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artifexd: ;;rate mircea_popescu 2
Teaches me shit
mircea_popescu: actual crunchbase profile. fucking written by $.75 an hour indians
that
thing.
mircea_popescu: Whereoscope. Whereoscope is a service designed
to help parents keep know where
their kids are.
mircea_popescu: "a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody
to know what it is"
cgcardona_: these kids
today and
their "cell phones"
mircea_popescu: TextPayMe. "Founded in 2005,
TextPayMe is an SMS payment service
that lets you send money
to other people using cell phone."
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ i mean for curiosity's sake, re-do
the same graph but not in log(10). in log(1024) instead. fucking flatlines.
mircea_popescu: on a log scale any
two
things are within an inch of each other.
mircea_popescu: if
those
two fit you're basically saying
that anally inserting a pea and a horse's head is roughly similar.
artifexd: Would
the other half be
that numbers can be molested
to demonstrate whatever whack
theory
the molester wants
to demonstrate?
mircea_popescu: because what appears "close" is way
the fuck out over
there. as in
the original graph, midway.
the
thing's all over
the place.
mircea_popescu: it
takes a minimally
trained eye
to notice gross unfitness in a log graph.
mircea_popescu: artifexd I do understand your point
that <<
that's only half
the point.
this much is valid, but!
artifexd: ;;rate mircea_popescu 1
Teaches me shit even when he's wrong
artifexd: graphsketch.com <<
That's going into my bookmark list. I resorted
to some silly site where I had
to
take screenshots and upload
them
to imgur.
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_
their job was easier, as
they prolly hadn't invented
the adversarial system either, so
they could actually reach some sort of a decision.
cgcardona_: data porn is
the best. imagine all
the poor saps
throughout history who had
to make critical decisions in
the moment and didn't have mounds of data porn
to pour over.
mircea_popescu: that's what i fucking had in mind. im entirely unsure why i
thought /log(x) is a homomorphism of a log scale, but anywa
artifexd: Random formulas aside, I do understand your point
that any growing
trend can be fitted
to match any other growing
trend if you futz with
the scales enough.
cgcardona_: looks like
thighs and a stomach leaning forward
artifexd: Verification of mircea_popescu
theory failed.
cgcardona_: yea when YC last year offered
to fund people w/ no ideas
the shark was officially jumped
mircea_popescu: like you know... all
the functionality of being on chatroulette without being on chatroulette.
mircea_popescu: SocialCam. "Socialcam is
the easiest way
to share video with your friends and on social networks."
mircea_popescu: VoiceGem. "Voicegem is
the easiest way
to send a voice message
to anyone."
mircea_popescu: Munch On Me. "Munch On Me is a food discovery portal
that connects people with great food at great prices in local communities."
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller no.
to
the pki
they
tried
toi get in "for verifying merchant's addresses" in spite of... everyone's objections.
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_
things degrade naturally,
the same vicious circle as exhibited by used car markets
that lemon laws
try
to fix : any seller with above-average value is disincentivised from participating.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "Deliberately and quite maliciously
tried
to meld
the BleedingHeart openssl vulnerability into
the Bitcoin code." << you're referring
to
the 2FA
they wanted
to put in awhile back?
cgcardona_: hopefully
the quality of YC companies will improve
mircea_popescu: The Fridge. "The Fridge is a platform for lightweight single serving social networks for
the functionality of Facebook without being on Facebook."
mircea_popescu: joecool i heard
the same
thing but notrly substantiated.
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre because
the server bleeds memory, in principle you can decrypt
their 2fa challenge as well as anything else.
joecool: i assumed
they gave up running an exchange and were focusing on
trying
to sell a plaform
to someone else
mircea_popescu: Cardpool. "Cardpool makes it ridiculously easy
to buy and sell pre-owned gift cards. Customers can buy gift cards for up
to 35% off or sell unwanted gift cards for cash ."
mircea_popescu: joecool kenna
tried
to relaunch,
the girl
told him where
to stick it, he wasn't heard from since ?
joecool: hmm whatever happened
to
tradehill
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: It’s called Sendrax.
They’ve got some new kind of
technique for
televising opera.
ozbot: Seinology.com :: Scripts :: 05-The Stock
Tip
cgcardona_: and paul graham retired so
the new dude can scale it 10X
mircea_popescu: Gantto. Gantto is a web based planning application. Users can collaborate in real-time
to create and edit Gantt charts.
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm
thinking of making a bet along
the lines of "bitstamp will issue a news statement
that
they are freezing bitcoin withdraws in
the next 3 months."
Thoughts, comments?
mircea_popescu: then
there's vircurex,
tho
that's probably a case of pebkac
mircea_popescu: well we had bad experiences. in bitcoin i mean.
there was
that atrocious hole last year, pretty much put bitcoin-central on its ass.
joecool: ruby on rails, it's
the hipster way™
mircea_popescu: rails is like... o god. i
think only php is moar hated
than rails here
cgcardona_: sure.
they sold for over $200 mil
to salesforce
mircea_popescu: Mailgun. "Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs
that allow you
to send, receive and
track email effortlessly."
mircea_popescu: look art
that list. not a single fucking "company" in
there does anything.
cgcardona_: now I'm picturing sean parker as
the maitre d'.
mircea_popescu: by now
they're on
tap as a "free
trial" on every budged webhoster out
there. gimme a break.
joecool: should get his number, call
to make a reservation
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre because it is my considered opinion
that
that's what cloudflare is.
joecool: probably
the private key extraction challenge
cgcardona_: there's still quite a few boards out
there.
cgcardona_: was hitting some bbs from
telnet recently. it was a
trip
thestringpuller: 22:23 <+cgcardona_> it's funny how IRC is **still**
the best social network (forgive
the
term)i miss BBS; it got phased out when I was just a little one
mircea_popescu: the bank clerk was all excited "oh, you're going ? i'm going
too!"
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre
true story : i was in
the bank
the other day, and
they had
these
timberlake concert fliers. i picked one up and
told my pa "doesn't
this guy look just like a waiter ?". he did, dressed all up for
the job,
too.
mircea_popescu: and i mean if
those
two fit...
then
there's no fucking hope anymore.
cgcardona_: it's been
the best place for me
to interact in real
time for years
cgcardona_: it's funny how IRC is **still**
the best social network (forgive
the
term)
mircea_popescu: just for your own education,
take
two random
things, such i dunno... sin(x) and cos(x)
then draw
them on a log graph. see how splendidly
they fit
cgcardona_: yes I'm glad I found
this room MP.
the bitcoin forum is
the bottom of
the barrel and reddit is mostly memes and flamewars as well. (though don't ge me wrong. I enjoy a good meme and/or flamewar)
mircea_popescu: i would say upon examination
this is exactly
typical of
the reddit mental process. very circular, very brandy futility.
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ actually
they're using every
trick in
the book. most any
two natural curves will look "fitted" in a log 10 graph
kakobrekla: i dunno mp just dont
take my ip, i got just
this one.
cgcardona_: *which is
the unique addresses used per day
cgcardona_: *green line which is
the green line* <----huh?
cgcardona_: i
think it's funny how you can see
the large dip in
the green line which is
the green line. I'm wondering if
that is just bad data or
there really were just
that many fewer addresses used
those days
TestingUnoDosTre: Actually, she is a huge Bieber fan, lock her in solitary and
the world will be a better place
cgcardona_: i'll see if I can dig up
the reddit
thread