nubbins`: some parts of my body tend to grow multiple hairs out of the same follicle
mircea_popescu: you could prolly make baseball bats out of some of these.
mircea_popescu: they're tipping in hairs and nail clippings by now
nubbins`: the "hey rosetta" one
mircea_popescu: who got the 1st place ?
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mircea_popescu: any of them for lipstick peacock competition ?
nubbins`: oh yeah, did i tell you guys we won a couple awards in the local arts rag?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i suspect what he means is that he isn't cool, can't be bothered to even try and doesn't ~FEEL~ this shoulkd make any difference.
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine there ever lived a more easy to hate generation.
mircea_popescu: "I try to let my feelings about jed, facebook, and maybe, social entitlment get out of the way and see things with logic ripple vs Stellar or both in a basket. I tried to get some of that free STR and me not having a facebook account made that hard to impossible and kinda deactivated my unbias view of the ecosystem."
mircea_popescu: aaaand the ltc is under one bitcent.
mircea_popescu: if you do that might as well read the forum straight.
mircea_popescu: well ok. but you know, if the loan is large enough and the people involved known enough, it's just business.
mircea_popescu: maybe we talk of different things. do you have the "loan me 10 bitcents for trust" things ?
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
nubbins`: it got all wrinkly on the vac table ;(
mircea_popescu: you didn't put any chained tits on them or anything did you ?
mircea_popescu: hadn't gotten that far into the log.
mircea_popescu: which reminds me, didja ship the ohio guy those posters ?
nubbins`: "my husband got in the wot and all i got was a lousy box of shirts in which a bunch of spiders have taken up nest"
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell wyrdmantis: i'm confused. Now i need to get rated in the wot but don't know how... << generally by doing business with, or perhaps more commonly working for, the people already in the wot.
mircea_popescu: nah, they only got 500k
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's the sound of mp actually sending the corp an email to see if they want investment or mebbe even ipo.
mircea_popescu: what sort of insane nut puts o(n^3) as AN IMAGE in the text.
mircea_popescu: ok, i'm sold. he has a solid point there.
mircea_popescu: ms. People who have studied the history of computer science know how important the Fast Fourier Transform was. It reduced the 1-d Fourier transform from operations to , opening up vast new applications to signal processing techniques.
mircea_popescu: ltiplication doodad will do it in time, up to the limiting size of the matrices that can be encoded in such a machine. This is huge, as most matrix multiplications are for square matrices of size N. There is all manner of work done on improving matrix multiplication and other forms of matrix math via statistical methods (subject of a coming blog post); the problem is very important, as is pretty bad on large proble
mircea_popescu: What can it do? Matrix math, basically. Obviously, even thinking about this in the most hand-wavey manner, optical computers should be good at image processing. When you break down what is involved in image processing, matrix math and Fourier transforms come to mind. We know how to do matrix math with optical computers. The limiting aspect is how many elements you can encode and modulate quickly. An optical matrix mu
mircea_popescu: paper doesn't exactly fight back in the sense of hitting bad poets over the head, either.
mircea_popescu: plenty of resistence of the medium.
asciilifeform: no 'resistance of the medium'
asciilifeform: killing things that can't fight back - where's the fun
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is rather like imagining that working in a slaughterhouse is fun
mircea_popescu: chetty yes, that's like the swat team. working for the irs is fun, you get to talk to really scared people all the time
asciilifeform: there is no 'quality control' (in the usual sense) at uspto - the expectation is that 'mistakes' will be challenged in court.
nubbins`: i've seen tsa agents up-close, most of them probably did basic math in high school
asciilifeform knows folks working there
asciilifeform: nubbins`: they're given quotas (how many patents judged / month)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no argument there.
nubbins`: "Our quality standards are low," one supervisor told the investigators.
assbot: Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office - Slashdot
nubbins`: http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/08/11/1519201/every-day-is-goof-off-at-work-day-at-the-us-patent-and-trademark-office
mircea_popescu: you're just a massive underdog rooter is the thing
asciilifeform: they're selling it.
asciilifeform: nothing so spicy. just the notion that analogue computing could come back (it was a gloriously interesting field back in the day, dust off some books, fun)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is this the equivalent of "no offense, but fuck you and that whore of your mother" ?
