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pete_dushenski: "To bad there isn’t such a thing as intellectual rugby…I would gladly try to field a team from people I have know, and let Pete do the same, and watch his eagle @ss get stomped into the ground before he could ever gain any altitude." ☟︎☟︎

pete_dushenski: "And if Pete’s ego gets fueled by what he might consider success in waging his “social experiments” amongst your other followers, I would expect that, like bad money driving out good, too much Pete D will result in a decline in participation by others who manage to take different viewpoints, and disagree, while not finding it necessary to insult each other, people’s countries, their religions, the attrac

pete_dushenski: "Pete seems to think that by attacking any and everything that many people hold dear, he is showing himself a free thinker who is exposing hypocrisy. But I think jz78817 provides a much clearer and simpler explanation of the behavior: total @ss-holeness, used as a defense mechanism for a total inability to get along with most, if not all, people."

davout: #b-a is getting all corporate and shit I guess

pete_dushenski: davout: i think your besuited linkedin pic subconsciously inspired it

davout: "In my humble opinion: these bots create a false market. They represent institutional greed offering no substantial increase in value per point nor do they offer any noticeable increase in liquidity. I also believe that they will chase your average human customers away, who like us, were trying to get the best price we could while at least trying to offer a better market" ☟︎

davout: "ohai, i'm trying to do X, and i get frustrated because someone automated X and is therefore doing it better than me, pls to change the rules accordingly"

davout: so today, i had a customer complain by e-mail that he had trouble getting in front of everyone in the order book, and that it was a bad experience

ascii_field: in other nyooz, for mircea_popescu et al, https://i.imgur.com/YHdmZTP.jpg

assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 15:17:46; davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310797 <<< its gay if panels are touching. i think you could hardly consider parts actually isolated from each other if they're in physical proximity

assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 14:27:14; vulpes_a_hopital: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310756 << perhaps i lose sight of what it is to "be rich", but all one must do is...not send the kids off to socialist day camp.

ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310803 << last i heard, this costs money. ☝︎☟︎

davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310797 <<< its gay if panels are touching. i think you could hardly consider parts actually isolated from each other if they're in physical proximity ☝︎☟︎

vulpes_a_hopital: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310756 << perhaps i lose sight of what it is to "be rich", but all one must do is...not send the kids off to socialist day camp. ☝︎☟︎

davout: "store and play the correct bach fugue depending on what emacs modeline is set" <<< i thought emacs could *generate* bach fugues

asciilifeform: it is not, i will note, essential that all of these things happen on the ~same~ cpu

assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 09:46:02; davout: i don't really see why there should be only one kind of computer

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310745 << i read this piece but do not grasp how it relates to my position on *leaks ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: i still recall the days when a developer would spend an hour a day WAITING FOR REBOOTS

asciilifeform: how much of his life does mircea_popescu spend waiting for compiles? for numbers to crunch? and i specifically mean WAITING FOR A MACHINE not for a human operator to get his shit together

assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 09:39:35; mircea_popescu: i got a perfectly fine thinkpad, asciilifeform doesn't think much of it as a... what's he call it, "workstation girlfriend" ?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310723 << your thinkpad is faster than half of the machines in the room from which i'm posting. but 'workstation' has specific meaning. ☝︎

assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 09:30:47; davout: mircea_popescu: yeah well, basically, the intuitive understanding i reached, is that unless your computer is behaving like a dumb calculator, something is wrong

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310702 << i don't regard the subject as a box of mysteries. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: "most hot chicks, in order to be hot, copy something a celebrity wears; remember the Rachel-do? No problem, they look hot in it; but their delusion is that they are referencing Jennifer Aniston and not the millions of other women with the exact same haircut, i.e. that they draw their identity only from the celebrity's identity-- "This look really says me!" Yet sit along the wall of the bar and the conclusion is inevi

davout: i don't really see why there should be only one kind of computer ☟︎

davout: i'm not saying that being a calculator should be the alpha and omega of computing, just that for crypto purposes it's probably better to not think of a RNG as something acceptable

mircea_popescu: i got a perfectly fine thinkpad, asciilifeform doesn't think much of it as a... what's he call it, "workstation girlfriend" ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: and i'm not judging anyone for wanting to fuck their box. i understand the impulse, and hey, it beats trying to fuck your station wagon. or mains socket.

