2012-03-13.log

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-!- Topic for ##hplusroadmap: biohacking, nootropics, transhumanism, open hardware http://gnusha.org/logs/ http://bit.ly/diybionews2 http://gadaprize.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/diybio02:47
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ParahSailinhttp://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122231-solar-panels-made-with-ion-cannon-are-cheap-enough-to-challenge-fossil-fuels this actually looks real09:27
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archelshttp://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-extra-chromosomal-dna.html10:29
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kanzureJuul: low power ultrasound for brain stimulation http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/ultrasound/10:53
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kanzure"Gram negative enteric bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli has been increasingly common acquired ESBL enzymes that make them resistant to penicillins and cephalosporins."11:02
kanzure"They are often multiresistant. Beta-lactam-type carbapenems has hitherto been the last line broad-spectrum drugs, but when the bacteria had acquired enzymes, known as ESBL-Carba, which also breaks down carbapenems, remains registered no antibiotic group with safe effect."11:02
kanzure"In Sweden, ESBL-Carba still unusual. So far , 37 cases identified, almost exclusively asymptomatic cases related to healthcare abroad (Figure 1). This means that we still have no safe domestic spread of infection and that there is still opportunity to prevent this."11:03
kanzure"Several reports describe deaths after severe infection with ESBL-Carba. In Paris, hit seven patients in a hospital, despite treatment died five. In Istanbul killed ten of fifteen patients. Five newly transplanted patients died in Essen, Germany. In Greece and Italy are between 15 and 50 percent of all Klebsiella pneumoniae from blood cultures resistant to carbapenems. Greece and India dominate the country of infection in the Swedish case."11:03
kanzure2007 paper http://soapimg.icecube.snowfall.se/strama/Strama%20ESBL%20eng.pdf11:04
kanzure"swedish strategic programme against antibiotic resistance" is an awesome name11:04
Vicarioushi11:16
kanzurehello.11:20
Vicarioushow's life?11:20
kanzurejavascript11:20
kanzureis not a way of life11:20
Vicarioushacking is11:23
Mariuit's the only way to fly11:23
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kanzureMariu: who are yu11:24
kanzureyou11:24
Mariusome guy interested in Transhumanism11:25
Mariucame across this channel in some Google searches11:25
MariuI live in Romania11:25
Mariuand that's about it, I think11:26
kanzuredo you know any good romanian bulletproof hosting solutions?11:26
Mariuno11:26
epitronarchels: i just read that microDNA article...11:35
epitronwtf is this: "This result suggests that the DNA found in tissue cells may exhibit more variation than previously thought, and the implication of this is that sequencing of the DNA in blood cells (which are the cells usually used for sequencing) may give misleading results if microdeletions have occurred in the DNA of other tissues but not in blood cells."11:36
epitronwe only sequence blood cells??11:36
epitronhow are blood cells the most representative cells in the body? :)11:37
epitronhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haematopoiesis11:38
epitronlook at this11:38
epitronblood cells are weird, in that they're very special purpose11:39
kanzurei'm p. sure we sequence all sorts of cells.. all the diybio stuff is cheek swabs11:41
epitronaren't cheek swabs only really good for microarrays, because you get so much bateria in there too?11:42
epitronor can you separate the skin cells by centrifuge?11:42
kanzureyou can separate dna by molecular weight and prolly centrifugation11:44
epitronthat still seems pretty messy though, for shotgun sequencing11:44
epitronyou won't get any of these circularDNAs from that method either11:44
kanzurewhat are you trying to do?11:44
epitronwell, i'm not trying to do it, but i think science's goal is to get a representative sample of the population's DNA11:45
archelsI'm wondering if those circular DNA strands are pathological.11:46
epitrondidn't they discover recently that neurons strip out a bunch of their DNA to optimize the cell?11:46
