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trinque: I guess that doesn'
t help much with a good IED
mats: I have heard this, didn'
t believe it
trinque: the point here isn'
t to package bitcoin into some easily inserted suppository for everyone
wilbns: funkenstein_: yes, but most people on the street don'
t care as long as their money is worth the same today as it is yesterday and they can still go buy a relative equivalent of whatever with it tomorrow.
mats: >
t its heart, this calculator is an emulator of the HP-15C (running on an ARM processor, although a different family from what HP is using in the ARM-based current-production 12C and the 15C Limited Edition), and therefore has largely the same feature set and user interface as a real 15C.
wilbns: funkenstein_: hey, sorry, i don'
t understand your question.
trinque: asciilifeform: yeah, isn'
t that it doesn'
t provide utility, but not to *them*
wilbns: also, in kenya, for example bitcoin doesn'
t provide much utility beyond what m-pesa already does. the current area companies like bitpesa are trying to get traction are in remittances (where one party doesn'
t have m-pesa because they're outside the country), or by pitching it as a speculative financial instrument or novelty.
trinque: did seem like it doesn'
t follow..
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 23:18:36; fluffypony: cazalla: it's not even me, Africans don'
t want Bitcoin because they're quite happy dealing in cash and not paying tax
mircea_popescu: <phf> i don'
t know understand why everything needs to be made so idiotic. << heh.
phf: i don'
t know understand why everything needs to be made so idiotic. i mean, what is this, making your 50 years of scientific research hip? you know, for the kids.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller isn'
t batman this derp with a fortress ?
mircea_popescu: how come the woman can lose state secrets via inept emailing, and is ok, the guy can'
t talk to some random socially-acceptable whore
mircea_popescu: yes, it's probable they'd come up with some sort of "doesn'
t count", but should be fun to see nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: and on the balance of evidence, it's more likely the 17 yo in question have serious autism issues. because they similarly can'
t talk to girls and so forth.
thestringpuller: Paul Graham literally believes the best startups are ones that don'
t scale: "When I interviewed Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School, he said that while it was a lot of work creating course lists for each school, doing that made students feel the site was their natural home."
fluffypony: cazalla: it's not even me, Africans don'
t want Bitcoin because they're quite happy dealing in cash and not paying tax
☟︎ cazalla: fluffypony, you don'
t want black africans to have bitcoin, you rascally racist
fluffypony: so I've literally been saying for ages that Africa is far from ready to "embrace" Bitcoin, and half the continent won'
t want it anyway, but nooooo, nobody listens to me, they all want to shovel Bitcoin down Africa's throat
mircea_popescu: none of the bitches that tan are as alert as the bitches that don'
t.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 20:21:03; joecool: I don'
t speak too often in here, but I do like to keep up with things
mike_c: oh gavin.. "... which should eventually evolve into "download, check for valid signatures, and automatically upgrade" code (yet another feature that I think it is pretty clear people want that can'
t make it past the Core idea review process)."
shinohai: "Of course this doesn'
t help mining pools. They would need to find ways to sink the DoS attacks themselves." LOL
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: upon further review, he's evorhees isn'
t in assbot's l2, so i guess he's not in the wot after all.
jurov: well.. if i hadn'
t met you in person, i'd have very different image too :)
jurov: i had a bit heated discussion with him that it the wallet users don'
t own the privkeys, wtf is that all about
ascii_field: hasn'
t he revealed himself to be a spammer piece of shit ?
phf: trinque: i don'
t have a reference for that rednecks that i go snowboarding and sometimes hunting with are not very religious. they just say all the tv talking points, abortion, gays, liberal elite, etc.
trinque: phf: eh, I don'
t think you know my rednecks
ascii_field: kakobrekla: and i don'
t have a sotheby's budget to do it with, either.
ascii_field: i have shit luck and don'
t know anyone who has anything i want.
joecool: I don'
t speak too often in here, but I do like to keep up with things
☟︎ trinque: and most of these people don'
t see that the american system resulted in precisely that predicament
trinque: wouldn'
t he say that he'd like the laws changed further in his favor in those cases?
shinohai: I honest;y don'
t have a problem with most, except the real real fundies
BingoBoingo: Also greek allows maximum trollage when you tell Missionaries the original text isn'
t all that exciting
phf: imho that was the first wave of retards in linux the whole "linux on desktop" thing, shifted massive amounts of resources towards догоним и перегоним. instead of bullet proof fvwm or whatever, you now have a dozen of windows ripoffs with "minor imperfections", but don'
t worry there's a libfoo that adds exposé support to your terminal characters
phf: ascii_field: guy who wrote firmware also distributes laminates. i hear you, but it's the whole poverty point, for me it was a step up from "why the fuck can'
t i get a decent rpn calculator?" i tried iphone apps even..
