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asciilifeform: supposedly! ( i dun work there , cannot confirm )
mircea_popescu: the ~only reason it resists* i mean.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i personally know two ... groups, let's say, that triedf the whole take over game. leaving aside the petty private satisfactions [of jailing the other trailer park trash they grew up with], economically it's been improductive.
asciilifeform: i suspect that the 'ju-jitsu' kit, 'club enemy with his own arm', 'sit on river side and wait for corpses to float by', has limitations; and for some things you probably need a physical castle. but then again i'm not in the mircea_popescuation business.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i could think of less useful myself, or of more useful also. but i can think of no ~useful~.
asciilifeform: if you want to hold territory, i could think of less useful one to hold.
ben_vulpes: and he asks why i don't burn down city hall.
mircea_popescu: though i've not seen the numbers.
mircea_popescu wouldn't take over eg romania if they paid. i can't imagine oregon or w/e is any better
asciilifeform: i dun see, still, how %-of-net can possibly be greater or equal to %-of-gross
mircea_popescu: yes, but you were discussing the thing in general, so i gave you specific example of exception.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes hey, i have various cos paying 3% of gross in ro. works great for high margin operations.
Framedragger: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re verify, presumably one may be able to set some parts of the firmware to be RO? problem is, not all parts, and even then, "how deeply do you trust". so yeah i guess sisyphean
asciilifeform: Framedragger, pete_dushenski : ftr i dun see the point of the 'partial fix'
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: you mean the completely unnecessary scene in the room? film is full of those. it's amazing i tell you
scriba: Logged on 2017-05-16: [05:15:35] <pete_dushenski> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656143 << lol i'm afraid i don't understand this 'fix' well enough to implement on disposable craptops that actually have intel me on them. let me know if you take the plunge :)
shinohai: I was already convinced that Roger Ver populates r/btc with markov bots. Can't even find anything to Qntra about there unless BU breaks, etc.
mircea_popescu: i've been watching it in 10 minute installments with half hour cussing breaks.
asciilifeform: 'I bought my first Bitcoins in 2013 and have been active on the Bitcointalk forum since March, 2014.... I’m concerned. I believe we urgently need to find a scaling solution, and I believe the best solution is to increase the blocksize.' << lol, betcha these come out of a perl script by nao
shinohai: I wouldn't be surprised if they actually found that entertaining.
mircea_popescu: i suppose if they ever manage to adapt the fingernail rfid for cattle usage, the cows'll be tweeting about how they're testing the barn app, and act like all serious about it, too.
shinohai: The Ether DNS seems to still be in exact same shape as I wrote about weeks ago: https://github.com/ethereum/ens-registrar-dapp/issues/128#issuecomment-301561198
hanbot: diana_coman i got myself up to date just to quote my last problem with the character in the logs, ha. thanks for asking, and i'll see to it this week for sure. meatland has been fairly crazy these past months, i'd love to have a software problem (she said naively).
mircea_popescu: lol, i'm trolling through hanbot's site to find where she got raped on eulora auction, end up with http://thewhet.net/2014/how-to-blame-others-and-entertain-people/
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i considered buying the peculiar auto for incabux, but then realized that i dun actually need one for anything
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: not saying you should depart with btc for $car, but i've yet to meet the seller who turned down, as you say, incadollars.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny for me to read all the nightmare stories of various ppl trying to airtravel, because i've had nothing but great experiences and well... sucks to be them i guess.
mircea_popescu: i totally would. the name of the game is disproportionate retribution. let your $100 seat savings cost you $10 mn in financing, why the hell not.
pete_dushenski: i dun think so. firebrand indian mp just has to helicopter or drive in car now. it's some fubar shit.
mircea_popescu: also, i don't expect the hotel makes any money from the deal. they're giving the rooms away free. etc.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, so india apparently sees a rider for the very first time, gets all excited ?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-16 06:59 danielpbarron: the damage from frostbite happens in the warming up. i've had it happen more than a few times where my feet would get cold and then i'd hop in the shower and get that "hit with hammers" sensation. also feels like bones are itchy.
mircea_popescu: i wasn't gonna say anything.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-16 05:23 pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655841 << why did btc4rx7 deal fall through ? /me offered previous owner of saddam 10btc. he declined because 'too volatile' and 'family to feed'. i didn't think he'd bite, but now there's at least one more schmuck who can't say he never had the olive branch extended to him. i guess that's something.
Framedragger: (i sorta enjoyed it, html version here; http://fd.mkj.lt/stuff/ponzico/ponzico.html)
danielpbarron: the damage from frostbite happens in the warming up. i've had it happen more than a few times where my feet would get cold and then i'd hop in the shower and get that "hit with hammers" sensation. also feels like bones are itchy. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Only disadvantage I am seeing here is that reconfiguring chainsaw to be chainsaw instead of bike mover takes time. Time that could be used to clear obstructions like hamplanets had one been simply traveling as a pedestrian with a chainsaw.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 16:13 asciilifeform: i almost bought a wankel car once
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655841 << why did btc4rx7 deal fall through ? /me offered previous owner of saddam 10btc. he declined because 'too volatile' and 'family to feed'. i didn't think he'd bite, but now there's at least one more schmuck who can't say he never had the olive branch extended to him. i guess that's something. ☝︎☟︎
lobbes: of course now I'm in the warm, sub-tropical southeast! Barely had a winter this year :D
lobbes: the 5 years I then spent in northern Ohio (where it'd get below 0 F often) were comparatively more bearable
lobbes: <mircea_popescu> snow is not so terrible because very insulating. << I can attest! I grew up on cape cod; while the winters never usually got below ~30 F on average, the occasional noreaster would punch you to the bone. cold rain + high winds = no fun
a111: Logged on 2017-05-15 13:25 Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-14#1626725 << actually i want to try this sometime, too, any chance you've already fiddled with it pete_dushenski? :D
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656143 << lol i'm afraid i don't understand this 'fix' well enough to implement on disposable craptops that actually have intel me on them. let me know if you take the plunge :) ☝︎
mod6: i suppose they should consider themselves lucky.
