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asciilifeform: and who among us (other than possibly mircea_popescu) would not rather do something involving a pdp-8 than what they did today.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ...to reconstruct the universe of people who made and played those, and their thoughts << here i am, lol
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... making something like a z80, as long as it can be made at home, with equipment costing about what a z80 cost << absolutely. but it is important to understand that a z80 (or even intel 4004) is far, far closer to the 'pentium' than to anything that has ever been built entirely at home from discretes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you could use a conductor with dielectric masks << l0l!! not invertible, think for halfaminute
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: yeah mircea_popescu found the bash and everything
assbot: Logged on 03-02-2015 16:17:18; mircea_popescu: people keep derping about uh oh, 7k nodes. BULLSHIT. we're down from 270k to 61.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: evolutionary race thing
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: when has it ever been easy to spot a mole?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu doesn't like spiders?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu likes to pee on things
brendafdez: ;;later tell mircea_popescu You're squatting the channel ;) http://pastebin.com/YNqdarX7 I could be running some shady business there instead... ☟︎
asciilifeform: can someone dredge up mircea_popescu's old article which mentioned the imperative to use nonstandard computing arrangements to frustrate 'one size fits all' usg idiocies ?
nanotube: <mircea_popescu> nanotube ^ can two nicks have same gpg fingerprint ? <- nope, gribble checks upon registration if the key is already in use.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> jurov why not run a bitcoin host ? we kept wanting it << yeah!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: freebsd's been a total loss since the llvm thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ultimately factory is an artifact of craftsmanship
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: destroying the "industrial" paradigm << expand on this. recall also the thread where we discussed how pashtun blacksmiths can make kalash, yes they can, not not one of them can make a single 7.62x39 round from brass scrap ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: basic idea - sure
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's actually reminiscent of one idea i looked into - optical logic produced photographically via laser
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hypothetical chip fab experiment does not require new computer.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the folks mentioning clean rooms show symptoms of not having understood
Xuthus: mircea_popescu, why don't you go and code something ? ☟︎
ben_vulpes: i was hoping for a /mircea_popescu eyes a cockbrow
punkman: mircea_popescu: of course he is ;)
punkman: mircea_popescu: yeah but the millenarian rhetoric was there from the beginning
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: soon enough you'll be pretty disatisfied with the world in general << i thought this was naturally a part of the aging process. i.e. "the old man".
assbot: Logged on 16-02-2015 23:48:30; mircea_popescu: lobbes wd.
assbot: Logged on 16-02-2015 17:35:59; mircea_popescu: danielpbarron you don't say. try it while ejaculating suddenly sometime.
Adlai: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=16-02-2015#1021145 << incidentally, whippits are also sold in sex shops. surely the local systemd has monetized pleasure? ☝︎
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what, you think i don't get this?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: highlights the next album, displaying its tracklist.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> In other words, is it possible that our enemies judge us by our actions, regardless of intent-- and if you support Ahmadenijad on TV, then that counts-- while we retreat into the narcissists' hideout of identity-as-declared, where any actions can be disavowed as "not who we are?"" << AKA argument by "FYIAD"
mike_c: mircea_popescu: two lines above are one example.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what is remarkable in the above clips ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Taged mega lol for a reason
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=01-02-2015#1000695 ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> decimation what srsly ?! << Pickled hering much more common is USia. We care to stock for our Joos but not eastern Europeans
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: an fpga that isn't a usg-proprietary piece of shit would go a long way
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for extra lulz, the statute applies to u.s. subjects going off the reservation and working elsewhere
assbot: Logged on 16-02-2015 17:43:06; mircea_popescu: i guess this drama's dried up, need to move on to something else to keep the btc price up.
asciilifeform: it is done, like the 'anal child' in mircea_popescu's essay, 'because they can get away with it'
Adlai: where is mircea_popescu and what have you done with him!?
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> shoul;dn't that really be a function/object/we ? << being a bit sarcastic here boss
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fetlife article << mega-lol!
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: this is how I feel when I listen to your stories MP.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking of which, gnat built and functions on another box (presently i lack the time to investigate why, but will eventually say)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect that 'grandfather time' has already clobbered most of'em
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lulziez
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i learned of it from ilkka kokkarinen. despite the format, worth the evening or two to read.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is a very entertaining comic book (yes) titled 'samurai executioner', about the life and times of a (loosely historic) fella who famously specialized in testing swords on whole bodies (alive and dead).
