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mircea_popescu: rms' ideas are
a sort of "this is computing so elvis never happened".
mircea_popescu: if you get married, which is to say, BORROW
a woman from her father, and swear an oath
mircea_popescu: not that i think fsf's bad or anything. merely observing that peanuts aren't aeroplanes does not imply
a hatred of peanuts.
mircea_popescu: your " without gestapo suddenly breaking down the door and demanding to see if you've multiplied unauthorized numbers" is exactly equivalent i suspect to what i call who are you again ? fuck off, I don't give
a shit" sort of approach to third parties of any man owning
a computer
mircea_popescu: well he gotta have something. you can't start
a "social movement" out of vague descriptions of desired outcomes
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in one aspect. now make an ethical distinction / moral rule (really nfi why they keep derping about ethics, its all
a moral consideration) that resolves that while preserving my slave's thigh.
mircea_popescu: the situation was microsoft or go hang yourself, to which
a lot of people who didn't particularly wish to hang themselves reacted as best they could,
mircea_popescu: neither of it enacts rms as some sort of Jesus unless im missing
a lot ?
assbot: Logged on 07-01-2015 04:41:46; asciilifeform: naggum had
a piece where he confessed to thinking of 'open source' as
a weapon, purpose-built for the destruction of
a particular evil (microshit)
mircea_popescu: the great gift of satoshi is exactly that : we finally have
a tool whereby idiots can only hurt themselves.
mircea_popescu: because
a) poor workers, they need it and b) not agreeing would be being against expanded usage of bitcoin
ben_vulpes: "useful fool" is
a phrase asciilifeform's to describe the type
mircea_popescu: "I don't think
a hard fork would be very difficult, but only if the following two points are taken into account:
cazalla: turns out the black guy of that movie died 13 years ago.. sorry to be such
a debbie downer
ben_vulpes imagines watching this flick with
a typical progre
mircea_popescu: pgp seems to be living
a nice 2nd youth these days tho
mircea_popescu: cazalla if it does translate into traffic you'll see it as
a worsening of the demographic quality lol.
undata: it only took
a few encounters with that crowd to decide otherwise
undata: mircea_popescu: some, most aren't intelligent enough to grasp it at
a surface level
thestringpuller: one day future asciilifeform will show up in
a delorean talking like Christopher Lloyd. this is when my life will truly begin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "I don't perceive
a smartphone's worth having. Much like an AK-47, if not for the same reason." << i think it's clearly stated. like an assault rifle,
a smartphone's not worth having. not for the same reason tho, but nevertheless, not worth having.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2015 06:34:07; asciilifeform: re: rms and his oddities, i'd note that quite
a few (most?) folks would end up regarded as similarly odd, if they somehow were set free to do wtf they pleased
undata: yeah, given
a sane interface to feed transactions all manner of other programs can do as they please
thestringpuller: who needs
a wallet when you can just create the transaction offline, and then feed the finalized thing to the node
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [] the default change behaviour is asinine (owing to how it destroys wallet backup as
a concept) but i cannot recall how it can be seen as 'vulnerable' << wallet notion itself is asinine
assbot: Elmer__FUD comments on Peter Todd on Twitter: "With Bitstamp on Amazon AWS, there's
a high probability that some Three Letter Agency has
a copy of their databases; expect zero privacy." ... (
http://bit.ly/1A48GnR )
ben_vulpes: now the washing machine can at least measure moments of inertia, and make some kind of guess about how much water to derp into itself, that i'll scowlingly perhaps accept if i'm in
a generous mood.
ben_vulpes: dafuq does this dishwasher get off claiming
a "smart wash" mode?
mircea_popescu: you've never killed anyone ? what's
a rifle to you ? get
a dildo.
mircea_popescu: if you kill fifty people
a day and it's giving you carpal, get an ak do it faster. that i see.
mircea_popescu: i don't go down the street carrying
a horse. or
a boat.
mircea_popescu: i don't mean the article's
a scandal, i just mean, it being so long is scandalous.
ben_vulpes: PeterL: 'tis
a reference to the homeland of the social networks
thestringpuller: "That's my point. Before you kick
a sleeping tiger that has no teeth make sure you can see his gums"
mircea_popescu: 1 tx is say 400 bytes. if i split 1k btc into 1k 1 btc txn that's 400kb. if i dump 400kb on the network as it is now, about half would be put into
a block immediately.
mircea_popescu: so yes, separate your gavincoins, send to exchange, withdraw. see if it replies with
a bitcoin+gavincoin pair, if so separate it again.
