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pete_dushenski: "The value of Canada’s natural resource assets stood at
$287 billion in 2015, down 73% from 2014, largely due to lower energy prices. […] Timber resources accounted for 55% of the value of all natural resource assets in 2015, followed by minerals (26%) and energy resources (19%)." << in other news, trump's looming war on softwood lumber is going to fucking hurt. and no, it won't be balanced out by
mircea_popescu: if /me worked for the us secret service, /me would be getting permanently lost in
$farcountry just about last week.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> you're still paying ~= what new auto costs, just more slowly, painfully << Nah at some point you just break up with car and get new
$2500 car for another few years.
BingoBoingo: If
$2500 dollar car lasts 5 years averages to
$500 per car/year. Would take much unexpected bullshit to make expensive.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> eh bull. you've got
$8000 hyundai and mitsu shitboxen. << Maybe in Double Norte Americano, but in Single Norte Americano those left in the 1990's << is mexico null norte americano in bb's paradigm ?
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> eh bull. you've got
$8000 hyundai and mitsu shitboxen. << Maybe in Double Norte Americano, but in Single Norte Americano those left in the 1990's
pete_dushenski: phf: asciilifeform my research says that the nissan micra less than cad
$10k, which is about
$usd7.5, but sadly for you both, our good friend carlos ghosn saw fit not to sell it to you lot. sfyl ?
pete_dushenski: so not quite
$5k dacia logan, admittedly, or tata nano, but ustards literally pay less for cars than anywhere else in the world accounting for currency.
pete_dushenski: eh bull. you've got
$8000 hyundai and mitsu shitboxen.
Framedragger: seriously, i'll write an mp-bot with markov model to rebuke any arguments people throw at me. i'll reap ca
$h.
Framedragger: "In the first year of the Nissan Revival Plan, Nissan's consolidated net profit after tax climbed to
$2.7 billion for fiscal year 2000, from a consolidated net loss of
$6.46 billion in the previous year. Twelve months into his three-year turnaround plan, Nissan had returned to profitability, and within three years it was one of the industry's most profitable auto makers, with
Framedragger: k@burokas:/usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla
$ find . | wc -l
mircea_popescu: the above three lines took 3 years of thinking to produce ; this in preference of
$3mn or worse.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-20 23:28 Framedragger: the *banners.txt's are my partial cleanup, *_err_scan.log's are the original stderr's (with some junk in them). but i will clean this myself later. and siphnos.mkj.lt is where i'll host phuctor-related data. (it's on a separate unused vps, got an 'ok' from
$work for now.)
pete_dushenski: thankfully there is a splendid and ultra-cheap service called 'ama' here and they'll boost even the most frozen cars with what must be 1000amps, up to 5x per year for
$80
davout: you can become a private pilot for 5k
$ if you're good and do homework between each lessaon
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-13#1582570 << you also have "intro classes" that'll run you
$150 or so with a reputable firm for half hour. i'm sure those same instructors would bring up the plane more than once under similar circmustances: you get to sit in the cockpit and "hold the joystick" at cruising
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-12-13 11:01 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-13#1582453 << he makes an excellent point. sign up for a class, you get someone to be there with you who can actually fly the thing, and also get to fuck with the controls. best of both worlds, and it's very much in the
$50 for 5 minutes range, just gotta commit to a few hours' worth.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-13#1582453 << he makes an excellent point. sign up for a class, you get someone to be there with you who can actually fly the thing, and also get to fuck with the controls. best of both worlds, and it's very much in the
$50 for 5 minutes range, just gotta commit to a few hours' worth.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: i mean... we pay
$$$ to generate rng. how did the computer generate 5mb to pad what alf declares "minuscle" ?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-08 03:29 mircea_popescu: "What would Lucene at Google’s size look like? If we do a naive back of the envelope calculation on what it would take to index a significant fraction of the internet (often estimated to be 1 trillion (T) or 10T documents), we might expect a 1T document index to cost something like
$10B1. That’s not a feasible startup, so let’s say that instead of trying to index 1T documents, we want to maintain an artisanal search ind
mircea_popescu: adlai your attempts to state "the moon math" for
$item resulted in knowledge that... "not possible to put into bitcoin" ? this is mixnonsense wtf. math is math.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-08 15:41 asciilifeform: sshello=`timeout -k 0m 3s nc
$ip 22`;
a111: Logged on 2016-12-08 15:19 mircea_popescu: cat iplist.txt | while read ip; do curl -A "blabla" "
http://$ip/" > results.txt; done
mircea_popescu: "For example, when I first came to Japan, I had no computer. I also had no money, because the plane ticket and setting up my household ate all of my savings. In America, this isn’t a barrier to getting a computer, because Dell will do a quick FICO score on you and then happily extend you
$2,000 of trade credit."
mircea_popescu: "One’s actual salary as a salaryman is generally rather low — about
$100 per year of age per month, as an engineer in Nagoya (set by a particular monopsonistic engineering employer near Nagoya). In Tokyo, my sense of the market is that, as an intermediate engineer in his early thirties, I’d probably command somewhere between
$30k and
$60k. (In Silicon Valley, the going rate would be somewhere between
$120k and
$160k and
mircea_popescu: i suppose even something as simple as curl
$item would work really huh.