PeterL: mircea_popescu:right, no2 can't even exist. << does exist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_dioxide "reddish-brown toxic gas has a characteristic sharp, biting odor and is a prominent air pollutant."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol, anybody with a kitchen knows that 'meat' isn't strictly flesh, yes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps the ancient art of 'sword test' will be revived one day.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: strictly... to the skilled hands << against bare flesh ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: close quarters, unskilled hands, unarmed target - blade has something to recommend itself over pistol
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: this reminds me of d00d who attacked guy with a katana at Tech. << http://nique.net/news/2010/02/11/officials-release-sword-attack-details/
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> so war on drugs that are powders ? gases are ok ? << don't forget plants
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and n2o not no2
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for all i know, this is precisely how it is used.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: laughers can get all the laughing gas they could wish for, yes. i often see these bottles - emptied - lying on the kerb, fallen out of upturned student house dumpsters.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can only speak for my case, but yes, the culinary shops sell NO2. where i live - in small cylinders approx. the size of a shotgun shell. i know full well which gas it is, because my sole use of it is in a miniature cutting torch.
PeterL: so mircea_popescu, when are you going to start pushing up the bitcoin price so you can win the berkshire bet?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu, Adlai: in fact, you need 2x the amount of pressure to keep n2 liquid.
Adlai: 3) mircea_popescu is trolling nubbins`
nubbins`: mircea_popescu i'd imagine it would
nubbins`: mircea_popescu plain n2 is probably not fat soluble.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu while co2 canisters are popular, they're a different size and generally used for paintball/bb guns
nubbins`: mircea_popescu FWIW asphyxia is a completely different buzz.
davout: mircea_popescu: you get high from n2 starting at ~4 bar partial pressure iirc
nubbins`: mircea_popescu it's precisely n2o.
cazalla: mircea_popescu: But legal driving limit is usually .08% <<< here, 0.05, learner or provisional driver? 0! bad luck if your medication put you over the limit!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we mostly have this already
cazalla: mircea_popescu: yes, but you can't just throw some yogurt into your cunt. <<< but you can throw some yogurt out of it! http://www.inquisitr.com/1839518/phd-student-creates-yoghurt-using-her-vagina/
asciilifeform: now that it came up, mircea_popescu did have a 'punishments' article that used something like that formula
decimation: mircea_popescu: they also ruin the gut fauna
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> and yet you savages still don't have cunt basins as a regular fixture, amirite ? << why's the shower so inadequate?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> holy shit why, because stray pubic hairs ? << That and lingering urine smells, because "Clean when I moved in" is good enough to not justify cleaning ever again for the more degenerate Pindos
decimation: mircea_popescu: it's now common in modern us 'tract' homes that the build has no air vent in the kitchen
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> iirc, mircea_popescu is also a 'smasher' << keyboards tho.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: THEN ruin them utterly, so that everyone involved still, to this day, can't get work like Strateman. << MagicalTux falls in this category. I don't think any of the DERP lists have management with WoT identities.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform mircea_popescu people still play nethack for fun :P
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what's the difference?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that just looks like an ordinary day at the dentist's.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> <mircea_popescu> i carried it. << btcauditor when << i guess once Pierre_Rochard gets bored of new york ?
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> i carried it. << btcauditor when
asciilifeform: iirc, mircea_popescu is also a 'smasher'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see the problem from the perspective in which it actually -is- a problem: not that a billion people own computer that is not a computer (nowhere is it written that we have to care about this) but in the elementary lack of a practical alternative.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so far problem only exists in winblows/apple world, but it creeps onward - microshit in particular requires it as a condition of doing business with manufacturer
hegemoOn: mircea_popescu: facing harrasment from my former client ? :)
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah, if individuals had direct control of their wealth, accounting would get quite complex
hegemoOn: thank you mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: to follow mircea_popescu's 'ducks and hunters' analogy, the ducks cluster in a flock and get shot together
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is it theoretically possible that the 3% figure is off on account of gurlz refusing to indicate their sex (or somehow listing it in non-readily-machinereadable form in 'about' biographical box, etc. - is there one?)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'my educated guess that the search is not offered because they couldn't support it, technically, not for any high falootin' ethical considerations.' << lol, like the thousands of dissertations on 'use of light and shadow' in sistine chapel ceiling
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gurlz list << mega-l0l!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: proxenetism ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: there's no mention of this obvious motivation in the story
asciilifeform: as with mircea_popescu's unlicense.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^
hanbot: mircea_popescu not inasfar as unactivated virii implies knowable potential