los_pantalones: BFL tried to sell ~3k BTC over the counter 10 days ago
fluffypony: that's the way it's meant to be
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you know i can't look at spagni.net and not think spaghetti on the first pass.
mircea_popescu: it boggles the mind what ends up being sop in a system that survives long enough.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hard to see who else could have reanimated the corpse of the 2011-era human wave chump attacks
mircea_popescu: this isn't something other countries can do, nor do they need to. this is the one opportunity they get to stock up.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's the major change here. after the missed boat of govt mining last year, this year the us fed has actually given its infinite fiat backing to any scheme that convincingly may help, and meanwhile to trying to depress price.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny how this works in qm terms. basically, an oracle of the wave function, but just on the real part. is this actually useful ?
asciilifeform infers that, should a peculiar effect be seen and mircea_popescu is silent, then it must be truly interesting
mircea_popescu: but yes, for momentum shorts soft landing is the worst fucking news imaginable. so far, we're beating the shit out of a soft flubbery substance the size of a continent.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this whole charade'd have worked a damned sight better if the various y-combinator bezzlers, the foundation hearn, gmaxwell and co would have actually had what they thought they had and everyone thought they should have, ie, actual respectability and bitcoin cred.
asciilifeform wonders if the dump wasn't the work of an impatient man, but of a thinking one - trying to induce 'stress fracture' (what's the correct term?) via stampede effects
mircea_popescu: if the volcano never erupts, the fertile land on its slopes is actually enough to make the village own the other villages and build an empire.
asciilifeform: so isn't it rather like saying 'volcano was a major point of support for pompei until day x'
mircea_popescu: but suddenly, the large early holdings that all the shitheads-with-a-megaphone were decrying as dangerous to bitcoin
mircea_popescu: and so here we are. part ii of the game is, how much do you ~actually~ like this thing, once money actually is on the table.
mircea_popescu: no matter how cool the chick was.
mircea_popescu: they are no major concern for the usg in either case, because man who hangs for a goat might as well hang for a goat and a chick
mircea_popescu: all these loan contracts are promised to unwind in fiat eventually, and will be in fact profitable for all parties if and only if bitcoin actually fails.
mircea_popescu: any usg affiliate or more likely, herpy q derp that looks like he may acquire any btc sum through any means will receive all the soft backing possible, from business insder news articles to an invitation to the fucking white house. anything whatsoever as long as it loks natural rather than spammy
mircea_popescu: here's the scheme : whatever usg affiliate, be it goldman sachs or herpy q derp that holds any sum of btc will lend it to the usg btc policy bureau in exchange for fiat guarantees.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: usg << one possible explanatory hypothesis for why they bought straight from the vendor instead of mircea_popescu's short
ben_vulpes: yeah, i get it i read it, but whence the source? there was the usms sale which is theoretically trickling into the market, and the ether sale which may or may not be trickling into the market. the former, clearly usg. the latter as well?
ben_vulpes: or btc sent to ether addr is loan to usg?
mircea_popescu: that'd be the principal problem with fiction.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: they more or less confessed
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i immediately assumed that's what it was, when it began. seems like other people also like this hypothesis. doesn't prove it is true
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes kinda what the usg needs, more loans of this type.
asciilifeform: interesting that they didn't have the patience to find a bulk buyer - or at least to piss it out to the exchanges slowly
mircea_popescu: THE WHALES!!11
assbot: Twitter / Suche - #etherium
mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/hashtag/etherium << this is uncharacteristically lulzy.
mircea_popescu: the shitcontest!
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mircea_popescu: they're disposable tho, sure.
mircea_popescu: they're not that cheap, no.
kakobrekla: as they need to pay for... cpanel.
kakobrekla: cpanel hosts are actually not the cheapest
asciilifeform likes to imagine that they talk to the mothership purely via blockchain telegraph, never knowing where it lives
asciilifeform: whether you want to imitate - or diverge from - a sample corpus, depends naturally on application.
