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mircea_popescu: PeterL: yes, so something like
a millibit
a day if it is used frequently << an hour, actually.
ben_vulpes: if i recall correctly, japan's orbital vehicle got into orbit with no onboard control, just
a gravity turn.
ben_vulpes: i suspect trajectory planning had lots of sims run. fuel combinations, maybe
a few.
ben_vulpes: i never got
a good answer on how much monte carlo work went into the 60's space programs during the design phase and how much was back of the envelope estimating.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the more kinetic mommentum one can put behind the rocket, the lower total energy needed for
a successful launch
ben_vulpes: not really
a well engineered solution at the end of the day.
mircea_popescu: "It isn't just amateurs who use hydrogen peroxide in rocketry, and unfortunately some of the professionals have to "roll their own" as well. The only remaining supplier for rocket-grade peroxide (in the US at least) has
a policy of only selling to government contractors."
assbot: t.
A.T.u. - All The Things She Said - YouTube
mircea_popescu:
A samurai chemist and
a plain chemist walk into
a bar. The first says, “Can I have
a glass of H2O.” The second says “Can I have
a glass of water too.” The first chemist broke down in tears – his assassination attempt had failed.
kakobrekla: so the 1.2k
a month guy wont be coming back?
mircea_popescu: PeterL: The spec says to generate an address from hashing the text, is there
a way for other people to verify this? <<< yes. generate the address, spend the coins sent there.
mircea_popescu: PeterL: I have
a question about deedbot: << deedbot is currently dead and being reimplemented.
mircea_popescu: you could empty the casing, discard the compressor and then bbq INSIDE!!
A SMALL CUBE!
nubbins`: ask an albertan what he thinks of
a quebecer
mircea_popescu: aaanyway : generally you have
a point, in
a healthy organism i'm with the organism against the parasites
mircea_popescu: right, because they're here on
a legitimate business purpose such as to study o.O
nubbins`: but instead he gets
a rolex collection and buys 3 mansions in the usa
mircea_popescu: in fairness, the thing is designed to be able to "sleep" with two women, but
a) women doing it in pairs don't tend to be as bulky as these dudes, and moreover... you know.
mircea_popescu: so these three very excited, rusophone derps moved into the building, spent all morning banging around trying to get
a large ac unit installed (eventually welded it across on the frame, which was too small for it o.O) and now are playing loud russian pop music while making
a bunch of smoke inside
a small, 3x4 walled in cubical "balcony" of sorts, under the pretense of
a bbq
Adlai: some chemist had
a drunken lo-o-ol?
mircea_popescu: well basically the reason anything's an alcohol is because someone took
a hydrogen and pasted an -oh group.
mircea_popescu: "But I have to admit, I'd never thought much about the next analog of hydrogen peroxide. Instead of having two oxygens in there, why not three: HOOOH? Indeed, why not? This is
a general principle that can be extended to many other similar situations. Instead of being locked in
a self-storage unit with two rabid wolverines, why not three? Instead of having two liters of pyridine poured down your trousers, why not three?
mircea_popescu: not likely that gox'll be remembered much in
a year or two.
mircea_popescu: and it glides so well that if you catch an updrift trying to land you're gone, and can't make
a goround because unpowered.
mircea_popescu: reading up on the me komet. jesus christ,
a peroxide powered rocketplane that throws off its landing gear at takeoff, lands by sliding, unpowered and unsteered.
mircea_popescu: "24/12/13 Countdown reset due to delays, mailshot has copies of screenshots…merry xmas all ; 13/12/13 Sadly the beta release we wanted will be delayed by
a week or so, more details in the newsletter ; 27/11/13 We have the gui wireframes back from designers.."
kakobrekla: CM was described as
a "virtual company” by LTC-Global (and accordingly referred to as such in the CM Business Plan). However, as
a matter of English law, CM may be considered
a general partnership. If that is the case, then the 'shareholders' of CM - which includes yourself - would all be considered partners. As partners, they would all be jointly and severally liable for CM's debts, including the 'Bond'. It is therefore possible tha
assbot: [BTC-TC] CIPHERMINE.B1 -
a virtual corporate bond with
a 22% fixed-fiat APR
Anduck: mircea_popescu: nope not involved, just tested it
a bit
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: that's about 20k
a head if you imagine that expenditure is really "for the homeless". << Just think if they gave each homeless their aid cost for three years to move to Ohio... They'd be homed
mircea_popescu: irl,
a bunch of spoiled bratty chicks that *should* be working for max hardcore get to pretend like they're important, charitable and good.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: from wikipedia on San Francisco: "The city's homeless population has been estimated at 7,000 10,000 people ... The city spends $200 million
a year on homelessness related programs." << that's about 20k
a head if you imagine that expenditure is really "for the homeless".
