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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20600 @ 0.00050572 = 10.4178 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell mircea_popescu toominimium threw a loller in your direction http://qntra.net/2015/08/concerns-for-the-toomim-brothers-mining/#comment-79924
assbot: Concerns for the Toomim Brothers Mining | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1XJ4je5 )
gribble: The operation succeeded.
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.30000000 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $600 before Jan 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1216/bitcoin-to-top-600-before-jan-2016/#b72
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33047 @ 0.00049357 = 16.311 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7086 @ 0.00048942 = 3.468 BTC [-]
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'd have figured you'd have already seen that
adlai: ;;seen STRML
gribble: STRML was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 44 weeks, 6 days, 14 hours, 20 minutes, and 4 seconds ago: <STRML> I guess I live in the wrong city
assbot: Logged on 31-08-2015 16:33:12; mats: mpoe sleeps
adlai: mpex is like frequent batch auctions, but in
kakobrekla: Goldman Scamch : Bitcoin was just the opening act, with the Blockchain ready to take center stage.
kakobrekla: The note comes soon after the bank filed a patent for a securities settlement platform based on SETLcoin, a new cryptocurrency.
adlai: ;;isup trading.engine
gribble: trading.engine is down
adlai rushes to patent provably fair batch auction randomization based on hash collisions
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00000000 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $600 before Jan 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1216/bitcoin-to-top-600-before-jan-2016/#b73
mircea_popescu: center stage in the roadshow. anyway, they want war, they get war, let 'em explain to their wives the 2020s.
mircea_popescu: "oh honey i don't understand what the world became" "that's because you dumb, motha. you made it."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo done.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 203758 @ 0.00049296 = 100.4445 BTC [+] {9}
adlai: good morning
adlai: mircea_popescu should sell insurance against qntrification
adlai: other bitcoin "news sites" offer paid coverage, qntra lets you pay to be ignored
adlai: hey it's a monetization avenue! :D
adlai: "we will not mention your failures anywhere other than monthly statements"
trinque: just like CNN eh?
adlai: mok.
mircea_popescu: does anyone have the line where i tell asciilifeform or someone that their love of lisp is misplaced, because a) c was just as great before the horde got involved and b) if lisp were to become fashionable it'd be cpp in short order ?
trinque: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=05-11-2015#1317881 << I believe there are several instances of this.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 23:05:31; mircea_popescu: and once they become popular, they will BE the sea of lisp shit.
mircea_popescu: good enugh tyvm!
mircea_popescu: ok this will be a kickass article.
mircea_popescu: and you can all thank goldman sachs for it.
deedbot-: Bad URL or network outage.
trinque: odd.
shinohai: deedbot doesn't like me T_T
trinque: shinohai: that is not signed
shinohai: shit wrong one
deedbot-: rejected: 1
shinohai: *sigh*
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34200 @ 0.00049162 = 16.8134 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22900 @ 0.00049374 = 11.3066 BTC [+] {2}
deedbot-: rejected: 1
shinohai: grrrr
trinque: those are both bad sigs.
shinohai: same key i use in here .. hmm
trinque: verify them on your end
adlai sees 3NEH2ZA as not even signed, and 0NMP5ZE as bad sig
adlai: deedbot-fs eta not even Two Weeks yet
adlai: !s meth-lsd
assbot: 1 results for 'meth-lsd' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=meth-lsd
adlai: mircea_popescu: there's that thread, too
assbot: “I know you are but what am I?” | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1lyBPHM )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16200 @ 0.00049518 = 8.0219 BTC [+] {2}
adlai: heh, people love special numbers don't they
pete_dushenski: "lower barriers to entry for massage parlors makes the black market for prostitution larger, but also less risky. This is due to illegal prostitution buyers and suppliers switching to the quasi-legal sector, as well as quasi-legal sex workers facing a reduced wage premium for high-risk behavior. Consequently, the incidence of gonorrhea and rape falls in the general population."
assbot: draft11.5.pdf ... ( http://bit.ly/1lyCDfR )
pete_dushenski: basically, "lower barriers to entry for apple orchards make the black market for orange orchards larger, thus rape and stds are reduced"
adlai: pete_dushenski: doesn't your "trader's delight" article boil down to ballas's "they are successful at feeling like a trader" ?
pete_dushenski: how so ?
