mircea_popescu: "this is not a normal launch like any other scamcoin because we would really like it not to be, and reality shouldn't get in the way of what we want"
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, silent watcher that connects to no channels got klined earlier. "[465] You are banned from this server- Please do not spam users or channels on freenode. If in error, please contact kline@freenode.net. (2016/10/29 22.35)"
mircea_popescu: it's however not banned or anything. just another unexpected failure mode.
mircea_popescu: just in case phf trinque shinohai & crew ever think they got to the last test case or something.
phf: oh by the time a111 can recover from all possible freenode failures we've achieved the dream of hard ai
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 22:34 asciilifeform: (actually i could swear i saw that pic on a '90s sf cover, when they were being printed on that yellow toilet paper thing)
phf: i actually picked up a 1964 pulp print of pkd's the simulacra with his illustration at a tiny "mystery books" bookstore in philadelphia, that since got closed
BingoBoingo: There's a sort of asymtote that roughly approximates one. The geometry of lulz is not euclidean.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-30 02:04 mircea_popescu: lol gore.
mircea_popescu: it's possible to win the popular vote by a slight margin and still lose the election, but that's all.
mircea_popescu: also that was like the largest such effect in 120 or os years
mircea_popescu: anyway, an elector rewrite of the election would be pretty much the lulziest outcome possible.
mircea_popescu: they have ap oint though : this debt holds "all of us" back - if college numbers were released from this peg in reality the gdp could go as high as 500% the first month.
mircea_popescu: why not. mit is worth 500 billiards as well as it's worth 50 billions.
mircea_popescu: of course, there's some sense in all of that. eg, why exactly is college debt not refinanceable ?
mircea_popescu: and also pushing the "college can charge whatever it wants - but it will never get more than 10% of the student's future pay, so whatevs" is pretty much the only way out of the mess.
mircea_popescu: if a college education helps, fine. and if not - a well.
mircea_popescu: o look, also wants to double the americorps payola. weren't they taking it back from suckers 10 years later recently ?
mircea_popescu: "ship to irak tomorrow, and if they don't blow you up we'll give you 20k". wait 10 years after which "oh btw, only kidding about those 20k. whatcha gonna do about it bitch, NOT GO TO IRAK NO MOAR ? AHAHAHAHA"
mircea_popescu: morelike with the logic that they by and large couldn't hire people above 98 iq even with the bonuses.
ben_vulpes: not my fault nobody gets the letterkenny jokes
ben_vulpes: "i mean fuck buddy, it's /your/ body politic but fuck, buddy. it's your /body politic/."
ben_vulpes: it's "trailer park boys" grade poor mocking.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 22:05 asciilifeform:
https://archive.is/Djt8g << meanwhile, at the circus, 'This is not a “normal launch” like any other altcoin, because ZCash required a so called “trusted setup”. During this setup, some secret (public) parameters were generated based on a “master private key”. These network parameters are needed to create the so called “zero-knowledge proofs”, which is the anonymizing mixer on the ZCash network. The “master private k
ben_vulpes: "Zooko proposed recently to periodically force everyone to reveal their balance as a solution for the hidden inflation problem." << ahaha i mean fuck what's the point
☟︎ ben_vulpes: "guy we swear is this other guy who nominally but not provably does a thing also came up with a 'cryptocurrency' that doesn't have hard guarantees on monetary base numbers'
ben_vulpes: s/that last singlequote/a double quote
ben_vulpes: thinking, code-reading folks recoil in horror at bitcoin already
BingoBoingo: Thus concludes my entry into the Elliot fanfic contest. Your move adlai!
☟︎ BingoBoingo will prolly write a completely different Elliot fanfic after Nov 1st because surprisingly fun once the plot gets rolling.
BingoBoingo: And now ~5.3% of my personal blog is Elliot fanfic by title count. Poor neglected blog.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-30 03:30 ben_vulpes: "Zooko proposed recently to periodically force everyone to reveal their balance as a solution for the hidden inflation problem." << ahaha i mean fuck what's the point
mircea_popescu: somehow they look down on women doing the same, trying to achieve "fame" to charge more per lap dance.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes in this case the guy became "famous" because witticism. which is how it tends to work in that backwater.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-30 03:35 ben_vulpes: who expects this shit to carry water?
a111: Logged on 2016-10-30 03:43 ben_vulpes: send air
BingoBoingo gotta get the Elliot taint out of the head so can actually sleep again at some point.
BingoBoingo also waiting till 2 BTC worth of truck is closer to 0.5 BTC worth of truck.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, reviewing eulora downloads, it seems people are 2.5x more likely to download jurov's binaries than source.
shinohai: Build from sauce? Ain't nobody got time for that!
mircea_popescu: funny thing being, it's prolly faster. depending on your conn, obv, but i think for >50% of the world it would be
mircea_popescu: but no, not if you're him. if you're me and somehow ftjam just magically works and is done in ~17 minutes
shinohai: Nah, I sat in my chan with him about a week ago trying to help him once again poor guy
shinohai: If he is, I'll give him a bitcent just for taking the artform to a new level.
mircea_popescu: ttp://67.media.tumblr.com/7ee6c88033d97af04f86b4fcd391bd1f/tumblr_nhw815JiDK1qdtr76o1_1280.jpg << it's her daughter innit.
shinohai: I guess it is easy to hose down during those pesky ethnic cleansing campaigns.
phf: i have by the way fixed url delimiters on btcbase. now if url ends in > ; . , and ) it won't include those chars. that might break a url in a case or two, but in most cases that actually fixes them
shinohai: I'm still working on that ... removing it so far breaks the whole plugin.
phf: holy shit, zcash team is literally every single kind of degenerate assembled together. каждой тваре по паре
phf: (i'm just tuning in)
diana_coman: ahahah, takes some heavy drinking for that one, hanbot
shinohai: I might actually fuck Palin if drunk
trinque: shinohai's hot for home ec teacher
mircea_popescu: on the basis of recorded history sheep aren't safe if enough alcohol.
trinque: methinks BingoBoingo will like this
shinohai: First one I ever noticed in a trilema article!
shinohai: I rather like we have a room full of editors here to watch for those sorts of things.
shinohai: Makes for unsurpassed quality in Republican publishing ventures.
jhvh1: shinohai: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 698.72, vol: 3856.09389124 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 694.319, vol: 4191.71952 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 705.93, vol: 11911.98498411 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 710.919025, vol: 2744628.13480000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 699.2, vol: 1515.31032207 | Volume-weighted last average: 710.848958785
a111: Logged on 2016-10-30 17:57 mircea_popescu: i have no idea what you did lol.
phf: it was an end of line corner case that i didn't test, but no not altering, just the highlighting part
phf: it does add a visible space though, and i'm not sure why, hmm
phf: apparently i was putting it there