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asciilifeform: 'We have been forced to remove the SolidEdge 3D drawings due to a company in China attempting to copy our product line. We regret the inconvenience this may cause our legitimate customers, but we cannot allow the 30+ years worth of design invested in our parts to be used by unscrupulous knock-off artists who are trying to put us out of business.' - sherline products inc. (a machine tool maker)
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pankkake: CloudFlare: snake oil with top-notch tech support from the NSA
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bats_cd03: i received my facedancer board in the mail recently. looking forward to doing some usb research http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com/2012/10/emulating-usb-dfu-to-capture-firmware.html
bats_cd03: (i'm probably the only person in the internets that hasnt actually read about badbios until now)
asciilifeform: 'According to the Coreboot Wiki, most of the X200 components should be working except for the dock, digitizer, and the need to be using binary blobs for the VGA option ROM, CPU microcode, and ME/EC.'
assbot: [Phoronix] The Lenovo X200 Now Works With Coreboot
kakobrekla: and then you wait.
kakobrekla: and then you wait.
kakobrekla: i guess it was the first version of deer avenger that i was exposed to.
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kakobrekla: i remember when i was a kid, there was a game, where you were the deer with the gun hunting hunters.
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punkman: you wash some of your own btc, jerk some puppets, the muppets won't be able to resist
asciilifeform: inescapable conclusion is that the 'masses' don't actually want to live. they want to be killed in decorous, socially-approved ways.
kakobrekla: i think you all are underestimating the power of animated webpage design
kakobrekla: mp doesnt even come on the buyers radar
asciilifeform: pankkake: trying to crack the enigma of why the chumpers bought eth by the truckload but not one of them took mp's 'short' delivery deal.
asciilifeform: 'They tend to show up late at parties because they figure they can always steal the cake anyway, so why bother go early ? Let the suckers figure out first - on their own dime - where the good cakes are, then just swoop in and collect... This means the only way they can get in is if you let them get in. Dont let them get in for cheap - they have no business here.' (mp's http://trilema.com/2014/people-us-dollar
punkman: they can't have sold that much to make it go $520
assbot: ethereum blog | Announcement on planned withdrawal from exodus
asciilifeform: (from https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/08/announcement-on-planned-exodus-withdrawal -- linked here earlier)
asciilifeform: 'we will not be selling any portion of this 2650 BTC on exchanges ourselves, although individuals may choose to independently convert the BTC that they receive into fiat after the fact.'
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pankkake: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/08/13/0048244/the-ipv4-internet-hiccups maybe you're on the wrong side of the internet
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.06 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 3145.40 GH/s
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StephanLivera: so I'm new around here, what is the best way to get rated in WoT with assbot?
nubbins` pops corn in anticipation of others reading logs
nubbins`: StephanLivera that's one of the stages ;D
StephanLivera: yeah, one of my mates will message me all the time when there's big price movement, particularly price drop. I think he's a little too emotionally invested
StephanLivera: yeah I'm sure the people who are in here tend to be more technically competent
nubbins`: you'll be hard-pressed to find someone concerned about the day-to-day price in here :D
StephanLivera: pankkake, here's the address they list http://blockchain.info/address/36PrZ1KHYMpqSyAQXSG8VwbUiq2EogxLo2
assbot: ethereum blog | Announcement on planned withdrawal from exodus
StephanLivera: pankkake, https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/08/announcement-on-planned-exodus-withdrawal/
nubbins`: mod6 kq3 was precisely the first thing i ever did with a computer
StephanLivera: I suspect it's partly ethereum devs cashing some out, and partly merchant adoption outpacing user hoarding
pankkake: I don't like either panic sells or panic buys
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mod6: that might be the first game like that I ever played
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assbot: The Bitcoin Lordship list, first revision pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
diana_coman: wyrdmantis, check http://trilema.com/2014/the-bitcoin-lordship-list-first-revision/ at the end
wyrdmantis: i can't identify it... what's the title about?
diana_coman: I think one of the latest posts on trilema offered an idea of something to do, so give it a try
wyrdmantis: mircea popescu told me that in order to improve my rating in the wot i have to work FOR someone already in the wot
diana_coman: wyrdmantis, start by reading the logs I suppose
Vexual: a limerick then
gribble: The operation succeeded.
cazalla: like the autists are the minecraft convention who ask the developers if they have it and how it helped them
BigBitz: It's not another word for being retarded.
cazalla: BigBitz, another word for retard, isn't it ?
cazalla: satoshi was smart in a way coblee was not, if bitcoin died, no-one can find him, coblee on the otherhand..
