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gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: if you've information contradicting the stackoverflow question in question please say so. I'm in the middle of building a non-retarted linux distribution and would like to have Emacs as battle ready as possible by default.
assbot: Logged on 21-11-2014 01:14:46; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: text editor experiment << when you build 'emacs', you can select 'use mmap for buffers' as a compile flag.
asciilifeform: guessed as much
asciilifeform: that 'toshiba' was as close as i ever got to perfect.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I'm rather curious as to why you're fixing (for some value of that word - more akin to fixing up a corpse before burial, w/e) up a openbsd box when you've got your own gentoo 'fork'?
asciilifeform definitely not showing up with same gadget as last year
mike_c: he better not show up with the same thing as last year
asciilifeform: Luke-Jr: so you'll surrender if opponent so much as lifts a finger in opposition? or do you have some 'round two' answer that doesn't involve centrally-controlled zap lists.
Luke-Jr: adlai: for me, part of this isn't so much the spam filtering, as much as it is trying to combat monoculture
asciilifeform: Luke-Jr: let's suppose that we agreed with your 'blockchain environmentalism' philosophy, and wished to expell the dice men. say they start to switch addrs daily. what will you propose as a counter-attack?
asciilifeform: Luke-Jr: even if we all despised the dice men as much as you did, named filter is still monumentally stupid;
adlai wonders whether it's helpful to look at the potential attacks on bitcoin as spam to be censored... or as a challenge to be accepted
fluffypony: it must suck to be universally accepted as mind-numbingly stupid and yet not have the intelligence to be introspective enough to see it within yourself and change for the better
Luke-Jr: asciilifeform: why? as long as it's easy to filter spam, might as well
diametric: so first, as a former gentoo dev, Luke-Jr go fuck yourself.
fluffypony: [22:59:44] <+Adlai>Luke-Jr: the question still stands. how does humanity pick a monarch <- well humanity sure as fuck didn't choose Luke-Jr to be the Bitcoin monarch.
adlai: why wouldn't he, as a test, to guage how many people are suckers, and will believe what people say from under a fancy hat or behind a pulpit?
Luke-Jr: anyhow, the modernist antipopes can be cited as using the heresy modernism to justify their other heresies
Luke-Jr: danielpbarron: no Catholic churches today follow the antipopes; those who do follow the antipopes and attend his churches are at risk of being damned, yes (though as Adlai infers, their culpability depends)
Luke-Jr: undata: if the pope is bad at the same time as a monarch goes bad, God help us
assbot: Logged on 16-12-2014 19:04:39; Luke-Jr: mats: I don't know how many people here actually have similar political positions as me.. probably few?
ben_vulpes: "it's easier to hard code configuration into the source than read it as configuration at runtime"
mats: if something as inconsequential as time to sync keeps people from operating a full node
mats: this is not a problem, and won't be a problem for as long as the block size remains the same.
danielpbarron: Luke-Jr, so? as long as my bank lets me authorize account actions via GPG, sounds good
assbot: The woes of Altcoin, or why there is no such thing as "cryptocurrencies" pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1zt6nge )
danielpbarron: Luke-Jr, yeah along with all the other "cryptocurrencies" http://trilema.com/2014/the-woes-of-altcoin-or-why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrencies/
Luke-Jr: mats: I don't know how many people here actually have similar political positions as me.. probably few? ☟︎
BingoBoingo: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=submission&id=4061977 << Might as well try this again.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: they had paper journals as recently as two years ago. but now zapped.
BingoBoingo: It's hard to think much of a library that would have as part of its collection and the like ISBN-13: 978-0672313004
BingoBoingo: They have, but even before then were decaying as books were replaced by crappy fascimiles of books.
asciilifeform: went to the same hell as bell labs.
asciilifeform: it is why single-vendor (how else) 'implementation as standard' is fundamentally retarded.
cazalla: they have all converted to infrared ovens yet persist with advertising themselves as charcoal chicken
cazalla: as for chicken shops.. you cannot find a single legitimate charchoal chicken shop anywhere here these days
Vexual: as long as it doesn't go into the whiskey
asciilifeform: but now, at a loss as to how ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: There were parts where maybe I believe, but yeah the string of inconsistent broke people kinda kills the thing as a movement.
mats: his followers claim he is not the same as the bitcointalk scammer
asciilifeform: disguise as rock in question.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In my first stint as a Teaching Assistant I had Late 40's grad students. Retired military or house wives getting almost always already employed by the university looking for their second or third career
decimation: it's pretty much the same deal as your idiot-'academic'-woman stereotype
ben_vulpes: may as well invite The Well, PeterL
BingoBoingo: At the time Artillery was cooler than fighter Jets ever were, or John McCain's shit eating grin would be on signs as far south as Rio
asciilifeform: i left it as an exercise.
asciilifeform: i've deliberately described only a point-to-point link. routing with multiple hops is left as an exercise for the reader!
asciilifeform: but really it was because posts were attached to identities (as a matter of convention, rather than 'hard' protocol)
asciilifeform: let's rephrase a little. the internet as presently exists, is, in practice, mainly a machine for 1) connecting derps to 'reddit' and 'arsebook' 2) routing ddos packets to trilema, qntra...
