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ben_vulpes: bitcoin is serious business - perhaps a serious business database should be involved.
ben_vulpes: why is it a better idea for bitcoin to write the blockchain to disk instead of into an external database?
ben_vulpes: jurov: i can't imagine we've sequenced all virii inhabiting humans or even done a decent job at even the internal or external bacteriospheres
jurov: quite a food ofr thought
ben_vulpes: "Rejection reason: There's no way for a mod to find a suitable replacement for a random chance."
kakobrekla: interestingly > Bitcoin Winkdex price first digit will be a 1 or a 2 on May 1st 2015 < got rejected cause of windex
mircea_popescu: no, thank you for pasting the actual command, it'd have taken me a while to piece it together lol
Azelphur: he has a bot that does ^, I've already banned him in the past from #bitcoin, #bitcoin-otc, #bitcoin-otc-eu, -uk, ...
adlai: can't a man lurk these days
assbot: A bitcoin donation of 4.1 mBTC has been made to help keep people warm this winter.Learn more at http://t.co/3FkV0KeWat
mats_cd03: a dummy didn't include a tx fee, now funds are in limbo
mats_cd03: hes a funny guy. i made seven figures this year! etc.
Vexual: she stole some crayons and stuff and the otto was a resounding success for year sto come
Vexual: i didnt even have a prize in mind, cheeky bitch
Vexual: i didnt know what a virgin wasm hell i dont know what sex was
Vexual: older girls might ask me if im a virgin; "lady, it's 5 cents or fuck off"
Vexual: here, have a lotto ticket
Vexual: 90 bux a months?
Vexual: back when i was a kid, if you wanted a virtual office you had to convince someone to do it
Vexual: give me a fucking break
cascadian_derper: anyways, a question for the chan: "what disqualifies 053 and what criteria should be used to pick an 'angry' bitcoin?"
assbot: Logged on 21-11-2014 01:38:58; mircea_popescu: well anyway : two trains moving on the same track leave simultaneously 29 miles apart, one doing 5mph the other 7mp. a fly caugh between them flies straight until it reaches a train then turns back and recurses, doing 9mph.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu i was reading a circa-1958 issue of american magazine 'popular science', and guess what was in it - http://imgur.com/mZnf775 ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 23-11-2014 04:53:31; asciilifeform: quite possibly this is ideal scenario. a hardfork that sane folks on the whole planet would immediately flee to.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i would just sell all my bitcoins, start a new chain.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well we don't know yet and apparently won't know for a while, rigt ?
decimation: well, multicast might be a shortcoming in ip
mircea_popescu: decimation you sound like an adult man falling in love with a dirty young hussy.
decimation: really, what the existing internet fails at is a decent multicast model
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was five cents a minute yo! at the time a minute meant one page, or a gallon of gasoline.
decimation: why bother with the illusion of a private point-to-point connection if you can deploy a nice global namespace
undata: asciilifeform: the crude idea I had previously was just trying to jam a WoT into the blockchain
decimation: asciilifeform: I'm not sure you really need tcp at all if you have a crypto-wot
mircea_popescu: 2. Stepped in a majority of the holes, landmines and caltrops available.
undata: asciilifeform: you're about a mile over my head, but the n-axis WoT idea has had my brain churning since hearing about it
asciilifeform: 'kyristor' was a set of pencilled notes in an old 3ring.
mircea_popescu: the gushing hordes on reddit were so very impressed with how the idiots in question "fixed" the problem (through leveraging a 50%+1 attack against the blockchain, thourgh meanwhile discredited bircoin mining pools)
asciilifeform: a 4096-bit rsa signature and key fp fit handily in a udp minimal packet. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: ie, "are or are you not reachable through some node somewhere that doesn't think you're a total waste of biological matter."
mircea_popescu: it WOULD give the old re-routability properties of the web a lot of value again.
mircea_popescu: yeah, you have a point.
undata: use flags are a bit of a blunt instrument, but they work
undata: portage does a pretty good job of that
mircea_popescu: and a simple "not all dependencies found, exiting" is not good enough.
mircea_popescu: there must also somehow be added in there a "no dependencies" rule, somehow.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in any case, my original change to github and generally the mangement of open source codebase of "add a read by X" field is not actually enough.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is why, in my unofficial wonderland, you can't even open a socket without transmitting an rsa-signed a 'this is me, and my wot' breath of life packet. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: just like there's no punishment for the anon derp hiding behind "contributed a patch to openssh"
mircea_popescu: right, those same resources that are drained away with crafted bullshit like this, a million different places.
mircea_popescu: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/595 << meanwhile mitre (which is very much a usg-thing) is coming out with a "you know they don't really need to work because they're special kids".
mircea_popescu: in five years people will be asking me why they can't load qntra and instead of pointing to braindamaged "code is poetry" wordpress version 1-4, i'll point at braindamaged "code is poetry" wordpress versions 1-28, AND at systemd "hey, you can talk directly to the dns resolver, because it's on a fixed port, and the legit server can't even race you because it is standards compliant and waits while you rape the stack.
mircea_popescu: how many magic constants can a person eat ?
asciilifeform: quite possibly this is ideal scenario. a hardfork that sane folks on the whole planet would immediately flee to. ☟︎
kakobrekla: idk in a sense putting 0.5.3 together is worse than x10. not only it might tell you there is bad air, you cant open the window anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in bucharest probably a one room studio and buttermilk.
asciilifeform: in usa, it buys a very small car.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2014 03:30:35; asciilifeform: nitpick with pediwikia - the 'batman' in the epic is not wearing a 'batman' costume. he's a bloke who smashes heads with a baseball bat.
