83100+ entries in 2.257s
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: I don'
t think I used the word suck.
BingoBoingo: Always nice to have more node options that don'
t care where the transactions they push come from
BingoBoingo: Yeah. Also it seems to not have its own wallt implementation, or at least the press release doesn'
t mention one which is a plus.
mircea_popescu: that end up is not even correct. they are. pretense to the contrary won'
t long endure.
mircea_popescu: the only consideration is if the thing actually costs 18k to make (cars don'
t really, but the mess of "safety" and "environmental" regulations make the "car" as defined actulaly cost a lot to make)
mircea_popescu: in point of fact people can and do spend 18k just on financing for a car they don'
t need (either because they live in ny, or because it'd be the 3rd family car etc)
thestringpuller: nubbins` yea i can'
t get in contact with the designer. He's being really sensitive right now.
mircea_popescu: apparently couch surfing isn'
t all it's cracked up to be
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2014 00:24:55; nubbins`: thestringpuller shirts finally arrived, printing films; your design doesn'
t have text converted to outlines
nubbins`: the fonts in the .ai file weren'
t outlined, and i don'
t have the fonts on my system
bounce: then it isn'
t happening. not impressed. sorry.
qq1932: This project is discretionary for me and if I don'
t find a backer based on this pre-qualificaiton then it is not happening. I have two other outside commitments that are very serious.
qq1932: mircea_popescu: I don'
t know how else to put this. I want to pitch just someone who has the level of physics understanding that they would have understood and funded the Watt engine (as an IP play, which is what it was) in 1700 (70 years early.)
mircea_popescu: qq1932 i didn'
t selfanything dood. this ain'
t about me.
qq1932: mircea_popescu: there is no "secret" component to this, I don'
t need to hold anything back. Of course, that only matters to those self-qualifying as having enough understnading to discriminate between the Watt's steam engine 70 years early (1700) and snake oil.
mircea_popescu: that's ok, i don'
t do private anything with people i don'
t know.
mircea_popescu: that was more like "ok we're screwed, how do we pretend this wasn'
t a terrible mistake"
mircea_popescu: twasnt the board, wasn'
t it bitching about how the office was going to be ?
mircea_popescu: "o let's push bezos into not paying engineers we shouldn'
t have hired salaries they shouldn'
t get anyway"
hanbot: mircea_popescu i don'
t think it's that simple, most people "beating their children" would likely result in the kids hating their parents rather than hating fucking up
mircea_popescu: the moral being, beat your children. if they don'
t know how to hate they don'
t know how to matter.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla if the thing were made by me you wouldn'
t have the retarded "this is facebook running on javascript" game market, and the "this is unextensible" view.
mircea_popescu: (i don'
t mean the techs that made it were idiots, they were competent. i mean their managers were idiots)
mircea_popescu: the thing is such a waste. if it weren'
t made by idiots it could have been surprisinglky cool.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla depending what you mean by "gui" in that snese, cli is a gui. itdoesn'
t make beeps after all.
mircea_popescu: and it didn'
t die because it was either a bad product or badly packaged.
mircea_popescu: electricity isn'
t a product even if it isn'
t a company.
assbot: Speaking live in about an hour at MIT
http://t.co/qJ1lq7q7Pv, as the first event to introduce the lucky undergrads to their $100 of bitcoin
thestringpuller: kakobrekla: i heard those aren'
t ready for production tho. very buggy.
mircea_popescu: if the bitchez dun think glass is cool, the nerds don'
t buy glass, and the whole story collapses
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla honestly, my thinking was, "either apple actually comes with holodisplays for a 2015ish horizon, or it won'
t matter by 2020"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i stopped the car, got out and spent the next hour screaming at people on the phone. << nao there's a man who doesn'
t take shit from people who are used to giving it all day.
kdomanski: mircea_popescu: I don'
t know about the cams, but the driver's front window is an array of mirrors, usually
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski tanks haven'
t had plain optics for a while now. too hard to shield.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i can'
t fucking believe scientificamerican seriously is advocating making tanks run windows. << i read this as "building tanks with windows for looking out of." funnily, they may just replace seeing windows with mircoderp windows
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski they weren'
t COMPLETELY bare were they ?
