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mircea_popescu: if all
the coffee buying "with bitcoin", all five of
the yearly instances, moves on a deedbot-like
thing or simply goes away it makes exactly 0 difference.
mircea_popescu: i am glad
these dudes are here
to do
the lying so i don't have
to, and with
that... good riddance.
mircea_popescu: you could say
that
there is something fundamentally wrong with
the fraudulent nature of
their claims - because no,
they're not moving bitcoin back and forth, but mere derivative
tokens - but
then again,
to get
the muppets
to follow along and get out of actual human beings' way, you usually have
to lie
to
them.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller
there is fundamentally nothing wrong with people using
the permanence nature of
the blockchain
to enshrine data relevant
to
them in it. we do it already, with deedbot.
thestringpuller: "An interesting consequence of
this design is
that, since all mapped blocks are empty, old clients will never see
transactions confirming." <<
there are proposed soft forks which will essentially fork other nodes off
the network.
assbot: Logged on 04-06-2014 00:08:26; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo:
the buggers'
traditional defense is
to pretend
that
the event was a non-event - or, if
this is impractical,
to continue living in an imaginary world where
they 'scooped'
the story first, and all of
the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 12:40:52; copypaste: i'd be especially curious how
the bitcoin foundation would react if more
than half of
transactions were using it,
mircea_popescu: seeing how exactly 100% of bitcoin businesses are run by people here, it'll be a funny dispute between you know,
the actual bitcoin people and all
the derps sitting at
the edges and opining about how
things should be.
assbot: Logged on 05-01-2016 19:28:40; mircea_ahoy: direct any complaints as
to "why my
txn has been waiting for x days"
to anyone and everyone who is running non-conformant bitcoin implementations. starting with
the pools.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 12:41:58; copypaste: adlai: does BingoBoingo/qntra speak for
the bitcoin foundation?
mircea_popescu: and add a ((Mark
to be pronounced "Carl" not "four")) on
that IV
mircea_popescu: " Harney County Sheriff David Ward, who normally presides over a force of local force of six, is
the public face of
the combined government effort lead by Federal forces." becomes "Harney County Sheriff David Ward, who normally presides over a force of locally forced six is now
the public face of
the combined government effort lead by Federal Force IV."
mircea_popescu: anyway, all
the lulz aside, someone point out
to
the guy
that
the guidance is for employers and other "covered entitites", and his "quarelling couple in a bar" chosen example is entirely nonsensical. what
the fuck is with
these idiots, nobody went
to school
that speaks english ? a fucking generation of kelly bundys out
there for
the love of christ.
mircea_popescu: everyone still living in new york must now use "Blasioisanidiotmarriedtoadisgustingnigger" as my preferred gender pronoun. failure
to do so "more
than a couple of
times" means you gotta self-report yourself
to city hall. bring your fine with you.
mircea_popescu: "Apologists for
this kind of SJW fascism will contend
that
the $250,000 fine is not mandatory and is a maximum, as if it somehow eliminates
the farce of
the laws’ new interpretation." << you know, consensus will enforce
the lower limit.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 06:50:13; BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell saifedean Re: your
tweets. I am sorry I can not help you at
this
time. If however your ketone dependence makes you hit bottom and your life becomes unmanagable,
there's probably a group for
that.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 06:34:00; pete_dushenski: unless you can see people gawking at your new gizmo, how are you going
to know what you're cool ?
