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JuliaTourianski: i said it was flawed in a mailing list and i got some very insulted ancaps on my case
undata: I'm skeptical anyone who ever read a book called "48 Laws of Power" ever had any
JuliaTourianski: i do know the book but i have yet to tread it
JuliaTourianski: berndj i have lately...been a master of this.
JuliaTourianski: I can never be wholly secure. Total liberation in this sense (as Schopenhauer correctly perceived) is conferred only by death.28
JuliaTourianski: "If I save myself from an adversary by retreating indoors and locking every entrance and exit, I may remain freer than if I had been captured by him, but am I freer than if I had defeated or captured him? If I go too far, contract myself into too small a space, I shall suffocate and die. The logical culmination of the process of destroying everything through which I can possibly be wounded is suicide. While I exist
JuliaTourianski: i think him and you agree on more than you think
JuliaTourianski: +asciilifeform yeah, i've been thinking about that.
JuliaTourianski: i think he means interference from governing bodies
mircea_popescu: well yes, i guess you should. much like we can't use unsigned patches for any reason, you can't use undefined jumbles for any thinking.
JuliaTourianski: I quoted something, so I'd have to ask mr. berlin what he means
JuliaTourianski: what do i need to clairfy for you mircea
JuliaTourianski: asciilifeform now that's presumptuous...even though I agree
mircea_popescu: im a sucker for it, what can i say.
BingoBoingo: Sure, figured I'd like the source for the sake of the rest of the stories
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo by exception from the general rule, i actually wanted this one in teh record.
mircea_popescu: "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said.
mircea_popescu: "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied.
JuliaTourianski: actually i am not making presumptions at all. I am admitting to be color blind here
JuliaTourianski: alright I'll be super direct: is freedom possible? and if so, what is it?
JuliaTourianski: meh i dunno. i'm trying to gage some thought that will surprise me maybe
JuliaTourianski: will not do. If I find that I am able to do little or nothing of what I wish, I need only contract or extinguish my wishes, and I am made free. If the tyrant (or 'hidden persuader') manages to condition his subjects (or customers) into losing their original wishes and embracing ('internalising')
JuliaTourianski: "The doctrine that maintains that what I cannot have I must teach myself not to desire, that a desire eliminated, or successfully resisted, is as good as a desire satisfied, is a sublime, but, it seems to me, unmistakable, form of the doctrine of sour grapes: what I cannot be sure of, I cannot truly want. This makes it clear why the definition of negative liberty as the ability to do what one wishes - which is, in e
JuliaTourianski: excatly. which is why i bother ask it here
JuliaTourianski: so change direction from blowjobs, I wanted to ask your thought on this "freedom" we're all obsessed with. i like this critique: "To coerce a man is to deprive him of freedom - freedom from what? Almost every moralist in human history has praised freedom. Like happiness and goodness, like nature and reality, it is a term whose meaning is so porous that there is little interpretation that it seems able to resist"
mircea_popescu: http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kimkgif.gif << next we're gonna learn kim came to the us on a hb1 visa.
mircea_popescu: little over i guess.
asciilifeform: where i live, that buys slightly less than two full 'standard' tanks of petrol.
mircea_popescu: i have yet to meet a female argentinian that's both a) fuckable and b) owner in her own right of $100 worth of monthly income free and clear of any burden.
mircea_popescu: i am not shitting you.
mircea_popescu: this is definitely most of africa, but i suspect most of the us by now, too.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but i can't dispute the poverty bit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: neh, i actually was hoping to hear moar.
jurov: but i am not putting the code in browser
Azelphur: jurov: I wonder if it's a Windows line ending thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the argument i was trying to make is that, when grunting on a prison asteroid, a liter of rocket fuel makes very little difference. only L liters - sufficient for liftoff - will.
xanthyos: i don't understand free markets
mircea_popescu: rithm: it's cryptowall now and from what i can tell it's infected sites like mom & pop's ruinning old WP/drupal/some CMS <<< yeah, stuff the shitheads in question don't maintain, then i have to answer biweekly questions of "is qntra down". off with their heads i say! ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: let's put it this way. a pile of usd without at least seven or eight decimally-significant zeros trailing after it, would make absolutely no difference to how i live. <<< this is like... the definition of poverty!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: jurov: except that i can't use paper usd for anything << do what the soon-to-be-"protected" folk do, use a rechargeable prepaid card lol
mircea_popescu: fucking ignorant derps. "here's a shitpie i made. my investors are ken lay and i'll be making a whipetatter"
mircea_popescu: don't bother with the wot, i'll neg you anyway. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: mrjr: thestringpuller: i'll work on getting my creds in order :) meni rosenfeld is one of our investors, and our cto Shaul Kfir was a reviewer for the sidechain paper. <<< myewah, the surprises keep right on coming
mircea_popescu: mrjr: there's edge cases with malleability etc, but the benefits are that bitcoin operations can have their coins kept in a tx form, not as the information of the privkey << this is so braindamaged i can'teven be bothered.
