asciilifeform: he was the last remaining anybody who was somebody of that period, afaik.
asciilifeform: echnology companies such as Google and Facebook getting involved the field of AI. "We have to get rid of the big companies and go back to giving support to individuals who have new ideas because attempting to commercialise existing things hasn't worked very well," he said.'
asciilifeform: 'But, in one of his last interviews, with MIT Technology Review last year, Prof Minsky said there had been "very little growth in artificial intelligence" in the past decade, adding current work had been "mostly attempting to improve systems that aren't very good and haven't improved much in two decades". By contrast, he said, "the 1950s and 1960s were wonderful - something new every week". And he hinted he was against large t
BingoBoingo: I was actually awake for one of these for a change
gribble: The operation succeeded.
punkman: "Lorna June McCue was denied tenure and ultimately dismissed after 11 years at the university in part because of her failure to submit a single piece of peer-reviewed research during that time. "
ben_vulpes: "People complained recently that we wrote some shitty software. Statement self-declared to be irrelevant to the accusations, hey look a shiny!"
BingoBoingo: From the mines: "There are some issues being filed concerning database corruptions in bitcoin core. Although the problem hasn't been pinpointed to LevelDB, the long-term plan is still to switch to a new, well maintained database." << A Hearnia continues
ben_vulpes: do y'all have "mandatory reporters" in yurp and misc. other "civilized nayshuns"?
BingoBoingo: !up AdrianG For the record Dickens first perfected "Industrial" propaganda
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://45.media.tumblr.com/ae9557f2dc6127fb5b466524d9c5fade/tumblr_mpmj7j8xG61rjqog4o1_400.gif
mircea_popescu: i guess either 9gag or cracked put that particular brain rot on "industrial footing", depending on whether we credit alf's symbolic supremacy or not.
mircea_popescu: i did hear of hyperbole. sadly there's a disease running around among the social-mediated youth, which has little to do with the stylistical choice and everything to do with lazy thinking.
mircea_popescu: but for the record, fb employs something like 10k people. didja know this when you proposed the "thousands of phds" theory ?
AdrianG: why flatter myself? i have nothing to do witht the field.
mircea_popescu: don't flatter yourself, nobody gives a flying fuck what fb feels like to the cows.
mircea_popescu: AdrianG the thesis was "he is the one who put propaganda on proper industrial scale"
mircea_popescu: AdrianG nevertheless, what exactly led you to your stated conclusion ?
asciilifeform: maxwell described all of the equations which govern radio but never built one, did not give the slightest fuck
asciilifeform: e.g., otto lilienfeld drew the transistor, in agonizing detail, and even a more interesting type than actually produced (cupric oxide!) - but - as far as anyone knows - never built one
AdrianG: the process is gradual and particular points will depend on the formulation of you definition.
asciilifeform: the question of 'who was the first to put ' propaganda, semiconductor, coprophagia, etc. 'on a scientific footing' is interesting but not resolvable.
mircea_popescu: what sort of mental disorder must float about in the head of someone confusing phenomena and facts. even leaving aside that "what we do" is usually poorl self-perceived.
mircea_popescu: "Quick Facts We rebel against the idea that modern software must be large and complex." << "we also rebel against the concept of a fact and sane prosody.
AdrianG: sure, it was a long time ago, but he is the one who put propaganda on proper industrial scale.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rando | rando. That which is random. Generally used in reference to people. I thought this party was invitation only...what the hell are all these randos doing here?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> any accumulator that doesn't principally occupy itself with ~forgetting~ rapidly collapses into a singularity of shitmass. << This has been the greatest challenge of sober living so far.
mircea_popescu: isn't he yet another marx/ziggler/barnum/whatever ?
mircea_popescu: the main thing i do is forget.
asciilifeform: the soviet lisp.
mircea_popescu is not versed enough in this to know the difference.
mircea_popescu: " My intuition is that this might even require fewer attempts than the original comparison assuming a reasonable password length, but I haven't done the math." << he's right actually.
