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a111: Logged on 2016-07-03 01:31 mircea_popescu: i'm curious what ending up paying 10x more to host servers than you pay to host women in a given month will do to your "i dun wanna rent" perspective.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: no
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ah ok then!
mircea_popescu: lol. alf getting ahead of you in the seeing the world score ben_vulpes ? WHERE'S YOUR PORTLAND NAO, BISH ???
a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 19:43 mircea_popescu: and in other wedding news, http://66.media.tumblr.com/59ea216b3448d34ae033dca13746ade7/tumblr_nqsgypF89E1rhw4clo1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: and in other wedding news, http://66.media.tumblr.com/59ea216b3448d34ae033dca13746ade7/tumblr_nqsgypF89E1rhw4clo1_500.gif ☟︎
phf: something along these lines http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/content/kgo/images/cms/287477_1280x720.jpg
phf: gabriel_laddel: rockville, md. they had a crime here once, a black guy jaywalked.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel legal immunity. as they say in civ, "our words are backed with nuclear weapons".
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: sorry, you want to live in/near ganglang why exactly?
phf: mircea_popescu: south carolina state
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: precisely where i will be visiting.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: jhu !
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: german enclave
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you could get entire street for less than your diesel cost
asciilifeform: should i be scouting bmore digs for mircea_popescu, lel ?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: visit barriloche
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you'd prefer ted turner's latifundias to the current fauna ?
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mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i was sick, recently. wanted supplies. idiots were running one single counter (of the two in the place) and the local women were doing their local womanly bullshit : bagfull of 100+ different 10gram items individually wrapped, to be paid with "credit card". so i asked the girl to call the manager over, and she was like "he's that way" and i was i dun give a shit, call him over. at which point some kid with aspi
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel incidentally, if you think that fucktard was "a threat", you have serious issues.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when the proprietor went for a smoke ?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I've been reading the reports.. hence my interest.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i still question that anybody with two legs, anywhere, is dumber than the folx here in good ol' phreeeeeeedomlande
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel VERY, VERY different in SA. you have no fucking idea, and apparently you've not been following my field reports. these people are retarded. economically speaking, they're dumber than a gecko.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel computers do not cost 2x, except hte locals are 2x as idiotic. the home shopping network demographic pays 20 bux for a plastic "earring organizer", but this is not because "plastic is expensive in the us".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fefeleaga!1111
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: who would you like to gas in ~south~ america ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 14:39 gabriel_laddel: What I had intended to say was: I'm on the hunt for products that are difficult to create in the ussa because of the supergay laws, or the interactions between the supergay laws and the situation in the field (ie, why one cannot make automated turrets to defend one's $100/month flat in the hood == the feds).
a111: Logged on 2016-05-11 19:33 mircea_popescu: fwiw, young males that aren't entirely dumb go almost universally through this phase of "fantasy busienss" where they keep doing various coups in their heads, start a carwash then buy a shoestore with the proceeds then trade that in for a chain fo restaurants etc etc etc.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: Speaking of which, why is it so difficult to get 'stuff' into BA? If I wanted to ship in a bunch of computer parts and undercut the Uruguay competition (computers reportedly cost 2x what they do in the states because ??) the issues would be what exactly?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 19:32 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-01#1494313 << wait, i'm confused. you... live in buenos aires ?
a111: Logged on 2016-02-18 22:21 gabriel_laddel: I have a few obligations to take care of here in the US first.
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a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 13:58 mircea_popescu: the train example is very much illustrative. there is no purpose to trains! trains exist because of the following conversation : "hey, this steam engine is pretty neat, but is it always stationary ?" "i guess you could add a rail to it..." "hmmmm".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: also, lajka
a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 04:37 mircea_popescu: if correctly executed, this will result in sugar, spice and everything nice necessarily. not just denying the adversary the one pasture it truly needs ; but importantly http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-02#1494660
a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 04:54 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider the implications of what you are arguing. if your idea of "irreplaceable home box" stands, this necessarily reduces to fortresses, armies and dirigibles. a world which happens to exclude a lot of people
asciilifeform: anyway i dun actually disagree with mircea_popescu re 'delocalized computing is spiffy'. simply must pointout that we ~don't have it~ and that all of the proposed mechanisms put us no closer to it.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 05:38 mircea_popescu: heck, bitbet didn't keep logs. confiscate all you want. was it a timely enough confiscation ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 05:36 mircea_popescu: there is not a point in this sense.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if not this, then what?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 05:25 mircea_popescu: but the concept of "a method which does not allow mapping of physical resources to logical resources by third party" DOES work.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> cpu is cheaper to reproduce than steel fork it is really only a photograph. <mircea_popescu> eh. this is not a discussion of metaphysics.
