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asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-05-2015#1126936 << one of the nice things about having the source, regardless of how idiotic the dev process which produced it, is cutting away the crud. which you can do with coreboot, just as with bitcoind etc. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-05-2015#1126958 << it won't work, because no one has, yet, a fully static build. see logs. ☝︎☟︎☟︎
jurov: http://oglaf.com/fogofmeat/ << i mean this
mircea_popescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2pzssy/in_what_world_are_smart_contracts_actually_a_good/ << ftr, "smart contracts" are actually infinitely stupid.
gribble: chillum was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 weeks, 1 day, 16 hours, 15 minutes, and 10 seconds ago: <Chillum> I have never understood how a 1 paragraph post that links to a full article somehow makes it to the top of google searches. They are adding basically nothing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Gerrit workflow - Gerrit interprets each Git commit ... << wtf why even
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the fuck does this mean << what it looked like: she was leaving town, he tried to get in the way
decimation: http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=18757 < baltimore burns, and 40 miles away usg implements plans to instruct hobbyist r/c aircraft pilots
decimation: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-05-2015#1120886 < the positive void coefficient design was a bad move, and another was the fact that the containment was essentially a wooden shed ☝︎
mod6: ahh, the naive writs of our forefathers. << ah yeah! isn't that from like '98 cypherpunks?
mircea_popescu: http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt << ahh, the naive writs of our forefathers.
pete_dushenski: http://cryptome.org/2015/05/force-026-022.pdf << more carl mark force funz for BingoBoingo
pete_dushenski: https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-block-size?timespan=2year&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address= << call it a doubling-and-a-half of block size over the last two years.
decimation: lol http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.ca/2015/05/im-officially-predicting-recessionbut.html < us is gonna have another recession soon
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2015#1126523 <<< fixed, thanks clippy ☝︎
mircea_popescu: "Obama is neither smart nor a noteworthy peace maker. But that doesn't matter. The left has won over the key voting boards to give him these now-plastic trophies." << that part is exact.
pete_dushenski: http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.ca/ << him.
pete_dushenski: "President Obama (both a graduate from the Ivy League and Nobel prize winner) is neither smart, nor a noteworthy peace maker. But that doesn't matter. The left has won over the key voting boards to give him these now-plastic trophies which dupes enough Americans into voting him (and other talentless leftists) into office." << notbad.
pete_dushenski: http://www.commieobama.com/pages/hat_info.html << damn, ushanka with 'leninade' sold out.
pete_dushenski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRGC-5LjJ2M << "is it coz i is black ?"
pete_dushenski: "Popular British-Bangladeshi politician Lutfur Rahman was kicked out of office after being found guilty of corruption and illegal practices. Mr. Rahman has publically denied the charges and his supporters have accused the ex-mayor’s critics of racism and Islamophobia." << those racialists !
pete_dushenski: "“Don’t vote! None have the right to legislate except Allah,” read one of dozens of bills splayed on car windshields outside the St. Saviour’s polling station in the east London constituency of Poplar and Limehouse. " << that's one angle from which to poke holes in popular democracy, i guess
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2015#1126522 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2015#1126621 << if only i had editing rights on qntra, i'd s/undettered/undeterred/ and add "oh-so" instead of "much" in front of "superior" ☝︎☝︎
ben_vulpes: <davout> [18:12] with every day that passes the "get actual computer, fuck with gentoo" item climbs higher and higher on my todo list << davout if you can figure out what an "actual computer" is, let me know
mircea_popescu: http://www.buzzfeed.com/gabrielsanchez/photos-from-the-avn-adult-expo << kinda one of the top perks employers give to the "online journalist" crowd.
mircea_popescu: http://www.contravex.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Gavin-Andresen-Satoshi-costume.jpg << camho in that pic always good for a chuckle.
asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2015/05/force-026-022.pdf << mega-l0l, more carl force crud
asciilifeform: davout: kinda problematic if we can't initialize a blank drive from the pogo itself << yes, this will -have- to be fixed. but either a) later or b) someone not me
asciilifeform: 'Which means that specific parts will have to be highlighted later on, to be re-digested like those kernels of corn that you sometimes have to pick out of the toilet and eat all over again' << win
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/the-horror-that-is-ubuntu/#selection-135.16-135.56 << check this shit out!
pete_dushenski: "Anyway, correlation is not causation." << granted, funkenstein_, but some of these examples are a bit out to lunch.
pete_dushenski: "News flash: Culture is not genetic!" << guess it depends on what's meant by "culture". if you mean whether you eat for chopsticks or your hands, then sure, but if you mean predispositions for music, languages, fine arts, etc, it's less clear.
pete_dushenski: "Theorem 5: Jewish genetics cause superior intellect" << clearly, it's the converse that's true, funkenstein_ ;)
pete_dushenski: "The canonical example is that intelligence is correlated with foot size. It's a fact." << i'm currently a size 11.5, was once 12.5... am i stupider now than i was then ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: "We wan't to kill them, not be them." << uh wan't ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2015#1126419 << does this have anything to do with jews in banking or is that chekov's gun gonna just hang ? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2015#1126409 << have these people actually ~even seen~ my beard ? i wish to know who the fuck has a more respectable beard than me. hegel ? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 09-05-2015 09:42:36; davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2015#1125990 <<< lol, where's that from?
