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00:57 asciilifeform billymg: right nao it's strictly for text chat; when we have 100% watertight function there, then can add some megalomania in spec, heh
00:58 * asciilifeform personally favours wotronics (i.e. read/query ratings etc) as 'next pheature'
~ 3 hours 55 minutes ~
04:53 * asciilifeform thinking that 1.2.7.4 oughta move to sect. 9.
04:54 asciilifeform it disrupts the simple n00b intro of sect. 1 imho.
~ 7 hours 22 minutes ~
12:16 gregory5 my own implementation of Pest 0xFD is almost ready. can someone add me to their peers?
12:16 gregory5 thimbronion: any interest?
~ 36 minutes ~
12:52 thimbronion gregory5 nice! here's a key for you: http://paste.deedbot.org/?id=OKwV
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14:54 asciilifeform gregory5: congrats! is it posted anywhere?
14:54 asciilifeform !!key gregory5
14:54 deedbot Not registered.
14:54 asciilifeform !!key gregorynyssa
14:54 deedbot http://wot.deedbot.org/67227A5E4F5B000B5D3FE975E1E421057AEDB38C.asc
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15:12 asciilifeform gregory5: http://paste.deedbot.org/?id=glX4
15:22 asciilifeform $ticker btc usd
15:22 busybot Current BTC price in USD: $58399.59
15:22 asciilifeform !w poll
15:22 watchglass Polling 17 nodes...
15:22 watchglass 176.9.59.199:8333 : Could not connect! (Operator: jurov)
15:22 watchglass 84.16.46.130:8333 : Could not connect!
15:22 watchglass 185.163.46.29:8333 : Could not connect!
15:22 watchglass 185.85.38.54:8333 : Could not connect!
15:22 watchglass 213.109.238.156:8333 : Could not connect!
15:22 watchglass 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.081s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=710852
15:22 watchglass 205.134.172.27:8333 : Alive: (0.086s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=710852 (Operator: asciilifeform)
15:22 watchglass 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.142s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=710852
15:22 watchglass 71.191.220.241:8333 : (pool-71-191-220-241.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.160s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=710852 (Operator: asciilifeform)
15:22 watchglass 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.149s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=710852
15:22 watchglass 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.165s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=710852
15:22 watchglass 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.144s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=710852 (Operator: whaack)
15:22 watchglass 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.184s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=710852
15:22 watchglass 54.38.94.63:8333 : (ns3140226.ip-54-38-94.eu) Alive: (0.196s) V=88888 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.8.88.88/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=710852
15:22 watchglass 103.36.92.112:8333 : (terebe.ns01.net) Alive: (0.585s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=710852
15:23 watchglass 54.39.156.171:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length!
15:23 watchglass 192.151.158.26:8333 : Busy? (No answer in 100 sec.)
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17:28 asciilifeform meanwhile, in heathen oddities.
17:41 shinohai http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-11-22#1067142 << Daddy doesn't like our CoC so we're gonna whine until everyone is forced to swallow OUR CoC!!!!!
17:41 dulapbot Logged on 2021-11-22 12:22:30 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in heathen oddities.
17:42 shinohai omfg hipsterlang folks are so fucking insufferable.
17:47 * asciilifeform would ask 'why do they have both a 'core team' and a 'mod team'' but can guess the answr
17:50 shinohai Silly, how else they gonna manufacture the CoC's ?
17:51 signpost lol
17:51 shinohai `git push origin yes-massa-dun-beat-me-massa`
17:55 signpost the way they want to be hurt, yet to be told to be hurt is power, is sordid.
17:57 signpost perhaps the final form of the stealing-the-stolen-from, that the victim screeches for moar.
17:57 signpost these people are an affront to humanity.
17:58 asciilifeform signpost: which people, in this case ?
17:59 signpost the bitch who is "resigning" and telling the folks who ignored his auctoritah how to fix themselves
17:59 signpost and also the "core team" who allowed the fungus to grow in the first place.
