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decimation: do you use a screen on the wall or painted white wall?
benkay: cooked up a decent one last night: "shartup"
asciilifeform: it's a 'dlp' gizmo
DreadKnight: decimation, did a lot of research on aspect ratios, seem a lot of older people really miss 4:3
asciilifeform has been using this: http://imgur.com/9NX7eaX as a tv for some years. works great.
mircea_popescu: decimation in fairness, cathode was a well mature tech. lcd is adolescent.
decimation: if we don't have a maxwell today, where are our faradays and hertzs and lorentzs and heavisides?
mircea_popescu: this sounds like a great mystery.
asciilifeform: a few months later, they stopped answering phone. the postdocs who handled the run - desaparecido.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in 2010 i concocted a variant of the test that could be carried out for approx. 50k USD, from scratch. schwartz answered that, in his estimation, the test would work to spec, but results would not be accepted by the field unless carried out on one of the two existing eotvos balances. one - adelberger's, one - chicom. ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: how much do two weeks on such a rotor even cost ?
DreadKnight: even the PC was close to being dismissed as crap because of lack of vision from the business man taking a look at it
DreadKnight: it's all business and some luck; a lot of cool stuff is kept hidden just because it's not for the average joe
DreadKnight: a lot of inventions are promoted thanks to their monetization potential, so if there's demand and it sells, it's a good invention
asciilifeform was acquainted with one such '1%' - al schwartz. who has an eminently testable hypothesis re: parity violation, and spent a decade (& counting) trying to score 2 weeks on an eotvos rotor balance. while the charlatans build their $b colliders.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, I'm glad actually, a NPO like mars one does more interesting stuff
mircea_popescu: 99% of students of physics in 1905 believed it's a resolved problem, too.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform listen, what 99% of a class believes about the field is uninteresting by the definition of the 99%.
DreadKnight: compare making a wagon with space rockets. NASA is dealing with a lot of math, people and money
mircea_popescu: who knows, maybe a golden chicken falls out of it.
DreadKnight: asciilifeform, steven hawkings might be smart, but he's stuck in a wheel chair, so not much for him to do besides brainstorm :P
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so you know it's a lie.
asciilifeform: DreadKnight: things are getting more and more complex now, it takes more work and time << the motto of the 20th c. intellectual impostor class, in a nutshell.
midnightmagic: IMO, in a brand-new field, those singular talents can exist. Once the primary breakthroughs are finished, it requires teams and long-term hard work to push it forward. IMHO anyway. me != physicist.
asciilifeform: DreadKnight, midnightmagic: not insisting that the particle hijinx have no possible applications, in a far future. just that these applications will require a resurrection of the caliber of men we had 1800-1900.
midnightmagic: the physics is new, even if it's a negative result
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic im kinda saving (radio)astronomy here in a compartment, for later.
midnightmagic: the physics is not 1940s or prior. i have a friend whose PhD was literally pushing the boundaries of particle physics using results obtained from LHC
mircea_popescu: you ever took a rmi ?
mircea_popescu: obviously a large number of people who like to identify as physicists are in the situation of people who like to identify as rockstars.
mircea_popescu: nobody's arguing there's a large number of would-be followers in any race, who to the acute observer look more like they're going through the motions
asciilifeform: cern, other 'strong force' shenanigans are a good example of 'chinese' scholastiwank. the people involved - entirely uninterested in systematization of knowledge, much less practical use
mircea_popescu: use is not really a consideration here.
asciilifeform: it's a machine, sure
asciilifeform: e.g, herr einstein: a junkyard dog, who took credit for the genuinely interesting late 19th. c. work
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know these impostors knew exactly how to build a cern and did.
asciilifeform not a cultist of the engineer, but of folks like j.c. maxwell, who knew exactly how to build a radio - and didn't.
DreadKnight: Newton's falling apple was likely just a nice story to make people visualize things :P
DreadKnight: otherwise he'll have a hard time explaining things to people
mircea_popescu: but any philosopher worth his salt will interact not with a "concept" but with either the graph of that concept's history in the mind of man,
mircea_popescu: and i'll venture to say that pretty much all the good philosophers similarly don't think in "concepts", whatever that is, but in a sort of equivalent of the wavefununction, except it has two major irreducible statements. one's systematic the other historical.
DreadKnight: "rich" seems to be more of a state of mind; kinda like you're saying on your blog "pay up or this could wither and die" on your blog mircea_popescu, even though that's not the case, but I like the lesson you're teaching
asciilifeform: 'For social mobility to work, it needs to be a two-way highway, with a large number of pre-rich and an almost as large one of post-rich.' -- from the taleb link
DreadKnight: HeySteve, squishy units that either do a lot of damage or are meant for support and really tanky units that are meant to protect others and take damage
DreadKnight: HeySteve, keep in mind higher level units cost way more, there's a cost formula
chetty: V 44. The alpha person at a gathering of "high status"
HeySteve: DreadKnight, wasn't aware of that tradeoff, makes sense. that's the kind of mechanic I was suggesting, like you could use a lot of powerful unit abilities or summon a lot of creatures, but not both as a strategy
kakobrekla: <the20year1> now my next question is once you !up yourself, is it only a 30m voice? < when you do it over pm, no, given you are authed.
