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ascii_field saw
a 747 marked 'ups' in b-ar airport. so perhaps even there.
mircea_popescu: it all flows from the whole "we can't ~private~ message if we don't have
a private relationship" thing. da fuck would i be doing on "online marketplace", dunno anyone there.
mircea_popescu: which is why from my point of view the whole thing is dross. i don't buy the stuff you're talking about and why wouldn't i want to be in
a shop.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c yo, want
a fiverr acct ? prolly got
a coupla hundred bucks in it.
ascii_field: more or less
a total monopoly with respect to what i use it for.
ascii_field: before that - as
a boy - was buying/selling junk on usenet
mircea_popescu: in any case,
a) ebay hasn't been around for 20 years, b) 20 years is only
a long time because you're too young to be "thinking about things" and c) the notion that ebay's abomination works... AAA plus would do thinks again.
trinque: this design-by-condescension thing isn't something I get behind; that "the people" can't understand
a WoT... who cares
WolfGoethe: trinque that's not realsitic, decentralizing things like that is another huge project, cannot mvp such
a thing. ebay has their own internal system for 20 years, works
WolfGoethe: my bros r working on such
a project and I have really been thinking about it
WolfGoethe: such
a market should take care to put out video guides for each payment method trade
mircea_popescu: "To add insult to injury, despite the emails containing references to the aforementioned website and key, the following Microsoft announcements on July 10 and 11 were actually signed by the key 0xF0B7406D which is not referenced as
a key used for current Microsoft announcements. This key actually does contain
a small number of signatures from external users, but as with 0xA92965F2 none from any Microsoft employee. As t
mircea_popescu: and re the pyx thing : argentina had
a very aspirational relationship with england. kinda why the faulkland war was such
a big deal, sort-of like rambunctious kid going after dad, in
a sense.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i think it's because for
a while they added new keys in batches ?
mircea_popescu: the good news being that neither
a or b are actual things, or have any sort of hope of long term survival. just the froth of our days, soon to be gone back into the darkness that spawned them.
mircea_popescu: it's irresolvable, for as long as
a) "being special" is valued formally rather than substantially, and b) people get to make choice on the mere grounds of existing.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's the broad conflict. "being special" having been promulgated as
a social good, and smashing the classification being
a bona fide way to manufacture specialness, you now have the conflict of the boring who aspire to hack their way to attention vs the people who don't care about them and wish to remain able to not care about them.
mircea_popescu: obviously the correct reaction would just be what i did on the meat list, ie, group all weird under
a single "Weird" heading. but then obviously this irks the delusions of individuality of the individual weird involved, so there's that line of bitching.
mircea_popescu: lobbes let me tell you why. because if servers introduce
a new response code, you're stuck either making your browser aware of it, or else put up with the constant bitching.
bagels7: where as
a man that was secure could admit that
a trans woman is hot despite not wanting to sleep with her
bagels7: [11:38] <+mircea_popescu> how do you know it's faggot insecurity ? << When I am waiting at
a bus stop at 2 in the morning and
a guy walks by and pretends to be waiting for the bus as an excuse to talk to me while I am merely being polite then after 15 minutes has the nerve to tell me that I deceived him when he was only being nice to get laid
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the original (mostly politically driven) explanation for violence against homosexuals - some sort of "homophobia" suffers
a lot seeing how ALL SORTS of other sexual behaviours elicit the same violent response. such as transsexualism, or pedophilia.
☟︎ mod6: got
a link to phuctor too. \o/
mircea_popescu: does it keep
a list of what it last posted so when it comes back up it can see if there's anything new ?
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Scoop was down for
a while, I committed an upgrade too early
mircea_popescu: "When To Tell
A Guy You Are Transgender by Whitey Niggerson -
pete_dushenski: i tried
a corona
a few months, which are supposedly as low on the gluten scale as they come for normal beers, and i puked my guts out.
mircea_popescu: that's treatment : remove the allergen, give it
a few years, try
a minute dose.
pete_dushenski: re: prayer, not like i'm going to go eat
a loaf of bread now either just because
a pizza pinged off my immunoarmour
pete_dushenski: agreed about the insanity of pursuing #5, no matter how useful of
a model its pursuit may prove in hindsight.
mircea_popescu: because that's what #5 does, practically : it offers
a model to explain and understand the otherwise insane, and otherwise never explain, luxury behaviour.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the impressive and simultaneously worrying aspect of the bb-pgp biz is that the owner was
a former tradesman who apparently thought to himself "hey, you know what the market needs, properly encrypted messaging!"
Pierre_Rochard: “For people to say black lives matter, and for the crowd to shout back ‘U.S.
A.,’ which is upholding
a system that is oppressing black people, I think that that is problematic,”
assbot: Why is your millenial crying?
A guide for parents and other concerned parties, by Gemma Correll. - Boing Boing ... (
http://bit.ly/1JDhAlJ )
pete_dushenski: though the private master key is generated on
a desktop.
pete_dushenski: "For maximum security, our BlackBerry PGP encryption service utilizes AES 256 bit PGP encryption with
a 4096 bit RSA key format." << also uses session keys, but these are presumably generated on the phone, so...
pete_dushenski: "
A man embarrassed in his circumstances, and conducting them imprudently, likes best to continue in the dark; he will not gladly reckon up the debtor entries he is charged with. But on the other hand, there is nothing to
a prudent manager more pleasant than daily to set before himself the sums of his growing fortune. -J.W. von Goethe" << lovely quote btw.
