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Naphex: fluffypony: well its going
to be something really fun :)
mike_c: i just spit out a mouthful of coffee :D "mircea_popescu:it is ANOTHER discussion
to propose
that you pile all
the donkeys on
top of
the camels and
then
throw
the lot in
the river"
cazalla: davout, i
think it's a bitcoin company in name only, fiat ponzi otherwise but
there is so much conflicting info out
there
that qntra didn't publish anything as of yet
davout: never heard about it, but apparently
they're putting bs&t
to shame with a $400mn loss, sounds doubtful
thestringpuller: ;;later
tell PeterL scoopbot is always down when I post new article :P
cazalla: thestringpuller, some days i regret it, some days not, but i could only stand and laugh at
this one
today
thestringpuller: cazalla: ugh young children.
they scare me. i
think as I get older I am developing child-phobia.
cazalla: and
the missus was out so
there i stood holding him with one hand
to stop him grabbing it and unsure how
to clean
the mess up with
the one remaining hand (got in
the shower in
the end)
cazalla: gee what an afternoon, kid makes a run for it while changing his nappy, i end up covered in shit and
then piss
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TheNewDeal: Anyone interested in a bitbet repurchase?
mircea_popescu: how was
that line, "self serving minds have little
trouble overcoming memory" ?
ascii_modem: i would like
the writers
to remember
this.
ascii_modem: eventually
they always
turn up,
those fiddypounds'o'notes
mircea_popescu: well if it was,
then wh ythe fuck did you spend five years denying it.
mircea_popescu: attracts a particularly felonious
type,
too.
there's
this guy, who claimed he never worked with
the secret police,
then
they found fiddy pounds worth of notes, at which point he declared
that it was
the patriotic duty of everyone
to help
the secret police!
mircea_popescu: basically, what
the various "law enforcement officers" do in court
these days.
mircea_popescu: well
the word means false police report for pay. but generally,
the sort of late warsaw pact atmosphere.
mircea_popescu: and i come from a
time and place where
they had delatiune
mircea_popescu: rarely has it been
the case
that a man did a more
thorough job of crushing himself before my eyes.
mircea_popescu: most starlets with youth fading, most inept actresses, most voiceless singers
take refuge in scandal, because hey, "being controversial" is a good excuse
to never consider if you're in fact any good.
mircea_popescu: it does make perfect sense in its devilish fatlogic system. lennart wants
to matter, yes ? but how
to do it safely ? AT JOB!
mircea_popescu: derp wants
to rewrite X. but how
to do it safely ? AH! I KNOW....
mircea_popescu: it is not
the "moral" considerations
that drive it.
the moral considerations are merely
the pretext under which
the inept hand
takes refuge.
mircea_popescu: i
think incidentally,
that
this is
the fundamental impulse driving most bowdlerization.
mircea_popescu: right. perfectly fine as it is, but what is more
tempting
than
to mess with an accomplished writer's words ?
ascii_modem: re: stooge squad: simple hypothesis is
that
the
toolkit being used on us was made for others. but - for whom?
ben_vulpes: "whatever is is right" has yet
to fall
danielpbarron: also from
that article: "The nodes
that really matter are
the ones
that provide valuable services. It doesn't matter if you upgrade. What matters is if Coinbase, BitStamp, and Blockchain.info upgrade."
mircea_popescu: s a magnificent castle; for
the greatest baron in
the province ought
to be
the best lodged. Swine were intended
to be eaten,
therefore we eat pork all
the year round: and
they, who assert
that everything is right, do not express
themselves correctly;
they should say
that everything is best.""
mircea_popescu: ""It is demonstrable," said he, "that
things cannot be otherwise
than as
they are; for as all
things have been created for some end,
they must necessarily be created for
the best end. Observe, for instance,
the nose is formed for spectacles,
therefore we wear spectacles.
The legs are visibly designed for stockings, accordingly we wear stockings. Stones were made
to be hewn and
to construct castles,
therefore My Lord ha
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell danielkrawisz what are you,
the second coming of pangloss ?
ben_vulpes: ascii_modem: are you
talking about
the minor pestilence?
mircea_popescu: this is such idiocy
the likes of which was never seen.
danielpbarron: "The general rule about Bitcoin upgrades,
therefore, is
that upgrades which increase Bitcoin's value will be adopted and
those which do not will not.
