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jurov: can'
t one just use some server mobo?
ben_vulpes: i honestly don'
t even know how to build a workstation.
mircea_popescu: the reason you're not seeing "anything very objective" is because you don'
t know all sorts of things you don'
t know, and so they don'
t trigger for you. for instance : in a village where there's no bank, someone offering loans is one thing. in a town where banks exists and works, someone offering "loans" is called a loanshark.
nubbins`: we don'
t, i've got a passing interest
felipelalli: and I didn'
t find anything very objective, but I guess you're trying to find clues that points something is weird. But after using the system, you can understand for example how joke is they reputation system.
mircea_popescu: "The point is less about how vendors don'
t fix the problems, and more how the vendors' fixes are going un-applied by users, corporations, and governments." << orly. how about the point is all about how "vendors" create bugs.
mod6: eh, i'm not sure on VAX either. i've never used it. it doesn'
t look like boost supports it.
nubbins`: protip: if you can'
t state your position...
Adlai: in the case of 'taint', it's: treat bitcoin as fungible, but don'
t make life easier for those who don'
t nubbins`: i don'
t know how simpler to put it
Adlai: not if he doesn'
t touch the winnings
nubbins`: so then why don'
t we just ask mp to create a dummy bet page, and list tim draper's stash as the output?
Adlai: the "this is just text on a betting website" doesn'
t get the 'electric anthill' any further from your anus
mircea_popescu: i understand what you are saying, and i also understand why it's stupid. you have the option to pretend like you don'
t see it, or not. nothing i can do thar.
mircea_popescu: uniquely among dumb implementation of "smart contracts", this doesn'
t even involve the actual parties to the txn, but third parties.
Adlai: it's much more complicated than a single number, same as you can'
t scalarize "trust" - but taint as i've defined it exists, in the blockchain - outside of the mind.
mircea_popescu: Adlai didja eat dumb this morning ? i put 100 btc on one side, of your taint, and 100 btc on the other side, you don'
t know about. if one wins now you've gotta taint 2x as manby btc, if the other wins you lost track.
mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of "lalala taint doesn'
t exit". taint exists exactly as much and exactly for the reasons god "exists"
Adlai is equally amused from "lalala taint doesn'
t exist" and "lalala bitcoin doesn'
t exist"
mircea_popescu: yes, obviously, people working on computational theories of human intelligence are basically correct and broadly irrelevant, yes people who were working on this 30 years ago are too stupiud to follow it, because hey, they didn'
t grow up with a computer, like i did, and yes culture consists of a lot of fleas and relatively little treasures.
danielpbarron: the story might be all the FEDs that swarm to reddit saying things like "see bitcoin isn'
t anonymous you better just use dollars!"
mircea_popescu: it wouldn'
t necessartily be much more than editorializing, up to cazalla if he wants more of that or more news to balance things out.
nubbins`: you can'
t be in charge until you fill out this paperwork!
mircea_popescu: doesn'
t seem a terribly legit reason to stop withdrawals, who knows if they're piggybacking on it to excuse their own failure.
mircea_popescu: Tetra113 seriously, this isn'
t etrade in a different color scheme.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot more of them. I don'
t think some spectacular security hole
nubbins`: soon it won'
t be blue or an e!
nubbins`: (you'd be amazed how many people who don'
t know what DNS stands for know what it does these days)
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i don'
t get it, is the french govt running an isp ?!
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 21:10:47; felipelalli: mircea_popescu: Where can I find objective arguments against BTCJam? As a lending service and reputation system? And what are the alternatives for P2P lending or we don'
t have? They have 113,000 users, should they be ignored?
mircea_popescu: i guess i wouldn'
t make a very palatable politburo member.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually that was the lulz of all time, "malware detectors". except they didn'
t detect stuff half-register shifted did they.
nubbins`: my position is that wtf is a plastic bag doing that the fuselage isn'
t mircea_popescu: nubbins` to begin, is your position that this doesn'
t work or that this doesn'
t make sense ?
