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pankkake: you know,
there are
tactical PENS
pankkake: I
thought
tactical was it can be used
to hit
things
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so if anodized metal is
tactical, what's strategical ?
mircea_popescu: far as i can discern
this is it,
the permanent mode of industry since forever, and how
things sould work, and how
things
that work do work.
mircea_popescu: "This,
then, should be
the new main
thrust of industrial activity:
to manufacture and distribute products with
the understanding
that
this process will run out of resources and stop.
These products must be designed
to outlive
the process by which
they are made, by as long as possible." << i can't fucking imagine why
this would have
to appear as new.
assbot: The politics of Bitcoin pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: mike_c
the main challenge
to economy, since forever, is scalbility.
mike_c: i guess
there never has been a scalable way.
danielpbarron: idk, I know how
to ship a pallet; could be a pallet of linen
mike_c: i don't know any way
that scales well
these days. jborkl's post was unsettling.
danielpbarron: mike_c, I agree; my objection is going
through
traditional financial institutions
to aquire Bitcoin;
these channels can be frozen by governments
mike_c: i'm not a big fanboy of coinbase, but i don't see how
they could do it better.
mike_c: so it's an anti-scam. if
the price had gone up he could have complained and gotten
the better price.
mike_c: because
that solves all scam problems :) (see gox, bitstamp, every other exchange)
mike_c: you mean, be an exchange.
they aren't an exchange.
ThickAsThieves: why cant
they allow a deposit
to clear,
then when
they are happy, allow
trading with
that amount
danielpbarron: "whoops we're gonna lose money on
this deal.. so we're canceling it"
mike_c: you can appeal a cancelled
tx
danielpbarron: it's no accident;
the
transaction *was* high risk (for coinbase)
mike_c: easy
to scammer
tag
them, but how do you
tell
the difference between honest mistake and scam?
mike_c: but
this has some
truth, no?
they do have
to prevent fraud, and no matter what
they will accidentally flag legitimate
txs.
ThickAsThieves: "Unfortunately, sometimes it flags legitimate
transactions
too. "
assbot: Fuzzy Fingerprints - Attacking Vulnerabilities in
the Human Brain
ThickAsThieves: google says "The Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces 38 million notes a day with a face value of approximately $541 million.
That doesn't mean
there is $541 million more money circulating
today
than
there was yesterday,
though, because 95% of
the notes printed each year are used
to replace notes already in circulation."
mircea_popescu: course,
the only way people learn
this is
through
trying.
mircea_popescu: the
thing is
that
there's
this large group of professional rent seekers who are
trying
to find a niche for
themselves in bitcoin, not
the normal way (buy some), nor
the professional way (join bitcoin-assets) but
the fiat way (politicing and derping around).
mircea_popescu: anyway, bitcoin as made by saotshi is eminently blind-friendly. you can get everything as json from bitcoind and put it
through your favorite reader.
mircea_popescu: mike_c another rule is
that you can't send people mail as single-image pdfs.
mike_c: one rule is you don't need
the mouse
to do anything
ThickAsThieves: "Most people want
to make [bitcoin] accessible,
they just haven’t considered it.
That’s one of
the problems around accessibility."
assbot: Bitcoin 'Needs
to be More Accessible for
the Visually Impaired'
danielpbarron: 13:40:25 <+asciilifeform> dice is iirc just about 6/8 of a byte per dice per
throw << not quite. log2(6) is ~2.6 - bits,
that is. << assuming it isn't biased
mircea_popescu: blind people gotta use a credit card whether
they want
to or not.
ThickAsThieves: As an interim measure in advance of issuing
tactile-enhanced Federal Reserve notes,
the BEP is providing currency readers, free of charge,
to eligible blind and visually impaired individuals.
ThickAsThieves: cuz paying
them hald
their raise sooner will make
the job fun again
mircea_popescu: "As companies
try
to retain
top employees and hit growth
targets, some are ditching
the annual salary review and doling out raises and bonuses several
times a year."
mircea_popescu: which is a GREAT
thing. nobody's making new "fully featured" irc clients, which
then don't work,
punkman: and nobody in all
these years has made a client with smart join/part hiding
fluffypony: yeah, I don't want
to hide joins/parts because sometimes interesting people join who don't have assbot !up access
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: can't we have assbot ban people
that do
that for an hour? <<
this actually is a good idea. kakobrekla could assbot put a ban on anyone it sees part/joining 12
times within an hour, with a ban message
that "please get in
touch once connection is fixed,
ty"
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i don't know. I guess I didn't feel like it fit
the rest of his portfolio. << iirc he ended up with it as part of some other acquisition
mircea_popescu: assbot: ING: Future Bitcoin Protocol Should Include Central Bank Functions << yeah, it
totally should. I'm fucking sick of having
to bitchslap people like ing from
the shadows.
mircea_popescu: now, is
this proof
that
the process is broadly non-positive-feedback ?
mircea_popescu: thing was made for cixi, whom i've referenced before.
the process was,
tumble
the
thing in water + garnet dust
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know
the story of
the largest crystall ball in
the world ?
mircea_popescu: entropy and bias are not exactly orthogonal concerns, but
they're still at an angle here
mircea_popescu: benkay: assbot's an interesting focal point for
the WoT << didja graph it ?
mircea_popescu: but even so, 10 bits a
throw, a 4k rsa key needs what, 7-800 ?
mircea_popescu: fortunately,
they're well isolated from
the wot
that actually matters.
mircea_popescu: what's fucking spurious are all
the idiots rating on
the basis of a 20 bux moneypack
ThickAsThieves: maybe if US closes eyes
tight enough
the rest of
the world economy will go away
mircea_popescu: benkay: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu benkay eh what, you can
tell. //
this is
to imply
that actually discerning females on internet is hard? << yea.
ThickAsThieves: U.S.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew called for a crackdown on
tax inversions, saying
the Obama administration needs
to step efforts
to limit companies reincorporating overseas for
tax purposes.
FabianB: ic,
trying
to break
the record ;)