assbot: A Scam of Galactic Proportions | Hackaday
BingoBoingo: "But the White House got its figures from this website which admits, after much public scrutiny that followed getting picked up by the White House, to have gotten the math wrong by a factor of one hundred! We’re looking at much more like $8.1 quadrillion."
pete_dushenski: which'd be the strict inverse of sop for mega-projects a la death star
BingoBoingo: Mebbe USG priced it with plans to actually take delivery, hence bezzle markup?
pete_dushenski: politicians don't think in terms of delivery, they think in terms of re-election and passing-the-buck
pete_dushenski: for usg to think that way for death star would be like han solo, in the middle of a fire fight, sitting down to pen a phd thesis on whether or not he should pull the laser trigger
BingoBoingo thinks there is a difference between dam and "superweapon". Sure F-35 gets to be boondogle. Drones? Get delivered.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 23:45:23; pete_dushenski: based on alf's repeated references to gsm as 'toy crypto', i don't think he maintains any delusions about cell phone security
BingoBoingo: There is a rabbit hole, or mebbe gravity well to fall into
BingoBoingo: This one is crashing into inflection point.
mircea_popescu: was mostly curious if she translated on the sly some previous ru text
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BingoBoingo: Also Know as Qntra tries clickbait even though we stopped counting clicks
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Not since quantcast ate one too many leaded paint chips
BingoBoingo: Oh, yeah. We don't cunt clicks either. We click cunts.
mircea_popescu: "implying mastery of people seems both inappropriate and ill-founded" ?!
mircea_popescu: what the everloving fuck are they smoking over in the socialist republic of cambridge
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 21:41:35; pete_dushenski: "New 777-200ERs sold for $170 million 10 years ago. Factory-fresh versions list for $277.3 million before the discounts that are customary in the industry."
mircea_popescu: pre-tsa a dollar was worth a dollar, and an airship capable of taking a few hundred people across the atlantic was worth a coupla hundred million dollars.
mircea_popescu: post-tsa, a dollar is worth ten cents, and same exact airship is worth... ten million.
mircea_popescu: just about par for the course for "government helped you"
PeterL: so you can grab one to use as rocket?
mircea_popescu: you have already seen the floor. a bunch of hungry people in ugly cheap suits moving flimsy paper around, with stamp ink shortages, as in moscow 1985
mircea_popescu: or a bunch of hungry chinese "courtiers" doing exactly the same, pre-british invasion
PeterL: which book is it where Baba Yaga ends up living in an airplane? I think is was an Orson Scott Card thing?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: yes, that one. Because nevar forget.
mircea_popescu: i've been in "every mainstream media" like they say. whatever the fuck that's worth.
mircea_popescu: (nothing, but people keep going on about the success it denotes or something)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wikipedia's finally getting garbage collected ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But don't we need to track how many pinecones to plant in order to grow stakes?
punkman: oh forgot 3 boeings in malaysia, fuck it I'll get new ones
mircea_popescu: so bizarre that "the people" would want to "occupy wall street" instead of citizen deed themselves into any vacant property.
mircea_popescu: that would be revolutionary, and disrupting and whatnot : have a social media outlet where people can give themselves deeds for abandoned property, and everyone signs.
PeterL: what are they gonna do, block your sewer?
mircea_popescu: mno. because once an OVP movement shows up, the company either does the hookup or gets burned down.
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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Maybe you just need a worse neighborhood?
PeterL: my sister-in-law has squatters living across the street from her
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: What about less drafty workshop? Or Farm?
☟︎ punkman: plenty of these movements in europe
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, time to start introducing larger stray cats.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 01:52:25; BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: What about less drafty workshop? Or Farm?
mircea_popescu: punkman note the "concept squatting". they're specifically NOT doing the right thing.
mircea_popescu: alf would suspect this is deliberate. maybe it is. maybe they're just as dumb as a box of rocks.
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mircea_popescu: at any rate, the idea isn't to " attempts to prevent the foreclosure of people's homes". for one thing, you don't try, you do. for the other thing, you take every bit of real property the bank "owns" away from the bank.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he has a point when he says this is common in europe. it is.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 22:25:37; ascii_field: tibet - originally a theocratic hellhole that makes medival catholicism look tolerant and economically +ev - is today a usg-maintained 'antichina'
mircea_popescu: it's a fucking convention. the notion that you walk in and it's yours is neither falser nor truerer than the notion you say hi to a girl and she takes you to her place.
punkman: or maybe you come out with the tank first
mircea_popescu: tanks are only useful if not used. they're the police equivalent of nuclear weapons.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why everyone acts like this 300 old bit of wisdom (in french) is novel.
renart: no need, mircea_popescu.
mircea_popescu: what is this, socialism ? need ain't a consideration comrade.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 22:50:33; adlai: fwiw treaded vehicles (military or otherwise) routinely get trucked to the scene
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 23:24:37; pete_dushenski: " Argentina's peso plunged more than 26.5 percent on Thursday, after the country's new government floated the currency as part of a slew of free-market reforms aimed at revitalizing the stagnant economy."
mircea_popescu: so : argentina has many problems, economically, all of which reduce to "it's a country of 40mn useless douches, of which ~10 mn pretend to live like they saw in various imported tv shows, while the country is unfit to even export raw meat, so it lost those contracts and is now exporting soy"
mircea_popescu: the government has for many years run it very badly. specifically, instead of borrowing in europe and then pumping those resources into development in the huge provinces (argentina is much larger than europe), it borrowed in europe, squandered most of it for supporting the pretense of dumbass, worthless middleaged women, and a tiny sliver on buying cheap food for poor people to turn out the vote.
mircea_popescu: part and parcel of all this, a LOT of empty peso printing, creating immense piles of worthless pesos sloshing around.
mircea_popescu: because the stupidity of a typical argentine is only matched by his pretentiousness, this worthless paper issue did not result in much devaluation of the currency
mircea_popescu: instead, it mostly went into a game of real estate musical chairs. everyone in buenos aires is a lawyer though nobody practices , and everyone owns property, which they keep trading to each other at ridiculous valuations.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the contact points with the outside economy are controlled as well as they can be (they can't be - most of the local trade is in the hands of the chinese, who own the proud but stupid argentine. whenever i want to move dollars, or to dispose of any other actyual economic or poltiical matters, i talk to an asian person. no exceptions. i wouldn't break a date with han because macri called, sort of thing)
mircea_popescu: now, the scam they had going was that they were paying the farmers 9 pesos to the dollar they got for the soy. because farmers are hostage, what are they gonna do, buy their own tanks ?
mircea_popescu: this means the farmers were paying 50% tax on top of all the other taxes.
mircea_popescu: new government decided this nonsense can't caqrry on, and wants to liberalize the dollar. this, logically, would make the price drop.
