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mircea_popescu: "But of course, cannibalism is not PC either and embracing something simply and solely on the basis that it is a “reaction” is one of the stupidest things humans can do. You can’t build a life on protest and reaction."
<<< ahahaha
punkman: mircea_popescu: probably publishable as a paper if you can be bothered to run in that threadmill
<< not a big fan of academics, but I can blag it now
ThickAsThieves:
<+mircea_popescu> such are the blessings of closed society : that art may flourish. democracy and social mobility allows for no such thing. //// or a *small* society --- but maybe i'm splitting hairs
benkay:
<zrobo> cryptsy.com: 1 dogecoin = 56 satoshis. coindesk price $0.0003. 24 hr volume: 310 megadoge
mthreat: kako may choose to renumber the ids (used for the
<a href> anchors) since he'll be backfilling prior to his current "epoch" day
mthreat:
<mircea_popescu> btw mthreat wouldja be interested in filling in the logs for the first missing year, and generate a drop-in blob kakobrekla can put into his log thing too ?
<< I got asciilifeform's ba-turd file. But I'm not sure what format kako wants. search.b-a gets all of its info from log.b-a by crawling, since I link to it in the search results.
benkay: ;;later tell bitcoinpete
<bitcoinpete> at the club i ran into some classmates from highschool. the looks on their faces were pretty golden // whence the startle?
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> sort-of like the teenage slut born to wealth that skips a lot of school, and gets herself knocked up. not only is she getting some candy to "compensate" her for the abortion, but she also gets to blame her cocaine habit on the bad boy that "seduced" her. // my favorite is the one who gets her own condo and a photo studio to play with and raise her kid in
benkay:
<ThickAsThieves> perfect contender for a bitcoin jesushood then // bitcoin crucifixion
mircea_popescu: to everyone other than you?).
<< dpends if you're aiming to lead or to follow.
ThickAsThieves:
<+BingoBoingo> ThickAsThieves: You sure do use the disclaimers /// pretty pro, huh?
mthreat:
<+Azelphur> mthreat: I hear you want logs? I have Apr 11 2012 onwards
<< myeah that'd be great
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as english language free press.
<< OMG Trilema's jig is up!!!
ThickAsThieves:
<+Vexual> im not one /// ha! i was gonna day 'does Vexual count?'
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: chording keyboard would've worked great on phones
<< In grad school I became a master of the Blackberry arts. Ran a BES instance with one user (self)
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: mircea_popescu > dogecoin mmporg in the style of Eve:
<<< well... "going to", anyway.
mircea_popescu: benkay: there are some gems. some.
<< well of course. but the guy didn't say "there's going to be A total knockout born somewhere in the US"
mircea_popescu: benkay:
<Vexual> not atc\ // i can't tell if this is the real Vexual or if his nick's been suborned by the most clever team to date
<< as opposed to what, before ?
bitcoinpete: "According to the analogy theory, it’s because making analogies requires thinking across traditional mental categories. In fact, some cognitive scientists have proposed that the farther the analogy—that is, the farther apart the previous experience and new situation—the more likely it will lead to a radically new idea."
<< hocus "science" but a point
kakobrekla:
<Vexual> bitbet gets scary close to diff
< take an unimaginable number and it will end up scary close.
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> someone actually believed that us born womenz were going to be teh prettiest, a century ago. // there are some gems. some.
benkay:
<Vexual> not atc\ // i can't tell if this is the real Vexual or if his nick's been suborned by the most clever team to date
bitcoinpete: decimation: 'phones' were varied and interesting and converge to iphone shitbox
<< following the leader instead of trying new shit like this is guaranteed to screw over the entire industry
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: never trust a baby boom, for the baby boomers are almost always the end of things.
<< added to the growing list
bitcoinpete: Cosmos: I'm antimalicious, & brilliant, & responsible, that's why donating to me is so constructive
<< i want to sense sarcasm but i'm just not seeing it
mircea_popescu: "Over time, as finance and commerce became more sophisticated, the concept of a unit of account emerge and gold generally became the default unit. Much has been written regarding why gold fell into this role, but for our purposes here it’s sufficient to note that it did."
