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mircea_popescu: ascii_field the idea that as the skin fails away the body can move to a 2nd line of defense is ridiculous. people with burns over 80% of the surface don't survive on their own.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you're miscalculating costs.
ascii_field sorta gets what mircea_popescu meant here
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: slightly misunderstanding example. the ru tanks emboldened the rebels, hastening their deaths
ascii_field: or is mircea_popescu proposing that this is -EV for the folks involved
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and who will believe their cover ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field what does it mean "to be saved" ?
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i would like the 'pulling the pin' concept to get some traction
mircea_popescu: ascii_field nah, i wouldn't destreoy it.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: this is why i made the panel switches removable. easy installation of pull ring for zap toggle.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field maybe i'm veering into insanity by now, but i tell you honestly, i wouldn't give it to them if the whole country fucking sunk for it.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field because they're not actually tyhinking
mircea_popescu: an' something more spanish http://40.media.tumblr.com/b0b36b3bf037077c28002f7deb95deac/tumblr_mujcujfepM1qh70jeo1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
trinque: mircea_popescu: https://blockchain.info/address/14zzR9FfAZFEUxPAGrFoDAQDhEeiEpYtG5
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.trinque.2:83bd96c94c9f5b079148413fb831bb5be8a9354344140ef0d01bf274b81c4eab
trinque: mircea_popescu: I am doing the work of about 5 regular code-monkeys
assbot: You rated user mircea_popescu on 01-Mar-2013, with a rating of 4, and supplied these additional notes: upgraded to mah nigga.
thestringpuller: !rated mircea_popescu
trinque: mircea_popescu: yep, told mod6 above I'm going to try to work on it this week
BingoBoingo: !up ascii_field
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Yeah, and LibreSSL 2.0
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> BingoBoingo: you compiled against libressl, right? << Yeah
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
nubbins`: @eris_ltd So you're saying better locks & thick walls don't lower crime? If so, should we lock our doors at all? Smart contracts = locks.
trinque: ben_vulpes: indeed, that making corpses bit, "ahhhhh, yes"
trinque: mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: I enjoyed reading last night's convo on amazon and what finance is.
nubbins`: asciilifeform:ben_vulpes: where i went it was the 'credit-hour' <<< same, standard 3h/wk course was 3 credit hours
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2015 19:09:16; mircea_popescu: xiando: I thought I'd mention that openssl 1.0.1k apparently breaks bitcoin-core << this, of coruse, was discussed for the past few days :)
mod6: http://openssl.org/news/secadv_20150319.txt
danielpbarron: for some reason this particular machine had it as 16 -- easily fixed by running newfs_msdos over it
danielpbarron: !up danyalos_
danielpbarron: funkenstein_, in the UK it's the law/becoming law that you can be compelled to give up your private key in the interest of "protecting the economy"
danielpbarron: !up danyalos_
jurov: ;;later tell mircea_popescu the fees for new mpex accounts go to publicly known addy? if it's secret, why?
jurov: ;later tell mircea_popescu the fees for new mpex accounts go to publicly known addy? if it's secret, why?
jurov: ;;later tell mircea_popescu deposit pls. and no dividends yet?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes let me put it this way : trucks are an excellent midrange solution. if the distance they travel is neither too long nor too shoirt, they do fine
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: the (national) gas tax hasn't even been bumped to account for inflation since...93?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Sure
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> http://qntra.net/2015/03/bitcoin-foundation-reaches-release/ << might be worth calling out why a static build is noteworthy << Vessenes foundation seemed to have been doing static builds for the binaries they distribute... Needs more informed finger too elaboarate why this is different...
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> but they don’t understand what the calculations are really telling them, like Searle’s chinese room but with numbers. << i tried to have a conversation about amazon's quadcopter delivery system, using an ergodic analysis
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but you have to send someone to hunt these down and use them.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> besides, something tells me you'll salivate after the vibe of any place that's not washington fucking dc. << no but you see "muh jaeorb"
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> timisoara. it thinks itself a major romanian town, but it's more like... well... portland, basically. << dude the capital of the occupied coastal territories is remarkable only for being isolated from the retardation of both california and seattle
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> five-six thousand years later you'll be launching the titanic! << this is precisely what the "domes in the outback" routine is all about
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> assbot: Young Adults Are Losing All Hope of Buying a Starter Home - check it out, being a twentysomething usian kid is a worse fate than being a 20something chinese kid. << tell me about
asciilifeform: 'Much could be said about this affliction of the mind that causes people to assume that what they do not understand does not matter, that they have reached such a level of omniscience that they no longer need to observe and listen and learn. Having learned enough, some people evidently stop learning altogether. What they learned first is the standard for everything that comes later. That the probably only _truly_ random ele
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when they fail to grasp 'sky' once taken to the surface ?
