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cazalla: trendy lol, i gotta lug your shit to the other room to decrypt it! nothing trendy about that
BingoBoingo: I will offer the standard disclaimer that s.qntr shares are as volatile as fuck and we have no revenue yet
IHB: no. IHB costs were minimal. i have been bootstrappping since end of 2013. in the behind been working on an API and now we are finally in the last phase of development. my efforts need to be there
IHB: yeah, that aggregator is feedly. will send you the .opml file. i think i have a lot of the good sites to follow. would love it if you see any missing
IHB: so how does this work? IHB is shutting down anyway and i am concentrating on an iPhone app and API we have been building.
BingoBoingo: IHB: You do good work. I see you have included qntra in your aggregator. I am grateful.
BingoBoingo: IHB: I will just need a fingerprint for your key and a nick to associate it to.
IHB: but i have never done a key siging
IHB: dude. i would totally get invovled
IHB: that's why i came on here
BingoBoingo: So if Cardinals beat the reda tomorrow I will make the bet Saturday
mats: i remember the days when you could pwn entire channels with dcc bugs
mircea_popescu: shit i loved that game.
BingoBoingo: I'm going to think about it. There's still time
mircea_popescu: anyway, bitbet sports are iffy - the one time i put money on an obscure event i recall it being covered reasonably, like 9 to 1 or somesuch
mircea_popescu: i thought you wanted the other one ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm seeing decimal odds pay 2.69 x stake for betting on Pacquiao
stunna: BingoBoingo: I know extremely little about sports betting, but there's probably enough people betting on there to keep the odds at whatever the official payouts are
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when weighing the lot, i discovered, to a bit of surprise, that there is ~50g of variance between the individual units.
BingoBoingo: stunna: Ah. I'm debating whether to throw down to 2BTC necessary to open up the Mayweather Pacquiao thing on BitBet, leaning towards dumping my stake on the Azn even though Vegas is against him.
stunna: BingoBoingo: I agreed to some guy's terms a year ago for the warren buffet bet thing and he pulled out, I got lucky he got cold feet
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm not comtemplating betting, but marketmaking insurance
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i can't help but wonder - who is playing the sport bets other than BingoBoingo ? somebody must be...
decimation: actually I kinda wonder why ada hasn't gotten more traction, given that it is far more 'portable' than C is
asciilifeform: like PL/I before.
decimation: from what I gather from naggum, stroustrup basically spent most of his time marketing C++
decimation: yeah for example I have been trying to 'optimize' a std::vector<std::complex<float >> turd
asciilifeform: i.e. having dynamics scope
asciilifeform: decimation: i found that it is only any good as a 'textbook example'
BingoBoingo: I'm looking for Investment advice. Any thoughts on Mayweather vs. Pacquiao?
mats: i believe so. http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/71016/amd-goes-fabless
mircea_popescu: mike_c ben_vulpes i seriously thought i had come up with it, then searched for it, found vulpes
mats: really? i could attack that on a laptop from 2005.
ascii_field: anyway, i happen to know more than a reasonable man ought to, about wolframism ☟︎
ascii_field: as i understand
ascii_field: to my great shame, i pumped thousands and thousands of usd into wolfram's pockets.
mircea_popescu: i thought that wasn't mentionable.
mircea_popescu: speaking of spies, i was kinda surpriosed to see news item linked yesterday casually point out the deep reason for why exactly us gaver up on actual humint to focus on mostl pointless sigint
mircea_popescu: and if i couldn't that failure'd score pretty high up on the priority board.
ascii_field: to get back to original point, that i attempted to make, - division of labour exists, and not everyone is a universal and reshapeable everything.
ascii_field: (i very clearly recall incident of specialist who dealt with chimps in the wild, getting 'chimped' after many uneventful years. but lost the link.)
mircea_popescu: i never met an eaten antrhopologist.
mircea_popescu: i dunno.
ascii_field: the point, which i evidently failed to get across, is that the man vs chimp contest requires the man to at least get a chance to sharpen a stick, in order to use his advantage over the beast
mircea_popescu: i didn't say rifle.
ascii_field: here i don't have a position as such, only observations
mircea_popescu: i really don't agree with any of these.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: now you know why i'm in my mousetrap.
mats: after i clean this up imma start looking, but, i'm still 'entry level' as far as years-employed goes
mats: i had the worst day
ascii_field: i mentioned him at least once as specifically an example of a particularly vile species sometimes called 'digerati' ☟︎
mircea_popescu: this one i never heard of.
mircea_popescu: more like "i have so little, please don't make it less."