asciilifeform: if he homomorphic thing existed, i would be inclined to agree with mircea_popescu
a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 03:50 mircea_popescu: HOWEVER, it will create, if successful, a ready way to resolve http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492111 and such problems.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: you already have that latter one
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes how do you mean ?
asciilifeform: thus far i can't offer anything but same stone knife and bear skin mircea_popescu offers.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes he's russian whadda ya want.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 15:42 mircea_popescu: diana_coman hanbot trinque phf bingoboingo mod6 danielpbarron asciilifeform davout jurov http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/d38a9d86-a5a6-4597-86b6-6436d08597d1/?raw=true btw.
phf: mircea_popescu: it's actually pretty immaterial, public key crypto doesn't buy you anything in this case
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the sewer rats cannot abide small, simple things
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reimplementing eth would be sad tho.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for one thing, traditional bot-herding is a misery in 1,001 ways: intensely platform-specific, suffers various central points of failure, etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we aren't merely 'let's pool chumpnets between phriendz' here.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes that there's no specific check or test other than top | grep "ram" sorta thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: open boxes are rubbish.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the key emplaced on install.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it dun matter where it comes from, so long as valid sig
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: victim ends up running something like a nintendo emu
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes too many lines of code
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ick, massive
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: very easy to botch, note
asciilifeform: there are 2 basic angles to approach uci : the standard botnet model, which appears to be what mircea_popescu is thinking of, where nodes are individual boxes running specific program that does fairly straightforward thing,
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ideally it'd be more like "run this bash script"
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: as i understand: by signing and broadcasting a message.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i would expect there'd have to be a management language for this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't enough
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it already takes carr of comms and storage...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that would close the triangle
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes read from and write to yes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking of uci, ever consider generalizing luby's algo to ~calculation~ ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: http://thebitcoin.foundation/tickets/UCI_tickets.html#6 << what all would be encompassed by 'networking'?
shinohai: also, here's how to enjoy cheap rum mircea_popescu http://i.imgur.com/GeHPuNb.jpg
a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 00:20 mircea_popescu: lol yeah, didn't mean for qntra. just mentioned it because it seems to me the "isis" figthers were ru special forces.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> borosilicate glass tubage of any diameter you wanted was ~40 cents per kg. << What about 8 meter borosilicate for Venusian culverts?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i offer the knife whereby we cut them off, like defective siamese twin, from actual people.
mircea_popescu: speaking of folks, here's a handy visual to explain the concept http://66.media.tumblr.com/e04a4eb96aecadff52219a05575fd1a8/tumblr_ng9qc75iM91shqa8eo1_400.gif
jurov: and apparently it's available in the US: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=SIMAX+glassware
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 16:31 asciilifeform: and if you ask mircea_popescu it is difficult to get so much as a stapler in buenos aires
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a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 16:29 gabriel_laddel: ^ another fun thing to do in irl ba
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 16:25 gabriel_laddel: Not especially, but was brainstorming products to sell in SA (south america) that are a PITA to get into / create here in the USSA
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 16:02 ascii_deadfiber: i expect a shift of resources back to the 'corrode bitcoin' stratagem, vs the 'pump shitcoin'
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 15:42 mircea_popescu: diana_coman hanbot trinque phf bingoboingo mod6 danielpbarron asciilifeform davout jurov http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/d38a9d86-a5a6-4597-86b6-6436d08597d1/?raw=true btw.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 03:22 mircea_popescu: church of x is a little dubious neh ?
trinque: ey ben_vulpes, can I get you to crank that knob in nginx sometime today?
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asciilifeform: and if you ask mircea_popescu it is difficult to get so much as a stapler in buenos aires ☟︎
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: pyrex is ~4% boron by mass, ought to have absorption line there.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i had an idea re pyrex, a few yrs ago
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzyXMEpq4qw << mega-classic.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel is fond of glass ?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i've worked glass.
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