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TomServo: mod6: Within the last 2 weeks.
mod6: Was it within the last 24 hours?
mod6: That'll ensure that nothing is coming in at a forty-five degree angle and hosing the build.
mircea_popescu: willy nilly all this idocy traces back to usians reading lacan and perhaps some saussure in the 60s and not understanding anything of it.
mircea_popescu: then next thing you'll know you'll be putting out stuff like "the spread of [redacted] is perhaps the best known example of a silly but noncatastrophic phenomenon." and so on.
mod6: Aside from further diag. I think the best bet is to probably just start over. One way to log the entire build process (this goes for everyone) is to use `script`. This command, `script`, will start logging everything in the terminal ,and when finished, just type `exit` and all of the screen output will be saved in a file in the pwd called 'typescript'.
asciilifeform: post just the db one
TomServo: I think the patience part was my problem.
TomServo: mod6: 1) Yes (incidentally, what is the recommended graceful shutdown method?) 2) http://dpaste.com/3ARSCHB
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it happens to be the cleanest
mircea_popescu: http://41.media.tumblr.com/7dbae0b73651e39f33ceb6b6dc58d45b/tumblr_mz6ok8aOve1tnxrxto1_1280.jpg "oh this new maid is so much better than the old one!"
BingoBoingo: I have a few like that. One 3 outlet square iron box that is likely a transformer but can not confirm because no good descriptive queries return other than ads for not it. Also lacked time to open.
asciilifeform: it is not visible in the photo, which is a shame, because it was the only reason i even tried to take the photo - the piston in the switch is pockmarked from many, many microwelds
asciilifeform: ^ interestingly, these have tiny incandescent lamps in'em
BingoBoingo: Fuck, they really don't/can't make those anymore
assbot: Logged on 25-01-2016 21:00:21; *: asciilifeform just watched the master toggle on a 25 y.o. under-monitor surge protector thingie ~explode~ in a shower of sparks
BingoBoingo: Thinking more on the subject Mississippi river dam would likely have to wait for the last of the uranium to be mined out of Iowa
asciilifeform: (either this, or 'cosmic rays')
BingoBoingo: Anyways the Jonathan Edwards guy is prolly a better model for this than the Smith Moromon guy, but gotta chew through more re-reading list first.
BingoBoingo: Well gotta consider who the first crackers on the continent were, bunch of English pricks with various "road to paradise" dreams.
mircea_popescu: apparently every american is equally and insescapably stupid. their education, and their intelligence, may color the way they express their stupidity. but you can't take the village out of the girl even if you take the girl out of the village, and you can't take stupid out of americans.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Thank you. The best solution to addressing these omissions is likely going to be a follow up.
mircea_popescu: the parallels between say that ridiculous smith character and these derps are striking.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "writing in much the same way many other religious persons in the American continent have done before and after them." << would be so much better with briefly discussed examples.
mod6: TomServo: Hi, if you followed the instructions via the wiki, this means you should have built via rotor & V.
mircea_popescu: heh, mexico's been steadily making gains past the colorado for decades.
mircea_popescu: i dun get this fucktarded "we are importants" thing the ustards do around that topic, but anyways.
mircea_popescu: "The Zionists are so used to running American foreign policy for their own benefit and having the US Army take care of their enemies for them (Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad etc) that it was hilarious to watch Netanyahu throw a shit fit in the US Congress " << so far, the only army to ever win an engagement in the middle east is the israeli. twice.
mircea_popescu: "it's worth remembering Japan had been under a US oil embargo for years before they 'suddenly' attacked Pearl Harbor in '41. " << decent tidbits in there, under all the cheap "rapport" and assorted throwaway cancerous jokes.
mircea_popescu: That's why every time Obama deploys one of his cloned spokeswomen wearing the "problem glasses" to a White House press briefing << seriously. it's like gaddafi without taste.
mircea_popescu: TomServo prolly the bdb locks issue.
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TomServo: In other other news, new wartard is a fun read: http://wartard.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-geopolitics-of-2016-oil-war-chaos_18.html
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BingoBoingo: In other refugee news apparently TaT has a blog now http://www.bitcoinerrorlog.com/2016/01/25/the-bitcoin-blacklist-max-keiser-simon-dixon/
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Purged. Credible reports suggest Twitter is going to do a bigger purge soon, so some loveable jokesters are working to get preeptively purged on their own terms.
