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mircea_popescu: motherfucker. every sink in
this place is on a different drip period
mircea_popescu: punkman if you go by wordcount nos may be ahead, but if you go by
the actual measure of
things, ie,
total BTC bet on no vs yes, yes prolly prevails
mircea_popescu: mike_c: but even
that was better
tested. hypothesis was formed before
the analysis, not as a result of
the analysis. << not
to mention independently
tested etc. more's
ther point, mpif wants unalligned risks, which is 90% of
thy
that even makes sense
punkman: although bitbet rules I
think favor
the No strategy,
the no double negatives
thing
punkman: but yeah of course I don't expect it
to hold
true for future bets
mircea_popescu: *: kakobrekla will burn your money for free. << looking at mpif on btcalpha
this stands
to scrutiny :D
mircea_popescu: moiety: how can you be wrong wanting
to earn your money XD << he was
talking
to
the "picking bets" line
punkman: no, I
the strategy doesn't use information it wouldn't have
mircea_popescu: punkman:
tweaked bitbet strategy: 10 BTC for 500x 0.02 bets, net gain 3.92 BTC << course
this is after you know all
the results. ain't rearview mirror
the best artefact, second only
to
the save game wand.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: interesting. jurov, you need more WoT :) <<
that convo with
thenewdeal was an eyepopper
to me.
mircea_popescu: so i guess
this is
the end of bitpay's business model. getting redditards
that hound fiat busiensses
to "take bitcoin"
to drive your parasitic business model only goes so far.
mircea_popescu: "We found out
that by using a little program
that Bitcoin uses, which is actually BitPay, we would have received US dollars," Pietro Frigerio, general manager of
the dealership, says in
the interview. "It's like if you come into
the dealership and you want
to buy a Lamborghini using gold bars, we would not accept it. So you'd go out, exchange it, and you'd come back
to us.
That was how it worked [with
the
Tesla and
the
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal:holy shit.
Tesla was at 30$ last year? << ikr ? inflation!
mircea_popescu: mike_c: have
to get retarded cryptic error message cuz it ran out of memory? << it doesn't know it ran out of memory, obviously.
mircea_popescu: benkay: you gotta earn
those <<< bwahaha look who's up
to date on his reading
mircea_popescu: the point
to searching
the logs is
to get binding negatives more
than anything else.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: assets search engine? already exists << no, it doesn't, because google is doing a shit job of indexing each log page, which my experts establish is because bad
titling shceme, but rather
than fixing
that (as proposed about
two weeks ago, it's in
the logs, SEARCH FOR IT :D) and hjoping google fills in
the holes (which experts say it never does once
they're in, no matter what happens), a complete solution is m
mircea_popescu: mike_c: news flash: bitcoind sucks. << now
trace
to who wrote
the sht in question.
mircea_popescu: if he's any good you get
the rest of
the day off and
tomorrow you can start working on a whole new stack
mircea_popescu: but odds are he might as well go "fuck
this shit, we're dropping
that vendor. standby"
mircea_popescu: now, if
the manager says something stupid now, like "why
the fuck are you going for xpath you hipster, just do
the
transforms by hand"
THEN poerhaps you got problems.
mircea_popescu: ce Oracle when it's ready, so long as
the database sends some decent form of XML. Once I get
this data subsystem done, I can finish
the business logic, which attaches
to
the nonfunctional demo you love so much.
mircea_popescu: vendor
to fix it but
they said 6
to 8 weeks for a patch, and our project deadline is sooner
than
that. I need
to interface with
the legacy system because even
though
the DBAs have ported
things over
to Oracle,
they're still sorting
things out and it's not reliable enough for me
to make any meaningful progress. Fortunately, I've
thought
this
through and abstracted
the data subsystem well enough
that I can drop-in repla
mircea_popescu: "I'm compiling a new version of libxml, so I can get
the Python parser working. I need
to do
that because LXML,
the Python binding, would crash under heavy load when I used
the system default version of libxml. I am using LXML because BeautifulSoup doesn't have support for XPath. I need
to do XPath
transforms against
the input because
the legacy system we interact with doesn't send well-formed XML. We
tried
to get
the
punkman: like maybe we need
to
tell root cause
to fuck off
punkman: stack
trace is great for perspective
mircea_popescu: "i am 12 and what is every option
that i have explored ???"
mircea_popescu: fuck you, if you don't recall why you're here you're red fucking riding hood here
to meet
the wolf, not a coder writing code.
mircea_popescu: benkay << i can't believe
the guy actually proposed an inability
to remember wtf he's doing and why as a sort of intellectual manliness.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: somebody who is poor knows which
truck has
the money. i guess you
take
that guy out back after he drives
the
truck where it is going. << you fundamentally misunderstand revolutions.
mircea_popescu: shitty middleeastern banks prolly keep usd/eur bills
too
mircea_popescu: mike_c: who understands
this: "ISIL stole $400 million in a raid on Mosul's central bank". what, it was stacked in
the corner in bills? << yes.
mircea_popescu: benkay: but !logsearch "foo" is going
to be rad, mthreat, kakobrekla << defo, point of entire exercize.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: hm, can you connect
to 0mq socket? << kako doesn't get enough sex so he's socketed all
the
things.
mircea_popescu: mthreat: if
things go smoothly we'll have a #bitcoin-assets log search engine in a few hours << o hey!
