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Sat Mar 31 14:19:41 UTC 2018 <adlai> perhaps "intensely technical amateurs" is a better neologism; imagine the children of a career Intel engineer and a loom operator who spend their free time flying around the world tethering nonsentient windsurfers, and you start to understand.
Fri Mar 30 20:24:38 UTC 2018 <punkman> just a couch and trash
Fri Mar 30 20:17:02 UTC 2018 <punkman> kakobrekla: wait, what kind of a workshop is that << sewing
Fri Mar 30 20:12:54 UTC 2018 <punkman> well the "free" money part was fun, because playing blackjack 8 hours a day, double plus unfun
Fri Mar 30 20:09:51 UTC 2018 <punkman> /me outsmarted the casinos for a couple years
Fri Mar 30 09:00:43 UTC 2018 <adlai> in further stream-crossings: [ asciilifeform: "trying to 'outsmart the casino' tends to end in tears, ben_vulpes" ] << this is precisely why I sought employment, rather than walking in the front door with a shirt, shoes, and wallet.
Thu Mar 29 22:30:33 UTC 2018 <kakobrekla> wait, what kind of a workshop is that
Thu Mar 29 22:26:04 UTC 2018 <punkman> rented a workshop, owner left me a black leather casting couch
Thu Mar 29 22:22:35 UTC 2018 <punkman> kakobrekla: 's all good, a bit drought-y
Thu Mar 29 09:08:00 UTC 2018 <funkenstein_> the best we can do is put a probabilistic distribution on values, and this "collapses" at point of sale
Thu Mar 29 09:04:20 UTC 2018 <funkenstein_> but it's worse than that, there's not even a well defined relative worth
Thu Mar 29 09:03:50 UTC 2018 <funkenstein_> even if you could somehow define a value or worth physically, you'd still be stuck with a guage invariance - you could add N units to all items worths and you'd have the same system
Thu Mar 29 09:01:35 UTC 2018 <adlai> Nicklaus Wirth is a Quiche Eater. The only parameter passing mechanism
Thu Mar 29 09:01:34 UTC 2018 <funkenstein_> seems a statistical curiosity at best
Thu Mar 29 08:59:52 UTC 2018 <adlai> funkenstein_: you need to either take a lot more, or a lot less, lsd. but not both!
Wed Mar 28 06:18:26 UTC 2018 <funkenstein_> wow ski dubai is a thing. 85 meters of vertical
Tue Mar 27 13:51:01 UTC 2018 <kakobrekla> idk, is it not using a board to move over h2o?
Tue Mar 27 13:49:00 UTC 2018 <adlai> yeah but the choirfulls of silent log readers must have flames lit beneath the pews to smokem outta church every now and then. it's a wild wild west out there and it needs more diversity of opinions.
Tue Mar 27 12:03:18 UTC 2018 <*> adlai slaps kakobrekla around a bit with a large ... fraudster
Tue Mar 27 07:17:21 UTC 2018 <funkenstein_> saga.org "Saga is the first non-anonymous digital currency, with a formal KYC banking process for every participant."