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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: "independently wealthy" affectation too often to count << not hard to tell the fake perpetuum mobile - it sorta grinds to a halt at some point...
BingoBoingo: Seriously thoug Ohio is a place. The20YearIRCloud does well renting mud huts in the wastes of Ohio
decimation: To me "independently wealthy" implies owning a revenue stream that is sufficient for a reasonable standard of living, plus cushion
mircea_popescu: then as a sense of familiarity develops, more of truth can be let out.
asciilifeform: he had, according to his confession at least, what turned out to be a battery rather than a perpetuum mobile.
mircea_popescu: is this like "i don't eat anything for as many as 20 hours a day, so i'm therefore anorexic" ?
decimation: asciilifeform: I also gave a couple btc to his pot
asciilifeform: when mr mold posted a begging box some years ago (prior to public urbit) - i gave...
asciilifeform: can't set the bozo bit on a fellow so quickly, i thought, esp. one who somehow begged/borrowed/stole enough free time to actually achieve something tangible
decimation: heh. I just got a destroyer, and after rebuilding the code about 5 times I said 'fuck this'
decimation: eh, he can probably gain a small staff of unpaid 'interns'
asciilifeform: i'm also still, for some reason, on their mailing list, and mostly nothing has happened there in a while
asciilifeform: searched using google, for 'urbit', via a few proxies, cookieless browser - and discovered that...
decimation: he put a post up a few months ago that kinda ended it
decimation: a fact highlighted daily by bureaucrats and their media minions
asciilifeform: ze fuhrer says through his megaphone - whatever he is asked to say. for example, '38400 baud.' >> http://imgur.com/a/oZSiI
BingoBoingo: <decimation> asciilifeform: maybe as a mercy gesture the prisons stock high-mercury mackerel << Heavy metal poisoning is slow
decimation: asciilifeform: maybe as a mercy gesture the prisons stock high-mercury mackerel
decimation: well, there's no doubt that there's a megaphone attached to his lips, but what does he actually say anymore?
mircea_popescu: they recently heard a case about fucking beards.
decimation: lol asciilifeform that's a good point
asciilifeform when read about this for the first time, wondered if some 'lifer' inmate will file a 'cruel and unusual punishment' claim against the u.s. department of prisons for potentially extending his lifespan and thus adding years to his sentence without a judge's say-so
decimation: "There's been a mackerel economy in federal prisons since about 2004, former inmates and some prison consultants say. That's when federal prisons prohibited smoking and, by default, the cigarette pack, which was the earlier gold standard." ☟︎
mircea_popescu: he's got a legitimate business trading ciggs for socks and sweaters in jail now or what.
Apocalyptic: so it's either the noob gets the 6 right or gets only a subset, if the cardinal of this subset is low enough it doesn't help in any way
asciilifeform: as i understand, one's kaishakunin would typically be a respected teacher, who approves of you enough to take the risk of embarrassing himself by chopping incorrectly.
mircea_popescu: "master, how to learn dao ?" "read a coupla lines on it" "which ones ?" "yes"
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kaishakunin&defid=1111214 | Samurai Who Performs Kaishaku During Seppuku. The Kaishakunin Used A Katana Known As A Dotanuki.
decimation: fyi there's an increased chance of a severe geomagnetic storm happening in the next week or two
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo a, yeah, that ain't happening.
BingoBoingo: Eh, when you write off a venue like bitcointalk as worthless, best to stand by that decision unless something material about the venue changes for the better.
mircea_popescu: anyway, basically she's a naggum without the ulcer.
TheNewDeal: read that one a handful of times
thestringpuller: TheNewDeal: https://bitcointa.lk/threads/so-you-think-youre-going-to-start-a-bitcoin-business-right.73270/ << that's a good one
TheNewDeal: where can one get a hold of said mpoe-pr eas
mircea_popescu: two years ago it was a different story.
thestringpuller: mpoe-pr was more of a public service
TheNewDeal: damn ascii, this is a lengthy piece
asciilifeform: other than being a fictional hero
TheNewDeal: so weird to see stuff like copumpkin giving the guy a 4, then everyone else negrating?
thestringpuller: running through a WoT graph
TheNewDeal: in a very straight line?
TheNewDeal: and a scammer tag or two was handed out
decimation: yeah, it would probably be a court case
decimation: but I think a trademark must be used.. in trade
mircea_popescu: herpy-derp and a bottle of cum.
mircea_popescu: i even said in the log, a year or so ago, now it will be bought off a bankruptcy auction
mircea_popescu: bewcause the fucktards in question decided it's best to give it to a "safe company"
TheNewDeal: mp, was that a response to my 'spergily timed question?
