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asciilifeform: and so entirely reasonable to ask to hammer. just odd phrasing
asciilifeform: actually strike that.
asciilifeform: but notions like the above, that actually trace descent to late pre-atomic state of the art
ben_vulpes: there are always those water-fueled cars...
asciilifeform wonder how much pre-atomic chemistry remains quietly in circulation to this day, in various 'practical' works
asciilifeform: 'Platinum - also called platina is the heaviest substance but one (see No. 47) known, having a specific gravity of fully 21, which may be raised to about 21.5 by hammering.' - Encyclopaedia of Practical Receipts and Processes. William B. Dick, 1872. << mega-vintage-l0l
asciilifeform: if it takes a batshit king and world's thickest minefield to keep out 'mcdonalds', it might yet turn out to be worth it. ☟︎
asciilifeform: but this is why.
asciilifeform: re: autism pollutant: when i tell folks that north kr is a unique planetary resource whose (very likely) disappearance could turn out to be an extinction-level catastrophe - they make monkey noises
asciilifeform: not too many poor folks with a 'rich man's view' of rich
mircea_popescu: call me when they fill up a ranch with young fillies collected from detroit. then they may be rich in the feudal sense of powerful.
mircea_popescu: heh. tlp has a poor man's view of rich people.
mircea_popescu: "But it's the wealth gap that we should be worried about, soon to be greatly increased. Wealth gaps mean feudalism. They mean, on the one hand, universal healthcare-- everyone gets the same; on the other hand, flow chart medicine-- since everyone gets the same, let's just make a flowchart. It also means mental health parity, which is really a way to funnel the poor into the only outlet we have to deal with their rage
asciilifeform: puts some light on why there will never be an 'underhanded ada' contest.
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mircea_popescu: meanwhile at the poloplug ranch http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwh6sgckoV1qa258ao1_1280.jpg
cazalla: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/ohp-hep-A-media-1-frozen-berry.htm of course, people are now calling for proper labelling but apparently no can do due to trade agreements, guess people must eat their shit berries and be content
danielpbarron: and i can use the flash_erase and nandwrite that come on the stock pogo?
cazalla: this food talk reminds me of current hysteria of hepatitis a laden frozen berries from china doing the rounds here in australia, many people such, much surprise for some reason.. while on holidays, i spot the same shit in my parents freezer, advise em that they might not wanna eat this but get met with abuse, you think you know everything response.. a month later, hep a scare! so sweet lulz
asciilifeform: and then,
asciilifeform: in this case
asciilifeform: if you omit the block count, it does the whole partition.
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: you want to erase the nand, yes
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: it goes right on top of the old uboot
mircea_popescu: http://40.media.tumblr.com/435f263d9395e1e89a50eb313d407074/tumblr_ng2gwf5YGA1rne0mao1_500.jpg for teh lulz.
danielpbarron: i've got two examples of writing uboot and they use different flags and different start addresses
mircea_popescu: there is the occasional shop that's competent, but by and large the label offers no protection.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whatever it is, u.s. folks from 'high society' obsessed with 'natural product' are getting their fair share of it - or more.
mircea_popescu: from mcdo to tgi or w/e.
mircea_popescu: in practical terms, however, most people eat pre-produced stuff, either at home or in a "restaurant"
asciilifeform: and there can be no confusion between them, imho
asciilifeform: this says nothing on the question of contaminants found in 'proper' food in same shop, but i did want to point out that the two fundamentally different things are shelved separately
asciilifeform: (aside from logo, geometrically regular packages with no expiration date or date in distant future, proximity to other similar products on the shelf, and - above all - cost closer to what one might expect of motor fuel than food)
asciilifeform: it is entirely clear to the naked eye (no need to open the seal) where the identical goop is.
asciilifeform: the vendors aren't really trying to mimic the genuine article.
mircea_popescu: from persil to bosco
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where i live, the synthetic food is conveniently shelved in another (by far largest) section of the store than the mostly-correct (to look, feel, and taste) variant
mircea_popescu: ALL THEIR FUCKING SHIT is made out of the same goop, with flavourings.
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: gotta use the util. described in the original article. it sets the ecc bits in the eeprom
mircea_popescu: immediately tasted the telltale bitter back of mouth aftertaste.
mircea_popescu: but incidentally : girl bought 'dijon mustard' by kraft. made to mimic actual legitimate producers.
danielpbarron: is this the same file i can write to /dev/mtd0 ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's certainly damned hard to fish through the soup currently.
asciilifeform: or so the perpetrator assumes.
asciilifeform: more general observation, one explanation of the american attitude to pollutants (the more the merrier) is that it is precisely for the same reason as poettering et al's attitude to software.
mircea_popescu: it's a by-product of the "Great Industrial Integration" of the late 60s
mircea_popescu: autism starts to move up just about the time warren buffett starts derping about how great wrigley is.
asciilifeform: the fizzy drinks and synthetic beers have been around longer than autism, though.
