bitcoinpete: "With apologies to both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, it seems the rich are not only different than you and me; they also have even more money than we previously thought." << que bueno!
fluffypony: and then we're tendering for a sales office on an estate on the Garden Route that has tons of holiday homes for rent
bitcoinpete: lol bitstein told alan silbert to download the core client and… run it.
bitcoinpete: hurry! before the veecees break something!
bitcoinpete: "@jgarzik Jeff, is there a dumbed-down explanation somewhere of how to set up a node?"
mircea_popescu: c) their publishers include luminaries such as "fair ponzi"
mircea_popescu: so a) they advertise in google, paying top dollar (1st result)
mircea_popescu: fluffypony so not that terribly interesting, the sort of "i've done google research from the us" article.
chairforce1: im out, thanks for the ups
mircea_popescu: enjoyment is the mind killer.
asciilifeform: this is the most riotously funny nsa turd yet.
asciilifeform: so now we see that these (likely same, but usg never commissions just one turd of a particular variety) idiots did indeed crap out something like a $1B version of 'ida hexray.'
asciilifeform: me: why would terrorist run ms-win. he: they will always, trust me.
asciilifeform: one of my first job interviews out of uni. telephone. a fellow from one of the giant gov. contractors was really intrigued that i know x86 asm., have reversed crud for money. i ask him 'what's the job'. he: automated reversing. me: of what. he: ever hear of karatsuba's algo? me: sure. bignum mult. him: well, we wanna find encryption softs on terrorist drives!
decimation: I wonder why usg & hmg bother to pay "spies" to ... secretly watch ebay auctions
asciilifeform: 'nevis... is a tool developed by NTAC to search disk images for possible Encryption products. CMA have further developed this tool to look for signs of Steganography'
asciilifeform: 'quincy... exploitation of seized media' << another mega-lol
mircea_popescu: We selected 526,000 OkCupid users at random and divided them into groups by their (self-stated) race. We then took all these people's profile essays (280 million words in total!) << ok this makes me fucking curious.
assbot: Showtime : The L Word : Home
decimation: probably this http://www.sho.com/sho/the-l-word/home
mircea_popescu: wtf is "the l word"
mircea_popescu: o lol you went by map. i think they just didn't fill it in
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron this is false, i personally had drinks with a bunch of openly gay people there.
decimation: I guess I was thinking of reasons why "the public" would bother to invest in a publically available stock.
mircea_popescu: this okcupid stuff is a goldmine. "Another inquiry that had unexpected results: we asked 252,900 straight people have you ever had a sexual encounter with someone of the same sex?". men : 7% did and enjoyed it ; 6% did and didn't enjoy it ; 5% didn't but would like to try. women : 26% did and enjoy it ; 7% didn't enjoy it ; 18% would like to try it.
mircea_popescu: decimation experience shows that approach is not only theoretically naive, but also actually leads to failure.
decimation: it seems to me that there's a pent-up demand for income for those who are holders of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: you know ? if you want to make whatsapp and there's no phone carrier, now what ?
mircea_popescu: or if they need it.
benkay: one'd only roll their own if the existing solution were such crap that it could easily be beat in the market.
mircea_popescu: so yes, it IS a gift to the community. just, not in the sense you'd think. it's the sort of gift you're not at a loss for giving, like sharing music.
mike_c: mp also has a theory that listing prevents competition because they can just invest in you instead of building a copy.
mircea_popescu: a more practical approach is to look at "why do people get into the wot ?" and go from there. why do people finish highschool ? why do people go on to college ? should everyone with a hs diploma strive to go to college ? etc.
mircea_popescu: but this is really like the discussion of whether bitcoin or network difficulty are too high or too low or w/e.
mircea_popescu: supposedly mpex manages to mitigate the drawbacks while supercharging the advnatages,
mircea_popescu: it also has some disadvantages, such as a loss of control, or association with another party or whatever.
mircea_popescu: these also work together, like n+s : more people are paying attention, so it works like open source for your accounting, for instance.
