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decimation: asciilifeform: you wouldn't prefer
a slice of 'velveeta' to
a block of cheddar of known provenance?
mircea_popescu: i have seen this irl, incidentally. lots of traditional products come in no box. such as smoked trout in pine leaf, or
a certain type of cheese in pine bark
mircea_popescu: but notice the guy who essentially says, "i can not eat this butter because it doesn't come in
a properly labelled box"
decimation: in theory,
a libertarian is in favor of freedom from the state, but in practice they generally find themselves to be enslaved by statist liberals
mircea_popescu: /r/anarcho-stuff does not like me because it is not directly clear what side of
a meaningless debate i favor!
decimation: I suspect one can learn much about malware by putting out
a few honeypots
mircea_popescu: "Hello, My name is Manikanteswar, Business Executive Media Buying for Capslock Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd (www.capslocknetwork.com), one of the biggest upcoming Ad Network in the Industry. I'm contacting you as we are looking for inventory like yours and we are ready to discuss the terms of
a very profitable partnership. "
BingoBoingo: I have not tried it, but it seems like the most computer you can get for the equivalent of
a fifth of Evan Williams
BingoBoingo: Or at least somewhat adequate computer for
a fifth of cheap whiskey
mircea_popescu: "I think we should target somebody with
a "pretty good" computer and
a "pretty good" home internet connection."
cazalla: BingoBoingo, is that FSF
a good troll or what?
mircea_popescu: "If bitcoin costs 4 dollars to teleport "virtual gold" , I'm going to switch to an alt that can allow me to teleport another form of "virtual gold" for
a couple pennies."
mircea_popescu: why does gavin behave exactly like
a cheap forum scammor ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla lol they made
a new one without all the inconvenient stuff in it ?
BingoBoingo: I believe the technical term is "Circlejerk" as in formally with
a bunch of fellows sitting around
a bottle of lube they all Herp their Derp
decimation: why didn't you bring your concerns to the community so they can try and find
a solution together?
decimation: asciilifeform: you are
a seditionist apparently
decimation: !rate midnightmagic 1 is not
a seditionist
hanbot: nah, apparently that one wasn't indecent enough for
a year of jail
mircea_popescu: this ensures that trying to ram-dos the node would require as many different nodes as
a fifth of the total number of blocks it can hold.
mircea_popescu: something simple like, "whenever
a parentless block is handed over the retaining of which would cause memory pool for holding parentless blocks to be overrun,
a) drop the handed block ; b) close the connection and ban that peer for half hour ; c) discard all chains of parentless blocks longer than six items ; d) connect again"
☟︎ ben_vulpes: it's almost as though the satoshi codebase were
a projection of software that knows how to talk to the one! true! bitcoin protocol.
ben_vulpes:
a coherent vision of how all of the parts interact, the emergent behaviors of the system and
a robustish bit of software that can make sense of the system.
ben_vulpes:
a thing i learned about engineering when i was...oh, six...was that the steam engine doesn't just work because doodz sat and tweaked at it until everything went around just rightly.
hanbot: ben_vulpes it's
a trap!
ben_vulpes: there's an interesting configuration of the trays where the center of gravity of the top tray is balances the CoG of the bottom tray. this requires torquing the whole assembly such that the CoG's go in
a funny place.
ben_vulpes: toolbox on the table has
a top tray and
a bottom tray, connected by parallel braces, mounted at identically-spaced points on both trays. trays move on an arc defined by mechanisms constraints.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the logical thing to do, for it, would be to jettison the entire orphanage if approaching the hard limit << this may be
a good idea, if actually something's needed.
mircea_popescu: if oyu carefully read the log, you'll see
a couple explicitly exposed tho.
mircea_popescu: We are determined to meet these threats through infiltration, disruption, and dismantling of organizations which seek to challenge the legitimacy of our democratic form of government.‘ << this part is the funniest, incidentally, considering the APPALLING record of usg agents trying to infiltrate
a god damnd public channel so far.
mircea_popescu: come to think of it... bitcoin not being money, not really
a good... clearly it is
a SUBSTANCE, right ?
