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asciilifeform: anyway i don't do amulets, much as mircea_popescu is convinced of this. i ~might~ entertain laughably inaccurate hypothesis about whatevers, when i have no access (unlike to the inside of a computer) to the priors.
mircea_popescu: (technically speaking, the mp license is actually an anti-amulet, in the sense that it makes life impossible for a certain sort of lunatic. inasmuch as its effectiveness is not predicated on metaphysical but on quite physical considerations, it's just a virus.)
asciilifeform: having more or less same status as, e.g., #8=======>
mircea_popescu: yes, they are. for as long as they're decorative, it's one thing.
asciilifeform: as i see it, both are essentially decorative
mircea_popescu: had it touched elephants, you'd have a justification about elephant anatomy, just as well.
mircea_popescu: mno. you are ready to either accept it as a valid justification, or else accept it as a justification that needs futher justification.
mircea_popescu: it can not be true or false. as long as it's what you need to believe, it'll be there.
asciilifeform: and so if it turns out that 100m moved from a to b, and b stole, can just as easily return to a by hitlerian decree ?
mircea_popescu: think about yourself as a reader. then read it. is the piece all it could have been ?
mircea_popescu: http://qntra.net/2016/03/honest-soap-scandal-deepens-a-chemist-speaks/ << this is not so bad as a starter peterl but a) why do you discuss yourself in the 3rd person and b) why is it so aside ?
assbot: Logged on 11-03-2016 18:01:59; trinque: so now we'll have "had the debate" as per BingoBoingo, and the above will be overt SOP
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The US major socialist party, as designated by qntra, gets that designation because its affliated voters actually vote the party line
BingoBoingo: jurov: Twas set as drop. Problem though may actually have been RAM contrainsts. Anyways twas a stress test. Do actual blocking elsewhere.
jurov: BingoBoingo:looking at banhammer, you actually only need lines marked as EC2 as these are the evil VPSes. and changing REJECT to DROP may help with resource usage, too
jurov: such as.. guessing the right email addresses when sending transfer requests?
asciilifeform: jurov: idiotic article. as if nobodies could move 100m wherever.
jurov: Well, as it turns out, Bangladesh doesn't agree that the Fed isn't ultimately culpable. "We kept money with the Federal Reserve Bank and irregularities must be with the people who handle the funds there," Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said on Wednesday.
jurov: he would surely not misspell "foundation" as "fandation"
pete_dushenski: specifically, that the nsa doesn't leave ~everyone alone as a matter of practical necessity ?
PeterL: asciilifeform re:quiet computer, have you considered having big computer in basement, using a chrombox-like thing as a silent terminal?
trinque: so now we'll have "had the debate" as per BingoBoingo, and the above will be overt SOP ☟︎
PeterL: In Mich if you are on a primary ballot, you cannot be listed as an independent or other party for the general, I had to write in Gary Johnson in 2012
assbot: mjg59 | I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was just as bad as you'd imagine ... ( http://bit.ly/1LWTgxS )
danielpbarron: i assume he meant fingerprint, as in the gpg variety
mircea_popescu: they say it in latin, too, as if that makes eau d'idiot something valuable now.
asciilifeform: as it is i'd rather eat nagant.
asciilifeform: even more expensive if you reintroduce QA as per yesterday thread !111
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is an upside to the 24years of kolyma. i dun think anyone alive hates this place, as ~accurately~ and deeply as i do.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1430262 << i was moved to this chimp reservation as 9yo, this was in old thread, aha ☝︎
mircea_popescu: personal authority, it's a thing. you were there, you saw it, as long as you're willing to swear to it, that'\s what it is.
kakobrekla: unrelatedly, just ordered 9690sa-8l as per ascii, had to do it from the states because it appears to be a rare thing in europe with price factor of ~5
asciilifeform: wish i had such a thing as vacation.