Vexual: thankyou for not making me google the date
Vexual: it was $8 or something at the top?
cazalla: depends when you bought them i guess
Vexual: either way
cazalla: nah, was well above that before they arrived
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Vexual: wehn considering improvements to the valve system i imagined a better concrete pump
Vexual: i attempted the engine from ore thing
mircea_popescu: it just grinds your pillars to dust and there you go.
punkman: oh lol dam without foundation, they just pump a mix of water/cement/sand into foundation cavities all the time
mircea_popescu: i kinda am rooting for them to invade italy, force italians into sex slavery in morocco
punkman: speaking of syndicates, ISIS in Lebanon already. They just need some boats now and then Pirates of the Mediterranean !
RagnarDanneskjol: this guy would be warren buffett -http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/11/5799714/leo-sharp-sinaloa-drug-mule
mircea_popescu: allow me to rephrase : what if the state went the fuck away and stopped bothering people.
mircea_popescu: "Another is just a sorrowful question: What if these talented criminals had only used their talents for good?"
mircea_popescu: FabianB or anyone interested : .ws switch blew. the rest are fine. ws should be back within hours as replacement gets installed.
mircea_popescu: "the chinese triads" aren't a the in this context any more than "the chinese government" is a the. obviously there's going to be some sort of government, such as for instance the one in taiwan.
mircea_popescu: yeah well the problem with that is that it's more akin to saying that detroit or hollywood don't go away.
mircea_popescu: s well as the United States' $51 billion--annually--War on Drugs.
mircea_popescu: Blockbuster is gone. So are Lehman Brothers, Atari, Pan Am, Circuit City and countless others each year. Startups fail, too, with 80% going belly up within the first 18 months. But heres something to consider in comparison: criminal syndicates dont go out of business. The Chinese Triads have been around since the 17th century. For 25 years, Mexicos Sinaloa Cartel has outmaneuvered vicious competition at home a
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mircea_popescu: i'm sure the schmuck is sitting in a bar somewhere right now, all radiant of his greatness as he imagines it.
mircea_popescu: "his own data" being an arbitrary, uncontrolled and irreproducible cutout of the general flow.
mircea_popescu: (5% of your under bet, which we are assuming it is 100 EUR) unless it is HT where there is no danger. If you place bets for 2 EUR profit, you need now 50 arbs to recover the losses and i doubt that you will make any money.
mircea_popescu: me statistics of collected data from such bets could reveal more, but this 1/20 goal scoring assumption seems to be close to reality. Base on my own stats the probability of the goal is 1,8% , which means that 1,8 goals are scored in 100 bets. My net profit is smth like 65% of my total profit, the rest (35%) is the loss i have suffered from goals being scored in pending time. You must never place bets less than 5 EUR
mircea_popescu: Just don't place arbs which gives you less than 5% of your "under" stake. If you place 100 EUR on under at Europeans , it means that you must place only arbs which give you more than 5 EUR. This way, you need only 20 arbs to recover the losses from " 1 goal" for the 30 (might even less) sec you need after you first bet is accepted probably is less than 1/20. This rule of 5% profit from you under stake is reasonable. So
mircea_popescu: but you can't talk sense into these overgrown children with their delusions of independence.
mircea_popescu: why attract a horde of internet "entrepreneurs" trying to do a lot of high bandwidth nonsense in their retarded quest of getting five euros off you "risk free" ?
xmj: whois not authed?
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mircea_popescu: FabianB maybe make it so if one fails it tries the next ?
mircea_popescu: um no, don't do that, because well... suppose these two crap out. what'll people do then without the other two listed ?
