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assbot: Logged on 26-01-2014 19:43:38; asciilifeform: for instance, they see their country as having 'sat for the same exam' as the ussr, and passed, while the latter flunked.
asciilifeform: as representing the reich, or the like.
BingoBoingo: He had money and instead of doing the Paul Graham get bought as fast as possible thing, he built himself a playground.
BingoBoingo: "The fact is that I would like to end my career as a behind-the-scenes powerbroker, a Deng Xiaoping of Gawker Media, exerting discreet influence through obscure committees." -Nick Denton
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: laugh, but i thought about this as a boy. mother had (still has! we dragged it along to usa!) an east german knitting machine. manually-cranked, but you get to set patterns with myriad knobs and switches.
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decimation: but it's a separate question as to whether 0.5.3 has a hidden monster
decimation: asciilifeform: if you got it to fully synch, the answer is 'no' as far as the '0.5.3 spec' is concerned right?
asciilifeform: valgrind, yes, as printed on the box
decimation: heh did you run the whole thing in valgrind? must have been slow as hell
mircea_popescu: well no, inasmuch as a 19yo is also a teen
thestringpuller: mod6 is tempting me to sign up as VIP
Vexual: also decimation, who as a special epreciation of politics
cazalla: BingoBoingo, i'll leave that to young men such as yourself BingoBoingo
cazalla: Vexual, or an au pair as you suggested :P
Vexual: good as any facelift
Vexual: as do i
mats: not as interesting as it sounds
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dfw | dfw. Down For Whatever ... as in... I totally want to hang with you and I am interested in doing anything cool. Emphasis on being psyched to chill and hang out.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: and if you're going to, wait for the fuhrer to rubber-stamp it. as i understand, they can still screw with the contents until this is done.
asciilifeform: dr p (author of linked book) did design a tank shell, marketed as 'atropus', that zaps electronics of victim - but, at point blank range! idea is that tank inevitably has exposed antennae, regardless of what kind of armour it has
asciilifeform: one wag asked why they did not drop an ordinary bomb, with same amount of trotyl as the emp vircator bomb, on the station
adlai thinks back to when he first connected scalpl to bitfinex, and found that "signature = HMAC-SHA384(payload, api-secret) as hexadecimal" apparently also means to zero pad it to 96 bytes
ansc: struck me as a genius insight
ansc: struck me as a fundamental truthy
mircea_popescu: the subiacent point there, perhaps unapparent, is that every human construct fundamentally relies on truth to be recognisable as such.
mircea_popescu: Namworld i have no idea how their stats look, so this is as good as anything.
ansc: which is, as everything you write, a very true if somewhat hyperbolic assessment of the present state of the union.
thestringpuller: that acts as dilution?
kakobrekla: as far as i know merica has invaded somalia and now we have freedam of spick here so he can fuck off
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: nope, not kidding, it's a thing in Debian as well as Ubuntu - https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/4772 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/ubuntu-repo-nodejs-require-symlink-to-node-to-use-forever etc.
thestringpuller: maybe "babysit"? essentially treating the children as children, much babysitting
thestringpuller: instead of pamper as the word
mircea_popescu: as if.
mats: 'A better way to do physics research is to build a lot of wealth outside of academia, and then fund myself as a scientist. That way I have complete freedom and I'm not facing the crazy competition for government funding. If I can pull it off, that's exactly what I'll do.'
RagnarDanneskjol: http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:HGFNh8L1sZ4J:scholar.google.com/+bitcoin&hl=en&scisbd=1&as_sdt=0,5
BingoBoingo: I am in no fair way other than tripping balls right now. How do robitussin bottles not exist as single serving containgers
nubbins`: <+BingoBoingo> The fuckers, part of his pre-trial release conditions was a prohibition on alcohol, 21st amendment yo! <<< i have a friend prohibited from imbibing for 4 years as part of the punishment for a drug offense
fluffypony: had a bit of a false start on one of the projects, shitty resources, so that's just picked up again as of a few weeks ago
fluffypony: maybe it's best to think of Monero as something like Freicoin - an experiment in creating something usable and useful
fluffypony: to get back to the previous convo, though - it isn't an "investment", nor has it been pitched as such
fluffypony: pubkeys) thus breaking compatibility with every existing application, and then enforce the standard for some time before the utxoset is sufficiently large to allow for a measurable level of privacy (see MRL-0001 on lab.monero.cc as to why this is true)
adlai: for example, this monero thing... let's say the tech is remarkably successful, and as this becomes evident, the value grows TENFOLD
adlai: treating it as a whalerpg where you take turns playing bull and bear is another story
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back at crazy shit ranch : "I am a twenty-year old sub living with my dom in Sask in a 24/7 D/s relationship. For the past two years I have been training as a sub and saving money for school. In the summer I will be relocating to Toronto for college in the fall. My Sir will find a Dom for me there with the hopes of finding me someone to stay with while I study. In exchange I will serve him as his slave for
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with that, i just spent a coupla hours derping in eulora myself. jus as long as it's not coming as a surprise later.
mircea_popescu: http://pastebin.com/9p0U3vVe << that poloniex thing looks trustworthy as all fuck o.O
fluffypony: we have infinite tail emission, the block reward value of which hasn't been set as yet
mircea_popescu: + i accidentally sent asciilifeform's line about 2nd code and pots to some chick i'm talking with on the side. she's new and was just probing as to what's in principle required of new chicks.
