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mircea_popescu: kakobrekla did you notice it has a shadow ?
mircea_popescu: phany that 2012 is a real event."
mircea_popescu: "Humans have been evolving exponentially for some time now, with advances in technology and communication lessening the time needed for the same amount of change to occur. Logically, following this pattern, there will come a time when more change happens in an hour than has happened in the last millennium. Through meditation, connecting to a higher consciousness within, and communicating these ideas, I've had the epi
mircea_popescu: "By the end of this year, 2012, I believe I will be a highly known guitarist/musician."
moiety: i get a security warning now
kakobrekla: we should use him as a proxy
bounce: don't have details, but could well be a proof of concept thingy, like those concept cars that never go beyond the single prototype made.
asciilifeform: a sane rng is always shielded, not only to keep out noise (natural or otherwise) but to avoid broadcasting state.
asciilifeform: of course, anything ages. geiger tube is good for a few yrs.
asciilifeform: cheaper to have a johnson rng in a shield
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's a thought : how about rng based on measuring instantaneous polarisation of Nd:YAG laser ?
moiety: lolnope i have a hattori hunting as my pride and joy, i'd love one though.. plus i am the same colour as paper
mircea_popescu: benkay no, it's her and her loubotin sandals. the sword's a prop.
benkay: we have a crazy microclimate that's always flipping and flopping through various precipitation states
asciilifeform: ;;google an officer without a sword is improperly dressed
mircea_popescu: yeah it's a decent bastard isn't it
moiety: glad to see you made it through the night benkay, did a neighbour pop by to feed you?
moiety: it depends what makes a person someone for you though. there arent enuogh people with personality now
moiety: whatever happened to people liking other people for who they were? have i been under a rock too long?
asciilifeform: like a soviet satellite in 'graveyard orbit'
asciilifeform: then again, a usenet group can never really die
mircea_popescu: what better way to spend a summer
moiety: not a proper, someone else laces you in at the back one. mine had bones but laced up both sides instead
mircea_popescu: not a corselet/bodice/otherbs.
mircea_popescu: moiety you ever been in a corset ?
mircea_popescu: not by a long shot.
asciilifeform: incidentally, this fellow, afaik, was not a psychiatric case himself, but for some reason enjoyed trolling usenet groups full of such
asciilifeform: With Howard Stern’s girlfriend, the salient features are absolute: her looks and her receptive behavior. If every woman looked similarly good, and behaved as adoringly toward the average working stiff, they would still look good. (A man can test this hypothesis by viewing photographs of thousands of attractive women. Even after massive, pervasive exposure, they still look good. In fact, pornography can be un
asciilifeform: 'It’s interesting to consider which gender’s ideal can be realized first with technology. It should be a lot easier for technology to simulate Howard Stern’s girlfriend (for the satisfaction of men) than for technology to simulate Howard Stern (for the satisfaction of women). With Howard Stern, the salient feature is the success, and the relative status. If every man had a $500 million satellite radio co
asciilifeform: 'If the world’s most beautiful women want to be gold-diggers, that’s their right. It doesn’t “humiliate” me. It merely establishes what I would have to obtain (namely, wealth and fame) if I wanted to bang some of those women. The actual women, that is. Technology may provide an easier alternative. And a more intellectually satisfying alternative too.'
mircea_popescu: but what do i know, my interaction with typo design was limited to being the phb for a few years.
asciilifeform: 'The in-laws won’t be as much of a problem either because the male in-laws will be preoccupied with sexbots of their own, therefore they will have less time on their hands to spend meddling in the lives of their relatives. At family gatherings, the men will gather around to trade sexbot programs, while the women will gather to complain about the men’s sexbots. Or may women will play with their catbots and
moiety: wait, can i has a crossbow?
mircea_popescu: moiety would you ride around on it naked holding a spear ?
moiety: omg stuff your flying japanese girl covered cars, i want a flying manul!
asciilifeform: moietybot: someone ought to cross-breed manul with the argentinian 'colocolo' - to get a thicker-yet beast
moiety: LOL mircea_popescu i dont think i have a big enough arse to qualify
mircea_popescu: a sport that's not popular is usually a lot more fun
mircea_popescu: take sports : a sport that's popular is annoying because all the inept idiots insist to play it.
mircea_popescu: i dunno about that, tbh. if anything, it'll remove a lot of pressure to perform from the mishoden, dysfunctional male humans, which'll make it so much better for the healthy.
mircea_popescu: "even a blind toaster can pinch a careless nipple", or how did that russian proverb go
moiety is happy with a toaster, you know this ;P
mircea_popescu: no car contains a flat surface of as much as a square inch
asciilifeform: i've always thought it odd, that no one, lambo or trambo, makes a car with standardized panels for the outside
mircea_popescu: if anyone's seen cars in like rome etc... the even cheaper alternative would be "people stop giving a shit about scratches"
tg2: I had one idea for a car invention
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well, the perennial possibility of idiots does not really constitute a counterargument.
asciilifeform: bought out in short order, and in the higher millions << might be a little problem once the car behind/in front/side of yours has emitters
mircea_popescu: anyway, whosoever gets anywhere even near a deliverable with this tyhing is getting bought out in short order, and in the higher millions.
mircea_popescu: they've been toying with "assisted parking" for quite a while.
asciilifeform: i vaguely recall that a recent mercedes has radar of some form
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but i would imagine a better adjusted thing may be developed.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one can buy marine radar domes quite small enough to fit on a car.
