Naphex: oh wow, just read the news. so bitgo finally popped with the worst mistake they can make?;o
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Pierre_Rochard: “Captains of the industry. If they were captains of any other industry, like say for example automotive, we'd have people dying in car crashes between two stationary vehicles."
trinque: "So what you're saying is that this currency of the future can destroy my savings because of an error and nobody is responsible?" << b-but, who will inforce what's fair?!
trinque: what is this obsession with making things safe, as though you don't still die in agony at the end?
trinque: and likely more agony because you fretted about it your whole miserable life
trinque: Naphex: regarding earlier thread, things such as parsing inputs, putting sensitive data on networks that don't knock knees directly with the web, all great stuff
Naphex: oh, i tought you hated it
trinque: not at all; it'd be good not to get personality wrapped up in such discussions too
trinque: it's just, what would be better than the complex wad we have currently?
trinque: reading asciilifeform's blog and various excellent threads in the logs would be instructive there
trinque: I personally do not claim to have the answer, or I'd be typing from it
Naphex: dude, i was giving my 2 cents on what people can do to harden up
Naphex: no jimmies rustled. most of that stuff is necessary whenever you have more servers
Naphex: or have to internal networking
Naphex: but if you have nothing you will be fucked and quickly
Naphex: and not by the NSA, by some kid with some scripts
williamdunne: I just spent 30 minutes trying to work out why the hell my DB connection wasn't working. I was editing the wrong fucking config file.
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trinque: Naphex: certainly, if one doesn't tape the raft's holes, he'll drown
Naphex: i see now that the term secure was the problem. how about hardened?
trinque: I can admire a survivor ingenuity, crafting spears from bamboo and all that
Naphex: well ain't that security?
Naphex: trinque: how would you define perfect security?
trinque: Naphex: I currently cannot; it would first require being able to model the whole system in my head at once
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Naphex: so when you say system, how deep/high do we go?
trinque: Naphex: as far as what it means to have a fits-in-head system, please do read asciilifeform's material; he's far more qualified to say.
Naphex: trinque: that's airgapped gpg. you can implement gpg all over. Not sure how much airgapping it helps. A lot of sidechannel attacks comming up nowadays that can grab keys
☟︎ Naphex: local is always a threat as well, no matter where you airgap
Naphex: having a annonymous ip is dandy. but no way anywhere near as enough. you still have to implement most of the stuff i said above especially the filtering part
Naphex: to defend from any exposing dos attacks
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Pierre_Rochard: williamdunne: had a similar head against wall bug yesterday, in pgsql: to_timestamp(‘2014-2’, ‘YYYY-Q’), doesn’t work because the docs clearly state “quarter (ignored by to_date and to_timestamp)” but it was three hours of desperate refactoring before I actually read them.
☟︎ williamdunne: Its so easy to ignore the most simplistic bugs.. derpage galore.
Pierre_Rochard: I was outraged because the reason they ignore quarter (and don’t raise an error!) is because there’s no convention as to whether the date should be the beg or end of the quarter. Month, week, etc do the beginning, why not adopt that as the convention!?
Pierre_Rochard: anyway, lesson learned and appropriate duct tape applied
trinque: I'd love a proper emacs mode which could more or less "eldoc" postgresql functions
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cazalla: williamdunne, qntra uses Civil Footnotes
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decimation: "Mobile payments are a natural extension of the digital lifestyle, while protection against digital theft becomes an imperative for regulatory agencies around the world." < note usg mission creep
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Pierre_Rochard: ^ They should start by securing president hussein’s email
decimation: Pierre_Rochard: regulatory agencies indeed
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mircea_popescu: hmm, anyone kept in touch with that bravetheworld chick ? danielpb1rron ?
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assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 20:45:01; ben_vulpes: savvy?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell BayAreaCoins prolly later tonight i'd guess.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: In a couple of days could you make your RSS feed show all bitcoin related articles for an hour or so?
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 21:56:01; Naphex: trinque: gentoo doesn't even have iptables defaulted, so as soon as his done he'll end up recompiling
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 23:32:46; pete_dushenski: williamdunne mebbe you could have scoopbot_revived post to a page on your site ?
williamdunne: Hmm I can probably deal with it, I'll take a look
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 22:03:37; Naphex: asciilifeform: applets are applets and security issues are all around. being a good dev implies taking care with deploying your product
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 22:06:38; asciilifeform: to paraphrase mircea_popescu article, if christ saves in java - let me go straight to hell.
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assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 22:14:03; asciilifeform: Naphex: if you're interested in my concept in particular, see article 'don't blame the mice.'
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 22:28:04; Naphex: anyway, what i was saying is you take steps 'secure' or tape your stuff always, and you don't feed raw data to your apps if you can filter the input beforehand.
mircea_popescu: dja see where there's a lot more room for documentation ?
gabriel_laddel: About this "don't feed raw data into your app" and "filtering" nonsense - if you're using a language that isn't complete shit you never need to "filter data" (just communicate in sexprs and (let* ((*read-eval* nil)) ...))
