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btcdrak: mircea_popescu: I know your views about XTcoin, but what are your views about raising the blocksize limit by proper technical consensus and released through Bitcoin Core? ☟︎
punkman: "Mr. Ali noted the popularity of Facebook groups such as “Smuggle Yourself to Europe Without a Trafficker.”"
assbot: Log In - The New York Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1hmFYfV )
assbot: The Economics of Bitcoin Transaction Fees by Nicolas Houy :: SSRN ... ( http://bit.ly/1NFc6ZF )
Bingo_VACAY: Kismet is treacherous
Bingo_VACAY: Sorry taking notes
assbot: Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice ... ( http://bit.ly/1LIaBK7 )
punkman: Bingo_VACAY: did you get the job?
Bingo_VACAY: Kidneys agents surround me. May have to dick my way out
assbot: A look at The Machine [LWN.net] ... ( http://bit.ly/1LIa8HM )
phf: asciilifeform: i thought dulap hosting was stateside. shame, tummy people are excellent at what they do
assbot: Welcome to tummy.com – tummy.com, ltd. ... ( http://bit.ly/1EqBe3z )
phf: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu et al: dulap rebooted today for no reason known to me. << if you start evaluating new hosting solutions, try these guys http://www.tummy.com. uptime on my box 529 days
assbot: Microsoft Windows System Call Table (NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8) ... ( http://bit.ly/1EqzKGO )
mats: http://j00ru.vexillium.org/ntapi/ I had no idea a complete table like this existed
phf: biggest disappointment of my schools years, turns out that "flea balloon" idea doesn't quite work ☟︎
asciilifeform: (no, not the currently famous one. entirely other fella)
asciilifeform: i still have that perelman.
phf: "what sort of information can a computer output to the monitor?" "oh, all kinds..."
trinque: translation of the caption?
phf: i had a friend, who run a fido node from his apartment, who looked exactly like that cat, if that's even possible
phf: i forgot that event existed, probably got thrown out during the move, along with my copy of занимательная физика by perelman
phf: http://j.livelib.ru/boocover/1000317190/o/4e97/A._Zaretskij_A._Truhanov__A_ya_byl_v_kompyuternom_gorode.jpeg << book i was given as a small boy << i remember that book! it had a totally soviet intelligentsia cat guy
mircea_popescu: i hated these as a kid
asciilifeform: it helps to be a no older than 5 y.o. orc who has never seen or heard of a computer.
asciilifeform: hilarious comic, which can't really be appreciated today, prolly.
asciilifeform: http://royallib.com/read/zaretskiy_andrey/a_ya_bil_v_kompyuternom_gorode.html#204800 << skip to the 'encyclopaedic appendix' where the pics are.
mircea_popescu: are there chicks in iut ?
asciilifeform: the book, that is.
asciilifeform: ahahahahaha. i think i ~have~ that one
mircea_popescu: i have one for you, too!
asciilifeform: http://i.imgur.com/1CdpS.jpg << in technicolour!
asciilifeform: there ~are~ other ways to get there
mircea_popescu: saw a 20 yo with the flipper arm today.
asciilifeform: can fit 3x if you saw off the beaks, aha.
asciilifeform: presumption being that planet ought to resemble a poultry plant
asciilifeform: hilariously folks still discuss the situation in purely geometric or even thermodynamic terms
mircea_popescu never could have predicted the "should be enough for anyone" magic number really discusses "how manby people may be alive"
mircea_popescu: WHERE the actual cosmos is in this entire new "computer universe" never ceases to shock and amaze.
asciilifeform: sadly there appears to be a much smaller limit in practice
mircea_popescu: that's the true meaning of "4096"
mircea_popescu: there's a limit on how many humans may be people at the same time
asciilifeform: but i don't actually expect to live this long.
asciilifeform: then multiple boxes and clever things with pairwise gcd.
asciilifeform: we run out of sks long before this
asciilifeform: not only does it not, but it absolutely impossible to do anything re: the running product having to be recalculated on warmup without 1) increasing complexity 25x 2) slowing down processing palpably ☟︎
mircea_popescu: dulap may be the latest piece of software in actual use that doesn't actually benefit from periodic rebooting ☟︎
mircea_popescu: dulap may be the latest piece of software in actual use that yeah
asciilifeform: who? the hoster?
mircea_popescu: i think the latter kids don't really grok this "don't reboot machine " thing ☟︎
asciilifeform: evidently not shitproof though.
asciilifeform: phuctor is now in recalculatory limbo, and may be for weeks; and therealbitcoin node is in blackhole limbo
asciilifeform: dulap has had three in almost as many months.
