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decimation: too much variance in
the dispensed amount?
mircea_popescu: "If
this ASIC mambo jumbo goes forward
then I
think BTC is as "good" as PayPal or
the Bank of England." (forum communitard, 2012).
assbot: Mircea Popescu offers a short of Etherium coins up
to 1 KiloBTC's worth at 5000 per BTC deliverable in 2015 : CryptoCurrency
decimation: I guess if you do a batch at a
time you use it up
decimation: asciilifeform don't you need
to refigerate solder paste?
decimation: lithium & warfarin are famous for narrow
theraputic index
BingoBoingo: Seriously
though, calling
these
things competing in
the
tractor pull "tractors" is an insult
to
the idea of useful machinery.
BingoBoingo: But, on
the plus side interactions with other drugs are minimal
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
Therapeutic envelope is indeed very narrow. 0.4
to 1.2,
toxic depending on
the patient starts at 0.8
to 1.4
decimation: asciilifeform were you
tired of breathing laser-combustion byproducts?
mthreat: appears
to be from sexy saffron
BingoBoingo: I wonder if ethereum ethers will suffer from
the problem classical ether does where explosive peroxide crystals form.
mircea_popescu: i happen
to be party
to
the first and oldest actually executed short, incidentally. you ever saw it ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But
then
the aliens burn in hell for coming from
the wrong earth
mircea_popescu: the aliens might land five minutes later and declare
that anyone can have super hot alien blowjobs for a eth each
mircea_popescu: if you buy a future and
the
thing fails
there's many ways
to put it, but
they all boil down
to "you're screwed".
mircea_popescu: in any case, one generally buys a future if
they expect
the
thing
to work well, not
to fail.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier amusingly, in
that case
the contract'd be void.
mike_c: "i'm
too drunk
to list irish problems"
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: What happens if by next March 15th,
the Ethereum network isn't sufficiently functional for you
to be able
to deliver Ethers
to
the people who
take you up on your offer?
mike_c: wait, was
that a meta-insult?
nubbins`: it's everyone
they hire
to do shit for
them
that
they used
to have
to do
themselves
mircea_popescu: canada hasn't had a good musician since cohen visited and
the us...
mircea_popescu: im not sure if shitty contemporary bands should be given 10k in grants
to derp quietly in a corner at
their craft or just be medicated worth 10k for possesion.
nubbins`: i mean, really, it's not
the band
that gets
the $10k
mike_c: hey, it's better
than how our gov't spends its money..
mircea_popescu: mike_c stop opposing progress and an end
to oppression.
nubbins`: mike_c, our benevolent overlords see it fit
that we should be entertained with fresh music
mike_c: not so free for
the people
they
took it from
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I've had classmates with "farm money"
talk
their parents into covering
their Film School, Mary Jane prescription, and subsequent X-mas DUI's. Weirder
things happen in fiat land.
nubbins`: and nobody wants
to get blacklisted, 'cause ain't nobody but
the government giving out free money
nubbins`: that's
the
thing about grants, you get blacklisted if you don't produce (a) your work and (b) your receipts
BingoBoingo: nubbins`:
The 2k minimum is
to avoid
the situation where
they buy exactly
the number of cd's
they have friends
to pester and need pod cd's
twice a month for a decade.
nubbins`: it was
their
third album, first one paid for by someone else
mircea_popescu: nubbins` wow socialist utopia. was
the album actually made ?
nubbins`: one of our regular customers was awarded a $10k grant last year
to record an album
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
those kids go for mbas, new cars and bumps off
teenage asscracks.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well I figured I'd
throw a quote out
there just in case some "band" has parents with more coin
than sense
nubbins`: maybe i'll just stick
to printing
mircea_popescu: nubbins` anyway,
the only way
to do
this is, make
the whole studio, force-sign
the bands, work
them like slaves.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu you forget,
this is canada
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
there exist no indie bands which can afford a 10 btc expenditure on life saving surgery
nubbins`: BingoBoingo i don't
think many bands here would be into a 2k minimum ;(
BingoBoingo: Nubbins 2k cd minimum order I could set up cd production with artisinal hand labeling ~ 8.7 BTC and handle
the remaining on a print on demand basis. 6 week
turn around for
the first batch.
mircea_popescu: the last existing
top hat factory was destroyed in a family dispute coupla decades ago
nubbins`: name an a-list band,
their vinyl is pressed
there
nubbins`: supposed
to be a one-of-a-kind setup
nubbins`: they do direct-to-metal digital masters with
this crazy machine
nubbins`: almost every vinyl pressing house in canada outsources
to
this one factory in czech
mircea_popescu: nubbins` but srsly, if you can get a vynil press you can sell
to all
the hippies
mircea_popescu: nubbins`
this is like, groupthink. no fresh perspectives allowed here.
nubbins`: i'd say at
this point, more stuff is being released on cassette here
than cd
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: How many Cd's do
they need duped?
nubbins`: just looking for a fresh perspective, glad
to see we're all in agreement 8)
nubbins`: you can also get dupe
towers, with one master drive and say 5 burners
kakobrekla: at
this point - might be more $
to be in
the floppy biz.
nubbins`: it's hard
to say because a lot of bands are doing vinyl or download cards
these days instead of cds. ballpark guess, might get 1000 cds duped over
the next year
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla's idea goes a long way
towards
that. "3k, cause
they're prepaid"
nubbins`: just happened
to be making some cd cases for a band and
they wanted discs printed, idly wondering if we'd want
to duplicate em
too
nubbins`: which means 3k cds duplicated before i can stop worrying about breaking
the
thing
nubbins`: realistically could charge about 50 cents for
the duplication of one cd
BingoBoingo: TLP's rum fountain analogy in
those articles is probably
the best popular science writing
this century so far.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well,
The Last Psychiatrist had all of
those wonderfully illustrative Seroquel articles about complexity in
the right places, but...
Tis off pattent nao
BingoBoingo: Come on,
there's nothing more complex
than
the cascade of mystery meat
that happens when lithium displaces sodium in
the gap and raises action potential
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo seeing how well
the current stuff works,
they can just patent borax glass and give
that
to people.
BingoBoingo finds it interesting
that in a few years on patent Atypical Antipsychotics will dry up, and
the next pivot isn't apparent on
the horizon yet.
mircea_popescu: psychoactive lithium is not complex enough. progress is complexity,
to oppose complexification is
to be antisocial and
terrorist.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo stop opposing research and job creating funding in research and SCIENCE and global warming. << I'm fighting marketing. Just because pharma doesn't want
to compete with
Tesla's 1337 battery factory doesn't mean
that
there are better uses for
those salts
than motor carriages and iBortions.
mircea_popescu: we're
trying
to build a great future here and you gotta
throw simple element wrenches into
the windows
BingoBoingo: dub>
they give lithium in cases of extreme psychosis << Also
they don't really give lithium much for psychosis anymore which is a shame considering how well it works...
BingoBoingo: dub: Not just
then, low dose lithium can work well for a person when
their brain is just running a little hot.
kakobrekla: Mataruška Banja? Havent been but need
to check it out sometime.
midnightmagic: "what
the fuck is wrong with me" *sluggish zombie-movement*
midnightmagic: i didn't know until afterwards
that
the water was contaminated.
they sell it as a health spa.
dub: is
that good for you?
midnightmagic: it's horrible literally being unable
to move faster
than a walk after sitting in
those waters
too long
midnightmagic: There's a spot near me where
the hotsprngs have naturally-occurring lithium in
them.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla
there's one in romania and i
think somewhere in serbia ? or maybe it was albania