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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: optic fibre is perhaps the ideal thing to bury << aha. doesn't care about water (see ancient thread re: co2 tanks chained to telco poles) or capacitance of surrounding material

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you print 10k capilaries of which over 9000 have a hole somewhere... well i guess it'd make a great burning man prop << problem invites itself to be solved with clever metallurgy. as in, alloy which functions if in a normal turbine but fuses the capillary shut if said capillary is on fire and not cooled by a nearby functioning microturbine.

assbot: Logged on 31-03-2015 10:17:51; mircea_popescu: he wants to fill it with good christian thoughts.

nubbins`: anyway mircea_popescu i took TFQ more to be an interpretation of the whole "hyperspace = outside of normal spacetime" thing simiar to what Card suggested in Children of the Mind

nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> if only. humans don't actually breed like that. <<< what, exponentially? o.O ☟︎

ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [02:35] the problem is tho : the electric machines suck specifically for being electric << different powerplants for different regimes

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they cut'em

asciilifeform: (live how? fallback isp. sorta like what mircea_popescu does)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this depends on whether there is reserve capacity

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: performance - will beat the shit.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in as far as i am able to ascertain the reason, it appears to be because no one has suggested tiles.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha

asciilifeform: but i came up with it for a reason. sat the other day for a long time thinking of mircea_popescu's observation that 'industrial product is crud' and the only place where industry wins is - scale

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: except that the error does not compound.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only 'random' to the extent calculations are off (plus wind, vibration)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's the thing, they have excellent behaviour when perturbed

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> just my impression. << Seems right for an unexplained workweek long disappearance without warning, right after getting things to do

asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> ... brendafdez -1 Highly intelligent and utterly self-destructive << wai wat, was this in-channel? iirc this person simply vanished into thin air without so much as a squeak ☟︎

asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> three hours with the fucking ram because apparently no fucking blacksmith existed anymore. << l0l, mircea_popescu got a free penetration test from enemy

mircea_popescu: !gettrust derp herp mircea_popescu and yourmom

mircea_popescu: !gettrust derp herp and mircea_popescu

mircea_popescu: !gettrust mircea_popescu

mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.brendafdez.-1:99c85240d655d8874bfc63e85c4d96eab4222b144bd7b518ea6a0ffbd3a9fac7

gribble: brendafdez was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 days, 2 hours, 25 minutes, and 26 seconds ago: <brendafdez> mircea_popescu it works now. Anyway the IP I'm on now is one of a public AP, it shouldnt be whitelisted. I'll later give you my home IP, and BingoBoingo has my VPS IP already. I didn't know you were filtering.

asciilifeform: costs probably less than first class air to istanbul on one outing of mircea_popescu and his pets

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> that he then accidentally forgot to either softlaunch here or defend afterwards ? << Yes

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, nubbins`, danielpbarron et al: is there any interest in the pheature i discussed in october (?) where one pogo would deflower another, virginal unit ?

thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: is that SFW?

nubbins`: mircea_popescu that was monochrome lazer 8)

ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: cv?

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo i will be forever grateful if qntra breaks with the general trend in the "press" and actually points out that MP knew this months ago. << perhaps you want to take this one on? My venom sacs are running low after the disappearing lawsuit and this happening.

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> also it's prosecuted not persecuted, unless intentional. << Totally intentional. Preet prosecuted, thugs merely persecuted. With pogroms and fake assassinens

ascii_field: mircea_popescu: they don't admit -all of it- having been pinched

ascii_field: mircea_popescu: mega-l0ltr0n

ascii_field: mircea_popescu, i think it was, had a term, 'pornwatchingcomputer'

assbot: Logged on 29-03-2015 03:30:50; mircea_popescu: did you get wiki editing rights ?

asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> jurov that piece is, roughly speaking, the result of a cat reading a mayan calendar and inputting the result into google translate. << it's actually a -double- ripoff. actually a condensed plagiarism of 'the roman guide to slave management' (j. toner) - an equally 'zebra hitler'-y work

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ... << tellingly, this is not the front page of the nyt, wapo adn every single other usg propaganda leaflet. << It made the front page of qntra

ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: where can one turn for a better reading on slave treatment in the period?

trinque: mircea_popescu: nah, block explorer is not miine

trinque: mircea_popescu: ah that's not my site; have a blockchain viewer site that you like?

trinque: +mircea_popescu | trinque ERROR: unknown (Most likely my bitcoind stopped working or this page is too large/complex.) < ? < what did that come from?

nubbins`: mircea_popescu HEH. the first and last time i used test-lead wires for a permanent project.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you'd probably end up rating him '-11111 does not have sole control of private key'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can think of an alternate hypothesis about the flashlight thing

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: "is luser luser because on windoze, << the older version of this was, iirc, 'do styes make pigs' ?

