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asciilifeform: think of what just one backroom cocksucking deal with a major microcontroller maker to include hidden miner would have been worth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. chief among them, a poor handling of cooperation.
asciilifeform: but that 0.2% is made of a long list of bad decisions
asciilifeform: partly this is on account of the derpitude of keeping them all in a warehouse, rather than having chumps pay for power
mircea_popescu: do the math, sometime. a miner earns 0.2% or some shit.
asciilifeform: not impossible, but not strictly a matter of 'wanting to' either
asciilifeform: a piece of pluto.
mircea_popescu: or whatever, your hero also bleeds, there's a lengthy cultural history of this idealisation problem.
mircea_popescu: the curse of existence is that it is approachable. just like a tool has its uses, irrespective of a maker's intention.
asciilifeform: it's more of a 'i can lift rocks but not porcupines'
asciilifeform: well that'd be a kind of perverse but technically correct definition of 'will'
funkenstein_: i have found fiat wealth correlates linearly with a broad integral of stupidity
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my contention was that you describe will as a spectrum, perhaps between 'spineless clerk' and 'napoleon'
funkenstein_: there is a special space in the hilbert space of stupidity for those who think intelligence can be well described with a scalar
mircea_popescu: so is a guy paralised on half his body half an athlete ?
asciilifeform: other thing is that the meat brain is not a von neumann machine, and has specific circuits for certain problems. it is possible to walk around with those damaged and others - functional
asciilifeform: will is not a scalar. perelman has will, mircea_popescu has will, i have will, and napoleon had will, and comparing magnitudes alone is rank nonsense
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well, the impression i get is that you think 'will' is a scalar
asciilifeform: decimation: and can't do this without a proggy that opens sockets ?
decimation: likely the rtc has a more stable clock than the 2ghz clock that runs your cpu
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's still a very good clock by the looks of it.
shinohai: I got a really old SATA with debian wheezy on it
mircea_popescu: like humans, actually. either die as a youthful ape, or else get cancer, or else... age 150
asciilifeform: i have a 15 yr-old one that's still going
mircea_popescu: you'd be surprised. those damned things... i've had one for a decade.
mircea_popescu: yeah it's good for a decade, since we have ~2 hours to spare
mircea_popescu: that's a spiffy clock.
asciilifeform: 'brother can you spare a dime'
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shinohai: I am sorry to report that I have not yet received an email from trilema with a deposit addy
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shinohai: whelp I hve a pogo now. A blank canvas, if you will.
mircea_popescu: yes there ios a known workaround. has been known since 1985. FUCK UNICODE.
asciilifeform: it isn't a gentoo-specific thing
mircea_popescu: "we will stop deliberately adding holes to these versions aftyer this date, and you are please asked to upgrade because we won't be sending patches a quarter afterwards, either"
mircea_popescu: and yet, "we do not feel compelled to denounce the person who added this hole in our codebase, and call for a boycott from everyone on it against their sorry ass. because, fundamentally... it's us."
asciilifeform: (though it's been a while since i looked at the turdation's tree - perhaps they do ?)
mircea_popescu: "During certificate verification, OpenSSL (starting from version 1.0.1n and 1.0.2b) will attempt to find an alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain fails. An error in the implementation of this logic can mean that an attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf certificate to act as a CA and "issue"
punkman: "However, a Fitbit device Risley was wearing told a different story, the affidavit shows. The device, which monitors a person’s activity and sleep, showed Risley was awake and walking around at the time she claimed she was sleeping."
williamdunne: Cheap Romanian labour for #b-a factory?
kakobrekla: i have a soldering station, but no pogos. ☟︎
asciilifeform: lobbes: we don't even have a b-a restaurant yet.
lobbes: heh, we need a b-a factory.
asciilifeform: than straight intravenous injection from ntp into a machine with no clock to speak of
asciilifeform: but overall i'm much less allergic to the idea of letting ntp adjust a running clock by a percent now and then
asciilifeform: could probably do several hundred in a weekend, if they were sent to me disassembled
asciilifeform: (it also needs a capacitor or li battery on the power input to the rtc)
asciilifeform: gotta think of a way to sanity-check it
asciilifeform: ntp, on other hand, is a pants-down unauthenticated plaintext (for reasons explained previously, this cannot really be helped)
asciilifeform: i believe that it is wrong for a large network of bitcoin nodes to depend on a usg institution.
