207200+ entries in 1.536s
undata: bounce: regarding repub/dem... anyone with
a shred of intelligence has seen through it; however, those two parties have too much control over the election process to change anything
bounce: oh hey, isn't that nice. instead of some js that'll popup
a "[tweet] [fb]" thingy every time you select
a bit of text, this here bunch has convenient prefab tweets with url and approved text that you but have to click on to tweet.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves apparently assbot had
a little trouble coming back.
thickasthieves: <@assbot> [MPEX] [U] [S.MPOE] 6550 @ 0.00073875 = 4.8388 BTC [-] ------ what's
a [U]?
bounce: used to be commas in urls were
a thing
mircea_popescu: yeah i guess for
a spherical vacuum earthquake it may help.
Apocalyptic: I was just merely showing
a theoretical model where it does work
mircea_popescu: but it's not really
a theory, more like
a daydreaming, see ?
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, yeah, I assumed
a simple, uniform, vertical translation as the movement
mircea_popescu: you're gonna hope it averages out, but in practical reality you will have constructed
a magnetic building toppler.
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> its strength is linear in I << think about it. your field, want it or not, is
a field.
A field.
bounce: that doesn't mean that
a big large fixed magnetic field will magically cushion any and all vibration, which I understand was the point
bounce: sure you can build
a magnetic dampener; things with antiphase and enough room to move and things
Apocalyptic: well bounce for the sake of the argument let's take the magnetic field generated by
a simple solenoid
bounce: if you dig
a little deeper, see if you can't find the list of NSF grant numbers known to originate at the NSA
jurov: mircea_popescu ...runs code for
a third party...<< this is same problem as DRM, i.e. you meed to prevent hardware owner to mucking out with third party code
bounce: ``OMS is
a trusted compute platform for developing and deploying secure cloud applications to collect, compute on and share personal data.'' -- apparently in the end it all hinges on "trust us, we have this centralised framework being trustworthy and shit"... again.
bounce: what's this "digital identity framework", other than
a couple highfalutin' bullet points?
bounce: start
a bitcoin enterprise or something. then you can report on it yourself.
BingoBoingo: I mean there's the Gavin Q/
A, people recycling yesterday's news, and... is anything else happening?
mircea_popescu: <gabriel_laddel> thestringpuller: where are you finding those dumps? I ended up writing
a scraper... << twas in the chan like n times, but : bitcoin-otc.com/otc/
mircea_popescu: to think about "your career" you gotta be so far away from
a warzone your head'd be spinning
mircea_popescu: but it's nonsense. who the fuck thinks about "the future" lol. people in
a warzone think about cunt, and maybe good cognac.
bounce: if everybody lives to, say, 30, then dies without fail, it's
a fact of life
mircea_popescu: cuz he got to see his own death on average
a lot closer than the average yurpean
mircea_popescu: warzones are "unhinging" because the complexity of "society" is
a function of the mean distance between individual and his own death
mircea_popescu: othernubs`> imagine living in
a world where logic can fail <<< that's life in
a "social sciences" universe.
bounce: it does include
a value judgement. so it'd require
a judging facility
Adlai: well there is
a missing object. malice and benevolence don't exist in
a vacuum, they have to be directed at something
undata: that's
a much harder term to define.
mircea_popescu: no, it doesn't need them "to function", because it functioning is not
a layer 7 thing.
mircea_popescu: "benevolence" as an objective quality is
a layer violation.
bounce: well, try this on first: "tcp/ip" generally refers to the whole stack. supposing you really ment IP (layer 3, conventionally), then "app aware" (with app: layer 7) would be
a bit of
a layer violation.
mircea_popescu: you're not wrong or right, we're not there yet. just waiting for bounce to pick
a time.
mircea_popescu: let's try it this way. suppose there's
a cathedral tower with
a clock.
othernubs`: mircea_popescu, latest job is biz cards and letterheads w/ gold ink for
a boutique hotel
mircea_popescu: bounce no, inasmuch as fist though your skull moves the matter of your skull around in one way, but MEANS in
a number of different arbitrary ways
othernubs`: speaking of unobtainium, these metallic inks are getting us
a bunch of jobs lately. offset printers can suck it
mircea_popescu: o look, there's
a 20 yo junior rabbi in the house. lmao.
