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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mocsny had other interesting quirks. he was, for instance, ideologically opposed to driving car (pollution!)
mircea_popescu: she's a pretty girl, she's ambitious, she's for some reason chosen to fuck herself over the mocsny way.
Pierre_Rochard: so now we pretend to do shit and hope it sticks.
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: apprenticeship system broke down due to minimum wage at the low end, and college at the “high end”
mircea_popescu: what is this thing with youths where they want to pretend like they're doing shit.
thickasthieves: "The Chamber of Digital Commerce announced itself on Saturday at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago. The group is registered as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit, which allows it to act as a lobbyist, and is being led by Perianne Boring, a former journalist and Congressional staffer. It has early backing from RRE Ventures and Tally Capital, which are leading a seed-round of fund
kakobrekla thinks the bus leads to railway station.
decimation: That's what Solzhenitsyn thought about the West back then
decimation: He remembered having seen several trucks like this today in various parts of Moscow. Taking out his notebook he wrote with his dark-red fountain pen: 'Now and again on the streets of Moscow you meet food delivery vans, clean, well-designed and hygienic. One must admit that the city's food supplies are admirably well organized.'" ☟︎
decimation: "Buffeting its load of tightly packed bodies, the gaily painted orange and blue truck drove on through the streets, passed a railway station and stopped at a crossroads. There, halted by a traffic-light, stood the dark-red car belonging to the Moscow correspondent of the Paris newspaper LIBERATION, on his way to a hockey match at the Dynamo Stadium. On the side of the van the correspondent read the words: MYACO. VIANDE. FLEISCH. MEAT. ☟︎☟︎
decimation: At the end of "the first circle", the prisoners are being removed from Mavrino in a vehicle disguised as a meat truck:
decimation: no, the wagen is for those who refuse the bus :)
kakobrekla: you mean the wagen.
decimation: "we have to accept that we can't give real entropy to those that need it, so shut up and get on the bus
decimation: asciilifeform: re: linux on /dev/random "To me it sounds from your description that you may well be on the edge of "too anal". Real life _has_ to be taken into account, and not accepting entropy because of theoretical issues is _not_ a good idea"
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 629.46, Best ask: 630.94, Bid-ask spread: 1.48000, Last trade: 631.61, 24 hour volume: 5421.77762335, 24 hour low: 618.46, 24 hour high: 632.96, 24 hour vwap: 625.997690338
assbot: It's so strange that you don't remember any of your poetry.
Pierre_Rochard: Agreed, I suspect the people who respond to bloomberg surveys are a few layers below “financial elite”
mircea_popescu: anymore than i'd hold anything jezebel publishes against "hot college sluts"
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard i wouldn't hold anything bloomberg says against the "financial elite".
benkay: so what'd i miss last two days?
assbot: /dev/random (H. Peter Anvin; Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Pierre_Rochard: 19% hold that view for U.S. Treasuries
Pierre_Rochard: 55% of the ‘financial elite’ believe Bitcoin is “Already a bubble”
assbot: ought to be SOP, but is it? - Pastebin.com
BingoBoingo: Ah yeah, Why the connected car shouldn't be
assbot: With hacking, music can take control of your car | ITworld
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: still pales in comparison to the mp3 CAN bus hack: http://www.itworld.com/security/139794/with-hacking-music-can-take-control-your-car
asciilifeform: more on the subject: http://yarchive.net/risks/vincennes_shootdown.html
asciilifeform: (before anyone asks - no, i have not the faintest idea whether norman yarvin is a relative of curtis)
chetty: Date: 07 Sep 85, now thats cool asciilifeform tyvm
assbot: Intellectual and Practical Foolishness: The Precautionary Principle « Roy Spencer, PhD
assbot: In re “Philosophy : Freedom of scientific information” pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, that's on trilema.
assbot: Joshua Bell playing violin in DC Metro Station. Please Stop and Hear the Music!!! - YouTube
princessnell: too many people have been getting by on bs for so long that few know anything else
princessnell: ya well, in the us instruments are relative, maaan
mircea_popescu: nautilus coin guy needs to learn to play an instrument.
princessnell: i think that's right
mircea_popescu: they who have the rubens and van dykes win.
mircea_popescu: in general you can evaluate who's going to win a battle just by looking at piperquality.
princessnell: well, i'm going to school for econ, which has applicable tools
mircea_popescu: and no re the pipers.
mircea_popescu: you sound like you went to school for this or something.
mircea_popescu: princessnell: o endogeneity. hookers/porn/sexbots lower cost for men of lacking power. good for high power males, high time preference women. negative externality for most others. increases pressure for neotenized males, masculinized females. <<< precisely.
princessnell: the pipers only have to be as good as the mice they're leading
mircea_popescu: "But what made Google successful as the world’s preferred search engine was not great “community” or shibe memes or aggressive marketing on Twitter." << orly.
mircea_popescu: i get more for .1 a tit for crying out loud. wasn't the usg supposed to be like rich and powerful and whatnot ?
