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mircea_popescu: of course it'd fly along with whatever the french, the english and so forth figure out.
mircea_popescu: jurov it's only nonsense in the form presented. otherwise, the eu does believe it has jurisdiction over children above and beyond that of the family.
asciilifeform: jurov: nope. in russia, people have successfully resisted, for the most part, the 'civilized' western notion that the crown has business taking children.
mircea_popescu: "putin doesn;t understand how the world works"
jurov: that will take kids away from heteros and give them to queers
mircea_popescu: assbot> Russia and the Menace of Unreality - The Atlantic << gotta love the english agitprop, this entire "the gauls don't really exist so clearly they couldn't be at the gates" thing.
asciilifeform: jurov: how is that disinfo ?
jurov: i see here that horrible disinfo leaking from the east
jurov: asciilifeform but it's true
xmj: or maybe not; they're slavs.
assbot: Russia and the Menace of Unreality - The Atlantic
BingoBoingo: DMT and GHB... tripping balls?
Apocalyptic: you may want to change that asap
mike_c: the only surprise to me was just how low the correlation was.
mircea_popescu: congrats, you basically did ta :D
mike_c: looking at any reasonable timeframe it is nothing. I tried to force it. took just the last few months, removed some of the recent dip/spikes, and got it up to 0.5
mircea_popescu: lower than .2 ?!
mike_c: i don't know about stand alone, but it is when combined with the exchange rate in any fashion.
mircea_popescu: mike_c there's always ~some~ correlation. since you did the math anyway, what is it ?
mike_c: ThickAsThieves: by the way, i did some rounds of correlation analysis. s.mpoe continues to defy explanation. there is certainly no correlation to the exchange rate.
atcbot: [PityThePool Hashrate]: 0.00 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.09 TH/s
assbot: Police training firms teaching helps fuel rise in cash seizures on U.S. highways | The Washington Post
mircea_popescu: so they're really that poor.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> are us folk really that poor ? << Cash averse. Love their plastic
assbot: Cops using controversial database to identify search and seizure targets
asciilifeform: http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/09/police-seizure-black-asphalt-network << apparently, 'asphalt' sells subscription to a db of who is best to plunder and where to find them.
mircea_popescu: are us folk really that poor ?
mircea_popescu: I got a receipt and an affidavit indicating the amount seized and why. I petitioned the court for the return of my money and the court denied me saying that possession of that much cash constituted probable cause of drug activity and that I should be happy not to be in jail for drugs."
mircea_popescu: I got pulled over in Nebraska and when I was getting my license out of my wallet the officer saw a $100 bill in there and ended up confiscating the $400 I had on me as suspected drug money without ever arresting me or even charging me with a crime.
mircea_popescu: "When I go on a road trip I always carry enough cash to buy gas to get to my destination should my credit card stop working.
asciilifeform: you can apparently buy... shirts and screw-drivers there.
chalbersma: I wish that that description was overstating it.
asciilifeform: https://blackasphalt.org << they have a site, yes.
asciilifeform: 'It involves a nationwide network of enforcement agencies (except in the few states that have banned it) that operates with the help of a vast private intelligence service called “Black Asphalt”'
mircea_popescu: rogue state is going to rogue state.
mircea_popescu: The CBC is warning Canadians about a U.S. program where America law enforcement officers — from federal agents to state troopers right down to sheriffs in one-street backwaters — are operating a vast, co-ordinated scheme to grab as much of the public's cash as they can through seizure laws.
assbot: American shakedown: Police won't charge you, but they'll grab your money - World - CBC News
mircea_popescu: FabianB nice tickmarks
assbot: Loper OS » Thumbs Down for Clojure
asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42&cpage=2#comment-16766 << loltron! flamefest from '09 still going strong. they never, ever get tired.
BingoBoingo: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5686297&cid=47884135 << "Welcome to America, Canada's version of Mexico."
mircea_popescu: !up tryphe_
assbot: Emanuel Cleaver Molotov cocktail: Black Missouri congressman's office targeted.
RagnarDanneskjol: it just seems the unit tests for the bot would be considered flooding the channel
RagnarDanneskjol: i only communicate that which is critical as concisely as possible. sorry, dont know any other hiring managers using irc, so
RagnarDanneskjol: mircea_popescu - to be clear, do you want me to dump all that unit testing data to the logs? or just leave it alone and hope it comes out right?
mircea_popescu: i do it all the time. "he's x y z looking to k". not really that big a deal.
