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mircea_popescu: "If you're properly calibrated, you'll be able to see that about 60% of the things you're 60% sure will happen, do happen, and 90% of the things you're 90% sure will happen, do happen." << outright wrong for instance.
mircea_popescu: probably needs a better explanation of statistical deviation tho.
mircea_popescu: you bet like, words. or hopes. or delusions. or you know, stuff like that.
mircea_popescu: "Lmao bunch of forum dusters. Spilled five billion words over this crap, barely touched 10BTC in bets. GET JOBS LOSERS."
mircea_popescu: afrotec iirc some activist users managed to sue the guy in avalon court and got the items delivered ?
mircea_popescu: just don't try to sell me on any sort of comittees making "industry standards" or anything.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i would never use anything that implements a protocol for any serious purpose anymore.
mircea_popescu: pankkake easy to find tho because so used by people like eve players
mircea_popescu: takes a woman nine months to make another and bitbet nine months to collect a million dollars.
mircea_popescu: cca 2003 icq going down was worse than san fernando running out of coke for the day.
mircea_popescu: there is precisely one bitcoin user to programatically not use skype. since 2011.
mircea_popescu: Obtaining cleartext access to 'a major internet peer-to-peer voice and text communications system' (Skype?) <<
mircea_popescu: it basically reads as : "Your order to push 1xBla to the account 123abc has been processed successfully. Feel free to forward this receipt to the other party as proof of transfer."
mircea_popescu: Trace Mayer is an entrepreneur, investor, journalist, monetary scientist and ardent defender of the freedom of speech.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i recall the meanwhile defunct first processor they used and the horror it caused
mircea_popescu: i was able to recover a missing article by asking the internets.
mircea_popescu: "You have no idea how much fun it is to just splatter named variables all over the place, use them in expressions in whatever order you want, and have the compiler schedule things. Although you do it all day. And that was pretty much the end of Forth on that machine; we wrote everything in C."
mircea_popescu: certainly all the greeks, most of the latins, you'll never run out.
mircea_popescu: pretty much all the germans, once one's old enough. frege. husserls. kant. heidegger
mircea_popescu: bitesak any non-socialist before 1950 or so. gibbon. twain. kuhn. russel. bacon. voltaire. swift.
mircea_popescu: it actually comes from a treatise on religion of all things.
mircea_popescu: It is in literature as in life: wherever you turn, you stumble at once upon the incorrigible mob of humanity, swarming in all directions, crowding and soiling everything, like flies in summer. Hence the number, which no man can count, of bad books, those rank weeds of literature, which draw nourishment from the corn and choke it.
mircea_popescu: Herodotus relates that Xerxes wept at the sight of his army, which stretched further than the eye could reach, in the thought that of all these, after a hundred years, not one would be alive. And in looking over a huge catalogue of new books, one might weep at thinking that, when ten years have passed, not one of them will be heard of.
mircea_popescu: The strata of the earth preserve in rows the creatures which lived in former ages; and the array of books on the shelves of a library stores up in like manner the errors of the past and the way in which they have been exposed. Like those creatures, they too were full of life in their time, and made a great deal of noise; but now they are stiff and fossilized, and an object of curiosity to the literary palaeontologist a
mircea_popescu: it's one of those narcisiac cases where a lot of shit gets made up and mixed up into the message.
mircea_popescu: back a year ago he was supposedly running a mining operation for about a year during which time he never found a moment to document it,
mircea_popescu: in practice it's a good idea to take what the goat says at about half mast.