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BingoBoingo: IRC over Ham is a thing...
decimation: I strongly suspect you would need additional filtering if you were to use one in a 'civilized' manner
BingoBoingo: Ah, I'm more familiar with DX'ing as a sport
decimation: yeah, those are neat, except the most interesting part is the fact that you can capture a decent band
decimation: lol yeah you would have to pay me a fair amount of cash to get me to climb a tower in that suit in front of a live high-power transmit antenna
decimation: I just at a few raw figs, they were delicious
BingoBoingo keeps telling himself Mexico is only a 30 day walk away
decimation: "Washington's MRAP, valued at $733,000, was as "free" to the city as a diesel monster with a 74-gallon gas tank that guzzles down the road at 5 miles per gallon can be."
RagnarDanneskjol: it just looks like a turrett hatch to me
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform raytheon has been trying to prop up th emegahole in its balncesheet by selling a mini version to fed backed usg agencies.
asciilifeform: they had a mini version
mircea_popescu: pretty much all this expensive high tech crap dies a hoirrible death if confronted with chain mail.
mircea_popescu: i guess it's a great time to be an reenaction armorsmith
assbot: Photo of reporter I believe to be /ryanjreilly being cuffed and put in a police van minutes ago in /hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash http://t.co/l6olRUPk13
mircea_popescu: "Your right to assembly is not being denied," the police said later over a loudspeaker.
asciilifeform: is that a raytheon microwave cannon on the right hand side?
nubbins`: he's been getting a lot of work doing interactive media displays for big corps and stuff lately
asciilifeform: decimation: not a fan. abuse of poor c, just like cpp
nubbins`: i actually know a brilliant objective-c programmer
mircea_popescu: make a connection.
asciilifeform developed for 'ipad' once, a long time ago.
nubbins`: yes, you need a developer account ($99) to install code to your ipad or iphone
nubbins`: xcode itself is just a general ide. totally free
nubbins`: you need a developer account to load apps onto your idevice, sure
decimation: nubbins`: at least in the past you had to get a developer account
nubbins`: <+decimation> plus 'ipad gcc' (xcode) only runs on a mac, and you have to tell apple why you want it << you have to tell apple why you want xcode?
decimation: my bid for such a device is $100
asciilifeform hates epaper touch screens as a concept
mircea_popescu: i literally was confronted with obviously the same one (stupid) thing, once with a scantily clad "mobster" girl, then later with a scantily clad "medieval fantasy" girl.
mircea_popescu: we've created a fine empire of cacophonic nonsense, i tell you. such victory of civilisation ;/
decimation: plus 'ipad gcc' (xcode) only runs on a mac, and you have to tell apple why you want it (not that it would help without the app source)
mircea_popescu: and i think i am going to buy a hammer.
mircea_popescu: turns out... everything downloads in a patch-needed state
mircea_popescu: various random games. i got a tablet to check out what's going on in that space.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a normal unix box
mircea_popescu: it's the end of that accursed law, we can get back to humanity for a while.
Flerb: Why is this necessary? Was there a lot of spam?
mircea_popescu: let me know if it's still a pain.
mircea_popescu: everything is a trade.
nubbins`: i do occasionally write up comments in a text editor & paste em in
mircea_popescu: and other than that, it looks that you took at least a few seconds to type your comment in
mircea_popescu: there's a hidden form field based on your ip
mircea_popescu: not a secret, i even published the code.
dignork: Oh well, it's actually a feature, made me to reevaluate the fanciness and give up :)
dignork: ah, yes, possibly i was idling on a page, but then i reloaded, and it still didn't like me
mircea_popescu: sounds like the perfect party to host a pretend-win media party.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron the prepended dpb is actually fucking clever. how do you do it ? this must be a standard, ima put it on trilema too.
BingoBoingo: His referrals get tagged with a dpb_SiteName username
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I upped him, they followed a link here
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: the chess example, or its life version with debt, etc. is really a play on 'hilbert's hotel' << so it is. for as long as the theoretical properties of aleph-cardinals hold in real sets, well... why not.
RagnarDanneskjol: doesnt matter to me - long as he has a recruitment budget, which I highly doubt
BingoBoingo: los_pantalones: He was refered here by a link danielpbarron left on reddit, who is to say who he actually is?
kakobrekla: retard or scammer. doesnt make a diff.
pete_dushenski: kinda a slap to genghis and kublah but twas the style at the time
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: let the permanent record permanently reflect the permanent fact that the economist is a piece of toilet paper upon which down syndrome patients scribble whatever shit happens through their head. << kablamm!
assbot: So you think you're going to start a Bitcoin business, right?
dpb_reddit: I know a lot about this. Why assume I know nothing?
mike_c: armory phones home with a hash of your home directory ☟︎
RagnarDanneskjol: no - they are mostly right, you prolly have a lot to learn about all this stuff prior to launching a business, so consider this your hazing
RagnarDanneskjol: @ dpb_reddit - I am a tech recruiter. send me a detailed job requisition to admin@bitrecruiter.com and I'll see what i can do to help
Flerb: Well, we guarantee a very good profit rate
dpb_reddit: Have a nice day everyone, I am done here.
kakobrekla: you are honestly not having a clue.
