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asciilifeform: unless it actually started as a vacation
ben_vulpes: <cazalla> [] may i recommend a step by step tutorial for the borderline retarded such as myself who have the resources but not the know how to run it, provide a step by step diy and it will grow << grand idea
mircea_popescu: if anyone asks me, i'd rather see as few of these vacations as possible.
mircea_popescu: replacement is being spun up as we speak.
mircea_popescu: TomServo just as long as it works. i imagine nubbins` ec idea is pretty good.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: may i recommend a step by step tutorial for the borderline retarded such as myself who have the resources but not the know how to run it, provide a step by step diy and it will grow << he has a point there, ben & mod6
mircea_popescu: TomServo really, he's being about as dumb as nefario.
mircea_popescu: so when i first landed here i kept a hotel room for about a week. my across the hall neighbour was this ukrainian dude. we met in the elevator and well, at the time the ukr stuff was just blowing up and so i was curious, and he was as happy as anything to speak to someone... wise.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform people aren't as fixated on things anglos are fixated on here.
thestringpuller: Perhaps the movie about asciilifeform and young buck thestringpuller teaming up to sell BTC as gangstas runnin the street will become a reality
asciilifeform: retarded, sure. just wondered if there was some actual plus to the st kitts thing. because i distinctly recall that 'passports of convenience' are mostly good as wall decorations and nothing more.
nubbins`: as if those from all times would not rather bellyache than do something to improve their situation
asciilifeform: nubbins`: or as if ancestors did not whine in pubs rather than irc
asciilifeform: nubbins`: as if modern broke folks got this way through blowing fortune on phone & bandwidth
thestringpuller: how in the fuck does a pennyles german come here 65 years ago and build more in a decade or two than his own grandchildren could hope to build in a life time << a phenomenon bitcoin will see as supply slowly decreases
cazalla: may as well have never fucking come here
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cazalla: may i recommend a step by step tutorial for the borderline retarded such as myself who have the resources but not the know how to run it, provide a step by step diy and it will grow
mircea_popescu: cazalla ok, well, here's some ideas : his ears would be bleeding ; his arms'd have fallen off as he holds that thing wrongly ; the heat transferred to the barrel is probably enough to melt it ; he's fired more bullet weight than the child.
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cazalla: mircea_popescu: I HAVE A GREY BEARD YO! <<< i noticed this.. while using tweezer to pluck the 10 or so grey hairs i began sporting this year, i thought well at least not as grey as mp
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: ... to hear about how my slave time should qualify me for the satoshi codebase << ben_vulpes had better be qualified... just as artifexd had better be qualified for his part. << I enjoy that unlike onions disqualifying contributions are illuminated. Because not over engineered.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ... to hear about how my slave time should qualify me for the satoshi codebase << ben_vulpes had better be qualified... just as artifexd had better be qualified for his part.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: as for me, i mostly reverse-engineer things for money. but occasionally i build something to make other things more reverse-engineerable.
ben_vulpes: the topologically similar jobs - as miserable as you'd no doubt find my current line of employ.
asciilifeform: i actually got as far as to marshal most of the thing into my head
undata: reddit as a sort of shared mindless leader, or at least a point to swarm around
ben_vulpes: as does the ratingsystem.db file
BingoBoingo: As far as anyone knows localbitcoins is 3 Belgians and a 5Is leak. ☟︎
mod6: yeah, lol. they're like $8 or something at Target field. its bananas. mind as well get a mixed drink.
mod6: hockey is about all i can really get into as far as pro sports.
BingoBoingo: The major advantage in playing the game comes from a player being as close to the hoop's height as possible.
