tmsr - Search: mircea

24500+ entries in 0.082s

a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 04:37 mircea_popescu: if correctly executed, this will result in sugar, spice and everything nice necessarily. not just denying the adversary the one pasture it truly needs ; but importantly http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-02#1494660

a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 04:54 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider the implications of what you are arguing. if your idea of "irreplaceable home box" stands, this necessarily reduces to fortresses, armies and dirigibles. a world which happens to exclude a lot of people

asciilifeform: anyway i dun actually disagree with mircea_popescu re 'delocalized computing is spiffy'. simply must pointout that we ~don't have it~ and that all of the proposed mechanisms put us no closer to it.

a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 05:38 mircea_popescu: heck, bitbet didn't keep logs. confiscate all you want. was it a timely enough confiscation ?

a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 05:36 mircea_popescu: there is not a point in this sense.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if not this, then what?

a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 05:25 mircea_popescu: but the concept of "a method which does not allow mapping of physical resources to logical resources by third party" DOES work.

mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> cpu is cheaper to reproduce than steel fork it is really only a photograph. <mircea_popescu> eh. this is not a discussion of metaphysics.

asciilifeform: if he homomorphic thing existed, i would be inclined to agree with mircea_popescu

a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 03:50 mircea_popescu: HOWEVER, it will create, if successful, a ready way to resolve http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492111 and such problems.

asciilifeform: thus far i can't offer anything but same stone knife and bear skin mircea_popescu offers.

a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 15:42 mircea_popescu: diana_coman hanbot trinque phf bingoboingo mod6 danielpbarron asciilifeform davout jurov http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/d38a9d86-a5a6-4597-86b6-6436d08597d1/?raw=true btw.

phf: mircea_popescu: it's actually pretty immaterial, public key crypto doesn't buy you anything in this case

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the sewer rats cannot abide small, simple things

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reimplementing eth would be sad tho.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for one thing, traditional bot-herding is a misery in 1,001 ways: intensely platform-specific, suffers various central points of failure, etc

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we aren't merely 'let's pool chumpnets between phriendz' here.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: open boxes are rubbish.

asciilifeform: there are 2 basic angles to approach uci : the standard botnet model, which appears to be what mircea_popescu is thinking of, where nodes are individual boxes running specific program that does fairly straightforward thing,

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't enough

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it already takes carr of comms and storage...

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that would close the triangle

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking of uci, ever consider generalizing luby's algo to ~calculation~ ?

ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: http://thebitcoin.foundation/tickets/UCI_tickets.html#6 << what all would be encompassed by 'networking'?

shinohai: also, here's how to enjoy cheap rum mircea_popescu http://i.imgur.com/GeHPuNb.jpg

a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 00:20 mircea_popescu: lol yeah, didn't mean for qntra. just mentioned it because it seems to me the "isis" figthers were ru special forces.

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> borosilicate glass tubage of any diameter you wanted was ~40 cents per kg. << What about 8 meter borosilicate for Venusian culverts?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i offer the knife whereby we cut them off, like defective siamese twin, from actual people.

a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 16:31 asciilifeform: and if you ask mircea_popescu it is difficult to get so much as a stapler in buenos aires

a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 03:22 mircea_popescu: church of x is a little dubious neh ?

asciilifeform: and if you ask mircea_popescu it is difficult to get so much as a stapler in buenos aires ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i am quite familiar with this strategy, given as it was the u.s. army's unofficial doctrine for chemical warfare (eat butyrylcholinesterase 'bioscavenger' antidote, then release sarin)

asciilifeform: ah hm now i recall mircea_popescu had a piece about spamming derps to death

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's the use of spamming reddit ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l! what's the signature of ?

shinohai likes the crafty, rum-swigging mircea_popescu

shinohai: mircea_popescu, this may be one of my favourite Trilema posts evah.

a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 15:46 mircea_popescu: it's why nsa fails so badly. all their budget goes to filling the barn, ~none to guarding the barn.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: flipolade.

shinohai: mircea_popescu: Which one are you drinking? I see like 7 types of Havana club for sale.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can always skip the 'church of' prefix.

trinque: BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu ^

a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 13:22 mircea_popescu: shinohai kinda why i put this in the open, so people can come up with a good name maybe.

