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asciilifeform: his tendency to plead to nonsense is why i dislike curtis << 'wannabee' polymaths are doomed to 'plead nonsense'
mircea_popescu: then i wondered how to fix, and then i realised that well... no way really, best wait to be taken to task for my business insider treatment of science.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah i realised as i was typing that the connection is actually not as close as i'd have liked.
RagnarDanneskjol: They reestablished contact today once they put Ragnar & me together, want to retain me again, sent a job order. So, I am withholding final judgement pending a come-to-jesus conversation we're scheduled to have tomorrow so I can get to the bottom of what transpired.
RagnarDanneskjol: I actually have a history with those guys and would be derelict in my b-a duties if I didn't raise a cautionary flag… THey hired one of my best devs to adapt a python arb model… Payment commitments to said dev got a little squirrely. Also, I volunteered my own time to fix their website, redid all the html, css, wrote most of their content and they kind of blew it off without even a
RagnarDanneskjol: speaking of - mp - Thanks for the referral; what more could a guy ask? think I'm gonna be a dork like pete & throw that up on my website.
gribble: I have not seen kyrio.
mircea_popescu: decimation: mircea_popescu: minor nitpick - I don't think USG employees get dental actually << generally no, but afaik nsa folk do.
decimation: asciilifeform: I think they make a version with TCXO, doubt cheap chinese version has
mircea_popescu: now i can say mp stands for musi puxi and nobody will fucking know just how great it is.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i can see that.
ben_vulpes: <nubbins`> how about the marijuana supports terr.. oh, wait` << from a conversation with a client earlier today: "pot makes you stupid! if my son keeps smoking, i'm going to cut him off."
decimation: one thing I would certainly grant: it would be far easier for humanity to escape to the ocean floor than to the harshness of space
mircea_popescu: i nearly got done in in romania by a 5 sq inch, 100 gram piece of tile that fell a foot in front of me, from ten or so floors up.
mircea_popescu: living makes one live, this much is agreed. merely pleading to ignorance isn't much contribution (and his tendency to plead to nonsense is why i dislike curtis)
mircea_popescu: drinkable water i mean.
decimation: yeah such a thing is probably near the realm of possibility, I agree
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> well, lettuce see. the submarine is submerged. it does not care about "weather" in either fluid sense. with the new fleshlights and tumblr pr0nz... i defy you to find a bunch of 20somethings whose current life would be differen if they were subbed. < ah
ThickAsThieves: i'd live subsurface, if it were cooler
ben_vulpes: so i'm retarded right?
ben_vulpes: i did
ben_vulpes: at some point during sophomore year i realized that my bus passed a local public hs, so i stopped in at the starbucks outside of campus, timing my arrival to be some days thirty minutes before class got out and some days thirty minutes after class got out (i had no rationale at the time, but it was a good call)
ben_vulpes: OES being in deep southwest and my home being in the near SE (bezzlar-ployees having to live near the mega fabs and my father not being one, we lived in the cool part of town: http://bash.bitcoin-assets.com/?quote=218), i had much time to use for reading.
ben_vulpes: i attended a particular hs (OES, for the lurkers), and rode the bus home instead of driving as I got more reading time out of the experience.
ben_vulpes: actually i'll not interrupt.
mircea_popescu: ah but outside of personal experience, i'm discussiong a system.
ben_vulpes: that's why i sniped the best public school girls throughout hs
ben_vulpes: i am indeed coming in on the tail of this one - to what specifically do you refer?
mircea_popescu: so i guess in a sense the observed difference readily reduces to "well, the us is a true popular democracy : they have no privileged highschool, everyone goes to the prole vocational crapolade"
mircea_popescu: i mean you could be cool other ways, but an inability to ace something meant you, in so many words, sucked.
ben_vulpes: i learned at an early age the correlation between grades and what one learned
decimation: Mr. Yarvin goes on: "If you are an American raising kids abroad and you want to reintroduce them to your country, I highly recommend this sort of shock-and-awe approach. Having to deal with an American high school was not pleasant, but it gave me a certain respect for America: it exists. Once you go to college, you are no longer in the real America. You are in a fortified outpost of future America, which has been planted in the real
mircea_popescu: decimation and less tits. the few (like,4 or so) actual participants at the things i ever talk too, all 4 mostly went there for the braless wonders in attendance. it was apparently THE place to meet chicks.
assbot: Unqualified Reservations: How I stopped believing in democracy
decimation: Mr. Yarvin experienced something similiar w.r.t. American culture: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-i-stopped-believing-in-democracy.html "For example, the first thing I remember from my first year in Maryland was something called a "pep rally." For those of you who did not attend an American public high school, a "pep rally" is basically a straight ripoff of what Albert Speer did at Nuremberg, except that (a)
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: satisfying log. keep up the good work. << i guess we're all labrats in kako's little lab experiment.
decimation: I guess the default situation is that if you can program a computer, you can learn english too
decimation: I always wondered about non-English-speaking folk who had to learn "Englishisms" to program computers when I was younger
mircea_popescu: so yeah, i used to include 10. Merge Merge instructions in basic programs.
mircea_popescu: the word merge was there, which in romanian means "it works" (technically, "it goes") and is often a colloquialism "-merge ? -merge, merge" roughly works to "how goes it ? " "okay I guess".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but for desktop machining - perfect. so long as you aren't in a hurry. << well no, see, electricity is still sold by the watt. whether you're in a hurry or not, you still need same wattage, so still are beholden to the same (rather high) cost. so i suppose "so long as you're making something small enough for your fun doing it to be worth the 0.001 cent to 1/4 dollar price transition"
mircea_popescu: which is why i was talking about "in ron paul terms" yest.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: I just don't get why they think it's all about some party << because if it's about something in their system then that validates the system in question.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Tech Visionary George Gilder: "Bitcoin is the Libertarian Solution to the Money Enigma." - Reason.com << what is this, "i've caught up to 2011 let me tell you what i have now discovered" ?
