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decimation: right underwater
the ride is great, but you need energy source
that doesn't depend on breathing air
decimation: so you get a
terrible ride unless you can be underwater for a long
time
ben_vulpes: decimation: aren't
they most stable subsurface
though?
decimation: the
thing
that sucks about submarines is
that when you are on
the surface
they are unstable
ben_vulpes: just because it makes sense
to mine high-density rare earths from
the seafloor doesn't mean any significant number of meatwads are going
to be living subsurface.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> so what if ben_vulpes has it his way and by say 2050 most people
that are people actually live in one ? << uh pardon?
ben_vulpes: whither
the mpex smarts? or is everything wackily correlated and when btc rockets
to 800 come march o'clock does doge briefly cross 50 satoshi again?
decimation: ben_vulpes:
that's when you hit
the buy button right?
ben_vulpes: winklevoss etf comes online, btc legs down
to 380 briefly, mpoe
trades at what - six again?
ben_vulpes: this implies
to me
that mpoe holders are dumping
to move
their coins
to usd like
typical momentum
traders
ben_vulpes: this made me many "friends" outside of school, and for a kid going
to a school whose entire HS complement numberd 190,
this mattered.
ben_vulpes: at some point during sophomore year i realized
that my bus passed a local public hs, so i stopped in at
the starbucks outside of campus,
timing my arrival
to be some days
thirty minutes before class got out and some days
thirty minutes after class got out (i had no rationale at
the
time, but it was a good call)
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ben_vulpes: OES being in deep southwest and my home being in
the near SE (bezzlar-ployees having
to live near
the mega fabs and my father not being one, we lived in
the cool part of
town:
http://bash.bitcoin-assets.com/?quote=218), i had much
time
to use for reading.
ben_vulpes: i attended a particular hs (OES, for
the lurkers), and rode
the bus home instead of driving as I got more reading
time out of
the experience.
mircea_popescu: well not done with
the logs and pinging ascii, but with
this skein
mircea_popescu: this is, in so many words,
the whole hope of humanity.
ben_vulpes: that's why i sniped
the best public school girls
throughout hs
ben_vulpes: i am indeed coming in on
the
tail of
this one -
to what specifically do you refer?
mircea_popescu: it is when everyone else is
taught
to get out of your way because you are better
than
them.
decimation: but
the context is set by prole
thinking
decimation: yeah, if you had brains generally better schools made provision for you
to escape
to
the 'nerd class'
mircea_popescu: so i guess in a sense
the observed difference readily reduces
to "well,
the us is a
true popular democracy :
they have no privileged highschool, everyone goes
to
the prole vocational crapolade"
mircea_popescu: this attitude was principally what distinguished
the privileged hs from
the prole "vocational" w/e.
mircea_popescu: i mean you could be cool other ways, but an inability
to ace something meant you, in so many words, sucked.
ben_vulpes: i learned at an early age
the correlation between grades and what one learned
decimation: because no one was going
to beat
them if
they failed basic pre-algebra
mircea_popescu: at
the
time in question, you literally could not go on a date if you sucked in school.
decimation: generally in
the us none of
the kids in "regular class" give a shit about grades, learning, etc, which creates a different social dynamic
mircea_popescu: this resulted in a very docile and obedient population.
they, for instance, always
took notes. we never did.
mircea_popescu: e common man - or woman - so
they'd not be embarassed if
teacher asked followups and b) was credibly something
they could come up with while still correct above a C lvl)
mircea_popescu: you know it's bizarre, because it didn't work
that way in romania of yore. we had a pretty sweet
tacit agreement where
the slower girls could copy for exams. generally
there was a boy-genius in charge for any subject (chemistry was HARD and a chick did it, but otherwise was boys) and
the guy in charge usually prepared a "for
the class" version of
the
test (something
that gave good marks but was a) comprehensible for
th
decimation: That seems pretty much
true in my experience
decimation: America
to enlighten and assimilate it."
decimation: Mr. Yarvin goes on: "If you are an American raising kids abroad and you want
to reintroduce
them
to your country, I highly recommend
this sort of shock-and-awe approach. Having
to deal with an American high school was not pleasant, but it gave me a certain respect for America: it exists. Once you go
to college, you are no longer in
the real America. You are in a fortified outpost of future America, which has been planted in
the real
decimation: yeah American high school is weird
that way, pretty much a mechanism for ascii's monkeys
to identify
the "useful" monkeys and begin
the beatings
mircea_popescu: decimation and less
tits.
the few (like,4 or so) actual participants at
the
things i ever
talk
too, all 4 mostly went
there for
the braless wonders in attendance. it was apparently
THE place
to meet chicks.
mircea_popescu: the interesting
thing with
those people however is
that
they speak and old, and for
this reason arguably more powerful version of romanian (still with
the very romanian "all other languages are just romanian badly pronounced") and
they're all fluent in russian. especially
the huy-russian part of russian.
mircea_popescu: planeta moldova being pretty much
the only claim
to cultural fame/intellectual achievement of
the imaginary country of "moldavia".
decimation: it is indoors, (b)
there is not quite as much fire, and (c)
there is less saluting, more screaming, and about
the same amount of chanting."
