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mircea_popescu: "we broke her ribs and other
things, but hey, she responds
to commands now"
mircea_popescu: "Then,
the patient gradually became more alert with an increased ability
to follow commands over
the next evening and was at baseline 38 hours after presenting
to
the hospital.
The patient did have significant associated morbidities including 3
thoracic spine compression fractures, a comminuted humeral head fracture likely secondary
to seizures and requiring arthroplasty, and multiple rib fractures secondary
to CPR. Sh
ascii_field: debt (of
the idiot credit card kind! not even houses/cars/tuition) is ~the~ collector
mircea_popescu: kinda weird
they missed
the great 2008 opportunity for
that, was expecting more lively action on
that.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 15:29:21; mircea_popescu: im kinda surprised it's not here yet. but perhaps
the roll up of
the "college debt" nonsense will come
to
that : people get auto-ressetting debt on a 7 yo period.
ascii_field: it'll be grounds for expedited shipment
to gitmo
gernika: Was
there ever a check on nonsense rulings like
this and recent Supreme Court decisions?
mircea_popescu: it's
the people burning shit down
that are
the
true law abiding folk.
mircea_popescu: just fucking burn it down already.
there's absolutely no reason
to continue
the charade. "law abiding" =
terrorist.
williamdunne sends check
to federal reserve for $214,748,364.78
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 21:46:56; mats: fun fact: gpg's serialization layer uses s-expressions rather
than asn.1 and as a result, despite being hand-rolled in C,
there doesn't appear
to be any memory corruption in canonical mode
mircea_popescu: according
to new research by Gavin & Mike, in 2020
that number will reduce
to 4 digits, and
then continue
to halve every few years!
mircea_popescu: Starting in 2016,
the IRS will no longer accept checks for $100 million or more because
the equipment at
the Federal Reserve Bank
that processes checks can’t handle checks for more
than 8 digits. Checks larger
than
that have
to be processed manually by hand, which, according
to internal memos obtained by
the Associated Press, could increase “the risk of
theft, fraud and errors.”
ascii_field: he set
the mega-example for others
to follow.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well yeah. being
that
the state had
to get involved into it.
mircea_popescu: funny how every
two bit scammer/fraudster/rent seeker is quick
to misrepresent himself as "innovative" "competitor" "entrepreneur" and whatnot.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
there is nothing a
telco does which is ~not~ in some way monopoly-milking
mircea_popescu: "And
that simply raises
the question, how far will
this Internet content standard go? What kinds of business practices
that innovative new competitors might want
to introduce might be frowned upon by
the FCC?” << superlulzy, because
the behaviour discussed is deeply un-innovative. in fact, it's strictly monopoly milking.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
they make great bureaucrats, aha
BingoBoingo: But would still need
to improve over his last round with another minute and a half
assbot: BitBet - Rand Paul will get less
than 7 minutes in Sept. 16th Republican debate :: 5.04 B (94%) on Yes, 0.31 B (6%) on No | closed 17 hours 23 minutes ago ... (
http://bit.ly/1KkQ9bU )
mircea_popescu: <deedbot-> [BitBet Bets Bets] 11.28000000 BTC on 'No' -
The ETH scam won't see 2016 << whoa
that's some decent bang for a buck.
ty internets.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
true. but si fab is not 1 in 10k either.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: intel will go bust shortly after
the mongols water
their horses in
the potomac
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Nah, you gotta understand when Intel goes bust USG will have monsanto
to fab chips
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i don't need
to lay an egg
to
tell you
this one's rotten.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: biology is
terrible example here
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> mircea_popescu: go and grow perfect si crystal, and do a perfect litho on it, and come back ? << ANd biology isn't relevant
to Bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> naggum ~had~ something like #b-a - comp.lang.lisp. very similar mix of brain. << not unlike saying you have si in your fridge.
there's bottles
there, very similar "mix of atoms".
ascii_field: collect
the remaining riches of
the world.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> unpredictable, largely unpreventable, and very high failure rate. <<
there is no such
thing.
mircea_popescu: in
the "all leaks are catastrophic leaks" school of cryptoplumbing
BingoBoingo: But not interested in computer
that runs calculator software so much as calculator
that scales up
to computer.
