assbot: nam-shub +v failed; L1: 0, L2: 0
nam-shub: thanks benkay, just looking to see if mp and mpex.co split or just mpex.co
benkay: apparently mpex went down today
benkay: ah yeah i think mp's out
benkay: well sheeeeit and who are you?
benkay: feel free to castigate me for noobery if that's appropriate
nam-shub: New name, for a new secret project
mike_c: once a year the mpex raid array goes on summer vacation.
mike_c: ah, more fuel for BingoBoingo's summer heat theory.
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mircea_popescu: justusranvier i guess that's a point, i should wipe trilema twitter links huh
mircea_popescu: mthreat just been for a spin around 9 de julio. not *that* crazy
mthreat: mircea_popescu: i watched the game at the big screen at plaza san martin... it was crazy
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: you need to at least repost your "Coinpeople bitplease..." rant somewhere else so I can link to it when appropriate.
mthreat: if they somehow beat ze germans, it'll be crazy for 24 hours
mircea_popescu: i've been mostly conferincing lol. gotta earn a living.
mthreat: mircea_popescu: it was free
mthreat: mircea_popescu: futbol para todos
nam-shub: thanks for that mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: if he said anything it'll be in tomorrow's summaries. i've only been talking to techs and spooks today
benkay: it's just a ruse to convince us that mp isn't an nsa plant
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 30 @ 0.03079906 = 0.924 BTC [-]
benkay: ;;rate rye 3 responsible, efficient, honorable.
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benkay: mircea_popescu: you are the best candidate for the Frank Costello of bitcoin.
benkay: the one who survived by ratting out the competition for 20 years.
mircea_popescu: benkay it may have exscaped your notice, but im verbose.
TheNewDeal: I am using chrome, JS hasn't been turned off
benkay: fascinating. privacy/adblocking?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 20 @ 0.03079906 = 0.616 BTC [-]
TheNewDeal: seems like kaspersky isn't doing anything to restrict web
TheNewDeal: I have had trouble seeing bitcoincharts charts in chrome though, so might be my pc
mircea_popescu: btw, the song of the street here is " Brasil, decime qué se siente, tener en casa tu papa"
benkay: TheNewDeal: anything interesting in the console?
benkay: worst part about js app development is the "try refreshing?" debugging method.
benkay: all this nasty state buried in the browser
TheNewDeal: try refreshing is better than "Have you tried turning it on an off again?"
benkay: it's the 2014 version of above
benkay: hey is blockr -assets blessed these days?
benkay: and on the converse, has blockchain.info lost its?
assbot: U.S. officials cut estimate of recoverable Monterey Shale oil by 96% - Los Angeles Times
decimation: I'm sure that they used the power of science to err by 96%
mircea_popescu: my flash is not good enough, but anyway. mebbe we mean different things by chaos.
mircea_popescu: buncha people out singing. not like they burned a car or anything.
mthreat: well there's good chaos and bad chaos
assbot: The Diagrammer by Mergenthaler - 1970 on Vimeo
TheNewDeal: could west texas intermediate be a derivative of shale oil?
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal nah. and besides, it's been going crazy with respect to both brent and the middle east sorts.
TheNewDeal: isn't there a relatively large premium of brent vs wti lately/
decimation: I wonder if this has to do with the oil distribution infrastructure in the us
mircea_popescu: decimation if it does, it hadn't for 30 years or so prior.
decimation: yeah, but the us hasn't been close to an oil exporter for that period
decimation: it will take years to build the pipelines to the areas that need them, and it will be even more years of political stalemate preventing the investment
mircea_popescu: what do you mean ? both canada and mexico have been exporting ?
assbot: Crude oil train protests planned in Sacramento, Davis - Our Region - The Sacramento Bee
assbot: U.S. Was Net Oil-Product Exporter for First Time Since 1949 - Bloomberg
decimation: and the "people" think they have the luxury to protest oil moving through their town
mircea_popescu: “The reason we can export so much is demand in the U.S. is weak,” Cohan said. Since 2005, the U.S. has lost nearly 2 million barrels a day of total product consumption, he said.
decimation: it seems to me that if oil is so cheap, it should be burned for power, but I suspect USG has banned that too (to do it cheaply)
assbot: NECN Board calls for moratorium on oil trains - Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods
TheNewDeal: not sure, but it tastes to light and sweet
decimation: I suspect if you tried to build a new refinery to burn it more cleanly they would protest that too
assbot: Fuel oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
decimation: The most common residual fuels in the shipping industry are RMG and RMK.[4] ,,, Ships with more advanced engines can process heavier, more viscous, and thus cheaper, fuel.
