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trinque: perhaps that was
a veiled threat to use the bomb
trinque: ascii_field: ah yep, read that. and it wouldn't surprise me if
A was an intentional kill switch, even less so with the hypothetical "failed project"
mike_c: my mother thought I should be
a lawyer
mircea_popescu: i dunno wtf you're doing programming computers yo. go be
a negotiator.
mike_c: Meaning the fixing was only worth doing for
a smaller number of years.
mike_c: Not exactly five years - It's
a lot of work. This work wasn't necessarily worth it before enough people took the right notice and the project got some traction
mircea_popescu: mike_c "some reason" aka it's fucking stupid and who the fuck does this to people, takes their napkin sketches and puts it in
a frame above the mantelpiece!
trinque: ascii_field: damn, wouldn't that be
a thing to watch.
ascii_field: wouldn't
a complete picture include satoshi ?
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> meat folks have
a habit of changing skins << Deed's kinda contingent on identification being confirmed at all
mircea_popescu: it's
a great faith for the defeated, and always popular with them
felipelalli: punkman, this is true, and this is my main use of Bitcoin. I wouldn't be affected. Good point. But this is
a little contradictory with the article "there is no such thing as cryptocurrencies". The idea is "There Can Be Only One"
trinque: hm, this brings to mind monotheism, as perhaps the source of this delusion of
a singular agency over reality
punkman: felipelalli: nobody can steal your coins if you just sit on them and don't spend for
a while
mircea_popescu: lemme put it plainly : if this were
a unipolar world, it's not that bitcoin wouldn't exist. it's that it COULDNT.
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 )
mircea_popescu: that said, yes, people who disregard their own property can "mess around" with your property. for instance,
a guy that doesn't give
a shit about his 50k car can drive it through your front door.
assbot: Let's address some of the more common pseudo-arguments raised by the very stupid people that like the Gavin scamcoin proposal on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1fsGAzl )
felipelalli: trinque, I know, but vulnerable. Miners could use
a portion of their hashpower just to mess around with the actual Bitcoin.
trinque: but then the agency there is just
a metaphor, so I can see the argument that nothing was "taken over"
felipelalli: mircea_popescu, I read your articles. Actually I had read some parts before, but I read all over again. Unfortunately I didn't find the answer to my question. I understand that if miners just point to
a "Scamcoin" (fork from Bitcoin) this is not Bitcoin, of course. But having them more hashpower, and the same type of hash function, this does not make the actual Bitcoin an "altcoin" and them vulnerable to attacks? (following the
trinque: sorta like
a septic line taking over
a basement
trinque tries to eat
a farmville vegetable
mircea_popescu:
a) what takes over ; b) what less and less. for starters.
mircea_popescu: "With each passing week more and more of us become ready to concede that economic growth is no longer possible. Economic development, on the old model, which UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon recently characterized as
a “global suicide pact,” is becoming constrained by the limits of natural resources of the finite planet, energy, arable land and fresh water foremost among them, and stressed further by extreme weather
mircea_popescu: but to my own head it's
a huge step forward. i guess i was coming at the internet from the wrong perspective. took
a while to clear in my head heh.
mircea_popescu: "go hang out on
a website or whatever it is your kind does", as it were.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it's
a wriggleysgumification
mircea_popescu: then there's
a secopnd web, to use its own terminology web2.0. this is composed of ALL the sites that uses
https, for any purpose. such as "logins" as if that makes any sense.
kakobrekla:
a 'missing' 'overflow: hidden' was the cause
mircea_popescu: i guess it COULD be that it actually rejected the provided ids "because they start with digit" and ending up with
a soup ?
assbot: Third pass addressing the more common pseudo-arguments raised by the very stupid people that like the Gavin scamcoin proposal on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1fsD6gg )
assbot: Let's address even more of the more common pseudo-arguments raised by the very stupid people that like the Gavin scamcoin proposal on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1fsD6g6 )
assbot: Let's address some of the more common pseudo-arguments raised by the very stupid people that like the Gavin scamcoin proposal on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1fsD6g3 )
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron lotta people are sorta like that, really. the hope and expectaton of
a "greatness of the people" is hard to shake.
trinque: danielpbarron: man, he's
a socialist? that's disappointing.