BingoBoingo actually wondering if a "coldfire" board can be used
to make such a machine
ascii_field: but it will run beautifully on emulator. of which
there are at least a dozen.
BingoBoingo wonders if
TI-92 ROM can be made
to boot on old Macintosh
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: download
the rom (see logs) and run
the emulator.
BingoBoingo: The more I play with
TI-92
the more I wish it was still more of a "desktop" calculator with keyboard, mouse, and montior
ascii_field: gotta love
the spin, 'free content illegal'
ascii_field: as it is, you gotta understand
that yields are nowhere near 100% and especially not in a discount factory primarily used by students graded on a curve.
BingoBoingo: At least half
the
time
thrown footballs don't get caught anyways
BingoBoingo: Or Rush down
the center (done while carrying a ball handed
to you)
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Move laterally on
the field away from
the central disputed
territory so
that you might catch
the pass away from defenders
BingoBoingo: "Kaepernick goes wide. And
there’s another break. Everyone has a drink. My,
there are some breaks. More breaks
than Alcatraz."
assbot: Jarryd Hayne's debut as seen in Australia: a fumble, flags and breaks – as it happened | Sport |
The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1KkN3EF )
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ascii_field: at one point
there was hp, sgi, sun, buncha others now forgotten (sony NEWS ! yes) but
today it's apple.
ascii_field: like
that fella who knows how
to make a working kalash from a shovel
ascii_field: yes, some of us know how
to make unix workstation out of dirt
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 16:11:49; mircea_popescu:
that's all
they ever did right. not a
tiny
thing, either, but has exactly 0
to do with
tech.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 15:38:30; mircea_popescu: if
there's a good argument against suicide, naggum-b-a might be it.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 15:30:36; mircea_popescu: (inflation being, of course, just
the monetary equivalent of "stealing
the having been stolen from". people do a pretty decent job of managing
to forget
their parents lived better
than
they will.)
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 14:52:55; mircea_popescu: however, back in
the day when 9 oiut of 10 bridges DIDNT stay up,
there didn't even exist bridgebuilding as a distinct and named activity.
ascii_field: see
the old chemical sim discussion for some of
the reasons why
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 14:53:38; mircea_popescu: so, perhaps cheaper
than "make your own si fab" : make one
that works, eat
their pie.
analmaster: oh nevermind i
thought
that said penis injector
mircea_popescu: (the chick in
that ad, btw, Anya Major, is probably best known
to
the audience as
the russki chick in elton john's stupid nikita
thing)
mircea_popescu: that's all
they ever did right. not a
tiny
thing, either, but has exactly 0
to do with
tech.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i maintain
that apple's exactly ONLY know how was "how
to get roi on advertising".
mircea_popescu: incidentally, heh,
the days ridley scott was directing jobs' signle shot ad campaigns.
gernika: I probably just liked it because of
the sex.
gernika: He must have been *something* of a
thing
to have been assigned reading pre-internet. Also
there was
the well known MacIntosh commercial. I must admit
to being completely unaware of his internet cachet.
funkenstein_: On
the literature
tip, /me wonders if any RU speakers have
tried Звенящие кедры России
mircea_popescu: (for
the record
the book isn't very good, but hey. pulp fiction._
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 21:29:46; gernika:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-09-2015#1272365 << Incidentally I attempted
to look up Mr. Blair in
the 1958 ed. of Encyclopedia Brittanica and could find nothing on him. Apparently he was not yet notable by
then. Would love
to know what
the editorial verdict would have been.
mircea_popescu: if
there's a good argument against suicide, naggum-b-a might be it.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 21:24:02; phf: i suppose one half of b-a should start on a linux distro and
the other work on cl-emacs naggum always wanted *ducks*