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mircea_popescu: <gabrielradio> to the foundation, i guess << trhe whole point is that it's voluntary. so you can do whatever you want.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck do they teach in "information assurance" class if they've not gotten to plagiarism yet!
punkman: "Brian Snow, former director of Information Assurance for the NSA said it best at a conference in Greece recently: "I’m here to tell you that your cyber systems continue to function and serve you not due to the expertise of your security staff but solely due to the sufferance of your opponents"."
adlai: "Roman records from 122BC show a large eruption eruption... taxes were cancelled for 10 years to help locals rebuild" << again the capacitor knob
assbot: Just got arrested for buying stolen gift cards with Bitcoin and then re-selling them. I did not know they were stolen. BEING CHARGED WITH A FELONY!!! What do I do??? : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Q4z6mD )
assbot: Embedded in Academia : Nine ways to break your systems code using volatile ... ( http://bit.ly/1ToDV87 )
gabrielradio: to the foundation, i guess
trinque: prove to whom?
gabrielradio: does one need to send this from an address known as his, so as to prove his satisfaction of the obligation?
gabrielradio: THEREFORE, it is established that any Bitcoin company, or trader or merchant or other entity deriving a worldly profit from the otherworldly workings of Bitcoin, is to pay a tax in sum of 0.1% or a hundred thousand satoshi per full Bitcoin realised, into the coffers of the Bitcoin Foundation
asciilifeform: the interesting, if you will, bit, was the whole put-your-pistol-in-your-mouth-every-night banal deadly boredom of the entire shebang.
asciilifeform: but neither this nor any of the other elements taken separately was the interesting bit
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: such as desks that would easily fit in public toilet stalls, etc
mircea_popescu: !rate gabrielradio 2 Apprentice Trilema translator.
assbot: You rated user gabrielradio on 14-Oct-2015, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: Apprentice Trilema translator.
asciilifeform: and thus cometh the spam-sea
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i let it be known that i was looking for wurk, some weeks past
BingoBoingo: Aha, this is why you spam is must be so much more interesting than mine
asciilifeform: saw perhaps 101 things mircea_popescu wrote about that never made sense prior.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i actually toured one such godforsaken heathen pit this very morning
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is this from the crumb cartoon ?
BingoBoingo: That would take time away from mining new exhaust gasses, and that's not the kind of spam I receive.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: feel phree to package any and all of my exhaust gas as you may see fit
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> them there are oldz << news can be olds if packed right
asciilifeform: them there are oldz
asciilifeform: i though qntra were for nyooooz
asciilifeform: they ask to buy my anal virginity, aha
mircea_popescu: if it stays piqued long enouygh there's prolly a qntra in there.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i get spam from folks like these, so my curiosity was temporarily piqued.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what are you like training for intelwork nao ? :D
BingoBoingo: Damn, that inch of height http://www.nyas.org/image.axd?id=d4aa338e-f305-4521-8822-b603cd76a9c7&t=634314620997800000
mircea_popescu: omfg that's cute BingoBoingo
asciilifeform looks forward to reading this
mircea_popescu: incidentally, ima publish a post-mortem report of the latest rent server attempt these coming days.
BingoBoingo: trinque: Out of the price range at the necessary quantities consumed in this scenario
BingoBoingo: Prolly Ten High or Old Crow
asciilifeform: (and at their desks)
asciilifeform: i'd like to learn what kind of whiskey these folks drink themselves to sleep with every night
asciilifeform: not even trying to hide the cribbed wwwdevcrud
asciilifeform: (left out some schmucks who crawl twitter, etc)
asciilifeform: imho i've listed the interesting ones.
asciilifeform: https://www.lab41.org << yet another one of these.
BingoBoingo: And can't appropriate money from congress for said camps until you've set the black helicopters free
gribble: kakobrekla was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 17 hours, 23 minutes, and 55 seconds ago: <kakobrekla> The note comes soon after the bank filed a patent for a securities settlement platform based on SETLcoin, a new cryptocurrency.
BingoBoingo: FEMA camps for dissident relocation don't pay for themselves
asciilifeform: still trying to grasp why they bought it
BingoBoingo: Would be interesting if the proceeds didn't go to CIA
asciilifeform: looks spiffy actually. used to be that you had to actually glue small ones together to get this effect.
asciilifeform: ^ apparently this is a commercial thing, can go, buy.
asciilifeform: aaand this oddity, http://www.polymagnet.com ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://witricity.com << another, circa 2013. ripping off poor old nick tesla
asciilifeform: 'Who did they work with previously? Who might have shared information inappropriately or made a trade based on knowledge they shouldn’t have used?'
assbot: Uncommon Technology | Digital Reasoning ... ( http://bit.ly/1N00Wwt )
mircea_popescu is about to say something, sees the next line, nods.
assbot: The SOPS, or what might you expect from government clerks on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1XLGAtV )
asciilifeform: see mircea_popescu's dragonfly article based on my talk at conf-II.
