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asciilifeform: a real ripper of a time!
asciilifeform: anyone who has read medical treatises from as little as two centuries ago, will see a place for gavin et al in that profession
mircea_popescu: genders don't preserve through the eons, they bleed. the french soldier of 1800 wasn't a soldier in 1750. he was a peasant.
asciilifeform: for a small fee.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that he'd have a complex story as to how earthworms cause trees to flower
mircea_popescu: if gavin were a blacksmith, he probably would have passed for a good one. if this guy were an actual lumberjack, he'd probably have counted for a fine lumberjack.
mircea_popescu: fifty or five hundred years ago, that wasn't a crowd. it was sole individuals, and the idiots were still a crowd.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i mean it deeper than that. i mean, actual quacks passing for professionals. see, since the internet there's a line being drawn : sure both gavin and wood dude pass to a certain crowd as idiots for the genuine article. but there exists a thinking crowd that sees through it.
mircea_popescu: "I can and will still prove to you that Nubbins is full of shit and on a smear campaign, i am now just choosing to do so directly with the people who matter, not every tom dick and harry that thinks they know a darn thing about woodworking"
asciilifeform: speaking of diamonds (specifically of the synthetic variety), one possible observation here - not concerning the idiocy of the wood thing as such - is that anyone demanding a specific 'colour' (as per the 'monolith' essay) - i.e. provenance - of object, is begging to be chumped ☟︎
mircea_popescu: it's like a diamond, depends which way the light falls.
mircea_popescu: very common problem people have on the internet, the "everyone is as stupid as me / everyone's a goat the same gender and age as me" issue. ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: a) do not make too tiny cuts that wouldn't have survived mechanically b) clean the fucking piece.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` at this point, expecting a "well of course SOME PARTS were done with a laser but that's not what we were talking about" pivot for the entire "you're a bad person for hurting my feelings and i'm putting together a lynch party" talk
nubbins`: "You can clearly see the line by line marks left on this piece that are definitely, without a doubt, with 100% certainty left by a laser engraver exactly the same as a printer does:"
nubbins`: "I happen to be a woodworker of 40+ years myself (yes, I really am that old) and I contacted WoodCollecter just a couple days ago to see if he was interested in buying some Ironwood, although I never looked at his work. Now i see this and my mind is completely boggled. I did not read every post here, but I can affirm the opinion of a few I saw that have said that the intricate carving in question is done with a laser. I am 100% sure about
felipelalli: I made a mess here with html formatting: http://qntra.net/2015/01/gavin-andresen-on-future-blockchain-security-i-dunno-lol/#comment-7830
mircea_popescu: they created a "joint comission" with iran. it didn't get anywhere.
mircea_popescu: turns out, when a government is the terrorist, all is ok. but if individuals are the terrorists, oh noes, gotta make the press talk of nothing else for a month.
mircea_popescu: i would expect a degree of magnitude more pressure as a result of this rather than that.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes to get a couple aweek you gotta scrape pretty thin yea ?
mircea_popescu: you familiar with this thing where a bunch of people holding signs walk or stand ?
ben_vulpes: you might consider using the patch names as a handle
mircea_popescu: something like, "a bunch of people who appear bussed in, and some derps organizing". ie, it looked to me like astroturf.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, it's clarified some things for me. i live within blocks of the center of all "manifestations" "public meetings" and so forth. there's on average two a week of these. they're not all political, but the political ones seemed quite suspect to me ☟︎
thestringpuller: ;;later tell cazalla send me PM when you get a chance.
mircea_popescu: (and this is the author's tit : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Madame_de_Genlis_by_Lemoine.jpg in the good tradition that a woman must show her breasts ifshe wants to be taken seriously).
mircea_popescu: so wait, "you must accept MY altchain because otherwise you get a CHOICE of alt chains" ? this is the gavin pro-fork argument ?
thestringpuller: ^- that's a good one :D
joecool: thestringpuller: ah, is there a particular reason why it was useful to fork?
joecool: thestringpuller: probably for the best, is the db still centralized to the WoT or is it a new system?
