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BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> nuclear ablation for countries full of uppity californirasts, fortunately, just as practical.
<< Time the explosions, maybe get a couple micrometers further from sun for bonus cooling
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> whatever happened to telegram or w/e it was the one they did buy ?
<< Whatsapp, still bringing SMS to pinoys everywhere
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> totally. what the fuck is kik anyway, the irrelevant nonservice that facebook didn't buy for a trillion ?
<< Porno messenger promoted through craigslist spam
kanzure: ben_vulpes: well, low-cost non-shading approaches might be
<$1B but i have given those less thought. you can deploy nukes for less than $1B (like to change orbit parameters) but that also causes other problems that would be viewed as more extreme than climate change.
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2017-08-30 17:25 asciilifeform: 10:13
< kanzure> someone is complaining "$1B to fix climate change is too cheap and nobody is going to believe you"
a111: Logged on 2017-08-30 17:28 asciilifeform: 10:13
< kanzure> someone is complaining "$1B to fix climate change is too cheap and nobody is going to believe you"
a111: Logged on 2017-08-22 06:04 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-21#1701493 << he has a point, incidentally. the notion of ~approximating~ numeric machine is about as batshit insane as the notion of concave airplane or open-ended circulatory system.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-30 05:59 mircea_popescu: kanzure
http://ledgerx.com/is-btc-real << this is uniquely stupid. for one thing, the "conceptualization" of bitcoin as a "real number" is below sophomoric. there is no such thing as a "btc", properly speaking ; it's satoshis all the way down, and they are integers.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-30 08:34 spyked:
http://archive.is/rHrjj <-- this might be of (very limited) interest re wintel x86 discussion. mostly for amusement
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> as i understand, all adrenergics are roughly similar ( in same way as all liquors, say ) in basic flavour of effect
<< Cocaine+MAOI=death Methamphetamine+MAOI=safe-ish
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> as if i fucking need to squeeze 120% out of a party. why ? if i like it that much ima just do it again nextweek, for +100%.
<< Gotta address the biohackers and their "Drugs are bad, let's edit the meat" crowd.
mircea_popescu: kanzure
http://ledgerx.com/is-btc-real << this is uniquely stupid. for one thing, the "conceptualization" of bitcoin as a "real number" is below sophomoric. there is no such thing as a "btc", properly speaking ; it's satoshis all the way down, and they are integers.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1705091 << pretty much everyone here is fluent in multiple languages. and, just like not being monetarily poor, not being linguistically poor is an imperative for the civilised man. so no, it's not acceptable to not speak languages anymore than it's acceptable to eat frozen dinners.
☝︎ kanzure: yes but he said something like
<1000 or whatever
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1704926 << i was actually wondering about that. how exactly does it exist ? like, could i buy one ? is the bar of ontology here "i have a description of how it could be made" ? or "i have one in my kitchen and there's the lsit of how i made it" ? or "you can have one made for 20 bux, send here" ? or what ?
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 14:26 asciilifeform: 19:41
<@fenn> the patent was the excuse everyone used for not sharing their homegrown plasmids
mircea_popescu:
<@fenn> guh. so i've been thinking about building a boat so i can just put all my stuff in the boat and live in the boat and sail wherever i want to go
<< check that out asciilifeform ! he may wanna go halvsies on orlol's tub ?
mircea_popescu: in other lulz,
<@fenn> nobody ever got rich by not asking for money
<< i don't recall my ever asking anyone.
mircea_popescu: in fairness 12 is not terrible anyway. avg line
< 6 words is a great heuristic for "collection of monkeys and idiots"
mircea_popescu:
<@fenn> why is there no "hardware liberation front" that hacks peoples computers for driver documentation?
<< 2014.
mircea_popescu:
< kanzure> what's the fastest microcritter and how fast would the travel have to be to keep up (including opencv delays)?
<< some spore shooting organisms do crazy shit like 20m/s speeds reached within a fraction of a second / the first milimeter of travel.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> and randomly : if you like to barbecue (good for you) do me a favour and buy yourself a bottle of 98% alcohol to use instead of whatever petrochem crap you use for a starter, either that horrid plastic brick thing or else cancerliquid. tyvm.
<< Aluminum "chimney" and newspaper ftw
mircea_popescu:
< kanzure> well who's at the top then
<< i am, aren't i.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> there's no automatic fuck yous.
<< Penis in butt?
mircea_popescu: "Why is the FBI focused on the amateur side, and such a higher risk or higher threat from people coming out of the more traditional sciences?"
<< because people coming from "traditional" are already neutered.
mircea_popescu:
< kanzure> also it's because i feel ashamed for not having thousands of hours of microscopy video already
<< i hope shame intensifies. but in any case : why the fuck wouldf you make it video.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> aaactually deathray is one of the few items that stayed quite the same since 1890.
<< Nah, now they jacket the mass of lead atoms with a different metal
mircea_popescu:
< kanzure> jrayhawk_: would you be willing to host a microscope? responsibilities would include keeping it plugged in and internet connected. also there would be an irc bot that controls where it looks. you'd also be pestered to load samples periodically.
<< did this 2014 idea ever get implemented ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<@fenn> just dumping this rare element overboard for no reason other than we don't feel like keeping it anymore
<< speaking of He, it's pretty much the only material in which usg has a monopoly. china and to some degree russia own the rare earths/heavy metals, but teh u7s got teh heliumz.
BingoBoingo:
<kanzure> fbi was concerned that we were bioterrorists
<< Eh, back in summer 2014-ish FBI and Department of Treasury knocked on my door. I did the sane thing and blogged it.
mircea_popescu: "If you are using city water, filter it. If you are using a closed circuit flow system, check the water and change it every six weeks or so, or drop a few drops of Algaecide in the recirculator. Better yet, use diluted Dow Frost.
<< howling shits, who uses anything but prop glycol for this ?! srsly, water ? you spring 20 bux for your car, but want the laser free ?
mircea_popescu: and speaking of
< kanzure> there is a certain amount of equipment you need before you can do useful biology things
<< hey kanzure do you have children ?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> shinohai do they all wear that kinda suit ? could be worth a lotta lulz.
<< It's a black thing
mircea_popescu: 1704882
<< line count, conveniently provided by phf. closing in on 2 mn.