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kakobrekla: i doubt he had anything of substance
to say
kakobrekla: i
think he (personally) is still around here
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i
thought
they moved
to some uk incubeator ?
mircea_popescu: * NejcKodric (54ffd749@gateway/web/freenode/ip.84.255.215.73) has joined #bitcoin-assets << was
that
the bitstamp dood ?
mats: i dun look for insights into
the human condition in such places
mats: mircea_popescu:
to me it is just a cute comic with a boy and an anthropomorphic
tiger
mircea_popescu: "oh im here at
the bottom of an ocean of air exerting 100kpa on my every limb, i can scarcely move!!1"
mircea_popescu: once you accept
that human life is definitionalyl worthless, and ESPECIALLY
that of
those people you care about (chiefly - your own), uncertainity is no more
threatening
than atmosphere is overpowering.
mircea_popescu: this, for
the record my dear lord mats , is entirely a constructed, deliberate neurosis.
there is nothing paralyzing about uncertainity in se.
the paralizing bit, much like
the horse's bit, or
the nail in
the grenade, is
the expectation of maximal outcome, often doublespoken as "responsibility", and generally internalized as "self respect" or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: Mircea Mircescu paid for Mircea Popescu's coffee
this morn!
mircea_popescu is really digging
this virtual employee
thing. leave
the poor player overnight, come back
to more riches!
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news : i just used ~4mn satoshi worth of Eulora stuff
to dig up ~7mn worth of Eulora stuff. I just earned 3 bitcents off virtual mmorpg economy
this morning, on
top of everything else!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform>
the 'if we close our eyes, mircea_popescu won't exist!' orchestra is a fountain of lulz <<< i'm
totally making cocktails with water from
there. makes
the girls all giddy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm a promiscuous sort what can i
tell you.
assbot: Logged on 13-02-2016 15:21:20; *: asciilifeform doesn't sync from heathen world any moar. either moves signed gigatarball around, or -connect's via ssh
tunnel
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there's a system catching up with it,
too.
BingoBoingo: but mircea_popescu's
thinkpad is not a computer. It is a bedtime video player.
BingoBoingo: internal resistance also greatly reduced in
the low self discharge version
BingoBoingo: <punkman> you could make battery pack
that plugs in charger port, see what happens <<
these
tend
to be li-ion, on in my present case charger is plugged into SLA
BingoBoingo: If current draw is really
that big of a concern
punkman: you could make battery pack
that plugs in charger port, see what happens
BingoBoingo: Or introduce
the sensible compromise
that clock gets
throttled on battery power.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: So far playing with
these astoundingly flat.
BingoBoingo: So, power reserve capacity goes down
to get
the lighter weight.
This is just physics.
punkman: if you were
to have
the equivalent of 10 AA I mean
BingoBoingo: Side effect of
this is if weight is actually a concern (it really shouldn't be) AAA cell battery prison could also be offered.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ~voltage~ << 9 in series
to get required voltage
punkman: eneloop is what, 1.2v, lenovo battery 12v, so you'd need 10 of
them?
mircea_popescu: the 1/2 figure is more 2000era
tho.
they're better now.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
there's been a lot of progress with fine meshes or w/e, but i'm pretty sure
they still didn't manage
to catch up
to li ion
mircea_popescu: that's what makes
these
things iffy. gotta let
the proponent state it whenever it's such a case.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ~1/2
the density << In practice I'm not so sure. 3 AA eneloops new offers a
total 6.3 Ah. Present laptop's battery if new 5.2 Ah with much bigger cells
mircea_popescu: i'd like
to read how
the lower bound claim is constructed.
punkman: is it actually
the same density?
BingoBoingo: I mean
that's about as good as or better energy density
than Li-ion, vastly reduced fire hazard, and all kinds of other joy.
