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mircea_popescu: yup. what it does. the vertical cable goes to suspended screen
asciilifeform still has 1 of these
mircea_popescu: ~ibm~ x40. wirth the old logo on the face too
asciilifeform: even a coupla from after they turned sad
asciilifeform has owned at various times prolly entire line
mircea_popescu: right model, too.
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/unicorn-6.jpg << good old thinkpad x40 ?
mircea_popescu: the less you know, the easier to contemplate.
asciilifeform: simply impossible to even contemplate
asciilifeform: try to picture this for an abomination like intel's
asciilifeform hopes to live to write a b00k like that ☟︎
asciilifeform: ( i actually have a b00k by orig designer of z80, where he actually walks through the die, transistor by transistor, as if it were picasso ) ☟︎
mircea_popescu: so this imo is fine exemplar of that.
mircea_popescu believes "handmade" and "art" to be unrelated ; one can have industrial art (such as, eminently, the z80, and such as very much NOT warhola's crapolade)
asciilifeform luvvvs laboratory glass, at one time had a fairly large collection, prolly enuff to be jailed for 25yr in new york or wherever it was
mircea_popescu: this piece, evidently industrially made ; but i do not regret it, for it has all the advantages that promises (uniformity, solidity, etc). handmade is pretty but fragile, nothing wrong with it but diff class.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you may find it interesting that there's a shop selling items like that thing on ~erry street where i live. and some are quite elaborate, over a metre tall, and clearly hand-made, very ornate. possibly the last major handicraft remaining in this here orcistan.
mircea_popescu: and item seems a+ grade lead glass, proper thickness, very solid.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the item is quiote well made. so smoke goes from slider into side of conical shape, towards top. bottom of this conical shape has dozen+ round cylinders which let out into the bottom bowl. this bottom bowl is sealed off from the suction tube atop on the direct path ; the only respondency is through the four bubbles, which have a low and a high feeder and let out smoke into the top suction tube
asciilifeform: i was speaking of the glass thing
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It works as described by mircea_popescu in the blog
asciilifeform: i didn't think smoked pot burns all that brightly as it goes
BingoBoingo: They provide more paths for the smoke to percolate through the water so it is easier to pull the smoke deep into the lungs
asciilifeform: ( decorative ? or they have a mechanical function ? )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what are the oddball protrusions for ?
asciilifeform: ( they -- also in same gift )
asciilifeform: i see it erry spring when i go to the sakuras
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/unicorn-4.jpg << lol there's a 'valve' like that in washington also ( iirc gift from jp in 1930s! )
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2018/do-you-know-what-an-unicorn-is/ << Trilema - Do you know what an unicorn is ?
Mocky: he used to be my boss. secretary of defense when I was driving tank
mircea_popescu: im fucking arresting him if he ever shows up, that's for sure.
BingoBoingo: Anyways Dick Cheney can't assume he's not going to be arrested if he goes to certain other countries either.
BingoBoingo: If you can print holographs and swear solemnly to be divulging seekrits, you've done 90%
asciilifeform: pretty much the only lure the reich has remaining to offer idjits
mircea_popescu: empire is selling orcs the impression "they're in on a secret" ☟︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: Orc's like paperwork, pageantry, and the impression they are in on a seekrit. All they gotta do is put a gold foil stamp on an envelope containing 'seekrit identity' of Mr Pseudonym and they are prolly riding 90% orc compliance rate.
asciilifeform: 'by order of her majesty clitler, this here mr winston smith is to be delivered to tower and held at the queen's pleasure' etc
asciilifeform: why not whole thing from rng.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: evidently the paper can be whatever they like, if rng-generated names are apparently ok nao
BingoBoingo: Well, it's paperwork to present to whatever orcs pop up along the way
asciilifeform: also i dunget what is the point of 'seekrit charges' etc. already pretty clear that if d00d ever ends up in reich he'll be rolled in bear cage to the national square where drawn and quartered, what 'charges'
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/11/in-filing-begging-for-sealed-charges-copypaste-mishap-confirms-assange-as-target-of-us-prosecutors/ << Qntra - In Filing Begging For Sealed Charges Copy/Paste Mishap Confirms Assange As Target Of US Prosecutors
Mocky: before leaving for qatar I sold your 2 coins and then my own coin.
mircea_popescu: so then how months i don't get it, you mean the other coin from yest ?
Mocky: yes, those 2 turned to cash in person
mircea_popescu: wait, i thought i gave you two for qatar adventure
Mocky: in fairness, absorbed 2 coins choked on third
mircea_popescu: this now begs the questrion whether if i send my valkiries they would somehow manifest liquidity. god knows i had no problem dealing as much as i wanted in buenos aires. nor here. nor apparently anywhere (except when it comes to wiring to bb, which is becoming the lulz of all time, somehow)
BingoBoingo: (Provided you didn't eat the 500 USD of liquidity too recently)
BingoBoingo: Uruguay may not be rich enought to eat a whole coin, but seems to reliably deliver 500 USD to any given bench within 1-2 hours of arranging delivery
asciilifeform: ( invites the q, of where, exactly, is 'rich' )
a111: Logged on 2018-11-13 19:19 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand how useless the anglos are. do you know that in ALL OF CHICAGO 100% of the "bitcoin market" consists of this one inept fed ?
mircea_popescu: remarkable how poor teh us is huh.