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel perhaps you don't appreciate how deep perl goes, or how unaware perl-people are of their perl-ness.
gabriel_laddel: I mean literally - steal their bitcoin, hack their bank accounts
trinque: lotta derps out there that can be taught to better themselves.
trinque: I'm fucking 28 and learning CL *now*
mircea_popescu: i see nobody wishes to engage the cunt problem. but yes, IT DOES RUN ON PERL.
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: in what sense? that it'll accept all sorts of odd inputs?
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 02:51:20; mircea_popescu: what the fuck is deloitte even
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel how familiar with the process are you ? like, for instance, the simple (lol) ShouldAbort() function ?
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard i suppose it's the next head on the chopping block after AA.
gabriel_laddel: I've had sex with a female if that's what you're asking.
mircea_popescu: think about it : foetuses are sometimes aborted. on the basis of reasons.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard from what i see (and from what i know of these systems) there's periodically going to be a beheading.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is, you can measure a lot about a pregnancy.,
gabriel_laddel: you're talking about the women in question purposefully aborting her pregnancy?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel no, no, we're talking about the reproductive system itself.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel trisomies are usually aborted. spina bifida usually not. etc.
trinque: that nature is filthy hacks upon hacks?
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: they created PCAOB - para-govt auditor of auditors - to avoid beheadings and only chop off fingers/toes. Beheadings will have to come exogenously. For log, background on lehman accounting fraud:
http://drillingthrough.com/lehman/ gabriel_laddel: the reason we build abstract machines is because people are not very good at repetitive tasks.
mircea_popescu: iirc they proved some of them actually abord through some oxygenation pathway
gabriel_laddel: people are machines - but computer programs are not people, nor cells.
mircea_popescu: and it's perl for exactly the specified reason, " the normal failure mode is to terminate with no idea how far into the process you got or how much of an incomplete task was actually performed"
gabriel_laddel: we know how to write computer programs such that you don't need regexes.
mircea_popescu: many more similarities (like a pointed lack of sexprs), but let's keep it simple
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, idea is that some people who can't even make dragonfly are in a weak position to teach grandmother to suck eggs, as it were.
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mircea_popescu: that may be. i'm just pointing out that biology offers a very significant challenge to theoretical cs.
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gabriel_laddel: This conversation bothers me. We don't understand how to make dragonflies, nor how the reproductive system works. We know how to write computer programs that work - the failing to do the latter correctly is a human failing.
mircea_popescu: generally when an analogy need not enter into a conversation, it's a sign the conversation's broken.
mircea_popescu: and mind you, at issue is not whether we do or don't understand how reproduction works.
mircea_popescu: at issue is that we understand enough to know it runs on perl.
mircea_popescu: which means that as long as you live, you will not live in a clean world.
gabriel_laddel: It doesn't run on "perl" "perl" is a well specified computer program. Meat runs another separate well specified meat program.
gabriel_laddel: which means that as long as you live, you will not live in a clean world. << select portions of humanity have, to varying degrees created "clean" computing.
mircea_popescu: take the simple fact that erycridine lactate induces abortion in any trimester, and without exception. if this isn't a regex gone wrong, what is ?
mircea_popescu: (and if it were so well specified, we'd prolly know a lot more of it than we do)
mircea_popescu: so you dispute that there's ready biologic equivalents of a regexp match ?
gabriel_laddel: I wouldn't dare draw that equivalence without agreeing on a formal definition for regexes and the process in question.
mircea_popescu: (this, incidentally, would be the lisp/perl difference imo. lisp does not have strings, perl does not have sexprs. in spite of pretending on each side)
mircea_popescu: if you think about it, you said so yourself. "if you're /ever/ using them, you're doing it wrong."
gabriel_laddel: my first pass at a definition for a string: A string is a collection of characters from an alphabet.
mircea_popescu: perl people think they're using "structured data" too.
gabriel_laddel: they can't do tree traversals on their "structured data"
gabriel_laddel: (I'm assuming you're saying "why don't you think they don't - do tree traversals")
gabriel_laddel: I should note that "they" (algol programmers) try to add the tree traversal properties of lisp to their languages
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decimation: did I just stumble into an ongoing turing test?
gabriel_laddel: this conversation is going in the direction of "heat death of the universe" so I'll note that companies that use e.g., scala have to hire a lot of people to regin in the complexity inherrent in ALGOL.
mircea_popescu: decimation nah, i'm just being unreasonably heterodox over here.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel this is a very minor point. the chief point, still standing, is that cunts still run on perl. there must be a reason for this.
gabriel_laddel: hence they'll be beaten in the marketplace by yours truly.
mircea_popescu: but even if there isn't a reason for this : it's so deeply baked into the structure of the world, you'll never be free of it.
