mircea_popescu: "The biggest thing you can write in C++ is... also an operating system. Well, maybe a little bigger. Let's say three times bigger. Or even ten times. But operating system kernels are at most, what, maybe a million lines of code? So I'd argue the biggest system you can reasonably write in C++ is maybe 10 million lines, and then it starts to break down and become this emergent thing that you have no hope of controlling,
mircea_popescu: like the plant in Little Shop of Horrors. Feeeeeed meeeeeee...
mircea_popescu: We have 50 million lines of C++ code. No, it's more than that now. I don't know what it is anymore. It was 50 million last Christmas, nine months ago, and was expanding at 8 million lines a quarter. The expansion rate was increasing as well. Ouch."
mircea_popescu: seriously, 50mn lines of code ? there's no need to write 50 mn lines of code. for anything.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: Funny little bit of history. Steve Y. goes on and on and on about how C++, java, etc. (algol derivatives) predictably create massively bloated codebases, gives lip service how Lisp solves these problems (which is does) and then goes back to... writing in ~ALGOL. (I asked a Googler who was recently on the same team as Steve what language they worked in - Java.)
assbot: tour-de-babel - steveyegge2
assbot: Stevey's Blog Rants: Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp
gabriel_laddel: Silicon valley is basically just a slightly more white version of (¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-> [ Luxor Centre For Businessmen ] <-.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯)
mircea_popescu: now is this kinda like c or kinda like lisp, you'd say ?
mircea_popescu: no. i mean the fact that you have a string stored, and an apparatus to retrieve and use it in place.
gabriel_laddel: Lisp thing. Emacs gave it to me in.... less than 3 seconds.
mircea_popescu: ah but this is only half the story. you also saved it there, and saved the "notes" string somewhere etc.
mircea_popescu: admire the pile of crap that the whole software involved is.
gabriel_laddel: I don't understand what you're getting at. (emacs) Lisp still has to store things in files.
mircea_popescu: in other words, back to the topic : i think the people arguing that c is just the way to talk to the c-machine, aka von neumann machine have it wrong - c is just the way average people abstract. fortunately that fit into an already existing machine, but if it hadn't it'd have been forcibly fit anyway.
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mod6: lol 8m additional lines per q!? that's just nuts
mircea_popescu: mod6 no, it's "an economy". imagine, that's the bread of what, 500 derps ?
mircea_popescu: at least. fifty idiots get to go around telling young women about their imminent promotion to higher-middle manager because of it
mod6: haha, staggers the imagination
mod6: and you're right, 50m lines of code? that does what!!?
mircea_popescu: the only conceivable purpose i can see for government would be to allocate limits. you want to write a facebook ? register with govt, get a 10k line/250kb limit. if you overrun it you get shot.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: after they're done with congress. "all laws fit in 500 pages. you want new ones ? delete old ones."
mod6: some kinda hard-limit ya
pete_dushenski: TheNewDeal: surprised they didn't make a pitch to increase the blocksize limit << lol
mod6: saw a lot of action on your blog about that topic btcpete
mircea_popescu: "Perl has the best marketing in the world. You could write a book about how brilliant their marketing is. Sun has marketed Java with money, and Perl is almost keeping up, popularity-wise, purely on the on sheer marketing brilliance of Larry Wall and his buddies. Folks at Harvard Business School should study Perl's marketing. It's astonishing."
pete_dushenski: hmm. let me see if i can dig up a quote or two worth repeating...
pete_dushenski: this one by "zeke" was decidedly luzly from a few angles:
pete_dushenski: "Gavin has done quite a lot for the bitcoin project, and is one of the few people who can credibly represent it to lay people. Still, I agree with the Romanian school inasmuch as the blockchain increase seems unnecessary and potentially disastrous to me. It’s inviting a fork that will not be honored by a large portion of the current hash power, and the current wallet balance. Thus it is a Bad Idea. What about side
pete_dushenski: chains, and all the other ways that BTC can grow in real transaction volume?"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu you are now the bearer of "the romanian school" torch!
mircea_popescu: fucking hell romania is going to end up accidentally famous by mistake.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did anyone write a full analysis of it, or just mention it in passing ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski wouldja consider adding a recent comments list ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: lol funny you should mention that… i was toying around with that this morning, trying to add a second sidebar column a la trilema and… i fucking borkt the whole thing.
pete_dushenski: thankfully, i had made a back-up but i was pretty choked for a minute cuz the auto-save didn't include that last article about gavin's retardation
pete_dushenski: ok. 5 recent comments added below the recent articles.
mircea_popescu: "It doesn’t matter what the minors feel like “honoring.” The miners will follow the full nodes; they won’t waste energy mining the fork when its coins aren’t worth the time it takes to send them to an exchange." danielpbarron << all the miners run (multiple) full nodes.
mircea_popescu: this is the ad-hoc, market driven fix to the problem of node disenfranchisement as ordained by his satoshiness.
mircea_popescu: (there's an extra bit in there, where people with a lot of exposure, financial, intellectual, emotional, w/e also run full nodes - but generally they also won't be following patently insane notions a la "let's make the blocks infinite")
assbot: Re: Prolog vs. Lisp - Naggum cll archive
mircea_popescu: "To soften my comment, I would not want to replace Gavin with some loony that thinks the USG is competent enough to undermine bitcoin in any organized way. All this talk about Mike and Gavin being stooges is absurd, and undermines my respect for much of the other (very insightful) stuff you guys write on the Internet. They can be wrong, without being corrupt."
mircea_popescu: "these are my children" ? "this is my house". most property owners don't own their own torens title bureaus
pete_dushenski: at least most people have their clothes and the groceries in their fridges
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: ty for another comment! that post deserves a plaque for the names it's attracted.
assbot: How A Bigger Blockchain Is Less Secure And Why Block Size Ain't Gonna Increase Any Time Soon | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
pete_dushenski: also the gap between brk-a and btc narrowed by, what, 5% today?
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd rather sit in a hazmat suit and read good prose than live in a meadow of paper.
pete_dushenski: man the recent comments on this theme are fugly. all title and no text. wtf.
mircea_popescu: "Every 15 years or so, languages are replaced with better ones. C was replaced by C++, at least for large-scale application development by people who needed performance but desperately wanted data types too. C++ is being replaced by Java, and Java will doubtless be replaced with something better in seven years — well, seven years after it finishes replacing C++, which evidently hasn't fully happened yet, mostly becau
mircea_popescu: se Microsoft was able to stall it before it became ubiquitous on the desktop. But for server-side applications, C++ is basically on its way out."
mircea_popescu: turns out that C/C++ are sorta like me. keep being "in the process of" being superseeded periodically, then the would-be revolutionizer dies.
mircea_popescu: "Perl will be gone soon, too. That's because a new language called Ruby has finally been translated into English."
mircea_popescu: irl, ruby got raped with an insecurity stick almost as big as my schlong, and perl still reigns
mircea_popescu: well, luckily you're not a codger, so who knows what the future brings.
