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jurov: i got http://www.amazon.com/State-Commemorative-Quarters-Collectors-mints/dp/1441312315 as first result
kakobrekla: Bit coin, Where it is registered? can i have a clear picture about Bitcoin?
ben_vulpes: let the permanent record permanently reflect that i permanently have no btc though despite all my best efforts to the contrary
ben_vulpes: and not personally. i don't do this crazy asset dance - i just build shit and acquire btc.
Anduck: i do not know about his businesses really.
chetty: asciilifeform, first time I heard that one, great!!!
asciilifeform: people have asked me why haven't escaped, and i answer 'i haven't $xx mil.' to which, eyes bug out, and i have to explain 'a real escape means retrieval is not simply legally, but militarily uneconomical.' ☟︎
ben_vulpes: deterrence i get, but chasing those already flown?
ben_vulpes: i honestly don't even see the point of expatriation
ben_vulpes: ah, i guess its > 2mil in assets or 157K+ for five years running
ben_vulpes: today i learned that the html date field doesn't support placeholders
ben_vulpes: i bet that model has yet to be...modeled.
ben_vulpes: <The20YearIRCloud> And it's hard to judge when that will be, otherwise I do believe our model hedges well against USD collapse, and any major problems << good old belief in the hedge.
mircea_popescu: i think someone put "my dear" for "hello" in some sort of 1970s azn manual of english
chetty: My dear,How are you? i am a banker in the bank, i get your contact from yahoo terrorist search.Reason,i am in need of your help as a foreigner i want to transfer an abandoned $15million to your account 40% for you while 60% for me please indicate your interest for more detail.
mircea_popescu: im very helpful according to most people i know! HELPING COMES NATURALLY TO ME
mircea_popescu: gets the heart going. I see it has yours going, when the science was
mircea_popescu: decimation: yeah that's a good point. I think the money is less important than the relative status, which is less important than just getting people to defer to their betters quickly << no, not quickly. painfully.
mircea_popescu: decimation: it is probably terrible to become an object of some fad among elites today << you know, i'm a poststructuralist jus' fine.
asciilifeform: why burned cables? i can say right now. copper dealer doesn't pay for rubber - only copper.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: i've been off reading physics articles trying to grasp things and lost the conversation << should probably be the motto of b-a
decimation: except I was reading Dijkstra in "structured programming" and he wrote that it was hopeless to try to "prove" practical code. He did suggest that this is a reason for humility and simplicity.
mircea_popescu: govt offices, newspaper offices, phone pharms, i seen it everwhere.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can attest the faith healing already happens, in those sad sad caves where middle aged women huddle to stroke their collective pretending to be part of civilisation.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: linked post reveals that rocket is a 'size and mass model' (i.e. dummy.)
asciilifeform: 'We understand automobiles. There are no homeopathic automobile repair shops, that try to repair your car by putting infinitesimal dilutions of rust in the gas tank. There are no automotive faith healers, who lay their hands on the hood and pray. People reserve such superstitions for things that they don’t understand very well, such as the human body… … Superstitions arise because we don’t understand. I
xmj: I think my brain just snowcrashed.
mircea_popescu: http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6738/33213654.183/0_a1ede_331c5f32_L.jpg << i like this one
asciilifeform: i always use the term 'calmed down' for these people. starting from having played 'half life', where there is a scene of an einsteinesque white coated figure who gets an alien 'headcrab' jump on his head. it takes roots, he struggles for a while, then 'calms down' and ambles on as zombie. ☟︎
asciilifeform: appetite for humiliation, i.e. risk ?
mircea_popescu: for that matter, recall the story of the milikan pious fraud i think it was ?
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, i can see perfectly valid reasons to not trust measurements made by new guys on new tools.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i really don't think its as political as all that.
asciilifeform: RagnarDanneskjol: i don't regard it as a proven fact that there necessarily is a 'root cause.'
decimation: heh turdolade. yeah I guess the bureaucracy really exploded with Diocletian, but things had already been going badly for at least a hundred years
asciilifeform: there isn't, as far as i understand, a 'fix'.
asciilifeform: I don't know that they can be built << lol, anything that was built, can be built.
mircea_popescu: decimation: I called up NIST a few weeks ago, asked them how much it would cost to measure the phase noise of an oscillator. They said it would only cost their time, which would come to about $10k! for a morning session <<< in other words, "can only work if you have supply of bezzle dollars", ie, "only with scrip saying it's ok signed by stalin"
mircea_popescu: wow i step out for one hour...
The20YearIRCloud: And it's hard to judge when that will be, otherwise I do believe our model hedges well against USD collapse, and any major problems, while building enough capital and assets, should we have another downturn that we will be able to severely profit from it
The20YearIRCloud: hopefully between all that I'll personally be OK, but as far as the business is concerned, till bitcoin is a national currency and most workers get paid in it, it's gonna be hard for us to get truly involved in the BTC economy
The20YearIRCloud: Which is worrysome to me, but then I do have an auto-buy going through on a regular basis, so i'm trying to diversify in multiple methods - Bitcoin, USD, Silver/Gold/Coins , guns, real estate
The20YearIRCloud: Big thing is the terms were superior to what I expected, 5% vs 7%, and the ability to do 20yr fixed payback vs 15yr payback or adjustable rates
The20YearIRCloud: Did I tell you guys that the bank approved the series of loans for RentalStarter?
asciilifeform: decimation: i trim all the border whitespace and get approx. the same 'paper' size as the original document
decimation: yeah that's a good point. I think the money is less important than the relative status, which is less important than just getting people to defer to their betters quickly
The20YearIRCloud: i'm trying to catch up and understand :D
decimation: I mean un-inhabitable
asciilifeform: schneier, i'm certain, understood
asciilifeform: as i understand - he caught a memetic virus - 'postmodernism' - and might as well have contracted 'mad cow'.
