mircea_popescu: well this was like.. geography. who the fuck cares, buy a reference book.
mircea_popescu: i remember running into teachers in town and them going "you know i've not seen you this year"
assbot: SRSSucks - where we mock the actual ridiculous shit reddit says
mircea_popescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSsucks/ << lol check it out. reddit has discovered people mostly use them for lolz and DONT LIKE IT!
mircea_popescu: i guess that may be, the brits ended up with a shitton of spinsters once they tried to be both sane and puritanically monogamous.
ben_vulpes: this is life under the monogamous regime. one for one and all shall have one
mircea_popescu: first, you allow all the failures in the pool. then, they figure they should count for something, they're there after all, no ? and next, since being a failure is easier, how about make it mandatory! and then have a vote about how things should be, with a million fucking failures everywhere.
mircea_popescu: everyone figures himself the fucking president or something now.
mircea_popescu: fucking whiners. what happened to being thankful for the scrap he got!
ben_vulpes: OlegDB is a database that meets the bottom line head-on. It operates under a startling new enterprise-ready paradigm which we call MAYO: Marginally available Yolk and Oil database.
ben_vulpes: that markov chain is a reference to "horse ebooks", and is either a markov chain or one of the hackers in question
Namworld: I'm surprised they'd make they effort to attempt it, would have imagined a straight liquidation of assets for distribution in fiat.
mircea_popescu: ziggamon: I mean religious in quotes. as in something that is within the realm of belief. you must trust the invisible hand that powers the consensus mechanism. << never trust a "mechanism". if you have to trust, pick someone to trust and trust them.
mircea_popescu: schneier regularly says the booboo, which is what makes him such a fucking shitface.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the ethical expectation of mastery is that it may never say fundamentally wrong things. it may adapt fundamentally correct things to any audience, but it never say teh booboo.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: follow-up thought on "cats don't love". Do babies love? << no. this is well studied, first they consume, then they deject, then they love.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's a scratch on the surface, the intuitions i suspect largely correct, but one could really go into a lot more detailed analysis on the topic. probably with the tools of the psychiatrist or antropologist.
mircea_popescu: no, they're not "our" credit cards they're stealing, they're ~the bank's~. and no, it's not because "vulnerabilities in software". it's because instead of waiting on every word here, the banks in question pay off twerps to pretend.
mircea_popescu: punkman: I thought unplugged laptop on shelf would be safe < you know you can actually calculate the induced current as a function of speed, field and the conductors in question.
The20YearIRCloud: The RentalStarter conference call is live in 15m at : https://plus.google.com/events/ck5l6dn5dhp2nvujfcrc64e66n0
chetty: An English blogger writing for the Nomen Global Language Center in Utah was fired for posting about homophones last week after his employer said the word was too close to homosexual and homophobe.
ben_vulpes: <The20YearIRCloud> I hope that this test proves conservation of motion in space wrong << i think you mean conservation of momentum
ben_vulpes: <kuzetsa> but why are you nesting pipes inside each other? << standing desk on the cheap
thickasthieves: he has all these quotes and observations
thickasthieves: well i said, the guy's problem is he's too emotional
thickasthieves: the guy is still going
thickasthieves: "My Journal is the PERFECT example of what EMOTION will do to you in this game. I just updated it. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AieQiVL6xc-1dHE5anhTSGotYUVIMmR5cERIYU5BOVE&output=html"
The20YearIRCloud: I hope that this test proves conservation of motion in space wrong and they can produce drives with the thrust possibilities as they believe are possible
mircea_popescu: if magnetism was a chick, the only thing we'd know about her would be that it interacts with the cock (ie, electric field)
mircea_popescu: magnetism is by far the least understood macrophenomenon.
thickasthieves: not attributable to any classical electromagnetic phenomenon," the scientists write.
thickasthieves: Most impressively, the NASA team specifically built two Cannae Drives, including one that was designed to fail, and instead it worked. As the scientists write in their paper abstract: "thrust was observed on both test articles, even though one of the test articles was designed with the expectation that it would not produce thrust." That suggests the drive is "producing a force that is
fluffypony: beacuse the world just woke up
assbot: Why the head of Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange should be in jail | Ars Technica
fluffypony: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/why-the-head-of-mt-gox-bitcoin-exchange-should-be-in-jail/
kuzetsa: but why are you nesting pipes inside each other?
ben_vulpes has fit many a pipe inside other pipes
mircea_popescu: the 1 3/8 is id.
ben_vulpes: atoms agglomerated together
ben_vulpes: other people's shops...
