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pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: if you or anyone else has any suggestions for sorting archive pages, it'd be sweet if contravex didn't only post one article at a
time
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 06:30:52; phillipsjk: DeathAndTaxes on bitcoin
talk made a detailed post explaining why
the 1MB block size in not good for anything other
than inter-bank
transfers:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=946236.0 He estimetes 2-4
TPS basked on
the last million
transactions
mircea_popescu: "he problem isn't a limit in general but
that 1MB is so low
that under any meaningful adoption scenario it will push all individual users off
the blockchain
to rely on
trusted
third parties. In essence you will probably be priced out of
the blockchain and
the blockchain becomes yet another network you will never have direct (peer) access
to, just like FedWire, SWIFT, and other private closed
transfer networks. "
assbot: Likely why
Twitter has been
trying
to get news out ahead of earnings: User growth was only 1.4%,
the worst on record. /search?q=%24TWTR&src=ctag
mircea_popescu: ascii_field "fixed sexist pronouns in manual for use of
the alcohol swab employed pre-lethal injection"
ascii_field: redhat patch << i can't help but
think
that
this is a 'wait,
there was dioxin in my cyanide pill!111!' situation.
mircea_popescu: i dun believe
the web is starved of anything nearly as badly as it's starved of usable value points of comparison. neatly mirrors how
those kids are starved for exemplary leadership irl.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Everyone who wanted qntra
to have a category page << remove
the <li>, separate
them by ; instead ? << Work in progress.
Things in
the categories will be getting some better sorting.
mircea_popescu: are
these
the folks
that checked and
then ignored signatures yest ?
jurov: "You were
tipped 0.11 XPM for your commit on Project saltstack-formulas/epel-formula. Please, log in and
tell us your primecoin address
to get it."
mircea_popescu: besides, what "these folks" in
the general wish and what individual folks actually managed when confronted with a bloody club are quite divorced matters.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
these folks show every sign of intending
to keep it all up until glassed.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i have with my own eyes seen men hang for
that.
mircea_popescu: i doubt
the system couldsurvive a dozen
total years of jailtime on
this score.
mircea_popescu: make prosecutors personally liable for
the use of fraudulently produced "proofs".
mircea_popescu: "One particularly interesting
tidbit is
that when information about parallel construction in a case leaks, a special "Taint Review
Team" must consult with a judge
to determine which evidence must be
turned over
to
the defense.
The
Taint Review
team is also responsible for insulating prosecutors from evidence
that would reveal
the application of parallel construction methods in a case."
mircea_popescu: job not needed.
they're doing
their part being part of
the greatest derpocracy in history.
TomServo: Waterfall update: One step closer
to drying up. Down
to 5,038.29 from 10,295.86 on 28-01-2015.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal
the most advantageous implications of
the whole idea
that i see probably have
to do with privacy.
TheNewDeal: Mp,
The largest difference is someone else being able
to purchase a larger percentage sstake in
the pool I am in
mircea_popescu: "When I was in Sicily, I couldn't even get a frickin' wifi login at
the McDonalds without an Italian passport *and* a local registered sim. "
assbot: This is
the wrong way
to do
the Internet. Don’t worry,
there’s also a right way. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1LRaFVw )
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> when you plug a lamp into a mains socket, is
that also a 'streaming query' ? << For some kinds of lamp sure. << LAMP! geddit ? roflmao
mircea_popescu: so basically
the diff between betting and buying is 3% on one side, vs
the risk premium on
the other.
TheNewDeal: So if purchaser paid me at 90k
timeweight, I would payout at 90k*1.03
TheNewDeal: I usually just place a premium, like, 3% on
the
timeweight
TheNewDeal: Any who, if someone is interested or becomes more interested as
time goes on, send me a gribble message
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal just
trying
to
think
through
the valuations of
this device. it's interesting.
the_scourge: mircea_popescu: oh yah, i
take every "finding" and "study" with a grain or shovelful of salt. so, well spoken
mircea_popescu: ascii_field do
they have classified networks directly connected is
ther implication
there ?!
ascii_field: which is a pure rapefest from
the standpoint of
the phd coolies
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: incidentally,
the mccune
thing is not in any way fundamentally different from
the -rest- of mainstream academia
assbot: PLOS ONE: Disgust and
the Politics of Sex: Exposure
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http://bit.ly/1FbeUXm )
TheNewDeal: Why do yoy say I can expect
to make .189?