adlai: "if you're a human trader, there's really no place like it"... it's all about how it makes you feel
assbot: Logged on 26-06-2015 20:37:43; mircea_popescu: anyway this looks like it's going to be an epic b-a summer. phuctor delivered, eulora came, nodes are moving, apparently cardano as well,
pete_dushenski: adlai: "MPEx, on the other hand, is a human-paced, even aristocratically-paced free market that leverages the latest encryption technology in a secure and intuitive-to-use manner that does away with HFT and eschews fiat"
pete_dushenski: i guess the pace of trading is part of the 'feeling' but that alone is not what makes trading s.mpoe worthwhile.
pete_dushenski: bbias (crying to tend to)
pete_dushenski: !up ascii_field
mircea_popescu: there was at some point some derp in here wanting us to believe he's "a jouirnalist", not wanting to get in the wot and wanting to ask some dumbass questions about phuctor that i briefly entertained.
mircea_popescu: anyone recall specifics ?
ascii_field: was it the imbecile who wanted his key (never specified!) removed ?
mircea_popescu: wanted to "maybe write an article"
ascii_field: !s from:fromphuctor
assbot: 47 results for 'from:fromphuctor' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=from%3Afromphuctor
mircea_popescu: it's remarkable how little mark this whole pile leaves in the record.
ascii_field: i actually do not recall such a thing
ascii_field: perhaps this was 'fan mail' sent to mircea_popescu privately ?
mircea_popescu: im pretty certain it was in here.
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 00:06:57; asciilifeform: alphonse23_: author of 'phuctor' speaking. you had questions ?
mircea_popescu: nah this is just a user.
ascii_field: aha no mention of journalisms
mircea_popescu: no, the guy actually mentioend some fishrwap
mircea_popescu: hm, maybe wirded ?
assbot: CyberShadow/DFeed · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1lbJ2hs )
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-12-2015#1335813 << this isn't entirely wrong, but it is also not correct: it would be a very different sea - more like a small puddle of molten plutonium. (dynamic langs with everything-viewable and everything-debuggable sort of capability don't congeal into the familiar unix-like morass, but nobody cancelled idiots and ~purely logical~ bugs)
assbot: Logged on 03-12-2015 14:47:46; mircea_popescu: does anyone have the line where i tell asciilifeform or someone that their love of lisp is misplaced, because a) c was just as great before the horde got involved and b) if lisp were to become fashionable it'd be cpp in short order ?
mircea_popescu: it wasn't obvious c will congeal into the now familiar morass either.
ascii_field: actually it was pretty obvious to herr dijkstra
ascii_field: quite early on, too.
mircea_popescu: and i'm dijkstra now ?
mircea_popescu: "obvious to X only" is the definition of nonobvious.
ascii_field ain't dijkstra either
ascii_field: but fella made a quite convincing case, and wrote it down
ascii_field: where i could get to it..
ascii_field: at any rate, i cannot possibly argue against the main idea here - that a horde of energetic, malignantly-stupid people can befunge literally ~anything~
ascii_field: theodor dalrymple (british) had a piece describing a scene he witnessed as a medic in liberia, where enraged orcs sawed the legs off, and carefully too massive shits into, a rare and very costly concert piano
adlai: also Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is
adlai: clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and
ascii_field: that this could happen, was not a defect of the piano.
adlai: industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous."
ascii_field: adlai: aha.
adlai: someday you could study the comparative damage done by almost-lisps such as ruby
adlai is not familiar enough with clojure to dismiss it as pseudo
adlai: study probably boils down to "rails lol"
punkman: how is ruby almost-lisp?
punkman: granted, I've not read much ruby
adlai: it doesn't rank well on the brick test, but gets almost perfect marks in pg's http://paulgraham.com/diff.html
assbot: What Made Lisp Different ... ( http://bit.ly/1lbMSHb )
adlai chalks this up to the comparative truthiness of the two test
deedbot-: [Trilema] B,TMSR~ and fundamental justice reform. - http://trilema.com/2015/btmsr-and-fundamental-justice-reform/
pete_dushenski: http://fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf << "If you are going to start a movement, make it intolerant of nonsense" ~herr taleb
punkman: "B,TMSR~ and fundamental justice reform." << notbad
adlai: we have naptime again... gentlemen, place your bets!
