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mircea_popescu: but, the discussion is in the logs, you can traverse it by searching. prolly
a good start as any :
bagehot: Where I can go to get the gory details on how the interesting parts of the bitcoin source code are implemented and why those interesting bits actually work cryptographically and in
a game-theory sense. I think its pretty incredible that
a bunch of people can credibly store tokens of considerable value on
a decentralized, digital network.
bagehot: Cool, yeah, that'll save me
a day of googling, thanks
bagehot: On
a related note, can anyone suggest
a site collecting major papers on the technical and analytical details of bitcoins?
bagehot: the keys used to keep bitcoins
a store of value are.
mircea_popescu: "Perchlorate is not
a common word in the English language; all of us had to go and look it up," << pls resign now.
mircea_popescu: re: electronic bits. funny what's left once
a major empire collapses. japan used to own the electronics trade. and they still do, except... it's mostly moved away from the stuff they make.
mircea_popescu: decimation actually traders use
a very similar thing to replace phones
decimation: yeah, and companies like murata that have
a corner on ceramic filters, etc
decimation: asciilifeform: supposedly panasonic has
a good reputation in the passives market
cazalla: on one hand i get it, ya don't want random drunks coming in carrying on while you're having
a conversation, but they are easily muted
cazalla: which is what i was gonna do last night ya know, bit of
a chit chat, bit of
a yarn but nope, gotta wait in some other room to be screened
mike_c: they aren't pretending to be bigshots, it's just
a bunch of TA's derping around
cazalla: once he's locked up, perhaps i'll write him
a letter asking why he didn't fight extradition
trinque: maybe it's
a calculated targeting of such and so, but I think the mindless bloodlust of american culture also plays
a part
BingoBoingo: davout: Floppies though are purely passive. You need to bring
a drive to the disk. SD incorporates the drive.
davout: i thought is was dropped altogether
a while ago
danielpbarron: i don't see how it could possibly be enforced in
a meaningful way, except to hassle people who are on the badlist
davout: danielpbarron: the ban on crypto export is still
a thing?
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 17:04:39; danielpbarron: i am chatting from debian-on-
a-pogo -- it's very nice, and if anyone wants such
a machine I highly recommend it
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 16:27:54; ben_vulpes: "yes it's entirely
a good idea to lock everyone from ages 8-18 up with each other and nobody else, that won't promptly lead to all sorts of pathologies."
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:39:12; gabriel_laddel: nubbins`: the language doesn't help. For example,
a chinese mathematics undergrad from Peking U. I know thought that using
a computer algebra system to do mathematics was "cheating". Person in question had no notion of "playing with mathematics". This is more of
a cultural thing, but much of human thought is captured in language.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051816 << while much of human thought is in fact captured in language (and i'm too lazy to hunt for the "language is really
a shared preprocessor to crutch the supid" threads), nevertheless that is strictly bad schooling. it has nothing to do with the kid, or his language, it'll wash out of him within
a coupla years.
☝︎ trinque: it's not working for
a decade and building an empire; no no, it's "got it all, like it was nothing"
mircea_popescu: or i guess that harry potter fanfic writer guy w/e his name was is
a better example of the principle, alf dictis.
mircea_popescu: obviously
a solution that encourages them to do shit on their own is even better, but generally "solutioners" are do-ocracists in the modlbug sense : they're chiefly tryting to build themselves
a "4chan is not your army" army.
NewLiberty: The misinformation from d.
a.r.e. probably led to more usage overall
NewLiberty: asciilifeform: Whaleclub is
a bunch of non-whales trying to be mini whales by 24hour chatting their trades.
mircea_popescu: davout i don't think he's even racist per se, not enough development of some sort of pseudogeneticist crackpottery. he's just angry in
a diffuse sense.
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:16:03; nubbins`: and we all know that
a society of hedonists is
a good society indeed
davout: cazalla: nobody'll judge you for being
a racist alcoholic
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:15:53; gabriel_laddel: the political position of "they're cattle, we're not" is totally
A OK.
cazalla: c'mon i was rambling after
a bottle of wine, i don't want to be reminded of last night!
