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mircea_popescu: yes, by and large the scientist in the lab is
a puppet.
mircea_popescu: ie, tarzan in the jungle, finds
a glub. "now that's
a good club". "hello tarzan". because buna is ambiguously hello and "this is
a good item"
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: 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: how in the fuck does
a pennyles german come here 65 years ago and build more in
a decade or two than his own grandchildren could hope to build in
a life time << you know he has
a legitimate question there.
mircea_popescu: yeah that's gonna be
a cool 54 btc for bitbet once it resolves.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: i am very upset over this fork talk << eh, nothing to get excited over,
a little bit of war.
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?
mircea_popescu: it's not, because you're looking at
a dynamic situation as if it were
a photograph.
mircea_popescu: (if you throw 1 btc blindly on
a 65% odds event you should overall make .65 back)
mircea_popescu: on day 4 you come and split
a btc : .35 on yes (2.1 weight), .65 on no (3.9 weight)./
mike_c: the beginning of the bet (high weight) and the end of
a bet (high confidence) are the best two times to bet
mike_c: the time weighting system puts
a dead zone in the middle of the lifetime of
a bet
mircea_popescu: i guess in the end bitbet will spawn
a bit phrasing discussion forum
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: stil, as it is prolly
a better phrasing anyway, give both sides some sort of chance.
mircea_popescu: i mean, in such
a way as partisanship can't hijack the meaning post facto
thestringpuller: Will likely require someone to monitor both forks (running both versions) if the event occurs as
a resolution source. (Resolution source still required).
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what would be
a good resolution source for this bet:
mircea_popescu: to think 1991 - 2011 were spent in
a "oh linux is better than windows" nonsense, instead of being spent to, you know, make
a sane environment.
undata: the whole ACL system is just
a bunch of ad hoc ideas
undata: along those lines having files owned by
a single group is brain dead
irdial: Presumably
a "default file permission on creation" of any new file would fix it, then you would be forced to set the executable bit every time.
mircea_popescu: contrarywise, if your idea is that one needs the priviledge to make files executable, then this situation where
a file is modified and stays executable makes 0 sense.
mircea_popescu: well if the idea is that "he who has the authority to modify
a file always has the authority to also execute it" then "executable" bit makes 0 sense.
undata: what do you think would be better,
a sort of stream header that indicates the nature of the bits to come?
undata: also executing
a folder is what you're doing when you enter it...
mircea_popescu: however, if you > or >>
a filename that exists already, you can run it just fine.
mircea_popescu: so if you > or >>
a filename that doesn't exist and you want to run it, you have to set
a permission bit separately.
TomServo: I'll have to agree, most my #b-
a chuckles and belly laughs are from asciilifeform
thestringpuller: asciilifeform you really should attempt
a short stand up routine
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.
thestringpuller: anyone ever read the story about the guy who fell asleep next to
a reactor cause he was cold
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. <<
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2015 17:32:25; mircea_popescu: but, fair warning to the ones still left inside the beast : nano, prior to his vacation, was
a law abiding economy teacher,
a bright kid and
a very loyal and honorable fellow all around.
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
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Mashuri: Thanks for the !up but I'm just lurking. I have
a WoT account if needed for later. :)
mod6: cazalla: The Bitcoin Foundation will commit to publishing
a "follow along at home install guide" with the first the signed first release.
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'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?
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
mircea_popescu: but, fair warning to the ones still left inside the beast : nano, prior to his vacation, was
a law abiding economy teacher,
a bright kid and
a very loyal and honorable fellow all around.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: maybe if it convincingly performs for
a while the two wots can be bridged later on (how such
a thing could be done in principle has been discussed
a few times) and that'll be
a great step towards de facto decentralization with central servers and that's that.
TomServo: It'll be interesting if gribble returns after
a replacement is spun up.
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.
mike_c: well, you took
a few weeks off and we still trust you
TomServo: I don't think that'll happen soon enough. Maybe
a modified ircd with
a bolted on gribble in the meantime?
mike_c: given irdial's apparent hatred of kyc it seems like this is
a good place to be.
mircea_popescu: make
a container or w/e they call it, just have people run it.
TomServo: Is there
a preferred platform?
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
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.
mircea_popescu: it is customarily shown by
a) substantial assets and b) family ties.
mircea_popescu: that's always been there, for foreigners, which people who renounce
a citizenship become.
TomServo: "No - see, my calendar says I have
a dentist appt back home in 2 weeks so I'll definitely be gone."
TomServo: Pretty minor gripe but, "under
a regulation that requires he prove his intent to depart the U.S." - how does one prove that?
mircea_popescu: so when i first landed here i kept
a hotel room for about
a week. my across the hall neighbour was this ukrainian dude. we met in the elevator and well, at the time the ukr stuff was just blowing up and so i was curious, and he was as happy as anything to speak to someone... wise.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lemme tell you
a story that will illustrate this point.
thestringpuller: Perhaps the movie about asciilifeform and young buck thestringpuller teaming up to sell BTC as gangstas runnin the street will become
a reality
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller doing anything out of the ordinary carries
a higher sentence than everything else in there, you've not noticed yet ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: so apparently being caught selling too many BTC here in the states carries
a higher sentence than dealing drugs