MiniGame (S.MG), November 2015 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
Copper sale
0.0
Game server
2.28232957
Loot pool provisioningi
200.0
Total
0.0
Total
202.28232957
S.MG assets
Account
01.11.2015
Net change
30.11.2015
Cash
8`663.491394393
202.28232957
8`461.209064823
Tangiblesii
68.96431310
200.30968370
269.27399680
Intangibles and goodwill
69.162325217
0
69.162325217
Total assets
8`799.64538684
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.11.2015
Net change
30.11.2015
Player holdingsiii
23.73031368
0.38947944
23.34083424
Shareholder equity
8`777.88771903
1.58316643
8776.3045526
Total liabilities
8`799.64538684
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The shareholder equity per share implied value is thus 0.00009962 BTC.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
Miscellaneous
CTO still on sick leave, which is concerning.
———To support two major auctions of high ticket items as well as to reflect the significant increase in mining activity as a result of the wide deployment and smooth functioning of Foxy's bot, we've commited significant BTC capital to the loot pools in Eulora this month. [↩]200 BTC of which is straight deposit, 0.30 BTC of which is the result of chance favouring S.MG. [↩]The nominal (ie, what merchant pays) of all owned items plus cash held. The value of skills is nominally 0. [↩]
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Category: S.MG
Tuesday, 01 December, Year 7 d.Tr.
MiniGame (S.MG), March 2015 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
Game server
2.37893612
--
Total
0
Total
0
S.MG assets
Account
01.03.2015
Net change
31.03.2015
Cash
8`736.77854606
2.37893612
8`734.39960994
Tangibles
0
0
0
Intangibles and goodwill
62.28719983
2.37893612
64.66613595
Total assets
8`799.06574689
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.03.2015
Net change
31.03.2015
Shareholder equity
8`799.06574689
0
8`799.06574689
Total liabilities
8`799.06574689
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009988 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009917 BTC.
S.MG realised no operating revenue this period, and is not expected to realise operating revenue next period. The P/E implied value per share is thus 0 BTC.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
Miscellaneous
So in all honesty, what happened here is that I got a test variant to play with myself, which resulted in... changes. I changed numerous and sundry things, an illustrative example of which would be : originally, the plan was to seed the economy through having Greyhawk give out 100 coin gifts to visitors once a day. Instead of this we will have (hopefully) a system where a money bag is distributed through a special event, which does the same service. It's a much better solution for many reasons, including the collector value of the item in question, but it also requires specific changes and new tests being done etc.
The game could have shipped two weeks ago, or in a few days provided I'm done futzing with it, which I'm not sure I am. Originally the "ready" package included ~100 different items. We're over 350 items at the moment, strictly because I kept going "o hey, how about adding this thing" about twice a week for the past month.
In any case, Eulora goes from "imminent release during March" to imminent release during April". It will come with an engrossing mining-crafting economy, in support of which statement I offer the proof that look, I am already engrossed with it. See you in-game soon!
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Category: S.MG
Friday, 03 April, Year 7 d.Tr.
MiniGame (S.MG), June 2015 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
Coppers salei
2.32661832
Game server
2.28232957
Windows and OS/X binariesii
1.50000000
Loot pool provisioningiii
16.00000000
Advertisingiv
7.8147
Sunday, June 6th eventv
0.00192528
Sunday, June 21st eventvi
0.01038098
Donation to The Blender Foundation.vii
0.2093
--
0
--
0
--
0
Total
2.32661832
Total
27.60933583
S.MG assets
Account
01.06.2015
Net change
30.06.2015
Cash
8`729.903420673
25.28271751
8704.620703163
Tangibles
0
16.00000000
16.00000000
Intangibles and goodwill
69.162325217
0
69.162325217
Total assets
8`789.78302838
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.06.2015
Net change
30.06.2015
Player holdingsviii
0
2.57422905
2.57422905
Shareholder equity
8`799.06574589
11.85694656
8`787.20879933
Total liabilities
8`789.78302838
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009974 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009896 BTC.
S.MG operated at a loss this period, as such there is no computable P/E value as of yet.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
Miscellaneous
This was the heaviest expenditure month for S.MG since inception, and makes up a significant portion of that total. The larger part of this expenditure was the feeding of the game loot pools. This was both to be expected and perfectly reasonable, and an expense I do not in the slightest begrudge. As the game population scales, I expect to make further disbursements on this account. I am curious if a player gets sufficiently lucky to actually significantly drain any of the poolsix. Should that occur, they will be refilled.
A smaller but still significant contributor to the outgoings was my attempt to advertise the game. I was satisfied before, from my own business experience, that advertising is a stupid endeavour on par with hiring clairvoyants and other similar fraudsters. In light of the appalling quality of workmanship in the field that this exercise has unearthed, as well as the unabashedly poor RoI I believe any investor should be satisfied that if we don't spend further Bitcoin on this account it is because we mean to succeed as a business, rather than go to Davos. Needless to say we will engage in very little of this sort of stotting in the future.
To close, some perhaps interesting datapoints :
Since the release of the game, players have racked an aggregate 2`682`832 seconds of gameplay, coming to an average server utilization of 1.027.
Since the release of the game, players have expended 0.11158603 Bitcoin. The expected revenue for S.MG from this is 0 Bitcoin, which puts the value to us per average second of gameplay at 0 Bitcoin.x
Eulora is known from experience to run on AMD Radeon HD 5800 / HD 6700 / HD 7790 ; ASUS EAH6450 ; Intel HD 4000 ; nVidia GeForce GT 520 / GTX 580 / GT 630 / 9600M GT / GTX 970 / NV98. The most popular operating systems are Unix-x86(64)-GCC (9) ; Unix-x86(32)-GCC (4) ; Win32-X86(32)-VisualC (4).
———An informal auction was held in game during the Sunday event, through which Grundin Goldskull has won the appointment as the official game gold agent with a bid of 10`000`000 coppers. This means that he can buy as much as he wants directly from me, and so you can reliably depend on him to supply you, should you need any. As the game grows, or should he become unavailable, further auctions will be held.
I've also sold myself 222`661`832 coppers, because apparently I'm a baller. [↩]As per the Jobs Board entry, jurov has undertaken maintenance of Eulora binaries for OS X 10.10, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. [↩]Eulora has had its loot pools seeded. Think of it as an ice breaker.
If you're worried about it, I shall point out that players have so far managed to realise < 0.1% of this sum, and while it is entirely possible someone strikes a multi-BTC jackpot, it is not altogether very likely - and each try costs a little. If that notwithstanding you're still worried about it - which I guess is understandable, seeing the history of unreliability software has built up for itself in the modern age - the client download is over here. [↩]As follows :
5.7647 BTC (via Coinbase - eugh) to BuySellAds network (this is one of the top 5 outfits, as nearly as Intel could tell), for a total of 1`230`000 impressions on blenderartists.org, cryptoblox.com, gameslikefinder.com, freebitcoinwin.com, gamefromscratch.com and bitcoinaliens.com (sorted by expenditure). Here's a current stat :
Nine days later they had delivered 366`296 of the contracted 1`230`000 impressions. The appaling 0.19% CTR rate (which I hear is not actually bad these days) is probably representative if not overshooting due to fatigue. This means I am paying 5.7647 / 1230 / 1.9 = 0.0024667 PER CLICK.
It is altogether possible that these clicks have yielded as many as one cvasi-events in total so far, but it's incontrovertible they resulted in no installs and no registration. So the ROI is through the roof, or as alf put it, I think I like uber more.
To round out this very promising thread, since these people are running ads on scum like
straight from their "cryptocurrency" section, I figured an inquiry's never a mistake and asked them about running either Qntra or BitBet. The response came back as
Thank you for your interest in selling ads with BuySellAds. Unfortunately, we are not able to approve your website at this time.
Due to the volume of submissions, we are not able to provide the reasons for denial or feedback for improvements, although we use several factors to determine whether a site is a great match for our network. The topic of a site, its ad sizes, traffic, etc. are all a piece of the puzzle, but in the end it all comes down to our
advertiser demand. We know what our advertisers are looking for, and we know what we're best at selling. We only want to work with sites we know we're the perfect choice for, and that's not the case here.
As BuySellAds continues to expand, so does our advertiser base. Hit us up again in 6 months and maybe we'll be able to welcome you into the fold with confidence. In the meantime, we know there are a ton of ad networks to choose from, and we appreciate you thinking of us.
Which is nice and conveys a feeling of care and attention to detail - in a word, the muchly vaunted professionalism. Except,
Subject: Re: I'm an Advertiser, and I need assistance
From: "Angela"
Date: Wed, June 24, 2015 9:03 am
Hello Mircea,
I am sorry about this. I contacted the publisher about this issue and will let you
know as soon as I hear from them to resolve this.
Sometimes Publishers respond quickly to issues like this, and sometimes it takes
them longer to respond. We usually like to allow at least 1-2 business days for a
response and resolution. Although if more time passes that we have not yet heard
from the publisher, and if you do not want to wait any longer for a resolution,
please respond to this email to let us know.
Thanks,
Angela
--
Angela
Mircea Popescu on June 23, 2015 at 5:04pm wrote:
I ordered a 728x90 spot on http://www.cryptoblox.com/
As you can see * , the site covers about a third of the ad with a spurious overlay.
