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wilbns: these new derivative markets that are forming out of distributed / shared ledger technology could perhaps be the new stage for some form of electronic economy that will exist on
a trillion/quadrillion level. the average person may only perceive that kind of scale at the end of the year, when milk costs $10
assbot: Logged on 13-02-2014 01:31:58; asciilifeform: ifetimes some tin-pot pseudo-nationalist leader will print up ugly slips of paper with pictures of dead people, Masonic symbols and big numbers, and attempt to charge people for using them as
a medium of exchange in all transactions, and your great-grandchildren need to know, from an early age, that it is
a scam. It is an official scvam, backed up by the threat of violence, but it is still
a scam."
wilbns: it does seem the dollar is someone in store for
a beating, perhaps that is what will stop interest rates from rising or enable more QE to continue
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mats: usg, like wheat (the latter as described in mircea_popescu's essay 'when you become wheat') thrives in
a half-destroyed world << Corn loves raw manure, but wheat demand you first light the manure and then till it into the field
mats: welp, i like
a game of 'catch the falling knife' as well as anybody
BingoBoingo: Last week I read
a lot of "California beat the drought" stories based on more people in Compton working at McDonalds
wilbns: ah that's
a good quote, so true
wilbns: mats: maybe. there was an interesting quote you just made me think of - "
a recession is when your neighbor loses his or her job.
a depression is when you lose yours"
trinque: asciilifeform | trinque: which is
a catgurl or the like. << LOL
wilbns: mats: agreed, that is the challenge - what exactly is happening in the status quo. food shortages, never before seen droughts, threat of
a credit bubble collapsing, the middle easten on the verge and russia/china moving further away in their relations w/ europe and the us each new day. what is next.
phf: what was that bad russian scifi dood, who did sort of like
a hodgepodge of cyberpunk literature
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 02:35:23; phf: used it to cheat in games heh (i think there were
a dozen of variations of that idea)
mats: if social networks as they exist nao are still
a thing i will eat
a bullet
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 02:39:32; mats: >When an individual applies for
a loan, the lender examines the credit ratings of members of the individual’s social network who are connected to the individual through authorized nodes. If the average credit rating of these members is at least
a minimum credit score, the lender continues to process the loan application. Otherwise, the loan application is
wilbns: 25 years ago there was no Facebook and
a fledgling Internet - many people were still using
a BBS or interacting with one another using AOL, CompuServe or Prodigy.
A smartphone did not exist. It will be interesting in another 25 years to see the path of where things will go. I wonder if we were teleported there tomorrow if we would recognize it.
mats: >When an individual applies for
a loan, the lender examines the credit ratings of members of the individual’s social network who are connected to the individual through authorized nodes. If the average credit rating of these members is at least
a minimum credit score, the lender continues to process the loan application. Otherwise, the loan application is
☟︎ phf: used it to cheat in games heh (i think there were
a dozen of variations of that idea)
☟︎ phf: it's probably same year, that i was switched to freebsd, so never actually programmed for dos. i did write
a tsr to do
a memory dump on
a keypress few years later
trinque: that's
a function with
a root note and
a scale as arguments
trinque: for example I commonly want to take
a lick and move it around
a scale some
trinque: I'm starting to lean towards wanting
a programming language for this (yes lisp)
trinque: must be
a rectangle including all instruments
trinque: I've never killed renoise, but anyhow, my actual complaint is that I can't call arbitrary chunks of noise
a function and reuse them
trinque: Renoise is
a decent modern equivalent imo
gribble: Error: 'company' is not
a valid price input.
BingoBoingo: Not bad. Just stuffing cotton towels in social media toilets, taking
a shit, and flushing them.
phf: ha, i remember we opted to use turbopascal for some programming olympiada and made
a terrible mess out of it. basically were expect to come in some place, but we couldn't even finish the program
phf: being able to write pascal in delphi was like the right of passage for moscows programmer boys. i thought i was the shit with my dozen of delphi programmers until good folk at msu cmc unix room gently explained to me that i'm an idiot, told me to install freebsd and gave
a copy of "programming in c language" by podbelsky and fomin. probably one the earliest books i've purchased still on my bookshelf
BingoBoingo: He was in
a physics phd program at one of the St Louis universities before he went to BitPay. At the time he contacted me I think he was still using
a slave name.
mircea_popescu: no reprieve. nic carey used to be
a good guy, he's as scummy as any scumbag now. this is his doing, and not my problem.
BingoBoingo: "@petertoddbtc Why
a /dev/ and not
a call to the kernel for such matters? @EliteRaspberrie @dchest @zooko"
thestringpuller: didn't know if they committed to like
a mac branch of gpg or something or its just all gui shit
thestringpuller: trinque: i installed it to use the command line tools. it's kinda akin to installing xcode to have clang to run
a gcc like thing...
trinque: thestringpuller: I don't see the need to bolt
a mac gui to gpg
mircea_popescu: "I've mentioned this countless times but I think it's obvious that true consensus should be coming from the largest, decentralized group in the Bitcoin space: its users around the world." << how the fuck is
a bunch of circlejerking derps, who don't even REALISE that google's been feeding them results tailored to their own stupidity for
a decade, who think wikipedia is
a source of knowledge and whose enjoyment mostly co
trinque: mircea_popescu: it does seem to be
a sort of suicidality
shinohai: It seems
a little too complicated to do what it does.
mircea_popescu: i wonder, incidentally, how, when or if will the us-style feminist conceptualize that her notions of gender identity and female rights imposes
a significant cost on the community, and as
a result ensures
a) its downfal and b) the mass rape of most females and some males dumb enough to have participated, deserved, as spoils of war.
