mircea_popescu: What we want is like a military Schengen zone, the three-star U.S. general said, referring to the border-free travel regime adopted by most European Union countries. Right now refugees can move across Europe faster than military convoys.
assbot: Logged on 02-12-2015 14:56:30; punkman: https://archive.is/34zMO "That would mean investors are valuing Yahoo’s core business at less than zero if the Asian assets were spun out tax-free."
mircea_popescu: jurov qntra shares deposited. (including my batch. i have no idea why i had been doing the splitting, but anyway. no more.)
punkman: https://archive.is/34zMO "That would mean investors are valuing Yahoo’s core business at less than zero if the Asian assets were spun out tax-free."
assbot: China may be trying to hide its submarines in the South China Sea | Miami Herald ... ( http://bit.ly/1YHRX8u )
asciilifeform: but the timez have a-changed.
asciilifeform: and of course, known to every su schoolboy, the canonical: 'Изуверскими делами Он теперь известен всем - В диком штате Алабаме Страшный город Бирмингем....' (tm) (r) (mihalkov)
asciilifeform: 'By coming forward almost a decade later after these letters, this group of officers who witnessed drugs and weapons being planted and had the moral courage to bravely do the right thing are hoping the United States Department of Justice will intervene. The want a specially appointed federal prosecutor, from outside the state of Alabama....'
asciilifeform: http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/11/26/want-to-move-your-tank-battalion-to-take-on-a-threat-natos-got-a-form-for-that << from the lulzfarmz
assbot: Leaked Documents Reveal Dothan Police Department Planted Drugs on Young Black Men For Years, District Attorney Doug Valeska Complicit | The Henry County Report ... ( http://bit.ly/1N34BYe )
phf: kakobrekla: hey, uploaded log files are busted, title fetches done by assbot have extra newlines, that correspond to newlines in the title. here's affected entry ids, http://paste.lisp.org/display/163299
asciilifeform: mirce_popescu et al : if i ever dementia into the 'the hackathons where great work happens' level plz take me behind the shed & shoot. k thx
Duffer1: am i the only one having probs lately w/ freenode?
mircea_popescu: "this makes no sense but i'm going to be insane nevertheless - anything, anything just as long as i stay depersonalized kthx"
BingoBoingo: "On a personal "hate ramen noodles and tuna" level, I agree. But my good-for-project-good-for-the-world side says the OpenBSD Foundation is more effective at growing the contribution pie and in particular funding the hackathons where great work happens." - Theo De Raadt
phf: kakobrekla: hey, so log entry #1314006 has a handful of newlines in the entry itself. what's the convention there? \n\t\t as line continuation?
asciilifeform: oup and then repaired again by Fujisaki, Okamoto, Pointcheval and Stern....'
asciilifeform: 'PSS is harder to implement because it uses randomness -- randomness is hard on many embedded systems like smart cards. The most proclaimed advantage of PSS is that it has a "security proof" with, apparently, a rather tight reduction (see this page for some references). Security proofs are not an easy subject; the proof for OAEP (the encryption padding which is like the "sister protocol" to PSS) was found out to be wrong by Sh
asciilifeform: public transport here, esp. outside of the handful of mega-conurbations, is a joke.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nato put some sweat into electro-catalytic synthesis of jet fuel, etc. but usa lives and dies by the 'plebes in cars' thing. and if there's been any serious push against this, it is a very well-kept secret
asciilifeform: it blew me away when i learned that usa, home of the original mega-railroads, was today a rail-backwater like africa
mircea_popescu: they can't actually maintain the road infrastructure. they could, perhaps, be able to run decent railroad instead. it's a degree of magnitude cheaper.
mircea_popescu: strategically speasking, the decision to firesell it was unavoidable. which is why ru and sa are still best buttbudies
mircea_popescu: oil is definitely one of those things that you either have the si fab or forget about it.
mircea_popescu: it's a definite possibility, one the nato spent 20 years+ at assembling
mircea_popescu: if the decision is made to actually switch to electricity, with the few trn worth of industrial adjustments this would take, oil could in fact be a curio in two decades.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu should enjoy the low background of the southern hem. while it lasts then...
