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[00:00:05] login just finish the clip and buy a full new clip

[00:00:18] login !shop

[00:00:32] login 42xp vs 20xp

[00:00:53] login i choose you, Pikachu

[00:02:44] login pokemons are enslaved, and must live free

[00:03:10] login hi Pikachu, how are you?

[00:11:27] login 1 clip is 6 rounds

[00:11:41] login the per-round price is the criterion

[00:26:28] login it's a new economics, crovax ;)

[00:26:51] login 8D is me wearing sunglasses

[00:27:40] login net or gross?

[00:28:06] login did you pay him less because no extras?

[00:28:32] login well, interest rate is high

[00:28:53] login why didnt he run away with the money?

[00:29:36] login 5 weed mafias?

[00:29:42] login Ahsoka: yes?

[00:30:15] login ComputerTech heils it

[00:30:58] login but that's a meal

[00:31:05] login or a few meals

[00:31:22] login never, irish666

[00:32:09] login very rarely

[00:32:15] login not in the past year

[00:33:23] login it seems your coworker is not treating it as a business

[00:34:03] login all such things are a waste

[00:35:07] login see this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/KeaweWong/status/1657521662198448128

[00:35:41] login might be an extreme case, but that's where wealth comes from if you don't take a risk with a business venture

[00:36:12] login ^ using a spray?

[00:36:29] login or just as a personal trainer?

[00:36:53] login add moisure by making someone sweat

[00:37:21] login it would more be reveal than add

[00:46:40] login Dr_DICK/rizon: dont buy from your coworker again

[00:47:14] login or only buy cash on delivery

[00:47:43] login buying bulk attracts interest though

[00:48:05] login and increases liability

[00:48:25] login and it's not efficient if you don't buy on credit

[00:48:58] login so physical transport?

[00:50:36] login they have to pay taxes

[00:50:53] login and regulate quality

[00:52:15] login maybe they're just not able to market better

[00:52:40] login despite illegality?

[00:55:53] login why dont the illegal distributors open a legal branch?

[00:56:57] login gov is spoiling the market

[00:57:36] login why not use a front man and mix it in?

[00:59:28] login if the criminal record is previous illegal distribution, then it should be excluded from consideration

[00:59:53] login Why not sell it wholesale to gov?

[01:00:09] login gov won't buy it because of provenance concerns?

[01:01:22] login what's the uncertainty

[01:03:48] login it seems there's a lot of corruption happening in it

[01:04:05] login but no body to investigate and punish government corruption

[01:34:27] login what do you do nowadays, ComputerTech?

[01:34:58] login not in education, employment or training

[01:35:44] login not a formal employee of any company, not going to any school (tertiary) - perhaps training, but not in a formal way

[01:36:02] login how was physics?

[01:36:06] login was it a take-home?

[01:36:21] login travel for pleasure?

[01:36:28] login the work is not exactly formal right?

[01:36:37] login it's work-optional, isn't it?

[01:37:16] login but the formal employees work in a much more systematic way for the money

[01:37:21] login and that money gets taxed too

[01:37:32] login yours is pocket money for 'work'

[01:37:48] login yours is post-business-tax money

[01:38:23] login so pay deposit reguarly into your account and taxes withheld?

[01:39:00] login End3r: lol

[01:41:38] login End3r: should i apologise?

[01:41:46] login sorry ComputerTech

[01:41:49] login and End3r

[01:42:53] login it did me no favours to argue

[01:44:16] login and the code was sent via whatsPp?

[01:44:20] login *app

[01:44:49] login it's because whatsapp doesn't allow business accounts

[01:45:00] login without paying for the privilege

[01:45:20] login the sender would have to be a business account

[01:45:50] login Paypal can't just send a billion messages per year from their 1 phone number with whatsapp installed on it to millions of phones

[01:46:12] login without whatsapp banning the number pretty early in there for 'spamming' essentially

[01:46:36] login It's part of their money laundering procedures, ComputerTech

[01:47:04] login You'd have to give them more of your personal information

[01:47:14] login like your driver's licence

[01:47:19] login or address proof

[01:48:10] login It does help if your password gets compromised

[01:49:05] login but if the codes are being sent over the internet to your device, then it's just a workaround for key pairs

[01:49:41] login I didn't know one could use Skrill on Paypal

[01:50:34] login Does it generate a virtual card to link to Paypal?

