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a111: Logged on 2016-06-20 02:28 BingoBoingo:
A few months ago got my first cordless drill. Went with "Ryobi Starter Drill" so the battery would work with reciprocating saw I wanted which comes without battery. Reciprocating saw is wonderful. Drill chuck slips on drill bits all the time so in
a futile effort t detach chuck the contents of the drill's gearbox is now scattered on
a corner of my desk.
phf: see you guys were wise, our assumption was that we're going to
a better soviet union, not zimbabwe ;)
phf: i was actually comparing
a zojirushi rice cooker that i bought from amazon to the one my jap friend brought from motherland. it's sort of like is somebody designed an item that's supposed to look identical from the distance, but has lower resolution upon closer inspection. missing features, BIG buttons and less of them, cheaper rougher molding. it's hilarious
BingoBoingo: I am still puzzled by the decision to give cheapest drill
a gearbox with 16 clutch settings instead of
a chuck that can fucking hold
a bit.
BingoBoingo:
A few months ago got my first cordless drill. Went with "Ryobi Starter Drill" so the battery would work with reciprocating saw I wanted which comes without battery. Reciprocating saw is wonderful. Drill chuck slips on drill bits all the time so in
a futile effort t detach chuck the contents of the drill's gearbox is now scattered on
a corner of my desk.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Was
a boy scout so rite of passage. Was carbon steel so also required oiling.
phf: oh nice, i've not picked up that skill until quite recently, maybe
a year ago i bought
a whittling knife before
a trip to alaska and i've been kind of doodling with it since
phf: oh man, i forgot about this thing. i'm pretty sure it was my first exposure to
a mechanical object that i used extensively and had to take care of
phf: i'm pretty sure i've done that, at least to prime the spot. also as
a child that's kind of
a natural inclination
phf: only if you have
a properly sized negro
ben_vulpes: i did that for
a while, when moving frequently. its not really that much of
a hassle to get it put in wherever, and to insulate the offense to the skin myself.
ben_vulpes: ty and trinque. notquite bunker, but not mass-produced foamed petro product either, which is quite
a score.
jurov: no need even to optimize,
a ~ hour/gigabyte in plain python
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah this is only
a test. i'll send alf the whole openpgp-wrapped bundle once that's done processing. the above is just
a test, and it's
a false positive
jurov: coinbr is
a failure
jurov: mostly that
a bit sophisticated attacker could cause bills for coinbr to skyrocket easily
Framedragger:
a yea it's dns related, not just "down". curious
mircea_popescu: in fairness, the whole mpex/tmsr/etc thing is ~equivalent to
a ten ton hammer of pure cognitive dissonance for man on clapham omnibus.
mats: if mpex had rounded rectangles fwr wouldn't have given it
a second thought
shinohai: Sorry, but I'm tired of sitting at home, I dream to go for
a walk."
shinohai: "I lost my leg in
a car accident, collecting some BTC for prosthesis i really want to function normally.
mircea_popescu: hey, they wouldn't let go of mtgox until
a year+ later and millions more were lost.
pete_dushenski: i paid fiverr guy to 'view'
a yt clip 5k times. results were delivered. several months later, yt removed those paid for 'views'. like ethereum 'rollback' i guess.
pete_dushenski: turns out that ios will also auto-download the update as soon as you connect to wifi (it's
a 200+ mb file) and harass you 2-5 PER DAY until you submit to installing it.
mircea_popescu: apparently there's
a LOT of hate for usg/mit/vit-alik butt-erin/doa/etc out there.
pete_dushenski: o hey no one died in an open-cockpit racer this morning in baku. who would've predicted that raising
a generation of drivers who've known neither injury nor death, no matter the speeds and stupidity of their crashes, would lead to
a buncha fuckin pussies the likes of which are suitable only for perfume advertisements
a111: Logged on 2016-06-15 15:08 asciilifeform: 'On Friday, Secretary Penny Pritzker of the US Department of Commerce joined special assistant to the president for economic policy Adrienne Harris and other top White House officials for an event featuring
a lecture from Brian Forde, director of digital currency initiative
a the MIT Media Lab, and multiple panels on financial technology more generally speaking. Hosted at the Eisenhower Executive Office Build
BingoBoingo: Although some sheriffs departments have police cheifs too when the sheriff is
a figurehead that doesn't run their department.
mircea_popescu: phf the only problem here is that the ~6-800mn mouthbreather population contains
a good 20 to maybe 50mn of these hard working, intelligent, dedicated folks. 99.???% of which get burned out by some idiot "boss" working within the imbecile ideological framework they got going there.
phf: i mean i'm pretty sure the ad bid system generated at least
a handful of public talks at conferences, etc, which i'm sure painted the ad company in most positive of lights.
