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mircea_popescu: heh, the usg can't afford to throw away half
a bil just for this.
assbot: The woes of Altcoin, or why there is no such thing as "cryptocurrencies" on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1fsGWG5 )
terminal: I'm
a software developer who is interested in the ecosystem, I see
a lot of practicality in ethereum. Mostly I'm just looking for longterm gains
assbot: Logged on 19-01-2016 13:40:52; *: adlai notes, as
a humorous aside, that someday there needs to be
a rock-off between PeterL and PeterR
terminal: I'm
a guy who's thinking about buying
a significant amount of ETH
mircea_popescu: PeterL> y'all are
a bunch of pansies, afraid of
a bit of snow << ho i knew took
a (well earned) vacation to morocco in the middle of the carpathian winter once. her fondest memory was that there was
a tiny bit of snow just as she got ou of the bus, and everyone in sight was on their ass. "they have no idea how to walk on snow, the africans!"
ascii_butugychag: as for why they'd close the trains, i cannot say except that the latter are in
a historic state of disrepair.
PeterL: y'all are
a bunch of pansies, afraid of
a bit of snow
ascii_butugychag: PeterL: normally. result is that the place is grossly underequipped for anything like reasonable snow, and traffic grinds to
a halt
PeterL: what does DC get, like
a half an inch at
a time and they shut down? Up north here we don't blink at
a foot of snow.
ascii_butugychag: (there is supposed to be
a snow fall tonight in this part of the world, train stations will close, etc)
mircea_popescu: from what i hear from people who'd know, tis
a common affliction.
ascii_butugychag: in exactly the same sense that man who eats chicken is not
a man-chicken chimera.
PeterL: Biotech scientists now raising human–animal chimeras on U.S. farms ... << wasn't there already
a thread about sheepfucking?
gribble: Error: "ANSWER" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: Steevo moaned, “I can’t even afford
a pizza for the wife and kid on Friday night << the depth of the fucking disconnect. i wouldn't even eat what he calls pizza, if it were free. in fact i'd have serious compunction giving it to some begging dude.
mircea_popescu: e fucking concrete support in every town that has
a subway that same day. what of it!
mircea_popescu: "The number of video views rose to almost 40,000 within
a day" << sigh. this is notable in what fucking alt-world ? i remember the earlier days of "omaigerd teh interwebs matter" when the numbers destined to impress the reader were in the millions. by now it's as if "consensus" has been achieved around the proposition that such
a statement is impressive period, and the number's irrelevant. 40k people viewed every singl
mircea_popescu: lazy kid and write down "student", look at
a weirdo babbling and write down "threat report", the whole meta-state survives out of categorical confusion of this sort.
mircea_popescu: "If there is someone at this point who can look at Jace's insane rambling during this event and take it as
a credible threat to Brianna Wu's life, they are either willfully misconstruing the facts or being intentionally alarmist to the point of complete credibility loss. " mno. they are being obtuse to the point of well adjusted, functioning ustard. how the fuck else does anything work in that country ? look at
a dumb
mircea_popescu: i can't help myself but suspect there may have been
a good reason for the weird, even given the immense piles of pointless insanity scattered throughout the code.
BingoBoingo: Basically Ironman's that movie where batman finally spends enough Hodl to build
a suit that lets him do all the things superman does
ben_vulpes: "the reason why cops call it the web is because, The online is
a 'Web' of lies and/or Computers are Satans kingdom on earth"
ben_vulpes: "As always when
a large group of people without prior exposure to Jace are introduced to his world, every single existing theory on his authenticity was brought up and discussed in great detail, as were questions concerning the state of mental health care in the United States, the situation of veterans, and the practicality of using
a Prius in
a street race." << ladies and gentlemen, i present...my peers in the eyes of american law.
gribble: Error: "ticker--market" is not
a valid command.
mod6: again [ which is defined as : int BN_sub(BIGNUM *r, const BIGNUM *
a, const BIGNUM *b); BN_sub() subtracts b from
a and places the result in r ("r=
a-b"). ]
mod6: [ which is defined as : int BN_sub(BIGNUM *r, const BIGNUM *
a, const BIGNUM *b); BN_sub() subtracts b from
a and places the result in r ("r=
a-b"). ]
mod6: if you do
a pull of that patch (be sure to obviously run dos2unix on it to get rid of CRLF), you should see that all of the lines in key.h:Sign() have tabs in front of them.
trinque: and so shall I, gnite #b-
a trinque: ben_vulpes: now it's stuck on
a block 1-2 back, because reasons
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one day your "idiocy is contagious and fixing it
a collosal waste of time and i've changed my mind and wah wah" thing'll land you in the soup.
ben_vulpes: WHY NOT WRITE
A STYLE GUIDE WHILE WE'RE AT IT
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 21-01-2016 14:40:51; mircea_popescu: that once the current version being worked upon is released, we all do
a whole-source scouring of spaces, and sign the independently generated results, which will be an immediate, other patch.
