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TheNewDeal: I've worked in manufacturing envirorments for a few years now, was quite familiar with that acronym but didn'
t think you were using it for some reason
TheNewDeal: I just don'
t get why they think it's all about some party
mircea_popescu: but for that matter, so am i, the kids with the apps haven'
t yet discovered bitcoin pays better.
decimation: what about plasma cutter? wouldn'
t that heat while cutting?
mircea_popescu: which it is. and yet... the discussion isn'
t whether it looks promising (in the terms of today)
mircea_popescu: where is the locklin one. basically his thesis was that "printed guns will never work because the barrel isn'
t sexy"
mircea_popescu: and by too clean i mean the sort that doesn'
t bareback random whores because "who knows what may happen"
mircea_popescu: decimation this is a particular sort of methodological error strategists of the "too clean" variety make. the error is to imagine that what's in question is whether the new thing is promising (positive) rather than broken (negative). fact is any new thing that isn'
t broken will probably outperform any current thing simply because business is about growth.
mircea_popescu: wasn'
t he the guy who overengineered a diode while neglecting transistors to the point nobody could afford it ?
assbot: S.
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mircea_popescu: people who have to come to b-a to start a successful operation don'
t need just the money, or even the money at all.
mircea_popescu: it's because they don'
t get the incentive or the opportunity to use a large swath of the brain.
mircea_popescu: this is the reason you broadly cabn'
t have intelligent rural people : too contemplative, by the nature of what rural means.
mircea_popescu: meh i can'
t find where i said it. anyway, in that film, which is predicated on the notion that an urbanite goes in the rural other world (he's a fraudulent film talent scout, cinecita was a big deal in post war italy).
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the folks pushing the 'urban' ('totalitarian', etc, pick favourite term) << these seriously aren'
t equivalent.
decimation: "if we can'
t bring everyone up to your level then we will tear you down"
decimation: re: gov'
t control: witness the usg attempting to "control" "guns"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: eventual goal, for the state, is an endgame where you can'
t grow your own potato in secret any more than you can produce your own 14nm cpu. << eventual endgame, for the utopian socialist/nazist state, as for any utopian/figment of imagination, is human relevancy.
mircea_popescu: i couldn'
t begin to give less of a shit about what sex "ed" programs say there, wherever that is.
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: I've seen quite a lot, but even if that wasn'
t the case, the sex ed programs here don'
t promote fallacious negative images about people's sexuality because of genital shape
mircea_popescu: and im not sure who can afford to piss off a nation of submarineers, but it wouldn'
t be the us.
mike_c: ^ don'
t tell whoever added 37 PH/s over the last two weeks. they'll be pissed.
Vexual: can'
t keep a good man down
Duffer1: nope, i got very lucky, it ruptured, but didn'
t get infected
Duffer1: my stomach isn'
t a basketball anymore
xmj: it's an example of market forces at work without redistribution; of course they don'
t like that.
usagi: I warned him about getting in with the wrong crowd. Guess he didn'
t know who his friends were
usagi: I didn'
t know the terrahash failure was so spectacular
TheNewDeal: site hasn'
t change much, merely the bets
usagi: There isn'
t much available right now. I've been chatting with you recently. thought I'd ask
TheNewDeal: yes, it's called Don'
t Feed the Scammers
usagi: But a lot of the contracts had NDA's at the customer's request so I don'
t usually talk about particulars
usagi: TheNewDeal yesterday you said I told you I was insuring people (kakobrekla) against glbse defaults. I didn'
t say that, kako's contract was for pirate
mike_c: BingoBoingo: doesn'
t work like is inaccurate? or just that it's a bad idea to begin with.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i didn'
t make this bedrock, i just drill through it
RagnarDanneskjol: i don'
t know for certain, just have to use all these benefits comparison resources for work and it appears dental/vision is always heavily discounted for gummint folk. and yes, they get the pretax bennies too
ben_vulpes: <jurov> that was more like a tweet << playing with the format a bit, yeah. 140 characters ain'
t enough, but less than 200 words can be fine too.
TheNewDeal: hadn'
t watched it with the voiceover yet
TheNewDeal: wasn'
t usagi giving insurance though at a VERY late point in the pirate ship?
TheNewDeal: "In the event of a full pirate default, NYAN.C will loose out, and CPA holds NYAN which holds NYAN.C. Then we have contracts on the outside as well. All in all CPA will remain very solvent, it may lose 20% of it's value in a full default. But we stands just as ready to gain 20% if pirate doesn'
t default." - it will remain very solvent
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think there's been a block with a transaction in it since may.
X-Rob: I've probably spent about 10k over the years on video cards, power supplies, etc. I haven'
t put any dollars into it in over 18 months (since ASICs became The One True Way(tm), basically).
mircea_popescu: it's like "dudes if you don'
t make the world friendlier to stupid people i'll stab myself in the eye"
mircea_popescu: this silver that can'
t even keep 1%... what silver is it!
chetty: USA doesn'
t really have farmers in the fields anymore
chetty: <usagi> Thanks, I was looking at monsanto the other day actually and according to them at least, they don'
t produce "terminator seeds".// YET
pete_dushenski: iirc le putin is banning gmo crud in his fair land, if the sanctions aren'
t doing it first
pete_dushenski: therefore having an issue with the use of "gmo" is akin to having an issue with a "president" who could be a figure skating soccer mascot, but isn'
t pankkake: tried fasting, I don'
t take it well
artifexd: It isn'
t approval. It's just a notification.
StephanLivera: usagi, but they even sold the silk road bitcoins. If they find illicit drugs, they don'
t sell those - they destroy them. So that in itself shows some treatment of legitimacy
usagi: I don'
t think they are interested in stopping it
usagi: Isn'
t the government (the US government anyway) already taxing bitcoin?
StephanLivera: chetty, exactly - the tighter government controls constrict people and their choices, the MORE they want to look elsewhere. The best 'elsewhere' is bitcoin, most people just haven'
t realised this yet.
StephanLivera: gold can'
t be so easily sent overseas / via internet
pankkake: "Why did this get down voted? Maybe they didn'
t read past Tim, you ignorant slut"
punkman: so you go up to the machine to withdraw some money, and the machine is like fuck you dude, I don'
t take pirateat40BTC
fluffypony: they're asking you to build a piece of software that isn'
t inherently malicious
fluffypony: RagnarDanneskjol if you don'
t do it for them will they find someone else?