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mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'costco', for u.s. folks. sorta like
a meatspace 'amazon prime' << used to shop at their equiv in ro. "selgros".
ag3nt_zer0: it would be cool if readers in this group had
a "Recommended readings" list or something... that would be awesome actually
mircea_popescu: <mats> NATO would also presumably be happy to sell their enemies ammo for the right price << god knows romania has been doing it for
a decade straight.
mircea_popescu: of their time (at their prime, that is), on their own. << in no way did they do this. they merely went around with
a horde of gypsies, chinese, etc. heck, the siege of byzantium used
a hungarian cannonmaster.
mircea_popescu: in other news : i am satisfied that the 363730 fork and the 363730-363736 dead chain contain nothing remarkable from
a "hey guise they switched out the blokchanin" perspective. so i'm letting this rest.
ag3nt_zer0: "While Western mathematicians often claim Western mathematics is universal, anti-racist mathematics and ethnomathematics scholars share the assumption that any given mathematical understanding or practice is
a product of
a particular culture.[4] Scholars such as C. K. Raju have advocated multicultural mathematics, in which different cultures can develop different forms of mathematics."
danielpbarron: funny too because I have tail -f ~/.bitcoin/debug.log going 24/7 but as
a way of monitoring it
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i mean, yes, bitpay is
a usg op << My impression is BitPay is under such constraints because born insufficiently USG, now merely avoiding
a Shreming
trinque: no one ever busted up
a piss-odorous santa ringing his bell outside walmart
trinque: I can toss
a 50 into the goodwill box anonymously, but not BTC
trinque: well I'm not sure, is there
a sort of AML/KYC equivalent for donations?
trinque: these are
a bunch of twitter-posting imbeciles with AKs
trinque: and then held down
a vast empire with
a sane legal system and so on
assbot: Logged on 14-07-2015 22:54:38; trinque: mongols had
a khan
mod6: BingoBoingo: i was kinda thinkin the same thing, could be
a market for someone to just ship
a drive ready to go.
assbot: Logged on 14-07-2015 22:54:23; pete_dushenski: instead they have -dozens- of fiefdoms, all pledging allegiance to an ideology and
a black flag
trinque: that was
a lulzy job; worked on software for those ebay pawn shops
BingoBoingo: Also configure at home seems like
a nice alternative to cpanel dedibortion or vps.
BingoBoingo: Most of these services seem to have
a daily charge for troubleshooting with their KVM adapters
BingoBoingo: Would use to run many-connections bitcoin node plus services, and maybe
a couple static html pages
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well I'm looking at services like this
http://macstadium.com/colo and
a few other options that go down to $25-26, but so far this one has the least objectional terms
trinque: seems otherwise like
a good snag of amd hardware
BingoBoingo getting tempted into
a mac mini by cheap machine spacific colo offers
BingoBoingo contemplating blasphemy and getting
a "late model" mac
trinque: I wonder if
a local tech company went under
trinque: claims it lived in
a climate-controlled data center its whole life
cazalla: "Neither Alexis nor I created reddit to be
a bastion of free speech, but rather as
a place where open and honest discussion can happen: These are very complicated issues, and we are putting
a lot of thought into it." bit of
a contradiction eh
gernika: BingoBoingo I paid roughly 7x for
a similar configuration (new)
trinque: price is
a little oddly low
trinque: seems like
a decent box for bitcoin dev and other projects
pete_dushenski: anyways, i'm off. don't be surprised if this convo makes it into
a post :D
trinque: I had this incredibly vivid dream years ago of
a city which denied access based on some mechanism (undefined in the dream) of verifying identity and relationship to those dwelling within
pete_dushenski: trinque for sure, because those 'westerners' are
a bunch of blinded sheep who could use
a good raping
trinque: and I could still imagine
a world where I don't care
pete_dushenski: and it'll take more than
a generation, or even
a hundred, to change our defaults
trinque: might very well be that something like ISIS will kill
a great many "westerners" in the future
pete_dushenski: under your defensive technology is
a satellite colony orbiting the earth
pete_dushenski: instead they have -dozens- of fiefdoms, all pledging allegiance to an ideology and
a black flag
☟︎ pete_dushenski: trinque i mean hey, if isis were going the centralised route, don't you think they'd have
a king or ruler already ?
phf: ben_vulpes: eventually, aha. i'm not even sure yet that i can repeat the process. for example part of build process is
a script that chooses between gcc-4.6 and clang based on whether it's .c or .mm. the fact that the result links i think is
a miracle
trinque: they're not going to build
a working empire when they're done
decimation: tribalism is in the bones over there, I find it unlikely that
a political entity could centralize power effectively
trinque: isis is
a cargo cult thinking allah will bring them more russian or american weapons if they piss in the wind some more
trinque: let me put it this way: if something doesn't come along that could squash an ISIS in
a moment, that's on us.
pete_dushenski: trinque sorry, you're saying that isis is
a nuisance that'll be wiped out if they get too uppity ??
trinque: I bet central americans had
a great deal of "will" too
trinque: they're
a nuisance and if they become anything more they'll all be killed
pete_dushenski: trinque well, the west's 'science' is
a largely (if not entirely)
a lot of fluff 'epidemiology'
pete_dushenski: it won't take
a generation if the saudi's run out of oil money
decimation: mainly because nobody can convince themselves to give enough of
a shit
decimation: pete_dushenski: not really, it's quite simple, they would fall to
a single marine division if on the field in open battle
trinque: those seem to be perpetually beating war drums against eachother; perhaps ISIS is
a complicating factor in that situation which none want to approach lest they unbalance the former
trinque: I am not
a scholar on the subject, but it seems as an outsider that the major factors are Saudi, Iran and Israel
pete_dushenski: but isis has
a sufficiently powerful 'why' that their soldiers are cheap and oh so very cut throat
pete_dushenski: he could -maybe- throw
a wrench in some up and coming social media app. maybe..
ascii_field: missed as in, was vaguely aware and didn't give
a flying fuck
Adlai: one of those was
a typo
Adlai: exactly. i ratted the guy out in front of the group, it was
a little hilarious
ben_vulpes: phf: didja grunt out
a script or something else i could try?
ascii_field: incidentally, there's never been
a better time to open
a zoo of these
gernika: <+mircea_popescu> by now
a multitude of people have copies, of that chain. << got it. switched to another node and now syncing.
mircea_popescu: but the truth, in general, is that closed systems have
a very short shelf life. you can get away with it for
a matter of years, maybe, if you're very good at managing it. not decades.
ascii_field: if it was written by
a phriend, i would love to see him among our number here.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi where i'd be had b-
a never happened and foundation never happened and etc, trying to make sense of this situation
mircea_popescu: yeah you know what, this work actually made
a difference.
ascii_field: afaik i'm the only one actually running
a public-facing realbitcoinotron
mircea_popescu: ascii_field not fully understood yet, but it seems to exploit
a buffer overflow in their own fucktarded code.
mircea_popescu: relatedly : i am reasonably satisfied the ~950 kb single tx
a few days ago was trying its best to make pre 0.10 clients unable to verify the chain anymore.
mircea_popescu: by now
a multitude of people have copies, of that chain.
ascii_field: perhaps folks who are '! downed' will slide, literally, down
a chute.
trinque: so there is
a central point which can reject the key in the future
trinque: so it is
a centralized problem
assbot: Logged on 14-07-2015 19:56:20; trinque: ascii_field: was imagining
a futuristic city with access controls based on WoT standing in response to chetty's comments about islam and violence