mircea_popescu: you imagine there's any difference between ANY fizzy drink ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform industry is industry. they all use the same thing.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller no, i mean low value idiots who'd gladly suck our cock if only we a) didn't bang hotties and b) validated their self-hottie delusions.
asciilifeform: for instance, the california sv folks don't eat much 'kraft'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it's a pollutant, it'd have to be one that usa takes in more or less evenly...?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform folks should fight whatever war they feel like.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iatrogenic << nah, my money's on a yet unidentified pollutant from industrial practice. something in consumer products, from the shitty gelatin kraft/unilver uses as the basis of all their "products" - really flavoured goop, to soaps plastics w/e.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: more along the lines of 'folks shouldn't stay and be sane back on the farm, there's a war on, go to the front'
asciilifeform: iirc i picked it from the built-in menuconfig thingie in uboot's build system
danielpbarron: how did you know to do that?
danielpbarron: you used the sheevaplug board option i see
thestringpuller: everytime i see pogo plug now I think of a pogo stick shaped butt plug
danielpbarron: i made this config file: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=WeNwB1mR
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: the uboot source is pretty easy to build
asciilifeform: autism epidemiology << one way or another, iatrogenic. you can take that to the bank.
danielpbarron: i'm trying to figure this uboot thing out right now. is this a proper thing to be looking at? -> http://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/u-boot-latest.tar.bz2
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: the actual jtag test points are small and gnarly, clustered around cpu. i'll get around to them some time..
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: pogo notes << shameful mistake on my part re: jtag pinouts. the soldered wires, turns out, actually lead to (useless to me) gpio pins, not jtag
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just as long as people act sanely, they're good enough << if they have no concept of the enemy, the latter can persuade them to 'act sanely' in a harmless - to him - direction, when it suits him
Adlai: your p key on the other hand seems to be cryping out for some love
TheNewDeal: ;;later tell TomServo around until Monday. Hope we can finally get in touch if you need to!
mircea_popescu: apparently guy thinks he needs all the pr he can get.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's kinda funny to me how many of these "online magazines" copied after the atlantic sprung up everywhere. they almost look like all the boost-baseds "bitcoin businesses", except they're driven by scammers who scam the dod instead of scammers who scam idiot bitcopiners.
PeterL: http://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/detroit/the-worst-suburbs-in-detroit a brief introduction to the Detroit area
PeterL: no, but they do have pretty high propety tax there, I think
Adlai: has it since instituted its own shitty tax?
PeterL: the city of Southfield is essentially one giant office park for companies who wanted to move offices out of the city
mircea_popescu: Adlai nope. because once it's established they'd try to steal it and i'd have to go to war and massaacre them.
mike_c: NYC tax is 3.5%
PeterL: usually they also charge 1/2 the income tax to people who work in the city but live elsewhere
Adlai: you should start a tax-free residential office park right outside the official city limits
mircea_popescu: how about i buy a building, make a building income tax ?!
PeterL: State passed a law because Detroit begged them to, Lansing charges 1%
mircea_popescu: nopbody told city hall "dudes, stfu and mind the parking meters" ?
mircea_popescu: how does a city even have the fucking authority to make an income tax ?!
mircea_popescu: PeterL ahahaha wuit, city income tax ?!
mircea_popescu: obviously. but there's still more error checking in the uterus than in the space program.
Adlai: mircea_popescu: "made to fail once it no longer can work" << these are not binary
PeterL: but it's the taxes that kill you, you pay 4k+/yr property tax for these cheap houses, and city income tax of 2.5% (suburbs have no income tax)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field: no, it works in the sense that the folks in control, are still amply supplied with whores and blow << neiother of these are either rare, ahrd to get or particularly useful/desirable.
mircea_popescu: PeterL: so I'm looking at houses near some of the jobs I'm applying for, I know I really don't want to live inside Detroit, but 15k for a 4br/2ba house seems tempting << it's the end of days i tell you, idiots here think 2br/1ba apts are 150k
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: La Serenissima's enemies are absolute. Once an enemy always an enemy. << actually... these "enemies" of ours are more like wanna-be girlfriends than anything.
mircea_popescu: PeterL: maybe somebody mistranslated a time unit somewhere along the way? << "but they translated the hebrew word for young woman to the greek word for nine months, and hence..."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: average age of childbirth goes up in america, all sorts of mental disfunctions go up in america. << except the machine is made to fail once it no longer can work.
mircea_popescu: PeterL: You might be thinking of Down's Syndrome, that has a higher occurrence in older mothers << yeah, that's proven. autism merely suspected.
mircea_popescu: s readily obvious why kids' want to be boys rather than girls at that age.
mircea_popescu: then the girls get tits and butts, and they can no longer lift themselves up for a kingdom
mircea_popescu: chetty i suspect it's one way but not the other for purely biological reasons. specifically : 9 yos can do the same number of pull-ups.
trinque: this idea that one can identify as anything, plant, mineral, sports mascot
chetty: well in fairness, tome boys dont always want to be boys, they just want the freedom
cazalla: in other words, i'm already familiar (comfortable?) with the idea of tom boys