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mircea_popescu: easily the most commented on post of that "someone in the blogosphere"'s.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo amusingly, i can't negrate it because i don't have enough javascript.
mircea_popescu: from the "let's make something stupid and call it our own" department, today the unconnected tap.
mircea_popescu: "ShapeShift was built as a demonstration of this principle: exchanges occur without custodianship of user funds. Indeed, there are no user accounts whatsoever."
mircea_popescu: anyway. i guess coinapult died ? i seem to recall a seed round about that one.
mircea_popescu: jurov: "creator of SatoshiDICE" my ass. << that claim's interesting. i guess double jeopardy brings out the best in people ?
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> He bought SatoshiDice and retained the creator for some time, yes? << an' settled with the sec, to boot.
mircea_popescu: in fairness this was prolly assembled in canada out of vietnamese parts or some shit. "american" what's that.
mircea_popescu: look a tthat. that's almost like a modern block's worth altogether.
mircea_popescu: the only time i trusted a us pos i had a break plate of a ford explode. just like that.
mircea_popescu: even if your version control is strictly "X -> Y -> Z" which are all control points
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eventually that list jurov keeps will become unusable as a flat thing, you are aware.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform only whores masquerading as programmers.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> nobody's collaborating on anything man << this is like the first time ever people are seriously using a noncollaborative approach to coding.
mircea_popescu: trinque honestly im just waiting for them to get buried in more pizza packaging first.
mircea_popescu: During the conversation, the UC stated, "We read chemistry books with breakfast. Like, who does that?" VELENTZAS responded, "People who want to make history."
mircea_popescu: wever, it is always to be avoided to use numbers as instructions. Since an instruction word is indistinguishable from a number word, some means must be provided to avoid using numbers as instructions. How this is accomplished is described under "BUILDING A PROGRAM". Also, how we convert from a 2000 to the binary representation shown is discussed later."
mircea_popescu: "The computer has no way of knowing by examining the word itself, whether a word is intended as a number or an instruction. Under most circumstances it is the numbers which are operated on and the instructions which are followed as instruction. The LGP-30 has the ability to operate on instructions as numbers. This ability is not only valuable but a feature which makes for the great power of stored program computers. Ho
mircea_popescu: punkman the best way to test that sort of thing is on a local testnet with low diff.
mircea_popescu: well i can be faulted all anyone wants, but guyess what!
mircea_popescu: and then he wrote it all breathlessly and didn't bother to proofread before submitting.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to, whole thing occured to him this morning as he was sitting on shitter and contemplating what a laughingstock he is
mircea_popescu: nubbins` funny thing is, ego and intelligence are unrelated variables at birth. plenty of people roll 6-1.
mircea_popescu: there must be some eeprom in the bios that i don't know about.
mircea_popescu: cold cold boot does it. where the fuck does it store its stupid bits alf ?
mircea_popescu: check it out, this is pure rationality. long live bayes!
mircea_popescu: t clue you will need to posses and have all 10 coins in the same physical location. The clues in the coins were crafted in a fashion that you will never find them let alone figure them out via photographs, with x-rays, or in any fashion other than having all the coins in the same location at the same time to solve the puzzle."
mircea_popescu: "I have made and sold 9 2015 wooden physical bitcoins listed below. Each one of those coins has hidden in or on it a part of the puzzle. The key to decoding the first part of that puzzle is coin #10 which after much though is being given to someone whom i already chose from this forum. In order to decode each individual wooden coin you will have to have #10 in its physical presence and in order to solve the entire firs
mircea_popescu: wtf does it corrupt, the bios is not new enough and there's no hdd
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check this out : if you boot off the cd, gentoo works ONCE. if you reboot it, it no longer works. if you boot machine with something else, this resets it, and you can now boot gentoo off cd again. ONCE.
mircea_popescu: because a) even if the cd somehow failed it shouldnb't fail like this
mircea_popescu: is the idea im booting gentoo off the cd and it gives me ash ?!
mircea_popescu: "The Gentoo minimal installation CD is a bootable CD which contains a self-sustained Gentoo environment. It allows the user to boot Linux from the CD."
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why these people keep offering offers they can't actually offer.
mircea_popescu: if im going to actually have to do shit by hand im not going ot use the retarded "live cd" bs.
mircea_popescu: look. whatever whatever may be built as or not, i have two basic expectations. one is, for fucking machinery to behave the same way from night to next evening. the other, albeit weaker, is that if i get a "minimal work" thing i actually have to do minimal work.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and how the fuck does it not find the cd when it booted off the cd!
mircea_popescu: can't find the boot device AFTER BOOTING FROM IT ? srsly ?