601800+ entries in 0.374s
mircea_popescu: let's
try it
this way. suppose
there's a cathedral
tower with a clock.
bounce: this doesn't compute.
take your hand outta my brains and
try again?
mircea_popescu: bounce no, inasmuch as fist
though your skull moves
the matter of your skull around in one way, but MEANS in a number of different arbitrary ways
bounce: inasmuch as
that humanity is part of nature,
though picturing itself above it.
mircea_popescu: it's like asking for an "app aware"
tcp/ip implementation.
mircea_popescu: you know, like obama,
the us ally, was
the first and perhaps
the
thickest cock
to rape washington.
mircea_popescu: visited
the man's grave,
too. he was
the first and
the
thickest cock
to rape byzantium.
othernubs`: speaking of unobtainium,
these metallic inks are getting us a bunch of jobs lately. offset printers can suck it
mircea_popescu: o look,
there's a 20 yo junior rabbi in
the house. lmao.
xanthyos: also
the bouncing of
the building would put equal force on
the ground and magnetically
try
to push away
the ground structure even more
xanthyos: oh if
the ground level changes
that much
there's no way a magnetic field could hold it consistently
xanthyos: of course, a hacker could
then simulate an earthquake on
that building
to
the same extent of magnitude
that
the smartmagnets were designed
to resist against
xanthyos: unless
they were "smartmagnets"
that could generate
the inverse wave
to
the vibration
to cancel it out in
the same way
that some car radios use microphones
to cancel out road noise
Apocalyptic: "and were it
to move, would propagate vibration
to
the 'levitated' object."
that's assuming a magnetic field of constant power, right ?
xanthyos: that propagated vibration would be less
than
the vibration
the building would experience without
the field gap between it and
the ground magnets
mike_c: on kickstarter
those guys are selling a hover board for $450
that.. doesn't hover.
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform,
to be fair it's not
the newton's law
that is neglected here, but
the fact
that you won't get a magnetic field even close
to be powerfull enough
to support
that weight
xanthyos: well
there would have
to be magnets in
the ground
to create
the field for
the building
to be repulsed from in
the event of an earthquake
xanthyos: but if
the ground unit vibrated so
too would its magnetic field and
thus
the building
assbot: We rode a $10,000 hoverboard, and you can
too
Adlai will ask gavi what he
thinks of
the hardfork
kakobrekla: <Adlai> so just as gavin is doing his AMA, i get a request
to buy coins from "gavi". < you be in wrong channels
Adlai: although admittedly i've spent a grand
total of about fifteen seconds
trying
pakaloloz: I do
think
this may be as DPB says "#badforbitcoin"
Adlai: so just as gavin is doing his AMA, i get a request
to buy coins from "gavi". coincidence? i
think not!
pakaloloz: so BTCJAM aka BTCSCAM announced... "We are happy
to announce
that we have added bank account & credit card verification!"
mircea_popescu: no, he prolly realised
that he doesn't need it or want
to use it and it'll just gather dust
othernubs`: altho
the clear panel is way cooler in person
othernubs`: xanthyos, postage is about $2
to usa, what denomination you want?
othernubs`: it's rare
to see a paper banknote nowadays
mircea_popescu: it'd almost work as a parody of
the redditard generation, except spacey is playing it full straight.
mircea_popescu: dude
this "father of invention" flic is
the most god awful pandering piece of shit
xanthyos: and it has a picture of
the queen on it, so
that's worth something.
xanthyos: apparently canada is adding plastic content
to its fiat paper
to make it less rippable.
the fiat may not be backed, but reinforced paper will fool
the masses
mircea_popescu: which in
the grand scheme of
things isn't really much at all.
they've already fucked
the goat in
the public market long ago
mircea_popescu: they'd just be a iota more ridiculously pointless
than
they are
today
Adlai: it'd be a little funny if all
the devs agreed
to
the hardfork, got a working patch
together,
then went miner by miner and couldn't get a single one
to agree
to switch
kakobrekla: RagnarDanneskjol if you can put
them in order i can include
them online (before
the log starts)
Apocalyptic: <mircea_popescu> yeah, it's possible miners won't make
the best decision.
this was illustrated yesterday, when
the atc miners failed
to make
the best decision. // btw
that was pretty impressive
othernubs`: ah, i forgot you can disable
the backlight on
this
thing
mircea_popescu: their failure was signalled
to
them within minutes, and
they obeyed
that signal in an hour.
diametric: maybe i'm mistaken but doesn't
the white paper basically state a hard fork will be required in
the future
to address scalability?
