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ascii_field: bicyclist causes column of cars behind him
to waste far more fuel
than he ever could hope
to save
shinohai: I have a bike, but around here you just ride in
the damned street. I only use mine downtown
to *avoid*
traffic
mircea_popescu: "ima paint a line on your ass so it's half
train depot"
mircea_popescu: "oh,
the
town house painted a line on
the sidewalk so it's half bycicle route now"
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i always found it peculiar
that bicycles are permitted on normal roads where i live - but not horses
mircea_popescu: i suppose i looked enough like i was gonna fucking kill
them on
the spot
that
they bitched and ran off each
time, but hot damned i regret not having fed one his wheel.
mircea_popescu: i occasionally ~used
to~ have altercation with dumbass bike derps who not only were on
the sidewalk but had
the unmitigated audacity
to ring
their dumbass bell.
mircea_popescu: no but i fucking hate
that shit. "you know what we'll do
to fix
the problem of dumbass cars encroaching on pedestrian everything ? we'll make cheaper cvasi-cars so all
the dumbass hipsters who can't afford a car can still get in your way"
shinohai: There was a guy lived a few streets over
that got locked up for
throwing water-filled condoms at any Mexican
that rode by his house on a bike.
mircea_popescu: and if a bunch of biking fucktards move on
that sidewalk ima start carrying a billy club
davout: "Là,
tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté, Luxe, calme et volupté."
davout: the netherlands,
the place where
they cut roads from bike lanes
mircea_popescu: argentina is pretty much
the only place i've seen
that has
the sanity
to cut bike lanes out of
the street. everyone seems
to always cut
them out of fucking sidewalks.
shinohai: I suppose it never occurred
to
them
to pray about it, leave it in God's hands and all.
davout: "The parking loss would place an unconstitutionally undue burden on people who want
to pray,
the church argues"
punkman: is it
the Church of Hamplanets?
assbot: D.C. church says a bike lane would infringe upon its constitutional ‘rights of religious freedom’ -
The Washington Post ... (
http://bit.ly/1Msc4PA )
mircea_popescu: much
to everyone's feigned surprise, ITS
THE STANDARDS, STUPID.
mircea_popescu: ematicians and
the practitioners: an adversary can perform a single enormous computation
to “crack” a particular prime,
then easily break any individual connection
that uses
that prime."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "For
the nerds in
the audience, here’s what’s wrong: If a client and server are speaking Diffie-Hellman,
they first need
to agree on a large prime number with a particular form.
There seemed
to be no reason why everyone couldn’t just use
the same prime, and, in fact, many applications
tend
to use standardized or hard-coded primes. But
there was a very important detail
that got lost in
translation between
the math
mircea_popescu: tru
to life
too. "he
tried
to make
the
trains wear out
the rail!"
☟︎ phf: but no reason
to mention what % is maggot << no reason because su had maggot % written into GOSTs. any more or less, and you're vreditel and counterrevolutionary. in america all meat has maggots because customers come
to expect, unless you buy at gourmet store in which case ask specifically for "maggot free"
mircea_popescu: yeah, im
totally ultra-sure bitcoin cares about all
the particular way people who got
their egos wounded by it misunderstand or misrepresent it.
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 09:42:48; davout: aha, so crowdfunders supposed
to get stock, but end up with worthless factom
tokens
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 03:27:48; asciilifeform: advertise 'we sold
ten
tonnes of meat', but no reason
to mention what % is maggot
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 03:22:38; asciilifeform: but how is
this a cargo cult? what i'm seeing is a very small but functioning airplane
mircea_popescu: o look at
that,
time for
the monthly ddos
trilema exercise in futility ?
jurov: "For
the most common strength of Diffie-Hellman (1024 bits), it would cost a few hundred million dollars
to build a machine, based on special purpose hardware,
that would be able
to crack one Diffie-Hellman prime every year."
shinohai: Trolling everyone
that will listen, wasn't
that
the motherboard attention whore ?
davout: either extremely stupid, or subtly
trolling /r/buttcoin
punkman: I
think I should make a little script
that does
the reverse, if you have js
turned on, it deletes all
the page contents
davout: punkman: wow,
the foundation vs. inc
thing does sound scammy as fuck. in addition
to
the business model itself
that is :D
BingoBoingo: Give it a
try. I'll be sleeping soon. No hurry.
shinohai: I still want
to do a Qntra piece BingoBoingo, dunno if I can do a factom story. Wow
though.