epitronlike, after neurogenesis from stem cells11:47
epitroni wouldn't be surprised if blood cells did the same thing11:50
epitronsince they don't really do much besides float around a while, then get broken down11:50
epitron:)11:50
epitronand the more real-estate you've got in a blood cell, the more oxygen-holding molecules you can cram in there11:54
ParahSailinon sequencing blood cells: who knows, maybe they mean b cells immortalized by ebv12:04
ParahSailinthose sorts of cell lines are common in cell banks12:04
ParahSailinbecause very easy to collect and then transform12:04
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kanzure'solid state civilization' http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2009/03/a_really_green_and_sustainable_humanity.html13:10
kanzuresamaya: hi13:10
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uniqanomalynext hitler will be greenie13:33
uniqanomalykill 'em all and copse forests13:35
ThomasEgieco-extremists?13:35
ThomasEgiuniqanomaly, if you want forests, all you have to do is: nothing13:36
ThomasEgiand few decades later. there will be forest all over where you did nothing13:36
uniqanomalyhttp://innoplex.org/eng/2011/02/vertical-led/ that's awesum13:39
ThomasEgihm. that's a pretty awesome thing. will definetly get back to it when i finished my first food-lab in my underground city.13:43
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rkosi thought the last hitler was a greenie too13:54
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fennwow E. O. Wilson is still alive?15:07
kanzuretermination was unsuccessful15:08
fenn"E.O. Wilson will speak on his new book at the Exploratorium on April the 20th."15:08
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kanzure"The books were often a financial stretch, with many families paying for their encyclopedias in monthly installments."15:29
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kanzurehttp://finance.yahoo.com/news/assay-depot-biocurious-announce-open-140700957.html16:50
kanzure"My name is Timothy Chen from Assay Depot. We have partnered with16:50
kanzureBioCurious, a San Francisco-based laboratory hackerspace, to start up16:50
kanzurea competition for Bay Area students and scientists. As a source of16:50
kanzurehackerspace of your own, I thought that some LA Biohackers would be16:50
kanzureinterested as many people from SoCal have roots in the Bay Area and16:50
kanzuremay be interested. There is a $10,000 prize pool for research services16:50
kanzureand full year memberships to the BioCurious laboratory hackerspace16:50
kanzureavailable as prizes (which could be a great way for students to work16:50
kanzurewith other scientists). I did not want to email the Google Groups16:50
kanzuremailing list just in case it was deemed inappropriate.16:50
kanzureOur guidelines can be found at https://www.assaydepot.com/pages/challenge.16:50
kanzure"16:50
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ParahSailinthe remainder of the prize money is earmarked for research services necessary to carry out the project whats this mean17:05
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kanzureParahSailin: that might mean the first $500 goes to the biocurious reagent store, or the second $500 has to go to assaydepot17:13
kanzurei like the "money stuffed into a flask" image17:14
kanzurei'm gonna steal that image. hell yeah17:14
ThomasEgiall those "get 5000$ price"... i mean if you break that down to living costs and stuff. it is pretty much like asking people to invent something for almost-free.17:17
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kanzureThomasEgi: researchers tend to be poor and paid $10/hr17:19
Steel2unless you're working for a corporation or the gov.17:19
kanzurestate universities still pay low amounts to researchers17:19
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kanzuredefense contracting is a little different, but they still hire lab technicians at obscenely low prices17:20
kanzureall those "associate degrees in lab tech" people17:20
Steel2eh, I'd differentiate between researcher and lab tech.17:22
kanzureSteel2: do you do any mems-related math on a regular basis17:22
Steel2no, I don't do mems. I know some people who might tho17:22
Steel2my lab doesn't do mems at all17:23
kanzurehuh? i thought you do some microjets17:23
kanzurei'm writing some code to do mathy things for me regarding flow rates and pressures in channels17:23
Steel2oh17:23