adlai: copypaste: also check out
http://p2sh.info/ which I like
to interpret as
the bounties available
to defecting miners, should full nodes let
them revert each respective soft fork
adlai: what happens with segwit is
that people who do opt-in, have significantly less security in
the face of miner defection
adlai: if you run a full node which has no recognition of segwit, you can still operate normally. segwit is dangerous for a) users of non-full nodes who
think
they have "SPV security" (whatever
that may mean), and b) everybody, if enough utxos use segwit
that miner defection becomes a real risk
☟︎ copypaste: but you have
to
take specific steps
to send
to a script hash
copypaste: right, but i'm pretty sure
that script hash
transactions are something
that has
to be opted into, meanwhile "segregated witness" if
to work "well" (i.e. for maximum
transactions) would have
to be invisible
to
the user, as in on by default
adlai: eh, proportion of
transactions is an unclear measure. proportion of utxos is a clearer one, and you can see
that eg p2sh still has quite small market share, despite being adopted by several fiat-btc exchange sites
copypaste: adlai: does BingoBoingo/qntra speak for
the bitcoin foundation?
☟︎ copypaste: i'd be especially curious how
the bitcoin foundation would react if more
than half of
transactions were using it,
☟︎ adlai: you must have missed a few
trilema/qntra articles?
copypaste: i
think
they should make a statement on it if it gets into Bitcoin "Core", since it seems
to have wide support (but
this support could just be imaginary on my part)
adlai: copypaste: i don't speak on
their behalf, but it's highly doubtful
that it'll include such opt-in softforks
copypaste: (i mean
thebitcoin.foundation, not any fake one)
copypaste: will
the bitcoin foundation be accepting "segregated witness" into its client?
☟︎ ben_vulpes: trinque: yeah
those failed boost
targets are a real bitch
BingoBoingo: Same link on Oathers: "A local “Committee for Safety,” which coordinates with Oath Keepers, has approached
the protesters and asked
them
to leave."
BingoBoingo: Because oh, militant opposition groups aren't for
the United States.
They are only for Countries
they CIA plants
them in.
ith: They have stolen my brain code and use electromagnetic weapons
to manipulate me by making it appear
that sounds are coming from beneath concrete floors, etc.
to
try
to drive me crazy
pete_dushenski: from mr. reed, who unfortunately doesn't have a comments section with which
to correct his lack of 'bahamas' : "I’m going
to move
to Mexico. I swear I am. Except
that I already have. Well, I’m going
to move
there
twice. It’s
to get away from Hussein Obama."
ith: I struggle daily
to survive and find a way
to be free of
these people
ith: pete_dushenski: I am being held prisoner by
the Illuminati and can't escape. All day I
try
to survive relentlous attacks on my mind from my mother, my father and others who speak
to me from
the apartment downstairs, and manipulate me by directing messages
to me (appearing
to be speaking
to a caller), in
the case of my father, from
the living room
pete_dushenski: ith: so what keeps you busy in vernon ? pretty sleepy little
town last i was
through
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: saw
the same 'pulses' suggestion in cbc's article on grocery store inflation
BingoBoingo: Frome
the mines, health scamzors getting poor: "Move over, quinoa, kale, and açaí– 2016’s newest superfood might come in a familiar package (or can). Pulses —
the dried edible seeds of legume plants, which include
things like lentils, dried peas, and beans — are hoping
to get
their moment in
the spotlight,
thanks in part
to a United Nations campaign
to make 2016
the International Year of Pulses."
ith: I
think Vernon is an Illuminati support city. Is your aunt a psychopath?
BingoBoingo: Hockey underdog whose
trend demanded a bet won, more
than doubled my quarters at poker, powerball
though... scam
ben_vulpes: guarding plebs from
the madness of irrational numbers!
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 05:24:10; *: asciilifeform finds it interesting how well dietary crackpottery fits with
the ancient
tradition of 'salvation by rejecting flesh pleasures'
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 04:42:13; danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> here's a fun fact : you can buy raw milk in romania << same here in Connecticut,
the one state in all of
the ussa
that permits sale outside of a farm
BingoBoingo: <bitstein> it's an interesting idea << It's how I'm interpreting Pierre's
twitter
trolling. Anyways it is hard
to hold people
to what
they say on
the social media playground of propagandaneering
BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell saifedean Re: your
tweets. I am sorry I can not help you at
this
time. If however your ketone dependence makes you hit bottom and your life becomes unmanagable,
there's probably a group for
that.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 03:54:17; mircea_popescu: but anyway. natural birth has a huge following in
the states. almost unknown in yurp.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski:
The idea is
the burden of "consensus" forces
the status quo 1MB blocksize
to be preserved
BingoBoingo thinks it was mere
trolling. He was pushing
this 1MB blocksize limit is preserved when blocksize limit removed enitrely because consensus.
