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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mr mold started with a very different kind of 'state agenda' (poorly articulated desire to... resurrect the stuart kings) and ended with... andreesen horowitz
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal most of what the man ever writes is golden. and unlike derps like moldbug or orlov, he a) isn't putting annoyingly self-advertising and b) doesn't actually have a pro-state agenda
mats: http://dockets.justia.com/docket/circuit-courts/ca4/08-6324 << a brief amusement. someone with the surname Merica gave their son a middle name beginning with A.
trinque: it's not as though they confine those things to a single state
mircea_popescu: "The system not only pays poor people, it employs lots and lots of almost poor people. I'm not saying this is a good thing, or a desirable thing, I am simply stating a fact. Some of these are direct government jobs (e.g. staff down at the SSI office) and some are pretend private sector jobs. If you're a psychiatrist at an inner city clinic, you may think you're an independent contractor, but you're really working for T ☟︎
decimation: I was talking with a guy who was in korea in the early 90's. at that time, you could easily find someone to custom tailor your entire wardrobe for a low $$ price. he recently returned there and found no one bothers with that anymore
mircea_popescu: "yes, it means you don't get a pension".
asciilifeform: a somewhat arbitrary example - lexis nexis.
asciilifeform: and a hundred other organizations.
asciilifeform: microshit, for instance, is in every way - other than law - a ministry of usg
assbot: Original Obamaphone Lady: Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama because he gives a free Phone - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/15FsCVV )
decimation: asciilifeform: how does bitcoind maintain a wallclock without the kernel's clock?
decimation: asciilifeform: I suppose just setting the clock based on the timestamp of the last block seen on bootup isn't such a bad idea
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal how about that! i knew katrina was a floor not a top.
BingoBoingo: That's a fucking tiny moon http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--_upL2BKv--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/qjkzwgw6gytdeocsxxod.gif
TheNewDeal: didn't realize it, but apparently it's possible to declare a snow emergency in the euniched states and make it illegal for anyone other than police and medical personell to use the streets
asciilifeform: but it's being sold to civilians, and, more particularly, men, and that's rather like pitching captive bolt guns as a product to cattle
asciilifeform: that it might more efficiently manage a queueing of women in the city for processing by local mircea_popescu - possibly
mircea_popescu: myeah. groupon being an effort to make this into a BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY
asciilifeform: and what to do it not (or if this results in a wild number due to diddled box on other end)
danielpbarron: A woman who checked into a hotel room in Gateshead said she found the words "I'm going to rape you" on the TV screen. Travelodge said it believed someone may have used the TV manufacturer's code to change the settings.
TheNewDeal: wow that was a quick follow up
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> introduction of a new versioning system should not be an ad hoc thing. << or a thing at all.
assbot: I built my rabbit a cart and now he delivers me beer! - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1y1l3k7 )
ben_vulpes: introduction of a new versioning system should not be an ad hoc thing.
mod6: so like: a]: v3 b]: v3.1 c]: v3.14 ... ?
decimation: so the idea would be you approach some irrational number with each improvement (add a digit)
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> can't say as i get it. either one owns btc or one doesn't. << one either owns real estate or doesn't. where does that leave the teenagers, inhabiting comfortable middle class homes they can't afford, and not even having to suck cock for it, like they will a decade down the road ?
mod6: decimation: got a link to something about that, not seeing anything relevant
mod6: we're getting close to wrapping up a first cut of this thing. so i want to nail down any changes before we get start to roll one.
mod6: i was pretty set on v0.5.3.1 until ascii tells us that we might not be able to be talk to anything < 0.8 -- which to me seems weird.. because i've fully syncd a dozen times, and done send/receive np
mircea_popescu: mod6 a) lord kelvin! there's no kalvin. an' b) just forget about this entire vanity version thing, why do you want to hardfork the versions now ?!
mod6: so my point here is, without a bigger overhaul to the versioning system; one would have to set 90000 to be v0.9.0, or 9000000 to be 9.0.0, but then what? because we should be counting down. and at some point, we'll cross the threshold of < 0.8
assbot: 'Yes, I was a racist' admits Shanley Kane - Breitbart ... ( http://bit.ly/1y1eNJ9 )
BingoBoingo: More on the Pindo that called for Linux to quit Linus http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/21/yes-i-was-a-racist-and-im-mentally-ill-shanley-kane-in-shocking-social-media-meltdown/
BingoBoingo: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%81 << Sounds like a not impossibru explanation
asciilifeform: a set of entirely brainless, thoroughly pickled bums - buys these 'financial instruments'
asciilifeform: say a demented beggar were to print 'stocks' and 'futures' on used toilet paper. for, say, exxon.
mats: hell of a grade school
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i suspect they would even refuse a brick of, e.g., iridium. because it isn't gold, they've never seen it, have no idea of its value nor even whether it's a stable element
ben_vulpes: as experiment, go try getting a randomly selected semi technically savvy person to take a bitcoin.
asciilifeform: as experiment, go try getting a randomly selected street idiot to take a bitcoin.
gribble: the20year was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 23 weeks, 5 days, 5 hours, 24 minutes, and 1 second ago: <the20year> i hear they're aiming for a 0.5% APY
ben_vulpes: you can rob a place with a...stick.
trinque: ben_vulpes: eventually is also when I'll have a fully synced blockchain
thestringpuller: would make a great south park episode
TheNewDeal: Universe would be too logical if a foul fecal odour were emitted in proportion to the idiocy of a statement emitted by a person
asciilifeform: it does. simply not everyone has a nose.
