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mircea_popescu: this is like saying jc penny is on top of the grocery trade
mircea_popescu: but to say x is on top of the gold service pile
firedrops: significant value is relative, i'm not vetting them for investment purposes, just to increase my gold pile.
firedrops: i'm only picking up a handlful of 1/10s here and there.
mircea_popescu: krugerrand, like the most common bullion coin
mircea_popescu: firedrops well, slower than some people'd want, faster than i think is reasonable.
firedrops: FYI, AMAGI metals seems to be on the top of the gold for btc service pile. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170329.0
firedrops: ah, nice to know. I haven't kept up on the S.MG goings on.
mircea_popescu: notrly, in that eulora is 3d
nubbins`: i wasn't quite greedy enough at the time, as it turns out
nubbins`: remember a while ago when i was faced with the dilemma of how greedy to be?
gribble: MtGox BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 355.0, Best ask: 356.195, Bid-ask spread: 1.19500, Last trade: 355.0, 24 hour volume: 48585.39568320, 24 hour low: 281.0, 24 hour high: 358.0, 24 hour vwap: 321.0482
asciilifeform: sorta like the ant traps.
mircea_popescu: counterfeit utility all the way.
mircea_popescu: what else is civilisation as misunderstood in the us all about ?
asciilifeform: if anyone had the least bit of a clue re: how to make it happen, betcha it would.
asciilifeform: time to roll out 'wireheading', perhaps.
mircea_popescu: a dead brain that does nothing is simply banal.
mircea_popescu: it's not a corpse, that's the thing. a living brain that does nothing, that's nirvana.
asciilifeform: ('available from the Colt Health-Life Insurance and Retirement Savings Company!')
asciilifeform: by that argument, the 'colt .45 retirement plan' would be the ultimate peace of mind...
asciilifeform: i just don't get the 'here's my private key. please don't run off with everything' way of thinking.
mircea_popescu: peace of mind is this atonal forgetfulness thing
pankkake: asciilifeform: the blockchain isn't the issue anyway, you can use light clients like Electrum
mircea_popescu: nonono. that's the wrong one.
kakobrekla: peace of mind dissolves exponentially with the rise of stakes
mircea_popescu: basically, heroin is the end all be all peace of mind maker.
asciilifeform: "The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn’t need its brain anymore, so it eats it!"
asciilifeform: like the sea cucumber that eats its brain when it finds a place to plant?
mircea_popescu: i don;t think you two understand how "peace of mind" works.
asciilifeform: fiddybucks buys you a 'raspberry' or whatever the pocket computer of the day
asciilifeform: not like you need a brain to run the blockchain
asciilifeform: i'm still perplexed by the popularity of 'web wallets.' what do 20GB cost now? $0.20?
jcpham: losing your coin to web wallet is like the oldest trick in the book
mircea_popescu: i don't actually have anything i can point to.
jcpham: a web based wallet service is always gonna be a high value target
kakobrekla: why do you think that
mircea_popescu: jcpham i think he actually got raped tbh.
asciilifeform: 'triple integral too heavy? here's a wakizashi. see you at noontime, bring the white sheets.'
mircea_popescu: yeah. if you fail at maths you gotta give it all up and move on to reality tv
mircea_popescu: and get out of their way and avert your fucking eyes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: right. and don't forget to include seppuku.
mircea_popescu: you're not good enough to be amather ? this means they can come fuck your wife any time they want and you'll serve them sake,.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, i tell you, it has to be the samurai way.
nubbins`: not sure why he wrote an adult having sex with a 15yo girl into the plot
asciilifeform: nah, this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem
nubbins`: try to find the actual story before ruining the ending for yourself
jcpham: that's what I'm reading on the interwebs recently
jcpham: so this tradefortress guy pulled the 'ol forum web wallet scam
asciilifeform: want to diddle maths? wear a cloak, eat rice, visit the outside every decade.
asciilifeform: neal stephenson had the right idea with his 'math monasteries'
asciilifeform: problem, as often is, sinecures attract time-servers.
truffles: thats the world we live in isnt it
asciilifeform: got lysenkoized along with the others.
truffles: i thought MIT was one of the good ones..
asciilifeform: truffles: typical american 'public-private partnership.' (would close down overnight if not for payola.)
asciilifeform: the 'new books' shelf at my uni library is full of this.
asciilifeform: 'climate change consequences of transsexual discrimination' all the way through.
asciilifeform: anyone who thinks that american academia is alive should look at the products of 'mit press' for the past 20 yrs.
mircea_popescu: im firmly persuaded we just can't tell it apart because of all the nonsense.
asciilifeform: how many have touched so much as algebra.
mircea_popescu: there's gotta be some good stuff among them.
mircea_popescu: these'd be mostly western guys who had it up to here with the young bitches that don't belong in the class in the first place bothering them with "sexual harassment" concerns
mircea_popescu: but the material'd be there, "you'd need someone to do the picking"
mircea_popescu: you'll have teh human material breaking down your doors
mircea_popescu: if you make Novi Sciencegrad much in the way of cheliabinsk except run by the scientists rather than the services,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you also need the human material to be actually available.
mircea_popescu: and there's nobody really.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, you'd need someone to do the picking of them professors
asciilifeform: the reason why modern attempts at this are laughable is the state of the credentialling system.
mircea_popescu: round up 100 uni professors, give them unlimited funds and legal immunity if they move to your park. the rest follows naturally.
mircea_popescu: graham wrote the blueprint for that, it's correct :
asciilifeform: this is actually a fundamental problem in 'virtual reality' machines. including a servo powerful enough to make a fist hitting a simulated 'desk' feel like table and not goo, will break your arm if the timing is a few Ms off.
mircea_popescu: idiot bureaucrats trying to make science parks with tax breaks.
kakobrekla: url to that?
asciilifeform: the ones that would bust your knees after a little run.
asciilifeform: whenever i see 'exoskeletons,' i think back to the soviet gasoline-powered '7-league boots'.
nubbins`: okay, gotta get to work. busy month
nubbins`: "to... the... *grunt* mooooooon!"
ThickAsThieves: making it look fatter than is
nubbins`: "i have real muscles too, see"
nubbins`: tat, do you suppose the pillows stuffed in his suit are functional or just there for aesthetics?
nubbins`: i was expecting a photo of those titan coins
ozbot: An Exoskeleton That Boosts Biceps Wins James Dyson's $45,000 Prize | Wired Design | Wired.com
nubbins`: "7 insane reasons not to store your blowstamps on the intertubes!"
kakobrekla: random ltc fanboi comments: "Yeah, thats why i use litecoin instead"
mircea_popescu: the wired is very sensible. i hope it tells us more about chatting for bitcoin (offline)
nubbins`: "This Wired headline uses euphemisms that will escape many"
ThickAsThieves: Wired wisdom: "This $1.2M hack shows you why you should never store your bitcoins on the internet."
nubbins`: with a tip o' the hat to stanley's sign and screen supplies
nubbins`: fuck. this. i'm having another one of these cookies
benkay: true of the world in general. thank you, american science.
truffles: <mircea_popescu> the girl liked being raped so much she feared being returned to her country above all things ? >>> wtf ppl why's he making most sense itc , disappoint
mircea_popescu: "oh, that's just somebody mining"
ThickAsThieves: what better way to travel than as a rock
nubbins`: i missed the solar eclipse the other day :(
mircea_popescu: someone in the kuipier belt broke out the asteroid o nine tails.
mircea_popescu: anyway, let's get back to our geek roots :
mircea_popescu: benkay was a batch of options traded yest, and a batch today.
benkay: in this case the second guy means the options bot?