mircea_popescu: most whores alive today, as wel las historically, do punch clock, and also live in a fucking office.
phf: but unlike ascii i don't have any aversion to shit jobs as long as they pay max and take up min time
nubbins`: ^ actually asciilifeform a simple piezo & some leads might provide some clues as to the source
BingoBoingo very thankful in this moment he prefers AM radio for listening to as this avoids very expensive path to financial damnation.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> kakobrekla: as far as im concerned if it had ONE moving part, it is rubbish. << Aha, this goes to the power tool dilemma where unless paying out the ass everything is made by TTI in china and it is a competition between which TTI reseller do you trust most to preserve their battery platform. Not directly connected to this utterance of yours, but for some reason this is the one brian in the head clicked the thread t
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: as far as im concerned if it had ONE moving part, it is rubbish.
nubbins`: yeah, as soon as i said, i figured that much muck wouldn't fly
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 21:30:24; asciilifeform: i suggest that the craft of producing mircea_popescu henceforth be referred to as momotronics.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 23:09:57; mircea_popescu: so importantly - understand that it's in no sense a matter of 'stop being you, be somebody else'. anyone else would confront the same exact problem,, which is to say that this is not able to stand on its own. would work superbly as an add-on product of a company offering this kinbd of thing that can x-sell it.
mircea_popescu: http://logs.minigame.bz/2016-03-10.log.html#t19:57:29 << "true quality ~as seen before~". ie, let's just call it that for the sake of calling it something.
mircea_popescu: so importantly - understand that it's in no sense a matter of 'stop being you, be somebody else'. anyone else would confront the same exact problem,, which is to say that this is not able to stand on its own. would work superbly as an add-on product of a company offering this kinbd of thing that can x-sell it. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: this is a large part of the problem. there's a hidden barrier to entry here, that is the "cost to enter wot". ie, as a manager of x item, i MAY consider dealing wioth nobody. but not over anything.
mircea_popescu: you have to understand, this is an actual job, exactly as respectable as whore.
asciilifeform: my partner is not nearly as inept as i
mircea_popescu: my experience, on the contrary - whenever mp as much as vaguely disliked a world, that world caught on fire by itself and cut off its own head.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe it. "advertising" works as well as make-up.
mircea_popescu: this sort of thing readily informs me as to your views re, say, 0day mkt.
asciilifeform: and, INTERESTINGLY, i owned the copyright, and then spun off the thing as product, and NO ONE BOUGHT
asciilifeform: but i was not ~hired to do this~, but for something else, i did it as an extra thing
mircea_popescu: which i suppose is as good an explanation as any as to why i don't marry : i own my equipment.
PeterL: as mircea_popescu always says, "don't be poor"
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 20:29:36; funkenstein_: they pick and choose what TX to include in a block they mine as always
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429221 << the "all data used to eval a tx is found in that tx" point is paramount and controlling here as there. no, they don't "pick and choose". ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429211 << it is very difficult to get around this in bitcoin as-is. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and let's relate here the immorality of capital, as per http://trilema.com/2016/give-computers-the-vote-theyre-cheaper-than-women-even/#footnote_7_65336
mircea_popescu: being an us style "independent" has about as much to do with independence as being a us style "liberal" has to do with liberalism ; or as much as the 6th grader's idea of "a lothario" has to do with fucking, partying and generally the dyonyssian world.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429161 << this is actually a very juvenal-ish image. yet i don't recall it as a thing. ☝︎
asciilifeform: i suggest that the craft of producing mircea_popescu henceforth be referred to as momotronics. ☟︎
funkenstein_: thestringpuller, imho as long as grant-writers pull the wool over the eyes of the grantors, alchemy continues
asciilifeform: where mircea_popescu argues that there being ~any such thing~ as a shared-by-all checkpoint is a Bad Thing
funkenstein_: asciilifeform, so if I would like to make/rebase a patch.. i should take the longest chain I have seen as the base of the diff?
