assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH2] 17183 @ 0.0012 = 20.6196 BTC
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12400 @ 0.00056001 = 6.9441 BTC [-]
mike_c: just in case it's helpful, i was seeing some wonkiness with mpex.ws last night too but didn't have time to debug. so the problem may be 24+ hours old.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33900 @ 0.00056001 = 18.9843 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13378 @ 0.00055966 = 7.4871 BTC [-] {2}
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notary: mircea_popescu: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
assbot: bips/bip-0065.mediawiki at master · bitcoin/bips · GitHub
BingoBoingo: On it's own it's a naive thing, but the conversation around it will lead to bad things as it will probably lead to hard fork talk to set the stage for the blocksize increase discussion.
cazalla: there you go thestringpuller, i was almost right
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13607 @ 0.00056017 = 7.6222 BTC [+]
assbot: asciilifeform's mail - Imgur
dub: 1% losses for shareholders on s.wol is one interpretation
dub: i think its worth noting that for eveyone other than mp and mike it was a 50-80% loss
BingoBoingo: The Manul's greatest asset in combat is that through the fur, an adversary can not tell from where on the moving limbs the claws will emerge
BingoBoingo: Well, that's why I prefer playing as black and starting with small pawn moves. Harder for the opponent to see in the dark.
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
assbot: [MPEX:S.WOL] 1D: 0 / 0 / 0 (0 shares, 0 BTC), 7D: / / ( shares, BTC), 30D: 0.000086 / 0.000086 / 0.000086 (2 shares, 0.00 BTC)
mircea_popescu: that means an average lifetime price of 4k, it closed at ~3k.
mircea_popescu: that aside, mp and mike sold what was it, 5 btc worth at 3k.
mircea_popescu: that leaves a 16 btc worth of volume, which was exactly half making a gain while exactly the other half made a loss.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: the great fork war is inevitable. and we know what is on their side of the line. << do tell ?
mircea_popescu: what was on "their" side of the line keeping skirts below the knee ?
mircea_popescu: the jeff of 1950 knew all about how computers "won't catch on"
mircea_popescu: there's never anything on their side of the line is the thing.
mircea_popescu remembers a time "the line" was, you gotta raise a woman's kids to get laid and you gotta pay a hooker to get your cock sucked.
mircea_popescu: would be a sore loss to win without a war. instead of a solid enjoyment of rape and plunder, do not pass go, directly to the trudge of administration ?
mircea_popescu: which is why either he has one or his kids want one for xmas.
Vexual: thanks for the link to your blogpost mp, not I know what I sound like 3 force drunk
Vexual: what happened with wol?
Vexual: all the players died from seizures or something?
BingoBoingo: It's parimutuel model was prolly too fair in pricing
undata: asciilifeform | at any rate, 'jeff of 1950' was not entirely wrong; computers have yet to really catch on... << this printing thing hasn't really caught on yet; all they're printing are more bibles
assbot: It's time to abolish the Interstate Highway System - The Week
nubbins`: <The20YearIRCloud> Looks like we (RentalStarter) are in contract for two more homes, putting our total to 12 properties / 17 units
BingoBoingo: ^ The TLDR, shift some bezzel around and make it easier for the US to partition further
nubbins`: at this rate you'll have the first poster given away in no time 8)
nubbins`: fwiw i think they'd have been better served given to people who we'd like to see in here, but hey, i'm just the printer 8)
nubbins`: and i guess taleb's mailing address is hard to find.
Vexual: send it to his publisher
The20YearIRCloud: I wanted to run a contest and give a few away to non-tenants, as they'd likely have much more of a desire for em
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 431.29, Best ask: 431.94, Bid-ask spread: 0.65000, Last trade: 431.94, 24 hour volume: 45124.17445036, 24 hour low: 375.97, 24 hour high: 434.8, 24 hour vwap: 408.121751826
BingoBoingo: What about lacquering them onto the doors?
The20YearIRCloud: Money, cash, cashier's checks, checks, ect, no one so far has ever heard of BTC, along with most not having access to a computer
mircea_popescu: he 114th Congress may seem like an unlikely source of major reform. With the Republicans in control of both houses and a second-term Democratic president wielding the veto pen"
mircea_popescu: ahem. yeah it's a likely source of major fucking reform.
mircea_popescu: consisting principally of throwing out 80 years of accumulated gunk masquerading as "reform"
decimation: asciilifeform: I finished 17 moments of spring, thanks for the recommendation. It was an interesting show
decimation: mircea_popescu: in the us it is customary to label any policy whatsoever as 'reform'
decimation: like the national assembly in revolutionary france, congress feels that they can make policy about anything whatsoever
mircea_popescu: that us libtards gave themselves and in their own mind some sort of major role in the world is novel.
decimation: the first one that comes to mind are the 'foreign banking' laws w.r.t. us citizens
mircea_popescu: for most of its history, the us knew better, an saw itself as a minor player.
decimation: another famous one is the law that bans illegal wood harvest anywhere in the world
decimation: in the early constitution era it was thought that congress was limited to passing laws about things that were actually mentioned in their charter in the constitution
decimation: lincoln and then fdr removed that restriction
mircea_popescu: " If we could even get ourselves down to a Western European level of car dependence, we would cut road fatalities to a third of their present value and improve our quality of life in innumerable ways."
assbot: 18 U.S. Code § 2285 - Operation of submersible vessel or semi-submersible vessel without nationality | LII / Legal Information Institute
mircea_popescu: maybe the author could be come a girl by selling lipstick.
decimation: mircea_popescu: usians hate the idea of paying for roads
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's hardly noteworthy. for as long as navigation was a thing, navigating without a banner meant being an outlaw.
mircea_popescu: decimation point being, europe is europe because it's europe, not because some kansas kids decided to wear bedsheets once and poof.
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah, but there's something lacking in the us - they can't seem to believe that they have their own culture and avoid trying to make one
mircea_popescu: kansas culture = "move to ny, for a better life" + "check out the corn!!1"
decimation: they actually do have a culture, it is just roundly rejected by every elite with a printing press
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decimation: I think that the low country "jante law" culture is one of the things that provides an impetus to the lack of us folklore/home culture
notary: cascadian_derper: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
decimation: plus, the radical egalitarianism is like an acid that dissolves the nascent culture before it begins
ben_vulpes: nah just polishing off a bottle of champagne in the office
hanbot: wrong channel, perignon << ftfy
mircea_popescu: the russians had the mir for as long as the memory goes, and yet.
ben_vulpes: clever you, hanbot. it's cremant du jura though.
ben_vulpes: PeterL: do you need a hand with stabilizing that thing?
mircea_popescu: decimation it owned all the land, and allocated it. it owned the peasants, and regulated their life. basically think beehive with the queen unembodied.
PeterL: sorry, trying to fix it right now
decimation: so your point is that the lack of egalitarianism did not foster a culture?
ben_vulpes: PeterL: i'm not trying to make you cry, but mebbe offer suggestions how to keep the thing up
ben_vulpes: are you still running it in a screen session or whatever?
PeterL: no, not yet, I'm gonna swith it to a different chan for a minute while I derp with it a bit
assbot: 42 U.S. Code § 2122 - Prohibitions governing atomic weapons | LII / Legal Information Institute
decimation: presumably 'person' means 'person to which us law applies'
decimation: asciilifeform: 'person' is an overloaded word in us law
assbot: asciilifeform's mail - Imgur
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: damn did you hoover up the only copy?
ben_vulpes: *** assbot (~assbot@unaffiliated/kakobrekla/bot/assbot) has changed mode for #bitcoin-assets to +v JorgePasada << where's my node, bitch
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12232 @ 0.00056379 = 6.8963 BTC [+]
ben_vulpes: clearly wagering on usg winning this round
decimation: I guess 'person' means whatever some court finds that it means, when they are presented with the question
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: the great fork war is inevitable. and we know what is on their side of the line. but what is on the other? the miners' mystery forks? our gadget, that doesn't even load the blockchain? << consider the gadget a piece of art. as always, the miners determine everything.
