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asciilifeform: russian version.
asciilifeform: fluffypony: http://sochi4live.com/images/stories/078i4203.jpg
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2014/the-complexity-of-life-a-triad/#comment-99359
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-complexity-of-life-a-triad/#comment-99355
asciilifeform: jurov: about same cost as a three-story office in palo alto.
asciilifeform: peterl: i suggested this once. free electric, cooling.
asciilifeform: incidentally, interesting historical figure, largely unknown in english world - captain marinesko.
asciilifeform: well, post-1920
asciilifeform wonders if there ever lived a boy who didn't want uboat
asciilifeform: fund with miners (seawater cooling)
asciilifeform: what's an old uboat cost, anyway.
asciilifeform: lol, then we've got our ride.
asciilifeform: sub's gonna need wheels, so we can pick up mp
asciilifeform: 'comrade walrus is ready for Captain’s table'
asciilifeform: http://usvsth3m.com/post/56329159173/sleepy-walrus-on-a-russian-submarine
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: sub << http://www.grawsome.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Sleeping-Walrus-2.jpg
asciilifeform: ;;google true penguin extinct
asciilifeform: ;;google true penguin
asciilifeform: hard to pet native cat in... australia
asciilifeform: then convince mp to go kazahstan next year - pet manul
asciilifeform: moiety should go to next meetup, pet colocolos
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: nah pralines are tasty
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: over here we have these special foods for people too lazy to eat (or, nominally, athletes) - little bars made of a substance resembling cat food
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu Gödelian diet
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 1900 Can build a bridge... 2014 Makes button blink w jQuery << lolll!
asciilifeform: kakobrekla needs amphibious car
asciilifeform: can't speak for kako - i sleep occasionally.
asciilifeform: i should probably buy one of those things before they vanish entirely.
asciilifeform: sadness.
asciilifeform: decimation: chuck moore's site appears dead!
asciilifeform: decimation: i've known about greenarrays for ages
asciilifeform: benkay: 'radiation damage'
asciilifeform optimist
asciilifeform: me in 5yr. sitting in gasenwagen with benkay and ThickAsThieves: 'so, let's chat about how we worked on it. while the motor revvs.'
asciilifeform: benkay: atlas, suitcase, airplane.
asciilifeform: lol, google's best transl. of 'подвиг' is... 'exploit.'
asciilifeform: interestingly, подвиг doesn't translate to eng.
asciilifeform: that's the legend anyway
asciilifeform: field telephone.
asciilifeform: if modern sysop monkeys had myths & legends, they'd pick up this one
asciilifeform: one of those soviet legends that 'everybody knew'
asciilifeform: mrstickball: fellow who pinched a broken wire with his teeth, died in the correct position
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.stalingrad-battle.ru/images/stories/ris42.jpg ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did you ever encounter the tale of 'подвиг радиста' as schoolboy? ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'here great machines must sit forgot / because the idler wants to nod...'
asciilifeform: http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Original-Soviet-Poster-1963-Factory-Industrial-Very-Rare-Russian-Propaganda-/00/s/NzAwWDcwMA==/z/eyYAAOxyUrZSrLJv/$_58.JPG
asciilifeform: http://www.bestads.lt/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SovietPropaganda6.jpg
asciilifeform: now for the pepsi:
asciilifeform: http://www.minidisc.org/RioPlay.gif
asciilifeform: 'rio' mp3 player.
asciilifeform: (yeah posted here before, ages ago)
asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=165
asciilifeform: for anyone fond of naggumisms (whether to cheer or vivisect,) here's more -
asciilifeform: http://norse.ulver.com/dct/zoega/
asciilifeform: speaking of, if anybody wants a 'compact' dead lang, - old norse
asciilifeform: pulled by housecat chariot.
asciilifeform: but i'm a weirdo
asciilifeform: i like digging out unexploded shells from great flamewors of teh past
asciilifeform: ibsen.
asciilifeform: norwegians ftw.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: probably more from light pollution (city lights reflected down)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: betcha you could buy a soviet rtg pod for <$10k
asciilifeform: gov.-subsidized, ah
asciilifeform: nah he's got an antipodal cable & 2nd set.
asciilifeform: let me guess, heat pump.
asciilifeform: first catch loch ness monster, then consider how to skin & stuff her.
asciilifeform: 'nsakey'
asciilifeform: 'buffet drinks the same coke as the beggar drinks' - literally true
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this has been an 'any day now' thing forever.
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: wait this was in us?
asciilifeform: '... for if it prospers, none dare call it treason' etc
asciilifeform: how else could it work.
asciilifeform: in english world, 'soliciting'
asciilifeform: sounds more like 'enjo kosai' than prostitution
asciilifeform: a little like the diff. between 'mp3' and 'wav'
asciilifeform: 1/20th the size & rendering time
asciilifeform: 'djvu' is better format for scans, anyway
asciilifeform: lel
asciilifeform: the people pushing crap like ipmi have other motivations.
asciilifeform: fluffypony: an ordinary 'ip kvm' solves this
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: i'm one of those weirdos who likes to print docs (mainly chip datashits) and has encountered 25kg pdfs.
asciilifeform: gonna be great.
asciilifeform: re: IPMI: lol let's put a piece of remote-controlled strange on the system bus.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: aye, and duplicate signature nonces, and the obvious consequences
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: i only tell it because i was foolish enough to mention it once here, and then kako asked 'how did it end'
asciilifeform: but this is boring story.
asciilifeform: the idea was to engineer such a case
asciilifeform: in some particular cases (online poker table) you can in fact isolate the idiots (at least, long enough to squeeze juice)
asciilifeform: a very sorry sight, all of them
asciilifeform: many, with published source
asciilifeform: i originally had the thought when noticing a proliferation of particularly dumb bots running on gox etc
asciilifeform: i don't for a minute imagine it'd work against humans
asciilifeform: the point wasn't to merely 'with enough money' but specific target - dumb bots
asciilifeform: don't recall how it came up.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i believe it. notice i've no truck with any such thing at present.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: perhaps i'll test this hypothesis one day. right after my nuke sub, etc.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: i concluded that one could actually do an interesting 'predator bot' if it has a heavy bag of coin to 'shake around' and cause (however small) price moves on demand.