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mike_c: Apocalyptic: thanks. also, i believe awhile ago you mentioned you were interested in the income investments section, so check out http://www.btcalpha.com/income/. it's version 1, but still some useful info i think.
mike_c: August through january. i think that's 5
mircea_popescu: "hey guise! check out this neat thing i did" "x" "o fuck me".
mircea_popescu: i hereby summarize assets for all future times :
moiety: i nabbed that
Jere_Jones: http://i.imgur.com/N8kbDck.jpg
bloctoc: I apologize if it's already been discussed, but does anyone seen significance in mtgox stopping the drop today?
moiety: lol i had a parrot that meowed and did the phone
jayk: i really hate commercials that have a doorbell
moiety: sorry you guys hearts must sink when i come in
asciilifeform: as far as i can tell, pissing on this particular electric fence is strictly voluntary.
asciilifeform: (or were, last i checked)
asciilifeform: but i'm trying to enumerate the possible cases
moiety: drop by i mean
moiety: lol i would love it if they did
moiety: i love how they went on location as probably too embarrassed to strip pff anywhere else
mircea_popescu: me either, but i told em to drop by here.
pankkake: I like big boneds
moiety: i still cant figure out the btcbeauties project apart from trying to hide the fat one
moiety: i go for hot chocolate and miss tits and bongs? ffs ping me next time
ThickAsThieves: i can see a shape of a nipple!
mircea_popescu: and i mean who wouldn't be.
mircea_popescu: fucking weirdest thing i've seen so far today.
benkay: i have no idea how a) will resolve, but b) cannot stand.
mircea_popescu: i know :)
asciilifeform: stross, if i'm not mistaken, is the 'other kind' of writer
mircea_popescu: i'd have been well fucking worried it's all a plant.
Duffer1: i wonder what KSR would extrapolate from blockchain tech
Duffer1: i've read them, proud to say i didn't skip any pages
moiety: wah i didnt realise it was as early as 1927 he started documenting
moiety: im just catching up i see there are three guys
moiety: i thought he was still alive
moiety: might know this one: http://i.imgur.com/txDa8p9.png
Duffer1: http://i.imgur.com/JZ85Pgu.gif
asciilifeform: i only brought this up because armed bandits and knapsacks.
asciilifeform: which i realized the next day.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i for one certainly would like to see it built.
lnovy: sorry, off-topic problem, as i've said, tldr
asciilifeform: i don't insist that this is a useful mechanism, that necessarily does 'the job'. only that 1) i never found any trace that it was proposed before 2) i cannot see a 'textbook' reason why it ought not to work
mircea_popescu: i'm a very theoretical physicist. i have no fucking idea of the formulas involved in physics, but i can tell you when you're wasting your time.
mircea_popescu: i tell you, this is a perpetuum lightmobile.
mircea_popescu: i tell you, the most happening is "wow, look, likght does THAT too ?!"
asciilifeform: damnit, you want that i draw the whole picture, and then some bozo maps knapsack to the discrete logarithm problem
mircea_popescu: you will end up with separation issues at the region boundries i bet.
mircea_popescu: i bet you the most that comes out of this is some new quantum effect.
mircea_popescu: im just not sure it's reducible to i.
asciilifeform: i also have a hunch that it is a variant of Knapsack Problem
mircea_popescu: i guess ima clean it up and put it on the t.
asciilifeform: but an actual expert might know. (i was thrown into that line of work by accident.)
asciilifeform: i meant, literally this game.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was going to say, basically this game is the game of fucking life.
asciilifeform: fuck, i've played this game!
mircea_popescu: i suspect.
asciilifeform: unless i'm missing something
mircea_popescu: cause that's what i was wanting, to see if this is original or i'm just ineptly stumbling on well known (to everyone else) history.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: might want to describe this for the simple (i.e. mathematically)
mircea_popescu: i was just describing what your bot is supposed to do.
BingoBoingo: I just caution against the spring anchored portable poles unless you like driving drunk girls to the ER at odd hours of the morning because they flew into a wall.
moiety: looking at wiki, i think it just depends on the venue
benkay: i think not. strippers can't handle rotational inertia.
moiety: i feel my art is restricted with equipment
moiety: i think we can all safely assume thats not going to happen
moiety: ik sorry i couldnt resist
moiety: i thought most bandits had multiple arms
moiety: ah i forget those, go wandering into all kinds of sentences unwittingly
mircea_popescu: hehe i'm just pestering you.
moiety: i also learned today that ABBA admitted they wore the outfits they did for tax deductions
mircea_popescu: if i recall the original actually had good new england grammar
moiety: aw i think i find something good and it just turns out ive beenunder my rock for a while again lol
moiety: of course not! I've been banished from proper internetting for years! I loved his response though, fresh to me.
mircea_popescu: i distinctly remember readinf the exchange in the mid 90s, thinking "look how retarded the mericans actually are, they believe this crap is respondent"
ThickAsThieves: i think i just found a havelock bug, i sent a deposit to two different security accounts using 1 tx, it only deposited one amount
cads: I'm trying to think of the simplest measure of the fairness of a situation.
cads: mircea_popescu: I dunno, maybe I could do a situation with agents that act under various ignorance or misinformation constraints.
mircea_popescu: wao-ender no i mean about paul kruger
mircea_popescu: i tend to ask people with gold coin collections (which obviously WILL include some) "but you don't think the earth is flat, too, do youi ?"
ThickAsThieves: i dunno
mircea_popescu: i mean even the flat earth folks can EXPLAIN it to you if you ask.
cads: I do want to do a mathematical treatise of some austrian school economics
cads: mircea_popescu: I'm not sure where I'd start to be honest
mircea_popescu: i think that's where ozbot gets all those bad pictures of naked teenagers.
ThickAsThieves: especially one i never heard of
mircea_popescu: the20year2: In a life or death situation i'm sure they don't care too much << did this guy just argue with a bunch of people about using the rifle as a club ?
mircea_popescu: i'll argue the shit out of you, if nothing else then so anon retards have a model of how it works.
cads: hehe, I do love moral calculus.
cads: I keep wanting to get back to blogging
cads: nope, I was playing with one for some of my math stuff but I never published anything worth reading
mircea_popescu: cads i get it, i get it, burning through all that vc money is a fucking tough job.
cads: I mean, these guys currently... fly a guy overseas to look at a part.
ThickAsThieves: i stand erected
mircea_popescu: i never paid 700k for a consome just to see waht a 1mn restaurant can do, i'll tell you that :D
mircea_popescu: cads: I think they want to see what a $1000 3d printer can do << by paying 700 for an itam ? wouldn't it be easier to just add 300 and check the printer at home ?
mircea_popescu: i did meet some i liked,
ThickAsThieves: cue mp "That's how I got rich!"
ThickAsThieves: i never met an affiliate marketer i liked
mircea_popescu: o look, the "i didn't know i was on private" bs made it to here.
ThickAsThieves: now, i believe Havelock and Panama Fund might be separate things
ThickAsThieves: but no i agree that it's better to have the middleman
ThickAsThieves: i can access it live anytime and get autobackups twice each day
ThickAsThieves: nah, even i dont buy that