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Carnita...

Her infowars.com/whatever-happened-to-sex/

Me o.O

Me alex jones gets laid ?

Me "Every public and private institution in every western country, with the sole exception of Iceland, is corrupt. " haha check that out.i

Her Hahaha, that article is actually by Paul Craig Roberts.

Me I noticed afterwards looking at the author. Guy's an idiot tho.

Her Well dunno what he's doing writing abut this, guy's an economist.

Me What's worse : I dunno why while being an economist with no sexual experience (has he been in a BDSM dungeon ? did he fuck a woman in the street ? etc etc etc) he proceeds to act AS IF some sort of god will step in and save him. He'll just keep doing what he does and it will all end up ok.ii

Her Who knows, shit changes all the time .. certainly not something I would make predictions on ...he does rather correctly notice the plight to older women in the 'new way' ...

Me He also doesn't have the Anthropology that'd tell him the plight of old women is a civilisational constant.

Her Hmm old? Or older? And when is that ...not really all that constant.

Me Romanian translation of the Decameron memorably contains a phrase that reads "carnita, lu' fetita, si osoiul, lu' baboiul". which in English is "the meat, to the girly, and the bone to the old hag". As in how to split foodstuffs according to 1400 Italians. Meaningful to 1970s Romanians.

Her But many North American Indian tribes revered elders .. its I think cultural and a function of economics. If times are hard you need girls to build next generation, but with the wisdom of elder if you can afford it

Me I don't think that's the underpinning. I think the main point is whether older women ACTUALLY ARE wiser or merely got old. In principle society will always be driven by the impregnation needs of fillies and the attention males pay to it throughout the age range. Do old women have something to add to this, to enhance it ? In societies where old women trained young women to be sluts, old women had a central role, and that's how you had the French salon in 1800iii. In societies where old women were named Paul Craig (he IS an old woman, in this thing, definitely), they got the shaft. And I suspect without knowing because I'm deeply ignorant about North American Ethnographics, that the main reason old women were revered there is that they were a bulwark against the female coy behaviour.

Her Well not just slut training ... girlies need to learn much, from changing nappies to cooking ..

Me Right. What do men know ? "Pussy is easy". K then. You think Nancy Pelosi had a chance of an ugly snowball in Hell if it weren't for Jeniffer Lopez and Britney Spears doing the splits on cam ?iv

Her It is interesting, I dont think I ever realized it before, but the whole thing is tied to economics (goes back to your basic essence idea).

Me Aha. It is. The more the married guy gotta spend to nail that 16 yo tramp hottie on the side, the worse the old women have it. Because that value comes out of something.

Her And he needs to more ...because survival of species.

Me (In China, notably, there is ACTUAL money set aside in the family budget for the guy's sideline. Compare old Chinese woman to old American woman, where's money put aside for the "Apologies" the guy does on tv.v )

Her Even China, which used to worship ancestors, it kicking the old to the curb.

Me And it is because the real estate prices in Beijing etc have made it so that young women are unaffordable. But hey, they wanted to be moar like America, so they get it.

Her Yup, no women = no young= death. Very grim and not really consiously known but still acted upon. So there was a kernel of worth in that artilce, even if the author didnt know it :P

Me I dunno, there might be an unseen balancing hand at work.

Her I am sure there is, just haven't figured out how language is fighting back on this one ;p

Me :p

Her Hmmm maybe all those crazy 50 genders things fits in here somewhere.

Me Who knows. We're squarely at the too little data square yet.

Ca-n viata.

———The article is incredibly stupid, far past the first sentence. Seriously, "all" except for "all" in this ~one~ ? What the fuck is this, IPTABLES ?

But it is, exactly. For all the risible idiocy of "bayesian" methods, that's exactly what you see stupid people do whenever they're confronted with reality. [↩]What makes the economist feel safe writing about a subject he knows nothing of ? "It's ok, I'm educated" ? This isn't how it works.

I understand why they would WANT it to be how it works : because they want to be me. But you don't become me by taking ONE fucking major in college. Nor by taking the whole fucking college. A well... [↩]Seriously, the notion that you, as a whore, would educate your daughter to be anything but the best whore of her generation was beyond the pale. Sort-of like doctors felt about their sons in the 50s, or something. [↩]It goes both ways, incidentally : if wealth drops abruptly, young women will "be forced" to be sluts even as the quality of life of old women decays. The story is about splitting available resources, not about quid pro quo.

You familiar with the stories of just what an utter slut Rachel is ? They go right with Rickles' joke that his wife died, by going into the pool with all her jewelry on. [↩]Think about this. So leader was "caught" (?!?!?) fucking on the side. And he says anything ~other~ than a) "who the fuck are you to ask me about this" and b) "if you weren't such a fucking loser as to go into "journalism" whathever the fuck that is, maybe you'd have sluts on the side too" ? Insanity, seriously.

The leader to apologize for having been, clearly, manifestly and patently a leader ? Fuck you and drop dead, what the fuck do you think this is, America ? [↩]

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Tuesday, 20 October, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

Butterfield 8

Butterfield 8i is a study in contrasts.

On one hand, it has by far the best intro scene in cinematic history - a very edible twentysomething Elizabeth Taylor slut waking up in a bedroom, among fluff and satin and hard liquor and cigarillos. She's pretty.

On the other hand, the butchery John O'Hara's novel suffered at the hands of the remarkably inept Charles Schne is hard to describe, if certainly not unparalelled in cinematic history. The original has some decent lines, the screenplay rings so contrived and false it made me cringe. I don't cringe easily.

Opposite Taylor plays a sort of phtysic Johnny Bravo, who ironically is a ham of such ample proportions that no item of scenery, no matter how large, no matter how forged could ever feel safe. The man has obviously chewed his way here from the center of another Earth, and will soon chew his way away. Far, far away, if hope's to be heard.

There's also an uncharacteristically pretty Paris Hilton, inexplicably called Norma ( Susan Oliver) whose lines read so incredibly sophomoric there can not possibly be any mistake as to the true identity.

