assbot: Logged on 02-12-2015 21:15:47; asciilifeform: unless you're of the mircea_popescu or orlov school of thought, in which case better gifts include horse and kalash
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno about you, but if i google "racul, broasca si o stiuca" the 2nd fucking hit is "about romania" and in general the whole thing's a celebration of romanian-ness.
mircea_popescu: (it was A MAJOR hit of a major band, like say ro led zeppelin)
mircea_popescu: "San Bernardino, California (CNN)—The hunt for one to three suspects is taking place near a San Bernardino, California, center for people with developmental disabilities, where at least 14 people were killed Wednesday, Police Chief Jarrod Burguan told reporters. Seventeen other people were hurt in the shooting, authorities said."
assbot: Logged on 02-12-2015 21:54:23; asciilifeform: if we lived in 18th c. britain, prior to the ban of security boobytraps, a frag would be an interesting item to build into a padlock
assbot: Logged on 02-12-2015 23:17:12; asciilifeform: one is left to wonder where these brilliant minds get coin in the first place
mircea_popescu knows much more respectable horses than respectable people.
mircea_popescu: ;;google site:trilema.com. no such thing as bitcoin taint
mircea_popescu: i dun understand wtf that kazakstan thing is supposed to be. who the fuck cares about their stupid ideas ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 103700 @ 0.00049029 = 50.8431 BTC [-] {7}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 51350 @ 0.00049411 = 25.3725 BTC [+] {3}
mircea_popescu: are these the self-important derps with the "attacks" etc ?
BingoBoingo: The ones who hijacked testnet because that is all the hash they have
BingoBoingo: That looks like a chicken coop, since it is so full of cocks
mircea_popescu: incidentally : is the us going to ban being sick in public places yet ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: or is being sick in public okay, just like being fat in the subway is okay,
mircea_popescu: \but smoking is not, just like sitting like a man is not ok. because one's "intentional" and the other "intentional-once-removed" and so one correlates with the bad gender.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: !up CrazyTruthYakDDS Seriously with a nick like that you gotta talk and not just lurk
assbot: Logged on 03-12-2015 03:21:56; mircea_popescu: incidentally : is the us going to ban being sick in public places yet ?
trinque: I'd put my bag on the seat next to me in Portland every time.
trinque: it was an anti-bum tactic.
trinque: they're invariably covered in at least piss, but often shit as well
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19100 @ 0.000495 = 9.4545 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33278 @ 0.0005009 = 16.669 BTC [+] {4}
gribble: mats was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 weeks, 5 days, 1 hour, 17 minutes, and 43 seconds ago: <mats> rolling off the cheeks of the slaves doncha know
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20600 @ 0.00050572 = 10.4178 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33047 @ 0.00049357 = 16.311 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7086 @ 0.00048942 = 3.468 BTC [-]
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'd have figured you'd have already seen that
gribble: STRML was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 44 weeks, 6 days, 14 hours, 20 minutes, and 4 seconds ago: <STRML> I guess I live in the wrong city
assbot: Logged on 31-08-2015 16:33:12; mats: mpoe sleeps
adlai: mpex is like frequent batch auctions, but in
kakobrekla: Goldman Scamch : Bitcoin was just the opening act, with the Blockchain ready to take center stage.
kakobrekla: The note comes soon after the bank filed a patent for a securities settlement platform based on SETLcoin, a new cryptocurrency.
adlai: ;;isup trading.engine
adlai rushes to patent provably fair batch auction randomization based on hash collisions
mircea_popescu: center stage in the roadshow. anyway, they want war, they get war, let 'em explain to their wives the 2020s.
mircea_popescu: "oh honey i don't understand what the world became" "that's because you dumb, motha. you made it."
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 203758 @ 0.00049296 = 100.4445 BTC [+] {9}
adlai: mircea_popescu should sell insurance against qntrification
adlai: other bitcoin "news sites" offer paid coverage, qntra lets you pay to be ignored
adlai: hey it's a monetization avenue! :D
adlai: "we will not mention your failures anywhere other than monthly statements"
mircea_popescu: does anyone have the line where i tell asciilifeform or someone that their love of lisp is misplaced, because a) c was just as great before the horde got involved and b) if lisp were to become fashionable it'd be cpp in short order ?
