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mircea_popescu: the alf methjod, and i expect is correct, is "i got technical samples, i am taking to $conference" or w/e.
mircea_popescu: but i find it a great cranktopic to crank in mind. if for no other reason than because it's probably the ancient invention of seal that we owe technology to
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the innovation is that you cut some of the loops.
mircea_popescu: but you melt glass (acetylene burner, not the end of world), laser burn the pattern into receiving fiber caught inside. seal blanks would look like old style fuses basically
mircea_popescu: actually, microfiber in glass may work as a modern seal. expensive as all fuck and not at all contemplated for this application
mircea_popescu: but not the shape of your 2nd concubine's clitoral hood or w/e you use
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform get the girl to film that, now THAT is quality entertainment content.
mircea_popescu: it will become a sort of reference item over time i suspect.
mircea_popescu: not even necessarily photo, a simple "here is what we have, COMPLETE specs ; and what we probably might want to ~EVER~ get".
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform merits absolutely, giving that there is a whole raft of future reference looking at a spark point in the past.
mircea_popescu: this dribbling of bits and pieces is set to become the principal enemy of the republic in terms of how much damage it does.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform rather, can i get out of you a post with what there is ; and what there can be had reasonably (out of the very narrow set of reasonable gear anyway)\
mircea_popescu: i think since we're doing this let's do it right, so get it an 8 cable card all sat down. what boards were these i forget ?
mircea_popescu: of course you two could also fly independently and meet there for mini bbisp conference
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes conceivably could fedex to phf once this is sealed ?
mircea_popescu: 11 days should be enough for alf to bake the boxes i expect. danielpbarron i think he's better suited as they're right next to each other ; but pending discussion with bb can you fedex some pogos ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf you can also book with a day+ layover in panama on your way back. for one thing you get to see the place and despise panama for good reason rather than by hearsay ; for the other flight over here is ~1hr ~every hour.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: i'm picking up your flight if you're putting in the sweat.
mircea_popescu: copa is cheap-ish and pretty good ; the rest are gringo airlines doing dumb shit like hubbing through us cities. which makes your voyage split 3/10 rather than 5-7 or so
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they generally connect you through panama, which is not bad for your case, middle of the way
mircea_popescu: see what coppa has to say ? they generally have sub 1k 2 weeks out sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: and re the "use ips" : very cheap solution is to run bitcoin nodes, i'm told. those evidently can't share ips.
mircea_popescu: also related, BingoBoingo if he brings you pogos, how do you plan to use ? decase and mount in an ad-hoc thing, 8-10-12 to the u ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally intel sayz good links to sa are all from miami/ft lauderdale etc ; not so much ny.
mircea_popescu: is he all like hipster style, soulpatches and whatnot ?
mircea_popescu: getting to meet other lord for 1st time always worth something.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform conceivably you could also meet him at airport ?
mircea_popescu: more practically, how does ride over to wash dc, leave car in deep parking, get alf's boxes, fly over to bb, come back, extract your car go home sound ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform am i decoding this incorrectly or are you saying that we will be paying ~at least~ one month of rent on an unused rack ?!
mircea_popescu: this trip she got to ride around in one ; and found out that the ambassador's official representation car is exactly her mark and mode ; except made in mexico not imported from bayerische krankenwerk directly.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: when we originally met, many moons ago, hanbot was very impressed with my casual "diplomatic car ? of course i've ridden around in one". in her girly days this had seemed like the crux of cool, you know, "wanna gimme a ticket ? send it to bucharest."
mircea_popescu is a man with a 90 day visa on a 25 days remaining temporary passport and without an id since... 2014 ? 2013 ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, buy tickets so we have something definite, and say.
mircea_popescu: (i'm aware everyone derps about "DANGERS", but seems to me very much a case of photographed box)
mircea_popescu: (all kidding aside, can and has bought dried coca leaves in a box. looks just like ordinary tea. five bux."
mircea_popescu: even leaving aside the "argentine peso, 8.35 to the dollar according to "independent" govt banks, 27 to the dollar when mp sells it", colombia : 2750ish official, 3100 real.
mircea_popescu: their currencies are about as stable wrt to the dollar as the dollar is stable wrt bitcoin. it is not physically possible to have anything like a meaningful price in spanish.
mircea_popescu: "la democracia es el unico regimen que protege y promoueve la libertad" and so on, the wall hadn't even fallen yet exposing the fundamental inadequacy of all socialisms in the process, whether roosevelt style or not.
mircea_popescu: "here's what your fashions were three decades ago, dear european masterfriend. i hope you are very much impressed with how up to date we are here in $shithole! just like real people rite ???"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pardon my thickness, where do you want qntra ns pointed again ? ideally in the format ns1= ns2=
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (and more practically : when's my deadline for speccing my boxes with you ?)
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779409 << this should prolly be standard preface of ada behaviour discussions ; ffa or non-ffa related. asciilifeform maybe you should add it as a comment you know ? at the top of the pile, "if anything's strange say @me in #trilema, please preface the saying with and-here's-my-grep-v"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: technical writing by highschool graduates reads shockingly similar to legal writing by highschool graduates.