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mircea_popescu: clarke fucking invented satellites, he still writes like
a sophomore.
mircea_popescu: tell you what : jules verne has
a radio-like item in it, doesn't make it good writing.
mircea_popescu: "battlestar galactica" is actually more accomplished, and this coming from
a man who actually despises tolkien, let alone rando pulper.
mircea_popescu: last item in the series prolly worth reading, i dun wanna try and put in
a sentence what i dun like about the guy.
mircea_popescu: i suppose, by that guiderline, next there's going to be
a phone emissions standards agency ?
mircea_popescu: not bad,
a mobile phone recall. saved the auto industry from bankruptcy for almost
a decade.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> none of that is
a crime, but it'd help if the content was above mlm sales team prep fodder. << How else is an ECONOMIST supposed to make money?
mircea_popescu: none of that is
a crime, but it'd help if the content was above mlm sales team prep fodder.
trinque: the libertarian derps that talk about him, mises, et al, apparently get their fill of social interaction renting
a conference room in
a shitty hotel, eating terrible food, listening to Ron Paul or whoever doublefirstname speaks.
BingoBoingo: This means when reading from
a not shit browser note would appear arbitrarely in the middle of fucking words
mircea_popescu: in other gripes, holy shit the idiotic habit of tree ruiner idiots of making
a footnote leak into the next page. wtf, people had like
a single neuron and they kept having to borrow it from each other for
a spell like the fates ?
BingoBoingo: <User705> On both ends lulzy the whole thing of you now own things I don't really own and the plaintiffs asking to get back
a valuable thing that wouldn't be worth shit if you could get it back that way. The cryptsy dude should just send the court
a letter stating I release all rights to those addresses to you as
a satisfaction of judgement. Best of luck. << Nah, this is how "family court" works
mircea_popescu: User705 nobody is seriously proposing
a fiat court outside of tmsr jurisdiction has any leg to stand on.
User705: On both ends lulzy the whole thing of you now own things I don't really own and the plaintiffs asking to get back
a valuable thing that wouldn't be worth shit if you could get it back that way. The cryptsy dude should just send the court
a letter stating I release all rights to those addresses to you as
a satisfaction of judgement. Best of luck.
User705: thought qntra or logs would cover the cryptsy judgment iirc this is first time
a "legal" claim got laid to just
a BTC address
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 16:05 asciilifeform: 'suppose you drive down the highway and you suddenly want to go some nice place you saw just before you pass
a forest. you veer off the road, plunge into the wilderness and promptly decide that you need four-wheel drive,
a huge cutting device in front of your car, much better shock absorbers,
a bigger engine that could actually run on swamp water instead of getting all drowned, and then need an amphibious vehicle to get across the r
mircea_popescu: phf hopefulyl they end up with "must submit
a news story before eating
a news story" stone soup.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-17 21:27 mod6: <+BingoBoingo> <mircea_popescu> i bought
a can of coolant, it's FLUORESCENT GREEN << he dye is to tell you which of several incompatible types of coolant it is. Mixing GREEN and ORANGE coolant is
a good way to introduce rust to one's engine block cooling passages. << iirc, all vehicles pre-1995 or so used the green coolant.
phf: "Darpa Wants to Build
a BS Detector for Science (wired.com)"
a111: Logged on 2017-06-17 21:27 mod6: <+BingoBoingo> <mircea_popescu> i bought
a can of coolant, it's FLUORESCENT GREEN << he dye is to tell you which of several incompatible types of coolant it is. Mixing GREEN and ORANGE coolant is
a good way to introduce rust to one's engine block cooling passages. << iirc, all vehicles pre-1995 or so used the green coolant.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i can't fucking belive nobody has made
a Book of Ulterior Doom, consisting of McGonagall poems with Thomas Kinkade illustrations.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 16:52 ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu:
a three stroke engine?!
a111: Logged on 2017-07-30 04:22 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who had that great story about the three dorks in
a garage inventing
a super-efficient engine over 20 years of playing around throiugh the process of miss-measuring torque ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who had that great story about the three dorks in
a garage inventing
a super-efficient engine over 20 years of playing around throiugh the process of miss-measuring torque ?
☟︎☟︎ phf: i wonder if the narrative shares mythic dimension with the various "sure proof ways of dealing with
a devil if you chance meeting him on the road" narratives of 100+ years prior
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2013-12-25#431157 << i've heard that one in
a dozen of different variations (for example instead of фуфло "на просто так" which is as innocent as it gets). there's the whole genre of ru fiction "prison survival for newb", the gist of it is that supposedly you can fake the "correct" answer to "кто ты по жизни" so you won't be harassed. of course the whole framing is nonsense, and if you're reading it it
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can't find the original discussion re prison noobs playing cards for
a fuffle aka buttfuck. dja recall ?
mgoetze: does 'pay
a tax in sum of 0.1% or
a hundred thousand satoshi per full Bitcoin realised' define the method of realisation ?
mgoetze: yes, he harvests quite
a substantial collective of herbs
mgoetze: currently contemplating running
a tmsr node
mgoetze: my dad is
a retired engineer, and he enjoys his garden,
a local culture club and
a few beers every now and then
BingoBoingo: Well, that's
a very meta epistemic question.
BingoBoingo: Birdman: That sounds like
a lot of existential dread.
