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pete_dushenski: typical crowdfund dealio apparently wasn'
t invented for crowdfunding. who knew.
pete_dushenski: but yes, is this elbrus isn'
t sufficiently magical, then it makes as much sense as buying 10,000 apple watches
ascii_field: pretty clear from the www that they aren'
t selling onceies
williamdunne: That depends on the function you are going for. SSL doesn'
t serve as a way to verify each party and obviously has some contentious things going on with cert authorities.
danielpbarron: "But what if one of these government backed exchanges start working with a huge leverage using fiat as its backing and not bitcoins?" << start? isn'
t that the SOP?
cazalla: you can call people niggers but don'
t tell people to kill themselves
cazalla: yup, so if you don'
t want to have spam sent to your inbox or want an address that is shared, it's useful for that
mircea_popescu: "Most news sites you see on the internet are just one guy writing under multiple names. Writers are expensive. This wouldn'
t be the first site that does that nor would it even be unusual.
cazalla: don'
t have em, not for a while, fucked em off given the situation here
davout: cazalla: i can'
t help to think that if the guy's really compromised than he probably feels pretty good about the way his proposals are going
cazalla: and anyway, even if he made a good argument for an increase in the blocksize, his current proposition differs to the incremental increase he suggested only a few months back, can'
t respect a guy that secede his position so quickly regardless of merit
decimation: at any rate, as I wrote later, it seems that the actual amount of U in the ground isn'
t really fully known
danielpbarron: doesn'
t jump down to that part of the page and doesn'
t select the text
assbot: Why "representative democracy" doesn'
t work and doesn'
t make sense on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1cGCbIz )
mircea_popescu: also, consider that a comparison of new nuclear with old coal is pretty stupid. you're not advertising deployument of 1970s soviet nuclear plants. consequently, you don'
t get to compare to 1950s coal plants.
decimation: so to be clear, it's your position that it's better w.r.
t. to "pollution" for electricity to come from coal vice nuclear fission?
mircea_popescu: if the peons didn'
t have the printing folk to give them free money, they wouldn'
t afford bluefin tuna.
mircea_popescu: if the need isn'
t there... i guess go derp on reddit about things of great interest and matters of great import.
assbot: gavinandresen comments on Please remind me once again why we can'
t decrease the time interval between blocks instead of increasing their size ... (
http://bit.ly/1cGvUww )
decimation: shit my new irc client doesn'
t rate limit my pastes :(
decimation: ume of nuclear waste doesn?
t sound unmanageable: 105 000 cubic metres.
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah, apparently 'our' knowledge of uranium reserves are quite limited. people haven'
t been trying to mine uranium for thousands of years (like gold)
livegnik: As long as it doesn'
t go in-depth concerning the technicals, a good salesman should at least be able to discuss the concept, right?
livegnik: The system doesn'
t only consist of the identities within the digital Rolodex, but also of all the claims that have been made about them,
livegnik: I like the analogy of an electronic Rolodex. It's dissimilar to the extent that it wasn'
t shared as easily among all trusted parties.
mircea_popescu: the entire thing would drastically benefit from getting the people involved here. it has fundamental problems which are apparently difficult to grasp. whatever they may think they're doing with their time that's a better use, isn'
t.
livegnik: williamdunne: Sure. Just don'
t stare at the front-end too much, it's only to give you an idea. The real magic happens on the back-end; the daemon.
livegnik: We don'
t have a whitepaper yet. Working on it though. It would be much easier to grasp the concept with some details on the data format, database design, network topology, etc.
mircea_popescu: wtf is with these idiots. don'
t they realise just how obvious their agenda becomes from all the failures ? "we gotta fuck up bitcoin. o, i know, let's make the blocks larger. wait, mp said no. i know, make the timing shorter. one way or another, must destroy the decentralisation!!11"
livegnik: Thnx mircea_popescu . I'll be off in 30 minutes or so, and haven'
t been able to get sirius in here yet. Both pretty busy atm, but sure he'll join us some other time.
assbot: Why "representative democracy" doesn'
t work and doesn'
t make sense on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1H8EopW )
mircea_popescu: essentially the position of the Catholic church, hoping that it may teach people to read and write in such a way that they'll actually continue to take the "Holy Scripture" seriously. Why would they ? They won'
t, they don'
t, it's just not how that works.
mircea_popescu: This would also be why I don'
t think so very much of the libertards, and why I find myself so often in contradiction with people who view them as either powerful or in any sense a threat (usually both) : they aren'
t, either, nor could they really be, either, because the only tool they know actually works for them only a short distance of its run, and for us the entire length of that same run. The libertard's gambit is
☟︎ assbot: Why "representative democracy" doesn'
t work and doesn'
t make sense on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1H8EjCO )
mircea_popescu: (note that i didn'
t even bother with using the fact that 99.9% of uranium is not more fissile than lead, nor the fact that you will never actually manage to bust up ALL the atoms)
mircea_popescu: contrary to what is generally propagandized, there isn'
t a way to use them effectually on the field. the only effectual use for them is in mass media.
