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pete_dushenski: to which point i think both deserve some credit
asciilifeform: for instance, one often meets with discussion of how edison 'did not invent' x. which, for most values of x, is technically true. but i have not been able to find evidence (did try) that he is not the actual inventor of phonograph.
pete_dushenski: i guess an "inventor" for me doesn't have to have a specific product attributed to them
mircea_popescu: now i gotta checkthis
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: possibly you knew of some invention that i am not aware of, attributed to these men ?
pete_dushenski: i mean you know a lot about a lot of things
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i merely thought it was odd that you brought up two figures who are not, afaik, known to have invented anything as examples of inventor
BingoBoingo: I thought the entire point of having a domicile was heating it so clothing inside became optional.
mircea_popescu: i dunno exactly what inflamed part of the cerebrum it comes from, but it's a commie thing.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-01-2015#970234 << remember the days ceausescu was proposing the exact thing ? did husak havesomething similar i dun recall ? << Because they can't imagine people having occasion to fuck in the winter? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-01-2015#970234 << remember the days ceausescu was proposing the exact thing ? did husak havesomething similar i dun recall ? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: mike_c: is this new "1 week buffer from event" copy now standard practice? << people like putting it in. what can i say ?
pete_dushenski: speaking of cognac, i wonder what albert camus woulda thought of a $2100 bottle of the stuff bearing his name
mircea_popescu: now there's dangers involved ? shit, i guess we gotta go apologize to all the locals that said so back then ?
pete_dushenski: i know i know, it's Ţuică or bust
mircea_popescu: i didn't mean it's any good. merely that moet is meh-er-er!
pete_dushenski: lol i'm more of a courvoisier guy
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i like henessy better!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo there's something about vw that attracts this sort of thing. i recall a similar carnage in the 80, and then somerthing with audi
mircea_popescu: i dunno why all these ppl get so excited about pgp. clearly it doesn't do anything
mircea_popescu: i wonder if he fires his lawyer now.
mircea_popescu: i actually did that.
asciilifeform: matter of fact, i appreciate that, for instance, i do not (yet) have to build own refrigerator.
asciilifeform: nobody (i hope) uses some bozo's www 'rng' site for weaponized anything
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i'm not as competent as you in the fields of not electrocuting myself
mircea_popescu: i would like the number 6 in a cup, please.
mircea_popescu: so i have to shoot sperm in a ball all around ?
mircea_popescu: and if i go to fuck a girl, i can't like... in any manner observe where the blasted slit is
asciilifeform: during one of early rng discussions, i think
los_pantalones: i did miss a lot
los_pantalones: ha, no, i haven't been in here for too long
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but i was more curios in general discussion, rather than merely judging the judge.
mircea_popescu: but i avoided that deliberately.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: a: 'orcs came and burned my village to the ground' b: 'shuddup, enough whinging, do something to improve yer lot' << i can see it tbh.
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt the solution to "welfare state has made life impossible for actual people" is "feel moar ashamed and guilty"
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: also mildly curious to know how much time your grandfather spent on irc shooting the shit and complaining about how shitty his wife was <<< all old folks i knew, of that exact generation, spent about 20 hours a week, each week, with a beer and tobacco, talking exactly the same things.
mircea_popescu: "I'd also like to see a source to this claim. I'll start a bounty of 3,000 bits." gotta love reddit.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: i am very upset over this fork talk << eh, nothing to get excited over, a little bit of war.
thestringpuller: I miss Bugpowder :(
mike_c: ok, i shall paint a complete and pretty picture on btcalpha.
mircea_popescu: except, of course, as i shown above, if they bet rationally they do have a rational incentive to move the odds if they believe the odds.
mike_c: why would I bet on a 40% likely event and 20% odds?
mike_c: well, i break even
mike_c: and if no wins, i get 6/66 * 11btc = 1btc? wtf.
mike_c: ok, day 4 i bet 1 btc on no (6 weight)
mircea_popescu: it doesn't matter what you bet. i put both wagers down explicitly to get all terms on the table and leave no stone unturned.
mike_c: yeah, i'm about to school ya :)
mircea_popescu: and i'd argue it's fair you realise SOME of the 60-65 difference but not all, inasmuch as well... you're both on the right side of 50%, just you're 50% closer.
mike_c: this example makes no sense. why did i put .35 on yes and .65 on no.
mike_c: but ok, i'll work with that.
mike_c: i assume you meant 40 btc/60 btc
mike_c: i will
mike_c: "market", i.e. what the money says is that the odds of yes are 60%
ben_vulpes: i'd up ye, but...
mircea_popescu: i guess in the end bitbet will spawn a bit phrasing discussion forum
mircea_popescu: and since kako's reforms, that's quite universal, nobody can say "if only i had thought of zeroconfing it"
mike_c: there should be a 'bet author' credit. make people famous, and then i'd know who to yell at about some of these terms.
mircea_popescu: i'd argue that bet doesn't actually do what the title says.
thestringpuller: nah i have not
mircea_popescu: i mean, in such a way as partisanship can't hijack the meaning post facto
mircea_popescu: i dunno how it'd neatly be worded tbh
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is all moot since anything can read any file as data and trhen execute it as code anyway
mircea_popescu: undata i think it'd be better that the execute bit gets trashed every time the file is modified.
