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adlai digs
a little... hang on...
adlai: yes this is
a document, it has been published, there are no risks because nothing is for sale yet
thestringpuller: you make
a great point. just have to word the bet correctly.
thestringpuller: this is valid point. what constitutes
a public resolution source? I may be overthinking. But Bitbets get stricter every year (for good reason).
davout: simply running
a client on both chains and reading its output would do just fine
thestringpuller: how do you resolve? blockchain.info I personally wouldn't trust as
a resolution source
assbot: Logged on 09-01-2015 09:00:04; davout: i'd word the bet "there exists
a block > 1m, building on main net, with block index <= ARBITRARY_TRESHOLD , that gets more than 2016 confirmations, in less than
a month"
mircea_popescu: i'm sort of pondering creating
a "compare openssl / polarssl / blockstream ec implementations" research project
fluffypony: well at least it makes for
a change from "omg gaw are skammirz, we had no idae"
mircea_popescu: you know, i despise reddit, and that thing's
a fine example, like are many others.
davout: yeah, but if it manages 2016 confs in
a month it has at least half the hashpower
davout: also an orphan would only get 50 confirmations at infinity, not in
a month
davout: i'd word the bet "there exists
a block > 1m, building on main net, with block index <= ARBITRARY_TRESHOLD , that gets more than 2016 confirmations, in less than
a month"
☟︎ assbot: Jackson Palmer: I created $20m Dogecoin phenomenon and all I have to show for it is
a jar of Nutella ... (
http://bit.ly/1BTbpTG )
BingoBoingo: It's mostly just
a mind fuck documenting the behavior of
a gravity well from
a non-astronomical perspective.
BingoBoingo: Sample preview sentence: While most civilized states merely require proof of onward travel in
a form as simple as
a plane ticket to
a destination outside of their borders, United States consulates in making determinations however evaluate applicants "holistically" with an emphasis not on forward travel for potential visitors, but on return specifically to their country of residence.
mircea_popescu: "That's quite publicity for MP for
a mere 5 BTC (he owns half bitbet), maybe less. (It's obvious that bitcoin will go up faster, so not many will bet no)"
☟︎ BingoBoingo swears
a piece on Roger Ver and American emigration law is indeed coming. Looking like it will be the biggest turd I've dropped into qntra's bowl so far.
mircea_popescu: there's no intrinsic quality that makes
a text string "science". it's the signature on it.
a repository of anon derpage can be an encyclopedia like
a pile of ascari lumbricoides can be my wife.
mircea_popescu: then people want to know why retardopedia is not
a source of information. this is why. because in the mouths of the stupid, even good sense loses itself.
mircea_popescu: check out idiotpedia : "An allogenic succession can be brought about in
a number of ways which can include: Volcanic eruptions Meteor or comet strike Flooding Drought Earthquakes Non-anthropogenic climate change"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> if that's not the 3rd millenium united states i have no idea what is. << Well also the part where the only chance most USians have to gape in awe at
a golden toilet is at the doctor's (or increasingly almost doctor's)
mircea_popescu: and then let's sell
a vaccine for it. which is
a shitload more expensive than
a useful one, like the polio one.
mircea_popescu: but, just like in the case of shittywood and so on, the actual creatives get 1.5% and tjhey gotta be in
a union for that even.
mircea_popescu: but you gotta sell crap for 200 bux
a pop or w/e it is
BingoBoingo: Well, live virus vaccine and Elderly patients are circles you don't want touching on
a Venn Diagram anyways.
BingoBoingo: Why lawyer with
a law degree when you can "community organize" for better hours and pay
mircea_popescu: speaking of horrible us pharma crapola that's ended up giving vaccines
a bad name in the us, and the people who (properly!) refuse vaccination now get to be depicted as redneck savages because o noes, vaccines are great (they would be, and they were before us companies got involved) :
assbot: Logged on 23-12-2014 19:47:34; mircea_popescu: re the entire grubles/bitvps thing : the listing was discussed for
a while, in
a public channel. grubles was there, and not only represented himself in agreement, but represented rg as the owner of the thing.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Was told to cut $$$ value of inventory, was sent
a bunch of expensive about to expire.
