423500+ entries in 0.264s
punkman: "the move was a "one-off depreciation" of 1.9% in a move
to make
the exchange rate more market-oriented. "
Vexual: thought on
the yuan ounk?
punkman: reddit is getting
too much airtime
assbot: yayalorde comments on "Hearing
these poor women desperately begging us
to
take
their credit card numbers so
they could put up an ad
to feed
their families changed everything." ... (
http://bit.ly/1El0PFz )
shinohai: Have you guys seen
that other voat-like site
that popped up in
the wake of
the reddit brouhaha? Lets you "upvote" with pencil-shavings of btc, ltc, and doge.
shinohai: That's
true, most of
these "opinions" are just regurgitated
talk from
the guy
that commented above you.
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Oh, I
thought
they were
too busy
trying
to stay up.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: See. Opinions can have an effect
though if
they are actionable and acted upon.
shinohai: No, reddit prefers
to offer
their opinions on bitcoin, as if
that helps.
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> Here is a different story. If someone expresses an interest in
therealbitcoin I want
to help, because more nodes. << First lesson of reddit is randos don't run nodes
BingoBoingo: In my current situation knowingly servicing
the drug crowd for pay is
too much risk. I'm out on bail. If
they want
to even ask for my service and get acknowledged
they need GPG down already.
shinohai: Here is a different story. If someone expresses an interest in
therealbitcoin I want
to help, because more nodes.
shinohai: Well BingoBoingo
those space cadets I mentioned earlier are perfectly happy
to *pay* for an hour or
two of my
time, and are surprisingly apt students.
They gotta be - No GPG = No drugs.
BingoBoingo: When
the last pre-0.8 wedge came
through I suspected it was a BDB issue but alf was
the one
to euthanize it at
the root.
☟︎ Vexual: that dude uses his
time as he pleases
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Consider if someone wastes an hour of my
time, I've usually got lots of
time. No big deal. If on
the other hand
that person manages
to waste 15 minutes of asciilifeform's
time we have experienced a
tragic loss.
shinohai: But what can ya do, all one can do is present
the facts and hope it penetrates someoes
thick skull and finds fetile brain matter on which
to germinate.
BingoBoingo: I mean if someone can't follow instructions other people succeed on.
Time spent is a waste. Wasting
that
time is a resource
to be attacked.
shinohai: I was about ready
to give up on bitcoin until I found
this place.
BingoBoingo: shinohai:
The Phillipenis accepts
that sure. But we've been under a variety of sustained attacks for a while. I'm getting
to
the point now where I really have
trouble assuming n00bs are well intentioned like I may have in 2013.
shinohai: No one wants
to *do* anything BingoBoingo,
they like instant validation you get by repeating whatever someone says on r/bitcoin now.
☟︎ Vexual: bassbot has me ignore, ill need some fierce lsd
to calc
BingoBoingo: This may be
the waning
time of helping people
to get into
the WoT
shinohai: The agora crowd can learn GPG while spaced out on LSD, shouldn't be
that hard.
BingoBoingo: At some point
though people are going
to help
themselves.
shinohai: I don't mind
trying
to help someone, like I stated earlier I just didn't have my crayons handy for
the
type of approach he needed.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Well if someone he's getting syn's at
their brain ack'd it's
the same as what happens at
the internet socket
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 08:33:14; BingoBoingo: shinohai: I
told n6
to just install OpenBSD.
Then he found a guide
to set up a "desktop" which convinced him
to edit fstab (treat as read only). Got him
to reinstall and find a saner guide. Didn't check his hardware and because Nvidia his resolution is painful. Directed
to keep reading man pages.
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> I spent 2-3 hours in PM's
trying
to get him up
to speed on gpg and stuff << Going into
the future
this is a serious meat DoS attack vector
BingoBoingo: After
that he forgot his GPG password and I quit
shinohai: I spent 2-3 hours in PM's
trying
to get him up
to speed on gpg and stuff
BingoBoingo: shinohai: I
told n6
to just install OpenBSD.
Then he found a guide
to set up a "desktop" which convinced him
to edit fstab (treat as read only). Got him
to reinstall and find a saner guide. Didn't check his hardware and because Nvidia his resolution is painful. Directed
to keep reading man pages.