BingoBoingo: But if any actual person is losing
their shirt
to Factom it is
too late
to save
them.
punkman: so I guess first
token sale was done by
the "Foundation",
then "Inc" sold some more
tokens and equity
punkman: whoever wrote
the londonstockexchange announcement just looked at
the coindesk article
punkman: they also sold 7.8% of
their shares
to a 3rd party which
then sold
to 406 crowdfunders
punkman: BingoBoingo:
the "1500 software purchasers" refers
to buyers of
their
token sale, not
the equity sale
HeySteve: I'm interested in BTS for a project
to secure rental deposits using cryptocurrency
BingoBoingo: punkman:
That is a poor way
to be a charitable reader.
punkman: BingoBoingo: I
think "software license" was
there because
they didn't want
to say "coin"
assbot: Charles Hoskinson Critiques BitShares
Technology, Adoption, Management and Respect - Beyondbitcoin.org ... (
http://bit.ly/1GIbuLP )
BingoBoingo: But yeah. Easy way for someone who wants
to
test
their outrage organ
to
try a qntra.
BingoBoingo: <davout> aha, so crowdfunders supposed
to get stock, but end up with worthless factom
tokens << NOt even
tokens, licenses
davout: so basically
the first crowdsale scam is used
to pimp
the financial reports of
the company, in order
to pull off
the second scam,
the
the seed round
davout: aha, so crowdfunders supposed
to get stock, but end up with worthless factom
tokens
☟︎ BingoBoingo: davout: Crowdfunders got converted
to vaporware "software licensees" not really urgent or important. Just opportunity for anyone who wants
to
try sharpening
their vitriol.
davout: BingoBoingo: pls
to point
BingoBoingo: funkenstein_: Story is what happened
to
the crowdfunders...
funkenstein_: "For
the 9 months ended 30 September 2015 Factom had gross sales of US$628,337 (resulting in a
trading loss of US$358,142 for
the period). "
funkenstein_: aha
thanks davout, so "gpg --sign -a mytext.txt" is how it was made
davout: "when it completes its anticipated Series A funding in
the first half of 2016." <<< sure.
assbot: Pay No Attention
to
the Server Behind
the Proxy: Mapping FinFisher’s Continuing Proliferation -
The Citizen Lab ... (
http://bit.ly/1MDdmMh )
punkman: might as well be "viral marketing" from
the studio
that runs
that
davout: kept relating it
to other flavors of stupidity while reading it
davout: tlp article "Academics Hide Drug Company Payments" pretty interesting, and definitely not limited
to pharma
BingoBoingo: "The first beneficiary of
the foundation, Dorsey said via
Twitter, would be Ferguson, a city
that he visited during
the unrest
that followed
the August 2014 fatal shooting of Michael Brown, 18, by police Officer Darren Wilson."
BingoBoingo: Low hanging, yet not particularly urgent fruit for anyone who wants
to
try
their hand at a qntra
mircea_popescu: here's
the
thing : cargo cult is what savages / pacific islanders / subhuman monkeys do as a reaction
to exposure
to actual hjuman beings and
their civilisation.
mircea_popescu: seriously, if all yhou have are "not enough money
to be a retired midwestern mobster" what you do is go south and
try
to pretend ?
mircea_popescu: not really
too much
to
tell. buncha old dudes who couldn't really afford
to live in
the states [to
their expectations], hitting
the casinos and
the 5 foot nothing whores of san jose.
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 00:28:18; mircea_popescu: heck,
the fucking "expat" group in costa rica had it./
mircea_popescu: i've seen many skins, i've yet
to meet one without a single mole on it.
mircea_popescu: "we don't care what
the unknown animal sounds like. what does it eat ?"
mircea_popescu: "If you ever do find yourself working for a startup, here's a handy
tip for evaluating competitors. Read
their job listings. Everything else on
their site may be stock photos or
the prose equivalent, but
the job listings have
to be specific about what
they want, or
they'll get
the wrong candidates." <<
this is actually very much correct.
BingoBoingo: Or anyone else who wants
to cut
their
teeth on a qntra story?