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-12-2015#1335910 << can haz ticketz to guillotinings in the public square yet ??
assbot: Logged on 03-12-2015 17:04:38; deedbot-: [Trilema] B,TMSR~ and fundamental justice reform. - http://trilema.com/2015/btmsr-and-fundamental-justice-reform/
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu your link in footnote iii is broken
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: define broken ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski taleb will miss out on the only thing he didn'twant to miss out on this life.
mircea_popescu: such is the sad curse.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it pointed to a 'preview' (wordpressism) of the article
assbot: B,TMSR~ and fundamental justice reform. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1PAAcGI )
mircea_popescu: well whatever it was seems to have gone away o.O
ascii_field: l0l ok
ascii_field: 'I came out of college with a faint disdain for both the teachers and the principle of the whole thing. This is natural. I also came out of college not owing anyone one red cent.' << funnily enough, same.
ascii_field: (prolly like many other folks here)
BingoBoingo: https://archive.is/6pnkA << Fatshaming bad, prayershaming good
assbot: Prayer-shaming isn’t about attacking prayer. It’s about calling out empty platitudes. ... ( http://bit.ly/1PACSUG )
mircea_popescu: ahahahaha
mircea_popescu: look who's talkign about empty platitudes! the united libertards party!
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
BingoBoingo: seriously
ascii_field: am i smoking crack or does mthreat's search 'from:' command ignore slash-me action lines ?
BingoBoingo: It Hippo-crazy
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Prolly both
ascii_field: i think it accounts for a good measure of 'mysteriously not found' cases
BingoBoingo: If you have to ask if you are smoking crack, you prolly are.
assbot: Logged on 03-12-2015 18:24:03; ascii_field: am i smoking crack or does mthreat's search 'from:' command ignore slash-me action lines ?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: * <2015-12-03 Thu> standup
ben_vulpes: CLOCK: [2015-12-03 Thu 10:08]--[2015-12-03 Thu 10:14] => 0:06
ben_vulpes: ** jordan
ben_vulpes: *** CS-754/5: plan information dynamism, get care dynamisn
ben_vulpes: *** wrapping up 755
ben_vulpes: *** need code review on 755
ben_vulpes: *** will be jumping on the last ticket for this release: 753
ascii_field: wawawat
ben_vulpes: ** ryan
ben_vulpes: *** paired with Veen on saved filters, most UI elements are working
ben_vulpes: *** pushing BR to staging
ben_vulpes: *** all apollo all day
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: i think you're leaking bitz
ben_vulpes: *** figured out what a fiscal year meant
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: You're leaking
ben_vulpes: *** knocked out a bunch of math
ben_vulpes: *** set our second report up to import spreadsheets
ben_vulpes: *** "going to take values from spreadsheets and put them into node"
ben_vulpes: ** Matthew
ben_vulpes: *** WMG
ben_vulpes: **** camera list view yesterday
ben_vulpes: **** camera list view today
ben_vulpes: ** Amelia
ben_vulpes: *** yesterday
ben_vulpes: **** watchme grow meeting and comms
ascii_field closes intake valve in mas
ben_vulpes: **** most of the afternoon going through the applicants and sending emails
ben_vulpes: *** today
ben_vulpes: **** continue sending emails
ben_vulpes: shit.
ben_vulpes: i'm leaking brains
ben_vulpes: from this bullet hole in my head
thestringpuller: when emacs goes wrong
ascii_field: bonus l0lpo1nt5 if this was a stego'd privkey
assbot: Logged on 03-12-2015 17:00:13; *: adlai is not familiar enough with clojure to dismiss it as pseudo
thestringpuller: ascii_field: I got to page 5 today of the dragon book
thestringpuller: #progress
ben_vulpes: thing about non-cl lisp-like things is that just the few tools that clojure provides are enough for me to get my hands around the neck of, say, the whole wwwstack
ben_vulpes: but yeah the asbestos fibers on the insides of the gloves get into your blood and kill you
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: i still get flamez on my circa-2009 turd on subj (and the later sequel)
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: for a while, it was in top handful of 'google' hits for 'clojure'
ben_vulpes not surprised
ascii_field: if not for this, i'd long ago have forgotten the thing even exists
ben_vulpes: entirely unmentionable outside of the uranium mines.
ascii_field: idk, i originally ran across it at a meeting of a hobbyist society devoted to the subject
ascii_field: which i showed up to on a lark
ascii_field: (it was held in the same dilapidated church as a 'hack space' thing i attended sporadically in those days)
ben_vulpes: "the subject" << derplisps?
