ben_vulpes: the mermaid?
BingoBoingo: What happens when jurov and Namworld's Coinroll thing wants to keep using the graphics they've already sunk costs into?
mircea_popescu: omg stop hussling the poor guy]
ben_vulpes: we're taking the world back to evaluation on its merits, not on its appearances.
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: look either you make the sell with the situation as is or you don't man
BingoBoingo: Story is hands up surrendering with his back to the cop
mircea_popescu: after being abandoned by the feds during katrina they sorta created an independent state,
BingoBoingo: police firing tear gas at angry residents despite the fact that they're standing behind a fence on private property and are apparently unarmed:
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what's the story with stl anyway ?
BingoBoingo: More from the StL warzone http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/08/12/ferguson_tear_gas_video_angry_but_apparently_unarmed_residents_face_attack.html
gribble: You rated user dignork on Mon May 12 10:27:20 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: he cracked my hashes!.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve my point being that this is just one example. you need a coder to know the things that are obvious and well known that you don't know.
mircea_popescu: at this point anyone can verify the right answer was in fact "spit in her mouth"
mircea_popescu: then later on you say : sha512, salt "-derpysaltlalal-"
mircea_popescu: you publish : the correct answer is ba320a34890a5cdc4f0ba0e53017d490811aad50259c1bc4214df05544f9dd2d9a6992e617d2273f79a73e6ae972a8a0c171608ae71eb5d5bd148f81f38d2e0d
mircea_popescu: this sort of clunk will sink what otherwise is a clever promising thing.
HeySteve: although maybe later I'll have single player versions on a website, so will need a little coding there
mircea_popescu: that much i gather.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: I think the point is he wants to expose people to his logo
mircea_popescu: nds. Either that or suggest a way to make things trustless.."
mircea_popescu: HeySteve the tech involved seems very naive. stuff like "Red text installments will always include a password-protected file containing a description of the optimal choice. The password will be revealed in the next installment, ensuring a pre-determined answer unaffected by the value of bets placed or other factors. Youll have to trust me not to play my own game or leak the right choice to my cronies before voting e
mircea_popescu: Example, Coinan encounters a hostile, socialist vampire. These choices are presented:
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: if you can't write the copy that makes people click your link, why would an image change that?
assbot: COINAN: The Wrath of BitCrom - Blockchain-Powered Online Gamebook with Gambling
mircea_popescu: cazalla 6781 total articles, 2567 in english. 1610 of these however are the result of me dumping the wikileaks trove back before wikileaks itself decided to publish documents (i only did stuff referring to bucharest, but it did force them to get their act together and a day later they released the cables). these don't appear in the random rotation (i imagine that's what you're doing) and so the numbers would be
nubbins`: so many projects on the plate :S
nubbins`: wait, sorry, that was thestringpuller's project
nubbins`: oh and hey, what was the hidden bounty? 0.1 or some such?
nubbins`: put another way: putting finishing touches on content, graphics to commence soon
mircea_popescu: wait isn't it the design you're doing ? is this pre-design ?
nubbins`: i've got a feeling these "what is btc" posters are gonna be a big hit
mircea_popescu: "well... in the place economies usually go."
mircea_popescu: "i dunno, the color economies usually are"
mircea_popescu: imagine sitting there with a windowfull and just wondering if it's fucking markov chain day.
mircea_popescu: imagine these coke addled, add dyslexic monkeys shooting emails to each other at 3am off a stripper's asscrack
mircea_popescu: Another Goldman banker told SEC officials he didn't know what he meant by an email he sent in 2006 that said underwriters and issuers would "put $ in our pockets" because "we are us."
mircea_popescu: so in the end, ima count pete_dushenski 's summary as accurate : "Serious scholarship of a work is merited if and only if that work is itself a piece of serious scholarship."
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> "so when the police approached you, why did you open fire ?" "i thought we were being invaded by aliens" "i see. fair enough. case dismissed" << THought it was the Chicoms invading
mircea_popescu: "so when the police approached you, why did you open fire ?" "i thought we were being invaded by aliens" "i see. fair enough. case dismissed"
assbot: Summing up police militarization with a photo from Missouri. The camo is required because? http://t.co/Jr6atNWxjR http://t.co/IeZgZNppxl
mircea_popescu: now who the hell said that bit about things turning to shit and female representation.
punkman: they are already doing that yeah
assbot: MPOE-PR, almost two years in the swamp. An anthology. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the bitcoin hell, meni rosenfeld is squirming. http://trilema.com/2013/mpoe-pr-almost-two-years-in-the-swamp-an-anthology/#comment-104623
BingoBoingo: So this thing we are trying to convince people is a "business" is so not a business that we can just turn them off if people touch genitals
punkman: "So with Demo Day approaching, I'd like to make the following point explicit: Y Combinator has a zero tolerance policy for inappropriate sexual or romantic behavior from investors toward founders. Don't even think about doing it. I will find out. Y Combinator will not continue to work with you."
