log☇︎
98100+ entries in 0.718s
mircea_popescu: think for a moment how a shitshow like poloniex works. you make 1mn scamtokens out of thin air. you send them to a "margined" "exchange" website. you use the "margin" 1mn scamtokens provide to... buy 1mn more! now you have enough "marginable assets" ie scamtokens to... buy 1mn more! and if the price goes up... 1mn more!
felipelalli: Ethereum looks like a mess made in a hurry to me.
felipelalli: a language like haskell (or at least a lisp dialect) should be chosen to build smart contracts, to begin with. It should be purely functional, predictable / deterministic, strong-typed etc.
BingoBoingo: They are stuck between a rock and a moving rock
felipelalli: fun fact: *no one* really knew what was wrote in that "smart contract". No fucking single person, even who wrote that. They just put the money in a tied "kind-of-immutable" contract that they simply couldn't read.
BingoBoingo: Because Buttcoin enjoys Qntra and there's a girl there with a serious ladyboner for everything MP
BingoBoingo: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4pflsd/sorry_for_your_harmony_an_ethereum_bagchain/ << I know you have a reddit account, have fun!
felipelalli: they need a M.P. in their project.
felipelalli: Really, if I had my life invested on it and I were the 1.77% "NO", I would make a campaign to "the resistence" and ask to users change the PoW algo due to defend from this clear mining attack.
asciilifeform: which - whatddoyaknow - confirms that mircea_popescu was partly right, the turd broadcasts a random selection of mempool at all times...
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487613 << incidentally, this is incorrect. in the current scheme, node only broadcasts new-to-it tx. so after a tx propagates, it dampens, nothing exponential happens. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: but absent that, the prb solution (where p stands for a poor man) is well...
mircea_popescu: the sane way is to have a negotiating mechanism AMONG AUTHENTICATED NODES
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1487599 << for the record, a scheme to reduce chatter is unavoidable in the design. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: In other news: "SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE • Crews were working to repair a gas line at Scott Air Force Base Wednesday. According to Scott officials, a contractor in the area of 2403 Oak Grove Circle flipped concrete material over that fell on a gas line and cracked it about 3 p.m. The cracked gas line was being repaired."
Framedragger: reading those convos made me recall a funny story: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department
a111: Logged on 2015-05-18 23:49 justJanne: let’s say it like this, not even the literal nazis had such a right-wing idea about society. And they are nazis.
a111: Logged on 2015-05-18 23:49 mircea_popescu: admittedly, i'm more like a 1700s mind.
asciilifeform: (if anyone gave half a shit, it would be ~trivial~ to track their movements in real time from, e.g, toy chopper)
asciilifeform: it was a monumentally talmudic case, too
shinohai: Preeeeeeeeeeeet caused a poor finance guy to commit suicide! >.>
mircea_popescu: anyway, the yarvin thing has a point. "intelligent" interface is exactly like "perpetuum mobile"|
mircea_popescu: phf i'm not even sure what proper tools to talk about this in. so basically, you're discussing a sort of "nothing happened" for the mouthbreather population ?
mircea_popescu: whole thing's incredibly stupid. fuck you if i'm going to pay a red cent to the "state budget". once i make a factory, it'll assemble its own tanks and fucking shoot the lot of them derps.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: linked for the gold nugget: 'It also suggested the creation of a register for smart autonomous robots, which would link each one to funds established to cover its legal liabilities.' << dao!11111111
mircea_popescu: phf well... it'd be a popup. neh ?
phf: there's a "mail client" which is a modality, can be inline, can be a popup, as long as everything's kept in same modality. "now i interact with electronic mail, what pray is this pdf document??"
mircea_popescu: but this is a deeply broken manner of thinking about terminals, as if one's forever stuck on ONE
phf: no, no, not mine, i explicitly use "in" as a windowism, because it's a thinking thing
mircea_popescu: do you ever want a pdf inline in the mail client ?
asciilifeform: (a la microshit)
phf: i guess the two are in lockstep. you get pdf in your email, you save it to file, you open it with xpdf. a dwim equivalent is to open it, dwiw style, right in the mail client. can't do that with xpdf (actually you can but need to read specs for x11, yawn), so make xpdf into a library, embed the whole thing into client.