mircea_popescu: (because cunts obviously aren't free to choose what they use, so the need for perl must be way deeper than that)
decimation: how can anyone even make statements about what the female reproductive/baby system is doing without examining the results in each case, in molecular detail?
trinque: fast and loose is fine if the product is somewhat disposable?
mircea_popescu: trinque except the product of reproduction is perhaps the most expensive thing there is
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: oh, btw thanks for your input on my document
trinque: yes, very expensive to the host body while it's being made
gabriel_laddel: I ended up trolling through gov. documents on the yucca mountain facility (I had previously quoted wikipedia)
decimation: yucca mountain was a terrible idea, in the sense that storing nuclear waste instead of recycling it into fissile Pu is retarded
gabriel_laddel: decimation: well, now it is sitting on-site at the 100 reactor sites across the US
trinque: mircea_popescu: seems like systems where there are a variety of ways to solve problems accept that they don't know the "perfect" way, if there is one
trinque: assuming lack of perfect knowledge having multiple things to try seems appropriate
decimation: mainly because jimmy carter banned recycling because it contained the word 'plutonium'
mircea_popescu: trinque the main problem here is that for a large number of solid considerations, lisp would actually be a much better choice. moreover, the space alf referred to is indeed vast, but the processes narrow. in many spots the whole tree converges to a very very narrow bottleneck.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wasn't going nearly as far as any of that.
mircea_popescu: trinque consider the ridiculous happenstance that all foeti have a god damned lizard tail two weeks in.
trinque: mhm, and gills at some point, or proto-gills
trinque: little blockchains themselves
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trinque: the whole of evolution unfolding each time
mircea_popescu: could be punishment for the usg twerps. "you now have to program on this"
trinque: I wonder if we'd have done the one with the afterburner having never seen a bird
mircea_popescu: trinque nah, it's not energetically efficient. try and power the jet off the bird's diet.
trinque: mircea_popescu: right, so we're talking about the difference between systems which try to be general solutions to (not sure how to articulate it) vs specific tools which live in a given niche?
trinque: tools vs general meta-tools or something
mircea_popescu: i am merely pointing out that the perl-bashing has some serious problems in front of it.
trinque: converation with my biz partner comes to mind where he praised this old DOS point of sale
trinque: he could enter things like i 52345 s <ent> 3 <ent> and that would add inventory number whatever to the ticket 2 times
trinque: and he still claims he's faster on that than any micros shit, ncr, or even more "modern" UI
trinque: but you could then go "oh but this is not a general interface with concepts applicable to any UI"
trinque: seems relevant to the lisp vs perl thing
trinque: perl's an interface to a handful of problems, ignores other things
trinque: I was for example shocked to find an object system in CL as a layman
trinque: and a few months in I'm pretty sure it has goddamn everything, so to speak
trinque: any "paradigm" of programming you'd like to use
trinque: yeah, and I went to a school that did C++ and Java, and dropped out of that
gabriel_laddel: <trinque> seems relevant to the lisp vs perl thing << ummm... the angle I'm attacking this from is that meta-programming is inescapable and sexprs are the only sane way to go unless you want to program forth or APL.
trinque: then went on to do python and ruby in industry
trinque: it's a wonder I can hit the toilet with my ass
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: we know how ALGOL and meta-programming (tree-traversals) interact
trinque: gabriel_laddel: sure, seems you need code to be data to do metaprogramming well
gabriel_laddel: not only that - you /must/ have a simple parsing algorithm, else upgrades are a bitch
gabriel_laddel: s-expressions + read tables are the ultimate notational abstraction
trinque: way less mental fatigue looking at them, I've found
gabriel_laddel: way less mental fatigue looking at them, I've found << I suppose. One can learn to read most anything. The importance here is the triviality of generating "syntactically correct" program texts.
gabriel_laddel: While we're here, I'll note that being tied to text (perl) is quite limiting. On CLIM today I can tell any object how to "present" itself, i.e., how to draw itself on the screen. Such a thing is unthinkable in a language based around regexes.
gabriel_laddel B.A.D (bitcoin-assets distro) update #1, I just finished rewriting mozrepl in parenscript. Now to cut out extra crud.
mircea_popescu: trinque re the dos point of sale, best breakfast p[lace here had one, made like 1985 or some shit
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> nature's criterion of 'works' and mine << nature's cheaper. you might not get a voice.
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assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 22:32:39; ben_vulpes: there's nothing more undervalued right now than cheap old blades.
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 22:44:55; decimation: usually with power, bus, network, etc supplied as part of the 'crate'
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: are you ever going to post the Jerusalem follow-up to your Istanbul article?
mircea_popescu: imo cooling was the biggest problem for the damned blades.
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assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 23:01:04; decimation: unfortunately no floating point unit, but that isn't needed for the target market here
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 23:43:06; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-04-2015#1110941 << interestingly, i asked about the cost. was told something like '$1m for the old style, 2.5 for the new generation.' fella said this with straight face, too, as if there were nothing remarkable about this factoid.