☟︎ Vexual: shinohai, you're
texan?
shinohai: n6 finally decided what distro
to use? After naming off like 20 yesterday?
BingoBoingo: cazalla: n6 managed
to. Just needs 6 months
to catch up
to civilized folk.
shinohai: I'm not much in
the politics arena, it will have
to be something along
the lines of shitcoin or redditard bashing.
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 06:03:32;
trinque: BingoBoingo: OpenBSD is probably a much better n00b suggestion
shinohai: One day I should like
to write something for qntra.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: "shitware" is one of qntra's oldest established
tags
cazalla: i had a few beers friday night but other
than
that, good
Vexual: as you know caz, aussies are hard
to kill
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 04:15:45; pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: me
think cazalla is on a similar hunt ?
funkenstein_: if capital controls were effective,
there would be differences
BingoBoingo: <funkenstein_> i was at first surprised how easily it appears for people
to arb. CNH/USD/BTC << And hen you actually
try it
funkenstein_: i was at first surprised how easily it appears for people
to arb. CNH/USD/BTC
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: As a strength each Mad Max installment is completely independent. In order of interesting I rate
then 2.4.3.1
mats: funkenstein_: I imagine
the particular use arises from
the nearly daily management of
the rate
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> china's been
the biggest for what, 5 years ? << Same reason Zynga is an ongoing concern instead of a cauterized wound
pete_dushenski: i can't for
the life of me understand why all
the news about china's currency devaluation is all '2nd largest global economy' blah blah re: china.
BingoBoingo: Really every Mad Max except for
the original is great
funkenstein_: mats, ok.. but isn't
that what zimbabwe central bank did
too?
☟︎ mats: yes, mad max originals are boring compared
to fury road
pete_dushenski: i
tried watching
the original, 10 minutes was all i could
take.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski:
The way you enjoy car culture some Immortan Joe seems necessary
BingoBoingo: Pumping Iron is good, but
the Starz movie champs seems
to cover a yet more masculine competition
BingoBoingo: trinque: Of course if you've not seem
the previous Mad Max sequels best
to follow its watchings with 2,
thunderdome,
then a rewatching
pete_dushenski: s awesome scene. " << par for
the 2015 meta-movie course
pete_dushenski: "This part looks so awesome
that Mad Max even pauses during
the action just
to watch people blow up. It's as if he knows he's acting in
this awesome movie and he's getting paid
to do his job, but even he can't help but sit back and
think about how cool his life is going
to be after
this movie and how he's going
to spend
the rest of his life getting his knob polished by conjoined supermodel
twins for being in
thi
funkenstein_: "tightly controlled currency" in what sense do you
think mats?
trinque: study your gentoo install in
the meanwhile.
trinque: Varia_Varietat+| Guys I forgot
the passphase on
the key I just made. << wahahaha!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> less bats moar fist. << But dat leverage
the bat offers
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
That. Or like Elliptic curve in lieu of RSA
BingoBoingo though anyways SHA-3 was proposed entirely on
the pretense of "speed"
wilbns: authoritarian? Or is it just
the excuse
to get
the word OBEY up everywhere?"
wilbns: anything about
the artistic, historical, or “anti-propaganda” significance of all
this—really anti-
wilbns: that a lot of young people are wearing shirts with
the words OBEY on
them—without knowing
wilbns: excerpt: "We are
told
that
the OBEY sign, with or without
the GIANT sign, is anti-authoritarian. But is
the fact
mats: well, hand-waving aside, "SHA-3 has no known security issues, whereas SHA-1, MD5, and SHA-512 are susceptible
to length-extension. SHA-1 and MD5 are vulnerable
to collision attacks, which are expensive for SHA-1, but which are cheap and allow chosen-prefixes for MD5."
BingoBoingo: Related: "I stopped going
to school because people were kicking my ass" - Mike
Tyson
mircea_popescu: because
they make very strictly no difference whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: and
this without any discussion of
the merits. as great as
they may be. and without even reading
them.
mircea_popescu: not like
the us police implements
the rules dreamed up byu
the supreme soviet of north korea
mircea_popescu: and
there's nothing wrong with it being a closed process, either. other
than - don't expect folks whoi aren't politically alligned
to give a slightest fuck.