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ben_vulpes: amusing, because
they handle
the intermediation
themselves now
BingoBoingo: Amazon only recently came
to have an official
though limited presence in Argentina
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> BingoBoingo: can you buy amazon gift cards for cash in uruguay? << I can look. Since people
tend
to do Amazon
through intermediaries here I don't suspect
there's much of a market for
the gift cards.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: possibly stupid notion i had last night i'd like
to float for your cfo-ly advice: with
the exchange rate in
the shitter, and
the clear and present demand for fiat-denominated assets, how bad of an idea would it be
to sell usd-denominated bonds? mod6 and asciilifeform
thoughts also pls
mircea_popescu: once my seething rage piped down it occured
to me
that "dood, what you're almost entirely about is a rejection of
the lamenormal. why are you wondering
that consummate normalcy gets you pissed off and why are you surprised it produces itself ?!"
☟︎ trinque: she probably
twitched away
to some red dot, had
to go get
the food pellet
trinque: thing's meant
to
train neuroses into
the user, and amplifies
them. neurotic brain's output is pretty damned annoying.
mircea_popescu: besides, i betcha she's on some droid
thing, rather
than apple specifically.
☟︎ hanbot: mircea_popescu by design apple exists
to
try and make you use its
thing, whether it's some itam or some os or some cable, and it'll make
things maximally unpleasant for anyone not on
the bandwagon, at any point where
the nonapple and
the apple
touch.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform precisely. how
the fuck is
this possible, if
they worked at winning a war
they'd lose, but when
they don't work at sticking in my craw
they manage.
mircea_popescu: ten
thousand people managed
to coordinate
to produce something
that's 40% blue and 85% interesting and 62% warm and 92% square and 100.00% FUCKING ANNOYING.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but my question is, HOW ?
the iphone is not as watertight, not as long-lived, not as bright, colorful, not as ANYTHING as it is fucking annoying.
mircea_popescu: somehow some idiots produced "smartphones" for which some other idiots "wrote software" which other idiots are using, and
the end delivery is
THIS
mircea_popescu: how, just HOW did
this entire
tower of chair work out
to
the maximal annoyance point ? absolutely NOTHING
the esltards do is nearly
this good at any purpose
they ever declare.
mircea_popescu: ~at which point~
the whole flood starts. not earlier, or anything.
mircea_popescu: so here's some wonderment for
today : random fetlife slut follows a webirc link (doh, what, irc exists ?!?!?!) and ends up here, at 14:58. sits here quietly, and patiently, until at 15:05 i say something.
that's SEVEN WHOLE MINUTES.
this alone, you know ? and
then, puts another FOUR solid minutes in wtfing
this
thing, so
that at 15:09 she can <kiyleeslut> Found it :).
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform we'll also need a little bit of code
to handle it and i guess a special dolly yes ?
mircea_popescu: s.mg would be amenable
to a deal whereby s.nsa puts a custom built npc in eulora and handles exchanges of euloran microchips for its own products (atm, fg)
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the "how
to cut" piece is
the controlling element here, because i don't even recall if we came up wioth a definitive answer.
mircea_popescu: but my point is -- by
the
time
this iron actually signs,
this iron actually also manages signatures, and
therefore
this iron actually is a rsatron.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-26 20:27 mircea_popescu: come
to
think of it, why am i even having "a wallet", as opposed
to say a rsa'd privkey list.
diana_coman: asciilifeform, cheers! and updated with floating image because
that screenshot was lousy beyond belief
mircea_popescu: reheheheally ?! look at
that damned
thing sometime. it's encrypted like i'm gay.
mircea_popescu: "but mp,
that's what you
told
them
to make
the wallet, and
they did, back in 2012 or w/e"
mircea_popescu: come
to
think of it, why am i even having "a wallet", as opposed
to say a rsa'd privkey list.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but what it needs dun matter;
thing is... what do you need ?
mircea_popescu: last fucking
thing i need is a pile of briefcases, each painted red, and labeled. "this one -- does hashing."
mircea_popescu: fg is large enough
to make
this "hardware wallet" not a credit card.
mircea_popescu: am i going
to have rng ? how small can it
then be ? if not small, and rng, why is it not using a proper
terminal ?
mircea_popescu: am i going
to have no rng in
this wallet ? how make change address
then ?
mircea_popescu: problem is my
thinking moved away from "hardware wallet" because, honestly, what's needed is a hardware computer.
mircea_popescu: you know what,
thios might've been private discussions in nsa boardroom during early cardano mockups etc ?
mircea_popescu: from ~the same period. but yes,
there was some discussion, hm
mircea_popescu: i recall a very early item, i don't expect much value buried
there but lessee
mircea_popescu: point being, "blind" v could exist
that just puts in
the patches as seen in manifest, checks no sigs.
mircea_popescu: basically, we just introduced
the possibility of "light nodes" :D
a111: Logged on 2018-06-26 17:45
trinque: could say we want
trb
to be exemplar of "how
to V", in which case yeah, regrind it all
a111: Logged on 2018-06-26 17:45 phf:
trinque: one reason i didn't include patch name in
the manifest is because patch name becomes a promise, unless you enforce it by
tooling. i didn't want
to go
that way, but since current standard manifest does include patch name,
than perhaps V ought
to check
the manifest against
the patchset. relatedly fully manifest-based v doesn't even need graph
tooling, can presumably press according
to manifest's chain.
diana_coman: aha, I guess now I have
to post a screenshot with alf-dedication :P
mircea_popescu: in other events : a new resource
type just got discovered in eulora
trinque: I brought up
the graffiti because
that'd be (and has historically been, before manifest)
the way
to attach
the graph
trinque: wont be able
to press a "makefiles" + manifest until
that subsequent patch, but I don't really see a problem with
that
ben_vulpes: add a new file for
the manifest, create a vpatch, any subsequent vpatches
that don't also edit manifest must be reground into mainline.
mircea_popescu: through usage, basically. you see a problem with
that ?
trinque: I was discussing how
the manifest gets welded on, if welding on
trinque: anyhow, if we're
talking about how
to use
the manifest, got it.
trinque: what's it look like in
the patch file
ben_vulpes: reference
the manifest file in a later patch.
mircea_popescu: trinque which is why
the regrind mechanism even exists
trinque: eh
that accretion of patch material means patch size/readability is inversely proportional
to modularity of
the code
mircea_popescu: if you find
the manifest patrch is useful (as you do), YOU INCLUDE IT.
mircea_popescu: 2. you sign another new patch, later on, "fixing-bugzappers.patch".
this patch references manifest patch and ircbot-multichan-etc.
mircea_popescu: 1. you sign a new patch, manifest.patch. at
this juncture, phf's viewer will show it
to
the side, unconnected
to
the
tree.