BingoBoingo: xmj: The would involve touching this filth moar, so I'm jsut not going to past more of it
mircea_popescu: the fact that i was here first, and i knew they'll show up, and i took speciffic and apparently effectual measures.
BingoBoingo: The footnote 334 PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) was released in 1991 by Phil Zimmermann, see: Cypher Wars from Wired
mircea_popescu: yeah. i don't credit the theory he's unaffiliated. basically there's this pile of idiots who perceive as the greatest impediment towards their brand of nonsense being accepted universally
BingoBoingo: ^ the "context"
BingoBoingo: through their mobile devices.
BingoBoingo: countries, just as they leapfrogged copper wiring choosing to use wireless telephony, some may forgo
BingoBoingo: contract) could create a monetary instrument (a cryptocoin) and lend it to anyone on the globe in the
BingoBoingo: work and will be a godsend to the 3rd world. For instance, a person with a reliable DAO (or smart
BingoBoingo: form of identity management. This will completely transform how the flow of capital and investment
BingoBoingo: other users can see its history and if it is reliable thus building credit scores. In turn, business
BingoBoingo: For example, since at least 1991 there has been a variety of methods for building reputation systems
BingoBoingo: And neither does your name
mircea_popescu: especially in the face of having called a random string generator in an article you're ostensibly rebutting.
pankkake: first time I've seen the word "disrupt" used in this context in months :p
mircea_popescu: anyway, the presumptiousness of calling a pdf "my book" is striking.
mircea_popescu: that way you don't have the problem of snotty 5yo disrupting other people's restaurant meal. because in his reptillian 5yo brain, the risk that the whole stampede of adults beats the shit out of him if he starts screaming is quite vivid.
mircea_popescu: kidsshould get NEGATIVE attention whenever they ask for it. such as a good beating.
mircea_popescu: this idiocy came to be highly regarded by parents that aren';t people, that you shouldn't give attention to kids asking for it the wrong way (usually throwing a fit). this is nonsense.
BingoBoingo: The dude start's his page numbering from the fucking prematter right after the cover, which no.
mircea_popescu: pankkake give the right sort of attentio.
mircea_popescu: ideally, one that needs their inept brand of "fixing"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yes, but those same people are too stupid to realise how stupid they are, and if someone tells them this they misrepresent it as an "ad hominem" and misconstrue it as some sort of failure of "the world"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Some people should not self publish, because they can't understand "bookness" especially when it comes to presenting "bookness" electronically
BingoBoingo: SEC issued an investor alert related to bitcoin and other virtual currencies. 892
BingoBoingo: numerous scams and thefts that continue to occur with these types of investments, in May the
BingoBoingo: $4.5 million Ponzi scheme through a firm called Bitcoin Savings & Trust.891 In fact, due to the
BingoBoingo: investigation as well as Trendon Shavers (pirate40) who was charged by the SEC for running a
BingoBoingo: cryptographic code, being nigh-unbreakable by law enforcement and other judicial authority,
BingoBoingo: Part of the current narrative popular on social media such as Reddit and Twitter is that Bitcoins
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so basically the guy has no fucking idea of anything.
Apocalyptic: pankkake, oh it is ? great. Then I would somehow expect them to add all the listed coins
BingoBoingo: That's the trilema thing he linked in Chapter 17 of his Bitcoin book. I can dig through his other stuff, but... navigating his giant pdf's is a pain
pankkake: Apocalyptic: since X-BT is on coinmarketcap already for atc, you should have them add your ltc and nmc markets. I'd rather buy nmc from you when I need them, but there's almost no one trading
mircea_popescu: i asked him if he read the 2012 canonical text on contracts.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: the footnote 891 Interacting with fiat institution, a guide by Mircea Popescu, SEC Charges Bitcoin Entrepreneur With Offering Unregistered Securities, SEC charges bitcoin entrepreneur for share offering from MarketWatch and SEC Alleges Texas Man Ran $4.5 Million Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme from LexisNexis
mircea_popescu: these noobs need to learn how to spam ffs.
mircea_popescu: SemFieteewBut l.uf.en.gk.u.an.gniub.i..u.k.10@gmail.com 76.164.201.226Submitted on 2014/08/12 at 4:24 d.m. "For this specific day of the week-spun2"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Was trying to present those footnotes from the failbook
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: not any time soon
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski when are you going to put the fro on twitter?