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-12-2015#1335935 << Matthew 6:5 "And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your F
assbot: Logged on 03-12-2015 18:20:20; assbot: Prayer-shaming isn’t about attacking prayer. It’s about calling out empty platitudes. ... ( http://bit.ly/1PACSUG )
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: This is how it starts. Shame the people praying in public. Later they shame you for praying at all.
danielpbarron: you wouldn't know if i've been praying, because when I do it, I do it secretly
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: What about Meta-NSA?
BingoBoingo: Or roving bands of home invading SJWs
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo that's a great movie idea.
thestringpuller: NSA wiretapping prayers.
danielpbarron: the world hates The Bible and its believers. There is nothing new here.
thestringpuller: From Rome to US, nothing changes.
thestringpuller: Except US has perverted christianity pretty hardcore. (Funny given the puritans and all)
BingoBoingo: So did later Romans
danielpbarron: there are none that do good. Not a single person.
thestringpuller: The puritans were pretty radical as it is. I remember reading the crucible and thinking, "religious politics huh?"
adlai: ben_vulpes: nice flood protection!
ben_vulpes: adlai: thanks
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: mah nigga.
deedbot-: [Qntra] LA Proposal Attacks Prositution And Marital Harmony At Same Time - http://qntra.net/2015/12/la-proposal-attacks-prositution-and-marital-harmony-at-same-time/
assbot: New Subway spokesperson touts strong track record of adult-only pornography | The Internet Chronicle ... ( http://bit.ly/1HIUxa0 )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31986 @ 0.00048916 = 15.6463 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42500 @ 0.00049029 = 20.8373 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31407 @ 0.00048748 = 15.3103 BTC [-] {3}
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asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: http://cyphyworks.com << lulzy flying machine maker, funded by - according to in-q-tel's 2014 tax report - by in-q-tel; the latter - a wholly cia-owned trust.
assbot: CyPhy Works | Revolutionary Robots ... ( http://bit.ly/1PBqmnX )
ascii_field: and i could've sworn that we did 'fiber-tethered drone' idea ~right here~ in '13 ?
ben_vulpes: tether always makes for fun dynamic control problem
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: according to their ad, the tether plays out ~from the bot~ rather than the remote
ascii_field: and is not under tension.
ben_vulpes: it's under tension if only from gravity what is this
ascii_field: motor, presumably
ascii_field: shits as it flies.
ben_vulpes: there will be a mass
ben_vulpes: with inertia
ben_vulpes: below the thing
ascii_field: if it shits tether faster than it gains altitude, then plausible
ben_vulpes: yeah have fun with that control system handling the adjustable length tether
ben_vulpes: > wind
ben_vulpes: > oscillations
ascii_field: adjustable?
ascii_field: no mention of eating, only shitting
ascii_field: i imagine the thing is disposable
ascii_field: but i did not buy one, so nfi.
ascii_field: would also be interesting to learn how 'In the event of a power interruption or microfilament failure, the PARC vehicle has an on board backup battery that will allow the vehicle to safely and autonomously return to its launch site.' works.
mircea_popescu: in principle you could make a pretty decent disposable teether out of these supposed advanced materials
ascii_field: holy fuck:
assbot: CyPhy LVL 1 Drone: Reinvented for Performance and Control by CyPhy Works —Kickstarter ... ( http://bit.ly/1PBsyM8 )
mircea_popescu: something that works like conductive spidwer web ideallyu
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: as far as i can tell (supposing the product actually exists) they power via laser, with control ethernet riding modulated on top
ascii_field: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2015/10/13/drone-startup-cyphy-works-gets-22-million-boost-from-bessemer-venture-partners << now we know that one or more (likely all) of the shareholders are muppets controlled by in-q-tel
mircea_popescu: eh, doing by-hand aml in b-a is a waste of time.
ascii_field: and not like anybody gave a fuck
mircea_popescu: the reason usg-* loves playing that game is that well, they got slush funds up the ying yang
ascii_field: just an accidental phind.
ben_vulpes: anti-money-laundering?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
mircea_popescu: yes. whenever usg spends money, it's engaging in fraud.
mircea_popescu: eventually it'll have to rot in jail for it.
ben_vulpes: power by laser << space elevator contests anyones?
mircea_popescu: just... cheapert to ship it there wholesale than bother documenting the "oh, X partners!"
