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assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 23:27:06; pete_dushenski: and speaking of wowz and suches and muches and scamcoins,
i just checked the chart for dogecoin and it's really surprisingly stable. also noted that $50-100k of the crap trades hands on a daily basis. then again, could be some dogederps trading with himself all day.
mircea_popescu: if you don't know me,
i don't see why you have any right or any permission to use my ratings of someone else.
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 23:46:29; ben_vulpes: imho (and
i'm always wrong, it's cool bru) it should be possible to reconstruct the current state of the wot from a log of !rate's and !v's
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 22:19:23; pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-10-2015#1292160 << hot damn
i have to start doing this. inquiring minds would love a list of List of People Kidnapped By MP This Week And What They Taught Him. also, does argentina actually have a dozen ppl worth mircea_popescu's time ~every~ week ?
mircea_popescu: somehow
i suspek it ain't getting published, but anyway.
ben_vulpes: imho (and
i'm always wrong, it's cool bru) it should be possible to reconstruct the current state of the wot from a log of !rate's and !v's
☟︎☟︎ ben_vulpes: which raises a problem
i spotted a while back and didn't raise, which is that ratings are not independently verifiable.
adlai: yes,
i'm not trusting that ~23% from cryptsy, it's essentially holding funds hostage by blowing up the transfer fees
pete_dushenski: and speaking of wowz and suches and muches and scamcoins,
i just checked the chart for dogecoin and it's really surprisingly stable. also noted that $50-100k of the crap trades hands on a daily basis. then again, could be some dogederps trading with himself all day.
☟︎ cazalla: BingoBoingo,
i think it did, but the pictures were reused for a fake loot crew during some other event to troll alex jones into reporting it as fact
BingoBoingo: cazalla:
I though the loot crew actually happened, even though the hashtag was a troll
ascii_field: '
I have the right to replace any comment
I feel like with “fart fart fart fart”. ' << win
ascii_field: '
I did not want to work professionally with people who were allowed to get away with subtle sexist or homophobic jokes.
I feel powerless in a community that had a “Code of Conflict” without a specific list of behaviors to avoid and a community with no teeth to enforce it."
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: yes! when
i finally get home. a few hours from now.
mircea_popescu: tbh slut walks not bad idea. one spot where
i and teh derpeminists see eye to eye
danielpbarron: bitbet is the exact opposite of that model, if
I'm reading it correctly
mircea_popescu: "It's an interesting piece of info and it resonates a lot with the issues and choices
I and to make with my game early this year.
I can see how those numbers could be discouraging but
I kind of agree with Sven, they are not that bad."
ascii_field: '
I can actually remember when Looney Toons was yanked in favor of more PC Barney the dinosaur bullshit.
I remember when
I got sent home with a note explaining to my parents that my pocket knife no longer acceptable.
I remember when
I got sent home with a note explaining to my parents that my pocket knife no longer acceptable.'
mircea_popescu: "
I think it was great to get the game into the hands of a lot of people for free, even if it lost money for the studio.
assbot: Pictorial Essay: 18 Things
I Did That My Grand-kids Can’t Do Without Someone Getting Arrested « The Burning Platform ... (
http://bit.ly/1Z3PE0A )
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no
i meant, "sell it" as in, "convince me",.
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 06:05:19; mircea_popescu: anyway, the ever more feverish pitch of desperation is lulzy. "sell bitcoin to me". dude... why the fuck would
i be selling anything to you ? fuck you, your approval is not required, your desires don't matter, you're not being persuaded here. you're being raped. nobody gives a shit about your consent, let alone excitement to use bitcoin. you'll use it to survive, and marginally at that.
ascii_field: but unlike mircea_popescu
i sometimes have to vivisect it.
mircea_popescu: (
i really use very little software, and most of it either 30 years old or made by people
i know)
mircea_popescu:
i live in the dirigible world past the horizon, my shit dun crash.
mircea_popescu: works fine for lines of code.
i guess if
i programmed more.
btcdrak: (not the title, but the comment
I linked to lol)
mircea_popescu:
i actually have great hope for the future ofthis system yes.
diana_coman: well you can grab people by their irc nick
I suppose, not really by the tie at any moment
mircea_popescu: diana_coman that's the other thing. the odds of me giving two pre-compressed, freeze dried rat shits on the "article" of some random derp
i dunno... hm.
PeterL: "
I read it on the internet, it must be true!"
diana_coman: fwiw
I saw first-hand the horrible things google/search-reliance can do for lazy people too - there were some very sad (or laughable if so inclined) articles on Bitcoin in ACM magazine
diana_coman: it's still kind of ok for specific stuff, more like bookmarking kind of thing -
I know what
I'm searching for and roughly where it is,
I just need the quick path to it (as in search on dl.acm for articles of X on topic Y or in journal Z)
mircea_popescu:
i doubt the google problem is in any way different from the colored coins/ripple/ethereum problem, or generally "automated trust" issue.
diana_coman: and when
I got there
I had been right, the key words were exactly as given etc
diana_coman: well,
I think it might head that way, in the sense that it happened more than once that
I searched for things with precise and specific keywords
I knew were in there
diana_coman: IF
I have no choice but to start that way,
I would afterwards check the source basically
diana_coman: then again,
I am NOT finding google useful to find information in general
mircea_popescu: and that said,
i am probably in the top 1% when it comes to understanding the higher level issues involved, which means
i canhammer together a search string like few others. so google would probably be lot more useful to me, were it to be useful at all, than to the general population.
