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Adlai: mircea_popescu: arguably, the main/relevant effect of 'sidechains' to date has been funnelling VC money into subsidizing full nodes... although i guess you don't trust full nodes run by those people... but you don't have to because bitcoin
Adlai: i mean, if he's asking to get the police involved, don't they love responding to death threats?
mircea_popescu: if this is how you redefine your humans, i will change "don't exist" to "don't matter".
Adlai: my long-term (years/decades) plan for scalpl, assuming i don't lose interest by then, is commodities, since i'm hoping by that point "forex" becomes a quaint anachronism
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so do mine. but at least a) i actually fuck them and b) i don't take them without a significant prior investment from other people.
mircea_popescu: your average doobie, with a mediocre college degree and an ESL culture mostly geared towards ingested summaries is perfectly unable to decode metaphor or recognise complex enough patterns and fill in the gaps. this to him is frustrating, and the frustration is predictably resolved by lashing out (hey, it's the guy fault for using rferences i have to google and math i don't grok!11). in no way better than a clinical mor
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> herbijudlestoids: what if you want to patch your hypothalamus ? << Don't remember if I did this or not.
asciilifeform: herbijudlestoids: if 'software-based' is what you want, i don't get it, you already own a computer ?
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, there's literally an ocean of providers of this stuff.
thestringpuller: i don't grok :(
asciilifeform: lol, i still don't know why it needed the gui at all
asciilifeform: now, did the thing -need- a cross-platfom gui? don't ask me, i've never used it...
danielpbarron: i don't think i've ever actually used the qt client
thestringpuller: mike_c: I don't know how one would do Reingold-Tilford that has multiple dependencies
asciilifeform: 'How you can hire me: You can't. I don't work for money....' << wai wat ??!
mircea_popescu: "How you can hire me: You can't. I don't work for money. Money is a technology that destroys trust. Its entire purpose is to short-circuit human relationships in order to insert itself as a middleman. It makes everybody spend more money, at more emotional cost, for things that make us angry at each other. Don't offer to pay me. Seriously. If you offer me money, I will decline on principle."
mircea_popescu: ah that. ok ok nm, im not going to speak on things i don't have before eyes.
mod6: danielpbarron: i don't have any evidence to support that.
BingoBoingo: That, I don't know.
mod6: ah, ok: https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/commit/9ef1b3a903d22c946a4536f56e26cfd16429c4bb << this will fix the random thing, but i don't think the makefile change here does anything.
mod6: i still don't think i did the right thing there..
ben_vulpes: decimation: i don't know that this was a good decision.
decimation: I donno. I've been looking around and there don't seem to be very many maintained bouncers
danielpbarron: https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq#top_4 "Haiku is not a Linux distribution, nor does it use the Linux kernel." << is this worth looking into? I don't know much about it.
mircea_popescu: i don't need to be jostled just because sopme other fuckhead can't drive at his speed.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: that's like saying "the car is a horrid invention because i don't like windoze"
thestringpuller_: Yea I don't have debit cards.
mircea_popescu: whaack: anyways I came here to ask if you guys have btc entrepreneurial ideas that you think are good but just don't have time to get around to << jobs pop up occasionally. you have to read the log to have a chance at them. this is intentional.
BingoBoingo: <whaack> i would love to work in a completely closed btc system, but alas I don't know of any way to acquire bitcoins faster than trading in my fiat for them << Sounds like the answer for the time being
whaack: i would love to work in a completely closed btc system, but alas I don't know of any way to acquire bitcoins faster than trading in my fiat for them
whaack: anyways I came here to ask if you guys have btc entrepreneurial ideas that you think are good but just don't have time to get around to
asciilifeform: decimation: mircea_popescu seems to think that this understanding will unravel if usd tanks, but i don't grasp how
decimation: I don't think china has the balls to start a missile war with usg
decimation: I don't think the us military would give up hawaii without an actual war
decimation: it's possible, I don't log closely
mircea_popescu: "I don't know what to think, really. I have AppOps active on my phone, apps are forced to request access to whatever resource they want to use... clearly none of my security measures helped."
