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ben_vulpes: "In digital real estate, as opposed to digital currency, a low-friction, zero-trust solution to the double-spend problem isn't an economic necessity."
<< oooooh this just makes me mad
a111: Logged on 2017-09-21 19:12 asciilifeform: trinque: 'SEC Chairman Jay Clayton disclosed late Wednesday that the agency learned in August 2017 that hackers may have exploited the 2016 incident for illegal insider-trading'
<< reminds of gox, 'hackers' and definitelynotnsa somehow
mircea_popescu: trinque "The prospect of our own NSA, CIA and FBI
<< the "our own" bit is the lulziest. pantsuit actually thought they own something in this world. and not just ourdemocracy, at that. i suppose the scum actually sees itself as rightful inheritors of like cultural europe and etcetera.
lobbes: "These girls aren’t racist and people up in arms over this are authoritarian p—-s who hate free speech"
<< heh. My mind filled in the censored "pussies(?)" with "pantsuits"
trinque: "The prospect of our own NSA, CIA and FBI becoming politically weaponized"
<< wahahaha
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> teh network is disrupted to all hell fwiw.
<< looks like a series of really quick blocks 'eh?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> teh network is disrupted to all hell fwiw.
<< On the plus side, most of the public facing trb identified nodes are back caught up to sync
mod6:
<+shinohai> Dice por un accidente del auto
<< dang, looks like it hurt.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-20 23:12 apeloyee: longmod procedure in linked pdf says "2^b
< m
<2^(b+1)" on page 9
apeloyee: longmod procedure in linked pdf says "2^b
< m
<2^(b+1)" on page 9
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-09-20 23:05 apeloyee:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-20#1716348 << from my Intel PR dept. emulator: "New Intel (R) NSAInside Energy saver(TM) processor technology optimizes your branchless code to avoid redundant operations delivering unparalled power savings..."
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated apeloyee 1
<< Makes alf re-read.
deedbot: asciilifeform rated apeloyee 1 at 2017/09/13 18:25:08
<< barrett reductionist
a111: Logged on 2017-09-20 01:35 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-19#1715948 << i suspect that was the original idea of pointers. "you want to insert X between A and B in AB memory ? NO PROBLEM! make A point to X instead of B and X to B itself AND IT IS DONE! MAGICALLY!"
a111: Logged on 2017-09-20 01:32 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-19#1715929 << and yet nano can handle tb. it'll take a while to bring it up, but it will. insertions np, seek-next back and forth np, whole line deletions etc.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-19#1715881 << here's an alt take on this : the problem comes from having the notion of byte be anything else but bus width. if 64 bit machines natively worked on 64 bit bytes, all the message fucktification bs known as unicode would be significantly less of a conversation issue.
☝︎ phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-19#1715850 << i stopped doing even those. i've had a couple of months of lulzy 5 minute litmus tests that resulted in 100% failure rate, which made me think that perhaps the whole "teach everyone!1 to program" basically means that s/n has finally approached 0.
☝︎ shinohai: 15:13:42 +mimisbrunnr 486018: 000000000000000000ef605f3c5d45bb1228223474e8d2870bd82c2d52f556cb (6h, 52m, 0s)
<<< jeez
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> trinque: how'd you react to neighbour cornfuck leaving poisoned bait for your beast to find ?
<< 90% of successful pest control is geography
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> but not a bigger rat than the fucking corn eaters.
<< raccoons are corn eaters!
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> well, racoons are a very successful sort of rat. as a result, they don't have any friends among the people they interact with on any kind of regular basis. kinda like pigeons, actually.
<< Aha, like their namesake. For people interacting with them occasionally "entertaining", in constant contact universally nuissance
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes in general i find select women infinitely more dependable than select men ; this may be an artefact of my very female focus tho.
<< Well, the key here is 'select'