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Adlai: https://i.imgur.com/cuVBhfh.png?0 "MPOE Net Expenses" snipped from http://www.btcalpha.com/mpex/stocks/s-mpoe/#cash_flow
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2014#894581 << that thread. ☝︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 0.5.3 and earlier have wallets, and all the concomittant braindamage... << the wallet code oughn't be snipped outright, but corralled. for later porting to msdos.
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 03:06:23; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu, qntra folks: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/lenta.html
assbot: Logged on 12-11-2014 00:20:12; mircea_popescu: i don't see you churning out an article a week about how "evil nato" and "nice putin"
asciilifeform: http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2014/07/MH%2017%20flight%20paths_0.png
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu, qntra folks: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/lenta.html ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 02:49:52; mircea_popescu: Adlai afaik there was never in the entire history of bitcoin proposed some sort of credible / evidenced based interepretation of wtf it does.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the sort of "programmers" that "add features" should actually be charged to go to work.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but we've no archive any more.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: plenty
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu will bang on about that at will
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes pretty much yea
undata: mircea_popescu: still, controlling supply means having an influence on price
mircea_popescu: i was waiting for mike_c's words of wisdom
asciilifeform: either 'google' or mircea_popescu
undata: mircea_popescu: regarding the NSA conspiracy, it's amusing, but doesn't seem likely that they'd undermine fiat intentionaly
mircea_popescu: http://www.stephenbiesty.co.uk/galleries_Atmospheric_Cutaways_Magellan'sCarrack.html
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes why the sleep ?
assbot: [Bash] #! /bin/bash # assumes that bitcoind is running blockmax=$1 should_continue - Pastebin.com
assbot: [Bash] #!/bin/bash TEST_DATA_DIR=aplace WEDGE_BLOCK=999999 clean_data_dir() { - Pastebin.com
Adlai: ben_vulpes: please share your bisection script
joecool: ben_vulpes: will it reindex a pulled in blockchain or is it a necessity to pull in from start to finish?
joecool: ben_vulpes: thanks
joecool: ben_vulpes: wallet.db support
assbot: Logged on 09-04-2014 09:10:25; mircea_popescu: tbh im kinda surprised teh tradepress isn't howling all about "in january, 'Bitcoin Baron Keeps a Secretive Open Source OS Alive' ; in april, nsa's crown jool is thrown in the dirt of the public space."
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: no.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, the one fellow who is really still working on this gizmo, is
asciilifeform: aha i think ben_vulpes has one of his own
gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask Adlai!~Adlai@gateway/tor-sasl/adlai. Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user Adlai: Level 1: 1, Level 2: 1 via 1 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=mircea_popescu&dest=Adlai | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=Adlai | Rated since: Sat Oct 11 10:15:58 2014
assbot: 16 results for 'from:ben_vulpes auth*' - #bitcoin-assets search
Adlai: thx, not much luck slogging through http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Aben_vulpes+auth*
mircea_popescu: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2014/10/20_a-summary-of-changes-to-bitcoin-since-0321.html#fn.24 there.
mircea_popescu: Adlai http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/GPG_authentication#Helper_scripts like that ?
mircea_popescu: !up romkor_
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2014 10:10:46; mircea_popescu: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4781 and it's really good, too.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually weizenbaum's story is more interesting than the 'prosteriority' lets on.
empyex: mircea_popescu: Next conference starts in 5 months and 3 days. Estimated cost today: 3.30951486 BTC (Details: http://trilema.com/2014/the-conference-third-edition/ )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu lets nothing go to waste.
asciilifeform: http://worth1000.s3.amazonaws.com/submissions/183500/183879_8c00_625x1000.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are still 'few old guys.' they see the remaining many as impostors, but are not particularly afraid of them. they have pills for this ('obamacare' etc.)
undata: mircea_popescu: and the lamb laid down with the lion
undata: mircea_popescu: seems the hive would lose the ability to adapt without some mental youth elixir being invented alongside
asciilifeform: or what did mircea_popescu say.
Adlai: you could roughly equate the queen of an ant colony to a human brain's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticular_formation#Clinical_significance ?
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2014 21:44:39; mircea_popescu: a good example would be, a spontaneous determination to build itself a house,
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> any computer program of which identifiable components can be unambiguously named is not capable of displaying AI. << this obviously requires you to be allowed under the hood.
