assbot: Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" - Slashdot
BingoBoingo: Poettering on Linus: "But more importantly, I'd actually put some blame on a certain circle of folks that play a major role in kernel development, and first and foremost Linus Torvalds himself. By many he is a considered a role model, but he is quite a bad one. If he posts words like "[specific folks] ...should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that?"
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mod6: this qntra.net is p cool. looks good in lynx too.
dub: not sure about the pink
BingoBoingo: mod6: Thanks. I'll make sure cazalla sees the praise.
midnightmagic: Linus is a drunk, I don't know why anybody expects anything different from him.
BingoBoingo: midnightmagic: What's wrong with being a drunk? ALso his attidtude gets results.
midnightmagic: I don't really care much about his attitude. But his brain is malfunctioning because he is drunk all the time.
midnightmagic: Also his drinking gets in the way of being a functional human.
BingoBoingo: What is this shit? Did Hemmingway's drinking get in the way? Did Hunter S. Thompson's drinking get in the way? Maybe drinking is what keeps Linus effective in the face of Poetterings?
midnightmagic: Other people being able to handle, or not, their drinking has nothing to do with whether Linus can.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, Red Hat gave him the platform. Fedora has close ties with Gnome... Basically one mole and a turdware vendor set up dominoes.
BingoBoingo: midnightmagic: But where is the evidence Linus can't
midnightmagic: BingoBoingo: You mean aside from every major talk he's given in the last X years in front of an audience and bragged about how he got blotto'd the night before?
BingoBoingo: midnightmagic: That isn't ineffective. That's efficiency. Cramming as much living as possible into his time.
midnightmagic: Or do you mean aside from the steep decline in cognition in the last decade or so?
midnightmagic: Drinking until you can't remember is not "living." It is "dying."
BingoBoingo: If you get the success to get a big old role of drink tickets with your invite to speak at an event not using the decreases your compensation. Also drinking to forget clears crud out of the brain.
midnightmagic: I suppose that's so if you think your own body has no value.
BingoBoingo: midnightmagic: My body is a temple. Maybe it is some rural tribal arrangement made of straw held together with Giraffe shit, but god damn it, it is still a temple!
midnightmagic: You'll have to let me know what trick is required to target the crud and not the good stuff. I would personally like to drink more quebecois beer..
BingoBoingo: If you burn out your body with hard living at 67, maybe you only lose one year at the end to convalescing. If you treat it like some nerd's transformer doll in the packaging and live to 90, that's 2-3 decades of convalescing.
BingoBoingo: midnightmagic> You'll have to let me know what trick is required to target the crud and not the good stuff. I would personally like to drink more quebecois beer.. << Practice. Also hard liquor.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: there are some surprisingly fit and able 60 year-old men out there.
mike_c: any insight into where qntra traffic is coming from?
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Incoming links mostly it seems. People tend to be reading multiple things per day
TomServo: mircea_popescu: but that's what you were there for right ? << Indeed, but still... wow. I was ill prepared.
mike_c: i am an early fan. needs more pics of casascius coins though.
BingoBoingo: mike_c: At some point someone is probably going to post an image
decimation: re: lennart << anyone who has done anything that deals with a relatively unfiltered mass public knows how derpy and stupid the masses are. why should 'open source' be an exception?
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decimation: it's pretty much a crypto-rehash of moldbug's red/blue distinction but written to appeal to liberals
decimation: anyway it is related to lennart because he complains about how much vitriol he faces - he is definitely part of an 'outgroup' - people who share many similarities except they differ strongly over specific beliefs
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assbot: Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" - Slashdot
mircea_popescu: ;;rate lennart_poettering -1 should have been aborted.
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mircea_popescu: <mod6> this qntra.net is p cool. looks good in lynx too. << it does! <dub> not sure about the pink << that's because of all the gay.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic> Linus is a drunk, I don't know why anybody expects anything different from him. << linus actually has a point.
mircea_popescu: it's all the idiotic faggoty dumbasses with "women's issues" and "being polite" and inane crap like that that are the problem,
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> herr poettering is quite close to destroying linux as a going concern, imho. << no. what he is close to is destroying the notion of "updates" as a going concern. which is a fucking brilliant thing, they should have died ten years ago.
mircea_popescu: apparently ##Linux which is fucking weird. i thought linus owned the term linux
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform orly ? is this how the two hotties i had sundaes with earlier were made ?
mircea_popescu: tell you what. do your best, freeze it, see if it survives or dies.
mircea_popescu: that's the model. that's the model that made video gaming a thing, where there was previously no thing.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i got a spam comment from "Discount True Religion Canada Online". which seems just about right.
decimation: asciilifeform: I would like someone from 'grub' to explain in what what 'grub2' was an improvement
decimation: it's an order of magnitude more complex to manage for trival benefits
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mircea_popescu: <mike_c> any insight into where qntra traffic is coming from? << cazalla ran off with a lass, but he'll be back midweek, ima push him to put quantcast in there, then you can see directly.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> i am an early fan. needs more pics of casascius coins though. << this is a point. topical, related, meaningful pics are a good add.
decimation: asciilifeform: well, basically the issue is that no one who wrote the original linux network subsystem apparently never conceived of how to enumerate devices
dub: are you ragin at grub or 'hotplug' or whatever it is
decimation: that-and - lots of hardware makers suck at actually making hardware, and their customers demand a software fix
decimation: one specific instance I know of - dell reversed the '1 and 2' ethernet ports in the bios
decimation: but the masses instead demand a kernel change
BingoBoingo: At this rate we'll probably see Stanix before Loper
decimation: linux would be 10x the disaster it already is today if linus wasn't in charge
decimation: but I agree that the ethernet enumeration is crazy
decimation: but I also submit it's because the underlying hardware world is crazy
mircea_popescu: "Tolerance is definitely considered a virtue, but it suffers the same sort of dimished expectations forgiveness does."
mircea_popescu: foir the record that piece quoted earlier is incredibly braindamaged.
decimation: heh I thought of your post on forgiveness
decimation: the guy who wrote is obviously fascinated with reactionary thought but is also a liberal jew
mircea_popescu: the guy in charge is roughly in the position of poettering
mircea_popescu: "how to pretend like i'm doing something really important by doing something really really complex, that happens to also be very stupid"
decimation: The most interesting thing about it is the comment section, where Brandon Eich chimed in
decimation: he's the guy that was fired from mozilla for giving money to some anti-gay-marriage group
mircea_popescu: "Northern Irish Protestants and Northern Irish Catholics. Hutus and Tutsis" perhaps the most ignorant piece of drivel ion there. im counting it as two strikes in one at any rate.
mircea_popescu: for the clueless in the audience : the tutsis and the hutus are not different in any way, except the belgian missionarries picked the better looking adolescent boys/girls to "educate" ie, sex up
mircea_popescu: and then held them apart for the rest of the population.
decimation: I think that this guy hangs out with the lesswrong crowd too
mircea_popescu: this has exactly fucking nothing with the policies of religion and collaborationism witrh the invader in ireland.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i keep hoping maybe one days one of these libertards with unwarranted delusions of awareness comes by to peddle his stock of derpage.
