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BingoBoingo: Apparently
the dollar fell against 87 octane yesterday at retail
mircea_popescu: "So let’s learn from
the Swiss.
They’ve been careful;
they’ve maintained sound money for generations. And now
they’re paying
the price."
mircea_popescu: it's kind-of remarkable (not really) just how self-labeling stupidity actually is.
the difference between
trying
to "explain yourself" as an idiot and simply wearing a lot of large "hey everyone, i'm
the idiot!" signs and
tags is hard
to notice.
mircea_popescu: they were left on
this other side with nobody, and putin.
mircea_popescu: those people just failed
to "enter
the looking glass world" when "everybody" did.
TomServo: In glancing
through
the comments on Krugman's piece, he seems
to be getting pretty well lambasted
there.
mircea_popescu: that what
the us considers important
thinkers have no access
to basic data, because
they're isolated on a WoI, should speak volumes.
mircea_popescu: "And for
three years it worked. But on
Thursday
the Swiss suddenly gave up. We don’t know exactly why; nobody I know believes
the official explanation,
that it’s a response
to a weakening euro. " << ha-ha. everyone you DON'T know knows
the explanation. it was published on fucking
trilema for crissakes, not even as a news item.
mircea_popescu: Hey!
This page will never end! Just keep on scrolling
to see more posts! < lol busted. anyway! i guess it goes back i nthe pile
that has been holding "open
transactyions" since about 2011.
mircea_popescu: "With
the
two attacks we
thwarted in 2014,
the GUI development had
to
take a bit of a backseat." << in depth description ? links ? somehow for me
to evaluate if
they're due
to
the world being full of idiots (ddos ?) or
the devs being idiots (we were using ruby!!1)
mircea_popescu: (when what looks like a
term of art has basically
two apparently divorced meanings via google, it's suspicious if
they don't seem mutually aware)
mircea_popescu: "OpenAlias is different. Not only does it "square Zooko's
triangle" " <<
the entire discusison of
that
thing (my mind went, ok, let's
try and poke one particular
thing and see" is nice and all for
the zooko discussion, but a) it's not clear
to me what's
the relation
to open alias corporation if any
davout: i was personnally quite impressed by
the "let's start by a financial report"
mircea_popescu: Testing infrastructure consists of a Mac Mini hosted at MacStadium, as well as a beefy
testing box hosted at Hetzner in Germany, on which we have a number of VMs for
the various operating systems and variants we
target. >> much better.
mircea_popescu hated
that "illustrative" graph
too. fucking sleek but meaningless graphics.
davout: mircea_popescu: maybe in
the sense
that it was inherited as a messy bytecoin code base
mircea_popescu: 35 weeks of development (245 days) since Monero was inherited by
the Core
Team 594 separate commits << inherited by whom ? how ? if
that inherited had linked
to a gpg signed
testament...
mircea_popescu: this would explain
the shockingly large 50 btc donations figure for an altcoin i guess.
mircea_popescu: "Expenditure for
the year comprised of 3
totals as some costs could not be settled in BTC or were preferably settled in XMR. Our expenditure was 190.513492 BTC + 1 891.31 XMR + US $5 732.80, which is around
the 212 BTC mark.
Thus
the shortfall of 164.5 BTC was paid out of
the Core
Team's own pockets in
the hopes of recovering
the funds later on (ie. just in case anyone was wondering, not only do
the core
team not get p
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Just rewrote
that sentence, hazard of multi session writing.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo " So far it hasn't been enforced due
to its extreme vagary, but in
the unstable environment of applied United States law. Not with
the sudden resurgence of
threats
to invoke
the All Writs Act reentering
the public discourse in late 2014."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol always great
to read
the comedy gold classics every
time us policy backfires massively.