mircea_popescu: the existential question either exploits or bumbles into this fundamental problem. it can never have an actual answer,
benkay: it does, no q, but is that the sole roi?
mircea_popescu: why the existential q's anyway ?
chairforce1: there thats me
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mike_c: so plz find the bugs.
mike_c: ok testers, WoL just shipped websockets for the minigames.
decimation: lol http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/121121.html "Ear-tipped cats are feral cats that have been trapped, neutered, and then re-released. "
mike_c: why does bitcoin price go up? "adoption" seems a poor answer to me. to me it is because the value of the whole system actually increases. perhaps part of that value increase is due to having a more vibrant financial ecosystem.
decimation: I think there's a pent-up demand for bitcoin income
peterl: benkay: so there's the answer i'm looking for - liquidity for the owners. << as I said, they want their hookers and blow now
benkay: apologies, i didnt mean to imply that i was re-asking the question, more that i'd already guessed that was a reason.
benkay: the old "adoption" thing.
mike_c: you are making me answer for him, which i am not qualified to do. but I would guess two things. 1) yes 2) mayhaps some people benefit from advancing the ecosystem.
benkay: <benkay> is it a generous donation to the ecosystem? "here i made this thing and by my grace you can partake of its profits"?
mike_c: that is one answer. another might have to do with mp's desire to build an ecosystem. but i'll leave that answer to him.
decimation: "According to Volack, most of the stray and wild cats in the city are usually spotted in backyards, and she sometimes gets resistance when she tries to trap the cats. "I've been trying my hardest to capture the strays and feral cats and kittens, but I have just as many people who don't want me to trap them as those who do.""
mike_c: liquidity for the owners is a big reason
benkay: so then we come back to my question - why would an an0 company list publically?
assbot: Number of stray cats on the rise in Laurel and Prince George's County - baltimoresun.com
mike_c: bitbet does nothing with the money. it's a zac
benkay: hey kakobrekla can you clue us into the traffic bitbet's pushing?
benkay: <peterl> you are saying there is nothing you could do with more money? // riddle me this - what does bitbet do with the money?
mike_c: it's true. i'll put it on the list
peterl: and what are the buildings in vegas if not playgrounds too?
mike_c: the irs explicitly said bitcoin isn't money
mike_c: minigames are bets against the house
peterl: you are saying there is nothing you could do with more money?
mike_c: join the club. i'm working on that.
mike_c: WoL does need capital. hence the loan from mpif
benkay: is it a generous donation to the ecosystem? "here i made this thing and by my grace you can partake of its profits"?
peterl: benkay: if you need more capital to grow, then you IPO to get an influx of cash
assbot: When you fuck a stranger in the ass - YouTube
benkay: the joys of private ownership.
mircea_popescu: ahahahaah okcupid blog links their competitor as sausageparty.com
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla she was after the big ding dongs.
mircea_popescu: ok so, mpex report : the servers are built and racked. they have power. os installed. networking isn't working properly, clustering software being hammered into shape.
kakobrekla: so she was after the money ?
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: there you go, I'm now oktrends, sort of. http://blog.azelphur.com/node/297
thestringpuller: to /msg BingoBoingo ugh restaraunts. the sucky thing abouy finding good restaurants you have to go through the shitty ones first
thestringpuller: there needs to be a recruitahoodrat.com
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BingoBoingo: I'm a lemon party truther. Lemon party is an Obama scheme to keep McCain out of the White House.
