ascii_modem: microcontroller << the pickings end up very slim if refuse 'arm'
decimation: one can buy very low power microcontrollers these days
decimation: ascii_modem: as in, it draws massive current for short bursts and derps idlely otherwise?
ascii_modem: that's roughly the situation of modern cpu
ascii_modem: battery time / mips or flops << imagine if the only fuel available, were - trotyl.
decimation: how Potapov got off so easily, with only 'ten and five on the horns'."
decimation: re: tank's top < " That was Stalin's hall-mark, his style - that splendid disregard of differences, that levelling of friends and enemies that made him a unique figure in the whole of human history. Another thing for which the Soviet court did not condemn Potapov was that in 1945 - still in his broken spectacles tied with string but this time with a tommy-gun in his hand - he rode into Berlin on the back of a Red Army tank; this was
undata: trackpad stopped working, goes to sleep, fails to wake without disconnecting the battery, etc
undata: the vaguely defined dream would be to have something which functions as a terminal, nothing more
mircea_popescu: where chicks come with their tank tops to sit atop your tank's top and take their tops off
ascii_modem: and i can see the chop.
decimation: unfortunately they don't dim brightness
mircea_popescu: but no, they can't light them on orange or something. gotta be that god awful pseudo-white
mircea_popescu: it'd be so much more helpful if they simply didn't backlight them with evil fucking uv diodes
mircea_popescu: the lit lcd bs is absolutely insane. i use brighness at 1-2% on all these lcd things.
mircea_popescu: dude how long did the luke wankfest carry on ? by now it's like one of those fabled 3 day weddings.
mircea_popescu: people occasionally get cocky enough to try. it never works out. the reasons it never works out aren't directly palatable, so the dream remains.
mircea_popescu: this theory is always intellectually appealing, like the theory that you can get rich by cornering the market.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem except no "embargo" by the small against the large ever worked in fucking history.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem just the very simple fact that if i say "a man" then that's that, whereas if you try to show "a man" you won't be able to. which is how most films are shittier than the books they're based on. the forced mistake of having to provide all the data visual requires to work.
mircea_popescu: (and since we're doing this ; russia's almost larger than the sum of them. and this is without the rest of the "all-union" landmass)
mircea_popescu: so you know, put it on google maps, so you can drink the presumption that the us is a lot larger than canada while doing whatever else.
decimation: ed tufte made the point that baseball scores are a giant dense table, and are comprehensible by someone with a 4th grade education
decimation: there's a thing in academia/business where graphics (esp. on a powerpoint) are held as some kind of standard for communication
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel sure, but the gui of "google earth" is a needles contrivance.
mircea_popescu: decimation not sure if really >, because i used to be total shit in geometry, all the chicks doing pretty much an impersonation of elaine with the tyres "saw" things that took me days. nevertheless, it DOES do a lot for reducing one's ability to... be scammed, i guess. slef scamming especially, where you end up making unfounded assumptions that arew predicated on whatever weird visual crap going on.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I'm not a visual thinker either - at least, never have been described as such. That said, GUIS are nice in certain circumstances.
scoopbot: New post on Qntra.net by cazalla: http://qntra.net/2015/01/theymos-claims-josh-garza-is-sending-him-legal-threats-to-have-content-removed/
mircea_popescu: they generally drive cheap crap.
decimation: the median us resident without a car is pretty much just a hobo
ascii_modem: it parks six rattling toyotas , too. when i was there i would have sworn it would land a bomber.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem this seems altogether a common experience.
ascii_modem: from g.earth i learned the one solitary fact that the yard i played in as a boy is now a parking lot. boo/hiss.
mircea_popescu: (why would i give google info ?! not like they're pickig up my intel bills ?!)
