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ben_vulpes: requires drawing on
the retina
to work properly imho.
TheNewDeal: someone just gave me one of
those pens with
the electromagnetic
tip
that works with
touchscreens, great for reducing fat-fingers
gribble: Bitstamp | A market order
to buy 10000 bitcoins right now would
take 2613072.8741 USD and would
take
the last price up
to 400.0000 USD, resulting in an average price of 261.3073 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0116 seconds
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] if
the fashion looks like it doesn't have
the steam, backlash prevails. << i wonder if Apple has
the steel
to pull off
their watch play.
mircea_popescu: nobody
there
to stand up and
tell
them where
to stick
that shit /
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re previous imgur : wtf is
that kindergarten shit.
TheNewDeal: Actually it looks like
they're still contained under one parent company. IPO'd under "WWE" on
the nyse
hanbot: lol acronyms are ip nao
too?!
ben_vulpes: iirc
they got sued by
the world wildlife foundation
TheNewDeal: I
think
they combined at some point, and
then split up again
mircea_popescu: WWE, was previously known as
the "World Wrestling Federation" or "WWF" from 1979
to 2002
TheNewDeal: just finished Case of Dextar Ward, anyone read
that?
ben_vulpes: words don't just *lose*
their meaning mircea_popescu sheesh
mircea_popescu: they basically rebrand it each decade, so 10yos can all have
their own.
ben_vulpes: i
think wrestling is still called wrestling.
mircea_popescu: "and suddenly,
totally out of everyone's left field, chtulu"
TheNewDeal: or just
the regular 1/sec/sec
traveling pace
hanbot: she's younger
than you?!
ben_vulpes: plus
there's a bit of "that's my little brother, only i get
to bully him around"
ben_vulpes: winding up one's own mother's an acquired
taste.
hanbot: isn't
that incestuous?
ben_vulpes: think i'll reserve
the right
to fuck with my mom's head for myself
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] ben_vulpes so why not bring mom here ? << well now she's full-bore communist. notrly good company for
the asshats.
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF
Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021389 B (Total: 467.74 B). Delta: -1.46 B. Last
trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.0002 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: mebbe i make an android sexbot
to come
to your place and disturb your
thoughts
TheNewDeal: So I aithed
through gribble and
then assbot is sending me some separate link when I
try for !Up. Is it just like
the gribble auth process?
mircea_popescu: bless his soul. "bitcoin is bad because no government
to inflate it, no government
to posture about it, no government
to
tax it".
mircea_popescu: dude where would we be without bitcoin experts
that built
their expertise on ignorance!
mircea_popescu: ll fork
the network
to keep it. Eventually,
the network will cease
to have utility because it will be
too small and
then it will die.
The
three specific
things
that will ultimately kill Bitcoin are
the limit on
the number of coins,
the lack of any kind of value anchor, and
the absence of compulsory
transaction fees. "
mircea_popescu: "Having said
that,
the main reason I've never heard of him is probably
that I mostly ignore Bitcoin current affairs, because its design flaws will eventually kill it.
The key ideas behind
the
technology are epoch-makingly brilliant, but
the
trouble with any distributed P2P system -
the
thing
that kills most of
them in
the end - is
that for any given design flaw,
there are people who benefit from it, and
those people wi
kakobrekla: for example
that 100k usd fury rack was connected
to
the internet via 3 mobile phone connections back in
the day.
kakobrekla: the math
tells
them better
to drop
tx
than
to
take additional risk or an orphan
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 actually
this would be a good datapoint
to compute. find out
the sum
total of orphans
to date. << noted. will see what I can come up with.
Adlai: "sure,
there are people who still buy LPs, audiophiles dedicated
to authentic sounds... but
the US dollar is more like an 8-track
tape"
mircea_popescu: mod6 actually
this would be a good datapoint
to compute. find out
the sum
total of orphans
to date.
mod6: ahh ok, well, in relation
to "b", i've seen
this SIGKILL/OOM problem on a local vm with 1Gb of ram, and an AWS VM with 2Gb of ram.
Adlai: you guys would like
this
talk, he just spent ~3 minutes
talking about how americans can't read anymore
mircea_popescu: mod6 but a) a block can no longer be an orphan once
the block at
the height it disputes has its coinbases spendable ; b)
the sum
total of orphans
to date isn't, if memory serves, 8gb.
mod6: anyway, i'm gonna keep debugging
this
thing. will give updates.
Adlai: it's rather refreshing
to hear
this guy say
that most of
teh previous
talks (xapo et al) are a
total waste of
time and detrimental
to bitcoin
mircea_popescu: jurov: i should prolly make a bot << it's been up
to date ?
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6: so we /might/ need
to add something similar... but im not positive
that
this is actually
the issue yet. << i don't see how concurrent chains would cause memory outages. << well,
there is a container
that holds
these orphan blocks unchecked in v0.5.3. if
this actually is related
to
the R.I. chewing
through all its ram, perhaps a limit should be introduced.
mircea_popescu: Adlai generally a good indication
that all he does is smoke pot, and watch dudes firing guns and chicks doing yoga in yoga pants on youtube.
mircea_popescu: point being, whoever finds something fundamental and builds his mental representation of life on
top of it is going
to act like someone who's built his mental representation of life on
top of it.
Adlai: lol
this guy's roadmap for bitcoin adoption: cannabis, gun dealers, and
then "pilates instructors, masseuses, and anybody else who doesn't want
to pay a single dollar
to
the IRS"
Adlai knows a few, not sure how passionate
they are about
the
transition itself
Adlai: "If you
think bitcoin people are passionate about bitcoin, you should see how passionate cannabis people are about cannabis"
Adlai: there shouldn't be any problem incorporating headers-first mitigation of
that ddos vector
mircea_popescu: jurov: regardless of if it is
the case, is it feasible ddos scenario
to generate lots of orphans for old blocks? << yes.
mircea_popescu: mod6: so we /might/ need
to add something similar... but im not positive
that
this is actually
the issue yet. << i don't see how concurrent chains would cause memory outages.
Adlai: they're probably more likely
to make a sale if
they put up a sign saying
they don't
take bitcoin
Adlai: doubtful, seen a price
ticker lately?
Adlai: there's a real estate booth here, and a yacht booth.
they have nothingc
to do with bitcoin except accepting it as payment.
Adlai: if nobody's
trying
to steal it, it's probably not worth stealing
mircea_popescu: i can see
the point anyway.
the wasps are a compliment
to
the grapes and
the flies
to
the dead donkey.
Adlai: he's just bouncing around on stage waxing euphoric about
the rocketship
Adlai: this is from jeffrey
tucker,
the only speaker who hasn't used a slideshow
mircea_popescu: the balls are a complement
to your cock ;
the wow's you hear are compliments
to your cock.
Adlai: "the fact
that it attracts so many scammers is a complement
to bitcoin"
pete_dushenski: peeople expect
the "you are rich, just click here
to claim your winnings" shtick, but "you are poor" is just genius
mircea_popescu: adlai meets girl at party. she drags him
to upstairs bedroom.
they go at it. after a while, she's "adlai,
this fucking sucks!" and he retorts calmly
kakobrekla: i just wanna have something
to show when ppl come asking where gaw money went