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benkay: so what'd i miss last two days?
mike_c: china declared bitcoin illegal
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard i wouldn't hold anything bloomberg says against the "financial elite".
mircea_popescu: anymore than i'd hold anything jezebel publishes against "hot college sluts"
Pierre_Rochard: Agreed, I suspect the people who respond to bloomberg surveys are a few layers below “financial elite”
assbot: It's so strange that you don't remember any of your poetry.
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decimation: asciilifeform: re: linux on /dev/random "To me it sounds from your description that you may well be on the edge of "too anal". Real life _has_ to be taken into account, and not accepting entropy because of theoretical issues is _not_ a good idea"
decimation: "we have to accept that we can't give real entropy to those that need it, so shut up and get on the bus
decimation: no, the wagen is for those who refuse the bus :)
decimation: At the end of "the first circle", the prisoners are being removed from Mavrino in a vehicle disguised as a meat truck:
decimation: "Buffeting its load of tightly packed bodies, the gaily painted orange and blue truck drove on through the streets, passed a railway station and stopped at a crossroads. There, halted by a traffic-light, stood the dark-red car belonging to the Moscow correspondent of the Paris newspaper LIBERATION, on his way to a hockey match at the Dynamo Stadium. On the side of the van the correspondent read the words: MYACO. VIANDE. FLEISCH. MEAT.
☟︎☟︎ decimation: He remembered having seen several trucks like this today in various parts of Moscow. Taking out his notebook he wrote with his dark-red fountain pen: 'Now and again on the streets of Moscow you meet food delivery vans, clean, well-designed and hygienic. One must admit that the city's food supplies are admirably well organized.'"
☟︎ decimation: That's what Solzhenitsyn thought about the West back then
kakobrekla thinks the bus leads to railway station.
thickasthieves: "The Chamber of Digital Commerce announced itself on Saturday at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago. The group is registered as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit, which allows it to act as a lobbyist, and is being led by Perianne Boring, a former journalist and Congressional staffer. It has early backing from RRE Ventures and Tally Capital, which are leading a seed-round of fund
thickasthieves: is it really called a "seed-round" if it's a non-profit?
mircea_popescu: what is this thing with youths where they want to pretend like they're doing shit.
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: apprenticeship system broke down due to minimum wage at the low end, and college at the “high end”
mircea_popescu: she's a pretty girl, she's ambitious, she's for some reason chosen to fuck herself over the mocsny way.
Pierre_Rochard: Yes, well it doesn’t seem to be business success that she’s after. Naturally, she’s interested in social validation from her in-group of fellow bitcoiners
assbot: Perianne Boring - Boring Economics - Forbes
Pierre_Rochard: WHCD stands for White House Correspondents Dinner, where journalists go to pretend like they’re doing shit
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you're validated for your peers for what you do, that's business success.
mircea_popescu: and whcd is just a little pork, take all these famished kids and serve them a proper meal once a year is the idea.
mircea_popescu: course from what i hear they've been skimping on the catering.
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu I think that widens the definition of “business” a bit much. being the accountant that I am, I always look at that net income line. perhaps to my detriment
thickasthieves: <+mircea_popescu> course from what i hear they've been skimping on the catering. // what, dollars grow on trees?
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard but business is doing things, no other definition really works.
mircea_popescu: you can also know things, and you can also fuck really well. that just about covers human experience.
Pierre_Rochard: I wouldn’t describe the wealthy heiress who is very busy organizing charity galas to be a “business success” - however much she’s “doing things”. Her business is structurally running a loss
Pierre_Rochard: they consume capital, I’ve always thought of “business success” as creating capital
Pierre_Rochard: the more money they raise, the more capital they consume
mircea_popescu: all economy is pouring fluid from one vessel to the next.
mircea_popescu: if she's spending her own money to buy something, who are you to know better ? as long as she can keep doing it she's a businessman just like you.
Pierre_Rochard: a loss of capital. I disagree, capital does accumulate
mircea_popescu: or in romanian, "cistigi, pagubesti, negustor te numesti"
mircea_popescu: so if i spend capital to buy advertising im a bad businessman ?
Pierre_Rochard: we are disagreeing on semantics then, because to me spending:investing::consumption:business
mircea_popescu: maybe we're disagreeing on the point where you cut the space of externalities ideologically and pretend like it ain't so.
mircea_popescu: the socialite uses up money to make whatever the fuck you'd call it.
Pierre_Rochard: no, because you are buying an intangible “capital” good called goodwill / brand awareness / customer education. This capital depreciates over time
mircea_popescu: the only measure of success is, "is this species still extant or meanwhile extinguished"
Pierre_Rochard: well yes, the socialite buys social capital, I would call them a successful socialite, I wouldn’t normally call them a successful businessperson. they would find it offensive to compare their activities to commercial ones
mircea_popescu: what a socialite finds offensive is entirely her problem
thickasthieves: wife met with a state senator today asking her to be on the board of a nonprofit that gives public school teachers funds for stuff the school won't pay for
Pierre_Rochard: fair enough, so the conclusion is that boring is a successful businessperson?