All this uneven nonsense is unpleasantly wrapped in the "moral considerations" of some very pedestrian people living in primitive rural communities devoid of culture or much of an interest in the higher forms of life, with all the tiresome insistence aluminum siding salesmen would put into the sale of poorly translated, ill curated selections of the Torah (they have their own brand name they're promoting for this, B-something).

Overall, a great movie to watch with the sound off, preferably while getting a blowjob. Saving some sort of organic defect or mental perversion, ten-twenty minutes in you're done.

———1960, by Daniel Mann, with Elizabeth Taylor [↩]

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Friday, 12 June, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

B,TMSR~ and fundamental justice reform.

Motto: Bitcoin was just the opening act,

with the Blockchain ready to take center stage.

Exactly contrary to the above quote from USGi : the SOPS were just the closing act, with Bitcoin ready to start over.

It is an unfortunate but necessary result of the very functioning of the thing that we're about to visit with fire and iron, and salt the ground where it stood, that discussion as well as understanding on any central topic fragments, then loses sight of fundamentals, and then finally turns into disparate tumors resting on ossified sclerotica - like a bizarre coral colony consisting of a multitude of live cells flailing wildly at the extremities of a large construction they don't recall or in any sense master. Yes the coral reef, like what is today left of "law" or "economics" or "computing" or what have you has been actually made by the combined efforts of similar life forms similarly flailing over the centuries. This however does not mean that the chunk of deposited carbonate rock is in any way relevant to the current crop now actively flailing. As far as they're concerned it is insoluble, just another part of the ocean floor.ii

Consequently there exists nobody inside with a firm enough grasp of the fundamentals to be able to carry a fundamental discussion as to the law ; nor, of those who might with some effort within human capacity aquire such a grasp is anyone free of the delusions that erroneously misrepresent reality to them, such that they don't even try because they mistakenly imagine "they don't need to" or "someone else will" or, everyone's favourite : "gotta pay teh billz!", and so the whole charade should be safe ; except that to everyone's [mis]fortune I do happen to find myself in a position to carry this discussion, through the grace of having grown up outside of this whole system, and having enjoyed what I could best term an antisocial educationiii. And so by god we shall carry this conversation. Hold on to your seats.

There is a scene - because for reasons aforealluded we must start small, and we must start afar, and if we must we will - there is a scene in a movie we recently discussed. It goes like this :

Stone: Hello?

Shifflet: Hey, boss, it's Deck.

Stone: Oh, hey, Deck, how you doing?

Shifflet: Good. How are you?

Stone: Well, I'm cool.

Shifflet: Are you here?

Stone:Well, I'm here and there.

Shifflet: Ah, yeah, here and there. Listen, I got a stolen-evidence situation.

Stone: OK. Stolen evidence, uh... Let me see, uh... OK. The De Soto case.

Shifflet: De Soto?

Stone: Carmine De Soto. You remember him?

Shifflet: Club Ruby.

Stone: Uh-huh.

Shifflet: Where... where do I find that?

Stone: Uh, around '92, you'll find it, uh, let's see, Southwest second.

Shifflet: Boss, you're a lifesaver. '92?

Stone: Yeah. Club Ruby case.

Shifflet: '92...

Stone: Carmine De Soto.

Shifflet: Carmine De Soto.

Stone: Club Ruby.

Shifflet: Club Ruby.

Stone: It's from the appellate court.

Yeah. It kind of rings a bell.

~

Shifflet: I got it! And from Bruiser, of all people.

Baylor: Bruiser? I thought you didn't know where Bruiser was.

Shifflet: Well, I don't, but I got an emergency-contact number. I call them, they get me in touch with him. Look, Rudy, nobody knows more than Bruiser about stolen evidence. You might say it's his stock and trade.

Baylor: Good morning, your honor. Sorry I'm late, sir. Approach the witness, your honor?

Hale: You may.

Baylor: This is the claims manual that was given to me by Jackie Lemancyzk.

Drummond: Objection, your honor. Stolen work papers. Inadmissible. You ruled on this.

Kipler: Sustained.

Baylor: May we approach?

Drummond: I thought this matter was already settled, your honor.

Baylor: Your honor, I just this morning found a case that is controlling in this factual situation.

Kipler: What do you have?

Baylor: If you'll just take a look at this ruling. It's Club Ruby vs. Carmine De Soto. Copy for your honor and one for Mr. Drummond. Number 585, southwest second, page 431, argued by Bruiser... by J. Lyman Stone. And it shows very clearly that stolen documents are, in fact, admissible if the lawyers played no part in the theft.

Kipler: Well, according to these head notes, this case will overrule your objection. Sorry, Leo.

Drummond: Oh, I'm sure you are, your honor. But note my strong objection.

Kipler: Objection noted.

Baylor: May I approach?

Kipler: Do so.

What the fuck just happened there ?!

Obviously what happened first and foremost is just good cinema. On second pass what happened there was a short stocky law partner I'd kill for and never ever desertiv, and other matters dramatic. But also, edged in edgewise, barely connected to actual substantial reality of the working of the courtsv yet connected nevertheless is some side commentary on ossification.

Specifically : the judge as the role works today couldn't care less. For as long as you don't outright pull out a spiked club and start dispensing the Lord's own justice upon the witness, jury and court clerks, for as long as you "maintain order", which is to say keep to decorumvi, his role in the proceedings is purely passive. If the parties have a dispute, he will adjudicate it. If the parties don't have a dispute he has no business and just sits waiting. That's the whole job - not so different in the end from that other fundamental aspiration of black people in the US : being a bank guard. He sits there in his uniform with his rolled up copy of the Washington Post and prevents crime. Don't look at me strangely, you're the one that thinks this works.

Moving on to the fundamental part : why is this how it works ?

Now, in scholarship there are many ways to approach a question of "why". One's historical. We could if we felt so inclined write a few tomes about the numerous steps, junctures and tiny evolutionary steps that take us illo tempore ad praesenti litem, and in the process aquire all the accolades of being scholarly, learned and in general one of those good boys that never spills the saltvii. Somehow I suspect your patience wouldn't carry.

