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jborkl: Oh , the news said Romania was in a deep freeze stopping the whole country
mircea_popescu: jborkl it never was ? got a light coat, mebbe two inches
pankkake: of course I'm trolly with the ugly/beautiful, but there is a certain truth to it :)
Neil: 80% of time Japanese / Chinese difference is clear. The 20% is a bitch.
pankkake: well, there's a difference. chinese=ugly, japanese=beautiful
KRS1: ThickAsThieves, I was wondering..maybe she's a jap. I can never tell the difference with those people.
KRS1: f'n a truffles.. He killed it in the 80's with that album, and other hits.
mircea_popescu: i don't go for the entire "hello my face is a pancake" thing
mircea_popescu: i've yet to meet a sexy chinese woman.
mircea_popescu: english has it, very a ok, subjunctive then.
mircea_popescu: it's a mood, comes from latin
mircea_popescu: jeden nikdy nevie = nu se stie niciodata. a sti, to know, se stie is roughly the subjonctive. so the function is done by the verb rather than by a pronoun.
mircea_popescu: what, it's a transitive verb.
jurov: honey, i have a good message
KRS1: Once the 3 quarter billion chinese are armed they should take out their communist government for a shot at some freedom.
mircea_popescu: "But do you realise the great nation of Han is over a billion strong ? That the US falls over itself to do whatever we tell them to ? That we can call under arms about a quarter billion people within two weeks ?"
mircea_popescu: "Hello nice people. Did you send us a declaration of war ?!"
mircea_popescu: eventualy they discover it's a province of Romania and not even autonomous, so they tell their ambassador at Bucharest to go on a trip to Caracal and see what in the fuck.
mircea_popescu: the chinese are kind-of shocked, spend about a week trying to find large enouygh maps so this Oltenia is shiwn on them
mircea_popescu: there's this ethnic group in romania, living in Oltenia (the south west), called olteni. they have a reputation of being sorta hillbilly-ish. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: wow omfg this is a romanian joke!
jurov: ah yes. we have a joke about this
mircea_popescu: just because most of their city is undeveloped doesn't mean it's not a city now :D
mircea_popescu: truffles whatcha lolling at ? here's a fun fact : Slovakia : 18,933 sq miles (49,036 km²) ; LA : 33,954 sq mi (87,490 km2)
herbijudlestoids: thats a simple example BingoBoingo, how do i do line #10 in python like i do it in R?
herbijudlestoids: not much point doing a daily returns distribution when youv only got 2 days
BingoBoingo: Before the end of February I imagine my site is going to requite a niggers.txt file
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Have you ever given thought to the possibility the universe just might hate R and want to make a mockery of it.
BingoBoingo: It seems like a rather futile enterprise to try, but if the Doge'ers are as brazen as they seem to be now.
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: I am trying to get some play sports book to let a freiend who hasn't cared for long enough's funds
herbijudlestoids: and while BTC might make an elegant medium of exchange it wont be adopted as a reference point like EUR since its hard
herbijudlestoids: FOFOA argument is that bitcoin versus USD is a non competition, real competition is BTC versus "what comes next" i.e. EUR+Gold
herbijudlestoids: http://fofoa.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/freegold-foundations.html is a good place to start
herbijudlestoids: would you like some links? easiest to google fofoa freegold and in the sitemap on google are a bunch specifically on the topic
decimation: do you have a reference on your freegold idea?
herbijudlestoids: i do not compare gold (or btc) to stocks when evaluating its job as a store of value
herbijudlestoids: yes, thats why i brought up FOFOA, because a few of the things mircea mentioned were very similar to things FOFOA has said about the concept of freegold
decimation: he has a mildly informative podcast which occasionally has interesting tidbits
decimation: heh yeah. sorry I couldn't find a better reference.
decimation: Ziff-Davis did some research using some of the bitcoin chain tracking software, tracing four addresses which were used and were determined from multiple CryptoLocker victims who, after paying their money, made public the address that they had sent payment to. The CryptoLocker extortionware acquired a total of 41, just shy of 42,000 bitcoins, 41,928 bitcoins.
mircea_popescu: Since domains are extremely cheap to obtain with Namecoin, and registered domains cannot be seized (they can only be transferred by their owner), Namecoin has had problems with cybersquatters buying up domains, hoping to resell them later for a profi
Apocalyptic: and how would you enforce such a limit ?
mircea_popescu: i have more like a 6 months span on stuff that far on the periphery
mircea_popescu: a, no. it's just more recent than i've been paying attention.
mircea_popescu: you know there's a coin that basically does dns
herbijudlestoids: its just like a hostsfile except called addressbook
herbijudlestoids: what do you mean? afaik .i2p is not a globally resolvable namespace
herbijudlestoids: i was a user back when it was just iip over irc so i guess iv got a softspot for it
herbijudlestoids: let me explain: i used to conduct various communications using GPG over email. now i use a combination of tails, i2p and pidgin+OTR or i2pmessenger+OTR
herbijudlestoids: i think i have not signed or encrypted anything with a GPG key in years
herbijudlestoids: literally had to create a new key cos i forgot my password
mircea_popescu: otr is a diff usecase.
