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asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this tome will not be burying Landau, but it's an acceptable bait to whet an amateur's interest, i'd imagine.
BingoBoingo: It kept an adequate number of equations for a book with chapter titles like "Manifolds of n dimensions"
asciilifeform: yeah might've been that one
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If the text in question was http://www.roadsolutions.ox.ac.uk/ I have it sitting on a shelf
mircea_popescu: after that's smooth sailin'.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so the first 1-200 are the hardest then
asciilifeform: (might've been penrose, now that i think about it)
asciilifeform: a physicist (forget which) who took to writing 'general interest' books, was told by his publisher 'every equation you throw in will cut sales in half'
GNULinuxGuy: has there been some news about neobee recently or something?
mike_c: BingoBoingo already wrote that.
mircea_popescu: what's next, dating for the narcisistic and hygiene for the lazy ?
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as security for dummies
deadweasel: no time for bookmaking of anykind.
deadweasel: oh man, this thing is dead to me already. i have the log. fuck it.
Mats_cd03: i think the community needs it
Mats_cd03: a topic-specific book would definitely be good though
deadweasel: definitely not this guy: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=183728.0
Mats_cd03: who wants to read forum comments by teenagers for hours as research
deadweasel: ummm, there might be a few more requirements
Mats_cd03: whichever of you has been here the longest and is unemployed
Mats_cd03: someone in this channel could write the book
deadweasel: introductary version would sell the most copies then.
deadweasel: depends on the editing, but you have a point
Mats_cd03: lets face it, most people would have to read a book before reading _that_ book
CheckDavid: Mats_cd03: I won't put the book down but I won't understand much of what's next either
deadweasel: a troll version
deadweasel: yhou could have a techno savvy version
deadweasel: it's all in the editing.
mircea_popescu: i never heard anyone rejecting a book idea on the grounds that goats wouldn't read it.
mircea_popescu: average person ? what the fuck is this, the libertard dystopia ?
deadweasel: considering what the forum consumes, i think it'd be a hit.
Mats_cd03: i promise you once the average person sees the word cryptography theyre going to put the book down
mircea_popescu: as opposed to what ?
Mats_cd03: dudes in chat rooms talking about cryptography and gettin monitor tans
mircea_popescu: the 2nd generation had no idea so it all seemed great to them
deadweasel: everyone deserves a shot, no? plus, she may write the story so well you want to fuck her.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 sorta like books about the 60s. they sucked balls, but as the people who were actually involved went senile,
mircea_popescu: i guess you gotta do something with the ones not pretty enough to dance nude in the street.
mircea_popescu: basically this could feed 50-100 english major chicks.
deadweasel: you could sell an elite version with PMs that people donate.
deadweasel: no no, highlights, tell it as a story, connected, but with the cruft removed.
mircea_popescu: it's hopeless, there's like 10-20k pages already
deadweasel: also, apparently, I could use an engrish teacher.
deadweasel: frankly I'm saving the logs for when one of you enterprising fucks puts consolidates and puts them into a book, as a sort of People Guide to the History of Bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel this is like the 3rd time today you know
deadweasel: so lame, hurts to read
ozbot: Congressman Calls To Ban U.S. Dollar In Response To Plea For Bitcoin Ban | TechCrunch
deadweasel: mod6: that article is so full of misrepresentations and misunderstandings... there isn't anything there. at all.
nubbins`: i pity the poor fucker who ends up answering
ozbot: WWW: Women Weave the Web Campaign Prizes and Opportunities | World Pulse
bitcoinpete: On the recent theme:
benkay: ah well, back to javascript hell
benkay: yeah huh how did he pile all that up
benkay: i dunno he seems to have stacked some piles of fiat
bitcoinpete: then break off subsidiaries when they get too big
bitcoinpete: branson seems more to invite other entrepreneurs to start companies and rent the virgin name
mircea_popescu: seeing how his main contribution is branson's guide to making a small fortune from air travel
mircea_popescu: benkay i dunno how much stock i can put in your branson=businessman theory
deadweasel: You're preaching to a deaf choir' i don't even....
deadweasel: course I only go there when links are dropped here for humor.
deadweasel: hey I heard you like socks, so I put some sock in your sock, on some socks. they're in your laundry basket. derp.
