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HeySteve: mircea_popescu, the problem is I spent 5 fucking days researching BANX and interviewing Lyford so that fewer suckers would be scammed
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for mircea_popescu with note: some kind of bitcoin legend, I am still figuring it out, probably a good person
shinohai: I do wonder why there is a picture of Dr. Stu Price on your blog now though.
HeySteve: so perhaps too many words and perhaps overly kind to BTS, although I do believe their technology is good.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if you realise how far away that is, in hundreds of marine miles.
Zuardi: !rate mircea_popescu 1 some kind of bitcoin legend, I am still figuring it out, probably a good person
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> "If this is a scam, I want to be scammed more." <<< careful what you wish! << no, it's exact. and he'll get it too.
mircea_popescu: the problem of your thing was its form, not its content. i couldn't even get to the content.
mircea_popescu: <HeySteve> as for the rest, mircea_popescu, you may dismiss everything that isn't Bitcoin 0.5 as a scam but I do not take this view without evidence << but note that none of that is in any sense what i said.
Zuardi: mircea_popescu I think i did that, let me double check
Zuardi: oh, I see, I need to do the same thing on assbot as well
mircea_popescu: PeterL i space question marks but that's really my mental problem, nobody else. ☟︎
Zuardi: thanks, I am starting to gather wot rates, maybe I'll be able to voice myself soon :P
mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> and I don't get the space between the last word of a sentence and the punctuation << the wut ?! ☟︎
mircea_popescu: so dumbass eulora db server found a whole new way to fuckup. jesus fuck i love contemporaneity.
shinohai: I'm not big on many altcoins, but +1 for not generating a bzillion coins for an "IPO"
funkenstein_: :) I will continue work to deserve such an endorsement
shinohai: I have yet to see said project though, is it public?
funkenstein_: HeySteve, I think the claim is not that newer codes are scam, but that they add little of value compared to their weight in cruft
shinohai: "If this is a scam, I want to be scammed more." <<< careful what you wish!
shinohai: https://forum.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-discussion/announcing-the-blockchain-alliance-t1601.html#p3635 <<< I scare satoshi off by announcing I think it's a good idea to talk to the cia, FF to 2015 and I still lurve LE's
HeySteve: as for the rest, mircea_popescu, you may dismiss everything that isn't Bitcoin 0.5 as a scam but I do not take this view without evidence ☟︎
HeySteve: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-10-2015#1305601 < out of BanxCapital's operations, imaginary or otherwise, which I listed in detail ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 22-10-2015 21:58:37; mircea_popescu: i can't from that piece discern what is supposed to be the revenue model of the banx thing.
PeterL: I guess you want to use <marquee> too?
jurov: and on more serious note, I miss anything about paragraph formatting, guess <p> should be allowed or even endorsed, too. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 04:45:23; BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: No one yet, but I suspect someone is going to scan a document and think "this format is old enough:
PeterL: BingoBoingo: I like the style guide you made. I am kinda surprised people were submitting MS turds.
danielpbarron: and what about footnotes at the end of sentences? I think it looks better after the punctuation, even if that isn't "logical"
danielpbarron: although since seeing that practice in here, I've adopted it for use around the colon sometimes. Can't bring myself to do it with the period
danielpbarron: and I don't get the space between the last word of a sentence and the punctuation
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 05:29:59; pete_dushenski: if that's the rule, i'll abide, but if it's up for discussion, i'm in favour of the 'wrong.'
mircea_popescu: i find this sort of rampant ignorance offensive.
trinque: though I don't know what they thought would have prevented it
trinque: in discussing this with a friend recently, I supposed that the founding fathers might never have dreamed that the lowest would end up included in the category of "people"
trinque: I'm sure if I pulled one aside at Walmart and told him that Thomas Jefferson rewrote the bible, he'd spontaneously combust.
trinque: I don't speak with many that'd be unaware they were well off.
pete_dushenski: i guess it could be the mistaken belief that 'men of the people are by definition the people incarnate and are therefore as average as anyone even though we remember only the names of the best of us and not those of the men who were truly average and truly of the people'
pete_dushenski: i'm not sure what it is with americans imagining that their founding fathers lived in filth and squalour their entire lives.
BingoBoingo: Saw it. Imma sleep and do draft two of Qntra submission guidelines when I wake up taking in the feedback since the original publication and my waking.
pete_dushenski: but if monday rolls around and you find my pgp sig on a mortgage and a !rate travispatron 10 bbf4lyf, i'm in a better place.
pete_dushenski: also, if anyone's looking for me, i'll be away this weekend sans internet. just a heads up
pete_dushenski: well i'm quite happy to beleet the space then
pete_dushenski: "Who said smartphones weren't useful ?" v. "(Run moar winbloze!™)" << though i seem to only use a question/exclamation mark once every 4-5 articles, so maybe not a big deal.
trinque: well I mean, what one does to cope with a world of shit is forgivable
BingoBoingo: So before it gets to that debate you have to ask yourself "Am I that much of a pretentious dick" or am I going to trust the reading software to know.
punkman: trinque: I do that
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo i use a space 90% of the time on contravex, but i've been even less consistent in qntra submissions.
pete_dushenski: i was suprised to see that neither BingoBoingo nor mircea_popescu mentioned a guideline for a space (or no space) after the last word in a sentence and any subsequent question/exclamation mark.
