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BingoBoingo: Gerland I thought wasn't florida, but Shrem had a florida dude
mircea_popescu: then shrem met some derp at a bar and they came up with a plan which consisted of shrem not noticing the derp is doing the opposite
mircea_popescu: shrem registered as a money transmitter, and named himself as the agent in charge of making sure ustardation is implemented.
asciilifeform: iirc it went something like 'shrem sold a candybar to dpr while knowing what dpr did'
mircea_popescu: how many degrees of separation is this ? didja sign a promise to the usg to police the blockchain ?
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 18:54:25; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: usg algo is, as i understand: 1) pick a fella who needs to have problems 2) steer known scum to his $thing 3) have it be established that he knows of (2) 4) pick him up as a thieves' fence
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1316047 <<< this is such a deep misrepresentation of the shrem thing as to boggle the mind. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: (rthere should be an office to approve usage of names for purposes, consisting of a clerk with a REJECTED stamp)
assbot: N-am putea sa avem si noi on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1GMkDbM )
mircea_popescu: they had a bullshit college in ro, which yielded http://trilema.com/2009/n-am-putea-sa-avem-si-noi/
asciilifeform has a very special loathing for 'tesla' car, solely on account of the name abuse
mircea_popescu: anyway, in the general, this is the closed form life equation of people doing something worthwhile : they have a terrible time as kids because their parents are idiots ; they get fucking stampeded as adults, because people are lazy ; they get all the accolades, moneys and bitches when they're old, because it doesn't do anything for them anymore (thus it's finally safe) ; once they're dead they get to be the face sellin
asciilifeform: in all fairness, the prison lenin sat in was a joke compared to present-day
assbot: Cine se casatoreste... on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1GMkmWp )
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1316034 << a) get out of the us. now. shut the rationalizations, i really don't want to hear them, there's no excuse ; b) make a pile of dead droppable content ; c) surround yourself with angry people with guns, bonus points if female. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1316029 <<< i have a faint recollection of the thing being in this "we'll draft it" position before and magically not getting drafted. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: the "thread" isn't a thread nor does it make it any clearer. what magic talismans are you asking of ?
asciilifeform: shinohai: all of us has legal euthanasia. just point a pen knife at a cop.
shinohai is a proponent of legal euthanasia.
BingoBoingo: Tis a felony here
mircea_popescu: you're a weirdo, so my money's on you going for "sex crimes".
asciilifeform: but unfortunately i have not the time and energy to flesh this out into a working mechanism
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 23:33:14; mircea_popescu: re the peter todd nlocktime derpage : there exists a perfectly legitimate problem with anchoring bitcoin time to political time.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1316243 << at one point (see old logz) i came very close to solving this. basic idea is to set up a dynamic equilibrium situation where anyone who deviates from correct wallclock time becomes prey in proportion to this deviation. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: that's a chief point on the ho training schedule.
mircea_popescu: it should be a who.
mircea_popescu: which is why the republic doesn't (and currently shouldn't) be a place.
asciilifeform to the extent he is good for anything, isn't really a product of usa either
mircea_popescu: there only is a who.
mircea_popescu: to that sort of thing, there isn't a there.
mircea_popescu: "translating" "ancient egyptian" with rocks in a hat.
mircea_popescu: re the peter todd nlocktime derpage : there exists a perfectly legitimate problem with anchoring bitcoin time to political time. ☟︎
assbot: Matrix.org | A new basis for open, distributed, real-time communication ... ( http://bit.ly/1WARu56 )
asciilifeform: and marie antoinette lived in a peasant hutch, aha.
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 17:35:49; asciilifeform: we have a kind of 'barrel' in usa - there is a caste of folks who live in converted 'trailers'
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 17:30:46; kakobrekla: move to MK, rent a flat for 100 bux, a better one than my ex barrel.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a) no depressed is ever logical ; b) no depressed ever admits to this.
asciilifeform spent more or less his entire free time in the past 2 wks reverse-engineering and auditing gpg, incl. compiled binaries. this has a certain effect on the soul.
mircea_popescu: mk will be a moment.
mircea_popescu: what a day.
gribble: They really are Buttcoins nao on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/they-really-are-buttcoins-nao>; February 2013 on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2013/02>; Bitcoin on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/category/bitcoin/>
BingoBoingo: "While we can all agree that pet obesity is a problem, and obviously not healthy for our feline friends, please refrain from commenting here about it. Users have been banned, and I hate having to do it. So please don't make me."
