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mircea_popescu: every single snail leaves a fossil. few cephalopodes do. etc.
BingoBoingo: One step forward, two steps back with these coinfire people.
undata: danielpbarron: you just wanted to shout "bible is right!" eh?
undata: strange, I didn't expect to see that around here
mats_cd03: wow, scribd is even worse than before
mircea_popescu: and so i tried to read that thing with the eyes of a stranger
mircea_popescu: decimation A more interesting question is: how does 'black music' go from Louis Armstrong to thug rap in 50 years?
mircea_popescu: mircea popescu The white hierarchy supporting society collapsed ? How does the French underground go from rengaine to "Irreversible" ? WW2. Most of the better Frenchmen got shot.
mircea_popescu: holy shit how could that make any sense to anyone other than me ?
mircea_popescu: i specifically meant rengaine as a reference to "Quand je m'endors bercée par une rengaine j'suis soudain réveillée par des cris"
mircea_popescu: a song about forced prostitution and hunger in earlier france.
mircea_popescu: now who the fuck could hav efigured that out. i gotta make more footnotes.
mircea_popescu: and irreversible is of course that atrocious production with the 10 minute bellucci rape scene.
mircea_popescu: (who, incidentally, only does movies if she's raped in them, for some reason. perhaps with the exception of that one where she kills herself at dinner with her ex.)
gernika: mircea_popescu: I find that if I follow your hints, I can understand more of each of your posts. 1. Research all references not understood. 2. Read multiple times. 3. Get better at reading by learning what words actually mean (that is, learning the etymology of each).
mircea_popescu: gernika i had a slavegirl apply this process to a few pages of shaw. took her A YEAR
mircea_popescu: course, it did markedly improve pretty much any language-related cognitive function in the process.
gernika: That seems reasonable. I believe I'm looking at 5 to 10 years of work.
hanbot: mircea_popescu she wasn't raped in coppola's dracula, ftr.
gernika: Well, first I have to learn Greek. Then Latin.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: hanbot well... you are aware vampirism is a rape metaphor yes ?
mircea_popescu: "Why are you locking up these important notices in a PDF turd hosted on a site with Facebook integration." BingoBoingo because they seek external validation, and they believe inaccessibility and hermetism are a good proxy. like all ignoramuses ever do believe.
hanbot: in that case, i suppose she rapes a baby.
mircea_popescu: this is a cognate of the guy who bought glasses to read. because that's what he was missing.
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mircea_popescu: hanbot which is this one anyway ? the 90s thing with ryder ?
hanbot: mircea_popescu you oughta do billings for films
mircea_popescu: it's one of the skills i reserve for the scavenger world to come.
mircea_popescu: i will be this codgery old guy with an ellaborate cough, an old german trenchcoat, aviator eye goggles and a sorta-functioning projector
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's incredible how much bellucci looks like an italian matron as she ages.
mircea_popescu: spitting fucking image, she could have sucked cock off via flaminia sixteen centuries ago, only her hair'd be different.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> the one with the nice tits. << indeed.
mircea_popescu: how did that go, "if your nipples don't float halfway between your chin and your belly button, your tits ain't big enough"
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ben_vulpes: undata, danielpbarron: things on the manifold of reality find trajectories of stability away from each other because niche specialization
undata: ben_vulpes: well said; I have my doubts as to whether this particular one is stable
gernika: Reading at a higher level seems akin to using higher level programming languages. The ability to pack more information into fewer lexical units is powerful. Just realized this.
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, species exist for the same exact reason and through apparently the same mechanism subatomic particles "exist"
mircea_popescu: cazalla can easily be read as "one order was this much".
cazalla: easy for him to confirm the rest or for bitmain to do so if they respond to my email
cazalla: anyway, his timeline is still fucked up, bitmain didn't even ship scrpt miners back in october nor can you mine scypt coins with sha256 asics despite him claiming otherwise
cazalla: only a scammer would mix the 2 up
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mircea_popescu: "Josh Garza – What we can talk about is everybody, so, we quite literally use every major manufacturer in the world, so, bitmain, we're actually in discussions right now with bitfury, *inaudible*, I mean, every single company. We are in the process of beginning to build our own chip, we do have hardware that is not publicly available that created economies of scale for us, kinda all over the place, probably a less gl
mircea_popescu: amorous answer than you were looking for but we actually are putting the finishing touches on one of our biggest data centres yet in the next couple of weeks, I actually spoke to someone a few days ago who saw it and he's never seen that many miners and flash computers in one place."
adlai: flash... computers?
adlai: ... computers with flashplayer installed?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: training wheels on a function wave?
decimation: maybe they hacked those chinese flash cards with onboard microcontrollers for write leveling/usb to compute
decimation: re: regressive tax < pete_dushenski made me aware that Russia actually has a regressive tax, probably for the same reason you think it is a good idea - the rich are more likely to pay
undata: decimation: 13%, the communists!
decimation: yeah, plus that highly regressive 'social security' tax
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gribble: jurov was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 hours and 51 seconds ago: <jurov> where's notary?
undata: decimation: woah, 28% on the lowest tier of UST?
undata: so it seems "half" is the usual amount of taxation wherever you are
undata: it just comes with different names
decimation: no, the 28% only applies to the first $16k of income
decimation: although it appears that there are other taxes depending on which region one resides
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 375.91, Best ask: 376.95, Bid-ask spread: 1.04000, Last trade: 376.98, 24 hour volume: 7114.68684683, 24 hour low: 373.03, 24 hour high: 382.31, 24 hour vwap: 378.26456952
decimation: np. I take it that you hail from singapore?
decimation: xinxiwang: I've always wanted to ask a singaporean what he thought about politics in the us compared to politics in sg
ben_vulpes: "Currently, digital currencies lack the basic protections consumers have come to expect when transacting online. For example, contrary to a consumer's experience when paying wit a MasterCard product, if a consumer uses digital currency to make a purchase on line and the merchant fails to deliver the goods, the consumer has no recourse through the digital currency's network." << oh lordy
xinxiwang: but I guess SG is a quiet place. US has a lot of news.
decimation: sounds like you got a good deal in any case
decimation: yeah by 'repair' I mean 'replace important bits'
decimation: maybe for you, today, they sell for $1.4k
decimation: I went to a ebay 'junk dealer' once. The owner knew his electronics, but he employed a bunch of monkeys to pack, ship, and do clerical work
BingoBoingo: You could ask for a portion of the monkey?
decimation: still, it sounds like you got a good deal
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Mount in lucite, use as paperweight
BingoBoingo: I was thinking more like a pinky finger cased in lucite, the chunk of flesh, not the monitor
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i've only just started to appreciate it
kakobrekla: this will get a bit spammy, but i want to have it in the log, so lets just get it over with.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i've only just now started appreciating good wines, i don't care to get into "good" monitors too.
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assbot: f9beb4d9 #17: SUCCESS (stable); Comment: asciilifeform's goodbye-win-32 patch
mike_c: assbot plz send donation to b-a donation address.
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kakobrekla: he made a jenkins setup but url is private as server is not ddos ready, so ask him.
decimation: cazalla: I want more winklevoss coverage!
cazalla: decimation, they're pretty quiet
decimation: yeah, it seems they are already derped by much of of the 'tardstream' media anyway
decimation: few actual important details have been released, like "where they are gonna buy bitcoin" and "how they gonna index btc price"
decimation: asciilifeform: one thing that annoys me about most distro crypto-discipline is that they pretend that only the 'maintainers' could sign
decimation: why should I trust some derp who 'volunteers' for arch over the upstream creator?
decimation: which is nearly universal as far as I can tell
decimation: and note that "Maintenance" nearly always consists of adding some derpy package turd
undata: I don't see how you solve that problem without having all source packages grabbed directly from creators with signatures verified, and compiling yourself
undata: binary package systems would be difficult
decimation: undata: true, but how else does one 'convey' trust?
undata: decimation: yep, I think it's necessary
undata: portage will save us all
decimation: Dr-G: are you connected via tor and then sasl, or end-to-end sasl to freenode?
decimation: well, gentoo is pretty close to having 'unpackages'
undata: decimation: how are you defining unpackages?
decimation: 'make install' the turd as it comes without modification
decimation: one of the main problems that linux packaging aims to solve is exactly the issue ascii rants about, that is - lack of a global namespace for code
undata: it'd be neat to publish the hash of a given release of a package into the blockchain
undata: that'd be miles better than just trusting what ended up in the ebuild
undata: there's always the hard problem of bootstrapping your build tools in a secure way
undata: then of course the whole thing is moot on broken hardware
decimation: as ascii says, we don't even have computers yet
kakobrekla: yes it can be felt here on 5x27" as well but no tan :\
decimation: asciilifeform: price you pay for quality crystal - lots of light
decimation: probably affecting your ability to produce melatonin at night
decimation: yeah designed for max life at max performance
mike_c: v2 of the bitbet analyzer is so cool i almost want to keep it to myself. i'd win all the bitcoins.
decimation: mike_c: are you saying that luck ain't got nothing to do with it?
decimation: this mastercard in australia thing is lulzy
decimation: as far as I know few/no american tardstream media is covering
decimation: it's obviously an idea balloon that they are going to try to use to kill bitcoin dead everywhere
mike_c: my credit card company sent me a new card recently for my safety.
cazalla: decimation was pretty clear imo
decimation: mike_c: did it have a secret number on the front that you were only to share with pre-trusted individuals
decimation: I think this is common in the 'democratic' world - 'venue shopping'
mike_c: yes. and now i have to run around to all the individuals i trusted before and change it.
mike_c: for "my" safety. except i'm not liable for fraud. so actually they are being a pain in my ass for their safety. fucking home depot.
PeterL: patate: what brings you to #bitcoin-assets?
decimation: when my credit card number kept getting stolen (before I was smart about website passwords), amex refused to change anything other than the last 4 digits when 're-issued'
patate: i love discover irc chats
mike_c: cazalla: "MasterCard is calling for such regulation regulation"
decimation: I called customer service and they said that it would be quite impossible to change the first set of numbers, because that's my account number
mike_c: this has nothing to do with website shopping
mike_c: i bought some fucking lightbulbs at home depot
mike_c: credit cards are so bad it is mind-boggling.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2014 03:44:22; *: decimation remembers every pos and library using said terminals growing up, only to be replaced with buggy-ass windows for no reason
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 11-09-2014 03:44:31; *: asciilifeform also saw this
BingoBoingo: Wait, people actually go to Home Depot to buy stuff they'd want a record of buying?
mike_c: hm? i don't mind people knowing i bought lightbulbs. it was only a couple.
decimation: mike_c: you know the thing that pisses me off the most? every retail store/credit card company conspires to record every bit of information about you that they can
decimation: but as far as I know, there is no service the lets you download your own itemized receipts
decimation: like, you know, so you can share in the bounty of their information?
BingoBoingo: Still, do you really want some insurer or landlord knowing how much spackle you had to buy to patch the walls after the bacanals
mike_c: sorry, your shopping habits are their information, not yours.
mike_c: BingoBoingo: lol :) i use cash for the spackle.
