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Naphex: always tought you
a Parazitii man
mircea_popescu: they have their own official site and everything. problem is, they don't have much english support on the web, being.. you know,
a romanian language band.
mircea_popescu: then one day i use one of their lines as
a title for
a post, and i get the #1 spot by morning.
mircea_popescu: so there's this romanian rap band, bug mafia. it exists since the 90s, it was one of the first in the sense someone in bitcoin since 2010 is "one of the first". they're to this day the best by
a very very fat margin.
cazalla: i don't tbh as i'm still relatively young and by the time i'm old, perhaps there will be
a cure
mircea_popescu: "We would also let you know that
a letter is also attached to your package. However, we cannot quote its content to you via E-mail for privacy reasons. We understand that the content of your package itself is
a Bank Draft worth $800,000.00 USD; in FedEx we do not ship money in CASH or in CHEQUE but in Bank Drafts only."
fluffypony: her grandfather (maternal) was
a professor of economics, incredibly gifted man, who is now suffering from dementia
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: wife is East German, so I've learnt about
a lot of that stuff, especially from her grandparents
HeySteve: fluffypony, don't think it's the splitter, got
a new one. think water is getting in the line somehow
mircea_popescu: film also has interspersed scenes of
a hog eating
a trabant
mircea_popescu: sends daughter to water the pole (ie, pour
a bucket of water at base on old wooden pole, no cables there or anything)
mircea_popescu: great somalian film. in it there's
a scene where old woman can't talk on cellphone
HeySteve: fluffypony, yep had
a lightning strike and it's been erratic ever since.
HeySteve: fluffypony I get
a server not found error in FF
fluffypony: I started
a blog that I'm aiming to update extremely sporadically and only when I particularly feel like it
jurov: <davout> ;;rate ThickAsThieves 1 this nick maps to
a real person i have met IRL, also CoinBR <<< lol I'm not aware TAT took over coinbr :D
dignork: dexX7: don't want to beat
a dead horse, but puting anythin + privkey into browser is
a bad idea, unless for some reason you run it on an oflline machine
dexX7: actually i'm writing
a tutorial for
dexX7: that's the plan fluffypony. and i'm looking for
a way to sign with
a minimal setup. like
a very simple website + js or similar
HeySteve: nanotube, may I have
a word in private?
nanotube: dexX7: you don't want to provide privkeys to any website. :P use
a local client.
HeySteve: I was
a seller there, it's unfortunate there's no way to migrate feedback from shuttered markets...
fluffypony: I've bought
a couple of things on CryptoThrift, not blown away by the site but it seems to be
a lot better than BitMit
fluffypony: "Takes poker. It’s
a game which is also an adult activity due to the money involved." <- broke my brain
bitcoinpete: More Piketty: "The simple fact is that large wealth taxes do not mesh well with the norms and practices required by
a successful and prosperous capitalist democracy. It is hard to find well-functioning societies based on anything other than strong legal, political, and institutional respect and support for their most successful citizens."
ozbot: "Riders On The Storm:"
A Fictional Letter Explaining What Is Going On In Russia | Zero Hedge
bitcoinpete: ;;later tell mircea_popescu you make
a good point about the last line. as students of history, we ain't forgettin' shit. i'm tempted to re-write it but then your comment wouldn't make any sense. it did feel
a bit off as i wrote it...
benkay`: "Last year, the government of the Republic of Cyprus imposed the equivalent of
a tax on bank deposits, only to see the tax contribute to, rather than reverse, the island’s economic struggles."
benkay`: give or take
a moment of inertia or three.
benkay`: the up-20 (universal payload, I imagine...) was an impressive device. rated at max for 20Kg, and could swing
a payload of that size around at lethal speeds.
benkay`: motoman's just
a bog-standard dumb dumb robot mfgr.
benkay`: anyways. at the close of that gig i made
a rule for myself that i would no longer sit at the controls of machines that could maim or kill me.
moiety: i will have this fear to if i ever get to meet
a manul
benkay`: now it's my job to get us from
a where we are to b where we'd like to be which is building cool crap and making money at it
moiety: i saw kako took
a good pic too
moiety: ;; later tell BingoBoingo nope not moi but it is
a manul! had to go look, i'm never there anymore
joecool: mircea_popescu: would be
a funny caption for it :)
mircea_popescu: "I found myself conversing with
a young criminal lawyer who will soon be marrying into the same family that I did last summer. I think this makes us laws-in-laws."
