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mircea_popescu: *: ben_vulpes flaps more << i have nfi what he's on about either, if that helps anything.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Seriously behold the liberals shilling for botique rifle http://indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com/how-math-makes-smaller-bullets-deadlier-1627307057
BingoBoingo: So interesting advertising match made in hell I spotted on the interwebz. Gawker Media and Weatherby rifles.
BingoBoingo: Well, he had to break them in with Ms Magadaline
mircea_popescu: i hear his tables were leanin'.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Jesus wasn't a scam till Peter and Paul got into a fight over marketing and royalties. made good tables.
kakobrekla ducks for the rocks
Vexual: about this wide
danielpbarron: ;;rate alevin 2 boring mental case that fetishizes abstinence
Vexual: yeah, but you read the old languages
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no it's not, i met tons of bangin' buddhist chicks.
Vexual: what the fuck even is moolah?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell missshibe hey, maybe instead of a class action suit against random bankrupt derp, you could organise a comet landing against him ? at least it'd be a novel novelty item...
mircea_popescu: there can be no other seinfeld expert! who is this challenger!
xanthyos: ;;rate alevin 2 Known thorugh EFNet channels nearly a decade. "Seinfeld" expert. Buddhism aspirant.
mircea_popescu: "your honor, we seek class action status for our suit here" "who is the defendant ?" "some guy"
mircea_popescu: that's TOTALLY how that works.
mircea_popescu: MissShibe: Hi all, if anyone has lost money in Moolah / Cryptsy we are working on a class action lawsuit against Ryan Kennedy. <<< because "class action" suits exist for the purpose of allowing a bunch of derps to not have to pay anything in civil claims against individuals now.
mircea_popescu: heh i mean "yes would apply". not that ducking's bad policy generally.
mircea_popescu: otherthings would also apply, but that's aside.
mircea_popescu: *: TomServo ducks. << yes.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: got the poster nubbins << no fucking way, i had so much $$$ riding against this!11
BingoBoingo: OMG NSA, let's burn the computers and teletype baudot on the 160 meter band
gribble: jurov was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 6 hours, 31 minutes, and 55 seconds ago: <jurov> lol The20YearIRCloud you'll soon get sizable chunk of ohio
mircea_popescu: it gets so old this shit...
mircea_popescu: "clearly bitcoin needs moar technologiez! brb making shartup"
BingoBoingo: Yeah they do
mircea_popescu: well i dunno about you good folk, but various wp comment spammers still manage to dutifully connect, propose their post crud, get the required 500 and so on.
assbot: Qntra (@qntra) | Twitter ... ( http://bit.ly/1uNsHkm )
BingoBoingo: I mean look at that twitter avatar https://twitter.com/qntra
BingoBoingo: Not the black one yet, May need more pics for Qntra branding
cazalla: fuck it, i'm over it, gonna put a rabbit in the pan
decimation: yeah resolves the same here
TomServo: resolves to 23.235.236.98
decimation: let me try
mircea_popescu: TomServo decimation is this a matter of you not resolving the domain ? what's dig qntra.net say ?
mircea_popescu: i see it too, who's to know.
cazalla: qntra down here for me too
asciilifeform: ;;isup trilema.com
decimation: ah okay, I was thinking the former
asciilifeform: decimation: this one wasn't self-comprehension or any 'fancy' magic of the sort. just elementary question of 'does x compiler build with self'
asciilifeform: decimation: nah. very basic test. 'c' builds with self.
BingoBoingo: Well, ad nao has more modest sidebar placement. Don't want to seem like too cheap a hooker when second potential advertiser wants to negotiate
decimation: yeah this test automatically fails C and its descendants
asciilifeform: decimation: also the argument that no programming system is really 'adult' unless it can swallow its own tail without gagging.
mircea_popescu: lol temperance my good man, is the whorish mother of all riches.
asciilifeform: decimation: this was printed on the crate! determinism.
cazalla: the one advert makes it look like million dollar homepage so we may as well go full throttle now
decimation: yeah I get the fact that it is a compiler, but why would you want to use it to compile itself and then use the compiler to recreate the target lisp?
cazalla: well, this is why i told Namworld to speak with you and that he did and was promptly sent back to me
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i shall not dispute "statistics" that wildly favour my position.
BingoBoingo: Oh, wait till the Minzors approach with offers
cazalla: mircea_popescu: wait so it's free ? <<< lol yes, not a paid placement, this is more a test anyway
BingoBoingo: Prolly. Maybe from reading Angry Ram's turds
asciilifeform: quantcase << i always wondered, where do these figures come from? sheep entrails?
mircea_popescu: it's pretty much distilled trendsetters over there, no hipsters allowed.
asciilifeform: decimation: 'sbcl' is a compiler. (a very spiffy compiler, that you can generally use in precisely the same ways folks used primitive interpreter-only lisps, but still a compiler.)
