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mircea_popescu: "Over the past few days we have noticed
a significant uptick in complaints directed at our help desk about
a fraud being perpetrated upon innocent Bitcoin users."
kakobrekla waits the day bitcoin foundation puts out
a warning about bitcoin foundation
mircea_popescu: mike_c fortunately total interest is like
a quarter, so nobodu's losing any sleep over it.
mike_c: i am glad i'm not
a mod. "out of business" is not so clear in btc-land..
mircea_popescu: and ima put
a hold on it because srsly it does not seem to exist anymore.
mircea_popescu: and that's taking
a very lax view of "line" and "logic".
mircea_popescu: it's
a perpetual and uphill battle to keep them more or less in line with logic
adlai: best part is when they fucking rotate the picture, I mean... did nobody in the film crew ever hold
a fucking camera in their life!?
rithm: ;;rate mod6 1 Deserves
a token rating even though bitcoin foundation rocks the cocks
kakobrekla: <rithm> ;;rate mod6 1 Deserves
a token rating even though bitcoin foundation rocks
kakobrekla: <rithm> ;;rate mod6 1 Deserves
a token rating even though bitcoin foundation sucks
adlai: Dawkins... thought the future war among the different atheists sects, which he felt had "
a certain amount of truth in it"... reminded him of the Judean People's Front and the People's Front of Judea
adlai: there are probably better ways to watch that clip/episode, but I definitely can't send you
a url to an external HD that isn't even connected
kakobrekla: i see, two soldiers from opposing foundation forces find themselfs in
a pitch dark room.
rithm: ;;rate mod6 1 Deserves
a token rating even though bitcoin foundation sucks
adlai: you know it's
a srs display when chickens and dogs join in
gribble: You rated user PinkPosixPXE on Wed Oct 22 13:06:41 2014, with
a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: Helped me out testing ben_vulpes install script..
adlai: I doubt people would be proud of such kickbacks, but shame doesn't stop people from peddling shit from carts in malls all over the world... this is just
a few steps further,
a few degrees further on the frog-boiling scale
mircea_popescu: "tell your friends about budweiser's greatness in narrative form for
a chance to win
a can of beer"
mircea_popescu: adlai anyway, it's bnot going to be run as an actual market, because cattle. so it will be run as
a star market.
adlai: we've got quite
a bit of escalation to go in this arms race
adlai: fb's "Promoted Stories" are but
a step towarsd the inevitable endgame: kickbacks for product placement in casual conversation
pete_dushenski: right. just
a new update and all that goodness is out the window or what?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski lulzy the confused reaction of
a social media dude taken out of the eco chamber.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: decimation show me
a country with no income tax that's not in affrica <<< easy, that.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: there is talk of raising it due to budget shortfalls despite the government that brough it in promising the legislation would never allow for such
a thing to occur << typical of ALL TAXES EVER
assbot: Logged on 30-11-2014 20:23:56; nubbins`: but FYI, i'm negotiating
a price with
a buyer now for my genesis block newspaper (the times jan 3 2009)
mircea_popescu: very much like bitcoin stuff, there's
a 7-10 space where the thing's useful.
adlai: math is more of
a thing than most other things
adlai: math is totally
a thing!
mircea_popescu: adlai go read say 1700s treatises on music for
a while. either french, italian or german, whatever you speak.
adlai has been thinking
a lot lately about generative music
adlai: and the second level - this is
a song about
a lawnmower who gets pushed to do fancier things, but he just likes pushing
a lawnmower around
adlai: this is an answer on several levels... music plays
a rather large role in my life, although the ratio of consumption/production has been too high lately;
adlai: well, any advice on how to pick
a field is welcome. picture
a highschool dropout with centipede's dilemma about where to start fixing his ignorance
mircea_popescu: no it doesn't. charlemagne wasn't
a blacksmith, and
a thousand years later the orleans that WAS
a blacksmith made
a shitty king
adlai: seems more of
a tool for digging into other fields, whether
a "hard" science, or just making impossible things hard in other endeavors
adlai doesn't see "work with computers" as
a good candidate for excellent depth
mircea_popescu: the only way
a good intellect can be used is through achieving excellent depth in one field, that can then be leveraged in all fields. otherwise, if you never anchor, it'll just mush around
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: kakobrekla: no you don't understand unless it's
a perfect solution it's entirely worthless << lawl.