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gribble: I have not seen bluemeanie.
gribble: I have not seen bluemeanie1.
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mircea_popescu: i thought that guy was in here but apparently gribble never saw it
gribble: pankkake was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 days, 11 hours, 59 minutes, and 26 seconds ago: <pankkake> here is 0.000195.
RagnarDanneskjol: I met caleb chen from ccn last weekend - seems like a nice kid and is fully cognizant of his site's derpidity - people are still eating it up, so he's all 'fuck it' - no incentive to do otherwise (besides lost dignity). apparently they have like 40 part-time writers 'on-staff'
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell pankkake i'm getting the following error running your node.sh script: "The following packages have unmet dependencies: udev : Breaks: plymouth (< 0.9.0-7) but 0.8.5.1-5 is to be installed E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages." << please to help!
cazalla: RagnarDanneskjol, that's interesting
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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell BlueMeanie4 so what about that nxt/devwork story ?
assbot: Logged on 10-10-2014 00:22:32; mircea_popescu: the only conceivable purpose i can see for government would be to allocate limits. you want to write a facebook ? register with govt, get a 10k line/250kb limit. if you overrun it you get shot.
mircea_popescu: saying that the only thing this apple's good for is the pigs doesn't amount to a suggesting feeding the pigs.
mircea_popescu: "(yeah, there are a bunch) are going to have to realize that if Lisp is ever going to be massively successful, it needs an overhaul. Or maybe a revolution. Contrary to what some might tell you, it doesn't need a committee, and it doesn't need a bunch of money. Linux proved exactly the opposite. Lisp needs a benevolent dictator. Lisp needs to ditch the name "Lisp", since it scares people. And Lisp needs to learn from th
mircea_popescu: e lessons of the 45 years of languages that have followed it."
mircea_popescu: this is an interesitng theory. i suspect it's actually true.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I doubt this very much. 'Lisp' simply needs managers to understand why they should order those not good enough to sling dope to write it.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller "other than being uncommon, common lisp is also not lisp"
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel in practice that sort of manager is a dictator.
thestringpuller: those not good enough to sling dope...that sounds familiar...
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: not necessarily. middle management worldwide likes java... why?
assbot: Loper OS » Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs.
mircea_popescu: because marginal hires won't ruin your codebase quite as badly ?
ben_vulpes: marginal hires have a hard time hacking it in lisp shops.
gabriel_laddel: does anyone really think that an extra 8mm LoC per quarter is ''not ruining things quite as badly?'
ben_vulpes: imposes this floor on hire quality, reduces need to hire as rapidly.
ben_vulpes: 'course to leverage that, you gotta use the thing everywhere. makes it hard for the polyglot shop.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you kidding ? i doubt anyone even keeps track of mn granulairty.
decimation: I was cursing python's inability to easily rewrite itself today
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: people not keeping track of this is the problem.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it'd better be because im betting on it getting blown out of the water.
mircea_popescu: well boys, this approach of yours has only the minor disadvantage that it goes exactly against the constitution of the city you live in.
mircea_popescu: i like how the b-a search function is self healing. not found anything ? try again!
decimation: the problem with lisp is that it is alient to the modern c-machine, especially the multi-core variety
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2014 03:28:42; asciilifeform: decimation: 'crazy' is the reason he actually got to work!
mircea_popescu: decimation i don't get this. all machines are multi-core
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: have you spoken with him privately / had to filter his comments on loper?
mircea_popescu: cazalla BingoBoingo for the record, i like the slightly skeptical tone of qntra reporting. tech reporting has been awash in gushing for too damned long. some classical skepticism is in dire need.
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cazalla: btw, dude that runs that ezybit ran a now defunct seo company lol
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you know how to use this thing to self voice ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: The Register is the only non-pure-pr tech news source that I know of
mircea_popescu: decimation and, note, they also display the mild, 1700s skepticism.
decimation: yeah that's true, need more of that around
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gabriel_laddel: decimation: re, the problem with lisp... this isn't CL's problem, and not a real problem anyway. Compare to writing ~ALGOL on c-machine.
decimation: ?? what part isn't the problem? 'automatic parallel-ization?
gabriel_laddel: you're claim is that the problem with lisp is that it's not built for the c-machine. my point is that even on c-machines it's still better than anything else out there.
decimation: that might be true, I'm not sure I can contain the set of all possible languages in my brain
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I see. What I don't understand is why CLers haven't just ditched the web.
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decimation: indeed, for instance from the yegge article: "We retired Mailman. That's because we have the Quality With a Name — namely, Suckiness. We suck. We couldn't find anyone who was good enough at Emacs-Lisp to make it work. "
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decimation: the obvious problem with derping on better hardware is the extremely high cost hurdle
decimation: derping on c-machine is essentially free
mircea_popescu: unfortunately ubiquitous crud like www <<< there's a major paradigm shift underplayed here. for approximately 1980 (kiler micro) to 2009, the ONLY utility of computing was www. with bitcoin, the www is a minor point, other things are major points now.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I'm at a loss for a better name. ALGOL, ~algol or algol is fine with me. Even their honorable ancestor was part of a fruitless evolutionary tree.
assbot: Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion | Random ASCII
assbot: Logged on 01-10-2014 03:13:19; asciilifeform: phun phact. traditionally, the folks who write cpu manuals (how many people here have seen them alive? dead tree manuals) don't have access to original design specs.
assbot: Logged on 01-10-2014 03:14:52; asciilifeform: so there is a mostly unwritten 'talmud' of differences between intel's manuals and the reality.
decimation: asciilifeform: in this case the error was so well-publicized intel promised to... update the docs
decimation: I wish I could just connect a pipe from the sse register to my own fpga machine
decimation: yeah I've heard of the 'hybrid fpga cpu' design
thestringpuller: ;;later tell nubbins` let me know when a good time to discuss a second order with you. i think we may have sold all 6 shirts.
decimation: I guess I was thinking of "connecting the pipes"
decimation: today I was using the xilinix ise - it's a piece of shit
decimation: I've heard that the 'synplify' synthesizer is much better, but costs golden toilet cash
decimation: the problem is that one must compile a secret 'talmud' of RTL that can be written which will actually work, as opposed to being valid
decimation: depressingly, this results in large-scale projects being soft-cpu sequential turds, rather than asynchronous combinatorial nets where possible
decimation: yeah ask any fpga design who have attempted to write 'ddr' interface if you want to hear sadness & tears
gabriel_laddel: am I correct in assuming that documenting efforts in reverse engineering a particular xlinx model is illegal / will land one in trouble with usg?
decimation: it's more the issue ascii points out, if you want the latest shit you are out of luck
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gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: do you have a link handy for the fellow who got pretty far?
