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mircea_popescu: thestringpuller
a) the notion that
a reddit account =
a person is rather bizarre. see
http://trilema.com/2014/spamming-reddit-an-experiment/ by now i'd guess less than 10% are actual people ; b) this is in no way remarkable, they understand nothing of absolutely any other topic they consider, be it politics, sexual relationships or raising snails. this seems to have relatively little impact or importance outside of the
thestringpuller: i don't think the redditards understand the consequences of
a hardfork ~_~
punkman: so bot updates trust list every 6 hours, should I make it spit out
a message when it gets new keys?
mircea_popescu: maybe pankkake tried to generate
a bitcoin address, itcame out as 1systemdsux and his head explody
mircea_popescu: I wonder how many people hit on incredibly improbable but bothersome stuff like 1smallC0K or 1yoMOMMAisHO or 1JeSuSgAy w/e and as
a result think bitcoin is evil and gather around the hater sites.
mircea_popescu: this sounds bad but it is acutally good, because it gives us
a method to manage the problem. ie, to distinguish between accidental and "we really should increase tx size"
punkman: so if I spend the only unspent tx in the address for
a new bundle, previous tx is gonna get dropped right
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: is this meant to dissuade me from entering
a saturated field?
bounce: so sell your own heroku for
a little less?
ben_vulpes: to roll back, check out commit to which you want to roll back and provision
a new cluster.
ben_vulpes: json file describing what needs provisioning, and
a script to stand it all up on aws.
ben_vulpes: the only way to change it is to bury it in
a sea of "jeez, i guess i was wrong" and subsequent self improvement.
ben_vulpes: terminate ssl for me for 20 dollars
a month" button than to...terminate it themselves. on
a box they control.
ben_vulpes: <kakobrekla> ... $8500 << currently dealing with something very similar. programmer programs
a thing in django, goes to "deploy" it but doesn't know much on the topic beyond "hey heroku's
a good host". fast forward four years, heroku bill is now in excees of 300 dollars
a month because it's so much easier for people who "just write code" (if plugging the duplo of rails or django into itself can be called such) to click the "yes please
ben_vulpes: i look away for what -
a day, two? and you people only rack up 500 lines?
ben_vulpes: the downside to an unlimited buy wall as
a consulting shop is the imperative to eat through as much of it as possible in the time allotted
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punkman: mircea_popescu: do you also have
a music band called psykosis or something ? << what's irish thrash metal got to do with me
pete_dushenski: "So… You judge
a society as successful if it has enough money for
a vibrant arts scene but not enough to alleviate the effects of poverty? Call me crazy, but I don’t think the first of us started forming this grand experiment I call society just so we can finger-paint together." << lulzy contravex comment o' the day
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: is he like the only b-
a jew or something ? << am not! we're all rabbis here, neh?
pete_dushenski: this merely required
a few updates to debian rather than the script
pete_dushenski: still out of town, just have
a few mins to catch up here
gabriel_laddel: yeah, I know. there must be
a table avalible through some hack though, ie the master 'document' javascript object.
bounce: that's
a decade of poorly documented cruft you're looking to wade through
gabriel_laddel: bounce: I'm looking for
a canonical reference for the entire API exposed by mozilla firefox (I realize there are two, JS and the XUL. I'd like both). I'm looking through the firefox extension documentation, but frankly, they're shit (eg, I want to open
a new tab, where is the page describing this function call? not anywhere in the search!). If someone familiar with the sources knew of
a few files that could be massa
mircea_popescu: do you also have
a music band called psykosis or something ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "the aliens hate me" << this is
a valid excuse when it comes to Klingons no?
TheNewDeal: because it read so similar to
a lot of those other bets, but like you said, it was basically "gold closes above 1200"
TheNewDeal: I'm not sure if it was an accident, or on purpose. However, if it were on purpose, I applaud the author for
a well crafted bet
punkman: yeah I guess,
a little lost on me
cazalla: 3d gun got australian pollies in
a tizzy, some were floating the idea of
a licence for 3d printers
punkman: cazalla: there's
a typo missing, Arse News
mircea_popescu: cazalla well, it's
a sign that qntra is used by terrorists.
mircea_popescu: they have to suck
a lot of cock for that foot of sidewalk. it's not like somehow magically it's not
a sidewalk anymore between 13:30 and 14:25
mircea_popescu: take
a tour through the red light district, sometime. the hookers are out whether there's johns or not.
mircea_popescu: the exact fucking antihussle. i wonder what the fuck dope dealers are doing, because i find it hard to believe argentine junkies all keep
a stash.
mircea_popescu: saturday night tho ? ZERO! i don't mean, most of the fat ones with good business didn't bother, leav ing just
a few of the sketchier, hungrier fellows. no, i mean exactly zero. as if saturday night is not
a time. not part of the world. does not exist.
mircea_popescu: these argentinian dudes are so fucktarded it's hard to put into words. so there's
a few streets in the financial district where literally 100s of derps hawk "cambio, cambio!" trying to get some paper benjies for their locally-printed toilet paper. all day long.
