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mircea_popescu: The table we were sitting at was about five feet long, and unusually cumbersome and heavy. He asked us to put our hands on the dishes and hold them in their places
a moment—one of them was
a large oval dish with
a portly roast on it. Then he sat down, tilted up one end of the table, set two of the legs on his knees, took the end of the table between his teeth, took his hands away, and pulled down with his teeth till
mircea_popescu: "Very well, gentlemen, if we must fight, we must, I suppose. But don't rush into danger and then say I gave you no warning. I am more than
a match for all of you when I get started. I will give you proofs, and then if my friend here still insists, I will try to accommodate him."
mircea_popescu: I remember an instance of
a desperado's contempt for such small game as
a private citizen's life. I was taking
a late supper in
a restaurant one night, with two reporters and
a little printer named—Brown, for instance—any name will do. Presently
a stranger with
a long-tailed coat on came in, and not noticing Brown's hat, which was lying in
a chair, sat down on it. Little Brown sprang up and became abusive in
a mome
assbot: Logged on 28-04-2015 03:19:10; ben_vulpes: seriously, because i'm retarded: what is the incentive to keep
a tx in the mempool that will be included in
a block but not one that won't?
mircea_popescu: and you can even build
a btc business on top of this!!1
mircea_popescu: there isn't
a real life that's gonna start just as soon as this one's tweaked into perfection, you xtian you.
mircea_popescu: which is kind-of like how the us army works, too : you need 4 mn people employed by the pentagon to get two dudes shooting
a rifle at the enemy two months later.
mircea_popescu: it's not even that it'd be easier to do the getting yourself, by hand. or that it'd be easier to make an eliza get it. you could actually run
a school and get better results.
mircea_popescu: BUT! out of all those millions... you should be surprised if like... two people get it,
a month or two later.
mircea_popescu: what's really funny to me is that there's
a "social media site", with 3-4mn claimed "users". out of these 3-4mn, if 1% are actually there you're lucky, and out of those 1% if anothyer 1% is even vaguely worth the mention you're ahead of the curve.
mircea_popescu: "Here is
a list of the first 3,730 of FetLife’s financial supporters who are male- and dominant-identified. "
pete_dushenski: cazalla: ya the riot seems
a bit, well, soft. at least in the reuters photos.
pete_dushenski: "The root cause of the problem occurred during the output value serialization step when the redeem transaction was constructed. During the process of converting the number into bytes for use in the transaction, bitwise operators were used in this old version of the code, which converted the output value (in satoshis) to
a 32 bit integer, causing an integer overflow and truncating the output of 10227087437 satosh
pete_dushenski: "Over the weekend,
a BitGo user reported on Reddit that he had lost 85 BTC while using the BitGo Legacy Wallet Recovery Tool. The user reported that, while the tool reported it would send his entire balance of about 102 BTC to the target address, in fact it only sent 16 BTC to the target address, resulting in
a whopping mining fee of 86 BTC being paid."
pete_dushenski: the final chase scene, in imax at least, was
a complete blur though.
pete_dushenski: when i called my friends up on saturday night, i could barely believe my ears, but went and had
a good laugh anyways.
assbot: Logged on 27-04-2015 14:17:33; mircea_popescu: !rate justusranvier -1 I dunno, afaik he's just kinda derpy (see
http://trilema.com/2015/what-amused-me-today/ etc) but my WoT hates him now, and so I can't in good conscience keep
a meaningless +1, nor do I want to set it to 0 because then it gets deleted. Brb adding footnotes to this rating.
ben_vulpes: seriously, because i'm retarded: what is the incentive to keep
a tx in the mempool that will be included in
a block but not one that won't?
☟︎ ben_vulpes: what is the incentive for
a client to maintain anything in the mempool?
ben_vulpes: i was going to go home and attempt
a translation of my own...
mircea_popescu: they'd have thrown
a shitfit at the white speakers. that's it.
mircea_popescu: kinda how america works now : anything that can't be altered in
a day is part of the permanent landscape by that fact. and so...
mircea_popescu: there's
a very substantial "hay fire" effect. look at the fetlife derps : they got REALLYVERYANGRY!!11 for five minutes. once they couldn't do anything in that interval... well ok, it's no longer
a thing now.
BingoBoingo:
A morality tale could probably be woven out of all of this, but at the very least it illustrates the bezzel bucks sillicon valley pisses around aren't that big of
a deal.
BingoBoingo: Seriously they sign Albert Pujols to
a quarter Billion dollar contract and the next year... Their best player is
a cost controlled rookie.
BingoBoingo: Well the whole ownership group of that team is fucked. They have about
a Billion dollars tied up in contracts of people they signed just as their careers had peaked.
BingoBoingo: But when he went to LA coach made him quit chewing tobacco in the dugout and... It's hard to smash
a baseball at an elite level while in the throes of nicotine withdrawal
BingoBoingo: Quite
a bit older than Mutu. Hamilton also played for the Texas team before, in his past life when he was good.
Pierre_Rochard: “investigated Citigroup over mortgage securities sold by the bank, resulting in
a US$7 billion settlement; and was involved in the US$1.2 billion settlement with HSBC”
BingoBoingo: williamdunne: There's
a picture, It's like pissing the first couple hours of taking
a blowgun dart to the dick
mats: destroyed
a CVS,
a car,
a 7-Eleven... hardly calls for the national guard
mircea_popescu: jurov its
a reference ot this romanian castration story.
trinque: asciilifeform: naw, if I was setting up 200 of these things, I'd want
a process other than manual lever pulling
mircea_popescu: i'd settle for
a well documented and judiciously defaulted gentoo.
☟︎ trinque: scared of driving? here have
a blindfold
williamdunne: asciilifeform: Makes things easier for those terrified of
a terminal
mircea_popescu: Police meanwhile announced they had received
a "credible threat" that several known criminal gangs in Baltimore had "entered into
a partnership to 'take out' law enforcement officers." << check it out
jurov: once we had to explain to
a spaniard intern what
a poppy seed is, it's popular as cake filling around
williamdunne: Guessing throw them on some land and watch
a bunch of pumpkins turn up
cazalla: <mircea_popescu> yeah, i'd hate frozen shit too. <<< ya, friend of the missus has knocked back freebies from my garden
a few times on the basis she "doesn
ascii_field: and then they visit b-
a and they can have opposite problem, described in asimov's 'secret sense' :
mircea_popescu: williamdunne b-
a style development is
a very loose process.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Wanted to make sure that we're on the same page before doing that. Happy to do
a scope like that but first I've done in that level of detail
trinque: can confirm that
a) it redirected me too the first time and b) didn't now
mike_c: and sure, I'll save
a copy of the graph. Trivial for anyone to do with right-click, save-as