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mircea_popescu: what was linked was
a sort of scrapbook, much alike what
a "our wedding" album would look in the hands of
a deranged housewife.
mircea_popescu: makea
a blog, call it "joe and katy's radioastronomy garage lab". post the weirdo data live, let people come visit...
mircea_popescu: this because i'm not "
a citizen" aka consumjer aka idiot, but one of those elite folks to whom law doesn't apply and to whom the police are
a tool not an entity.
mircea_popescu: then do something other than post
a billion pics of anon people sitting in room and ONE clearly mislabeled item
mircea_popescu: and so often the sherriff goes "here's
a load of items of the right type - we don't know what else to do with them" and the psych ward lead goes "fu bitch, none of these belong here take them out"
mircea_popescu: i have, and saw enough burns. that patch of skin was welted by application of
a cane, not fucking "laser"
mircea_popescu: more like in the way ancient transparent trylobite sealed in
a cave since 2mn years ago is
a mollusc.
mircea_popescu: perhaps forcing
a point. but there's this very typical balabusta look.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've seen
a woman over 50 that wasn't over 30bmi in my entire time among teh muslims, actually.
mats: is
a genuine human hermaphrodite even biologically possible?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-07 18:18 asciilifeform: some derp named hanson was pushing
a crackpottery called 'futarchy', where you have
a bitbet-like item that is actually plugged into
a robotic monarch that issues edicts
mircea_popescu: in other news, "Imagine
a corporation that engages in economic activity without guidance or direction from humans."
mircea_popescu: lorida Department of Corrections, the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), and state attorneys to determine the level of risk for re-offense. Upon release from incarceration, these inmates may be subject to civil proceedings and commitment to
a secure facility for treatment. That treatment center, located in Arcadia, was criticized because treatment is lacking (less than 5 hours per week), it lacks security (sev
mircea_popescu: actually, if you're part of the NOT!!1-corruption ring of the usg and have some hope of obtaining serviceable enforcement, it's not
a terribru buy.
mats: >For you more adventurous types, like me, you can dive into the world of cryptocurrency and diversify your wallet among
a sea of alternatives to bitcoin. Dogecoin (internet tipping) and Gaiacoin (e-commerce platform) are two of my favorites.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 00:29 mats: >'In the meantime, In place of the loss in each wallet, we are crediting
a token labeled BFX to record each customer’s discrete losses. Tokens will be distributed without release or waiver. The BFX tokens will remain outstanding until redeemed in full by Bitfinex or possibly exchanged—upon the creditor’s request and Bitfinex’s acceptance—for shares
mircea_popescu: and unlike the ukistans, they actually have
a shot at fielding something.
mircea_popescu: their "congress" is
a parliament. there's no such thing as "congress". words have meanings, even if the rural colonists never had
a chance to visit
a school or library.
mircea_popescu: also, the us congress is not
a branch of us government.
shinohai: so buttfinex hacker told me he doesnt have
a pgp key -_-
mats: >'In the meantime, In place of the loss in each wallet, we are crediting
a token labeled BFX to record each customer’s discrete losses. Tokens will be distributed without release or waiver. The BFX tokens will remain outstanding until redeemed in full by Bitfinex or possibly exchanged—upon the creditor’s request and Bitfinex’s acceptance—for shares
☟︎ mats: some idiot experiences
a pulmonary event, relies on autopilot to travel ~20mi to hospital, and this is lauded as teh future! disabled people can drive places now! etc
mircea_popescu: motherFUCKER! really, bitch ? really ? YOU SAY WHAT IS
A FUNDAMENTAL PART ?
mircea_popescu: "
A working hostname lookup is
a fundamental part of the system. ~Andreas."
a111: Logged on 2016-08-06 19:02 asciilifeform: ;;later tell trinque any idea why deedbot sometimes spits out
a phuctoring twice ?
mircea_popescu: the major problem in poker isn't "fair dealing", it's debotting it. but i have
a ready solution for this problem too, and im persuaded it's complete.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway. decentralized don't enter into it. the way you play is that you have
a dealer bot, which selects
a string composed as
a) "the hash of the latest known block whose height is divisible be 117 and is not in the last 117 found blocks" + b)
a server generated salt for the day + c)
a player generated salt, to be changed any time
a player feels like. then for any dealt hand, the server concatenates
a + b + c for each player
a111: Logged on 2016-08-06 18:37 asciilifeform: mats: did you (or anybody else...) ever come up with
a 'crypto poker using btc' scheme, at all, that relies on protocol (vs promise) ?