asciilifeform: once you subtract the eco-lysenkoist claptrap (e.g., 'renewable') - what's left is, what, fischer-tropsch? the fission machines that the west has forgotten how to build or maintain ?
mircea_popescu: but more broadly, it's a bid for survival. for as long as they still have oil reserves, the risk of oil no longer being used is much larger than the "loss" of selling it cheap.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: it is strictly, strictly for nailing ru. << no it's not dood. first off, it's for nailing the us. which it splendidly did, put obama's faint attempt at reindustrialization squarely in the air.
asciilifeform: the tx deallocation thing
jurov: (0.5.4 supports neither)
pete_dushenski: alas, i have to be off for the eve, cheers gents !
asciilifeform: the time to sacrifice'em is ~before~ they inherit the various thrones and sub-thrones though.
ben_vulpes: low oil prices do not *help* the states.
ben_vulpes: does your intel tell you how many of the kids can be trivially sacrificed?
asciilifeform: from my admittedly-limited but not entirely nonexistent meatwot intelligence - saud is not actually sovereign: all of the princelings speak english, a good chunk live in and never leave usa, park their moneys in nato.
pete_dushenski: china's part of the global market like everyone else
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: what do the chinese have to do with this ?
asciilifeform: if anything, it prolongs life of usg at the expense of pretty much everybody else
pete_dushenski: seems like a straight survival play for the saudi monarchy
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 23:34:13; ben_vulpes: https://gcaptain.com/norway-faces-bleak-year-offshore << no-dick system on the rocks
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-12-2015#1335270 << poor ol' no-dicks getting bulldozered by the cheap petro (itself a usg-saudi project, last-ditch hitler's bunker bid to sink ru economy)
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 21:33:07; mircea_popescu: somehow all the hotties ended up in dentistry in romania
jurov: i dunno, BOOST_FOREACH can be expanded quite easily, then only the serialization stuff remains, have not looked into that yet
pete_dushenski: ""The Big Short" should be required viewing for every mortgage and banking professional in America, and maybe every high school civics class, too. It is a direct, frontal assault on the bogus claim peddled by Wall Street and conservative media that poor people and irresponsible borrowers were to blame for the housing crash and the resulting chaos." << movie starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt, directed
ascii_field: ^ for those who grew up on some other planet
ascii_field: borland turbo c++ 3.1 had no motherfucking 'map' !!1111
ascii_field: because neither pile of shit is ~really~ part of the language (i realize that this has Officially changed. doesn't matter worth a shit in my head)
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: we entrap all potential terrorists before they can strike. see 'mounties stop cn rail attacks'
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: this kinda thing goes back eons. nobody can ban 'walking on the street while being scum', so ban is for 'item scum is likely to have in his pockets'
ascii_field: thestringpuller: presumably canada will throw an exception, it is impossible
ascii_field: holy fuck, there are still people discussing 'buying ice cream cone' and 'bitcoin' in same paragraph...!
pete_dushenski: !up thestringpuller
assbot: Note from CEO Erik Voorhees: An Appeal for Zero-Conf | ShapeShift | The fastest way to swap cryptocurrencies. No account required. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Inlf8j )
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: it had a strange and - afaik - unique - system where long-necked cartridge enclosed entire bullet, and cylinder moved against the barrel to form a gastight seal
jurov: ascii_field: yes, except you did not write about the details
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the truth behind that lol is that none of these schmucks, ie, "smart kids that made it", nor those other schmucks, ie inheritors that obama convocated to tell them how he's gonna spend their money, actually have what it takes.