Vexual: quantcast says your traffic is largely wealthy educated asians, thats some quality traffic
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's a revenue share thing, dunno its been up long enough to get clicked yet
asciilifeform: decimation: what's the mystery here?
BingoBoingo: Mostly to get an idea of what we find acceptable for ads, when we start getting solicitations for other ads
decimation: asciilifeform: did you see this: http://christophe.rhodes.io/notes/blog/posts/2014/reproducible_builds_-_a_month_ahead_of_schedule/ << not being a lisp guy, I find it mystifying
BingoBoingo: Vexual: Not yet. We are playing with the idea of a single ad
BingoBoingo: Yeah, Top Quarter million bitches!
mircea_popescu: well... if they're slow altogether like serving the js that may also account.
mircea_popescu: shit, if only the transfer weren't a zipfile, i could be 50k richer
mircea_popescu: "Congratulation, Transfer $50,000 has been today transferred the account, attached is the transfer copy ( proof of payment) for your view."
Vexual: hi, how goes the qntra.net traffic?
mircea_popescu: i shall file this nugget away in my archives of data.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's why women invented dating.
asciilifeform: incidentally, imho one of the best ways to learn about the character of someone you recently met, is to watch him solve puzzle.
mircea_popescu: this is imo a major contribution to western thought.
mircea_popescu: e bien nette pour voir tous les principes, et ensuite l'esprit juste pour ne pas raisonner faussement sur des principes connus.
mircea_popescu: Mais, dans l'esprit de finesse, les principes sont dans l'usage commun et devant les yeux de tout le monde. On n'a que faire de tourner la tête, ni de se faire violence; il n'est question que d'avoir bonne vue, mais il faut l'avoir bonne; car les principes sont si déliés et en si grand nombre, qu'il est presque impossible qu'il n'en échappe. Or, l'omission d'un principe mène à l'erreur; ainsi, il faut avoir la vu
mircea_popescu: Différence entre l'esprit de géométrie et l'esprit de finesse. - En l'un, les principes sont palpables, mais éloignés de l'usage commun ; de sorte qu'on a peine à tourner la tête de ce côté-là, manque d'habitude : mais, pour peu qu'on l'y tourne, on voit les principes à plein; et il faudrait avoir tout à fait l'esprit faux pour mal raisonner sur des principes si gros qu'il est presque impossible qu'ils éch
BingoBoingo: Marketing though is making a hand with mayonaise
mircea_popescu: but anyway, granted, the classical terminology is geometry & finesse.
mircea_popescu: finesse is the ability to make mayonaise by hand. a practice, anyone can be taught it.
asciilifeform: finesse: convince deer to shoot himself in the head with one bullet.
mircea_popescu: how can you argue with that ? it's *exactly* what it is.
mircea_popescu: "1. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit."
mircea_popescu: i dunno. shooting a deer with a single bullet is finesse. taming it is a different thing.
mircea_popescu: which is, for lack of a different term, feminine guile.
mircea_popescu: of course they do select for the best quality in mathematicians
asciilifeform: hence why they are memorable.
asciilifeform: all the linked puzzles have this property.
asciilifeform: if you can't 'draw' it in your head after reading this - drink less.
nubbins`: "Suppose A, B, C and D denote the points on the sides of the square, in order. Connect A and C. Draw a perpendicular from B to the segment AC. Let point D0 lie on the perpendicular given that the distance BD0 is the same as the length of AC. Then D0 belongs to the same side (or extension of the side) of the square as D. See Figure 14. Once we know from DD0 how the square is oriented, the rest is easy."
mircea_popescu: there are of course a bunch of iterative solutions to this problem, but that's "with computer" not ruler&compass.
mircea_popescu: maybe credits, but imo much too soon for that.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i get the idea, but i dun see that it's such a good idea, either for us or for them
BingoBoingo thinks for now flashing square is fine. Lets people know someone was brave enough to advertise.
cazalla: or better yet, we just scrap adverts all together and do trilema credits model
cazalla: rather than big ass banner at top of site, which we tried earlier
cazalla: text idea is that above or below an article, you have perhaps - sponsored name - blah blah come play mega dice win mega coins
cazalla: that won't keep the advert current once new news is posted
mircea_popescu: if people want links let them go the original route, do something newsworthy. have a designated pr liaison and there you go.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, we discussed using text links either above/below each article as well, thoughts?
mircea_popescu: this isn't THAT bad on either score.
asciilifeform: (for n00bz: in honest olympiad, the puzzles are either same for all players, or come out of a hat)