assbot: Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: Random panic in load_balance() with 3.16-rc
thestringpuller: "don't press the panic button unless it is actual emergency"
decimation: what I find amusing is that the lefties don't get that they are in a relgious war because they don't even realize that what they are derping about is metaphysics
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mircea_popescu: that slashdot is instructive too. "by SuricouRaven (1897204) on Sunday July 27, 2014 @03:33PM (#47544763) His manner is coarse, but you must admit that he's gotten the job done. Linux advances on schedule, patches get incorporated, code gets tested, and all proceeds smoothly." "by Concerned Onlooker (473481) on Sunday July 27, 2014 @03:45PM (#47544841) Homepage Journal And Mussolini made the trains run on time?"
decimation: Deep in the comments: "Friend of mine was a mid level product manager on Firefox. What she told me is that Eich’s dismissal was entirely due to politics. Specifically, Mozilla is this interesting hybrid organization that relies on it’s global open source community in order to Get Stuff Done, and they couldn’t risk alienating all the volunteers and contributors who make Mozilla possible."
mircea_popescu: this is exactly the fucking problem. libtards don't want to live in a country that works, they want to live in a country run by obama.
mircea_popescu: and the problem is, not enough heads on pikes around the lord's castle.
mircea_popescu: if i ran a country i'd give linus the right to pass death sentences, and sent the secret service to execute them.
decimation: yeah that would be a pretty good way of doing business
mircea_popescu: "("Getting the job done" does not, and has never required being abusive to others. Getting the job done while being abusive is not proof that being abusive is required or even was part of, "getting the job done.")"
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The20YearIRCloud: i figure it'll all come around eventually and they'll figure out what's going on
mircea_popescu: yeah. except with liberal beatings it's come about tomorrow.
decimation: as I recall Mr. Yarvin quoted Lord Cromer as saying that he reckoned he could effectively rule egypt if he could publicly hang one egyptian of his choosing per year
The20YearIRCloud: my only kind of happiness comes in the liberal douches going through really bad parts of town with 'oppressed people' to only find out the 'oppressed' hate them and steal/rob/rape
The20YearIRCloud: Not that I wish evil in liberals (They're people too), but their mindset sponsors alot of really awful things
mircea_popescu: i guess since legal matters so much all planes sohuld be equipped with a congressman the way old ships were equipped with a priest
mircea_popescu: if the worst comes to worst, he can just make whatever disaster illegal temporarily.
The20YearIRCloud: I'm sure they're there, the problem i have is that those places are such cesspools because of liberal ideology
The20YearIRCloud: My county is 80%+ right-wing, and we don't have those kinds of places
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i'm kinda zone blind, i tend to have more fun in the "bad" parts of town
The20YearIRCloud: our 'bad parts' (of columbus) have crime rates 60-100 times higher than those areas outside of them
decimation: "For example, to run Egypt - a country of 10 million people, then - Cromer had about 1000 British civil servants. If you count all the Western diplomats, development experts, NGOistas, and the like, for whom the present parlous state of Egypt provides employment, how many do you get? A lot more than 1 per 10,000 Egyptians, I suspect. How many Westerners are employed in bandaging and rebandaging the permanent ulcer of Africa? Um, a
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decimation: he ruled egypt at the turn of the last century
decimation: and so there you go - how would 10,000 poetterings continue to "code" if linus could execute them?
mircea_popescu: decimation the comparison is really unfair. the 1000 people had penicillin. today's africans have the internet.
mircea_popescu: and the point isn't to execute 10k derps. to make such a claim is to bestow qualities upon them they never have nor will ever have.
mircea_popescu: the point is to execute one, to give the remaining 9999 some good role models for their life, and the limits and structure they desperately need.
mircea_popescu: every derp derping on "social media" about the libtard themes is really a very badly brought up preteen crying for help.
thestringpuller: The20YearIRCloud: those places are such cesspools because of liberal ideology << some of them are created through the antithesis of that. like the remnants of slavery/apartheid/segregation etc.
mircea_popescu: so, you know, free all the 13 yos trapped in 28 yo bodies.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the problem is that "the remants of slavery/apartheid/segregation etc." === "liberal ideology"
thestringpuller: welfare and segregation spawn from the same ideology? that seems reasonable tho.
thestringpuller: as they both affect the same socioeconomic groups for some reason...
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the shameful secret at the root of all liberal ideology is the plain notion that "those niggers" are not really people, and so must be treated differently from people.
mircea_popescu: if you compare how you treat your pets and how the average liberal intends to treat "those people" you get a scary identity.
mircea_popescu: and it's nothing short of insulting, not just to "those people" in quuestion, but to people everywhere.
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thestringpuller: you give them a litle change, and they'll just ask for more
mircea_popescu: well, kinda worse than that. you don't give them a little change, you insist and repeat that they gotta get a little change.
thestringpuller: You make fun of an Italian eating pasta no one really cares.
thestringpuller: You point out negro's like fried chicken and it's racist. Hmmm...the plot thickens.
mircea_popescu: yeah. because italians may be people. like, individuals. so you make fun of that italian.
mircea_popescu: but black people don't have that. they have no souls, in the libertard's view.
mircea_popescu: so you can't make fun of the one guy, the one guy doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: i dun blame anyone. i'm more into hangings than into blamings.
thestringpuller: Ironically all the hippies from days of old are either dead or wearing suits these days.
thestringpuller: They shed their libertard skin it seems and a new generation of derps picked it up.
mircea_popescu: well like the saying goes, you can't stay socialist for long, it's the ideology of stupid.
thestringpuller: it makes everyone feel good, and that they are doing the right thing though.
thestringpuller: that was enlightening tho. i now can view socialism from a different light. ty mircea_popescu
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WolfGoethe: Hi all, had some awesome conversation here before. Missed it
WolfGoethe: What is the most vital thing we must focus on now as a community ?
BingoBoingo: Of course, also better immune systems than manuls typically have.
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WolfGoethe: we need to "close the circle" like the 13 colonies did. need a 20 year plan at least
BingoBoingo: WolfGoethe: Well doubling the blocksize every year for two decades is probably a problematic plan
assbot: PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames
WolfGoethe: how bout we just start thinking ahead first
decimation: asciilifeform: I should have known that lennart was behind that
decimation: this seems like a nonsolution to a non problem
decimation: well except the kernel exposes that stuff in /proc or whatever
WolfGoethe: Why do you all think the price is so low?
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decimation: in that slatestarcodex post, nyrwracu calls this the 'law of Jante'
WolfGoethe: I have been discussing with many folks why the price is tanking. it seems quite natural considering that btc is more of an asset than a currency... merchants are covnerting right to fiat and thus putting sell pressure on the exchanges
mircea_popescu: <decimation> "as a community"? << yeah seriously. lettuce focus as electromagnetic radiation instead.
