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decimation: mircea_popescu: you mean running bdb as a separate process?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even if the work of a policeman consisted solely in going to a doughnut shop and eating a kg of garbage every day, so long as he -must- -- that is still work.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to some extend it exactly mirrors the bitcoind situation - in that every serious user more or less has his own private fork.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gentoo << complicated. the lead dev surrendered to microshit (literally) some years ago, and it's been run by a skeleton crew ever since, with numerous high-profile catastrophes (of the 'your machine is suddenly rendered unusable by a perfectly innocent-looking action' variety) -- but there is -no- adequate replacement to this day.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i do not exactly believe b-a is intended for the workaday people. << do elaborate. should all of us but you & kako pack up? or some other thing implied << I believe for the rest #b-a is Frankenstein's attic laboratory
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do not exactly believe b-a is intended for the workaday people. << do elaborate. should all of us but you & kako pack up? or some other thing implied
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the discussion was not about 'enough money', but about the distinct and clearly identifiable phase transition where your time becomes 100% your own
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: however, ben himself wants a tower of hydrocarbons. and if he gets it, he'll want something else. << actually, afaik what he was speaking for is my escape rocket metaphor.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not from my puny brain.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's not a bad theory in any sense. got any policy proposals based on it ? << beyond 'open a physical empire where we can all defect to and die like men in the janissary corps' - no useful idea.
undata: mircea_popescu: yeah, the core is written in go, then services in whathaveyou
PeterL: mircea_popescu: fixed the blog site
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You'd probably be the only one in some other channel.
empyex: mircea_popescu: Health-Indicators: Homepage: √ MK Depth JSON: √ VWAP JSON: √
empyex: mircea_popescu: MPEx-Status: mpex.biz (116 milliseconds), mpex.bz (131 milliseconds), mpex.ws (350 milliseconds), mpex.coinbr.com (1681 milliseconds), mpex.co (error)
empyex: mircea_popescu: Proxies: mpex.biz mpex.co mpex.bz mpex.coinbr.com mpex.ws Current MPEx GPG-Key-ID: 02DD2D91
punkbot: mircea_popescu: No pending deeds | Last bundle 1 hour and 9 minutes ago
Anduck: mircea_popescu: you know the new monero/bitcoin rpg stuff by rpietila?
Anduck: mircea_popescu: remember, the people who you call 'idiots' may be living a happier life than you ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 20:12:52; punkbot: mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
punkbot: mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
punkbot: mircea_popescu: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
punkbot: mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: dupe)
punkbot: mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
punkbot: mircea_popescu: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: can anyone remember the title of that trilema article where mircea_popescu discloses how much he sold that 5% chunk of mpex for? << http://trilema.com/2013/smpoe-takes-strategic-investor/ ?
punkbot: mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
punkman: mircea_popescu: I think problem with that is that it stops at nested END PGP SIGNATURE, instead of the outer one
punkbot: mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
punkbot: mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
punkbot: mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
Anduck: mircea_popescu: as you saw, i tried without first
punkman: mircea_popescu: it disconnected and had to use alt name, guess I should set it up to revert to notary
Anduck: mircea_popescu: does it cost to use deed service?
pete_dushenski: can anyone remember the title of that trilema article where mircea_popescu discloses how much he sold that 5% chunk of mpex for?
nubbins`: <mircea_popescu> <undata> if I were russia, I'd wait for the US to go balls deep into the middle east again, and then I'd grab some of the north pole's oil, <<< obviously, you're not russia. <<< dat unfamilairity with arctic sovereignty claims
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Probably? Where to fix?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: From the gif where it did the salt licking
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Clam one of yours?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imagine if, e.g., the 'golden gate' bridge had been built by a retarded child. out of match sticks.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, sounds familiar, this story on trilema?
cazalla: mircea_popescu: certainly not a top hat. <<< maybe akubra? nfi on top hats but they have a solid rep
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: use laser separation.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, working but slowly http://pastebin.com/4XCDXVSi
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you sit down and think about it for a bit, you can figure out six different methods.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: give man a few days with ion beam workstation.
Adlai: mircea_popescu: playing around with the magnitude of "valuable" in http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2014#922718 ☝︎
thestringpuller: @mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't even think code as tight can still be made, much like you can't have a proper boot made... << oh but it can.
fivezerotwo: mircea_popescu, it's down, I'm sure. http://check-host.net/check-http?host=qntra.net
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 05:39:14; mircea_popescu: internet needs a canoniucal down domain
joecool: mircea_popescu: nginx or whatever other server you use on it crashed?
