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anton_osika: ascii
_field: I do not need any trust at all to damage MP:s trust.
anton_osika: mircea
_popescu wrote the contract for the cause of delivery, right?
shinohai: And how exactly is your credibility worth more than mircea
_popescu 's?
ascii_field: anton
_osika: iirc mircea
_popescu explained specifically, earlier, that he would lose credibility among the people who matter if he ~did~ pay.
anton_osika: and this is a piss in the ocean for upholding ones credibility for mircea
_popescu .
anton_osika: BingoBoingo: Depends on what the contract should constructively be interpreted by. Unless MP stands by his word and take the one and only claimed deposit address (by the freenode authed antonosika as well as the holder of the bitcoin wallet) mircea
_popescu will lose credibility by people who agree to my interpretation of what the cause of a future delivery
BingoBoingo: At least anton
_osika In the even you manage to uncorrupt your backup Kraken is no longer in a position to take deliver in your place by signing from the outgoing BTC address.
BingoBoingo: anton
_osika: And further to the point, I don't think Kraken is in any position to attest to anything seeing how it is the USG appointed tool for distributing MtGox's carcass
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: just saw a commercia for ETrade creating a browser only platform for trading. Made me laugh outloud here in the airport cause, well is etrade et. al. going to become the new play exchanges?
BingoBoingo: anton
_osika: That doesn't seem to solve the problem of inability to sign a delivery address with that public key, even if Kraken attests to it.
ascii_field: anton
_osika: ever read the story (or watch the film based on it) - 'the cold equations' ?
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 19:57:21; anton
_osika: mircea
_popescu: could lose some lifetime trust on this one however.
shinohai: ascii
_field: no one walked out with it, just wasn't self-signed? Was using old email.
mod6: <+ascii
_field> see if you can make the patch names clickable links << i'll see what I can do. thx.
anton_osika: mircea
_popescu: could lose some lifetime trust on this one however.
☟︎ anton_osika: mircea
_popescu: I re read the contract you wrote
thestringpuller: ascii
_field: and it's not just my memory. it's whether memory of even occurred and is easily verifiable
thestringpuller: ascii
_field: because niggas be forgetful and shit. if you're just saying "Well i trust this nigga cause of xyz" it's by word of mouth i.e. memory rather than something digitally recorded
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 14:01:15; mircea
_popescu: which leaves phuctor in dire need of a new home. unless anyone comes forward with something (hey jurov what's the word there ?) i guess ima get another box at another dubious provider
ascii_field: thestringpuller: as mircea
_popescu pointed out, i am abusing the term to refer to meatspace business circles
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: it is possible sometimes, from the overall flavour of the items, for hitler to ferret out whom to shoot.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: re: repeated sales of exploits, there are also opsec considerations.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field are you in a position to negrate this "degree-1" "meatwot" ?
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field they can beg all they want, it's adequate to them.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: understand, if i'm merely thick and you can describe a working mechanism, people ~will~ use...
mircea_popescu: suppose someoine who isn't us registers 0day
_bourbaky in the wot.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Anyways last week there was nearly identical spam floating around under Pantera Capital's name. Spam's not really news.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field what part of wot requires any deal be public!
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field couldja for five minutes stop with this "i know how things are in direct proportion of how little i know about them" ?
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Just that lingering doubt is why I'm going to keep digging for other stuff to consider qntra-ing up
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Will look into it, but there has been "masquerade" spamming lately. Hard to tell if actual impersonation though or plausible deniability scam
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: you ever heard of the-transaction-cant-be-public ?
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field> and what is ~his~ assurance that i won't immediately pastebin the goods << you ever heard of teh wot ?
ascii_field: mats: if caching 0days were as easy as you suggest, there is no reason why you ought to be stuck in usaschwitz. go, move in next door to mircea
_popescu ?
gernika: mircea
_popescu just recieved exact same email
mod6: as far as the 'experimental' patches, i agree about the 'maxint
_locks' patch.... maybe there's a better word than experimental. and, anyway, this will all change soon anyhow, so not sure how urgent it is.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 18:04:38; mircea
_popescu: anyway, anyone know this Jenna McLaughlin chick ? invite her over.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> i dunno why old people put up with it, seriously. << Took grandpa until halfway to his eigth decade to take a stand on no more fingers and scopes up the butt and no more needles in the eye.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 15:29:21; mircea
_popescu: im kinda surprised it's not here yet. but perhaps the roll up of the "college debt" nonsense will come to that : people get auto-ressetting debt on a 7 yo period.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: it's a straight usg colony
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field well yeah. being that the state had to get involved into it.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: there is nothing a telco does which is ~not~ in some way monopoly-milking
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: they make great bureaucrats, aha
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: true. but si fab is not 1 in 10k either.
