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cazalla: thestringpuller, could be the least of it!
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mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 it's just standard confirmation time. the problem with technology is that it works a certain way, which people actually understand. users, however, which are eminently NOT people, but fucking animals, don't care about all that. instead they "try" things, and then "come to expect" on the basis of you know, two attempts last Sunday. and then get all aggitated if their unfounded, poorly researched, biased, badl
☟︎ mircea_popescu: y conducted experiments get contradicted by practice down the line.
assbot: Nobody could have foreseen their using a plane like a rocket on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
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assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 10:45:22; mircea_popescu: holy shit what happened to mpoe!
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290779 << how could la ancien regime americane not want a third bush ? he knows how to play the part. he's seen it done. imo it'll be a close contest between trump and jeb. no one else has a chance. but it's jeb's to lose. trump has to stay out in front of the spotlight being outrageous day in and day out FOR ANOTHER YEAR, which is nigh on impossible. i give trump a
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 13:26:49; mircea_popescu: all i see r nekkid womenz.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:11:55; mircea_popescu: psa : brie is THE omlette cheese.
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assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:37:15; AgentScully: ah, yeah, I had an orgasm right as the server went down... nik was rather sad about it
cazalla: dunno, looks a bit androgynous but nice tits anyway
pete_dushenski: cazalla like the ancient greek army general ? ya think ?
cazalla: pete_dushenski, yeah, but that can be a sexy look too.. think winona ryder with short hair
pete_dushenski: "For what has she these Grecian arms bestow'd, But their destruction, and the Trojans' good? Then change we shields, and their devices bear: Let fraud supply the want of force in war. They find us arms.' This said, himself he dress'd In dead Androgeos' spoils, his upper vest, His painted buckler, and his plumy crest."
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 17:00:35; mircea_popescu: if you ask them.
cazalla: could've just linked the song pete
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 19:22:19; ascii_field: iirc only ben_vulpes, mod6, and pete_dushenski had children
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assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 19:44:52; AgentScully: piercings are old... those were a pain in the ass
pete_dushenski: i dunno wtf is with this nasal septum piercing fad sweeping the four corners of the fucking globe but it's abhorrent.
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pete_dushenski: unless you want to end up in the bull-fighting ring chasing after the red cape being waved by the man yelling 'toro!', why bother ?
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pete_dushenski: first, it was C02 MATTERS GUISE, which was a convenient trojan horse for black-smoke belching diesels.
pete_dushenski: but since vw sorta blew the lid off things, the only thing left to do is rewrite the regs to be more accomodating.
pete_dushenski: what else, destroy one of the only manufacturing industries extant on the contient ?
pete_dushenski: spend the next decade retooling and reorganising ? uhuh. i think not.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 21:12:50; ben_vulpes: 2023: #bitcoin-assets has migrated to xotika, queue to perform is longer than a human lifespan
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 21:17:06; mircea_popescu: for that matter, the average painting is a fuzzy gray.
pete_dushenski: this was taken at the south west corner of the west edmonton mall parking lot, right next to the movie theatre and the gun range (!)
pete_dushenski: and for what it's worth, the car looks to be a nissan altima coupe. ~$35k off the dealer lot.
pete_dushenski: actually, you can also see the fantasyland hotel in the background (curtain wall facade) and the waterpark (dome roof at right)
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pete_dushenski: west edmonton mall, for a number of years, held the record at the world's largest indoor shopping mall. still holds several worlds records iirc.
pete_dushenski: just checked, wem still boasts 'world's largest indoor amusement park' including 'world's largest indoor triple roller coaster', and also 'world's largest parking lot'
☟︎ pete_dushenski: cazalla aha. clearly altima coupe now. what do i win ?
cazalla: not sure, but that sure is uncanny, wonder what the odds are of someone posting a pic of a chick naked in a car park you know of
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> and cazalla ! << and mike and peter and so on.
