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asciilifeform: turns out his profession was - police dog trainer & handler.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony they don't let you take it OUT ?!
benkay: well hey finance god tier eh?
fluffypony: punkman: at the airport on the way out
HeySteve: hmm biltong for bitcoin, could be the next silk road
mircea_popescu: you recall, i'm the gadfly. i said the boboo about coders too, like finance people, heresies pile one.
fluffypony: punkman: I can try, the sniffer dogs are pretty hardcore with that
benkay: DreadKnight: don't make me google for you too
benkay: <mircea_popescu> i suspek you're just trying an underhanded approach to introduce the supremacy of engineers over theoretical physicitsts :D // this needs introduction?
punkman: fluffypony: next time you come to eu, smuggle some bilton for me
punkman: jerky is so much better than bacon
mircea_popescu: (amusingly, maddox was harping about beef jerky before teh mainstream picked it up as bacon)
mircea_popescu: that's how bacon got to be the cancerous forced meme it is.
mircea_popescu: they keep doing this thing.
benkay: if these people inhabited a space i would commission nukes and glass them
benkay: <DreadKnight> in dogecoin channel people got hyped about "bacoin" recently and wanted to make it only to find out someone tried that almost an year ago xD
assbot: Literara este grea pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: benkay that sounded like the sweet singer of michigan if she were emo and trying to fit in with the hip crowd.
mircea_popescu: http://devilsadvocate.biz/strange-negotiations/ << im starting to like tat's blogging.
benkay: if your coke has lumps either someone on you has dumped or you yourself is trying to bump
DreadKnight: I'm starting to not get mad about religious people anymore and actually get a laugh or two, finally
mircea_popescu: don't get the cocaine and the dumps all bumped up together now
DreadKnight: every time I hear that book title it really craps me up :D
mircea_popescu: but anyway : i can't get to the letter, because i can't read the "official oppinions" of accountants who wrote a book called redeeming christ.
mircea_popescu: i try to compensate by being a quite public asshole about it, tho. should work.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the problem with me is that my reader is configured to quickly drop. which will probably warrant the neverending hatred of the asciilifeforms of the future on account of me having skipped who knows what valuable item of some valuable fellow on the grounds that that fellow wasn't either mentally organised enough for my taste or maybe not versed in teh variety speak or who knows.
DreadKnight: drugs are the easiest to get in prisons, most can OD there anytime at will
mircea_popescu: you see, the direct is "christ the redeemer", so wuldn't it be all edgy and creative to reverse it ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, he's trying to be clever, in the manner of an accountant
fluffypony: that's the Sean King thing? I quite enjoyed his letter, though, I thought he put things in a way that was nicely digestible to the non-technical types
benkay: * asciilifeform wonders if any american state has tried bumping off convicts with cocaine // i appreciated this pun
DreadKnight: I was thinking about it as well xD
asciilifeform: redeeming christ << like those aluminum cans one can redeem at recycler plant for five cents ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves where do you find them!
mircea_popescu: READ MY BOOK: "REDEEMING CHRIST" I've decided to serialize and publish on this blog a book that I've been working on for some time
mircea_popescu: "Here Are My Official Comments on the" dude who the fuck is this guy lol. someone made counterfeit comments on his behalf ?
DreadKnight: haven't seen the star trek with female captain yet though
DreadKnight: forgot the term, native african? hmm
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, haha, "afro american" or something; star trek maintained a bit of diversity to seem non racist
mircea_popescu: buncha racists in this chan.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight i didn't notice his skin tone.
asciilifeform: decimation: total cost of all the widgets ~= 1k usd, and that was ages ago
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, oh, La Forge, the black guy with visor
decimation: asciilifeform yeah I think that's the most economic way to get a big screen
mircea_popescu: benkay i am a calophile. that's one who takes great enjoyment in callousness.
benkay: most dick-havers aren't people to be fair
asciilifeform: decimation: if you buy a gizmo like this, get the roll screen, walls aren't nearly as reflective.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking of people, not women.
benkay: not even the reamed girls?
mircea_popescu: hetero scum don't gain the ability to relax their bunghole quite to the degree.
mircea_popescu: benkay ud helpfully neglects to mention it's a gay problem.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight that engineer guy.
