440300+ entries in 0.273s
mircea_popescu: of
their
time (at
their prime,
that is), on
their own. << in no way did
they do
this.
they merely went around with a horde of gypsies, chinese, etc. heck,
the siege of byzantium used a hungarian cannonmaster.
mircea_popescu: in other news : i am satisfied
that
the 363730 fork and
the 363730-363736 dead chain contain nothing remarkable from a "hey guise
they switched out
the blokchanin" perspective. so i'm letting
this rest.
mircea_popescu: cazalla ah
the mystery unravels,
they wanted
the guy as ceo so as
to buy some legitimacy for something stupid
they want
to do.
ag3nt_zer0: "While Western mathematicians often claim Western mathematics is universal, anti-racist mathematics and ethnomathematics scholars share
the assumption
that any given mathematical understanding or practice is a product of a particular culture.[4] Scholars such as C. K. Raju have advocated multicultural mathematics, in which different cultures can develop different forms of mathematics."
danielpbarron: funny
too because I have
tail -f ~/.bitcoin/debug.log going 24/7 but as a way of monitoring it
danielpbarron: yes I now see why
that would be better and feel foolish for
the way I had been doing it
trinque departs
to pick up new puter
danielpbarron: i'm sure I can manually feed it blocks or whatever
the fix is, but my 0.5.3.1-beta node didn't need manual intervention / is currently synced
assbot: Logged on 15-07-2015 01:55:19;
trinque: asciilifeform: could always accept
them directly
then
turn into USD
through
the usual channels
danielpbarron: you want me
to boot it up? I bet it will still be wedged as I haven't done anything
to it
trinque: I can
toss a 50 into
the goodwill box anonymously, but not BTC
trinque: if so, it plainly illustrates
the degree
to which
these
things have crept forward..
mats: for
the folks cashing btc, prob
trinque: well I'm not sure, is
there a sort of AML/KYC equivalent for donations?
mats: plenty of middlemen
to be had for
the right price as far as i can see
trinque: or CAD or whatever
they like best
trinque: asciilifeform: could always accept
them directly
then
turn into USD
through
the usual channels
☟︎ danielpbarron: mats> NATO would also presumably be happy
to sell
their enemies ammo for
the right price << reminds me of Milo from Catch-22
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 14-07-2015 23:21:27;
trinque: so don't use bitpay, guy
mats: NATO would also presumably be happy
to sell
their enemies ammo for
the right price
mats: no reason why
they can't subsist on ru supply chain indefinitely
BingoBoingo: ISIS
takes state of
the art fighting weapons and USia spends Imperial
treasure on F-35 redefining state of
the art as shittier
trinque: that's not really fair,
they are also whatever's left of saddam's army
trinque: these are a bunch of
twitter-posting imbeciles with AKs
trinque: and
then held down a vast empire with a sane legal system and so on
trinque: state of
the art fighting
techniques
too
assbot: Logged on 14-07-2015 22:54:38;
trinque: mongols had a khan
mod6: BingoBoingo: i was kinda
thinkin
the same
thing, could be a market for someone
to just ship a drive ready
to go.
assbot: Logged on 14-07-2015 22:54:23; pete_dushenski: instead
they have -dozens- of fiefdoms, all pledging allegiance
to an ideology and a black flag
BingoBoingo was planning if acquired mac mini
to install max ram, max sub $200 SSD, OpenBSD 5.6, Set up SSH keys, bitcoind sync, and ship
trinque: that was a lulzy job; worked on software for
those ebay pawn shops
trinque: we (which is
to say
they) used it at an old shitty php job
BingoBoingo: Saw at Godaddy in
the past... Apparently powers
their shared hosting
BingoBoingo: Want machine
to live in datacenter, not eating home bandwidth. getting maximal bitcoind connections at min dollars
BingoBoingo: Also configure at home seems like a nice alternative
to cpanel dedibortion or vps.
BingoBoingo: Colo host
to get box out of house so I don't have
to see macbomination
BingoBoingo: Most of
these services seem
to have a daily charge for
troubleshooting with
their KVM adapters
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (the jacks have
to line up with
the holes, no?) Only eth0 jack matters... Arts&Crafts
BingoBoingo: May
try shoving pc engines in mac mini chassis
BingoBoingo: Would use
to run many-connections bitcoin node plus services, and maybe a couple static html pages
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well I'm looking at services like
this
http://macstadium.com/colo and a few other options
that go down
to $25-26, but so far
this one has
the least objectional
terms
BingoBoingo: I might start mailing some of
these people about whenther
they
take machines smaller
than mac mini at mac mini rate
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Looking used.
Trying
to find hosts
that
take similar machines for colo at similar prices.
BingoBoingo getting
tempted into a mac mini by cheap machine spacific colo offers
trinque: I wonder if a local
tech company went under
trinque: probably
true, given what it is
BingoBoingo: Voat just has growing pains.
The fat hate movement isn't
the only
thing carrying Voat anymore.