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mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> you'd have to buy 'xilinx' or 'altera' - the company - to go with the chip. and publicly gut it. << it will happen.
decimation: I can't imagine that this business model of making enemies of your customers will survive
decimation: yeah that's a good point, why doesn't samsung or some chinese vendor bust this stuff up?
decimation: it's not like there's a mystery about how to design an fpga
mircea_popescu: but since losethos has been mentioned : i do suspect ninjashogun is of a similar brand, without of course the technical ability.
decimation: asciilifeform: the related topic of asynchronous design seems to be in the same state
decimation: 'we don't do it because no chips and tools' 'no chips and tools because no demand'
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decimation: The20YearIRCloud: my opinion - silver is an industrial metal, gold is going to be replaced by bitcoin in the long run but is still a reasonable altcoin - but note that it is not independent of gov'ts with big vaults of the stuff
The20YearIRCloud: You think govts are honest about their gold and metal reserves? decimation
mircea_popescu: it's improbable they'll move significantly either direction.
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: clockless - ie no clock - a cpu which executes instructions at whatever speed its logic circuits can cycle their state
The20YearIRCloud: I'm debating whether I want to get more BTC, PMs, or guns, or if I should balance what I have now a different way
The20YearIRCloud: I didn't realize that it was possible to do that, are the speeds typically much higher than what their clocked counterparts are?
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: they are about as honest with gold as they are with their btc holdings
mircea_popescu: decimation well, no. reversedly. for instance, germany claims to hold some gold it doesn't, and doesn't claim to hold any bitcoin, tho i think they do hold some.
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: they can be, but the problem is that they are 'difficult' to design because the soccer-ball-chasing-6-year-olds of academia & industry have declared the tech 'dead'
The20YearIRCloud: Germany is trying to get their gold back as it was all held in Paris, london and NYC. Out of all the countries I think they have a pretty transparent gold program, and it's showing how dishonest the US is
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The20YearIRCloud: Isn't it the same way with large paralell programming (High multi-core stuff) as they've lagged behind on development so much that some consider it aobsolete?
decimation: mircea_popescu: good point. The ongoing drama with the fed & its german gold holdings is quite amusing
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: it's safe to say that writing software that makes efficient use of 'modern' multicore chip designs is not a simple undertaking
The20YearIRCloud: I wish it was easier to do, that way I could run dwarf fortress in all its glory
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guess what you and mr davis have in common.
decimation: lol I tried to play dwarf fortress once, it seemed like a colassal waste of time, but amusing
mircea_popescu: "I designed a 3 axis stepper-motor-driven milling machine 1996-1997 with a CAD/CAM package for a company I started called Home Automation and Robotic Equipment."
The20YearIRCloud: It's fantastic, i'm told it has one of the worst learning curves even surpassing star control. But once you understand it, it's immensely fun
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decimation: pete's link about companies on the 'buyback treadmill' is hilarious
decimation: large holders of bezzlars have no idea how to profitably invest them, so they just publically embezzle them
The20YearIRCloud: kind of throw the entire premise out when they start talking about wealth inequality
mircea_popescu: i don't get how cash distribution can be held against the management.
mircea_popescu: they're overcapitalized and downsizing. what's wrong with that ?
The20YearIRCloud: "It puts less money in the hands of the people that know what they're doing - the menial laborers'
decimation: mircea_popescu: normally it wouldn't, unless it is supiciously coupled with said management excercising their generous options
mircea_popescu: the traditional route is to pursue "sexy" mergers and go bankrupt a decade later. this is better for everyone.
mircea_popescu: decimation a well that's a diff story. but the problem are the generous options then.
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mircea_popescu: if you search for a generic term in their package manager and keep scrolling... eventually iot crashes
mircea_popescu: apparently stevieboy's idea of apt-get is a sort of mozilla
mircea_popescu: and you bitch about the pile of turd that's c++/python software built on top of a c os ?
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2014 20:32:30; mike_c: ok - compile a list of 20 blog posts from blogs.b-a that are appropriate to target. tweet one a day @ target.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: The list of targets, irc is Nick Szabo, Nicholas Taleb.
hanbot: good timeperiod thestringpuller! :)
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I sent it to Terry A Davis, perhaps he can be convinced to write Lisp...
mircea_popescu: is the guy actually nuts or just being an internet person ?
xanthyos: it's not difficult for an actor to get lost in that part
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gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: re, what they could get out of your posts. You've rather clearly articulated the problem with the current computing stack. I'm unaware of any other person documenting the incumbent's desire to cater to the stupid. As thinking men, they must find it irritating to interface with today's machines.
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I suppose. In any case, your essays exist.
mircea_popescu: and laziness in monkeys is perhaps the most complex self-writing piece of software ever
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cazalla: ;;later tell devthedev i changed a few things so that article is not overly promotional for altcoins or snapcard/wix
cazalla: thestringpuller, i said writer, not editor :P
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thestringpuller: asciilifeform: what happens when one of these "secure" wallets gets exploited?
cazalla: thestringpuller, 924 views for 11 articles, my only concern with this plug in is it might be tracking BingoBoingo and my own use of the site
thestringpuller: yea so when one of these things gets hacked is it an immediate game over?
mircea_popescu: the construction "isn't limited to simply Bitcoin, but also Litecoin, Ripple and Dogecoin" is broken in that it expands to "isn't limited to X, it's limited to X Y Z and K"
thestringpuller: lol. sounds like a mole. "trust our wallet". vendor uses backdoor to steal all the consumer funds.
thestringpuller: looks like nothing is as secure as a good 'ol paper wallet buried like old school treasure.