mircea_popescu: chetty: II 5. France took Algeria, hoping for a country to eat cassoulet and instead France is now eating couscous. << this is what happens when small penis messes with big penis. ☟︎
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shart | shart. a small, unintended defecation that occurs when one relaxes the anal sphincter to fart (blend of "shit" and "fart"). I sharted at the party last night and
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, which guy from star trek, the borg? xD
decimation: on an old-school tripod stand?
decimation: do you use a screen on the wall or painted white wall?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform da fuck did you do, behead that guy from startrek ?
mircea_popescu: cause to make it look like the cinema screen
asciilifeform has been using this: http://imgur.com/9NX7eaX as a tv for some years. works great.
decimation: also I wonder when someone decided that displays cannot come in 4:3 aspect ratio anymore
mircea_popescu: decimation in fairness, cathode was a well mature tech. lcd is adolescent.
decimation: I miss my trinitron with its shadow-bars; the LCDs that replaced it just don't have the same dynamic range
mircea_popescu: yest took girl to be nude among hundreds of people for the first time in her life,
asciilifeform: today we learned that mircea_popescu still owns an electron-smashing tv set...
DreadKnight: all them poor women, not having clothes xD
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa if you're still looking btw, there's http://mpex.ws/faq.html#11
decimation: I guess I'm using "our" for "our time", in as much as anyone can 'own' an epoch
mircea_popescu: and they're probably being reasonable men and women, doing finance and real estate.
mircea_popescu: decimation you know they're not our.
mircea_popescu: sounds reasonable. any aspiring writers wanna make this into an optionable script ? :D
decimation: if we don't have a maxwell today, where are our faradays and hertzs and lorentzs and heavisides?
mircea_popescu: was this in ireland ?
asciilifeform: al's hypothesis - the matter entered the jurisdiction of PLA.
asciilifeform: a few months later, they stopped answering phone. the postdocs who handled the run - desaparecido.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in 2010 i concocted a variant of the test that could be carried out for approx. 50k USD, from scratch. schwartz answered that, in his estimation, the test would work to spec, but results would not be accepted by the field unless carried out on one of the two existing eotvos balances. one - adelberger's, one - chicom. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: (short version: adelberger tested all variants of crud, including left- and right-handed machine screws (!) and gleefully pronounced - no parity violation. refused under any pretext to test schwartz and petitjean's 'chiralane' molecule.)
mircea_popescu: how much do two weeks on such a rotor even cost ?
DreadKnight: even the PC was close to being dismissed as crap because of lack of vision from the business man taking a look at it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah i recall that.
DreadKnight: it's all business and some luck; a lot of cool stuff is kept hidden just because it's not for the average joe
DreadKnight: a lot of inventions are promoted thanks to their monetization potential, so if there's demand and it sells, it's a good invention
asciilifeform recently tried to check on herr schwartz - he isn't answering. possibly he went 'full perelman' mode.
asciilifeform was acquainted with one such '1%' - al schwartz. who has an eminently testable hypothesis re: parity violation, and spent a decade (& counting) trying to score 2 weeks on an eotvos rotor balance. while the charlatans build their $b colliders.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight nasa just got cut off the pipe, actually.
mircea_popescu: 99% of students of physics in 1905 believed it's a resolved problem, too.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform listen, what 99% of a class believes about the field is uninteresting by the definition of the 99%.
asciilifeform: the harm of the mega-machines is not the wasted money, but that nearly every student of physics now believes that the field is inescapably 'about' the machines
DreadKnight: things are getting exponentially harder, it's like the needle in the haystack
mircea_popescu: so then who cares they get to build machines lol.
mircea_popescu: wait, your theory is that the 5-6bn spent to build the lhc could have been better employed building what alternative item ?
asciilifeform: 100 yrs from now - no one. but they're the ones who get to build machines.
mircea_popescu: i thot we were discussing teh science not teh politics.
mircea_popescu: who cares about them ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not everyone. just the grant-eaters.
mircea_popescu: you don't judge physics by what highschool teachers say about it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what i don't know is that ~everyone~ is pushing it.
asciilifeform: DreadKnight: his intellectual milieu is more crippling than his paralysis
DreadKnight: asciilifeform, steven hawkings might be smart, but he's stuck in a wheel chair, so not much for him to do besides brainstorm :P
midnightmagic: not to say I disagree with anything you guys are saying fundamentally of course