decimation: yeah, it's probably the shit that comes out the bottom of the refinery stack
mircea_popescu: but anyway, ships are burning more and more diesel because of sulphur limitations
decimation: if there is enough refinery capacity to make it
decimation: the same environmentalists would gladly shut down a gas plant "because environment" and thus force the old coal plant to burn
decimation: that's true, in the end it's entitled nimbys who think they can tell others what to do on their own land
mircea_popescu: neighbourhood 1 gets together to "do something for environment", blows up all the leaves with leafblowers. N2 pledges to stop eating beef so as to help reduce cowfart methane production. the importers normaly supplying them suffer a shock, a bunch of meat is discarded.
decimation: which is also the government's fault, because the land-use regulation in the US has effectively short-circuited the nuisance tort process
mircea_popescu: n3 is a small consumer with a large gas plant. they picket it and it's closed. large industry down the road needs power so even further coal plant is brough back online.
mircea_popescu: this has been known since forever as the noble lie. ie, most people have no fucking business giving their opinion in the forum.
decimation: a much more rational system would be this: your neighbor opens coal plant, pays you damages for blighting your skies, business is taken care of
mircea_popescu: they may mean well and act honorably, but they're fucking peas in the field. no way to know enough to form a meaningful opinion.
mircea_popescu: decimation there's no practical way to evaluate blighted skies. and the chinese don't wan to pay mongolia or w/e
decimation: but in the us, remote third parties suddenly have standing to tell you how to run your business
decimation: right, it's a subjective problem negotiated between rational property owners
decimation: in the us you don't have property owners or rationality
mircea_popescu: as i generally tell my neighbours that listed to the music too loud, "either turn it off or i'm going to kill you".
mircea_popescu: and as i tell my neighbours that complain about my music, "either get lost or i'm going to kill you"
decimation: lol well there's a certain level of tolerance required to have civilization
mircea_popescu: negotiation is, "i'll give you this silver for that pear"
mircea_popescu: if you don't like it you keep your pear and i keep my silver.
decimation: I guess this is where you go to the King and plead your case
mircea_popescu: there's no way to resolve the silence dispute without recourse to violence.
mike_c: you could pay them. you want silence, they want money.
mircea_popescu: mike_c suppose you're in a restaurant with a chick you're trying to impress.
decimation: it seems to me that the general self-restraint of the population is important here
mircea_popescu: lemon band is playing awfully badly, so you pay them 20 mn to stfu
mircea_popescu: decimation that "self restraint" is your circular way of begging violence
mircea_popescu: "i don't have to beat them personaly but merely remind them of how their parents beat them"
mircea_popescu: well... what if their parents didn't ? what if it's the united states of chimpanzees ?
decimation: yeah I think Carlyle would agree with you: "Deduct what they carried with them from England ready-made, -- their common English Language and that same Constitution, or rather elixir of constitutions, their inveterate and now, as it were inborn, reverence for the Constable's Staff; two quite immense attainments which England had to spend much blood, and valiant sweat of brow and brain, for centuries long in achieving; -- and what new
decimation: elements of polity or nationhood, what noble new phasis of human arrangement, or social device worthy of Prometheus or of Epimetheus, yet comes to light in America? "
mircea_popescu: decimation moreover, the market is provedly awful at allocating silence. london was nothing but a gray mist for most of modernity.
mircea_popescu: generally as cixi aptyl observed, capitalism is fucking loud.
decimation: yeah I don't see any way out of the problem other than having a king/judge make subjective decisions backed up with the threat of violence
mircea_popescu: so you know... for all the conservative displeasure with the global government...
mircea_popescu: justusranvier lmao awww, and i didn't even get to sell any d.cbse
decimation: we already have global government, it seems to me. my objection to it is its horrible cost/benefit ratio - the problem mostly being the ungovernable masses
mircea_popescu: well because it's trying to solve problems that it has no business being involved in.
mircea_popescu: but mind that the eu was quite successful while it limited itself to imposing things like the euro1-2-3-4 car emission standards.
decimation: actually I think the idea mix of government is weak global regulation below strong local soverignty
decimation: well, it's true that sovereignty is binary, either you rule or you don't
mircea_popescu: decimation suppose i have a slavegirl. am i sovereign over her or aren't i ?
decimation: depends which government you live under, but assuming anarchy, I would say you are
mircea_popescu: as an aside, mpex update : hardware changed and tested, os installed and failed. os reinstalled and failed. hardware retested and failed (!!!). hardware rechanged. tested, passed, tested, passed, os resintalled, tested.
mircea_popescu: decimation so suppose i want to go down on her and she says her period started this morning. can i now order her to unperiodize herself ?
decimation: obviously this is an impossible task, and you are not in a position to demand such a thing from nature
TheNewDeal: what does that have to do with sovereignity?
