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mircea_popescu: anyway, for the kids that didn't like physics class : any metal, if subjected to radiation such as a nuclear explosion, becomes a secondary source of gamma rays, as it slows down the rads.
thestringpuller: I get a lot of notifications on twitter for someone who doesn't really tweet.
mircea_popescu: dude... in srs now. they can't be intimating that those steel frame boxes are the "bunkers" ?
nubbins`: nevermind that this isn't a bunker, it's a fucking rotisserie
mircea_popescu: it can't do anything else above mongoloidism.
mircea_popescu: the internet's for porn because really, it can't do anything else... not well, it isn't a question of well.
thestringpuller: Didn't beavis and butthead intrigue you with the paint thinner episodes?
cazalla: not sure what become of hte train tickets, i don't follow it as close as i once did, might skim that thread every couple of days
davout: and what was that train ticket bzns where they were moving to brussels or sthg, grepped my logs, couldn't find it
hanbot: hey mp! http://www.sitescore.co/trilema.com << your site doesn't exist! it's just read by a bunch of people!
mircea_popescu: you can't spell grape without rape.
Vexual: guess dan wasn't really looking for everyones thoughts
mircea_popescu: they don't really understand what they're doing, but they ARE trying.
BingoBoingo: Thing is even Josh Zerlan knew where to put money down and Homero doesn't respect that.
DanTheBitcoinMan: Ah, nevermind I completely didn't think about that.
BingoBoingo: ^ Won't expire like dpaste at the least
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> (or rather, upper bound thereof) << your house doesn't collapse the moment a tile hanger in the bathroom falls off, but still,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the entire "shitgnome doesn't give up", you ever read http://trilema.com/2013/various-kinds-of-stickiness/#footnote_1_46308 ?
Vexual: just don't buy an aussie one, loud and slow
Vexual: well considering shafts and orbits, cruising in a sub is possibly the best of both worlds if money isn't an option
asciilifeform invites aficionados of the subject to study what bunkers that were built by folks who weren't strangers to arithmetic looked like, what was inside, how long expected to function, under what kind of pushback, etc.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You've watch computer engineering long enough to know reality doesn't sell. Charging+Input port sells. Reflective screens sell. Actual reality doesn't sell.
asciilifeform: complete with massive circa-1920s boilers that didn't work
asciilifeform: point re: herr torvalds was, that a healthy culture doesn't consist of a corral of helpless pets and one wizard waving iron staff standing on a bridge doing the 'thou shall not pass' thing
mircea_popescu: i don't personally expect anything further from linux. in this sense, he's retired already.
mircea_popescu: if you don't know how to apply pressure, don't have an avenue to voice your concerns, that means that your concerns aren't worth shit. go die or whatever it is losers do.
mircea_popescu: the only thing it does is it encourages "problems" being dreamed up by people who otherwise aren't worth the time of day.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2015#1048128 << i don't understand this open ended "we will work toi resolve your problems" approach. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: IF you don't leverage the strength to the point where it isn't :L)
danielpbarron: and because assbot and twitter don't get along: "@danielpbarron you are Mircea Popsecu. creator of #bitcoin-asssets, kicked of twitter for violating TOS due to threat on @aantonop"
assbot: /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash core 0.10 was released feb 16 & is now 2nd largest "user agent" (node) on network. https://t.co/MUpvRFk2pP http://t.co/tUExE2e8gF
asciilifeform: wasn't speaking, note, of whether usians will smoke weed mostly without harassment (they already have for years) - but of whether fed usg specifically will let go of the bludgeon
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2015#1048036 << don't go there. marihuana is coming legal. ☝︎
asciilifeform: point isn't that gavin&co are 'winning', but that the absence of said winning is not driven home to them
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2015#1047858 << that part was inevitable. what was evitable, and usually is avoided, but couldn't be and consequently wasn't here is - the whole thing critically failing and in the process exposing them, their methods and the whole farm to public ridicule. ☝︎
asciilifeform: usg assets don't surrender, they keep doing their thing until the stool is kicked and the rope goes taught. or how did it go.
mircea_popescu: i can't be arsed to wade into the merits.
cazalla: for any baldur's gate lovers.. pillars of eternity out in a few weeks, looks interesting http://youtu.be/roK1wzOLT-k?t=15m16s
BingoBoingo: But a better throw baseball isn't always a faster baseball.
jurov: don't see how'd ban that
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure, but if sufficiently crazy/monied/intelligent crackpot produces solid state laser pistol with more than anti vehicle firings per charge that isn't too portable they would likely consider it a purchase
asciilifeform: trinque: it isn't like one could cut through a phalanx of usg stormtroopers and stay legally in the clear simply because the machine is not banned per se
trinque: BingoBoingo: eh probably just hasn't been a problem yet
asciilifeform: not that appropriate text couldn't be crapped into the penal code overnight if lizardhitler wished it, mind you
jurov: can't he be everyone?
thestringpuller: haven't you heard Niggas In Paris?!?
mircea_popescu: davout it can't hurt but i'm about to hop in a car. will make a deed when im back later
davout: mebbe the haxxorer also changed other addresses on the same page, signing can't really hurt can it
davout: as for the signature, how do i verify your wordpress wasn't haxxored?
ascii_field: it didn't talk..