BingoBoingo: undata: I count this past new years as successful as I fot to see my bile on January second. That means this is going to be a fun year.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: There are tales of WP working with Postgre and others in off the shelf configuration, much as there are sightings of a loch ness monster with feathers.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as described in my article by the same name
WolfGoethe: i do not want to get into the spiritual stuff, as that is way to deep for most folks
BingoBoingo: And yet... the noise does not abate, but grows, and as it grows there's silence growing in the great hall too, under the marble arches, over the limpid pools. The emperor bids his guests eat, but they swallow knots, he bids them merry, but the one courtly concubine that starts to talk, trying to tell a joke, runs hoarse. And then, a centurion busts in, a different sort of man. Rugged, bearded, covered in soot and dried blood, he
BingoBoingo: bitcoin-dev exists better as a mailing list anyways.
mircea_popescu: blockbitsCan't wait until we have 20MB blocks. I've developed a easy to use web front-end for people to upload files to the blockchain, using scriptsigs to store data. they can retrieve files by simply pasting any TX. I've put aside a few hundreds thousand dollars to pay mining pools to mine my non-standard tx's for free. I was hoping we can increase the block size to 200MB... please make it as big as possible, my dat
mircea_popescu: lmao -dev is almost as retarded as the forum by now.
pete_dushenski: not, as greene suggests, with typical progressive socialist lenses, "improving out thinking"
decimation: might as well wear a mustache while wearing fake glasses
asciilifeform: in many cases these folks are literally 'employed' to create chaos - as in, they get a pension, in return for... doing just that
ben_vulpes intends to run an open relay node - openly disclosed as such for those in the mood to twiddle knobs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in a way, it is. but sort of left as an exercise.
mircea_popescu: just as long as i can isolate the redditd from my machine, the people who want to be in there are more then welcome to their own choices.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: trick is that two directly-connected cells may as well be exchanging signed msgs. but relayed msgs (in, e.g., cells a -> b -> c, from a to c) are 'gossip' - that is, 'deniable.'
mircea_popescu: as soon as artifexd gets exactly drunk enough ?
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Only really differs in that some outside idiots consider things that emerge from there as worthy of consideration as virtue, instead of vice as in the case of English gin. <<< there;'s tons of "gin as virtue" songs and oral liuterature.
asciilifeform: perhaps we should refer to this as 'belgian' method
BingoBoingo: Only really differs in that some outside idiots consider things that emerge from there as worthy of consideration as virtue, instead of vice as in the case of English gin.
asciilifeform: does 'reddit' really differ in any fundamental way, as a basic urban treadmill, from 1700s english gin, or roman circuses ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Currency generally is in the hands of a selected few, this situation where every man woman and child holds some is an exception, and I suspect coming to an end.' << i recall being shown, as a boy, an 1890s ru coin that 'would feed a family for a month!111!!'
artifexd: mircea_popescu: Regarding gossipd, do you have any preference for the data flowing over the wire as binary or text?
kakobrekla: as safe as their hot wallet
mircea_popescu: but i see whatcha mean. "not politically favoured, so not as well ironed out, so harder to use"
mircea_popescu: as opposed to announcement thereof ?
mircea_popescu: checks against it as if it were verizon'd, no difference
mircea_popescu: jurov so you mean, it only works for sessions where the user knows/trusts the source, as opposed to whatever, random drive-by publishing ?
asciilifeform: in case anyone needs to be reminded of this - ssl remains a crock of shit - as in, the entire protocol stack is porous and comically maldesigned
mircea_popescu: as if irrelevance can ever be averted by this sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: "The IETF, obviously fearing irrelevance, hastily "discovered" that the HTTP/1.1 protocol needed an update, and tasked a working group with preparing it on an unrealistically short schedule. This ruled out any basis for the new HTTP/2.0 other than the SPDY protocol. With only the most hideous of SPDY's warts removed, and all other attempts at improvement rejected as "not in scope," "too late," or "no consensus," the IE
mircea_popescu: fluffypony links for you there, as it happens.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i kinda enjoy all this acting as if they have an option in the matter.
