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assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 16:33:08;
mircea_popescu: anyway, my data seems to suggest that the enemy will be pushing a fork before the decade's out. whether we at that time have a counterfork ready or not is pretty much what decides the fate of the free world.
jurov:
mircea_popescu: they accept orders and cancellation, but don't execute them
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Garden variety cold it appears, but started in the lungs.
punkman:
mircea_popescu: you're there anyway. << yeah but they'd normally just pass through, unless stuck in traffic, in which case nowhere near the guards to interact with
assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 18:44:19;
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=22-05-2015#1143203 << lettuce re-introduce this into the record. One Robert J. Hansen goes to california to help some derp make drm for the palm pilot ; gets scammed and ass raped. while this is exactly what he deserves, the story of his suffering is nevertheless instructive.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: what was 'the lose half your money thing' ?
ascii_field: well we currently have one engineer who works infamously slowly between death marches of day job.
mircea_popescu thinks that two or more would work faster ?
ascii_field: the 20x20x20 metre one from
mircea_popescu's essay
assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 17:21:16;
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you misunderstand the "play with pebbles". it's doing stuff like playing angry birds on iphone.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu just described traditional malloc
ascii_field: well if
mircea_popescu can locate another me but one that doesn't work a day job, he can ask for one
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: l0l, think the thing is a hog now ? try with shoup
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: the 'encrypted connection' item necessarily reduces to gossipd
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: enemy has pushed fork after fork, no ?
assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 16:30:41;
mircea_popescu: of course, back illo tempore any class on crypto necessarily begun with a "data structures" prior years earlier.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: in what way is the rotten mess 'easier to believe' ?
ascii_field wanted to suggest it originally but
mircea_popescu was on a long 'this is your motherfucking grandfather's pistol and hands off' kick
ascii_field: and, as
mircea_popescu mentioned earlier, there is also the problem of fragging, which none of this even begins to deal with, nor is anything like a clean/simple solution to it known to me
assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 00:10:35;
mircea_popescu: anyway, point remains, if someone [such as jurov] decides to spend a day on this he should have to use as little as possible hunting the history as that leaves as much as possible to actually doing work.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> like dioxin-free tomatoes. << or dioxin free roads/parks
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 22:29:08;
mircea_popescu: why are usians dumb ?
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2015 16:39:23;
mircea_popescu: this insanity is STILL with us, still "works" ?
felipelalli:
mircea_popescu, Thank you for encouraging! But I feel I have read / study more the logs before feel comfortable to write to Qntra. Qntra.net is like my oracle!
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2015 04:57:01;
mircea_popescu: da fuck it's qntra.net not circumlocutory-phraseology.website-name
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 23:41:44;
mircea_popescu: the russians got steel plants faster with stalin then they'd have without.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform>
mircea_popescu: i did not say 'wot is useless' but that i in particular do not - as demonstrated experimentally not long ago - command particularly much market value there. << the idea is not that you command anything. the conversion from postmodern derp to feudal subject is not done under the control of the derp.
mircea_popescu: in that <
mircea_popescu> at some certain future point it becomes more lucrative for the owner of mining gear to "start a new bitcoin" than to continue adding to this chain.
assbot: Logged on 26-11-2015 14:15:09;
mircea_popescu: PeterL you could prolly make a killing doing analysis for teh "darknet" pillheads.
assbot: Logged on 26-11-2015 15:00:55;
mircea_popescu: (bitcoin unintelligently transformed its already minor cost into a disasters of commons situation, due to the fact that satoshi had about as much financial experience as a holywood star. but anyway.)
punkman:
mircea_popescu: punkman you know how bond yields work right ? << not really
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: current base 'pro' model ships with 128 gb unreplaceable persistent storage
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: cannot even replace persistent storage devices in 'crapple' portables of late
assbot: Logged on 25-11-2015 01:05:54;
mircea_popescu: ie, much better than now. the empire wants them to work, and will whip them just enough to actually get some work done.
assbot: Logged on 25-11-2015 01:05:54;
mircea_popescu: ie, much better than now. the empire wants them to work, and will whip them just enough to actually get some work done.
adlai:
mircea_popescu: dunno, does recombinatory fucking count as prior art?