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mircea_popescu: in other boobs, http://49.media.tumblr.com/45fd78e818532b73c136f71a0b5cc38c/tumblr_ncq7bguzWe1rwaupfo2_r1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: and unlike the "we" things "we" do, cpus actuallywork.
punkman: "And with persistent transactional memory, there’s an issue that will surely make you smile with recognition: in-place of managing the relationship between volatile memory and disk, we now have to manage the relationship between the volatile CPU cache and memory! It’s all the same considerations (forcing, stealing etc.) but in a new context and with a few new twists."
punkman: and the ram/hdd division is most likely going away
mircea_popescu: yeah, the ram/hdd division is REALLY important. so let's make more flash-based "hdds".
mircea_popescu: <copypaste> Rand wouldn't be a bad president, but Trump has more of the showmanship << maybe they name the USS Flagship "Hairpiece" after him.
mircea_popescu: PeterL what the dude making the bet cared about ? i imagine he's from sc or whatever.
mod6: Another round of live-fire tests after building deedbot.org/build-bitcoind-99997K.sh [ with a change to line 61 to: './v.pl p verbose TEST2 asciilifeform_malleus_mikehearnificarum.vpatch' as to include the mod6_der_high_low_s.vpatch and alf's latest two ] -- the full orchastra builds and works as expected: http://dpaste.com/1S8GVD9.txt
BingoBoingo: "A central figure in the Trump-acceptance movement is former presidential nominee and Senate majority leader Bob Dole, the erstwhile Republican establishment standard-bearer who is now just another elderly person in Kansas." << Also former Viagra spokesman
bagels7: We had a chicken that toughed out every night in the tree including -30'C storms, the rest slept in the coop
PeterL: my prediction for republicans: Trump will win several early states, but as various candidates drop out trump will stay at that 25-30% and one of the other candidates will beat him in the later states
BingoBoingo: copypaste: Notice though that Trump's showmanship was engrained in the public through NBC, a well known alias for Cliter's recto-vaginal fistula
copypaste: Rand wouldn't be a bad president, but Trump has more of the showmanship
PeterL: he is still the most reasonable of the candidates, unfortunately American's don't care about that
BingoBoingo: PeterL: SC is the first contest in an area that's actually populated to the point it has black people.
PeterL: https://bitbet.us/bet/1244/donald-trump-to-win-south-carolina-republican-primary/ << newest bitbet - is there something particularly interesting about SC instead of NH or Iowa?
assbot: Logged on 25-01-2016 09:53:38; BingoBoingo: Anyways for people who care about the NFL chain (maybe BitBet) A Denver Broncos versus Carolina Panthers superbowl was mined.
BingoBoingo: <thestringpuller> curvy girls have nice asses tho. the ones that look like they wanna bust out of a pair of yoga pants. << Those asses come from squats, not Beetus
thestringpuller: curvy girls have nice asses tho. the ones that look like they wanna bust out of a pair of yoga pants.
PeterL: there is curvy, and fat. curvy is nice, fat is disgusting.
BingoBoingo: PeterL: It is a defect of their culture
PeterL: from BingoBoingo link to fat rant: "the look of horror that a thin, cis woman flashed me when she realized that she'd be sitting next to me" << What, a gay chick is going to be excited to cuddle up with fatty chunks for a couple hours? (and wtf is this text in image crap, can't even copy/paste!)
BingoBoingo: <PeterL> <BingoBoingo> peterL, Just gotta raise the river then << this works in narrow canyons, not so much on plains. You gonna build a 100 mile wide dam? << What else. Lots of ghetto to cover
assbot: Logged on 25-01-2016 21:29:48; mircea_popescu: they're shit by now anyway, least they could do is "sorry hon, you're 20 lbs over maximum, can't have college degree"
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-01-2016#1385577 << iirc they used to have this at mit
PeterL: <BingoBoingo> peterL, Just gotta raise the river then << this works in narrow canyons, not so much on plains. You gonna build a 100 mile wide dam?
thestringpuller: If I get to the interview process. I have no connections inside the company so i'm just a rando applying to the company.
thestringpuller: I'm applying to engineering. They just have general listings. So we'll see how it goes.
ben_vulpes: good people over ther.
thestringpuller: i'm going to go work for the banks!