assbot: An historical timeline of The Real Bitcoin (TRB) development, part ii. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1RXE2uA )
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski also, considering
a jeep cherokee or
a toyota land cruiser of 2000 and 89 vintage for babywagon, any thoughts on either?
mircea_popescu: consequently, ikf anyone wants
a payza account with 16 bux in it, it's crap@trilema.com, gangbangA1, and 12345678 "pin" w/e the shit that is.
mircea_popescu: fill
a form. turns out they... STILL won't process the payment they advertised, unti... you upload "documents". and they'll send your bitcoin back, of course. ALSO after you upload "documents".
mircea_popescu: heh. so i try to use inept merchant. inept merchant doesn't take bitcoin, but takes
a variety of bullshit "payment processors", one of which "payza". i go whatever, they pop up
a 0.04blabla btc, which i pay. turns out THEY WON'T PROCESS the payment they advertised until you "verify", ie click on some link in email. so i do. turns out they still won't process the payment they advertised, untill you... fill
a form. so i
mircea_popescu: <mod6> after i apply his patch, there are no tabs, only spaces. << i made
a tab'd one, then asciilifeform wanted
a different one so i made that too. which are you looking at ?
mod6: <+jurov> mod6 and why not "failed at" #__LINE__ "in" #__FILE__ << sounds good to me, can you give me
a full example so I don't screw this up, ive never used tat before.
mod6: so then if I go line by line adding tabs instead of the spaces, i get
a bit of
a different vdiff output as such:
mod6: it pretty much applies the same, and if then I do
a vdiff of
a/bitcoin/src/key.h to b/bitcoin/src/key.h (where Mr. P.'s patch was applied in b/.../) then the diff looks the same.
mod6: mircea_popescu: ya, not
a bad thing at all. but yeah, maybe eventually we move to that once the source "cools down" so to speak.
mircea_popescu: (you have to understand - in principle, the extra maintenance is
a mark of both fit in headness and "we really read these patches")
mod6 is
a bit worried that we may have to additionally maintain possible changing line numbers.
mod6: mircea_popescu: qq, would you be alright with this error message, as opposed to yours which has
a line number in it: printf("ERROR, ECDSA_sign failed in key.h:Sign()");
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2016 13:56:38; mircea_popescu: it's bad enough in
a project. in
a same file it's insufferable.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: so how do I run
a program on one of these things without
a socket connection?
ben_vulpes: consistency of code shape is
a thing for mortals like myself
adlai recommends people read the last submission... rediscovered it while browsing
a bathroom bookshelf
trinque: adlai: its behind was behind when I checked
a few minutes ago
mircea_popescu: " Bitcoin is described by enthusiasts as potentially being bigger than the Internet itself (
a claim I can’t seem to understand, considering that Bitcoin is an Internet-powered technology),"
assbot: Logged on 19-12-2015 22:12:24; asciilifeform: IF I CAN'T READ IT IN AN EVENING it is
a turd
mod6: re: entropy topic, perhaps ya, we can do something like this when we have
a crypto lib 'eh?
mircea_popescu: it is plainly inconceivable anyone uses
a wallet for payments and doesn't do this.
mod6: Everything looks ok to me. When not specifying
a highs or lows flag, txn went through just fine no malleation. When '-lows' flag was passed, txn went through just fine, no malleation. WHen the '-highs' flag was passed, txns were malleated, as expected.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: true enough. relatedly, 'tevye' is now running like
a champ, keeping up with even asciilifeform's s00perbalticn0de. the difference ? aws banhammer.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in
a sane mempool scheme,
a 2 cent payment does not guaranteedly remove
a 1 cent one from the mempool.
mircea_popescu: the way this works is that i can say "take this and pay bob and keep
a cent" and then later come and say "take this and pay alice instead and keep two cents", making the later guaranteed to overtake the former.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform rbf aka "replace by fee" is
a nutty idea of peter todd that got
a sour treatment hre
a whole ago, but for incomprfehensible reasons, let's say, managed to obtain wuile's support.
mircea_popescu: but such are the father's pistols. if only he were less of
a drunk.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> wtf is rbf ? << Yet another weirdo script for double spending unconfirmed transactions with
a higher fee. Only pheature is being more polite than just doing it as has always been possible
assbot: An historical timeline of The Real Bitcoin (TRB) development, part ii. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1JmEa3H )
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2016 14:40:51; mircea_popescu: that once the current version being worked upon is released, we all do
a whole-source scouring of spaces, and sign the independently generated results, which will be an immediate, other patch.
assbot: An historical timeline of The Real Bitcoin (TRB) development, part ii. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1PrH83l )
BingoBoingo: At least this gives
a reasonable target of 2020-2026 for less shitty block verifier