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mircea_popescu: "SENATOR GERSTEIN (1:50:40) Mr. Antonopolous, your reputation preceded you prior to your arrival. You may recall that in my introductory remarks, I did not introduce you
as a Bitcoin guru, but
as THE Bitcoin guru. I think that I could speak on behalf of all of the members of the committee in saying that you have more than lived up to that reputation. We greatly appreciate your presentation today. Thank you very much, t
bounce: though even if he'd shouted high and low it was something else entirely that just happened to carry the exact same unit value
as a us dollar they'd still hang him on the nearest tree of accusations. they're like that. any old excuse will do.
BingoBoingo:
As far
as I understand it Liberty Reserve was basically just Dollar Hawala, except derpier
mircea_popescu: and it was pretty derpy/insane to boot. i mean literally, going by shops, telling random people that hey, this is
as much a dollar
as that.
The20YearIRCloud: kakobrekla: you're right, and i've been buying about
as much
as I can
The20YearIRCloud: Although that's gonna go down
as we lever, but
as of property #10, our costs are a little under 30% of revenues
mircea_popescu: you are in fact better off using homebrew than "well vetted", inasmuch
as the western world is in denial about exactly what "well vetted" means
as well
as what "working towards stopping use for illicit activity" means
mircea_popescu: bounce except this would meet the definition of "well vetted"
as commonly deployed.
bounce: it's been ages but an exponent of one isn't a great idea, no. they shipped with that? oops. (could see it
as another reason why you don't implement crypto yourself; you use a well-vetted library,
as in written by cryptographers and then read by other cryptographers)
mircea_popescu: o which reminds me, did the doom zerohedge announced
as a given manifest in the fx markets yet ?
mircea_popescu: not particularly curious
as to how that confrontation's gonna end out. seen too many tards try to spit up.
mircea_popescu: "fuck you and get used to making the laws you can enforce
as opposed to making the laws your delusions require" ?
mircea_popescu: add the full minutes
as an add-on file to be linked from your article for the perennially curious
mircea_popescu: the problem with drinking the coolaid and starting to perceive yourself
as "of a field" is that you end up with this obligatory slag.
mircea_popescu: the female ability to reclassify rape
as consensual and consensual
as rape and to negotiate her own presence in the circumstances of her being does exactly jack shit for any discussion of reality.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform matters not. the lord doesn't aim to kill sin, merely
as many sinners
as can get hands on.
bounce: more of a problem with politics' unhealthy relationship with science-
as-convenient-truth than a problem in science. though science has its share of problems.
mircea_popescu: bounce not nearly
as hard
as a compiler, if you mean a tight optimizing compiler. otherwise, rms has been writing compilers in a day and a half on emacs.
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, a shame the website thought it would be a good idea to use javascript popups
as links
mircea_popescu: but it is. and you can repeat with own hands,
as a model
bounce: you'd need a tcp/ip stack linked to your program meaning that
as soon
as it quits the box is off the 'net, but whatever it's configured to use it'll use.
bounce: "something
as hardware nonspecific
as possible" meaning the shittiest and slowest option you can think of is a bit of a non-argument really.
mircea_popescu: you do, yes, inasmuch
as afaik it's compiled on 16 bit with a bunch of strange
as what's maxint. won't even be able to reference half the arrays becayse they smash various stacks
Apocalyptic:
as these only publish publicly reachable nodes
mircea_popescu: none of this is remarkable, but in fact functioning
as intended.
mircea_popescu: look, it's really simple. gentoo doesn't give a shit about bitcoin, it's yet another crackpot app
as far
as they're concerned. at some internal review it was determined it's much too buggy to be in main, and so it got put wherever they put retarded shit, and put someone in charge of it, in this case luke. the someone in charge is doing weird shit to it,
as you'd expect of someone in charge of a buggy piece of shit not
mircea_popescu:
as per usual, reddit makes a mess of things. they're like ten year olds, those people. "o did you hear sugar kills ? sure, it killed sam's dog!"
bounce: turns out it ended up
as the default option, so that's one argument down the drain.
mircea_popescu: in fact, anyone with the werewithal to boycott
as much
as a donut stand can just
as well patch out whatever.
mircea_popescu: gentoo decided they'll let bitcoin in there
as a luke thing.
mircea_popescu: not like it actually does anything. bout
as retarded
as bayesian spam filtering.
mircea_popescu: they go to the pink sheets, to live
as one of a few well specified chumpatron models
mircea_popescu: "iTulip.com Ad Policy
As of March 31, 2006, you well see Goggle AdSense ads on iTulip.com."
mircea_popescu: "
As he packs up his BFL units to sell, he explains to his son that he threw away his bitcoins and their future because he is stupid and ignored MPOE-PR's posts on Bitcoin Talk. Despite all of this, Dan continues to wear his Butterfly Labs t-shirt till the end of the film,
as if it is a remnant, a small piece of a future he will not enjoy."
decimation: stellar navigation is generally only
as good
as your time source
decimation: thestringpuller: I think the engineering is feasible, but it certainly wouldn't be cheap.