This is not what I'm paying for - they want to sell 728x50 let them advertise the
spots as such.
---
* For instance :
http://browsershots.org/screenshots/bb88555bcafb640450af9252fa8a7dbe
http://browsershots.org/screenshots/c3626b810d7c75712767a5c729d568ee
http://browsershots.org/screenshots/89e93f6ca24604324f3a347fdf383f12
http://browsershots.org/screenshots/a4a6821b939c707b19952791e096b00a
etc.
And that's the last I heard on the matter. An entire world built on first impressions delivered JIT, how do you like that ?
1.05 BTC were paid to gametracker.com, in exchange for the promise of 51`020 impressions of 728x90 banners on their "tier 2" (Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway etc) line. This turned out to be a complete scam : for most of the campaign, they failed to actually display the banner. Otherwise, the results were nothing short of appalling :
$ grep -c "Z2FtZXR" trilema.com-Jun-2015.txt
16
$ wc -l trilema.com-Jun-2015.txt
6236082 trilema.com-Jun-2015.txt
Not a single one those 16 hits was actually in any sense a valid click, either. Obviously the rep was confronted with this sad state of affairs, to which the response came, and I quote,
We are confident that all 52000 impressions you purchased were successfully delivered on the Gametracker.com website.
The Doubleclick platform is showing 23 clicks with a click through rate of 0.06%. This is low compared to the CTR we typically see for Adsense and other ad campaign we have run. I can talk with my manager about running some extra impressions for this campaign but would highly recommend you update the banner image you submitted to be more effective (perhaps with a brief text description of the service/product you are trying to sell).
Please attach an updated banner image in your response and I will work to get some more impressions added to this ad campaign.
-Don
In conclusion : "Don" is a lying scumbag, and gametracker.com pretty much a scam through and through. Not even an intelligent one, at that. I've filed a complaint with the BBB against Clan Servers Hosting LLC of 100 Matawan Rd Ste 420 Matawan, New Jersey, and adding the name of David Aninowsky, the head gonzo of the gametracker.com / vultr.com/ choopa scamring here for my own records.
1.0 BTC to Daniel Barron has been running like a dog trying to get an ample list of - broadly speaking - idiots to advertise Eulora (here's a small sample). His efforts were, as per my instructions, dedicated to the linux webspace in the May 8th - June 6th interval. Their useful result was exactly zero - not a single website misrepresenting itself as dealing with linux software managed to pick up as much as a single satoshi off of this table. That I should even be expending my own resources at all for this is already ridiculous, but reality goes deeper into the ridicule pond than that. We've seen a lot of "80 dollar CPM" bullshit as if it's 2004 or something, we've seen a lot of aferations of self-importance from an assortment of clueless idiots who think they're worth anyone's time by merely existing, we've seen, basically speaking, reddit and tardstalk. They will not be getting any money, obviously. More importantly - the only possible summation of this failure of the "community" is that the community in question is dirt and will go away.
His efforts were redirected, also per my instructions, towards commercial gaming portals etc on June 9th. Three weeks later, the useful results were actually worse : we wasted some Bitcoin for exactly the same sort of exposure as received from the previous set. At this point, the decision seems to be : either "hire an expert" ; or else sink money into the social media platforms (yeah, I'm totally going to give FaceBook money) ; or else just forget about "advertising" altogether. Honestly, if I am going to throw Bitcoin away, I'd much rather throw it at the playerbase than at the various "Internet Businessmen" out there.
In any case : he's done his job and he is getting paid - irrespective of the aggregated failure of the world outside to amount to as much as a hill of beans.
[↩]A number of six magic bags were given out to players. These produce 1337 satoshi per day each, and so consequently 0.00192528 will be charged against this month's accounts, and then 0.00244002 against the accounts of every subsequent month after that. [↩]This one consisted of high quality tools. [↩]This will be a monthly recurring expense, made unavoidable by the fact that Minigame tech loves Blender.
The idiots managed to... reject it. Fancy that! I left a note on some forum where their representative had pasted one of those lengthy vapid turds a certain sort of person keeps spouting these days. It read like so :
Originally Posted by m9105826
Hey everyone,
In an effort to reach out to the community more effectively,
[...]
The main goal here is honesty and transparency.
In the spirit of that same honesty and transparency referenced in the original post, I will recount the unhappy story of my trying to support Blender.
It started on irc (as you may or may not know, Blender has a #blender channel on Freenone ; as you also may or may not know, there's a lot more to the world than the web, and most important people doing important things can not be found on any webforum) :
Jun 23 07:34:51 JA12 incidentally, what's the best way to support the blender foundation ?
mircea_popescu: buy blender related products and services, some of that money finds its way back to blender development fund. direct donation is also an option if you prefer
didn't see anything on the website
i'm not too keen on this entire merchandising front
mircea_popescu: blendercloud is one service/product directly related to foundation but partners also sponsor it
mircea_popescu: it, as in blender development
https://www.blender.org/foundation/development-fund/
mircea_popescu I just paypal to the dev fund on a monthly basis as JA12 said
The most important thing you must understand about PayPal is that using it is worse than wearing baby otter fur while kicking around footballs made by five year old concentration camp prisoners hanging a foot above ground from steel meathools stuck in their eye sockets.
Yes, it is really that bad. PayPal is the enemy, declared and avowed, of everything that is good and right with the world, and especially ~ ESPECIALLY ~ any sort of creativity of any kind whatsoever. I won't rehash their outrageous history of rape and pillage directed against the human spirit, suffice it to say I won't ever use it, and the notion of anyone ~ ANYONE ~ involved in a creative endeavour of any kind, to any degree, using them is, again, beyond scandalous. Stop promoting your sworn enemies, yo!
That said, I am not a fanatic, and I understand that sometimes you have to drink water out of a dirty garden hose. So I asked a friend to pay the foundation on my behalf : http://btcbase.org/log/?date=23-06-2015#1173438
This was done plainly, publicly, on the Bitcoin irc channel (also on Freenode). And yes, chief among the benefits of Bitcoin is that I can do this : I can send payments from anywhere to anywhere, and any aspiring "government" can shove their aspirations. (The other chief benefit being that lo! BuySellAds takes Bitcoin, which is why there's an ad for Eulora, MiniGame's Bitcoin-based MMORPG right here on this forum!)
The result ?
Hi,
I mail with someone calling self Riccardo, claiming to own websites from Mircea Popescu, and paying me via a South African PayPal account that doesn't show a website.
I'm sorry, but I don't want to get involved with this. I will refund the donation.
-Ton-
Now, to be clear : I don't begrudge the man the right to refuse help, from anyone, for any reason (Ricky does, but that's another story). Heck, if he feels like taking it to the extreme he can even outright decide to refuse help from anyone, and finance the whole kaboodle out of his own pocket - I know I do exactly that, for plenty of things.
Nevertheless, a few things have to be pointed out :
1. Merchandising is a very 80s (that is to say, atechnical, demeaning and very, very wasteful) method to support anything. I don't want to force the irrigation of another acre of South American forrest so the cotton can be grown so the shirt can be made so I can spend ten dollars, throw away ten and support you for forty-five cents if you get even that much. There's no need for further keychains and coffee mugs in the world. For that matter, I don't wear tshirts, I don't carry keychains and I the very little coffee I actually drink comes out of actual porcelain.
2. PayPal is a very stupid way to do payments online in 2015. Yes, I get it, last you felt like expending any thought on the topic was 1995, and hey, they were a hip new thing then. Sure, they were, back then. Meanwhile it sold out, to be merged with Hot Topic to create the USG MiniTruth. Stop using fucking PayPal, there are much better alternatives. It's been 20 years, after all. Time to get with the times ?
3. A poor reaction to strange is the best predictor of low intelligence. Everything worth doing, everything important, everything you will enjoy, and remember, and be in the end ready to die for will come to you as a surprise originally. This is a given. There are two kinds of people in the world, the sort that react with curiosity to surprise, and the sort that start flailing their arms, stuffing their ears and yelling. The thing is that we have a name for each kind. The name for the first is creative, and the name for the other set is whatever you wish to call them.
So on that note : I tried to support this thing, and didn't manage to. I'm sure you don't need it, but even without needing it - consider what you can do for the other people that in the future might want to support this thing, so they actually manage. And no, it's not just about money, by the time this sort of discord shows up in the bottom line, it's been going on in the creative spheres far, far longer, and probably poisoned them thoroughly.
Yet, none of this is actually my problem. So... cheers!
It was, perhaps unsurprisingly, disappeared by the website in question. Such is the fate of transparency and honesty among English speakers these days.
I've since had it pointed out that yes there's an unadvertised Bitcoin option. I think I'll exercise my very advertised option to refrain from supporting this particular group until after such a time PayPal becomes the unadvertised option. [↩]The nominal (ie, what merchant pays) of all owned items plus cash held. The value of skills is nominally 0. [↩]Currently the possible results of player actions do not have an upper bound. It is perfectly possible to start work trying to make Coarse Thread out of three clumps of Dry Grass worth a coupla hundred satoshi together and end up with ten Bitcoin in finished products. Yours truly has had occasion to verify this on two separate occasions - once when a fortunate Tiny Dry Grass claim turned one Little Bit O' Nothing into 34 bits of grass (from 11 satoshi to ~ 2500 satoshi) and another time when a lucky click on Indistinct Treebark Shavings yielded 2`665 units of the finished product (a value of 0.00775 BTC) out of ~300 coppers' (0.00000300 BTC) worth of ingredients. [↩]This is intentional, Eulora is not intended to run a rake. Instead, Eulora will finance itself through the sale of food and drink - which is to be implemented at a later point. [↩]
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Category: S.MG
Wednesday, 01 July, Year 7 d.Tr.
