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BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: The video wiggles only because the world does
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: that video needs to be run through the google dewigglifier
BingoBoingo: Tim's the one with Vox
BingoBoingo: Wait, confused tech writers
assbot: W/o getting too mushy, this is the best job Ive ever had & my coworkers are the best bunch of folks Ive ever had the privilege to work with
assbot: A big chunk of the Sierra Nevada caught fracturing on video | Ars Technica
BingoBoingo: http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/a-big-chunk-of-the-sierra-nevada-caught-fracturing-on-video/ << California begins breaking off into the ocean
mthreat: has mircea_popescu been to vancouver recently? http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/so-thats-what-they-meant-by-the-beast-will-rise-up
kakobrekla: actually im not fixing that.
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)
punkman: someone tried to scam me as `punkman, just how high are these idiots
kakobrekla: whats with the double o, i dont know
kakobrekla: myea one is using floor and the other is round
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/
mircea_popescu: it's just this bucket shop where you can pretend like you're trading bitcoin
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
mircea_popescu: "Plus if you lose, you lose magic beans that were worthless anyway."
mircea_popescu: "There's another fun gotcha: the winnings are paid out in bitcoin. So if bitcoin falls, and you win the bet, the value of the magic beans you won also goes down."
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1121.08 B (85%) on Yes, 193.66 B (15%) on No : Buttcoin
mircea_popescu: i guess those are just random numbers basically
atcbot: [PityThePool Hashrate]: 0.69 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.12 TH/s
mircea_popescu: i don't get it. shouldn't 2 th breeze through ?
artifexd: mircea_popescu: yes those
mircea_popescu: 1.7th ?! that's a lot innit ?
atcbot: [PityThePool Hashrate]: 9.93 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.73 TH/s
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021650 B (Total: 473.44 B). Delta: -1.08 B. Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00022 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: "Why not addressing one of the several elephants in the room? Why is 90% of their revenue from recruiting new investonomers? Why is the exchange owner taking such a huge role in "educating" his "investors"? Why is every single company co-owned by the exchange owner?"
mircea_popescu: lol it's from a jimmothy thread ?
assbot: 1 results for '"with Cryptostocks than MPEx"' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=%22with+Cryptostocks+than+MPEx%22
mircea_popescu: !s "with Cryptostocks than MPEx"
kakobrekla: i just got this one today.
mircea_popescu: omg lok at that, kakobrekla is still on account #4. what happened there, their mods got thrown in jail or something ?
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: I'd hope that driving rates below zero and seeing little inflation would be more of a sign to keneysian economists that believe that inflation is solely driven by interest rates << there's no possible significance to keynesians anymore. they're a cult by now, like the collodial silver derps.
mircea_popescu: jurov: tl;dr: there is surprising health stuff we hide from ourselves because of our own culture << interesting, the chlamyda story.
mircea_popescu: you mean the ones i linked like two days ago ?!
artifexd: The coins that look all circuit board-y
mircea_popescu: jurov: obv the joke itself wasn't broadcast << yeah i think you can say that. what was it, 70s ?
mircea_popescu: artifexd: My "copper rounds" just showed up. They *are* nice. << which are these ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: It is unfortunately not possible to release HW-1 with an open firmware << lol
kakobrekla: too bad it isnt in the bash
The20YearIRCloud: I'd hope that driving rates below zero and seeing little inflation would be more of a sign to keneysian economists that believe that inflation is solely driven by interest rates
assbot: Bank of Japan drives rates below zero | Business | The Guardian
BingoBoingo: If mitochondria are some separate symiote we just depend on, there may be a way do a replacement
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: what would it take << beautiful question. let's say we find that chetty has, e.g., more efficient mitochondriae, that eat and shit less for given level of activity. and therefore require less cleanup. then we say 'can't fix this with aftermarket patch.' << I dunno mitochondral replacement might be an interesting experiment
ben_vulpes: strip the text out, hard wrap it at 80 chars, gpg sign it
HeySteve: yeah someone linked me to a good generic one, will use that with gpg sigs
HeySteve: I'd think so
The20YearIRCloud: I'll have to dig it up, but there's a few altcoin or places that say they can sign contracts via blockchain
thestringpuller: The20YearIRCloud what are you referring to?
