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mircea_popescu: "Hello! If you're going to Burning Man, have
a great burn, and welcome to our Financial Times readers too." ?
The20YearIRCloud: These are the ones that use the thorium fluid, they're between
a traditional reactor and
a RTG
JuliaTourianski_: I just did
a cool interview with viney gupta on the subject, editing now actually. first time ive been hopeful in
a while
mats_cd03: via selling commercial portable fission reactor designs to the rest of the world at
a nice markup
The20YearIRCloud: "interesting" shouldn't be
a point of conversation about anything energy related
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski_ it's not really that exponential. and the price is
a minute consideration, the cost is the main point.
JuliaTourianski_: solar is halving in price quite quickly and getting more and more powerful exponentially...wind is iffy. take
a lot to maintain. costly. ugly. kills the eagles :P
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud hydro only works where you have
a river ; wind only works where you have ... the equivalent phenomenon, in the air fluid.
bounce: time to set up
a research institute and write some billionaires for research funding, then buy up all the patents and the research groups and make them work together
The20YearIRCloud: Anyone that talks about photovoltaics and windmills as
a answer to anything should be immediately ignored
mircea_popescu: srsly, energy research is not
a bad idea nor
a bad goal.
mircea_popescu: bounce and not
a bad way to spend some money, at that.
bounce: it's going to need
a lot of money to beef up the "renewable" tech tho
The20YearIRCloud: Every time i dive into renewable energy numbers I always find
a pile of lies
Duffer1: the article i read sounded like they plegded
a 50b divestment
The20YearIRCloud: From what i had read, only
a specific branch of their total investment fund was going to go to clean energy, and it was
a low number
The20YearIRCloud: It's not
a huge number from what i read the other day, like $50m
Duffer1: i'd be curious to see how small
a fraction of their total holdings that is
mircea_popescu: then they broke the interface, i took
a break, forgot about it, then rediscovered it after
a coupla years and reused it for i dunno,
a few months
jurov: i once tried taco bell in.. canada. not
a fond memory.
mthreat: i once saw
a "Texan" restaurant in belgium. The menu looked nothing like any food I'd ever seen in Texas.
Dimsler: The20YearIRCloud, for once, i'd like to sit down and have
a real steak or chicago style pizza anywhere in europe
mircea_popescu: ;;rate JuliaTourianski_ 1 Manages the beer for
a family owned Russian bathouse with handmage sausages in Mississauga.
bounce: "manage the beer". sounds like
a heady job, eh.
The20YearIRCloud: maybe you can get
a glorious discount if paid in bitcoins/litecoins
gribble: Error: "import" is not
a valid command.
The20YearIRCloud: Granted what I want here/columbus is
a nice steakhouse that gets their meat locally, rather than from China or 500mi aways
mircea_popescu:
a settled russian population either has its own and won't use yours or does without and won't use yours.
The20YearIRCloud: cleveland has
a pretty big russian population compared to columbus though
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski_ you know i'm still looking for
a mpex mascot.
Dimsler: the rest of them are just right back to introductionary speaches and covering the same topic
a million times
Dimsler: JuliaTourianski_, theres only like 1-2
a year worth going to
mircea_popescu: srsly. you know you're being outdone by
a noob girl over here.
bounce: gribble is
a bit stupid and nanotube won't change the confused wording there. yes I asked. oh well.
gribble: (changeaddress <bitcoinaddress>) -- Changes your registered address to <bitcoinaddress>. You will be given
a random passphrase to sign with your new address, and submit to the bot with the 'bcverify' command. You must be authenticated in order to use this command.
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski_ there's
a special command to add an address if the acct is reg'd already
Dimsler: mircea_popescu, hahaha that episode is
a classic
gribble: Error: Username already registered. Try
a different username.
Dimsler: last time had
a blast in nyc at the btc conference
Dimsler: the toronto conference was
a regurgitation of miami
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud canada is not foreign and barely
a country :D
The20YearIRCloud: i'd like to go to the toronto bitcoin conference next time it's around. That way I can say i've been in
a foreign country before :D
The20YearIRCloud: I have
a friend in bulgaria, he has some pretty cool things going on
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski_ so now that you're all set up into personhood, come up with something to do so that the almighty powers of the b-
a can support you
Dimsler: but i snagged up
a condo for $5kusd
Dimsler: its
a marathon of misinformation and greed
gribble: Error: 'why' is not
a valid integer.
The20YearIRCloud: It's amazing how quickly we came out of
a $1 billion dollar/year budget deficit to having
a $2b surplus and cash in the bank
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud anchovies are eaten matured, which means, salted and kept in extra virgin olive oil for
a dozen weeks
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud if that's true, which it could be depending how you define "economy", then the country is
a lot more stable than it looks
The20YearIRCloud: i'd venture to say that 1/4th of all money paid in the US is via
a non-taxable, cash event
The20YearIRCloud: Like with that BP oil spill, there were hundreds, maybe thousands of fishermen that were all cash businesses who claimed only $50k on taxes, but in fact were doing $500k-$1m/year just themselves with
a boat, and BP only re-embursed them based on what they claimed on taxes
The20YearIRCloud: Lake erie is fantastic, all the great lakes are. What's in trouble are coastal waters as the government has
a pretty stupid deal to 'help' fishermen on the coats
mircea_popescu: i heard the us fish and wildlife's been spending
a lot to repopulate inland waters.
The20YearIRCloud: It's about 2hrs from me, rent
a boat and get all the perch you want for
a $25 yearly permit
The20YearIRCloud: We're less than
a day away from the atlantic ocean, only 2 from the pacific
mircea_popescu: ohio is landlocked what are you talking about 5 bucks
a lb
The20YearIRCloud: around here we buy and crush up
a few multivitamins + flinstones chewables, and make into the HFCS syrup
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud i dunno where you find your women, but
a coupla hundred bucks doesn't buy
a month's worth of groceries.
The20YearIRCloud: Eh,
a roll of silver dollars is pretty portable and decently valuable
JuliaTourianski_: -NickServ- [juliatourianski@gmail.com] is not
a valid email address.
mircea_popescu: it is, but it's things like not putting
a ton of meaningless markup and generally it's "not doing idiotic shit"
mircea_popescu: because it'll save you the chagrin of working for
a year as bitcoinpete only to change it later to pete d
bounce: doesn't have
a search-by-keyid thingy, does it?
julia_: am I still
a puppet? or maybe I'm actually interested in this stuff. hmmmm
julia_: ive had that for
a while, i didn;t know this part "pgp is the standard. gpg is the gnu implementation thereof." thanks
ben_vulpes: brought her around once upon
a time for
a reason mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: as long as you use gpg, you're an individual, and can be interacted with as such. as long as you use anything else, including nothing at all, you're not, and whatever you may like to think or claim, can never actually be interacted with as an individual, except if you live in
a 1900s reenaction camp where the intenret doesn't exist.
julia_: i have
a PGP key, that's different ye?
ben_vulpes: (julia_: that's
a good place to start with creating your own keys and keeping them safe. this is just as important as keeping your btc privkey safe, if not more so.)
mircea_popescu: julia_ lemme explain the difference. all usable encryption is based on asymetric keys. this is
a keyword you can look up.