MiniGame (S.MG), July 2015 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
Coppers salei
6.00000951
Game server
2.28232957
Loot pool provisioningii
55.00000000
Totaliii
6.00000951
Total
57.28232957
S.MG assets
Account
01.07.2015
Net change
31.07.2015
Cash
8`704.620703163
51.28232006
8`653.338383103
Tangiblesiv
16.00000000
53.38405574
69.38405574
Intangibles and goodwill
69.162325217
0
69.162325217
Total assets
8`791.88476406
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.07.2015
Net change
31.07.2015
Player holdingsv
2.57422905
6.71427515
9.28850420vi
Shareholder equity
8`787.20879933
4.61253947
8`782.59625986
Total liabilities
8`791.88476406
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009980 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009901 BTC.
In an astonishing turn of events - and in spite of spending twice as much as the previously record holding previous month - S.MG brusquely became cash-positive this month, if not actually net positive. The exact P/E valuation in this situation is left as an exercise to the investor.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
Miscellaneous
To close, some perhaps interesting datapoints :
Since the release of the game, players have racked an aggregate 7`036`736 seconds of gameplay, making this month's 4`353`904 a significant increase over the previous month's 2`682`832 (+62%, partly helped by the extra day in July). Interestingly enough, average player profit per second of play can thus be calculated, and it comes to a little over 37 Eulora coppers, or just that many satoshi.
Since the release of the game, players have expended 1.14605307 (a 1`027% increase over last month's 0.11158603 Bitcoin). The expected revenue for S.MG from this is 0 Bitcoin, which puts the value to us per average second of gameplay at 0 Bitcoin.vii The factual revenue for S.MG from this was -1.41, which goes to drastically illustrate the earlier points made about variance in Eulora's game engine. Yes, it is possible for players to make immense gains, which in turn means that on a low server population it is very possible for S.MG to make significant losses. I estimate this problem will dull as the playerbase widens, but I remain prepared to support the game with capital.
It was a great month, let's see the next one!
———I remember the golden days of yester...month like they were yester...day. Back when I used to be a baller, recall ? Not so much anymore. I might be an [ex] billionaire, but I really don't see myself keeping up with this nonsense, thousands of dollars a month, what is this! So I sadly have to abandon an economic preminence I had hoped might longer endure. None of this month's purchases are mine. Eulora is now richer than Mircea Mircescu, and that's just how it is.
Was a good month. [↩]Due to the flurry of activity pools had to be further fed. This disbursement brings S.MGs total investment to 71 BTC. [↩]Previously, movements such as promotional gifts of in-game items to players etc were reflected here. I have decided this is improper. Even with the Eulora copper = satoshi equivalency, one still can't mix books in this manner.
Consequently, movements - such as the recent payment of Ec 4329050 (0.04329050 BTC) in the shape of Slithy Toves for the recently delivered craft bot or the upcoming three to five million gift in tool durability, or the famous 12.65 mn copper auction - will be reflected in the Player Assets liabilities rubric only. [↩]This entry currently consists of Eulora loot pools only. They moved up 55 BTC through S.MG disbursement, and down 1.61594426 BTC through player activity, which is to say players were lucky.
In other words - Eulora players took home a little over 1.6 BTC this month (nominal values only, what exactly the in-game valuation of the stuffs in question would be is an entirely open question).
For the future, until further notice, mismatch between the net change in this rubric and S.MG investment/divestment equals player luck. [↩]The nominal (ie, what merchant pays) of all owned items plus cash held. The value of skills is nominally 0. [↩]This value differs from the 2.57422905 + 6.00000951 + 1.61594426 = 10.19018282 you might perhaps expect on account of player activity that turns cash into non-tangible value (chiefly through the purchase of skills). [↩]This is intentional, Eulora is not intended to run a rake. Instead, Eulora will finance itself through the sale of food and drink - which is to be implemented at a later point. [↩]
« Qntra (S.QNTR) July 2015 Statement
What MP wants, MP gets. Also, prayers are answered. »
Category: S.MG
Saturday, 01 August, Year 7 d.Tr.
MiniGame (S.MG), January 2015 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
Game server
2.37893612
--
Total
0
Total
0
S.MG assets
Account
01.12.2014
Net change
31.12.2014
Cash
8`741.53641830
2.37893612
8`739.15748218
Tangibles
2.64191610
0
0
Intangibles and goodwill
57.52932759
2.37893612
59.90826371
Total assets
8`799.06574689
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.12.2014
Net change
31.12.2014
Shareholder equity
8`799.06574689
0
8`799.06574689
Total liabilities
8`799.06574689
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009988 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009922 BTC.
S.MG realised no operating revenue this period, and is not expected to realise operating revenue next period. The P/E implied value per share is thus 0 BTC.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
Miscellaneous
The next version of Eulora is expected to go live something around March 15th. It will be presented at the coming conference, too.
« Aseara fusei la una...
Have some chocolate cake. »
Category: S.MG
Monday, 02 February, Year 7 d.Tr.
MiniGame (S.MG), February 2015 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
Game server
2.37893612
--
Total
0
Total
0
S.MG assets
Account
01.02.2015
Net change
31.02.2015
Cash
8`739.15748218
2.37893612
8`736.77854606
Tangibles
2.64191610
0
0
Intangibles and goodwill
59.90826371
2.37893612
62.28719983
Total assets
8`799.06574689
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.02.2015
Net change
31.02.2015
Shareholder equity
8`799.06574689
0
8`799.06574689
Total liabilities
8`799.06574689
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009988 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009917 BTC.
S.MG realised no operating revenue this period, and is not expected to realise operating revenue next period. The P/E implied value per share is thus 0 BTC.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
Miscellaneous
As previously announced, the next version of Eulora is still on track to go live later this month. Unlike the previous release, this will be a beta version, numbered 0.1.0. Most of the game mechanics will be presenti, and in general it is our expectation that the world of 0.1.0 will attain permanence.ii
As part of the preparations, the test server that had been available to the interested public will be offline to allow for necessary upgrades. The previous inventories, achievements etc will be wiped.
After careful consideration I have taken the strategic decision to only allow new accounts be registered on the basis of presence in assbot's WoT at this time. So,
if you do already have an account registered with assbot, send me a message containing your intended name (two words, letters only, no honorifics, the second of which will be your clan name and thus permanent throughout the game's history, whereas the first will change every time your avatar changes) and I'll create your account.
if you do not have an account with assbot, look into generating a pgp key and registering. You will likely find that once you take this step, an entire universe opens up that you hadn't even imagined possible before.
Note that you will not actually have to pay anything to play during this beta release. On one hand the game includes coin generators which will allow you to finance your explorations, and the part where characters need to eat (or can die) has not really been implemented yet. Nevertheless you may deposit some Bitcents if you so wish, which will make you outrageously rich for a while. In principle you should be able to also withdraw these at a later date, but bear in mind this is by no means yet guaranteed.iii
I'm really excited :)
———With the notable exception of combat, players will be able to do everything : mine, craft, build, trade. [↩]Note that technology is very much player driven - a lot of later content will not be available until the playerbase develops the prerequisites. [↩]The game may or may not require a reset before it can go gold. We simply don't know yet. Don't throw real money at it, please. [↩]
« MPEx (S.MPOE) February 2015 Statement
BitBet (S.BBET) February 2015 Statement »
Category: S.MG
Tuesday, 03 March, Year 7 d.Tr.
MiniGame (S.MG), December 2014 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
Game server
0.72559366
--
Total
0
Total
0
S.MG assets
Account
01.12.2014
Net change
31.12.2014
Cash
8`742.26201196
0.72559366
8741.53641830
Tangibles
2.64191610
0
0
Intangibles and goodwill
56.80373393
0.72559366
57.52932759
Total assets
8`799.06574689
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.12.2014
Net change
31.12.2014
Shareholder equity
8`799.06574689
0
8`799.06574689
Total liabilities
8`799.06574689
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009988 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009922 BTC.
S.MG realised no operating revenue this period, and is not expected to realise operating revenue next period. The P/E implied value per share is thus 0 BTC.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
Miscellaneous
Work continues. Ideally the next version will be released mid February to March.
« Investigations in the bone heap of the lost generation. Today, Mashable.
BitBet (S.BBET) December 2014 Statement »
Category: S.MG
Saturday, 03 January, Year 7 d.Tr.
MiniGame (S.MG), August 2015 Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
Coppers salei
7.00000000
Game server
2.28232957
Loot pool provisioningii
0
Total
7.00000000
Total
2.28232957
S.MG assets
Account
01.08.2015
Net change
31.08.2015
Cash
8`653.338383103
4.71767043
8`658.056053533
Tangiblesiii
69.38405574
0.79299085
68.59106489
Intangibles and goodwill
69.162325217
0
69.162325217
Total assets
8`795.80944364
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.08.2015
Net change
31.08.2015
Player holdingsiv
9.28850420
6.11285359v
15.40135779
Shareholder equity
8`782.59625986
2.18817401
8`780.40808585
Total liabilities
8`795.80944364
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009984 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009905 BTC.