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: with whom?
mircea_popescu: either that or redditards learned a new word from yest's ba log.
thestringpuller: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/42n7r0/how_to_sybil_attack_bitcoinclassicconsiderit_with/ << LOL. The Toomim's are getting hit with Sybil attacks now.
mircea_popescu: they're shit by now anyway, least they could do is "sorry hon, you're 20 lbs over maximum, can't have college degree"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Standard in chess now is usually 5 or 10 seconds every move before time start coming off the main game clock.
mircea_popescu: us "universities" should absoluely put bmi on the list of quals.
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polarbeard: I have no idea of the SC2 mechanics
polarbeard: my very best friend is a top player, we played together since the beginning, but he became incredibly good and I stopped playing :)
polarbeard: if the map allows it, you may go for cannons and almost surely kill the rush, otherwise you better move those zealots damn well, as you move the drones out of the way
polarbeard: marines will shot him dead from the distance
polarbeard: but zealot rush sucks against other race's rush
thestringpuller: the resources zerg has to put into a rush usually puts them at a defecit in mid game
thestringpuller: you have to keep the economy healthier than your enemies so you can outproduce them.
assbot: Logged on 08-08-2015 06:50:36; asciilifeform: reminds me of how, allegedly, a 'go' board and its stones made their way to leonhard euler. and he concluded that the game was played by tossing'em into the cavity at the bottom between the legs
thestringpuller: Although I don't know anyone that can compete with the Koreans in Starcraft
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: 'video' ?
asciilifeform: (who exactly ~was~ zooko? known for anything other than 'triangle' aphorism ?)
jurov: http://www.ethereumpyramid.com/ forget systemd. prb must support this!
asciilifeform: (it was the horizontal kind with individual togglers for each mains plug)
asciilifeform: it's the switches that make that thing spiffy
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: nobody ever gives a fuck about the oxide varistor, it does exactly nothing
asciilifeform: not so cool, apparently these are no longer made
asciilifeform just watched the master toggle on a 25 y.o. under-monitor surge protector thingie ~explode~ in a shower of sparks
pete_dushenski used to listen to pantera, the band, a bit.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: He's trying to make joke about the band Pantera. RIP Dimebag
mircea_popescu: in other news that are nevertheless more relevant to bitcoin than reddit will ever be, http://40.media.tumblr.com/21e7e3dfeb3aabebd8139cbb1937a3f8/tumblr_ni8bn65F111s5t2ojo1_500.jpg
mircea_popescu: ok the 2nd BingoBoingo link was kinda lulzy.
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: pantera 'capital' too.
BingoBoingo: Well, if the dam is tall enough the Mississippi will fill up a good basin. Just gotta make 1993 flood the low water mark
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> peterL, Just gotta raise the river then << ideally, put it on a jack. "maybe i'll come down, maybe i won't. don't mess up my beer, man!"
mircea_popescu: heh look at all the kids that don't know better / derps nobody heard about coralled by pantera and advised by gavin & schmuckteam.
BingoBoingo: Sure, in the gulf of Mexico it just makes big dead zones. Moving the mess upstream preserves tropical beaches while flooding ghetto
BingoBoingo: Well it already settles down and concentrates in the Gulf of Mexico. This would just move where it happens.
BingoBoingo: jurov: Every city's sewer and all the various indistry along it constantly pump weird shit into it.
BingoBoingo: <jurov> hydropower means large lagoons that tend to acumulate toxic deposits that noone wants to touch. coal and nuclear mean radioactive toxic waste, too. while defunct windmill means piece of perfectly usable structural alloy. << How is this different from the Mississippi river at present?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ... << dude, i don't care if he gives away clinton's hairy snatch and the secret of immortality 45 minutes in. who the fuck has the time for this sorta thing. << Reddit commnets were lulzy. Didn't sonsider anyone would try listening or operate a browser capable of listening.
asciilifeform: i am dealing with something quite similar on the other side of my desk, but folks ~pay~ on that side
asciilifeform: holy fuck the academitardism.
asciilifeform: https://github.com/scipr-lab/libsnark << the crypto lib the thing rides on, in case anybody gives half a shit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the picric acid... going anhydrous phenol + fuming sulphuric acid to get hydroxyphenylsulfonic acid and then fuming nitric acid on top of that... should be a fun little experiment :D
mod6: maybe im not quite right about the erosion, anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Anthony_Falls
mircea_popescu: (all this talk re new ice age is quite on point, incidentally. the crazed us cultists of pseudoscience are loudly proclaiming a narrative bluntly contradictory to the data. altogether more likely we're headed for cool.)
