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mircea_popescu: Prior to this years HOPE
conference, a few articles appeared touting Nadim Kobeissi's new project, miniLock and him and I got into a heated debate regarding some issues that I, as a certified non-cryptographer, was concerned about in his design (at least what I could gather from it from the pre-release Wired article). The essence of my concerns boiled down to the fact that in miniLock, Nadim is using the human user as
decimation: interestingly the guy who is organizing the
conference apparently works on clojure
decimation: in order to convince him to blackball yarvin from the
conference decimation: apparently he's among those who 'influenced' the guy in charge of this
conference in st louis
BingoBoingo: I'm just wondering... How the fuck does one get labeled too conservative for a
conference in Missouri?
decimation: "However, in this case it is clear to me that your opinions in areas outside your talk are concerning enough for a significantly large number of attendees that those reactions are overshadowing the talk and acting as a distraction for launching the
conference as a whole."
danielpbarron: that "moldbug" guy got kicked out of some tech
conference pete_dushenski: if another one of them has a wedding at the same time as $
conference....
mircea_popescu: which i found to my surprise at
conference that still exists!
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 03:33:07; mircea_popescu: hey various folks whose pgp keys i've signed at teh
conference key signing party... you're supposed to also sign mine!
mircea_popescu: hey various folks whose pgp keys i've signed at teh
conference key signing party... you're supposed to also sign mine!
☟︎ Pierre_Rochard: another thing I noted - press
conference had only black people speaking. Cops on the ground are mostly white
Pierre_Rochard: ah, well, judging from the press
conference, baltimore’s black leadership does not care about black lives either
mike_c: the
conference generally sparks a rash of ratings.
mircea_popescu: not bad, not bad.
conference last week, fetlife this week...
fluffypony: the compliance officer from itBit presented at the Bitcoin Africa
conference last week
Naphex: williamdunne: yeah, and most of the advertising and promo starts in june to match with some
conference. so why rush it
Naphex: mircea_popescu: great! getting ready for launch on the last run. been busy as hell. how was the
conference? sorry i couldn't make it :/
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu so how did the first
conference in bsas stack up with the romanian editions ?
BingoBoingo: So which fine gentleman would like to qntra up the
conference?
mircea_popescu: so basically this is what, the
conference of people who're sorry about being involved with the garza fellow originally ?
ben_vulpes: <mthreat> [16:36] my vivid memory from the
conference is davout pronouncing "vulpes" with a strong French pronunciation. "Listen to how I say it, 'vulpes ... vulpes'" << leesen deevih eets piiliiite teu prnewns yr freeeends nims de whey de went dem prnewnsed
mthreat: my vivid memory from the
conference is davout pronouncing "vulpes" with a strong French pronunciation. "Listen to how I say it, 'vulpes ... vulpes'"
danielpbarron: I think MP wanted to talk to you, but he's busy with the
conference probably
assbot: Logged on 16-04-2015 20:36:44; trinque: I wish everyone safe travels to the
conference, and am sorry I cannot attend this year.
trinque: I wish everyone safe travels to the
conference, and am sorry I cannot attend this year.
☟︎ assbot: Door tix @ Bitcoin Africa
conference: "only cash will be accepted". Bitcoin...you're doing it wrong! /hashtag/BitcoinAfrica15?src=hash
http://t.co/G66vzo8Etz fluffypony: so I'm going to the Bitcoin Africa
conference on Thursday
nubbins`: maybe at
conference XIII you, me and alf can compare grey hairs
pete_dushenski: ascii_field: well, you're going to the
conference so...
mircea_popescu: So, in a bid to remain relevant in a world that didn't want their products, 3D Labs showed up to a Game Developer
Conference wielding presentations for something they called "OpenGL 2.0". This would be a complete, from-scratch rewrite of the OpenGL API. And that makes sense; there was a lot of cruft in OpenGL's API at the time (note: that cruft still exists). Just look at how texture loading and binding work; it's semi
ascii_field: 'Wolfram, for his part, responded by suing or threatening to sue Cook (now a penniless graduate student in neuroscience), the
conference organizers, the publishers of the proceedings, etc. '
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski if you recall the famous "
conference" held in london by nefario, taaki and the rest of "bitcoinica consultancy" crowd...
BingoBoingo: Setup a freedom toaster at a
conference, some idiots are going to put one up in a space they have access to thinking it will attact passerby outside the
conference distortion swirl, same with BTC ATMs
BingoBoingo: Will it's an attempt to make some money for the people selling the boxes, but mostly it's a piece of
conference swag some naive souls tried to introduce into the real world.
mircea_popescu: you recall how
conference 2 had local champagne ? this will have local chocolate instead.
nubbins`: "Hey guys I am down at the Texas Bitcoin
Conference and someone took my red notebook. There was not a whole lot of valuable info in it but it was a gift. If you saw it tonight at marias taco xpress or know where it wound up please notify me. I thought this was outside bitcoiners' character but I am never surprised in this space"
pete_dushenski: is there nothing unworthy of having a
conference about ?
mike_c: mod6: soon. it'll be public after
conference.
decimation: And in fact there was a rear-guard action, launched in May of 1944, just before the Bretton Woods
Conference, by a group of influential New York bankers, who very much hated the Bretton Woods agenda. They offered to lend Britain at least $3 billion dollars after the War, in return for which Britain would walk away from the Bretton Woods
Conference. Clarke and others in the British Treasury wanted to pursue this idea. But Keynes would
brendafdez: Sadly he will not be coming to the
conference, so I can't put substances in his drink to make him open the keyring (?
mircea_popescu: "The
conference begins with a “Meet & Greet” session from 12:15 – 1:00 pm, followed by speakers from 1:00 – 5:00. After the
conference, participants will be encouraged to continue the discussion at a nearby bar (location announced at the event). The cost to attend the mini-conferences is only $20; only $15 for students, seniors, and people who travel more than 50 miles to get there. Tickets on sale at EventBrit
mircea_popescu: "“Transhuman Strategies”
conference March 21 in Silicon Valley—- Tickets Limited! Posted: February 26, 2015
decimation: IEEE is also famous for 'fake
conference' scams
fluffypony: clearly I'm practicing for the upcoming
conference circuit :-P
mircea_popescu: it's pretty good. maybe i'm distributring name tags at
conference all reading Mr. Tuttle
mircea_popescu: hey, maybe you two could get together! token black guy with token TV hitching it at 3rd
conference'd be the tits.
mike_c: mircea_popescu: inbetween aspirational and funded. i heard about them because they got "best of" at reasonably big tech
conference. my curiousity is mostly around the brazen attempt to do money remittance in US without being licensed.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no no. there was this pic at some
conference. the fall guy (denny idiot), the sucker (some local professor) and the actual scammer
mircea_popescu: dude pete_dushenski's cruizin' all over the world, buyin' cars and shit, but not
conference ?!
whaack: does the MIT btc
conference fall in the category of shit you guys give interest to?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well what follows is "#PSA: using @golang's "go get" on
conference wifi is equivalent to running a passwordless telnet server on your laptop. srs shame on go devs"
mike_c: maybe i won't get the worst price of everyone for the
conference.
mircea_popescu: you gotta eat a lot of
conference salty biscuit first.