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BingoBoingo: It's amazing how much failure gets passed along
as "progress" in USistan
phf: there's a coop yoga place, that designed "
as a sort of community wellness center", good thing that the owner owns the building too, because they can't seem to quite break even, and periodically have strategic brainstorm sessions about how to make money
BingoBoingo: Yeah, or write it off
as oppreshun because people don't understand her condishuns
ascii_field: phf et al: from my (admittedly very distant) perch, my understanding of usg's engineering problem is
as follows
cazalla: posted link
as it contains some quotes, that's all
ascii_field: this will be hailed
as a great leap forward by the redditard crowd, because difficulty in this altcoin will initially be very low, making their 50-125 appear to 'count for something'
ascii_field: (what commercial chip do you know of that sells
as a ~range~ of possible performance ??!!)
☟︎ cazalla: FAQ sorta conflicts with the idea of making money with this thing by selling goods.. "we think payment in BTC is not
as big an improvement at the present time over standard ways to purchase macroscopic physical goods."
thestringpuller: ascii_field: they are trying to use mining
as a way to hedge your investment by giving you access to inflation
as you sell shit for btc.
ascii_field: 'your margins on bitcoin earned by selling digital goods and services with the 21 Bitcoin Computer are likely going to be much better than your margins from bitcoin mined with the 21 Bitcoin Computer. That is because the 21 Bitcoin Computer allows you to use bitcoin
as a true digital currency for taking worldwide payment for your APIs. The mined bitcoin just provides continuous liquidity into the system. '
phf: it's interesting to see how fast urbit "turned" both politically and on technical questions. markdown jet? choosing markdown is a copout in itself (there's a naggum rant where he says that plaintext markup languages are designed by people who don't understand NLP), but why would you outsource something so traditional
as a text blob parser? seems like an opportunity to showcase your language's text manipulation facilities, etc.
ascii_field: phun phakt: it is not a proven fact that the difficulty of the rsa problem
as such is equivalent to that of factoring.
☟︎ ascii_field: 'For instance, bitcoin prevents double-spending with global mining costs in multiple dollars per transaction (
as of 2015). Trusted transaction intermediation is an easily implemented service whose cost is a tiny fraction of this. And the transaction velocity of money is high; transactions in land are far more rare.'
ascii_field: 'galaxy, star, planet, moon, comet' << glorious. they retired the naval org chart (before that, prior to mr mold selling out to usg, it was feudal titles of nobility -
as in my former 'dukedom')
☟︎ ascii_field: 'With this mechanism, Urbit can update a distributed system (such
as our own :talk network), upgrading both applications and protocols, silently without user intervention or notification. ' << itching to try this yet ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla but there's also my unnamed one
as well
as bucephalus or w/e the recent one got called.
mircea_popescu: anyway, 20% discount because he gets to own 20% of the million he brought himself,
as well
as of richard's company.
cazalla: spat out all manner of shit that might
as well be in another language
assbot: Teen prosecuted
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trinque: adlai:
as for the one with a sig wrapping a sig, I'll have to update the code first.
adlai: you mean the quoted public key block getting interpreted
as a valid one?
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for deedbot- from 1 to 2 with note: works
as described, not
as desired
trinque: tenyks was used
as the basis, though I've grown to dislike it and will eventually replace
trinque: er that's sha256 of bundle
as the private key
trinque: eats pubkeys or clearsigned messages, farts bundles and transactions to the address derived from the sha256 of bundle
as pubkey
mircea_popescu: (spoiler : boy meets girl at insane asylum. neither is a visitor. she "is an artist". he "is writing a book", about DSM, of course, because what better qualifies one
as an expert in the field than being insane.)
mircea_popescu: "A Tough Day
as Leaders" wait wut, who's symantec the leaders of.
cazalla: i still don't understand how or why tiny boxed photos with lense flare and filters is more popular than a proper photo.. could normal photos be just
as social?
mircea_popescu: whichy,
as he said then and i believed then, set him back a few months of dayjob.
assbot: I used to work in the same research field
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pete_dushenski: updating any timestamps),
as long
as the node believes
pete_dushenski: fewer than 10 entries, either
as the result of a GETADDR
pete_dushenski: with hot new titles such
as "Nonoutsourceable Scratch-Off Puzzles to Discourage Bitcoin Mining Coalitions."
assbot: Logged on 19-09-2015 22:32:40; phf: asciilifeform: phf: they all have fuckin' ~huge~ binaries so far
as i'm concerned << i don't think i was too picky at the time, i.e. cmucl dumps 20mb images, and my main concern was audio latency anyway. oh i also used mlkit for that reason, it uses a combination of frame based memory management and gc, so you can have realtime guarantees.
phf: asciilifeform: phf: they all have fuckin' ~huge~ binaries so far
as i'm concerned << i don't think i was too picky at the time, i.e. cmucl dumps 20mb images, and my main concern was audio latency anyway. oh i also used mlkit for that reason, it uses a combination of frame based memory management and gc, so you can have realtime guarantees.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so since i'm now looking at the table of "crypto currencies",
as if that's a thing now (hey, why not you know, alternate centers of gravity - why not!!1), here's a table :
mircea_popescu:
as the us is not printing new bills, the incentive is not present.
mircea_popescu: the eu still has 500 euro bills, which are about
as useful
as argentine 100 pesos.
mircea_popescu: im still puzzled
as to why all the eth derps imagine they're competing with bitcoin, quoting all sorts of bitcoin news etc, when it's quite clear they're trying to eat the ever shrinking ripple pie.
mircea_popescu: shinohai i'd be actually surprised if anyone managed to use this thing
as intended to date.
mircea_popescu: We will make an effort to de-emphasize Skype, and emphasize Gitter
as a means of real-time communication for developers. Gitter has the advantages that (i) it’s easier to quickly jump in and participate,"
mircea_popescu:
As some initial steps, we are going to do the following:
mircea_popescu: we might
as well discuss the heavenly host. purely imaginary nonsense with no practical bearing.
mircea_popescu: "The organisation hopes to buy the Concorde currently on display at Le Bourget airport in Paris. If it is successful, the plane will be restored before resuming operation
as a private heritage aircraft that will be flown at air displays
as well
as being available for charter. "
trinque departs to drink and be merry with the couple of highly respectable gentlemen (such
as ben_vulpes) he had the honor to meet on his tour in Portland.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, yeah white butterfly but broad beans are a good scam
as the flowers trick them
cazalla: yes, broad beans
as previously mentioned, lots of bees and insects about with the warmer spring weather
mircea_popescu: so then if you yourself don't accept the thing you propose
as proof,
as proof, what do you want from me!
phf: asciilifeform: yes, i did some ml a while ago. i used sml/nj
as a default compiler, afair it had full language coverage and nice emacs support, i would then port code to mlton or mlkit. mlton has a particularly nice feature set, small binaries, everything's unboxed, gc can be tuned, but it's full program optimizer, so at the time i didn't have the patience to use it
as my primary compiler.
mircea_popescu: newton's aunt, einstein'swife and mozart's sister were not
as fortunate
mircea_popescu: (it was intended
as a sinecure - he chose to make it a job.)
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 23:06:24; mircea_popescu: the proposition is that the usg exists
as a system of stupid people, dedicated to the supporting of stupidity and the containing of the threat (to them) presented by intelligence.