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:10:52; cazalla: still, i can't help but feel affection for
a homogeneous society like japan.. fucking mudslimes and other ethnics have destroyed australia within
a generation
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 13:08:37; cazalla: anyway, one might argue, and i did try, that /pol/ is
a short stop otw to #b-
a mircea_popescu: and re latest trilema article : someone check the html of
a page, whadda ya think ?
mircea_popescu: now THAT is
a story of "sixteen tons and what do you get". you get to be four foot tall and with adaptive modifications of the spine.
davout: asciilifeform: that's kind of the point of
a day job
cazalla: mircea_popescu, they don't sell them locally, i am hopeful i can buy
a plug it in and away it goes pogo from here once that is sorted
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 12:56:57; cazalla: the big mistake i made was getting
a woman pregnant prior to living with her.. things were all fine and dandy while i had my own place and could fuck her and send her home after the fact
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 12:53:40; cazalla: and i am stuck using fucking electrum since then because for some reason, since bitcoin-qt 0.10.0 came out, my old 0.8.3, 0.8.6 throws errors and i can't fully sync and even lame attempt to try 0.10.0 falls flat.. i think maybe memory is fucked though unrelated, memtest86 throws
a bunch of errors
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 12:49:43; cazalla: you guys criticise the mancave but seriously, when the missus and the kid push you out of the masterbedroom due to lack of sleep and then push you out the kids room which was turned into makeshift computer room but needs it back because apparently
a pig pen isn't big enough for him now, you might appreciate the man cave aka cold ass garage
mircea_popescu: davout except now you'll have to add
a proof of toilet.
mircea_popescu: "The Bitcoin protocol, when implemented correctly, has
a degree of sybil resistance when it comes to partitioning and double-spend risk as an attacker must get _all_ your connections for those attacks, but this kind of activity can really violate user privacy since privacy attacks don't need to get all your connections; especially for SPV nodes which liberally broadcast their wallet addresses to nodes that they're usin
cazalla: i guess he forked #b-
a or osmething
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 12:34:36; cazalla: worse, TaT masquerades as bitcoinassets on it and is
a mod to boot
mircea_popescu: they still do this ? i thought it was mostly
a great leap forward into
a brick wall phenoimenon
mircea_popescu: weird. "for your convenience, we have packed five half-resistence resistors separately, to bring the average to
a 5% tolerance as you required"
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: re "standardization without permission" << it looks like bastardization. who the fuck says, "Security should not be the defining feature of
a service". Does this roughly translate to: "CSS everywhere."
thestringpuller: from:
http://blog.cryptoconsortium.org/contributing-to-the-ccss/ "There are many ways in which you can help contribute to the CryptoCurrency Security Standard. While security experts have an obvious avenue for contributing, the standard also needs help from graphic designers, language translators, and proofreaders too, just to name
a few." this is what permissionless innovation looks like in da infancy
mircea_popescu: this is obviously
a plain requisite for any government-proof system of anything.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, "bbs where every user runs his own nntp server" is
a)
a better implementation of irc, which is
a better implementation of bbs, which is dead tech and b) exactly where gossipd is going.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda incredible to me that the entire intellectual production of the usg crowd is limited to merely rehashing points debunked within
a week or two of the "controversy".
mircea_popescu: it's like boring boring b-
a boring b-
a b-
a boring etc.
mircea_popescu: hahaha it was just pointed out to me that if you google for pretty much anything to do with btc b-
a is probably in the results, and if you click over to images there's definitely some b-
a ladies in there.
mircea_popescu takes advantage of b-
a to refresh his electronics knowledge :D
mircea_popescu: is there some way to connect
a resistor in an unpowered, unshorted circuit so that i can't measure it without unmounting it ?
mircea_popescu: yes hon, but you didn't get 207.5 parts for
a 210 part
mircea_popescu: there's
a definite age gap. kids born pre 1990 are more different from kids born after than slave owners from slaves in the deep south cca 1790
mircea_popescu: well, not regardless of what animal, but unless someone shoots
a unicorn it will not be unicorn meat.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if that's where it's at, danielpbarron has
a point. gotta get it running, somehow.
danielpbarron: i am chatting from debian-on-
a-pogo -- it's very nice, and if anyone wants such
a machine I highly recommend it
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