asciilifeform: my thirtybux/mo penIII idiot box in american datacenter, in contrast, now hosting 'incitatus', has had one unscheduled reset in ~6 years.
asciilifeform: and wish to make this known.
asciilifeform: i formally declare the hosting subcontractor to be a piece of shit
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu et al: dulap rebooted today for no reason known to me. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: and the viking madchen of the 40s. http://40.media.tumblr.com/qoXAtsJnN46jpl344v9716wi_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: also in the news, the "gum wars" of the 80s. http://40.media.tumblr.com/RF2VdCBLi47dakvvoIKvQ6fh_500.jpg
mircea_popescu: more things that "couldn't have happened" etc.
mircea_popescu: "the man who really invented bitcoin" has a lot to explain re my cock up his throat.
mircea_popescu: like the scam foundation never pushed bfl and so forth.
mircea_popescu: trinque let them get invested, all the more shit to pretend like "never happened".
mircea_popescu: and iirc xapo founder was trying his darndest to elicit attention here to little result.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> that's the new usg catchword for 'bitcoin agrees to quietly kill itself because That Is How The World Works' ? << in a word, yes.
trinque: now it's "Get in there, you world-changer! Make your mark!" and piss on our every monument
trinque: I must've been one of a handful of USian kids in the last generation taught respect, if nothing else
trinque: moonpunter: that invention... you didn't make that
moonpunter: leave it to boston
assbot: Appeals court reverses ruling that found NSA program illegal ... ( http://bit.ly/1WY3CzS )
trinque: ;;later tell BingoBoingo http://phys.org/news/2015-08-appeals-court-reverses-nsa-illegal.html << perhaps a qntra
assbot: Meet Gavin Andresen, the Most Powerful Person in the World of Bitcoin | MIT Technology Review ... ( http://bit.ly/1WY3uAx )
trinque: http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/527051/the-man-who-really-built-bitcoin/ << mind-bogglingly disrespectful to one of the greatest inventors in recent history
assbot: Gavin Andresen on Why Bitcoin Will Become Unreliable Next Year Without an Urgent Fix | MIT Technology Review ... ( http://bit.ly/1WY3pNa )
trinque: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/540921/the-looming-problem-that-could-kill-bitcoin/ << front page, MIT Tech Review are scum. ☟︎
thestringpuller: reminds me of tv show wehre characters are like "Is Molly his wife or his dog?"
ascii_field: (though i have cats orbiting the house)
phf: livecode a 20mb block support to golang btcd
cazalla: make all the things with other aspiring blockchain developers, what else?
ascii_field: wtf am i to do there.
cazalla: i would pay to watch a live stream of you in that room
ascii_field: betcha mircea_popescu will especially love 'Hear from Xapo's founder Wences Casares, who has been called 'patient zero' for bitcoin in Silicon Valley, on his deal to monetise micropayments in bitcoin with Argentina's biggest social network.'
ascii_field: not even trying to pretend otherwise, l0l
ascii_field: 'Organisations like PayPal, Wells Fargo, the US Department of Justice and leading technologists and investors were among the buyers of our first batch of tickets.'
ascii_field: that's the new usg catchword for 'bitcoin agrees to quietly kill itself because That Is How The World Works' ?
assbot: Consensus 2015 - TimesCenter, New York, 10th September ... ( http://bit.ly/1JCmYVz )
cazalla: implies most, if not all exchanges are coughing up customer info upon request too
assbot: Silk Road prosecutors talk about Bitcoin, Ripple and money laundering ... ( http://bit.ly/1JCmM8Y )
cazalla: cannot find it in logs, but whoever mentioned the coindesk pop up spam regarding their conference.. just read this tidbit "..For instance Coindesk putting on this event: it's funded by Citibank, the conventional financial industry, rather than purely libertarian, screw the government kind of thing."
mircea_popescu: ascii_field not like it's this-or-that.
ascii_field: i'd rather have uncle al's room temp supercon
mircea_popescu: ah more of that yttrium-manganese stuff.
ben_vulpes: where do you think intel gets its cheap post docs?
ben_vulpes: girls resorted to passing each other notes out of boredom once we descended into the crystal structure.
ben_vulpes: saw the guy speak a month or so ago. rather entertaining.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: dja hear about the new indigo compound?
mircea_popescu: JERRY: (sarcastically)Ya, then maybe baldness will catch on. This will all be turning your way.
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: Really? (Jerry shakes his head) Maybe this will become like a cool thing, living with your parents.
cazalla: amusing that 20 years on, George no longer looks like typical fat American ☟︎
mircea_popescu: anyway, let it be said that joining isis is both morally sounder and economically wiser a choice than applying to any us college.