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decimation: yeah: "Ditching the ICBMs would save taxpayers $14 billion over the next 10 years, but not everyone's a fan of the idea: Senators from states where the missiles are based and tested have formed an ICBM caucus that isn't shy to throw its weight around.
As a condition for confirming Rose Gottemoeller, Obama's recent pick for undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, the caucus insisted that the Pentagon
mircea_popescu: decimation inasmuch
as those things are about
as useful
as the five foot tall plaster cake in a confectioner's window, wut diff does it make.
mircea_popescu: "
As a woman, peeing is a very big part of my life. It’s something I do often, and something I do well."
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That seems to go with what I read
as well.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo anyway,
as far
as i understand (not an expert) the reason neoplasm mostly turns anaerobic is that apoptosis main branch and aerobic respiration share some protein pathways. so it often gets deleted in the same pass
as it were, "no electricity" means no music and no light at the same time.
BingoBoingo:
As far
as the Warburg stuff goes. It's generally accepted that cancer cells generally turn to some some of anearobes, but... SOmetimes it works the opposite way like in breast cancer, and the change over almost certainly seems to not be the cause of the cancer.
cazalla: and
as good
as we are at qntra, we make mistakes, we are not infallible
mircea_popescu: an underpowered immune system, among other things. (then again, other systems, such
as a whole array of cellular antioxidants, essentially all the red cell metabolism and all the brain are powered by the carbohydrate metabolism). in short... no easy answers. srsly. we "are evolved" to do everything.
mircea_popescu: lobbes: okay.. I can maybe see diabetes.. but to eliminate the possibility of cancer by cutting out sugar and seeds <<< there are some good if not winning arguments in favour. generally, fats are about twice
as energetic per gram
as sugars. however the power (ie, energy per time) function is much flatter. that's only half the story, of course, because the fat (and protein, they're related,
as you'd expect) processing b
mircea_popescu: meat only diets are just
as toxic, through overwhelming kidney clearances for protein metabolic products. etc.
chetty: I dont think I am that far off paleo
as it is, most of what I eat is raw fruit, veggies and meat anyway.
saifedean: i don't mind automation for
as long
as it does not compromise the quality of the thing in question. So, a fridge is a good idea to keep my steaks cool for a few hours between butchering and grilling. A deep freezer is not such a good idea coz the meat will never taste the same.
saifedean: well thestringpuller, i've tried that shitty-ass diet and i tried being paleo, and there's no comparison. Once you try going paleo, eating crap seems about
as reasonable
as not looking around before crossing the street. Sure, it can be done... but why?
chetty: <<< never giving up bread and pastries but agree with the 'crap' descriptor for most of what passes
as food
saifedean: no i've never been to argentina, but i did live in Rio de Janeiro for two years
as a kid
saifedean: well,
as i said i am hoping to go to BA sometime soon, my argentine friend will be there and it's meant
as a crash course in grilling... i could just stick around, but i'd need me a new business idea for the post-bezzlepocalypse
saifedean: the way i see it, bitcoin will kill pretty much all the world of bezzle,
as i'm sure you folk agree, and the only jobs that will thrive in th future are those that involve actually doing something useful for other people which others appreciate and are happy to pay for. there are few things in life people appreciate better than a well-cooked steak, and few things in life that are done badly
as often
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller saifedean i am familiar with your idea of restaurants. these work
as a retirement ploy by old merchants, who have an immense pile of gold in the basement, a pretty wife and don't give a shit about what may come, they juist want people to hang out and chat with.
saifedean: it sure
as hell beats working in the world of bezzle, a slave-like existence producing nothing and wasting your life in a worthless pissing contest whose first prize is the ability to kiss a bigger ass
mircea_popescu: yeah, and the reason is he's not yet met anyone that groks it fully, so
as to answer objection properly.
cazalla: "If bitcoin were allowed to co-‐exist
as “legal tender” it could also create a situation where under Gresham’s Law “Bad money drives out good”. In such a scenario, bad currency (bitcoin) would be used and good currency (US Dollar) would be hoarded, creating greater economic instability."
mircea_popescu: inasmuch
as it's the blockchain it will HAVE To work. or bust.
saifedean: much
as i'd love to be in the conference, april might be tough, especially
as i'm so goddamn far, but i'll let you know if i manage to work out jan/feb
ben_vulpes is wondering about the practicality of using 0.5.3
as a starting pin
mircea_popescu: "If the output size of the chosen hash is larger than the number of bits of q, the hash result is truncated to fit by taking the number of leftmost bits equal to the number of bits of q. This (possibly truncated) hash function result is treated
as a number and used directly in the DSA signature algorithm."
mircea_popescu re-reads, notices he misspelled guns
as huns, wonders why the fuck has he not realised this before.
mircea_popescu:
as stupid
as the man in charge can be, the benefits often outpace the damage. this was discussed here re stalin
mircea_popescu: big bad is dumb
as rocks, on its own. has nfi what all the things mean.
mircea_popescu: gotta understand that any big bad only exists
as a work of fiction, otherwise is simply a collection of men. gotta give those men ways out, so that "mysterious" and "inexplicable" things happen
mircea_popescu: fwiw, asylum, which i typeset myself, was printed
as a pdf. the house ran a large web press, did my run in like three hours.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, the problem is not nearly
as hard
as all that.
