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davout: cars are heavily taxed, the rest is okay i guess, depends obviously on whether you insist on buying the exact same stuff
as at home or if you're ok going the local way
thestringpuller: phf: this is
as asciilifeform says throwing nuke waste into caskets and firing it into the sun
mircea_popescu: phf no but they're "busy" with "their business".
as if there could be a fucking business.
thestringpuller: meanwhile
as asciilifeform says, build walls let zombies eat each other
mircea_popescu: the public,
as then predicted, picked the most rape per unit work.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 14:40 asciilifeform: let's cut in another direction. say, not my house (which is studiously ignored even by pigeons, i have nfi) but... e.g., BingoBoingo's - he picks up microwave background, thick enough that birds are dropping. gets rf burns when touching conductors (
as i suspect that chick got in the photo)
mircea_popescu: so it turns out upon examination that it's not
as much "us snoop has police cover" ; but rather that "some police grunts are deluded into thinking themselves snoops to accept lower paychecks"
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, back 20 years ago, friend being pursued by especially insultingly incompetent "secret service" called in a hit on their car. boxed them in, got them out, beat the shit out of them, took them to police station
as per tradition. police wouldn't make arrest, he berated them a good one. and left.
mircea_popescu: not that they report something noteworthy
as the visit progresses.
mircea_popescu: and i can just
as you can measure the wavelength of the generator on the basis of the mark left behind eh.
mircea_popescu: this is no small matter : mechanical oscillation is just
as much oscillation
as lightwave.
mircea_popescu: which you know, is ~same
as "really hot woman" and ~100x more than "great soccer player" etc.
BingoBoingo: Don't worry though at this year's olympics there are 0 testosterone regulations on competing
as women
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, like the dudes that bought up argentina's debt at 2 cents to the dollar, proceeded to have the idiots for some reason respond tgo suit in us court, and have us judge opine
as if anyone asked him anything.
mats: i'll diversify my portfolio into dogecoin and gaiacoin just
as soon
as i scoop some bitfinex shares
mircea_popescu: their "congress" is a parliament. there's no such thing
as "congress". words have meanings, even if the rural colonists never had a chance to visit a school or library.
jurov: asciilifeform: guess the rss implementation uses updated tag
as primary key, and recent 2 entries have exactly same timestamp
mats: some idiot experiences a pulmonary event, relies on autopilot to travel ~20mi to hospital, and this is lauded
as teh future! disabled people can drive places now! etc
mircea_popescu:
as green correctly points out, "most of the pointless wank and useless crud in all stem fields were actually just unhappy accidents: the shit that stuck to the floor, walls and all crevices while imbeciles at MIT tried to feed themselves."
mircea_popescu: anyway. decentralized don't enter into it. the way you play is that you have a dealer bot, which selects a string composed
as a) "the hash of the latest known block whose height is divisible be 117 and is not in the last 117 found blocks" + b) a server generated salt for the day + c) a player generated salt, to be changed any time a player feels like. then for any dealt hand, the server concatenates a + b + c for each player
mircea_popescu: anyway, re phf's "of course i thought about writing bbet" : the problem there's not "write the site", thats a trivial task to be done in a brief time by a single competent coder. the problem there, and the reson i'm not pushing for replacement, is "how to administer bets". and until i have a good idea i won't push for this, because it's ~futile
as it is, will just pile busywork on some people for no actual benefit.
phf: asciilifeform: ~one~ thread. every time bot goes down i get a "wtf" treatment from you. bot disconnects because there's a connection issue. it doesn't reconnect because there's no reconnection code. i will fix that eventually. i've said
as much every time the subject comes up. so i'm supposed to just work on this shit to a chorus of "loooooog dooooown wtf incompetence"?
phf: asciilifeform: of course i thought about writing bbet, but that means that i can't work on log, or would spend less time on it. to answer question re no reconnect, at some point there was a reason, which i since realized was silly. to now rewrite bot and integration takes time. which i took, now takes time to integrate etc. if i was working on this full time could finish all in a couple of days.
as is, i'm literally hacking in a car on
mircea_popescu: no. the implication here is that "automated business" will always end in crater, with the size of the crater
as a functiuon of how much everyone actually reliedf on the "automated" part.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Usually mounted to truck frame under truck bed, or inside truck bed. Instead of toolboxes composing sides of bed
as on "friendly" tows, most repos no have factory bed of lookalike
mircea_popescu: which is dangerous, because if she's picked
as well
as orwell's dumb whore of a mother picked, the derp won't even try it he sucks so bad.
mircea_popescu: have you been brainwashed into disbelieving there's
as many points in a line
as in a plane ?
mircea_popescu: this is important. qualitatively it is exactly
as much a state
as any usg flavour. the discussion may be carried in quantitative terms,
mircea_popescu: so frequent in fact the manufacturers introduced a special category of "not new, but
as-new" to cover for it.
