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mats: anyway not really
a productive discussion, i don't enjoy thai food but i recognize it takes skill
mats: sure. on the other hand, you are
a white man, and server or chef might choose to whitewash the meal to appeal to some sense of your palette
mircea_popescu: mats while food is obviously
a personal matter, whether one has legit or not legit X food should be verifiable experimentally neh ?
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 17:17:56; BingoBoingo: tldr: Pool implements
a replace by fee patch, derps herp because it means People can double spend before the transaction is committed to
a block!
mats: can't, food is
a personal matter. you don't like what you don't like. cultural context notwithstanding
mircea_popescu: this shit redditards pull where they go about blathering for three months and then pretend like nothing happened and questions can be asked as if just discovered may work on reddit, but it'll give all of them
a busted lip irl.
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 10:54:47; wyrdmantis: I was asked if there is
a "defense" plan to "isolate" the Bitcoin XT nodes or something similar. I thought this is
a non-issue for you guys...
mircea_popescu: cazalla that said,
a chinese guy had
a decent restaurant
a mile from my place in ro (actually, conference went there). guy made some incredible baked eggplant
kakobrekla: they are
a chinas copy of some akg model
mircea_popescu: somehow "if you made
a business you don't own that business", yet "if you have
a pair of tits it's your pair of tits"
ascii_field: i put on
a 30k set of electrostatic phones in
a linguistics lab. air piles to ears instead of wires. still meh.
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 04:20:12; decimation:
a company like sennheiser makes actual headphones, with specifications and everything
mircea_popescu: the only way for the hundred million idiots to not impose their britney spears over anything and everything else is for the hundred million to not have as much as
a single cent disposable income.
ben_vulpes: oh because
a wallet is really
a collection of the inputs that
a key or set of keys can sign on and so
a 'wallet' in the satoshi client parlance is actually not back=up-able if in use?
ascii_field: i'd like to see someone present
a coherent argument for the negative here
mircea_popescu: "some reason" => "let's keep changes to
a needed minimum"
ben_vulpes: re: accounts thread and data structures, this imho is why the change addr behavior mneeds
a zappin
ascii_field: '
A lot more men than women choose to do seemingly irrational things such as become petty criminals, fly homebuilt helicopters, play video games, and keep tropical fish as pets (98 percent of the attendees at the American Cichlid Association convention that I last attended were male). Should we be surprised that it is mostly men who spend 10 years banging their heads against an equation-filled blackboard in hopes of
mircea_popescu: lack of women in tech is not
a problem of women or of tech, but merely of
a bunch of dorks going around looking for women in tech in the garbage. well duh, why'd they be in the garbage ?
mircea_popescu: and what
a chicklet does is "piuie", ie, "makes the piu sound"
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 02:03:34; asciilifeform: 'The PiuPiu oversharing site allows users to create PiuPiu accounts and post 140-character messages. The federal government wants PiuPiu to surveil user activity on the site, by archiving any posts that match certain patterns outlined in
a national security letter. Subject to the nondisclosure constraints of the letter, PiuPiu may not inform anyone of the surveillance request.'
mircea_popescu: generally, most infrastructure in all times and places operates at
a loss, which is why commodification is not particularly welcomed by business people, which is how you get apple.
ascii_field: and it is not hard to establish that
a heavy share of miners operates at
a loss
mircea_popescu: yes, for the special case where you're running
a ponzi equal to the monetary mass.
mircea_popescu: because at that time, had he not also run
a "buy new coinbases from miners at 110% "business" on the side, people would have noticed they're being paid with their own coins.
decimation: it might be confusing, but he points out that
a 747 costs about $25k per hour for everything
mircea_popescu: decimation then it's
a not very well written/researched article ?
decimation: well, you also gotta realize that when air force one is flying, there is usually
a fleet of other aircraft for car, plane, etc
trinque: I'm not
a rich guy or head of state, but seems either merits better shuffling around than what I use
mircea_popescu: trinque im still in shock someone proposed 7k
a seat as outrageous. i must be buying in all the wrong places.
mircea_popescu: i think modern eyes still understand bulgaria's
a shithole.
ascii_field: i've been reading an autobiography of hans baur, best known as hitler's pilot. he spoke of various folks he had flown, and described how king of bulgaria flew part of
a trip with him, then caught an ordinary train
decimation: greenspun: "(compare to about $25,000 per flight hour to charter (source)). If American Airlines spent this much during the 7-hour flight from London to Boston it would cost $1.44 million for the trip in operating cost (i.e., not including the capital cost of the aircraft) or about $3500 per passenger (i.e.,
a round-trip coach ticket couldn?t be sold for less than about $7000 plus taxes and fees)."