mircea_popescu: "Not everyone who wants an immediate confirmation will be able to get it, regardless of how much they pay. If there's more people wanting next-block confirmation than there are slots in the block, it's mathematically guaranteed that people will miss out. As network usage grows, the percentage of unsatisfied users will grow linearly with it."
fluffypony: "A self-murder bomber pushing a minibus full of explosives killed during slightest 30 people Wednesday morning as cadets collected nearby a military academy in a heart of Yemen’s capital"
mircea_popescu: anyway, on contemplation i actually see this as my finest work to date.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah. the skeleton in the RFC wasn't as revealing as the conversation was. gossipd putting the emphasis on Relay in IRC
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo o it did ? makes sens enow as a whole ?
mircea_popescu: wots are trivially doublespent. as part of normal functioning.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [] probably quite a few folks. but the thing that distinguishes fermat from wot is that wot needs to be at least quasi-'hot' to really work as intended, imho. << strikes me that a series of "rating" messages should be parsed to build a rating history.
ben_vulpes: not a record of all strings sent to "#b-a", but a record of all strings sent to "#b-a" as seen by the lN of "assbot".
mircea_popescu: take the eutherium short as a good working example.
ben_vulpes: ah i guess the log only makes sense as maintained by someone in a wot
asciilifeform: but it is not especially hard to set up a chemical reaction that acts as a travelling 'record needle.'
asciilifeform: retrieve, develop (as in photograph), extract audio with simple analogue computer.
asciilifeform: rather, it was a microphone, often at least as large as, say, a thimble, and a very long wire
asciilifeform: decimation: i'd classify all 'one way radio' as a single category for purpose of the discussion re: algorithmic basics.
asciilifeform: i imagine mpex as consisting of three gurlz, in a box, in shifts, and a console.
decimation: the interent, as exists, is like tor - in the sense that the group is trying to solve the individual's problem
mircea_popescu: (i mean, as opposed to soft. it's not like twitter, follow X. it's the opposite, "send to X")
asciilifeform: (i dare suggest that a node be referred to as 'cell', for extra lulz)
mircea_popescu: not even deliberately, just, as a side effect.
mircea_popescu: wheras as proposed, gossipd makes the enemy outright impossible.
artifexd: I guess I like the default sign because I see myself as Panopticon. I don't talk much. But I watch and listen. Default-sign helps me.
mircea_popescu: well yes. all the signed chats of everyone = everything. absolutely as 1 = 1.
mircea_popescu: in both cases, we are discussing user Panopticon, who sees all and says nothing. now, in spec as is, it is true that user P will know... nothing. correct ? whereas in your proposed spec, he would know... everything. correct ?
mircea_popescu: i think i explained it half a dozen different ways, to exhaustion, but am at a loss as to why what seems obvious is not communicating itself.
mircea_popescu: the same relation as between you and me, in the scenario.
asciilifeform: laborious external signature, as at present time ?
asciilifeform: in the scheme as presently described, your client is also signing (for the record of the hypothetical nsa goon, among others) a fairly arbitrary set of messages.
asciilifeform sees the genuine dilemma here. but sees it as a dilemma, not an open-and-shut case in favour of soft-anonymity
asciilifeform: one can have 'anonymity' or 'deniability' or whatnot, as commonly imagined, at the same time as signed-everything
mircea_popescu: as in, why add clunk that actually harms and hinders, except to perpetuate what we generally agree is a harmful meme.
asciilifeform: not so much 'attacks', but i for one was hoping to see this experiment as a beginning of the 'wot internet'
mircea_popescu: as far as i recall, for as far as my own chatlog is concerned, it took them exactly an hour longer than it took me to decide it's enough.
asciilifeform: in practice, derp can often masquerade as simply an underenthusiastic or overworked 'actual person' for a spell.
mircea_popescu: artifexd i ended up referring to your project as that.
asciilifeform: as it is, you're relying on the next hop node's operator to sign your words.
asciilifeform: just strikes me as a peculiar retreat from the whole 'let's bring an end to eternal september' thing