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phf: i was in moscow few weeks after iphone 5 release and saw status games golden youth would play with it, polished girls coyly extracting iphones to pretense that bought it in new york just last week, iphones on tables at expensive cafes, etc. i've seen more iphones over
a weekend out then in moscow then i've ever in the states. nothing like that was happening after 6 came out, of course it's my impressions, but i think 5 to 6 period was the p
☟︎ kakobrekla: the only way you dont have
a bumphone is if you have the latest one.
kakobrekla: "i can show you i sleep in
a shoebox in the middle of the street on my iphone"
shinohai: I'll take the tradeoff, I have
a soft spot for older computers.
shinohai: I miss my thinkpad, trying to get
a friend in Indiana to sell me one of his old ones.
shinohai: Can anyone here recommend
a decent laptop with backlit keyboard ?
BingoBoingo: Champion's Towing and Recovery of Columbus Mississippi is the most persistent comment spammer I've ever seen for such
a niche meatspace business.
BingoBoingo:
https://archive.is/C32nz << "Well, since
a ton is 2000 pounds and Fat Activists tends to have their mortality increase rapidly after 500 pounds, we can conclude there are 3-6 Fat activists to the ton."
phf: no, i showed her pictures from consensus though, as
a reminder, she double down on her studies of turkish language
shinohai: He argues for "intelligent design"
a lot
phf: that looks like
a subtle troll, like an updated version of jeff k.
mircea_popescu: "11. Don't know
a thing? No worries you are not alone, but that shouldn't stop you from blogging as it doesn't stop others, you can still make money just by blogging on topics that are interesting"
mircea_popescu: if you're working
a boring dayjob and need that fantasy to get out of bed in the morning.
phf: you would know better, are there "bdsm" hotels? in the style of those italian "discipline" comics, with pony waitresses and
a strict madame running the place
mircea_popescu: "I listed my castle for sale. If I manage to flip now, even at
a slight fiat loss, I would have gained 3x the bitcoins in
a year. Decent trade, huh?"
mircea_popescu: just, not really as
a hotel. pretty decent setting for
a remake of diabolique tho
mircea_popescu: Deloitte to audit to BitEx.la Bitcoin exchange, the first of its kind in Argentina and possibly in the world for
a market of Bitcoin << except
a) it doesn't actually exist and b) all of the fucking nopes already, wtf.
mircea_popescu: the boat's still missed. but i gotta say it's fucking hysterical to obvserve the US as
a society behaves collectively exactly like every ustard individually. haughty pretense at first, desperate flailing once it's too late.
mircea_popescu: Blythe Masters says US lags in blockchain use (ft.com) / Over $60 million in funding raised for bitcoin companies this week alone. / bla bla << "To sum up : what we have so far are
a few millions invested in hopeless start-ups that have no talent, no business model, aren't solving
a problem and generally speaking don't exist other than as
a tag on an orange calling it
a potato." /
http://trilema.com/2013/the-future-of- ☟︎ shinohai: lol. XT camp takes it as
a sign they have already won the game obviously.
cazalla: aww that might be overstating it just
a tad
BingoBoingo: Maybe she has
a condishun' like edema or arthritis. Knees aren't engineered to carry that all above above them.
mircea_popescu: The guidance advocates
a ban on password strength meters, mandatory resets, and predictable combinations, instead encouraging brute force rate limiting and reduced access controls." << in other words, "password gimmicks don't work an we're back to ip bans, in
a 100% reversal of the fecal consensus of 2005"
mircea_popescu: they lost 20bn in brand value for
a few million in cash. and they have cash.
mircea_popescu: omfg they did. ok, this is the dumbest move apple ever took, or could have taken. the only remainder value in the entire pointless entreprise was the perception of value. this is the texbook way to ruin perception of value : put them on
a monthly installment, like fucking diapers.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:47:45; pete_dushenski: ^ from
a study of southern italy over past 40 years
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:38:05; asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: iirc it was priced, to
a penny, to match mircea_popescu conf
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:24:17; pete_dushenski: "internet companies "across China" are hiring "pretty, talented girls that help create
a fun work environment. Dubbed "programming cheerleaders," these young women serve to chit-chat and play Ping-Pong with employees as part of their role."
