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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i bet you that if you asked indian teens today, the millionaire speaker ee guy is more interesting a worship idol than the physicist.
decimation: I was wrong he was Amar, not Aram, my memories betray
decimation: ah okay I'm thinking Bose of the bose speaker empire
decimation: I'm sure being India there's a caste aspect to it too
decimation: I think it would be great. Young engineers would occupy the greybeard's old shacks, and repeat his experiments
mircea_popescu: i told people of my engineer park yurt design
asciilifeform: i spent a good deal of today checking list of things that won't be coming to new flat, and it includes virtually everything
decimation: yeah the average usian moves every 7 years as i recall
mircea_popescu: by the time they're falling apart i was just about leaving
mircea_popescu: it matches my lifestyle perfectly, i get to a new place, buy a set of the plastic shits
mircea_popescu: absurdly, this part i like.
decimation: I was thinking about this the other day. Almost every technology advance has been used in the US to reduce quality and increase prices. Cell phones go from 25 kHz analog channel to 10 kbit/s "channel"
asciilifeform: plastic in the sense of a trash bag i once had the misfortune to keep some machines in - that fell into ten thousand pieces
asciilifeform: i've some essayturds buried somewhere, on the death of craftsman.
mike_c: artifexd: yeah, i don't know which way that bet is going to go, but it will be a bumpy ride.
TestingUnoDosTre: oh my fuck, you're telling me I could have just bet both sides at the beginning and won?
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm very confused to what MPIF actually is. Can someone explain? I have read the mpex page, but it has not enlightened me to what is exactly going on
decimation: asciilifeform: http://www.bulldogtrust.com/index12.htm more ham strange (I enjoyed your diodes) -- "A wrought iron table 60 feet from the antenna will pick up enough energy to make a visible arc to ground"
mircea_popescu: yes, like 1mn and a little sold, and i have almost 1mn which is sitting in the book
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well jd and panacea have histories. I'm assuming my pc is high risk until evidence supports otherwise.
mike_c: i thought the block of 1mn that sold was you selling your shares in mpif
decimation: I doubt he has the actual power to do s
BingoBoingo: I kind of actually hope the Sterling dude exercises ownership by abolishing the Clippers.
bitcoinpete: A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."
bounce: uhm. I think I see where you're coming from but the essence/substance thing doesn't speak to me. maybe I'm tired.
mircea_popescu: suppose i walk into a 3rd year computer science class at mit, and proceed to make the kids do one arithmetic problem, and then once they fuck it up make them do one hundred, by hand,
bounce: hard to tell. would depend a lot on how it's sold to the troops. I'll grant doing it without selling won't buy you anything except perhaps the troops' stuff to carry too.
mircea_popescu: you essentially couldsn't get married if you didn't do well i nthe military, so italso self-selected.
mircea_popescu: ok, let me work the latin military example, i think it's the best way in.
mircea_popescu: i;m arguing against trying to implement attempts at eating-and-keeping cake.
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu i see what you mean. perhaps the welfare deal could've only happened in the new world on the back of a sizeable military victory? never before, never again
bounce: I don't see it?
mircea_popescu: bounce no no, what i mean is quite this : the trannies in florida get the silicone to look a certain way. the african tribesmen get the cut to be a certain way. there's a meta level of distinction.
bounce: o_O? inasmuch all of life is educational, if you believe wossname esotherics. I'd rather say it's part of being part of the group. we're social, group-minded animals.
mircea_popescu: this somehow switched, 180. and i can't find when, or why.
mircea_popescu: i mean this welfare nonsense is a) very recent and b) never seems to have been critically considered.
mircea_popescu: but why ? cause that's what i'm trying to understand.
bounce: my angle was I'd rather have the masses have medically sound care than not, regardless of their stupidity.
mircea_popescu: i tell you, it's connected!
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: what more could i ask for? this bc merlot ain't half bad either
bounce: oh no, I was on about the multisig idea underpinning a webwallet thingy
mircea_popescu: i disagree. i'd rather see them hurt than served.
mircea_popescu: well no, i selected the "what to do about idiots". you seemed to say that well... empowering their idiocy through catering to their whims is a net positive.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete the wench brings the drinks, i bring the lolz, is it ? :D
mircea_popescu: and only because i was just writing on this, and my conclusion was "burn it with fire"
mircea_popescu: kinda the point i
mircea_popescu: <bounce> I don't particularly like the model, but if above assumptions hold it's not acutally an outright bad idea. << what's that then ?
bounce: anyway, I wasn't commenting on validity really
bitcoinpete: well i'll let someone else be their guinea pig ;)
bounce: I don't particularly like the model, but if above assumptions hold it's not acutally an outright bad idea.
kakobrekla: lol i didnt know we had btc elevator
mircea_popescu: i guess im slow.
