mircea_popescu: anyway. the machine used, an iris printer, uses fine glass rods under high pressure, which print continuously.
nubbins`: (micro piezo heads instead of shit "bubble jet" heads -- the spirit of IRIS lives on in Epson printers today)
nubbins`: i don't even have the same parts
nubbins`: yep and the actual thing was -- a fancy inkjet printer.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` no, giclee was an actual thing. back before the americans got involved.
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2015 08:41:57; adlai: a properly done segwit softfork could actually result in a blocksize decrease for the non-segwit blockchain
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2015#1340972 << and if it does, it ALSO turns bitcoin into a scam, for the off-chain people who [were led to] believe they are dealing in bitcoin while really all they got is bitcoin'.
nubbins`: because that's the worth of an inkjet print
nubbins`: from the french, "to squirt jizz"
nubbins`: adlai traditionally in the art world, people like to refer to inkjet prints as "giclee"
mircea_popescu: apparently the entire "you can't have private conversations with people you don't know" thing is just too hard for the average intuition.
mircea_popescu: same old "oh, you want to be the big man mr govt ? go chew out that yonder mountain!"
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2015 08:34:28; BingoBoingo: Every physician burned by Obamacare can keep warfarin for their self pays and pradaxa for medicaid.
mircea_popescu: if the board doing any useful work whatsoever isn't a requirement
mircea_popescu: in this sense there's nothing wrong with having randi suckerberg sitting on a board of directors,
nubbins`: TBF there's nothing inherently wrong with digitally-printed books, if having the book stand the test of time isn't a requirement
nubbins`: i'd make a thousand copies for cheaper than that, and they'd be printed by hand
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2015 15:11:48; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2015#1341008 << to round this off, fortunately there is no straight analogue of this in solid state physics. but there is 1) the various forms of intrinsic noise and 2) the failures of the lumped element model as a whole
mircea_popescu: or at any rate, it's the sort of thing i've been doing to petrify the adults ever since i was about i dunno, 5. ymmv.
mircea_popescu: total waste of trees, but if you want to get the veblen good, get the actual fucking veblen good rather than some plastic mass market replacement. nobody of the old jews you're trying to impress is going to give a shit about your book ; they WILL however notice that your thing comes off a web press not a pod outfit, and that'll scare the everliving shit out of them.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2015#1340908 << i have no idea about the outfit in question, other than being quite obviously part of a venerable scam, so old it's even monographed by balzac. if you actually want to print your blog, get yourself latex, make it spit out printer files ; find a local printer with a web press, see what's the lowest they'll take in run overhead (should be 1-2k or so) and do a run.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker...
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea how the niggers can stand themselves. it sure as fuck galls me, and i don't even live there. here sits Lee Cowen, re-interpreting history for his fellow jews, according to what lenin said ?
mircea_popescu: if they were after eastern european votes they'd be going "support a stronger usg because you as a group have the institutional memory to show what a great idea a soviet union is, and the scars to prove it!"
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2015 07:34:03; pete_dushenski: "“The Jewish community, collectively, has that institutional memory, and institutional scars from previous events in history where a group based solely on religion was persecuted,” said Lee Cowen, a Republican strategist, adding that Trump was damaging the party."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2015#1340919 << holy shit they're doing it backwards.
mircea_popescu: if the 2-3 day estimate actually gets supported, it will be the largest jump in hsitory.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla aha, one of the larger jumps in history.
mircea_popescu: this "nothing can ever happen" thing that everyone wants to bake in the axioms is exactly the castration limonov discusses.
mircea_popescu: either that or that the value of bitcoin actually motivates him to start actually thinking about things, for the first time in his life.
adlai: now here's an interesting bet, albeit longer than any human (as opposed to econ) bookie to float: the size of pot which triggers the first assasination
adlai: warmblooded-humans-running-miners metric remains on "2TH/s, sitting on the table in front of me, gathering dust"
adlai: it's all the peter pans staying forever 21
mircea_popescu: nanotube ^ seems gribble got the boo-boo.