Steel2microfluidics =/= mems17:23
kanzureyes true17:23
Steel2I can tell you about microfluidic impacts17:24
kanzurehow about the relation of pumping to flow rate to channel geometries17:24
kanzure:x17:24
Steel2oh christ.17:24
kanzurei think it's probably simple17:24
Steel2probably somewhere in my micromanufacturing notes17:24
Steel2which I'm trying to get ahold of still17:25
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kanzureit's probably something simple tho17:27
kanzurelike a "are you brain dead for even asking?"17:28
kanzurehttp://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Microfluidics/Hydraulic_resistance_and_capacity#Modelling_of_an_elastic_long_tube_with_a_substantial_pressure_drop17:28
kanzuregee this is probably exactly the same as electronics17:30
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kanzure"Small ants can lift 1000 small ants. Note, that this force is used by a particular species of ants to jump. These ants strike their mandibles on the ground with a force that is 300 times its own weight, and propel themselves up to 10cm in height"17:38
kanzurePatek, S. N. and Baio, J. E. and Fisher, B. L. and Suarez, A. V. (2006) Multifunctionality and mechanical origins: Ballistic jaw propulsion in trap-jaw ants, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 103, page 1278717:38
kanzurehttp://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/34/1278717:38
kanzureballistic jaw propulsion17:39
kanzurei wonder how it lands17:40
jrayhawkIf Morrowind has taught me anything, it has to land using the same technique17:41
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ybitchristof koch @singularity institute  :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tWr6HW9xKw&feature=player_detailpage#t=76s17:52
ybitfirst two mins watching if you don't watch anything els17:52
ybite17:52
kanzurehuh i forgot about how awesome mohorbiz is17:56
kanzurehttp://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/maharbiz/17:56
kanzure*maharbiz17:56
kanzurehe does some cyborg beetles and some microfluidics stuff17:56
kanzure"A cyborg beetle - insect flight control through an implantable, tetherless microsystem"17:56
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kanzure"Patterned delivery and expression of gene constructs into developing zebrafish embryos using microfabricated interfaces"17:56
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kanzurehuh surface tension actuated microfluidics.. http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/maharbiz/Transpiration%20actuation%20-%20the%20design,%20fabrication,%20and%20characterization%20of%20biomimetic%20microactuators%20driven%20by%20the%20surface%20tension%20of%20water.pdf17:59
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kanzureweird things i find in my collection, exhibit A:18:14
kanzurehttp://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/organic-tft/2010-02-01.txt18:14
kanzure"I'm looking at amorphous and polycrystalline TFT based ICs that could conceivably support an X86 virtual mode compliant processor running at 50 - 100MHz. Running an old modified Slackware kernel, say. That's all you need if the library calls are made to ASICs made of the same stuff. For calls to matrix calculations; you can use a battery of specialized TFTs to do things really fast...."18:14
kanzure"Bryan if this is irrelevant to u please delete real fast, and sorry!!"18:14
kanzurewhy would anyone apologize to me for these things :x18:15
jrayhawkdid you rule with an iron fist18:15
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kanzuregahhh18:18
kanzurei forgot about /protein-purification .. it's now safely merged with /bio/protein-purification/18:18
kanzuredelinquentme: you might enjoy http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/retrosynthesis/18:20
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kanzure""We assessed the forgetting of friends and its effects on measuring personal and social network characteristics and properties. All 217 residents of a university residence hall first recalled as many of their friends in the hall as they could."18:23
kanzure"Then, on a complete list of hall residents, residents indicated other friends they forgot to recall."18:23
kanzure"On average, residents forgot 20% of their friends. Residents' demographic characteristics are unrelated to the proportion of friends forgotten."18:23
kanzurecongratulations! i don't know 20% of you.18:23
