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assbot: Logged on 18-06-2014 00:36:44; asciilifeform: interestingly, sometimes the pharma folks fail: they spent some years trying to cough up a dopamine reuptake inhibitor that doesn'
t reduce to a synthetic cocaine, and, afaik, gave up
mircea_popescu: And as it is something unusual, the usual verbs cannot be applied to it. Can the ants from the outer space be "forgiven"? No. They can be only wiped out. It is an existential issue, not a technical one. That's why your brilliant arguments won'
t work"
mircea_popescu: he sounds exactly like a better read joseph smith. substantially the same inclination to pass counterfactuality for fact "because who's to say it didn'
t happen" and "it damned well serves the purpose of making my understanding of the world more palatable ot others".
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: and i'm pretty sure africa's heard of ferguson mo << at least the part that can read. although... it seems improbable that if they did we don'
t see the output.
jurov: that stmp just won'
t do kilometer lines
BingoBoingo: ;; later tell pete_dushenski How do you know the ferguson drama wasn'
t to keep Africans from wanting to go to Middle West?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: there's really no logical reason to buy it unless you got a better way to run it << ALso can'
t seriously discount the glory of major sharholders split across 3 continents. GAW could prebtebd to sue coinfire, Qntra???
BingoBoingo: mike_c: a lot can change in a year. but i don'
t think there are enough shares in existence to make it worth it anyway. i mean, what, bingo maybe has 50k shares? << Beauty of MPEx is neither you nor the pederasts can truly be sure.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: this doesn'
t include private 'consulting' gigs, also, which many of these folks take part in << Seriously perverts rents. All around the country bubbles aroud various installations push rent up $BigInt for $ConvenientInt radius
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: danielpbarron: in other news, i got netbsd ramdisk to build. << Beautiful, but there's going to be some very sad japs who still can'
t netbsd up their pogo next to their toaster because nand
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: so far i don'
t disagree - the problem i described could indeed be magicked away entirely and semi-permanently by judicious application of ~100k usd << 100k usd seems to be "magic number" in USia's /etc/moduli
pete_dushenski guesses that asciilifeform isn'
t much for aesthetic diamonds
pete_dushenski: he won'
t have a chance to be teh gwagon driver though!
pete_dushenski: so it's 1) real city, 2) pleasant (for me), 3) doesn'
t require car
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform sorta like taxi drivers aren'
t "car guys"
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: saving the volvo idea for later << can'
t find one that's bene taken care of
pete_dushenski: and while the new stuff is faster, it certainly isn'
t built to last
mircea_popescu: "why get now for free what you won'
t be able to afford later on ?!?!?!!?"
mircea_popescu: i can follow that logic there. "for ten cents we can'
t be bothered, write your own damned card"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> to avoid winblows. << it could be because they don'
t givew so much of a shit about the money. if he/she could afford a pointless masters,
thestringpuller: "/u/thestringpuller has helped pay for 216.25 minutes of reddit server time." << badges now cause reddit can'
t pay the bills. derped into socialism...
decimation: yeah soldering really isn'
t that hard, and this is good practice
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's making a poc, for himself, as the first thing. he can solder later if he can'
t solder now
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller this theory is in fact long standing practice, it's just that the derps filling up the www with their words don'
t know what they don'
t know
mike_c: it doesn'
t approach infinity
mircea_popescu: mike_c you wouldn'
t need to hire them specifically, but you would need someone. and as there's very few people outside of b-a with brains working worth two shits...
mike_c: it's like a very early stage startup, you really can'
t just buy the whole thing yet because the founders are so critical
mike_c: obviously, since you can'
t buy the company for 8k.
mike_c: nevermind, i don'
t even want to get into it.
mike_c: a lot can change in a year. but i don'
t think there are enough shares in existence to make it worth it anyway. i mean, what, bingo maybe has 50k shares?
thestringpuller: mike_c: you realize there aren'
t enough shares to push down the bids right now?
mike_c: I don'
t think we'd have the same quantity or timeframe in mind.
adam_obrien: I don'
t. I have never liked cavirtex and haven'
t used them since there was other options
adam_obrien: Hmmm. I haven'
t heard that. I think they are having issues in Russia. But in Canada everything is all good :)
mircea_popescu: didn'
t the atms recently get shut down or is that a different country ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: this one might not need soldering? << really, it doesn'
t NEED soldering, you can just glue it in contact, with conductive paste, whatever.
adam_obrien: Hhaha, I wish. Unfortunately I wasn'
t around then so it couldn'
t have been me
decimation: asciilifeform: so you are still using the u-boot copy-to-ramdisk method if you don'
t have a driver for the eeprom?
mircea_popescu: sely because the longer he stays in any one place, the better chance he'll be discovered to be a loser. Time to go where the grass is greener, somewhere people don'
t know you're there to crap on it.
cazalla: prob has an idea but he didn'
t speculate further anyway
thestringpuller: We all know the reason : Disproving or confirming others finding won'
t get you very far in a scientific career. One needs to have novel finding to get published in Nature , Cell or Science, which are powerful tickets for next round of NIH funding. Because research resources are scarce, no scientists can survive by examining others papers. Therefore, faking a cute and novel discovery is effective to survive the academia with min