mircea_popescu: which is also the only time i ever got kicked out of anywhere, club or anything else.
mircea_popescu: hey, did i ever tell you folks about the one time i got kicked out of a gay club ?
mircea_popescu: the power cycle that's intentional but unexpected.
mircea_popescu: "shit joe, reboot it see if it works then"
mircea_popescu: servers that are rebooted are not really the same servers anymore.
kakobrekla: lesson no1. never ever reboot the server.
asciilifeform: server with a backup from about an hour before the reboot.'
mircea_popescu: and i have to stop there.
mircea_popescu: "Humans have been evolving exponentially for some time now, with advances in technology and communication lessening the time needed for the same amount of change to occur. Logically, following this pattern, there will come a time when more change happens in an hour than has happened in the last millennium. Through meditation, connecting to a higher consciousness within, and communicating these ideas, I've had the epi
mircea_popescu: "This time frame may seem unrealistically short, for I have only started playing electric guitar towards the end of August, but recent realizations have led me to believe this is possible."
mircea_popescu: "By the end of this year, 2012, I believe I will be a highly known guitarist/musician."
mircea_popescu: pretty epic blast from the past
mircea_popescu: "I am not publicly broadcasting my business plan due to its unique nature meant to take advantage of the market."
mircea_popescu: that's how you do pr, according to people who have no qualification, training or experience in the field.
moiety: i see havelock's homepage is only updated with the 'good' news and the most up-to-date is buried
moiety: the nfs site is down too
bounce: don't have details, but could well be a proof of concept thingy, like those concept cars that never go beyond the single prototype made.
bounce: re hud and laser rangefinders, IIRC jaguar went on discovery ages ago with something built into the windshield, and ir lamps+imagers. and bmw also did somethingorother along those lines.
asciilifeform: a sane rng is always shielded, not only to keep out noise (natural or otherwise) but to avoid broadcasting state.
asciilifeform: lasers also age very dramatically (less the case for semiconductor laser, but remains)
mircea_popescu: are the aluminium garnets really that expensive still ?!
asciilifeform: and possibly subject to thermal effects
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu the alt-twitter one?
andyfletcher: mircea_popescu, am on wot just wasn't authenticated
mircea_popescu: andyfletcher btw, get in the wot will you.
moiety: i'd take the dog too
moiety: lolnope i have a hattori hunting as my pride and joy, i'd love one though.. plus i am the same colour as paper
mircea_popescu: benkay no, it's her and her loubotin sandals. the sword's a prop.
benkay: i was under the impression everything just got lumped under 'scam'
benkay: so hey are we distinguishing between incompetence and malice in Bitcoin these days, mircea_popescu ?
benkay: no there you're wrong
bitcoinpete: and it's portland so there's no sun
benkay: the girl is boring
gribble: Jack Churchill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill>; Badass of the Week: Jack Churchill: <http://badassoftheweek.com/churchill.html>; Any Officer Who Goes Into Action Without His Sword is Improperly ...: <http://www.damninteresting.com/any-officer-who-goes-into-action-without-his-sword-is-improperly-dressed/>
mircea_popescu: blackwhite you're not perverse enough to be here then!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, actual weapons exist to not be seen, but used. thatrical stuff the converse.
asciilifeform: compared with theatrical junk
asciilifeform: that sword probably weighs more than the girl.
moiety: I want the sword :(
moiety: glad to see you made it through the night benkay, did a neighbour pop by to feed you?
moiety: it depends what makes a person someone for you though. there arent enuogh people with personality now
moiety: whatever happened to people liking other people for who they were? have i been under a rock too long?
asciilifeform: then again, a usenet group can never really die
asciilifeform: and if you need to cook something else, take the parabolic reflectors off and prop in the sun.
asciilifeform: (apologies for the line noise)
mircea_popescu: moiety yeah. they're not that comfortable to wear, esp for teh noob/peasant girl that wasn't raised with them.
moiety: not a proper, someone else laces you in at the back one. mine had bones but laced up both sides instead
asciilifeform: as to when is the next race, etc.
mircea_popescu: not a corselet/bodice/otherbs.
moiety: i'd totally wear these http://img1.etsystatic.com/041/1/7659305/il_340x270.507047681_66jn.jpg and http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mHOZ9IRxq8LqUrOY5U6Fa8g.jpg
asciilifeform: one of the best that ever lived, imho
mircea_popescu: good troll then.
mircea_popescu: " With Howard Stern, the salient feature is the success, and the relative status." god help us. that's the salient feature ?
asciilifeform: (last turd. anyone who wants more can visit the site)
mircea_popescu: sigh. they're not gold diggers ffs.
