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adlai would vote for ada but wouldn'
t have any insider knowledge to make that a rational bet
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2015 13:59:46; mircea_popescu: and whatever enthusiasm may tell you about this, there's a very fucking fundamental problem here. you don'
t get to control backflow and complex emergent behaviours just because you don'
t want to think about them
adlai: one of the nice things about living in a hellhole with discernible "bad guys" is that swatting just doesn'
t exist
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and whatever enthusiasm may tell you about this, there's a very fucking fundamental problem here. you don'
t get to control backflow and complex emergent behaviours just because you don'
t want to think about them
☟︎ adlai: if everybody flushes their toilets at once, the tide goes out. you can'
t explain that.
punkman: "I don'
t know MP. Can'
t inform. But I agree. Anything touches sipa, I'll contribute to ensure MP is gone." such threats
BingoBoingo: "The U.S. price for the recommended 5 g dose of idarucizumab is $3500. This figure does not include the hospital charge to the patient" << This is how Obamacare really dies, because 5 grams of a monoclonal isn'
t selling for $3500 very long after approval.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: You mean people who don'
t really watch tv on tc
pete_dushenski: of course you do, in the same way that most dudes care about 18 yo filles, and couldn'
t care less about 26 yo ones.
pete_dushenski: hey joopublican, where's your fucking head ? blending it and singing koombaya ain'
t gonna cut it. time to find a scapegoat that isn'
t you, neh ?
BingoBoingo: What, you aren'
t going to commision a sefer contravex?
pete_dushenski: don'
t think so. the digital arena changes some aspects of conflict, but not death. there's no avoiding physical death.
pete_dushenski: wtf kind of war doesn'
t have the losers hung up for their crimes ? what is this, counter strike ? "oh, i'll just respawn and no big deal!" ??
pete_dushenski: this isn'
t backyard cowboys and indians. your mom isn'
t calling you for dinner only for you to call back "just 5 more minutes mom! i have to catch this redskin!"
pete_dushenski: more intelligent to boot, and yet both of whom left in pretty fiery blazes, compared to btcdrak and heysteve who were both relatively quiet and relatively useless and whose lack of presence won'
t even be a blip on the radar.
BingoBoingo: This doesn'
t take wisdom. This only requires accidentaling and remembering all the way back to the ancient history of this July.
ben_vulpes: (and yes i understand why you don'
t want to talk to anyone polluted by vn about this thing)
danielpbarron: i'm a little surprised i didn'
t get suspended as well, for retwatting the offending .. uh..
mircea_popescu: then they DIDN'
T want to go in pro-rata on the new round.
mircea_popescu: "edmundedgar 6 points 1 hour ago Why weren'
t people like this around when they were designing CSS?" << also, buttcoin is about 50 iq points over bitcoin.
cazalla_: thanks, i'd log in properly but won'
t stay long
shinohai: I guess this place isn'
t for everyone, :/
BingoBoingo: "She told me that her team did a lot of collaborative work in this lab, and she didn'
t need someone who was going to 'eat more than their fair share of the pizza, if you know what I mean.' "
ascii_field: the fella who wouldn'
t rest until he infected as many as he could
mircea_popescu: shinohai in fairness, wouldn'
t by any stretch be the first person we/i've driven to excuse themselves.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 14:24:36; HeySteve: as for the rest, mircea_popescu, you may dismiss everything that isn'
t Bitcoin 0.5 as a scam but I do not take this view without evidence
ascii_field: HeySteve: don'
t let the door hit you on the arse
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : the delusional notion that their lives aren'
t on the line is what makes people do most of the fucktarded shit they do. it certainly is the case with the power rangers.
mircea_popescu: guy knows the way to go about things he ain'
t doing, and wishes to inform the people actually doing it.
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 08:17:07; BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: You gotta realize P2P isn'
t the big miners
ascii_field sees the '7.91....' and immediately thinks 'pretty good!111' but then remember he isn'
t looking at 'ent'
mircea_popescu: things aren'
t what they are, they're what the packaging says they are.
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 07:06:13; punkman: I certainly can'
t think of any question or piece of data that'd prove the satoshi.
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 13:25:53; mircea_popescu: anyway, the truth of the matter is that the usg-dole livers don'
t belong in bitcoin. not in any other sense than they CAN NOT be in bitcoin. simply impossible.
mircea_popescu: "You would mark the signature data as special. You are indicated by green color on this slide. Everything but the green part goes into the hash of a transaction. The signature doesn'
t. It's just a piece of data that's still there, but we don'
t consider it part of the transaction.
mircea_popescu: "Wouldn'
t it be nice to just drop the signatures? The reason why we can'
t do this is because the signature is part of the transaction hash. If we would just drop the sig from the transaction, the block wouldn'
t validate, you wouldn'
t be able to prove an output spend came from that transaction, so that's not something we could do. But let's simplify the problem. What if we could redesign Bitcoin from scratch? What if yo
mircea_popescu: "The reason for this name is because signatures are not part of the transaction. They don'
t describe what the transaction is doing." herpitty derp, fancy that!
