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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i took a gamble of sorts. it kinda worked.
gernika: used to it now
asciilifeform: they didn't fit into the space capsule aha
asciilifeform: to the point that if i travel for week+ and come home, it knocks me over nearly
mircea_popescu: ("smells of poor people" is in no small part ABSENCE. "intellectuals" are used to the mild allergenic reaction of paper dust mites + old ink smell in trace amounts. because 5k books around.)
asciilifeform: afaik this is still very much a thing in usa
mircea_popescu: who the fuck said "honey, she's too dumb for you and her house smells of poor people" the past decade.
mircea_popescu: us forgot this somehoiw.
mircea_popescu: when i was a kid, the #1 question hopeful spouse had to handle with the fambly was "are they smart enough"
asciilifeform: 'computer' had stopped being a job title, but was still very much a ~place~
mircea_popescu: in the 60s they didn't even realise their own children will be marrying into illiterate for lack of alternative.
mircea_popescu: in the 60s ?
asciilifeform: any more than schoolchildren are given bulldozers to play with
mircea_popescu: this is how vc circus works, spend 10-20mn on "a venture", part of which goes to "a respectable voice" etc.
asciilifeform: the other thing that folks often forget is that neither nelson nor anybody else seriously expected illiterate derps to get their hands on the machines
mircea_popescu: all that shit re culture and whatnot, all the pretense of wikipedia to relevance, the whole kaboodle : an overstated maximal output of an optimistic evaluation of a technological base that a) never actually existed in fact and b) has meanwhile been substituted by a provably worse alternative IN ALL THE POINTS
asciilifeform: the micropayment thing has to be taken in context. it was 1960s and his vision was arguably an improvement of 'if you want to make money from thinking, have a job in usg academia'
mircea_popescu: they have zit to do with the html&javascript internet of today.
mircea_popescu: hint : the "expectations" about "what the internet is" which were build in the 90s by people about as informed or inclined to think as the current "blockchain technologies" crowd, are predicated on a MAXIMAL EXTENSION of an optimal ideal nelsonian network.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, yes, link rot and no bijection. who the fuck wants this piece of shit.
mircea_popescu: (not for the reason he cites, or at least not exactly, he fails to understand the deep rpoblems with "rights management", (which are what "version management" is in an edulcorated form)
asciilifeform still working his way through it, sporadically
asciilifeform owns pretty much the whole of nelson's collected output, on dead tree
mircea_popescu: he's right, too. it is.
mircea_popescu: "HTML is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT" guy.
mircea_popescu: put the fear of god into them, as that guy said.
mircea_popescu: anyway. if this works so well, i guess we need to sean more of sa then ?
mircea_popescu: guy got bored of being stupid, i get it, no need to pretend like HORRIBRU FORCES AFOOT.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is stolfi and who the fuck cares about his bizarro cover-up for his own retirement.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha what the ever living fuck.
mircea_popescu: "No, you pedo-peso hoarding little shit lizard. One of your sociopathic free-market libertarian brethren took it upon themselves to threaten a real person and people around them in their place of work making them genuinely fearful."
assbot: New York City rat taking pizza home on the subway - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1JlLwgR )
punkman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPXUG8q4jKU "I dont wanna live in a city where a rat cant drag a hard-earned slice of pizza down a subway staircase without being tormented by the media"
BingoBoingo: shinohai: That one
BingoBoingo: Well, now diesel exhaust contains ammonia, because THAT is SO MUCH BETTER than NOx
assbot: [ANN][URO] A Real Long Term Currency: 1 Uro = 1 Metric Tonne Urea Fertilizer ... ( http://bit.ly/1JlKlhp )
mircea_popescu: while he waits in traffic.
mircea_popescu: but you could add a gas cromatograph in the exhaust, diagnose driver's odds of getting kidney stones
BingoBoingo: <punkman> why don't they have a piss-funnel for the driver? fill it up during the 8 hours of commuting. << Biologic piss isn't good enough. Need special monsanto pure piss.
BingoBoingo remebers there supposedly being a piss backed atlcoin advertised on bitcointalk at one point
punkman: why don't they have a piss-funnel for the driver? fill it up during the 8 hours of commuting.
BingoBoingo: Because why accept engineering compromises when you can instead invent a tank that pisses into the exhaust and feed monsanto more bezzel
mircea_popescu: this is the fundamentally centralizing nature of bureaucracy. "gotta have one king, and preferably he be dead."