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 23:21:58; asciilifeform: i mention it because i can imagine a world where such clocks are considered not only acceptable, but 'state of the art' and 'best practice'
mircea_popescu: before smartphones, it was not uncommon to stop two people in the street whose clocks were 30 minutes apart.
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assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 23:58:40; menahem: And be the Pete the world requires of me"
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 23:37:19; williamdunne: It won't cover all of history though, most of the RSS feeds only cover 5-10 posts each
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 22:32:39; ben_vulpes: there's nothing more undervalued right now than cheap old blades.
trinque: way better than a piddly ec2 micro/small/medium instance eh?
☟︎☟︎ trinque: seeing elsewhere 10 xeon dell poweredge for $50 per
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 00:57:29; Naphex: trinque: that's airgapped gpg. you can implement gpg all over. Not sure how much airgapping it helps. A lot of sidechannel attacks comming up nowadays that can grab keys
trinque: re: perl thread RLX control tower was all written in php, could multicast OS images out to 500 blades at once, and lots of other great shit
trinque: the puppets and other garbage in the space are still trying to do what they had
mike_c: mircea_popescu: requested changes to wot site are live.
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 01:43:24; williamdunne: Anyone know a decent footnotes plugin for WP?
mike_c: the best footnotes plugin for WP is /dev/null
mike_c: hehe. you get an exception.
mircea_popescu: i am probably the record holder for most footnotes in an article out of the entire interwebs
mike_c: and pete has gotten much better. but footnotes are dangerous and usually misused.
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mike_c: cazalla: he got three things in a row without crashing. He's better than all the scoopbots combined :)
mircea_popescu: williamdunne so in retrospect : "immutable, fungible, non-discriminatory, and trustless" is really redundant. fungible includes "non-discriminatory".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i would suspect maybe trustless is a misnomer. trust is not involved at all, the point is coherence. the system remains coherent, which is to say it does not fork into ambiguous states.
mircea_popescu: maybe the best description would be "immutable, fungible and entropic"
mircea_popescu: because that is the property here : same as entropy, bitcoin lacks the ability to review earlier states on the base of later states.
mircea_popescu: so described, it is rather clear that bitcoin can not in fact exist : immutability and entropy are mutually contradictory.
jayk: is it worth throwing any money at a mining pool these days with bitcoin being flat?
cazalla: jayk, let someone else bare the cost and just buy coins straight up
jayk: better to buy them right now then
jayk: i heard you cant be profitable at $200-250
mircea_popescu: jayk you mean renting hash power ? that was never a good deal.
jayk: i never liked the idea, and BFLY labs tried to do it
jayk: or if you can get them
jayk: seems many places are hard to obtain, and kncminer doesnt sell equip anymore
mircea_popescu: "It, together with smart contracts, has been let out of Pandora’s Box – never to return, never to be unlearned, no matter how badly some of us might want it to."
mircea_popescu: other things sharing the same properties, "the free lunch", "democracy", "you can do anything" etc.
mircea_popescu: just because particular memes are well suited to the mental vulnerabilities of the early mind and so are noteworthy to educators and psychiatrists does not mean they're also noteworthy to engineers.
mircea_popescu: proof of pizza, for fucks sake. all the money in pizza delivery is the god damned tips. nobody will ever deliver pizza to the sort of idiots who bicker about times randomly. if this is how it went, why not have "proof of latte" to make sure the barrista really did give you the latte.
jayk: there's a website for them
jayk: i got flamed for calling them pizza boy
jayk: the delivery people
mircea_popescu: williamdunne "The cost of enforcement of contracts grows over time as an increasing number of loopholes are found - as described in an article by Mircea Popescu" you know you could ~link it~ o.O
☟︎ jayk: they get really pissy when you address them boy and not man
mircea_popescu: "* Beware of teenagers grouped in twos wearing hooded sweatshirts. Most criminals fit that description"
mircea_popescu: "Be suspicious of pedestrians when you pull up to a house. Don't open your car door if people are nearby."
☟︎ jayk: i was in a casino with a bandana and i was asked to leave because i appeared to be a frightening gang member
cazalla: jayk, did ya refuse to take it off? bandana is as bad as feet on table tbh
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mircea_popescu: the last time an idiot "asked me to leave" i had the place torched.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, but did ya have ya bandana on with ya feet on the table?
mircea_popescu: i'm really the best customer anyone could ever have. i tip, there's hot chicks, the works.
jayk: cazalla: i shaved my head and didn't like the way i looked
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jayk: there's the bandana pic
jayk: though my hair had grown back by then
mircea_popescu: you don't really look like you have any business in a casino...
jayk: look like a duck farmer?
cazalla: jayk, i get the bandana, free bird shit but c'mon, take hat/bandana off in a casino or any establishment for that manner
mircea_popescu: williamdunne "inheritence" that takes an a, and moreover, the entire "transfer reputation" thing is muddied at best.