asciilifeform: decimation: the only work of that man i found readable
The20YearIRCloud: i've been off reading physics articles trying to grasp things and lost the conversation
asciilifeform: but once in a while you hear that some busybody found him and told 'fuck off, can't answer for your safety if i see you again.'
asciilifeform: he also turned down, if i recall, government pensions, interviews with journawhores, all of it.
decimation: “I don't even have an E-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages,” Eco said at a party in his honor at the University Club of Chicago.
asciilifeform: the most i can offer to interested readers is repeat of mircea_popescu's algorithm 'have sex - with people, do business - with keys.'
asciilifeform: if i were, e.g, mircea_popescu, and gave a damn, i'd offer schwartz xxxx btc. half to show up here, half after he explains himself.
asciilifeform: but i suspect he'd sooner fellate his 'magnum.'
asciilifeform: this, as i understand, is why schwartz never made any attempt to raise funding
asciilifeform: schwartz is one of the very few people i know of whose problem cannot be solved with money per se.
decimation: I called up NIST a few weeks ago, asked them how much it would cost to measure the phase noise of an oscillator. They said it would only cost their time, which would come to about $10k! for a morning session
asciilifeform: if i were to sell a few extra organs, i could run the 50k variant of the experiment. and i'd go to my grave knowing that equivalence principle can be violated. but that'd be all.
asciilifeform: i recall mircea_popescu even used this tale as an example in an essay
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 19:05:02; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in 2010 i concocted a variant of the test that could be carried out for approx. 50k USD, from scratch. schwartz answered that, in his estimation, the test would work to spec, but results would not be accepted by the field unless carried out on one of the two existing eotvos balances. one - adelberger's, one - chicom. ☟︎
The20YearIRCloud: I'd have to find the papers, but 30-40 years ago it was supposed to violate several principals
The20YearIRCloud: And from the papers I've seen, it doesn't seem to be signfiicantly more different than the theory behind VASMIR, and NASA was all over that 15 years ago
decimation: I think there are some cold superconductors used in new york to move lots of electricity through tight spaces too: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/superconductors-enter-commercial-utility-service
The20YearIRCloud: I'm sure that's right, but i can dream
The20YearIRCloud: Most of the data I'm seeing seems to support that once we reach that point, everyone gets their own airship
The20YearIRCloud: I just want my emdrive hovercar and hoverbike
The20YearIRCloud: The little bit of silver soldering I've done has been quite smooth too
decimation: gold is also used exclusively to connect pins to chip dies if I recall correctly
The20YearIRCloud: If I find a box of AKs here in the US there's nothing to do but leap for joy
asciilifeform: for instance, IANAL, but i can easily picture, e.g, a landlord, arguing 'mineral rights' on the coins.
mircea_popescu: (gold coins, i mean)
asciilifeform: when digging my garden (moved out of microscopic flat in late may, into a rented house) i found intact glass bottles, with caps on. appear to contain decades-old 'coca cola.'
The20YearIRCloud: I don't know that they can be built, the costs were exorbant for non-military types
The20YearIRCloud: Once in a while I get the chance to buy a un-touched estate - Kids have no interest or are out of state, a trustee locks the property up and you bid on the real estate + all contents
The20YearIRCloud: I keep looking for GPR so i can take it to properties/estates I buy out
asciilifeform: upon reading of that contract, i came to inescapable conclusion that the box thing is an active chump-magnet rather than simply a poor deal.
asciilifeform: i can hardly picture a dumber hiding place then a container in a public place with your name on it.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: yeah I think the main point is that you might store papers and things that would be moderately annoying to replace in case of fire << divorce.
decimation: re: gult's gulch << I find it amusing that folks who supposedly value 'self-reliance' and 'liberty' are unable to actually fly to chile and buy some land for themselves, it can't be that hard for a person with means & brains
decimation: well I think those terms are 'aspirational' - it goes to the arbitration conversation from a few weeks ago. everyone wants a click-wrap eula that holds them immune from any liability
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I think the main point is that you might store papers and things that would be moderately annoying to replace in case of fire
decimation: I'm thinking of the mongols' advantage over the static empires of the east
asciilifeform: i did tally up the cost, but the first anything naturally - expensive.
decimation: re: allodial title: I suppose with reference to how it was practiced in medieval England, the king's agents could be on your property on business which has the mutual consent of the king and his lords
asciilifeform: sea capsule is just a gedankenexperiment (though, i'm told, u.s. navy has insisted on actually trying.) i'm not altogether convinced that, properly carried out, it is cheaper than 'graveyard orbit'
mircea_popescu: decimation: The20YearIRCloud: When I say "allodial title" I mean something like having the right to arrest anyone - including government employees - on your property << that';s maybe going a little far. but the right to quash any action of anyone involving that land is germane.
asciilifeform: i.e., armed thugs turned free-agent when the whole thing finally blows
thestringpuller: i will be referwncing trilema
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: 'swat' post: am i the only one who instantly thought of this: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/files/2009/09/14-sovietleaderleonidbrezhnevandeas.jpg
asciilifeform: i thought those go to the basement of 'the fed' in wash., d.c.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud i don't get what this "let's all go huddle together" thing is supposed to do.
thestringpuller: i am about to go into a panel on bitcoin lol
cazalla: i wonder what the chicks in that music video look like now
mircea_popescu: i have a glass table and an optic mouse. ☟︎
decimation: I use nano when emacs is too heavy-handed
mircea_popescu: but actually... i find myself using nano a lot moar these days