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mircea_popescu: for instance : usg released a convicted felon / ndrngheta man (sony vleisides) for
the purpose of pulling a "we build asic miners" scam in bitcoin
to buy nsa enough
time
to make some
themselves.
mircea_popescu: it wouldn't be
trhe first
time usg's criminal entreprise front pulled
this scam.
mircea_popescu: summary : he's
trying
to make sense of
the political posturing of fiat entities, arrives at
the conclusion
that bitmain is buying
the worthless clone with bitcoin it intends
to doublespend away from
the silly buyers later on.
ben_vulpes: trinque: i wouldn't go so far as
to say
they pulled it off
trinque: the "arts
tax" bureaucratic infrastructure already
there
trinque: how did seattle pull
this off before portland?
ben_vulpes: well if
they say it enough and if enough people vote for it surely it will become
the new law
ben_vulpes: gonna paraphrase here, "we're sure
that when
the supreme court hears about how our schools are so
terribly underfunded
they'll reconsider
their ruling on
the consitutionality of
this
tax"
ben_vulpes: another funny
tidbit is
that a) anything other
than a flat
tax is strictly constitutionally prohibited in washington and b) 33.65.030: "A county, city, or city-county shall not levy a
tax on net income."
ben_vulpes: in reading some commentary on seattle's new
tax on
the rich, i learn
that a sales
tax is regressive because rich people pay a smaller fraction of
their income in
taxes
than poors
shinohai: iirc
they also donated hosting for
tardstalk or something like
that
mircea_popescu: aaand in other
tor lulz, guess what is "privateinternetaccess.com", other
than of course
the "partner" of pretty much every irc network out
there, from freenode
to snoonet.
mircea_popescu: i'm vaguely curious if/when guy manages
to escape his worm form.
mircea_popescu: few of
the wrecked are willing
to realize
the root of
their distress <<
the greatest
trick
the devil ever pulled was making sliding in easy
to do and pulling out easy
to forget.
BingoBoingo: Eh, more an exercise in reading
Trilema in IRL
ben_vulpes: for all
the inca-wreckage in my life, few of
the wrecked are willing
to realize
the root of
their distress.
BingoBoingo: Maybe spend a bit of
time with some people who've been wrecked by Inca, want better for
the puppies?
ben_vulpes: i'm waiting for age and failure
to mature me into a nice ball of hate
BingoBoingo: Now
that's gotta drain
the venom. Why are you bothering with productivity worries? First
things first!
BingoBoingo: home orifice consists of putting desk next
to bed. One is for writing, other for sleeping, both useful furniture for fucking guests.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i appreciate
the exhortation
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: You
too can increase your razorblade
to punction mark count
too!
ben_vulpes: while i'm on
the
topic, can confirm
that 'modern' asdf is all sorts of royal pita as well, although
that
thread has been well hashed in
the logs
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 15:18 phf: for
the longest
time i
thought
that common lisp spec is a magic paper against modernization. not so, and you can see it with
the recent evolution of sbcl. for example
they made it an error
to locally shadow cl package symbols, e.g. (flet ((first (...))) ...) will fail, breaking a lot of reasonable old code. many historic idioms likewise produce compilation warnings, etc.
mircea_popescu: anyway.
tungsten xray pink very different from gold xray pink. which is
teh real idea!
mircea_popescu: but on
the contrary : "even scandalous methods still work". which
they do.
mircea_popescu: i didn't by any means aim
to produce an exhaustive or practical list!
mircea_popescu: anyway! rather
than bickering over
the obviously rhetorics involved, how about we in general agree
that such a huge mass of a rare atom is eminently detectable and
thassat.
mircea_popescu: i dun have
the datasheets
to give better numbers with, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: taking 20MeV source arbitrarily and 2 kev detector, you have roughly speaking 8 and a half halvings at your disposal. if your 1/e distance is 10 meters,
that means 40 meters away your detector will still work.
mircea_popescu: basically, a high energy xray will lose 2/3 of its energy every dozen or so meters. whatever's left illuminates
the gold (there's no crossing gold,
too large barn), and
then gets sent back, as gold-xray-pink
mircea_popescu: the
threshold for detectability is below 1kev (review your pll discussion
to see why it goes way below "base").
mircea_popescu: and soil is no pb. and it's not "gone", it's 1/e'd.
the remainder can... 1/e again. and so on.
mircea_popescu: "even car stops at light, bike is smaller
than car!!" is bad argument.
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the whole point was
that such a large agglomeration of single-atom rare element is eminently detectable. it is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know
this field has advanced significantly ?
they have all sorts of phase-velocity abusing composites and so on.
mircea_popescu: next you're going
to nix lasers because you saw a lightbulb once.
mircea_popescu: if you put an x-ray lamp on gold, and
then
turn it off, you will see some radiation back, and on specific frequency
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes dude. let's redo
the sentence : "gold / other heavy metals are sorta fluorescent, let's say, in X-ray illumination"
mircea_popescu: australia for one. everywhere
there's enough gold
to be worth it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that's
the
thing, it absorbs, and
then emits.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-11 00:18 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-10#1696875 << it is conceivable you can reuse prb blockchains, if you care. not
that
there's anything wrong with rechecking
the chain if oyu're in no hurry. expect a coupla months
tho. and i suppose look into eatblock etc while at it.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-11 00:39 mircea_popescu: if you have such a narrow premise ("is
there or is
there not a
terragram of gold at so and so coords") experimental falsification is
trivial, and not even expensive in contex.
the bitch is forming
the premise in
the first place.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes gold / other heavy metals are sorta fluorescent, let's say, in X-ray illumination. leaving aside
that even amateur beach comber fare on sale for
the cost of a lawn mower can see large chunks at 20-30 meters (that's 10 floors or so).
trinque: 4.5gb for
trb build, not blockchain
mircea_popescu: if you have such a narrow premise ("is
there or is
there not a
terragram of gold at so and so coords") experimental falsification is
trivial, and not even expensive in contex.
the bitch is forming
the premise in
the first place.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 21:46 edivad: in
the case of segwit,
this means
that
trb won't care about segwit blocks and as long as
they will complies with
the "hard rules" (I really don't know how
to explain myself better)
they will be accepted?
a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 21:44 mod6: yeah,
that's always what mine is once complete, ~4.5G
a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 21:38 edivad: in my case i've recycled a previous bitcoin core blockchain and fired up
TRB