mircea_popescu: the thing with getting laid is you gotta ask.
ben_vulpes: i've always been the kind of learner who did best by wandering around the junkyard asking "what is this" of someone who knows than the kind of guy who comes up with the universal joint from first principles
assbot: The Many D'ohs of Homer Simpson! - YouTube
mircea_popescu: the word you're looking for is doooh.
ben_vulpes: on an entirely different topic, does anyone have a good hack for measuring the OD of a tube?
mircea_popescu: now someone wanted to see what white meant, days ago. well this is it. the ideology of early feudal lords.
mircea_popescu: im not saying the female pov is illegitimate, merely unfortunate.
assbot: Every Sperm is Sacred - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life - YouTube
mircea_popescu: but the woman in question wasn't happy with the idiocy control. so as a result... the guy wouldn't impregnate her anymore. and here we are.
mircea_popescu: so now here we go : they had no bc there, and as an indirect but quite certain consequence, that cowpoke'd have given any woman as many kids as she could carry.
mircea_popescu: A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down [...] But the stranger drew his gun and fired before he even saw.
mircea_popescu: but hey, it's the way nature usually hits one over the head. they want to live in a world where men don't kill their kids, no matter what. turns out that can be built, but the cost is they can also never be happy.
ben_vulpes: also i'm starting to suspect that hormonal birth control makes teh wimminz ultrasad due to not knowing that they're going through the usual hormonal flux. just 'cause there's no bleeding doesn't mean that there are no hormones flopping around.
ben_vulpes: might just be that time of the month who knows
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: punkman: Depends on how big the event is where the laptop is, and whether it is plugged in. << not really. plug your laptop into 110kv, the transformer wil blow, maybe the power entry will blow, the hdd won't blow.
mircea_popescu: well if the help smells good it's asking for it!!1
ben_vulpes: plus i don't know if it's that good of an idea to start diddling the help
mircea_popescu: ah then ok :p
mircea_popescu: The law stipulates the establishment of a Social Solidarity Fund as part of the organisational structure of the Community Development Authority (CDA) with aims to enhance cooperation among society members and provide social welfare for eligible Emirati families.
mircea_popescu: His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, in his capacity as the Ruler of Dubai, has issued Law No. 7 of 2012 regarding social benefits for UAE nationals in Dubai.
mircea_popescu: punkman: ahaha just figured it out, it's from the government's "social solidarity fund", no idea why I qualify for that shit << because you're poor!
mircea_popescu: punkman: yes my bank is gonna give me a different IBAN just for Paypal << that's lulzy. srsly, tell the bank some script indian said iban is ambiguous. maybe you need a new ipban
ben_vulpes: oh hey look another lethal object to ban
assbot: 2CELLOS - Welcome To The Jungle [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube
bats_cd03: The Egg vaguely reminds me of God's Debris
bats_cd03: dudes need to get over it or kill themselves.
assbot: The Egg
bats_cd03: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html a good novella if you havent read it already
ben_vulpes: bats_cd03: kinda why i don't give much truck to people complaining about how hard group "x" has it - there's always another group bitching about something.
bats_cd03: i even read some of the stuff in the universe written by the dude's son after he passed. wasn't good.
bats_cd03: hax the planet, etc.
bats_cd03: got mah facedancer in the mail http://goodfet.sourceforge.net/hardware/facedancer21/ ^_____^
ziggamon: it’s like the ouija board. you know what it looks like and you know that it’s your collective hands under the table moving it. but it appears unpredictable and magic
ziggamon: BingoBoingo: in a way. but also not, since the ecosystem is so much larger than the algorithm itself
BingoBoingo: ziggamon: Open source though means you can stare into the beast's heart
ziggamon: I mean religious in quotes. as in something that is within the realm of belief. you must trust the invisible hand that powers the consensus mechanism.
BingoBoingo: Pythagoras and his cult are usually the first ones people remember
thickasthieves: see Anathem
BingoBoingo: ziggamon: There's a long history of people surrounded by math feeling a touch of religion through the purity of the numbers
BingoBoingo: ziggamon: So BTC is religious in the Cantor's going mad contemplating infinities and set theory way?