TomServo: I'll have to agree, most my #b-a chuckles and belly laughs are from asciilifeform
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: thanks. I remember someone reading a news article on that in school years ago.
ben_vulpes: i read a permutation that had him in front of a microwave dish.
BingoBoingo: Well... in USSA who but Preet can know what crime is. What I can see though is that was order #21874 and #21876 was the very last entered
BingoBoingo: <gribble> #21874 || darsie || BUY 1.0 1 kg uranium @ 100 EUR || e.g. counterweight, projectile, radiation shield. I'm not sure if that's a reasonable price since an aircraft company had trouble finding a dump where they could get rid of some counterweights. I'm open for other amounts or some thorium metal/compounds, highly radioactive stuff like mushrooms from Chernobyl and a ~1 kg piece of tungsten at/near theoretical density. <<
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if -otc weren't as dead as it appears to have been for the past year or two, i imagine it could be possible for the buggers to set up a 'controlled buy' of some contraband or other, embroiling -otc, and spinning up nanotube as 'a dpr'
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> aha, he will be 'on vacation' until shows up rolled in a cage through wash.,d.c streets. << I believe it is the "Southern District of Manhattan" nao
Mashuri: Thanks for the !up but I'm just lurking. I have a WoT account if needed for later. :)
mod6: https://imgflip.com/i/g5vn6
mike_c: Jan. 10 "Fuck, I don't know, stop asking"
TomServo: I have said publicly that no, this wasn't @MtGox 2.0 and you aren't @MagicalTux 2.0
mod6: If anyone wants to write a more user-friendly how-to as opposed to what I have already written, by all means!
mod6: but currently, that's what we're testing on. i have an medium ec2 instance im testing on, and a few other smaller vm's.
mod6: i left that out of the guide as I don't wish to presume which environment it should be built on.
mod6: I've walked through that guide with a guy locally here, and there are a few minor changes that I need to make to it this month. I'll get to it when I can, but mostly, it's exactly what you need. Aside from installing the dependancies.
mod6: I have written a guide on how to patch the reference implementation. is that one too complex?
mod6: i was just looking back at that myself ben_vulpes
ben_vulpes: <cazalla> [] may i recommend a step by step tutorial for the borderline retarded such as myself who have the resources but not the know how to run it, provide a step by step diy and it will grow << grand idea
kakobrekla: lol fuck what have i done.
mircea_popescu: if anyone asks me, i'd rather see as few of these vacations as possible.
mircea_popescu: so i am making of it exactly nothing.
mircea_popescu: i don't know that guy is anybody, outside of social engineering everyone. he doesn't have a rating from nano, the notion they know each other is improbable on the face, and if in fact this were a job you'd fully expect a bunch of unknowns talking authoritatively in such manner.
TomServo: folks in otc are claiming it's a planned absence, I haven't seen anything specific though.
mircea_popescu: i announced it.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> can't wait for gribble to come home. << i dun think gribble is coming back. if it were, i wouldn't trust it.
undata: I find I have more alertness throughout the day without
undata: I actually just gave the stuff up (again)
TomServo: I don't think that'll happen soon enough. Maybe a modified ircd with a bolted on gribble in the meantime?
danielpbarron: https://twitter.com/danielpbarron/statuses/514417197108957184 << this is the last thing i tweeted at him before he blocked me
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron couldn't have been for that reason, i recall the guy following me on twitter, back before the antonoderp murder.
mircea_popescu: TomServo just as long as it works. i imagine nubbins` ec idea is pretty good.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: may i recommend a step by step tutorial for the borderline retarded such as myself who have the resources but not the know how to run it, provide a step by step diy and it will grow << he has a point there, ben & mod6
thestringpuller: i knew it
mircea_popescu: because "i own a hotel in mali, wtf do i want with your stinkhole" is not good enough ?
mircea_popescu: i had no problem getting romania's like i dunno, 3rd ? 10 year visa fifteen years ago when i actually wanted one. notwithstanding that romania was you know, a sort of ukraine in 2025, and notwithstanding that bush was in charge.
TomServo: "No - see, my calendar says I have a dentist appt back home in 2 weeks so I'll definitely be gone."
mircea_popescu: this guy was never sober. literally. you know what i mean, that drunk functionality of the hardcore ukrainian ?