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mircea_popescu: assbot: A year of Taliban gains shows that ‘we haven’t delivered,’ top Afghan official says
<< loller.
punkman: pete_dushenski: the set design is the ~only~ redeeming quality of that show.
<< isn't that why they call them costume dramas
pete_dushenski: "Saudi Arabia, its finances hit by low oil prices, announced plans to shrink a record state budget deficit with spending cuts and a drive to raise revenues from sources other than oil. The government of the world's top oil exporter ran a deficit of 367 billion riyals ($97.9 billion) in 2015, the Council of Economic and Development Affairs said on Monday."
<< i wouldn't be surprised if we saw a regime change in t
ben_vulpes: Softforks that explicitly create an incentive for their own revocation create an extraordinary moral hazard.
<< rather
☟︎ BingoBoingo:
<ben_vulpes> but on the other thread, from what pool are 'they' to 'pick their own'? must i not provide?
<< The pool that knows wheeties actually isn't the breakfast of champion, because that is two scoops of whey and a scoop of dry instant coffee in an shaker.
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> does anyone know of any decent sociopolitical histories of tls/ssl?
<< "no" or "only shitty ones" depending on your clearance.
mircea_popescu: adlai> satoshi says, "the world is malleable and so is bitcoin!" sipa says "maybe not", so we shoot him before he starts giving any really dangerous ideas
<< you really should lay off the sauce.
BingoBoingo:
<ben_vulpes> i got the hazy notion that someone wanted to implement something that involved...not validating the whole blockchain. tuned out.
<< Appears to be new soft phork tx type. details aren't clear to me yet
adlai: ;;later tell ben_vulpes: "Teaching people to look at the world as a malleable thing is one of the foundations of socialist brainrot"
<< so satoshi was a communist now too? and get a comment section already willya, it's blogging 101
kakobrekla: uid Stanislav Datskovskiy
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kakobrekla: uid Stanislav Datskovskiy
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kakobrekla: gpg: key 01ABFFC7: "Stanislav Datskovskiy
<stas@loper-os.org>" not changed
mircea_popescu: I dropped my bike in a bush and texted our salesperson about the idea.
<<< re the entire chechens thread.
mircea_popescu: doesn’t involve trying to derive probabilities at all, but rather asks the user to just “produce your best-informed guess.”
<< and you'd love this precisely because of who you are, and where yo ulive, and what you want to be true.
mircea_popescu: And why his favored approach to stress testing (a technique called Bayesian nets)
<< oh lordy.
mircea_popescu: "Hitting a market’s ceiling like this was something that none of my methodologies accounted for."
<< because going "hey, my primary's like 20bn, the unwind that might need could easily be 2bn in a week, the whole fuel market's maybe a fifth that, hey check this out I've propped a car with a toothpick overf here"
ben_vulpes:
<punkman> imagine you have 10 heads, and you choose 3. the only way to press is to find the antecedents of those 3.
<< i don't actually disagree with this, i simply do not think that the design of v allows for multiple heads. do cite me something to the contrary if you're aware of any.
kakobrekla:
<pete_dushenski> what, vw doesn't comply with regulations. why should a broke-ass start-up ?
< not big enough
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
<< forfeiture now a fedz-only game
<< in the logs last week!
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> LOOK BRUCE WAGNER is back
<< that's probably that goat fuckwit.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: works best as part of a balanced diet, which includes banhammer
<< by... ip ?
gribble: irdial was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 49 weeks, 5 days, 21 hours, 16 minutes, and 33 seconds ago:
<irdial> ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:ff211e140a17d6846aebcaf83249e5695f1ca5e23862c72443770251
assbot: Logged on 27-12-2015 18:50:33; thestringpuller: "You can't fix a capacity problem with fees. If there are only 20 seats on the bus and 25 people that want to ride there is no ticket price where everyone gets a seat."
<< I love the lulz on reddit. "We want everyone to be equal because we aren't worth shit in the real world. Treat us fairly!!!!!11"
thestringpuller: "You can't fix a capacity problem with fees. If there are only 20 seats on the bus and 25 people that want to ride there is no ticket price where everyone gets a seat."
<< I love the lulz on reddit. "We want everyone to be equal because we aren't worth shit in the real world. Treat us fairly!!!!!11"
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> 'It is about sending a strong message.
<< it is about sending a strong message alright.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the belching smokestacks to usaschwitz ?
<<< mongolia, india, pakistan, whatevs. africa, argentina, they're looking.
mircea_popescu:
<Quent> personally I suspect Peter Todd and btcdrak
<< but who the fuck are you to "personally".
thestringpuller: PSA: Bitnodes units shipped with 64GB SD cards will reach capacity in next few days.
<< L0L
gribble: mike_c was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 7 weeks, 2 days, 11 hours, 5 minutes, and 58 seconds ago:
<mike_c> let's get that thing out the door and get alf some goddamn bitcoin already
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu et al: maslennikov has a lulzy chapter
<< by now, "cryptogeeks, their ideas of females and trngs" coulod be a book. wasn't it proposed in the logs orgasm noise be measured?
pete_dushenski: "In this tweet, she implies that the new government is guilty of nepotism,"
<< ism-istas ! get 'em boys !
mircea_popescu: mats> anyway, am in the silly valley and wtf its colder here than boston
<<< something about how global warming rearranges hot streams and whatnot. #totally-not-random-climatic-noise