mircea_popescu: ge ; Joseph Bonneau Applied Crypto Group ; Jude Nelson Syndicate Private Cloud Storage ; Michael Folkson Founder of RiskBazaar ; Noah Thorp Co-Founder Citizen Code ; Harlan
T Wood Citizen Code Enlightened Structure ; Duke Dorje Citizen Code Formerly PGP ; Joel Dietz Citizen Code Founder of Swarm ; Patrick Deegan CTO of Personal BlackBox ; John Edge Cofounder & Chairman Identity2020 ; Justin Newton Netki Foun
mircea_popescu: herp. and this isn'
t something that should be fixed, rite.
mircea_popescu: In particular, we are going to be talking about signatures. It's important to realize here that signatures are really only needed for fully-validating nodes. As a light-weight client, you are not validating signatures, even though they are part of the transactions you still have to download them. If you are using a full-node that is syncing historical data, you don'
t actually validate all of the signatures in there. Cu
mircea_popescu: next time you feel the itch to "drive adoption", specially to poor/stupid people, think that giving a car to a guy living in a horsepulled cart doesn'
t help him.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the truth of the matter is that the usg-dole livers don'
t belong in bitcoin. not in any other sense than they CAN NOT be in bitcoin. simply impossible.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <punkman> the worst part is that new core nodes won'
t be sending witness data to old nodes <<< guess why.
Birdman: im sorry it wasn'
t meant for this channel
BingoBoingo: This is in contrast to: "We had one huge manlet of a kid in junior high. 14 years old probably 300+ pounds at about 5'4. We all hated the kid not just because he was fat and stunk like shit, he was a massive nerd and a complete prick. Some shitlord brought up the fact that he smells so bad because he probably can'
t fit in the shower, so we took a pink highlighter, not a permanent marker, and highlighted his arm to test the bathing
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: It's basically body acceptance for people who don'
t suck.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: You gotta realize P2P isn'
t the big miners
☟︎ pete_dushenski: if you can'
t put your personal feelings to the side, you have no place in civilised discourse and debate. period.
punkman: the worst part is that new core nodes won'
t be sending witness data to old nodes
punkman: can'
t wait for a believable satoshi though, will be fun
punkman: I certainly can'
t think of any question or piece of data that'd prove the satoshi.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: This really doesn'
t look like the first time Hoaxtoshi has keep up a con for multiple years
pete_dushenski: this would at least weed out the very poor actors who hadn'
t spent 2-3 years memorising minutiae
punkman: suppose Craig had whatever keys you want him to have. who's to say he didn'
t steal them sometime in the past 5 years
punkman: maybe you can have a believable one, but it can'
t be proven
punkman: I don'
t think at this point you can ever have the "real" satoshi
mircea_popescu: anyway. the saudi's have russia's backing, which is what the whole oil glut and cutting bahamas down at the knees was all about. they did their part and the russkis can'
t afford to sell them out. nor does anyone exist who could make a decent offer, bahamas' is dead broke and the eu is a joke.
mod6: could have been longer even. can'
t remember. *blush*
mircea_popescu: they don'
t want to be what they are. that's not their real self.
mircea_popescu: i see the facebook feed's dead, but can'
t be arsed to look into it
ascii_field: and you don'
t even need to remove the sticker.
ascii_field: and had reasonably good pneumatics, that didn'
t leak air
ascii_field: it was actually ok, didn'
t fall apart like every chair i've ever owned at home
mircea_popescu: oh i see, it wouldn'
t be "real" top quality if it weren'
t shit.
mircea_popescu: if it isn'
t in scamicon valley THEN ITS NOT REALLY TECHNOLOGY
mircea_popescu: heh. check this shit out "Not all investors are created equal. The winners are persistently the same relatively small groups of investors time after time. Success not only has positive signaling effects in attracting the factors that drive success, but also talent enhancing effects for the venture capitalists themselves." << now why exactly would this be ? successful sicentists aren'
t "always the same small group time
mircea_popescu: the funny skit in that paige craig piece being that if paul graham and his merry band of spammers & conmen hadn'
t "invested", the thing would be worth tgoday what it it;'s been worth throughout : four digits in someone's shitty excel.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, if there's ANYONE that appears above, then that's someone above lenin. which they can'
t have. and so...
mircea_popescu: it all really proceeds on the same great page of "i ain'
t got much lernin but i seen them buttes, here's how you too can get there!"
mircea_popescu: you don'
t really like ANY of the classics lispers do you.
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 11:38:17; mircea_popescu:
http://dreamsongs.com/ <<< how to be retarded. today, richard "i don'
t have a name and i was born without a face, here's some salmon background" gabriel.