[01:51:00] login I guess that's why they want to see your card statement

[01:51:21] login Once they see that it's a virtual prepaid card, they may say you can't use a card not associated with a bank account

[01:51:50] login Because, doing what you're doing, bank account <-> skrill prepaid card <-> paypal, is called layering

[01:52:02] login i.e., it obfuscates the trail of money from your bank account to the final receiver of the money

[01:52:32] login it's linked to your bank, it is not a bank itsel

[01:52:59] login but you don't have a skrill bank account, right?

[01:53:42] login they might have their own bank account or be a 'private bank'

[01:53:55] login but they're not your bank

[01:54:06] login You can send them the skrill card statement

[01:54:44] login that's rad ComputerTech

[01:54:48] login cool cool

[01:56:49] login they just want to match billing address

[02:03:20] login good night ComputerTech

[02:03:33] login adopt some responsibility lol

[02:04:34] login i see, you're on call

[02:05:36] login the income-generating asset

[02:05:47] login a motor or whatever

[02:06:06] login perhaps some preventive maintenance would reduce the number of calls

[02:06:48] login the overall job seems to be physical asset management

[02:08:29] login that is just a joke

[02:08:37] login the sheeps are the ones fixing the machinery

[02:08:40] login or renting it

[02:10:26] login aw, that's good

[02:11:47] login executive function is on a curve

[02:54:08] login Mikoolo: we do eat some animals

[02:54:23] login but not one's SO

[03:00:13] login define {fudgemuppet, morrowind, trinimax, boethia}

[03:00:28] login P

[03:02:43] login how can a video game developer, trinimax, be eaten by a virtual game character, boethia

[03:14:02] login good night million

[03:14:08] login embrace slumber

[03:22:08] login ComputerTech can just reset all the numbers to 0 as a refund

[03:54:12] login No_One: the vagaries of grammar

[03:54:21] login on an electrical fence

[04:37:35] login You met your bio dad when you were 13?

[04:38:58] login so he had a new family every decade?

[04:39:59] login So he managed to spread his seed far and wide

[04:52:10] login stephen forbes

[04:53:02] login https://www.amazon.com/Neptunes-Lance-Stephen-K-Forbes/dp/0451171209

[04:53:31] login and vortex is by Catherine Coulter

[04:53:51] login They're old books

[04:53:54] login pre-2000

[04:54:28] login well, vortex isn't

[04:55:07] login they want to make it the new LoTR perhaps

[04:55:21] login and to get the magic system popular

[04:56:17] login also an old boo

[04:56:19] login *book

[04:56:40] login There is so much fiction out there; too much for any one person to cover - even if they read everyday

[05:09:39] login i haven't read any of those books however

[05:09:58] login the last full book i read was lexicon (max barry)

[05:10:24] login and one partially read one was providence (same author)

[05:10:58] login I found this microshort story of his funny too: https://maxbarry.com/2008/09/18/news.html

[05:11:07] login "I Should Buy Some Cement"

[05:26:36] login ^ Interesting DuckHunt lore

[05:26:49] login two ducks -> a duck escapes

[05:26:55] login one duck -> the duck escapes

[05:27:15] login hi wez

[05:27:26] login how's your monday so far?

[05:33:27] login I hope Mikoolo's first day is fantastic

[05:43:19] login who hangs out on mcchat?

[05:43:39] login computertech is #2 on rizon!?

[05:44:24] login wow, good job cultivating this place with your online family friends, ComputerTech

[06:59:01] login how do you find these, Batmanhush?

[07:14:58] login Do you discuss electronics on #mcchat, MatCat?

[07:15:01] login e.g. https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/30010134A.pdf

[07:17:45] login Do you teach remotely on an hourly basis?

[07:20:31] login how did you learn how to design circuits?

[07:28:05] login it's because that's the one the company uses

[07:28:44] login what studying resources do you recommend?

[07:31:20] login man, DuckHunt is tempting

[07:31:24] login but I shall not be tempted

[07:46:00] login do parasitics go away if you touch the board?

