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fluffypony: it seems nice from a visual perspective, all these shipping-container-modules
mircea_popescu: seeing how you then don't need a warehouse anymore, just a lot.
mircea_popescu: not such a horrible idea i thought
nubbins`: landed a job making t-shirts for my favourite sushi restaurant :D
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pantera | Pantera. A fucking kickass metal band that has, believe it or not, made a special appearance in Spongebob Squarepants' episode of "Pre-Hibernation Week".
mircea_popescu: pantera is going to make a nice rug.
nubbins`: fridge in a can
pankkake: can in a fridge
kyuupichan: That cosmic ray that does a bitflip between you pressing enter on the password and the software signing the txn
ThickAsThieves: this is bound to be a circular debate
mircea_popescu: FabianB it's been down for a while. working on it.
pankkake: I have a narrow browser, because it's easier to read
ThickAsThieves: just a random note, isnt the bitbet website kinda small, by today's resolution/monitor standards?
mircea_popescu: for one thing they still need a house.
kakobrekla: half a mio of them in tokyo
mircea_popescu: kyuupichan: I wonder what it'd take to get BTC to 10k by 29 Nov. World financial crisis perhaps? << lol. no, actually, any one of about a million or so people could do it today.
mircea_popescu: mthreat haha not bad. is it a girl or a boy tho ?
mircea_popescu: davout what's netherlands, like a team or something ?
kakobrekla: but i was thinking in a sense - you submit your order via whatever protocol and there is some delay to response or it may never come
assbot: Ukrainian Astronomers Officially Name a Star "Putin is a D-ckhead" - Cheezburger
ThickAsThieves: <+kyuupichan> Is the leverage on bitfinex mostly long or short or pretty balanced? //// there's a meter on the site
nubbins`: that's a bit silly
TheNewDeal: I also heard the black market of employment is increasing at a faster rate than that of typical tax-payer employment
Duffer1: if bitcoin wants a capital draw then it will probably be porn and gambling leading the way
TheNewDeal: seems like that is going to happen a dozen times over
TheNewDeal: I would love to see it go towards $1500 this year, but I think next year is going to be a big one pricewise
TheNewDeal: ahhh gotcha, I guess there is a grey area with indicies of equities
kyuupichan: Yeah I think equities are looking a bit toppy
TheNewDeal: S&P 500 is sitting at a fragile 1900 at the moment
kyuupichan: 10k is quite a tall order in 5 mths though.
TheNewDeal: I think you would probably just need a bitstamp like company to go Mt Gox, have a bunch of fishy shit go down, and the other exchanges follow the lead
TheNewDeal: if you would like to purchase some timeweight from me, give me a holler
mthreat: mircea_popescu: it's a mannequin at a restaurant (Filo) in retiro
mthreat: mircea_popescu: i thought you'd like this: https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/t1.0-9/10550867_10204346767814371_6414089052882239487_n.jpg
decimation: asciilifeform: I've been using org-mode recently, it is definitely a useful tool
TheNewDeal: not that I have a say in the matter :D
TheNewDeal: how much would one recover from the losing side, considering they owned a large portion of bitbet shares?
kyuupichan: A shitload :)
kyuupichan: haha, that's a possibility, but I think he normally uses 1K4fs (or sthg similar)
asciilifeform: Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, / Who never to himself hath said, / This is my own, my native shell! / Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, / As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, / From wandering on a winblows hell!
asciilifeform: lives there a man who doesn't use nano? (or, 'pico' ?)
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Just a little bit on death, less a bit on life
mike_c: BingoBoingo: you got a position?
asciilifeform: life in literal sense. little oasis in a parched desert of dry turd.
benkay: mostly it's just a lispy wrapper around *nix runtime
BingoBoingo: Life seems to be in a precarious position, once again thanks to life bombs launching damaging spaceships
BingoBoingo: Looks like I could do it round trip of a bit over 24 hours on I-70
mircea_popescu: any strippers in washington dc wanna do a home delivery ?
mircea_popescu: looks like i owe stan a beer nao
assbot: Riverwalk. A proper one. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2014/riverwalk-a-proper-one/#comment-102409
BingoBoingo: decimation: And you suppose Facebook isn't a front how?