ThickAsThieves: i think its just socks socking socks
ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves any merit to all that ? /// i'm not sure i even understand what that is. The thread isn't moderated, but maybe someone reported a sock ot something? I had the poster on ignore already fwiw
bitcoinpete: probably why the tata nano failed
asciilifeform: no one bothers to laugh at chinese moto-rickshaw, because it doesn't pretend to be a car
Namworld: If people are paid as much as they produce, then there's the choice of not doing anything, or wasting effort for no profit. Economy doesn't runs and we return to self-sufficience (where everyone can finally be "paid" as much as they produce, literally.
bitcoinpete: like the CarPlay thing
bitcoinpete: because you had to wait a decade for one?
asciilifeform: people seriously misunderstand why trabant was a laugh
Namworld: [15:03] <mircea_popescu> mike_c it's unfair for richer people to afford better things. consequently, nobody wants to get rich anymore, and economy stops.
mircea_popescu: so the owner is a trabambourgher ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i spilled. trabambourghini is like the best car name ever
asciilifeform: mike_c: new product to address this Great Product: TrabamBourghini
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves any merit to all that ?
mike_c: 'correlation found between lambos and higher income. gov't plans to correct this'
mircea_popescu: whoops, who could have foreseen this problem ><
mircea_popescu: mike_c it's unfair for richer people to afford better things. consequently, nobody wants to get rich anymore, and economy stops.
asciilifeform: in the link
mike_c: very cool. love the keyboard shortcuts.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: wait what's the new piece ?
bitcoinpete: and ty kindly for the "subscriptions" mention
kakobrekla: http://blogs.bitcoin-assets.com < there you have it, props to pankkake .
ThickAsThieves: which if they succeed might just result in the discriminating colleges using more discriminating methods
ThickAsThieves: they want to shake it up by maksing that it exists
mike_c: start smacking rich kids in the head on birth?
mike_c: they want to shake up the correlation between higher income and better education?
asciilifeform: 'Experts say SAT scores have long been strongly correlated to family income, a dynamic the College Board hopes to shake up.'
ThickAsThieves: shouldnt total cost be communicated in bitcoins spent?
the20year2: There's the final rehab video for a property we just got done. Total cost to investors was $62.5k
ThickAsThieves: “The clear use of dollar bills for transacting in illegal goods, anonymous transactions, tax fraud, and services or speculative gambling make me wary of their use. Before the United States gets too far behind the curve on this important topic, I urge the regulators to work together, act quickly, and prohibit this dangerous currency from harming hard-working Americans,” said Polis.
ozbot: Congressman Calls To Ban U.S. Dollar In Response To Plea For Bitcoin Ban | TechCrunch
mircea_popescu: fancy that!
mircea_popescu: so none of that faggoty complex words and whatnot
asciilifeform: '....college admission test.... a major overhaul intended to open doors to higher education for students who are now shut out.'
ThickAsThieves: As for the pseudonym – a tactic reminiscent of that of Bitcoin’s mysterious, unidentified creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, auroracoin’s founder says, “The agents of the state will attack anyone challenging their power, so I chose a name from Norse mythology to shield myself from such attacks.”
ThickAsThieves: "Its creator, who goes under the pseudonym of Baldur Friggjar Odinsson,"
BingoBoingo: I imagine BitBet is going to have to blacklist the WSJ as a source nao
benkay: mainstream catches up to scams just as scamwatch nukes 'em
ThickAsThieves: cmon now "(This ranking excludes the digital currency Ripple, whose market cap of $1.6 billion does not make for a fair comparison. Most ripple coins are retained by the issuing entity under a centrally managed model that’s very different from the decentralized networks employed by other alt.coins.)"
ThickAsThieves: they promote coinmarketcap the same day bitbet blacklists it