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Vexual: commericail airlines flew over iraq and afghanistan for the last 10 years, this might be
a proper war
Vexual: im not
a big fan of sams
mike_c: yeah, not
a problem for me
cazalla: mike_c, only thing i dislike about m50s is the soundstage is
a little too small for fps gaming, i switch to my speakers when gaming but they aren't gaming headphones to begin with so isn't
a big issue
dub: fresh out of glenfiddich but I'm now sipping
a glenrothes, good suggestion
Vexual: lets go around with
a bottle of glen fiddich
dub: heh, famous actor lives across road, pulling into my drive earlier I see another actor getting
a box of beer out of his car and going inside
Vexual: for $120 try
a fresh set
decimation: I suspect the average listening would be unable to differentiate most of these headphones in
a blind test
decimation: in
a basic sense, impedance mismatch will just lower the effective power delivered to the headphones
decimation: impedance actually varies with frequency, which no one gives
a spec for
decimation: impedance is
a matter of what you are connecting with
decimation: human hearing being
a logrithmically spaced filter bank and all
decimation: the layers upon layers of outlandish claims fossilize into
a hardened mess - nothing can change the status quo - until the whole thing fractures and breaks in
a massive earthquake
dub: won
a 17 year olf legal battle
mircea_popescu: that's why regulation is taking over legislation as
a normative process.
decimation: if there's an exception for "game" currencies, how does one demonstrate that bitcoin is demonstrably different than
a "game" currency?
mike_c: i can't stand bills of different size. such
a pain to roll.
mike_c: wait, is that
a saying in other countries? your money probably isn't green.
Vexual: kill it with half
a bottle of red and go to sleep
mircea_popescu: mike_c they dun wanna end up with
a bunch of terrorist bux
mircea_popescu: mike_c armored battlerats! with
a terminal upside the head!
mircea_popescu: specially-constructed oubliettes with
a terminal in the lid and
a hole for shit in the bottom. <<< ahaha ok.
decimation: I'm
a sennheiser fanboi, but I'm sure there are other quality headphones out there. examine the spec sheet
decimation: in India, it would probably be expected for
a Brahmin C-suite guy to tell
a fellow Brahmin trader what is going on
decimation: I can't imagine
a way to be more ignorant about
a business and its prospects
hanbot: is there
a logical way to reconcile the naive want for "fairness" with -anything-?
decimation: yeah what is trading without "insider" knowledge? trades based on an account's report and
a brochure?
mircea_popescu: that problem is
a lot worse than anyone wants to admit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Theodore Y. Ts'o doesn't comprehend what random means << 'random' is simply
a non-scientific qualifier. like 'big'. << looking forward to reading medicine treatises in similar terms. something tells me teh colonies will soon deliver.
decimation: ie as long as the peasants are fat, dumb & happy they don't give
a shit what the remote lords might wish, even if on paper the peasants are in charge
decimation: according to mircea's theory, the us voter want to emulate their soviet brothers - turn themselves into the third world gulag so that they can be
a somebody
decimation: but this is
a case of the deer kneeling in front of the hunter
decimation: the irony being that the very many who can make such policy (
a senator) is whining about what bill gates says in the newspaper
kakobrekla: mostly - Z is
a small fraction of X or Y
kakobrekla: at least that was the estimate that
a company here gave me.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> for
a coupla hours there it looked like the whole damned charade'll have to be taken down and redone. // mpex?
nubbins`: print sale was
a smashing success, gonna get drunk
mircea_popescu: "As an example, the following string of numbers is anything but random:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 However, if this is run through
a MD5 or SHA whitener, the result would
gribble: Error: "laser" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: for
a coupla hours there it looked like the whole damned charade'll have to be taken down and redone.
assbot: Bug 659512 – no chance to enter
a password during key generation in command-line mode
empyex: FabianB: Proxies: ".. running
a final swathe of test-all-the-edge-cases .. mpex should be back this weekend. also fabian is pretty cool." MPEx-Status: Error reaching trade engine (change: $proxies <newlist>)
gribble: Error: "curl" is not
a valid command.