kanzureprobably more. who the hell are you people?18:24
kanzurehttp://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/social/18:25
kanzureoh i forgot that dunbar estimated his number based on the size of the neocortex.. that's funky18:26
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Steel2hey Yashgaroth, Daniel Finfer of Ancient Lasers/Posthuman era might go out with us when I finally make it to cali18:39
Yashgarothaw shit I better listen to his albums then18:39
Steel2lol18:40
YashgarothI mean, I've heard songs, but probably not the whole discography18:40
Steel2whatever, it won't be for a while18:40
YashgarothI thought you were coming next month18:40
kanzureYashgaroth: i misplaced some files and you might enjoy the updates to http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bio/protein-purification/18:41
Yashgarothsweet18:42
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Yashgarothalso re: epitron earlier, genome sequencing of 'blood cells' is of immune cells; red blood cells don't have a nucleus18:42
Juulblood isn't alive!18:44
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Yashgarothbillions of zombies, floating around inside you right now18:45
kanzureonly billions?18:45
kanzure"There are about 30 trillion red blood cells in the average human body."18:45
kanzure30 trillion zombies is way different man18:45
Steel2Yashgaroth: I was going to, thesis advisors are being dicks.18:45
Steel2so my dad's shipping the car instead of me flying out and driving it back18:46
Juulhttps://inspirescience.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/carl_sagan2.jpg18:46
kanzureJuul: i finally watched "cosmos" a few weeks ago..18:46
Yashgarothwell damn...I might be visiting NY/DC at some point in may-ish18:46
Steel2cool18:46
Juulkanzure, oh yeah? i've only watched clips. just how outdated does it feel?18:46
kanzurethe romantizing of science was really not cool18:46
Steel2I'll still be in SD a decent amount for work or visiting dad18:46
Yashgarothwell, I'll be here for a while, hopefully18:47
epitronYashgaroth: ah, i see.. that makes more sense...18:47
Juulkanzure, hm, now i have to watch it18:47
kanzureJuul: no it's not too outdated ... for the astrophysics18:47
kanzuredamn i should have kept a list of things18:47
Yashgarothalso kanzure, where did you get the 30 trillion number? I'm p. sure the whole body is only ~100 trillion18:48
kanzurebut anyway, if you can get past all the "i want to touch you while we talk about science" stuff it's ok18:48
Yashgarothoh it's wikipedia18:48
Juulkanzure, i'll probably like it. i like sagan's writing.18:48
kanzurei like sagan's concepts but i really dislike how he makes a nebula some romantic thing instead of a cloud of dust18:49
Steel2the point is to show people that reality is just as beautiful as mysticism18:50
YashgarothI've got a mental image of sagan making out with a galaxy now18:50
Juulyou don't like the mixing of poetry and sicence18:50
Juuli can see that18:50
kanzurepoetry has its place18:50
kanzurei am ok with poetry in general18:50
kanzurei am also ok with science-related poetry18:50
kanzureat least feynman admitted it was the pleasure of finding things out, and not some sort of inherent pleasure that electrons possess18:51
Juulyeah i do think he sometimes goes a bit overboard with the poetic imagery when the facts are actually more awe-inspiring18:51
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kanzurehttp://www.genomeweb.com/coalition-wants-moratorium-extreme-synthetic-bio-businesses19:01
kanzure" An international advocacy coalition today19:01
kanzurecalled for a moratorium on the development of new synthetic organisms19:01
kanzurefor commercial use while new international regulations for governing19:01
kanzurethe synthetic biology sector are created to protect the environment19:01
kanzureand people from unknown perils."19:01
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kanzurewhat the fuck is a "global moratorium" and why would they think i would obey it?19:01
kanzure"Friends of the Earth and over 100 international groups focused on19:02
kanzureenvironmental, bioscience, food safety, human and consumer rights19:02
kanzureissues, and religion, said in a report published today that although19:02
kanzurethe synbio market had a value of more than $1.6 billion in 2011 and19:02
kanzurecould hit $10.8 billion by 2016, there has been "little or no19:02
