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Framedragger: i know it sounds like bullshit, but serious suggestion: helmet. very uneven ceiling, lots of bumps (unless 100
% careful)
Framedragger: i 100
% concede, why pretend and bloat. picture wasn't sure in my head before, "vps but uhh more light", maybe it's just unix users lol. damn.
mircea_popescu: hence all the ~beat them~ references. the only way for it to be more efficient is shedding a healthy 99.9
% of the inflation of self worth going around.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-27 02:45 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it is, the problem with it is that 10
% or less of the payola is paid out as bezzle usd ; the remaineder 90
% or more is paid out as pats on the back, empty and baseless congratulatory verbiage and generally speaking psychotronic noise.
mircea_popescu: and this is a bona fide economically useful service, mind you, it'd entirely cut the whole "cloud" business at the knees, seeing how 99
% of all the actual value they deliver is ~this, execpt at 100x the financial and 10`000x the administrative cost.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-01 18:41 mircea_popescu: count for 100
% just as soon as they stop telling themselves the 0
% story to get to the slop like the rest of the pigs.
BingoBoingo: You'd be suprised the amount of water "Up to 10
% ethanol" can absorb
mircea_popescu: "count for 100
% just as soon as they stop telling themselves the 0
% story to get to the slop like the rest of the pigs."
mircea_popescu: count for 100
% just as soon as they stop telling themselves the 0
% story to get to the slop like the rest of the pigs.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you ever seen a group that large who wasn't 105
% douchebag by mass ?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-28 23:26 pete_dushenski: something about incidence of men >6'5" being <1
% in general population but ~20
% amongst fortune 500 ceos
pete_dushenski: something about incidence of men >6'5" being <1
% in general population but ~20
% amongst fortune 500 ceos
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other news : ##crypto did 530/738 lines as join/part spam Apr 27 13:21:01 to Apr 27 21:26:05. the remainder 208 lines were 90
% of the material and about 450
% of the signal us. i think asciilifeform 's evaluation prevails.
mircea_popescu: basically this tribe thinks that what shannon entropy is, is when P takes value "hunter2" in 50
% of the cases and a random in the remainder of cases and therefore this is "no good for crypto because i can guess what your password will be".
mircea_popescu: 5.57
%. this implies a sample of no less than 1795332 items (of which 100000 came out this way) because iirc 557 is a prime number.
Framedragger: btw there are like 770 people sitting and talking on ##crypto, it might not even be 100
% hopeless, curious if they would respond well to FUCKGOATS advertising
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-04-21 17:14 mircea_popescu: just make a fucking isp, that's not run by a moron and consequently ahead of 90
% of the pack.
mod6: "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97
% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3
%"
mod6: i think there's a knuth quote somewhere about know where the 3
% of the code is that is performance-significant 'optimize that, not everything'.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it is, the problem with it is that 10
% or less of the payola is paid out as bezzle usd ; the remaineder 90
% or more is paid out as pats on the back, empty and baseless congratulatory verbiage and generally speaking psychotronic noise.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's basically this large-is (~14
%) subset of population with no certain skillset and vastly inflated impression of self-importance.
mod6: she had 4 days fully covered. and about 40
% of the other three days... mind, she was only at home for 20 days.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-26 21:12 asciilifeform: 'backdoor allows Bitmain to shut off a large section of the global hashrate (estimated to be at up to 70
% of all mining equipment). It can also be used to directly target specific machines or customers.'
shinohai: I'm rather willing to bet 99
% of these "dommes" would be flipped in an instant on arrival to mp's harem.
mircea_popescu: o check it out, you get 60
% more worthless shit if you send 10 ethereum than if you send 40.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-18#1645317 << this was an experimental place, after doing more traditional club with table service, which i'm honestly not good at. it was a frat bar, and 3 of us had thursday which typically was really slow night, bar
% and door. so we had a chance to build up various gimmicks, and see how they play out. i was good at that. at height the take home was about 2k each, which is way low compared to a club, but really go
☝︎ mircea_popescu: take only btc, pay your 0.1
% to the republic and live happily ever after as a well respected, much sought and very productive member of the community.