[07:52:03] login are the representative resistor and capacitor in series or parallel ;)

[07:54:44] login I was more making a joke on how you have a magic touch that can make parasitics go away, MatCat

[07:55:20] login But I am glad to understand now that the body can be represented as a very high resistance resistor and capacitor (unless sweaty)

[07:58:25] login What about the 'transmission line' model with an infinite combination of resistors, capacitors and inductors?

[07:59:08] login it would not behave as a lumped model of 1 resistor, 1 capacitor and 1 inductor, right?

[08:01:02] login well, every passive component at least

[08:01:12] login passive linear component*

[08:03:54] login so cooling can get rid of resistance?

[08:07:30] login i guess i understand now; no cooling = resistance is harder to model due to temperature-based changes

[08:23:26] login ^ correct

[08:23:31] login I coined that term

[08:24:05] login How did he get the duck to lose 3 life points in one shot

[08:32:45] login ty for letting me know

[08:33:06] login How do you know it spawned for Peorth?

[08:33:48] login i thought he meant it shows up when you're around more often

[08:34:02] login *it shows up more often when you're around]

[08:34:20] login btw, are any of you on envs.net>

[08:34:23] login s/>/?

[08:34:45] login it's not my tilde, it's by someone named ~creme

[08:34:56] login but i thought it looks really beautiful

[08:35:53] login https://envs.net/~creme/

[08:35:55] login hello herald

[08:36:06] login creme is from germany too

[08:39:06] login quick logic question: how many mirrors between herald and me

[08:39:54] login what if you can see me in your eye's reflection of the mirror

[08:43:04] login normal mushrooms or the magic ones?

[08:43:21] login !bang

[08:43:24] login !reload

[08:43:43] login An interesting question: whose noise made the duck flee?

[08:44:03] login luck

[08:44:17] login bad luck is also luck

[08:44:51] login it's just sampling a random variable - bad runs of any length have probability > 0

[08:45:49] login 3 misses, each with probability 0.45

[08:46:02] login (0.45)^3 = 0.091125

[08:46:09] login There was a 9% chance of this happening

[08:47:23] login So the random variable is distributed as a bernoulli distribution with p=0.45

[08:48:05] login and this particular outcome, of 3 misses in a row, can be considered a different random variable distributed as a binomial distribution

[08:48:19] login with p = 0.45 of missing, and n=3

[08:51:51] login ComputerTech: some useful math - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial_credentialing_and_exams#Preliminary_exams

[08:52:00] login (see the exam topics table)

[09:00:22] login how come computertech got a # channel instead of a ## channel?

[09:02:23] login on rizon

[09:02:41] login i thought ## was for private use, and # channels were not allowed other than the 'official' ones that were already there

[09:03:00] login maybe that's only on libera - so ##chat is from libera?

[09:03:07] login oh

[09:32:43] login on home data centers: https://twitter.com/punk6529/status/1657844178745802752

[09:39:11] login let me see if i can extract that thread, franstam

[10:00:43] login franstam: https://ttm.sh/Wm-.png

[10:00:58] login save it before it gets deleted in <1 year

[10:19:23] login Somewhat long short story, written by a high schooler: https://tilde.team/~konomo/blog/entries/2023/05/biological-pronouns.html

[10:19:36] login (do not contact ~konomo about this)

[10:26:28] login have you tried the new raspberry cola zero?

[10:26:34] login because coke means cocaine

[10:27:16] login Another shorter story, alright quality: https://ctrl-c.club/~chiptune/ink/fish.html

[10:32:18] login Have any of you seen this film? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)

[10:33:22] login it's a time travel film

[10:33:31] login very complicated loop

[10:42:24] login bad share

[10:52:29] login i mean, it is personal information

[11:50:56] login I recently was watching an anime, and came across a bit of philosophy

[11:51:05] login Was hoping to get your (the folks' here) thought on it

[11:51:21] login Would you like to watch the scene in question? It's 2 minutes long

[11:54:30] login Link: https://9anime.to/watch/mardock-scramble-the-third-exhaust.w834/ep-1

[11:54:39] login Start time: 17:25

[11:54:44] login "I have a question"

[11:56:07] login End time: 18:53

[11:56:25] login "That is what gambling is."