mircea_popescu: and yeah, geothermal. in fact that'll be the competition in case of new ice age. nuclear vs geothermal.
jurov: don't forget geothermal, better accessible and will keep working for millions of years
mircea_popescu: also - the way nuclear is dirty is very peculiar. pollution in the sense of poison - kills everyone. pollution in the sense of nuclear leakeage - does not. it just shortens lifespan and increases the angle of attack at DNA research.
mod6: al falls away and now is back further?
assbot: Logged on 25-01-2016 05:00:08; BingoBoingo: mod6: When do you think it would make sense to dam the Mississippi river to generate hydroelectric power for mining?
mod6: <+PeterL> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-01-2016#1385014 << hydro power is proportional to water drop, you can't really get much power out of a flat river like missississippi << very true. the one we were discussing yesterday is at St. Anthonys Falls. Which apparently helped the city long ago get its start. Its not very big, and since they put in the dam, apparenlty this has eroded the origin
mircea_popescu: if the sun does turn off, you'll have more ice than you'll know what to do with.
mircea_popescu: (and yes this has been tested in practice, it's not at all theoretical. nuclear subs are more important for THIS reason than whatever justified their existence at the time.)
mircea_popescu: it quite literally represents security from thermodynamics, in a way very similar to how the bombs were marketed at the time to represent "Security from the enemies".
mircea_popescu: contrary to aqll the brouhaha at the time, about how "mankind has found the way to end itself" bla bla, nothing could be further from the truth. nuclear power provides humanity a hard guarantee against large scale catastrophe that no other life has, nor could have without thios particular tech.
mircea_popescu: (before you say "so do fossils" - think again. where do you get the oxygen ?)
mircea_popescu: anyway, re nuclear. while it is dirty in a certain way, it has an advantage nothing else does : it would work just as well with the sun turned off. this is a big deal, fundamentally. whether it means anything in practice or not... well...
mircea_popescu: we'll live off of selling electricity to you there.
mircea_popescu: if there's both mill and hydro plant, well... finally ecoregulations can be forced on the mill. and if it doesn't like it... fuck you, move to germany.
mircea_popescu: if there's nothing but textile mill on the veh, textile mill gets to poison the river.
mircea_popescu: well, look at it the other way : maybe it finally provides the much needed impetuus to force the polluters upstream to clean up their act.
jurov: that was not my point. i wanted to say, there are cubic kilometers of liabilities likely to happen
mircea_popescu: how do you define "clean" ? if you meaqn absolutely clean, not only does not such industry exist, but in point of fact no such hygiene exists either.
mircea_popescu: so on one hand your argument is logically unsound, and on the other hand the benefit of hydro is certain.
mircea_popescu: the hydro plant has exactly nothing to do with pollutants upstream.
mircea_popescu: the bit of history just mopped off whatever surviving bits left around
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in any case that's what the ~second~ hit is for
jurov: yes it helped romania. how does it invalidate the argument?
asciilifeform: if you can get close enough to the tank - any tank, even modern one - it will work great...
PeterL: I guess the question is, does it work?
asciilifeform: the message, presumably, being 'we will die gloriously'
asciilifeform: there is an interesting clip somewhere on the net of the vietnamese army, some time in the era of ho chi minh, marching around proudly with these (presumably captured from jp forces in ww2)
asciilifeform: PeterL: yes. also known as the 'lunge mine'. it had no delay fuse at all!
mircea_popescu: <jurov> since the 1950s the hydropower potential of Vah river in Slovakia was almost completely developed and exactly this happened, lakes brim-full of stuff noone knows how to dispose << this may be, but on the other hand romania exists as an industrial power rather than an argentinian farm shithole strictly because of massive hydro power developments post ww2
asciilifeform: and ru navy had only picrin (on account of tnp having killed their top armaments designer, when he experimented personally) and to this is often attributed the loss in 1907
mircea_popescu: anyway. picric acid at least is more stable than guncotton, the golden standard of "oops, we fired our cannon there goes the ship" application
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 02:43:04; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: cutting out completely looks rather like this: http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/jp_tankhunters/fig1_japanese_lunge_mine_antitank.jpg
assbot: Logged on 25-01-2016 05:00:08; BingoBoingo: mod6: When do you think it would make sense to dam the Mississippi river to generate hydroelectric power for mining?
