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bitcoinpete: "Legal requirements for the listing will make digitalBTC “the most transparent bitcoin company around”, according to a spokesperson." << and the biggest! fastest!

benkay: Mats_cd03: reactive:imperative::ragel:a pile of regexes

bitcoinpete: "DigitalBTC, which began as a mining operation but also engages in bitcoin trading and is developing retail and consumer applications, debuted on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) this morning as Digital CC Limited (trading as digitalBTC) (ASX code: DCC)."

benkay: Mats_cd03: consider a program that's essentially a function of a time series of events

benkay: Mats_cd03: it's a mathematical formalism for talking about systems that evolve over time in response to inputs.

gribble: Error: "c," is not a valid command.

benkay: Mats_cd03: does bit-c have anything resembling a usable api?

benkay: if only there were a reactive ncurses thing

artifexd: benkay: Bets within a certain period of time or in total?

benkay: considered reporting when a bet total ratchets past integer btc at stake? in the same vein as the ticker bots accumulating trades under 1B

artifexd: I now understand mp's desire to limit []bot's reports in here to bets >= 1BTC. There have been a lot of bets lately. It would have made for a lot of noise in here.

benkay: Mats_cd03: and you were recently giving me a hard time about crypto. mhmmmmmmmm.

thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: is there a zero asset corporstion blog post?

asciilifeform: chetty: mp is rather like a surgeon - if surgeon could cry, he could not work - somethinglikethat

mircea_popescu: civilised man shall have his dawn, and a proper burial.

mircea_popescu: the mental model for stalin is roughly speaking a 15 yo country boy.

chetty: absolutely, the meatgrinder is a bureaucracy like any other, and they don't die easy

asciilifeform: well, depends on what's a good candidate. does the exhibit need to be pretty to look at ?

mircea_popescu: the death of sir thomas moore, a fine example.

chetty: usually its the socialists and their various cousins that do the 'camps' thing. Can you think of a historical time they got the bad end of that deal?

mircea_popescu: there should be a term, incidentally.

thestringpuller: since that seems to be the case, they try to plan a pregnancy for once then the OBGYN asks, "Well how many abortions have you had?"

mircea_popescu: which i suppose is a very good formalisation of what i mean by "not analysable" : imagine a set of numbers which includes an order property, but excludes the highest and lowest member in any subset.

asciilifeform: if he can't do his thing because he's worn a zombie collar from birth and knows his place in the uranium mines, we're at 10.

mircea_popescu: and while it includes a subset, and all its members,

mircea_popescu: basically, this is a magical set that never includes its margins

asciilifeform: e.g. we don't know the ideal temperature for a living planet, but we can be pretty sure it isn't 10K

mircea_popescu: i suppose that's a much better statement than "merit isn't a thing"

asciilifeform: picture a toy plastic 'landscape' with hills and valleys, and a couple of ball bearings

asciilifeform: btw, anyone following the discussion who is unfamiliar with 'simulated annealing' method of mathematical wizardry, should open a book and quickly become familiar

mircea_popescu: merit isn't a thing.

mircea_popescu: merit only exists in a measuring context. the choice of a measuring context is political.

mircea_popescu: so a bunch of spanish peasants burnt down mexico city.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: problem still remains, that merit isn't a thing << now i'm curious

gribble: You rated user FabianB on Tue Mar 25 20:11:54 2014, with a rating of 3, and supplied these additional notes: Ruby pympex extension, some trades etc.

kakobrekla: a.

nubbins`: FTL are a notoriously bad fit :D

thestringpuller: i'll do a large then

nubbins`: if you're not sure, opt for a larger size, they'll shrink a bit in the wash

mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> i was actually offered a consulting gig at a local credit union because of my wot rating << tru story ?

thestringpuller: oh nubbins` do you have a mockup of what it looks like with the #bitcoin-assets printed on it?

nubbins`: no joke, that pic came from a site called "gay gamer"

mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> here's a recent pic of him: http://imgur.com/Ho4chGH << actually he looks like that guy when he was 30ish :D

nubbins`: i was actually offered a consulting gig at a local credit union because of my wot rating

mircea_popescu: <chetty> having a gpg key and a wot rating is elite? who knew << damn straight.,

kakobrekla: yeah, i should get a pipe.

nubbins`: you can't really tell, but he's wearing dockers and a leather belt

nubbins`: here's a recent pic of him: http://imgur.com/Ho4chGH

danielpbarron: KRS1, it looks to me like kakobrekla voice you first; I'm not sure why would would have a problem with him..

nubbins`: it just makes a couple things more convenient

nubbins`: now you're just being silly, you don't need a wot rating to stay

KRS1: Thanks but I can't nubbins, my wot rating isn't good enough to stay. Chetty: <assbot> You need a better WOT rating. (level 2 with assbot >0)

chetty: having a gpg key and a wot rating is elite? who knew

nubbins`: pull up a chair and stay a while

nubbins`: oh fuck someone gave her a sandwich

nubbins`: fluffypony, after a fashion

nubbins`: there's a very high-looking woman sitting on my front step

kakobrekla: <benkay> <benkay> hey that's a neat way to advertise that you want yourself upped // i suggested this ages ago and was shot down mercilessly.