Vexual: decimation: Personne physique
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH2] 5821 @ 0.0012 = 6.9852 BTC
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 438.18, Best ask: 438.3, Bid-ask spread: 0.12000, Last trade: 438.18, 24 hour volume: 45394.86406201, 24 hour low: 377.6, 24 hour high: 438.3, 24 hour vwap: 408.920744472
mircea_popescu: decimation> so your point is that the lack of egalitarianism did not foster a culture? << my point being that culture is strictly a matter of time. how people organise is irrelevant. which also means there's no shortcuts.
decimation: yet, us folk come from somewhere, where did that culture go?
mircea_popescu: iroquis also came from somewhere, but once they came, it was all new.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the germans come from fucking central asia. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: the zulus managed to start over each century moving 100 miles.
Vexual: those guys don't fuck around
Vexual: Might give it a look, The tourist was watchable
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah that formula 'fits' - culture is derived in a convergence of circumstances + time
BingoBoingo: The geographic area occupied by present day Collinsville, Illinois had a population of ~35,000 600 years ago, and has a similar population today.
BingoBoingo: decimation: Yes "Mississippians" Seems smallpox probably got to them before the pale faces did.
BingoBoingo: The view from the big pile of dirt into Missouri is pretty sweet.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23994 @ 0.00056201 = 13.4849 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: Mound 34 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
decimation: I guess kansas was kansas before kansas
BingoBoingo: Well, no. Kansas had those fucking barbarian nomads with their dogs
assbot: Emerald Mound and Village Site - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vexual: people on the river are happy to give
assbot: Ron Maimon, Luboš Motl and other Internet things I hear of today for the very first time pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: actually midden is pretty much the best approximation of culture in physical terms.
assbot: Alternative Scientific History « Isegoria
mircea_popescu: basically, dude imagines that a) he currently lives in a world where people actually give a shit what usians thing and b) this will survive time travel.
decimation: most of what is accepted as common knowledge in the us would have been rank retardation to the ancients
mircea_popescu: "since the early 20th century, Earth’s mean surface temperature has increased by about 0.8°C." lmap
mircea_popescu: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicated!!!!
decimation: as if anyone could state that with authority
mircea_popescu: srsly, this faux chosenpeopleism is hard to get out of huh
decimation: the us is soaked in it, and it is getting worse
mircea_popescu: basically "i am a worthless sack of dung. the proof of this is that if i got sent to any other circumstance i'd make a total fool of myself"
mircea_popescu: all these people whose survival strictly depends on a extreheheeemely unlikely arrangement imagine themselves like... you know, representatives of HUMANITY outright
dub: they represent the body of human science tho
decimation: do they lack the ability to perceive the obvious or are they acting out despite themselves?
mircea_popescu: the body of human science isn't derp derping about "relativity" by name anymore than the body of bitcoin is derp derping about "bitcoin" by name.
dub: teh body of human science says global warming is a thing
mircea_popescu: decimation coelenterata. they just float around in the sea. not their fault some happened upon a vent, not their fault the vent will go out.
dub: its fact, idk what you deniers are smoking
mircea_popescu: the "body of human science" understood as "the government employees paid to derp on a topic" enacted "slow moving schizophrenia" as a thing.
dub: its hilarious listening to it
mircea_popescu: and then they died by falling out of the strawberry tree.
decimation: I found a chocolate bush one day but it turned out to be rabbit turds
undata: decimation: how many bites in were you?
mircea_popescu: get a load of this... the qin envoy guy is using the example of a chinese table tennis player as highly achievementful women.
mircea_popescu: because the ancient chinese didn't know women can you know, tablestuffs.
assbot: Across Difficult Country: No Word Back Yet
mircea_popescu: kinda unfair that he mentions oprah winfrey but not martha stewart lol.
decimation: when I was in Maui I found Oprah's Maui mansion
decimation: it overlooks the statue erected to the memory of sun yet san
mircea_popescu: "Robin Williams' suicide was triggered by a horrible disease called Lewy Body Dementia ... sources connected with his family tell TMZ."
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
decimation: "By contrast, in Poul Anderson’s The Man Who Came Early, an American MP with an engineering degree finds that he can’t apply any of his high-tech knowledge in low-tech Viking Iceland. He destroys the blacksmith’s shop when he tries to use modern high-temperature methods, he suggests impractical ideas, like deep-keeled sailing ships, which you can’t pull ashore, and so on."
mircea_popescu: takes a whole of a lot more than "i cursorily looked through my textbook on sciences" to meaningfully impact the past.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, you need to be conversant in their ideas.
mircea_popescu: not different in any sense, but the past does offer the dubious benefit of unverifiability
mircea_popescu: which is exactly what all of dub's idiots masquerading as "human science" always pined for.
mircea_popescu: oh if only they could be spared the humiliation of failing in an irc chatroom, how great life'd be.
mircea_popescu: they also buy into the theory of women, black people and so forth being a bunch of simpletons in need of special olympics
mircea_popescu: how great it is tho, just think! to be the best person that ever was merely for having been born later !
mircea_popescu: no wonder the conservative "you're not in the wot, noob" approach conflicts.
decimation: Voltaire attacks Leibniz for thinking too optimistically about human possibility, and then supports the elevation of the unwashed masses
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21050 @ 0.000566 = 11.9143 BTC [+]
decimation: mircea_popescu: as a student of french history, how do you think the revolution could have been reversed?
decimation: my limited understanding is that much blame falls on Louis for being a dufus
mircea_popescu: uh. i dunno, but i suspect the revolution was a historical necessity.
decimation: I suppose it was the ultimate outworking of enlightenment philosophy
mircea_popescu: here's a reduced version of the problem : england had a shitty king, that led to the empowering of a a bizarre sect. this is what happens when monarchy falters - secret societies.
mircea_popescu: the weakness of the crown allowed the personal union of the dutch and england, which created a shipping superpower
mircea_popescu: this ensured the failure of france as a going concern, because it couldn't keep up with the new megastate.
mircea_popescu: once france was going to fail, louis settled into a comfortable "apres moi, le deluge" and the people felt right about the same way germans felt around hitler's bunker.
mircea_popescu: the thing they tried was in all ways french : lots of fun, and it nearly got to moscow.
decimation: I suppose that's the result of the mob seizing power: awesome party, terrible hangover
mircea_popescu: the guy that wrote the os romania still runs on, for almost two centuries now ? had a working model
cazalla: anyone else unable to access?
mircea_popescu: "Thanks to technological change, over the past few decades the capital-intensiveness of emerging successor infrastructures has been collapsing faster than the existing infrastructure itself. The classic example, from Buckminster Fuller, is replacing a transoceanic cable system emdodying God only knows how many thousand tons of metal with a few dozen communications satellites weighing a few tons each."
mircea_popescu: conveniently forgetting to mention that the cable is resilient, whereas the satellites not so much, and moreover,
mircea_popescu: even more conveniently forgetting to mention the 100x more tons of metal, fuel and whatnot needed to make satellites.
decimation: asciilifeform: I guess if the king isn't a derp, he turns grapeshot upon the mob
mircea_popescu: decimation suppose you were king, and ordered the leningrad of paris. what then ?