PeterL: there are document scanners which database-ize receipts
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2014 04:35:56; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they wish to steal not merely the farmer's cow, but to also steal the farmer's "having being stolen from" << usg (and the 'enlightenment') in one sentence.
mike_c: this is just marketing though. or at least, that's the primary use case.
decimation: asciilifeform: I don't even want to see what he sees of all people, just of me
decimation: like, at least the panopticon can be a good secretary?
cazalla: yall don't have a rewards card for every store?
kakobrekla: cazalla not a single one, but i get asked to join various regularly.
cazalla: kakobrekla, what? you don't have a rewards card? here is a form, please fill out
decimation: yeah it's almost impossible to use 'cash' in the us these days
BingoBoingo rewatching Jurassic Park. I bet John Hammond wishes he would have bought Symbolics instead of *nix.
decimation: except - I recall when a massive snowstorm moved up the east coast and wiped out all the telco lines - suddenly everywhere was 'cash only'
mike_c: that mastercard post on qntra is great. a good candidate for promotion (slashdot? reddit?)
cazalla: BingoBoingo, i know this, it's a unix system!
mike_c: <+BingoBoingo> I've been reddit killed. << just being in this channel seems to get a person banned from half the internet
decimation: asciilifeform: it captures some of the 'spirit' of stripping down bitcoind
decimation: Saltzer wrote multics, which is the ancestor of unix, more or less
decimation: that's awesome. I agree, should toss into volcano
decimation: or better yet, send it to 1600 pennsylvania avenue
BingoBoingo: Dunno selling it to the Winkelvii would be pretty troll.
patate: someone here speak french
BingoBoingo proposes Giant Ground Sloth for resurection
cazalla: patate, voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
decimation: asciilifeform: but even if you believe man is created by God (as I do) you would still have to believe that God failed to anticipate what man would do to nature, and/or man could somehow outsmart Him
gernika: asciilifeform: I recently read Englebard's Violin and managed to get ahold of a Twiddler. Have you used it?
decimation: there was a gentleman who bicycled across the country with a modded 1990's era computer bike - and he had a chorded keyboard
gernika: asciilifeform: the buttons definitely click when you press them, but that is not what you're talking about?
gernika: asciilifeform: also yes it's not hand shaped, but also does n't require you to twist your hand and splay your fingers
gernika: asciilifeform: not like the old ibm keyboards that sort of ring when you click them no.
decimation: asciilifeform: do you own one of Cy Enfield's widgets?
decimation: asciilifeform: do you imagine some kind of 'data glove'?
decimation: yeah, one needs a 'glove with feedback'
gernika: asciilifeform: why are tactile spring switches more ergonomic? Do they prevent you from pressing with too much strength?
decimation: basically a robotic hand that gently attaches to your own?
PeterL: there are various forms of spring to pick from
decimation: asciilifeform: basically the same action as your model-m buckling springs?
gernika: asciilifeform: so is someone who can't get ahold of a microwriter basically just fucked?
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I like those extra function keys
gernika: asciilifeform: ah I thought you'd figured out how to hook it up to whatever development machine you use
PeterL: I can't quite see, what's in the middle of the arrow keys?
gernika: asciilifeform: sorry it's been about a month since I read it
decimation: asciilifeform: I think sun made a keyboard with function keys on the left, but no buckling springs
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2014 06:37:37; asciilifeform: soviet scientist declares, 'we've invented a shit-to-food converter.' 'does it work?' 'sorta. spreading on bread: worlks!!11! eating - not quite yet.'
decimation: asciilifeform: maybe they can keep a detached dog's head alive too!!!
kakobrekla: they do not seem identical but i think they are same, the keyboards
gernika: asciilifeform: I find it interesting that you prefer the buckling springs over something like the Microsoft Natural Keyboard that doesn't require you flex your wrists sideways. That said, using the MS keyboard ultimately has not prevented me from having issues. I must try a springy keyboard.
decimation: I've used both and I didn't think that the 'natural keyboards' were all that more comfortable
gernika: What aggravates me more and more recently is the claim that mac products are well designed, when in fact they will destroy your hands.
gernika: both the keyboards and the "magic" trackpad
decimation: I find the trackpad annoying too, not sure why people prefer
PeterL: I'm suprised you don't reprogram the winblows key to be an extra control to give yourself another batch of functions at your fingertips?
decimation: heh. mine has an issue where the function key 'negates' suddenly
decimation: yeah, whatever chinese intern wrote the keyboard driver firmware was an idiot
kakobrekla: i have a bolt moded (ssk) and non bolt moded board and difference is huge
decimation: asciilifeform: don't you trust usb security?
decimation: gernika: the early 90's model m's were made by lexmark, somewhat shoddier
mike_c: kakobrekla: you wtb the keyboard or the whole terminal?
mike_c: i've got a friend who collects old crap like that, i'll ping him. he might know the right people to ask.
badon: asciilifeform: Should I paste?
badon: I have used several Typematrix keyboards during the last decade. I tried all the best and most expensive ergonomic keyboards, but the Typematrix was the cheapest "serious" keyboard I tested, and it was also the best. It was also the most easily portable one too. I wrote an article yesterday about them, and a few ways to get discounts and free stuff if you buy things in the right sequence:
https://www.livebusinesschat.com/smf/index.php?t badon: It's pretty durable, but I wouldn't trust it for 30+ years like the IBM model M. Of course, I take mine with me mobile, and that's extra-hard on keyboards. I think I'm averaging about 4 or 5 years before I break one of mine.
badon: I buy used ones for spare parts, and keep them going. They're that awesome.
badon: asciilifeform: Yeah, I tried one of those too. I liked the Typematrix better.
badon: I spent a ton of money on them, to test them all.
badon: Kinesis and Maltron were both really very good, but the Typematrix was a little better, and it was a LOT cheaper and more portable.
badon: Plus, the skins make the Typematrix the ultimate keyboard. My keyboard life has greatly increased now that no debris gets in them. Plus, I can switch layouts easily.
badon: In practice, I just stick with Dvorak though.
badon: I can type on either Dvorak or QWERTY, but Dvorak is faster with fewer errors.
kakobrekla: Switch: membrane technology with "double-scissors" mechanism
badon: Typematrix keyboards are able to do both. You switch skins to change the labeling.
badon: kakobrekla: It's pretty good. I think the scissors are teflon or something else extremely low friction.
badon: It feels a lot like teflon.
badon: It's stiffer though.
badon: What's the alternative?
badon: I've really enjoyed mine, and it's easy to change out the membrane if I wear one out or accidentally screw it up.
badon: Mechanical switches wear out too. I'm not sure they have any advantage over the membrane.
badon: The membrane is nearly as tactile, but much quieter.
badon: I assume it's lighter, cheaper, and less bulky, but I can't say for sure since I haven't got any mechanical keyboards.
badon: I've used them in the past, of course, but that was in the 1980's.
badon reels up an old Braddock movie
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Don't worry, soon we will be in the 70's
kakobrekla: well if you cant amortize a kboard over a decade... you are typing too slow.
badon: asciilifeform: Typematrix is planning to produce new models. If you contact them, you will have an opportunity to influence their design decisions.
badon: Typematrix is a small company with only 1 engineer (one of the owners), so it's easy to have your voice heard if you've got a good idea for them.
badon: asciilifeform: Yes, they do.
badon: Still, the idea of a keyboard with ridiculously fast mechanical switches appeals to me.
kakobrekla: asciilifeform what the estimated lifetime supply of northgates
badon: asciilifeform: Ah, so the mechanical ones aren't indestructible.
badon: I think I have 4 or 5 Typematrix keyboards, give or take.
badon: I'll have to get one wireless.
kakobrekla: hm, what brought you here originally badon ?
badon: kakobrekla: The discussion in #freenode about a DDoS bot here.
badon: I wasn't aware of the existence of this channel, and I was going to ask what it's about.
badon: I couldn't find a simple explanation in the channel topic, nor on the website.
badon: I couldn't speak, so I couldn't ask until now, after asciilifeform voiced me so I could share what I was discussing with him privately about keyboards.
badon: I'd still like to know what this channel is about :)
kakobrekla: now its just something that looks like english
mats_cd03: Chaang-Noi:not talking about anyone anyone said in this chan, just spammers who pm me about random shit << oh the irony
mats_cd03: oh wait...brain parsed 'scammer' instead
kakobrekla: i was looking at topre board a year ago but opted out in the end
ben_vulpes: mats_cd03: what are you doing with dockerfiles?
kakobrekla: i forgot why exactly, prolly no tenkeyless model
kakobrekla: and yes i prefer it on the right of the mouse!
kakobrekla: but havent found the use for it in a long tiem
kakobrekla: actually it was neat for playing dyna blaster
ben_vulpes: +asciilifeform:kakobrekla: i take it turdatron functions to spec now? << what spec
ben_vulpes: +decimation:few actual important details have been released, like "where they are gonna buy bitcoin" and "how they gonna index btc price" << the later is actually public knowledge
ben_vulpes: +asciilifeform:every penny i spend is recorded. even at parking meters. << you've got this weird habit of just doing what they tell you. i don't get it, especially given your proclivities and tendencies. it's almost as though you're...an ironic mole!
ben_vulpes: cazalla: "Coinsetter is now promoting participation in the bitcoin market to professional market makers by offering maker-taker pricing and a new equity incentive program beginning today. The 'Market Making Equity Incentive Program' will set aside 10% of the company's equity for distribution to institutionally-capitalized designated market makers (DMMs) who provide at least $300k of liquidity to
mats_cd03: ben_vulpes: i'm building a dev env for website
ben_vulpes: +asciilifeform:and the notion of moving fingers without any feedback springs is lunacy << hardly. feedback via optic nerve is entirely reasonable.
mats_cd03: it'll prob end up wrangling vagrant, redis, mongodb, memcached, and nginx
mats_cd03: i'm still trying to work out if i can do it all through shell script supervisors, but that probably won't happen
ben_vulpes: docker will keep containers up on its own just fine.
ben_vulpes: mongo ha oh boy the machine in question's what - 3 years old?
mats_cd03: i mean... management of spinning up/down, and what not
mats_cd03: i forgot to mention i have no idea what i'm doing with web things
ben_vulpes: mats_cd03: the sj deploy hairball is entirely bash with a squirt of python to marshal aws resources
ben_vulpes: build pattern is: "install docker. then, deploy apptuation."
ben_vulpes: well, build containers for all persistent services (redis, postgres, mongo in your case).
ben_vulpes: deploy pattern is "get code, load deps file into docker,rebuild image with that, if build fails bail, run image, smoke test new container, if new container fails bail, then shut down old container and shoop new container into its place"
ben_vulpes: obviously there are subtleties with static assets, but you get the gist.
ben_vulpes: pm if you have questions. more than happy to lend a hand.
mats_cd03: i appreciate it, will let you know if i run into anything especially gnarly
ben_vulpes: sounds like a bad engineering decision with small radar modules in the pipeline.
ben_vulpes: that the "computer" i haul everywhere cannot make a realtime 3d model of its surroundings is hilarious.
thestringpuller: 'pissing on the electric fence himselfi think someone died from
assbot: Logged on 04-06-2014 17:34:30; asciilifeform: 'some learn from book; others, from example; the rest must piss on the electric fence personally'
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what doesn't work? resolution? speed? the whole not being a phased array and so incapable of reconstructing 3d?
