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mats: heh. tacit admission that you can'
t buy this kinda time either way, imo.
mircea_popescu: which is what this is : inexistent problems that don'
t exist being misunderstood as existing by people who don'
t understand how anything works, and then failing to see that even should they exist, the solution also exists.
assbot: Logged on 09-04-2015 12:34:19; Adlai: the only way to _verify_ that your miners haven'
t withheld blocks, rather than trusting their word for it, is to check those nonces yourself
Adlai: the only way to _verify_ that your miners haven'
t withheld blocks, rather than trusting their word for it, is to check those nonces yourself
☟︎ fluffypony: DDoS isn'
t a solved problem for Stratum, and especially not for mining where latency is of the utmost concern
fluffypony: Pool A won'
t attack Pool B and then put out a blog post bragging about it
mircea_popescu: fluffypony if miners actually don'
t care, how do you explain 50btc/btcguild's demise after their collusion with gavin last year ?
Adlai: and they can'
t credibly say "we're not withholding blocks from competing pools", only "our submitted shares are not suggestive of such an attack being performed against us"
mircea_popescu shrugs. derps in reddit care who said god hates faggots. yet people who actually have stuff riding on this don'
t care about stuff that matters. i dunno, seems rather anecdotal.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: "miners care deeply who owns a pool" - we're getting into the realm of the anecdotal here, the mining farms I supply ASIC racks to don'
t care about the people running the pools they use at all, and they don'
t run their own
Adlai: the observation which seems correct is that they don'
t account for the drop in difficulty caused by hashpower diverted towards attack... but i'm not certain that this lack of accounting is in their favor
mircea_popescu: small miners don'
t care, but this is universal - they don'
t care about anything, including rig safety.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the fact we can'
t observe it doesn'
t allow us to value it at 0.
fluffypony: but we can'
t observe the social fabric
fluffypony: and attack all the pools they don'
t want
fluffypony: mining pools aren'
t laid out like that though
fluffypony: oh I haven'
t looked at their specific data, just what they were generally positing
fluffypony: it is in the best interest of larger mining pools to attack smaller ones, for the most part, and even to attack each other (as long as it isn'
t a matter of mutually assured destruction)
fluffypony: funkenstein_: the game theoretic Nash Equilibrium stuff isn'
t bogus, as far as I can see
pete_dushenski: it wouldn'
t be much less travel from here to meat-b-a. timisoara woulda been faster to travel to.
ben_vulpes: <decimation> [04:16] yeah I don'
t think they are serious, apparently it partially depends on visitors winding it << tbh i find this delightful and entertaining
pete_dushenski: "Okey dokey, but this smells very much like a conspiracy theory. Especially the action item at the end: "spread the word." If you had ended with "These are the concrete things we all should be doing" then I'd be more sympathetic... assuming those things weren'
t just "BE EXTRA PARANOID! THEY ARE OUT TO GET US!" "
pete_dushenski: or mebbe it was only open to kokkarinen in city he didn'
t want to live in.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: tenure does not exist in canada? << it does. but like a thursday night of caviar and dom p, isn'
t for everyone.
decimation: yeah I don'
t think they are serious, apparently it partially depends on visitors winding it
decimation: whatever it is, it ain'
t an object of reason
nubbins`: i don'
t even know if it happened
trinque: getting all this sensory input from a thing that shouldn'
t be there
assbot: Logged on 27-02-2015 02:39:08; decimation: "LAWRENCE Look, Ali. Look! That's me. What colour is it? That's me! And there's nothing I can do about it. ALI A man can do whatever he wants, you said. LAWRENCE He can, but he can'
t want what he wants.This is the stuff [his flesh] that decides what he wants."
nubbins`: how they get the obsession, probably 99% of them couldn'
t tell you
nubbins`: most people don'
t tend to think about personal crises once they've passed, so you're not unusual in that regard. did you find it hard to succinctly state what was wrong, to yourself or to others?
trinque: nubbins`: identity-wise? I don'
t tend to think about it. maybe something to do with a job
trinque: turns out though that we don'
t know how to make men into women
decimation: asciilifeform: wouldn'
t most of the photons get reflected dangerously around the area?