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mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> this was taken at the south west corner of the west edmonton mall parking lot, right next to the movie theatre and the gun range (!) << so cool huh.
pete_dushenski: ima send this pic around and see if anyone knows her. there aren't ~that~ many degrees of separation between her and i
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mircea_popescu: What other reason is there to love fuel oil? Certainly not the characteristics of the chemical itself. It's slippery, it stinks to high heaven, it doesn't evaporate. <<
mircea_popescu: derps shouldn't get a vote srsly. whosever can't appreciate the scent of diesel is neither a man nor allowed to discuss cars.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you don't have to love it, or even like it. just like you don't have to love beer - god knows i don't. but if you're not capable to APPRECIATE it you're really not in this movie.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:11:55; mircea_popescu: psa : brie is THE omlette cheese.
punkman: I'd say the same about brie :P
mircea_popescu: also in the same vein, pine bark aged smoked sheep cheese (romanian thing, dunno if they do it anywhere else)
punkman: how do you cut brie for the omlett?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu baruth is a bit of a troll. he's baiting here. and hooking 'em too by the looks of the comments.
mircea_popescu: it'snot even true that "everyone in europe = diesel". and it;s not true that "because regulation", either.
punkman: queso de cabra is also fun in omelette, even has a rind similar to brie
pete_dushenski: sorta playing the idiot as a means of catalysing 'debate'
punkman: generally all the professional drivers have diesel around here.
mircea_popescu: what happens is that throughout the 90s, diesel fuel was 50% the price of gasoline, and gpl conversion was not a mass market thing like it is now. you could get it, like you could get nox.
mircea_popescu: because of this, some of the smartest automotive engineers went into diesel. it looked like the future.
punkman: pete_dushenski: also taxis
mircea_popescu: because of this, the diesels available were WAY better. it's not that "built to higher specs". it's that built by better people. substantially better.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu also more expensive. bigger design budget
pete_dushenski: giving better people just a bit more money to play with and voila.
mircea_popescu: anyway. by now upwards of 2/3 of taxis actually run on compressed gas. way cheaper defo cleanner.
mircea_popescu: much worse power curve of course, but fuck that, they're taxis.
pete_dushenski: compressed gas adoption was growing quite steadily in n.a. the last ~5 years.
punkman: at least where there is gas pipe
pete_dushenski: but now that gas/diesel prices have tanked, cng has been massacred.
mircea_popescu: punkman it's really gpl not natural gas. they truck it.
punkman: I want a gas kitchen/stove but I'd have to refill tanks which kinda sucks
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the cheese, as apparently it's unknown other than "that south transylvanian cheese" : sheepmilk cheese is cut up thinly, salt is added and ths is mixed (often, by hand). the result is placed in a tube made out of pine bark. it may or may not be smoked. it can also be placed in a sheep's stomach. inthis arrangement it keeps indefinitely, it is geenraly consumed after about a year.
mircea_popescu: gets stronger the longer it waits, of course, but the salt doesn't get it runny.
pete_dushenski: punkman i have a propane bbq but only because 45 year-old condos don't have natural gas lines here. most houses do though.
mircea_popescu: (salt content is a function of intended maturation period, the longer you wanna keep it around the saltier. still, within some bounds)
mircea_popescu: punkman iirc they bury a 20-50 cubic metre tank for you if you ask.
☟︎ punkman: maybe when they start drilling for oil/gas south of the island
mircea_popescu: course greece (esp stuff like crete) is a bit of an outlier. no gas lines, which is unheard of in yurp, and no real need to heat.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, heating off the damned tank with ferried gas etc is still cheaper than using electricity.
punkman: I use maybe 500L of heating oil in the winter, yeah
assbot: In which Volkswagen takes aim at the insanity of statal overbearing. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
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pete_dushenski: my aesthetic sensibilities care not for the practical considerations of tumblr hos
pete_dushenski: and while i've had my fun on the beach in puerto vallarta, god invented beach chairs for a reason !
pete_dushenski: "After the release of iOS 9.0.2 on Wednesday, which fixed a number of bugs including a lock screen exploit, Apple stopped signing iOS 8.4.1 and iOS 9.0 firmware for compatible devices, prohibiting users who updated from downgrading." << no going backwards !
