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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> anything involving american 'militia' sums to 0 from start. << they have a word for the dudes knowing the results of experiments aforehand, and that name pointedly isn't scientist. ☟︎
adlai: miners rejecting softforks and encouraging hard is like... like... i can't even.
danielpbarron: >> Historically Bitcoin is far from "reliable" as we have all experienced. For instance, we had a ValueOverflow incident on 2010/08/15 in which billions of Bitcoin were generated in 1 single block. << bitcoin didn't even really exist in 2010
adlai didn't realize gas mask was required on this blog, too... should've been tipped off by the word 'miner'
Duffer1: wasn't he solo though?
mircea_popescu: so in a field of 3x3 you won't get equal output from all 9 but usually most of the input from just one
asciilifeform: except that electronics don't extend tendrils (cruddy euro lead-free solder excepted...)
mircea_popescu: if only neurons were disctrete logic gates. a) i'd feel much better about nature being an idiot ; b) i wouldn't be around to figure that one out anyway.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and airplanes don't flap ! newz at 11 !
adlai: it's worth noting that towards the end of NCO training we had a lecture (by a shrink/officer hybrid) about the most effective way to prevent PTSD before the T is even Ped, which is, unintuitively, immediate debriefing.
adlai: mircea_popescu: honestly, i don't think further details beyond what i just deeded is relevant for this forum, or any other, except perhaps a court convened in my honor by the relevant mob.
asciilifeform: the comment on T_ATOM is a lie, it is used for the predicate is_atom and in a bunch of places
mircea_popescu: +#define T_ATOM 16384 /* 0100000000000000 */ /* only for gc */
mircea_popescu: +#define T_IMMUTABLE 8192 /* 0010000000000000 */
mircea_popescu: +#define T_SYNTAX 4096 /* 0001000000000000 */
mircea_popescu: +#define T_MASKTYPE 31 /* 0000000000011111 */
asciilifeform: it doesn't do anything at all on its own.
felipelalli: asciilifeform, I didn't have too much time yet to explore this project and your work but I follow far with twinkle in my eyes. Congrats!
mircea_popescu: there are specific choices in how gribble handles security that were expedient for a long time, but no longer acceptable, so it'd have to be rewritten. until it isn't, i would think it more like a play sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: there was some talk about harmonizing the two, but i don't think the guy has any time to be doing maintenance, or any interest for that matter, so...
mircea_popescu: what happened is - we used gribble wot. then gribbe was offline unexpectedly, and its maintainer wasn't talking. he was traveling at the time, as we later found out. nevertheless, for those few days the situation was indistinguishable from an attack and so we made a replacement. ☟︎
felipelalli: In this post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124441.0 is very inspiring to me, and you said at that time that Bitcoin OTC WoT was very important. You don't think so anymore or the assbot WoT fully meets? For a new Bitcoin business, the OTC WoT is still important?
mircea_popescu: i don't really use it.
punkman: also surprised that Gavin didn't write more lines than Satoshi
ascii_butugychag: but it doesn't hurt to try.
ascii_butugychag: jurov: considerable. the thing probably won't keep time.
ascii_butugychag: argentina isn't a squalid pisshole complete with free-range islamic nutters
mircea_popescu: phillipines is preview of future of china in an alt-world where the us didn't go to shit.
mircea_popescu: Wouldn't it be extremely inefficient to manufacture a paper cup for everyone's coffee? That would be millions of paper cups per day, only to be used once. Coffee will never work.
mircea_popescu: "oh, isn't it inefficient to buy everyone a cup"
assbot: ELI5: "Wouldn't it be extremely inefficient to copy every single coffee purchase on everyone's computer?" : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1K9nUDx )
adlai trades time for time and sometimes btc trickle in. that is all, since this conversation doesn't seem to be helping anybody anymore
mircea_popescu: isn't lying fun. ☟︎
adlai: lol i don't think kako invited me here until months later
adlai: early january 2014. i don't remember the exact date and frankly don't feel like trying to recall it.
