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runsegshet: dont want
to sell for usdt or fiat or altshits like litecoin until
this blows over
diana_coman: read
the s.mg category on
trilema re eulora
diana_coman: but yes: you need
to read and figure out whether it works for you or not, no escape
there
diana_coman: how do you figure one is digital and
the other one electronic? one is gold,
the other one copper?
runsegshet: I'd be
trading digital gold for what appears
to be electronic copper in a video game
☟︎ diana_coman: runsegshet, moreover, I suppose as an easy/quick solution you could even simply
transfer your bitcoin into ECu in Eulora - I guess it is
the lowest effort option
to keep and even use btc at
this moment; e.g.
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=Ecu runsegshet: I want
to
take action
to safe keep my bitcoin, but dont know
technicals
to not be segwit
tokens
☟︎ runsegshet: miners going
to spend
to
themselves and steal segshit coins?
☟︎ diana_coman: runsegshet getting robbed is a personal
thing so nobody can answer
that for you other
than yourself; as
to hoping and
the more general case: ditch hope,
take action;
shinohai: It is simple enough
to *not* use it at all.
ben_vulpes: "nobody could have predicted
that
the auto companies cannibalizing sales
through financing and aggressive lease practices would blow depreciation rates sky high"
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> hanbot was
teh witness << aha. i concurr it is a system, she was able
to decipher it.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-23 17:50
trinque: hm, several minutes of lag from me
to freenode atm. mitm dept didn't pay
their aws bill?
mircea_popescu: you recall, you had
to guess how
the arrangement relates
to a number
mike_c: log search
turns up nothing useful but a dead dpaste. matchstick game?
mircea_popescu: o btw asciilifeform any progress re
the matchstick pattern game ?
mike_c: I ordered
this shit from amazon before I orderd
the goats. Goats arrived, still waiting for amazon package.
mike_c: asciilifeform - so.. is
there some way
to kick it besides restarting?
mike_c: mircea_popescu: copy,
thanks.
mod6: so it's been suggested
that we change 'trusted-nodes'
to 'advertised republican nodes', which is fine with me. but
the file
that
these live in is called 'trusted-nodes.html'. Since
this is now linked in
trilema 'how-to-participate', should we do a redirect
to a new file, or just change
the filename, or just change its contents?
BingoBoingo: So much old
trilema
to read and link as Soviet America collapses
mircea_popescu: ie, why
the fuck would you pay 3x what
they pay
to be part of
their shithole medicare, when 100% of
thew
time you'll use
the private hospitals.
mircea_popescu: as
to
the catch -- well for eg,
they got obamacare here. if you're a resident you must enroll. and so on.
mircea_popescu: anyway. yeah, if you show
them you own a 1mn bond paying 3% you're good.
mircea_popescu: me failing math.
their cap is 86k/yr not 8600 as i
thought, nm
mircea_popescu: the amusing part being
that
the cap for public employees compensation is 4.2mn colones /month (about 10k/year)
mircea_popescu: must prove 30k/year income for at least
two years. so you know, buy a bond or w/e.
whaack: ppsk from my research in
the matter apparently CR has a 90 day rule for most gringos...wherein you just have
to step out of
the country (for an hour) every 90 days. so you can do a Panama or Nicaragua day
trip and get your passport stamped and come right back. Apparently you can get banned from returning
to CR for 1-2 years now if you leave having stayed more
than 90 days.
ppsk: lol, i doubt you would get away with
that
these days. But
then, maybe?
mircea_popescu: they fined me like 17 bucks on exit and
that was
the sum
total of inconvenience.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the first
time i was here, bout 15 years ago, i came in on a
tourist visa (with
the idea of staying for a coupla weeks), ended up staying
three years.
ppsk: no, I'm rather new
to all
this
ppsk: easy
TEFL program
too from what I hear, makes getting in and staying in a lot easier
ppsk: Ive seriously considered
the universal plan for wealth, I was
thinking central or south america is a good place
to start over
ppsk: whats
the best country in
that region, in your experience
ppsk: you spend a lot of
time in latin america Mircea, or otherwise live
there?