mircea_popescu: "The federal government has never won
a sedition case against militia-types, white supremacists, or neo-Nazis. Since World War I, they have won numerous seditious conspiracy cases against Puerto Rican independentistas, communists and others on the left, but no one on the radical right has ever been convicted of plotting to overthrow by force of arms the government of the United States."
mircea_popescu: "Three members pled guilty to possessing
a machine gun and were sentenced to time served."
mircea_popescu: apparently quite alive and kicking, as
a legal device.
mircea_popescu: Laura Berg,
a nurse at
a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in New Mexico was investigated for sedition in September 2005 after writing
a letter to the editor of
a local newspaper, accusing several national leaders of criminal negligence. Though their action was later deemed unwarranted by the director of Veteran Affairs, local human resources personnel took it upon themselves to request an FBI investigation.
trinque: midnightmagic: what in the fuck treason do you think you've committed by being within earshot of
a discussion of history
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "he bitchslapped the officer with
a large print version of the complete tax code"
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: I'm not surprised by that sort of record. :( Their prison population is
a disgrace to humanity.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic you have to excuse me, i come from
a jurisdiction where sedition is considered the right and proper attitude of the citizen.
mircea_popescu: In 1981, Oscar López Rivera,
a Puerto Rican Nationalist and Vietnam war veteran, was convicted and sentenced to 70 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and various other offenses. He was among the 16 Puerto Rican nationalists offered conditional clemency by U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1999, but he rejected the offer. His sister, Zenaida López, said he refused the offer because on parole, he would be in "prison
mircea_popescu: i am in favour of deposing any kim, just as long as
a) it's done violently and b) not by the us.
mircea_popescu: so... yes. for as long as the usg is willing to die peacefully, it will die peacefully. and if it wishes to try and make
a break for it, all the same, it will die bloodily.
mircea_popescu: <midnightmagic> financial starvation of classic authority structures is the primary reason I am interested in bitcoin: because it allows us to do so without shedding
a drop of their blood. << this is
a good principle. however, people starve best if they are surrounded by barbed wire manned by other people firmly decided to escalate force to any degree.
joecool: reiser4 is an excellent fs, i used to talk to some of his employees back when i maintained
a patchset
decimation: he was the guy who wrote
a filesytem; murdered his mail order bridge later
midnightmagic: financial starvation of classic authority structures is the primary reason I am interested in bitcoin: because it allows us to do so without shedding
a drop of their blood.
midnightmagic: fair game if it's
a peaceful choice on the part of people.
midnightmagic: uh. just for the record, I strongly disagree with plotting the violent overthrow of the USG. I do not, have not, will not, and would not even in the face of violent coercion, consider the use of violent and/or lethal force as
a vehicle of governmental change. I am not
a seditionist.
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2015 01:09:34; asciilifeform: 'Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. He spends part of his time in
a fantasy world in which things happen as they should — in which, for example, the Spanish Armada was
a success or the Russian Revolution was crushed in 1918 — and he will transfer fragments of this world to the history books whenever possible. Much of the propagandist writing of our time amounts to
assbot: You rated user danielpbarron on 29-Jul-2014, with
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mircea_popescu: so no, when i'm talking about hanging each and every us bureaucrat, through
a war crimes court, within our lifetime i am not being in any sense and to any degree metaphorical.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you wouldn't have known there's such
a thing as "french partisans" if there wasn't
a 1945, either)
davout: see
a bunch of nodes sorta agreeing on the same chain tip, take it, work backwards to genesis block easily since you can easily fetch previous block, once done verify chain and get back to usual bzns
mircea_popescu:
a bunch of derps in beirut getting together and agreeing to have bombed new york is how new york will have been bombed.
assbot: The real reason Ryan Charles was fired from reddit: he spent the entire duration of his employment working on
a port of bitcoin core to Javascript. : Buttcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1vhOTp9 )
mircea_popescu: [–]wonderkindel 5 points 8 days ago Gavin sees
a major shitstorm ahead, does not know of any way out, but hopes that cartels of honest miners will materialize to keep the dream wet.
mircea_popescu: ahh, i recall the age of the romanian pond, when
a bunch of retarded ~romanians~ similarly entertained delusions of, you know, we will HURT THIS GUY!!111