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assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 09:29:18; mircea_popescu: i don't want anything specific. but i will be keeping track of
a large ammount of tiny indicators, because anything else results in exam-taking-training.
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 01:12:45; asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu wrote something re: how he wants wot as
a very fluid and informal animal that can't be 'optimized against'
gabriel_laddel: "What do you get when you cross
a joke with
a rhetorical question?"
BingoBoingo: They each throw
a bit of money into
a pot, then winner/platform takes all
trinque: you know, you could probably make
a pretty cool DHT system where the indexes of interesting keys are the txns sent from particular addresses
trinque: perhaps this calls for
a separate address per type of thing
☟︎☟︎ BingoBoingo: Johnny Depp is already
a parody of himself. Give it two years and he'll do the Nicholas Cage thing where he fights for parts in straight to home video flicks just to pay the bills.
gabriel_laddel: sure, it is only
a temporary solution, but we've no other option
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 00:17:23; mircea_popescu: You were the only toxic thing in that entire story. Hopefully your failure informs other women, at
a young age when they confront the choice of whether to be sarah-sharp-toxic or productive members of society, and they choose to not be sarah-sharp-toxic.
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 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: mostly because you work in sweatshop C rather than sweatshop
A.
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: You were the only toxic thing in that entire story. Hopefully your failure informs other women, at
a young age when they confront the choice of whether to be sarah-sharp-toxic or productive members of society, and they choose to not be sarah-sharp-toxic.
☟︎ 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.
ben_vulpes: my money's on btcalpha sucking in ratings from #b-
a feed
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.
☟︎ adlai: somebody get mathias
a pogo
adlai: imagine if Mr 80ksat had been able to spread out his hope of mpoenership over
a couple months longer. market would look totally different today.
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
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 09:56:10; *: mircea_popescu does
a dozen or more of these "so let me run this by you" citizen arrests things.
pete_dushenski: "The Fast Lane Car tried to sketch some answers by going to
a shop in Denver, Colorado to run
a 2011 Jetta TDI with
a six-speed DSG transmission on an all-wheel-drive dyno. The thinking was that if you ran all four wheels the car would think it was on the road, whereas if you ran only two the car might think it's being tested. We'll get straight to the numbers: the stock sedan is quoted at 140 horsepower and 236
pete_dushenski: ascii_field
a little like 'adolf eichmann center for judaism' << heh.
ben_vulpes: this leads to
a stush that quickly dies down every 3-5 years
ascii_field: 'Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corporation' <<
a little like 'adolf eichmann center for judaism'
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.
ascii_field: linked article described the diapers being purely
a convenience/laziness thing - e.g., in casino, office workers avoiding toilet break
mircea_popescu: they get
a daddy-little relationship, she wears diapers, he does handiwork, it's perhaps the most functional couple of the western world.
assbot: » #PissForEquality: Feminists Fall For 4Chan Troll Campaign by Peeing Themselves Alex Jones' Infowars: There's
a war on for your mind! ... (
http://bit.ly/1Pfy9WW )
gabrielradio: mircea_popescu not really. thinking about it, it's kinda the same thing as sdice. choose odds, send btc, roll the dice. only with
a much larger -ev
gabrielradio: "In Betfred’s own words the ACCAttacka has ‘reinvigorated the weekend football acca selection process with style & substance in equal measure.’ [...] ACCAttacka innovation means you can simply log into your Betfred mobile account, select
a desired bet stake, outline the amount of money you would like to win and then sit back and let the Betfred software build you
a potential winning accumulator"
mircea_popescu: Do not mention how their use was pioneered by the Israeli Air Force in 1948, and how they were used by the US Air Force in Vietnam in Operation Inferno in 1968. Keep repeating, “barrel bombs, barrel bombs” and stating with
a straight face that the Syrian regime is using them “against its own people.” Against its own people. Against its own people. Against its own people.
mircea_popescu: and strangly there wasn't
a reddit icrapple dedicated to mocking the funbux.
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 06:38:13; mircea_popescu: o btw, do you have
a reddit acct that's aged enough to make subreddits ?
mircea_popescu: 2009, back when apple istore was worth less than
a bar.
ascii_field: (well perhaps not ~any~ - but certainly it is more of
a thing than the 'multi-coloured pill' business in gringolandia)
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: who the fuckgives
a shit, obscure studio making obscure app on that old tablet thing you meanwhile lost.
mircea_popescu: Moving onto your next app, you should have
a decent fan base who will be more willing paying up front for your game."
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.
mircea_popescu: "With these ca. 100.000 dls we made
a whooping $162 in total. In other words form 100.000 people playing or at least downloading the game 127 in App Purchases were tracked by Apple, which means that 0.13% of our user base as paid something inside the App. Don’t get us wrong: We are thankful for those purchases and we hope that you enjoy our game, but to build
a sustainable business this won’t get us very far as an
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.
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 09:18:42; mircea_popescu: but in general, what sort of information do you obtain by putting words in
a box ? suppose you search for "chicken broth" and they explain to you it's
a heavy fuel oil. do you believe that ?
diana_coman: no, he is
a researcher so he knows about sources etc
diana_coman: basically
a uni professor who had no idea of the topic but just heard he had to say something on it
mircea_popescu does
a dozen or more of these "so let me run this by you" citizen arrests things.
☟︎ diana_coman: whether it's that thread or the other one starts with, doesn't make
a huge diff
mircea_popescu: the original idea was superb, the pr thing. it's
a great way to score
a graph.