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ben_vulpes: an example, if you will. not the ideal, but an example.
decimation: asciilifeform: my 'glove' idea was really a robot hand that would gently connect above your hand, to provide 'feedback' - but I agree that 'spring-like' action would be very difficult/expensive
decimation: what about a video camera watching your gestures 'minority report' style?
ben_vulpes: consider the oculus rift. instead of inertial sensors, uses rangefinders/radars to perform orientation analysis and also map surroundings in real time.
decimation: 'minority report' interface would still have the gorilla arm problem, as it was demonstrated in the movie, but in theory one could devise an armrest of some kind
gribble: No definition for "amortizer" could be found in wn
ben_vulpes: amortizer's an interesting word choice :D
decimation: your digits/arms are meant to operate against resistance
decimation: actually if we want to go farther, an interface that examines very fine, high speed eye movements might be a high-speed method of precise data entry
decimation: asciilifeform: actually, you have emphasized the 'language coprocessor' feature of the brain in the past - perhaps the best interface is a reliable speech-to-symbol synth
ben_vulpes: i'll pass on this particular electric fence.
mats_cd03: you'll change your mind after a little carpal tunnel
ben_vulpes: how much time do you spend typing, asciilifeform ?
ben_vulpes: what are the different meanings available?
decimation: it's time for me to retire, good evening gentlemen
BingoBoingo: Don't worry, retire has plenty of time for you too.
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cazalla: ben_vulpes, that's dated nov 13th, bit old by now, must've missed it at the time
punkman: jurov: where's notary? << undergoing repairs, about 1/3 done, hopefully ready by end of week
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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: training wheels on a function wave? <<< yeah, you know, help you find it exists.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: "Currently, digital currencies lack the basic protections consumers have come to expect when transacting online " << because what the "consumer" has "come to expect" is the fucking alpha and omega of the perceptible universe.
mircea_popescu: this needs to be broken. it's not "o noes, bitcoin wants to replace mastercard with itself". nothing like that.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin wants to entirely destroy the things crap such as mastercard even stands on,
mircea_popescu: like the idea that people may be "consumers" anymore than they may be martians,
mircea_popescu: or the idea that what "consumers" "have come to expect" is relevant in any discussion of anything nonfiction anymore than princess leila's opinion would be.
mircea_popescu: leia*. for some reason i keep conflating her with the dog.
mircea_popescu: stupid ass paradigm wherein business has come to mean "serving consumers" and obviously then the consumerness of individual people has to be "supported" by the state, and soon enough you've got an anthill being built want it or not.
assbot: Logged on 09-10-2013 03:46:03; mircea_popescu: i am amused at the noobs that still don't grasp why their average bitcoin lifespan is less than a year.
badon: mircea_popescu: Me? I'm badon.
BingoBoingo: He came here because he heard about DoS bot
badon: I'm still here because I'm trying to figure out what this chan is about :)
mircea_popescu: badon this chan is the public forum of a new power in the world, ie, the people who have been made immensely rich by bitcoin and are slowly but surely taking over the world.
punkman: badon, I've come across coincompendium a couple times, is that your thing?
BingoBoingo: badon: Should have been here for n00dz bot
badon: punkman: Yes, it is. Apparently it's rapidly becoming much more well-known.
badon: punkman: It was pretty obscure until a few months ago, so I'm still reacting with surprise when people ask me about it out of the blue.
mircea_popescu: "The Coin Compendium needs your financial support to remain in operation for the month of December 2014! Other ways you can help: Donate images."
badon: mircea_popescu: I was investing in silver when Bitcoin was $0.25.
badon: mircea_popescu: It's sort of a comprehensive market database. It contains lots of fine-grained data, and it's also able to give a more general overview.
badon: mircea_popescu: I used my silver (and palladium, etc) profits to fund investments in rare modern Chinese coins, which I'm still doing.
badon: mircea_popescu: Hmm, OK, let me think for a bit about that. Maybe you could read the Fundly description?
badon: I hope that's good, but I really don't know since I haven't gotten any feedback about it yet.
badon: It's big and complex, as one of the largest wikis in the world.
mircea_popescu: well no, if you make an engine and i ask "show me the part that'll make me grok wtf this is" you don't wanna show a leaflet.
badon: I plan on giving people access to it via a browser plugin, so it will automatically show interesting data about something whenever you're looking at it.
badon: For example, each coin known to the CC can be tracked on its journey through time and space.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like that five dollar bill novelty website or w/e it was where people kept writing on dollars ?
badon: haha, something like that.
badon: Well, actually, the CC can track a single bill by its serial number.
badon: In practice, the CC only tracks what people think is important enough to enter into the CC.
badon: So, ordinary $5 bills don't get tracked.
mircea_popescu: so the site will work well if a lot of people external to it put a lot of work into doing things in a certain way it prescribes for their benefit ?
badon: No, that was the original plan, but it failed because it's too complicated, and there's too much data that can easily become a problem if it's not correctly entered.
badon: So, the CC has a professional data entry team now.
badon: "External" people (as you say) can request an account of course. We watch what they do carefully, and I'm planning on creating a class of users that can only edit info, not add more pages. It's much easier to fix mistakes on otherwise correctly entered data.
badon: I should really keep a handy thing of usage examples.
badon: I'm getting asked this more often.
badon: It's really hard to predict how people will use the CC's data.
mircea_popescu: so basically you're doing a wikipedia alt-chain, got raped for the one-blockchain reason and are now trying to make it work in a private fantasy world.
badon: mircea_popescu: Haha, no.
badon: It's very different from Wikipedia.
badon: Because it's not an alternative to Wikipedia.
badon: Right, but it's heavily customized.
badon: Wikipedia is incapable of handling the computing demands.
mircea_popescu: afaik it copies wikipedia even to the "need donation" point. i really can't discern any structural difference ?
badon: We run Semantic MediaWiki (SMW), which handles very sophisticated data relationships.
badon: For example, there are 3 main kinds of data: Types, Specimens, and Sightings.
badon: They are hierarchical, in that order.
badon: A coin you hold in your hand is a specimen. Other coins like it are of the same type. When you see one of them being sold on ebay, that's a sighting.
mircea_popescu: "The technical foundation of the Semantic Web is given by the standards RDF - Resource Description Framework (for data description), OWL - Web Ontology Language (for giving the RDF terms a formal meaning), and SPARQL - SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (as a query language and protocol)."
badon: Yeah, we hide most of that complexity at the CC, which is saying a lot considering how complicated it is already.
badon: One moment, let me show you a real world example.
mircea_popescu: stuff the w3c has been doing long after everyone stopped paying attention i guess.
BingoBoingo: MARC reads much more cleanly from tape reels
BingoBoingo: Set it and forget it. None of that line noise on the audio jack and nao all of your XML is borked bullshit.
badon: That one is complicated, and shows off some of the power of the CC, but you might not understand it if you're not savvy about the particular market we're talking about.
badon: mircea_popescu: No, it's very tame business discussion group - basically my personal hobby/blog site.
badon: The star of the show are the lists.
badon: mircea_popescu: Yes, I love SMF.
gribble: Nick 'badon', with hostmask 'badon!~badon@pdpc/supporter/active/badon', is not identified.
badon: mircea_popescu: You haven't seen anything yet. We use SMF at the CC forum as a bug tracking system.
mircea_popescu: badon listen, get registered in the wot, i'll rate you just for nubbins` pleasure.
badon: I think I'm register in WoT. What do I do next?
mircea_popescu: ^ there's a lot of coin discussion in the logs, including offers to sell stuff etc.
gribble: Error: User doesn't exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
badon: IT's a great way to abuse a forum :)
mircea_popescu: im sure the script kiddies in our related webinar will be all over that.
punkman: badon: you should probably watch out for that ddos bot, now that your links are in the logs
davout: badon: to abuse bitcointalk a brain is sufficient, no need to resort to hacking
badon: You mean our websites?
mircea_popescu: badon i mean there's all sorts of kids reading the logs (ie, the "Webinar" lol)
badon: davout: That's the thing, it's not hacked, it's stock.
badon: We use plain vanilla SMF as a bug tracker, because a bug tracker is basically a forum. Same thing for a blog at LBC.
mircea_popescu: davout wait, wasn't tardstalk run on a newly made software by some one-guy company that got paid half a trillion dollars for that ?
punkman: mircea_popescu: no they are still working on that
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badon: mircea_popescu: Anyway, did you see the simple research example? It's basically checking past sales prices, but the power of the CC allows you to count the number of specimen appearances on the market to determine rarity. Ordinary price guides would just show a bunch of sales, with no epiphany that all those sales are actually only the same 2 coin specimens over and over. The number of sales alone would mislead you into thinking the
badon: coins aren't as rare as they truly are.
davout: mircea_popescu: successfully leading an it project: hard
mircea_popescu: actually, what i see : you've got a passion for coins and are throwing software at it. nothing wrong with that.
mircea_popescu: get in the wot an' talk to nubbins` you'll be like two peas in a pod.
badon: what is "the wot"?
badon: nubbins :No such nick/channel
davout: it's like the IRC nick hairgel
badon: #hypothes.is is surprisingly similar to the CC.
davout: you can't disable the auto-stfu
badon: [nubbins`] #bitcoin-otc +#bitcoin-assets
mircea_popescu: davout if you're around on the 15th i dun see any reason for it to take more than a few minutes.
badon: mircea_popescu, punkman: Have you heard of "the badon effect"?
BingoBoingo: badon: He's canadian and a printer. nubbins` is probably SLP atm
davout: mircea_popescu: that's if you're around too
davout: if there's a day you weren't around i would be able to identify this particular day, yes :-)
badon: Today I was just notified that someone is sending me a few hundred dollars worth of free coins to me, solely because he likes them and he wants me to write about them more often.
badon: That has never happened before.
punkman: badon, maybe you should add a bitcoin category on CC
mircea_popescu: badon ok, so you're getting some traction. murky market as all hell, will prolly be a challenge to stay on top of everything.
badon: The funny thing is, it's a prominent fellow in China who can't even read English. They have noticed the badon effect all the way in China, despite the fact all my writings are only in English. That's like causing a tsunami in Japan by flushing the toilet in Detroit.
mircea_popescu: "I try to identify & buy into the hype in the beginning or as it is happening (the pro's would be about 2 steps ahead of me) but not after the initial rush because of the lower potential for price rise."
badon: mircea_popescu: It is a challenge, truth be told, that's why the CC is so handy.
badon: mircea_popescu: That's also why the market is so reliably profitable.
badon: punkman: That's an interesting idea, but I haven't been able to envision a way to make that work. Do you have something in mind?
davout: mircea_popescu: a way to speed the rollover up would be to not wait for each other to be around to perform our respective steps in the process
mircea_popescu: badon you're familiar with the various "physical bitcoin" issues that often sell for whatever, 15k
punkman: badon, I mean bitcoin-themed physical coins
badon: mircea_popescu: Yes, those would be trackable.
badon: Yes, physical bitcoins can be tracked.
mircea_popescu: davout i can do that, sure. just, hadn't seen you in a while wanted to see if you still move or what.
mircea_popescu: " I don't mind over paying a little as the wise man baden always says, to get what I like but I have limits & they are based on potential of growth, 10% is better than bank interest but I would rather a potential 50% - 2000%!!!!! (savvy or greedy?!)"
badon: I could create a project for it at the CC, if someone wanted to oversee it. I'm not qualified to do it myself, and we don't have the funding to have the CC team do it without some major help.
davout: wunderbar, let's do it like this
badon: mircea_popescu: Coins from China with a mintage of 100 can be bought for under $200 if you're lucky. The same coin in a mature numismatic market could sell for millions of dollars.
badon: mircea_popescu: 100 coins produced.
mircea_popescu: seems to me that "mature numismatic market" contains some presupositions that won't hold after you flood it with random coins.
badon: mircea_popescu: Mintages of 500'000 are considered unusually small.
badon: mircea_popescu: You are correct in your impression, to a degree.
mircea_popescu: anyway, do you have or can you get chinese coins from 100 ad sort of thing ? that'd be more on point for millions of dollars.
badon: That's why the comparison isn't 1-to-1
badon: yes, you can get coins like that.