adlai finds alf reminiscent of the local crazy this-guy-must-be-a-plant who claims to only own 1.8 btc, for retirement
adlai: last i checked, bitcoin restricts us to cohabiting the same planet...
adlai: trinque: you're missing a "the product of", which excludes that from being an answer to the question as conceived in the author's mind :)
mircea_popescu is amusing at the thought that the "fuck you, apparently gotta maintain an old version of everything one intends to use" did not start with bitcoin. but with wordpress.
asciilifeform: if you don't need the comments thing, best 'blogware' is prolly still... handwritten html
trinque: adlai: best blogware is probably rolling something using cl-markup or the like.
adlai: but all the cool kids are whiping taters!
adlai: but wouldn't you rather i write lisp instead of englith?
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2015 14:49:31; adlai: one of the nice things about living in a hellhole with discernible "bad guys" is that swatting just doesn't exist
asciilifeform: as is 1 (which is the ultimate gravestone on said 'law')
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2015#1341008 << to round this off, fortunately there is no straight analogue of this in solid state physics. but there is 1) the various forms of intrinsic noise and 2) the failures of the lumped element model as a whole
adlai: generally the targets of advertisement have nothing "to do witch" its content, funding, placement, etc
mircea_popescu: in other symbolic news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/c87e9924b8a8854437224d6719723d68/tumblr_mftuk9O1UC1rzf0y9o1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: adlai actually thought i had anything to do with the bet ?
adlai: asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=06-12-2015#1337423 could've bought hardware rather than hedgeware
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2014 17:44:35; asciilifeform: 'When the glorious Muammar Kaddafi, in his blue bournouse, or in his uniform, appear on the telly, the domesticated inhabitant of the sanitaria jerks from fright. 'Monster,' 'terrorist,' 'evildoer,' public enemy number one - the media calls him, led by its disdain for all that is envigorating (and, on top of it all, foreign), and pushed by false information supplied by CIA... ...his very existence is
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2015 14:44:47; mircea_popescu: i guess if you took a vote among the domesticated ducks, they'd agree wild ducks must either be all shot or else a ceiling put over the village.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2015#1341025 << see the old logz re: gaddafi
asciilifeform lacks the correct lsd to process this
adlai: the only econ that's "advertising" to is.you.
mircea_popescu: not like you can read any sort of anything about it, either you do the experiments yourself or else fu you never know.
mircea_popescu: because hey, it's crapple universe, they have all the scholarly achievement of a dead congolese stray dog.
adlai: the debate is about bitcoin in c++ or cl, not js
mircea_popescu: but i mostly used it specifically to review the store.
mircea_popescu: well you could root it, obv, if oyu cared for a shitty pentium 2 in the house.
asciilifeform: (the elements have a half-life of sorts)
asciilifeform: witness the 'organic LED' panel.
mircea_popescu: IS the reason you keep complaining about it.
mircea_popescu: the REASON i never have do debug my cpu, my very dear alf
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2015 13:59:46; mircea_popescu: and whatever enthusiasm may tell you about this, there's a very fucking fundamental problem here. you don't get to control backflow and complex emergent behaviours just because you don't want to think about them
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2015#1341005 << i picked the analogy quite deliberately. because not only is digital electronics a simplified world riding on top of analogue, but the entire lumped-element model is likewise 'a lie'
gribble: Quote by George Carlin: “You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two ...: <http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/235415-you-know-who-i-pray-to-joe-pesci-two-reasons>; George Carlin on Religion and God - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPOfurmrjxo>; Positive Atheism's Big List of George Carlin Quotations: <http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/carlin.htm>
mircea_popescu: i suppose by 2018 it will be samuel l jackson and the lord our god.