mircea_popescu: ex of 1B documents. Then our cost comes down to
$12M/yr." << this danluu piece is the most idiotic thing i read all day. what the fuck has "cloud" done to these people that they think a 1bn index cost A MILLION A MONTH holy shit.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "What would Lucene at Google’s size look like? If we do a naive back of the envelope calculation on what it would take to index a significant fraction of the internet (often estimated to be 1 trillion (T) or 10T documents), we might expect a 1T document index to cost something like
$10B1. That’s not a feasible startup, so let’s say that instead of trying to index 1T documents, we want to maintain an artisanal search ind
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that said, he does have stroing support in the sprawling i-wanna-be-a-writer collective, which may actually contain 10k who can part with
$10 a year (if not the same 10k each year, still) ; and if he keeps a tight lid on costs it may well work.
phf: he's got "sign up for
$11/year" so if he has 11000 paying subscribers?
mircea_popescu: but they also don't perceive any burning need to spend all their money on
$2 btc.
phf: "reduce group risk weighted assets by about US
$290 billion" ... "we will be selling our operation in Turkey. We’ll also be selling our operation in Brazil, but plan to maintain a modest corporate banking presence to serve about 300 international clients in Brazil. We are actually going to keep Mexico" ... "So we moved away from the World’s Local Bank" ... "We’ve exited 15 countries, reducing from 87 to 73 so far, and whole lines of
mircea_popescu: i couldn't care less, but sum up the trades for the day, do they come to
$100 ?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-07 13:23 mircea_popescu: soo... anyone want to sell me bitcoin for
$100 paypal ? o.O
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> eh pretty much every half-useful attempt at cancer has been 'bind
$poison to
$selector' << That's essentially all of pharmacology. X fucks Y receptor
mircea_popescu: yeah not a very good scheme. anyway, convention is pw field uses
$ver
$pw, and i see ubuntu sets it to 6.
phf: actually i'm wrong again, crypt takes special
$id
$salt
$encrypted format, where id is 1/2/5/6 for md5/blowfish/sha256/sha512. on the box where i looked that up all the passwords are
$1
$ Framedragger: mircea_popescu: but what oftentimes ends up happening when you request key from deedbot is that the requester then promptly uses that key to encrypt
$text, and ping recipient with a public url to
$text. the fact that there's been no mitm, i think, only shows that the lizards do not find this place important enough (for better or worse, etc)
shinohai: Sure I expect with that ~
$6 price it has dropped to today has something to do with it
mircea_popescu: let's play a little with numbers since we're reading this guy. so : " Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Project (SVRT) a
$5 billion design-build project for a 16-mile extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) with six stations" (from
http://www.niquette.com/paul/access/resume.html ). now then : total track in world is ~2 1/4 mn km. using "global warming" "scientific" best practices, we conclude that a 1 billiard inve
mats: i mean specifically the folks ~in space~ rather than those on earth, aspiring to be there. no longer taking free air, water, food for granted, cooperating to survive in vacuum or organizing as a society to terraform
$planet
mircea_popescu: what's bothering them about people who smoke ; and about people who say
$random-forbidden-word ; and about people who do not care what their "laws" say ; or about those mean evil "incomprehensible" terorists, what got them all angry about the mob and so on and so forth is the same fundamental self-hatred.
mircea_popescu: heh. with any
$item the possible outcomes of the problem-function would be either "it sucks [reason list]" or "not enough people to use it". i guess the 2nd is how you count success.
shinohai: I have just logged timestamps on mine with `|xargs -IX printf "
$(date -u)\t%s\n" X `
fd_travel: (we have this plan to have a 'roboadviser' show user (we find net worth of user from bank accts, hey it's not a realistic demo) which properties he can buy in
$area)
fd_travel: (so plans to work on
$tmsrstuff pushed back by ~week) :p
shinohai: yes I am using `gpg --with-colons --fingerprint
$1 | awk -F: '
$1 == "fpr" {print
$10;}'| head -n1 ` to get the fingerprint
shinohai: In even more lolz, ETH has been dumped down to sub
$9 levels today
a111: Logged on 2016-11-26 17:02 mircea_popescu: Really, the big one was money. When
$50 a month is critical to survival you know it ain't the time for that. So we got through our 10 years of law school, money pit foreclosure...and finally on the other side debt eliminated, lifestyle downsized, we are ready to jump in again." << probably the best in the lot. "reality tv stars" / 10 years of lawschool can't afford 50 bux. AMERICA! and do you know what comes right after ?
mircea_popescu: Really, the big one was money. When
$50 a month is critical to survival you know it ain't the time for that. So we got through our 10 years of law school, money pit foreclosure...and finally on the other side debt eliminated, lifestyle downsized, we are ready to jump in again." << probably the best in the lot. "reality tv stars" / 10 years of lawschool can't afford 50 bux. AMERICA! and do you know what comes right after ?
☟︎ pete_dushenski:
http://archive.is/trSax << in other magic numbers, soi-disant 'us bidness skools' take
$1mn and divy it up between bitcoin and solidcoin/ethereum for a pretend 5-year investment period. lulz ensue when each team makes videos justifying their choices!
mircea_popescu: and in random fuck this shit : if you're downloading a bunch of fonts and end up with a humongo pile of spurious folders because hey, people are special, the pill is find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I file mv --backup=numbered file . (followed, probably, by for file in *; do mv "
$file" `echo
$file | tr ' ' '_'` ; done because special people are THAT FUCKING SPECIAL)