herbijudlestoids: but nobody will rate me, so i cant rate bingoboingo as a 10 based on his sexual attractiveness
mircea_popescu: btw herbijudlestoids do yourself a favour get in the wot today.
herbijudlestoids: haha slatterna is a place in sweden
mircea_popescu: a yeah.
mircea_popescu: jesus google is shitty, there's a conjunctive verbal form there, definitely can't work as a noun nor does it mean whore.
mircea_popescu: lele actually wouldn't be recognised as such. it's a disused word and most speakers would only take it as an antiquated form for older sister/girlfriend
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> in fact, now that i think of it, btc is the missing puzzle piece in the ancient problem of bootstrapping a global radio mesh. << /me grins
asciilifeform: in fact, now that i think of it, btc is the missing puzzle piece in the ancient problem of bootstrapping a global radio mesh.
asciilifeform: bonus points if you can engineer the net to make operating a node a profitable affair, like btc mining
asciilifeform: since this would have to be a piece of physical hardware, the only solution afaik is to manufacture a tremendous number of widgets and give them away.
herbijudlestoids: how do you convince everyone to run a client, and in the end most "consumers" run it from the cloud anyway
decimation: ?There are a handful of big providers you would need to coordinate with and they are all licensees of the state telecom, so they are all beholden to the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority, so your license is dependent on following the rules,? Labovitz said.
ozbot: Egypt Shut Down Its Net With a Series of Phone Calls | Threat Level | Wired.com
herbijudlestoids: but also gnunet has some support for the concept, including the ability to inject packets directly onto a WLAN device without need any existing network
herbijudlestoids: there is a couple of interesting mesh options happening
herbijudlestoids: haha i got a little lost in the post where you offered 10BTC to the guy to put a sharpie in his butt
asciilifeform: if no consumer ever bought a winblows pc in a retail shop again, it would survive in something close to its current size, simply from the government largesse
asciilifeform: and ms isn't a company in the sense of, say, coca cola (or even the original 'standard oil') - it's a crown monopoly
herbijudlestoids: after a rigorous discussion on bitcoin, i always top it off with a quick
nubbins`: don't get me wrong, they'll fuck ya raw all kinds of ways for a buck
asciilifeform: apple is the 'good cop' in a classic 'good cop / bad cop' number.
asciilifeform: decimation: vendor usually specifies a max current. and then you go, X cm^s, Y watts dissipated, need such and such heat sink...
nubbins`: that said, nothing more than a mild inconvenience to disable the feature, i'm sure
nubbins`: no fuckin shit it's a walled garden, y'know?
asciilifeform: decimation: the vendor toolchain usually calculates your maximum clock rate, based on theoretical path delays (usually a conservative figure, as you'd expect)
asciilifeform: a few thousand gates, max
asciilifeform: no one would've dreamed of trying to implement a cpu on one
asciilifeform: they were well-documented and extremely simple, because they were originally just a substitute for buckets of PALs/GALs
decimation: and they probably only open that because they are a two-bit player
asciilifeform: highly doubt (2), if only because arm is a licensed product
decimation: Do you think there will ever be a day when hardware makers find it in their interest to peddle hardware that has an accessible interface?
asciilifeform: this is how soviet clones of DEC chips ended up exact duplicates, complete with the (poorly translated, with a dictionary, by DEC) profanities
asciilifeform: likewise, the vendor software usually includes a mountain of 'travelling salesman' optimization trickery licensed from hell knows where
decimation: So, why doesn't some no-name Chinese fab make a relatively "generic" chip and take over the market?
decimation: Is it a clock speed question or is it a quantity of gates question?
asciilifeform: if you don't optimize for a particular fpga, you can't get anything close to the maximum rated clock of the sdram in question
asciilifeform: because the opencores libs aren't optimized for a particular fpga
asciilifeform: the correspondence between each bit of the bitstream and the internal logic of the fpga is a $billion secret
decimation: asciilifeform you mention on your blog your efforts to discover the inner workings of FPGAs - have you made enough progress to create a self-modifying compute unit?
mircea_popescu: it'll be a pm discussion.
Dimsler_: a game of hotpotatoe
Dimsler_: the US stock market is a giant boiler room
herbijudlestoids: madoffs investments collapsed because of a cluelessness about the real value of assets?
decimation: US stocks are a trival case of the CEO's pirating money from the "investor's" 401k accounts
mircea_popescu: a cluelessness about the real value of assets, which may as well mean "buying US stocks" as it may mean "moving money from our account to our account"
Dimsler_: maddoff ran a pyramid scheme
decimation: There are only a few more orders of magnitude of growth left before it becomes the world trade currency
mircea_popescu: if back in april wanna-be investors had actually invested, the us still had a chance.