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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Summer before college I though I'd buy
a new Apple on their financing, had not realized company had died. Mercifully was declined and got
a used Dell Latitude.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, until such
a time as natural language works for coding, there won't be the "evil ai" whatever guy's worried about.
BingoBoingo: At the time I had yet to have
a computer at home so I bought
a bunch of computers and spares for about $10
a pop
iang: rings
a bell! remind me?
iang: the earliest key I have
a password for, it seems
iang: yup, not sure I can help, there are
a few of us :D
BingoBoingo: Ah, apparently someone whose nick is
a similar string of letters to yours encountered him on the twatter earleir today
BingoBoingo: So in early bookmaking it looks like they are only giving
a 2.5 point spread in the Bitcoin Bowl. That isn't even
a field goal
BingoBoingo: So ran out to Grandpa's to replace the batteries in his TV remote. On the way to the store from his place say
a big ass shooting star with
a definite green tint.
PeterL: Michigan State will win if they fix the holes exposed by Oregon and Ohio State (Baylor plays
a similar spread offence to those teams)
PeterL: Mich State got
a better bowl
BingoBoingo: PeterL: Mizzou got
a New Years day game. Happy with the lack of scam there from the SEC.
PeterL: I put the blog checking onto
a separate thread, and now it does not get kicked off from missed pings
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: nope its
a feature not
a bug
punkman: " They will suddenly see strong randomization where they did not before. There may be
a few broken because the have
a deeply hidden dependency on determinism. Sorry, but that is what it is going to take."
BingoBoingo: Indeed. "To satisfy portable code, srand() may be called to initialize the subsystem. In OpenBSD the seed variable is ignored, and strong random number results will be provided from arc4random(3.) In other systems, the seed variable primes
a simplistic deterministic algorithm. If the standardized behavior is required srand_deterministic() can be substituted for srand(), then subsequent rand() calls will return results using the d
mircea_popescu: ofcourse the actual random r is
a general class solution, and provably stronger than prng r for general applications.
mircea_popescu: im not all that convinced deterministic generation (nothing random about it) is such
a brilliant idea.
punkman: from linked paper: "The analysis is very disturbing: it appears that the bitcoin core client has NOT yet finalized the process of several security upgrades which propose
a solution to this problem (deterministic random generation) event though
a first solution was already submitted in January 2013"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's
a modern solution to
a modern problem. meanwhile actual people can get on with their actual work unmolested.
mircea_popescu: and for the masturbated, "let the superior white man do things for you for
a few dollars"
cazalla: mircea_popescu: cazalla nice publish srsly. <<< would've made
a summary but was late
mircea_popescu: so, all over the world right now, tons of people wasting each other's time in pairs, like retarded marmocets trying to move
a ball across the field.
mircea_popescu: promote
a particularly insane view of hiring, where to hire someone for an hour is essentially
a nonsexual camwhoring arrangement. you're to tell the op what to do, as micromanagement-y as moving their own hands.
mircea_popescu: inept "hiring"/"outsourcing" websites, modelled after get
a freelancer (which has been in fact on an insane buying spree, they recently swallowed up warrior forum - the epicenter of those idiotic "infoproducts" consisting of yellow underlined text and
a fetishistic "box" with reflections and whatnot)
mircea_popescu: there's going to be
a special agency specialised in giving orders to random derps via teamviewer.
punkman: last quote was from
a "dimsler"
undata: please thief, have
a heart!
punkman: this joehoe guy made
a nice sum today
undata: there are
a small but nonzero amount of US politicians that are pro-market and anti-war
undata: the US constitution and laws resulted in this; this is therefore what
a USA *does*
undata: poor guy thought the US myth was
a real thing
mircea_popescu: in
a word, members of congress aren't really that far above executive associates at jack in the box.
undata: I've met him
a few times
The20YearIRCloud: Big thing has been to have em look over all the financial documents as we're filing taxes for 2014 next month and I didn't want to submit till they had
a good idea of it.
The20YearIRCloud: board of advisors. We built
a committe that goes over all the company's financials and details once or twice
a month.
