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fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I agree, but what I mean is that a sidechain can't have a direct USD market, for instance, it will always have to go via Bitcoin
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: that's like saying someone with a better business value proposition can just fork BTC
BingoBoingo: Hello Curious_George
BingoBoingo: !up Curious_George
punkman: saw this recently, about making fertilizer from NY sewage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV9x79_WYbk
punkman: mircea_popescu: punkman: yeah and maybe indian/chinese guy watered field with sewage << actually good for it. << sewage is good for tea?
punkman: mircea_popescu: punkman no notary still ? << good night's sleep and not busy today, shall make progress
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: could the airgap concept of the cardano be applied to storage?
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2014 07:19:05; mircea_popescu: fluffypony understand what i'm saying here. you seem cogent and together, you're working on this whatever thing i can't readily evaluate. i'd consider putting a few coins into it ; i can even ignore the involvement of whatever known derp on the theory that on the long term sterile works itself out of metal anyway so who cares.
adlai: mircea_popescu: do you seriously think that selling "a few coins" into an altcoin will buy you more than a handwave?
BingoBoingo: I think pete_dushenski is out lobbyist up there
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yes
fluffypony: ben_vulpes: monetas?
gribble: Unruled: 06/01/2008 - 07/01/2008: <http://unruled.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html>; Unqualified Reservations: May 2007: <http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html>; Doctor Who (series 5) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_(series_5)>
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the cancer must be excised and disposed. Although it may be in remission...
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "we are stupid but don't like to admit it" << this is good critera for sending derps off to asciilifeform derper's retirement camp.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: but anything which merely appears impossibly difficult, rather than provable waste of time, is a matter for folks who think it worth trying
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: understand correctly. actual 'impossibility proofs' - are valuable. (consider laws of thermodynamics; or, more fundamentally, mathematical concepts - e.g., irrationality of sqrt(2))
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it doesn't even matter if you do. if you're bothering to think about the subject, your job is to assume that the job is doable and try - forever
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: in that spirit, e.g., a physicist -never- gets to utter the phrase 'you need a universe to model this'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-09-2014#846621 ☝︎
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: wow bleak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butugichag#In_literature
thestringpuller: from: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2ox7vi/bitcoin_technology_will_ultimately_become/
undata: asciilifeform: pretty sure this is the experiment I'm thinking of 40hz.net/david_2011.pdf
asciilifeform: undata, ben_vulpes: aside from the titanic effort involved in using mac for serious work, that machine is far too large and heavy for the kind of bed computing contemplated earlier.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: macbook air << funny that you mention that machine, because i have the original model. it mostly gathers dust.
undata: mircea_popescu: yeah, we'll need a better heaven! heaven 3.0
ben_vulpes: sounds like portland, mircea_popescu. irrelevant on the global scale but 'omg have you tried these donuts my brother makes?!'
undata: mircea_popescu: naw I was raised by a proper cold-warrior; they exist
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think nearly as well when walking, and spent many years trying to construct something like a 'walking computer.'
undata: mircea_popescu: I prefer standing desks; pacing and thinking go well together
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah roughly
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't imagine a home chip fab would smell much better.
decimation: mircea_popescu: I like your romanian poet/french revolution quote. It could almost be used as a motto for the west today
mats: mircea_popescu: 17HvePmDqPnKjZ79FrB1yicZPqyxTN4BnR
mats: mircea_popescu: cool. i appreciate your patience, still working on picking up latin and romanian. and maintaining the other languages bouncing around in my head.
