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mircea_popescu: to explain : on one hand the slave is put in circumstances (be it clothing, or accoutrements, or whatnot) that make it the focus of attention, necessarily. you can't do most of those things permanently, as
a thing. to understand why, imagine you'd make
a silo full of puppies. how long before it is
a silo full of rotting meat ?
assbot: Here's what they don't tell you when they bring you those papers to sign on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1O6aNyh )
mircea_popescu: you got this special drawer of
a certain kind of kimchi.
ben_vulpes: PURCHASE
A UAZ-452 MINIVAN, THE INDISPENSABLE COMPANION OF YOUR LONG TRIPS TO THE NATURE.
trinque: yep, I've got
a gentoo-buildinator that works more than once
mircea_popescu: pff. besides the fucking point. what i am saying is that
a) you download source from current linux repo ; b) you built it on random gcc you have installed and c) lol.
BingoBoingo had his turn being tricked by and article title "how to subdue
a duck for easy transportation" was about catching ducks to move them, not convert them into
a conveyance
mircea_popescu: "yes, but now you're exposing
a hole you weren't before." idem
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes dude but it's
a fucking nightmare maintaining inherited 100k+ loc stacks.
mircea_popescu: i would bet you it would take less than
a day, but i don't want to delete all this porn etc.
mircea_popescu: i mostly use it to watch movies, and i have
a strict "700mb format only" policy so... works ok for me!
mircea_popescu: the one i bought is solid as
a rock and i have
a pile of spare batteries for it too.
mircea_popescu: original linux as
a subversive device had the same property.
mircea_popescu: perfectly legitimate and certainly useful behaviour - not least of all because automated systems as well as most people will select X out of
a set of
A=B=C=D, X =
A+i.
assbot: Logged on 11-02-2016 14:54:55; BingoBoingo: punkman: Turns out it is likely
a not uncommon router chip that they all got excited over. Non story.
mircea_popescu: NOT having many users is as valuable as NOT having
a fucktarded US-like VC on your board, or NOT having
a fatass woman with
a history of USG employment in "human services" roles in your staff.
mircea_popescu: exactly what the fuck is going to be "fixed" in this necessary situation ? time to face the music :
a large number of people is NOT
a business value. it is
a business cost.
assbot: Logged on 11-02-2016 14:30:50; assbot: Ouch: SoundCloud losses show
a broken business model in desperate need of
a fix - Music Business Worldwide ... (
http://bit.ly/1Q9pba7 )
assbot: Logged on 11-02-2016 13:55:43; PeterL: would this be an interesting bet for bitbet? No candidate for the 2016 republican presidential nomination will receive
a majority of pledged delegates before the republican national convention?
BingoBoingo: punkman: Turns out it is likely
a not uncommon router chip that they all got excited over. Non story.
☟︎ punkman: all that money and they can't put
a fucking volume slider on their audio player
assbot: Ouch: SoundCloud losses show
a broken business model in desperate need of
a fix - Music Business Worldwide ... (
http://bit.ly/1Q9pba7 )
☟︎ danielpbarron: i bet on there being
a brokered convention last timme
PeterL: would this be an interesting bet for bitbet? No candidate for the 2016 republican presidential nomination will receive
a majority of pledged delegates before the republican national convention?
☟︎ BingoBoingo: My Remington MB-20 beard trimmer is plainly essential #b-
a infrastructure
assbot: Logged on 11-02-2016 06:56:52; punkman: in other nyooz, made some progress on punkdiff. I added file deletions without including the deleted lines in the diff. Now working on sane renaming, but I'm thinking it might be better to have renames represented as (copy
a to b)+(delete
a).
punkman: in other nyooz, made some progress on punkdiff. I added file deletions without including the deleted lines in the diff. Now working on sane renaming, but I'm thinking it might be better to have renames represented as (copy
a to b)+(delete
a).
☟︎ ben_vulpes was halfway hoping for
a different kind of crypto animal
punkman: but can I buy
a loongson with it?
ggggg: just
a lurkr crypto guy
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2016 02:24:16; nubbins`: speak now if you believe
a lord that has contributed TRB patches, who owns the second-largest s.mg stock warrant, who trades in the only physical collectibles that are priced solely in BTC, who pays the bill for eulora.org, who is the republic's de facto minister of letters awaiting with bated quill the whittling-down of
a codebase fit to publish, should be stripped of his title; speak your treason now, th
BingoBoingo: I just found out that apparently using
a radio telescope pointed at
a pulsar for
a time source is something actually being done.
mircea_popescu: punkman i asked them to either support bitcoin or do
a one time deal for me. they were going to get back, never did.
BingoBoingo: * mircea_popescu recalls the lulzier years in 2011-2012 back when roger ver was actually pretending to be like,
a business man, and stuff. << NEver forget $50 Blockchain.info chargeback because Ver's sticky hands were in all the things then
gernika: mod6 verified in v99995_beta2 that it no longer presses
a non-existent patch name and throws an error instead.
mircea_popescu: but whatever, the fiat deck of cards will endure because... i dunno, everyone will promise to not take
a shit on it and also uphold that promise. sounds workable :D
mircea_popescu recalls the lulzier years in 2011-2012 back when roger ver was actually pretending to be like,
a business man, and stuff.
shinohai: What's Roger Ver doing on bitcointalk anyway since he built his own forum to be
a beacon of free speech?
mircea_popescu: so only very technically
a "resistance", more like
a first-to-kick-the-loser competition.
mircea_popescu: i think it's
a lot more like "look, befouled real estate"
mircea_popescu: i think as the collapse advances, i will be very hard pressed to resist the temptation to take
a trip over to sf and just serb the fucking place.
mircea_popescu: these delusioanl urchins are so used to seeing themselves as
a sort of neo-in-matrix that it just doesn't compute.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no dude. 20yo in '93 was fucking afraid of getting
a beatdown.
mircea_popescu: "I understand
a business has to make money. 8chan needs to make money to survive, but making money and being open source is not mutually exclusive. Lots of sites do it, including reddit, one of the biggest sites on the Internet today."
shinohai: copypaste: was very much
a tl;dr
mircea_popescu: costs more to cut the tyre and replace or make
a replacement than it costs to let it be.
mircea_popescu: that's actually
a very close solution. about as good as it gets in terms of your dream "sunken bubbles in the ocean"
mircea_popescu: but yes. however, unfortunately for them, this is
a very hard problem.
mircea_popescu: i guess someone should make
a three-mosfet hash function. just spit out the 1/f pink.
mircea_popescu: There is an extensive, and apparently never-ending, literature on "lightweight identification protocols" such as HB, HB+, HB++, HB-MP, HB*, Trusted-HB, and HBsharp. Each of these protocols was broken within one year of being proposed. Note that any authenticated cipher can trivially be used for identification: the challenger sends
a random message; the prover sends back the same message, authenticated.
mircea_popescu: "
a contest of which nothing is known but the name", i guess.
mircea_popescu: iirc, eu was spending some decent money on
a derivative to evaluate safety of embedded systems
mircea_popescu: i originally gave it as an example to stand pro toto for
a larger set. specifically - that hunting the p = np thing is
a waste of time, when there are in point of fact items known to be harder than np.
mircea_popescu: as
a curio - this was
a very promising field just about the time of mit ai being
a very promising field
mircea_popescu: however - that decidability has
a cost, and the cost is > exponential.