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phf: haunted mansion night for
two, complete with victorian meal, costumed entertainment. BTC accepted
mircea_popescu: just, not really as a hotel. pretty decent setting for a remake of diabolique
tho
mircea_popescu: honestly i
think
the decrepit reality looks muchg better
than
the mcmanshion candy-cane photochop
punkman: fluffypony: how did
the castle look when you visited?
mircea_popescu: as soon as
they are ready,
the reservation system and Bitcoin integration should be ready also.
BingoBoingo: Seriously
that noise is
the hardest part about qntra
mircea_popescu: how many of
these
throwaway items have we seen so far.
mircea_popescu: Deloitte
to audit
to BitEx.la Bitcoin exchange,
the first of its kind in Argentina and possibly in
the world for a market of Bitcoin << except a) it doesn't actually exist and b) all of
the fucking nopes already, wtf.
mircea_popescu: would have been so fucking hard
to submit and obey in 2013, rly.
mircea_popescu: the boat's still missed. but i gotta say it's fucking hysterical
to obvserve
the US as a society behaves collectively exactly like every ustard individually. haughty pretense at first, desperate flailing once it's
too late.
mircea_popescu: Blythe Masters says US lags in blockchain use (ft.com) / Over $60 million in funding raised for bitcoin companies
this week alone. / bla bla << "To sum up : what we have so far are a few millions invested in hopeless start-ups
that have no
talent, no business model, aren't solving a problem and generally speaking don't exist other
than as a
tag on an orange calling it a potato." /
http://trilema.com/2013/the-future-of- ☟︎ shinohai: lol. XT camp
takes it as a sign
they have already won
the game obviously.
assbot: First Library
to Support
Tor Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email - ProPublica ... (
http://bit.ly/1ULaooS )
mircea_popescu: so
the list of places where obama can still show up consists of... fort meade ?
davout: "$1,500 for
this shit?"
cazalla: aww
that might be overstating it just a
tad
davout 's favourite is
the one with gmaxwell
shinohai: Is
that Butterin wearing
the Steve Urkel pants for real?
cazalla: oops, didnt realise i botched
the image links
shinohai: morning, mircea_popescu feeling better
today?
mircea_popescu can't readily figure out which of
the
two is more ridiculous.
BingoBoingo: Maybe she has a condishun' like edema or arthritis. Knees aren't engineered
to carry
that all above above
them.
mircea_popescu: The guidance advocates a ban on password strength meters, mandatory resets, and predictable combinations, instead encouraging brute force rate limiting and reduced access controls." << in other words, "password gimmicks don't work an we're back
to ip bans, in a 100% reversal of
the fecal consensus of 2005"
mircea_popescu: they should be flowing
things
the other way around ffs.
mircea_popescu: they lost 20bn in brand value for a few million in cash. and
they have cash.
phf: maybe
they realized
that iphone is not cool anymore, and switched
to milking it for quantity
mircea_popescu: (wtf is
this conflation of sales and ops going on at apple anyway)
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck commodifies his premium product for boredom o may gawd
☟︎ mircea_popescu: omfg
they did. ok,
this is
the dumbest move apple ever
took, or could have
taken.
the only remainder value in
the entire pointless entreprise was
the perception of value.
this is
the
texbook way
to ruin perception of value : put
them on a monthly installment, like fucking diapers.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:58:53; pete_dushenski: ya, ~$30 per month ad infinitum gets you
the latest greatest iphone
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:40:23; pete_dushenski: with
the cold sandwiches on PAPER plates at 'consensus'.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:38:05; asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: iirc it was priced,
to a penny,
to match mircea_popescu conf
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:34:09; asciilifeform: with no gurlz,
there is 'flat hierarchy'
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:24:17; pete_dushenski: "internet companies "across China" are hiring "pretty,
talented girls
that help create a fun work environment. Dubbed "programming cheerleaders,"
these young women serve
to chit-chat and play Ping-Pong with employees as part of
their role."
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:16:09; pete_dushenski: "Gun control advocates in
Tacoma, Wash., are
thinking inside
the box -- literally -- with a controversial proposal
to set up a gun "drop box"
to encourage residents
to
turn in firearms, no questions asked." << "we also advise residents
to wipe
their guns clean of fingerprints and bodily fluids because we WILL be inspecting each and every firearms for evidence
that may be used in any ongoing investiga
mircea_popescu: in
this context it was specifically re chillum's protests re security practices etc.
mircea_popescu: "this bear likes
to fuck people ; you an
tell it's horny by
the red patch above its nose" IS a warning.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 02:58:51; assbot: Logged on 28-03-2015 16:35:32; mircea_popescu: mod6 ben_vulpes you
think some warnings should be brewed maybe ?
davout: it's an output in
the bathroom, it's an input in
the bedroom
☟︎ mircea_popescu: davout well
that's
the meaningful sense of
the
term when you're doing graph
traversal and whatnot, cause it's where it starts. but in
this context it seemed
to me it'd rather mean , "clumps of satoshi available
to be spent"
mircea_popescu: fucking horrid
terminology, we really shouldn't be in a situation where input and outpuit means
the same
thing
davout: ah, my definition of coinbase is a spendable output
that was not created by spending another output, ie. new money
davout: you mean
the spendable outputs?
mircea_popescu: and i suspect
the coinbase count will be, going forward, one of
the most important metrics of economic health.
mircea_popescu: ie, you'll never have
that many legitimate
txns
that also consolidate. especially as
the size opf bitcoin economy increases.
mircea_popescu: i
think for a while gentmenan-ness will prevail and
the consolidaitons will be mined in preference
davout: looks
to me like
this highlights another aspect of
the
tragedy of
the commons
thing, because miners don't bear
the full cost of a large UTXO,
they have no particular incentive
to give fee rebates
to UTXO-consolidating
transactions
mircea_popescu: we're, at least
to my eyes, in
the situation where we've built something against a sleeping rhino. once it gets up and moves, what happens ?
mircea_popescu: davout for sure not. but it does practically worek
to keep
tx large enough, and more importantly, coinbases few.
davout: but
that is only enforced at relay level, and by some miners
davout: looks like a limit based on
the minimum relay fee
mircea_popescu: "Welcome
to Bitcoin SIG We are a group of Mensa members who are interested in cryptocurrency and enjoy discussing
the developments occurring in
this space."
davout: it's not very clear
to me how
this
thing works
davout: what spam limit are you referring
to?
mircea_popescu: sorta like
the emperor of flies can't happen with an adult present.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it forces
the paper and assorted fiats into stability.
mircea_popescu: i doubt it. see, wiemar collapsed because
THERE WAS NO currency. at all.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: But at
that point
the hundred dollar bill might not be worth a loaf of bread
BingoBoingo: at $100k bitcoin we could be
talking about no practical way
to send less
than a crisp hundred dollar bill
mircea_popescu: very hugely different sort of limitation on
the usage.
mircea_popescu:
there, we'll be discussing "you may not use bitcoin
to
transfer less
than 2.8 dollars' worth"
BingoBoingo: Seriously
this is
the shit
that needs modeled.
mircea_popescu: here, we discusased "potential users" and
the blocks haven't been full etc
mircea_popescu: and it can not be underscored enough how
that is a much larger problem
than
the recent block size nonsense.
BingoBoingo: I could see
the spam
tx limit run up
to 100k and be worth dollars
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
think about it
this way,
the spam
tx limit is currently worth very little. if it runs up
to 10k it will be worth cents.