mircea_popescu: specifically : if say peasants sell 1bn dollars worth of soy, and get 9bn pesos for it ; whereas dumbass middle aged women spend 100mn dollars on shoes and perfumes because they don't wish to admit to me they're subhuman, for which they pay 1.5bn pesos,
mircea_popescu: should the damned thing liberalize the new price would be 1.1 bn dollars matching 10.5bn pesos, or roughly speaking... 10. a 40% drop from it's black market rate of 16.
mircea_popescu: this is why it's always a good idea to liberalize : the price on the black market ALWAYS drops as a result.
mircea_popescu: (this was counterintuitive to the grunts doing money changing in the street, we had a good laugh over steaks about it, when discussing venezuela's plans to the same thing. after it played out they decided i was a god. because hey, why admit you were wrong when you could think the guy who's right is simply supernatural)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: NEVERTHELESS : in argentina, because of the immense real estate bezzle, and a 50 to 150 bn worth of inexistent real estate value that is looking to evaporate,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i would estimate liberalization takes the peso to 25ish. that's 30% up not 40% down.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 02:16:41; mircea_popescu: NEVERTHELESS : in argentina, because of the immense real estate bezzle, and a 50 to 150 bn worth of inexistent real estate value that is looking to evaporate,
mircea_popescu: it wouldn't do anything. the glut that has to unwind is rela estate, not cash.
mircea_popescu: and it will unwind. it must, currently everyone here thinks themselves MUCHricher than they are.
mircea_popescu: as a result they misperceive their incentives and lose out.
mircea_popescu: except they won't starve. nor would it do anything, it doesn't help the proud
mircea_popescu: but when they discover they can't afford both underwear AND stockings, THAT is wqhen the stupid women running the show start getting open plam slapped across the diner table.
renart looks forward to buying flats in args for a weeks worth of local wages
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hafta understand, it's not russia. it has no industry. AT ALL. it's one large farm.
mircea_popescu: what hruschev wanted to make of ukraina IS actually what the brits made of argentina.
renart: run a whois on this nick yet?
renart: ah jesus i thought freenode's nick grouping actually worked
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, you're behing the curve. the chinese will.
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mircea_popescu: american speculators will get fucked in the ass, publicly, and write their senator to complain
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 23:48:37; BingoBoingo: Murican Poverty: "Big Mamma is your ideal customer. Yes, she might eat an entire rotisserie chicken while her children devour a box of snacks. But not only will I look the other way, I’m willing to pay some retarded white guy $10 an hour to clean up her mess. She is the cash bomb. No customer, not Bill Gates or the Dyke Queen of West Germany spends as much money on retail food as Big Mamma. This is not
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is no such thing as "a price tag". this is an ex-post-facto calculation.
mircea_popescu: similarly, there is not such a thing as "what it takes TO bed beautiful women".
BingoBoingo: Have to be there to be first with rifle on scene
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but i don't get how living there gives you an edge << obviously you never lived in new york. ask mike_c
mircea_popescu: "is a jagers unit more valuable than a cavalry unit ?"
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 19:39:41; ascii_field: well i'd happily move if i were 1337 enough to take the gradient, rather than BE the fuel
mircea_popescu: gotta build yerself a castle, mr wannabe margrave lord.
mircea_popescu: "Supermarkets cannot stay open in extensive urban ghettos for multiple reasons. It might also surprise you to know that supermarkets that do not embrace a catering/restaurant program [which is expensive] do not thrive in upscale locales. You might be able to keep the doors open—but forget a profit. People with money make their food purchases at restaurants. You didn't buy that stunning piece of plastic surgery to hav
mircea_popescu: e her tits melt in the kitchen, did you?" <<< aaactually... yes, i did.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, the supermarket model is on its way out - and thanks fucking god. it was stupid.
mircea_popescu: "Basically, supermarkets just provide local jobs. The CEOs of grocery chains are among the lowest paid of their kind." << exactly. government clerks.
mircea_popescu: "There is no requirement to buy ten, but raising retails from 89-cents to 10 for $10 increases sales from a case to a pallet on most items, when you have the right customer base..." << which reminds me of a point i wanted to make. yo ben_vulpes it's pretty dumb to offer grunt 30. offer 28.75. for one thing, it makes it look like real thought went into all that precision, and the sort of dickless imbecile he is will spe
mircea_popescu: nd more time trying to figure out why than argue with you about it.
mircea_popescu: the more important thing is the issue of [stupid] brains and thresholds. 30 is just above one, makes him feel like he's worth more.
mircea_popescu: 28.75 is just below one, makes him feel like he's fucking lucky to get there.
mircea_popescu: moreover, if you raise 30 to 32 in negotiation, he'll deduce h's worth 100.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, if you go 28.75 to 29.45 he'll deduce he's lucky to get 15.
mircea_popescu: and yes asciilifeform, part of why mp is not hiring is that mp despises how stupid people actually are, and can't seriously work with the sort of idiots.
mircea_popescu: unless classee IS PAYING YOU, like the fucking tsarist nobility was being paid by the fucking tsar to participate,
mircea_popescu: no. it is not possible to hire nonstupid people. the very definition of hiring includes "i am too dumb to live"
mircea_popescu: all you can do with nonstupid people is partner, which is why this entire all-consuming "start-up culture"
mircea_popescu: under all the dumbass kid crud, there's a good reason.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm certainly not hiring you wtf. that'd be sad.
mircea_popescu: What is more, this lady has poor impulse control, exasperated by her once a month windfall, << exacerbated, exasperated, what the hells the difference!
renart: exhausturbation <<using CO
mircea_popescu: " Its secret: free on-demand streaming, supported by advertising. By contrast, Rdio required a paid subscription."
mircea_popescu: no marketing was involved. lizard king of ustardia threw the dart, picked one that gets the free shit for free
mircea_popescu: everyone else gotta pay retail, and who;'s gonna pay retail ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is particularly a difficult industry for me because i never listen to the radio ; i never commute ; if i do i use a towncar and have live people to talk to ; etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah i know, i'm just deploring my own sad situation here.
mircea_popescu perceives absolutely no value in any of these. last i had any interest, it was a winamp install. 20 years ago or so ?
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mircea_popescu: "White female managers usually end up with nervous breakdowns and are not as effective as men, but are 100% loyal and never steal, ever. This is the backbone of any retail food staff, white chicks. Work her until she breaks and get another."
mircea_popescu: this is a PARTICULARLY insightful piece from lafond guy huh.
mircea_popescu: might be the most competent thing i read all week on the open wwwbs.
mircea_popescu: "Black female managers are rarely effective and steal at 50%—fully half of the ones I have worked with being confirmed thieves." << lioness hunting for the clan as opposed to the ball busting harpy gioving herself and everyone else aneurisms. makes sense, huh.
mircea_popescu: "Women, white and black, who do not qualify for management, are usually not worth anything on the staff, and generally steal at about 20%, with lower paid working black girls less than half as likely to steal as their management counterparts, and white girls on staff infinitely more larcenous than the white girls in management. I won’t even try and explain this, as it boggles my mind." it doesn't boggle my mind any.
