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mircea_popescu: i mean. of the inch thickness,
a half inch in the middle is barely warm.
mircea_popescu: ended up eating
a whole fucking pick in oradea on my way back
saifedean: once you've had
a proper well-cooked steak, any other day of your life will be ruined if you venture into
a McDonald's or some other Bezzle Institution
mircea_popescu: <saifedean>
a struggle to secure excellent quality food << can you go into detail ?
undata: my god 4 walls and
a door and I'm there
undata: saifedean:
a word of caution; businesses always look simple when looking from outside
saifedean: the way i see it, bitcoin will kill pretty much all the world of bezzle, as i'm sure you folk agree, and the only jobs that will thrive in th future are those that involve actually doing something useful for other people which others appreciate and are happy to pay for. there are few things in life people appreciate better than
a well-cooked steak, and few things in life that are done badly as often
ben_vulpes: but what are the engineering arguments for an embedded kv store against which one cannot query well if at all vs.
a embedded sql store?
saifedean: i definitely have the travel stories and the pretty wife and zero shits are given about what may come... most my days are
a struggle to secure excellent quality food,
a struggle which will only be resolved conclusively once i have my entire operation
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller saifedean i am familiar with your idea of restaurants. these work as
a retirement ploy by old merchants, who have an immense pile of gold in the basement,
a pretty wife and don't give
a shit about what may come, they juist want people to hang out and chat with.
saifedean: the idea of being my own boss, and to only be the boss of
a few people is ideal. easily beats having to deal with hundreds of idiots in
a large operatoin and suffer their idiocy
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: if it's
a pet, why would you want it to scale? restaurants are cool because you get free food and
a place to "hang out"
chetty: sounds like
a little piece of heaven there saifedean
saifedean: if i could run
a single operation very well, it could make enough income to allow me to live very well, while spending my days doing something i enjoy
saifedean: why the hell would i want to scale? if i wanted to scale i'd join mcdonalds for
a rewarding career and an early grave
saifedean: because honey badger doesn't give
a shit, and because bitcoin is the honey badger of money
saifedean: coz i really enjoy grilling, i'm very good at it, people really like my steaks and i could get them to pay me good money to eat it if i put my head to make it good... sounds to me like
a better way of spending your life than any bezzle career
saifedean: undata & mp, i'm actually thinking of starting
a grill restaurant... to be named the honey badger grill, bitcoin preferred
undata: saifedean: start
a business you weenie :p
saifedean: it sure as hell beats working in the world of bezzle,
a slave-like existence producing nothing and wasting your life in
a worthless pissing contest whose first prize is the ability to kiss
a bigger ass
saifedean: very nice, retirement is underrated. the main appeal of academia for me is that it is
a halfway house to retirement
saifedean: i got
a bunch of gaming forum posts, nothing to do with you
saifedean: compelling, i must say, but last time i spoke to taleb he wasn't all that interested in bitcoin. i mean, he finds it interesting to
a point, but not to the point of healthy obsession and complete disregard of everything else that we share
assbot: Logged on 07-07-2014 23:30:49; sexysaffron: I have
a video delivery!
undata: what
a sprawling mess of an article
ben_vulpes: "However, the real value of Bitcoin is not reaped at an individual level." << he's spot on, though - it's about raping at
a collective level
decimation: "Under the Bitcoin model, those who create the algorithm, protocol, manage the transactional ledger and mine virtual currencies would become the new central bankers, controlling
a monetary basis, an immense power and responsibility." << lol yeah that's
a 'risk'
decimation: hoarding usd << lol. actually there's
a great deal of certainty about the dollar, it's just that the certainty is that there is no fixed number of dollars, never has been, never will be
cazalla: ooh knocked glass off table onto open case.. lucky i drank the water in it just
a few minutes ago
ben_vulpes: RetroUPriser: you may get
a game out of BingoBoingo
RetroUPriser: How's it going? I was going to see if mircea_popescu was active and willing to play
a game of chess,
Vexual: cut
a deal to keep his shed-load off the streets
cazalla: "If bitcoin were allowed to co-‐exist as “legal tender” it could also create
a situation where under Gresham’s Law “Bad money drives out good”. In such
a scenario, bad currency (bitcoin) would be used and good currency (US Dollar) would be hoarded, creating greater economic instability."