TheNewDeal: you could still go down on her, that's your sovereign power ;)
decimation: you make a good point mircea, human sovereignty is always tragically limited
mircea_popescu: but the interface between sovereignity and productivity is iffy at best.
mircea_popescu: xerxes famously ordered the hellespont around, for that matter.
decimation: technology (in certain respects) has been getting better, but it seems to me the problems faced are "np-hard"
mircea_popescu names decimation the new head of the secret service. order #1 : arrest all the dissenters so that the population remains > 0.
mike_c: ;;calc (193000 / [ticker --last]) - 314.6
decimation: well the solution to your order lies somewhere between ghandi and stalin
mircea_popescu: decimation the solution obviously is, "make an ideology to which dissent is a self limiting condition"
assbot: SA to fork out billion for BRICS bank
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mike_c: but he is here now. and i don't see logs.
mike_c: oh. fine, make me look stupid. now it's logging.
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HyperChetty: There’s that old joke in Washington: that the definition of a camel is a race-horse designed by a Congressional committee.”
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HyperChetty: Germany took the dramatic step Thursday of asking the top U.S. intelligence official in Berlin to leave the country,
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jurov: lol dramatic is the right word
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 50 @ 0.01438989 = 0.7195 BTC [+]
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assbot: ISIS uranium: Iraq rebels seized "low-grade" nuclear material from university in Mosul.
Mats_cd03: more rogue nuclear material in the wild
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.76646065 BTC to 11`815 shares, 14951 satoshi per share
Mats_cd03: ;;google nuclear terrorism the ultimate preventable catastrophe pdf
Mats_cd03: worth a read - discusses missing material incl some soviet suitcase size weapons
jurov: ;;later tell mike_c in wol, adding 50% line into histograph would improve its readability
JorgePasada: I'm lazy and I'd have to SSH into my box at home
jurov: so who's talking and derping there?
bitstein: When will the conferences end...
jurov: they'll never... but they could do at least something marginally useful, like gpg signing parties
bitstein: "CoinSummit London is a two day event connecting virtual currency entrepreneurs, angel and VC investors, hedge fund professionals and others" - so... the worst of the Bitcoin community
JorgePasada: Also, what was some something about mpex listing bitpay shares or something?
JorgePasada: I saw something in a headline or something
jurov: mpex gonnalist derivatives
Mats_cd03: someone knows something about something
jurov: same as the other ones
jurov: once they get their spinning rust right
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada yeah, you can buy bitpay and other bitcoin ventures
JorgePasada: Apparently some idiot doesn't know how to title things
JorgePasada: I'm assuming that's what they all are, not actual shares
jurov: asciilifeform what's that. ankh-morpork?
Mats_cd03: bitfury vaurum icbit mastercoin foundation bitgo btcf ethereum @ coinsummit
Mats_cd03: plenty of derps in with the bidness crowd
BingoBoingo: jurov: asciilifeform: Notive running right through the middle of the place is that giant open sewer
jurov: yes, that's why i guessed ankh
HyperChetty: asciilifeform, change it a few names and it would be perfectly up to date
jurov: gonna blog about derps... once this debilitating gastroenteritis pain subsides
JorgePasada: mats_cd03 I like one and a half, maybe two of those
assbot: BBC News - Jersey approves first regulated Bitcoin fund
jurov: CryptOprah: tits 4 bitcoins?
benkay: my work day starts at 7, but i don't hit the tubes till ten or later.
assbot: Bad social policy, not ideology, is to blame for the Arab worlds downward spiral
benkay: i'm sorry, i don't understand the difference between said social policies and ideologies
mircea_popescu: mptranslate : "the reason we're claiming the arabs are going down while they're clearly kicking our butts has nothing to do with [our] ideology and everything to do with SCIENCE! Honest!"
mircea_popescu: at this rate being a camwhore will be more respectable than being a scientist within our lifetimes.