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mircea_popescu: suddenly
the coder kid discovers he can be a much better lawyer
than most judges specifically because he can read a cleaner version of
the
text
than people who learned it on
the "linguistics" path.
mircea_popescu: "just because you say goto 10 don't expect me
to care, nitwit"
mircea_popescu: at which point sudden immunity
to say salesmen develops.
mircea_popescu: then one readily progresses, about
the age of 16 or so,
to realise
that necessarily
the same is
true of
their own naitve language
mircea_popescu: pretty much
the only correct way
to learn english, if you ask me.
mircea_popescu: decimation it's a curse hiding a blessing : in learning english as
the pronounceable pigdin of computer symbols, one learns
to disrespect
the social conventions
the language carries otherwise.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: satisfying log. keep up
the good work. << i guess we're all labrats in kako's little lab experiment.
decimation: I guess
the default situation is
that if you can program a computer, you can learn english
too
decimation: I always wondered about non-English-speaking folk who had
to learn "Englishisms"
to program computers when I was younger
mircea_popescu: so yeah, i used
to include 10. Merge Merge instructions in basic programs.
mircea_popescu: the word merge was
there, which in romanian means "it works" (technically, "it goes") and is often a colloquialism "-merge ? -merge, merge" roughly works
to "how goes it ? " "okay I guess".
mircea_popescu: in
this spirit : my old z80 clone had an english "codeword" instruction set printed out right on
the kbd, as was fashionable at
the
time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and we always wondered what an 'EGGOG' was. << ahaha
that's so cute.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but for desktop machining - perfect. so long as you aren't in a hurry. << well no, see, electricity is still sold by
the watt. whether you're in a hurry or not, you still need same wattage, so still are beholden
to
the same (rather high) cost. so i suppose "so long as you're making something small enough for your fun doing it
to be worth
the 0.001 cent
to 1/4 dollar price
transition"
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: it's just a
trilema article written like shakespeare, no? << it's
the merchant of venice ye lout! :D
mircea_popescu: " you will need
to swap
the electrolyte a few
times, and clean
the cavity (at least with a nail) from
the products of electrolysis." from
the imgur in question.
this is not strictly
true : in some cases
the electrolyte products are protective, in some cases however
they are not. depends a lot what we're drilling. (this is roughly why rust is a problem for iron but not aluminum say.)
mircea_popescu: part of why
the wot is so fucking useful. "you're not a ceo until mp says you're a ceo" has, along with its excellent oppressive potential, some incredible value in practice.
mircea_popescu: the problem with letting people self identify instead of having
third parties identify
them is
that people will mis-selfidentify.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: with little-to-none attention
to principles <<
the reason would be
that chemistry is not a science. physics is
the science. if
the kids wanted
the principles
they'd go for physics. if
they didn't
that means
they don't wish
to understand
the
thing, but merely you know... be engineers :D
decimation: one rarely encounters such batteries in
the us
mircea_popescu: just strong enough
to rig it
to girl's bits productively, all sorts of surprising uses.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
http://imgur.com/AR8UVBW << quoted for
the battery. now
that EXACT battery, so exact
that a vague outline
thereof is
the most
that's needed and
the most a person of
taste and discrimination would ever draw, for fear of being you know, boringingly fastidious, is a 4.5 volt 3 cell mangan oxide battery
that was
the most important element of my childhood.
mircea_popescu: "the geese are not roused by
the germans, but by
the crows outside
the gate".
mircea_popescu: makes one feel better about onesefl if can at least claim bitcoin is like you know, "that
thing
that's bee going on forever at
the outskirts".
mircea_popescu: which is why i was
talking about "in ron paul
terms" yest.
mircea_popescu: moreover,
the actual loser in
the us, ie,
the actual us, is desperate
to attach
the current representation of
their eventual doom
to something
that's a perennial loser.
decimation: you have
to understand,
the "Libertarian party" in
the US is a perennial loser,
they are desperate
to attach
to anything
that smells of success.
mircea_popescu: for
this same reason a newtonian physics professor would rather entertain phlogiston
than string
theory.
mircea_popescu: "look how right we are, and how relevant
to
the future and general affairs as a going concern : even
this bitcoin
thing is about something we discuss."
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: I just don't get why
they
think it's all about some party << because if it's about something in
their system
then
that validates
the system in question.
mircea_popescu: the rough equivalent would be, peasant goes
to plow field, finds roman coin
trove, mounts
them in his nose, goes about
town like he's invented african
tribalism.
mircea_popescu: instead of
the more normal 1. learn french ; 2. read some fragments of rousseau at local library ; 3. proceed
to read
the 200 years' worth of discussion on rousseau
decimation: mircea_popescu: indeed,
these folks are slow on
the uptake, but it is amusing
to see reflections on
the edge of 'real media'
mircea_popescu: it's starting
to amze me,
the natural cargo-cult-ish inclination of most english space dwellers. it's a sort of, 1. learn french ; 2. read some fragments of rousseau at local library, by
themselves ; 3. start blog
to impart your discovery
that you call "the social deal"
to
the world.
decimation: yeah professionals are constantly monitoring
temperature, chemical
tests, adding various
trace elements
mircea_popescu: assbot:
Tech Visionary George Gilder: "Bitcoin is
the Libertarian Solution
to
the Money Enigma." - Reason.com << what is
this, "i've caught up
to 2011 let me
tell you what i have now discovered" ?
mircea_popescu: decimation:
to me
the obvious use for plastic
turd is
to make molds for metal pouring << metal pouring is a very iffy proposition
tho.
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell Bitcoin1011: Is he involved in other mobile apps in
the space for my reference? << no, he's
the resident
talent scout.