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undata: is
that like almost
true?
Apocalyptic: cazalla, even "It is a possibility
that
the MP argument is a virtually literal strawman, atop a bonfire,
to fuel a flame war
that drives up his LTC holdings." ?
thestringpuller: "It looks like he made his goal in life
to be
the most detestable person in
the internet. (Methinks he is still nowhere near
that rank,
though.) However he is a precious resource, as an expert bitcoiner who enjoys kicking some of
the most sacred cows in bitcoinland."
mircea_popescu: yes, well, putin is running a country. if you're running a country
too, by all means, cover all bets
to
the degree he does.
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> no chance of it, either. < putin
thinks otherwise.
mircea_popescu: nah,
the old world's bitcoin is an unexpressed mix of contracts and reputation.
adlai: it got me wondering what
the old world's bitcoin is, and
the least senseless answer is 'bitcoin'
mircea_popescu: i was
thinking
that as i wrote, but
then dropped. yes, an apt analogy in many ways. very inept in others
tho
adlai: gold is
the old world's litecoin
joecool: mircea_popescu: oh
that was entirely sarcastic, i did not phrase
that seriously
mircea_popescu: the exact
thing played out once before, "it's cool
though,
they're ditching bdb, im sure whatever
they replace it iwth will do a better job"
joecool: it's cool
though,
they are ditching openssl, i'm sure whatever
they replace it with will do a better job :)
mircea_popescu: joecool anyway,
the objection generally given
to change in
that spot ("that
the code being merely correct is not enough assurance") is logically valid.
decimation: Mr. Obama will also outline proposals
to
tackle identity
theft and expand Internet access.The proposals are part of a White House preview of Mr. Obama’s annual State of
the Union address,
to be delivered Jan. 20.
joecool: mircea_popescu: i built core off libressl,
the response was "it builds?"
mircea_popescu: to everyone else, gold is
this quaint horse buggy. no dispute it worked at some point, no desire
to go back
to
that point.
mircea_popescu: and
that poor speaks a lot more
to power
than just money.
mircea_popescu: gold has a problem of demographic.
the only people
that
think gold is functionally useful as a monetary metal are poor.
they may be a numerous echelon, relatively speaking, what's left of
the upper middle class proceeding on vague intuition and memories. however,
they're poor.
decimation: to
think
that gold will crash is also
to
think
that usd will gain. it's possible, with all
this 'oil shock' working its way around
decimation: I note someone put a hefty weight against
that gold bet
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla bwahaha slander! i'll bet you 1btc straight up
they don't do it
this month.
mircea_popescu: xiando: I
thought I'd mention
that openssl 1.0.1k apparently breaks bitcoin-core <<
this, of coruse, was discussed for
the past few days :)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: decimation i suspect you don't understand how
that world works.
decimation: but
the little people in usg find
that 'unfair'
decimation: yeah,
there's no way
they will prosecute
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2015 18:56:19; decimation: "But investigators concluded
that, whether or not
the disclosure harmed national security, it amounted
to a significant security breach in
the office of one of
the nation’s most
trusted intelligence leaders.
They recommended
that Mr. Petraeus face charges, saying lower-ranking officials had been prosecuted for far less."
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decimation: "But investigators concluded
that, whether or not
the disclosure harmed national security, it amounted
to a significant security breach in
the office of one of
the nation’s most
trusted intelligence leaders.
They recommended
that Mr. Petraeus face charges, saying lower-ranking officials had been prosecuted for far less."
☟︎ joecool: xiando: yeah it breaks it, happy
to report libressl does not
PeterL: is
this a problem with openssl or bitcoin-core?
PeterL: anything import
to say
today?
xiando: Perhaps. But I am just
this guy, you know, I rarely have anything important
to say so it is fine, really. I can just idle and not be important and not write,
that is alright.
PeterL: Could you self voice in
the past? Maybe somebody here removed
their rating?
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mircea_popescu: a few century later, "circus" means a place where everything's quiet. because a simple walk down
the street makes one's head spin.
mircea_popescu: my neighbour, a man of different notions but similar methods, orders all black haired people
to always wear square hats.
mircea_popescu: to illustrate : suppose i am me, and i happen
to believe
that all females should spend a decade right after puberty nude at all
times. i happen
to be rich, and mindful of my beliefs. while i accept
that i can't oder people around, i also expect
them
to respect my disposition of my own property. and so my will reads,
that all my stuff is
to be inherited by so and so successors, provided at all
times all females pubescen
mircea_popescu: the dead are at
the following advantage over
the living :
they don't feel any pressure
to change
their views.
gribble: wn: mortmain n 1: real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation) [syn: {mortmain}, {dead hand}] 2:
the oppressive influence of past events or decisions [syn: {dead hand}, {dead hand of
the past}, {mortmain}]
mircea_popescu: that had
to be excised specifically, which is how
the wills practice got
to be so insanely complicated,
the us practitioners pretty much gave up.