decimation: lol I didn't realize that there was a controversy about how to spell "Ukraine" in Cyrillic http://lurkmore.to/В/на
decimation: original hp48 looked like it was styled in east germany: http://www.thimet.de/CalcCollection/Calculators/HP-48GX/HP-48GPlus-M.JPG I loved the clicky "tic-tac" keyboard
decimation: which in retrospect is basically lisp I guess
decimation: heh. when I was young I taught myself programming with "user RPN" on HP calculator
TheNewDeal: I've worked in manufacturing envirorments for a few years now, was quite familiar with that acronym but didn't think you were using it for some reason
TheNewDeal: that's what I was thinking...
decimation: so I was going to ask about photo-etching
decimation: no I'm pretty sure it's a direct quote from the merchant of venice
TheNewDeal: I have only read the first few lines, but what's this one on http://trilema.com/2014/the-most-serene-republic-and-its-laws/ ?
TheNewDeal: I just don't get why they think it's all about some party
TheNewDeal: I could get you a waterjet... but it may just be a super-soaker with a paint job
decimation: I think titanium falls in that category sometimes too
asciilifeform: i bring up electrolytic machining to explore a point - that tech meant for 'jungle conditions' is a very different field from what is presently dealt with by 'sane' engineers. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: but for that matter, so am i, the kids with the apps haven't yet discovered bitcoin pays better.
Bitcoin1011: Hi guys and girls, I'm looking for an android app developer with Bitcoin protocol experience, can anyone direct me?
mircea_popescu: maybe when i retire i make myself a lab.
mircea_popescu: i always was kinda fascinated by gem inlay/cutting.
TheNewDeal: they're CNC machines though, so you can do some cool in-lay stuff with em though http://imgur.com/Botjoww I did that with a guy in chicago
TheNewDeal: they cut out granite, marble, and man-made stone for the most part. I've heard some people cut steel with em
TheNewDeal: yah. I just set em up
TheNewDeal: water-jet ... that's what I do!
decimation: heh perhaps I should pick an orthogonal basis
decimation: yeah I guess cnc mill counts for that
decimation: I wish 'maker' derps would build machining devices rather than plastic molders
asciilifeform: speaking of which, time for today's 'sovietism.' not one english-speaking fellow i've met seemed to know, that you can machine arbitrarily hard metals with no cutting elements (no noise, no wear, no need for massive ballscrews or slides, etc.)
asciilifeform: as i recall, locklin's observation was that 'printed' gun is a technowankerous curio, vastly inferior to an aggregation of discarded plumbing parts and a rusty nail
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah i see what you mean. i took it literally :D
asciilifeform: (too 'cold' in the simulated annealing sense. i.e., not psychotic enough.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was this where i was disagreeing with locklin's similar idiocy ?
mircea_popescu: and by too clean i mean the sort that doesn't bareback random whores because "who knows what may happen"
asciilifeform: shockley did, if i recall, hit upon the idea of building a sperm bank to.. hand out own sperm
mircea_popescu: decimation mind, i'm not arguing the people themselves are broken.
mircea_popescu: i think not.
mircea_popescu: meh i can't find where i said it. anyway, in that film, which is predicated on the notion that an urbanite goes in the rural other world (he's a fraudulent film talent scout, cinecita was a big deal in post war italy).
decimation: I would go with yes, many of them load their own ammo
decimation: most of the actual farmers I have met in the us are people - they can machine, weld, assemble own parts from scrap
mircea_popescu: i would say so, yes.
decimation: asciilifeform: i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Based_Space_Surveillance
asciilifeform: interesting fact, i think we might have spoken of it before - usg claims extraterritorial jurisdiction over... all ships.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i imagine some sort of copulatory connection will be standard.
mircea_popescu: decimation i tell you, if the tesla experiment works out we're going to see subs.
kuzetsa: that's why I said eww
kuzetsa: no, I know
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa indeed, and ironically i suspect it's exactly for this reason.
mircea_popescu: i've yet to see a psa "ed" effort that was accurate in details.
mircea_popescu: i couldn't begin to give less of a shit about what sex "ed" programs say there, wherever that is.
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: I've seen quite a lot, but even if that wasn't the case, the sex ed programs here don't promote fallacious negative images about people's sexuality because of genital shape
mircea_popescu: in square meters i mean.
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: the size of the folds of ones labia is not directly proportional to sexual activity, but only differs with natural variation from person to person... your logic is invalid for calling that slutty... or is this just your headcanon for that particular pony? in which case, I agree, she's awful
kuzetsa: oosp, I spelled rp0nz wrong
mircea_popescu: well, lettuce see. the submarine is submerged. it does not care about "weather" in either fluid sense. with the new fleshlights and tumblr pr0nz... i defy you to find a bunch of 20somethings whose current life would be differen if they were subbed.
asciilifeform: eed to love the sea. Spend a little time with Moitessier, Slocum, and the like; read this fine collection, and possibly this (pretty much all of Jonathan Raban's books are good); etc, etc. Yes, I'm aware that seasteading is not yachting. I'm aware that no one intends to take their floating poles around Cape Horn. But you are still at sea, and a subject of Neptune you remain.'
mircea_popescu: it's not that familiar to me, i'm a sf noob/ignoramus :D
mircea_popescu: destroy land/wealth equivalency << this is gone , actually, which is why i rent.
ThickAsThieves: i guess they might be quoting a person
mircea_popescu: i won't know for a while yet, so ah well.