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asciilifeform: i have no fucking idea what the man's problem was.
asciilifeform: at the time i even had access to the necessary calorimeter. so it would not have even been the 50k.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can.
mircea_popescu: this being the main problem with "idea people", theoretical physicists or otherwise. "oh, i see over the fence" "get lost"
asciilifeform: sorta what i said to him about my 50k-usd eotvos tester variant.
mircea_popescu: i admit to being a very short physicist, theoretical or otherwise.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact we're flat against a tall stair, and so i don't expect much either way.
mircea_popescu: i'm not even the first to observe this, by a good century.
asciilifeform: i don't even have any reason to think that the chart accurately depicts the ~tax-paying~ folk.
mircea_popescu: 5k, 10k, 15k, 250k and over. o look, there's more in this "250k or over" than in the average 5k increment! could it be because it contains i dunno, 111`864 increments ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder, if they continued with the same increments all the way to 100mn, would it look the same way ?
asciilifeform: i make generous use of my arse.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i kinda tire of this "here's random boyish nonsense i just pulled from ass, plox consider it seriously" affair. we shall resume later!
mircea_popescu: the fact remains de broglie is an instructive example. i'd imagine he'd have said something AT SOME POINT neh ?
asciilifeform: this is where i disagree with mircea_popescu .
mircea_popescu: so then it IS a parochial argument to ignorance, "but mp, i can't see my spleen!"
mircea_popescu: there's plenty of successful cases, not as many as one'd want, i guess, but hey.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on the contrary, i can ping the corner mirror from here.
mircea_popescu: isn't this the same "color of my spleen and i can't see who landed on the moon on my own desk" argument ?
asciilifeform: fwiw i personally have never met anyone worth talking to who inherited anything bigger than a library. but then again i prolly dun count as 'person' in mircea_popescu's radar.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure for every machiavelli that did find ink and paper, a hundred didn't. this has very little to do with anything.
asciilifeform: adelberger: 'you ain't doing physics unless i give you a few hours on this here machine. and i ain't gonna.'
mircea_popescu: i fail to see the relation.
asciilifeform: at any rate, particle accelerator per se exists, i have demonstrable items right here that there is no other known means of making. question concerns GIGANTIC particle accelerator, or gravity wave telescope, or other item, where output is ~not replicable~ by anyone who lacks access to ~that very same~ instrument
asciilifeform: when i live-blog seppuku, i promise to mention it!
asciilifeform: realize that from where i sit, it is not possible by any means whatsoever to distinguish whether the particles actually fly, or whole echafaudage is == to 'n-rays' machine.
mircea_popescu: because i now suspect i was always talking of the former part and you of the latter.
asciilifeform: i dun think they are separable.
asciilifeform: and i don't buy ANY of the 'low-hanging fruit' gargle.
asciilifeform: maxwell et al made do with no more tools than i have here where i sit.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure people had to sign all sorts of spurious crap in order to give themselves a nice tan in the berylium bed.
asciilifeform: every lab i worked in, the chief spent ~90% of his time, doing guess what ?
mircea_popescu: "i need someone ELSE to GIVE me a million" is the very definition of a kid.
mircea_popescu: mno. the wet dream of every kid with a superman delusion that was recast into "science genius" rather than shed is that hey, he shall FIGHT CRIME ^H^H^H i mean DISCOVER SCIENCE.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1501221 << the fundamental reason being, that the forest has been hunted bare, then cut down. this idealistic "i shall make physics discovery without refined tools" yields exactly sovietisms a la "aggregated water" and "Lysenko's hardy winter crops" ☝︎
asciilifeform: i have no doubt that the nomenklatura who can get away with peccadillo like carrying pistol, is quite large.
mircea_popescu: i do suspect its that idiot hitchens entirely.
mircea_popescu: trinque i have nfi where his hatred comes from, but anyway.
asciilifeform: hence the 'empty holster' people on trains i mentioned earlier
mircea_popescu: i think you two gotta differentiate "gun as nobility mark" from "gun as tool of labour"
phf: well, *knew. i'm not sure how things might've changed in 10 years
phf: asciilifeform: nah, there are options. i know security guys that have concealed caries in DC, you have to demonstrate that you've been repeatedly assaulted (or i assume if you're going through agency) that you're in immediate danger of assault, etc. a random mall derp's not going to get it, but a freelance security can
phf: asciilifeform: i don't see a problem with people doing it that way. that solution came up when i was trying to figure out how to get a concealed cary in DC. but i suspect your problem is going to be not just finding everyone on the books in various smalltowns, TX, but also discovering their real current home address
mircea_popescu: ftr i don't see the war crimes case against hitler either. i can see it against tony blair, or the current derp, or the german lapdog what's her name.
asciilifeform: i dun see any serious factual counter-argument to 'kissinger was two-legged disaster'
asciilifeform: what can i say, go buy all of'em
phf: mircea_popescu: i suspect you can get it for 30k or so, enough for "new conference room" or whatever
mircea_popescu: i'm not sure that was the case even in the 50s.