ben_vulpes: what's the opposite of a fixed asset?
mircea_popescu: "it's not like we're counting fewer people as a basis or anything"
mircea_popescu: "when divorce occurence in a population increases by 10%, the per-capita dependent children figure goes up by 10%. when 12%, 12%. clearly, divorce causes fertility."
mircea_popescu: If a city had increased its road capacity by 10 percent between 1980 and 1990, then the amount of driving in that city went up by 10 percent. If the amount of roads in the same city then went up by 11 percent between 1990 and 2000, the total number of miles driven also went up by 11 percent. It’s like the two figures were moving in perfect lockstep, changing at the same exact rate."
mircea_popescu: "to take a closer look at the problem. In 2009, two economists—Matthew Turner of the University of Toronto and Gilles Duranton of the University of Pennsylvania—decided to compare the amount of new roads and highways built in different U.S. cities between 1980 and 2000, and the total number of miles driven in those cities over the same period.
mircea_popescu: a decade or two of that should put the country on pretty decent footing.
mircea_popescu: but somehow it's not now the case that *I* should waltz in washington and buy the monument for a few bitcents.
mircea_popescu: but somehow it's NOT what the us has to do, once the us turned into a cold war ghetto.
mircea_popescu: i would suspect once we've beheaed gavin for things to proceed apace and by 2020 or so to have a more reasonable 50 to 100k move daily, of which that 1% is then maybe 50 btc a day.
mircea_popescu: a system where 1k btc out of a 15mn currency base moves EACH DAY has exceedingly slow velocity.
mircea_popescu: (tbh such a change is pure gunk, bitcoin will NEVER carry 10% fees, ever. period.)
mircea_popescu: incredible what a thing that forum is.
mircea_popescu: still, not enough of a hobble.
mircea_popescu: i put in a satoshi with 1k fee.
mircea_popescu: uh, you want a per tx% ? i thought you just wanted per block aggregate.
mircea_popescu: i can put anything i want in a block.
mircea_popescu: "If anyone reading this believes that a man whose time is worth THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS AN HOUR is going to pick up a chisel for $18/hr, stop reading RIGHT NOW and kill yourself." << i have personally fucked women whose time was actually that sort of money. i bought lunch.
BingoBoingo: I mean someone is going to have to vouch you aren't a shithead to get an apprenticeship
mircea_popescu: what happened to "verizon fired its entire security staff, hired hacker to form a new team" ?
mircea_popescu: "The app hacker quietly reported the holes to Verizon which issued a fix Friday, two days after it was disclosed, and rewarded Westergren with a year's worth of free internet." << heh, bad deal.
mircea_popescu: miner makes a block out of tx with huge fees that he doesn't broadcast. if it goes in, it's in. if not, no loss.
nubbins`: it's a public service
mircea_popescu: fork is a bad idea anyway.
mircea_popescu: i mean, go rape a toddler instead. better off for society.
mircea_popescu: because people were so petrified they might lose a set.
mircea_popescu: so wait. i have a humongous library of 2257 notices. prolly tens of k's.
mircea_popescu: they didn't as much as put a glare cutoff in there ?!
ben_vulpes: i'll give it mebbe a week and then release the video
ben_vulpes: i recorded a video of my face on biz_partners phone, and played it for the facial recognition shit
mircea_popescu: nubbins` maybe help the idiot kids make a proper gpg contract? that shit's a sore eye by now
nubbins`: i was gonna try selling some of our bird books on the forum, but i guess i'll probably let things cool off for a bit
ben_vulpes: so my bank shipped a new feature
hanbot: no, it means she's one of your multiple personalities. and a lesbo.
nubbins`: mp does this mean pasc is a lesbo?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` prepare to be famous. i hear you're really a woman ?
mircea_popescu: whoa, dude actually butchered a chunk of berchemia to make his shotgun-cut atrocity ?!