phf: well, "libarchive" is already a systemd-ism
phf: when i started using emacs there was an almost ideological aversion to DWIM in the community, instead of having say smart context "search" thing you'd have a dozen search-foo-in-bar combinations, and that was thought The Right Thing. emacs has long been dragged in the dwim direction by the usual suspects, but the vogue elsewhere is now dwiw, i.e. do what i want. as explicit/"want" gap gets bigger, you're going to have all kinds of attack vectors o
mircea_popescu: there was a .zip
Framedragger: "This means that to overflow the "unpack_streams" variable we need only have a 7-Zip file with the number of folders "numFolders" larger than 42 and then populate "numUnpackStreams" with sufficient values." heheh
thestringpuller: In Ether Huffing news >> "People need to understand this. Your individual ideological beliefs on blockchain tech need to take a backseat to pragmatism. If we don't reverse all of this, cleanly and quickly, the government will step in and complicate all of our lives indefinitely." "Oh, and for the non-ETH holders coming here for the drama - this will affect your coin too. If you think that the SEC will make a distinction between BTC or
mircea_popescu: and a list of acceptable keys.
mircea_popescu: it's a pretty dumb solution to a gossipd problem, so only if it's very little work
mircea_popescu: recreating dns one step at a time ;/
mircea_popescu: prolly should have a deed system for this
mircea_popescu: wtf is "a 7".
mircea_popescu: i am familiar with "a dime", which simply means "perfect", which doesn't denote anything but thjat's ok.
ascii_deadfiber: btw this is not some oddity, but wholly standard, in usa you can say 'a 7' and every bloke thinks he knows what is meant
mircea_popescu: this incidentally is a very interesting, at least to me, comment on the problems of code-in-society. because omfg, you're going to have implicit mark-up, really ? you gotta know what joke index <1k means ?
mircea_popescu: but no, it turns out that it stands for "Hot Body", as a sort of you know, scoring systems.
ascii_deadfiber: ah i thought 'hb' was reference to a type of pencil sold in usa
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber i could have sat there for a week, free. most of them do.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i had a cup of coffee in the food court there. i was the only guy that bought coffee, everyone else was too busy with utterly revolting meat patties in wonderbread (SUCH an insult in argentina, this, that they'd eat the us crap) and fructose syrup drinks.
ascii_deadfiber: could if went to beat-me-with-a-stick club and beaten until learned.
mircea_popescu: dude gtfo. these kids couldn't thread a wire if it saved them from bilateral amputation.
ascii_deadfiber: these heat sinks have a very real function tho
mircea_popescu: http://www.juventudinformada.com.ar/2012/10/18/conoce-a-las-agrupaciones-de-la-fadu/ << for the truly dedicated entomologists.
Framedragger: *of course* this thing will be using rand() wrongly, *of course* it pipes user input to system() so that you can pass commands after a semicolon, etc.; it's pretty amusing
mircea_popescu: are you fucking me this thing looks like it was designed by john oliver and a team of harvard educated brits.
ascii_deadfiber: if narcos ever nailed a usg boat with bazooka, it was successfully censored from anywhere i might hear of it.
mircea_popescu: how the everloving fuck is this a ship
mircea_popescu: "let's build a ship so that if anyone hits it with a rocket, like the smallest possible rocket, like a healthy 4th of july piece of firework, it splits right in half and sinks in five minutes"
ascii_deadfiber: but i expect the original will soon enough make its way to a museum
mircea_popescu: anyway, the story of ther "littoral combat ship" really should be told. derps wanted a sort of "automated gunship" but on water, to fight drug people. ended up with a ship that's entirely useless.
mircea_popescu: ridiculous though. star wars is a rhapsody in papier mache
mircea_popescu: this is a HUGE difference, even a 100/1 split is pure death.
ascii_deadfiber: some 'creative thinker' decided that a floating 'stealth bomber' would be just the thing.
mircea_popescu: they're 3 to 500mn underwater, depending what exact accounting standard you employ, and on other things. this may seem like a joke to you, but it's pretty fucking far from a joke to them. and the fact that they naively authorised more funds to try and buy their way out of it because mp said "rape"... well. it's not even cautered yet, still bleeding.
ascii_deadfiber: the f35 was pure embezzlement, the bloody ship - was actually built, expending strategic metals, labour, etc. of a whole pyramid army
ascii_deadfiber: is this something like 'liver transplant for a corpse' theorem ?
trinque: you want me to put a regex engine in the middle eh?
