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mircea_popescu: assbot: Gavin Andresen: I don't want to be 'king of Bitcoin'
<<< mmmmywah, that was really on the table lol.
mircea_popescu: jurov: gute blinkenlichtenbeobachtung!
<<< bwahhaha top of the mornin' to you too.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: so what's best practice when something like this gnupg 2.1.0 modern comes out?
<<< i use 1.4 branch. depends what you're after, but in general best practice is read the update notes see if anything you actualy want [then in the unlikely case that yes, patch your sources with just that and recompile].
mircea_popescu: punkman: don't think I've ever had a good mango
<<< ew, you're missing out.
gribble: organofcorti was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 years, 20 weeks, 3 days, 9 hours, 31 minutes, and 40 seconds ago:
<organofcorti> Hey, does anyone know what the cost to reissue an expired bond is?
mircea_popescu: punkman: hah, same story as SR1.0
<<< im not so sure i believe that, incidentally. iut's called parallel construction for a reason, and that reason is, "lying through the teeth".
punkman: "Everything will be done bottom-up, this is the mother of all bottom-up processes,"
< who's bottom is getting buggered?
mircea_popescu: "They announced that a further twenty members will be chosen (seemingly by the organizers) according to geographic region and different sectors, split equally between: academia; civil society; governments; and business."
<< lawl.
cazalla: Mr Blanc, from US-based group Real Social Dynamics, was forced to hold his event on a boat on Melbourne's Yarra River last night.
<<< poor guy :\
mircea_popescu: decimation: my openbsd port of bitcoind suffered a fatal exception at block 150872
<<< not that exceptional.
mircea_popescu: decimation: if you want something modern and not a rusty bucket you are talking ~$1-2 bn and your money can't buy one
<< you gotta be kidding me. an aircraft carrier is like 5bn. and i mean a large 100k tdw one, not the shitty 50k uk has.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: but sometimes it takes a tough turd to season a savory salmon
<<< i've yet to see this in practice.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the hedgehogs would be approximately the size of christmas tree ornaments.
<<< god help you after the first storm,
mircea_popescu: PeterL: the stuff they made apparently had great properties, just not quite cheap enough to replace the incumbent technology (which suffers from high propensity to fire)
<< story of this business since its inception.
mircea_popescu: PeterL: noble gases, while inert, will not absorb as much heat
<< gases are shit for sheer caloric capacity anyway. the reason you want technologica gases rather than plain argon is the compress-and-cool heat extraction process. works better on the hfcs than on random neon w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: considering that folks are -still- grinding down soviet army installations for metals...
<< soviet military complex was objectively larger than us ever got tho. cheap plentiful raw materials.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: decimation> at any rate, the most amazing thing to me is that the chinese, indian pauper still dreams of 'coming to america'
<< Is that so different from USian pauper dreaming of actual Galt's Gulch?
<<< nope, you have it exactly right. same thing, except one is run by fraudulent "real estate" developers and the other by fraudulent "recruiters".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: danielpbarron would make great fireman. holding a sign, 'do away with fire.'
<< he has a point. do away with borders and welfare. the latter will occur naturally once the first is done.
mircea_popescu: PeterL: Speaking of bezzle, I just did my yearly health insurance signup. makes me mad how much I have to pay now, about 4 times as much as two years ago for the same crappy plan
<<< terrorist doesn't understand how obamacare works.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> this is why i suggested small 'naval mines' with steel capsules in water pool.
<< plus side you can grow Tilapia further north
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> re: argon datacenter
<< I suspect dry nitrogen would be cheap
<< I suppose radon because heavy
decimation: re: argon datacenter
<< I suspect dry nitrogen would be cheaper
BingoBoingo: decimation> at any rate, the most amazing thing to me is that the chinese, indian pauper still dreams of 'coming to america'
<< Is that so different from USian pauper dreaming of actual Galt's Gulch?
BingoBoingo: PeterL> decimation: you might be right. My employer (from what my coworkers tell me) has to go through a ton of red tape and paperwork to keep them here
<< Grandpa pays the same $80/month for medicare part B
BingoBoingo:
<PeterL> speaking of visas, the group I work in is about 1/3rd immigrants, these are really smart people and the US is better off with them here.
<< This was the case when I TA'd pharm school. No AMericans apparently want to study/teach med chem
BingoBoingo:
<Adlai> out of curiosity, in the brave new GPG economy, what's the use of claiming "This contract is protected as copyrighted material. It may not be reused by different parties without the express permission of MPEx." ?
