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pete_dushenski: did asciilifeform have
a list of railcar contents posted on blog yet ? you never know what's worth or not worth shipping...
pete_dushenski is finally back in the saddle after
a whirlwind tour of the four corners of his home "country"
a111: Logged on 2017-11-12 18:07 mircea_popescu: anyway, the depicted marina also has yacht sales office. 50 btc buys you
a rather comfortable set-up for
a coupla ppl. 40 foot, can comfortably fit the occasional landlubber sluts and errythang.
lobbes: mircea_popescu, that is
a good point. Aite, I'll send that guy an email tonight. Worth
a shot
mircea_popescu: anyway, the depicted marina also has yacht sales office. 50 btc buys you
a rather comfortable set-up for
a coupla ppl. 40 foot, can comfortably fit the occasional landlubber sluts and errythang.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 22:13 asciilifeform: i get
a 128k binary turd.
mircea_popescu: there's
a bunch of reputation management commands, deedbot being the wot registrar of record.
mircea_popescu: may also want to register that name, seeing how it's
a short and suprirsingly not already taken nick.
mircea_popescu: rog i was talking to her ; connecting is
a different matter, you need an irc client. such as possibly mirc ? xchat ? i'm not sure what else is on windows.
rog: how do i connect thru windows then with
a pgp?
mircea_popescu: sorta like it was important to have
a passport in 1917.
mircea_popescu: it's important to have
a rsa key as it's the standard of identity these days.
mircea_popescu: wer not such
a great situation ; but... kleopatra will make you one, such as it is.
mircea_popescu: well, reading through what ? #trilema is the forum of the most serene republic,
a terrorist organisation dedicated to the dissolution of all fiat sovereigns and the permanent barring of such nonsense in the future.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ rog: i was reading thru and found this channel, care to explain
a little more about it please?
mircea_popescu: 0.1% chances to miss one if person visits daily for
a year. not so terribru.
mircea_popescu: "sorry sir, your 4 cent subscription to Fishing Today is causing your account with us go into the red every month, at
a cost of 70 dollars each."
mircea_popescu: trinque next you can introduce underdraw fees, be 100% like
a cc comp!
trinque: i.e. shinohai registers his irc bouncer service as
a subscription on deedbot, folks can subscribe and automatically pay him per interval
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes maybe it just needs
a manager to restart it periodically if its down :D
trinque: fact. today's
a bot haxing day anyway. other item in the queue is subcriptions
wer: brought it up in
a conversation with
a friend
mircea_popescu: so it is. do you want your bitcents to an address or are you making
a deedbot wallet ?
wer: i gotta upload it to
a link right
davout: they apparently have
a hardfork scheduled for tomorrow, with the goal of 'fixing' their diff adjustment algorithm, i'm quite curious to see what happens
mircea_popescu: principal limitative factor for tmsr gdp growth is...
a lack of humans.
mircea_popescu: so far it's barely
a dozen people, and easily
a grosse jobs. not the other fucking way around.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-11 16:43 asciilifeform: ( and will perhaps be
a good entry for those hypothetical folx who ain't here yet, but ought to be . i have no intention of doing the whole thing myself, esp. not in near term, my hands are quite full )
ag3nt_zer0: but they are called
a "passphrase" here and there
ag3nt_zer0: i assumed until today that words were utilized to create
a keypair
ag3nt_zer0: to be clear i was re-reading pete's article and followed the reddit link to the guy who lost the 4BTC and it was this comment that got me all wound up: "The passphrase has to be random (and necessarily, difficult to memorize). There is no way around this, period. If the prospect of memorizing 12 random words is daunting to you (and it should be - if you forget it, your money is gone), then don't use
a brain wallet."
