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mircea_popescu: http://braythwayt.com/homoiconic/2009/10/10/high-anxiety.html <<< actually that is the missing stone i was looking for.
asciilifeform: there are firms like this, somewhere. can't say i ever saw one alive in person, but then again how would i.
mircea_popescu: (yes, yes, i know, bitcoins aren't inflationary etc. but the hundreds to peanuts comparison is not there)
mircea_popescu: at the time i was a 16yo with his own driver, my father earned an impressing $680 a year.
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> you know... i wasn't born rich. < http://www.tubechop.com/watch/3623336
mircea_popescu: i don't care how deeply anchored in the core of the world it may be. it's a square inch and it's getting flattened.
mircea_popescu: i do, but you're really arguing a lot on a very narrow square inch of footing.
mircea_popescu: and i doubt what you do for a living is solder jobs.
asciilifeform: then where would i come in asking for pay, after that.
TheNewDeal: I thought so
mircea_popescu: you know... i wasn't born rich.
mircea_popescu: "I wish people would get more interested in _knowing_ the world they want to change. I can't keep lecturing obnoxious morons forever just because they have these wild-eyed desires that they think can be accomodated if they start a revolution or something."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one of my jobs is indeed a company i co-own - but the only customer is usg, and the office is required to be within a few km of a particular institute.
chetty: there was that guy recently, worked for the epa I think, claimed he was also cia and just took off for months whenever he wanted
mircea_popescu: i seem to remember despising *something* at that time
xmj: Duffer1: Friday I paid a ticket for 1km/h too much.
asciilifeform: probably same reason i haven't.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that part i understand.
Duffer1: i got a 175$ ticket for failing to come to a complete stop before exiting a driveway once
chetty: well thats kinda what I meant about counting ALL the tax. The property 'owner' pays tax and passes it along in your 'rent' amount and so forth
asciilifeform: here's what i recall (any other delvers in naggum archive, feel free to correct)
mircea_popescu: well, amateur in the "this is what i think the law should be" school of amateurship, or amateur in the "trying to figure out what this thing is" school of amateurship ?
mircea_popescu: quite opposite, in fact, i would suspect.
mircea_popescu: i have little faith the man was actually apt to follow the legal intricacies, which altogether require a different mind than one which wilfully chose lisp over say basic.
asciilifeform: there's more detail in other posts, i think.
asciilifeform: '...the Norwegian government, which for a few years decided to tax me based on what I should have been _able_ to earn, and therefore _probably_ earned without reporting to them, so I should pay taxes on it, plus penalties for lying to them...'
mircea_popescu: didja do your homework ? yessir. didja learn anything ? o, no, i wouldn't do that!
mircea_popescu: fuck that. i'll fire you for being bland.
mircea_popescu: Would these people buy a Macintosh? No. But they would take up a lot of our time asking “What is the benefit of Mac? Why is it superior to Windows? Explain why we should I buy one for each employee.” And no matter how interested they seemed, and no matter what we said or did, they would weigh their options… and then buy a Windows computer."
mircea_popescu: i'll readily contend that naggum is a sufficient, if by no means the only good reason to dismantle any statal revenue service.
mircea_popescu: tho i guess it actually sounds more like a messy divorce, with a child involved. did he have kids ?
mircea_popescu: "He ran in to some very serious problems that poisoned his existence for many years, and made him lose faith in humans. These problems (I won’t go into details, let sleeping dogs lie) would have agonized anyone, but most people would, in time, have come to terms with life’s injustice and cruelty." << asciilifeform what, was the guy in jail or something ?
thestringpuller: i understand your notion tho :P
thestringpuller: i think the end they made a business on letting his wife get fucked by millionaires but I'm fuzzy
mircea_popescu: http://perpelle.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/iberkeley-liten.jpg <<< asciilifeform dunno if that's naggum or not, but i gotta say that'd be the prototype for the romanian "fata de-mpins vagoane", ie, railcart pushing face
mircea_popescu: chetty no i mean teenagers and young adults.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> chetty well you're not in the demographic you know ?// you mean libtards? I dun have to be in it to be sick of it
mircea_popescu: bounce well to be honest (and i've unstudiously avoided both for two decades or more), they're all the same one thing, and so the classics have been badly reimplemented by the us pulp industry many times, and they keep rebooting it
thestringpuller: people tell me that I'm crazy a lot!
thestringpuller: i'm almost certain hanbot is a partial robot though you say she is human ~_~
thestringpuller: wow I haven't read maddox in years
mircea_popescu: da fuck do i care
thestringpuller: I'm certain you'd sue someone who steals that idea...
mircea_popescu: i could be him, if i ever deign to write for forbes, which seems unlikely unless i buy it and then it'll be Popescu
thestringpuller: I'm looking for a liquidity source. Seems coinvoice is a good shot.
