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cads: but only gives as an example Primecoin,
a c-currency where the proof of work involves finding primes.
cads: the author seems to hint that if
a proof of work system is going to be malignant and self expandingit may as well be proof of some universally useful work
MisterE: but I've been to
a hockey game and it's very cool
cads: "The Skynet hypothesis is
a boogeyman intended to scare the young and the paranoid. The real threat from AI is that it will become so good at the pointless tasks that we have given it that those pointless tasks will become
a black hole of resources." I am reading an article about
a concept the author calls malignant computing - computing that increases itself and hurts the market in an effort to perpetuate itself.
http://radar.oreilly. cads: mircea_popescu: I got it. What do you call
a cryptocurrency based on protein folding?
benkay: this should be
a wp plugin
BingoBoingo: benkay: Too young. Need at least three years... Or
a catastrophic nuclear attack on New York, DC, and LA
BingoBoingo: benkay: basically the thought is if BTC keeps going up 30x
a year, only
a few BTC now can host
a site for eternity
BingoBoingo: benkay: Site can't be hosted in the blockchain, but
a contract can.
BingoBoingo: My hope is I do this one fundraiser. Someone gets
a year or decade of advertising, and the balance keeps the site alive for literally, rather than merely figuratively... forever.
MisterE: China is in
a world of hurt
MisterE: In
a sign the tension may be spreading, Belarus -
a Russian ally - confirmed Moscow had deployed, at its request, extra fighter jets and military transport aircraft after Nato boosted its forces in the neighbouring Baltic countries.
BingoBoingo: B007: You wanted
a book on subjective decision making, I offered te same
benkay: california is
a different country man
BingoBoingo: B007: It was
a lie in the sense that the program admitted 3x more students than the market would bear and the students who got hired all sucked
a meaner dick than I would
benkay: some family is flying babydoll and i out for her sister's birthday. this includes
a Hajj to Disneyland, apparently.
benkay: no bingo you see what you really want is something really fancy someone spent
a shitload of money on designing
B007: how is school
a lie
BingoBoingo: B007: My experience in grad school was in Health Sciences librarianship, but... school is
a lie
joecool: it's
a little more "traditional" looking
BingoBoingo: B007: I am
a trained librarian who does freelance work because I was fed
a lie... Well
a lot of lies
BingoBoingo: I'm amenable to parting with both the painting of Kim Jung Il's heart attack on
a train and
a portion of my sidebar together.
BingoBoingo: First I need to come up with
a fundraising plan for blog
joecool: mircea_popescu: i would guess it doesn't really matter what, but there will be
a lot of whatever what is
BingoBoingo: Well on the news the USN is talking about getting more EWAR variant F/
A 18's but the pentagon wants more money for vaporware F-35's because they can take off and land like
a helicopter
mircea_popescu: the romanian team downed half the us planes, and
a bunch of french and dutch
mircea_popescu: the nato exercise in 2012 consisted of
a romanian team flying migs (old migs, mind you) as "the enemy"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah. the migs, here's
a funny story about the migs :
BingoBoingo: At least the Black Sea doesn't seem like ti will be
a shooting war anytime soon
mircea_popescu: in
a sense, kerry's idiocy sealed its fate, had he kept his stupid mouth shut...
mircea_popescu: snotty eu refused to let them in when they had
a chance, and much to their detriment, as
a eu member turkey would have definitely taken the eu out of any crisis
mircea_popescu: dub more like found
a good angle to humiliated people with it.
mircea_popescu: kinda the point, bank clerks cca 1950 could maintain
a nice beachfront house in california,
a housewife and her children
mircea_popescu: singer-songwriter is MUCH less of
a living than it used to be
mircea_popescu: fucking lawyering is less of
a living than it used to be
BingoBoingo: Apparently it is less of
a living than it used to be.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i never actually run gambling. but i'm vaguely aware it's
a living, so
BingoBoingo: Eh, but getting people, especially in BTC to bite on
a line... is
a challenge
mircea_popescu: the way i'm thinking, if you pick
a sport you like and you actually know enough about to make
a line, you can then make that line, and promote it like any bookie
BingoBoingo: Most male vetrans I've seen drunk enough to spill the dark secrets spill that they didn't kill people.
