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mircea_popescu: "i have talked to some people i won't name about some things i won't name but take my word on it that it's relevant, and they said my stupidity is entirely correct"
mircea_popescu: "That said, every community is different. I've personally talked to people in charge of large online communities – ones you probably participate in every day – and part of the reason those communities haven't broken down into utter chaos by now is because they secretly hellban and slowban their most problematic users. "
asciilifeform: announcement << i'll take the shot. mp to sell warehouses in Ar for btc.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I wonder why silver is the white metal everyone seems to horde and not gallium.
mircea_popescu: pretty cool way to run a bet i say
mircea_popescu: so if you predicted it i send kako a btc, if not you do ?
mike_c: hm, ok, i'll make a small wager. i'm not super-confident, but i think i've got it.
mircea_popescu: i'll bet you you aren't.
mike_c: i am predicting your announcement.
thestringpuller: Hacker News has always throught they mattered I though...
mike_c: a prediction for later. i want proof that i called it.
mircea_popescu: i suppose that doesn't detract
mircea_popescu: "I was recently met with a torrent of downvotes –nearly 100, might have actually crossed that– for poking fun at HN’s incessant we’re-not-reddit-we’re-much-more-sophisticated circlejerking"
mike_c: i remember 15 years ago coworkers sweating his reviews.
asciilifeform: all i can surmise is, pg would rather not.
mircea_popescu: assbot> » Leaving Hacker News ASPENSMONSTER << all these important things i've missed out on while doing other things.
mircea_popescu: i peripherally noticed there's yet another one of these web platform shits.
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: for some reason i thought the subject was forbidden there - unless posted by authorized phoundation shill
Mats_cd03: i always laugh when i read comments about bitcoin on hn
Namworld: I guess I have
PeterGriffin: i smell a ban coming
Namworld: Well I'd sure like to know romania prices
asciilifeform: ^ for some reason i always think of that piece when imagining Ar
Namworld: Hmm, I guess I should consider that. Downtown locations will be more expensive...
mircea_popescu: i guess you've never lived in san diego, manhattan, downtown dc etc.
mircea_popescu: summary "hello i would like to be indicted"
Namworld: Well yes, I suppose. Canada/US should have similar prices all around. Although certain products will vary by region.
Namworld: ok, then... I'd put cost closer to 150-180 USD then...
mike_c: i could only guess at the cab ride. i'm a better cook than benkay but that's about it.
mircea_popescu: then in an hour or so i tell teh truth.
mircea_popescu: so i just did a round of solid shopping.
asciilifeform: i thought blockchain only aspires to be 'good delivery brick' vs. visa
benkay: although i haven't found the signing functionality in bitc yet - mebbe Mats_cd03 makes that happen
mircea_popescu: btw, "coinbr requires btc addr to sign up i b'leev" << so what if it does ? once you're in you can trade with anyone else in.
gribble: sparkletina - Yahoo Answers: <https://answers.yahoo.com/activity?show=KWGBHWRCDPYNIHJ42B5LQ3VGI4&t=g>; I need help creating a livingroom with a masculine flair like an ...: <https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061028054928AACOmEw>
dub: I recall seeing a paintball dot matrix printer in some promo
asciilifeform: ^ robotic graffiti isn't new; i vaguely recall a 'printer van' with eight spray cans that spat out text as it went, circa '04
mike_c: lol. this site wants to make sure i am using: Mozilla® Firefox® 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 19 or 25
gribble: Error: I am not seeing this user on IRC. If you want information about a registered gpg user, try the 'gpg info' command instead.
nubbins`: i just dented the floor with my keys :/
cazalla: nubbins`: too easy against cpu or online play? i've got to buy a pro wii controller as the gamepad gives me rsi with mk8
BingoBoingo: diametric: The people who supposed them and the people capable of making them were not the same groups of people I imagine.
mike_c: second article i read recently of "death by sexism" http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/09/las-vegas-police-shot/10223527/
benkay: <mircea_popescu> benkay: i'm highlighting that in a worst case scenario it's not a problem and also as Mats_cd03 and i have and keep pointing out - not a problem to begin with even. << what happens to you once gb blocks ? // let me know when it's realistic.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> benkay: you don't need a blockchain to accept/send btc. << not to mention the coinbr thing. he really doesn't need the blockchain at all. // coinbr requires btc addr to sign up i b'leev
BingoBoingo: I wish I could know the answer to that
BingoBoingo: I wonder if sfter death my lungs will find themselves better preserved than my bones
mike_c: taste decent? i know this guy that gets dirt cheap smokes in canada and they taste like you're smoking somebody else's cigarette after they were done with it.
mike_c: but i distinctly remember comparing what i got charged to some of the posted prices in the store and realizing (and not minding) that he was bending me over.
mike_c: hmm.. what i paid would tax the memory. but just like drinks and stuff.