assbot: reproducible builds -
a month ahead of schedule
cazalla: i mean, why spend $20-$30 on
a pizza when you can get one from pizza hut on tight ass tuesday for $3.95!
cazalla: asciilifeform, sunday is
a slow day, whaddaya want from me?
mircea_popescu: well it's worth the time in the sense that not having the 30gb in question wherever your favourite staging environment is is
a major handicap.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you actually have the blockchain by very far the best way to do this is stage
a local environment and feed the experimental instance through some sort of loopback
ben_vulpes: does anyone have
a node with high throughput to which they'd be willing to whitelist my connections
JorgePasada: mircea_popescu: Yeah I'm just trying to learn. Found
a couple good things via hacker news.
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada maybe read all the disparate stuff, publish
a digest.
dub: you can learn not to do anything on
a network that you wouldnt be happy with obama reading
gribble: Error: I am not seeing this user on IRC. If you want information about
a registered gpg user, try the 'gpg info' command instead.
mircea_popescu: Naphex on
a related note, i really don't get all these derps going "oh you know what ? i'll run
a hertzner vm through this magic layer. presto, totally anon!"
Naphex: "es, hello, Internet supervillain here," nachash, said that his server—
a virtual private server running the German hosting service Hetzner—was initially hit by what he believed was
a denial of service attack in Augus'
saifedean: so, mp, are you going to be in Buenos Aires January/Feb? I might be popping by for
a week or so
assbot:
A conceit, or the importance of blogging pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
jurov: we'll see if this gets anywhere... it's how much since whole thing started?
a week?
ben_vulpes is wondering about the practicality of using 0.5.3 as
a starting pin
jurov: but
a hdd died, so i don't have pre - .9 blockchain anymore
punkman: it also does some tricks to make it look like v4 "Create
a PGPv3 public key, v4 UID, and v4 signature"
ben_vulpes: subject of .9, has anyone downloaded the full chain with
a .5/.6/.7/.8/.9 client? no bootstrapping, no shared db?
mircea_popescu: "If the output size of the chosen hash is larger than the number of bits of q, the hash result is truncated to fit by taking the number of leftmost bits equal to the number of bits of q. This (possibly truncated) hash function result is treated as
a number and used directly in the DSA signature algorithm."
jurov: they will also consider this
a confirmation that mircea rides his keyboard hard
ben_vulpes has
a feeling he'll be saying that
a lot
mod6: anyway, there is
a bunch of stuff obv. just another thing for clean up at some point.
mod6: you know, incase you'd like to have
a binary that isn't bloated with debug symbols?
mod6: so has anyone else noticed that the makefile doesn't provide
a way to build /without/ debug flags? lol
mircea_popescu: in the end. and its
a great point. but before he gets there he steps in it.
mircea_popescu: dude.... spend the time to put
a (was it clock driven ?) spectrometer in
a laptop
mircea_popescu: giving idiot "web designers"
a gamma= is like giving idiot web designers autoplay video with
a volume=.
mircea_popescu: "Professional graphic artists generally produce Web sites on Macintoshes. They slave over the images until the mid-tones look just right, mid-tones that will be mapped almost to black on
a typical Sun workstation or PC. The solution to this problem is trivial:
a gamma= field in the IMG HTML tag."
mircea_popescu: it's basically
a normal bacterium genome that was completely mushed to bits, barely
a third of it still works.
mircea_popescu: anyway, speaking of leprosy, that thing is
a wonder to behold.
chetty: this isnt mono, its
a parasite from central america
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was
a fun thing to make, that. i think i still have the publisher responses somewhere, "omg you write the greatest letters and whoa so sorry i can't publish this"
mircea_popescu: chetty can you believe people still buy your stuff
a decade later ?
mircea_popescu: "The result?
A formatting language too wimpy even for
a novel." <<< this is pure nonsense. i had my novel on the web just fine in plain html.
JorgePasada: Bitcoin is
a whole-assed implementation of skin in the game...
JorgePasada: pete_dushenski: Yeah, we just have
a lot of half-assed implimentations of it in modern society.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck ever read whatever software the dns letters run ? who ever wrote
a patch for it ?
assbot: #bitcoin-assets | You cannot stop the clouds by the building of
a ship.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is necessarily so. because godel is
a cult.
mircea_popescu: code works slowly, you spend
a life and in the end it's all
a waste.