ben_vulpes: be it 5, 10, 20, i don't really care.
danielpbarron: man the redditards have amnesia i guess; they used to use the honeybadger example of "bitcoin don't give a bit!"
mircea_popescu: in any case, i guess they don't manage in however many posts to get to addressing the key point of "who pays davis' salary these days".
thestringpuller: "Yes, and it reaches this point over 100 years from now." << i don't like to think of the future cause i'll be dead, let my children deal with the problem.
whaack: Because when I don't and I join this channel my internet cuts out for 30 fucking minutes
decimation: no I don't think so
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> also claimed to be working on a 'military' path to sovereign moldbuggistan, which screams 'provocateur' << I don't get very many of these. You FBI file must be thicker than mine.
bitcoinquestions: reg'd? sorry I don't use IRC often
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i haven't / don't intend to because a) anyone who can grasp the abstraction already knows it ; b) anyone likely to benefit from the description probably can't read.
cazalla: IHB, i mean, i gotta use 3 finger scrolls to get to the meat of it.. i don't even give the missus that much
mircea_popescu: i know they don't, but that is quite besides the point innit ? http://www.dgipi.ro/articole/articol.php?idarticol=1233 << this is their latest.
mircea_popescu: i don't infer they didn't.
thestringpuller: The whole bart simpson era of "troublemakers" which I really don't understand since most of them do coke to work their 80 hour a week jobs.
cazalla: always found it bizarre "winners don't use drugs" would appear in the arcade games i played here, didn't even know what drugs were at the time
asciilifeform: the part i was trying to answer was 'why do you wanna go in locales you don't like the maxima'
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what I don't get is why people are freaking out they will have to pay a lot of money to use the system?
danielpbarron: even i briefly authored a web commic, although i don't think any copies of it remain anywhere
thestringpuller: I guess people just don't like being told, "Hey you're poor, and excluded from this cool thing nao cause you are useless. Kthxbai."
nubbins`: "i don't think people should have to hide the fact that they have blood-borne pathogens" says the guy with Hep C who can't donate blood
nubbins`: "I don't think that people should have to hide the fact that they have a mental illness," Cooper said.
nubbins`: sadly, i don't think this will be replicated
danielpbarron: i don't think the issue is limited to SNI; surely you have an opinion on the matter
napedia: I don't write for SNI. My opinion is that I'd like to see SNI sort it out with economic reasoning and good articles. Pierre's arguments are most persusasive.
jurov: and i don't see any alert.cpp on 0.5.3
mircea_popescu: exactly schmexactly. there's a difference between the idle imagination of youth and the knowledge of men. for instance : i know but you don't know that the vast majority of hard drives are produced in the same few acres of asian shore.
gabriel_laddel: Why might one want to see the C ast? Let's say that we've got a codebase like the linux kernel, or opengl drivers. You know that somewhere you've got some stuff that talks to the hardware, but grep returns false positives. You instead pull the ast into memory, query across it for the bits your looking for. False positives now indicate something about the language (i.e., that I don't understand it as well as I though
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: random: but I recall you said you don't like driving so you don't. You're driven. Do you ever "want" to drive in some ideal scenario? A racetrack or something?
gabriel_laddel: (I don't parse that)
gabriel_laddel: as for my id, I'm currently fixing <irritant to livelihood>. First chance I get I'm sitting down and sorting out the whole GPG thing. As it stands I was not particularly happy with the documentation it supplied and wasn't sure which parts I'd have to rewrite. My previous key got destroyed in a failed backup becuase I didn't spend enough time on it the first time around. Also, I don't think gossipd is happening via w
chetty: it's more like expecting tramps to ballet. spontaneously.//you mean they don't? I see in the movies all the time
mircea_popescu: fuck (not heck. fuck!) it's probably even why people don't enjoy writing comments and specs. because they require "this is great" and "im so fucking proud of this" ands "i bet you wouldn't have come up with this in five lifetimes" to be either worth reading or worth writing
gabriel_laddel: then don't bother reading I suppose.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> those who don't, typically own a small (5-10kW) genset on wheels << i have no idea what this would do. suppose a 2kw air conditioner unit, or fridge, or even washing machine.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: my plaintive cries << it's not a bad plan i don't think.