18:00 asciilifeform signpost: iirc the whole 'rust' thing is a fungus (crackpot reimpl. of some % of ada w/ 'modern' syntax, iirc)
18:01 signpost yep, growing out of the social arrangement on display here
18:01 asciilifeform lulzy
18:01 signpost what was mp's thing, the "two subbies arguing over who will top today"
18:01 signpost pretty spot on.
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18:17 mats https://web.archive.org/web/20211119054348/https://www.marketwatch.com/story/americas-biggest-pension-fund-calpers-votes-to-reshuffle-allocations-add-leverage-in-bid-to-combat-low-returns-11637256386
18:18 asciilifeform mats: i.e. 'ordinary gambling nao outpaced by printolade over9000, let's gamble x9000 ?'
18:22 signpost blow-off top in everything incoming.
18:24 asciilifeform signpost: hm?
18:25 signpost I suspect that at least equities and BTC will go hyperbolic and crash, but what do I know.
18:27 asciilifeform whole edifice seems to have been moar or less rebuilt around engineering periodic papercoin crashes, seems to be working a++ from that pov
18:27 dulapbot Logged on 2020-05-05 19:59:44 asciilifeform: as a rule, they're entirely happy to buy promisecoin, so can 'leverage' and 'play'.
18:27 dulapbot Logged on 2021-11-17 18:59:58 asciilifeform: lizards aint actually interested in ~spending~ their hodls, they need'em strictly for paperization, maintaining volatility so as to prevent their pyramid of traditional fuffles from toppling
18:29 * thimbronion would be impressed if the stock market were allowed to crash
18:29 signpost why was it "allowed" in 2000 and 2008
18:29 signpost they can control the mess until they can't.
18:29 thimbronion signpost: was in 2008?
18:29 asciilifeform ( the lizard strategy is interesting imho: to mask the inflation shelter aspect of btc by artificially pumping it up and 'burying' the rise with paperola)
18:29 dulapbot Logged on 2020-08-16 12:55:18 asciilifeform: as for the papercoin-holding speculator scum -- imho the sooner they get the fuck away from btc -- and stay thefuck out -- the better.
18:30 signpost thimbronion: eh?
18:30 thimbronion signpost: didn't they intervene heavily in 2008?
18:31 signpost stocks took a huge dump regardless, dunno how this invalidates
18:31 asciilifeform thimbronion: observe the 1 common aspect in all such 'interventions' -- lizards own moar, humans -- less
18:31 dulapbot Logged on 2021-07-13 14:38:31 asciilifeform: mats: it doesn't seem like we disagree re 'what' is happening. but possibly disagree in pov. per asciilifeform , what it all is -- is a massive theft.
18:31 * signpost quite of the "why not just eat when lizards eat" mentality here. not going to abstain for religious porpoises
18:32 asciilifeform hm abstain from what ?
18:33 signpost probably sell all shitcoins and some btc before long, already sold all equities.
18:33 signpost and will eat again next summer.
18:33 signpost still thinking about it, but BTC in particular has absurdly regular behavior interacting with fiat
18:34 asciilifeform signpost: indeed it does. the tricky bit is to actually determine the phase apriori. ( rather than ending up feeding the beast. )
18:34 dulapbot Logged on 2020-09-26 13:29:51 asciilifeform: adlai: or, if still like 'trading' ? find a way to phase-locked-loop against the 'btc-usd fire extinguisher' cycle, get filthy rich..
18:34 dulapbot Logged on 2021-11-09 11:10:10 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-11-08#1064250 << generally it is precisely the folx who think 'i can outsmart the con man' who lose their shirts, historically.
18:35 asciilifeform signpost: recall summer of 2020 when 3k$ btc for coupla days.
18:35 asciilifeform ~someone~ knew about it prior to the fact.
18:35 asciilifeform that someone hoovered up the stampeders' coinz for a song.
18:37 signpost yep, really just looking at the macro trends visible in e.g. '13/14, '17/18, possibly now.
18:37 asciilifeform i'm aware that very many folx find it irresistible to play this roulette. 'yeah i know it's tilted but maybe this time can win'
18:38 signpost eh, this isn't how anyone thinks about investing. one "plays" with what one can lose, and proportionally to their level of certainty that they can move what they extracted into something else that yields.