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: thanks for explaining. This aside I must admit I'm interested in knowing if you've got the 3D earth populated with all sorts of interesting information.
ascii_modem: lol programmer unwhateverthefuck rates
mircea_popescu: or whatever your definition of "enjoy personal interaction is", i suppose the discussion as to how all that = fucking is too much to meld in here.
mircea_popescu: nah. A = living in the us ; B = being employed at computerizing ; C = meeting people who fuck enjoyably.
mircea_popescu: on the structure of that, should C be pointed out to be unrelated the subject'd normally become aggressive.
mircea_popescu: when B is pointed out to be unrelated, you bring in the discussion C, which is not only unrelated to B, but also to A.
mircea_popescu: you establish that A is desirable. you then deny A on the grounds that B, which is unrelated.
mircea_popescu: ok, let me summarize this so perhaps you see it for the transactional (psych term of art) pseudoreasoning i see there.
gabriel_laddel: <mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel i get it i get it, my point was more along the lines of, nobody can really do this for you, as a "consumer" sort of thing. << So you do all your research by hand? Also, do you have a rotating 3D globe on your computer that allows you to highlight/heatmap known uranium deposits, nuclear reactors, oil reserves, population stats etc.?
decimation: Thomas Cole painted the decline of empire > http://www.isegoria.net/2015/01/the-course-of-empire-2/
BingoBoingo: <undata> the film's probably garbage either way << Actually not bad. It's a typical Seth Rogen movie. People who like that sort of flick will enjoy it, other people won't.
undata: I wonder too if the degradation of the language isn't a major factor in the decline of a civilization.
gabriel_laddel: again, r.e., chair warming. Maybe I'm the odd one out here, but I've had the distinct pleasure of interacting with people who I enjoy seeing on somewhat regular basis.
decimation: yeah in retrospect the whole sony thing was a crass marketing ploy with usg cooperation
mircea_popescu: undata: what is this doublespeak where they 'stand by their filmmakers' while scrapping the film? << business as usual ?
gabriel_laddel: r.e., chair warming, there is such a thing as interpersonal chemistry.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: also, thanks for upping me. my keys got destroyed in a botched backup and I don't know if I'll be able to recover them. until I sink some time into that task - no L2.
mircea_popescu: if you're hired for chair warming rather than sshing you are really not much better than the pr chicks.
adlai: all the internet branding will rely on middlemen, until your audience learns pgp
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel my point was more along the lines of, unless you actually work in hardware maintenance, you are connecting to your job over the internet anyway.
mircea_popescu: if all the idiotic websites could not in fact control their own domain name, imagine all the chilling effect on the idiocy of "branding" and generally the stupid internet.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: programmers who depend on some sort of regionalized unemployment rate can't possibly be all that skilled. << this is true, however if an economy thinks itself of being in dire need of programmers anyone with a brain can fly blind into the country and remain relatively assured of their future prosperity without having to put too much thought into it. This is going to go away at some point in the futur
adlai was pretty pleased about the changetip bitbet
adlai: easy money if you fall over sue the government?
mircea_popescu: which... i'd rather monitor definite things.
mircea_popescu: decimation point being, if we monitor "the site" and something appears there, all we know is that either the attacker put it up or icann did, and it's either true or false.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i get it i get it, my point was more along the lines of, nobody can really do this for you, as a "consumer" sort of thing.
decimation: well, they have an unsigned webpage
mircea_popescu: "For additional information about the attack, please monitor the ICANN website." "we're still not using gpg tho, so you'll never know."
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: what makes you thik he'd be in a position to write it ? guy never left australia. << He (or another) can supply the aforementioned article without getting up from their chair all that often. I'm just looking for some basic/tedious research - not boots on the ground scouting (though I am not opposed to this).
mircea_popescu: im taking bets the thing was md5.
mircea_popescu: The attacker obtained administrative access to all files in the CZDS. This included copies of the zone files in the system, as well as information entered by users such as name, postal address, email address, fax and telephone numbers, username, and password. Although the passwords were stored as salted cryptographic hashes, we have deactivated all CZDS passwords as a precaution. "
mircea_popescu: "The Centralized Zone Data System (czds.icann.org)
mircea_popescu: so the author is struggling with brain damage.
decimation: "But be honest. H-1B visa demand is not high because companies are striving for excellence. The visas are being used to preserve the existing labor market (salary levels) rather than paying higher salaries as dictated by supply and demand. Paul’s suggestion would help US companies find employees, but drain brainpower from the rest of the world, and leave the US workforce uncompetitive for US jobs. "
mircea_popescu: "In particular, if IRET executes on a writeable kernel stack (this was always the case before 3.16 and is sometimes the case on 3.16 and newer), the assembly function general_protection will execute with the user's gsbase and the kernel's gsbase swapped."