Another's fundamental. Someone who already has done all that legwork can simply fill in the correct conclusion, which you'll then take as granted. Lacking the basis upon which to discern whether the conclusion is correct or not, your practical choices are exactly two : either turn into some sort of sticklerviii, enthusiastically swallow everything coming your way, or else live without the entire line in your life. Upon examination, obesity in the English speaking world is suddenly unsurprising, is it ? Once you've decided your only practical avenue is to swallow everything, you can't hardly be faulted for actually doing a good job of it, can you ?ix

So here's the why, then : the judge became an exceedeed housewife the same day the reality he had to handle became complex.

But... why did such reality become complex ? It became complex sometime ten centuries ago, when the king who ran the court of justice as just another blacksmith's by the castle discovered that there's a lot of power in this line, and decided to make it a central underpinning of the world. This happened in Russia only recently owing to the fact that those barbarians are about a thousand years behind now, up from the ~500 years they were behind cca 1200 ad. It happened in England more or less at the time of the French invasion.

Originally, the powers of the court were codified exactly, in writs. Just like proper medicine works, which is to say "we don't cure people, and we have have nothing to do with health - we merely have this list of procedures to be applied in these circumstances, yielding with this probability these results". Back then, the court wasn't the place where "you went to be done justice", it was a much more instrumental office than that. You went there if you found yourself in any of the situations on the list, for the court to do what it says it does in those situations.

This arrangement was the only practicable arrangement at the time, for no reason other than people being free and used to their freedom. In that situation, the only possible way something like a court could work was through a limited and clearly specified list of enumerated powers. But then, as people got lazier and lazier, their subjective feelings of entitlement grewx and soon enough there was "need" for more and more and ever more writs. This tide was briefly stemmed by a decree that no new types of writs may issue, and within a few short years this resulted in a fundamental redefinition of the legal process, towards "justice" and away from writs.xi

The Obamacare of the legal profession had succeeded, carried by the happy applause of a large herd of newly imported low information voters (at the time, "professionals" and the burgeoning commerciant class), who were in short order the ones to regret the result, and their lament reaches us through just about forty generations. They "thought it would be ok" because "they only wanted to" and here we are.

Nevertheless, the system is untenable. Even leaving aside how rotten to the core it is - a minor point that one will bemoan but that will not ever drive the bemoaning one, even the best sort of one, to any sort of actual, positive action - the system is untenable in pure thermodynamic terms. This wasn't much of a concern for as long as it could simply steal everyone's property in any form to sustain itself, but on one hand the ever increasing costsxii of maintaining the charade and the other the unyielding quality of Bitcoin, completely immune to the sort of leeching SOPS needs to survive as it finds itself means it's the end.

Not just the end of Goldman Sachs. Not just the end of the evil and corrupt government that spawned Goldman Sachs. Not just the end of the country that was once great and is today a rotten stump. It is the end of the very possibility of the "justice system" as you presently know it.

Bitcoin is ready to start over, in the sense that for years it already has. Enumerated procedures of relief and no general remedy has been the rule in Bitcoin ever since forever. Copying this is not optional, but mandatory. Just like making a signature and registering it in the WoT is not optional, but mandatory : for the SEC, for "the press"xiii and for everyone else. Not like Bitcoin distinguishes between any of these anwyay.

So... yeah. The "Justice System" was just the closing act. Bitcoin's ready to start the show over.

———Through its wholly owned Agency of Goldman Sachs.

You will note that while the twerps in question no doubt think themselves clever, they are actually following word-for-word the playbook published early 2013, and written who knows how long prior :

Yet another one of them is that consumers revolt, entrepreneurs intervene, before the end of 2015 there's about a thousand to a million different Bitcoin forks, each with its ten million-ish monetary base worth about a dollar, on global average. The size of the inter-Bitcoins market, the complexity and confusion ensuing makes pretty much everything unmanageable for the "ordinary person". Hedge funds and banks (the ones a little ahead of using Excel) that trade in this murky complexity make a killing and become the principal driver of economic growth worldwide. Not only is the consumer about as screwed as is currently the case, but to everyone's benefit he has just been clearly proven yet again that revolt = being fucked in the ass harder, longer, with a thicker implement with sharper barbs on it. Also conveniently, the thing to revolt at has become much more vague and intangible. On the balance of probabilities this would seem the most likely outcome, strictly because history unerringly flows in that direction which most cruely rapes the "average person".

What chances the USG has in succeeding at whatever its stated or real goals while following to the letter the playbook written for them by their enemies is perhaps best surmised from surveying their history in the Middle East : they'll blather on about how they're on top of things, just until the final moment. [↩]One could patriotically, facetiously or otherwise stupidly declare that such is the problem of English speakers, congenitally dumb as they find themselves and always have. This isn't true - not because we aren't racists or aim not to be or seen as racists - but because it actually isn't true. The only reason $languagespace, $culture or $meta-anything doesn't exhibit these problems is because it hasn't lived. [↩]The fundamental problem with college debt isn't, as you no doubt erroneously think (see above) financial. The fundamental problem with college debt is cultural.

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. This is pivotal, because like this I'm perfectly able to tell anyone and everyone to go get fucked. The similar kid born of an English speaking woman in Ohio is open to the rebuttal that "well how you gonna pay back then ?!?!?" where I am not. This is important. In fact, this is what's important : even should they through magic, or the grace of God himself, acquire freedom from the financial entanglement, this cultural entanglement into a dead society, signed by a youthful brain is, at least in principle, unredeemable. [↩]Especially not for a woman, what the fuck is wrong with you people! [↩]Which really don't work this way in detail. For instance, if so surprised a judge would probably call a recess that's not pictured because it'd break the dramatic tension - which is specifically why the judge would have had it. [↩]Are you familiar with the psychotic situation around many Thanksgiving dinners where every felony is acceptable as long as the shit's covered in a veneer of "polite" and there's no cursing at the table ? Same principle.

You'd think you'd care about a little more than mere form and formality, if you ran the table. But then again you're young and know very little. Neither will last : soon enough you'll be old and know nothing at all. [↩]Romanian expression - spilling the salt at the table foretells domestic arguments. [↩]The stickler is the man who tries to navigate unknown waters with an amulet.