ThickAsThieves: probly just the direction
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> well it's a shitty movie, but i guess it makes this particular sidepoint well. /// everyone ive ever shown the movie too agrees with you, but it has this lingering impression
mircea_popescu: benkay what, with each other ?
benkay: i did cart her off to burning man and then demanded a dowry so you may be on to something there
mircea_popescu: "honey, i love you very much, but i just can't live without twentysomething yo cunt in the house"
mircea_popescu: maybe your father in law is considering it's unfair you shoulda got the vixen, and wants to get a replacement.
mircea_popescu: pre-that, 80%+ of the chicks i knew states-side went
benkay: no but srsly the foxnews conservative gentleman is going to burning man
benkay: lady v's father is going to burning man
mircea_popescu: all this because they refused to implement anti-inclusiveness, hierarchy, closedness, etc.
assbot: Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way - YouTube
mircea_popescu: huddled around two 386 hooked into a dialup modem (cca 2004!), at the Luxor Center For Businessmen.
mircea_popescu: much like when i hear smeone's an entrepreneur, what i think about are the poor egyptian kids in luxor.
mircea_popescu: that's the thing.
nubbins`: re: the retard cop (john c reilly), he's done some really bizarre comedy
mircea_popescu: what was the film with that retard cop
benkay: so does the usg, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: benkay sure. they got a gdp and everything.
mircea_popescu: they see a cop, the underdevelop part of their brain that regulates behaviour gets a jolt.
mircea_popescu: also, idiots tend to think nothing they can't see exists. best way to keep compton in line is keeping cars on patrol.
nubbins`: it's harder to squeeze the dead air back out
nubbins`: but once the ranks swell
mircea_popescu: if you can give them someone to shitface, then you can get the dangerous to be useful.
nubbins`: nobody riots until they do
nubbins`: potheads don't riot
mircea_popescu: and since the actual niggers are rioting... they moived to fags. those also rioted in the 50s
mircea_popescu: otherwise, it becomes too expensive.
mircea_popescu: benkay no, it's not a war. the way i see it, to keep a police force going you gotta give it some niggers to pick on.
benkay: it's an outlawing of things to make work for the rent-seekers.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the range o' feelings.
assbot: Guys get erections every morning, right? The concept of "morning" varies depending on where you live, with the "morning line" basically spinning around the earth infinitely, right? So does that mean that humanity has been doing a "boner wave" around the earth for hundreds of thousands of years? : Showerthoughts
nubbins`: http://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/2aokbz/guys_get_erections_every_morning_right_the/
mircea_popescu: dub people deal with the problem of global warming by giving the bums involved more money to do more "research"
benkay: this one realizes that there's nothing to be done subconsciously about physics.
nubbins`: well no, that's the previous generation
nubbins`: what else do you expect from a generation that deals with problems by ignoring them
nubbins`: dudes who don't wanna deal with the 5 minutes of awkwardness it takes to break up with someone they're not really interested in
mircea_popescu: and holy shit year and a half average relationships ?! what the fuck sense does that make, it's the uncanny valley of relationships. either a few good fucks for a coupla weeks or else years, who does this middle of the road bs ?
mircea_popescu: i have an idea, just deliver add medicine with the whale.
mircea_popescu: Frequent tweeters have shorter real-life relationships than everyone else, probably via some bit.ly hack. Unfortunately, we have no way to tell who's dumping who here; whether the twitterati are more annoying or just more flighty than everyone else.
ThickAsThieves: where is the "Odds Someone Enjoys Getting Oral Sex?"
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ThickAsThieves: Secret, one of the many anonymous social networks that’s risen to prominence over the past six months, today announced a $25 million Series B round led by Index Ventures.
ThickAsThieves: so they say
mircea_popescu: davout http://akcdn.okccdn.com/blog/10charts/Frenchmen.png << it's official. they got the datas.
mircea_popescu: for all religions not in (atheist, agnostic)
ThickAsThieves: of the type of person that would fill out okcupid profiles
mircea_popescu: If you want to know... Do my date and I have the same politics? Ask him or her... » Do you prefer the people in your life to be simple or complex? Because... http://akcdn.okccdn.com/blog/first_date_questions/SimplicityComplexity.png
Azelphur: nope, 145 users within 25 miles as me, 69 of them answered the question, 28 of them got it right
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mircea_popescu: seems they not only figured this out, but also have a slightly better one. nuclear attack in certain light ?
mircea_popescu: Q: Could you imagine yourself killing someone? << fuck me! this actually is to my knowledge the best predictor there is.
