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chetty: <mircea_popescu> none.//doing the pestering
chetty: <undata> mircea_popescu: what higher freedom than being unpestered for a bit exists?
undata: mircea_popescu: we all die in the end anyway
undata: mircea_popescu: well... that's all I'm after.
undata: mircea_popescu: what higher freedom than being unpestered for a bit exists?
undata: mircea_popescu: given "otherwise let the powers that be do their thing", I can likely implement the above in any moderately stable state
undata: mircea_popescu: I've told you what I want; you tell me why I can't have it.
undata: mircea_popescu: the above is in no way fanciful.
undata: mircea_popescu: I want my private property, my family, and my friends to be protected.
undata: mircea_popescu: so then... why would I want the social groups closest to me to be weak?
undata: mircea_popescu: in a time of fracture I'd expect that anyway though
undata: mircea_popescu: in the wake of a collapse wouldn't there be warfare to be expected?
Mikayla: lol mircea_popescu
undata: mircea_popescu: how developed was yugoslavia at the time? what other factors (economic, social) were involved?
undata: mircea_popescu: yes, militias tend to be drawn from the locale
Mikayla: lol mircea_popescu
PinkPosixPXE: mircea_popescu: yea, hehe, that's sort of how the nick evolved. Friends call me a variety of things like 'tinkerbell' etc.
Mikayla: mircea_popescu reported crimes
Mikayla: mircea_popescu statistics
Mikayla: mircea_popescu a baby is raped or killed every 3 seconds in Africa
Mikayla: mircea_popescu it happens A LOT
undata: mircea_popescu: man, progress everywhere...
undata: mircea_popescu: in the case of the stun gun, you might get a little zap yourself
undata: mircea_popescu | undata women suck at killing men. << in a violent society, what's to be done about this fact?
undata: mircea_popescu: I sort of want to ask "why did no one escort her if it's that dangerous?"
mircea_popescu: Mikayla hence "<mircea_popescu> Mikayla speaking of mob attack vibes, what's the situation there like, for a hot white gal ? to judge by the media reports it's nothing but a rapefest."
undata: mircea_popescu: maybe when the US falls apart I can just strap it
undata: mircea_popescu: inside the house it'd take me about 5sec to be ready
undata: mircea_popescu: reach into bag, pull out?
undata: mircea_popescu: it would have to escalate severely for me to consider it
HeySteve: argentina still treating you well, mircea_popescu?
undata: mircea_popescu: my tits aren't nearly as impressive
HeySteve: thought you'd appreciate her, mircea_popescu
HeySteve: her pic ok, mircea_popescu?
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder : <mircea_popescu> ident with gribble, pm assbot !up
empyex: mircea_popescu: Health-Indicators: Homepage: √ MK Depth JSON: √ VWAP JSON: √
empyex: mircea_popescu: MPEx-Status: mpex.coinbr.com (466 milliseconds), mpex.co (error), mpex.biz (error), mpex.ws (error), mpex.bz (error)
empyex: mircea_popescu: Proxies: mpex.co mpex.biz mpex.ws mpex.bz mpex.coinbr.com Current MPEx GPG-Key-ID: 02DD2D91
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you really think it's still done with a van full of knob-twiddling sp00kz0rz ?
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> even if it's the void set, still step 0. << so this totally could be a void set. but we'll certainly look at what changes are in here post v0.5.3->6.3 just to ensure that we don't miss anything (http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2014/10/20_a-summary-of-changes-to-bitcoin-since-0321.html)
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> prolly a better idea to keep things sane and incrementally improve ? << this is the way it must be done. even though slash and burn feels so damn good.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu won't give us his soviet calculator proggy, dooming us to rewrite it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu lol
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu aye
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> asciilifeform mod6 actually, could it be made to work so as to simply spit specified streams as it runs ? << not 100% positive but it seems that some of the debug stuff almost does that when turned on fully.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is it gonna transmit tx via polling too? lol
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: system v is a classical unix <<< i know. apparently somethign shorted in my brain
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: system v is a classical unix
cazalla: mircea_popescu, qntra being dossed? it's up and down
PeterL: mircea_popescu: scoopbot is a replacement for penguiker
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: ideas for what, if anything, to do to checkpoints? << you mean blockchain checkpoints ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ideas for what, if anything, to do to checkpoints?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, that was 'meow mix'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, it was there.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu possibly should consider looking inside
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lelz
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-10-2014#894058 << that one ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha now we've got our own diff...?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: article: 'the hunchback will straighten in the grave.'