kanzuregovernance of the industry or assessment of the novel risks posed by19:02
kanzuresynthetic organisms."19:02
kanzurebleh19:02
kanzure"The group also wants mandatory regulations that would treat synthetic19:03
kanzurebiology as a unique activity and would be stronger than current the19:03
kanzureregulations on pathogens, containment, drugs, and worker protections."19:03
Yashgarothpfft they're not even biologists19:03
kanzure"Among other proposals, the coalition also said it wants a prohibition19:03
kanzureon the use of synthetic biology to change the human genetic makeup,19:03
kanzurehuman genome, epigenome, or microbiome, because any such genetic19:03
kanzurealterations "are too risky and fraught with ethical concerns.""19:03
kanzureYashgaroth: the majority of people who make laws are also not biologists19:03
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Yashgarothbut look at 'their staff': attorney/activist/author, a methodist and 'fellow' at some other bogus institute, another attorney, '18 years experience working in office management', BA in anthro, journalist19:06
Yashgaroth"The United Methodist Church’s staff director of genetics"19:07
Stee|heh19:07
Yashgaroththe anthro major is their "research support"19:07
kanzureunfortunately there's not that many orgs that can argue against things like this19:08
Stee|kanzure: You don't need much19:08
kanzurewhen a govt body receives a demand letter like that signed with 100 orgs they look at it pretty closely19:08
Stee|500 bucks for an LLC and all the paperwork19:08
kanzureyes but you need 100+ of these19:08
kanzurelet's see.. what do we have?19:08
Yashgarothuntil they ask the AAAS about it and they go "haaaaahahaha"19:08
Stee|how many synthetic bio advocacy groups are there? or do we even need to bother, considering pharma companies19:08
kanzureAAAS would probably join that list, Yashgaroth19:08
kanzurewell no i mean non-profits19:09
kanzurebecause if it's just industry vs. non-profits, the non-profits have an easy argument ("they are all afraid of regulation and taxes")19:09
Stee|welp, time to start starting up those pro-h+ nonprofits19:09
kanzureno... that's not what i asked :(19:09
Yashgarothwe have no reputable h+ nonprofits worth a shit19:09
kanzureand the 'time' to do that is not at all influenced by whether or not someone sends a giant letter19:09
kanzurethey send these all the time19:09
Stee|eh, the time to do it is asap19:10
Stee|yashgaroth: yet19:10
Yashgarothtrue19:10
kanzureand whether or not to start one has nothing to do with whethero r not thse other groups are sending letters19:10
kanzurei find your logic to be full of shit19:10
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Stee|Non profits look good from a pr pov19:10
Stee|to normal people19:10
kanzureanyway, i specifically asked for a list of synthetic biology orgs19:11
Stee|oh19:11
Stee|no idea19:11
kanzure"let's see... what do we have?"19:11
kanzurewell there's openwetware, biofab, synbioberc19:11
kanzurebiobricks foundation19:11
kanzurejcvi19:11
Yashgaroththere weren't even any orgs for genetic engineering, back before it got renamed synbio19:11
kanzurealthough, i think synbioberc is probably listed on that antisynbio letter19:11
kanzureYashgaroth: iirc there's a lot of microbiology genetics orgs that are quasi related to AAAS19:12
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Yashgarothwell sure, but not explicitly synbio-oriented19:12
Yashgarothnot that I really keep track of these things19:13
kanzureStee|: why would your humanity+ be better than regular humanity+19:13
Stee|I didn't say I wanted to start a H+ equivalent (yet)19:13
kanzure19:09 < Stee|> welp, time to start starting up those pro-h+ nonprofits19:14
Stee|pro transhumanism19:14
kanzureso is humanity+19:14
kanzure.... theoretically.19:14
Stee|yeah, but all I want to start with is provide an umbrella for people to order various lab supplies and shit, and give support to, without looking like terrorists19:14
kanzurei thought you wanted PR19:15
Stee|we'll see where it goes after that19:15
kanzuremake up your mind :(19:15
Stee|that's part of PR?19:15
kanzureum.. not really19:15
Stee|it's all intertwined19:15
kanzurethat sounds like lab supply distribution19:15
kanzureintertwined is not a good way to describe what you're doing19:15
Stee|I need to build up reputation in the community, outside the community, with people peripherally related to the community, etc.19:16