mircea_popescu: adlai back in 2013 or w/e they were hoping for interpol / tsa / ama. it... fizzled
mircea_popescu: they missed me by two weeks in cairo
adlai: what's the relevance of this BCT link?
mircea_popescu: yeah but on the other hand the only place i was ever actually bombed in was jerusalem.
adlai: one of the nice things about living in a hellhole with discernible "bad guys" is that swatting just doesn't exist
mircea_popescu: they... expired.
adlai: i guess 'local police' in the average american locallity includes enough armored vehicles to get mistaken for authority
mircea_popescu: i guess if you took a vote among the domesticated ducks, they'd agree wild ducks must either be all shot or else a ceiling put over the village.
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/CNsNN << pretty lulzy thinking tho. "how dares this mp guy act independently! this should not exist! i will call upon my liege lords to efface this abomination from the face of the earth - if not in reality then at least from the earth as i can see it. for it bothers me so."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2015#1340864 << womenz in tech. they think the dumbass shit works, because if there\'s nothing she's more affraid of than confronting the dumb blonde bitch in 11th grade, then CERTAINLY should she one day do it the fucking earth orbit will change.
mircea_popescu: derps accusing me of "seeking attention", when i own their mother, in a fucking trasnparent ploy to seek attention. herpitty-derp.
mircea_popescu: conveniently omits to mention WHAT the fuck he'll contribute
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2015 13:45:29; mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/BitcoinHelpDeskhttps://twitter.com/BitcoinHelpDesk << o look, the derps made their own moiety. nice going on copying #b-a two years later lol.
shinohai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2015#1340993 <<< the lulz "Anything touches sipa, I'll contribute to ensure MP is gone."
mircea_popescu: and whatever enthusiasm may tell you about this, there's a very fucking fundamental problem here. you don't get to control backflow and complex emergent behaviours just because you don't want to think about them
mircea_popescu: the practical implementation promises from experience to create the undebuggable situation where the dumb blonde in 7a flushed her diafragm and now the results of your flushing will be a bathroom flood.
mircea_popescu: this example happens to get at the core of my misgivings about the model (which yes, is as seductive and great and promise-y as ben intuits, sure) : while the theoretical machine may have all the nice properties,
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2015 03:49:06; asciilifeform: sorta how you can flush your own toilet, and the outcome does not depend on the result of me flushing mine
mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/BitcoinHelpDeskhttps://twitter.com/BitcoinHelpDesk << o look, the derps made their own moiety. nice going on copying #b-a two years later lol.
mircea_popescu: there exists exactly one billionaire involved in bitcoin, what the fuck are they smoking ?
mircea_popescu: loller who the fuck are those derps ?
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 4 for mircea_popescu with note: highly educational, taught me not to trust text, signed or otherwise
adlai: a properly done segwit softfork could actually result in a blocksize decrease for the non-segwit blockchain
assbot: After XT Failure Gavin Andresen Supports Jim Crow For Signatures On The Blockchain | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1NRr0Hy )
BingoBoingo: gavin@xtcoin.com >> http://qntra.net/2015/12/after-xt-failure-gavin-andresen-supports-jim-crow-for-signatures-on-the-blockchain/#comment-81924
BingoBoingo: "Not any more. It seems the manufacturer, as a result of its actions, has decided to effectively kill the use of their drug. At $35 a dose, nobody is going to use it in the ED and hospital pharmacy committees are going to sharply restrict the use of the IV version of the drug to the point of extinction. As well they should." << Note economics is only possible when there are alternatived like dilaudid.
BingoBoingo: http://epmonthly.com/article/iv-acetaminophen-here-today-gone-tomorrow/ << Because this is how they cycle works. Cool treatment found, cool treatment priced out of niche.
BingoBoingo: Every physician burned by Obamacare can keep warfarin for their self pays and pradaxa for medicaid.