mircea_popescu: just make a fucking isp, that's not run by a moron and consequently ahead of 90
% of the pack.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: lol all of ontario rental properties now subject to 'rent control' capping rate of increase at that of inflation WITH MAX OF 2.5
%YOY. because if inflation is higher than 2.5
% it doesn't count so don't be a terrorist mkay. lol that place is so broke.
ben_vulpes: getting 51
% signatures for each trade? or...?
mircea_popescu: i spent what, 0.3
% or so of this year in airplane. had thinkpad with multiple batteries loaded up with films etc by diligent travel assistant / cocksucker. in the overhead tray it stayed.
mircea_popescu: what
% of your time last year did you spend in an airplane and what exactly would have happened had you taken a nap / chatted up random chicks / thought about your nails for the interval.
mircea_popescu: makework. at the height of communism, 150
% of soviet gdp.
ben_vulpes: 1
% compiler flags, 99
% syntax gynmastics
mats: same fella is also known for debunking an earlier attribution to assad for the 2013 damascus attack, disputing israeli claims as to 90
% effectiveness of the iron dome (discussed here iirc), and pissing on the effectiveness of the patriot pac-2 system in 'desert storm'
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes go swimming moar bike less. and if you do bike, do 15
% inclines rather than long bs.
hanbot: s'about a 50
% chance a googling a given unknown word in a #t article yields...just moar t articles.
mircea_popescu: if you think "switch" as described may cost as much as 1
% of the total cost structure, voila, he has a $2 arrangement in place.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger so if it was 1
% of 17 btc that's 200 bux or so ?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger what
% of an operation do you deem should be allocated to pay for that arrangement ?
a111: Logged on 2016-05-01 17:36 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda too lazy to deedbot a list of the various spots in logs where the fact that bitbet keeps no logs was discussed. seems about 99 and 3/4
% that the whole point there was to create an entry point for later parallel construction, "o look what bitbet logs show".
pete_dushenski: damn znort987... there was no way he was going to make his 86btc back at 1 or 2
% margins was there. roi approached infinity as bitbet lost broader republican usage and support. shame.
mircea_popescu: (no, by no means the first case of "let's take republic wealth and "sell"/give it to usg". our short but rich history is littered with that sort of dorkitude, from
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Abugpowder to name your poison, which is how "taking investors" ie, allowing outsiders into the wealth even got such a bad name in the first place. the last fucking thing i want is MORE mentally stunted midgits making a profit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, i recall having sed crash on me last week. "tools". zamac 100
% quality guaranteed.
mircea_popescu: same model repeating itself over and over and over again. oh, the ancient world where slave talked to woman talked to husband talked to headsman talked to senator was humiliating and inequalitarian ? let's flatten it into a system where 1
% talk to the senator (1000
% increase over the 0.1
% of yore!!11) and the rest talk into an empty takeout box. PROGRESS!!!1
mircea_popescu: 4.1. there is a philosophy section, taking 1/8 of one shelf, or ~0.625
% of all floor space
mircea_popescu: yes. and a good way to judge what
% of world hands are involved would be to divide the aggregate cost by the aggregate world gdp.
BingoBoingo: <mod6> she's been mainly 100
% delirious. but in a moment of slurred-opiate semi-clarity, she asked me "hows BingoBoingo?" << I am doing well, celebrate 18 months of continuous sobriety later this month.
mod6: she's been mainly 100
% delirious. but in a moment of slurred-opiate semi-clarity, she asked me "hows BingoBoingo?"
mircea_popescu: also, i dunno how relevant but factual in any case : 90
% of in-house it support requests from excel users is exactly, "i did thing and it did i dunno what or why halp!1"
mircea_popescu: but in truth and behind the scene it's 100
% code reuse in the most "found on forum and pasted in" manner.
mircea_popescu: obvious example : does monotonous temperature variation result in more 1's ? something along the lines of "batch 1 we kept at 20, batch 2 we took from 0 to 40 over one hour, batch 3 we took from 40 to 0 over one hour. out of the 10gb worth of entropy recorded in that hour, batch 1 is 50-50 split, batch 2 is 75
% 0s, batch 3 is 74
% 1s.