[12:13:32] login Yeah, but I never saw the "100%" version of the responses coming

[12:13:44] login And it was the first time I saw it described as 50% response vs 100% response

[12:14:16] login It is an analogy for a game-theory payoff matrix, right?

[12:16:36] login or a version of the prisoner's dilemma

[12:17:05] login where your perception of the probability of betrayal changes what you do

[12:33:27] login wildting3: what does the number next to your nickname mean?

[12:33:31] login it was 2 before, now it's 3?

[12:33:37] login i guess i spoke too soon

[12:46:59] login i thought it was the number of years you've been on rizon

[12:47:18] login and that you'd had your anniversary of being on rizon recently

[13:13:30] login 50% is like you expect a 50% chance of betrayal

[13:14:08] login 100% is like you don't just expect certain betrayal, you are the one betraying the other in both cases

[13:15:05] login I was interested in knowing if there were other examples of a "100%" kind of response amongst psychopaths

[13:15:33] login and what the "50%" version would be, and let's say, what the 0% version would be

[13:17:28] login In low-trust societies, many people don't offer help (for fear of betrayal/adverse selection)

[13:17:43] login but do they seek help?

[13:18:55] login High trust enables nice things

[13:19:41] login Would you pick up a woman who was a hitch hiker?

[13:20:24] login it's connected to not advocating for women to hitch hike in a high trust society

[13:20:55] login just because of the spidey sense of something wrong in the situation?

[13:22:57] login A young good looking woman in a car picked you up?

[13:23:25] login insanely helpful

[13:23:56] login Interesting scenario, isn't it?

[13:24:20] login maybe you were wearing a nice watch

[13:25:22] login So even you felt insane being picked up by a person with this profile

[13:25:52] login That you weren't trying too hard made her feel you were genuine

[13:26:25] login the reward is a good feeling inside

[13:26:42] login She could have gotten it for you herself

[13:27:01] login Did she ask you if you called the parts store ahead of time?

[13:27:20] login It all depended on her conception of other people's trustworthiness

[13:27:52] login If she was a lawyer or prosecutor, her reaction would be different

[13:28:36] login Maybe she was a single mother

[13:29:14] login Did you feel like she would rob you?

[13:29:43] login But why would a woman with a child pick you up otherwise?

[13:29:54] login you could have sensed danger in the situation

[13:30:53] login I think getting a good idea of the psychology and game theory involved in these kinds of questions is vital to things like inter-country relations and diffusing tensions

[13:32:11] login At the country level, especially if both countries have comparable economic and firepower, trust becomes very important

[13:33:00] login And gathering accurate intelligence becomes a method of ensuring peace

[13:33:16] login especially if you trust your intelligence gathering ability

[13:34:09] login the two countries' intelligence communities act as a method of trusted communication

[13:34:28] login perhaps the way astrologers were in the past

[13:34:53] login A bad 'positioning' of the planets as agreed by astrologers in two kingdoms can delay a war

[13:35:49] login Both kings (monarchs?) trust their astrologers, and the astrologers trust something as objective and amoral as the movement of the planets

[13:36:57] login but the USA is a child born of the UK

[13:38:11] login It is more likely the UK will have a Chinese military base

[13:38:46] login the united states of england, scotland and ireland

[13:39:12] login wales too

[13:39:56] login The US Constitution has no mechanism for states to seccede though, right?

[13:40:23] login and if some state were to enact a border using their state forces, the national guard will be called

[13:40:54] login The empire is no longer needed now that the borders are porous

[13:41:08] login it's all porridge now

[13:43:19] login I thought the empire grew to expand global trade

[13:43:31] login because different regions were putting up trade barriers

[13:43:49] login grew to expand -> grew for the purpose of expanding

[13:44:37] login but now I think it was to get goods cheaper from places that weren't able to defend their sovereignity

[13:45:50] login So, the empire is not needed today because there is already, monetarily, a force that is allowing goods to be gotten cheaper from other places

[13:47:42] login I think that force is that the UK can borrow in pounds cheaply without messing its exchange rate up

[13:48:18] login it was tested recently though

[13:51:22] login or that there is a way for the UK to borrow USD, and the USD holds its value against the other currencies because China's central bank tries to keep the yuan-usd exchange rate in a certain (undisclosed) band

[13:51:54] login The UK's central bank can borrow USD through 'swaps'

[13:52:02] login with the US's central bank

[13:53:06] login Getting goods cheaper is good for the UK because 'hey, getting things for cheap!'

