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pankkake: I've had
a lot of incandescents burn in less than 6 months. but it might have been the container's fault, too much heat
nubbins`: asciilifeform:
a light bulb is an inefficient electric heater ;)
mircea_popescu: Jan 19 22:14:04 <mircea_popescu>soo, who has the authority to make
a deal so I can cover the 20k shortfall ?
nubbins`: you occasionally see people at the hardware store with
a shopping cart full of incandescent bulbs
punkman: seems like
a lot for just electricity, what the fuck does he have stashed in there
punkman: don't they need most of the money to keep testing builds on
a bunch of old hardware?
nubbins`: dated
a girl years ago whose grandfather was an oil guy. he couldn't even keep track of all the places he owned land.
nubbins`: (verb conjugation is
a very fluid thing here)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect the premise that criminals are driven by
a desire to acquire wealth is flawed here. crap artists aren't REALLY running
a business.
nubbins`: will be nice to finally have
a place to lay things
mircea_popescu: that's
a reading on it, but i doubt there's depth there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i agree, and i propose to you it's because it is
a free market.
nubbins`: they still think and they still kick up
a stink once in
a while
mircea_popescu: in french is just
a banal term paper on the works of otherwise commonplace academics.
nubbins`: although
a simpler explanation is that anglos find The Coming Insurrection much more interesting than francos.
mircea_popescu: ;;google here's
a story from our town, of the prettiest girl around.
mircea_popescu: i suspect the baby is thrown with
a bathwater somewhere at some point somehow tho
mircea_popescu: * it's
a large, affiliate forum. people who eke out
a harsh existence at the edges of economy, internet and legality. the guys who buy 50k clicks on site y to send to site x.
mircea_popescu: i came to it studying the warrior forum (*) years ago, when i noticed the unifying factor in all their textual emissions was
a desire to "make money while you sleep".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, the quote above is from my own blog. cargo cultist got
a spam script, understands some parts of how it works. ends up sending the unprocessed spinlist.
KRS1: love this analogy: xrp, like worldcoin turned our lady bitcoin into
a cheap whore
KRS1: thats
a nightmare waiting to happen imo
mircea_popescu: KRS1 do you see any indication this is anything more or other than
a purely nominalist rebranding of their old crap that was already beaten to shit in the marketplace ?
benkay`: also i ams in need of htmling and cssing does anyone in here have
a recommendation?
pankkake: bitcoin businesses seem to raise money when they don't need it, end up with
a shitload of coins, and simply don't have any incentive to work
benkay`: most of the time it's
a scam of the innocent 'i want to derp
a thing related to buttcorns so i'll poop some features and call it bitcoin 2.0' type
benkay`: if it's not actually
a bitcoin it's
a scam
benkay`: "So if I own
a business I can sell shares on ripple using your service? I will need to look into this..."
nubbins`: palaver, for free speech exercised without
a goal."
nubbins`: "Another reflex is to call
a general assembly at the slightest sign of movement, and vote. This is
a mistake. The business of voting and deciding
a winner, is enough to turn the assembly into
a nightmare, into
a theater where all the various little pretenders to power confront each other. Here we suffer from the bad example of bourgeois parliaments. An assembly is not
a place for decisions but for
nubbins`: i first read this around the time "occupy" was floundering about. had
a chuckle at one point where they decry the General Assembly as essentially the worst idea ever
nubbins`: i spoke to
a guy who TURNED DOWN an offer of 30btc for his 10btc round.
nubbins`: as if somebody's going to pay
a $13,000 premium for
a round minted last year
nubbins`: as if the face value of
a coin has any bearing on its numismatic value
nubbins`: there are
a handful of fools who insist on pricing via "2x/4x face value" and other nonsense
nubbins`: to be fair, once the coin changes hands twice,
a chain of custody is essentially useless
nubbins`: i still haven't seen
a legit, undetectable unfunding.
nubbins`: at decfon last year, they managed to remove
a holo while leaving only slight traces of tampering
nubbins`: there's
a high level of irrationality present in the subset of people who are into these coins
nubbins`: near the end of the video, he misses
a bus by about two coats of paint
nubbins`: "As you can see, the chap doing the demonstration is
a qualified fixed-gear rider: With no brakes, he terrorizes pedestrians by running
a red light at top speed and careers into London’s Picadilly Circus. He also has the obligatory skinny pants with Kryptonite Evo-Mini D-lock in the back pocket. Rest assured: this guy is
a professional."
ozbot: LockWhip Bike Tool Demoed by Rider with
a Deathwish | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
nubbins`: up next: 10 reasons why it's
a bad idea to masturbate with
a reciprocating saw
nubbins`: there's an article on how to properly wear
a bike helmet
nubbins`: not quite firstbits, but you can check the code against
a published list
nubbins`: i'm about 70% of the way towards just giving you
a coin to play with ;p
nubbins`: once you get
a handle on the font, even
a fairly low-res image would narrow things down to
a reasonable set of possibilities
nubbins`: i'm imagining repurposing
a 3d printer
nubbins`: with
a needle and
a piezo, srsly?
nubbins`: and nobody wanted to potentially flush
a couple btc down the drain experimenting
nubbins`: lee valley is
a wondrous place for tinkerers and fiddlers
nubbins`: my folks have
a propane fireplace, but the fan obv doesn't circulate the heat when the power goes
nubbins`: that's
a bit different, paper can survive comfortably at 100C