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adlai: honestly, why even bother with
a fork at this point. just reset the testnet, call it "The Next Frontier"
mircea_popescu: "One cannot imagine Ethereum community doing nothing in response to an existential hack. Doing nothing would say we lack courage and we let thieves walk away with their loot. HF is
a must now. The community is reaching
a new consensus."
mircea_popescu: myeah. it's
a thing looking just about ready to deflate worth
a trn or two.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-29 04:18 trinque: or does some consumer products company somehow "pivot" to surviving
a situation where consumers don't have money
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-29#1492583 << actually that happened in the 90s. all the jam tomorrow "web as
a business" "venture capital" bs is exactly that - pivoting to try and survive the situation where consumers don't have money. pretend data is valuable and someone cares, pretend advertising is
a business, get people to "invest" in this nonsense, it's
a thing.
☝︎ trinque: yep. what I question is how
a massive contraction, in
a situation where it's *all* notional and wtf is actually valuable, would *not* harm lizard whoever.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile on the right, each coin piece changes hands once
a week. for trade! thismeans the circulation is about 5bn pcs/year
mircea_popescu: now, the average coin piece in the left changes hands once
a year. for safety. this means the circulation (ie, notional market, in the primitive sense this works then) is ~100mn pcs/year.
trinque: this "EU parliament" room is terrible, looks like
a shitty state college lecture hall
trinque: or at all, if the ask is
a poorly formed question
trinque: gotta have trade volume to sustain
a market
trinque: or does some consumer products company somehow "pivot" to surviving
a situation where consumers don't have money
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now, it's true that baltimore was scoring ~400 homicides / 100k, which IS notable, though perhaps
a tad short for what he's depicting. nevertheless - that was in the early 90s.
mircea_popescu: rather than
a bs "here's some colors because we're from the special needs kindergarten", could "the baltimore expert guy" instead provide
a heatmap with all the murders, stabbings, whatnot ? could have
a little card, date, people involved, etc.
mircea_popescu: buy thermotransfer crap in turkey, for like 10 bux
a pile of 100, sell them for like ten bucks
a pop. "advanced!"
☟︎ phf: can just do it in this style, doesn't need to be
a quality print. just
a bunch of shirts with lowres tits
mircea_popescu: yeah, anyone wanna run
a tmsr tshirts bidniss ? preferably someone who isn't
a lazy math guy who pretends to lie to self and call it "downshifting" or w/e.
mod6: <+shinohai> Have
a tshirt made with that pic of mircea_popescu in Egypt, but replace the pyramids with burning ethereum logos. << the drawing of Mr. P. that was made
a while back would be
a good t-shirt.
mircea_popescu: phf actually this isn't
a terribru idea, make shirts with the numbered tits.
mircea_popescu: i mean, bitdaytrade rivals it for utter, but that was what, meni rosenfeld and
a bunch of web freelancer pakis.
mircea_popescu: rarely has such large
a collection of entirely inept shitheads been so utterly exposed.
shinohai: Have
a tshirt made with that pic of mircea_popescu in Egypt, but replace the pyramids with burning ethereum logos.
phf: could be
a yc project
phf: there's
a video of
a guy doing
a pitch, some nice fonts, stripe integration. it is now, it is happening
phf: but it's interesting to observe
a "hip" version of it
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492457 << so basically, as part of its ongoing cold war against insufficiently-pliable torvalds, the usg through its usg.twitter agency... repurposed what it claims to be "linus' account", ie,
a voodoo doll they made for him. and this somehow is supposed to reflect on the man ? why, because we're all from the great nation of africa and ergo fucktarded in the brain ?
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-06-28 21:22 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492429 << the link is quite germane. even as late as 1800 romanian popular geography included "muscali cu coada", literally, moscow people had tails, like
a cat.
Framedragger: that's
a start for sure. sometimes cartographers from far away lands not connected to your network of trust, i guess. but then perhaps no need to trust much about far away lands anyway
a111: Logged on 2016-06-28 14:57 mircea_popescu: Framedragger what i'm more and more discovering is that the legends about the internet and the facts about the network (not just the internet, network in general) are very much at odds. consider
a few examples : L1 : "many eyes means better code" ; R1 : "many eyes means bikeshed effect" | L2 : "Bitcoin has many nodes" ; R2 "yeah, like less than 50." | L3 : "there's many weak consumer grade boxes out there" ;
a111: Logged on 2016-06-28 15:19 mircea_popescu: three days later alchie calls doc office in
a passion. "doc, wtf do i do, i can't lift alcohol above my mouth."
midnightmagic: Ah, okay, so the first one is dated Feb 19 2012. And I have another one here from Dec 6 2015. I'll zip up the 2012 one and post
a URL and signature.
midnightmagic: Okie doke. I originally downloaded
a copy of it because I was having
a discussion with some peeps about fingerprinting keys and preferences and bitsizes to see how unique various peoples' choices were, and then just never went anywhere with it.
midnightmagic: asciilifeform: If you are interested in
a copy of the SKS keyset as of.. I want to say mid-2012 or so (the same one that was used as evidence that Craig Wright backdated his keys) I can stuff it into an archive for you.
