BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform finds it quite impossible to imagine anything other than a mutilated corpse following 'won't believe what happens next' phrase. << Woodchipper fan fiction
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cazalla: RagnarDanneskjol, lol, what did you expect me to say
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cazalla: so regards to finding additional author, on the about page i added must be in wot + 6 months #b-a logs, i'm happy to loosen requirements if article quality is up to par, what do people think?
BingoBoingo: Well, writing sample as audition seems like a solid process
cazalla: ideally they find some news, verify rumour, something of interest to readers that is original
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Everything for the occasion. Maybe eventually a staff? Qntra only pays in equity though.
cazalla: licensing content wouldn't work
cazalla: they as in anyone that wants to contribute to the site and earn equity
cazalla: i didn't really make it clear
BingoBoingo: Food for thought. Bone wax is an actual product applied to living bone.
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mats_cd03: i am realizing the West Key system is not going to be helpful in doing this legal research
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mats_cd03: guess ill go to the harvard law school library and bug some librarians for tips
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BingoBoingo: chetty: Have you found anything concrete on sterilizing cash yet?
Adlai: technically (the best kind of) speaking, isn't material contaminated with ebolavirus still considered "sterile"?
Adlai: "free from bacteria or other living microorganisms; totally clean"
BingoBoingo: Adlai: Depending on where one places their cut off for "life" it could be. I'm of the opinion that fire meets the minimum qualifications for living though.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: if so, the simplest device is... a bank. the infected cash is brought to the bank, and given to the hapless devil inside. afterwards, one walks six metres to the cash machine and withdraws clean cash (generally, where i live, only newly-printed money is ever placed into the cassette, to avoid jamming rollers.) << Out I get some used, but pressed bills out of the cash machine
Adlai: another possibility is to wash your hands before you eat, and use straws instead of benjies
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Adlai: makes me just want to wait until the movie comes out
BingoBoingo: Well, ethylene oxide seems like a promising canidate agent
Adlai: firing squads take a long time and use too much manpower (Eichmann et al, 1942)
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Adlai is a bit puzzled by the incentives arising from s.qntr's share model... authors are incentivized to write the longest possible article which will pass review, while the editor is incentivized to pick the shortest available article on a specific subject
Adlai: that doesn't necessarily produce the "best" content, although trying to incentivize "better" content through share distribution might be misguided
cazalla: Adlai, providing contributors adhere to quality guidelines, i don't see long articles to be a problem for the website
decimation: asciilifeform: that 'spytainment' paper is hilarious. I especially like the part about re-classification of previously publically released material.
cazalla: if anything it will act as motivation for them to contribute a lot of quality content and possibly earn more than they would have by publishing it elsewhere
Adlai: cazalla: problem != (dis)incentive
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decimation: One cannot imagine a better situation for allowing bureaucrats unlimited freedom of action than to create a massive propaganda apparatus (hollywood) which everyone (including dear leaders) believe to be the truth.
cazalla: and why would i be incentivised to write short articles? i can earn from the same pool of shares other authors do
Adlai: decimation: after one of the snowden leaks, there were some emails sent around govt networks asking people not to open the leaked documents on workstations with lower clearance than the leaks
Adlai: i'm imagining a situation where authors are competing, i realize that qntra has a smaller author pool atm
decimation: one wonders if usg actually keeps anything secret or just fills out paperwork to that effect
Adlai: how does qntra plan to monetize?
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xanthyos: much of the btc criticism i read online hearkens back to mtgox, like mtgox is this powerful buzzword that trumps all arguments, like rudy giuliani did with "9/11"
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> so regards to finding additional author, on the about page i added must be in wot + 6 months #b-a logs, i'm happy to loosen requirements if article quality is up to par, what do people think? << yah if they're in the wot at all and they submit something that's decent should be ok
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or is there a set of staff authors ... ? << set as in brothel. anyone can submit for an audition
Adlai: BingoBoingo: "how" is the key word :)
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> larval cycle where you are supported by external wires (parents, student debt, etc.) << clearly spending your own money as you see fit should be a better position than begging mom/govt. so if that's what it is then... yeah, waste it. it sucks.
BingoBoingo: Well, there's a timeline to answer how beyond what is contained in the listing document. Any or all of the methods proposed there may be considered.
Adlai looks at the listing again
mircea_popescu: * Adlai is a bit puzzled by the incentives arising from s.qntr's share model... authors are incentivized to write the longest possible article which will pass review, while the editor is incentivized to pick the shortest available article on a specific subject << works i guess.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i've yet to meet adults that made less than teenager allowance.
mircea_popescu: this is plainly untrue. if teenager rent is null then pretty much any woman's rent is also null.
mircea_popescu: if you're going to put up with parenting level bullshit you might as well answer one of those "will rent for cocksucking" craigslist ads.
mircea_popescu: any helicopter mom can run the mouth for longer than anyone can maintain an erection.
Adlai: there's a doonesbury somewhere out there where mike's dad gives him a bill for all his parenting, including his share of rent
mircea_popescu: i think a vanishingly small minority of parents actually adds value through parenting.
Adlai: text is too small to find it quickly through google images -> /me gives up
decimation: I have a friend who made his teenagres pay the utility bills
mircea_popescu: much like the vast majority of people writing should be charged
Adlai: obligatory rothbard quote, "the purely free society will have a flourishing free market in children"
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this isn't some sort of crazy altenrate world. one of the chief pillars of english prosperity, not just financial but espexcially intellectual, was the flourishing free market in children they had.
mircea_popescu: pretty much every snotty brat got shipped off to slave labour at the age of about 7.
decimation: in the ancient world it is my understanding that selling children into slavery was in some cases the 'social safety net'
mircea_popescu: the process built like 99% of any english speaker worth a name in all history.
decimation: mircea_popescu: not to mention they sent their criminals and 'surplus young men' into slavery in the colonies
Adlai: at what point does a child sold into slavery become free?
mircea_popescu: Adlai in england you mean ? usually when he's old enough and skilled enough to practice a trade
Adlai: whenever i think about such ideas, my disgust at the theoretical treatment of people turns into disgust at the actual way we treat animals today
Adlai: and then i stop thinking about it because bacon
mircea_popescu: the only disgusting thing is that a minority of kids today are mistreated by not being so treated.
Adlai: you think we treat animals (including people) well?
decimation: Adlai: do you think it is more 'humane' to pay to keep the humans in shitholes with nothing to do?
mircea_popescu: Adlai i think english speakers mistreat their children horribly.
Adlai: i'm not sure what's humane or better, but i'm open to the possibility of there being better treatments than what we do now
Adlai: and yes, it's fair to say that i was "mistreated" by never having to work for money until i stopped accepting my parents' charity
Adlai: on one hand i'm pretty pleased about that, it enabled me to have tons of free time growing up, and i think i used it reasonably well
Adlai: on the other hand, that child grew into a "psychologically unemployable" adult
Adlai: kakobrekla: what's wrong with a little dissent :P
decimation: I suspect that few of the young apprentices that mircea_popescu mentioned ended up dispising the masters who showed them how dumb they were
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decimation: asciilifeform: well, the aforementioned English devised a system where every such chap has a stick-wielder nearby
decimation: in the us, wielding the stick is generally banned, as is wielding wet noodles or signs that say 'stick'
devthedev: What do you think would be the best way to handle MPEx shares for Qntra?
cazalla: give him the stick, DON'T give him the stick
decimation: you mean the cruel discipline of nature?
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Adlai: BingoBoingo: where in the listing document is there any mention of anything which generates revenue?
Adlai: beautifully vague, but i guess that's appropriate at such an early stage
decimation: asciilifeform: yes, it is sad that in the us, the gov't has the right to arbitrary invade your person, yet generally forbids those who are put in authority over children the same power
decimation: and by 'invade your person' I mean 'subject to arbitrary measures of physical control'
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Adlai: yes that was linked in #lisp a while back
BingoBoingo: Ah, I only have so many channels open at a time.
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mircea_popescu: <decimation> I suspect that few of the young apprentices that mircea_popescu mentioned ended up dispising the masters who showed them how dumb they were << actually, if the periodic apprentice riots are anything to go by, they probably resented their masters to their grave.
mircea_popescu: so what of it, kids loving their father is the seal of fathering failure.
decimation: heh good point - except for the few who became masters themselves
mircea_popescu: <devthedev> What do you think would be the best way to handle MPEx shares for Qntra? << whatr do you ean handle ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> and by 'invade your person' I mean 'subject to arbitrary measures of physical control << they still doing the "freeze" kindergarten game in airports ?
Adlai: mircea_popescu: isn't much of what you say about anglophonia relevant for many other places too?
devthedev: I'm trying to gain knowledge of which brokerage would be best.
decimation: mircea_popescu: yes, except they arbitrarily add on various 'strip' features, like your shoes, bags, etc
mircea_popescu: but you had to be careful or else the adults might catch on.
decimation: the latest thing is that if you pay the tsa $70 you can get your name on a list, so that you go through security 'the way it was before 2001'
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decimation: "I'm an official friend of usg, here's my pass from Stalin"
mircea_popescu: decimation do they refund it if you blow up a plane after all ?
