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mircea_popescu: that's why it's cheap and effectual : we don'
t seduce women, we just deign to notice the ones that've seduced themselves already.
bounce: what'd be the most widely available stuff that does ssb? I'd expect 27mc. which, since there's lots of crap going on there anyway, wouldn'
t be a bad band to use
bounce: the goal isn'
t to cook up an invulnerable system. the goal is to cook up a resilient system. ten different systems working together would be even better.
bounce: doesn'
t have to be very efficient. ttl everything will do as long as it works.
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: the adoption argument is that it seems "more like a currency" because we're used to 2 decimal places, and most account software can'
t work with more than 2 anyway
pankkake: and some don'
t even know how to spot copper and cut the fiber
bitcoinpete: helping the poor with us gov corps isn'
t helping them at all
mike_c: i agree with naggum in a lot of ways, but i ended up in python instead of lisp. i was just writing a C module for python and it was a brutal reminder of much time and energy is spent making sure i didn'
t miss dereferencing something in some random error case that would cause a leak, etc.
pankkake: it's never working the first time. you just haven'
t found where it goes wrong
pankkake: well, don'
t get paid in bitcoin if you don'
t intend to hold, really
mike_c: but geese don'
t lay eggs standing up
pankkake: I wouln'
t be considered old, I don'
t really like being old, but I feel old
pankkake: I learned truly nothing by altcoining. My code even made GCC emit warnings and I didn'
t care
MarieLynn: Wouldn'
t that put you above the average alt coin developer Fluffy? :)
pankkake: Bernankoin. they didn'
t touch it for good reason, it simply cannot have a non-decreasing value
gribble: Error: User doesn'
t exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
fluffypony: bitcoinpete: you mean his name isn'
t Ḱąȑṕệļễŝ? who knew.
pankkake: Mark or Karpelès aren'
t very French looking name
pankkake: didn'
t they rip off their shareholders too?
fluffypony: kakobrekla: somehow I don'
t think bitcoinpete is profiting off his blog ;)
mircea_popescu: artifexd you obviously don'
t have the "valuable skills" to understand these things :D
ThickAsThieves: they won'
t remove me from their email list so i still see hints of it
pankkake: we don'
t talk anymore unfortunately
CheckDavid: I don'
t get why they are so skinny though
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood, i don'
t even run a studio. chances are, it'll never get made anyway
mircea_popescu: i gave him some freedom implicit there, so his job doesn'
t suck
CheckDavid: Ok I will test myself if you don'
t want to answer
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i guess it does that. and yes they are. but it ain'
t the political statement i wish to make :)
benkay: you can'
t guarantee a rate anyways, TestingUnoDosTre
TestingUnoDosTre: what rate should I pursue (I realize I don'
t have a control in it), for the two returns to be "equal"
fluffypony: punkman: I was *so close* to pulling the trigger on that Montrex watch when I saw it, but I couldn'
t find anything open an "open source Suisse" movement on the web so I figured something was awry...so glad I didn'
t go for it
TestingUnoDosTre: asciilifeform - this comment from zero hedge is great "It shouldn'
t have taken them this long to figure out sanctions against Russia wouldn'
t work in the first place. Next they will be passing sanctions against hurricanes and earthquakes, might as well go full retard at this point."
decimation: the problem is that the vast space-welfare complex can'
t be made to do anything without billions of $
decimation: the rot isn'
t obvious until the next generation comes to try to 'fix' things
mircea_popescu: ecided he wasn'
t going to tell anyone that this was an error, because he's a dick, and now all your snowflakes are urine and you can'
t even find the cat."
mircea_popescu: "You discover that one day, some idiot decided that since another idiot decided that 1/0 should equal infinity, they could just use that as a shorthand for "Infinity" when simplifying their code. Then a non-idiot rightly decided that this was idiotic, which is what the original idiot should have decided, but since he didn'
t, the non-idiot decided to be a dick and make this a failing error in his new compiler. Then he d
mircea_popescu: they're tuned to seek the moon in the dark, you see, because while they can'
t go that far, all of them seeking it ensures they meet
mircea_popescu: btw, i don'
t know if you realise this, but we're fucking up most insects something fierce.
mike_c: artifexd: yeah, i don'
t know which way that bet is going to go, but it will be a bumpy ride.
mike_c: jd isn'
t even a year old yet :)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo panacea's almost a year old, jd is almost two. these aren'
t histories, berkshire is like 50 years old.
mircea_popescu: hehe we don'
t even have enough history yet to really evaluate risk
bitcoinpete: bounce: if you can'
t laugh at it, it ain'
t much good
bounce: uhm. I think I see where you're coming from but the essence/substance thing doesn'
t speak to me. maybe I'm tired.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu soldiers only follow orders...isn'
t a requisite for higher learning self thought?
mircea_popescu: it;'s not enough they aren';
t fucking soldiers anymore. for their sins, they also cant have generals now.
bounce: guys at MIT probably wouldn'
t make that many misteaks. they have a bit of an ethos of being bloody smart and figuring things out.
bounce: hard to tell. would depend a lot on how it's sold to the troops. I'll grant doing it without selling won'
t buy you anything except perhaps the troops' stuff to carry too.
mircea_popescu: you essentially couldsn'
t get married if you didn'
t do well i nthe military, so italso self-selected.
bounce: reduced ad absurdum, turn off the telly frees you up to get rich. yet they don'
t turn off the telly for have to be up to date on the soap/game/whatever for the small talk tomorrow.
bounce: breaking out of that was thus breaking with his prior identity, even his family (didn'
t help he was queer as a queen, but anyhow) and so on.
bounce: why? why do tribe members in darkest africa /want/ to get mutilated? c'mon, you're the one with the degree in anthropology, wasn'
t it?
mircea_popescu: this somehow switched, 180. and i can'
t find when, or why.
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: what more could i ask for? this bc merlot ain'
t half bad either
bounce: or, in other words, their idea isn'
t high explosive in and of itself -- which is what bitcoinpete was contending
mircea_popescu: <bounce> I don'
t particularly like the model, but if above assumptions hold it's not acutally an outright bad idea. << what's that then ?
bounce: anyway, I wasn'
t commenting on validity really
bounce: I don'
t particularly like the model, but if above assumptions hold it's not acutally an outright bad idea.
bounce: *shrug* it doesn'
t really do to bash'em on things they didn'
t actually do wrong.
bounce saw mention of a study or other that relatively way too many rich kids got scholarships. well, they can pay for the consultancies that know how to get 'em, can'
t they?
bounce: clearly, you aren'
t a backer.
punkman: mircea_popescu: don'
t see anything there
bounce: just so you know. don'
t forget to reckon with manipal.
bounce: no, no I don'
t understand. but I don'
t think I want to understand either. esp. since I'm all out of drink.