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WolfGoethe: they shall continue to tax the people with inflation thru the control of the volume of funds
WolfGoethe: my concern is how do we evolve bitcoin
mircea_popescu: so then. the price tanked temporarily because the usg tried, and failed, to kill it.
decimation: I suspect by "evolve bitcon" you mean "increase the usd price"
WolfGoethe: the goal is to evolve bitcoin by making the usd irrelvent
WolfGoethe: once bitcoin "closes the circle" then it shall be a true competitor to the usd
WolfGoethe: this is what they fear most as is evident by the case of the 13 colonies
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WolfGoethe: I welcome any reading resources you have. I've gone thru mullins works, griffths works, "history of money by jack weatherford" was also awesome. and several books on europe in the 30;s
WolfGoethe: I'm no expert but I am trying to think deeply
WolfGoethe: the best chance we have now to close the circle is to focus on retail adoption me thinks
WolfGoethe: I'm a coder mircea and entrepreneur, nothin special
WolfGoethe: I was bron human, this it is my duty to think.. very unamerican I know lol
WolfGoethe: I code web mostly. many platforms. had a few startups. did the napster of Ringtones in 2000. and a few social networking sites. and now working on some bitcoin stuff.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is like saying, "i have a computer, it is my duty to generate random strings and publish them"
WolfGoethe: not ready to have a chat about the nature of consciousness right now
WolfGoethe: I do want to think tacticall with you tho
WolfGoethe: not many who can think on your lvl in the scene, from what I recall
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WolfGoethe: we all need to take action to make Bitcoin mainstream
WolfGoethe: I see this like a grass roots social justice movement
mircea_popescu: dude wouldja stop with the nonsense. it's ridoinculous.
assbot: Bitcoin and the poor pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> and who the fuck decided that a perfectly good 'eth0' should turn into 'enp0s29u1u1' ? << o yikes
WolfGoethe: you think planning and focusing our efforts to create bitcoin saturated nodes within the west is nonsense?
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WolfGoethe: bitcoin can indeed help the underbanked... but what about us "over" banked... as in those being crushed by the banks and their fees and hassele
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> the only conceivable cure is liberal beatings. << oh ho ho ho
mircea_popescu: WolfGoethe in so many words, yes. and stop using the plural, best anyone can determine you're a solitary guy with his hopes, aspirations, confused mainstream mental impactions and internet connection.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> as pictured in the film '300'. << it's an insane depiction. the original guy was actually pericle's master.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> if you compare how you treat your pets and how the average liberal intends to treat "those people" you get a scary identity. << oh come i only feed the pets when they behave
WolfGoethe: I'm in NYC and go to all the bitcoin dev meetups. coded an api open source project and trying to give back. came here looking to chat and I am being judged so harshly? i know this is irc... but still.
mircea_popescu: WolfGoethe "TALKING ABOUT BITCOIN, EVEN IF IN A GROUP, DOES NOT MAKE YOU PART OF BITCOIN."
assbot: A compendium of basic points about Bitcoin for the benefit of various confused noobs. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
thickasthieves: talking about people that talk about bitcoin doesnt make you part of bitcoin either
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is going on in these people's brains i wish to know.
ben_vulpes: <WolfGoethe> once bitcoin "closes the circle" then it shall be a true competitor to the usd << what do you mean by "closing the circle"?
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mircea_popescu: well at least you point it out for the rest of us. i didn 't click
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the problem with gavin's idiocy isn't merely that "substantial increasing barrier to entry for operators of full nodes", horrid as that may be.
ben_vulpes: "The dream is to see Bitcoin mainstream.
mircea_popescu: the problem with gavin's idiocy is that roughly speaking, the square of the block size and the total network hash are on opposite sides of an equality, which describes total network security.
mircea_popescu: so basically, he's proposing significant downstepping of current blockchain security.
mircea_popescu: neither of these are getting merged into bitcoin, whatever gavin says or whatever forks happen.
mircea_popescu: if indeed they're stupid enough to fork it, i will sink their fork on the open market.
mircea_popescu: and if that's the path they wish to use to introduce faux bitcoin-lite for the us domestic market, that's fine, but it won't go over any better than an attempt from scratch.
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mircea_popescu: srsly ?! try every six months, maybe his retardation now fits reality ? go sulk for another six months, try again ?
mircea_popescu: i guess. but an oscillator's still an oscillator, no matter the period.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: This is very true about the large blocks working against security. Throw it up there as a comment.
mircea_popescu: i';d have left a link on their blog but of course.... cloudflare claims the host is broken
mircea_popescu: because cloudflare, as any other usg product, can never be a failful piece of shit that doesn't work.
BingoBoingo: Seriously Cloudflare sites are more unavailable than any others I've seen
mircea_popescu: wait, is that guy in the video trying to charge capacitors in an ac circuit ?
mircea_popescu: from the confiscated miners article, "Неизвестно откуда взявшиеся эксперты таможенной службы установили, что металлические конструкции со встроенными в них схемами «предназначены для выполнения специализированных операций расчета хэш-сумм с б
mircea_popescu: ольшой скоростью, что позволяет использовать их для концентрации на определенном адресе чисел и денежных средств». Вероятно, это подтверждает высокий уровень технической подготовки экспертов таможенной службы Читы, способных н
mircea_popescu: а взгляд определить возможности схем, зашитых в металлический корпус."
mircea_popescu: what uncharitable bs. really, it's that hard to identify hash chips ? i had no idea o.O
mircea_popescu: but i mean, "guy came in with 10lbs of undeclared stuff, got it confiscated"
mircea_popescu: this reminds me vaguely of the nefario timetravel adventures.
mircea_popescu: a much better story would be something like, "company ordered parts, submitted proper importation documents, had them confiscated at border "
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mircea_popescu: anyway. the first step riding the world of human excrement is telling the "wolfgoethe"s, poetterings, gavins & co of this world that they are wrong to exist.
mircea_popescu: just that simple fact. "no amount of environmentalism helps anything as long as you continue to exist"
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mircea_popescu: "unless someone like you dies a whole awful lot, nothing is gonna get better - you're rot"
mircea_popescu: "unless someone like you dies a whole awful lot, nothing is gonna get better, you rot!"
mircea_popescu: yup, same exact one i found. check out the unspeakable diversity of the interwebs,
mircea_popescu: meanwhile reduced to about five hundred sites by the unerring sloth and stupidiy of the masses and the unrelenting efforts of the corporation.
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pete_dushenski: decimation: what I find amusing is that the lefties don't get that they are in a relgious war because they don't even realize that what they are derping about is metaphysics << definitely amusing. though you have to figure that *some* know the equalitarianism can't be measured.
assbot: Gavin Andresen Proposes Scalability Roadmap and Hardfork
pete_dushenski: other than his clear reluctance to get in the wot, he seems smart enough.
BingoBoingo: Dude's pretty much the guy on mining pools
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: so, you know, free all the 13 yos trapped in 28 yo bodies. << new mpex fund: freedom28
pete_dushenski: includes life lessons, discipline, fear, obedience, and unpredictable lashings.
pete_dushenski: …rock-a-by slavegirl… in the treetop… when the wind blows… you'll suck on my cock…
punkman: "Gavin offers this 50% yearly figure based on Nielsen's Law of Internet bandwidth which supposes high speed Internet connections double in speed every year."
punkman: well shit, my bw been the same for like 7 years
punkman: I guess guy was talking about datacenters or something "a high-end user's connection speed grows by 50% per year"
sgornick: Will Qntra gets its own irc channel?
