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pankkake: there are things slowly happening. opennic now serves .bit, there are a few services…
ThickAsThieves: Jon Matonis – “The number one problem that I hope Bitcoin will solve by the end of 2015 is the ability to provide a realistic and viable alternative to central bank issued currencies.”
ThickAsThieves: “By the end of 2015 I hope that Bitcoin will enable people to be able to transact with other individuals across the planet, without requiring permission from a bank or government.”
pankkake: http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/idea:_git_push_requests/ now this is a good idea
pankkake: but I fail to see a compelling reason to use it even then
fluffypony: we already ragged on him a while back
mdev: i'll look into registering later so won't be a burden on you guys anyway with the upping stuff
mdev: thanks, i'm a freelance dev, plan on working on my own company stuff eventually, I do mostly web projects these days
mdev: :) yeah I don't know, spammers can be pretty crafty he's been banned from #bitcoin quite a bit, and keeps showing back up
kakobrekla: yeah well this chan is prolly the last one that would need a warning :)
kakobrekla: thats a steal
punkman: I have a spare one, only 2 BTC and free shipping
TheNewDeal: when I was betting, it was about a 12% (constant) difficulty increase that would make it happen
Vexual: prolly a human
TheNewDeal: i'm wondering why someone laid down 6 on No, betting about a day apart. They lost 13% of the timeweight they would have had if they would have wagered it all at once
BingoBoingo: Well, the bastile day bet is looking increasingly like diff will make it, but I bet no a while a go
TheNewDeal: I would like to have an educated bet, backed with some numbers, instead of going with a gut feeling
TheNewDeal: BingoBoingo, can you explain a hashrate graph?
TheNewDeal: are you a bot?
TheNewDeal: lets say we have a 1 %/day growth rate over a period of 13 days
TheNewDeal: give me a sample calculation, with some generic variables
Vexual: from a picture?
TheNewDeal: how does one calculate a %/day of the network
TheNewDeal: I'm kind of angry that the block reward halving doesn't occur on a multiple of 2016
Vexual: its a question?
TheNewDeal: regardless, why isn't the next difficulty change a product of 2016
Vexual: same reason 306341 / 2 isnt a whole number
TheNewDeal: why is 306341 / 2016 not a whole number?
TheNewDeal: errr I guess it was technically 1 for a while
TheNewDeal: I know, it's more of a localized issue
TheNewDeal: speaking of loud transformers, I was sitting at a stoplight the other day under a bunch of high voltage lines, enjoying the buzz that filled the air around me
TheNewDeal: I thought the whole point of a transformer was to change voltage?
asciilifeform: for instance, nowhere else do you find a concise summary of CVT (see discussion from a few days ago)
BingoBoingo: Now... With a truck of coin cells...
BingoBoingo: That is some useful math. The lithium coin cells, can also generally survive 10+ years in a constant low drain environment...
asciilifeform: a few years of 10W.
BingoBoingo was thinking more a Forth chip with Beta-M
asciilifeform pictures 'raspberry' on a truck with 'beta-m'
BingoBoingo: Quite a bit of computer can fit into 10 watts nao...
BingoBoingo: Yeah, I'd prefer a computer with less speed and a 20 year RTG for power, no recharging necessary.
asciilifeform: it's a kind of scam. 'showroom optimization', like glossy lcd panels.
BingoBoingo: This particular battery went from 5 hours charge to 5 minutes charge over three years. Breaking point on replacing it was it could no longer sustain a whole cigarette's worth of time away from the cord.
asciilifeform: lead-acid cell is good for half a dozen 'deep cycles' then it goes to the dump.
mircea_popescu: actually : is solar power a loit better than mains for this ?
asciilifeform looks to xformer, 'you're a loud little bugger, aintcha' xformer: bzzz me: could be worse xformer: BZZZzzz me: looks at neighbour's house, wonders what they did to dip the mains
asciilifeform actually has to give a shit about ground potentials now that his box is connected to isolator transformer
assbot: A Story About Magic'
mircea_popescu: – Local resident Brittany Friedly underwent surgery to remove a mass on her ovary. What was somewhat unique about this mass you might ask? It was a teratoma that contained hair and 7 teeth.
assbot: Tooth Fairy Refusing to Take Teeth From a Teratoma | Medical Satire - GomerBlog
mircea_popescu: looks like either a horrible wax job or some sort of dermatological testing
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: north koreans shouting ones and zeros into telephones have better uptime <<< yes well, there's a reason i've not seen three digits on a bill for years and years.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: EFF seems to suffer from the librarian view of technology, hard to tell if they are stooges or unaware. << eff is a large donation based org. it has the limitations and blind spots that flow from that. it's useful for what it's iuseful, it's not the pope of electronic freedom. juust a tool.
gribble: Error: "note" is not a valid command.
mircea_popescu: well in point of fact you could get by pretty well on a suitcase full of jeans at some point
asciilifeform: expats, as a rule, are folks who ate more than fair share of shit where they came from
mircea_popescu: and nobody's mugging anyone, that's for damned sure. i saw more muggings a day in new york than in a month of here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ^ mircea_popescu, chetty: can you comment? << yes i can comment. i carried a huge stack of bills inside, it's not that they allowed it, it's that they don't evenm know, cause they couldn't be bothered to find out.
