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pete_dus_: ;;later tell mircea_popescu "the -EV human quicly collapse towards zero."
<< quickly
decimation: because nobody got fired for being lame ?
<< yeah right up there with 'nobody got fired for buying ibm'
decimation: "Walkley writes that his assessment of vendor data in smartphones suggests Apple, whose shares he rates a Buy, captured 93% of industry profits in Q4."
<< why are all of apple's competitors in the 'mobile market' simply trying to imitate apple?
thestringpuller: "It's 6 GB per block, meaning it would grow by 864 GB a day. In 2035, that might not be much."
<< LOL
gribble: Pierre_Rochard was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 weeks, 2 days, 21 hours, 16 minutes, and 34 seconds ago:
<Pierre_Rochard> ;;gettrust buttonwood_
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> danielpbarron: in essence, like most supposedly 'gpl compliant' commercial products, the compliance is a total and unabashed crock of shit.
<<< funny how much stock rms puts in the nude declaration, huh.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> asciilifeform "compiler technology has advanced significantly in ways that GCC is not well positioned to exploit. " any clue what this specifically means ?
<< Probably FreeBSD 10 generally slower than 9 because clang/LLVM
mircea_popescu:
<beetcoin> but humans can't really change gravity
<< or bitcoin.
BingoBoingo: jurov: well, there is a torrent published for bootstrap.dat. atm only > 0.9 supports it
<< I thought 0.7.2 and later all support it, 0.7.2 being the only version to unpack it as BDB blockchain
mircea_popescu: jurov: well, there is a torrent published for bootstrap.dat. atm only > 0.9 supports it
<< are we desperate for old style blockchains ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: let's put a pin in this for down the road
<< you're keeping screenshots aren't you.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: nubbins`: incentive program
<< this is what makes zero sense. the buggers have infinite fiat budget, and to their soldiers, they offer... pocket change
<< you have to understand the extrmely problematic nature of infinite budget. suppose you were trying to fly an aeroplane that had infinite thrust.
thestringpuller: "Yes, and it reaches this point over 100 years from now."
<< i don't like to think of the future cause i'll be dead, let my children deal with the problem.
mircea_popescu: "I originally performed this test 5 times and found approximately a 95% skew"
<< :D
mircea_popescu:
<punkman> doesn't take much to feed them
<< this is true. cigarettes also don't take much to buy.
mircea_popescu: punkman "''a giant theft machine,'' moving billions illegally around the world, engaged in financing the heroin trade, tax fraud and wound up bilking innocent investors of at least $50 million."
<< the substance of unsubstantiated journalism.
mircea_popescu: the need for police, for instance, is a strict function of population density. places with
< 1 person / sqkm do not need any police.
mircea_popescu: Naphex: lmao. that ByExpress scam is insanely funny and totally retarded
<< teh accent lol. &teh mouthbreather speech speed...
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> im waiting for the first Carmen_Beercunt
<< If I make my escape to the Phillipines to scoope up a handful of Azn wives I'll name the second this
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: Guest85903, just use the name that your mother and father gave you; honor them.
<< not a bad principle.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> asciilifeform someone in biotech had this sad story a while back about a lost farm. i had one too
<< Was this the lab flooded in the hurricaine?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo: Except for midsession disconnections
<< xchat irssi and all others can be config'd to not autoreconnect. so you can handle manually./
<< Working on a online machine migration in the near future.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Except for midsession disconnections
<< xchat irssi and all others can be config'd to not autoreconnect. so you can handle manually./
mircea_popescu: Guest85903: i'm working on setting up all the shit in the wiki
<< this really should be in the bash lol
IHB:
<+mircea_popescu> too bad. his derp friends probably spent more money on his funeral than he would have derping away
lobbes:
<asciilifeform> in usa, it's jobs/professions more than 'soil'
<< aye, this is what binds me. This mouse-trap cheese is so tasty
IHB: hey
<+mircea_popescu> why did they suspend your twitter account? how do you get suspended but ISIS is allowed to troll away
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: sadly, got banned. even mircea_popescu couldn't out-chat him.