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2014 20:46:17; asciilifeform: but, as every treatise on the subject invariably begins with, first try to understand what is to be hidden - and from whom
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thestringpuller: modern treasure hiding. i guess in international waters you have to worry about pirates?
thestringpuller: well i guess then treasure hunters shall find it in future if you bite the bullet before retrieval.
thestringpuller: the titanic hid all but lost treasures for nearly a century...
thestringpuller: this also intrigued me about dropping a message in a bottle down the marianas trench...
thestringpuller: but i don't think many devices could withstand the entire trip
decimation: thestringpuller: I think the engineering is feasible, but it certainly wouldn't be cheap. As ascii emphasized in that thread, this is for items worth >$100k 'hiding'
thestringpuller: i understand. my imagination likes to run wild. I was thinking of trusting a >$100k fortune in BTC to a paper wallet via treasure hiding, vs. the so-called "secure" hardware wallets
thestringpuller: but the problem asciilifeform has described makes for more effort of retrieval in the former scenario.
thestringpuller: if retrieval is at all possible in ones lifetime after stashing.
thestringpuller: does burying device on remote island (possibly uncharted) not work anymore?
decimation: stellar navigation is generally only as good as your time source
decimation: loses seconds per month, and how are you gonna set it if you can't count on 'infrastructure'?
thestringpuller: decimation: this is why it was so difficult to tell time in the sea during the old days.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: it's funny how a quartz watch does what a very expensive device did during the 1700's.
decimation: even in those old days they could reconstruct 'time' from solar observations & so forth, just took awhile to do so
thestringpuller: well you didn't have a "torch" of time when you left the mainland...at some point watches didn't exist.
thestringpuller: you know time in relation to your current position but not in relation to the mainland.
decimation: asciilifeform: indeed, the first step for someone considering 'off-the-grid' navigation would be to find a way to keep the 'fire' of accurate time burning without external aid
thestringpuller: was electomagnetism widely discovered at the point the chronometer came about?
thestringpuller: i remember there was a large bounty for the chronometer during it's inception
decimation: nope, it would take a few $1,000 in ovenized crystal oscillators and/or rubidium (rubidium clocks have a finite lifetime though)
decimation: asciilifeform: hehe well certainly one would have to calculate 'how close' one must be in order to effectively trigger release
decimation: presumably the closer one can get, the more alternative retrieval methods become feasible
decimation: I saw the "H1" clock at the Greenwich observatory, it was a fancy machine
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decimation: it will be interesting to see if this bottom holds
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mircea_popescu: this'd be a decent idea for an oglaf strip : a retarded indian that doesn't quite grok the entire scalping business so he's going around with a string of pubic hair patches
mircea_popescu: "As he packs up his BFL units to sell, he explains to his son that he threw away his bitcoins and their future because he is stupid and ignored MPOE-PR's posts on Bitcoin Talk. Despite all of this, Dan continues to wear his Butterfly Labs t-shirt till the end of the film, as if it is a remnant, a small piece of a future he will not enjoy."
cazalla: he shows his kid a bitcoin difficulty chart and says look at all the people mining, these bfls are shit so im selling em
cazalla: dunno, i only skipped through looking for good parts
thickasthieves: i havent even taken the time to read 1 reddit post on the movie
cazalla: it's not good, the only thing that stood out was the guy turned from enthusiastic to gutted, you can't miss it
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17700 @ 0.00074342 = 13.1585 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30072 @ 0.00074371 = 22.3648 BTC [+]
gribble: Error: "isitup" is not a valid command.
assbot: Fullnode.co is a scam | pankkake
assbot: Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion | Random ASCII
decimation: I guess one could make an argument, given the *
pete_dushenski: decimation: they both had found the teachings of one particular man to be worth branching off for
pete_dushenski: i think i just mentioned that in a footnote recently...
assbot: Thank Your Lucky Trolls | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
pete_dushenski: "Methodism is like Mormonism in that it follows the life and teachings of a recently living man. Methodism follows Britain John Wesley (1703–1791) and Mormonism follows American Joseph Smith (1805–1844). Maybe you can start a branch of Christianity too!"
pete_dushenski: i guess i shoulda written "maybe you can start a branch of judaism too!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if capsule floats a microphone near the thermocline (naturally, by a wire too thin to be lifted by) can 'pop' from 1000+km. << unless someone/thing tried to lift it prior
decimation: modern Methodism has degenerated into becoming fairly indistinct from the "liberal religion"
mircea_popescu: generally, the proposition that you'll "go to heaven" through a certain recipe is doomed to create monsters
assbot: Why Dogecoin is a scam, why the people pushing it are assholes, why Business Insider is a contemptible piece of shit, why anyone who ever worked for it will be dancing in the street for nickels and why Kevin Rose is a fuckwit. Plus other considerations. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: "iTulip.com Ad Policy As of March 31, 2006, you well see Goggle AdSense ads on iTulip.com."
decimation: lol dogecoin volume has suddenly doubled on cryptsy the past few weeks
mircea_popescu: they go to the pink sheets, to live as one of a few well specified chumpatron models
assbot: Why didn't you invest in Eastern Poland? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16800 @ 0.00074523 = 12.5199 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28828 @ 0.00074523 = 21.4835 BTC [+]
assbot: naspo comments on WARNING: Bitcoin Address Blacklists have been forced into the Gentoo Linux bitcoind distribution by Luke-jr against the will of other core devs. Gentoo maintainers are clueless and not reversing the change. Boycott Gentoo now.
thickasthieves: i know bingo mentioned it used luke's patches, but i didnt know the patches has blacklists
bounce: uh. yay, let's make bitcoin more like paypal and visa/mastercard, and arbitrarily shut out parties you don't like
RagnarDanneskjol: speaking of: 01:00 <#bitcoin-dev> petertoddgwillen: haha, yeah they do - mircea popescu had me buy him SomethingAwful passes with my credit card a few times so he could troll there
mircea_popescu: not like it actually does anything. bout as retarded as bayesian spam filtering.
thickasthieves: i can appreciate luke-jr excercising his own voting/filtering rights though
bounce: it's a curious discussion. he gets to patch the gentoo bitcoind because he's a core dev? why isn't that patch in mainline then?
assbot: luke-jr +v failed; L1: 0, L2: 0
Luke-Jr: it's not appropriate for mainline; I'd reject it myself
thickasthieves: this turned into a whole fud in the trader chat, theyre all FINCEN WANTZ BLACKLISTSZ!
mircea_popescu: gentoo decided they'll let bitcoin in there as a luke thing.
bounce: so what makes it appropriate for gentoo?
mircea_popescu: in fact, anyone with the werewithal to boycott as much as a donut stand can just as well patch out whatever.
Luke-Jr: bounce: it's better than nothing, until we have a better spam filter implementation
Luke-Jr: also, in Gentoo, it's optional
Luke-Jr: because we can just apply the patch or not
bounce: turns out it ended up as the default option, so that's one argument down the drain.
mircea_popescu: as per usual, reddit makes a mess of things. they're like ten year olds, those people. "o did you hear sugar kills ? sure, it killed sam's dog!"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45500 @ 0.00074256 = 33.7865 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: cue memes of an antropomorphic sugar cube with chainsaw
Luke-Jr: it *should* be default, since it's better
thickasthieves: ok how many people using the bitcoin wallet in gentoo would blindly use this default
Luke-Jr: I don't have that exact number.
bounce: then that's still no argument. also you're not answering the question.
