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mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> funny how little google and duckduckgo claim to know about al hayat and the islamic state report << that is all
a coincidence that has nothing at all to do with what you *should* be knowing.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "what's
a 'small fork'? Something like '
a little pregnant'?" << figure you'd enjoy that one
fluffypony: Reddit humour:
http://imgur.com/a/33Qpw (some guy setup
a fake Tinder profile with some stock photos, and proceeded to canvas girls for their opinion on Bitcoin)
Adlai: this is
a very relative question, who are you trying to offend?
Adlai: in planet earth. these things have
a way of leaking, even if initially it's just between agencies
Adlai: when was the last time
a court ordered somebody to divulge
a pgp key?
mircea_popescu: the saddest thing here being, of course, that the general expectation that the girl's sucking cock is entirely
a 90s and after affair.
Adlai: if i wanted comeback i'd have asked your mother to spit in
a cup!
Adlai: i have realized that i do not regret being born
a man
Adlai: btw i would like
a statement struck from the logs
Adlai: bitcoin existed and i'd heard of it! but not #b-
a Adlai: #b-
a didn't exist when i failed clearance
mircea_popescu: Adlai lol you seriously blew your clearance because #b-
a ?
Adlai: apparently going on irc makes you
a terrorist
Adlai: you can verify their quality visually, no holes / mould - it's
a good apple
Adlai: btw in the defense of apples - apples are
a simpler value store than coins, because they're directly useful - you can eat them if you're hungry, and you can be pretty sure that other people like to eat them too
mircea_popescu: Adlai why would you introduce
a specific concept if you're not willing to introduce it rigurously ?
mircea_popescu: "we're powerless already in teh old system... mebbe this new thing worth
a look ?"
Adlai: in the sense that we kept running into stuff like "well are you familiar with the concept of
a hash? ok, so
a hash is..."
mircea_popescu: you'll notice discussions of the weather proceed socially on
a simplified model.
Adlai: "derive" is important...
a great way to introduce bitcoin to people is just to explain the problems and solve them together
mircea_popescu: well you're never going to explain bitcoin from
a dismissive position like that.
Adlai: "you never get
a second chance to make
a first impression" is true for bitcoin as well, only bitcoin doesn't get to pick how to present itself
Adlai: but both of these folks now have
a very very positive *initial* impression of bitcoin
Adlai: well i was thinking about this afterwards, wondering what the use of spending ~15 minutes explaining
a technology to people who made every indication of not being its target audience
Elian11: its basically
a condiment sandwitch
Elian11: ne way, my favourite sandwitch is
a BLT. Some clown in the USA tried to charge me 7USD for one once. I almost smacked hin upside the head for that.
Elian11: Who is in the states? Would you minde tell about the cost of
a sandwitch and what you like to eat?
Elian11: I'm on
a trip, and i think most things are
a bargan at that rate
danielpbarron: i think it's like decrypting
a plaintext with the private key
ben_vulpes: is
a gpg signature topologically the same as encrypting to the public key?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: it's
a pretty wacky thing
ben_vulpes: once upon
a time you could bring
a truck-mounted m16
mircea_popescu: do you understand the breathtakingly astounding achievement to get
a bunch of teenaged idiots on drugs think "it's not in the spirit" ?>
mircea_popescu: Good campsites are found, not made. Altering
a site is not necessary." roflmao.
ben_vulpes: maybe an eye or
a finger here or there.
mircea_popescu: well, if something holds itself to be
a power, it'd really have to be independent, n'est pas ?
ben_vulpes: "it's
a tragedy!" "no, there are 80K drug-addled party monsters running around in the desert around giant machines built with nary much of
a care for safety. it's amazing the mortality rate's that low"
mircea_popescu: there is going to be
a transfer of power, and the only thing demuring can possibly accomplish is make it bloody. which i don't mind, because old people are too old as it is. even them out
a little.
mircea_popescu: twitter, reddit and the rest of the social media crapolade aren't powerful enough. they work, for as long as they suck my cock. otherwise... they're about as useful as homework, who the fuck wants to bother themselves in
a playpen designed by adults for "safety".
mircea_popescu: anyway. there IS going to be
a transfer of power, and all the bs "let's ban mp on twitter because he stands for priviledge and against our impotent, nonsensical brand of socialism", "let's delete reddit articles because they humiliate our houseboys" etc won't do jack shit.
mircea_popescu: Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do
a thing like that? I chose not to choose life."
mircea_popescu: it on hire purchase in
a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in
a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves.