mircea_popescu: bureaucracy at work. "one thing got away and all other things got to be that thing now. because easier to have a central exception"
BingoBoingo: Because instead of letting efficient diesels with their turbos and insane compression produce a bit more oxidized nitrogen, make them emulate naturally aspirated gasoline vehicle
mircea_popescu: lol im sure the "blue" is purely concindental. not like trying to pretend it's not piss. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: they call the shit "adblue" 35% urea in aqueaous solution. Gets pissed into the exhaust stream
BingoBoingo: Government Motors kills people with flimsy ignition locks and VW decides their smallest car is fine without pisstank, yet VW is the bigger villain
BingoBoingo still astounded that if one wants a new diesel vehicle thanks to the EU it will refuse to run if you don't fill up a second tank with pisstein (urea) ☟︎
deedbot-: [Qntra] Pirateat40 Pleads Guilty To Securities Fraud - http://qntra.net/2015/09/pirateat40-pleads-guilty-to-securities-fraud/
lobbes: 'I'm going to try this. I've been pooping in the shower for years...' << lmao. I don't envy the plumber that finally gets called to snake that drain
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 2.00000000 BTC on 'Yes' - The ETH scam won't see 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1199/the-eth-scam-wont-see-2016/#b23
phf: would probably also solve problems of the creatures in that reddit thread
phf: and here i am being upset that you can't find a bidet anywhere in u.s. except for muslim neighbourhoods
BingoBoingo: From the geniuses of Reddit https://i.imgur.com/pe5i8Mb.jpg
phf: there's a coop yoga place, that designed "as a sort of community wellness center", good thing that the owner owns the building too, because they can't seem to quite break even, and periodically have strategic brainstorm sessions about how to make money
phf: i'm not paraphrasing the last bit by the way
phf: there's an organic food place here, ran by, i'm pretty convinced of that, former MOVE hangerons. black folk be talking about prana, and the power of positive thinking, that REALLY WORKS man. typical cliental involves angry black woman talking about taking her daughter to africa and how refreshing it was without all the white folk looking down on you ☟︎
cazalla: phf, she wouldn't believe them anyway eh
phf: ooh ooh, a chubby english major, who's a perpetually broke works random jobs, but aspires to be a singer, but nobody has a heart to tell her that she's not very good
BingoBoingo: "If the AdBlue tank is not topped up at this point – we recommend a minimum top up of at least 3 litres - the ‘Refill AdBlue No start in XXX miles’ message will appear. You will be able to drive the distance shown but you will subsequently be unable to start the engine." >> http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/unitedkingdom/mpc/mpc_unitedkingdom_website/en/home_mpc/passengercars/home/corporate_sales0/fleet-after-sales/you
assbot: question6 - Q&A : Volvo Trucks - Australia ... ( http://bit.ly/1YwueZN )
BingoBoingo: So reading about how USG wants to expand VW's sphincter I can across this enviroscam for the first time http://www.volvotrucks.com/trucks/australia-market/en-au/trucks/environment/Emissions_technology/AdBlue/questions_answers/Pages/question6.aspx
phf: mostly amusing, at the local coworking i've probably seen all the stereotypes in flesh. girls with social sciences ph.d. doing research projects, guys pushing feminist rhetoric in every conversation, black transgender talking about white oppression, all manner of "you can do anything" mentality. it's like irl tumblr out there ☟︎
BingoBoingo: I see. That must be rough.
phf: i live in the area with apparently "highest number of lesbians after san francisco", so lots and lots and lots plus sized sjw types ☟︎
BingoBoingo: phf: By Philadelphia saturation levels I assume you are referring to the "cream cheese" which helps them bulk to their size?
phf: BingoBoingo: all the fat whites that i've seen in turkey were american, literally every one of them would start speaking english at some point while we were watching. in fact approaching u.s. the number and variety of fat people increased dramatically up to the philadelphia saturation levels
ascii_field: it is the siphoning that is the tricky bit.
ascii_field: although i can easily imagine there being some disagreement among hitler's minions about the exact shape (1) ought to take
ascii_field: 2) siphon the value and ultimately move the nash equilibrium from honest bitcoin to (1) ☟︎
ascii_field: breaks into two parts: 1) create properly usgistic altcoin
ascii_field: mike_c: typically i leave the thing grinding before going off to the minez and check on it in the evening.
mike_c: ugh. maybe you should get a 21 and pay someone else to do it with your constant stream of bitcoin.
cazalla: not to mention the fact bitbeat has been used to push all manner of scams
ascii_field: phf: the light bulb miner iirc was suggested here.
trinque: "If I find fifty righteous people in Silicon Valley, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
phf: (usg agents reading the logs, "ascii always have some good ideas for us")
cazalla: posted link as it contains some quotes, that's all
cazalla: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/09/21/21-inc-releases-first-product-a-bitcoin-computer/ "Mr. Horowitz compared the potential of this computer to early web browsers and his time helping build Netscape back in the 1990s."
mike_c: ah, first the pick and place, then the electron microscope :)
mike_c: weren't you building one of those in your garage?
ascii_field: if my hypothesis is correct AND the makers have half a brain, there is nothing to be learned from buying the board presently. unless you have access to electron microscope.
mike_c: well, can't say that i'll be blowing 2 btc on it any time soon.
ascii_field: this will be hailed as a great leap forward by the redditard crowd, because difficulty in this altcoin will initially be very low, making their 50-125 appear to 'count for something'
ascii_field: permanently turning it into a usgcoin miner.
ascii_field: so, to round off this hypothesis,
ascii_field: (what commercial chip do you know of that sells as a ~range~ of possible performance ??!!) ☟︎
ascii_field: incidentally, i would not be the least bit astonished if the miner die contains a second, inactive circuit for an alternative workfunction
mike_c: yeah.. the whole "not a mining pool" thing is weird
phf: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/vince/boost/detailpages/21inc8d._SR1062,670_.jpg << note that the tag on asic seems to be blurred, compared to very readable labels all around it
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 20:24:53; jurov: they are never going to fully validate blockchain on SD card
thestringpuller: 125mn invested to produce this piece of shit*
thestringpuller: 125mn for this piece of shit?
cazalla: FAQ sorta conflicts with the idea of making money with this thing by selling goods.. "we think payment in BTC is not as big an improvement at the present time over standard ways to purchase macroscopic physical goods."
assbot: Amazon.com: The 21 Bitcoin Computer ... ( http://bit.ly/1OM1qrM )
ascii_field: apparently they have a bastardized wot as well. ☟︎
trinque: raised 121.1M according to crunchbase
ascii_field: presumably - the miner.
phf: *justification text