BingoBoingo: I prefer TNF-A
BingoBoingo: bitcoinpete: Of course it has, but I'm not sure calling it wealth is the right thing.
punkman: "This is the kind of stuff with which I have to deal due to the cyberbullying attacks on me.  The girl, Allison, who was supposed to start working here, today, was a no-call, no-show. "
BingoBoingo: supay: With OpenBSD remember to read the documentation before you install it. Also remember I want bitcoind 0.7, not the newer bullshit.
supay: I'll get started right away.
BingoBoingo: supay: If the like the guide I post it to my blog crediting you as the author and link to your WoT profile.
supay: BingoBoingo: sure! I'll give it a shot! :)
BingoBoingo: supay: Write a nice guide shoot it to me. I'll give you 0.01 BTC and a 1 rating on the WoT.
BingoBoingo: supay: If you wrote a guide to building Bitcoind 0.7 with the modifications to work on the right blockchain, on OpenBSD 5.5 I'd give you a plus one.
supay: BingoBoingo: Not very much tbh. I usually work on Debian, Ubuntu and Arch.
supay: bounce: I am familiar with relational algebra yes, because I am in the sophomore year at my university and am studying RDBMS.
supay: kakobrekla: no i cant.
bounce: no, no I don't understand. but I don't think I want to understand either. esp. since I'm all out of drink.
mircea_popescu: i love punkman links.
mircea_popescu: i just had to pour myself a triple drink because well... my brain knotted.
pankkake: I'm afraid so, I forgot about the first suspension
mircea_popescu: did i get the story right here ?
tradingloser: because i did that boring warren buffet thing where you know consistent revenue will come and you buy and hold for a long time. hopefully, multisignature is the future.
tradingloser: Honestly, I lost like 88% so I just put it in some escrow verification company that just earns revenue ripping people
tradingloser: kakobrekla.. thats is the worst skill I have.
supay: Desktop applications, mobile applications, websites. I have also done some penetration testing.
supay: BingoBoingo: I have maximum experience with Java. But my C and Python are pretty good too. Apart from that, I used to develop web apps. I'm great at the LAMP framework.
BingoBoingo: supay: I know you mentioned Java is the main thing you've worked with. What other languages have you played with?
mircea_popescu: <tradingloser> Well hoping for a new start. I took what looks like the remains of neobee and cryptoshitstocks over to bitcoinbourse. hoping for the best. <<< ahahah
moiety: i*
moiety: benkay: just don't feel like a got anything done today and i hate days like that
supay: BingoBoingo: I agree. Thanks, am looking into it atm.
tradingloser: Well hoping for a new start. I took what looks like the remains of neobee and cryptoshitstocks over to bitcoinbourse. hoping for the best.
supay: BingoBoingo: I see.. interesting.
tradingloser: moiety, im no lawyer so I guess so.
tradingloser: that's the most love I gotten since high school.
fluffypony: tradingloser: I love you
tradingloser: okay.. so i guess im in a double whammy.. i suck at trading + on a site where people always lose money..
fluffypony: tradingloser: I don't use either
fluffypony: I sleep.
pankkake: I think I remember ziproxy
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> hmm i think i had a good reason regarding that lemme think << pwned.
fluffypony: and I'm not talking about -cjvf and -xvf
fluffypony: after nearly 20 years of tar I still forget how to use it all the time
supay: nah, I just use google
fluffypony: supay: I think you miss my point; I am far from a "gui-addict"
fluffypony: I hate windows, but honestly unix is a piece of shit from a usability perspective
supay: I find unix more friendly than windows
jurov: i got some ridiculously positive responses for such lame http proxy server
jurov: when i was student, i maintained ziproxy.sourceforge.net
jurov: supay but since you did not mention some own pet projects, i abandoned that inquiry
bounce: now everybody goes "pwease mistah benkay sir, can I haz ratings too?"
supay: jurov: I wonder why you were asking me if I could code?