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mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-14#1683486 << seems it worked with 30 years of self-colonisation. about the same it took russia, also (i vaguely recall equivalent notion there a century ago) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-14#1683479 << a fake news 2nd tier outlet failed to understand how cryptocurrency works 10 years after "covering" it, still imagines sending a trillion tokens for a trip in your wallet amounts to something. ☝︎
asciilifeform pictures Framedragger on a pile of sausages
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no no, just, two different people telling me you know, a story that sorta was converging. i'm like... no fucking way!
mircea_popescu: Framedragger incidentally, as it just finally occured to me -- are you married, to a romanian girl ?
Framedragger: if so, only thing scriba has is -- not a local copy, but a note of link being successfully archived, and link to archive => ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 23:51 mircea_popescu: Framedragger do me the favour and check if scriba has somewhere on disk a copy of the above tardstalk link content saved ?
mircea_popescu: whaack not even so far off, after the huge camcraze of the 2000s washed by and the costs began to mount many places started just running loops of a few days and such
mircea_popescu: this is shockingly enough even more retarded. what will the inference be, that a buncha azns did it ?
BingoBoingo: Hopefully this is an indicator that we are moving into a lulzier part of 2017
mircea_popescu: well that;s a given.
mircea_popescu: a is it ?
mircea_popescu: my ex-dumb sluts CAN go into a whatever, starbux, and have a chat with their ex-peers.
mircea_popescu: but they can't go into a bar and have a drink.
BingoBoingo: Daily repreive contingent on maintaining one's spiritual health works when discussion 60 year old alcoholic crack addicts who have more than half a decade of continuous sobriety.
mircea_popescu: degrees of magnitude ; and now found a 4x factor inconceivably off for an item half mile in the distance.
mircea_popescu: just had lulz on a walk with girl yest, in that we saw a larger than common cement mixer on a construction site, and i said it's they're normally like a coupla galon's worth, and she agreed, and then she guessed the present one at 30 and i said it's like 120 yeah and she was totally blown out, no way it's 120 galons ? no, liters. this girl, two years ago, misjudged the volume of a hangar she was physically present in by three
mircea_popescu: most of the girls had no idea eg, thermodynamics puts strict limits and firm relations between movement and energy, including as it pertains to their eating. or that all things that exist can be made and are in fact made. or how to evaluate anything, a distance, a cost, a length or a volume. or so on.
mircea_popescu: was funny, too, with all the airports and shit. "is that a screwdriver ?" "yeah" "you can't take screwdrivers on the airplane!" "no, it's ok, see, it has fittable heads" "ah... uh... i see. well it's ok then."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform chet had a screwdriver in her purse. with fittable heads. and a tiny one separately.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> there have been a lot of "tape painting by fake news" events like that. mtgox printing 0's, pirate going on about how "he's going to crash btc", etc. << AHA, environment easier to evaluate back then. Time from "herd u leik BTC" to MP IS RIGHT took little time to discover. Now with all the noise discovery could probably not be made blackout drunk anymore.
BingoBoingo: https://archive.is/IXxJ2 << A compliment!!! "Also this bit's quite nicely phrased"
asciilifeform: i never saw the total blindkitten helplessness described by mircea_popescu in $thread, in a male
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: long, long ago, i worked as a sysop, similar
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> even the lowest javascript monkey has, say, awareness of the fact that his shitter is not plugged into the mains. and can hang a picture, change a filter, etc << No. Seriously put in some time at a hardware store. Be astounded at the idiocy.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-07 05:21 asciilifeform: likely, no 'xbox' and no actual buyer. just a sp4mz0r washing his stolen cc #s.
asciilifeform: ( usgological 'economy' is structured so that the cc fraud is essential nutrient to it. hence the studious avoidance of anything even vaguely smelling of a final solution - e.g. genuine crypto, single-use cc #, etc )
mircea_popescu: WILL gleefully fix grammar error and move on ; no shits given to the obvious "wait, how come there was a glaring gramatical error in supposed reference text"
trinque: gotta be screenshitted by a super cereal digital forensics guy though.
mircea_popescu: "oh i know... have a fiat corp sell dataz about it! that'll be so still usgtronic it wikll be safe!"