mircea_popescu: for as long as your bank accoutn lasts, sure.
asciilifeform: bots still work as before
mircea_popescu: as long as friction is baked in, the ddos problem fundamentally doesn't exist.
assbot: Logged on 08-12-2014 17:09:27; asciilifeform: where every packet knows who paid for it << those who imagine a wot-routing based net as a rent-seekers' paradise are mistaken. it is today's net that is a rent-seeker's paradise, where folks who cannot abide ddos must buy bandwidth in vast excess of their normal needs
mircea_popescu: and in connectionless environments such as ntp or dns even, it would cost nothing to require 2 tits for every tat.
asciilifeform: same principles apply to ntp flooding as earlier ssdp - anyone who wishes can 'walk away with' the 'bots'.
cazalla: if the law permitted us to carry weapons, would've ended much sooner as well
jurov: later read it as co.inmate, had double take
asciilifeform: http://wurmhoudt.blogspot.com/2012/08/anti-tank-dogs.html << chihuahua could work just as well in this job.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: grab as many as you can. no hurry.
mircea_popescu: "democratically elected representatives" are not only dumb as rocks, but fundamentally unrepresentative.
adlai: bitfinex seems to have the same kind of uncertainty as mpex
ben_vulpes: how does a fence mark the land as belonging to any particular man?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: not so much the custom of rings being a mystery, but how it marks the territory as being yours in particular, to the naked eye
fluffypony: think of it as stone tablets
asciilifeform: as
mircea_popescu: as opposed to as ?
asciilifeform random derps on the tumblrs << misread as 'on the tumbrils'
badon: There is no such thing as private land ownership in jurisdictions that tax ownership of land.
thestringpuller: not as organized tho.
thestringpuller: As yes, I suppose the USG is pretty much the mafia.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, and like every other franchise like that profitable locations are retained as "corporate stores"
thestringpuller: decimation: as mircea_popescu once stated on trilema money is the least of his problems (in fact he is already "bankrolled" from drug dealing). his problem is finding competent people.
mircea_popescu: no because they're just as good as anyone else!
decimation: they have all been 'laid off' and are now working as shift managers at starbucks or whatever
thestringpuller: As mircea_popescu points out in his article on YCombinator (Facebook lining up a billion idiots of investors), I wonder if the the world Mike Judge envisioned in Idiocracy is possible.
mircea_popescu: except their crew and screenwriters suck so bad, the old school as depicted by them is a scary abomination
mircea_popescu: before that, amateur/gonzo porn killed any respectone would have gotten as a porn star.
thestringpuller: it's perverted the profession as a whole.
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: social media marketing has pretty much killed any respect one would get as a copywriter
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: that reminds me of huxely. Take all meaning out of a word as described in his book _Words and Their Meanings_
BingoBoingo remembers finding out that the Alumni association considered anyone who attended for four semesters and Alumni without any regard as to... graduation
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cazalla: new PM same as old PM, all useless and illegitimate
gribble: Nick 'ben_vulpes', with hostmask 'ben_vulpes!~user@unaffiliated/benkay', is identified as user 'ben_vulpes', with GPG key id 2AFA1A9FD2D031DA, key fingerprint 4F7907942CA8B89B01E25A762AFA1A9FD2D031DA, and bitcoin address None
cazalla: st kilda beach is utter shit, as are most beaches down here
asciilifeform: 'mach' already worked. exactly same idea, just as much of a snore, 20 years ago.
cazalla: same here, sunny, hot as fuck
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I was still stuck on the form as well, and yes. It is arts and crafts time
mircea_popescu: i mean... it's there, plain as day. "we don't do anything useful anyway".
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> the machine of roughly the same period as nes but with 'adult' i/o was 'commodore 64.' << Immature criticism, but not everyone likes semen
asciilifeform: the machine of roughly the same period as nes but with 'adult' i/o was 'commodore 64.'
badon: I've never "invested" in gold bullion. I've bought rare gold coins, and I've flipped gold, but I've never held raw bullion as an investment.
badon: Right now, I would consider buying palladium again, but silver is much more liquid and reliable as an investment.
badon: BingoBoingo: I think the way it's going to go this time around is exactly the same as every other time. First, the precious metals will move (they're dirt cheap now), then the coins.
BingoBoingo: I can endorse Топор as the bitcoin movie though
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: just as 'armed bear lisp' was the original commonlisp-on-jvm
asciilifeform: and treated with much the same reaction as the 'financial academia' reserves for taleb or mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: i briefly considered subscribing to an 'audited' class (no grade) just to count as undergrad, to score the goods
Namworld: Mircea, an interesting note about Facebook ads. I think now you can target users by habit, such as people spending money on Facebook credit to buy stuff. So I guess you can filter out bots/junk traffic and target paying gamers who have money to waste and access to credit cards and so on. Although the use for that is limited I suppose to games, mostly.
BingoBoingo: I mean why abuse a legit wagering operation into an actual mixer when you can trust random derp who advertises a wagering operation as a mixer