asciilifeform: 'He’s used the D-Wave to train image-recognizing algorithms for mobile phones that are more efficient than any before. He produced a car-recognition algorithm .... ' << even supposing any of this,
asciilifeform: or did we do this vivisection here already ?
asciilifeform: just picture this fella.
asciilifeform: 'he wasn’t going to make it in academia. “I never was able to find a place in science,” he says. But he felt he had the bullheaded tenacity, honed by years of wrestling, to be an entrepreneur. “I was good at putting together things that were really ambitious, without thinking they were impossible.” At a time when lots of smart people argued that quantum computers could never work, he fell in love with the idea of not
asciilifeform: re: dwave: obligatory turd - http://www.wired.com/2014/05/quantum-computing
mircea_popescu: didn't someone get a pop with lefthand tool ?
mircea_popescu: is d-wave that supposed producer of pre-tangled quarks that was going to do relevant computation ANYDAYNOW ?
mircea_popescu: eh it depends on the font one has
punkman: https://haobtc.com/ Xiong's startup, wallet that pays interest from mining profits
punkman: mircea_popescu: the second table in last qntra statement kinda overflowed
wyrdmantis: Mood of tonight: https://youtu.be/LS-ErOKpO4E
punkman: http://assets.bwbx.io/images/iHa7XbCmJfqw/v1/-1x-1.jpg "Tyler Xiong wears a teddy bear suit at his You+ pad, which he shares with three employees of his Bitcoin startup"
assbot: Why China's Millennials Are Happy to Own Nothing - Bloomberg Business ... ( http://bit.ly/1NKdgVd )
phf: probably runs windows, and an asic bought from some guy who used to sell bitcoin mining equipment
phf: at my previous company we had a guy who used to work at lockheed, apparently they had a d-wave machine, and guy was tasked with encoding matrix reduction problems into the thing. he didn't really have anything interesting to say. you write code, send it to blackbox, results come out.
ascii_field: its purpose, by this hypothesis, is to bedevil other folks working on shor's algo computer or any related item
ascii_field: d-wave in particular ~has~ to be disinfo, i've been half-convinced of this for years now
ascii_field: can absolve the sins if necessary.
ascii_field: cia is higher in the food chain than the tax men
ascii_field is now wondering if inqtel really told the truth, in their tax declaration, or if this orchestra of derpatronics is disinfo
ascii_field: 'd-wave' (the 'quantum comp.' sc4mz0rz!!1), 'tyfone inc', 'mocana corp.', 'lms', and 'sionyx inc' were the top inqt subcontractors.
ascii_field: from same turd earlier,
brg444: Working my way to it, eventually ;) but tbf my english is kinda broken in a way but it's getting there!
mircea_popescu: well that sarcasm line got me lulzing, maybe try and do something for qntra
brg444: strongest tie I may have is with pete_dushenski as fellow canuck
brg444: mostly someone very curious.! in terms of the wot I'm afraid nobody.
mircea_popescu: imo the definitive kickstarter story.
assbot: Idiocy without borders / Idiots sans frontieres on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1TCfapJ )
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/idiocy-without-borders-idiots-sans-frontieres/ << whenever i hear kickstarter mention can't help but think of this
brg444: Next, future Bitcoin "optimizations": Removal of transaction data from blocks - Blockchain pruning UTXO set commitments - Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (IBLTs) - Moore’s Law - Kryder’s Law - Nielsen’s Law - Yet-to-be-discovered improvements"
ascii_field: well, this'd be it
ascii_field: kindergarten sort of thing
ascii_field: ever see those 'proofs' where you do something ungodly, e.g., div by 0, and in the end 1 == 2 ?
brg444: oh I see now. I thought had read about him on trilema, that OkStupid story was gold
brg444: when I first came up into Bitcoin he sounded sane but nowadays :/ from blog post "This means the most obvious way to lower the per-transaction cost is to simply process more transactions, thereby amortizing the fixed hashing cost across a wider pool."
assbot: Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user justusranvier: Level 1: -1, Level 2: -4 via 5 connections. |http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/trust/?from=mircea_popescu&to=justusranvier | http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/justusranvier/
ascii_field: ^ mike_c's thing
assbot: Btc Alpha - Analysis tools for bitcoin finance. ... ( http://bit.ly/1PBCncY )
brg444: and the one by the name of justusranvier
assbot: Scaling Bitcoin to Its First Billion Users and Beyond - Justus Ranvier - Liberty.me ... ( http://bit.ly/1TCcqZu )
brg444: I'm asking because of this https://bitcoinism.liberty.me/scaling-bitcoin-to-its-first-billion-users-and-beyond-2/
BingoBoingo: Well you could do that too
BingoBoingo: brg444: You ask people about the person?
brg444: pray tell, how would anyone verify the status of a certain someone in the WoT, if reputation there exist