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ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: couldn't hurt
to check...
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform:
the patches just now published, specifically.
ben_vulpes: it's late and i'm banging my head against
the opaque mess
that is
the amazon key-value store.
decimation: asciilifeform: starting
to use bsd after linux for decades makes me feel like I'm in a funhouse
decimation: does
that include all of your previous patches?
undata: the python
thing being implicit vs explicit
undata: mircea_popescu: I've said before in regards
to software architecture
that inherent is better
than explicit (in response
to
the python
thing). Yours is much better said.
decimation: yeah it's impossible
to unhuman humanity, but it's quite possible
to unintel computers
mircea_popescu: anyway,
this observation is not particularly useful in politics, but it is useful in
technology.
decimation: good point. I guess
the radical approach would be
to murder all humans
mircea_popescu: decimation
that's a fix. it fails
to make kings impossible, so it degenerates,
to a shittier kingdom
bounce: look at any state
that rose out of "revolution" only never shed it
decimation: for instance, beheading
the king and declaring
The People sovereign
mircea_popescu: the fix degenerates (water can say break
the dam and flood you, which is worse an outcome).
the radical approach can't degenerate, because it has not where
to.
mircea_popescu: what i mean here : anything which is ulterior ontologically
to
the problem is a fix. anything
that is anterior ontologically
to
the problem and is incompatible with
the problem's existence is a radical aproach.
mircea_popescu: ah ah. myeah.
the problem with "fixes" is
that
they always degenerate.
bounce: they're
the
tool of big corporates and patent
trolls, exactly
the opposite of protecting
the small craftsman
bounce: that makes patent warchests more
than a little ironic
mircea_popescu: today, people go "do not put xml schemas on your recipes, because
that's only going
to help large data crunchers profit - not you"
mircea_popescu: because
that knowledge meant a livelihood, whereas education meant competition.
mircea_popescu: you see, back cca 1800, a guy who figured out how
to fix a loom would do anything BUT explain it
to anyone
mircea_popescu: this is
to me an interesting
thing, because it's an exact reprise of
the craftsman vs entrepreneur arguments
that raged in
the early modern period, resulting in
the ip laws in
the first place.
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decimation: as if fincen is ever going
to say "sure you can do whatever you want without asking us again"
decimation: I was reading
the fincen letter
to bitpay
mircea_popescu is nonplussed with
the retards squirming around
the edges of bitcoin failing
to point out
that "hey sec, mp's cock isn't going
to suck itself, get busy"
ben_vulpes: look at
that! regtest mode implemented in configuration. no chainparams.cpp necessary.
mircea_popescu: and yes,
they will mine, on
their own chain, obviously.
ben_vulpes suspects checkpoints are
the dumb
thing here
ben_vulpes: but
this could be retarded - i don't actually know.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm more inclined
to hack
the checkpoints out.
ben_vulpes: (also i'm assuming
that you're not
trolling me and saying "yes
they'll mine in
the sense of hashing loltworotlzlzlzl")
ben_vulpes: if i spin up
two bitcoinds and use cli arg '-connect'
to point
them at each other, can
they mine?
mircea_popescu: he probably doesn't
think windows is a feature
that should be removed either.
ben_vulpes: "Although I agree
that it's
totally insecure, no matter how you sugar coat it--I really don't
think it's a feature
that should be removed."
ben_vulpes: " I'd like my secret key on multiple machines, and I don't know how
to move it around easily."
decimation: that which can be synthesized without reference
to sensory experience
mats_cd03: top comment conflates gpg with pgp,
ten odd comments in a useless discussion about key exchange and comms over
the same channel, five comments by a bunch of fucking dummies
talking about key signing parties, and a few pumping keybase
mircea_popescu: or for
that matter, what constant set of assumptions do physicists have in common ? if discussion relied on constant assumptions, science'd be in principle impossible.
thestringpuller: if
there were
text book example for "The Case of
Too Much Money"
this would be in
that chapter.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: and so
they keep pouring money in. << 55 employees and purchased for 19 billion?
decimation: if morality is only
that which arouses sympathies - an each man has his own unique sentiment - how is moral discussion possible, given no constant set of assumptions
to build upon?
mircea_popescu: i mean watsapp lost money ? heh. all
these derps only survive exactly on
the myspace
ticket : old people like
ted
turner have nfi what's what online,
mircea_popescu: i would be very surprised if
the "top 10" blogs actually get any reads at all.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how anyone even uses any of
the sites in
the gawker empire of crap. and incidentally
tech crunch or mashable are exacly
the same shit : exactly 0 comments, no content, just a bunch of pointless, flashy page elements.
decimation: asciilifeform: interesting - it seems doctor who ripped
this guy off
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TheNewDeal: thestringpuller : oh isn't
that speeshal
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Tolerate Anything Except
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mircea_popescu: kinda
the job of internet nobodies, innit ? "i saw x
thing on google
trends now i'm going
to write about it in a vain but strongly held hope
that mayhap
the association may benefit me"
nara_narayana: in matters such as
this, i couldn't care less where you stick your penis
undata: the
two people have nothing of note in common
undata: mircea_popescu:
the writer is
trying
to cast himself as part of some
team which
Thiel brings some kind of social progress honor
to
undata: mircea_popescu: I disgree
that it's worth mentioning
undata: apparently
trying
to make
the same idiotic point
mircea_popescu: undata wait, you disagree from experience about
the gay fitting, or you're shocked and surprised
that
thiel may actually
take your peculiar payment ?
undata: ah, not as scrolled as I
thought.
undata: shit, I was scrolled up.
That was from
the
Thiel article
undata: "Like
the immigrant Jews who created Hollywood a century ago, a gay investor has no way
to fit into
the old establishment." << pffffffff
mircea_popescu: guy learned russian phonetically, it sounds
totally like ai.
mircea_popescu: because all romanians knew of slaves was
through
the arabic slaves of
the medieval
turks.
gribble: (google
translate <from-language> [to] <to-language> <text>) -- Returns <text>
translated from <from-language> into <to-language>. Beware
that
translating
to or from languages
that use multi-byte characters may result in some very odd results.
BingoBoingo: Just Amazing
to see cast iron implements call each other out on
their composition
assbot: Peter
Thiel is
totally gay, people
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm just amazed
that in
the battle ov Redditors vs. Shitty Journos, both sides are losing so profoundly
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