asciilifeform: that you, i, mircea_popescu, putin, whoever, can read.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu, others: you must appreciate why this is necessary. it is direly important. our patch set must start with a known, traditional tree, and end with the end product.
cazalla: mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014/10/BTAgent-cpe-backdoor.htm <<< this shit's pretty insane. cazalla i think we want to show some support ? <<< BB better suited to these leads
cazalla: mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: cazalla: http://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-murder-charges-ross-ulbricht/ <<<< cazalla this totally needs all the research you can throw at it. what the fuck is the story there, they got raped on the "undercover" work ? how ? why ? major point loss for the omni-impotent usg. <<< please to be sending tech/law leads to BingoBoingo
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu speaking of commenter "expertise" : http://www.contravex.com/2014/03/31/biting-into-the-wot-elephant-and-irc-nicknames/#comment-3870
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the idea is for people to be able to go "i support the bitcoin foundation" and for derps to go oh, this thing ? and for people to lol superiorly at their cluelessness. << fwiw i can see it.
undata: mircea_popescu | mike_c only thing going to the moon is undata. << maybe I'll luck out and Elon's overcompensating
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: after this is over, you gotta tell us which soviet calculator you've been using, since '11, for your bitcoin needs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mempool ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only lamers << it's a nature preserve for lamers, so far mostly untouched by zoologists.
asciilifeform: mats_cd03, mircea_popescu, et. al: here's a little project i've procrastinated for, ~1 year now, that perhaps someone would like to pick up: read gpg pubkeys (from wherever - wot, keyservs, etc) through tor.
davout: mircea_popescu: "mike_c 2010 is not 2014." <<< you weren't there in 2010
Mikayla: mircea_popescu link or email addy?
davout: mircea_popescu: "because satoshi was the sort of idjit that ran his workstation on windows" <<< did it even matter that much before bitcoin was invented anyway?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unpack, deturdulate, and diff -Nur oldturddir newturddir
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didja get the 'git' crud out?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and i can drop me turd there
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but i kinda hope that i can put this down for a while after jurov proclaims a mailing list box that works to gpg spec
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: also i seem to be the only one here (afaik) with a 100 % working build setup...
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: smooth and hairless like the ones posted?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'd like this shit done, so six month from now i can get the damned book.
jurov: mircea_popescu: but the problem is, how to compute bitcoin address from it without exposing privkey to electronics
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't a cross-process apparatus at all, sadly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what can it hurt << cruft
Mikayla: hi mircea_popescu sorry was on a call
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the shitgnomes glued it in, to learn how, read source
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see discussion about how at 0.5.3 rpc is sorta glued in, and will take some actual work to rip out
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu >> Mikayla <<
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we have a patient for you!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, jurov, ben_vulpes, decimation, (who else?) --- is there a reason to keep the json rpc apparatus in bitcoind ? imho all of its functions can be carried out by crafted command line arguments and parsing stdout...
HeySteve: mircea_popescu, Mikayla will be back tomorrow after I've explained process further
asciilifeform: lol, mircea_popescu is doing his whole pubkey ?
wywialm: mircea_popescu, if you bought options on S.MPOE would you quote it in terms of S.MPOE or btc?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ebola-esque haemorrhagic fever, yeah
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bring out yer dead!
wywialm: mircea_popescu, you don't trade options now, do you?
mike_c: mircea_popescu: the use case is mostly not for your phone. you are in US and topping up mom's phone in mexico.
ziggamon: mircea_popescu: You are right about the fees. Use cases are sometimes people want to do it online and now they can. Fees are lower than equivalent services that take credit card. Also there is a remittance use case for bitcoiners.
jurov: mircea_popescu anonimity for the poor
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> "we are looking to hire a young cowhand, you will also be our napoleon" << haha
undata: mircea_popescu: the effort that guy poured into learning excel "macros" or whatever their called could've been spent on lvl2 php