mircea_popescu: i'm actually serious, tho it sounds pretty nutty.

davout: i want to fuck my computer?

davout: mircea_popescu: yeah well, basically, the intuitive understanding i reached, is that unless your computer is behaving like a dumb calculator, something is wrong ☟︎

davout: punkman: i shall read it, tyvm

mircea_popescu: i want to add a reference to http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=18-09-2015#1278807 ☝︎

davout: nah, i was trying to figure out exactly, at what points should sane software accept user-generated entropy

davout: anyway, i had a look around yesterday about deterministic signatures, and didn't find anything regarding the official cult position

davout: i did get demoted by theymos from my mod position for basically calling him a derp. i think that counts!11

davout: well, i do have a june something 2011 video going around where i, i essence, tell karupuresu he has no fucking clue how to run an exchange :D

davout: i haz an article

mircea_popescu: "Ponder that flippant run-on sentence for its hidden truth. Who judges whom? What are the criteria for becoming a judge? It's not popularity; nor the sophistication of the staff and writers; or the insight of a director. In the hierarchy of authenticity and truth, which one is at the top? Why can Variety call someone "internet obsessed" but no one can call Variety a "comic book" which, as I am about to show, it is

mircea_popescu: this is, incidentally, a fundamental point to be considered for those inclined to interact with the scum (aka, non-qntra reporters), a point which that seduction expert (i don't recall which one but was in the logs - something about how he went on a "live" show where the 5 dollar audience bood him on cue) : you do want to control their codes. because you must project your own ownership of reality, and of their sorry pe ☟︎

mircea_popescu: "hool teacher to determine the curriculum's rigor. But the samples also tell something about the readers. "I had one essay that said how awful Twilight was"--the essay was about damaging themes of female submissiveness in the series--"and I was like, 'Admit her!' " says Melissa Faulner, a 2006 grad on the committee."

mircea_popescu: i wonder how many kids actually earnestly trying to play that lottery know this is going to be the case and write to that audience (barristas)

mircea_popescu: And some are, I guess, there's got to be an Admissions Dean in the building somewhere. But the average applicant is writing an essay that he thinks an adult with a suit and three kids would want to read. Instead, it's probably being read by someone who can't wait for the new iphone and still bites their nails. Ten grand says they think Jon Stewart is "a freakin' political genius.""

mircea_popescu: In every college admissions website, they are referred to as "Admissions Officers." While I didn't assume they were in the military, I suppose I did assume they were... old. er.

stefek99: (I very rarely use IRC)

stefek99: Why I was voiced? What does it mean?

fluffypony: like I get that it renders README.md, but leave the rest of my files alone

vulpes_a_hopital: dafuq am i supposed to do

vulpes_a_hopital: i'd say "enjoy" but that's just me.

pete_dushenski: hm. i lack the words in which to cloak my true intention of spreading porn to the four corners of the digital world

vulpes_a_hopital: BingoBoingo: i think you want to insert a [sic] there and not correct the quote.

mircea_popescu: i can see the logic of htis.

mircea_popescu: i actually like davout's answering style.

pete_dushenski: not that i mind the subject matter..

vulpes_a_hopital: now i'm bored.

vulpes_a_hopital: i scoped the stats, made my call.

vulpes_a_hopital: what i'm reading qntra

pete_dushenski: vulpes_a_hopital i'm missing something, not the least of which was that i read 42 and thought "oh, that's term!" lol