The housewife that lacks the intellectual ability and the scholarly sophistication to discern whether her sons are good or bad, so instead simply contents herself with insisting they don't use "foul language" at the table is a stickler : she's trying to navigate the world with her amulet of "proper language". It doesn't usually work.

The bureaucrat hiding behind so and so paperwork is also a stickler. He's hoping that "the process" somehow magically might steer him true over the incomprehensible waters of "holy shit what are these people saying". That's his amulet.

The "pick-up artist" with his amulet of "knowledge" of "how to [insert here] women" is a stickler, just like the sour hater that "all women are whores / untrustworthy / the cause of ruin" is a stickler - just because his amulet is shaped in the form of a hole doesn't make his hole different from the other's worshipped hole.

The list goes on. [↩]Hence the disconcerted, disbelieving airs of the Mayo-gendered - that first generation of idiots ever&anywhere that have to be actually explained why and wherefore their disease is bad. This is what's diving them : they're doing to their bodies exactly what their society has decided everyone must do to his mind. Mens sana in corpore sano, right ? Whadda ya want from them then ? They're doing it! You're the one that's living in a state of sin! [↩]These two are cognates, laziness and entitlement. What promotes laziness - not the common, subconscious, biological mechanism of saving energy, but the conscious echo of it, a refusal to put in the effort, wilful if lying about its wilfulness - is also what drives entitlement : a sense that in any case the desired outcome will be obtained. Hence Lord Newton's rebuff of the lazy house slave, that if there's no need to shine the shoes today there shan't be any need to eat, either. Exactly on point, this. [↩]If this brings echoes to mind of what the Argentines factitiously refer as "derecha no es mismo al derechos" you're exactly on point. It's true that the US, being delayed on the socialist route to famine and poverty, currently finds itself a little further up the stream going from one liberty to a collection of "rights". Nevertheless, it's the same stream. [↩]The SOPS needs everyone's bank account by now to support itself, fancy that! Where could it possibly go from there ? [↩]I can't recall the correct log point for this and after having spent five minutes on it I can't actually be arsed. It's in there somewhere, I'm sure. [↩]

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Thursday, 03 December, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

BTCJam : What starts as a scam stays a scam

As kako points out, there's layers upon layers of stupid caked in there. Leaving aside the dubious designi that doesn't even work in its own paradigmii, the proposition is that Bitcoin will definitely go up. Because yeah, that's how Captn's O' Industree think and act. Even admitting, for argument's sake, the scammer's own twisted world... what sense does it make ? So you borrow money in a currency you believe will be appreciating over time. What sense does this make ?iii

This, of course, is by no means novel. Here's a discussion between their rep in the scamforum and my PR agentiv :

Quote from: Tulkas on December 21, 2012, 05:11:33 PM

Unfortunately I was a little bit too optimistic on that 2 weeks forecast. We plan to use the personal information to collect the debts but we cannot simply hand it to lenders (as much as we sometimes want to do it).

I've just updated the service numbers:

loans: 312

total payments: 1463

payments late: 333

fully repaid loans: 155

We have a repayment rate of 77.23%

This doesn't look like a "scammer heaven" at all.

The listings are as good as the borrowers who make then, as far as censoring the "scammy" listings we are not sure about that.

77% repayment rate IS scammer heaven.

Quote from: MPOE-PR on December 08, 2012, 11:13:57 AM

Let's do some math!

Average loan duration 1 month, average repayment rate 77%, average interest rate 5% per month.

January: start with 1000 BTC, get back 770 btc + 5% interest, for a total of 808.5 BTC

February: start with 808.5 BTC, get back 622.545 btc + 5% interest, for a total of 653.67225 BTC

March: start with 653.67225 BTC, get back 503.3276325 btc + 5% interest, for a total of 528.494014125 BTC

April: start with 528.494014125 BTC, get back 427.28741042 btc + 5% interest, for a total of 448.651780941 BTC

May: start with 448.651780941 BTC, get back 345.461871325 btc + 5% interest, for a total of 362.734964891 BTC

June: start with 362.734964891 BTC, get back 279.305922966 btc + 5% interest, for a total of 293.271219114 BTC

July: look at your 293.271219114 BTC which spells out a 70% realized loss over barely six months and think about what a retard you were.

Once the GLBSE scam mothership is out of the way, Average Forum Idiot is desperately looking for some new ways to ensure his customary BTC losses. All the while telling himself that he's oh so great and "If you know what to look for you won't get one that defaults."

Too stupid to live is the term of art.

What planet are you from, seriously? 77% repayment means 23% loss, which works out to a staggering -95.7% API if your average contract is one month (if we use a closer-to-reality 3 weeks, it's -99% API). One Bitcoin "invested" on your scamplatform today will yield something on the order of 0.01 BTC on December 21, 2013, on average. Even miner bonds are better bang for the buck.

Learn 2 math. Preferably before you purport to offer Bitcoin services.

What a difference a couple of years make...

What difference do a couple of years make ? Not two, not twenty, not two hundred. The children come to school and four years later they leave with four years' worth of credit, but the dandelion roots all over the courtyard have been there since before the school was built, and will remain long after the school itself leaves. They'll just never get a degree, that's all.

———If they're using bootstrap, they're scammers. Forget about it, no discussion necessary. Also the rounded corners, large thick font, photographic-heavy visual paradigm is an excellent heuristic for identifying what to stay away from. They're not necessarily scammers, but they are necessarily idiots, and in the mid term the difference is negligible. [↩]What could be a better combo than grass green, plain white, weird blue ? Other than, you know, everything. And why even do #0066cc like sane webpeople when you're going for that "baby blue that's been sick a season" nuance when there's a whole lot of #0068c0 unused ? [↩]The sense it makes is that the BTCJam people are selling their webplatform on the usual premise such rounded corner - thick font - heavy on photo webplatforms are sold : free stuff! Because - you've heard it a million times by now - it will "drive adoption" at which point it will "become a market leader" at which point "it will be worth money" (not really, but it might allow the "founders" to walk out for some money). The whole thing's amply discussed elsewhere.

