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badon: I don'
t know what that is.
mircea_popescu: the median of an undefined attribute you don'
t even have a measure of,
mircea_popescu: "In order that the unfortunate views not overshadow the big scientific contribution, some of these folks would rather we stop talking about Watson’s having made the claims he has made about racial difference (although Watson shows no apparent regret for holding these views, only for having voiced them to reporters)." << and the mechanics of "regret", ie, we won'
t stop being stupid, the victim has to abjure!
mircea_popescu: anyway, basically this entire thing is a "you don'
t get to have any ~intellectual~ capital either, it all belongs to the state, to be used as slate anon editor directs it to be used".
mircea_popescu: IF YOU MAKE A DISCOVERY YOU DIDN'
T MAKE THAT DISCOVERY
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: decimation: and aha, these aren'
t piss-ant led lights either. ccfl tubes - which means they can'
t be cranked down all the much (and stay lit) <<< this is the deal breaker for me. i actually run the monitors at about 50% gamma.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: it wasn'
t the vendor. <<< maybe it was the vendor's useless bf.
badon: I can'
t remember what movie.
badon: Usually they can'
t be retrieved like the movie showed, because it's too dangerous.
badon: Most of it is secret information, but I seem to recall an event in the 1990's, but I don'
t remember where. There might have been one more recently too.
badon: Plutonium's existence can be easily detected from mere air sampling in the general region. You can'
t hide the fact that someone near you has it.
badon: I don'
t have that, because I don'
t delete any of my published posts, including the ones I would prefer to go away.
badon: You'll have to look, I honestly don'
t remember how far back it goes. I have hundreds of articles, and I think there's a chronological list somewhere...
BingoBoingo: I'm gassy. I probably shouldn'
t have had an entire broccoli
badon: I don'
t publish everything I'm doing, but what I have published is very impressive if I do say so myself.
badon: For example, if you look at a wikipedia list of the largest empires, I think the Romans don'
t even rank in the top 10.
badon: That's why the comparison isn'
t 1-to-1
mircea_popescu: seems to me that "mature numismatic market" contains some presupositions that won'
t hold after you flood it with random coins.
badon: I could create a project for it at the CC, if someone wanted to oversee it. I'm not qualified to do it myself, and we don'
t have the funding to have the CC team do it without some major help.
mircea_popescu: " I don'
t mind over paying a little as the wise man baden always says, to get what I like but I have limits & they are based on potential of growth, 10% is better than bank interest but I would rather a potential 50% - 2000%!!!!! (savvy or greedy?!)"
mircea_popescu: davout i can do that, sure. just, hadn'
t seen you in a while wanted to see if you still move or what.
badon: punkman: That's an interesting idea, but I haven'
t been able to envision a way to make that work. Do you have something in mind?
badon: The funny thing is, it's a prominent fellow in China who can'
t even read English. They have noticed the badon effect all the way in China, despite the fact all my writings are only in English. That's like causing a tsunami in Japan by flushing the toilet in Detroit.
davout: if there's a day you weren'
t around i would be able to identify this particular day, yes :-)
davout: you can'
t disable the auto-stfu
badon: coins aren'
t as rare as they truly are.
mircea_popescu: davout wait, wasn'
t tardstalk run on a newly made software by some one-guy company that got paid half a trillion dollars for that ?
gribble: Error: User doesn'
t exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
badon: mircea_popescu: You haven'
t seen anything yet. We use SMF at the CC forum as a bug tracking system.
mircea_popescu: afaik it copies wikipedia even to the "need donation" point. i really can'
t discern any structural difference ?
badon: So, ordinary $5 bills don'
t get tracked.
mircea_popescu: well no, if you make an engine and i ask "show me the part that'll make me grok wtf this is" you don'
t wanna show a leaflet.
badon: I hope that's good, but I really don'
t know since I haven'
t gotten any feedback about it yet.
assbot: Logged on 09-10-2013 03:46:03; mircea_popescu: i am amused at the noobs that still don'
t grasp why their average bitcoin lifespan is less than a year.