Stee|also building up organizational reputation19:16
Stee|these are all different efforts19:16
kanzuremeh19:16
Stee|that culminate with the same goals19:16
kanzureok what does that have to do with lab supply distribution?19:16
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Stee|by making people's lives easier with various supplies, I get rid of one annoyance/obstacle19:17
Stee|as well as possibly helping with some sort of standardization/discount19:17
kanzureobstacle to reputation?19:17
Stee|obstacle to their own research19:17
kanzureok so again i don't see why reputation matters there19:17
kanzurejust provide a good service and reputation will happen19:17
kanzureand/or don't care about it19:17
Stee|that's exactly what I said basically19:18
kanzureno i know you better than that19:18
Stee|by helping out I gain reputation AND advance the science19:18
kanzureyou've told me on other occassions that you'd rather be doing ads, publicity, PR, PR stunts, lobbying, etc.19:18
kanzureand "social forums"19:19
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Steel2router issues, last thing I saw was [Stee|] by helping out I gain reputation AND advance the science19:21
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Mariusee you guys20:10
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kanzureeconomics of anime http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2012-03-0721:45
kanzure"This change in consumer behavior hit anime particularly hard, since during the industry's heyday, it depended on people collecting multiple volumes of a show they'd never seen. The idea of expecting people to commit up to $200 to collect a show they might not even like, in retrospect, seems like insanity."21:52
kanzurewhat?21:52
Steel2oh, yeah21:56
Steel2they'd do these ultra niche fanservice shows to hit one particular market really hard21:56
Steel2and make up for it with massive prices21:56
katsmeow-afkhaute couture in movies21:57
kanzure"It's been slow and painful. Licensors were reluctant to give up the safety of videotape, which was secure, long-lasting and reliable, and while it cost quite a bit of money, was uncomplicated and easy to work with."21:57
kanzure"It wasn't until the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami wiped out Sony's only broadcast tape manufacturing plant (and the worldwide tape shortage that followed) that many of the bigger licensors started taking a serious look at going "tapeless"."21:57
kanzure"How much money? Most anime these days is mastered on a tape format called HD-CAM. The price of a single recorder starts at US$45,000."21:59
kanzure.. but i bet it costs way less than $5k in parts21:59
lichenthats how it goes21:59
lichenbut you could go into the economics of high end technical equipment too21:59
lichenthe amount of development and testing required costs money22:00
lichenwhich means prices are going to be artifically inflated for a while22:00
strangewarp... Friends of the Earth, almost right down to their organization's name, are nearly identical in composition, spirit, and goal to a fictional organization on a roleplaying game I used to be active in. Ultimate weirdness.22:01
kanzurestrangewarp: the game was probably based around these real-life orgs22:05
kanzure"So overall, over 22 full length episode series and so around 90 episodes a month, the funds from Crunchyroll would cover the cost of about one episode ~ if the streaming process itself was cost free, which it is not."22:06
lichenthe media industry is all kinds of broken right now22:07
kanzurerelying on advertising revenue is kind of silly22:15
kanzure"we can't figure out how to make money from this"22:15
kanzure"oh i know! we can get money from ads, they'll know how to make money from this!"22:15
kanzurebut in reality ads don't really pay out that much22:15
lichenyep22:15
kanzurebecause advertising doesn't work22:15
kanzureunless you're building brand awareness22:15
lichenand when all else fails, lobby your way into money22:15
lichenif people dont want to pay you, just sue them untilt hey have to22:16
kanzureno that doesn't work either22:16
lichenim aware22:16
lichensarcasm22:16
kanzurei'm a little surprised that people think ads are a viable solution22:16
lichenwell as long as corpos keep feeding them money for that22:17
lichenit is22:17
lichenmostly just blame corps for putting so much of their operating budget into advertising22:17