saifedean: he keeps trying to recruit me to work with him, and i keep trying my best to bluntly explain to him that his whole thing is going to a giant fat zero, and that the best outcome possible for him is to lose only all his money
mircea_popescu: mrjr: multisig is useful to protect access to privkey, by splitting the power of moving funds to 2+ entities. we pre-sign transactions, nlocked in time, and discard the private key. <<< and i know that you do because... you say so ?
saifedean: i'm not too bothered, i don't think he'll muster more than $100 in "investment"
saifedean: UCICOIN, i guess
assbot: Universal Crowd-Funding Investments S.A.L (U.C.I S.A.L) Recently Launched Its Crowd Sale and a Crypto Currency Backed by Real Assets and Now is Looking to Establish a Branch in Switzerland - Yahoo Finance
saifedean: this guy i know who works on atm's is launching his own cryptocurrency! And it's backed by real assets! REAL
mircea_popescu: i guess so.
mircea_popescu: i guess.
mircea_popescu: so, no. not the same. tentacles tho, i guess.
asciilifeform: i'm still waiting to be proven mistaken on this one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: hence, they add up to an act of sabotage. what probably amounts to a hard fork that 'no one' noticed. << i dun think so, fwiw
mircea_popescu: i mean... look at it's tail lol. what's it going to do with that improbable appendage ? how ridoinculous etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i wouldn't. << heh. exactly.
rithm: i can see how something like this plus a ram scraper would be effective
joecool: it's simple but effective tool to pull in all sorts of junk, the case i was called in to look at was actually a POS system :-\
joecool: i got called in to look at an infection that no tool but combofix would pick up, combofix itself would not successfully remove it
rithm: so i need to study
rithm: i review a lot of the desktop stuff, not actually interface with it on the frontlines
rithm: poweliks I'm not familiar with
rithm: in general i have run subscription based-packet filtering firewalls to stop things
joecool: it's been a long time for me, but that was the most sophisticated and difficult infection i've seen, XP was hit really easy with it
rithm: i myself have not deployed my own nefarious variant of that either, no
rithm: i don't see a lot of those infections
rithm: so the payload is a real basic thing, modifying files. i hate it
rithm: the story i hear is Nancy was checking vendor's site and the next thing she knows bam cryptowall
rithm: it's cryptowall now and from what i can tell it's infected sites like mom & pop's ruinning old WP/drupal/some CMS
rithm: i think i've dealt with 5 of those this week
rithm: i had an engineer reinstall windows on a cryptowall pc this week and return it to the client
TomServo: It's extracted? I thought it was just locked inplace.
BingoBoingo: I imagine eventually the ransomware people will start browsing what they've seized
rithm: i shared that with my team
rithm: yeah i was gonna say where is the citation
asciilifeform: apologies if i've given someone, somewhere, the strange notion that i'm interested in parting with my microscopic collection of btc.
asciilifeform: let's put it this way. a pile of usd without at least seven or eight decimally-significant zeros trailing after it, would make absolutely no difference to how i live.
asciilifeform: other thing is, i don't have enough to sell, and present exchange rates being, to really notice the resulting pile of usd, even if it could magically land in my usd piggy without official attention.
xanthyos: i only use paper money for poker games and cannabis
asciilifeform: jurov: i'd be charged tax, most likely
asciilifeform: last farmer's market of the year on my street is tonight, and i shall be buying a few tomatoes possibly with it
asciilifeform: jurov: except that i can't use paper usd for anything
undata: you've angered bitjesus I guess
xanthyos: i hope not^
xanthyos: that's it, i'm gonna blow it all on 1 hand of internet roulette
xanthyos: why does btc always crash the second i buy it
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: can't imagine i'm the only one, though. << you aren't
asciilifeform: can't imagine i'm the only one, though.
asciilifeform: i just deduced it now.
mrjr: i wasnt aware there was politics behind nlock. always considered it as potentially very useful.
punkman: asciilifeform: nlocktime is block height I think
mrjr: did i explain sufficiently the motivation part?
joecool: more robust i guess if an attack wipes him out?
mrjr: I operate a 1000 ATMs, and I have a stash of 10,000 BTC (les pretend i do :) )
asciilifeform: i understand the 'what.' but not the 'why.'
mrjr: i'll take your example and explain
Pierre_Rochard: “i'll work on getting my creds in order :)” <- translation: “I won’t work on that, and here’s an insincere smile to really reinforce what I think of it”
mrjr: i'm also the founder of Bits of Gold, the largest exchange in Israel
mrjr: thestringpuller: i'll work on getting my creds in order :) meni rosenfeld is one of our investors, and our cto Shaul Kfir was a reviewer for the sidechain paper.