Luke-Jr: bounce: it's appropriate for everyone, just not every*thing*
Luke-Jr: bounce: and we wouldn't want to *force* it on anyone
Luke-Jr: thickasthieves: the reference code is a thing
mircea_popescu: look, it's really simple. gentoo doesn't give a shit about bitcoin, it's yet another crackpot app as far as they're concerned. at some internal review it was determined it's much too buggy to be in main, and so it got put wherever they put retarded shit, and put someone in charge of it, in this case luke. the someone in charge is doing weird shit to it, as you'd expect of someone in charge of a buggy piece of shit not
mircea_popescu: none of this is remarkable, but in fact functioning as intended.
Luke-Jr: thickasthieves: the default in gentoo is for highly technical users to judge; the reference code is for developers to read
bounce: well, at least someone thought up a nice logo for bitcoind-ljr.
mircea_popescu: if you're the sort of gentoo/linux/foss user that downloads and runs buggy pieces of shit, you're expected to either a) be conversant in code and fix em or else b) not run production.
mircea_popescu: lmao. dude... anyone can do that. including the derp writing the report.
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 32873538172.4 based on data since last change | 34777196895.2 based on data for last three days
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28697 @ 0.0007432 = 21.3276 BTC [+] {2}
gribble: You rated user molokodesk on Tue Sep 30 07:54:20 2014, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: b-a deedsbot dev. AAA would hire again..
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating for user molokodesk has changed from 2 to -1.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That's the .com, the parking lot control company
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23700 @ 0.00074421 = 17.6378 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell thestringpuller New high, 924 views over 459 persons per Wordpress stats
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 1878190.93 Est. Next Diff: 315045.65 in 353 blocks (#46368) Est. % Change: -83.23
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 56214 @ 0.0007468 = 41.9806 BTC [+] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15671 @ 0.00074875 = 11.7337 BTC [+]
assbot: Luke-Jr's public apology for poor Gentoo packaging default : Bitcoin
bounce: well, that's something. IMO a blacklist on actors in the system is still entirely the wrong thing to even have. if you want to filter "abusive" txes you'd have to have some objective measure and preferrably a deterministic detection algorithm of abusiveness.
assbot: Digital Asset Liquidity Provider Melotic Closes $1.175 Million Seed Round
bounce: why does one need a million to start an exchange?
thickasthieves: curated is like saying they take responsibility for 3rd part listings, but not
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13479 @ 0.00074436 = 10.0332 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35324 @ 0.00074432 = 26.2924 BTC [-] {2}
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> so it turns out deedbot got haxed. < O_o
RagnarDanneskjol: yea good times. punkman says he's making progress on a pyth version
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5640 @ 0.00074116 = 4.1801 BTC [-]
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for Yes on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) Feb 2015 to drop under $80 before 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1052/ Odds: 76(Y):24(N) by coin, 74(Y):26(N) by weight. Total bet: 4.05 BTC. Current weight: 66,414.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40614 @ 0.00074025 = 30.0645 BTC [-] {5}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38050 @ 0.00074172 = 28.2224 BTC [+]
mike_c: I feel a little dirty. I'm getting more traffic from google now because I have a page for every bitbet. oops.
mike_c: if we were cool enough it would just be one infintiely scrolling page.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> so it turns out deedbot got haxed. << deets?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25700 @ 0.00074442 = 19.1316 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 2.71397168 BTC to 1`149`988 shares, 236 satoshi per share
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 354.97, Best ask: 355.76, Bid-ask spread: 0.79000, Last trade: 354.97, 24 hour volume: 35089.03268405, 24 hour low: 349.0, 24 hour high: 390.0, 24 hour vwap: 369.022564073
mike_c: he meant the play exchanges (nasdaq)
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.11149742 BTC to 15`474 shares, 7183 satoshi per share
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 130 @ 0.01391002 = 1.8083 BTC [-]
ben_vulpes: i'm trying the taleb approach to noise reduction
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 38036136893.6 based on data since last change | 34836558052.4 based on data for last three days
ben_vulpes: no, i'm just trying to not watch the markets.
ben_vulpes: "don't denominate the btc in usd, and vice versa"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24495 @ 0.00074172 = 18.1684 BTC [-]
gribble: The outlook is hazy, please ask again later.
thickasthieves: i suppose it's possible for bitcoin to be worth more than all the transactable equity in the world
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14400 @ 0.00074122 = 10.6736 BTC [-] {2}
pete_dushenski: so i riffed off pankkake's node tutorial and inserted a few more instructions
pete_dushenski: i also managed to sort out the errors i was encountering in debian.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32872 @ 0.00073946 = 24.3075 BTC [-] {2}
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: so it turns out deedbot got haxed. << preventing this was only $1200/mo indefinitely ;)
Apocalyptic: <pete_dushenski> there are now less than 7000 active nodes :( // I don't know where you're getting your data from, but if it's solely based on
https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/ it's wrong
assbot: Global Bitcoin nodes distribution - Bitnodes
Apocalyptic: as these only publish publicly reachable nodes
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you really should know better than taking bitcoin "foundation" shit at face value yo.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: this i know! any suggestions for how to remedy this??
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: and where might i find the scripts for this?
pete_dushenski: 0.9.3 is obviously dirt but how would one go about installing 0.6.x on a vps?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well you get the code off the repository and compile it
pete_dushenski: the instructions in my "guide" definitely need improvement. currently point people towards latest bitcoind
mircea_popescu: generally the people involved in bitcoin to this level kinda have the history, and a complete file of historical versions and so on.
mircea_popescu: i guess it's an interesting question, "what's the new guy to do". bunch of playing catchup it seems
pete_dushenski now accepting offers for binary of bitcoind 0.6.x for contravex guide.
mircea_popescu: but actually his is a legitimate request. i guess im adding this to the "wanted maintainer for eulora binaries" thing : wanted maintainer for bitcoin binaries.
mircea_popescu: anyone want to do a bunch of compiling and sign stuff ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: ketchup is fine. just have to have a little direction :)
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pankkake hey listen, how much would you want to compile and sign a bunch of code ? specifically eulora codebase and proper bitcoind (.6-.7 versions) ? gentoo and whatever else you can stomach.
mircea_popescu: tbh the msdos stack bug carnival + bitcoin bug carnival would be one sad hell.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] [PAID] 1.75950926 BTC to 29`438 shares, 5977 satoshi per share
pete_dushenski: following footnote added to "the node guide": Disclaimer! This Guide sets up the latest version of bitcoind, which is obviously a piece of fucking Bitcoin Fundation shit on a stick. This Guide will be updated with instructions on setting up bitcoind 0.6-0.7 asap.
bounce: dos can talk ethernet, see "crynwr" packet drivers for one.
gribble: nubbins` was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 day, 0 hours, 12 minutes, and 21 seconds ago: <nubbins`> ;o
bounce: noooo, not really. it's dos.