gribble: Bechdel test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test>; Bechdel Test Movie List: <http://bechdeltest.com/>; 10 Famous Films That Surprisingly Fail The Bechdel Test: <http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/10-famous-films-that-surprisingly-fail-the-bechdel-test.php>
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: US Central District of Illinois
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol, i didn't pick the 7! but i dare to guess that it was chosen out of spite.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sometimes, the buggers 'go into tilt' and make it laughably easy. that piece reads as if it had been written by mr. spamgun himself.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm wrestling with my PACER login to find some filings in the Powel case
cazalla: mircea_popescu, there is http://i.imgur.com/55MwjMX.png too
cazalla: mircea_popescu, dunno yet, no court docs online, not entered in offender search yet either
mircea_popescu: "the mp stimulus package", http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/pula_mea2s.jpg
thestringpuller: it's because you announced the mircea_popescu stimulus package
decimation: http://a.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/AP_Prince_William_Kate_LeBron_bc_141210_4x3_992.jpg
decimation: ben_vulpes: yeah usg runs the tenement business now, mostly funded by its credit
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 06:35:49; ben_vulpes: <danielpbarron> well my having not done it doesn't matter as i'm no longer a lord << when did this happen?
danielpbarron: ;;later tell ben_vulpes http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-12-2014#949905 << the first revision http://trilema.com/2014/the-bitcoin-lordship-list-first-revision/ ☝︎
cazalla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC_axjAEPlg
cazalla: srs, watch him in juicy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JZom_gVfuw
cazalla: info is scarce at this time, few diff stories floating around http://wglt.org/wireready/news/2014/12/05124_bitcoin_sentence2_164332.shtml
ben_vulpes: mats_cd03
mircea_popescu: used to be mats_something
gribble: Older - They Might Be Giants (Best Version) - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2bo_u_YmW8>; Older - They Might Be Giants (official video) - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdIRrmNN_CQ>; Lyrics:Older - TMBW: The They Might Be Giants Knowledge Base: <http://tmbw.net/wiki/Lyrics:Older>
asciilifeform: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/ws/660/amz/worldservice/live/assets/images/2014/12/06/141206063050_putin_poster_624x351_ap.jpg
assbot: Logged on 22-11-2014 04:04:57; mircea_popescu: you familiar with the "giant stool" approach to economics ?
asciilifeform: re: public key: incidentally, agitprop! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/03/gchq_boffins_quantumbusted_own_crypto_primitive
decimation: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: deterministic wallets << the ware that someone dropped in the chan a few days ago was amusing: you enter you die rolls on the command line (history!) and then it converts to 'diceware' string, and then it takes a sha256 hash
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps a thread here? but can't seem to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps a pub somewhere in thailand, or cambodia, etc. the locals - drink for free. he fancies that if he begins to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in the back of his head he knows what will happen to his sorry arse if he were to do so. ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
undata: +asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: most u.s. subjects don't have an obvious rational action to follow the awakening of 'aha so i'm living in a zoo run by demented vivisectionists, now i need to...' << make money and gtfo in my case
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most u.s. subjects don't have an obvious rational action to follow the awakening of 'aha so i'm living in a zoo run by demented vivisectionists, now i need to...'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: closing eyes is the last refuge of the truly and genuinely fucked
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because of the inevitable question, then, 'well what do i personally do now, seppuku?' that follows
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: quite a few folks say 'well yes, criminal' but for some reason refuse to walk the logical implication, a -> b..
mircea_popescu: <Pierre_Rochard> for many of the redditards it is a ~feels~ social movement, rather than a macro-economic force of nature << like everything else. like, that's all they got.
Pierre_Rochard: thestringpuller: because people like the author think Bitcoin _actually_ is a ponzi scheme and that they have to help attract greater fools, so public relations / appearance/ etc are super important to -sell- bitcoin to the unsuspecting masses
asciilifeform: 'Assembly acceleration of various algorithms... ...x86_64 CPUs' << translation: let's use intel's diddled aes instructions.
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2014 04:59:36; ben_vulpes: http://proofofdev.com/jbs-jumbucks/
hanbot: mircea_popescu http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2oga48/buttcoin_is_sooo_big_in_argentina/cmpoq3j << could be a default trilema noob comment lol
thestringpuller: ;;later tell pete_dushenski lol http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2opywc/blockchain_is_doing_the_right_thing_and/
BingoBoingo: https://twitter.com/Nicole_West1/status/542205610092023808/photo/1
undata: that pg_meta embodies the approach; for everything, you make a data model
assbot: aquameta/pg_meta · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1z131RC )
undata: we produced a few cool things, among them this https://github.com/aquameta/pg_meta
asciilifeform: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1mvqj3/bitcoin_wallet_will_not_sync_past_a_certain_point << lol
BingoBoingo: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2014/04/11_bitcoin-assets-new-wot-and-voice-model.html
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mr y & friends believe in an ai equivalent of fermi's 'ignition of the atmosphere' hypothetical catastrophe.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is probably thinking of a hypothetical machine that emulates a living programmer and can be 'made friends with' and spoken to, describing what he wants. in that case - yes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'natural language' for a program makes the same amount of sense as for mathematics. atrociously inefficient and requires very 'unnatural' concessions of rigour or at least standardized disambiguations.