Pierre_Rochard: thanks, will do! I’m getting surgery on my right shoulder in
a week, so I need to get some dictation software haha
pete_dushenski: sort of like how
a pointy rock was state-of-the-art tribal warfare 50,000 years ago.
Pierre_Rochard: for example you’re
a 90% owner of
a subsidiary in mexico, etc
Pierre_Rochard: pete_dushenski: or at least make reasonable bookkeepers out of you, I couldn’t call someone an accountant if they don’t know how to do
a multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation
Pierre_Rochard: davout: I floated the idea last year - I’ve used
a lot of different accounting software and never been satisfied - none of them use acccounting theory as the spec
mircea_popescu: "to maintain correspondence between numbers and persons and tenses and such, and since this is mostly redundant, it can be also automated. this is stuff that takes just
a bit of time to do, but when
a whole paragraph of text " << such nonsense.
mircea_popescu:
a shannonizer is
a formalisation, but not of natural language.
mircea_popescu: i would agree that the counting horse is
a remarkable horse,
gabriel_laddel: Would you agree that
a shannonizer is
a formalization?
gabriel_laddel: ce this is mostly redundant, it can be also automated. this is stuff that takes just
a bit of time to do, but when
a whole paragraph of text needs to be changed from second person singular or from third person singular to third person plural, it's nice to do that with
a couple keystrokes. it's also nice to see that the pronouns are easily traceable to their origins, and don't get messed up in several layers of refer
gabriel_laddel: apart from this, I have written Emacs Lisp functions to make
a statement into
a question and vice versa, to join and split sentences (not quite as trivial as it sounds), to upgrade from singular to plural and vice versa, to change the person from second to third and vice versa, et cetera. significant parts of grammar is the way it is to maintain correspondence between numbers and persons and tenses and such, and sin
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 17:11:55; mircea_popescu: "The studious will note that this is
a completely solved problem that no machine learning algorithm will be able to approximate anytime soon." i'm sorry...what ? solved how ?
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 15:00:28; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-04-2015#1115422 << this, i will point out, is in no way related to any inherent property of either (unless you mean lisp is inherently going to fail), but simply
a function of context. had the linux kernel been implemented in sclb, and had the past 20 years been spent with scbl being "the cool language", you'd be having zhe pronouns and assorted idiocy to the tu
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:41:31; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "Why isn't there grammer/spellchecking for my comments? " << this i can readily answer. because I am what's called "
a creator of language", which is to say one of those people who, through his usage, ENACTS the rules all amateur users of language MUST follow, as
a mark of their linguistic inferiority. like fucking shakespeare.
gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=29-04-2015#1115871 << If the "rules" of human language are formalized it becomes much easier to break them in interesting ways. One could use the output of
a shannonizer to inform word choice for his story, enforcing that each word is followed by one of the top 10 least likely words in the whole of the language up to this point. I suspect that such
a tale would be great fun to re
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:29:15; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "why are the holes not marked or filled?" << ftr this is not what i was contemplating. what I was contemplating is, why the fuck don't defaults pop up. bring back the fucking paperclip, put it the ONE place where it makes fucking sense. "hey john, I see you changed FuckOff() from bool to int. This function is called 82 places in 22 files. Would you like me to
a) check all places where
gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=29-04-2015#1115832 << We're discussing the same thing. If the program has "marked" all instances of $WHATEVER I can trivally add "Would you like me to
a) check all places where it's called and report what I can figure out about the context ? b) iterate you through all locations ? c) change it back ? d) run
a trace see what happens ?" on top of it.
☝︎ decimation: I think mit actually has
a significant percentage of high school valedictorians
decimation: there are
a couple of those on the list, but mostly it's made up of small private schools and vocational schools
decimation: this is
a feature - not
a bug - if we agree with the notion that anything that keeps the masses of cool kids away is
a good thing
Pierre_Rochard: the end goal is to have
a currency -> payments -> accounting -> finance process that is well oiled and
a joy to use
Pierre_Rochard: indeed, though I think the gems will become apparent as pacioli becomes integrated with
a wallet and the WoT. writing the core accounting part was necessary because of all the crufted OSS gnucash/openerp monoliths
mircea_popescu: if they have ~fundamental~ understanding as
a result of interacting with your thing, you scored major points.
mircea_popescu: and even if the resulting "accountants" won't be very good by the way this is measured today (
a "stickler" approach - great emphasis on detail)
Pierre_Rochard: that’s
a great approach, I was stuck in the mindset of “I’m coding this for accountants”, rather than “I’m coding this to create accountants”
mircea_popescu: but the good sort of work, the sort that creates
a barrier to entry.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard
a large chunk of the utility here is education, seeing how
a bunch of people are going to get involved in
a sort of you know, de novo, revolutionary economic process.
Pierre_Rochard: so it’s gaap if
a good accountant is using pacioli, it’s some non-gaap thing otherwise
Pierre_Rochard: the core accounting part is stable at this point, the treasury part needs
a major overhaul, and documentation / source code access will be in place before the next halving
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cazalla: still, not
a bad effort compared to some other launches
pete_dushenski: this is down markedly from
a year ago, when scams could still find 10,000+ btc
pete_dushenski: i mean,
a few of us here do it for fun, but surely we miss errors here and there.
williamdunne: Scoop the fourth is now re-written. Will be moved to
a server, rather than my laptop
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo pulitzer winning ? how does
a prize own
a paper.