TheNewDeal: did anyone else (like goat or theymos) get in trouble a la http://bitbet.us/bet/486/james-gibson-aka-gigavps-to-be-named-as/ ?
mircea_popescu: i personally don't give a shit. my thinking is, if im making a backloading hoe, i shall name my backloading hoe a backloading hoe. sure, someone may or may not exist figuring his hoe is THE backloading hoe. this does not interest me. if he has already built a "backhoe loading palace" or not, if and when i feel like building a backhoe loading palace, i shall call it... guess ?
asciilifeform: the current phoundation rolls in coin of mysterious (or not-so-mysterious) origin, this powers a certain amount of 'loud shout' idiocy
decimation: one might be able to pinpoint the generation of a new block
asciilifeform: what kind of secret, exactly, is the existence of a node ?
decimation: asciilifeform: I can think of a use for a collection of zombie nodes: discover other nodes and relay transactions
asciilifeform: rope-a-pope.
BingoBoingo: Pope on a rope?
decimation: generally this takes a french army
asciilifeform: there's a fat arse parked at rome already
mircea_popescu: this is how derps learn. by finding themselves in a situation where the people they aim to impress laugh at their cluelessness.
asciilifeform: how is this a good thing ?
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, creating confusion with the current bitcoin foundation is the best thing that can happen, short of the entire group of shitheads spontaenously combusting in a flame of shit.
mircea_popescu: and then they finally break up and the sane 2nd guy calls himself ALSO a boyfriend
mircea_popescu: like for instance, when a 16 yo gets her first boyfriend, who is an alcoholic shithead,
asciilifeform: and is there a name, anyway?
asciilifeform: I find it likely to confuse << who said to call it a phoundation?
decimation: might have been a misconfigured router somewhere
joecool: woah i just had a DoD ip try to get into my gmail
decimation: I might contribute a patch or two if the ball is rolling
decimation: last night it occured to me - what if someone took over a botnet and then used it to - create bitcoin nodes
gribble: Error: "urmom" is not a valid command.
mircea_popescu: the only crime is working for a government.
mircea_popescu: the cheek of them fuckers, anyway. so wait, governments hacking individual phones is a ok, individuals exposing the lies of governments is life in prison ?
mircea_popescu: the uk is such a lulzfest by now.
mircea_popescu: tho a high court of justice held in serbia, hanging bush jr and co would be a fun sight.
mircea_popescu: what, "unauthorised access to a computer system" ?
decimation: it certainly seems to me that any owner of the chinese copies has a good basis for a lawsuit
mircea_popescu: this is a case of, broken implementation uses its own brokenness to deny things to better competitors
BingoBoingo: decimation: Not even a real counterfeit problem so much as not enough ID numbers problem
decimation: wait, why would it be wrong to put a wp pin?
decimation: or did this get pushed in a windows update?
assbot: Logged on 22-10-2014 22:05:36; asciilifeform: http://zeptobars.ru/en/read/FTDI-FT232RL-real-vs-fake-supereal << entirely different silicon. from this we learn!! that a) they copied it because usb id is charged for by rent-seeking scumz0rs b) winblows includes ftdi driver already. relationship with microshit. so chinese were forced into this.
kakobrekla: speaking of assbot, just pushed a patch and going for reset
mircea_popescu: i dun see the problem, most of the internet takes more than a second
Apocalyptic: not a really big deal
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, can't resolve host, as you can see in https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/qntra.net , some DNS servers all around still didn't catch up
gribble: You rated user sturles on Sat Oct 29 01:49:37 2011, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: coupla deals over pp.
nubbins`: otc is a ghost town
bounce: also, git allows for generation of patches that're relatively easy to send over a ml then feed'em back to git.
BingoBoingo has but a tiny bit of pre-log logs.
TheNewDeal: someone once sent me a text file of the SD ipo
TheNewDeal: going to need a meme for this. It's not in the logs?
asciilifeform: and apparently it is possible to get 'git' to cough up a plain unix patch.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> oh, also i nthe stupid pile : there used to exist a way to send coins by ip. it was a no-verification "tell me an address" special message. << killed in 0.3.x series. one of Satoshis later acts
cazalla: and with that, i'm off to beach for a little
mircea_popescu: oh, also i nthe stupid pile : there used to exist a way to send coins by ip. it was a no-verification "tell me an address" special message.
nubbins`: i hope there'll still be enough to fill a book ;/
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> also, was there a special command line thing to add ips ? connect and addnode persist in newer iterations
mircea_popescu is not on a code reading system atm
mircea_popescu: also, was there a special command line thing to add ips ?