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mircea_popescu: (it was intended as a sinecure - he chose
to make it a job.)
mircea_popescu: deeply understood
the problems catholic church posed
to science via galilo and bruno.
BingoBoingo: Well
the engineering
trade off of putting a
turbo charger in a vehicle is you can increase
the fuel economy or power, but
the NOx emmisions must increase
too
mircea_popescu: yet
the same libertard fucktards, or at least
the five step removed early ideologists/jesuses of
the movement,
mircea_popescu: see alf, gauss and newton didn't have
to deal with
THIS particular problem.
mircea_popescu: their balance is very fragile. most of
their life is spent
trying
to distinguish stupid anyway.
mircea_popescu: think of
the poor engineers who had
to design and put
this
thing in.
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 19:02:42; kakobrekla: >When I last bought a VW (2008) I was concerned due
to a clunking noise after first starting it up and driving a few miles; I called
the VW service dept and
they explained
that
there was a compressor which captured exhaust fumes and released
them at a lower rate for
the first few miles of each journey --
to help
them meet EPA emissions standards.
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 23:09:54; mircea_popescu:
the immutability
thing can more or less be lied about, because if i have 32gb ram and you need 512 bytes for all you know you're on an "endless" ram machine.
mircea_popescu: here's
to hoping
they move
to africa and live in a commune.
mircea_popescu: ethics is specifically
the system of inquiry specializing in questions which end up with bullet or
treebark.
mircea_popescu: once
that is on
the
table
the problem moves from being ethical
to being
technical.
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 23:07:31; mircea_popescu:
the proposition
that for intelligent people
to work for
this shambling mess is deeply unethical is perhaps
the most important
thing in all ethics since kant.
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.
assbot: Logged on 04-08-2015 04:04:02; mircea_popescu: incidentally, it's quite obvious
that
the b-a conversations consist of both spoken and silent dialogue
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 17:53:49; mats: 10/10
times it is just alf and i.
punkman: all roads lead
to rewriting gpg
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 22:15:20; punkman: mats: punkman: if it was not clear, i am handrolling
the pgp packet parser in python (watta mouthful). and not having a good
time of it. << I
think you might have
to come up << you should probably
throw out a bunch of idiocies contained in
the canonical rfc
cazalla: mircea_popescu, could've been a daughter if God really wanted
to punish me
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 22:01:22; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278566 << it is solved
to my satisfaction. if
there are
two cables involved,
the non-tangly approach is
to switch overhand once, underhand once, and repeat in
this exact pattern. most people always do overhand (or underhand) and so
they obtain max
tangle. some more intelligent (or just mentally disorganised people) do randomly alternating u/o, which res
mircea_popescu: i still
think
they were stupid. but i am starting
to ~understand~.
mircea_popescu: i always
thought
the jews staying behind were incomprehensible.
assbot: Logged on 31-08-2014 18:41:22; asciilifeform: 'escape' means
there's a missile battery (or, at
the
threadbare minimum, 24/7 death squad) standing between usg and you.
mircea_popescu: (THAT is
the
true altcoin killer. people proceed lazily
to imagine
that hey, just as money is called euro in eu and dollars in
the us,
there may be a future with bitcoin and litecoin etc. no, no it may not. money is money, and yes you can call it x in x and y in y, but
they are ON
THE SAME BLOCKCAIN. euro and dollar settle in
the same place.)
cazalla: asciilifeform, i just
thought it interesting
that
the guy found
the specific clock on ebay
mircea_popescu: it doesn't need a centralized name more
than it needs a centralized ledger.
mircea_popescu: there is obviously
the ever present cattle
tendency
to centralize. but
that is NOT a good reason
to centralize.
mircea_popescu: it's no more a "community asset"
than a bitcoin balance. it has a specified owner.
cazalla: a lot of people seem
to
think
the domain name is actually a community asset
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 17:44:13; ascii_field:
to my shame, ~i~ habitually read
these.
mircea_popescu: dogecoin-esque "PR" of
the ilk of "hey, our forum is better
than your forum because domain name" serve
them well.
btcdrak: ver is sitting on enough bitcoins
to make mtgox customers whole... which he should do given his video supporting
them in summer of 2014...
mircea_popescu: anyway,
there's nothing wrong with xt scamcoin folk having as many forums as
they can stand.
btcdrak: as if ver's shitty use of bitcoin.com wasnt enough, now
they create an XT circlejerk forum
to mislead even more people.
cazalla: if i were ver, i'd redirect
the site
to whatever
the 2015 equiv of goatse is and
tell all
the redditors with ideas of how bitcoin.com should actually be used
to go fuck
themselves
mircea_popescu: i doubt
there is anything
that is actually beyond our interests' reach.
mircea_popescu: remarkably enough i can't readily figure out a
topic b-a would be strictly not interested in. we've discussed art philosophy and history, and matters of identity and forgery, and child rearing and car design and gender identity and indian mysticism and scholarship
thereof and of course geopolitics and finance and often enough plumbing and pest control.
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 17:32:59; mats: maybe
this is just not
the place for me
to bring up such discussions, when folks clearly are not interested in
this kind of research
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278682 <<
there is a difference between "not interested", like say someone who wants
to play
the flute, and simply doesn't care about
the stuff you discuss ; and "know better", as in, people who ARE very much interested in
the KIND of
thing you discuss, who have evaluated it and come
to
the conclusion it's a big fat 0.
those are not "not interested".
they were interested.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 18:36:25; ben_vulpes: from
the lulzmine: "Do specialized systems include enhanced security measures consistent with risk analysis?"
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 17:31:54; ascii_field:
the only
thing
the offerings of usg ~provably~ are able
to do is
to lighten your wallet.
mircea_popescu: the immutability
thing can more or less be lied about, because if i have 32gb ram and you need 512 bytes for all you know you're on an "endless" ram machine.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 17:18:00; ascii_field: but
there is no such
thing, in our universe, as a 'functional' cpu.
mircea_popescu: do not work for a stupid man, nor for a man
that works for
the ultimate benefit of stupid people.
this is
the whole of
the law.
mircea_popescu: the proposition
that for intelligent people
to work for
this shambling mess is deeply unethical is perhaps
the most important
thing in all ethics since kant.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the proposition
that
they would be more
than willing
to blow up
the world before
they'd
take
their naturally inferior place in
the hierarchy of
the world is not so far off.
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.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and re
the "heckler's idea of conspiracy" : it is not
the proposition
that
the usg consists of some evil overlord petting a cat buried under concrete somewhere while
tons of mindless drones
to
the biddings without complaint. nor is
the proposition
that a secret conclave of shaved heads secretly meet at my pillar every 5th wednesday.
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 17:16:42; ascii_field: no one who actually ~solves~ problems at
the eliminate-a-whole-field level is remotely welcome.
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 17:13:51; punkman: so what is
the formal language when I grab random bytes off someone's HTTP?
BingoBoingo: Of course.
The mansions asciilifeform describes driving by are made of plastic and
toothpicks
☟︎