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deedbot: peter
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shinohai: Hey mircea
_popescu doesn't think I'm *totally* crazy :D
a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 11:48 asciilifeform: mircea
_popescu had an article, iirc, where 'when considering avg price of cars, do not also average in the price of stolen cars sold in a hurry'
a111: Logged on 2016-07-27 17:55 mircea
_popescu: "i'll pay your son to rape your wife with money taken from your house" is the byline of the revolution.
mod6: <+mircea
_popescu> mod6 yeah, i recall. << iirc, there was a whole pile of these second level deps. i seem to remember that at the time, there wasn't a plan in place for how to climb the mountain there. but with the primary artifacts now deeded, we have a pattern.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 06:31 mircea
_popescu: this is a prime something to cleave, somehow. it is a major limit of our world, much moreso than "carbon" blabla or gravity. its unyielding pressure creates the necessity of the harem, for instance, and many things.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 06:29 mircea
_popescu: asciilifeform it's not a matter of "deny". energy economics is a proper field, which you're welcome to learn if you care, or not. the behaviour you briefly engaged in is not unlike 15 yo alf trying to learn math by busting into brin sr's class and yelling "all functions are convex! prove me wrong!" really loudly.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 06:39 mircea
_popescu: that difference is perhaps best understood as the difference between "find me the real roots of f(x)" and "find me the limit of f(x) with x->inf". different stories altogether.
mod6: <+mircea
_popescu>
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-28#1510902 << this is a good point, actually. gotta be looked into, sealing gotta seal all the crevices. << noted. I dug into this at one point, but got side tracked by other pressing things that came up at the time.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 01:16 mircea
_popescu: i eagerly await article explaining how $100 petrobarrel << i dunno what you think this sort of nonsense achieves. what in fact it achieves is "oh look, alf has nfi what stuff costs, but he wants to derp about how it works". it's a bad habit.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 01:19 mircea
_popescu: want it or not, some level of denied externality is baked into life, not just human life bu life altogether. most people grok this point when contemplating lord kelivn's universal death idea.
ben_vulpes: to continue the exercise, for students, every time pete
_dushenski is logged in and self-voiced, he may be assumed to be in physical proximity to his keys.
ben_vulpes: pete
_dushenski: consider a bouncer. logins and self-voicings is unnecessary opsec bit-leakage.
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pete_dushenski: ben
_vulpes: or maybe your cat died and you never left pharoah's egypt after all
ben_vulpes: nah pete
_dushenski you gotta install a bouncer so that nobody knows when you're around or not, and as a consequence can't raise an eyebrow at 'too much time in #trilema'
a111: Logged on 2016-07-28 22:46 asciilifeform: pete
_dushenski: in a sane world, it would be petrol station that is a costly luxury.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-28 22:44 asciilifeform: pete
_dushenski: your petrol car easily eats 10k of usgolade every few yrs.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-28 23:19 mircea
_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-28#1511085 << there still isn't. this is like saying "before emperor took a shit in the soup bowl there was no turdsoup." sure, now there is, technically, but it still ain't soup in the sense, "i'd want to eat that". i dun think at any point the notion that if you tape many cellphone batteries together you get A LARGER BATTERY/firehazard.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-28 22:38 BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: Maybe asking people to anon is his way of preserving his "name" so it doesn't drown in better names?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-28 22:37 asciilifeform: pete
_dushenski: petrol car only looks like a great deal because no one hangs you upside down and rubs yer nose in the externalities.
deedbot: mircea
_popescu rated covertress 1 << Entertaining.
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: Seriously. 1 acre every minute!
a111: Logged on 2016-07-28 17:09 shinohai: mircea
_popescu: final results from twitter campaign over 24 hr.
http://ix.io/18ln BingoBoingo: ben
_vulpes: Wait, what of yours has 12 cylinders?
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: What, anyone who cares can build own "model 7" like car
BingoBoingo: <pete
_dushenski> the elise, evora, exige do, yes. << Not Lotus cars. Last Lotus was the Model 7
pete_dushenski: ben
_vulpes: and their value in general. maybe asciilifeform likes that leccy cars are 'cleaner' but $10k for a new battery pack every decade ? nothx.
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_FeltPen voiced for 30 minutes.
ben_vulpes: pete
_dushenski: i'm going to go out on a limb and bet that battery is shot
shinohai: $rate
_FeltPen -1 I prefer ballpoints
BingoBoingo:
_FeltPen: Thank you. Now voice yourself and participate in discussions.
deedbot: BingoBoingo rated
_FeltPen 1 << new blood
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: Maybe asking people to anon is his way of preserving his "name" so it doesn't drown in better names?
☟︎ BingoBoingo:
_FeltPen: Also register a key and do they right things
deedbot:
_FeltPen voiced for 30 minutes.
BingoBoingo: $up
_FeltPen It means ask questions. Bring up ideas, etc
a111: Logged on 2016-07-28 22:30 pete
_dushenski: musk took a lotus rolling chassis, added 5k laptop batteries, cobbled the whole thing together in true british shedding fashion, and sold the result to a few demokrats and even more investors
pete_dushenski: ben
_vulpes: they supposedly drive well. but they're still british (ie. won't start when cloudy)
trinque: ben
_vulpes: has an alt-eth!
a111: Logged on 2016-05-01 17:40 mircea
_popescu: the reason you do not want to discuss anything with hitler, such as for instance in the shape of hitler's own propaganda magazine "interviewing" you is that they aren't interviewing you. what they are doing is trying for a "o noes scandal and wilhelm lost all his support" piece. if it works, they got it, if it doesn't work, "it never happened".
a111: Logged on 2016-07-28 14:43 mircea
_popescu: there's a hundred to a thousand daughters of "single parent" families with fucking siblings, ie, whoredaughters, who instead of joining their mother's brothel go to "community college" and end up with just about enough "college debt" to cover a decent party weekend. IN FOUR YEARS.