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mircea_popescu: "If I sell you a few kilograms of depleted uranium and you use it to create a dirty bomb that renders most of the East Coast inhabitable, how is that my fault?"
pete_dushenski: have been quite the political heavyweight. i'm expecting it to be quite a splashy affair.
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mircea_popescu: "The lack of transparency and regulatory oversight raises a number of risks for users and also poses risks for the payments system, the integrity of the financial system and the erosion of the tax base.
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pete_dushenski: and now, your moment of zen : "I investigate self-reported theft data in the NLSY 1997 Cohort for the years 1997–2011. Several striking patterns emerge. First, individuals appear to be active thieves for extremely short periods – in most cases in only one year, and fewer than 5% of thieves for more than three years out of the 15 years of data. Second, self-reported earnings from theft are generally very low and
pete_dushenski: there is little evidence of “successful” criminals or consistent earnings from theft." << because only loser criminals waste their time on derpy 'scientific studies'. self-selecting much ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the car theft thing was very briefly +ev, right after fall of su when a lot of otherwise powerful and important people didn't have their power and importance correctly credentialled by the western pencildicks
mircea_popescu: (echos of this problem are seen in patent nonsense like "embagro russia" that so miserably backfired last year)
mircea_popescu: things normalized by 1995 or so, which is why this is a derp field now.
mircea_popescu: it is conceivable, if the same pencildicks keep on with the tail up, "regulate" blablabla that we WILL have a market in stolen daughters traded around to prove a point for a few years.
mircea_popescu: tho honestly, i do not currently believe the old fucks actulaly have it in them.
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trinque: dude, I leave for a weekend and a chick with great tits from TX shows up called AgentScully WITH THINKPADS
trinque: (all of #b-a replies "LEAVE MORE OFTEN!")
trinque is in Denver about to snooze; the pass through from Wyoming tried to kill me with fog and slippery roads, but I bested them
trinque: and I'll tell you what; this country is gorgeous. It'd be quite a nice place under new management.
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assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 16:26:56; mike_c: yeah.. my available gaming time is down to nil right now. Busy working on a sekrit project.
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mircea_popescu: <trinque> and I'll tell you what; this country is gorgeous. It'd be quite a nice place under new management. << word. nothing wrong wih the states mostly on the grounds the mob stuck to the coasts.
mircea_popescu: all this timswansonism i swear. "we are so and so" because words and things so we don't have to wot or anything. we could put the nonsense in a pdf if you prefer, that makes it more legit!
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mircea_popescu: trinque> dude, I leave for a weekend and a chick with great tits from TX shows up called AgentScully WITH THINKPADS << prolly shortlived
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assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:23:34; mircea_popescu: punkman iirc they bury a 20-50 cubic metre tank for you if you ask.
ascii_field: there (and afaik in most of the world) it is still sop.
mircea_popescu: prolly more a "you know what could help real estate values ? if other people couldn't build sane houses anymore"
mircea_popescu: the one line on which entrenched rent seeking interest and stupid but unaware youthful enthusiasm meet, is this particular type of idiocy.
ascii_field: my current understanding is that usg has been specifically squeezing diesel heat users - they get untaxed fuel that is theoretically usable in trucks, and folks often 'cheat'. it has a colouring agent, and in parts of usa where this type of heater is common, policemen will often dip a wooden stick into a truck's tank to test for cheat
ascii_field: this is a disgraceful and perhaps little-known thing, but very many american streets do not have piped gas.
mircea_popescu: the historical "sexual modesty" of north america being the original, and to this day best example. in its many plurious expressions, from "rright to life" to that derp linked yesterday or w/e
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well, it is also known that many streets do not have fiber,also.
mircea_popescu: how is it not as disgraceful, you know ? the us is in the business of being congo while pretending to be europe.
mircea_popescu: china, meanwhile, has been in the business of being europe while pretending to be congo.