mircea_popescu: even when
i'm playing way out of field, google still fails.
mircea_popescu: and right now, im doing (atypically) a foray into discussions of a topic im not particularly familiar with (indie game devel).
i read upwards of fifty pages,
i did not use google at any point throughout. because, here's the snatch : you try googling something to get you these results.
mircea_popescu: (and btw,
i found it by typing se in myaddress bar which took me to search.bitcoin-assets.com/ rather than typing anything into google. because THIS always works and is way faster)
mircea_popescu: tho
i have homebrew talent, you know those people who know ALL THE ACTORS and ALL THE SONGS etc ?
PeterL: another example,
I am watching a movie and
I want to know who the actor is.
I google "cast of movie whatever", most likely it links to IMDB,
I could have gone straight to IMBD, but it is easier to just start all searches from one place rather than trying to start at each individual site depending on the search
mircea_popescu: (
i rarely ask "gimme the recipe", because
i'm actually sa pretty good cook. usually
i ask "is this white sauce or what did you do ?!"
mircea_popescu: but see, the only reason
i could conceivably be interested in is because a woman made them and
i liked. then
i ask her, such as my mom, or the chick in the cofee shop, or whoever.
i don't think
i ever wanted to make a random item.
PeterL: another example,
I wanted to try to make homemade bagels,
I type in the box "bagel recipe", and it gives me several sites with recipes to try. Clearly, these are not all of the same quality, but
I only have to look through a couple to find one wotrh trying
mircea_popescu: maybe in the end the story reduces to "
i'm just uncurious enough"
mircea_popescu:
i simply do not care what those examples may be,
i expect to be the example for them.
mircea_popescu:
i don't think
i've used style templates in the past twenty years. conceivably this may be a difference of style.
PeterL: okay, today
I wanted to refresh my memory on writing a letter of resignation.
I type in the box "how to write a letter of resignation", and 3 of the first four links had nice examples
PeterL: Usually
I find what
I search for in the first page of google
PeterL:
I find google useful as a starting point for finding things on the web
mircea_popescu: if
i want to find out what X said
i don't go to ask google,
i go ask x. etc.
mircea_popescu: if it's some pop cult reference
i either ask someone in the know or else ud/tvtropes. if it's some actual thing
i usually know enough to know what to read.
mircea_popescu:
i dunno,
i'm not the sort of hayseed that needs to search the web. but
i assume there isn't, because it's a hard problem. there not being, however, does nothing for google, imo.
cazalla:
i have another week old one but cannot remember pwd
mircea_popescu: punkman the article is very carefully engineered to bilk, which is why
i linked it.
mircea_popescu:
i have my doubts indie efforts can manage more than ~4, really, which is essentially a double date
trinque: first time was a journey with a babe, second time
I moved one up while working on that db thing
trinque:
I will think on this further as
I settle in
trinque:
I don't think
I've yet articulated precisely what it is that
I find redeemable here, as there is plenty to criticize.
trinque: mircea_popescu: feels like home. perhaps someday there'll be a place outside the states
I like more, but for now, this'll do
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 00:34:46; gabrielradio: thanks,
i'm gonna be lurking in the #b-a irc yeshiva for a while
pete_dushenski: nah,
i don't think we're anywhere near the "please oh pretty please sell to me" phase yet. still much closer to "why would
i need something other than the dollar?"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the ever more feverish pitch of desperation is lulzy. "sell bitcoin to me". dude... why the fuck would
i be selling anything to you ? fuck you, your approval is not required, your desires don't matter, you're not being persuaded here. you're being raped. nobody gives a shit about your consent, let alone excitement to use bitcoin. you'll use it to survive, and marginally at that.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "A woman goes to the gynecologist for an exam. She puts her feet into the stirrups and the doctor begins his exam. After a moment, he says, "You have an unusually deep vagina." The woman replies, "You don't have to say it twice." The doctor says, "
I didn't."
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 17:49:14; mircea_popescu: check out bizarro tx rewriting.
i issued fca843c0b40a1755eee073a719c856baa7fbf5ac28db84804a44a91f52638632 which worked as expected, but apparently there's a 5269a0e862876040db21706a7849ffd1b7d63e72d6dd61b1d2431a51698bb007 restatement of it
☟︎ pete_dushenski: and
i've been digging for names or connections on that wem chick but nothing's turned up. though it's entirely possible that she was visiting from out of town. the mall is a tourist trap extraordinaire.
pete_dushenski: yes, gizmodo property, should be burned, but from what
i know of eulora, it seems to tick the 5 boxes
mircea_popescu: ly couldn’t believe it.
I couldn’t believe it. Finally,
I felt redeemed. This was a path that was more than a dozen years in the making, but
I had finally made it."
mircea_popescu: "On October 8th, 2013, just a few days shy of one year since CSD officially launched, the game landed on Steam. And in just one day,
I had made nearly $15,000 in gross sales, which was almost as much as
I made in the entire last year on PC/Mac/Linux for CSD. In two days,
I surpassed it. In one week,
I had made over $50,000 in gross revenue… more than
I did in the last three years as a game maker and barista. My fami