Azelphur: given the answer to all 3, you have an answer xD
mircea_popescu: "Sadly, this is the only question with a meaningful correlation for women. For men there are a few others" << now i like them again.
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: because they ask users 1) Would you consider sleeping with someone on a first date, 2) What sex are you, 3) Do you like the taste of beer?
mircea_popescu: if you think a buncha fratbros being in denial about how shitty budlight is makes a good predictor for whether maryjane in sorority rush is likely to fuck you right now...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'the average number of legs a customer has is...'
mircea_popescu: to imagine the genders are idempotent in this line... holy shit.
mircea_popescu: ok i fucking don't like them anymore.
mircea_popescu: "Okay, if you want to know... Will my date have sex on the first date? Ask... » Do you like the taste of beer? Because... Among all our casual topics, whether someone likes the taste of beer is the single best predictor of if he or she has sex on the first date."
mircea_popescu: o ok Azelphur , i like them nao.
mircea_popescu: "The basic currency of the Internet is human ignorance, and, frankly, our database holds a strong cash position!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's what the fuck us media does, anyway. buncha retarded kids who can't touch each other growing up, sitting around reading cracked and jezbel to figure out what to say to each other
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was it "The Cyrano de Bergerac Memorial Dating Agency" ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: robert sheckley had a story ('50s) about a 'dating agency' that would tell you exactly what to do, through a hidden earphone. fellow puts it on, and gets really bored, because it turns out they also sell to the gurlz
mircea_popescu: o look, the official ca'nt sp'eal.
mircea_popescu: "The official blog of OkCupid.com. Shows trends and insights into it's online dating network."
mircea_popescu: after all, the space of language is actually finite, and besides, what are people who don't know each other gonna talk about.
mircea_popescu: sorta like a "talking to womenz prosthetic"
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many twentysomething owners of moderately successful sm sites have so far selected the interractions of all the people that got laid on the site and hashtree'd it.
asciilifeform: the women probably have a bayesian spamzapper. you want to slip past, not end up inside.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu missed an 'invert' operator in there
mircea_popescu: select the rest.
mircea_popescu: then send it to your prospects, see who answers
Azelphur: and as the site allows you to see peoples answers to questions, I can just do db queries and filter all those people out xD
mircea_popescu: how's the clue > 0 part work ?
mircea_popescu: Azelphur im not so up to date with the thing, so you're calling some dating site's api
ThickAsThieves: http://www.coindesk.com/linkedin-co-founder-bitcoin-smart-five-year-investment/ guy looks like pee wee herman's nemesis http://paolostheateroftheabsurd.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/francis_buxton2.jpg
mircea_popescu: "Despite a guilty plea, Taylor was given the death penalty. In 2010, Taylor tried to commit suicide by stuffing pens and pencils in his eye sockets, which only ended up blinding him. On August 14, 2013, Taylor hanged himself in his cell using his bedsheets."
mircea_popescu: that's the atomic cumbiscuit ?
mircea_popescu: cht read aloud from the Satanic Bible.
mircea_popescu: The foursome would travel around the city in Gechts van and either lure women to the van or outright kidnap them. They would take the victims back to Gechts apartment in order to sacrifice them. First, they took turns raping the victim, before removing the breast using piano wire. Apparently, they subsequently masturbated onto the amputated breast before dicing it up and then eating it. This was all done while Ge
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is a usa-specific thing, that probably needs explanation. a number of convicts argued (to varying degrees of success) that their execution, via the locally prescribed method, 'couldn't possibly work humanely'
mircea_popescu: yet another thing that works better for corporations.
mircea_popescu: Lundgren told jurors at his trial that he was a prophet of God and not worthy of the death penalty. The jurors disagreed and sentenced him to death. In a last-ditch appeal, Lundgren claimed he was too fat to be executed. The court shot down that appeal, too, and he was executed by lethal injection on October 24, 2006.