pete_dushenski: heya bitstein, you ever figure out what happened
to your boy pierre ? seemed like he went off
the reservation of late re:
BingoBoingo also floored by
the dairy hate, WHERE ELSE DOES WHEY COME FROM???
pete_dushenski checks ebay. sees
that virtual boy is still dirt cheap. figures
that, indeed,
thing must have been utter garbage.
bitstein: I had one when it came out for about 2 hours. We
took it back and got a super nintendo.
pete_dushenski: though i recall playing with one at
the store as a boy, quite an intriguing bit of kit at
the
time
pete_dushenski: unless you can see people gawking at your new gizmo, how are you going
to know what you're cool ?
☟︎ pete_dushenski: re: virtual boy,
this is why
the oculus rift
this ~will not~
take off
BingoBoingo: But yes, when
the ketosis people
talk about feeling sick when consuming carbs
they really are feeling sick. Dope sick, just like a junkie dosed with narcan.
BingoBoingo apologizes for not being around
to say
this
to
the addicts, was at addict story
time club poker game doubling my quarters.
BingoBoingo: Could simulate
these changes with benzodiazepine dependence (which is why people who do
the Keto
thing recreationally start
to feel sick when carbs are introduced, ketosis stops and
they undergo a drug withdrawal)
☟︎ BingoBoingo: The people who end up on all fats for fuel end up having
to feed
the brain ketones which works as an anticonvulsant, but for
the same reason alcohol does. Unbalance electrical activity in
the brain is forced
to slow because now burning suboptimal fuel.
assbot: Logged on 09-01-2016 18:52:52; BingoBoingo: Anyone want an Illinois lottery powerball
ticket for
tonight's 900 million dollar drawing, for
the potential collection lulz?
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-01-2016#1364239 << "The odds of winning are 1 in 292.2 million. So
the expected value of a
ticket is $800*1/292.2=$2.73. A
ticket only costs $2 so
that’s a positive expected value purchase! We do have
to make a few adjustments, however.
The $800 million is paid out over 30 years while
the $2 is paid out
today."
☝︎ mircea_popescu: that said,
the only certainty is
that one day it'll fail
to bring you back
to homeostasis, and
that's
that.
mircea_popescu: similarly it'll adapt
to anything within reason, and as far as it can help it, beyond any reason. it's only job is
to keep you going and it
takes it more seriously
than you'll ever
take anything as long as you live.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the limits are
that on one hand you certainly can not have no fat and live ; and on
the other
the brain burns glucose exclusively. it is about 20
times more difficult
to make it out of fat
than it is
to just rectify sugars, but
the body'll do it if it has
to.
mircea_popescu: it should be obvious
that one wants a mix of
these
three sources in
their diet. (starches, such as breads etc, are all sweets for
thid discussion, so is alcohol).
mircea_popescu: about 150-200 grams a day.
there is similarly a fixed capacity
to process fats.
these also go
through
the liver, but mostly
the bile is
the limiting factor
there. meanwhile sweets go
through
the pancreatic-centered insulin mechanism.
mircea_popescu: anyway, for
the people following
the nutrition discussion along at home :
the average human needs something
to
the
tune of 2k calories a day
to sit around and derp on social media. a little more if he actually moves.
the sources of
these calories can be protein, fat or sweets,
there is nothing else. protein and sweets count at about 4 calories/gram, fat at about 7.
the liver has a fixed capacity
to process proteins, at