mircea_popescu: "While quantum computing appears to be turning into a multi-decade over-hyped boondoggle of a field, there is no reason why optical computers might not become important."
nubbins`: mp at the planetarium
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xmj: sometimes i think I have ADHD. but compared to all these goldfish-short-term-memory people...
mike_c: k, guess i'm not following then :) seems if you switch to a context they know little about they might sucking at comms.
xmj: mike_c: maybe so, and it's not the issue im referring to
mike_c: i have enough for my satisfication. there are lots of smart people that don't know (or care to know) anything about conducting business.
the20year: There we go...
mike_c: if by professional you mean they understand business, that does not correlate with intelligence.
xmj: don't understand shit and imply meaning where there isn't any
xmj: as soon as you enter into a professional mode with them
the20year: There's absolutely nothing special about asbestos other than the fact that some types atomize very easily
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.08 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 6941.43 GH/s
kakobrekla: mebbe someone figured one there is mk depth to be exploited
mike_c: i'm going to write a blog post on the last BTC game soon. it was interesting to me that more of the free money didn't get picked up, although TheNewDeal did grab some.
the20year: This is all of course from that case of the guy shooting police who were shooting him in the botched drug raid, the guy in the end i think was no-billed
BingoBoingo: Well when these things get litigated in shows where people stand
the20year: Yeah, supposedly the state got sued by the FOP and they may strike it down, although the supreme court decision was a re-affirmation of basic self defense laws, and against the police idemnity laws
the20year: Rather, indiana?
assbot: State Passes Law to Legalize Shooting Police | The Free Thought Project
the20year: I don't know what i did to pankakke to PO him, this FUD thing dropped share prices pretty signfiicantly and added pretty major volatility to the stock
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user the20year has been recorded.
BingoBoingo: ;;rate the20year 1 Going long on Ohio is prolly stupid but hasn't run away yet
gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask the20year!~the20year@50.41.119.211. Trust relationship from user assbot to user the20year: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 2 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=assbot&dest=the20year | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=the20year | Rated since: Tue Apr 29 11:21:55 2014
BingoBoingo: ;;gettrust assbot the20year
kakobrekla: !up the20year
assbot: the20year +v failed; L1: 0, L2: 0
kakobrekla: !down the20year
kakobrekla: !up the20year
kakobrekla: !down the20year
BingoBoingo: !up the20year
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nubbins`: had an epiphany regarding the design a couple hours ago actually
kakobrekla: btw what happened with the bitcoin posters taht were suppose to be printed?
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ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: looks like your login succeeded, i have no idea right this moment why the request timed out.
punkman: "This is great transparency, Vitalik. You're setting the right standards"
punkman: "note that the distribution of the endowment is quasi-public; although names of all individuals are not published (though everyone is free to disclose their own portion voluntarily"
punkman: " 2650 BTC will be distributed to pay for loans for prior expenses" ' “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 '
punkman: "The sale still has 28 days left to go; although we are not expecting much out of this remaining period, anything is possible." <- why would it suddenly stop?
bats_cd03: 'Thus, the fact that the majority of purchases occurred at the end shows that ether purchasers are generally a rather sophisticated audience – which I suppose you should be if you managed to be convinced to trade your hard-earned BTC for some cryptographic tokens backed by a concept of “generalized consensus computing”.'
bats_cd03: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/08/ether-sale-a-statistical-overview a report from the belly of the chumpatron
punkman: oh and "Despite the massive and powerful air current created by these massive industrial fans, the inside of the mining farm still manages to hold steady at 40° Celsius (105° f) the entire time."
punkman: sounds like some honest hard work over there
punkman: "The farm employs three people whose job it is to monitor the machinery and make sure that all the machines are working properly. They work around the clock, in three shifts, and do a walkabout of the floor once per hour to check everything. The guys live here mostly full time, going home for 4 or 5 days once a month. They sleep on the premises."
chetty: We didnt have the right to credit cards in our own names until 1974
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chetty: http://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/aug/10/leaning-in-why-women-still-need-feminism?CMP=twt_gu
BingoBoingo: lol "As old hardware becomes dated and unprofitable to run, it really piles up. Theres retired old Avalon machines all over the place."
