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asciilifeform: and how 5m wouldn't even appear as a droplet of rain in the seven seas.
gabriel_laddel: My point with the 20k is that there are individuals who are willing to fund such ventures. Yes, MP hasn't put up 5MM usd for sane computing, but afaik, no one has proposed such a plan to him.
asciilifeform: it wouldn't buy a (new) pick'n'place robot, for example, unless you go ultra-chinese
asciilifeform: apple wouldn't take it back.
gabriel_laddel: Also, I /don't like/ the macbook retina, fancy as it may be
gabriel_laddel: Eh, perhaps I'm strange, but these things don't tickle me in the right places. Mountains of coke? Fun, surely, but it gets boring after a while... ☟︎
asciilifeform: but also a certain amount of 'sultan has infinite money, why shouldn't he sit down on a toilet of monocrystalline diamond, the costlier and more useless - the better'
gabriel_laddel: "why funded and by whom ?" << I really can't figure this out, it's like the relationship the USG club have with the Saudis. *mumble mumble* ... little boys... *mumble mumble*
gabriel_laddel: I don't think it's a scam exactly... what they want is for nothing to change, and he provided it. :/
mircea_popescu: you ain't bought a license to kill bookies, and today i ain't sellin' any. ☟︎
ben_vulpes: there are no ethnic minorities around here, and won't be for another decade easily.
ben_vulpes: confiscation isn't likely to compare with taxes pulled in from payrol..
asciilifeform: answer is that the machine doesn't work if run on 100% bzollar
asciilifeform: (local police chief's 'porsche' won't buy itself!)
decimation: you have a PACER account don't you?
thestringpuller: mod6: doesn't like #b-a people
mod6: i don't think i've ever been 3 days behind on logs. lol.
mod6: haven't had any time off in like... 8 years.
mod6: !t m s.mpoe
mircea_popescu: cazalla a) killed is a little misleading, traditionally "died" is the word for accidental death ; b) isn't this teppy of dragon tale / tale in the desert fame ?
asciilifeform: [1] Who doesn't know, can look it up.
asciilifeform: But days turn to years, yet that bugler won't blow.
asciilifeform: Though truth does not fade, and my conscience won't go
cazalla: you don't see them now do you fluffypony ?
asciilifeform: when the last usg fighter runs headlong into the last usg bomber, and the fireball takes out their last aerial tanker, we can say 'can't'
decimation: meanwhile actual usg can't even coordinate its own aircraft in its own airspace http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/tech/2015/02/25/cherry-point-assumes-air-traffic-control-responsibilities/23948767/
mircea_popescu: 13yo girls don't normally take that sorta footage.
mircea_popescu: you can't get the budget high enough without making secrecy impossible.
mircea_popescu: actually they aren't. tax deductions abound.
asciilifeform: can't or don't want/need ?
mircea_popescu: dude, they can't even make a film looking credible on 100mn.
asciilifeform: but basic point is that machine doesn't just cost what machine costs, but some actuarial numbers based on what the corpses' legal reps are likely to attempt/achieve
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-02-2015#1035866 << read your policy carefully. plenty actually don't pay if you get airplane killed. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: obviously they'd operate on a (being scammed) to (merit washing) continuum. it won't be either 0% or 100%.
trinque: asciilifeform: less wolf than social insect though isn't it?
asciilifeform: weather doesn't plan to kill you.
trinque: maybe we're fat and lazy because earth hasn't put up enough of a fight
asciilifeform: king, if he has any sense, begins with 'i want a tetris and underlying stack that doesn't crash, and if it does, you+extended family get intimate with anthills'
asciilifeform: but still light-years ahead of just-winging-it-in-c, so long as the required 'furniture' isn't fifty pounds of fetid haskellian squigglies printed on telephone book paper
ben_vulpes: well bitcoin ain't an airplane.
asciilifeform: i can't recommend this for 'tetris' (that was a homework)
ben_vulpes: excruciating subset doesn't hurt?
asciilifeform: but so long as your expectations are realistic, something like what's described in earlier link (an excruciatingly-fascist subset of ada) doesn't hurt
asciilifeform: as if one can't get arbitrarily clumsy theatre student
asciilifeform: everyone with access to the goods who hasn't dumped them to public unredacted and whole is ipso facto part of that set.
cazalla: so i made a bitbet under the influence and couldn't fund it until later, i assume 0 conf address listed for it in /propositions/ is the address of which i need to fund? ☟︎
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Aren't they liquidating on craigslist?
Stunna: BingoBoingo: don't think it's related to that, the internet I've been using past few days has been dying on me every 20mins or so
danielpbarron: he didn't quit
BingoBoingo: Amazing how the US is going to shit isn't it.