asciilifeform: derstood as an attempt by men to democratize the experience of enjoying beautiful women. So far, technology hasnt been up to the taskactual beautiful women are still betterbut technology will keep improving.)'
asciilifeform: With Howard Sterns girlfriend, the salient features are absolute: her looks and her receptive behavior. If every woman looked similarly good, and behaved as adoringly toward the average working stiff, they would still look good. (A man can test this hypothesis by viewing photographs of thousands of attractive women. Even after massive, pervasive exposure, they still look good. In fact, pornography can be un
asciilifeform: ntract, they would all be merely average again in the eyes of women. (Consider that the average US working stiff is fantastically wealthy in Medieval terms, but modern US women have simply raised their materialistic requirements commensurately.)
asciilifeform: 'Its interesting to consider which genders ideal can be realized first with technology. It should be a lot easier for technology to simulate Howard Sterns girlfriend (for the satisfaction of men) than for technology to simulate Howard Stern (for the satisfaction of women). With Howard Stern, the salient feature is the success, and the relative status. If every man had a $500 million satellite radio co
asciilifeform: 'If the worlds most beautiful women want to be gold-diggers, thats their right. It doesnt humiliate me. It merely establishes what I would have to obtain (namely, wealth and fame) if I wanted to bang some of those women. The actual women, that is. Technology may provide an easier alternative. And a more intellectually satisfying alternative too.'
moiety: asciilifeform: jeez... these wee buggers have stripey legs....are you trying to make me have no free time at all?! http://cdn2.arkive.org/media/C4/C40A617A-375F-4208-9D7E-B2EB473F867D/Presentation.Large/Pampas-cat-.jpg
moiety: jurov, nah im not getting clothes so its cool
mircea_popescu: but what do i know, my interaction with typo design was limited to being the phb for a few years.
asciilifeform: be happy, while their Oprah-bots listen to them talk about their problems and simulate interest.'
asciilifeform: 'The in-laws wont be as much of a problem either because the male in-laws will be preoccupied with sexbots of their own, therefore they will have less time on their hands to spend meddling in the lives of their relatives. At family gatherings, the men will gather around to trade sexbot programs, while the women will gather to complain about the mens sexbots. Or may women will play with their catbots and
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well it also depends on the application imo
ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> http://trilema.com/2014/heres-an-idea-for-you/ --- Futura is my favorite typeface, but the world seems to be catching on
asciilifeform: moietybot: someone ought to cross-breed manul with the argentinian 'colocolo' - to get a thicker-yet beast
mircea_popescu: take sports : a sport that's popular is annoying because all the inept idiots insist to play it.
asciilifeform: 'Some women might, however, choose to coexist with sexbots, just as some European women as they get older tolerate their husbands taking up with younger mistresses. The aging wife gets to keep her status and her stable home. She has all the trappings of marriage, but she no longer functions as her husbands sexual outlet.'
mircea_popescu: i dunno about that, tbh. if anything, it'll remove a lot of pressure to perform from the mishoden, dysfunctional male humans, which'll make it so much better for the healthy.
asciilifeform: 'Social skills will decline markedly after the advent of sex robots, much like the way electronic calculators degraded arithmetic skills. Because sex robots will finally allow men to be themselves. This will make men even less desirable to real women than they are already, driving men to seek solace with sex robots even more. The cycle will be vicious and I cant wait for it to start.'
mircea_popescu: moiety think about all the time this is saving you.
moiety: they need robot women replacements with all the people like karpeles going over and buying their women
asciilifeform: anyone have the ancient link to the piece re: korean students who go through 2-3 of the 'androids' per year?
tg2: They have scratch repairing paint already
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually even since the japanese have been working on their female android women replacements, i've been thinking "they'll make cars out of that skin material just as soon as possible"
asciilifeform: they needn't be flat and rigid
asciilifeform: i've always thought it odd, that no one, lambo or trambo, makes a car with standardized panels for the outside
mircea_popescu: if anyone's seen cars in like rome etc... the even cheaper alternative would be "people stop giving a shit about scratches"
asciilifeform: anyone recall the widget the americans used in vietnam, that picked up rf noise from cars?
mircea_popescu: i never hear anyone propose abstinence on the grounds that fucking may become obligatory otherwise.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well, the perennial possibility of idiots does not really constitute a counterargument.
asciilifeform: then you get folks who go 'well, if we're already broadcasting, let's make exact position radio mandatory, like lights'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, you polarize the lasers, you use modulated radar, there's solutions
asciilifeform: bought out in short order, and in the higher millions << might be a little problem once the car behind/in front/side of yours has emitters
mircea_popescu: that and the tentacles.
asciilifeform: moving the car sideways
asciilifeform: afaik, the only parking-related car widget worth mentioning is that japanese mod where all four wheels turn
mircea_popescu: anyway, whosoever gets anywhere even near a deliverable with this tyhing is getting bought out in short order, and in the higher millions.
