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mircea_popescu: "i know, let's pay bob from Consultancy DerpAces LLC a million funbux so he can write an AI expert system that'll generate the text our readers would have put out! Save them the trouble!"
mircea_popescu: yeah i guess for a spherical vacuum earthquake it may help.
Apocalyptic: I was just merely showing a theoretical model where it does work
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, yeah, I assumed a simple, uniform, vertical translation as the movement
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> its strength is linear in I << think about it. your field, want it or not, is a field. A field.
Apocalyptic: bounce, never I have seen the word "fixed"
bounce: that doesn't mean that a big large fixed magnetic field will magically cushion any and all vibration, which I understand was the point
Apocalyptic: its strength is linear in I
jurov: mircea_popescu ...runs code for a third party...<< this is same problem as DRM, i.e. you meed to prevent hardware owner to mucking out with third party code
thestringpuller: thats all i got
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Other oulets reported that already. I remember thickasthieves making fun of them.
BingoBoingo: I mean there's the Gavin Q/A, people recycling yesterday's news, and... is anything else happening?
undata: that's what I was referring to above re: apps
undata: I was proceeding from the point about war
mircea_popescu: <gabriel_laddel> thestringpuller: where are you finding those dumps? I ended up writing a scraper... << twas in the chan like n times, but : bitcoin-otc.com/otc/
bounce: no, and I'd like to keep it that way, TYVM
bounce: I'd say the predictability is the more valued property there
bounce: I ment that layer 7 still needs the lower layers to function, it doesn't float in air
othernubs`: tell me i'm wrong ;)
mircea_popescu: bounce i dunno how.
mircea_popescu: othernubs` i tell you, i love my gold ink cards.
asciilifeform: i have a very special, very deep loathing for 'kickstart' sc4mz0rs. especially of this particular species.
kakobrekla: <Adlai> so just as gavin is doing his AMA, i get a request to buy coins from "gavi". < you be in wrong channels
Adlai: although admittedly i've spent a grand total of about fifteen seconds trying
pakaloloz: I do think this may be as DPB says "#badforbitcoin"
Adlai: so just as gavin is doing his AMA, i get a request to buy coins from "gavi". coincidence? i think not!
xanthyos: i'm not a collector
xanthyos: nevermind i dont' need this
othernubs`: they're neat, i'll sell ya one
kakobrekla: RagnarDanneskjol if you can put them in order i can include them online (before the log starts)
othernubs`: outdoor irc, here i cum
othernubs`: ah, i forgot you can disable the backlight on this thing
diametric: maybe i'm mistaken but doesn't the white paper basically state a hard fork will be required in the future to address scalability?
assbot: gavinandresen comments on I'm Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation. Ask me anything!
RagnarDanneskjol: kakobrekla - sorry nevermind -apparently Azelphur has everything logged since the beginning of time. I can throw it up somewhere for whoevers wants it
chetty: I think we're very close on all of those things.
Adlai: as much as the timecube's four days revolve around the WoT, I wouldn't be surprised if most of the people who have heard about the hardfork proposal haven't heard any competing argument against it
mircea_popescu: i'm all for it, the level of either cluelessness or desperation such a move entails is promising.
mircea_popescu: i totally wish to read more idiocy from this gavin puppet.
bounce: ``I'd rather not speculate in an open forum about the best ways to screw with Bitcoin.'' (Perish_In_a_Fire) -- aww.
kakobrekla: i can make a zip
mircea_popescu: <othernubs`> ;;later tell asciilifeform http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=CZvVKFM9 <<< i like this shit.
othernubs`: ;;later tell asciilifeform http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=CZvVKFM9
pete_dushenski: i think that's all the catching up for now.
undata: eh, I'll get there
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he did say 'I've yet to make a pile' - suggestive of the usual lament of folks who despair of ever buying their freedom
mircea_popescu: i mean... how many east germans joined west germany ? ... all of em ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno, but i dun believe so.
undata: but I've yet to make a pile, so that comes first
undata: as for me, I keep myself moving hoping to strike at the thing myself someday
undata: mircea_popescu: I've seen it happen to friends brighter than I am.
mircea_popescu: i dun get it.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of knc, check out what i found : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170332.msg1776663#msg1776663
ben_vulpes: but i keep coming back to "i only want to know the balances and histories of these addresses"
ben_vulpes: i'm trying to think of sensible use cases
asciilifeform: i specified - minimum.
asciilifeform: ^ this is not merely a printer's job; i can abide neither haphazardly broken lines nor miniscule print.
