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jurov: mircea_popescu: can i open D.BBS and short my shares there?
BingoBoingo: Maybe it is someone who wants to see the market go down to grab cheap ATC?
mircea_popescu: lol is the 201 guy someone who bought at 200 and they figure THEY MUST PROFT
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDvikAG7cD8#t=15 << 4-cycle petrol engine built from that fridge's compressor.
mircea_popescu: tsk tsk
mircea_popescu: o look at that, bids
asciilifeform: energy cost is a design parameter at the time of design - not now.
asciilifeform: result - tolerances fail, film - snaps
asciilifeform: couldn't get german steel for the part where the film stretches taught
asciilifeform: e.g. my father was once employed to reverse-engineer movie projectors
mircea_popescu: or in otherwords, if you're willing to kill as many subhumans as it takes
mircea_popescu: that point being, that the russian (actually, german, pre ww2) model works just fine with no ecological consideration
asciilifeform wonders in what western country you can buy a fridge that runs for 50 years. for $500? 5000, 50,000 ?
asciilifeform: plenty of comments, in the spirit, 'mine's built '65 and runs.'
asciilifeform: caption, among other things 'ran for 40 yrs.'
mircea_popescu: perhaps the next one.
BingoBoingo: I'll assume he's already dead, at least on the inside
mircea_popescu: anyone wanna go kill this guy ?
asciilifeform: 'war - the mother of all things'
mircea_popescu: what the fuck already. since when is war a disqualifier ?
mircea_popescu: a.s. neil is perhaps the dumbest guy i read this year
mircea_popescu: “No one is wise enough or good enough to mould the character of any child… An adult generation that has seen two great wars and seems about to launch a third should not be trusted to mould the character of a rat.”
gribble: Monty Python Royal Society for Putting Things on top of other things ...: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f-kfRREA8M>; Monty Python: Royal Society For Putting Things on Top of Other ...: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ixeRWrg0yg>; Monty Python: The Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things: <http://www.montypython.net/scripts/society.php>
mircea_popescu: ;;google society for putting things on top of other things
mircea_popescu: punkman i like it when people build things upon things.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: ;;google site:trilema.com live to be a millionaire << shit i wrote that ?! in another decade trilema'll be new reading to me too ;/
mircea_popescu: gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user punkman has been recorded. << this warms my cold dark heart.
mircea_popescu: dude i think kako is like the funniest guy here.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: the investors will make a KLIPPING << ahahaha
mircea_popescu: justlurking: yep, starting my 6 month indoctrination thanks to pete << hey there.
assbot: Introducing F.DERP pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
assbot: I was considering bidding on the seized SR bitcoin, but I think I'll just wait for the US Marshals to tweet the private keys to the winners.
Mats_cd03: asks q then leaves while i type response
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 604.34, Best ask: 605.46, Bid-ask spread: 1.12000, Last trade: 606.24, 24 hour volume: 5471.59645098, 24 hour low: 599.9, 24 hour high: 616.0, 24 hour vwap: 607.679332574
decimation: I like bitbet because it's extremely transparent that way
asciilifeform: war chest is there, to everyone's satisfaction, i imagine
decimation: still, to me it seems like you need to get a few of these to "fail" so you can build up a war chest as a credible counterparty
decimation: well, the seller of said tickets will be enriched ... :)
mircea_popescu: something like that yea
decimation: I guess they are tickets to a show that never happened
decimation: shares go to zero value?
mircea_popescu: idem. if anyone wants to see more and they meet the criteria, let me know.
mircea_popescu: decimation actually im going to make a fund, so people can buy into it.
decimation: I'm using "bank" to mean "pile of bitcoin"
decimation: I'm confused about who the counterparty is
asciilifeform dug in ancient engine amidst mosquito clouds, tired
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why'd that be required ?
decimation: this is true. the amusing thing to me is that Obama rose with the new left under Maoism... and China today embraces (in action, not words) Chinese nationalism and rejects Mao
asciilifeform: proving that one holds shares on fiat exchange might be energy-intensive
mircea_popescu: prolly starting to trade monday
mircea_popescu: that's basically how it's gonna look. welcoming questions as to the contract etc.
asciilifeform: decimation: the middle kingdom != la serenissima. they'll be buying rice with paper yuans.