☟︎ decimation: right, the problem is that it's hopeless
mircea_popescu: so you get to still be king, people will refer to you as Roi Acier
decimation: I guess the simpler alternative is to take the mob and invade moscow with it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, unplunders there are. called craftsmen and artisans.
decimation: re: satellites << plus they occupy electromagnetic spectrum that could be put to otherwise productive use
decimation: true, not the entire earth all at once
decimation: well, the point isn't really the interfering signal from the satellite as much as the fact that no one on the ground can use the same frequencies without potentially interfering with satellite receivers
decimation: asciilifeform: who knows how the us military hardens their links against interference
decimation: but I am assuming a world where e-m spectrum could be otherwise be allocated to other-than-friends-of-the-bezzle
decimation: asciilifeform: here's another one:
http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/uavs-drive-satcom-modernization/ "The reality, however, is the role of the lion’s share of UAVs is to provide data to soldiers within 50 miles of the aircraft using line-of-sight air-to-ground links,” Gardner wrote. “Today these links are predominantly analog FM links for standard definition video, but a change to sophisticated digital links is under
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I was confusing the two, I admit
decimation: the article is fairly silent w.r.t. the details of control links
decimation: this article was published in 2010 also
mircea_popescu: dude look at that, you can't find a pic of John McCain online that's not from like 1979
BingoBoingo: 's Duck Period date Herr asciilifeform's arrival in Usia
BingoBoingo: So marginally more directional than a satellite TV reciever.
decimation: asciilifeform: sure, the plane's dish is directional - my original point is that the satellite's might not be
decimation: especially if it is a 'commercial' satellite
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Vexual: i forgot, everythings on lyngsat
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8737 @ 0.00056765 = 4.9596 BTC [+]
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BingoBoingo: Well, new meme clogging Derpistan seems to be "Forget the moon, we caught a comet"
Vexual: also gentlemen, which seens to be some olf cat picture from bitcointalk by way of reddit
assbot: Ask.fm laid bare, or what’s half a million uniques to you ? pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH2] 10000 @ 0.0012 = 12 BTC
Vexual: orb reports it's stright outta london
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 48130 @ 0.00056205 = 27.0515 BTC [-]
Vexual: ;;google straight outta locash
BingoBoingo: Vexual: When are you starting a blog that blogs other blogs rinsed through MP's Google Translate Vexualator?
assbot: How prepaid cards work and why Feds are watching : News
assbot: Thomaston Man Arrested After Stabbing Watermelon: Cops | NBC Connecticut
Vexual: theres a song about who fucker her first
mircea_popescu: to think, not even 200 years ago the same woman could be put in stocks if the husband told police she stabbed the same watermelon in a slothful or wanton manner.
punkman: "Glee actress Naya Rivera allegedly commented on Kardashian’s Instagram, “I normally don’t… but you’re someone’s mother.”"
punkman: I think she looks better now than before she had a kid
mircea_popescu: armenian chicks. no fucking wonder the turks had an in for 'em.
mircea_popescu: anyway, she's doing all the stuff jolie thought herself too good for.
mircea_popescu: in a decade, kim will be remembered and who was brangelina again ?
mircea_popescu: how does he get the bubbly flow btw ? what's the hydrodynamics experts think ?
punkman: trying to imagine how many bottles of champagne he's wasted trying
punkman: yeah photographer guy probably has it figured out by now
mircea_popescu: besides, im sure you can sell "champagne that was spilled on kim kardashian as part of trying to get the booty shot" fgor more trhan it cost originally.
mircea_popescu: As of May 2014, Kardashian is estimated to be worth $45 million.
mircea_popescu: dude that sucks. the watsapp faggots are worth 20bn and this chick 40mn ? get outta town.
punkman: does she have a clothing label yet?
punkman: though ass champagne might be a good business
mircea_popescu: she has 500 shitty perfumes, diets, underwears the works
mircea_popescu: i think she's exactly the sort of woman the paleo guy jacks off to.
assbot: Why Is Beijing Downplaying the Supposedly Huge Climate Change Deal?
mircea_popescu: chinese bureaucrats got dumped a spoiled western brat.
assbot: Putin Hits on China's First Lady, Censors Go Wild
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14017 @ 0.00056029 = 7.8536 BTC [-] {2}
gribble: pankkake was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 weeks, 3 days, 20 hours, and 11 seconds ago: <pankkake> here is 0.000195.
davout: right now, mostly being hungry
davout: wishing i wasn't in paris' blind spot, where the closest boulangerie is 15 minutes walk
thestringpuller: lol. the chick fil a on campus is the slowest one in the state. about 15 minutes being in line ;)
assbot: You could flash-fry a buffalo in 40 seconds - YouTube
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25100 @ 0.00055772 = 13.9988 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10000 @ 0.00055 = 5.5 BTC [-]
assbot: How Alibaba is using bra sizes to predict online shopping habits – Quartz
punkman: "Earlier this summer, a group of data crunchers looking at underwear sales at Alibaba came across a curious trend: women who bought larger bra sizes also tended to spend more"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3800 @ 0.00036402 = 1.3833 BTC [-]
thestringpuller: nubbins`: i like the one where the baby is buying encyclopedias on the ipad and it triggers all these events.
nubbins`: i like the one where i ordered light bulbs ten weeks ago and they're finally in
nubbins`: bbl driving to industrial zone
Adlai: i don't know whether to be pumped at the rally while i was gone or fucking pissed that scalpl crashed right before it began
Adlai: mostly FUCKING PISSED
assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.00036402 / 0.00061882 / 0.00064749 (1568022 shares, 970.33 BTC), 7D: 0.00036402 / 0.00062305 / 0.0007299 (5073500 shares, 3,161.05 BTC), 30D: 0.00036402 / 0.00072108 / 0.00081111 (22420918 shares, 16,167.33 BTC)
Adlai: nubbins`: my thingy
Adlai: crashed in between a sell and a buy, so i sat through this rally in fiat >_<
nubbins`: asciilifeform as i do not wish to hold your book funds indefinitely, plz to provide return address
jurov: hi Adlai, you wanted to post a patch to btc-dev?
Adlai: ugh and the fucking post office closes at ungodly early hours
jurov: gpg: BAD signature from "Adlai Chandrasekhar <adlai.chandrasekhar@gmail.com>"..iirc i sent you some instructions what to fix, did you get anything form gribble?
Adlai: let me check my logs
Adlai: (nothing from gribble though, but i did have a highlight that overflowed scrollback)
jurov: can't find it, seems my memory fails me, sry
Adlai: oh, it's failing because of newline failness
Adlai: you'd think that in the twenty first century...
jurov: yes, pls resend the text as attachment and leave the body empty
Adlai: please explain this as though i am a retarted monkey
Adlai: plain text attachment? any specific filename/extension/encoding/etc?
jurov: i guess everyone will utterly hate this :(
jurov: o, already does ? D:
jurov: you're welcome to send the patch itself, as described there, too
Adlai: there's no patch, just an announcement about the github repo
Adlai: sending patches by mail is so 90s
jurov: but that's buggy, too. yest it ate newline in the patch file and then proclaimed "sig invalid, wont publish"
Adlai: anyways i must shower immediately before i die of stench
jurov: and made our key contributor, asciilifeform, utterl annoyed :(
jurov: your key is there, gpgp knows your name, but message was damamged in transit
jurov: hmmm, i can maybe provide web submission form that will have better chance to pass gpg stuff undamaged and can provide instant feedback
jurov: but when i come around to do it.. dunno :(
jurov: if you meant a form with action="mailto:btc-dev@..." that wouldn't help anything
mircea_popescu: but presumably the email goes into a script somewhere no ?
jurov: yes, it needs to be wired yo that script
assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.00036402 / 0.00061882 / 0.00064749 (1568022 shares, 970.33 BTC), 7D: 0.00036402 / 0.00062249 / 0.0007299 (5046550 shares, 3,141.44 BTC), 30D: 0.00036402 / 0.00072098 / 0.00081111 (22294004 shares, 16,073.74 BTC)
jurov: and mailman expects some headers to be present such as date, message id and whatnot
jurov: and if it would be 5 lines, someone'd already done it
nubbins`: punkman let's put a section on the deeds website for deed verification utils
nubbins`: get a standard figured out and implement it in a few different languages
punkman is furiously trying to undelete output of 12hour processing job
Adlai: mircea_popescu: under 50 what?
nubbins`: mine's in node.js, could use some cleaning up. punkman's is in... py?
punkman: mircea_popescu: was first run, fat-fingered some sql
mircea_popescu: the other response of course is, "yeah, i have self-replicating backups, i just watched the deletion propagate across the whole cluster."
mircea_popescu: anyway, maybe the soution to jurov's problems is merging with the deed system ?
punkman: I can implement detached sigs and binary deeds
jurov: punkman or, since you have the form put, once verified you can just send email in
jurov: lol but he doesn't have the form either..just uses pastebin, no?
jurov: punkman, you can send the deeds anyway, we can have dedicated mailing list for them
jurov: no i'll have to actually do it, i am not in such a pit as stan and can push jobs around
mircea_popescu: jurov get the deeds firehose, process them into a mailing list by criteria ? this is interesting.
mircea_popescu: ianac, but can a project survive on 32kb text only patches ?
jurov: dunno . guess anyone who wants will subscribe and filter themselves
jurov: nooo, i dont' want to shove it through deedbot
punkman: yeah you can send them compressed too, so I suppose you could send quite big patches as it is
jurov: that means sumbitting zipfiles ad seeds?
mircea_popescu: punkman this dovetails with asciilifeform's "fit in head" ideas.
jurov: do you really wants to mess aith such? doing html form is easier
mircea_popescu: jurov mostly exploring teh possibilities i think. some of which make one recoil in horror.
jurov: on that note, if asciilifeform still did not get the emails, i'm gonna send him the diests by snail mail
jurov: * punkman is furiously trying to undelete << lol and i have multi-day multi-machine job that invokes OOM killer every coupla hours. i can live with it.