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mircea_popescu: i guess it boggles his mind because it makes a point he doesn't wish to hear. anyway, race has exactrly nothing to do with it : woman can either be my slave, out to carve your empire into the dust, or one of the empire's own aspirationally-vacuous wastes of flesh, brigading social media so that maybe it has some effect on reality.
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mircea_popescu: "We’ve spent last few years building Wishberg as a default destination for users to share their wishes & discover more interesting wishes from people around the world - things to do, things to buy, travel, adventure, experiences and so much more. The journey has been beautiful, exhilarating, exciting with lots of learning for all of us."
mircea_popescu: you hung around shitty office space and derped on the internet. learned ~nothing.
mircea_popescu: so intel reports that medium.com is headquartered at 760 market st, sf. just like "dropbox" and pretty much every other ycombinator scam / "entreprenize" to date. so therefore "why are all these derps with failed 'business ideas', 0 experience, 0 awareness, 0 clue on medium.com ?" "oh, because ycombinator told them to".
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mod6: thx for the heads up
mod6: IPs on wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/the_real_bitcoin/nodes are up-to-date right?
renart: it'll never come down, i tell you
renart: just like ubuntu, totally adequate for 94% of use cases, and entirely inadequate for the remaining 6%
renart: but you know your taleb and tail risk right?
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renart: Google is working to make the vehicles more “aggressive” like humans << were it not for drag-induced inefficiencies this'd result in 80 MPH highways the typical "$500 dollar car" owner'd not be able to cope with, much less get insured to drive on
danielpbarron: with any luck they'll program those cars to move out of my way when i come up behind them in the passing lane
punkman: "Overseen by the not-for-profit Linux Foundation"
punkman: "“The current blockchain is a great design pattern,” says Jerry Cuomo, vice president and chief technology officer of IBM’s software group. “Now, how do we make that real for business?"
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punkman: "Patrick Byrne has been worried that the big Wall Street banks would “circle the wagons,” creating tech that locks everyone else out. But because IBM’s new project is open source—because anyone can use it and contribute to it—he’s pleased. He believes in more than a single technology. He believes in a big idea. “I’m not wed to bitcoin’s blockchain,” he says. “I’m blockchain agnostic.”
trinque: "I’m blockchain agnostic." << Bitcoin doesn't know (or care) whether you exist either.
danielpbarron: "There is no one blockchain to rule them all. There will be multiple implementations of the blockchain. And it will be a sin if they don't interoperate and work together."
punkman: OpenTransactions really missed out on selling to all these derps
☟︎ punkman: but they didn't have "blockchain"
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punkman: bitcoin vouchers will have their uses
trinque: speaking of clinton's day, the "ban that encryption stuff" grows to a dull roar lately in the media.
trinque wonders if they can form sentences well enough in congress to actually write a law remotely related
☟︎ trinque: I begin to believe they're just targeting the intelligent outright as a matter of.. what do you call it... full spectrum domination?
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BingoBoingo: "I wish the devs were as active as they were in beta. Things got out of hand one time and all active players, save two, were permabanned over the course of a 40 day ban spree. The two remaining players survived due to a workaround and built the community back up."
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assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 04:27:41; asciilifeform: as in, not only did folks get $15k or whatever creditcard-level investment for, what, 20% cut, but had to ~live~ in the compound
mircea_popescu: they're actually a pretty good study into "what not to do".
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 04:59:42; assbot: Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw - Bloomberg Business ... (
http://bit.ly/1JfL05y )
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 04:59:51; renart: 2x the human accident rate
mircea_popescu: now we finally understand the deep driver behind the "it's ok to be fat in the subway, it's not ok to sit comfortably. eating doesn't cause obesity, it's genetic, notwithstanding no single "genetic" obese dude in all those auschwitz pics ; meanwhile smoking causes cancer, it's not genetic and it's especially not the sad result of all the crap industry puts in the tobacco and also mark twain didn't smoke two railcars' w
mircea_popescu: the real driver isn't that USG wants to favour women over men.
mircea_popescu: the real driver is that the USG is much more adequate to governing robots than people. that women are more robot-like than men is just biological happenstance
mircea_popescu: (if you have two genders and gender dysmorphisms, for any objective measure you'll have one gender closer and the other further, no matter what.)
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:20:48; punkman: "“The current blockchain is a great design pattern,” says Jerry Cuomo, vice president and chief technology officer of IBM’s software group. “Now, how do we make that real for business?"
mircea_popescu: YOU are not business, schmuckaroos. WE are business. you're a quaint historical accident.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:24:47; asciilifeform: btw, mircea_popescu, ever ask torvalds why he doesn't shutter 'linux foundation' for pissing on ~his~ trademark ?
mircea_popescu: "Patrick Byrne has been worried that the big Wall Street banks would “circle the wagons,” creating tech that locks everyone else out. << ever since reading all about it on trilema hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: all these original thinkers, it's a fascinating world.
assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 16:33:08; mircea_popescu: anyway, my data seems to suggest that the enemy will be pushing a fork before the decade's out. whether we at that time have a counterfork ready or not is pretty much what decides the fate of the free world.
assbot: Logged on 01-10-2015 08:53:51; mircea_popescu: if this keeps up ima have to fork the pisschain.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:23:35; asciilifeform: see, everybody who expected that it'd be simply commissioned from 'lockheed' or similar, doesn't understand Phreeeeedom !1
mircea_popescu: and so now they gotta make this forced mistake. all the better.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 29-05-2015 23:16:21; mircea_popescu: ;;later tell sipa if you want to join #b-a and actually work on bitcoin for a change, i'll rate you so you can voice.
mircea_popescu: ditch the idiots and come here on his own fucking motor power. i'm not going to ask him anything, the most i might do is nod.
mircea_popescu: time for the irresponsible, delusionally-secure "coders" to figure out they live in a world, and whether they're interested in this aspect or not is perfectly irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: same exact deal as for that de raadt fellow, or that auerheimer fellow, or everyone else actually.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:31:59; asciilifeform: and that his failure to do so - is complicity.
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assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:35:52; punkman: OpenTransactions really missed out on selling to all these derps
mircea_popescu reviewed them in 2012. the answer was, come to think of it, very much like monero's. (oh hurr durr we're visionarily important and lalaal). so i decided to give them all the time they could possibly need to figure shit out and well...