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard no. she positions herself as she were, she pretends to be.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, she's a ridiculous teenager, putting online a forum about "how to score chix"
thickasthieves: i think it's where the wife wants to end up, deciding which nonprofits get pools of money
Pierre_Rochard: at what point would you say she is a thing? If she is able to do enough work to raise money for her new organization, is that not a successful business?
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard the objection here isn't on the lines of business. she looks like she could raise a million dollars on the vegas strip np
mircea_popescu: the objection here is that she's working hard, not smart.
mircea_popescu: let me tell you a story, it'll perfectly well illustrate what i mean.
mircea_popescu: so, when i went to hs, they made this special "suprareal" class. (in romanian, "real" means you do math, otherwise it's a chick hs doing languages, or a prole hs doing "skills"). they made the entrance so fucking hard tho that only about 18 kids out of the entire region made it. the remainder "fell through" to 3 normal "real" classes at this elite hs.
mircea_popescu: then the ministry decided it won't ok a 18 student class. so they took a dozen the kids that had fallen through 3 normal classes, and had not found an alternative hs in the dozen or so top highschools around. and put them in.
mircea_popescu: now among this dozen, there was a mentally retarded girl. she wasn't badly touched, maybe 80 or so. definitely enough to take care of herself. definitely not enough for high level math. her parents however were i dun recall what academic country gentry, and so they insisted she go.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: she came. for four years, that poor unfortunate soul sat there, dreading the moment anyone asked anything. because she knew she couldn't cope. just smart enough to smart.
mircea_popescu: nobody flunked her, because you don't flunk well behaved girls. and so... she made it through. parents beamingly proud.
mircea_popescu: all the kids that were any good left, generally the country. just about now, an elderly lady with a full professorship was looking for an assistant.
mircea_popescu: so, this poor unfortunate soul found herself living her parent's dream : an assistant professor! at the prestigious ubb no less!
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: there for all eternity, to confront generations of bright teenagers that'll take about five minutes to figure out she's a furniture, and maybe not torture her for it. maybe.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they could have thrown her out, np. just...
mircea_popescu: so, yeah. she can be a thing if she wants. she doesn't, even if she may be too stupid to realise this.
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Pierre_Rochard: would it be fair to say “pretending” = taking on a challenge that you don’t have the skills for, and “a thing” = taking on a challenge you have the skills for?
Pierre_Rochard: Right. Hmm. Going to sleep on this one now. I like the heuristic. I’ll be doing log reading this weekend with that in mind
decimation: there's also the dunning-kruger effect, the unskilled strongly tend to think that they are skilled
mircea_popescu: decimation now imagine what happens to a society that takes all the natural victims of this phenomenon, kids aged 15-20, and a) preaches to the girls they should be more like the boys, ie, stupid in this particular manner and b)
mircea_popescu: spends all the time it should spend training them so they stop sucking training them to believe they are just fine and this is what one does and should do.
decimation: yeah the problem is more the marginal boy that mircea points out
decimation: at my university I found these types "lecturing" freshman psychology, hoping to "earn" a phd in social science
decimation: I admire the german system for this reason; take a test around middle school to really determine if you are capable of the university path
decimation: this functions as a natural safety value which relieves people from pretending they are something that they are not
decimation: it's true that no filter is going to be perfect
decimation: but it's better than shoving every kid into college
decimation: here's a question: why will bitcoin succeed when gold was beaten so badly by fiat?
decimation: one answer I came up with: banning bitcoin is banning information transfer, which seems to be beyond the power of the state
decimation: whereas banning physical gold transaction is possible, at least within the "officially recognized" banking and exchange entities
mircea_popescu: <decimation> here's a question: why will bitcoin succeed when gold was beaten so badly by fiat? << well, why has gold been "Beaten so badly by fiat" ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> this functions as a natural safety value which relieves people from pretending they are something that they are not << whole fucking contemporary us is built upon people pretending they are everyithing they're not.
mircea_popescu: it starts with the us itself pretending to be part of the western world, while leading africa in rapes, teenage pregnancy, incarceration, functional illiteracy and the like
thickasthieves: you create one country and you think you can do anything for a few hundred years
nubbins`: the british only created one country? ;D
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nubbins`: i'd wondered what happened to goat, seems he's banned from the forums
mircea_popescu: didn';t he make a sikrit forum where he derps with tortilla and some glbse bagholders ?
artifexd: I don't understand this “burning bitcoin" concept. Bitcoin are destined to be one of the most valuable commodities that have ever existed. Burning them is just dumb. Plain and simple. Dumb.
artifexd: Also, I'm a little intoxicated. "Welcome to Ecuador" says the family, with alcohol.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 40 @ 0.01500255 = 0.6001 BTC [-] {4}
jurov: ;;later tell mircea_popescu ever considered dial-in access to mpex? decommissioned hardware should be cheap and it'd work internationally (9600 baud would suffice)
jurov: since we're on irc, why not bring back bbs days of glory?
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kakobrekla: <asciilifeform> unrelated - is kakobrekla awake? i wish to buy his gadget. < moving to eu already?
dub: the fuckingmachines.com one
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mircea_popescu: jurov i don't get what it'd be supposed to do tho. you mean dial-up access only ? anyone can connect to a website on dial-up as it is.