<< gtfo that's so totally not what happened.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> less mobile more alabama ? :D
<< More sweet home alabama, less freebird
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> in usa, it's jobs/professions more than 'soil'
<< Only because you are on the east left coast
BingoBoingo:
<IHB>
<+decimation> in the us, people are so mobile that they hardly have any loyalty to the soil
< this more true as every day passes
<< Less mobile every week
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> actually arond there, from say vienna to about moscow, people are fucking fixated on the soil.
<< Amazing how in spite of it mostly being a source of minable lead Ozark folk are still more fixated on their soil
IHB:
<+decimation> in the us, people are so mobile that they hardly have any loyalty to the soil
< this more true as every day passes
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: he was top notch.
<< not really. too much anger.
mircea_popescu: decimation: wonder how many lei it takes to get the local romaninan police to 'overlook' your immigration
<< it's a civilised country. if you don't break the law they don't care. if you show up at the border without proper paperwork you get fined 500 lei (~100 euro) and generally forbidden to reenter for 5 years.
mircea_popescu: decimation: " In a Facebook post that was quickly deleted, Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak wrote: According to unofficial sources, hostels and motels in border regions of neighboring Romania are completely filled with draft dodgers.
<< this is true. romania took in like 50k refugees.
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BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> decimation: ah google is going to drop SPDY and fully support HTTPbis
<< if any of teh strategic minds in attendance care to explain this to me i'd apprecfiate it
<< SPDY was Google so Open it is closed HTTP replacement no one else needed
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: focus is expensive.
<< he is on to something.
mircea_popescu: decimation: ah google is going to drop SPDY and fully support HTTPbis
<< if any of teh strategic minds in attendance care to explain this to me i'd apprecfiate it
ben_vulpes:
<decimation> heh it would be amusing to get 'premium content' trolls here
<< didja ever meet tiberius?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> also claimed to be working on a 'military' path to sovereign moldbuggistan, which screams 'provocateur'
<< I don't get very many of these. You FBI file must be thicker than mine.
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> also, the paywall on trilema is a) older than bitcoin and b) older than the new york time's.
<< how did you take payment before btc?
BingoBoingo:
<jurov> lol at 15nm process the die would prolly come out few micrometers across
<< Also this.
BingoBoingo:
<assbot> Mouser Sells Classic 6502 "Antique" Processor
<< If they cranked it to 1.5 GHz+ would be more excited
BingoBoingo:
<IHB> i can't weigh in with my opinion. i will leave up to you guys. my stomach tells me the blocksize should not be raised and if people want to do other stuff they can peg their btc to a sidechain, if that ever becomes reality.
<< Not an unreasonable thing. Settlement happens on the blockchain small amounts dick around on distraction chain.
IHB:
<+mircea_popescu> i never got the address to send the .01 BTC
BingoBoingo: I believe the 1mb limit was only put in out of fear to protect us from a potential attack.
<< Was explicitly put in place to make attacks by bloating the blockchain uneconomical
BingoBoingo: he recently put a btc paywall on his personal blog.
<< IHB been around multiple years. Since early 2013 when I finally started talking to people.
BingoBoingo:
http://trilema.com/ has threatened to bring the house down and if he is successful, then so be it.
<< IHB you prolly want to link MPEx.co as the actor and particular trilema pieces justifying the MPEx position
mircea_popescu: but in any case, "votes" by bs nodes with
< 90% uptime is pointless.
nanotube:
<nanotube> once that system is operational, integrating multiple federated databases will be trivial and will involve no trust.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> i'll let BingoBoingo explain how one has faster blood-brain penetration than other, lipid solubility, etc.
<< Methyl group makes it have a greater affinity for particular subsets of norepinephrine and dopamine receptors. For some reason the methyl group makes it more toxic to neurons in the long run
BingoBoingo:
<thestringpuller> no adderall is pretty much meth
<< SOrry thought you said Ritalin. Adderal is a racemic mixture of Levo and Dex amphetamines. The levo reduces the "abuse potential"