The positive trend visible last month solidified this month. The hit equity holders took came to less than the cost of running the server, completely insulating them from the ~0.80 realised cost of badvi luck in the game rolls.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
Miscellaneous
For this month's excursion into miscellany, let's look at some historical graphsvii (click to enlarge).
First off, base value of player held assets as the red bar ; player held coins as the blue bar - together making up the player held valueviii. Player time in game (scaled up 100x to fit the graph) as the yellow lineix ; a synthetic measure of "player risk taking" as the green line :
Second off, gameplay averagesx :
All I got to say is - Maybe these really are early hyperbolics!
———5 BTC purchased by the official moneychanger ; another 2 BTC sold to myself directly. [↩]No further provisioning this month. I remain ever watchful. [↩]We lost ~0.8 BTC ie 80 million Eulora copper coins to player activity this month. This month saw mentioned loots worth 0.17 + 0.13 + 0.6 + 0.3 twice + a few 0.1s, which account for just over half the amount. The rest leaked out through more ordinary activities. [↩]The nominal (ie, what merchant pays) of all owned items plus cash held. The value of skills is nominally 0. [↩]You'd expect to see here 7 BTC (deposited) + 0.79299085 BTC (won playing). The actual value is 1.68013726 BTC off principally because of auctions - the most recent one produced 100`000`000 ECC for the S.MG treasury ; because of the fees Electron the Jewish Merchant charges on his European shipments, and because of the cost of training. [↩]The thing with luck is that no matter how good it is, there's a place where it's equally bad. And vice-versa. [↩]These graphs exclude ~10 days during the month of August. The game server was offline for an overhaul during that interval. [↩]A 5 BTC coin purchase that occured late on the 31st is also not shown. [↩]11`342`889 seconds have been burned by players in Eulora so far, coming to almost nine man-weeks [↩]Ie the number of players online during a day, on average for that day. [↩]
« No Such lAbs releases V for Victory.
Qntra (S.QNTR) August 2015 Statement »
Category: S.MG
Tuesday, 01 September, Year 7 d.Tr.
MiniGame (S.MG), April - May 2015 Combined Statement
S.MG incoming and outgoing
Incoming
Outgoing
Description
Value
Description
Value
--
0
Game server
4.49618926
Total
0
Total
0
S.MG assets
Account
01.04.2015
Net change
31.05.2015
Cash
8`734.39960994
4.49618926
8`729.903420673
Tangibles
0
0
0
Intangibles and goodwill
64.66613595
4.49618926
69.162325217
Total assets
8`799.06574589
S.MG liabilities
Account
01.04.2015
Net change
31.05.2015
Shareholder equity
8`799.06574689
100i
8`799.06574589
Total liabilities
8`799.06574589
S.MG has a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009988 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009917 BTC.
S.MG realised no operating revenue this period, but IS expected to realise operating revenue next period. The P/E implied value per share is yet 0 BTC.
S.MG has Special Stock Warrants outstanding, as follows :
#
Fingerprint
Shares
BTC
Par
1
6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452
88`096`605
8`809.6605
1
2
AE3A51FA6C038A5B4D3FE80FBD7C5558DD9EFA14
10`850`000
1`302.0
1.2
3
5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002
192`307
25
1.3
T
99138912
10`136.6605
1.0224
Provisional statement, will be considered accepted within 24 hours. Make any observations or corrections below.
Miscellaneous
The great moment is finally upon us : Eulora is finally beta, version 0.1.0 has been released, oh joy of joys.
In order to play it :
download the source files (155 MB) and follow the install guide ;
register yourself with assbot's Web of Trust (see the instructions here) and then ask for an Eulora account in #bitcoin-assets.
As discussed in the February statement, it is our expectation that the game world will attain permanence, which means that in all probability you get to keep any items you create starting now.
Some highlights :
Mining is functional. You explore the environment (command /explore) and sometimes find goodies. If you find anything you obtain a (lockable) claim, which you can either develop directly (raw materials required) or trade away to another player. A total of 10 basic harvestables + 9 farming, 8 mining and 8 lumbering items (35 total) are available (along with dedicated exploration tools for each line).
Crafting is functional. A total of 69 different recipes await your efforts (some of these are available from the merchants, and some require more advanced tools and equipment - which you can craft yourself!)
Other news :
This coming Sunday, June the 7th, in between 19:00 and 23:00 GMT the first game event will take place. It will consist of me handing out enchanted magic bags to all comers, engraved with the recipient's name. The enchantment allows these bags to produce 1`337 game coins each dayii. As the game coin is anchored to one satoshi per, you probably want to hang on to these ancient relics.
As discussed on the Jobs Board, we are still looking for binary maintainers for various platforms.
If you want to purchase larger blocks of game currency, get in touch. Note that until the game goes gold, S.MG does not offer Bitcoin convertibility for Eulora game currency.
The game has a dedicated irc channel for all your technical or gameplay needs : #eulora on Freenode.
Enjoy the game!
———100 satoshi seem to have magically vanished at some point out of the accounting. Please find where it happened! [↩]For your amusement, the requisite command is /bezzle. [↩]
« Tiganii daca erau...
BitBet (S.BBET) May 2015 Statement »
Category: S.MG
Monday, 01 June, Year 7 d.Tr.
[mike_c] Assbot WoT website
To create and maintain a website that :
Maintains a page where the Assbot Web of Trust is depicted graphically, with nodes directly trusted by the bot more central proeminent, nodes trusted by these nodes further out and finally nodes trusted by these nodes furthest out, with the links drawn in green or red and of a thickness comensurate with the trust value. Hovering over a link should pop a tooltip containing the note if any ; hoovering over a node should pop a tooltip containing the nick, linked to a dedicated page, fingerprint linked to a dedicated page. The graph should be recentrable on arbitrary users by clicking.
For any pair of users, displays a graph of their relationships (similar to serajewelks.bitcoin-otc.com/trustgraph.php )
Maintains a page containing summary statistics : total count of users, total count of (separately) positive and negative rates sent as well as the index of all registered nicks, in a table headed as follows : nick ; date first rated ; date last rated ; fingerprint ; average rating receivedi, count of ratings received, Wot weight factorii. The table should be sortable by all headers.
Maintains individual pages for each user listing his GPG pubkey and fingerprint and all his ratings (sent separate from received), in sortable tables headed as follows : other party ; OPs average rating ; OPs rating count ; OPs weight factor ; rating date, rating value, rating note. The table should be sortable by all headers.
The website should sport a minimalistic design. Rounded corners are specifically forbidden. The tables will be implemented as tables not as css crapolade. The html mark-up should be kept to a minimum.
Free hosting and misc. support available in #bitcoin-assets.
———Calculated as a sum of absolute values. [↩]First, the sum of all ratings received is calculated for each user. This list is then sorted, and the position of each user is his weight factor. [↩]
« MPEx (S.MPOE) January 2015 Statement
How do the aparatchicks live ? »
Category: Job Board
Thursday, 05 February, Year 7 d.Tr.
Micul Botanist
Dragi colegi din tot Ardealul, recunoasteti animalul ?
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Category: Zsilnic
Wednesday, 02 September, Year 7 d.Tr.
[mats] PGP keyserver
A server that :
Accepts key material both via GnuPG's direct call on port 11371 or through a plain post request (armored pubkey) on port 80 ;
Verifies key material so that it is RSA, at least 4096 bits ;
Verifies key material through phuctor to eliminate weak keys (phuctor code does not need to be rewritten) ;
Verifies key material was created by a GnuPG version ulterior to 1.4.10 and prior to 1.4.20 ;
Verifies that key material is not set to expire ;
Emails the contained address an error if tests 2 or 3 above are failed (all addresses involved in case of 3), and rejects the key. Emails the contained address an explicatory warning if test 4i or 5ii above is failed, but accepts the key. Emails the contained address a confirmation if no tests are failed.
Answers for requests for specified keys on the normal hkp port (11371) as expected by GnuPG.
Displays keys in a plain manner similar to sks-keyservers but with all the colorful joy of phuctor's css.
Allows web-based searches for keys, by the various fields and by fragments of fingerprint (Allowing regexp, for instance a search for "?98.B30?" should return "EA0F AD90 985B 3025 576A 5061 454B 0FC0 BC07 B87E")
Maintains the strong set, displays some statistics as to it in the manner of Penning's thing
Allows the extraction of moduli in base64 (as Hanewinkel's tool) as well as the creation of encrypted messages via javascript for an arbitrary key the user selects.
Provides daily back-ups of its entire key database. The backup is hashed and the hash introduced as a deed into deedbot each day.
———"PGP was originally deemed a weapon and declared a controlled export by the USG. This classification has changed, but PGP's substance has not. As its importance for a free world has grown exponentially in the past years, the efforts of the USG to quietly subvert it have increased feverishly.
It is our considered opinion that one is ill advised to use unsupported implementations or unsupported versions of supported implementations, except in the case where that one has personally read the entire code involved and is confident in his ability to spot subtle subversion in critical cryptographic code.