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:16:09; pete_dushenski: "Gun control advocates in Tacoma, Wash., are thinking inside the box -- literally -- with
a controversial proposal to set up
a gun "drop box" to encourage residents to turn in firearms, no questions asked." << "we also advise residents to wipe their guns clean of fingerprints and bodily fluids because we WILL be inspecting each and every firearms for evidence that may be used in any ongoing investiga
mircea_popescu: "this bear likes to fuck people ; you an tell it's horny by the red patch above its nose" IS
a warning.
mircea_popescu: fucking horrid terminology, we really shouldn't be in
a situation where input and outpuit means the same thing
davout: ah, my definition of coinbase is
a spendable output that was not created by spending another output, ie. new money
mircea_popescu: i think for
a while gentmenan-ness will prevail and the consolidaitons will be mined in preference
davout: looks to me like this highlights another aspect of the tragedy of the commons thing, because miners don't bear the full cost of
a large UTXO, they have no particular incentive to give fee rebates to UTXO-consolidating transactions
mircea_popescu: we're, at least to my eyes, in the situation where we've built something against
a sleeping rhino. once it gets up and moves, what happens ?
davout: it's by no means
a hard protocol limit
davout: looks like
a limit based on the minimum relay fee
mircea_popescu: "Welcome to Bitcoin SIG We are
a group of Mensa members who are interested in cryptocurrency and enjoy discussing the developments occurring in this space."
BingoBoingo: But at that point the hundred dollar bill might not be worth
a loaf of bread
BingoBoingo: at $100k bitcoin we could be talking about no practical way to send less than
a crisp hundred dollar bill
mircea_popescu: and it can not be underscored enough how that is
a much larger problem than the recent block size nonsense.
punkman: on an unrelated note, I think I have
a rough algorithm for dealing with V patch conflicts
mircea_popescu: so hgow much can be yielded ? 1 more ? 2 ? 5 ?
a full 32 ?
a full 64 more ?
jurov: "she even made me
a coffee"
mircea_popescu: because you know for
a fact as btc will run up to 10k next, the "consumers need this improvement" thing will be lowering the spam limit.
mircea_popescu: the system will have to track 2.1 * 10^ 15 items. which, at say half
a kb weight each, will cost exabytes to fully move
mircea_popescu: could be
a much stricter limit on scalability than the block size
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i've said this
a few times but it readily gets forgotten : coinbase fragmentation is threatening to become
a rather serious problem for bitcoin eventually.
BingoBoingo: It's apparently
a propaganda film telling children it is ok to be fat, stupid and incompetent. Stuff works out jsut look at reddit.
BingoBoingo: College Humor is like
a level 2 welfare spammatron.
A bit more polished than warrior forum, but still an IAB spam thing.
mircea_popescu: There is
a 32 bit version (written in C),
a 64 bit version (written in asm),
a 64-bit emulator as well as
a Java version.
mircea_popescu: somehow tho i don't expect
a change of strategy. kinda hard to do anything else when got nothing whatsoever.'
mircea_popescu: i've called the bluff every time, it turned out to be
a bluff every time.
mircea_popescu: it's
a surgery training program not
a fucking daycare.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck gives
a shit what some inadequate "Imogen Ibbett" felt at any point ?
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:00:18; cazalla: Vexual, nah i left because of some issues with asbestos and then started
a new job, but turned out $25 p/h for an 8 hour working day actually meant $25 p/h for first 8 hours, work for next 4 hours for free! (fuck 12 hour days even if it was fully paid)
punkman: cazalla: you want
a fence, you build it and it's none of my business?
pete_dushenski: “GoDaddy reasonably relied in good faith on the representations made by the registrants of the Accused Domains stating that the registration of those domains did not violate any third party trademark rights,” he wrote. “As
a result, GoDaddy could not have used or trafficked in any of the Accused Domains with
a subjective bad faith intent to profit from the AMPAS Marks until such time as GoDaddy received no
Vexual: punkmans more adverse to
a query than bulldoig
pete_dushenski: in other news, "Britain's spy agency the GCHQ has changed its password security guidance in
a new document offering sensible advice that, if followed, should harden systems and make life easier for admins and users. The guidance advocates
a ban on password strength meters, mandatory resets, and predictable combinations, instead encouraging brute force rate limiting and reduced access controls."
pete_dushenski: ok, just checked pricing : new iphone 6s plus 128 gb is $1`289. used iphone 6 plus 128 gb is $850 here.
a difference of $439.
pete_dushenski: so why not save
a couple benjamins using craigslist, kijiji, ebay, etc.
pete_dushenski: it's
a raw deal if my local classifieds are any indication of the resale value of 1-year-old phones. (they maintain ~95% value in this market)
trinque: asciilifeform: don't you want
a new iPhone every year?
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:01:59; mod6: whereas v0.5.3.1 has no disclaimer contained within, TEST2 does have
a bit of
a warning the README.txt file. So perhaps the warning could go away.