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:40:17; asciilifeform: the 'multi-sig' idiocy is clinton's key escrow plain and simple
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mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-12-2015#1346221 << seems the process they settled on is to write many thousands of pages, not as much on the theory that hey, eventually something in there will close (much like the random-wiring approach to making cpus), but moreover on the theory that then they can ACT as if it did, and you're welcome to challenge heh heh.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:44:38; *: trinque wonders if they can form sentences well enough in congress to actually write a law remotely related
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-12-2015#1346223 << this is exactly correct, by the way. either the recent lafond piece or else your own familiarity with the ghetto will readily inform you that police activity is not directed at preventing theft or damage, but simply at preventing the emergence of large or powerful organisations that might in any way or to any degree challenge the sovereignity of the usg itself.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:46:20; trinque: I begin to believe they're just targeting the intelligent outright as a matter of.. what do you call it... full spectrum domination?
mircea_popescu: in this paradigm, it is not so important that there's mass theft or rape, just that there's no organized power behind it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: obviouisly if there WERE such a power, the actual damage actual working people suffered would be minimal, but this is at no point a consideration.
mircea_popescu: the same exact process used in "policing" the ghetto, at the taxpayer's expense but in the usg's own private benefit is also what the us military does abroad. the point isn't for iraq to functyion or not, the point is for there to not exist any gaddafi's. let the euros deal with the fallout, what, that's what the castrated suckers are there for anyway.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: between mob-run ny, which functions smoothly and is culturally relevant and ghetto-choked baltimore, which does not function and is culturally irrelevant, the usg will pick the second every time.
mircea_popescu: and the chief instrument of this picking is "raising awareness". do you care that random IT offed another random IT ? no, because "hey, we only off each other". but maybe you should! if you were to care, how many wonderful things would become possible - none of which wonderful for you.
mircea_popescu: "Although I would say that I am reasonably well connected, have many startup CEO friends, go to events and am regularly speaking to mentors, no one ever sat down with me and systematically challenged me about the Dinnr concept."
mircea_popescu: "I really would have needed a critic who said:" /me points out to Michal Bohanes that he has published no ready means of contact. not that it matters, you'll see your name in google next you look for it. anyway : next fucking time, ask #b-a.
mircea_popescu: "oh, i've went to all the witch doctors i could find, none of them knew anything" "have you tried the hospital ?" "wut"
mircea_popescu: "Having such detailed feedback wouldn’t require diving into the data, but having someone spend an hour stress-testing my thinking and assumptions would have been gold dust and could have prevented a lot of effort wasted. I’m sure I’d have gotten that had Dinnr been accepted into accelerator programmes such as Seedcamp, TechStars or Wayra. But absent a full-time co-founder, we weren’t eligible for the former two
mircea_popescu: motherfucker. "this stupid shit i did never works - clearly i must do more of it. surely if 5 grand worth of advertising is a waste, 5 mn is just the ticket. obviously every article in every "media outlet" i ever read that fell within my field of competence was below stupid, but clearly the way to inform oneself is to read more fishwraps."
mircea_popescu: what the everloving fuck is wrong with people already.
mircea_popescu: "No Deus ex Machina will come and challenge you in the right spots. This is why you got your own experience, both theoretical (those startup books DO help!) and practical for. You have to do it yourself."
mircea_popescu: right-o. because the one thing we're truly committed to, beyond anything and everything else, is that there MUST NOT BE any god in the god damned machine. what if there were and he started spewing death warrants and whatnot! no, no, gimme lukewarm mediocrity as a prior and let's see how well i do!
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 13:15:12; mircea_popescu: and so now they gotta make this forced mistake. all the better.
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mircea_popescu: it looks like trying to suck all the imbecile "talent"
mircea_popescu: it's stupid, but it's exactly in line with how usg is stupid, so no big surprises here. by all means, they should have 'em.
mircea_popescu is vaguely pleased that the war of the worlds is actually played out in the central ideological core of those worlds in question.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "fiecare pasare pre limba ei piere" being the romanian expression.
mircea_popescu: "For these and other such moments, for the opportunity of having worked with a fabulous team and dedicated investors, it was worth doing it all.
mircea_popescu: Even those miserable moments in January 2014, cycling through the icy rain to buy a single lemon, returning back to the dank cold warehouse, staring at the Dinnr backend, waiting in vain for orders to arrive."
mircea_popescu: the destruction self-imposed blindness wreaks upon the lives of the wilfully blind is a pretty sad sight huh.
mircea_popescu has set the goal at 30 days w/o oomkill on 16gb box, and even that took some engineering.
mircea_popescu: did you ever find the time to look into jurov's BN_copy/operator= stuff ?
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mircea_popescu: "The dating continued a couple of times more: I was definitely attracted by the innovation of the product (mining and mapping networks of Web content)."
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liquidassets: Wheels turning...The only lease I have that I'm aware of is to myself
mircea_popescu: liquidassets very good. good enough to sign on, actually, even though I've not written it myself.
mircea_popescu: minor exceptions, such as "No. Once a man gives in he is through." << not so for a woman.
liquidassets: Not sure where I first found it/read it, it wasn't on the internet, but wasn't a book either...
liquidassets: Wait,, searching for "No. Once a man gives in he is through"
liquidassets: Stubborn creatures but I cannot blame them...dealing with bullshit their entire lives
mircea_popescu: "One of the failures was clearly the will to spend all the money rather than to spend it wisely. " << ehehehe.
liquidassets: And it really gets interesting when you move 'out of the bedroom' and into "real life"
mircea_popescu: "Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress 2012: I remember seing nice pictures of nice cocktails and nice restaurants from the business developers; I remember seing lots of appointments with potential customers; I remember it ended up with no customer but a partnership; I still do not know the cost of the operation, even as a cofounder." awww.
liquidassets: LOL did he say that?? If not I'd like to see THAT one
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 13:30:29; mircea_popescu: in this paradigm, it is not so important that there's mass theft or rape, just that there's no organized power behind it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think the love and hate part are mixed in about even proportions
mircea_popescu: (on occasion monkey rapes patty hearst into doe-eyed submission, for instance)
liquidassets: But exactly was my point with her. She wanted it 'just in the bedroom' and eventually it got to be, well, what's this thought that your life DOESN"T reflect it...
mircea_popescu: "hey, at least it's getting me morphine and all this attention"
mircea_popescu: "but it will necessarily kill you eventually" "yeah well... not today, buster"
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 13:31:51; mircea_popescu: the same exact process used in "policing" the ghetto, at the taxpayer's expense but in the usg's own private benefit is also what the us military does abroad. the point isn't for iraq to functyion or not, the point is for there to not exist any gaddafi's. let the euros deal with the fallout, what, that's what the castrated suckers are there for anyway.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> might help if jurov actually posted his methods << yes, please do. you're doing good work, many thanks.
liquidassets: It's just a her now, a former. High maintenance, very hard to please..Constantly disappointed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will notice this is a desperation play (or, conversely, the result of decay)
liquidassets: so I disappointed her, because that's what she was
jurov: mod6 asciilifeform yes putting it together but it needs good writeup
mircea_popescu: liquidassets bitchiness in females is an unerring honest signal that the male they're paired with is short testosterone.
liquidassets: I like to think that I'm blowing her mind right now
jurov: mircea_popescu:it's coupla french rocks in some ocean
mircea_popescu: jurov there's clearly something there, just, we aren't finding it is all.