Friends don't let friends' heart bleed!" [↩]There does not currently exist a correct implementation of time for this purpose. (If you wish to understand the problem, one path towards it would be - consider how would you go about making a system where material signed by an expired key remains valid past the key's expiration, but no further material may be signed after that date).
There are some efforts currently underway to address this problem the only way it can be correctly addressed - through reference to the Bitcoin block number - but they will not be released as a patch for GnuPG - instead they will come as part of a complete replacement." [↩]
« The Fetlife Meatlist - Volume IV
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Category: Job Board
Tuesday, 21 April, Year 7 d.Tr.
Marcha de las Dumbas
The title is an exercise in metonymy, whereby a mass of confused girlies with no clear value or import are referred not by the unrelated term they would prefer and aspire to use (ie, putai ) but by a very much related term which, while carrying no meaning in their native tongue, nevertheless makes its meaning phonetically obvious to members of the culture they're dumbassedly monkeying.
Marcha de las Dumbas is then the localized Slutwalk, made for and by the fat chicks from the local movement LTSDV (Los Telenovelas Son De Verdad) allied with the famelic boys of YVEVJ (Yo Vivo En Video Juegos). They're, plus minus one obese 17 year old and two chronic masturbators, the same population that does ComiCon and painfully fails at burlesque. It looks something like this :
I can solemnly affirm that the only slut there present I brought myself. Otherwise, the same old river of indistinct, unremarkable girlies in their dusty, formless wear. Jeans and cheap tops, t-shirts and flip-flops, a little Chinese glitter here and there - high enough on the asexual pechos to be visible atop the culturally-mandated covers.ii Exactly one topless, ambiguously male or female, in no case in any need of soutien anyway. Zero heels. Zero cocktail dresses. No cunt. No faintest hint of the realisation that cunt's ridiculously missing. Zero corsets, zero garter belts, zero anything except plenty of sugar, and of the cheapest sort, too - I got there after the meat puddle had been stewing in its irrelevance for a good three hours, under the warm sun of the Southern summer and yet the few merchants on the sides were enjoying less custom than whores at the cemetery. A few workhorse bras here and there, worn as a top, the sad, antiattractive sort that no woman would ever show anyone. No, they weren't making a point. They simply don't have anything else, they're only good with words and pretense.
But since I bothered to go all the way there, I've left a little inscription behind :
On the right, material regurgitated by the boring, lame tocilariiii. On the left, same adorned by "This dumb shit" in the artist's own autograph. I maintain this view : the only sexual abuse in sight was the whole charade. An abuse of prime order, too, pretending like Argentina is a country, like these schmukettes are people, like anyone'd ever fuck their boring, yakking, dumb asses if paid to.
There was a story there about a 19 yo woman that was supposedly raped by a 13 yo boy. With a knife. Apparently I'm supposed to believe that if you're 19 and shit your pants at the sight of an uppity schoolboy with a boxcutter whatever happens as a result is not your own damned fault. I suppose the credit card debt they carry is similarly the fault of the banks, and the reason Argentina is a shithole populated by shitheads is you know, Macri. Kirschner. The "patriarchy".
You may think that hey, they're new, maybe these things haven't been discussed for half a century and gotten wrong every time like it's the case in English, maybe they're just starting, maybe they should have some space. Maybe I shouldn't criticize, and especially shouldn't import all the stupidity associated with the thing they're referencing. Maybe they just don't know.
I do not hold that view, for two reasons. One is that it's plainly obvious to me, as one who has a lot of experience with this sort of cultural imposture, that they're not there to support or involve themselves in anything to do with the topic they're befouling. They're simply there to try and pretend that they have the same problems as "the western world", and this in turn for no reason than their (misplaced, not that they know) hope that in so doing they could perhaps then turn around and sell that pretense. That's all. They're doing this so that maybe Argentina manages to borrow some more money to pay more "salaries" to people who aren't doing anything and don't belong outside of a chicken coop.
The other reason, perhaps more easily explained, is here :
Oh, what's the matter, you can't really read those little paper things ? Heh. Ok.
Now you can read them, thanks to the power of technology as directed by a knowing eye.
If, and that's a big if, but for the sake of argument if there's any sort of anything to do with the patriarchy oppressing women and strangling society in the process to everyone's detriment here in Argentina, then that will necessarily be their delusional stance on abortion and nothing else. Yet las dumbas aren't gathered around this only thing that matters, and only thing that means. They're gathered as far away from it as possible.
In fact, las dumbas are gathered around the place with most noise! That's their criteria, that's the unseen rule thar organises their existence : they seek the most noise.
Excuse me while I completely discount anything they "say" or "think" on any topic. If I want to play broken telephone with the group running the loudspeakers I'd just install a broken telephone rather than use the dubious services of otherwise pointless sacks of flesh belabouring under wholly unsubstantiated, baseless delusions of self-importance.
PS. As a bonus insult to sense, they protest "against being accosted in the road", probably because someone must have seen someone else's instagram or something. It is dumbfounding, seeing how these people have absolutely no conception of time and entirely nothing to do the entire day, both circumstances so deeply entrenched in their way of life that everyone's more than happy to stop and chat forever with anyone for any reason at all or no reason whatsoever! I have personally observed hot young thing working in garbage collection for the municipality (yes, only in Argentina) being addressed by random old guy in doorway and sitting around to chat with him for a good half hour. While her job waited. What ?
They love to queue, they have no idea how to walk in the street, by all appearances they only carry watches because they've seen them in TV ads for pepsi or something. These people have a problem with being chatted up in the street ? Pretense and wanna-be-ism through and through.
———That's whore in Spanish, but they don't know how else to say "slut" because they're actually this dumb.
Yes, yes they are. Mere hours ago a random schmuck stopped dead on Ave. Corrientes (a sort of Columbus here in this wanna-be NY) with his head craned backwards like an absolute herbivore. So I slapped his exposed shoulder hard enough to clear himit out of the way of the slut I was walking with. He went into a tirade and so I flipped him off and without bothering to turn around for his dumb ass.
Do you have any idea what his tirade was ? "Puto! Puto!!! Puto!!1 PUTO!!11 PuTo!!1" repeated like that, dozens of times. Pointless chin dribble.
Little later, a group of men with drums are practicing under a bridge. Do you know what they're practicing ? If you come from among human beings this question can't be answered, who the fuck could ever know or guess. Yet if you come from among these fucktards you know it's their universal 1-2-chachacha thing and the question is scarcely worth asking. That's the one tune they know and forgetaboutit.
So, yes. They actually are this dumb. [↩]They're fighting against "patriarquismo" in their Chinese-cut exactly-the-same tops and bottoms, dontchaknow. Same cuts, everywhere, and that's just fine with them all. [↩]Romanian has a word to describe the mentally stunted, obnoxious mediocrities that learn the textbook by heart, sit in the first row and try to parlay this dedication of their modest means into some sort of recognition of social preeminence. The best English has to cover this is "teacher's pet" and it's not nearly good enough.
For one thing, it doesn't make it obvious that they must be beaten as a matter of course, every single recess. [↩]
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Sunday, 29 November, Year 7 d.Tr.
Let's address some of the more common pseudo-arguments raised by the very stupid people that like the Gavin scamcoin proposal
I. "I agree a big discussion is necessary before changes are made, but we shouldn't act like a hard fork is somehow inherently an issue."
Part and parcel of the present dispute is to clearly make the point that Gavin Andresen does not have the authority to enact or create a hardfork of the Bitcoin network, nor any sort of significant clout, cachet, power to influence the matter etc.
This will be useful for the Bitcoin network first and foremost, because Gavin is, by and large, a mentally retarded doofus displaying a shocking amount of Dunning-Kruger syndrome in his assorted dabblings in economics and other hard fields.
This will secondarily but perhaps still notably be useful for Gavin himself. Finally liberated from all that influence he is incorrectly perceived to carry he will be free to live the rest of his life in the relative peace his brain was constructed to handle. To understand his situation, imagine a mentally retarded child living happily in the sands of New Mexico. A rich old man dies in New York, and on the strength of original research, it is considered that the mentally retarded child is the sole inheritor. News makes its way to the happy desert residence that same evening, by telegraph, but the poor monkey knows nothing of it outside of dim rumors. He is not collected enough to understand what "inheritance" rightly means or anything. He does have some sort of an idea as to "being rich" = "lots of icecream", but that's as far as it goes. All sorts of people, much better placed to understand what it all means, all try their hand at, you know, "being friendly". And "neighbourly". And only meaning the best and having the kid's interest at heart. His life, as you might well imagine, turns into the sort of nightmare only homo homini lupus can bring on its brother, and the child lives hell (parce-que l'enfer, c'est l'autres). Once the news makes it through that really, it was all a mistake, no such inheritance exists (as in fact it does not), the simpleton is free to return to his simple prior life, and be happy again.
Help Gavin be a happy idiot, stop trying to make him fulfill shoes too large for his little peabrain.
II. "If the community can't hardfork today we could stop using bitcoin now and look for the better suited alt coin. If bitcoin can't fork-update it has no value."
Obviously Bitcoin "has no value" to you. That is probably because you were expecting to defraud the faith others put in Bitcoin by inflating it. While it's true that welfare states finance themselves that way currently, and in the process create the unwelcome and unwarranted impression in the heads of the nobodies in the street that their voice matters to any degree or is important in any manner, Bitcoin does not work that way. Bitcoin does not work that way intentionally, specifically and by design. So... yeah, pack it and get lost.