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thickasthieves: "Dell should pre-install Bitcoin wallets in all its laptops" ~Reddit
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punkman: mircea_popescu: anyone can connect to a website on dial-up as it is. << I think he meant having his modem dial a telephone number for mpex
thickasthieves: “The US is certainly one of the world’s leaders. At some point it seemed that it was the only leader and a uni-polar system was in place. Today it appears that is not the case. Everything in the world is interdependent and once you try to punish someone, in the end you will cut off your nose to spite your face" ~ Putin
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assbot: A New Digital Currency Whose Value Is Based on Your Reputation | Enterprise | WIRED
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herbijudlestoids: yes, admit i was a little surprised about the downtime thing upon visiting trilema
herbijudlestoids: but i guess mircea_popescu knows whats what when it comes to building the system he designed
herbijudlestoids: things have been going well on my end, after the first big customer hit we have had a bit of a flood of them, and our accountant has even managed to score us significant tax breaks around R&D for the last FY
herbijudlestoids: so, as i guess my absence has indicated, have been keeping busy
herbijudlestoids: anyway, 3am here, just wanted to login and check on yall after i noticed mpex was down. lots of love.
assbot: FedEx Indicted in Prescription Drug Shipping Probe - WSJ
mircea_popescu: they knew-or-should-have-known (tm) that people are sending dope through the mail and stopped offerind mail services!
mircea_popescu: no any-services (tm) may be offered by anyone because IT IS DANGEROUS
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mircea_popescu: "Black men who are employed also get the shaft by having an average life expectancy of 64 years, which means on average they don't live long enough to see any of their social security tax payments, given that the retirement age is 65 years."
mircea_popescu: fucking statistics 101. black men may have a 64 yo le, but black men WHO ARE EMPLOYED do not.
benkay: mircea_popescu: it's a wild ride
assbot: anonymous's paste: 88370
assbot: A New Digital Currency Whose Value Is Based on Your Reputation | Enterprise | WIRED
benkay: probably just your gpg keyid ;)
benkay: -> magic bytes in protocol, to separate networks
benkay: no mining per se, because that's a feature of btc, you know?
benkay: pre-mine, act as your own central bank.
benkay: reputation and behavior are incredibly important because you can rewrite the blockchain basically at will, unless you do something with a merged-mine approach (but i don't know enough about mm to comment really)
kakobrekla: asciilifeform possibly, but i suspect it still a fortune to ship since im not in china or uk. two more issues, as i said, its not assembled atm and would need to be before its shipped overseas, to see whats what. this takes time.
kakobrekla: other thing is, Z axis, while I have the parts, two alu blocks would still need to be machined - if you have access to machining you are prolly better off getting alu machined locally.
kakobrekla: and get the rest of the parts from uk/china. whichever you prefer. its same stuff.
kakobrekla: >prolly better off getting alu machined locally.< i mean all the profiles.
kakobrekla: now if youd be in eu, id grab all the parts and come with them to put it together - not even selling - would lend it for free.
benkay: i just found a beer bottle with a threaded neck onto which a cap had been crimped to not un-thread. i did not know that this was possible!
assbot: A New Digital Currency Whose Value Is Based on Your Reputation | Enterprise | WIRED
benkay: you're already known as the btc baron?
jurov: mircea_popescu: i meant for you to have actual modem onsite, to be able to reach mpex even if there's internet problem
jurov: and mpex users would be asked not to disclose the number
jurov: but not sure if there's room for this scenario if mpex's completely ddos proof now..
mircea_popescu: i'd rather make it so it works than you know, make it so it phones.
jurov: or phone poor moiety and dictate signed order to her xD
mircea_popescu: 64 bytes from [x.x.x.x]: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.47 ms
benkay: oh so this is going to be entertaining
benkay: i discovered at the border that my passport is expired. canadian borderfolk dgaf, but i'm *really* anticipating hitting US customs now.
Namworld: Well you can visit me while you're stuck in canuckistan.
gribble: Error: "curl" is not a valid command.
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empyex: FabianB: Proxies: ".. running a final swathe of test-all-the-edge-cases .. mpex should be back this weekend. also fabian is pretty cool." MPEx-Status: Error reaching trade engine (change: $proxies <newlist>)
Namworld: I have those turned off in my client since last year. I don't see those anymore. Was quite annoying and barely helpful.
mircea_popescu: Namworld yeah but take the recent camho invasion for instance.
assbot: Bug 659512 – no chance to enter a password during key generation in command-line mode
mircea_popescu: for a coupla hours there it looked like the whole damned charade'll have to be taken down and redone.
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gribble: Error: "laser" is not a valid command.
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nubbins`: any of you know who klaus nomi is?
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mircea_popescu: "As an example, the following string of numbers is anything but random:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 However, if this is run through a MD5 or SHA whitener, the result would
mircea_popescu: *look* random, even though the source material is anything but random."
mircea_popescu: in which we find Theodore Y. Ts'o doesn't comprehend what random means.