BingoBoingo: "The U.S. price for the recommended 5 g dose of idarucizumab is $3500. This figure does not include the hospital charge to the patient" << This is how Obamacare really dies, because 5 grams of a monoclonal isn't selling for $3500 very long after approval.
pete_dushenski: is likely doing a double-take: During the week of November 23-27, the 11:35 PM Late Show on CBS was beaten by Seth Meyers, who happens to be on one hour later (12:35 PM) on the Peacock."
pete_dushenski: "just three months after so much hype and so much love went into Mr. Colbert’s debut as the new host of Late Night, the former Comedy Central star has somehow fallen into 4th place where it matters most. In the all-important demo, he’s now being doubled up (and then some) by NBC’s Jimmy Fallon (outscored by 137 percent) and hasn’t beaten ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel in over a month. But here’s where CBS brass
pete_dushenski: all 486`713 of them.
pete_dushenski: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02206v2.pdf << for 'quantum computing' enthusiasts in the crowd.
BingoBoingo: Well I'm prolly repainting the plastic wheel covers black this spring as a solution to the dilema of "just roll steelies" or find a set of used aluminium rims.
pete_dushenski: of course you do, in the same way that most dudes care about 18 yo filles, and couldn't care less about 26 yo ones.
pete_dushenski: well, steel's pretty tough. and no one in their right mind gives a shit about 25-year-old paint.
BingoBoingo: But what happens when shopping carts and scooty puffs hit the side of the merc? Plastic body panels ftw
pete_dushenski: what's more environmentally friendly than a car that's in the shop one day in 10 ? think of all the walking and bicycling !
BingoBoingo: Turns out instead of throwing away $60k on a Tesla the actual envrionmentally friendly thing to do is spend $3k on a Saturn L-series in servicable condition
pete_dushenski: '“They are very weary of somebody repeating the same kind of rhetoric but just changing the name of the religion.” "
pete_dushenski: "“The Jewish community, collectively, has that institutional memory, and institutional scars from previous events in history where a group based solely on religion was persecuted,” said Lee Cowen, a Republican strategist, adding that Trump was damaging the party."
BingoBoingo: Well, if that's a fraud you can drop the standard down to "ebay sefer"
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: don't let the contravex header fool you.
BingoBoingo: I though you were both a man of the tribe and of style.
pete_dushenski: other suggestions and experiences are welcome
pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2014/04/08/the-new-morning-paper/ << hehe. actually mentions leah mcgrath goodman. o time machine, will your wonders never cease ?
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 17:16:26; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-12-2015#1340205 << from http://violentmetaphors.com/2015/08/14/good-science-communication-means-never-calling-them-retard-even-if-youre-nassim-taleb/ and do we actually know taleb's NOT reading b-a ?
pete_dushenski: don't think so. the digital arena changes some aspects of conflict, but not death. there's no avoiding physical death.
pete_dushenski: wtf kind of war doesn't have the losers hung up for their crimes ? what is this, counter strike ? "oh, i'll just respawn and no big deal!" ??
pete_dushenski: the only reason that ex-kgb dudes a la putin and aliyev rule the roost today is because, after socialism "surprisingly" fell, they both a) had a strong wot, and b) were willing to kill when the time came.
