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pakaka: after some bitcoin meetup in sf
a few months ago
pakaka: i guess andreas antonopoulos didnt have any cash and had alexis buy him
a pack of cigs and he said he would send her bitcoin for it
pakaka: I wonder if andreas antonopoulos is
a Fed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Suppose you want to support strings and have
a string comparison instruction. You might think that "it's done in the hardware", so it's blindingly fast. It isn't, because the hardware still has to access memory, one word per cycle.
A superscalar/VLIW assembly loop would run just as quickly; the only thing you'd save is
a few bytes for instruction encoding. On the other hand, your string comparison thingi
mircea_popescu: have trouble understanding your proposal - ordinary users will be easily bamboozled by
a government sponsored security update. Further, when the crisis hits, to disagree with the line, to doubt that the regulators are right, and the problem is the evil speculators, becomes political suicide, as it did in America in 2007, sometimes physical suicide, as in Weimar Germany."
mircea_popescu: "The big and easy government attacks on money target
a single central money issuer, as with the first of the modern political attacks, the French Assignat of 1792, but in the late nineteenth century political attacks on financial networks began, as for example the Federal reserve act of 1913, the goal always being to wind up the network into
a single too big to fail entity, and they have been getting progressively bigg
mircea_popescu: well this is
a very difficult question. but
a good part of it is that nietzsche and sartre are not innovators except formally. fundamentally, they were retracing preexisting ideas,
decimation: my understanding is that early analog cell phones weren't even trunked, they had
a dedicated channel while connected
decimation: remember the 80's movies & tv where the rich guy in the limo has
a 'car phone'?
decimation: I had opportunity to use an 'old' agilent spectrum analyzer
a few days ago
decimation: 'everyone' can 'use'
a 'computer' and 'the internet'
decimation: but, you see now 'everyone' has
a 'phone'
mike_c: there is
a need for good writers that know bitcoin.
thestringpuller: probably not
a need since the intended audience isn't retards
mircea_popescu: apparently tolerance as in the libtard notion has
a lot of drawbacks
mircea_popescu: build
a machine from the ground up, that works like that.
mircea_popescu: you can't install airplane flaps on your car. somehow this is perfectly comprehensible. why should you be able to use
a noncompliant usb stick ?
cazalla: well, he said africa in
a few decades maybe
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> xanthyos, start
a garden, makes the world of difference < << actually this is quite good advice.
assbot: Logged on 09-10-2014 00:45:00; ninjashogun: asciilifeform, if I wanted to build up
a WoT reputation I would just make
a new nick and do some low-value transactions.
cazalla: xanthyos, start
a garden, makes the world of difference
moldysnizz: When I get back may I bug you about gpg stuff? I was hope'n to test some crap out. Maybe work on
a howto sheet for nubs.
moldysnizz: Had to make
a new one, the old had expired.
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, that is
a hilarious cartoon. the punchline is great.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Most laptops with bios locks on card models accept any mini-pci-e wireless cards in the second, cellular modem mini-pcie with just
a bit of tape to cover
a pin
bounce: linux and wireless is
a neverending three stack soap opera
bounce: using
a lot of automated (and suitably squaddie-proofed) tools does not
a "technology company" make
mircea_popescu: dude everyone fancies themselves
a "we" and
a world creator
BingoBoingo: Plus to that is McD's is probably more
a technology business than most startups
mircea_popescu: such nonsense, really. people this frail have no business in the public view. take
a mcd job and be happy there
TheNewDeal: If you ever need
a spamgun for hire, you know where to find him
ninjashogun: I think you trolled hard enough for
a couple of months to move on to something more constructive. Even weev did.
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, that is
a lot of negatives :)
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, it's pretty hard not to see how making random USG accusations isn't exactly the same as using
a made-up hot-button "she used DMCA take-downs"?
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, if I wanted to build up
a WoT reputation I would just make
a new nick and do some low-value transactions.
☟︎ ninjashogun: asciilifeform, actually, scammers don't hvae
a problem building up
a WoT reputation as has been shown repeatedly through ultimately failed ponzi schemes, fraudulent exchanges, etc.
mats_cd03: i've observed both sides of the humint game and ninjashogun is just
a failed mba
ninjashogun: mats_cd03, what do you mean "I offer to enslave you instead"? I didn't offer anything but told you you should do something in general terms, i.e. whatever you come up with. I didn't have
a specific suggestion for oyu.
mats_cd03: i'm
a disgruntled IT slave and you offer to enslave me instead
ninjashogun: mats_cd03, it's hrad to see what you get out of making statements like this but you expressed to me privately that you were dissatisfied with your work and had to jump through mental hoops to justify how important it might turn out to be in hypothetical (and unlikely) situations. The truth is you could have
a bigger impact doing something else, and you know this. (You brought it my attention.)
mats_cd03: you'll have
a better return on investment than derping here, i promise
ninjashogun: mats_cd03, other people have been fine with them. It's better to have proposals and not want them than not to have them, for most people in
a position to seriously consider them. (called 'dealflow').
justusranvier: On the plus side, this arrangement means I can run Skype in
a virtualized sandbox that's far away from my real desktop
mircea_popescu: and so if it misses
a packet in there you just keep on typing n ?
mircea_popescu: justusranvier so then what happens actually is that if you press
a key it sends
a packet over and if you depress it similarly
justusranvier: I have
a vm running Xorg on
a VPS, and I connect this desktop remotely using Spice protocol
pete_dushenski: and i'm off to have two lovely romanians make me
a home-cooked meal!
mircea_popescu: anyway, i know what you're saying, it's sensible, but also
a very hard problem.