trinque: they take
a skinny white chick and feed her into the machine every other year
decimation: I thought it was well known that anything to do with 'popular music' is essentially nothing more than
a marketing chumpatron
decimation: add
a few ounces of metal to the cheapass plastic; charge $200
mircea_popescu: more importantly, how do we know it's not "buncha anon hags are driving the star-fluid movement, wherein everyone thinks they're
a star"
ascii_field:
a usual gambit is to try to 'luxurify the ordinary' by getting folks used to
a crippled item, then re-introducing the missing bits
mircea_popescu: decimation no no, there was
a shitty series of 486 processors
decimation: mmx is
a streaming extension to x86 for processing floating point
mircea_popescu: there was
a huge cost to, basically, gavinize computers around that time. it's how "mmx" processors came about, and "streamlined" mobos with no batteries etc.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: this thing started life as
a winblows-ce (yes) graphical terminal
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> turned out, it lacks
a bios battery << oh i recall those shitty boards.
trinque: I have no delusions about having
a generally useful computer this decade
decimation: it's almost dead predictable every time
a new tech cycle comes around: usg spends $bil on 'new tech that will save lots of money', fails any gains, actual people working in the field are displaced by carpetbaggers
ascii_field: in the words of orlov, 'try asking
a different question, to which there may be an answer'
ascii_field: there ~is not
a good answer~ to this question
mod6: trinque: need
a link?
shinohai: @ trinque I am
a dumb fuck that knows nothing about gentoo. I wish I could so I could slap Luke Jr in da face.
ascii_field: thing is
a turd, from the black-box cpu (all 'arm' are builds of opaque licensed blob from uk) to the 'systemd' shit ecosystem that will run on top
ascii_field: to finish the story, i dug for data sheets for the 'ali' chipset found therein, in hopes of affixing something like
a 'cmos battery' - and found, unsurprisingly, nothing
ascii_field: i bought
a spiffy-looking fanless 486 box some weeks ago, for playing gamez
ascii_field: the only thing more useless than
a modern opaque turd is
a 1990s opaque turd that no one is ~even working on~ reverse-engineering today
shinohai: I just need to find
a way to think around it.
trinque: yeah, I'm thinking this would be
a bitcoind dev/build box
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 20:55:44; trinque: mod6: maybe; I'd like to see
a standard piece of hardware recommended at some point
shinohai: I have
a shitty laptop that came with Win8, I wouldn't trade it for
a Mac even if you added
a few btc to the mix
trinque: mod6: maybe; I'd like to see
a standard piece of hardware recommended at some point
☟︎ mod6: <+trinque> no, that's precisely the right response << i wonder if its easier to just tell mac people to fire up
a vm of linux/bsd and just use gpg inside of that?
trinque: I'll happily lead
a noob through using the proper tools, but wont bother with someone who refuses to use the proper tools
trinque: shinohai: that macgpg thing seems like
a wad of unnecessary crap
shinohai: @ thestringpuller i had
a pm from
a guy using
a mac last night using gpg on
a mac (gui) I couldn't help because I know dick about macs.
thestringpuller: I suspekt the second you put priv keys on
a mac they go straight ot the secret iCloud.
mircea_popescu: may be
a bridge too far, too thin, too short and too fallen in the water too long ago.
assbot: Logged on 18-06-2015 21:31:46; cazalla: ah i think she's attractive, just has that mousy look.. no cocks either! maybe mp could learn
a thing or two from you :P
ascii_field: as
a boy, i saw
a '80s sov. film where
a couple split up their possessions with gigantic laser
ascii_field: if it could just as easily contain 1g as 1mg of nicotine, it would be
a suicide device
ascii_field: (for one thing, if it did, you would typically be dead after
a few pulls of the roulette trigger)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: iirc the author of 'camels' did investigate what the 'shooters in dark' had in common - and in all cases, it was an inability to comprehend that the machine is entirely blind to human intent, and to build meaningful mental models of purely mechanistic systems as
a class
mircea_popescu: ascii_field to round up what i mean, class
A are perhaps "the shooters in the dark". which means, they have an idea what they want, and programming [as taught] fails to satisfy [which is the fault of the teachers].
mircea_popescu: necessarily. the latter propose to select from the set given, the former have
a preformed set they compare to.