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2015#1126380 << gmaxwell's email on the power ranger mailing list -> https://archive.is/zsz7l#selection-443.2600-443.2759 ☝︎
decimation: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-05-2015#1125231 < also keep in mind, grapes don't grow very well in cold northern europe (aside from river valleys) ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 08-05-2015 18:38:08; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-05-2015#1125148 << it's valid, but misleading. most of dna is "junk", or otherwise put "not directly obvious it actually does anything"
gabriel_laddel: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=08-05-2015#1125516 << context: funkenstein_ was commenting a while back that jews are overrepresented in banking and then released a blog post (http://frass.woodcoin.org/intelligence-is-caused-by-big-feet-obesity-by-genetics/) that starts with "You may have some idea in your mind that things like cancer, intelligence, and obesity are in some way caused by genetics. By the time y ☝︎
davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2015#1126255 <<< rkn it's 1,000,000 ☝︎
davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2015#1126121 <<< priceless ☝︎
davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2015#1126006 <<< lol wtf ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 09-05-2015 01:42:24; danielpbarron: "This is frustrating; from a clean slate analysis of network health I think my conclusion would be to _decrease_ the limit below the current 300k/txn/day level." << I concur; 1MB is probably too large a block
davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2015#1125990 <<< lol, where's that from? ☝︎☟︎
gabriel_laddel: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=08-05-2015#1125284 << I wish you luck, but ftw I'm not the sort of person to discuss this class of phenomenon. Even with all the disclaimers and knowing that Aaron isn't a fuckwit I still think of his post as "new age BS". I don't exercise, smoke, drink and eat whatever I want. ☝︎
gabriel_laddel: <decimation> "oh no, I'm not that kind of person to take advantage of a woman" << lolol
mircea_popescu: http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2009/11/02/we-are-experiencing-institutional-difficulties < can start there.
mircea_popescu: http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2015/01/24/black-mirror-season-102-15-million-merits << a pretty decent discussion of it.
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2015#1126095 <<< alf that is a photoshop, here is the original http://i.imgur.com/kXjdfYa.png ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '...these people are already living a degree of magnitude above their means, hallucinating 100's of k's real estate values...' << why such certainty that it is hallucinated? is it possible that american escapees genuinely bid up the cost ?
asciilifeform: 'This is actually true, I passed by some twerp here trying to give out flyers of some local thing identifying as a communist party and my principal impulse was to ask him how is he not ashamed of himself.' << i lost count of how many 'radical left party hq' doors i walked past in b-a
asciilifeform: http://echo.msk.ru/att/element-736852-misc-001.jpg << mega-d3m0t1v4tor. 'stability! it's what we've striven for all of our life, right?'
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> or patton's. << I'm a Patton truther. He was assasinated to keep the war from running another decade,
asciilifeform: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/n-e-muratov-sketch-of-the-poster-%E2%80%9Cremember-leningrad-scumbag-%E2%80%9D/JQHoySKCXwQxlQ?projectId=second-world-war << soviet death ray in use
asciilifeform: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/romanian-nazis-pursuing-their-own-%E2%80%9Cromanization-of-the-population-and-territory%E2%80%9D-in-bessarabia-bukovina-and-so-called-transnistria-1941/FwHYcY7AUgoRdg?projectId=second-world-war << this one's new to me
asciilifeform: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/second-world-war << unrelated holiday widget
danielpbarron: bores of trying to find << happens to me on a weekly basis
danielpbarron: "This is frustrating; from a clean slate analysis of network health I think my conclusion would be to _decrease_ the limit below the current 300k/txn/day level." << I concur; 1MB is probably too large a block ☟︎
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-05-2015#1125794 << that was also in the spec ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'Today Bitcoin Core is easily >100 times faster to synchronize and relay than when I first got involved on the same hardware, but these improvements have been swallowed by the growth.' << ahahahahaha the headers-first idiocy
decimation: re: blazing saddles < I didn't get the german speaking indians until I saw this poem (lifted from google's shitty usenet archive) http://dpaste.com/21FWHSJ
mircea_popescu: http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv5uspQdbH1r4p8klo1_1280.jpg << girl around the house.
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-05-2015#1125656 <<< here's the after shot in any case https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-D6KxbCQAEkB4A.jpg:large ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i'd note that the most pestilential thing about intel is the fact of it keeping x86 alive, rather than boobytraps << To be fair they gave Itanic the old college try
williamdunne: 20:09:56 - mircea_popescu: <mike_c> how is the being passed over without comment? Real actual bitcoin hosting! very cool. << i shudder at the thought of what'll happen once reddit & all gets wind of it. <<< what is this?!