Apocalyptic: cazalla, even "It is
a possibility that the MP argument is
a virtually literal strawman, atop
a bonfire, to fuel
a flame war that drives up his LTC holdings." ?
thestringpuller: "It looks like he made his goal in life to be the most detestable person in the internet. (Methinks he is still nowhere near that rank, though.) However he is
a precious resource, as an expert bitcoiner who enjoys kicking some of the most sacred cows in bitcoinland."
mircea_popescu: yes, well, putin is running
a country. if you're running
a country too, by all means, cover all bets to the degree he does.
mircea_popescu: the exact thing played out once before, "it's cool though, they're ditching bdb, im sure whatever they replace it iwth will do
a better job"
joecool: it's cool though, they are ditching openssl, i'm sure whatever they replace it with will do
a better job :)
decimation: Mr. Obama will also outline proposals to tackle identity theft and expand Internet access.The proposals are part of
a White House preview of Mr. Obama’s annual State of the Union address, to be delivered Jan. 20.
mircea_popescu: and that poor speaks
a lot more to power than just money.
mircea_popescu: gold has
a problem of demographic. the only people that think gold is functionally useful as
a monetary metal are poor. they may be
a numerous echelon, relatively speaking, what's left of the upper middle class proceeding on vague intuition and memories. however, they're poor.
decimation: I note someone put
a hefty weight against that gold bet
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2015 18:56:19; decimation: "But investigators concluded that, whether or not the disclosure harmed national security, it amounted to
a significant security breach in the office of one of the nation’s most trusted intelligence leaders. They recommended that Mr. Petraeus face charges, saying lower-ranking officials had been prosecuted for far less."
decimation: "But investigators concluded that, whether or not the disclosure harmed national security, it amounted to
a significant security breach in the office of one of the nation’s most trusted intelligence leaders. They recommended that Mr. Petraeus face charges, saying lower-ranking officials had been prosecuted for far less."
☟︎ xiando: Basically
a bugfix in openssl makes bitcoin-core behave differently depending on what openssl version is used
PeterL: is this
a problem with openssl or bitcoin-core?
xiando: So I need
a better WOT rating all of
a sudden? :-/ oh well, life can't always be easy as pie.
mircea_popescu:
a few century later, "circus" means
a place where everything's quiet. because
a simple walk down the street makes one's head spin.
mircea_popescu: my neighbour,
a man of different notions but similar methods, orders all black haired people to always wear square hats.
mircea_popescu: to illustrate : suppose i am me, and i happen to believe that all females should spend
a decade right after puberty nude at all times. i happen to be rich, and mindful of my beliefs. while i accept that i can't oder people around, i also expect them to respect my disposition of my own property. and so my will reads, that all my stuff is to be inherited by so and so successors, provided at all times all females pubescen
mircea_popescu: but how ? and they came to the idea to make it vest in
a definite relation to
a definitely existing thing
mircea_popescu: you know
a simple summary of all the many ways english barristers tried to use the crown as
a fixed point to unseat the lawe would be dazzling.
mats: > concerned land in London which Henry VIII had gifted to Thomas, Lord Audley, as
a reward ... By his will, Audley left the land to Magdalene College, Cambridge, but the college subsequently sold the land and some of it was acquired, indirectly, by the Earl of Oxford. Magdalene College challenged Oxford's title on the basis of
a statute which prohibited the
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the relative failure of foss is strictly due to the incongruous and often misshapen radical leftist ideas of stallman. had that thing been "the same old gospel of individualism, small government, and market fundamentalism that we associate with Randian characters" it'd not be struggling covered under
a pile of open source.
mircea_popescu: whodda thunk making
a shitton of "x for idiots" books will result in
a large bleating herd of idiots!
assbot: Logged on 10-07-2014 16:05:38; asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: only worth reading if there's
a source other than alexander lebed circa 1997.
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2014 17:44:35; asciilifeform: eased with their mediocrity. 'But this fellow from the desert!' (Interestingly, that among the hundreds of tyrants, in uniform and without, depending on the united states or the european sanitaria, none provoke
a fraction of the wrath caused by Kaddafi. Evidently, the cause is his independence.) Kaddafi - is an extraordinary living proof of the fact that the fairy-tale version of life remains possible
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2014 17:44:35; asciilifeform:
a videoclip of
a fairy tale coming true... ...they [americans] also wish to drive around in jeeps, accompanied by squadrons of hotties in berets with kalashnikovs - but are impotent from birth. Envy, taken with an understanding of one's own powerless... easily transforms into hatred. The leaders of the sanitarium are easier for the 'patient' to understand, closer. He sees their permissible pecadillos,