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mats: 'Each United States diplomatic facility that [is in] ... the Russian Federation, or any country that is
a former member of the Soviet Union shall be constructed to include
a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.'
mats: nice. doesn't take
a fed to own me anymore.
BingoBoingo: <ryanxcharles> hey friends, just
a comment re: javascript... personally, i think all variables should be global, and all numbers should be floating points << Am I still tripping?
ryanxcharles: hey friends, just
a comment re: javascript... personally, i think all variables should be global, and all numbers should be floating points
☟︎ adlai: maybe i need to throw their endpoint servers through
a plate glass window
mircea_popescu: anyway, to get an idea of this crazy : every time you go into
a shop of any kind, you have
a 50-50 chance for the sales person to try to provide what you're asking for OR to try and convince you not to buy anything.
ansc: but it shows that the common man is willing to ebdure idiocy on
a vast timescale that exceeds our patience by orders of magnitude
mircea_popescu: argentina is amusing. it has
a very socialist-populist government that is very inept, and
a large population hell bent on ignoring it
ansc: i am so scared bc i don't see
a peaceful exit from the current communist idiotic system
rithm: i'd agree communism is
a social construct and
a matter or perception, sure
fluffypony: rithm:
a black labrador wipes it's bum on
a dirty patch of grass
ansc: in our current system, one man one vote, how can we ever escape communism, other than by
a collapse of the currency?
ansc: struck me as
a genius insight
ansc: explains
a lot about our 'democracy' and such
ansc: struck me as
a fundamental truthy
mircea_popescu: and for this reason, it will necessarily enjoy
a priviledged relationship with all things of import.
mircea_popescu: now, bitcoin happens to have
a priviledged relationship with truth
ansc: could you pls elaborate
a little on that thought?
ansc: which is, as everything you write,
a very true if somewhat hyperbolic assessment of the present state of the union.
ansc: i am here to ask
a small favour
mike_c: what I heard was that there were
a bunch of reliable firms in eastern europe, with ukraine and slovenia being mentioned explicitly. and ukraine seems risky choice these days.
ansc: hi. i am just
a simple redditard. regular reader and fan of trilema though.
mike_c: they haven't raised since
a year ago. rumor mill says they are out raising again now.
mike_c: kakobrekla: someone told me recently I should hire slovenians to build
a mobile app for me. do you know anyone in that industry in your neck of the woods?
mircea_popescu: fuck them for having 404 pages in the first place, they should fix both their website and the broken process which resulted in this being
a problem in the first place.
mircea_popescu: i guess the issue is, their page is now 404 and they don't want you linkign to
a 404 page
mats: o wait, talking head is just
a former station chief
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: at least you are managing demand, reminds me of Tesla having
a 15000 car wait list, while producing ~5000 cars
a year. Won't have to worry about new customers off the blocks.
mircea_popescu: Namworld can you send me
a ss or something ? i wanna make an article of it.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nah, asciilifeform was late and then got sick so i gave him the benefit of the "once per year, report delayed for
a month"
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: was there
a S.NSA statement for November 2014?
thestringpuller: except maybe python running inside
a tornado container (like coinbr)
fluffypony: I don't disagree with their decision to call it "nodejs", I think the nodejs developers are the issue - htf do they call the binary "node" when clearly that's
a word that may occur on the command-line, being common in computin' circles
thestringpuller:
a lot of grad students don't use scholarships, but enrollment programs in exchange for being slaves to businesses
☟︎ mircea_popescu: thestringpuller exactly my point. it sounds like
a pro until the 250kg beast licks you.
nubbins`: spoken like
a man who never read life of pi ;p
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2014 14:39:08; nubbins`: so
a Site is now
a Site Web and
a Web is now
a Site, but
a Site Web is still Site mySiteWeb = new Site() and
a Site is still Web mySite = new Web();
mircea_popescu: burns the sould of the unworthy with the fire of
a thousand hells + 1 matchstick.
mats: poor guy is gonna start here with
a buncha criticism
mircea_popescu: i know whenever i have
a large numbers problem i tend to fire up basic too!