PeterL: <asciilifeform> the kitchen, regardless of what ants may think, was NOT built as an ant restaurant. << I dun get it, how does miners not including your txn equate to raiding the kitchen?
asciilifeform: the kitchen, regardless of what ants may think, was NOT built as an ant restaurant.
funkenstein_: they pick and choose what TX to include in a block they mine as always ☟︎
PeterL: counts as a soft fork?
asciilifeform: ftr i still see the high-S thing as a deplorable compromise
asciilifeform: much as i would like to prove some variety of shenanigans re: this bet, i cannot.
mircea_popescu: all the things that there are can in principle be understood, or as the old jew said (in fiddler on the roof) - there is a blessing for everything.
danielpbarron: asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i hauled it 3km in 2014 with own hands and spent more on ~petrol~. << gas was twice as expensive then as it is now
asciilifeform: but this is not a very interesting discussion. would you have it with, e.g., your lawyer?! ask him what pieces of furniture he could do without, so as to charge less?!!
mircea_popescu: but hey, as a heuristic, works fine.
mircea_popescu: i can readily see a definition of freedom as "one has enough resources to protect himself from the outside world". this definition is impractical, however, belonging to the sphere chicken world.
mircea_popescu: it goes, for me, in the same pile as xmas cardano, phuctor two weeks ago, and wahtever the fuck her name was,
asciilifeform: but as it stands i have about 1/10th of my strength to give.
asciilifeform: as i said to the lsd folks, if i were free man, there would be a solid weapon in 1/2y - 1y. BUT this is a flight to alpha centauri, because i am NOT a free man.
mircea_popescu: yes there are some cases where it has redistributed some dollars. in this sense, the numbers racket as practiced between the same poor black marginals 50 years ago also "worked".
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 13:11:00; asciilifeform: 'crowdfundings', as i understand, have worked for mass crapolade
asciilifeform: it, as i said before, is our shipwreck plank.
mircea_popescu: things are happening with or without permission, as a general rule. either you're prepared for the possible outcomes, or not.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 12:57:10; *: asciilifeform doesn't expect to get to eat lsd in his natural lifespam, just as doesn't expect a real tailored suit or to sail on a dirigible
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, "trb as is only" opens us up to being forced, later on, to pick among the idiots.
mircea_popescu: there is a very specific danger which you perhaps are not seeing. if indeed we continu with trb as is, and if indeed 3) happens, as these two share pow and we don't control .7 or so exahash we become extremelty vulnerable. recall the fate of altcoin ?
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, your objections as stated don't cut anything.
mircea_popescu: in any case : while a hierarchy could perhaps be constructed in the "not in wot" pile, as you propose or otherwise,
mircea_popescu: 1 is, the perfect bitcoin. which, logically, would NOT conserve coinbases. as such, it has no meaningful humantime continuity with the present Bitcoin, and so it can be done at any point etc.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428491 << guy does have it. "bitcoin" as seen by the prb/social media crowd is 99% solutions looking for a problem by weight. ☝︎
thestringpuller: Take Source for instance. You open up hammer, import your geometry (as a map), press play and Half Life loads with your assets.
jurov: i was thinking about it as potential learning practice for trb... but such things would make alf shit girder beams
nubbins`: danielpbarron i did several parcels of work for the ministry of games, in paid official capacity as well as volunteer/unofficial capacity.
nubbins`: still business as usual
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: "Pederasty is an ancient Greek form of interaction in which members of the same sex would partake in the pleasures of an intellectual and/or sexual relationship as part of a socially acceptable ancient custom " << uh ok...
asciilifeform: 'crowdfundings', as i understand, have worked for mass crapolade ☟︎
asciilifeform: and half of what remains, as usg tax
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
asciilifeform doesn't expect to get to eat lsd in his natural lifespam, just as doesn't expect a real tailored suit or to sail on a dirigible ☟︎
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.