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trinque: I'm running at about
a block every 45sec to 1:30 on 339018
trinque: I'll just let it run unless anyone has
a suggestion on how to make it hurry up
danielpbarron: and in my experience, directly connecting to
a node takes longer than just letting it discover peers, even when the direct connect is on the local area network
trinque: anyone have
a fast node I can give deedbot btcd? it's got about
a month left of catching up
PeterL: and I hate the question "how much did your last job pay, and what do you expect to get paid"? Are they going to throw out my resume if I say too high
a number? Obviously they won't go above the number I say, right?
PeterL:
a couple jobs ago, when I interviewed the guy grabbed
a random coworker and asked "don't you like working here", they were like "ummmmmmm, sure?" that should have been
a sign, but I took job anyway
lobbes: which I guess you can't glean from
a computer, so..
PeterL: what is the world coming to when you talk to
a computer instead of
a person when interviewing for
a job?
PeterL: just did
a "digital job interview" with BASF, consisted of just recording
a video of me answering the typical interview questions.
pete_dushenski: and alan "not
a us agent" silbert is already pleading ignorance: "I don't recall- has the market ever gone down AFTER these auctions occur? B/c I don't think anybody buying at auction would dump them on mkt"
assbot: You need an Ambien to sleep because you bought the trappings of power instead of the real thing. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1G3b1V6 )
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this point may be worth
a qntra ? not exactly news, per se, but certainly would be news to
a large section of "community"
mircea_popescu: nubbins`:is anyone interested in donating
a modicum of bandwidth to such
a thing? << it's
a kind-of stupid idea because
a presynched chain is not verified.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron btw, send me some pile of pogoplugs pics when you have
a moment.
mircea_popescu: nevermind that zenglish looks kinda like hungarian, and if he wanted zs for j and sz for sh he should just learn that instead of inventing "
a new one".
mircea_popescu: btw, i bet you half
a dead badger someone ejaculated on vs any trading card mythological beast that this entire z-ification of words is
a ploy by some well connected (online) otaku to improve the scrabble board.
mircea_popescu: it's
a concept hard to zunderstand zfor zthe zretard zcrowd, however let us say it's "sort-of like likes", in that there's kind-of
a limited supply.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: it's
a hobby << you and danielpbarron have
a lot more in common than either of you realise.
Adlai: guy walking down
a hedge, hears chanting behind
a gap - "twenty one! twenty one! twenty one!"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla whoever next complains gets saddled with doing it for
a month ?
kakobrekla: anyway theres 20 bashes waiting for moderation if someone wants to give it
a go..
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: "And if some high official, such as the president, says zhe will use gender-neutral pronouns for zher own writing, and ask that those writing to zhim do so also, that would provide
a powerful boost." << conversely, if some hehigh officialman such as the manpresidentguy fucked
a dog^H^H^H bitch
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes wouldja be happier if there was
a rng added to the vote counts ? :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: either
a 'loose lips' or - more likely - ancient disinfo reworked for www << that.
mod6: "Stop that! Get me
a latte!"
thestringpuller: Well you had ninjas and shit
a millenium ago. Now you have "poor replication" or ninja.
mircea_popescu: decimation: < 'leadership' at its finest << no, he has
a point, and it's perhaps the first time i've seen obama say something intelligent.
thestringpuller: Or at least
a good one. Spies have gotten better methinks.
mircea_popescu: and im pretty sure the us had this too, even if i wasn't there t o witness, for reasons like the beginning of gate's career, when he was
a whiny turd outcast at computer conventions.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: when has it ever been easy to spot
a mole?
mircea_popescu: it's not so much
a "i want those guys back" as it is "i want the situaiton where being 20 and into computers was more distinctive than any other thing - and you could spot
a govt mole from
a mile away"
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu:
a large portion of the insecurity today is due to the fact that people like poettering CAN be involved.
nubbins`: was actually wondering if
a specific thing'd come up
mircea_popescu: but regardless, that's not how death comes to it. death comes to it like bitcoin came to the usd : first, it's
a toy.
jurov: when there's
a restaurant 1000x faster?
mircea_popescu: if the only way to make
a secure signature is to take
a day to do it, heck, you'll take
a day.
jurov: how long it takes
a z80 to make or verify ECDSA signature?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but to somehow lay out electrical logic elements at the customary densities << you're right that it's the wrong thought, and also, "customary" - honestly even making something like
a z80, as long as it can be made at home, with equipment costing about what
a z80 cost, is well worth it.
mircea_popescu: no one says you need
a dielectric with conductive masks, you could use
a conductor with dielectric masks ?
mircea_popescu: holy shit trilema was discussing the "hard drtives discovery"
a year ago ?
mircea_popescu: "Yet another article describing what we've known for
a while : secure computing is in fact rendered impossible by the hardware itself, what with DMAi, what with defective separation of controlii with CPUs embedded in all the peripherals anyway and so on and so forth."
