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asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: with simple tools, one can theoretically make everything (with possible exception of lead screws) for nicer set
ben_vulpes: no consideration of programming costs or tooling complexities or anything.
ben_vulpes: all the kids i did my m.e. studies with designed stuff with crazy tolerances and absurd geometries - "because the machine can do it"
mircea_popescu: pankkake: Perhaps using a name that looks "real" would work << you can prolly legally change your name to say Pan K. Kake
ben_vulpes: best part of building stuff with hand operated tooling is the hard requirement of simple geometric shapes and wide tolerances.
asciilifeform: in terms of cnc, only a small 2d laser
asciilifeform: boeing pilots don't typically own the boeing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey listen, most singers on mtv don't even own their equipment
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: but i like to think that i could earn my bread shaving metal one day, if it comes to this
TheNewDeal: just watch a youtube and keep your clothing clear, there's not much to basic machining
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i recently acquired a full set of jungle-grade machine tools, but am no more a machinist than were i to buy violin, would be violinist
mircea_popescu: shit that's 90% produced by a govt agency with a clear agenda, is taken as "science". what the holy shit.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> i thought vulpes was a blowupitem-ist << also blew some stuff up, also built some "rockets", also designed some components for rockets.
mircea_popescu: hol research is carried out in‐house. It funds approximately 90 percent of all such research in the United States and promotes reductions in the per capita consumption of alcohol. NIAAA also provides leadership in the national effort to reduce the severe and sometimes fatal consequences of these problems."
mircea_popescu: "The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), as part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. The NIAAA functions both as a funding agency that supports research by external research institutions and as a research institution itself, where alco
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> or was that vulpes << don't know that i ever achieved the kind of skills that an actual machinist can lay claim to, but i've operated the whole standard library in production settings.
shovel_boss: i dont see how my chan is different than this
shovel_boss: mircea_popescu, tell me why what i do is bad
mircea_popescu: shovel_boss so you do 4 a day for weeks each, this is no counter.
shovel_boss: some of them are weeks
shovel_boss: have you looked at the timeframe that that TA predicts?
mircea_popescu: !down TheNewDeal
shovel_boss: to keep track of it
shovel_boss: mircea_popescu, you do know i only post my TA there as a microvlog
mircea_popescu: shovel_boss none of these are cogent points you know.
shovel_boss: i listen to the comunity
dignork: shovel_boss | i go insider info on that one <<< mental note to myself, do not share any info
shovel_boss: mircea_popescu, unlike that guy i do it for free
mircea_popescu: said the guy on trial for giving chloral to some dude that died "i just do astrograms. i do them for anything, including your dog if you want. i never refused anyone."
shovel_boss: analytics is real, there are people actually getting paid to do this in the real world
shovel_boss: esspecialy if someone asks me in the chatroom
Apocalyptic: mircea, you're speaking to a wall
shovel_boss: im almost all the TA i do i mention what indicators i use
mircea_popescu: that's also besides the point.
shovel_boss: i rarely reject to do a TA
mircea_popescu: so it's not that "you do ta".
shovel_boss: i go insider info on that one
mircea_popescu: this is besides the point.
shovel_boss: mircea_popescu, look at the volume
shovel_boss: i do TA for free and its mediocre
shovel_boss: i dont buy the coins i do TA on
Apocalyptic: <TheNewDeal> he has moved beyond ass & tities // he's now pumping some scamcoins yeah
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Apocalyptic: heh, from the guy who posts <shovel_boss> [09:13:29] https://twitter.com/shovel_boss/status/504525210222358529
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TheNewDeal: he has moved beyond ass & tities
shovel_boss: with the !up
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: I was a TA at a pharmacy school for 2 years. Pretty sure anticonvulsants are they way to go, but they vary so much from person to person. << no, he has a point. a woman is ideal but fail that a dog works.
shovel_boss: just want to say
BingoBoingo: Seems Heartbleed gave OpenBSD the full paranoia as well
asciilifeform: i suppose not everyone could afford the 'chicago typewriter'
chetty: now they just shoot
mircea_popescu: "On June 22, 1918, four people were arrested and over one hundred waiters taken into custody over the apparent widespread practice of poisoning by waiters in Chicago."
TheNewDeal: the only ones which exist right now, not considering the August
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TheNewDeal: could even link to them
mircea_popescu: which are those ?
mircea_popescu: well for one thing it's open ended.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: vysotsky << https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35NOsBxTpDs >> about the fellow who did own appendix
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TheNewDeal: ;;ud twink
mircea_popescu: ask him if he's turning twink nao.
TheNewDeal: brother put cocoa in the coffee. is this a thing?
asciilifeform: afaik he died of a typical od - took customary dose of opium after quitting for a spell
asciilifeform more or less buys the traditional version
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's your take on the guy's death btw ?
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mircea_popescu: (it's featured prominently in glengarry glen ross of all places - that's why that entire scene with the mark trying to get his mortgage cleared and when the check was cashed etc)
mircea_popescu: rescission is, as far as memory serves, the result of a us law, and works out to the right for backsies on mortgages for 3 days after signing.
mircea_popescu: wasn't this thing candian ?
mircea_popescu: i thought vulpes was a blowupitem-ist
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: aren't you also a machinist? << believe that was vulpes
mircea_popescu: where is the meanie guy.
nubbins`: or, well, that's what they say, at least. although if i call a steak a lobster...
mircea_popescu: There are those of use who find dumbed down, simplified and rigid interfaces extremely irritating and annoying and have zero use for Facebook."
mircea_popescu: "I hope you do not drive away your existing tech-saavy users, like those of us who signed up back in the fall of 2011, with a dumbed down, simplified and rigid user experience a la Facebook.
asciilifeform: or was that vulpes
nubbins`: srsly, if you accept the buyout, ithey retroactively declare you were never a shareholder
mircea_popescu: ALL THIS TIME!
nubbins`: trying to buy back everyone's "shares" while they scramble to pretend they've been a legitimate company this whole time
mircea_popescu: nubbins` what'd they do this time ?
mircea_popescu: and this even if we don't go all b-a and consider a hire only something that comes with stock options.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no, actually, it wouldn't. << Surprisingly true
asciilifeform: true, they'll get a starving chemist etc
assbot: Official CaVirtex.com Thread
mircea_popescu: who the fuck would hire a librarian.
mircea_popescu: well let's try and be reasonable, for like the first time this year here ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform according to himself in the log, any ?
BingoBoingo: Eh make enough to escape. Have a second career as a party herder.
mircea_popescu: you gotta stop hussling poor innocent ppls tho. ragnar fellow is an actual recruiter, wtf do you want to do as a librarian.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> jailbird can dream, cannit ? << This
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Know any corporations that need Librarians? <<< ahahha this made my lol
mircea_popescu: poor soviets had it a lot harder, they had to walk to finland. it's fucking cold in finland.
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: think you need a passpuerto first << you can probably simply walk into mexico. you can definitely cross the border to guatemala on foot. once in guatemala, you can hit the local consulate for a temp passport and that's that.
assbot: Aaron Toponce (AaronToponce) auf Twitter
mircea_popescu: this is what ppls gotta do to earn their bread.
mircea_popescu: . Staff are expected to interact with every single customer and make it a fun night no matter the size of the group, bad weather, bars closing at the last minute, long walks, drunken behavior, etc. << srsly. this is where the level is, irl, in this world.