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ben_vulpes: this student can't even do c-grade security
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i don't get how bip0064 compromises nodes
xanthyos: if it doesn't exist already
ben_vulpes: i don't have to say nuffin :)
assbot: Why haven't China's cities learned from America's mistakes? | Cities | The Guardian
kakobrekla: >NastyFans aren't taking any kind of a loss, it is all positive ROI for them. There are no costs associated with NastyFans and hashrate is all a win for them, so taking a loss is actually impossible with our structure.
nubbins`: there isn't one
nubbins`: bet ya 5 satoshis that the actual owners don't hold class B shares
nubbins`: sure, "wants to fuck over" is an attitude that doesn't just evaporate
nubbins`: imagine you own cavirtex. wouldn't you do anything in your power to eat up all profits and never pay a dividend?
xanthyos: my luck doesn't blind me to the thievery
nubbins`: it's all lost to memory now. anyway, fuck em. do whatever they don't want you to do
Vexual: statistically, australian don't complain about publicans serving too much beer and they also pay back loans.
dub: a bartender can't legally serve someone thats already drunk as fuck, a bank only has its own criteria
dub: that banks don't
decimation: mircea_popescu: if they had balls + enough money to purchase decent defenses, USG wouldn't be able to do much
pete_dushenski: other than cazalla, i can't remember who's all down under
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: one wonders why enterprising individuals from civilized countries don't invade africa, clear out locals, and start a proper city-state << !s balls
decimation: there isn't a spot on the globe that can be colonized without usg's tacit permission
decimation: asciilifeform: one wonders why enterprising individuals from civilized countries don't invade africa, clear out locals, and start a proper city-state
mircea_popescu: hearnright. i think that's the definition of a successful attack :) don't get me wrong. i'd like to see core restart itself if it crashes <<< riiight.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: don't think keiser is in on this island deal, looks like :
mircea_popescu: hasn't keiser already tore himself a fifty asshole with his involvement in the icelandic coin scam ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform doesn't astound me in the slightest. it actually makes me quite happy.
BingoBoingo: this chan isn't the only one with logs holding gems pete_dushenski
asciilifeform: what continues to astound me is the meticulously tended garden of a parallel universe where this discussion isn't happening, a 'computer' means 'wintel box', 'bitcoin economy' means 'coinbase' and 'bitpay', etc. - carries on just so. with the glossy magazines, free newspaper publicity 'so plentiful they can eat with their arses', etc.
mircea_popescu: with the usg at the helm it really didn't belong anywhere near the common linux newb.
asciilifeform: don't forget - careless linux n0obs
pete_dushenski: there can't be more than a few hundred madmen/children still updating bitcoind
mircea_popescu: if anyone feels like doing some public research to show exactly how this can be used to breach the anonimity of compliant clients, by all means. you won't have to dig too deeply.
pete_dushenski: looks like hearn hasn't hung up his cap yet
asciilifeform: there is no solzhenitsyn among the honeybees, lamenting 'why don't we sting, if we're to die anyway'
asciilifeform: it is a definite - if peculiar - biological fact - that being condemned to hang somehow doesn't cause people to sprout balls
mircea_popescu: yet nobody is doing this. why isn't holder a constant prop in the courtroom, showing why any testimony by a police officer should be discounted by the jury ?
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal don't confuse digestion for simply passing things through the system untouched.
TheNewDeal: I'm confused here. You don't think they were smart enough to deploy malware that would give away information?
TheNewDeal: I'm just saying, tor wasn't supposed to prevent any of those things from happening (in my limited knowledge)
mircea_popescu: see, this is why taking two girls to a cafe isn't such a big deal.
danielpbarron: i didn't know about this thing he was promoting; it's some sort of FIAT denominated gambling somethingorother
danielpbarron: he didn't keep me on long this time
BingoBoingo: devthedev: Well, if I didn't the feds prolly wouldn't have been able to drive down from Peoria
mod6: just don't make me regret it :}
mod6: i added a WoT link to my name in that wiki page also - hope that was ok. I don't love that little globe that pops in there but w/e. Any thoughts?