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sgornick: mircea_popescu: To not add qntra-specific noise to #bitcoin-assets. Lots of chatter will be added from it, I suspect.
mircea_popescu: the very point of qntra is for there to not be a distance between truth, as represented here, and news.
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8700 @ 0.0007444 = 6.4763 BTC [+]
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, "According to CoinThrift the attacked occurred early the morning of October 5th but went undiscovered for some time." s/attacked/attack/c
startup2`isninja: I'll be back tonight. I may have another offer for people, it would be a 1-year position and primarily of interest to people who want a hedge against price movements against them. My previous offers were not closed via -assets or -otc. (No transactions done.) the total size of the offering would be up to 100 coins, US legal system and contracts, and approximately 2 weeks from now until wire (or transfer.)
davout: yeah, wedding + honeymoon mostly
thickasthieves: usg saying "hey it's only illegal if you get caught right?"
thickasthieves: "As a threshold matter, the declaration does not establish that Ulbricht had a reasonable
thickasthieves: expectation of privacy in the SR Server, as required for him to have standing to move for its
thickasthieves: if you are criminal, why would you think you have right to privacy?
thickasthieves: isnt there a greater problem where if the gov did inject code to make the server leak, that this precedent would now allow such action the future
thickasthieves: like, if you got a server we dont like, hacking you is fair game
thickasthieves: "SR Server needed only to be “reasonable” – that is, justified by “legitimate governmental interests.” Vilar, 729 F.3d at 86. Given that the SR Server was hosting a blatantly criminal website, it would have been reasonable for the FBI to “hack” into it in order to search it, as any such “hack” would simply have constituted a search of foreign property known to contain
thickasthieves: criminal evidence, for which a warrant was not necessary ."
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35664 @ 0.00074532 = 26.5811 BTC [+] {2}
bounce: total hax man. also, we don't care about your rights. we don't have to care about your rights. we're the government
bounce: judges aren't big on waylaying the government these days.
bounce: kinda interesting though, that though it's mostly a dead letter these days over there, you're supposedly still innocent until proven guilty (or badgered into pleading guilty, which they're very good at and do a lot), but that it doesn't go at all for things, like websites. "blatant illegal website!" -- oh, is it? how'd you know that?
thickasthieves: i suppse it was probably also illegal where SR was hosted
thickasthieves: but arent there other precedents saying a website owner isnt responsible for the crimes commited by users of it?
thickasthieves: do ebay servers get hacked when they discover coupon counterfeiters?
assbot: Silk Road: Government files response to Horowitz Declaration
bounce: "safe harbor" and like rules, yes. which parties like the MAFIAA like to ignore
assbot: Government Set Up A Fake Facebook Page In This Woman’s Name
bounce: huh, sneaky circular argument there. usg says hoster Ts&Cs allowed for monitoring to no privacy for you! -- but how'd they know what server to monitor, hm? tor ought to've made it unfindable.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10423 @ 0.00074579 = 7.7734 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: Sweet, lotta bearwhale fan art out there. I'm waiting for the slashfic.
assbot: 7th Heaven Dad Stephen Collins Taped Confessing to Child Sex Abuse
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 321.03, Best ask: 322.5, Bid-ask spread: 1.47000, Last trade: 322.53, 24 hour volume: 34906.79588908, 24 hour low: 312.37, 24 hour high: 347.0, 24 hour vwap: 330.464326352
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5250 @ 0.0007444 = 3.9081 BTC [-]
assbot: Gavin Andresen Proposes Scalability Roadmap and Hardfork
assbot: BearWhale Is Freaking Out the Bitcoin Markets -- NYMag
thickasthieves: "nd the Bitcoiners celebrated. "WE JUST HARPOONED THAT MOTHERFUCKER!" wrote one. "While the stock markets were closed, we had our weekend full of laughs and tears. Who doesn't wanna be part of it? Long live the 24/7 free market!" wrote another."
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14900 @ 0.0007442 = 11.0886 BTC [-] {2}
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 35557887526.9 based on data since last change | 38815196708.8 based on data for last three days
thickasthieves: those new cheapo asicminer prisms will hit the scene soon
BingoBoingo: Maybe I need to stop bashing my hand with the OED when I typo and find a correction that doesn't affect the typing hands.
thickasthieves: be a real writer and write from Androad with autocorrect
BingoBoingo: Huh, the Dodgers are starting Kershaw again tomorrow after he got tagged for 8 runs Friday
mats_cd03: i see the scalability roadmap refers to moore's law
mats_cd03: as i understand it moore's law doesn't mean shit anymore
BingoBoingo: Also the part where bandwidth doesn't evenly increase and shit.
nubbins`: so i click a gop.com link that was posted in this channel
nubbins`: now all week, google is feeding me ads for George H.W. Bush socks
mats_cd03: >Fortunately technological progress marches on, and Nielsen’s Law of Internet Bandwidth and Moore’s Law make scaling up easier as time passes.
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
nubbins`: ^ if you were wondering what bush sr socks look like
dub: assets is gop sponsored chan
nubbins`: meantime, you ever look at portrait photographs of dick cheney?
nubbins`: that's the look of a man who fucked you in the ass
nubbins`: and he knows you can't do anything about it
assbot: Young Ex-ISIS Hostage Shocks CNN Reporter, Family: ‘They Are Right’ | Mediaite
dub: kid should have beheaded cnn reporter for real shock value
TomServo: Could of interesting posts on ISIS there.
sgornick: > Beth Moses led the standardization and testing of extravehicular interfaces for the International Space Station while at NASA.
sgornick: Now trying to get people to use XBT versus BTC
assbot: Press Release October 7, 2014: Bitcoin Foundation Financial Standards Working Group Leads the Way for Mainstream Bitcoin Adoption | The Bitcoin Foundation
sgornick: > Bitcoin are B⃦, ฿, and Ƀ. <--- Which do you prefer?
nubbins`: ask me again if/when a standard US keyboard includes a B⃦, ฿, or Ƀ symbol
fluffypony: it looks like a B getting probed analy
fluffypony: which, frankly, is kinda rude since the B didn't do anything to deserve an anal probing
BingoBoingo: No need for a symbol. BTC is fine. People build friendly 'nugh interfaces with BTC
thickasthieves: really i'd rather focus on getting people to quit choosing arbitrary denominations
assbot: Jacques Maurel - Teacher in Machine Design | GEARS
nubbins`: why do i read comments on CBC articles?
nubbins`: this is regarding an article about cleaning products not being required to list the specific perfume/scent ingredients: "Printing is cheap these days so no reason not to list all the ingredients in everything"
kakobrekla: sgornick arguing that XBT is better for adoption or whatever the fuck is beyond retarded
thickasthieves: this is all Circle had to say about my inquiry as to my order being cancelled "We may have delayed your transaction due to our fraud prevention monitoring. I apologize for any inconvenience! We should have this issue resolved in the next few days."
