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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.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this connection between one interest and another interest is most embarassing
to
the usg, in
the way it keeps exposing
the hush hush inflation problem.
mircea_popescu: and
then one needn't explain why interest rates are 20-50% pa for some schmucks, and yet "0.0%" for
thje fed.
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.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which, considering it goes with
the rest of
the "people are
too stupid
to own real guns, real computers, etc"
trend
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 19:51:41; phf: anton_osika
thread reminds me of
thomas jefferson arguing for debt relief while heavily indebted, he also uses "this is best for
the people" argument, with
the main difference
that
the debt question was at
the
time open, where's what osika is arguing against is
the core idea of gpg contracts.
the point of
the
thread has been fully answered in gpg contracts article and with a poetic
take in hanbot's story, both
BingoBoingo: Of course so long as you want it
to stay a clean room, but eventually gotta end
the cleanroom some way.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> anyway, very fucking unclear what it'd be useful or usable for, past emergency field surgery. << Any other pursuit
that fits
the space and makes messes.
mircea_popescu: lol
that entire convo was entertaining. "they snuck in
the clean room and made out!!1"
mircea_popescu: a mini-cleanroom is
to be made in your yard out of shipping containers.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 19:22:25; BingoBoingo: Spare bedroom, pull up carpet, make vestibule, vacuum obsessively, start negative pressure fans, vacuum some more, find iso guides
to class your new cleanroom.
mircea_popescu: Energy expended = force * distance = lucru mecanic. not just work - "mechanical work", aka,
that fiction.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 13:59:06; mircea_popescu: study is just another kind OF PLAY ; and paper is just another kind of
TP.
shinohai: "My gf said she was bad and needed
to be punished, so I installed Windows 10 on her laptop."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes, you will download Derpy Adventures 17 whether you intend
to watch it or not!
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 18:14:25; ascii_field: MICROSOFT HAS CONFIRMED
that Windows 10 is being downloaded
to computers whether or not users have opted in.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 18:09:08; ascii_field: but it is very clear, from
their www,
that it is a 'if you have
to ask for prices, you can't afford
this' affair.
kakobrekla: at least
thats what i get from my contacts in
the bezzle.
kakobrekla: > building bridges
that almost always stay up. <
this is due
to chinafication. need it as cheap and as fast as possible, other parameters irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: so, perhaps cheaper
than "make your own si fab" : make one
that works, eat
their pie.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yet somehow
the proposition is
that "usg" has a sort of control over an activity which generally fails.
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.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: meanwhile, in engineering people obviously went from building bridges
that sometimes stood up
to building bridges
that almost always stay up.
mircea_popescu: it's
true
that organic complex systems
take a number of
tries
to arrive at a result. but
that sort of failure rate is not seen in nature - woman doesn't abort 10 for every one it carries
to
term. aborts less
than half.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 18:01:16; ascii_field: and it
takes a dozen runs or more,
to arrive at a usable chip.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:46:37;
thestringpuller: need more cult members
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:45:47; ascii_field:
trinque: for
the 50,000 or so packages which i use ?!?!!
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:45:06; ascii_field:
trinque: if i wanted
to build
things by hand, and resolve dependency hells by hand, i'd be using buildroot linux.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:20:33; ascii_field:
trinque: my understanding is
that mircea_popescu would like a linux
that is analogous
to what we did with
therealbitcoin. where
the
tree is frozen, all arguably-superfluous
things are jettisoned, and any further changes must come from wot folk.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i used
to follow
the "press" links in here. now i mostly ignore
them. shit's unreadable.
mircea_popescu: or w/e it is.
trinque where does
the recipe or whatever it is live ? link ?
pete_dushenski: this is perhaps a personal and public castigation of myself, and a reminder
to future me not
to click on
the clickbait!
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:18:08; ascii_field: ~i~ can.
trinque apparently can. mircea_popescu iirc was not able
to. and hanbot also did not.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: plz no more links
to 'the guardian', i'm begging you. you post something, i start digging, and i end up woefully riled up at
the rampant and despotic idiocy of
that once fair island
mircea_popescu: (in practice he'll warn you
this makes it a bearer instrument. which is not
technically correct, but conveys
the point.)
mircea_popescu: because odds are you'll go back
to
the clerk
to fix it for you and he'll be... WELL WHY
THE FUCK DID YOU NOT USE
THE SAFEGUARD
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 13:35:26; pete_dushenski: l'shana
tova : happy new year :)
mircea_popescu: but it is concerning asto
the sanity of
the would be "travellers"
mircea_popescu: obviously
the fact
that
the road is observably long and
the first steps haven't been made is somewhat concerning
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:15:09; ascii_field:
this, incidentally, is ~the~ bar for formalization. IFF you can do it on a computer,
then ~possibly~ you really have a formal handle on
the mechanics. but NOT before
then.
kakobrekla: >slot
to put an intended name in < i can put a space in
that field when in online bank as it should not be blank - and it works. i wonder if
this would pass a bank worker. "no no, i did write empty spaces
there"
pete_dushenski: no information is provided, nor is not
to be obtained by digging.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:27:51; mircea_popescu: "Fractal -- from Wolfram MathWorld mathworld.wolfram.com/Fractal.html A fractal is an object or quantity
that displays self-similarity, in a somewhat
technical sense, on all scales.
The object need not exhibit exactly
the same structure ..."
pete_dushenski: and $1k is news because it caters
to
the masses of improverished minds and souls
mircea_popescu: and whenever a new ditz was hired
to do paperwork, and she fucked
this up,
the bank rep would call me
to fix it.
assbot: I have lost £760 by mistyping a single digit … and Nationwide won’t give it back | Money |
The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1OUcFMH )
mircea_popescu: (which is chiefly why
they give you a slot
to put an intended name in)
mircea_popescu: but as it is,
the payment won't clear (ie, won't leave sending bank
to go
to receiving bank) unless
the name and number match.
pete_dushenski: maybe 'the guardian' just wants
to inform more
tards of
their unpreparedness for crypto. not a bad service, i guess (tm)
mircea_popescu: in my entire busienss experience something of
that description happened exactly once ; it was a customer of MY SAME BANK using
the short form slips
they have (not
the full iban, just
the acct #) and sent money
to me instead of his intended recipient.
the bank asked me if i am releasing it, which i did, and it was done
the same day.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski
that never fucking happens. it's rank nonsense.
pete_dushenski: "Last year I intended
to
transfer £760 from
the Halifax
to my Nationwide account. Unfortunately, I mistyped a digit of
the account number and
the money went
to a stranger." << another anton
mircea_popescu: contrary
to
the more or less agreement seems
to be (video) i suspect raid may be a worse
tarpit.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:13:08; ascii_field: assuming my hardware RAID cards continue
to work
mircea_popescu: italy found america first, never
told anyone, was rich
mircea_popescu: finding el dorado and RUNNING OFF with a chunk of gold you found in
the street is NOT how you get rich.
mircea_popescu: " I readily understand
the vanity involved, nevertheless let me point out
to you
that it's actually
to your detriment
to attempt
to separate yourself from
the source of
things you like. "
mircea_popescu: and forgets
to mention where he got
the idea. and OF COURSE
to no very constructive end.
mircea_popescu: heck, are
the mls even still visible from
this ever-so-useful www