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mod6: it may not be. i had
a feeling that it is widely used for some reason.
mod6: if nothing else, might just be
a lot of work. perhaps do-able, just not
a quick/easy way.
mod6: spent, probably
a total of 16 hours on it. didn't get very far. and seeing as though the raw transactions api is 4 versions beyond (or something) v0.6.0, it might be very hard to do it that way.
mircea_popescu: and since the fiat world mostl yexists as
a staging scene for various social engineering attacks, from preet bharara onwards, this isn't
a good design.
mircea_popescu: moreover, if there's
a central repository of the log that's also an exclusive repository of the log, the incentive for nefarious idiots
a la ninjashogun to attack it via social engineering increases
mod6: well, that maybe have been
a poor choice of words.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the observation that, on account of the log existing, we don't need human idlers for anything at all, was correct << at the very least they provide
a passive certification of the log.
mod6: (bullet point 4): fix behavior where blocks are downloaded from
a single peer (what is the desired behavior here? - should be pretty much ripped off from SotA torrent trackers.)
mod6: ok, i haven't looked into the part yet where it has been somehow spotted that the blocks seems to get pulled from one peer, instead of many. if p2p seeds refers to
a way to get blocks in more of
a torrent fashion, i agree.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: so paycoin has progressed from vaporware to real, nitrogen-rich altcoincrap? << no, but some derp who feels rich on the cash value
a car monthy payment somehow figured he has something to say.
mod6: then after working on different things for
a while, and looking at what is currently set in HEAD, went on to trim that shit out
mircea_popescu: there's technically no possibility to have "no checkpoints", block 1 will willy-nilly be
a checkpoint.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem i just assumed he implemented the "no checkpoints" in the shape of
a "set your own, defaults to 1" sort of thing
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I have
a ton of cool photos from that adventure << you need to start blogging in serious.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: so for
a time, God did permit
a man to have more than one wife. (see, for eg. Genesis 4:19; 16:1-4; 29:18-30:24) - but God did not originate the practice of polygamy. He provided only one wife for Adam. <<< bs. the original family was adam eve an' lilith.
mircea_popescu: jurov: nothing about fags? danielpbarron: that's condemned <<< poor j, just can't catch
a break.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Will Ripple Eclipse Bitcoin? - Slashdot ... << "Any headline which ends in
a question mark can be answered by the word no."
decimation: re: tank's top < " That was Stalin's hall-mark, his style - that splendid disregard of differences, that levelling of friends and enemies that made him
a unique figure in the whole of human history. Another thing for which the Soviet court did not condemn Potapov was that in 1945 - still in his broken spectacles tied with string but this time with
a tommy-gun in his hand - he rode into Berlin on the back of
a Red Army tank; this was
undata: I had
a pentium 3 thinkpad that was
a tank compared
undata: I'm trying to code on
a shit-tier lenovo "x1 carbon"
undata: the vaguely defined dream would be to have something which functions as
a terminal, nothing more
undata: ascii_modem: I spent
a bit of time today researching e-ink displays
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: who has 60 hour battery now ? << do
a battery time / mips or flops thing to for fairness.
gabriel_laddel: ascii_modem: thanks.
a concise phrasing for my project still hasn't come to mind....
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem just the very simple fact that if i say "
a man" then that's that, whereas if you try to show "
a man" you won't be able to. which is how most films are shittier than the books they're based on. the forced mistake of having to provide all the data visual requires to work.
mircea_popescu: so you know, put it on google maps, so you can drink the presumption that the us is
a lot larger than canada while doing whatever else.
decimation: ed tufte made the point that baseball scores are
a giant dense table, and are comprehensible by someone with
a 4th grade education
decimation: there's
a thing in academia/business where graphics (esp. on
a powerpoint) are held as some kind of standard for communication
decimation: no, I'm writing about
a presentation meant to communicate
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel sure, but the gui of "google earth" is
a needles contrivance.