Adlai: the agent refunds it if they want to see you naked when you arrive at the airport
mircea_popescu: tbh, if i were sitting on the iron throne in question, i'd have the agents naked
assbot: What are your rights if your plane crashes?
decimation: whatever happened to those 'red faction' chaps that were using high-end shaped charges in the 80's?
mircea_popescu: if you do actuarial averages, about the best construction you can come up with
decimation: I think you wrote about the tyranny of infinite liability
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decimation: ask any engineer 'how safe' the bridge should be, and he will ask how many people it should kill in a reasonable lifespan
BingoBoingo: decimation: Bridge kills no people in it's lifespan because users are warned of the expiration date upon which it will self bomb
decimation: the point being everything is a tradeoff, and many errors of government come from trying to assume the value of something to be infinity - or zero.
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mats_cd03: my brain keeps parsing S.QNTR as squinter
mats_cd03: perhaps my brain is telling me to write for qntra.
mats_cd03: the only thing i have in mind is bitbet audit 2
mats_cd03: and i plan to wait until brk-a bet concludes to do that
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decimation: so reading about lowendhost.net in the [b]logs was useful. has anyone used 'vultr.com'?
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decimation: it seemed to be among the best deals in 'kvm' hosting
thickasthieves: btw bingoboingo, the error is gone, and grats to you and cazalla on the IPOhood
BingoBoingo: decimation: I think kakobrekla is giving them a spin. I've read mixed reviews.
thickasthieves: but no, thank you for giving it a go, i always like to see the new b-a bizs
decimation: ah I see his note in the log, thanks for the tip. I wonder what kind of processor they are using
BingoBoingo: decimation: Their copy says something intel and something recent.
thickasthieves: omg i'm going to reddit to try to get mpex to support bitcoin, they only take words now!
mike_c: you could buy from starving authors
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: (no, it’s not all physiology, there’s a lot to the functioning of the brain that’s purely cultural, and thus ethnic, and thus sure black kids immersed into white culture could in principle get the same IQ measurements as white kids while black kids from Africa or the ghetto never will) << lolno.
diametric: asciilifeform: for what its worth, there is actually no direct flights from west africa to here.
diametric: but that would be tantamount to stopping all inbound flights.
diametric: honestly, though, ebola has an R0 of 2, its less serious than measles which thanks to anti-vax nutters is making a huge comeback. If theres anything to honestly be really worried about, its measles.
diametric: i find it kind of interesting though, you were in the camp of ebola isn't a serious problem for a first world country when we talked about it a few months ago.
decimation: diametric: even assuming that ebola doesn't transmit very well, wouldn't it make sense to attempt some level of quarantine?
diametric: decimation: of course, but i think thats happening. (re; the idiot that sneezed and said "sorry i came from africa"
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decimation: "Washington didn’t micro-manage American Samoa, not being all that interested. A policy of benign neglect was interpreted by Poyer as an opportunity to act on his best judgment, in the finest traditions of the US Navy. He imposed quarantine. That was harder that it sounds, because of the frequent family visits between West Samoa and American Samoa – but Poyer also had the support of the local chiefs, who understood how
decimation: serious imported epidemics could be. The people of American Samoa self-blockaded, on top of official quarantine: they sent out canoes to stop any and all visitors. They never had a single case."
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diametric: man its feeling a bit like fox news in here, trying to convince me I already have ebola
decimation: diametric: this is one of these 'tough calls' that the man-children who pretend to run the usg need to actually make
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> what does fox news prescribe for ebola ? << The more important question is where are those magic tobacco plants growing those antibodies
decimation: asciilifeform: it seems that guy (Mr. Cochran) has some axes he is grinding
diametric: we're still only sitting at one infection contracted in the US, a nurse that didn't follow the proper protocol when dealing with the index patient (who is now dead). I'm not seeing the incoming pandemic yet.
decimation: diametric: if you read my first link above, the guy comes to the same conclusion
decimation: the question is, how many extra us citizen deaths are worth not 'shutting down' travel from africa, whatever that means?
diametric: its deja vu for me, i had this nearly identical conversation with a friend over sars way back when.
The20YearIRCloud: If my understanding was right, the infection rate from swine flu was higher, but overall mortality was less
decimation: diametric: yeah the difference is we know the fatality rate for ebola is double digits
The20YearIRCloud: A girl in my town came very, very close to death from swine flu, but normal flu kills quite a few each year
diametric: we know the fatality rate for ebola if you're a poor african man is double digits.
decimation: although to be fair, we don't know how people with actual medical care will fair
The20YearIRCloud: It's high in the US too, the difference is here it's not as liekly transmissable, nor as lethal, and there's extreme economic incentive to prevent or treat it
The20YearIRCloud: The flu kills plenty in Africa too, but our death rate from yearly flu is something like 0.02%
diametric: asciilifeform: we know how transmissible, even in a country like africa where large families share rooms, the average person only infects 1.5 other people.
dub: where are teh bitbets? 50K US deaths by chrimbus
diametric: I've heard numbers ranging from 0.5 to 2 for r
diametric: which is nothing compared to 18 of measles.
mircea_popescu: so these people here are fucking obsessed with dolce de leche
diametric: pertussis is like 15 or something.
mircea_popescu: so i go buy chocolate dipped figs. only to discover, the motherfucking figs
decimation: diametric: I agree with you that ebola in the us likely has r << 1.0, and will not be a pandemic
diametric: asciilifeform: it shouldn't be, thanks to your local anti-vaxxers who are breeding colonies of non-vaccinated measles carrying people, new mutations are likely.
decimation: but that's cold comfort for the couple of people who will die because "we can't control travel from africa"
diametric: so far nobody has died from uncontrolled travel from africa.
decimation: that's true, there's only been one case of transmission in the us, the nurse in texas
diametric: the only person in the US that has died from ebola was the african guy that came here and was already very sick.
mircea_popescu: <diametric> honestly, though, ebola has an R0 of 2, its less serious than measles << this is relying on a whole string of assumptions.
mircea_popescu: like saying "this hooker's like 50 lbs, she's a lot less dangerous than mike in accounting"
diametric: less serious in the chances of you getting ebola.
diametric: than say of an unvaccinated person getting measles.
mircea_popescu: this may be true on an individual level. but large scale biologic phenomena have their own emergent properties.
diametric: asciilifeform: it kind of surprises me. if anything, i feel as though the media, and in part the usg, is making ebola sound way more serious in order to keep people in a state of panic. and you're falling right for it.
mircea_popescu: in short, you have nfi what happens once it reaches the magical 2% i think it was ?
Adlai: growing up against a backdrop of sars and assorted flu mutations has vaccinated me against pandemophobia
decimation: diametric: I agree with you that 'anti-vaxxers' are a bigger threat than ebola
Adlai: ebola seriously could not be lower on my waiting list of fuckstogive
diametric: decimation: 2013 was the worst in the last 17 years for measles, entirely due to anti-vaxxers. last thing i want, is measles moving around, and having more chances to mutate.
diametric: asciilifeform: i'm not sure how you've come to the conclusion based on a single nurse that didn't follow the rules getting ebola to the usg has let it walk at leisure.
diametric: she touched her fucking eyes the last i heard.
Adlai: i'm more scared of a friend overestimating his own drunk/high driving abilities and killing me before widespread deployment of self-driving cars, than i am of dying of any pandemic, ever
diametric: asciilifeform: well a lot more than 2 right now.
mircea_popescu: Adlai sure, but again, the mass effects are of concern.
Adlai: yeah they really need to release that sequel already
mircea_popescu: for instance, if a fire breaks out in a crowded place, being trampled is more dangerous than being burned
Adlai: note to self: winds are calmest at the epicenter
diametric: unless you're at a great white concert.
dub: you forget this is libertard holy grail, fully half of all bitcoiners are sitting in the bunker cleaning ar15 right now
diametric: its not black friday until a walmart patron is trampled to death.
BingoBoingo: <dub> you forget this is libertard holy grail, fully half of all bitcoiners are sitting in the bunker cleaning ar15 right now << AR-15 is rather heavy for a walk to the exit
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decimation: dub: are you saying that obama is walking ebola to keep the republicans at home for the elections?
mircea_popescu: <dub> where are teh bitbets? 50K US deaths by chrimbus << make it.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: IQ isn't all physiology, ie, genetics. Your iq is in part dependent on your epileptics. So, yes, "there’s a lot to the functioning of the brain that’s purely cultural, and thus ethnic" but that "black kids immersed into white culture could in principle get the same IQ measurements as white kids" does not follow. Blacks have smaller brains and lower iq because of their genetics - placing them in a
decimation: seems like a 'force majeure' clause to me
mircea_popescu: anyway, the brain size is not necessarily a predictor of anything. my amd quad is smaller than an old pentium
diametric: the incoming ebola pandemic is brought to you by the evil nazi atheist muslim obama, and his horde of unbelieving non-republican swine that infect our great god fearing nation.
mircea_popescu: the genetics underpinnign cognitive function is debatable and poorly understood.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't mean much more than, this empty bottle of soda could in principle be gasoline.