In their case, the free stuff in question happens to be OPM, and so come and get sum! And dun' worry your pretty Internet consumer head about how Bitcoin's been going down lately : it will go up in the future so it is worth stealing today. Don't be like those improvident thieves that steal actually valuable things - be the ant rather than the grasshopper and steal while shit's still not-as-valuable! [↩]From back in the day I was paying for a sane person to try and talk sense on that venue (they "all" hated her). She did score a few major hits, such as being the first and for a few short weeks the only to have called out Pirate for the scam he was - you should see the piles of mails and messages I got from "professional" "businessmen" about how I should fire her and how calling a scam a scam is "bad PR". Guess what ? This nonsensical approach is still the law of the land over in the VC circus. They honestly believe they will "build an industry" by "never talking negatively about others". People unqualified to wipe the floors in my shop, but also stupid enough to not realise this, run around pretending like they're CEOs and "have 20 years' experience". Here's a hint : spending 20 years being stupid does not give you any experience. That's just not how experience works. [↩]

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Wednesday, 21 January, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

/btc/, the most recent 8chan board

As the following 10`000 words probably explain best,

8chan is a bad.

Some people (tm) took it upon themselves to confiscate an old board (dedicated to "bitcoin faucets" and other bitcoin-unrelated stupid shit) and repackage it as a new and shiny jewel - The Most Serene Republic's most official site for discussions pertaining to the official currency of The Most Serene Republic, /btc/ ! (It's like /b/ but with tits and cunt, basically.)

About a day after its creation it broke the top boards listing on 8chan,

Which happenstance introduces a new measure of rapture : the proportion between post count and activity. In the case of /btc/ it was, at this time, 3.035087719. I am well convinced no board existed with a factor under 3, nor for that matter all that many with a factor under 10, or 100. 1`000 to 10`000 seem a lot more common.

That said, Bitcoin anons have a new home, and my "Other places :" sidebar area has a new entry. Hurray for the new world order.

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Sunday, 17 May, Year 7 d.Tr.

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Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddlesi is an excellent film about a nigger in the Wild West. That apparently had been taking so much LSD macerated in peyote as a preteen, the entire Sioux Nation was speaking Yiddish. This, incidentally, is not a joke. L'zn gyyn!

There are, in no particular order : bean fart visual gagsii, nazis (Hitler y compris, but they get rid of him after the bunker scene), Hedy Lamarr's tiny feet, assorted faggotry, an absolutely adowable Gene Wilder, proper use and care for capital equipment in harsh climate conditions, 15 or more schnitzengruben, and a whole lot of good taste (of not telling anyone we spoke about it). And everyone's a Johnson.

There's also slightly thinner fare - mostly centered around the Monthy Python problemiii, but what can one expect. It is altogether a jewel of a B movie, and if you've never seen it your mom's an uncle.

Then out of the sun rode a man with a gun

And Bart

Was his name

Yes, Bart was his name

PS. Hey, where da white women at ?

———1972, by Mel Brooks, with Gene Wilder [↩]Gotcha, didn't I! [↩]It is a long standing, well documented and thoroughly established fact that creative humour and punchlines are orthogonal endeavours, which is to say the more effort you expend into making your lines and gags sparkle with novelty, the hardest it is to ever come up with a proper punch line. Which is why they have to have policemen come to arrest the entire skit as a closer - there's just no way to close. Here, the particular way in which this arrest is implemented is ... through recursive 4th wall breaking. Just like... in every other case.

Because really, there's no way out of the MPP - and if you wish to make a name for yourself, young man, don't go west, and don't go to one of those places where they tell naive young boys all about how smart they are so they stay put while getting touched in that manner (which is what "Venture Capitalism" actually is all about - just in case you're a country bumpkin and didn't already know). No, none of that. If you wish to make a name for yourself, find a way - preferably, a systematic way - out of this conundrum. That's the grand prize. [↩]

« The very hard and unrewarding life of Ismail

Introducing the Bitcoin ISP »

Category: Trilematograf

Friday, 08 May, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

BitBet (S.BBET) October 2015 Statement

Operational results

Received 13 new propositions, of which accepted 8, rejected 5.

Total bets in: 204, worth 173.45596180 BTC BTCi

Revenue : 1.84993821 BTC, of which :

bets resolved : 1.08847589ii BTC

fees from refunds : 0.00200000 BTC

advertising : 0.1 BTC

house bets won : 0.65946232iii

gracious donations to shareholders : 0 BTC

Expenditure : 1.03122435, of which :

referrals paid : 0.00398973iv BTC

house bets made : 0.80000000 BTC

Hosting : 0.22641509 BTC

Taxv, 0.00081953 BTC

Profit : 0.81871385 BTC.

Miscellaneous

Business as usual.

We're still looking for competent affiliates, competent affiliate managers, competent advertising professionals and especially competent bookies.

There's money to be made here, and you're not going to be making it by waiting.

———Graph:

[↩]108.84752401 BTC total pool resolved this month. [↩]1.50000000 BTC worth of house bets were resolved during the current month. [↩]Affiliate revenue is probably the one place people leave most money on the table of the entire BTC ecosystem. [↩]Owed to Bitcoin's Sovereign. [↩]

« Why is it the end ?

MiniGame (S.MG), October 2015 Statement »

Category: S.BBET

Sunday, 01 November, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

BitBet (S.BBET) November 2015 Statement

Operational results

Received 19 new propositions, of which accepted 12, rejected 7.

Total bets in: 223, worth 176.89627501 BTCi

Revenue : 2.60991812 BTC, of which :

bets resolved : 1.71412079ii BTC

fees from refunds : 0.13896065 BTC

advertising : 0.1 BTC

house bets won : 0.32593378iii

gracious donations to shareholders : 0.33090290 BTC

Expenditure : 1.4719700, of which :

referrals paid : 0.04441583iv BTC

house bets made : 1.20000000 BTC

Hosting : 0.22641509 BTC

Taxv, 0.00113908 BTC

Profit : 1.13794812 BTC.

Miscellaneous

Business as usual.

We're still looking for competent affiliates, competent affiliate managers, competent advertising professionals and especially competent bookies.

There's money to be made here, and you're not going to be making it by waiting.