mircea_popescu: decimation not sure if really >, because i used to be total shit in geometry, all the chicks doing pretty much an impersonation of elaine with the tyres "saw" things that took me days. nevertheless, it DOES do
a lot for reducing one's ability to... be scammed, i guess. slef scamming especially, where you end up making unfounded assumptions that arew predicated on whatever weird visual crap going on.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I'm not
a visual thinker either - at least, never have been described as such. That said, GUIS are nice in certain circumstances.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i am fortunate to not be much of
a visual thinker.
decimation: the median us resident without
a car is pretty much just
a hobo
ascii_modem: it parks six rattling toyotas , too. when i was there i would have sworn it would land
a bomber.
mircea_popescu: whenever girlie takes me on
a virtual trip of her childhood space, it's usually "o shit,
a parking lot ?!"
decimation: I think NASA even made
a google-earth knockoff called "world wind" that you can use 'off-line'
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem this seems altogether
a common experience.
ascii_modem: from g.earth i learned the one solitary fact that the yard i played in as
a boy is now
a parking lot. boo/hiss.
decimation: they charge
a shitload of $$$ to actually use their 'pro' tools
mircea_popescu: nah.
A = living in the us ; B = being employed at computerizing ; C = meeting people who fuck enjoyably.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu:
A = programmer unemployment rate, B = you do all your research by hand?, C = 3D earth populated with interesting information?
mircea_popescu: when B is pointed out to be unrelated, you bring in the discussion C, which is not only unrelated to B, but also to
A.
mircea_popescu: you establish that
A is desirable. you then deny
A on the grounds that B, which is unrelated.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel but that is
a wholy distinct matter from working and job discussions.
gabriel_laddel: <mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel i get it i get it, my point was more along the lines of, nobody can really do this for you, as
a "consumer" sort of thing. << So you do all your research by hand? Also, do you have
a rotating 3D globe on your computer that allows you to highlight/heatmap known uranium deposits, nuclear reactors, oil reserves, population stats etc.?
BingoBoingo: <undata> the film's probably garbage either way << Actually not bad. It's
a typical Seth Rogen movie. People who like that sort of flick will enjoy it, other people won't.
undata: I wonder too if the degradation of the language isn't
a major factor in the decline of
a civilization.
undata: how does
a language retain its meaning?
decimation: yeah in retrospect the whole sony thing was
a crass marketing ploy with usg cooperation
gabriel_laddel: r.e., chair warming, there is such
a thing as interpersonal chemistry.
decimation: no she's too busy whining about b-
a on tard's news
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: also, thanks for upping me. my keys got destroyed in
a botched backup and I don't know if I'll be able to recover them. until I sink some time into that task - no L2.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: programmers who depend on some sort of regionalized unemployment rate can't possibly be all that skilled. << this is true, however if an economy thinks itself of being in dire need of programmers anyone with
a brain can fly blind into the country and remain relatively assured of their future prosperity without having to put too much thought into it. This is going to go away at some point in the futur
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i get it i get it, my point was more along the lines of, nobody can really do this for you, as
a "consumer" sort of thing.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: what makes you thik he'd be in
a position to write it ? guy never left australia. << He (or another) can supply the aforementioned article without getting up from their chair all that often. I'm just looking for some basic/tedious research - not boots on the ground scouting (though I am not opposed to this).
mircea_popescu: The attacker obtained administrative access to all files in the CZDS. This included copies of the zone files in the system, as well as information entered by users such as name, postal address, email address, fax and telephone numbers, username, and password. Although the passwords were stored as salted cryptographic hashes, we have deactivated all CZDS passwords as
a precaution. "
mircea_popescu: i mean, yes, it's what stan & everyone sane's been saying about it, but dressed up in
a clown costume for some reason.
mircea_popescu: "In particular, if IRET executes on
a writeable kernel stack (this was always the case before 3.16 and is sometimes the case on 3.16 and newer), the assembly function general_protection will execute with the user's gsbase and the kernel's gsbase swapped."
mircea_popescu: it's all such retarded virginal bullshit, too. why shouldn't folks pose
a fucking threat!
decimation: no, that's pretty much the glue that holds usg together (quashing folks before they pose
a threat)
mircea_popescu: and it'd work just fine, too, if it weren't for btc. this construction where someone could be
a secure billionaire and not part of the usg club simply wasn't being planned for.