adlai is "in the logs" describing the full episode, it's too long to fit in the margins of these. tl;dr: police visited, invited me along so nicely i couldn't refuse, but went home the next day. as danielpbarron pointed out, jail /= prison
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 23:24:47; adlai: although "in" is a suggestive word, here. I wasn't "in" anything, my acquaintance with the jail/prison/dungeon/etc system is tangential, academic, etc
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-01-2016#1386573 << it still imports vanilla xml doesn't it ? ☝︎
adlai: danielpbarron: iiuc you don't befriend them out of pity, you cough up coin to get your friend back outside of the matchbox
adlai: hmm,i'm not sure i like that connotation. can't lotteries be 0EV, zero-sum games?
adlai: although "in" is a suggestive word, here. I wasn't "in" anything, my acquaintance with the jail/prison/dungeon/etc system is tangential, academic, etc ☟︎
trinque: PeterL: it doesn't hurt to keep your own calculations on hand; I've had employers screw up in all directions
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 15:26:56; mircea_popescu: ~you~ "gotta" pay an accountant to keep IRS' files in order. wouldn't it be logical if THEY had to come to you with a "here's how much we think you owe and if we're wriong we'll goi do the math again" ? who's the sovereign here ?
gribble: Single-layer Neural Networks (Perceptrons) - School of Computing: <http://computing.dcu.ie/~humphrys/Notes/Neural/single.neural.html>; XOR problem - homepage - AGH: <http://home.agh.edu.pl/~vlsi/AI/xor_t/en/main.htm>; Perceptron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron>
mircea_popescu: a reflection of my i don't like or trust raid controllers earlier stance
ascii_butugychag: incidentally modern hdd doesn't recover worth shit
mircea_popescu: i don't like or trust fancy parity schemes.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've ever used anything other than 1+0 combos.
mircea_popescu: oh, it was empirically obtained, i didn't theoretically determine it.
mircea_popescu: more like "if you want a billet to help - the application desk is over there ; if not, isn't there some welfare line you sohuld be in ?"
mircea_popescu: hm, i can't find the one where i said that the only way to have "justice" is to oppress some derps, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: it's not a la mode because i didn't want to trigger you.
ascii_butugychag: (somehow the conclusion that 'computers you can't program' don't belong in a security application, is lost on folks)
mircea_popescu: shut up you don't understand how the world works.
mircea_popescu: get a fucking human name why don't you. what is this mug costanza and rifling jones bs.
mircea_popescu: we don't even have a single harmonica per capita over here yo!
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> mircea_popescu: LOL Trace Mayer is critiquing << i have no idea who that is, but zhe'd better get with the program because i don't see a future for whatever wot she's in.
mod6: don't they let you work from home when there is a blizzard?
pete_dushenski: if he wasn't, he'd be here.
pete_dushenski: quite so, but don't let that get in the way of "the economist"'s story !
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: LOL Trace Mayer is critiquing your accounting. "MPEx needs a balance sheet cause I don't understand zero-asset corporations"
mircea_popescu: see, their driver is, "i don't have time to watch this dumb indian's videos". which is legit, they don't have time.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Could publish peer reviewed tapes << except peers won't review tapes. because it's inept. oral tradition is unlike the written tradition in a fundamental way : it rejects the ~separation~ of knowledge and power. that sound familiar ?
mircea_popescu: no idea how they figure that one, you can't get a fb account to show up to your office irl./
mircea_popescu: and wasn't getting much in the way of bids, either.
punkman: wasn't EMC looking to sell itself?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller myeah. they don't think properly, ie "hey, mp isn't paying for nascar car, clearly stupid idea" but instead "oh, let's do random $idiocy, we'll be so much better than mp". makes sense, if you're retarded.
