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asciilifeform: i dun think i've ever set foot in an american house where the breaker labels had a strong link with reality
ben_vulpes: regardless of the grounding, there should have been no voltage on the thing if it were actually wired into the laundry room breaker
asciilifeform: it is only possible if the ground - isn't
ben_vulpes: no, there is a ground stake. i personally caught tingles off the housing though.
ben_vulpes: which shouldn't even be possible if the circuit were disconnected.
ben_vulpes: just tingles off the housing actually
ben_vulpes: fun thing about this house, when i was rewiring the laundry room with sane 220 plugs, i threw the breaker for the laundry room and STILL ZAPPED MYSELF
thestringpuller: garburator? is this in sink garbage disposal?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: probably unclear that i'm still renting.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes if you're the sort of fella who buys houses and builds compartments for the dogs and sons and etc. (and you are), buy a fishing set, you won't regret.
phf: asciilifeform: walls and wiring is so janky, there's always something sticking out that you can hook too
asciilifeform: it's why the americans made hollow walls to begin with! simple place to shove the wires.
ben_vulpes: could, don't really want to.
asciilifeform: how the hell do you wire anything without 'spelunk in walls' ?
phf: probably would have to run one of those stove/fridge lines
ben_vulpes: would have to spelunk in walls.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: why not ? sink is right on the floor, or wat
ben_vulpes: the particularly annoying thing about this current house is that i don't see a clean way to install the garburator.
ben_vulpes: when i packed 5 people into a rotting victorian proximate to the eng/art schools
ben_vulpes: i have lived in true hovels without
ben_vulpes: while the garburator was tradeable, the dishwasher was not
diana_coman: for 1 sec I thought ben_vulpes actually *washes* the dishes ; as in using sponge+washing liquid, no dishwasher
trinque: Alpha or not, I’m not a stat. And that’s perhaps the most an individual can hope for. << aha. who the fuck cares? now leave me alone.
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2016/09/15/on-being-alpha-or-not-or-how-statistics-dont-apply-to-individual-cases/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - On being alpha, or not. Or how statistics don’t apply to individual cases.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-15 18:01 mircea_popescu: you know you already have the code.
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-15#1542439 << so i've done my own digging and asked a few others to dig as well, and i can't figure out what "the code" i'm supposed to have is. grepping for 'footnote' turns up zilch in my copy of mp-wp. throw me a bone here? ☝︎
ben_vulpes: scavenge heat, don't suck power off the main shaft.
ben_vulpes: well reeeeallly you want a turbo for that volumetric efficiency
asciilifeform: of the 1,001 pitfalls of riding the tanker, the magic blue mist is apparently not one.
asciilifeform: and there is ample room for it.
asciilifeform: unlike the grass-cutter petrol 2stroke.
asciilifeform: anyway mircea_popescu is mistaken: http://www.first-hand.info/image/fig(1.1-9).png << 2stroke diesel motor does not use the crankcase for compression.
asciilifeform: i didn't mention the cost of paint jobs and debarnacling etc. either.
mircea_popescu: anyway, /me was expecting this protest re "buy a tanker", but never heard it.
asciilifeform: i see this blue every day, from the barbaric lawn machine engines etc.
mircea_popescu: oil gets arbitrarily fine dust. hence the blue tinge of eg truck exhaust
mircea_popescu: generally how the marine 2stroke works.
asciilifeform: (total loss, that is)
mircea_popescu: that it may be ; but it's still a two stroke engine (total oil loss, for example)
asciilifeform: y'know, the cycle. not (necessarily) the fuel.
mircea_popescu: nah, these days they're dual tanker fuel with gpl.
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz from the abstenence only club, http://66.media.tumblr.com/a7d8a4be38a47b93f818b69aa99219d7/tumblr_nmy5zaylR91tyr1zwo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: oh by the way asciilifeform , TWO STROKE ship engine. because yes, when you have the space and need the efficiency, it beats 4stroke.
mircea_popescu: apparently pickled herring does things.
ben_vulpes: oh man and the video of containers toppling
asciilifeform: what's that ?
ben_vulpes: ho that's an entirely different angle from what i saw
asciilifeform: 'The local port authority has reportedly launched an investigation into the incident, with local newspapers reporting as much as $250,000 in damages.'
ben_vulpes: i don't know what you're looking at for those zeros
asciilifeform: did they ever invent insurance in gypsylandia ?
ben_vulpes: second best part is how the princess ship just hauls ass out to sea
ben_vulpes: best part is the new jersyite "this is bad" refrain
ben_vulpes: the lng train chugs along: https://gcaptain.com/first-ship-to-ship-lng-bunkering-completed-in-sweden/
asciilifeform: so i owe him 5000, and we settle in potatoes, also without creating tx, etc.
