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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you'll have to appreciate the value of convenience SOME DAY
mircea_popescu: "Q1.6: Does RANDOM.ORG perform custom jobs that require randomness? Yes. Perhaps you need more numbers than it's possible to get via the web forms, or perhaps you need them in a format that isn't supported. In those cases, we can set up a custom job for you to supply the numbers."
mircea_popescu: "Second, this is not an attack that can be launched from anywhere in the world, only reasonably close to the generator. "
mircea_popescu: and if i go to fuck a girl, i can't like... in any manner observe where the blasted slit is
mircea_popescu: "RANDOM.ORG radios use in order to affect the generator. However, radio frequency attacks of this type would be difficult for a variety of reasons. First, the frequencies that the radios use are not published, so an attacker would have to broadcast across all frequencies of all bands used for FM and AM broadcasting. "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as to whether you in his place would find yourself in the same envelope or not.
mircea_popescu: yes, by and large the scientist in the lab is a puppet.
mircea_popescu: but the discussion of whether the envelope is real or metaphysical is important.
mircea_popescu: on the merits the judge is entirely correct, he couldn't have excluded that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but i was more curios in general discussion, rather than merely judging the judge.
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones are you writing me repos/options/something on gavinbucks ?
mircea_popescu: evidentiary hearings are quite separate from any case.
mircea_popescu: you can't say "clothes are dumb" just because americans are poor and the chinese are mocking them.
mircea_popescu: law, as an intellectual tradition / cultural phenomenon is quite sensible.
mircea_popescu: quick "fundaments of law" practice work. were you the judge, would you have allowed the evidence presented ? if yes, why ? if not, why not ?
mircea_popescu: ie, tarzan in the jungle, finds a glub. "now that's a good club". "hello tarzan". because buna is ambiguously hello and "this is a good item"
mircea_popescu: which reminds me of ancient joke. "tarzan prin jungla, gaseste o bita. "buna bita!" "buna tarzan!""
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: a: 'orcs came and burned my village to the ground' b: 'shuddup, enough whinging, do something to improve yer lot' << i can see it tbh.
mircea_popescu: the correct solution is to whip out the cock, jack off, send the film to every girl in junior high, then when the troopers show up whip the cock out, jack off on their face and beat them until they lick it off and thank you for it.
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt the solution to "welfare state has made life impossible for actual people" is "feel moar ashamed and guilty"
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: also mildly curious to know how much time your grandfather spent on irc shooting the shit and complaining about how shitty his wife was <<< all old folks i knew, of that exact generation, spent about 20 hours a week, each week, with a beer and tobacco, talking exactly the same things.
mircea_popescu: "I'd also like to see a source to this claim. I'll start a bounty of 3,000 bits." gotta love reddit.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: how in the fuck does a pennyles german come here 65 years ago and build more in a decade or two than his own grandchildren could hope to build in a life time << you know he has a legitimate question there.
mircea_popescu: yeah that's gonna be a cool 54 btc for bitbet once it resolves.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: i am very upset over this fork talk << eh, nothing to get excited over, a little bit of war.
mircea_popescu: TomServo herbi stopped by ? you two are liek friends ?
mircea_popescu: except, of course, as i shown above, if they bet rationally they do have a rational incentive to move the odds if they believe the odds.
mircea_popescu: well OBVIOUSLY then it's also the only way to lose money. eh ?
mircea_popescu: in which case your 1 will have to be covered to maintain the 60%. do that.
mircea_popescu: but that's not because of the system. that's because of market inefficiency (your bet didn't get covered)
mircea_popescu: it's not, because you're looking at a dynamic situation as if it were a photograph.
mircea_popescu: (ie, people betting one single side THINK they are. but they aren't. they should reserve the other anyway, if playing sanely)
mircea_popescu: it doesn't matter what you bet. i put both wagers down explicitly to get all terms on the table and leave no stone unturned.
mircea_popescu: and i'd argue it's fair you realise SOME of the 60-65 difference but not all, inasmuch as well... you're both on the right side of 50%, just you're 50% closer.
mircea_popescu: (if you throw 1 btc blindly on a 65% odds event you should overall make .65 back)
mircea_popescu: on day 4 you come and split a btc : .35 on yes (2.1 weight), .65 on no (3.9 weight)./
mircea_popescu: so, 10 day bet, on day 1 it's made, and 4 BTC on yes (40 weight) 60 BTC on no (60 weight)
mircea_popescu: in the sense that if you figure the odds two weeks late and the market already is stable you're... late ?
mircea_popescu: full of puns and wordplay and intricate hebrew arguments.
mircea_popescu: i guess in the end bitbet will spawn a bit phrasing discussion forum
mircea_popescu: and since kako's reforms, that's quite universal, nobody can say "if only i had thought of zeroconfing it"
mircea_popescu: stil, as it is prolly a better phrasing anyway, give both sides some sort of chance.
mircea_popescu: "Gavincoin orphan chain to reach 50 blocks before being abandoned" is kinda not the same as "Blockchain will increase"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i'd argue that bet doesn't actually do what the title says.
mircea_popescu: i mean, in such a way as partisanship can't hijack the meaning post facto
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is all moot since anything can read any file as data and trhen execute it as code anyway
mircea_popescu: no wonder ubuntu and systemd are what's left on that smoldering pyre.
mircea_popescu: to think 1991 - 2011 were spent in a "oh linux is better than windows" nonsense, instead of being spent to, you know, make a sane environment.
mircea_popescu: clearly "executing" an archive is not the same as decompressing it.
mircea_popescu: but really, the problem is folders=files and execution = opening
mircea_popescu: contrarywise, if your idea is that one needs the priviledge to make files executable, then this situation where a file is modified and stays executable makes 0 sense.
mircea_popescu: well if the idea is that "he who has the authority to modify a file always has the authority to also execute it" then "executable" bit makes 0 sense.