BingoBoingo: Don'
t worry, retire has plenty of time for you too.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what doesn'
t work? resolution? speed? the whole not being a phased array and so incapable of reconstructing 3d?
mats_cd03: i'm still trying to work out if i can do it all through shell script supervisors, but that probably won'
t happen
ben_vulpes: +asciilifeform:every penny i spend is recorded. even at parking meters. << you've got this weird habit of just doing what they tell you. i don'
t get it, especially given your proclivities and tendencies. it's almost as though you're...an ironic mole!
badon: I couldn'
t speak, so I couldn'
t ask until now, after asciilifeform voiced me so I could share what I was discussing with him privately about keyboards.
badon: I couldn'
t find a simple explanation in the channel topic, nor on the website.
badon: I wasn'
t aware of the existence of this channel, and I was going to ask what it's about.
badon: asciilifeform: Ah, so the mechanical ones aren'
t indestructible.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Don'
t worry, soon we will be in the 70's
badon: I assume it's lighter, cheaper, and less bulky, but I can'
t say for sure since I haven'
t got any mechanical keyboards.
badon: It's pretty durable, but I wouldn'
t trust it for 30+ years like the IBM model M. Of course, I take mine with me mobile, and that's extra-hard on keyboards. I think I'm averaging about 4 or 5 years before I break one of mine.
badon: I have used several Typematrix keyboards during the last decade. I tried all the best and most expensive ergonomic keyboards, but the Typematrix was the cheapest "serious" keyboard I tested, and it was also the best. It was also the most easily portable one too. I wrote an article yesterday about them, and a few ways to get discounts and free stuff if you buy things in the right sequence:
https://www.livebusinesschat.com/smf/index.php?t decimation: asciilifeform: don'
t you trust usb security?
PeterL: I'm suprised you don'
t reprogram the winblows key to be an extra control to give yourself another batch of functions at your fingertips?
decimation: I've used both and I didn'
t think that the 'natural keyboards' were all that more comfortable
gernika: asciilifeform: I find it interesting that you prefer the buckling springs over something like the Microsoft Natural Keyboard that doesn'
t require you flex your wrists sideways. That said, using the MS keyboard ultimately has not prevented me from having issues. I must try a springy keyboard.
PeterL: I can'
t quite see, what's in the middle of the arrow keys?
gernika: asciilifeform: so is someone who can'
t get ahold of a microwriter basically just fucked?
gernika: asciilifeform: also yes it's not hand shaped, but also does n'
t require you to twist your hand and splay your fingers
cazalla: kakobrekla, what? you don'
t have a rewards card? here is a form, please fill out
cazalla: yall don'
t have a rewards card for every store?
decimation: asciilifeform: I don'
t even want to see what he sees of all people, just of me
mike_c: hm? i don'
t mind people knowing i bought lightbulbs. it was only a couple.
decimation: mike_c: are you saying that luck ain'
t got nothing to do with it?
decimation: as ascii says, we don'
t even have computers yet
undata: I don'
t see how you solve that problem without having all source packages grabbed directly from creators with signatures verified, and compiling yourself
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i've only just now started appreciating good wines, i don'
t care to get into "good" monitors too.
cazalla: anyway, his timeline is still fucked up, bitmain didn'
t even ship scrpt miners back in october nor can you mine scypt coins with sha256 asics despite him claiming otherwise
mircea_popescu: how did that go, "if your nipples don'
t float halfway between your chin and your belly button, your tits ain'
t big enough"
hanbot: mircea_popescu she wasn'
t raped in coppola's dracula, ftr.
undata: strange, I didn'
t expect to see that around here
undata: As far as *why* there aren'
t intermediate species left, there are plenty of possible answers. One of them might be that early human populations were into cracking competing skulls
danielpbarron: how convenient, the intermediate species don'
t exist... but the Bible is still wrong because science!
mircea_popescu: it's a worhtwhile argument that the only reason blacks aren'
t chimps is that some middle links died off ?!
gribble: diana_coman was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 7 weeks, 5 days, 6 hours, 54 minutes, and 28 seconds ago: <diana_coman> I'm to blame for Sweete__ being here, since he pm-ed me about trading and I asked him why wasn'
t he in here if he was a trader
rithm: but iff all they have is a bunch of miners that doesn'
t imply new coin generation or a pool
cazalla: 28k bitcoin yet can'
t point out a single block they've mined
BingoBoingo: Happens, dunno how much news square can be though. Aren'
t they the derpy tablet dongle company?
cazalla: don'
t go putting my name in the logs lol
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2014 12:56:26; nubbins`: mircea_popescu:well if he did nubbins has some 'splainin' to do lol. <<< nope, in fact, i am also mildly perturbed by the fact that i mailed over $4,000 of goods to the guy and we didn'
t even get a couple measly pictures out of it
mircea_popescu: adlai not what it was. more of a "couldn'
t really refuse" sort of thing.
adlai: ok, let's say you weren'
t the only mark... still