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: danielpbarron is an honest holy man. spreads the words of God's hate
BingoBoingo: Though with the non-waiver trade deadline having passed yesterday hot stove slows down for a bit
BingoBoingo: assbot and kakobrekla Confounding each other
kakobrekla: <BingoBoingo> Well I dunno that even kakobrekla can always anticipate assbot's actual workings < - also the other way around.
novusordo: seems like a great fellow to hold the reins to a currency exchange
BingoBoingo: novusordo: Well... "The 2010 decision shows that Karpeles lost by default, and he was found liable of fraudulent access to an automated data processing system and fraudulent changes to data contained in an automated data processing system. The document also states that Karpeles admitted to French authorities that he had pirated a server."
novusordo: just the head
assbot: Why the head of Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange should be in jail | Ars Technica
BingoBoingo: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/why-the-head-of-mt-gox-bitcoin-exchange-should-be-in-jail/
thickasthieves: every article i read first goes through a what-are-they-trying-to-make-me-feel/think filter
assbot: Big Data Firm Says It Can Link Snowden Data To Changed Terrorist Behavior : The Two-Way : NPR
thickasthieves: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/01/336958020/big-data-firm-says-it-can-link-snowden-data-to-changed-terrorist-behavior
thickasthieves: The NSA, for its part, declined to comment."
thickasthieves: "It is relatively easy to find vulnerabilities in software," he added. "This is why cyber criminals do so well stealing our credit cards. And it is also going to be why intelligence agencies are going to be able to break whatever software these al-Qaida operatives are using."
thickasthieves: dont forget the baby!
diana_coman: ahaha, is the code already that arcane then? I did not realise it had enough history for that really
BingoBoingo: diana_coman: Well, there is only one way to find out
diana_coman: now I'm curious whether it will voice me down in ~30 min or not, lol
penguirker: New blog post: http://contravex.com/2014/07/31/y-combinator-the-american-idol-of-venture-capital/
BingoBoingo: And the intensity
BingoBoingo: chetty: Make sure to ground the can.
chetty: <BingoBoingo> punkman: Not for that, for Data backup and having computing machine that will work after such an event/watch solar weather and have a nice big metal trash can to pop laptops and flash drives and stuff into
BingoBoingo: Among other things.
BingoBoingo: punkman: Depends on how big the event is where the laptop is, and whether it is plugged in.
punkman: and from what I've read they don't keep too many spares
assbot: Solar storm: A massive 2012 CME just missed the Earth.
BingoBoingo: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/08/01/solar_storm_a_massive_2012_cme_just_missed_the_earth.html
punkman: "When I first heard of Ninkip2p, I was ecstatic. Finally, we have a PGP wallet we can use to keep our Bitcoin transactions even more secure? They also packaged it into a very clean and attractive interface"
BigBitz: They only keep one key, punkman.
punkman: so I suppose it's 2 of 3 and they can take your moneyz
punkman: another wallet inspector
punkman: gov subsidized a bunch of PV installations around here and most of them remain unconnected and can't sell back to the grid
BingoBoingo: DOn't they have a S3 or ZE or something nao
punkman: these are not too expensive, maybe if I had cheaper power
punkman: wonder if we can make #50000 in the next 3 weeks
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.02 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 2553.69 GH/s
punkman: oh now it makes sense, accountant says he applied for the moneyz
punkman: ahaha just figured it out, it's from the government's "social solidarity fund", no idea why I qualify for that shit
punkman: not yet, but there's a small amount coming soon, and I don't like to leave a balance with them
punkman: at least they admit their shit is broken: "We are aware of a number of customers who are currently unable to add their bank accounts to PayPal."
BingoBoingo: Well, FOIA has been refused before for other things, but...
BigBitz: well they can't refuse FOIA as it's .gov, right?
BingoBoingo: Hard to say. I guess we'll find out the price paid for certain if the FOIA act requests go through.
BigBitz: Interesting... wonder has this fuelled the uptrend that emerged from the $555 low yesterday.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The dickstabbers would bet and then wonder how they can lose money on the winning side.
BingoBoingo: Thankfully the bet is closed so there isn't a bunch of late betting before the FOIA requests go through
neuroCreep: There once was a pony named Fluff
mircea_popescu: i guess either the guy accidentally let it slip and threatened them to sue, or else it was dumbass copy and the editor fixed it.
cazalla: it's still in google if you search the quote though
mircea_popescu: lol i guess that's that then.
mircea_popescu: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-31/six-californias-a-tim-draper-idea-just-as-madcap-as-the-others
Vexual: she woke the whole croud
Vexual: the creams got so loud
cazalla: mircea_popescu, which article is that from? i found it on google but the actually article has the quote regarding $20 million price removed
Vexual: the answer will come
cazalla: i think punkman mentioned that was his reasoning for not better either
Vexual: or i could tell you the asnnswer
cazalla: refund the SR bet now imo
Vexual: no the price at whatever exchange at whatever time
mircea_popescu: " In June, U.S. Marshals auctioned off Bitcoins seized from Silk Road, the online market for illegal goods and services. Draper bought the lot for $20 million, beating out 44 other bidders."
fluffypony: there once was a neuro named Mode, who swallowed a rather large toad, with Myriads of coins, all girding his loins, he would ribbited, cackled, and crowed!
mircea_popescu: it's also mildly useful for crooked hedge fund mangers to explain to their half smart moneyed audience why exactly it is that i can make any % i want and they can only make a % that's two digits no matter what happens.