RagnarDanneskjol: can't attach candidate resumes to logs
mircea_popescu: yes, the log does. it helps me too, so.
RagnarDanneskjol: sorry - it helps me keep track of things
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol there's really no need for all these emails.
mircea_popescu: so serbia more equal than us right ?
asciilifeform: 'some more equal than others' (tm)
mircea_popescu: have i been lied to omg
mircea_popescu: aren't they all equal over there ?
mircea_popescu: what, i thought this is socialism.
asciilifeform: serbia's mouth is a little too full of nato cock
mircea_popescu: i suppose serbia should bomb the us now.
mircea_popescu: lmao security concerns indeed. "if anyone not working for the usg found out what we do in thhis here so called "courthouse" they'd prolly set us all on fire"
mircea_popescu: The tape's existence, first reported by The Salt Lake Tribune Wednesday, came to public light five months after federal authorities who watched the tape cleared the marshal of wronging. "
mircea_popescu: "Citing security concerns, a Utah federal judge is refusing to release courthouse surveillance footage that captured a US marshal killing a defendant during a gang-related trial.
mircea_popescu: Around 60 percent of Bitcoin trading is against the Chinese yuan, 32 percent is against the dollar and 3 percent against the euro, the BoE said. /// see what wahsing does << "we read something on a tripod homepage and now believe this is the world"
The20YearIRCloud: wonder why that is
assbot: Judge wont release surveillance video of courthouse cop killing defendant | Ars Technica
punkman: I don't see the purpose of their algorithm
assbot: Logged on 30-06-2014 05:21:05; asciilifeform: idea was, you send, e.g. some btc to addr A, in n parcels. low bits of the parcels encode, e.g. an ltc address. to which the corresponding amount of ltc is then sent.
nubbins`: see if there's any interest
gribble: #21426 Thu Sep 11 13:50:24 2014 nubbins` SELL 1.0 Radiohead autographed band photo @ 0 BTC (Signed by all members. PM offers. Includes original packaging & letter from W.A.S.T.E.)
ThickAsThieves: all i really remember about the scene was the famous inverted jenny
ThickAsThieves: was in the stamp club
BingoBoingo: Stamps, mostly being a tool for money transmission
BingoBoingo: The problem with Baseball cards was them emulated the utility of stamps too much, but without understanding why stamps got so expensive for the rarities
ThickAsThieves: the one i have at least, i think, i forget all the opeechee topps variant stuff
nubbins`: ahaha, the 90s
nubbins`: i've got bobby hull's autograph on a vuarnet t-shirt!!
ThickAsThieves: i think i have a brett hull rookie
ThickAsThieves: i still have all his cards somewhere i think
nubbins`: lots of old coinage, too
ThickAsThieves: look at them now
ThickAsThieves: when i was a kid, the elder generation thought baseball cards were good investments
ThickAsThieves: any collectible is at the mercy of its popularity
TomServo: Doh, I missed the 'in btc' part - for shame.
assbot: Some are born to endless night.
TomServo: I've wondered about this too - what are the arguments against guns, jewelry, land?
nubbins`: actually, i can't think of any other examples where the value of something in btc steadily increases over time
ThickAsThieves: i wonder if they considered mapping thay logic to themselves
ThickAsThieves: "A significant risk to digital currencies' sustained use (is) that they will not be able to compete on cost without degenerating ... to a monopoly miner, thereby ... exposing them to risk of system-wide fraud," the BoE said.
nubbins`: so far the market has been completely ignoring fluctuations in exchange rates
ThickAsThieves: Around 60 percent of Bitcoin trading is against the Chinese yuan, 32 percent is against the dollar and 3 percent against the euro, the BoE said. /// see what wahsing does
nubbins`: ThickAsThieves: the edge you have to walk with casascius coins is btc value vs fiat value
ThickAsThieves: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/11/us-britain-boe-bitcoin-idUSKBN0H61ID20140911 funny i read the BoE thing and got a positive impression
asciilifeform: what you do << 'what do you do when a shell lands in your trench? jump up twenty metres and scatter yourself around.'
mircea_popescu: matters not. still gotta cover for the bets you make
mircea_popescu: fifty two wins into my streak... what do you do ?
asciilifeform: chance of this, vs. asteroid ?
ThickAsThieves: xbond and nam's bond did ok in the end
mircea_popescu: to cover for the risk of ruin.
asciilifeform: same as the ancient question 'why does god need a starship'
asciilifeform never understood why these needed investment
mircea_popescu: ie, you could bankroll them