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badon: Actually, the differences between Western mature numismatic markets and China's immature numismatic market, may not be a negative factor for the profit potentials in Chinese coins. For example, important American art might sell for a few tens of millions of dollars. Fairly unknown Chinese art can sell for hundreds of millions of dollars.
badon: mircea_popescu: That's an excellent example of why age and rarity alone are not good determinations of value, nor investment potential.
mircea_popescu: maybe you're seeing too much into the natural excesses of first generation chinese new money.
badon: China goes big, much more so than the West.
badon: mircea_popescu: No, I'm talking about in general, historically, not only now.
badon: For example, if you look at a wikipedia list of the largest empires, I think the Romans don't even rank in the top 10.
badon: mircea_popescu: The lists are sortable by land area and population.
badon: If I remember correctly, the comparison still held for both.
mircea_popescu: im sure some sort of something or the other was big in south and north america. so what of it.
badon: The point is that comparing China to the West can cause severe under-estimation of profit potentials in the Chinese coins.
mircea_popescu: it's a potential, unless it actualizes you never know how well you did estimating it.
badon: mircea_popescu: I call my shots publicly. Check my track record at LBC. No financial analyst in any market ever in the history of ever has been as accurate as I am.
badon: In other words, please investigate what I'm saying. It's valuable info.
badon: Publicly, that is.
badon: I've been doing it far longer privately.
badon: I don't publish everything I'm doing, but what I have published is very impressive if I do say so myself.
badon: For example, when I was investing in silver, I called the direction and timing of market changes with 100% accuracy. I made a convenient chart of my predictions somewhere, let me see if I can find it.
badon: You could ask them. That's a popular site. They used to talk about my articles a lot there. Not sure if they do now, though.
badon: No, silverstackers.com is not mine.
badon: Well, I'm not going to publicly acknowledge it as mine, if it were :)
BingoBoingo: I'm gassy. I probably shouldn't have had an entire broccoli
mircea_popescu: badon 2014 to 2012 is substantially a weaker claim than "since 2004".
badon: mircea_popescu: That's when the discussion group was founded. I'm not sure how far back my articles go. At least to 2009, for articles that are still online on the SMF forum site.
badon: You'll have to look, I honestly don't remember how far back it goes. I have hundreds of articles, and I think there's a chronological list somewhere...
badon: mircea_popescu: No, what is that?
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badon: Oh, it's selection bias.
badon: I don't have that, because I don't delete any of my published posts, including the ones I would prefer to go away.
mircea_popescu: for all it can be directly established, you wiped your 2004-2012 history ?
badon: mircea_popescu: I have a lot of enemies at the china-mint.info forum. They have tried to find fault, so ask them if I delete my own posts.
badon: They will tell you no.
badon: I made ridiculous money on palladium.
badon: Myself and a guy in Canada were the only people in the world to publish a prediction about palladium. He got lucky. I kept doing it over, and over, and over, for 10 years and counting.
BingoBoingo: badon: What are your thoughts on the plutonium market?
badon: BingoBoingo: certain varieties of it are currently the most commercially valuable substance in existence.
badon: Despite what Guiness says...
badon: Plutonium is directly tied to the uranium market, so rising value of plutonium is reflected as rising value in uranium.
BingoBoingo: I'm just wondering if there's any risk someone might start up production on a scale that hypothetically/allegedly would tank its value
badon: You can often discern secret nuclear activities by watching uranium valuations.
badon: BingoBoingo: Doubtful.
badon: It's extremely difficult to produce plutonium unnoticed, and you have to have a military to tell other militaries not to try to stop you from producing it.
badon: Well, difficult to produce salable quantities, that is.
badon: salable/priceable.
BingoBoingo: What about once you have it? Hypothetically... At that point concerns about headcount to protect it go out the windows... Kind of the flipside of gold.
badon: What do you mean, BingoBoingo?
badon: Plutonium can and does get seized when it ends up in private handns.
BingoBoingo: Well, a giant collection of plutonium kind of protects itself.
badon: That protection needs to be rigorously organized.
badon: Simply having plutonium just makes you an easy target for a drone missile.
BingoBoingo: Sure, but also deters other people from walking up and taking the pile.
badon: Plutonium's existence can be easily detected from mere air sampling in the general region. You can't hide the fact that someone near you has it.
badon: mircea_popescu: It's happened before.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo in what parallel universe do the thorns on the cactus prevent tequilla production ?
badon: The USA has missilized downed satellites with nuclear material on them when they land in places like Iran.
badon: Most of it is secret information, but I seem to recall an event in the 1990's, but I don't remember where. There might have been one more recently too.
badon: I think there was a movie scene that showed something like that happening too, which was interesting.
badon: Usually they can't be retrieved like the movie showed, because it's too dangerous.
badon: I can't remember what movie.
badon: It's in my head somewhere, but the problem with having lots of info is it can take a while to find it.
badon: mircea_popescu: Can you tell me about this "wot" thing that does voicing in here?
badon: mircea_popescu: Just how to register with it.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: it wasn't the vendor. <<< maybe it was the vendor's useless bf.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: assbot plz send donation to b-a donation address. << lol troll!
mircea_popescu: decimation: why should I trust some derp who 'volunteers' for arch over the upstream creator? <<< so very much this, o lordy.
mircea_popescu: it's how the entire "do-ocracy" nonsense got its cognitive start. the rebellion of the cleaning ladies, basically.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: decimation: and aha, these aren't piss-ant led lights either. ccfl tubes - which means they can't be cranked down all the much (and stay lit) <<< this is the deal breaker for me. i actually run the monitors at about 50% gamma.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: for "my" safety. except i'm not liable for fraud. so actually they are being a pain in my ass for their safety. fucking home depot. << haha EXACTLY.
mircea_popescu: "for your safety, please suck my cock" is what all those things reduce to.
mircea_popescu: decimation: like, you know, so you can share in the bounty of their information? << good point this.
mircea_popescu: cutting out like 2/3 of the value of all that collection (the actual guy wanting receipt copies etc) because well... they gotta be weird teenagers about it and do it voyeuristically. not the same thing if you know about it. except of course you know. but wait, suspension of dsibelief!
mircea_popescu: decimation:cazalla: I use 'generic' rewards card << but... why ?
jurov: mircea_popescu: how is the foundation supposed to be zero asset corp. when it maintains treasury?
jurov: realized while putting together the statement
mircea_popescu: jurov why is it supposed to be anything i nparticular ?
jurov: i was under impresion it was, dunno why
davout: "these are not the problems you are looking for"
mircea_popescu: "It is a fundamental misunderstanding of how science works for him to think that his expertise at one level of analysis—a molecular level—predicts anything at a higher level of analysis. The structure of DNA does not predict the workings of a cell, which does not predict the shape of a body, which does not predict the characteristics of a culture."
adlai steals "That's like causing a tsunami in Japan by flushing the toilet in Detroit.", thx badon!
badon: adlai: Haha, yeah, I thought that was snappy!
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mircea_popescu: nt of great men (and yes, in this narrative, it is usually great men who are recognized). This narrative ignores the fundamentally social nature of scientific knowledge-building and the fact that objectivity is the result of teamwork."
mircea_popescu: IF YOU MAKE A DISCOVERY YOU DIDN'T MAKE THAT DISCOVERY
mircea_popescu: "knowledge-building team" is it now. a hunter^H^H^H^H^H^H-gatherer perspective on science! there's no hunters, just a buncha women sitting around by a bush doing knowledge-building.
mircea_popescu: "Indeed, part of the danger of the hero narrative is that scientists themselves may start to believe it. They can come to see themselves as individuals possessing more powers of objectivity than other humans (thus fundamentally misunderstanding where objectivity comes from)"
mircea_popescu: i find this quite scandalous. the "everything of value comes from socialism" narrative is pernicious enoughm
mircea_popescu: but that's utter nonsense. objectivity is exactly heroic.
mircea_popescu: anyway, basically this entire thing is a "you don't get to have any ~intellectual~ capital either, it all belongs to the state, to be used as slate anon editor directs it to be used".
mircea_popescu: "In order that the unfortunate views not overshadow the big scientific contribution, some of these folks would rather we stop talking about Watson’s having made the claims he has made about racial difference (although Watson shows no apparent regret for holding these views, only for having voiced them to reporters)." << and the mechanics of "regret", ie, we won't stop being stupid, the victim has to abjure!
mircea_popescu: quite instructive piece on the mechanics of us socialism, all the various bits in full view.
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mircea_popescu: His views are also reflected in a book published next week, in which he writes: "There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
mircea_popescu: anyone willing to argue against that has my full attention.
adlai: ah the sciam article
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mircea_popescu: such a ridiculous point the soviets have chosen to center their purges around.
mircea_popescu: i mean seriously, the intelligence ~of groups~ ? wtf does that even mean.
