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mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> phun phakt: virtually all american 'health insurance' is void abroad
<< ofcourse it is ? just like soviet ruble vouchers were void in bonn ?
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 21:09:10; mircea_popescu: " any increase in return that’s attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market;"
<< i wish to know on what planet these people live where there's "local" stock markets.
punkman: asciilifeform: but original was 'debug sanity' and did 2 very distinct, separable things, in 1 patch, which imho is mistake
<< agreed, but most of the wx crap was related to debug
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 20:49:00; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1352382 << the concept is sound, however mind that we don't end up with as many patches as linechanges. "one thing" should be liberally construed, "removing remaining wxisms" seems a one thing for me.
mircea_popescu: " any increase in return that’s attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market;"
<< i wish to know on what planet these people live where there's "local" stock markets.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Socialists revile the church not for its promulgation of irrational faith but because historically churches have championed the improvement of the world as a thing that the devoted do—not a thing which may (or even should) be outsourced to le etat."
<< quite exactly.
mod6:
<+asciilifeform> has anybody here written own 'pastebin' ?
<< we desperately need this.
mod6:
<+asciilifeform> speaking of which, we still need a thing where folks can drop in vpatches and sigs and redraws the flow graph
<< mine does this.
mircea_popescu: "Our first beta test was a disaster when Amazon (who was our payment processor) suspended our account for not complying with money transfer issues. Fans were able to participate in the sale, but we were unable to capture their billing. We ended up paying the artist out of our own pocket and giving everyone his music for free (and we never told him that happened until now)."
<<< derps were going to bypass amazon on an a
mircea_popescu: "Page Not Found We’re sorry, we seem to have lost this page, but we don’t want to lose you."
<< apparently nyt piece you linked diappeared.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> gigantic dir full of straight-out sp4m0l4d3
<< surely it was an accident for which nobody paid anyone inside two happy meals.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> (why the everliving fuck should there be a sql interpreter in the binary? or runtime interpretation of hardcoded sql proggies ???!!!)
<< because at the time satoshbi made it he didn't have a clear design document and the usg stoolies anchored themselves on such chinks in the armor to "extend" and so forth.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> even 2.
<< 2 is technically many in computing.
mircea_popescu: "To pay those taxes, some employees emptied savings accounts and borrowed money."
<< ahaha loot at the cute chumps!
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> lulzy, nyt reads the logz and rips off mircea_popescu's summaries
<<< then forgets to mention this, muppets sit around and wonder who could this guy be etc.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> 'cnn' hosts spam now ??
<<< the "mainstream media" is sinking, and has been, for twenty years now. there is no bottom for them.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 15:13:51; asciilifeform: ;;later tell phf
http://mikhailmasl.livejournal.com/4852.html << mega-b00k. afaik never published in dead tree. the only known memoir of mathematician working in kgb, lived through the '90s no less. the fella who designed that crackpot calculator for central bank.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> (take a known hash, do whatever is necessary to end up with file of that hash)
<<< this is actually a great approach, if it weren't for off-by-dword issues
mircea_popescu:
<trinque> yep, I may take that on next.
<< not a bad idea yeah.
mod6:
<+thestringpuller> db.log has one line >> 'unable to join the environment'
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 09:31:41; mircea_popescu:
http://dpaste.com/068FQ43.txt << seriously, these derps classified as secret/foia extempt some derp-ass $50-a-pop market research crapolade that's ~maybe~ one step above a wikipedia cull ?
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 09:26:49; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351462 << BECAUSE, importantly, the only remaining function of the british colony, its only significant export and sole raison d'etre left is exactly this playing the extraterritorial base for the USG role. you know, obama is not spying on you, the queen is (and sharing the results). we hope this legalistic subtlety makes all the difference to you!
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 09:00:51; mircea_popescu: repair the damage). That seems bad enough, but we aren't quite there yet."
<<< this much is exactly factual, as romania is well aware since its very difficult early 90s. as far as temperate habitation is concerned, you have strictly to options : either produce enough energy to keep the heating pipes unfrozen through the winter, or else lose the possibility of urban settlement and as a result return
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 08:27:45; mircea_popescu: ;;later tell linton_s_dawson
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351345 << not anyone afaik. theoretically speaking it wouldn't likely work too well yet - not enough resources on the pi to be a real node. nevertheless, as a didactic / research sort of project rather than something to go in production trying would be interesting, if for nothing else then because nobody;s tried it yet.
thestringpuller: error: You must set rpcpassword=
<password> in the configuration file:
assbot: Logged on 22-12-2015 04:58:44; mircea_popescu: You can then run this with something like LC_ALL=C nohup ./bitcoind -myip=
<yourip> -addnode=trusted_node_1 -addnode=trusted_node_2 -verifyall 2>&1 &
thestringpuller: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): You must set myip=
<ipaddress> on the command line or in the configuration file:
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351462 << BECAUSE, importantly, the only remaining function of the british colony, its only significant export and sole raison d'etre left is exactly this playing the extraterritorial base for the USG role. you know, obama is not spying on you, the queen is (and sharing the results). we hope this legalistic subtlety makes all the difference to you!
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: " And the way to keep it from breaking is to replace all the bits that are listed on the replacement schedule no later than the dates indicated on that schedule. It's either that or the thing goes “Ka-boom!” and everyone's hair falls out."
<< yes, except for the cynical west that actually wouldn't mind a few more nuclear "accidents". so what if they were fully preventable, deliberately man-made disasters ? at least
mircea_popescu: repair the damage). That seems bad enough, but we aren't quite there yet."
<<< this much is exactly factual, as romania is well aware since its very difficult early 90s. as far as temperate habitation is concerned, you have strictly to options : either produce enough energy to keep the heating pipes unfrozen through the winter, or else lose the possibility of urban settlement and as a result return to 1800ish (the wor
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Prime Minister Yatsenyuk was recently hauled off the podium by his crotch; how dignified is that?"
<< coming soon, to a white house near you.