assbot:
A New Digital Currency Whose Value Is Based on Your Reputation | Enterprise | WIRED
benkay: i just found
a beer bottle with
a threaded neck onto which
a cap had been crimped to not un-thread. i did not know that this was possible!
kakobrekla: asciilifeform possibly, but i suspect it still
a fortune to ship since im not in china or uk. two more issues, as i said, its not assembled atm and would need to be before its shipped overseas, to see whats what. this takes time.
benkay: reputation and behavior are incredibly important because you can rewrite the blockchain basically at will, unless you do something with
a merged-mine approach (but i don't know enough about mm to comment really)
benkay: no mining per se, because that's
a feature of btc, you know?
assbot:
A New Digital Currency Whose Value Is Based on Your Reputation | Enterprise | WIRED
benkay: mircea_popescu: it's
a wild ride
mircea_popescu: fucking statistics 101. black men may have
a 64 yo le, but black men WHO ARE EMPLOYED do not.
herbijudlestoids: things have been going well on my end, after the first big customer hit we have had
a bit of
a flood of them, and our accountant has even managed to score us significant tax breaks around R&D for the last FY
herbijudlestoids: yes, admit i was
a little surprised about the downtime thing upon visiting trilema
assbot:
A New Digital Currency Whose Value Is Based on Your Reputation | Enterprise | WIRED
thickasthieves: “The US is certainly one of the world’s leaders. At some point it seemed that it was the only leader and
a uni-polar system was in place. Today it appears that is not the case. Everything in the world is interdependent and once you try to punish someone, in the end you will cut off your nose to spite your face" ~ Putin
punkman: mircea_popescu: anyone can connect to
a website on dial-up as it is. << I think he meant having his modem dial
a telephone number for mpex
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't get what it'd be supposed to do tho. you mean dial-up access only ? anyone can connect to
a website on dial-up as it is.
artifexd: Also, I'm
a little intoxicated. "Welcome to Ecuador" says the family, with alcohol.
mircea_popescu: didn';t he make
a sikrit forum where he derps with tortilla and some glbse bagholders ?
thickasthieves: you create one country and you think you can do anything for
a few hundred years
mircea_popescu: <decimation> this functions as
a natural safety value which relieves people from pretending they are something that they are not << whole fucking contemporary us is built upon people pretending they are everyithing they're not.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> here's
a question: why will bitcoin succeed when gold was beaten so badly by fiat? << well, why has gold been "Beaten so badly by fiat" ?
decimation: here's
a question: why will bitcoin succeed when gold was beaten so badly by fiat?
decimation: this functions as
a natural safety value which relieves people from pretending they are something that they are not
decimation: I admire the german system for this reason; take
a test around middle school to really determine if you are capable of the university path
decimation: at my university I found these types "lecturing" freshman psychology, hoping to "earn"
a phd in social science
mircea_popescu: decimation now imagine what happens to
a society that takes all the natural victims of this phenomenon, kids aged 15-20, and
a) preaches to the girls they should be more like the boys, ie, stupid in this particular manner and b)
Pierre_Rochard: would it be fair to say “pretending” = taking on
a challenge that you don’t have the skills for, and “
a thing” = taking on
a challenge you have the skills for?
mircea_popescu: so, yeah. she can be
a thing if she wants. she doesn't, even if she may be too stupid to realise this.
mircea_popescu: there for all eternity, to confront generations of bright teenagers that'll take about five minutes to figure out she's
a furniture, and maybe not torture her for it. maybe.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: all the kids that were any good left, generally the country. just about now, an elderly lady with
a full professorship was looking for an assistant.
mircea_popescu: now among this dozen, there was
a mentally retarded girl. she wasn't badly touched, maybe 80 or so. definitely enough to take care of herself. definitely not enough for high level math. her parents however were i dun recall what academic country gentry, and so they insisted she go.
☟︎☟︎