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 15:20:15; deedbot-: [Trilema] There's a one Bitcoin reward for the death of Pieter Wuille. Details below. - http://trilema.com/2015/theres-a-one-bitcoin-reward-for-the-death-of-pieter-wuille-details-below/
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2015 03:44:18; ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=08-12-2015#1339102 << listen when you can speak cogently about "the bayesian method" and articulate how "millions upon millions" [of lines of code] betrays your complete lack of understanding on the topic of control systems we can revisit this
pete_dushenski: more intelligent to boot, and yet both of whom left in pretty fiery blazes, compared to btcdrak and heysteve who were both relatively quiet and relatively useless and whose lack of presence won't even be a blip on the radar.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-12-2015#1340654 << you missed pankkake (http://www.contravex.com/2014/11/04/lets-cut-to-the-chase-is-la-serenissima-a-cult/) and thickasthieves (http://trilema.com/2014/waroflife-swol-october-2014-statement-closing/#comment-109550), both of whom were far more active in b-a, whose lack of presence was actually noticeable (at least in daily log lines) and were each seemingly
BingoBoingo: This doesn't take wisdom. This only requires accidentaling and remembering all the way back to the ancient history of this July.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: that's giving the usg a lot of credit on the 'wisdom' front, certainly more than they've warranted thus far.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Consider though the wisdom of USG miner propping up foreign pools that through serendipity introduce instability to the network
assbot: BitFury and private property in the land of the free. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1Q62065 )
pete_dushenski: compare above chart with this one from 5 months ago : http://www.contravex.com/2015/06/26/bitfury-and-private-property-in-the-land-of-the-free/#footnote_1_4145
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: WHy wouldn't they?
ben_vulpes: mominlol has a great story about having to be the big bad landlady so that the social workers could maintain the trust of her evictee
BingoBoingo: From the mines: "Just once I want to get sent to deal with a pronoid schizophrenic. The guy who's convinced that everyone is out to help him. He believes the FBI is watching him with the intent of making him their new Director. Aliens are invading Earth so they can give him the secret to eternal life. He wears a tinfoil hat to absorb the rays being beamed at him by the CIA that make him smarter and happier."
ben_vulpes: it's not great but hey you're working in the browser
ben_vulpes: that said, clojure's a good example of how even a shitty lisp is strong enough to wrap its tentacles around more or less the whole webshitstack and deliver a single cognitive environment for writing 'software' that stretches from the server to the browser
ben_vulpes would unlearn anything to be free of the shitstack
ben_vulpes: > one homogenous thing << in the same way that the cl compiler's available to user code? or some level higher?
asciilifeform: and yes, there is a lengthy unlearning required to grasp this.
ben_vulpes: this is probably horrendously wrong, but i currently imagine some 'main' program entrypoint with subsections that indicate their parallelizability. is this entirely wrong or correctably wrong?
ben_vulpes: so there must be constraints on the programmering style in order for an arbitrary program to be arbitrarily parallelizable
ben_vulpes: so i take the little proggy i've written--would i need to do anything special to it in order to take advantage of more m^2 of compute fabric?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell Naphex yes yes but what about all of the much more difficult questions re statements and income and equity and depreciation and whatnot
asciilifeform: the distinction b/w/ 'pure' and 'impure' fp presumes a von neumann processor
ben_vulpes: so they'd have to be "pure" (to borrow a fp-ism) in order to serve the arbitrary parallelism definition?
asciilifeform: sorta how you can flush your own toilet, and the outcome does not depend on the result of me flushing mine
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: hey boss, i keep meaning to ask you about the details of dataflow programming (vis a vis turning ascii files into computation), but i'm having trouble booking the like 3 hours of sit-down time it'd take to respond in a timely fashion
gribble: ZSFA -- Rails Is A Ghetto (2007-12-31) - cat -v harmful stuff - Cat-v.org: <http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto>; Where can I find Zed Shaw's original "Rails Is A Ghetto" essay ...: <https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-Zed-Shaws-original-Rails-Is-A-Ghetto-essay>; Zed Shaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zed_Shaw>
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you never read the shaw lolz?
assbot: Logged on 08-12-2015 21:49:32; pete_dushenski: ;;later tell ben_vulpes this comment was at least half-ways pointed in your general direction http://www.contravex.com/2015/12/07/desperately-trying-to-put-the-auto-back-into-automobile-in-a-flaccid-attempt-to-put-the-relevance-back-into-motoring/#comment-37004
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=08-12-2015#1339102 << listen when you can speak cogently about "the bayesian method" and articulate how "millions upon millions" [of lines of code] betrays your complete lack of understanding on the topic of control systems we can revisit this
ben_vulpes: this week i'm actually preferring to hire "jr" people with broad programming experience (and varied backgrounds) for pressing into the ipnohe and andorp squads, theory being that broad experience with other humans and technologies trumps cheap labor and misguided enthusiasm
asciilifeform: howz life in the ipnohe brigades.
