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assbot: Logged on 22-12-2014 07:07:40; fluffypony: thestringpuller: what's lol about that? reasonable use of an unused HTTP code, and I don'
t think that there's anything wrong with the plugin they've developed
mircea_popescu: and this shouldn'
t be a point of discussion in that trial because... they know they'll lose ?
thestringpuller: "Why don'
t we just shoot nuclear waste of our atmosphere and into the Sun?" "Because it's stupid expensive and it's stupid dangerous if a rocket blows up on the launchpad. Please don'
t do this."
adlai: garzacoin shilling is getting quite intense, though. i've even met irl paycoin shills at a local meetup, and it's sad how clueless they are of their role in the larger scam (or sad how they can'
t get a decent stage acting gig, and have to do this shit instead)
assbot: Logged on 22-12-2014 02:21:10; decimation: some bum who camps next to the George Washington bridge also has 300,000 'views' per day - that doesn'
t transform him into a 'profitable business'
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i can'
t discount the chance you served that up specifically to my ip, who knows eh
mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: I doubt there will be a 'day of reckoning' w.r.
t. tor. it will just turn off and the derps will move on << pretty much exactly.
mircea_popescu: "hi, i had my tits done at your clinic two weeks ago but my husband left me for a younger woman anyway so i'd like a refund now because you didn'
t provide a service".
mircea_popescu: i suppose if there wasn'
t an obamacare "you don'
t have to pay your own medical bills" the us consumer'd "have come to expect" that he only pays if the surgery/treatment is successful.
mircea_popescu: i suppose providing a service doesn'
t count as providing a service except in those cases where the beneficiary is happy with the outcome or something ?
mircea_popescu: crybabi: but i won'
t be using bitbet again, charging a fee when you don'
t provide a service is no way to run a business << o.O
mircea_popescu: decimation mats : the situation with freenode is that it's basically a sinking ship / abandoned tech. the few hanger ons do not actually have the werewithal to do anything other than push the levers, which they sort-of understand how to do, but various rooms are constantly being sealed off because "it's too much". it's indubitable that freenode will eventually sink, and it won'
t take it decades, for this very reason.
mircea_popescu: occasionally there's some sec "senior attorney" gofer. the vast majority is X dude who doesn'
t like the fact that trilema maintains a copy of whatever stupid evil shit he did a few years ago and figures "hey, a few years ago means it never happened"
mod6: if you still don'
t have any spare time, we'll figure out something.
Apocalyptic: noted, I don'
t have that much free time at the moment
mod6: yeah, but i just read too that if you don'
t set your change outputs, you'll end up sending like a huge tx fee.
Apocalyptic: in the sense it doesn'
t really check anything wallet related or something, it's supposed to just parse your JSON and send it to nodes
mircea_popescu: honestly i don'
t even know that the raw transaction power ranger implementation was ever read by anyone.
mod6: spent, probably a total of 16 hours on it. didn'
t get very far. and seeing as though the raw transactions api is 4 versions beyond (or something) v0.6.0, it might be very hard to do it that way.
mircea_popescu: and since the fiat world mostl yexists as a staging scene for various social engineering attacks, from preet bharara onwards, this isn'
t a good design.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the observation that, on account of the log existing, we don'
t need human idlers for anything at all, was correct << at the very least they provide a passive certification of the log.
mircea_popescu: mod6 why exactly wouldn'
t be there be an easy way to simply insert raw txn ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: honestly im not sure whats worse, autoddos or autoban. << i really don'
t see much incentive to do anything at this point. i mean, the ddos guy was moreover useful, for as long as he kept iot up. i didn'
t think he's reliable, and he proved that much,so.. whatevs.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, it won'
t do anything for the case at hand, because well... dude can just get in the wot, what's the big deal.
mod6: ok, i haven'
t looked into the part yet where it has been somehow spotted that the blocks seems to get pulled from one peer, instead of many. if p2p seeds refers to a way to get blocks in more of a torrent fashion, i agree.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'amplification' idiocy is trivially tested for, and any isp which doesn'
t yank the offending lusers ought by all rights to be killed upstream << pretty much this, yes.