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: cia owns a hedge fund called in-q-tel
ascii_field: anyway wire-guided rockets are what, 1960s state-of-art.
ascii_field: so no mega-splash here.
mircea_popescu: more like 1960s state of "i blew out my own eye"
mircea_popescu: people can't aim those for shit
ascii_field: a skilled hand - aims.
mircea_popescu: clearly this newfangled "communication technoilogy" has made it so much easier to find and work with people.
mircea_popescu: "i've assembled a small team" but looking desperately for any actual human. the small team is made out of Siri, his 5yo step-daughter and a fridge he named Fred.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: aahahahahaha! i once actually interviewed for a schmuck like that
ascii_field: many years ago. he burned out of 'y combinator' and walked around, looking for a chump, in 'starbucks' restaurants, even
mircea_popescu: a chump to do what ? nonsexually hang out with ?
ascii_field: grunt out code with
ascii_field: (i won't bother to describe ~for what~ here, it was deadly boring & lame)
ascii_field: something to do with arrays of disks.
trinque: you just lack passion
ascii_field: oh and seems like cyphy uses ordinary wire, not optical filament
ascii_field: i wonder if it enjoys a good few kV put in the line.
ascii_field: (not hard to arrange in the field - use an igniter from electric cig lighter)
brg444: hi!
assbot: User Guide — Let's Encrypt 0.2.0.dev0 documentation ... ( http://bit.ly/1TCc5G0 )
brg444: pray tell, how would anyone verify the status of a certain someone in the WoT, if reputation there exist
BingoBoingo: brg444: You ask people about the person?
brg444: so I can't ask assbot?
BingoBoingo: Well you could do that too
assbot: Scaling Bitcoin to Its First Billion Users and Beyond - Justus Ranvier - Liberty.me ... ( http://bit.ly/1TCcqZu )
BingoBoingo: It depends on what you mean by "verify"
brg444: and the one by the name of justusranvier
brg444: right
BingoBoingo: Oh yeah he's kinda headed full derp
brg444: in relation with other users? I remember Mircea posting a list of wot relations somewhere?
assbot: Btc Alpha - Analysis tools for bitcoin finance. ... ( http://bit.ly/1PBCncY )
ascii_field: ^ mike_c's thing
BingoBoingo: Yes, run by mike_c
brg444: ascii_field great! exactly what I was looking for
mircea_popescu: !gettrust justusranvier
assbot: Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user justusranvier: Level 1: -1, Level 2: -4 via 5 connections. |http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/trust/?from=mircea_popescu&to=justusranvier | http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/justusranvier/
brg444: when I first came up into Bitcoin he sounded sane but nowadays :/ from blog post "This means the most obvious way to lower the per-transaction cost is to simply process more transactions, thereby amortizing the fixed hashing cost across a wider pool."
ascii_field: fixed?!!
brg444: oh I see now. I thought had read about him on trilema, that OkStupid story was gold
ascii_field: ever see those 'proofs' where you do something ungodly, e.g., div by 0, and in the end 1 == 2 ?
ascii_field: kindergarten sort of thing
brg444: magic!
ascii_field: well, this'd be it
brg444: Next, future Bitcoin "optimizations": Removal of transaction data from blocks - Blockchain pruning UTXO set commitments - Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (IBLTs) - Moore’s Law - Kryder’s Law - Nielsen’s Law - Yet-to-be-discovered improvements"
brg444: missing ""
mircea_popescu: who're you anyway brg444 ?
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/idiocy-without-borders-idiots-sans-frontieres/ << whenever i hear kickstarter mention can't help but think of this
assbot: Idiocy without borders / Idiots sans frontieres on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1TCfapJ )
mircea_popescu: imo the definitive kickstarter story.
brg444: mostly someone very curious.! in terms of the wot I'm afraid nobody.
brg444: strongest tie I may have is with pete_dushenski as fellow canuck
mircea_popescu: well that sarcasm line got me lulzing, maybe try and do something for qntra
brg444: Working my way to it, eventually ;) but tbf my english is kinda broken in a way but it's getting there!