ben_vulpes: mother
asciilifeform: l0l, the andreas a. crud take 2x.
mod6: it'll just need some very deep examination and testing one way or another.
mircea_popescu: so they're earning us slack. not that it HAS to be used, obv.
mircea_popescu: pre hearn&fail-bip, the standard was pretty high. by now it's a lot easier to argue "hey, at least it's not as bad as THAT dumb shit"
mircea_popescu: the more inclined to break the protocol the power rangers become, the less important it is to actually maintain all the warts.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what they imagine they're doing, but more power to them and their clown car.
mircea_popescu: and they were all spambots.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron> aaaaand the trilema twatter account is suspended <<< now i gotta go in the logs, see what all that does.
mircea_popescu: the us has really decayed lots and lots.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ze commentz << honestly... a bunch of derps burned 2mn and want "to recoup their investment" aka http://trilema.com/2009/capitalism-si-naivitate/#selection-85.81-85.106
mod6: yeah getting rid of openssl is going to be, an adventure. not only does the crypto need to be implemented, a perfect backward compatibility needs to be maintained.
asciilifeform: imho if the thing at the core is still the ridiculous cpp turd (complete with openssl, bdb) then the effort is wasted.
mod6: im of the persuasion that bitcoin should get it's own OS, eventually, when it can be built.
mod6: im with you there.
asciilifeform: the thing is, imho classical bitcoind is a rickety life support affair regardless of how we cut it.
mod6: i have one more bridge to cross yet, and I havent gotten that far yet; having a script of my own somehow check the sigs & hashes after the file xfrs are complete.
asciilifeform: that isn't the issue.
mod6: i think it'll work though. my rotor+v054 script would run this script after extracting the buildroot package
mod6: im not sure this is the best way to handle this
asciilifeform: but can't escape the feeling that the dependency orchestra is too broad for a buildroot linux to be meaningfully v-tight
mod6: so what I'm hoping to accomplish here is to alter the .mk files that accompany buildroot, so they pull the 3rd party reqs directly from the foundation site instead of wherever they currently point to.
asciilifeform: i think i see the point here
mod6: (this by no means is finished, but interested to see what you think about the direction i'm taking)
mod6: anyway, yeah, I'm looking forward to getting the website cleaned up and putting V up there with vpatches.
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 06:49:28; assbot: Satoshi's PGP Keys Are Probably Backdated and Point to a Hoax | Motherboard ... ( http://bit.ly/1IGiEGw )
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-12-2015#1340144 << lulzy. the sheer cheapness of the sham...
asciilifeform: dvantage they can get. Taking advantage of loopholes in laws, instead of doing what's right. Hiring people from your own network, instead of going beyond its narrow reach. And now, recapping a round, instead of honoring prior investments. That's the culture. And you *really* feel it in SF. You'd easily walk into a coffee shop there, and overhear this story about recapping a round being told with laughs and high-fives.' << from
asciilifeform: 'That's when you see the toxicity of the overall startup culture is the root of the problem that lead to your investment situation, diversity issues, contract worker issues, etc. A culture that values above all else -- as one investor put it to me -- the unfair advantage. The thing you do / have / are that gives you a 10x leg up on everyone else. And that just makes people look for the fastest, easiest way to the most unfair a
mod6: Thanks for the reminder though.
mod6: <ascii_field> trb www still shows non-v patches ?! << ok so no, not yet. after ben and I sign everything for the release, we'll be updating the website.
mircea_popescu: "CountOneInterrupt 2 points 1 hour ago Gotta love that classy web design with a butt next to the name. It's our sister site!" << check it out! someone fucking got it!
