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thickasthieves: suppression in the first place"
thickasthieves: expectation of privacy in the SR Server, as required for him to have standing to move for its
thickasthieves: "As a threshold matter, the declaration does not establish that Ulbricht had a reasonable
startup2`isninja: I'll be back tonight. I may have another offer for people, it would be a 1-year position and primarily of interest to people who want a hedge against price movements against them. My previous offers were not closed via -assets or -otc. (No transactions done.) the total size of the offering would be up to 100 coins, US legal system and contracts, and approximately 2 weeks from now until wire (or transfer.)
BingoBoingo: Not too much
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, "According to CoinThrift the attacked occurred early the morning of October 5th but went undiscovered for some time." s/attacked/attack/c
mircea_popescu: you'll hafta see the logs of its birth.
mircea_popescu: the very point of qntra is for there to not be a distance between truth, as represented here, and news.
mircea_popescu: there is no distinction between this and that.
sgornick: mircea_popescu: To not add qntra-specific noise to #bitcoin-assets. Lots of chatter will be added from it, I suspect.
assbot: The Lorax pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
punkman: I guess guy was talking about datacenters or something "a high-end user's connection speed grows by 50% per year"
punkman: well shit, my bw been the same for like 7 years
punkman: "Gavin offers this 50% yearly figure based on Nielsen's Law of Internet bandwidth which supposes high speed Internet connections double in speed every year."
pete_dushenski: …rock-a-by slavegirl… in the treetop… when the wind blows… you'll suck on my cock…
pete_dushenski: story time chez popescu?
mircea_popescu: shameful creature of temptation. BACK! YON BEAST!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: so, you know, free all the 13 yos trapped in 28 yo bodies. << new mpex fund: freedom28
BingoBoingo: Dude's pretty much the guy on mining pools
pete_dushenski: other than his clear reluctance to get in the wot, he seems smart enough.
pete_dushenski: dunno why that dude isn't here already.
pete_dushenski: (and to cazalla as well)
pete_dushenski: nice work on the qntra these last few days :)
pete_dushenski: decimation: what I find amusing is that the lefties don't get that they are in a relgious war because they don't even realize that what they are derping about is metaphysics << definitely amusing. though you have to figure that *some* know the equalitarianism can't be measured.
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bgupta: gobimint making ti really hard to know where to show up and say "I am sparticus!"
assbot: Silk Road (marketplace) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mthreat: actual trial already?
bgupta: Anyone going to DPR's trial on Thursday?
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mircea_popescu: such hellspawn that marriage.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile reduced to about five hundred sites by the unerring sloth and stupidiy of the masses and the unrelenting efforts of the corporation.
asciilifeform: thank the copyrasts.
asciilifeform: possibly the only intact copy.
mircea_popescu: yup, same exact one i found. check out the unspeakable diversity of the interwebs,
asciilifeform invites readers to defile the entire poem
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2014 18:55:26; asciilifeform: as i understand, the term originally applied to brands of optical rifle sight designed to withstand the field (water, whacking over enemy's head, etc.) vs ones that only need to survive a leisurely duck hunt
asciilifeform: regarding our friends the poetterings et al.
mircea_popescu: where's the quote from ?
mircea_popescu: embedded tictacs ?
mircea_popescu: o shit this goes with the ak rant
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
mircea_popescu: just that simple fact. "no amount of environmentalism helps anything as long as you continue to exist"
mircea_popescu: anyway. the first step riding the world of human excrement is telling the "wolfgoethe"s, poetterings, gavins & co of this world that they are wrong to exist.
asciilifeform: and - if you don't mask the turd, 'sanitary' gentoo (sans systemd) will indeed pull in udev-systemd by default.
asciilifeform: (not my recipe, but from the folks who write recipes)
mircea_popescu: whatever the gentoo repackages are called i forget
asciilifeform: lol. next i post the ebola-free pudding recipe.
mircea_popescu: make sure you post the results.
asciilifeform just spent four hours ripping poettering out of what appeared to be a perfectly sanitary gentoo, is mighty pissed
mircea_popescu: a much better story would be something like, "company ordered parts, submitted proper importation documents, had them confiscated at border "
asciilifeform: well, to round out story, 'when asked why undeclared, uttered 'bitcoin', received the prescribed five lashes' or the like.
mircea_popescu: this reminds me vaguely of the nefario timetravel adventures.
mircea_popescu: well or a mockery thereof.
mircea_popescu: what uncharitable bs. really, it's that hard to identify hash chips ? i had no idea o.O
mircea_popescu: from the confiscated miners article, "Неизвестно откуда взявшиеся эксперты таможенной службы установили, что металлические конструкции со встроенными в них схемами «предназначены для выполнения специализированных операций расчета хэш-сумм с б
mircea_popescu: wait, is that guy in the video trying to charge capacitors in an ac circuit ?