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mircea_popescu: given that clams are somewhat intelligent, is a large enough collection of clams more intelligent than victoria nuland ?
mircea_popescu: there's no fucking usable definition of intelligence, we've yet to build a computer model of intelligence, yet these people talk of some sort of statistical intelligence as if it were a thing.
adlai: it seems completely obvious that evolution of geographically separated populations progresses separately... a more interesting question is what proportion of population A fall behind the median of population B
mircea_popescu: the median of an undefined attribute you don't even have a measure of,
adlai: eg "the average man is faster than the average woman, the fastest woman is faster than most men, but the fastest man is MUCH faster than the fastest woman"
adlai holds up his copy of tensor analysis, pointing at the uncracked spine. this actually exists and has actually not been cracked yet.
mircea_popescu: adlai no but see, even in your running and geneder example, you diverge. to my eyes, womanhood has to do with a nice layer of fat on he ass, as exemplified by kim say.
badon: Yep, that's me. They used to call me the silver guy, or the palladium guy, or the art guy, or whatever it was I was making money in back then.
mircea_popescu: NOW, the faster she runs, the less of a woman she is. objectively. how do you get out of that shit.
adlai: the question holds for any measurable, or at least "totally ordered", attribute
adlai really must go though
nubbins`: i guess we can just call you "the guy", then
nubbins`: anyway, i can only assume my name was brought up because i have a passing interest in numismatics
nubbins`: i've got some neat physical bitcoins, some strange bullion pieces, etc
nubbins`: depends on if you talk to my accountant or not
badon: nubbins`: "The guy with the stuff for the thing"
badon: nubbins`: punkman seems to have an interest in numismatics too.
badon: The funny thing is that he had heard of the Coin Compendium before he met me, which is taking a while for me to get used to.
nubbins`: so what, it's like a trade/price wiki?
nubbins`: sort of like discogs, but for coins?
badon: Like mircea_popescu said, "you're getting some traction"
badon: nubbins`: It's a sophisticated storehouse of structured data.
nubbins`: so.... like discogs, but for coins 8)
badon: I don't know what that is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but that 'removes moral dimension!' << eerily similar to fundamentalist xtians objections to hymenoplasty.
mircea_popescu: kinda shows that stupidity is unpatriotic by its nature. only has one country.
badon: As far as I know, there has never been anything like the CC before.
nubbins`: badon: "i wonder if this bob dylan album i bought at a flea market is a first pressing?"
nubbins`: each item in search results is a different release, identified by catalogue number, flaws, changes in liner notes, etc etc
nubbins`: click a given release and you'll see notes, as well as a list of any member selling it
badon: No, that's nothing at all like the CC. The CC is far more sophisticated.
badon: The CC can do everything that can do, of course.
nubbins`: can i buy and sell coins on the CC?
badon: nubbins`: Indirectly, yes.
badon: Hmm, maybe even directly.
badon: The CC does things that I don't even know it's doing.
badon: People come up with new stuff I hadn't thought of.
nubbins`: you should bump heads with melbustus on the forums, he runs spotcoins.com
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: not interested in such experiments. << try have the girl go naked for a day, srsly.
badon: For example, every sighting for a coin specimen has a venue URL data bit attached to it. So, if you're posting your coins on your blog and you arrange to have them entered into the CC, then yes, someone could use the CC to buy your coins.
nubbins`: in the sense that someone could use the google to buy my coins
nubbins`: but yes, i understand what you're saying
badon: nubbins`: Right, but it's much more focused.
nubbins`: as far as casascius coins go, the marketplace is already pretty focused
badon: The CC isn't really a search engine. I guess you could call it something like a correlation engine.
badon: It takes lots of data, and lets you connect the dots.
nubbins`: i've got some coins with very low mintages
badon: nubbins`: Did you see the examples that I pasted here earlier?
badon: nubbins`: What's your lowest mintage coin?
nubbins`: badon they might've been lost in the convo
nubbins`: my lowest mintage is a 2013 0.5btc series-2 silver casascius
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badon: nubbins`: I'll repaste them, one sec. I started keeping a list of examples based on mircea_popescu questions.
nubbins`: get set up with gribble, why don't ya
mircea_popescu: gernika: What aggravates me more and more recently is the claim that mac products are well designed, when in fact they will destroy your hands. << mactardism is a very visual field. it doesn't account much for function.
nubbins`: they will destroy your hands how
nubbins`: my hyperbole parsing unit is offline
badon: nubbins`: Oooh, you're a physical bitcoin collector. People here suggested that the CC should track those, but the CC would need someone to lead a project to do that.
nubbins`: i sort of just ended up with a bunch of apple devices
nubbins`: badon i don't have much time to lead projects, but like i said, spotcoins is pretty much the definitive resource
nubbins`: there's also a guy "elianite" on the forums who updates a casascius coin PDF with some rare specimens
nubbins`: it's a bit disorganized, but lots of info
badon: nubbins`: Only your expertise is needed. The CC project as a whole is led by me, and we have a professional data entry team to do the grunt work.
badon: I know next to nothing about physical Bitcoins, and honestly, I don't have the time to become an expert in them.
nubbins`: i'm the closest you'll find to an expert around here
badon: The CC already has over 5000 types.
badon: nubbins`: The CC will make you seem like a genius :)
nubbins`: my friend, day-to-day living makes me seem that way
badon: nubbins`: If you want, I can create the project for you in the forum, and we can do some experimenting to get it rolling.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu i have more than once kicked a violent drunk out of a bar by suggesting that he leave 8)
nubbins`: badon i can't promise anything (very busy month) but if it's there, i'm more likely to poke at it
badon: nubbins`: By the way, the CC (and me in general) tends to make coins more valuable when comprehensive information is made available about them. That gives you an edge.
badon: It's actually a fundamental market principle that information increases the value of the commerce.
badon: So, if you want to make your bitcoin collection more valuable, let's start recording data.
nubbins`: badon, i've already made some progress on that front
badon: nubbins`: Start with a CC forum account, can you do that?
nubbins`: i single-handedly raised the market price for one specimen from 1.5btc to 15btc
badon: nubbins`: Ah, so you've had a taste of the nectar of numismatics :)
nubbins`: current sale price is 20btc 8)
badon: I think physical bitcoins ought to be collectible like any other coin. They're historically important, despite not being "official" in any way.
nubbins`: casascius coins, sure. first of their sort.
badon: nubbins`: CC data has led to recognition by NGC and PCGS.
nubbins`: these days, everyone and their dog is making "physical cryptos" and they're all the goddamn same.
nubbins`: those kialara bars are the only mildly interesting development since 2011
badon: CC can record them all - or at least all of them that are worth the bother of recording.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's at least in my disinterested and ignorant view, the bane of "numismatics" applied to things made after ww2.
badon: The CC is intended to serve as a historical record. Much of what we know about many coins would be completely lost eventually without the CC.
mircea_popescu: it's not unlike calling "literature" the huge pile of us produced pulp.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu look at the royal canadian mint for a perfect example. dozens of new designs per year, almost all of them would be "tales from the crypt volume 34" if they were books
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't pay above the metal for any of them either.
mircea_popescu: i don't pay for krugerands, and those at least are historically relevant.
nubbins`: if a wildlife officer came across something that looked like that, he'd shoot it in the head
nubbins`: "fuck it, just stretch it vertically"
nubbins`: they produce *maybe* 5 coins worth buying each year
badon: nubbins`: That's one reason why I like the Chinese coins so much. They're still producing rare coins each year, and Chinese collectors are mostly unaware of them. Canada is not populous enough to make a coin with a mintage of 25'000 extraordinarily valuable, but China is populous enough to make a coin with a mintage of 100 extraordinarily valuable. Make sense?
mircea_popescu: i still don't see why some coins nobody gives a shit about would be intrinsically valuable.
nubbins`: now in the mint's defense, they really push the envelope feature-wise
nubbins`: colored coins, enamel, glass, holograms, etc
mircea_popescu: badon as long as you never pay more for a coin than the metal value you're safe enough.
badon: mircea_popescu: It's difficult to predict which coins will be valuable, but I'm literally writing the book on the subject.
Naphex: is there such a thing as intrisic value?
mircea_popescu: nothwithstanding anecdotal success getting retarded kids to give you their lunch,
badon: mircea_popescu: Not true.
mircea_popescu: modern coins are worth whatever any modern item is worth.
nubbins`: it's like the sculptors have never worked in relief before.
badon: The coin in the link had a metal value of over $14k. It sold for $9k.
nubbins`: altho the whole "$50 for $50" thing is neat.
badon: nubbins`: The collectors are fleeing the West. Everybody wants Chinese. Even the Anglosphere has reduced itself to imitating Chinese lunar coins.
nubbins`: there's 20 for 20, 50 for 50, 100 for 100
nubbins`: exchange your worthless paper for slightly-less-worthless metal!
badon: mircea_popescu: Beware big gold, you can lose a lot of money on it.
badon: nubbins`: It's all fiat.
nubbins`: badon i do know that chinese silver pandas are the cream
badon: nubbins`: Yeah, but they aren't all there is. The lunars are the original flagship series of the China mint. The pandas were minted for foreigners.
nubbins`: but i'd rather my $50 coin have a half-ounce of silver than not
Naphex: probably the only thing that has intrisic value is time :))
badon: nubbins`: You're too sophisticated for that kind of thinking.
mircea_popescu: badon im not into metals anyway, but i'd definitely buy metal rather than you know, fashion, hype, whatever. "the sizzle"
nubbins`: badon, maybe so. i've got a handful of x-for-x coins, mostly just the nice ones
badon: mircea_popescu: You're also too sophisticated for that kind of thinking (you're in bitcoin chans, afterall...)
mircea_popescu: Naphex yes, time does have intrinsic value, but backwards.
Naphex: space might have some intrisic value as well
Naphex: but you have to hold it
Naphex: so that kinda ruins it
nubbins`: what, you don't have to hold time?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` did you kick out violent times out of clocks by suggesting they space out, too ?
nubbins`: the whole spacetime thing finally clicked with me like, two weeks ago, hey?
nubbins`: stumbled across a perfect analogy
mircea_popescu: "As we have learned from the experiences emanating from the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange collapse, the existence of a "block chain" does nothing to allow law enforcement, other government authorities or the public to identify the real identity of the parties to a digital currency transaction."
mircea_popescu: "A requirement that all transactions go through regulated and transparent administrators subject to supervision by Australia authorities (rather than just the current block chain process);"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` imo all this "tech" stuff is a waste of time. i might buy a computer today because i want to use it.
mircea_popescu: i won't buy something high tech today that has no use, because guess what ? time flows against it.
nubbins`: time waits for no man, no machine
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Naphex: soo.. does bitcoin - in the current form have intrinsic value? cute question
nubbins`: anyway. suppose you're walking at 5km/h, due north. all of your displacement is in the y direction. now suppose you head northwest; you're walking the same speed, but you're going slower in the y direction because some of your displacement is occurring in the x direction.
nubbins`: now imagine the y axis is time, and the x axis is space.
nubbins`: sitting where you are, all your displacement is on the y (time) axis
nubbins`: once you start moving through space, some of your displacement is now occurring on the x (space) axis
nubbins`: and even though your displacement through spacetime has not changed
nubbins`: you're now moving slower through time because of your movement throught space
badon: nubbins`: That's time dilation.
nubbins`: just thought it was a nice analogy :P
Naphex: mircea_popescu: well you can't use fiat
Naphex: what i'm trying to ask
Naphex: does the current form of the Bitcoin Blockchain have intrinsic value (without referencing its market value)
mircea_popescu: i can't believe half the fucking log is keyboards. you people are nuts you know that ?
mircea_popescu: Naphex yes, but intrinsic to what. see, when i say "kim kardashian has intrinsic value" i mean specifically, the hole(s) in her ass.
Naphex: what about all that work and time wasted on building it up?
badon: Man, the Canadian coins are not very impressive compared to the Chinese coins.
badon: They used to make some nice stuff.
