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The20YearIRCloud: kol - it wouldn't be hard as long as you had a option to withdraw the USD
kolinko: such a business would require option trading on the backend. but how could it trade options securely, as of today?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: tango piece: did you take the creature home as a pet ?
ThickAsThieves: for me, arguing against centralization as a broad value is silly
kolinko: as for people being bothered into doing this - it's a valid question, but one that can only be answered by trying it in practice
mircea_popescu: a system that either works as intended or not at all is the holy grail of unbreakability.
ThickAsThieves: decentralization as an ideal doesnt really exist, it's just a degree of centralization
mircea_popescu: now, if you want to go back and get diddled by THE SAME GUY AS LAST TIME, you're in for it.
kolinko: as for why would be they arsed - for provision/payment of course
kolinko: mircea: I'll read the misc in a sec. as for your volume - I know it well - I'm your user since 2012 iirc
fluffypony: you can't reconnect as a new IP fast enough
mircea_popescu: dos is dos, as long as you can't use a service because of a 3rd party it's a denial of service.
mircea_popescu: "This coin's enthusiasts contribute to the applied aspects of the CryptoNote technology. It has been launched as a fork of Bytecoin in April 2014. Bitmonero/Monero was subject to a quarrel among the community members on the choice of name. Nevertheless, its contribution is valuable to CryptoNote’s popularization. Moreover, it has the fastest block generation speed of 1 minute."
mircea_popescu: (this based on history of human tech, the speed of difussion of tech inovations as a function of their added efficiency. for instance the iron plow was about 7-8x more efficient than the shit it replaced, and it took over practically in the same generation. meanwhile longbows were not 2x more effectual over cataphracts, and they took about a century to take over)
mircea_popescu: fluffypony but my point here is as to market price, which really rarely reflects opex over capex
mircea_popescu: as individually poisonous as it may be.
mircea_popescu: that's the problem with the human species : that because we're monkeys, which means we use young men as basically building material
mircea_popescu: dub that's a solved problem, as you describe
BingoBoingo: RagnarDanneskjol: Much of the present irrelevant doubt, as opposed to relevant doubt connects to harvest of this irrelevant shit\
dub: A similar belief in the mystical power to avert bullets had earlier been reported among Islamic groups in Africa and Asia[7] and America, such as the Ghost Shirt Movement.
BingoBoingo: OSX is as much blasphemy as the devil
asciilifeform: same as the proverbial century-old wine bottles.
asciilifeform: pronounce as 'champions' for extra bite.
mircea_popescu: a crt you can adjust to be as unluminous as you'd like. a lcd, no. has a minimum.
asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRhmNROtH44 << interesting to students of chemistry as well as noob machinists who would, had they not seen it, mounted Al shaft in PTFE bearing...
gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'Knot_Yeti', with hostmask 'Knot_Yeti!~user@unaffiliated/benkay', is identified as user 'ben_vulpes', with GPG key id 2AFA1A9FD2D031DA, key fingerprint 4F7907942CA8B89B01E25A762AFA1A9FD2D031DA, and bitcoin address None
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Westchester | mostly suburban county bordering the bronx to the south and fairfield county, ct to the north. largely perceived as a haven for wealthy investment bankers, ...
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: multiple jobs, none of which have fixed hours as such
decimation: EMP from ionospheric H-bomb is a bigger threat to small electronics, but can be defended as ascii points out
decimation: sounds legit. I second diametric in that discussion the other day, I like arch as a former gentoo user
asciilifeform: why does it have to be modern-as-in-right-now
asciilifeform: upme_boolcrap: calculates m. petitjean's chirality index for alpha-quartz crystal lattice of growing size. just as printed on the box.
decimation: as memory becomes slower relative to cores*cache available the incentive is to micro-manage how data is shoveled into the cpus
asciilifeform: 'programmers' is a ware in the same sense as 'food'
BingoBoingo: decimation: OSX is not Mac OS and is not a thing I recognize as existing.
BingoBoingo: <decimation> asciilifeform: no as in if it must keep up with real-time hardware << Sounds like someone needs to buy Alpha IP from Intel
decimation: asciilifeform: no as in if it must keep up with real-time hardware
asciilifeform: decimation: requires, as in, to work in any logical sense at all?
BingoBoingo: decimation: You know StL was considered as a potential replacement DC after it was sacked by Canada
decimation: I was thinking to myself this evening: what if Washington DC were washed into the sea tomorrow? usg's contingency plans would probably be to move the government west, in the middle of the kulaks they have been harassing for decades. I don't think that 'contingency usg' would survive as an entity that we would recognize.
assbot: In D.C., a 13-year-old piano prodigy is treated as a truant instead of a star student - The Washington Post
decimation: usg's sub-agents are continuing a fight against anything usual: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-dc-a-12-year-old-piano-prodigy-is-treated-as-a-truant-instead-of-a-star-student/2014/09/08/58962746-3727-11e4-bdfb-de4104544a37_story.html
chalbersma: Not sure to be honest. I'm a Sys Admin by day so it seemed natural to bring those skills to bitcoin as I started to get into it.
asciilifeform: carry away the earth in buckets, if you have to, in pant pockets - as pictured in 'the great escape.'
assbot: xrobau comments on BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1121.08 B (85%) on Yes, 193.66 B (15%) on No
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2fzu74/bitbet_bitcoin_to_surpass_berkshire_as_an/ckezgkh
assbot: Mark_Karpeles_Jr comments on BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1121.08 B (85%) on Yes, 193.66 B (15%) on No
mircea_popescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2fzu74/bitbet_bitcoin_to_surpass_berkshire_as_an/ckeykpc
X-Rob: p2pool with coins that have ultra-short block times cause issues, as the p2pool share time is 1/10th of the coin block time
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: nothing's really wrong with p2pool in bitcoin, as it has a decent block time
mircea_popescu: well so a) word it better ; b) obscure sports bets 2 btc as per whenever i announced this.
