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mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> but this brings us back to the question of whether mr s has ~intellectual authority~ << intellectual authority is
a very simple thing in capitalism. see it at work in how the "blockchain size increase" was tranched : once someone says "this is how much it costs", the derps willing to talk were separated from the people willing to pay.
mircea_popescu: (plenty of fish being the 5th or so dating site sold in
a decade, which "Dating site" is the twelfth or so wheel on the social media band wagon)
mircea_popescu: in any case, as
a fun tidbit : the 2010 tesla ipo, first us carmaker ipo since ww2, came to half the recently reported plenty of fish sale
mircea_popescu: the alternative was also unpalatable tho. you don't want to engage in
a bidding war with the dying gm/ford thing for their lasty remaining shred of relevancy
decimation: you could also burn 'heavy fuel oil' in theory, but that's not
a terribly great idea in
a high reliablity application
mats: >
A kerosene-based fuel, JP-8 is projected to remain in use at least until 2025. It was first introduced at NATO bases in 1978. Its NATO code is F-34.
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes they produce cars, and the model s sold
a whopping... 75k units
trinque: I've seen
a great many Solar City fliers around, speaking of Musk.
mircea_popescu: never actually supported anyone worth
a squat and is now ~broke
mircea_popescu: romania has
a bunch of these "intreprinzatori de carton", ie, cardboard entrepreneurs. one notable case (currently in jail) got to keep ~2bn worth of romanian govt money in 1989, on condition of supporting his friends.
mircea_popescu: he's the business world equivalent of
a russian prison whore.
mircea_popescu:
a man batting < 1% is certainly not possessed of
a clue in the field.
decimation: honestly elon musk strikes me as
a highbrow scammer
mircea_popescu: there is good reason to build
a universal engine into
a tank intended for 1950s style attreition war.
decimation: well,
a turbine can burn anything. but it's true that if you are burning raw crude it will foul your turbine and require much more maintenance
TomServo: In other news, I noticed this blurb on the OpenBSD octeon page today: "In June 2015 USB support was added which finally allowed installing to local disk on machines lacking
a CF slot."
mircea_popescu: putting gasoline in
a diesel engine is not unlike putting crude oil in
a tar or coal plant.
decimation: sure, if you don't give
a shit about nasty emissions
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i've passed up opportunities to own
a truck quite like that, on account of having nowhere to keep it << Truck like that keeps itself
decimation: but that dish would cost
a couple $ mil easy
decimation: it's odd they have such
a massive dish too
decimation: well, that office doesn't look like
a very big data center
decimation: employing "ACM" which apparently switches between 4psk and 16 qam, which would allow
a gross throughput of approx 60-120 megabit/sec
decimation: asciilifeform: the northern two dishes appear to be pointed toward
a heading of 107 degrees (true)
mats: "I believe that we are in
a post-hacker world ... We should strive to be professionals, making the Internet
a safer place rather than exposing vulnerabilities that can be leveraged by criminals and terrorists. This is why I'm going to encourage you to attend professional security conferences like Black Hat, RSA, SANS and others"
BingoBoingo: mats: Phuctor broke 95. The duplicate modulus is
a different kind of warning than broken
BingoBoingo: popmechanic: Build GPG, preferably
a 1.4.x series version and do the key generation thing again
mats: popmechanic: piling on
a bit here, but i suggest running it through Phuctor,
a service that attempts to factor keys with weak moduli --
http://nosuchlabs.com trinque: eh if it was generated in
a browser it's still unsafe
popmechanic: Apparently they just offer email addresses? Not sure, first time I’ve used the service. I totally understand and am prepared to agree with
a predjudice against
a service like this, because they’re going to end up sitting on private keys. But it’s optional, and actually
a pretty handy way to manage
a few aspects of PGP management.
assbot: Searching pgp.mit.edu for key with fingerprint: 48802F831BAFC232A26C974A0DA5926BC6E7BDCF. This may take
a few moments.
BingoBoingo: popmechanic: Sounds like
a solid plan. Probably would be prudent to register. The you can self voice to ask questions. WHen asking questions you will probably get links which will lead you to the golden six months of logs to read.
mircea_popescu: there is no structural way to scoure
a message outside of it.
ascii_field: so mircea_popescu would run
a festering heap of shit like bitcoin 0.1, so long as it were signed with satoshi ?
mircea_popescu: but as things stand today, after two years of idiocy from the stooge camp, your doubts would be
a weak minority even without it.
