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julia_: nothing is that difficult. it's only
a matter of bothering i find.
bounce: what was it again, there's
a few people, among them an activist married couple from texas, that have lots of undue influence in the content of schoolbooks in large parts of the us, because they influence the texas schoolboard with their personal agenda, then that cascades through the system by sheer force of purchase volume
ben_vulpes: but if you're stuck with
a tool that holds you'll only ever want to en/decrypt emails, you've been sold
a load.
julia_: I'm learning still. if you told me I'd be beta testing open bazaar
a few months ago I'd just go wide eyed
ben_vulpes: julia_: there's no cost to WoT entry beyond showing up with keys. if you can decrypt
a string encrypted to your public key, you can enter the WoT.
julia_: mailvelope is strictly
a gmail addon i believe
bounce: lack of
a central steering committee with clear agenda
mircea_popescu: chetty really ?! i'd have thought there's not even
a dozen that can be bothered.
chetty: wow, its
a general statemant julia_ , I keep my eyes open too, lot of would be puppet masters out there
julia_: ye, like everything else. people are born into systems thinking they owe those systems something, and they can;t fathom living
a different way
mircea_popescu: she paradoxically has
a point there.
a lot of low level / common man thinking happens as
a linguistic and paralinguistic construct
julia_: I think there's generational propaganda, different in every region. but if
a minority of people escape the thinking they've been granted by states and the framework of their time, then they can build alternative systems.
julia_: no- he was saying I was
a puppet earlier :P
julia_: well if it's too soon, how can I know? :P I think ideas have to just manifest and find
a vehicle. I'd like to be
a vehicle for something that can affect change. maybe that will never happen...but process is fun. I've learned
a lot...more to come I'm sure. I'm very raw still. so don't assume I think much of myself because I don't in fact that's the only thing that gets to me.
julia_: ""I believe in doing things too soon. In striking before the iron is hot, in leaping before one has looked, in loving before one has been introduced. Nearly all the great and exciting things in life have been done by men who did them too soon. It was far, far too soon for Columbus to set out on his crazy trip to the New World. The ether was not ready for Beethoven when he began
a symphony on
a dominant seventh. Shelley,
julia_: is this where bitcoin happens? hmm what
a claim. I see it happening elsewhere
mircea_popescu: chetty more like, if she does next time someone makes
a julia_ and starts talking here we can tell if it's her or not
bounce: you probably should anyway. with
a bitcoin address if you're not into the gpg key waving thing
julia_: And I find it odd that people think I'm
a puppet. My content would be
a lot better if I was...I hope
mircea_popescu: kay so going for
a meeting. if anyone asks tell 'em i'ma be back in about an hour. laters!
jurov: whole article is
a mess
mircea_popescu: jurov wait someone wrote an "aggressive" supoena for
a github repo ?
jurov: placing
a js miner = fraud...
nubbins`: "i worked from ages 15-20 and now own
a house"
nubbins`: best part is when she says she's been working since age 15 and now owns
a house, car, and motorcycle
mircea_popescu: "Tridevil has aspirations to be
a reality star, and hopes to get
a show on MTV." woman does not want to date, because she wants to be on mtv.
mircea_popescu: jurov storing
a car outside is unlikely to be invented soon
thestringpuller: hmm wireless charging has yet to become
a thing even though the tech has existed
a century
nubbins`: yes, certainly
a third breast will help her escape unwanted attentions
thestringpuller: maybe someone invents
a battery that can hold
a charge for
a lifetime and it's all moot
mircea_popescu: otherwise in
a closed tank its own vapor pressure prevents it
mircea_popescu: Fuel matters Petrol will stay fresh in
a sealed container for about
a year
assbot: Leaving
a car unused | AA
thestringpuller: i imagine with
a tesla you just bring
a single battery with you and drive to chargin station
thestringpuller: so you may need to tow the vehicle to
a shop to do "wake up from comatose" work on it
thestringpuller: also depending on climate control the starter system could go dead in long term storage of
a car
thestringpuller: you'd have to do the same thing for if you put
a combustion vehicle in long term storage
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller so what do i do, take
a laptop battery to the tesla, start it enough to drive to charging station ?
mircea_popescu: much like the smartphone revolution is to
a large degree, for the anthropologist at least, "the phone you can't forget about"
mircea_popescu: this is
a very interesting sidepoint to the whole electric car thing.
a car YOU MUST FIDDLE WITH
mircea_popescu: so how long should
a li-ion battery hold its charge without discarching or recharging ?