assbot: Call Girl Accused With Death of Google Exec Wrote Facebook Post About 'Killing Sprees' - ABC News
benkay: beware the autoplaying video whose pause button doesn't work
assbot: The Art of CRXTO | Technoccult
BingoBoingo: benkay: The pause button works perfectly for its master's purposes
HyperChetty: <mircea_popescu> at this rate being a camwhore will be more respectable than being a scientist within our lifetimes.// I thought it already was
benkay: business partner's mother was in town recently, wanted to know what we'd pay for a master's degree
benkay: i told her that we have an inverted education incentive structure - the more school you've had, the less i'll pay you.
benkay: then she went off on the importance of education to what she does - shepharding 8 year olds around.
benkay: i declined to continue to conversation.
thestringpuller: and lemme guess benkay your future spawn is going to private school :P
benkay: actually i think i'm going to hire people to execute on curricula of my own design.
benkay: latin, ballroom, the classics, various kinds of combat
☟︎ benkay: later - maths, natural philosophy, debate
benkay: dumb context free puns dot com for today:
benkay: well i certainly don't hire masters degree holders to stand by the crank and turn it all day
jurov: asciilifeform ever heard about "alnagon"?
jurov: at least around here, some apparatchiks went on prescription meds
benkay: analagous analgesics appetite for apparatchiks appears absolutely abnormal
assbot: MPEx status update pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> latin, ballroom, the classics, various kinds of combat << is this a woman you're raising here ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> incidentally, this is what a 'clean' hit looks like. none of the nailgun nonsense. exec gets slightly more than his usual dose... << only works on stalin, and execs who actually do drugs.
benkay: (and after all, there’s nothing wrong with changing keys once a year anyway) // what, mpex gets to rotate keys, but nobody else gets to rotate the keys they use on mpex?
pankkake: funny, just made the same comment
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the immortal words of pesto, that ain't gonna work.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> <benkay> latin, ballroom, the classics, various kinds of combat << is this a woman you're raising here ? // statistically likely
benkay: any of the above not necessary for either boys or girls?
mircea_popescu: benkay no, i just had a moment of drool at the thought someone somewhere is making me a dollie :D
benkay: no no, let me charge you, for it.
pankkake: I don't know what you are doing with the raids, but scrubing the raid and checking smart data regularly could probably reduce those kind of occurences
pankkake: my regular checks allowed me to replace drives before they fail, so just saying
jurov: pankkake: regardless of checks, ever had half of the drives fail aat once?
pankkake: and WD was nice enough to exchange my last drive even though my evidence was thin
pankkake: jurov: anything's possible, I came close once but no
pankkake: the thing is, "once" is actually a long time, the time you can change the drive and rebuild
mircea_popescu: pankkake this shit's supposed to take hotswapping for that matter.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it won't cost much, then it won't cost much to have them... not monitor the cameras, for five minutes.
pankkake: I mean the time to obtain a hard drive if you don't have a spare (and the time to rebuild)
mircea_popescu: pankkake there were two spares ready to go, and the rebuild is seamless, no downtime.
mircea_popescu: (this actually happened a number of times, most recently about 3 days ago. i even said so, at the time)
pankkake: while you're rebuilding, you are in a vulnerable state. hence the "fail half at once" has a higher chance to occur than you would think
mircea_popescu: it took half an hour and was complete long before yesterday.
pankkake: takes 24h for me :( but I guess mpex doesn't have as much data
mircea_popescu: the trade engine doesn't really keep that much, plus, tons of memory and cpu, which i think helps.
pankkake: just store everything in memory
mircea_popescu: the difference between ram chips and ssd drives is mostly academic.
jurov: pankkake you insist it happened naturally?
pankkake: never said anything of the sort
pankkake: I would suspect something with the host
pankkake: however, for raids with a lot of storage, drives failing all at once is more common than you would think
assbot: Netagio Launches Exchange for Gold, Sterling and Bitcoin Traders
assbot: Refusing to decrypt data for investigators gets student 6 months in jail
pankkake: yeah - I just document all those cases
assbot: Australian judge says incest may no longer be a taboo - Telegraph
assbot: Mother of 7 in jail because her kids skipped school dies in cell - The Washington Post
assbot: Northern Virginia officials worry CIA facility may scuttle bid to land FBI headquarters - The Washington Post
mircea_popescu: pankkake isn't calling it a "ding dong" the lulziest thing ever ?
mircea_popescu: i lost an erection to the fact that chick went all "o look the ding dong" and then everyone spent the next half hour cracking up
assbot: Police to take graphic photos of teen as evidence
pankkake: isn't that doubly illegal? asking for child pornography + 5th amendment
assbot: Ministry of Love - Imgur
mircea_popescu: looks just like the "cultural center" of some obscure eastern soviet town
pankkake: I don't know why, I like those soviet buildings
mircea_popescu: Investigators took Tichelman's fingerprints from the wine glass, according to KGO-TV. An obituary posted in the Santa Cruz Sentinel describes Hayes as a husband and father to five children.
