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mircea_popescu: it's just
a rougher implementation of the "verify 1 in x" concept.
ascii_field: for some reason i inescapably think of those chinese thumb drives with terabytes of space (how? just loops around
a 128M thing)
trinque: mircea_popescu: yes, most web code looks like
a venezuelan shanty town, parts scrounged from all over, haphazardly bolted or taped in
mircea_popescu: my mental notes were more on the lines of "o look, it's clear that the author understands what his code does" and "o look, there's actually
a reason for this stuff to be here"
trinque: I'm busy crafting
a shit-spelunking suit out of parenscript for future web endeavors
ascii_field: it was written in great haste, and
a little crufty, yes
mircea_popescu: ascii_field listen, can you add
a json for the stats which outputs url of newest found pore ?
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for liquidassets with note: new blood
liquidassets: danielpbarron It seems I'm only in
a position to lead, there are no equals around me to be in my WoT, maybe 1 or 2 people tops
liquidassets: danielpbarron it was
a unique situation here where there were
a few dealers who were holding lots of btc from sr
liquidassets: I've ONLY got my bitcoin from Coinbase and maybe
a few hundred thousand satoshi from mycelium deals
danielpbarron: makes more sense that the dealers want to *get* the bitcoin as
a way to deal with some of their undocumented wealth
liquidassets: Ha! how would they indicate? not if they're
a very good drug dealer
liquidassets: I'd still like to have
a bank, but the WoT seems very powerful, unstopable.
trinque: hm, nevermind, that's not even
a good run
trinque: eh, it had
a good run, but the golden age is long since past and was far too short
liquidassets: what is
a measure of
a country? mircea_popescu around?
☟︎ mike_c: I used to use it as
a hot wallet. keep
a bit there for access from anywhere. never more than i was willing to lose
ascii_field: why would anyone let btc sit in
a 'gox' for
a millisecond longer than necessary ?
liquidassets: made
a larger sized investment recently, which seems to have triggered it
liquidassets: sometimes I buy
a few small things using their interface like
a trezor or mycelium entropy
ben_vulpes: just take the magic digits that identify me as
a ("loyal") subject of the crown
ben_vulpes: i am opening
a "health savings account"
hanbot: cazalla, things go bad in the tropics like you wouldn't believe. i am half surprised to find dry folded clothes still there
a few days later.
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 08:04:26; mircea_popescu: forget the thousand, take the hundred. lazar meir, since we've discussed him earlier, had some very strange ideas about good, and constructed
a very crazy united states. forcing
a point it could be said that he is the architect of today's woes in the hinterlands, exactly like lincoln is the architect of the black poverty and racial tensions.
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 06:12:05; mircea_popescu: in sadder news,
a reasonably recent 8 core server is doing block verification at the rate of 28 seconds per.
mats: fun fact: creators of the BLE spec published it with known vulnerabilities, e.g: "None of the pairing methods provide protection against
a passive eavedropper during the pairing process as predictable or easily established values for TK are used." (BLE Core 4.0, Vol.3, p604)
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 03:39:14; BingoBoingo: In other news, training to get into shape for boxing training is progressing nicely. 80 pushups yesterday... May be able to try
a boxing gym next year. Would be nice if I could line it up with USian exodus
mircea_popescu: meanwhile le chien andalou still stands, or to quote herr orwell... "Clearly, such people are undesirable, and
a society in which they can flourish has something wrong with it."
mircea_popescu: forget the thousand, take the hundred. lazar meir, since we've discussed him earlier, had some very strange ideas about good, and constructed
a very crazy united states. forcing
a point it could be said that he is the architect of today's woes in the hinterlands, exactly like lincoln is the architect of the black poverty and racial tensions.
☟︎ Landgull: Sure, but if we were to be forced to place
a bet on what would be read 1,000 years from now, my bet would go towards the good.
Landgull: Even if the cause is imperceptible, without some skill of maintenance everything crumbles in time. Which book is
a best seller today is likely random and inscrutable, no book would be read 1,000 years after being written without skill.
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 05:47:08; Landgull: I'd rather there were
a safe, sane, stable country where I could go, build
a business, and have
a normal life, but that's not going to exist until btc finishes what it has started.
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 05:42:05; decimation: Landgull: seems like
a high price to pay in terms of years of your life for very thin guarantees
Landgull: But what I mean is this: your argument is
a non-form because the goal posts can always be shifted. If they have
a strategic advantage of any sort, it can be claimed as
a wave. Some strategic advantage will always exist. So the only way
a minority can organize against
a majority without "just riding
a wave" is if they ignore all of their strategic advantages - which would make your supreme good exceedingly foolish. It's like say
Landgull: If one recognizes the value of some asset, such as oil, and uses it to its fullest benefit to gain power, I'd find it hard to successfully argue that it's not
a group coming to power by organizing its ascendency.
Landgull: That only solidifies the argument that the House of Saud is
a minority that came to power by will rather than by riding
a wave.
mircea_popescu: you figure if al pacino makes
a movie for new line cinema, nlc is doing HIM
a favour by this ?
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 05:31:22; Landgull: Ascii:
a kalashnikov in the hands of every resident would achieve the same thing.
Landgull: So I take it you're
a fan of the Assad government, then? Or the House of Saud?
mircea_popescu:
a minority that actually organises its ascendancy over any majority is the supreme good.
Landgull: If
a state of affairs is highly profitable for
a minority at the expense of
a majority, and is maintained via force, I tend to think it's not entirely self-organizing.
Landgull: Sure, but given that we're still in meatspace, one does have to pick
a corner of it, or at least
a corner at any given time.
mircea_popescu: Landgull romania is culturally close to things that no longer exist, not have existed for
a long time. romanian is the closest thing to spoken latin still left around.