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: short
the world. << "the little bettor
that said no"
mircea_popescu: what is it with you bunch of ex brtish convicts over
there!!1
cazalla: mircea_popescu: i forgot
to add dogecoin creator jackson palmer
to
the list of .au scammers
mircea_popescu: benkay:
the label on
this beer can is misaligned by a whole damn .125 << maybe it's so it reads right when you're drunk
xmj: people
too lazy
to fix
their /etc/localtime.
punkman: I don't
think you were on .ro
time even when you were in .ro
mircea_popescu: who
the hell is still on origin
time after a month in a different
timezone i wish
to know ?!
mthreat: decimation: ya
that loud ass keyboard
decimation: mthreat your highest google result is
the bbs interview - I like your model M keyboard in
the background
decimation: are you going
to make
the logs searchable with his software?
TheNewDeal: what happens
to collateral when one sells an xdiff?
mike_c: source code will have
to be updated
too obv,
to add seeds.therealtco.org
to
the inital seed list.
mike_c: so
ThickAsThieves, if you put a nameserver record in your DNS (NS, not an A record) pointing seeds.therealaltcoin.org at
the above IP address, we should have seeding.
mike_c: ^ altcoin-seeder seems
to be working
assbot: Google unveils independent fork of OpenSSL called BoringSSL | Ars
Technica
TheNewDeal: you're
taking most of
the buyers out of
the world economy with
that statement
decimation: I use
the scare quotes for "buyer" because I'm not sure
the word applies
to someone giving money
to someone in exchange for something
they don't understand
TheNewDeal: I would assume corportations buy more computers
than people
though
decimation: it's hard
to convince even
the dumbest of
the masses
to pay more for less ... unless
they don't know
they are buying
decimation: well, a large chunk of "computer" "purchasers" have no idea what
the hell
they are buying, so I can see why
they would do it
TheNewDeal: and somehow
they continue
to make a profit...
decimation: asciilifeform - I was spec'ing some Intel chips
today, and realized
that
their marketing strategy (for all segments) relies on maximally obfuscating
the functionality of
their products
decimation: presumably
this is also good news for
those long bitcoin
decimation: now, why do you suppose
those who work in
the bezzle economy are showered with special favors while
those who work in
the "real economy" are
treated as serfs?
TheNewDeal: here it is punkman, begin your hypothesis
test on a fresh bet
decimation: they are automatically considered
to be independent contractors even when employed and given a salary.
decimation: Congress
took away
the presumption
that engineers can work as independent contractors,
thus reducing
their ability
to be self employed.
decimation: "Introduced by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Section 1706 added a subsection (d)
to Section 530 of
the Revenue Act of 1978, which removed "safe harbor" exception for independent contractor classification (which at
the
time avoided payroll
taxes) for workers such as engineers, designers, drafters, computer professionals, and "similarly skilled" workers."
assbot: 2010 Austin suicide attack - Wikipedia,
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decimation: if you really want
to move about mostly unbothered, I suggest a submarine. Or walk.
TheNewDeal: I will happily
trade my constant position location as long as I don't have
to have another one of
those updates. Do you hear me Big Brother? You've finally won
decimation: not many of
them in
turd world countries or
the ocean...
decimation: well,
the data
these guys use comes from "volunteers" who operate receivers attached
to internet connection
TheNewDeal: if all flights were
tracked so damn well at least I would have
to wake up
to another fucking Flight 379 update
decimation: except... " Blocking For security and privacy reasons information about some aircraft is limited or blocked." I wonder how you get into
their wot?
decimation: MLAT In some regions with coverage from several FR24-receivers we also calculate positions of aircraft with
the help of Multilateration (MLAT), by using a method known as
Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA). ...
That means
that MLAT coverage can only be achieved above about 10000 feet as
the probability
that signal can be received by four or more receivers increases with increased altitude.
assbot: How it works - Flightradar24.com - Live flight
tracker!
decimation: "mircea_popescu: well, for one if you fly high enough you don't actually have
to report" << it's my understanding
that you must file with IFR, which is generally high flight. Flying low in clear air (VFR) would be
the
ticket.
TheNewDeal: where's
the money
to be made for
those
that mkfut ?
ThickAsThieves: a couple
times a year jurov and i give mp a hard
time about x.diff design
TheNewDeal: I never knew about
the collateral cap on payout
mike_c: i believe withdrawal/asset
transfers are
the same
TheNewDeal: quiz question. If I were on coinbr, and
then bought a MPOE account, what would he charge
to
transfer shares
mike_c: understood. i just see you as a good potential customer for coinbr, so I was
trying
to dig into why you were hesitant. i
think i get it.
TheNewDeal: mike_c my reason against coinbr is more of opportunity cost versus harboring any malice against
the site or jurov