BingoBoingo: It is a Trollbox
BingoBoingo: It seems this current volatility is a delayed response to drama season. I predict moar wild swings as all this pent up drama acts on Bitcoin price after having been suppressed so long
BingoBoingo: My take on shrem though was the magazine profile where the reporter mentioned his smoking lamp out in the open made him irredeemably a "drug criminal" in the eyes of USG
asciilifeform: 'This is SOP for STEM/Biz profs, too. Never be alone with female students. Never mentor them. Never supervise a graduate thesis. A bad review/grade turns into a sexual harassment claim far too easily.' ☟︎
mike_c: I am not understanding this romanian mess.. what the hell does some fire in a club have to do with the PM ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Linus is never alone at any conference. This is not because he lets fame go to his head and likes having a posse around. They have made multiple runs at him.'
asciilifeform: if anybody's gonna 'obediently fucks with the thing from within' it'll be a bitcoin-themed isp from somewhere far outside the wot.
ben_vulpes: eg if you want to run a node for infrastructure, you should -connect it to a synced node -addnode'd to the network at large.
trinque: this was from a home connection.
trinque: and two, I would like to move the hosting of the thing off AWS if anyone can recommend a friendlier host ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'After weeks of waiting to get registered with Berlin authorities, a group of refugees and migrants have sued Berlin’s main refugee center for failing to grant their asylum benefits on time, which they were promised when Germany took them in.' << lulz
asciilifeform: i made the tradeoff with the full understanding that it was a tradeoff.
asciilifeform: can also flash in own fw if you have a favourite.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: prolly gonna turn this thing into a gossipd-style whitelisted node soon.
Namworld: There's no share, just a stake in %. No share dilution as of now. Dilution could appear in the form of allowing investments on the site like other dice site where you can stake the bankroll. Although this would in no way be absolute/permanent.
ben_vulpes: that's a sane argument
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: partly it is because i have a personal hatred of ph0rum sp4mz0r l337 d00dz
assbot: Hits and misses of Ted “The Unabomber” Kaczynski. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1ktc5vZ )
asciilifeform: and i don't own an impregnable castle where i can leave a machine going.
asciilifeform: problem is that i fucking need a node.
kakobrekla: but anyway, if you dont feel like running a node from home, you should not do it.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: usg algo is, as i understand: 1) pick a fella who needs to have problems 2) steer known scum to his $thing 3) have it be established that he knows of (2) 4) pick him up as a thieves' fence ☟︎
pete_dushenski: http://altwork.com/ << save the 'angel investor' 'prototype' blah blah, this is an intriguing workspace concept. only about a 2016-btc too ☟︎
ben_vulpes: Namworld: it's painful to watch people dragging these details out of you. is there a signed operating agreement in place people can look at somewhere?
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1315891 < missed this; i had a few unrelated gigs which allowed me to be free but not rich ☝︎
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski, thestringpuller: the reason i was considering ~not~ keeping a node on my desk is the realization that, if this kind of thing carries on, it cannot really be considered a respectable node.
asciilifeform: i suppose this is a good time to point out that i fucking hate common criminals who lack the brains or elementary decency to make themselves any kind of hard target
pete_dushenski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcTC7RkmHac << alf, always a jump ahead
asciilifeform: which per the ru sp4mz0rsphere, https://crdclub.ws/showthread.php?p=97248 -- is a 'carding' service
assbot: Bitcoin’s 4th of July : INDEPENDENCE FROM AMERICA DAY | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1PmOgS1 )
asciilifeform: seems like these folks want a replay of the july idiocy ?