assbot: A Non-Outsourceable Puzzle to Prevent Hosted Mining (and Mining Pools)

benkay: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=309073.msg3315672#msg3315672 // but how are you going to get the pools to support a hard fork that would allow their participants to cheat?

mircea_popescu: the problem still remains, that merit isn't a thing.,

benkay: <benkay> hey that's a neat way to advertise that you want yourself upped // i suggested this ages ago and was shot down mercilessly.

benkay: hey that's a neat way to advertise that you want yourself upped

asciilifeform: when things get wedged at 'of birth' that's really an invitation for a napoleon to come and, technical term, 'fuck shit up just because'

benkay: "speedy trial" is a bit vauge.

benkay: i was introduced to a novel 'paper' last night: CaCO3 quarry byproduct + resin.

benkay: tonights delicacies: lady-made gnocchi with bacon and sea scallops in a pecorino cream sauce

mircea_popescu: http://www.youtube.com/embed/S2Y8kylOsF0 < here's a good one

asciilifeform no expert, but sees a europe that largely shot its wad in 1918

mircea_popescu: such a thing kills everyone else, but it just goes to sleep and comes out virgin and 16 again.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile europe is going in it's second syphilitic-whore-with-a-gram-a-day-habit

mircea_popescu: as a six year old boy he's gonna be your father regardless.

mircea_popescu: whether your father is a scientist or a drunk, or both,

mircea_popescu: so it's a bit of a drama.

mircea_popescu: turned by1950 into a quite paranoid "we'll never be safe ever unelss we control it all" is equally sensible in context

mircea_popescu: but look at the matter : ever since napoleon implemented the idiotic idea that people generally should have a voice merely for having been born,

mircea_popescu: certainly a forced mistake.

asciilifeform: of course, unphased by this. We know now that their strategy of psychological war turned out to be a correct one... To establish the injustice, the 'meanness' of the enemy in a moralistic war is every bit as important as winning a pitched battle in a hot war.' ☟︎

asciilifeform: moral justice the legions ought to forsake the lands for which they had paid with their blood. Not only is the transference of conceptions of morality to the evaluation of historical events a phony method, but, if we recall, the moralists - the defeated European nations and the Americans, enemies of the USSR - that is to say, non-impartial moralists - their condemnations sound hollow indeed. The offenders, are, ☟︎

asciilifeform: 'the Western blok... preferred to view the Eastern European nations as victims of Soviet aggression, ignoring the simple and manly fact (that would have been instantly understood by a Roman) that Soviet legions, without anyone's help, took possession of Eastern Europe via force of arms, answering aggression with aggression. And the Roman would an absurdity - he could not comprehend, in the name of what so-called ☟︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: funnier still : "Buey zaraza, tus ojos tristones" in original. buey is commonly used in romanian today as a vocative address

mircea_popescu: it's a sort of paradise.

asciilifeform: 'Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.'

assbot: 17 Dec 1949 - Drawbacks Of A Communist Career

mircea_popescu: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18140285 << apparently they know a whole lot.

mircea_popescu: ter some delay, with a false confession allegedly written by Rostov in the death cell. This was too shameful, and it would hardly have served the purposes of reeducation." and then goes to search, curious what the internets know of rostov ?

mircea_popescu: so a man reads "But that particular December nothing positive had taken place, except for the Soviet-Chinese talks - though even they seemed to have got bogged down - and the seventieth birthday of the Leader of the Peoples. He could scarcely tell the Germans about the trial of Traicho Rostov, at which the whole blatant MISE-EN-SCENE had suddenly come unstuck in open court and the correspondents had been fobbed off, af

mircea_popescu: anyone of teh unvoiced looking to do a bit of coding ?

moiety: personally, i feel it was a scapegoat situation

Mats_cd03: i mean...thats a long time

moiety: i think whats important to note here is his wife is a fucking cunt

mircea_popescu: people arguing with me, always a funny sight.

moiety: such bonny coluring, folk just run in and steal them,exotic pets or fur trade gives a lot. urgh

asciilifeform: moiety: 2nd lynx was found in the wild as a kitten (hunters killed its mother)

moiety: mircea_popescu: i got asked once if i wanted someone killed... it's a bigger question than you realise til you are asked

moiety: asciilifeform: i cant understand this but tht cat ispretty huge! do you think tho that that's cat's general nature. they need, you give = omg you have a domestic - ish

benkay: although re smacks mine responds most promptly to a squirt of water in the face.

mircea_popescu: moiety if you ever get to kill a bunch of people and a bunch of animals, you'll eventually notice the difference :)

benkay: this rocket can put you in orbit or drop a warhead on your friend's face.

mircea_popescu: it'll fucking love you if you're a better ocelot than it is