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-05-2015#1125774 << try and find -any- of their items, for any price ☝︎
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-05-2015#1125321 <<< i doubt he'll come (he's off chasing herbalife past few years) but it'd be good to see saltydroid turn up here ☝︎
jurov: http://www.pogolinux.com/products/blade-rackmount-servers << opteronz
asciilifeform: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2406542/twitter-now-lets-you-embed-playable-ms-dos-games-into-tweets?utm_source=Outbrain&utm_medium=Cpc&utm_campaign=Inquirer%252BReferral&WT.mc_is=977=obinsource << mega-l0l
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-05-2015#1125625 << ya, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-05-2015#1120232 ☝︎☝︎
asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2015/05/TheAmericanDream.pdf << mega-l0l ( plain text: http://dpaste.com/0V3TXJH.txt )
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-05-2015#1125513 < i think that is outside of my capabilities ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://36.media.tumblr.com/12a868569ab2d31c56508e7f4abd5416/tumblr_n1k8f0mkch1qlnecbo1_1280.jpg << this is the rest of us when specs are being dumped.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> how is the being passed over without comment? Real actual bitcoin hosting! very cool. << i shudder at the thought of what'll happen once reddit & all gets wind of it.
asciilifeform: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Algorithms/MyAlgorithms/Greedy/greedyIntro.htm << intro
Adlai: "not directly obvious it actually does anything" << same way it's not directly obvious that the ceramic casing around your CPU does anything
mircea_popescu: Recently there has been a flurry of posts by Gavin at http://gavinandresen.svbtle.com/ which advocate << lol just how many blogs is this guy keeping
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-05-2015#1125148 << it's valid, but misleading. most of dna is "junk", or otherwise put "not directly obvious it actually does anything" ☝︎☟︎
trinque: mircea_popescu trinque can you put a redirect on deed site so that http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/deed/9ULZPc7yeZ9fQEA1aZ73H6mcv1s2C4gYFAbNTb5urovj << that site currenty redirects to the uniregistry thing, should instead redirect to deedbot.org/{txn_id}.txt
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-05-2015#1125105 << ideally the lamb learns its place by merely being shown the knife. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mats: i dunno enough about silicon to say what i'd rather have << but it is not difficult to arrive at what one would rather -not- have. as (i think it was) mircea_popescu wrote, 'i don't lay eggs, but...'
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-05-2015#1125101 << i would like to clarify this point at this time, by underscoring that while i do undertake some expense out of pocket, and that may well appear as an untrivial ammount, especially in terms of one's own household, nevertheless : 1) it is trivial compared to the tasks at hand, indiscutably and 2) B,TMSR~ runs immense deficits, as discussed in http://trilema.com/20 ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'Allowing more transactions with no other changes would very likely accelerate the UTXO set growth, making it more expensive, more quickly, to run a fully validating node. And worst case would be twenty times as expensive; $10,000 per year. Affordable for a business, not for an individual.' << but now that he said this, next tack will be 'individuals have no business running nodes, only Responsible Licensed Businesses ought ..
chetty: << seriously wonders how mp does so well getting in the head (if they have them) of various libtards
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-05-2015#1125084 << roflmao ☝︎
davout: http://gavinandresen.ninja/utxo-uhoh <<< apparently gavinandresen is looking at backpedaling without losing face
mircea_popescu: "We were a small company," he said. "It's not like we had millions of dollars to fight this and tons of employees." << yeah, the fetlife style. "we suck, but that's ok because we are small". herpy-derp, stick to twitter.
davout: gavinandresen: "wumpus: yes. An increase to the max block size must be preceded or accompanied by a limit on the UTXO set size, I think." <<< top kek
asciilifeform: http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/07/technology/tiversa-labmd-ftc/index.html << l0ltr0nic
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-05-2015#1125030 << dude, he just fills the chan with random stuff nobody understands! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-concerned-mans-safety-broke-hotel-room-shot-death/ << all that google dregs up worth the mention
trinque: mircea_popescu: Nice work on the deedbot << thanks, fun project.
gabriel_laddel: <funkenstein_> if you are missing a good water supply you are also not going to be the next satoshi << ;; google east asian malnutrition IQ
Adlai: this is an omission. http://bluebox.ippt.pan.pl/~vkoval/fantasy.html << jokester
gribble: September 2009 on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2009/09>; Trilenciclopedia on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/category/trilenciclopedia/>; July 2010 on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2010/07>
gabriel_laddel: http://education.seattlepi.com/animals-share-human-dna-sequences-6693.html << info is from this, I don't have time to do actual research atm
gabriel_laddel: funkenstein_: "You may have some idea in your mind that things like cancer, intelligence, and obesity are in some way caused by genetics. By the time you are done reading this post, I hope you will no longer labour under this gross misconception." << wait, so intelligence is in no way caused by genetics?