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Pierre_Rochard: “If I had an easy way and
a non-risk way of shorting
a whole lot of 20- or 30-year bonds, I’d do it,” < If I had
a non-risk way of doing anything in the financial markets, I’d do it too...
Pierre_Rochard: ^ they’re afraid of dead links. Why they don’t simply reroute to the new url is
a mystery to me
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for joecool with note: Approximately new blood :p
assbot: Need
a decrypted verification string.
ben_vulpes: “If I had an easy way and
a non-risk way of shorting
a whole lot of 20- or 30-year bonds, I’d do it,” said our favorite uncle Warren Buffett on CNBC.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: signed his own 'pierce is
a pedo sc4mz0r' article ?
mircea_popescu: Another alleged victim, Daniel, tells
a similar story. After being subjected to sexual abuse at M&C, he wrote
a suicide note: "I can't stop crying! Please God help me. I can't go on. I let them use me as
a sex tool. I let those assholes do all those terrible things to me. Goodbye." His brother found the note and alerted their parents before Daniel made any attempt on his life.
fluffypony: "The slim, dark-haired 14-year-old, who attended
a small private high school in the Valley, befriended Chad's brother Scott, who led him to DEN. Mike had an interest in acting, so when Collins-Rector outlined the possibilities for stardom offered by the site, the boy began spending time at the mansion, where there was one key rule. He recalls: "If you were going to sleep over, you had to get into either the pool or the hot tub—and
fluffypony: and it was basically
a pitch of his startup investment shit
mircea_popescu: i know, i know, he had some derpy "wow gold" type scam that blew up
a decade ago.
fluffypony: he gave
a talk at Bitcoin Africa on "Bitcoin Investing"
mircea_popescu: but i mean... suppose you... i dunno, suppose you open
a microbrewery.
fluffypony: "These glorified pep rallies represent just one aspect of
a global campaign by Pierce—who's operated on the fringes of American business for the past 15 years—to reinvent himself as
a trustworthy power broker in
a volatile virtual realm and cement his claim to
a title currently shared by many: the godfather of bitcoin."
fluffypony: "You've been wandering around telling people that the blocksize will increase soon for months, when there is very clearly no consensus that it should in the short-term future. The only answer to this that anyone with
a clue should give is "it will very, very likely be able to support at least 1MB blocks roughly every 10 minutes on average for the next eleven years, and it seems likely that
a block size increase of some form will
fluffypony: but I thought BlueMatt summed it up nicely in
a reply to Gavin:
mircea_popescu: ascii_field don't miss the most important point here. government has identified
a new thing it could need money for.
mircea_popescu: this part, certainly. where's trinque to shed
a tear over this
mircea_popescu: "The governor's proposition that these soldiers and sailors constitute
a potential threat and need watching as they go about their duties certainly stakes out some new political ground for the leader of the Texas GOP to stand on."
assbot: BitBet - Phuctor will find
a bad key :: 0.02 B (2%) on Yes, 1.08 B (98%) on No | closing in 1 week 1 day| weight: 94`192 (100`000 to 1) ... (
http://bit.ly/1IjOLuk )
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: it's
a very dirty kludge though
BingoBoingo: Browsing various .edu domains for keys to submit I noticed there's
a span from roughly 1999 to 2005-8 where DSA/Elgamal keys were way too popular
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, this is very much like its own sort of blockchain syncing. the 4mn addies were created over 40 years or so. we can catch up in
a year, by which time... more will have been created.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i tell you we might have to find
a way to parallelize this, because as it is, it'll prolly be too slow.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it does not, but im figuring : since the queue is not ever empty, it's
a good measure for actual processing
mircea_popescu: anyway, the exercise is interesting because it puts
a ceiling on costs. doing
a mathematically intricate, non-parallelizable task over ~the entire space of gpg keys~, all 4mn of them, is < 10k usd.
ben_vulpes: i halfway expected
a philosophical tract on capitalization and blogs
mircea_popescu: because guess what : smegma is just as natural
a byproduct of the sexual organs, of the other gender. and washing it off is certainly as novel bla bla as shaving the cunt.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah. wouldn't want random dude in
a band that drinks too much read that and with his usual superficial comprehension skills decide 1% of keys are broken or some similar shit.
mircea_popescu: plenty of people making
a living at this. in fact, three card monte exists specifically to exploit the thermodynamc gradient created by the "own eyes" meme/mental parasithosis.
mircea_popescu: your eyes are
a particularly weak check, especially if it is known you will be relying on them exclusively.
mircea_popescu: from_vice it'd seem your notions about what
a hologram is are informed more by southpark than by physics.