BingoBoingo: Would not sign
a contract with, disqualified from being the devil.
BingoBoingo: Nah, Satan's supposed to be your buddy, not
a hambeast
mircea_popescu: the point being that if there's less than 1 moduli known added for each ssh submission processed, we got
a problem there.
mircea_popescu: hopefully the woman gets elected, we turn that into
a cool trillion.
mircea_popescu: (brought to you by the people who believe closing factories and making "transfer payments" to "workers" is
a superior pareto alternative to soviet planned economy)
mircea_popescu: "Additionally, planners had to aggregate many types of goods and inputs into
a single material balance because it was impossible to create an individual balance for each of the approximately 24 million items produced and consumed in the USSR." << ftr, this is actually actively pursued by yellen & co.
mircea_popescu: re raspil, is this
a sort of ro "fumat" as in "s-
a baut tot, s-
a fumat tot"
a111: Logged on 2016-06-28 15:59 mircea_popescu: seems altogether just
a "ms office shanonizer" job, they got stuff from the internets and copy-pasted it into
a "government official blabla"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the original fuckups, ie, slock.it, is
a "company" of the web sort that runs some shitty proprietary irc. so there's that. then there's reddit, twitter, livejournal, facebook
mircea_popescu: seems altogether just
a "ms office shanonizer" job, they got stuff from the internets and copy-pasted it into
a "government official blabla"
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2014-04-29 22:56 asciilifeform: dijkstra once read
a lecture, and exclaimed 'how many bugs shall we tolerate?!' one wag stands up - '3!'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
a nononon, this isn't
a count. this is THE NUMBER OF! you know how they say "i got their number" ? like that!
mircea_popescu: "David Chasteen hired
a law firm and that members of the list should have no contact with David Chasteen or discussions about him." << what the fuck is this crap ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Common is also
a black man who sings, but he acts more. Far less Tyrone than Usher though.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, random derp on twitter, "Can anyone point me to
a summary of solidity exploits and common patterns to avoid them?". really bitch, you want the COMMON solution ? common fucking MADE the exploits! holy shit.
thestringpuller: Aha. "peace" is the part I didn't understand. "the prequisite" is
a treaty, not
a war proclamation.
mircea_popescu: item B is
a discussion of peace, ie, what's the absolute minimal required basis for an agreement.
mircea_popescu: item
A is
a discussion of what at the time was
a possible outcome, something of the kind of "if we don't fortify these walls and enemy army comes over, we're fucked". this has been muchly degraded meanwhile, principally by "well, every march lord on their path has harried the fuck out of them, and so not much of an army left".
mircea_popescu: you're confusing things. everyone but us deploys
a fork.
thestringpuller: I don't see
a good scenario where TRB could deploy
a fork i.e. "the prequisite".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo check it out, the top hit is about how he wore
a don't trump america jacket.
mircea_popescu: (where revolutionary means what it in fact means - what the earth does around the sun is
a revolution)
mircea_popescu: what, there's no bullying so nobody's gonna fuck your shit up for being
a loser and admitting it.
mircea_popescu: sit around, write bad poetry while torturing
a guitar, do
a lot of pot, be all you know, "sad" an' whatnot.
thestringpuller:
A disease that leaves
a person addicted and dependent to
a bitch. If that bitch decides to leave him/her, that person becomes an emotional train wreck and does nothing but lay around and mope. In worst cases, that said person would think he/she is in an R&B music video- something worse than self-mutilation.
mircea_popescu: three days later alchie calls doc office in
a passion. "doc, wtf do i do, i can't lift alcohol above my mouth."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol ok ok! so alchie takes
a bad fall while drunk, gets huge bruise on forehead.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You forget today's American girl happiy makes
a sandwich, but can't hold itself together enough to make it to the next room with out eating the sandwich (repeat x5 times)
a111: Logged on 2016-06-28 14:14 thestringpuller: mats: well from
a financial perspective, not
a political perspective. at the very least bribe miners to vote one way or the other...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and it's not even fucking inborn, it's TRAINED! whip "lazy" girl that got to 20 and never achieved anything, she becomes in
a year or two as self-driven and capable as you'd like it.
mircea_popescu: the temptation to vegetate is great. absent
a driver, plants will plant.
mircea_popescu: and the shit they netflix isn't even fit for in-flight entertainment, admittedly
a low bar.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform point being, idiots are idiots, and if their favourite idiocy is denied in bitcoin, they reddit desperately until they find
a doge/ripple/ether replacement.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this exists, obv. as much as
a backup chain store is "dark node" after all.
mircea_popescu: oh, "the state attacks the family" no dude. the state moves in
a vacuum you made.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the existential, fundamental, first and foremost threat to bitcoin is emerging to be, the essentially centralizing nature of the modern human. slave's born to live in empire, so if there's
a lot of slaves, there'll be an empire. once nero died it wasn't
a case of "ah fucking finally, now we can go back to republic". no, it was "WE MUST HAS EMPEROR! EVEN GALBA!"