davout: i took
a few pictures, mircea_popescu if you want to compile them lemme me know
thestringpuller: davout: if you met them IRL wouldn't you give them at least
a 5
davout: gribble will tell you if you overwrite
a previous rating, right?
dexX7: sounds like
a nice party you guys had
davout: ;;rate kakobrekla 1 this nick maps to
a real person i have met IRL, also Bit4x
davout: ;;rate ThickAsThieves 1 this nick maps to
a real person i have met IRL, also CoinBR
davout: ;;rate ThickAsThieves 1 this nick maps to
a real person i have met IRL
davout: ;;rate mike_c 1 this nick maps to
a real person i have met IRL
davout: ;;rate asciilifeform 1 this nick maps to
a real person i have met IRL
benkay`: bounce, jurov: it's
a crystalline thing that absorbs alcohol.
jurov: either it's powderware or they figured out
a compound that produces ethanol in contact with water
bounce: how does that work, powdering
a liquid?
bounce: probably should re-run that listing thing; the math was
a bit borked.
dexX7: bounce posted
a list of all users who may be voiced here
artifexd: Interestingly, wrt anduck, he has
a total of -69. There are 7 -10 ratings that are CLEARLY from the same person.
rithm: can't someone just run
a normal eggdrop bot and auto voice people
mircea_popescu: artifexd actually the controlling example is... anduck himself has
a total negaitve
bounce: if it's well over 10 or -10 that's
a clear indication it wasn't by just one rating either
rithm: negrate from
a scammer is
a badge of honor
rithm: i'd almost pay for
a negrate from mgicaltux
artifexd: I would see such
a rating as reflecting positively on the ratee.
artifexd: Imagine you had
a negative rating from mtgox with the comment "TROLL!!!!!!"
artifexd: Sometimes
a negative rating would be
a good thing depending on who it came from.
artifexd: cgcardona_: I wouldn't worry about total wot rating since it is
a meaningless number.
cgcardona_: ;;rate danielpbarron 1 #bitcoin-assets regular and defended me when
a scammer squatted on my nick in #bitcoin-otc
mircea_popescu: mkay, so i'm writing
a seminal, major and epic work called "
a complete theory of economics".
bounce: the end result to that would still be subjective. someone else might well feel
a different way.
bounce: well, what is "the numeric method"? I can devise and use
a system of numeric scales based on how much I feel I know about someone else.
bounce: eh, I think we're past that. I can put three lava lamps on
a table and count them. you'll count three too. no feels or beliefs involved. even if our counting system is ultimately arbitrary in it existence
mircea_popescu: but you need
a judgement call for the tape measure to exist in the first place.
bounce: both're objective; I don't need
a judgement call here, I look at the tape measure.
mircea_popescu: <bounce> an objective measure?
a metre, standard the world over. < 1 ; <bounce> whether I take
a tape measure to $derp or you do it, when done correctly we both will conclude the guy's length to be $whatever. < 2
bounce: we could devise
a "standard" scoring test for WOT ratings and still draw differing conclusions based on what we see
bounce: whether I take
a tape measure to $derp or you do it, when done correctly we both will conclude the guy's length to be $whatever. that'd be objective. we both look at his WOT ratings, we might well draw different conclusions on the same data.
bounce: an objective measure?
a metre, standard the world over.
bounce: WOT ratings can well mean different things to you and me. they're not even ment to be used "objectively", ie in
a manner independent of people's opinions.
mircea_popescu: if he looked to do what he felt like it could have been subjective, as
a proxy for aesthetic i guess.
bounce: also more or less saved me having to do
a write-up
mircea_popescu: bounce im not sure you have
a usable definition of subjective in mind.
mircea_popescu: two hours ago i said i suspect i'm weeks away from
a major breakthrough in economics.
bounce: and every user has
a differend yardstick, making the whole thing subjective to use.
bounce: anyway, "good wot relations" means that you've met and dealt with
a number of other people, and gathered their esteem, and in doing so gathered
a total esteem enough to be deemed worthy of the community as
a whole.
bounce: (yet god knows every thought of the devil's, and being
a good little god... lets him be?)