"The community" of people that need things can not fork Bitcoin to provide for their needs at the expense of the actual community of people that create things and own things. Related to this, let us reiterate those ancient points about Bitcoin :
TALKING ABOUT BITCOIN, EVEN IF IN A GROUP, DOES NOT MAKE YOU PART OF BITCOIN.
III. I don't understand why anybody would be against a larger block.
The popular name to this is "arguing to ignorance". You might also not understand why anyone would propose you wash, stop collecting broken car engines on plastic foil in front of your dilapidated motorhome or fucking your cousins. What you understand or don't understand is not a proper subject of discussion, and you aren't welcome to try and foist it on intelligent people who aren't your parents.
IV. Satoshi himself envisioned much larger blocks.
The discussion of what "Satoshi himself" did or didn't do, meant or didn't mean, so on and so forth is about as interesting and discussing the Mormon "bible".
This is called "arguing to authority", and it tries to give pecuniary value to that only truly worthless article of all times and places : the esteem of the mob. This may work well in electing United States presidents, ensuring that "while the voting public knows best what it wants, it deserves to get it long and hard". Bitcoin specifically and deliberately does not work in this way.
Bitcoin is not a reflection of your hopes and aspirations, but a check on them. Bitcoin isn't here to make it easier for you to do what you want to do ; Bitcoin is here to make it trivial for others to prevent you from doing what you want to do every time that's stupid. The sooner you comprehend this fundamental difference between Bitcoin and "technology" especially in the "revolutionary & innovative" subsense of that nonsense, the better, for you.
V. The fork is needed because otherwise some people won't be able to use Bitcoin.
Bitcoin isn't for everybody. Creating something useful that everyone can use is an exercise in trying to create something that's useful but worthless. Such a thing may exist, in the sense perpetuum mobile may exist. As far as the science of physics goes, they do not.
Should blocks ever become full, older coinbases will be prioritized over newer coinbases, and larger mining fees and transactions prioritized over smaller mining fees and smaller transactions. This means that someone who wishes to pay for very little with Bitcoin will be forced to use something else, so to speak is forced to "give his seat" to someone richer. This is exactly the point and the intent of Bitcoin : to force the poor to yield to the rich, unversally, as a matter of course.
You may not like this, but that is entirely an emotional problem of yours, which you're welcome to resolve any way you can : stop being poor, take a lot of pills, whatever. You may try to solve it by attempting to make it impossible for the rich to construct tools that they will then use to force you to yield to them, but this will necessarily not work : being rich means by definition they have more resources than you, and whatever you devise they can make a counter.
If you are more practically inclined, and having understood, accepted and come to terms with your fundamental human inferiority as it flows from your poverty, some solutions to your predicament of "I wish to buy myself a basket" have already been discussed :
For the reasons noted and for many other reasons I am pretty much satisfied that Bitcoin is not nor will it ever be a direct means of payment for retail anything. You may end up paying for a month's worth of coffee vouchers at your favourite coffee shop via Bitcoin (so shop scrip built on top of Bitcoin), you may end up settling your accounts monthly at the restaurant in Bitcoin (so store credit built on top of Bitcoin), you will probably cash into whatever local currency from Bitcoin (be it Unified Standard Dubaloos or Universally Simplified Dosidoes or whatever else) but all that is entirely different a story.
Run along now, back to playing in the mud with the other naked kids in your village. Bitcoin's just not for your kind.
VI. This is a clerical issue, because block propagation and other considerations incentivize miners to keep blocks small anyway. The 1MB is just a hard limit getting in the way of things, the marketplace of miners should be allowed to fix block size as it seems appropriate.
While this argument has been disingenuously brought by Gavin himself, the fact is that the proposed inverted bloom filters upgrade would allow all blocks to propagate in constant time, regardless of their size. Just the sort of deceitful poison flowing out of USG through its few remaining (but apparently well entrenched) Bitcoin moles.
VII. The minersi decide.
No, they do not. The miners make some minor decisions in Bitcoin, but major decisions such as block forks are not at their disposition alone, and this for excellent reasons you'll readily understand if you stop and think about it.
There are two specific methods to control miners on this matter, which will make the scamcoin Gavin is trying to replace everyone's Bitcoin with only replace some people's Bitcoin. The first and most obvious is that irrespective of what miners mine, each single full node will reject illegal blocks. This is a fact. If all the miners out there suddenly quit Bitcon and go mine Keiser's Aurora scamcoin instead, from the perspective of the Bitcoin network hash rate simply dropped and that's all. There's absolutely no difference between Keiser's scamcoin and Gavin's scam coin as far as the network is concerned : while one's a scammer that I humiliatingly defeated in the past whereas the other a scammer that I humiliatingly defeat in the future, this makes no difference for Bitcoin. As far as anyone will be able to perceive, miners simply left.
The second and perhaps not as obvious has nevertheless been discussed at length on multiple occasions on #bitcoin-assets. Consider this terse explanation from March. 2013.
mircea_popescu: whoever has enough money to matter is likely to pick one chain for whatever reason
mircea_popescu: since fork means btc can be spent independently on either chain
mircea_popescu: he will sell his btc on one and perhaps buy on the other.
mircea_popescu: as a result prices will rapidly diverge, panicking the mass of users, and the fork is economically resolved.
The situation here is aggravated by the fact that the fork proposed is not simply nondeterministic behaviourii, and so the holdings on the two chains aren't notionally equivalent. Instead, all the holdings on the Bitcoin chain are accepted as valid on both Bitcoin and Gavincoin, but holdings on Gavincoin are rejected by Bitcoin. Consequently, everyone involved with the fork is writing options to everyone in Bitcoin, free of charge. That they have no ready way to finance these should be obvious, and consequently the grim prospects of the Gavin side of the fork should be just as obvious. At least, to people who understand economy to any degree.
———By which really what's usually contemplated is, "pool masters will hijack the miners pointing at their pools, because they really wish to end up like BTCGuild/ 50 BTC ; that
Monday, 12 January, Year 7 d.Tr.
Let's address even more of the more common pseudo-arguments raised by the very stupid people that like the Gavin scamcoin proposal
This is a continuation of the previous Let's address some of the more common pseudo-arguments raised by the very stupid people that like the Gavin scamcoin proposal. If you've not read that one, please do before you proceed, it'll save both of us some time.
VIII. "By the time the hard fork rolls around, all miners (and wallets, and other bitcoin software) will have dormant code ready to switch over and start mining the new fork."
Not so. The various gunk added to Bitcoin (past 0.6 or so) is currently only supported by the scam foundation Vessenes created back when nobody was looking, and everyone's been abandoning ever sincei.
The actual Bitcoin Foundation is not supporting any of that.
Consider the rate at which the scam foundation has been propping up scams, and the rate at which they blow up. Where is BFL ? Where is MtGox ? Where's all them fearless captn's of industry of yore ?ii Perhaps much more importantly : who has been popping them ? Think long and hard about that before you jump to conclusions about "everyone" and "nobody" and so on. A year ago you thought "everybody" would be impressed by imaginary "brick and mortar stores". I wasn't. That aspect of you is now in jail on unrelated charges. Bear this in mind.iii
The odds of the Vessenes scam foundation surviving until the end of the year are intricately linked to BitPay, their only remaining supporter with actual moneyiv, remaining solvent. Which, in spite of "brick and mortar store"-isms and other avatars of the Redditarded discussion, does not really look all that likely. In any case it won't be around for the years being here contemplated, which explains why Gavin's in such a rush, and why all this has to be done "right now".
Why would you help a bunch of scammers ruin Bitcoin on their way out ? And why'd you imagine that if you do you'll be left hodling anything but dust ?
IX. "Hard fork block size politics: do we want decentralized digital gold, or just another Visa? We want both. And there's no reason we can't have both."
Actually, there's a damned good reason "we" can't have both : one of them is nonsense. To grok this, tell me, whom do you know in Mali ?
No, not Bali, that island where preppy sluts go for spring break. Mali, the funny-shaped, landlocked West African nation.
Nobody ? Never even heard of anyone from there, never ate in a Mali restaurant, never bought a Mali anything over the mail, as far as you're concerned Mali could just as well not exist at all ? Well, bless you, the sentiment's exactly mutual! As far as they're concerned, the entire population of Mali couldn't give less of a fuck, and you might as well not exist.
Yet your proposal here is that we take everything of everyone : each pair of underwear, each box of notebooks left over from highschool, each car and set of car keys, each coffee mug, each old printer cartridge, each and every single item of everyone, worldwide, and dump them all into a huge warehouse in San Francisco. And then, you say, you'll give everyone receipts to keep track of their stuff. Obviously the receipts will be rather lengthy and complicated an affair, but all the inconvenience, confusion and sheer effort is worth it, you say. Because why ? "Because there's no reason we can't have both". Orly.
I get it, you're a centralist at heart, you want this globalisation thing where everyone's stuff is locked up in Fort Knox so the misfortunate indigents of Mali get to curse the day your pasty ass showed up forcing "democracy" on them. I don't particularly like this outlook, but who am I to tell you how to live your life.
