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mircea_popescu: words are apparently brands, which is to say names. they don'
t need to mean anything anymore than popescu needs to mean something. (which it does, but who cares)
mircea_popescu: decimation i don'
t like it, because : as a way to transfer data between the two computers where there's a cable, it's stupid. even serial protocol is better, but we have tcp etc. as an airgapped solution is stupid, because sound.
fluffypony: it's so that the spammers don'
t realise they're banned
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic: what is a shadowban? << graham came up with this brilliant "let's ban users but not tell them" on the theory that users are idiots and won'
t notice anyway.
ben_vulpes: couldn'
t be, it's only three weeks old
mircea_popescu: i think the main point is, you won'
t be able to take a shit in the forest without hitting one of these chips soon enough
BingoBoingo: Right. Teixobactin prolly isn'
t going to get used much orally aside from GI tract stuff like c Diff... If it targets c Diff at all.
mircea_popescu: As an aside, if you're outside the field, you might wonder why it's worth working so hard to find natural products when we have so many synthetic organic chemists in the world cranking out new compounds. One big reason is the ridiculous, insane hugeness of chemical space: the number of possible compounds at or under the molecular weight of teixobactin defies description, and I mean that in a completely literal sense.
T BingoBoingo: Who woulda thunk there's be worthwhile shit in stuff that doesn'
t culture as cheaply as possible?
BingoBoingo: That dedication to task which he can'
t get from his acolytpes
BingoBoingo: I honestly don'
t know what can scare Obama more than that.
gabriel_laddel: Me: "so what do you think of MPEX"? He: "What they do is illegal!! You can'
t take money from investors in the united states without explicit approval of USG!"
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel wait, wasn'
t the rabbit article in romanian ? what're they to read ?!
artifexd: Tip to future copy/pasters: Don'
t include << in the text or everything after it will get routed to /dev/null
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dunno, but it's a bw depletion rather than the prev ram/cpu/state depletion. doesn'
t seem to have done anything.
artifexd: I don'
t understand what you mean
mircea_popescu: not that i think fsf's bad or anything. merely observing that peanuts aren'
t aeroplanes does not imply a hatred of peanuts.
mircea_popescu: your " without gestapo suddenly breaking down the door and demanding to see if you've multiplied unauthorized numbers" is exactly equivalent i suspect to what i call who are you again ? fuck off, I don'
t give a shit" sort of approach to third parties of any man owning a computer
mircea_popescu: well he gotta have something. you can'
t start a "social movement" out of vague descriptions of desired outcomes
mircea_popescu: the situation was microsoft or go hang yourself, to which a lot of people who didn'
t particularly wish to hang themselves reacted as best they could,
mircea_popescu: i don'
t propose that rms "shouldn'
t have" or that fsf shouldn'
t have been or anything of the sort. but really, the pretense that at some point the situation seriously was, red pill vs blue pill and o'reilly of all people tricked everyone into getting the wrong pill...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: bitcoin didn'
t appreciably suffer because whatever scam, paycoin or w/e was created
mircea_popescu: we don'
t change for the fucking world. the world changes. anything and everything.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter c) there's already precedent, the "poor users" who wanted to play but didn'
t want to pay tx fees were given free stuff before.
mircea_popescu: - Support for the fork should be overwhelming. If 95% of the users agree with the fork, the 5% that don'
t are pretty much forced to participate. Sure, they can keep running the non-forked version, but coins on that chain will be unlikely to keep their value."
mircea_popescu: "I don'
t think a hard fork would be very difficult, but only if the following two points are taken into account:
undata: and for those that don'
t get it, they've just been told not to by their televised tribe
undata: mircea_popescu: some, most aren'
t intelligent enough to grasp it at a surface level
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "I don'
t perceive a smartphone's worth having. Much like an AK-47, if not for the same reason." << i think it's clearly stated. like an assault rifle, a smartphone's not worth having. not for the same reason tho, but nevertheless, not worth having.
thestringpuller: i'd revel in conformal's products if it wasn'
t written in GO
ben_vulpes: <thestringpuller> have no idea why they haven'
t split the node from the wallet << mostly time.
thestringpuller: have no idea why they haven'
t split the node from the wallet
mircea_popescu: i don'
t go down the street carrying a horse. or a boat.
mircea_popescu: nothing! i have nothing against ice breakers and atomic shelters, either. but i don'
t own any!
mircea_popescu: i don'
t mean the article's a scandal, i just mean, it being so long is scandalous.
