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pete_dushenski: "Ultimately, Szabo, Dushenski, Mircea Popescu and Garzik agree
that
tampering with
the block size will only make
the blockchain heavy and insecure. “The biggest challenge ahead isn’t “bringing Bitcoin
to
the people” or some such nonsense, it’s in maintaining a sufficient number of nodes
to relay and verify
transactions.
This is challenging issue
that has yet
to be fully addressed,” explained Dushenski."
pete_dushenski: explained by Pete Dushenski, an author at Qntra and Contravex,
the Bitcoin blockchain is like a city and
the height of its walls is
the network’s hashrate."
pete_dushenski: "Cryptographer and digital currency researcher Nick Szabo, who many believe
to be
the real identity behind Satoshi Nakamoto, has stated
that a rapid block size increase is “a huge security risk” and “a reckless act
to be performing on a $4 billion system.” Szabo made
the remarks as part of
the ongoing debate over
the Bitcoin block size, which continues
to draw in major players from across
the community. As
trinque: I'm going
to live among
the lovers of capitalism for a while again, and I'll see whether
the weather here was actually worth it
BingoBoingo: If I get
this jerb I'll be moving back
to Little Egypt
trinque: incidentally I'm moving
the fuck back
to
texas in a couple weeks :D
BingoBoingo: williamdunne: Why is scoopbot_revived So slow
to IRC while
tweeting?
trinque: damn, I need
to start using progre as a slur
mircea_popescu: "Saucius at quadrupes nota intra
tecta refugit, successitgue gemens stabulis; questuque cruentus atque imploranti similis,
tectum omne replevit."
mircea_popescu: "And so it is and so it comes and so he every
time succumbs :
pete_dushenski: montaigne had a bit about
this in his essay 'of cruelty'
mircea_popescu: and yes, senna was maybe
the best driver f1 ever had.
top 10 for sure. it is bad
that he died, it is WORSE
that schumacher couldn't have died if he wanted
to.
pete_dushenski: the benefits of having 1/10
the budget of
the boring ass leaders of
the pack
mircea_popescu: should be a biannual casualty.
the russians did more
to make f1 respectable
than any english speaker since 1994.
pete_dushenski:
https://twitter.com/KevTs/status/626468523930468352 << british vs. russian engineering
today. at least in f1. needless
to say,
the british
team is out of business and
the russian
team, which killed driver jules bianchi in 2014,
the first driver
to die in
the sport since ayrton senna in '94, continues under
the 'manor marrusia' brand.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't, obviously, because i guess it must be really pleasant
to be retarded.
mircea_popescu: that
the stupidity discounted as broken a century ago is still
the state of
the art for
these people should concern
them.
mircea_popescu: oh, "owned by all" in
the sense of owned discreetely by mike hearn ?
mircea_popescu: really, "owned by all" ? so what, i go in
there and edit stuff now ?
assbot: Logged on 17-08-2015 18:45:25; punkman: "That
the community communication channels,
the repositories, and any other likewise bitcoin assets, are public property and owned by
the community as a whole, not any one single individual nor a very small group of people. All steps must be
taken
to allow full access
to every individual
to
these assets and
to reduce fully or
to
the absolute minimum any and all barriers
to any and all access of
these a
BingoBoingo: Not
to mention
the coinfire people who started a "premium" subscription deal and stopped posting
BingoBoingo: Like a
taint. It should be readily visible, but
the scrotum is in
the way.
mircea_popescu: who, very far from being unrepentant shitsacks, are really nice and good and everything. just, whenevere
they leav
to make a new one, SOMEONE keeps bringing some sacked shit and
throwing it everywhere.
mircea_popescu: because clearly,
the problem of coingraph or w/e wasn't
the idiots manning it.
mircea_popescu: the solution
to "We're stupid" is
to make .... A NEW COUNTRY!!!!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> going by
that "illumination"
thing on medium, i would be surprised if
the guy could write something
that could make it on qntra << Depends on
the subject
they
try
to
tackle, but questions abound.
mircea_popescu: going by
that "illumination"
thing on medium, i would be surprised if
the guy could write something
that could make it on qntra
BingoBoingo: Seriously. OH HAI NO QNTRA WITH
TRANSPARENT CONTROLLING OWNERSHIP EXISTS. COntinue
to Derpograph.
mircea_popescu: o hey, check out all
the
things
that matter according
to people who don't.
mircea_popescu remembers
the early dasys past dot-com bubble, when people were like, genuinelky
trying
to get linux
to work.
