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mircea_popescu: whenever one in my wot wants to see what i'm up to he should connect to trilema, read "plain text" of the pgp -w ilk above, that's it.
mircea_popescu: gossipd must work on a pull model. exactly like old ml.
mircea_popescu: there is absolutely no reason for gossipd to work on a push model of data transfer.
mircea_popescu: also, thinking about it, it occurs to me that the model we've been using to think about gossipd is fundamentally broken.
mircea_popescu: http://41.media.tumblr.com/f6fb0182c1c97705d919e96620c0b328/tumblr_mkdgmbT4Yz1rl2t88o1_500.png
mircea_popescu: "monopoly is real life" if you will, who cares.
mircea_popescu: as long as she sucks the cock and you buy her food, who the fuck cares what you call it.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/the-pgp-w-mode/ << re the previous aborted thread.
mircea_popescu: trying to sell "shares" in their "future". as if.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski in fairness i saw this for years in worthless dumbass "artists"
mircea_popescu: it's complicated.
mircea_popescu: so said doctor ratched.
mircea_popescu: shit, i never even knew pizza went in paper in the first place.
mircea_popescu: the only problem with this "abundance perspective" being thgat the measure often is something as retarded as "how large the grease spot on the paper is"
mircea_popescu: yes, arguably the individual wonderbread slice is slightly larger in some measurement than the pizza slice.
mircea_popescu: or else a slab of wonderbread dipped in palm oil with petrocheese and some fenyl-flavouring split in 32
mircea_popescu: the options are either hand-made pizza out of wheat flour with actual anchovies, olives and proper cheese, split in 8
mircea_popescu: IT ACTUALLY REDUCES THE QUALITY OF THE PIZZA ITSELF.
mircea_popescu: adding more people not only reduces the available slices through them eating it,
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski except it doesn't grow the god damned pizza.
mircea_popescu: meh this is getting too complicated. ima trilema it.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, re the eventual republican reimplementation of pgp : other than the -a armored mode, i want it to also have a -w armored mode. in this mode, it should load a list of lines from a file, modulo the message by the line count of that file, replace every numeric unit with the respective line,
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo http://dpaste.com/3RBV6HG
mircea_popescu: heck, i'm going to write it up.
mircea_popescu: "the man who helped spawn the whole debate" and all teh other avatars of usg wooden tongue in full display.
mircea_popescu: in other news, disgraced gavin of "global warming" movement moves on to alt-kook : https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/another-danger-of-climate-change-giant-flying-boulders/2015/11/27/81bdf026-9384-11e5-b5e4-279b4501e8a6_story.html
mircea_popescu: always one more safety
mircea_popescu: ah yes.
mircea_popescu: the other two should be coming back today.
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/ujuD8 https://archive.is/Nn7UY
mircea_popescu: jurov which ones don't you see ?
mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/229BH6T << technologee. by idiots, for idiots. sweet jebus already.
mircea_popescu: and guess where the derp with drm in java figured he'd float up ? yeah, that's right. https://twitter.com/robertjhansen/status/542349213963538433
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo just don't give yourself pneumonia before you get moar kids in the qntra mines!
mircea_popescu: what, on the internet ? scam.
mircea_popescu: a, not so good.
mircea_popescu: whatcha got, the cock-tail flu BingoBoingo ?
mircea_popescu: !up liquidass_etf
mircea_popescu: nuts.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck waits to get off the plane.
mircea_popescu: ie, to get into the plane.
mircea_popescu: punkman pass on through to where, the tarmac ?
mircea_popescu: heck, i lived in a time when people smoked on planes, to no detriment.
mircea_popescu: you're there anyway.
mircea_popescu: if they're going to make show you up x hours early because security theatre, might as well spend them wasting their time.
mircea_popescu: i lived in a time when travel took more than "boarding"
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://49.media.tumblr.com/533c977fddf73c21bd0567261c859082/tumblr_mhr16f0jAD1rk5elko1_1280.gif
mircea_popescu: sit around in govt checkout booth, then go for a slutwalk and mcdonalds takeout.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-11-2015#1333314 << they can spent everyone's time, because that's what everyone there wants to do with their time anyway. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that the conflict in europe was the smaller half of the conflict.