mircea_popescu: jurov: nothing about fags? danielpbarron: that's condemned <<< poor j, just can'
t catch a break.
ascii_modem: can'
t buy low-power (battery life measured in weeks/months) interactive computer. at any pricepoint.
decimation: unfortunately they don'
t dim brightness
mircea_popescu: but no, they can'
t light them on orange or something. gotta be that god awful pseudo-white
mircea_popescu: it'd be so much more helpful if they simply didn'
t backlight them with evil fucking uv diodes
gabriel_laddel: ascii_modem: thanks. a concise phrasing for my project still hasn'
t come to mind....
mircea_popescu: people occasionally get cocky enough to try. it never works out. the reasons it never works out aren'
t directly palatable, so the dream remains.
ascii_modem: when 'large' is an abo reservation that can'
t even refine own molybdenum - works
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem just the very simple fact that if i say "a man" then that's that, whereas if you try to show "a man" you won'
t be able to. which is how most films are shittier than the books they're based on. the forced mistake of having to provide all the data visual requires to work.
ascii_modem: don'
t confound 'graphics' with 'mouse gui'
BingoBoingo: <undata> the film's probably garbage either way << Actually not bad. It's a typical Seth Rogen movie. People who like that sort of flick will enjoy it, other people won'
t.
undata: I wonder too if the degradation of the language isn'
t a major factor in the decline of a civilization.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: also, thanks for upping me. my keys got destroyed in a botched backup and I don'
t know if I'll be able to recover them. until I sink some time into that task - no L2.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: programmers who depend on some sort of regionalized unemployment rate can'
t possibly be all that skilled. << this is true, however if an economy thinks itself of being in dire need of programmers anyone with a brain can fly blind into the country and remain relatively assured of their future prosperity without having to put too much thought into it. This is going to go away at some point in the futur
mircea_popescu: it's all such retarded virginal bullshit, too. why shouldn'
t folks pose a fucking threat!
mircea_popescu: and it'd work just fine, too, if it weren'
t for btc. this construction where someone could be a secure billionaire and not part of the usg club simply wasn'
t being planned for.
decimation: I suspect he didn'
t want to bother writing the code required to intelligently filter pingbacks
decimation: thus, some degree of anti-fragility. but it wasn'
t in the software, or the networking - it was in the people running things
mircea_popescu: wait, asciilifeform wasn'
t even on a cloaked connection ? what, the haxxor gave up and went away ?
mircea_popescu: advertising is a dead thing anyway. the cattle processors don'
t need to advertise to the cattle, the rest of the world doesn'
t want the cattle.
ascii_modem: if i had a satoshi for every academtard who went 'this thing diesn'
t implement lamport's byzantine consensus...'
decimation: "Some people seem to believe that microtipping can bring about the end of advertising. This doesn'
t quite make sense, because microtip systems like ChangeTip cut out the platform operator: a user directly transfers a tiny amount to another user, leaving out the platform (e.g. Reddit, Twitter, etc)."
mircea_popescu: decimation this is also true, but adding a "they donate grains of sand" isn'
t much of an addition.
decimation: "you can'
t just curse a district to democracy" lol
mike_c: you're on the public record owning a majority of s.nsa lol. << he actually doesn'
t own any
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: PeterL: i do in theory, but it doesn'
t work yet <<< an asset is not predicated on whether it works or not lol. whether you own the house and whether anyone's paying you rent for it so far are different matters.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i don'
t own any bitcoin assets, incidentally. << you're on the public record owning a majority of s.nsa lol.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: absolutely correct. should be something more along the lines of "unemployment rate for skilled programmers". <<< programmers who depend on some sort of regionalized unemployment rate can'
t possibly be all that skilled.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: dosen'
t matter really. have you met any American cattle? when the country fails they'll find themselves rejected everywhere / killed outright. << the younger females will still be usable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'can'
t delete avahi-0.6.31p10 without deleting cups-libs-1.6.3p0 gtk+2-2.24.20p1 gvfs-1.16.3' << brain damage beyond belief <<< "can'
t delete usg without deleting roads and the sky above".