mircea_popescu: the reaction ? make wills reference
the
throne succession. so wills would be as good as
the lifetime of
the dynasty.
mircea_popescu: on
the principle
that nothing
that is is forever, and so...
mircea_popescu: but how ? and
they came
to
the idea
to make it vest in a definite relation
to a definitely existing
thing
mircea_popescu: one example : original legislation
to defend
the living against mortmain holdings required all wills vest
mats: i pity
the research assistant
mircea_popescu: you know a simple summary of all
the many ways english barristers
tried
to use
the crown as a fixed point
to unseat
the lawe would be dazzling.
mats: disposition of College lands ... as part of
the original sale, Magdalene College had made an intermediate
transfer
to Queen Elizabeth with
the deliberate intention of bypassing
the statute.
mats: > concerned land in London which Henry VIII had gifted
to
Thomas, Lord Audley, as a reward ... By his will, Audley left
the land
to Magdalene College, Cambridge, but
the college subsequently sold
the land and some of it was acquired, indirectly, by
the Earl of Oxford. Magdalene College challenged Oxford's
title on
the basis of a statute which prohibited
the
mats: whoops ... wrong one. i'm reading about
the Earl of Oxford's case
mircea_popescu: meanwhile,
the relative failure of foss is strictly due
to
the incongruous and often misshapen radical leftist ideas of stallman. had
that
thing been "the same old gospel of individualism, small government, and market fundamentalism
that we associate with Randian characters" it'd not be struggling covered under a pile of open source.
mircea_popescu: whodda
thunk making a shitton of "x for idiots" books will result in a large bleating herd of idiots!
mircea_popescu: "The enduring emptiness of our
technology debates has one main cause, and his name is
Tim O’Reilly."
assbot: Logged on 10-07-2014 16:05:38; asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: only worth reading if
there's a source other
than alexander lebed circa 1997.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i shudder at
the
thought at how comparatively harder and humoruless-er my life would have been, had i chanced
to live among sane people.
mircea_popescu: "because he wqon't read me! and
there's no other way
to vent my little penis!"
mircea_popescu: still,
they're funny. guy derps about how "concerns echoed again and again are ignored!!11" and is amazed.
then people echo again and again
the concern
that "wtf loosen up" and "why are you publishing some guy's emails ?" which he... amazingly... ignores. why ?
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : gnome
twerp is "I’d strongly encourage you
to refrain from such comments in
the future.", because
that's how
the world works nao.
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2014 17:44:41; asciilifeform:
t only outside of
the sanitaria.'
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2014 17:44:35; asciilifeform: eased with
their mediocrity. 'But
this fellow from
the desert!' (Interestingly,
that among
the hundreds of
tyrants, in uniform and without, depending on
the united states or
the european sanitaria, none provoke a fraction of
the wrath caused by Kaddafi. Evidently,
the cause is his independence.) Kaddafi - is an extraordinary living proof of
the fact
that
the fairy-tale version of life remains possible
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2014 17:44:35; asciilifeform: a videoclip of a fairy
tale coming
true... ...they [americans] also wish
to drive around in jeeps, accompanied by squadrons of hotties in berets with kalashnikovs - but are impotent from birth. Envy,
taken with an understanding of one's own powerless... easily
transforms into hatred.
The leaders of
the sanitarium are easier for
the 'patient'
to understand, closer. He sees
their permissible pecadillos,
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2014 17:44:35; asciilifeform: 'When
the glorious Muammar Kaddafi, in his blue bournouse, or in his uniform, appear on
the
telly,
the domesticated inhabitant of
the sanitaria jerks from fright. 'Monster,' 'terrorist,' 'evildoer,' public enemy number one -
the media calls him, led by its disdain for all
that is envigorating (and, on
top of it all, foreign), and pushed by false information supplied by CIA... ...his very existence is
mircea_popescu: in my limited experience with harems and
the people keeping
them, you can more or less get a
trial run. especially as a young, entused woman.
mircea_popescu: this proves harem in
the sense person offering large stores of grain
to dissinterested cad
thereby proves cat's a farmer.
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt half his closest collaborators grok what he means on
the strenght of his
text. you yourself, i suspect, followed
the logic of
the situaiton not
the logic of his words.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's characteristically weak in
the rhetorics involved.
mircea_popescu: side note : i read someone (maybe joel on soft ?) in a wonderful piece "why i never upgrade" and i've never been able
to find it again. ne1 know it ?
mircea_popescu: then
they were cast out and a bitcoin foundation constructed.
mircea_popescu: then
there was a group of youthful men doing what seemed clumsy but well meaning stuff
mircea_popescu: first,
there was one man, who couldn't code, doing idiotic
things like windows and qt.