BingoBoingo: I thought that was in November, pretty sure this was his van

pete_dushenski: vulpes_a_hopital i'll get you the name of the book in the morning

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> who the fuck takes the woman to the hospital before she floods the room i want to know! << Person who has to clean the room?

mircea_popescu: who the fuck takes the woman to the hospital before she floods the room i want to know!

vulpes_a_hopital: also i ain't even worried yet

mircea_popescu: what i mean is. for as long as it stays under half a day it's not even a moderately big deal.

mircea_popescu: o hey i gotta read this.

phf: i naively went there to see how exactly they measured "programming aptitude" expecting some bogus methodology involving bug counts, the reality is just so incredibly bad, i'm now tracking original papers purely out of morbid fascination

mod6: vulpes_a_hopital: i've been told first babys take time. hang in there :]

pete_dushenski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfgsoETPe-I << another interesting pro-chinese piece, by south and north carolinians no less !

mircea_popescu: and I don't know any guy in the world who has an extra pack of socks available "just in case." << now you do. chicks (that don't even wear underwear!) carry spare socks and similar stuff around for my convenience. so there!

mircea_popescu: i agree.\

phf: i liked her as chani in dune

mircea_popescu: i always had this suspicion that rabelais was not always sticking to the true objectivity of science.

mircea_popescu: but i think you'd get kicked out of the 70s if no shoulder pads.

pete_dushenski: i think our collective leg's being pulled

vulpes_a_hopital: i must not understand how this marriage was to have worked.

vulpes_a_hopital: ah yes, i recall why mircea_popescu was queued up

pete_dushenski: i think it's 5 mins apart

mircea_popescu: in what context ? or did i use it somewhere ?

vulpes_a_hopital: mk. well as someone who actually reviews, teaches and issues canings over code, and knows the personalities involved intimately, i'm going to not give a shit.

mircea_popescu: in the 70s this was an entire subculture i think.

mircea_popescu: phf one of the numerous women i proposed marriage to was actually a chainsmoker fortran programmer.

phf: mircea_popescu: just more academia inbreeding in this "metastudy". only time i saw fortran code is when helping computation chemistry grgrad students code up their models

mircea_popescu: i bet the woman agrees.

vulpes_a_hopital: the thing i'm already retching over

phf: i like this one, Personality and learning FORTRAN. (1985), i almost want to trick that one down

pete_dushenski: "But how can the author will a meta-analysis to show what he wants it to show? Maybe he could manipulate an individual study, wouldn't a "study of studies" be immune to his dark sorcery? Imagine a study of Prozac vs. placebo in 10000 patients, and Prozac is awesome. Imagine two more studies, each with 6 patients, and Prozac doesn't beat placebo in those. I now have three studies. My meta-analysis concludes:

phf: i believe tlp has an article on meta-analysis studies

assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 01:46:22; asciilifeform: (i mean, how the hell does the quoted thread re: intel relate to any of this...?)

mircea_popescu: i hope that was a n>10k study.

asciilifeform: (i mean, how the hell does the quoted thread re: intel relate to any of this...?) ☟︎

asciilifeform: ;;later tell pete_dushenski i must confess that the 'middle class' article made very little sense to me...

danielpbarron: ;;later tell pete_dushenski ^ nice stuff. freaky how much I can relate to the sentiment as of late.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-10-2015#1310292 << out of curiosity, what would mircea_popescu recommend for tlp to ~do~ if he were to say 'yes, i agree, usaschwitz sux' ? insert the broomstick? ☝︎

kakobrekla: i can only plug in 6 x27 monitors before i need a second gpu

ascii_field: not useless, i used to have #b-a on one.

kakobrekla: no, but i can live with various ipses, not with any tn.

ascii_field: from this thread i find it interesting that mircea_popescu so strongly disbelieves in the existence of proper lcd

punkman: otherwise, I don't care about teh colors enough

punkman: I'd like a colorimeter so I can skip the uncomfortable period when changing monitors