Nevertheless, there's a damned good reason why you can't have both at my expense. You can't ask demand me and my friends and my business partners run complicated, expensive and ultimately pointless computer systems that are required to distinguish our transactions from Mali bound transactions, avoid double spends and all of that simply because you want the world to be a centrally-planned, single-core thing because you're too intellectually lazy and too mentally simple to accomodate the actual variety of the world in your barren skull. I get it, it'd be much simpler for you to think of "everything in Bitcoin".
This simplicity for you has actual costs in the world. If large classes of transactions among which there is no possible cross-ambiguity remain limited to their own context, there's less hassle for everyone involved. Imagine the common occurence of someone sitting in your seat on the airplane. Fortunately, the tickets carry a seat number, which can be compared, and there you go. Imagine instead the Gavinairport where Gavintickets require everyone in the whole airport get out of their planes, single file to the tickets checking office, and have their tickets checked. Every single time someone sits in someone else's seat. And what'd the TSA say to this ? I can almost see them, "there's no reason we can't have it". Of course there isn't, if nobody gives a shit about people or their legitimate interests.
There's no benefit to making everything wait on everything else if large swaths can be readily isolated that'd absolutely never meet. If my blockchain doesn't have to wait for Mali blocks to propagate, and if it doesn't have to to check against Mali doublespends of transactions nobody in Mali could ever be conceivably involved in under any circumstances, then my blockchain is easier to run, to maintain, to debug and so it can provide for the citizens of Mali exactly the only thing they actually want me to provide : a backup value.
They don't perceivably want nor do they conceivably need main chain transactions for every single quarter of cent / West African CFA franc transaction they undertake. What they clearly need and possibly even want is the ability to turn a pile of however many of these they've saved into a few Satoshi. So they can save that, so they can buy Trilema credits, so they can do the few and precious things where they actually interact with the world at large. There's absolutely no need to make every single move they take dependent on the actions of far removed parties that couldn't care less about their interests, needs or proclivities.
Yeah, yeah, you're thinking "but Bitcoin is decentralized". Sure, it's a decentralized implementation. But it is an implementation of a centralized concept. Bitcoin is universal money, and that's quite by definition central. Even if implemented in a decentralized manner, as all usable money always has to be implemented, it nevertheless is a centralized thing, by the very nature of what money has to be in order to be money. Now why marry to this an obligation that's burdensome on everyone and not really useful to anyone ?
———Considering Murck left as well, it's not at all clear who's even left whatsoever. [↩]Not to put too fine a point on it :
TomServo: Pretty minor gripe but, "under a regulation that requires he prove his intent to depart the U.S." - how does one prove that? "No - see, my calendar says I have a dentist appt back home in 2 weeks so I'll definitely be gone."
mircea_popescu: TomServo really, he's being about as dumb as nefario. That's always been there, for foreigners, which people who renounce a citizenship become. It is customarily shown by a) substantial assets and b) family ties. The uncomfortable reality that he has neither is obviously something he's not willing to confront, and so it has to be about how bad teh us customs & immigration is. Now, it's all fine and dandy to all agree on how teh us is the empire of evil. However, the notion that they'd err on the side of not letting anyone in is plain ridoinculous.
So Roger Ver is now a bum. Who could have foreseen! [↩]No, I'm not kidding. All these schmucks can go to jail on pretty much anyone's say-so. There's a good reason serious business isn't generally built on the backs of ex-cons, out on parole. Guess what the reason may be ? Could it have anything to do with them being unreliable ? Whether they wish to be or not ? [↩]Yes, this is important. Bitcoin is about money. Not about "ideas", not about "community", not about your delusions of grandeur, importance, influence and so on. Bitcoin.Is.About.Money. [↩]
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Friday, 23 October, Year 7 d.Tr.
La Chacarita
La Chacarita is probably the largest cemetery in the world. It occupies well over 200 acres, making up practically by itself a whole neighbourhood of Buenos Aires - a true City of the Dead right in the middle of the City of the Mortally Dumb (CABA in the local Spanish dialect).
These pictures are from about a tenth of it.
The main entrance.
Fronton detail of said main entrance.
Street of dead people in city of dead people. Do you see dead people ?
The "pantheon" of the Spanish-Argentine Mutual Society. A mutual society is an arrangement whereby the beneficiaries of some sort of commercial activity are also the owners of the agent engaging in it (unlike a cooperative, where the workers are the owners). Currently most mutual societies exist in the insurance business, which isn't too far removed from their original purpose : mutual burial (a sort of tontine lugubre, where a number of people agree to pay a farthing or something every time one of them dies).
A "pantheon", meanwhile, in the sense it receives in Castellan aka South American Spanish, is a slightly glorified chapel. Here's another one :
That's the Galician one (and yes, Galicia is very differencia from Espana, because reasons).
Inside. It may look like a church, but it most definitely doesn't feel like a church. The thinness of the walls is palpable - not silent enough, damp, sad. One feels exactly like inside an overpretentious cemetery chapel aiming to be a metropolitan cathedral over a hundred square yards.
There was also an announcement on one of the walls, that it is reminded to the Srs associates that as the marble slabs crack, they will be replaced with plastic slabs as per the decision of the so and so body. It... sounds about right, you're not worth the marble your grandparents took for granted. They should have had better children.
Or fewer of them, at any rate. But mostly, better.
Pretty cool gate, huh.
Back outside. For a thousand autism points, can you spot the face ?
No ?
Here it is :
Pareidolia. It's a thing. And no, the inscription doesn't read GGOO. It reads 6600. Because yes, 6600 ash repositories. Which is nothing :
The entire thing is surrounded by what originally looks like a 3 meter tall wall. It's not a 3 meter tall wall, it's an 8 ash receptacle tall wall. And on it goes, for easily 50 miles : 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1008. And that's a foot. 1009, and 1010 and then 1011 and 1012, halfway there. 1013, 1014, 1015, 1016. Another foot. And another and another and another. People, at some point, all of these, now ashes, for a long time ashes, confronting the elements. Just how well was that copper jesus affixed ? It will fall off. Sooner or later everything will fall off, enough rains will wash the most stubborn pigment out of the most resilient marble, but death is forever.
Immutability, you know ? It's a thing.
And yet... isn't the colonade pretty ?
A trunk that's seen some things.
The quality of the stone around these parts is unimpressive. Nevertheless, on occasion one can see decent stonework.
And even better than decent.
Freehand macro, for my fans in #b-a. The original image (available after the jump) was cropped to 2400x1800, but otherwise is unmodified. I only took the one shot. Same old Sony Cybershot (and yes I've checked, it has a weird trapezoidal USB connector unknown to sense).
Senor Eugenio Pini supported sports in Argentina. The manly kinds, with a sword and such. He died, aged 80, just before the war could get interesting. A cemetery is this great machine for turning ridiculous and out of place into quaint. The necessary limit to anachronism, as it were.
Judging by the rusting cart, the Lewis family didn't fare too well.
Yes, that was a pun, like the "as it were" was before.
No, it's not that Borges. It's another Borges. The name Borges is not that common, and apparently there did at some point exist an Emilio or Ector or something or the other that was worthy of a lot and a statue on that lot. But who ? I defy you, find out.
Go forth and google. Go, discover the cigarette paper nature of your "control" over the world. Go, find E. Borges.
Die in 1939 in Buenos Aires, get Art Deco plaque. Problem ?
The folds are masterfully executed, but the body line, now that part's perfect. Absolutely pity to have such work lost to the sad limestone of Argentina.
"It seems your terms are... not acceptable."
One of the better plaques.
Buenos Aires Dick Tracy.
Isn't this a splendid idea for a votive ? The guy was an anarchist, if you're curious and Google's still useless to you.
Pretty great name, wouldn't you say ? Especially through the marked contrast with the tomb it rests upon... do you suppose maybe this guy spent his entire life trying to be a stolid, respectable accountant or something just to escape his circus name and for no other reason ?
A street's worth of small stone houses, in which dessicated ex-people sleep all day and connive all night!
A very happy tree. Think about it.
This is where you go if you're poor.
Well, not altogether poor, of course. Relatively poor. If you're altogether poor you don't go anywhere. No, not even to Heaven.
Not only a very nice little grave, but the woman's name is nothing less than Maria Mignon Stefanelli de Puzzovio. Wouldn't you fuck her, on the strength of that name alone ?
Hints & clues : Puzzo suggests stench in Italian and infantile penis in Romanian.
Very valuable unique Pepe do not steal.
Nothing lasts forever.
In case you were curious what's inside one of the little houses.
Caskets.
As we were walking through the... campus, basically, I said that were I tyrant, I'd build the university and the cemetery jointly, so one side were this and one side that. Then the kids could go play hookie and fuck among the graves, as they'd have some god damned privacy there. This was met with protests that it doesn't sound like such terrible tyranny.
After which we ran towards a strange vision of a stairwell, and it was suggested that perhaps this is the university part. It... wasn't.
Multi-level holes in the ground, to store row upon row upon row of dead people like so many library cards. Go, read. Understand. Remember.
And speaking of dumbass cluckers, winged rats and other fauna,
In detail :
Supposedly Napoleon said, while walking into Moscow at the head of a defeated army, that if only he had had the good luck to be cut in half by a cannonball or something, he could have forever lived as a hero. It is my considered opinion that Peron is nothing but a Ceausescu that had such good fortune. Had he lived to be seventy he'd have been taken out and shot for Christmas as well, and Argentina wouldn't be in the shitter it's in today.