mircea_popescu: kinda my point. bitcoind makes a bunch of assumptions about what it can do to the internet
mircea_popescu: wasn't exactly "designed from the ground up with portability in mind"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what sonny, you're too good for volume swaps ?
mircea_popescu: you do, yes, inasmuch as afaik it's compiled on 16 bit with a bunch of strange as what's maxint. won't even be able to reference half the arrays becayse they smash various stacks
mircea_popescu: well if that's how you're going to go about it, how about running deathtrack in an emulator while linux handles bitcoin and call it a msdos bitcoind ?
mircea_popescu: "my solution for fixing this guy's liver is to dispense with the guy"
mircea_popescu: "the liver is fine, it's all that other shit sround it"
bounce: "something as hardware nonspecific as possible" meaning the shittiest and slowest option you can think of is a bit of a non-argument really.
assbot: Return Infinity - Pure64
bounce: you'd need a tcp/ip stack linked to your program meaning that as soon as it quits the box is off the 'net, but whatever it's configured to use it'll use.
mircea_popescu: but it is. and you can repeat with own hands, as a model
bounce: oh, you can implement a tcp/ip stack, apparently not too much work. making it work well, especially tcp, is going to be a bit more work though.
mircea_popescu: making it take off and become what EVERYONE uses is going to be a lot more work than that.
bounce: no idea how many man-hours or how it compares to, say, implementing a new compiler for some nicely convoluted language.
mircea_popescu: lisp never managed, for instance. neither did python. etc.
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, a shame the website thought it would be a good idea to use javascript popups as links
Apocalyptic: I just see links like "javascript:popCentered('pure64-manual.html',%20'900',%20'450',%20'manual');" and makes me sad
mircea_popescu: bounce not nearly as hard as a compiler, if you mean a tight optimizing compiler. otherwise, rms has been writing compilers in a day and a half on emacs.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic the notion of javascript:pop makes me sad.
assbot: Antarctic ice at ALL TIME RECORD HIGH: We have more to learn, says boffin The Register
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski oh, that's how you say "we fucked up royally and lost any possible shred of crediblity" in government-scientistalese now ? "we have more to learn" ?
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is why it's unwise for people aspiring to science to get involved in politics.
mircea_popescu: if you support policy with your "findings" you ruin your career once those findings turn out to be not truth, but mere science.
mircea_popescu: because no, no study produced by ANY PERSON who ever produced a "global warming" piece of "research" can ever be used for any scientific purpose whatsoever.
bounce: more of a problem with politics' unhealthy relationship with science-as-convenient-truth than a problem in science. though science has its share of problems.
mircea_popescu: bounce not a problem of science, of course, but a problem of scientists, actual and aspiring.
mircea_popescu: for instance, about 98% of english speaking people involved in earth studies just rendered themselves
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform matters not. the lord doesn't aim to kill sin, merely as many sinners as can get hands on.
assbot: Antarctic ice at ALL TIME RECORD HIGH: We have more to learn, says boffin The Register Forums
pete_dushenski: "The Earth hasn't warmed for > 18 years and counting. CO2 meanwhile continues to increase. Ergo. No connection between CO2 and global temperature. CAGW is false."
mircea_popescu: am i the only one who is amused by the strict similarity between the "o we know how climate works ; listen to us to fix what's broken with earth's industry" of these muppets and the "o, we know how hardware will work in the future ; listen ot us to fix what's broken with bitcoin" of the BF sponsored muppets ?
assbot: truthermn2 comments on A moment of silence please...
mircea_popescu: it seems the exact same sort of entirely broken, pseudoscientific, narcissistic gung-ho idiocy
bounce: the google translation contains a typical english grammar error (it's instead of its). how chinesely interesting.
gribble: diana_coman was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 days, 1 hour, 50 minutes, and 0 seconds ago: <diana_coman> I'm to blame for Sweete__ being here, since he pm-ed me about trading and I asked him why wasn't he in here if he was a trader
devthedev: Bitcoin.org - Website contains prohibited File Sharing content.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: it's exactly that parallel: both teams of tards belong to a religion sans eglise
mircea_popescu: then zeke is all "o, not possible to be stooges". duh. what else are they ?
devthedev: mircea_popescu: It's on the school's blacklist.
mircea_popescu: convenient idiots ? tyvm, it's exactly anderpopolous' line. "i'm not really shilling, i'm just stupid. buy my shit!"
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, like Karpeles and the like
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's such bs. you know how the soviets worked, right ? all the scum reporting to the nkvd "had to", right ?
mircea_popescu: they weren't really aware what it is they're doing, right ?
mircea_popescu: half of leningrad died in one night because a bunch of people "weren't really doing" what they were doing.
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2014 20:41:17; asciilifeform: Officially, all Soviet representatives regard these parasites with touching feelings of friendship, but privately they call them 'shit-eaters' ('govnoed'). It is difficult to say where this expression originated, but it is truly the only name they deserve. The use of this word has become so firmly entrenched in Soviet embassies that it is impossible to imagine any other name for these people. A conver
mircea_popescu: the female ability to reclassify rape as consensual and consensual as rape and to negotiate her own presence in the circumstances of her being does exactly jack shit for any discussion of reality.
mircea_popescu: which is why business has the concept of "knew or should have known". cuz it makes exactly no difference whether he "actually" knew.
mircea_popescu: these aren't distinguishable in the field. the nominal distinction follows mood or at best tradition.
assbot: Releases bitcoin/bitcoin GitHub
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform these are also not pure categories in nature. their distinction follows tradition
mircea_popescu: no argument, but let's not forget they aren't in the world.
assbot: Bitcoin history: The BearWhale of 2012 : Bitcoin
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7550 @ 0.00074021 = 5.5886 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15914 @ 0.00073941 = 11.767 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: ClubOrlov: Ebola and the Five Stages of Collapse
mircea_popescu: the problem with drinking the coolaid and starting to perceive yourself as "of a field" is that you end up with this obligatory slag.
mircea_popescu: soon enough all the forced writing kills your spark and then you're dead.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25000 @ 0.00073931 = 18.4828 BTC [-] {4}
mircea_popescu: it's one thing doing news pieces because that's the news. but people writing blogs aren't doing newspieces, they're doing editorial, and the news burnout is a century old, well known and documented mode of failure for editors.
bounce: feeding random bits to that vaikan thingy makes me lose 2:1. seems that giving the thing a pass option gives it an unfair advantage.
