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mircea_popescu: "
As we have learned from the experiences emanating from the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange collapse, the existence of a "block chain" does nothing to allow law enforcement, other government authorities or the public to identify the real identity of the parties to a digital currency transaction."
Naphex: space might have some intrisic value
as well
Naphex: is there such a thing
as intrisic value?
mircea_popescu: badon
as long
as you never pay more for a coin than the metal value you're safe enough.
badon: The CC is intended to serve
as a historical record. Much of what we know about many coins would be completely lost eventually without the CC.
badon: nubbins`: Only your expertise is needed. The CC project
as a whole is led by me, and we have a professional data entry team to do the grunt work.
nubbins`:
as far
as casascius coins go, the marketplace is already pretty focused
nubbins`: click a given release and you'll see notes,
as well
as a list of any member selling it
badon:
As far
as I know, there has never been anything like the CC before.
mircea_popescu: adlai no but see, even in your running and geneder example, you diverge. to my eyes, womanhood has to do with a nice layer of fat on he ass,
as exemplified by kim say.
mircea_popescu: there's no fucking usable definition of intelligence, we've yet to build a computer model of intelligence, yet these people talk of some sort of statistical intelligence
as if it were a thing.
mircea_popescu: His views are also reflected in a book published next week, in which he writes: "There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason
as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
mircea_popescu: anyway, basically this entire thing is a "you don't get to have any ~intellectual~ capital either, it all belongs to the state, to be used
as slate anon editor directs it to be used".
mircea_popescu: "Indeed, part of the danger of the hero narrative is that scientists themselves may start to believe it. They can come to see themselves
as individuals possessing more powers of objectivity than other humans (thus fundamentally misunderstanding where objectivity comes from)"
badon: Plutonium is directly tied to the uranium market, so rising value of plutonium is reflected
as rising value in uranium.
badon: Well, I'm not going to publicly acknowledge it
as mine, if it were :)
badon: mircea_popescu: I call my shots publicly. Check my track record at LBC. No financial analyst in any market ever in the history of ever has been
as accurate
as I am.
mircea_popescu: " I don't mind over paying a little
as the wise man baden always says, to get what I like but I have limits & they are based on potential of growth, 10% is better than bank interest but I would rather a potential 50% - 2000%!!!!! (savvy or greedy?!)"
mircea_popescu: "I try to identify & buy into the hype in the beginning or
as it is happening (the pro's would be about 2 steps ahead of me) but not after the initial rush because of the lower potential for price rise."
mircea_popescu: badon ok, so you're getting some traction. murky market
as all hell, will prolly be a challenge to stay on top of everything.
badon: coins aren't
as rare
as they truly are.
badon: We use plain vanilla SMF
as a bug tracker, because a bug tracker is basically a forum. Same thing for a blog at LBC.
badon: mircea_popescu: You haven't seen anything yet. We use SMF at the CC forum
as a bug tracking system.
mircea_popescu: "The technical foundation of the Semantic Web is given by the standards RDF - Resource Description Framework (for data description), OWL - Web Ontology Language (for giving the RDF terms a formal meaning), and SPARQL - SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (
as a query language and protocol)."
badon: "External" people (
as you say) can request an account of course. We watch what they do carefully, and I'm planning on creating a class of users that can only edit info, not add more pages. It's much easier to fix mistakes on otherwise correctly entered data.
badon: It's big and complex,
as one of the largest wikis in the world.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin wants to entirely destroy the things crap such
as mastercard even stands on,
decimation: 'minority report' interface would still have the gorilla arm problem,
as it was demonstrated in the movie, but in theory one could devise an armrest of some kind
ben_vulpes: +asciilifeform:every penny i spend is recorded. even at parking meters. << you've got this weird habit of just doing what they tell you. i don't get it, especially given your proclivities and tendencies. it's almost
as though you're...an ironic mole!
badon: The membrane is nearly
as tactile, but much quieter.
decimation: asciilifeform: basically the same action
as your model-m buckling springs?
decimation: asciilifeform: but even if you believe man is created by God (
as I do) you would still have to believe that God failed to anticipate what man would do to nature, and/or man could somehow outsmart Him
decimation: but
as far
as I know, there is no service the lets you download your own itemized receipts
decimation:
as far
as I know few/no american tardstream media is covering
kakobrekla: yes it can be felt here on 5x27"
as well but no tan :\
decimation:
as ascii says, we don't even have computers yet
decimation: 'make install' the turd
as it comes without modification
decimation: which is nearly universal
as far
as I can tell
kakobrekla: he made a jenkins setup but url is private
as server is not ddos ready, so ask him.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Mount in lucite, use
as paperweight
mircea_popescu: cazalla can easily be read
as "one order was this much".