jurov: but in the end it's really got to be rewritten with fixed arrays.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: what's the 'blue book' value of a soul with my mileage, anyway
pete_dushenski: "Zuckerberg, 31, and Chan said they plan to give away 99 percent of their Facebook shares over their lifetimes to advance the initiative, which was formed as a limited liability company controlled by the two. It will begin by focusing on personalized learning, curing disease, Internet connectivity and community building." << hurry! quick like bunnies! while the shares are still worth even a dollar a piece! must! d0n4
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: His crumbs largely consist of travel he could not otherwise undertake as miser to said "hackathons" it seems
mircea_popescu: "According to the SECs civil complaint, Homero Joshua Garza and his companies, GAW Miners and ZenMiner, sold more than 10,000 "investment contracts representing shares in the profits they claimed would be generated from using their purported computing power to mine for virtual currency.""
mircea_popescu: he allows them to parasitize.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: i was (and still am) at a lost as to what, if anything, he has to do with the derps who took the money
mircea_popescu: the whole fucking point is to marginalize the worthless to death. this is what public spaces are : places where the worthless are made to feel their worthlessness.
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 20:59:33; ascii_field: 'Marginalized people also suffer some of the unintended consequences of dogmatic insistence on meritocratic principles of governance. Studies have show that organizational cultures that value meritocracy often result in greater inequality. People with "merit" are often excused for their bad behavior in public spaces based on the value of their technical contributions. Meritocracy also naively assumes a
mircea_popescu: imagine. fucktard has a once in a lifetime moment and not even the marginal intellectual curiosity of getting voiced.
mircea_popescu: showed up, had a chat with mod6 as to how to work together.
adlai: it's already performing a role as a little capacitor on the profit release valve
mircea_popescu: proceeded to ruin their lives accordingly.
mircea_popescu: somehow a bunch of [mostly white] kids bought into this theory that "intelligence" as they define it is worth two shits.
ascii_field: jurov: i vaguely recall there were talks of you folks renting a box somewhere
jurov: i'm curious how will thebitcoinfoundation fare up. so far looks like it will never ever spend anything :D
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and was mircea_popescu's however-many btc for openbsd sent to the phoundation, or to de raadt ? << to whoever they wanted. what do i care.
BingoBoingo supposes Deraadt could turn residence into "conference venue" host open ended hackathon, but then the charityrastas would be like "imprudent
ascii_field: this still leaves my other question,
BingoBoingo: Microsoft will donate all the money in the world to OpenBSD so long as no penny goes to keep Deraadt alive
ascii_field: supposing he's telling the truth, this answers my question.
BingoBoingo: Basically the hotels make rent and food from Foundation
BingoBoingo: My impression is that Foundation pays pretty much anything that can be billed like power, conference hotels, conference food though it pointedly does not offer anyone $x as compensation in the name of not starving.
ascii_field: or, to put the question differently, what do all the non-de-raadt folks whose rent and food ARE paid for by the donations, do for the project ?
pete_dushenski: "Yes, 20BTC would definately have you listed as a significant foundation contributor on our contributions page, assuming you wanted to be listed there."
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> that has nothing to do with the author? << Yes
gribble: The public burning of Bob Beck on Trilema - A blog by Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/the-public-burning-of-bob-beck>; The sharp friar and the golden jew discuss your options on Trilema ...: <http://trilema.com/the-sharp-friar-and-the-golden-jew-discuss-your-options>; What happens when you add a drop of sewage to a bottle of fine ...: <http://trilema.com/what-happens-when-you- (1 more message)
ascii_field scours logs fruitlessly for the answer
ascii_field: and was mircea_popescu's however-many btc for openbsd sent to the phoundation, or to de raadt ?
ascii_field: that has nothing to do with the author?
ascii_field: i'm a bit confused.... where did the $0.5M donated by microshit go ?
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 21:34:58; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-12-2015#1334692 << no ty. he had his chance in 2013 or wehn was it, and shat all over the food dispenser.
