benkay: but sadly also wrong
benkay: the ones who argue a) satoshi hoard and b) implementation-as-specification are right
benkay: everyone thinks its crazy and or stupid
benkay: bitcoin stable for spring 2014 at 650
benkay: it's great right?
benkay: this is no secret to me, mircea_popescu
benkay: ;;ud kolhozes
benkay: not this power-concentrating pure money technology bullshit
benkay: makes sense, right? nerds want to have other nerds idolized by nerd-tokens.
benkay: although in his vision it was the reputation system that cracked 'em open, not the breaking of the fiat bank.
benkay: when A. is basically all about what the world looks like after the hidebound states fall over
benkay: yeah, him.
benkay: it was interesting to see the Accelerando guy take his stance on bitcoin being evil
benkay: Kim Stanley Robinson. he gets a wee-bit preachy and long in the mouth (like Rand) but has a very vivid story about the different groups who emigrated and why and what they all did with themselves.
benkay: chetty: did you ever read the Red/Green/Blue Mars books?
benkay: see asciilifeform even MP thinks your readers gotta be super alert.
benkay: thankee sir
benkay: hey mircea_popescu where's the essay in which you explain why proles can't afford privacy?
benkay: disease transmission's it's own peculiar set of tastes too.
benkay: so let it evaporate
benkay: which is why they wipe it down with solvent between performances, non?
benkay: matter of taste.
benkay: 2%?*
benkay: 25?
benkay: ?
benkay: 5%
benkay: somewhere there's a cutoff.
benkay: but you know
benkay: o of course
benkay: i think not. strippers can't handle rotational inertia.
benkay: o/ moiety
benkay: ;;ticker
benkay: ;;market
benkay: sold.
benkay: "we agree to!"
benkay: hey the20year2 what changes did you make?
benkay: wat ams even contract
benkay: lots of human in the loop there
benkay: man that's a risky play
benkay: the scam is in lying about the reality
benkay: like the lotto or anything with expected -ev outcomes
benkay: ya well no shame in it really
benkay: "GET YER BITCOIN PONZI SCHEMES UP AND RUNNIN BOYS WE GOT A NEW CROP OF SUCKERS IN TOWN"
benkay: mike_c: throwaway pun of the day ;)
benkay: mike_c: thanks
benkay: *noise of giant blocks getting shuffled around inefficiently*
benkay: virtual memory pointer to web of trust backups updated: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2014/02/19_bitcoin-otc-web-of-trust-backups.html
benkay: goodness 10btc you say
benkay: jurov: i do have virtual memory, but swap is extremely manual
benkay: nanotube keeps backups in public, i knew where they were at one point. that memory block has been gc'd for more useful things tho
benkay: hey nanotube where do you stuff the wot backups again?
benkay: "hold still! i must bonk you gently!"
benkay: nah. 6k.
benkay: ;;calc 2000/40
benkay: ;;calc 2000/wo
benkay: 2k/wk
benkay: but man you start /stacking/ ideas and people just trip over their own feet
benkay: thinking is hard to begin with
benkay: idea combinatorics
benkay: still want my own metal
benkay: blob store? we got it. presigned urls for user content? we got it. cdn? yup. servers. auto-backing-up database servers. load balancers.
benkay: dude youse guys aws is so seductively awesome
benkay: glacierrr
benkay: where's my berkely auto distribution
benkay: anything interesting happen today BingoBoingo?
benkay: it's a shame that y combinator is now understood to be a shitty us gambling operation
benkay: shit apples still taste like shit
benkay: "community"
benkay: "these are your fathers parentheses"
benkay: you can eat noodles out of a beard: http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/34671172198311e380cd22000a9f18de_7.jpg
benkay: more like the vicious midget - only american raised in violence since 1920
benkay: HA
benkay: the generative art and history of dwarf fortress is ridiculous
benkay: "benkay's head is cowed"
benkay: right benkay the legendary ogre of vampire slaying
benkay: mircea_popescu you gotta fuck with dwarf fortress
benkay: "on the poofball is an icon representing his fast typing victory over benkay"
benkay: "he is wearing a masterfully wrought cap with a poofball made of cave spider silk"
benkay: it's like dwarf fortress
benkay: nubbins` will paint you in your fancy hat
benkay: look you win fast types again
benkay: testosterbrony!