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: from same turd earlier,
ascii_field: 'd-wave' (the 'quantum comp.' sc4mz0rz!!1), 'tyfone inc', 'mocana corp.', 'lms', and 'sionyx inc' were the top inqt subcontractors.
ascii_field: in case anyone gives a shit.
ascii_field: listed here in order.
ascii_field: 'tyfone' is a l0l, makes a kind of usgistic cardano
ascii_field is now wondering if inqtel really told the truth, in their tax declaration, or if this orchestra of derpatronics is disinfo
ascii_field: cia is higher in the food chain than the tax men
ascii_field: can absolve the sins if necessary.
ascii_field: d-wave in particular ~has~ to be disinfo, i've been half-convinced of this for years now
ascii_field: its purpose, by this hypothesis, is to bedevil other folks working on shor's algo computer or any related item
phf: see also scott aaronson's ongoing intermittent d-wave fights
ascii_field: thing's an elaborate snake oil.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 50300 @ 0.00049989 = 25.1445 BTC [+]
phf: at my previous company we had a guy who used to work at lockheed, apparently they had a d-wave machine, and guy was tasked with encoding matrix reduction problems into the thing. he didn't really have anything interesting to say. you write code, send it to blackbox, results come out.
punkman: does it run windows?
phf: of course guy now does "fullstack" development instead (javascript, web)
phf: probably runs windows, and an asic bought from some guy who used to sell bitcoin mining equipment
assbot: Why China's Millennials Are Happy to Own Nothing - Bloomberg Business ... ( http://bit.ly/1NKdgVd )
punkman: http://assets.bwbx.io/images/iHa7XbCmJfqw/v1/-1x-1.jpg "Tyler Xiong wears a teddy bear suit at his You+ pad, which he shares with three employees of his Bitcoin startup"
ascii_field: phf: world's most expensive pen-II ?
deedbot-: [Trilema] MPIF (F.MPIF) October-November 2015 Statement - http://trilema.com/2015/mpif-fmpif-october-november-2015-statement/
assbot: Nick Offerman's 'Yule Log' - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1NKdxYf )
punkman: mircea_popescu: the second table in last qntra statement kinda overflowed
punkman: err, s.mg statement
punkman: https://haobtc.com/ Xiong's startup, wallet that pays interest from mining profits
assbot: 好比特币--最好的比特币钱包 ... ( http://bit.ly/1NKegIR )
mircea_popescu: eh it depends on the font one has
mircea_popescu: is d-wave that supposed producer of pre-tangled quarks that was going to do relevant computation ANYDAYNOW ?
assbot: Bloomberg Business ... ( http://bit.ly/1lzNMgr )
mircea_popescu: buncha fucktards.
mircea_popescu: didn't someone get a pop with lefthand tool ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform am i getting a s.nsa letter ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 67100 @ 0.00050041 = 33.5775 BTC [+] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 43050 @ 0.00050573 = 21.7717 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9599 @ 0.00050573 = 4.8545 BTC [+]
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes! very shortly
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 57601 @ 0.00050574 = 29.1311 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 123750 @ 0.00049923 = 61.7797 BTC [-] {2}
asciilifeform: 'he wasn’t going to make it in academia. “I never was able to find a place in science,” he says. But he felt he had the bullheaded tenacity, honed by years of wrestling, to be an entrepreneur. “I was good at putting together things that were really ambitious, without thinking they were impossible.” At a time when lots of smart people argued that quantum computers could never work, he fell in love with the idea of not
asciilifeform: only making one but selling it.'
asciilifeform: just picture this fella.
asciilifeform: sorta lulzy, he pawned a 1950s-style analogue calculator off as a 'quantum comp'
asciilifeform: or did we do this vivisection here already ?
asciilifeform: 'He’s used the D-Wave to train image-recognizing algorithms for mobile phones that are more efficient than any before. He produced a car-recognition algorithm .... ' << even supposing any of this,
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 43000 @ 0.00050447 = 21.6922 BTC [+]
asciilifeform: see mircea_popescu's dragonfly article based on my talk at conf-II.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36752 @ 0.00049536 = 18.2055 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6400 @ 0.00049122 = 3.1438 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42648 @ 0.00049122 = 20.9496 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20250 @ 0.00050608 = 10.2481 BTC [+] {2}
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "SOPS"?
assbot: The SOPS, or what might you expect from government clerks on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1XLGAtV )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18800 @ 0.00049402 = 9.2876 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 92250 @ 0.00049842 = 45.9792 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 59918 @ 0.00049871 = 29.8817 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40360 @ 0.00049714 = 20.0646 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu is about to say something, sees the next line, nods.