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mod6: <+jurov> mod6 asciilifeform yes putting it together but it needs good writeup << awesome, thx.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect that a lot of the leaks are chained
mircea_popescu: if we manage to cut three chains we'll cut out twelve to seventeen different leak sources sorta thing
mircea_popescu: some of which aren't even permanent (ie, subtle sorts of bugs, that only leak 100kb every other six hours once maybe, sorta thing)
mircea_popescu: in fairness tho, that node never sent txn (this is in the plan, eventually, to have a sort of dust-sender just to see what it does to memory)
liquidassets: Thanks funkenstein_ I tried to dpaste it. the youtube must be an abridged version
mircea_popescu: "We granted a lot of discounts to get customers on board. For the sake of signing new and more cyclic contracts afterwards. The contracts never happened." luller.
mircea_popescu: here's a hint : if the woman's not willing to suck your cock to impress you on the first date, she's not gonna be willing to suck it three years in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the goal in that line wouldn't be the same "make better code", just, find any holes.
mircea_popescu: so the shaman isn't ordering the clouds to cover the sun and sprout forth rain, but instead is commanding the crows to stop eating the cloud seeds so the clouds may spring forth etc ?
funkenstein_: liquidassets, if you have trouble finding any of the 10 books in the series let me know :)
mircea_popescu: "Intelligence is caused by big feet; obesity by genetics" lol ima end up reading this blog huh.
funkenstein_: saw you mention the genetic hurr durr earlier today :D
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mircea_popescu: here's a fun fact : about half the actual rapes (not hurr durr i'm on social media and bored) require a fourchette stitch.
shinohai: On my shitty node latest with mod6 's v
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mircea_popescu: no. it's that a lot of [actual] rapists have uncomfortably large penises, but also the oversexed traits to go with them
mircea_popescu: which is why functioning brothels kill rape [actual rape].
mircea_popescu: but anyway, back to castrato issues : "Waiting for customers, waiting for customers to make a decision, hoping a customer will say yes, waiting for the customer to sign the check after saying yes is a very long process. During this time, your company has to pay for expenses, costs and salaries." <<< jesus christ these people. why the fuck would you think a start-up is even a business at all if those customers are doin
mircea_popescu: g anything but begging you to take their money ? here's a simple rule of thumb : if your start-up is not in this position where someone somewhere perceives he can't afford NOT to pay you, it's not a start-up. it might be a business idea, perhaps, but it can not be a start-up.
mircea_popescu: the difference being that businesses happen at the tip of a large pushing force, such as the airbnb scam pushed by paul graham-madoff, or such as "green energy" scam pushed by president bahamas-madoff. to be a start-up is exactly opposite to this, you're alone.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that soviet soap was a start-up. "hey, it's this or not wash. what dove ?"
mircea_popescu: yes, americans are poor and getting poorer. yes the Ministry of Packing Cattle Tighther has a solution.
mircea_popescu: soviet soap (like cheap usian soap, for that matter) is a kind of detergent. this isn't what good soap is.
mircea_popescu: (mostly because the skin is not designed to protect its insides from osmotic processes driven by outside chemicals)
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liquidassets: We are all so young. Is there anyone here over 40? just curious
liquidassets: Don't care really, I'd be impressed. Looking around I'd usually prefer most of them to just die already
☟︎ liquidassets: On the basis that they're already mostly all dead anyway
liquidassets: I'd prefer to eat and not think of it as shit..?
Birdman: Well to be fair if the food had been sitting out a few days..
liquidassets: Previously my frustration has been with older men who think themselves a little too highly for my taste, have acquired the ability to navigate social circles/seem to have all the power, and see me as a punk kid
liquidassets: But still, if you're an old, frustrated, white, male, American, who watches Fox News and considers yourself informed, and all the young cocks blah blah, back in my day, blah blah..
Birdman: Some want respect for being alive longer than you, just dont give it where its not due.
liquidassets: Birdman and this is where I think there's an actual generational difference, the younger doesn't just automatically give it
trinque: do not take the circumstances under which you grew up as universal.
Birdman: There is a difference between courtesy and respect, though. It might have been drilled into their heads that they deserve it, for some reason, and senses of entitlement are rampant.
Birdman: Yes, as far as America goes this is common. The fat slob brainwashee's who arent worth a damn would like to be held in high regards.
liquidassets: I think Birdman that it's a natural thing to want respect as you get older, especially FROM the younger. Because most younger are worthless anyway and they never got respect from their peers either
Birdman: Natural as in most people will end up like that? I dont intend to grow into that situation. I cant speak for anything outside of my own experiences, but as the world with open arms accepts socialism, you can expect more unfounded entitlement.
trinque: you are both conflating at least two things.
trinque: on the one side, the moo-eyed demands of the walmart customer, and on the other, a male desire for power which - if he's worth a shit - will accumulate over his lifetime
trinque: and if not, he'll still want it as he'd still want sex, even if he couldn't get any.
mircea_popescu: really puts into perspective all the dumbass stevensons out there, doing srs bzns on teh interwebs.
mircea_popescu: the internet became its own self-parody sometime in what, 1995 ?
mircea_popescu: Birdman yeah they've been blaring it out of all horns for a coupla days now. it makes a stark contrast to how quiet they'll be about the end results of this yet-another GTO (glorious tikrit offensive).
liquidassets: Birdman natural as in I felt it before when in a 'menial' job taken AFTER accomplishments I was proud of and some surecock comes waltzing in telling everyone how mommy and daddy OWN a grocery store back in Minnesota and so blah blah...And I let him get under my skin
mircea_popescu: liquidassets there's something fundamentally wrong about those accomplishments.
Birdman: If you are proud of your accomplishments you wont be threatened by anothers i guess.
liquidassets: LOL yeah probably...never felt too proud about them, even though I "should" because of how they look
mircea_popescu: more importantly, why the fuck would you be working a menial job if you've ever accomplished anything fo real ?
Birdman: Does it upset you some people have a better start in the world?
mircea_popescu: if it's cuz you feel like it, then minesotta richboy's rather funny. if he's not funny, then wtf accomplishments were they.
liquidassets: For fun MP and because even though it was menial it still was going to be beneficial
mircea_popescu knew a pimp that actually had a day job - working in a mall shoe store.
mircea_popescu: apparently "yo bitch, wanna make some motherfuckin' money ?" works better on barefoot womenz.
liquidassets: health food grocery store by a college campus after graduation....most of my life has been about "PC" or at least the prospect of it..