Adlai: it's amazing just how unrelated brain volume and intelligence are
decimation: diametric: a nontrival portion of the us population probably believes this
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diametric: she once told me she literally believes obama is the anti-christ.
mircea_popescu: decimation diametric would one of you consider perhaps changing nick ? you're hitting a total blind spot with me, you're like figs and dates, i keep confusing you!
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Adlai: asciilifeform: interesting. the only correlation i can think of for reaction time would be that of overall size, or rather, the length which nerve signals need to travel
diametric: i'll change my nick for 10 bitcoin.
Adlai: spiders move so quickly because their brain is right there
Adlai is not knowledgeable enough about slug anatomy to respond
Adlai: what is a "known simple test" for "intelligence", though?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as far as i recall the better studies were done by the russians, measuring eye movements
Adlai: or rather, "which intelligence"?
Adlai: a lot less nerve length, and less variance between individuals
mircea_popescu: it's what i mostly use to score individuals in proxmity, too.
Adlai: the really steady metric is distance between pupil centers
Adlai: really useful for computer vision
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gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: "the genetics underpinnign cognitive function is debatable and poorly understood." really now? I looked into this, there is no debate on the matter of race / iq / genetics (there is however, lots of screaming). What genes specifically determine iq is definitely up for debate.
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BingoBoingo: <Adlai> what is a "known simple test" for "intelligence", though? << Measured intoxication
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: from linked paper "National IQs have been reported for 192 countries around the world. The results show that the average IQ for East Asians centers around 106; for Whites, about 100; for US Blacks about 85, and for sub-Saharan African Blacks about 70. The same rank-order of race differences is found for ‘‘culture-fair’’ tests and reaction-time measures. Reaction-time tasks are so easy that al
gabriel_laddel: l children can do them in less than one second. More intelligent children, measured by conventional IQ tests, perform faster on these tasks. East Asians average faster reaction times than Whites who, in turn, have faster reaction times than Blacks."
BingoBoingo: Adlai: Get someone to hit a controlled amount on a breathalyzer and have them do math
Adlai: that only tests "intelligence" as it relates to the types of "math" in your test
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel there are many countless objections to bring. for instance, the country with a guy at 300 and three guys at 50 is better than the country with three guys at 150 ?
Adlai: "intelligence" is a very nebulous concept. you can get precise measures for precise definitions of it, but i'm not too interested in who can do long division faster in their head
mircea_popescu: averaging nonlinear measurements is a fine example of having passed through college unattained.
Adlai: let's test correlation between reaction time and dual N-back
Adlai: they don't measure strength when you come to enlist :P
Adlai: where do you think I live?
Adlai: you should probably not
Adlai: when you enlist, they measure "quality" (literal translation) using secret methods
Adlai: everybody goes through the tests, most people know their results, but the actual method of calculating the results is top sekrit
BingoBoingo: <Adlai> that only tests "intelligence" as it relates to the types of "math" in your test << Well in the later rounds it test how well a brain functions when dampened
Adlai: this "quality group" metric is supposed to indicate intelligence
Adlai: physical strength is only evaluated in entrance exams to various units which require it, and these usually test stamina more than raw strength
decimation: " Current assessments measuring muscular endurance (push-ups and sit-ups), although providing some relationship to firefighting tasks,22–24 do not measure a soldier's ability to lift and carry equipment with the ecological validity of a task-specific assessment. An appropriate assessment would involve lifting and carrying an item in each hand (replicating the hose carry upstairs)."
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gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: the paper isn't arguring "better" simply that iq holds for races across environments.
mircea_popescu: iqs are not linear, and im not even sure they're scalars at all.
decimation: yeah, dr. obvious probably co-wrote that study
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel in short, im not denying a lot of work has been done. i'm just saying, i'm skeptical.
Adlai: the only army-wide test which supposedly measures strength that i'm aware of involves pushups and situps, and i can count on one hand the number of times i saw it administered without the vast majority of people cheating
Adlai: cheating = you pair up and count for eachother. the soldier counting is supposed to count out loud, but when there are twenty people counting out loud and one or two officers supervising, you can count by twos, threes, or tens, and they don't notice
mircea_popescu: Adlai apparently testing for intelligence would help this army
mircea_popescu: i'd have you court martialed if you counted by three. and i would notice.
Adlai: there's a separate metric for a soldier's applicability to being an officer
decimation: usg tests its officers for intelligence
Adlai was top intelligence and zero officer applicability
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah, but they don't really manage to attract that much talent somehow.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what it is, the russians have the secret to this.
Adlai: do intelligent russians have attractive prospects outside of a military career?
Adlai: a large problem for militaries in generalized anglophonia is keeping the military career attractive to local talent
mircea_popescu: well perhaps not running the military like it were an idiot reservation bound for the special olympics might help.
mircea_popescu: if you review the us record, from korea to the latest iraq...
mircea_popescu: i don't think they have YET had any sort of objective.
decimation: yeah I agree with mircea_popescu, it's a 'big picture' problem
Adlai: national militaries are still trying to wrap their head around how to fight an enemy that isn't another large military
decimation: modern usg officer is told to pacify locals without using any tools that would actually be effective
mats_cd03: counterinsurgency has been a staple of various militaries for decades.
Adlai: doesn't mean they're any good at it, yet
mircea_popescu: yeah mats_cd03 has it, look how nicely the russians did everywhere since the 90s.
mats_cd03: school of americas, what have you. politicians are now executing military policy, thats all.
decimation: they used to be, what about the pacification of germany and japan?
mats_cd03: they're plenty good at it, just not where you think they'd be good at it.
mircea_popescu: the germans were thrilled to be relieved from the russians.
Adlai: well and also some wars aren't meant to be over in a week, that doesn't pull a heavy budget
mircea_popescu: the japanese had a bunch of orgasms and were in that female wax phase.
Adlai: war is peace and all that
mats_cd03: some people, like me, are of the opinion that enough money wasn't spent to quell the iraqi and afghan insurgencies
mats_cd03: should've been $trillions, instead of $xxx bn.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 you probably realise the only correct solution there was to make iraq 51st state
mircea_popescu: so you know... we're not going to do it. well then... why are you here ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: that's obviously the right answer, but note how absolutely no one with anywhere near actual power has even floated that idea
Adlai: this is assuming that it should have been $xxxxxxxxx instead of $0 in the first place
mircea_popescu: decimation in public ? nobody would, either. except for me, i keep talking about all sorts of things that shouldn't be in public, much to everyone's shhock and horror.
decimation: but what about 'freedom of speech' 'marketplace of ideas' and all that other bullshit
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the platonic concept of "the great lie" ?
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> i think a vanishingly small minority of parents actually adds value through parenting. << the "how to parent well" resources are well drowned in noise
ben_vulpes: "beatings, frequently", is probably the best advice i've ever gotten.
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Adlai: mircea_popescu: kids can't parent. it takes adults. « tell that to eleven-child families in the west bank where the oldest daughters are effectively mothers to the others
mircea_popescu: there's no age limit, you can be an adult at about 12.
mircea_popescu: most english as a single language kids i meet aren't adults at 30.
Adlai: seriously how are we defining "adult" here
Adlai: although i guess internet arguments are more fun when people don't even know how vastly their assumptions and definitions are outta wack
Adlai: interesting definition...
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what were your categories again? "learning by watching" "learning by reading" ...
ben_vulpes: some people must learn by watching and we call them X; some people learn by reading and we call them Y...
Adlai: the best kinds of misunderstandings are the ones not yet present in the logs
ben_vulpes: some must learn by pissing on the fence themselves, and we call them...
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Adlai: one thing i did like about the army is that the core text on safety and risk assesment is titled "Learning from Others' Mistakes"
Adlai: mircea_popescu: waitwaitwait women aren't full of shit and don't want to be in control all the time?
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Adlai: the hilarious thing is how enforcement of a safety regulation is inversely proportional to how likely it is to be necessary for the current situation
Adlai: so you get lots of great rules, but only the most tedious and irrelevant ones are actually enforced
Adlai: causing soldiers who don't understand the background behind any of it to believe all the rules are uniformly irrelevant
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Adlai: wearing fireproof gloves when handling AFV engine innards
Adlai: but you're also supposed to wear them for pretty much everything else you do, and you only get called out on not wearing them when higher-ups can actually see your hands, ie, not when it's actually important to wear them
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Adlai: there shouldn't be, but it can get hot enough to burn your hands, and stays that hot for longer than the average soldier would expect
mircea_popescu: isn't it actually bad for the parts to work on them while too hot to touch ?
Adlai: i've never seen anybody do that level of work on a hot engine, usually it's just things like oil checking
Adlai: there's even one oil check that's supposed to be done while the engine is running although nobody ever did that
mircea_popescu: they don't still use the retractable thinger do they ?
Adlai: yes, m113 engine has those
mircea_popescu: better safety rule... put some damned electronics on the engine block
Adlai: you pull it out, wipe it clean, put it back in, pull it out again, find a light source, see that the oil smeared all over while you were carrying it, wipe it off, etc
Adlai: some of these fuckers are over 50 years old
mircea_popescu: anyway, people doing fine movements generally don't want to wear gloves because bulky and unwieldy
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> well there's always a cab in ny...