mircea_popescu: well... someone fishing for insults in b-
a would get well fed in short order. but no, it's not an insult.
adlai is not enough of
a classics scholar to debate this much further
mircea_popescu: some esl kid on the fringe of culture nevertheless believes that "as
a Category", X "shouldn't be fun".
mircea_popescu: "So let’s try to build
a rating of the cryptocurrency names of real coins, based on various criteria: Brightness. Seriousness of name (as
a currency, the name shouldn’t be fun). Whether the name is conceptual (makes sense, dedicated to ideas), or not."
adlai: it seems that the general cycle is that these people hear about bitcoin, learn
a tiny bit about it, and park it in the back of their mind for
a few years
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: the general discussion here also changed
a lot over last years << i'd loive to hear your take on that ?
adlai has met
a few intelligent people who have heard about bitcoin but are taking their time learning about it
adlai: they don't have to cost money if you can dress it up as
a service you sell the ISP
mircea_popescu: "And indeed, the output of the CPRNG is very biased. The output of each step of the CPRNG is
a number from 0 to 25; you would expect successive outputs to be the same around one time in 26, but my experiments show that the frequency is closer to 1/22.5." <<< shcneier made
a cypher. heh.
mircea_popescu: "tandacoin:we get 4k pageviews
a day how muh do you get?" ahahah this was so great.
mircea_popescu: im saving this one in
a special compartment, it's too good.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: tandacoin, stick around, i need to finish current article and then head off to
a pokemon meetup << bwahahaha
mircea_popescu: Yoco sounds like
a future artist / sextape protagonist
adlai: nubbins`: "you can't not communicate". that would say that either the owner of that domain is
a liar, and said at that time that he hates newfies, or that bot has become unreliable.
mike_c: this is perhaps
a good idea. i gotta run for
a bit. but I think you're right.
mircea_popescu: mike_c lemme value proposition you : if you're going to work now and again, it may work much better to be
a qntra star analyst and get shares for that work, than sorta be stuck with
a solo blog.
mike_c: you looking for somebody to analyze btc businesses? that's
a tough task with the limited information they usually provide.
adlai: it says, "the document fetched from <url> contained
a section, located at <path>, hashing to <hash>"
nubbins`: and then make
a note of it for future reference
adlai: which is why you give the bot
a URL and an xpath (or regex, or whatever you like for specifying
a part of the document)
nubbins`: so we trust that the bot fetches text from
a website and doesn't alter it and hashes it and sends dust to the address
mircea_popescu: btw, it occurs to me, the one thing qntra would really need would be
a resident business/finance analyst.
nubbins`: no, it's proof that the bot hashed
a string of text and sent dust to the address
adlai: nubbins`: the bot's signature on
a file isn't proof-of-existence, it's proof-of-that-server-said-this-to-me-at-that-time
nubbins`: i can also hash
a html document by hand and send dust to it
nubbins`: punkman's bot fetched
a document, right?
adlai: then your hash confirms that this site contained
a certain text
nubbins`: you and i pull down
a website right now using the same browser on the same hardware, we're getting different content
nubbins`: you're going to hash
a session id?
mircea_popescu: there's
a reason the wayback machine is run as charity.
adlai: if the data you hash includes
a timestamp
punkman: mircea_popescu: why's that
a problem?
mircea_popescu: it'd be
a great thing, page verification, but so many things can fuck it up. like, any page that includes the current time.
a theme upgrade.
punkman: while we're on the topic, I want to make
a service that fetches
a URL, hashes contents, and then bundles and notarizes those. thoughts?
☟︎ adlai: punkman: "Assuming each of these transactions includes
a miner fee of 0.1 mbits (millibits), this would cost the proprietor 36.5 mbits
a year."
mircea_popescu: nubbins` can you appreciate how damned rare it is,
a few occurences over tens of thousands of LINES ?