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> ben_vulpes gets oil for frying pan at the farmer market ? << Doesn'
t the oil render of the MEGA_Hippie pork lardons?
ascii_field: classic 'here have this thing that isn'
t actually the same at all'
ascii_field: i don'
t want the 49 series with their idiot vertical layout and tiny keys
ascii_field: phf: it isn'
t about 'retro name' but about the only programmer's calculator ever made
phf: <ascii_field> they flag residences with more-than-average count of distinct sim id << they do? i don'
t even know how many sims i have, they have all kinds of practical applications! sms proxies, rc helicopters, remote triggered explosive devices, what?
punkman: ascii_field: your argument has merit, but I don'
t think for long
ascii_field: srsly, if the answer is 'don'
t do that, instead put this broomstick up your arse' then fuckyou
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:37:31; asciilifeform: the other interesting thing is that the market is segmented in such a way that anyone who doesn'
t want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~ the alt-crackpotteries, not merely the logical ones
BingoBoingo: jurov: I don'
t know exactly, but Maybe the server is cranky?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the only good thing coming out of that parade (an event imbecile "world leaders" are not going to - and should be hanged by their constituencies for not having attended, if those constituencies weren'
t made up of retards) is that xi specifically mentioned discrimination as bad. this is an improbable stance for china.
mircea_popescu: socialism doesn'
t take defeat well the same way crappy software doesn'
t take failure well.
mircea_popescu: exactly the same is the situation in politics, which are throughout software. if the country is run by unfit men, which is the very definition of socialism, the fundamentals are ipso facto rotten. everyone knows they are rotten. the only reason things carry on is because "well, it works", ie, it hasn'
t crashed yet. once it crashes, that's it, off to the scrap heap.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 14:25:01; asciilifeform: where, exactly, can you get phone that doesn'
t charge for incoming ?
mircea_popescu: "Will there ever be a point in time where bitcoin will be so easy to use that it won'
t be intimidating for the average Joe?"
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 01:13:47; mircea_popescu: trinque>china for example builds its *first* aircraft carrier, and people talk about the chinese being a military threat <<< you don'
t understand how this works. the aircraft carrier is irrelevant. china bet on the winning strat (missile defense) and bet a lot more than the us can afford, and as a result now has unchallangeable area denial ability throughout the shores. this means it can pursue its
punkman: I haven'
t been to any eu countries that charge for incoming calls/sms
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2014 13:47:32; mircea_popescu: to me too. and i got a 100 pesos samsung dumbphone. it's light, i couldn'
t care less if someone steals it.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 07:06:40; *: mircea_popescu has just learned that one can'
t in point of fact get a phone plan in the us that doesn'
t charge FOR INCOMING CALLS
shinohai: It just bores me. I can'
t watch cars go in circle 2-3 hours.
pete_dushenski: i can'
t say i've ever been much for nascar, but enough of the tradition seems to have carried on, despite the distillation of the source into a platonic game
punkman: well you can'
t have software hacking when the car has no software
cazalla: gotta play through easy then normal before hard more with the mobile toddler who doesn'
t fancy doing what you want
cazalla: wouldn'
t the sign just go ignored?
mircea_popescu: one sad, sad year, when the elevator won'
t start anymore
cazalla: i don'
t think good or bad for environment ever crossed my mind.. cannot buy cloth anywhere and tbh i don'
t fancy scraping the shit from them and couldn'
t sell the idea to missus
fluffypony: when I was there in November I got a prepaid SIM from
T-Mobile for $80 for a month
mircea_popescu has just learned that one can'
t in point of fact get a phone plan in the us that doesn'
t charge FOR INCOMING CALLS
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Colorizarion always renders the serious derpy because people can'
t compose color the right way
trinque: I am a barbarian, can'
t be trusted with delicate things
trinque: I don'
t get the sense that Tim Cook would beat someone with one if he didn'
t approve of it
phf: he doesn'
t understand. i recently switched keyboards on this laptop, now that is not an operation for people with shaky hands. requires complete removal of guts and then removing ~~200 screws that attach the keyboard to the frame.
phf: ben_vulpes: i'm not sure why that would be a controversial point. how does something like trig functions work in python? they don'
t, they are a call out to system level math library
phf: trinque: anyway, the original distinction was not about hosts not being a python datastructure, it's the fact that you can'
t separate python semantics from the underlying os, which is unix/posix/x86/ieee combined in various forms
phf: common lisp specification is written in a such a way that you don'
t need to know anything about the outside world to fully replicate a ~useful~ computation
trinque: ben_vulpes: "doesn'
t own the machine" sounds to me like "/etc/hosts isn'
t a python data structure"
ben_vulpes: well i've not parsed v in its entirety into my head yet, and after bitcoin i'm loath to run software that doesn'
t fit in my head.