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asciilifeform: and yes, i'd expect to pay ~materials by weight~ cost, considering that thread was about a hypothetical boat that ~one builds with own hands~
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the yacht i visited recently had 2 ~q - beds and was externally not larger than three BingoBoingo-trucks stacked vertically
mod6: !~later tell gabriel_laddel_p Let me know how much entropy you'd like, I'll run ent test & dieharder against it, let you decide if you want it. I'll ask 0.1 BTC per Gb. What is your bid? ☟︎☟︎
mod6: <+asciilifeform> paging mod6 << +gabriel_laddel_p, I've got 'em.
mircea_popescu: he wants to pay ~what pvc costs per the weight for an ocean-going item. it's not unlike me speccing "i want computer made out of seminole grain. they can make pasta out of it, why not computer."
asciilifeform: i know of 0 subs overtaken by pirates of any description...
phf: i don't have enough experience with open ocean sailing, but the ocean is not as big as you think, as far as pirate avoidance is concerned, because of the currents. you have stable streams, that are essentially mandatory for long distance travel. piracy has been traditionally carried out at various locations where these currents terminate or switch. if you're primarily relying on wind (and there's only so much gas your little boat will carry), you will
asciilifeform: phf: i specced 'sub-50kusd machine in which one can live and NOT near scum', i dun care if boat, could be an orbital capsule if such existed.
phf: can presumably spec out the thing by noting all the instances of "omg, i definitely not don't need X that does Y what are you stupid" and building a constraint rules out of them
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: i dun need an iron thing built to last for 10y and eating $1000 diesel to move 10km, for anything
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: diva send the x61? I have someone waiting on me to deliver a masamune atop it
asciilifeform: i or he or even mircea_popescu can make moar..
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel_p can just use eg mod6 's dataset ? should be ~6gb i expect
gabriel_laddel_p: I'm happy to compute myself, but am having a hard time convincing ppl to buy me FG
gabriel_laddel_p: I was planning on selling FG using this, but have a lot on my plate
a111: Logged on 2017-05-24 22:52 asciilifeform: to revisit upstack : i'd still like to find this shangri-la, between britney-rubbish and FG, where actual money is to be made.
mircea_popescu: i suppose you could just put a huge rock on it, but then the horse'll die.
asciilifeform: i thought mass was enough..
mircea_popescu: was ~no aids in romania. but i have personally seen woman pulling man pushing plow.
asciilifeform: i'll point out that su built massive economic base , on the plunder of which the 'civilized' west ~ to this day ~ runs
asciilifeform: i dun see anything peculiar in the pics..
mircea_popescu: i'm just saying, leverage isn't this magical thing from the sky.
asciilifeform: i'd happily move to a planet with no pdiddy.
a111: Logged on 2015-02-21 01:19 mircea_popescu: "she's been going through 6-7k each month since autumn, but i get to go visit p diddy whenever i feel like it. it's a wash"
mircea_popescu: with you i don't always know what'sa obvious.
asciilifeform: ( and in fact i considered lafondlandia, even, and did go there, and haggle with realtors, chitchat with the criminally insane locals, etc. and concluded that it was just short of +ev )
asciilifeform: fwiw i'd like to solve what i see as the solvable problem, of minimizing living expense without having to live among scum
asciilifeform: if i were to pay 10x less rent, would have more than 10x the unwanted hyoomancontact.
mircea_popescu: mmm. i dunno. i mean in the sense condoms are three bux or w/e, break the "Student"'s budget
a111: Logged on 2017-05-24 16:45 asciilifeform: i suppose you can have weekly-fresh-cunts XOR only-ever-talking-to-people-who-are-people
mircea_popescu: anyway. i fully confess i am simply too lazy to grow cash crops on mars, prefer to just you know, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-24#1660854 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: "i don't want to die, i just want to go into a bottle."
asciilifeform: 100% physically closed cycle, motherfuckers, on mars, if i could!1111 ☟︎
asciilifeform: also i dunno re mircea_popescu , but machine does my laundry
phf: last time orlol's sail boat came up i linked some detailed plans by digital nomads for living houseboats. those were decidedly not built on kalash budget (mostly funded by alphabet companies, because choke full of electronics)
mircea_popescu: and i fully expect that as he drowns you'll find some other equivalent nonsense to fully expect will work.
phf: reading orlol i thought he already had a sailable device? why aren't there plans&details for what he already allegedly has
asciilifeform: i fully expect that he'll sail in it
mircea_popescu: hey, i got a pair of two dollar shoes to sell you also.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, you know what, giving your skill in formulating problems, i suspect orlov may have a solution justr for you.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-25 00:27 mircea_popescu: oh, yeah, and the whole "rent free" nonsense bit a huge girder once i pointed out to you what the proper solution for this boating bs is ; then it turned out the whole thing was more of an exercise in inverting naggum's matrices "to see if it could be done" than anything specific.
mircea_popescu: where do i buy it ?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-25 00:22 mircea_popescu: i need some roto'n culo to "invent" the houseboat for me like i need some indigent farmer to invent a new religion on the basis of "reading" tablets fallen from the sky.
phf: asciilifeform: the specifics of rent racket are different, but same principles apply to escaping modern rent racket in any kind of real sense, beyond "don't you hate paying rent??? what if i told you you don't have to pay rent ever again!1" snake oil
mircea_popescu: i suppose.
mircea_popescu: inexplicable, you know (never said maximillian) how i owe money to merchants for armies to defend/acquire the very fucking towns in which these merchants live. how is it that max owes fugger rather than fugger owing max ?!