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ascii_field has colleagues who entertain him with choice security camera footage from the middle kingdom - involving items such as escalator-as-woodchipper, phalanxes of motorbikes flattened by trucks going the wrong way, etc
ascii_field: i can't really blame the cn folks for having an active 'mortido'
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 01:41:52; mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 it's just standard confirmation time. the problem with technology is that it works a certain way, which people actually understand. users, however, which are eminently NOT people, but fucking animals, don't care about all that. instead they "try" things, and then "come to expect" on the basis of you know, two attempts last Sunday. and then get all aggitated if their unfounded, poorly resea
mircea_popescu: and then, because this is the lulzy part, it's like a fucking prion this thing. then! people who should fucking know better try and cater to it! and then they get used to THAT and get all agressed when you don't.
ascii_field: don't feed beasts with bottomless stomachs
mircea_popescu: it's just... the sleep of reason. "habits" and habituation take over.
mircea_popescu: "what do you mean my snatch stinks, I'VE ALWAYS WASHED IT LIKE THAT"
ascii_field: picture an animal trainer, perhaps in a circus, who were to somehow forget that his 'patients' are animals.
ascii_field: try to reason with the walrus, the lion, yes.
mircea_popescu: (you'd be surprised what % of "first world" teenagers discover on the porn set that yes you're supposed to wash in between the clitoral hoodand the clitoris, what the fuck. it's still part of you, no matter what your dumb mom might have said christ told her.)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i thought all modern gurlz had dildonic pressure-shower things now
mircea_popescu: and i thought all modern gurlz live in usg quarters with low pressure showers.
ascii_field: even these typically have a 'tight beam' setting
mircea_popescu: anyway, the above is decade+ out of date, maybe it mended meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: you know, low volume high pressure jet is more for cutting metal. contrary to what men (perhaps excusably) believe, cunt's not made of steel.
ascii_field: next he'll tell us to stop adding abrasive to the jet mixer !
mircea_popescu: but anyway. i maintain the general : you'd be surprised what % of the general population washes correctly, and the only reason you don't know about this is that you don't end up watching hundreds of them shower etc.
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ascii_field: for all i know, 9 of 10 don't even wash at all.
mircea_popescu: and this is universal. ask people if they have a foot of air behind their fridge, and if they say yes ask them why, and see.
mircea_popescu: ask first time home buyers looking for a detached house if they know what a radon area is or not.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: recall the 'freezer air conditioner' kickstarter ?!
mircea_popescu: "i've always just went into my basement, what do you mean it's a radiocooker now".
ascii_field: eh, the folks i know who have cellars, have geigers in there
mircea_popescu: the magic is that a) you don't need it everywhere and b) people move a lot.
ascii_field: punkman: the 'laser shaver' folks ~did~ - 2.3M last i saw
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 05:47:46; pete_dushenski: just checked, wem still boasts 'world's largest indoor amusement park' including 'world's largest indoor triple roller coaster', and also 'world's largest parking lot'
ascii_field: perhaps it was a case of 'soviet elephants are the biggest elephants'
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:10:56; mircea_popescu: derps shouldn't get a vote srsly. whosever can't appreciate the scent of diesel is neither a man nor allowed to discuss cars.