Birdman: mircea_popescu politically correct
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mircea_popescu: what's "pussy crushing" anyway ? simply getting laid ? or some bizarre fetish i never heard about ?
Birdman: all the pc sjws are the people so repugnant that they need to claim a moral ground against pointing out their flaws.
Birdman: Just as all the feminists are on the unattracive side of the spectrum
mircea_popescu: "any flaws were god-given ; any qualities are my own" is just another rewrapping of that stale old jeder nach seinen fahigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedurfnissen cumbiscuit.
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news : the grand total okcupid offering for "women < 30 > 1.70cm within the 15mn buenos aires conurbation active in the past day" is... half a dozen people. clearly okcupid's not doing advertising correctly amirite nubbins ? :D
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and no, there isn't a local equivalent. they're just primitive souls, computers = windows ; internet = facebook ; world = argentina etc scl.
☟︎ Birdman: Ehh maybe i mean misandrists then, feminazis. Or that you've accomplished an incredible feat.
mircea_popescu: honestly, i've yet to meet a woman (not mayo-gendered abominations, i've really not met any nor do i intend to) that actually hated men. there's a very mean streak in women generally, but visible with the naked eye in just some, where they truly and irationally haet beta boys, for some definition of beta that may be at first confounding.
mircea_popescu: but that unicorn, the woman that actually hates men, i've not encountered myself.
mircea_popescu: (the counter doth actually exist - men that genuinely hate women. i suspect the driver is that men are, for some inexplicable reason, actually petrified of cunt. it seems innate.)
Birdman: I guess the man hating isn't there, but you know, the crazy feminists who think a guy eyeing a hot girl is somehow violent and un just. They just know all too well that their sexuality is empowering, so those who lack it are intimidated. Sort of like the beta male crying for fairness with socialism or communism, but really just knows his weaknesses and cant compete in the true fair system.
mircea_popescu: well attention seeking behaviours are the invisible glue that keeps society together n'est pas.
trinque: Birdman: even that is "pay attention to me!"
liquidassets: Birdman females are OBSESSED with who gets to sleep with who, it's one of their shows of power that some don't give up even after high school
mircea_popescu: (in other news, okcupid's "ai" matching system is an utter useless pos. my own network creates usable hits with a 50% probability or better, by the 100s/day - and i didn't even KNOW i know chicks on okcupid in the first place. their crapolade made me click no about five hundred times in a row.)
mircea_popescu: who knew that answering a bunch of pre-made questions nobody could care less about and then trying to mechanically "datamine" them isn't as good an approach as "hey, check out X, she's exactly right for you"
mircea_popescu: "The promise is the following: a startup thinks it has an innovative solution. A startup thinks many other companies would pay for it.
mircea_popescu: However these companies made their life without you, most probably for years." << the fundamental delusion of start-up-ers is that the market is free and efficient, and therefore there exist objective measures of worth. the sad reality of life in socialist states (ie, any state that acquires through any means any measure of control on 10% of the production of the citizens or more) is that the market's distorted, and wh
mircea_popescu: atever exists is at best a paraeconomical concern surviving more on ideological fit than in satisfying objective measures. what, if "customers" are dissatisfied with the usg food or pills dispensaries they'll do what exactly ?
mircea_popescu: shinohai they've been working doubletime to keep that thing afloat. pretty lulzy.
mircea_popescu: "They will most likely not eat out of your hand if they can perceive you need them at first." << bwahahaha. they will not eat out of your hand if they perceive you need them ; and they will spend every dime they got to ignore you outright if they perceive you don't need them. so it goes.
liquidassets: LOL shinohai that cancer of dogecoin is in full blown metastasis
mircea_popescu: liquidassets just being "acquihired" into the other dying usgtron.
shinohai: "Hey guys, let's rake all this shit into one pile."
liquidassets: <heavy sigh> I'm not sure what my next move is
liquidassets: Actually that's about a perfect answer as they come
Birdman: Im in no position to get out either, ill see you at the camps liquidassets
trinque: no one could've ever foreseen, eh?
Birdman: Thing *seem* to be pretty bad, but ive only been around 20 years so I i see it all with that bias. Why do you say not in our lifetime?
trinque: don't worry about what is going to happen. you're not in a position to predict that.
trinque: read your betters and improve your situation.
liquidassets: Because it doesn't make sense; we are in such a unique position
Birdman: The implementation of this central banking fiat debt cycle nonsense is so new to this world. What a century its been here? How long can it really last because we all know it cant.
mircea_popescu: trinque in fairness, i only imagine there's gonna be camps for black ppls.
liquidassets: trinque true, better not to worry about what is or is not, did I really need to put an IMO?
Birdman: These are interesting times to be alive, that is for sure. And i have a bezzle bag so if i do somehow keep my imediate freedoms through the crash of fiat and rise of sound money my mouth will be fed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i suppose on a 20 to 50 year timeframe, it's drastically improbable anyone with a 1337 satoshi a day in income can possibly starve.
liquidassets: Birdman I say not in our lifetime because from my point of view, we win, we already won, it's just the matter of convincing Alf of this fact
Birdman: Though by the same logic, spending 20 USD would get me more bitcoin than the bezzle bag will ever in my lifetime
liquidassets: Look the culture of 'government's place is to stay OUT of the way' runs deep within America
liquidassets: Contemporary USAmerica, regardless of what it seems like we're going towards. What needs to happen is a little bit of pain
liquidassets: pain and suffering as in, shit medical care, shit food, shit everything...
liquidassets: USAsseters are in a very unique and interesting position
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mircea_popescu: "I think we had too much hesitation in the decisions about what we were able to do and on the delivered product as well.
mircea_popescu: I mean, who in the marketing industry is able to decode a 15K€ Web graph even if it contains loads of useful informations? And that was our number #1 feature. Now, I acknowledge the graph data was essential. We should have delivered them in an more effective and practical way: spreadsheets, data views (who are the influencers, how can I contact the websites owners, recommended keywords for Facebook/Twitter/newsletter
mircea_popescu: s per group of users etc.). We should have sold a set of of lists with pictures, a few simplified maps and targeted howtos rather than an army-grade Web satellite radar with full control in your hands." << the conclusion we arrived at through spending 1mn euro is that people are stupid.
