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ThickAsThieves: not trying to start a revolution
BingoBoingo: antephialtic: You know TradeFortress was a hugbox node.js fan
VanCleef: yeh and Jeff Garzik is a snitch
antephialtic: Not the node.js stuff, that is a gimmick to get more shitty stack-overflow copy/pasting devs building crappy webapps
ThickAsThieves: with a hint of nervousness
VanCleef: did he have a nice smell?
asciilifeform: truffles: it was a minor subplot. they find these critters on jupiter, living in the gas, and decide to study them. by building a machine which transforms people into them, so they can see what their life is like. and then, for years, no one returns to be converted back. eventually one fellow comes back. and tells how much more fun it is than being human. end result: mankind vanishes, converted to lopers. ☟︎
truffles: is there a movie?
ThickAsThieves: i'd like to see a blog that consistently tackled the topics that make people like us most uncomfortable
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dun think that was such a bad call myself.
mircea_popescu: so the channel spends a while as a dump of copy/pasted material
asciilifeform: incidentally, i was proclaimed an unrepentant spammer, years ago, by no less a spam god than pg (http://www.loper-os.org/?p=91)
mircea_popescu: my own view of that cycle is something like : a cool thing makes inroads. the people doing the cool thing eventually die, their successors aim to maintain that greatness
ThickAsThieves: it's a cycle, yes
mircea_popescu: anyway, once public education becomes a thing of the past, we'll be back to having actual literacy and actual encyclopedists will write actual encyclopedias,
truffles: asciilifeform u have a blog right? link again plz
BingoBoingo: Eh, give it a few years and then wikipedia will be subsumed by wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/archive/fail/wikipedia
asciilifeform: last i checked, i was proclaimed a spammer and given a shitburial
ThickAsThieves: i'm basically trying to make a case for mining diversification
BingoBoingo: Interesting point: Discus Fish. Was a nothing six months ago. Now relayed to b.info 2 of the last six blocks first
ThickAsThieves: and bitcoin is a huge thing
ThickAsThieves: a dynamic threshold?
mircea_popescu: up to a threshold. then it doesn't really matter
mircea_popescu: i am saying that a) it cannot happen and b) this irrespective of what you know or don't know.
mircea_popescu: you want this because you're a goat
mircea_popescu: i want this, because a mine is a physical thing, it needs proxying.
mircea_popescu: if i own 1petahash worth of mining gear, and we have a deal that you claim to own 1petahash worth of mining, we can work it so no third party can ever discover this.
ThickAsThieves: so the pool reports are a lie?
mircea_popescu: where people pay a slight premium to be allowed to pretend they mine by the actual miners.
mircea_popescu: you may not know this, but there's a major miner bezzle market going
mircea_popescu: cex is a minor player.
mircea_popescu: (this incidentally is one major point proponents of alternative coins don't realise. one of the most important permanence factors in a coin is just how well distributed the coinbase is. this is not something later coins will readilyt achieve, bitcoin achieved by accident
BingoBoingo: picostocks is prolly more a 2.5 gen chumpotron
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i said government had, a couple months after they had started, a few months ago.
BingoBoingo: Who the fuck though wears a down jacket in a datacenter?
BingoBoingo: I remember it a bit.
moiety: ok so ... who has a dog we can attach suction cups to?
mircea_popescu: if not, you can join the line. it started back in 2012, when he was going to prove he had a mining farm.
moiety: was goat's lambo actually real btw or a trollstory
BingoBoingo: Might be a decent source of entropy
mircea_popescu: omfg i just had the evilest thought. suppose you have a bad dog like this one : http://i.imgur.com/5C8zhB5.jpg
mircea_popescu: they were kinda my favourite toys as a little boy...
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well tractors are now popular in the way coloreds used to be popular. They are useful implements, but a pain to maintain.
mircea_popescu: you're reborn as a woman and get to live forever.
ThickAsThieves: maybe they are alpha males trapped in a woman's body
ThickAsThieves: i think an environment does temper a hag
mircea_popescu: no, you have a point.
BingoBoingo: Why forums can't work: "Since 1998, the movement founded by Hugo Chávez has won more than a dozen presidential, parliamentary and local elections through an electoral process that former American President Jimmy Carter has called “the best in the world.” Recently, the United Socialist Party received an overwhelming mandate in mayoral elections in December 2013, winning 255 out of 337 municipalities."
mircea_popescu: "Democracy (in the terminology and reality of socialists) seems to be the path of long lines of people waiting, clutching a government issued piece of paper, entitling them to a ration of food, water, health care, gasoline...and of course...toilet paper, not confiscated already for government officials delicate bottoms."
BingoBoingo: Here's a particularly interesting storm from when I was in Carbondale for Grad school http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/casepages/may82009page.htm
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Eight years ago yesterday a classmate at the time got to see their roof flipped off of their apartment and discarded on the golf course.
ozbot: In A NYT Op-Ed, Venezuela's Maduro Explains Why It's The Rich That Are Revolting | Zero Hedge
BingoBoingo: This was a thoroughly underwhelming storm for these awfully inconsiderate sirens to roused me from bed so.
bounce: it doesn't say they're giving it away. looks like yahoo was a bit late in picking up this press release.
