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asciilifeform: virtually every book ever printed, in plain text.
TheNewDeal: the book*
TheNewDeal: have you read of book We?
TheNewDeal: asciilifeform that book looks awesome
kakobrekla: asciilifeform sounds like a fun book
asciilifeform: bats_cd03: 'random' means one thing if you're running 'monte carlo' sims (digits of 'pi' work beautifully, as does 'A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates' (rand corp, 1955. book.)) ☟︎☟︎
assbot: #bitcoin-otc order book
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: "After a whirlwind of bidding activity, a 9.0-graded copy of Action Comics #1 sold on eBay yesterday for a whopping $3.2-million, the most ever paid for a comic book" << clearly no inflation propping up nasdaq. it;'s all just legit money, which is why all art and collectible prices are up 10x
thestringpuller: i just got a mac book air
BlueMeanie4: a good book. http://www.amazon.com/International-Financial-Markets-J-Orlin-Grabbe/dp/0444015981
ThickAsThieves: it sure is hard to book a US flight that isnt somehow connected to US Airways sometimes...
fluffypony: "After a whirlwind of bidding activity, a 9.0-graded copy of Action Comics #1 sold on eBay yesterday for a whopping $3.2-million, the most ever paid for a comic book"
decimation: the book comes off as a combination of "listen to the wisdom of your elders" and "get off my lawn"
mircea_popescu: that's how you ended up with "books" being the shittiest thing people will still take as a book, in a neat little package
mircea_popescu: that's how it goes in the book your learned on. this is called didacticism : the sad habit of people to recreate history in terms of their preferred systematic approach.
BingoBoingo: Dude pumps a self published book and tweets abotu #Ferguson once
ben_vulpes: hm cromer has a book called "political and literary essays"
ben_vulpes: ooh ooh pete_dushenski what was the book you recently mentioned on zhghghzgzhggis kahn?
decimation: herr walker has a book review on boronated fuels http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2014-03/001499.html
asciilifeform inherited the little book from a job as student, where he had approximately the same relationship to ion engines as a farting cow has to the 'greenhouse effect'
decimation: la wik recommends this book: "The Star Flight Handbook" for the math on the bussard design
assbot: While you're busy pumping his book, Andreas Antonopoulos, the "security officer" at blockchain.info still has not fixed a critical vulnerability in blockchain.info that was reported to them and acknowledged a month ago. : Bitcoin
BingoBoingo: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2e1tx0/while_youre_busy_pumping_his_book_andreas/
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the students are asked to simply memorize the book of, e.g, organic reactions. << myeah. tis perfect med skool prep
asciilifeform: the students are asked to simply memorize the book of, e.g, organic reactions.
asciilifeform: weakest link in btc apparatus is still - the owner. esp. if he's hanging upside-down, waiting for the next whack with a thick telephone book.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the last (third) book's been out for ages, too.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: this animal appears as a minor character in m. atwood's book 'oryx and crake', where it is called 'spoat/gider'
TheNewDeal: pete_dushenski , from a book my father was reading, one does not need to fast for 24 hours to reap the benefits
gribble: Bitstamp | This order would exceed the size of the order book. You would buy 24371.327 bitcoins, for a total of 21123101.8979 USD and take the price to 99999.9900. | Data vintage: 47.0314 seconds
mircea_popescu: i foresee that when you;ll be old you'll write a great kids book.
ben_vulpes: is there a book?
asciilifeform: ^ canonical book on the history of when extraction was more (or not) expensive for the state, than it is worth
nubbins`: book a courtroom, judge, sheriffs officers, all the paperwork that a dozen or two clerks can grab...
mircea_popescu: For Mencken, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the finest work of American literature. Much of that book relates how gullible and ignorant country "boobs" (as Mencken referred to them) are swindled by confidence men like the (deliberately) pathetic "Duke" and "Dauphin" roustabouts with whom Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi River. These scam-artists swindle by posing as enlightened speakers on temperance (to ob
mircea_popescu: decimation> man I thought mircea was hard on the guy but after reading a few pages of the book he deserves worse << and importantly, i read no pages of the book.
decimation: man I thought mircea was hard on the guy but after reading a few pages of the book he deserves worse
decimation: you see a book is a container that holds words that you vomit
BingoBoingo: decimation: That doesn't explain his ignorance of how to structure a document he is going to try to label a "book"
asciilifeform: e=3 >> this is a schoolboy mistake - even schneier's red book as i recall warned against it
mircea_popescu: i thought it was a book
BingoBoingo: mike_c: How comes your book?
mircea_popescu: and the thought in my head was "i'd buy the whole book, if i had a guarantee your book is all respectable folk, no mfa, no shit. no torrents w/e"
BingoBoingo: I swear my first IRL bitcoin meetup might involve the next person who professes to have self published "The Book on Bitcoin" without the slightest familiarity with the Chicago Manual of style
mike_c: i'm too busy writing my book
mike_c: it's getting long. perhaps i'll post as pdf and call it a book.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the presumptiousness of calling a pdf "my book" is striking.
BingoBoingo: That's the trilema thing he linked in Chapter 17 of his Bitcoin book. I can dig through his other stuff, but... navigating his giant pdf's is a pain
punkman: pete_dushenski: that's the china book
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: George Gratzer's "First Steps in Latex" is the book I use
BingoBoingo: Latex isn't really something the needs to be learned so much as done with a helpful companion book next to you
BingoBoingo: Oh, and his footnotes have fucking broken links, because a hyperlink is an insufficient citation format for "a book" even if it is an ebook!
