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ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: i actually already emailed him
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes if you (or anybody) has a contact for this gregory pery tard (i dun imagine totallynotrobots@protonmail.com actually works ?), maybe point out to him that
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-24#1758148 and it's really ridoinculous to be wasting his weeks to freely support the usg pile of evil ?
☝︎ mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes a node behind a NAT is not capable of being addressed. so it receives no inbound, merely connects out. so it does not participate in lessening the load.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-24 20:45 ben
_vulpes: traveling through the suburban wastelands yesterday, i tried a 'starbucks' croissant for lols, thinking to myself, 'imagine if they can screw up the croissant'. and lo, it was terrible. no flake, all soft spongiform inside.
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes suppose your relay network is 100 nodes ; suppose 10 of those are real nodes and 90 of those bullshit nodes behind a nat in a zek's house somewhere.
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: yeah i pulled the trigger on that excision along with the hash truncation, see the ml
hanbot: <mircea
_popescu> iirc hanbot was using it to do something trilema-related, sounded happy with it. << yeah, i'm working on setting it up with a (partial in all senses) trilema post index, see if it makes finding posts in chan easier since google is ~useless for it. trinque's ircbot as posted has been a joy.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-21 17:59 mircea
_popescu: NOW, the first, and naive, thought, would be "o noes, all those poor but intelligent engineer minds who will lose their freenode ; we should try to help them"
a111: Logged on 2017-12-18 17:46 ben
_vulpes: dude this is epic, girl would rather talk about calendar offsets than earn a bitcent an hour reading the log
trinque: ben
_vulpes: do you by chance have an active connection to 172.86.178.46 ? or did in past ?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-02 16:22 mircea
_popescu: anwyay, revisiting an ancient conversation re
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=mining+is+a+bug : i have to thoroughly concede this point to asciilifeform . the model is as follows : if a) a PoW system exists in which b) a participating entity can recognize work done by itself as opposed to work done by others then it NECESSARILY follow that entity can, and therefore it ALSO follows that it eventually will c) impose further con
a111: Logged on 2017-12-19 05:56 ben
_vulpes: asciilifeform: i am very curious in how you figure initial distribution might work
a111: Logged on 2016-03-16 11:07 mircea
_popescu: which, ungenerously enough, seems just a step away from the breakdown specific to shitholes like argentina, where people altogether don't even comprehend words are in any sense meaningful, above and beyond the chirping captive populations of chickens do to reassure each other.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-07 23:12 asciilifeform: iirc mircea
_popescu at the time said that the thing really oughta eat a programmable set of checkpoint
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 19:27 mircea
_popescu: that is after all the point, neh, to somehow get as large a headcount as possible through the various gates (born, college, credit cards, mortgage, retirement hgome etc) WITHOUT "harming the environment" which in any practical sesne means... without changing anything.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-28 23:10 mircea
_popescu: kanzure " Obviously there is no possiblity of meaning outside of a structure of authority, and the authority can not be predicated on the meaning."
a111: Logged on 2017-12-24 04:51 mircea
_popescu: then once that's established "fish in the sad patches bin" can go into the "how to participate" list
a111: Logged on 2015-11-14 02:10 asciilifeform: ben
_vulpes: correct.
a111: Logged on 2015-11-14 02:10 ben
_vulpes: asciilifeform: the press algo must then press all same-tree-level leaves for the given leaf, correct?
trinque: ben
_vulpes: 500746 eh? deedbot also rn.
trinque: mircea
_popescu: lookin on the website? if so that's a timestamp indicating when the page itself was last regenerated.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-23 20:43 asciilifeform: ^^ mod6, ben
_vulpes , trinque , mircea
_popescu , et al ^^
a111: Logged on 2017-12-23 19:34 mircea
_popescu: break a clydesdale's whippletree, they will...
BingoBoingo: Anyways it's not like mircea
_popescu level mystical domination superpowers, but it's a profoundly different experience from being a local in the US
a111: Logged on 2017-12-23 16:50 mircea
_popescu: trinque so are you ~9 blocks behind atm ?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-23 16:15 mircea
_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-23#1757357 << this is an iffy point m'lord. i have a slavegirl that washes the floors ; the floors is where the cockroaches go. should she be punished ?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-23 16:12 mircea
_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-23#1757338 << you know you're supposed to plan these for yourself so you yourself can then execute them! if you can't do it for yourself, what hope has any peon working under your management ? eh ?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-23 16:27 mircea
_popescu: iirc that averages.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-23 15:56 mircea
_popescu: (if memory serves the original split, design choice made late 1990s, was due to either suspicion or reality that either sign or decrypt possibly leaked bits ; the idea of separate keys is not even bad, necessarily, but this does NOT say anything positive about a clunky, ad hoc, untransparent and machine-automagical key hierarchy system. so basically, people probably will have at least two keys in tmsr-rsa, except they won't b
shinohai suddenly wonders if pete
_dushenski has ever seen those steam-powered clocks that are in Canada ....
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-12-23 15:44 mircea
_popescu: here's a thing for the mechanical engineers in da hous, ben
_vulpes asciilifeform and who ye might be : given two driving pegs A, B, how do you turn a spoke C such that it realises the DIFFERENTIAL A-B ?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-22 06:54 mircea
_popescu: Techman say /query deedbot to open a pm session ; say !!up in there to it ; then return !!v the string.
mircea_popescu: here's a thing for the mechanical engineers in da hous, ben
_vulpes asciilifeform and who ye might be : given two driving pegs A, B, how do you turn a spoke C such that it realises the DIFFERENTIAL A-B ?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-12-23 00:01 mircea
_popescu: so you can sign with it but not decrypt ?!
deedbot: douchebag
__ voiced for 30 minutes.
shinohai: Ah ty mircea
_popescu ... slowly making these linguistical connections.
joecool: mircea
_popescu: I do, it's in another physical location
a111: Logged on 2017-12-22 13:51 mircea
_popescu: diana
_coman i like that the url has blame in it
a111: Logged on 2017-12-22 07:01 trinque: mircea
_popescu: the shitposting tics imo leak from inner loop of proving they can do whatever they want. hard then to fall simple instructions; the static overwhelms.
r41n: mircea
_popescu: right on
a111: Logged on 2017-11-12 16:48 mircea
_popescu: well, reading through what ? #trilema is the forum of the most serene republic, a terrorist organisation dedicated to the dissolution of all fiat sovereigns and the permanent barring of such nonsense in the future.
r41n: morning mircea
_popescu
a111: Logged on 2017-12-22 19:01 mircea
_popescu: do they even give out tenures anymore ?
BingoBoingo: Senator would be a demotion for mircea
_popescu