Mocky: I can see quite clearly now that it was very stupid
Mocky: I went through all the people in person I could find
mircea_popescu: were you trying to not meet people in person or what the fuck was the thinking anyway.
mircea_popescu: could have told you not to do that then.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-10 20:35 mircea_popescu: get that memory in bit format before it volatiles away.
mircea_popescu: Mocky yeah, back to back like that not really promoting sanity. and besides, all the http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-10#1870721 stil lleft to do. ☝︎
asciilifeform: banks died as a rational concept, we're sorta back to the old days of buried treasure as storage
Mocky: i would have been ok too, I moved the money. wouldn't have cried over a burned bank acct. but after a month I thought I was good
Mocky: right. yeah was close to two months if not 2.
lobbesbot: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: !Qlater tell jurov http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/SSwUv/?raw=true
asciilifeform: aa so not traditional bank wire ?
Mocky: it was "zelle", us bank cartel's answer to paypal/venmo
asciilifeform: loox like ameri-banks are an item exactly like gox nao, 'keep there only what you can afford to lose' ( but i suppose this aint news )
asciilifeform: i thought hard limit for that was 6weeks or similar?!
Mocky: I sold my coin for bank-transferolade and I thought I had mitigated the risk but 2 months later transfers got reversed
asciilifeform: Mocky: if it aint mega-seekrit, what precisely was it that happened to you ? house burned down ?
Mocky: so anyway, i would totally do burma. but I have such a mess here of my own making that I couldn't even afford to feed myself burmese rice while there, much less lodging. So what then, go completely on mircea_popescu's dime? is that really desirable?
asciilifeform: ( even if it is 'custom' in the sense of being a write-once rom . these, too , saleable, i'd buy a whole crate right nao if anybody were selling )
asciilifeform: as for 'resist', the only sense in which it does is that the scheme has very little (tho not zero) reward for custom irons, any storage device that is good for 'proof of blox-on-disk' is also a good general-purpose random access store, and is saleable commodity
asciilifeform: the ballast could just as readily be FG output, but i like this variant much moar ( and it removes the suspicion that 'they used prng and can trot out the seekrit formula and save 200GB of space in their seekrit miner' etc )
asciilifeform: ( and as side effect helps to cement classical btc history 4evah )
asciilifeform: this way the miner immediately needs 200GB of random access, to play.
asciilifeform: btw i was going through my ffa notebooks and found a margin note that was actually about this, that prolly oughta go in the l0gz : if yer 'pow' is a walk-through-storage, 1 problem is that initial state of the system gives too little material to walk. so 1 interesting answer might be to include a 'ballast', consisting of, say, the first 9 yrs of classical btc blox, 1...N, that is part of the luby'd set (as raw bytes, rather than as m
mircea_popescu: i quoted for teh title
asciilifeform: recall, with the luby(3 blox) thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, tho i was extending the chain of the thread we had re that piece in '17
asciilifeform: the part where it wins is that it actually forces folx to store the blox, rather than 'resist' anyffing.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-16 14:32 mircea_popescu: and "disk" is no solution, china owns indonesia notwithstanding hilarity posturing to the contrary.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-16#1872802 << 'proof of disk' is 'solution' in the sense that the amt of disk required grows 4evah ( just as what we have now in trad btc, except that shitoshi did not see it fit to include block-walks in mining eqn ) . granted it doesn't magic away the 'only asia' thing, nuffin could, as mircea_popescu pointed out in the horse example. may very well transform 'chinese monopoly' to 'korean' ☝︎
Mocky: my opinion changed about asians. I chatted with a bunch of actually cute asians. and it wasn't even like, "weeks in this female wasteland and now asians are starting to look good." That was the africans.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-16 14:20 mircea_popescu: so all the mathematicians who prove negatives, such as "there's no circle with square corners" are ultimately failures at mathematicing ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-16#1872781 << imho 'no can haz' proofs are the single most valuable type of result in all of mathematics. they remove (for sane folx, at least, there ~are~ still circle-squarers walking around) dead ends from consideration, save much brain juice for other things that actually yield ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-11-16 14:31 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're naive if you think "asic resistant" will break "chinese monopoly". you don't like that, get someone else to make some chips.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-16#1872800 << i know quite well that it doesn't, hence 'perpetuum mobile' observation ☝︎
Mocky: not really that often but I was expecting qataris to express a higher level of indignation at foreigners flouting their strict conduct rules. but in actuality not even possible to achieve eye contact
mircea_popescu: oh, you have that in the us huh ?
Mocky: one beautiful thing I notices was that old busy bodies can't even give you a dirty look when their face has to be covered.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile cairo has been there for a long fucking time.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i appeared ~that~ fierce. i just think they were polite. ~everything i hear of qatar strikes me with an overpowering scent of what in teh old world was called nouveau riche.
mircea_popescu: see, the more i hear the more i prefer the egyptians. i took girl to evidently man-only tea-and-shisheria. lotta old dudes looked on in silence, bothered me none.
Mocky: I, evidently, sat on a girl bench at a mall that had one girl 30 feet away. was asked to move by security guard who pointed me over to 30 foot bench full of dudes
mircea_popescu: people can readily get used to less death scent.
mircea_popescu: and transparently because while the girls were in that-car-overthere by themselves it was one thing, but once it was with-that-dude suddenly they were forcibly confronted with their own personal failure, and that smells too much like death.
mircea_popescu: i can't find it now, but im pretty sure i recounted this tale of me + chet climbing in wrong (girls-only) car in cairo subway. made the girls giddy, but the ~dudes~ in the other cars nearly threw a riot.
Mocky: well I totally got used to it, except for on sub 5 foot chix... it looks like a halloween costume on a kid and there's no way around it
mircea_popescu: i believe it's more in the line of seinfeld's "everyone can be great friends if there's no possiblity of sex"