mircea_popescu: well yes, because printers are still by and large about
as smart
as a public servant.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> gotta sign, so we 'all hang together or separately' (
as, i think, were the words of the americans.) <<
As true today
as it was for Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776
Adlai: that took way too fucking long and is just
as [in]secure
as using a privkey >_<
gribble: Nick 'adlai', with hostmask 'Adlai!~Adlai@gateway/tor-sasl/adlai', is identified
as user 'Adlai', with GPG key id 4D88596A7CDA03F9, key fingerprint FCBC64EFDF1D6C1E4E964AEE4D88596A7CDA03F9, and bitcoin address 13dkw1PtojBW74FN7ERbHqoEvgsTmtARuj
gribble: Nick 'adlai', with hostmask 'Adlai!~Adlai@gateway/tor-sasl/adlai', is identified
as user 'Adlai', with GPG key id None, key fingerprint None, and bitcoin address 13dkw1PtojBW74FN7ERbHqoEvgsTmtARuj
assbot: Logged on 08-09-2014 22:35:52; mircea_popescu: "Thank you for this clarification Mr. Nakamoto. It has been an honor to be labeled by my friends
as "Satoshi's Drunk Uncle" and it's a moniker I'll wear proudly until the day I retire from Crypto. The Goldcoin (GLD) developers truly admire your work and strive to continue improving upon its design
as a tribute to your unparallelled genius. Your admirer and relative in spirit, MicroGuy."
Adlai: or more precisely... it works, but not
as expected by the optimistic plumber
zanza: and keep BTC
as reserve
mircea_popescu: " After selling his ISP company in 2007, he began work
as a researcher and advocate for digital currencies. He enjoys working
as a freelance writer and is editor in chief at Altcoin Press." totally, 5 year gap in the mongoloid's cv. spent 2007-2013 staring at a brick.
zanza: yeah, he lists this
as the IRC channel :o
ben_vulpes: in the same vein
as the declaration, the only code that matters is that
as published by *individuals*, and only ever those in the wot.
ben_vulpes: the thing is best pursued
as the outputs of *authors*, rather than any sort of "blessed" anything by any sort of "foundation".
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, it's politically useful. while i can appreciate the philosophical argument of "epsilon is still fundamentally different from 0", it doesn't carry
as much practical importance
as all that. for one thing, everyone feels entitled to tax you .1%, including any bank moving your money, and so on and so forth. heck, the miners are taxing about 0.1%
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform>
as i understand, he is trying to somehow deal with the little problem of no one standing up to unwedge 0.5.3 block loader. << nah, not related.
mircea_popescu: well... promising 2.0 businesses such
as ethereum could use more css...
decimation: heh. I wonder if he used this
as a defense of his anti-dividend policy
punkman: the detached sig becomes the body of a new deed, included in bundles
as usual
punkman: and btw, you can even post binary data
as deed with :gpg --sign --armor
punkman: it just goes in
as a regular deed, but punkbot knows how to verify sig
Adlai: pure speculation: it caches the list of -f patterns, then goes over the input lines, testing all patterns on each line. this would have a sharp performance drop
as the patterns overflow caches.
mircea_popescu: eventually,
as things got out of control they ran off in a helicopter
Adlai: passports
as private key... remind me of some gag where a bitcoiner gets some "paper wallets" for his fiat account and discovers that his keys are printed in cleartext on every page
mircea_popescu: but i mean the passport comes
as a temp freenode:#bitcoin-otc:blabla string
mircea_popescu: scams
as geological features now, what's next, libertardism
as a natural satellite ?
mircea_popescu: and can it also use the first line
as the title of the document always, so the "Title: " magic words are no longer needed in deeds ?
BingoBoingo: Honestly the default "comforting colors seem
as shady
as fuck
bounce: the onion address is governed by a private key, so no real chance of impersonation --
as long
as you check the complete onion address
cazalla: and your email is listed
as the contact for when a backup is complete, i do em manually by ftp and phpmyadmin too
BingoBoingo: Yeah. BUt the overdoses in Illinois usually don't count
as suicides in the courts.
decimation: the trouble is, chip fabs are expensive
as fuck, so there's not much money in keeping old ones alive
decimation:
as if this couldn't be done with a $0.1 microcontroller
BingoBoingo thinks kako needs to speak
as assbot more often. Every barrel needs a bung.
assbot: Minor update: The main onion and my totally non-illegal personal onion have both been serving up the seizure image
as of a couple hours ago
assbot: Minor update: The main onion and my totally non-illegal personal onion have both been serving up the seizure image
as of a couple hours ago
mod6: jurov: None so far that I know of, other than perhaps a bounty or something for testers
as suggested by ben_vulpes.
mircea_popescu: "The NutFund was a charity set up by Blake Benthall
as part of his project on the StartUp Bus and using his own BTC, he donated to his own charity. The NutFund.co website has since been abandoned" <<< heh.
mircea_popescu: <saifedean> i dug up the old phd and can email it to any of you who are interested. not sure it's worth publishing
as it's still too academese to interest normals << let me gues, it;s pdf ?