log☇︎
167900+ entries in 1.402s
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: much like that vacuum cleanner manages to keep the house clean << i recently bought just such a machine. there are at least a dozen manufacturers, and apparently all but one sell machine that work on 'random walk' principle.
nubbins`: i can't imagine anywhere in the world having the capacity or desire to replicate 4k floppies at a time
nubbins`: Parking brake? But I'm not in the car anymore!
nubbins`: so what if the garbage will catch fire after i throw a lit cigarette in? i'm already on my way out of the building.
thestringpuller: "Yes, and it reaches this point over 100 years from now." << i don't like to think of the future cause i'll be dead, let my children deal with the problem.
mircea_popescu: "I was told that this sample set was too small so I performed the same test over four to five years until I reached the sample size of 10,000 in total split into tranches of 100. Every time the answer effectively remained the same. All the samples lie between a 94% bias and a 100% bias."
mircea_popescu: "I originally performed this test 5 times and found approximately a 95% skew" << :D
mircea_popescu: sadly i dun think it's ever getting approved.
punkman: lolwut "The reason for my death is simple. I have concluded that in the realm of dating and relationships the primary characteristics required for men are as follows."
mircea_popescu: chetty they won't be roads i imagine, more like hovercraft pads.
CoraCrisT: hmm.. i would disagree
mircea_popescu: i seriouslydon't see why anyone would be laying optic fibre by hand.
punkman: mircea_popescu: downsizing would of course remove large swaths of complexity/scarcity, but I was thinking if "global village", how many people do we need so I can have computer and underwater fiber network, 10m doesn't sound like enough
mircea_popescu: punkman depends how you select them. if well selected, something pretty cool i imagine. like, a world in which nobody is going to spam.
mircea_popescu: when i was 18, the average 18 yo could support himself. ☟︎
Naphex: do they get busted? they use real names I assume
punkman: http://crockpotveggies.com/2015/02/09/automating-tinder-with-eigenfaces.html "Am I still using the bot? I've actually turned it off for now. Admittedly, it worked too well and started to conflict with work."
Naphex: i'm just amazed. that people will "invest" that high amount and do zero dilligence
Vexual: Whats happening in Ukraine? I've limited bandwidth
assbot: I checked with Carol at the mini-golf hut and no pants were found on the fence.
mircea_popescu: i find it quite amusing how gavin's 5th column are trying to turn their laughable defeat around into a sort of victory along the lines of "well we can';t have what we want, and that's okay as long as you admit democratic process".
Vexual: Now I can use kakos bucket shop
assbot: Anybody know how I can stop systemd /var/log/journal from filling ever partition it's in?
Vexual: Bb I saw some mall managers measuring shopfronts for glossiness ignoring the knock off asian disney shit in the centre of their center
Vexual: More a motel room I guess
Vexual: Anyone got a selenim guy? I wanna get loaded
Vexual: So I slammed the thing hard
whaack: alrightie well I'm out thanks for the help with setting up the WoT shit
danielpbarron: whaack, hey neighbor! I'm in CT
mircea_popescu: no, i often speak biaccident.
whaack: What's the best way to break through the I-have-no-trust catch 22
mircea_popescu: oh i thought you had made an infinity paste.
whaack: mircea_popescu: A cloak is a VPN no? I have one now
mircea_popescu: i think you name their spawn, not them themselves.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> im waiting for the first Carmen_Beercunt << If I make my escape to the Phillipines to scoope up a handful of Azn wives I'll name the second this
whaack: Because when I don't and I join this channel my internet cuts out for 30 fucking minutes
whaack: I'm using a VPN
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform someone in biotech had this sad story a while back about a lost farm. i had one too << Was this the lab flooded in the hurricaine?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform someone in biotech had this sad story a while back about a lost farm. i had one too
mircea_popescu: Guest85903: i'm working on setting up all the shit in the wiki << this really should be in the bash lol
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to this day i have no idea. originally found it some time in '99, i think. appears to be inspired by one of the 'leptin knockout' experimental mice
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i can't recall who i fucked in mobile.
mircea_popescu: IHB i killed some derp.
mircea_popescu: i think i have a pic of me in mobile.
IHB: i like better than here in LA
IHB: i lived in louisiana for a while and we went to bama all the time
mircea_popescu: yeah well i tell you something, nobody who knew me in a pervious life ever imagined i'd leave cluj.
decimation: aye, I can see that
decimation: if I were some derp in a ukrainian village I think I would be on the way to whatever frontier I could manage
IHB: as soon things settle down with my team. i am gonna do it
IHB: dude. i really want to get into WOT
IHB: i sent you the coin
IHB: i got it
whaack: I added the key for another handle is there anyway to remove it?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> decimation: ah google is going to drop SPDY and fully support HTTPbis << if any of teh strategic minds in attendance care to explain this to me i'd apprecfiate it << SPDY was Google so Open it is closed HTTP replacement no one else needed
mircea_popescu: decimation: ah google is going to drop SPDY and fully support HTTPbis << if any of teh strategic minds in attendance care to explain this to me i'd apprecfiate it
mircea_popescu: omfg i step out for pie, i come back, all the lines out of whack!