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 07:07:34; BingoBoingo: From the mines: "There are some issues being filed concerning database corruptions in bitcoin core. Although the problem hasn't been pinpointed to LevelDB, the long-term plan is still to switch to a new, well maintained database." << A Hearnia continues
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-01-2016#1385945 << and they still can't come out and fucking say it. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: o wait... usg's own ws didn't exist then yet either huh. a well.
mircea_popescu: if only they were doing this back in the day when usg's own corp didn't exist, america'd have looked a lot different.
mircea_popescu: ~you~ "gotta" pay an accountant to keep IRS' files in order. wouldn't it be logical if THEY had to come to you with a "here's how much we think you owe and if we're wriong we'll goi do the math again" ? who's the sovereign here ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: unfortunately i haven't any time.
asciilifeform: echnology companies such as Google and Facebook getting involved the field of AI. "We have to get rid of the big companies and go back to giving support to individuals who have new ideas because attempting to commercialise existing things hasn't worked very well," he said.'
asciilifeform: 'But, in one of his last interviews, with MIT Technology Review last year, Prof Minsky said there had been "very little growth in artificial intelligence" in the past decade, adding current work had been "mostly attempting to improve systems that aren't very good and haven't improved much in two decades". By contrast, he said, "the 1950s and 1960s were wonderful - something new every week". And he hinted he was against large t
punkman: why do all professors need to publish anyway, can't one just teach?
BingoBoingo: From the mines: "There are some issues being filed concerning database corruptions in bitcoin core. Although the problem hasn't been pinpointed to LevelDB, the long-term plan is still to switch to a new, well maintained database." << A Hearnia continues ☟︎
mircea_popescu: don't flatter yourself, nobody gives a flying fuck what fb feels like to the cows.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at least hearst wasn't annoying AND poor.
mircea_popescu: "we rebel" can't be a fucking fact. IN PRINCIPLE.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> any accumulator that doesn't principally occupy itself with ~forgetting~ rapidly collapses into a singularity of shitmass. << This has been the greatest challenge of sober living so far.
mircea_popescu: isn't he yet another marx/ziggler/barnum/whatever ?
asciilifeform: any accumulator that doesn't principally occupy itself with ~forgetting~ rapidly collapses into a singularity of shitmass.
mircea_popescu: i don';t think you understand how mp works.
asciilifeform: aaaand don't forget Refal!
mircea_popescu: " My intuition is that this might even require fewer attempts than the original comparison assuming a reasonable password length, but I haven't done the math." << he's right actually.
mod6: I don't suppose you logged your build process?
mod6: not sure. we haven't seen this problem yet.
BingoBoingo: Fuck, they really don't/can't make those anymore
mircea_popescu: apparently every american is equally and insescapably stupid. their education, and their intelligence, may color the way they express their stupidity. but you can't take the village out of the girl even if you take the girl out of the village, and you can't take stupid out of americans.
mircea_popescu: "we" don't have to do any such thing. that's why the fucking cpu is there.
mircea_popescu: <copypaste> Rand wouldn't be a bad president, but Trump has more of the showmanship << maybe they name the USS Flagship "Hairpiece" after him.
copypaste: Rand wouldn't be a bad president, but Trump has more of the showmanship
danielpbarron: i don't actually care if he wins beyond me wanting to win the bet; i personally wouldn't vote for him
PeterL: he is still the most reasonable of the candidates, unfortunately American's don't care about that
PeterL: from BingoBoingo link to fat rant: "the look of horror that a thin, cis woman flashed me when she realized that she'd be sitting next to me" << What, a gay chick is going to be excited to cuddle up with fatty chunks for a couple hours? (and wtf is this text in image crap, can't even copy/paste!)
assbot: Logged on 25-01-2016 21:29:48; mircea_popescu: they're shit by now anyway, least they could do is "sorry hon, you're 20 lbs over maximum, can't have college degree"
mircea_popescu: they're shit by now anyway, least they could do is "sorry hon, you're 20 lbs over maximum, can't have college degree" ☟︎
polarbeard: you can't go for zealots and cannons and resist a zerg rush
thestringpuller: which doesn't cap your resources in building zealots