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mircea_popescu: if however it was a systemic problem, then yes)
mircea_popescu: these people blew their fucking top off because a german got a yellow card ?
indiancandy1: my producer is telling me its a spirit orb
indiancandy1: and watch at 36 seconds a light shoots across the room
mircea_popescu: whole street is packed. (well the fact that i live within a block of the equivalent of say the washington monument doesn't help)
indiancandy1: so i showed my producer a video of me dancing at work yesterday and she said that there is spirits in the vide
asciilifeform wants a 'sovbook'
asciilifeform: laptop market, afaik, still reduced to a choice between 'fagbook' and 'turdbook'
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: ever see a metallic chassis laptop that didn't ?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: that's the original. there's a nicer one, that has metallic chassis
mircea_popescu: i was gone for about a decade before.
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 might be a decade.
asciilifeform: that box doesn't even need much in the way of a bios. just a little bootloader stub.
asciilifeform: unrelated: anybody here own a 'Yeeloong' ?
gribble: Error: "fluxcapacitor" is not a valid command.
gribble: Error: "flux" is not a valid command.
punkman: you need to get a flux capacitor
indiancandy1: i kind of look like a romani gypsy
asciilifeform saw the world's officially largest crystal ball a few days ago ☟︎
mircea_popescu: that's a different skillset.
mircea_popescu: AND a secretary.
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 i have a normal phone
indiancandy1: or you got a stone age
indiancandy1: have you got a smart phone mircea
kyuupichan: mircea_popescu: In east Washington state they have insanely cheap electricity; there is a lot of mining going on there
mircea_popescu: or, alternatively, buenos aires. which is why i moved here, to troll b-a
indiancandy1: b a british airways?
mircea_popescu: now b-a really has everything.
indiancandy1: im a poor half indian/greek
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 wait, are you a poor indian ?!
mircea_popescu: camho rap, who knew this was a thing
indiancandy1: why didnt u buy me a ticket
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 the whole street's a party
indiancandy1: mircea u having a wc party round urs
mircea_popescu: no, that's a cult gun
asciilifeform: more interesting (linked from above) - http://now100fm.cbslocal.com/2014/07/09/weird-news-wednesday-waitresses-wear-guns-in-restaurant << notice the stock pic - who the hell has a soviet 'TT' ?!
mircea_popescu: a slighly scarce resource, and there are the informants,
mircea_popescu: so basically it could either lose or win, maybe a lot, probably a little.
mircea_popescu: that "pending gain" is a best case sort of number no ?
mircea_popescu: Members: Tim "Kinnie" kingsworth - guitarist born to rock, tim has written many of bringers of darkness's best songs including "my love for you is swimming through the rapids like a broken arow" (Tim only plays Bingleworth guitars. Onstage, he plays a Bingleworth J-9000 7-string with a neo-chromium humbuckers. For recording, he uses a K-9001 with two single-coli pickups. He exclusively uses Krankle amplifiers and Czech
mircea_popescu: BRINGERS OF DARKNESS are revitalizing audiences with their raw energy live show and undeniable chemistry of brotherhood. They transcend a world that is locked in genre and commercialism; though they know they can't do it alone, they are the seeds of a revolution. The band has pitched their newest CD to Sony executives[, played in front of the likes of Henry Rallins, and the lead singer has sang onstage with Freddie Mir
mircea_popescu: "why find a few good friends in this world, just pretend everything in it is an earthworm
hanbot: the publisher. casts a wide net, no anticipation of catching actual fish, just interested in a big mass of little bits.
hanbot: mircea_popescu sounds like a shrimp farmer
mircea_popescu: holy shit man, why not just be on the ball and cut the deal when you have the chance ? why half ass that and then spend a month trying ? what sort of idiot came up with this strat i wish to know.
mircea_popescu: this has got to be the most idiotic publisher strat i ever encountered. so about a month ago, i shot an email to a medium sized network, for an ad spot. i got a reply from an acct manager, which was a little late and very half assed. i just dropped the thing. he sent me a couple "follow-up" emails later that week, which resulted in them being blacklisted.
mircea_popescu: there's gotta be a red card
hanbot: i'm rooting for a red card tonight
asciilifeform: afaik, a city
mircea_popescu: didn't they name one after a senator or something ?
benkay: someone's digitized it and trying to make a dime off the old man's corpse: www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/07/bill-gates-favorite-business-book.html
benkay: does anyone have a copy of john brooks Business Adventures?
mircea_popescu: so it's one of those things old geezers tell you about, as their life turning point, over a game of checkers in central park. no, it wasn't : even if the thing they woe about would have worked their way
mircea_popescu: the net result would have been foss+amd buldgeoning them into a fine paste.
asciilifeform suspects that itanic was a 'lock-in play' - intel hoped that no one else could write a decent compiler for the chip. but what ended up happening was - for ages, gcc was the only working itanic toolchain...