BingoBoingo: There's AA low self discharge NiMH cells out
there with 2 amp hour capacities and up
to 2100 recharge cycle life spans
BingoBoingo: I really don't understand why
there isn't more outrage about
the perpetuation of
this lithium ion battery planned obscelescence scam.
BingoBoingo: Nothing new other
than
the introduction, which is gold: "Let’s say
that you’re running a company and want
to create some internal competition between
teams
to see which ones can perform better. You can do
this with R&D, and sales, but I would humbly suggest
that you don’t do it with receivables. Sending out duplicate invoices
to customers is generally referred
to as ‘criminal behavior’."
mircea_popescu: let's leave it at "property is a complicated
thing"
then.
punkman: not sure I have any nonstupid questions or answers on
the
topic
mircea_popescu: that's how malta was originally acquired from
the monarch of sicily.
mircea_popescu: under
the sole payment of a falcon; which every year, on
the Feast of All Saints, shall be presented by
the person or persons duly authorised for
that purpose, into
the hands of
the Viceroy or President, who may at
that
time be administering
the government, in sign and recognition of feudal
tenure; and having made
that payment,
they shall remain exempt and free from all other service claimable by law, and by custom per
mircea_popescu: wer of life and death over males and females residing within
their limits, and with
the laws, constitutions, and rights now existing amongst
the inhabitants;
together with all other laws and rights, exemptions, privileges, revenues and other immunities whatsoever; so
that
they may hereafter hold
them in feudal
tenure from us, as Kings of both Sicilies, and from our successors in
the same kingdom, reigning at
the
time,
mircea_popescu: "we grant, and of our liberality we bountifully bestow upon
the aforesaid Very Reverend Grand Master of
the Religion and Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, in feudal perpetuity, noble, free and unencumbered, our cities, castles, places and islands of
Tripoli, Malta and Gozo, with all
their cities, castles, places and island
territories; with pure and mixed jurisdiction, right, and property of useful government; with po
mircea_popescu: let
them use it for as long as
they pay you
the rent ?
punkman: no,
the sovereign of
the island, and now you want
to sell land
to people
blockchain_enthu: anyway, i
think i'll have
to read up a lot more before i contribute
to
the discussion here.
Thanks all for sharing your
thoughts.
punkman: what if you are
the king of malta?
mircea_popescu: moreover, currently afaik most of
the us runs on
the barbaric
title-deed mechanism anyway.
mircea_popescu: it's not yet established
that "land ownership" by
the
torens method has any room in
the future.
mircea_popescu: not a matter of word picking, i'm just making
the point
that
there's no benefit for
the new lord importing
the old gunk.
punkman: if you have jurisdiction over an area of land, not a bad
thing
to do.
danielpbarron: that's more of a WoT
thing
than a block chain
thing, and we're back
to betters beating losers
mircea_popescu: it's more obsolete
than democracy / marriage / working
the fields with your hands.
punkman: one interesting
thing would be land deeds notarized on
the bitcoin chain
blockchain_enthu: and so,
this would require recognition of block chain
transactions as valid
transactions in real world
blockchain_enthu: the only counter point I'd like
to make here is
this: even
though real world items do not follow rules like bitcoins do, but
there is a whole system (read legal system) which allows people
to do
transactions and move
things around
danielpbarron: blockchain_enthu, I'd re-voice you but I can't
think of anything else of interest
to add here. If anyone else wants
to
take a
turn...
danielpbarron: the one
thing
the block chain can do is move arbitrary numbers between arbitrary addresses and
this works because it all exists
totally within itself.
The problem with
trying
to mesh
this with
things not-in-the-block-chain is
that
they do not have
to obey
the rules set forth
therein
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla in fairness he prolly never actually met something like
this yet.
blockchain_enthu: when i said real-estate
transactions, i meant buying/selling of real-estate.
kakobrekla: read log? sounds
too much like actual work.
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2016 21:10:11; mircea_popescu:
these delusioanl urchins are so used
to seeing
themselves as a sort of neo-in-matrix
that it just doesn't compute.