As ascii emphasized in that thread, this is for items worth >$100k 'hiding'
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2014 20:46:17; asciilifeform: but,
as every treatise on the subject invariably begins with, first try to understand what is to be hidden - and from whom
thestringpuller: looks like nothing is
as secure
as a good 'ol paper wallet buried like old school treasure.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: re, what they could get out of your posts. You've rather clearly articulated the problem with the current computing stack. I'm unaware of any other person documenting the incumbent's desire to cater to the stupid.
As thinking men, they must find it irritating to interface with today's machines.
The20YearIRCloud: Isn't it the same way with large paralell programming (High multi-core stuff)
as they've lagged behind on development so much that some consider it aobsolete?
The20YearIRCloud: Germany is trying to get their gold back
as it was all held in Paris, london and NYC. Out of all the countries I think they have a pretty transparent gold program, and it's showing how dishonest the US is
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: they are about
as honest with gold
as they are with their btc holdings
decimation: the problem is that one must compile a secret 'talmud' of RTL that can be written which will actually work,
as opposed to being valid
ben_vulpes: imposes this floor on hire quality, reduces need to hire
as rapidly.
gabriel_laddel: does anyone really think that an extra 8mm LoC per quarter is ''not ruining things quite
as badly?'
mircea_popescu: because marginal hires won't ruin your codebase quite
as badly ?
mircea_popescu: irl, ruby got raped with an insecurity stick almost
as big
as my schlong, and perl still reigns
mircea_popescu: this is the ad-hoc, market driven fix to the problem of node disenfranchisement
as ordained by his satoshiness.
pete_dushenski: "Gavin has done quite a lot for the bitcoin project, and is one of the few people who can credibly represent it to lay people. Still, I agree with the Romanian school inasmuch
as the blockchain increase seems unnecessary and potentially disastrous to me. It’s inviting a fork that will not be honored by a large portion of the current hash power, and the current wallet balance. Thus it is a Bad Idea. What about side
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: Funny little bit of history. Steve Y. goes on and on and on about how C++, java, etc. (algol derivatives) predictably create massively bloated codebases, gives lip service how Lisp solves these problems (which is does) and then goes back to... writing in ~ALGOL. (I asked a Googler who was recently on the same team
as Steve what language they worked in - Java.)
mircea_popescu: We have 50 million lines of C++ code. No, it's more than that now. I don't know what it is anymore. It was 50 million last Christmas, nine months ago, and was expanding at 8 million lines a quarter. The expansion rate was increasing
as well. Ouch."
assbot: Blockchain.info advertised a scam bitcoin investment site called Hashprinme.com
as one of its partners, allowing it to steal over $100,000 USD simply by using Blockchain's reputation to mislead its victims
as a legitimate investment company...SHAME ON YOU, BLOCKCHAIN! : Bitcoin
thestringpuller: Blockchain.info advertised a scam bitcoin investment site called Hashprinme.com
as one of its partners, allowing it to steal over $100,000 USD simply by using Blockchain's reputation to mislead its victims
as a legitimate investment company...SHAME ON YOU, BLOCKCHAIN!
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nope. it was inteded
as open mic here, if the guy were interested.
thickasthieves: if the traders are their own counterparties,i guess it works
as bets pretty much
kakobrekla: Every one of those exchanges in that agreement has agreed to supply
as the details and they all do AML, KYC on all of the people trading on each of the exchanges.
kakobrekla: > it can be physically delivered just for the same reason the commission recognizes physical delivery in a sense of other intangible commodities such
as pollution rights
BingoBoingo: thickasthieves: The textblock is
as the pdf presented it. It is a legal format problem.
gribble: Nick 'mircea_popescu', with hostmask 'mircea_popescu!~Mircea@pdpc/supporter/silver/mircea-popescu', is identified
as user 'mircea_popescu', with GPG key id 8A736F0E2FB7B452, key fingerprint 6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452, and bitcoin address None
gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'mircea_popescu', with hostmask 'mircea_popescu!~Mircea@pdpc/supporter/silver/mircea-popescu', is identified
as user 'mpoe', with GPG key id EE2BDEF602DD2D91, key fingerprint 2A4A728F75668B50162D4F13EE2BDEF602DD2D91, and bitcoin address None
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla:
as earnings / div come from resolved, not confirmed. << good point ok
mircea_popescu: but anyway, for today and
as long
as it lasts, antonoshithead is bitcoin's chief nigger. he's trying to parlay the nude use of words into
as much free fried chicken
as possible.
mircea_popescu: anyway, authors being a coupla 19 yo cocklets fresh out of a stint
as cook chefs, pretending to be finance this or that.
mircea_popescu: is substantial political risk with this investment. We,
as investors, do not know how the Cypriot government will act toward a new financial institution like this. This is especially true given the political turmoil occuring in Ukraine and the Crimea region."
nubbins`: agreed, 100%, and he admits
as much
thickasthieves: "a 10-year-old can create a (crypto)currency and that currency can be
as secure
as the currency created by a monarch" anotnop
mats_cd03: 5oz of seitan could be
as much
as 120g protein
kakobrekla:
as earnings / div come from resolved, not confirmed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Suppose you want to support strings and have a string comparison instruction. You might think that "it's done in the hardware", so it's blindingly fast. It isn't, because the hardware still has to access memory, one word per cycle. A superscalar/VLIW assembly loop would run just
as quickly; the only thing you'd save is a few bytes for instruction encoding. On the other hand, your string comparison thingi