Adlai: ... why are we still talking about how to manage a project through patches-by-mail?
Adlai: if you're married to patches, at least use darcs
jurov: Adlai because the goal is transparent verification of all contributions
jurov: if you can explain ti asciilifeform how to use dracs tho achieve this
punkman: maybe a gpg plugin for gitorious or gitlab
jurov: so? punkman, make that plugin. just some 5 lines, no?
mircea_popescu: punkman one that isn't retarded pretty much reduces to "reimplement pgp" task we're loath to start.
jurov: in short a system where it can be proven beyond doubt and without third-party service "X posted it, Y,Z signed it, A made a release"
assbot: picocoin/include/ccoin at master · jgarzik/picocoin · GitHub
Adlai: libccoin is a valgrind clean bitcoin node, written in C
mircea_popescu: i think you might be confused as to what's happening here.
Adlai: mircea_popescu: how do i figure using darcs superior to patches-by-mail, or working off libccoin superior to working off 0.5.3?
assbot: singpolyma/OpenPGP-Python · GitHub
mircea_popescu: the idea is not an alternative, non braindamaged bitcoin reimplementation. the idea is confiscating the canonical bitcoin implementation from the current set of monkeys.
Adlai: either goal can be accomplished from either starting point
jurov: Adlai how do you do with darcs the "beyond doubt" stuff ?
Adlai: mircea_popescu: i make no judgements, just throwing out ideas
mircea_popescu: <Adlai> either goal can be accomplished from either starting point << that is a judgement.
jurov: throwin out is easy. im asking you to throw in how darcs fullfills it
mircea_popescu: anyway, i have nfi about coding workflow from the pov of the workflower, however, darcs seems that much math grad wankathon.
Adlai: i'll shut up and shower because evidently i've been too far outside the loop to have meaningful input to these high and mighty goingons
mircea_popescu: no, rather, YOU are too high and mighty to have meaningful input.
jurov: you don't have meaningfuil answer to my qs?
mircea_popescu: i get it, "patches by mail" = bad because that's how they did it before women were liberated or some shit. nevertheless. how is the spiffy work for our purpose ?
Adlai: darcs is more organized than patches-over-mail, i've not used it enough to know whether it has any builtin support for patch signing
Adlai: however darcs is just a slight layer over patches
mircea_popescu: no but look at the process! you heard about something, thought it was cool and now want to use it on that basis ?
Adlai: i'll just drop a nice photo here and go shower
jurov: look, when we'll have 100 patches then we can talk how to get "better organized"
mircea_popescu: if this turns into another "you're mean and a cult because systemd" thing i swear...
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 80900 @ 0.00046419 = 37.553 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu only now sees punkman link. jesus. does that even hash ?
Adlai: just, that i'm not in a mental state to conduct any sort of serious discussion right now
Adlai: if only this imgur thingy would get its shit together
punkman: Adlai: are you coding in the trenches now?
Adlai: no, i spent my time in the trenches edumacatin the trenchgoers about bitcoin
Adlai: they were actually quite fascinated by it, and a surprising number had never ever heard of it
Adlai: but the metaphor isn't too far from reality
Adlai just got back from a week in reserve dooty as a signals technician in an artillery thingy
jurov: ha, military. now i see where the "musta organize" comes from ;)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25327 @ 0.00046234 = 11.7097 BTC [-]
Adlai: well there's a big difference between military hierarchy and structured decentralization, but have your laffs while i have my baffs
Adlai: and for the record, i got kicked out of officer school for being "unfit for military command", so i'm not exactly the most militarized person...
mircea_popescu: actually afaik the us army has been trying to do away with 1800s french military style hierarchy in favour of something more akin to the latter.
Adlai: maybe they can start with not having mercenaries salute 20yo shitstains fresh out of west poopt
mircea_popescu: if they do that, they'll have to actually pay idiots to go to west point
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bagels7: Oh hey, I was just wondering how it would be nice to not hear about kim's ass once in a while, perhaps a whole day even
Adlai: last time i heard irl about kim was actually back in my mandatory service
Adlai: (now i have to differentiate between stories from mandatory and reserve... wonderful)
Adlai: some guy was talking about her instagram account and he said that she uploads pictures of her dog, and her furniture, and whatnot
bagels7: yeah to not see a huge ass first thing in the morning
Adlai: and he was genuinely trying to convince people that he doesn't follow her just because of dat ass
mircea_popescu: bagels7 don't take this the wrong way, because it's not actually going where it may seem, butt : are you a girl ?
Adlai: mircea_popescu: this is true
bagels7: oh you saw dpb's comment or twitter I'll guess
mircea_popescu: actually no, i dun read twitter. but i just added you know, two an' two together.
Adlai: ugh this week resurrected my mysoginism
bagels7: oh yes im so girly im ashamed
mircea_popescu: anyway : boys like highly sexed girls. it's a thing. it doesn't actually say anything about you.
Adlai: there is nothing girly about not liking ass, girls are allowed to like manass
mircea_popescu: Adlai girls don't tend to like highly sexed girls because they're disruptive.
Adlai: what's disruptive about the "oldest profession"?
bagels7: Oh well I am an escort so I kind of have to shave my legs and do make up and all that
Adlai: (this is a false cliche btw... the oldest profession, imo, is "boss")
mircea_popescu: ;;rate bagels7 1 says she's an escort in montreal. if you ever visit, lemme know how it went.
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Adlai: on that note, i'm gonna wash the smell of diesel sweat and boot polish out of my hair
mircea_popescu: bagels7 you got a page up somewhere or how does the escort business even work these days ? dja advertise ?
xanthyos: danielpbarron: is it your job to out people?
bagels7: They do newspapers which are getting more and more expensive since all the cheap advertising ones get bought, and there is a website somewhere
mircea_popescu: yeah i heard this is the latest business model, "make cheap advertising paper to drive up numbers, wait for buyout offers". apparently it can be cycled in 2-3 years.
mircea_popescu: some people that used to do "refurbishing" places back in the bubble moved on to this.
xanthyos: it's unrelated to trust though, and the insinuation of "boy pretends to be girl" is that bagels7 is dishonest
xanthyos: also historically once the transgender cat is out of the bag that's all everyone wants to talk about
xanthyos: i'm still so jittery from last night
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bagels7: What do you expect from this WoT, Is fraud a concern
xanthyos: ooh btc fell back slightly. brb gonna call bank see if those coinbase deposits went in
xanthyos: i really really really hope that some sort of bad thing doesn't happen now that my checking account is tied to this...
xanthyos: i need danielpbarron to talk for me like aaron spoke for moses
xanthyos: so if i buy off coinbase should i not send to my existing wallet which right now is totally anon
thestringpuller: Intermediary addresses is good practice for plausible deniability.
xanthyos: i don't feel i should hvae to deny anything
xanthyos: if a bank calls me up suspicously i will turn it on them. how dare you bother a long standing customer!
xanthyos: i'm allowed to fluctuate my balance as much as i want
thestringpuller: all while they are being raped with USG cock in their mouth
xanthyos: the fact that it's taking 2+ days for me to even see these mcirodeposits speaks to the obsolescence of banks
thestringpuller: i'm probably going to revert to cash only OTC. at least I know there is some resistance to my coincs going into Buterin's Waterfall.
thestringpuller: regulators gonna regulate like warren g and nate d to the double g
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH2] 900 @ 0.0012 = 1.08 BTC
TomServo: What do you guys figure is a reasonable markup for cash trades?
mircea_popescu: <bagels7> What do you expect from this WoT, Is fraud a concern << that didn't parse. say wut ?
thestringpuller: coinbase is a lot of work. I have to keep my accounts separate and can't have money fluctuate too high or low without suspcicious phone calls.
mircea_popescu: <xanthyos> if a bank calls me up suspicously i will turn it on them. how dare you bother a long standing customer! << lmao this works, yeah.
mircea_popescu: figure it out, the only customer of the bank is the govt.
