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assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 22:58:18;
mircea_popescu: <ag3nt_zer0> i said "no i'm not" << the one remarkable quality of six year olds is how quickly they can transform adults, even if specially trained, into other six year olds :D
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 21:16:31;
mircea_popescu: tar was still used for insulation in 4.5V batteries when i was a kid. and the cells were paper wrapped.
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 20:42:00;
mircea_popescu: networking is chiefly multitasking because of the way it's implemented. but even in systems built to mt, there's a dedicated box added outside.
gernika:
mircea_popescu I suppose that's one thing you couldn't do in a private all boys boarding school as opposed to a public school.
moonpunter: !rate
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trinque:
mircea_popescu: hm, yeah. the advantage of being able to drop a jaw by merely existing?
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 20:11:36;
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-08-2015#1253407 << you blessfully ignore the part where THEY CAN BARELY AFFORD A CHAIR. you understand this, do you ? the schmucks that are "ceo"s and whatnot, can barely afford their own breakfast ? the reason airbnb HAS TO exist is because if they can't sleep on each other's bike rags they can't "go to conferences" and prop up the whole word cloud ?
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: it is no deep secret that the 'shelter industry' was largely part cargo-cult, part 'i wanna build a wine cellar without wife bitching'
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: and that's how american houses got those toilet/washroom combos.
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 20:35:43;
mircea_popescu:
http://40.media.tumblr.com/njE9Bw4rvg8ruhzlh5Q7AHg9o1_1280.jpg << all sorts of interesting assumptions in there, such as "the toiletries don't matter because we don't like to think about them, being puritans" ; or "even plants need multiple times their mass in nutrients over extended periods, but you'll fit your stuff in ONE cupboard alright". this all doiesn't much interest me, because while obvious
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 20:37:00;
mircea_popescu: mats i don't see a way to implement his scheme as anything but running dozens of machines to replace my desktop. which, in fairness, was one of the proposed approaches back in the 70s.
punkman:
mircea_popescu: no repair shop does anything other than what you normally do with desktops << I couldn't readily repair this one at home
ascii_field: and this is discussed in
mircea_popescu's 'airgap' article.
assbot: Logged on 25-08-2015 17:26:07;
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if the chinese are actually fucktarded enough to allow usg to not get its wish but nevertheless move the window in not getting it, we'll probably not only de-thread it but rewrite the whole sheband, and with a better pow algo at that.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: November 2016. Primary season starts early 2016
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: iirc there were 16th c. spanish helms which looked rather like this.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: it's where usg has its mega-colonialbase in eu
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: the detector is commercially-available, and mostly works
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: actually, even before the round fires - 'anticipatory flinch'
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> she wasn't nice to him. << Apparently there is a manifesto. He's also pissed about the black church fires and Dylan Storm Roof.
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trinque:
mircea_popescu: currently the thing listens to me only; when I get a chance, I'll grab the code from the deeds module and let L1 control feeds
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Of course, but I await the idiot train that assumes it means something else.
assbot: Logged on 26-08-2015 15:35:27;
mircea_popescu: punkman " Before you start, make sure you are familiar with the terms in the word cloud above." motherfucker. being "familiar" is exactly what these poorly brought up children do, and the word for it is impudence.
assbot: Logged on 26-08-2015 05:20:15;
mircea_popescu: heck, give fathers back the power to shoot toddlers that don't obey commands, see the "demographics problems" end overnight.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> are these dudes just lying / making up random numbers / multipliers or wtf. << Lots of social media creatures got very excited about the certainty we were using to dismiss XTCoin
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo was this because "no longer silver" or because "no longer a consideration", as in "sterling promise" ? << No longer silver nor a pound in weight
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> so why'd they shoot the toddler BingoBoingo ? was it the "officer felt his life endangered" or was it "toddler didn't obey comamnds" << WHo shot toddler presented as a mystery so far
assbot: Logged on 26-08-2015 06:18:48;
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron hey, how do you feed your twitter ? is it by hand or some sort of remarkably clever script ?
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, qntra been discussed a bit on twitter lately thanks to BingoBoingo's articles
assbot: Logged on 26-08-2015 05:20:15;
mircea_popescu: heck, give fathers back the power to shoot toddlers that don't obey commands, see the "demographics problems" end overnight.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: The pretense. As the Obeast loses distinctive sex characteristics it overcompensates in adopting cultural signifiers.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ... << l0l, i always imagined
mircea_popescu had a wooden panel full of analogue gauges for mpex, a ship's telegraph for changing course, and a speaking horn for dictating more complex orders << I imagine at times even the ships captain wants to step away from the bridge for a bit of sodomy without being completely cut off
assbot: Logged on 08-07-2015 17:08:58;
mircea_popescu: mod6 "our free market is this thing you can only buy!!1"
punkman:
mircea_popescu: how's the hash pow related to ec?
assbot: Logged on 25-08-2015 18:53:47; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: re: workfunctions, there was once some theoretical work concerning 'non-outsourceable puzzles', i.e. mathematical magic preventing the formation of pools by allowing any pool participant to silently and untraceably claim the entire block reward. but i cannot recall if this went anywhere other than academiwankery.
assbot: Logged on 25-08-2015 02:13:39;
mircea_popescu: care to put some selections on your blog ?
assbot: Logged on 25-08-2015 01:22:58;
mircea_popescu: either < or something. esp <--- is a comment.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: i'll be puzzling over that quiz for a bit. wonderful fun!
BingoBoingo: the 1418 is pretty weak though
mircea_popescu, better fix that
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: There surprisingly hasn't been a qntra DoS that I have noticed since the XT'ening
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> ahahaha. broke fat louse has rulesets ? << They have the strictest rulesets sinc ethey aren't getting fucked outside of an accident. They pretend scarcity of opportunities is standards.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> think, how would massive_turd exist ? << shared with unreasonably personally WoTed person
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> catfish is shockingly not much eaten here. << If they are too big to eat (i.e. Mississippi river) still ought to be fished for the challenge.