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undata: this social media thing I think has created the notion that identity is a matter of self-definition
BingoBoingo: Find out about three career opportunities in the computer industry. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you. Report what you learn to your counselor. << Doing this one now I'd pick curmudeon as a profession, and ask why writing OS is not a requirement.
BingoBoingo: requirements now actually seem harder now than when I achieved it.
asciilifeform: wasn't thinking of literal boyscouts, no (i know precious little about them)
BingoBoingo: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Computers << I am speaking as person who achieved computers merit badge
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm speaking as someone who went in for a 'computer science' diploma at an entirely unremarkable american uni.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure. I'm just saying why don't they pretend better. Instead of throwing on fake spoilers and calling a car customer, this is the "I put a sticker on it" sort of effort.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i don't care what it was made of, if you did not write an os, you did not write an os.
asciilifeform: i find these especially infuriating.
pete_dushenski: bc.i will just change your e-mail if you ask nicely
assbot: I grew a neckbeard reading this "Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignity" (note: Link doesn't go to the actual Bitcoin Foundation) : Buttcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1AQ4c4y )
BingoBoingo: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2t7nsb/i_grew_a_neckbeard_reading_this_bitcoin/
OmegaOne: How can i get rich off of bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: mats i dunno but i think silence is no way to offend
thestringpuller: i want moar ssds
mats: re: previous SSD discussion (and many others), i don't mean to offend if i didn't specifically respond to you. i just had nothing good to say, but rest assured you have not been ignored
asciilifeform: http://www.genericradio.com/show.php?id=3e13162d58d2fe5c << ancient radio play based on the tale (which i cannot at present find)
mircea_popescu: "i have never seen it do anything else before" and "who could have predicted"
mircea_popescu: "Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this justice a gift on my daughter's wedding day."
asciilifeform: i was specifically curious re: what a hawaladar in, e.g., usa, or eu, would charge to move 50 usd.
asciilifeform: i bet they happily move the 50.
mircea_popescu: wtf is this, derpy guy going to hansa agent in riga cca 1315, "hello this is my very valuable small river rock, how can i send it to london ???"
asciilifeform: jurov: to be fair, the 'problems' i have all stem from the fact of being paid, and having expenses in, fiat.
jurov: i gather if alf received such wires, they'd ship him straight to azkaban
mircea_popescu: and exactly nobody would ever know, exactly how the foregoing episode is known specifically and exclusively because i chose to share it.
mircea_popescu: i could, if i were so inclined, finance a nuclear programme or pay for some murders in this manner.
mircea_popescu: jurov for what it's worth, here's my experience with bitcoin remittances : i sent btc to otc correspondents, ordered wires sent out to the hk account of my local agent, who has paid me dollars, in cash, in argentina. the entire process took less than what it takes to get a letter of credit, and significantly less than what international trade normally settles in. ☟︎
jurov: i start grasping asciilifeform's problems with btc, too
assbot: I live in Russia & my family is in U.S. here's our experience using Bitcoin for remittance. : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Gxzu93 )
jurov: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2t4ml5/i_live_in_russia_my_family_is_in_us_heres_our/ << related. also highlighted on r/buttcoin
mircea_popescu: "<gavinandresen> My point is the point of Bitcoin is I can make a transaction to anybody in the world" << uhh.... if this is the point of bitcoin then bitcoin has at all points been so far offpoint it's a wonder it's still here.
mircea_popescu: mats oh i see what you mean o.O
mircea_popescu: davout: i'm more of classical music and jazz guy << i knew there was a reason i liked you!
davout: i think the idea of a one time bump of the block-size limit is actually much less braindamaged than the perpetual increase approach or infinite size that are pure folly
mircea_popescu: davout: justusranvier: in your article you shouldn't be reasoning on the cost of including a transaction in a block as (cost of one block / number of transactions) but you should reason on the marginal cost of adding a transaction to an already existing block that i'm currently mining << quite
mircea_popescu: davout: MAH HARICUT IS SIKRIT BZNS << honestly i had no idea it's a haircut. i had imagined it's simply whatever's left once the neighbours are done cutting their hedges.
mircea_popescu: no, srsly, kakobrekla has it. i've seen more controller failures than anything. actually out of cycles deaths are so rare i don't recall one.
BingoBoingo: mats: From what I've read on btrfs it seems to be mostly a multi drive arrangement beast that apes at being ZFS while failing on more edge cases
mats: asciilifeform: right. people more technically proficient than i have suggested 'btrfs' instead of ext4, but i suppose SSDs will drop in price quickly enough for me to not care
asciilifeform: mats: the only reliable heuristic i know of is that a large proportion of null blocks will prolong, somewhat, the life of the device
mats: mmkay. idk anything about filesystems besides what i read in "Practical Filesystem Design"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: i can't spot *every* scam << o wow, do we get the sad, blood splattered, tear imbibed story of it ?
mats: i have read that many filesystems have behavior that is unkind to to writes
davout: BingoBoingo: i am disappoint
mats: anyone have an idea wut filesystem i should use with a SSD?
mircea_popescu: i am not disputing it is a webpage!
mircea_popescu: Adlai there are jsons. i am thinking about putting a job up for site-ification of those outputs.
mircea_popescu: i guess we can say you're a russian thinker.
asciilifeform: and, i suppose, vacuum is a substitute for air. for a spell, anyway.
mircea_popescu: becase IT IS POSSIBLE that in YEARS!!!! it may go as high as i dunno, 5cents ? a whole quarter ?
mircea_popescu: i think gavin will make a fortune in gangsta rap
STRML: thanks. never had a need for a cloak before but since somebody here ddos'd my bouncer I figure it's a good idea
mircea_popescu: lol. "k guise, i guess we have a fundamental difference of opinion about this here wide screen tv i stole from your place"
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard you know, the "say the word, nodes ready, miners ready within a recompile" messages i got so far and that keep piling in...