The20YearIRCloud: But, at any rate, the individuals on our BOA have access to bank records and property deeds/addresses. Additionally I've re-sent
a link to MP just now showing one county's records on us.
dub: I can grab basic detail of any property in my countRy from
a single web GIS interface for free, its then $50 for complete records of every time someone farted near it
The20YearIRCloud: The same counties that are intra-net only have the entire county on one giant CAD file that's accurate to within
a few centimeters
mircea_popescu: how's property register work other than as
a public matter.
The20YearIRCloud: You can also use the auditor to try and look up the data ,but depending on the county, some auditors are more than
a year behind on their record updates.
The20YearIRCloud: We had
a whole conversation about how we use deeds in Ohio and not torrens titles
dub: its not
a proper website without!@
The20YearIRCloud: I've already sent messages out to those that i gave em to asking for
a reasoning to them not cashing em in. Two guys have already told me they never got em even after I put em in their vehicles.
mircea_popescu: so your sworn testimony here is that out of however many tenants, not one has
a working smartphone ? or what is it ? computers don't really so much enter into it as far as i can see.
The20YearIRCloud: So, in other words : I did what was requested of me with the posters, I get neg repped for them. I did what my shareholders wanted by selling them more treasury shares at
a specific USD value, I get neg repped for it. In both cases I did what was asked of me, with proof (Phone numbers and shareholders on my IRC chat) and still get negative rep because of it?
The20YearIRCloud: What do you think I did with the posters? Just put em in
a closet to have to resell some day in the future?
mircea_popescu: no, you get
a negative rating the same way anyone ever did : by making
a large enough pile of claims improbable enough.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud looky at what it says. "If you believe him you're stuck crediting
a large pile of very improbable things, such as that no one out of dozen low income renters is interested in cashing ~50 bux worth of free BTC, or that buyers somehow materialize on Havelock to buy shares at 2x the going price for
a single IPO day."
The20YearIRCloud: Explain why I have
a negative rating mentioning the posters. What else am I supposed to do with them?
The20YearIRCloud: I'm asking you what you want me to do when I've given 8 to clients/tenants and none have cashed them in. I've got
a negative rating from you over it, so i wouldn't mind resolving it if at all possible.
mircea_popescu: (i know they failed on that power thoroughput specifically, but it's
a year old+ bet. it actually improved meanwhile)
The20YearIRCloud: Maybe I could give mircea_popescu their phone numbers and he could call em and ask them why? What the heck is expected of me beyond explaining to them how to do it and giving them the poster? Am I expected to spend
a hour getting them on IRC and doing it all for them?
The20YearIRCloud: I had told MP that it would have been
a much, much better process if I ran
a contest or something locally for the posters, that way they would have gone to houses where they wanted them or were higher educated. Yet i even had one tenant flat out refuse the poster after I put in their hands because it was 'too complicated' and 'all we have is
a nintendo wii
The20YearIRCloud: Heck, i gave two out to guys who worked for me, and I know for
a fact they're dead broke and they still couldn't figure out how to do it.
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2014 12:56:26; nubbins`: mircea_popescu:well if he did nubbins has some 'splainin' to do lol. <<< nope, in fact, i am also mildly perturbed by the fact that i mailed over $4,000 of goods to the guy and we didn't even get
a couple measly pictures out of it
mats: mircea_popescu:
http://pastebin.com/E5NU7nXx and as for subtext, idk that there is any ... the man is powerful and developing
a young woman, and wants people at the hotel to know it.
assbot: And now I shall be off scarfing smoked salmon and fresh apple pie seasoned with free market tears, or Why
a collection of confused retards does not amount to
a free market. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1ywDtJd )
mircea_popescu: pretty great. ima save five gallons of twitter for
a few years ?
mircea_popescu: "Anyone who plans to waste the shareholders' money can undercut the competition. The easiest thing in the world is to charge too little, it is just as easy as spending too much of other people's money. Customers will flock to those who do because they are giving away some, if not all, of the value for free. Somebody may even pick up the underpriced goods and sell them at
a profit when the stupid company ceases to ex
fluffypony: 'Such
a move baffled the veteran bankruptcy judge, Dennis Montali. "What troubled me was to read that Mr. Ochoa will allow the debtor to buy mining boards?" he said from the bench. "This is like
a patient that is going to die from three different things and now you're suggesting
a fourth surgery," he added. "Now they want to do
a hip transplant? Why?"'