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jurov: "robot can't be bribed or bought, nor 'leaks'" << the waterboarding stage is just one stage of whole scheme
BingoBoingo hates to pay holiday rates for seekrits extraction mechanic
mircea_popescu: whores cheaper than horses.
punkman: horses are cheaper than machine
asciilifeform: (unless the gaskets have worn through)
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only valid covenant.
jurov: what's the advantage over waterboarding?
mircea_popescu: as the wise jew once noted, "there's a blessing for anything". ie, there's always a good something to say.
mircea_popescu: and continuig thing, "fuckurmommatron", which delivers gaoler's mother when idem, and so on.
asciilifeform: other optional modules available are 'mercytron', which releases hcn gas when address printed on outside of machine is loaded with certain coin; or even 'ransomatron', which opens the lock if a certain coin arrives...
davout: i only remember asciilifeform's rectal heater thing
asciilifeform: davout: it was, i think, in old thread. it's a kind of iron box where you lock a man and he only gets to eat (corn syrup, by the litre) while he enters valid btc private keys and the cumulative balance not yet exhausted.
mircea_popescu: davout the coke machine is this putative alf-proposed torturing device to extract bitcoin out of people. he's twisted like that.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You prolly still oughtta write. You anger levels still seem awfully high after those days without Trilema for venting your ragehol.
mircea_popescu: thanks god reading is faster than writing.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> why isn't it crackup anyway ? << Crackup happens after crackdown. Tears feed laughter.
mircea_popescu: "In the United States where mass shootings are far more common knee jerk reactions typically consist of proposals for new restrictions on firearms, though in Paris, France, and much of the EU more stringent firearms regulations are practically impossible due to the existing draconian restrictions" loller
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Derp outlets were running pieces on this.
mircea_popescu: I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES
mircea_popescu: now i can't write the article i was gonna write because i gotta read the article he actually wrote
mircea_popescu: no, they give you a special plate for tears. don't have to cry straight in the cup like fucking savages.
mircea_popescu: provided the shop's open.
mircea_popescu: ridoinculous. all the tears you can muster and five dollars buys you a cup of coffee
mircea_popescu: who gives a shit and why would they ?
mircea_popescu: as if THAT is the relevant thing, that o mai gawd someone cried.
mircea_popescu: seems everyone's trying to get himself a spot in the consideration line by the quality and quantity of tears they dispensed, all of a sudden.
asciilifeform: nfi. perhaps they bottle the tearz ?
mircea_popescu: what is all this monetization of crying in the us ?
asciilifeform: 'When he saw the cast photos earlier this month, he demanded through Blickers to know the ethnicity of the actors, she said. "I couldn't stop myself from crying when I saw the photos and realized what was happening," Suh wrote in his e-mail.'
assbot: Pennsylvania college cancels play after author objects to white actors| Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/1S8NF64 )
assbot: More Mexican immigrants leaving U.S. than entering: Pew| Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/1S8NtUu )
asciilifeform: just eats at other folks' tables, yes.
asciilifeform: keel.btc.petertodd.org << had no idea this was a thing.
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 14:24:14; mircea_popescu: <DianaComan> prolly it would be for the best to track those numbers down too , but really the list is already longer than my both arms :p
jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-11-2015#1328220 << trade on eulora, play on mpex! (r) (tm) ☝︎
asciilifeform: uptime == 60 days as of present time.
asciilifeform: and hm, it's just this one box
asciilifeform: anyone else operating trb within the reich seeing same ?
asciilifeform observes that his trb nodes have been 10-20 blx steadily behind latest-known, for at least a week
mircea_popescu: what, bitcoin is a pill against exactly this ? HA!
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is how it works. extend the franchise, import the poor, pretend it's just as much x as the real x, on it goes.
asciilifeform: imprinted with the anal seal of his scaly majesty's own tail !
mircea_popescu: why do you need bitcoin anyway ? we're here in bitcoin to barnacle innovation into the same old soup! hear us roar!
mircea_popescu: the merkle tree is signed! by visa!
mircea_popescu: you don't understand how the world works!
asciilifeform still picking self up off the floor after reading the signatureless-tx thing
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> go to alf, take shiva lessons.
mircea_popescu: <DianaComan> prolly it would be for the best to track those numbers down too , but really the list is already longer than my both arms :p ☟︎
mircea_popescu: from that other chan :
mircea_popescu: almost like some baltic fishermen read a book of jokes (soory i mean joeks) and went "what the fuck is this platdeustch bs! HERE IS HOW REAL MEN SAY IT!"
asciilifeform: iirc it is to dutch approx. as ua is to ru
asciilifeform: 'Potential for nodes that do not wish to store or verify old transaction signatures' << didja know we 'needed' this ?? i certainly didn't
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 09:19:46; punkman: "Potential for more efficient SPV output creation proofs (used by lightweight clients), as the signatures can be omitted from the transaction data without breaking the Merkle tree structure. Potential for nodes that do not wish to store or verify old transaction signatures, to remove the witness data from disk or not transfer it at all even, reducing blockchain storage/bandwidth amounts by a large fact
jurov: http://bestmobs.com/13mp-pepsi-p1s-smartphone-launched-with-fingerprint-scanner/ " The smartphone named Pepsi Phone P1S which produced by Shenzhen Scooby Communication Equipment Co. Ltd has been launched in China."
mircea_popescu: well done, team derp.