mircea_popescu: i suspect they literally are under orders to maintain
a certain structure on the webs. one where the middle class so to speak can at any time be ganked by "nefarious", "mysterious" entitites that are not either.
mircea_popescu: imagine this, by the way : after three months of the practical equivalent of going to people's houses and leaving them
a post-it note, the fix rate is under 1%.
mircea_popescu: well for one thing it bestowed upon me
a huge list of wordpress blogs which can be used to leverage
a packet stream about 1mn x and automattic does not want to fix.
mircea_popescu: Bloke sitting at the bar when
a woman comes in and sits on the stool next to him, he buys her
a drink and asks her name. "Carmen" she says "Because I like Cars and Men, whats your name?" "Charlie Beer-Cunt"
mircea_popescu: wait, asciilifeform wasn't even on
a cloaked connection ? what, the haxxor gave up and went away ?
mircea_popescu: but in point of fact it'd have as much truck with that concept as the present day us has with
a constitutional republic.
mircea_popescu: advertising is
a dead thing anyway. the cattle processors don't need to advertise to the cattle, the rest of the world doesn't want the cattle.
decimation: oh no, imagine
a world where twitter and reddit were cut out of business! inconceivable!!
mircea_popescu: typical us-style academic, dress up something commonly known in the trade for
a grant, act as if he's done science.
ascii_modem: if i had
a satoshi for every academtard who went 'this thing diesn't implement lamport's byzantine consensus...'
mircea_popescu: basically, they dressed up the ancient block withholding attack,
a fully documented andf fully fixed problem cca 2012
decimation: "Some people seem to believe that microtipping can bring about the end of advertising. This doesn't quite make sense, because microtip systems like ChangeTip cut out the platform operator:
a user directly transfers
a tiny amount to another user, leaving out the platform (e.g. Reddit, Twitter, etc)."
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin is broken. And not just superficially so, but fundamentally, at the core protocol level. We're not talking about
a simple buffer overflow here, or even
a badly designed API that can be easily patched; instead, the problem is intrinsic to the entire way Bitcoin works. All other cryptocurrencies and schemes based on the same Bitcoin idea, including Litecoin, Namecoin, and any of the other few dozen Bitcoin-inspi
mircea_popescu: After years of acting like enfants terribles, perpetrating
a prosecution complex, fearmongering about an inflationary collapse that refuses to happen, veering into antisemitic rants about Jewish bankers, blaming Mt. Gox victims, brigading
a Nobel laureate, badmouthing core developers, attacking researchers including yours truly (for finding and even fixing
a flaw, and making predictions that were later borne out; you k
mircea_popescu: decimation this is also true, but adding
a "they donate grains of sand" isn't much of an addition.
mircea_popescu: "We need to work as
a community to buy advertising like normal people, and perhaps work on our collective image."
mircea_popescu: this is my experience too. then again, it has been, for
a while.
mircea_popescu: "First of all, every time I strike up
a random conversation with
a stranger, I discover that they have already heard about Bitcoin. Every. Single. Time."
decimation: "you can't just curse
a district to democracy" lol
mike_c: you're on the public record owning
a majority of s.nsa lol. << he actually doesn't own any
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> holy shit Luke-Jr raises kids and plans to buy sheep, has no clue about anthrax before reading up on b-
a ? << Why so surprised?
mircea_popescu: mats: no buttcoin option <<< considering what they want to do is "continue development" i'd much rather they never got
a dime anyway.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: he is just caught in
a local pain minimum. <<< kako is like our blind slovenly prophet. he knows teh truths!
mircea_popescu: holy shit Luke-Jr raises kids and plans to buy sheep, has no clue about anthrax before reading up on b-
a ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: iirc, that was mircea_popescu describing the virtues of working on inventions in
a yurt <<< iirc that was mostly
a joke built on the probleblems of garbage collecting.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i don't own any bitcoin assets, incidentally. << you're on the public record owning
a majority of s.nsa lol.