BingoBoingo: dpb_reddit: But I mean why introduce risky trading bots as a first product to new users?
BingoBoingo: dpb_reddit: Like sell software that makes using and storing bitcoin a better experience
asciilifeform: if you could actually move judgement day off by a day without limit, it'd work
BingoBoingo: dpb_reddit: Still, why not for example make a fork of Armory that isn't spyware or something, what is this with trading bots
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the chess example, or its life version with debt, etc. is really a play on 'hilbert's hotel'
dpb_reddit: Anyways, I am not here to explain myself, or prove anything, simply trying to hire for a good startup company.
dpb_reddit: Yes, I know how to program, I am also currently creating my own coin as a project. I am involved in cryptos and trade on exchanges.
dpb_reddit: I have worked at a financial investment group, and have started startups freelanding around - currently have a lot of free time and this is one of my serious projects.
dpb_reddit: I am one of the 2 co-founders, currently a 5 man operation - we are launching in 5 weeks
dpb_reddit: Hi! CryptyLabs LLC will be creating a suite of services to make the use and accessibility of Bitcoins easier for everyone. The first product being created in our suite is trading software, commonly known as bots. We plan to launch in 5 weeks under they CryptyBots brand. We are looking for person(s) who can fill one or both of the following position(s): 1. Software/bot trading developer 2. Backtest Developer Best candidat
mod6: there isn't going to be a screen shot of that ;>
thestringpuller: a little bit every day
nubbins`: you can see a guy waving a heat gun around ;0
nubbins`: look at the guy removing them, each platen has a big stack of shirts snugged onto it
mircea_popescu: by the time people actually figure out the nsa is NOT what they'd buy if they had the money to buy a nsa and were in the nsa market...
mircea_popescu: which you know, in some approaches to politics, such as would for instance be favoured by temporary figureheads elected by a democracy, and supported by an unmovable bureaucracy, is the whole of my job.
nubbins`: printer takes a squeegee and screen w/ 2 holes on top, slips screen onto first set of dowels, prints, steps to the right, repeat
nubbins`: set up like 200-500 shirts at a time on these huge long tables, each shirt has 2 wooden dowels sticking out of the board above it
mircea_popescu: i won a game.
nubbins`: in the philippines, they do a lot of peg-and-hole printing, you could theoretically do 150-color designs no sweat
mircea_popescu: now this is actually +ev for the opponent : he probably can't beat a pro on even figures, so giving an extra gueen is not much to give.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's model this with a game of chess. suppose there's ten of us in a room. nine are amateurs, i am a rated pro.
thestringpuller: the "mythical" 150 screen press serves as a better motivator ;)
nubbins`: this image came to me as a psd with, no joke, over 150 layers
asciilifeform: roosevelt (or stalin, for that matter) just subscribed to a somewhat baroque school of biodiesel manufacture
asciilifeform: and still not seeing it. a few mil. people in usa evicted, how many shot at the sheriff? ten?
mircea_popescu: every dollar the usg extracts from anything costs it more than a dollar as a precondition of its continued existence.
asciilifeform: (i'll spoil it: with 20th c. tech, virtually always a 'yes')
nubbins`: book a courtroom, judge, sheriffs officers, all the paperwork that a dozen or two clerks can grab...
mircea_popescu: problem is all this cost her < a hamburger (which she gets free anyway)
asciilifeform: these folks - a classic illustration of how it is not enough to 'say no'
nubbins`: prior to becoming a life advisor, she'd done stints impersonating a doctor, among other things
nubbins`: the accused was "educated" on the ways of being a freeloader-on-the-land by a mentally ill woman who grew up 4 houses away from me
asciilifeform: ^ for non-usaians, this is a result of the peculiar custom of u.s. police using firemen as human shields
asciilifeform: at some point, one or more of the folks lowered into bitcherasty by usg will have a logical, adequate response.
mircea_popescu: Maj. Jeff Cotner of the crimes against persons division said the whole incident was surreal. “I’ve been here 32 1/2 years. This is bizarre,” he said. <<< dear usg worker, do yourself a favour, read http://trilema.com/2013/the-sops-or-what-might-you-expect-from-government-clerks/ today.
mircea_popescu: "LeGuin did tell a 911 call taker that he intended to occupy the Far North Dallas house as a sovereign nation for himself."