A majority of the women who admit to being in firefights admit to shooting to kill people because they really don't want to carry goat boy to term if the base is over run
mircea_popescu: lnovy it's about
a degree of magnitude easier for me to get some dood to shoot at "the enemy" than it'd be to get some woman to shoot at her would-be attacker.
mircea_popescu: lnovy yes, in the sense that it's much easier as
a solider.
mircea_popescu:
A total of 215,273 homicides were studied, 77% of which involved male victims and 23% female victims. Although women comprise more than half the U.S. population, they committed only 14.7% of the homicides noted during the study interval.
lnovy: Are those really comparable? It's bit different to kill and to kill as
a soldier, no?
BingoBoingo: Female acquaintance killed
a lot of people because they were unfuckable
BingoBoingo: Male acquaitance killed
a lot of goats and no people on
a deployment, because everyone else was shooting
BingoBoingo: IRL, I've got lots of antidotes, but nothing I can feed
a stats machine
mircea_popescu: and that's old 1970s data. by now... i'd be surprised if one kid out of ten ever becomes
a useful soldier.
mircea_popescu: think full metal jacket. you see
a bunch of women in there with gunnery sargeant gomer pyle ?
mircea_popescu: this notion that
a woman is
a person is very novel and very strange, and rather limited geographically. notwithstanding what western progressives would like to pretend.
mircea_popescu: if your wife suddenly throws
a jealousy fit out of the blue, you know she's just been cheating.
BingoBoingo: I find amazing that in spite of
a decade and
a half of shitfits related to "extremist groups" whose membership never exceeds the hundreds, actual instability still comes from nation-states whose membership numbers in the millions to the hundreds of millions
mircea_popescu: dexx jesus the butthurt with that woman is phenomenal. what happened to "i've been
a stupid cunt and all it took you folks was five minutes to make it obvious. you're awesome thank you so much for taking the time!"
MisterE: what is not
a bad read mircea_popescu ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not
a bad read that. glosses over some stuff, but at least it glosses over different stuff from the usg propaganda machine
BingoBoingo: Is anyone else here developing
a visceral dislike of medium.com blogs?
benkay`: we picked up
a contractor from an associate's shop that had folded, and immediately (despite not hiring the man), got
a fat packet of mail from the state about this gentleman's employment status asking us all sorts of inane questions.
benkay`: all forces are arrayed against starting
a company here.
BingoBoingo: Of course, the Queen being 40% of East Saint's revenue and somehow managing to at the same time be
a bigger shithole than East Saint
decimation: why does
a visa application list the salary of
a housekeeper?
decimation: of course, white papers are on thing, actually showing the details of the code is
a different matter
decimation: I would give apple credit, they are
a cut above the usual silicon valley crowd security-wise
gribble: You rated user toffoo on Fri Jan 31 10:30:17 2014, with
a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: his btc for my merchandise! he sent first!.
Duffer1: in before S.MKNY turns out to be
a search engine
nubbins`: the silvers fetch
a higher premium, you wouldn't see
a 1btc silver sell for less than 2.0-2.1
nubbins`: you can get brass coins for
a premium of ~0.2btc
nubbins`: <asciilifeform> has anyone offered
a prize for snarfing the key from an intact coin? << not afaik. would have to be
a hefty reward
benkay: maybe instead of etching, i'll buy
a small mill
nubbins`: you can probably melt that tape with
a bic
ThickAsThieves: i trust my mom could keep
a coin safe,
a bitcoin however
ThickAsThieves: i'm not interested in them as
a foolproof secure storage
ozbot: Casascius Physical Bitcoins Cracked at Defcon - Coding In My Sleep -
A Bitcoin Blog
ThickAsThieves: it's been done at hacker conferences and/or in
a blog post I believe
Neil: This MH370 thing is like
a real-time slapstick farce.
punkman: "When you want to safely store your bitcoin savings, use Xapo's Vault. We use layer after layer of proprietary security protocol, including man, machine, and even
a mountain"
BingoBoingo: So far their winddown doesn't seem scammy. I managed to get my coins out. It's also likely that running the thing just was too much of
a hassle. Then again, it could get really scammy.
ThickAsThieves: 'Mr. Pierce said GoCoin’s analysis of the dogecoin community revealed
a demographic very different from bitcoin’s, including many more women and less-tech-oriented users. He believes this in part stems from dogecoin’s logo'
BingoBoingo: benkay: Well, hedging on Bitbet would require sufficient betting interest in the event to make the event worthwhile to BitBet, and BitBet is showing sports betting with BTC isn't that big of
a Market
Azelphur: ughlol: good luck, keep your code lightweight and you can run it on
a 128MB buyvm server no problem