assbot: 404 Not Found ... ( http://bit.ly/1TD9wDT )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 53350 @ 0.00050365 = 26.8697 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 94450 @ 0.00050619 = 47.8096 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9400 @ 0.00050619 = 4.7582 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 99886 @ 0.00050645 = 50.5873 BTC [+] {4}
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sent !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: please confirm if first paragraph makes ~exact~ sense, it is imho quite important.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32900 @ 0.00050365 = 16.5701 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29250 @ 0.00050907 = 14.8903 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: Logged on 04-12-2015 02:59:12; mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://36.media.tumblr.com/95d92a496f2b8a2dd68811c5ca08167a/tumblr_n3kam0uxWu1rv03nyo1_1270.jpg
assbot: Uncommon Technology | Digital Reasoning ... ( http://bit.ly/1N00Wwt )
asciilifeform: 'Who did they work with previously? Who might have shared information inappropriately or made a trade based on knowledge they shouldn’t have used?'
asciilifeform: http://witricity.com << another, circa 2013. ripping off poor old nick tesla
assbot: WiTricity Corporation | Wireless Power Over Distance ... ( http://bit.ly/1N01mmu )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 41004 @ 0.00050955 = 20.8936 BTC [+] {2}
asciilifeform: aaaand an honest-to-goodness snake oil chumpatron, https://redseal.co/content/how-it-works
assbot: How It Works | redseal.co ... ( http://bit.ly/1N01wKx )
assbot: Home - Correlated Magnetics ... ( http://bit.ly/1N01Fhl )
asciilifeform: ^ apparently this is a commercial thing, can go, buy.
asciilifeform: looks spiffy actually. used to be that you had to actually glue small ones together to get this effect.
BingoBoingo: Would be interesting if the proceeds didn't go to CIA
asciilifeform: still trying to grasp why they bought it
asciilifeform: ... limpet mines ?
BingoBoingo: for laundry
assbot: Industrial Magnetics, Inc. - Polymagnet® Kits ... ( http://bit.ly/21AdUsp )
BingoBoingo: FEMA camps for dissident relocation don't pay for themselves
phf: ;;seen kakobrekla
gribble: kakobrekla was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 17 hours, 23 minutes, and 55 seconds ago: <kakobrekla> The note comes soon after the bank filed a patent for a securities settlement platform based on SETLcoin, a new cryptocurrency.
BingoBoingo: And can't appropriate money from congress for said camps until you've set the black helicopters free
asciilifeform: https://www.lab41.org << yet another one of these.
asciilifeform: imho i've listed the interesting ones.
asciilifeform: (left out some schmucks who crawl twitter, etc)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 105750 @ 0.00051142 = 54.0827 BTC [+] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3475 @ 0.00051014 = 1.7727 BTC [-] {2}
asciilifeform: not even trying to hide the cribbed wwwdevcrud
asciilifeform: i'd like to learn what kind of whiskey these folks drink themselves to sleep with every night
asciilifeform: (and at their desks)
BingoBoingo: Prolly Ten High or Old Crow
BingoBoingo: Serious Value
trinque: I don't mind bulleit
BingoBoingo: trinque: Out of the price range at the necessary quantities consumed in this scenario
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not at kitten-reprocessing-plant pay scale
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would say it does.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: spiffy
mircea_popescu: incidentally, ima publish a post-mortem report of the latest rent server attempt these coming days.
asciilifeform looks forward to reading this
mircea_popescu: omfg that's cute BingoBoingo
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27450 @ 0.00051166 = 14.0451 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what are you like training for intelwork nao ? :D
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i get spam from folks like these, so my curiosity was temporarily piqued.
mircea_popescu: if it stays piqued long enouygh there's prolly a qntra in there.
asciilifeform: they ask to buy my anal virginity, aha
asciilifeform: i though qntra were for nyooooz
asciilifeform: them there are oldz
asciilifeform: 'felching' ?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> them there are oldz << news can be olds if packed right
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: feel phree to package any and all of my exhaust gas as you may see fit
BingoBoingo: That would take time away from mining new exhaust gasses, and that's not the kind of spam I receive.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is this from the crumb cartoon ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which
mircea_popescu: random ustard sucking commie cum out of miss columbia ?
asciilifeform: quite possib.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i actually toured one such godforsaken heathen pit this very morning
asciilifeform: saw perhaps 101 things mircea_popescu wrote about that never made sense prior.
BingoBoingo: Aha, this is why you spam is must be so much more interesting than mine
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i let it be known that i was looking for wurk, some weeks past
asciilifeform: and thus cometh the spam-sea
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