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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: care to comment why barfed ?
asciilifeform: my understanding is that mircea_popescu sees the difference as a 'balls', 'blood & iron' matter of personal courage. whereas it is slightly gnarlier, pashtun has his family->clan->tribe healthy human thing going, eskimo likewise, usian - has the 'star topology' with the Great Inca at the center and ~nothing else~ but own sorry carcass.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: elaborate?
asciilifeform: Mar 30 10:02:53 <mircea_popescu> “I would never trust the legal system, frankly, to protect my family again,” Jeff Sikorski said. << l0l!! it is worth comparing usaschwitz inmate to, e.g., pashtun, or even eskimo. even lowliest savage has ~some~ means with which to bite back, avenge an affront.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... "pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal terrorism charge" << recall, a few kidz were convicted after ~publicly speaking in favour of~ isis et al.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2016/how-to-best-cultivate-jealousy/#comment-116889
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ' ... and check it out, the us has more "law enforcement agencies" than there are people who give a shit ' << 15 ~federal~ police agencies with powers of arrest alone! iirc.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The old civil defense detectors tend behave pretty erratically
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: p and q are right there in that n
asciilifeform: ergo mircea_popescu's privkey is obvious !1111
phf: mircea_popescu: laziness coefficient L
phf: mircea_popescu: i didn't understand that last question
phf: mircea_popescu: i clarified it a bit with "non-trivial to transfer"
asciilifeform: soooo how is mircea_popescu's seeekrit minercollusion tip not 'private prior' ? what am i missing.
phf: mircea_popescu: non transferable perhaps
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eh only when they're thinking with their coprocessor
phf: danielpbarron expressed some concern that the following part of yesterdays #b-a log was an accusation made by me against mircea_popescu. i don't see it, but perhaps i'm missing something? http://paste.lisp.org/display/311820/raw
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu knew what pays for asciilifeform to work for republic, he'd toss his cookies
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: human shannonizers
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'quantum crypto' is a marketing term for that thing where you serve up random bits for otp using 'entangled photons'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you didn't miss much
asciilifeform: i mean, what, mircea_popescu wrote the equation, then drank bottle of vodka, and forgot, and now is re-deriving it, playing against past self ??
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eulora lives where, in lobachevsky's space ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: generally folks program in euclidean space.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: vector addition commutes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nah this particular thing is likely the harmless and ordinary 'you can redefine the + sign to polymorph on type' as in cpp, commonlisp, ada, etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: crapping out a shitlang and conning naive schmucks into writing programs in it is a time-hounoured way to cheaply score pseudo-relevance. sorta like a comp sci version of altcoinism.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: haskellian masturbatron
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, they got another party to unterrorize the ipnoHe
asciilifeform: i bet mircea_popescu still has his caffeine receptors.
asciilifeform: rather than, to borrow mircea_popescu's old analogy, going about like idiot prole cow woman who 'falls pregnant whenever'
asciilifeform: (spoiler: ada aggressively promotes sanity, in particular here the item described by mircea_popescu roughly a year ago, which is that a program must occupy EXACTLY its maximal memory footprint at all times)
asciilifeform: ( <assbot> Logged on 20-03-2014 14:20:09; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'cum se suge pula' << can't help but associate this in my head with the finnish proverb, 'Pillu se on pulullakin' )
asciilifeform: as in fact described by mircea_popescu in the bitcoin-fs thread.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by allocating the size of the largest possible block, for ALL block
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only if you insist of 'writing c'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what means proper-big
asciilifeform: satoshi ~could~ have invented mircea_popescu's hybrid pow/pos algo.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu himself teaches us that 'you are responsible for ALL questions on the exam'
asciilifeform: if i had even so much as mined on the ~fpgas that i already owned~ when the thing began, i would be in neighbouring dirigible to mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i grasped this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i buy the miner cartel! if you recall, i walked into #b-a with miner cartel.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu has the time/patience, let's arithmetize
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu thinks 'nominal attempt' - as in 'hasty justification because asciilifeform had indigestion and was inclined to harp on mircea_popescu for no good reason' ?
asciilifeform: i believe that mircea_popescu is a clever fella, and that, given the prior available to HIM, it 'necessarily doesn't'
asciilifeform: trinque: if mircea_popescu had been going for the 'fuck off, who asked anyone' angle, why would he have bothered to write the qntra piece re: miner collusion ?
ben_vulpes: and as mircea_popescu has pointed out, courts' mandate descends from the king but may not bind him
ben_vulpes: i am fully torn between the poles of wanting to understand why mircea_popescu burned the coins to make the point, desperately wanting continuity with the logs-as-they-were, and recognizing the futility-cum-insubordination of a footsoldier asking anything
asciilifeform: but note, i did predict, classical b-a will die an immunocompromised death, without mircea_popescu's ddt spray
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: their language br0k3 ~400y ago
asciilifeform: did mircea_popescu ever see ^ ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: waiwut
asciilifeform: PeterL: according to mircea_popescu, his machine polled a net of thousands of nodez, none of whom claimed to have heard of tx-a, before he transmitted the final tx of doom
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: everybody thinks his own brand of failed lunacy is 'great idea, badly applied'
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: To track the wind?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I may need one of those weathervanes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is a pro entomologist.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> urgh, i scroll between two chans, and one is full of american election and the other - ThickAsThieves << I think something about the details of the process contains electrolytes mircea_popescu needs to mix up his hatorade
asciilifeform: phf: the last thing i recall TaT doing is, mircea_popescu offered him a co-authorship on something or other, and TaT refused because afraid of gassing
asciilifeform: phf: i actually met TaT in meatspace, at mircea_popescu's c2. we sat in the airport together in the end. i got the impression that he was 'ok guy' but somewhat lacked... courage.