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xanthyos: woop 24 cents and 10 cents microdeposits went thru, activating coinbase
xanthyos: no more buying btc through stander
xanthyos: stander is the guy that danielpbarron and RetroUpriser and i have bought btc through for a while
mircea_popescu: what's even the point of buying fractions of bitcents ?
xanthyos: now i see it takes 4 days for them to send btc
bagels7: <+mircea_popescu>I'm so poor I can't afford your articles yet
xanthyos: mircea_popescu: is 440 a good buy price now?
bagels7: Well where could I work without a degree?
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bagels7: I've been abused in every single job I had except my latest
xanthyos: use the wot to set up your own network of unabusive clientele
xanthyos: wow coinbase is WAY cheaper than stander
xanthyos: bagels7: did you bust out on seals yet?
xanthyos: why is bagels7 being devoiced with l2 assbot?
gribble: Nick 'bagels7', with hostmask 'bagels7!bagels7@modemcable232.144-161-184.mc.videotron.ca', is identified as user 'Bagels7', with GPG key id 82C85EDC160BB29F, key fingerprint ACE4936BDD6EBB8338F5282E82C85EDC160BB29F, and bitcoin address 16SvyfnNumVGr8qp1xRgupKpdEjWtAC5rN
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 44963 @ 0.00046111 = 20.7329 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: "Besides the possible reasons for the trend— namely that younger women with less purchasing power may be the ones buying smaller-sized bras"
mircea_popescu: yeah, totally, young women have less purchasing power than older women.
mircea_popescu: Singles Day—the annual Nov 11 online shopping frenzy in which Alibaba saw as many as 2.85 million transactions a minute at its peak, and a total of $9.3 billion in sales
xanthyos: so children with underdeveloped breasts now shop for themselves?
xanthyos: their big-titted mothers still provide their adolescents bras right?
bagels7: no, women with large breasts make more money causing poor women to mainly be small tit owners
mircea_popescu: xanthyos monkeys don't have any tits to speak of. the female breast is clearly the result of selection. the only way that works is for women with tits to have money while women without not to.
xanthyos: is it selection by males or did women with larger breasts simply have more milk to feed their young?
xanthyos: and provided more viable offspring
mike_c: or is it a broad generalization with little practical application?
xanthyos: it's a counterweight to the ass
bagels7: yes broad generalizations with very little practical use
mike_c: you know what i like about math? i recently had a difficult math problem to solve, and didn't feel like dealing with it. so i had a math TA do it for total cost of 0.
mircea_popescu: if you don't feel like doing it, you can always ask a ta.
mircea_popescu: turns out there's a lot of predictive power in this tits like math thing.
xanthyos: i sent to my bc.i from coinbase. i am no longer anonymous.
mike_c: hm, this deserves more study. with pictures.
mircea_popescu: jurov: gpg: BAD signature from "Adlai Chandrasekhar <<< wait his real name is actually adlai ?!
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14900 @ 0.00045949 = 6.8464 BTC [-]
Adlai: in my experience, all systems can be automated, and it's only a matter of deciding at what level you're willing to lose a human's judgement/"moral compass", but gain the benefits of automation
assbot: Cloud&Heat is putting servers in homes and offices and the heat from them is free.
Adlai: i'll admit that my feeling that darcs could be appropriate for this purpose is based more on speculation from darcs's theoretic background than on familiarity with the actual working software
punkman: might be better with mining rigs
Adlai: would you automate the following system: a car that self-destructs (killing the intruder) when it detects that it's being accessed without the owner's permission? where ownership is determined in an arbitrarily advanced way, ie, physical token, password, biometric, whatever you fancy.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42879 @ 0.00045831 = 19.6519 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 01:46:06; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: bip-0065 << classic 'relevance farming.' the phoundation will take any excuse to add cruft to the gizmo. in their fantasy, folks will use it, and those who have resisted their turds will be forced to merge in.
thestringpuller: nlocktime gives spender power to double spend before nlocktime occurs
nubbins`: surely the coar devs have spoken on this point
thestringpuller: but yes I do see the new opcode as sorta crufty on "cruft"
thestringpuller: its a pretty neat feature for say senior to give jr. allotments of capital at guarenteed future date
nubbins`: hm i've got a specific creep in mind
nubbins`: ;;google feature creep site:dilbert.com
thestringpuller: yes yes. but if this is case should we not remove nlocktime altogether?
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nubbins`: soooo, the fluorescent tubes that took TEN WEEKS to get here? turns out "F20T12/BL 6PK" is the item number not of a 6-pack, but of a single bulb
nubbins`: so instead of 18 bulbs, the guy pulls... three.
nubbins`: each of which is 6x more expensive than i'd previously thought.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: know thy enemy << enemies are only relative. yesterday's allies easily become tomorrow's enemies. (perhaps maybe a one way street).
☟︎ nubbins`: anyone besides alf actually tried and failed loading blockchain on 0.5.3?
nubbins`: i was getting there but my virtual disk was too small, ran outta space, weird disk error ;/
nubbins`: ;;later tell ben_vulpes ^^ tell us what you know
thestringpuller: nubbins`: so instead of 18 bulbs, the guy pulls... three. << so now you have to wait another 10 weeks to get the next 15 you need?
nubbins`: thestringpuller so now i say fuck that company and order the gd bulbs online
nubbins`: you know this is the second time i've gotten dicked around over bulbs?
nubbins`: guy made me wait 15 minutes while he struggled to determine if they actually sold 6-packs
nubbins`: while he mutters OH MY SOME SLOW
nubbins`: and a passing woman says SLOW WOULD BE AN IMPROVEMENT
mrjr: hi guys what did i miss :)
nubbins`: how in the fuck is this a functioning business
los_pantalones: mrjr why don't you tell them a bit of what you are doing w/ ntimelock
mrjr: los_pantalones: i run LedgerLock, we're working on a product called time-vault, to secure your bitcoins in nlocked transactions rather than protecting the priv key
☟︎ mrjr: one of the first services we're providing (closed beta now) is keeping your nlock'ed transactions for you, until they're ripe for confirmations on the blockchain
mrjr: thestringpuller: never had the need for it :)
mrjr: multisig is useful to protect access to privkey, by splitting the power of moving funds to 2+ entities. we pre-sign transactions, nlocked in time, and discard the private key.
mrjr: there's edge cases with malleability etc, but the benefits are that bitcoin operations can have their coins kept in a tx form, not as the information of the privkey
mrjr: we're working on a whitepaper to have some feedback on our design :)
mrjr: the tech is useful e.g. for an exchange/bank that keeps large amounts of BTC, but has a daily use for BTC as clients withdraw funds.
thestringpuller: conclusion: our service holds burden of trust for time delay transactions
mrjr: thestringpuller: our first service is just what you wrote, giving the network a means to trust that a tx will be valid on time (unless ofcourse it was double spent, in which case you get notified)
mrjr: thestringpuller: the greater product is larger in scope
thestringpuller: then you should def be in WoT "there is no need" more like "there is no greater need"
mrjr: thestringpuller: i'll work on getting my creds in order :) meni rosenfeld is one of our investors, and our cto Shaul Kfir was a reviewer for the sidechain paper.