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> if the machine ends up housed within a house of its own making at the end of a process which was not either understood or its endpoint predictable by observers, well... iut;'s intelligent. <<< mis lados!!
gribble: GENSYMs - Common Lisp HyperSpec (TM): <http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_gensym.htm>; Macros: Defining Your Own - gigamonkeys: <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/macros-defining-your-own.html>; hygiene-versus-gensym - Community-Scheme-Wiki: <http://community.schemewiki.org/?hygiene-versus-gensym>
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: remember the self-evolving fpga?
undata: mircea_popescu: I'm still chewing on "different" how?
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> the argument is whether they're actually different. <<< in the sense that each game of wol is actually different
nubbins`: _/ -_- _/
asciilifeform: http://home.engineering.iastate.edu/~alexs/classes/2011_Spring_585X/readings/02_Principles/AI_Meets_Natural_Stupidity.pdf ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-06-2014#700916 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 it didn't take this long, that tor was routinely compromised was an open secret.
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: they print now, not wishing to risk obsolescence
cazalla: mircea_popescu: cazalla http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/13/1344589/-Bitcoin-may-be-worth-1-million-says-Pal <<< great and informative article!
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: traffic analysis is easy, cheap, fun. consider analogy of the children's game 'sea battle.'
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: made no major splash, for some reason
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: iirc the method was published before, some months ago
undata: mircea_popescu: american white trash who literally dress like clowns
asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptasie_mleczko << apparently englisch exists
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D1%8C%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE_(%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this may actually be the very same filling as in 'bird's milk'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: jeffidiocy << there we go. herr lightoller's, too.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a skilled turdmeister (especially of the privvy-to-microshit-remote-orifice variety) will leave nothing to find.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when anyone bothers - very laboriously, largely manually-cranked.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking not of wallet stealing trojan, but of 'xxxx coin wandered off with no plausible explanation, forensic showed nothing untoward'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is why i mentioned schwartz example.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 only ~50%.
mats_cd03: mircea_popescu: to rephrase, the dollar would have lost 99.99% of its value on the trip to 1mn BTCUSD
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try to picture how bitcoin would have been treated, even in the embryonic stage, if the implications for the next xxx years from it, were entirely obvious to all.
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones well for lack of a mm actually.
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones can i buy any ws puts off you btw ?
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on the vary basic level.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The homeless bitcoin camp
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol! you know actual 'j' users?!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I gave the viewport tag one last tweak, next step is yeah, just denying mobiles any styling at all beyond what they bring on their own
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://www.paymentssource.com/news/interchange/kim-kardashians-lessons-for-the-bitcoin-card-industry-3019708-1.html
jurov: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2Mp_0iIUAAcNdn.jpg:large
assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 22:25:37; mircea_popescu: rithm: it's cryptowall now and from what i can tell it's infected sites like mom & pop's ruinning old WP/drupal/some CMS <<< yeah, stuff the shitheads in question don't maintain, then i have to answer biweekly questions of "is qntra down". off with their heads i say!
Naphex: mircea_popescu: BTCXchange offered SSL Authenticated with GlobalSign.EU, the registration certificate was posted. And all due dilligance info posted
Naphex: https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/2m6rp7/hitbtc_about_to_go_mt_gox/
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/auroracoin/comments/2icorq/what_killed_auroracoin/ << lolok.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Not in any animal herds, but somehow children still get it
BingoBoingo: And http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/GPG_authentication
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But tis is the past!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The problem I when he presents it is that not everyone wants to marry a large SJW, even if it means the dog you get in exchange is adorable
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> nobody ever goes "you shitfaces, THIS opportunity you missed. all of you." << My brother the dentist does if you get him drunk.
decimation: mircea_popescu: what stripped down version of wordpress do you use?
mircea_popescu: lol ben_vulpes the post is the feed eh ?
PeterL: mircea_popescu: I am grabbing the summary, most of them are pretty short
decimation: mircea_popescu: I would agree with the 'idiot' label - but you realize that this 'catches' at least 95% of humanity - who generally refuse to consider their position w.r.t. the entire world's (and history's) context
decimation: mircea_popescu: there are genuine people with genuine skills who spend their entire lives attempting to make usg better
decimation: mircea_popescu: you mean that julia character
BingoBoingo: Well, https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2i6pz0/peter_todds_checklocktimeverify_means_bitcoin/cm0liy8 seems not to be popular with the redditards, but on blocksizefork Bitpay has an incentive to choose the shitgnome side and face punishment
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Means old clients accept giberish, but miners actually hardfork if a "time locked" signature is mined early
decimation: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/us/cuts-in-military-mean-job-losses-for-career-staff.html?_r=0 << usg is broke, decides to 'fire' army officers rather than cut back food stamps