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:39:59;
mircea_popescu: but, and this general point remains, you don't get to, nor should you, exclude operational costs from efficiency calculations. after you factor in the $500 to replace your favourite pair of pants you always just so happen to be wearing at the time, plus the inconvenience at billable hour cost etc, suddenly the idea to switch to "modern, energy saving, efficient" bulbs looks a lot closer to the insani
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:25:24; BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years. << Aha. The scam is rates to renew policy gradually increase up until 40-50 years of age and then insurance company is all "lol, nope" which makes derps wonder where "affordable" life inurance went when they had no such thing before. Customer backloads their risk, insurance company frontloads theirs and whoever quits
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:04:25;
mircea_popescu: i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years.
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:54:52;
mircea_popescu: ironically also better for yurp, a russian-run eu would have worked where the german-run eu is barely screeching around.\
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:17:26;
mircea_popescu: expect ~1 cubic metre of assorted toxic waste per exploded shitbulb.
kakobrekla: how long can
mircea_popescu go without looking at his main computer once ?
punkman:
mircea_popescu: oh you mean teh cock?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years. << Aha. The scam is rates to renew policy gradually increase up until 40-50 years of age and then insurance company is all "lol, nope" which makes derps wonder where "affordable" life inurance went when they had no such thing before. Customer backloads their risk, insurance company frontloads theirs and whoever quits the game of chicken first wi
☟︎ punkman:
mircea_popescu: what's the cycle?
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 08:47:46;
mircea_popescu: makes 0 sense. to be paid 500k when you die, even starting as a 20yo man you'd have to do at least 500 bucks a month in premiums.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> makes 0 sense. to be paid 500k when you die, even starting as a 20yo man you'd have to do at least 500 bucks a month in premiums. << Such deal are typically "term" policies expiring in 5 years
pete_dushenski: "why is it that you expect your boyfriend introduce you to his friends ?" << missing a 'to',
mircea_popescu ?
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: the top girl's calfs will cramp in no time in that position
gribble: brendafdez was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 34 weeks, 5 days, 7 hours, 24 minutes, and 3 seconds ago: <brendafdez>
mircea_popescu it works now. Anyway the IP I'm on now is one of a public AP, it shouldnt be whitelisted. I'll later give you my home IP, and BingoBoingo has my VPS IP already. I didn't know you were filtering.
btcdrak:
mircea_popescu: she kept mentioning bitcoin-assets, I assumed she was in this channel.
hanbot:
mircea_popescu you forgot a step for pufuleti i mean profit
hanbot:
mircea_popescu are they still opining about how you're "illegal"?
assbot: Logged on 23-11-2015 20:26:41;
mircea_popescu: "What often deters writers from going through with the above plan is the fact that, well, Most Writers Are Writers. They're writing a character who's supposed to be a musician, but they don't know the particulars of meters or chords. They have a character who is a military expert, but they don't know how long an infantry division can fight until it needs to be resupplied. They have a character who's
assbot: Logged on 23-11-2015 02:58:44;
mircea_popescu: isn't ammonal about on par with black powder, in the sense that if it gets wet you can go salt your food with it ?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> o ffs. japanese whiskey ? << I knew I picked a good time to try sobriety
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> dude get the fuck out, missouri has a park with a view. << Truefax. There's even a tiny tram you can ride to the top of the Arch for more view
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what you are no matter how hard i try.
wyrdmantis:
mircea_popescu can i have eulora login?
trinque:
mircea_popescu: the mismatch I was referring to was the object-relational-mapper; it cannot for example (easily, or usably) create a new object which is the synthesis of n other objects done by inner join
trinque:
mircea_popescu │ kakobrekla no but seriously, i'm at least partly here to learn, so what functionality is it ? like a good example. << this I think calls for careful steps and a machete