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mircea_popescu: i don't know of any system where labour capital has a lesser value.
mircea_popescu: in a democracy it's quite natural.
mircea_popescu: this is pretty funny, guy now wants to work for me, admits he couldn't do as good a job as thje girl.
ozbot: Eek A Mouse - Schizophrenic.MP4 - YouTube
Vexual: id send you the log, but it's not really a log
nubbins`: great if you have a wii and your buddy has a u, tho
nubbins`: and everyone with a u has an original wii ;D
nubbins`: that's because they give you a $250 controller with your u
Vexual: wiimotes must cost a bit, they dont even give you one with a u
nubbins`: you can probably just get gyro arduino shields for cheaper than a wiimote now anyway
nubbins`: and it's more than enough to keep a quadcopter in the air
nubbins`: seriously, a motionplus and an arduino sets you back maybe $50-60
nubbins`: consider that a wii motion plus attachment fits in a child's hand, costs $25, and can track acceleration and movement along 3 axes
Vexual: wrap the mag around a sparkler and flee
asciilifeform: a modern Diogenes will die comically, 'ipad' crate falling on his head instead of turtle.
Vexual: or a tennis ball
asciilifeform: rf is a more interesting countermeasure than pyrotechnics, because enemy machines can travel by land, sea, hell, sewer line, and not only by air.
asciilifeform: a different machine is called for, and will appear.
Vexual: is that a little raddome on the top of tail?
mircea_popescu: dub not if your fishing wire is part of a net.
dub: I think you're going to need to get real lucky to tangle a cord in the prop
mircea_popescu: give it a slow death
dub: if you're aiming a gun make it an rf gun
Vexual: a long one
dub: it'll just limp a bit
dub: not if for a rotating wing
asciilifeform: need an uncommonly solid grip, for a drogue chute.
Vexual: a magnet and a parachute
dub: cheaper yet, a parachute
asciilifeform: dub: the hypothetical was: a toystore chopper limpets on to the larger one. what ought to be in the former.
dub: presumably you would harden in the defensive direction (down) while leaving a channel on the harder to target side (up)
asciilifeform: dub: the notion of rf-hardening a widget that includes a large antenna is a curious one.
asciilifeform: dub: why perforate enemy, take him home as a pet.
asciilifeform: just needs a little extra sweat.
Vexual: do they make a cargo model?
asciilifeform: death from the air would be a little scarier if they so much as managed to get gps spoofing off the table.
mircea_popescu: i dunno... this thing doesn;'t look like a little flame throwing would take its paint off
asciilifeform: the famous (u.s.) drones are very much tooled for unarmed targets that can't afford so much as a binocular.
Vexual: im pretty sure anyone who might actually want to down a drone would have better explosives
mircea_popescu: (actually, i wonder what a rc plane equiped with 4 ounces of acetone and a sparker would do to a drone carrying a missile)
asciilifeform: the choppers are easy to build, one fellow i know cobbled together a classic design that lifts several full soda cans.
Vexual: you get a portion of the btc delivery fee when you `obtain` and maintain a mesh drone
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you are telling me that http://assets.makers.com/maker/Anne_Wojcicki_IMG_5679_A.jpg was dsomeone's fuck toy ?!
mircea_popescu: it'll be a riot to keep pumping the "nsa is doing an excellent job tracking everything!!1"
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: word is that mr. B has a new fucktoy
asciilifeform: '23' being a u.s. corp, the response will probably be: doggy submission. followed by death.
truffles: Dr McCarthy thinks "the human race is a very good thing" so he may be wrong on others
kakobrekla: just scan the moon with a qr gun until you get a small boy with a penis
mircea_popescu: this should be a xkcd
mircea_popescu: i change to "a recognisable depiction"
mircea_popescu: a good point
asciilifeform: only problem is that said offset is typically much longer than the payload. but this may not be a problem for this use case.
