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ben_vulpes: * asciilifeform [] knows how/why but still bewildered that no one has at any point seen it fit to bolt on basic sanity
<< features, bro
mircea_popescu: We are determined to meet these threats through infiltration, disruption, and dismantling of organizations which seek to challenge the legitimacy of our democratic form of government.‘
<< this part is the funniest, incidentally, considering the APPALLING record of usg agents trying to infiltrate a god damnd public channel so far.
ben_vulpes:
<midnightmagic> uh. just for the record
<< lol what inspired this insipid bit of authority pandering?
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> not trying to argue that usg will somehow transmogrify into inca empire when it 'needs to'
<< ballas is fundamentally (if perhaps unaware-ly) arguing that it already has. that's where his numerous psychanalisis pieces on the public mindset converge.
mircea_popescu:
<midnightmagic> financial starvation of classic authority structures is the primary reason I am interested in bitcoin: because it allows us to do so without shedding a drop of their blood.
<< this is a good principle. however, people starve best if they are surrounded by barbed wire manned by other people firmly decided to escalate force to any degree.
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> i wonder how that works.
<< drugs are bad mkay ?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo yeah, you're right. qntra was a bold step into the darkness, perhaps too bold. trying it with coding is taking a bold ~train trip~ into the wilderness.
<< Well with Qntra and prose having editorial controls helps to level the problem. I can not imagine a similar arbiter existing for code.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> with something private like you know, coding work, this may prove unfeasible.
<< Also as unequally as prose may be weighted, code is especially unequal when it comes to volume versus value.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what do your men do, the profit from which is at all proportional to the time spent?
<< this is a well pointed question. it'd seem your business is ass-backwardss : people do the job of computers, and i guess computers do the job of people ?!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: i've been batting around the notion of a qntra-style stock pool, where stock in the operation would be issued in direct proportion to hours clocked on the project.
<< risky if it ends up promoting clockpainting.
davout: jurov: "now that is something. if i secretly make 350k alternative blocks with minimal difficulty, will that altchain get chosen if we have no checkpoints?"
<<< i don't think so. if you have 8 peers you'll get two different blocks at different diff for the same height, hard to feed you a bogus chain
davout: "malicious peers not even needed for this"
<<< how?
cazalla: mircea_popescu: cazalla: well that was short lived.. "you have been banned from posting to /r/Buttcoin"
<< what sort of low quality shilling have you been engaging in!
<<< i criticised the jews :\
cazalla: nubbins`: is there anyone here who hasn't made the local news for threatening people? o.O
<<< i made TV too because what else happens in the sticks, thankfully minor at the time.. all this shit because i said i was gonna machine gun a bunch of people
cazalla: nubbins`: cazalla tell us more about your web of hate
<<< some kid printed out ICQ chatlogs that he was not even involved in and took them to the police
ben_vulpes:
<coderwill> trinque: re: hiring, probably best to start small with people you trust almost unconditionally
<< i've had decent success hiring friends and their friends.
mircea_popescu:
<trinque> maybe someone external can force them to do otherwise, but they never will
<< main point of slavery.
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: undergrads who 'rock the boat' end up 'having problems', one way or another. see also the folks who posted diffs b/w one semester's textbook and next's
<< can't say as that was my experience. i rocked the boat constantly and still managed to eke some funding out of the university for harebrained rocket schemes
ben_vulpes: 'pierce'
<< i think fondly of that time in my life when i had several holes in my face
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> except they're not orphan, they're just "not in the presence of their parents"
<< Latchkey Blocks
PeterL: / Some explaining would be appreciated
<< this comment sounds like something asciilifeform would put in?
mats: 11:41:34
<+pete_dushenski> then experiment unsmartphone commences!
<< me too. bought a motorola C115 so i can play with osmocomBB
mircea_popescu: 30-01-2015 06:30:13
<asciilifeform> (present height - 183172) so it made
< 2k in the past 10 hours ?
jurov: mircea_popescu: jurov: ...... immortal words of baal (quite literally) : we shall take your position into consideration.
<< seems death threats are en vogue recently
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: is there anyone here who hasn't made the local news for threatening people? o.O
<< me, for one.
mircea_popescu: chetty: I am curious, Do female suicide bomber have to be escorted by a male relative?