mircea_popescu: well honestly, the wood airplane may well ahve becvome a big deal.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the famous 'itanic' used an approach called 'vliw' - 'very long instruction word' - where the compiler was expected to fill up the pipeline manually, avoiding 'hazards' (instructions fighting over a resource, e.g. register or memory)
mircea_popescu: cazalla: not sure wife would be here when i get back though :P << lol what, she got a nice big black fellow all lined up ?
mircea_popescu: kyuupichan: 3 wks ago in Seattle talking to a dude doing mining there; was downvolting all his machines because of summer heat generation << but you know seattle/the us is not really the center of mining.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell punkman: mike_c would be nice if WoL could track bets on GoWs, since I already have an account for the minigame << actually, it'd be prolly good to have a YOU: summary on either side of GoW as long as the person is actually logged in. in case they bought multiple bids etc.
asciilifeform: so it's a reasonable presumption. no, i don't have the manual for the new one.
artifexd: Are you speculating that it is a pipeline measurement or are you certain?
artifexd: If that is a pipeline, wouldn't that be too long to be performant? I mean, one missed branch prediction and you have to flush the whole thing.
artifexd: It isn't interesting to talk about, but advertisers love it and it is a lot of fun (and frustration) to work on.
asciilifeform: artifexd: perform on each core to 25 operations in a single clock cycle << you can make a 'pipeline' as long as you like. it ends up mostly full of NOPs.
artifexd: One of my projects is a custom streaming audio server. High performance, customized streams for each client, transcodes one input to multiple output formats, blah, blah, blah.
hanbot: a ty
artifexd: "ability to perform on each core to 25 operations in a single clock cycle, which provides high performance at moderate clock frequency" <- wow
kyuupichan: All I wanted to do was change a date. booking.com is far superior to expedia.com for that; you, uh, just change the date.
kyuupichan: Coordinating them and their payment processor (coinbase) was a PITA, particularly as I don't live in US so it was international phone calls. I'm not a fan of coinbase but to be honest they seemed to fix it, and they were the most helpful.
kyuupichan: Well they'd only just started taking BTC. Most of their sales reps had (still have) no clue. When asking about the refund, they said it'll be on credit card despite my having said half a dozen times I'd not used CC and paid with bitcoin. Clearly clueless.
cazalla: so what made cancellation a nightmare? they take btc but don't want to pay it back? fiat only refund?
cazalla: just seems a hassle, as you described
kyuupichan: cazalla: Sure. Preference depends on circumstances. I'm overweight BTC; happy to drop a few now and then.
kyuupichan: Though initial booking + cancellation was quite a nightmare
kyuupichan: cazalla: Maldives; mentioned it a while ago. Not exactly cheap, as I discovered.
kyuupichan: 3 wks ago in Seattle talking to a dude doing mining there; was downvolting all his machines because of summer heat generation
mircea_popescu: this sounds just like a buttcoin game.
dub: anyway, to sound like a sore loser, its a stupid game
mircea_popescu: it's like a large centrral panel with the current game and two smaller to the left, prev and next game
dub: fwiw having a link ot the previous game might be nice
mircea_popescu: death mostly made a loss.
mircea_popescu: some people made a profit, some made a loss
mircea_popescu: you mean the plan i just discussed in a public chan ?
mircea_popescu: i really don't see a conflict.
decimation: lol https://blog.personalcapital.com/financial-planning-2/average-401k-balance-age/ "Supposedly two-thirds of working households age 55-64 with at least one earner have retirement savings less than one times their annual income. Given the median household income is roughly $52,000, that?s not a good sign."
mircea_popescu: How to create a masternode? - Get a machine with a static ip
decimation: http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-card-data/average-credit-card-debt-household/ << apparently nearly 50% of us households carry a credit card balance monthly
decimation: doesn't sweden have a government minimum income
mircea_popescu: also ludicrous : india 4k, china 20k ? heh. the chinese aren't 5x ahead of the indians just because the chinese govt inflated a real estate bubble which delhi doesn't quite match
decimation: the median us adult is therefore a debt slave
decimation: right, so the median adult can barely afford half a median house
cazalla: :In Australia, over 65% of all adults have a net worth exceeding $100,000"
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu ya I'll get on that this week. I have a Thompson 1927-A1 coming in next week I can probably get listed and sold ASAP.
BayAreaCoins: benkay excuse me for getting stoned. Gotta give me a min.. I go to bed and wake up everyday with my big boy spider man underware
BayAreaCoins: No breaks please. Bust my balls with full force. It is all good. mircea_popescu. Decimation I think there are a number of places that middle class americans already exchange BTC. I'm also not 100% convinced that is why I'm interested in what you guys have to say.
benkay: BayAreaCoins: you're going to have a hard time figuring out what'd benefit the ecosystem when you don't even have big boy pants on.
mircea_popescu: that's kinda why you're stuck reading the logs for a while.
mircea_popescu: decimation he's new, give him a break.
decimation: Mr. Coins if you are convinced there is a "middle class" of bitcoin users in the us, why not start an exchange for them?