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> they can move to usa and massage machines, yes. << bashed
Adlai: of course, people hate wearing these gloves
Adlai: a better safety rule would only require them during the actually dangerous operations
Adlai: but it would probably be ignored since "ALWAYS WEAR THEM" is much easier to enforce for stupid supervisors
mircea_popescu: see, when i think great safety rule i think things like "don't place your heaviest pans highest in your kitchen"
mircea_popescu: costs you just as much to put them there as anywhere else
Adlai: don't ask me about kitchen safety, i nearly burned my house down yesterday
ben_vulpes: not that you get the energy back from putting them up high...
Adlai: at least i had the good sense not to throw water on the burning oil O_o
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this guy married the hottest chick i ever saw. like 19 too, some hick chick.
mircea_popescu: she spent the honeymoon in the hospital because she rendered some fat, and then poured in a large, thick glass container
mircea_popescu: doctor spent like three hours extracting hot oil and glass shards from her crack and legs
☟︎ Adlai: how do you even find all the shards in a case like that
ben_vulpes: ain't no training going to fix that kind of stupid
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes she was the fucking stereotipical dumb hottie.
Adlai: well you could train people to just not cook at home, either eat out or order takeaway
Adlai: we can draw the line at microwaving leftovers
ben_vulpes: no no you train them to cook *for* you.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you put a high powered flashlight against your palm you'll see some light go through a mm or two
Adlai: sounds like that's what she was trying to do
ben_vulpes: one of the more entertaining devices is the human "birth lotto"
ben_vulpes: this leads to a breeding of the populace for luck
ben_vulpes: book features an extraordinarily clumsy girl who is also extremely lucky.
ben_vulpes: known for the "not a bad premise" book
ben_vulpes: see also "mote in gods eye" "gripping hand"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes anyway, she was just... i dunno, her bubble was neverendingly shockingly short. you could rarely predict what she won't foresee
ben_vulpes: sounds like fun, at a distance, and on someone else's bill.
ben_vulpes: i'm content with being the dish-breaker and singer of things around these parts.
ben_vulpes: the office has dubbed me the {{oaf,hulk}}
ben_vulpes: half the time it's entirely on purpose, as the thing was never built for use outside delicate programmer hands.
decimation: mircea_popescu: in the us all of the old 'glass cookware' that used to be made of borosilicate has been switched to plate glass
ben_vulpes: decimation: and not just plate, but pre-stressed plate!
ben_vulpes: decimation: so as to not just crack when over-stressed, but to rupture catastrophically!
mircea_popescu: anyway, this device would have been fine, if she knew how to pour
Adlai: more efficient selection against stupidity?
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decimation: it's another example of hidden inflation
ben_vulpes: 'cept that pyrex doesn't shatter when dropped.
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decimation: "As a result, the drug trade needed to find another way to obtain borosilicate glass. The unintended consequence of World Kitchen’s switch? An uptick in theft from an unlikely place. As PopSci so eloquently notes, “[the crack-making] industry was forced to switch from measuring cups purchased at Walmart to test tubes and beakers stolen from labs.”"
Adlai loves the taxis in NYC tho
ben_vulpes: the great wall of garbage once per week was pretty cool
Adlai: getting locked into the cab until you pay
ben_vulpes: also the giant wall of black slush during snowfalls
Adlai: junkie-proof walls keeping the cabbie secure
Adlai: what's not to love
decimation: one wonders if usg didn't pressure corning as part of the 'war on useful objects' err 'war on drugs'
ben_vulpes: but the 'choclatier' next door was always the wackness
mircea_popescu: basically in another decade the us will be like africa.
decimation: why do you need a 'tour' to pub crawl?
mircea_popescu: "sure we have very good everything here sir, made of straw, good quality top notch"
ben_vulpes: portland already wants me to sort my compostables for them
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> how can one love anything about nyc << i love the taxis there too
ben_vulpes: i mean you pay them, they go places, it's a simple exchange
mircea_popescu: i take a cab out of grand central, tell the kid i want a hotel, kinda close and not too expensive
mircea_popescu: he takes me to a hotel like ten blocks away, costs me 100 a night. nice room and everything.
Adlai: mircea_popescu: you should see the touchscreen computers they have now to keep passengers from yakking at the cabbies, complete with a GPS map of your path through the city... almost feels like an airplane
mircea_popescu: whole thing took ten minutes, that guy probably did more for me than half the gradschool educated people i ever employed, on a percentile basis
ben_vulpes: the NYC version is really awesome, what with rebooting into "LOUD MODE"
ben_vulpes: you can even derp your card in before the trip ends to expedite egress from vehicle
Adlai: mircea_popescu: actually the one cabbie i had an heart2heart with tracked us down ten minutes later to return my friend's iphone whateverthelatestis
ben_vulpes: and we have a functioning economy, so cabbies don't lock the door
ben_vulpes: i have a healthy relationship with my cab co's and they don't lock the door on me
decimation: London cabbies are amusing too. I remember one bitching about Pikeys squatting on some farmer's land and appealing to the EU court of human rights
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you know what ? i have never used a cc at a pos. ever.
Adlai: he was really nice considering my friend's dog got cabsick all over the backseat
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: and i've not carried cash routinely since i stopped doing that thing that entailed always carrying cash. so?
ben_vulpes: roll with cash in the states, get robbed by cops.
mircea_popescu: man must always carry enough cash to bribe a first instance judge
decimation: ben_vulpes: how quickly do you think people in the us would start using cash if suddenly say the FDIC went away?
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mircea_popescu: decimation i think he may have a point with the cop robbery
ben_vulpes: decimation: more likely to run a tab with your local providers, as I do.
decimation: yeah that's how they did it in 'frontier times'
ben_vulpes: actually mircea_popescu this is why i don't carry cash. all of my local providers know who i am and extend me credit at my request.
decimation: go to local store, run a tab, owner knows where you live..
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: nah, she asks me for credit
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: pay with cash, get discount as merchants don't report cash intake and don't pay cc processing fees.
ben_vulpes: ofc i have to book the withdrawal as "profit", but...
decimation: I've settled a few 'ebay' transactions where the tax was 'forgiven' if paid in cash
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: high praise, not deserving
ben_vulpes: i know a few tricks, that's about all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i had this grocery store owner (african woman) that actually imported shit at my request. and delivered it, too.
mircea_popescu: it's possible, just gotta not live in wa-shit-ton i guess
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you live in the heart of the beast. i live in the heart of cascadia. our worlds are light years apart.
decimation: "the hills are high and the emperor is far away"
decimation: asciilifeform: I'm sure there are. In NYC the famous example is the jews
ben_vulpes: quite literally, decimation. our hill is so high that our water supply flows from it.
ben_vulpes: anyways, sleep beckons and i gotta be on point for the boys next week.
Adlai: lazyness waits for everybody
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mircea_popescu: "Fuck yes we can. I have student loan debt. Am I going to pay it ? Nope. Not ever. Over my dead fucking body will they get a penny from me.
mircea_popescu: Why? Because I don't want to fund the evil banksters who prey on impressionable young 18 year olds who don't know jack shit about the world, 18-year olds who are pressured by society into college they can't afford."
decimation: sounds like the people who just stop paying taxes, irs comes, gasenwagen, gulag
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decimation: heh the next post: "Huh? You had a choice to go to uni and further your education. Be a man and stand by your decisions. "
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assbot: Missionary doctors treating Ebola in Africa: Why people are suspicious of missionaries.
pete_dushenski: congrats be to cazalla BingoBoingo and mircea_popescu for the qntra announcement!
mircea_popescu: most poor people get that added benefit, thatthey can just forego the irs altogether
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah if you have a semi-competent tax lawyer you can probably avoid jail, just pay the fine
gribble: You rated user cazalla on Fri Oct 10 19:05:29 2014, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: qntra.net chief editor..
pete_dushenski: the mpex-qntra relationship is quite the crafty little construction. puts other efforts to shame.
mircea_popescu: decimation the thing is they work on a per dollar basis. if there's nothing to steal they can't afford to prosecute you.
decimation: for poor people in the us, taxes pay you
pete_dushenski: though the only other effort that comes to mind is that of ltb (andreas' first home) with their broke back counterparty baloney. so not much comp but...
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gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: where is that quote from? "Fuck yes we can...."
pete_dushenski: oh and my apologies for the penguirker spam earlier. i was changing hosting plans and had to rejigger the whole meal deal.
pete_dushenski: the upside is now i have an avatar for commenting on other blogs and that contravex has a snazzy new recent comments sidebar.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i had actually read that qntra "pending announcement" bit in the logs, though meanwhile forgotten. in my defense, you never mentioned much in the way of terms or wtf you were even alluding to :D
pete_dushenski: o and contravex's footnotes now have the proper indentation so you can now see all the roman numerals :)
decimation: pete_dushenski: what blogging system do you use?
pete_dushenski: unfortunately the switch over meant some updates (spit) and whatnot
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski sent you a pingback. fix the hole will you.
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Adlai: kakobrekla: so you like lisp?