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "S&P 500 to post 8th straight quarter of gains"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1053/ Odds: 64(Y):36(N) by coin, 63(Y):37(N) by weight. Total bet: 3.8357673 BTC. Current weight: 91,607.
nubbins`: thickasthieves you'll never know 8)
nubbins`: i did the full gamut w/ my circle account, A+++ would buy satoshis from again
thickasthieves: it's canceled but that's much too substantive a word for a rep to use
nubbins`: also A+++ would cash out via again
nubbins`: with my visa-enabled debit card!
nubbins`: also worked w/ my straight-up visa, but dem cash advance fees
ben_vulpes: thickasthieves: the wot begins to bite
thickasthieves: this was my message to Circle, to which i got that form response "I shouldn't complain since the price has gone down anyway, but why didn't this order go through? I just want to know how to avoid the problem in the future.
thickasthieves: Note that it's ironic that I actually made this purchase by mistake because I thought the "Deposit" button meant , yknow, depositing funds, not exchanging currencies. Your system of dollarifying all numbers is obnoxious. Let people type in bitcoin amounts and understand it as a separate currency. You're just confusing things."
assbot: Beautiful High Definition Macro Videos of Chemical Reactions
nubbins`: MFW i couldn't zero my btc balance upon withdrawal
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ben_vulpes: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:c2fb6d6d44d05e4e920fa7657c657023bca51dd850832f6953cf88c3
gribble: You are now authenticated for user ben_vulpes with key 2AFA1A9FD2D031DA
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user danielpbarron has been recorded.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 850 @ 0.000598 = 0.5083 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12245 @ 0.00074271 = 9.0945 BTC [-]
danielpbarron: i'm not sure how you, ben_vulpes, were able to !up him without being authed
ben_vulpes: looks like assbot maintains its own notion of authedness
danielpbarron: how can people say irc isn't "real life?" It has a way to let them storm out all pouty
kakobrekla: if gribble quits you lose his auth but your place in assbots ACL is not lost
bounce: gribble is such a quitter
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
nubbins`: braised a pork shoulder last night
mats_cd03: i am under the impression SIM cards have DMA
assbot: The SIM card is a full featured computer. It has memory, a CPU, and your telco ... | Hacker News
nubbins`: but there's a modicum of solace in the fact that other people are similarly confused, no?
mats_cd03: the interface is serial but that doesnt really tell me anything
dbolser: working on a counter to the argument that bitcoin price is important if it falls below a certain threshold where the cost of securing the network is 'too high'
bounce: really need to find more ways to recover the secret keys from SIM cards and stick'em in (FOSS-programmed) alternate SIMs that you control
dbolser: I figure cost of securing network is proportional to price
dignork: so I invited dbolser here, because we where discussing MV=MC in #bitcoin, but no traction there.
bounce: how hard is it to build a (simple, "feature") phone with fully-controlled firmware including the wireless interface side?
thickasthieves: dbolser while price and mining have a relationship, it is not in sync necessarily
mats_cd03: bounce: not hard. google: osmocombb
thickasthieves: itd be impossible to know the plans and behavior of major mining outfits and their coins and costs
thickasthieves: also keep in mind that mining costs as reported by reddit etc, are just a snapshot of what can be seen, there have been private operations implementing their own chips for a while now
dbolser: thickasthieves: I don't argue that the two are related in a complex way, but I wonder if there is a lower bound on price whereby mining 'colapses'
nubbins`: yeah, the only chips you hear about are the ones where the makers wanted to vacuum up that sweet sweet "investor" money
dbolser: or is a low price not worth attacking?
dbolser: if price goes to 1 cent per 10 BTC (lets say), is there any 'value' in mining?
thickasthieves: the problem i have with the point is it acts like price is a driver of anything but speculation
thickasthieves: mining is more likely to affect price than the reverse imo
mats_cd03: the infinite money machine distorts proper analysis of these things
bounce: so easiest there would be to put a good push behind supporting more phones (like some nokia models from back when they were respectable)
dbolser: so, hypothetically, does bitcoin ever die?
dbolser: is there a set of functions it performs as cost enters certain ranges?
ben_vulpes: can you clarify the functions question?
dbolser: ben_vulpes: yeah, I'm vague there too... like if the price stays really low, it's still a tool for international trade
dbolser: if price gets higher, is it a store of value?
dbolser: I was thinking something along those lines
dbolser: seems the higher the price, the bigger the buzz, the wider the application
ben_vulpes: it's always a store of value, and it's always a method of transacting value.
dbolser: perhaps I need to study alt-coin failure modes
ben_vulpes: the interesting thing is what happens to modern governments that run on printing money.
assbot: The Problem with Altcoins | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
thickasthieves: the function is that bitcoin is designed to be antifragile, so each of it's properties work to correct and balance the others
thickasthieves: re remittance, that is one aspect where price (more specifically, market cap) matters
ben_vulpes: thickasthieves: how does market cap affect remittance?
thickasthieves: bitcoin is backed by bagholders, so if you wanna be able to transact AND cash out large amounts, you need large price
thickasthieves: this is also why you get guys talking about "closing the loop"
thickasthieves: which is not totally possible, but probably the natural point bitcoin trends towards
thickasthieves: closing the loop is probably an anti-goal because changing the value of bitcoin dramatically would also change the costs of goods dramatically
thickasthieves: i'm just thinking out loud here, waiting for someont to bring me to earth
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.11813156 BTC to 15`414 shares, 7254 satoshi per share
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 5.10594672 BTC to 1`149`988 shares, 444 satoshi per share
thickasthieves: generally i subscribe to the belief that all extremes and ideals are only achievable for a moment at best, and that a robust/sustainable approach to theory and design is better
nubbins`: i found a piece of paper yesterday that said "1:30pm tuesday oct 7" and i can't remember if i'm supposed to be meeting someone here or not
nubbins`: thickasthieves casascius coins are essentially a closed loop, albeit not a very good example
dignork: thickasthieves: in case of wide usage of btc, remittance as business will disappear
thickasthieves: by closed loop i mean getting people to transact in bitcoin and not convert to fiat
thickasthieves: dignork i assume you mean be taken over by crypto, not disappear
los_pantalones: thickasthieves why do ppl think you should exchange a provably finite asset for something like a ham sandwich
thickasthieves: Well i think businesses will still provide the service
dignork: thickasthieves: if it's trivial to find buyer here, and seller there, it won't be remittance anymore, just exchage fees on both sides of trade
los_pantalones: ever seen someone exchange .00001% of their home for a piece of pie ?
thickasthieves: dignork thats what remittance is, paying a fee to transport money via a 3rd party
thickasthieves: remit companies might also be more general escrow agencies
thickasthieves: just because bitcoin lets people do things for themselves doesnt mean that all of sudden people will start doing things for themselves
assbot: Use code XBT, not BTC for bitcoins |
gribble: The answer is certainly yes.
dignork: thickasthieves: in "send money home" scenario, no arbitrage/insurance is required, unless we are talking about hedging volatility risk. Any btc buyer or seller migh assume himself in "remittance business", which means unrestricted lower bound for margin. that's why i think remittance as a business will disappear. It will just turn into a corner case of btc<->whatever trade.