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2015 21:39:10; mircea_popescu: because
a ship sinking is stil lthe worst time to do research
ascii_field a little confused. possibly from too much x86 asm today
mircea_popescu: "orthodoxy" is such
a laughingstock people'd just switch with
a sigh of relief.
mircea_popescu: but in actual fact the usg idiots have done such
a good job at burying themselves, that it likely wouldn't even be needed, today.
mircea_popescu: normally the switchover from prototype to actual product might have needed
a little prodding, so reserve funds make sense, yes.
mircea_popescu: the satoshi hoard poses very little threat to bitcoin as is. the real threat is, an ~ACTUAL~ bitcoin client emerging, that's thje actual son of the original, not
a bastardized clump of nonsense.
assbot: Logged on 15-07-2015 02:55:29; asciilifeform: ag3nt_zer0: i don't recall mircea_popescu ever devoting
a whole article to specifically that one. his position, iirc, is 'satoshi lost the keys'
mats: well, yeah. its
a hard problem
mircea_popescu: doesn't this prove without
a doubt that half the bugs were left behind ?
mircea_popescu: "During the following 24 hour period, our CRS was able to identify vulnerabilities in 65 of those programs and rewrite 94 of them to eliminate bugs built in their code. This proves, without
a doubt, that it is not only possible but achievable to automate the actions of
a talented software auditor."
mircea_popescu: because
a ship sinking is stil lthe worst time to do research
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i think actually curtis yarvin is
a very fine example of what's the problem with derps "reviewing the whole history"
trinque: ftr I listened to the talk; the way the man thinks is
a perfect representative of
a mind which makes incremental changes based on "real world pragmatism" without ever reviewing the whole history of the field and designing from that perspective.
mircea_popescu: in short, unpalatable as this is, im afraid it'd be
a field where no formal examination is possible.
mircea_popescu: this is universally
a bad habit anyway. heck, not doing THAT is even in the rules, such as they are.
mats: if you hate something, thats fine, but i expect specific and reasoned judgment; its well and good to despise node.js, or javascript, or c++, but i catch
a funny smell in here when folks more or less coopt the opinions of their perceived betters
☟︎ nubbins`: <+mats> because every technical person i have ever met with this attitude has turned out to know
a lot less than they believe they did <<< those who think they know X have those who know X outnumbered hundreds of millions to one
mircea_popescu: 't ya ?!), the result is
a lot of obnoxious, self-centered, lazy twerps.
mircea_popescu: anyway. historically there's no impact. for many years teachers soundly and loudly despised their pupils. this resulted in
a large mass of insecure, neurotic schmucks, freud fodder. for some years now teachers loudly and perhaps soundly love their pupils. outside of
a few cases of coabitation which are apparently
a criminal offense for some contorted reason (what sense does it make, you asked them to love the kids didn
mats: because every technical person i have ever met with this attitude has turned out to know
a lot less than they believe they did
mats: and here is why: i don't think its possible to be
a good reverse engineer when you approach odd design choices with contempt rather than curiousity.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: he had
a slide on how Bitcoin solves the Byzantine general's problem
ascii_field: think of the fella who first loaded own spoodge onto
a microscope slide.
mircea_popescu:
a rare enough trait, which is why periods of abundance do not increase the population.
mircea_popescu: ironically, half the time this happens in response to someone asking b-
a to stop being so radically self-centered.
mircea_popescu: well, the role of b-
a in most people's lives at this point is i suppose this critical if at times forcible examination of mental habits and automatisms they hold dear unexamidely.
ascii_field: 'who said lawyer cannot be an anarchist? must
a doctor love disease?' (eben moglen, rms's lawyer)
mircea_popescu: as best i can discern atm,
a curiosity steeped in burning hate is by far the best approach when dealing with maggot swamps.
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2015 15:54:23; mats: ya'll need to cool it with the hate bandwagons, curiousity about how things work is
a superior and more palatable approach
BingoBoingo: <assbot> Logged on 16-07-2015 14:21:09; asciilifeform: also, learned that the 'EXCEPTION: St12out_of_range CInv::GetCommand() type=3 unknown in ProcessMessages()' often found in therealbitcoin log comes from phoundation nodes sending 'bloom filter' command,
a turd only they support << From my limited understanding it isn't Phoundation nodes, but SPV shit running Hearnia's BitcoinJ doing that
mircea_popescu: anyway. the claim is not that the original code is bad as in, bad penmanship. the claim is that the original code is no good as in, not sane design. this is consistent with
a prototype and not particularly reflective on the capacity of the author.
mircea_popescu: the big problem intel faces is that in
a world where you can get
a billion dollars for free just for being where the pellet landed in iraq,
mod6: << nuts huh << off of
a Tiny, with 1 BON!! that's one for the books
mircea_popescu: should insta-ban
a node sending that, just waste of bw.
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2015 14:21:09; asciilifeform: also, learned that the 'EXCEPTION: St12out_of_range CInv::GetCommand() type=3 unknown in ProcessMessages()' often found in therealbitcoin log comes from phoundation nodes sending 'bloom filter' command,
a turd only they support
Naphex: Will be launching
a non x-rated Xotika.TV spin-off called otika.tv. For whatever people wanna stream that doesn't need lots of disclaimers ;]
thestringpuller: 0.5.3.1 nodes are sleeper cells atm too, (vis-
a-vis ascii's node being recognized by bitnodes.io)
danielpbarron: i think much of the issue is solved with BingoBoingo's patch that lets 0.5.3 bitcoin.conf have
a line defining the minimum tx fee for relaying