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 23:05:31; mircea_popescu: and once they become popular, they will BE the sea of lisp shit.
trinque: shinohai: that is not signed
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34200 @ 0.00049162 = 16.8134 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22900 @ 0.00049374 = 11.3066 BTC [+] {2}
adlai sees 3NEH2ZA as not even signed, and 0NMP5ZE as bad sig
adlai: deedbot-fs eta not even Two Weeks yet
adlai: mircea_popescu: there's that thread, too
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16200 @ 0.00049518 = 8.0219 BTC [+] {2}
adlai: heh, people love special numbers don't they
pete_dushenski: "lower barriers to entry for massage parlors makes the black market for prostitution larger, but also less risky. This is due to illegal prostitution buyers and suppliers switching to the quasi-legal sector, as well as quasi-legal sex workers facing a reduced wage premium for high-risk behavior. Consequently, the incidence of gonorrhea and rape falls in the general population."
pete_dushenski: basically, "lower barriers to entry for apple orchards make the black market for orange orchards larger, thus rape and stds are reduced"
adlai: pete_dushenski: doesn't your "trader's delight" article boil down to ballas's "they are successful at feeling like a trader" ?
adlai: "if you're a human trader, there's really no place like it"... it's all about how it makes you feel
assbot: Logged on 26-06-2015 20:37:43; mircea_popescu: anyway this looks like it's going to be an epic b-a summer. phuctor delivered, eulora came, nodes are moving, apparently cardano as well,
pete_dushenski: adlai: "MPEx, on the other hand, is a human-paced, even aristocratically-paced free market that leverages the latest encryption technology in a secure and intuitive-to-use manner that does away with HFT and eschews fiat"
pete_dushenski: i guess the pace of trading is part of the 'feeling' but that alone is not what makes trading s.mpoe worthwhile.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there was at some point some derp in here wanting us to believe he's "a jouirnalist", not wanting to get in the wot and wanting to ask some dumbass questions about phuctor that i briefly entertained.
ascii_field: was it the imbecile who wanted his key (never specified!) removed ?
mircea_popescu: it's remarkable how little mark this whole pile leaves in the record.
ascii_field: perhaps this was 'fan mail' sent to mircea_popescu privately ?
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 00:06:57; asciilifeform: alphonse23_: author of 'phuctor' speaking. you had questions ?
ascii_field:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-12-2015#1335813 << this isn't entirely wrong, but it is also not correct: it would be a very different sea - more like a small puddle of molten plutonium. (dynamic langs with everything-viewable and everything-debuggable sort of capability don't congeal into the familiar unix-like morass, but nobody cancelled idiots and ~purely logical~ bugs)
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 03-12-2015 14:47:46; mircea_popescu: does anyone have the line where i tell asciilifeform or someone that their love of lisp is misplaced, because a) c was just as great before the horde got involved and b) if lisp were to become fashionable it'd be cpp in short order ?
mircea_popescu: it wasn't obvious c will congeal into the now familiar morass either.
ascii_field: actually it was pretty obvious to herr dijkstra
ascii_field: but fella made a quite convincing case, and wrote it down
ascii_field: at any rate, i cannot possibly argue against the main idea here - that a horde of energetic, malignantly-stupid people can befunge literally ~anything~
ascii_field: theodor dalrymple (british) had a piece describing a scene he witnessed as a medic in liberia, where enraged orcs sawed the legs off, and carefully too massive shits into, a rare and very costly concert piano
adlai: also Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is
adlai: clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and
ascii_field: that this could happen, was not a defect of the piano.
adlai: industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous."
☟︎ adlai: someday you could study the comparative damage done by almost-lisps such as ruby
adlai is not familiar enough with clojure to dismiss it as pseudo
☟︎ adlai: study probably boils down to "rails lol"
punkman: granted, I've not read much ruby
adlai chalks this up to the comparative truthiness of the two test
punkman: "B,TMSR~ and fundamental justice reform." << notbad
adlai: we have naptime again... gentlemen, place your bets!