The20YearIRCloud: HeySteve: i'm pretty sure they can, since they've talked alot about contracting via blockchain
thestringpuller: re: health. pharma corps suppress a lot of research to increase profits it seems.
ben_vulpes: i too support more sex disease research
rithm: i love menthol cigarettes too
rithm: i'm in good health, i've never broken a bone or had any type of major surgery
jurov: tl;dr: there is surprising health stuff we hide from ourselves because of our own culture
jurov: and every time i exercise and get skinner, i get sick
jurov: how do i know? i was diagnosed ch. pneumoniae (lung one, not the sexual one)
jurov: why it isn't object of research till recently? doctors were taught it's simple treatable veneral disease
jurov: that bugger tends to lurk in fat tissue where it is untreatable by antibiotics and slowly releases neurotoxins
jurov: re:smart pill - i think there may yet be surprising discoveries
jurov: obv the joke itself wasn't broadcast
jurov: BLIT << wasn't this actually invented by monty python? only they had it as deadly joke
artifexd: My "copper rounds" just showed up. They *are* nice.
thestringpuller: I challenge ben_vulpes to Starcraft!
truffles: it bugs me when i dont resolve things..
truffles: i tried to arrange that chess match with nubbins a while back kinda difficult to do when not in same room..
gribble: truffles was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 21 weeks, 4 days, 22 hours, 32 minutes, and 40 seconds ago: <truffles> tell me when the experiment is over
ben_vulpes: ;;seen truffles
ThickAsThieves: !up truffles
ThickAsThieves: means they won't let anyone named Mark have an account
thestringpuller: is this just for the lulz?
ThickAsThieves: NDA that greenaddress gas with NSA
thestringpuller: from who? themselves?
kakobrekla: It is unfortunately not possible to release HW-1 with an open firmware due to NDA restrictions, however you can verify with the specification that all commands do what they are supposed to do, and that clients are only sending documented commands.
kakobrekla: >GreenAddress : safer multiplatform wallet with multisignature, second factor confirmation of all transactions and anti-goxing protection.
mircea_popescu: no, i'm eusocial, and i take offense at the dilution of terminology.
mircea_popescu: just about zero scientific merit to it.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the entire "eusocial" bs is little more than socialist propaganda.
thestringpuller: probably more termites than ants
mircea_popescu: and this one is for my mom : http://i.imgur.com/68Uyseu.jpg
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.40933458 BTC to 15`374 shares, 9167 satoshi per share
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell hanbot http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Perfect-Timing-Photos-157-630x605.jpg
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 4.46195344 BTC to 1`149`988 shares, 388 satoshi per share
mircea_popescu: cheapness is, so to speak, the mother of fit.
mircea_popescu: but because they cost less to produce and less to maintain
mircea_popescu: there's more ants than people alive not because ants are better tea company
mircea_popescu: you underestimate the importance of cheapness.
chetty: but in practice it tends to reduce to the lowest common denominator not the most fit wins ...
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mircea_popescu: no real way to solve it.
mircea_popescu: this is usually obvious in computer game design. if there's a warrior, a mage and an archer, having them all "equally powerful" defeats the point of having 3 of them. having them "differently powerful" often reduces to the former.
mircea_popescu: it's universal this, absent universally pervasive dedication to diversity, diversity flounders because by its very definition it's multiple examples are not all equally fit.
mircea_popescu: well, the accident that guncotton is not made out of cottons while guns are made out of fllailed earth had something to do with it.
chetty: well that was the idea when they started ... but states as sovereign entities has gone away
mircea_popescu: but if you try make all teh places run on the same software...
mircea_popescu: have a pedo state, send all pedos there, have a 1950s household, send all 1950s types to utah, and so on and so forth