Naphex: mircea_popescu: fundamental value
badon: I collected them for a while.
mircea_popescu: do you mean "value that would be present in any unverse which allows for bitcoin" ? or do you mean "value which would be present in this X thing whether it be bitcoin or not"
nubbins`: badon like i said, maybe a couple coins a year.
nubbins`: their tree canopy ones are okay
nubbins`: tbh the cmyk-printed coins don't look great up-close
nubbins`: they have some coins that are actually painted w/ enamel that are nicer
badon: nubbins`: They copied the Chinese enamel.
badon: nubbins`: China mastered enamel in ancient times - and I mean truly MASTERED it. I saw some enamel work that I mistook for being modern, but it was ancient.
badon: The first really nice enamel coins in modern China were in 2008, if I remember correctly.
badon: The started out by "colorizing" with really crapping printing techniques. People thought they were ugly, and didn't buy them. Today, the ugly ones are more valuable than the pretty ones because they're rarer.
nubbins`: specifically, looking for a Gemini
nubbins`: yeah the canadian mint did a series of Great Lakes coins where the lake bed was carved out of the coin, and filled with translucent blue enamel
nubbins`: neat idea, not particularly nice coins
badon: nubbins`: Collectors need something interesting. Mass-production commercialization isn't very interesting.
badon: Hopefully there will be some cool errors or something.
nubbins`: this is why i collect casascius coins ;D
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badon: IN that case, it's on a box, not a coin, but it's ridiculously intricate. Something like that in the West would cost a thousand bucks just for the box.
badon: They probably sold it for 50 cents in the 1980's, haha.
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mircea_popescu: i imagine the time to stock up on chinese memorabilia was right before the great leap forward.
nubbins`: i saw some sick enamelling when i was in korea too
badon: nubbins`: Oh yeah, the pottery enamel is famous.
nubbins`: there was this one town i visited, it's all anyone did
badon: Korea was part of China in ancient times, due to proximity, so it makes sense they would have some impressive enameling technology.
nubbins`: went there for a big pottery festival
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: hardphork! << i never applied that, no sympthoms. so no, not a fork at all.
badon: I love that stuff.
nubbins`: badon korean newspapers still use chinese characters for headlines etc
nubbins`: there's a couple hundred common ones that most koreans know
badon: nubbins`: The silver version I sold for $1200. A few months later the specimen was back on the market, and it sold for $4'000!
badon: I thought it was a museum gift shop thing.
badon: I was wrong. The "museum" is actually the Emperor's palace, also known as "the forbidden city".
mircea_popescu: "Organised crime groups continue to make use of darknets to harbour trading in illicit commodities, including child exploitation material, illicit drugs and firearms, stolen credit card and identity data, and hacking techniques." << check it out, hacking techniques the illicit item ?
badon: A lot of people got that wrong too.
badon: It has a mintage of 200 for the silver version, and only around 10 specimens are known to have survived so far. More will probably show up as time goes by, but $4000 price tag did not bring any new ones to the market, which is strong evidence most of them are either melted or permanently in someone's collection.
nubbins`: occasionally you'll find people afraid to offer a rare coin for sale
nubbins`: for fear it won't fetch going rates
badon: nubbins`: Right, especially in auctions.
nubbins`: yup. the town's full of that stuff.
nubbins`: you should see the mantles in my mother's house
nubbins`: weighted down with shit like that
badon: nubbins`: In 500 years - heck, in 80 years, most of that stuff will be broken. The surviving specimens will be the proverbial "Ming vaaaaz".
badon: I compared what Europe was producing in the 11th century with what China was producing, and it's pathetic. You have to wonder if Europeans collectively decided to be retarded for a thousand years.
badon: They don't call it a dark age for nothing.
badon: All the cool enameled art in that article is from the East. All the Crayola kiddie enamel is from Europe, haha.
nubbins`: i saw some cool byzantine shit in germany
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badon: Yes, I'm doing that now.
mircea_popescu: " The public schools are intended to create complacent "good citizens"—not independent thinkers—because political leaders do not like boat-rockers who question things too closely. They prefer citizens who pay their taxes on time and leave them alone to chart the course of the nation. The growth in government power since the advent of public schools is hard to ignore."
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mircea_popescu: adlai: uhoh, site affinity for reddit.com is 51.2x! << i see slashdot.org 151.7x wired.com 83.3x zerohedge.com 81.3x dailydot.com 52.7x boingboing.net 51.7x
mircea_popescu: don't tell me it's giving different numbers to diff people.
adlai: something something river twice?
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mircea_popescu: 106 somethingawful.com kinda interesting this, i wonder how entirely baseless it actually is.
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mircea_popescu: problem is any set of stupidity definitions are incomplete
mircea_popescu: and "culinary science" is the sort of nonsense you'd expect ou tof english speakers. otherwise l'arte culinaire isdoing fine
adlai: ... and why is there no usable definition for intelligence?
adlai: "ability of a brain/computer to model, predict, etc external processes"
adlai: it's far from perfect, but it's a start
mircea_popescu: "ten youths from downtown accidentally construct the godmachine
adlai: (how do "they" define intelligence?)
adlai: or rather, what attributes do they usually measure?
mircea_popescu briefly participated in some "transdisciplinary" efforts many moons ago
mircea_popescu: but honestly while there are intelligent people trying, i think it's a snipe hunt.
adlai: there may not be any such thing as "beauty", but "sexual selection" exists
adlai: ie, at any one point in time, for a given population, you can measure "beauty"
mircea_popescu: perhaps, but the label of magnetism is at least applied on some sort of interaction that yields a force.
mircea_popescu: adlai that sexual selection exists is very poor grounding to claim beauty.
mircea_popescu: and in particular attempts to define intelligence in terms of statistical fitting and survivability yield monsters
mircea_popescu: (ie, stuff nobody would intuitively accept as intelligence)
adlai: that's because they're using intuition instead of intelligence
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right, because a field without a definition can exist.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i think it's pseudoscience, the whole lot of it.
adlai: lol right there in Eysenck's bio... "Definition of Intelligence"
mircea_popescu: belongs as a subset obscure philosophy, right there with aesthetics.
mircea_popescu: a pseudoscience isn't that endeavour lcking principles,
adlai: chasing "intelligence" might be pseudoscience but you can get relevant results by studying well-defined attributes (eg reaction time)
mircea_popescu: it's that endeavour where anything can be a principle.
mircea_popescu: adlai ah, this isn't an argument against such stuff. sure, reaction time is even a good proxy for things you may care about,
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 03:24:29; asciilifeform: Adlai: if i recall, hypothesis involves impedance matching - same reason folks with damaged myelin sheaths lose theirs.
mircea_popescu: so the best way to be intelligent is doing speedballs ?
adlai: slight tangent (from reading about impedance) - why on earth are complex numbers introduced as a+bi when (magnitude,phase) is an infinitely more INTELLIGENT way of understanding them?
mircea_popescu: problem is i can build a machine with zero crosstalk and i won't have built an ai.
mircea_popescu: adlai because they're not introduced by intelligent people./
adlai: aha, bricklisp proves that !stupid ≠ intelligent
mircea_popescu: as i said, all sorts of heuristics can be useful. i tend to not pursue relations with the intellectually slow, which i often judge in seconds on simple cues such as eye movement.
adlai: bricklisp simply doesn't detract from the intelligence of whoever is using it, like "rubber duck debugging"
adlai is wondering how mircea_popescu judges intelligence based on eye movement... it seems very dependant upon the setting
mircea_popescu: same way carnies pick out their marks, it's nothing novel.
adlai: maybe a bit more than ten minutes
mircea_popescu: moreover, trying to pursue a "science of health" is the hallmark of pseudoscientific cockery.
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 03:29:22; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, just watch people respond to stimuli.
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2014 17:02:37; mircea_popescu: something like that. so one night while in here, i see movement in the corner of my eye
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 03:30:52; asciilifeform: how come we never hear anyone arguing that there is no such thing as 'strength'
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 03:31:14; asciilifeform: and that a circus weight-lifter isn't the least bit strong, because perhaps my arse muscle is stronger yet than his biceps
TomServo: Hey nubbins`, didja see my PM?
nubbins`: ah yes, ty, i may have it covered
nubbins`: should know for sure in the next couple days
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jurov: what's with the submissions to qntra containing lengthy documents verbatim?
jurov: they do count into s.qntr shares?
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 19:56:00; mircea_popescu: kuzetsa ah i think you gotta pay kako for access to that ?
artifexd: Are there any plans for new profit centers in MPIF?
adlai: artifexd: are you planning to offer any?
artifexd: If I had any to offer, yes. Alas, no.
artifexd: I'm just trying to make a decision to sell what I have, buy more, or wait some more.
artifexd: And there hasn't been much talk of MPIF lately. I'm in an information vacuum, so to speak.
adlai: the impression I get from lurking around here is that there aren't concrete plans for another profit center, but if one arose, it would be welcomed
mike_c: jurov, you still market making mpif? it seems the bids are below bounds (which I thought was +- 5%).
jurov: and nobody's selling?
mike_c: well, selling would be bad right now.
mike_c: you'd be selling a bitcoin for 0.9 btc.
jurov: okay it's in queue right after vulpes' patches
adlai: would've been nicer with &symbol= and push notifications and a unicorn pony but i'll settle for this :)
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021745 B (Total: 475.53 B). Delta: 0.52 B. Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.000195 BTC [-]
adlai: kakobrekla: what's type:11 ?
jurov: oh and i just came around davout's proposal, gonna make some noise around it
nubbins`: jurov iirc (and i could be wrong), qntra pays the way dickens' publisher paid
adlai: nubbins`: yes, but it could ignore text within blockquote tags
nubbins`: otherwise your article quality's going down the shitter
jurov: davout: see comment on yer blog
xanthyos: coinbase makes it too easy! i thought they'd at least slow me down with a 2 factor phone auth
xanthyos: 0.25925176 BTC will arrive in your My Wallet account on Monday Dec 8, 2014.
☟︎ davout: what exactly are you disagreeing with?
jurov: that X.EUR is to disappear and reappear at any indeterminate time
davout: who said anything about indeterminate ?
jurov: and there's nothing in STATJSON output to indicate it
jurov: you don't like the 15th 12:00 GMT, you want to change it, no?
jurov: if it changes to other fixed time, i'm okay with it
davout: it's not that i dislike it, it's just that i point out that it creates a hard deadline for everyone
jurov: and why's that a problem? french ppl u no have hard deadlines?
davout: which creates a trading gap unless everyone is perfectly synchronized
jurov: and what exactly was your proposal?
xanthyos: life's more exciting with a coinbase progress bar in one of my browser tabs
davout: xanthyos getting it !up, that's good news
davout: jurov: either de-automate the first step
xanthyos: davout: i'm not supposed to talk about that anymore. started to annoy ppl
davout: or do continuous trading
jurov: you see - i'm reeling about the first one
jurov: continuos trading without balaces mysteriously on/off would the best solution in my view
davout: what you're reeling about is coinbr's inability to cleanly detect the gap, whether that's for mpex or coinbr to solve is another question
jurov: i wrote clearly how i intend to solve it. x.eur would just not trade in interval when such behavior is expected.
davout: yes, continuous trading seems so much simpler, not sure if there's a blocker i'm missing tho
jurov: well.. it's up to mircea. i doubt he ever does anything about this stateless, eventually-consistent wankfest of his.
jurov: coinbr has state machine to compensate for it complicated enough already
jurov: mircea_popescu: EVERY BALANCE CHANGE ON MPEX SHOULD HAVE A REASON NAMED IN JSON/JSONSTAT OUTPUT. FULL STOP.
jurov: okay, now i have this off my mind
jurov: <adlai> slight tangent (from reading about impedance) - why on earth are complex numbers introduced as a+bi << easy addition and multiplication?
