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BingoBoingo: This was back when Carlos Martinez's twitter account consisted of a wall of vaginas he'd enjoyed
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2014 22:19:37; mircea_popescu: matheny needs to be out of a job.
BingoBoingo: Had Gretsky too for a time
BingoBoingo: Blues have always hovered somewhere between making the playoffs and missing a championship.
mod6: blues have been a good team for last number of years.
BingoBoingo: mod6: Nominally. I like hockey in the way that I'd rather see a good game than follow a team.
mod6: are you a blues fan?
BingoBoingo: mod6: NFL, totally unwatchable. College game. This bowl season a coach broke his nose. Running back shat his pants... and these were the more normal anomalies.
mod6: modern american football is a joke compared to what it used to be, its basically unwatchable these days.
mod6: ah. maybe a stuffed goat bladder or something
mod6: and a ball of stone
BingoBoingo: The major advantage in playing the game comes from a player being as close to the hoop's height as possible.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: So You take a bunch of people, 5 on the field of paly at a time. Goal is putting a bouncy ball through a hoop of fixed height.
BingoBoingo: undata: I count this past new years as successful as I fot to see my bile on January second. That means this is going to be a fun year.
undata goes back to poking his own web monstrosity with a stick
assbot: Logged on 06-12-2014 02:50:54; decimation: apparently they kicked the guy off the project because of his refusal to commit a pronoun patch
mircea_popescu: "Britain First represents everything we disagree with and they represent the worst of all worlds, by putting on a patriotic face while promulgating division."
PeterL: just a sec, let me find it again
mircea_popescu: artifexd it got changed to something like that but a diff name
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: There are tales of WP working with Postgre and others in off the shelf configuration, much as there are sightings of a loch ness monster with feathers.
ben_vulpes: lord wordpress needs a rewriting to work with other databaxen?
mircea_popescu: im more of a daily sort of guy
nubbins`: PeterL he ran a bunch of passthroughs and other sucker games on the various scamsites before retiring
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ah, simply suggesting that one could allow folks to speak on a cell by blocktelegraphing in
BingoBoingo: A current trust slut doesn't have the gossipd burden of getting its owner's actual orfices pounded.
asciilifeform: "pay me 1 btc, if youdon't say anything stupid for a whole month you get it back << perfectly happy to run a blockchain telegraph gateway.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "pay me 1 btc, if youdon't say anything stupid for a whole month you get it back" << The way I understand gossipd... fair collateral seems closer to 15-20 BTC
BingoBoingo: Prolly. It's just this increment voice evolution seems to be proceeding at a humanly sane pace.
mircea_popescu: "pay me 1 btc, if youdon't say anything stupid for a whole month you get it back"
BingoBoingo: The burden of impressing to get a connect to a gossipd node for the casual I imagine will be much higher than getting a !up nao.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, Obama has sold a large part of America's electorate on Cuban style socialism and he want's to let them know he's stronger than the R-socialist party to making friends with cuba
WolfGoethe: i am a fool
WolfGoethe: this was a geopolitical move to cut russia off
WolfGoethe: the usa mvoed in because cuba and russia were getting to close. putin foragev 32 billion bucks of cuba debt.. and wanted a prescense on the island
WolfGoethe: the usa wants to hit russia and china first with a nuke attack before they get their mutual defense up
WolfGoethe: cuba sold putin out, the idiots... they will get a color revolution soon. the moment fidel dies
WolfGoethe: i really think bitcoin could spike to a million bucks if Putin worked with China to answer the us economic attack. putin could just say he refuses to pay back their loans because of the sanctions and he could ask china to call in their us debt... the fed could just print cash to buy it up... but if china sold that debt to foreign governments... the fed could NOT print foreign currency.. so... overnight the dollar would collapse... not a shot
mircea_popescu: i think the reptilians are just a ruse.
WolfGoethe: the house of Saud is a completely controlled puppet government yes
WolfGoethe: also if Russia answered their attack with chinese help we could very easily have $1,000,000 bitcoin in a month
BingoBoingo: I mean fucking Jared Kenna having a renaissance and Homero Garza stepping in fresh off of ripping some New England mountain towns for WiFi?
mircea_popescu: is a point.
BingoBoingo: I dun imagine too many people of the kind in a position to support a leader. Still hurts when Ver blows his credibility on Gox's final days giving the scammer crowd room to pretend ther are Bitcoin 'Murica old hands.
BingoBoingo: And yet... the noise does not abate, but grows, and as it grows there's silence growing in the great hall too, under the marble arches, over the limpid pools. The emperor bids his guests eat, but they swallow knots, he bids them merry, but the one courtly concubine that starts to talk, trying to tell a joke, runs hoarse. And then, a centurion busts in, a different sort of man. Rugged, bearded, covered in soot and dried blood, he
pete_dushenski: i only saw the play. and while it was a splendid rendition, it was also some time ago. but i gets it nao!