BingoBoingo: Still,
this is his biggest contribution
to any Unix-liek system evar
mircea_popescu: "high
tech smoke detectors" << imagine my surprise when i discover he was being literal.
pete_dushenski: back in
the days before gender-fair pronouns were all
the rage
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes knocked up his wife and he still maintains
thefoundation
pete_dushenski: used
to be bablogs.btcscoop.net or something
to
that effect
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform except it's not
theirs,
they prolly lifted it from one of
the military
texts of
the 40s, and if you're a company selling colorizer glasses why
the fuck would you want people NOT
to "steal" your dumb diagnosios shit
pete_dushenski: but petey when and knocked up his wife and forget
to maintain dat shit
kakobrekla: that womans
text is downright insulting.
mircea_popescu: " We
thank everybody for sharing
their perception as
together we will make new findings."
ascii_field: 'how will we keep folks from lifting
this
test'
mircea_popescu: couldn't just fucking put a bunch of pics up and go "this one is 9
thius one is 5"
mircea_popescu: well
the enchroma website
test does not work, becausew being "made in
the usa"
they gotta be all fucktarded and wrap it all in js and whatnot
BingoBoingo: "
This post is Michael Larabel's greatest contribution
to Linux. "
assbot: Mike owns a little more
than 100 BTC. What incentive do
the other Bitcoin Core developers have
to improve
the system? : bitcoinxt ... (
http://bit.ly/1NoN4Nl )
BingoBoingo: <kakobrekla> by 'expert in neuromarketing' << It's been
trendy is USia for about 6 years now. Basically Psychologist who
took a couple bsns classes
BingoBoingo doesn't have
the greatest hearing. Pretty sure
tuba is
too blame.
ascii_field: used
to be a common n00b electronics project
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> (and hear far past 22khz) << Could be useful for steganography
targeted
to dogs
BingoBoingo: Who
truly would without giving Satan you precious SNPs
BingoBoingo would not be surprised if alf was
the incredibly rate
tetrochromat
trinque: ascii_field: heh, and yet
they still
tell you
to buy
the glasses
ascii_field took
the
test, is pretty sure he hallucinated digits where
there were none, but
the only output was 'normal'
BingoBoingo: jurov: You are missing out. Great "Southern" dish. Pull up
the peanut plant before
the nuts brown and
they cook delicious. Just don't keep well green so it a sort of necessarily local delicacy
to places
that can grow peanuts.
mircea_popescu: ever since kindergarten ppl
thought i'm jus fucking with
them
mircea_popescu: i am colorblind, but it's not exactly
the common version.
BingoBoingo: jurov: You've never had fried or stewed peanuts as an accompanyment
to catfish?
BingoBoingo: jurov: If fried
they better be green. If roasted, brown.
ascii_field: idk about
this 'enchroma', but i got
the opposite: my 'eizo' lcd panels have a button
that selectably simulates
two
types of colour blindness...
punkman: I
think it'd be easier on
the eyes if it only coloured
the names
shinohai: Does
this make me look gaaaaaaaaaay?
jurov: riiight, i dream of KYC-enablement all
the
time
mike_c: kakobrekla: j/k :)
the pastels are beautiful.
trinque: kakobrekla: I would like
to invest all my doge in your logs hosting shartup
punkman: trinque should make deedbot accept signed colours which assbot will use
to colour
the logs!