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 05:39:46; mircea_popescu: aha!
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 03:06:23; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu, qntra folks: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/lenta.html
assbot: Logged on 12-11-2014 00:20:12; mircea_popescu: i don't see you churning out an article a week about how "evil nato" and "nice putin"
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu, qntra folks: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/lenta.html ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 02:49:52; mircea_popescu: Adlai afaik there was never in the entire history of bitcoin proposed some sort of credible / evidenced based interepretation of wtf it does.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but we've no archive any more.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: plenty
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu will bang on about that at will
undata: mircea_popescu: still, controlling supply means having an influence on price
asciilifeform: either 'google' or mircea_popescu
undata: mircea_popescu: regarding the NSA conspiracy, it's amusing, but doesn't seem likely that they'd undermine fiat intentionaly
assbot: Logged on 09-04-2014 09:10:25; mircea_popescu: tbh im kinda surprised teh tradepress isn't howling all about "in january, 'Bitcoin Baron Keeps a Secretive Open Source OS Alive' ; in april, nsa's crown jool is thrown in the dirt of the public space."
gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask Adlai!~Adlai@gateway/tor-sasl/adlai. Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user Adlai: Level 1: 1, Level 2: 1 via 1 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=mircea_popescu&dest=Adlai | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=Adlai | Rated since: Sat Oct 11 10:15:58 2014
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2014 10:10:46; mircea_popescu: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4781 and it's really good, too.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually weizenbaum's story is more interesting than the 'prosteriority' lets on.
empyex: mircea_popescu: Next conference starts in 5 months and 3 days. Estimated cost today: 3.30951486 BTC (Details: http://trilema.com/2014/the-conference-third-edition/ )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu lets nothing go to waste.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are still 'few old guys.' they see the remaining many as impostors, but are not particularly afraid of them. they have pills for this ('obamacare' etc.)
undata: mircea_popescu: and the lamb laid down with the lion
undata: mircea_popescu: seems the hive would lose the ability to adapt without some mental youth elixir being invented alongside
asciilifeform: or what did mircea_popescu say.
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2014 21:44:39; mircea_popescu: a good example would be, a spontaneous determination to build itself a house,
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> any computer program of which identifiable components can be unambiguously named is not capable of displaying AI. << this obviously requires you to be allowed under the hood.
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> if the machine ends up housed within a house of its own making at the end of a process which was not either understood or its endpoint predictable by observers, well... iut;'s intelligent. <<< mis lados!!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: remember the self-evolving fpga?
undata: mircea_popescu: I'm still chewing on "different" how?
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> the argument is whether they're actually different. <<< in the sense that each game of wol is actually different
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-06-2014#700916 ☝︎
cazalla: mircea_popescu: cazalla http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/13/1344589/-Bitcoin-may-be-worth-1-million-says-Pal <<< great and informative article!
undata: mircea_popescu: american white trash who literally dress like clowns
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE_(%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this may actually be the very same filling as in 'bird's milk'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: jeffidiocy << there we go. herr lightoller's, too.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a skilled turdmeister (especially of the privvy-to-microshit-remote-orifice variety) will leave nothing to find.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when anyone bothers - very laboriously, largely manually-cranked.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking not of wallet stealing trojan, but of 'xxxx coin wandered off with no plausible explanation, forensic showed nothing untoward'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is why i mentioned schwartz example.
mats_cd03: mircea_popescu: to rephrase, the dollar would have lost 99.99% of its value on the trip to 1mn BTCUSD
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try to picture how bitcoin would have been treated, even in the embryonic stage, if the implications for the next xxx years from it, were entirely obvious to all.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on the vary basic level.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The homeless bitcoin camp
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol! you know actual 'j' users?!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I gave the viewport tag one last tweak, next step is yeah, just denying mobiles any styling at all beyond what they bring on their own
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://www.paymentssource.com/news/interchange/kim-kardashians-lessons-for-the-bitcoin-card-industry-3019708-1.html
assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 22:25:37; mircea_popescu: rithm: it's cryptowall now and from what i can tell it's infected sites like mom & pop's ruinning old WP/drupal/some CMS <<< yeah, stuff the shitheads in question don't maintain, then i have to answer biweekly questions of "is qntra down". off with their heads i say!
Naphex: mircea_popescu: BTCXchange offered SSL Authenticated with GlobalSign.EU, the registration certificate was posted. And all due dilligance info posted
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Not in any animal herds, but somehow children still get it
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But tis is the past!