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mircea_popescu: four is an odd number of arms for a man to have, the only both odd and even number is infinity

mircea_popescu: the thought process being, napoleon was a great general, great generals are forewarned, being forewarned is like having an extra pair of arms,

mircea_popescu: "at mit, they made this self-learning machine which would try to make deductions sylogistically on a dictionary of natural language constructs

nubbins`: doesn't ring a bell

nubbins`: one day (this was a logic course), the poor guy (ancient chinese man) was dreaming up an example for some logical fallacy

mircea_popescu: i always respected that guy. occasionally obnoxious but he had what you'd need from a rector : fucking rectitude.

mircea_popescu: the rector guy was like "if you can't speak you can't be a university professor."

nubbins`: he would freeze if anyone made a sound (like opening a bookbag, etc)

mircea_popescu: sort-of like a vessenes that can't handle a mic

nubbins`: i had a professor once who could only speak in a whisper and so brought a mic to class and amplified it so heavily you could hear him swallow his spit

mircea_popescu: imagine a truck driver that can't drive double clutch.

mircea_popescu: cazalla this is kind of sad, incidentally, because it's roughly like a stripper with bad genital hygiene

mircea_popescu: didn't you do a vessenes clown thing ?

cazalla: anyone that abset minded on microphone etiquette sends me into a rage

mircea_popescu: or maybe it's time for a HERP poster

cazalla: on a panel, he ruined it because he had the microphone practically in his mouth and you couldn't hear the other panelists due to his heavy breathing

Bugpowder: CoinLab was more mismanaged than Gox, they just died earlier so they couldn't cause as big a monetary fuckup.

mircea_popescu: more apt would be a vessenes hope poster really.

Bugpowder: Someone needs to shop a Karp / HOPE poster

mircea_popescu: take it as a measure of just how badly hurt the foundation scamnest is by this defeat in the field

mircea_popescu: uh why'd a virus be specifically wifi

mircea_popescu: i mean work in the sense of being in a constrained space with a bunch of idiots where you gotta watch what's on your screen

adrrrr: a phone number that is not in use will not even ring

dexX7: try to think of making a phonecall to a number that is not in use.. will work, right? even if you dial funny numbers?

Namworld: Saying your password is a random mix of characters doesn't help much. So it's not really a hint.

Namworld: I have a mix of letters, numbers and special chars. Strangely enough, I don't seem to have a problem remembering most of them.

davout: "http://boingboing.net/2014/02/25/choosing-a-secure-password.html schneier misses xkcd's point entirely" <<< yep, someone should teach him about entropy

davout: "A typical password consists of a root plus an appendage." <<< bwhahaha

ozbot: Choosing a Secure Password - Boing Boing

jurov: http://boingboing.net/2014/02/25/choosing-a-secure-password.html schneier misses xkcd's point entirely

bit14: The Panama Fund, S.A

mircea_popescu: soo nubs got eulora to compile on a mac.

BingoBoingo: If that were a pharm student not quite one I'd get fired over, but still one I'd offer salt to to melt their ice

BingoBoingo: OH, it was such a shithole, but not being from missouti made the sex so easy

BingoBoingo: Which is kind of a shame cause this Jessie chick had great tits

mircea_popescu: 5th a cxharm huh

gribble: (register <nick> <keyid>) -- Register your GPG identity, associating GPG key <keyid> with <nick>. <keyid> is a 16 digit key id, with or without the '0x' prefix. We look on servers listed in 'plugins.GPG.keyservers' config. You will be given a random passphrase to clearsign with your key, and submit to the bot with the 'verify' command. Your passphrase will expire in 10 minutes.

gribble: Error: "puppies.txt" is not a valid command.

gribble: Error: "<bitcoinpete>" is not a valid command.

BingoBoingo: Of the sort where painting on Staph Aureus and hoping for the best seems like a sheat from heaven.

nubbins`: it picks up mouse clicks but not keyboard input -- but it's very late and i think i've earned a nap, will poke some more tomorrow

nubbins`: mircea_popescu: i'm to see you for a login account?

mircea_popescu: generaly pseudomonas sp is a good bet for BingoBoingo's purposes cause they're pretty metabolically diverse.

BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It is a long shot, but it fits the armpit environment well as a genus

MisterE: what a loss to science and society

MisterE: he doesn't sound like a total jerk

MisterE: you should leave a streak on his pillow

BingoBoingo: 44's always have a soft pull

nubbins`: speaking of smells of the human body, one of my roommates took a shit this morning and left a streak on the toilet seat

MisterE: those 44s have a very soft pul

MisterE: one of the worst run was a girl who accidentally blew half her boyfriend's head off with a .44 at a shooting range, was totally prepared for smell

nubbins`: such a smell, too

MisterE: nubbins`: that's nothing, when I had to do my prctical training hours I helped to drain a lot of cysts and some produce by the liter

ozbot: Twitter / CharlieShrem: Just created a #dogecoin wallet ...