jayk: girls were wearing them
mircea_popescu: this reminds me of scene where chick is told that she has to cover her head in church
mircea_popescu: so she removes her top (was a knotted square thing) and puts it on her head.
jayk: that's a good reason to go to a gay bar with your hot gf
jayk: hot lesbo chicks will lift up their shirts
jayk: trying to get your gf's attn
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cazalla: greek orthodox eh, sure not latvian orthodox?
jayk: its generally not difficult to bum some action off a lesbian
jayk: my ex-gf's sister's gf had never seen a penis before
mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately unlike Bitcoin there is no reputation Trezor." << a) trezor's kinda dysfunctional/derpy ; b) of course there is. airgapped gpg.
☟︎ cazalla: mircea_popescu, i guess so, figured you had the kavorka yourself but guess not :P
mircea_popescu: cazalla it's a thing, greece has > 9k islands, about half of them have a church on
cazalla is drinking and talking shheeeiit
jayk: she was dating my ex-gf's sister and had never been with a man, and told me she had never seen a penis before
jayk: so i took her to the beach and we stripped down
cazalla: jayk, beach sex is the shittiest sex in my experience
cazalla: what a fucking scam hollywood has going with the idea that sex on the beach is hawt
jayk: there are grassy parts
mircea_popescu: but hey, they got all these things because can't show fucking on tv, because usians are retards.
jayk: it ain't ideal, but would you turn it down with a lesbian?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, ya the taps, hitting ya head on that shit ain't fun
jayk: mirc...you are different...a romanian charlie sheen
cazalla: jayk, ya mean real butch lesbian types that ya can't get hard for or pretend 16 year old lesbian to get your attention so you fuck her straight?
jayk: she was pretty hot with big tits
cazalla: which are usually "bi" anyway
jayk: i've tried to find her on fb but i dont know what happened to her
jayk: ran away to saskatoon
mircea_popescu: " off the top of my head the United Kingdom, South Africa, Singapore, India, and China have instant and cheap (in many cases free) bank transfer systems." << nonsense. your example is SEPA. rest sucks by comparison. (or gyropay before that).
mircea_popescu: anyway williamdunne i see what you meant by "not as eloquent" :D
mircea_popescu: the good news being that if you stick to it, it'll improve.
jayk: are there any places that do instant ACH?
mircea_popescu: now do me a personal favour and ditch that retarded disqus thing
mircea_popescu: "We're going to co-opt the technology, OK? End. Of. Story." lolk.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.menahem.1:ef600b5ecdbf4fb4fc6975db6a8a625a670ccde4c18d5e5462f354dbec68aadb
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☟︎ mircea_popescu: ;;later tell menahem you really don't know how to bother girls.
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cazalla: or anyone else for that matter
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assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 04:35:18; mircea_popescu: before smartphones, it was not uncommon to stop two people in the street whose clocks were 30 minutes apart.
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 04:05:37; asciilifeform: think this way - if the problem were entirely contained in an -available- set of abstractions of the language, the program would not need to be written!
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assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 05:33:34; mircea_popescu: williamdunne "The cost of enforcement of contracts grows over time as an increasing number of loopholes are found - as described in an article by Mircea Popescu" you know you could ~link it~ o.O
williamdunne:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-04-2015#1111640 <<< To the layman it seems they would be different. Assuming you're a fairly boring person as far as you're concerned dollars are pretty fungible (obviously not entirely and dependent on payment system), but they're not even close to non-discriminatory. I guess the difference IMO is between 1 btc = 1 btc, and anyone and everyone being able to have 'a
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 05:17:59; mircea_popescu: williamdunne so in retrospect : "immutable, fungible, non-discriminatory, and trustless" is really redundant. fungible includes "non-discriminatory".
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Naphex: !rate fluffypony 2 freenode:#bitcoin-otc:c479d5a2f2e4c3ba71a05a521eb58cd80bebebf35f842bbc4730962b
Naphex: !rate fluffypony 2 Riccardo Spagni of #b-a/monero. Responsible for OpenAlias which kicks ass
assbot: Rating should be any non zero value between 10 and -10.
Naphex: !rate fluffypony 2 Riccardo Spagni of #b-a/monero. Responsible for OpenAlias which kicks ass
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Naphex: !rate williamdunne 1 young climbing up
Naphex: !rate williamdunne 1 young and climbing up
Naphex: !rate -10 HoreaV Horea Vuscan former 'CEO' of BTCXchange.ro. Overall scammer and crook. Avoid!
assbot: -10 is not registered in WoT.
Naphex: !rate HoreaV -10 Horea Vuscan former 'CEO' of BTCXchange.ro. Overall scammer and crook. Avoid!
assbot: HoreaV is not registered in WoT.
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davout: jurov_ you manage the mailing list amirite?