The only thing this country owes Peron is fifty thousand days of urination.
I suppose this is how the funeral piece of one Alf will look, if he ever manages to get the S.NSA share value off the ground.
Above depicted, during kindergarten years.
This is where the horses go. And completely unrelatedly, in closing, sky :
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Friday, 09 October, Year 7 d.Tr.
Just how stupid is the Redditard crowd ?
This fucking stupid :
In case you're new to the party, the Internet haxxing technique on display there is commonly known as google bombing. This works as follows :
That if there is a party with significant fiat exposure but weak Internet exposure,
And that party also holds very narrow views and positions,
Then it can be distressed by linking it from powerful websites with anchors that reflect contrary views and positions.
Trying to apply this to Trilema fails on absolutely all the counts. On one hand : Trilema is actually extremely powerful online, much more so than say Redditi, a fact readily demonstrated by - for instance - the long celebrated ability of obtaining absolutely any term I wish by simply claiming it.
On the other hand : Trilema is not actually significantly exposed on the fiat side of things. There just doesn't exist a numerous group of people that vaguely know me from somewhere in meatspace but don't actually have a direct channel with me. I've not been on TV, I don't write "books"ii, this scenario where someone goes "Hey, I wonder what that Trilema thing I heard about at the kitten shelter is doing" simply doesn't exist. If someone knows about Trilema, they know about it because something happened online, and this fundamentally invalidates the entire premise of google bombing.
But it gets worse : Trilema, unlike most any other construct of the ESLiii cultural space, is specifically not dedicated to narrow views. If you think people coming here could be in principle distressed by my association with any one topic or position imaginable, well... you must have been reading with the autorefractor still attached.
And it still gets worse : "socks and cocks", seriously ? Someone, somewhere is supposed to lose his shit over this ? In what narcissistic-rage-induced-psychosis of a parallel universe does this proposition even begin to make sense ?
Seriously, what is the scenario envisioned here, that a derp with exactly all the pull online that an account on someone else's site affords himiv is going to spam google by hand, this somehow resulting in the innocent searches of Mae Simpleton from my gym yielding the magical phrase "socks and cocks" thus forever changing her previous good opinion of me ? Because seriously, no good Trilema would ever be associated with something as inflamatory and outright evil as the expression "socks and cocks" ?
Somebody figured that using a toothpick to "push" a rhino towards a lake is a decent implementation of using a branch to push a huge spider towards the woodchipper intake. Because what the hell's the difference anyway, right ?
But that's not the real problem, that's just the setting. The real problem ?
They fucking use a google filter.
I do not believe stupidity in this concentration can readily be digested by the human brain, much like pure sugar can't be digested by most living things. Allow me to restate it.
These people are going to google bomb me with links specifically designed to be invisible to google.
Yes, seriously. That is what that is.
Do you see what a coupla decades of schools with no grades, parenting with no beatings and "no children left behind" have created ? This is that monstrous success, come home to roost.
These idiots literally expect that if they're wishing for something "really really hard", that something will come to pass. These idiots literally expect that "it's the thought that counts", and that there's no technology in this world, or even in the word "technology" for that matter - instead it's all an intellectual void filled with "feelings". They imagine that Godle will see through what they actually did straight into what they "meant to do" and give them an A for effort and everything else on TV. Because "the consumers have come to expect" (see what I did there ?).
These are the people you expect to support you in your old age. These are the people that will supposedly defend you, your interests, your traditions and culture if - for instance - the Russians decide Alaska was merely a loan.
You've made the bed. Enjoy dying in it.
———Yes, Reddit is larger, but it is not more relevant. How google scores things is a complicated topic, but simplifying for the layman : one note on half a sheet of A4 paper from a respected physician carries more weight than five metric tons of bulk mailing. [↩]To quote the muffin tops : "Why is it every half-wit and sitcom star has his own book out now?" [↩]"English as a Single Language", roughly equivalent to "fucktard from the US". [↩]Ie : this gal. [↩]
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Category: Rautati si Mizerii
Monday, 16 February, Year 7 d.Tr.
[jurov] Binary maintenance for Eulora
Eulora is the MMORPG in development from MiniGame. As detailed in the April 2014 statement,
[Eulora is seeking] dedicated package maintainers, who are willing to commit to supporting Eulora downstream on various platforms. I am looking for people that are willing to do this, as part of one year renewable contracts, that will be remuneratedi. To participate, you will need :
A WoT account. Since I will be paying on completion, your WoT account does not have to be trusted to any degree, it merely has to exist, and consequently this is a great way to acquire WoT standing.
Very good familiarity with your chosen platform. You must be able to take the large bundle of C code that's the client and make it run on your chosen platform. You must be able to deal with complaints from users of that platform that are specific to that platform.ii
Note that this isn't a "cool project" to jump into headlong. It requires commitment, and experience. You can ask any technical questions in #eulora, the lead dev as well as a bunch of very helpful people idle there. You can talk business to me directly in #bitcoin-assets. Each platform is to be supported through its own contract, let me know what you can do.
If you can support multiple platforms that's fineiii, if not that's also fine : this job will be split up to accomodate you.
UPDATE, June 1st 2015 : jurov is doing the Windows (and other) binaries for this.
———Bitcoin or S.MG shares available. [↩]I have no problem with your telling people "install the latest driver", but if that doesn't work you must know what the solution is. [↩]Say Windows all the way to XP or something, that's about a dozen different ones. [↩]
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Category: Job Board
Monday, 05 January, Year 7 d.Tr.
Introducing the Trilema jobs board
Originally I wanted this to be a dedicated site. It didn't work out. Generally I happen to be a staunch believer in the "use it first, engineer it after" philosophyi, and it only now occurs to me that I had in fact diverged from it. As it happens each and every time I do that, I am actually the worse for having done it. So, here we go, a wiser me and a completely low tech job site, consisting of a category on Trilema.
It will work like so :
The title will indicate whether the job is [OPEN] or whether it is already being maintainedii. If the job is open you may apply, preferrably through contacting me on #bitcoin-assets (webirc link to the right).
The body will contain a complete spec. You are not to diverge from anything explicitly given. You are to make your own choices as to anything not explicitly given. You may ask for any refinements or clarifications you wish, but don't expect more than "doesn't matter" in response.
You are expected to negotiate your own pay.iii If the project is going to generate revenue, it will probably be organised as a MPEx asset, and you can ask for equity, either as shares, stock options - read up on the current contracts there to form an idea. In any case you can ask for Bitcoin either as a lump or periodic payment. You will not necessarily get what you ask for, obviously, but such is the way of the world.
You require a WoT account in good standing to participate. You can not participate without one, irrespective of what you may think about "the real world". The real world is in fact going to require WoT presence as a matter of course in short order, whether anyone likes the idea or not, best get in ahead of the curve. Depending on the project, your account could be too new, or too poorly regarded. Neither possibility should discourage you from asking - should it be the case you will probably receive suggestions as to more suitable projects or otherwise constructive help to remedy whatever deffects.
Your commitment will be preserved in the shape of a signed & notarized GPG contract. Your reputation will suffer if you behave erratically, fail to deliver and so on. Your reputation is by far your most valuable asset so take good care of it.
Generally contracts include maintenance. This is not a boyish contest of "can you do X", but an endeavour for adults. Immense piles of useless, unmaintained code have no value and present no interest. Bear in mind that yearlong commitments are a basic requirement, and no excuses have to date been accepted.
Bitcoin is the great school for the world of the future. Take advantage of it today.
———In staunch opposition to the autistic behaviour displayed by your average Internet-enabled software engineer, which roughly works out to "overengineer it first, use it never".
To illustrate by example : if I wish to keep track of the sluts I fucked, I'll open a text file and simply dump names in there. Then as the file grows I use grep or whatever the fuck to make sense of it. Eventually as specific things piss me off I have the process re-engineered targetting them. Once it becomes complex enough I'll have it refactored, and so on and so forth. The goal is never to write software, the goal is always to solve problems. Meta-considerations are of interest only as the aggregate value of the thing increases past certain thresholds - I do not now nor will I ever care about the "readability" or "elegance" of codebases worth 5 bux.
Opposite to this, if your average software engineer figures he might some day end up dating a girl, nudely on the strength of the observation that "it is possible", he will proceed to WAIT on common sense stuff like you know, talking to that mousy chick in accounting that's been giving him the eye for six weeks because he has to first write the Sluts KeepTracker 9000. Which he proceeds to do in Ruby or whatever the fuck other nonsensical piece of idiocy is fashionable at the time. And it'll have this that and the other because "that's how you write code properly", because writing code is a fashion, like literature, and it makes sense to have schools in it, like it were fucking literature, and all sorts of conceits and contrivances. They're crucially very important and everything. In the end, he ends up spending more hours fighting bugs than he spends using the tool he wrote, thus never getting rejected by an actual live female, and everyone's happy. For some values of everyone.
These are obviously extreme exagerations, thick caricatures. Just like the actual software engineers involved. [↩][MAINTAINER], whom you can search for in the WoT. [↩]There is no such thing as working for free. If you do useful things pro bono your standing will increase with it, exactly like things worked in the original empire that created that pro bono expression. [↩]
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Monday, 05 January, Year 7 d.Tr.