HeySteve: The goals are to allow real-time creative collaboration between storytellers, illustrators and readers and also to deepen the excitement of classic gamebooks by making player decisions a true gamble.
HeySteve: 80’s children will have fond memories of gamebooks like the Choose Your Own Adventure, Fighting Fantasy or Lone Wolf series. These books captured the essence of role-playing by granting players agency over their character within a greater narrative. Inspired by such classic interactive fiction, I’ve adapted the format to take advantage of the internet and Bitcoin, the coin of the
HeySteve: COINAN: The Wrath of BitCrom - A Blockchain-Powered Online Gamebook (with Gambling)
HeySteve: I'm about to announce my new gambling game on the forum
gribble: The operation succeeded.
nubbins`: just finalized the text for those bitcoin posters
BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: Makes it hard to go deep into both bids and asks at the same time
assbot: Graffiti in Bogot: Blank canvas | The Economist
BingoBoingo: Oh Apocalyptic Ever plan on changing the max order limit above 10?
Apocalyptic: is this the record ?
pete_dushenski: i'd like to think he would've been too taking advantage of the opportunities presented him
pete_dushenski: ya no hitler jokes either
BigBitz: RobinWilliams have some respect, I guess? :) for the dead...
RobinWilliams: so apparently nicks are ban-worthy offenses in the 'ol #bitcoin-otc
punkman: pete_dushenski: that's the china book
punkman: pete_dushenski: didn't see a mention of the colored coin treatise in your post
pete_dushenski: fluffypony: never stop the lulz!
pete_dushenski: thought i said as much in the article?
assbot: ISIS took a Facebook approach, starting in one place then expanding to a caliphate. Al Qaeda too unfocused.
assbot: The guide | Great Wall of Numbers
punkman: pete_dushenski: btw Swanson has not one, not two, but three books! http://www.ofnumbers.com/the-guide/
assbot: If the new iPad has an anti-glare screen, that's a potential gamechanger in the fight against ISIS.
fluffypony: trustworthyness to the max
pete_dushenski: in the real world, this is necessary and effective, online however...
pete_dushenski: taleb can also be pretty emotional, lashing out on tards at the drop of a hat
pete_dushenski: pankkake: he's not dumb so much as born too late to grok the internet
pankkake: that guy looks dumb. then again, I've only read his twits
assbot: What if academics followed the new model of /nfergus and /nntaleb and got paid based on /hashtag/controversy?src=hash and /hashtag/engagement?src=hash?
assbot: ethereum blog | Announcement on planned withdrawal from exodus
punkman: ben_vulpes: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/08/announcement-on-planned-exodus-withdrawal/
RobinWilliams: 100% of people who breathe air die.
assbot: The Matasano Crypto Challenges
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> kyuupichan the eth scammers pretty much admitted it was all wash trading in some blogpost recently << links, anyone?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I mean trackbacks are pretty much the only part of the semanti web that works.
pete_dushenski: the only way he gets more attention is if he stays on the ground rather than 6 feet under
pankkake: I'm torn between insulting him elsewhere and not doing anything since he just wants the attention
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Hit him repeatedly with this http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/07/29/actual-internet-etiquette-trackbacks-and-spam/
BingoBoingo: "There was a lot of talk recently about Gavin possibly changing the protocol to increase the number of transactions per block. As this formed quite a bit of chapter 2 I was wondering if you had an thoughts on this." << ALso not a thing that changes the protocol
pete_dushenski: ain't that the darnedest
assbot: Money's gone from /hashtag/gold?src=hash to paper to digital in 100 yrs. Each step makes it easier for government to steal. When the time comes, they will.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Exactly, or if not faces sufficiently novel acts to make the nudes meritorious
pete_dushenski: even better woulda been a 6-digit hash on the guy's dong
BingoBoingo: the former National Security Agency analyst and an outspoken critic of Edward Snowden, resigned Monday from his position as a professor at the US Naval War College months after a picture of his alleged penis surfaced online. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/snowden-critic-resigns-naval-war-college-over-online-penis-photo-flap/
nubbins`: before this happened, the all-time harshest punishment for a canadian citizen caught selling seeds was a $200 fine
nubbins`: you get extradited for mailing seeds, which don't contain THC, to another country
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: F5 is remapped to the on/of function of Andreas's pacemaker
BingoBoingo: F5 is the best news feed, mash it until something new
gribble: Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz>; Aaron Swartz's Girlfriend Explains 'Why Aaron Died' - Mashable: <http://mashable.com/2013/02/05/aaron-swartz-girlfriend-why-he-died/>; Internet prodigy, activist Aaron Swartz commits suicide - CNN.com: <http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/12/us/new-york-reddit-founder-suicide/>
kakobrekla: noone gets the joke? meh.