decimation: when the usians are trading golden yuan pieces in a few decades they will remember this bit of history
decimation: when visiting, I discovered that Sun Yat Sen went to the same school as... Obama
decimation: on Maui there is a statue to Sun Yet-Sen in an obscure park: http://gohawaii.about.com/od/mauisights/ig/sun_yat_sen_park/
asciilifeform: ditto taiwan
asciilifeform: not sure how long singapore will last as other than chinese colony after u.s. navy is unplugged
decimation: well, yes, today. but I would wager that if you exchanged the populations of hawaii and singapore, it wouldn't look that way for long
asciilifeform: if you could build a singapore there, that's another matter.
asciilifeform: otherwise it's a pisshole. (try finding an industrial vendor who will even ship there)
decimation: When I was in Hawaii last week I thought about this w.r.t. Hawaii. They own one of the most strategic islands on earth
asciilifeform: because american factory gurlz want toilet breaks, health care!, etc ☟︎
asciilifeform: fuel that's been burned.
asciilifeform: whereas u.s. (or moscow today) 'office plankton' is... ground state.
asciilifeform: let's take the liberty of abusing thermodynamics term, and say this is 'fuel'
decimation: the us had something like that a few decades ago, still coasting on its output
asciilifeform: - that being, six generations of people willing to work into the grave for a cup of rice ☟︎
decimation: it's true that it's much easier to get nitric acid when the nitric acid factory has been pumping it out two states away for a few decades
asciilifeform: japan jumped the gap - why? because they had the 'natural resource' ☟︎
decimation: but they also require getting humans to actually do the work
decimation: all of those things do require lots of brain power
decimation: This goes back to the warez - they seem like the answer to all your short term problems, but in the long run just get you hooked on the infrastructure
asciilifeform: try mine uranium, tantalum, with brainpower
decimation: the thing I don't understand ascii is that it's clear that russia has the brainpower to make alternatives
assbot: ClubOrlov: The Madness of President Putin
decimation: my stupid vpn dropped me like a hot potato, thought conversation was over
decimation: "decimation got really hot an' bothered watching cussacks beat on lanky ukrainian teenagers" << not really my cup of tea, but relevant
mircea_popescu: and all day long they held syndicate meetings to criticise me for being a whore
mircea_popescu: the russians : omg this was awful. all night long they took turns fucking me in all the holes
mircea_popescu: the english : well... we were never introduced, so we just read the newspapers all week. it was fuckign boring.
mircea_popescu: for this purpose, they sequester one woman and two men for a week, then interview them,
mircea_popescu: pussy riot gets $1bn to study mating habits across europe.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the two chaps with the toothbrush, aye
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform o, you're doing the same one ?! (know the joke ?)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you'll have to explain this tro me so it makes sense
mircea_popescu: decimation got really hot an' bothered watching cussacks beat on lanky ukrainian teenagers, is nao off to molest wife
asciilifeform: going back to russia/industry: according to 'hardcore' russian folks, the west deprived the nation of crucial natural resource - one still abundant in, e.g. china. of course they aren't talking about lanthanides, but... girls who will birth half a dozen kids and work in factory without toilet breaks
BingoBoingo: Seems the solution is to have enough girls to sleep with girl while girl guards door with rifle
mircea_popescu: no but i mean, gimme something actionable as per the plan you laid out above.
mircea_popescu: what kind is antonoderpulous ? does he have a contract on his head ? twitter says so.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my understanding - fellow with a contract on his head should perhaps sleep with rifle. the one without contract - with girl. whether 4kw fridge, bk0010, etc. is batshit - or genius - depends on which box russia sits in
decimation: skip to 2:05 to watch Cossacks beat them
assbot: Pussy Riot - Putin will teach you how to love / - YouTube
decimation: well, he certainly want to encourage fertility, and sending the message that it's okay for russian women to aspire to childless eat pray love isn't the way to get there
mircea_popescu: or who knows, maybe he's personally dumb on the score i guess.
mircea_popescu: he has to do all sorts of stupid shit.
mircea_popescu: putin has the disadvantage of being actually stuck ruling the thing
decimation: so it would seem that putin is also sending a message about women by caging them
mircea_popescu: but the thing still is what it is : nude chicks in a badly abused, utterly frigid, compulsively conservatory society.
mircea_popescu: maybe some derps somewhere HOPE that they may embed their message this way, much like radio advertisers hope paying for the radio makes you buy coca cola