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i hear bitcoins in argentina are dirt cheap too <<< nah, they just don'
t really exist. yet.
cazalla: yeah, that site was sold in november because the guy running couldn'
t keep up the pace of coindesk seeing they're funded by gaw adverts and newsbtc was not at that time
mircea_popescu: gernika i wouldn'
t be too worried, argentine policemen are harmless.
mircea_popescu: they don'
t; get better sex, they don'
t drive better cars, live in more comfortable houses or enjoy happier lives.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: it must suck to be universally accepted as mind-numbingly stupid and yet not have the intelligence to be introspective enough to see it within yourself and change for the better << guy's wilful. intelligence can do relatively little, and it generally manifests in people who don'
t have much will to speak of.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: Catholicism is a snare and a racket. If you're going to have belief in a higher power, at least choose a religion that isn'
t controlled by a central body with billions of USD at stake. << "if you are going to use shitty software, at least use some fly by night operator rather than microsoft" ? not logical, this. obviously you want the biggest, richest one there is.
mircea_popescu: "Luke-Jr: adlai: Catholicism has always made a big deal of any attempts to change doctrine; one couldn'
t do that unnoticed" << now s/catholicism/bitcoin/ and pray. i know ben_vulpes is at times worried on the score.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: kakobrekla: i don'
t think i've been politically correct or pretending. in case there's any doubt, i also think that there's some level of delusion involved... but i also value conversation over insult <<< how do you distinguish ? "insult" is a subjective construction, like love. it has nothing to do with phenomenology.
mircea_popescu: Vexual: Luke-Jr: Is it the current one that really annoyed you? << im pretty sure he held the same opinion at the time of jp2. since then there's been one who... abdicated ?!?! (i didn'
t know they could do that) and all sorts of innovative bs. i can readily see his argument, in that the papacy since perhaps Pacelli has little to do with what is preserved in the literary record of the renaissance and a lot more to do wi
mircea_popescu: Adlai: the question still stands. how does humanity pick a monarch, or conclude that a currently serving (because it's both a privilege and a duty) monarch is incompetent << humanity does not pick a monarch. and a monarch is not serving, the humanity is serving. if it doesn'
t [do a good job] of serving, or if it's not lucky to get stuck with a good monarch, it will diminish and eventually extinguish. while both of thes
mircea_popescu: that's why we don'
t fucking talk to people on the bus, in the train, at the bank. because outside the novelty of it, it's so god damned boring.
mod6: hopefully, won'
t be too bad.
cazalla: thestringpuller: is anyone paying the tax? <<< qntra yet to turn a profit, i'm yet to sell any shares so i don'
t believe i owe any, no gains from anything else to speak of
ben_vulpes: fwiw, i don'
t see any need for tracking donors. anonymous charity is best charity.
thestringpuller: i've kept an eye on the depository but can'
t distinguish tax vs donations
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: lol createrawtransaction is pretty thorough for setting up a transaction. i don'
t think it broadcasts though, just outputs a hash and string
ben_vulpes: even conformal's implementation doesn'
t do that.
ben_vulpes: and gettxoutsetinfo by my (late, addled) research doesn'
t seem to appear before 0.8 something
pete_dushenski: decimation speaking of things you can'
t get away with anymore, i was watching a bit of the breakfast club today and... can you possibly imagine a school giving students 8-hour detentions on saturdays anymore??
decimation: man one can'
t get away with that kind of thing anymore
cazalla: we don'
t have a degrassi afaik
cazalla: pete_dushenski, i'd wager costco isn'
t doing too well here. aldi enjoys far more popularity as an alternative to the main 2 coles and woolworths
pete_dushenski: the last time i was in a costco they didn'
t accept cash, visa, or mastercard, only amex and debit
cazalla: pete_dushenski, i can'
t say i've been despite one opening around the corner from here a year ago.. pay to enter? what sort of american scheme is that?
thestringpuller: cazalla: "I helped run plenty of conferences. I do have an idea. The priority is to make sure you have a conference that runs well enough that people don'
t notice the problems, and that everyone who paid to attend it gets their money's worth. Who actually paid to make it happen is a bit lower on the priority." << LOL FUCKING L
cazalla: don'
t get me wrong, playing with #b-a folk would make for an enjoyable game, just unlikely a profitable one