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the record, "volatility drag" is an artefact of the poor public school system in the us. the only reason it exists is that people do arithmetic rather than geometric %s. in other words, they don't compound.
mircea_popescu: yes, i gave the site a start.
peeta: soon after nakowa the max profit % went from 1% to 0.5%
peeta: ok, so it all hinges on the max profit %... if it was anything above 2% a blowup was likely because the volatility drag would be over the expected earnings
mircea_popescu: just like canada down there huh.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony do they even have drag in south africa ?
mircea_popescu: events aren't really to be explained is the thing. what are you goint to explain ?
peeta: so, I know you were supportive of Just-Dice at the beginning... I'm guessing you followed the nakowa saga?
peeta: ok, changing topic... I recently learned about volatility drag for the first time... I'm assuming you're familiar with it?
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal ikr
mircea_popescu: A savvy young hooker named Gail got busted and lodged in the jail. But the jailer got hot to be lodged in her twat, and so Gail made the bail with her tail.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Lazytown | Lazytown. The most awesome show on earth, starring Magnus Scheving (six- time European champion gymnast, entrepreneur of the year and an Icelandic ...
decimation: "Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. recently estimated that twice as many law graduates pass the bar exam as there are job openings for them. In other words, every year U.S. law schools churn out about 25,000 ?surplus? lawyers, many of whom are in debt. A large number of them go to law school with an ambition to enter politics someday. "
decimation: any wannabe lawyer who finds the bar exam to be too difficult to pass doesn't deserve to be a lawyer
mircea_popescu: Sergio Antonio (@SergiConte) July 30, 2014 fuck you @examsoft i've been crying for two hours. i'm not even fucking kidding right now this is the worst night of my life. <<< supposedly adult us male.
mircea_popescu: because yeah, that's the right thing to do when mp says you';re stupid, come out with an "there have been some implications that we're stupid from some people that don't understand us"
mircea_popescu: then various twerps derp about "upholding contracts" in mises.org, and when i call them too smart by half they nervously BUT ANONYMOUSLY address it
mircea_popescu: they wish they had it, they like to pretend like they have it, but they don't actually.
mircea_popescu: im impressed with their not being quite ready to go home yet. various other twerps with delusions of historical importance (france, say) don't have it.
mircea_popescu: decimation> I can see why default is the most attractive option here << it is quite as the local elite presents it, a matter of "fuck you or else we might as well go home."
BingoBoingo: Future 'Murican Lawyers http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/bar-exam-tech-disaster-inspires-lawsuit-threats-operat-1613129108/+Sean-Newell
asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014/07/spy-reporting-federal-crimes.pdf << fuhrer decree to the effect that nsa, etc. can be used to enforce u.s. laws.
decimation: I can see why default is the most attractive option here
decimation: so the Fed "prints" dollars, loans them to New York Banks, the banks loan the printed dollars to Argentina, Argentina wants a better deal, Argentina decides not to pay, and now the Supreme court 'upholds' that the US court finds that Argentina must repay the printed dollars loaned to the banks loaned to Argentina?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: The20YearIRCloud: Isn't MegaMillions a lottery game?
mircea_popescu: "The point the op was making is that adoni has mega millions in assets yet all their people posting here get negative ratings from broke losers mad they have no mega million dollar assets to dicuss deals on." << check it out, teh tortilla got moar competition.
nam-shub: What is a RON then?
assbot: This is how you ERASE the BS TRUST on this forum
mircea_popescu: o look, log messes up the apostrophe too.
mircea_popescu: you are probably messing up the apostrophe.
The20YearIRCloud: it's redirecting me to the homepage mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud ^
mircea_popescu: also, this is well disputed in the logs. they dont "fall under ny jurisdiction because they were issued in ny". they specifically say they do, because of a previous default.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: I find the wording I used more accurate than your suggested correction.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> unlike the us, Argentina doesn't have the ability to pretend to be solvent forever << it does have the ability to pretend. it doesn't have the hordes of idiots to pretend they believe the pretense.