Adlai: mircea_popescu: ok, reading over those has me thinking
a little
mircea_popescu: all these things with "food bank" and "shelter" and etc only exist because someone wants to fuck
a teenager somewhere. so it's
a perfect tool to get their social position enforced : unless the owner is actually sucking your cock, on
a per article basis, don't mention them. all problems solved and everyone happy thus.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: <cazalla> mircea_popescu: I could swear the original DOJ Press release didn't have the 'y', but it looks like that has been updated too. <<< budovsk is
a strange amount of name for an arthur to have.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: screens coming shortly. <<< i didn't know you were
a video guru :D
mircea_popescu: punkman: heh " It's your personal cheat sheet for Wall Street-level analysis of Silicon Valley-style companies." << you know, it's interesting to see how closely the www matches the needs, interests and representational abilities of
a community college drop-out.
assbot: Hell, ain't we about more fucked than
a whore at closin' time, huh?
Adlai: why not just use
a decentralized registry? (or is that the .wsbitcoin tld?)
PeterL: dunno, seemed like
a better place to hang out than bitcointalk
Adlai: oh nice, i even have laxo spam and
a blockchain tag already
mircea_popescu: yeah i think peterl has it. and do yourself
a favour and use your gpg sig
PeterL: with no ratings, it might just be easier to start
a new ident?
kakobrekla: well Adlai , i thought you could be
a good fit here
punkman: well it's gotta be
a valid deed and you gotta be in assbot's trust
PeterL: new game, pennyrace: throw up an empty deed and race to get the tenth of
a millibit it spits out
PeterL: or
a millibit
a month if infrequently?
PeterL: yes, so something like
a millibit
a day if it is used frequently
PeterL: Or are you counting on people not be greedy over
a millibit?
PeterL: so it becomes
a race to see who gets there first once the bundle is published?
punkman: maybe, or give people
a chance to sweep them
punkman: I take the hash of each deed, concatenate those to create the "bundle", then hash the bundle and make
a private key out of that
punkman: without creating
a private key, so the funds are burned
punkman: for existing deedbot, the whole bundle goes through sha256, then that hash is manipulated to create
a public address
PeterL: my idea: have the bot add
a line of random characters at one end of the text, hash the text in
a deterministic way to get
a privkey
PeterL: The spec says to generate an address from hashing the text, is there
a way for other people to verify this?
PeterL: Currently it posts the deed text and an address with
a transaction at
a certain time, is there
a way to verify that these go together?
PeterL: I have
a question about deedbot:
cazalla: i don't think it's really
a problem anyway
thickasthieves: there is
a decent plugin for setting up misc wordpress security, i think it's called ithemes now
Vexual: "If you thin you are
a state you prolly are
a state"
cazalla: maybe you go pay him
a visit and tell him to join Vexual
Vexual: but thats
a kinda food in shit out and whats the electricty bill look lik ekinda metric
punkman: I leave gourmet leftovers by the recycling sometimes, usually gone in
a few hours
Vexual: if you're not getting
a juice box and
a museli bar i presume you seek other food
punkman: so there ya go, 1 BTC = 3kg of rice per day for
a year
assbot: Logged on 10-10-2014 16:19:52; asciilifeform: afaik nobody actually cares how many pictures of ben franklin one can get for 1 btc. but if 1 btc buys, say, computer, or tractor, or half
a year of food, etc.
punkman: 1 BTC gets you almost
a ton of rice
cazalla: if they had any heart they'd be out stealing for
a living
gabriel_laddel: from wikipedia on San Francisco: "The city's homeless population has been estimated at 7,000 10,000 people ... The city spends $200 million
a year on homelessness related programs."
cazalla: i wonder if he would've done better putting off helping the homeless for
a few years, sitting on teh coins and then starting his homeless zoo when they were worth more
cazalla: i saw that story but ignored it because by setting up
a homeless sanctuary, this guy is gonna need donations forever
Vexual:
a few very big and
a few very small ?
gabriel_laddel: manager. what if you want to fiddle with something in the package you've installed
a (by definition) non-standard fashion? I hope you like grepping through sources, cause you're not gonna have M-. etc.
gabriel_laddel: thestringpuller: your client starts your visualization with the browser taking up 1/2 screen and resizes it. sure you're able to grab the relative location of all nodes and regenerate the whole graph to prevent it from having visual clipping errors, but UGH, fixing this requires CSS/HTML hackers. okay. someone has
a library that handles this. cool. you install this library how? JS doesn't have
a (standard) package
Vexual: are you making
a better datafox?
thestringpuller: D3 is tricky, I was introduced to it in
a class in 2013 and still don't know what the hell I'm doing without experts helping me ~_~
Vexual: i don't accept encypted coms as
a metter of course
gribble: Error: "idenitfy" is not
a valid command.