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, maybe he accidentally invented it cleaning. I mean bleach disinfects and ETOH disinfects. Maybe he really wanted to get his piss dribblings off of the bathroom tile?
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: I agree, the only model is what actually ends up happening. I think the miners will get a taste for that inelasticity and jealously defend it. I think Gavin & co fear that more than anything else
asciilifeform: i, for one, would rather like to see the machine-gun taken away from the baby, and only then contemplate military strategy
mircea_popescu: i don't know anyone that seriously thinks they have a model on it
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: because I think the tx fee is inelastic to the point that it’s doubtful the limit will ever be raised
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: I was interested in hearing gavin defend tx fee elasticity, not much else
mircea_popescu: I don’t want the developers setting it every two months, but I dont’ see a way to make fee revenue per block drive it (because the real-world bitcoin exchange rate is so variable) << this is particularly fucking stupid
mircea_popescu: uh this log. so yesterday^H^H^H^ earlier today ben_vulpes is all like "god i love you guys". then i get all "wtf is this derp thinking, giving usgavin room to pretend for ?" and next line in log, sure enough...
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i noticed when i was coding that keyservers tend to go down a lot << this is true, and has been for a while. pgp keyservers like the weakest link in the assets system currently.
mircea_popescu: davout apparently i misread ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo re that post, lemme tell you how flattened i was by davout using "posteriority" :D
mircea_popescu: anyway, i figure if someone goes to the trouble of getting a cloak they prolly care about it.
mircea_popescu: that'd be yet another difference between me and (bpay / coinbase / derp.* etc) : not only i make money and they make burn rate, but when i speak i speak from atop a position of significant power. they speak out of their ass, pretty much,not having an iota of actual influence either way.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i suppose his point is along the lines of "mpex controls the coins it is holding, but account holders own them". << quite a weak point.
BingoBoingo: Ah looking for that video link I ran into this classic on the only Bitcoin adoption that matters http://trilema.com/2012/bribes-in-bitcoins/
Adlai: although i guess that's another one of the lost arts
ben_vulpes: i can never remember this word.
mircea_popescu: yeah derp claimed he can't come because he's got a lunch engagement, then found out that so do i so he suddenly could.
ben_vulpes: <BingoBoingo> thestringpuller: Well ESPN says they paid ESPN in BTC << i thought it was a promise to pay in btc, the paper for which ESPN liquidated immediately
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: pity conformal isn't better known. << how so? << they did all sorts of things for "the community" to be able to use their own stuff, which the community isn't doing because... well i guess more because lazy and stupid, but hey.
diametric: nubbins`: so i'm being led to believe you can produce wood t-shirts for me now, hand carved no less.
asciilifeform: 'changetip,' as i understand, answers two usg desires: 1) injection of tard armies into bitcoin, fodder for gavinization 2) the old, tired 'let's put some names/faces/palmprints/arsebook histories on as many btc addrs as we can'
Adlai: i have no clue
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one of the reasons i took the sweat to set up a civilized routing stack at home
mircea_popescu: i have what the dorks refer to "Fat pipes" on a number of nodes and they still get saturated on occasion.
mircea_popescu: jurov: now i have 40/40 , but back when i had 10mbit uplink, bitcoind sometimes saturated it << this is an universal experience.
asciilifeform: davout: i call him 'mr. spam' because he changed alias with some regularity. and promised to return one day under a yet-new one.
mircea_popescu: felipelalli: but I also found too aggressive the numbers of Gavin. And why do you guys hate Gavin? << you will benefit from reading the logs, also googling "site:trilema.com gavin" might help.
mircea_popescu: chetty: <<< reading various stuffs here on the great blockchain 'fix', I wonder whatever happened to "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" <<< "everyone wants to be a developer" happened. and "everyone should get what they want" also happened.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i was telling a friend the other night that the CIA/FBI acts as the USG mafia, but won't admit to being the mafia. Whereas KGB/Soviets said, "Yea we're the mob, watcha gonna do about it?"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i for one did not expect this to be so brazenly demonstrated, so quickly, as it was.
davout: thestringpuller: yes it does, i have heard that kind of bullshit first hand
thestringpuller: i knew I wasn't cray cray
davout: thestringpuller: i have already heard that from potential investors, these were shown the door
thestringpuller: davout: yea. p. much. Then VC comes in and says, "You may have this much btc on book at anytime" or I guess CFO or whatever. I dunno, I'm not an accountant.
thestringpuller: as all their liabilities are covered as fiat, so I assume assets are handled sameway
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: yea but from what I can gather (i am no expert), would be written as an expense
mircea_popescu: "well fuck you then ? not like i care eiter way ?"
mircea_popescu: not a matter of chumpness tho. suppose dude rings your doorbell dressed as a car mechanic. "yes ?" "hello i'm the pizza delivery". "you don't seem to have any pizza ?" "ha-ha! fooled you! i'm only SAYING im pizza delivery"
thestringpuller: i don't think they are allowed to hold btc as assets, i dunno.
mircea_popescu: i see Blazedout419 ain't answering my q from yest ;/
mircea_popescu: so i coin it biggest!
thestringpuller: i figured it out! gavinandresen and mircea_popescu are the same person!
mircea_popescu: a well. i guess bravery is not a silicon valley virtue.
mircea_popescu: haha wait, soi he had a lunch meeting except once i also had one his was cancelled ?
davout: thestringpuller: i'm grabbing you something