benkay: there's this idea floating around the quantum computing community that you can emulate certain types of quantum gate networks in traditional deterministic, irreversible silicon chip architectures
benkay: operation whatver, i forget the precise name of the situation
benkay: see also the trivial amounts of money being dribbled into d-wave
benkay: i'm beginning to suspect that all crypto is broken and that this is a distraction a la dropping the dead diver in the water with important papers w/r/t spies to cover up the Enigma cracking circa wwii
benkay: if you believe that i have an asic ipo to sell you
benkay: i want to hear more about this
benkay: let us all stay icy hot.
benkay: "Real bad boys move in silence and violence."
benkay: actually i prefer the Notorious BIG's approach:
benkay: i will rain steel death upon ye
benkay: we have Brownings atop this castle.
benkay: rise up ye masses
benkay: my gunslingers' powder remains dry
benkay: you'll note i can still pay my armsmen
benkay: BY MY PRIVILEGE
benkay: i'm sufficiently isolated to not care
benkay: by all means, mobilize your sheep
benkay: listen, if i'm privileged, i don't have to deal with your idiot notions of power.
benkay: hence the humor inspired by people running around hooting about privilege
benkay: "A privilege is a special entitlement to immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis."
benkay: that'll teach me to open -assets links with anyone in the room
benkay: i'm visiting in november for reasons of lolbitrage
benkay: where in argentina...
benkay: mircea_popescu: where are you considering settling in argentina?
benkay: anyways. time for duck eggs and jowl bacon
benkay: there are constraints under which i operate, sir.
benkay: and living in the US.
benkay: plus i like being physically around smart, pretty humans.
benkay: maybe in some global market sense, but costs are still a fraction of revenues.
benkay: i just snipe the smart, compliant ones out of math programs.
benkay: it's just a labor market disconnect
benkay: i must be getting older. i see more herp every day.
benkay: eyah
benkay: yes. yes you do. until they demonstrate that they know what to do on their own (which seems unlikely), you must give direction.
benkay: *rage rage rage*
benkay: descending into sarcasm, "oh, you mean I have to manage these people? tell them what to do etc?"
benkay: i eventually lost my cool and said "yeah. you have to manage them. if you have such a tightly limited budget that you can only afford one human and not the additional team bandwidth to train that human, your entire management philosophy is borked."
benkay: except oh no, now he has bus-factor problems. and oh no, now he can't find any more people who already know how to do the work, and oh no, never bothered to implement a training plan
benkay: seemed to be relatively incompetent except for being able to make friends with moderately-competent humans, put them in a room and let them self-organize into a software development team
benkay: he was so resistant to the idea of telling his people what to do
benkay: (american computation industry, if you're not aware, is scraping the barrel of humans capable of making computers do things)
benkay: I had a conversation with someone recently who was having trouble hiring people.
benkay: the stranger is quite as good as either."
benkay: "By degrees the anarchy finds a way into private houses, and ends by getting among the animals and infecting them... the father grows accustomed to descend to the level of his sons and to fear them, and the son is on a level with his father, he having no respect or reverence for either of his parents; and this is his freedom, and the metic is equal with the citizen and the citizen with the metic, and
benkay: bah
benkay: ain't takin?
benkay: anthropological/satirical take
benkay: i'm more interested in your anthropological take, mon frere
benkay: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/09/technology-communism-and-brown-scare.html
benkay: it's amusing what drags that guy out of bed.
benkay: have you read the Mencius piece on the topic?
benkay: i've been on the internet for a while, so everything sounds trolly to me
benkay: are you tracking this pax dickinson thing?
benkay: ping mircea_popescu
benkay: opengamma? quantlib? experiences with either to share?
benkay: 3
benkay: far brunnette looks like she knows what's up
benkay: keep the lucrative borrowers on tap for as long as possible
benkay: identify the deadbeats as quickly as possible, and securitize their debts
benkay: making up for losses on the others
benkay: you can get a lot of cash out of some of them
benkay: coconut: there's probably a lot about finance you don't understand.