asciilifeform: (i had no part in this, it was all long after i left)
asciilifeform: incidentally, the ruined church where 'hack-dc' met also hosted a 'clojure' society. after attending a few meetings and trying to actually put the system to use, i ended up writing... well, that post.
decimation: yeah, I wondered if it was worthwhile
asciilifeform: when i walk by that thing, hard to escape the feeling that my 'ratfacecage' is waiting there, in the cellars somewhere.
asciilifeform: so is chinatown, where i often go and eat 'chicken'
decimation: as I recall the fbi headquarters is a block away from the theater where lincoln was murdered
decimation: I wonder how those fbi employees feel about being seen as meat for consumption by the local political elite
decimation: I thought they were going to get rid of that
decimation: i bet they will sell you a power5 turd too
mircea_popescu: no witch, i checked.
mircea_popescu: ah, as far as i know real estate
mircea_popescu: i tell you it's like time trippin.
mats_cd03: im not laughing. i served, once, in usg war machine.
ben_vulpes: turns out, i'm liable for unemployment benefits if i fire someone for doing a poor job.
ben_vulpes: apropos only of retarded usian laws, i'm looking into employee-ing up.
ben_vulpes: i was under the impression that it was the latter.
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: delivered head << when i first learned the fact about heads, my thought was that there ought to be a 'head cannon' weapon
assbot: I am god - The Pub - Shroomery Message Board
asciilifeform: whether this was achieved, i cannot say from the picture
mircea_popescu: from what i gather the controler is watch only
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: and the algorithm you described is precisely what i did. only gotcha is - the machine at present isn't running true.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> yeah turns out the 'advanced' battery pack is just a pile of standard lithium batteries wired in strings << i have no idea what's so advanced about it, basically the whole car is powered offa one of those 4.5 volt things discussed here previously
mats_cd03: i wonder what secret service sop is.
ben_vulpes: mind you i had no hand in the actual design or most of the fab outside of the cutting of pieces to dimension (and the insisting upon of dimensioned pieces for cutting)
ben_vulpes: would never pass muster in any of the design or fabrication classes that i've taken, but i'll be surprised if it doesn't move from shack to shack for at least half a decade.
decimation: I'm not sure if the guy did a schematic, would be helpful
ben_vulpes: but i, spice racks, and with hand tools as this hovel has no machine shop.
ben_vulpes: not really articulating clearly, as i've been fabricating all day as well.
ben_vulpes: in that situation you mill one face flat on top of your spacers or whatever they're called (i've forgotten), mill the opposite face parallel, clamp in a vise and then mill the remaining important face perpendicular to either of the two previous
ben_vulpes: but i really have no idea.
ben_vulpes: i'm guessing that only two sides really need to be orthogonal
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: picked on you given as you're the only actual machinist i'm even distantly familiar with
mircea_popescu: that i can see. but hwa'ts it to do ?
mike_c: ascii: i now have your fingerprints on file and can hack ur iphone
mike_c: " If for some reason I do decide to use any of the existing graphic components, a quick search on Google for 'clipart of man holding clipboard' and 'blue wiggly line for no apparent reason' should suffice." lol
mike_c: send complaints to btcalpha design department. they deserve it. http://i.imgur.com/SIOI7Wx.png
mike_c: i made one yesterday. it sucked, so i need to make another one.
thestringpuller: i had a dream i ran out of cookie dough
Namworld: I guess that would be a fitting comment. But no, was merely finding that this site had 4 dimensions well explained.
mircea_popescu: so i get to expect it does absolutely anything i can imagine.
jurov: giving a power transistor to each cell? i see it's easier to match them
mircea_popescu: i definitely love going in old blogs comment sections to fish for these sorts of gems
fluffypony: I have a big penis
BlueMeanie4: im a crypto expert, I also double a circus sideshow freak and a professional craft beer taster
mircea_popescu: i first read presbytarian
mircea_popescu: "Possibilitarian, #Cryptocurrency enthusiast & student of philosophy. I hope to make the world better than I found it. Bitcoin"
decimation: I got sidetracked with herr knuth too
mircea_popescu: i suspect maxima only does it "in some cases"
asciilifeform: think this way. i take a cpu (your choice, which) and put '7' in a register, and '2' in another, and demand that division happen.
mircea_popescu: and i'll venture a guess that more computer insecurity was caused by this than any other one thing
mircea_popescu: i just suddenly realised i don't understand why floats were even implemented, at all.
decimation: I see how one would want a 'habitable' lower-level simulation language to accomplish this work
asciilifeform: or, for that matter, i cannot establish, for anywhere short of several $billion, an actual electric circuit from here to buenos aires
mircea_popescu: i didn't like the "were possible" part. either always, in which case it's a calculator, or forget it.
decimation: asciilifeform: I agree that would be a great goal, but how do you handle types?