mrjr: i'm also the founder of Bits of Gold, the largest exchange in Israel
mrjr: gotta go, be back soon
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28419 @ 0.00044989 = 12.7854 BTC [-] {2}
Pierre_Rochard: “i'll work on getting my creds in order :)” <- translation: “I won’t work on that, and here’s an insincere smile to really reinforce what I think of it”
mrjr: asciilifeform: you're right, but by pre-signing you ensure that the amounts available at that address, per unit time, are limited. our first partners are ATM machine operators
mrjr: think of the daily needs of those machines, vs the amount stored "in cold storage" using traditional systems
mrjr: 't broadcast the txs to that address
mrjr: you broadcast daily, as it's needed.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13600 @ 0.00044315 = 6.0268 BTC [-]
mrjr: there's an alternative pre-signed transaction chain that sends the coins to alternative addresses, possibly more protected, and a pre-signed "lockdown" transaction that just sends the coins to a non-practical (from an operation standpoint) multisig
mrjr: i'll take your example and explain
mrjr: say you presign 50 BTC / day to a given ATM, coming from your stash of 1000 BTC.
mrjr: you do not broadcast those tx, you just keep the txs, signed, and discard the privkey to your 1000 BTC (!)
mrjr: you pre-sign the txs that move the remaining 1000 BTC - x days to a non-practical multisig
mrjr: the why is: the operators of the ATM no longer have a need to reach out for the cold-stored 1000 BTC
mrjr: "when you sent them manually"
mrjr: I operate a 1000 ATMs, and I have a stash of 10,000 BTC (les pretend i do :) )
joecool: more robust i guess if an attack wipes him out?
mrjr: you still need a cron, to send the nlocked txs every day
mrjr: however you could publish those txs on your blog for all you care
mrjr: if the attacker has access to all your txs in unlocked version, they can indeed run away with everything
mrjr: discarding the privkey is a measure against internal theft, which is key to this scheme
jurov: <asciilifeform> punkman: germany has same electric rates for residential and commercial lines << they do have lower wholesale prices where you have to obey the grid management regime, dunno about details
mrjr: did i explain sufficiently the motivation part?
punkman: asciilifeform: nlocktime is block height I think
joecool: punkman: it has to be both
mrjr: we ran the scenario on the withdraw data from gox
mrjr: (put asside their entire fiasco, just the data)
mrjr: we saw that with just 1,000 BTC accessible to the operators, they could cover 96% of their Bitcoin withdrawal needs
mrjr: the remaining 200k+ BTC can be stored in a form that is in-accessible to the operator, and unavailable for "rogue txs" that steal everything
mrjr: inaccessible = nobody can sign, because the key no longer exists.
mrjr: that includes internal theft.
mrjr: i wasnt aware there was politics behind nlock. always considered it as potentially very useful.
mrjr: got a blog / post on the issue you're describing? sounds interesting
mrjr: ill go get my wot in order
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thestringpuller: asciilifeform: can't imagine i'm the only one, though. << you aren't
xanthyos: come mr towel man towel my banana
xanthyos: why does btc always crash the second i buy it
xanthyos: ^^ proof positive that jesus hates me
xanthyos: that's it, i'm gonna blow it all on 1 hand of internet roulette
undata: xanthyos: that should've been expected with such a sharp rise.
xanthyos: if it crashes, my purchase goes through, if it goes to the moon, coinbase will cancel the transaction
undata: you've angered bitjesus I guess
xanthyos: 4 business days is so obscene, no wonder banking is dead
jurov: can't you just buy off stan?
jurov: what would happen, gasenwagen?
jurov: xanthyos wants to buy coins, you need some $$$
jurov: and if he gave you some bezzle usd?
jurov: you'd have to register as std..er..money transmitter?
xanthyos: i only use paper money for poker games and cannabis
dub: your dealer doesnt take btc?
jurov: maybe you can even charge tax to the desperate people
jurov: let them ask it back from irs
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rithm: yeah i was gonna say where is the citation
rithm: you guys _do_ cite your sources
notary: [trust-update] added: bagels7
rithm: i shared that with my team
rithm: documented sources where the FBI actually makes the recommendation to pay the ransom is useful to me
BingoBoingo: I imagine eventually the ransomware people will start browsing what they've seized
TomServo: It's extracted? I thought it was just locked inplace.
rithm: well it's my understanding the data is not exfiltrated
rithm: not immediately although that could be a later payload
rithm: the only data exfiltrated to my knowledge is the decryption key and an identifier for the machine
BingoBoingo: Well yes, normally seems to stay on victim's computer, but if they can lock the files, they can include other shitware
rithm: but it's be trivial to exfiltrate compressed text, sure
rithm: it only hits plain text
rithm: so like a .sql db is plaintext unless encrypted
rithm: it hits plain text viewable docs, even weird proprietary ones
rithm: proprietary .idx files and stuff. always plaintext though
rithm: i had an engineer reinstall windows on a cryptowall pc this week and return it to the client
rithm: we never tested the docs, the client brought it to us and tried to hide or cleasn it up
rithm: we returned it "fixed" never check ed the client's docs
rithm: i think i've dealt with 5 of those this week
joecool: poweliks is a really interesting infection that often pulls in the cyperlocker ransomware, that hit the wild a couple months ago
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38600 @ 0.00044251 = 17.0809 BTC [-]
rithm: it's cryptowall now and from what i can tell it's infected sites like mom & pop's ruinning old WP/drupal/some CMS
rithm: the story i hear is Nancy was checking vendor's site and the next thing she knows bam cryptowall
rithm: remote code execution is code execution is execution
rithm: the problem is cryptolocker runs entirely in the user context
rithm: so anything the user has access to, specifically filesystem permissions
rithm: so the payload is a real basic thing, modifying files. i hate it
joecool: rithm: ever play with TDL4?
rithm: i don't see a lot of those infections
rithm: used to see a good bit tdss
rithm: i myself have not deployed my own nefarious variant of that either, no
joecool: it's been a long time for me, but that was the most sophisticated and difficult infection i've seen, XP was hit really easy with it
rithm: in general i have run subscription based-packet filtering firewalls to stop things
rithm: because users are stupid
joecool: poweliks is much more simple, usually creates a binary in registry hides it with a null character and puts it in with something that gets called up a lot (like thumbnail cache)
rithm: poweliks I'm not familiar with
joecool: past 2 months or so it's been in the wild
rithm: i review a lot of the desktop stuff, not actually interface with it on the frontlines
rithm: so i need to study
joecool: i got called in to look at an infection that no tool but combofix would pick up, combofix itself would not successfully remove it
rithm: oic there's now PE or even a filesystem object
joecool: asciilifeform: poweliks by default runs a keylogger and is pretty candid about storing the output in plaintext in a tmp file
joecool: it's simple but effective tool to pull in all sorts of junk, the case i was called in to look at was actually a POS system :-\
rithm: i can see how something like this plus a ram scraper would be effective
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mircea_popescu: they should have found that tlds are of the nature of national sovereignty and that cannot be impinged upon by an us court.
assbot: Logged on 08-11-2014 18:24:33; mircea_popescu: "those people's laws aren't really laws, our laws are really laws".
mircea_popescu: as unintuitive as this may seem, these two are actually different.
mircea_popescu: it's roughly the difference between me not recognising X's thinking as valid and me not recognising X's property as his.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Cloud&Heat is putting servers in homes and offices and the heat from them is free. << o look, one step closer to the bitcoin miner heating tile element.
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mircea_popescu: The FBI claims that it cannot discuss the case in open court "without damaging the very national security law enforcement interests it is seeking to protect." Instead, it has filed a secret declaration outlining its case. "This is an especially circular and Kafkaesque line of argument," Shapiro counters. "The FBI considers it a national security threat to make public its reasoning for considering it a national security
mircea_popescu: threat to use federal law to request information about the FBI's deeply problematic understanding of national security threats."