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 18:52:13; ascii_field: addendum now has film of the sc4mz0r burning his skin with what is - bet your arse - a hot nichrome wire
punkman: hmm, the little flashes of light seem out of place
punkman: but yeah doubtful skarp will work at all
mircea_popescu: im not sure what is going on there, mentally. conflating the sharpness of a blade with the sharpness of a laser is not unlike confusing "strict discipline" in a bdsm setting with the strict discipline of the woodchipper cutters.
mircea_popescu: what would make the laser follow your face and how would it do it ?
mircea_popescu: or is the plan ultimately to obtain sphere shaped heads ?
kakobrekla: just live it how the lazor authors have huge beards.
mircea_popescu: maybe they swore they'll not shave until their master plan's complete.
mircea_popescu: sorta like how derps looking for the perfect soulmate are unfucked. this works.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: 'kickstarter' has turned into a kind of barometer of public illiteracy
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ascii_field: also it is a (solely psychiatrically!) interesting cargo cult. for instance, the most successful scams had video posted of a '3d printer' going, going...
ascii_field: it is a cargo cult in a very literal sense
ascii_field: strong preoccupation with packages, shapes
ascii_field: in a hypothetically sane future, '3d printer' will have vaguely unsavory connotations, just like the term 'patent medicine' does today
ascii_field: quite seriously, it is an astonishing enabler of 'zero in a fancy bottle'
ascii_field: there ~are~ constructive uses for '3d printer', we even have one here, in a closet, at $rupturefarms
ascii_field: but they mostly reduce to 'need plastic bracket to hold pcb, in a hurry, don't care how ugly, no one will see it'
ascii_field: (a '3d printer' is not so different from a hot glue gun on programmable wheels.)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: there are several other types, such as liquid-resin (fused by laser) and sintered powder - but they are uncommon, at least in 'jungle' settings
mircea_popescu: but basically, the "3d printer" redditard thinks about is this "plastic hanger injection device", glorified.
mircea_popescu: (my curiosity on the topic so far was assuaged by breakingapart some 3d printed matter and reading a little on the chemistry of the "ink")
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the most common filler is ordinary 'abs' plastic
ascii_field: but it comes out in thin 'strand' and it never loses this appearance
ascii_field: a skilled craftsman can do surprising things with this horrid material - diametric once gave me a bolt and nut that screwed without much friction, on first try
kakobrekla: they use acetone vapour to smooth the surfaces
ascii_field: kakobrekla: so long as you don't actually care about the shape - this almost works.
mircea_popescu: what WOULD be pretty cool is if they managed to get it to where you canmake lego pieces out of it.
ascii_field: ain't happening. at least not with 'glue gun' method.
mircea_popescu: neighbourhood kids pitch together buy a printer, make all the legos they';ll ever need, on the cheap.
ascii_field: you need the precision of a $1M injection molder.
mircea_popescu: if sold with a time machine to take us back to 1992, this'd actulalywork.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla aha. artwork is massively helped by the thing.
ascii_field: apparently (and this is not widely known, i think) - the tolerances for a 'correctly feeling' lego brick are astonishingly low.
mircea_popescu: i can't be the only one who went fuck this, im making my own.
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:32:54; pete_dushenski: "After the release of iOS 9.0.2 on Wednesday, which fixed a number of bugs including a lock screen exploit, Apple stopped signing iOS 8.4.1 and iOS 9.0 firmware for compatible devices, prohibiting users who updated from downgrading." << no going backwards !
ascii_field: i'm seeing folks sitting on some pretty thick and sharp pineapples.
ascii_field: (e.g., 'gps' tracker, forced updates, etc)
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:47:27; pete_dushenski: there is little evidence of “successful” criminals or consistent earnings from theft." << because only loser criminals waste their time on derpy 'scientific studies'. self-selecting much ?
ascii_field: what next? 'there is little evidence of being a wolf having consistent earnings from hunting'
ascii_field: punkman: in same sense as hollywood stardom
ascii_field: nobody says 'i'ma grow up to be a small-time cutpurse'
ascii_field: 'The piecemeal approach of requiring individual borrowers to apply for loan forgiveness seemed unacceptably burdensome. “The right thing to do would be to issue a classwide discharge and understand that this happened to a group of people,” says Ann Larson, 41, one of the organization’s leaders.' << win !
