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TomServo: BingoBoingo: Did you accidently
a word in the second sentence?
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: Texas << It's interesting what Texas does in most fictional scenarios in
a post apocalyptic world.
BingoBoingo: It's the option the Castros are taking. They just haven't left yet. Raoul is Probably hoping Fidel can get
a dignified state burial before he jumps ship.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure it's surrender. If anything it's
a more graceful one than Idi Amin had before living out his days in
a House of Saud zoo.
BingoBoingo: Well, North Korea has legal marijauana. Leverage that into European tourism. Follow with Pope mediated negotions with Obola. Open US trade. Appoint
a patsy president. Move to Macau and read about the Color revolution in the Newspaper.
Vexual: nsa document controllers must be
a blast at parties
BingoBoingo: Is MP slowly turning into
a wooden soldier?
cazalla: devthedev, they likely awarded it to
a friend, that's usually how those competitions go
assbot: President of Argentina adopts Jewish godson to 'stop him turning into
a werewolf' - Americas - World - The Independent ... (
http://bit.ly/1Bfmi1D )
BingoBoingo: The Reciever throwing
a pass to the Quarterback?
bitstein: Right? And from your recap, I'm glad that they were able to help bring attention to
a celebrated American tradition with two teams that seem to really have
a love of the game.
davout: don't gpg-sign
a webpage yo
davout: yeah, i'm implying that it shouldn't be *that* surprising for
a PDF
BingoBoingo: davout: Well almost all of how
a webpage looks is dependent on how it is read.
ben_vulpes: so there's
a really particularly good argument for tiny blocks.
Vexual: yeah, i'm
a glass half full kinda thing
Overand: What good is
a one-way transfer?
Overand: but getting that across the *world* would t ake
a lot of power
Overand: Anyway, the current blockchain with error coding and such could probably reasonably fit into
a 20k wide channel
Overand: Sticking
a digital voice channel into 900hz - 1.6khz or so
decimation: one can have arbitrary many kilobits in
a kilohertz as constrained by SNR given in Shannon's law
decimation: yeah and it would require many kilowatts to sustain
a large coverage area. and since the ionosphere varies over the course of
a day, one ideally would need multiple transmitters with multiple frequencies
Overand: though per wikipedia, they can shoehorn 700 kilobits worth of bandwidth into
a 100khz channel
decimation: I'm thinking more of
a mesh network than
a point-to-point
decimation: I think what shortwave would be better for would be
a transaction network
decimation: at any rate, I'm not sure that shortwave is really suited for blockchain broadcast unless one had
a really big transmitter (and more importantly - government-allocated bandwidth)
Overand: (
a lot more antenna than your coke machine is likely to have)
decimation: there used to be
a transmitter in nova scotia that came in well
Overand: that was with like, 40 feet of antenna up
a tree
Overand: and yeah. i've never gotten
a DRM broadcast reliably here in the US, but, who knows
decimation: but you need
a bigass transmitter on one end
Overand: satellites are
a better candidate for this
decimation: the block contains
a list of transactions, up to the max block size, plus the hash, plus some other stuff
decimation: I think it would be possible to fit the blockchain into
a 2400 bps channel
decimation: at any rate, it's been discussed as
a possible means to distribute the bitcoin blockchain and/or transactions
Overand: Anyway, point being I'm not
a total idiot when it comes to this.
Overand: usually 20 meters and up,
a little 40,
Overand: decimation: Also, I'm
a ham radio operator, I've had plenty of conversations via shortwave
Overand: It's just not
a great candidate for replacing the entire internet
Overand: They're
a nonprofit with decent people there, if you want them to stop, just drop them an e-mail.
Overand: That's
a great callsign, though.
Overand: It certainly not 'reliable,' and it's not
a great way to get anything of any reasonable bandwidth anywhere
Overand: Shortwave's fine, but it's subject to
a ton of ionospheric stuff.
Overand: There are
a number of schools for that, but I meant it in the general sense.
Overand: Yeah, I wonder if there's
a timestamp on when it wa submitted to the keyserver
Overand: Anyway, yeah. I'm
a tech nerd, abstract musician, primitive skills student, general queerdo.
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2014 21:48:39; asciilifeform: claim is not
a fact << when talking about
a scam, the claim is the fact (that is, the fact of the scam being set up as such or other)
decimation: eh, it would cause
a collapse of some kind, which would change some stuff, some of which might be these programs
decimation: well, in the case of the us,
a sudden collapse in usd buying power
adlai: fwiw, assuming that the fiat parasite sticks around in some form or other, i'd rather have it operate
a single UBI program than dozens of badly-coordinated welfare axes
decimation: something like 'minimal welfare' is
a bare hut with beans to eat
adlai: so, like
a shit zoo?
adlai: hm this is actually
a terrible essay, nvm.
adlai: Huxley's "reservations" are actually
a fairly moral solution for
a welfare-free technocracy: exile people who aren't contributing to the society, but don't shit in their reservoirs either.
decimation: of course, the welfare state also requires
a source of infinte fiat
decimation: kakobrekla: if your bosnia link is true, it strikes me that the most important thing to have in
a 'shtf' situation is alot of people on 'your side': family, friends, etc
decimation: I imagine most folks who live in/near israel have
a pretty grim fatalism
adlai: then again, take everything i say with
a dab of humus. i'm actually
a lot less updated on local events than most people here, because it's mostly just fucking depressing.
adlai: although "hamas" refers to both
a government and
a loosely-knit military conglomerate, just like "usg" or "nato"
adlai: and yes, hamas is probably
a better government than the governments of, say, haiti or somalia
decimation: his point about hygiene items is
a good one. Having
a large store of ethanol seems like
a good idea - can be used as
a disinfectant, can be drank, can be used to de-grease engines :)
decimation: moldbug's analogy if I recall is
a fisherman saving fish
adlai: "money is bad, we need
a resource-based economy" actually, that would be terrible. resources need metadata, enter money.
adlai: there's
a palestinian MK who believes that israel should be
a people's democracy, rather than
a jewish democracy. is he running the risk of not getting reelected? yes. will he get executed by government order? probably not.
adlai: 99% of this channel doesn't see my roommate's atrocious dishwashing habits, or lack thereof, as
a problem - because they're not aware of them.
decimation: on the other hand, 99.999% of the world doesn't see it as
a problem at all, and
a good portion of them also see it as
a government's duty
adlai: my main takeaway from that article is that moral judgements have to be made in the context of the entire "game" where
a trade took place, rather than in the context of the trade alone
adlai: not that i'm aware of; although people have been running trading algorithms in their head for hundreds of years, so really any text on trading is
a text on trading algorithms.
adlai: that way when
a non-terrorist comes along, they can use terrorist-provided software, and all will be right in the jungle
decimation:
a year ago they advertise direct exchange to gold
adlai: wtf. are they lurking here? all I did was register an account, and I already get flagged as
a "Potentially Dangerous Request"
adlai: "The more information you give us about yourself, the more you will be able to do, and the more you verify yourself with us, the lower your transaction limits will be." I'm liking it
a little less now.
adlai: no assbot, that tag is titled "What is
a maker-taker model?"
decimation: I've mentioned it
a couple of times here. I'm interested because it's somehow owned/related to the goldmoney guy
decimation: I guess you don't need to 'physically' settle
a transaction to close your position
adlai:
a more precise answer might be "statistically"
adlai: ie, there's not just
a growth in userbase/demand, there's also
a growth in financial actors profiting from arbitrage, market making, etc
ben_vulpes: i'm listening to lady v talk her mother into buying things with
a credit card online.
BingoBoingo: Having more people contribute regulaly would be
a huge help