MisterE: BingoBoingo: what's up I was a paramedic for 3-years

nubbins`: when it finally got drained there was like a shot glass full of stuff pulled out of it

MisterE: happens nubbins` thats not a bad lace

nubbins`: i had a massive cyst on my back once

nubbins`: armpit? i think that's not a cyst

mircea_popescu: wouldn't you say the 2nd is much worse a failure ?

mircea_popescu: but i mean if you have two alcoholic bums sitting on a garbage dumpster somewhere

mircea_popescu: i wonder what the thought process is when some chick ends up putting on her 2 line resume "i was a X to watch in 2102"

BingoBoingo: On that last .bait I see tits, but there is also a screaming cyst that needs lanced and dranied

mircea_popescu: " this is a bid for power and the return to the pre-crisis paradigm of "

mircea_popescu: "It’s tempting to dismiss the decision as incomprehensible legalese or the inability of justices to understand that contemporary financial systems rely on a powerful lender or dealer of last resort to weather financial crises."

nubbins`: no sense trying to bring a totally different toolchain into the mix

mircea_popescu: so that's a lock now.

BingoBoingo: nubbins`: I am starting this baseball betting venture with one hundredth of a bitcoin. Remember that I can not help it if appreciation makes the logistics you dislike a reality.

nubbins`: crystal space is a massive build

asciilifeform: channelling herr naggum: 'It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an inspiration to future authors.' ☟︎☟︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: basically, they had a good idea, got too much resources, fucked up.

mircea_popescu: n, and turn it any way you please there’s not going to be room for deplyoing a hundred billion in capital for the purpose of arbitraging minute differences between the 29 y T and the current T. There just can’t be.

mircea_popescu: as explained in http://trilema.com/2012/the-problem-of-too-much-money/ : "LTCM collected over one billion dollars in capital. If you’ve been following up to here you probably have a question in your mind : what in the world were they going to do with a billion of their own money ? Good question. The fund had access to heavy leverage, as high as 100:1 in many cases. One billion leveraged 100:1 means one hundred billio

BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Any sporting analogy is best as a baseball analogy, the greatest precision is there. Even if the metric is love of the cunts

mircea_popescu: course in a sense nsa as it is stands in a relation to nsa-as-thus-described about roughly as that merry bunch of Meriwether's thieves stood with THEIR sensible value proposition

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: self trading at a loss << arse-mouth system.

mircea_popescu: self trading at a loss.

ozbot: A compendium of basic points about Bitcoin for the benefit of various confused noobs. pe Trilema - U

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/a-compendium-of-basic-points-about-bitcoin-for-the-benefit-of-various-confused-noobs/#footnote_0_52959 << added that which i regret i forgot on the first pass

asciilifeform: (this tale has me in an especially dour mood, given that not long ago i sent a once-promising client packing because he brought in a mountain of artlessly cribbed open source code.)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fascinating, to a point. children playing with detcord.

BingoBoingo: The problem is a need for time machines

mircea_popescu: like a perpetual morning after. "did what ?!"

BingoBoingo: I dunno that I'd have made it out of a decent glass jar. I mean I initially came here from Bitcointalk

asciilifeform: perhaps these folks belong in a large glass jar. where they are to feed upon one another, and the last one remaining to be extracted and will perhaps be good for something.

asciilifeform: and did all of this shit really go down, or was it a dream.

asciilifeform: did some chump really build a whatever-the-fuck with a set of leaked sources?

bitcoinpete: Which was a strange mental default I had to correct

bitcoinpete: Hardly revelatory, but it's a reassessment of sorts of my previous notion that one should ever try to make "bitcoin more accessible"

bitcoinpete: Been a few, but I've been up on the logs

mircea_popescu: "there are waiters who, from all they've heard from conversations and debates of intellectuals, could put away a university professor, especially should they proceed quickly"

nubbins`: yeah mike_c is sorting out hosting, i've got a saucy domain name reg'd

nubbins`: actually got eulora compiled! but forgot to install a ton of required crystalspace libraries... so didn't get much other than a white screen with "welcome to eulora 0.0.4"

ozbot: A compendium of basic points about Bitcoin for the benefit of various confused noobs. pe Trilema - U

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/a-compendium-of-basic-points-about-bitcoin-for-the-benefit-of-various-confused-noobs/

BingoBoingo: Everything is a nuisance nao.

MisterE: seems reasonable, it is a nuisance

BingoBoingo: Bitpay was willing to pay into them so they at least had a bong

mircea_popescu: "Effective immediately, we are discontinuing all business operations pending a business model review. At this time we are unsure when, and if we will resume operations in the future."