<< seriously ?! what is this, insult the reader's intelligence club ?
gribble: oneeyed was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 year, 35 weeks, 4 days, 13 hours, 20 minutes, and 58 seconds ago:
<OneEyed> Oh, I thought I had read an IRC transcript on bitcointalk earlier today. Sorry for the confusion.
gribble: bitfoo was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 year, 14 weeks, 4 days, 23 hours, 46 minutes, and 57 seconds ago:
<bitfoo> +1 for informative titles
mthreat:
<benkay> linespacing's pretty wide but awesome work
<< i'm shit at CSS; feel free to suggest changes, with css/html code if possible
mthreat:
<mircea_popescu> mthreat wouldja be interested in filling in the logs for the first missing year, and generate a drop-in blob kakobrekla can put into his log thing too ?
<< sure, do you have the logs for the first year?
mircea_popescu: " the spark of static one sometimes gets when touching grounded objects in winter time"
<< he means, when wearing mixed wool and plastic clothing
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> benkay so did she feel girls butt while hugging ? // no but great idea
mircea_popescu:
<thestringpuller> benkay: "OMG I smelle riches and success. *blush blush blush*. I want a hug now!!!!"
<< dun be an asshole, maybe she's just fun loving.
mircea_popescu: decimation> the amount of steel that went into producing the cabinet was impressive
<< i bought new desktop cases here. i could punch a hole threough the things
decimation: benkay: re: liability
<< yeah, but I assume you aren't shipping code for anonymous users, I assume you are writing some kind of support contract
decimation: re: 48v DC
<< yeah most higher end servers can be ordered with 48v DC power supplies. works best with a rack-sized 48 v lead-acid battery
mircea_popescu: benkay> two months later, the house has been dragged down from 900k to 700k, and that broker has straight ghosted with all the leads she generated via excellent hustle.
<< dumbass approach imo, but hey
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> 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?
<<< here's the thing : real estate agents are certified, and have to be bondend in many places, and have to follow best practices, and can and are put to the coals ifthey do not.
mircea_popescu: The BitPay prompt for payment seems awkwardly designed to me, particularly in that the text version of the payment address is very tiny.
<< I heard this in the form of "wow, they're really trying to stop you from copying pasting it huh". no idea wtf they;'d be thinking
mircea_popescu: On and off, I’ve had the urge to acquire physical Bitcoin coins to give to family and invest/collect them for myself. I have never purchased any sort of collectible coin before, nor have I ever purchased precious metals.
<< weird what btc does to people.
mircea_popescu:
<Cosmos> [13:14]
<+Cosmos> [..] ..is here in IRC, [..] gracing us w/ his wisdom, ..his $1k/hr time..
<< some people are modest.
Cosmos: [13:14]
<+Cosmos> [..] ..is here in IRC, [..] gracing us w/ his wisdom, ..his $1k/hr time..
mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`> ;;echo not as bad as $randnick
<< shit i meant google not gribble.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo> The word tip cleanly refers to a bribe of sorts... To Insure Prompt service.
<< nah, i disagree.
BingoBoingo: Cosmos: "No social features except for official FreeNode IRC Chat."
<< Bitbet totally has comments
assbot: Sep 11 21:36:04
<mircea_popescu>no fambly just urmom. Sep 11 23:49:19
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decimation: mircea_popescu: "the day three quarters of san francisco loses its homes because of writing bad code, engineers and similarly "skilled" workers can has special irs treatment."
<< that's a really good point. bring back the Hammurabic code for engineers, programmers, bankers, etc.
mthreat:
<+xmj> any SCUBA divers around?
<< yep, i do the SCUBA
mircea_popescu: 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?
<<< here's the thing : real estate agents are certified, and have to be bondend in many places, and have to follow best practices, and can and are put to the coals ifthey do not.
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
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
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: 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: 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