BingoBoingo: ascii
_field: Nah, you gotta understand when Intel goes bust USG will have monsanto to fab chips
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field i don't need to lay an egg to tell you this one's rotten.
BingoBoingo: <ascii
_field> mircea
_popescu: go and grow perfect si crystal, and do a perfect litho on it, and come back ? << ANd biology isn't relevant to Bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: <ascii
_field> naggum ~had~ something like #b-a - comp.lang.lisp. very similar mix of brain. << not unlike saying you have si in your fridge. there's bottles there, very similar "mix of atoms".
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: go and grow perfect si crystal, and do a perfect litho on it, and come back ?
mircea_popescu: <ascii
_field> unpredictable, largely unpreventable, and very high failure rate. << there is no such thing.
BingoBoingo: ascii
_field: Move laterally on the field away from the central disputed territory so that you might catch the pass away from defenders
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 16:11:49; mircea
_popescu: that's all they ever did right. not a tiny thing, either, but has exactly 0 to do with tech.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 15:38:30; mircea
_popescu: if there's a good argument against suicide, naggum-b-a might be it.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 15:30:36; mircea
_popescu: (inflation being, of course, just the monetary equivalent of "stealing the having been stolen from". people do a pretty decent job of managing to forget their parents lived better than they will.)
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 14:52:55; mircea
_popescu: however, back in the day when 9 oiut of 10 bridges DIDNT stay up, there didn't even exist bridgebuilding as a distinct and named activity.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 14:53:38; mircea
_popescu: so, perhaps cheaper than "make your own si fab" : make one that works, eat their pie.
mircea_popescu: (for the record the book isn't very good, but hey. pulp fiction.
_ assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 19:51:41; phf: anton
_osika thread reminds me of thomas jefferson arguing for debt relief while heavily indebted, he also uses "this is best for the people" argument, with the main difference that the debt question was at the time open, where's what osika is arguing against is the core idea of gpg contracts. the point of the thread has been fully answered in gpg contracts article and with a poetic take in hanbot's story, both
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> anyway, very fucking unclear what it'd be useful or usable for, past emergency field surgery. << Any other pursuit that fits the space and makes messes.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 13:59:06; mircea
_popescu: study is just another kind OF PLAY ; and paper is just another kind of TP.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 18:14:25; ascii
_field: MICROSOFT HAS CONFIRMED that Windows 10 is being downloaded to computers whether or not users have opted in.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 18:09:08; ascii
_field: but it is very clear, from their www, that it is a 'if you have to ask for prices, you can't afford this' affair.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 18:01:16; ascii
_field: and it takes a dozen runs or more, to arrive at a usable chip.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:45:47; ascii
_field: trinque: for the 50,000 or so packages which i use ?!?!!
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:45:06; ascii
_field: trinque: if i wanted to build things by hand, and resolve dependency hells by hand, i'd be using buildroot linux.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:20:33; ascii
_field: trinque: my understanding is that mircea
_popescu would like a linux that is analogous to what we did with therealbitcoin. where the tree is frozen, all arguably-superfluous things are jettisoned, and any further changes must come from wot folk.
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski i used to follow the "press" links in here. now i mostly ignore them. shit's unreadable.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:18:08; ascii
_field: ~i~ can. trinque apparently can. mircea
_popescu iirc was not able to. and hanbot also did not.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 13:35:26; pete
_dushenski: l'shana tova : happy new year :)
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 17:15:09; ascii
_field: this, incidentally, is ~the~ bar for formalization. IFF you can do it on a computer, then ~possibly~ you really have a formal handle on the mechanics. but NOT before then.