BingoBoingo: Oh yeah, WoL hasn't been around long enough to experience the full possible speed of ATC mining
gribble: The operation succeeded.
chetty: The more certain I think I am, the higher the likelihood I am wrong for the simple reasons that I am unwilling to consider any other alternative plus I have now embodied my belief so tightly to 'me' that to question what I 'know' is to question the very basis of 'me'.
pankkake: "String of blocks will reject payments lower than 0.0001 BTC before the end of December 2014" the guy almost had it right, I'm submitting a better bet even though I don't really see the point :p
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.09 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 6681.44 GH/s
chetty: How exactly are we to successfully and correctly examine ourselves when the only normal we know is found in the boiling pot of water we presently occupy?
Vexual: the genreal thing is to ask .info
fluffypony: "Programmers are naturally inclined to want to use listtransactions like this: feed me the new transactions since I last asked, and I'll keep my own tally or static record of them. This will seem to work in all regular use, but if you use the amounts for anything, it is highly exploitable"
fluffypony: he literally spoke about the thing that mtgox did that made them vulnerable to malleability attacks
fluffypony: as they can change
fluffypony: he basically says that you should never rely on the details of a transaction as a developer
wyrdmantis: they can't stole my btc with my pgp key, so i fell safe for now
nubbins`: he means a machine that never has and never will connect to the internet :D
nubbins`: mine's in the neighbourhood of 100 characters
wyrdmantis: the passphrase is long
nubbins`: 2048 is the minimum
wyrdmantis: so it's too late? the pgp i've created is fucking short
wyrdmantis: aahaha not everyone but the majority yes
Vexual: they do, it's only on paper
nubbins`: wyrdmantis: why don't italians buy the shops?
nubbins`: opt for maximum strength, save yourself a hassle down the road
wyrdmantis: lol no i'm italian... we have been invaded by chinese instead... they're buying and opening shops everywhere
nubbins`: real life is the best teacher
wyrdmantis: hoy hoy so i have to do the everify thing every time i log in?
nubbins`: wow, in the coldest part of the last ice age, earth's average temperature was only 4.5C below the 20th century norm
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pankkake: they use it to avoid farming I guess
pankkake: it doesn't, I used another account too
cazalla: Vexual, the dogecoin creator/marketer
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gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: BitBet - And Then There Was One :: 7.59 B (35%) on Yes, 14.04 B (65%) on No | closing in 3 months 4 days | weight: 26`406 (100`000 to 1)
punkman: wyrdmantis: here's a havelock hedge btw, http://bitbet.us/bet/617/and-then-there-was-one/
wyrdmantis: i feel like a bug over the enciclopedya britannica
Vexual: then give me a fuckin loan
wyrdmantis: my same fears punkman... that's one the reasons i'm here
nubbins`: others may have different criteria
nubbins`: suppose a stranger approached you on the street and asked for a loan of $20 for one week. you said sure, gave him the $20, a week later he finds you and pays you back.
nubbins`: a better way to gain trust is to perform actions that cause others to trust you
nubbins`: that's fine in the fiat, aka fake bitcoin ($, €, etc), world
Vexual: whats the loan for?
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punkman: wyrdmantis: these might help: http://contravex.com/2014/03/27/who-what-where-when-why-web-of-trust/ http://trilema.com/2014/what-the-wot-is-for-how-it-works-and-how-to-use-it/
wyrdmantis: am I already in the WoT?
Vexual: not you nubs, you look normal, i was talking to the mantis
wyrdmantis: i'm confused. Now i need to get rated in the wot but don't know how...
Vexual: noone ever learned to cut fugu with their mouth closed
xmj: As of 2006, all large-scale fast breeder reactor (FBR) power stations have been liquid metal fast breeder reactors (LMFBR) cooled by liquid sodium. These have been of one of two designs:[1]
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mircea_popescu: i don't think the steam stuff is even used anymore.
