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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: often, they are not.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: depends whether the address lines are all brought out on the pcb
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu 3 more or 3 total ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu ok mister, you've got one more year!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu your article's title had me hoping for a deeper explanation into 'oficialismo' ...
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu i cant run .7 for more than a day on system x, runs .8 endlessly
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu> did jack. < no leak in newer version, so they actually fixed it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cheapest means of getting a unit with arbitrarily expandable storage is to pick one with usb lines
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you have a favourite piece of hardware in mind? preferably one which you know to be readily available around the world.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it would be quite simple to distribute a binary image that a monkey could pipe to usb flash and insert. for man, rather than monkey, one would prefer a 'thebitcoin.foundation'-style cookbook with signed configs/patches...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm not certain, however, that 'edgerouter' would be the optimal candidate for the mega-cheap node. the device itself is around 100 usd, and a decently large flash drive is yet again a quarter of that.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: near the end of that page there is a script for cross-compile to mips on a larger machine (e.g. x86)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: router... instructions << see this site: http://rtfm.net/FreeBSD/ERL >> the only modification is, take a larger usb flash drive, follow his gpart resize instructions.
davout: mircea_popescu: 60 million french people
nijotz: mircea_popescu: danke
davout: mircea_popescu: how will it know theymos is around if doesn't hang out in a chan where gribble also idles?
mthreat: mircea_popescu: hadn't seen that article... but lots of ex-germans in them there parts of patagonia
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2015 20:46:00; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... if anyone could be arsed to publish a guide on 'how to turn commercially available router into btc full node' << the gadget i mentioned earlier, plus process, only need a larger - 64G+ - usb drive, to make this go. but i did not publish instructions, because did not think anyone wanted this.
ben_vulpes: <jurov> don't copy that stuff here then. can cause murderous rage for mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes and others << my murderous rage reservoir is depleted
jurov: mircea_popescu: animals on book covers
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i guess no good reason.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mind-blowing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... i have a coupla derps im paying via bitpay << lol!! srsly ? in usa, no less?
mircea_popescu: jurov: don't copy that stuff here then. can cause murderous rage for mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes and others << j knows.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Some derp "scam spotting" service.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ideal candidate for an instant pocket-sized ~100 usd (largely cost of eeprom) node - miniature 'nas' devices. there are at least half a dozen manufacturers. not hard to do.
davout: mircea_popescu: lol tis barcelona <<< the one with the mcdonalds flag is totally amsterdam
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... if anyone could be arsed to publish a guide on 'how to turn commercially available router into btc full node' << the gadget i mentioned earlier, plus process, only need a larger - 64G+ - usb drive, to make this go. but i did not publish instructions, because did not think anyone wanted this. ☟︎
STRML: mircea_popescu: working in linux mint as well, although I get a message about an invalid armor header
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: theymos is 24? Fuck I'm getting old.
Naphex: mircea_popescu: was using HP Proliants for a while, had one that the whole 8x raid array just barked, as soon as i replaced 1 hdd, the other would fail
Naphex: mircea_popescu: doubt anyone was monitoring those servers. HDD's give quite a few warnings before blowing up. Especially in raid setups
Naphex: mircea_popescu: yeah, i've heard. which makes it way worsse
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Post is updated this morning to include their claim of hdd failure
davout: mircea_popescu: not enough donations it appears
davout: mircea_popescu: you're such a mean harassing and hateful individual, also privilege
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: more or less that "there were peepul!"
