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mircea_popescu: decimation lemme illustrate the point with
a humorous story.
decimation: I like how one arm of USG is threating anyone who has touched
a bitcoin, while the other arm claims that they could not possibly investigate welfare fraud
mircea_popescu: that comes to... brace yourselves... 250 bucks
a year per capita.
mircea_popescu: you can't go plunk down
a pile of em and get dollars in exchange.
decimation: that fellow who lived under
a stump or whatever might claim to be somewhat independent, but really he's just taking advantage of usg's lack landlordship
decimation: yeah, in the wash dc area it's just
a little flatter I guess
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> not even kidding. you know that thing where you can't walk for 50 miles without ending up in
a town, nor 10 miles without crossing
a road ? << True story, did that.
mircea_popescu: not even kidding. you know that thing where you can't walk for 50 miles without ending up in
a town, nor 10 miles without crossing
a road ?
decimation: yeah in ascii's area $2k for
a house is cheap
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Seriously plausible for
a US coast.
BingoBoingo: <cazalla> ignoring the ridicule for having an iphone, i was going to write up this circle app but cannot because there is 2180 results for apps with the name circle and you must install ichunes to use the link to install :\ << sounds like
a review in itself
mircea_popescu: from tax breaks to deferring of college debt, it's all
a gift.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> one can get
a nice flat and three fine meals [...] not coughing up any great advances in arts. <<< yes, they are.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> wait
a seccond. is lawsky the reddit supernintendo or the actual supernintendo ? << scam, he's just one of those rpi based emulators made the chicoms
decimation: asciilifeform: it is an odd fact that most 'upright' folks in the us would prefer to starve rather than depend on welfare, yet the same folks view their mortgage deductions as
a birthright
cazalla: mike_c, matters not, sporting an old phone will just get you labelled as
a hipster because the 3310 is vintage yo
mike_c: i guess you can use an iphone to impress the other girls at the party. gotta get
a cute cover for it though.
kakobrekla has optimized his reoccurring costs quite
a bit
kakobrekla: asciilifeform and to answer your question,
a few months
decimation: asciilifeform: I recall that you were
a proponent of 'guaranteed income'
kakobrekla: sadly i also need to convert to
a more acceptable format
kakobrekla: idk, but 10 btc would buy
a good fat crate'o'em < is this
a protest of how unusable btc is to you or ?
mircea_popescu: wait
a seccond. is lawsky the reddit supernintendo or the actual supernintendo ?
mircea_popescu: all you need to have
a reign of terror is to empower the bottom of the social hierarchy. it never fails.
decimation: so, really all you need to have
a 'reign of terror' is to put
a 'suggestion box' in front of the secret police office
decimation: the widespread willingness of Germans to inform on each other to the Gestapo that Germany between 1933 and 1945 was
a prime example of panopticism."
mircea_popescu: <PeterL> is checking every 5 minutes
a good timeframe you think? << yeah.
cazalla: PeterL, this "they don't have
a more interesting name for thier blog", do you know we took almost 2 days to pick the name
decimation: although to be fair, the link to the gpg key is
a bit tenuous
decimation: I wonder if usg has attempted to jail someone for possessing
a private rsa key that is directly linked with extortion?
kakobrekla: or else someone comes here, pastes
a link he controls, gets the ip from behind cloak
PeterL: I guess it could get the author from the rss, then compare it against
a list of irc nicks?
PeterL: it is also pulling the site title from the feed, it is not my fault they don't have
a more interesting name for thier blog
PeterL: right now it is pulling the author from the rss feed, to get irc nick would be
a bit trickier
punkman: PeterL: name of website is
a bit redundant, also might be better with irc names instead of rss authors
PeterL: is checking every 5 minutes
a good timeframe you think?
mike_c: not having
a reddit account helps me resist the occasional urge to educate them.
ben_vulpes: plus, imposing
a structure on deeds is questionable
punkman: ben_vulpes, just add Deed_title: bla bla on
a line
BingoBoingo: Maybe fivezerotwo waits
a few years and he can scrape his ransom out of the deedbot bin?
PeterL: I'm waiting for
a bunch to be out there and then I am going to take them all at once
punkman: kakobrekla: I have
a gift for you
kakobrekla: 15:31 <fivezerotwo> these people have
a world view that 99% of the populance are dumb morons < its not my fault :(
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you got
a pointer to where you and nubbins` cut the book deal ?
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2014 00:11:53; asciilifeform: "came to drakula two catholic monks, from the hungarian lands, pittances to collect. he ordered them brought apart, and called up one, pointed to the yard, where one could see many sat upon stakes, or on wheels broken. he did ask: 'was i just? and who are these people, sitting on stakes?' answered the monk, 'no, lord, you do evil, killing without mercy;
a lord must be merciful. and those sat upon the
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform not surprised, expected precisely this. << wouldja give
a man
a moment ? i gotta answer comments and whatnot!
punkbot: ben_vulpes: (help [<plugin>] [<command>]) -- This command gives
a useful description of what <command> does. <plugin> is only necessary if the command is in more than one plugin. You may also want to use the 'list' command to list all available plugins and commands.
artifexd: <kakobrekla> yes, someone requested to make
a custom rss feed for []bot only for it not to be used << It will be. Just... not yet.
punkman: re: merkle tree - maybe in the future where we have 100 deeds per bundle, but it's already
a hash tree so...
mircea_popescu: cazalla: fivezerotwo wants 2 btc to stop lol <<< guy sounds
a lot more like, he'd want to start above the grunt level, doesn't know how to ask but figures (correctly) that no matter how he'd ask he won't get it.
mircea_popescu: punkman: would qntra like to sponsor
a WP plugin that accepts signed posts and puts them in editor's queue? << it's not
a bad idea on the face but the truth is that the pipeline is too finnicky and too dependent on handwork for it to be useful. yet.
mircea_popescu: it'd be better than the current pretense of "we invented
a new, easier one!"
mircea_popescu: bounce: footnotes are
a major break in reading flow [...] <<< here's
a tip&trick : hover pointer over footnote mark, there's
a tooltip that loads it.
kakobrekla: less than half
a gram for
a persons meal +-
kakobrekla: lucky for us it has
a strong taste so you dont need much of it.
PeterL: they are still stuck trying to make their websites look like
a paper newspaper
mircea_popescu: jurov: mircea_popescu: or i can generate something like 1BTCFund but it 'll take
a while <<< eeentirely up to you.
kakobrekla: ;;rate fivezerotwo -1 >I wanna see if trust list notifications work correctly (next one in
a couple of hours)
PeterL: aha, let me know if you get
a feed working so I can add it to the bot's list
PeterL: does it have
a rss feed?
PinkPosixPXE: hehe these vps' are for
a few other projects as well, but will also meet my irc needs
PinkPosixPXE: what
a jackass.. with his leet .NET framework skillz
cazalla: punkman: would qntra like to sponsor
a WP plugin that accepts signed posts and puts them in editor's queue? <<< it's an idea but i think we keep process as is atm
nubbins`: <@gmaxwell> nubbins`: Change the hash to get rid of the crazy base58 (pita to implement) in the inner loop and make it
a merkle tree so the proof can be compact even with many things commited. And instead of using
a private key, use
a pay-to-contract
https://github.com/Blockstream/contracthashtool