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danielpbarron: still had a little left for my great purge when i burned
the contents of my drug box as well as some eastern philosophy
texts and my karate uniform
shinohai: lsd usually inspires clarity of
thought and creativity
tho.
danielpbarron once had a 'vial' of
the stuff; used it
to put drops on sugar cubes, eat and go for bike ride in
the summer
shinohai: mircea_popescu is under stress lately perhaps and needs a nice lsd
trip
to put
things in perspective :D
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 10:43:06; mircea_popescu: in other news - it still remains likely
that
this summer will see a bevy of various hardforks on offer. practically speaking,
trb can offer either its own candidate, which
takes a lot of work, or else sit
tight and we'll follow
the more intelligent of
the avaialble offerings, which
takes less work but also implies a lot of risk - experience
to date shows
that
there's precious little intelligence avai
shinohai: As I
told mod6 I do not advocate surrender myself :/
shinohai: I will use
trb as long as it works on
the overall network, failing
that I will have
to find something else
to occupy my
time.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 10:49:38; mircea_popescu: so far, nsa-gavin, prb and [prolly]
the miner cartel are all preparing something or
the other.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 10:43:06; mircea_popescu: in other news - it still remains likely
that
this summer will see a bevy of various hardforks on offer. practically speaking,
trb can offer either its own candidate, which
takes a lot of work, or else sit
tight and we'll follow
the more intelligent of
the avaialble offerings, which
takes less work but also implies a lot of risk - experience
to date shows
that
there's precious little intelligence avai
fluffypony: all rational,
thinking people have known
this
to be
the expected outcome from
the very beginning
fluffypony: kodemurani:
this is not new information
davout: 2. making
taxes optional
davout: 1. decentralized
timestamping
davout: to me
there are exactly
two use cases for bitcoin/blockchain
☟︎ fluffypony: most people building crap on
top of "a blockchain" have no idea why
they're doing so
☟︎ fluffypony: and I asked
them why
they were building on Ethereum, and despite much hand-waving
they couldn't give me an actual reason
fluffypony: davout: I made
that exact argument at a meetup in Berlin last year where someone presented some junk
they're building on Ethereum
davout: "The best case scenario for most of
these projects is
that
there are end user benefits for other reasons, and
that Ethereum is not required
to deliver
them.
The complexity, and cost, of doing blockchain based products will in such cases eventually drive such products off chain,
the same way changetip eventually went off-chain, and now recently into fiat mode."
shinohai: Ether is simply a Rube Goldbergesque way of making money for it's founder
to buy a lifetime supply of Retin-A. When he has it *poof*
davout: ached is a big part of making
this
type of crowdfunding effective. Even worse,
the project organizer could always fund
the remainder of
the contract privately, hence it is not at all clear
that
there is any actual gain of security. While it was a nice use of SIGHASH_ALL, it really solved a non-problem"
davout: "The lesson of
the very well built lighthouse Bitcoin project, which has resulted in no more
than a few
thousand dollars of funding over
the past years, has
to be
that
there is extremely little value
to be gained by introducing
trustless escrow in crowdfunding. Even if you wanted
to crowdfund something very controversial, where
traditional web platforms will ban you, its not at all clear
that disintermediating holding funds before cap is re
kodemurani: Thanks shinohai. Going
through
the logs
shinohai: Plenty of discussion here. When
there isn't,
there is a plethora of information in
the logs.
kodemurani: wondering if
there is any discussion here on ether
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 10:43:46; mircea_popescu: in any case we should prolly have a strategy discussion here. paging mod6 asciilifeform jurov
trinque phf an'
the other interested parties.
mircea_popescu: so far, nsa-gavin, prb and [prolly]
the miner cartel are all preparing something or
the other.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i'm not convinced either. but
there's
the possibility.
davout: i'm really not convinced we'll see a HF
this year
mircea_popescu: in any case we should prolly have a strategy discussion here. paging mod6 asciilifeform jurov
trinque phf an'
the other interested parties.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: alls, and more likely
than not we'll be stuck picking between a warty rat and a sickly mole.
mircea_popescu: in other news - it still remains likely
that
this summer will see a bevy of various hardforks on offer. practically speaking,
trb can offer either its own candidate, which
takes a lot of work, or else sit
tight and we'll follow
the more intelligent of
the avaialble offerings, which
takes less work but also implies a lot of risk - experience
to date shows
that
there's precious little intelligence available outside
the w
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: without exception it fucked up ALL of
these. and not lightly fuck
them up, either.
mircea_popescu: assbot> RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined
the web <<
this is not an idle comment. google, like every other usg item, like usg collectively, was entrusted with great responsibility in many fields after
the war.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> for
the 5 people or so worldwide << oif which apparently
two here ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> or did i read
that backwards ? <<< seems so ?
gernika: oh yeah - wasn't clear
to me how
to plug
the
thing in
gernika: I'm just going
to
try out some z80 stuff. seems easier
to use
this
than flashing eeproms.
gernika: ok. bleh. one more laptop laying around
the house couldn't hurt I guess.
gernika: It looked like
there was a dos util for it --
then I realized
that was from 1999.
gernika: asciilifeform: do you operate
the EE
Tools EeRom-8U (I
think you referenced it in
the logs recently) with windows? If so, with which 10 foot pole?
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 23:49:08; mircea_popescu: i suppose
to be cracked
the same way all of
them get cracked - guy with immense downlist and very well connected gets off his lazy, stupid fiat-ass and goes
through
the wot selection process.
then has enough spots specific and high level enough
to interest
the locals. seems a
tall order.
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 23:44:28; mircea_popescu: pretty much
the only way he could have made economic sense was by marketing
the spare cycles of well connected people here - outside.
jidan: just a pleb.. hoping
to see some chat
nubbins`: ^ re:
the20yearplan / rentalstarter
mircea_popescu: anyway. apparnetly, not married, living
together for 15 years, he owns
the house, she's basically a
tramp, dude drinks and nonconsensually humiliates
the woman, had been driving her nuts
the whole night, she lost it, is now sorry,
tried
to fix on
teh spot, visits at hospital etc.
mircea_popescu: (the issue seems
to be over not getting flowers for 8th march, "mother's day" in commie lands)
assbot: Romanian wife rips off husband's
testicles on International Women's Day after he refused
to do housework | Daily Mail Online ... (
http://bit.ly/220XyM2 )
mircea_popescu: but anyway - now
that ars
technica has proven
that black slavery never happened, we can go back
to separate but equal, i guess.
mircea_popescu: what, next you're going
to say we have actual proof
the usg had been running a string of massive conspiracies, such as you know, inserting backdoors in software, such as "parallel construction", such as iran contra, such as whatever
the hell.
mircea_popescu: large scale conspiracy such as
telling idiots
they're not idiots could never happen. why would an idiot ever believe he's not an idiot ?!
mircea_popescu: thanks god we got rid of algebra ii in
time for
the education of arstechnica staff.
mircea_popescu: "why would i ??!?! i am going
to be
the president of
the united states!" "because you're one
twist away from being an idiot" "so ?!"