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu your link in footnote iii is broken
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski taleb will miss out on the only thing he didn'twant to miss out on this life.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it pointed to a 'preview' (wordpressism) of the article
ascii_field: 'I came out of college with a faint disdain for both the teachers and the principle of the whole thing. This is natural. I also came out of college not owing anyone one red cent.' << funnily enough, same.
mircea_popescu: look who's talkign about empty platitudes! the united libertards party!
ascii_field: am i smoking crack or does mthreat's search 'from:' command ignore slash-me action lines ?
☟︎ ascii_field: i think it accounts for a good measure of 'mysteriously not found' cases
BingoBoingo: If you have to ask if you are smoking crack, you prolly are.
assbot: Logged on 03-12-2015 18:24:03; ascii_field: am i smoking crack or does mthreat's search 'from:' command ignore slash-me action lines ?
ben_vulpes: CLOCK: [2015-12-03 Thu 10:08]--[2015-12-03 Thu 10:14] => 0:06
ben_vulpes: *** CS-754/5: plan information dynamism, get care dynamisn
ben_vulpes: *** will be jumping on the last ticket for this release: 753
ben_vulpes: *** paired with Veen on saved filters, most UI elements are working
ben_vulpes: *** figured out what a fiscal year meant
ben_vulpes: *** set our second report up to import spreadsheets
ben_vulpes: *** "going to take values from spreadsheets and put them into node"
ben_vulpes: **** most of the afternoon going through the applicants and sending emails
ascii_field: bonus l0lpo1nt5 if this was a stego'd privkey
assbot: Logged on 03-12-2015 17:00:13; *: adlai is not familiar enough with clojure to dismiss it as pseudo
ben_vulpes: thing about non-cl lisp-like things is that just the few tools that clojure provides are enough for me to get my hands around the neck of, say, the whole wwwstack
ben_vulpes: but yeah the asbestos fibers on the insides of the gloves get into your blood and kill you
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: i still get flamez on my circa-2009 turd on subj (and the later sequel)
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: for a while, it was in top handful of 'google' hits for 'clojure'
ascii_field: if not for this, i'd long ago have forgotten the thing even exists
ben_vulpes: entirely unmentionable outside of the uranium mines.
ascii_field: idk, i originally ran across it at a meeting of a hobbyist society devoted to the subject
ascii_field: (it was held in the same dilapidated church as a 'hack space' thing i attended sporadically in those days)
danielpbarron:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-12-2015#1335935 << Matthew 6:5 "And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your F
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 03-12-2015 18:20:20; assbot: Prayer-shaming isn’t about attacking prayer. It’s about calling out empty platitudes. ... (
http://bit.ly/1PACSUG )
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: This is how it starts. Shame the people praying in public. Later they shame you for praying at all.
danielpbarron: you wouldn't know if i've been praying, because when I do it, I do it secretly
danielpbarron: the world hates The Bible and its believers. There is nothing new here.
thestringpuller: Except US has perverted christianity pretty hardcore. (Funny given the puritans and all)
thestringpuller: The puritans were pretty radical as it is. I remember reading the crucible and thinking, "religious politics huh?"
adlai: ben_vulpes: nice flood protection!
assbot: New Subway spokesperson touts strong track record of adult-only pornography | The Internet Chronicle ... (
http://bit.ly/1HIUxa0 )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31986 @ 0.00048916 = 15.6463 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42500 @ 0.00049029 = 20.8373 BTC [+]
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ascii_field:
http://cyphyworks.com << lulzy flying machine maker, funded by - according to in-q-tel's 2014 tax report - by in-q-tel; the latter - a wholly cia-owned trust.
ascii_field: and i could've sworn that we did 'fiber-tethered drone' idea ~right here~ in '13 ?
ben_vulpes: tether always makes for fun dynamic control problem
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: according to their ad, the tether plays out ~from the bot~ rather than the remote
ben_vulpes: it's under tension if only from gravity what is this
ascii_field: if it shits tether faster than it gains altitude, then plausible
ben_vulpes: yeah have fun with that control system handling the adjustable length tether
ascii_field: would also be interesting to learn how 'In the event of a power interruption or microfilament failure, the PARC vehicle has an on board backup battery that will allow the vehicle to safely and autonomously return to its launch site.' works.
mircea_popescu: in principle you could make a pretty decent disposable teether out of these supposed advanced materials
mircea_popescu: something that works like conductive spidwer web ideallyu
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: as far as i can tell (supposing the product actually exists) they power via laser, with control ethernet riding modulated on top
mircea_popescu: the reason usg-* loves playing that game is that well, they got slush funds up the ying yang
mircea_popescu: yes. whenever usg spends money, it's engaging in fraud.
ben_vulpes: power by laser << space elevator contests anyones?
mircea_popescu: just... cheapert to ship it there wholesale than bother documenting the "oh, X partners!"