ag3nt_zer0: i think the confusion for me stems from hearing two different descriptions of brain wallets - one described as
a way to, if i recall correctly, convert
a privkey to
a string of words to then be memorized and carried in brain over international borders or what not... and the other encounter I have with this concept is pete's method of generating
a high entropy keypair and I am pretty sure I am answering my own question here but wou
ag3nt_zer0: it feels like
a no-brainer but ahhh... if I use pete_dushenski's high entropy wallet method, I only need the private key generated by the words right? I dont need to keep the words... seems obviously dumb when I write it but the redditards are throwing me off here
ag3nt_zer0: i have
a question I am
a bit terrified to ask
BingoBoingo: "Star Trek" icon George Takei has been accused of sexual assault by
a former model and actor stemming from an incident that allegedly occurred in 1981. Scott R. Brunton alleged that when he was 23 years old, Takei took advantage of him after the two had returned from
a night out together. Brunton explained that he has been hesitant to come forward about the alleged incident for years, because he felt no one would believe him."
BingoBoingo: Naturally this prognostication ignores the pansuit purging of their pretense at cultural capital with: "Firing up at the end of this month is
a maybe. Firing up before the end of 2017 is looking incredibly Likely.
ben_vulpes extracted
a apple extended keyboard ii from the parental domus this morning, only to find that
a) the capslock key has
a physical lock and b) apparently needs some nutty 'teensy' micro to turn the ancient proprietary 'apple device bus' serial format into usb; and turning it into serial is apparently Just Not Done
mod6: every now and then they get behind
a few blocks.
BingoBoingo: Seems to be where
a lot of TRB nodes are shown stalled.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-24 17:25 asciilifeform: or, more famously,
a character referring to 'general motors' ends up speaking of
a Генерал Моторс
a111: Logged on 2017-11-11 06:31 mircea_popescu: but to revisit upstack : the item contemplated, 80 car lanes on each side of 30 traintrack lines would redefine
a number of things. the new town then becomes... the switching station. every unit-of-distance the 30 tracks turn into
a switch yard, 120 lines, 600 lines, whatever. in between these, the traintracs are fully reversible, meaning the trains run in arbitrary directiosn! around this yard is then built town, out of serv
BingoBoingo: In still further equalitarian studies outta Harvard: "As with most proceedings at Harvard, the anal sex workshop placed great emphasis on equality. After the presenter noted that “not all men have penises, not all women have vaginas,” she argued that “the butthole is the great sexual equalizer. All humans have
a butthole.”"
mircea_popescu: which means the "civilised world" reduces to europe, china coast, and
a 2-3-4mn sqkm thin strip uniting them, with The Road in the middle and civilisation reaching out .
a coupla hundred units perpedngicularily north and south.
BingoBoingo: Well, plenty of pickup trucks. Just like suburbia there will be
a subset of folks who purchase such to swear they've been off of mega road with it before.
mircea_popescu: which is how this works. take say unit-of-distance, the yet undefined item of the future, to 100km. that means ~100 towns the whole length of this ; it also means
a local delivery max range of 200km is ample : if you needed more than that you should have just sent teh goods one station further up/down.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-05 18:42 mircea_popescu: merv, or generally the mongol reduction of persia from
a coupla million to
a coupla hundred thousand is the fundamental civilisational act. not the building of the scum, but the purging of it. much like "writing prb" is not an achievement in computer science ; but purging it into trb is.
mircea_popescu: it has to. basically, it's mongol horde v2.0 (this is not well understood today, but the mongol horde was first and foremost -- its roadmaking. they had
a sort of "red carpet roll" they went on).
mircea_popescu: gives very palpable, estimable value to something asciilifeform already amply describes as having felt on own skin, which is... "land value" of wash dc real estate ? why, 0, it's
a sea away from The Road. san francisco ? same. congo capital ? SAME.
mircea_popescu: by the time you end up with 500 or so 1mn strong towns dotting the mega-road, you've
a whole new nation of
a whole new kind. larger than current day us
mircea_popescu: icing industry needed for switchyard maintenance, and human services for the involved humans and so on. around this town then go the thick roads. so the town of the future has
a "west side" and an "east side" in the sense of... the part of town margined by east-bound or west-bound megahighway.