<< lmao good one.
mircea_popescu: jurov: if you want them to wait through all the oom plodding, make them pay $300
<< in the immortal words of baal (quite literally) : we shall take your position into consideration.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: well that was short lived.. "you have been banned from posting to /r/Buttcoin"
<< what sort of low quality shilling have you been engaging in!
davout: "Error(473): #bitcoin-lizards Cannot join channel (+i) - you must be invited"
<<< lol wtf
gribble: Chaang-Noi was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 50 weeks, 4 days, 6 hours, 47 minutes, and 13 seconds ago:
<Chaang-Noi> might have to sue em
danielpbarron: ben_vulpes> ..i require details of this assasination
<< i paid someone $5 to put on on the list, everyone on the list gets assigned a target, the object is to squirt your victim with a water-gun without any witnesses, you get $5 back per kill
jurov:
<mircea_popescu> big fucken deal, if product ends up being "spend $12 and ...". you know this does not match expectations of general public
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> something tells me that block downloading and peer selection is an important thing to look at in the next few arbitrary time units.
<< that something is athena riding a flaming shield.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> did not like mathematics.
<< this guy is a cryptologist that didn't like coding or math.
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [] asciilifeform as i said before, it's a kudge to fix another kludge. we don't really wnat any of it.
<< what was the first kludge?
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [] felipelalli: asciilifeform: your engine is pretty smart, thank you. :)
<<< mmm win :D
<< once again i get no credit for the setup
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: aha.
<< am i on the right track or did i skim logs in too light of detail
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> [] ^ condemned to pay infinite fine, and to use only microshit
<< i don't see the m$ requirement
ben_vulpes:
<jurov> [] i'll say more later
<< tenterhooks am i on
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if you were planning to kill someone, would you helpfully tell him first ?
<< that's not the point. in a normal society, the threat is a fundamental tool to hierarchy building.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: decimation: why don't these kind of people with a brain just leave the country?
<<< i dunno decimation. why don't they ?
mircea_popescu: jurov: any canadian around here pls - are corporations' annual reports public? and where?
<< if listed as a stock yes. if not, no.
mircea_popescu:
<metsuno> The constant openness of this channel, and everyone on it, freightens me slightly.
<< so it should.
mats: brown-147.pdf
<< where is your republic now?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: ^for the non-romanian-speaking poker players among us
<< sheeit check that out
mircea_popescu: felipelalli: asciilifeform: your engine is pretty smart, thank you. :)
<<< mmm win :D
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> cazalla: what's the perfect job for intelligent, resourceful folks shut out of the normal economy by demented regime ?
<< Very interested in answer to this question.
cazalla:
<asciilifeform> if i were a kgb recruiter, i would be searching for these folks.
<<< re: that or maybe i just misread chat
trinque: asciilifeform: "mental health treatment"
<< we will drug the fuck out of you until you forget your name
felipelalli: Then, I can see you guys are talking something about altcoins (I couldn't follow everything), and by change I've been thinking all day about something related to write an article. Actually I've been thinking about it from a long time ago, and the subject is:
<< the importance (or not) of a strong "second" coin >> and I'd love to read the most I could about it (altcoins, sidechain, and related) and I'm sure you guys have have a plenty of
jurov: Person.query.filter(Person.gender== Person.Sex.MALE && p.age >= 18 && p.age
<= 25)
davout: p.male? && p.can_drink? && !p.wrinkly?
<<< ruby is better
Naphex: (Person p) -> p.getGender() == Person.Sex.MALE && p.getAge() >= 18 && p.getAge()
<= 25
davout: Naphex: filter(p -> p.getGender() == Person.Sex.MALE)
<<< this
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes was about 160ish it bottomed out neh ?
<< which plebs actually caught that knife?
mircea_popescu:
<trinque> I think I'd die laughing if Karpeles was actually involved
<< his being *completely* uninvolved is improbable on the face.
mircea_popescu:
<fluffypony> under 4 months from hire to fire
<< progress.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> chumpatronics aside, they also have the more pedestrian objective of creating GBs of turdsactions that bob about in mempool indefinitely, blowing up memory footprint in non-mitigable ways
<< in any case that unpleasant side effect.
mircea_popescu:
<jurov> in fact, since earth is noninertial frame, even atomic time depends on latitude
< mircea_popescu: jurov: lol what word... Serenissima Cryptokyriarchy
<< or Cryptokickyourbuttocracy why not.