18:38 asciilifeform aha
18:39 asciilifeform whether to play is b/w you and odin
18:40 asciilifeform all asciilifeform knows is that historically if you play w/ folx who stack the deck, eventually lose. especially if happen to 'win' once or twice.
18:40 dulapbot Logged on 2021-11-09 11:10:50 asciilifeform: they're the ones who end up pawning their house etc. to get their 'sure win'
18:40 asciilifeform but then again gambling is one of the pleasures in life, cannot deny this.
18:40 signpost being alive, also a gamble, haha
18:40 asciilifeform aha
18:41 * asciilifeform even played shitoshidice once
18:41 asciilifeform (iirc won an entire coin!)
18:41 scoopbot New post on btcinfo: [ http://btc.info.gf/blog/monday-morning-lulzmine-rusty-coc-edition.html ][
18:43 asciilifeform http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-11-22#1067193 << this is accurate re folx with >0 information, those can hedge. in asciilifeform's cosmography, public information ~= disinfo. but to each his own.
18:43 dulapbot Logged on 2021-11-22 13:32:36 signpost: eh, this isn't how anyone thinks about investing. one "plays" with what one can lose, and proportionally to their level of certainty that they can move what they extracted into something else that yields.
18:43 asciilifeform ( what public info hinted at the summer 2020 dip , for instance? asciilifeform not aware of any )
18:45 asciilifeform anyone who knew about it beforehand could have (and likely did) multiply his bag of coinz 5+x.
18:45 * signpost just observing that it's historic fact that hyperbolic runs in assets do not run forever.
18:45 asciilifeform indeed nuffin's 4evah.
18:45 signpost no need to sell something at the very top when this is going on. the corrections proceed back to the mean, and mean's also historic fact.
18:46 mats you mean the spring (march 2020) dip?
18:46 asciilifeform oh hm mats is correct, was march
18:48 * asciilifeform to be concrete, aint in the biz of dissuading folx from gambling, merely describing why not fond of it himself
18:50 signpost I hate all of it, but will be happy to eat a few moonboy BTCs on the other side of them levering up at the very top.
18:50 asciilifeform folx who derived, via whatever effort, a 'better than chance' indicator of when to buycheap/selldear, obv. winners, and i dun expect they'll habitually describe publicly their process, for obv. reasons.
18:50 signpost this part, the hubris of fools, is certain.
18:50 bonechewer asciilifeform: to you, what constitutes an absence of gambling? holding fiat dollars? To me doing so is gambling that the fiat dollar survives.
18:51 asciilifeform bonechewer: hodling coinz, mainly
18:51 * asciilifeform doesn't have the problem of 'wtf to do with all this fiatola??' for the most part
18:52 * signpost had the great luck to sell a company during hyperinflation, not that I'm bitching about it.
18:52 * asciilifeform recalls
18:53 * bonechewer also primarily spends paychex by end of month, but the point is the same: if one has excess purchasing power at any given time, anything one does with it is a gamble to some extent
18:54 asciilifeform bonechewer: asciilifeform in recent yrs converted excess fiatola into physical plant / stockpiles, haven't had cause to regret yet
18:54 * signpost also, basically buying whatever I'd use in next couple years.
18:55 signpost this or spend 3x then.
18:55 asciilifeform ( before that, had a reliable fella from whom would buy coinz, but then he went mad & eventually drowned )
18:55 bonechewer yes, in an era of diminishing productive capacity tangible assets beat paper ones, hands down
18:57 PeterL http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-11-22#1067203 << I guess I should properly handle cases where a title starts with a line break
18:57 dulapbot Logged on 2021-11-22 13:35:24 scoopbot: New post on btcinfo: [ http://btc.info.gf/blog/monday-morning-lulzmine-rusty-coc-edition.html ][
18:57 asciilifeform this obv. doesn't trivially scale up (e.g. wouldn't buy $mil of ssd for own stockpile) but again 'fortunately' asciilifeform doesn't have this 'problem' atm
19:04 asciilifeform re: physical plant, bit the bullet and bought house, nao sinking dough into 'terraforming'
19:04 asciilifeform not worst use of fiatola while it still worth sumthing imho
19:14 signpost congrats!