mircea_popescu: such a strong "we have america! in russian!" vibe these things give me
mircea_popescu: "according to Andrei Barysevich, a director at Recorded Future Inc., which sells data about online threats and the Dark Web."
mod6: just spits out a shorter FZ as expected.
asciilifeform: it dun have to be a machine word
mircea_popescu: "this last one took about half a day overnight while i slept"
mircea_popescu: "here's a list of factorials calculated by alf's ffa : "
mod6: i can certainly try some things like shifts, rotates, etc and make a part II, or III if req.
mircea_popescu: still counts for a few jerrycans.
mircea_popescu: so leave with 10kgs of po 210, arrive with 5kgs of po and 5kgs of lead, have a grand total of 30 Terajoules of energy for the trip. try not to waste so much you can't gain orbit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the naturally occuring (210) does a 5.3mev decay to lead which is of interest.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 20:00 asciilifeform: oh btw mircea_popescu , a mol of k40 :
asciilifeform: kw ain't a unit of energy
mircea_popescu: you're gonna make me a ... thermic engine, to power an electric motor out of electon emitting battery ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a 400kg or so rtg, gives 100w or so.
trinque: midnightmagic: goddamned being a man anthem right there.
mircea_popescu: hey, get a RTG, fly across atlantic on it.
asciilifeform: liner also dun give a fuq re clouds
asciilifeform: phunphakt -- 1st model of 747 had a hole for stellar nav
mircea_popescu: i thought he was doing a plane thing ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( famously, not even a cancellation signal receiver. or so claimed, i suspect that it's a lie )
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 17:41 phf: i won't the thing to follow some pretty simple decision algorithm: here's a gps list of viable landing spots, here's a gps list of interesting targets. given your positional knowns decide and execute a flight path that'll take the aircraft through highest number of interesting targets before landing in any one of the viable landing spots. surprisingly large number of moving parts in a situation like that
andreicon: "we added AI to our product" means "we added a bunch of ifs to our code"
mircea_popescu: adlai marquardt (aka http://trilema.com/2012/scammer-tag-nefario-theymos-others-known-and-unknown/ ) is chiefly famous for having hired some friends and paid them however many millions from donations to "make a better forum software".
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't expect anyone gives much of a shit about merkel and may's "europe"
mircea_popescu: Framedragger do me the favour and check if scriba has somewhere on disk a copy of the above tardstalk link content saved ? ☟︎
shinohai: as opposed to going down ~3-4 times a month as it does already?
mircea_popescu: dude reading old logs is such a treat.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-30 06:31 mircea_popescu: like the stuff discussed above re usg agency redhat, fuycking up linux. EXACTLY the stiuation of the giant ruining a chair.
mircea_popescu: whaack artificially high prices are a fine way to wreck a symbol. consider how torpedoes work (they don't push at the ship, but create a vacuum. it then gets filled). consider also the parable of the walmart giant and the neighbourhood chair.
whaack: What would have been bad with btc sitting at "too high" a price? Is it that a herd of people trying to get as many coins to hold from these "weak hands" would have bought in at a higher price than needed, thus making any concerted effort to raise the price in the long term much more difficult?
mircea_popescu: give a million idiots a trillion dollars so they build half million pizzerias and spend the rest of their short unhappy lives whining about the high prices of flour, the horrible traffic and the absent custom.
asciilifeform: the one where 'created a high-powered idiot, who can wreck exchange rates, create pyramids, etc' or how it went.
mircea_popescu: there have been a lot of "tape painting by fake news" events like that. mtgox printing 0's, pirate going on about how "he's going to crash btc", etc.
mircea_popescu: nah. was a purely financial event. btc was supposed to crash, except a lot of pressure unwound through mpoe options and the whole thing fizzled.
mircea_popescu: anyway, none of this is anything compared to the literal tens of thousands of btc destroyed in the first attack upon the fledging currency. a bloody victory.
mircea_popescu: and what a riotous time it was!
mircea_popescu: (for bonus lulz, compare and contrast with the rogerzus ver blowing up the cover of blockchain.info to try and recoup a half bitcoin or some shit. bassically contemporaneous events, and yet at least headcount reddit still thought ver actually has anything to do with bitcoin.)