mircea_popescu: "More than anything else he enjoyed spending time with his family at home and on his boat," the obituary said. "His brilliant mind, contagious smile, and warm embrace will be missed and cherished in memories by his friends and family."
mircea_popescu: well... that's one dumb wore ; perhaps not more than ANYTHING
assbot: Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ‘peer review ring’ - The Washington Post
pankkake: Journal of Vibration and Control <= scientific dildos
mircea_popescu: basically twitter/reddit/etc are the most successful of these "scientific journals" things/.
pankkake: they are a good example of "rent-seeking"
pankkake: as a scientist you have to be published by those things. and be cited
pankkake: no surprise some are trying to game the system
mircea_popescu: waiting for the 8,5 million articles retraction by 1-2k "social sciences" publications due to a 50k strong peer fraud ring.
mircea_popescu: roughly equal to most of the english speaking "academia"
assbot: Apollo Astronaut: Climate Alarmism Is the Biggest Fraud in the Field of Science | CNS News
mircea_popescu: "And, the amazing thing to people like me... is that there are people that believe the nonsense they're being fed."
rithm: let's start a peer review ring
assbot: Elephants react to sirens after Hamas launches rockets into israel. - YouTube
mike_c: b-a peer review process: put an ID on each blog entry in blogs.b-a. if you have voice you can !rate a blog post. then bash-like page with best rated posts, etc.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i think the most peer review that's happened to date was me slapping around benkay's employees.
mike_c: if we wanted such a process, which afaik nobody does.
mike_c: i peer review people that use too many footnotes.
mircea_popescu: there's been some unpeer review too, through which i ended up simpleminded psychotic and so, but...
mike_c: you do seem to get into it with benkay's staff. doesn't xmj work for him?
mircea_popescu: actually i suppose every time someone discusses someone else's blogpost here that's peer review
assbot: Ebury SSH Rootkit - Frequently Asked Questions
mircea_popescu: mostly for "The network of cPanel Inc.'s support department was compromised and machines used for connecting to customers' servers were found to be infected with Ebury"
HyperChetty: well I would wish disease on cPanel but it seems I am too late
assbot: Refusing to decrypt data for investigators gets student 6 months in jail
assbot: ANX International Bitcoin Debit Card
mircea_popescu: i mean i guess you could technically not use old acct as a ref but why would you.
mircea_popescu: you have any idea what a key refresh costs a serious entreprise ?
mircea_popescu: for that matter, what's that 20btc buy you, alternatively ? 1/85th of a second of superbowl commercial ?
mircea_popescu: that's what a 20 reel pick-n-placer costs stan's mom&pop picknplace emporioum
mircea_popescu: a corp trying to get one has prolly spend north of 10k just deciding whether it should be painted green or red.
mircea_popescu: is this in the "i can't believe i know any dragons" category ?
assbot: FRB: Speech--Fischer, Financial Sector Reform--July 10, 2014
Mats_cd03: Regulators almost everywhere need to do more research on the effectiveness of microprudential and other tools that could be used to deal with macroprudential problems.
Mats_cd03: It will be important to ensure that coordination among different regulators of the financial system is effective and, in particular, will be effective in the event of a crisis.
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benkay: <mircea_popescu> benkay no, i just had a moment of drool at the thought someone somewhere is making me a dollie :D // good taste is good taste
mircea_popescu: <Mats_cd03> Regulators almost everywhere need to do more research on the effectiveness of microprudential and other tools that could be used to deal with macroprudential problems. << the best tool is for them to stfu.,
benkay: <mircea_popescu> mike_c i think the most peer review that's happened to date was me slapping around benkay's employees. // hey now that's a dangerous word to throw at americans
benkay: 'contractor', please. for the sake of my taxes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know you probably get the girl her own handle.
HyperChetty: <mircea_popescu> what is this medieval patriarchy// uuh isnt that what you claim it should be??
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> i just mean, one pic at a time picblogging stuff /// instagram is what people use for this
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 167 @ 0.035 = 5.845 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves re the uif thing, best part is their raport of activity. it has a 2000-2009 and 2010 - 2014 section, somehow this makes sense. scroll to page 6, admire the fines (multas in original)
mircea_popescu: 250k is about... roughly 30 btc, at today's exchange. covers five years.
mircea_popescu: page 8 has other interesting statisticts. 156 cases, 9 convictions