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asciilifeform: not same principle. snippets of synthetic nucleic acid are used, it goes (or more often, doesn't..) to a specific place, there is a (usually bad) protein model to predict effect, etc.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: why? << Maybe subconciously I fetishize white girls? I honestly don't know.
mircea_popescu: bons being synthetised. the plan kingdom is, historically, the largest producer of poisons on the planet and to a large degree a controller of animal population counts and animal species survival rates, which is why you even need a liver in the first place - notice that your imune system doens't REALLY have an organ (thymus, w/e)." this is not "genetic engineering", this is chromogambling.
mircea_popescu: so they BURIED IT. somewhere. i was in the fucking sticks. couldn't get another one for coupla weeks, until back to town, at which point...
mircea_popescu: no i don't. i used to, but then my mother threw a shitfit once she realised why her aunt's entire chicken population was dizzy
asciilifeform: disposable camera into a single-use taser << why single use. charge cap again, again. who here -hasn't- done this?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: now, i get it, damn-near everybody is stuck in his particular gulag. << hey, you made your bed for yourself here :D lie in it! he can't get out because he can't get out, what more do you want ? :D
mircea_popescu: you're still there, your house is still there, your family is still there because we can't be bothered to take them away. that's all.
mircea_popescu: "as a matter of policy, we don't comment on rape cases" should be the new rape trial defense.
mircea_popescu: i dunno... i kinda aren't attracted to other types, by and large. i assume it's similar across cultures.
mircea_popescu: aren't skimpy/no clothes mandatory in college anyway ?
mats: maybe we're exposed to different media, but i don't see it
thestringpuller: aren't ABG's over sexualized?
mircea_popescu: i don't think*
mats: certainly, asians are undersexualized in e.g. US media, but i haven't had problems picking up white women
mircea_popescu: mats: folks are encouraged to get married so they can eat fo free << which is how the dependopopotami are born. "i don't care about the chick but i gotta be married for money so w/e"
thestringpuller: i can't stop watching this gif
decimation: "Guest: One, we could feed the world without GMOs; there are other practices that we could follow. So the idea that we are prisoners of this technology I think is something that should be dispelled. On the other hand, I don't think we should try that. I think if our water is precious, if our topsoil is precious, if we really care about the hydrocarbon footprint that we have in terms of the amount of cultivation that we need to carry
decimation: I didn't even know cargill was the biggest private company in the us
nubbins`: shrillly definitely isn't right
ben_vulpes: fluffypony: don't disturb the cult!
asciilifeform: fluffypony: the pill against coinbase is precisely the same as the one against apple: 'don't do it'
fluffypony: decimation: so it doesn't affect non-Apple-users
asciilifeform: now, i get it, damn-near everybody is stuck in his particular gulag. fluffypony, it appears, is sitting in barrack where what-happens-in-apple-os-matters. i'm in one where they use weird zimbabwe money. etc. but being in jail doesn't mean you have to -like- it and deny the existence of outside.
punkman: fluffypony: don't tell us you love systemd now :P
asciilifeform: now it isn't on c/unix. that'd require magic tough
fluffypony: decimation: I don't get what's lol about that, .NET faces the same issue (as have many high-level abstractions / languages), whereby trying to force GC collections or modify GC behaviour invariably ends up being messy. Frankly, handing off to a reference counting system is way, way better than GC bullshit.
asciilifeform: there's no reason why we can't do an x86 build of this
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i'll just have it probe (and if doesn't find blockchain, format) the largest mass storage device found at boot
danielpbarron: asciilifeform> danielpbarron: in other news, i got netbsd ramdisk to build. << yay! in related news, i got some links from a guy in #olimex who tackled this problem back in 2013; haven't checked it out yet / just got back from stocking up for the impending snow storm
decimation: also the link that ben_vulpes dropped about feynman working at thinking machines was interesting. I didn't know he worked there
decimation: yeah I have read. what I don't understand is why anyone would think that the compiler is the weak link in the C software stack
asciilifeform: decimation: i honestly can't say i'm at all interested in 'formally verified' proggy
decimation: the whole business works out to be a backdoor gov't subsidy for the real estate bezzle near bases
decimation: whatever you don't spend on housing you pocket
asciilifeform: this doesn't include private 'consulting' gigs, also, which many of these folks take part in
asciilifeform: and then mircea_popescu asks why these folks don't buy one way tickets and join 'isis'
asciilifeform: nubbins`: scarce rental market thing << you don't know half of it. virtually unheard of to rent a house here, other than by gigantic groups of immigrants or students living like sardines in can
asciilifeform: punkman: i ain't breathing vacuum
ben_vulpes: well duh it can't be bitcoinized - you don't know him and so cannot trust him.
nubbins`: but y'know what? i don't have to lie in bed every morning wondering whether i'll call in sick
asciilifeform: nubbins`: now that part's very easy, you don't need blocks of time to dick on irc
nubbins`: unless you're leasing said equipment, don't you already have it?
nubbins`: i don't /really/ think i need to tell you guys that tears are a necessary ingredient to un-fucking your situations
nubbins`: bunch of guys so wrapped up in bezzle trappings that they don't realize their cage door is wide open
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
asciilifeform: except that linux is free (yeah, aha, 'if your time has no value' - well guess what, mine - didn't - as a student)
mircea_popescu: it is in fact a rehash of the "i can't run bitcoin on linux because i have windows"
mircea_popescu: these aren't the same.
mircea_popescu: it won't be possible for you to anonymously send cash to some guy you don't know. necessarily.
