b) round the coffers of republican corps to better divorce from vagaries of usg faux "market". ☝︎

BingoBoingo: Neighborhood may not be that bad, but it is at least a bus ride away in a direction that leaves me unenthused

BingoBoingo: It's part of a "park" in favela land

BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> somehow montevideo with , what, 2mil+ people, can't keep a zoo open << Aparently there is another newer zoo

asciilifeform: i have nfi how it is even possible to have ~empty town where ~erry other walker you see on the sidewalk is a hot chix.

asciilifeform: somehow montevideo with , what, 2mil+ people, can't keep a zoo open

asciilifeform: i went to a zoo. there was ONE other visitor, a brit.

asciilifeform: ( in bucharest there's a microshit bldg, where they keep amstan 's . but that's afaik more or less it ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: currently it's a mostly empty country, with a few 'mercedes' plants as 'economy'

BingoBoingo: Well, they had the whole communism thing where mircea_popescu got a silver spoon and everyone else payola

asciilifeform: beautifully depopulated , too, 0 crowds, 0 queues. sorta like a hypothetical bunenos aires after redditbagging complete.

asciilifeform: it was a fuckin' valhalla ( admittedly, valhalla only while yer jacket pockets are fulla green )

asciilifeform: and , for all i know, would buy a http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-27#1743464 ☝︎

asciilifeform: amberglint: gc without tagged words is a lol

asciilifeform: amberglint: it's a http://funnypicture.zoda.ru/bd/2011/10/14/8e55f8a1cd38eb6ed761e4897058d1b7.jpg ☟︎

BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and that's a washington price. these people have fucked heads. << Well, how many dindus does Washington have vs how many Montevideo has

asciilifeform: and that's a washington price. these people have fucked heads.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: they aint got a 'r'.

asciilifeform: it's a moving target, elementarily

a111: Logged on 2018-10-25 05:14 asciilifeform: there's a coupla 'small scale' fabs, but on close examination smell like ripoff, they ship with literally 0 guarantee of yield , and in laughable qty , and with laughable transistor count, and -- to add insult to injury -- die packaging not included, you gotta somehow find someone to do it, somewhere

asciilifeform: there was a french one also, similar.

asciilifeform: last yr ( and before ) i talked to a coupla ic fabs, in various countries. they all not only run winshit but demand that you use their 'standard cells', which available (surprise?) under nda

a111: Logged on 2018-10-23 14:21 asciilifeform: fabricate it in 1uM or similar 1980s process. package with optical quartz lid , a la old EPROMs, for audit-with-childrens-microscope.

asciilifeform: wake me up when they make a http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-23#1865375 , + open docs like http://nosuchlabs.com/hardware.html ☝︎

amberglint: he also tries to sell it as a GTA and Doom machine

amberglint: do you know that Elbrus has a youtube channel for some reason? it's pretty strange: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6pnRoVljXKpo5bgkVyQMJg

asciilifeform: i have a b00k like that here, 'учебное пособие по криптографии' somthing or other. which fails to contain rsa.

amberglint: oddly enough, there's a university textbook on Elbrus, no instruction set there either: http://www.mcst.ru/doc/book_121130.pdf

asciilifeform: i've been trying to buy a 'loongson' for 5+yrs nao.

asciilifeform: its under nda cuz it's dead-certainly a crude ripoff of existing ameri-trash

amberglint: really? afaik it's a VLIW that has nothing to do with SPARC

asciilifeform: current one is a 'sparc'

amberglint: that's a shame

amberglint: and the end of the paper mentions a Soviet Lisp machine

a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 00:35 asciilifeform: 'Before leaving this subject, I should mention that there have been a number of interesting LISP Machine designs done outside the U.S., particularly in Japan. For example, see [Hayashi]' << asciilifeform once spent coupla months trying to dig up these. and europistan's 'racal norsk' also. found ~0.

amberglint: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-01#1876938 << there was also a Soviet Refal machine: http://www.keldysh.ru/papers/2003/source/prep2003_99.doc ☝︎

BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i'ma bet the 3k u.s. hole in wall comes with 30k of debt tho. otherwise who would it be in them cardboard boxes. << Pasta base is reportely a hell of a drug and it is not a free drug

BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> so why 'squatter law' then << Because there are hole in walls that don't have addresses, quite a few near feria zone. Occupy, sign up for a power connection, and get an address.

BingoBoingo: Can improvise a locking door for hole in wall and play squatter's law game to regularize the address

BingoBoingo: Quite a bit more

BingoBoingo: Better situated kiosko https://inmueble.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-458670653-kiosko-bvar-espana-y-bvar-artigas-a-paso-de-facultades-_JM

asciilifeform: there was a shithole like that in the carriageway of the 19th c megablock asciilifeform grew up in. d00d fixed clocks.

asciilifeform: there is also that it loox like literally 4 sq. m. room, a la ru prison, no bed space.

BingoBoingo: No, that's a sale price, but you are stuck with the operating cell phone repair business

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'ma bet that's either a rent price , a misprint, or a bold lie

BingoBoingo: Apartments of the same or smaller size as Pizarro habitation module have a list price of ~100,000 USD even for sale. Rent for 14,500 to 16,000 pesos.

BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i have nfi who and why would pay that for a 2room orc box << That's the ask. It's a sale not a rental. Gotta break some balls

asciilifeform: i have nfi who and why would pay that for a 2room orc box

BingoBoingo: Looks similar to places we walked past because painted in a pasta shop livery

asciilifeform: ( whether there'll be a third time, i have nfi, possibly thing has no moar life juice remaining to stand up a third time )

asciilifeform: jp wunderwaffen, '80s. evaporated without a gram's trace.

asciilifeform: jp was a hair's width away from picking up the torch that anglotardistan dropped, and anglos knew this, and so in late '80s they engineered an economic implosion for'em ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: ( it dun help that asciilifeform's jp is ~on par with a kindergartener's. slowly works on fixing this, but it's a far backburner item and i dun expect to get far in the near fyootoor )

asciilifeform: 'Before leaving this subject, I should mention that there have been a number of interesting LISP Machine designs done outside the U.S., particularly in Japan. For example, see [Hayashi]' << asciilifeform once spent coupla months trying to dig up these. and europistan's 'racal norsk' also. found ~0. ☟︎

a111: Logged on 2018-11-30 18:23 amberglint: I found a couple more bits about the Ivory https://i.imgur.com/m5HvPHA.png https://i.imgur.com/QEzR2po.png

asciilifeform: pet : 'let's throw out THE OF' a : 'only if you write me a new one'

asciilifeform: ftr nobody's knocked on that door yet. #a is a pretty quiet castle.

asciilifeform: did give him a door to knock on, if the former.

BingoBoingo: Brazil's a sort of Germany. It's the first place to look for capital equipment to rent on the continent

BingoBoingo: In other local business transactions... guess who from http://bingology.net/2018/02/09/a-long-descent-into-the-cargo-cult/#selection-271.0-271.86 is for sale https://inmueble.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-457471764-venta-local-comercial-pocitos-alquilado-dueno-directo-sc-_JM

asciilifeform: ^ orig didn't rhyme worth half a shit, i tried to fix bug.

BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: http://lnnano.cnpem.br/laboratories/lme/ << Maybe shoot them a letter?

BingoBoingo: In other news, the poor kiosk on the block was apparently a victim of walk in and walk out with something shoplifting for a second time this week

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it's a biz, there are folx who do it, i've talked to half dozen of'em last yr ( all in cn , 0 in latrine america ) -- but i dun presently know how to break into it ☟︎

asciilifeform: prolly i oughta point out that a '90s surplus SEM won't do jack against 2000s-era ics

asciilifeform: i kinda suspect that if there's a pro microscopist reading these threads, he's busting his gut laughing just like surgeon may have laughed at the http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-16#1739725 thread ☝︎

BingoBoingo: Having a rebuilt caterpillar is usually a result of it being inconvenient to rent when it brings the most convenience ☟︎

BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> it's rather like a 'caterpillar'. how many folx do you know who have own 'caterpillar' and dun work it erry day for daily bread. << At least 3 come to mind

asciilifeform: it's rather like a 'caterpillar'. how many folx do you know who have own 'caterpillar' and dun work it erry day for daily bread. ☟︎

asciilifeform: i dun have a moolah empire that could run one as public service.

asciilifeform: eh it aint a holography rig, dun need 4 tonnes of ballast

BingoBoingo: Anyways, if you are setting down something heavy for a while Uruguay's got great bedrock

asciilifeform: ( as i understand , it's a++ real estate, supposing you were to redditbag all of the bipedals )

asciilifeform: afaik ec is a miamistan exactly like the others

BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ( even supposing i devise a means of teleporting one to BingoBoingostan ) << Slow boat with your workshop

asciilifeform: ( even supposing i devise a means of teleporting one to BingoBoingostan )

asciilifeform: before BingoBoingo starts to picture where he'd park a 10 m^2 SEM

asciilifeform: let's make a +ev pizarro 1st, lol

asciilifeform: i dun think they'd swallow a 'this is worth 500, rly, srsly' 'receipt' for it.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: we're talkin' half a railcar

BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> prolly oughta add that surplus SEM in particular ( and similar irons ) 1) generally live in usa 2) dun exactly fit in smuggle-trunk under old shirts << If you can produce an invoice I can recieve it as a prepackaged good

asciilifeform: i still can't fucking believe that d00d. 'my experiment requires 3 litres of virgin tears' 'hey al, i took 300 virgins and ran then rom-coms until they cried 3L, here it is in a mason jar' 'but! reasons!' ☟︎

asciilifeform: prolly wrong approach overall, at that, really oughta find a ave1 or spyked fella with keys to adult lab somewhere.

asciilifeform: lol mircea_popescu phrases it almost as if asciilifeform were buridaning in front of a set table

a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 21:40 mircea_popescu: < kanzure> jrayhawk_: would you be willing to host a microscope? responsibilities would include keeping it plugged in and internet connected. also there would be an irc bot that controls where it looks. you'd also be pestered to load samples periodically. << did this 2014 idea ever get implemented ?

a111: Logged on 2018-11-30 19:55 SeanRiddle: It's a Canon EOS 5D

mircea_popescu: (this is not strictly about jpg. ~any~ image compressing/processing/fucking with the sensor data is dubious. even using such a thing as the camera's "soft" focus (as opposed to the lens-driven hard focus, some handhelds offer this internal processor-driven cvasi-focus) is a bad idea for this task. exact discussion of "whitening" and other such pattern-inserting nonsense from crypto)

mircea_popescu: it may look the same to you, and to anyone else. but if it flipped over a pixel somewhere you're looking at a potential man-year to find where the fuck.

mircea_popescu: for srs. like a respectable gent.