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thestringpuller: i love having 18900 trilema credits
thestringpuller: yay! how do I celebrate?
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa: I just audited and apparently I made an assumption which is not true << ahem.
mats_cd03: i suspect it is not really that valuable
mats_cd03: i wonder how easy it is to fence diamonds
mircea_popescu: substantively i find it offensive.
mats_cd03: i thought the eulogy was beautifully written
mircea_popescu: i seriously expect the entire world to now bow down to my superiority and explicitly recognise its inferiority, as a wholy owned, substantive characteristic of their own.
mircea_popescu: i suppose every single entity in online finance, from paypal to icbc will now come and leave a comment on trilema saying "sorry, we're fucking stupid, you're right"
ben_vulpes: the only leg i can see hedging are btc holdings
ben_vulpes: sure, it guarantees cash in pocket instead of worthless paper when the music stops, but all i'm left with when the music stops is a company that makes software in competition with all the other shartup engineers.
mircea_popescu: and i mean both for VCs and for PUAs, and come to think about it the difference is negligible.
mircea_popescu: <mats_cd03> but do uber, airbnb, dropbox, and the like not deserve billion dollar valuations?" <<< i agree that other people's shit stinks but isn't my doodoo all perfumed ?!
mats_cd03: makes sense. what am i thinking.
mats_cd03: is that soviet in origin asciilifeform? i noticed the idea first, in cult phenomenon Game of Thrones
ben_vulpes: i can see that backfiring, asciilifeform
xmj: asciilifeform: just 'cuz i'm german.
xmj: I DON'T WANNA.
mats_cd03: and then there's this, "I do agree valuations are artificially inflated, but before you start drawing parallels to 1999 and every financial bubble of years past remember there are companies with real revenue streams. Sure, there are the snapchat valuations which have no basis, but do uber, airbnb, dropbox, and the like not deserve billion dollar valuations?"
mats_cd03: 13:01:49 <+myriadgetsmehard> It's not up to them to decide what is a premium domain or not. I say it's up to the whole free market, which they won't let me be a part of, it's also not really free
mats_cd03: 13:00:59 <+myriadgetsmehard> i beg to differ. i think all these new TLDs have value. So I am asking for $500k for http://btc.events and a few others. BitPremier takes 5% but I'll offer the room 20% to any who can get one sold
myriadgetsmehard: ben you are acting like the dinosaurs i get enough shit from man :)
mircea_popescu: myriadgetsmehard "random rock i found in street" != koh-i-noor
ben_vulpes: i think it means he can stroke it to anything
mircea_popescu: "i'm offering 100k in any currency to the salesman that sells this rock i found in the street for 500k"
ben_vulpes: although i imagine the hardened russian finds the US street gang similarly incompetent.
myriadgetsmehard: laugh if you want. i'm offering $100k in BTC to whoever can sell it. wil do ben_vulpes
myriadgetsmehard: maybe i needa setup a gpg contract to get these sold for a commission.
myriadgetsmehard: It's not up to them to decide what is a premium domain or not. I say it's up to the whole free market, which they won't let me be a part of, it's also not really free
myriadgetsmehard: i beg to differ. i think all these new TLDs have value. So I am asking for $500k for http://btc.events and a few others. BitPremier takes 5% but I'll offer the room 20% to any who can get one sold
mircea_popescu: myriadgetsmehard i doubt they think even those are valuable. i definitely would think much less of any marketplace that purports to sell 2nd market domain names.
Duffer1: i thought bitpremier was a website for things that had value
myriadgetsmehard: I am trying to sell http://btc.events I also have a .rentals .holiday and .pub and others
myriadgetsmehard: So the bastard at http://bitpremier.com/ won't list my BTC domains. I'm a little pissed to be honest
myriadgetsmehard: so i don't know how any of you feel about bitpremier
myriadgetsmehard: i'd gpg auth but i am on me work computer
myriadgetsmehard: i am john. i are engineer. i also came to maybe discuss some bitcoin assets of mine
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im not sure of the homo sapiens relation. the women are made of flesh, so in that sense it passes, but i have little clue what the males are made of.
asciilifeform: i'll try.
mircea_popescu: im famous among a group of [girl]friends for this one trip I took one of them for at some point, that was never documented or repeated.
mircea_popescu: i recall this black hole thing yest
punkman: asciilifeform: I'm looking for something like the Inform7 beast but with more Lisp. Where does one look for Lisp libraries and such?