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xanthyos: you can think of all numbers as having +bi but if b = 0 it doesn't matter
jurov: 1.5*e(i*pi) + e(1.5*i*pi) = ?
jurov: hafta convert them to a+bi anyway
jurov: <nubbins`> you're just using it wrong ;p << lol what?
xanthyos: is that why my pms sometimes look invisible or delayed
jurov: pms should have same latency as all irc, no?
xanthyos: it's a shell so i have no idea if it's being ddosed
jurov: xanthyos if ssh doen't have noticeable lag it should not be ddos
nubbins`: maybe i was being ddosed yesterday when my netflix stream quality was slightly reduced
xanthyos: if i connected from my home ip i'd cloak. i don't notice a lag at all from the ssh session
kakobrekla: dear ddoser, please add more bots as it is not clear if you are still ddosing or not
xanthyos: but the pm with gribble took a while to come back
xanthyos: better to know it's a ddos to get angry about than to have uncertainty and be unable to diagnose the problem
xanthyos: at a time i thought all nickserv-idented nicks were cloaked
xanthyos: but maybe that was a different network
xanthyos: cloaked or not, silenceisdefeat.com probably gets hit all the time, but it's free and reliable enough
jurov: he dared to tweet “67 years ago Stalin defended from Hitler his right to suppress Soviet people.”
jurov: us state dept aparently pays handsomely for such tweets
jurov: looks like it can be opened from news.ycombinator.com without the paywall
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 98350 @ 0.00036048 = 35.4532 BTC [+] {3}
ben_vulpes: dang did you guys really crap out over 1000 lines while i was sleeping?
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021745 B (Total: 475.53 B). Delta: 0.52 B. Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.000195 BTC [-]
jurov: ;;calc 0.00021745*1.01
jurov: mike_c it's actually 1% and i'm outside that
mike_c: but what about the low side?
mike_c: or am i confused and you don't offer liquidity for sellers?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: i'd pay fiddy bucks for one, and that's generous. << Nobel prize is gold so you can sell it at one of those cash for gold store fronts in the ghetto
mike_c: oh, nevermind. those are minimums. you can't be closer than that, but have no responsibility to be particularly close?
gribble: Nick 'BingoBoingo', with hostmask 'BingoBoingo!~BingoBoin@unaffiliated/bingoboingo', is identified as user 'BingoBoingo', with GPG key id 309BB8D7F3251143, key fingerprint ADD7A9A28F85E5EF1F51904F309BB8D7F3251143, and bitcoin address None
jurov: mike_c: no responsibility.. but looking on it, i prolly should actually buy some to prop it up
jurov: on another look... wtf?
jurov: nm i was looking on another mpsic
jurov: ;;calc 0.00021745/1.01
mike_c: my estimate seems a bit high at the moment. i gotta do some digging into why. I would use the october statement as a closer NAV right now.
mike_c: ;;calc 0.00021638/1.01
[]bot: Bet placed: 3.37 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall before Mar 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1058/ Odds: 87(Y):13(N) by coin, 81(Y):19(N) by weight. Total bet: 16.46240824 BTC. Current weight: 60,552.
BingoBoingo: Well, they aren't getting "theirs" anyway so might as well for the charity of it.
mircea_popescu: <artifexd> Are there any plans for new profit centers in MPIF? << yes. got an idea ?
mircea_popescu: adlai> nubbins`: yes, but it could ignore text within blockquote tags << it does actually.
mircea_popescu: <xanthyos> [...] your My Wallet account [...] << logic.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> you don't like the 15th 12:00 GMT, you want to change it, no? << nah he just wants a shorter break. than ONE WEEK. which he gets.
jurov: we misunderstood each other at first
mircea_popescu: <davout> yes, continuous trading seems so much simpler, not sure if there's a blocker i'm missing tho << it's nonsense, what exactly is a future that has no future date ?
jurov waits till mircea arrives at the wankfest
mircea_popescu: mike_c> this is too funny. scamfunding sites now offer insurance! << so did usagi.
mircea_popescu: generally, idiots revel in offering an idiotarian version of mainstream concepts. like, the usg right ? ALSO OFFERS INSURANCE.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> dear ddoser, please add more bots as it is not clear if you are still ddosing or not <<< yeah this srsly. i was half considering replacing the voice model with a ddos model, but srsly, you gotta provide better servcice for free if you wanna be part of infrastructure here!
mircea_popescu: <jurov> looks like it can be opened from news.ycombinator.com without the paywall << see ? CLEARLY propaganda piece.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> dang did you guys really crap out over 1000 lines while i was sleeping? << we didn't crap them bish. now eat up!
[]bot: Bet placed: 11 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/871/ Odds: 75(Y):25(N) by coin, 42(Y):58(N) by weight. Total bet: 22.43892981 BTC. Current weight: 7,089.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> oh, nevermind. those are minimums. you can't be closer than that, but have no responsibility to be particularly close? << well not stated as obligations, but generally it's his job to get close.
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 40070721940.0 based on data since last change | 40835307545.6 based on data for last three days
gribble: Current Blocks: 332625 | Current Difficulty: 4.03000303278914E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 332639 | Next Difficulty In: 14 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 2 hours, 19 minutes, and 2 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 40070721940.0 | Estimated Percent Change: -0.569
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 380.57, Best ask: 380.7, Bid-ask spread: 0.13000, Last trade: 380.68, 24 hour volume: 6448.20538594, 24 hour low: 375.23, 24 hour high: 382.86, 24 hour vwap: 379.491514355
ben_vulpes: which would be first time in the asic history?
mircea_popescu: the results of that market becoming "usgized", which is to say, they stopped selling to the general public.
ben_vulpes: why would the general public buy asics?
mircea_popescu: it's funny how the free market naturally evolves towards a corner to wedge itself in.
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ben_vulpes: +nubbins`:i've got some neat physical bitcoins, some strange bullion pieces, etc << don't forget newspapers lol
mircea_popescu: What kind of retard created this bet? Closing in 5 months?? why??? a bunch of people are just going to bet on Yes whenever they see difficulty is going to be down during the year, what's the point of this bet??
mike_c: don't tap on the fish tank.
[]bot: Bet placed: 2.49 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/871/ Odds: 91(Y):9(N) by coin, 59(Y):41(N) by weight. Total bet: 59.42962981 BTC. Current weight: 7,083.
[]bot: Bet placed: 4.4999 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/871/ Odds: 91(Y):9(N) by coin, 59(Y):41(N) by weight. Total bet: 59.42962981 BTC. Current weight: 7,083.
[]bot: Bet placed: 20 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/871/ Odds: 91(Y):9(N) by coin, 59(Y):41(N) by weight. Total bet: 59.42962981 BTC. Current weight: 7,083.
[]bot: Bet placed: 10.0008 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/871/ Odds: 91(Y):9(N) by coin, 59(Y):41(N) by weight. Total bet: 59.42962981 BTC. Current weight: 7,083.
leen_: need to speak to mircea_popescu
mike_c: only a few blocks left til it resolves
leen_: there is a problem with a bet
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leen_: i needed to contact you here someone said to me in mail
leen_: first 2 bets are refunded
leen_: no problem at first sight
leen_: THE CALCULATOR IS WRONG
leen_: ITS WRITTEN IN THE STATEMENT
mircea_popescu: listen, make complete sentences, i can't follow what you're saying.
leen_: Bitcoin to drop under $250 before 2015 The price of one Bitcoin in USD will drop below $250 before January 2015 as per Bitstamp . If the difference between a given "Yes" bet time and the bet's closing time is less than one week, such bets will be refunded minus fee. First two "Yes" bets are excluded from this rule.
leen_: so i made a bet placing a winning BTC bet on: Yes pays: 4.39046755 BTC No pays: 1.14220213 BTC after fees, at current weight and assuming no one else bets
leen_: which is not true in this case
leen_: if the first 2 bets get efunded
leen_: then on a no bet i dont get their earnings
mircea_popescu: you're misreading it'd seem. what the bet says is that the first two yes bets never get refunded
leen_: but the calculator uses them to calculate the profit of the no bet
leen_: what does it mean?
mike_c: the point leen_, is to avoid late bettors who try to bet when the outcome is nearly certain
BingoBoingo: The odds move anyway, the calculator is just to be used as a rough guideline.
mircea_popescu: and it's a moot point in any case, the 30th was 4 days ago.
mike_c: (and which is an integral part of bitbet)
leen_: so they dont get refunded?
leen_: and if nobody else bets i get the money stated in the calculator?
leen_: i know that will not happen but just as an example
leen_: i guess so or you know it for sure?
mircea_popescu: well i don't know the future for sure, as it happens. just kinda close.
leen_: and if i win the bet
mircea_popescu: but what the bet says is that if bitcoin goes under 250 tomorrow, all yes bets but the first two wil be refunded.
leen_: if i place a bet on no now and pric doesnt go under 250 i win the amount stated at th calculator if noobne else bets?
mircea_popescu: kinda impossible for that clause to affect you at all if price doesn't go under 250.
mircea_popescu: and if it does, no lost anyway, it's just a matter of how the yes pot is split up.
artifexd: mircea_popescu: Nope. No ideas. Just asking.