BingoBoingo: Imma bout to get hit with a squall line in about 5-15 minutes. If I'm offline a while it is because assholes decide above ground power and internet are great in a area with trees and frequent wind storms
moiety: 3D printed manuls punkman ... just a thought
punkman: "I kid you not that is what they said to me. I asked them if they thought I was on day release from a special needs school. They did not laugh."
punkman: "years ago when I visited the City Police anti-money laundering division in the City of London who told me with absolutely straight faces that despite London being the centre of international banking, not a single penny of laundered or drug money entered the City banks."
gribble: Error: You haven't asked me a command; perhaps you want to see someone else's more. To do so, call this command with that person's nick.
BingoBoingo: Well the problem with ECDSA is each signature from a public/private keypair needs a quality random number or the private key is reasonably soluable. People last year who used Android bitcoin wallets lost bitcoin over this known problem.
truffles: if everything has a backdoor any1 would seem allknowing :D
BingoBoingo: Address reuse is theoretically problematic, with a poor RNG it is completely fucked as the android wallet apps demonstrated
antephialtic: right now its a lot clunkier than using normal GPG signatures, but if the trezor becomes widespread, I could see people improving the tooling
antephialtic: if they become popular, I could see people using signing addresses a lot more
bounce: hope so. I'd like a keyboard without touchpad and with trackpoint. even so you get the usual crappy layout with too many and too small keys
punkman: that's a really weird design for the $2k option though
punkman: I think this is enough 3d printing talk for #b-a for the next few months
cads: I dunno if the rate of goopy flow through a pipe at a given pressure grows like the square of the pipe diameter or no
punkman: you could make a 1mm extruder, then work on getting it to go fast
punkman: I like this concept a lot, http://www.mcortechnologies.com/3d-printers/iris/
cads: but I feel like lags and hysteresis in the extruder have a role to play there too
cads: as each pore passes into a perimeter boundary it initiates an extrusion event, and as the pore leaves a permeter boundary it ends the extrusion event (and wipes clean on the permeter edge)
cads: then if the plate clogs (too much), you stop the machine, cool off the plastic, unbolt the endplate retainer, snap the end plate off, then have a look at what's happening with your plastic
cads: rather, bolted onto a pipe carrying such a column
cads: actually, hey, make the extruder plate something like a actual thick plate that is bolted onto the end of a thick pressurized column of plastic
cads: I think it would be too easy to cook that kind of a system
cads: I'd like to see a printer where the extruder is actually an array of pores fed off of a high pressure hydraulic manifold, using some kind of high reliability high temperature electromechanical actuators
punkman: easier to set up a filament extruder, I think one of the DIY ones does acceptable quality by now
cads: probably a bad idea
cads: I'd like a printer that uses direct pellets
cads: our client has a stratasys in a europe office but it's tied up most of the time so what the america based vp of development was doing was to fly to the europe office. He'd get a call from some engineers that would ask him if he could arrange to be in europe on this date two weeks from now.
punkman: they also have a couple Stratasys printers with ABS filament, which seem to produce worse quality than a well-calibrated reprap
cads: I understand that the machines print with really great layer times - something like 10 seconds a layer. They print vertical resolution of 0.2, which is par with what I print
cads: punkman: have you played around with parts produced by a DLP machine?
cads: like your choice of dokuwiki, I've used that for a couple projects
punkman: cads, I might set that up to generate the kind of leads you are looking for in a few months
BingoBoingo: Doge is a meme, it will fade.
BingoBoingo: Well, it is totally like meta. Sure there's a lot of altcoins, but then there's Altcoin.
wywialm: altcoins in general or a specific project (unknown to me) with this name?
ozbot: Starting a new FPGA mining farm/contract Cognitive Resurrected on[Havelock]
cazalla: not that i'm the pack leader but he is a bitch, skinny little thing, follows her around, he goes with her to visit her friends
cads: it just seems like a bitch move
joecool: i find it lulzy to see vegan pro-abortionists, i guess my logic is strutured a bit differently
cazalla: just a shame we don't have guns to hold down the fort here in australia
cazalla: she wanted him to have my surname, doesn't give 2 shits about the career she left behind and wants to remain a mum, thinks bubs does best with mum + dad around instead of single parent families being no different
cazalla: so i cook and clean but she's also breastfeeding so i don't mind so much, that's a job on it's own
joecool: though tbh i am polar opposite to gf, i can't eat wheat and she cooks bread all the time, i just eat a lot of breakfast food all the time
cads: she must make a total shameless exception for sushi
cads: lol, I like those girls but I fight with them a lot
cazalla: cads: she's vegan, leftist, check your privilege type, i hate the woman and her mouse of a husband just follows what she says