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asciilifeform: ever boil water in a paper cup?
nubbins`: you're telling me you can half a coin along its height and reattach it?
asciilifeform: yes, but is there a holo?
nubbins`: i'm itching to try a few things, but i don't want to ruin a bunch of coins
nubbins`: oh sorry, it's a wolf head
nubbins`: so like a picture charm?
nubbins`: there was a discussion about etched keys and medical imaging equipment
nubbins`: well, short people can only raise a bar so high, y'know
asciilifeform: the whole thing is a 'conspicuous benevolence' circus, not actual politics.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: ceo buys a plane ticket and then whatever he likes.
mircea_popescu: well apparently the notion that if i pay someone 1mn a year i can afford to pay for better health care than if he barely pulls his weight at 10k a year is a mystery nao.
nubbins`: like, the ceo can't even pay extra for a better plan?
mircea_popescu: who would pay taxes in a fuckuntry where they actually believe random clerk has the same right to survive as a ceo.
nubbins`: it's like if you found a sexy woman whose pussy was coded in ASM or something.
mircea_popescu: kinda like being the only guy at the swinger's party with a chick with total hysterectomy.
nubbins`: a truly rare gem is a 2011 1btc WITHOUT a hologram error.
nubbins`: would probably fetch a higher price than my idea for bespoke public key shirts, too
mircea_popescu: nubbins` there's a tshirt idea for you :
pankkake: finding the way to make cocks bigger is the sure way to becoming a billionnaire
nubbins`: that was a mirror ;p
mircea_popescu: i once put a shiny thing on my cock and it got bigger.
asciilifeform: one fellow gets to make a triode, another, to measure speed of light to 1%, another...
asciilifeform: you can train a monkey, yes. but the problem is to be unexpected and picked from a hat, like a soviet oral exam
nubbins`: i don't have a third hand to do a triple-facepalm, so i'm using the table
pankkake: it's not really comparable. sokal wanted to prove a point, they just were bad and wanted a phd
nubbins`: "But how do you know that the privkey inside matches the public key part? And how do you know the privkey wasn't copied by someone before being sold to you? This thing is far less secure than a downloaded paper wallet!"
mircea_popescu: you can probably train a well chosen monkey to make one
asciilifeform: he must, say, construct a (working) triode valve.
asciilifeform: lock candidate in a well-stocked lab, circa 1920.
asciilifeform: i'm all for a little 'lustration' of physics as a field:
asciilifeform: popularisation. I am a bit surprised that a faculty failed to
pankkake: got their phd because everyone was tired of them, and schemed to have it delivered by a prestigious school, though they had nothing to do with that school
mircea_popescu: anyway, how often does an onslaught against humanities constructed around the sokal hoaks end up blindised by a "o yeah ?! what about the bogdanov twins then
mircea_popescu: i don't want her to lose a nail.
asciilifeform: make lambsy stuff his fingers in a mains socket. he'll learn hierarchy, truth...
mircea_popescu: because i was having a dispute with some lambsy over hierarchy, truth and all that.
mircea_popescu: "These guys worked for 10 years without pay. They have the right to have their work recognized with a diploma, which is nothing much these days."
nubbins`: wow, he actually did wear a colander on his head
twizt: wheres a mod
mircea_popescu: it's sort of like a petting zoo for the mentally challenged.
mircea_popescu: guy came to be sworn in with a calender on his head.
nubbins`: might as well be a stack of $100 bills
pankkake: nude in public isn't fun when it's on a deserted street at 6 am
Duffer1: i'm not a fan of the V
nubbins`: ^ a square peg, if small enough, will fit into a round hole
nubbins`: yeah, i submitted a fix and they applied it almost immediately
nubbins`: i reported a gaping CSRF vuln on havelock last year
nubbins`: black ink on a black shirt, even
benkay: or on a dog tag
nubbins`: t-shirts with public keys printed on them, think there's a market?
