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assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 23:27:07;
mircea_popescu: most bitrot is man made
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 23:11:28;
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-08-2015#1245604 << actually a dr-dos version would be pretty cool. in fact i would guess an attempt to write private bitcoinfs and make dr-dos check blocks and an attempt to ada-bitcoin would necessarily end with a very similar if not outright identical product.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Nah. Two St Louis shootings. One was Ferguson hoodrats shot through a house killing a nine year old with a stray bullet. The other was StL PD shooting a fleeing innocent youth.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> is it me or has alf's figurative speech improved markedly past year or two << like his work I imagine also fueled by his hatred
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> talk about fucking bit rot. << 8 way RAID 1 mirrors are starting to get really appearing just as Bitrot prevention
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: wake me up when time for adacoin.
punkman:
mircea_popescu: I was wrong on the CR part, not sure on the exact set of whitespace chars it will happily eat, but it's probably more than tabs and spaces. example:
http://dpaste.com/18QBJJY.txt assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 13:20:14; BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo i don't actually think they were READY to deploy this autumn. irrespective of the september term they might or might not have lied to manageement about. << Gavin's eariler marketing campaign made this autumn the latest they could do this.
punkman:
mircea_popescu: you added newlines?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> that said, yes, people who disregard their own property can "mess around" with your property. for instance, a guy that doesn't give a shit about his 50k car can drive it through your front door. << Incidently used care prices are finally returning to "normal" pre-Obola-cash-for-clunkers depreciation curve. Thousand dollar cars are a thing again. Soon it will probably be possible to acquire a car capable of providi
ascii_field: <
mircea_popescu> you can, if you mine it. << that requires - shudder - actual resources!
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:
mircea_popescu.rate.slush.-10:32bc6c42d2abe961351b640351fa93b57b39fb751ee8ffa2f040ca50fa101109
ascii_field: <
mircea_popescu> "oh, millenium times" what the fuck derp argument is that. you get the same 25 btc << can't transact!
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: only reason is to hitch a phree ride on the existing allocations
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> felipelalli: i have no idea, but iirc
mircea_popescu dislikes him << Two different goats
ascii_field: mike_c: could easily push same button as
mircea_popescu felipelalli:
mircea_popescu, in other words: the decision of majority of miners could literally kill the actual Bitcoin. Make it unusable.
felipelalli:
mircea_popescu, I read your articles. Actually I had read some parts before, but I read all over again. Unfortunately I didn't find the answer to my question. I understand that if miners just point to a "Scamcoin" (fork from Bitcoin) this is not Bitcoin, of course. But having them more hashpower, and the same type of hash function, this does not make the actual Bitcoin an "altcoin" and them vulnerable to attacks? (following the
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: i think 'take over' here is in the sense microshit took over pc
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: just now noticed that one ?
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: i'm not convinced that there is enough 'genuine cheat' or whatnot to go around. hence, the simulacra.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: it's a wriggleysgumification
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 03:59:34;
mircea_popescu: re the ashley madison thing, i believe it chiefly provides the same service faux exchanges etc provide to the click-bound generation. ie, they get to pretend like they're traders, don juans, what not, all from the safety of their own den, and - crucially - without actually doing it.
felipelalli:
mircea_popescu, thank you for the links! I was trying to find something relevant on log but I didn't so far.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu, kakobrekla: why does that thing need js??!!!
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: you're entirely correct re: spamatronics
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu, kakobrekla: i also noticed this. even dug in the payload, found nothing
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: funnily, the saltus thing is applicable to modern crapware written by morons who slavishly copy one another with minor variations
ascii_field: felipelalli: i have no idea, but iirc
mircea_popescu dislikes him
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo i don't actually think they were READY to deploy this autumn. irrespective of the september term they might or might not have lied to manageement about. << Gavin's eariler marketing campaign made this autumn the latest they could do this.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 08:11:47;
mircea_popescu: good for you. i'd expect anyone sane runs fine. but mine chokes ;/
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 08:47:37;
mircea_popescu: incidentally : if gpg had the fucking sense to include MORE information on its information line, we wouldn't have the problem with the dashes.
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 01:13:47;
mircea_popescu: policy. which includes japan, indonesia, even australia.
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 04:32:13;
mircea_popescu: the only cherry missing from this cake is to discover hearn actually outsourced this shit via odesk or some crap.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6, ben_vulpes,
mircea_popescu, et al: << thanks ascii, will take a look.
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 00:37:58;
mircea_popescu: lots of things now the height of fashion in the us were invented by west a-h jewz.
assbot: Logged on 08-08-2015 04:50:10; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: that one practically ~screams~ 'my brain is permanently 12 y.o.'
trinque:
mircea_popescu | texans would prolly ally with the invader if the invader bitchslaped california harsly enough << this is a fair point, and drives home all the rest.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: they're at it again. because apparently didn't have enough last time
ascii_field: perhaps now
mircea_popescu will buy an electron microscope.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: they'll frame it as 'just like mining!' too. 'why did you expect to be able to use 2009 pc for a node!111 you wouldn't try to cpu-mine,' aha
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: recall, this is all in my burial notebook
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: also expect usg-endorsed 'hardware accelerators' to come.
wilbns:
mircea_popescu: agree w/ what you are saying and would also add it's difficult to have for-profit healthcare as well
ascii_field: the ancient maxim, as retold by
mircea_popescu, 'when hiring a psychic, hire the cheapest'. but the expensive psychic is liable to walk over to the cheapest and shoot the poor fella
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2015 22:27:33;
mircea_popescu: ~that~ is what the hoard is for.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: 'c' is more 'sex doll' than slut
ascii_field: this is why it bugs me when folks (looking at
mircea_popescu !) write 'c' and 'c++' interchangeably
ascii_field: but i have occasion to think about it whenever i hear
mircea_popescu's hypothesis re: how 'they' are losing to 'us' in some sense
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: understand, my exposure happens every time i sit in traffic next to their mazeratis, and drive home past 100km of their mansions
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 16:55:13;
mircea_popescu: no, best is for them to marry usg twerps and live out the rest of their lives, warehoused in maryland.
mats:
mircea_popescu: oh, some japanese thing? 'cute'?
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 16:14:37;
mircea_popescu: not a word about how the company in question lied to an' defrauded its "customers". not like they're about to tar and feather bitlove llc or etc.