[13:53:30] login but also bad because then the suppliers have leverage over the UK

[13:53:39] login so who is the actual empire?

[20:36:20] login maybe just a silhouette

[20:36:51] login how can we possibly know if it's yours

[20:37:31] login if the composition and lighting is right, it can look artistic

[20:38:22] login imagine a pic of the shower with the temperature, but there a shadow on the wall that shows the 'goods'

[20:38:50] login metamaterial

[20:41:36] login became younger

[20:42:15] login depends if one can see through to it

[20:42:50] login who's participating?

[20:44:24] login but there has to be a video, sponsor and brand

[20:44:44] login and line of burgers and other edibles

[20:45:37] login if ComputerTech were a good bookie, it would be first place 200gbp, second place -300gbp

[20:47:22] login an actual arms deal

[20:48:16] login police might be tailing them

[20:48:38] login but are you a legal holder?

[20:54:40] login how does putin keep his close allies loyal to him?

[20:54:59] login there must be no single point of trust

[20:56:13] login just like there were in america when it went to war in various places

[20:57:04] login it's cuban missile crisis 2.0

[20:57:26] login who else could do it better than America?

[20:57:43] login but almost every other country could do it worse

[20:58:04] login that would tank the US dollar

[20:58:09] login and create a power vacuum

[20:58:17] login US trade would be affected

[20:58:36] login other countries would rapidly start developing their own defence and weapons

[20:59:00] login US companies' assets abroad will get nationalised

[20:59:19] login why not? the US won't do anything about it

[21:00:19] login unless it affects US interests

[21:00:42] login It will lead to a worse life for Americans

[21:00:46] login and they won't even know why

[21:01:41] login Why would wages be higher?

[21:01:55] login Instead, there would be no market clearing price for many kinds of labour

[21:02:20] login Wouldn't it hit the roof as external supply of goods would stop?

[21:02:47] login I think inflation outside the US would go down if the US were to do it

[21:02:56] login since goods that were coming into the US would now be sold to others

[21:03:44] login Would external companies invest in a country that wanted to be completely self-sustaining?

[21:03:59] login The US would have to reduce their own consumption and work for several generations to build capacity again

[21:04:21] login But they're bought on credit

[21:04:34] login If it were chinese capital equipment, then the story might be different

[21:04:53] login China would also have to re-orient if that ended

[21:05:04] login But it's not like goods that go to America cannot be sold elsewhere

[21:05:51] login no, i am not

[21:06:39] login What might happen is China might export to third countries that then re-export to the US

[21:07:07] login Would the Chinese leave?

[21:07:20] login They might start using their own goods

[21:08:12] login A similar effect can be achieved if Americans become very into saving money

[21:08:23] login They can buy it in their own currency

[21:08:28] login And the exchange rate can change

[21:08:47] login Hi

[21:09:01] login If Americans started saving like 50-60% of their income

[21:09:21] login and stopped buying stuff, then it will have the same effect as 'stopping trade'

[21:09:37] login Only buying capital equipment, no consumable goods

[21:09:49] login No new clothes, no new furniture, no new cars etc.

[21:10:07] login A similar effect happened when China was under lockdown and they stopped exporting in volume

[21:10:15] login (i.e., inflation in the US)

[21:10:43] login Other countries have a very different kind of saving culture to that of the US

[21:10:54] login They won't even save in their own currency, but in gold

[21:12:16] login That's a good percentage

[21:12:31] login And never accept spot price for physical metal

[21:12:55] login I mean, landlords are crazy for not wanting to diversify into metals

[21:15:12] login just natural weather

[22:06:47] login how was the sandwich?

[22:16:23] login i might make something similar lol

[23:54:41] login with milk?

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