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mircea_popescu: and then right.
mircea_popescu: The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
mircea_popescu: devious and mediocrethe man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
mircea_popescu: The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most
mircea_popescu: ully it might be nurtured, could ever even remotely approach it. The educated negro of today is a failure, not because he meets insuperable difficulties in life, but because he is a negro. He is, in brief, a low-caste man, to the manner born, and he will remain inert and inefficient until fifty generations of him have lived in civilization. And even then, the superior white race will be fifty generations ahead of him."
mircea_popescu: "I admit freely enough that, by careful breeding, supervision of environment and education, extending over many generations, it might be possible to make an appreciable improvement in the stock of the American negro, for example, but I must maintain that this enterprise would be a ridiculous waste of energy, for there is a high-caste white stock ready at hand, and it is inconceivable that the negro stock, however caref
mircea_popescu: tain the funds to get roaring drunk), as pious "saved" men seeking funds for far off evangelistic missions (to pirates on the high seas, no less), and as learned doctors of phrenology (who can barely spell). Mencken read the novel as a story of America's hilarious dark side, a place where democracy, as defined by Mencken, is "the worship of jackals by jackasses".
mircea_popescu: For Mencken, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the finest work of American literature. Much of that book relates how gullible and ignorant country "boobs" (as Mencken referred to them) are swindled by confidence men like the (deliberately) pathetic "Duke" and "Dauphin" roustabouts with whom Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi River. These scam-artists swindle by posing as enlightened speakers on temperance (to ob
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decimation: we did worse - we made them depend on the bezzle for welfare - now most of them exist in a drunken half-stupor
mircea_popescu: "The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extirmination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries, we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth."
mircea_popescu: decimation> man I thought mircea was hard on the guy but after reading a few pages of the book he deserves worse << and importantly, i read no pages of the book.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i wouldn't bother.
BingoBoingo: Also the fucking page numbering, lack of citation style, etc
decimation: man I thought mircea was hard on the guy but after reading a few pages of the book he deserves worse
BingoBoingo: Nah, it means there's people with too much fiat who can't be arsed to secure it themselves yet
decimation: somehow the fact that bitgo and xapo have raised money means that bitcoin is expensive to secure
BingoBoingo: decimation: Well, in the San Francisco world of Bitcoin ATM's transactions actually do cost $40 or $50 above spot
decimation: becuase once the world has passed through the bitcoin vortex, all prices will be recalculated - and there's no formula to get from here to there
decimation: THis is another mistake swanson makes. THe idea that transactions are so costly in dollar terms is quite irrelvant to bitcoin holders.
decimation: "On the dollar's last day as a meaningful unit of account, total dollar net worth is at its historical peak. ... Best of all, unlike theglobe.com, this boom is sustainable. Ideally, it terminates in an allocated BITCOIN standard with no debt - the American and European economies at present, of course, being brutally overcapitalized. "
asciilifeform: he thinks usg << could've, too, if the hearts had bled on schedule. bullet whistled by.
decimation: he thinks usg will stop bitcoin - I don't find that a very credible thesis.
decimation: he did mention bitcoin at the end
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he was never 'anti' in the usual sense, just very pessimistic
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Honestly I often spend more time trying to make the stupid posts less stupid then say fuck it and hit publish
asciilifeform: decimation: the 'monetary restandardization' piece, yes
decimation: someone standing on the shore today sees only a ripple where that vortex will one day consume everything
decimation: moldbug describes how all prices will be recalculated once the world passes from the dollar through the bitcoin-vortex
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo not the frenc ones.
BingoBoingo: I've spent anywhere from 30 minutes to a day and a half depending on the post.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> i don't know about you guys, but my blog posts are done when i can't stand to look at them anymore. << i take about half an hour.
BingoBoingo: decimation: Still, the container has a standard form. Toilets can have different looks, but are recognizable as toilets.
mike_c: i don't know about you guys, but my blog posts are done when i can't stand to look at them anymore.
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BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> if you can actually read trilema you're above about a third of native speakers. << You know on this point alone if Silicon Valley really cared about BTC they'd be wining and dinign me by nao
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell TimSwanson I don't have to be a Bitcoin Taliban to understand how it works << Actually the model is more like ISIS
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BingoBoingo: ;;later tellTimSwanson I don't have to be a Bitcoin Taliban to understand how it works << Actually the model is more like ISIS
mike_c: BingoBoingo: be the amazing!
mircea_popescu: nothing beats material that can punch you in the gut.