mircea_popescu: they've been toying with "assisted parking" for quite a while.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 you know, judging by the perpetual X is paid by MPEx "discoveries", "research" and so forth on the forum, im starting to suspect i may be the only one not doing this.
asciilifeform: tends to piss itself half the time, if left alone.
asciilifeform: even the fabled '3d printer'
tg2: Anyway, waiting for alpha-t to get sued into the ground
tg2: But there aren't any lol
asciilifeform: where'd the turd come from?
asciilifeform: in hollywood, they appear to use 'shannonizers' to write technical dialogu
mircea_popescu: that's the problem, the words taken disparate work, but somehow they've been put in a soup that fails to anything
mircea_popescu: i need someone to translate the forum for the people who normally translate the forum for me ;/
mircea_popescu: i muxed the who ?
dexX7: well anyway. is havelock going up in flames or was the issue yesterday related to neo?
nubbins`: the one with granny blades, ya mean?
dexX7: hey nubbins`, do you still have the "friedcat for president" picture somewhere? :)
VanCleef: what i think happened artifexd is that the page is choking up so much and people are in a panic to buy that they accidently confusing buy with sell instead
ozbot: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It
artifexd: Friedcat says the chips work. Price goes down. /confused
VanCleef: sweet i got the 52's
moiety: oh i found it jurov, just hit the bar... it accepts btc lol
jurov: but my hard of hearing ears are failing me again, i need one or few people talk directly to me, not scattered talking across the room
moiety: lol // or is this the online thing?
bounce: .oO( lots of the fair folk )
ThickAsThieves: "The engineering batch of packaged chips will be out in March 28th. After that we can immediately start testing on functionality and power consumption."
mircea_popescu: anyway, im off to scream at people who are entitled to their own opinions (over my dead body). bbl.
mircea_popescu: any bitcoins received as specified by mpex will be fully credited to the depositor in any and all circumstances.
kakobrekla: why so quick to jump the gun on this while bfl can shit in peoples mouth for years now
mircea_popescu: ok, i guess it's announcement time : mpex will not be honoring the forth worth court order, or any similar instrument drawn by any court.
mircea_popescu: The complaint, which has a Background section with the question What the heck is a Bitcoin? also contains an attachment of 30 pages of bitcointalk forum discussion detailing the history of the story from July-August 2013.
ThickAsThieves: the pains
ThickAsThieves: “It speaks to the legitimacy of cryptocurrencies and a growing understanding of their value and importance to businesses.”
kakobrekla: A court in Fort Worth, Texas, has granted a temporary restraining order to freeze the bitcoin wallets of ASIC mining hardware manufacturer HashFast Technologies LLC and HashFast LLC, after a customer claimed it failed to deliver hardware on time or negotiate a refund.
ThickAsThieves: freeze the maths!
mircea_popescu: the schelling i was asking about yea
ThickAsThieves: "The main idea here is called “hedging”, and is best explained in the context of Bitcoin"
ThickAsThieves: it's a fukn Ethereum thing
ThickAsThieves: a new floor might be reached in the process
kakobrekla: you cant sell enough if the things wants to bubble
ThickAsThieves: time for the Altcoin Central Bank to make a trading bot
ThickAsThieves: so basically we cant let it bubble either
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yes, but why would they ? not worth it.
mircea_popescu: kinda the original thinking behind central banks at any rate
mircea_popescu: in general the best way to reduce irrational behaviour is to control volatility.
mircea_popescu: you don't have to pay anything, unless you're reading a lot of trilema. then it's like i don't recall, .1 cents ?
ThickAsThieves: one thing that isnt so bad about US public communication, is if youve any hint of doubt, you can mostly assume they are saying the opposite of what's true
mircea_popescu: and now i shall proceed to read the log, so allow me to spam you all even more!
mircea_popescu: inching along towards the "putin doesn't give a shit about the way i think the world should work"
mircea_popescu: and in completely different yet very related news, "The problem, as the president explained it, is that Putin doesnt understand how the world is supposed to work"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves betas shower the websites, alphas let the girls suggest girls for the club.
chetty: huh? Looks like more of those schools out there, just different rules
ThickAsThieves: i imagine dating in your 30s in 40s these days is pretty much all online websites now?
mircea_popescu: i'll give this much credit to the entire progressive movement : while in the 50s there in fact existed schools and other torture implements dedicated to reforming otherwise decent, healthy and loving human beings into the sort of very sad victims of abuse described there,
mircea_popescu: And the market agrees with me. Alone missed it. Porn is a better product. If girls want to compete maybe they should get real? Virtual honesty v Virtual Deceit? This is economics. No need for hysterics or water works or expressed feelings. Awwh.