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 12:48:07; mircea_popescu: "The more polite developers were, the less time it took to fix an issue. In the majority of the analysed cases, the more developers wanted to be part of a project, the more they were willing to continue working on the project over time."
mircea_popescu: and check it out, in order to leave a http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-11-2015#1328186 < read the logs. you gotta... "Sign up" ☝︎
punkman: how long until someone quotes this to Linus
mircea_popescu: who the fuck told twentysomething derps that they can create pseudoscience out of their ass, i wish to know.
mircea_popescu: i do not seem to remember any name associated in a managerial capacity with any successful project ever.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i wish to know, what qualifies Giuseppe Destefanis, Marco Ortu, Steve Counsell, Michele Marchesi or Roberto Tonelli to discuss the matter, at all. << Their open sore ass
mircea_popescu: what makes they believe they understand enough of anything to trust themselves to make a decent model of the thing they purport to study, so as to measure something meaningful and construct conclusions worth considering.
mircea_popescu: i wish to know, what qualifies Giuseppe Destefanis, Marco Ortu, Steve Counsell, Michele Marchesi or Roberto Tonelli to discuss the matter, at all.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck are these dumb shits, seriously.
mircea_popescu: "The more polite developers were, the less time it took to fix an issue. In the majority of the analysed cases, the more developers wanted to be part of a project, the more they were willing to continue working on the project over time." ☟︎
mircea_popescu: <punkman> the latest pill against malleability << no, the latest in "gotta serve the customer" because "customer has come to expect" that "he just wants to".
mircea_popescu: ahahaha tim swanson is a bitcoin expert now ?
mircea_popescu: but what difference does it make, right ? let the squaw chew her squaw candy thinking it's ambrosia, who cares what happens in the colonies and territories at the ends of the earth.
punkman: didn't know spanish royalty fans existed until today
mircea_popescu: and don't even get me started on the topic of the spanish rohohoyals. they have magazines here, it's all the chickies read, they keep going on and on about the noblesse refinement and you know, bla bla of the juan carlos clan. and the pictures... my god, the pictures.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> looking forward to the day buzzfeed acquires AP and their "big stories" << won't be long now. then they can all sell to some derpy "we make money while sleeping" spam outfit that slashdot got sold to.
punkman is wearing shorts and has all the windows open
mircea_popescu enters into the record that had naphex moved to argentina last year he wouldn't have had pneumonia this year.
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punkman: "Potential for more efficient SPV output creation proofs (used by lightweight clients), as the signatures can be omitted from the transaction data without breaking the Merkle tree structure. Potential for nodes that do not wish to store or verify old transaction signatures, to remove the witness data from disk or not transfer it at all even, reducing blockchain storage/bandwidth amounts by a large factor" ☟︎
assbot: R3 blockchain group adds 5 banks, brings in technology heavyweights| Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/1ly8ZaX )
punkman: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/19/global-banks-blockchain-idUSL8N13E36B20151119 "R3 has also brought in bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn, as well as fincancial cryptographer Ian Grigg and bitcoin expert Tim Swanson."
shinohai: http://ca.hellomagazine.com/imagenes/royalty/2015111928332/queen-letizia-rania-madrid/0-140-594/queen-letizia--z.jpg <<< King JC needs a new tailor.
punkman: looking forward to the day buzzfeed acquires AP and their "big stories"
Naphex: i'm off to bed. bbl
Naphex: mircea_popescu: have a nasty ass cold which turned into pneumonia, had to reboot my servers and take my keys out of the cold. had a bit of downtime.
punkman: now tell me that between "ethics and speed", reuters cares about ethics first
assbot: Someone Photoshopped this Sikh Guy, and Now the World Thinks He's a Paris Terrorist ... ( http://bit.ly/1MYhulw )
Naphex: mircea_popescu: i haven't disappeared anywhere.. got a bad case of pneumonia; Working on setting things back on track ☟︎
ben_vulpes: no lizard hitler in that interpretation, punkman
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 01:27:23; asciilifeform: seems like reuters bought into some idiocy where a huckster promised to distinguish one stream of bits, having the correct 'colour' (as in the essay, nothing to do with optics, but politics) from another, identical stream, having undesirable colour.
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-11-2015#1327943 << I read story as "look we don't want you to send 100mb RAWs, or spend time processing them on your laptop, we want the pics before they are on twitter/buzzfeed/whatever" ☝︎
mircea_popescu adds to list.
asciilifeform: (or 'the east', by same chick - who wrote -and- lead in the film, about roughly the same thing)
asciilifeform: who has seen the film 'sound of my voice' ?
asciilifeform: sorta like if someone were to ask mircea_popescu to build ~his own~ gentoo etc.
asciilifeform prolly ought to bed
asciilifeform has four-bit emotion register, usually mapped to sloth/greed/wrath/lust
asciilifeform: iirc it was more sloth than lust
asciilifeform dreamed last night that he rigged an engine to his office chair and decided to never leave it again
asciilifeform: and one of those wheelchair things
asciilifeform: i think you need hfcs and a truck for 'mayogender'
mircea_popescu: for good reason too
mircea_popescu: i'll end up mayogendered and then everyone will hate me ;/
mircea_popescu: thye also have "higos con almendras", a cube of fig guts with an almond on top