jurov: if it is not specific, how it can be a cause? ☟︎
asciilifeform: than dread of a specific boojum
asciilifeform: jurov: gotta understand, my allergy to ntp is more of a 'reason from causes, not from purposes'-theorem application
decimation: reportedly it was a passive beam splitter
asciilifeform: we launch the pogos, and suddenly 'ntp is obsolete, dontchaknow,' here is a new replacement by poettering, 85% consensus1111!!!1111!!! within weeks, plug pulled on ntp servers ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 20-02-2015 03:34:05; mircea_popescu: In addition, anti-fascism was never to have as cheap as today. Previously, he could cost you your life, today it costs no more than lip service among peers - and heard to this, the exclusive circle of the upright, decent, brave. The fighters against law form the peerage of enlightened society. Or even a shot polemical: Here is an indulgence trade takes place; the moral superiority can be acquired sim
asciilifeform: it won't happen every day, naturally. just when 'national s333k000r1ty' requires a stinkbomb dropped on the network - to keep a certain tx from getting relayed, say
assbot: Logged on 09-07-2015 08:41:10; jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-07-2015#1194359 so there should be plenty examples of usg diddling a traffic on the backbone, could you please post one?
gribble: Error: "bc,tslb" is not a valid command.
thestringpuller: ;;later tell mircea_popescu On Qntra you said, "This is a resource war and you people are poor." Well some poor redditard was venting this morning and in his rage said, "I wish I had the money to...do xyz". Ironic how denial turns to anger, almost like stages of grief.
punkman: "Berlusconi, 78, will not have to serve the sentence as the statute of limitations expires later this year, well before a final ruling will have been reached on appeal." ☟︎
punkman: BingoBoingo: http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=2623&pr=1 << is that part of a series or one-off?
BingoBoingo: shinohai: If you must link to reddit no np.reddit links, for they are a trap to preserve their platform
jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-07-2015#1194359 so there should be plenty examples of usg diddling a traffic on the backbone, could you please post one? ☝︎☟︎☟︎
decimation: he decides to be a hobo for fun I guess
decimation: I'm watching a youtube of some uk guy who decided to hop freight trains in canada
BingoBoingo: Continental Europe had a head start
Vexual: you mean like a cinemagraphical error?
gribble: Error: "g" is not a valid command.
mircea_popescu: well... keynesian logic. if consumption drives production then clearly the economy's never been ion a better shape
mircea_popescu: actually this could be a film.
mircea_popescu: 50 acres and a mule, if you swear to never go to town
decimation: I think "absolutely trivial" is a bit of an overstatement
mircea_popescu: why the fuck do these schmucks need as much as a cigarette butt ?
asciilifeform: i'll bite. what else will perma-wedge if usg clock moves 2h into the past for a day ?
mircea_popescu: this is a $100 dollar gift, why make it to idiots.
decimation: ^ would create a choke point of course
decimation: yeah that's a major sticking point
decimation: better yet, build one in the shape of a power strip (with wifi) and install in local starbucks
decimation: asciilifeform does have a good point, it seems like a 'sealed system' would have a wider application
mircea_popescu: "so you'd like to learn more about bitcoin ? here's a pogo and here's a webpage, make it work"
asciilifeform: is this such a difficult concept ?
BingoBoingo: <decimation> the only reason leap seconds are even a thing is because clocks have become more precise than the sun << No, it is because Sun and Cesium disagree
mircea_popescu: no, the thing they spent a trillion to build missiles and subs
asciilifeform: who, as far as we know, did not actually have a working electron cannon
funkenstein_: yeah. the mayans had a better system
assbot: Logged on 09-07-2015 03:18:58; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-07-2015#1194158 << bitcoin actually has enough power structure to enforce a uniform rejection of usg leap second.
mircea_popescu: "do what we tell you - it's a useful habit for later"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ... << the going rate in that market is a few hundred. << I read the original message as hope for a winning "ticket"
assbot: Logged on 09-07-2015 03:17:08; mod6: asciilifeform: what did you do to bypass this, i thought i read you reconnected with -addnode or did you just /wait/ for a long period?
mircea_popescu: decimation if this facetious "precision" were the point, it wouldn't be t here and t+1 hour a km away.
decimation: funkenstein_: sure, but note that humanity has a pretty solid informal standard going, has for a long time
decimation: the only reason leap seconds are even a thing is because clocks have become more precise than the sun
assbot: This is why medicine is not a liberal profession, but a servile career on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1D2i8dP )
mircea_popescu: the original leap second is http://trilema.com/2015/this-is-why-medicine-is-not-a-liberal-profession-but-a-servile-career/#selection-229.0-229.213
mircea_popescu: this is a power not to be neglected in the slightest.