benkay: distributed computing without authority EL OH EL
benkay: luls: not just for bitcoin anymore
benkay: split brain banking
benkay: bahahaha
benkay: duh
benkay: a space spreadsheet pilot in a nutrient bath
benkay: but with reeeesarch i will outinvest u AWL
benkay: i can't math!
benkay: son i am astonish
benkay: is there a unit in that pile?
benkay: in other news, mircea_popescu, marvel at this bombastic shit: postmodernvanguard.com
benkay: no souls in the masses
benkay: no mercy for the dumb
benkay: i also don't read btctalk so my perceptions are indubitably biased
benkay: that was pretty incendiary
benkay: i didn't notice much screeching about your russia post
benkay: oh you
benkay: high heels will be mandatory
benkay: mmm.
benkay: age old problem of people with metrics improving the granularity of thing so metered and not gaining and knowledge about stuff
benkay: zero middle ground
benkay: classic internet discussion
benkay: all this froth about driverless cars makes me want to short something
benkay: most large breasts aren't on attractive women.
benkay: how many idiots in the corner slumping?
benkay: who's dumping?
benkay: who's pumping?
benkay: what's the news, mes ami?
benkay: they have a unit
benkay: or geniuses?
benkay: fucktards?
benkay: but these people are insane.
benkay: i get it
benkay: panic...buy
benkay: bahahaha
benkay: mircea_popescu: i want a list of what you consider literature essentials
benkay: mircea_popescu: lol welfare checks and video lottery terminals
benkay: mean reversion.
benkay: ;;calc 800*130 - 25000
benkay: ;;calc 800*130
benkay: these are things with which one should be acquainted before diving into the hardware business, methinks.
benkay: risk management
benkay: supply chain management
benkay: how much was that?
benkay: avalon simply did not fill your order?
benkay: chaang-noi: what was the failure rate on your chips?
benkay: this is obviously an indicator of quality.
benkay: i know man. i know. it's fine.
benkay: chaang-noi: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/#302998
benkay: chaang-noi: read.
benkay: chaang-noi: future
benkay: jurov you've been reading some weird shit
benkay: *pfffff* whoa man
benkay: he was on some grand bitlol tour recently
benkay: he does visit the US, TAT.
benkay: who knows.
benkay: he could also be competent enough to bypass the filter.
benkay: he could find it unpleasant to visit the us in the future
benkay: that did give me the idea, though.
benkay: yeah
benkay: what are the odds that goat gets named in the pirate case?
benkay: scammers*
benkay: very interested in any hints of that
benkay: sacmmers faking volume on mpex?
benkay: interesting.
benkay: eur/btc been hanging at parity for a bit lately.
benkay: fawksey and cutesprite charge 13 bucks for a gallery
benkay: hm, now that's a business model.
benkay: videos4btc.info
benkay: i like my hustles with balls.
benkay: also i'm not entirely interested in that kind of criminality
benkay: i love girlfawksey
benkay: er
benkay: i do not suffer from a surfeit of free content
benkay: here's a bizarre thing which makes me shy away from porn businesses
benkay: dynamically self-tuning per user
benkay: way more well tuned
benkay: yeah
benkay: what do you mean?
benkay: lots of moving parts
benkay: i dunno
benkay: so that you know how long a given session is, and can experiment with the account-drain rate
benkay: and optimize the rate at which everyone watches
benkay: but just a little, right? just a trickle of btc
benkay: show them great content for free, then dial down the good stuff and give 'em the cheap content everyone else has and charge for the other stuff
benkay: bin visitors really well with statistics and cookie analysis
benkay: the other approach is to do something like that but really optimize the viewing and funding experience
benkay: have lots
benkay: ideas are cheap
benkay: and wrapping in ads
benkay: providing for free
benkay: not paying homes
benkay: served from shithole vpses
benkay: cheap content sourced everywhere
benkay: okay go
benkay: also why is satoshi dice not advertising on porn sites, eh?
