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BingoBoingo: Was bored, but at least he wasn't on a boat which was his greatest fear
as a marine
mircea_popescu: it's easy to recast today
as some sort of nefariousness, but if regarded properly rather than anchronistically it's just exactly the same
as imperial russians trying to copy prussia.
decimation:
as you can imagine, only the rich can have such a hobby
decimation: particularly,
as you have pointed out, the ammo factory
decimation: obviously, he's selling them
as 'death in a box'
BingoBoingo: Hathcock's narrative though included using light machine guns
as bolt action rifle because US lacked adequate sniper rifle for 'Nam
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Mac10's caliber is recognized now
as sub pistol, .380 ACP isn't beating a single sheet of kevlar
mircea_popescu: more like a "tough
as nails, swiss made SKS". like the mac10 maybe.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, on that score :
as mike_c correctly pointed out a week or so ago, headsup is actually a broken game now, courtesy of teh damned computers.
mircea_popescu: and
as to limited recourse, it can be limited whatever way. generally it is, "lend me this money to buy this house, i pay you so and so, and if i don't you keep the house."
mircea_popescu: the idea being that contracts (of the old sort) are flexible and useful, just
as long
as the chumps grok that there is no such thing
as "a standard contract".
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i curious about the no-recourse mortgages
as well. lender returns payment stream, keeps asset?
ryan-c: BingoBoingo: My gpg keys are in pgp.mit.edu and sks-keyservers
as well.
mircea_popescu: yeah, inasmuch
as gavin tiptoes around my lunch hour, i would propose they're painfully aware of it, yes.
mircea_popescu: both of these are becoming obsolete
as ram is cheap and 64 bits plentiful. so in the future, int will just mean "integer number" and that's that,
mircea_popescu: y usage, the notion of short int was created, sometimes
as small
as a byte (8 bits).
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 14:34:51; PeterL: why in c is a long int the same size
as int?
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-03-2015#1041414 << here's the long story : traditionally, "int" means a word, and word means a register size, which is machine dependent (was 8 bit, then 16, then 32 and now is 64). because historically the register was inconvenient for human use, the notion of "long int" was born,
as a dword (two words) or qword (four). because historically the register was inconvenient for memor
☝︎ thestringpuller imagines asciilifeform reading graphs
as their tabular representation and constructing image in mind
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing
as the "exchange value of money". money is the one thing without an exchange value, being the exchange value of all things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the explanation is that "exchange value of btc" is a broadly meaningless notion, and only vaguely useful
as a temporary crutch.
mircea_popescu: actual bitcoin companies, such
as for instance listed on mpex, generally don't have the problem.
mircea_popescu: sadly i don't have credit cards,
as i don't subscribe to open liability deals. but i wonder what the original texts say
mircea_popescu: Theodore Sturgeon, respected creative and prolific science fiction author, shed the following offhand remark which instantly codified
as Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is shit." One might visit a university library and walk through Women's Studies or hyphenated-American literature areas and wonder where Sturgeon's 10% is cloistered. Why pay parking fees? The 90% will come knocking at your door, then break it down d
mircea_popescu: 2015.
As the Primary Contact, you must verify your credit card activity before you can
BingoBoingo: sjsqd: Just don't burn too much time on conversation here before you get to understanding a large part of the *why* the (dot)foundation does things
as peculiarly
as they do. A good amount of history there.
sjsqd: Please understand that I've spent many years of my life writing about issues such
as internet censorship and the like
sjsqd:
as there are many issues with the foundation (andresen edition) I was invited to post on the let's talk bitcoin website
ben_vulpes: <sjsqd> its all calculated automatically
as far
as I'm aware << so how would you know if things are working
as expected?
ben_vulpes: <nubbins`> think of them
as the foundation and the phoundation, with the other guys being the ph << no, we're the fundation!
ben_vulpes: <sjsqd> but is it correct to title it
as the 'pirate' bitcoin foundation? << no.
jurov: sjsqd you will never be safe if you treat technology
as magic
sjsqd: I run a software firewall,
as well
as malware bytes, an adblocker that blocks malicious sites
sjsqd: then I get a message asking for a copy of my ID
as well
as a video interview
sjsqd: danielpbarron:I wouldn't buy them just yet because cash still works just
as well
danielpbarron: you should better keep savings in bitcoin, and find local street dealers to sell you FIAT
as needed
sjsqd: I do see that many of them have ended up
as scams and so on
assbot: The woes of Altcoin, or why there is no such thing
as "cryptocurrencies" pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/17RjJtN )
sjsqd:
as well
as waiting for legalization of my residency status (its been 3 years of not being a resident so far)
sjsqd: danielpbarron:
as much
as I understand what you're saying its difficult to explain to people the fire safety aspect
sjsqd: and managed to teach a friend in pakistan
as well
as a friend in Dubai how to set up a wallet on their phone
PeterL: and you don't see being tied to usd
as a problem?
sjsqd: when they get married or
as an investment
sjsqd: but I've read
as much
as my mind can understand on it (I'm not a coder though)
sjsqd: completely separate platform, just was using it
as a point of reference
sjsqd: its all calculated automatically
as far
as I'm aware
BingoBoingo: <sjsqd> but works with bitcoin just the same
as any other client (multibit etc) does? << Very different from multibit. Multibit is based on the Hearn BitcoinJ turd.
sjsqd: but works with bitcoin just the same
as any other client (multibit etc) does?
nubbins`: think of them
as the foundation and the phoundation, with the other guys being the ph
sjsqd: but is it correct to title it
as the 'pirate' bitcoin foundation?
PeterL: why in c is a long int the same size
as int?
☟︎ mod6: jurov: so
as far
as shorter release cycles, i think going forward they will be. the foundation will focus on say, one specific problem and then tackle it, patch it, and then regression test, release.
jurov: but i understand you
as management that wants to label the product somehow,
jurov: this is same pretense
as what phoundation operates "it works we tested it"
mod6: which we're referring to
as a "milestone" release
jurov: and the consesus was 0.5.3.1 is
as good
as any
punkman: cazalla: "Antonopoulos' appearance
as an expect witness" << expert*
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: Why did you choose to name the #b-a lordship
as such? Is there a historical system of governance you are drawing inspiration from in particular?
trinque: I wonder if there've been cultures that did fisting
as a sort of obvious "of course you fist before squatting out humans"
trinque: I can be blazed
as hell and press one button
adlai: BingoBoingo: on the contrary, i think of all this
as 'stoner-proof productivity'
trinque: adlai: but! it improves daily
as stumpwmrc and the repl side by side are a binding
trinque: not
as happy with stump
as I'd hoped
adlai: typing [+slime-fuzzy] is likely to remain faster than pretty much any other muscle-based input, just due to evolutionary accident... but the quest here,
as i see it, is for a drastically more convenient interface, which sacrifices less than the current ones (which aren't even that convenient)
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2015 05:30:33; decimation:
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/not-all-programmers-alike/ << "I can’t speak for everyone, but when I program, I like to be able to make use of the rather-hefty chunk of my brain that evolved
as a language co-processor. Language provides compact abstractions in a way that is difficult to beat using graphics except for inherently-visual tasks (the motion of mechanical parts, etc.)"
trinque: adlai: I worked on a visual programming bullshit thing for a year and a half
as a job
adlai:
as i said, gesture typing needs to be boosted with program-awareness