BingoBoingo: Oh, the statement.
jwSchool: The bill repeals the provision of the old legislation, which banned the use of "anything but the lawful money of the United States."
jwSchool: think they just repealed a law that outlawed it
The20YearIRCloud: k, i haven't been paying attention to most of the mpex listings (obviously)
BingoBoingo: Pushed it out as soon as the month rolled over GMT because it has some new
BingoBoingo: The20YearIRCloud: Nah, from mine
peterl: oh, linked on the blogs?
BingoBoingo: peterl: I dunno if your are interested, but the first MPIF PC statement's already hit.
BingoBoingo: It's murkey aside from the NY Bitlicense thing. Some have taken the Federal line at Bitcoin isn't... Money as they regulate it like Texas.
BingoBoingo: They dunno how Big Bitcoin might get, but if it takes off this seems to be the chance for them to leave New York's shadow
BingoBoingo: Well, this is why the trend in US States not named New York seems to be Not really regulating Bitcoin-Bitcoin interaction
The20YearIRCloud: lots of VC and capital in NY , i'm sure they feel like they're still gateway to the US
BingoBoingo: the20year: Well, that's why New York Imagines they can regulate Bitcoin, because New York is where people used to have to trade if the wanted access to capital
The20YearIRCloud: I don't understand why they issued debt through new york, unless they had to be approved in a US state in order to sell it here
BingoBoingo: the20year: Well, because the people who didn't want the to resturcture... Were the ones who claimed jurisdiction
BingoBoingo: Well, it seems... New York isn't as important as it used to be if Newer New York can flip it the bird
decimation: "A U.S. District Court has ruled that Argentina can't pay holders of restructured bonds until it compensates the holdouts, who have sued for full payment on bonds the country defaulted on in 2001. Some investors accepted discounted bonds in restructurings in 2005 and 2010. The bonds fall under New York jurisdiction because they were issued in New York."
ben_vulpes: neener neener you're not authed
nam-shub: thanks BingoBoingo - I can voice up my other nick if I have something truly beautiful to impart to the community
gribble: Error: "baseball,NLRookieoftheYear" is not a valid command.
BingoBoingo: ;;baseball,NLRookieoftheYear
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski i already have one web thing that i gotta stare at all day on my plate, the blog'd be too much right at this point
penguirker: New blog post: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/07/31/july-combined-trading-statement/
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes i was expecting a lot more obvious drunkedness tbh. but sober ? maybe you should write a book. << book? what book. "hey. tits? they're worth 0.1 btc now, which i'll hold for you indefinitely. let's tits. tits everyone? great." << precisely. why book when you can blog?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: decimation intellectuals SHOULD run everything. the only problem is that the courtiers of the french republic are not intellectuals. << indeed. contemporary courtiers are but lengthily-educated jesters
pete_dushenski: FoOdies5: but seriously tho, seenig what kids these days grow up on, we're pretty much fucked << has said everyone since forever. not that i'm removed from this
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: my philosophy is not that it should be hard, but merely that if anyone complains, of anything, it should be made worse for them. << be grateful.
cazalla: hey reddit, the water bill is $700 this month but you managed to raised $7000, pat on back reward is warranted
BingoBoingo: *except for the ones that are 4.0
ThickAsThieves: all the .0s are taken we'll need to make a new domain
mircea_popescu: i mean on one hand the cunt has more features
mircea_popescu: since we're on the topic, is cunt asshole 2.0 or vice versa ?
assbot: There Is No "Bitcoin 2.0" | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
pete_dushenski: ThickAsThieves: well… http://contravex.com/2014/03/19/there-is-no-bitcoin-2-0/
ThickAsThieves: <+coltan> I read that already the guys doesn't seem to be into bitcoin 2.0 that much /\\/ o dear...
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ThickAsThieves: <+FabianB> omg, lol, sorry for posting that /// pay the assbot!
mircea_popescu: then one day discovers cheksums that are FUCKING WRONG
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these people - have not yet reached that state of child development
mircea_popescu: justusranvier http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9dp8uSZoQ1qddd4so1_500.jpg << meanwhile the proctologists sans frontieres are... buried in work ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: then kid discovers checksums - learns to do arithmetic.
mircea_popescu: <coltan> I read that already the guys doesn't seem to be into bitcoin 2.0 that much << nor into web 2.0, for that matter.
BigBitz: What do you mean true? You just commented that 'they took the internet and added some privacy and security to it seems nice to me' .....