RagnarDanneskjol: yes. i thought you'd appreciate the attempt
punkman: http://i.imgur.com/F6TjkpK.jpg
kuzetsa: it actually looks so shitty I think it might even be an automated thing done by a rather unimaginatve bot
kuzetsa: I'm glad I didn't have a system policy which let that suspicious code run
xmj: silly hackers not buying .com .net and .org at once, i wanted .org
kuzetsa: I just audited and apparently I made an assumption which is not true
kuzetsa: I meant openssl not openssh
xmj: i did mean 'openssh' instead of 'nss
kuzetsa: well... I mean my GPG key for authing with gribble is an RSA key but other than that
kuzetsa: I haven't got anything using RSA in production at this time
assbot: I just donated $1K to the Global Learning XPRIZE because governments indoctrinate more than they educate. http://t.co/nkWMXwFR3R /Indiegogo
decimation: ah I see. apparently symbolics later marketed a card to install in apple stuff though
ben_vulpes: <decimation> gov't pays for such 'research', most of which is pointless: http://www.sbir.gov/ << people say: "do this!" and I say "what innovation? we duct tape thinger a to tab b and make clients happy." they do not understand, and i cannot enlighten them without calling into question that which they value themselves upon.
decimation: No I'm thinking of maclisp, which is unrelated to apple I guess
decimation: oh yeah I forgot about ti
decimation: heh yeah I did
decimation: one would think that someone would have made a few backups, but then again shit happens I guess
asciilifeform: 'cyc' is a real laugh. they have a crippled 'open' version; in java, if i recall!
asciilifeform: the real lol is that i had to write a report, quite like this one, when my contract was ending.
asciilifeform: decimation: i tried, back in the day, was not impressed with result.
decimation: and I think you are right, they are too shitty to ocr for the most part
asciilifeform: (where do you think i got them)
asciilifeform: perhaps because i ordered them scanned...
decimation: ascii I have bad news. The ones with "ADA" numbers have already been published on the internet by usg: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA096510
decimation: I have ocr, but it only works on pdf
decimation: I was thinking one could cast with a mold, but a home-made version of those would probably not be sufficiently precisely machined
asciilifeform: decimation: i can only dream of them.
decimation: heh I guess it makes sense. elsewhere in the link, there are pictures of the ceramic 'screw pumps' that are supposedly of higher quality
decimation: I mean the chambers must be carved from the inside
decimation: asciilifeform: I was thinking about your piston pump today - how do you craft it with all the 'hidden' holes? In two halves? Casting?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller> i think i learn more in this channel than i ever did in school << im sure most do.
asciilifeform: decimation: i tend to rely on my head
decimation: ascii do you 'pack-rat' information on the internet? I find I am caching more and more these days
decimation: wow ascii I'm getting 8 mbit/sec, that's serious
thestringpuller: i think i learn more in this channel than i ever did in school
decimation: trival V-I curve at DC is easily detected
asciilifeform: should be shat out by the time i'm done reading 'hour of reckoning'
kakobrekla: i have set up rtorrent on some boxen with pipe
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: i've been thinking about it ever since al schwartz recommended it in '01...
mats_cd03: some days i think about whether someone will end up glassing mecca
mats_cd03: i should do a bet about green attacks before end of the year
kakobrekla: right now i just get a network error
mircea_popescu: anywya, he's ok i guess.
mircea_popescu: i got the space, just, some derpy kid's idea of ai will prolly be to try and "loic" it
asciilifeform: in response to years of prodding from various folks, and mircea_popescu reminding me that 'lesswrong' existed, i took an hour or so to digitize the old douglas lenat papers. now need a place to host
peterl: I made mead at home once
JuliaTourianski: i used to make cheese at home all the time. what happened to me?
mircea_popescu: <peterl> isn't Rassah gay? <<< i don't think as much gay as a furry creature.
peterl: I don't know him personally
peterl: thought I read that from him somewhere?
thestringpuller: JuliaTourianski: i bet the dude rocks out to katy perry in the shower. << If you're talking about Drake, I think this is confirmed...
peterl: I still drink out of the hose with my kids if outside.
mircea_popescu: i've not drunk tap water in about a decade or so.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long before the standard moves from "potable water" to "pristine water"
JuliaTourianski: i bet the dude rocks out to katy perry in the shower.
thestringpuller: i think of that song fancy huh
thestringpuller: every time I see the word fancy
mircea_popescu: which is a superlative idiomatic i've just created for the occasion.