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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell williamdunne explain this difference between "1 btc = 1 btc" and "anyone and everyone being able to have a bitcoin wallet".
☟︎ fluffypony: I'm guessing the CloudFlare node you're hitting is being wonky
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mircea_popescu: curl: (35) error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure
mircea_popescu: fluffypony that aside, how does this thing solve situatiosn where dns zones are ambiguous ? (say registrar and host don't match)
fluffypony: the registrar doesn't set DNS records, necessarily, only what the nameservers are (ie. SOA)
fluffypony: since DNSSEC follows a signature chain back to the root zone your ISP's DNS server can't fake the record
mircea_popescu: (im still trying to understand exactly how this works)
fluffypony: that said, a DNSSEC fail is a soft fail (as not all zones support DNSSEC at this stage) - so it'll present the address for user validation
fluffypony: as long as it treats a DNSSEC as a hard fail it can
mircea_popescu: "By leveraging DNSSEC we are able to prevent MITM-style attacks on an alias." doesn't tell me very much.
mircea_popescu: "What is OpenAlias? OpenAlias seeks to provide a way to simplify aliasing amidst a rapidly shifting technology climate. " << i mean come on.
mircea_popescu: you folk gotta hire someone to do proper tech writing. there's nothing wrong with having sales copy,
fluffypony: then skip the About section, that's all sales blurb :-P
fluffypony: that's what you would do in your application if you were implementing lookups
fluffypony: (preferably with dnscrypt-proxy running, and point it at that)
mircea_popescu: mkay. well i'm exiting this process with message "a project to provide bitcoin-deanonymizers with a domain-address pairing method, powered by the general public's expectations of convenience and lack of expectation of guarantees" which sums up to "fluff".
fluffypony: yes, hence why it was originally created for Monero, where your address is reusable
mircea_popescu: so if i posion dns cache, can i also steal payments for that domain ?
fluffypony: not unless you have their DNSSEC private keys
mircea_popescu: because you know, usg keeps a master key, or so the rumour goes.
fluffypony: well they could always use Namecoin instead
mircea_popescu: the complexity brtought about any attempt to implement "convenience" is outright staggering huh.
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assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 09:53:45; assbot: The Bot Bubble: Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency | The New Republic ... (
http://bit.ly/1z1Svx5 )
mircea_popescu: and in the lines of drama : a few years ago the ro education ministry failed utterly at publishing natl highschool exams. so i hacked their shit and published the lists.
mircea_popescu: that's what'ever 100k kids, most of which idiots, names and all.
mircea_popescu: now there's about one a week bitching about how you know, this shouldn't exist!!11
assbot: Rezultate la Bacalaureat, sesiunea Iunie 2011, judetul Tulcea on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1z8oBYp )
mircea_popescu: im gonna erase history to satisfy the hopes and aspirations of the subhuman horde five minutes after i gangbang literal sows.
mircea_popescu: how about you know, doing a good fucking job at the exam, so you don't have to be ashamed of it a few years later.
mircea_popescu: dude is all "anyone can search and find out someone's marks, ~which do not represent the value of the respective person~".
mircea_popescu: why not ? cause fucktard so decided! nothing negative could ever represent these idiots' "twu vawue".
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menahem: mircea_popescu thanks for the vote of confidence.
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 06:06:41; assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for menahem with note: New blood
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 06:08:42; mircea_popescu: ;;later tell menahem you really don't know how to bother girls.
menahem: i didn't know how far I should push it - mention her on twitter, etc.. maybe best to leave the heavy hand to you ? i'm too much of a luvva. but maybe my definition of luvvin is wrong.
menahem: !rate mircea_popescu 2 bitcoin sage. pimp of all pimps.
menahem: !v assbot:menahem.rate.mircea_popescu.2:7cc82d0435c8ff1762d08246dbadfdf1fd432f6719194f70ecaa5bf6457e89e4
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mircea_popescu: "This took a bit for the stupidity to really sink in. Like, sink sink in. Her comment “I have to say I don’t really appreciate reading something like that and would prefer a much more constructive discussion about web payments” is the absolute peak of the stupidity. " << this was the problem
mircea_popescu: for one thing, it isn't the peak of stupidty. for the other thing, making pronouncements like that dun work. you gotta show, not tell.
menahem: ok. would a comparative example work ?
mircea_popescu: here's another thing that doesn't work : "The worst part, is Torrie Fischer is competent with PGP 4. My advice to her, is" << the problem being that i can readily see her cv, but i don't see yours. from whence do you give her advice ? this jars.
menahem: hmm, often in your posts you provide a secondary story. in this case (RIPple), the congenital defect. which is often my visual takeaway on your point.
menahem: ahh k, fair enough on last point.
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mircea_popescu: menahem "like how?" as in, show me how it would go. quote this putative comparative exampler ?
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menahem: show me how it would go... is that a 'constructive discussion' by her definition ?
menahem: i gotta go.. thanks for time + insight thus far.
