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ascii_field: and, to use gnu's terminology, .tex is often 'not the preferred format for modification' -
as in, it is frequently machine-generated
mircea_popescu: bitstein the observer makes the valid code replace point, but STILL names its article "the race to replace bitcoin".
as fucking if. "the race to waste imbecile capitalist money, the new hot valley term for what was once known
as a venture capitalist" was radioactive or something.
funkenstein_: did kaminsky do anything other than allow his name listed
as technical advisor?
mats: i'm confused
as to Kaminsky's role in all this
Adlai: with "the defense" taking some form such
as a pool operator negrating a miner who has an unreasonable dropoff of share-finding luck just below the difficulty threshhold
mircea_popescu: which is what this is : inexistent problems that don't exist being misunderstood
as existing by people who don't understand how anything works, and then failing to see that even should they exist, the solution also exists.
Adlai:
as you like to say - mkay.
mircea_popescu: people became intellectually enamoured with it and keep spouting it everywhere,
as a sort of cargo-cult bitcoin "knowledges"
fluffypony: also,
as I understand it, we're talking about a future time when running a pool *is* more profitable than it is now
fluffypony: miners configure their mining setup with failover pools, but it failsover based on latency
as well
as a pool being unreachable
mircea_popescu:
as a result of 1 and 2, 50% of people mining on B move, leaving it with 11% hash rate. the resulting 24% difference moves to pools, 90% of which are A's.
mircea_popescu: 2. ddos' pool B.
as if ddos is not actually a solved problem.
fluffypony: it is in the best interest of larger mining pools to attack smaller ones, for the most part, and even to attack each other (
as long
as it isn't a matter of mutually assured destruction)
fluffypony: funkenstein_: the game theoretic Nash Equilibrium stuff isn't bogus,
as far
as I can see
ben_vulpes: point being that some weeks i'm very glad to have structured my life
as i've done so.
BingoBoingo: rewatching citizen4 snowden gedanken film. Forgot they showed the NSA facility under construction in Mormon Judea
as a backdrop for so many narrations. Awfully close to the interstate.
pete_dushenski: ah, i remember reading jurov's piece from that competition
as well.
pete_dushenski: interviews shed some light
as to his stances, i think it's pretty clear.
pete_dushenski: still depends on whether you see value in it, or imagine yourself
as 'above such barbarity'
nubbins`: i have this hazy memory of being extremely sick
as a young child, and rolling some very small object, like the size of a grain of sand, between my thumb and forefinger
as i writhed in agony
nubbins`: sure. and that's for something
as trivial and banal
as a fucking /job/.
trinque: that relates to how I see this,
as a sort of obsession with identity
Chillum: could work. The problem is that everyone needs their own laser cutter
as you cannot trust another to make a key for you
trinque: seems like magical thinking just
as bad
as any religious nut
nubbins`: anyway, in the show, there's this old man, john locke. hard life, series of misfortunes. finds his dad
as an adult, befriends him, everything's great
mircea_popescu: for one thing, actual masochism is quite rare. about
as rare
as actual homosexuals.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the pain per se is rarely sought by the body mod crowd.
as trinque points out, attention whoring much higher on the list.
nubbins`: decimation if it ends up a problem down the road, people have it done
as adults all the time
danielpbarron: i wasn't suggesting coinbase gpg sign all outgoing email,
as such a thing would be pointless if automated, and impossible if not
decimation: I guess
as long
as they are hacking their own feet off and not mine
decimation: ". I remember
as my second testicle was being clipped from the body, it was an expierence I won’t forget! The feeling of YES it is finally done! I remember it all like yesterday. Months after, and I’m talking 3-4 months of not taking testosterone shots or anything, I started getting hot flashes."
trinque: seems like humans will a) accept any category they've heard about a certain number of times and b) compete with each other
as examples of that category
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> the guy is proposing to merge the silk road with yahoo! answers << well, they already implemented "yahoo finance boards"
as "bitcoin finance"
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> <+ben_vulpes> boss your penchant for recasting everything
as a result of your own actions is endlessly amusing <<< i came for the btc, stayed for the lels << hey, if obama can save the economy...