mircea_popescu: seeing how it's been about two years and the 30% still ain'
t all sold, and given that the contract was made at a btc of like 15 so it significantly misjudges things, and seeing how us having 0 shares in hand is inconvenient because we want to do things like give mike some shares cause he keeps doing cool shit
mircea_popescu: last time i tried to do it "bring your gf" but mostly ppl didn'
t.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what to do here, i mean the town is hooker central, but i don'
t imagine people would much like the italian arrangement
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones yes but they don'
t do salt pickles. which... romanians end up importing the gherkins and pickling locally.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t mean other places don'
t have good food, but if you're european/(french-italian branch), there's just nowhere to go.
mircea_popescu: and this isn'
t even all of it. when i left for mexico everyone in the us was like "pack tp"
mircea_popescu: to me too. and i got a 100 pesos samsung dumbphone. it's light, i couldn'
t care less if someone steals it.
☟︎ los_pantalones: mircea_popescu i couldn'
t believe how many people came up to me
mircea_popescu: decimation: TheNewDeal: i've heard that black bears aren'
t so aggressive as long as you don'
t corner a cub << bears generally aren'
t aggressive at all. felides&canides are aggressive if very hungry or during mating season, but otherwise you can get out and people have for ages. animal aggressivity is a cost/benefit consideration, they';re not the convenient antichrist retarded human shamans preach.
kdomanski_: I'm suprised to see there aren'
t any bets related to what Russia is doing
decimation: TheNewDeal: i've heard that black bears aren'
t so aggressive as long as you don'
t corner a cub
decimation: he doesn'
t get any pr staff position in the ro government?
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment got .3 and isn'
t on there ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know i don'
t get this general conspiracy to stuff monkeys down kids' throats
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i had planned to forum post past weekend, came down with flu so didn'
t get the chance, fever is the worst
hanbot: kakobrekla how about people who need a timer don'
t get to bet
mircea_popescu: boolrap depends. but in general, unless you're making something like strudel it doesn'
t take that long to fix a meal.
mircea_popescu: that spring water has complaints does not mean sprite doesn'
t have 500x that many complaints.
mircea_popescu: wasn;
t that lead by the very picturesque Richard Florida ?!
mircea_popescu: and they won'
t be able to get out of it by aggitating the "us legislation" dog, nobody cares.
mircea_popescu: "here is the address to pay to. if you pay in the next 10 minutes, you need to pay this much. if you don'
t and the price moves in your favour expect change in your originating address ; if it moves against you expect a new invoice generated for the difference"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes how would you know ? you don'
t check people's peckers do you ?
DiabloD3: so to tell me women aren'
t willing participants in the whole office thing is bullshit
mircea_popescu: "TGI Friday's (often shortened to "Friday's" in most countries, previously stylized as "
T.G.I. Friday's", and stylized "FRiDAY'S", or "
T.G.I.s" in Ireland and the United Kingdom) is an American restaurant chain focusing on casual dining."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: X-Rob: I've rented hash and pointed it there for 48 hours. Hopefully this drives the pool diff up or... << i don'
t get it, the pool diff can'
t be arbitrarily set ?
mircea_popescu: i can'
t fucking believe scientificamerican seriously is advocating making tanks run windows.
mircea_popescu: the us is by now that loser kid everyone "borrow" things from, and he doesn'
t mind if you'll just be his friend.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2014 18:06:25; asciilifeform: diametric: an adequate trng is incredibly easy to build. but don'
t use adc noise on a general-purpose micro - is heavy on quantization bias, and easy to nudge from outside.
nubbins`: thestringpuller shirts finally arrived, printing films; your design doesn'
t have text converted to outlines
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dude i can'
t believe this thing i edited one place but not the other and signed it like that o.O
peterl: I see. I guess you can'
t go back and change it, what with signatures and such
nubbins`: don'
t tell me, tell the people who lelled at my plan
nubbins`: ehh, retirement doesn'
t mean you stop working, just means you don'
t have to
mircea_popescu: aha so this 46-47 business isn'
t actually all that extraordinary ?