———Graph:

[↩]108.84752401

171.41204525 BTC total pool resolved this month. [↩]0.60000000 BTC worth of house bets were resolved during the current month. [↩]Affiliate revenue has for years been and remains throughout the one place people leave most money on the table of the entire BTC ecosystem. [↩]Owed to Bitcoin's Sovereign. [↩]

« Good morning!

Qntra (S.QNTR) November 2015 Statement »

Category: S.BBET

Wednesday, 02 December, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

BitBet (S.BBET) May 2015 Statement

Operational results

Received 30 new propositions, of which accepted 17, rejected 13.

Total bets in: 169, worth 123.22090675 BTCi

Revenue : 2.0274739 BTC, of which :

bets resolved : 1.75530294ii

fees from refunds : 0.0 BTC

advertising : 0.1 BTC

house bets won : 0.17177096 BTCiii

gracious donations to shareholders : 0.00040000 BTC

Expenditureiv : 1.52023125, of which :

referrals paid : 0.01972386 BTC

house bets made : 1.50000000 BTC

Taxv, 0.00050739 BTC

Profit : 0.50724265 BTC.

Miscellaneous

Hey, did you know the Summer's coming ?

———Graph:

[↩]175.53026539 BTC total pool resolved this month. [↩]0.30000000 BTC worth of house bets were resolved during the current month. [↩]Unreported here, two items. One, I purchased 5,809,606 pageviews for a 728x90 display campaign during the month of May, approximately half of which I donated to BTC Alpha's excellent autogenerated BitBet banner widget during that same interval. The ROI so far seems to be a 50% drop in referral payments, for reasons that the commentators are invited to explain.

The other, I retained a self-described marketeer to work for BitBet, and provided him with an initial 1 BTC budget. If this ever comes to anything it probably will be charged against BitBet's account. [↩]Owed to Bitcoin's Sovereign. [↩]

« MiniGame (S.MG), April - May 2015 Combined Statement

No Such lAbs (S.NSA), May 2015 Statement »

Category: S.BBET

Tuesday, 02 June, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

BitBet (S.BBET) March 2015 Statement

Operational results

Received 21 new propositions, of which accepted 9, rejected 12.

Total bets in: 250, worth 400.13718837 BTCi

Revenue : 57.37489011 BTC, of which :

bets resolved : 56.16827690ii

fees from refunds : 0.0 BTC

advertising : 0.1 BTC

house bets won : 0.89823143 BTCiii

gracious donations to shareholders : 0.20838178 BTC

Expenditure : 1.03610318 BTC, of which :

referrals paid : 0.07970800 BTC

house bets made : 0.90000000 BTC

Taxiv, 0.05639518 BTC

Profit : 56.33878693 BTC.

Miscellaneous

The remainder 1.65575511 BTC owed due to overpaid dividends as detailed in previous months will be substracted from the dividends of this month, leaving a grand total 26.51363835 BTC to be paid to the 5`000`000 shares traded on MPEx, bringing the monthly dividend to 530 satoshi per share, an absolute record for BitBet.

Update : Searching better we actually found 0.20838178 BTC worth of donations. Numbers updated accordingly.

———Graph:

[↩]5616.82750329 BTC total pool resolved this month. [↩]1.50000000 BTC worth of house bets were resolved during the current month. [↩]Owed to Bitcoin's Sovereign. [↩]

« MiniGame (S.MG), March 2015 Statement

MPIF (F.MPIF) March 2015 Statement »

Category: S.BBET

Saturday, 04 April, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

BitBet (S.BBET) July 2015 Statement

Operational results

Received 24 new propositions, of which accepted 16, rejected 8.

261.78973346 BTC (in 233 bets)

Total bets in: 279, worth 261.78973346 BTCi

Revenue : 5.66797669 BTC, of which :

bets resolved : 3.46064823ii BTC

fees from refunds : 0.07590172 BTC

advertising : 0.2 BTC

house bets won : 1.06578244 BTCiii

gracious donations to shareholders : 0.86564430 BTCiv

Expenditure : 1.90070102, of which :

referrals paid : 0.00209700 BTC

house bets made : 1.60000000 BTC

Hosting : 0.22641509 BTC

Taxv, 0.00383946 BTC

Carried loss : 0.06834947 BTC

Profit : 3.76727567 BTC.

Miscellaneous

Business as usual.

———Perhaps remarkably, the difference between total bets in last month and total bets in this month is a whopping 0.28837951, or 0.11%!

Graph:

[↩]346.06473748 BTC total pool resolved this month. [↩]1.30000000 BTC worth of house bets were resolved during the current month. [↩]Thank you! [↩]Owed to Bitcoin's Sovereign. [↩]

« No Such lAbs (S.NSA), July 2015 Statement

MPIF (F.MPIF) July 2015 Statement »

Category: S.BBET

Thursday, 06 August, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

BitBet (S.BBET) January 2015 Statement

Operational results

Received 41 new propositions, of which accepted 23, rejected 18.

Total bets in 334 worth 1668.63218986 BTCi

Revenue : 8.78496990 BTC, of which :

bets resolved : 3.87852694ii

fees from refunds : 0.27846041 BTC

advertising : 0.1 BTC

house bets won : 4.52798255 BTCiii

gracious donations to shareholders : 0.0 BTC

Expenditure : 2.35337592 BTC, of which :

referrals paid : 0.04693789 BTC

house bets made : 2.30000000 BTC

Taxiv, 0.00643803 BTC

Profit : 6.43159398 BTC.

Miscellaneous

3.21579699 BTC minus 1.9624272 BTC substracted due to last month's credit, for a final total of 1.25336979 BTC to be paid as dividends for MPEx shares this month. Future dividend payments to continue unencumbered.

———Graph:

[↩]387.85240885 BTC total pool resolved this month. [↩]6.81000000 BTC worth of house bets were resolved during the current month. [↩]Owed to Bitcoin's Sovereign. [↩]

« No Such lAbs (S.NSA), January 2015 Statement

A new software licensing paradigm »

Category: S.BBET

Tuesday, 03 February, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

BitBet (S.BBET) February 2015 Statement

Operational results

Received 29 new propositions, of which accepted 11, rejected 18.