decimation: "The Defense Department has leveraged the buying power of more than two million information technology users to award a three-year, $617 million joint enterprise license agreement for Microsoft products, defense officials announced."
decimation: ascii those military boards you linked are apparently from a VAX!
nubbins`: i saw a video earlier of a 3d-printed composting shredder
BingoBoingo: Plastic ratshot still messes drywall. Also... I want it for the challenge. Not smashing spiders with a weapon capable of felling a snake
decimation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary "Donald Knuth has pointed out that truncation and rounding are the same operation in balanced ternary ? they produce exactly the same result (a property shared with other balanced numeral systems). "
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: There are still WWI era Springfields that are in nice shape, but with the Enfields... "British Industry" producers of fine cars that have a commonality with puppies in their leaving of puddles
decimation: Yeah I bet you need a good vaccuum too
asciilifeform: love how they eventually admitted that it was a '50s russian discovery
asciilifeform: aye, whack a tungsten target with electron. bremsstrahlung!
decimation: most good engineers would have alot of trouble figuring out circuitry from an xray (in a short timeframe)
dignork: the guy made a long film out of it, but he managed to turn it on, and then was brave/stupid enough to disassemble particle emitter
cazalla: mircea_popescu: there is a new exchange here in au, cointree.com.au, i emailed and invited them here, they were happy to meet for coffee or do a google hangout but no show here :\
mircea_popescu: cazalla the disadvantage of running a neobee is that you get the "no news" people on your case
decimation: this guy on the UK side was having a field day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Harrison_%28sniper%29
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mircea_popescu: a daisy's got better accuracy
mircea_popescu: try shooting a ww1 rifle once
mircea_popescu: this is bs. unless chinese made, a proper ak probably outshoots a worn-to-shit ww2 surplus bolt action
mircea_popescu: What was not noticed much outside of Afghanistan, was that this shift in weaponry brought to an end a long Afghan tradition of precision, long range shooting.
BingoBoingo: Futbol would be a lot more interesting if the World Cup's championship game was just Klose and Messi taking shots from the goal line for 90 minutes
decimation: this was probably a demo unit, if the agilent sales guys gave it to him
asciilifeform: it is only a surprise to folks who were never left alone with them
mircea_popescu has learned a lot this past half hour
decimation: agilent still has a few "greybeards" who know RF
decimation: it makes an image of the spectrum, sampled over a period of time
mircea_popescu: <decimation> heh yeah the a/d converter next to the 'bodge wires' is only 40 MHz 12-bit << wtf. so 20ghz is a scam ?
decimation: heh yeah the a/d converter next to the 'bodge wires' is only 40 MHz 12-bit
decimation: actually the best solution is probably a wave-soldering machine
decimation: on the youtubes people just use a squeegie
asciilifeform: decimation: not only this - but you need a fairly costly 'printing press' to apply the paste evenly through the gasket.
decimation: yeah I guess a proper solder template is made of metal
asciilifeform: decimation: at present time, i apply the paste with a pump. tried plastic templates (laser cut), wasn't satisfied.
BingoBoingo: Fuck cnc. If you can't mill it with a Bastard File it isn't worth it.
decimation: I wish I had access to a high spec metal mill
decimation: in a proper technology company you would keep your high-end engineers busy building esoteric stuff, while their knowledge & expertise trickles down to other areas
decimation: yeah this is one of those portable deals. You can give agilent at least 2-3x that for a high quality lab grade spectrum analyzer
asciilifeform: a miserable little spectrophotometer (every bio lab on the planet) runs about 50k.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this looks like a field instrument.
asciilifeform: and i should add that 18k usd is cheap for a laboratory instrument.
decimation: it probably has a ~100 mhz swept receiver
asciilifeform: afaik nobody makes a 20GHz adc.
indiancandy1: a romanian one and all there food is garlicy when u sweat does it smell like garlic?
indiancandy1: there is a restaurant in harlesden
decimation: you can probably buy a "spectrum analyzer" for $1k new
mircea_popescu: i tore down a trabant engine
asciilifeform: decimation: i 'tore down' a $300k robot. big whoop.
decimation: I think his past experience was as a pcb designer
decimation: heh well it's actually a fair guess for agilent