DreadKnight: HeySteve, well, no mana as there is no magic; there's plasma to protect Dark Priest (summoner) and also make units (so more / better units = less protection, it's a tradeoff); each unit has it's own energy stat, abilities require energy, there's also meditation to replenish that, but if an unit gets damaged in a round above a treshold (more than endurance stat), then the unit gets no regen it's next turn (regrowth for health and m
the20year1: now my next question is once you !up yourself, is it only a 30m voice?
HeySteve: hey DreadKnight. I had a thought about the game, would giving the creatures and "summoner" a single manapool work?
nagzter: The robot is a blender model, but the rest is mine
DreadKnight: nagzter, definitely go for it with your husband for the other coin if you haven't picked a name xD
nagzter: such a great name, bacoin
mircea_popescu: the official joke coin of b-a is, ofcourse, altcoin.
nagzter: he's working on a "real" coin and needed the practice
nagzter: It's a little silly, but we're on a couple of exchanges
mircea_popescu: is this like a joke coin ?
nagzter: I'm an artist and designer and my husband made a coin
nagzter: I kind of collect a bunch of coins and do a little trading
nagzter: So I'm not a coder or a miner.
nagzter: do all the channels have a !s command?
nagzter: well you know how it goes... sometimes a channel swerves to "lol boobs"
mircea_popescu: what, you're a girl too ?
nagzter: also sometimes being a girl in IRC...
mircea_popescu: <HeySteve> ok. I know they shoot people in China << notrly, they have a van arrangement.
asciilifeform: for instance, a squad of jailers watches over the condemned for weeks, months, years - to ensure that he doesn't suicide and cheat the executioner - and the court - of their spectacle
HeySteve: that's a bit rough by comparison to other methods
HeySteve: "Stoning remains a legal form of judicial punishment in Iraq, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Northern Nigeria, Aceh in Indonesia, Brunei, and Pakistan;"
asciilifeform: HeySteve: traditional civilian execution in russia involves a single bullet (firing squad is seen as 'military', not befitting a common criminal)
asciilifeform: when usa was a techno-power, electric chair was king ☟︎
ThickAsThieves: <+bitcoinpete> ;;later tell ThickAsThieves i went to school with the carbon copy of the singer in the strange negotations video. if my buddy plays his cards right, that'll be him in 5-10 years /// David Bazan is probably a top 3 artist for me
asciilifeform vaguely recalls reading a short story on alt.sex.somethingorother years ago, where in 'the dark future (TM)' the condemned are injected with an alien 'fireworm' that eats them alive for weeks at a time. but everyone is told that they were killed quickly and 'humanely' - and somehow this is supposed to be a greater punishment
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Cynide abandons the pretense of greater civilization by being explicitly a poison. This pretense only holds if it is a medical looking even. Also... cyanide is probably onjectionable to the executioner as it presents a risk to them.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Right, the traditional three drug cocktail is two for comfort and once those set in a metric fuckton of KCl to rapidly induce electrical heart and brain death
asciilifeform: and if poison is supposed to be 'humane' and this is a thing - there are poisons that knock victim out in seconds
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this was always a puzzle to me - why don't they simply shoot them ?
FabianB: since jd isn't a big part of f.mpif anymore pricing got more difficult and trading volume went down
jurov: that's the point, i expect f.* to be impossible to liquidate, unless there is a leak or "leak"
pigeons: well, the ipo lets them cash out their crap legally, i dont think they would want to jeopardize that, they will make enough of a killing on an ipo
pigeons: so that is a counterpoint, if there was sufficent demand, someone likely would run a passthrough
pigeons: the bankroll was not included as an asset for purposes of the share ownership. share ownership only gave you a claim to earnings
pigeons: no there is a lot of truth to that
punkman: jurov, that is a problem for all the D series, indeed
punkman: jurov, but it works if you are a Bitstamp believer
FabianB: as for s.nsa or s.bbet i agree it's a little odd that it's not traded more actively, and why ppl mostly buy at IPO and not later
jurov: on bitbet, if i place 10btc on Yes and advertise the bet, there is a chance someone props up the other side
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: decimation most of humanity lives on less than ten bux a week. << one thing if you have fambly support, another if you're a gweilo, gringo, etc.
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: i propose a new highschool charter. it teaches kids nothing, but smacks them every time they use "going to" << and "get/got"
FabianB: thestringpuller: but a lot less likely owner disappearing
thestringpuller: FabianB: BitBet can incur a loss if the house bets go sour.
chetty: <artifexd> chetty: I very much enjoyed that heuristics doc. Thank you.// yeah I am reading a little at atime, much food for thought
kakobrekla noticed doublec on non btc irc chans a few weeks ago.
chetty: "it very likely represents an overly broad infringement upon free speech. "// nice if a little understated
ThickAsThieves: "Mr. Elliott responded; they even met once IRL (in real life), for dinner, where she says now she recognized immediately a “creepy glint” in his eye but nonetheless continued to have a professional relationship with him for a short time because she was hoping for that poster."
chetty: II 5. France took Algeria, hoping for a country to eat
assbot: 75 Years In The Making: Harvard Just Released Its Epic Study On What Men Need To Live A Happy Life | FEELguide | Film, Music, Design, Science, Style, Psychology, and More
jurov: http://www.feelguide.com/2013/04/29/75-years-in-th-making-harvard-just-released-its-epic-study-on-what-men-require-to-live-a-happy-life/
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight: great, just got banned in #bitcoin for sharing a link :\ << because it's neither cool nor useful.
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu, did you went to college yourself? it's a bit of a trend now apparently for people in IT set on becoming rich << http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-01-2014#444346 ☝︎