punkman: heh INFO 2014-11-02T02:28:41 Not replying to sure, in #bitcoin-assets, not
a command.
punkman: thestringpuller: ^ give it
a try
mircea_popescu: also in the news : jeffrey robinson is
a fraudulent grant eater that's spent 100's of thousands off the public treasury and has yet to produce anything of value.
mircea_popescu: given that i have like 2lbs of chocolate right here, which i just bought today, it's
a wonder we're not the fattest people online.
mircea_popescu: if anyone ever googles this idiot : there are better ways to flush your money down
a toilet.
ninjashogun: Look, we're all adults here and know how an IRC conversation looks to
a random person googling an individual.
ninjashogun: <ninjashogun> I realize that you also are careful about your online footprint so you will appreciate this. I think I didn't realize that it's
a publicly-indexed log at the time.
punkman: was same price as some Nestle shit, and not much sugar, not
a bad deal
punkman: it's
a piece from one of those 10kg blocks, says Callebaut
mircea_popescu: if its any good, you crack it against
a large marble slab.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, you know we had
a great emu war in australia.. that we lost
xiando: perhaps if you're hosting reddit (even then it seems like
a lot)
xiando: I guess it makes sense if you don't have
a bunch of servers and websites yourself
kakobrekla: i can easily make bitbet spend 45k
a month
kakobrekla: found my answer, sorta: >Our staffing costs alone run $45,000
a month. Our hosting costs for September were $8,500.
jurov is debugging
a turdatron. don't want to make verbs from it
kakobrekla: the reasoning: only close bets make it to bitbet and humanity is mostly
a fail
gernika: cazalla I like the background given on investors and founders involved in the startups covered. Don't have
a specific example in mind, but I like the digging.
mircea_popescu: choice of words is
a poor simile for choice of action.
mircea_popescu: gernika on
a more serious note, this is
a problem familiar from game design. you can either have choice or stability, not both. systems that are to any degree stable only achieve this stability by denying choice correspondingly.
gernika:
A world where you appear to have
a bunch of choices, but in fact you have only one and it sucks.
mircea_popescu: bounce nah, see, most recend attempt at ddosing qntra used
a large number of broken-into websites.
mircea_popescu: "o hey, you're part of
a contract you enver signed lol!"
mircea_popescu: HOWEVER it is not
a stable solution. because wasteful, fundamentally.
mircea_popescu: so, in any practical situaiton,
a solution that relies on trust will outperform
a solution that relies on expenditure.
mircea_popescu: gernika let me illustrate the problem of trust and the limits of the universe to you with
a risque comic.
gernika: I have seen discussion of that on Trilema, I believe. Doesn't that arrangement depend on
a trusted third party? The creditor?
gernika: Also, this escrow can be done without
a third party
gernika: Well, an escrow that doesn't make any decision in the event of
a dispute except to say both parties are out their escrow.
gernika: mircea_popescu So in
a case where two parties have no information about each other (which is essentially the same as when one party is in the WoT and one isn't, or when one party wants to do
a trade they're not rated for),
a nash equilibrium allows
a way to incentivize both parties to complete the transaction faithfully by forcing both parties to risk the value of the item being traded contingent on the trade being completed
mircea_popescu: i seriously think that comic pretty much illustrates the mental process of the libertard us female. she has
a little girl that grows up to be
a man
gernika: mircea_popescu Would
a nash equilibrium based exchange in THAT case be of use? Or would it nullify the donation to the wot?
mats_cd03: it was ~40F, plenty warm enough. chicks around here walk around in shirts and
a belt in january, ~15F, on friday nights
mircea_popescu: gernika exaclty, and in wot-terms he makes
a trust donation to the wot and to his partner.
gernika: mircea_popescu So in order for someone to get rated for
a more valuable interaction than they have ever participated in before, someone else always needs to take
a risk, correct?
mats_cd03: i was in
a few residential neighborhoods close-ish to somerville, so... kids
mircea_popescu: gernika well, one could put the time in to build himself and steal some, but the idea is that he wouldn't really manage to steal more than what not stealing is worth on
a discouinted basis for him.
mircea_popescu: gernika the case you're proposing is already out of scope, because the wot is intended to be used with middle transactions. so if alice trades 100 btc
a month for two years, trusting alice with 200 in one go is okay. trusting her with 5k is absurd,
gernika: cheat someone in
a large transaction?
gernika: mircea_popescu for example, Alice builds up
a good reputation in the WoT. Then in some large transaction Alice absconds with Bob's BTC and fails to deliver the goods. If the same transaction were instead executed in such
a way that if either party fails to deliver, both Alice and Bob would lose an amount of btc equal to the value of the item being purchased, would that then prevent Alice from sacrificing her WoT rating to
mircea_popescu: you don't understand how thw world works. "mom" would like
a place to drop off the kid while she does "other things". (no, i don't mean fucking. if only. i mean going around shitty clothes shops in the mall and feeling each individual item buyt not buying anything, then hitting the food court)