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mircea_popescu: but i do occasionally buy at list price, for small occasionals like say when going out to a restaurant. i could have the slavegirls replicate anything on the menu, and it would come out even better half the time, but unless i care it's not worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: i dun has a wife ;/
mircea_popescu: seems to go against the most basic logic -- if the asset is worth more than its list in your hands, why should i take over management ? clearly you know what you';re doing and should keep doing it.
mircea_popescu: i guess i've been doing it wrong all these years ?!
phf: i will probably get this wrong, but as far as i understand, here houses are sold any arbitrary number above list, and it's whatever seller can get away with ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, there's a price higher than list ?
phf: i moved into a new place closer to the lizards, had a funny exchange in the lobby. this lady "got lucky" and "bought a house at list price" because apparently "everyone's scared because of the upcoming impeachment". ☟︎
phf: i think the word chip is ruined for marketing purposes by clipper ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long until they market the democrachip.
mircea_popescu: oh I SEE HOW IT IS
asciilifeform: whereas i finally have a quadracode reader. courtesy of an ex-ratshack's cash register.
mircea_popescu: i dunno but sounds like they might've vaporised something in that wc.
ben_vulpes: i will be SURE to listen VERY CLOSELY the next time a portlander has something to say about environmental justice and global warming.
ben_vulpes: and i didn't even need to bring any tools! or wire to extend the chain!
ben_vulpes: LOSING MY PATIENCE with the NOISE WHEN I GO TO PISS
mod6: i gotta catch up with latest sa
ben_vulpes: tangentially, i luled at "horned"
ben_vulpes: i understand "reach the market" mircea_popescu
ben_vulpes: i am talking business
ben_vulpes: i still don't buy this imperial unit drug trade thing, but never having seen either metric or us tonne of any kind of product, will have to defer to those claiming knowledge
asciilifeform: i thought it was supposed to be 'radio shack' business model, which sell penny resistors for $2 ea.
mircea_popescu: ~all comes back to the eternal "i'm a dog that thinks on the internet nobody can tell i'm a dog."
mircea_popescu: ima call you engineers like i mean it.
asciilifeform: i thought it was supposed to be a whole kg
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 22:32 asciilifeform: 'one time we got lost in the woods, and i was afraid that i would have to eat Tippy. then we were rescued, and i put Tippy back into the fridge, next to the other sandwiches.'
asciilifeform: i was abouttosay
mircea_popescu: it's almost like i might suspect it was sold by fed coke repository and bought by fed coke repository.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what became of schmuck who bought the silk road pound of coke.
asciilifeform: recall, i was handed one as prize
mircea_popescu: o really ? wow. i am so shocked.
ben_vulpes: i wonder if my old ship still works on their network
asciilifeform: whereas in anglotardistan, we have : http://aperiodical.com/2016/03/i-bought-isthisprime-com
asciilifeform: that one was to be found at, e.g., 'comp usa' ( i sometimes went there, marveled )
ben_vulpes: i was raised under the glorious unified apple toolchain
ben_vulpes: no i don't actually remember any of these marvels
mircea_popescu: i bought stuff in such!
mircea_popescu: pretty sure i took girl through walk among erlenmeyer glasses etc.
asciilifeform: i suspect that in not too long, ratshack will be remembered the way the folx who sold, openly and for cash on barrel, chemical glassware are remembered - which is to say not at all, 'you gotta be shitting me, there were never'
asciilifeform: it was a sort of canary - dying co. since 1990s, propped up by hell-knows-what, 'brand value', 'must maintain business-as-usual', i have nfi
asciilifeform: not only this: the very same ratshack actually died once (i went to the same liquidation sales, bought the furniture, etc) and then somehow came BACK from the grave, (no prizes for guessing how -- printolade) undead, to live for another 3y ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't mind chasing some usians around a little from a truck before finally shooting to maim and leaving them for dead.
asciilifeform: i went in, everything incl. furniture is for sale
mircea_popescu: i hope it shall be a lesson for all of us!
a111: Logged on 2016-08-19 15:26 asciilifeform: (interest in the subj is slim, on account of miller-rabin probabilistic test provably converging - i.e. probability of catastrophic failure can be made smaller than probability of machine flattened by asteroid the same night)
asciilifeform: for instance, i am no longer sure about http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-19#1525264 . ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i try to have a little for everyone!
asciilifeform: i can still observe sharpened stick and guess, likely correctly, that it was made so as to go into flesh; vs different stick, that - again correctly - i will say broke off a tree, by the wind.
mircea_popescu: leaving the aesthetics aside for a minute to focus on the technical -- i imagine these are testers, ie, "whether it works". no links.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what can i tell you ben_vulpes , i'm a writer not an engineer. i don't know so much about engines, just seemed to me like the right number. why, is it wrong ? << This actually might be most right
mircea_popescu: i did not strip, hence the lulz.
mircea_popescu: no i know. i find them amusing.