nubbins`: <+asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: many folks use mac addrs in routing tables <<< this

chetty: <mircea_popescu> 90% of lines were "hello x", 90% of the remainder "so how's it going". maybe 1 in 4 hello-handshakes succeeded, and less than 1 in 100 went past 2nd pass.//roughly matching avg. attention spans

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think he was speaking of rsa per se

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: many folks use mac addrs in routing tables

Naphex: mircea_popescu: http://xotika.tv

Naphex: mircea_popescu going good. going into pre-registers while using the amount of time left to polish :D

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: buildroot builds and uses own toolchain, in a kind of jail. so it is very convenient to have the whole thing build inside it

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'menstrual extraction' ?

trinque: mircea_popescu: this is likely out of my league

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i certainly intend to sit bitcoin down on the metal. on possibly even this machine. but will probably use ada's spark bare metal for it.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: missing any kind of i/o scheduler, or, more importantly, task slicer

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't a particularly great substitute for a unix, unfortunately

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought about this

trinque: mircea_popescu: what should it do?

assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 22:31:11; mircea_popescu: well, how soon can we have it ?

asciilifeform: ^^^^^^ thing i promised mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1068981 ☝︎

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, danielpbarron, punkman, nubbins`, et al:

trinque: mircea_popescu: the simple instructions bit is as much mental illness as it is literacy

TomServo: mircea_popescu: It's an option I suppose.. but I was thinking my hands of the hardware would be a big piece of what I'm selling.

TomServo: mircea_popescu: heh, I'm for it! I'm honestly trying consider it here... though I feel I might need a financial attorney to sort everything out given my locale.

TomServo: mircea_popescu: I'd imagine being usian based would be a problem, tho?

nubbins`: mircea_popescu lel http://i.imgur.com/NV71EV0.png

assbot: Logged on 28-03-2015 16:44:11; mircea_popescu: Chillum completely unrelated : do you have any fucking idea how desired a bitcoin host is here ?

nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> lol at these kids. vandalism, racism, chauvinism et all. the bad words of a new generation. <<< hurtyfeelism

nubbins`: mircea_popescu also for top lel: http://captiongenerator.com/29786/woodcollector-hitler

nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> anyone know a fast and painless way to make subtitles for a youtube ? <<< http://captiongenerator.com/

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu et al.: instructive re: earlier thread today >> https://octopart.com/search?q=sata&filter%5Bfields%5D%5Bcategory_uids%5D%5B%5D=c8d405def9791313&start=0&filter%5Bfields%5D%5Bavg_avail%5D%5B%5D=%5B1%20TO%20*%5D

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fansub << yes!

jurov: ^ mircea_popescu may be what you need

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in recent devices, even more.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'read-disturb' is a thing, yes

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: read measures charge. high-impedance circuit, so 'bubble' isn't moving

nubbins`: mircea_popescu cut right in the bowl, natch

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it looked like valhalla

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: normally it is presented as 'poor ru schmucks haven't learned how to be correctly rich yet'

nubbins`: mircea_popescu asicminer made *thousands* of btc selling those useless keychain miners

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l, the proverbial nazi method of teaching typing

nubbins`: asciilifeform mircea_popescu why not just invent yourselves a friedcat and scoop up some investor fundz, sell a line of USB BITCOIN ERUPTORZ for 2btc each

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the interesting thing is that if you confine the proof requirements to the consensus circuit, problem becomes actually manageable

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this was actually done

nubbins`: mircea_popescu a good example of this is when the nintendo wii came out, and researchers the world over started buying wiimotes for their labs

chetty: mircea_popescu, to be fair it doesnt kill a running server, just keeps it from starting :P

asciilifeform: it's either consumer 50 or else spend 5mn. exactly like wines. << mircea_popescu probably did not intend this double meaning, but it is EXACTLY like wines at this point. because the 5mn computer you can get today is not actually any but a cosmetic 'golden toilet' improvement over the 50.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: let's put it this way. if i built a wallet, and put my x btc in it, no one would say 'this fella really means business'

nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> it's either consumer 50 or else spend 5mn. exactly like wines. <<< exactly like *everything*. you'll mollify some rubes with "prosumer" but that's really just $50 with more chrome

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see, if we're gedankenexperimenting about a mass-produced equivalent of 'pogo', then unreliable hardware can be rationalized, 'отряд не заметил потери бойца' (TM) - what's one flipped bit. if we're gedankening about a 'wallet' - whole other ball game

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where do i spend 500 and get ecc systemonchip?

nubbins`: mircea_popescu students were protesting funding cuts. in a couple of the photos, you can see police wearing stickers protesting... pension cuts.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did intel ever mention rowhammer ?

nubbins`: mircea_popescu nyoozpaper says austerity

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope and not sure that i would ask for ddr3

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been looking since before i mentioned pogo in b-a

Chillum: mircea_popescu: without the freedom to make mistakes you are forever under the tyranny of those who are "correct"