PeterL: you don't need remittances anymore, just a local trader at each end to convert to/from local currency
PeterL: didn't MP once refer to local currency as "food vouchers"?
PeterL: maybe that is why USgov wants the price low, so it is harder to move large quantities of money outside their system without permission?
dignork: PeterL | you don't need remittances anymore << in theory you are right, but for now you have whopping 5 buyers listed on localbitcoins in Mexico. Seems we are not there yet.
PeterL: yeah, not yet, but certainly moving that direction
PeterL: thickasthieves: yes, but it can be a different individual at each end of the transfer, unlike now where you have the same company at both ends
chetty: I wouldnt go too much by localbitcoins listings, plenty of places trading in btc not listed
bounce: what, you don't know? currency codes use the iso3166 two letter country code plus one letter for the currency. so BTC is really "bhutan coin". exceptions are the X codes, XAU, XPT, XAG and so on.
kakobrekla: i guess iso3166 can now ask bitcoin if it can reform
gribble: 1 XAU = 1210.700000000000 USD = 3.6744665999 BTC
rithm: seems like highway robbery for shiny metal
nubbins`: <+nubbins`> i found a piece of paper yesterday that said "1:30pm tuesday oct 7" and i can't remember if i'm supposed to be meeting someone here or not
nubbins`: turns out i did indeed have a meeting scheduled for here
nubbins`: also turns out i'm gonna be printing the writers' alliance quarterly journal
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8405 @ 0.00074265 = 6.242 BTC [-]
nubbins`: mp dat poster link you sent a while back
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16200 @ 0.00074535 = 12.0747 BTC [+]
nubbins`: websites like that make me sad
assbot: posters.lardbucket.org
nubbins`: boils some poor heel's life down to this shitty little nugget of wasted effort
mircea_popescu: i'm like... dude i used to make that stuff, in basic, on a z80
nubbins`: could make 60 of these a second
nubbins`: but wait dude, you don't understand, he also did that one of the mandelbrot set
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, i mean, still have no idea that they wolfgoethe
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2014 04:02:22; WolfGoethe: I code web mostly. many platforms. had a few startups. did the napster of Ringtones in 2000. and a few social networking sites. and now working on some bitcoin stuff.
assbot: Radioactive emission of Uranium visible to naked eye in a cloud chamber! - YouTube
bounce: it's blue. snazzy tune though. didn't think it had it in it.
nubbins`: luckily this video has an unskippable ad at the start
bounce: didn't get one of those, but I have a lot of ad-y things blocked here.
nubbins`: ben_vulpes why is this a 35s video instead of a 3s gif?
nubbins`: why is it published by "funny videos"?
nubbins`: i'm sorry, i know you don't have answers
assbot: 'I've made a terrible mistake' - YouTube
assbot: Nuclear Reactor start up - YouTube
bounce: ah, the link between the videos is the tune
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4800 @ 0.00074535 = 3.5777 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 200 @ 0.12600511 = 25.201 BTC [-] {27}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 95 @ 0.1016202 = 9.6539 BTC [-] {10}
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo cazalla heh check out the furry of attention your little project is getting from our enemies. methinks we;ve struck oil here.
mircea_popescu: i should probably say "the enemies of a free world, liberty, happiness and generally humanity", but it's kinda lengthy to give these people all their proper titles and indignities.
nubbins`: let them be henceforth known as The Enemies
assbot: Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job - Slashdot
mircea_popescu: "we made it a secret and prosecute anyone disclosing how we infringe rights
mircea_popescu: the law requires someone asking for his rights to be protected to say how his rights were infringed
mircea_popescu: how do these people even get out of bed in the morning ?
nubbins`: i think they black out their mirrors
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8600 @ 0.00074535 = 6.41 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: and bingo you're doing a bangass job over there! everyone else links the pdf, you put in the text. brownie points.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller listen, you actually shipping those cookies ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, i am curious how many of the references and injokes are actually observable from outside the work
mircea_popescu: and how many random bits are overinterpreted in the quest for the former
assbot: startup_isninja +v failed; L1: 0, L2: -4
fluffypony: Have we discussed David Seaman's proclamation of Bitcoin's demise? I see pete_dushenski spotted it
mircea_popescu: we have not, because we did last time and well, it just seems to encourage this sort of thing
nubbins`: if you're ninjashogun, expect the reverse in a moment
fluffypony: About how Bitcoin is dead because the price went so low
fluffypony: And if it wast dead the price wouldn't go that low
mircea_popescu: yeah, totally. im sure the price for his penis is over 300 bux.
mircea_popescu: i wonder why all the people with shitty names don't get together and make their own country.
mircea_popescu: o, right! because it's a stupid idea! well... nevermind then.
nubbins`: i know a woman with the last name Smellie, true story
nubbins`: the best stories are succinct, yet moving, and oddly telling
mircea_popescu: nubbins` by the way, know the story of old john cocksucker and his namechange ?
nubbins`: nope. married an italian woman named Bella Fellatoria?
mircea_popescu: lol. nah. he was this guy about fifty, not particularly bight, in fact closer to high functioning retardation
mircea_popescu: that minded his own business, was kinda friendly, and so everyone he knew suggested he do one thing for his future
nubbins`: there's a spin instructor at the gym named dick barter
nubbins`: i've taken to calling him cock swap
nubbins`: (not to his face, he could likely kick me to death)
nubbins`: there was a dope dealer named richard ball
nubbins`: overheard one day: "man, anybody ever call you dick ball?"
nubbins`: awkward silence, question guy leaves w/o another word
mircea_popescu: "During the last eighteen months I have not had the good fortune to attend my own funeral, but with that exception I have buried pretty nearly everything I lived for." << wow check out this guy.
nubbins`: A++++ would use to boost own feelings again
nubbins`: thestringpuller :/ let me find a tracking #
assbot: Philip Pynn, Averill Baker shared 'passionate kiss' before arrest - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News
nubbins`: this is maybe the most prominent defence lawyer in the province
nubbins`: lawyer (she) did not get arrested
nubbins`: her kissy-mate, who had murdered a guy 24h prior, got arrested
mircea_popescu: see, this is why the motherfucking wasps were so wrong.
nubbins`: thestringpuller: Your item was undeliverable as addressed at 2:51 pm on September 20, 2014 in ATLANTA, GA 30309. It is being returned if appropriate information is available.
thestringpuller: nubbins` can you pm me the address that was given to you by the artist?
nubbins`: ooooooooo fuck me in the ass, i wrote the P.O. Box number down wrong
nubbins`: let me find the tx, PM me a btc address
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: like how can a foreign website be illegal? <<< you got an oxymoron problem going there son ?
nubbins`: i'll refund you, that package will likely be destroyed.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu i almost made the same mistake on the shirts
nubbins`: dysnumeria i guess or w/e it's called
guruvan: never doubt the wisdom of the gribble
nubbins`: thestringpuller shirts will be arriving at proper location
guruvan scrolls back down to the present
nubbins`: thestringpuller try calling USPS and give them tracking # LM000212190CA
guruvan: failed thickasthieves - told him to buy XBT
nubbins`: there's an off-chance it'll still be in a sort facility somewhere.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: do ebay servers get hacked when they discover coupon counterfeiters? << no, because ebay servers are already hacked by design, because they use the "proper" software as indicated.