mircea_popescu: but the notion that you can't make payments... i mean ? just too weird.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: every problem is a triviality to folks who can't even conceive of having it
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> let's say you could. how do you prove you paid ? << don't be silly, this is a triviality.
asciilifeform: it works if we were both, say, italians, where 'it isn't done', or if i were part of an ethonmafia that will cause him problems in the event of raw deal
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'm not saying you won't *be* right, but in your quest to get out in front of how the world will be you're not looking at how the world is.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: sometimes i wish i never found this place, i wouldn;t know any fucking better, could've kept towing the line that this is how it's to be << famous words.
assbot: Logged on 21-02-2015 12:01:22; cazalla: something is very fucking wrong when my broke ass opa who couldn't speak a word of fucking english managed to get a job in the steel works and pay off a house in 2 decades and raise 6 kids in the 1950s... not even 2 adults working with 1 kid can do that today here
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i take it back, they prolly know the material, let 'em manage it. i can't be arsed to follow amir. whoever does, can call the shots.
mircea_popescu: chetty: how they gonna train kids for things that haven't been invented yet? << maybe give up on the trainin' ? the greeks had the same problem, had solution : music, sport, grammar and logic. and fuck them.
BingoBoingo: mats: Here prolly. Give it a decade or two. The Mujahadeen didn't become Al Queda until Osama needed to handle pensions.
mircea_popescu: sadly i don't see too well inside teh golden crescent. no real interest for me there.
mats: as i understand it, they don't want to wade into shia sunni violence and catch some political fallout in the process
BingoBoingo: <mats> i don't believe the kurds will actually fight inside mosul << There's a time and place the Kurds will fight, but first the need to go through the motions of leveraging all of the phree stuff they can from Obola
mircea_popescu: i don't see it either.
mats: i don't believe the kurds will actually fight inside mosul
mircea_popescu: chetty makes your skin crawl don't it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno how infinite that is. but "infinite" didn't help vietnam
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> think about it. GREEN mercenaries vs allah's host. << Don't forget the mercenaries that aren't green in the peshmerga who want their own state carved out of Turkey
mircea_popescu: if you raise your children badly, it's not that they won't NEED it
PeterL: but we keep feeding it, at some point it won't need our food anymore
mircea_popescu: so they... didn't.
mircea_popescu: the epic lulz of it tho... so iraq had some 100k under arms that ran off abandoning not just weapons but their very unifortms, and now the us that don't even speak the language found 20k guys who are of the opposite persuasion. heck, if only the iraq state could be as proficiernt, they could have found better soldiers o.O
mircea_popescu: because they don't stand a chance.
cazalla: jurov, what i have doesn't even keep pace with the bezzle
cazalla: fwiw, i didn't even finish school, plenty of C's D's E's and F's because what they taught was utter shit.. oobedience to the bezzle, obedience to who paid them and kept a roof over their head
cazalla: i can;t think of anything worse than my son taking what i own just as he hits his late teens, early 20s
cazalla: i don't know if i could hit him in the fashion my own father hit me
cazalla: which makes me contemplate.. mp and physical discipline.. i couldn't imagine hitting my kid.. yet, if my own father didnt flog me with jugcord and leave countless bruises.. i don't think i'd be here today
cazalla: i could survive on noodles myself.. but the kid... i won't have that
cazalla: sometimes i wish i never found this place, i wouldn;t know any fucking better, could've kept towing the line that this is how it's to be
cazalla: or maybe they just don't want to work dead end make work jobs
cazalla: with the weight of others clingingin to it unware i'm trying to carry them so that they don't fucking starve
chetty: idiot west makes getting ahead impossible, permanent slavery to the state, and then doesn't understand why the kids go join jihad?
cazalla: i don't blame em, for a young australian, there is fucking nothing unless you are prepared to work 40 years in a make work job to pay off an inflated piece of shit block with no back yard 2 bedroom pos
cazalla: i've been in an environment where beatings were par for the course and told i was fucking lucky and should be grateful because i wasn't raised by the wehrmacht solider himself and didn't cop beatings near as bad
cazalla: something is very fucking wrong when my broke ass opa who couldn't speak a word of fucking english managed to get a job in the steel works and pay off a house in 2 decades and raise 6 kids in the 1950s... not even 2 adults working with 1 kid can do that today here ☟︎
chetty: in fairness Internet didn't exist when I was in school, how they gonna train kids for things that haven't been invented yet?
cazalla: prob only vexual appreciats the solo t-shirt
cazalla: when school began, we lit plenty of fires on plenty of farms to help the fire bug country fire association put them out.. that's if they didn't start em their fucking selves
cazalla: i don't think you can even buy a home in the shittest areas of australia at the price RENT is paying for homes
cazalla: fwiw, use to run 10km a day, so not like i don't know what it takes to be comitted rocky balboa righter champion of the world beat anyone in a tussel
cazalla: punkman, even the best of clothes don't fit expanding waist line :P
cazalla: i don't even buy new clothes in like 2-3 years
cazalla: but i don't have nice things anyway
cazalla: Adlai, i don't think shrem is in the lock up yet anyway
asciilifeform: how many nuke subs left in usa? and how many janitors who haven't torched theirs yet
mircea_popescu: decimation basically they're really desperate to maintain as much projection into future budgets, but in point of fact... maintaining both a carrier and a nuclear powered sub programme isn't likely.
mircea_popescu: and once they can't actually work tactically anymore, they're basically a smaller submersible carrier.
mircea_popescu: and london sucks in a way that can't be described.
danielpbarron: i made a rootfs_ramdisk.img but i'm pretty sure it isn't ready due to some confusion over what needs to be done with /dev/ and also there were other files mentioned in the guide that i could not find in my result