benkay: heard she sucks a mean dick
benkay: i'm looking for your sister
benkay: major life goal
benkay: yeah employment
benkay: fractional weeks however let me shift work around as necessary to get the big six-hour blocks in which we're productive
benkay: b) it's really hard to get shit done in fractional days
benkay: a) clients think in hours instead of projects
benkay: fractional days are a bad practice
benkay: topologically the same thing
benkay: no, it's 10 hr weeks
benkay: no
benkay: ?
benkay: "I am concerned about retaining rights to my intellectual property and building an engineering team that can document its own work. Plus lots of emotions."
benkay: it's a satire of an overwrought technical manager
benkay: mircea_popescu: intellectual property
benkay: !t h rent
benkay: this will end well
benkay: heh. "low cost bitcoin atm"
benkay: sir
benkay: good morning, assettes
benkay: argh engineering what even ams a tradeoff
benkay: wait no hang on they're great in some applications
benkay: but that's a damn hard line to hold in this consulting environment
benkay: i kinda think fuck single page javascript apps
benkay: praying for a successful pivot, i warrant.
benkay: bankruptcy walking, but the sharks are still just circling.
benkay: their previous startup has burned through like 20M in capital, and isn't even dead yet
benkay: it's hilarious
benkay: whatever happened to getting the job done?
benkay: *sigh*
benkay: "OMG IP AND CORE COMPETENCIES AND ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG"
benkay: "hey dudes, here ams rate sheet, figure you only will be interested in 1/4 time"
benkay: few days go by
benkay: (all unaware of my inability to correctly satoshize a bitcoin)
benkay: their poor devs were like "oh god yes save us from the documentation"
benkay: in other news i offered a startup against whose api i'm working a deal on some documentation
benkay: we'll see how things change when that does
benkay: cost of identity is still low
benkay: some say
benkay: the internet is a biiiig place
benkay: one can hop from scam to scam quite handily doing that for a while
benkay: loglink? herbijudlestoids
benkay: get super long nsa
benkay: hell yeah nsa's underpriced
benkay: what's weird about talking your book?
benkay: yeah and talk your book
benkay: 'cause nobody's going to read your blog
benkay: so: herbijudlestoids: mpoe: overpriced or no?
benkay: but nearly always forget that the interpretation is where the real money's at
benkay: quants like programmers want to be valued because they can make the numbers do stuff
benkay: your opinion is what differentiates you from a calculator
benkay: humans operating in those fields frequently lose the ability to communicate with others outside of those narrow, ultraspecialized fields.
benkay: the curse of technical fields
benkay: back test all the things
benkay: dat kabbalah
benkay: get a room, you two
benkay: variety speak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58-atNakMWw
benkay: re: variety speak
benkay: but still leads to all sorts of derpage in public like disqus
benkay: not really a big problem in the grand scheme of things
benkay: yeah the comment engine thing is a problem
benkay: push to arbitrary box.
benkay: generate html
benkay: maintain all files locally.
benkay: it's 2014 nao
benkay: wake up nubbins
benkay: (sorta)
benkay: <- kidding
benkay: i keep a repl in production
benkay: problem is everyone wants to think they're in the 10% of cases that need rigor
benkay: sufficient for like 90% of cases
benkay: secure acces with *nix roles and ssh
benkay: unpassword all the things
benkay: see? it's great.
benkay: i demand a link
benkay: link!
benkay: just lock the boxes with ssh and go smoke a bowl breh
benkay: unless you have the rigor to do a '12f' application, don't fuck around with cargocult 12fa
benkay: i mean i just don't get it
benkay: and also ssh keys all the thing
benkay: pankkake: i'm talking about everyone else out there
benkay: password which is in source control.
benkay: crazy rando db password 'cause what if cluster am breachified
benkay: so much cargo cult
benkay: u guys why ams even database password?
benkay: i know pankkake - still a horrible name
benkay: the least google-able programming language.
benkay: regarding 'go'
benkay: "it has curly braces! it must be javascript!"
benkay: har trolling business partner
benkay: blogspot?!
benkay: chasing that -assets economics award?
benkay: what ams even blog, herbijudlestoids?
benkay: o i am.
benkay: and by bottom i mean foundation?
benkay: HEYO
benkay: it's got a nice bottom
benkay: the fundamentals of neo/bee are horrible compared to the btc fundamentals.