BingoBoingo: Mebbe introduce yourself again? It's been
a while. How great again are you this year?
BingoBoingo: Well, you've been join/parting for
a while? Mebbe test your ability to talk every now and then.
ag3nt_zer0: can't even name
a favorite track on that album - but
a number of them are just incredible examples of his maturing skills and mastery of his niche... after listening to this album on repeat for the last two years I was totally shocked at the suicide news - made zero sense to me... it's
a bit disconcerting to see those who helped inspire me to try to live
a purposeful and meaningful life offing themselves
ag3nt_zer0: heh this reminds me of TMSR: "E.W. Dijkstra who suggested IT companies not to hire programmers without
a suitable knowledge in Latin."
phf: (it will not be
a waste to do so; an alternative reading suggestion will only be necessary if applied crypto is too dense and you're too lazy/undisciplined to fully commit to it)
phf: oh i was just taking
a piss, because of asciilifeform's reaction. i don't think you have to go esoteric. i don't know of any books, but early lisp related research had plenty of "metaphysics of computing" papers of varied quality that will probably be easily demolished by any real philosopher. i don't know your level of knowledge but perhaps
a "introduction to programming" book would do
ag3nt_zer0: anyone know of
a good, or the good, metaphysics of computers or computation book?
ag3nt_zer0: hmmmm ok phf and asciilifeform thanks very much... I am thinking I don't even know what
a computer is, philosophically... not grokking the fundamentals of LOGIC and physics - fish in water... what the hell IS
a computer I guess I need to find out
phf: i make periodic attempts at it every once in
a while, and every time i have to go further back in my mathematics education
phf: i've not actually read applied cryptography but if it has
a section on public key cryptography it should demonstrate the "there can only be absolutely (1) corresponding private key to any given public key", but i guess in order to have certainty about the mechanism you should be reading books on number theory
ag3nt_zer0: ok thanks... hmmm since you just indicated that applied crypto predates and answer to this question might you have anything to recommend off the top of your head for reading that I might get
a more sturdy conceptual footing here?
phf: i think it's
a continuation of his "how do i keep my coins safe without running full node" question
phf: (and until you do its nature as
a wallet can be debated philosophically. i think majority of tmsr is platonists, so there exists an infinitive number of wallets to which you can spend whether or not anyone has possession of them. you can though discover
a wallet through the process of key generation)
phf: presumably the answer is "you make it exist by spending to
a public key"
ag3nt_zer0: I guess my lame-o speculation is that
a keypair somehow needs to have access to the network to "exist"
phf: i think the question is "how is that i can generate
a wallet offline/airgapped without telling anyone, but then it magically works on real network"
ag3nt_zer0: perhaps its out of my current range of understanding, but might someone point me in the direction that I may grasp how the hell
a keypair created on an airgapped computer has relevance in the actual online network...? Applied Cryptography (blue) is en route so perhaps that will help but in meantime thought I would ask here as no luck with searches - don't even know what terms would bring that up...
mircea_popescu: accessory after the fact ; or else obstruction of justice ; but in practice
a cop will just come and steal all your shit, like the ever friendly usg-comissioner stealing bogart's money in passage to marseille.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> also, mccain defected gop ticket did he << Him AND Graham and
a rotating handful of marginal Senators
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo except, of course, there's not going to be 3k enmilionaired, but
a little campaign contribution for wi whatevers and
a little extra propo for the bezzle fortunes of w/e the fuck is the oligarch in charge.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> marginally qntrable, if bb's short on lulz today. << Still surveying the world. Could be Qntra'd likeley
a perfect fit for shinohai's WHoreticulture journal
mircea_popescu: (rome became
a socialist state with sulla ; or if you prefer marian reforms. this is about 4 centuries after the founding -- we're not about to credit the 750 date of the founding of the ~etruscan~ city)
mircea_popescu: to remind : venice stood for
a millenium. this is longer than the "thousand years reich" national-socialism managed ; it is longer than any french "republic" ever succeeded ; longer than the entire existence of the us by
a factor of about three, notwithstanding the us didn't start out as
a socialist state.
mircea_popescu: the reason for the asymmetry is that socialism positively needs its unicity argument, as it has no others. without "ourdemocracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others [we're willing to consider, in
a limited review intended to circularily "prove" the point]" there's no ourdemocracy.
mircea_popescu: no, i know. it doesn't do anything interesting ; perhaps
a hash of some nonsense.
mircea_popescu: (such as colonna, more or less source of the old guy in
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=un+prophete ; at his conviction in 2012 the french equivalent of
a federal court gave reasoning for its sentence, for the first time in french legal practice. cuz empire wanna be part of euroland.)
mircea_popescu: and in unrelated random lulz : during ww1 the count of derby came up with
a nutty scheme to pressure people into "volunteering" for service without actually calling
a draft. in spite of involving every busybody that could be find, male and female, to pester and harass the general populace, 54% of married men and 38% of single men publicly refused to enlist thereby empirically measuring the mental power of
a period wife to be
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> (everyone else thinks caul births are
a good omen. romanians, as usual, reverse.) << Perhaps it is all the sons of beggars fearing the crown?
mircea_popescu: (everyone else thinks caul births are
a good omen. romanians, as usual, reverse.)