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assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 03:22:38; asciilifeform: but how is this
a cargo cult? what i'm seeing is
a very small but functioning airplane
jurov: "For the most common strength of Diffie-Hellman (1024 bits), it would cost
a few hundred million dollars to build
a machine, based on special purpose hardware, that would be able to crack one Diffie-Hellman prime every year."
punkman: I think I should make
a little script that does the reverse, if you have js turned on, it deletes all the page contents
BingoBoingo: Give it
a try. I'll be sleeping soon. No hurry.
shinohai: I still want to do
a Qntra piece BingoBoingo, dunno if I can do
a factom story. Wow though.
punkman: they also sold 7.8% of their shares to
a 3rd party which then sold to 406 crowdfunders
HeySteve: I'm interested in BTS for
a project to secure rental deposits using cryptocurrency
BingoBoingo: punkman: That is
a poor way to be
a charitable reader.
BingoBoingo: But yeah. Easy way for someone who wants to test their outrage organ to try
a qntra.
funkenstein_: "For the 9 months ended 30 September 2015 Factom had gross sales of US$628,337 (resulting in
a trading loss of US$358,142 for the period). "
funkenstein_: aha thanks davout, so "gpg --sign -
a mytext.txt" is how it was made
davout: "when it completes its anticipated Series
A funding in the first half of 2016." <<< sure.
BingoBoingo: "The first beneficiary of the foundation, Dorsey said via Twitter, would be Ferguson,
a city that he visited during the unrest that followed the August 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown, 18, by police Officer Darren Wilson."
BingoBoingo: Low hanging, yet not particularly urgent fruit for anyone who wants to try their hand at
a qntra
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : cargo cult is what savages / pacific islanders / subhuman monkeys do as
a reaction to exposure to actual hjuman beings and their civilisation.
mircea_popescu: seriously, if all yhou have are "not enough money to be
a retired midwestern mobster" what you do is go south and try to pretend ?
mircea_popescu: i've seen many skins, i've yet to meet one without
a single mole on it.
mircea_popescu: "If you ever do find yourself working for
a startup, here's
a handy tip for evaluating competitors. Read their job listings. Everything else on their site may be stock photos or the prose equivalent, but the job listings have to be specific about what they want, or they'll get the wrong candidates." << this is actually very much correct.
BingoBoingo: Or anyone else who wants to cut their teeth on
a qntra story?
assbot: I haven't understood
a single word you've said since I met you, not one single word.
mircea_popescu: so - efficient markets, yes. but only if markets. and there's no guarantee everything you imagine can be
a market.
mircea_popescu: it's
a very plain statement that dunning-kruger, and consequently, the reward for being not an idiot is not accessible in idiot terms.
mircea_popescu: in
a very amusing (to me) twist, this is actually in the fucking patristics (the wanna-be mishnah of xtianity). "your reward be not of this world" etc.
mircea_popescu: "oh, the end of their world is visible from our world".
a) no, it isn't ; b) so ?
mircea_popescu: if multiverse, and if in ALL possible verses picking
a on X quesdtion results in annihilation, this means exactly nothing. the
a pickers aren't in any way different from the non-
a pickers.
mircea_popescu: look, let's go at it this way. in your own private experience, as
a witness, how many times did
a horde of idiots on some idiot forum know better than me ?
mircea_popescu: well, they got to where they are through
a succession of present days.
mircea_popescu: "hey, maybe we should use linux, it's cheaper". sure, as
a red herring for "red hat", which is not linux.
mircea_popescu: what company you ever heard of had
a debate over "windows licensing costs" ?
mircea_popescu: speaking of nothing related, anyone recall the original patrick naughton trial ? compuserve exec, flew to La to meet
a 40yo FBI agent that had been posing as
a 13 yo girl in
a dads&daughers sex chatroom. hung jury : all women voted to convict ; all men voted he;s innocent.
mircea_popescu: in the world where women cook as
a matter of course, cooking is MORE EXPENSIVE than in the world where cooking would be "absolutely" less expensive but women would kill themselves if you allowed them in
a kitchen
mircea_popescu: consider home cooking. it is ABSOLUTELY the cheapest way to feed
a fambly.
mircea_popescu: "absolutely" is
a meaningless term. yes, you think it exists. good for you.