RagnarDanneskjol: I went straight for the bot edits too - wouldn't let me b/c you were in there. Neat
mircea_popescu: http://www.salon.com/1999/08/23/prisons_3/ << isn't it fascinating how different pre-2001 and post-2001 liberal media reads ?
dub: don't do it, scam
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well that caselaw is ridiculous bs and wouldn't stand.
mircea_popescu: trying to make the law democratic by sourcing it in a parliament and applying it according to "what people think" can't possibly work and yhas no alternative but to degrade into soup
asciilifeform: the book is quite like the 'rule of law is a myth' piece (http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm - linked here a few times) except that katz hasn't let go of his religion yet ☟︎
mod6: I haven't seen moiety around in a while
usagi: Did you miss the part where they said these were mod games (like garrysmod)? These aren't videos about attacks, they're videos about people making movies with mod tools.
mircea_popescu: cazalla why wouldn't she ? if you spoke to a black country miner cca 1800 he'd think any hole in the ground is as much a mine as any other if it pays
mircea_popescu: jurov: and no, i won't blog it, it was underwhelming in the end <<< this.
mircea_popescu: windows 7 isn't as popular today as in the 2000s :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ") While the site isn't as popular as during the early 2000s, the privately run discussion forum has continued and has its champions." << ha-ha. fark was popular in the 200s ? what is this, taking advantage of the noobness of the average internet user, "he wasn;t there so who;s to know" ?
BingoBoingo: The doom part isn't so bad
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: like i ain't got enough to do with van already << yeah like that lol. hey, beats unemployment, depression and doom.
ben_vulpes: <jurov> and no, i won't blog it, it was underwhelming in the end << my experience with haskell writ large
mike_c: Another recent fuck you from Armory: The latest version creates incompatible tx's with old versions.. So you can't use the new version online to create a tx for an older version serving as an offline cold wallet.
jurov: and no, i won't blog it, it was underwhelming in the end
mod6: yea, im gonna try to fix that too, the rounding isn't even close.
BingoBoingo: %t
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes hey, how about offering teh interested people a nice drawing of their gpg wot ? they gotta put the address in anyway, you got the dependencies anyway... << like i ain't got enough to do with van already
mircea_popescu: "if i wasn't a snot-nosed worthjless sack of shit back when i was a snot-nosed worthless sack of shit"
mircea_popescu: bah these kids aren't beaten enough.
eightyeight: and, like i said, it has a bug that was brought to my attention. i just haven't addressed it. maybe i can get to that tonight
eightyeight: i think there is actually a bug with it. i just haven't had the chance to look at it actually
xmj: so, if you don't know no one OR don't know nothing, either won't help you
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im sure they don't.
asciilifeform: generally, plankton response is 'this fellow couldn't have been a good upstanding plankton'
asciilifeform: in the sense that wasn't 'office plankton'
mircea_popescu: yes, he wasn't a police officer.
asciilifeform: just don't eat 2+.
ben_vulpes: don't let it staple your intestines together...
mircea_popescu: to quote pesto, "that ain;t gonna work"
ben_vulpes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONz6S48QgEk#t=126 << found it
asciilifeform also owns a mac 'air' for this reason. haven't popped it in a while, even possible that it welded shut
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Aren't you a Mac person, what useful non-scsi thing plugs into a real Mac?
mircea_popescu: really makes the point that there's no "can't", just "won't".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: self-upgrading << the expensive tools - weren't dropped to earth by the gods
asciilifeform: boeing pilots don't typically own the boeing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey listen, most singers on mtv don't even own their equipment
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> or was that vulpes << don't know that i ever achieved the kind of skills that an actual machinist can lay claim to, but i've operated the whole standard library in production settings.
mircea_popescu: wasn't this thing candian ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: aren't you also a machinist? << believe that was vulpes
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: aren't you also a machinist?
mircea_popescu: and this even if we don't go all b-a and consider a hire only something that comes with stock options.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no, actually, it wouldn't. << Surprisingly true
mircea_popescu: no, actually, it wouldn't.
mircea_popescu: Sheets and towels are changed twice a week. Maid service is included. Need your clothes washed? We'll take care. Need some help cooking or ordering take out? We can help. Any questions you might have don't hesitate to ask! I'm at your service! << "is the maid hot ?"
asciilifeform can't attest how much alabama sucks, hasn't been to it
ben_vulpes , for the record, doesn't even hold the money
ben_vulpes: /me, for the record, doesn't even hold the money
fluffypony: that's steep if it doesn't buy them anything
BingoBoingo: RagnarDanneskjol: It isn't a unique thing
BingoBoingo: Well I don't own one and I'm cribbing alf's list of inconvenient things that lead to suspicious 'suicides"
BingoBoingo is currently medicated with copious ETOH several times a week. It isn't no lamotrigine (which was beautiful in its effectiveness without cognitive effects, and I'm pretty sure my dick was bigger while I was on it)
BingoBoingo: Know any corporations that need Librarians? Preferably with health benefits because I haven't seen a psychiatrist since I got my Library science degree 25 months ago?
BingoBoingo: Hardware BA real estate prices don't look so bad
asciilifeform: (zapped by mongols, who didn't get the memo that they 'could also have problems')