mircea_popescu: i seem to remember that according to the pravda, russia won ww2 all by itself also
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-11-2015#1333296 << what's so "concerning" about this ? the neonazi retcons were driven by people who didn't own the printing presses. the usg retcon is driven by the usg, just like the soviet retcon was driven by the soviets. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: looks like some dns issue.
mircea_popescu: http://mpex.ws/
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-11-2015#1333261 << word. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-11-2015#1333255 << yeah, probably a good way to start 2016, write it all down think it all through. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-11-2015#1333250 << that's the punishment for the competent. more work. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-11-2015#1333245 << this then doubles as both a dos avenue (your upstream router can say packets come from any ips it wishes to say they came from) and a dos avenue (the wot member in question will no longer be able to connect now) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: but instead here, http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/migtpmjv/california-northern-district-court/usa-v-su/ have a lol at chinese woman trying to get her fambly across.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field that was before the courts were usefully digitized. the only thing in the online docket matching is http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/2er0oxs6v/california-northern-district-court/usa-v-trafford/
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=22-05-2015#1143203 << lettuce re-introduce this into the record. One Robert J. Hansen goes to california to help some derp make drm for the palm pilot ; gets scammed and ass raped. while this is exactly what he deserves, the story of his suffering is nevertheless instructive. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: see, had you stolen and sold some soviet tanks for scrap in 2009 you could have moved to ba in 2013 and been looking for an engineer to join your workshop today.
mircea_popescu: aha.
mircea_popescu: that was back when it "worked"
mircea_popescu: no, that was before nefario, theymos, goat & the rest of the friends split.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/134654389322.png
mircea_popescu: going on five years by now.
mircea_popescu: not really, started by glbse, maintained by every single non-mpex "bitcoin business" to date.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to reassure teh investors : s.nsa actually does have 456.01462284 in cash, should the company be wound down today it would distribute ~9626 satoshi per share to investors.
mircea_popescu: apparently the "lose half your money" thing is still with the btc public huh.
mircea_popescu: company with 9980 satoshi/share in capital on the books nevertheless trading at 5500. now that's one hell of a performance.
mircea_popescu: ;;calc 472.76008500 / 4737075
mircea_popescu: myeah, trading at ~50% discount.
mircea_popescu: what was the par, 10000 iirc ?
mircea_popescu: !t m s.nsa
mircea_popescu: uh
mircea_popescu: !s m s.nsa
mircea_popescu: consequently, it could hire 10 million, today.
mircea_popescu: as judged by the open market.
mircea_popescu: unlike any other concern, s.nsa pays everyone ~100% of what theyr work is worth
mircea_popescu: s.nsa can afford an infitnity of engineers.
mircea_popescu: anyway, in the even keeled view of the matter, a person can only be participating in one death march at a time. since you're working with some other company, and it doesn't seem to be wanting to list itself, we need an engineer actually working for s.nsa ?
mircea_popescu: i gotta do something, lest i get fired.
mircea_popescu knows that he's supposed to be doing management for the thing and has no product whatsoever to show the investors THREE years later! this is the 3rd xmas.
mircea_popescu: i suppose s.nsa should actually hire more engineers ? whadda ya think ?
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
mircea_popescu: but if your thoughts are figured out before you sell the thing, you will forever be looking for a job.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field just think of this beautiful illustration of doing > thinking. just like you had your thoughts figured out by someone else, so will WE have these figured out by someone else. endlessly.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me if we were in 1715 you'd have been the sort that actually distinguished the slaves.
mircea_popescu: yes. the gang of "out of wot idiots".
mircea_popescu: the next one will be called something else, and so on.
mircea_popescu: doesn't matter. did anyone buy's 21co's PREVIOUS potato, when it was called neobee or w/e the shit it was called ?
mircea_popescu: not even funny.
mircea_popescu: as it is, it's free marketing for "21co"'s next potato.
mircea_popescu: if only we had a cardano ready to ship so this discussion could double as marketing for the s.nsa next product.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field precisely.
mircea_popescu: soac = soc = system on a chip
mircea_popescu: the motherboard has some memory on-board for the indexing and internal kitchening, and otherwise you maximize the strengths of ddr while escaping all drawbacks
mircea_popescu: the whole txn memory mapping could be a soac thing, and you just plug memory sticks into it which each becomes a ring.