BingoBoingo: Indeed. "To satisfy portable code, srand() may be called to initialize the subsystem. In OpenBSD the seed variable is ignored, and strong random number results will be provided from arc4random(3.) In other systems, the seed variable primes a simplistic deterministic algorithm. If the standardized behavior is required srand_deterministic() can be substituted for srand(), then subsequent rand() calls will return results using the d
mircea_popescu: "The reasons for this are history not known to me, but it might even be linked to Dual_EC_DRBG." <, is, afaik.
gribble: TCP sequence prediction attack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_sequence_prediction_attack>; Multiple Vendor TCP Sequence Number Approximation Vulnerability: <http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10183/discuss>; TCP Sequence Prediction Attack - The Tech-FAQ: <http://www.tech-faq.com/tcp-sequence-prediction-attack.html>
cazalla: mircea_popescu: cazalla nice publish srsly. <<< would've made a summary but was late
punkman: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2oo72b/victim_100_bitcoins_stolen_from_blockchaininfo/cmoyiky
asciilifeform: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2onm5r/blockchaininfo_security_disclosure/cmotm6w
punkman: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2onm5r/blockchaininfo_security_disclosure/cmosxbw
asciilifeform: (from 'strategic superiority' article by mircea_popescu)
assbot: Logged on 02-06-2014 18:30:38; mircea_popescu: Up until recently it was practically impossible to become embroiled into any sort of dealing with the subgroup, their ownership being strictly assumed and their lives strictly subsumed by the corporations competent at dealing with the human cattle : fastfood providers, supermarkets, the government. Both as employers and providers these specialised bureaucracies have the necessary tools, including cat
The20YearIRCloud: It's not public but if someone REALLY wanted em, i'd make the properties & deeds available. Around last year I gave mircea_popescu deed copies of 2 or 3 of the properties.
The20YearIRCloud: mike_c: they wanted to invest more cash directly in the company that would go to our bank, and not buy shares from individuals on the open market.
The20YearIRCloud: Maybe I could give mircea_popescu their phone numbers and he could call em and ask them why? What the heck is expected of me beyond explaining to them how to do it and giving them the poster? Am I expected to spend a hour getting them on IRC and doing it all for them?
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2014 12:56:26; nubbins`: mircea_popescu:well if he did nubbins has some 'splainin' to do lol. <<< nope, in fact, i am also mildly perturbed by the fact that i mailed over $4,000 of goods to the guy and we didn't even get a couple measly pictures out of it
mats: mircea_popescu: http://pastebin.com/E5NU7nXx and as for subtext, idk that there is any ... the man is powerful and developing a young woman, and wants people at the hotel to know it.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation http://trilema.com/2013/and-now-i-shall-be-off-scarfing-smoked-salmon-and-fresh-apple-pie-seasoned-with-free-market-tears-or-why-a-collection-of-confused-retards-does-not-amount-to-a-free-market/#footnote_0_49891 << prolly relevant to your interests.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: nah but a hint, the present is driven by this chip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricoh_5A22
assbot: Re: ...and even for those _NOT_ interested... - Naggum cll archive ... ( http://bit.ly/1z09c8y )
punkman: re: iang_fc http://www.systemics.com/products.html
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what is the skepter of lizard hitler worth? the 300mn is simply the figure usg saw fit to write into the work of fiction
asciilifeform: 'You can buy the assets of an ASIC miner company for the eminently NOT lowball offer of 20k' (from mircea_popescu's article) << let's guess. fabless asic co. ?