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decimation: yeah, anything to make them think they aren'
t gonna die in a fire or hail of metal shards
decimation: asciilifeform: some forums I read suggest that they can'
t inspect your weapon (without a warrant), just the tax stamp
decimation: that's why they didn'
t take colorado to court, for instance
decimation: yeah but here's the thing, the feds don'
t want to go to scotus
decimation: some states won'
t let you have them even if they are registered
BingoBoingo: Apparently the Clarence Thomas fellow can be trans-white, but this blonde chick can'
t be trans-black
mircea_popescu: they're simply some kids that don'
t give a shit about a particular set of conventional nonsense
pete_dushenski: "The Royal Bank of Scotland said on Wednesday that about 600,000 customer transactions had not been processed as a result of a technology failure overnight. The issue affected transactions at the company’s R.B.S., National Westminster Bank, Coutts and Ulster Bank brands." << wasn'
t there an old meme about 'bitcoin users not affected' ? seems appropriate here.
mats: i don'
t know much about how procurement and acquisitions works
mircea_popescu: ascii_field if it doesn'
t have a -Y mode (assume y on all questions) yes.
mircea_popescu: very similar situation to the entire "we don'
t spy on citizens, the brits did, as part of an agreement we made with them, so whatcha gonna do"
ascii_field: i encountered a good number of mosquitoes in b-a but none bit me. couldn'
t help but think of the old sf stories re: creatures on alien planet unable to eat (or be eaten by) us on account of wrong protein chirality
mircea_popescu: so there was a blood gorged mosquito on the wall. as i didn'
t want to leave a splotch, i hit it in such a manner as to only dizzy it. i can now disable-shot mosquitors.
ascii_field: i offered many times to teach her to drive, but she was sharp enough to grasp that this meant 'more chores' and didn'
t bite
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: i didn'
t used to. worked mostly from home for a long time
pete_dushenski: in case anyone thought this guy wasn'
t shiva reincarnate, think again.
pete_dushenski: also, edmonton has uber and calgary, a larger city 300km south, doesn'
t assbot: Logged on 06-05-2015 17:21:23; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-05-2015#1122612 << it's actually a fine entry point to explain to anyone why exactly tcp/ip is so broken. because this IS NOT a trivial task. the price for ipv4 and it's undocumented, buggy, slow and haphazardously ad-hoc nat-routing model is that you can'
t find out by inspecting yourself. the half-assed, quarter-baked lazy slothful and aol-windowesque implement
mod6: <+ascii_field> << you can ~already~ specify seeds on cmdline and config! all that remains is the removal of the built-in seeder crap << sure, you can do addnode or whatnot to connect to other nodes. but isn'
t the dyndns thing to tell others what your nodes ip address is? maybe i misunderstand ...
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 23:10:19; mod6: <+mod6> <+ascii_field> i'm in favour of keeping the irc mechanism for now, because it will handily transplant to gossipd << i'm with you here... although, just looking through irc.cpp again.. im not sure how much of that would carry over anyhow. << regardless, it doesn'
t mean we have to rip it out this minute. how insane of an idea is it to just snip out the checkip.dyndns.org parts and add a commandline/confi
ascii_field: (i don'
t want ~anything~ to do with a leaking node)
mod6: <+mod6> <+ascii_field> i'm in favour of keeping the irc mechanism for now, because it will handily transplant to gossipd << i'm with you here... although, just looking through irc.cpp again.. im not sure how much of that would carry over anyhow. << regardless, it doesn'
t mean we have to rip it out this minute. how insane of an idea is it to just snip out the checkip.dyndns.org parts and add a commandline/configfile arg to specify external ip for
☟︎ mats: o, can'
t forget veteran
mats: 'Obama admitted that nine months into the U.S.-led coalition's campaign against the IS, there is not a complete strategy to combat the group. "We don'
t yet have a complete strategy," Obama said at the end of a G-7 summit in Germany'
mod6: That's fine. Take your time. It won'
t take long to get that going anyway.
