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williamdunne: bitcoin doesn't take over through convincing random fuckwit of "more benefits". bitcoin takes over by raping the state. permanently.
<<< See, I totally agree with this. But this is why I think that there should be bigger blocks (not Gavin's proposal, but statically bigger). Easier to rape the state surely if its less inconvenient and more people can do so
mircea_popescu: "No thanks. I'll keep using my card. It has way too many benefits not to. I'll switch to Bitcoin when it's easier to use, offers buyer protection and has more benefits than cc's. Which won't be anytime soon."
<< funny how dynamic equilibrium perceived as static works.
mircea_popescu:
<davout> williamdunne: some dudes made some code for a matching engine, not really noteworthy
<< actually it's the most oversupplied intem in stock.
assbot: Logged on 27-04-2015 03:18:03; asciilifeform: jurov: ...there are new miniitx mobos with ECC support...
<< where?! link plz. i'd buy at least one to try
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "If Macintosh laptops (long held up as the gold standard of quality in personal computing) "
<< nobody ever held a laptop as an acceptable form of personal computing. let alone any sort of standard.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes / asciilifeform : re "build an exhaustive knowledge of every company that has ever made computer parts and an exhaustive understanding of which parts were made well and not at which point in time."
<< the correct approach to this is to do what mp has been saying needs doing for ages and start a bitcoin hoster.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-04-2015#1112293 << on one end. on the other end, it has the advantage that it can allow *everyone* to pretend like they're part of the conversation. here people know nobody is listening to them, because they have no voice. on facebook/reddit/etc, every idiot can pretend that he's being heard because he can read himself and so why not.
☝︎☟︎ pete_dushenski: ;;later tell ben_vulpes "and have custom trickle in."
<< customers*
pete_dushenski: also: "EEC RAM and the controllers therefor"
<< ecc ram, therefore*
ben_vulpes: "Minaj pulled out of Hot 97’s Summer Jam after a DJ criticized Roman’s smash EDM-styled single “Starships” as something other than “real hip-hop.” Lil Wayne and the rest of Young Money canceled their performance at the show as well, in solidarity."
<< heh.
trinque: mp: I did commit the equivalent of showing up with a flamethrower at a figure skating competition, "what move is that! IT LITERALLY MELTED THE ICE!11"
<< ahahaha my sides
trinque: urov | i'm not criticizing anything
<< well sure you are, but there's no harm in that
jurov:
<scoop_testbot> this is a test
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 03:50:42; asciilifeform:
<mircea_popescu> that may be. i'm just pointing out that biology offers a very significant challenge to theoretical cs.
<< i must confess, that i am at a loss as to which aspects of meat we should like to replicate in machines: intransigence? toe fungus? pneumonia? schizophrenia?
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 05:53:14; mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately unlike Bitcoin there is no reputation Trezor."
<< a) trezor's kinda dysfunctional/derpy ; b) of course there is. airgapped gpg.
mircea_popescu: here's another thing that doesn't work : "The worst part, is Torrie Fischer is competent with PGP 4. My advice to her, is"
<< the problem being that i can readily see her cv, but i don't see yours. from whence do you give her advice ? this jars.
mircea_popescu: "This took a bit for the stupidity to really sink in. Like, sink sink in. Her comment “I have to say I don’t really appreciate reading something like that and would prefer a much more constructive discussion about web payments” is the absolute peak of the stupidity. "
<< this was the problem
mircea_popescu: "What is OpenAlias? OpenAlias seeks to provide a way to simplify aliasing amidst a rapidly shifting technology climate. "
<< i mean come on.
williamdunne:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-04-2015#1111640 <<< To the layman it seems they would be different. Assuming you're a fairly boring person as far as you're concerned dollars are pretty fungible (obviously not entirely and dependent on payment system), but they're not even close to non-discriminatory. I guess the difference IMO is between 1 btc = 1 btc, and anyone and everyone being able to have 'a
☝︎ mircea_popescu: " off the top of my head the United Kingdom, South Africa, Singapore, India, and China have instant and cheap (in many cases free) bank transfer systems."
<< nonsense. your example is SEPA. rest sucks by comparison. (or gyropay before that).
mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately unlike Bitcoin there is no reputation Trezor."
<< a) trezor's kinda dysfunctional/derpy ; b) of course there is. airgapped gpg.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 23:43:06; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-04-2015#1110941 << interestingly, i asked about the cost. was told something like '$1m for the old style, 2.5 for the new generation.' fella said this with straight face, too, as if there were nothing remarkable about this factoid.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> nature's criterion of 'works' and mine
<< nature's cheaper. you might not get a voice.
gabriel_laddel: way less mental fatigue looking at them, I've found
<< I suppose. One can learn to read most anything. The importance here is the triviality of generating "syntactically correct" program texts.
gabriel_laddel:
<trinque> seems relevant to the lisp vs perl thing
<< ummm... the angle I'm attacking this from is that meta-programming is inescapable and sexprs are the only sane way to go unless you want to program forth or APL.
trinque: he could enter things like i 52345 s
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<ent> and that would add inventory number whatever to the ticket 2 times
gabriel_laddel: which means that as long as you live, you will not live in a clean world.
<< select portions of humanity have, to varying degrees created "clean" computing.
mircea_popescu: From: "Contact Bitgazetteer Team"
<contact@bitgazetteer.com>
decimation: "Mobile payments are a natural extension of the digital lifestyle, while protection against digital theft becomes an imperative for regulatory agencies around the world."
< note usg mission creep
trinque: "So what you're saying is that this currency of the future can destroy my savings because of an error and nobody is responsible?"
<< b-but, who will inforce what's fair?!