shinohai: !~later tell finitemaz See the above in response to your PM ^
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: !!up Birdman Are you ready to test the waters on this side of the Republic yet?
deedbot: Birdman voiced for 30 minutes.
BingoBoingo: Well, you've been join/parting for a while? Mebbe test your ability to talk every now and then.
Birdman: i've nothing of importance to add around here
BingoBoingo: Mebbe introduce yourself again? It's been a while. How great again are you this year?
Birdman: I'm birdman, live in US, know danielpbarron irl, play eulora infrequently as of late, idk
BingoBoingo: Birdman: That sounds like a lot of existential dread.
Birdman: Right, thats why im not sure you asked lol. Isn't the concrete stuff found in the WoT anyways
BingoBoingo: Well, that's a very meta epistemic question.
BingoBoingo: The concrete stuff is usually found in the building materials department.
deedbot: mgoetze voiced for 30 minutes.
BingoBoingo: mgoetze: Who is your daddy and what does he do?
mgoetze: my dad is a retired engineer, and he enjoys his garden, a local culture club and a few beers every now and then
mgoetze: if it is about the usual procedure here, i am aware about it
mgoetze: currently contemplating running a tmsr node
mgoetze: yes, he harvests quite a substantial collective of herbs
mgoetze: how long would until i know that it cannot be phuctored ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the public key i mean. << AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA you have to specify now after the incident
mircea_popescu: mgoetze you don't know that. you'll know if it is, though
mgoetze: one question about the taxes
mgoetze: does 'pay a tax in sum of 0.1% or a hundred thousand satoshi per full Bitcoin realised' define the method of realisation ?
mgoetze: as in do you care how i realise ?
mgoetze: as for then, let me sleep over it.....
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can't find the original discussion re prison noobs playing cards for a fuffle aka buttfuck. dja recall ?
a111: Logged on 2013-12-25 21:00 asciilifeform: new prisoner is asked to gamble, he asks what the stakes will be, told:
mircea_popescu: i thought i had ; but then i searched and found nothing.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2013-12-25#431157 << i've heard that one in a dozen of different variations (for example instead of фуфло "на просто так" which is as innocent as it gets). there's the whole genre of ru fiction "prison survival for newb", the gist of it is that supposedly you can fake the "correct" answer to "кто ты по жизни" so you won't be harassed. of course the whole framing is nonsense, and if you're reading it it
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2013-12-25 21:00 asciilifeform: 'фуфло'
phf: i wonder if the narrative shares mythic dimension with the various "sure proof ways of dealing with a devil if you chance meeting him on the road" narratives of 100+ years prior
mircea_popescu: it sure as fuck shares mystic dimensions with the whole "just give me the facts" "i fucking love science".
mircea_popescu: mysticism is now what it always was : the adolescent's refuge.
mircea_popescu: aka "this one secret mp doesn't want you to know about how to enlarge your brain without doing any reading".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who the hell made that excellent point about the possible types of planar symmetries and the small count of human civilisations that discover all ?
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a111: Logged on 2017-07-30 03:36 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who the hell made that excellent point about the possible types of planar symmetries and the small count of human civilisations that discover all ?
ascii_modem: 'why does anti-intellectualism exist' iirc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who had that great story about the three dorks in a garage inventing a super-efficient engine over 20 years of playing around throiugh the process of miss-measuring torque ?
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a111: Logged on 2017-07-30 04:22 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who had that great story about the three dorks in a garage inventing a super-efficient engine over 20 years of playing around throiugh the process of miss-measuring torque ?
mircea_popescu: but i was quoting one of your engineer folk. uncle al maybe ?
ascii_modem: mno, iirc this was the 3cycle engine thread
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 16:52 ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: a three stroke engine?!
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 14:43 asciilifeform: some engine sound great on paper, but painful in practice
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BingoBoingo: <ascii_modem> which alludes to original thread << Remebering ealier discussion happened, now suppose new though to etiquette of linking prior log while generating new log will emerge organically
mircea_popescu: in other news, i can't fucking belive nobody has made a Book of Ulterior Doom, consisting of McGonagall poems with Thomas Kinkade illustrations.
deedbot: finitemaz voiced for 30 minutes.
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a111: Logged on 2017-06-17 21:27 mod6: <+BingoBoingo> <mircea_popescu> i bought a can of coolant, it's FLUORESCENT GREEN << he dye is to tell you which of several incompatible types of coolant it is. Mixing GREEN and ORANGE coolant is a good way to introduce rust to one's engine block cooling passages. << iirc, all vehicles pre-1995 or so used the green coolant.
deedbot: guest846723 voiced for 30 minutes.
BingoBoingo: Holy fuck we are about as close to TMSR Wagon as we were to TRB in 2013 given all this engine talk
phf: "Darpa Wants to Build a BS Detector for Science (wired.com)"
phf: "Must answer questions before posting comments to prove you understand news (independent.co.uk)"
a111: Logged on 2017-06-17 21:27 mod6: <+BingoBoingo> <mircea_popescu> i bought a can of coolant, it's FLUORESCENT GREEN << he dye is to tell you which of several incompatible types of coolant it is. Mixing GREEN and ORANGE coolant is a good way to introduce rust to one's engine block cooling passages. << iirc, all vehicles pre-1995 or so used the green coolant.
mircea_popescu: phf hopefulyl they end up with "must submit a news story before eating a news story" stone soup.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 16:05 asciilifeform: 'suppose you drive down the highway and you suddenly want to go some nice place you saw just before you pass a forest. you veer off the road, plunge into the wilderness and promptly decide that you need four-wheel drive, a huge cutting device in front of your car, much better shock absorbers, a bigger engine that could actually run on swamp water instead of getting all drowned, and then need an amphibious vehicle to get across the r
deedbot: liquidassets voiced for 30 minutes.
liquidassets: I miss that small window of time when I could !up myself
liquidassets: Greetings BingoBoingo, alass not much to contribute here..
BingoBoingo: Well you showed up, though mebbe you might have some new news
deedbot: luny voiced for 30 minutes.
shinohai: "Putin to expel 75 US Diplomats" lol
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: Just wanted to say thanks for the diversions