Total bets in: 241, worth 214.53722695 BTCi

Revenue : 1.84210164 BTC, of which :

bets resolved : 0.91237878ii

fees from refunds : 0.00122576 BTC

advertising : 0.1 BTC

house bets won : 0.82849710 BTCiii

gracious donations to shareholders : 0.0 BTC

Expenditure : 1.22875745 BTC, of which :

referrals paid : 0.12814350 BTC

house bets made : 1.10000000 BTC

Taxiv, 0.00061395 BTC

Profit : 0.61334419 BTC.

Miscellaneous

Due to the sad fact that last month's dividend was mispaidv, there will be no dividend paid this month. Instead, 0.30667209 BTC representing a 50% share of the profit will be applied towards the 1.9624272 BTC due, leaving a further 1.65575511 BTC to be covered next month.

Which next month will include the resolution of that Berkshire bet, worth a little over 55 BTC in fees to Bitbet. Consequently next month's dividend is projected to exceed 500 satoshi per share, and probably break the previous 501 satoshi per share record set during March 2013.

———Graph:

[↩]91.23781284 BTC total pool resolved this month. [↩]1.40000000 BTC worth of house bets were resolved during the current month. [↩]Owed to Bitcoin's Sovereign. [↩]IT was supposed to be 1.25336979 BTC, but 3.21579699 BTC was paid instead [↩]

« MiniGame (S.MG), February 2015 Statement

No Such lAbs (S.NSA), February 2015 Statement »

Category: S.BBET

Tuesday, 03 March, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

BitBet (S.BBET) December 2014 Statement

Operational results

Received 50 new propositions, of which accepted 12, rejected 38.

Total bets in worth 379.65429672 in 263 bets.i

Revenue : 4.07815338 BTC, of which :

bets resolved : 2.20304826ii

fees from refunds : 0.06011000 BTC

advertising : 0.1 BTC

house bets won : 1.71499512 BTCiii

gracious donations to shareholders : 0.0 BTC

Expenditure : 1.20566060 BTC, of which :

referrals paid : 0.00566060 BTC

house bets made : 1.20000000 BTC

Taxiv, 0.00287249 BTC

Profit : 2.86962029 BTC.

Miscellaneous

It is with a heavy heart that I am forced to announce that I fucked up dividend payments again. S.BBET holders received 9.70886822 BTC instead of the 4.87682073 BTC they were owed as dividends last month. Consequently, there's yet again a credit, in sum of 4.83204749 BTC, towards which this month's profit was applied, leaving 1.9624272 BTC to be covered in the following months. Once the profit eats through it, dividends will issue again on MPEx. Sorry for being so inept ;/

———Graph:

[↩]220.30472679 BTC total pool resolved this month. [↩]2.20000000 BTC worth of house bets were resolved during the current month. Even wow-er than last. [↩]Owed to Bitcoin's Sovereign. [↩]

« MiniGame (S.MG), December 2014 Statement

MPIF (F.MPIF) December 2014 Statement »

Category: S.BBET

Saturday, 03 January, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

BitBet (S.BBET) August 2015 Statement

Operational results

Received 30 new propositions, of which accepted 12, rejected 18.

Total bets in: 220, worth 328.52893678 BTCi

Revenue : 2.87001368 BTC, of which :

bets resolved : 2.16437851ii BTC

fees from refunds : 0.01494701 BTC

advertising : 0.1 BTC

house bets won : 0.59068816 BTCiii

gracious donations to shareholders : 0 BTC

Expenditure : 1.33204754, of which :

referrals paid : 0.00409295iv BTC

house bets made : 1.10000000 BTC

Hosting : 0.22641509 BTC

Taxv, 0.00153950 BTC

Profit : 1.53796614 BTC.

Miscellaneous

Business as usual.

———Graph:

[↩]216.43780285 BTC total pool resolved this month. [↩]1.10000000 BTC worth of house bets were resolved during the current month. [↩]It boggles the mind that two years later, we're still paying peanuts on this title. As hunger is the only cure for lazy, let's hope for famine. [↩]Owed to Bitcoin's Sovereign. [↩]

« Micul Botanist

MPEx (S.MPOE) August 2015 Statement »

Category: S.BBET

Thursday, 03 September, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

BitBet (S.BBET) April 2015 Statement

Operational results

Received 13 new propositions, of which accepted 4, rejected 9.

Total bets in: 150, worth 148.01944872 BTCi

Revenue : 3.9764133 BTC, of which :

bets resolved : 2.42817237 ii

fees from refunds : 0.001 BTC

advertising : 0.1 BTC

house bets won : 1.44724093 BTCiii

gracious donations to shareholders : 0 BTC

Expenditure : 0.44653086 BTC, of which :

referrals paid : 0.04653086 BTC

house bets made : 0.40000000 BTC

Taxiv, 0.00352988 BTC

Profit : 3.52635256 BTC.

Miscellaneous

Business as usual.

———Graph:

[↩]242.81711735 BTC total pool resolved this month. [↩]2.10000000 BTC worth of house bets were resolved during the current month. [↩]Owed to Bitcoin's Sovereign. [↩]

« The Fetlife Meatlist - Volume IX

Qntra (S.QNTR) April 2015 Statement »

Category: S.BBET

Monday, 04 May, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

BitBet history

Bitbet recently paid out on the largest bet in its historyi, and as its wallets are feeling all light and fluffy after the experienceii, it's maybe time to look back over the years.

Here's a graph of Bitcoin intake by week, for the 122 weeks that we've been in business :

Completely disinterested in the BTC/USD evolutions, that went from ~2 to ~1`200 in the interval, the weekly average, which is now just a tad shy of 200 BTC/week, is almost exactly equal to the average over the first year (1st of January 2013 - 1st of January 2014). Fancy that!

Onwards and upwards, as they say.

———Notably, not in the history of Bitcoin, the Vandroiy-Pirateat40 10`000 BTC bet that nanotube escrowed will probably hold that title forever.

