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mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-03-2016#1422884 << well, the privacy risks aren't exactly dubious in that i don't atm see how ring signatures would prevent miner cartel from attacking bitbet. except, of course, if predicated on "miners are lazy and dumb". which is true - until they aren't. much like ants are lazy and dumb, until they get into the fridge, at which point they'll dumbly&lazily never want to leave.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 22-05-2014 17:00:58; asciilifeform: re: 'monero': 'Egalitarian proof of work'
<< do we need to read past this line ?
BingoBoingo:
<danielpbarron> my wwwtron seems to have recovered on its own.. working for now if you want to try
<< take this opportunity to flense. It's seriously 90%+ of making wordpress www worthy
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo?
<< was a thing, don't recall exact link or quote
mircea_popescu: deedbot-> [Qntra] Correction Takes Bitcoin Network Difficulty Down 3.1%
<<< curious if the drops till july will add up to 50% or not.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> jurov feel free to fuzz, crashing it every which way will make a somewhat lulzy qntra piece
<< Jurov takes are always welcome
mircea_popescu: "I am offering a 14 Bitcoin Bounty leading to the arrest, conviction, AND return of my 28 Bitcoins that were stolen from me."
<< fancy that idiocy.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron> this having a blog thing is pretty sweet; wish I started it sooner!
<< HA!
mircea_popescu: "This patch also fixes a memory leak of opt.keyserver en passant."
<< first rule of koch, drepper, weiner & all nsa goons : ALWAYS bundle new vulns with memory leak fixes etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> ~nobody wants to admit
<< nobody wants to admit except for the guy that's been saying it for years. yeh!
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> perhaps i had everything backwards
<< which is exactly my metapoint here. for as long as such can occur, it is CLEAR we don't have the perimeter of this thing yet.
trinque: This feature is independent of --use-tor and automagically uses Tor if available.
<< wahahahahaha
hanbot:
<mircea_popescu> i did not.
<< you saw it, you didn't like it
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> the net-as-publictoilet era will e
<< and this is exactly the situation we have now, except we don't like the miners.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo what's the cannonical article re pres. bahamas, witgh the pic ? the asean one ?
<< yes
mircea_popescu: specifically : "
<jurov> after several months of screaming STUPIDITY and listing NAT.ROUTERS and whatnot"
<< you propose i did what ?
mircea_popescu: jurov> no conflict resolution = free memory for attacker
<< you drop stuff under minfee.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> but 'seen first is The One' is asinine.
<< srsly.
mircea_popescu: jurov> (i actually did the prototype, noone picked it up yet, really gnarly)
<< yeah i know it's rather miserable.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo should i do a small piece on argentina or really too far off scope ?
<< Go for it
mircea_popescu: not that. "National superconducting cyclotron"
< that.
mircea_popescu: TomServo>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2016#1414960 << Any suggested reading on this topic?
<< mid 1800s, galveston was the world's cotton center. by the 1900s, dallas had overtaken it as the center of texas. lots of discussion of this change that's emblematic from a more general shift from "midwest = great american desert" to "we built some pumps and whatnot, let's farm and raise cattle" to "holy shit
☝︎ mircea_popescu: punkman> "They are giving us 90 days paid working notice, one-month severance, and $2500 in money for retraining."
<<< pretty generous.
trinque: asciilifeform │ this whole thing is 'ukranian space program' - 'we'll fly to the sun! at night!'
<< bahahaha dear god my sides
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> ~the~ iq test.
<< "variant thought" and iq are at best orthogonal.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> like short circuit in electronics.
<< For live examples see brainwallets
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> vote for Vermin!11
<< This general election course of action
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2016 00:49:41; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-03-2016#1421236 << fancy that, i've just been to an incredibly shitty "super hip" bar here. nice tall ceilings, that the idiots took to defending against with some inept iron grating to make the seats all boxed in. live band, so fucking bad it had more in common with static noise than music.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> in other news - hilary apparently attacked trump, and with a total loser speech. it's all over, he's winning
<< It was Romney, but really no diff
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2016 19:05:18; pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-03-2016#1420808 << i took in the alberta ballet's nutcracker in december, which is the local company. there were no more than 3 of the cast who could actually dance. the rest were trying to 'fake it till you make it', which drove me up the wall, particularly when the mouth-breathing audience took it upon themselves to give the sorry lot a standing o.
pete_dushenski: "Following that last year "Justice" Department regulators refused permission to Swedish firm Electrolux's efforts to unburden General Electric of this line of business by acquiring it for 3.3 billion"
<< idem.
pete_dushenski: "appliance business have become public knowledge twice before."
<< this parse funny to anyone else ?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> ...
<< BingoBoingo if that was you, and it was, you linked to an article of mine that said nothing re: miners...
<< Known, but gotta get people reading because lord knows /. story approvers don't
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-03-2016#1420812 << hahaha i had this exact same debate with fillie at guggenheim bilbao over serra's 'the matter of time'. she fucking hated it, i defended it, but probably to play foil as much as anything. this was a few years ago however, though i do still see his works once or twice a year in toronto's pearson airport ('tilted spheres'). i will grant them their ability to bre
☝︎ pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-03-2016#1420808 << i took in the alberta ballet's nutcracker in december, which is the local company. there were no more than 3 of the cast who could actually dance. the rest were trying to 'fake it till you make it', which drove me up the wall, particularly when the mouth-breathing audience took it upon themselves to give the sorry lot a standing o.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> what does this mean ?
<< that he's using prb and never looked inside for sheer horror