a month ?
a year ?
nubbins`: technicality cafe: would you like
a seat by the window?
mircea_popescu: it occurs to me this conversation is grossly inappropriate for
a serious, professional, tech minded channel
nubbins`: jesus, somebody get me
a whiteboard marker
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller bout same that the woman can effectualy become
a slave, 16 to 26 or w/e. definitely not past 30, metabolism goes to shit.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell jborkl yeah not
a bad plane for the 200k it costs. prolly the best bird that money can buy.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron oh, the rub is this is some twerp that wanted to have invented "bitcoin independence" except hadn't done their trilema reading and was nonplussed to find
a) it's old and b) the people who did it aren't impressed with kids sitting on their ass "changing thr world" through verbiage.
mircea_popescu: on the plus side, til there exists
a dude named xavier zappa. now that's not
a bad name.
nubbins`: buddy of mine has
a dog named water
mircea_popescu: i knew
a chick that had named her cat Dog, but at least that was
a) funny and b) not the cat's doing. too much pseudo-irony for lyfe.
mats_cd03: i discovered
a while ago that visual basic 6 was used for
a front end on
a .mil dish that provided internet connectivity to personnel in the field
nubbins`: "wear
a suit, it'll make you look good"
cazalla: but no, she might be dumb but she popped up almost
a year ago with all these videos, from what i've seen and heard from her, she's
a puppet for someone else
BingoBoingo: In
a few millenia the archeaologist will appreciate that.
mircea_popescu: "Just because someone says he suffers, does not mean he does, and even if he does, that does not mean it is anyone's business. Quite the contrary,
a lot of really bad people successfully manipulate others by lying about how they suffer and exploit the natural tendency of better humans to feel compassion for sufferers."
mircea_popescu: herpy-derp. as if it's avoidable. in
a totalitarian regime the state takes control, of everything. until it all goes to shit in
a monolithic piece.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is like its sister, "how the hedge fund masquerading as
a 'research' university can take control of the professor/researcher"
assbot: How To Discourage
a Doctor | The Health Care Blog
mircea_popescu: decimation: why lock yourself in
a tiny box when you have the tools to build
a mansion? << because you're
a vampire and the casket with your home dirt feels cosiest ?
moldysnizz: I might have to put in
a driveway first. :P
moldysnizz: About to get
a solar panal set up on the roof. The charge controler came in the other day.
moldysnizz: Fix'n up an RV I bought
a couple of months ago.
decimation: to the point, though - it's clear that only
a crazy person or
a fanatic would wear the 'hair shirt' of emacs defaults. why lock yourself in
a tiny box when you have the tools to build
a mansion?
decimation: asciilifeform: re: "emacs aptitude test" << yeah I'm realizing I need to remap everything to become more productive, like
a young apprentice ought. It is good to learn the default keybindings in case one needs to use some strange terminal without your own .emacs though -- not
a situation where one should expect to be productive
TheNewDeal: ;;rate nubbins` 2 sold me
a pair of bitcoin silkscreen posters. packaging could have withstood ww3
TheNewDeal: ;;rate nubbin` 2 sold me
a pair of bitcoin silkscreen posters. packaging could have withstood ww3
nubbins`: "so i guess you could buy
a pen if you wanted to..."
nubbins`: applied as an onion skin over
a convoluted permissions-based content management system
nubbins`: between two major versions of sharepoint server, microsoft rewrote all the APIs and shuffled around all the names, so that what once was called an X is now called
a Y, and what was once called
a Y is now called
a Z
xmj: ben_vulpes: why do you do FORMS for
a client?
nubbins`: just because anyone with
a set of arms can do it doesn't mean it's honest
ben_vulpes: you also labor under an actual education in what comprises
a computer.
ben_vulpes: then the rocket folks gave me
a tour of the life i could expect derping on the sexiest atom stacks around
ben_vulpes: but also entirely replaceable anywhere with
a 1960s industrial toolchain.
nubbins`: you're
a stick welder ahead of my print shop so far
ben_vulpes: the actual tools i now own are hacksaws, japanese wood saws, various jigs, shitty quick-grip clamps,
a stick welder (in the business-partner's garage),
a cutoff saw (ibid), and
a circular saw (...).
ben_vulpes: once upon
a time i built furnaces, tables, cabinetry, play-vehicles for the e-peen at burning man...
ben_vulpes: in re-packing the toolbox today i had
a moment of gloom over all the tools i've abandoned over the years.