Of course, if you go by "equivalent dollar value" then ~5k @ 300 soundly beats 10k @ ~5 out of the field, and while a milion dollar + bet is significant even for Vegas, it's still not "the largest" as far as I know. [↩]Which, by the way, was horrible. [↩]

« Young Frankenstein

Autotranslated Spam For The Lulz »

Category: S.BBET

Saturday, 21 March, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

Basic Bitcoin Competency Certification

It recently came to my atention that known conmen are openly advertising "Bitcoin certification".

While so-called certification is a preminent and widely reviled part of the bezzle that the USG mostly consists of, and while their execution is exactly as appallingly poor as you'd expect from someone affectionately dubbed "the shit fountain", I suspect there may be some merit nevertheless in the idea of allowing interested parties to score their knowledge of a field.

Consequently, find thei actual Basic Bitcoin Competency Certification test below. You may use this in either of two ways. One way is to read the questions, think about the answers, write them down, think about them some more, correct what you wrote down and so on ad infinitum. The other way is to get in the WoT, clearsign your answer and leave it as a comment here. You will receive an answer consisting of a clearsigned certification of your resultsii. Either way is perfectly valid. Some mentally simple individuals may perceive a third alternative. This is purely their overactive imagination put to the hard, thankless, arid work of trying to compensate for an underdeveloped intellect.

Section A. Mathematics, applied.

What is a trapdoor function ? What is an acyclic graph ?

Explain the Byzantine Generals problem.

Create your own symmetric enchiphering scheme, so that obtaining the plaintext out of cyphertext takes at least twice as many operations if one doesn't have the key.

Discuss perfect forward secrecy, in the broader context of mathematical guarantees.

What is meant by "Proof of Work" ?

What is a stable solution ? Define Nash's equilibrium.

Describe at least two orthogonal notions of 'entropy', and discuss their applications.

Section B. Economics, applied.

Illustrate the roles and fuctions of a bank, and discuss its historical evolution.

Provide a brief history of remittance in human civilisation.

Explain, with reference to economic theory and to the history of economic thought, why the medium-of-exchange function of money and the store-of-value function of money are orthogonal.

Explain the functions and functioning of centrally-issued currency. Propose criteria to score the performance of the centrally-issued currency manager.

Illustrate with examples created for the purpose the dangers which beset economic systems built on programatically-issued money.

Section C. Computer Science, Engineering and Systems Design, applied.

Explain the solution Satoshi Nakamoto found to the Byzantine Generals problem.

Discuss the advantage of distributed data storage over alternative solutions, as well as the broad history of deployments.

Introduce and discuss the concept of stability.

Discuss the characteristics of the C++ language that make it an uniquely inappropriate choice for the implementation of Bitcoin. Make proposals for an alternate choice, with justification.

Give an example in which chained encryption results in a scheme weaker than the weakest link.

Explain the second-system effect, with application to a well known case.

Section D. Sociopsychology and Operational Security, applied.

What purpose does asymmetric cryptography serve ?

Explain the disadvantages of "brainwallets".

Explain what "airgap" means, and then illustrate through discussing an example created for the purpose.

What is "social engineering" and why is it difficult to defend against in an institutional setting ?

Define consensus, with references.

Discuss the practical differences between anonimity and pseudonimity. What is a Sybil attack ?

Explain why Rawls' approach to ethics is pseudoscientific.

Note that overly verbose answers will be penalized.

———Open, by the way! Fancy that, "everyone else does X" is no argument to do X and "safeguarding the integrity" of a test is in no way related to or served by making it secret. How about that!

Whoever could have predicted!!11 [↩]Which you can print and hang on your wall just as well as any other worthless piece of paper purporting to be a "certification". Unlike said piece of maculature however, this also has the value of reflecting your actual competence in a field of your choice. [↩]

« Naivity in finance

RObotzi S03 Ep3 : Hobby »

Category: Bitcoin

Tuesday, 25 August, Year 7 d.Tr.

popescu 2y ago

Autotranslated Spam For The Lulz

Here's the original :

I'm not even sure how to render the monumental piles of involuntary humor in English - you see, Romanian is a very complex language with very numerous idempotent variants, which is to say you can express the exact same thing about fifty billion ways. Obviously the only way people can navigate through such endless fields of possibility is through the same method scientists use : creating paradigms, which is to say perfectly arbitrary and otherwise unjustifiable selections of "right" and "wrong" ways to do things. Machine translation obviously has no chance of stumbling on the correct set, and so the constant, sheer, confounding violation of any shred of a reasonable expectation sends the native speaker reeling into hickups as only available coping strategy.

Nevertheless, I shall try!

Good day, my name is ILLUMINATI BORROWMENTS. I private creditor, that kicks out borrowing to real and legal persons. Have you (formal) been dumped by even this many banks ? You (informal) have need for financing for financing to locate your (formal) business or you need (still formal) emergency financing for expanding your (very formal) business ? Or you [T]i have need of a credit for personal needs ?ii She-borrow mineiii varies from personal to business borrowing. Interest she-rate of mine is 3%, and our process of borrowing is very rapid as well. I am very inclined for her to make all your financial mishaps an item with the characteristics of pastness. If you [V] are truly ready to obtain your [T] financial problems solved, then search no more [V] and apply [T] for a borrow of today. If you [V] are interested, please contact us by email etc.

I suppose I should put them in contact with BTCJam ? Or, and here's the truly important problem, vice-versa ?

———Romanian, like all Latin spawn, follows the tous-vous distinction, the thing which used to be rendered in English as thou-you, back before everyone speaking the language became a lord somehow. Anyway, the "ai" form of "you have" is the singular and goes with the informal personal pronoun, T, whereas the plural ("aveti") goes with the formal, V. Whereas "dumneavoastra", literally "your lordship", the formal-est form of them all is so very out of place in a text that mixes the previous two... [↩] :-) [↩]"Mea" means "she that belongs to me", as opposed to "meu" which means "he that belongs to me" and "mei", which, other than millet, also means "they that belong to me". It is always used with an articled noun, like pula mea = my cock, cacatul meu = my shit etc. (Yes, this means penis is feminine in Romanian. It is.) which imprumut is not - should have been "imprumutul" (same as cacat-ul). [↩]

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