BingoBoingo: As far as the teaching Assistant part of being a grad student goes going from freshman logic to babysitting pharm students was a godsend. The latter FEARED the material they were studying.
copumpkin: that's how the first iphone unlock worked
BingoBoingo: I mean if you are making love to knowledge Logos is basically the tits
BingoBoingo: Because apparently Logos is the least important area of Philosophy
BingoBoingo: When I tried philosophy grad school everyone got in pissing matches over who read Whitehead or Russel, but how many other gave a shot at their Principia they did together? 0
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> this is how one comprehends a text. << Rarely taught in US. Surprised classmates when in Spinoza class I told them my secret weapon was posterboard for mapping things to other things.
mircea_popescu: it's what i have the slavegirls do when in doubt.
BingoBoingo: Then again not many English speakers have done better with post switch trilema compared to pre-switch have they?
kakobrekla: yeah well pirate didnt either
BingoBoingo: This Swanson dicklick makes me want to stay pseudonymous forever, with my real name still an open secret among all WoTty people who care to ask. Just so silly onomatapeia can be more real then Tim, the San Fransisco Man
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i say one thing, derp reads what's preloaded in his stupid head. then i say "you're too stupid to understand what's being said", derp figures i'm "attacking" him.
mircea_popescu: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/11/anonymous_wifi_the_latest_casualty_of_russia_net_neurosis/
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what if one of these days you'll unwrap a gift to find a weird egg or somesuch
asciilifeform just unpacked a small lathe, that was wrapped in perhaps 100 metres of... sandwich wrap.
mircea_popescu: the environment derp is a different tim swanson
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BingoBoingo: TimSwanson: You said I was a "environmental scholar" << You are whether you admit it or not.
BingoBoingo: Missouri has a lot of Karst geology as well. Most pictures of "Nature" in Romania remind me of the Ozarks
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell TimSwanson Hello http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/08/04/malpidity/ Sorry I was too drunk last night and passed out before we could meet
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i don't believe 90%+ of the derpage emitted by "advertising industry" << precisely this. as i understand, cargo cult.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes welcome to the empire of good design, where most customer requests get a "no need for new code, you're doing it wrong" from management.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform, mike_c, mircea_popescu: seems like there's some demand for an ad slot that's invisible unless paid for with a venue-specified minimum bid per day.
mircea_popescu: one day i'll figure out the basics of being nice.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> eventually. once ben_vulpes figures out the basics of how to install servers and stuff << i've got the basics down pretty well. sifting through the midden without bringing the whole heap down on oneself is far beyond basics.
TheNewDeal: I couldn't care less about URO, hadn't heard of it until the bet.
mircea_popescu: im not paying people shareholder $$$ to advertise their dog's vomit.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal shitty coin. people wanna advertise on bitbet, might as well either outright buy it or else put some money down.
TheNewDeal: just curious - why did the URO bet get cancelled. Shitty resolution resource?
BingoBoingo: peterl: Just a suggestion, you don't have to follow it, but make your own WP theme, keeps shit simpler
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal exactly.
mike_c: TheNewDeal: how did you WoL bets go?
leochilll: just a bitcoin fan sick of the propaganda!
BingoBoingo: I dunno mircea_popescu you're being awfully harsh on downs syndrome patients comparing them to the economist
leochilll: aka the "subtle shill" per
mircea_popescu: let the permanent record permanently reflect the permanent fact that the economist is a piece of toilet paper upon which down syndrome patients scribble whatever shit happens through their head.
mircea_popescu: this is roughly the equivalent of scrapping seo blogs to get the average revenue of a seo expert.
TheNewDeal: the bet doesn't say CLOSE
mircea_popescu: "THE ECONOMIST has analysed 190,000 profiles of female sex workers on websites where customers post reviews. The data cover 84 cities in 12 countries, with the biggest number of workers in America and most of the rest in big cities in rich countries. According to our analysis, the price of an hour of sex with a female prostitute has been dropping fairly steadily in recent years. In 2006 the average cost was around $340
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal it can drop can't it ?
mircea_popescu: b) europeans are not fucktarded about sex like the us barbarians are.
mircea_popescu: a) the idiots in san francisco were whining a month ago about how $10/sq foot is "outside of what a "normal" business can pay in rent"