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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, cazalla and i : bringing wtf to fb normies since a while ago.
mircea_popescu: that is the point. to fall from grace there must be a grace first. there isn't.
mircea_popescu: is it related to his tooth brushing habits ? is it a function of being loose with women ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-05-2015#1147788 << this is exactly irrelevant for anyone in the past. obviously, if trotsky ended up with a pickaxe in the head, it then follows that trotsky ended up with a pickaxe in the head. what of this is germane to any discussion of trotsky in any positive approach ? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: well sure, i guess chicken fda has a diff take
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the idea is, that e coli is commensal or symbiotic, depending on your perspective, whereas salmonella is pathogenic << unless you are a chicken or turtle... then salmonella is just normal poop bacteria
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding you can make a steel sword and behead someone
decimation: apparently this comes from a court case in the 1970's
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> honestly, if i was seriously contemplating living in the us, i'd seriously consider getting a life sentence. that way they're stuck paying for it all << Get yourself Bariatric, then get the life sentence for maximum cost infliction
mircea_popescu: become a literary critic.
mircea_popescu: honestly, if i was seriously contemplating living in the us, i'd seriously consider getting a life sentence. that way they're stuck paying for it all ☟︎
decimation: he could 'buy' 'a house' though
mircea_popescu: what do you suppose is the difference between this life in prison and that life in prison anyway ? not like he was gonna buy himself a house.
cazalla: t-bone and chorizo and then a couple persimmons for breakfast.. i am so snake full
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-05-2015#1147755 << seems adequate. "you mean kid in a dorm somewhere dared do something we disagree with on an ideological level ?!!!1?!?!?!" ☝︎
mircea_popescu: "Kipnis was not allowed to have an attorney present during her interview with Title IX investigators, she writes, but she was allowed to bring along another faculty member as a "support person" provided that the person she brought did not speak. That support person later discussed Kipnis' situation at a "Faculty Senate" meeting—and has subsequently been accused of, yes, committing a Title IX violation."
cazalla: some coincidence a bunch of folk on /r/bitcoin get together to stress test the same day gavin threatens to take his ball/bat and go home with hearn
cazalla: well they probably don't have anything older than a few days anyway
cazalla: check it out, some people are stress testing the network to make the argument for a blocksize increase https://blockchain.info/new-transactions ☟︎
trinque: I've asked numerous times for a list of URLs people want whitelisted.
mircea_popescu: gheorghe gheorghiu dej went from common criminal to head of romanian state in a decade
cazalla: so if anyone can enlighten me.. what typically happens to those that find themselves in prison during the collapse of a nation?
BingoBoingo: Ironically the definition of irony used on the ESL interwebz has expanded so much it has no meaning. It nao has as much meaning as "a" or "the"
mircea_popescu: "On Friday, Kipnis published another piece in the Chronicle, revealing that, in a twist that's ironic on more than one level, she is now the subject of an investigation into graduate student complaints that her earlier column and a subsequent tweet violated Title IX, the law that prohibits sex descrimination in education."
cazalla: i overstated that tbh.. most of it has been removed, there are a few remnants but the majority is gone
mircea_popescu: gawker was somehow the loss leader in that, but otherwise "industry"-wide it's been a serious case of "work for free or don't work at all, for money there isn't".
mircea_popescu: now this is a point
mircea_popescu: mildly humiliated us marshalls service and slightly more humiliated federal prosecutors. tho both of these being public servants, they can do a lot better than this.
assbot: Logged on 28-05-2015 22:27:06; cazalla: i'm sure there is a better way to do it but relying on archive.today probably isn't that great an idea but not sure what else to do (for example, all the bitcoin auction stuff has been completely removed from the US Marshall's website)
mircea_popescu: 2014 wasn't altogether bad, but it doesn't hold a candle to 2015 so far.
mircea_popescu: is socialism ever getting a new playbook ?
assbot: Logged on 29-05-2015 16:18:27; punkman: "There's a feeling on this list that there's no consensus, or that Gavin and myself are on the wrong side of it. I'd put it differently - there's very strong consensus out in the wider community and this list is something of an aberration."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-05-2015#1147702 << "the troops are just right over the horizon" and "real america supports me, for i am not a crook". ☝︎
mircea_popescu: not just from a "must be in there for we need all the dns-carried pores imported via glibc etc", but also in the much lower level "who's in charge of the it!!1" thing
mircea_popescu: as BingoBoingo points out, this has been a very high lulz week.
assbot: Logged on 29-05-2015 13:39:18; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-05-2015#1147596 << laugh, but it isn't so hard if you are emulating ordinary sdram. if one side issues a write cycle, the other gets a wait-state signal (gets to think that the dram is in refresh state)
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-05-2015#1147659 << obviously eats your air. engineering assumption being "where could we get a fixed 20 degrees source ?", otherwise who'd bother with the meatsacks. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell BlueMatt if you want to join #b-a and actually work on bitcoin for a change, you have a rating already, so you can voice.
assbot: You rated user BlueMatt on 06-May-2015, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: one of the very few dudes in -dev actually doing something useful..