guruvan: thestringpuller: no - but I've been around here a long while - just not much in here for a while
mircea_popescu: bounce: huh, sneaky circular argument there. usg says hoster Ts&Cs allowed for monitoring to no privacy for you! -- but how'd they know what server to monitor, hm? tor ought to've made it unfindable. << they "just knew" heh.
mircea_popescu: but really, this silkroad thing is becoming a major liability for the usg, after having actually crossed the line from gain to liability sometime in spring.
nubbins`: the FBI "just knew" in the sense that an NSA agent walked into their office and said "hey, check out this URL!"
mircea_popescu: making it n-0, retroactively. THEY HAVE YET TO ACTUALLY SCORE ONCE!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and that n is pretty fuckingly scary high, what with the heartbleed headshot and all the other outlays generously handed out by la serenissima.
bounce: well, losing only counts if the judge says it's a loss. if they don't, it's a win.
mircea_popescu: the embarassment of havcing to answer to it makes it a loss already.
mircea_popescu: if questioned, no matter what the sops say, it's still a loss.
mircea_popescu: assbot: 7th Heaven Dad Stephen Collins Taped Confessing to Child Sex Abuse <<< holy shit omfg no wai!!1
bounce: morally, but the usg doesn't care about that; it figures it's too big to fail
mircea_popescu: yes, but practically the delusions of the players aren't relevant.
bounce: but who cares if the bill only comes due well after your pension?
mircea_popescu: bounce depending on one's age, i wouldn't put much stock in that. i suppose septuagenarians have good cause to be disinterested on these grounds.
mircea_popescu: but anyone else... who cares if the bill comes due just as you're due for pension payments? hm ?
bounce: also depends on your perception. this is perhaps the more cogent point. who's going to be right? well... if we're lucky and they're not a lot of the cogs in the usg are going to feel mightily blindsided.
mircea_popescu: every current usg employee is in direct danger of starvation, once they reach old age. better make some good friends and suck up to the fambly, because the usg won't be here to pick up their tabs.
mircea_popescu: it takes precious little luck for the woodchpper to grind a whole forrest.
mircea_popescu: all it takes is a little time and a coupla determined people.
assbot: $ git commit -S gpg: skipped "Alfie "Azelphur" Day <support@azelphur.com>": sec - Pastebin.com
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: that's the part that makes no sense, I shouldn't be, it's the same key I've always used on this machine since the dawn of time, I only have one key, gpg --list-secret-keys shows one key
bounce: perhaps depends on a gpg agent that isn't running or perhaps doesn't have the key loaded
Azelphur: bounce: that's possible, the key does require a passphrase
mircea_popescu: you see why this is not the sort of thing another could help with Azelphur. check the secret keyring ? maybe is there a pinentry involved that fails silently ?
mircea_popescu: nobody really knows the intricate details of your own "dawn of time" history but you
Azelphur: nubbins`: echo "Hello world" | gpg --clearsign works fine
bounce: well then. time to dig into git for a bit.
punkman: Azelphur: try this: git config --global user.signingkey FFFFFFFF
guruvan: or perhaps the .git/config doesn't
guruvan: have the right key in there?
Azelphur: punkman: thanks, that solved it
mircea_popescu: for a bunch of experts that use excel, the controlling factor is to make sure the story's believable.
nubbins`: interesting, "the net" was the last movie i recall seeing a 3.5"
mircea_popescu: apparently Live Free or Die Hard (2007) was one of the first films to use the sticks.
mike_c: ooh, SR was using "php databases"
mike_c: "Silk Road’s reliance on PHP databases was readily observable from the website itself during the time of its operation"
mike_c: this is gov't derping from the filing.
mike_c: hopefully such a thing doesn't actually exist.
mike_c: they are just talking about phpmyadmin.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: be a real writer and write from Androad with autocorrect << so much win
assbot: Law enforcement never fails to unintentionally entertain pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mike_c: oh no, to be clear I am laughing at them.
thickasthieves: the trading chat is all "we'll have one more new low, then moon"
mircea_popescu: i guess I should make a little infographic while at it.
thickasthieves: they missed the low, and now wan to will it into being
fluffypony: mmmm, rooibos iced tea with vanilla vodka
bounce: there is only one original trollbox
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15300 @ 0.00074535 = 11.4039 BTC [+]
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thestringpuller: He didn't even respond...caught with his pants down to see that his balls are missing?
assbot: [HAVELOCK:AM1] 1D: 0.10010000 / 0.11865812 / 0.14600000 (303 shares, 35.95341020 BTC), 7D: 0.10000001 / 0.13318606 / 0.19210002 (1622 shares, 216.02778869 BTC), 30D: 0.10000001 / 0.15787022 / 0.26900000 (5077 shares, 801.50712295 BTC)
nubbins`: blockchain.info is a handy enough read-only wallet that i haven't bothered trying any others
mircea_popescu: they;re one of the lenders, but! i gotta say they parlayed very little into a whole lot. they don't actually have enough btc on hand to justify a 30mn grant.
thickasthieves: i dont understand how you put $30m into a wallet company and take $30m+ back out
assbot: This is how much I rule (today) pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
nubbins`: earlier today, headline on cbc news website was "freight train operators report falling asleep on job"
nubbins`: all about being overworked, no sleep, etc
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 114 @ 0.01059769 = 1.2081 BTC [+] {3}
nubbins`: that's no longer the main headline because we now have BREAKING: Major train derailment near Wadena, Sask.
bounce: well, that's one way to spin control
mircea_popescu: dub: assets is gop sponsored chan << yeah, but the great old party in question is the guelph.
bounce: oh, anhydrous ammonia, "highly toxic" says cnbs. to aquatic animals, says wikipedia.
thestringpuller: what was that article about giving engineers too much money on trilema?
thickasthieves: well after the SEC interaction he probly got on some lists ;)
chetty: they would be fools not to
mircea_popescu: assbot: Press Release October 7, 2014: Bitcoin Foundation Financial Standards Working Group Leads the Way for Mainstream Bitcoin Adoption | The Bitcoin Foundation << they really should stop competing with the onion.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: it looks like a B getting probed analy <<< would you prefer an octopus ?
fluffypony: the symbol for Hydra from the Marvel comics would be awesome
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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: No need for a symbol. BTC is fine. People build friendly 'nugh interfaces with BTC << yeahy but then how would vessenes' scam ring issue "press releases" about things and stuff ?
thickasthieves: i was loading some stuff into the fridge earlier and felt like a web or string my neck, so i grabbed and flicked to floor. it was a huge red wasp.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: how is XBT better ? << it's great in that it gives btc the occasion to show the entire iso process the door.