Adlai: try writing the shortest possible quine in ansi cl. if you want to check the answer, it was just in #lisp and there are public logs, but try yourself before you check.
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assbot: O hai let me wanna-be! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
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Adlai: any o yall believe trustless currency via proof of work was invented as a tool for tracking rather than liberation?
Adlai: (when phrased this way it does make me consider that conspiracy a lot less likely)
xanthyos: oh wow davidlatapie at first glance i thought you might be davidldubuc
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xanthyos: it's amazing how often i get threatened by someone caught speechless in the onslaught of my verbal abuse with a gun.
xanthyos: like they've gotten so worked up they forgot the nature of the internet.
xanthyos: they threaten to kill me, i've had automatic weapons pulled angrily
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wyrdmantis: any fresh news on the "bitcoin regulation" front?
Adlai: last i checked the network is properly regulating mining fees and preventing double spends, so i'd say it's going well!
wyrdmantis: yeah Adlai, i'm referring to the lawyer's trying to put out a legal framework, and such nonsense, for the sake of knowing :)
fluffypony: which country? South Africa doesn't seem to give a crap.
assbot: admin.ch - Federal Council publishes report on virtual currencies such as bitcoin
wyrdmantis: fresh as you like :D Thanks a lot Adlai!
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jurov catches s.qntr mention in the lawgs
jurov scrolls frantically
jurov: s.qntr added to coinbr
cazalla: was bitbet the first to use no account betting?
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thestringpuller: there was another but wasn't trustworthy for sports betting long ago
cazalla: well, qntra is inaccessible
cazalla: its getting the fuck pingbacked out of it
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cazalla: well, i had an article to post but this fuck continues to dos the site so i guess i'll get some sleep
cazalla: i know ya in here, ya fuck
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Adlai manages to load qntra.net after a while of waiting
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jurov: <Adlai> and yes, it's fair to say that i was "mistreated" by never having to work for money until i stopped accepting my parents' charity << this is patently false
jurov: i was getting disability pension since 15 and study at uni was free
jurov: despite that, i started working during studies
Adlai: why is what i said false though? you don't know me!
jurov: as sysadmin in small company (i explicitly avioded big business and its bureaucracy)
Adlai is a special snowflake
jurov: lol Adlai if parents threw you at 18 onto the street
jurov: you'd say you were mistreated, either
Adlai: flatmate had to work for spending money his entire life
Adlai: field trip lunch money, movies on weekends, etc
Adlai: he just had zero allowance his entire life
Adlai: his parents gave him food, shelter, and access to the crappiest indoctrination taxes can subsidize
Adlai: now he gets up in the morning every day to work because he does not rack dishiprin
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jurov: um.. afaik usually people work because they won't have the discipline otherwise
kakobrekla: i understood this pretty quickly so i never got employed.
☟︎ Adlai: kakobrekla: quine!
kakobrekla: yes lisp. i recently started learning the thing thanks (or not?) to our resident mad scientist asciilifeform.
kakobrekla: Adlai check up his blog if you havent yet.
Adlai hasn't yet, kakobrekla
Adlai: asciilifeform: /join #lisp
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chetty: ThickAsThieves, Monday in Oct :)
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BingoBoingo: ;;later tell mircea_popescu thedrinkingrecord and qntra should both be patched nao
mike_c: do i get a plaque with that?
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thestringpuller: i thought for a second it said "Do i get a plague with that"
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.15639117 BTC to 16`099 shares, 7183 satoshi per share
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 0.78199184 BTC to 1`149`988 shares, 68 satoshi per share
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ThickAsThieves: "Just wanted to let you know you should no longer have any issues with instant transactions through your Circle account. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience and support."
mats_cd03: "Until the next time there's serious volatility."
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thestringpuller: volatility shouldn't be an issue if your liquidity pool is deep enough. does this mean they aren't operating with enough supply?
mats_cd03: what would you propose they do? continue operating at a fiat loss indefinitely?
thestringpuller: i thought bitcoin businesses shouldn't hold profit in fiat.
thestringpuller: so price disparity should be moot with a deep enough supply...
mats_cd03: they live in a different world than we do.
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo maybe add a word about that?
mike_c: bingo gets, what, 1.4 shares per word? not bad.
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BingoBoingo: Also, small navigation improvement on Qntra, there are now geography categories attached to relevant posts. The Categories are the continents + Russia. Might make browsing for certain kinds of stories easier for people.
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Adlai is stuck without X after a borked reboot, but qntra looks alright in framebuffer w3m
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TheNewDeal: can't tell if you two are joking or are serious?
Adlai: holy shit, bitbet is painful in w3m
Adlai: surprisingly painless to do that once you get familiar with tmux
devthedev: BingoBoingo: Are articles written by yourself of cazalla calculated into the "wordcount of qualified articles published"?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16600 @ 0.00073544 = 12.2083 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: “This tradeoff in pingback’s design has been there for a decade now,” he said via email. “It’s seldom used outside of experimentation because it gets shut down by anti-spam providers like Akismet or web hosts when used at any scale, and there are cheaper, easier, and more effective ways to DDOS sites. That’s why no serious attacks (above 2gbps) use it.”
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That's the fucktard's case for not fixing obvious hole?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13200 @ 0.00073544 = 9.7078 BTC [+]
Adlai: mircea_popescu: something bad happened to my graphics server so i'm stuck communicating with the world in text
BingoBoingo: Reading up on this the fixed a similar problem with trackbacks back in 2.8, I don't know why it would be their position to make a sharp edge like this the default when the push themselve to people looking for feather cushions.
mircea_popescu: the bug affects the codebase all the way through, to the first introducton of xlmrpc back in 2004 or w/e
bounce: therefore, it must be a feature
mircea_popescu: they made in the interval about 10 different claims to "having fixed it"
mircea_popescu: the way wp codebase works is indicative of what naggum described, the problem of maggots wanting the status of coder and so writing code for the sake of being coders.
mircea_popescu: it's also a glimpse into bitcoin's future, if usgavin and the power retard crowd have their way
mircea_popescu: but just as an indication of the problem : w3 total cache, version 8.5 ? 250kb. w3 total cache, version 9.2 ? 1,8 mb
Adlai: mircea_popescu: ah, w3m is installed instead of lynx because it's ~65% smaller
mircea_popescu: then derps derp about 50mn lines of code. seriously, bitch ? that's your caching ?
mircea_popescu: Adlai im pretty sure you can view bitbet in emacs if it comes to it.
Adlai M-x package-install w3
kakobrekla: shit i got distracted by a pussy and a pair of tits.
mircea_popescu: maybe you do that after it gets hacked, as punishment.
kakobrekla: nah, you get the punishment of recoding it from scratch for trusting me in the first place.
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 380.93, Best ask: 381.35, Bid-ask spread: 0.42000, Last trade: 380.93, 24 hour volume: 21186.09124849, 24 hour low: 364.06, 24 hour high: 388.0, 24 hour vwap: 377.044702795
kakobrekla: shit i still dont even know what today brought.
mircea_popescu: "<kakobrekla> i got distracted by a pussy and a pair of tits." ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1588 @ 0.0007385 = 1.1727 BTC [+]
Apocalyptic: <ThickAsThieves> [16:22:45] wall st bleeding // again ?
Apocalyptic: this is bleeding everyday for a while it seems
chetty: <Apocalyptic> <ThickAsThieves> [16:22:45] wall st bleeding // again ?//seems to have mostly recovered since then
wyrdmantis: A question for developers: if i wanted (only theoretically) to build a scamcoins exchange like bittrex, what language/framework is best to use? A guy has opened one in node.js. I think he's gonna get hacked very soon.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: added the necessary code to the necessary file and the necessary pingback to the necessary article :D
mircea_popescu: wyrdmantis whenever you wish to build something hardened, you are advised to use the lowest level tools you can use.
mircea_popescu: this is why bunkers are made out of steel and concrete, even while luxury items are made out of silk and glass.
mircea_popescu: except you know, some stuff manages to be basic and advanced at the same time.
wyrdmantis: a friend asked the guy about db and got insulted and then silence. WTF people are so dumb. And yeah, node.js doesn't seem low level at all.
mircea_popescu: node.js is a great toolset to build your gf a dildo with.
mircea_popescu: what's the worst that'll hapen, it'll fuck her in the ass ?
kakobrekla: in both cases, if you want to do it well or if you want to do it fast, you will want to use tools you know well
assbot: BetaShareX - Cryptocurrency Exchange
Apocalyptic: I thought the exchange mania has stopped, guess not
wyrdmantis: i don't want to do an altcoin exchange, that's sure
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic idol worshipping hasn't stopped either, it just moves further to the outskirts
kakobrekla: shit even i had one coded but didnt put it live
mircea_popescu: wyrdmantis it is a very shitty spot to be in, running one of those, because the shitcoins are often badly written, such as was the case with xrp.
mircea_popescu: then people will find how to ewxploit one, trade it for all the others you hold
mircea_popescu: and the idiots "using" your "service" won't understand that they're all equally worthless, so...