mike_c: i believe it. welcome to life under a thumb.
mircea_popescu: mike_c ben_vulpes it's a thoroughly broken, dysfunctional and nonsensical model, andja know it.
mike_c: the company has to do a 409a valuation to set the price
mircea_popescu: you can't find five argentines to rob a bank with, let alone do actual work.
ben_vulpes: <coderwill> there were promises of equity but nothing official that i saw (other than verbal) << how does this fly with you people - verbal contracts for a thing with nothing written. when you sign the paper that says "i will work for thus and such" do you not stink the place up for lack of options?
mircea_popescu: now, wehther the woman ordered them to do a job knowing they'll bothc it, or
asciilifeform: (not a 'sixth eye' by any means, but something like german bnd)
mircea_popescu: hard to know what exactly happened there. however, there's little doubt this was a ss job.
BingoBoingo: <mod6> <+asciilifeform> call it whatever name, but assigning a version equal to ancient phoundation release is foolish. << foolish because of nodes that wont talk with < 0.8, or foolish another reason? i've always detested version numbering because of "marketing" << Propper solution is counting down from 9000
asciilifeform: it is conceivable that the node is cut off from the net for a spell
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> it's the only way to do time. << i've been saying there's no such thing as time for a while now, only the length of the longest chain...
decimation: yeah, you would probably want to average a few blocks & get system time
decimation: heh that's a good ida
decimation: ideally one with a low-jitter clock
decimation: re: ntp server < to do a good job, you really need a dedicated server to host
mod6: <+asciilifeform> call it whatever name, but assigning a version equal to ancient phoundation release is foolish. << foolish because of nodes that wont talk with < 0.8, or foolish another reason? i've always detested version numbering because of "marketing"
ben_vulpes: mkay, well i published a patch that bumps to 0.5.3.1, don't know if you saw that
asciilifeform: call it whatever name, but assigning a version equal to ancient phoundation release is foolish.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is bitcoin. no need to give bitcoin a special name just because some derps are derping.
asciilifeform: and something a civilian could plug in, somewhere in his cellar, and forget about it.
asciilifeform: fanless and elephant-sized would suffice in a pinch
phillipsjk: I recommend 2GB or RAM for running a node. sounds like you are trying to get that number down.
asciilifeform: a machine containing a fan, even one, esp. a plastic chinese fan, cannot be called 'fire and forget'
asciilifeform: and ships in a (spartan) plastic chassis, and with power brick.
asciilifeform: and doesn't have dedicated cores running weird, evil closed-sourced blob at all times. or a defective i/o bridge.
asciilifeform: rpi is a steaming pile of shit.
phillipsjk: Bitcoin tolerates time-stamps off by an hour anyway since a certain popular OS did not support hardware UTC until recently.
trinque: I've found ntpd to be a pain on such devices; I just cron a call to rdate instead
mod6: that shouldn't be a huge problem. bbiab -- we can talk about that part a bit more.
asciilifeform: also needed is a small list of ntp servers that can be trusted to work reasonably often
mod6: i'll have to pick one up when I get a chance...
asciilifeform: repopulated missing solder pads for rs232 console. very handy for kernel work. i suggest that any of you who purchased a unit, do the same.
asciilifeform: (script for converting a brand-new unit into a weaponized one)
asciilifeform: purchased a second pogo-4 for testing autodeflorator
mircea_popescu: what a nice little gewm this thing turns out to be
asciilifeform: also discovered that pogo-4 has a 32kB eeprom full of zeros, unused.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, et al: how it is to work: machine boots from nand flash, walks attached mass storage device list, tests if any contains ext3 filesystem with blockchain therein. if found, used. if not found, device is formatted and bitcoind runs there. runs inside a loop, if oomkilled - resurrected.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, et al: i have a working 'u-boot' for toy node (builds as CROSSDEV armv5 on x86 gentoo), working linux kernel built in same manner, boots from nand flash.
thestringpuller: expression engine is a fucking joke
nubbins`: probably a coincidence
nubbins`: oddly, i haven't received any more PMs since casually mentioning WC's actual job in a post
nubbins`: hilariously, you are literally either in the ocean or a vast, uninhabited wilderness reserve if you are 80km from me
mircea_popescu: OR DID YOU USE A LASER
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ahahaha that took a minute
mircea_popescu: wear a gopro.
assbot: 17 results for 'true names' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=true+names
mircea_popescu: <gurlwest> its possible but there is such a thing as responsibility, and i feel its mine to point out that Zyklon B is highly offensive and brings this place into disrepute
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news : some guy named zyklon_b joins some chatroom, buncha derps throw a fit, i tell em to stfu, which results in private messaging and ragequits :
mircea_popescu: but who knows, right ? it's "not decided yet". he's not come here to have his construction taken apart ; the fork's not actually been destroyed in the field, and "we don't know for sure it's a scam" etc.
mircea_popescu: if you as much as sneeze it all comes crumbling down, and yet he's stupidly put all that effort into it... like a blind seal or something.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's funny just how self-contradictory the guy is, and how carefully crafted his pile, and how incredibly unstable in spite of all that effort. reading his lengthy posts is sort-of like admiring someone who managed to build a half mile tall chair pile in his quest to get to the moon on chairs.
mircea_popescu: PeterL it'll have to be discussed, obv. whoever wants to trade gets to work with me on a ocntract that covers all legitimate concerns.