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: there is a film convention, found usually in 'superhero' yarns, where a gang of derps each of whom amounts to exactly nothing, 'combine their powers' and form an invincible killing machine of one kind or another
asciilifeform: take your pick of a sufficiently 'heavy' problem (not necessarily deeply-mathematical, however) and, carry it on long enough, will realize - that we don't really 'have computers.'
kakobrekla: yes it was a reference to that
asciilifeform: actually i started out thinking about something quite else, when realized that we can't build a computer.
kakobrekla: 'i once tought about bitcoin but then realized we cant build a computer'
assbot: A dangerous idea - serialized delusions ... ( http://bit.ly/11od32U )
asciilifeform: much like the early concept of 'space station' was born from the fact of 'a military satellite's expensive, someone gotta change the vacuum tubes when they burn' -
ben_vulpes: no effect for me either with a wedged chain
mircea_popescu: than a callgirl ? i dun see it.
Vexual: she ends up with a better resume
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: found a cool app that teaches basic circuit building. (like gates and shit), i was wondering if you had any references to good exercises, in your vast library :P
mircea_popescu: so you could read a portion in front from two diff places
mircea_popescu: wait, is this the thing which ambiguously allocated a part of the pages
asciilifeform: (floating point was not originally part of intel arch, in case anyone forgot or never owned a 'weitek')
mircea_popescu: people easily forget that the "two byte year" comes from a time when they also had a 20 byte bus
mircea_popescu: this is a good point.
ben_vulpes: mebbe a motto for the foundation
mircea_popescu: a point not commonly reached these days
mircea_popescu: anyway point being it's the level 0 of suck, ie, a honest, basic suckage.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> compare ms-dos, still to this day accepted here as a paragon of programming << news to me
mircea_popescu: you may have a point there.
chetty: I wonder if there was a gentlemans club somewhere that lamented the arrival of the automobile and just knew it would ruin good horses
mircea_popescu: i made it myself, and i dare say im fucking proud of it like it were a work of art, that list.
mircea_popescu: in other news : the eulora tier 0 items recipes etc are finally finished as a bulk. on next update, game will get the ~100 or so maze of resources, armors, hats, what have you.
asciilifeform: identity is a slippery thing when there are brain parasites about.
mircea_popescu: that's a splendid way to put it lol, "which half do you even say hello to"
mircea_popescu: cazalla: Belxjander: added this channel to my bouncer <<< i remember doing this, thinking to myself.. which bitcoin channels represent me as a person <<< o.O
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: anyone who creates a gizmo which depends on shitstemd - has asked to share the fate. << the practical problem with this is that bayesian filtering only works for as long as it stays small.
mircea_popescu: mebbe ? the onle where the entire cycle of kid sees spam -> kid imagines this works because it exists -> kid tries it for a while, thus perpetuating it -> kid fails to make any money goves up -> new kid
asciilifeform: to briefly continue this morning's thread - don't rely on freenode's 'cloaks', if you have a consumer garbage-grade router on your premises, throw it out, replace with actual router.
cazalla: mats_cd03: 4:40:08 <+cazalla> ermagawd, missus gone for weekend, this raising a kid on your own shit is tiring, finally in bed and i can sit down << now you know why she hates you <<< what else would you have a woman do, designed to produce and raise children afterall
punkman: kakobrekla got a mail that an attack was originating from the deed server
kanzure: don't they know it only counts if you come up with a novel zero day? otherwise all the points go to charity.
asciilifeform: not necessarily 'metasploit' but perhaps a similar autodiddler.
asciilifeform: specifically, there is a vandal lurking in #b-a who 'metasploits' uncloaked folks
mats_cd03: a
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: where it can be overwritten by pwner with a version that saves key
mats_cd03: 4:40:08 <+cazalla> ermagawd, missus gone for weekend, this raising a kid on your own shit is tiring, finally in bed and i can sit down << now you know why she hates you
danielpbarron: The attacks also knocked out one of the company’s main backup servers, which were housed, at what until that day seemed like a safe distance away, under 2 World Trade Center.
danielpbarron: Cantor Fitzgerald did have extensive contingency plans in place, including a requirement that all employees tell their work passwords to four nearby colleagues. But now a large majority of the firm’s 960 New York employees were dead.
cazalla: Belxjander: added this channel to my bouncer <<< i remember doing this, thinking to myself.. which bitcoin channels represent me as a person.. anyway, this is the only channel you need
cazalla: ermagawd, missus gone for weekend, this raising a kid on your own shit is tiring, finally in bed and i can sit down
asciilifeform: anyone who creates a gizmo which depends on shitstemd - has asked to share the fate.