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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Oh, apparently the brain electricity stuff for sleep et al is being commercialized << well of course, everything's being commercialised, from cow piss (redbull) to an app to prove you're rich. dun really much matter if it works,
as long
as someone somewhere thought of it, it's available to buy.
cazalla: "Bitcoin prices have swung between more than $US900 to
as low
as $US341 this year
as enthusiasts try to address the digital currency's weaknesses, persuade consumers to embrace it and overcome governments' concerns that it could be misused by criminals. " ok lol
mircea_popescu: (ie, i didn't measure the effects, i inquired
as to the effects)
mircea_popescu: o btw, did i ever tell you how i illustrated the concept of current
as a thing to bright young minds ?
artifexd: I don't want anybody to feel bad. If I lose the 2btc it is not going to come close to affecting my net worth at all.
As tat says, the risk/reward seems about right.
ThickAsThieves: i tried to get nanotube to change how gribble does diff, but he's happy
as it is
mircea_popescu: well i mean sure, it could be over six. just
as well, it could not be. on the yes side, the observation that diff keeps increasing. on the no side, the observation that no trend lasts forever.
artifexd: The estimate for the current period is over 6%. That leaves,
as you say, another 6.5% for the next period.
BingoBoingo: Fuck me, this could resolve
as no the time I don't have money on it.
artifexd: Seeing
as mp has brought up the october bet a couple time and expressed surprise that it is so lopsided, I think he is expecting it to resolve
as no.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Indeed, just waiting for the media to present it
as new
mircea_popescu: have this wooden lattice corner in every office, tie bad girls to it
as need arises.
gribble: Nick 'guruvan', with hostmask 'guruvan!~guruvan@gateway/tor-sasl/guruvan', is identified
as user 'guruvan', with GPG key id AF02B22DA54E87F2, key fingerprint 50C9ACA3898D561CEFE518FCAF02B22DA54E87F2, and bitcoin address 1GUruvanCg4gS62XCeD9VbCzJhT1cyn2a3
guruvan: lucky for you, I don't earn money in USD, so it's not so much an issue
as it could be
gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'rithm', with hostmask 'rithm!~rithm@unaffiliated/rithm', is identified
as user 'jcpham', with GPG key id C71FB5ED6ACE04AF, key fingerprint F7299BD73879E866613EAB24C71FB5ED6ACE04AF, and bitcoin address 157CrafPv8oGC7f5vVFuLnE1BgDYUND4hq
rithm: i thought some repyment was made
as well but i'm not able to locate that at this time, although i'm sure i have a record of it somewhere
mircea_popescu: someone should pay that guy to write QT's Explanation
As To What All Pop Culture Is All About.
mircea_popescu: TomServo you know his famous explanation
as to what like a virgin is all about i imagine
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Doesn't seem to have been intended
as one.
assbot: Claudia Fugazza | Do
as I do
assbot: In D.C., a 13-year-old piano prodigy is treated
as a truant instead of a star student - The Washington Post
mircea_popescu: actually i just looked and it's not nearly
as bad
as it used to be
mircea_popescu: i guess these known affectations are overpopulated and so don't hold
as much perceived cachet,. huh. random tramp invited for her tits and drunken antics at some party wouldn't get away with claiming she's the real niece of napoleon's first wife quite
as well.
cazalla: we had hail
as well, my sugar snap peas are fucked
fluffypony: and ring signatures (group signatures) on inputs on tx's makes transactions on the blockchain unlinkable, since an observer can never know whether a utxo has actually been spent or is merely included
as part of a ring signature
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Indeed. I'v always heard the song
as what the fuck's sake.
mircea_popescu: watch the load on the server excitedly
as it increase slightly over a week or two
as a result.
mircea_popescu: "Thank you for this clarification Mr. Nakamoto. It has been an honor to be labeled by my friends
as "Satoshi's Drunk Uncle" and it's a moniker I'll wear proudly until the day I retire from Crypto. The Goldcoin (GLD) developers truly admire your work and strive to continue improving upon its design
as a tribute to your unparallelled genius. Your admirer and relative in spirit, MicroGuy."
☟︎☟︎☟︎ gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'X-Rob', with hostmask 'X-Rob!sid14615@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-sithgwmwidmkkdgh', is identified
as user 'xrobau', with GPG key id None, key fingerprint None, and bitcoin address 1F1pPNy6X86rUSKLqZAdsa7dSMoRy4KobG
X-Rob: So, taking a step back, and answering the big question 'what is stopping pool owners colluding to ensure pool B mines block 1234?' -- The answer is 'nothing'. And to expand on that, 'Nothing, and it's unlikely that someone would even notice,
as long
as the miners keep getting their pennies'
X-Rob: GetBlockTemplate is /better/, and you have more control over it,
as a miner, but honestly, statistically, no-one cares.