BingoBoingo: Early 2014. Bob Beck was the one to shit all over the opportunity http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-12-2015#1335003
gribble: The operation succeeded.
jurov: ;;later tell pete_dushenski is that ...err.. something visible in the third pic?
mircea_popescu enjoys a good riddle, especially when he's on the right end of it.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: though my brother laughed when i described it, but would not say moar
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-12-2015#1334831 <<< ever sorted out the matchstick problem ?
jurov: if you would at least review the list
mircea_popescu: stick to explaining the absence of "real" enemies of usg as well as the absence of non-white swans.
assbot: Unicode Characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs Block ... ( http://bit.ly/1O1Q3Ia )
jurov: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/miscellaneous_symbols_and_pictographs/images.htm << while you have the mask
ascii_field: what is this aristotelian claptrap. i can readily describe the exact cause of, say, absence of icicle on the surface of the sun.
mircea_popescu: the sane cpu never existed.
ascii_field: but of the muppets' collective ability to destroy entire fields by skewing incentives
mircea_popescu: they aren't harmless to you because you're addicted to your dental.
ascii_field: unfortunately the muppets aren't harmless
mircea_popescu: who're they gonna want to tell all about it ? me or president bahamas ?
ascii_field would much like to live on the planet where they can be safely ignored. yes, i hear it's a nice place, good climate, hot chixx
mircea_popescu: o yeah ? tell your mother being ugly is no excuse to fuck drunks.
mircea_popescu: all they'll do about it is whine. "oh this projector is not user friendly"
mircea_popescu: it's that the whole fucking shebang of idiots can be safely ignored.
mircea_popescu: looky : it's not JUST that i can't give less of a shit what the wash-popo writes
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i'm pretty sure they ~knew~ of it. the ignorance was ~studied indifference~
mircea_popescu: and the few and far between people who can actually do things are NOT going to want to be with us ? but prefer to serve the fuctard empire ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla anyway, redirects re-added. i wouldn't reallty expect them to work, seeing how namecheap, but anyway. im not renewing .bz or .ws because the new registrar doesn't carry them
ascii_field: sorta a rehash of the 'intellectual property' wank. inanimate objects, once you're done making them, don't have a 'will' to propagate your intent, whatever it was, when you made them
ascii_field: eventually the scum do what it takes to be rid of you and take your $tech by force
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 21:43:17; mircea_popescu: they can't have it for any price
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 21:38:21; mircea_popescu: the chinese ain't selling jack.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-12-2015#1335012 << the chinese are selling, to anyone who will buy, the one and only thing they have in abundance - coolie sweat
mircea_popescu: ascii_field nah. the only one that won actually had shares (asicminer). the rest all flopped. especially the scumbags.
ascii_field: iirc the miner asic projects that did straight-and-honest shares - flopped; the scumbags who took preorders and mined with the machines for months, years - won.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-12-2015#1334802 << i have no idea why the namecheap redirect dfoesn't work and i dun really wanna go dig into it.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: this is a logical picture, but how does vendor amortize the cost of producing the magic ?
mircea_popescu: and if you don't have them you're not a person and your death won't be prosecutable. and that's that.
mircea_popescu: the notion of "things, for people" is broken.
mircea_popescu: they can't have it for any price
mircea_popescu: and they call you and you hang up
mircea_popescu: you don't call SS and pitch them.
ascii_field: presently i'm not convinced that any computer uses really... wants to live, all that much. wake me up when uranium centrifuge no longer runs winblowz, i might reconsider this theory
mircea_popescu: advertisement : are you tired of wasting your time in queues at Shitty Supermarkets ? So move on to TMSR Supermarkets - their computer systems don't die every other hour for half an hour.
mircea_popescu: you don't sell. you cut a deal with ONE competitor in a field, and that's that. the rest all die because they can't deploy computers that work.
mircea_popescu: the chinese ain't selling jack.
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 19:11:26; phf: re "sell services give away code", clozure associates (ccl people) recently laid off a bunch of their devs. including such heavyweights as rme and gbyers. presumably because like ascii said, nobody's buying
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-12-2015#1334728 << the fundamental problem with all of this is the "open market" approach to things.
ben_vulpes: dude wwwdev is a fraction of the throughput
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-12-2015#1334692 << no ty. he had his chance in 2013 or wehn was it, and shat all over the food dispenser.
