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mircea_popescu: o also! anyone with
a scooped blog can make himself
a banner, hit me up with it.
copypaste: You'll get
a lot of clicks from that from our users most likely.
danielpbarron: seraminta, you have been given many suggestions; repeating yourself will not yield
a positive outcome
trinque: that is actually
a very apt description of the medicinal effect of #b-
a assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for mxtm with note:
a kid who lives in Boston and likes languages
danielpbarron: maxwell, didn't you register
a key under the nickname mxtm?
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> asciilifeform aws can definitely not be part of our canonical stuff huh. << agreed. i'll continue to get my sea-legs with what I've got so far, but what we end up supporting in the end will be
a gentoo on
a bare-rails environment. unless any objections?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski they didn't do their homework at all. they're
a very easy target for the "eco" lobby, and will be murdered as they can't afford to pay those leeches.
assbot: Logged on 12-03-2015 19:27:50; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-03-2015#1050103 << don't be ridiculous. for one thing, commodizing asic mining is
a larger task than commodizing cpu arch. for the other, they're
a fucking sv corp, they're not going to DO ANYTHING. just sit around and talk about shit. preferably at "conferences", or else "liveblog" it.
cazalla: i'd rather move her kilns and tanks into the garage and turn that room into
a computing space tbh though lol
cazalla: my missus is not too bad with that, has been doing lampworking for like
a decade
trinque: the marketing side bleeds into the content side if there ever was such
a distinction in the first place
trinque: business insider is
a shitty rag
danielpbarron: iPhone can be reprogramed to use
a longer password
pete_dushenski: "And for the love of technology, please set up
a strong passcode." << what strong 4-digit passcode ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aside the fact that deletant is pretty much
a color revolutions expert in history rewriting, sure.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: hm i guess my hypothesis is that usg won't claim enough of remaining unmined btc to throw
a wrench in the individual sovereignty of those in #b-
a.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently there's no russian note of this, at least on the web i see, but anyway : when patrascanu & co went to moscow to try and work out an armistice, molotov broke the drone with
a very pointed "ce ati cautat la stalingrad ?"
mircea_popescu: well, the romanians needed
a peace that didn't consist of rape.
mircea_popescu: does usg-effective mean "bitcoin needs
a decision making process which
a) doesn't include mp as we've been pretending was the case all along and b) overrepresents us, as we've idem" ?
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 21:27:38; asciilifeform: re: l0ltr0n1cs: today i found out that ed felten (formerly 'freedom to tinker' blog, lawsuits against riaa, etc.) has been
a usg stooge for several years now.
danielpbarron: i posted
a link to chat through an "anonymous" twitter account named SWARMsecret
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 20:54:52; kakobrekla: i don't see
a reason why not.
mircea_popescu: i can make
a doublespend right now, what's to keep me ?!
jurov: i was asking about
a grid, not about chumper
kakobrekla: there is always
a chance for double spend, just
a matter of how deep
jurov: asciilifeform: sry, my calculation is broken, it is 5W per 20 chips. but with the
a/c and other overhead, can still be several times more
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: here's the test : within 12 months (or 12 years ?), the 'usg' will be unable to double-spend
a bitcoin transaction.
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 19:16:48; lobbes: 'There’s
a fairness issue involved here.' << there's that 'fair' trope again
mircea_popescu: so this stunner chick is working in
a clothes shop. one day
a guy comes in, goes straight for her,
trinque: I don't buy it for
a second.
danielpbarron: who would accept
a transaction from USG ? and why should I feel sorry for them?
pete_dushenski: showing up to the train station when the steam engine is but
a distant memory and the caboose is over the horizon, with no other train on the schedule, means you either start building your own train (blockchain teckmologee) or you stfu and go back to working the land.
jurov: actually is the 100W heat needs to be
A/C'd out, it may end up 300-400watt per one box!
danielpbarron: the tv box miner must operate at
a net loss (i get it the chump bears that cost, but eventually the wealth runs out ie: chump runs out of money)
pete_dushenski: each has 3 teeth, do they share them to make
a bigger bite ?
danielpbarron: i don't have
a problem with USG getting 1/3 of all the bitcoin; the can only spend it once
☟︎ trinque: who will claim the NSA doesn't already have
a metric shitload of potential hashing power to apply to this problem?
cazalla: now as much as i love the ol' Vexual, i admit he does like to chat
a lot and often makes no sense but by banning him, we now get to enjoy it on
a more personal level via pm :P
trinque: pete_dushenski: the declaration of
a thing is not what makes it so
pete_dushenski: ok, so mebbe it doesn't burn houses down, and mebbe everyone has
a half dozen of these chips wedged into their various appliances...
trinque: so you just end up with
a cryptoturd chip built into the intel processors, and you can't get other processors
pete_dushenski: because
a few 'early adopters' will jump on board, burn their houses down, and the thing'll fizzle out
trinque: asciilifeform: I'd expect some broken off appendage of the NSA to accumulate
a sizable stash of coin even if the rest of the USG falls apart
danielpbarron: i posted
a comment to that freedom to tinker thing
a couple days ago; it didn't get approved
trinque: so being
a part of the NSA botnet goes from top secret to productized
trinque: lol, the houses around here are half
a million or more
jurov: poor Vexual now sitting every day outside before the gate, if someone drops
a word or
a bone
trinque: "The president called Saudi Arabia
a critical partner in the fight against Islamic State militants." << yes, I suppose making sure ISIS exists is critical to the fight against ISIS.
trinque: The package of powers, first proposed in March, would allow courts to force
a person to send their tweets and Facebook posts to the police for approval.
jurov: “For too long, we have been
a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone',”
trinque: it's easy to see that
a culture which even considers "fair"
a thing runs the risk of totalitarianism
lobbes: 'There’s
a fairness issue involved here.' << there's that 'fair' trope again
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