Therefore, Bitcoin is not likely
to be upgraded in ways which make it easier
to regulate because
that would decrease
the value of
the coins. Bitcoin might be upgraded in ways
that make it more anonymous because a more anonymous coin would likely be more valuable. An upgrade whi
ascii_modem: i'm still at a loss re: who hoped
to achieve what, exactly, by sending in
the latest ninjaspamz3r
mircea_popescu: 'the devil himself knoweth not
the mind of men' as
the expression goes.
danielpbarron: his argument is
that larger blocks mean higher price per BTC
mircea_popescu: well at
the very least express yourself better. i dunno anyone who'd
think much of
thought crime.
danielpbarron: i had a weird feeling about him leading up
to
this
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ascii_modem: and now
that it was mentioned, can
those gurlz smell benjies and at what range...?
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mircea_popescu: ascii_modem do you remember
that walk when
those gypsy girls accosted you ?
ascii_modem: gas distribution more reliable
than electric... <<< no one has yet devised a way of attaching gas pipes
to poles above ground. hence - reliable.
mircea_popescu: "We do not know what he would have said–it is just possible
that
the unprocurable pamphlet, 1601, would supply a clue but we may guess
that it would have wrecked his reputation and reduced his income
to reasonable proportions."
BingoBoingo: Ended up changine pubkey and commenting
the alert
trigger out of main.cpp
ascii_modem: BingoBoingo: snip same way, or change
the key verif. conditional
to 0
BingoBoingo: I run a node on 0.8.6 as a charity for
the SPV wallet using freeloaders
ascii_modem: BingoBoingo: i killed
the alert
thing with own hands
danielpbarron: i don't
think
the issue is limited
to SNI; surely you have an opinion on
the matter
napedia: I don't write for SNI. My opinion is
that I'd like
to see SNI sort it out with economic reasoning and good articles. Pierre's arguments are most persusasive.
napedia: I'm guessing you're
talking about Daniel.
The answer is
that
there is an internal split at SNI regarding
the block size. Daniel is on
the other side of Michael and Pierre.
mircea_popescu: The
tale is
told,
too, of a certain woman who performed an aeolian crepitation at a dinner attended by
the witty Monsignieur Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans, and
that when,
to cover up her lapse, she began
to scrape her feet upon
the floor, and
to make similar noises,
the Bishop said, "Do not
trouble
to find a rhyme, Madam!"
bitcoinquestions: anyone here wanna play bitcoin bounce? It's a simple game I made up
to build up
trust. Person A sends person B .5 BTC
then person B ends
the game by either running with
the money or returning .5 BTC. Person B can continue
the game by sending Person A 1 BTC back. Rinse and repeat.
bitcoinquestions: It seems like something he could convince
the masses
to upgrade
to, but I'm assuming
the miners know better
than
to let
that happen, correct?
bitcoinquestions: It's perfectly
tricky
though - it does at first seem like a good idea.
bitcoinquestions: And
there's no way Gavin doesn't know exactly what he's doing, right? Like is it possible he convinced himself
that it was a good idea?
bitcoinquestions: mircea_popescu: I did a lot more critical
thinking about
the blocksize limit and holy shit I feel so dumb for ever
thinking Gavin's proposal was a good idea.
thestringpuller: "OMG
the blocksize limit is
too small" last 6 blocks: 108k 26k 112k 97k 553k and 602k
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: My gut is
telling me
that changing
the public keys
to garbage is going
to be
the quick << not
that dirty, either.
mod6: asciilifeform: when you get a chance, you should do a new submission
to
the list for
the alert & win32 patches.
thx in advance.
mod6: it seems
that alerts were probably moved out
to
their own file in later versions.
BingoBoingo: mod6: Saw
that. I'm building a different phoundation version for personal use.
jurov: i.e. your node would
think others misbehave by sending invalid alerts
BingoBoingo: jurov: I'm fucking around on 0.8.6
two lines in alert.cpp in
that version possess public keys for verifying "Upgrade Alerts". My gut is
telling me
that changing
the public keys
to garbage is going
to be
the quick dirty way
to effectively neuter
the alert system in
the build. Figure each
time I build change
the garbage subbing for pubkeys.
jurov: BingoBoingo: depends on
the patch
BingoBoingo: Question for
the foundation: When futzing with bitcoin sources
to build more recent phoundation version, changing
the constant in alert.cpp
to garbage will keep a node so built from recognizing and/or passing a Gavin alert. Yes or no?
BingoBoingo: trinque: Questions go so far as
to whether
the
thing even existed/happened