nubbins`: <+ben_vulpes> boss your penchant for recasting everything
as a result of your own actions is endlessly amusing <<< i came for the btc, stayed for the lels
ben_vulpes: boss your penchant for recasting everything
as a result of your own actions is endlessly amusing
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> entirely transparent project to reduce hiring costs << moar like, entirely transparent admission that "well, mp said he's killing us, we're
as good
as dead, might
as well give up"
mircea_popescu: except, of course, english is about
as relevant to tanzania
as korean to the us.
mircea_popescu: hey look at that. tanzanian kids read about
as well
as us kids.
ben_vulpes: bitcoinrpg -> control the network quest -> bitcoind quest (now apparently depends on buildroot quest, which depends on gentoo quest, so may
as well pogoquest
as well)
mircea_popescu: "oh we shall send people in #bitcoin-assets
as per standard counter-actor and sabotage procedures to be made within hours and laughed at all the way to the front desk."
assbot: Logged on 08-04-2015 14:55:01; danielpbarron: someone from -otc sent me a pizza once; just so happened to be the same day
as my weekly poker game so i just paid for it
jurov: 3d
as needed by eulora is here... 10years or so?
punkman: ascii_field: not mandatory,
as in I can get a motherboard without it?
ascii_field: to continue with the line of thought,
as soon
as we so much
as frag less than gavin's turd, someone - anyone - could send us off on a fork of less-retardation.
mircea_popescu:
as teh expression goes, "relax, you have plenty of time. tomorrow - you die."
ascii_field: and until then, what? we are required to leak at the same rate
as which extant bitcoind?
mircea_popescu: we don't care atm, because we know experimentally the system
as deployed is stable.
mircea_popescu: in general, going by the "never one single bug in kitchen, and noting that bdb locks are a resource of the kind that pointers are, just one easier to exhaust, i propose this
as likely, on the basis of my business heuristics.
mircea_popescu: that gavin [pretends like he] doesn't know such is exactly why the verbiage
as to the retarded boy in one of my articles debunking the nonsense.
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> who's on the qntra /reddit
as usg mouthpiece/ beat? << There is a trilema post tracking this phenomenon, but if you want to elevate it to a sustained operation go for it.
fluffypony: "em.coinbase.com designates 50.31.37.137
as permitted sender"
ben_vulpes: who's on the qntra /reddit
as usg mouthpiece/ beat?
danielpbarron: someone from -otc sent me a pizza once; just so happened to be the same day
as my weekly poker game so i just paid for it
☟︎ punkman: "Within 5 minutes of you starting in with your shit i had people messaging me your address in Canada, Your phone number, the address for your print shop, more information than anyone would want someone like me to know if they wated to start shit, its very clear that you have pissed a lot of people off in the past with this shit you pull
as they all came rushing in to DOX the fuck out of you, and i am just asshole enough to make use of i
BingoBoingo:
As seriously
as people build up the ransomware threat the entire ecosystem is awfully precarious. One could readily kill it with ransomware that did not honor a ransom
decimation:
as the article notes, it's already economical to run 'off grid' solar+batteries in hawaii
decimation: asciilifeform:
as long
as the chinese government is willing to subsidize production, why not?
mircea_popescu: "Pepco cited a "dip in voltage"
as the cause of the outage in its release." derp. the cause of the outage was caused by the cause of the causative agent.
decimation: "Court records identified the boys
as Cameron and ZhiHeem, and the girls
as Tyjuziana, Tykeria, Tynijuzia, TyNiah and Tybreyia. "
nubbins`: ^ i suppose those qualify
as sysadmin hands
decimation: Todd had received assistance paying his utility bills in the past, but did not apply for help this year, said Tom VanLandingham, who directs the Office of Home Energy Programs in Somerset County. Families can apply once a year, and assistance is based on household income and energy use, among other factors. "We're all kind of baffled
as to why he did not apply this year ... that's the million-dollar question," VanLandingham said
nubbins`: bitcoinsociety@yahoo.com was the email used to register the weird cats website,
as well
as a bunch of random asic mining-related domains
nubbins`: in the meantime, i realized that another one of his old customers is also into casascius coins,
as he bid on my auction