mircea_popescu: (in other lulz : ro admits both technologie and technologeala
as imports for "technology". the first is commonly used ; the latter is a portmanteau of tech and ologeala, which is the noun describing the "fact of having been made olog, ie, unable to walk". quite appropriately.)
mircea_popescu: nevertheless,
as long
as the input isn't actually fucking 0... maybe urandom can survive with this.
diana_coman: hm, kind of hard to say before having done at least some sort of concrete start on this; at this moment I'd say half more
as a guess than an estimate
mircea_popescu: (this, incidentally, is just
as common in scamcoins
as it is in scamcorporations aka vc-whatever. "premine", ie, reserved-greenmail.)
mircea_popescu: which is also why start-up paying anything but warrants/options/stock is primo nonsense. but then again a no-nonsense approach would shut off most of the morti di fame who like to pretend they're participating in the economy,
as they'd have to get proper jobs instead of aspie-ing all over town.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: sure, this is likely a misunderstanding of "intangibles and goodwill"
as an asset.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: how does the server rental fee make sense
as "intangibles and goodwill"?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm more concenred about obviously-not-working in practice. same principle
as phuctor, really.
mircea_popescu: so it's impossible to make a rational decision here, from both ends. win-win,
as they say.
mircea_popescu: basic cryptoquestion i do not expect an answer to : is there a way to evaluate strength loss by hash pass in a scheme where otp is hashed and the hash used
as next pass otp, for N passes of this ?
PeterL: I seem to remember they have a nice museums for art and science on the campus, my dad would take me there a couple times a year
as a kid
mircea_popescu: nowadays a rather banal observation, but i guess not quite
as crystallized in 2012.
mircea_popescu: seems to be the case that for
as long
as you interact with idiots, what you do doesn't really matter all that much.
hanbot: ah, danielpbarron beat me to it. was gonna post my config file, had similar issues
as shinohai
danielpbarron: just downloaded and verified the new tar.gz, unpacked it into ~/development , ran the same recompile.sh script
as before
mircea_popescu: yes but... i tried lactate. i tried glycosulphate. i mean... holy shit, what, does it come
as part of a chunk of protein eight miles long, to count ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the intestine ? LOTS of it. the intestinal surface is just
as fucking complex
as the brain. it selects certain bacterial populations ffs.
mircea_popescu: intuitively, you'd think "oh well, there's these many oxidative presentations of iron, i've tried them all, time for you to say goodbye to life". yet, chiken liver works. bloody steak somewhat but not
as greatly (and only with proper red wine anyway, so clearly oxidative pathway)
mircea_popescu: the piddly coffee i drink, drowned in milk
as it is, has ~0 effect i can discern.
mircea_popescu: sure, if you're a fuycking weirdo you may benefit from such nonsense. but a) it's a short term thing and b) whatevert you're doing, you're doing it wrongly,
as evidenced by this perceived need to short out the fuse box
mircea_popescu: while there's not a single example of "high cns function helped by chemical", you can take ps hoffman
as a fine example of "idiot enhanced himself"
mircea_popescu: you seriously imagine it's a matter of "if i just increased the voltage of the south bus, i'd have twice
as much ram" ? what is this, 15yo-overclockers-anonymous ?
mircea_popescu: it's not a kind of "genetic engineering" of the "magical" kind seen in ~cartoons, "this spider touched radioactive superglue at the same time
as this janitor"
mircea_popescu: this is a purely sexual matter. yes, the guy was hot
as all fuck.
thestringpuller: S.MG stock warrants act exactly
as stock bonuses in "corporate" should work, you add value to the company. company profits. Execute warrant. Profit.
mircea_popescu: technically sws work
as a sort of "deferred ipo", at least so far.
mircea_popescu: why it's evidently a bad idea here but not even verbalized
as a bad idea there is entirely beyond comprehension.
thestringpuller: The interesting thing, is the profound games the arise out of the sludge. While the children try to make toys and pass them off
as "real things", (when it's just glue and twigs stuck together purporting to be a doll). For instance the Beginner's Guide puts you in the role of having that mentality. This "I want recognition for nothing. Call me CEO, bitch. Cause Zuckerberg did it."
mircea_popescu: THIS is the deep reason so many black kids get shot, incidentally : that it's not fashionable to be a "ceo", it's fashionable to be a "gangsta". and the idiots get shot. humongo boon for the black community, and ~the only reason they don't suck
as bad
as whitey.
thestringpuller: indie developers are just in a crab bucket race for a 15 minute spotlight before going back into obscurity. so exaclty
as you described. phil fish (maker of FEZ) is a primary example of what's wrong with game development
thestringpuller: it's just a digital casino but has the same "feel"
as ATITD
mircea_popescu: in any case what's the rush, if it pays now or later ;
as long
as it's not paid dividends it doesn't much make a diff.
ben_vulpes: the photos i've seen of brasilia mostly look tacky
as hell, is it any better in person?
mircea_popescu: im sitting here watching it dig up tinies
as we speak :D