BingoBoingo: Thanks
TomServo, been chewing on
that one
too long prolly.
assbot: lifeboatz comments on "Defense in Silk Road
trial arguing Mark Karpeles, CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, was
the real mastermind behind Silk Road." ... (
http://bit.ly/1ykucK9 )
thestringpuller: And instead of being arrested by feds and
tried, Obama would have sent a drone.
thestringpuller: a super villian would have been running
this shit from Africa and would have actually killed people in
the process
fluffypony: they offered him donuts and lattes until he gave
them
the server keys
thestringpuller: no wonder
the Feds were able
to compromise Silk Road if
Tux was running it.
fluffypony: thestringpuller: nah, probably only a couple of minutes - you have
to remember
that he would only have heard
the news shortly before
that
Tweet, what with
the self-induced mocha frappacino coma binge he's been on lately
BingoBoingo: Well Where might McCaleb have met Kapeles if not
the silk road over a spoonful of black
tar?
jurov: it's completely incomprehensible
to me why
they have chosen karpeles of all people
assbot: This is probably going
to be disappointing for you, but I am not and have never been Dread Pirate Roberts.
fluffypony: yep it doubles up
to 6gb when its spooling
to disk (every 12 hours), as it creates a copy of
the blockchain object
jurov: will
try
that branch,
thx
jurov: still was
too much
fluffypony: and
the lmdb branch is reasonably stable, but Linux only at
this stage
jurov: it worked for maybe a day,
then linux died
jurov: just for fun i have
tried
to cap RSS using control groups so
that
the rest would go
to swap
jurov: pity
the monero memory problem isn't resolved yet (keeps blockchain in memory, needs 30G)
davout: 2~3 pages
to start i'd say
midnightmagic: i need undeformable support.
the weight of my leg on my heel while driving is pretty excruciating, but normal shoes would ruin my feel of
the floor and pedals
mircea_popescu: you can
trivially make it out of silicone. it'll suck.
midnightmagic: that's a good idea.. for a long
time I
thought I'd have
to cast a form out of carbon fiber or something
mircea_popescu: there must be some shop left somewhere
that still does it.
they make chain mail by hand and whatnot, i can't imagine shoemakers all died out.
mircea_popescu: twenty years ago you could have leather shoes made by design
to order in quantities of one, up in harlem.
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: I've been looking for a heel form specifically like
that
to wear for long
trips in my sportscar. Minus all
the metal and straps. I
think a heel form support over
the outside of a vibram would probably double my range without rest.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic
they look
to me like a steel frame
tied
to
the calf and foot.
mircea_popescu: hard
to be found and find peers when drowning in sewage & assorted cuntpuss
mircea_popescu: now if in question were shoes... or rifles... but
they aren't, are
they.
mircea_popescu: they probably learn more useful & important stuff playing counterstrike
than mashing
the kbd for code.
decimation: yeah, I can see
that. note
that
this wave of 'volunteers' makes life very difficult for actual pros
decimation: so,
the chinese peasant is a
textile hobbyist in
the way
that
the 'computer geek' is a programming hobbyist?
mircea_popescu: it's what computer geek means,
these days. "shy, socially awkward
teenager
that doesn't know how
to use computers, in spite of spending a lot of
time with
them"
mircea_popescu: like gavin, or
the rest.
the million people
that's a million extra hands on github
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i mean mostly
the ruby and web2.0 "we r code" bunch.
mircea_popescu: dunning kruger is not reserved
to idiots. it's just another name for
the aspie's sufferance.
mircea_popescu: yet somehow
their inability
to score girlfriends or be
the life of
the party does not even begin
to hint
to
them
that perhaps
they're ill prepared
to judge economic phenomena.
mircea_popescu: all sorts of
things seem obvious by simile
to people with no experience and not much intellectual curiosity.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if ever
there was a social experiment
to illustrate just how little computer geeks understand, bitcoin's it.
decimation: I suppose
the simple (call-put) analysis ignores
the prevailing interest rates in each currency, which would also affect
the future price
decimation: but
that was
the case a few weeks ago, and
the future has fallen
decimation: I guess
the simple call-put analysis would imply a future increase in price
decimation: interesting,
the march 15 euro future on CME is at $1.16, with a $1.16 call at $0.0248 and put at $0.0195
mircea_popescu: not like you're going
to do anything whatsoever BECAUSE of
the usg.
assbot: The
trial is going in
the favor of defense and
they are panicking so we can't give
them a reason
to anonymize
the jury. No signs. No signs.
BingoBoingo: Because Gox collapsed because
the FBI
took all of Karpales coins in
the silk road bust.
mircea_popescu: you know, for an ironclad case
the prosecution claims, and for an independence from
the state
the judge pretends,
BingoBoingo: The Silk Road Aministrator
title is a reference
to
the plot of
that film.