Apocalyptic: yeah, that's the main reason I didn't want shitcoins in x-bt
kakobrekla: aha thats why theres no coins listed :)
wyrdmantis: i hope someone nuke it, arrogant dev is arrogant he insulted my friend
Apocalyptic: well one could argue LTC is a shitcoin too, and it wouldn't be far from the truth
Azelphur: wyrdmantis: to answer your earlier question, the answer is the framework your developer is most proficient in using
kakobrekla: actually i think bash is wrong here. ltc is silver.
danielpbarron: wall street journal recently published an article featuring some of the more well known scamcoins
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: if you're good at PHP, use it. It's not the greatest of languages but it's perfectly functional.
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: coding in PHP is one of the few socially acceptable forms of insanity
Azelphur: wyrdmantis: welcome, I know it's a bit of a non-answer
mircea_popescu: you all keep bashing it, but wordpress' xmlrpc is written in php
bounce: ergo, php is the bees' knees and the "fractal of bad design" guy has it ALL WRONG
Apocalyptic: I just saw a few vulns for that one, it seems to be recurrent
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: indeed, goes back to what I said really, the quality of code produced is dependant on the programmer and not the language
wyrdmantis: mircea_popescu not so badly, but in a very arrogant way, and then no more technical answers
bounce: leveraging a write once language to help produce tight code in a notoriously sloppy language. can't you just taste the synergy?
Azelphur: that said there are other considerations, some languages/frameworks have limitations / specialties that others don't
Azelphur: eg if you try and do realtime in django you're going to have a bad time.
Adlai concludes that w3m is preferable to lynx
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: nah, was named after a guitarist.
Adlai: mircea_popescu: images don't display at all with lynx/links
Adlai: and they're bulkier both in size and speed
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 1878190.93 Est. Next Diff: 319014.53 in 235 blocks (#46368) Est. % Change: -83.01
Azelphur: kakobrekla: for MPEX? that was me.
assbot: Azelphur/pyMPEx GitHub
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2014 01:29:12; kakobrekla: ;;rate punkman 1 bitbet cli dev
assbot: The Voice Harvesters: Bureaucrats, businesses gather more than 65 million people's voiceprints | Fox Business
mircea_popescu: Adlai you should check his code out btw, it's actually better if you want lightweight/text only than any browser
mircea_popescu: bounce incidentally, since you bring it up : most idiots of the "irc is not irl" and "i trust real people" variety fail to understand that with modern computers i can make any one person to say any one thing. just give me a collection of their voice recorded.
mircea_popescu: stuff here is not nearly as falsifiable as the "trustworthy" phonecall.
thestringpuller: i used to do that with tape recorders in my pops office back in the day
mircea_popescu: much like the "signature", ie, scribbling down on paper. fuck me, i have bills in this room issued by 6 different governments, they all have a signature on them
mircea_popescu: and i bet you the dude in question never touched any of the bills he "signed"
punkman: what someone is gonna use bitbet cli?
bounce: heh, it's actually worse than that. when gov't people talk about "signature management", these days that's plugins for their document management systems that govern copy/pasting pictures of signatures into "documents" that later may or may not end up getting printed.
assbot: abfg / bitbet.py — Bitbucket
bounce: anyhow barclays already rolled this out for their "wealthiest clients", so this sounds like an invitation to make good use of a tape recorder.
mircea_popescu: bounce it's been going on for a while, this scam. most brokers with high value accounts have been pretty spooked back in the 90s already
mircea_popescu: once the guy hears "non repudiable, just keep the blob" eyes light up like an xmas tree
bounce: rather gigantic mismatch between what the technology can do and understanding what it needs to do.
bounce: but then, selling a totally complex fancy buzzword-laden magic (voice or otherwise) box counts as "innovation", whereas installing a mail client with decent gpg support does not.
mircea_popescu: that's not how you do it. you gift the guy a laptop and explain how to use it.
mircea_popescu: best gift you'll ever make, incidentally. for the 500 bux or w/e an old laptop costs you're probably going to get a yachtful of champagne
bounce: that's the price of a new laptop these days. cheapo, but anyhow.
chetty: sounds like a business plan, laptops with gpg installed plus instructions, name it lots of fancy words ...
bounce: needs a bit of buy-in since the other side needs something comparable.
bounce: s/comparable/compatible/
mircea_popescu: bounce well if you're giving them away supposedly you got your own system
bounce: yesh, but it doesn't scale. then again, maybe it doesn't need to. until it does, of course.
mircea_popescu: o shit, you need a computer at home to email ? o yea, totally, email doesn't scale
mircea_popescu: vote with your money stan. it's a very powerful concept.
bounce: not that sense. in the sense that some people will thus end up with N (>>20) laptops to talk to N people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah but we were kinda discussing large accounts and personal brokers hiar.
bounce: anyhow, I don't have contact with personal brokers so no opportunity to try and test market uptake
mircea_popescu: bounce no but i mean, people like shrem or ulbricht or w/e ? that's the right move in their position. hire lawyer, make it conditional upon all communication going through gpg
mircea_popescu: a lawyer readily understands the value of ACTUAL attorney-client privilege
bounce: why aren't lawyers speaking up when there's yet another law mandating massive snooping on everyone with a few of those constructive bones thrown in? lack of understanding that actual is possible?
mircea_popescu: you get much better counsel once he gets familiar with the safeties provided by cryptography, too. so it's win-win
mircea_popescu: bounce because of the individual effect. why didn't people in leningrad speak up ?
mircea_popescu: lawyer has everything that comes in and everything that comes out crypted
chetty: I dont think lawyers get into cells anymore either, isn't it telephones and glass?
chetty: practically the definition of police state
mircea_popescu: there's exactl;y nothing the prosecution can do to nosy into the defense briefs, abnd they wouldn't even dare ask because they've got no way to know if they're being set up for a mistrial or what.
mircea_popescu: and if in fact it does result in a mistrial for counsel tampering & conspiracy, the da in question can very well go to jail on the spot
mircea_popescu: doesn't even get a trial, the judge can just sentence him for contempt, six months, no problemo
mircea_popescu: and if he DOES get held in criminal contempt he gets disbarred, and might as well learn a new trade.
chetty: back when there were real judges ..
mircea_popescu: chetty it's not a task any of the pencildicks would take regardless.
mircea_popescu: and if they weren't pencidlicks they'd be here with me, rather than over there with the sops.
chetty: matter of who they are more afraid of
mircea_popescu: the only reason it's never happened to date is simply that a da wouldn't have made it that far if he were insane enough to try something like you propose.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not rule of law. but plenty of upstanding individuals regardless. enough so to readily be leveraged into serious trouble for bureaucratic miscreants
mircea_popescu: which is what i said. they wouldn't even dare ask, because they don't know if it's a set-up.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 10 @ 0.12999958 = 1.3 BTC [+] {3}
ThickAsThieves: Circle is funny, theyre supposedly no-fee, which is only really true when selling, but when you sell, they pay nearly 1% premium bonus
kakobrekla: punkman just tried the cli and got trapped in ddos jail :)
punkman: kakobrekla: after trying to "update" I assume
kakobrekla: current settings are maxretry = 200, findtime = 120, bantime = 3600 - you think you can get around that?
punkman: kakobrekla: it even sleep 1 sec inbetween requests, what more do you want
assbot: abfg / bitbet.py / source / bitbetlib / betdb.py — Bitbucket
kakobrekla: as you would be hitting 120 out of 200 per 2min.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25000 @ 0.00074191 = 18.5478 BTC [+]
kakobrekla: maybe python second is different from my second. the only logical explanation.
punkman: PHP seconds are probably longer
kakobrekla: its actually haproxy we are talking about.
punkman: just run update on mine and it worked
punkman: well I'll make it sleep longer I guess
kakobrekla: idk 1 per second constantly should be working.
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atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 1878190.93 Est. Next Diff: 318823.44 in 234 blocks (#46368) Est. % Change: -83.02
assbot: Peter Thiel: Bitcoin needs a payment system to work - YouTube
pete_dushenski: and that crafty little stock issuance model pushed me up the hill!
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves he's basically saying "paypal isn't dead"
ThickAsThieves: saying bitcoin is hard to transact and only good for illegal stuff
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves teh party line change identified last week solidifies eh ?
Apocalyptic: ThickAsThieves, so basically what clueless people have been saying for years now ?
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic now we know that they HAVE in fact been defeated, oct 5th
assbot: This is how much I rule (today) pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: anyway, anyone with serious long term btc plans better get your criminal suits ready
mircea_popescu: looks like we *will* be killing people before this is over.
gribble: pankkake was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 1 day, 6 hours, 27 minutes, and 11 seconds ago: <pankkake> here is 0.000195.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37900 @ 0.00074148 = 28.1021 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: people get their chances, they use them or not, fuck i care.
mircea_popescu: anyway, from what i recall and from everything i've read, illegal periods are the best part of any revolution. i imagine they'll be loads of fun for the reaction just as much.
punkman: kakobrekla: tried bigger update didn't see any errors
mircea_popescu: certainly stalin had a better time of it in the 1914s than in the 1954s
mircea_popescu: xinxi are you the guy that did the chinese version of anjiecast's article by any chance ?
xinxi: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:475b46ba59f944113e1beb804513bdb6c01c4eb89cf8c8e1cde797d8
gribble: You are now authenticated for user wangxinxi with key 331894345B459329
xinxi: which article are you talking about?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2412 @ 0.00074093 = 1.7871 BTC [-]
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: anyway, anyone with serious long term btc plans better get your criminal suits ready << pinstripes ok?
mircea_popescu: im not even sure what the fashion is, this time around
mircea_popescu: best check with our insider designer fashionistas i guess ?
xinxi: no I am not that guy. but i am just curious how you know i am chinese.