BingoBoingo: Even before we get to the Content of Swanson's book.... Dude needs a fucking editor/publisher or to read the Chicago Manual of Style.
punkman: so hey guys, if you write a book, footnotes go at the end of each page
punkman: you know what's really annoying? clicking on a footnote, jumping to end of book, then not being able to go back to the footnote reference
punkman: well I've been looking for all that data in the book but I only found copy-pasted charts of dubious provenance and footnote links of dubious provenance. Not even a single link to organofcorti.
punkman: I am subjecting myself to Swanson's book
TimSwanson: Yes, you should press the blue underlined hyperlink button to open the book
mircea_popescu: if the book had no author i definitely wouildn't read it.
TimSwanson: Imagine if the book had no author, then it would just be about the actual content of the book
TimSwanson: Look, all you have to do, is read either book and then you can say what you disagree with
TimSwanson: Yes, I linked to it in my recent book saying it won't work ☟︎
mircea_popescu: TimSwanson you the guy with the ofnumbers/book thing ? ☟︎
nubbins`: best book cover, runner-up for best place to get your album art or show posters
mircea_popescu: it started as this literary device i had thought i had invented like a decade ago. we even tried to work it into our book with chet.
Vexual: buy the book cunt
ThickAsThieves: I just ordered the newer book
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gribble: Bitstamp | This order would exceed the size of the order book. You would buy 18913.613 bitcoins, for a total of 18863721.0835 USD and take the price to 99999.9900. | Data vintage: 0.0235 seconds
gribble: Bitstamp | This order would exceed the size of the order book. You would buy 18670.792 bitcoins, for a total of 18722522.1011 USD and take the price to 99999.9900. | Data vintage: 0.0322 seconds
punkman1: "Last night my mate asked to use a USB port to charge his cigarette, but I was using it to charge my book. The future is stupid."
decimation: on Moldbug's recommendation I read this book: http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028685505#page/n3/mode/2up
asciilifeform: 'man: would you like a book? Chukcha (similar to eskimo, butt of soviet jokes) replies: 'thank you - i already own a book.'
assbot: #bitcoin-otc order book
cgcardona: mircea_popescu: i still don’t totally know how to use the book
mircea_popescu: tis in the book.
mircea_popescu: well this was like.. geography. who the fuck cares, buy a reference book.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes i was expecting a lot more obvious drunkedness tbh. but sober ? maybe you should write a book. << book? what book. "hey. tits? they're worth 0.1 btc now, which i'll hold for you indefinitely. let's tits. tits everyone? great." << precisely. why book when you can blog?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: book? what book. || "The Secret Redditors Hate : How I Got My Wife And Her BFF To Go Naked On The Internet For Fun And Profit Using Only Tools Avaialble in Any Kitchen In Twenty Minutes For Dummies. Bulleted List THAT YOU ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT BELIEVE."
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes i was expecting a lot more obvious drunkedness tbh. but sober ? maybe you should write a book. << book? what book. "hey. tits? they're worth 0.1 btc now, which i'll hold for you indefinitely. let's tits. tits everyone? great."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i was expecting a lot more obvious drunkedness tbh. but sober ? maybe you should write a book.
mircea_popescu: And yet here we are, teen girls are reading fairy tales. This book should not resonate with 15 year olds, not this much. Which means that these girls are still getting sexist signals from somewhere, and, follow the trail, those signals came from the 40 year old women who like the story, i.e. "feminists."
mircea_popescu: anyone else wanna book maria for a assets session ?
mircea_popescu: jurov you mean the ~20 btc that sold for 21ish average and the book is pretty much back ?
DreadKnight: every time I hear that book title it really craps me up :D
mircea_popescu: but anyway : i can't get to the letter, because i can't read the "official oppinions" of accountants who wrote a book called redeeming christ.
mircea_popescu: READ MY BOOK: "REDEEMING CHRIST" I've decided to serialize and publish on this blog a book that I've been working on for some time
DreadKnight: kuzetsa, well, at least they're in the same book; what are you plotting?
decimation: 2001: a space odyssey was one of my favorite movies as a kid, but I was disappointed by the book honestly
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't about the money, but the chain. long chain or short chain, no matter. but, if the 20k came from a mythical machine that disgorges dough, that'd be a different matter. in my book, that's a 'fortune' - because no chain.
decimation: lol maybe, he has a book about it: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
mike_c: oldest spy trick in the book
mike_c: sometimes this channel is a sausage fest. save the date's are very reasonable. you don't have all the details figured out, but you know the day and don't want people to book something else.
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: nice little book, at least concerning the basics.
asciilifeform: i imagine everyone who ever cracked a book is familiar with island ecosystems and their doomed flightless birds...
assbot: - Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk. Read, download books - alternative book.
decimation: laster: "Sequences generated in a deterministic way such as this are often called pseudoranom or quasirandom sequences in the highbrow technical literature, but in most places of this book we shall simply call them random sequences, with the understanding that they only appear to be random. Being "apparently random" is perhaps all that can be said about any random sequence anyway."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that 1 book (mentioned above) is probably the only truly interesting piece of sf produced in usa in... 30? yrs
mircea_popescu: and if you do read the book, its prolly going to be something like knuth or whatever other exceptionally well systhematising works, which are again well in the past.
mircea_popescu: THE BOOK.