PeterL: her can be equivalent to him or his, because English is not
a very systematic language
PeterL: "she was walking her dog down street, gave her
a treat", "he was walking down the street with his dog, gave him
a treat"
danielpbarron: "Zhe was walking zher dog down the street and then gave zhim
a treat." << couldn't it be "Zhe was walking zher dog .. and gave zher
a treat" ?
PeterL: but it's been
a while since I read Chaucer, so I might be wrong
danielpbarron: adding
a 'z' to
a word doesn't magically transform it into
a gender neutral term any more than adding
a cape to
a retard magically enables him, excuse me, zhim to fly
nubbins`: thestringpuller "trusted" is
a relative term, yo!
nubbins`: "The thing is, I don't think there will ever be mass adoption of the system as it exist today. The 'average Joe' will be using some payment processor and not the blockchain directly. So the blockchain will have transactions from payment processors and early adopters/enthusiasts. The rest will be in closed systems and/or side chains that can solve
a lot of the volume issues."
danielpbarron: "Thanks. This is very enlightening and reveals the true motivations behind Mircea Popescu objections. He has made an investment in up to 10k nodes that would be obsolete if Gavin pushes through his hard fork. Why doesn't he honestly bring to the community these concerns as one of his principle motivations so we can try and find
a solution together? The fact that he is not being forthright with this concern is troubling to sa
danielpbarron: "What is sad is that they are supposedly scrambling to setup 10k nodes to prevent this hardfork when all they will succeed if they aren't bluffing is an alt with 10k nodes and less than 1-2% hashing power. Hopefully they have some developers on hand to quickly change the difficulty retarget limit so they have
a usable , albeit very insecure alt."
danielpbarron: according the the forum's wisdom, we should have used
a unit that can be upgraded to support 20MB blocks
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: kinda speaks to the need for
a disposable btc addr you can use to get yourself !up
danielpbarron: nubbins`, you set off
a mythology about the pogo; some guy on the forum keeps telling everyone about the "ten thousand nodes" that MP is gonna use to stop the fork
nubbins`: kinda tempted to buy like
a hundred
nubbins`: there was
a thread on reddit the other day
danielpbarron: well if they aren't reporting
a greater version then they might as well not be using it (the version is used to decide with the fork, hard or soft, happens)
nubbins`: *i'm* suggesting we seed
a blockchain torrent 8)
kakobrekla: you cant know its
a neg if you dont compute it
nubbins`: is anyone interested in donating
a modicum of bandwidth to such
a thing?
nubbins`: danielpbarron now there's
a torrent i'd seed
jurov: that is
a bit misleading imo
danielpbarron: but the blue unit might be
a good device for
a pre-synched chain copied in
jurov: kakobrekla: that's
a bit misleading, rather put "-" instead of the zeros
danielpbarron: well i think you'll have
a very hard time syncing considering harddisk read write is the bottleneck
danielpbarron: i don't know much about systemd except that it's hated in here, and in "top" *everything* is
a subprocess of it..
nubbins`: currently serving files from
a 1.5tb drive
kakobrekla: for some reason i thought you wanted strictly level 2 list - it actually takes
a couple of min to generate. full dump would take
a second.
nubbins`: jurov does god have
a peepee or
a slit?
nubbins`: i prefer to use "they" as
a gender neutral pronoun
BingoBoingo: "And if some high official, such as the president, says it will use gender-neutral pronouns for its own writing, and ask that those writing to it do so also, that would provide
a powerful boost." << Ther fixed with objectification
nubbins`: "And if some high official, such as the president, says zhe will use gender-neutral pronouns for zher own writing, and ask that those writing to zhim do so also, that would provide
a powerful boost."
BingoBoingo: Wait, that's
a gender neutral thing? I thought it was
a Prussian thing.
nubbins`: yeah, because you'd say "gave one
a treat", not "gave it
a treat"
nubbins`: "The pronoun “one” would not do here: “One was walking one’s dog down the street and then gave one
a treat”"