kanzurethe reason ad agencies used to make so much money was because nobody could measure their performance22:17
kanzure$20mil or $50mil to an ad agency is very commonly not measured22:17
lichenah22:17
kanzure"oh look! we advertised during a tv show with 4 million viewers (maybe)"22:18
kanzureexcept you charged $3mil to do that ad, and only 100 people want to buy it22:18
* katsmeow-afk points to a case where $1500 in "buy one 2nd is half off (if you bring in this coupon))" got zero results,, so in that case advertising was worthless22:18
strangewarpkanzure: I dunno, the game had been running since the 1990s. But whatever [late reply; was doing things]22:18
kanzurestrangewarp: yeh these orgs have been around for a while22:19
kanzurei think 'friends of earth' or that one about farmers has been around for decades now22:19
katsmeow-afkMother Earth News22:19
strangewarpOh, hmm. Might have been the original inspiration, then..22:19
katsmeow-afkthere was another that began alongside of it that got big too22:20
katsmeow-afkFOE was into ecoactivism/terrorism, MEN wasn't22:20
lichenlol, MEN22:20
katsmeow-afkiirc22:20
lichenpretty bad acronym for that22:20
katsmeow-afkit's after midnite, by brain is off22:21
katsmeow-afkyeas22:21
katsmeow-afkgo into store, ask for MEN22:21
strangewarpGet entirely the wrong magazine :p22:22
lichenlol22:22
Steel2Hmmm.22:27
Steel2Yashgaroth, you around?22:27
Yashgaroth!22:27
Steel2Should I try to make an H+ house in north county when my dad moves back east and we're left with an empty 3600 square foot house in vista?22:28
Steel2:V22:28
Yashgarothhow's the commute22:28
Steel2eh22:29
Steel230 mins to LJ22:29
Steel2probably22:29
katsmeow-afkLa Jolla?22:30
Yashgarothyes22:30
YashgarothI can stop by on weekends but I ain't living there, it's further than carlsbad22:30
Steel2yeah, it's 37 miles22:31
Steel2I won't be down there but my mom might be. Maybe just throw get togethers when I'm in state22:31
Yashgarothsure then22:32
Steel2or drive up to LA22:32
Yashgarothsomething particular in LA?22:44
Steel2some more buddies, better bars22:44
Steel2it depends what we can find that's central to everyone22:44
lichenheh, h+ house?22:45
kanzurecan you dorks do me a huge favor? go do a google query and count the number of seconds for the page to load22:45
lichengoogle's gotten pretty obnoxious lately22:45
kanzurealso paste the number that google claims it took (for me it's roughly 0.3 seconds on average)22:45
Yashgaroth0.11 seconds22:45
lichenwhat search22:45
lichenpick a term22:45
katsmeow-afkso use duckduckgo22:46
lichenvarying from .1-.222:46
lichenyeah, thats what i do already22:46
lichenheh22:46
katsmeow-afkgoogle is doing tracking something fiercenow22:46
Steel2I really don't like new google22:51
Steel2*the browser22:52
Steel2err22:52
Steel2search engine22:52
Steel2herp22:52
katsmeow-afkchrome?22:52
katsmeow-afko22:52
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kanzureYashgaroth: yes but how many seconds did you count22:56
Yashgarothhalf of one22:56
kanzureit looks like google+ is the culprit22:57
kanzurewithout cookies or being logged in the load times are more sane/reasonable22:57
kanzurei wonder if the search page load time increases geometrically with the number of connections i have in google+22:57
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katsmeow-afki would rather not google picked search results based on my previous "viewing habits", and instead gave me the best search results that match the terms i supply22:59
lichenyeah23:00
katsmeow-afkwhen i search for "spoke" (past tense of speak) today, and search for "spoke" (wheel component) tomorrow, i do not want that taken into consideration in searching tomorrow23:00
lichenthis is why i block all of google's shit23:00
lichenthey do some things that in some lights sound like they could be a good idea23:00
lichenbut in practice are terrribleeee23:01
katsmeow-afkgnites23:03
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fennunder 3 seconds logged in w/plus23:17
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kanzurefenn: you're cheating.. you guys pay for like a direct line to google23:23
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klafka1really?23:36
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kanzureklafka1: yeh one of them works at google23:46
kanzureand puts the connection on the company's dime23:46
klafka1aah23:49
klafka1oh yeah i hear they do that23:50
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