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's possible miners won't make
the best decision.
this was illustrated yesterday, when
the atc miners failed
to make
the best decision.
mircea_popescu: because money doesn't
think all
that much of code monkeys. and definitely isn't going
to start
taking
their ideas of how
to manage
things seriously.
mircea_popescu: most bitcoin reads mp way before it remembers who
the fuck
this gavin schmuck is.
assbot: gavinandresen comments on I'm Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist at
the Bitcoin Foundation. Ask me anything!
RagnarDanneskjol: kakobrekla - sorry nevermind -apparently Azelphur has everything logged since
the beginning of
time. I can
throw it up somewhere for whoevers wants it
chetty: I
think we're very close on all of
those
things.
chetty: You've long been a proponent of
the "Bitcoin is an experiment" line of
thinking. While
that is
technically
true, so is "Gravity is just a
theory". What needs
to happen for you
to switch from "Bitcoin is an experiment"
to "Bitcoin is established"?
Adlai: miners are people
too, and people don't always make
the best decisions. even if
they act rationally,
they might not be aware of all
the information about an issue.
mats_cd03: and...
they won't let
themselves get shit on.
mats_cd03: the only opinion
that matters is
that of miners.
Adlai: as much as
the
timecube's four days revolve around
the WoT, I wouldn't be surprised if most of
the people who have heard about
the hardfork proposal haven't heard any competing argument against it
bounce: with enough hashrate on 0.6 (or whichever, maintained etc.) and staying
there, hardforks are bound
to fizzle. could
try and
talk
to large pool operators.
Adlai: such a drastic change would definitely cast
this issue (and others) into
the limelight, until now it's been confined
to a few IRC channels and blog posts
mircea_popescu: i'm all for it,
the level of either cluelessness or desperation such a move entails is promising.
Adlai: "some people just wanna see
the world burn" ^_^
mircea_popescu: this is sort-of like wanting
to see what happens if/when
the soviets finally decide
to cross fulda ?
Adlai is quite curious
to see what happens if/when changes such as a
the blocksize hardfork get pushed
to
the reference implementation
kakobrekla: anyway RagnarDanneskjol what do you want in
the zip? csv? sql? a puddle? daily files?
mircea_popescu: i
totally wish
to read more idiocy from
this gavin puppet.
mircea_popescu: so "governments" will prevail, as fucking if
there can even be such a
thing as a government other
than bitcoin ; and bitcoin gotta hide its misshapen form in
the dark.
ben_vulpes: it'd be neat if he'd differentiate between Bitcoin
the reference implementation which is bug-ridden and shitty, and Bitcoin
the protocol which doesn't exist.
bounce: ``I'd rather not speculate in an open forum about
the best ways
to screw with Bitcoin.'' (Perish_In_a_Fire) -- aww.
RagnarDanneskjol: deedbot is actually up - in here under different nick - just
the server it lives on failed security audit
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski oyu know, if anyone gave a shit about either gavin or reddit
they'd just go
there.
pete_dushenski: [–]gavinandresen[S] 26 points an hour ago Biggest misconception:
That Bitcoin will
Topple Governments and
the Powerful. Governments will do what
they always do --
they will adapt (well,
the worst ones will fail, causing misery and suffering; maybe Bitcoin will speed
that up a little, and mitigate
the misery a little).
mike_c: ;;rate nubbins` 1
trustworthy numismatic and printer
mike_c: ;;rate nubbins`
trustworthy numismatic and printer
mircea_popescu: On 15 June 1961,
two months before
the construction of
the Berlin Wall started, First Secretary of
the Socialist Unity Party and Staatsrat chairman Walter Ulbricht stated in an international press conference, "Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!" <<< nobody has any intention
to fuck up bitcoin o.O
bounce: then it's "no
touching
the merchandise"
mircea_popescu: * Adlai must admit
that he first misread
that headline as "BitBet lands $14.5M ..." << da fuck would bitbet do with 15mn.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> cazalla BingoBoingo derpndesk.com/bitnet-lands-14-5-million-series-funding-rival-coinbase-bitpay/ << and somehow in spite of all
these "investement" nobody is buying
the shorts pretty much.