Vexual: particular about the steam
xmj: to the question why everone else is building nukes around german boarders and we aren't he (in some convoluted answer) replied that "we couldn't get this through parliament and run through the population."
xmj: buy from france germany and italy when GWh are cheap; pump up water to their reservoirs; sell water-powered "green" energy when the price is high.
xmj: Vexual: the swiss have perfected this sport.
mircea_popescu: yeah i just discovered them
assbot: How does the financial system work - YouTube
khersonus: what's the reason for mpex.co being down for so long?
khersonus: yes, but you can't if you're looking through the logs
khersonus: then it's not clear if you're auth'd or not
khersonus: one of the benefits of this +v thing is that we can tell people have been auth'd, right? but you can get +v if someone else !up's you, right?
khersonus: "self censorship rarely if always works towards the interest of the individuala" maybe you meant to say "rarely if never"?
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> mircea_popescu: BigBitz the only accomplishment of 1800s germany ? << lol what about brahms, mendelssohn, and co? << just being an asshole lol
khersonus: khersonus: you mentioned self censorship works towards the interest of the individual. So, lack of self censorship should do the opposite. You don't seem to self censor much, so, you're looking out for the interests of us all?
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> how long does it take for a key to register with van-ads ? << from what i've seen 30 seconds
thestringpuller: +pete_dushenski> ;;later tell ben_vulpes please to fix van pgp so thestringpuller can advertise his muffins << you're a bully
cazalla: pete_dushenski, there is nothing i could write that would be of any interest to anyone here and in the past it was about quantity, quality wasn't even a consideration (until google decided it was)
cazalla: i stopped when the adsense monies ceased to flow
pete_dushenski: the rectal probists will never look under mah pillow
cazalla: that article leads me to believe you have the secret under your pillow btw :P
pete_dushenski: "INFPs are flexible and laid-back, until one of their values is violated." << lulz
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell ben_vulpes please to fix van pgp so thestringpuller can advertise his muffins
thestringpuller: WHY IS THE REQUEST STILL SPINNING
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: what are you advertising?
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: i can't register for van the request is still going but it looks like it's gonna time out...
fluffypony: where someone beats you with a pipe wrench till you give them your privkeys or password or whatever
fluffypony: yep - or the so-called "pipe wrench attack"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: BigBitz the only accomplishment of 1800s germany ? << lol what about brahms, mendelssohn, and co?
RagnarDanneskjol: hence the rectum
pete_dushenski: RagnarDanneskjol afaik, an idea wherein the big bad man shakes you down for your private keys no matter where you store them
pete_dushenski: or is it rectalthermal?
pete_dushenski: sounds exactly like asciilifeform's rectothermal analysis
pete_dushenski: well fluffypony should you be in the baltic area towards the end of the month, you'll know who to call for lunch :)
mircea_popescu: i rated him back in 2012, when the linode hack made bitcoinica go belly up and he was also affected
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mircea_popescu: ;;rate graet -1 old timer and historically reasonable, but there's ~1k in unserviced debts and some nasty allegations re weexchange floating around.
fluffypony: pete_dushenski: my wife's had to go back a few days ago, her grandfather is in hospital and it looks like it's "last legs" stage, so depends on what happens there
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i used it for a while until payouts slowed down and then were being claimed as paid out yet were not even unconfirmed
fluffypony: exactly, thestringpuller
cazalla: thestringpuller, bitfunder + price rise fucked him i guess
thestringpuller: they still in chennel though
cazalla: according to this thread, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=218324.0 he doesn't even bother replying to them these days
pete_dushenski: i thought most of the ozzies preyed on coindeskers and redditards
cazalla: i guess there is Graet as well but he defaults on loans so.
pete_dushenski: ever since i moved to the new website, it's been taking fo eva
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: because penguirker is asleep at the wheel
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thestringpuller: everyone on like eastern time now? Where are the austrailians and azns?
thestringpuller: I pinged nanotube awhile ago in otc but I guess I should have asked here first for the db
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller that's a great idea.
thestringpuller: I'm trying to make a visualizer for the WoT for fun to get my d3 skills better
thestringpuller: where is the db?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yah
thestringpuller: Is there a raw db for WoT?
Jason: i'm just going to need to use the db
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mircea_popescu: nanotube hey listen, is there some way for gribble or http://bitcoin-otc.com to be queried by gpg signature rather than nick ?
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mircea_popescu: Jason one direct way would be to take the sig in question and check if there's an assbot rating on it.
kakobrekla: what does the extension have to do
mircea_popescu: what approach do you favour here, more like a. writing a supybot module for assbot and ready code to be run on the current server or more like b. running your own server with your own supybot etc ?