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moiety: it's a trap!
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is a sore spot power rangers would rather not go into.
mircea_popescu: gavin put in code that made everyone downloading the latest versiion vote "yes" cause he wanted to see a yesz.
ThickAsThieves: i can see a shape of a nipple!
asciilifeform: who resented being put to such a task.
asciilifeform: the '3' was a monkeywrench thrown by their monkey
ThickAsThieves: address starts with a 3?
benkay: i have no idea how a) will resolve, but b) cannot stand.
benkay: the ones who argue a) satoshi hoard and b) implementation-as-specification are right
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tittybong | tittybong. a place in Australia but also the act of the female appendage leaping from it's cotton, underwired prison. Can be used as an expression of pleasure...or  ...
gribble: Error: "tittybong" is not a valid command.
mircea_popescu: OF COURSE they would fight it tooth and nail. imagine someone invents a solution to all X problems tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: i'd have been well fucking worried it's all a plant.
mircea_popescu: benkay tell you a secret : if all the people who had been up to this point claimed to be employed at or interested in bitcoin's business had recognised it and moved over,
benkay: when A. is basically all about what the world looks like after the hidebound states fall over
benkay: Kim Stanley Robinson. he gets a wee-bit preachy and long in the mouth (like Rand) but has a very vivid story about the different groups who emigrated and why and what they all did with themselves.
chetty: A Fatwa has been issued against living on Mars by clerics who say that trying to set up home there would be un-Islamic. ☟︎
greenspan_fan: vis a vis, leningrad. Wikipedia lists three discoverers though
greenspan_fan: for instance, fresnel lenses-- a thin sheet that magnifies surprisingly efficiently
asciilifeform: it could use a little help from modern electronics, and come back with a vengeance
asciilifeform: there's a whole field of weird analogue computers using light, that mostly died out some time last century
asciilifeform: incidentally, 'there are no new ideas', etc. and this is but a minor generalization of shamir's TWINKLE/TWIRL
mircea_popescu: lnovy nah, that was just a metaphor.
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.
asciilifeform: it's a brute-forcer for n-SAT, too
asciilifeform: this is a strictly 1900s contraption.
asciilifeform: in the pipe, slides containing each a matrix of regions of optically rotating substance (chiral whatever)
asciilifeform: on the other end of tube, a filter which passes only light polarized P degrees.
asciilifeform: now consider a source of light, of known polarization, shining into a tube
asciilifeform: that was just a simplified restatement of problem;
asciilifeform: you want, from a set n1, n2, n3, ... nk, a subset such that sum(...) = S
asciilifeform: i also have a hunch that it is a variant of Knapsack Problem
mircea_popescu: because measuring the noise has a cost in itself.
mircea_popescu: in a half-blind fashion.
asciilifeform: random selections from dictionary, then permuted a character at a time before start?
mircea_popescu: than to switch and perhaps get a very entropic string.
mircea_popescu: seems to me a better strategy may be to stick with a not-so-entropic string
mircea_popescu: it is a given the bot would contain the dictionaries, sure.
asciilifeform: well, consider a bot. he can contain whatever, so he has an embedded dictionary (for the natural language of the poems)
asciilifeform: sounds like a variation on 'Erudit'
mircea_popescu: if the player completes a line or a poem, more bonuses.
mircea_popescu: whenever a player has read a natural language word (ie, from the dictionary) out of the string (exact match, no mixing of letters or anything scrabble-ish) he now has that word.
mircea_popescu: each player has a pre-given "Table" consisting of a number of natural language poems. these are actual literature.
asciilifeform: 'read one character at a time' << from another player's slate?
asciilifeform: this sound like fun, but the contest was a robot-writing one
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform obviously player can only eat a word if the whole word has been read.
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.
mircea_popescu: for a cost. or skip the string, for a larger cost.
mircea_popescu: then you give everyone strings, and they can read one char at a time
mircea_popescu: you define actual words in the dictionary as "good stuff", and each player gets a selection of poems to complete. words themselves are worth points, filled lines are worth more points, filled poems even more.
mircea_popescu: re winkdex : myeah, we have a serious problem with indexes.
mircea_popescu: you generally need a bill of health to work anywhere.
benkay: somewhere there's a cutoff.
mircea_popescu: you find a bush with berries.
cads: moiety: A one armed bandit is a slot machine, while the multi-armed bandit problem considers the best play in a situation with multiple slot machines with uncertain odds.
mircea_popescu: moiety it's a formulation of the explore/exploit dilemma
mircea_popescu: which will likely get you sued and congress pass a law saying dollars have to be just as big as anything else on the tag!!1
mircea_popescu: the way to skirt this, for fun and profit, is obviously to open the 5th avenue shop with prices prominently displayed in bitcoin and a tiny print usd value underneath, like "We also take this shit if you absolutely must"
mircea_popescu: but you're not allowed to open a shop on 5th avenue which lists all prices in bitcoin and doesn't take usd,
mircea_popescu: you see, bois are fully allowed to love mac clintock, but god forbid a woman mentions abba like she heard of it.
moiety: 29 years, a lot younger worldly. fair?
cads: hmm, so the service boasts half a billion users
moiety: aw i think i find something good and it just turns out ive beenunder my rock for a while again lol
mircea_popescu: wao-ender they did it just fine for a while. but yes the boors.
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
mircea_popescu: cads don't be bullied into it, but just consider that a) you really can't go through life like this and b) you definitely can't write the austrian thing for this reason.
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.
moiety: lol this girl tries upmarket selling herself on a forum basically. you should see who replied http://www.hellou.com/2014/02/apparently-young-woman-posted-following-forum-title-marry-rich-guy-2049/
cads: I do want to do a mathematical treatise of some austrian school economics
mircea_popescu: pankkake you shall have a more detailed answer in a second.
mircea_popescu: cads so do we got a deal or are you too loath to commit ?
moiety: tumblr = heres pics of everything in a back-to-front blog setup
ThickAsThieves: they basically put photobooths in an app and called it a day
moiety: look at my feet through a weird filter = instagram
mircea_popescu: you have to have a special worm in your head, like tequilla.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves in exactly the same way it's a good idea for businesses to ask for "affordable housing" instead of tax rebates.
ThickAsThieves: how on gods bloody earth is a chat app worth $19b
gribble: Error: "market" is not a valid command.
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.
mircea_popescu: so then, here's your big thing : make a post introducing social justice as if it were set theory.
mircea_popescu: hey cads, you had a blog did you ?
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.
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: generally the affiliate marketing guy is a combo of sleazy car salesman and otaku fatso.
mircea_popescu: it became fashionable because affiliate marketing is a very fashion driven <del>industry</del>, occupation, and so for about a year no email blast could ever be sent by anyone that was "correct".
ThickAsThieves: even a shareholder list cant prevent many things
pankkake: it means havelock was kinda irrelevant as a counterparty
ThickAsThieves: sometimes more than one at a time
ozbot: I was just threatened for exposing a scam on r/bitcoin : Bitcoin
ThickAsThieves: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ydz04/i_was_just_threatened_for_exposing_a_scam_on/
kakobrekla: [Zapp Brannigan has just piloted the Titanic straight into the path of a black hole] ☟︎
ThickAsThieves: that's really a very long answer or very short one
ThickAsThieves: This also means that ThickAsThieves will no longer hold a board seat with ASICMINER, and a representative from Havelock will instead.
ThickAsThieves: None of these funds are closing at this time. A new e-mail address for AM1 transfer requests will be provided at the end of this month.