Chillum: I don'
t expect to cut metal
trinque: nubbins`: this gets into "everything's relative" and I don'
t really subscribe to that
nubbins`: sure. he could simply decide fuck this, i don'
t want this dick, what good's it anyway, too
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it wouldn'
t work, imo. 1984 so deeply depends on very male erotic sentiment.
trinque: asciilifeform: hm, maybe I didn'
t describe the situation I know of fully. she mentioned that it cleared her head a couple times
nubbins`: good, 'cause i didn'
t get that impression
mircea_popescu: so... you know, picking something way down off the list of either doesn'
t make much of a connection
nubbins`: mircea_popescu and there isn'
t an overlap between the two groups who agree "hurty things are nice". gotcha
nubbins`: mircea_popescu you don'
t think cutting the fingertips off is pleasurable for these people?
danielpbarron: i wasn'
t suggesting coinbase gpg sign all outgoing email, as such a thing would be pointless if automated, and impossible if not
bitstein: mircea_popescu: I don'
t think we ever expected them to actually implement it. We just enjoy publicly shaming wallet inspectors.
mircea_popescu: but the idea isn'
t to make stupid shit impossible. just punishable.
nubbins`: asciilifeform he couldn'
t saw it off himself, so he froze it with dry ice and went to the hospital
decimation: maybe a subreddit discussing why "i don'
t negotiate because reasons"
trinque: not like I've never felt pain, but I don'
t see the point in losing parts
decimation: I don'
t get how one gets from "want to cut" to "imma cut my fukin' fingertip off'
nubbins`: <+asciilifeform> e.g. amputation fetishist gets amputation, etc. <<< met a girl once who'd self-amputated her fingertip, doctors didn'
t think too much of it
nubbins`: "sorry, we didn'
t realize this obvious mental illness had a name"
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: So you don'
t have a "dining fly" style tarp rig in your trunk?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i and everybody else have it in my car, in the box in the back where the fire extinguisher etc. is kept << Wait your fire extinguisher isn'
t under the seat?
ben_vulpes: i already have my own poet, can'
t be arsed with more.
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> right. and brokeback mountain isn'
t an endless piece of meaningless cheese. because polarities. <<< in fairness, the book was under 100 pages
mircea_popescu: right. and brokeback mountain isn'
t an endless piece of meaningless cheese. because polarities.
mircea_popescu: o wait. bitching at excellent scientists because they didn'
t say stupid-thing-x-about-our-aggenda is not laughably petty and outright idiotic.
mircea_popescu: really, opposing "social justice" implies one supports... injustice ? how about the obvious "social-anything is stupid, for many reasons we won'
t rehash, and never has anything to do with the vanilla version" ?
mircea_popescu: decimation yea, i'm sure THAT's why they don'
t negotiate.
decimation: of course reddit doesn'
t even need to pay employees, what with having a vast reservoir of people who would gladly pay to work there
BingoBoingo wonders what is being done with Yucca mountain since it hasn'
t been filled with rads
decimation: usg paid $bil to hollow out mountain, then paid $$ to modernize it after 2001, then decided it was 'too small' in 2006 (apparently nukes weren'
t a concern anymore) and now has suddenly seen wisdom in moving back into the bunker
decimation: after all it's not like the fbi can'
t come up with an excuse to arrest you if they wish
ben_vulpes: decimation: don'
t cities operate their own police force?
ben_vulpes: third world nomenclature isn'
t really my thing.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I haven'
t been up long enough to get good sourcing on it. If someone else want to write it up I'd check and publish it.
mircea_popescu: jurov "PDFs/PPTs or it didn'
t happen." was pretty good...
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> speaking of which, i have nfi why they don'
t use cocoa powder to disperse crowds. << You just end up with a different crowd with a heavier category of people