mod6: not a year goes by that I don't read about some person who got drunk, fell asleep on their porch mid-winter, and loses some digits due to frostbite.
mod6: by the time i took my skates gloves off... feet/hands really painful. i used to put them in very luke warm water to thaw them out.
mod6: probably some. i think i've had it quite a bit. not to the point of decay or amputation or anything. but there've been many times I remember playing hockey outdoors as a kid in 10 or 20 below f weather.
mod6: once, i was walking on a frozen lake. fell through some thin ice (~january-ish time), by the time i walked ~2.2km home, my pants were frozen and my legs were blue.
trinque: never jumped in the water, but I've hopped in a few snowbanks naked. it's a riot.
mod6: i think you did, ya.
mircea_popescu: fucking cape cod style winds, i was cold in my winter gear. they were the color of liver.
mircea_popescu: anyway, cold hardness is very much developed trait. i think i told the story of the pubescent girls at the black sea playing around in the freezing water like fucking sirens.
mod6: but shit, i figure, if they could do it, I could do it too. not that i look forward to that, but it's not impossible. hell, it might be downright necessary.
mod6: (i'm told)
mircea_popescu: keyword being "tries" i guess.
trinque: probably has its charm. I like when the environment tries to kill me.
trinque: ah ok, can't say I've been there.
mod6: heheh, i dig it mp.
mircea_popescu: o damn, i gotta pick that up again.
mod6: ya. i was just talking about this today, in fact. long story, but at the end, he fucked up, and how's he supposed to learn that he fucked up if no one slaps his dick and says "you fucked up, don't do it again" ?
trinque: I think people vastly overestimate this "the gendercommitter shall sue"
mod6: i mean, how is one to learn if one doesn't know he did incorrect action/whatevers?
trinque: I dunno; I worked for folks that had their own lawyers, when working in mines.
mod6: "I'm here because of the beatings I've taken."
mod6: i told some administrtion people at the mines recently something very much the same.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i find that the people putting in the work end up actually being the smarter among the many.
mod6: i've always wanted to do my best, or be as good as I can be at something that interested me. im not as smart or as clever as many, but I put in the work. i find that putting in the work pays dividends later.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> on the upside, really can't be fired anymore. << probably not. i don't worry about it. if one door closes, another opens. besides, someday not too far off, this will be the thing.
mod6: some of the topics reach far and wide. gotta stay on task. but always will try to pick up what I can, where I can.
mod6: altogether, i'm trying to stay focused on trb too. and learn these other topics as I go.
mod6: i've read through it ~twice. so far, it makes sense to me, but I need a more careful going-through. part of why I'm learning verilog.
mod6: I'm pretty sure that's the first time. But will do follow up analysis after 3rd run against this 5th FG>
mod6: speaking of which, i have new results to post.
mod6: do i follow if i store 10 on rising-edge for odd, and 01 at the same time for falling edge even?
asciilifeform: if i were drawing up such a thing, i'd even have the sram work in such a way that 10 is a 1 on odd clock cycles, 0 on even ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: but sadly i don't have one.
mircea_popescu: i imagine he's gonna use trinque's tree
asciilifeform: it boggles my mind that i gotta do this, rather than there being where to crib.
asciilifeform: as opposed to 'worked on the 1,001 cases i came up with'
mod6: ahh. ok. yah, i suppose it requires a bunch of on-paper - try it yourself until blue in face.
mod6: i hear ya.
shinohai: seriously? I haz removed oil filters w/ screwdriver but that's just ....
mircea_popescu: the more i read about this balsamiq guy, the more i like him.
Framedragger: yeah i need to read his short story collections in full, he tends to be better at short stories anyway
Framedragger: no yeah i'm quite terrible here
Framedragger: *i* got a reference to a nice piece by feynman. it was also mentioned on the forum logs. booyah!
Framedragger: the pulsar part i think would count as asciilifeformic diagram, maybe. but just that, and only just
Framedragger: but yeah, not much to it i guess
Framedragger: pulsars are more visible than latin, is what i meant
Framedragger: yeahyeah, circular notion, i know.
mircea_popescu: (tl;dr -- alien i ran into knew what latin is, they had it too. latin language universal invariant. hurr.)
Framedragger: *NOT completely hogwash, i meant, sorry
Framedragger: ah shit, i thought i forgot something. just need to reconstruct unicode from hydrogen atom first principles
ben_vulpes: i have seen this before, the continentals holding posts in usg bezzletrons, and i don't quite get how it makes sense. "we all went to hahvahd biz skool for credential washing to operate scammatronz", maybe?
mircea_popescu: o guess what! http://dijit.com/ is for sale. the domain i mean. in case anyone feels like filling in some forms. perhaps with balsamic.
mircea_popescu: "I have a man-crush on whoever built it. So freaking good. — Jeremy Toeman, President & Founder, Dijit Media" the cool thing is they link. ima now examine a whole pile of these.
mircea_popescu: i thought camhoes = anything goes \
mircea_popescu: i have nfi.
ben_vulpes: trinque: oh he hasta be serious, i'm making a joke.