jurov: we are 53% nuclear, and another 2 blocks are in development, <joke>it should result in cheapest electricity around</joke>
kakobrekla: newer dams are actually built in a way that flushes that sediments periodically, they fucked it up on the Nile tho.
jurov: (and another 3% thanks to Danube)
jurov: since the 1950s the hydropower potential of Vah river in Slovakia was almost completely developed and exactly this happened, lakes brim-full of stuff noone knows how to dispose
kakobrekla: the mud that the hydro dams collect is not toxic but much needed nutrients for plants down the stream
mod6: i can see the natgas one from my office.
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mod6: Must have figured it was a cheaper alternative. *shrug* They might have some others that run on coal or oil even? Not sure.
asciilifeform: and we are likely to see recognizable riffs on this theme as usg rockets along its path to the bunker of '45.
asciilifeform: and there was an interesting bit about how germany switched to producing the obsolete and suicidally unstable trinitrophenol in 1944
asciilifeform: i've been reading a ru treatise on mines (the kind that undermined castle walls, and the kind that explode, rather than the kind where dwarves toil)
asciilifeform: the economics of wunderwaffen are a fascinating mixture of crackpottery, legit invention, and lunatic desperation
mircea_popescu: you'll notice that "third world pissholes" don't function in the sense of "person mp doesn't like vacations there".
mircea_popescu: who's gonna do that for the us, martians ?
mircea_popescu: pyongyang is still there at incredible sino-usg expenditure.
asciilifeform: and pyongyang is still there
mircea_popescu: because my slaves obey me 24/7, and that leaves 20hours/day unoccupied for the cattle.
asciilifeform: where there is grid, for 2-3 hrs/day
asciilifeform: but the preparations are for a 'grid lite', a la pyongyang
mircea_popescu: electricity DOES NOT work without the grid.
asciilifeform: where there is no grid
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the representational needs of the usg are exactly highest in MN as opposed to say alaska. because THAT is the true fronteer atm, separating the bundys from the bahamases.
mircea_popescu: by the time you've run out of everything ELSE that has better wind and are putting them in MN the world is half-full of wind turbines.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the simple proof that wind is purely for show - so that soviet citizen sees it and is impressed with the usg, just like the red army red square parades of otherwise useless missiles - rather than for energy is that the one place where you should have them (tierra del fuego) doesn't have them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i gave a rather low-end typical.
asciilifeform: iirc the trend is towards large farms of small propellers
mircea_popescu: "MegaDreidel on the Highway - 7"
mircea_popescu: mod6> more study required. << yeah, up until a spinning blade worth 50 tons comes off the fucking 200 foot tall mount.
asciilifeform: a tireless educator of Bitcoin novices. And his most passionate vituperations were aimed at the people he is now leaving behind. Bitcoin failed, he wrote, because the community has failed.'
asciilifeform: 'This one, however, is different from the rest. The person throwing dirt over the coffin last week was not an outsider, as has most often been the case. It was not some mainstream economist who just doesnt get it. It was not a misinformed journalist fishing for clicks. It was Mike Hearn, a former Google developer, the guy who wrote the first java implementation of Bitcoin. Hes a regular presence at conferences and
thestringpuller: This is why you shouldn't give penniless hippies any nice things ever, cause they will break those nice things.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: re: toomim meltdown << it was hilarious to listen to, cuz he is just like "I'ma stoned. Hue hue hue. I developed consider.it and we gonna use it to fix bitcoin governance problems, cuz like democracy is the shit. And it like works."
gribble: The operation succeeded.
thestringpuller: ;;later tell mod6 http://trilema.com/2014/advanced-wot-course-how-the-wot-is-attacked-and-how-it-defends-itself/
mod6: mircea_popescu: hey thanks for working up the math on the wind power. yeah, looks like that was pretty moronic.
mircea_popescu: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/fear-and-loathing-in-the-bitcoin-world << bitcoin's formal governing body is amused at the wanna-be's posturing.