danielpbarron:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-08-2015#1234461 << i've been listening to his podcast ever since his article on the dance party for the shamed fat guy; the show is just barely interesting to have on in the background thanks to his somewhat libertarian-leaning co-host, Dick Masterson. Maddox himself is
a damn dirty socialist, and also
a self-described 'programmer' who frequently speaks to the virtues of winbl0ws
☝︎ mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i just loaded
a version without the head section
trinque: the browser is the ultimate "make
a name for myself" hell.
ascii_field realized long ago that standards committees attract at least half
a dozen distinct types of vermin. one of which is the sort of fella who vandalizes bus stops, carves initials in
mircea_popescu: Line 4051, Column 13: value of attribute "ID" invalid: "1" cannot start
a name
kakobrekla: i started noticing
a slowdown 7-10 days ago
mircea_popescu: but i guarantee this was not present 1 month ago, or even
a week ago.
mircea_popescu: but it is
a bad approach for actual microbiology. because, again, saltus.
mircea_popescu: this is
a fine approach for computer viruses. for very good reasons i won't go into for the sake of not boring everyone.
ascii_field: (existed to make 'core' look like
a decent thing)
mircea_popescu: in the current state this is actually fine. "debate core vs xt" misrepresentation is
a degradation of "core consensus" prev state.
ascii_field: felipelalli: from that perspective,
a fella who was offered every chance to get in wot, and we saw that he understood how it works, but refused - has already negrated himself to -$maxint
trinque: "fuck he who did X" is
a fine thing to preserve permanently
felipelalli: trinque, ah, lol, amazing. thank you! The deedbot link didn't work when I tried to enter in it. My idea was to be able to rate an "abstract entity" that could represents
a person or company that wasn't registered on WoT.
trinque: ascii_field: not at all; making
a deed serves
a similar purpose if the individuals are easily identified by the contents of the deed
ascii_field: felipelalli: 'I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such
a question.' (tm) (r) (babbage)
trinque: felipelalli: 'twas above that one, BingoBoingo made
a deed in which he promised to rate certain individuals -10 should they ever appear in the WoT
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 05-08-2015 06:35:37; trinque: ;;later tell felipelalli you've spoken about the idea of rating people not in the WoT; there's
a great way ^
trinque: I guess that one's
a seizure.
trinque: ascii_field: yeah, I'm having
a hell of
a time finding the sources that linked the above plane to flights to guantanamo now, and recall in the past *not* relying on such filth as "infowars"
trinque: must be something else to be able to be that brazen and *know* not
a soul will know or care
☟︎ ascii_field: 'Update: The US Coast Guard informed me that the 16,000 pounds of cocaine seized during the July 18 semi-submersible bust has been changed to 14,000 pounds, due to
a "quantity mistake" in their initial report. This story has been changed to reflect that correction' << 2,000 for obamitler's cellar
☟︎ ascii_field: so
a 'dos port' is more appropriately
a 'bare metal' port, and doesn't need the dos for anything
☟︎ ascii_field: at any rate, msdos provides not one single system call that could be of use to
a bitcoind
☟︎ ascii_field: summary: msdos to which you add
a scheduler (threads) and addressability of blockchain-sized hard disk, is not really msdos in any proper sense
mike_c: not blindly, but that seems
a prerequisite
mod6: ascii_field: thanks for taking
a look!
ascii_field: punkman: it's in
a half-done state. doesn't really need docs, very much self-explaining
mod6: i'll compare my raw patch above with MP's posted one above side-by-side here when i get
a chance.
punkman: ascii_field: do you have an outline/spec for v? I could give you
a hand with that
mod6: that's why im
a bit hesitant yet.
mod6: anyway, will keep looking at it for
a while here.
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 16:29:31; mod6: <+mod6> hanbot: ... << ahh ok thanks for the update. glad you didn't get the error. my ubuntu needs to go to glue factory. << actually, I did also try this on
a different 10.04 VM and i did get the same error. bizzare.
mod6: <+mod6> hanbot: ... << ahh ok thanks for the update. glad you didn't get the error. my ubuntu needs to go to glue factory. << actually, I did also try this on
a different 10.04 VM and i did get the same error. bizzare.
☟︎ thestringpuller: Andreas: All the fork drama is really overblown. Diversity is good and bitcoin is resilient. Consensus will converge on the correct answer. << Consensus is you are
a zombie who refuses to die.
thestringpuller: do·sim·e·ter - noun -
a device used to measure an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation.
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