mircea_popescu: there exists a natural number indicating the first pi decimal at which that jpg representation can be found
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's a theorem : for any jpg representation of a six year old riding a tumescent pig penis,
mircea_popescu: rarely a more insurmountable task was met by a less apt entity.
mircea_popescu: well at least, if we're contemplating the task of censoring the blockchain, i would say the bitcoin foundation is a well chosen agent.
deadweasel: this is me trying to understand what might be a good idea.
truffles: dubs his theory the 'Monkey-F******-A-Pig hypothesis'
ThickAsThieves: no wonder it had to rape a monkey to get laid
Vexual: maybe start with something like a coral
Vexual: maybe its a crackpipe kinda thing
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you could use your bitcoin fortune to endow a monkey pigfucking farm
truffles: maybe its a publish or perish kinda thing ya know
ozbot: 'Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig': Extraordinary claim made by American ge
mircea_popescu: dub i dunno but i've seen this new thanksgiving nonsense where they cut a turkey and a pigglet and put the halves together
dub: we don't eat a lot of monkey, perhaps the jews are right
Vexual: cancer isn't much of a problem until you're dead, then it's less of a problem
dub: isnt there a recent genetic breakthrough that we are the result of a monkey fucking a pig
truffles: i was just looking if there was a non scanner way to tell if uve got cancer..
mircea_popescu: turbo_ac100_ im a huge fan.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that kinda reminds me of the one time i got a buncha romanian blogger's faces and symmetrized them
truffles: are u gonna have a moment`?
truffles: TAT yea but u think they all look a like
ThickAsThieves: i asked a black guy if he was related to a famous black guy that he looks very similar to, his response "defining features don't equal relation at least not typically" is he a grump, or did i cross some kinda they-all-look-the-same line?
thestringpuller: you a big meanie
ThickAsThieves: (1) NSA’s mission is of great value to the Nation”; (2) NSA performs its mission the right way—lawful, compliant and in a way that protects civil liberties and privacy; (3) NSA performs its mission exceptionally well. We strive to be the best that we can be, because that’s what America requires as part of its defense in a dangerous world; (4) The people who work for NSA are
kakobrekla: a week
mircea_popescu: sounds like a good amount of card.
kakobrekla: anyway no glitches or anything and i abused the card a lot
kakobrekla: 260 on a good day
kakobrekla: its a 5770 OCed to shit
kakobrekla: in a dedi rig
kakobrekla: a bunch.
benkay`: that sounded like a bubble popping
mircea_popescu: obviously the same cave early behaviour is related to a lot of the forum-style scammy nonsense passing for investment so successfully.
mircea_popescu: and this is not limited to our narrow corner of tghe world. keeping a fortune and making a fortune are widely different skillsets.
mircea_popescu: the same will repeat for a while, i suspect. most of the people that willl sell under 10k have sold or are about to sell at 1k ish
mircea_popescu: the mounting buying pressure is temporarily sated, but then later on ? 200, 500, 800 go by like a dream
mircea_popescu: in general, the expectation will be that she caves late. and indeed should you after a three week courtship tell her gtfo, you should have said yes on the first pass it'll be unexpected.
mircea_popescu: now, this is a rare behaviour irl. if you go up to a girl and ask her out, it's rare that she says "ok, i'm willing to be your gf now" after two hours.
ThickAsThieves: some really do enjoy knowing they have a legacy to leave
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the trick is, making a fortune and keeping a fortune are pretty divergent skills.
ThickAsThieves: many care, legacy is a big deal for some
truffles: (gets a gf)
truffles: shocker amy isnt a dood..
jborkl: I lose track, it isn't a exciting week anymore if less than 10,000 btc is hacked(run off with by a shitbag)
mircea_popescu: jborkl a few days back, the theory ghoes.
mircea_popescu: no seriously ? get a job in porn, the set mother will tell you when you need to wash the cum off.
mircea_popescu: " It became increasingly difficult to balance school, socializing, laundry, and a part-time job."
dub: I wonder how many people that took parents to a job interview got hired