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trinque:
mircea_popescu: btcd chewed up a drive on me; that stream of "adding orphan block" was preceded by an input/output error barf
Adlai:
mircea_popescu: arguably, the main/relevant effect of 'sidechains' to date has been funnelling VC money into subsidizing full nodes... although i guess you don't trust full nodes run by those people... but you don't have to because bitcoin
assbot: Logged on 09-02-2015 00:37:52;
mircea_popescu: looky here : growing larger implies growing costs. this is a given. a larger bitcoin will somehow be paid for.
xanthyos: i want no affiliation with
mircea_popescu the slave holder
benjamindees:
mircea_popescu, ain't nobody got time for that
ruin_dpbs_life:
mircea_popescu: you do business wiht dpb i'll get the police in volved
Adlai:
mircea_popescu: i'll take that as a "haven't heard/cared about it", which is still a datapoint
Adlai:
mircea_popescu: _all_ energy, or the delta between current mining energy use, and half the planet's total energy expenditure?
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: "Thanks, but unfortunately it is already late in my part of the world. Perhaps send any questions via email and I'll try to respond in ~10hours (after sleep). Email: basil@reqrypt.org"
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Dunno him, thestringpuller wrote that up and sourced it
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2015 17:57:05;
mircea_popescu: nah, first timers get a few % of the profit, and at the end of a whole year.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Amex is fine. They partnered with Walmart for poor people ATM cards
assbot: Logged on 04-01-2015 22:07:08;
mircea_popescu: decimation: re: costco & amex << I suspect amex gives costco a deal (pays them) to force a large percentage of the upper-crust customer-base to have an amex card in their wallet << pretty much how that racket goes yes.
assbot: Logged on 04-01-2015 22:07:08;
mircea_popescu: decimation: re: costco & amex << I suspect amex gives costco a deal (pays them) to force a large percentage of the upper-crust customer-base to have an amex card in their wallet << pretty much how that racket goes yes.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: it gets worse. some even work for me.
decimation:
mircea_popescu: that's a lulzy exchange. the doctor_why_bother guy is a living example of 'he misses the forest for the tiny sapling'
decimation:
mircea_popescu: maybe if we give them everything they will accept our love?
decimation:
mircea_popescu: perhaps usg is desperate for china to become big enough so that usg can surrender to it
herbijudlestoids: yea i did read some rants from you on trilema about that
mircea_popescu herbijudlestoids:
mircea_popescu: yeah. but we also develop IP as we go around that ops stuff
mircea_popescu: <
mircea_popescu> let's indulge this fiction for the sake of potential literature. << I PREDICTED!
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> not exactly, more like, "if god had meant me to gamble 10k dollars in this casino, he'd have given me 10k dollars" << Nah, he'd just make the credit officer in the cage a bit wet on the brain
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> in other words : i have nfi why we care so much about systemd, in fact linux has been fucked over for years now, by completely unrelated crapolade like ubunbtu. << It's a twin story. Pain and Dis-Able
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: re: could you imaginge if Gavin was magically replaced by ryanxcharles?
mthreat: <+
mircea_popescu> o hey, how's the south pole ? << well technically we only got to just past 60 degrees south latitude, but it was cool. Lots of penguins, whales, killer whales, seals, ice, and mountains. And retirees, on the boat.
gribble: mthreat was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 0 days, 22 hours, 40 minutes, and 6 seconds ago: <mthreat> <+
mircea_popescu> ... << yeh but how are we to verify! << I actually got pics of me holding up the blockchain iPhone app transaction, in front of the Port Lockroy building with a sign visible!
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> [] asciilifeform: but for remoras - the swiftest possible discipline. << eh, it's best to fix problems well after rather than well before they're problems. << it's a problem now.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: hmm, musta been diff boxer. << Twas Tyson, USG bankruptcy laws... pretty hard not to use them. It is what got Trump rich
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: the thing is, a destroyer "cost" a coupla bil, and will sell for what, 10-20k btc. << Mostly they sit in Norfolk
hanbot: <
mircea_popescu> to get a 45% result you need to include the phrase "not that there's anything wrong with that" / ftfy
decimation:
mircea_popescu: even judges want to feel like they are in the usg wot
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> -tyrants-in-order-to-suppress-it/#footnote_1_59300 ? << Likely, but possible drama independently agitated
PeterL:
mircea_popescu: but this sentiment is not reflected in the US press
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 02:58:05; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu, BingoBoingo, cazalla, other writery folks: anybody up for writing a basic likbez for the 'unified theory' of amplification attack as it applies not only to boring ddos but to gavincoin and in general to any system where some bozo can inflict cost C on you by spending c where c < C
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: That could work. What's the stake?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: The could be a very great or very poor week for that. "infrastructure overhaul"
ben_vulpes: the world wherein
mircea_popescu's arranged for not only the rewrite of "gpg" but also "mavlink"
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 19:18:23;
mircea_popescu: but if it's a serious point of concern, either move the version string in the config file
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 11:40:01;
mircea_popescu: when i was 18, the average 18 yo could support himself.
pete_dus_: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu "the -EV human quicly collapse towards zero." << quickly
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, it's just coblee saying "a lot of the stuff we do at coinbase, we don't really think through"
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: ESR professes as to be such
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Did you mean to say patterns or patters
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> asciilifeform "compiler technology has advanced significantly in ways that GCC is not well positioned to exploit. " any clue what this specifically means ? << Probably FreeBSD 10 generally slower than 9 because clang/LLVM
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I've waken today to a rather full plate, maybe someone else wants.