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assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 02:29:07; mircea
_popescu: !rate crescendo -1 Aka Eric Martindale. Nice job trying to sell me/MPEx bitpay shares a week before information was to come out that'd render them worthless. Say hello to Daphna for me.
BingoBoingo: Perhaps if away and with urgent business use a nick like brg444
_AtBar ?
midnightmagic: mircea
_popescu: Do you mind me asking how long ago he tried to sell those?
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 02:33:13; mircea
_popescu: check it out, they learned how to link !
cazalla: mircea
_popescu, pdf reads better as it is clear where the blackouts are (everywhere), perhaps i should've taken screencaps instead
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea
_popescu.rate.crescendo.-1:2aea276f4b159d2520ba164116a6cbd83cc0b987fb7d716a7c0578da4f9d1feb
mircea_popescu: Pierre
_Rochard yes, there are some passible webdevs in argentina.
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 11:28:01; mircea
_popescu: which is weird because where the fuck would she get moneyz.
BingoBoingo: Pierre
_Rochard: Interesting. I would have thought nice place downtown in the cool area would have cost more.
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 01:25:01; mod6: so asciilifeform & mircea
_popescu, I added a sync mechinism for V. but wanted to discuss it a bit, not sure if it's whats really ideal or anything.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2015 03:09:44; mircea
_popescu: BitPay will soon be dead. They probably make $1000 per month revenue and burn around $500K.
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 01:17:01; mircea
_popescu: but on the subject : the only thing that matters is the value transferred. any other approach is a waste of time.
assbot: Logged on 28-09-2013 09:10:42; mircea
_popescu: my current curiosity in the field is why isn't cramer–shoup more widely usedf.
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 01:13:17; mircea
_popescu: Stroustrup said: “You can write C++ programs that are statically type safe and have no resource leaks. You can do that without loss of performance and without limiting C++’s expressive power. This supports the general thesis that garbage collection is neither necessary nor sufficient for quality software. Our core C++ guidelines makes such code simpler to write than older styles of C++ and the safety
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 01:22:51; mircea
_popescu: machine can not do anything else during, if you're say making a large tarball at the same time odds are you'll cry.
phf: mircea
_popescu: yes, once i do the publishing
mod6: so asciilifeform & mircea
_popescu, I added a sync mechinism for V. but wanted to discuss it a bit, not sure if it's whats really ideal or anything.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 22:12:13; ascii
_field: (eatblock is a locking operation)
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 21:57:49; ascii
_field: but that is not an adult answer.
phf: mircea
_popescu: it's already done! afaik ben
_vulpes and gernika both have a mac built using my approach
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 21:29:38; phf: ascii
_field, mircea
_popescu, et al: i've been experimenting with idea of trusted nodes in bitcoind. so far: address has levels of trust, ultimate, trusted and untrusted. adding an address with -connect gives it ultimate trust, with -addnode makes it trusted, otherwise (reported by other nodes, random connections, etc.) are untrusted. nodes have the same level of trust as their addresses. trusted nodes (i.e. bot
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 21:27:23; Pierre
_Rochard: sad day, could’ve been a great business…
gernika: ascii
_field Thought it was real - 32 GB ecc ram, opteron 4226.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu once alluded to a dirty ad-hoc implementation of this by chinese operators, where nodes had vpn links to one another
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 21:29:38; phf: ascii
_field, mircea
_popescu, et al: i've been experimenting with idea of trusted nodes in bitcoind. so far: address has levels of trust, ultimate, trusted and untrusted. adding an address with -connect gives it ultimate trust, with -addnode makes it trusted, otherwise (reported by other nodes, random connections, etc.) are untrusted. nodes have the same level of trust as their addresses. trusted nodes (i.e. bot
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2015 15:45:26; asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea
_popescu (corrected) dulap still behind; i had a thought that the very possibility of this problem is an atrocious idiocy - why should an infrastructural node (so0opernoude!!!) rely on the whims of wild animals to learn latest blocks? we need the 'nobles'-never-disconnect table.
phf: ascii
_field, mircea
_popescu, et al: i've been experimenting with idea of trusted nodes in bitcoind. so far: address has levels of trust, ultimate, trusted and untrusted. adding an address with -connect gives it ultimate trust, with -addnode makes it trusted, otherwise (reported by other nodes, random connections, etc.) are untrusted. nodes have the same level of trust as their addresses. trusted nodes (i.e. both t. and ultimate) are allowed
☟︎☟︎ jurov: ascii
_field: you have seen how much they ask for the original?
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 08:38:06; mircea
_popescu: well... they could put cells on the roof... prolly help a lot.
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 06:18:18; mircea
_popescu: it's up there with the fucking PICTURE.
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 06:24:52; mircea
_popescu: <asciilifeform> the other major atrocity is the fingerprint (yes). << im noit so sure. hash functions are fixed length output.
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 02:09:11; mike
_c: BingoBoingo: i don't know about safety net, we couldn't even protect altcoin
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 01:41:43; mircea
_popescu: so how do the fatties survive ?
cazalla: mircea
_popescu, can't be many here who would be in the position to buy em anyway
cazalla: i imagine that is like buying a car mircea
_popescu
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea
_popescu: one example of something which Must Die is 'subkeys' << absolutely. i have no fucking idea what chickenbrain thought that's a thing. "o hey, you know what this chevy is made out of ? chevys! because they didn;'t get me that lego set when i was nine and now im fucked in the head."
☟︎ brg444: mircea
_popescu: funny you mention iCEBREAKER, was just having a chat with him the other day as he was inquiring about b-a thinking I was already in seeing as regularly quote content from trilema/logs. will let him know about your "interest".
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 02:03:33; *: mircea
_popescu has asked usian cashiers out.
BingoBoingo: <mike
_c> BingoBoingo: i don't know about safety net, we couldn't even protect altcoin << Altcoin had to die for our sins of believing in a monetized testnet for a few months
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea
_popescu: only if you regularly add units to keep up with diff << Then get four. You'll get at least 1 conf a month for a year
BingoBoingo: mike
_c: Also with saner p2pool could provide decent safety net
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> Power Supply 10 x 1600 W Form Factor 11 U rack << reasonably even out power savings from pogo
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> asciilifeform but even in bulk that's 60 calories to the dollar. << Math is either off or FCS is now the expensive component of trash food
phf: mircea
_popescu: that was my impression too
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> how the fuck do you price this shit now ? << same way sub saharan africans can buy anti-malarials that before gouging cost $13.50 a pop in USia
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> i very much doubt there's any meat in mcdonalds&co. << WHen I was there the actual "beef patty" seemed to be all beef though small. Just what part of beef...
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> dude... a girl that weighs what 5 weigh costs what 10 cost. << Ah, if girl can pregnancy.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> so how do the fatties survive ? << Two years of leaching off family and then "blackface"