ben_vulpes: "Warning: Can'
t synchronize with the repository (Couldn'
t open Subversion repository /home/crystal/scm/crystal: SubversionException: ("Expected FS format between '1' and '3'; found format '4'", 160043))."
decimation: yes, there are those who could re-create the fab design toolchain ascii mentioned, but I suppose it is the case that they couldn'
t be bothered
mircea_popescu: cunts make kids not vegetables, and things don'
t scale like this.
mircea_popescu: "my wife couldn'
t even give birth to an eggplant, what hope is there she could make me an heir"
mircea_popescu: moreover, this is entirely not related. things don'
t scale like this.
mircea_popescu: this is not actually true. we could, she didn'
t want to.
mircea_popescu: and moreover, once la serenissima expands - A LITTLE (in comparative tersm) - what's to say it won'
t be able to afford this ?
mircea_popescu: i cope with it solipsistically, which is to say, "until it gets in my way it doesn'
t exist. once it does, ima burn it"
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-05-2015#1127054 << no they don'
t. nobody, including the chinese, including putin, has any fucking idea what this even is, because they lack both the intellectual sophistication to comprehend what matters in the world and go seek the signs, and the power to actually have good advisors that do.
☝︎ davout: ben_vulpes: yeah i guess i should, it just doesn'
t fail often enough for me to care
ben_vulpes: i mean i don'
t know anything about keeping software up but like...runit? or something?
davout: and, isn'
t it "blown" ? :D
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: yea, I'm not that active in this channel any more since I don'
t really hold any assets beyond bitcoin itself
davout: jurov: actually, for some reason it doesn'
t like being run in a screen session
davout: jurov: blergh, my bot is apparently stuck, doesn'
t feel like starting up, i'll need to access the physical machine, which will happen in the next 24h
mircea_popescu: auden wasn'
t bad, just not good enough. runcible doom wasn'
t bad, just not good enough
mircea_popescu: davout the amount of herd-herding that the usg has been putting into this is so incredibly useful because a) it really can'
t do anything but! b) it really does expose the tools.
ben_vulpes: <williamdunne> mircea_popescu: jurov: Yeah I'll redraw the whole image and make it SVG << you know you don'
t *have* to do everything he says
jurov: don'
t feed the animals!
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 00:00:19; pete_dushenski: Fast fwd to yesterday. I wasn'
t home yet from work, but my wife tells me local LE showed up and wanted to have a "chat". Asked if I or anone had ever ordered anything illicit in the mail. Said "nobody's in trouble, we're just following up on something that might be nothing"."
davout: and i was confused because i didn'
t remember that danielpbarron's pogo runs a debian thing, hence able to run bitcoind
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2014 22:59:29; asciilifeform: without sovereignty, 'your' tractor - isn'
t yours. it belongs (along with your starfish) to the big boys.
decimation: if one had a working implementation of a silicon cpu (like msp430), wouldn'
t you be able to test the silicon version against an fpga simulator?
decimation: one wonders why these other countries don'
t perceive this as a 'sovereignty' issue
decimation: how does that work? wouldn'
t they need to integrate with the fab design tools?
davout: running the experimental armv5 binary doesn'
t work either, with same error, on the buildroot-2015.02 kernel
mircea_popescu: we don'
t usually discuss it because it's so amply obvious, but just in case.
mircea_popescu: go to all that trouble to introduce git hooks to sign, eschew pgp. i wouldn'
t use them to put a fire out.
ascii_modem: re: bios: i'm rather surprised that mircea_popescu doesn'
t demand 'coreboot' (aka linuxbios) on his boxes
mod6: ahh, the naive writs of our forefathers. << ah yeah! isn'
t that from like '98 cypherpunks?
mircea_popescu: computing doesn'
t need someliers, computing needs people with blowtorches.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker. so, this box : if hard drive is attached, will not boot off usb stick. just ignore it, pretend it doesn'
t exist. is hd is detached, will boot off stick just fine, but will NOT detect the hard drive no matter what happens.
pete_dushenski: Fast fwd to yesterday. I wasn'
t home yet from work, but my wife tells me local LE showed up and wanted to have a "chat". Asked if I or anone had ever ordered anything illicit in the mail. Said "nobody's in trouble, we're just following up on something that might be nothing"."
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "Coinbase is seriously crossing the line now. I have had an account with Coinbase for well over 1.5 year. I bought some btc in March, and sent it to a DNM (won'
t say which one).. and did not purchase anything. I did not. The btc was a trivial amount, and said DNM has been having troubles with their uptime lately. Literally, no crime committed.
jordandotdev: yes I have my key I don'
t know if I'm in this web-of-trust
pete_dushenski: jordandotdev: i don'
t believe we've talked before, no.
jordandotdev: I just don'
t want to work at a bank at this point in my career
jordandotdev: but that job didn'
t end up working out - and I wasn'
t getting enough other work with Bitfinex to support myself there
pete_dushenski didn'
t know that bitfinex was in hk, only that they're 'bitcoinica' reincarnate
pete_dushenski: so why don'
t you follow up with these esports fellas ?