mircea_popescu: beating the women i love is more work than i feel like as it is.
undata: I can't think of an instance in history where blunt instruments such as these were wielded effectively.
thestringpuller: They glorify antics from sitcoms such as "Workaholics" finding ways to be lazy but still get by.
thestringpuller: "you won't make it in china, you too dumb, we send you to american high school come back as adult, bye bye"
asciilifeform: other thing is, these people only exist as merely one symptom of a long series of catastrophes
thestringpuller: well someone who is going to exclaim nonsense about JS being useful to "understand code" should be stuffed in the bowels of some buildings as a serf
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: should not have had access to any technology more complex than pitchfork. << but isn't this how ignorant mobs form? as much as I like a pitchfork mob....
thestringpuller: Ryan X. Charles: "I discovered bitcoin on May 13, 2011 and never recovered. After developing a reputation as the bitcoin guy at the physics department, I eventually quit my physics PhD program and went full-time bitcoin. I worked for the best bitcoin company in the world, BitPay"
undata: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
danielpbarron: it's described as "the bride, the Lamb’s wife" and "the great city, the holy Jerusalem"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: usg annihilated science to an extent no one ever, i suspect, thought of as possible. << lol not so. again the chinese lead. they burned the books 2x.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, had this been centrally planned, it'd have worked as well as that whore cixi's trains.
mircea_popescu: the only great fortune of europe in the industrial age was that they copied the dutch approach (as the tulip mania was coming to a close, dutch courts simply refused to intervene in any capacity and "Fuck you!")
undata: both of which could be seen as parasitic destroyers of anything that smells remotely innovative in the US economy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think nearly as well when walking, and spent many years trying to construct something like a 'walking computer.'
decimation: no one else writes about the downside of compilers as a technology (to my knowledge)
mircea_popescu: as in, the downside of "the good stuff that can be had for cheap" ?
asciilifeform: as in, the mental equivalents of the membranes are still largely intact.
asciilifeform: as if after a global thermonuking.
asciilifeform: as in, you would have to re-create entire industries from scratch
decimation: mircea_popescu: I like your romanian poet/french revolution quote. It could almost be used as a motto for the west today
asciilifeform: usg annihilated science to an extent no one ever, i suspect, thought of as possible.
asciilifeform: bacterium is almost as much too large as you and i.
asciilifeform: i generally tag all of the parties responsible for this state of affairs as agents of usg, whether they would think of themselves as such or not.
asciilifeform: as in, usg can and will perish, but the widgets spoken of here will not magically appear.
decimation: as long as usg sits on the stool it will remain that way
asciilifeform: almost as much as the first (and last, and only) xilinx part that had open docs from the vendor
decimation: yeah I've heard it referred to as the "ip cores" market
asciilifeform: they virtually never end up in consumer products except as a result of extreme haste (rushing a prototype to market)
asciilifeform: this is because it is quite impossible, as i understand, to really make serious money selling the chips
asciilifeform: just as china (along with the rest of the planet) happily runs winblows.
asciilifeform: decimation: after it, there could be no mistake as to the nature and motivations of the author.
asciilifeform: as i may have once explained, the chicoms have not done this and should not be expected to ever do it, because fpga is profoundly useless in a mass consumer product.
decimation: and they are still 'fundraising' as far as I can tell
asciilifeform: undata: loose mount (as in physical connector) ?
gribble: Nick 'mats', with hostmask 'mats!sid23029@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-qffzshlqkntuoouh', is identified as user 'mats', with GPG key id B9527964891A5566, key fingerprint B37F49DC35FD838B1F8783CC59C93F63549036BD, and bitcoin address None
undata: ah Orwell already treated it as "war is peace"
BingoBoingo: Well, the university training wasn't much other than social justice derping as a minority.
mircea_popescu: obviously, this is no reason to change anything, but as an intellectual pursuit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sometimes, the buggers 'go into tilt' and make it laughably easy. that piece reads as if it had been written by mr. spamgun himself.
BingoBoingo: Well, Indictment lists the charges as money transmission stuff, and "possession of marijuana with intention to distribute"
mircea_popescu: but they're so fucking derpy they're not helping me, as itemized above.
thestringpuller: Haha. I was just imagining you as Bitcoin's Obama. It was funnier in my head because of the implied irony.
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assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 06:35:49; ben_vulpes: <danielpbarron> well my having not done it doesn't matter as i'm no longer a lord << when did this happen?
cazalla: as i said to BingoBoingo, the trilema article on fat people and their diet which culiminates in day 10-14 gorging themselves on food, tonight, i gorge on alcohol after an abstinence
cazalla: anyway, we have green tea grown here, just not as good
cazalla: you fkn glow as green as the tea
punkman: decimation: I guess my question above (rephrased) is this: does the secp256k1 algorithm allow for any arbitrary 256 bit vector to be used as a key? Or is there a restricted set that will be more secure than other cases? <- exponent must be smaller than curve order, which is 0xfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffebaaedce6af48a03bbfd25e8cd0364141
ben_vulpes: <danielpbarron> well my having not done it doesn't matter as i'm no longer a lord << when did this happen? ☟︎
gribble: Nick 'mats', with hostmask 'mats!sid23029@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-jxahmfiunuuiztjr', is identified as user 'mats', with GPG key id B9527964891A5566, key fingerprint B37F49DC35FD838B1F8783CC59C93F63549036BD, and bitcoin address None