asciilifeform: if i walk in with 50k, i get -50k and jail
mircea_popescu: whence am i a senator ?!
mircea_popescu: i don't need to ask that, i know >D
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 15:09 mircea_popescu: for that matter, as being a "police officer" is the one ustard nobility class they recognize, i wonder how many derps are "police officers" in name only. seems like a pretty decent deal, sign up with the pd dept, show up an hour a month or so, in exchange get weapon and shoot whoever.
mircea_popescu: the khmer blacks/green/whatever i dun have a problem with.
mircea_popescu: and no, teh hitlers i mean clintons also democrats.
asciilifeform: i suppose clitler is then in mircea_popescu's ever-slightly-extended wot ?
a111: Logged on 2014-07-27 19:05 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in 2010 i concocted a variant of the test that could be carried out for approx. 50k USD, from scratch. schwartz answered that, in his estimation, the test would work to spec, but results would not be accepted by the field unless carried out on one of the two existing eotvos balances. one - adelberger's, one - chicom.
Framedragger: asciilifeform: re. k, true that. and what with my home country being a usg bitch, i recall my high school's history teacher (who also was its director) being basically in love with kissinger, quoting him left and right and openly admiring him - incl. his person, i think. wonder if he still does the same. ah, good times..
asciilifeform: so ^ new 'diebold', just like there is no longer a 'blackwater' but some ??? (i have nfi what the latest name is.)
asciilifeform: i still find it curious, that somebody bothered to kidnap and hang eichmann, but not kissinger.
mircea_popescu: kissinger, i see no problem with.
mircea_popescu: i'm definitely going to push for it.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, all i see is hilary duff, with a smattering of hilary hahn, whatever that is. my google ain't heard of clinton.
mircea_popescu: i was discussing the future propaganda not as much the actual reality underneath.
asciilifeform: eh i've been to the courthouse
mircea_popescu: i won once, and can tell you, never bothered to.
mats: practicing small unit tactics i presume, asciilifeform
asciilifeform: phun phakt, when i worked at a u.s. army base, it was guarded ENTIRELY by these.
mircea_popescu: "i guess he wanted to be cool and tried as best he could" sorta fellows.
asciilifeform: i saw 1,001 of these.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dunno that we have this kind of 'policeman' quite yet.
mircea_popescu: i guess the drawback is you gotta paint your car like a circus act
mircea_popescu: for that matter, as being a "police officer" is the one ustard nobility class they recognize, i wonder how many derps are "police officers" in name only. seems like a pretty decent deal, sign up with the pd dept, show up an hour a month or so, in exchange get weapon and shoot whoever. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i saw em all.
mircea_popescu: what's your idea of watch ? i don't think i sat through a whole tv show at any point in my lyf.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm being webracist. i wouldn't go to listen to a band with a myspace page either.
asciilifeform: it's a static www hosted, for no reason i can discern, on shithub.
mircea_popescu: "this is our life" myeah, i can see that.
thestringpuller: But honestly, capital controls are poor money laundering deterrents. I think all it does is creates higher demand for money laundering as a service.
thestringpuller: When I used to use coinbase it'd ask me like every month to re-verify or some-shit.
thestringpuller: i'm almost certain they lose that data often
mircea_popescu: i guess so.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i see his point, fwiw. it's very infantile "i am great!", so infantile it hasn't even reached the point of individuadion where 2yo goes "and you're not me"
thestringpuller: i dunno i'm not a theology expert but i'll look more into it!
danielpbarron: thestringpuller, I thought of it like "I am the universe looking at itself from within itself"
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: i though taoism was more about worshipping all that exist. like "the universe is great, and good."
danielpbarron: yes I think in order to worship you need to have someone to worship
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron well yes, but the q is whether "to worship" is necessarily transitive. is it like "i fuck", with an agent needed and implied if not given explicitly, or is it like "it rains", whereby there's no need for someone to be raining specifically, "it" does.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if you can have a church that worships no god at all. ☟︎
danielpbarron: it may be -- I don't necessarily have a problem with cults so long as they aren't worshipping a false god
mircea_popescu: i thought it was a cult.
mircea_popescu: but these are different concerns. i dunno how it runs, but i don't think there's customarily some guy in the church extolling aa is there ? ☟︎
danielpbarron: just like i wouldn't put on a church service preaching the saving grace of the logs, I won't put on a service about how AA saves
danielpbarron: then the logs would be the Bible then i guess
danielpbarron: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1500978 << heh not if i'm involved. like I mentioned months ago: AA is a false religion. I will have no part of it. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: iiincredibru. i have old shoes with more of an ontic claim.
mircea_popescu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/350.org << i suspect the number of things which exist strictly in wikipedia and the feverish brains of libertard delusionists by now exceeds the number of things that actually exist.
mircea_popescu: (yes i just quoted the seinfeld rabi. go me.)
mircea_popescu: i guess so.
mircea_popescu: well, there's theological problems with everything. i'm for instance not terribly keen on the whole "higher power" stuff.
BingoBoingo: I thought there were theological problems with the thing before re: Darwin Fish