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bounce: headline writing is a fine art though. news shops have people that specialise in exactly that.
thickasthieves: you can tell when qntra is trying to be cold, and when it's catering to b-a readers
mike_c: the lawsky title was a bit silly for my taste, but the content was useful to me. i'm glad i read what happenned.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what do you want, get a better army ?
thickasthieves: the b-a culture and btc culture is leaking
mircea_popescu: never a dull moment.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves wel no, this is the sort of shit that happens. one day cazalla was minding his own fucking business. suddenly, it's "make a news site!" then the next week it's ddosed to hel, and then the next week it's "here's an artikcle from mp, everyone in chan wants to make a call, it's on your head. make a decision"
thickasthieves: it's just new, we are indeed trying to judge a toddler like an adult
thickasthieves: this sounds a bit like the colored coins conversation ;)
mircea_popescu: the blog is the superset of the written word. tom sawyer is a badly implemented blog.
mircea_popescu: everything';s a blog after all.
mike_c: or a newspaper
bounce: hmhm so it's a blog after all
bounce: colour me conservative, but I expect news-writing on a news-site
thickasthieves: you put out a carrot and then say, oh dont worry about that
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves he means that by the time there's 10bn, a few more added won't make a difference
mike_c: they dilute in a geometrically decreasing fashion
ben_vulpes: factually i got a blowjob!
thickasthieves: factually i took a shit at the same time too
ben_vulpes: that's like a third "private messages" a third "project manager" and a third bitchy babes
mircea_popescu: the reason accuracy is a concept at all is that news can't ever be correct. which is why estimates are accurate and calculations are correct.
mircea_popescu: that's what's so attractive about the newsman job. you get to rape a bunch of people's heads.
mike_c: seems stylistically like a piece for the opinion page.
mircea_popescu: it's definitely not going to be a sort of citation-needed retardopedia, for that end of things
thickasthieves: mp, qntra being a news site, shouldnt you include some sources for your USG accusations?
asciilifeform: 'The exhibitor, Professor Faber, was a sad-faced man, dressed in respectable well-worn clothes that were soiled by contact with tools, wood, and machinery. The room looked like a laboratory and workshop, which is was. The Professor was not too clean, and his hair and beard sadly wanted the attention of a barber. I had no doubt that he slept in the same room as the figure—his scientific Frankenstein monster—a
assbot: Title: After defeating it in the Bitcoin market, La Serenissima bleeds the USG a - Pastebin.com
thickasthieves: but i suspect there's a reason it aint done this way
TomServo: Oh, you thought you were milking the cow? We don't have a cow.
mircea_popescu: hey! mr usg man, play a song for me
mircea_popescu: hey ! mr usg man, play a song for me
mats_cd03: Market indexes dive, erasing 2014's gains << good thing i only have to worry about BTC taking a dive
mircea_popescu: the one thing any entertainer in the world would pay for, would be a memory zap device.
asciilifeform: (and, occasionally, lift old wine and sell in new bottle, when no 'up and coming' retard needs to be merit-washed at a given moment)
asciilifeform: incidentally, the apple emulator ban is an instance of a much larger and more interesting phenomenon.
bounce: it's a ploy to get people to buy more cryptome dvds, I'm telling you
asciilifeform: apple could not manufacture its current x86 product line without access to at least a good subset of intel's 'real dirt', no.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: it's a business owned woman << i think stating that is a top taboo in teh us.
mircea_popescu: easy enough fix, just bring back the mp education system. examine the kids aged 7, 11, 15 and 19. kill a tenth each time.
asciilifeform: actually, the dogfood mechanism being selective for born seo experts is not a necessary hypothesis
mircea_popescu: whereas actual life duration expectancy hasn't much changed. except if you're a retard.
jurov: asciilifeform was there a "damage from incorrect date calculation", like in my household insurance?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, one of the major pillars of the fallacious theory of "progress" is exactly this. back in 1700, a bunch of retarded kids that should never have lived died before being 21.
nubbins`: oh, hm. infant mortality. that's a valid point
mircea_popescu: if this happened in the us, too, it'd be a much better place to be.,
mircea_popescu: nubbins` as i was explaining to gabriel_laddel coupla days ago, averages are slippery. in sierra leone it's 35 because a bunch of retarded infants die young.
mircea_popescu: no, because 100mn europeans and 80mn usians are a tiny sliver of a 600mn population in their 30s
nubbins`: anyone with a mortgage, essentially
nubbins`: what a fucking nerd ;/
nubbins`: i had a prof get overcome once when a student presented a surprisingly succinct proof in ring theory
mircea_popescu: yes but what else is a life for, i ask you,
mircea_popescu: and in a dispute with the romanian immigration service five years ago or so, they brought this objeciton in court, specifically, that i can't sue them before i do arbitration
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't recall ever signing a contract iwth arbitration clauses.