mircea_popescu: "edmundedgar 6 points 1 hour ago Why weren't people like this around when they were designing CSS?" << also, buttcoin is about 50 iq points over bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> top kek, mircea_popescu made buttcoin << eh, they've got a fascination with me ever since back when the subreddit was called somethingafwul
mircea_popescu: <cazalla_> yeah that guy, i actually bought a hard copy of the book though, been working on in it 1-2 hours each evening, trying to make a Legend of the Red Dragon mud type game meets bitcoin <<< ahahaha check out the guy that took a year off from btc biz :D
asciilifeform: what could possibly be more surprising than the most easily-predictable thing conceivable finally happening.
xss: just browsing the good ol' freenode
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: Butter offers 1 BTC reward for the death of Pieter Wuille (Buttcoin developer) : Buttcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Rd6Y0C )
shinohai: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3wa9zf/butter_offers_1_btc_reward_for_the_death_of/ <<< top kek, mircea_popescu made buttcoin
cazalla_: yeah that guy, i actually bought a hard copy of the book though, been working on in it 1-2 hours each evening, trying to make a Legend of the Red Dragon mud type game meets bitcoin
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ << This guy
cazalla_: asciilifeform, any idea if zed shaw knows his stuff? working through his learn python the hard way book past month or so, recommend any books once i'm done with this one (or anyone else for that matter)
BingoBoingo: Are you going to ragequit the channel too?
assbot: After XT Failure Gavin Andresen Supports Jim Crow For Signatures On The Blockchain | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1NeA77Q )
BingoBoingo: http://qntra.net/2015/12/after-xt-failure-gavin-andresen-supports-jim-crow-for-signatures-on-the-blockchain/#comment-81778
BingoBoingo: "She told me that her team did a lot of collaborative work in this lab, and she didn't need someone who was going to 'eat more than their fair share of the pizza, if you know what I mean.' "
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: [malleability] 'This is a major problem, principally driven by the deliberately broken state of the FOSS' << btw it affects pgp (via the braindamaged pkcs1.5) to same extent
ascii_field: (with a very small amount of number-theoretical elbow grease)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'Not only are they part of the transaction, not only are they an integral part of the transaction : they are the only actually needed part. What makes a transaction a transaction is the signature, nothing else. Everything else is like marketing : contributes to costs, not to revenue.' << here i will note that, if bitcoin used rsa sigs, the tx and the signature could be literally one and the same thing
ascii_field always has, in back of head, suspicion that 'usg' is catastrophically misnamed, considering that the communicable disease in question goes back to at least voltaire
ascii_field: the fella who wouldn't rest until he infected as many as he could
mircea_popescu: the usg is mere detritus resulting from malfunctioning metabolism
mircea_popescu: you keep thinking the usg a prime mover
ascii_field: i thought it was 'any degree of scumhood is virtuous when it's in the service of usg, lie, cheat, kill, whatever'
mircea_popescu: life is the foremost value, yo! notwithstanding that the delusion of "freedom from consequence" is the fundamental corner stone of "creativity" as understood on the internets.
shinohai: Well I never would have guessed two individuals would get their panties in a bunch in one day.
mircea_popescu: try screaming "YOU MAKE EXCELLENT PIE" at the top of your lungs @woman, see if she takes it as a compliment.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, the emotional angle is really hard to get past. which is why the thing's so effective in the first place.
mircea_popescu: well, people gotta form their own opinions on things neh.
ascii_field: what were the remoras even doing here.
ascii_field has no idea we had so many of these
mircea_popescu: why, you got the cert ?
mircea_popescu: bothering people, apparently.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: "ltv" being one of the lulziest snakeoil products the marketing scambunch has been pushing down the throats of public cos
assbot: The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula | Above the Crowd | By Bill Gurley ... ( http://bit.ly/21SdtK0 )