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 21:30:49; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-12-2015#1334669 << adn what do you seek ? adventure and the thrill of the kill ?
mircea_popescu: somehow all the hotties ended up in dentistry in romania
ben_vulpes: i never got the dental
mircea_popescu: they don't seek "mortgage, health and dental". they seek to be "free to dedicate themselves to intellectual work, as they define it".
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 18:39:12; ascii_field: trinque: typical bureaucrat folk seek only the holy trinity of mortgage, 'health,' and 'dental.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-12-2015#1334669 << adn what do you seek ? adventure and the thrill of the kill ?
mircea_popescu: punkman right. they make a decent show of being whores, except they then want to be paid for status not for work.
punkman: "EkoParty began as a small gathering of Argentine hackers who exchanged their discoveries over the web. Today, hundreds of Argentine hackers, ranging from 14 to 45 years old, line up around the block to show off their skills to executives from Silicon Valley start-ups like Synack, a security company, as well as more established consulting firms like Deloitte"
mircea_popescu: i can't be arsed to read a nyt piece. so what, the pirelli calendar can't compete with internet porn, is going to no longer display nudity ?
mircea_popescu: you wanna run a dancery, better beg rob or pay some women to be there.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck, what is this, ged ?
ben_vulpes: shoulda just gone and humiliated myself at the milonga
ascii_field: the way mircea_popescu describes his town, one could almost conclude he is in africa ?
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, the advantage of imbecility : doesn't remember anything for too long.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes they do have problems being the only naked person in the room, at least for the first week or so.
ascii_field: 'Sonnenfeld called 911 dispatchers in the early morning of Jan. 1, 2002, a few months after the terror attacks, claiming that his wife had shot herself in the head. Denver police, believing the scene was staged, arrested Sonnenfeld that morning. But prosecutors in the office of former Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter, who later became governor, dismissed the charges several months later because of insufficient
ben_vulpes: "oh, you're going to send your daughter to st. mary's? awesome! i knew a bunch of girls from there in HS."
mircea_popescu: which was the first time anyone in the dumb country ever saw someone else's cunt, seeing how, well... they don't do the cunt thing here.
mircea_popescu: jurov nah their shitty peso thing
mircea_popescu: bonus points, she doesn't wear panties and the thing involved a lot of bending over.
ascii_field: 'Argentina's president has blocked the extradition of a Denver fugitive who claims he was framed for murder because video he took of ground zero proves U.S. complicity in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.' << lulzy
mircea_popescu: who then proceeded to a) have them read some inept turdball he DIDNT HAVE COPIES OF and b) demand $300 from participants
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes hysterical story : one of my sluts went to "free drama class" organised by some argentine. derp refused to give her the reading material claiming the first class is just a social call.
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> i suspect now that krebs has it iptable-banned << I've noticed a few other sites seem to offer archive.is null as well
adlai: thestringpuller: yes
adlai: !up thestringpuller
ascii_field: (and then again a few years ago, it was built into a proprietary software turd)
ben_vulpes: jurov: cool! any arbportunities across the proxies?
mircea_popescu: dude you gotta be kidding me, three fat chicks in colorado made up a bunch of strings and now you're quoting them at me ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: software projects / orgs. i can't be arsed to produce the human names
mircea_popescu: ascii_field these are names ?!
ben_vulpes: anyways in "us becoming argentina" nyooz, today for the first time in my life a coffee shop failed to produce exact change
ascii_field: ^ i've only ever ~heard~, much less seen alive, a few of these
mircea_popescu: the ~5 or so people who can code weren't born here. the rest can't do change in their head.
assbot: Argentine president overrides extradition of man charged in Denver murder - The Denver Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1In1i1q )
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29130615/argentine-president-overrides-extradition-man-charged-denver-murder
mircea_popescu: so then who cares.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: however, the site had a handy list of derps who caved and signed the oath.
thestringpuller: adlai: referring to walk the earth?
gribble: Distinguishing Science and Pseudoscience - Quackwatch: <http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pseudo.html>; Examples of Pseudoscience: <http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-pseudoscience.html>; Pseudoscience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience>
mircea_popescu is actually not going to bother reading it.