mircea_popescu: hanbot the monologue in question is, "Choose Life. Choose
a job. Choose
a career. Choose
a family. Choose
a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose
a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose
a three-piece su
hanbot: mircea_popescu perhaps i'm reading poorly, but not sure i grok the foreboding re choosing life: "But if you choose "life", remember one important point from Shrem's misadventure :" --if the dead are the old reptiles
a la newhouse, clinging to relevancy, wouldn't choosing life be the sane, independent choice?
mircea_popescu: well, plenty of people died and
a buncha women got raped and
a bunch more kids were born out of it.
mircea_popescu: the one that's still there, andwhich somehow displays thew comments made on the other one, never had more than
a few votes
assbot: "These fools have been handed
a technology so clever, so disruptive and revolutionary, that the rulers of the world would have to fully unmask themselves as ruthless tyrants in order to suppress it, — or give up their thrones on their own free will — if it were used correctly, that is." pe Trile ... (
http://bit.ly/1wb65X4 )
mircea_popescu: but there existed another insertion, same article, by
a diff person
xanthyos: i guess 300 wasn't low enough
a buy price
mircea_popescu: cazalla: never bought that line, worked on assumption if it's plastic, it is shit regardless of label <<
a wise man is you.
mircea_popescu: "Canellas wrote to defendant Warren, “Great job dude. We kicked ass! Time to get paid.” About ten minutes later, defendant Warren responded, “Hey man, I don’t know where you come up with some of this stuff, but you saved the day. It’s been
a rough year but it’s been damn good. Nice work dude. Let’s get paid!” Canellas and defendant Warren then left the office to enjoy New Year’s Eve."
mircea_popescu: heh at that link. "replace bisphenol-
a with bisphenol-s. be surprised that s stands for shittier."
mircea_popescu: seriously and why miners actually aren't given that much of
a voice in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: tripleslash: you'd essentially have
a narrow window where you could have an easier time manipulating things, but the technicals of mining and others miners would catch up. << "other mienrs will catch up" is so much nonsense. other miners are turning down their rigs as it is with the price today. if diff suddenly jumped 100%, "other miners" will give up and go home. which is why the other miners are not to be taken too
mircea_popescu: yeah, there's
a 15-25% ish chance by now they actually did and it's just being noised out. tough chance.
mircea_popescu: tripleslash:so watch for
a noticeable permanenent 40 petahash drop over the next few difffchanges << it's pretty noticeable they DIDN'T have 40 ph.
cazalla: well, i got
a couple bottles of dimple 12y on special last week so polished one bottle off at the other nights drinking session and now i have this bottle but i'll stop after this one and go to bed
adlai is earshot away from
a bottle of red label
davout: cazalla: we need
a !gotosleep in addition to !down
adlai: right. so this error means that somebody in the middle tried to downgrade our connection, and my ssl lib took
a shit instead of complying?
Naphex: so that means
a packet sent, was mismatching its MAC
Naphex: the alert is
a bad mac
BingoBoingo: All around me are familiar places, worn out places, worn out places,
a very... mad world
assbot: Logged on 13-01-2015 03:41:56; BingoBoingo: cazalla: You need
a period befor your @ replies so they are massively public
cazalla: you don't want to wake up feeling as i did
a few days ago
punkman: I have
a couple old, very slightly radioactive camera lenses
BingoBoingo: Punk you know that sounds
a lot like HS rules
punkman:
http://samy.pl/keysweeper/ "KeySweeper is
a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as
a functioning USB wall charger, that wirelessly and passively sniffs, decrypts, logs and reports back (over GSM) all keystrokes from any Microsoft wireless keyboard in the vicinity."
tripleslash: you'd essentially have
a narrow window where you could have an easier time manipulating things, but the technicals of mining and others miners would catch up.
felipelalli: Let me ask you guys
a (stupid?) question: "hidden hash power" can be
a problem? Suppose I start to invest in mining hardware but I do not turn on my machines. No one will know I am accumulating hash power. So, after
a while, if I turn on all my machines I'd have - let's imagine - 80% of the hash rate. But it would be too late to revert the situation by the community. If big miners start to turn the machines off, they can not be hiding power?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: It is
a toxic waste processing plant in your body... and you can't get rid of it.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu>
a bum, like
a total, street dwelling bum, accosts some random guy begging. and the random guy goes like "ain't got nothing now", and hands him his coke bottle. << ok so i've got this crazy pet notion about maté and viral load
tripleslash: 12 hours isn't really an indicator. its like flipping
a coin one time to figure out if it is balanced.
tripleslash: stumping for con artists was
a past hobby of mine, although I didn't know it at the time.
tripleslash: BingoBoingo, I missed that. I've been away for
a while, catching up.
cazalla: undata, the cex portion really only served as
a means to discuss the new difficulty all time high anyway