decimation: this guy http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/resume/ wrote another paul graham rebuttal >> https://medium.com/@reppep/paul-graham-appears-confused-about-supply-and-demand-labor-and-visas-and-great-programmers-d1d4854bc928
decimation: no, that's pretty much the glue that holds usg together (quashing folks before they pose a threat)
mircea_popescu: and it'd work just fine, too, if it weren't for btc. this construction where someone could be a secure billionaire and not part of the usg club simply wasn't being planned for.
mircea_popescu: basically the usg is trying (through its "vc" agency) to run the web exactly the way it's running the country : use the poor to scare the productive.
mircea_popescu: i suspect they literally are under orders to maintain a certain structure on the webs. one where the middle class so to speak can at any time be ganked by "nefarious", "mysterious" entitites that are not either.
decimation: why not let the little people suffer when you can rake in the $$$ and push the costs onto others
decimation: I suspect he didn't want to bother writing the code required to intelligently filter pingbacks
mircea_popescu: thanks the bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: the entire "security holes are in there deliberately" dirty secret is getting more and more air.
decimation: it's worse then that - that n00b escalated to the designer of wordpress and was shot down
mircea_popescu: i think the derps who imagine their publishing of threat advisories and so forth actually does anything are off their rocker.
mircea_popescu: imagine this, by the way : after three months of the practical equivalent of going to people's houses and leaving them a post-it note, the fix rate is under 1%.
assbot: theymos comments on What happened to this subforum? All posts about some shitty altcoin? Moderators on strike? WTF? ... ( http://bit.ly/1zJp6BW )
mircea_popescu: for another thing it gave me an elephant rifle to shoot at some dreamhost employe derp
decimation: thus, some degree of anti-fragility. but it wasn't in the software, or the networking - it was in the people running things
decimation: actually your servers became stronger when faced with adversity from the spammer
mircea_popescu: Bloke sitting at the bar when a woman comes in and sits on the stool next to him, he buys her a drink and asks her name. "Carmen" she says "Because I like Cars and Men, whats your name?" "Charlie Beer-Cunt"
mircea_popescu: then guy's never heard from again. because yes, totally. that's what permanence means, two weeks' worth of three hourlong intervals.
mircea_popescu: "16-11-2014 bitbethelp: so, cazalla, what's your plan on running qntra when it's going to be down 7x24 if it gets any sort of traction?"
mircea_popescu: wait, asciilifeform wasn't even on a cloaked connection ? what, the haxxor gave up and went away ?
gribble: ukto was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 year, 6 weeks, 0 days, 5 hours, 59 minutes, and 33 seconds ago: <Ukto> I dont want to work on anything other than weexchange heh
mircea_popescu: but in point of fact it'd have as much truck with that concept as the present day us has with a constitutional republic.
mircea_popescu: advertising is a dead thing anyway. the cattle processors don't need to advertise to the cattle, the rest of the world doesn't want the cattle.
mircea_popescu: typical us-style academic, dress up something commonly known in the trade for a grant, act as if he's done science.
mircea_popescu: basically, they dressed up the ancient block withholding attack, a fully documented andf fully fixed problem cca 2012
decimation: "Some people seem to believe that microtipping can bring about the end of advertising. This doesn't quite make sense, because microtip systems like ChangeTip cut out the platform operator: a user directly transfers a tiny amount to another user, leaving out the platform (e.g. Reddit, Twitter, etc)."