ben_vulpes: http://bubblear.com/224-accusation-unrest-last-nights-nisman-protest/ << mircea_popescu, for contrast to your claims re nisman silence
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Sure, but that way there's less yelling at people.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: "collectible" gold coins instead of... "Fuck you this is gold" scam.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: To an extent. His relationship with particular gold vendors though apes Keiser's relationship with Aurora coin though. The "pay premium for particular coins" sort of scam
punkman: mircea_popescu: driving adoption in africa and central asia, god help you. < imagining asian version of tips from husband now, scary
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: in a sense bubles have asymptotes?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: well santa clause is allowed to BNE on the 25th me thoughts
assbot: Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user sturles: Level 1: 4, Level 2: 39 via 22 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/mircea_popescu/sturles | http://w.b-a.link/user/sturles
kakobrekla: !gettrust mircea_popescu sturles
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.sturles.4:3f9276f8f535402206a2b3271e74982696f84b71b759729a2837bbf58b0b7b15
jurov: don't copy that stuff here then. can cause murderous rage for mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes and others
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: If they did, they haven't done it well
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: nah, it was great for the adobe suite
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what was that again ? << That time my personal blog was featured on /. thrice with no resistance.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Basically slashdot has "votes" but they get allotted at unpredicatable time intervals and expire.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Where was this?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> decimation Luke-Jr generally pretends that things he doesn't like don't actually exist. this is the case in pretty much every line he utters, crafted to support his particular mental issues. << Things like Popes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's more of a forest fire, and will burn until there is nothing to burn.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for something consuming itself, it's astonishingly alive and kicking.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The founding of the funded blawg http://blog.ameliagreenhall.com/post/what-it-was-like-to-co-found-model-view-culture-with-shanley-kane
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Only at the start. Deviating so far from LJ is why it had a hardfork crisis the coredevs lost.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: And this is why I never got the appeal of 4chan except as distilled in retrospectives though Encyclopedia Dramatica
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: To pay the, worked for a cloud bullshit company, violated the non-compete, and needed merit washed.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Indeed.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, like ChangeTip she too recieved venture capital for a blog.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: She's the one who said something to the effect of Linux community needing to grow the balls to expel Linus or some shit.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] i don't know anyone that seriously thinks they have a model on it << severely lacking in the whole conversation
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Good, but Exceptionally good against Serena specifically.
pete_dushenski: undata mircea_popescu the term for this being, of course, iatrogenics
undata: mircea_popescu: I read your piece recently on how enfranchising all makes for significantly less representation in the society
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That's on the unpublished chart.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it contains literally 90% of what i know re: boyscouts.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see song, 'be prepared', tom lehrer
mats: mircea_popescu: ensuring others have room to save face is one of my varied sins
davout: mircea_popescu: when in doubt, make a ruby framework
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: spur of the moment.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's straight out of my arse.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this re: the merge-mining thing ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, maybe he accidentally invented it cleaning. I mean bleach disinfects and ETOH disinfects. Maybe he really wanted to get his piss dribblings off of the bathroom tile?
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: I agree, the only model is what actually ends up happening. I think the miners will get a taste for that inelasticity and jealously defend it. I think Gavin & co fear that more than anything else
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: because I think the tx fee is inelastic to the point that it’s doubtful the limit will ever be raised
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: I was interested in hearing gavin defend tx fee elasticity, not much else
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.felipelalli.-1:ce71215acbced2ee28e23af75dd7b767e6314f260038f4c916a1aa81cb263c6e
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Earlier he said his bouncer was getting DoS...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see also 'stotting'
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: pity conformal isn't better known. << how so? << they did all sorts of things for "the community" to be able to use their own stuff, which the community isn't doing because... well i guess more because lazy and stupid, but hey.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it goes very well with the usg approach to target selection. which is the 'texas sharpshooter' algorithm.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform the 2nd is particularly pernicious because of the "good enough" approach. "what do you mean bitcoin transactions can't be used to identify anything ? here's a list of derps we know for a fact, they're 50% of the blockchain spam" << Reasons to never use a public Electrum server for people wondering about "Lite" wallets.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: http://qntra.net/2014/12/changetip-raises-3-5-million-lead-by-pantera-capital/
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Believe it or not it got a VC round, raised money
Adlai: mircea_popescu: eta on D.CTIP?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: find you and what? they get to eat out of a fixed trough, no faster than they are fed.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one of the reasons i took the sweat to set up a civilized routing stack at home
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: packet shaping is a glorious thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: them.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: notice how similar his flavour of muppetronics is to that of mr. spam
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i for one did not expect this to be so brazenly demonstrated, so quickly, as it was.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: this gives me the impression that...maybe this is bitpay's handlers driving this nonsense
davout: mircea_popescu: ic
davout: mircea_popescu thestringpuller the accountant can account for the value paymium's coin in whatever fiat he fancies, he can go fuck himself before we sell it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: something that takes an ever rarer class of chump to believe.
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2015 01:56:34; mircea_popescu: right about at the time they tarred and feathered that asinine idiot who said they should wash hands
thestringpuller: i figured it out! gavinandresen and mircea_popescu are the same person!