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell sipa if you want to join #b-a and actually work on bitcoin for a change, i'll rate you so you can voice. ☟︎
jurov: wiring 200k euro isn't a problem if you're a company that does it like, every month
felipelalli: But 1% would be a problem.
williamdunne: Aha, well yes. But on 1000 bitcoin even a wire transfer at 20 euros isn't really a problem :D
williamdunne: Yes, but why would you care about free on a deal that large?
williamdunne: But yes, I can't organize 200k in cash but I can probably find a buyer via bank transfer
felipelalli: williamdunne: move usd from Brazil to Italy. My father is studying to use bitcoin. A Brazilian exchange is helping me with that but the problem now is find buyers in Italy.
trinque: it also brings to mind the way these things develop, where first intent may be something which increases or decreases the legal severity of some other crime, but over time becomes a crime all its own ☟︎
trinque: allows for a black hole of thoughtcrime charges
trinque: decimation: in reading the indictment of the former speaker, the terrible consequences of using "intent" as a legal concept are apparent
trinque: opening trilema in public is always a dice roll
trinque: does seem though that certain things always find a willing judge
trinque: perhaps just being a part of the same govt is enough for them to help each other
trinque: I have not, taking a look
decimation: he was indicted by a grand jury for... not telling usg what he was going to do with his cash
ascii_field: 'Bitfury developed a light bulb that automatically mines Bitcoin when you screw it in' << for usg, aha
jurov: asciilifeform: why do you think? the patches are not there? unless i made a mistake, it is the result of mod6's 0.5.3.1 release build script
BingoBoingo: Phuctor is closing in on half a million moduli
assbot: Successfully added a rating of -1 for Cusipzzz with note: banned me from -otc for speaking out against the fork
punkman: "There's a feeling on this list that there's no consensus, or that Gavin and myself are on the wrong side of it. I'd put it differently - there's very strong consensus out in the wider community and this list is something of an aberration." ☟︎
danielpbarron: no problem; i'll keep upping you till you get a gpg key registered
mod6: ok. -p doens't seem to be a thing...
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-05-2015#1147596 << laugh, but it isn't so hard if you are emulating ordinary sdram. if one side issues a write cycle, the other gets a wait-state signal (gets to think that the dram is in refresh state) ☝︎☟︎
Vexual: tell em its a z80
Vexual: id put a little rainbow sticker on a kb and get alf and mp 'round with a case of cognac
punkman: not a bad approach if you don't have to suffer the smog I guess
punkman: mircea_popescu: "free heating if you live next to a mfg plant!" << "Academica has installed a new 2MW database server centre ... Water warmed while cooling the servers will go on to provide heat for 500 homes or 1,000 flats ... After the heat is extracted, the water will be recycled back to cool the servers again."
punkman: maybe cpu-mine bitcoin for a couple satoshis :P
mircea_popescu: and i have a bridge to sell.
mircea_popescu: "free heating if you live next to a mfg plant!"
asciilifeform: try find a pc mb without 'meanders'
decimation: "Each cable between the modules was a twisted pair, cut to a specific length in order to guarantee the signals arrived at precisely the right time and minimize electrical reflection. Each signal produced by the ECL circuitry was a differential pair, so the signals were balanced. " < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1
decimation: yeah, but if they can afford it they can also probably also afford to design a custom motherboard
asciilifeform: i assume that the folks who a) want this b) can afford it --- have it.
decimation: I suppose a ring of some sort
asciilifeform: there was an outfit which sold something quite like this (fpga on sdram stick) and even one in the shape of a cpu, which could sit down in ordinary cpu socket on multisocket mb
decimation: yeah I can imagine it for a pair of cpus, but what if you wanted N cpus?
asciilifeform: (connection via ram slots is not, as it may appear, lunacy, but could be done with fpga, which would pretend to be a slice of sdram to two boxes at the same time, ignoring refresh cycles and managing locking somehow)
decimation: it would be cheap to use a 1 gige, but it would also have sad throughput
decimation: well, off the shelf you could attach to a good 10gigE card with netboot
asciilifeform: (cpu is warm and 'remanence' is a non-issue. think, crypto.)
asciilifeform: hypothetically, one could run an x86 box without any ram inserted, given a clever bios made for this occasion.
asciilifeform: but in rom, you need a ram stack/heap and can't simply shit where you eat
asciilifeform: the reason is that you can do local vars ('static' to a 'c' programmer) in ram
asciilifeform: (not one of these things had an mmu, nor was there any conceivable need for such a thing on a single-process os)
asciilifeform: decimation: it was a single address space no matter what
decimation: asciilifeform: was it because loading the contents of the rom into ram allowed a single address space?
decimation: from the comments on that yugoslav interview: "Also, there was not a ?ban on importing computers? in former Yugoslavia ? it was a by-product of a (stupid) government policy of trying to stop the drain of foreign currency. The customs law prevented a legal import of any goods that cost more than 100 DM (German marks, about 50 Euros in todays money). "
decimation: c64 had a version of 6502 like apple II
mircea_popescu: which was a z80 clone.
asciilifeform: decimation: c64 was not a z80 box
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> which is why i think that at a certain point >> that point is conceivably after our times.
asciilifeform: vhs tape can hold a surprising amount (helical scan head!) but tends to rot rather quickly
asciilifeform: incidentally, long after connecting analogue tape decks to computer was a forgotten misery in the west, ru folks were connecting vcr and getting respectable (10-20G) backup
asciilifeform: tape was the mega-storage because just about everyone could beg/borrow/steal a deck
asciilifeform as a boy sometimes listened to his brother's 'bk-0010' tapes
asciilifeform: which is why i think that at a certain point the advantage of a 'bitcoin' which can be -understood- will outweigh the danger of failing to enumerate every possible corner case of the original turd when crafting the ada safety-critical bitcoinatron
asciilifeform: decimation has a point in that even a very trivial cpp proggy can have very peculiar manifest behaviour
asciilifeform: decimation: reading disasm of cpp crapolade is a misery
decimation: now, thinking about what the assembly from (say bitcoind) would look like - our slavic human assembler would think that whoever wrote the code was afflicted with a case of 'word salad' madness
decimation: apparently in the yugoslav case it was because it was illegal to buy a foreign device above a certain dollar value - but you could buy the parts and assemble yourself