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: its a pretty neat feature for say senior to give jr. allotments of capital at guarenteed future date << there are better solutions to this problem.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: at this point, the enemy is enemy not simply because of what he does or may do, but because of what he has done and what he is. <<< well, at the previous point the enemy was not an enemy at all, just a bunch of derps. it's ony recently that trilema went from "power rangers" to "gavin has turned", and for a while there prior to the 2013 debacle he was not even being treated in concordance with the idiocy
mircea_popescu: the naivity of contemporaneity, as it's called. hitler also seemed pretty reasonable to plenty of people as far up as perhaps 1940, but that's not preventing a current understanding of the guy to see him as pretty fucking broken as early as 1930
mircea_popescu: kafka is actually famous for exactly the ability to render this real situation in works of fiction. as you read through the castle or whatever, at some point you realise this is all pretty nutty, but if you look back to spot when the nuttiness started...well... it didn't seem so at the time.
jurov: ;;later tell Adlai your msg finally went throught. it choked on not mime structure intricacies
mircea_popescu: for a zoologiocal metaphor, the man once bit by a scorpion will readily recognise the "scorpion biting" as an activity that to the naive may well look rather cute.
mircea_popescu: i mean... look at it's tail lol. what's it going to do with that improbable appendage ? how ridoinculous etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: hence, they add up to an act of sabotage. what probably amounts to a hard fork that 'no one' noticed. << i dun think so, fwiw
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: there is precisely one enemy. but with many tentacles. <<< one you see now. once china's idiotic mr Xi shows up you'll be of a differing opinion. that fuckwit came up with a "war on corruption" that includes the theory that conjugal infidelity is both a sign and a symptom of graft. this is what they do over there now, prosecute cocksuckers & sluts.
mircea_popescu: he's definitely just as much an enemy as the wily putin, who clearly understands what bitcoin is all about, and is fighting it more efficiently than the us.
mircea_popescu: in any case, the plurality is beneficial. serenissima foreign policy is to continue helping along the numerous and growing breeches among the three
mircea_popescu: just like the original did, among the french germans and latins.
mircea_popescu: ironically, they today as they back then were "the enemy" strictly because they do not wish to understand or submit to trade, and instead seek to insulate against it. as if.
mats_cd03: mircea_popescu: who are the three this time?
saifedean: so the arab bitcoin space is growing up so fast... we are getting our own scamcoin
saifedean: this guy i know who works on atm's is launching his own cryptocurrency! And it's backed by real assets! REAL
assbot: Universal Crowd-Funding Investments S.A.L (U.C.I S.A.L) Recently Launched Its Crowd Sale and a Crypto Currency Backed by Real Assets and Now is Looking to Establish a Branch in Switzerland - Yahoo Finance
mircea_popescu: saifedean so do your countrymen a favour, write a local language lenghty piece on exactly how neobee worked, what it was etc.
saifedean: i'm not too bothered, i don't think he'll muster more than $100 in "investment"
mircea_popescu: mrjr: multisig is useful to protect access to privkey, by splitting the power of moving funds to 2+ entities. we pre-sign transactions, nlocked in time, and discard the private key. <<< and i know that you do because... you say so ?
saifedean: he keeps trying to recruit me to work with him, and i keep trying my best to bluntly explain to him that his whole thing is going to a giant fat zero, and that the best outcome possible for him is to lose only all his money
mircea_popescu: mrjr: there's edge cases with malleability etc, but the benefits are that bitcoin operations can have their coins kept in a tx form, not as the information of the privkey << this is so braindamaged i can'teven be bothered.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker someone made a clear "here's the water, here's the flour" thing so it's simple and obvious, all sorts of derps come up with all sorts of "improvements" consisting of various doughs. "it stores better as canned frozen dough with our magical chemicals than as simple flour! and you can make things!"
mircea_popescu: this "innovation" is the fucking thing bitcoin was made to kill.
mircea_popescu: mrjr: thestringpuller: i'll work on getting my creds in order :) meni rosenfeld is one of our investors, and our cto Shaul Kfir was a reviewer for the sidechain paper. <<< myewah, the surprises keep right on coming
mircea_popescu: fucking ignorant derps. "here's a shitpie i made. my investors are ken lay and i'll be making a whipetatter"
chetty: <mircea_popescu> this "innovation" is the fucking thing bitcoin was made to kill.//so they make a lot of messes, thats how kiddies learn and once in a while something useful actually gets invented
mircea_popescu: fuck him. he has a known fraud as an "investor" ? he's fucked.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^^^^^ < at this level it is difficult to distinguish simple idiocy riding on featuritis (because nobodies wish to get a place in the sun, and absent actual skils what better avenue trhan the pretense of adding value ?) and actual malice as oyu describe.
mircea_popescu: in any case, nlocktime is ulterior on the flow of entalpy to that kafkian point where shit went weird, identified retrospectively.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: jurov: except that i can't use paper usd for anything << do what the soon-to-be-"protected" folk do, use a rechargeable prepaid card lol
BingoBoingo: The good reloadable prepaid cards even allow you to write "checks"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: let's put it this way. a pile of usd without at least seven or eight decimally-significant zeros trailing after it, would make absolutely no difference to how i live. <<< this is like... the definition of poverty!
mircea_popescu: so basically, until he marries kim kardashian, stan will be pretty much going on with whatever it is he's doing today.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: gotta love these idiots. when'll somebody edit, rather than simply wiping, the case files ? << the one time you'll never hear about it, because how would you.
mircea_popescu: joecool: poweliks is a really interesting infection that often pulls in the cyperlocker ransomware, that hit the wild a couple months ago << look at that, someone took the trouble to make a trojan that works on all windowses to date ?
mircea_popescu: "Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP", we should probably hire this man.
mircea_popescu: rithm: it's cryptowall now and from what i can tell it's infected sites like mom & pop's ruinning old WP/drupal/some CMS <<< yeah, stuff the shitheads in question don't maintain, then i have to answer biweekly questions of "is qntra down". off with their heads i say!
☟︎ jurov: str = 'line1\nline2 \\\n'
jurov: fp = open('out.txt', 'w')
jurov: guess what python does with this?
jurov: EATS THE TRAILING NEWLINE
☟︎ jurov: SOMEONE PLS KILL ME
jurov: why must this always happen to me?
assbot: azelphur@darth-vader:~$ cat test.py str = 'line1\nline2 \\\n' fp = open('out.t - Pastebin.com
jurov: Azelphur: hexdump out.txt?
jurov: here: 0000000 696c 656e 0a31 696c 656e 2032 0a5c
mircea_popescu: if this results in a patch to the kernel of w/e jurov's server is using...
Azelphur: 0000000 696c 656e 0a31 696c 656e 2032 0a5c
xanthyos: i don't understand free markets
jurov: Azelphur: it exchanged the \ and \n
jurov: or my brain misfired
Azelphur: jurov: I wonder if it's a Windows line ending thing.
jurov: it's leeeeeenux here !!!1
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2014 01:36:19; asciilifeform: because plain ascii is like naked people
jurov: fp = open('out.txt', 'wb') did not help
jurov: but i am not putting the code in browser
jurov: oh you mean the paste box
jurov: this looks like a trojan in python..using \\\n to trigger
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: the definition of poverty! << say moar <<< sarcasm, the lowest form of wit.
jurov: damn hexdump switched the endianness, file is actually correct
mircea_popescu: <jurov> here: 0000000 696c 656e 0a31 696c 656e 2032 0a5c << seems correct endian ?
jurov: then it ends in 5c 0a as it should
jurov: but when you open out.txt in less or vim it pretends there is no newline in the end
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11600 @ 0.00045279 = 5.2524 BTC [-] {3}
jurov: there are total 4 backslashes in 'line1\nline2 \\\n' , maybe irc ate them?
mircea_popescu: you gotta understand for most people $100 in disposable income would actually make a significant difference.
mircea_popescu: this is definitely most of africa, but i suspect most of the us by now, too.
mircea_popescu: i have yet to meet a female argentinian that's both a) fuckable and b) owner in her own right of $100 worth of monthly income free and clear of any burden.
mircea_popescu: it buys even less than a lolipop on a comet, so what of it ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In this part of USia, $100 could buy 2 tanks with $20 left over
JuliaTourianski: so change direction from blowjobs, I wanted to ask your thought on this "freedom" we're all obsessed with. i like this critique: "To coerce a man is to deprive him of freedom - freedom from what? Almost every moralist in human history has praised freedom. Like happiness and goodness, like nature and reality, it is a term whose meaning is so porous that there is little interpretation that it seems able to resist"
JuliaTourianski: the entire thing feels like a feel-good distraction from actual attainable action.
