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mircea_popescu: Freitas and co also monitored the Klout score of each of their social bots to see how they fared. (Klout is an online service that measures the influence of Twitter accounts, giving them a score between 0 and 100). “We find that the socialbots achieved Klout scores of the same order of (or, at times, even higher than) several well-known academicians and social network researchers,” they say.
mircea_popescu: from gringos in argentina, chapter 1 : "didja call that bitches' biscuit woman ?" refering to one busquet beatriz
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i've no idea whether it is possible to build an unmolested autarkik village in modern ar. <<< you can do pretty much exactly whatever the fuck you please. yesterday';s newspaper carried a report of a gang of 5 men that attacked a minor detention center to get a kid out
mircea_popescu: and it has been 1890s russia for 50 years last century too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, the problem is argentina has been 90s russia for ~50 years now.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, nice how thaat french diff bet worked out huh
mircea_popescu: i will have you know i cam through with a full bottle of tuica
mircea_popescu: i thought it has something to do with that rainbow cat thing
mircea_popescu: this must be some sort of obscure internet joke with cats and stuff is it ?
mircea_popescu: spending her days playing the trophy whife in suburbia and coming a few nights a week for a total anal gangfest in da hood.
mircea_popescu: i can sorta visualize the bezzle as this very raunchy bubble butted 20something mulatto
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard, you're the guy i was trying to get to audit the ohio rental asset thing right ?
mircea_popescu: practically speaking, introduce yourself, build trust, all that.
mircea_popescu: the way it works is that assbot looks at hte people it trusts, if they trust you you can ask it to voice you.
mircea_popescu: this may be the first time in human history that actual problems of fundamental math can be experimentally tested ;/
mircea_popescu: im regarding it purely as a graph theory / algebraic structures isse
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron, that definitely doesn't work like any group algebra i ever heard of
mircea_popescu: it's actually very deep because it has fundamental graph theory implications
mircea_popescu: suppose you -1 someone and that someone -1s someone else. should you have 0 or -1 l2 with the someone else ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder if the current treatment of neg trust over l2 composition is to ignore the 2nd layer negs or to convey them
mircea_popescu: i wonder if up next is china announcing that it will sanction any countries that implement us aml/kyc measures.
mircea_popescu: anyway, proper headline being "taliban scores largest victory to date, surpassing mpex's previous record"
mircea_popescu: "it'll be our gift to you, the biggest diamond we could find for some random anon swine. long live socialism! everything's equal to everything else!"
mircea_popescu: i guess coming up next week, obama promises the us will never use its nuclear arsenal, as part of the inauguration of a primary school in a provincial town in kenya.
mircea_popescu: i tell you, they cut the most important policy pillar over nothing ?! it's beyond comedic.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the real world... i guess the secretary of state better be careful traveling.
mircea_popescu: weak hand administration probably figured "it's win-win" because they give up five worthless towelheads which had to be kept at a per day cost far exceeding the cost to rent a private jet.
mircea_popescu: dude this should be a book. every chapter's title could be "and here we punch ourselves in the face for no reason whatsoever"
mircea_popescu: everyone can has a million dolla these days. even people affraid of forum retaliationz
mircea_popescu: there is many dodgy scam things going on at asicminer which has personally costs me over a million dollars"
mircea_popescu: "ex board member here using an anonymous alias so i will not receive backlash from other board members or friedcat
mircea_popescu: like, firs tweek, one pm a day per person. next week, two. then four. ETC!!11
mircea_popescu: anyway, anyoine with forum accounts left : pls put phinn gage on an ever escalating aggravation schedule until he fucking comes here.
mircea_popescu: right. but in the general terms, backups sit in between the constraint described.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: my point is just that n+1 is much better than n; just a game of probabilities << yeah, the game works like this : the more backups you have the more avenues for theft. the fewer backups you have, the more avenues for accidental loss.
mircea_popescu: much like business didn't mean farming in 1514, unless your business sucked.
mircea_popescu: if buenos aires sinks tomorrow mpex won't be disrupted in any sense. business doesn't mean anything physical unless your business sucks
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: yep - and the reality is that a natural disaster that destroys a city will probably affect your business' ability to function anyway << this is, again, the nonsense i was rejecting.
mircea_popescu: the people who can't afford to call to australia are mary-sue-ing
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I need to threaten someone << no, you just need to infiltrate the command centers of your would be "enemies" and then lead on their nonsense for lulz and butthurt.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Joshua Zipkin of AMT (Advance Mining Technologies) threaten to kill a fellow Bitcoiner. : Bitcoin << so is this going to be the talking point of the militant us left for the remainder of 2014 ? "bitcoin is bad because bitcoiners kill people" ?
mircea_popescu: artifexd: asciilifeform: Exactly why I'd like to offload that to someone else. << lol i'm sure you';re the first that thought of that :D