benkay: some speculative plays in mpoe, nsa
benkay: btc.
benkay: i have 1 investment.
benkay: i just don't see any good reason to move my btc into neo/bee's pockets
benkay: i just don't see the genius, thecapitalr
benkay: i dunno man
benkay: three month gap between first stock on sale and first public trade?
benkay: thecapitalr: what were the terms of their ipo? "buy our stock at this price, trading begins on this date"?
benkay: anyways, point is some mortal gets arrogant and struck down by the gods
benkay: sorry guys
benkay: oh pastebin
benkay: unworthy of a goddess. To all this let me add, I have seven sons and seven daughters, and look for sons-in-law and daughters-in-law of pretensions worthy of my alliance. Have I not cause for pride? Will you prefer to me this Latona, the Titan's daughter, with her two children? I have seven times as many. Fortunate indeed am I, and fortunate I shall remain! Will any one deny this?
benkay: folly," said she, "is this! to prefer beings whom you never saw to those who stand before your eyes! Why should Latona be honored with worship rather than I? My father was Tantalus, who was received as a guest at the table of the gods; my mother was a goddess. My husband built and rules this city, Thebes; and Phrygia is my paternal inheritance. Wherever I turn my eyes I survey the elements of my power; nor is my form and presence
benkay: It was on occasion of the annual celebration in honor of Latona and her offspring, Apollo and Diana, when the people of Thebes were assembled, their brows crowned with laurel, bearing frankincense to the altars and paying their vows, that Niobe appeared among the crowd. Her attire was splendid with gold and gems, and her face as beautiful as the face of an angry woman can be. She stood and surveyed the people with haughty looks. "What
benkay: actualy neobee is a great name
benkay: ThickAsThieves: what is the actual deal with Neobee after all?
benkay: TITS
benkay: 'cause you know
benkay: i'm much more of a niobe kinda guy
benkay: if you're operating at the interface of fiat and bitcoin, you're going to have a bad time.
benkay: what ams even neobee
benkay: wow
benkay: my sides
benkay: the spooling
benkay: cracks me up
benkay: that one cracks me
benkay: (pipe)
benkay: blg yup
benkay: am i supposed to read this florida thing to imply i can move 20k+ but but 20k-??
benkay: HA
benkay: what's eulora built in?
benkay: you just don't understand!
benkay: leave poor php alone
benkay: stahp stahp stahp
benkay: now it's "they're just moving too much money. you're not allowed to move more than 30K without our permission."
benkay: originally "these horrible credit card fraudsters"
benkay: neat to note how the spin is changing: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/10165/floridas-bitcoin-sting-cast-doubt-law-enforcements-priorities-money-laundering-laws/
benkay: mircea_popescu: that's the point. avoiding "all of those things" is an impossible task.
benkay: but if you just avoid all those things you can write rock-solid code, mircea_popescu.
benkay: sad trombone
benkay: what's better is his response to davout saying "hey squatter"
benkay: that's a good squat
benkay: davout o.0
benkay: no seriously, is it equal?
benkay: Lua you said?
benkay: make something useful out of php and nobody bats an eye
benkay: now now
benkay: pankkake: the same craaaaaazy equality operations?
benkay: javascript: equality?!?!
benkay: i love the javascript "no, really: are these things equal or not?" ===
benkay: i now have some
benkay: i have learned this
benkay: specific impulse, yes
benkay: defo my mistake in designing my regen motor: going for Isp and not testability.
benkay: not your best ISP, but definitely your best bet on fuel choices that aren't lethal without millions of USD in support staff and infrastructure.
benkay: this gentleman chose gox/propane
benkay: ha yes
benkay: but ah hang on
benkay: too scared to ever test it
benkay: i designed a regen motor for printing
benkay: carbon fiber airframe design!
benkay: at which point i was sucked off the rocket team and into the quadrotor team
benkay: now the fins spin, and the rocket goes straight!
benkay: problem solved
benkay: then we decoupled the fins from exerting torque on the rocket body
benkay: on the first run this lead to an inversion of control, and eventually just crazy roll rates
benkay: they induce airflow in a helix around the body, which when it impacts the giant stablization foils at the bottom
benkay: anyways, it's required because you have these tiny little control surfaces that swivel around up at the top of the body