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punkman: "google @ 40,000 searches per second, 144m/hour, 3.456b/day, 1.2t/year"
<< lower than I imagined
punkman: "In 50 years, US trust in government dropped from 77% (1964) to 24% (2014)"
<< is that because everyone was high back then?
mircea_popescu: davout: cazalla: i don't even get why they feel the need to talk about bitcoin
<< virgins also feel a need to talk about the cock.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I can't believe in 2014 we have GoDaddy leading the way in managed DNSSEC and Facebook leading the way in correct Tor hosting for clearnet sites
<<< bwahaaha this IS a fucking point. and it goes on : microsoft leading the way for linux, on it goes.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: that fuckwit infosec "expert" that's helping them irritates me
<<< i don't recall an infosec expert of the webz that wasn't a sort of "assigned female at birth genderqueer individual".
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: my more immediate concern is...wtf is happening to s.mpoe
<< ya srsly.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: So, what's the hypothesis. Hardware breaking and mining farms being more selective about the hardware they keep on?
<<< mining moved away from the general public to "specialised experts". this always results in a drop of quality.
mircea_popescu: decimation: eh, flat makes those famed 'afraid of volatility' types happy
<<< yet for every 500 guys that went "o bitcoin i can not use it is too volatile" for 3 years going, you don't hear as many as .5 guys today "o, now i can use it"
nubbins`:
<+cazalla> 2.4 trillion yet concerned about bitcoin
<<< natch
davout: cazalla: "prolly an attempt to use what influence they have left"
<<< what for? push bitcoin?
mats_cd03: 01:14:25
<+BingoBoingo> Such flat, BTC made it to the moon, but got stuck in the sea of tranquility
<< makes me happy, tbh
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> asciilifeform: the wifi protocol is needless complex is why
<<< decimation:
http://sgforums.com/forums/10/topics/303042 << "It has been said that during the Falklands War, 400 miles east of Terra Del Fuego, or Cape Horn, South America in the Atlantic, after the Gurkhas landed, it was sufficient for the RAF to drop leaflets over enemy Argentine positions, merely saying that the Gurkhas have landed and are sharpening their Kukris, for the conscript Argentine army to flee for their lives."
decimation:
http://www.rfcoaxconnectors.com/Technical_wifi-interface.htm << "In addition to specialized interfaces which are relatively new to the coaxial market, such as DMX, MC Card, MHF, there are variations on standard RF connectors styles which satisfy FCC Part 15 and 802.11 requirements. The most popular method used to achieve compliance has been to create reverse polarity, or gender, versions of BNC, MCX, MMCX, N, SMA, SMB, SSMB and TNC
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> asciilifeform: the FCC cracks down on routers with an easily accessible antenna socket
<< What, like my laptop wifi card has??
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> ^ mr. o is 'having problems' ?
<< maybe he got made, and so now teh fsb is no longer interested in what was a marginal asset anyway ?
mircea_popescu:
http://sov.ro/ << romanian pseudo-tycoon (the sort of derps that live off govt spending in cvasi-socialist states), meanwhile convicted and eventually released from jail, started his own blog.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> if trained as in what a strong man in a circus does to get strong - then, yes, trained (but note, not every man can become a circus lifter)
<< Not every circus need be honest.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> the easiest way to distinguish 'intelligent' and 'well-trained' is to invent something (sufficiently synthetic - as in, requiring grasp of multiple disparate and reasonably deep scientific fields) to apprehend, and then see how much explanation creature requires to grasp it.
<< bulb battery wire?
kakobrekla: non-deterministic
< better to stream comments to #b-a and harness the power of trolls
decimation: re: only citizens could carry guns
<< that's a very good idea, and probably very close to what the 'founding fathers' had in mind
cazalla: BlueMeanie4: yep pretty sad, you can read about what is underneath on 4chan/pol/
<<< in hindsight, /pol/ was a short stop otw to #b-a, once i began to put in more time here, i pretty much stopped putting in any time at /pol/
mircea_popescu:
<undata> making pizzas
<< aaaand whose brilliant idea is that "we don't need industry, we can grow rich by doing each other's laundry" ?
mircea_popescu:
<BlueMeanie4> in engineering these problems
<< the agenda is, "send nuland to dance naked in teh lubyanka. we didn't think the ukraine posturing was funny."
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> possibly author assumed that i read whatever snakepit he linked to it in.
<< more likely assumed you'll see it in your logs.
mircea_popescu: undata> there must just be a class of people who are wholly programmable, who will ignore reality completely if told to do so
<< yes. this class of people is called "women".
mircea_popescu:
<undata> what I'm stuck on is this: you can have a hole in the pentagon smaller than the wingspan of a plane
<< of course. why not ?
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> because you 'clearly do not know how the world works' or the like.
<< a sword that cuts both ways.
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2014 08:57:03; mircea_popescu: decimation: sign, google or apple, pick your poison
<<< yeah, isn't chrome basically one of those spammy "toolbars" they had for netscape that sort-of mutated into being its own browser ?
undata: "if works"
<< that's the whole point, isn't it?