shinohai: as for halal ... lamb chops on the grille tonite
trinque: the inevitability of this is undeniable
ascii_field: field, in which everyone has access to the same resources, free time, and common life experiences to draw upon. These factors and more make contributing to open source a daunting prospect for many people, especially women and other underrepresented people. (For more critical analysis of meritocracy, refer to this entry on the Geek Feminism wiki.)' << from ben_vulpes's link
ascii_field: 'Marginalized people also suffer some of the unintended consequences of dogmatic insistence on meritocratic principles of governance. Studies have show that organizational cultures that value meritocracy often result in greater inequality. People with "merit" are often excused for their bad behavior in public spaces based on the value of their technical contributions. Meritocracy also naively assumes a level playing
punkman: BingoBoingo: six sided dice are fair enough. 20 is inherently unstable like their users. << I wonder why nobody's selling loaded 20sided dice
shinohai: adlai: anything will give you gold if you hold the sieve correctly.
adlai: well deedbot pisses gold dust if you hold the sieve just right
punkman: there's another puzzle in the deeds with some future-gold. would buy you about a bag of coal right now.
ascii_field: then of what ?
adlai: literally too, but that's not the point
ascii_field: choice... of theorems ?
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 20:42:08; assbot: 8 results for 'theorems to prove' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=theorems+to+prove
adlai: erdos (aside from being cis white male etc etc) also had the priviledge of /choice/
adlai: !s theorems to prove
ascii_field: 'HELP! he cried, but no one seemed to hear / "You just solve these equations, then you're free!"' << notbad.jpg
adlai is doing deeds, isn't that how they're supposed to verb?
adlai: !up thestringpuller
jurov: deedbot-: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/attachments/20151201/attachment_323deb4e48e875e9e4b0bed9c8b12befdd0c110d.txt
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 18:59:12; ascii_field: evidently the set of folks 'happy with the pony trick' does not include anybody with spare change.
ascii_field: '...if you look at the recently discovered back door installs that happened during the Olympics under the guise of helping secure the system that this also provides pretty open access to corporations in the US for the same type of subterfuge. Free security scanning all for the low price of a well placed back door.'
ascii_field: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/dhs-giving-firms-free-penetration-tests << from the l0lnet
ascii_field: adlai: does this one tell us where the gold is buried ?
ascii_field: another pseudopgpgram
ascii_field is rather curious re: what adlai thinks he is doing
ascii_field: ('serious' crypto was strictly otp in su lands, as it is today. field crypto was, often, 19th c.-style transposition derpery, relying largely on the very short useful life of the message to avoid being broken)
ascii_field: very interesting in the 'orc' perspective - military folk did not trust (largely correctly!) their cipher machines and remote communication in general.
ascii_field: jurov: su state of the art re: crypto, as far as i can tell, was ~deadly boring~ - good ol' vernam otp
ascii_field: ^ this re: the 'homomorphic' claptrap
ascii_field: 'Providing strong funding for FHE and iO provides risk-free political cover. It supports a storyline that cloud storage and computing is safe. It helps entrench favored values within the cryptographic community: speculative, theory-centric directions. And it helps keep harmless academics who could, if they got feisty, start to innovate in more sensitive directions.'
jurov: info like mpex proxies belongs to wiki or some other discoverable place. but ppl refuse to put it there
jurov: it relates nicely to yest discussion... everyone just comes here to dump their mind
jurov: okay i was overly dramatic. but .ws is not there, that's all
adlai: but this is unfair, siliconkin telekinesis witches can fool the biasing circuits in their favor
jurov: also, the dice must detect presence of mentally challenged persons and adjust accordingly
BingoBoingo: six sided dice are fair enough. 20 is inherently unstable like their users.
adlai: soon enough, casinos are required to have debiasing dice, and put their data dumps in deedbot-
trinque: needs to be able to flash the firmware too; what if we shipped a bug
BingoBoingo: Fuck it, stick a dildo motor in the dice
jurov: what about adding a debiasing mechanism to dice? it would measure the statistics and try to correct by moving internal weight around