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1200 @ 0.00074535 = 0.8944 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: these self-righteous cunts. it's porn when other women do it, amirite ?
mircea_popescu: shut up and embrace it. when we want porn, you do porn. when porridge is fashionable you make porrige and if sandwiches come into fashion you make sandwiches. wtf is this.
assbot: Adobe Spies On Users' eBook Libraries - Slashdot
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves or stop calling "a career" menial, servant jobs which don't afford you being with your family.
mircea_popescu: that's what motherfucking careers are : lines of work where you can do what you please.
bounce: "deputy cto", such an interesting job title.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: Note that it's ironic that I actually made this purchase by mistake because I thought the "Deposit" button meant , yknow, depositing funds, not exchanging currencies. Your system of dollarifying all numbers is obnoxious. Let people type in bitcoin amounts and understand it as a separate currency. You're just confusing things." <<< they're not JUST confusing things.
mircea_popescu: bounce that feels like it should have a titty in there.
BingoBoingo: bingoboingo cazalla heh check out the furry of attention your little project is getting from our enemies. methinks we;ve struck oil here. << I think the individual blogs stung from time to time. The concentrated effort on a news as information service scares them.
thickasthieves: when i showed my wife the TBF nonprofit documents she commented "Chief Scientist" is an odd job title for a nonprofit
mircea_popescu: yeah well chief derp didn't sound as exciting to the prospective candidate
thickasthieves: also noted that the exec is actually a paid consultant from a separate company
mircea_popescu: anyway, she needn't worry : the third party company is where the siphoned funds are headed. the foundation is just the scamming public front.
rithm: but this is the intertubes, it must be science'd
thickasthieves: she thought ot was the exec title at first, since he's the only guy on payroll
rithm: economics is scientific and mostly theoretical, chief scientist sounds legit on a spaceship
assbot: Build a bank | Hacker News
rithm: it really time for a bank named triangle, rhombus, trapezoid, or dodecagon
mircea_popescu: or it could just be called calgon and also fix your washing machine.
rithm: i may be too late for triangle bank
rithm: some pills are hexagon, so hexagon bank would operate on new planes of banking
rithm: yeah that depression quote from earlier nearly made me bleed out
rithm: thankfully my secretary found me in time and administered beer
mircea_popescu: these people are out of a parody i swear. every single day. EVERY SINGLE DAY there's a "protest" in buenos aires. bout a hundred or so people gather (50 or so being the same throughout), drum the same tune on perhaps he same drums. each day.
mircea_popescu: i like how danielpbarron is -30 on the wot and +5 to assbot
mircea_popescu: if there's ever a need for illustration of the concept of total trust, and it's pointlessness - that's it
jurov: does or will qntra sell adspace?
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: is the third-party corp identified yet?
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic judges commonly view through defendants corporate structrurings, if those are intended to mask the real interests in the case.
thickasthieves: ;;later tell pankkake bitfetch.com seems dead and i am sad
thickasthieves: you put in a magnet link and it downloads and zips the file for you to download directly, for a small btc fee
mats_cd03: how is it things like that get shut down, but seedbox providers continue to operate?
jurov: how it got shud down?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 9 @ 0.12 = 1.08 BTC [-]
thickasthieves: nice headline "Airbitz’s Touchless Bitcoin Wallet Targets Novices, Evangelists Alike"
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 10 @ 0.14648977 = 1.4649 BTC [+] {5}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 10 @ 0.14789991 = 1.479 BTC [+] {4}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 118 @ 0.11598923 = 13.6867 BTC [-] {6}
kakobrekla: <Dizzle> hey, how do I use this #bitcoin-assets channel? assbot is down < heh
kakobrekla: down for a minute and i get complaints.
mthreat: kakobrekla: no one complains about useless software
thickasthieves: oh man i just made another great typo, discussing how the bearwhale was actually the 'givernment'
nubbins`: <+thickasthieves> dogecagon ,,google bobcaygeon
assbot: Julian Assange: Bitcoin is Much More Than Just a Currency - YouTube
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of 10 for user bitstein has been recorded.
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nubbins`: thickasthieves -1 not sure if trust
nubbins`: highest otherwise i've given is 2
kakobrekla: the '8' is 'know him in real life for 10years+'
Daniel_Krawisz: oh ok. Well I guess we've been using a different convention.
kakobrekla: Daniel_Krawisz feel free to rate 11 if you wanna
nubbins`: i know plenty of people 10y+ that i don't trust
nubbins`: even the nano rating is a lel, but it's true as well
kakobrekla: nubbins` yeah but time is a nonescapable condition
bitstein: We are still trying to learn the best rating scales for our purposes. Perhaps a 10 is too high, but we want to signal a strong bond between board members of SNI. Moving to an 8.
kakobrekla: where does it say all members of your thing should have equal ratings to eachother and why
Daniel_Krawisz: Well if I'm not supposed to signal anything, then I'll just give everybody random numbers as ratings.
kakobrekla: for example, i rated mp 3 and he rated me 5, yet we are equal partner in bitbet.
kakobrekla: i really trust him with 6 but motherfucker is already leading.
bitstein: Okay, well as I clearly said, we are still learning. Our ratings will adjust over time. I actually probably need to give Daniel a complex number. A 7i + 6.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4100 @ 0.00074326 = 3.0474 BTC [-]
thickasthieves: bitstein, we dont actually know whats best, we just talk like it
bitstein: Word. I’d definitely be interested to learn how different people have thought through their ratings scale, though.
danielpbarron: i think of it as an exponential thing -- not sure what the base is
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mats_cd03: guess you'll have to call tim the tool man
Daniel_Krawisz: So I'm curious as to why mercea_popescu has been saying that an increased block size is a security problem. What's the issue here?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25508 @ 0.0007459 = 19.0264 BTC [+] {2}
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Daniel_Krawisz: So I'm curious as to why mircea_popescu has been saying that an increased block size is a security problem. What's the issue here? (sorry, I suck at spelling)
danielpbarron: Daniel_Krawisz, bigger blocks, fewer full nodes, less decentralizedness
thickasthieves: it's ever-increasing, increased the burden on nodes, and places pressure on the one leg of bitcoin that isnt properly compensated
Daniel_Krawisz: Oh, ok. Yeah, something needs to be done about that but I think it's a solvable problem.
Daniel_Krawisz: Me neither. I would rather see the block size go up. If that creates a crisis of not enough full notes, then people are going to do something about that pretty quick I'd guess.
Daniel_Krawisz: I logged in with the wrong name accidentally. It should be DanielKrawisz
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mike_c: i bought a 4tb hdd for $190 the other day.
danielpbarron: as to the conversation regarding BTC or XBC, a suitable symbol is '$' because, screw the dollar
Pierre_Rochard: ;;rate DanielKrawisz 5 excellent writer who can’t spell - SNI compadre
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Pierre_Rochard: ;;rate bitstein 5 knows how to code, has a nose for scammers - SNI compadre
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bitstein: I’m half the man I used to be.
napedia: ;;rate DanielKrawisz 5 Altcoin Hitler
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assbot: Pierre Rochard (@Pierre_Rochard) | Twitter
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Pierre_Rochard: DanielKrawisz: I lost trust in humanity as a whole, it’s nothing personal
bitstein: Pierre_Rochard is the David Seaman of SNI.
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thickasthieves: excuse my ignorance, but cant the node cost problem be solved simply by running pay-node businesses?
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