Guest85903: bitcoinquestions --> whaack please up! me when I get back
BingoBoingo: And sometimes I am a bit startled when people use my slave name.
Guest85903: i'm working on setting up all the shit in the wiki
Guest85903: I ahve to message instantly?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Actually I've done the opposite
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2013 16:23:25; cads: tiberius, and if that's true, then I salute you
decimation: no I don't think so
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> also claimed to be working on a 'military' path to sovereign moldbuggistan, which screams 'provocateur' << I don't get very many of these. You FBI file must be thicker than mine.
BingoBoingo: decimation: I imagine his heuruistic is how they read his website
decimation: I guess in the end it doesn't much matter
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i do recall this
mircea_popescu: if you look at the link thrown around in here a coupla days ago when it was being discussed, has a bunch of bibliographical wankery i snipped.
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is actually a never-before encountered problem : text that has meaning! IN LAYERS!
ben_vulpes: i toy with my prey, but that's not the same thing.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: wasn't instant by any means, i ended up with a mile-long ninjasp4mz0r-style log from him
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Who was that pauper on your blogroll with the great eMacs text. Debate tournament judging text finally cleared and I'm ready to splurge on paytext.
bitcoinquestions: mircea_popescu: alright I'm on it, also you asked me what I thought of b-a before I got disconnected - it's a breath of fresh air from the mass stupidity
bitcoinquestions: reg'd? sorry I don't use IRC often
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i had a whole digg thing for the .ro market, ran on "credits", backed by paypal.
jurov: kakobrekla i meant this: http://trilema.com/2015/catre-ministerul-afacerilor-interne-in-atentia-d-lor-gheorghe-nicolae-petre-toba-bondar-marin-si-d-nei-laura-codruța-kovesi-dvs-stiati-ca-angajatii-dvs-se-ocupa-cu-frauda-pe-internet/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i haven't / don't intend to because a) anyone who can grasp the abstraction already knows it ; b) anyone likely to benefit from the description probably can't read.
BingoBoingo: <IHB> i can't weigh in with my opinion. i will leave up to you guys. my stomach tells me the blocksize should not be raised and if people want to do other stuff they can peg their btc to a sidechain, if that ever becomes reality. << Not an unreasonable thing. Settlement happens on the blockchain small amounts dick around on distraction chain.
IHB: i would be happy just holding my bitcoin. but only if there was a way to get all this other stuff done, you know the stuff we call bloat
IHB: i can't weigh in with my opinion. i will leave up to you guys. my stomach tells me the blocksize should not be raised and if people want to do other stuff they can peg their btc to a sidechain, if that ever becomes reality.
IHB: well, i am glad i had a reason to be confused
mircea_popescu: first time i got a report like this, so mebbe wait and see ? mebbe your mail server's slow ?
IHB: i used ihb@ihb.io
IHB: <+mircea_popescu> i never got the address to send the .01 BTC
BingoBoingo: I believe the 1mb limit was only put in out of fear to protect us from a potential attack. << Was explicitly put in place to make attacks by bloating the blockchain uneconomical
IHB: i never ran into it until today
BingoBoingo: he recently put a btc paywall on his personal blog. << IHB been around multiple years. Since early 2013 when I finally started talking to people.
mircea_popescu: as a general rule : strike out all paragraphs that contain the pronoun "I" see what's left.
IHB: i am posting a draft write now
IHB: i know i know
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i read you have like 100k of those pogos eh
IHB: @petertoddbtc @trilema @oocBlog  @BryceWeiner @JustusRanvier  @fredwilson @balajis  In regards to scalability and the perceived threat facing the bitcoin ecosystem I am still not convinced we have a problem here. Gavin has been talking about this for a little while now and it shouldn’t surprise anyone of us that he is publicly trying to get a proposal ready so the full nodes can vote on it. 1. If 80% of the full nodes v
IHB: ok, this is still a WIP, but i want to make sure i understand
IHB: i haven't had time and lot of changes are being pushed through. was working on an api that will be launched with it. hopefully it will be useful
cazalla: IHB, i mean, i gotta use 3 finger scrolls to get to the meat of it.. i don't even give the missus that much
IHB: i am changing it
BingoBoingo: IHB, I'll give it a read through
cazalla: IHB, i can give you some feedback on your site design instead if you like? 2.0 type shit sucks
IHB: can i get some feedback on something i am writing guys?