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> mircea_popescu: anyway, anyone with serious long term btc plans better get your criminal suits ready << pinstripes ok? << I'll probably just break out the old Party Toga from College.
mircea_popescu: xinxi * xinxi (8984fa09@gateway/web/freenode/ip.137.132.250.9) has joined #bitcoin-assets ?
xinxi: ok. you guys are good at this.
xinxi: the article is good.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: oct 5th never 4get! << but i thought sept 26 was your day?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski as time goes by i keep acumulating days it seems
BingoBoingo: <ThickAsThieves> just wear black << Party today is basically just black oil cloth with some sort of gold fabric for the sash. Definitely heavier than togas worn by those three times my weight
xinxi: do you trade here?
mircea_popescu: ;;rate xinxi 1 Guy's Chinese, what more can you ask for.
gribble: Error: User doesn't exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate wangxinxi 1 Guy's Chinese, what more can you ask for.
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user wangxinxi has been recorded.
mircea_popescu: xinxi now you can self-voice. pm assbot !up after you identified with gribble.
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 1878190.93 Est. Next Diff: 318823.44 in 234 blocks (#46368) Est. % Change: -83.02
X-Rob: I honestly have no idea
X-Rob: and I'm in the middle of a bastard CVE at the moment
kakobrekla: punkman yeah no need to prolong the sleep, it now actually is 200 per 120s.
xinxi: ;;gettrust wangxinxi
ThickAsThieves: hey we bumped into the guy that fucked up the atc diff, in another chan
mircea_popescu: xinxi it's cached so give it like an hour to propagate ?
X-Rob: ThickAsThieves: yeeeeessss...
kakobrekla: (before it was 100 per 120 for some known but retarded reason)
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla as per carlin's "ways to keep programmers on their toes" : announce 120, implement 100. that should hold them for about half an hour.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu, X-Rob: Going by trading statements... This seems like week 9
X-Rob: BingoBoingo: Awesome!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo o so he's finally off the hook ? god damed!
assbot: Stewie: Oh, goody - Reaction GIFs
X-Rob: I'm happy to hang around, mircea_popescu
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well you could always sign him again.
xinxi: I need to go to sleep now. It's 4:24 am here.
BingoBoingo: Keep his hash in friendly hands for the next diff drop.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah ima going to try and make him give me moar for less seeing how the estimated difficulty increase never materialised!
xinxi: I sleep in Singapore
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: Mmmmm. Sounds plausible. I won't turn anything off.
X-Rob: you've still got this week anyway
X-Rob: and for the next couple of weeks I'm in the US.
mircea_popescu: yup ima pay you now and we can talk about it once you're free
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> but interestingly, only some people can see it (showed it to one fellow, he could, other - not) << colorbliness being incredibly common is super open secret sort of disabilitit
BingoBoingo: <ThickAsThieves> yeah sound slike you need a macbook << Macintosh portable seems like better value proposition
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: Macintosh portable seems like better value proposition << my mom had one of these when i was young. she used to take it on business trips to russia.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Best value proposition though is Ti-89
assbot: TI-Nspire CX CAS - Math. Science. Algebraic Precision. All on One Handheld. by Texas Instruments - US and Canada
danielpbarron: still got my ti-89; that was my favorite toy in school / used it in non-math classes instead of paying attention
BingoBoingo: STFU, need color computer. You need color go outside. Find girl and take on date. Much color there. Computer just needs === True
danielpbarron: i like color terminal; i color nicknames based on WoT rating
bounce: value proposition for what?
bounce: how about a hp50g then?
danielpbarron: i wonder if i can get any of the freetalklive derps to join -assets / been tweeting at them for a while now
danielpbarron: they think they are in Bitcoin and are on over 100 radio stations in the US
danielpbarron: not sure if they are government plants or just really naive
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Well you have to consider the idiots who write us off for suggesting Hearn or Gavin could be coopted and have interest agaisnt Bitcoin.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in exactly the same place as the goats growing recombinant butyrylcholinesterase (antidote+prophylactic against organophosphate poisoning, $30k+ a dose at current production methods) << steepish. but is one dose enough?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: For obolacare, one is never enough
pete_dushenski: sure. but goats are presumably for private parties only, neh?
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, one of them wants to write me off for suggesting that altcoins are not a thing, and another outright bashed bitcoin in favor of whatever scamcoin of the month he fancies
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Ah so these are warrior forum sorts. Also know as the Glen Beck will say anything so long as it keeps Goldline happy.
assbot: If ISIS takes Baghdad... just... wow. Freaking US better do SOMETHING other than shooting spitballs at them from the sky. /hashtag/ISIS?src=hash /hashtag/ISIL?src=hash /hashtag/USA?src=hash
assbot: Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Could Land On Tuesday - Slashdot
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: Adlai: now go and see reaction time vs. intelligence (take your pick of any known simple test for either of the two). disturbingly close. 0.8, if i recall. << til again! this would explain why i was one of the very few non-asian kids playing badminton at a high junior level.
pete_dushenski: diametric: i'll change my nick for 10 bitcoin. << for 10 bitcents it might be worth it do not confuse you with decimation
mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> they think they are in Bitcoin and are on over 100 radio stations in the US << worst comes to worst we'll have some lulz.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski this would explain why i was one of the very few non-asian kids playing badminton at a high junior level. << well, either that or the other kids thinking badminton's for fags and nobody having translated the memo in azn ?
pete_dushenski: that's pretty much the extent of the needed translation: "you're small and frail. go play badminton."
pete_dushenski: as a result, the asian kids and i aren't suffering from the braindamage of a few dozen concussions mixed with cum crackers.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: There aren't very many black or hispanic hockey player either, thoughts from up north?
BingoBoingo: The few that play do tend to be really good.
mod6: There was a black kid I played with. Broke his arm.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: there aren't that many of either of those peoples who find their way into the arctic. they prefer equatorial zones.
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 395.45, Best ask: 395.74, Bid-ask spread: 0.29000, Last trade: 395.77, 24 hour volume: 21705.15008897, 24 hour low: 368.07, 24 hour high: 396.89, 24 hour vwap: 379.96685681
atcbot: 7k@266 99k@255 30k@225 | 2k@195 45k@190 4k@185
gribble: Current Blocks: 325197 | Current Difficulty: 3.500248202613323E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 326591 | Next Difficulty In: 1394 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 2 days, 4 hours, 6 minutes, and 18 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 36634046167.6 | Estimated Percent Change: 4.66128
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 1878190.93 Est. Next Diff: 318823.44 in 234 blocks (#46368) Est. % Change: -83.02
atcbot: Time Since Last ATC Block (#46134): 1 hour(s), 38 minutes
atcbot: >> No data returned from CoinMiner.net << [PityThePool Hashrate]: 1301.09 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 2.03 TH/s [P2P Hashrate]: 1.63 TH/s
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CFIG] 75 @ 0.03704643 = 2.7785 BTC [-] {9}
mod6: how's it hangin tsp?
gribble: Current Blocks: 325198 | Current Difficulty: 3.500248202613323E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 326591 | Next Difficulty In: 1393 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 2 days, 3 hours, 56 minutes, and 50 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 36583567526.4 | Estimated Percent Change: 4.51707
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: I'm happy to take .21btc, but you're ripping yourself off.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> as a result, the asian kids and i aren't suffering from the braindamage of a few dozen concussions mixed with cum crackers. << they still do the cum crackers ?!
X-Rob: .17 is more realistic
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35850 @ 0.00073966 = 26.5168 BTC [-] {2}
gribble: Nick 'xanthyos', with hostmask 'xanthyos!xanthyos@silenceisdefeat.com', is identified as user 'xanthyos', with GPG key id B62E7295387001E9, key fingerprint DB744745C970CF95E27AE214B62E7295387001E9, and bitcoin address None
xanthyos: gribble and chanserv are fighting over who wants to authenticate me
xanthyos: guess chanserv has to go first
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: there's no age limit, you can be an adult at about 12. << thus, bar/bat mitzvah.
pete_dushenski: treat the wee jooz like adults from that point on and maybe they can run a bank, movie studio, etc. without fucking it up.
bounce: so you're advocating the jooz should run teh coontry now? like the big joo conspiracy isn't a bad thing or something.
empyex: mod6: S.MPOE 1 day: average: 0.00073908 high: 0.00074368 low: 0.00073411 volume: 1783412 btc: 1318.08000386 7 day: average: 0.00074037 high: 0.00074875 low: 0.00073411 volume: 5366781 btc: 3973.38786209 30 day: average: 0.00074688 high: 0.0007685 low: 0.00073411 volume: 21693517 btc: 16202.4226007
pete_dushenski: bounce: more that they're on to something. something that in some times and places is widely emulated. others, not.
bounce: plenty tribes have that sort of ritual. them jooz still see themselves as a tribe, so it fits.
pete_dushenski: being a numerate, literate adult is a worthwhile goal, neh?
bounce: not unrelatedly, confirmation in the catholic church.