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 356.03, Best ask: 357.19, Bid-ask spread: 1.16000, Last trade: 356.03, 24 hour volume: 31630.34152670, 24 hour low: 349.0, 24 hour high: 380.94, 24 hour vwap: 364.911597788
assbot: Important step towards separating our bitcoin biz from /SecondMarket. The name.Introducing...Digital Currency Group
http://t.co/s4Hld235bP mike_c: the name is hardly enough barry. where's the logo?
bounce: anthropomorphic sugarcubes! with chainsaws!
bounce: oh wait, that's for something else. n'mind.
assbot: DIGITAL CURRENCY GROUP - Reviews & Brand Information - SECONDMARKET HOLDINGS, INC. New York, NY - Serial Number: 86316071
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (put a bullet through a long-overdue zombie) << zombie being what, people running gentoo through an emulator on windows ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> so it turns out deedbot got haxed. << deets? << someone put a random deed up there, i linked it above the comment.
mircea_popescu: princessnell_ the one he published or the one he acutally gave ?
mircea_popescu: add the full minutes as an add-on file to be linked from your article for the perennially curious
mike_c: i linked it above the comment. << that link 404'd for me.
mircea_popescu: mike_c well i guess it got deleted meanwhile. it just said "owned like a pony" or something
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: i suppose it's possible for bitcoin to be worth more than all the transactable equity in the world <<< this is actually one of the largest, most interesting questions in bitcoin finance.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it doesn't have a good answer. on one hand, fiat currency can never meet the total asset value, for very well understood reasons.
mircea_popescu: superficially, if one thinks btc is a drop-in replacement for fiat (which it isn't, just like car isn't exactly a drop in replacement for tricycle) one'd expect the same to hold
mircea_popescu: however, because bitcoin will be hoarded in general and transacted rarely, it is quite possible for there to appear a new macroeconomics equation :
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 60598 @ 0.00073906 = 44.7856 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: (hoarded btc) + traded btc = traded property + (hoarded property)
mircea_popescu: this is perhaps going to be the one thing economists of the future will be trying to keep in balance.
assbot: MMA Fighter Live-Tweets Police Standoff While Holed Up In House
assbot: Logged on 10-10-2014 18:21:00; mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: i suppose it's possible for bitcoin to be worth more than all the transactable equity in the world <<< this is actually one of the largest, most interesting questions in bitcoin finance.
bounce: ``Patrick Murck of the Bitcoin Foundation stated that "the people that do this stuff should burn in hell" and they are working to stop Bitcoin from being used for illicit activity.'' -- clowns be clownin'
mircea_popescu: "fuck you and get used to making the laws you can enforce as opposed to making the laws your delusions require" ?
bounce: "not condone" yadda yadda would've been plenty
mircea_popescu: amusingly, bitcoin is working fro mstopping murck &co's illicit activities.
mircea_popescu: not particularly curious as to how that confrontation's gonna end out. seen too many tards try to spit up.
bounce: oh it's not really a surprise, but his is supposedly a PR club, not a policing club. not smart to get mired in that swamp.
mircea_popescu: they've already won the war on drugs, the war on poverty and the war on terrorism.
bounce: oh yes ticker tape parades any day now
mircea_popescu: o which reminds me, did the doom zerohedge announced as a given manifest in the fx markets yet ?
mircea_popescu: that site's so funny, it's been declaring the world ends tomorrow so convincingly and for so long by now its only audience are people who actually factually believe the world ends tomorrow, each and every day. so there's this palpable atmosphere of
assbot: security - Why is this commit that sets the RSA public exponent to 1 problematic? - Stack Overflow
mats_cd03: interesting to me, since i know about zero things re: rsa.
bounce: it's been ages but an exponent of one isn't a great idea, no. they shipped with that? oops. (could see it as another reason why you don't implement crypto yourself; you use a well-vetted library, as in written by cryptographers and then read by other cryptographers)
mircea_popescu: bounce except this would meet the definition of "well vetted" as commonly deployed.
mircea_popescu: you are in fact better off using homebrew than "well vetted", inasmuch as the western world is in denial about exactly what "well vetted" means as well as what "working towards stopping use for illicit activity" means
thestringpuller: remember that point you brought up about someone reading a newspaper article about a field they are well versed in. That person says, "Wow holes everywhere" etc. Then he moves to article from field he is less familiar with and just agrees with it?
mircea_popescu: so no, i'd trust anything nist/ieee/etc certified a lot less than i'd trust random shit.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller possibly i brought it up here, but otherwise it's old scool.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 you know how if you install wordpress you're supposed to change the pre-generated salt to something ?
mircea_popescu: in cryptography, every constant's a salt. you're well advised to change ALL constants
mats_cd03: i don't know anything about the web
mircea_popescu: if the code stops working you shouldn't have been using it in the first place
mats_cd03: i think i might see schneier again sometime in the near future
mats_cd03: have any questions you want answered?
mircea_popescu: what/how much they paid him, but he won't answer that one.
mats_cd03: besides, you know, 'whats your handler's name'
rithm: what's the meaning of life other than 42?
mircea_popescu: there's not that many handlers, they drive cars, they have wives, it's a solved problem.
thestringpuller: in the future we will have nanomachines that prevent us from physically disclosing our handler. that will be a scary time.
bounce: uhm. looks like I forgot to take notes last time I had beef with some of what he was saying and forgot to keep up in the meantime. oh well.
chetty: <thestringpuller> in the future we will have nanomachines that prevent us from physically disclosing our handler. that will be a scary time.//pls tell me at least a day ahead of this
bounce: oh I have my notes, just didn't jot that one down
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: like that time the eulora gameplay post was almsot lost forever?
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rithm: oh yeah i read about ^ earlier
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devthedev: Digital Currency Group, interesting.
mike_c: it's like secondmarket, but different.
mats_cd03: quite clever IMO, but no dice. sovereign immunity.
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The20YearIRCloud: Once we're at 100% occupancy we'll be almost right at $10k/mo in revenues
mike_c: decent profit margins?
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kakobrekla: seems to be stuck to 0.45 no matter what btc or you do or is it just me
The20YearIRCloud: Although that's gonna go down as we lever, but as of property #10, our costs are a little under 30% of revenues
kakobrekla: (im just thinking re your idea of being a hedge)
mike_c: kakobrekla: yeah for last 5 months.