mircea_popescu: dooglus contributed
a lot of solid research to this ; the way he handed it in primedice with the salts and later copied by all the others works fine.
shinohai: if i had capital to start
a pr0n biz i'd call it that xD
mats: i played with the idea but i need an alf (or
a coupla years of free time to eat the prerequisite knowledge)
phf: oh i've seen that code, so whoever worked on that migration is
a saint
mircea_popescu: not much, sadly. that might be
a much better idea for "Something to do", if anyone's looking.
mats: whatever happened to the guy that was working on
a wot cryptopoker thing
mircea_popescu: with the caveat that from experience, mike_c's attempt to make
a site (and he made
a very nice one) to test in practice some theories which we didn't agree on in theory did put
a lot of load on him, and possibly in my mind burned the guy out.
mircea_popescu: now, if someone either
a) thinks they have the bright idea or b) welcome the busywork (not unrational, that's how you learn things) they're welcome obviously.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re phf's "of course i thought about writing bbet" : the problem there's not "write the site", thats
a trivial task to be done in
a brief time by
a single competent coder. the problem there, and the reson i'm not pushing for replacement, is "how to administer bets". and until i have
a good idea i won't push for this, because it's ~futile as it is, will just pile busywork on some people for no actual benefit.
mats: the new usb3 standard has
a lotta power, could shock
a disobedient user real good
mats: fun fact, the usb smart card reader spec defines
a control request for eating cards instead of returning them
phf: mircea_popescu: trinque actually published one, but it's
a bit too tied to his particular postgresql requirements
trinque: this sasl bit is the last thing before I sign
a vpatch
trinque: enumerating the states of nickserv is
a tangle of weeds
mircea_popescu: incidentally, we prolly shoulf just publish
a standard irc bot basic,
a la gribble (which is really just supybot) then v off it ?
phf: asciilifeform: there's two problems. one is pedantic, lost messages during reconnect period. one is practical, there's
a handful beurocratic steps that needs to take place during reconnect, ensuring you have the right nick, ghosting
a stale connection, ensuring that you're authenticated
mircea_popescu: and bitbet was
a particularly promising but ultimately failed attempt to take
a bite out of it.
phf: asciilifeform: ~one~ thread. every time bot goes down i get
a "wtf" treatment from you. bot disconnects because there's
a connection issue. it doesn't reconnect because there's no reconnection code. i will fix that eventually. i've said as much every time the subject comes up. so i'm supposed to just work on this shit to
a chorus of "loooooog dooooown wtf incompetence"?
mircea_popescu: quite so. it's
a deep problem, i have been toying with for many years, because i never do just one single thing at
a time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to give you one datapoint : out of close to 2k props closed, there were exactly 2 mispaid ones we had to repay. go ahead and create
a team of people who
a) pick all items within hours ; b) failure rate of 0.1% or less. then report what it costs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform creation's cheap ; closure's expensive. what's the cost of making
a kid ? depends. do you kill him right after or do you take him to college ?
phf: asciilifeform: of course i thought about writing bbet, but that means that i can't work on log, or would spend less time on it. to answer question re no reconnect, at some point there was
a reason, which i since realized was silly. to now rewrite bot and integration takes time. which i took, now takes time to integrate etc. if i was working on this full time could finish all in
a couple of days. as is, i'm literally hacking in
a car on
mircea_popescu: no. the implication here is that "automated business" will always end in crater, with the size of the crater as
a functiuon of how much everyone actually reliedf on the "automated" part.
mircea_popescu: there's
a ~degree of magnitude gap between what "
a bitbet bet cost" and what bitbet charged for one.
mircea_popescu: neither of these have so far produced
a unit of whatever they produce for less than they sold it for. this is obviously unsustainable ; but also not necessarily
a killer early on in new markets.
mircea_popescu: anyway. eulora made i dun recall, some tens of btcs selling its product so far. bitbet took in i dun recall idem, but maybe
a few hundred to
a thousand selling its product ?
mircea_popescu: deedbot is probably closer to becoming
a paid service on those lines, it's just mostly deliberate decision to not push it that way yet. which is sensibru.
shinohai builds
a printing press that makes wptrons and gets listed on mpex
phf: mircea_popescu: i will have to think about it, because to be honest i've not given it any thought. i'm not immediately seeing
a cause for it though
mircea_popescu: what's that to do with anything ? bitbet had
a model, that had
a model, this had
a model, what's it to you ?