mircea_popescu: his nostalgia is misplaced. the first time they came up with synthetic fibers people wore them out of pride. "look at me, i am one of those withthe industry"
mircea_popescu: i think they all did that, in the olden penny a word days
ascii_field: i happen to own a copy of most of it
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to ellison, guy apparently wrote a shitton. i suppose it's mostly that we don't give a shit about their pulpy universes.
ascii_field: sooner i am a dog.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: hugo is voted on, iirc, by folks who go to (or at least buy ticket to...) 'worldcon' - an sf event attended mainly by writers (in practice, the wannabees i spoke of earlier)
mircea_popescu: was a big scandal in the tiny cup. evnetually tho... lo! i am vindicated.
mircea_popescu: i was suspicious at the time. had an argument with other teens, with me going "that's prolly just some shit they made up for the cover"
mircea_popescu: i recall when i was a kid, some of the first books printed in shiny covers etc were various sf works, which is how i even ended up owning some (ender's game, dune, other americas, crap like that) - they looked good.
mircea_popescu: maybe you want an ak with a curved barrel, for all i care.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field note that i wasn't commenting on whether i or anyone else would or not would want x. merely on how much sense x makes, given other things.
ascii_field: chetty: not that one cannot use imagination. but it is folly to say 'i would not want atomic dirigible' unless that choice is actually there, like the decision of whether to buy a laser printer
ascii_field: perhaps i -wouldn't- wear tailored socks, in practice
ascii_field: re: socks: i am reminded of dan mocsny's piece on how very few people can give honest answer to the question of whether they want, e.g., a harem - because they don't have the option in menu
ascii_field: less than i know of surgeons
ascii_field: then again what do i know of tailors
mircea_popescu: i srsly couldn't be bothered.
ascii_field: underwear << i would if i could (TM)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i find reading anything - other than plain text - not designed with a particular viewport geometry in mind - physically painful.
mircea_popescu: i find the very concept of "page" retarded.
ascii_field: re: pagination - author-controlled pagination, i find, is often valuable information
ascii_field: i suppose you could also say that i scroll, but simply prefer to do it with eyes rather than fingers
mircea_popescu: and it's how i get through a million words a day.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i don't hate scrolling. i hate the situation where my field is fixed.
ascii_field: though out here i am in a 'tank', yes
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: what i do have is 4 lcd laid out in such a way as to fill my field of vision
ascii_field: i like moving eyeballs in y as well as x axis
mircea_popescu: i grant you, if you hate scrolling you'll have to engage in strange to compensate.
ascii_field: i insist on these to be either on a) paper b) device with dimensions and pixel density of paper, which i own - but in both cases - retaining the original pagination
mircea_popescu: now, one's experience may vary, i've not printed a book in a decade,
mircea_popescu: i dunno im saying this.
ascii_field: i actually do not like pdf, for various reasons, some of which overlap with mircea_popescu's. i prefer a wavelet-compressed format, 'djvu'
mircea_popescu: every printer i ever saw ate tex wtf.
mircea_popescu: the failure of widgets is a problem of the widgetmaker. do not ask me to solve it till i market a widget.
mircea_popescu: then people wonder about kaminsky. EXACT SAME THING. you lot have been so mentally stunted by the stupid welfare state, you do this sort of shit. "oh, i wonder if arxiv backwards . org paid funkenstein_ anything". no dude, they didn't, he's just silly like that. like everyone in that country.
mircea_popescu: fuck them. you want me to tihnk "i wonder if you have more"
mircea_popescu: you don't want me to think "hey that was a great piece, i wonder IF ARXIV ORG HAS MORE"
funkenstein_: hmm i hadn't thought of it like that
funkenstein_: lol i throw it on a blog then
mircea_popescu: i'm never going to be able to show you ALL the things that are wrong wqith it, being that it's nonsense.
mircea_popescu: model this attack and i'll show you one thin that's wrong with it enough to sink it.
mircea_popescu: lobbes no dude, i am saying about 50 other things.
mats: i'm confused as to Kaminsky's role in all this
bitstein: gave a long answer describing the fork and giving lip service to this new consensus mechanism in the works, but failed to address the second part. So before they moved on, I followed up, “But right now, Stellar is a centralized system?” He begrudgingly responded, “It runs on one node, yes.” After my question they all went right on back to talking about how awful centralization is and how great the decentralized future is.
bitstein: At SXSW, I snuck into a Bitcoin 2.0 panel Jed McCaleb was on. During the Q&A I got up and asked, “Last December the Stellar blog had a post called ‘Safety, liveness and fault tolerance—the consensus choices’ that described how there was a fork in the ledger and subsequently, Stellar had essentially collapsed into a centralized system. Can you elaborate on what happened and why people should trust Stellar in its aftermath?” He
bitstein: https://www.stellar.org/blog/stellar-consensus-protocol-proof-code/ "I'm not dead yet!"
lobbes: perhaps I am missing something