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: cia owns a hedge fund called in-q-tel
☟︎ ascii_field: anyway wire-guided rockets are what, 1960s state-of-art.
mircea_popescu: clearly this newfangled "communication technoilogy" has made it so much easier to find and work with people.
mircea_popescu: "i've assembled a small team" but looking desperately for any actual human. the small team is made out of Siri, his 5yo step-daughter and a fridge he named Fred.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: aahahahahaha! i once actually interviewed for a schmuck like that
ascii_field: many years ago. he burned out of 'y combinator' and walked around, looking for a chump, in 'starbucks' restaurants, even
ascii_field: (i won't bother to describe ~for what~ here, it was deadly boring & lame)
ascii_field: oh and seems like cyphy uses ordinary wire, not optical filament
ascii_field: i wonder if it enjoys a good few kV put in the line.
ascii_field: (not hard to arrange in the field - use an igniter from electric cig lighter)
brg444: pray tell, how would anyone verify the status of a certain someone in the WoT, if reputation there exist
brg444: so I can't ask assbot?
brg444: and the one by the name of justusranvier
brg444: in relation with other users? I remember Mircea posting a list of wot relations somewhere?
brg444: ascii_field great! exactly what I was looking for
brg444: when I first came up into Bitcoin he sounded sane but nowadays :/ from blog post "This means the most obvious way to lower the per-transaction cost is to simply process more transactions, thereby amortizing the fixed hashing cost across a wider pool."
brg444: oh I see now. I thought had read about him on trilema, that OkStupid story was gold
ascii_field: ever see those 'proofs' where you do something ungodly, e.g., div by 0, and in the end 1 == 2 ?
brg444: Next, future Bitcoin "optimizations": Removal of transaction data from blocks - Blockchain pruning UTXO set commitments - Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (IBLTs) - Moore’s Law - Kryder’s Law - Nielsen’s Law - Yet-to-be-discovered improvements"
brg444: mostly someone very curious.! in terms of the wot I'm afraid nobody.
brg444: strongest tie I may have is with pete_dushenski as fellow canuck
mircea_popescu: well that sarcasm line got me lulzing, maybe try and do something for qntra
brg444: Working my way to it, eventually ;) but tbf my english is kinda broken in a way but it's getting there!
ascii_field: 'd-wave' (the 'quantum comp.' sc4mz0rz!!1), 'tyfone inc', 'mocana corp.', 'lms', and 'sionyx inc' were the top inqt subcontractors.
ascii_field: 'tyfone' is a l0l, makes a kind of usgistic cardano
ascii_field is now wondering if inqtel really told the truth, in their tax declaration, or if this orchestra of derpatronics is disinfo
ascii_field: cia is higher in the food chain than the tax men
ascii_field: d-wave in particular ~has~ to be disinfo, i've been half-convinced of this for years now
ascii_field: its purpose, by this hypothesis, is to bedevil other folks working on shor's algo computer or any related item
phf: see also scott aaronson's ongoing intermittent d-wave fights
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 50300 @ 0.00049989 = 25.1445 BTC [+]
phf: at my previous company we had a guy who used to work at lockheed, apparently they had a d-wave machine, and guy was tasked with encoding matrix reduction problems into the thing. he didn't really have anything interesting to say. you write code, send it to blackbox, results come out.
phf: of course guy now does "fullstack" development instead (javascript, web)
phf: probably runs windows, and an asic bought from some guy who used to sell bitcoin mining equipment
punkman: mircea_popescu: the second table in last qntra statement kinda overflowed
mircea_popescu: is d-wave that supposed producer of pre-tangled quarks that was going to do relevant computation ANYDAYNOW ?