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ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> does he have like a gpg signed thing from ben_vulpes or something ?
<< pardon?
danielpbarron: thestringpuller> US passport: Tax Curse, -10 from wealth
<< why i can't attend conference
gribble: dexx7 was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 33 weeks, 6 days, 4 hours, 5 minutes, and 31 seconds ago:
<dexX7> i think i can up myself
ben_vulpes:
<the_scourge> which by the way, if we ever turn THAT kind of proof (fuck, even literate code commits) into PoW, then it's anybody's game (again) but ... too theoretical
<< bwahahahat?
ben_vulpes:
<the_scourge> mircea_popescu: yah cool, i did read through some logs
<< some lol. the point is that you've gotta pick up the variety speak, and that comes from reading logs in near-real-time for six months, not "some" or "a few" or "the ones i found interesting and/or easy"
☟︎ BingoBoingo: the_scourge> when we started cooking our food (cause fire was a new technology at some point), our intestine shrunk by over 20%, leaving more energy for our brain
<< More likely shrunk as meat became nutrient fire or not. Most carnivores have short GI tracts because meat digest faster than comlex plant matter. Cell walls are a bitch to break.
BingoBoingo:
<the_scourge> spirulina is far better than meat than meat as a protein source. fake bio knowledge or not, ask you local biochemist what must be done to meat before your body can digest it :D
<< Also even though "complete" spirulina in low in some more important amino acids
BingoBoingo:
<the_scourge> spirulina is far better than meat than meat as a protein source. fake bio knowledge or not, ask you local biochemist what must be done to meat before your body can digest it :D
<< Must go in mouth. Even raw I digest fine.
mircea_popescu:
<punkman> asciilifeform: because there is less crap to undo?
<< because it's actually before the "bitcoin is important" point of no return.
punkman: asciilifeform: satoshi's miner is valuable for the same reasonas the rest of that piece of shit
<< is it valuable? I thought the goal was to replace satoshi's hairballs.
nubbins`:
<+mircea_popescu> dictionary = "exhaustive list of all the symbols in a conventional symbolic space, with adnotations."
<<< why does it have to be exhaustive?
the_scourge: adlai: 'college students'
< doesn't tell us anything
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: more like a traffic violation (with bigger numbers) than a criminal matter
<< Basically this is my read of the Erik situation. Govt settled because all they could get was the headline and token cash.
PeterL: mircea_popescu: "You do not have, nor you can ever acquire the right to use, copy or distribute this software"
<< should be "nor can you ever"
☟︎ BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: had to travel
<< Land on one side of the country ride to the other on occasion even.
mircea_popescu:
<adlai> you'll have a hard time finding a private trainer to subject you to them
<< not if you're a woman, wink wink
nubbins`:
<+ben_vulpes>
<mircea_popescu> [] why are we calling him alf again ?
<< Ascii Life Form?
<<< nod, gw
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> [] 'vulture capital'
<< i'm surprised you're not making the easy poo joke here too
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [] why are we calling him alf again ?
<< Ascii Life Form?
ben_vulpes:
<chetty> [] email that actually sends what you want and nothing else would be a worthy project :)
<< gnus, part of emacs, has worked for probably longer than i've been alove
ben_vulpes:
<punkman> [] there's this robocaller that waits for me to pick up the phone and say something, pauses for a short time, then says "Goodbye" and hangs up.
<< calling to find people who pick up
mircea_popescu:
<the_scourge> like we're back in a weird 'sleuth and journalist > public opinion' game which was lost a LONG time ago
<< public opinion only matters in fiat backed worlds.
the_scourge: asciilifeform: who was asserting that there were nodes
< v0.8
the_scourge: 16:45
<gribble> You are now authenticated for user the_scourge with key 300A9F6A3D0564B4
TomServo: he railed against using period
<< ?!
mircea_popescu: artifexd: Current gossipd status: Education still in progress. Code to the point of loading keys and accepting connections.
<< sounds pretty good.
trinque: punkman: "droned"
<< heh, I just got a call from a weird number saying they received a package addressed to me
mircea_popescu: PeterL: re generating seedlist: once conected, the node has a list of working connections, yes? So dump some data from our working nodes into a file, that is our new seedlist for new nodes. Update periodically for people to grab from Foundation website.
<< not substantially different from the "scan the web" notion. more democracy.
mircea_popescu: jurov: " to accommodate the many implementations of
<<< specification made to accomodate the implementation. welcome to the world of braindamage, or where do you think civil engineers that flunked go ? computer science!
mircea_popescu: punkman: ^ if the block the bundle tx ends up in disappears, I think best idea is to make new tx
<< no. there's exactly no reason for deedbot to have block awareness. if the tx disappears, it should not notice.
mircea_popescu: chetty: email that actually sends what you want and nothing else would be a worthy project :)
<< better than darmkail and other bs at any rate.
mircea_popescu: punkman: always makes me think "is this the day I get droned?"
<< just checking the line's still live.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: jurov: without so much as a burp.
<< you knoiw you keep saying this, but it's an email drop. how would you want it to burp ?
mircea_popescu: "All programs have been written, and that program is Lisp. With perfection already attained, implementation is left to the ignorant who do not already know the truth of this."
<< shit, now i know why i don't code.
jurov:
< 1.33.197.110:8333 1 1422939389 99.99% 99.40% 99.29% 87.54% 74.50% 341734 00000001 70001 "/Satoshi:0.8.6/"
mircea_popescu: mod6: still some 32400 nodes out there
<< no. look at that shit!
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: "but WaffleDB is so much faster than mysql!" - which is a great argument if you're counting pageviews or storing log entries
<<< yeah, which is a great argumrent too bad it's irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: trinque: should I be de-publishing things that ended up timestamped on a dropped fork?
<< things can't end up detimestamped in the first place.
mircea_popescu: trinque: these "key value stores" are a joke
<< you don't understand the power ranger power range!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
<< <mircea_popescu> then start shooting police officers coming to steal the cash.
pete_dushenski: cazalla "negative media attention Bitcoin reguarly receives in the media"
<< regularly
hanbot:
<mircea_popescu> it's this particular concoction of the forcible solipsism of crusoe with the narcissism of a fifteen year old boy that grew up alone among cows, with the desperation of a dying beggar on the dark side of the moon.
<< ahahaha best review evar
decimation: decimation: i wonder if the device keys have even been 'phuctored' ever.
<< "CMs MUST store and maintain the CM Device Certificate RSA private/public key pairs. The CM MUST store the CM Device Certificate private keys in a manner that deters unauthorized disclosure and modification. Also, CMs SHOULD prevent debugger tools from reading the CM Device Certificate private key in production devices by restricting or blocking physical
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> can also scan the old-fashioned way but then add two or three zeros to time required.
<< yes, but cheap enough :)
decimation: re: hedge funds & banks manipulating pr
<< one wonders if they are trying to jawbone bitcoin down in order to buy in, or kill?
mod6:
<+asciilifeform> mod6: not once have i seen the wedge at 168000
<< us either, until 72 hours ago
mircea_popescu: A Person Paper on Purity in Language
<< i don't grok wtf this is supposed to be.