mircea_popescu: "This accusation was started a few hours ago, the bulk of my clients have not even logged in since this who parade of nonsense started." sounds like the social media artisan :D
mircea_popescu: anwyay, that thread is exactly what one'd expect : everyone with even half a clue, all the way to smoothie saw the same thing i saw. we're not like experts or anything.
nubbins`: essentially a BFL dildo.
fluffypony: "GAW should be evaluating this SEC investigation troll to see if the conditions are right for a libel suit against the people behind it. A retainer on a case like this would be in the vicinity of $50k - $100k and costs could run to $250k - $500k by the time its done. If such a case is to proceed it will take a minimum of two years, but an injunction against any further disparagement should be sought at once."
assbot: Just a moment... ... ( http://bit.ly/181ntcr )
mircea_popescu: " I'm not a fool by any means, every great man has a few detractors, Like i have said before."
nubbins`: more a misrepresentation than anything
mircea_popescu: a lack of taste is not really a scam
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the DESIGN is unique. except for the part where this old woman whose daughter i used to fuck on occasion had a plastic tablecloth in the same color and pattern.
mircea_popescu: let's not dispute the actual facts in contention but instead spew a ton of emotional bs. that's the way!
mircea_popescu: "AND EVEN, if this pieces were carved by a laser... I would still love them and they would still be unique." win.
nubbins`: you can tell it's legit because it's almost the same username as the guy who originally commissioned the piece, then vanished without a trace
asciilifeform: when i lived in a flat with mice, rats, i dreamed of tiny shotguns
BingoBoingo still wants a table salt shotgun for hunting spiders.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla for a moment there i had a vision of a tiny dog pack coursing for mice over a tiny field.
mircea_popescu: fu nubbins` that's a real profession. http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/istanbul-141.jpg
mircea_popescu: "You are claiming to be an artisin silkscreener? never new there was such a thing. In that case, i am also an ARTISAN dishwasher, well when my wife is mad anyways. Oh and an Artisan snow shoveler as i have decades of experience with that too. I mean, as long as we are making up names for professions." << you're screwed nubbins`. you know how many times ima link to this ? do you ? DO YOU ? :D
kakobrekla: <asciilifeform> -dormouse-. hibernates, edible. < not a big fan but their fat is traditionally used for a buncha medical stuff
mircea_popescu: "^ This is a wood lathe, this is how i take square things and make them round." lmao that thread's so adorable.
undata: ahoy! I'll probably have a prototype working on testnet this evening or the next
mircea_popescu: we get a lot of those.
mircea_popescu: but the usual "hey i made a company which is a website which makes claims which are either trivially falsified or not provable because reasons", well...
mircea_popescu: if the solution is actually good that gets you a spot.
mircea_popescu: "Last Thursday, I criticized the Linux community for continuing to support and center a leader with a years-long, documented history of unrepentant abusive behavior, someone who has actively and systematically nurtured a hostile, homogeneous technical community, and someone who has long actively chased people from marginalized groups out of open source."
mircea_popescu: dude i have one of those. I used it recently to fix a door
asciilifeform: a little bit of laser, yes. anyone who has so much as tried a laser cutter will recognize the result in the photo.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` (btw, asciilifeforms been doing a ton of plastic and other matter cutting with an actual laser for cardano project, so... expert testimony)
mircea_popescu: "How many times you look at it. It was clearly carve by a 40 to 60 watts co2 laser. " << i'm with him. looks just about right.
asciilifeform: would someone like to explain why the wood art fellow insists he does not use a laser? (he has photos of lathe, chisel, etc. but those are clearly necessary to forming the basic contours prior to lasering. so no surprise. but why does he deny the use of the laser?)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have nfi what posseses someone to take a perfectly valid product and pretend it's something else.
danielpbarron: i didn't realize he had such a reputation in here! I mostly know about him from when i used to idle in -otc
danielpbarron: "Blazedout commissioned a $14,000 art piece. I shipped it first and he followed through with payment as promised." << LOL, Blazedout419 was the sucker?
STRML: It's a matter of building a reputation and maintaining it. Only way to do that is to consistently be trustworthy over a significant period of time.