asciilifeform: 'We reuse the double-threshold IsSuperMajority() switchover mechanism used in BIP 66 with the same thresholds, but for nVersion = 4. The new rules are in effect for every block (at height H) with nVersion = 4 and at least 750 out of 1000 blocks preceding it (with heights H-1000..H-1) also have nVersion >= 4. Furthermore, when 950 out of the 1000 blocks preceding a block do have nVersion >= 4, nVersion < 4 blocks become invalid
assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 19:04:36; *: asciilifeform admits that he suspects bip64 of being a plot to create usg-like bonds in btc. folks will be asked to trace X proper btc for X+epsilon 'locked' ones that are to land back in their pocket 'in the future', should they live long enough, but are actually recovable 'because this is how the world works'
pete_dushenski: not a bad thing imo
pete_dushenski: if anything, it'll push a few maybe neithers off the fence towards manhood
pete_dushenski: i'd argue that this type of posturing ~does~ matter in the sense that it's a further wedge between ( ) boys and ( ) men
asciilifeform: (and was never really a thing in the 'uncivilized' - what does a pashtun need it for?)
asciilifeform: which more or less died out as a scientific field in the 'civilized' world. ☟︎
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu were awake, he would probably say that none of this matters worth a damn
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: there also a basic trick involved. when you repaint the opposition as 'criminal', it can then be dealt with using police methods, which are cheaper than black bag work
kakobrekla: actually iirc there is a huge underground usg army base in mk
asciilifeform: arguably a snore, because in practice usg already had doing-whatever-the-fuck-it-wants-to-whoever-it-wants powerz
asciilifeform: '“What we have to question ourselves is, as a society, do we really want to criminalise 13, 14 and 15 year-olds? Or do we want to understand their behaviour, engage with their incredible skillsets, mentor them and try to point them in the right direction?” she said.' << aha, a course of neuroleptics followed by lifetime indenture at junior www dev work in usg sharashka, is the implication.
asciilifeform: 'A humanistic, cognitive psychology approach to hacking would be to consider an emotion such as revenge… But my favourite explanation for the academic literature is a Freudian psychoanalytic approach to hacking, which actually conceptualises hacking in Freudian terms as a cyber-sexual urge to penetrate. And there are castration complex overtones in terms of being cut off from the network as well…'
assbot: 0 results for 'http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/03/hackers-gonna-hack-but-why-maybe-freud-has-the-answer' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ftechnology%2F2015%2Fnov%2F03%2Fhackers-gonna-hack-but-why-maybe-freud-has-the-answer
asciilifeform: (this is a not altogether bad heuristic for what is a usg colony - can you bribe a traffic cop ?)
asciilifeform: eu is a usg colony
kakobrekla: nah, EU cant bribe a cop. not even in croatia.
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 02:05:11; asciilifeform: 'american does not believe the man in the uniform to be a bandit, with whom one can come to an understanding. he believes him to be a robot, who must be feared. american law enforcers are able to, by pressing on the keyboard of a multitude of laws and regulations, 'transmute' the most insignificant peccadillo into a monstrous deed. FBI did not need to beat up Monica or toss into her purse heroin or am
kakobrekla: this is a place where cops still take bribes. all of them.
asciilifeform: (a kind of truck box)
asciilifeform: we have a kind of 'barrel' in usa - there is a caste of folks who live in converted 'trailers' ☟︎
asciilifeform: barrel is not so terrible. it is being solely a barrel's radius from the mass of stinking, writhing human refuse that typically surrounds the barrel, that is.
kakobrekla: move to MK, rent a flat for 100 bux, a better one than my ex barrel. ☟︎
pete_dushenski: i might've guessed a stint at a big bank as barrel
asciilifeform: i mean, we can infer that kakobrekla's barrel contained a computer and also whatever was required to keep his brain alive and in reasonably well-oiled condition
kakobrekla: before bitcoin, i was living in barrel because no matter what i wanst going to be a part of the slave system. you wouldnt call that living.
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 15:02:51; mircea_popescu: so here's something for alf : "Through much of their history US finishing schools emphasized education in the social graces and de-emphasized scholarship: society encouraged a polished young lady to hide her intellectual prowess for fear of frightening away suitors. For instance Miss Porter's School in 1843 advertised itself as Miss Porter's Finishing School for Young Ladies—even though its founder w