adlai: ben_vulpes: context is http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-11-2014#913052, the thing is usable, i'm trying to get people to use it. maybe not the most tactful, but i don't have my own pr lady (yet) ☝︎☟︎
ben_vulpes: not at a term i don't understand.
asciilifeform: i don't know the author personally, no. he's just a blogger.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i don't buy the malicious usg. thing is purely reactive, and only within the logic of itself.
adlai: mircea_popescu: i still don't follow why you say http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-02-2015#1011933 ☝︎
adlai: also i don't follow why you think that i have this expectation, or that it affects my problem(s)
adlai: don't worry, i believe the same nonsense about my discovery
mircea_popescu: i don't write any c, either, or c++. i've never written either java or javascript. i sometimes to a little bash, and always to dig up natural language strings in natural language dialects. or otherwise mess the mup.
mircea_popescu: imagine me like a guy that has no poem to write. k ? so i don't write in italian. splendid language for the best of poems, and even for talking melodicly about the tv shows.
mircea_popescu: i think it's a fine language! i just don't have anything to do in it.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2015 21:22:05; mircea_popescu: "4. You don't deserve to know any of that. It's none of your business. I invited my readers to chip in on a project--or not. I did not invite you to worm your nose into every aspect of my life, hunt down pictures of my home, call me names, or tell me I was worthless, arrogant, greedy, and undeserving. But you want to rip me bare and expose how awful you're sure I am. I get it, you want me transparent
phillipsjk: I don't understand the complete implementation details, but how do they how to convert the signatures without messing with the merkle tree? Have a table of weird transactions?
the_scourge: i've noticed you don't capitalize a lot of the time
the_scourge: asciilifeform: i don't know what 'things' are, and i don't know what philosophy means
danielpbarron: i don't care how fast it boot since it shouldn't have to do that more than once (depending on the stability of your electric)
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk: [...] < I wish the banks around here knew what GPG/PGP was. << it's because i don't use actual banks, but the well developed argentine underground system.
mircea_popescu: i don't think anything ever was as stulfifying as the ipad game scene. perhaps the failed nes.
mircea_popescu: i don't perceive its utility
mircea_popescu: 'I don't want to join the bloody Army, I don't want to go unto the war; I want no more to roam, I'd rather stay at home, Living on the earnings of a whore.'
decimation: but I don't see why the government should have anything to do with verifying identity anyway
trinque: ben_vulpes: I don't realy want to...
ben_vulpes: i don't believe anything
kanzure: basically i want hardware but i don't want to have to spend my life reading millions of pages of documentation
mircea_popescu: "Every time you hear the word globalism, you should hear three things: 1. wealth uncoupled from work product. 2. Lifestyle as a reflection of your personal self-worth. 3. You give up control of the capital, and by capital I mean you. "Do I still get paid?" Sure, but you have to promise to spend more than what we pay. "How will that work?" Don't worry, Visa will explain it all to you."
asciilifeform: i don't think it gets any simpler than that
kanzure: part of it is that i don't trust anyone to keep the whole threat model in their head
danielpbarron: i don't recall and didn't save it
mircea_popescu: im sorry, i don't do that. if you wish to use it, introduce it. as per http://trilema.com/2014/how-to-deal-with-pseudoscience/
the_scourge: i don't understand waht that has to do with it
the_scourge: pete_dushenski: because most don't quite understand the point. i kinda get the perceived problem (thanks to alf) but the solution, while cool, hasn't struck me as nuclear (yet)