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mircea_popescu: " Most pro age-limit organizations agree that 18 should be the legal age for marriage."
<< check it out, voting works NOW.
mircea_popescu: ""According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), between 2011 and 2020, more than 140 million girls will become child brides. Furthermore, of the 140 million girls who will marry before the age of 18, 50 million will be under the age of 15."
<< note how little the agenda has to do with the purely fabricated news story.
BingoBoingo:
<pete_dushenski> not a ~real~ recession, those don't happen in the biggest bestest firstest americas
<< Testnet Americans
ascii_field: 'They then use these keys to spawn large numbers of EC2 instances to mine for bitcoins.'
<< exercise for the reader: calculate how much, e.g., litecoin, could have been mined by the attacker.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> 'v' is a double-edged sword, however, i must say, in that it makes it possible to build therealbitcoin without reading patches or giving a fuck
<< blind trust is only a problem to the blind trustor.
mod6:
<+asciilifeform> rather than roasting in the hell of figuring my patch topology out with a pencil
<< imagine how much easier it is now for a person to literally pick a place in the flow and patch directly to it. instead of wading through mutliated corpses trying to find the least smelly ones.
mod6:
<+asciilifeform> descendants !
<< mean this, my apologies.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> thestringpuller "can be viewed here"
<< missing link ?
<< fixed link was living in: (text)
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller "can be viewed here"
<< missing link ?
pete_dushenski: " Qntra earlier reported Pierce, replaced Vessennes' as chairman of the now defunct Bitcoin Fundation (note for editor: find something to call it so it's not confused with the real bitcoin) back in April,"
<< calling all cars to the scene
mircea_popescu: trinque> well hell, that CoreOS
<< /me can not help but notice the "core" symbol.
ascii_field: 'These companies are genuinely trying to do things right, to protect their customers, and prevent their businesses from facilitating criminal activity. We're proud to provide the KYC, fraud prevention, and monitoring technologies these businesses use to identify and prevent suspicious activity, as part of their AML program to comply with U.S. and international regulations.'
<< l0l!!
punkman: mircea_popescu: 753 kbps
<< 1mbps gets you 320gb/month or so
BingoBoingo:
<ascii_field> t-mobile ~specifically~ pushes itself as 'we don't have a tonnage limit!!111'
<< This they advertise X speed for first Y transfer and after that max tonnage at best effort speed
assbot: Logged on 22-10-2014 18:52:16; mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> how to do signed commits
<< the barbarian way. everyone who read a patch file (yes) and is willing to sign under it, signs. this gets posted. whoever wants, can apply the patches to get a merged turdball.
<< i think this is exactly how it should go.
BingoBoingo:
<nanashi_> During an emergency like "stress-testing," I'd like to see a remedial measure which extends the 3-day window to something like 7-day window, or as a last resort, a manual inquiry for refunding.
<< SOmetime on Day 2 double spend the coins with a higher fee so the miners want it.