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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Theodore Y. Ts'o doesn't comprehend what random means
<< 'random' is simply a non-scientific qualifier. like 'big'.
<< looking forward to reading medicine treatises in similar terms. something tells me teh colonies will soon deliver.
mircea_popescu: hanbot:well exactly. something bound by accidental inhalation on the lower end and hernias on the higher
<< i agree. half meter cube, ideal robot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mpex modem
<< as i recall, reliability of net connection is not an issue at mpex
<< so far that's the part that works best.
decimation: "they are not free"
<< I mean that they lack the will to do otherwise, making their "rights" and "freedoms" as useful as toliet graffiti
kakobrekla: impatient.
< off the shelf thing is your best bet then.
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> for a coupla hours there it looked like the whole damned charade'll have to be taken down and redone. // mpex?
empyex: FabianB: Proxies: ".. running a final swathe of test-all-the-edge-cases .. mpex should be back this weekend. also fabian is pretty cool." MPEx-Status: Error reaching trade engine (change: $proxies
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kakobrekla: >prolly better off getting alu machined locally.
< i mean all the profiles.
punkman: mircea_popescu: anyone can connect to a website on dial-up as it is.
<< I think he meant having his modem dial a telephone number for mpex
kakobrekla:
<asciilifeform> unrelated - is kakobrekla awake? i wish to buy his gadget.
< moving to eu already?
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> this functions as a natural safety value which relieves people from pretending they are something that they are not
<< whole fucking contemporary us is built upon people pretending they are everyithing they're not.
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> here's a question: why will bitcoin succeed when gold was beaten so badly by fiat?
<< well, why has gold been "Beaten so badly by fiat" ?
thickasthieves:
<+mircea_popescu> course from what i hear they've been skimping on the catering. // what, dollars grow on trees?
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.
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: princessnell: As the creator of a digital currency, I..."
<< derp's never ending quest for relevancy.
thickasthieves:
<+fluffypony> "I think money is exactly ... lulz abound
thickasthieves:
<+princessnell> "As the creator of a digital currency, I..." /// wtf is this, major media shilling alts day?
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
chetty:
<mircea_popescu> in short, it's not just the poor man's idea of what being rich is like that's wrong.//a lot of rich dont seem to have much of a clue either
mircea_popescu: chetty: desperate for news?
<< no, desperate for "alternatives". and they'd better fucking find some, because I will fuck up with their careers.
mircea_popescu: assbot: New virtual currency INNCoin is backed by gold and ready to take down bitcoin
<<< one a fucking week by now ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake: if taxes were simple, people would realize how much they pay
<< this lol.
mircea_popescu: dub: he writes like an entitled teenager. feels like im reading an episode of scooby doo
<< yeah well. it's hard dood.
empyex: mircea_popescu: Proxies: ".. running a final swathe of test-all-the-edge-cases .. mpex should be back this weekend. also fabian is pretty cool." MPEx-Status: Error reaching trade engine (change: $proxies
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empyex: FabianB: Proxies: ".. running a final swathe of test-all-the-edge-cases .. mpex should be back this weekend." MPEx-Status: Error reaching trade engine (change: $proxies
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chetty:
<dub> so don't transact wiht americans?//thats about the size of it
mircea_popescu: jborkl: So how is the mpex rebuild progressing?
<< slowly.
mircea_popescu: dignork: i thought about it, kind of partial reversal in case hash input size is smaller than hash output
<< you have to look into rainbow tables. try something easy and well studied like md5
mircea_popescu: assbot: Stem cell treatment causes nasal growth in woman's back - health - 08 July 2014 - New Scientist
<< lmao
mircea_popescu: "I've noticed the same weird principle on soc.singles: the more a man needs a virtual woman, the more threatened he is by the very concept. Why is that? [Rhetorical.]"
<< for the exact same reason poor people understand better than rich people that they can't afford substitutes.
BayAreaCoins: O well I tried! Sry to waste your time peaches
<3
mircea_popescu: mike_c: this feels the same as "bitbet is a scam" flamewars: "[FCC levies huge fine on Stern]
<< it does huh.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> under it some metal blades turn in step with the engine closing contacts to fire the spark plugs.
<< Distributor cap
mircea_popescu: "Of course I hesitate to argue as I am doing here for fear of encouraging xtians to have even more children and raising them to believe in Noah's Flood."
<< ironically, that's in all likelihood an actual event.
mircea_popescu: A whole musical genre---the blues---showcases life failure. "Singing the blues" is figuratively what sexually worthless nerds do on Usenet, except it doesn't fly with women as unembellished prose.
<< o that's fucking bullshit.
mthreat:
<mircea_popescu> holy shit now they've done it. fuckable lcd screen, seriously ?
<< gotta love the internet
mircea_popescu: Face it, movies are eye candy trash. If people want intellectual stimulation they read books. There's nothing funnier than a pseudo-intellectual trying to get pompous about "film."
<< fucking hater o noes.
mircea_popescu: "If marriage constituted more than a hypothetical risk of getting raped, I would expect women to learn to avoid it as women have learned to avoid walking around alone at night, or at least show some reluctance to get married, as women often show reluctance to put themselves into positions of vulnerability with men they just met or men they have gotten to know and decided they don't want to have sex with."
<< this is ac
mircea_popescu: Section 200.15 Anti-money laundering program
<< stopped reading.
mircea_popescu: given the enthusiasm of text mining people
<< this is the enthusiasm of the doomed - it doesn't reflect anything on the direct avenue, but is merely the nervous laugh of someone who just got cut in half.
chetty:
<xmj> Google doesn't want me.//lucky
gribble: cedivad was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 weeks, 1 day, 12 hours, 18 minutes, and 53 seconds ago:
<cedivad> Barber claimed that they were payments to suppliers, but he has still to prove that.
jurov:
<mike_c> [00:09:08] btw, jurov, that mid-line on the history chart what you had in mind?
<< to see more easily if it was above/below 50%
benkay:
<BingoBoingo> How many BTC to kill this asset? // doesn't sound like there's much trading in MEAT's future.
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> my point is ... why isn't iraq New Texas with Bush City as its capitol?
<< same reason the eu didn't take on turkey when it had the chance.
mircea_popescu:
<benkay>
<mike_c> oh, my strategy? no, just the house has been on the losing side the last couple games. // am curious as to how you're deciding how to lay odds.
<< it's a rand.
benkay:
<mike_c> oh, my strategy? no, just the house has been on the losing side the last couple games. // am curious as to how you're deciding how to lay odds.
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> some other dood somewhere has this truely ellaborate and complex punishment station, cost him 18`000 dollars // lol sounds a lot like MPEx.
benkay:
<BingoBoingo> The eventual loser doesn't always allow the winners victory unscathed // been studying GoL?
benkay:
<BingoBoingo> If apple really does kaizen why no 9" B&W machines with over 9000 dpi monitors? // troll better
benkay:
<decimation> apple doesn't "improve", they just go an buy 5 years supply of a part // neglecting the chassis and the irreplaceable battery...
benkay:
<gribble> Nigger Owner's Manual:
benkay:
<BingoBoingo> ;;google manul taking a poop
mircea_popescu:
<benkay> this is a correct use of "in extremis, correct?"
<< sure.
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> mircea: the chance of a random integer from 1 to x being prime is about 1/ln(x)
<< you just use the entropy to seed, much like pgp does. you don't actually roll the prime itself.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> twitter... botnet
<< no 'captcha' ?
<< trivial to bypass.
mircea_popescu:
<benkay> nah, she'd not get along with mircea_popescu
<< wait wut