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber i'd trust this eval a lot more if it were based on some experience!
ascii_deadfiber: i was in b-a, they all looked like actual people
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1486992 <<-->> "what would you do for a drake's coffee cake ?" ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 12:52 ascii_deadfiber: and force the derps to have a blacklist weighing a GB, in their idiot fork
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1486987 << think for a moment. what did the great general say ? "never interrupt something something" ? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: they've been on a net outflow for years now.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1486970 << you know, the proposition that drugs enhance the mind is not so unlikely from the proposition that hanging polished stones of various colors, dead parrots and other detritus from the weights of a grandfather clock improve its timekeeping accuracy. ☝︎☟︎
gernika: mircea_popescu: jurov's suggestion was to declare the thing invalid for any use case in a deed. It's not clear to me what good that would do.
mircea_popescu: gernika how'd a retraction work, you know ? think of the dao!
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber so pick a bottle of wine, go knock on door.
gernika: Curious re: above idiocy of mine wrt "I agree." Better to deedbot a retraction or just start over with a new private key?
ascii_deadfiber: but i have some clues. homo usaticus is veeery well-bred for parochialism. easily compartmented. i learned recently that there is a trailer park 20min away from where i live. but i have never once seen it, nor any of the people in it!
mircea_popescu: sounds pretty fragile, a thing of the 80s
ben_vulpes: current enclave is not particularly monied. there is a trailer park less than a quarter mile away.
mircea_popescu: depends, what's legal and illegal in the states varies a lot by where you live, the color of your skin, whether you're married to one woman or just live with half a dozen etc.
ascii_deadfiber: i had a gigantic bag full of such keys as a boy to play with.
mircea_popescu: dude... a bathroom all carpeted in shag!
ascii_deadfiber: this existed in my uni, in a few of the houses
diana_coman: more like stall door - we lived in a kind of 2 rooms/2 bathrooms thing (4 girls in each room)
ascii_deadfiber: (in usa public toilets often do not have a front door)
mircea_popescu: ^ the "taken by surprise" is a term of art :D
diana_coman: we even lived at some point without a toilet door for about 2-3 months (they were renovating the faculty dorm building and somehow the start of the uni year had taken them by surprise) but there would have been a riot if there was no net for 1 day
ascii_deadfiber: net pipe situation in usa is astonishing. when i was at $rupturefarm... this was a 'beltway bandit', usg contracting shop with princely budget, building had gilded doorknobs and other nonsense, but net was 'comcast' gas modem.
ascii_deadfiber: (would buy something else, but i am not giving a penny to shitcast ever again)
ascii_deadfiber: also a smaller rx dish, nfi for what
ascii_deadfiber 's hovel came with a large 2-horn dish. considered connecting it, subscribing to something
mircea_popescu: well, this is the true problem of political decay : society decays too, and in this precise manner. what used to be an ideologically-mediated disconnect between action and representation ("if you see a fire don't jump into it, call the FD, it's better that way) becomes a fully separated disconnect, mediated by nothing.
mircea_popescu: jurov there's no such thing as a joke omg!
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber so between a misbehaving slavegirl and an idiot slavegirl your preference's for the idiot ?
a111: Logged on 2016-03-28 15:41 asciilifeform: y'know, as a boy, i was playing with other boyz in the yard and mentioned съезд кпсс , and they laughed. i learned lesson - for life.
thestringpuller: There will be a lot of butthurt during the halvening. The halvening may also mark the destruction Buterin's waterfall (in this incarnation).
thestringpuller: All the attacker has to do is take a very fine pin and pop the balloon at any time.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller history is not a thing, they got social sciences to make it all right!