xanthyos: oh if the ground level changes that much there's no way
a magnetic field could hold it consistently
assbot: Software Doesn’t Fail. Socialism Does. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
xanthyos: of course,
a hacker could then simulate an earthquake on that building to the same extent of magnitude that the smartmagnets were designed to resist against
Apocalyptic: "and were it to move, would propagate vibration to the 'levitated' object." that's assuming
a magnetic field of constant power, right ?
mike_c: on kickstarter those guys are selling
a hover board for $450 that.. doesn't hover.
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, to be fair it's not the newton's law that is neglected here, but the fact that you won't get
a magnetic field even close to be powerfull enough to support that weight
assbot: We rode
a $10,000 hoverboard, and you can too
kakobrekla: <Adlai> so just as gavin is doing his AMA, i get
a request to buy coins from "gavi". < you be in wrong channels
Adlai: although admittedly i've spent
a grand total of about fifteen seconds trying
Adlai: so just as gavin is doing his AMA, i get
a request to buy coins from "gavi". coincidence? i think not!
mircea_popescu: lol failed impulse buy. oh #b-
a whay are you such
a mall!
othernubs`: it's rare to see
a paper banknote nowadays
mircea_popescu: it'd almost work as
a parody of the redditard generation, except spacey is playing it full straight.
othernubs`: xanthyos, 100% polymer notes for
a while now
xanthyos: and it has
a picture of the queen on it, so that's worth something.
mircea_popescu: they'd just be
a iota more ridiculously pointless than they are today
Adlai: it'd be
a little funny if all the devs agreed to the hardfork, got
a working patch together, then went miner by miner and couldn't get
a single one to agree to switch
diametric: maybe i'm mistaken but doesn't the white paper basically state
a hard fork will be required in the future to address scalability?
chetty: You've long been
a proponent of the "Bitcoin is an experiment" line of thinking. While that is technically true, so is "Gravity is just
a theory". What needs to happen for you to switch from "Bitcoin is an experiment" to "Bitcoin is established"?
Adlai: such
a drastic change would definitely cast this issue (and others) into the limelight, until now it's been confined to
a few IRC channels and blog posts
mircea_popescu: i'm all for it, the level of either cluelessness or desperation such
a move entails is promising.
Adlai is quite curious to see what happens if/when changes such as
a the blocksize hardfork get pushed to the reference implementation
kakobrekla: anyway RagnarDanneskjol what do you want in the zip? csv? sql?
a puddle? daily files?
mircea_popescu: so "governments" will prevail, as fucking if there can even be such
a thing as
a government other than bitcoin ; and bitcoin gotta hide its misshapen form in the dark.
bounce: ``I'd rather not speculate in an open forum about the best ways to screw with Bitcoin.'' (Perish_In_a_Fire) -- aww.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski oyu know, if anyone gave
a shit about either gavin or reddit they'd just go there.
pete_dushenski: [–]gavinandresen[S] 26 points an hour ago Biggest misconception: That Bitcoin will Topple Governments and the Powerful. Governments will do what they always do -- they will adapt (well, the worst ones will fail, causing misery and suffering; maybe Bitcoin will speed that up
a little, and mitigate the misery
a little).
gribble: Error: 'trustworthy' is not
a valid integer.
assbot: Google launches support for Security Key,
a simpler kind of two-factor authentication | The Verge
undata: but I've yet to make
a pile, so that comes first
decimation: this is
a peculiar habit in the us: trying to find
a 'technical' solution for
a very human problem
mircea_popescu: who knows, perhaps it has enough criminals that they become
a significant minority in the new world, giving it some claim.
decimation: since usg is
a dim and neglectful master, they get away with it
mircea_popescu: ripple's problem is more like "we enabled some scammers stealing
a buncha coins" tho.
ThickAsThieves: it's
a woman lookin like she shit her pants, from Ripple, saying,