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> fact is, if works, will be used.
<< so much this
mircea_popescu: ", and no ancient electroplated artifacts have been identfied."
<< bs.
assbot: Logged on 03-12-2014 22:56:56; mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> greer's article is not entirely wrong that ancient egyptian tinsmith could have built it, if he knew how and had a reason.
<<< electroplating was the reason, and the tech was in fact used in all likelihood in the golden crescent cca 1500bc.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> considerably easier to collect than 'bitlicense'
<<< lol what, vespasian v2.0 ?
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> greer's article is not entirely wrong that ancient egyptian tinsmith could have built it, if he knew how and had a reason.
<<< electroplating was the reason, and the tech was in fact used in all likelihood in the golden crescent cca 1500bc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> 'Thank you folks for your work and I do apologize for the likely barrage of angry and childish emails I suspect you may already be receiving. The concept has attracted a couple of groups who can't accept playing by anyone's rules but their own.'
<< exactly fucking right.
mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`> some kid named johnny cowabunga bought
<< nfw ?!
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> author says he wrote it for me to trololol over but i'm merely bored.
<< If it still exists perhaps ship him his Lisp environment of the future.
jurov:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: you'd make more from selling the fuel.
<<< you know UAE does not export much natural gas, just uses it to desalinate water...
undata: asciilifeform: "It’s maybe what happens when physicists decide to play with computers, I’m not sure."
<< hear hear
undata: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: terrible waste
<< yes but tower of fire
gribble: badon was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 day, 2 hours, 14 minutes, and 31 seconds ago:
<badon> Yes, I'm doing that now.
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> jurov
http://thebitcoin.foundation/ << got a signed copy of teh declaration thingee you can put up there ?
<< i've got a copy of mine with SHA512
mircea_popescu: cazalla: plowman has ample room for gardening, perhaps rabbits and even other livestock.. plowman is actually plowking!
<< we'll talk once your kid grows up a little. it's not about you. it's about the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization.
BingoBoingo:
<davout> punkman: "bitcoin.hiv should point to gavin-foundation"
<<< top kek
<< Point to different scamsite every week.
davout: punkman: "bitcoin.hiv should point to gavin-foundation"
<<< top kek
davout: ;;later tell mircea_popescu "
<davout> yes, continuous trading seems so much simpler, not sure if there's a blocker i'm missing tho
<< it's nonsense, what exactly is a future that has no future date ?"
<<< didn't say there shouldn't be a maturity date, i said trading should be continuous
cazalla: mircea_popescu: plowman desperately needs city man because well, his village is so boring watching flies fuck is a release
<<< plowman has ample room for gardening, perhaps rabbits and even other livestock.. plowman is actually plowking!
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> plowman desperately needs city man because well, his village is so boring watching flies fuck is a release.
<< Come one, goats!!!
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> asciilifeform rural anything doesn't need keeping down.
<< I embrace it. If the gasenwagen need to burn moar wood to collect me...
BingoBoingo: decimation> the real reason Ferguson was held was to excite the blacks to turnout 110% for hilary
<< Hilary's not running. Jim Webb.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> they are seen as 'legionaires' standing between him and the horde.
<< Very true in the case of Ferguson particulars
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> difficulty drops
<< expect others, as usg torches miner farm after farm.
<< USG dealing with CHina and Russia, won't seize but torch. Owner torches.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> even in usa, can hold bitcoin.
<< SO far I can even transact.
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> like, you leave package on the postman's door?
<< pay homeless dude 10 bux ?
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mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> Effect will probably be to make BTC to USD transactions a bigger pain in the ass on their platform the next runup
<< yup.
cazalla:
<mike_c> this is what you get for complaining around here. work!
<<< there are plenty of bids for s.qntra shares on MPEx. BingoBoingo and I can't cover every single story, I have no intention to sell my own shares so anyone with the inclination to earn a bit of btc can cover what we miss and sell their shares if so desired
mircea_popescu:
<mike_c> this is what you get for complaining around here. work!
<< real do-ocracy over here.
cazalla: mike_c: it is now an exchange. hold $$, hold btc, trade at will instantly.
<<< is it an actual exchange or continue to be market maker?
mircea_popescu:
<mike_c> qntra is not #b-a news, it is 'better than coindesk' news. i doubt they use otc.
<< this is a point, but srsly, write it.
decimation: re: follow-up on those 'oath keepers' who 'volunteered' to guard businesses in Ferguson:
https://www.facebook.com/duane.weed.54/posts/988857591129752 << "This past Wednesday (11/26), local police were advised in private briefings that the police (i.e. Federal agencies) now consider the Oath Keepers the threat, not the New Black Panthers, the pro-Michael Brown demonstrators, or ISIS."
decimation: mircea_popescu: re:
http://www.xenosystems.net/chaos-patch-38/ << a comment at the bottom: "Frog Do Says: IMO, “Moldbug studies” remain one of the more fertile areas of research for the American Outer Right. More interesting info in that “Trilema” piece than anything on Ferguson."