19:14 asciilifeform ty
19:15 asciilifeform is part of asciilifeform's efforts to cap growing costs of operation
19:15 asciilifeform prolly gonna do the pv panel thing etc
19:15 signpost entirely sensible imho, I'm also working to limit my exposure to inflation
19:16 asciilifeform (in hyperinflation, is +ev theoretically, buy'em with zimbabwebux, the mains current doesn't inflate...)
19:16 asciilifeform iirc signpost already bought houses etc
19:16 signpost house, but shopping for land.
19:16 asciilifeform a
19:18 asciilifeform hey it did solve the 'wat do w/ wad of fiatola' problem for yr or 2
19:19 signpost real estate's a pretty reasonable place to park value during the brrrr
19:19 * asciilifeform likes tangible things, esp. given as doesn't suffer the illusion that can profit from buycheap/selldear, sufficient that they're usable directly
19:20 bonechewer re: improvements to physical plant akin to pv panels, I seem to recall a discussion relative to quasi-geothermal heating to which this link would be relevant, but can't find in logz
19:20 asciilifeform bonechewer: aha, i'ma install
19:21 bonechewer In general greenbuildingadvisor.com has some good practical information here and there if one can stomach the climate change woo
19:21 asciilifeform it's nifty not simply because saves mains current, but moar durable physical plant afaik than traditional type
19:21 asciilifeform (the only moving parts are the air blower and the compressor)
19:21 asciilifeform bonechewer: the woo is actually great, resulted in massive usg subsidy for buyers
19:22 * bonechewer also uses heat pump albeit air source rather than ground source
19:22 asciilifeform bonechewer: asciilifeform's old flat had air heatpump, was a bitch
19:22 asciilifeform not correct climate for it here
19:22 signpost so much money being made in the green subsidy too.
19:22 asciilifeform (was running resistance heater most of winter, megabux pissed away to heat 40m^2 pad)
19:24 bonechewer ugh. I adjust temperature only very gradually in the winter and have been able to ensure resistance heater ~never comes on; otherwise, as you say, it'd be awful
19:24 bonechewer probably can only do this because the place is super well insulated
19:25 asciilifeform worst thing is when 40+yo piece of junk freezes the coil (normally sensor prevents this)
19:25 mats heat pumps have surprisingly low market penetration in usa
19:25 asciilifeform mats: Officially-mandatory faux-freons destroy compressors, need new one ~2x/decade . is prolly why
19:27 bonechewer my local hvac guy claims annual tweaking can ~double life of compressor; no idea whether this is accurate or he just likes booking the annual visit
19:33 mats the estimate i got guaranteed the work for 12y hinging on annual maint
19:47 asciilifeform mats: this was wat, an air heatpump ?
19:47 mats yes
19:47 asciilifeform a neat
19:48 asciilifeform mats: what does the yearly thing consist of ? ( afaik recent compressors are welded shut )
19:50 mats cleaning the air filter and evaporator probably
19:51 mats said it was like eighty bucks to have a guy out for a couple hours
19:51 mats sounded like easy recurring revenue
19:52 mats didnt go for it in the end, socal climate doesnt justify the cost
19:57 asciilifeform mats: odd, i'd imagine is exactly the climate for it
19:57 asciilifeform any moar north and defo nope
19:57 bonechewer my annual maintenance includes a box with blinkenlights attached to unit and some sort of adjustment, but honestly nfi what the guy is doing
20:00 asciilifeform bonechewer: re: earlier link -- 'open loop' sounds insane (to pump liquishit b/w wells). the moar typical setup is 'closed loop', simply buried hose circulating h2o+antifungal
20:00 asciilifeform iirc they do 'open loop' when insufficient m^2 of earth but nutter insists on building anyway
20:05 bonechewer indeed, previous article in series uses the term "insane" in first paragraph
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