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mircea_popescu: done by hand by people who never got past 9th grade math ?
mircea_popescu: but before they caught on... it wasn't. so what is this, bayesian spam filtering ?
mircea_popescu: take something as simple as swatting : nothing in the old world is designed or capable to handle distributed coordinated effort.
mircea_popescu: stuff like goatse and rick rolling are merely playful swings around the margins of the gaping hole.
mircea_popescu: everyone in the old world is very, very vulnerable to a long long list of new attacks.
mircea_popescu: mthreat this is the problem of half baked systems. just like sm sites are structurally vulnerable because they misimplement the wot, just like the phone corps & banks are vulnerable because they misimplement crypto,
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've ever had an encounter with any sort of govt employee where i couldn't have sued him into the dirt if so inclined.
mircea_popescu: that's the funny thing with the usg bureaucracy, the entire "make the laws too complex and then add regulation" thing used to work in their favour cca 1980-1990. but once that starts moving it doesn't stop, and now they're left behind.
mircea_popescu: which i bet you will result in a criminal complaint cca 2015ish.
mircea_popescu: guy actually has to file paperwork for that, which i bet you he doesn't know about and doesn't do,
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i like the part where someone tipped him three fiddy
mircea_popescu: lansky is not important enough just yet to pick his venue.
mircea_popescu: DC Universe Online Star Wars Galaxies PlanetSide 2 Magic the Gathering Everquest 2"
mircea_popescu: "About FoxySoft. FoxySoft is founded by Alex Allen. Alex has been a professional game developer since 1997 when she began her career as an Art Director, transforming traditional board games into PC games. FoxySoft works with local businesses and startup foundations to create a solid business model and ensure stability in the company’s framework. FoxySoft’s combined talent and experience has produced such games as:
mircea_popescu: ah lanky guy behind a very short sixty dollar desk, how amusing you are.
mircea_popescu: this is roughly the equivalent of a license to build boats provided they're oar powered and leak.
mircea_popescu: so what, this is the strat, "prevent bitcoin from raping the usd by making it unable to work like a currency" ? lulz. people will just move to connecticut.
mircea_popescu: it's a fucking fixed volume deflationary currency. it can't even jokingly contemplate such an arrangement.
mircea_popescu: Section 200.15 Anti-money laundering program << stopped reading.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you mean cuz assbot didn't see it ? how did it put it in the stats then ?
mircea_popescu: first, they mocked others, but i didn't say anything because they weren't mocking me. then they started talking about themselves but i didn't say anything because i wasn't there. and now there's nothing to talk about.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform drops from 18964 in 12 months to 16627 in 15 months.
mircea_popescu: 's stats ; logs between 26 March 2013 and 12 June 2014. mircea_popescu 91479 according to diana_coman. well which is it ? cause these can't both be right
mircea_popescu: which also brings us to a disparity : "users by lines, last 12 months 2.) mircea_popescu 92547" according to kako
mircea_popescu: cause people would prolly put all sorts of huge pagebreaking shit
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones you understand, this is based on the logs, it's not meta.
mircea_popescu: do that on twitter/reddit/btctalk/coindesk w/e, it's all FIRST and LARGEST and etc.
mircea_popescu: i mean something like ipo ceo scam mpex bitbet i guess, but wtf. i have no idea i'll be interested in what ppl say BEFORE they say it.
mircea_popescu: chetty yeah, as i said that i was sitting here going wtf i have nfi what i should write now.
mircea_popescu: hey everyone that is awake : please put in a list of five words that you'd estimate are the key terms for [your interest of] b-a
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nah, i don't. i'd much rather google spit out trilema than wikipedia.
mircea_popescu: lmao wait, wikipedia has a page dedicated to "fcc fines stern" ?! ahahah.
mircea_popescu: dub nah, weird al is all fat. stern looks more like zappa imo
mircea_popescu: o wait, he also had a girl that fucked her mother on once ? or what was it ?
mircea_popescu: whereas you want to see important and anti-obscure words.
mircea_popescu: because what the search does is it says "this is an important AND OBSCURE" term.
mircea_popescu: extract all words which work syntactically in the same manner as the searched terms.
mircea_popescu: pankkake actually if i had to somehow do what she's trying to do, i'd cheat : get the words put into !s and ;;ud, look three lines prior for the sentence they appear in, build the sentence tree and then use that grammatical pattern on the whole log.
mircea_popescu: chetty yeah. it becomes problematic when you provably can't know, yet you still have to. this is a macroproblem of "nobody knows wtf the tax code says"
mircea_popescu: in any case the end of civilisation is here simply because we've lost control of text.
mircea_popescu: text mining people are among the few who appreciate the problem of text deluge close to its actual size, which is another way to say they actually know we're surrounded by uncontrolled wildfire. that they pretend like you know, pissing on it works is more the result of their psychological need to fit in with the rest of the crowd, that blisfully ignores the problem, than anything else.
mircea_popescu: given the enthusiasm of text mining people << this is the enthusiasm of the doomed - it doesn't reflect anything on the direct avenue, but is merely the nervous laugh of someone who just got cut in half.
mircea_popescu: No better test to see text mining fail, it seems, than applying it to irc logs on bitcoin-assets: a careful calibration of state of the art tools yielded only a clear case of “by the time you figure out and implement everything needed to obtain even reasonable results, you surely did the “automated” work at least 5 times if not 10, if not 100.”
mircea_popescu: <decimation> my point is ... why isn't iraq New Texas with Bush City as its capitol? << same reason the eu didn't take on turkey when it had the chance.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> <mike_c> oh, my strategy? no, just the house has been on the losing side the last couple games. // am curious as to how you're deciding how to lay odds. << it's a rand.
mircea_popescu: "i am now at a point where i'm so butthurt with the internets i'm going to think the whole of it is just this guy in 8th grade that doesn't like me"
mircea_popescu: eir right mind would ever think the running of this site is tolerable, yet apparently somehow many commenters do."
mircea_popescu: "There can't be 1 person that has a stake in this that can be happy with how it is proceeding. Bet Yes or No it doesn't matter. Anyone with a legitimate bet wants a statement from BitBet about what is happening with this bet. I'm not at the point where I assume the admins of BitBet place a lot of their own bets on their site, and a lot of the comments are also from the admins. No one in th
mircea_popescu: someone said this isn't feasible. that someone is wrong : takes you about the same time to wait for gnupg to cook up a new keypair whether the source is dev/random or your dice.
mircea_popescu: the idea was that you can replace the platform's rng, in extremis, by rolling dice.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> this is a correct use of "in extremis, correct?" << sure.