mircea_popescu: you could never understand HOW IT FELT. because it never "happened" to you.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22850 @ 0.00042698 = 9.7565 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 22:07:46; ag3nt_zer0: this is just standard confirmation time? a general warning about services like bitpay?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8602 @ 0.00042556 = 3.6607 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12600 @ 0.00042684 = 5.3782 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6700 @ 0.00042715 = 2.8619 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15850 @ 0.00042715 = 6.7703 BTC [+]
assbot: Afghanistan: MSF demands explanations after deadly airstrikes hit hospital in Kunduz | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International ... (
http://bit.ly/1j8aI5D )
punkman: "The bombing took place despite the fact that MSF had provided the GPS coordinates of the trauma hospital to Coalition and Afghan military and civilian officials as recently as Tuesday 29 September, to avoid that the hospital be hit. "
mircea_popescu: are we betting wherer agent scully lost her freenode nick pw ?
☟︎ ben_vulpes: tilted pelvises and resulting "swayback" indicates well trained?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11459 @ 0.00042521 = 4.8725 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3341 @ 0.00042391 = 1.4163 BTC [-]
mod6: ascii_field: iirc only ben_vulpes, mod6, and pete_dushenski had children << I don't have any offspring of my own.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8773 @ 0.00042715 = 3.7474 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16600 @ 0.00042391 = 7.0369 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9200 @ 0.00042715 = 3.9298 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: check out bizarro tx rewriting. i issued fca843c0b40a1755eee073a719c856baa7fbf5ac28db84804a44a91f52638632 which worked as expected, but apparently there's a 5269a0e862876040db21706a7849ffd1b7d63e72d6dd61b1d2431a51698bb007 restatement of it
☟︎ punkman: didn't the first best new very strict DERP encoding solve that one?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: ~this~ is one of the things proving bitcoin was designed by a tard
ascii_field: tx signature does not in fact cover whole tx.
ascii_field: the whole 'malleability' thing had no plausible excuse for even hinting at existing, EVER
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27000 @ 0.00043105 = 11.6384 BTC [+] {3}
ascii_field: it ought to have been 'flip ONE FUCKING BIT and sig won't verify.'
punkman: openssl has many holes like that
ascii_field: (one CAN use openssl to sign a string of bits in the customary way)
ascii_field: but mircea_popescu will prolly say 'nobody asked us anything'
punkman: even if it did, couldn't you still diddle the signature?
ascii_field: whole thing is retarded on six different levels
ascii_field: and i'm supposed to respect it because the gods smiled and pissed some money on it.
ascii_field: btw 'malleability' of the ecdsa sig proper is all the proof anyone needs that ecc is retarded
ascii_field: (as if there were any shortage of symptoms of this)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15250 @ 0.00043741 = 6.6705 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4977 @ 0.00044185 = 2.1991 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17008 @ 0.00043688 = 7.4305 BTC [-] {2}
mats: abstract puzzle game
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13300 @ 0.00042391 = 5.638 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10704 @ 0.00043604 = 4.6674 BTC [+]
mats: meanwhile, IS continues to advance on Iraqi positions
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11414 @ 0.00042151 = 4.8111 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7700 @ 0.00042104 = 3.242 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14639 @ 0.00042104 = 6.1636 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8280 @ 0.00041642 = 3.448 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8700 @ 0.0004184 = 3.6401 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: <punkman> didn't the first best new very strict DERP encoding solve that one? << mno.
mircea_popescu: also, this particular attack is ongoing, i see about 32% of txn rebroadcast malleated.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9450 @ 0.00041608 = 3.932 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and i'm supposed to respect it because the gods smiled and pissed some money on it. << you're supposed to respect it because you're not old enough yet.
mircea_popescu: once you're old enough to stand on your own you're more than free to make your own. but so far, not there yet. working at it, yes.
