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nubbins`: if the deed ID is not
a brainwallet passphrase, the laws of probability have broken down
thestringpuller: Didn't
a shipping container with 100 billion or so get lost in Iraq in the early 2000's as well?
thestringpuller: mod6: i actually had
a leagal drink for the billinium <<< i was just growing pubes. now I don't feel quite so old.
mod6: i actually had
a leagal drink for the billinium
mircea_popescu: which, incidentally, ima make
a post about, cause this is starting to coallesce in my head.
mircea_popescu: and this is
a cognate of "there's no point getting in the wot, i have real world friends"
mircea_popescu: incidentally, it occurs to me that while some start-ups succeed,
a vast majority suckceed.
mircea_popescu: you can at the very least obtain the "most likely to fuckceed" information on
a set of identifiable, different providers.
mircea_popescu: i don't see how
a case can be different from any other in
a system where "one can make any declaration"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: punkman: they could at least vaguely describe their process/tools << and you'll believe? << for the record, description is not strictly
a belief-driven phenomenon. consider at its most basic, schooling. teacher describes to you grammar. do you believe ? no, if you're in any way sane, not right off. but eventually what was
a hypothesis gets tested out.
nubbins`: reading it from
a file here produces
a different hash
nubbins`: so for
a single deed, trailing comma or no?
gernika: mircea_popescu: Can you recommend
a good neighborhood for
a short stay in Buenos Aires?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: At least TempleOS is fun in
a retro way. Future archaologist may imagine it was actually widely used by
a large sect
TheNewDeal: nubbins` was asking for
a deed snippet
assbot: Logged on 28-10-2014 02:16:07; mircea_popescu: "you have been raped. i understand this can be frustrationg as this is usually
a sign that you are in fact
a slut."
decimation: yeah most pendulum clocks didn't do well in
a swaying ship
nubbins`: punkman,
a code snippet from your deed processing routine plz?
mircea_popescu: im just here eating cookies and giving him
a hard time.
BingoBoingo: For
a sufficiently exorbitant price I may be willing to serve as courier within CONUS.
mircea_popescu: undertand, shipping is
a solved problem. it just costs money, but it's not the case that consumer mail is all there is.
Duffer1: no doubt, sorry i've only followed
a few lines of the convo :P
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 he has
a point tho, museums routinely pay exorbitant fees to move their fragile shoit around.
Duffer1: asciilifeform it would have to be packed and handled like
a ming vase >> bonded courier
mircea_popescu: people can reconstruct tits and virginity. you telling me they can't remake
a board edge ?
decimation: well, that's
a good point, electrolytics and everything like that
undata: mats_cd03: probably going to need
a biologist to get
a reasonable response
mircea_popescu: cazalla: question if anyone can help - is there
a genuine security reason for someone to refuse to disclose how they generate entropy for the private keys contained in their physical bitcoin coin products? << not really, no. other than "we don't have
a clue how it's done but this is sekoority and so being mysterious is the next best thing"
Adlai: do you actually have
a lispm?
Adlai: well yes, that is
a valid sense of the word
mircea_popescu: don't forget that. apple isn't
a tech company, it's
a media company.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> who in his right mind would consider 'apple', for instance, if microshit did not exist << i don't run
a windows machine. for me ms might as well not exist. however, i did get apple powered tablet to check out their game marketplace.
undata grumbles about
a bunch of JS developers farting out things like couchdb
undata: man, this is the generation of programmers that thinks nosql is
a great idea
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: this represents
a 200% greater loss than last year while revenue doubled. <<< yeah, the time to short the pos approaches.
Adlai: we got stuck on how to implement
a MOP for sheeple, and it hasn't seen enough use for people to miss it... but it's
a rather faithful translation of MOPless CLOS
decimation: asciilifeform: I get the feeling that oop is sick at
a metaphysical level
decimation: oop is one of those things that sounds great on paper, but when
a group of programmers try to use it they end up with unmaintainable spaghetti code
mircea_popescu: i guess
a fairer evaluation is to say oop got the blessing of suck, the way www did.
Adlai: once upon
a time, "object" meant something other than "instance of
a class"
mircea_popescu: "you have been raped. i understand this can be frustrationg as this is usually
a sign that you are in fact
a slut."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: well, its not hard to beat "hi you have incoming ddos, I understand this can be frustrating as this type of attack is usually
a sign that your droplet has been compromised" <<< ahahaha wut ?
nubbins`: anyone have
a link handy for deed verification process?
jurov: ..Unix folks who are used to seeing the number _or_
a hacked-up crufty version of `ctime' output are truly amazed by this.
jurov: kakobrekla ponder this bit of wisdom from naggum: it has been instructive to see how people suddenly grasp that
a date is always read and written in ISO 8601 format although the machine actually deals with it as
a large integer...
nubbins`: <asciilifeform> he can swear to his gods that he didn't make copies, but what kind of proof could possibly suffice as proof to
a skeptic ? <<< probably no more than
a few days of torture
thestringpuller: undata: it's unfortunate python gets
a bad wrap though, Djanga seems more stable than say node.js
Adlai:
a reddit infested with c.l.l trolls would be interesting... i hope they'd bring along the markov chain idiocy spammers too
mircea_popescu: "The Lisp newsgroup, comp.lang.lisp, was upset about the switch that they’re currently planning to write
a competitor to reddit in Lisp, to show how right they are or something." << never happened, of course.
Adlai: it's kinda sad that going from CL to Python is
a step backwards in concurrency support
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eh i don't even agree. fuck all this subtlety of amuk idiocy.
a character, its encoding, the representation thereof and its numeric value are all THE SAME THING. forever.
decimation: okay, so each bundle has
a hash, and the privkey of that bundle is the hash of the list of all past hashes
Adlai is
a little curious about this deed stuf
decimation: imagine
a century from now, someone wants to verify
a deed - he would need to transmit potentially millions of deed hashes
decimation: is there going to be
a 'reset' of the state of his deed 'knapsack' over time?
decimation: abe you were
a murderous tyrant who birthed modern usg
decimation: actually it's
a tacit admission that computers suck
decimation: it does seem like unicode is
a natural fit for lisp
decimation: yeah, characters are properly objects with
a variety of attributes, not numbers
decimation: someone should make
a --cccp flag that enables ☭ as the BOM/EOM char for gpg
decimation: I think you had that rant
a few months ago on that topic
decimation: like, are they going to send it on
a 5-bit teletype?
decimation: why would anyone think it would be
a good idea to escape chars below 7 bits?
jurov: We are MUCH safer than the other exchanges, each of which has spawned
a huge list of horror stories from disgrunted customers.
assbot: Logged on 26-10-2014 21:44:02; asciilifeform: till we have
a gpg that clearsigns without escape char mutilation - we got this.
jurov: how does
a browser use them?