asciilifeform: had the 'honour' of seeing this alive. i sometimes buy liquid soap, and for a few years after '09, it was mostly pisswater
mircea_popescu: a country where ordinary people obey the law is the worst sort of country to live in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: a kind of 'soft' deindustrialization. << if that is soft i have no idea what is hard. and also, the people making milk in their back yard are being kept in check with regulation.
asciilifeform: sure. but everyone has some kind of mental picture for what they expect a normal person to be able to do - e.g. tie a knot
asciilifeform: thinking'd be, if i were to ask folks to cough up, say, a new pubkey algo with rigorous proof of hardness
mircea_popescu: but srsly, crack a book & cook, that;s it.
peterl: mdev: you need to pick a better font, it's PeterL, not Peter1
mircea_popescu: that's a point.
asciilifeform: what thinking. crack a fsckng book, cook.
mircea_popescu: also because the bitcoinz use a vulnerable scheme.
mircea_popescu: benkay: bitcoin "devs" are idiotically and self-destructively committed to this "no reuse" idea, ever since implementing the braindead wallet schema that creates new addrs for your change << it's not that bad of an idea. the problem is that they misrepresent it as a central point of protocol, when it's merely a marginal helper tool thing. sorta like people thinking all carpenter tables must also have a vase on them
mircea_popescu: pankkake: though it is definitively a weird idea << no argument there.
mdev: thanks, was the 1k+ per btc to the price it is now, solely a result of mtgox going under?
mircea_popescu: HOW ARE WE TO EXPECT A MOON RETURN
mdev: mircea_popsecu just a dev who's interested in bitcoins, I was quieted in #bitcoin and recommended here when I got into a disagreement about reusing addresses
gribble: (calc <math expression>) -- Returns the value of the evaluated <math expression>. The syntax is Python syntax; the type of arithmetic is floating point. Floating point arithmetic is used in order to prevent a user from being able to crash to the bot with something like '10**10**10**10'. One consequence is that large values such as '10**24' might not be exact.
mdev: considering bitcoins were worth pennies a few years ago, and peaked over 1k, plus the fact they're limited
mdev: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/re85e/til_the_smell_of_freshly_cut_grass_is_actually_a/ there's the link on it, if interested @peter1
mdev: learned on reddit that "fresh cut grass" smell, is a chemical grass releases when it's in pain
peterl: mdev this is a channel for people who are actually using bitcoins
asciilifeform: http://cl.jroo.me/z3/l/G/p/e/a.baa-Trabant-made-as-the-movie-ca.jpg
asciilifeform: mdev: http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-assets-m << instructions for becoming a known human and self-voicing
BingoBoingo: Hard to say. I imagine people who still brush these things off will be learning Forth in the Coal mines within a decade
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140605202211 << the pill against this, as has been abundantly obvious for months to anyone who gives half a shit, is to take ssl out to the back of the shed and shoot it.
ThickAsThieves: something occurs to me as i reach chapter 45 of Anathem - this is basically a quantum mechanics debate mapped over the story aspects of star wars
ThickAsThieves: I was smart enough to choose an A name
ThickAsThieves: there's a new pool
benkay: yeah it's a thing
asciilifeform: i've caught myself wondering if a 'cloud' company which explicitly promises to steal and use your data for whatever purpose, might be even cheaper.
mike_c: $379.68 a year
mike_c: an m1 is exactly $422.20 a year
mike_c: and an m1 is $420 a year
mike_c: benkay: link? i don't see dedicated hetzner's for less than $800 a year
benkay: for 600/yr, you can get either: amazon's rapaciously underpowered m1.medium with 1 vcpu 3.76G ram and apparently 4G of ssd (???????) OR a quad-core i7 with 32G ram and 4T 7200 platters and 20G of space at Hetzner
pankkake: http://www.sabmegastore.com/images/articles/a/ADA-ALIM-SEC-UNI.jpg
adrrr: Hi, I received my piper wallet :) but wrong electrical outlet, maybe a specialist could advise me about the place to find an adapter (France) ? ty
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Highlight of the Loper comments probably has to be "Don’t make the mistake almost all engineers make: believing that the evolutionary tree of technological possibilities is trimmed by a benevolent gardener, rather than torn up by a mindless storm. Leaving not the most viable and fruitful branches, but a fairly random selection of the thickest."
danielpbarron: my brother is into beer making; his last batch was some sort of IPA and I liked it a lot (for someone who doesn't generally drink beer)
BingoBoingo: benkay: Not all. A lot of the homebrews can pick them up through poor hygiene allowing undesirable flora to produce them.
BingoBoingo: benkay: There are reasons I prefer distilled spirits. There are a few sulphur compounds that are too... unpleasant to be tasted if it can be avoided. (most wine avoids this problem. I imagine this is because the prefered flora producing fermentation are more civilized).
BingoBoingo: It's a mundane problem of human stupidity abusing the human capacity for intelligence. I'd definitely call the venture Augustinian.
asciilifeform: (for smart-arses who answer, 'this won't work with a language having a full numeric tower' - the answer is, we can tear the paper off your abstraction by analyzing timing)
benkay: <BingoBoingo> Especially all of the "craft beers" that are born the same place place as Busch lite, Coors, and Miller. It's also a field where... Neigbhors producing fould products in the basement is increasing. // in the beer case, that 'fould' is far superior to that coming out of the mass-produced garbage