PeterL: but wouldn'
t that be in Northern California?
thestringpuller: funny how bitstamp's "survival" is front page news but this isn'
t mircea_popescu: i forget its name, but it doesn'
t matter, the principle is the same.
thestringpuller: funny how even trying to dumb the article down, people still don'
t get that
thestringpuller: also, isn'
t it impossible to guarentee gigachain has 1:1 parity with main-chain?
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic hence "if it doesn'
t, it's out of bitcoins"
danielpbarron: when "dust settles," exchange is now fractional reserve (if it wasn'
t already)
danielpbarron: if the hard fork happens, it should be possible to cycle funds in and out of exchanges that are dumb enough to switch, splitting away real-bitcoin whenever the withdraw gives you an output that hasn'
t been doublespent yet -- or is this possibility too good to be true?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla bwahaha slander! i'll bet you 1btc straight up they don'
t do it this month.
mircea_popescu: decimation i suspect you don'
t understand how that world works.
xiando: So I need a better WOT rating all of a sudden? :-/ oh well, life can'
t always be easy as pie.
mircea_popescu: to illustrate : suppose i am me, and i happen to believe that all females should spend a decade right after puberty nude at all times. i happen to be rich, and mindful of my beliefs. while i accept that i can'
t oder people around, i also expect them to respect my disposition of my own property. and so my will reads, that all my stuff is to be inherited by so and so successors, provided at all times all females pubescen
mircea_popescu: the dead are at the following advantage over the living : they don'
t feel any pressure to change their views.
mircea_popescu: "because he wqon'
t read me! and there's no other way to vent my little penis!"
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2014 17:44:41; asciilifeform:
t only outside of the sanitaria.'
mircea_popescu: well yeah, so, i don'
t understand wtf he's saying either.
mircea_popescu: first, there was one man, who couldn'
t code, doing idiotic things like windows and qt.
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2015 08:24:54; mircea_popescu: he's prolly aiming for putting it in by february, but won'
t actually have the tech resources to do it and rather than risk a total humiliatory blowout delay it to march
mircea_popescu: i don'
t get it. so, stallman-gcc, is at odds with stallman-emacs and they don';
t wanna talk inside his head because cacti ?
mircea_popescu: if it were a military matter they wouldn'
t cut the walls offhouses.
xe4l: mircea_popescu: if the endpoint isn'
t doing anything, the software saturates the encrypted tunnel up to the same traffic volume/patter/protocol
mircea_popescu: xe4l i don'
t get what the attacker is supposed to think here. "oh, it's ok, that's just what that weird node does" ?
xe4l: asciilifeform: it was a crude example, a proper implementation would do fancy shaping, but normalize the overall traffic pattern; I'm sure residential providers wouldn'
t like this, but MPLS/VPLS, metro-e, routing over peering/IX - it's irrelevant
xe4l: what I'm talking about is simply providing less information, right now all of our connectivity generates a substantional amount of noise that can be intperetered, my thought is to shift that to, they are transmitting and receiving or they aren'
t mircea_popescu: xe4l i guess i don'
t understand what the purpose would be
xe4l: it's trivial to detect if someone is or isn'
t doing what I described, it's merely a layer to mask activity inside of a segment
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> at any rate, why would the phoundation's handlers cut their funding now ? << Hearding 101. If the sheep don'
t want to move on you let them get hungry in their overgrazed pasture. Makes them more receptive to new grass.