Duffer1: i'm not even a little surprised
dexX7: related: i was approached by hashfast last year to be a forum shill with a payment of $15/hour in babyjet credits - i declined
asciilifeform: one can get a pick'n'placer for $20-40K (USD), but it isn't magic - someone clueful has to run it
asciilifeform: not that 'vertical integration' is unheard of, but it rarely makes sense for a small electronics firm to buy pick'n'place apparatus, ovens, etc.
asciilifeform: probably from a hollywood flick
asciilifeform: nth generation 'xerox' of a 'ham radio' joke
mircea_popescu: that's the problem, the words taken disparate work, but somehow they've been put in a soup that fails to anything
mircea_popescu: "Yeah, come at me gobment bro! Ahm behind 7 proxies! MPEX got an anthrax email from NSA but he muxed it to double sideband at a lower baud rate and now he's in ur base, killing ur d00dz."
dexX7: must be almost a year ago now
VanCleef: what i think happened artifexd is that the page is choking up so much and people are in a panic to buy that they accidently confusing buy with sell instead
moiety: i don't recommend it VanCleef lol using a plug in monitor is such a pain
VanCleef: i could punch by monitor go out and buy a new one and it would still be loading
VanCleef: wow havelock is such a fail
moiety: jurov: not having fun? is there a fair bit of folk there?
VanCleef: should have been a scene in lost in translation
mircea_popescu: in a fiat court, never.
ThickAsThieves: would it be fair to stop assigning a USD value in cases of stolen coins?
mircea_popescu: The complaint, which has a Background section with the question “What the heck is a Bitcoin?” also contains an attachment of 30 pages of bitcointalk forum discussion detailing the history of the story from July-August 2013.
ThickAsThieves: “It speaks to the legitimacy of cryptocurrencies and a growing understanding of their value and importance to businesses.”
kakobrekla: A court in Fort Worth, Texas, has granted a temporary restraining order to freeze the bitcoin wallets of ASIC mining hardware manufacturer HashFast Technologies LLC and HashFast LLC, after a customer claimed it failed to deliver hardware on time or negotiate a refund.
ThickAsThieves: it's a fukn Ethereum thing
ThickAsThieves: "SchellingCoin: A Minimal-Trust Universal Data Feed"
mircea_popescu: economy may be a social science, but finance is totally an art.
ThickAsThieves: a new floor might be reached in the process
ThickAsThieves: time for the Altcoin Central Bank to make a trading bot
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves indeed. this baby will do a bunch if firsts.
mircea_popescu: my own thinking is that if we keep a reasonable floor under it it'll never be productive
mircea_popescu: this is a pretty good q.
ThickAsThieves: how will we protect ATC from such a fate?
mircea_popescu: you don't have to pay anything, unless you're reading a lot of trilema. then it's like i don't recall, .1 cents ?
chetty: wiht 'leaders' like that no wonder world is such a mess
mircea_popescu: inching along towards the "putin doesn't give a shit about the way i think the world should work"
ThickAsThieves: written by a woman?
mircea_popescu: And the market agrees with me. Alone missed it. Porn is a better product. If girls want to compete maybe they should get real? Virtual honesty v Virtual Deceit? This is economics. No need for hysterics or water works or expressed feelings. Awwh.
mircea_popescu: It's unfair to quote a 5 year old article but if Alone still believes _that_ analysis has validity...he's missed the forest of leeching for the victimized and disinterested trees. Many women invest their entire lives in what amounts to brazen fraud conducted and perfected to "catch" a guy who is then trapped with no idea how cruelly he's been setup.
ThickAsThieves: "Albert Einstein had half a dozen girlfriends and told his wife they showered him with "unwanted" affection, according to letters released "
ThickAsThieves: i'm going with intelligence is a burden
ThickAsThieves: a?
mircea_popescu: btw, quick question : einstein had a) no girlfriend ; b) one girlfriend c) two girlfriends or d) thirteen girlfriends.
mircea_popescu: this "lifetime monogamy" thing is a very narrow edge case of human sexual and intimate practice.
ThickAsThieves: anytime i've attempted as much it felt more like being a triple agent than anything
mircea_popescu: a man does generally keep multiple gfs.
ThickAsThieves: so we need to rewind to where you suggest a man generally keep multiple gfs
mircea_popescu: it's unlikely a single girl can do much for oyu.
ThickAsThieves: so far it seems you want a man to ask his not-annoying gf for recommendations
ThickAsThieves: you gotta hold our collective hand a little hear
ThickAsThieves: so ask your gf to recommend a new gf?