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assbot: Could anyone beat
a chimp in
a fight? - martial arts | Ask MetaFilter
mircea_popescu: for the other thing, does it even know what
a choke hold is ?
mircea_popescu: there is little in nature more objectionable than
a live monkey of any kind
cazalla: i'll get back to it once i'm better, prob
a few more days
mthreat: tempting to do
a BitBet on that...
mircea_popescu: and he's going to run
a budget without taxation or inflation too
mthreat: ya. december and january are very hot here, and the "cortes de luz" (power outages) were
a pain last year. Best time to get out in my opinion.
boolrap: yeah i like something
a bit more exciting
mircea_popescu: there's
a difference between the babies dead of neglect in 1905 and the baby dieing of neglect right now.
hanbot: kakobrekla how about people who need
a timer don't get to bet
mircea_popescu: boolrap depends. but in general, unless you're making something like strudel it doesn't take that long to fix
a meal.
boolrap: what do you mean no appliances, you have to make
a fire to cook your meals?
gribble: Error: "timesincelastblock" is not
a valid command.
gribble: Error: "lastblock" is not
a valid command.
kakobrekla: there are also psychological effects - i wonder if we would see
a diff if i added
a fake 5 min timer at the last step of the bet address request.
mircea_popescu: either for not having one at all, or for having had one that was too close to
a mom
decimation: it's
a classic case of cum hoc ergo propter hoc
boolrap: how if you have
a gay uncle you are more likely to do well and reproduce because its like having another mom around.
decimation: mircea_popescu: there's
a whole 'gentrification theory' based on gays moving to
a neighborhood full of swarthy thugs and making it 'safe' for women and children
mircea_popescu: "With the rise of Google, the gurus of Web 2.0, and the call from business leaders (often seen in publications such as Business 2.0) for
a more creative, as well as skilled, workforce, Florida asserts that the contemporary relevance of his research is easy to see."
decimation: he's communist who is
a living mockery of communism
mircea_popescu: "Florida's theory asserts that metropolitan regions with high concentrations of technology workers, artists, musicians, lesbians and gay men, and
a group he describes as "high bohemians", exhibit
a higher level of economic development."
mircea_popescu: after your first payment fails for whatever reason, you get
a full node client, pre 0.7 and run that.
kakobrekla: you need to select between 2 options. now you need to understand both and on top make
a decision. if you opt for the second one, you also need to fetch the return address, since you dont understand what originating fucking address is.
kakobrekla: more brain is needed to complete
a bb payment than to bpay payment. im to lazy to list all the details, but its there.
decimation: "Moreover in
a recent report from the Aspen Institute, which convened
a cross-section of business thought leaders, including both executives and academics, the most important finding is that
a majority of the thought leaders who participated in the study, particularly corporate executives, agreed that “the primary purpose of the corporation is to serve customers’ interests.” In effect, the best way to serve shareholders’
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla acting as if this is
a thing makes it
a thing. not
a good idea.
decimation: "These questions are being raised, not in some anti-capitalist rag from the extreme Left, but in the staid pro-business pages of the Harvard Business Review, in
a seminal article by Roger Martin, the former dean of the Rotman School of Business and the academic director of the Martin Prosperity Institute: “The Rise and (Likely) Fall of the Talent Economy.”"
mircea_popescu: i remember
a time when newspapers were worth reading, they came in wet ink and you knew the names of the editors.
decimation: the forbes 'article' (forbes < daily mail) is an example of
a blind man feeling the bloated government elephant and declaring it to be
a large plum
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> the fuck do people know what their needs are, you might as well be the veterinarian that offers pet-managed pet care. << Time to go long on bacon as dogs move over to
a diet of pork and more pork
mircea_popescu: it narrowly maps the makeover from "
a good place to invest" to "
a good thing to short"
decimation: kakobrekla has
a point, he did make shit cars
decimation: "my customers would have wanted
a faster horse"
kakobrekla: from
a group that is already small as it is.
kakobrekla: bb is not
a sheep company. bitpay is
a sheep company. there are more sheep around than non sheep. by count, sheep company is hated less.
mircea_popescu: "we're
a bitcoin company that's trying to make bitcoin work as badly as possible, and fail that as closely approximative of fiat as possible. because reasons. please invest."
mircea_popescu: decimation that's not even the problem. all those together ? worth half
a watsapp.
mircea_popescu: not really my problem, they'll learn some lessons in fragility once anyone gives enough of
a shit.
mircea_popescu: basically they picked
a solution that fell out of the fail tree and hit every branch down
mircea_popescu: brothel1 : if you fail to spend in 10 minutes, there's
a surcharge. brothel2 : if you fail to spend in 3 days, there's
a... nevermind.
mircea_popescu: relying on
a 10 minute interval when blocks are routinely
a half hour, help me rwanda.
kakobrekla: too complicated for _people_, better to take the exchange risk for
a few min
mircea_popescu: then you can just send 1 even for
a .75 invoice if you absolutely must have it filled, and take .2whatever in change when it happens
mircea_popescu: "here is the address to pay to. if you pay in the next 10 minutes, you need to pay this much. if you don't and the price moves in your favour expect change in your originating address ; if it moves against you expect
a new invoice generated for the difference"
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah if one is going to play with uC on
a usb stick, might as well hack
a usb storage card use the controller, because cheap
chalbersma: mp I'll take
a look at it but I'm not entirely sure how to do it. I'll have to read more into the procedure of generating that coinbase.
decimation: all that being said it looks like
a fun little toy
decimation: random pcb hanging off
a usb shell does not qualify
decimation: diametric: I agree with asciilifeform re: that FST-01 device for TRNG - there are just too many potential gotchas with
a low-quality ADC, why bother when
a much simpler circuit would suffice?
chalbersma: It gives the donation address
a satoshi and any leftover satoshi's after dividing between the active shares to that address too.
mircea_popescu: yet there's
a whole collection of reddit wailers derping about how bitbet is
a scam and ty bitpay for having fixed your X error that cost me my business you're such
a great company.
chalbersma: mp. I've been looking at the bit that donation transaction that generates the donation to forrestv's address. I've found one alternative p2pool implementation that had
a different coinbase script but I'm not sure how to generate it. I'll have to look more into it tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: mmm no. it's like 120g/mol. 1/3 of
a mol, like 7 liters.
mircea_popescu: it is difficult to store, because if air gets to it they make phosgene and hcl ; however it can be trivially washed in
a solution of baking soda, which removes the decomposition products safely.
nubbins`: yeah, PR wrote
a tell-all book
mircea_popescu: actually
a lot of men get off on not getting to get off frequently
DiabloD3: there are many women who get off on men with power, and it is not our right as
a society on who is allowed to get off on what (outside of bestiality and pedophilia and catholics
DiabloD3: and it'd be
a legitimate firing
mircea_popescu: generally, whenever someone complains whatever they complain about should be replaced by something that's about
a degree of magnitude more likely to bother them personally.
mircea_popescu: seems to me "female" is
a good substitution for "retarded" for the company of females that think retarded's retarded.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i srsly never met
a us born/bred woman that had trouble with good chocolate.
BingoBoingo: McDonalds Food, but in
a venue purporting to be
a restaurant
mircea_popescu:
a bucket list being the list of things the assholes in question were hoping to do before i got to them.
mircea_popescu: myeah, humane ads are like humane rape.
a tough sell in the best of cases.
kdomanski: <ThickAsThieves> b-
a doesnt have
a proper nonprofit to give to << how about Electronic Frontier Foundation?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform birdy in my ear whispers there's
a legitimate reason for that thing. specifically, division errors.