<< Basically to hurt the copyrastas
mircea_popescu: jurov: ^ how can i comment on such nonsense?
<<< vitriol.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: proverbial cake and eating it too
<<< and yet none of your renters seem to want free money ?!
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: how they convinced the masses to contribute millions...i just will never understand
<<< the same way they convinced the masses that russia invaded atlanta, georgia.
mircea_popescu: bounce: you know, if the IRS says that virtual currencies aren't currencies, how can the SEC keep on claiming they are?
<< you're new here aren't you.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: If the day ever comes where you want to switch professions from engineer to gangsta, I'm totally down to ride or die with you. Lets just hope it never comes to that ;)
<<< if you two do that, a film is guaranteed.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: supay: Qntra takes a lot of things.
<<< yeah, but not kidz! we do not take your kidz!
mircea_popescu: decimation: most folks today never learn about the complete Apocalypse that faced german people after wwii
<<< i hear berlin chicks had a lot of fun in '45.
BingoBoingo:
<jurov> i'd try to submit to qntra but am out of wits
<< Story's already out so whenever your wits are ready do some editorial?
kakobrekla:
<mike_c> add it as a footnote
< lucky i have an endless scroll
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> asciilifeform: db_cxx.h would have the bdb functions used across the bitcoind codebase, correct?
<<< mmmmmmostly
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla thats not static :D
<< the alternative is actually something a la usb drive mess discussed a week ago or so
punkman: "Creation of X.509 certificates has been improved. It is now also possible to export them directly in PKCS#8 and PEM format for use on TLS servers."
<< anyone here tried to generate ssl certs with GPG yet?
punkman: " The file "secring.gpg" is not anymore used to store the secretkeys."
<< so where did they put them?
mircea_popescu: decimation: well, there's little doubt in my mind that the reason h1b visas are 'tech' targeted is because engineers have the least political pull in the us
<<< they happen to be the only people who have an actual something to do, and so aren't quite as motivated to politics by the gnawing existential void that pushes the paper pushers.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo:.
<< Generally the way this work in US [...]
<< yup, exactly that.
cazalla: ninjashogun> Okay, BingoBoingo, I accept that I am to treat you as drunk 100% of the time.
<<< don't forget me!
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> wasn't flat. (until the very last incarnations.) cylindric.
<< Flat square one was nice.
BingoBoingo:
<thestringpuller> that big ass square that's flat?
<< Great monitor
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> and playing on tv set (esp. ntsc crt) sucks.
<< NTSC was the worst
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> and the ubiquitous and pestilential bga (ball grid array) deballings.
<< red ring usually this
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> incidentally, the colonies (as mircea_popescu helpfully points out) never really grew into their father's shoes.
<< They played, the Great White fleet was a thing for a few months in Siam
BingoBoingo:
<supay> what do you guys think about the speculations? that 1btc will value anywhere between $10k to $40k or even more by the end of this year?
<< This year questionable, Next year possible, but work on your knife fighting skills
BingoBoingo:
<supay> and what the reasons might be for the drop
<< Buterin's waterfall
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> what I find interesting is - why do these poor indian kids with a 'work ethic' really want to come to the us? as I posted here a few days ago, odds are that they will end up in some kind of debt slavery (aside from their indentured servitude)
<< Because the previous generation used their surplus income to establish petit dynasties
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> I guess I just wish for a hopeless outcome, which is that the us will not become (or already mostly is) a third world country
<< Twas inevitable. Blame the WASPs
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> I'm sure the doctors, lawyers, etc would be more than happy to ensure that poor indian kids learn computers and not us law
<< Of course, even with the obamacare bezzel established families in medicine have a strong advantage
gernika: BingoBoingo You have to realize the h1b thing is USia's last defense against the doctor, retailer, doctor pipeline
<< even doctors and lawyers are slaves in the US now, due to student loan debt.
BingoBoingo: gernika> What makes a slave happy? Certainly not freedom.
<< Goal oriented activity
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> BingoBoingo: the question is - do their children have the same work ethic/.
<< For a generation at least, but there's always more people with a work ethic who can sustain the system.
BingoBoingo:
<gernika> Silicon valley companies are full of h1b slaves
<< You have to realize the h1b thing is USia's last defense against the doctor, retailer, doctor pipeline