asciilifeform: if i'm buying six antimatter bombs from thestringpuller, and nominally they cost 1000btc each but he realizes that he owed me 1000btc of iridium from asteroid, and we settle without creating btc tx, this is honest - but is not a btc transaction.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: 'offchain transaction' is a harmless thing so long as it is not fraudulently presented as 'in bitcoin'.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-06 15:11 asciilifeform: when you transact with btc the way it was built to be transacted with, the problem does not exist.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-06#1498075 << oblig thread. ☝︎
thestringpuller: you know the ones who hate "offchain solutions" for those very reasons of not creating on-chain transaction
thestringpuller: well there is a subset of folks who want bigger blocks for reasons you specified (for coffee), but still think physical btc is "good idea"
asciilifeform: but by instead passing papers/scratch'n'sniffs/magical usb thingies/etc. around.
asciilifeform: well no, not same ones, these think they can 'use bitcoin' without creating tx.
thestringpuller: those same folks also want bigger blocks to pay for their coffee
asciilifeform: they go 'i'm gonna try to make a string of bits that tells me if someone copied it' and end up in same idiot spots as copyrasts making 'copy protection' etc.
asciilifeform: the reason i even started this thread is that there is imho a 'sleep of reason breeding monsters' among folks who partake in 'physical coins' and similar.
thestringpuller: so boil it down even more. write down who owes what after years of bar tab. send address, settle up.
asciilifeform: whereas walking with the paper is an invitation to everybody to knock you over the head and take the coin.
asciilifeform: if you don't trust, then no deal.
asciilifeform: if you trust the counterparty, he pgp's you an addr and you pay to that.
asciilifeform: even across the street.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: it also isn't clear to me why anyone would want to walk around with a paper privkey.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: Details in my inquiries and thoughts. My inquiry was more along the lines of "offchain" accounting in physical world. Answer is: priv key on paper.
asciilifeform: bitcoin is moved between holders by issuing a tx. attempting any other method, under the guise of 'transacting in bitcoin', is fraudulent of the sender, and idiotic of the receiver.
asciilifeform: it is altogether unclear to me how 'more descriptive' would help. subj is a dead end.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i need to be more descriptive. devil in details and all that.
mircea_popescu: the only question remains, how long ago was thestringpuller actually replaced with the markov device.
asciilifeform: the hologram, faux crypto, etc. are scamatronic in that they offer 0 pill against sc4mz0r, while being quite unnecessary when trading with trusted party.
thestringpuller: I was just wondering in context of WoT, does it make sense then? or is it still braindamaged.
thestringpuller: This I understand. Accounting of that sort cannot exist outside of strong WoT. Cuz scammers.
asciilifeform: whereas with 'physical coins' people imagine they have some sort of protections. which is poppycock.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: understand, 'physical btc' is dumb because it makes promises that are physically impossible to keep. if you simply shove sheet of paper with privkey at someone, you at least have no illusions about possible pitfalls of doing it.
a111: Logged on 2016-01-17 21:13 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it works by ben_vulpes, sultan of brunei, and king of saud, sending each other pgpgrams with signed chits of how many tonnes of plutonium each owes the other.
thestringpuller: so no different than >> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-01-17#1374612 ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: ever been to actual village? folks pay 'in materiel', with word of honour, etc.
asciilifeform: btc doesn't even make sense in the given picture.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: lemme ask this. Lets say TMSR existed on meatspace island. ben_vulpes mod6 phf asciilifeform are all small business owners. Would you trust exchanging "phsyical btc" with them and only them, or still only in "one shot scenario"?
asciilifeform: and you haven't been 'paid in btc' until the coins land in addr for which you have sole control of privkey.
asciilifeform: bitcoin is only working in its design envelope when moved by broadcasting actual tx.
thestringpuller: but i understand. i would be interested to see asciilifeform design of "opendime-like" device
thestringpuller: in the way human centipede is educational?
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: it isn't that the shit stinks less, but that latrine with pig is educational, vs the other kind.
thestringpuller: really!?!?!? just because one latrine is dirt and the other is marble you don't care about the smell of the shit?
asciilifeform: eh this here's a high-class latrine, with imperial human pigwimminz
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: and you ask why I'm trudging through the latrines?
thestringpuller: is opendime that bullshit open hardware wallet?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the curriculum, if you will, of 'sane hardware' consists of public rapes.
mircea_popescu: wait, this was a "basics of hardware reverse engineering" class ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when, e.g., mod6 goes into the forest to teach woman how to shoot a turkey, he presumably does not do it because the individual turkey was important.
mircea_popescu: you might as well apply basic grammar to myspace postings.
mircea_popescu: literally. there are more of these vomit kernels "published" on social media than there are readers.