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mircea_popescu: as the romanian expression goes, "men need to be a shade prettier than the devil gurning."
mircea_popescu: the day three quarters of san francisco loses its homes because of writing bad code, engineers and similarly "skilled" workers can has special irs treatment.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, it monkeys are insulated by law from the ill effects of their bullshit "work"
mircea_popescu: decimation: now, why do you suppose those who work in the bezzle economy are showered with special favors while those who work in the "real economy" are treated as serfs? <<< here's the thing : real estate agents are certified, and have to be bondend in many places, and have to follow best practices, and can and are put to the coals ifthey do not.
mircea_popescu: not at the onset, but if you do well and hanbot sucks maybe i fire her and hire you instead
mircea_popescu: motherfucker. every sink in this place is on a different drip period
mircea_popescu: punkman if you go by wordcount nos may be ahead, but if you go by the actual measure of things, ie, total BTC bet on no vs yes, yes prolly prevails
mircea_popescu: mike_c: but even that was better tested. hypothesis was formed before the analysis, not as a result of the analysis. << not to mention independently tested etc. more's ther point, mpif wants unalligned risks, which is 90% of thy that even makes sense
mircea_popescu: *: kakobrekla will burn your money for free. << looking at mpif on btcalpha this stands to scrutiny :D
mircea_popescu: what do you mean, "doesn't use information it wouldn't have" ?
mircea_popescu: moiety: how can you be wrong wanting to earn your money XD << he was talking to the "picking bets" line
mircea_popescu: punkman: tweaked bitbet strategy: 10 BTC for 500x 0.02 bets, net gain 3.92 BTC << course this is after you know all the results. ain't rearview mirror the best artefact, second only to the save game wand.
mircea_popescu: not saying he's wrong or anything, just wasn't expecting
mircea_popescu: mike_c: interesting. jurov, you need more WoT :) << that convo with thenewdeal was an eyepopper to me.
mircea_popescu: so i guess this is the end of bitpay's business model. getting redditards that hound fiat busiensses to "take bitcoin" to drive your parasitic business model only goes so far.
mircea_popescu: "We found out that by using a little program that Bitcoin uses, which is actually BitPay, we would have received US dollars," Pietro Frigerio, general manager of the dealership, says in the interview. "It's like if you come into the dealership and you want to buy a Lamborghini using gold bars, we would not accept it. So you'd go out, exchange it, and you'd come back to us. That was how it worked [with the Tesla and the
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal:holy shit. Tesla was at 30$ last year? << ikr ? inflation!
mircea_popescu: mike_c: have to get retarded cryptic error message cuz it ran out of memory? << it doesn't know it ran out of memory, obviously.
mircea_popescu: benkay: you gotta earn those <<< bwahaha look who's up to date on his reading
mircea_popescu: the point to searching the logs is to get binding negatives more than anything else.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: assets search engine? already exists << no, it doesn't, because google is doing a shit job of indexing each log page, which my experts establish is because bad titling shceme, but rather than fixing that (as proposed about two weeks ago, it's in the logs, SEARCH FOR IT :D) and hjoping google fills in the holes (which experts say it never does once they're in, no matter what happens), a complete solution is m
mircea_popescu: mike_c: news flash: bitcoind sucks. << now trace to who wrote the sht in question.
mircea_popescu: if he's any good you get the rest of the day off and tomorrow you can start working on a whole new stack
mircea_popescu: but odds are he might as well go "fuck this shit, we're dropping that vendor. standby"
mircea_popescu: now, if the manager says something stupid now, like "why the fuck are you going for xpath you hipster, just do the transforms by hand" THEN poerhaps you got problems.
mircea_popescu: ce Oracle when it's ready, so long as the database sends some decent form of XML. Once I get this data subsystem done, I can finish the business logic, which attaches to the nonfunctional demo you love so much.
mircea_popescu: vendor to fix it but they said 6 to 8 weeks for a patch, and our project deadline is sooner than that. I need to interface with the legacy system because even though the DBAs have ported things over to Oracle, they're still sorting things out and it's not reliable enough for me to make any meaningful progress. Fortunately, I've thought this through and abstracted the data subsystem well enough that I can drop-in repla
mircea_popescu: "I'm compiling a new version of libxml, so I can get the Python parser working. I need to do that because LXML, the Python binding, would crash under heavy load when I used the system default version of libxml. I am using LXML because BeautifulSoup doesn't have support for XPath. I need to do XPath transforms against the input because the legacy system we interact with doesn't send well-formed XML. We tried to get the
mircea_popescu: "i am 12 and what is every option that i have explored ???"
mircea_popescu: fuck you, if you don't recall why you're here you're red fucking riding hood here to meet the wolf, not a coder writing code.
mircea_popescu: benkay << i can't believe the guy actually proposed an inability to remember wtf he's doing and why as a sort of intellectual manliness.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: somebody who is poor knows which truck has the money. i guess you take that guy out back after he drives the truck where it is going. << you fundamentally misunderstand revolutions.
mircea_popescu: shitty middleeastern banks prolly keep usd/eur bills too
mircea_popescu: these are precious metals, bearer bonds, various certs and other valuable paper
mircea_popescu: ro central bank has about a billion in shit in its central vault for instance.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: who understands this: "ISIL stole $400 million in a raid on Mosul's central bank". what, it was stacked in the corner in bills? << yes.
mircea_popescu: benkay: but !logsearch "foo" is going to be rad, mthreat, kakobrekla << defo, point of entire exercize.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: hm, can you connect to 0mq socket? << kako doesn't get enough sex so he's socketed all the things.
mircea_popescu: mthreat: if things go smoothly we'll have a #bitcoin-assets log search engine in a few hours << o hey!
mircea_popescu: mike_c: how is betting no on everything random? << how isn't it ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: short the world. << "the little bettor that said no"
mircea_popescu: what is it with you bunch of ex brtish convicts over there!!1
mircea_popescu: benkay: the label on this beer can is misaligned by a whole damn .125 << maybe it's so it reads right when you're drunk
mircea_popescu: who the hell is still on origin time after a month in a different timezone i wish to know ?!
mircea_popescu: similarly to <kakobrekla> i remember from childhood, sets of cards that were naked women
mircea_popescu: actually a pretty good pic of her huh, she's like the mother of disdain
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i didn't have the time to log into rift even past two weeks
mircea_popescu: i r just saying so it's said. not intending to persuade.
mircea_popescu: that doesn't make them less of a waste of, presumably, valuable brain gasoline.
mircea_popescu: no *coin or wallet* will ever solve the ussr-ness of the usa
mircea_popescu: many many MANY genius minds wasted most of their time in pursuit of similar nonsense.
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as bitcoin taint. attempts to solve this inexistent problem, just like all the other attempts to solve inexistent problems in the history of human engineering