BingoBoingo: Seriously Cloudflare sites are more unavailable than any others I've seen
mircea_popescu: because cloudflare, as any other usg product, can never be a failful piece of shit that doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: i';d have left a link on their blog but of course.... cloudflare claims the host is broken
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: This is very true about the large blocks working against security. Throw it up there as a comment.
mircea_popescu: i guess. but an oscillator's still an oscillator, no matter the period.
mircea_popescu: srsly ?! try every six months, maybe his retardation now fits reality ? go sulk for another six months, try again ?
assbot: Logged on 22-03-2014 16:21:56; Ghaleon: hence the typical irc, leet jerk attitude is bout to be extinct
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-03-2014#574604 << i can't believe this fucktard actually came back under a new name but referenced his old persona. ☝︎
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mircea_popescu: and if that's the path they wish to use to introduce faux bitcoin-lite for the us domestic market, that's fine, but it won't go over any better than an attempt from scratch.
mircea_popescu: if indeed they're stupid enough to fork it, i will sink their fork on the open market.
mircea_popescu: neither of these are getting merged into bitcoin, whatever gavin says or whatever forks happen.
mircea_popescu: the problem with gavin's idiocy is that roughly speaking, the square of the block size and the total network hash are on opposite sides of an equality, which describes total network security.
ben_vulpes: "The dream is to see Bitcoin mainstream.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the problem with gavin's idiocy isn't merely that "substantial increasing barrier to entry for operators of full nodes", horrid as that may be.
mircea_popescu: well at least you point it out for the rest of us. i didn 't click
ben_vulpes: i miss all the good stuff
ben_vulpes: <WolfGoethe> once bitcoin "closes the circle" then it shall be a true competitor to the usd << what do you mean by "closing the circle"?
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is going on in these people's brains i wish to know.
mircea_popescu: "i know this is irc... but still" ?!
mircea_popescu: generally the unqualified name refers the other
thickasthieves: talking about people that talk about bitcoin doesnt make you part of bitcoin either
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the one in question is ephialtes of trachis
mats_cd03: run away from the mean people
assbot: A compendium of basic points about Bitcoin for the benefit of various confused noobs. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
WolfGoethe: I'm in NYC and go to all the bitcoin dev meetups. coded an api open source project and trying to give back. came here looking to chat and I am being judged so harshly? i know this is irc... but still.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> if you compare how you treat your pets and how the average liberal intends to treat "those people" you get a scary identity. << oh come i only feed the pets when they behave
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> as pictured in the film '300'. << it's an insane depiction. the original guy was actually pericle's master.
mircea_popescu: WolfGoethe in so many words, yes. and stop using the plural, best anyone can determine you're a solitary guy with his hopes, aspirations, confused mainstream mental impactions and internet connection.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> the only conceivable cure is liberal beatings. << oh ho ho ho
mats_cd03: read more and type less
WolfGoethe: bitcoin can indeed help the underbanked... but what about us "over" banked... as in those being crushed by the banks and their fees and hassele
thickasthieves: "In the latest move, Blockchain, a Bitcoin wallet provider and software developer, is expected to announce on Tuesday that it has closed a roughly $30.5 million fund-raising round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Wicklow Capital. The investment, raised from Blockchain’s first round of outside financing, is one of the biggest in the digital currency industry to date."
WolfGoethe: you think planning and focusing our efforts to create bitcoin saturated nodes within the west is nonsense?
asciilifeform: incidentally, timeless classic: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/924795/posts
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> and who the fuck decided that a perfectly good 'eth0' should turn into 'enp0s29u1u1' ? << o yikes
assbot: Bitcoin and the poor pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/bitcoin-and-the-poor/ there
gribble: Cash transfers in Africa: Bitcoin for the poor | The Economist: <http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2014/06/cash-transfers-africa>; How Bitcoin Could Help the World's Poor | Acton PowerBlog: <http://blog.acton.org/archives/67759-bitcoin-help-worlds-poorest-people.html>; Lessons From Mobile Payments: Bitcoin Will Not Help the Poor or ...: (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: ;;google bitcoin and the poor
mircea_popescu: dude wouldja stop with the nonsense. it's ridoinculous.
WolfGoethe: I see this like a grass roots social justice movement
WolfGoethe: we all need to take action to make Bitcoin mainstream