asciilifeform: i find it odd that he returns immediately when mircea_popescu leaves
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> but why ? an' wherefore ? << It's how conventions worked routinely before 1970. They got the delegates and then made the rules. Now they just change the rules afterwards.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well yeah, and what's the free booze, bud and everclear ? << Everyclear is expensive even when adjusted for alcohol content. The cheapest stuff goes by names like Crystal Palace, COuntry Club, and Gem Clear
trinque: mircea_popescu: it's using a password with that nick, strange that it's not auth'd
asciilifeform: guten morgen mircea_popescu !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you have sakuras over there ?
asciilifeform: ^ looks like mircea_popescu's parrot shot came out slightly better than mine
asciilifeform: 'The benefits he has derived from his collegiate experience have been strictly formal, and of no further substance.' << i thought mircea_popescu knew that the usaschwitz 'college racket' has ~0 to do with education, but rather is the only usg-permitted iq test (roughly what grade school was once used for)
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu nm re: (b) but still puzzled re: (a)
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://dpaste.com/02P2ADT.txt
assbot: Logged on 14-01-2016 15:11:05; mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c here's a thought, in http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/ might be a good idea to hide users not seen in i dunno, a quarter ? a year ? something ? explained, and with link for "full list".
shinohai cheers mircea_popescu
PaulCapestany: mircea_popescu https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-classic-developers-receiving-threats-rbitcoin-mods/
PaulCapestany: mircea_popescu ?
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2016 15:12:01; mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm not going to read the latest installments in fiatista turdology, much like hte prev ones. nor do i need to, they're perpetually the same crud. in any case : loyalty is not a bad thing. loyalty to bad people is a bad thing, but loyalty in general is the only saving grace of manhood. the one probem socialism generally encounters is loyalty, which is why the whole song and dance.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you didn't miss much
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2016 23:43:30; mircea_popescu: and to be perfectly clear - it ~was~ my stupid fucking idea of seeding the lordship off the stats page on roughly the basis of activity that got us in this mess.
davout: mircea_popescu: domain received!
davout: mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/23GJRZM.txt
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2016 23:35:36; mircea_popescu: i dunno, but the fact remains this nonsense can't continue, if for no reason then because i won't be any part of the most recent attempt of fiat world to reclaim the republic. so for the sake of variety, let's go with : kakobrekla, you willing to take nubbins off the l1 ?
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2016 23:35:31; mircea_popescu: 2 requires the man who just saw the product of his not-inconsequential efforts die over "not doing what mp says, with money" have to choose whether to do what mp says... but with people, this time. we did in fact start this channel together, just like bitbet, and he did do a lot of infrastructure work here, just as there. so... what do ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fwiw i just finally barfed.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: if tomorrow mircea_popescu decides that i am an imbecile and never speaks to me again, i will build exactly same items. and even offer him free sample!
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu>let me point out to you that bitbet came down over my realisation that this is how you lot think. stop fucking thinking like this before i have to cut more heads. <<< or, put another way, "stfu talking dangerous talk, alf, or s.nsa is next"
asciilifeform: it is because mircea_popescu invited me. and i only stayed because he works with me on planeteering tech.
asciilifeform: (e.g., i never saw the ' mircea_popescu ought to personally eat the expense ' angle )
nubbins`: <+asciilifeform>apparently all of us but mircea_popescu are idiots ? << you just now realizing?
asciilifeform: i like mircea_popescu because he's a fella who tips pencils.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 1st thing that always gets raised, when you raise a crowd, is its opinion of self.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on this i must agree. it ~was~ ill-specified
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: y'know you could kick him.
asciilifeform: apparently all of us but mircea_popescu are idiots ?
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2016 19:51:30; hanbot: <jurov> and it did not use that to settle later claims << so when actual operator error occurred, mircea_popescu ate it, and your reaction is basically "hey, if he can pay for that, he should pay for this unrelated problem too! let's him pay for everything!", and this amidst weeks of bitching about "bad faith"?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i argued self into the position that the original system was ill-defined
hanbot: <jurov> and it did not use that to settle later claims << so when actual operator error occurred, mircea_popescu ate it, and your reaction is basically "hey, if he can pay for that, he should pay for this unrelated problem too! let's him pay for everything!", and this amidst weeks of bitching about "bad faith"? ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has said that he intends to play the 'all coin is fungible and unidentifiable ' etc. game. which is fine. but what i don't grasp is how it is possible to craft hard record of debt and repayment without some hook on which to hang them.
asciilifeform: but my understanding is that mircea_popescu and kakobrekla deliberately did not build it this way
trinque: now if kakobrekla and mircea_popescu disagree on this point... here we are!
asciilifeform: davout: but say the 1st tx went into dev/null as mircea_popescu intended it to when sending the 2nd. would the bettors have been wronged ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: though oddly enough he was arguing your side of the medal !