mircea_popescu: psychiatry is being
a slut while pretending she's having amorous complications.
mircea_popescu: That's how an entire nation of psychiatrists could have been deluded into prescribing Depakote for maintenance when the data itself says not to do it. It's belief, not money, "we believe bipolar is
a kindled disorder..." Hell, if Harvard believes it, what chance do the rest of us have?"
mircea_popescu: He starts out as
a young academic. He lands
a spot in
a research group that studies X, so he studies X, later he branches out into X+Y, or goes to Z, etc, eventually he finds himself
a niche. And he believes in that niche, he believes in his data, no matter what it says. You can't convince him he's wrong because it isn't science and it isn't even
a bias-- it's identity.
mircea_popescu: The money isn't corrupting him into thinking childhood bipolar is underdiagnosed-- he truly believes it. The reason he believes it is his entire professional existence-- his whole identity-- is predicated on believing it. He's not
a scientist, he's
a priest.
mircea_popescu: "If Biederman never existed, nothing would be different. You read his resume, you think, wow, he's
a big player. You don't realize that if he didn't exist there would be some other person in his exact position, who would also have become
a Distinguished Professor, won awards, written 450 publications, etc. The machine was already in place, his slot was going to get filled; his mind didn't discover anything, those re
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and for that matter he had as much mandate to start
a war as lincoln did.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i suppose they could bid for
a eulora copper merchant position like anyone else.
pete_dushenski: likewise, obama is smarter than your average nignog, but he can't negotiate himself out of
a paper bag, much less prevent his 'country' from spiralling from despondency on downwards. in fact, if he were smarter, he'd be accelerating the process at every opportunity. instead, he just drags his dumb heels in the sand his father was born in.
pete_dushenski: yes, tlp is
a smart dude, but no, he couldn't wrap his head around the concept of independence.
brg444: it's
a shame he's such
a doofus though. mentality he is amateur at best. doesn't understand how to be great
brg444: yep. was unheard of. kid was probably pulling more ratings on ESPN then this baseball game on now as
a senior.
pete_dushenski: brg444 i remember watching him for the first time, while in
a hotel room in mexico as it happens, during his senior year (of high school!) in the slam dunk competition. he was simply monumental. and i remember saying "watch out for this kid" without really knowing jack shit about pro bball
BingoBoingo: There was probably juice around then too, I mean Jose Canseco. Thomas though was
a genetic freak.
pete_dushenski: now ~that~ man could hit
a ball, pre-juice too (or before widespread use at least)
pete_dushenski: @GreggZaun: Try to keep it classy Toronto. The WORLD is watching << bahaha. shut the fuck up zaun. you're
a has-been and your little world and everyone you know doth not make up any ~useful~ fraction of the world extant. but whatever, enjoy your time in the sun, however brief it may be.
BingoBoingo: Tre Mason can eat
a dick though. Wasn't for that asshole Mizzou would have had an SEC Championship.
brg444: refs made
a terrible call on awarding
a free run to the plate on
a botched pitch back to the pitcher
brg444: Minor, too, predicts that bitcoin as
a currency “will get destroyed.” He likens the coin’s current market cap—about $3.7 billion—to “an accounting mistake or rounding error that Bank of America makes.”
PeterL: unless your "oil" comes from
a US gas pump and is filled with oxygenates like ethanol
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 00:23:57; mircea_popescu: this is exactly what it sounds like : oil is
a mix of carbohydrates, you sort this by mass and cut it into slices.
mircea_popescu: im still hopeful might manage to get
a colo'd box there.
gribble: naphex was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 days, 10 hours, 24 minutes, and 35 seconds ago: <Naphex> mircea_popescu: yep; i'm waiting for
a mail from him should come later on today
mircea_popescu: shinohai
A LOT of that is needed on teh eulora wiki, at that.
phf: so gossipd is "in progress", but fella's not been heard from in
a very long time. gpg has not been started, but ascii presumably has
a lot of ideas about it. then there's pie in the sky projects, like fabricating own cpus or rsa over udp routers.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i think b-
a is really the mental process of
a nutty old guy
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> phf: the back side of this medal is that problems which require something more than poor buggerz working nights and weekends with bare hands - don't get solved. << the only problem that EVEN BENEFITS from
a different approach is childbearing.