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski let's take an oblique tack. forget coercing a man. what is coercing a woman ?
JuliaTourianski: "The doctrine that maintains that what I cannot have I must teach myself not to desire, that a desire eliminated, or successfully resisted, is as good as a desire satisfied, is a sublime, but, it seems to me, unmistakable, form of the doctrine of sour grapes: what I cannot be sure of, I cannot truly want. This makes it clear why the definition of negative liberty as the ability to do what one wishes - which is, in e
JuliaTourianski: will not do. If I find that I am able to do little or nothing of what I wish, I need only contract or extinguish my wishes, and I am made free. If the tyrant (or 'hidden persuader') manages to condition his subjects (or customers) into losing their original wishes and embracing ('internalising')
JuliaTourianski: the form of life he has invented for them, he will, on this definition, have succeeded in liberating them. He will, no doubt, have made them feel free - as Epictetus feels freer than his master (and the proverbial good man is said to feel happy on the rack). But what he has created is the very antithesis of political freedom
JuliaTourianski: meh i dunno. i'm trying to gage some thought that will surprise me maybe
mircea_popescu: well so far we're at the point where we try to find out what you mean by words.
BingoBoingo finds it more useful to consider freedom a conditional
JuliaTourianski: alright I'll be super direct: is freedom possible? and if so, what is it?
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski for "it" to "be" something you're making some presumptions. is the color pink possible ? if so, what is it ?
mircea_popescu: if you define it as em with wavelength so and so, then yes.
JuliaTourianski: actually i am not making presumptions at all. I am admitting to be color blind here
BingoBoingo also thinks the F-word is too tainted by abuse to be useful on its own.
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski lol you ever read how sussman was englightened ?
mircea_popescu: In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied.
mircea_popescu: "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said.
mircea_popescu: "Why do you close your eyes?" Sussman asked his teacher.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo by exception from the general rule, i actually wanted this one in teh record.
BingoBoingo: Sure, figured I'd like the source for the sake of the rest of the stories
JuliaTourianski: asciilifeform now that's presumptuous...even though I agree
JuliaTourianski: is the discussion of freedom even important or relevant anymore
mircea_popescu: no discussion is either important or ever relevant if the discussers don't know what they mean by words.
JuliaTourianski: I quoted something, so I'd have to ask mr. berlin what he means
mircea_popescu: well yes, i guess you should. much like we can't use unsigned patches for any reason, you can't use undefined jumbles for any thinking.
mircea_popescu: generally writers do readers the courtesy of defining stuff tho.
JuliaTourianski: "One is that all coercion is, in so far as it frustrates human desires, bad as such, although it may have to be applied to prevent other, greater evils; while non-interference, which is the opposite of coercion, is good as such, although it is not the only good."
mircea_popescu: because that happens to be both the source and the point of coercion in practice.
JuliaTourianski: Dostoyevsky said: "boots are superior to Pushkin" so what is freedom? freedom to starve of freeze in the cold? or freedom to be warm and fed under rule
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's come full circle, by now the unruly stupid children of yesteryear are forming pseudophylosophyc systems to justify their sillyness.
JuliaTourianski: both positive and negative liberty is used very well by every side of power
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski let's look through all this by using a model of yourself as a little girl.
mircea_popescu: you are a little girl growing up in the house of your parents, which is all nice and good.
mircea_popescu: you get to be 16. at this point you figure - miuch like that chick in wuthering heights or whichever had the 7 sisters - you have about as much need of fucking as you have of someone sticking his finger up your nose.
mircea_popescu: this notwithstanding, a strange man comes, takes you away, puts you in a new place and makes you pregnant.
mircea_popescu: this is obviously coercitive, on the part of said man.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, you get over it, and the wound heals like any wound, and now you have children, which of course you love, being so wired to do.
mircea_popescu: but now they are 16, and a man comes and takes them to war, where they get shot and die.
mircea_popescu: the alternative being, of course, that you could be an old maid, in which case the same children would be... just as equally dead.
mircea_popescu: or else, that you'd have unbearable brats the sort that grow up to be isaiah berlin and fill the world with the idiocy of their parareasonings as to why nobody ever needs to grow the fuck up already.
mircea_popescu: then the whole ecosystem collapses under their weight ; rocks fall, everyone dies ; the mongols come to rape the lot.
mircea_popescu: coercion, wtf do you mean coercion ? you're sitting on a chair right now, your but's coerced.
JuliaTourianski: "If I save myself from an adversary by retreating indoors and locking every entrance and exit, I may remain freer than if I had been captured by him, but am I freer than if I had defeated or captured him? If I go too far, contract myself into too small a space, I shall suffocate and die. The logical culmination of the process of destroying everything through which I can possibly be wounded is suicide. While I exist
JuliaTourianski: I can never be wholly secure. Total liberation in this sense (as Schopenhauer correctly perceived) is conferred only by death.28
berndj: JuliaTourianski, do you know the book _48 laws of power_? your "sour grapes" comment reminded me, there's rule 36: Disdain things you cannot have: ignoring them is the best revenge
undata: I'm skeptical anyone who ever read a book called "48 Laws of Power" ever had any
undata: or if they did, it must've been the only thing on the toilet
berndj: lol undata many of its pages were indeed read on the toilet
JuliaTourianski: i said it was flawed in a mailing list and i got some very insulted ancaps on my case
JuliaTourianski: Woman and man at a bar. They may or may not be flirting...each may interpret their interaction differently. Man grabs woman's ass. Woman punches man in face. Has there been a violation of the non-aggression principle? What if the woman liked it or wanted it, but felt embarrassed of her urges due to the public setting and retaliated in a way she felt redeemable. Or maybe she was abused as a child and the act de
JuliaTourianski: We can't know. So who aggressed against who? Should the man have asked to grab her ass first...well, that would contradict the entire concept of the mutual thrill of ass grabbing.
danielpbarron: try asking an "ancap" if you have the right to beat your own kids/wives/slaves on your own property
assbot: Issue 7143: get_payload(decode=True) eats last newline in base64 encoded payload - Python tracker
berndj: mircea_popescu, presumably on a road, the owner of the road might require you to sign a contract that forbids beating your kids
mircea_popescu: jurov ahahaha o god help us. that is like a canonical example of evil.
RagnarDanneskjol: she asks about pron likely b/c forum muppets derping about your random erotic art posts on 'lema
BingoBoingo: Oh no, RagnarDanneskjol MP once ran a chan site. Full of people posting n00dz
JuliaTourianski: i may break my abstinence tonight if this website still exists
undata: mircea_popescu: a religious notion that anarchists suppose would bring about peace on earth and good will towards men
undata: the non-aggression principle
BingoBoingo: Yeah, the *archists would reintroduce aggression
undata: BingoBoingo: but... read this blog post about how mean it is
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski which webiste ? dtng was basically... a chan. you know, random people posting whatever.
mircea_popescu: if i recall there was a lengthy thread of naked women in star wars paraphenalia
BingoBoingo: undata: Of course *archy is mean. Just avoid the robokleptarchy
RagnarDanneskjol: did we just miss a golden opportunity to have miss T. break this abstinence streak?
assbot: julia tourianski - Google Search
BingoBoingo wonders what shitgnome introduced "non-aggression" into ananrchy. With the persistence of the *archy it would seem that aggression would be necessary in one's own defense.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i;ll tell you how that went. dudes for some reason perceive the need to "sell" it, and since it's obvious that you can't sell something to someone that the someone;d perceive as a "worse" alternative, then necessarily it must be made so that anarchy is not more painful to the average derp than you know, the 1980s in the us.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that the only possible point to even having anarchy in the first place is to render the sorts of idiots that'd fall for it.
undata: "Those guys over there are organizing! Someone should stop them! But how?"
BingoBoingo: To think that 100 years ago anarchist aggression started a conflict among the euroarchists
mircea_popescu: before being coopted by the socialists, the russian revolution was pure anarchism.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the us was quite a different beast before being coopted by the socialists to.
mircea_popescu: it's funny, this particular bromilliad, sometimes catches root on a tree, then proceds to derp all about how you know, the purpose of the tree is it!