undata: ben_vulpes: well said; I have my doubts
as to whether this particular one is stable
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's incredible how much bellucci looks like an italian matron
as she ages.
mircea_popescu: i specifically meant rengaine
as a reference to "Quand je m'endors bercée par une rengaine j'suis soudain réveillée par des cris"
gernika: danielpbarron: What are the criteria for something to be an intermediate species? How long does something have to have been around and how large does the population have to be for it to be classified
as such? Seems like for populations that were at no time higher than the hundreds of thousands it would be very unlikely to expect to find fossils. Google tells me the peak population of neanderthals
undata:
As far
as *why* there aren't intermediate species left, there are plenty of possible answers. One of them might be that early human populations were into cracking competing skulls
mircea_popescu: "DAWKINS: No, never. But suppose an intermediate species hadn’t gone extinct. Suppose relict populations are discovered in the African jungle. In order to deny chimpanzees rights, you would have to set up apartheid-like courts to decide whether this individual counts
as human. Because it’s a continuum.
As a practical matter, the intermediates haven’t survived, so it’s possible to give humans basic rights and gi
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, it's why we needed a qntra to serve
as the billboard next to the city's gates. Gotta put indictments somewhere.
cazalla: "single Bitmain order to GAW worth 5 petahashes per second." <<< he twisted this
as their latest order, it was their first because hey, gotta scam the funds first
rithm: also coinbase lists "square"
as a customer
mircea_popescu: i'm sure anyone who cares enough could
as well have folloed the gpg sig ?
mircea_popescu:
as in, you know, rather than book a loss, pretend like it never happened. because if you don't agree it happened, it didn't really happen.
PinkPosixPXE: 17:31 #bitcoin-assets: <+ben_vulpes> PinkPosixPXE's downright neat <<< Thanks! You are awesome
as well, and thank you for the rating! :) I'm really glad my contribution helped out, happy to help any time :)
mircea_popescu: adlai anyway, it's bnot going to be run
as an actual market, because cattle. so it will be run
as a star market.
adlai doesn't see "work with computers"
as a good candidate for excellent depth
adlai: iirc it was Dennett who said that ignorance should not be seen
as an insult
mircea_popescu: "Does it have money or financial mental associations, or even slight links, for example, Luckycoin is for luck, that is necessary to become rich, Mooncoin means Moon, and the Moon drives ocean waters and financial flows (
as assumed in financial astrology) plus ‘to the moon’ means also price growing process… And MEOW, or BBQ coins have no these associations at all)."
mircea_popescu: some esl kid on the fringe of culture nevertheless believes that "
as a Category", X "shouldn't be fun".
mircea_popescu: "So let’s try to build a rating of the cryptocurrency names of real coins, based on various criteria: Brightness. Seriousness of name (
as a currency, the name shouldn’t be fun). Whether the name is conceptual (makes sense, dedicated to ideas), or not."
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: i feel this encourages an echo chamber
as it continues << this is prolly true. on the other hand, most of the intelligent people that were ever going to hear about bitcoin have by now.
adlai: they don't have to cost money if you can dress it up
as a service you sell the ISP
nubbins`: i pronounce u
as "oo" in my head
mircea_popescu: there's a reason the wayback machine is run
as charity.
nubbins`: key part of our survival
as economic creatures
adlai:
as slimy
as phish may be, it's a key part of our survival
as a species
adlai: well it also gives transparency,
as long
as the people looking in trust that the business uses only those addresses
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2014 14:37:30; adlai: how? reuse ties two transactions together
as having been signed by the same entity. this is OK for eg a business wanting to operate transparently, but less so for an individual wanting privacy
adlai: how? reuse ties two transactions together
as having been signed by the same entity. this is OK for eg a business wanting to operate transparently, but less so for an individual wanting privacy
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway,
as a general point : breaking the address <-> user relation is the most important thing to do for bitcoin's success on an individual level.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile using a single address has no cost associated, other than you know, one particular string of eight digits
as opposed to another particular string of eight digits.
punkman: I've seen dog enjoying beer
as well
adlai: well erowid doesn't accept btc in the same way
as those guys :)
nubbins`: i'd paint it more
as intensely bizarre
nubbins`: "Kratom behaves
as a μ-opioid receptor"
adlai has never tried verified salvia, the one time somebody brought over "salvia" it was more similar to expired mint leaves, and about
as potent
mircea_popescu: shall there be no end of this "i smoke oregano the older kids sold to me
as a mockery BECAUSE I ENJOY IT!"
mircea_popescu:
as best i can see, oxycodone is more like codeine than heroin.
nubbins`: anyway, with orally-taken morphine
as a "1"
mircea_popescu: what i mean specifically : the site is generating excellent revenue
as it is. none of which is monetary.