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jurov: davout: yes, i do the btc-dev list
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assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 12:48:59; mircea_popescu: ;;later tell williamdunne explain this difference between "1 btc = 1 btc" and "anyone and everyone being able to have a bitcoin wallet".
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williamdunne: Sure, it doesn't care who you are so long as you have keys and the ability to sign
williamdunne: Which is very different to say, requiring you to be of a certain nationality, not be doing certain types of business etc
williamdunne: If a club lets anyone in, so long as they can travel to the club its not exactly discriminatory, just a matter of practicality
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mircea_popescu: williamdunne essentially, "fungible" and "non discriminatory" are the same thing.
williamdunne: Sure no, but most people would call dollars fungible - even though they certainly are not
williamdunne: Maybe I'm trying to pander to most people too much
williamdunne: Definitely, just working on getting the library working
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Pierre_Rochard: !v assbot:Pierre_Rochard.rate.williamdunne.1:0a171d14955bc7ad814bf5aca105cb7a0324697471922db6349da4d27aa5066a
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assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 04:01:49; trinque: it's a wonder I can hit the toilet with my ass
ben_vulpes: first three months will be dedicated to sweeping floors and staring at a brick "lisp machine"
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 04:18:08; asciilifeform: but engineers who take an intense interest in 'in the end' tend to build autoguillotines.
danielpbarron: !v assbot:danielpbarron.rate.williamdunne.2:784f6dad632657543840ccf0dcba845b0e879f505eb81f8fcaa7aaba80ecb2dc
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 2 for williamdunne with note: formerly mrwdunne with rating +1 : May 23, 2014 chatted with me in the counterwallet troll box; patient fellow.
danielpbarron: !v assbot:danielpbarron.unrate.mrwdunne:5e0a71014684089ab1c6e788cccd8bb68ea6206d4849295550b4da98bda91fcd
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williamdunne: !rate Pierre_Rochard 2 Work at SNI, great articles
williamdunne: !rate Pierre_Rochard 2 Work at SNI, great articles
williamdunne: !v assbot:williamdunne.rate.Pierre_Rochard.2:8d6d6b787cedef3421140d9a006a95197fd585085a8f816afbbf1ec65bdc9e28
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assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 04:29:22; asciilifeform: and l0l, apparently no one mentioned the matchsticks. so let this count as mention.
williamdunne: !rate danielpbarron 2 While may have some strong opinions I disagree with, would trust him
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: can you see the fnords, though?
williamdunne: !v assbot:williamdunne.rate.danielpbarron.2:6bf39732a1cd1dfac708d3310d855f22aa74d10f9a43d6c231a246654aaa7f73
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williamdunne: danielpbarron: Religious ones mostly, nothing we will sway each other from
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 04:34:06; mircea_popescu: seems nuts. 1% of new price if used ?
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 05:53:14; mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately unlike Bitcoin there is no reputation Trezor." << a) trezor's kinda dysfunctional/derpy ; b) of course there is. airgapped gpg.
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assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 05:35:38; mircea_popescu: "Be suspicious of pedestrians when you pull up to a house. Don't open your car door if people are nearby."
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jurov: ;;later tell pete_dushenski title pic of contravex is quite a hog and despite the size still has jpg artifacts, i'd recommend converting original to png and running through pngquant
jurov: that's me procrastinating by running pnquant on stuff....
jurov: also, yest log featurng Naphex is yummy :)
williamdunne: I'm currently in the process of over-engineering SccopBot while adding the library features, any requests for features?
jurov: add s/bitcoin/buttcoin
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jurov: but really, maybe a function to add feeds by lordship?
jurov: (jus' to have you develop asswot interface i can snitch :DDD)
williamdunne: jurov: How would I scrape the lordship? Isn't it decided by more than just rep?
williamdunne: jurov: AssWot is just a bunch of JSON data - shouldn't be too hard for you to implement, no?
BingoBoingo: williamdunne: It's entirely assbot's L1 trustlist
williamdunne: Yeah see thats a bit harder to parse.. not exactly clean data
williamdunne: Sure, but I need to have a feed of all their names not gonna just brutefoce it
williamdunne: Which surely makes the whole thing redundant, no?
jurov: why? you only need to check the wot in the moment a request is made
jurov: but if you want to parse the whole list, yw
jurov: best if you can do it in python :DDD
williamdunne: So with ScoopBot you're proposing that someone on the Lordship list could add their blog to his reading material
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jurov: Or maybe remove, too
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assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 01:18:03; Pierre_Rochard: williamdunne: had a similar head against wall bug yesterday, in pgsql: to_timestamp(‘2014-2’, ‘YYYY-Q’), doesn’t work because the docs clearly state “quarter (ignored by to_date and to_timestamp)” but it was three hours of desperate refactoring before I actually read them.