ppsk: thanks,
thats handy
ppsk: what do you
think about monero?
mircea_popescu: random scam designed
to lighten
the pockets of wediditreddit fucktards.
ppsk: it seems
to be a significant point of contention in
the realm of bitcoin
ppsk: I was surprised you hadn't written something regarding
the whole bitcoin cash debacle
ppsk: by
the way, does "if you go on a bitcoin fork, irrespective of which scammer proposes it, you will lose your bitcoins" still apply?
ppsk: just wanted
to say I've really enjoyed reading your blog, i can't remember how i first stumbled across it but its been one of
the better collection of writings on
the internet
mircea_popescu: but no more. certainly not an excuse
to assfuck your own brain.
mircea_popescu: and
the reason we dun wanna
tell you what
to do is precisely
that
the identification of
these
things is only easy in retrospect, but hard in
the moment, and
there's no worse sadness
than following
the wrong goal for
THIS kind of wrong reason --
that
the wrong person
told you
the wrong
things.
mircea_popescu: myeah. if you're born
to be a hooker and
the year is 1982,
the vegas strip awaits. no ifs butts or
taters. it dun matter if you dreamed of being a psychologist or a milliner as a little girl, either,
that's what hobbies are for.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-07 20:17 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-07#1639964 << one of
the (~the~ ?) advantage of
tmsr work for intelligent folk is
that
there isn't a braindamaged/choiceless manager in
the loop going "i know it's stupid but it must be done".
mircea_popescu: and
thjere's no "that's how i feel blue squares should look on
the wall" defense. hence
the popularity of
the pleb misstatement of "art".
mircea_popescu: the goals are
the goals, and retrospectively it becomes obvious if you found
the goals or fumbled like idiot.
mircea_popescu: this is more of
the same delusion of specialness, "oh, it is my option whether i join
trilema and i can set my own goals". in your dreams, and
there only.
mircea_popescu: sour grape general, "oh we weren't aiming
to conquer leningrad, we were just here for a stroll"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dun give a shit what
they';re shooting for.
mircea_popescu: "holy shit
they built ai capable of doing job of corps of competent agents"
mircea_popescu: in fact
the utter
technological failure of
that "warehouse
the size of ny" was a major inspiration for
teh republic.
mircea_popescu laughed ass off @usg for
the first
time when saw
that
these days equiv of manhattan project, "general + all
the zeks
that can be found" came
to ~same as romanian computer club windows reimplementation.
mircea_popescu: no you don't understand,
they have an ad-hoc, informally specified, bug ridden reimplementation of microsoft access. XKEYSCORE!!!!
trinque: hm, several minutes of lag from me
to freenode atm. mitm dept didn't pay
their aws bill?
☟︎ whaack: yeah, suppose
they held half
the miners for 4 weeks,
they'd
then have
to double
their payout for
the next cycle
to match
the btc mining offer since
the difficulty will have halved (not even including
the increase in
the altcoin chain)
whaack: I just don't see how footnote 2 mentions
the point of
the btc difficulty decreasing while
the miners are away from
the main chain, even if it does allude
to it by showing
that holding
the btc miner for an extended period of
time doesn't help (b.c. of
the fact
that while
the miners are away from
the main chain
their difficulty is decreasing)
mircea_popescu: whaack oh wait, you mean
the diff on ~main~ chain gets reduced, because
this is an early stage delusion and
the fucktards numerous/heavy enough. yes, yes, you're exactly right!
mircea_popescu: aanyway. yes, it's a fine manner
to repatriate actual wealth (ie, btc) from
the fucktards who
traded
their wives/daughters for money
they shouldn'tr have had in
the first place.
mircea_popescu: Suppose you recalibrate difficulty each block instead. Big whoop, so attacker drives your difficulty up 100x and now you only have
to mine six days for negative returns instead of
two years. So what ? You're still underwater, and once you recover he can still do it again."
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin itself has a 400% baked in maximum increase each period, but what practical difference does it make ? Force
the attacker
to keep hashing for an extra 8 or so hours ? Big whoop, what's eight hours buy you ?