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 00:01:13; asciilifeform: re: teleporter: there were actually people who refused to travel on steam locomotives because the soul can'
t keep up and will get lost
mircea_popescu: we don'
t see that many people carrying skyscrapers around.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that won'
t fucking do anything. ANYTHING. you are to be traced to lucy, the stupidest chimp that ever lived.
nubbins`: didn'
t they retroactively expunge turing's homosexuality conviction within the past couple years
mircea_popescu: but wouldn'
t you agree that had the apples made him gay, THAT would be the most interesting thing about them ?
decimation: re: genetics of intelligence < the post makes a good point, in that there's nobody who can tell a story about how some genes 'cause' intelligence. But that doesn'
t really address the observation that when you give a test to ethnic groups A&B, the resulting distributions are different.
nubbins`: christ, can'
t wait for it to stop
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 23:15:14; jurov: lol "we don'
t know what is a consciousness? let's say it is composed of many of itself"
mircea_popescu: the us equivalent, of course, being mammie to rhett butler : "theis ain'
t a man's job, buzz off."
mircea_popescu: (put the husbands in the most visibly awkward position too - once that hand to chest gesture's done they can'
t refuse, but on the other hand... their wife's sexuality was just referenced by these half-satan pigdogs. was pretty lulzy to observe)
mircea_popescu: EXACTLY the same thing, except state doesn'
t pay for mother's year off, pays for gramma's years off.
mircea_popescu: i'da made the comment there, but apparently greenspun doesn'
t know how to comments.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> idea is that they 'have the choice to surrender to usg' and didn'
t make it << myeah. they gotta be supported.
mircea_popescu: and obviously, the usg doesn'
t like it. how surprising.
decimation: asciilifeform: my hypothesis re: hidden execution in the US was that those who wanted to end all executions encouraged it so that they could then argue that it doesn'
t have a 'discouragement' effect on crime
decimation: asciilifeform: I don'
t get why we don'
t still use the guillotine
nubbins`: if i wanna see a card trick, i don'
t want you to hold the deck face-up
decimation: apparently tucows is on usg's shitlist because it won'
t play ball
nubbins`: this is all the sort of thing i understand while reading it but don'
t really copy it over to long-term storage
decimation doesn'
t own cats, but has heard several anecdotes
mircea_popescu: it did work. bullet didn'
t even make it through the whole ~200 leaves.
mircea_popescu: except he was shotwith a .38 and he was carring money. so it didn'
t go through.
mircea_popescu: hired another lawyer the other day, left him my card, then when we met socially later he was like... well the office tried to figure out wtf. first we thought those must be like mail codes of your country. but then that didn'
t make sense. so susie said you must be in porn.
mircea_popescu: so what if it does. tb goes with pallor, we don'
t call one the other.
mircea_popescu: "o look, the usual crutches i use to hide my idiocy don'
t work, now it's nude on display".
mircea_popescu: bs. the problem there isn'
t anything to do with "people". dependent cattle behave outrageously if taken outside of their pens.
danielpbarron: i got bit by a feral cat and freaked out less than this guy; didn'
t go to doctor even
danielpbarron: where does he move from that doesn'
t have cats? how did he figure out how to move??
mircea_popescu: exactly. my objection isn'
t particularly that the cat got hurt as much as it is the guy didn'
t.
mircea_popescu: "gee, i wonder why the poor cat isn'
t scaling the wall after being sprayer with permethrin and not being fed for a week"
assbot: Transition Dreams by Greg Egan "We can'
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Adlai: right. ender's game's plot, with different words. it doesn'
t have its own plot, and i need a few decades before i can read this author again, after children of the mind
nubbins`: ender's shadow is nb if you haven'
t read it
Adlai: (which were supposed to be one book, but eventually didn'
t 'fit in head')