benkay: that is a good damn idea
benkay: huh advertising backed pornography.
benkay: But gosh it does make one sound like an idiot when discussing where the price of bitcoin's are going to be at.
benkay: well, pankkake, rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men
benkay: failure to understand power dynamics chiefly among them that things far away are frequently not under your control: check
benkay: failure to contextualize resource discovery in context of past boom/bust cycles, particularly in africa: check
benkay: starting sentences with conjunctions: check
benkay: starting sentences with prepositions: check
benkay: "But just as importantly the aquifer is replenished from distant mountains. So it should never run dry, assuming it is managed properly."
benkay: lolquote:
benkay: in other economic news
benkay: log scale on the ROI
benkay: orders of magnitude on return
benkay: it's pretty easy
benkay: shit, any return? scam.
benkay: > 7% return? scam.
benkay: don't even know why i bother
benkay: bar har har
benkay: good spot.
benkay: Namworld: that is indeed the joke.
benkay: within living memory?
benkay: who are they ambiguous with?
benkay: they're nominally less awful than dollars, pankkake
benkay: but i have a choreographer already tyvm
benkay: hot moves dub
benkay: dance party time i'll read it later
benkay: well, n! - n(n-dice #)!
benkay: aren't you still n! on the wordlist length?
benkay: i dunno man. you can still crack those. permutations of number of english words is far fewer than permutations of characters.
benkay: oh ymlase
benkay: leetspeek generators are a thing
benkay: disagree.
benkay: nah.
benkay: but you see there's that next leve RIGHT THE FUCK THERE.
benkay: "there's always another level. just be content knowing that you are still better off than most who have ever lived"
benkay: nobody will buy shares if html has tables
benkay: gosh
benkay: internets are serious engineering, mircea_popescu.
benkay: advertising is full of hacks.
benkay: spammy nonsense, dub.
benkay: bar har har
benkay: coding
benkay: css
benkay: of what quality?
benkay: dat volume problem
benkay: those noo wackos
benkay: what, you assholes don't have opinions?
benkay: *crickets*
benkay: bout these here quantum simulations
benkay: in any event
benkay: but less frequently are there answers to specific questions like "what precisely is smickles going on about?"
benkay: the "observe events, draw conclusions, occasionally place wagers" sort
benkay: the practical sort for sure
benkay: hm
benkay: i exaggerate.
benkay: most days there isn't
benkay: some days there's return
benkay: wherein i minute-cost-average my time investment in learning stuff
benkay: but you know this is assets and mockery is more valued than education so it's just kind of this long running "what can i learn tonight" hustle
benkay: and on which i am similarly humbly seeking enlightenment
benkay: a topic in which i'm interested!
benkay: most likely due to ignorance and idiocy but what else is new
benkay: having actually read this month's report, i don't know what smickles is going on about.
benkay: what i'm confused about is how smickles is getting all of those different numbers.
benkay: mpbor?
benkay: mbpor*
benkay: how do you get so many different numbers out of mbor?
benkay: don't mean a damn thing
benkay: so are bitcointalk visitors
benkay: pankkake: sometimes those "innocent people" pay for the wikipedia page out of vanity.
benkay: because retroshare.
benkay: mega which is dead on arrival btw
benkay: if you say so al gore
benkay: that recently?
benkay: do you want to draw the line all the way to mp's personal life as well and ruin the whole operation?
benkay: that would be explaining the joke, yes.
benkay: and a chalice mounted on a cane
benkay: like a purple suit
benkay: right at the intersection of gangster and wtf
benkay: what you were saying in the video I mean
benkay: i can't parse what you're saying but possibly
benkay: it's quite the jacket you're wearing in that video from a few years back. the timis training...
benkay: ;)
benkay: -assets thinks you dress poorly, mp.
benkay: great idea boys
benkay: talking shit on mircea_popescu in a publicly logged channel
benkay: derp
benkay: he ain't *that* classy.