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mircea_popescu: <@fenn> just dumping this rare element overboard for no reason other than we don't feel like keeping it anymore << speaking of He, it's pretty much the only material in which usg has a monopoly. china and to some degree russia own the rare earths/heavy metals, but teh u7s got teh heliumz.
mircea_popescu: "If you are using city water, filter it. If you are using a closed circuit flow system, check the water and change it every six weeks or so, or drop a few drops of Algaecide in the recirculator. Better yet, use diluted Dow Frost. << howling shits, who uses anything but prop glycol for this ?! srsly, water ? you spring 20 bux for your car, but want the laser free ?
mircea_popescu: what was it, hate facts, negative science, and other things that ruined the clinton dream.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why the pantsuit actually thouight clinton is a star or at least star material.
mircea_popescu: "Weclome to the conference. I am the local WMD coordinator for the SF division. I've been working with the biocurious folks in SV. Welcome to SF, you guys have a great time, the weather is fantastic." in other lulz.
mircea_popescu: kanzure i can't discern much from this wall of links. can i have a three sentence summary ?
mircea_popescu: actually, paternity testing is illegal in france, EVEN IF DONE IN SPAIN
mircea_popescu: kanzure so it's just implicit ? why 5 rather than 48 ?
mircea_popescu: how not ? it's a thing, silly name but i spoke it yest. lessee
mircea_popescu: kids do it all the time, "i have a professional tennis racquet, just like agassi". it's ok for a 15yo.
mircea_popescu: this notion that "if i pile up enough blue items to make a bower i'll thereby be a bower-biologist and science will frlow from me" is nonsense.
mircea_popescu: heck, i met this chick in cairo, she lived inside a perfectly empty hole in the ground most us solitary inmates wouldn't deem fit as a prison. she had six children.
mircea_popescu: because you don't want any or because there's a certain amount of equipment you need before you can have children ?
mircea_popescu: and speaking of < kanzure> there is a certain amount of equipment you need before you can do useful biology things << hey kanzure do you have children ?
mircea_popescu: so then : rufus cryptoweather or whatever his name was.
mircea_popescu: i can speak of Whatshername Horseface all the time. people know who i mean.
mircea_popescu: not so. just like "and she is pretty and smart" is never omitterd in mary-sue fiction.
mircea_popescu: living in "a brand-driven society" means something. this is what it means.
mircea_popescu: screenwriter for one of the hbo shows may have all of 11 syllables to explain whatever-it-is, and by god five or six will go to "REALITYWINNER" equivalent.
mircea_popescu: but let me illustrate : have you noticed how when under space pressure and trying to introduce a tech item, whatever it may be, the ONE BIT that's ABSOLUTELY NEVER omitted is the name ?
mircea_popescu: which of the numerous links we've been blessed with was this ?
mircea_popescu: not that the stateemnt diverges from common wisdom at the time.
mircea_popescu: kanzure this jan 2009 log is entertaining. i take it the ongoing decade has not resulted in any "some random company needs us to design them some manufacturing assembly equipment. We say we'll do it cheaper (or whatever), we license it all open source and so on, make our money from it, and apply it to what we need to get done in our tech-base of free stuff anyway."
mircea_popescu: looks like the dressed cat in that tom and jerry cartoon.
mircea_popescu: why would an athlete try to wear skinny suits anyways. not for them.
mircea_popescu: shinohai do they all wear that kinda suit ? could be worth a lotta lulz.
mircea_popescu: holy shit, 0 ad is already midway into the past ? seems like only yesterday...
mircea_popescu: shakespeare is similarily not paying the folk writing shakespeare write-ups. they do it to learn.
mircea_popescu: shinohai only way to run this is as a training exercise, really.
mircea_popescu: 1704882 << line count, conveniently provided by phf. closing in on 2 mn.
mircea_popescu: past season, i also read a million lines. the machine is going, what you feed it is its problem, but it will be going nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: phf but in any case, i ~can~ read a million lines. take me a season, but then again what are seasons for,.
mircea_popescu: "we'll... ahem... protect the item... from derp-ass spammers who might want to do... exactly what roger ver is actually doing... in a few years ie today"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: like bitcoin.com registration, if anyone recalls those lulz.
mircea_popescu: im sure if you pin down anyone enough to ask it's you know "a protective patent" to "protect it" from "the bad guys"
mircea_popescu: yawell. usia. recall that article aboput how nobody can keep up with the printing to satisfy the wowow fantasy ?
mircea_popescu: anyone with a diy interest in microbiology should be doing precisely that at least fucking once, these days.
mircea_popescu: wtf is your excuse not running around planting chips in your back yards to find the next teixobactin ?
mircea_popescu: <@fenn> you could have a dialysis membrane in a microfluidic chip i guess << speaking of vaguely this : the great success of the new microflora research chips was so great it even made it to qntra! seems an eminently crowd-source-able item, in a useful way at that.
mircea_popescu: but, whether it got put there by address owner or not, still same queue same process, so whatdiff does it make.
mircea_popescu: trinque ah, good i said something then. any strong reason for this ?
mircea_popescu: (apartments, one above, one below. the one below had an electrically leaky stove, so i bought metalware and punished girlies had to make coffee on it. ZAP ZAP ZAP.)
mircea_popescu: it's actually my old place in costa rica, 15 years ago or so.