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mircea_popescu: cads http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM << 660mn views.
cads: mircea_popescu: the idea is that an unpaid woman sits at a table and opens up a famous literary work she chose, begins to read a key passage, starts having and orgasm, continues trying to read, climaxes, and then closes the book and says "I'm ____ and this has been moby dick"
mircea_popescu: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbw3j2tj2f1rqgfmbo1_500.gif
benkay: mircea_popescu: you're missing out on all sorts of context not at least sampling videos
mircea_popescu: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9fgmrL08p1qdleaio1_500.gif
cads: mircea_popescu: you must watch this: http://hystericalliterature.com/stoya/
benkay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ZL8HXbHQo
cads: is this to say the encryption _key_, can not be derived from the decryption key?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: angels/pinhead, etc. one could easily picture something clever (block cipher allowing direct execution of crypted instructions, without an intermediate buffer for mass decrypt) or something foolish.
benkay: Mats_cd03: are you on cocaine?
cads: http://cryptography.wikia.com/wiki/JOSEKI_%28cipher%29
asciilifeform: and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer
asciilifeform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paillier_cryptosystem
cads: mircea_popescu: just acquaintances on irc.
cads: mircea_popescu: sell some Coq nerds on the importance of implementing a formally verified blockchain algorithm and further specialization to a btc implementation :)
benkay: mircea_popescu: cs departments are for research. mechanical and ee departments are apparently where you learn to actually weld shit together.
benkay: mircea_popescu: it's a goddamn shame that everyone's leaving it to the self-taught hacks
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: right. you arrange to have the turd jumped to after sig check.
Bugpowder: Mark : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallow_Man
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well so far it is at least two mistakes on Gox's part leading zeros and txid as database primary key.
cads: mircea_popescu: I'm going to investigate the excuse don't worry :D
mircea_popescu: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57618976-83/kickstarter-hacked-user-data-stolen/
pankkake: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1y116j/mtgox_bitcoin_withdrawals_working_again/ successful trolling I guess
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: von neumann widget, lol. can't wait for some joker to start 'predicting market'
benkay: mircea_popescu: yup
benkay: mircea_popescu: what?
benkay: mircea_popescu: stochastic simulations, generally? you'd know more than me...
benkay: no mircea_popescu you see i have this model and it shows that if things were different things would be different
cads: mircea_popescu: Haha you mean quantitative models don't magically reorganize reality into your will?
cads: mircea_popescu: some economics and game theory
cads: mircea_popescu: I'm looking for introductory materials in quantitative finance with focus on hedge funds and derivatives valuation. Any input in this direction?
nanotube: mircea_popescu: bitcoincharts average got messed up one day, because anx.hk accidentally pushed dogecoin trade data in place of bitcoin - thus producing high volume at really low price, and screwing things up. ☟︎
nanotube: mircea_popescu: bitnumus
TomServo: mircea_popescu: I don't, sorry.
nanotube: mircea_popescu: bitcoinaverage.com
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu taps his keyboard of +3 plausibility.
benkay: mircea_popescu's having software trubbles
davout: mircea_popescu: if they removed gox from the index it'll probably still be taking into account data from before the removal
ThickAsThieves: http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/weighted_prices.json
ThickAsThieves: <Bugpowder> mircea_popescu: ty... Hoping to see MPOEbot make a triumphant return soon. /// unlikely til Gox reopens wd's
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: ty... Hoping to see MPOEbot make a triumphant return soon.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in a world where every "idea" is in fact chewed and spit and chewed so many times by so many generations by now all that's left is the spit itself << not quite.
benkay: did i just get mircea_popescu to watch a video?
benkay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_JOBCLF-I
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Of course. Who really wants to use their acquaintance Brian in that way at all. Everyone knows their Brian will just flag everything as a scam and tell them to STFU n00b.
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: when is the MPOEbot coming back? And when will pending deposits be credited?
benkay: yeah your howotos suck, mircea_popescu
davout: mircea_popescu: exactly, which looks sketchy
davout: mircea_popescu: https://www.vaultofsatoshi.com/about
ThickAsThieves: and http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/Main_Page
deanclkclk: I wasn't asking question mircea_popescu I was pitching an idea
benkay: outta mah FACE mircea_popescu
davout: mircea_popescu: no i actually don't
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones_wife : please hide any nailguns ty.
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones
deadweasel: 'ycombinated minds' as mircea_popescu aptly put it
deanclkclk: means that mircea_popescu recommended apocalyptic?
pankkake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_(exchange) basically
deanclkclk: mircea_popescu: again..attention
deanclkclk: I have a value added propition mircea_popescu nad what I'm bring is like high frequency trading
deanclkclk: I know mircea_popescu
deanclkclk: thx for that mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on and off.
mjr_: mircea_popescu: i thought the fee was 10 bitcoins for VIP, not that I am complaining, I just haven't looked in a while
benkay: mircea_popescu: that's a strainer.
mircea_popescu: mjr_ sorry ?
mjr_: mircea_popescu:
francis_wolke: mircea_popescu: One sec, reading your blogpost.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke you'll ahve to put that in the form of a question.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who's this guy << no idea. seems to read my site at least occasionally.
francis_wolke: mircea_popescu: I read the logs. My wifi died.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke your git is nonsense.
benkay: mjr_: pm
mircea_popescu: mjr_ the conference you mea n?
benkay: if you'd read the gist it woulda saved so much time mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: "and Israel" << wtf ?! how do you reason francis_wolke ?
mjr_: its mostly a joke mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: mjr_ they're not that great.
benkay: litecoin management lol mjr_
mircea_popescu: ello mjr_
benkay: mircea_popescu: i pointed this out already.
mjr_: very weak mircea_popescu
benkay: yo mjr_ what's up
francis_wolke: mircea_popescu: https://gist.github.com/francis-/34ac1e35e1de283da258
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke actual link ?
francis_wolke: mircea_popescu: See my gist. However, I think that it's clear I need to read the Bitcoin sources and more history. The 'reasoning' in said gist may not correspond to reality.
dexX7: mircea_popesu: yea, i guess it's not very accurate, but interesting to see an estimate
asciilifeform: francis_wolke: suggested exercise: invent something fundamental.
mircea_popescu: <francis_wolke> A large scale, important project, developed in secret by USG. << how does bitcoin meet any of your criteria ?
asciilifeform: francis_wolke: you believe that it was? or believe that it must have been.
benkay: francis_wolke: have you read the source?
francis_wolke: mircea_popescu: Ah - but that's what I'm getting at - I think it was.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke but a new currency isn't a manhattan project.
francis_wolke: mircea_popescu: You simply don't have to tell all that many people when you're creating a new currency - and even if you do, who is going to listen?
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke but you never engaged my argument at all.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: depends! is he in an oubliette where he belongs?
benkay: mircea_popescu: on the subject of the feed you've been yammering at me about
francis_wolke: mircea_popescu: I don't know you well enough to say.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke doing what ?
francis_wolke: mircea_popescu: You wouldn't opt for another 400 years?