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo >Surveillance Mogul: Make Bitcoin Like Paypal < last link/sentence is a bit off
xanthyos: actually it's mostly the goyim who project the tribal label onto the jews
xanthyos: the majority of jews are secularists
atcbot: Time Since Last ATC Block (#46135): 0 hour(s), 20 minutes
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: how can one love anything about nyc << pretty much my thoughts exactly, being the soul-depleting shithole that it is.
xanthyos: nyc is a nice place if you don't have to drive in it
xanthyos: except when it's too hot, or cold, or smelling like pee
pete_dushenski: xanthyos: last time i was there is was cold, humid, and all too smelly. didn't leave an impression that i'm eager to rekindle.
mod6: thestringpuller: ya, it's been like that from jumpstreet
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mod6: thestringpuller: here you can see the diff chart (180 days),
http://atc.blockr.io/charts - that's when they mined the shit out of it driving the diff up by 4x
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assbot: ninjashogun +v failed; L1: 0, L2: -4
PeterL: havn't you been around here a while? why no self-voicing?
PeterL: ninjashogun: I'm the startup founder you talked with before - I hvae the two projects/companies farther along, that I don't think we discussed, and I bleieve we discussed the solar plane in depth. << yes, I remember that conversation
ninjashogun: PeterL, I only have troll ratings and one from Adlai
PeterL: I think I understand why
ninjashogun: PeterL not sure what hte voice requirements are exactly.
PeterL: you just have to have a positive L2 from assbot
PeterL: ;;gettrust assbot ninjashogun
ninjashogun: Also, I think that the trolls "won" because I'm not able to rate positively the people I have had good connectoins with (gribble says I 'don't qualify') so obviously they won't reciprocate. My ratings look like a troll's.
ninjashogun: For exmaple, i would rate you a 1 (easily) based on our previous conversation, but it wouldn't accept it.
ninjashogun: Someone said I should 'start over' and just make a new account, but I only have 1 entry in WoT (this one, where I'm authenticated) and I prefer to remain sane and normal until troll ratings come around.
PeterL: I didn't see what adlai did, so this is not his fault
PeterL: ninjashogun: it does not inspire trust that you come here under different names
ninjashogun: PeterL even though as you can see I am immediately being trolled :) It's okay though, I guess this is part of the process. I saw totally normal people being driven out of here by the trolling. It's like a rite of passage though, I don't mind.
PeterL: and as to our previous conversation, solar power increases as the square of the scale, weight increases as the cube of the scale, so while solar power might work for model airplanes it will be infeasible for carrying things
ninjashogun: PeterL as I mentioned before I prefer to discuss this privately. This is a logged channel.
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ninjashogun: (for anyone following along, this is quite different than being private for hte sake of not fucking a product launch up.)
PeterL: what about being private for not wanting to be proven an idiot?
ninjashogun: PeterL, that's an interesting tone you strike. Out of curiosity, have you ever made anything? (other than promises)
PeterL: can you be more specific by "thing"?
kakobrekla: ninjashogun i wonder how come you scalped Adlai for a rating, was it because he is fresh and got a rating from mp
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ninjashogun: kakobrekla, he's just a normal guy. we just talked online. (no transactions or anything.)
ninjashogun: BingoBoingo, what, that it's better to troll than to have a normal conversation and discuss something? No, he doesn't seem to have caught on. He also isn't very active in these channels though.
BingoBoingo: ninjashogun: Stuff like Wi-Fi more secure than wires makes it hard to give your other ideas charitable interpretations, and I tried god damn it.
bounce: ninjashogun, according to you this channel must be full of "trolls". why then are you even here?
ninjashogun: BingoBoingo, reading my message to you on CNN is more secure than a wired link, if the former uses PKI and the latter doesn't. I'm sorry you don't know this distinction.
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PeterL: ninjashogun: I didn't realize about the public disclosure thing, but it makes sense in the sense that patents last a certain number of years from when the thing is invented, and this keeps people from only filing the patent years later when they realize it is worth money
BingoBoingo: ninjashogun: What is easiest for the back van across the street to intercept though?
ninjashogun: bounce - it's not only full of trolls. Even though PeterL has just resorted to calling me an idiot (in keeping with this channel) he makes a good point about volume and weight. (Poorly expressed.)
ninjashogun: PeterL - yes, we discussed this previously, it was a condition of speaking with you about it.
bounce: that doesn't answer the question
PeterL: I didn't exactly call you an idiot, but if the shoe fits ...
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ben_vulpes: hey why not an air-breathing mach-5 vehicle?
ben_vulpes: if the brits can do it, why can't ninjashogun?
ben_vulpes: after all, all he needs is capital and then the magic will happen!
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes> hey why not an air-breathing mach-5 vehicle? << H00000000H
bounce: I'd say "whoosh" but the sonic boom disagrees
BingoBoingo: bounce: No, I'm proposing H00000000H as the fuel
PeterL: ninjashogun: NASA also put a guy on the moon, but there are no companies doing that (yet)
bounce: fuel? that would be a little inefficient.
ninjashogun: PeterL, well, sure, but if you call me an idiot and make an impossibility argument, then a counterexample weakens your case. It also makes it hard to collaborate. It's why I wondered if you ever got any projects to fruition, i.e. actually made anything. There is a continuum from idea through execution and name-caling isn't usually on there.
PeterL: I'm a chemist, I try to work with things that are possible
BingoBoingo: bounce: Nah, just build more rockets under it then sail the interstallar medium on inertia
ninjashogun: PeterL - in chemistry, if something exists it doesn't imply that it's chemically possible?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Well... s.qntr lacks shares atm
bounce: so what would the expected phase of that stuff be? though note that O usually doesn't count as /fuel/
BingoBoingo: on the plus side s.qntr hopefully will help jurov with +coinbr
PeterL: well, we have heavy metals because fusion happened in stars, but I am not going to try making useful quantities of gold and silver in my lab
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo i dont use twitter but i fink it would be appropriate for qntra to get a feed. just a suggestion.
BingoBoingo: bounce: The expected phase is reacting so hard.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Sgornick set one up and cazalla took it off him
ninjashogun: PeterL - It actually matches something really intreresting from patent law. Chemistry is actually one of the sciences where you need to fully e.g. synthesize the thing, actually make it, since it's considered an "unpredictable" art. In other areas it's just enough for it to be obvoius that the design works a certain way.
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ninjashogun: see
http://www.uclalawreview.org/?p=230 for example. Patents in chemistry are super super specific, based on actually synthesized things with very precise enablement steps only, and don't cover classes of things at all.
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BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Will happen eventualy. At least RSS is on the homepage.
PeterL: some of the work I do is "let's synthesize X because it will work like Y (maybe?), which Other Company has a patent on"
cazalla: BingoBoingo, not yet i didn't
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo feel free to say 'fuck off already'.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: This is your chance to avenge all of the BitBet slurs.
BingoBoingo: And unlike MtGox I hack on live php withou knowing php or crashing the thing. All of those ======== make php friendly like that.
ben_vulpes: ninjashogun, PeterL: I know! let's build a rocket with RFNO!
ben_vulpes: it's totally possible! we should totally do it!
assbot: ninjashogun +v failed; L1: 0, L2: -4
xanthyos: i was born on 9/26 and my mortal enemy is an aquarian. horoscopy isn't science
mike_c: you may not believe in astrology, but astrology believes in you.
xanthyos: i have 3 distinct aquarian enemies
xanthyos: astrology and oroscopy arent' the same
xanthyos: horo - horus - sun, astr- - star
xanthyos: the ancients didn't see the sun as a star
PeterL: ben_vulpes: sounds like something fun to work with
mike_c: who crappe don the logs this time?
mike_c: upping ninjashogun is so masochistic.
PeterL: sorry, I didn't think it was that bad?
mike_c: how many times has he asked you for money?
PeterL: when I upped him I didn't realize it was the same crackpot I had talked to before
BingoBoingo: PeterL: Over time he seems less bad, until he seems souper bad again.
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mike_c: [19:33] <ninjashogun> have you had a look at the logs? Usually it's barely legal porn and random derping.
mike_c: can't argue with that.
mike_c: when is b-a going to list itself on mpex and pay shares based on line count?
kakobrekla: first we need to start charging for them lines
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RagnarDanneskjol: yes, ultimately limited to a single dedicated timekeeping box. still, he managed to flesh out the concept well
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RagnarDanneskjol: successive squaring.. etc. but yes I concede your point. sorry, am at work righ now, unprepared to hash it out further
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i recall this being discussed before somewhere
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mircea_popescu: i doubt the trend towards worse quality will change before sound money is reintroduced
mircea_popescu: generally fake money regimes induce this inflation-through-lowering-quality economic aberration