mircea_popescu: but i like everything. i suppose i should spell it out huh.
mircea_popescu: undata da fuck do i care about their taxes.
asciilifeform: decimation: i distinctly remember reading this earlier.
undata: mircea_popescu: what makes you like Argentina? Things like wealth taxes don't convey a sense of respect for private property, though I can see how that'd be irrelevant to BTC wealth
mircea_popescu: nah, i'll tell you what describes 90% of usg.
decimation: asciilifeform: I suspect 'armchair general' describes 90% of usg
decimation: well, it's certainly the case that someone needs to have the 'big picture' in mind and issue instructions, I would think
decimation: I remember when google took over the old usenet archives, thought they would make them useful rather than let them rot
gabriel_laddel: decimation: It's by far the best I've found on UNIX. I've no LispM experiences and so can only imagine.
decimation: gabriel_laddel: yeah, emacs likes to claim 'self-documenting' but I find the quality of documentation to be pretty poor
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: wish i could remember where, though
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: yes, i linked to this on many occasions
assbot: I started to reply at length to the many misstatements in your message. I don - Pastebin.com
gabriel_laddel: wrong link above. apparently I recorded it by hand. I couldn't find the quote I had intended to post by googling, so here it is: http://pastebin.com/AnDwtySY from Emacs.
decimation: I strongly suspect that spending more money on nsa is going to be politically untenable for the near future
decimation: yeah I agree. how can a factory that can produce chips which rival intel's lithography 'lose money'?
asciilifeform: decimation: thing is, this is not like you or i paying a junkman $100 to be rid of an ancient car
undata: asciilifeform: regarding the format wars post, I've fantasized about choosing to build for the canvas tag and forgetting the rest of the browser entirely
decimation: really? I thought one had to download from the crazy lisp package repo
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform decimation i think it quite likely that once nubsy gets on you'll get your book.
asciilifeform: i'd pay quadruple for an intelligently-commented 'Lions Book'-style item
asciilifeform: and chances are i'm not the only one.
asciilifeform: at any rate, i would genuinely like that book. if someone wishes to make it happen.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck knows. i coulda sworn.
mircea_popescu: so you're saying i have hallucinated this ?!
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I doubt it, that would be crazy << o yeah ? THE WALLET FILE WAS UNENCRYPTED.
decimation: the code is out there for reading though, I suppose
decimation: I doubt it, that would be crazy
ben_vulpes: decimation: i imagined something like that, yeah.
AdamIR2: On that note... I need to go back and so some work. Thanks for your questions.
AdamIR2: I realise now you were talking about Michael Go, and his involvement with MMADX several years ago. I don't know the details of his involvement with that, but it is not connected with Independent Reserve.
AdamIRAway: mircea_popescu... I've just been trying to get some context regarding what you were saying before... I thought you were referring to something Lasanka had been involved with...
BingoBoingo: I remember his printer rant
mircea_popescu: AdamIRAway anyway, i think i get the basic idea. it's not bad or anything. get in the wot so bitcoin people have a direct point of contact and other than that, time will tell.
AdamIRAway: Sorry they haven't been to your liking, I will be happy to leave if it's not welcome.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Nao I have more to read
AdamIRAway: RagnarDanneskjol... I was invited here, and asked questions.
AdamIRAway: Secondly, we aren't using any software from Admiral Markets or MMDX, not a single line of code, I don't know what systems they've used previously. Our systems have been developed in-house over the past 15 months.
AdamIRAway: First of all, I'm not involved in any waay with MMDX - I hadn't heard of them until you mentioned it.
AdamIRAway: mircea_popescu... I think you have the wrong idea about several points.
mircea_popescu: now my thinking is that you couldn't have spent very long making a dedicated platform, seeing how this just happened this year, so you're either reusing one or the other. i somehow doubt it's admiral's platform, so prolly im guessing mmdx's ?
mircea_popescu: yes. the context is like so : an old time forex broker with a kind-of mlm-y past that used to do metals and everything got together with a guy that had a company that was going to trade debt advertised then suddenly disappeared. they hired a coupla software dudes (you and the Przelozny) and a very clueless legal chick with no practice. in this context, i'm trying to figure out exactly how did said debt trading platform
AdamIRAway: decimation... I'm not sure how you interpreted my statement to reach that viewpoint. We take both our USD and XBT reserves very seriously, and will be looking to provide cryptograhic proof of our Bitcoin reserves shortly.