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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, no, oin a strict utility basis. i wouldn't pay a whole grand to have https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/gallery/RENAULT-12-2038_12.jpg

mircea_popescu: this kinda reminds me of a discussion re romania's 1980s automotive industry, "a car back then, brand new dacia, cost about $800 in real money"

mircea_popescu: you end up with costs over ten bucks a number, and all this so what, so you can make a facebook acct worth exactly the same as facebook inc, ie 0 ?

mircea_popescu: now, not entirely clear that it's worth it to bother. so the story is, you buy however many of these, say $2 each, then put them through a machine to be cloned, then have server select the right one at a time... meh.

mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall it had a weak-ish aes thing

mircea_popescu: yes but basically, it's just the same crap as found in a contemporary rfid

mircea_popescu: i've not been following the subject, is "simm" item even broken ? what is it, a rfid chip i expect ?

mircea_popescu: hey, ynot. they'll still cost a buck.

mircea_popescu: seems you still need a few parts emplaced. but i expect the masses would love such service.

mircea_popescu: and like this i expect it'd be very much a killer app, "pizarro destroys facebook authentication. make your facebook acct here, 0 cost"

mircea_popescu: whereas what would be useful would be a linux thingee which TAKES SOME BINARY, and does that for any arbitrary simm.

mircea_popescu: i don't get it. so you wrote a linux thingee which materializes some hardware into any arbitrary box ?

mircea_popescu: also, very hard to beat the 1.x bucks a card thing here.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-20#1804101 << they have some shiny gear there ; how long it stays great is to be established, but it starts in a spanking place. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: sooo, the car went by a large sign, "grandes descuentos", which my head perceived as "discouns on grenades" and i was wtf, who discounts grenades.

mircea_popescu: all counterfactual history is that -- counterfactual. meaning, not real. false. a lie.

mircea_popescu: but let's just point out that ANY post factum "testimonials" by gf/bf/whatever, whether they be "i thought about it some more and i decided it was rape" or "i will now call the guy a badman retroactively" and so on aren\'t worthj the pixels they're printed on.

mircea_popescu: a ok then!

mircea_popescu: at issue isn't whether you can produce a graphical representation of the claim.

mircea_popescu: ckang, let me unwrap the challenge here further, for the record. so, the claim "he would let you stick 4 fingers in his ass for a dose" made by ex-gf is being challenged on credibility grounds through this following two pronged approach : 1. it is seemingly unlikely any of the poor who actually hold physical $item in discussion would nevertheless be subjectively rich enough to trade it away, especially for something as unlike

mircea_popescu: a a oki

mircea_popescu: inb4 "cryptome was really a forerunner of ministry of truth" equivalent of "Debian was applestore"

mircea_popescu: there's gonna be a what-s-his-name-debian-schmuck common grave for all of them.

mircea_popescu: i credit it with a not-negligible chunk of efficiency-above-average. after all, i know what i fucking said. and if i don't, well, that's a major signal on its own.

mircea_popescu: phf, possibly add a line somewhere in there, maybe as a tooltip ? so i don't ping you again in six months lol

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, i don't get it, why is there a girl's leg under the email box, are they trying to say they've got sluts or what

mircea_popescu: hanbot, hey, that's what a good variety speak is for, fit more in head.

mircea_popescu: i'll put a coupla bitcents towards it, how about that.

mircea_popescu: 1:07 PM <KingTerry> 15 minute computer limit a day! << o.O

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, well, buy him a steak. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: trinque, o really ? hey ben_vulpes mind doing a mitzvah ?

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, earlier, i put a slab of frozen mango jam with some ground ice and a frozen banana in the blender. the resulting slush was duly dolloped in expectant cups. we moved to the balcony and for a little all could be heard was spoons scraping on cup, but then "how long since you showered ?" "umm... yesterday ?" *splat*

mircea_popescu: much less a problem than in wash dc sprintime.

mircea_popescu: ckang, "rtg" is how soviets used to power their satellites. put a chunk of cesium or plutonium next to some electric contacts.

mircea_popescu: takes a while to eat that much ; but yes, if your power outages are days rather than hours, this needs a generator system associated.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, you don't deepcycle it. that's why you pile a lot of them.

mircea_popescu: they generally can be found very cheap, with a lot of life left in them (that it useful to you, in a 500 item arrangement, but not to the single-item cars)

mircea_popescu: also, to belabour the point : anyone who thinks "oh, that guy, really, cure hiv and diabethes ? he must have lost it". NO HE DID NOT ; you understood nothing of the logreading you did so far! think about it : this dood had built self "a brand", ie, there were however many useless muppets who knew who he was / kept track / had him in their rss feed / he had them in his mailing list. this was t0.

mircea_popescu: the inescapable fact that in the bubble of insanity resting atop fed's imaginary money a company that spends a trillion to make a trillion is in fact an EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD investment (and google is NOTHING ELSE than this, to be clear, nor are any of the rest of them) will result in the necessary evolution where "here, i've made an imaginary company that trades a trillion with "real people". problem ?

mircea_popescu: and it was, too, for a few years before the dood cracked and went on the pipe it was hot stuff.