jurov: i don'
t remember using taxi from/to airport
ascii_field: and i don'
t want to see ads for shitpaper in my mailbox
ascii_field: i'd get toilet paper, etc. on 'amazon' if it weren'
t for the fact that everything you buy affects your 'recommendations'
ascii_field: said the fella living in can'
t-order-anything-online-land
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 14:47:41; jurov: also, i don'
t get how anyone in this age can *not* have some foreign acquaintances that one can be sure to not throw him under the bus
shinohai: I haven'
t applied those patches yet :/
ben_vulpes: can'
t read whole log without responding
thestringpuller: I like how they publicized BIP-100 with "This won'
t require a hardfork" while the PDF clearly states "Oh yea guise we need to remove the cap completely to make this change."
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, who wouldn'
t want retarded children looking like him.
danielpbarron: menahem, your paypal doesn'
t work and your bitcoin wants me to send to an invalid address
ascii_field: why shouldn'
t ru air defense battery open up with all barrels on a 'mystery meat' airplane which won'
t identify owner ?
ascii_field: 'please don'
t upset him, you know what happens'
funkenstein_: looks to me like they are saying they won'
t take anything bigger than 8MB, because their tubes are too small
mircea_popescu: but 500 failures in... hey, wasn'
t ethereum all over everything ?
ascii_field: how do you know washing machine is plugged in if you don'
t get shocks from touching the chassis ?
mircea_popescu: how do you know it's software if you don'
t reboot it ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field "the bitcoin miners of china" say that they never saw software that doesn'
t crash
ascii_field: but i don'
t imagine that i'll learn to breathe water and become kind of the ocean in a few weeks. and if mircea_popescu can do this, we should all learn from him.
mircea_popescu: never have to wonder either because you know or it can'
t happen, but never have to wonder.
ascii_field: he is living on $1 of rice + $xxxx of other-things-which-aren'
t-available-to-me-if-i-get-parachuted-into-calcutta
ascii_field: but you ~also~ don'
t say 'beggar is living on $1/day'
mircea_popescu: and you don'
t "compute the dollar equivalent value" of non-dollar things, because you're not trying to recreate the bezzle.
funkenstein_: "But this is the new lay of the land; we can'
t change it, and we can'
t ignore it."
ascii_field: (and perhaps doesn'
t quite have the stamina to single-handedly operate the sails any more ?)
ascii_field: btw as a long-time reader of herr orlov, i can'
t help but notice that he spat on diesels and bragged about a seldom-used ('only in doldrumss') outboard petrol engine
ascii_field: i don'
t think they've invented begging yet
mircea_popescu: tho... didn'
t he just beg a few k's recently to buy himself a new mayo dildo or something ?
ascii_field: i don'
t think they have bitcoin on his planet yet, though
ascii_field: and you don'
t have the ones you might like, but solely the ones the chip came with from xilinx etc
funkenstein_: wow, no wonder the era of fpga mining didn'
t last long
funkenstein_: that is fucked btw.. why can'
t they charge for the hardware?
ascii_field: it isn'
t happening or so much as credibly threatening to happen
shinohai: Thank you menahem, I bookmarked. My world is not complete without a mircea popescu cult
t-shirt.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 13:17:59; asciilifeform: you can pick up a textbook and write a dram controller for fpga from first principles - and it won'
t work. because, for starters, only a small number of output cells in the chip can function on both rising and falling edge of clock cycle (what 'ddr' means) and only xilinx's closed turd knows where they are in the routing fabric;
mircea_popescu: i didn'
t stomp all over their stupid faces those were different faces of different anon derps. this time it'll work!!!
mircea_popescu: (and the original reason high heels were invented. if the girl's properly heeled, you can'
t tell)
mircea_popescu: let jurov never say i don'
t have anything in this vein.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 13:34:30; asciilifeform: given as presently i can'
t even afford to not have a day job which eats 98% of time & energy
mats: that's weird, Uber isn'
t a ride sharing bidness
jurov: also, i don'
t get how anyone in this age can *not* have some foreign acquaintances that one can be sure to not throw him under the bus
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