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2012/o-hai-i-was-justing-doing-a-penetration-test-of-your-site/#comment-122056 << ftr these are bots
mircea_popescu: what can i tell you ben_vulpes , i'm a writer not an engineer. i don't know so much about engines, just seemed to me like the right number. why, is it wrong ?
mircea_popescu: (notice how this cycle goes ? i recall a 1990s large font craze also.)
mircea_popescu: i'm sure they didn't even have proper large text.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc i translated that one here
asciilifeform: ( phunphakt : putin recently proclaimed another $maxint grantolade tranche for 'proper clean ru os and iron' . i dare to predict that it will evaporate without a trace just like the last N times . )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i still can't fucking believe the ivan ivanov thing.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 14:50 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657315 << there's very little interest to even ask who the fuck this peter norvig is. i was going to the first time it popped up five lines up, but then i was, eh, whatever. i guess ima ask since it got discussed a little. who the fuck is peter norvig ?
ben_vulpes: 'saas' thing that...does user related stuff? i have no idea.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure it's good and i should be using it.
ben_vulpes: i only have the vaguest idea from #saltminesocial
mircea_popescu: i'd ask what firebase is but by now it's getting ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure he cares.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657331 << oh, and speaking of this, i wonder why i want someone in wot to do isp etc. I WONDER! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657329 << no you don't understand, they have really cool offices! google guy was one day walking down the mall to pick up an office, was really fascinated by mcdonalds kid section, said HELLO SIR I WANT HIRE OFFICE HERE PLEASE. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 13:53 phf: i doubt there's going to be one, the talk was made at lispnyc, but is otherwise very thin on lisp. ("LISP had exploratory programming, and we need exploratory programming, therefore, you lispers, go and ugh do things!1") i doubt there's any interest to transcribe it.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657315 << there's very little interest to even ask who the fuck this peter norvig is. i was going to the first time it popped up five lines up, but then i was, eh, whatever. i guess ima ask since it got discussed a little. who the fuck is peter norvig ? ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 13:43 phf: i guess that's aligned with the "we moved from SICP to python, because programming is no longer about writing code, but discovering libraries" that's periodically discussed in logs
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657309 << "i fucking love science" aka "there's so much out there to discover" aka "paradise is moving through space in your livingroom with the big tv and tables everywhere". ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 13:37 diana_coman: I saw this thing in action; and brighter kids effectively perking up when they finally find someone sane to laugh at such idiocy, call it by its name and actually help them understand something; in eternal words "it actually MAKES SENSE now!!"
mircea_popescu: or, for that matter the lulzy story of how us "coalition" works out in practice. "gee, i wonder what happens if we have no soldiers and keep paying arabs to soldier for us...."
phf: i doubt there's going to be one, the talk was made at lispnyc, but is otherwise very thin on lisp. ("LISP had exploratory programming, and we need exploratory programming, therefore, you lispers, go and ugh do things!1") i doubt there's any interest to transcribe it. ☟︎
diana_coman: ugh, I can't seem to find a transcript of the thing
phf: ...where he made a point that "computer science" has become an empirical science, done through experimentation, and "look it up on stack overflow" is part of the process. i thought he was joking
phf: i saw a rambling talk by peter norvig (he called it "as we may program", considering the complete lack of substance that's as bombastic reference as it gets)
phf: i guess that's aligned with the "we moved from SICP to python, because programming is no longer about writing code, but discovering libraries" that's periodically discussed in logs ☟︎☟︎
diana_coman: I saw this thing in action; and brighter kids effectively perking up when they finally find someone sane to laugh at such idiocy, call it by its name and actually help them understand something; in eternal words "it actually MAKES SENSE now!!" ☟︎
phf: i somehow thought that stack overflow programming was a non-reflective activity, sort of like "hello sir madam, howdo i write network program in java??" comments on popular "epoll vs. kqueue performance analysis" posts back in the day
BingoBoingo: http://i.magaimg.net/img/jjw.png
mircea_popescu: i thought you just keep uncapped barrel of oil around, dip chainsaw in now and again.
asciilifeform: lol BingoBoingo , mine had no oiler, i had to take it to pieces half dozen times and put molybdenum in
trinque: they sell the oil I take it?
BingoBoingo: In other news I think I accidently acquired alf's pole saw from hell
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually it was infuriating, i only needed that 1 pg !
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform books rule, totally, i see it.
ben_vulpes: the "could i" construction indicates a particular breed of poverty-stricken subject of her "majesty"
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, 'finite precision number systems and arithmetic' (kornerup & matula, cambridge press) is mega-b00k, the only one i've found on subj that is NOT a mere plagiarism of knuth, has useful algos for e.g. carry-free ops, hardwarizations ☟︎
ben_vulpes: yes well, i'm not going to grep through my personal logs to find out if a fleanode name'd been used before
ben_vulpes: the genuinely naive with two brain cells to rub together mighta at least asked "what dat" "how do i register" etc
mircea_popescu: no way to wash this, and i will prosecute them. all, the same scum.
mircea_popescu: oh i see.
ua: i was just reading and stuff
ua: also i could deliver them in person in like east germany
ua: there are post leasing from poland, 175 euro apiece, 50 euro cheaper than i saw on ebay.de
ua: I have 20x Dell SC1435 available, these are 2x quad 2.2 Opteron 2374HE 16GB RAM 80GB HDD
mircea_popescu: anyway. the reason i point out burma is because the coup was successful, and the country is industrializing at chinese pace.
mircea_popescu: at one point. at one point i lived off tit milk.
asciilifeform: at this point i'd doubt that they make anything at all in north kr. it is on deathbed.
mircea_popescu: i'm telling you. ~same.