punkman: I'm also gonna hate you if your <img> is a <div> with a background
trinque: I wouldn't want to take your crawler from you; I'd just prefer it were crawling structured data that is solely data
punkman: trinque: the whole semantic thing in html is horse-shit << well I can't say I prefer <div> and <table> to <article> and <nav>, but maybe that's because I write crawlers often
pete_dushenski: No footnotes in the first (or only) paragraph of a submission. << good idea. i've been guilty of this and it does look sloppy
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu b i works. is that what you use on trilema ?
mircea_popescu: a in that case let's instead go b i
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski except b and i are deprecated.
punkman: strong and em were in vogue for a while, but then html5 brought b/i backj
pete_dushenski: <b></b> for bold and <i></i> for italic << my dumdum wp install does <strong></strong> for bold and <em></em> for italic. don't ask why but it seems unnecessary to specify which precise tags to use if strong/em seem to work just as well as b/i, which they do.
trinque: punkman: I don't either, likely due to string quoting in programming.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo i can live with that
punkman: I never liked that rule, ever since learning it in school. never used it either I think
trinque: pete_dushenski: it's an odd rule, if considered right in english grammar. I'm not aware of the rules in other languages. Regardless, why do the quotes eat the punctuation at the end of the sentence, but require no internal puntuation when the sentence quoted otherwise would.
pete_dushenski: if that's the rule, i'll abide, but if it's up for discussion, i'm in favour of the 'wrong.' ☟︎
pete_dushenski: i see we have some format wars afoot
BingoBoingo: Well if we are talking food name diversions, I came up with an interesting "alt white Russian" last week
punkman: well those two I can easily get, but finding real chocolate is a hassle
BingoBoingo: http://qntra.net/2015/10/operation-cyber-juice-police-and-their-favorite-drug-of-abuse-part-1/#comment-69824 << And people are catching on that piece leads somewhere. I won't spoil it and say it ends in "Police turn themselves into inhuman monsters. but..."
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: No one yet, but I suspect someone is going to scan a document and think "this format is old enough: ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Last one I saw was the first Saw
mircea_popescu: i think i might have seen 2
BingoBoingo: At the moment I am liking the smashing and tensing of the content and non-content material
BingoBoingo: Fuck, I of all people need to get better at word efficiency
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1305692 <<< meanwhile i xreferenced, he's the guy that wanted to do some hairbrained rent deposit insurance thing. i don't see anything actually negratable in there, so he's young and doesn't know all sorts of things. big whoop. everyone's born young. i don't see he did anything offensive past that. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: if i wanted to see 1-2 weird girls next door being self conscious in briefs i'd go to a lame beach.
mircea_popescu: worst fucking party ever, i've been to better fraternity parties at state universities for crying out loud
mircea_popescu: holy fucksticks! the ENTIRE THING took place in a space that's smaller than any apartment i keep girls in.
mircea_popescu: so for my sins i went to https://www.google.com.ar/search?q=buenos+aires+exxxotica
adlai: BingoBoingo: re: the content guidelines, maybe i'm too tired but i just can't parse the "Terseness" guideline
BingoBoingo: These concerns are why I need a new asshole, carve it.
BingoBoingo: But talk on signatures is something I should incorporate in the next draft
BingoBoingo: If preet wants to write on how much he sucks and give the shares to kakobrekla I dun know that I or kakobrekla ought to object on the first pass
adlai: or, as eloquently put by theresa heinz kerry... "you said that i said something that i didn't say, so you can shove it"
BingoBoingo: Signature is nice, but if Hitler writes better than submitter I don't yet have objections to hitler giving submitter shares. But that is an issue
BingoBoingo: adlai: Molestation in transit. If the whole thing is GPG encrypted fine, but I feel much safer if code and signed material are encrypted seperately to survive transit.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in your place, i'd ask for submissions in 'markdown' format, instead of html, but this is a matter of aesthetics and perlscript solely.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell pete_dushenski did I leave any necessary formatting markup out?
adlai: i'm way too curious now about the original text. if the problems were primarily stylistic, qntra'd have been better off with an edited version, but that demands more from the [rapidly dwindling number of] editors
BingoBoingo: adlai: It will be open to comments. I'm reactivating thedrinkingrecord for meta talk about Qntra.
asciilifeform: but now that i'm home, can't be arsed.
asciilifeform: i must admit, i was tempted
assbot: Logged on 22-10-2015 23:54:38; mircea_popescu: also, as much as i loathe pdfs, http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/SWEENEY.WALTON012308.pdf
BingoBoingo: The formatting guidelines will be effective as soon as the link hits this channel, because I'm tired of buring more braincycles civilizing submission that deturding legal pdfs.
mircea_popescu: "but i couldn't smoke anyway!" "exactly."
mircea_popescu: also, as much as i loathe pdfs, http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/SWEENEY.WALTON012308.pdf ☟︎
mod6: shinohai: haha, i've done that at least half-a-dozen times.
BingoBoingo: Sorry I fucked up.
mircea_popescu: if i wanted to have more gawker fluffl i'd have bought fucking gawker.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ok this is by very far the worst thing i have ever see qntra publish.
mircea_popescu: i can't from that piece discern what is supposed to be the revenue model of the banx thing. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: The conclusion I went to first was that there is some unconscious sexual element; not that the academics thought they were going to seduce me, of course, but that they derived some greater pleasure in answering the women than the men.