danielpbarron: well i'm pretty sure the towers existed. I saw them with my own eyes on
a trip to NYC
mircea_popescu: heh, the benefit of modernity. no event is ever going to co-exist with
a consensus interpretation thereof.
from_vice: You sure this isn't
a 911 truthers' forum? I have some thermite to sell
mircea_popescu:
a right, we haven't fully colonized nubbins` yet. much like canada, he hangs on to antiquated forms that perpetuate the routing and interfacing differences in our society.
mircea_popescu: and if i take to the streets of marakesh, there's about one in three chance random street urchin will suck my cock hoping for
a hundred. what of it.
nubbins`: there's about
a one in three chance that they'd publish an article you wrote for them about bitcoin.
from_vice: I linked into here via the vice article link provided in the comments by someone--I feel
a bit violated
nubbins`: mircea_popescu it's like news, but related to you by your buddy who plays in
a band and drinks too much
mircea_popescu: sort-of like
a guy in
a mma fight being beaten to death with his own, broken arms.
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for mod6 with note: co-chair for The Real Bitcoin
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for ben_vulpes with note: co-chair for The Real Bitcoin
nubbins`: at the risk of being
a pedant, 1 is
a common divisor of the set of integers
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> 1 is
a common divisor of all numbers. <<< hey now
mircea_popescu: this, of course, after the current glut is processed, which estimatively should take about
a month o.O
mircea_popescu: mike_c it'll please you to know that
a) we're going to be setting up daily batch processing of new keys, so people failing to find theirs should be rare ; b) making better 404 page, mostly to indicate this fact.
lobbes: noob question incoming: so my key is showing
a GCD of '1 (Ok, for now!)' ; This means that my key only has 1 prime factor in common with another submitted key?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform these are endemic, they come and go, it's
a lot like stop-go traffic.
thestringpuller: "Again, why don't all devs that against this blocksize change come together, and ELI5 to the rest of us what are the cons. ELI5 is important if you want the public to understand your points. So for now Gavin has me convinced the change is necessary. Please Please Please...." to which someone replies "Heaven help us if we ever encounter an issue that requires more than
a five-year-old's intelligence."
mircea_popescu: if there is any certainty about "bitcoin future" at hte present time, it is that there will not be
a block size increase in the next 12 months.
mircea_popescu: "What I don't see from you yet is
a *specific and credible plan* that fits
mircea_popescu: have bitcoin declared
a "public service" or right or whatever by congress, get obamabitcoin and all that jazz. make the MIT shitheads, google etc all fat and giggly.
mircea_popescu: > Certainly
a consensus in this kind of technical community should be
a mircea_popescu: so apparently teh idiots actually have
a schedule, handler said something like "this must be in by 2016 no matter what". so either they get it in "0.11" or "0.12" or else 0.13 or 15 or 29 will have to happen BEFORE that date.
mircea_popescu: get into 0.11, leaving only 0.12, which would give everyone only
a few
mircea_popescu: private that this timeline meant
a change to the block size was unlikely to
danielpbarron: the one with
a hard drive that i have running bitcoind is the one i put ArchLinux on
assbot: Logged on 07-05-2015 09:53:33; davout: danielpbarron: you created the filesystem of your pogo on your local station amirite? messed
a bit with fdisk but it looks like the pogo doesn't have any mkfs binary :/
davout: so it looks that it can either be enabled in
a buildroot config option, gonna investigate this later
davout: danielpbarron: you created the filesystem of your pogo on your local station amirite? messed
a bit with fdisk but it looks like the pogo doesn't have any mkfs binary :/
☟︎ cazalla: one on the left has
a much better ass
mircea_popescu: Mem: 24420888k total, 24035956k used, 384932k free, 889012k buffers << what one likes to see. there's something so pleasant about
a maxed box.
chatquack: I have
a hard time sleeping without fan noise :\
mircea_popescu: and no, ^c is not worth anything, because ll is well optimized, spends
a minute thinking it through and then blasts you
chatquack: ya, i was wondering if
a ^c was even worth anything half
a second after hitting enter
mircea_popescu has just naively issued
a ll in
a directory worth ~100mb of 1kb files.
mircea_popescu: One key consequence of this is that the interpreter core in Python 3 is far more tolerant of paths that contain Unicode characters on Windows (so, for example, having
a non-ASCII character in your username should no longer cause any problems with running Python scripts from your home directory on Windows).
decimation: you know the next step... anyone who doesn't buy into python 3 is
a racsis...
decimation: apparently guido's hobby is to convert python into
a trojan horse for derpy utopianism