BingoBoingo: That one's just my default thought when MP says palace or palatial, because we all know MP prefers a bunch of apartments spread around town to a single palace. Decentralize all of the residence!!!
mircea_popescu: but i was thinking more of the moment when the color revolutionaries discxover their leader is really a sort of adonis.
ziishu: lazy :) I was just thinking it would be a good idea
assbot: The idea for a great film... pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1xHa9DA )
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: http://trilema.com/2014/the-idea-for-a-great-film/
ziishu: greetings, any change of a bb wager for blockchain hardfork
BingoBoingo: bitcoin-dev exists better as a mailing list anyways.
mircea_popescu: methinks the fake foundation derps are having a serious palatial moment these days.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, gavin hasn't been on #bitcoin-dev in the past two weeks, and was mentioned maybe a coupla times in the interval.
mircea_popescu: a storage busin
mircea_popescu: blockbitsCan't wait until we have 20MB blocks. I've developed a easy to use web front-end for people to upload files to the blockchain, using scriptsigs to store data. they can retrieve files by simply pasting any TX. I've put aside a few hundreds thousand dollars to pay mining pools to mine my non-standard tx's for free. I was hoping we can increase the block size to 200MB... please make it as big as possible, my dat
mircea_popescu: this discussion is reminding mircea_popescu to go check on the "oh, we are economists, looking before we leap, there's a small minority disagreeing" crowd
asciilifeform: i make regular trips to my university maths/physical sciences library. there is a substantial comp-sci/discretes section there. i pull out, seriously, a book, one in three, random page - a graph. for almost precisely this, the comparison between the warm and the soft.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'brain activation' folks are simply a somewhat more 'photogenic' version of the rest of usg academia, where virtually every physical science 'result', almost without exception, concerns some spurious correlation of this and that
pete_dushenski: sure, the point being that there are an infinite number of ways they cannot work, and a few that they can
mircea_popescu: that's a good point.
pete_dushenski: hey, prejudice exists specifically because you're "reunited". << heh. i made a similar point in the soviet-harvard article
asciilifeform: 'Here is a question for Minister Stoltenberg: Do appeals to (and enforcement of) tolerance make repeats of such incidents more frequent or less frequent, and, if so, why?' (old orlov article, http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2012/07/politics-of-unconscious.html )
assbot: It’s called the Soviet-HARVARD illusion for a reason and that reason is Joshua Greene. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1xH5UI9 )
pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2015/01/08/its-called-the-soviet-harvard-illusion-for-a-reason-and-that-reason-is-joshua-greene/
assbot: Some people can retire and some people can’t: A story about carrots. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1xH5PUO )
pete_dushenski: some new material: http://www.contravex.com/2015/01/07/some-people-can-retire-and-some-people-cant-a-story-about-carrots/
pete_dushenski: a merci!
assbot: Thank Your Lucky Trolls | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1BJSGti )
mircea_popescu: "Selon le procureur, deux policiers ont également étés tués par les assaillants. L'un, le brigadier Franck Brinsolaro, du Service de la protection (SDLP, ex-SPHP) était chargé de la sécurité de Charb, selon des sources syndicales policières. L'autre, Ahmed Merabet, a été tué à l'extérieur, alors que les assaillants prenaient la fuite."
decimation: might as well wear a mustache while wearing fake glasses
asciilifeform: that part is just a bonus.
asciilifeform: call it a goldbox.
decimation: mircea_popescu: receiving on one ip and rxing' on another is what I'm calling a 'port'
asciilifeform: because tcp establishes a connection
asciilifeform: the receiver is, to anyone lacking a peerage key, just a black hole.
asciilifeform: decimation: if you use udp, like i proposed, you can even have the mindfuck of a 'bar-bell shaped' cell - a 'multihomed' machine receives on one ip and transmits on another
decimation: it's true that if the network can be scaled this is less of a concern
asciilifeform: decimation: or did you simply mean the proverbial future of the gasenwagen, where the mere act of transmitting cryptostrange is a gassing offense
mircea_popescu: decimation the graph is very flat, with 100s of connections. you will have to squeeze a large fraction to disrupt anything.
asciilifeform: decimation: you can't decrypt a single packet until a cell peers you
cazalla: damn, the shooters in France don't fucking hesitate, down under it took almost 24 hours for the shooter to fire off a round https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSMJb0fcWt4
asciilifeform: shia could use a better operating system.
asciilifeform: but this is a subject covered in painstaking detail in many other places.
asciilifeform: in many cases these folks are literally 'employed' to create chaos - as in, they get a pension, in return for... doing just that
asciilifeform: their purpose is to terrorize the native population, for a variety of useful purposes (bolster seekoority state; keep real estate prices in less-afflicted zones high; etc)
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assbot: [Artifexd] A better ircd [RFC] pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1BJK9GN )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/artifexd-a-better-ircd-rfc/#comment-111278 << perhaps should be a separate article ?
mircea_popescu: but some youthful enthusiast,i got a few offline pms.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in a way, it is. but sort of left as an exercise.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought it's implicit in the spec, in the "receiver decides if to relay" : you can configure a client to pass, to user or other clients, whatever you wish
asciilifeform: for when you want a 'louder', 'more new blood' sort of experience - crank clockwise.
asciilifeform: if one carries on with such, may find himself on a rather smaller and lonelier gossipnet
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: aha but you cannot really have this, unless you - in particular - or one of your peers - wants to create a public toilet for spam and give it peerage
ben_vulpes: i imagine a steady-state future where people operate gossipd cells in much the same way that ircd's are operated on fleanode.
ben_vulpes: how does someone relay a message to a cell and from a cell to another cell?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: how do you propose to use the hypothetical gizmo without running a cell ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: trick is that two directly-connected cells may as well be exchanging signed msgs. but relayed msgs (in, e.g., cells a -> b -> c, from a to c) are 'gossip' - that is, 'deniable.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc, a good bit of that stuff -was- preserved in writing - of a kind. e.g., 'broadside ballads'