mircea_popescu: Emotional poison, lies, some shitty repetitive sex (I'll be more romantic when those who believe in the lie that is exclusivity eat the same meal for the rest of their lives), surrogate services, shitty cooking...It doesn't matter that I'm grossly making crude generalizations. I'm right.
mircea_popescu: Guys lose interest. And women, who hated sex remember (they're not that type of girl), suddenly give the con away. It boils down to this; what are they bringing to the party?
mircea_popescu: It's unfair to quote a 5 year old article but if Alone still believes _that_ analysis has validity...he's missed the forest of leeching for the victimized and disinterested trees. Many women invest their entire lives in what amounts to brazen fraud conducted and perfected to "catch" a guy who is then trapped with no idea how cruelly he's been setup.
mircea_popescu: now to fully establish the other extreme, since nobody seems inclined, we return to scriptae :
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no, but reports show he occasionally ate the neighbour's bitch.
kakobrekla: did he also eat the neighbors dog?
ThickAsThieves: "Albert Einstein had half a dozen girlfriends and told his wife they showered him with "unwanted" affection, according to letters released "
ThickAsThieves: whether ity annoys him
ThickAsThieves: and should man tolerate the reverse?
mircea_popescu: turns out red wire was there all along :)
mircea_popescu: if they do dump em.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yes the kind he fucks.
ThickAsThieves: or the kind he'll talk to?
ThickAsThieves: the kind he fucks?
ThickAsThieves: shooting in the dark is annoying too
ThickAsThieves: cant find the thread
mircea_popescu: then again... deep south... maybe i shouldn't assume
chetty: hey there are a lot of non-annoying women
mircea_popescu: if you dump them when they get annoying you're stuck with a bunch of pleasant women.
pankkake: wait there are non-annoying women?!
psterryl: and sometimes people bring a relationship back from the rocks and go on to have long and fulfilling times together
VanCleef: this is the problem psterryl is having with neobee atm
ThickAsThieves: not the craziest thing to challenge
ThickAsThieves: maybe the issue mp has is with entitlement itself
ThickAsThieves: or like the people that are most likely to say "everyone is entitled to their own opinion" are the least likely to have opinions worth considering?
psterryl: but they're still entitled to that opinion
ThickAsThieves: did you bother asking why?
psterryl: but doesnt mean they're not entiteld to it
psterryl: it suddenly becomes much harder to take them seriously
psterryl: true but when someone makes a blanket statement that not everyone is entitled to their own opinion
ThickAsThieves: the life a monkey!
mircea_popescu: VanCleef i thought the freudian/jungian approach was poo = moneys.
psterryl: i think that says a lot about the bitcoin community
psterryl: at first i thought mp was the former but starting to think latter
ThickAsThieves: (the channel's)
mircea_popescu: and generally everyone else, when you're talking to them.
bounce: eh, opinions are like assholes. everyone's got one. whether they matter is something else entirely.
psterryl: but you're just some random guy on the internet
mircea_popescu: but there is such a thing as an examen de maturite which keeps the children away from human society.
psterryl: so everyone is entitled to the mircea approved viewpoint?
mircea_popescu: the path is 1) you prove you're able to think ; 2) you're entitled to your own viewpoint.
mircea_popescu: no, everyone is not entitled to their own personal viewpoint.
psterryl: rather than get caught up in internet chinese whispers
psterryl: everyone is entitled to their own opinions/deductions
mircea_popescu: you'll have to refer to the logs.
mircea_popescu: it's been covered to death why " it's impossible to call it one way or the other" doesn't work and doesn't hold, over the years
mircea_popescu: no, this is neither reasonable nor novel material.
psterryl: without evidence either way
psterryl: since there's been no official statement
mircea_popescu: yeah generally a pragmatic approach works better. there are more things we want to believe in than can be done.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
samO_: thx mircea_popesku for the link (yeah, i've been blind) :D
nicknode_: VanCleef: would you let me in on the true inside story on neobee? i'll pay
MisterE killed the chat :/
tg2: I tried to make a deal with a golf dome to heat it for free over the winter
MisterE: I'm thining of the centralized boilers in NYC that heat several blocks
xdotcommer: weather is changing
tg2: Have grass growing outside in the middle of February
TestingUnoDosTre: I see a lot of don't really care how things pan out over the next 2-3 months
MisterE: all the bad BTC news lately hasn't budged it at all
tg2: plus cheap cooling most of the year
MisterE: or nukes in the back yard?
MisterE: so if they can amortize it spending 2k on a BTC is acceptable I guess.
MisterE: it goes out in pieces to the electric company
MisterE: I heard they were being sued the first time a couple months ago but that also people were lining up to file