phf: thing is the owner was
a micromanaging psychopath, so the project lead, who was trying to build
a "rockstart" team and build
a "kickass" product, ended up working there long enough to lay the foundation, before burning out, losing his shit, devorcing his wife, etc. but the project was
a complete failure, that never the less provided
a legitimate front for the company's real operations. they usual array of porn banners, dirty affiliate marketing, f
phf: i briefly worked for an ad company, was hired to do realtime ad bidding. google and few other companies send you
a request. "such and such ad space available, starting bid is this many cents, you have 500ms to formulate
a response, how much you want to pay and ad url, we let you know if won." request comes with
a tracking id, so by sitting on the pipe long enough and placing losing bids you were supposedly able to both build up user profiles and g
mircea_popescu: yes "smart" ads etc are not smart nor useful nor productive. yes the whole "online marketing" "community" absolutely must be taken to concentration camp for
a month, beaten daily, then sent to cut salt and carry tank barrels.
mircea_popescu: "I bet if you went to
a client and presented
a 200 kilobyte site template, you’d be fired. Even if it looked great and somehow included all the tracking and ads and social media crap they insisted on putting in. It’s just so far out of the realm of the imaginable at this point. " <<->> curl '
http://trilema.com' --silent --write-out 'size_download=%{size_download}\n' --output /dev/null
mircea_popescu: such
a chinese thinker. all he wants to do is spit out
a pictogram.
mircea_popescu: ie, when
a black person gives something to another black person.
mircea_popescu: in fact, if the poor complain that charity as-is is insufficient, you're
a thousand times better off simply burning them all down than trying to "optimize" it.
mircea_popescu: it tends to raise taxes slowly, until in
a century or
a millenium they reach the 20%ish threshold and then the whole thing's fucked.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the insidiousness of christianity, as
a jewish sect, is the whole "must take care of the poor" thing.
mircea_popescu: rarely,
a 60-80% thing (soviets) will crack up and re-become 5-15%.
mircea_popescu: you can have space dust. but NOT in this band around
a planet.
mircea_popescu: in any case :
a marginally acceptable definition of "palace economy" is : tax over 50% of gdp. by this rule the usg, eu etc qualify. nothing else in the world does.
mircea_popescu: anyway. you'll have
A LOT of trouble proving 1800s england was
a "palatial economy". tax was ~inexistent at the time.
mircea_popescu: this moves the discussion to
a debate as to the true substance of that place.
mircea_popescu: i for instance count philosophy as such "differentiates" us. you apparently only count
a narrow definition of math-engineering ?
mircea_popescu: point in case : there isn't
a 1% as much bitcoin-culture in all the usg.mit, usg.whartever sponsored "teams" and "think tanks" and etc of what's here.
mircea_popescu: and then rape the daughters and tie them seven to
a pole and so on. what.
mircea_popescu: shit, i could DEFINITELY burn down the ~10mn strong buenos aires with
a thousand people, that were actual people ie, the sort one'd run into back in the yugoslav war days.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the situation at the time is very much reminiscent of the current usg palace economy. one warrior is more than
a match for many thousand "upstanding citizens". if seven ships worth 1k people sporting kalash with infinte ammo landed on us west coast, which consisted of "start-up culture" only, the result would be very much what happened at the end of the bronze age, or for that matter at the end of the aztec empire.
mircea_popescu: (memorably,
a pharaoh of the period speaks of the HORROR of the SEVEN!!111!! ships that came and ravaged his lands. imagine - seven's enough, not even
a thousand warriors' worth.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's not the whole story, but yes, "pharaoh" means great house, for one thing, and it's not practical given the resources of the time to build
a great house in any other system.
mircea_popescu: (its evolution in turn based on
a very simple notion, directly accessible to the very simple minds then roaming the earth - as quarry taken is to be distributed by the hunt boss, so everything is
a quarry and so everything is to be split up. this works for non-pastoral societies quite well, but when it runs into the better organised, smarter and generally more effectual shepherds and riders they get raped.)
mircea_popescu: but the important point is that the highly centralized, redistributive socialism of the 1300s gave way to
a very independent, village-centered economy of the early iron age.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you're doing palace economy studies, the inca are
a dubious, mostly backward in fact and hallucinated in theory and description example. meanwhile, the late bronze age anatolia, levant and golden crescent are much better studied, understood and documented.
mircea_popescu: i don't think it's
a matter of scarcity necessarily. that the sea flows through fjords does not mean the sea is finite.
mircea_popescu: you ARE given
a paper which "shows" you "own" house. right ?
mircea_popescu: in
a language not even understood, under many layers of dirt, the capital of name unknown never fell.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-13 19:06 asciilifeform: bip64, aside from complicating the protocol and giving relevance to the gavin shitgang, is also
a jam-tomorrow chumpatronic engineering structural element
mircea_popescu: takes
a shitload of stupid to get
a world power into african level. took the russians what,
a half century to unwind the last four tsars (stalin being the 4th)
a111: Logged on 2016-06-19 01:29 hanbot: <asciilifeform> 'Additional criticism is levied at the group's leader, Eric Lerner, for his rejection of the mainstream consensus regarding the Big Bang, which leads to more doubt as to the group's legitimacy.' << lel << wtf is
a "mainstream consensus" even, other'n subconscious acknowledgement of the utter lack of substance contained in what they'd like to be seen as doing, anyway.