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 05:21:16; decimation: the idea that western ukraine exists as
a separate race or language is hilarious
BingoBoingo hates Walmart's move to supercenter's last decade because it cemented scooty puff culture as
a mainstream thing
Landgull: Mircea: out of curiosity, wouldn't Romania be culturally closer to Ukraine than to the USA? I'm curious which of the two you would prefer to live in (or, for that matter, if there's
a place that's better in your mind.)
punkman just saw two of the largest landwhales I've seen in
a while... in one of those tiny Smart cars
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 05:16:13; asciilifeform: Landgull: if they had learned to manufacture so much as an alarm clock, much less airplane or nuke, they would be somewhere on the road to where 'independence' is thinkable outside of
a lunatic asylum
chetty: thin privilege? thats
a parody I hope ...
mircea_popescu: "Thin privilege is uploading
a picture of yourself that takes under 1 minute to render"
BingoBoingo: From what I've read Sinaloa's fortunes have taken
a turn for the worse since their USG connections at the top were revealed
mircea_popescu: the bar to effectual interdiction can be as low as
a dozen armed trained hands.
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 05:10:49; Landgull: Plus, as I said, the USgov owns the UAgov, but unlike the US where the government really effects your life, the government here is
a mass of incompetent bureaucracy without any serious ability to organize anything.
mircea_popescu: "Orangutans are among the most forceful of mammals. Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) exhibited aggression in almost 90 percent of their copulations, including when the females were not resisting.
A possible explanation for aggressive behaviors in primates is that it is
a way for males to train females to be afraid of them and be more likely to surrender to future sexual advances."
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> you confuse two unrelated things. thieves do not steal the brickwork but leave it behind for similar reasons. << And this is the warning flag Ferguson is
a special failure. Theives steal the bricks.
mircea_popescu: i once knew
a guy who deigned to pick up the phone half the time when desperate hot women were calling to beg him to let them come over for
a spell.
Landgull: Sure. And my response is that I expect to dry my laundry on
a clothesline until fiat is dead.
Landgull: Either way,
a couple other people have caught onto similar ideas and have gotten pretty far ahead of me by now, but I put in
a patent app
a while back and with any luck I'll be able to license those out when I get done with it.
Landgull: I'd say if you're dating
a girl who would allow you to not go to something like that, you're dating the wrong woman.
Landgull: Heh. Was
a startup I was working on, using black soldier fly larvae to convert organic waste into biodiesel, fish feed, and fertilizer. Actually got it into Startup Chile, but my business partner refused to go to Chile and cost me the grant.
Landgull: I'm just some guy who found this place
a few weeks ago, read the logs for
a while, and decided that I'd like to join the community here, if it'll have me.
Landgull: As for the rest: if you're in line at
a slaughterhouse, your best move is always to try to get away, even if you risk being shot in the process. Uncertain success is better than certain failure, and life in the US has become so intolerable that I'd rather take my chances with an uncertain future than with
a certain one.
Landgull: I wouldn't be in
a bitcoin channel if I thought that assets
a government can take from you easily were
a good idea. XD
mircea_popescu: if one's forced to pick prolly best pick
a mix, but yeah
Landgull: I don't own real estate in Lviv and won't particularly recommend it as an investment. Though it's probably better than
a US bank account, which I do have.
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 04:27:15; decimation: can also catch
a 7.62 round
Landgull: If
a few dissidents flee, what of it? They were dissidents anyway.
Landgull: It would, though. The US learned from the USSR: you're better off making people believe that you'll be murdered and raped and strangled if you go anywhere and leave the hotel. It keeps people in line much more effectively than
a travel ban would.
mircea_popescu: "we joined bitcoin because we didn't like the banks so please take our bitcoin and put it in
a bank"
mircea_popescu: Landgull the 20mb block is
a transparent attempt by the usg to take control back.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> if one scales shit linarily,
a 20mb block would be verified by this machine in 560 seconds, or just
a shade under 10 minutes << Welcome to my world
mircea_popescu: if one scales shit linarily,
a 20mb block would be verified by this machine in 560 seconds, or just
a shade under 10 minutes
mircea_popescu: in sadder news,
a reasonably recent 8 core server is doing block verification at the rate of 28 seconds per.
☟︎ Vexual: sounds like
a no-brainer
Vexual: like strippers that dont pull
a gun?
Landgull: I'm not trying to claim that this is some kind of paradise, it's absolutely not, and you have to give up
a lot of the "first world" comforts.
Vexual: old school aussie fridge was
a flyscreen
Landgull: Which sounds like
a bad thing, but I'd like to know why it is that chicken rots much faster in Ukraine than in the US...
Vexual: can you get
a good tomato?
Landgull: It was more of
a quip than
a serious comment - but I know
a number of people who spend their time yelling at the box because of what obama/the republicans/the gays/the church did today.
Landgull: And if the western finance system does come crashing down, you're going to be better off in poor countries (granted that you can live like
a local) because they're used to things like that happening. USistan will devolve into utter insanity.
Landgull: I'd rather there were
a safe, sane, stable country where I could go, build
a business, and have
a normal life, but that's not going to exist until btc finishes what it has started.
☟︎ decimation: Landgull: seems like
a high price to pay in terms of years of your life for very thin guarantees
☟︎ Landgull: Same thing with the women. If you go to Ukraine, find English speaking girls, and flash your passport and cash around, you're going to have
a bad day.
Landgull: Decimation: You're imagining that governments in the rest of the world work like the US government. I.E. the laws on the books matter. They can pass
a law saying just about anything they want, but they don't have the means to enforce it and they have
a population that is used to just ignoring government stupidity instead of bending over.
decimation: ^ if ascii wanted to live in
a mut hut, he could do in the us for the same price
decimation: what is your kalash going to do against
a T-72?