mircea_popescu: if you mean http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin-ever.png it's damned scary

mircea_popescu: there ain't no bringing this down babeh.

mircea_popescu: pgp http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-small-ever.png

mircea_popescu: there certainly exists the sufficient cause and backing for it.

mircea_popescu: KRS1 have BingoBoingo over for a bbq

mircea_popescu: dexX7 nope, i've never mined, i still am not mining.

mircea_popescu: yeah, we can't all do everything.

mircea_popescu: anyway, curious if we're in for a rehash of july 2010. (vertical degree of magnitude wall, i think there were two consecutive 400% increases there)

mircea_popescu: it does have a sort of air doesn't it

mircea_popescu: nubbins` of course one has to appreciate it was on very narrow base

mircea_popescu: 7 degrees of magnitude below current levels.

mircea_popescu: right.

mircea_popescu: KRS1 i dunno about LorenzoMoney, he's been maligning my good name calling me a fascist science writer and stuff

mircea_popescu: ikr?

mircea_popescu: KRS1 you realise it's a joke, mostly.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cool beans

mircea_popescu: KRS1 beat it with a score > 100

mircea_popescu: Man685.71* Machine114.29<

mircea_popescu: it's not too hard to beat to shit provided you have infinite memory.

mircea_popescu: you don't, so the computer will eventually win.

mircea_popescu: (as sooner or later you begin forgetting your earlier patterns)

mircea_popescu: basically if you can't score > 50% on 100 rolls you'll never be a card counter in blackjack

mircea_popescu: anyway, this warrants a write-up

mircea_popescu: sooo, in the latest installment of "libertards are owned by technology", it'd seem the uncompromised obamacare will in fact be delayed after all. because websites are hard.

mircea_popescu: wd.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you toss a coin you'll get something like 1% over the machine in 1000 tries

mircea_popescu: or w/e, 0.01 in 1mn tries

mircea_popescu: "October 24, 2013 will bring with it something that has not been heard of since 1921. The entire House and Senate, all of Capitol Hill will close for the funeral of a Representative. However unlike the 1921 Congress Closing, all members are being flown to Florida for the funeral by the United States Air Force."

mircea_popescu: if "terrorists" happen to bomb that plane...

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/find-out-just-how-human-your-girlfriend-really-is/

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ^ :D

mircea_popescu: lmao

mircea_popescu: coke doesn't make you skinny, it's practically sugar.

mircea_popescu: you know, people who specify CRACKwhore make me thing ladyboys are a lot more popular than i imagine.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no, seriouslys, it's usually sugar cut. at least the upscale stuff.

mircea_popescu: also for that reason crack cocaine != cocaine

mircea_popescu: that's not the whole story there. crack is significantly more toxic.

mircea_popescu: also from the sudden avalanche of sodium blockers being less well tolerated by the heart

mircea_popescu: http://cdn2.tauntr.com/sites/default/files/CokeSpoon_Cowboys.jpg

mircea_popescu: glucosamine isn't particularly toxic or anything

mircea_popescu: actually i think you can't even find a "food supplement" that doesn't include it.

mircea_popescu: this entire tobacco is addictive talk is hogwash. i've been smoking for about twenty years now, at the rate of about one pack a month

mircea_popescu: not bad mike

mircea_popescu: hm

mircea_popescu: nubbins` i have no fucking idea tbh.

mircea_popescu: what stress.

mircea_popescu: maybe that's it, i don't stress enough to addict.

mircea_popescu: some of the girls smoke, for that matter. i sometimes join in over coffee, but i don't recall ever craving it

mircea_popescu: ketamine ?! isn't that basically an anti allergic thing ?

mircea_popescu: dub i could swear they used it as antihistamine here in the 90s

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wait, that's the explanation of the bizarre written style some people employ filling any discussion of their past with "allegedly" ? they're pill poppers ?

mircea_popescu: "i've allegedly signed some papers i've never read"

mircea_popescu: yeah, sounds grand

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo they'd probably think it's a bomb.

mircea_popescu: how would you pick who to send them to then

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can't be that hard to get ?!

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i meant the ketamine

mircea_popescu: o wait, they gave it to you

mircea_popescu: heh.

mircea_popescu: a guy with a name like darryl strawberry should be involved in the child sex trade, not fucking drugs

mircea_popescu: list of bizarre sex articles on trilema someone may want to translate : http://trilema.com/2011/abuzul-si-fetele/ ; http://trilema.com/2011/moment-de-intimitate-n-baie/ ; http://trilema.com/2011/momentary-ebullution-of-intimacy/

mircea_popescu: i never was.

mircea_popescu: quote it if possible

mircea_popescu: “In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their s

mircea_popescu: ense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

mircea_popescu: quote of the day

mircea_popescu: im a one chan type of guy.

mircea_popescu: so who here has heard the term "neoreactionary" before ?

mircea_popescu: i suppose it may be.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/in-which-i-discuss-things-i-have-no-idea-about/ to trace where i stumbled on it

mircea_popescu: by the way, didja know fiat-iq is also inflation prone ?

mircea_popescu: (in the sense the 100 iq average is periodically resampled)

mircea_popescu: still, probably the one applciation of asciilifeform's slavecoin

mircea_popescu: bingo has won

mircea_popescu: that F pawn is a queen pretty much

mircea_popescu: there's nothing he can do to prevent the F

mircea_popescu: if he moves before it you push the h/e pawns into him

mircea_popescu: preferably g first as it needs a move anyway

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how do you figure ?