mircea_popescu: one'd hope teh us propaganda drive to support their braindamage will collect better heads than the twinkletoss twins and nautilus coin guy.
mircea_popescu: princessnell: As the creator of a digital currency, I..." << derp's never ending quest for relevancy.
princessnell: thickasthieves v heavy on the propagandaspeak
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 18802851546.1 based on data since last change | 19651756602.8 based on data for last three days
pankkake: a fiat currency will disappear in 27 years on average. So, if you live outside the US […] the currency you use in your daily life will likely go away in 27 years
assbot: SecondMarket Hosts Bitcoin Talk for Professional Women's Network
princessnell: o endogeneity. hookers/porn/sexbots lower cost for men of lacking power. good for high power males, high time preference women. negative externality for most others. increases pressure for neotenized males, masculinized females.
thickasthieves: <+fluffypony> "I think money is exactly ... lulz abound
fluffypony: and he "created" NautilusCoin (read: someone else did the work)
thickasthieves: <+princessnell> "As the creator of a digital currency, I..." /// wtf is this, major media shilling alts day?
bitcoinpete: fluffypony: or "I’m not “hyping” these coins. These are advancements in cryptocurrency that not many people have noticed yet."
fluffypony: "I think money is exactly the same. I don’t think consumers will care much for the community their coin has; they will care about the algorithm. Or, more accurately, they will care about how the coin performs (mining cost, speed, security) because of that algorithm."
fluffypony: then the market is like "lol wtf is this shit"
fluffypony: that's David Seaman doing the pump
assbot: How NautilusCoin could change the digital currency marketforever
asciilifeform invites anyone who knows some other kind of haiku to substitute that.
asciilifeform: 'Since my body is a shell / I am going to take it off / and put on a glory that will never wear out.' (one mr. kenzo ishijima)
asciilifeform: mthreat: haiku << 'If only we might fall / Like cherry blossoms in the spring / So pure and radiant !'
princessnell: "As the creator of a digital currency, I..."
assbot: Time for digital currencies to grow upbitcoinommentary
kakobrekla: i just like the pics.
fluffypony: two of those are phrases, meh
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: hey everyone that is awake : please put in a list of five words that you'd estimate are the key terms for [your interest of] b-a << history, finance, philosophy, digital security, bitcoin
asciilifeform: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1202453/human-random-number-generation << this topic will never really die, will it.
danielpbarron: "If you would like to purchase XCP for Bitcoins, we advise that you use a centralized exchange for the time being. We are in the process of developing features that will make the purchase of XCP on Counterwallet very simple, and expect these to be working soon. Thanks for your patience." via http://counterwallet.co/ #AmazingCompany
thickasthieves: i should do $500/seat L2Bitcoin seminars for the local mexicans and guatemalans
chetty: asciilifeform, there is something in the usa other than mice and roaches?
asciilifeform: chetty: if fedex could leave usa to the mice and roaches, now would probably be the time. but don't hold your breath waiting for this.
mircea_popescu: but yes, i daresay that i'd still chat up women in the andes. wtf do i care about survival anyway.
mircea_popescu: no actual cannibalism so far tho
mircea_popescu: i know a few women i'm kinda tempted to eat with some regularity.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: women also aren't food - but the proverbial airplane crash castaway might beg to differ.
mircea_popescu: as the weirdo ages and frustration builds, this distinction becomes less readily accessible. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: which is really where the problem starts. overactive sex drive makes kids misrepresent the facts of the matter : it's true that women make for convenient release, but it's not true that's what women ARE.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it also doesn't ship with any particular rule as to how it is to be employed or manifested.
mircea_popescu: it's roughly the equivalent of "callin it"
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones there's this derpitude tradition where noobs claim firstbiggest first to be one day biggest.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unless i misunderstand, you're trying to say to a fellow in padded cell, 'stop banging head.' generally good advice - except that sex drive doesn't ship with an 'off' switch.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think there's a space between arguing that nobody should bang head against wall and arguing everyone should be god.
asciilifeform: mike_c: i vaguely recall some joker who wrote a complete 386 pc emulator in about 1k of perl. that's the kind of thing being spoken of, i think.
mike_c: anybody can write a 10,000 line perl script. it's making it a 100 line script that's hard.
los_pantalones: lots of transactions take place OTC on skype
los_pantalones: you are also thinking of the word "platform" too narrowly
los_pantalones: that is just their claim
los_pantalones: thickasthieves we have a private one to our customers
thickasthieves: how is coinbase claiming they are largest then?
asciilifeform: 'Do you also lecture people with Down's Syndrome on how they could learn to write 10,000 line Perl scripts if they just take it one step at a time? For some things there seems to be some minimum takeoff velocity.'
thickasthieves: i thought the rest were real exchanges
los_pantalones: that match that description
los_pantalones: so there are many
thickasthieves: whatever they it is
los_pantalones: what is the current market rate?