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ascii_butugychag: in EXACTLY same way as my trb node does THE SAME amount of number crunching whether it hears a block from gavin's node or from
mircea_popescu's.
ascii_butugychag: recall how
mircea_popescu argued that it makes no sense to mechanically distinguish between author and signers?
jurov: like
mircea_popescu assbot: Logged on 05-05-2013 09:52:31;
mircea_popescu: perhaps gavin, but only on the condition that he keeps quiet a lot on most issues.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> ok but i mean, instead of article ? Ah. missed that it snuck in there. Need to check the front page more.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> and what is this "continue reading" thing ? << It's always been a thing. Keeps front page from reaching maxint length. Use started in early qntra when routinely dumping 10+ kiloword silk road document text into articles
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo "Bitstamp has emailed users stating it has banned access from all IP addresses originating from the Russian Federation access to the Bitcoin exchange." << SHould be fixed
mod6:
mircea_popescu: hey thanks for putting up your steps in the wiki
guruvan:
mircea_popescu: docker image Dockerfile helps document buld process -that part of why I do these
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 23:10:18;
mircea_popescu: you have no reason to suspect FEWER boeings would be produced, or in use, if only one person in ten was a citizen, and the rest nine slaves.
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 17:43:00;
mircea_popescu:
http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=3657 << this is a nice and fine article, except at the part where the dude pretends like his betters - that is to say, rich people, white people, powerful people, me - are "an unknown quantity" and somehow an old policeman / janitor's relative is different. fuck that. you MAY have your little niceties, for jsut as long as you clearly understand that your role
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 17:43:00;
mircea_popescu:
http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=3657 << this is a nice and fine article, except at the part where the dude pretends like his betters - that is to say, rich people, white people, powerful people, me - are "an unknown quantity" and somehow an old policeman / janitor's relative is different. fuck that. you MAY have your little niceties, for jsut as long as you clearly understand that your role
trinque:
mircea_popescu: thanks. his escape from AWS is in the works.
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 01:19:36;
mircea_popescu: "@transcats Memory-hard PoW hasn't been invented yet, so we can't implement that.
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 03:36:34; asciilifeform: from the cartoon
mircea_popescu linked earlier this week
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: RE:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=17-11-2015#1325573 << Employer matches 401k up to ~6% of annual income pre-tax. The 401k program allows you to tke a 401k loan and pay yourself back. Best case scenario you pay the fiat back over X period (as long as you don't leave the job), or somehow there is some huge collapse and you just never pay it back.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 01:48:28;
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-01-2016#1373655 << the thing here is that the age of unreliability is today, not 1700. as alf pointed out at some point - you couldn't sell ANY of your consumer junk you buy today to people living then. not your shitty shoes, not your shitty anything.
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 01:42:12;
mircea_popescu: so you got a 4x improvement in qualityt of life for the slaves&servants in question out of the very simple measure of halving the costs and doubling the quality ; and at the expense that julie nobody doesn't get to pretend on reddit and gates doesn't get to pretend in washpo anymore.
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 01:37:01;
mircea_popescu: they're as unreliable as they fucking get.
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 01:20:08;
mircea_popescu: actually i wouldn't go to war over keccak.
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 21:07:47;
mircea_popescu: no thermite present ?
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 01:39:08;
mircea_popescu: . now there's 200 masters, and 12 cable companies, and no fucking monopoly.
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 01:20:08;
mircea_popescu: actually i wouldn't go to war over keccak.
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 01:19:36;
mircea_popescu: "@transcats Memory-hard PoW hasn't been invented yet, so we can't implement that.
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 01:48:39;
mircea_popescu: heck, even in 1950 stuff was a lot more reliable than the shit that passes today.
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 01:48:28;
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-01-2016#1373655 << the thing here is that the age of unreliability is today, not 1700. as alf pointed out at some point - you couldn't sell ANY of your consumer junk you buy today to people living then. not your shitty shoes, not your shitty anything.
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 01:45:44;
mircea_popescu: otherwise, doctor came to your fucking house. like they still did when i was a child, and ironicallyt - for the exact same reason.
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 00:12:50; jurov: irc you and
mircea_popescu expect power to hang or stake certain people.. that's pretty close to "all" end
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> but the ONLY difference is that instead of cox writing 10k 50 dollar bills for cable each month, a coupla hundred people sign off on cable bills worth 10k dollars each once a year. and the internet is twice as good. << Kinda why US municipalities with good internet have a maximum size.