X-Rob: However: It's only supported by eligius,
as every other pool hates it.
jurov: i understood mp's situation
as some pool owners mining together so that one of them will claim the blocks, and betting accordingly
X-Rob: So you'd need to ACTUALLY have the pool find a block, or,
as I said earlier, have pool C find the block for pool B, but that's economically foolish.
mircea_popescu: it's prima facie evidence, and absent any actual economic incentive to lie it may stand
as acceptable "proof"
X-Rob: However. There are a large number of pools where you can only guess. And 'because I say so' is about
as much certainty
as you're going to get.
mircea_popescu: i mean what's the advantage to rolling this dice
as opposed to roling a proper, provably fair dice ?
jurov: Same thing. We roll the prize money over into a future race
as a cherry bonus.
jurov: If the miner hasn't been determined by the above methods, we roll the prize money over into a future race
as a cherry bonus.
nubbins`: i was walking through a parking lot last night and
as i passed this tracksuit-wearing guy, he shouts "GO FUCK YOURSELF, YA SLUT" at his phone and then starts walking really closely behind me
RagnarDanneskjol: mircea_popescu - fascinating
as always you human being!. think I'll need to read that twice at least and start learning some Rom
nubbins`: the older i get, the more confused i get about humans and their determination to poison their bodies and the world around them
as rapidly
as possible
nubbins`: oh, sorry,
as i'm reading up on them, i realize it's canadian only
nubbins`: "Instead,
as RCS reported last week, FODMAPS are a far more likely cause of the gastrointestinal problems attributed to gluten intolerance."
ThickAsThieves: in my own estimation, the gluten thing is more of a phenomenon relating to health-enthusiasts fucking up their bodies and either exacerbating gluten intolerance, or misdiagnosing it
as the problem, rather than the symptom
ThickAsThieves: started
as diet fads like Atkins and Paleo, but now it just feels downright progandist
gribble: Nick 'CheckDavid', with hostmask 'CheckDavid!uid14990@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-zpqgextiikcqxjxg', is identified
as user 'CheckDavid', with GPG key id None, key fingerprint None, and bitcoin address 1Mhu1uch32kgZstHpJNnbo61soPRXLQrDE
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: Yeah, I actually don't have many compilation/dependency problems any more, but it's not progressing very much
as a distribution
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> incidentally, it is shocking, outrageous but also very amusing to see just how copy-pasted the final days us is from the peak of romania. it's almost
as if instead of the romanian idiots copying teh superior us businessmen, the reverse happened. << i'd love to hear more about this
mircea_popescu: "BitVest Digital Mining Corp. selected PeerNova
as its strategic hardware supplier after an extensive review process. PeerNova's PetaOne(TM) enterprise class bitcoin mining systems offer the best combination of power, efficiency and cost for BitVest's planned large scale deployment."
cazalla: "Digital CC Limited (trading
as digitalBTC)(ASX: DCC) (the Company or digitalBTC) is pleased to announce it has leased ~11% of its first generation mining capacity to PeerNova Inc., for an upfront payment of US$460,000."
mircea_popescu: tely so), but the official version looks shakier with each year (by simple working of the poor quality of this kind of idiot's memory). The reason for pushing him out looks quaint
as that guy in Belgium kept a girl in a basement or whatever, and that's how things work now, by comparison and recourse to derpmemory. Because we're living in fucking post-literate society among barbarians. Here is my very important fanon on
mircea_popescu: "The 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's resignation just passed. The myths around the Watergate scandal are many and deep. Like all bits of American history, there is the official version and the truth. We will never know the truth, but the official version looks shakier with each year. The reason for pushing him out looks quaint
as our elected and unelected elite commit far more heinous acts and far greater
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this is why the death of ussr is a global calamity - even folks like jurov and mircea_popescu, who saw the underside of the colonial boot, might see the argument
as to how << i certainly do not see such.
decimation: asciilifeform:
as a Christian I find these 'godless anarcho-whatevers' to be amusing because they want to make usg into their god
jurov: it seems to me
as some kkind of ultracalvinism... without religious adherence to these principles whole thing falls apart
decimation: heh,
as the jews say, if you take the king's shekels you take the king's shackles
mircea_popescu: if not, inamushc
as it's the only thing that works, it works best anytime anywhere.
mircea_popescu: if "best" is defined specifically so
as to favour that, sure.
mircea_popescu: jurov no, it works fine just
as long
as one has the upper hand.
mircea_popescu: but also you know, many things that constitute th "reasonable" for they locked up into a tower / locked up into a 12yo body / locked away in that early phase of sleep melt away
as ridiculous once the full mind is awake
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so what's the beef with the polish-ukrainian confederacy ? just
as actual.
jurov: russians are orcs,
as well
jurov:
as opposed to "great russia"
mircea_popescu: jurov ah yea. well, i agreed with his "it's factual", but i never took an absolute view of this factuality. just,
as far
as it's worth determining, yeah, that's what it was.
mircea_popescu: same exact play
as they're currently trying and failing re bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: decimation the idea is for russian oil to be sold in the manner of oil owned by the us. it doesn't matter who gets paid,
as long
as the "pay" is in accounts run by thiel, and it all follows kyc etc.
decimation: I guess
as an american far away from everything I would vastly prefer russian hegemony over asia than crazy islam rule, but somehow my 'leaders' see things differently
mircea_popescu: decimation the russians are unable to do anything in the middle east,
as proven by their fabulous failures in afghanistan and cecenia. what's worse, they know this, and won't bargain for it.
mircea_popescu: He was a prime minister of Denmark who saw he could rise beyond Denmark by serving
as Washington’s puppet.
As prime minister he strongly supported Washington’s illegal invasion of Iraq, declaring that “we know that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.” Of course, the fool didn’t know any such thing, and why would it matter if Iraq did have such weapons. Many countries have weapons of mass destructi
decimation: asciilifeform: one can see a copy hanging in the nsa museum
as I recall
mircea_popescu: but
as far
as i recall, it was a serious source of friction between the third reich gauleiters and eastern european nobility, that the latter despised the former on the grounds of... well... this, exactly.