[]bot: Bet placed: 4.99979999 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall before Mar 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1058/ Odds: 90(Y):10(N) by coin, 85(Y):15(N) by weight. Total bet: 21.46220824 BTC. Current weight: 60,523.
mircea_popescu: yeah, turns out running a safe investment fund in btc is harder than in usd. who'd have thunk it!
artifexd: At least it hasn't lost 90% of its value
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose in all fairness the byzantino-rabinical approach to the written text as deployed for the needs of bitbet is a special kind of hell for all esl speakers.
artifexd: I believe it is right around where it started. No up. No down. Or at least not much.
mircea_popescu: something tells me this is going to be the biggest problem of bitcoin finance. to earn a living as a rentier you'll have to own a shitton of 'em.
nubbins`: ben_vulpes yes, newspapers too 8)
mircea_popescu: there;s going to be a flood of these. the marginal cost to make small metal discs is about zero
mircea_popescu: the pretense to value through "unique" and "design" and trhe usual bullcrap is supposedly endless.
nubbins`: this one's actually just a piece of wood
mircea_popescu: jesus fuck i want a buttcoin.org account. the stupidity bitcoin brings out from i dunno where...
nubbins`: anyway, the physical crypto space is at a standstill
nubbins`: those kialara guys are the first ones to do anything different since casascius
nubbins`: everyone else is all "lel silver rounds w/ holo super cool"
adlai: "Hebrew slang for money" wut
nubbins`: nobody gives a fuck about coins with holos
mircea_popescu: wait, the original wankers don't like wanking anymore ?
nubbins`: i want a hellraiser-style puzzlebox physical btc
adlai: "For an extra .25BTC ..." < what's the point of getting the damn thing if you don't get the extras
adlai: it's just a bloody expensive paperweight without them
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i want prison-made physical btc. toothpaste. << Oh, if I go in I'll have an arts and crafts project.
nubbins`: speaking of teeth, we got a pig skull the other day
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mike_c: those kialara coins are cool.
mike_c: they look pretty sweet and i like that they are "designed" to only have 0.1 btc in them.
mike_c: hence air quotes. it says 0.1 on it.
mike_c: these are all novelty items, so i think cas coins with 10 btc or whatever are dumb.
mats_cd03: also used to be one hundredth the value it is now, mate
nubbins`: anyway kialara bars would be WAY cooler if they ditched the text altogether
mircea_popescu: mike_c you gotta ppreciate, when the cas coins were a thing, 50 btc was like 100 bux
mircea_popescu: it made perfect sense to have a coin with something more than nothing's worth of bitcoin in it.
mats_cd03: anyone want to play a quick chess game (blitz)?
nubbins`: the last series he sold were 0.1btc
mike_c: yes yes, i am saying it no longer makes sense to have a 10 btc that is actually funded
mircea_popescu: it had its political importance at the time, these aren;'t really remembered today, but at some point i had to go into fucking something awful forums and argue with the idiots as to why bitcoin actualy is valuable.
nubbins`: it makes no sense to put a denomination on it, period
mircea_popescu: because at the time idiots honestly thought the "internet funbux" angle can be pushed.
mike_c: doesn't make a good xmas gift without a denomination
nubbins`: well ya know. it doesn't make a good xmas gift with one either.
jurov: wait till some crazy canadian starts making them from mice poop and her genital hair
mircea_popescu: i imagine it makes little sense to have anymore at all, tbh.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall before Mar 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1058/ Odds: 93(Y):7(N) by coin, 89(Y):11(N) by weight. Total bet: 29.46220824 BTC. Current weight: 60,506.
[]bot: Bet placed: 7 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall before Mar 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1058/ Odds: 93(Y):7(N) by coin, 89(Y):11(N) by weight. Total bet: 29.46220824 BTC. Current weight: 60,506.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu cold storage for the discerning consumer, nothing more.
mike_c: nubbins`: can you vouch at all for kialara? i'm going to get one.
mircea_popescu: jurov i used to know this chick that wore a bracelet she made out of her pubic hair.
nubbins`: mike_c they look cool, no idea beyond that
nubbins`: jurov this is a problem, people get all hissy when someone gets a grant for something they personally don't like
mircea_popescu: total ocd case, she'd actually pluck her hairs by hand, braid them in threes then braid the results and on it went.
nubbins`: maybe their issue is with the grant system
nubbins`: there was a big sadness when a band called "holy fuck" got a grant
nubbins`: old windbags who'd never bothered to even listen to the band, decrying the vulgar waste of taxpayer money
nubbins`: but the thing is, they don't give a fuck that there's grant money being given away; they care that it's being given to a band called holy fuck
jurov: i intended tat just for laugh, but okay.
adlai: mircea_popescu: omg thank you tho mutth!
jurov: i myself was recipient of taxpayer money for nonsense, too. so what.
nubbins`: i fear the grant system discourages artists from putting their careers on economically viable paths
nubbins`: i've read that like three times and i'm out of credits
mircea_popescu: there is no economically viable path for "artists" outside of mooching off the sovereign.
nubbins`: we even had our own chat about it, i drew you a thing.
nubbins`: you and your capital A "Art" ;D
jurov: they can be beggars, too
mircea_popescu: jurov except then they're not real artists. just buskers.
BingoBoingo: jurov: what's with the submissions to qntra containing lengthy documents verbatim? << lengthy documents go into blockquotes, don't get counted
nubbins`: he's not a real blogger, he's just a busker
mircea_popescu: yeah, this i true in the reverse. bloggers that write for someone else aren't much more than buskers.
nubbins`: anyone working for someone else is a busker if you wanna split that hair the rest of the way
jurov: i guess mircea meant pople working for general public as opposed to their master
mircea_popescu: artist is a servile profession. the long and the short of it.
mircea_popescu: it's also the one to most famously rebel against its status, but so what of that.
[]bot: Bet placed: 3 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall before Mar 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1058/ Odds: 93(Y):7(N) by coin, 90(Y):10(N) by weight. Total bet: 32.46220824 BTC. Current weight: 60,497.
jurov: nubbins` if you're ever gonna make some b-a book, these reich images are very fitting
jurov: the book "Listen, Little Man!" is good, too, except for wtf conclusions
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34744 @ 0.00036661 = 12.7375 BTC [+]
jurov: grr it linked other image as i meant
nubbins`: anyway, if anyone's interested, there's maybe ten books left in the first edition of our latest, so get 'em while they're hot
kakobrekla: > It was commissioned by a person on this forum but then they back out half way through completion. Original price was $600usd.
kakobrekla: buyer : "now that you finally made the thing, you can go fuck yourself. bye"
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.5 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/871/ Odds: 91(Y):9(N) by coin, 59(Y):41(N) by weight. Total bet: 60.92962981 BTC. Current weight: 7,053.
punkman: he totally had to use his wood-turning skills and make it ribbed
kakobrekla: would be more interesting you could screw it
punkman: that's not how dildos work kakobrekla
mircea_popescu: "If you have ever been F#CKED using BTCitcoin for something this would be a great way to memorialize that as well."
mircea_popescu: dude don't tell me the forum muppetry actually fucks itself to memorialize being fucked.
BingoBoingo: Of course they do. It's how they have to learn through pennance.
kakobrekla: but if you been screwed by bitcoin no cigar
mats_cd03: now, to look for another distro now that debian's been converted to systemd....
[]bot: Bet placed: 5 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall before Mar 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1058/ Odds: 94(Y):6(N) by coin, 91(Y):9(N) by weight. Total bet: 37.46220824 BTC. Current weight: 60,461.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38369 @ 0.00036838 = 14.1344 BTC [+]
mats_cd03: > that bears a striking resemblance to an androgynous lesbian. A heterosexual dude who, at first glance, is often mistaken for a boyish lesbian. He is usually of smaller build, wears ambiguous attire, (ie: skinny jeans, Chuck Taylors) and cuts his hair into a faux hawk or other such lesbian-trademarked coiffure.
mats_cd03: i get the distinct impression there's no good distro left besides gentoo
mats_cd03 returns to beating vagrant into submission
mircea_popescu: but i suppose putting more steam behind openbsd can't hurt.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.5 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/871/ Odds: 91(Y):9(N) by coin, 60(Y):40(N) by weight. Total bet: 62.42962981 BTC. Current weight: 7,042.
gribble: Current Blocks: 332636 | Current Difficulty: 4.03000303278914E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 332639 | Next Difficulty In: 3 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 19 minutes and 35 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
gribble: Error: Problem retrieving latest block data.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who exactly is doomed to grunt on recent hardware
mircea_popescu: uh. if you have servers you'd have to be insane to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have the fucking dc handle it if you don't give a shit.
mircea_popescu: and who the fuck takes any electronics from their job is so stupid shouldn't get to live anyway.
mircea_popescu: i can't even be bothered to count all the ways that's stupid. wtf.
jurov: mircea has slaves to carry boxen around
midnightmagic: it has an fpga onboard, (almost) no firmware except perhaps for the sdd. it's free-ish
midnightmagic backs slowly away and maybe should've read back further than one 24-line screenful
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.9 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $250 before 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1078/ Odds: 10(Y):90(N) by coin, 11(Y):89(N) by weight. Total bet: 16.51760042 BTC. Current weight: 92,130.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.6 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $250 before 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1078/ Odds: 10(Y):90(N) by coin, 11(Y):89(N) by weight. Total bet: 16.51760042 BTC. Current weight: 92,130.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $250 before 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1078/ Odds: 10(Y):90(N) by coin, 11(Y):89(N) by weight. Total bet: 16.51760042 BTC. Current weight: 92,129.
mircea_popescu: maybe i'm missing something here, but, why do you think you can't run "max" whatever they are on older debians ?
mircea_popescu: the cpu instruction set changed or something ? it's the same thing.
mircea_popescu: no but look, linux only went braindamaged this decade.
[]bot: Bet placed: 5 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin difficulty to fall in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/871/ Odds: 92(Y):8(N) by coin, 61(Y):39(N) by weight. Total bet: 67.42962981 BTC. Current weight: 7,028.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15850 @ 0.00036838 = 5.8388 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: it's not like simply ignoring pottering forces one to any sort of anything. so you run 2005 linux on 2010 hardware. you probably don't want the modern crapolade for any serious purpose anyway,
mircea_popescu: finding a fucking nat router that's not backdoored by design is a fucking hassle as it is.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> on account of my profession, i occasionally do things like booting up winblows in an emulator. << actually last i did that it was on... ubuntu!
mircea_popescu: im not sure why you want to run 2014 hw at all. but whatever, maybe i don't do enough hi res porn conversion on a laptop to care ?
mircea_popescu: something's amiss with this picture tho. i find it hard to believe that you need a lot of computing that is a) physically in your lap and b) exactly fits within the seeming arbitrary constriction of "what 2014 laptops allow"
mircea_popescu: and you gotta run the winblows in an emulator on a physical laptop ?
mircea_popescu: you can't just boot up say a vm for it on a remote server ?
mircea_popescu: well this sounds like a fucking curse on the level of, "must have sex in my car trunk, no matter what"
mircea_popescu: i just never ran into this sort of edge myself. i guess count it as a blessing an' move on.
mircea_popescu: (kinda weird how the "stuck with windowsy linux" discussion denegerated into a "because i need to run windows".
mircea_popescu: poettering should be good news for you then - soon enough you won't need an emulator at all.)
mircea_popescu: somehow i imagine what the us agency of redhat is trying to solve is exactly your problem,
mircea_popescu: anyway, entertain me here. so what happens if you use 2010 hardware with older linux instals is that what, your shit moves slower ?
mircea_popescu: here's a thought : two $10 old cpus are faster than a $50 modern cpu.
mircea_popescu: there is a lot terribly wrong with the picture you paint. i've yet to see this wonder where support costs more than the hardware.
mircea_popescu: but you see how from a business perspective this makes no sense ? the hardware's the biggest cost. in any and all dcs ever since the world begun.
nubbins`: i once spent a summer running fluid dynamics sims on a 24-node beowulf cluster
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and actually renting stuff like amzon offers is not cheaper than what you're currently doing ?!
mircea_popescu: but both of these make sense from a business perspective.
mircea_popescu: now suppose the major cost of the icecream truck wasn't icecream, but... windshield wiper.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as i said afore, " you'd have to be insane to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have the fucking dc handle it if you don't give a shit"
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