mircea_popescu: "The South Pacific's first native Anglican bishop, Sir George Ambo, was excommunicated after running off with a nun, Sister Cora, with whom he set up a visionary cult."
mircea_popescu: next one up, "Operating in Massachusetts in the late 70s, the Fall Rivers Cult was led by 25-year-old Carl Drew. Drew was a pimp who used Satanism to terrify the prostitutes who worked for him."
mircea_popescu: http://listverse.com/2014/07/02/10-terrifyingly-evil-killer-cults/ << check out the vampyre kids
mike_c: ok, it doesn't *really* see the future
mike_c: it sees the future
mircea_popescu: i wonder if there's a weirdo-christian website paying women to have breastreduction.
Xplosionist: mircea_popescu: YEah, but if you could get a whole lot of blowjobs from someone for a couple hundred bucks toniation toward her plastic surgery, then.
ThickAsThieves: i'd be even less likely to take them
ThickAsThieves: why would you by drugs on the interwebs?
mircea_popescu: why would you buy blowjobs on the interwebs ?
Xplosionist: I wonder if they prohibit suggesting repayment in blowjobs?
mircea_popescu: i doubt it. prolly more like "click to feed the indians" sorta deal
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i imagine it must. but i get the same off random ips too
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Xplosionist: asciilifeform: Getting up in the panties. nice.
asciilifeform: !up PantyHotOffThePr
mircea_popescu: i will end up owning the english language.
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mircea_popescu: why do you thin kthe sewer is a thing ?
mircea_popescu: usually the way this works is it misjudges itself, attacks a rat, the rat bites it badly,
asciilifeform: was a rather skinny and aged (17 y!) speciment, however.
mircea_popescu: rats aren't actually either brave or pack-hunters.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the cat in question was part of an 8-cat brigade, so rat is unlikely.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: Xplosionist: afaik neither animal is the likely suspect << a lot of rats.
PantyHotOffThePr: Not particularly, pictures are one thing but slamming my face in a video when I may become a teacher probably isn't the smartest idea.
mircea_popescu: PantyHotOffThePr so the question to you was, do you want to pursue camwhoring as a career ?
ThickAsThieves: The Infininati
mircea_popescu: minus the nose.
mircea_popescu: !up PantyHotOffThePr
kakobrekla: they look like running out of argentina
asciilifeform misread from corner of eye, 'discover his elevator is actually the closet', initially puzzled
ThickAsThieves: who's the nigger now!
mircea_popescu: dude waiting for elevator in lobby, sorta middle aged middle east looking guy. i push the button, look around, discover his elevator is actually the closest, nod at him, guy is sorta scowling at me. then he moves over. elevator gets here, i go in, he's not going in. i go like come right in, he's pushing the button
jurov: imo the cat was eaten by spider
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: At least living in a place with winter you don't have to worry about the problem of large snakes becoming established carnivorous megafauna
BingoBoingo: Ah, well then I guess we have to see what one of the other Murican urban futures labs report.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as i recall, they've already been eaten.
BingoBoingo: I wonder what a few more generations of feral culture will do to the wild dogs in Detroit.
BingoBoingo: I always imagined electic ignition firearms were for stuff like that caseless ammunition asssault rifle idea the Germans played with in the 80's
benkay: i also think robots aren't allowed to pull triggers on their own.
asciilifeform: though the whole thing strikes me as quite like fishing with dynamite - where does the sport remain in the hunt ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: accuracy. as pictured in the linked review.
asciilifeform: benkay: ancient project. objective, in reality, is to bring on the wet dream of dod contractors everywhere: bullet costing $MAXINT.
BingoBoingo: That would be a rather large cage trap (the only kind really permitted in human habited areas.
BingoBoingo: I mean it's hard to set traps for coyote that also won't be appealing to every other animal around, so you'd prelly have to go for a live trap.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, at least for coyote sized targets. Otherwise there are some primer motivated only rimfire loads that are rather quiet
Xplosionist: BingoBoingo: If only the automated lead disbursal was an easier to solve problem. :-)