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RagnarDanneskjol: coinbase has been playing that game for
a long time - anytime market shifts >15% in either direction. fukin bozos
assbot: Pushing the soft tender flesh of
a friend against the sharp rotating blades of the immutable machine. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
TheNewDeal: i'd think
a slight reduction is the most one could ask
mircea_popescu: also why idiots stay away : they'd rather nurse
a bevy of retarded ideas than actually do some work.
ThickAsThieves: if the owner of
a business doesnt like you and finds you pointless, how can you expect to do business?
mircea_popescu: well okay, so in the future when you'll be you won't be able to have
a bad idea anymore.
mircea_popescu: must suck to be the most powrful country in the world, can't even blend
a strawberry.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> btcusd is
a big short party now << and yet it stilkl stays this side of 500.
ThickAsThieves: is it
a good or bad thing that you can now threaten customer service "If you don't fix this, I'll start
a Reddit riot."
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron gimme
a moment to finish this monster and be right with you.
X-Rob: TheNewDeal: it's
a range, yeah.
X-Rob: I used to be an amateur radio operator,
a long time ago. VK2JGY. Often hanging aroud on 6 meters (50MHz) and 2 meters (144MHz)
X-Rob: Anyway, that code I pasted is AGPL3, but I'm thinking I may re-publish it as MIT or something, as it's hard for people to do GPG correctly without knowing
a pile of behind the scenes stuff
mircea_popescu: but if you want to write
a piece about how bad it is, why not make it plausible at least was the question.
mircea_popescu: from #eulora : "chetty> so all these people pounding on server for days and 1 crash (mod6 tried to beat up
a rock and combat is not something we have done anythng with)."
mthreat guesses this is for
a blog post
mircea_popescu: anyone care to suggest
a typically black female name ?
BingoBoingo: This is an amazing thing about -assets, you raise awareness to
a problem with one of the pet jokes, and things get done
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re gpg clunk (not to be confused with pgp issues) : "MolokoDeck : for some reason gpg returns the useful info about the status of
a signature verify via the error channel."
ben_vulpes:
a veritable cornucopia of mysterious russian brain chemical!
ben_vulpes: Imagine reading about
a Russian element on Wikipedia, and at the end there’s this paragraph saying “By the way, this element inverts gravity and has to be tied to the ground to prevent it from falling upwards”. An anxiolytic stimulant is really really cool. But somehow generations of American psychopharmacologists must have read about bromantane and thought “No, I don’t think I’ll pay any more attention to that.” <<
punkman: "After
a few years of slaughter and starvation "Greatest happiness of the greatest number" is
a good slogan, but at this moment “Better an end with horror than
a horror without end” is
a winner."
punkman: "Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in
a more grudging way, have said to people "I offer you
a good time," Hitler has said to them “I offer you struggle, danger and death,” and flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the last war."
RagnarDanneskjol: yea, I thought I posted that and
a bunch of related content earlier today when they were discussing, then come to realize I had no voice, was talking to myself. Carried on chatting with myself for about 45 mins until I realized noone could hear me
assbot: John Ratcliff's Code Suppository: How to Play
a Bitcoin BrainWallet Scavenger Game
RagnarDanneskjol: yes, i've been following that one for
a while, seems to be the most useful implementation
ben_vulpes: RagnarDanneskjol: "My machine parses this entire data set in roughly 95 seconds." i took
a crack at
a big-boy-pants parser one time, made all the wrong decisions, hated life. good to see some progress made on the front.
kdomanski: punkman: ever seen the speakers on
a computer give
a creaking noise when you move the mouse? that's my weird PC problem
punkman: hmm one of my monitors seems to have acquired
a blue tint overnight
mod6: ;;later tell moiety I have some changes to the wiki you might be able to help me with. Ping me when you get
a chance. Thanks!
mircea_popescu: dignork honestly i think i'd rather use
a pool. get some of that reaganomics trickle down effect going.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking of gving you
a pool to point at and forgetting about it.
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: sign up with
a lease rig account
ben_vulpes: could be
a neat implementation for your next cryptogram, mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: MolokoDeck actually i like the model whereby the actual string to certify is hashed as
a privkey then made into
a bitcoin address then have
a little something sent there
MolokoDeck: was considering something that popped an invalid address then dismissed it before doing the actual spend. sort of
a address=hashdata, oops, address=actualwalletaddress
mircea_popescu: MolokoDeck if the worst comes to worst, hash it into
a bitcoin address and send there.
MolokoDeck: i'm not sure
a wallet API is adequate to sculpt transaction scripts to insert data. they're usually constrained to sending payments. bitcoind RPC calls would be needed for anything exotic.
mircea_popescu: now, in usual high fiction this is resolved as
a bizarre order of sworn monks and so on
mircea_popescu: but if they are not in power absolutely, what keeps central government from investigating this vault as
a possible alien landing site ?
mircea_popescu: what keeps central government from investigating this vault as
a possible alien landing site ?
mircea_popescu: well counterfactuals are problematic, but let's see if you can get painted into
a corner.
mircea_popescu: which makes jurov's fap observation quite on point : you're not describing
a real, live human female here, you're describing
a mythological beast abstracted out of miles of pr0nz reel.
mircea_popescu: your hypotethical is
a brain in
a jar separated from
a pile of muscle in
a barrel.
mircea_popescu: if you take "meaning" as
a rough equivalent for entalpy, your thing is too meaningful to exist.
mircea_popescu: it's not plausible. it is entertaining, but it lacks
a fundamental point for plausibility :
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
a brain devoid of spinal chord can not work.
mircea_popescu: imagine if you went to hibernate like
a bear, and when you came through all your shit was broken and unresponsive.
mircea_popescu: the sadest fate in the world would be for such
a set to exist, ina bunker somewhere.
jurov: is there
a historical example of such
a mastermind?
mircea_popescu: it somewhat shares the fate of "frustration" in the hands of popidiocy. but outside of what the reddit horde thinks, frustration is
a major psychological process, the fundament of all volitive activity.
mircea_popescu: i foresee that when you;ll be old you'll write
a great kids book.
mircea_popescu: you'll find much less pituitary cells in
a random biopsy than muscle tissue
diana_coman: mircea_popescu how do I get my crafting prize and is there
a time limit for that (to know how much time I have to figure out the basics of altcoin)?
mircea_popescu: right now, this is faster than blockchain propagation. Basically, it will be amazingly difficulty for the coin to agree on
a valid chain, because there will be any number of chains that are almost the same length.
mircea_popescu: For those that are unaware, Unattanium is
a newish limited-number-of-coins SHA coin. They've recently had to fork the chain, because the difficulty calculations were broken, and it went far too high. Sadly, they've now broken it in the other direction, and the dev seems intent on ignoring this, and abusing or hand-waving the problems away. It's now running at an 8 second block time. For everyone who is NOT facepalming
mircea_popescu: you're trying to sell this conceptual model where in alt-nazi germany one can be hung for being
a jew ONLY IF working as
a clerk.