BingoBoingo: Oh, mircea_popescu speaks 'Murican nao?

phf: mircea_popescu: that's what i figured

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that wouldn't net any real money

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ?

adlai: mircea_popescu: amazingly, the last doctor i saw told me that i have two choices: take the meds, or don't... but tell people you're off them

asciilifeform: from what to what did mircea_popescu move the filez

a111: Logged on 2016-06-21 15:23 mircea_popescu: if the item in question is uploaded via ssh-mysql directly, phpmyadmin (common mysql interface) dies when trying to say "edit" the column, and wordpress itself fails to pipe the content to apache.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dun tell me you were backing up onto fat32

asciilifeform: i bet mircea_popescu at least makes coffee from hatred of enemies!11

asciilifeform: and since mircea_popescu is sleeping, i will have to barf in his place:

asciilifeform: sorta what mircea_popescu was getting at, i suspect, when he mentioned svg.

a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 19:42 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-30#1493716 << sadly this is like "army boot size that make sense"

a111: Logged on 2016-06-29 15:48 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform empty and full of rubble does wonders to keep hopes down (and hope, expectation of future, TRULY is the mind eater for usians. be hopeless, you win.) and officious intermeddlers at a distance sufficient to breed actual people with some frequency.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l what happened to 'dun post it on usgur!111'

a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 16:12 mircea_popescu: "did you as much as re-read this shit ?" "ain't nobody got time for that ??"

ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: that was a /lot/ of setup.

asciilifeform has a good chunk of mircea_popescu's material loaded into head

asciilifeform: sorta like the indian in mircea_popescu' skyscraper essay

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/a-new-software-licensing-paradigm

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: opposite, really

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dealt with them for a living.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu will run a bitcoin client with 0 published source ? in anger ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if said data is obfuscated against me, i regard it as an attack.

asciilifeform: and for some reason i thought that the above was also the one where mircea_popescu had the bit re 'usg tries to claim the ability to delegate the right to use software, as the church claimed the right to delegate use of woman'

asciilifeform: there was an entire mircea_popescu piece on subj

a111: Logged on 2015-01-30 05:51 mircea_popescu: which is why i am not ever giving it up. the freedom to threaten is not merely my fundamental, unassailable sovereign property, but moreover essential for the construction of effectual instruments to squash the socialists and their golums.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l!!11

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not cat, or random luser, but ~somebody somewhere~

asciilifeform: so this is how we learn that mircea_popescu had a horse. but then went to beat it into ferrari, still working

thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the original gutting process was probably painful.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well yes, wasn't speaking of trinque's item, or similar remotely-operated gadgets

thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: well planeshift was pretty much written by people smoking dope while playing runescape...

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-12-21#1349108 ☝︎

thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: perhaps. but i think its as simple as "adding idiots to something good ruins it". usenet was similar...

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: don't forget the inevitable next stage, where they develop the delusion of having found ~all~ of the possible ones

thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "copy/paste me but don't ever read me!" << *sigh* In fact this just happened today. Developer tells me, "Hey copy this snipped into the codebase from github". I respond with, "Have you read the code?" They tell me, "Nope. But it works!" So guess who is stuck reading the code...

danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, you want me to gpgram you now or after?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the basic usgology of this, https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/churches-religious-organizations/churches-defined

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: worth a shot. will be good for a boatload of lulz in either case

asciilifeform: my observation was that mircea_popescu can indeed put 'pope' on his business card, right now!1111 - but to be ~untaxed~ pope in usgschwitz, you gotta be in favour with the current clitler

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which true

a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 12:51 mircea_popescu: i want you to research the legal status of a registered church in the us, as well as the practicalities of registering one. this is a serious project, and i expect 100s of hours spent reading up on it. gpgram me about it.

a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 03:40 mircea_popescu: is it actually efficient re memory usage ? anyone know specifically ?

pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: spanish empire style ? i'm ignorant of this style

a111: Logged on 2016-06-29 00:34 asciilifeform: what was it mircea_popescu said, 'never interrupt an enemy who is in the middle of fellating his nagant'

a111: Logged on 2015-10-12 15:02 mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-10-2015#1296856 << china likes us start-up culture and its effects. "never interrupt enemy when making a mistake". traditionally you wouldn't have the gall to pointedly help him, either, but i think mr xi correctly inferred ustardian head too far up ass to even notice.

a111: Logged on 2016-06-29 02:09 mircea_popescu: buy thermotransfer crap in turkey, for like 10 bux a pile of 100, sell them for like ten bucks a pop. "advanced!"

deedbot: trinque rated mircea_popescu 3

a111: Logged on 2016-06-29 15:20 mircea_popescu: meanwhile, ethereum itself is brought to you by ming chan, "an mit alumna", vitalik buterin, which you no doubt remember as an obscure bitcoin punk, jeffrey wilcke, bernd lapp ("bern lapp's background and experience in management experience spawns many years"), stefano bertolo, yessin schiegg, willioam mougayar, thomas greco (omise), and vladislav martynov. see https://archive.is/Se89j

a111: Logged on 2016-06-29 19:41 mircea_popescu: but since the answer's not that readily translatable, let's delve. "x de y" is a very common pattern of early childhoold romanian construction, so much so that it's a byword for infantilism.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and yes for whatever size b

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or at least make it as relevant and interesting as ethernet frame is

a111: Logged on 2016-06-29 20:30 mircea_popescu: ie can we finally get rid of the concept of "packet" altogether ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2016/alexacom-or-the-measurable-web-delusion/#comment-117862