mircea_popescu: yeabut i mean what you buy and what'd you pay
mike_c: related aside: i got charged 2 to 3x for everything in romania and still felt like i was getting a deal
asciilifeform: learn which bits to put my hands on << i find this - in essence - to be the most handy test of who is worth dealing with as human vs meat
mircea_popescu: when i want to make tea rather than coffee, i acquire the skill of putting the righjt fucking thing in the pot.
mircea_popescu: when i don't want to be shocked by the mains power, i learn which bits to put my hands on.
mircea_popescu: this has nothing to do with women. when i don't want to be treated like a fucking retarded tourist and charged 2 to 5 x everything, i learn and use the fucking local language.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> dub: so one half of our sepcies should require additional training to protect its ass from the other half? << yes.// I doubt it works out to halves
mircea_popescu: so am i right in assuming the only career worthy of a man named brandon billings is... bill collection ?
mircea_popescu: i could keep going
mircea_popescu: smickles: I have taken over the bitcoin corp in eve << how much shit was in the hangars in the end ?
mircea_popescu: mthreat i don't recall, what's theirtotal data store ? yotabytes ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i know people who go into seizures just fgrom the smell
smickles: I'm failing to see the value in this usagi crap and i didn't notice a video. I'm going to clean some dishes, easily worth more than reading about usagi
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do confess that at one point i toyed with the idea of rom-like storage on consumer 35 (or 16)mm film.
nubbins`: i see
pankkake: f2fs would be a good candidate for blockchain storage. anyway, I'm in the "block size won't go up that much, things will happen offchain" camp
nubbins`: no, i get what a WoT is
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: storing bits that never need to flip again ought to be technologically simpler - on basic physical level - than the normal kind. << this is a good point, and i imagine within the decade we will have special blockchain ssds being made.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i recall - szabo disagreed
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i fear it is.
asciilifeform: how many times i see zooko triangle brought up as if it were physical law.
mircea_popescu: benkay: i'm highlighting that in a worst case scenario it's not a problem and also as Mats_cd03 and i have and keep pointing out - not a problem to begin with even. << what happens to you once gb blocks ?
mircea_popescu: i guess i kinda walked right into that big cock...
smickles: even if all but a few lost the chain, i would be very suspicious of that few
hdbuck: mircea_popescu im not taking anything personnally, i really appreciate your inputs man.. the average propaganda almost got me with their Carebears and unicorns. i'd rather being insulted for my stupidity than thrown a lollipop in my mouth ^^
mircea_popescu: diametric yea i know.
mircea_popescu: diametric> mircea_popescu: thats probably a good idea to start doing. perhaps keep it on a usb stick on my keys or something, gets updated when i plug it in. << or on a 4 redundant raid array, under concrete.
hdbuck: mircea_popescu hum i dont, just wondering here and there.. looking for answers :)
mircea_popescu: Namworld says " Assuming we reach saturation of usage", I read " Assuming we reach saturation of usagi" and i'm all like "wtf is he on about, i'm all saturated"
hdbuck: mircea_popescu i get your point, but i aint seing Bitcoin being rightfully centralised ATM.
princessnell: mircea_popescu right vs wrong centralism is what my article tomorrow is about. but as you know i am a gentle touch.
hdbuck: mircea_popescu hey man, hum its just i was kinda concerned with supernodes and the people that will run them once the BC's size would be too big for the average person to handle.
diametric: mircea_popescu: thats probably a good idea to start doing. perhaps keep it on a usb stick on my keys or something, gets updated when i plug it in.
mircea_popescu: diametric: I have to admit, its annoying getting a fresh copy of the blockchain in a new client, even though I have the space, and I have 75Mbit internet, it still takes over 2 days. << i keep a master copy like the holy fucking scriptures. which is what it is anyway
smickles: i don't think i've knowingly encountered a society of rapists
benkay: or found me, i guess
benkay: look who i found
smickles: I could buy exotic dancers or prostitutes and jetison them into space.
smickles: I have found time for the less attention intensive aspects of the game
smickles: I have taken over the bitcoin corp in eve
jurov: benkay i pointed her to bingo§s article, and later told that explicitly, looks like she could not be helped
Mats_cd03: er, i guess its push instead of commit
Mats_cd03: i'm slowly adding features to it
Mats_cd03: i like where the project bit-c is right now
hdbuck: benkay: alright, thanks man - i'll check MP's guide. :)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I've put some though into it.
benkay: i'm highlighting that in a worst case scenario it's not a problem and also as Mats_cd03 and i have and keep pointing out - not a problem to begin with even.
Namworld: I expect it to go like this -> adoption keeps going up fast, blockchain grows faster and faster, people get worried, we reach saturation of usage, blockchain growth starts looking linear, storage capacity keeps doubling every few years, people stop worrying.
benkay: no crime in being wrong, i do it all the time. there's plenty of larnin' to go around.
benkay: i imagine you're just a random joe not in the web of trust, hdbuck ?