Birdman: Ill tell you that for half the price
mircea_popescu: in any case asciilifeform, thius is the primary driver for the stupidification of everything, and it's genuine. people are stupid. either you build your cash register as the mcdonals iconographic abomination, or they stick to doing it "by hand". like idiot argentine woman yest. i buy a carton of cigarettes, four litersd of milk and two lighters. she does the addition on paper. first she adds 80 + 260 + 18 but misplaces
mircea_popescu: the 18 so it's 180 now, comes to 520. i point this out. she proceeds to add them again correctly this time, and comes to 488. i refuse this alt-arithmetic too. she does it once more, hands me 82 pesos in change for my 400. i refuse this once again, hand 40 pesos back to her and leave.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: is a proper fucking cash register better than this insanity ? well... that all depends now, dun' it. better FOR WHOM ?
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mircea_popescu: a length of chain, a manger and the occasional stallion visit is actually better for her.
mircea_popescu: but this notwithstanding, you don't need any sort of conspiracy to explain linux drift, or foss decay.
mircea_popescu: just... people are dumb. that's it. that's all. you gonna make something they can use or not ?
mircea_popescu: if you want users, you're making shit. end of fucking story.
mircea_popescu: the notion that userbase is a metric has got to go, this is a not-negotiable prerequisite of a world that doesn't suck.
mircea_popescu: course, such a world will, by and large, suck to live in. but, again, the question is, suck FOR WHOM ?
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assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 15:42:51; liquidassets: Don't care really, I'd be impressed. Looking around I'd usually prefer most of them to just die already
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 16:28:00; mircea_popescu: in unrelated news : the grand total okcupid offering for "women < 30 > 1.70cm within the 15mn buenos aires conurbation active in the past day" is... half a dozen people. clearly okcupid's not doing advertising correctly amirite nubbins ? :D
liquidassets: HE'S IN A JOKING MOOD TODAY ISN'T HE SUPER READERS?
ascii_field: funkenstein_: i haven't started yet, only signed
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 16:28:25; mircea_popescu: and no, there isn't a local equivalent. they're just primitive souls, computers = windows ; internet = facebook ; world = argentina etc scl.
ascii_field: (with various config values substituted in)
gribble: (gt <item1> <item2>) -- Does a string comparison on <item1> and <item2>. Returns true if <item1> is greater than <item2>.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 17:07:00; mircea_popescu: the 18 so it's 180 now, comes to 520. i point this out. she proceeds to add them again correctly this time, and comes to 488. i refuse this alt-arithmetic too. she does it once more, hands me 82 pesos in change for my 400. i refuse this once again, hand 40 pesos back to her and leave.
mircea_popescu: middle aged woman too, accomplished in fat (there's this certain rotundness of the respectable matron with prgeniture)
liquidassets: !V assbot:liquidassets.rate.Birdman.-1:ecc064e4af8dd2388c436ac7e6dccf98c4290a91b7b335250808814313ade9f4
assbot: Successfully added a rating of -1 for Birdman with note: not very bright
ascii_field: though it is largely extinct in usa, pretty much nobody even dares to arithmeticize by hand
mircea_popescu: ascii_field my first thought upon encountering my first usians, as a 10 yo boy, was that "these people never went to school, did they ?"
mircea_popescu: i had never met someone up to that point who didn't longhand.
mircea_popescu: in fact, kids books specifically point out habarnam as "only capable of block printing"
ascii_field never learned latin longhand on account of usa schooling
mircea_popescu: yup. great book too. it might be the best kids book ever written
ascii_field: '90s ru capitalism was built seemingly using that parody as a handbook
ascii_field: possibly the lulziest children's economic-themed tale of all time
mircea_popescu: it's kinda weird they wenbt with "habarnam" rather than "niznai" seeing how it's an actual bona fide ro world.
mircea_popescu: the original prose is very delicate, hopefully they preserved the thin porcelain quality.
ascii_field: and was it transled by that one brit who did everything else
ascii_field: i think he even did volkov's mega-upgrade of 'wizard of oz' even
mircea_popescu: dude i want a payment machanism that works on par with fucking hosting.
mircea_popescu: but the point is that they should only sometimes work.
mircea_popescu: really, the only good equivalent is chocolate gold coins.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45611 @ 0.00048971 = 22.3362 BTC [+] {2}
ascii_field: aha, will have radius of error, and a certain nonzero prob of explosion at launch
mircea_popescu: chocolate coins would make sense as a means of payment.
ascii_field: 'During a recent internal code review, Juniper discovered unauthorized code in ScreenOS that could allow a knowledgeable attacker to gain administrative access to NetScreen® devices and to decrypt VPN connections.'
mircea_popescu: "during a recent random walk through the codebase in a desperate but doomed attempt to fix or at least paper over bugs we have no idea about to any degree, we discovered that our code repository is so broken half the shit in there wasn't even written by anyone we know. we'll keep pretending like we're a thing tho, because seriously, what the hells the difference anymore ? considering all the lies we've told to date, it
assbot: Juniper Networks - 2015-12 Out of Cycle Security Bulletin: ScreenOS: Multiple Security issues with ScreenOS (CVE-2015-7755) - Knowledge Base ... (
http://bit.ly/1NtIVXy )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 51336 @ 0.00049077 = 25.1942 BTC [+] {2}
ascii_field: 'Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of these vulnerabilities.' << aahaaaa
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 69100 @ 0.00049398 = 34.134 BTC [+]
ascii_field: the visibly-to-naked-eye pwned backbonez around the globe, apparently, do not count.
mircea_popescu: well, it's trilema that's down, not change.org right ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 133950 @ 0.00049674 = 66.5383 BTC [+] {3}
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: who wants to recommend a reasonably-priced man-portable spectrum analyzer ?
ascii_field: something that doesn't mostly pick up ~its own heterodyne~
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 66900 @ 0.00049427 = 33.0667 BTC [-] {2}
ascii_field: (iirc kakobrekla fessed up to having that specific one, even, on his bench at home)
ascii_field: incidentally, i never understood why a spectrum analyzer could not be a purely analogue affair
ascii_field: why not simply a multitude of broad tuners attached to analogue lights.
ascii_field: and there is no 'in between', the bands ought to overlap.
ascii_field: with su shuttered, nobody optimizes this kind of tool for cheap+simple+effective
ascii_field: market consists solely of usgistic (costs like a car) and chinese parody (yer an audiophile and cattle and stfu buy this turd)
ascii_field: sumthing that identifies peaks, dc to daylight, at close range.
mircea_popescu: and you propose to build this out of analog wide band tuners ?
ascii_field: could you take a decent survey of still objects in a room with it? surely
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 56050 @ 0.00049748 = 27.8838 BTC [+]
ascii_field: supposing that you can orient it, it is simply a very slow means of taking a picture.
ascii_field: original vidicon tube worked rather like this.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 53700 @ 0.00049427 = 26.5423 BTC [-]
ascii_field: the parallel with the decay of computing is actually a pretty close one
ascii_field: modern digital spectrum analyzer is very complex, largely to fight own interference
ascii_field: i often find it interesting to think about fields where this did NOT happen.
