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mircea_popescu: are you a hater ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: hah, same story as SR1.0 <<< im not so sure i believe that, incidentally. iut's called parallel construction for a reason, and that reason is, "lying through the teeth".
mircea_popescu: cazalla https://www.quantcast.com/qntra.net << gotta love how after a peak it does fall, but not quite back to where it was.
assbot: Buterin's Waterfall, a Likbez : Buttcoin
jurov: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2lkevi/buterins_waterfall_a_likbez/ < asciilifeform this is the right subreddit
bounce: though you can probably use it. ISTR he's been using it for a long time
cazalla: BingoBoingo, what i read as a fix is just as likely to be now broken and vice versa, so i would prefer to defer to those smarter in here, i'm sure someone will discuss the addition of elliptic curve keys at some point
BingoBoingo: Maybe a short little blurb, sentence or two and a link to the announcement?
Vexual: ill send you a case
Vexual: get a mango in ya
Vexual: bananas are a cunt
punkman: don't think I've ever had a good mango
Vexual: its a thing
punkman: more like OJ and a banana
cazalla: if i was a small time operator and wanted to steal some coins, maybe i'd copy/pasta the silkroad 2.0 shut down images and claim i too got shut down and knick whatever coins were on the site
punkman: cazalla, saw an article about some tor search engine that had a big list
Vexual: that other news outlet reported sr2 getting a big dos a few weeks ago
cazalla: yeah apparently, doubt they do any vol though so who gives a fuck
punkman: "Silk Road 2.0 initially was owned and operated by another individual (hereinafter referred to as “DPR2”), BLAKE BENTHALL, a/k/a “Defcon,” the defendant, who had been acting as second-in—command to DPR2"
cazalla: his missus isn't that bad though she had a big emo about cheating so maybe he had a few others https://www.facebook.com/Stephaniemckaykay
Vexual: theres a book on opsec kids
Vexual: everything in your sock and cutting wild at a heavy metal show wil secure your life
punkman: cazalla: doesn't ring a bell
Vexual: you'll talk for a bit, get a smile, and if your a dickhead, youll hear " you want trouble"
Vexual: but life is a twoway street, and you can give any reponse you like
punkman: "Each successive Silk Road is headed by a DPR with increasingly poor opsec, like they're reverse-learning from their predecessors' mistakes"
mircea_popescu: this is the day, when a pretend-company cites as source of its own fucking moves the official usg news outlet.
mircea_popescu: and they tweet on their own (and mostly ignored) twitter account a link to... coindesk, and via@coindesk.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it took special chars and other issues (\n\n separated deeds) like a champ
mircea_popescu: "They announced that a further twenty members will be chosen (seemingly by the organizers) according to geographic region and different sectors, split equally between: academia; civil society; governments; and business." << lawl.
mircea_popescu: how to protect chitlins through a browser.
mircea_popescu: "If there is a cybersecurity issue, or someone who has figured out how to protect children through a browser," then they can use the platform to connect with others as well as crowdsource and fund their efforts, ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé enthused.
assbot: ICANN creates 'UN Security Council for the internet', installs itself as a permanent member • The Register
Vexual: well, I also liken you to him a lot
mircea_popescu: everything gotta be repackaged in the libertardism du jour, because a worthless tool is perhaps going to be less visibly worthless if it's nominally used to solve all problems.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck all this song and dance about "our values abhor" and "degrading misoginistic" blablabla baclava. what's wrong with the obivious "this is a fucktarded kid, broken in the head to the degree he imagines strangling strangers is an adequate substitute for his absent social skills, we don't want him here, and ideally he should be undergoing a special needs program somewhere."
mircea_popescu: lol derp goes around randomly strangling strangers as a pickup method ? jesus these idiots.
mircea_popescu: "This guy wasn't pushing forward political ideas, he was putting a view that was derogatory to women and that's just something that our values abhor in this country," he said.
cazalla: Mr Blanc, from US-based group Real Social Dynamics, was forced to hold his event on a boat on Melbourne's Yarra River last night. <<< poor guy :\
Vexual: a tender kangaroo cut beats any venison
asciilifeform: (point re: deer was that habitat creation, rather than destruction - as envirowhiners normally focus on - is a thing)
mircea_popescu: after all, a whale is a huge pile of goodies.
mircea_popescu: being a hunter is a great boon to wisdom.
asciilifeform: a road was cut through forest, and pestilential explosion of deer
mircea_popescu: the interfaces, wounds, muddy waters, everywhere there's a border is where things happen.
mircea_popescu: nature works more on a "one man's garbage" principle.
asciilifeform relaxes analogy a bit, lest it stretch so taught that it snap.
asciilifeform: (back to the titanic pile of acorns, it did - if only by accident - make a useful point: sufficiently concentrated pile of $goodies is a 'target-rich environment')
asciilifeform: too clever a man for utopiawank
mircea_popescu: thought maybe you had a theory, along with the key.
asciilifeform: the 'clef' to the 'roman a clef' of orlov is that he wants, more than anything, to live to see some kind of 'curtain call' on technological civilization and coherent culture -as a concern.-
mircea_popescu: see, dirty thinker. i mean the squirels are a much ulterior consideration to thinking.
