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chetty: dub,
they
took another one into isolation
to 'test'
ben_vulpes: it was a passing note,
take it up with Barber!
dub: is
there acutally more cases of obola or are yall watching fox again
chetty: asciilifeform, I like
that definition
ben_vulpes: ottomans survived regular decimations in constantinople, according
to "The Sultans"
mircea_popescu: chetty
this is roughly like
the "can't get aids from mosquitoes/bugs
BingoBoingo: chetty: No one knows where
the line is, may vary in different situations
chetty: me dont believe
thay actually know for sure
chetty: but seriously when exactly do you cross
the line
to being infections?
the exact second you show a fever?
the first
time you cough? of just maybe its actually 5 minutes before ...
bounce: that whole patenting
thing?
mircea_popescu: i don't get
this. you
telling me it's specifically because obama is a kenyan citizen ?
mircea_popescu: n ow on
the other hand, who gives a shit about west africa flights...
ben_vulpes: you better lose yourself in
the pandemic \ you own it, you better never let it go \ you only get one shot do not miss your chance
to blow
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there is some merit
to
this. apparently it's not infectious presymptomatically.
mircea_popescu: if
the mortality is 20% from
the disease and another 10% from
the resulting stampede
that's about 100mn deaths in
the us by 2016.
mircea_popescu: from
the looks of it
they've got maybe even odds
to lose control and end up with an epidemic
BingoBoingo: I have a gut feeling
that
the big reason more US'ians don't follow
through with
their going
to Canada
threats is
that Canada is
too close
to what
they are leaving.
That and Canada doesn't really want
them.
BingoBoingo: I imagine within
the decade Mexico will be more concerned about illegals coming from
the US
than
the other way.
The20YearIRCloud: texas has more health problems from illegals coming over
the boarder
than it does with ebola (all healthwise)
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BingoBoingo: That story about
the silenced handgun is ridiculous. Even modern suppressors leave gunshots well over 100 dB range. Nice
to know
that our spymasters even insist on lying
to
themselves." Forgets .22lr is a
thing
BingoBoingo: Comment on a site
that links
to gallery of
things
to be paranoid about "
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mike_c: last i heard we had hit moon and were aiming for mars. but i don't keep
track.
BingoBoingo: mike_c: I
thought we never really hit
the moon yet, just low earth orbit.
mike_c: really? i
thought we were going back
to moon now.
assbot: O hai. I was justing doing a penetration
test of your site. pe
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mike_c: GET /gow//.\..\.\..\.\..\.\..\.\..\.\..\.\..\.\..\etc/passwd << does
this shit actually still work on anyone?
mircea_popescu: wow shit
there's an actual word
to describe
the sheer ugliness of
tshirts and chinos as worn by
the modern western plebs ?!
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: no, and if I was I
think I'd rather shoot myself
than work for EA :P
BingoBoingo: ninjashogun Let's design an ATM card
that is a Bitcoin wallet. Who is up
to
the
task with me. Ideas?
Thoughts? Purpose: so
that dumb users can just "get a card" rather
than have
to learn how
to set up a complicated node on a p2p network.
They already use ATM cards. So,
this is a form factor
thing. <<
The people who hop on -dev so srs
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: One of
them. I dunno if he is a ranger, but he lurks a lot of places and interupts
bounce: this is a weird way
to follow an argument. is
there a log of -dev somewhere?
BingoBoingo: skinnkavaj agrees with Gavin on scalability,
that dooms it.
bounce recalls someone complaining about kids wasting massive amounts of bandwidth on youtube music videos just for
the audio;
the browser window with
the player is kept in
the background
assbot: Lesley
the Pony Has an A+ Day! on Vimeo
bounce: though as
time went on I find myself watching less and less video. curious how
that works, or doesn't.
mircea_popescu: jurov not quite. i dun want jack shit. but when presented with an argument
to
bounce doesn't see
that happen in a bit. just like
the peecee business is in a bit of a slump, because, well,
there's only so much cpu power reasonably wastable on eyecandy.
jurov: we want for bitcoin
to have limited supply, not just amount but also blockchain space
mircea_popescu: bounce sure. but by now it
takes
two minutes
to dld a film and 120
to watch it
jurov: i see some conflation of
technical and economical arguments
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
That -dev conversation has some interesting derping lower down with luke and Gavin agreeing
bounce: could be, but it boomed for a goodly bit, because it could. netflix
took over
torrent in biggest
traffic (oh woe is
the mafiaa and
their pr-war), and so on.
mircea_popescu: but in fact gavin executing usg agenda.
those
twerps have few ideas and
they keep redressing
them everywhere.
mircea_popescu: it's in fact exactly recycled golfclub pattern
talk, which is exactly how
the independent observer knows
this is not merely gavin derping,
mircea_popescu: "bandwidth will double each year for 20 years because it has in a very rare circumstance
the past 10" is not unlike
the way people
try
to sell "global warming"
bounce: so it's maybe a bit early
to decide
there won't be bandwidth because
there won't be drive. may be. maybe not. it's not a given either way.
mircea_popescu: last i heard youtube
traffix was waning, but be
that as it may,
bounce: oh I haven't really kept up with
that. maybe I should read up. but
the point in
the very general sense is
that we don't know yet how we're going
to waste
tomorrow's bandwidth. you know, like youtube is quite a
thing
these days, but only can exist because availability of >>dialup bandwidths
mircea_popescu: bounce maybe. again, im not saying "no" or "never" here. i'm
trying
to do some actual reasoning on evaluating patently insane claims sprouted by gavin.
jurov: i just referred
to "to make sluts look good"
mircea_popescu: now
this is a very distant, removed argument. but
that doesn't entirely destroy it. sure, it's useless in a 5 year discussion.,
bounce: uncompressed hi-res n-dim medical imaging is a good, morally upstanding way
to stuff
the pipe. even if it's a bit of a niche now.
mircea_popescu: there substantially isn't something as interesting
to people.
mircea_popescu: "full image of
the human person" is also a limit, in fact. quite biological.
mircea_popescu: bounce yes, but see, just like light in glass is a limit of
the universe,
that's relevant,
bounce: well,
there's
the
thing.
the phone system didn't really improve substantially until someone found a reason
to repurpose
that last mile for DSL. even if
that DSL now mostly carries crap better carried some other way, or not at all.
mircea_popescu: in 1990 i could see it, we wanted
to see samantha fox naked in color, rather
than black/white ascii art.
mircea_popescu: so what's going
to push your dubling each year ? faeries ?
mircea_popescu: by now
the limit on porn is
that nobody can be fucking bothered
to make
the sluts look good in 8k hd.
mircea_popescu: which is a major fucking point
that got neglected so far.
there's
this seinfeld where george
tries
to sell computers
bounce: in 170 years? doesn't sound unreasonable, provided we keep up
the pace.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> want
ten
terabyte / sec ? catapult, disks. << Stationwagon and
tape may still be king
thickasthieves: jurov, ok, maybe all mp meant by being
the financial center is
that HE is
the center, and since we orbit around him, we aren't careening into
the abyss