TheNewDeal: and it could have been open for as much as 6 weeks for betting
assbot: When adopting African kids with AIDS becomes mandatory, urinate in public. As a sex offender you're not allowed near children. /hashtag/lifehacks?src=hash
asciilifeform: the observation was specifically about sleep (rather than the particular activity during the day, such as killings)
asciilifeform: in case #2, just as you might feel like it, the bells might well ring.
asciilifeform: same as difference between ordinary sex and working as 'crack whore'
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> irregular schedule because you don't feel like sleeping in a given week is rather different from because phone rings and you have to get in a wheeled coffin because otherwise starve. << I prefer to think of my car as an ablative Iron Man suit that protects me from exertion and damage at high speeds
mircea_popescu: rounds as in coins
gernika: `punkman tried to scam me as well.
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: B (85%) on Yes, 193.66 B (15%) on No | closing in 5 months 1 week| weight: 46`810 (100`000 to 1)
kakobrekla: http://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/
assbot: Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist - Slashdot
assbot: Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist - Slashdot
BingoBoingo: http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/09/10/1922252/researcher-fired-at-nsf-after-government-questions-her-role-as-1980s-activist
punkman: someone tried to scam me as `punkman, just how high are these idiots
mircea_popescu: as per title, 193.66. as per page display, 193.65
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1121.08 B (85%) on Yes, 193.66 B (15%) on No | closing in 5 months 1 week| weight: 46`812 (100`000 to 1)
mircea_popescu: something good did come out of this tho. hey kakobrekla check this out : http://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/
BingoBoingo: "Best part of that bet: The "scams" link lists the highest volume USD (Bitfinex) exchange as a scam AND it lists Coinbase as a scam."
assbot: RghoNomic comments on BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1121.08 B (85%) on Yes, 193.66 B (15%) on No
BingoBoingo: Lolzy http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2fzu74/bitbet_bitcoin_to_surpass_berkshire_as_an/ckeb3o8
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1121.08 B (85%) on Yes, 193.66 B (15%) on No : Buttcoin
mircea_popescu: this is pretty lulzy http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2fzu74/bitbet_bitcoin_to_surpass_berkshire_as_an/
jurov: such as, wide occurrence of latent chlamydia
jurov: BLIT << wasn't this actually invented by monty python? only they had it as deadly joke
chetty: well that was the idea when they started ... but states as sovereign entities has gone away
mircea_popescu: anyway, what irks me isn't the weirdo stuff in the us as much as the memetic tendency. if it worked like, "if you want women to park anywhere and bakers to bake anything, go to ohio ; if you want women to not be allowed to park anywhere, go to montana" etc it'd be fine.
asciilifeform: diametric: really? i was told it was banned as 'racist' at one point.
mircea_popescu: does that russian forum actually expect someone to type out (2/3 * x ** (2/3))/((3/4 * x ** (3/4) -(6/7 * x ** (6/7) )+x as a reply to a captcha ?
asciilifeform brings this up as example of something that you certainly, definitely, under threat of harsh punishments, could not get away with in allocation of american housing.
mircea_popescu: haha they actually use integrals as captchas ?
assbot: Logged on 06-04-2014 14:59:26; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok. considering the what/how debate as accepted foundation : at any time there's a number of turkeys and a number of engineers.
mircea_popescu: the idea holds water tho. money is supposed to work as an iq-meter.
asciilifeform: gotta be in usa << currently. (as discussed in the past)
rithm: mircea_popescu i totally do not follow the chat and just jump in randomly as if i knew what were going on
The20YearIRCloud: At least, a trailer lives up to code when it was built, and it isn't illegal to use one that's old as dirt
ThickAsThieves: i think eating frequency is a factor as well, metabolism
The20YearIRCloud: It's a fixed rate credit line, which is nice as we can go out, buy properties, refinance said properties, then just continue to buy more
mircea_popescu: HOW you get there may be as important as how much time you spend, neh ?
asciilifeform doesn't know the secret of the hypothetical, legendary 'motorized sleep.' but suspects that, just as eight cylinder engine is an improvement over the most skilled runner, there could be a means for improvement here.
asciilifeform: just as the example you gave, of stimulant abusers - most of the documented medical sequelae, afaik, are from extreme sleep deprivation...
mircea_popescu: i read the hypothesis here as "stages 1 and 2 can be safely removed"
mircea_popescu: the human body being a final case of "the protocol is the code". it works like we've discussed, as this insane collection of things repaired by malfunction in unassociated things
mircea_popescu: people who use it outside of that envelope, such as for instance habitual stimulant abusers, stock brokers and other such "high stress" occupations usually die of heart failure.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: vestigial waste of time. <<< why <<<< if you pharmacologically zap stages 3 and 4 of sleep - eventually death. stages 1 and 2 are spandrels. they're, as far as anybody knows, worthless - if you sleep only 1 and 2, approx. same as not sleeping at all. but our meat is not equipped for skipping straight to 3 normally.
mircea_popescu: and yes, you can login with nameserv from a webirc session as well as from any other session
nubbins`: that douche on the left has essentially the same name as me
mircea_popescu: (i also have a bet with some unfriendly parties as to whether that film' gonna be criminal insanity or not, but that's a different story)
mircea_popescu: as a v0.1. then for v0.2 of this, have an actual crypto signed procedure where everyone who reads a line of code signs and it's wot-abble this.
mircea_popescu: other than proper cryptography for all foss, as discussed coupla days re gentoo overlays etc, i would fucking love for all lines of code to come with a counter. ☟︎☟︎