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mod6:
<+Luke-Jr> asciilifeform: Bitcoin's rules are defined by what people use. Nobody is using the 0.5.3.1 fork.
<< not true. i'm using it.
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> mod6 got tons more of thems.
<< hmm?
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1058664 << contrary to what you might have erroneously come to believe a) 0.5.1 version as printed by the bitcoin foundation is the cannonical version of bitcoin ; b) various groups of scammers trying to attack bitcoin are continuously pushing their own versions of solidcoin, which has all the importance of ms boring's bitcoin chamber of commerce.
☝︎ BingoBoingo: Luke-Jr> OSs are not a consensus system
<< No but every OS fork is a far less grave experiment actual onsensus systems must consider
BingoBoingo:
<Luke-Jr> a non-db example that we are currently getting rid of is the non-DER signatures
<< Has the problem of people creating such sigs really happened outside of the goxnode retardation beginning block 168001?
BingoBoingo: midnightmagic> NetBSD builds and syncs to head almost trivially now.
<< But so much memory unsafety
mod6:
<+funkenstein_> i tested the 0.5.3 build on an old ubuntu box, built like a charm
<< nice! thanks for the info
ascii_field: all states are evil
<< entirely below the conflict between the mega-states, is some pretty fundamental clash of civilizations
chetty:
<< would not be terribly surprised if they had the same puppet master
kakobrekla: "theories about privacy and keep pestering me for special addresses"
< why would anyone be concerned only to have the first address for first deposit+registration unique but is then fine using 1fx for all later deposits
assbot: Logged on 19-03-2015 20:22:56; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-03-2015#1057738 << it is. people (especially people kinda too lazy to study things in depth) have all sorts of theories about privacy and keep pestering me for special addresses etc. it's a fashion is what it is, one i don't aim to encourage, and i'm stuck because w/e, serving teh customer.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 19-03-2015 17:06:07; thestringpuller: danielpbarron: re: youtube videos for dumb people
<< i've started thinking because Videos are much easier to consume than words, dumb people are more attracted to it cause they can "watch it" instead of "read it"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo or anyone inclined, can we have a qntra piece discussing why
<< Sketching one out
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> more efficient economical system runs through the fuel - faster. elementary
<< nope, other way around actually. the more advanced, the more fuel.
mircea_popescu: Sep 23 15:47:49
<JWU42>oh my
<< kakobrekla's friend too :D
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron : Sep 24 21:32:22
<asa1024>send them moar porn! that should keep them busy for awhile! ( 2012)
assbot: Logged on 19-03-2015 12:05:19; danielpbarron: "It's offensive. While feminism is a movement that aims to make the world a better place by promoting equality, nazism is a movement which is linked to one of the darkest periods in history"
<< lol "darkest periods"
assbot: You rated user trinque on 17-Oct-2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes:
<undata> look guys, I'm merely gay-for-trip-to-spacestation.
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: and Usagi (megalol)
<< "Usagi the insurer" along with "Kludge the banker" and others
BingoBoingo:
<nubbins`> BingoBoingo:BitBet is the greatest provider of insurance BTC has ever seen
<<< ah, maybe. there are others?
<< X.EUR (more limited scope) and Usagi (megalol)
BingoBoingo:
<ben_vulpes> BingoBoingo: you compiled against libressl, right?
<< Yeah
lobbes: asciilifeform:
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=165 << thank you for this introduction on the writings of Naggum. Likewise, I feel it is my duty to spend the next decade learning Common Lisp
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: re: youtube videos for dumb people
<< i've started thinking because Videos are much easier to consume than words, dumb people are more attracted to it cause they can "watch it" instead of "read it"
☟︎ nubbins`: asciilifeform:phun phact (also noted by al) - fella who holds the 'stop' sign all day makes 2x what a typical postdoc makes.
<<< fella w/ the sign is also arguably providing more value for the $
nubbins`: BingoBoingo:BitBet is the greatest provider of insurance BTC has ever seen
<<< ah, maybe. there are others?
nubbins`: asciilifeform:ben_vulpes: where i went it was the 'credit-hour'
<<< same, standard 3h/wk course was 3 credit hours
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2015 19:09:16; mircea_popescu: xiando: I thought I'd mention that openssl 1.0.1k apparently breaks bitcoin-core
<< this, of coruse, was discussed for the past few days :)
chetty:
<danielpbarron> today i learned that OpenBSD will boot into the installer if it finds the install CD in the drive while booting//was that on purpose or an oops?
funkenstein_: Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
<-- translation please?
danielpbarron: "It's offensive. While feminism is a movement that aims to make the world a better place by promoting equality, nazism is a movement which is linked to one of the darkest periods in history"
<< lol "darkest periods"
☟︎ ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> but they don’t understand what the calculations are really telling them, like Searle’s chinese room but with numbers.
<< i tried to have a conversation about amazon's quadcopter delivery system, using an ergodic analysis
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> ^ this is solvable, albeit at astonishing cost
<< near you maybe. not out here in the sticks.
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> and just about everyone i know has some version of this
<< my parabolic testing facility, f'r instance.
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> besides, something tells me you'll salivate after the vibe of any place that's not washington fucking dc.
<< no but you see "muh jaeorb"
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> timisoara. it thinks itself a major romanian town, but it's more like... well... portland, basically.
<< dude the capital of the occupied coastal territories is remarkable only for being isolated from the retardation of both california and seattle
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> where nothing ever seems to get constructed
<< oh give over, it's benign retardation
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> five-six thousand years later you'll be launching the titanic!
<< this is precisely what the "domes in the outback" routine is all about
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> assbot: Young Adults Are Losing All Hope of Buying a Starter Home - check it out, being a twentysomething usian kid is a worse fate than being a 20something chinese kid.
<< tell me about
BingoBoingo:
<brendafdez> what would be the point of 500swm all to yourself?
<< Vax powered steam table
mircea_popescu: "For the first time in New York City, a multi-unit building will (legally) consist entirely of what the city has dubbed "micro units," which are apartments of between 250 and 370 square feet."
<< this is almost exactly it!
gabriel_laddel:
<asciilifeform> we have these here in abundance
<< I saw one outside the Palo Alto four seasons just the other day... 20 guys just standing around more or less.
gabriel_laddel:
<mircea_popescu> what was the fucking soviet term for this,
<< kommunalki?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but even if it were true - still a joke. picture, full year's embargo.
<< i actually don't see much of a problem with this. most "science" is worthless anyway, i currently don't read it if it's less than a coupla decades old on general principle. a year's embargo wouldn't do anything.
BingoBoingo: dubbed "micro units," which are apartments of between 250 and 370 square feet."
<< Generous bastards
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> the textbook racket is in some ways inevitable - the kids with access to $maxint in loans are walking bags of delicious meat from the standpoint of ten thousand kinds of flea
<< Not to mention many professors will accomodate students without $maxint doing otherwise.
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> BingoBoingo: yeah that makes sense, I always wonder why the administration seems 'friendly' to spending large piles of money on the publishing scamzors
<< As a class nearly all librarians dislike this because even when they publish anything is too niche to win. Spending on this stuff is also an extraordinary part of their budget.
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform waits for the inevitable 'that's not shiva' nitpick
<< lol dong-nose
ben_vulpes: "earth's premiere clown car and pornography club"
<< howzat
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 17:02:57; nubbins`: gabriel_laddel:Does anyone take issue with me describing the lordship as "the peerage" and #-assets as "earth's premiere commercial forum"?
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