ascii_field: what specifically does 'old enough' mean here?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: re: 'camping': the thing in question is part of a campaign by just about every half-respectable usa jurisdiction to squeeze out 'trailer trash'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: ah then i don't expect to do this even if i were to live for a thousand years.
ascii_field: as it is, i can only suggest things to other people.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i'm not old enough either, if it makes you feel better. and the idea, while it has certain merits, is also not old enough.
ascii_field: even without all of this, it is quite certain that ~computing~ 'is not old enough'
mircea_popescu: "Jay Syrmopoulos is an investigative journalist, free thinker, researcher, and ardent opponent of authoritarianism." << that should prolly write for qntra.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the 'war on trailers' is a consequence of the 1960-70s upheaval and the prohibition of filtering people on any variable other than 'how much can he afford to pay for house'
ascii_field: as it is, folks in usa have ~no way~ to express 'i do not want to live in zimbabwe' other than by 'this town bans trailers'
mircea_popescu: or moreover, it's a consequence of the bizzaro uncivilised yet hypocritical nature of the us.
mircea_popescu: folks wishing to express "i do not want to live in zimbabwe" while IN ZIMBABWE have other issues than what laws to pass.
ascii_field: 'i do not want to breathe vacuum' while surrounded by it
ascii_field: 'i do not want to drink sea water' while at sea
mircea_popescu: that the examples are spurious. these are africans, born and bred, who think themselves above the africa that THEY ARE.
mircea_popescu: seawater not wanting to "breathe" sea water is the height of lol.
ascii_field: i, for instance, spend perhaps most of my conscious time, just on keeping the sea out.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4800 @ 0.00041601 = 1.9968 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: this needs explaining ? "oh i spend most of my time fishing bailing the water out" "so why do you go there ?" "huge fish in that lake!"
ascii_field: --'why do you go there?' --'i am a fisherman.'
ascii_field: ever see the (quite terrible..) film 'waterworld' ?
ascii_field: (re: involuntary 'fishermen' and their leaky boats)
ben_vulpes: programming is still in "right or left handed screws" regime, if that isn't an egregious compliment.
ben_vulpes: programming being the lathework, i suppose.
better: i won a bet at bitbet.us
better: but i didn' get any coin.
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin $250 or above on September 30th :: 0.12 B (60%) on Yes, 0.08 B (40%) on No | closed 2 weeks 4 days ago ... (
http://bit.ly/1KZW0EN )
mircea_popescu: yes but which of the half dozen or so single bitcent bets is yours. right click on the date to get the url.
mircea_popescu: better tx is 802cb1fd782aa383c97126c3a0792d81c71d8c3897b74d9e62e1660c01684fe5 for some reason has trouble broadcasting
better: Ok. Thanks. This is not available now. I will check later again.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11197 @ 0.00042131 = 4.7174 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16234 @ 0.00041601 = 6.7535 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9650 @ 0.00042086 = 4.0613 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21700 @ 0.00041927 = 9.0982 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12500 @ 0.00042086 = 5.2608 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3600 @ 0.00041927 = 1.5094 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8051 @ 0.00041647 = 3.353 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6949 @ 0.000416 = 2.8908 BTC [-]
btcdrak: mircea_popescu: LOL, what has litecoin's spam handling got to do with tx malleability? maybe they paid for a fiverr extra for that gem.
btcdrak: there's a real reason why a nasty and sustained crash in the bitcoin price would be good for Bitcoin, it would flush out all these idiot companies and their VCs.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski your first pr thing could be to get @sandbaydev to take btc payment ffs. what is this, 1995 ?
mircea_popescu: btcdrak kinda what we've been doing. VC circus got bled to death, i very much wish to see if they're still going to keep the tail up and we dun has to do what told bs next year, after the massacre.
btcdrak: "smart money" has been trying to prop up the price for the last 9 months...
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24200 @ 0.0004188 = 10.135 BTC [+] {2}