mircea_popescu: !up nanashi_
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Sure. As in delivery and understanding the principle. Just don't understand the idea of Port.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eh no, plenty of properties with basements (not all flat elevation here). just $$$$
gribble: Square meters - Square feet units conversion: <http://www.unitsconversion.com.ar/surfaceunitsconversion/squaremeters-squarefeet.htm>; Convert square meter to square foot - area converter: <https://www.unitjuggler.com/convert-area-from-m2-to-sqft.html>; Convert 250 square meters to square feet - Answers.com: <http://www.answers.com/Q/Convert_250_square_meters_to_square_feet>
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Working on a piece
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: top euro quality, fit for any artist to starve in
gribble: Garsoniera Confort II - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kItltk2J6_8>; Garsoniera confort 1 sporit - zona Trafic Greu ( Mall Libery Center ...: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si3wu8uw5p8>; Sector 4 - Garsoniera confort 1 - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX3yhw2LO90>
gabriel_laddel: <mircea_popescu> what was the fucking soviet term for this, << kommunalki?
mircea_popescu: !up gabriel_laddel
asciilifeform: aha mircea_popescu grasps the subtlety here
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: usa has no 'austerity way' but does have the inevitable убеднение (orlov tried to introduce the term to engl., but it has no good ready translation)
mircea_popescu: http://41.media.tumblr.com/c54a814d32e3f8126fdf28b54fdcccbc/tumblr_mk3cnemPKQ1qh70jeo1_1280.jpg << cheapest anywhere!
BingoBoingo: !up adam_obrien
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^
decimation: asciilifeform: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/public_access/ < apparently usg will require some level of public access to usg-funded research papers
mod6: have a good night ben_vulpes, thanks again. :]
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: out of curiosity, what's the elisp doing in http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-March/000070.html ?
ben_vulpes: i'm sure mircea_popescu will take me to task for that but w/e
mod6: mircea_popescu && jurov!
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: per "asciilifeform: all kudos to mod6, all critiques to me" mod6 get the girls plural, you get singular girl. In the tradition of mp/kako BitBet tradition.
mod6: thanks for all your help ben_vulpes. couldn't have done it without you.
nubbins`: ben_vulpes earth's premiere cheese club
asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-March/000068.html << congrats to ben_vulpes and mod6
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 17:02:57; nubbins`: gabriel_laddel:Does anyone take issue with me describing the lordship as "the peerage" and #-assets as "earth's premiere commercial forum"? <<< ...
mircea_popescu: http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz4ldoJGIh1qh70jeo1_1280.jpg << nice guys don't look at the boobage.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: linked to illustrate that ^ observation.
BingoBoingo: !up gabriel_laddel
BingoBoingo: So the Vessenes Foundation is not as sophisticated at vote diddling as East StL http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/illinois/east-st-louis-mayor-files-as-write-in-candidate-for/article_e4966c68-f4ec-5964-8d75-cd8a226c3385.html
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> danielpbarron well i certainly didn't go in as far as that << This is why we read. You've got more important stuff to read most of the time.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, some bitch in her 40s who pretends she is being sexual harassed on twitter
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo3gaaNsQJ1qh70jeo1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: where i went it was the 'credit-hour'
ben_vulpes: !down ben_vulpes
mats: ben_vulpes: i was responding to mircea_popescu there
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes saying they're behaving like a forumite scammer is being generous.
assbot: Logged on 18-03-2015 13:57:11; nubbins`: ;;later tell mircea_popescu Alare Kool is from Bangladesh!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cared because 'if you don't know precisely who at the table is the chump...'
asciilifeform: mike_c: the other half of that thread was that i had serious doubts re: whether the service offered by mf inc. was actually economically possible as described, and ergo i might be a chump
asciilifeform: mike_c: aha
asciilifeform: mike_c: the tale with the board house was simply a case of 'wunderwaffen' that did not fire to spec
asciilifeform: mike_c: understand, i cannot blame this particular vendor for the overall pace of the work - only self. (in particular, i am not clever enough to escape from having a fairly intense day job)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was thinking of doing this.
asciilifeform: mike_c: did you actually think the rng was the cargo? rng was exhibited at C-II
asciilifeform: mike_c: but i'm still empty-handed for C-III
asciilifeform: mike_c: if the thing shows up on fri., and works to spec, then useful, sure
asciilifeform: mike_c: didn't say 'useless'
asciilifeform: 'money' in the allocator sense (see old mircea_popescu thread about subsistence vs capital-allocator)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i switched through a number of offered substitute parts, one of which may well have been this inductor-capacitor combo (erroneously offered as circuit-equivalent)
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