Pierre_Rochard: doing the conversion to sum up debits and credits, can’t wait to release :). It’s written in python with flask + sqlalchemy
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jurov: what? cunts run perl? had to reread. and then again. hahahahaHAHAHA
☟︎ jurov: pity it isn't bashable
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assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 03:50:42; asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> that may be. i'm just pointing out that biology offers a very significant challenge to theoretical cs. << i must confess, that i am at a loss as to which aspects of meat we should like to replicate in machines: intransigence? toe fungus? pneumonia? schizophrenia?
jurov: perhaps the word mircea_popescu wants is "cybernetics" in its original meaning but it kinda went the way of vitalism
williamdunne: Can someone please do me a favour and send scoop_testbot a PM saying !test
jurov: it replied nothing
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assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 05:05:24; trinque: way better than a piddly ec2 micro/small/medium instance eh?
jurov: (not to mention share of dc costs)
jurov: in our condo are unused rooms, maybe i can fill one with oil, submerge the machines and use the heat to heat whole house
jurov: i can't imagine how to convince the neighbors, tho. and it'll need to get switched off in the summer.
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jurov: well, there's a hot water needed year round, but not so much in the night, either...
williamdunne: jurov: Jurov can you PM scoop !test again please
jurov: <scoop_testbot> this is a test
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 05:05:24; trinque: way better than a piddly ec2 micro/small/medium instance eh?
jurov: $10 is already a premium for that spec
trinque: that there's another inferior product on the market which is cheap because of an ignored risk being dumped on the customer shouldn't inform the price of a product that does what it claims
jurov: williamdunne: would you pay $20 instead?
trinque: ah you're criticizing blades in particular?
jurov: i'm not criticizing anything
jurov: just doing the math
williamdunne: jurov: I'd need to know the exact specs, but $20 for some bare metal - sure
trinque: urov | i'm not criticizing anything << well sure you are, but there's no harm in that
trinque: what I want is a host that provides physical boxes that aren't that powerful, are cheap, but are not joined at the brainstem to other systems
williamdunne: jurov: Fuck yeah I'd pay $20 for that. I thought you meant something roughly equiv to a rPi. With a well optimized site you could get a k reqs a second on that
trinque: and provides similar spin-up/spin-down features seen in the Xen scene, without the braindamage
trinque: being able to declare infrastructure and have it online quick is awesome
trinque: no reason that has to be done with virtualization
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jurov: okay. there are new miniitx mobos with ECC support, i suppose the higher price would pay off
jurov: woould you be ok with atom cpu?
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 18:27:10; ben_vulpes: engaging in koan volleys
williamdunne: jurov: Personally? yes. Not sure about others, branding isn't great (which unfortunately seems to matter)
jurov: i've got miniitx with celeron, thrown gentoo on it and was impressed how quickly it compiled
mircea_popescu: and this isn't even getting to the part where contravex specifies no cache control
mircea_popescu: (protip : max-age=0 tells agents they should revalidate. no-cache tells them they MUST revalidate, which in many broken implementation works out to no revalidation, just downloading it again)
mircea_popescu: jurov snitch is when you do what charlie shrem did. snatch is what you had in mind (means cunt, but also what aliens to do bodies).
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 19:50:08; williamdunne: So with ScoopBot you're proposing that someone on the Lordship list could add their blog to his reading material
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 20:35:11; jurov: what? cunts run perl? had to reread. and then again. hahahahaHAHAHA
mircea_popescu: i think i managed to botehr the shit out of gabriel_laddel
mircea_popescu: other than that, aglass of water is a computational machine.
mircea_popescu: it computes the positions of ~10^26 water molecules + some impurities.
jurov: under current quantum mechanics model it was proven these molecules are indistinguishable
mircea_popescu: and that they're indistinguishable doesn't really make all that difference. there's no rule computation must be discrete.
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 21:29:55; williamdunne: Although I'd want it to be somewhere out of US reach
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 21:30:17; trinque: no reason that has to be done with virtualization
mircea_popescu: usg.nsa loves "virtualization", but it's by no means the only way to skin that cube.
trinque: mircea_popescu: your point about fake security barriers in operating systems turned many gears in my skull
mircea_popescu: i used to say b-a increases one's iq by a good chunk of points
mircea_popescu: "a machine to turn penis projectile vibration into eyelash flutter"
mircea_popescu: i think ima collect the cunts-on-perl discussion. it's pretty good!
jurov: maybe the only difference is computer science was constructed from mathematical (or not very mathematical, like strings) ideas, where cunts evolved themselves somehow
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assbot: Quantum Mechanics Today : A Machine To Turn Penis Projectile Vibration Into Eyelash Flutter on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1FpcYgB )
trinque: mp: I did commit the equivalent of showing up with a flamethrower at a figure skating competition, "what move is that! IT LITERALLY MELTED THE ICE!11" << ahahaha my sides
mike_c: the pipe is getting included in the link
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