TheNewDeal: I saw
the bet, it looked unbalanced, and
then i bet
ascii_field: '(S//REL NATO) We assess
that any unclassified NATO network
that is directly connected
to
the Internet should be considered potentially compromised, creating uncertainty regarding
the confidentiality, integrity and continued availability of all data on
that network.' << mega-lol
TheNewDeal: To me it doesnt matter
the exact amount I make
mircea_popescu: as weigh is at 90k, even should you hold all
the no you can't expect
to make more
than .189
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal what i mean is,
the value of buying 1 btc from you rather
than betting 1 btc is given by
the weight differential
mircea_popescu: mike_c
TheNewDeal no dispute it can be done and has done. just, impediments, friction,
that sort of consideration
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal but your holding is worth at
the very most .189 BTC, and
that if no has a 100% chance
to win ?
mircea_popescu kinda interested
to see
this model developped, but
the fact
that
txns have
to
take a
time, and a risk premium on
top of what's actually bneing sold seems insurmontable
assbot: BitBet - BTC
to rise vs USD in February :: 4.21 B (69%) on Yes, 1.89 B (31%) on No | closing in 2 weeks 6 days | weight: 90`871 (100`000
to 1) ... (
http://bit.ly/1FbdwUE )
the_scourge: ascii_field: duly
taken. i'm just
trying
to connect McCune
to
the articles i linked
mircea_popescu: then charge for
the amassed pseudoscience
to be repeated in drivelly sources like
the huffpo.
the_scourge: ascii_field: i
thought perhaps your 'answer lies in
the sewers' paper was
talking about
the olfactory conservative/liberal
thing, but upon reading it, it seems like it's
talking about something else... spanish nobility dumping
their worker's bodies in
the sewers? am i close?
mircea_popescu: unsurprisingly. sara miller mccune is a reputed con woman
that came up with
the following scam : make up fake "peer reviewed" scientific journals,
then charge variouis idiots
that were stpid enough
to
try and carve careers out of "social studies" a few hundred dollars
to publish
their goop
ascii_field: i must confess - despite having read every word of mr mold's UR (and got my fair fill of
the author in his previous life, and likewise played in his hindley-milner mathemasturbatorium until could
take it no more) - i am still no closer
to grasping
the_scourge's arguments
the_scourge: ascii_field: yes, i believe it's
the same effect
the_scourge: sorry for
the sources, i was struggling with my history grepping and resorted
to ddg
mircea_popescu: the_scourge are you looking for
the log bit about
the spanish revolutionary right ?
the_scourge: er, sorry i didn't mean
to reference one specific form of fascism ... i should have used 'left' and 'right' instead
mircea_popescu: for one
thing,
the fascists had better plumbing
than
the us does.
the_scourge: doesn't our politics and philosophy entirely derive from our finances? it's pretty clear
that a liberal is just a fascist with effective plumbing and sanitary solutions
mircea_popescu: 90% of all available anything,
towards
the end of
things.
mircea_popescu: do you know how much
time and effort
the central command spent
trying
to narrow it down ?
ascii_field: e.g., if you worked at a paper factory in '91-93, you had a good chance of becoming de-facto owner of a hundred
tonnes of paper - suddenly unobtainable in
the usual way - and some pull.
ascii_field: one of
the few genuinely valuable nuggets in orlov is his summary (for engl. folks) of how sov. supply chain had such abundant slack (no 'just in
time' anywhere)
that many folks had access
to serious stashes of $good
mircea_popescu: neither were any of
the men involved in, say,
the end of
the soviet union.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: actually just
that. pointing out
that virtually none of
the people involved are 'free men' in
the sense of having any kind of independent finance
mircea_popescu: why'd you expect one's finances
to derive from one's politics ?
mircea_popescu: the "turn
the other cheek" folk over
there.
the "if you as much as bother a hair of my beard I'll gouge your fucking eyes out with your own detached ribs" folk over here.
ascii_field: and how does
that fix
the fella up with food & house ?
ascii_field: watson is a special case here (see his auction escapade, for instance) - but a garden-variety physics prof going 'on strike' means:
taxicab
mircea_popescu: whether
they have or
they don't have a choice
today, it makes little difference.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
the notion
that
there exists an ending for every character doesn't hold.
ascii_field: it isn't like
they have an alternative 'pepsi usa' which
they can escape
to and help it build death rays.
mircea_popescu: "never interrupt
the enemy when he's making a mistake". fortunately
the internet makes so
that "help him instead" remains undetectable.
mircea_popescu: "With his wiry grayish-brown hair, his
tortoiseshell glasses and his intensity, Professor Lewin is
the iconic brilliant scientist … he is at once larger
than life and
totally accessible."
mircea_popescu: well,
the enemy proposes
that relevancy is a matter of headcount.
ascii_field: that
they defect? or simply denied
to
the enemy ?