BingoBoingo: Trying to catch AIDs for the welfare is apparently actually
a subculture.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Maybe? Then again I don't have
a community college degree. Maybe I should stick around in the US just long enough to get an Obama degree.
assbot: "You have to be careful about drinking around me," Cosby just said to
a woman in the crowd. Loud gasps from the audience.
mike_c: there's
a channel with all rating updates
mike_c: can it get 'rated since' right? so you don't have to weigh whether it is worth changing
a rating description vs losing the original rating date.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the agreement is adding assbot wot capabilities is desirable and strengthens the whole shebang overall << will assbot write to
a wot db - assbot_wot.db if you will? or will it just be read-only?
PeterL: mircea_popescu: you said
a replacement for gribble auth was in the works, were you referring to "gossipd" or
a more readily available something else, like using assbot for auth?
BingoBoingo: PeterL: Well
a number of refineries there, but there' refineries pretty much everywhere.
pete_dushenski: since there's no ;;later function, you'll note that i left you
a msg in the logs
pete_dushenski: “The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but
a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have
a ground for boasting.”
mircea_popescu: earned, and appeal solely to reason. In fact, the real disturbers of the peace are those who, in
a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over.
mircea_popescu: Schisms do not originate in
a love of truth, which is
a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy. From all these considerations it is clearer than the Sun at noonday, that the true schismatics are those who condemn other men's writings, and seditiously stir up the quarrelsome masses against their authors, rather than those authors themselves, who generally write only for the l
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu aha yknow come to think of it that rings
a bell
pete_dushenski: and it might be
a bit loose to call spinoza an inventor given that he only crafted words
☟︎ pete_dushenski: in
a way, i suppose that the opposite of an inventor is anonymous...
mircea_popescu: i guess if you're
a lesbian ballerina coneisseurette, it's
a dildo.
pete_dushenski: i guess an "inventor" for me doesn't have to have
a specific product attributed to them
assbot: Immigration policy is about barriers to entry, not fairness; or how Paul Graham thinks programmers are inventors | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1xKEm4H )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: seems like it does require
a crown contract attesting to the fact of use in
a particular product, along with statement of disposal arrangements << uranium is, if mishandled, extremely toxic.
undata: ^ clearly this merits spending
a few hundred million
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> BingoBoingo why ? it's the same tribal, pretentious, inept culture. << At least Botswana's economy accepts that it exists simply as
a tool for extracting raw resources.
pete_dushenski: speaking of cognac, i wonder what albert camus woulda thought of
a $2100 bottle of the stuff bearing his name
mircea_popescu: Most troubling are charges of decades of revolving-door cronyism surrounding Joe Glicker,
a vice president of CH2M Hill, the company awarded the contracts to build the new covered reservoirs for Portland. Not only was Glicker
a former chief engineer of the Portland Water Bureau (PWB), he also worked as
a core consultant with the EPA to write the very LT2 rules that now require these massive "emergency" water infrastruc
mircea_popescu: "At the heart of the controversy is
a breakdown in public trust that reflects the dangers of corporate-led water privatization schemes in the United States and around the world."
pete_dushenski: yup. pretty much sealed porsche as
a maker of, well, w4r3s
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: "[
A]s
a side note, at what point in time do we decide that we’ve had enough of someone[’]s shit, and terminate them? Like, does impersonating
a vendor to rip off
a mid-level drug lord, using our rep and system; follows up by stealing from our vendors and clients and breeding fear and mis-trust, does that come close in your opinion."
mircea_popescu: Ulbricht won only
a few minor points. The government won't be able to point to certain books sold on Silk Road, such as Silent but Deadly and Homemade C-4:
A Recipe for Survival. Those exhibits "unnecessarily inject elements of violence and explosive devices that are not otherwise part of this case."
mircea_popescu: "Q1.6: Does RANDOM.ORG perform custom jobs that require randomness? Yes. Perhaps you need more numbers than it's possible to get via the web forms, or perhaps you need them in
a format that isn't supported. In those cases, we can set up
a custom job for you to supply the numbers."
mircea_popescu: and if i go to fuck
a girl, i can't like... in any manner observe where the blasted slit is
mircea_popescu: "RANDOM.ORG radios use in order to affect the generator. However, radio frequency attacks of this type would be difficult for
a variety of reasons. First, the frequencies that the radios use are not published, so an attacker would have to broadcast across all frequencies of all bands used for FM and AM broadcasting. "
assbot: If you go on
a Bitcoin fork, irrespective which scammer proposes it, you will lose your Bitcoins. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1tRCDLu )