BingoBoingo: Aztalan (modeling on Sinaloa) is not the "Homicide da Union" but
a business like any other government.
mircea_popescu: the reason isis is such
a problem is that they're not even comparable, but homologuous.
trinque: BingoBoingo: haha, perhaps I still suffer under the delusion that Texas has
a future
BingoBoingo: Though if in texas this fall it may make sense for you trinque to sell pecans you find to Chinese Bitcoin miners to build good will and
a full wallet
mircea_popescu: trinque if nbothing else, autumn's
a great time to go tyhere.
BingoBoingo: Nah there were non stupids earlier. I read this Trilema thing
a few times.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo ya, they're not ear-bitingly stupid, which is
a non-qntra first
mircea_popescu: incidentally, today's discussion of the 1% ratchet should, if nothing else, serve as
a burning icon of how exactly consensus is sought.
pete_dushenski: 'virtual mining' blog. same kids who pitted me against roger ver
a week or two back.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "Ultimately, Szabo, Dushenski, Mircea Popescu and Garzik agree that tampering with the block size will only make the blockchain heavy and insecure. “The biggest challenge ahead isn’t “bringing Bitcoin to the people” or some such nonsense, it’s in maintaining
a sufficient number of nodes to relay and verify transactions. This is challenging issue that has yet to be fully addressed,” explained Dushenski."
pete_dushenski: explained by Pete Dushenski, an author at Qntra and Contravex, the Bitcoin blockchain is like
a city and the height of its walls is the network’s hashrate."
pete_dushenski: "Cryptographer and digital currency researcher Nick Szabo, who many believe to be the real identity behind Satoshi Nakamoto, has stated that
a rapid block size increase is “
a huge security risk” and “
a reckless act to be performing on
a $4 billion system.” Szabo made the remarks as part of the ongoing debate over the Bitcoin block size, which continues to draw in major players from across the community. As
trinque: I'm going to live among the lovers of capitalism for
a while again, and I'll see whether the weather here was actually worth it
trinque: incidentally I'm moving the fuck back to texas in
a couple weeks :D
trinque: would've been useful in yesterday's conversation with
a female about how no, Hillary getting in (aside from anything she might do) would itself be
a glorious step forward
trinque: damn, I need to start using progre as
a slur
mircea_popescu: About
a subjugated plain, among its desperate copies slain,
pete_dushenski: montaigne had
a bit about this in his essay 'of cruelty'
mircea_popescu: should be
a biannual casualty. the russians did more to make f1 respectable than any english speaker since 1994.
mircea_popescu: that the stupidity discounted as broken
a century ago is still the state of the art for these people should concern them.
assbot: Logged on 17-08-2015 18:45:25; punkman: "That the community communication channels, the repositories, and any other likewise bitcoin assets, are public property and owned by the community as
a whole, not any one single individual nor
a very small group of people. All steps must be taken to allow full access to every individual to these assets and to reduce fully or to the absolute minimum any and all barriers to any and all access of these
a BingoBoingo: Not to mention the coinfire people who started
a "premium" subscription deal and stopped posting
BingoBoingo: Like
a taint. It should be readily visible, but the scrotum is in the way.
mircea_popescu: who, very far from being unrepentant shitsacks, are really nice and good and everything. just, whenevere they leav to make
a new one, SOMEONE keeps bringing some sacked shit and throwing it everywhere.
mircea_popescu: the solution to "We're stupid" is to make ....
A NEW COUNTRY!!!!
mircea_popescu: "Our Dozens Of #Linux #Benchmark #Systems Still Burning Around 3000 kWh
A Month"
pete_dushenski: imagine my surprise when i picked up
a new '27 inch' monitor last night at it was 30 inches
BingoBoingo: Seriously. WHat's so complicated about
a dot of Ameracium.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: yea it was OOM. Added
a swap file based on mod6 advice and it's building now.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform except it's not theirs, they prolly lifted it from one of the military texts of the 40s, and if you're
a company selling colorizer glasses why the fuck would you want people NOT to "steal" your dumb diagnosios shit
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: scoopbot_revived have
a website aggregator?
mircea_popescu: couldn't just fucking put
a bunch of pics up and go "this one is 9 thius one is 5"
jurov: dunno why it evoked imagery of
a wallet with public key outside, private key inside of foreskin
assbot: Mike owns
a little more than 100 BTC. What incentive do the other Bitcoin Core developers have to improve the system? : bitcoinxt ... (
http://bit.ly/1NoN4Nl )