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kakobrekla: id call fire department on smoking property
cazalla: ;;later tell princessnell just missed you, was sleeping
danielpbarron used BingoBoingo's instructions to compile bitcoind 0.7.2 on OpenBSD 5.5
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Well the ones I asked some Indian kid to do for money and then diginork beat him to the prize when he no-show'd
danielpbarron: i have instructions on compiling ssss-0.5 on OpenBSD 5.5 if anyone is interested
cazalla: she sent an email so it's all good
mircea_popescu: <mats_cd03> quite clever IMO, but no dice. sovereign immunity. << exactly.
mircea_popescu: now if only someone made a site that wasn';t a retarded ball of javascript
mircea_popescu: google has this "document" format that's basically just a bunch of spurious javascript
mircea_popescu: then everyone copied it. casetext.com in this exampole
mircea_popescu: but there's a bunch of them. the retarded crowd that does videos instead of articles tends to send links to them instead of plain text.
bounce: "REST" is all the rage these days, and is obviously a fine and good excuse to push off all the processing into the client (and thereby reinventing just about everything, badly), instead of, oh, having the server process all that or just serving up the content right away.
mircea_popescu: and fuck whoever came up with the soap-rest false dichotomy, too.
bounce: ah, of course it's extra-doubly-criminal if you are a /former/ american doing all that outside of the US
bounce: ``The founder of Liberty Reserve, a virtual currency used by cybercriminals around the world to launder proceeds of their illegal activity, was extradited from Spain and arrived in the United States this afternoon.'' -- so, uhm, why aren't they even investigating the current owners and propagators of that much more widely currency used by criminals, "cyber" and otherwise, world-wide?
mircea_popescu: something anyone with any sense could have told him will never float unless he also has an army.
mircea_popescu: and it was pretty derpy/insane to boot. i mean literally, going by shops, telling random people that hey, this is as much a dollar as that.
BingoBoingo: As far as I understand it Liberty Reserve was basically just Dollar Hawala, except derpier
mircea_popescu: cazalla dude this chick can write. let it not be said all qntra articles are short ever again lol
bounce: though even if he'd shouted high and low it was something else entirely that just happened to carry the exact same unit value as a us dollar they'd still hang him on the nearest tree of accusations. they're like that. any old excuse will do.
mircea_popescu: "SENATOR GERSTEIN (1:50:40) Mr. Antonopolous, your reputation preceded you prior to your arrival. You may recall that in my introductory remarks, I did not introduce you as a Bitcoin guru, but as THE Bitcoin guru. I think that I could speak on behalf of all of the members of the committee in saying that you have more than lived up to that reputation. We greatly appreciate your presentation today. Thank you very much, t
mircea_popescu: gerstein addressing known shill, scammer and general clueless derp : "you're just like us! we love you here!"
mircea_popescu: or in romanian, "daca si cu parca se plimbau cu-o barca. daca daca nu era, parca parca se-neca".
mircea_popescu: if and seems like were rowing in a boat. if if weren't there, seems like seems like'd have drowned.
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thickasthieves: "Ulbricht hadn’t sufficiently demonstrated that the server belonged to him, and thus can’t claim that his privacy rights were violated by its search. "
midnightmagic: 14:30 <+mircea_popescu> gerstein addressing known shill, scammer and general clueless derp : "you're just like us! we love you here!" << thank you
kanzure: did he claim that his property rights were violated, or that the owner's property rights were violated?
midnightmagic: must the neighbour give testimoney that the police were trespassing to invalidate an apprehension? trespass is presumed, not proven.
BingoBoingo: The judge alledges he could have claimed ownership in a way that wouldn't be a confession, but which would have effectively made his taking the stand either have to end in a confession or perjury
midnightmagic: the form of an investigation is almost the entirety of whether justice is served
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the technicality known as "technically, i gotta eat, and these people are paying for it."
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mircea_popescu: “The government posits two standards of behavior: one for private citizens, who must adhere to a strict standard of conduct construed by the government,” read a final filing Tuesday. “The other for the government, which, with its elastic ability to effect electronic intrusion, can deliberately, cavalierly, and unrepentantly transgress those same standards.”
mircea_popescu: the very definition of a rogue state is "one which construes itself more powerful than the private citizen"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you going to make that court document scan a text btw ?
BingoBoingo: 38 pages so I'll txt it a bit different. .txt file to download
mircea_popescu: textifying all the pdfs/scans idiots dump online, as well as textifying audio/video are very legitimates avenues for qntra to add value
mircea_popescu: automate as much of it as possible and then automate the remainder. twice.
mircea_popescu: and prolly best to make it a page rather than a txt file. people want what they want when they click.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> and prolly best to make it a page rather than a txt file. people want what they want when they click. << Updated this one now to have both
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> got any good ocr and sound to text software atm ? << Dunno of any yet
mircea_popescu: but im serious about the ocr and the text to speech. it can do the bulk of the work.
mircea_popescu: iirc asciilifeform mentioned some pdf textualizer in the logs ?
BingoBoingo: Oh, I found a pdf textualizer, but I dunno if it handles pdfs that are just photographs of text yet
mircea_popescu: you seriously should spend a week or w/e it takes trying out ocrs and voice recognition tools and whatnot, because going forward this will remain an issue
mircea_popescu: being able to take a turd and turn it into readable content within an hour or a day, and being able to so process gigabytes of crud a month is, by itself, more barrier to entry than all the collective "press" has
mircea_popescu: and if you get it to where you have to fix a letter per ten words you're way way ahead of someone who has to press pause every five seconds
mircea_popescu: not that anyone actually even exists in the cloud of vaporized shit comprising the kids-of-www that even has the drive or the intellectual werewithal to take down an hour of speech or an acre of blackboard anyway.
mircea_popescu: you'd think everyone's got a college degree means they are god damned good at exactly that. but...
BingoBoingo: Yeah, so far most of the deturdified text has been low hanging fruit, but automating the hard stuff is going to be nice sauce
mircea_popescu: and i mean, i can tell anjie didn't sleep to do that one, which is exactly what she should have done, but once.
cazalla: have not finished reading logs but the thing i do not like about the txt version is that it's difficult to read unless it's formatted correctly
cazalla: i don't see the value in just copying to a post without making it readable
mircea_popescu: cazalla the point being that it's easier to format/spellcheck a predeturdified turd than to write from scratch
cazalla: better to link to a txt than include it in post than imo
bounce: formatting html or actual text? latter case, "fmt" or "par" (not par2, entirely different beast) might help
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http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=kakobrekla mike_c: <+mircea_popescu> you can't have people do this by hand forever. << that might be the easiest solution actually. set up some amazon mechanical turk automation.
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mircea_popescu: mike_c i wouldn't trust random fiverr derp not to mess up the words
mircea_popescu: and seeing how the very purpose of this stuff is for people to be able to do deep searches for impredictable later interests, it'd be less than useful.
mike_c: but you've got steady work, can find reliable people
mircea_popescu: people are not for steady work. machines are for steady work.
mike_c: yes, but machines do a crappy job of voice/pdf -> text. maybe the turks are the ones who clean it up.
mircea_popescu: (it won't scale. if one day i want to do 1tb i can just throw more chickens at it, provided it runs on chickens)
mircea_popescu: how does ziri work or w/e was apple calling its paperclip ?
mike_c: see the textification qntra did of the defense filing. all chopped up and stuff.
mike_c: siri doesn't have to produce a readable text though, just understand the gist.
mike_c: depends how important quality is i guess. but a rough text is painful to read to me.
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