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adlai: "Overfitting generally occurs when a model is excessively complex" << my model currently consists of: the order book, the trades, my balance, my trades. can'
t get simpler than this, although that also means that any change gets closer to "excessively complex"
mircea_popescu: In Bitcoin this responsibility is based not in law, but fact. LocalBitcoins chose to fart on their plates and some of their weaker customers who trusted them are now ill. It doesn'
t matter where what was served was contaminated, but that LocalBitcoins served poison. Yes the consumers ought to have known better, but in the future knowing better means escewing a venue that sells turds as sausages on the virtue of both be
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "But they still served the shit. Don'
t blame the mice when you find them in your kitchen. Place the person who invited the mice by spreading crumbs. If you have a platform and incorporate a third party element into it you are responsible for whatever harm that element brings.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: roaches don'
t particularly care if you know that you have roaches. << then why do they take so much care to avoid the light ?
mircea_popescu: Because one of these days we won'
t be able to even make the minimum monthly payment, and, keeping to the household budget analogy, in those circumstances what happens isn'
t that the family goes bankrupt, what happens is that the couple gets divorced. Pray on this."
mircea_popescu: "So it is inevitable that a deal will be struck by August 2, because that deal doesn'
t actually mean anything. This a is husband and wife arguing about rebalancing the household budget, each pretending they aren'
t going to pay the electric until he's agreed to cut back on beer and she's agreed not to be such a bitch. Whether they do it or not is irrelevant, the electric's still getting paid. The electric always gets
mircea_popescu: in any case, the fed didn'
t go "mp sunk gavin's idiocy and with that our last hope to subvert bitcoin"
pete_dushenski: why don'
t other countries pursue this? lack of domestic consumption?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: actual musicians tell me that the head music is a mirage. << this is correct. much like "ideal woman" that one wouldn'
t actually suffer in practice.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: you actually don'
t need any to have fun :D << this is how nubs got into silkscreening, too :D
mircea_popescu: didn'
t they just embarass themselves with the "high tech" capture of some slut on vacation and half a dozen steeds, last year ?
assbot: It's 2015, and we can'
t even resolve DNS without accidentally executing code :(
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6 check plz ? << i don'
t see anything in the mailing list
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know. im prepping your packager so you don'
t have to do it yourself.
Dimsler: what he didn'
t see was that the trade was onsided, inexchange for a bunch of debt
mircea_popescu: adlai you don'
t have to have a mpex account to be a pc manager if that's what yer asking.
adlai: i'm familiar with the overall idea, although i couldn'
t recite its returns from memory
mircea_popescu: adlai no dude, weren'
t you looking to run a PC based on it ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ima try an' catch up. apparently can'
t sleep
decimation: isn'
t that what your processor is doing right now?
mod6: you know, before I did any of that, i thought about doing a detached sig, but then i wondered if something really funky would happen, like it would get somehow added to the patch-list automagically, and it doesn'
t belong there either.
danielpbarron: i also have the sudo mastery book, although i haven'
t cracked it open yet
decimation: isn'
t there significant differences wrt the kernel?
decimation: it probably won'
t reach the critical 'man adoption factor' and therefore will be hated and uncool
decimation: not that a regular 'leatherman' (sans knife) couldn'
t go
nubbins`: you actually don'
t need any to have fun :D
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Sometimes fresh qntra pieces don'
t have it right away, this one has it now though.
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: random: is there a reason the piece doesn'
t do "Continued reading"?
nubbins`: "arch your back" "WHAUET? I CAN'
T HEAR YOU"
nubbins`: i disconnect often enough that authing isn'
t really a priority
trinque: I don'
t know; thinking about this runs into the inability to coherently do anything
mats: the SS certainly doesn'
t have a good record
mircea_popescu: these aren'
t hard problems in any sense anymore. they're onyl still hard for retards. otherwise, the safety of "designated importants" ios a matter of public mercy
mircea_popescu: the sad fact of the matter is that the same general development that allows derps like yanis souflakis to pretend like "he can distinguish inflation from product improvement" also allows anyone who isn'
t a redditard and has a day's leisure to build a missile ; and anyone that isn'
t iran and so mentally retarded to build a nuke.
mats: na, 'exploding drones' doesn'
t seem like a good way to kill a protected person
mircea_popescu: but then again, i don'
t know anyone but asciilifeform to both honestly and seriously propose viewing the nsa as aserious endeavour, and even he's been kinda shaken latelyt.
mircea_popescu: guy's obviously got his own agenda, but hey, won'
t be able to say he wasn'
t exposed to the sane set of ideas.
trinque: mircea_popescu: wasn'
t started by openrc, nor .xprofile, just spawned off by gtk I think... ?
mircea_popescu: trinque: why the fuck for example do I have some daemon running for accessibility << generally that's because if you need it you can'
t turn it on, so it has to be on by default. you can turn it off obviously.
trinque: mircea_popescu: they can'
t whip up satanic cult hysteria anymore... pedos are second best?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the main factor destroying that experiment is that they don'
t allow violence.
trinque: thestringpuller: you can cut off the nipple... can'
t uncut the dick
mircea_popescu: soo... their inept influence agents got murdered by a guy we won'
t name, and so we won'
t name the thing they were try9ing to influence either ?
jurov: i didn'
t read all the slides, sry
mircea_popescu: as more an' more cases of idiot women "in tech" blowing things up float to the surface like as many turds, the actual women in actual tech have increasingly more problems they don'
t actually need.
mircea_popescu: except it turns out that she's just doing pr, and wasn'
t actually involved in the tech
punkman: yeah I wonder why I can'
t find a laptop that doesn'
t overheat
TomServo: Ha, wouldn'
t that be something.
mircea_popescu: "We don'
t mess with anybody. All we want to do is play games, share healthy ideas. We don'
t try to influence the government or what's happening in Cuba ... We do the right thing and they let us keep at it."
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'the actual rich' as a monolithic whole is, i dare say, a fictional trope as well << what, and i suppose the island of beautiful women doens'
t exist, either ?!
decimation: right. w.r.
t. stuff, we are 'rich', but w.r.
t. people, we are all poor
decimation: asciilifeform: do you think that 'actual rich' don'
t get ideas from film too?
mircea_popescu: so the problem here is thjat some peniless tramp gave himself a lordship that he then couldn'
t finance ?
decimation: of course, in an account that isn'
t locked away by some deal with usg re: taxes