asciilifeform: so mircea_popescu knew that the btc would go into the hands of a monkey?! before sending?!
asciilifeform: 'To maintain transparency, I am not a OpenBSD Foundation director, so you'd have to ask them... Encouragingly, I have heard discussion about some policy for public recognition of large donations, and I suspect that would handily cross the threshold' << lol!!
mircea_popescu: be a while, it's been years and besides, email.
asciilifeform: betcha if you had him airlifted and put in a room and asked, he genuinely never heard of mircea_popescu , or bitcoin, or news from past decade.
mircea_popescu: shinohai hey, i also only read newspapers after a year-ish maceration.
shinohai: "You're in for a treat if you haven't read yet any 'works' by MP of MPOE/MPEX fame and his #bitcoin-assets associates. " <<< Well THIS guy is just up-to-date isn't he!
andreicon: romanians would rather boil than feel a gust of wind
mircea_popescu: it's like a entry with an aluminum siding condom on top
mircea_popescu: put steel doors on each end and have a proper medieval style spitroasting
asciilifeform: ... they'd have to go through window. might, ohnoez, cut a finger.
asciilifeform: i also suspect that 'no airlocks' is a usg 'helpful suggestion' to architects -- after all , airlock complicates the work of the bust-in-the-night-under-colour-of-law folx
mircea_popescu: this soviet soyuz 2.0 is really a very shitty remake.
mircea_popescu: where both a) fucker, NO SPACE and b) airlock is actually stairwell, shut it excuses are available.
mircea_popescu: so if im in the livingroom with say stoya going on the main screen and a coupla girls on the couch, discussing things right ? and there's a knock oin the door, and i send one to see who's there, and she goes and opesn the door... the neighbour now sees my other girl's tits, stoya and my pubic hair ?
andreicon: it's just a lot cheaper
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 18:40 mircea_popescu: http://68.media.tumblr.com/2fc0db5e94b5ec60a1a6cf24f2b64ae7/tumblr_o5k91cVFvc1tgs3fno1_1280.png << this incidentally is a fine example of what i mean by http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-02#1664458 : bed-door clearance ? exactly enough to fit a standing chick, if were thin, AND NO MORE.
andreicon: i'm not a good example, i'm in the right place for the wrong reasons
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no leverage gives itslef like a slut in marriage. for it to give -- you gotta use. it can be used, i'm a fine example of using it.
andreicon: mine has poop sensors, i am a very different signaller
mircea_popescu: see, the naive has the advantage of a very distant bird's eye
asciilifeform: but this is a slide.
asciilifeform: even the lowest javascript monkey has, say, awareness of the fact that his shitter is not plugged into the mains. and can hang a picture, change a filter, etc
mircea_popescu: if my os came up with a way to be exciting i'd probably buy a flamethrower the same day.
mircea_popescu: what, the per-acre curiosity secreted by javascript programmer is not substantially different from yours or mine, is it now. andreicon is here because he wanted what was it, a more exciting os ?
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 19:00 mircea_popescu: there's a dazzling depth to these pointless shits, which is why the whole "oh i wonder why ancient people didn't spend more time thinking -- i could derive all of euclid in an evening" is so amusing.
asciilifeform: if i were crashed on the proverbial starvation island with this animal and a dog, i would eat her first , before the dog
asciilifeform: the sheer lifelong complete absence of curiosity, needed to land on the fucking throne N times a day and never look for the mains plug
asciilifeform: i wouldn't keep one of these around. better a dog, a horse.
mircea_popescu: the point isn't the mistake, but the fact that girl collapsed as a writhing, mucuous mess under the whip, because ~couldn't~.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-02 00:20 mircea_popescu: no power, no pumps (i live up on a hillside) and so i had the girls... fery water. from the pool, with ex-paper baskets repurposed as sacas, up the fucking stairs.
mircea_popescu: but that is the point : if you spend your time learning to signal instead of learning to do, you cheat yourself of a chance at life once the whole dumbery you were exchanging signals with goes away and you're left with just the trees, johnny.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno that anybody actually, in earnest, sits and 'learns to empathy', it's a signalling scamola
mircea_popescu: there is a time when his neurons were making the connection-and-myelinization decision. that time came and went, a decision some way or another was made, and it is there for all time.