mircea_popescu: oh, yeah, and the whole "rent free" nonsense bit a huge girder once i pointed out to you what the proper solution for this boating bs is ; then it turned out the whole thing was more of an exercise in inverting naggum's matrices "to see if it could be done" than anything specific. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i need some roto'n culo to "invent" the houseboat for me like i need some indigent farmer to invent a new religion on the basis of "reading" tablets fallen from the sky. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: but otherwise -- no further than last year i sat and drank on a "QUIDNON". it was large and well furnished, built specifically for being casino. sat, logically, ON RIVER, beause no waves. and so forth.
asciilifeform: technical problems admit technical solutions. but i suppose political problem ( mircea_popescu simply loathes the idea , Answer Lies In The Sewers - style, ohnoez folx with modest means living rent-free ) does not ..?
asciilifeform: it's poor-misanthrope tech and i'm for it, to the hilt.
asciilifeform: i disagree that the ugly boat is intrinsically bad idea
asciilifeform: to revisit upstack : i'd still like to find this shangri-la, between britney-rubbish and FG, where actual money is to be made. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i'm sure.
mircea_popescu: most of the time, it's a method of review of administrative activity that's not well served by equity redress (special court for that). i got say the ro immigrations obliged by court to issuye work permits etc.
asciilifeform: i do not unfortunately have this luxury.
mircea_popescu: mine did, all the way to when i dropped the shit altoghether.
asciilifeform: and i've mostly abandoned it
asciilifeform: Framedragger: i typically send these ~from~ a gmail
asciilifeform: aite, i'ma write.. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: this is kinda why you're stuck doing the writing -- you're the only one who can tell him from adam. i dun care. Framedragger is polite and everything, but that goes so far.
asciilifeform: so, maybe i'm doing-it-wrong
asciilifeform: not. one. of the folx i wrote to, answered usefully, to date.
asciilifeform: anyway iirc i described the basic scheme of this previously.
asciilifeform: previously i thought that you could not have an auditable single-crystal rng, but possibly this is not so : if you make it so that only co-incident (on 2 detectors) gamma is picked up, you can 'yoke'-audit 2 units by placing back to back around test source. ☟︎
asciilifeform: phf: i can see what you mean, but i dunno that the problem (if you can call it one) is addressable. thing ain't 'friendly' any moar than a claymore mine is friendly.
asciilifeform: i'd be barfing harder if i hadn't 'seen this exact movie before', with ye olde robot ☟︎
asciilifeform: so far it's pretty hilarious, i build a box that actually solves $problem, and not even close to 'megabestseller', all the meanwhile 'people' paying, supposedly, multi-$k for usg rng.
asciilifeform: i dun think i own a couplea million of anything, even shoestrings.
asciilifeform: i dunno that i personally could buy so much as doghouse. outside of perhaps namibia.
mircea_popescu: but yes, costa rica mostly "colonial" style. which i like, myself, but i can see the "if it ain't small streets and vienese palaces everywhere it ain't the old country". guess not.
asciilifeform: phf: funnily enough i dun have the infrastructure ~here~ either
phf: i take it for asciilifeform unbroken means exactly cr or certain parts of mexico or southern india even, but with existing infrastructure to support his electron microscope. having to build that infra himself is mp'ism and is unacceptable
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have 0 against ruins, or whatever abomination 'exists somewhere', but so far no buenosaires-like pics from mircea_popescu-in-cr
asciilifeform: so far i've found that ada -- does
mircea_popescu: i'm happy with cr so far.
asciilifeform: i'd still like to buy a ticket to nonbroken country somewhere
a111: Logged on 2017-05-24 21:12 asciilifeform: speaking of which, last i recall mircea_popescu was still trading secularbux for coinz, if you're willing to get on a plane
a111: Logged on 2017-05-24 21:06 ben_vulpes: goodness i tell you it is downright impossible to buy bitcoin stateside
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-24#1660977 << must need get out more. thouigh from what i hear they charge peons 10% by now. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm not terribly happy about the "congrats on completion of death march, here's the salary cuts figures."
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i gotta ask how you arrived at this impression
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: anyways, i get the distinct impression that you don't want to be particularly rich and see no obvious merit or advantage to wealth. so what else is there to say.
jurov: ben_vulpes: i do sell coins to muricans, via transferwise
asciilifeform: which is what happened , as i understand, to most of the 'believer' folx.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i dun have this excuse, i was aware of the thing almost from beginning
pete_dushenski: means you're in a irc channel and someone says 'i'll give anyone here 10k btc for pizza or 5000eth/btc' and you raise your hand or don't.
pete_dushenski: no one offered you (or me) coins at $0.10. i caught wind at $0.90 but was too young and naive to grok. thought btc was paypal alternative.
asciilifeform: lol if ben_vulpes is destitute, what am i
ben_vulpes: trinque: ah yes, i will have a million children and drain them all
asciilifeform: speaking of which, last i recall mircea_popescu was still trading secularbux for coinz, if you're willing to get on a plane ☟︎
danielpbarron: i always wait till the actual bitcoin is in a real block in my address before i initiate another buy
ben_vulpes: i thought asciilifeform was the one winking and nudging trinque
danielpbarron: coinbase still works last i checked earlier this year
asciilifeform: say, 'coinbase', 2y or so ago i bought some coin there ( to then lose on bbet... ) and it came out
asciilifeform: been ages since i tried to use one
ben_vulpes: nobody i know owns a single satoshi either, asciilifeform
ben_vulpes: goodness i tell you it is downright impossible to buy bitcoin stateside ☟︎
pete_dushenski: this is asciilifeform's problem with his understanding of blogs. 'i don't talk about traveling on my blog because that's not the theme' isn't how contravex works. i talk about whatever the fuck i'm interested in or thinking about or want to remember for later, regardless of whether or not the same 10 ppl are glued to their monitors adoring every word.
asciilifeform: i want my 3 minutes back.