mircea_popescu: davout notrly, because i may have to verify people later, in person, whereas you won't have to verify payments later in a different venue.
ascii_field: so you (crown) don't have to personally sit and review every idiot land dispute, stray ox, etc
ascii_field: take something that works but doesn't 'democratize' enough, or can be spun as such, and replace it with sham 'equivalent'
adlai hasn't, beyond knowing that they claim to not require everybody to store everything (which bitmessage requires)
asciilifeform: or hmm, maybe that wasn't it
asciilifeform: but at any rate they do not end up wedged in practice (folks with $maxint have built otherwise conventional cpu without clock using c-gate, they don't wedge)
mircea_popescu: it actually can't ever be metastable can it.
asciilifeform: but if didn't show, only explained why, the thing would have to be re-invented to be built
adlai would've had to use trial-and-error to figure out which gate was represented, if the filename hadn't specified it
asciilifeform: know the saying 'picture is worth 1000 words' ? it isn't a joke
adlai: here's something that doesn't translate well to text: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/C-element-from-NANDs.svg
asciilifeform: there is no physical/electrical reason why it can't worh the other way
asciilifeform: jurov: think about how you can't 'ask' every machine word in your ram simultaneously whether it 'equals such-and-such'
mircea_popescu: and it doesn't start with pharma, freud was closer to a fraud than anything. and all the way back.
asciilifeform: human languages as a class aren't even automatically unambiguous structurewise, and to hammer them into this shape results in the kind of verbiage that led people to invent 'squigglies' in the first place.
asciilifeform: let's suppose they weren't implicit.
asciilifeform: it isn't nonverbal in the sense of what geometers liked to do
asciilifeform: some things -can't- be emulated usably
mircea_popescu: well... chicks not having two cunts certainly has made it so we don't have two penises, amirite ?
asciilifeform: because thing wasn't just some idiot talking, but a film of the machine in use
mircea_popescu: no it didn't. modern mathematics began once they gave up the "mysticism" and "unexpressible" and "obvious" visual/intuitive nonsense and started putting everything in words.
adlai: how about "if you can't present it in an original fashion, you've not understood it"
mircea_popescu: well, more like, "if you can't say it in words you've not understood it"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it forces people to think, and it simplifies the task of rooting out thoise who haven't << why not goose quill pen, then
mircea_popescu: it forces people to think, and it simplifies the task of rooting out thoise who haven't. exactly the opposite service of a powerpoint presentation.
mircea_popescu: (i didn't mean speech as in the sound thereof)
jurov: you don't tell me what i can do and don't. i already combine charts and text for production code
mircea_popescu: and if you can't do that, which is the absolute bare minimum of communication, you can't do anything meaningful.,
mircea_popescu: you can't make a cad based kernel.
mircea_popescu: that somehow didn't emerge. so wait, reverse engineer the retina ? in what sense ? it's pretty well described as is
mircea_popescu: if it weren't, we wouldn't CODE IN FUCKING TEXT
adlai: usually i like cult films but this is an exception, if it wasn't for hours of boredom that had to be staved off somehow i'd never have even finished it
assbot: TREASURYPUNK http://t.co/GH9ig69CkR
cazalla: thestringpuller, ya see hotline miami 2 is out.. i didn't, it's fucking banned in australia lol
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2015#1047115 << this is why i don't quite buy the "trillion dollar project" argument. ☝︎
asciilifeform: decimation: iirc 'efi' (standard apple/sun/sgi bootloader) a) has published source b) doesn't do particularly much in the first place
decimation: mircea_popescu: re: terrorist < eh, I don't see it. what does it benefit the terrorist to even bother?
mircea_popescu: the job thing cuts so low that it is absolutely NEVER the case ANYONE couldn't find a job. it's just they do not wish to do the jobs available to them.
mircea_popescu: just like the pizzeria that gives you a cute plushie isn't necessarily going to be the best pizza for your buck.
mircea_popescu: i knew that church idiot wasn't the only cockroach in the kitchen
danielpbarron: i guess it wasn't bitcoind that caused the power cycle; just happened again just now and it wasn't running..
mircea_popescu: isn't nice"/up to whatever libertarded snuff miss the point by a planetsize. his capital 100% consists of reliably telling "authorities" to go fuck themselves. sorta like me, in his field.
assbot: Logged on 08-03-2015 18:49:19; asciilifeform: a good chunk of the reputation of linus t. is that he's been fairly effective at keeping a lid on this kind of thing, historically
decimation: so the eu announced they would be printing euros, and in reaction german gov't bonds... rallied?
mircea_popescu: That's the thing. It looks like it should work, on the surface. If you don't dig too deeply, you may even come to the mistaken belief it worked for others. Meanwhile... Social Studies Do Not Work."
mircea_popescu: goes with my "Remember the inept newsweek goon, Leah McGrath Goodman ? The chick with the mortgage she can't pay on her own ? Like that other chick, like each and every other chick in this quagmire of chickdom ? ☟︎
decimation: but apple isn't in the business of making functionality
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> i have to pay the reciprocity fee again don't i << reciprocisquat all the names!
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the ar entry fee gizmo, that is << i don't think you can readily imagine how tech retarded the argentines actually are.
cazalla: as for bezzle.. "22.3 Million in 6 Rounds from 8 Investors " didn't seem to help