Stunna: You wouldn't make enough to be worth your while though on fresh accounts
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: It isn't absolute, but it is enough to lend me to believe his is credibly atm who he says
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: The thing is I don't like doing the escrow thing. To discourage that I charge too much to make the choice of myself as an escrow economical
Stunna: I can't do that at the moment, you could message me on bitcointalk though for the time being
assbot: In Iraq, the Bomb-Detecting Device That Didn't Work, Except to Make Money - Businessweek ... ( http://bit.ly/1vH0JJv )
BingoBoingo: adlai: You are welcome to write it up if you've been following it. Just following hovelcocks drama hasn't been a priority for me.
mike_c: i was just poking a little fun at his nick :) don't know him.
mircea_popescu: except i didn't, i sent the guy a comment on his blog, which he never published iirc
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: i really don't see what mpex has to do with freenode's swiss cheese.
asciilifeform: 'I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.'
ben_vulpes: oi mate i don't dick around with bounders
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-02-2015#1035162 <<< this actually wasn't rare, either. ☝︎
asciilifeform can't be bothered to find out
decimation: "LAWRENCE Look, Ali. Look! That's me. What colour is it? That's me! And there's nothing I can do about it. ALI A man can do whatever he wants, you said. LAWRENCE He can, but he can't want what he wants.This is the stuff [his flesh] that decides what he wants." ☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: don't expect a repl, ada is a classical compiled thing like c or fortran
adlai: "best practices" say that you don't want lots of this, but you need to continually fire for a long time without cleaning to get a jam from residue
asciilifeform: cost doesn't seem a likely reason, imho. iirc, crew-served machine guns don't have chromed mechanicals either
BingoBoingo: I really don't know if you can have a "proper terroritst" without some mental retardation
asciilifeform: but ordinary soldiers, of an army which doesn't officially exist
asciilifeform: those aren't 'terrorists' properly speaking
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Can't do that if I want to collect monopoly money from the neighbors.
nubbins`: and it was such a shit job i don't even know if i should describe it
mircea_popescu: unless it's "look at stalin sucking cock" it ain't worth printing.
asciilifeform: haven't gotten around to it yet
mircea_popescu: nubbins` yeah well if you're about to take down the president but can't resist a little social pressure...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Then last night panicked phone calls and forever silence. << i don't get these people. nismann (argentine da, shot by state because threatening to put president in jail) was the same way : spent his crucial night before the great day ALONE ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: dun rush things, foundation snipped thing isn't even stable yet.
nubbins` pictures own mother softly singing "you don't want to fuck with shady, 'cause shady will fucking kill you" while wiping countertops
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> with regards to 0.5.3, i was expecting to see some technical discussion re: total rework of the blockchain sync mechanism and its idiocies, but this didn't happen << "Numbers Station"
asciilifeform: with regards to 0.5.3, i was expecting to see some technical discussion re: total rework of the blockchain sync mechanism and its idiocies, but this didn't happen ☟︎
BingoBoingo doesn't run a firefox with a concept of "history"
nubbins`: it's actually a fine way to dig in on this poster project, but i don't have the time or the inclination to dig through years of phoundation phollies
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Why don't you give it a whirl
asciilifeform: see his article re: how 'no one alive has the authority to create a fork, deliberate or otherwise' (don't have link handy)
asciilifeform: bitwise-identical doesn't need a mathematician to prove... just a copy of 'diff'
asciilifeform: if non exploitable, then 'it ain't a bug, it's a feature'
asciilifeform: certainly can't consist just of that
asciilifeform: don't expect it to happen this side of the next millenium
punkman: even openssl can't confirm all it's own signatures
thestringpuller: don't open unless you want to take your IQ down a bit
asciilifeform: because they don't belong living with people.
asciilifeform: and what's more, because bitmaps aren't much flowing over the wire, it'll be usably fast.
asciilifeform: i -use- the functionality they don't see a purpose for.
asciilifeform: i don't care what the fuck else it does.
asciilifeform: mats: for one thing, it it can't be piped over ip, it isn't a substitute for x ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 21-08-2014 03:24:30; asciilifeform: most russians in chechnya, pre-collapse, weren't instinctively afraid of their neighbours either.
gabriel_laddel: eh, not what I wanted, and I don't care to find the article. In any case, what is 'your country' anyway?
gabriel_laddel: ;; google site: trilema.com "America isn't a people"
gabriel_laddel: ;; site: trilema.com "America isn't a people"
asciilifeform: unless you know that schmuck personally, don't blithely assume that he died in his house (conveniently pictured in article) or that his wife is still alive, etc