mircea_popescu: $ticker m s.mg

mircea_popescu: $vwap m s.mg

mircea_popescu: $vwap s.mg

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 0.00017041 * 88096605

mircea_popescu: $vwap s.nsa

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 0.00010017*4737075

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 15012.542458 / 474.51280275 * 100

mircea_popescu: s.mg is 3163.x% s.nsa

mircea_popescu: no. s.nsa sold ~4mn, which became the total authorised float. s.mg sold ~88mn, which became the total authorised float

mircea_popescu: possibly. entirely different items.

mircea_popescu: at least in their lifecycle. eulora for that matter is already available.

mircea_popescu: i doubt there will be five liches active at any one time in eulora.

mircea_popescu: maybe with a population surpassing wow.

mircea_popescu: in general in computer science people split into two groups, ie, the retards and the competent, by the code they use.

mircea_popescu: retards imagine "all new code" is better, as if code rusted.

mircea_popescu: competent people still use the 1950s C and the 1970s C compiler

mircea_popescu: no, language is a fine distinction. the practical choice one has today is still the same one had in 1960 : eiher something algol-like, something haskel-like, something lisp-like or perhaps an stack insanity a la asm.

mircea_popescu: c has been repackaged 12+ times in the intervening 50 years to appeal to retarded teenagers

mircea_popescu: im not sure what's fashionable now that java and ruby are dead, but anyway.

mircea_popescu: lisp started doing the same thing strictly out of frustration, like the geek that's now wearing a new jockstrap each week maybe he gets to be as popular with the young ditzes as the jock

mircea_popescu: well poorly optimised compilers are really a distantly related subdiscussion

mircea_popescu: this is untrue. writing directly in assembler is both the most control and the most speed.

mircea_popescu: the balance is between (laziness, ignorance and their offspring) in the human operator on one end and (sugar spice and everything nice) in the machine on the other.

mircea_popescu: heya.

mircea_popescu: it's a homologuous problem to beating the machine in the numbers game earlier.

mircea_popescu: you need a big head to do it.

mircea_popescu: this is basically institutional laziness created to not throw the curve for black people.

mircea_popescu: in point of fact asm is quite transparent and quite transparently used by actually competent programmers, such as malware creators.

mircea_popescu: even for and on modern systems

mircea_popescu: that this isn't required of sophomore it students in the west speaks more of the poor quality of it education in the west.

mircea_popescu: see, im not sure why hunger and education'd be separate issues.

mircea_popescu: "either write a chess program in asm or starve for one month" seems a perfectly healthy proposition for any 20 year old to confront.

mircea_popescu: well... it's easier, and more comfortable, and always easier to find cheap waitresses than cheap mistresses, so...

mircea_popescu: it's funny, they go to all this trouble to make school as much like a prison as possible, but then fail to take advantage of any of the implicit benefits.

mircea_popescu: i don't know americans ever had the opportunity to listen to philosophy lectures in their country.

mircea_popescu: maybe if some actual philosopher ever visited and felt inclined to talk to the hordes, which seems improbable.

mircea_popescu: Vexual what's that mean ?

mircea_popescu: well ok, but psychology is not philosophy. and for that matter, really difficult to argue it into much more than a fashionable lady passtime.

mircea_popescu: perhaps. how would this constitute schooling ?

mircea_popescu: schooling is all about putting people in controlled environment designed for their changing.

mircea_popescu: hardly a point. this seems the three year old's expectation that his mother will feed him because she can.

mircea_popescu: and i don't want to school anyone, there's about 10mn people pretending they are schooling a hundred million kids in the us.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the list is longer than pierce, who is imo respectable, but exactly : logic is logic, and "utilitarianism" isn't much philosophy.

mircea_popescu: and i don't think dewey ruined anything. i think dewey just "cut through the cuts that were there" as the old azn story goes.

mircea_popescu: Vexual the idea to school people comes from a desire to have them powerful and idnependent citizens, rather than worthless dependent subjects.

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker

mircea_popescu: krlbrgmn what ?

mircea_popescu: im sorry, price is 200, day min max is 175/233. what flash crash ?

mircea_popescu: did i miss something ?

mircea_popescu: yeah, kinda par for the course here. you certainly can't say "crash" if the price isn't at day lows.

mircea_popescu: in general it's a good idea to set a long term strategy and follow that.

mircea_popescu: the stories you hear about "ordinary citizens just like you" daytrading for a profit are mostly fake.

mircea_popescu: well, why is it hard ? that's why the long term strategy is a long term strategy.

mircea_popescu: well, that's something you'd have to come up with on your own.

mircea_popescu: you know your own circumstance, make some long term predictions and split your effort accordingly.

mircea_popescu: i still have coins i bought at 3.x for that matter.

mircea_popescu: nope.

mircea_popescu: and you know, a sucker is me for not having sold out at 250 or w/e.

mircea_popescu: so how many btc did you sell at 190 ?

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker

mircea_popescu: o look, azn ppl

mircea_popescu: what's am by now, 1% of nethash ? under that ?

mircea_popescu: well it's good that they're keeping to their promise not to 50% the network.

mircea_popescu: in fairness for about three weeks it was.

mircea_popescu: long long ago on a planet far far away, known only as "this spring"

mircea_popescu: selling coffee brewed from miner waste heat is probably more profitable than deploying the miners too.

mircea_popescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1p3ti1/you_are_bad_at_entropy/ << stanislav takes over reddit