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radan: you could have 100 factors you haven'
t even modeled
radan: why don'
t people just use bitcoin to smuggle money across borders
benkay: just because i trust you to not fuck me does not mean that you won'
t.
benkay: TestingUnoDosTre: every day i don'
t move those coins elsewhere is a day of risking not having them.
TestingUnoDosTre: So satoshi has a whole boat load of 50 BTC addresses. Couldn'
t he just sell a flash drive with the private key of one address without crashing bitcoin
benkay: radan if i might offer a slightly different perspective, you didn'
t invest in Bitcoin - you bought some bitcoins.
benkay: TestingUnoDosTre: don'
t know that i understood your question.
TestingUnoDosTre: I read that first loper-os article and I don'
t think it answers my question.
radan: else I wouldn'
t have invested in it
radan: I don'
t have any debt
benkay: bitcoin ain'
t gonna make you rich
radan: we don'
t know how many addresses he used
radan: doesn'
t satoshi hold like 1/4 of all the btc
radan: I don'
t know what cost means in that context
radan: I don'
t think dogecoin has a regulatory body
TestingUnoDosTre: I don'
t know if infinite is quite the best word for it, but it's pretty much like the USD
radan: and if it doesn'
t succeed I'm fucked
TestingUnoDosTre: Pretty lights also has a lot of stuff where the lyrics are kind of morphed so you don'
t pay attention to them quite as much, but some if it's a little dubsteppy / up tempo
dexX7: wow i hate bitcoin.. and linux. so i invested quite some time to figure out how to dump a leveldb database over a shitty putty console only to realize that the result wasn'
t what i was looking for <_<"
TestingUnoDosTre: one of the antagonists is a corrupt operating system... can'
t get much better than that
benkay: feeling kinda dated at this point, but i haven'
t read it in at least a decade and you might not want to take a dependency on my notions of things at that age.
TestingUnoDosTre: let's just say I don'
t even want anyone to know I just went into a search engine and searched for bitcoin
mircea_popescu: anonymous in what sense ? so the sites can'
t serve you "tailored" adsense ?
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm wondering if I should generate another pair that doesn'
t have that info
benkay: eh, you can'
t afford true anonymity, TestingUnoDosTre.
TestingUnoDosTre: Because I don'
t want my name following around my transactions or what not
benkay: this isn'
t an internet thing where there's a great big easy buy button.
benkay: if their reputation is solid enough, they don'
t really benefit from ripping you off for 1k.
TestingUnoDosTre: yes, but couldn'
t someone just build up a WoT with small transactions and then run off with a medium transaction
TestingUnoDosTre: Alright, but here is what I don'
t understand. Didn'
t pirateeat40 or whatever his sn was have a good WoT rating?
benkay: i can'
t believe that I don'
t have an -otc essay
benkay: go ask in -otc, TestingUnoDosTre. have cash ready on the spot, or else they won'
t want to bother with you.
benkay: TestingUnoDosTre: why don'
t you do it over -otc?
TestingUnoDosTre: fricken Western Union wouldn'
t let me wire funds to bitstamp... not sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing
decimation: ?The reports [from the contractor] just asserted that they had written X lines of code. .?.?. For an executive, that?s just invisible; you don?
t know what it means,? said Curtis Smith, who oversaw retirement processing from 1989 to 1994. He was a longtime federal employee with a PhD in English literature, supervising a massive technology project. ?I had no idea [if] they were making progress from month to month. And I just sort of took it on
radan: I wouldn'
t touch a bicycle except I have to go from class to class within ten minutes
TestingUnoDosTre: I wouldn'
t go that far, but I joined a bowling league a couple years ago and had quite a great time
mircea_popescu: benkay dude you didn'
t scare the woman off in private did you ?
ninjashogun: also, anyone who lists "psychology" as an interest is dead to me. They are beyond crazy, and without exception. I don'
t know a single marker as predictive of mental instability as interest in psychology.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` actually you know what ? fuck! you don'
t need to make a quarterly \book or w/e
ThickAsThieves: not that it's the best solution, but doesn'
t the Authy app store 2fa in their "cloud"
mike_c: wow, RENT has been dipping below ipo already? and btc hasn'
t even gone up yet.