asciilifeform: 'arbitration' in usa is a term where the folks who fuck you over with the contract specify that you agreed to use tame judges, of their choosing (who are not in fact judges of the crown) in any dispute.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: lady: "maybe you should take a nap before our dinner party" << translation "fuck me!"
bounce: that should end up a contract with lots of sections elided
mircea_popescu: "gotta have 'magistrate' judges and 'arbiters' and anything and everyting as long as it';s not a judge"
mircea_popescu: maybe im behind the times, this was a 2000s event
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform umm well you need a better contract then
asciilifeform: so the paperwork will state, box sat in good order until such-a-date when god disintegrated it with death ray
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: according to the box contract in all extant u.s. banks, they can simply 'lose' the contents, and max liability is a joke number
mircea_popescu: easy way to pay a mortgage.
mircea_popescu: bounce> and on top of that, they'll let any old law enforcement take a look-see but should you die, may or may not let your executor in << if they do you can sue, and they will settle.
nubbins`: i guess i'm actually imagining it, because the nebulous thing in my head right now isn't really a picture
nubbins`: i'm picturing a repurposed bank vault with gpg access control
mircea_popescu: devthedev in theory, a newsite's ability to earn should be a function of the content it holds.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: a smart-wheel that spins itself based on distributed consensus << i dunno if you know or not, but this actually is a historical thing, proposed by Villard de Honnecourt. http://history-computer.com/Dreamers/VillarddeHonnecourt.html
asciilifeform: it's a temple.
nubbins`: so, TLDR, great for a backup copy of your homeowner's insurance policy but not much else
asciilifeform: the fiat bank, as at this point even a child knows, is what we in usaschwitz call a 'faith-based institution'
bounce: and on top of that, they'll let any old law enforcement take a look-see but should you die, may or may not let your executor in
nubbins`: "actually, i guess i'll have a seat while you find the fucking sheet"
nubbins`: "i guess we'll just start a new one"
nubbins`: actually a couple visits ago, they lost the sign-in sheet for my box
asciilifeform: and further down, a few 100 lines.
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2014 16:11:44; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: re: 'coinbase insurance' post - little story. recently i had occasion to rent a box at a bank (storage of various paperwork for firm.) the contract was a hilarious read. bank only insures a box for up to 25k usd. and specifically excludes damage from robbery, fire, water... virtually anything. ☟︎
gribble: Error: "down" is not a valid command.
nubbins`: man shaves sides of heat, decides to wear a suit and tie anyway
mircea_popescu: nubbins` not a bad idea, have at.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves kinda what makes me think of him as a whore.
thickasthieves: basically goat only knows how to say "i am awesome, i make lotsa coins, think of me as a financial beast plz!", but in 5000 different ways
xinxi: god, I should have known it a few months ealier.
mpmcsweeney: for sure - just pointing that element out, its a sticky situation nonetheless
mircea_popescu: OpenSSL 0.9.8 users should upgrade to 0.9.8zc. << best fucking part. what do they do when run out of minor versions ? use a letter. and when you run out of the 27 motherfucking letters ?
thickasthieves: mpmcsweeney - customer did agree to a no refund policy
nubbins`: "i want to acknowledge that as with all bitcoin companies, we're a bunch of fuckups who took on more than we could handle and now we need pitchforks to shovel all our excuses"
thickasthieves: i know what it's like to have a vindictive customer turn a small problem into a worse one
nubbins`: "I want to first acknowledge that as with all bitcoin companies, we are working extremely hard, drinking from a fire hose and solving problems, stabilizing the platform AND continuing to improve every day."
mpmcsweeney: well, "use" is a strong word
ben_vulpes: it's a business owned woman
nubbins`: do not buy a chair without sitting in it
thickasthieves: fwiw, the first words on the dealer website: "Welcome to Workscapes. Workscapes is a woman owned business."
thickasthieves: i tell ya, it aint easy buying a nice computer chair
ben_vulpes: me: "yeah, taking care of myself would be a good idea. i'll let you know if i get around to it!"
ben_vulpes: lady: "maybe you should take a nap before our dinner party"
assbot: NEW INTERN HAS BROKEN MY HEARTAPPARENTLY PACEMAKERS RUN A TINY AND HIGHLY EXPLOITABLE JVM
nubbins`: i might do a practical writeup on gpg contracts
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Ah, just remember it is an option if you find a bit a spare time and a thing not covered
danielpbarron: a smart-wheel that spins itself based on distributed consensus
Apocalyptic: danielpbarron, it's not only that, they are trying to reinvent a better wheel, because they know better