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decimation: Maybe cn figures they can use us warez until they grow rich enough to toss
a few coin toward this concept
decimation: one wonders why these other countries don't perceive this as
a 'sovereignty' issue
decimation: so you get
a 'partially compiled' black box turd? it's amazing hardware vendors put up with that kind of shit
decimation: I always figured the instructions were in
a databook
decimation: asciilifeform: I wish there were
a curated release of coreboot
davout: oh and ben_vulpes, by 'real computer' I mean any non-Apple machine, that'll always be
a good improvememnt :D
☟︎ mircea_popescu: who knew reddit actually becomes funny after
a year or so.
gribble: chillum was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 weeks, 1 day, 16 hours, 15 minutes, and 10 seconds ago: <Chillum> I have never understood how
a 1 paragraph post that links to
a full article somehow makes it to the top of google searches. They are adding basically nothing
mircea_popescu: go to all that trouble to introduce git hooks to sign, eschew pgp. i wouldn't use them to put
a fire out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Gerrit workflow - Gerrit interprets each Git commit as an individual change. Changes are autobuilt by Jenkins, and can be reviewed by developers. Once
a change has gotten
a positive review and has no build issues, it is applied to the master branch. Thus, no developer directly pushes to master."
mod6: usually it's just hobo's drunk asf going on at high volume about aliens or jesus. but every now and then,
a good fight breaks out.
mod6: here it's like $200 fine if caught without
a ticket.
mod6: not sure. you'd think the choad would have just bought
a ticket of his own. or if caught without
a ticket, kept his mouth shut and paid
a fine.
ascii_modem: (is the correct engl. legalism for this kind of thing still '
a domestic' if the drama is in
a public place?)
ascii_modem: policemen dragging away some fella in
a clean suit and white face
ascii_modem: so i was in
a train station, and saw rare sight:
mod6: naw, it died
a few days ago... and i remained voiced, but stale from assbots' view
mircea_popescu: but nevertheless... the plane looks as much as
a plane as it could, among the bamboo sticks and clay pottery.
mircea_popescu: there's
a lot of annoying "magic numbers will save us" voodoo in there, like "Each server is required to deposit
a certain amount of money in
a special account to be used as potential fines or rewards for proof of misconduct."
pete_dushenski: well, it's been
a gas but i'm off for the eve. cheerio !
pete_dushenski: Fast fwd to yesterday. I wasn't home yet from work, but my wife tells me local LE showed up and wanted to have
a "chat". Asked if I or anone had ever ordered anything illicit in the mail. Said "nobody's in trouble, we're just following up on something that might be nothing"."
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "Coinbase is seriously crossing the line now. I have had an account with Coinbase for well over 1.5 year. I bought some btc in March, and sent it to
a DNM (won't say which one).. and did not purchase anything. I did not. The btc was
a trivial amount, and said DNM has been having troubles with their uptime lately. Literally, no crime committed.
pete_dushenski: seems to me like
a bank would be
a perfectly reasonable place to learn finance, likely better than 'quantitative developers'
jordandotdev: I do want to get into finance so I'm looking to do project management for quantitative developers etc. / go to school for
a masters in finance if I can cut it (:
jordandotdev: I just don't want to work at
a bank at this point in my career
jordandotdev: so it was either go work for
a bank in HK or come back to the states
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2014 00:57:07; mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nah, lots of history there. bitfinex was
a coupla twerps that took the leaked bitcoinica codebase and started
a new bitcoinica, back in 2012ish ? early 2013 ? (that code was in the wild because after the nth breach, amir taaki of bitcoin consultancy fame "open sourced" it by releasing it without rights)
jordandotdev: well I was friends with Raphael at first...he's in London and he runs the tech side of thing...I was working with the CEO there...so they're
a distributed team
jordandotdev: and am still interviewing for
a few more projects with some contacts I made there
jordandotdev: but yeah I will follow up with them ... the video platforms that make bitcoin
a first-class citizen are pretty few and far-between
jordandotdev: I have
a bitcoin streaming site I'm messing around with
decimation: even socialist professors admit that people generally 'have worse outcomes' in
a situation where they are surrounded by other humans unlike themselves
decimation: little can be said, until one encounters another defined gas with
a different mean
mircea_popescu: the flagon full of hydrogen is
a very boring Africa of "IQ" because it never produces the fun looking lasers other compositions produce.
