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xanthyos: if i could enjoy
a bachelor pad i'd love it
cazalla: xanthyos, it just sounds like you're bitching about
a bachelor pad
rithm: what is
a tinychat
xanthyos: maybe it's good that my emotional vomit is taken with such
a cavalier attitude here
xanthyos: i try to pretend it's nto
a serious medical problem
xanthyos: i find myself under
a faucet of some kind or other for several hours
a day
xanthyos: i use tinychat because i'm fucking depressed and i get stuck in my room for weeks at time or stuck at the ktichen sink for
a 40 minute block
gribble: Error: 'xanthyos' is not
a valid integer.
mircea_popescu: is it that the slave is actually
a better human being, strictly for having had the sense to be
a slave, and follow the will of
a worthy master
mircea_popescu: “The poor citizen found almost all the spheres in which an honourable livelihood might be obtained wholly or at least in
a very great degree preoccupied by slaves, while he had learnt to regard trade with an invincible repugnance." <<< here's
a good question. how come the "free citizen" aka, delusional derp can not compete with the slave ?
ben_vulpes: as if
a million log readers wondered what happened to
a slave's salary, and were suddently silenced
mircea_popescu: i so loathe it when people try to serve
a solid point by pious fraud.
mircea_popescu: "Also he possessed
a wife and child. This, too, was
a great innovation."
ben_vulpes: i felt
a great disturbance in the blockchain
ben_vulpes: drew
a parallel between mining and weaving
mircea_popescu: right ? turning
a simple one way consumer into an actual integrated cycle is huge.
mircea_popescu: your costs ? .18 + .3 = ~.5 MJ to keep
a 1MW circuit going perpetually.
mircea_popescu: this water has another .7MJ added by
a nuclear power plant, turns to steam, powers
a turbine, putting out 1MW of electricity which restarts the cycle.
mircea_popescu: well, why not ? let me run
a quick model for you here.
JorgePasada: It's just that, if we're still talking about the vertically integrated mining thing, I don't see it as
a viable play to accumulate wealth
mircea_popescu: dermined the basis of social stability, by substituting the bonds established by “contract” for those dependent on “status” as
a basis for social order." are little more than present nonsense anachronised.
mircea_popescu: "The resultant society, however, was still reasonably stable and probably would have lasted
a very long time if it had not been for Rome’s expansionist policies, which led to the establishment of the Empire." << this notion, that it was "expansionism" that broke rome's back, together with the previous "Its power was not based on hereditary status but much more on wealth. Such
a change in itself must have seriously un
JorgePasada: mircea_popescu: No, but you'd have to find
a way to not make it
a 100% deep 0% wide business, you'd need wiggle room
cazalla: eventually someone will come up with the idea of renaming the ponzi to
a mining simulator and pitch it as such
JorgePasada: cazalla: People actually think GAW is anything but
a ponzi scheme?
mircea_popescu:
a well, sure, plenty of scams. those are of little consequence.
mircea_popescu: cazalla just between you and me, this bullshit "cloud mining" is
a step away from pool mining in the utterly wrong direction.
decimation: "
A former U.S. ambassador who had dealt with Lavrov at the United Nations described him to me as disciplined, witty and charming,
a diplomat so skilled “he runs rings around us in the multilateral sphere.”"
decimation: interesting. one can probably determine
a fair bit by examine the phase of the sine
mircea_popescu: no, but if you only can afford 10 hours
a week, what do you do ?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, it's intermittent, can't get
a post up though :\
mircea_popescu: i suppose one could put their bed on
a gravimeter, the evaluate the fucking quality
decimation:
http://spaceweather.com/ "Some experts reading these reports on Spaceweather.com have pointed out that X-rays and gamma-rays represent only
a fraction of the radiation present at aviation altitudes. The true dose could be doubled or tripled by neutrons,
a component of cosmic rays known to be especially good at delivering energy to human tissue. "
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> the one thing i would do if permitted to walk in
a mega-vault of au is... bring
a pocket geiger along (the kind that logs to flash rom, not the kind that 'clicks') << video camera inline with sensor axis too, yeah?
mircea_popescu: (
a cockapede, being, of course,
a creature walking on its cocks)
mircea_popescu: your pauses are pregnant like
a thousand cockapedes fucked them raw.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03:you have potential for the stage my man << he has
a point, you know.
decimation: if
a lion could speak we would not understand him
mircea_popescu: so bookshop owner also had
a mechanic shop and the two were next to each other but the later was in argentina ?
mircea_popescu: you know the sort of blowjobs you'd get in moscow for
a pair of jeans, cca 1993 ?
JorgePasada: "Ok I'll let you in, even though I shouldn't. Don't come here again without
a plan."
nubbins`: happened to me once: "so you flew to london for
a day, spent
a week in marrakech... then back to london for 12 hours, and now back to canada?" "ah... when you put it that way..."
decimation: apparently if you camp for 3 months you deserve
a pension
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada me coming here, "where are you going to stay ?" "no idea" "you know i have to put something in the machine ?" "recomend
a good hotel ?" "x" "wut ?" "X!" "write it down wouldja" guy gives me
a postit. "ok, so that's where i'll be staying".
JorgePasada: "How do we know you won't stay here if you don't have
a return ticket?" - 'For starters I can work from wherever I want and It's 3 times the cost of living here..."
JorgePasada: "What do you mean you don't know?" - 'I mean I'm going to
a wedding and it's in 3 days and I have
a phone and the internet'
nubbins`: costs me at least
a couple hundred to leave this island
decimation: you don't need
a visa but the queen wouldn't mind
a tenner
mats_cd03: 21:04:31 <+asciilifeform> the one thing i would do if permitted to walk in
a mega-vault of au is... bring
a pocket geiger along (the kind that logs to flash rom, not the kind that 'clicks') << what would be the purpose of this exercise?
mircea_popescu: and it turns out it's
a ... tungsten rock, with
a few milimeters of gold on top
mircea_popescu: the lulz of all time, of course, is if someone finds
a ten or fifty cubic kilometer solid gold meteorite in the ice sheet, however deep
kakobrekla: unlikley is also
a block at 100 bn diff
mircea_popescu:
a pure gold meteorite is about as likely as
a prostitute with
a heart of gold
kakobrekla:
a reasonably sized undiscovered gold meteorite would change this significantly ?
kakobrekla: red dwarfs is as much as
a star as sun is
mircea_popescu: otherwise you just get
a jupiter, aka gas giant. not
a star, but
a planet.
mircea_popescu: but in fact stuff past nickel/iron requires
a supernva.
mircea_popescu: (contrary to common belief,
a ton of gold isn't that impressive
a pile_
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: agreed. unfortunately, unlike the blockchain, very few have personally witnessed
a real gold stash << actually, romanian central bank holds ~112 tons currently, you can pay ~15 bucks and go on
a tour
decimation: asciilifeform: agreed. unfortunately, unlike the blockchain, very few have personally witnessed
a real gold stash
decimation: asciilifeform: re: medium << usg had
a point, now encryption is 'available'
decimation: mircea_popescu: you make
a good point re: plastic forks - generally in the us they are supplied with low quality food
mats_cd03: 19:59:25 <fivezerotwo> wanna ddos anybody? <<
a nice PM. whaddya all think? got any targets?