JorgePasada: I guess if it were like "Stoning people cause it's the cool thing" and I felt like I was going to get my ass beat if I didn'
t stone someone
JorgePasada: I guess I was about to draw a line where there really isn'
t one, but like... when it comes to culture/style vs morality and ethics
JorgePasada: that they don'
t give a fuck what anyone thinks of them and they're content being themselves
mircea_popescu: to the degree they can'
t even write for the internet. what if someone doesn'
t like what they say!!1
radan: it makes sense logically, but judaism isn'
t a logical entity
JorgePasada: mircea_popescu: Overall I like Taleb, I just wish he'd present his ideas without so much of his emotional baggage... but I guess that's the struggle of communication in general. He probably wouldn'
t be nearly the same person without all those experiences, so I guess some of it is bound to seep through
TestingUnoDosTre: the SEC has been calling people as well as emailing? I didn'
t realize they worked so much
JorgePasada: mats_cd03 I think Taleb would have come off better if so much of his contempt for the people who laughed at him for being wrong all though the financial bubbles didn'
t seep through his writing. Great ideas, great thoughts/concepts, somewhat poorly presented.
Apocalyptic: dexX7, more like the logs could be edited, don'
t know to what extend it was compromised
Mats_cd03: Aw th-, they said he wasn'
t tall enough?
radan: Judaism isn'
t genetic
mike_c: if only you weren'
t you.
jurov: asciilifeform took great pains to explain not even host PC shouldn'
t be able to recognize it's cardano
nubbins`: most didn'
t bother with primary keys
dexX7: i have the problem of a confirmed transformation that is shown as unconfirmed on bc.i and doesn'
t exist on blockr
ninjashogun: Mats_cd03, you weren'
t kidding about hardware :)
mike_c: and they didn'
t change the link? interesting decision.
ninjashogun: I'm no expert on neuroscience but I have sought out their opinions. Funny, the same as I've done here for financial info. The difference is that they didn'
t troll for it.
Duffer1: nope, it won'
t even let me enter a , or a .
Duffer1: bah you damned euros lol no i didn'
t try a ,
Duffer1: i tried to withdrawal .4 but it wouldn'
t let me
ninjashogun: I didn'
t say it's my opinion. I don'
t know Goat personally at all.
jurov: ninjashogun one can'
t insure subprime mortgages (incidentally, from very similar reasons).. but some doods did that anyway
ninjashogun: jurov - I've heard of 3-5 such cases (I think) but I don'
t know what percentage that represents.
ninjashogun: jurov - I suppose the main reason an insurance scheme is stupid is because it doesn'
t work if every exchange gets hacked and has to pay out....
jurov: ninjashogun: that proposal isn'
t even funny
benkay: "i mean yeah - it's a US bank. they likely won'
t do a runner with your cash. they're also just like every other bank in the states, except maybe not running on mainframes older than yourself and myself put together."
ninjashogun: Of course we have no chance in hell of modelling the development of a brain by "running" the code. We can'
t even model a few molecules fully.
ninjashogun: Also don'
t forget that we know for a fact that the architecture in the brain is encoded in no more than 700 MB totally uncompressed. That is how much the human genome takes to encode as simple bits (adenine(A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (
T) encoded as two bits each). With some compression that's even less.
ninjashogun: Based on the simple calculation that the brain is just 3 pounds, 1.25 liters, and fires at 200 herz, it is extremely likely that there exists ∃ (latex \exists) code that we could run that would result in a brain running at an appreciable percentage of real-time brain speed, using < $1B of hardware. But we don'
t have the code, even though it probably \exists
ninjashogun: midnightmagic, it's an interesting situation . Rather than being limited by hardware ,we're very possibly limited by software. We don'
t know what to run - it's not that we can'
t run it, but we don'
t have the software written.
ninjashogun: midnightmagic, well I agree. Our current understanding isn'
t even enough for a full model. we wouldn'
t know what to run even if we had a supercomputer with unlimited resources. we don'
t have the code.
midnightmagic: ninjashogun: Nope. There is not enough understanding to model even small parts of the human brain. The structures we know about are unknown. There are likely other structures we don'
t yet know about.
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, I would think that the brain doesn'
t depend on sensitive timing information like that, but rather on the pathways that are activated (irrespective of timing).
midnightmagic: ninjashogun: That is meaningless. The full structure of the brain hasn'
t even been fully undertood yet.
mircea_popescu: vice doesn'
t really have much interest in making it easy for people to read, either,
benkay: (correction: vice hasn'
t fixed the pagedown)
mircea_popescu: i can'
t even remember, i liked the guy since i was 14 or so
cads: another friend has suggested it but I haven'
t made time for it
VanCleef: i read mircea's blog sometimes does anyone have any other handy reading material or youtube videos, doesn'
t have to be about bitcoin just something along the lines of investing