RagnarDanneskjol: shouldnt it just have the domain after this: </content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss> and not the domain/subpage
pete_dushenski: and whaddya mean it only gives the last article?
pankkake: clean the spaces?!
pankkake: yeah also it only gives the last article
pete_dushenski: otherwise, takes forever
assbot: Password manager LastPass goes titsup: Users LOCKED OUT The Register
nubbins`: i should start charging a wastage premium for these
nubbins`: the thing about doing rainbow-roll t-shirts is that at the end, you've got a big mess of brown ink
kakobrekla: we seem to be on the roll today
kakobrekla: We wanted to change the wording on box that hologram seal is an authenticity measure, not a security measure, exactly for this reason. But it was too late and quite big amount of boxes was already printed. We'll change this in a future release of box.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: but as idiots, with some struggle, learn more 'adult' systems in their effort to mimic actual people, this useful heuristic stops working
BingoBoingo: !up The20YearIRCloud
asciilifeform: but looks like everyone is missing the original point.
BingoBoingo: Latex isn't really something the needs to be learned so much as done with a helpful companion book next to you
asciilifeform: there is no practical alternative to latex for mathematical typesetting (microshit is not a practical alternative to anything, ever)
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: what's wrong with latex << nothing. but plenty wrong with idiots
thestringpuller: i thought it was the standard for white papers
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: everyone with a copy of MS Word and Adobe Acrobat think they can self publish, with out the skills << wait till they get a hold of 'latex'
BingoBoingo: Seriously why does everyone with a copy of MS Word and Adobe Acrobat think they can self publish, with out the skills, without the practice, to make a fucking document work!
RagnarDanneskjol: ...between socio-economic signals in the btc community
RagnarDanneskjol: [PDF] The digital traces of bubbles: feedback cycles between
BingoBoingo: page numbering is off, the footnote links suck
pankkake: the PDF doesn't display well on my browser, I have text on text
RagnarDanneskjol: yea, its rather painful
BingoBoingo: Even before we get to the Content of Swanson's book.... Dude needs a fucking editor/publisher or to read the Chicago Manual of Style.
assbot: _nightengale_ comments on This is going to be heavily ignored but this is really important. A long well written paper about the issues with bitcoin.
fluffypony: "GOING TO HAVE TO SCREEN CANDIDATES BETTER. HAD A CREEPY KFC OBSESSED DEVELOPER TODAY CLAIMING TO BE “INTIMATELY FAMILIAR WITH THE COLONEL”"
pankkake: you had the time to read those 300 pages?!
assbot: GOING TO HAVE TO SCREEN CANDIDATES BETTERHAD A CREEPY KFC OBSESSED DEVELOPER TODAY CLAIMING TO BE INTIMATELY FAMILIAR WITH THE COLONEL
pankkake: the titles are so highly suspicious
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell hollywood Most Mealy Mouthed Wanker of the Periphery of this Space Tim Swanson
cazalla: RagnarDanneskjol, what's with the ad hom attacks?
RagnarDanneskjol: I kno - think he removed maybe - dood is a mealey mouthed wanker
BingoBoingo: I'm not seeing any comments on there
BingoBoingo: But English is picking up on trilema. Maybe you have unlucky f5, though many of the Romanian articles offer decent background on things useful for understanding the English ones
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
xanthyos: why is the tail's dog wagging?
mircea_popescu: a there we go.
cazalla: nfi, prob how koreans kill them or something
cazalla: well, it's was dead long before the gif was made so what's it matter
mircea_popescu: why is the dog's tail shaking
fluffypony: after the recent decline
mircea_popescu: it's not dead just because it lost the 100:1 thing
RagnarDanneskjol: I get it, you can keep her chained in the basement tho
RagnarDanneskjol: lemme know if you want a search run for someone to pick up the slack on those constant admin time costs - just let me know what measurwments you need, blonde or brunette
gribble: Wash Trading Definition | Investopedia: <http://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/washtrading.asp>; Wash trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_trade>; Wash sale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_sale>
mircea_popescu: kyuupichan the eth scammers pretty much admitted it was all wash trading in some blogpost recently
kuzetsa: short term fluctuations on a few exchanges, but the weekly changes have been less than $20usd for a while now from what I've noticed
kyuupichan: mircea_popescu: Anyone take you up on your Ether offer?