nubbins`: side note, "nub" is a synonym of "pith"
nubbins`: to a point, this original definition still fits
nubbins`: democracy came about as a way for power-hungry low-borns to claw their way to the top
nubbins`: when selling a house, oil heat is a huge negative these days
nubbins`: today, an oil furnace will bleed your wallet dry over the course of a winter
nubbins`: well, a generation ago, 90% of new builds had oil furnaces
mircea_popescu: in a coal fired county ?! by people who made their fortune in energy ?!
nubbins`: a generation ago, nobody gave a fuck when the lights went out
nubbins`: compounded by the fact that there are a lot of "McMansions" being built by those who made their fortunes in the oil and gas industry
nubbins`: TBF the weather did play a small role in the availability. all supplies are brought here by boat
the20year2: Sort of like when hurricane sandy hit NY/NJ this year, instead of letting gas go up 50c a gallon they just let the stations run out. Fuel companies could have brought in fuel for an extra 25c-50c a gallon, but the states ruled it illegal
the20year2: Depends on how contracts were written, they can be written to deal with availability. A market economy could also see the need for fuel/goods and transport them
the20year2: Futures contracts are a part of a market economy
mircea_popescu: everyone's moved on to a planned/command economy and refuse to admit it.
mircea_popescu: i don't get this bs. how can a market economy experience shortages, at all.
nubbins`: needless to say, you can't buy a generator or a bottle of kerosene here at the moment
nubbins`: repair time for a downed line? 1 month
nubbins`: hydro megaproject is actually located in mainland canada, connected to the island by undersea cables and then above-ground cables passing through a mountain range
mircea_popescu: it varies a lot but about 10 cents
nubbins`: either still with folks or in a house with 3-6 others
mircea_popescu: well i tell you, in general a student chick is either living in a four to the room dorm or else five-six chicks in an apartment, here. giving her her own place is a larger step up than her education would afford.
mircea_popescu: yeah, rents in america are a racket.
nubbins`: rents for a 1br apartment start around 7-800
nubbins`: gas is $1.30-$1.50 a liter
nubbins`: hop on a ferry and it's maybe $5/gallon for milk
mircea_popescu: in short : breat is a poor comparison point (partly because most women being able to bake bread keeps bakeries honest)
mircea_popescu: gas is ~2 dollars a liter so like 8 a gallon
mircea_popescu: well... what's a gallon of milk there ? it's about 7 bucks here by now.
nubbins`: going by a loaf of bread, that 150 bucks would be about $525/mo here
mircea_popescu: about a dollar.
nubbins`: to calibrate, what's a loaf of bread cost?
mircea_popescu: and for that you do 8 hours 5 days a week.
mircea_popescu: a month.
mircea_popescu: welfare is not yet a thing in romania.
nubbins`: marginally worthless pulling their own weight -- is this before welfare became a thing?
mircea_popescu: with drugs, 90% of the population ends up costing more than it's worth, and half of what by such a wide margin even salami is a poor use.
mircea_popescu: mno. normally the population is more or less balanced, ever the marginally worthless can pull their own weight. get a job, pay the rent.
nubbins`: HEH. you should visit a high school here.
mircea_popescu: i'd be surprised if a teenager in 10 actually ever had actual drugs of any kind.
nubbins`: if anything, the fact that i've complained about my pill-head neighbours so many times would lend much credence to my story, should i be caught with a package full of drugs in my mailbox
mircea_popescu: and for the cost of a drink you can send someon to bed.
nubbins`: so for the cost of a stamp and a couple of pills, you can send someone to trial
mircea_popescu: it's not much of a plausible denial, so far.
nubbins`: the prosecutor's argument is that a frame job is ludicrous
mircea_popescu: if you're a dweeby teenaged male with no social circle this won't stick,
nubbins`: i don't have a defense, i'm not in the picture
nubbins`: it's only a few pills. a padded envelope and a stamp will do.
nubbins`: so i drive 20 minutes to a post office in the next community
nubbins`: call the cops again and say "i heard them talking about receiving a shipment of pills in the mail"
nubbins`: so i throw some pills into a box, write their address on the front, stick it in the mail