mircea_popescu: so... is type or circumstance more impactful in the iq of
a given molecule ?
mircea_popescu: so : suppose we're looking at
a recipient of defined gas, and each molecule's "iq" is its kinetic momentum.
decimation: agreed, that's
a more precise wording. "Nature seems to have
a stronger effect than nurture in
a variety of situations"
decimation: how can anything involving humanity be split into factors? it's all
a wag
mircea_popescu: point remains, it's at best strange to be trying to split percents when you've not even produced
a rigurous set of factors.
mircea_popescu: after all, genetics is
a statistical approach, you're discussing individuals.
cazalla: but if you were
a pedo, it would make for
a great cloak to guise yourself in
cazalla: jurov, some people believe that :\ missus has
a friend that takes her 3 year olds to get their chi flowing
cazalla: fwiw, i think it's
a combination of the two but then again, some kids will do well regardless of which family they find themselves born into so who knows, i'm trying the nurture thing with my son so we'll see
cazalla: i wouldn't have
a clue nor do i care, i just want to garden ok
decimation: yeah, he probably posts more noise than signal from
a brief overview
cazalla: decimation, i use to read his stuff but i think he has an over-inflated sense of his own intelligence (some IQ video of his rubbed me the wrong way.. coulda been this, coulda been that, coulda been
a dr type shit)
decimation: turns out 2% growth is the 'new normal' and
a good chunk of that is simply due to inviting the third world to move here and spend usd
mircea_popescu: "Obama is neither smart nor
a noteworthy peace maker. But that doesn't matter. The left has won over the key voting boards to give him these now-plastic trophies." << that part is exact.
pete_dushenski: "President Obama (both
a graduate from the Ivy League and Nobel prize winner) is neither smart, nor
a noteworthy peace maker. But that doesn't matter. The left has won over the key voting boards to give him these now-plastic trophies which dupes enough Americans into voting him (and other talentless leftists) into office." << notbad.
trinque: because that's what
a chief scientist looks like
BingoBoingo: whaack: Distinct hazard of reading here. Sometime
a person reads too deep, othertimes too shallow.
whaack: Is there
a subtlety that the correct spelling of
a word is, well, an oppinion and not
a fact?
davout: creating
a smaller partition does not work either
davout: kinda problematic if we can't initialize
a blank drive from the pogo itself
davout: after fdisk'ing
a new partition on it, and toggling the MKFS option in the buildroot config I can now "# busybox mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1"
pete_dushenski: "Anyway, correlation is not causation." << granted, funkenstein_, but some of these examples are
a bit out to lunch.
mircea_popescu: nobody gives
a shit what fiat thinks "
a payment network" is like.
pete_dushenski: " If you want to be
a global payment network you should act like one. Mike Hearn makes it clear" etc.
danielpbarron: it's possible to encrypt
a message to multiple keys at once, or is this not
a good practice?
pete_dushenski: "The canonical example is that intelligence is correlated with foot size. It's
a fact." << i'm currently
a size 11.5, was once 12.5... am i stupider now than i was then ?
assbot: Logged on 09-05-2015 13:06:41; gabriel_laddel: ;; rate funkenstein_ -1 author of
a silly blogpost that reviews none of the assorted literature on the topic of choice, dances around the idea that perhaps experimental design is important and finally fails to conclude anything of significance.
mircea_popescu: "well technically an ISP is
a service provided to the internet, like
a phone service provider is one that provides phone service. Not services 'on' the internet, but to/from it, just
a someone with
a phone number is not
a 'phone service provider', he is just some dude with
a phone. Internet service provider provides internet services, hosting service provides hosting services. They are different."