mircea_popescu: looky : your idea of phenomena seems inspired by an alt-reality where computer programs run on repeatable, replayable abstract machines.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu ever see, e.g., an old luger, or even maxim gun, taken apart ?
mircea_popescu: this is not even the case for fucking computers, let alone random phenomena.
mircea_popescu: if you're going to take "a very slow picture" with a one pixel camera, you'll end up measuring 42.
ascii_field: i'd have to get it out of the vacuum cleaner
ascii_field: (consumer appliance with takes the pic every day)
mircea_popescu: ok, let's indulge. was there a woman in your picture with legs lazily spread apart ?
ascii_field: one of those things. has laser interferometer turret on top.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: nope. just doors and chair legs etc
mircea_popescu: the point here is that just like what people want to do with a camera (take pictures of woman) is not a good fit for your idea of a camera, just so what people want to do with sa is not a good fit for your idea of a sa.
ascii_field: actually a top market niche for sa is 'bug sweep' and 'interference search'
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 67200 @ 0.00049748 = 33.4307 BTC [+] {2}
liquidassets: To all current and prospective USAsseters out there, true greatness can ever rarely be punished, much less so in the US, which makes its history something to be proud of. Don't forget that
Birdman: yeah but its still dykeish
Birdman: <liquidassets>For girl on girl, pretty hot got to say << implying most girl on girl isnt normally hot?
Birdman: Ehh yeah, and besides two girls w/o strap on > two girls w/ strap on
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: did anybody ever bother to do the keyserver thing ?
gribble: Error: "bc,diff" is not a valid command.
gribble: Current Blocks: 389090 | Current Difficulty: 9.34486707963238E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 391103 | Next Difficulty In: 2013 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 5 days, 4 hours, 48 minutes, and 0 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
adlai: tidy little hop there :D
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 84050 @ 0.00049723 = 41.7922 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: There's a one Bitcoin reward for the death of Pieter Wuille. Details below. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1IZeA4t )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35678 @ 0.00049748 = 17.7491 BTC [+]
Birdman: I discussed with danielpbarron about how bitbet could be used to casually place hits on people
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11122 @ 0.00049773 = 5.5358 BTC [+]
danielpbarron: yeah apparently that's against the rules it turns out >> Then, any bet to do with breaking the law (specifically, murder, but also arson, theft, general destruction and mayhem) is a BadBet and not allowed on BitBet.
https://bitbet.us/faq/#22 assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13550 @ 0.00049772 = 6.7441 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: or to be more precise : the only way it could be actually used makes it obvious it's being so used (same exact principle as for the pay for your tits thing : carve this hash in the guy's forehead or some shit), and it being obvious it's so being used makes it trivial for bitbet to disalow the bet in question.
mircea_popescu: now obviously chair warmers all across the land have no fucking idea about anything and are happy to stay dumb, so random X may pretend whatever the fuck. but that's an entirely different matter.
mircea_popescu: "We thought that others would also be interested in such a feature for their website, that made it possible to sell print products from all their pictures. Therefore, we decided to build something more generic, that everyone else could use as well. The new service was called PiX’n’PaLs PhotoProducts, which helped publishers monetize their website by selling print products from images. We took care of payment, shipp
mircea_popescu: ing and everything else. The publisher got paid a 20% commission." <<< put their dumbass widget on your site (so provide all the leads), use your own creatives (so provide all the work), be paid a 20% COMISSION.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32814 @ 0.00049773 = 16.3325 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 88500 @ 0.00049418 = 43.7349 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 14:26:51; mircea_popescu: "However, our growth rate did not meet our expectations, and the service does not scale as we would have expected to." aka "trying to leech of bitcoin while doing the usual fiat bullshit doesn't work."
pete_dushenski: i thought ben_vulpes was all 'auto-auto-mobiles are the footoor because bayes'
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 02:16:10; mircea_popescu: (this was counterintuitive to the grunts doing money changing in the street, we had a good laugh over steaks about it, when discussing venezuela's plans to the same thing. after it played out they decided i was a god. because hey, why admit you were wrong when you could think the guy who's right is simply supernatural)
mircea_popescu: their idea was that hey, if official goes up, black market goers up THAT MUCH MORE
assbot: We talked to the Albertans selling bottled air to China — and despite all indications to the contrary, it’s not a hoax ... (
http://bit.ly/1msiIQo )
BingoBoingo: Win >> "Guys, I think the Gopher people were right."
BingoBoingo: adlai: Were you writing a note on this diff increase?
assbot: You rated user CoraCrisT on 30-Nov-2015, with a rating of 3, and supplied these additional notes: XOtika.tv CEO - Handles bussiness side, press, recruiting, marketing, hr, pr.
CoraCrisT: i lurk around here for quite some time
CoraCrisT: also talked to Naphex about it. i stil need to see the actual contract
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 79600 @ 0.00049778 = 39.6233 BTC [+] {3}
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell adlai too late. If you want a beat you can't just mention diff increase in chan without dropping an encrypted dpaste full of qntra submission.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: ;;later tell adlai But don't worry too much there could still be another diff increase this year
CoraCrisT: i just need to study it a bit. won't take long tho
CoraCrisT: also need to prepare the next statement.. while i get used to it
Naphex: alright, i'm off too bed. gn
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CoraCrisT: !rate Naphex 10 most badass coder i ever worked with. his moral character & integrity are rock solid.
gribble: Current Blocks: 389108 | Current Difficulty: 9.34486707963238E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 391103 | Next Difficulty In: 1995 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 4 days, 19 hours, 18 minutes, and 48 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
trinque: CoraCrisT: decrypt your otp there and provide with !v
adlai: BingoBoingo: i'll be rooting for it... but i can't load qntra now, DNS is up to its usual reliability standards
BingoBoingo: Yeah, something happened right after publish was hit
assbot: You rated user Naphex on 18-Dec-2015, with a rating of 10, and supplied these additional notes: most badass coder i ever worked with. his moral character & integrity are rock solid..
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45900 @ 0.00049795 = 22.8559 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: adlai BingoBoingo seems the very angry people managed to take the whole server down meanwhile.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: part of operation "we're not gonna admit it, but mp's wuille assassination really fucking irked us. god damn that assole". or something.
adlai: anger leads to the false side of the dichotomy
mircea_popescu: anyway, i think ima bring up a nigger.trilema.net or somesuch. be a few.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> adlai BingoBoingo seems the very angry people managed to take the whole server down meanwhile. << lol year two, but some things never change
pete_dushenski: well, we can all go visit him, pet him on the head, make sure he's enjoying his cage.
pete_dushenski: lol, 'vc' was so badly abused, misused, tarred, and feathered by 'venture capitalists' aka ponzi artists that it's now taken to mean 'virtual currency'