mats: hey man, he's
a cryptocurrency engineer
nubbins`: the other one won't even get you
a dialtone
nubbins`: it's going to be
a much more number
nubbins`: if we do
a fast phone number transform on that second one
mircea_popescu: the dispute (in typical redditesque retardom) was whether 7 is "less likely" or "more likely" to stad for
a nsa-diddled ecdsa curve than 5976928769872976597967965769845 or w/e
danielpbarron: have you read the logs? you're name has come up quite
a few times
nubbins`: hey, he did say "
a lot of wealth"
mats: '
A better way to do physics research is to build
a lot of wealth outside of academia, and then fund myself as
a scientist. That way I have complete freedom and I'm not facing the crazy competition for government funding. If I can pull it off, that's exactly what I'll do.'
nubbins`: imagine "using"
a platform like that
nubbins`: so
a Site is now
a Site Web and
a Web is now
a Site, but
a Site Web is still Site mySiteWeb = new Site() and
a Site is still Web mySite = new Web();
☟︎ nubbins`: sharepoint renamed
a bunch of shit between major revisions, but literally just swapped the names around and kept the api calls, function definitions, class names, etc the same
BingoBoingo:
A followup is happening... once I start punching spider sized spiders in the garage during gicarettes and not cornish game hen sized spiders
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: They already stole
a fucking car
BingoBoingo: I mean I punched
a spider the size of my head ad the mess was smaller than my knuckle
nubbins`: <+BingoBoingo> The fuckers, part of his pre-trial release conditions was
a prohibition on alcohol, 21st amendment yo! <<< i have
a friend prohibited from imbibing for 4 years as part of the punishment for
a drug offense
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: because I'm in
a bunch of videos under this nom de plume?
fluffypony: that particular one is
a payment processor
fluffypony: had
a bit of
a false start on one of the projects, shitty resources, so that's just picked up again as of
a few weeks ago
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: It is alright. The coinfire account on twitter blocked both myself and cazalla that one time we made
a blog even though... Eventually we may want to hire their meat.
mircea_popescu: perhaps. then again this may be
a rather short term concern you see.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I agree, but what I mean is that
a sidechain can't have
a direct USD market, for instance, it will always have to go via Bitcoin
mircea_popescu: this is
a fact and it's not going away except in fiction.
adlai: it's
a metaphor :)
adlai: fluffypony: blockstream is
a for-profit company in order to steal your lunch
mircea_popescu: so you are in the endsaying this is more of
a hobby than serious.
fluffypony: and if it fails it doesn't matter, we're not trying to build
a business, we're advancing technology
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: that's like saying someone with
a better business value proposition can just fork BTC
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i dun think his idea is directly applicable (stolen by btc), but nevertheless, someone with
a better business value proposition can just fork your code.
fluffypony: pubkeys) thus breaking compatibility with every existing application, and then enforce the standard for some time before the utxoset is sufficiently large to allow for
a measurable level of privacy (see MRL-0001 on lab.monero.cc as to why this is true)
fluffypony: adlai: the problem is that the "amazing tech" can't easily be copied by BTC - although I'd agree fully on that being applicable to altcoins based off of the Bitcoin codebase. the problem isn't so much the code, it's that the stealth addresses + ring signatures are such
a radical departure that Bitcoin would (obviously) have to hardfork to an address format that is completely different to their current one (since it requires 2x 256-bit
BingoBoingo: Is the robitussin bottle really not supposed to be
a single serving?
punkman: you could make
a tactile morse generator
punkman: thestringpuller wants
a screen on the cardano
thestringpuller: exactly, so I was envisioning
a device that can i/o securely from output of cardano
mircea_popescu: it'd decript somethinmg you got off
a pastebin for you, but obviously it can't guarantee the computer you're on won't read your memo too
thestringpuller: so lets say the system in use is not
a secure viewer, but
a device is available (some mobile thingy of some sort), that is
a secure viewer, but is unable to do heavy lifting. just reads from drive and displays it. so the use case I imagine is someone is sent important "please read now" encrypted memo to some dude who is boarding
a flight. he uses one of the surely compromised internet cafe computers and his hand caradno to decr
BingoBoingo: If
a system is compromised it's compromised