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mod6: the car we saw in .ar with
the clubs,
that's probably a $3 car. lol
trinque: making oil candles in
there
mod6: i guess i did
throw in a quart once. but
that doesn't count. sob is probably dying
to have
the filter & oil changed.
mod6: i haven't changed
the oil on
this pos since i bought it. but
then again, i've only put on like 2800 miles.
trinque: I still change my oil in
the apt parking lot, but wouldn't bother with much more
than
that
mod6: that's about 75% of
the battle yes.
tools + place
to work on
the stuff.
trinque: pain in
the ass
to work on cars if you don't have
the right garage setup
to do it
mod6: my old man would be horrified
that i don't fix
the shit on my car. he was a "car guy". used
to wrench on stuff, build his own racecars, was an expert mechanic.
mod6: i used
to wrench on stuff a lot myself, but now (last ~15 years) have no
time.
too much comp stuff
to work on.
mod6: speaking of which... i
think i've got one wheelbearing
that's about
to sieze
mod6: *nod* i went so long without a car, it's hard for me
to spend any money on
that stuff at all. if i could still get away with not having one, i would.
mod6: but
the idea here is
that i put no $ into it, and when
the wheels fall off, i'll pitch
the keys on
the seat and go find another.
mod6: (it's like -25 F sometimes here in
the winter.
try driving down
the freeway with
that!)
mod6: i have a $100 car
that
the drivers side window doesn't roll down, and
the passenger side doesn't roll up. no rear view mirror (it fell off) and
the side mirror is
taped on with Ninja
Turtle ductape.
mod6: <+danielpbarron> it's surprising how many sentences I can
type without access
to
the letter 'b' but ultimately I end up needing it quite a bit (barron, bitcoin, bible) << reminds me of my broken 'O' key on my asus laptop
these guys saw at c3. i still havent fixed it. haha.
danielpbarron is ok with occasionally reaching
to
the floor
to press
the 'b' key
danielpbarron: it didn't occur
to me
to even
try replacing a keyboard on a laptop
trinque: danielpbarron:
to
the xmodmap with ye
kakobrekla: or just use 'lorrd', 'nonscamcoin', and 'the fairy
tale' instead.
danielpbarron: it's surprising how many sentences I can
type without access
to
the letter 'b' but ultimately I end up needing it quite a bit (barron, bitcoin, bible)
danielpbarron: I now have
to use a full size keyboard plugged into my laptop;
thing might as well be a desktop now especially since wifi hasn't worked ever since I switched from ubuntu
to gentoo
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2015 01:27:23; asciilifeform:
today's disposables have no springs, only rubber bulbs (molded into a sheet)
mircea_popescu: the opinions about
the Mysts of Mystery emitted by fans of
the power rangers and co.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron "bitcoin hardliners" is becoming
the #1 strawman. #shitlibertardssay
danielpbarron: found
this while researching why XCP went up 30% over
the last few days
☟︎ assbot: kaykurokawa: Front running Decentralized Exchanges:
The problem with Augur, Bitshares, Nxt, and Counterparty ... (
http://bit.ly/1QvEwaQ )
mircea_popescu: and obviously mike & gavincoin's dog and pony show have yet
to address
the fact
that "hey, we are ehtereum 2.0, we have
the support of "investors" and so on"
mircea_popescu: it can be purely platonic, "you may
touch
the instruments"
thing
mircea_popescu: i suppose a version of
the above "make it now" is what drives your hoarding behaviour
mircea_popescu: anyway, ftr : i don't expect
the electric grid will cease
to exist.
mircea_popescu: because it's unlikely you'll be able
to in
the future.
mircea_popescu: if you need anything
that has
to be made on something in
the middle, make it now.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is kind-of why it's so damned important we start making right
things
mircea_popescu: thgere's going
to be one of
the latter and an infinity of
the former.
mircea_popescu: research either happens on 500 dollar 3d printers, or else on 500
trillion hadron colliders
mircea_popescu: you will notice
that
the capital base of
the oldmodel is dying into irreelvancy
mircea_popescu: like, you knock off
to decimation and
two friends over gossipd "can you ploxpoint your microtelescope at
the x y z and send me
the dump ?"
mircea_popescu: so no, i don't see any sort of future for
that model, which is EXACTLY why i pointed out
to
tim whatshisname
that either he gets with
the program or he goes live in
the sewer.
mircea_popescu: but
that said,
the wot model does dispense with most of
the previous advantages of university
mircea_popescu: university is important because
the close physical proximity is a requisite for fucking in retards, and students are yet retarded
assbot: Logged on 23-06-2014 00:11:01; mircea_popescu: After seven years of
the new regime, I had
the opportunity
to compare
the class of 1999 with
the class of 1992. In 1992 I set an course in Artificial Intelligence requiring students
to solve six exercises, including building a Prolog interpreter. In 1999, six exercises had shrunk
to one; which was a 12 line Prolog program for which eight weeks were allotted for students
to write it. A special class
mircea_popescu: usually known as "course material", ie, "these few pageswhich if you read, you should be able
to answer anything"
mircea_popescu: specifically
that it is not merely cheating
to be given in advance
the questions which will constitute
the exam (which,
to my undying amazement, i found out is by now actually standard practice in
the us), but even
to be given any sort of selected reading material
that contains a larger density of answers
than
the average for
the entire world
text.
mircea_popescu: to be perfectly fair, in
the same session i also explained my view on cheating on university examinations,
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2014 21:29:47; asciilifeform:
the idea in
the article can (and has) been rephrased like
this. if you remove all
the 'suggestively-named strings' like 'understand' - and replace with 'gensyms' - e.g., 100324 - does
the resulting machine still do or even appear
to do anything of interest?
danielpbarron: >>
This is in large part due
to a nostalgia for
the Bitcoin of
the past. As Bitcoin grows, we cannot guarantee which parts of
the accidental benefits will still be present. However,
the fundamental properties must remain. Without it, Bitcoin offers nothing
that isn't already offered.
mircea_popescu: Essentially, “Megablock Bitcoin” will be exactly like
the Apple App Store. <<< mmmm yeah.
danielpbarron: >> Ultimately
this is yet another reason why Bitcoin is not money; it is something
that is collectively controlled by consensus, unlike money which is accepted by consensus. In any new definition of money
there should be a clause saying
that its nature is independent of anyone's opinion or act.
Naphex: btw, i'm hiring angular/javascript coders for
the frontend. if anyone interested shoot me a /m \