asciilifeform: o keep track of, and your concerted effort to keep adding one more to the pile while fighting off squirrels may cause small children to start calling you silly names. The bigger the pile grows, the more likely you are to have to take inventory, and in the process you are increasingly likely to make a mistake, so that it turns out that 1,000,000 + 1 is in fact 1,000,001 - δ, where δ is the number of acorns you
asciilifeform: 'Mathematics uses induction—the idea that if 1 + 1 is 2 then 2 + 1 must be 3, and so on up to an arbitrarily large quantity. In the real world, if you are counting acorns, then 1 + 1 acorns is not the same as 1,000,000 + 1 acorns—not if there are squirrels running around, which there will be once they find out that you are the one who's been stealing their acorns. A million acorns is just too many for you t
mircea_popescu: a one mile by one mile steel plate pyramid about 100 meters tall will get you there.
asciilifeform: a black hole to vanish into.
mircea_popescu: in fact, you could make a large enough pile of steel cost 10
mircea_popescu: you COULD make a spaceship that easily exceeded that.
asciilifeform: because that amount of actual money, in one place, would collapse into a cosmic singularity
mircea_popescu: yes, when #b-a makes it it'll no doubt be a few k's in btc.
asciilifeform: 5bn in bezzlatron. use soviet figures (converting to modern 'weights and measures' is a separate voodoo) for a bit closer to reality.
mircea_popescu: decimation: my openbsd port of bitcoind suffered a fatal exception at block 150872 <<< not that exceptional.
mircea_popescu: decimation: if you want something modern and not a rusty bucket you are talking ~$1-2 bn and your money can't buy one << you gotta be kidding me. an aircraft carrier is like 5bn. and i mean a large 100k tdw one, not the shitty 50k uk has.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: but sometimes it takes a tough turd to season a savory salmon <<< i've yet to see this in practice.
asciilifeform fails as a reddit sp4mz0r
mircea_popescu: except if your os has a huge memory leak baked right in. then they don't.
asciilifeform: from the food replaced with synthetic garbage, to the car which costs a few years of avg. pay (hello ussr 1950) to... whatever.
asciilifeform: so what if yesterday there was a penny and today - two.
asciilifeform: incidentally, the hunt for 'who pays' in cc fraud may be a unicorn hunt.
mircea_popescu: many, many years ago in a galaxy far far away
asciilifeform: likely, no 'xbox' and no actual buyer. just a sp4mz0r washing his stolen cc #s. ☟︎
thestringpuller: kinda of a joke on everyone really
thestringpuller: is that bitcoin gem thing still a thing?
mircea_popescu: what it really does is give a good angle for fraudster employees to defraud companies with diffuse investors situations.
mircea_popescu: lots of these domain "deals" are simple collusion, as it's in both parties interest to announce a high price.
mircea_popescu: decimation "you are guilty of having crossed an imaginary line in a particular manner"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: danielpbarron would make great fireman. holding a sign, 'do away with fire.' << he has a point. do away with borders and welfare. the latter will occur naturally once the first is done.
decimation: my openbsd port of bitcoind suffered a fatal exception at block 150872
decimation: if you want something modern and not a rusty bucket you are talking ~$1-2 bn and your money can't buy one
Adlai: but sometimes it takes a tough turd to season a savory salmon
Adlai: anything.el is a turd
decimation: but it's kind of a turd to be honest
Adlai: any thoughts on making python a more tolerable interactive dev env? currently slogging through http://www.emacswiki.org/PythonProgrammingInEmacs and http://www.enigmacurry.com/2008/05/09/emacs-as-a-powerful-python-ide/ in search of hidden wisdom...
asciilifeform: (discussed at various points here as a handy cooling, power, and security solution.)
kakobrekla: cooking the fish, one hash at a time.
decimation: you could deploy them in strings off a buoy
asciilifeform vaguely recalls a flight of fancy calculation of how much 'tidal plant' it would take to... yank the moon from orbit
asciilifeform: tidal - a kind of poor man's hydro
asciilifeform: (didn't learn thermo in school? dig out a 1990s pc with 'peltier' cooler and connect a load to it instead of powering. then see how long until cpu melts.)
asciilifeform: given the power requirement, tethers are probably a fact of life.
asciilifeform: in a heat sink.
decimation: yeah ideally one would locate the whole operation somewhere near a heat sink
PeterL: some of my coworker were involved in a project making a transformer fluid replacement last year
decimation: PeterL: I would suppose that the first step would be to use a fluid heat exchange cooling system
BingoBoingo: It appears, BUT THEY HAD A "PROOF"
asciilifeform: also a bludgeon for those who fall out of favour (employers, that is)
decimation: and on the other side it's used as a club to keep the paupers in their servitude
asciilifeform: the only reason they even bother with visa bureaucracy is that a whole class of pestilential 'helpers' feeds off it.
decimation: asciilifeform: actually this is a good point. usg is ineffective at enforcing whatever 'immigration policy' it creates anyway, that's a sideshow
asciilifeform: every elevator pisser on the planet dreams of meeting a virginal elevator.