mircea_popescu: but to revisit upstack : the item contemplated, 80 car lanes on each side of 30 traintrack lines would redefine
a number of things. the new town then becomes... the switching station. every unit-of-distance the 30 tracks turn into
a switch yard, 120 lines, 600 lines, whatever. in between these, the traintracs are fully reversible, meaning the trains run in arbitrary directiosn! around this yard is then built town, out of serv
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the similarities are striking -- ottoman porte made it
a point of not learning languages, much like us.
mircea_popescu: once-notable empire, meanwhile powerless, saddled with
a bunch of nominal allies thatr don't like it and readily intervene militarily against it.
BingoBoingo: Well, packet switching is
a thing. Whether the packets are bits or tons.
mircea_popescu: yes road cost
a whole lot more to maintain than the sea's 0. but this is
a counter-argument here, we're overpowerful and desperately in need of useful work to do, ntowa.
mircea_popescu: it's funny how shipping counterintuitively loses to land routes. even among the romans, who were built AROUND
a fucking sea, seaborne gross tonnage in any year was less than road gross tonnage in same year.
mircea_popescu: whether the increased precision (no, you don't have to have your item lorried to port and then from port to dest) actually gives
a 20% shorter distance, or 25 or 15% ; and whether the cost can be kept to 0.02 or even the foreseen 0.014 rather than 0.025 or 0.1 etc...
mircea_popescu: in this model, rather than have
a) load it on ship in
a week, from the single port, and then take n weeks to reach destination, and then unload and distribute by lorry, so yes you pay 0.01 per km on sea, which is 99% of the distance, but then 10 for the servicing, making your total cost 10`000 * 0.01 + 6 * 10 = 160
mircea_popescu: in any case the only viable alternative to "well... let's just have another war, then" i've seen anyone propose. mile-wide highway still costs
a billion or two per track mile, making the whole project large enough to give substance to something like us gdp. (that it will pointedly not be in any way related to us, secondary consideration. bitcoin isn't either, to its great benefit.)
mircea_popescu: but on the upside --
a 80 lane highway perfect place for ai driving. can have lanes sorted by speed at
a 1kmph resolution. there's
a marginal but present for "american technology companies" even in chinese owned future!
mircea_popescu: fwis the strategic plan is "one week silk road : car or train, take your pick". IF they do manage to build it, which isn't
a given even if not necessarily unlikely ; and IF they manage to market it so it reaches their traffic goals (this part, easier), all the "vision 2030" bs by everyone else, from crown prince of saudis to kirschner prince of us to etc fade in
a very very distant bokeh.
mircea_popescu: yeah, like building
a mile-wide train-and-road belt from beijing to vienna.
mircea_popescu: seriously, chicklit heroine meets Cool Guy McFucksticks ? i wonder what the odds are of such
a name naturally occuring...
mircea_popescu: but no, there's no getting out of it : turkey-iran with
a russian background much much stronger than usg.israel + usg.saudi-arabia. israel isn't coming apart just yet -- therefore the peninsula must.
mircea_popescu: "it should help that prince mohammed, following the example of ibn saud, sees the importance of forging
a special bond with the united states", sez teh official propaganda for anglotards. quite. lol.
BingoBoingo: Sure, both places had
a history or something like it for however longly/briefly. Now just McMansions and neurosis everywhere.
mircea_popescu: and
a fine example of nazi-socialism standing opposed to roossvelt-socialism. country essentially ruled by
a fuhrer + the propaganda/gestapo construct (here, wahhabi clerics + "security" forces)
mircea_popescu: "bitch, you call me to
a meeting i fail to return from, there's 10`000 rockets per square kilometer that take to flight. better hope they all miss, unless you're prepared to live in ruins-of-riyadh"
mircea_popescu: to keep to form he'll make
a blogpost now about how "he was surprised by wealth", ers style