mircea_popescu: im not looking for an opportunity to play the businessman. i'm sick and tired of the actual work of it.
antonosika: mircea_popescu I could do that but I don't see the reason. A contract where one party has a chance to recieve nothing is a large and unnecessary risk
kyuupichan: If BTC drops it might tempt more into the BRK.A bet, which could be good.
kyuupichan: Don't care so much there :)
antonosika: Well that's higher risk too. The issue would be being paid 1 Satoshi if delayed. Why not just change it to a second contract with delivery 2016 if delay?
assbot: List of Atlas Shrugged characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mircea_popescu: make two random series, fit them, you'll get something more or less like that
RagnarDanneskjol: i thought the same thing, chart doesnt support anything
RagnarDanneskjol: before leveling off in April could be noise, or the effects of this relationship changing.
RagnarDanneskjol: Something within the composition of the relationship between gold and VIX has changed in this timeframe. For the past two years, it has been a largely negative correlated relationship amassing around -0.4 to -0.3. However, come summer of 2013, there has been a dramatic reversal of this trend, pushing it into unprecedented territories of a positive correlation upwards of +0.5. The large swings following summer of 2013
assbot: VIX vs. Gold: The ultimate battle between fear & greed | Resource Investor
RagnarDanneskjol: http://www.resourceinvestor.com/2014/08/11/vix-vs-gold-the-ultimate-battle-between-fear-gree?ref=hp
mircea_popescu: fucking hell these idiots.
mircea_popescu: results of social pressures and generational conditioning are dictated by human nature or that human nature guides human behavior under these extraordinarily distorted circumstances.
mircea_popescu: Humans are highly adaptive creatures and incredibly ingenious when it comes to modifying our behavior in the face of externally or internally applied pressure and circumstance. Normal is a relative term, not some static measurement, and both the body and mind quickly becomes accustomed to the new normal when choices appear to be limited and the herd moves to a new grazing field. But this doesnt mean the
mod6: the atc gotw is about to come to a screeching halt. lol
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.09 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 7440.49 GH/s
punkman: so hey guys, if you write a book, footnotes go at the end of each page
punkman: you know what's really annoying? clicking on a footnote, jumping to end of book, then not being able to go back to the footnote reference
mircea_popescu: (this is what i'm going to call people that are right from now on. if leah derpman can make nonsensical statement then chase it with "saying it doesn't make it so" @ som eunfortunate soul that tried to point out she's talking out her butt, why can't i!)
mircea_popescu: it sucks being such a religious leader all the god damned time.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: just like "the govs are mining!"
mircea_popescu: punkman so this is yet another case of "mp makes definite statements on no basis ; later they turn out to be true." ?
punkman: well I've been looking for all that data in the book but I only found copy-pasted charts of dubious provenance and footnote links of dubious provenance. Not even a single link to organofcorti.
mircea_popescu: it;'s really quite old. about amonth or so apart from the world famous horseback one.
mircea_popescu: guy that made the first pwn2own thing went nuts making insane claims. exactly what impotent bureaucracies trying to pass for dangerous spooks would like to hear.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski they keep rewarming this stale voodoo.
pete_dushenski: it's the headiest header i ever did see
pete_dushenski: also, that's quite the new header on trilema
pete_dushenski: "the odd behavior affected not just Macs but also Windows and Linux systems, and only ceased when the microphone, external speaker, and speaker attached to the motherboard were removed."
pete_dushenski: "The weirdest part is how it uses ultrasonic sound to jump air gaps," - Schneier
mircea_popescu: one needs a whole lot of various crap to keep the fiat boat afloat.
mircea_popescu: i doubt the ideological needs of pierce's masters can so readily be summed up.
punkman: I think these two sum up his preconceptions
punkman: "the security of digitized fiat currencies are arguably just as secure (via cryptography) as cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin; no one steals money off Fedwire or Visa’s system, it is the edges of the network that are the most vulnerable"
ben_vulpes: i'd wished to put the time to better use.
punkman: "as detailed in chapter 9, having 100% full reserve is not a feature, it is a bug that holds and prevents the network from reproducing or creating an actual banking system."
dignork: mircea_popescu: it need to be marked as encrypted, otherwise bitcoind might do stupid things