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 20:41:15;
mircea_popescu: sez so right in the merchant of venice!
jurov: irc you and
mircea_popescu expect power to hang or stake certain people.. that's pretty close to "all" end
☟︎ jurov: "of course you can" - at this point i sent
mircea_popescu to grow si monocrystals and use hf
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 16:08:10;
mircea_popescu: if it doesn't climb 1/3 in 9 months some people will make incredible bank
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: can you explain the rubens == mercedes connection ? not sure i quite got that point
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 14:33:59;
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-01-2016#1371985 << the other consideration is that europe is chock full of bad copies of the classical masters. and they all suck, except the few that don't. such as for instance rubens, who learned to paint by doing a poor job of copying at first. or michelangelo, or anyone else. because yes, everyone that ever was a master painter learned his craft by trying h
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 14:31:01;
mircea_popescu: dude what a badass looking truck. how the fuck could the ammo churning, tailgate partying, truck racing subculture not buy this through the roof is well beyond me. but then again... i'll take the newton defense.
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> jurov did the foundation ever spend anything, i forget. <+ben_vulpes> foundation spend << not to date << technically we have made one expenditure, paying jurov his yearly fee.
jurov: and i'm no
mircea_popescu to get execution on my projects for $0.1/hr :(
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 20:56:29;
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo except he doesn't seem to want them ; and besides, what confidence does a bum inspire to be a chief engineer ?
jurov:
mircea_popescu: i am actually trying to hire someone, but for that need to shift part of s.nsa stash
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 20:10:40;
mircea_popescu: when a butt-ugly wench that should be thankful if she ever gets laid for free imagines herself above what kim kardashian / the very peak of her profession actually make, it's indisputable the self-valuation ran amok.
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 20:06:27;
mircea_popescu: "oh, i got better opportunities elsewhere" "working on fixing tyhat" "i'd rather sit on reddit than work for a fair rate NO MATTER WHAT" "i guess we put a reddit lcd on your tombstone then".
jurov: eh
mircea_popescu, go grow si monocrystals and wash the wafers in hf yourself
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 19:49:41;
mircea_popescu: i dunno why you think the world is chump-backed. it ain't. usg is, sure, but whatevs.
fluffypony: let's be fair, though, the chances of Monero ever becoming the largest cryptocurrency is about the same as the chances of
mircea_popescu secretly being a woman all along
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: they're welcome to want whatever they'd like, and we're welcome to disregard their "feelings"
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> ... << yeah, yeah, funny-haha. or in chinese, "我們將埋葬你們！" << Just because it wins doesn't mean it can't still earn a chuckle.
copypaste:
mircea_popescu: i started to understand things better when confronted with the truth rudely, not nicely in a sugar coated way
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 14:16:09;
mircea_popescu: it's complicated. for the true believer (not everyone who reads the books gives a shit, you realise, though many do) faith is a major factor, as measured in two things : uniques (on the theory that hey, god wouldn't allow the flock to scatter) and miracles (on the theory that nature is a whore, and whoever she picks is king).
ben_vulpes: it's going to end up that way,
mircea_popescu.
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 11:30:16; cazalla: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu sorry to read about chetty :\
gribble: You are now authenticated for user
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assbot: Logged on 15-01-2016 16:19:27;
mircea_popescu: so 300k car. what happens if i attach that 300k car to a street pole and go ful lthrothle in the ist ?
copypaste:
mircea_popescu: all that has to happen is a fire in chinese mining farm ;)
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: well the toomims are calling your bluff, but Gavin in his recent article realizes the uphill struggle and just knows that "hey it's probably not going to work out but worth a shot", sometimes I wonder about that d00d. Eats glue but rather conscious of the actual situation.
cazalla: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu sorry to read about chetty :\
☟︎ cazalla: all these things
mircea_popescu could've done, how about what you could've done op_null2 ? nothing at all eh?
op_null2: What ever happened to
mircea_popescu 's bet that Ethereum wouldn't launch?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Were you around for the early shittalking between n00b BingoBoingo and n00b ben_vulpes in an episode that seriously confused
mircea_popescu sometime around August 2013?
assbot: Logged on 15-01-2016 21:33:36;
mircea_popescu: all that hard work trying to select a marginally defensible epithet and coming up with "classic"...
assbot: Logged on 15-01-2016 19:26:39;
mircea_popescu: and they never say "i'm the ugly one" either. or you know, "the short boring looking one". it's always "i'm the one in the right
assbot: Logged on 15-01-2016 12:16:33;
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-01-2016#1370904 << in truth, engine miniaturization has proceeded to the point where this product would be marketable : a 4x4 "true" SUV with a pick-up truck option that has a 2-3 liter gasoline engine with a gpl add-on (so you can run it either on full gasoline, or do gasoline starting and run on gas) that autoswitches from powering the drive train to powering