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin is broken. And not just superficially so, but fundamentally, at the core protocol level. We're not talking about a simple buffer overflow here, or even a badly designed API that can be easily patched; instead, the problem is intrinsic to the entire way Bitcoin works. All other cryptocurrencies and schemes based on the same Bitcoin idea, including Litecoin, Namecoin, and any of the other few dozen Bitcoin-inspi
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, intel has the "flaw" in question. from the selfsource : http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/04/bitcoin-is-broken/
decimation: bitcoin is for entities to move money, not for the little people to pay hobos
mircea_popescu: decimation this is also true, but adding a "they donate grains of sand" isn't much of an addition.
mircea_popescu: this is my experience too. then again, it has been, for a while.
mircea_popescu: "First of all, every time I strike up a random conversation with a stranger, I discover that they have already heard about Bitcoin. Every. Single. Time."
decimation: lol ascii are you logging in from the arctic
mircea_popescu: http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/12/17/changetip-must-die/ << o look, the world outside is starting to figure out reddit is made by the retarded, for the retarded, and everything it touches smells ?
mircea_popescu: nono, it's "you can't just A then B"
mircea_popescu: otherwise if you could skirt reporting by structuring instruments nobody'd own anything anymore.
mike_c: you're on the public record owning a majority of s.nsa lol. << he actually doesn't own any
mircea_popescu: which is exactly the proper context to link ...
mircea_popescu: i suppose that's the best proof he's entirely correct on his religious observances. his continued existence -> best miracle yet.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo at some point you run up against the inevitable "how did this guy make it so far"
mircea_popescu: mats: no buttcoin option <<< considering what they want to do is "continue development" i'd much rather they never got a dime anyway.
mircea_popescu: these logs are like better than average.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: PeterL: i do in theory, but it doesn't work yet <<< an asset is not predicated on whether it works or not lol. whether you own the house and whether anyone's paying you rent for it so far are different matters.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: iirc, that was mircea_popescu describing the virtues of working on inventions in a yurt <<< iirc that was mostly a joke built on the probleblems of garbage collecting.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i don't own any bitcoin assets, incidentally. << you're on the public record owning a majority of s.nsa lol.
mircea_popescu: and god help me this log is tough... barely on the 17th ?!
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: absolutely correct. should be something more along the lines of "unemployment rate for skilled programmers". <<< programmers who depend on some sort of regionalized unemployment rate can't possibly be all that skilled.
mircea_popescu: i guess it depends on the sample.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: for instance, afaik, white man anywhere in east asia is either a miserable wretch, a hermit, or largely confined to an enclave of his own kind. <<< from what i hear it's mostly "just grab any girl and fuck her, ask later".
mircea_popescu: so no, it's not "genetic", and pointedly no, the statal measures intended to help do not in fact help, they massively hinder.
decimation: I suspect that all the Palestinians who have more ambition than scamming old women or stealing 'aid' money have already left the place anyway
mircea_popescu: random example : somehow the black community in buenos aires - which is ACTUALLY being oppressed into the dirt - is neither hostile nor in any case fearsome to anyone.
mircea_popescu: there's not large groups of unemployed but healthy youths swarming around crossroads glaring at passengers in places that arent usistans.
mircea_popescu: if there's no longer a "public opinion" in the sense that term has been abused by usian know-nothing all-one aunt pollies, all sorts of anal child behaviour will necessarily go away.
decimation: yeah I suspect Israel would be able to figure its shit out with out the us just fine
mircea_popescu: so yeah the allies will ahve some new problems. easier to solve than their current problems that alliance is causing.
mircea_popescu: PeterL: If US disappears, then many of the other US allies will be having problems, so will be unable to help Isreal << fwiw i suspek the us is on the balance of things more of a problem than a solution.
decimation: they have an interest in running a mafia it seems
mircea_popescu: taking old western women for all the charity they're worth, sure. actually working ? meh.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: If USia disappears Israel probably becomes untenable as a state <<< i have my doubts. for all their noise, the palestinians do not seem genuinely interested in running a state.
decimation: well, of course. that's why they fear old works going into public domain - they are well aware that old works are generally superior in nearly all aspects
mircea_popescu: (and yes they're about same-value items)
decimation: the 'window' for new copyright expiration will open in 2019 I think (right now, frozen at works copyright 1923 and earlier)
decimation: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday << happy public domain day, the day that nearly nothing enters the public domain (under us law)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: the very reason why it is still trivial to leave usa is the lack of an obvious destination. << this is not much unlike proposing that the reason the gun's not fired is "because the bullet has nowhere to go".
mircea_popescu: what the hell's going on with that thing, what has it been, a straight month /
mircea_popescu: PeterL: so to become king, you just have to outlive all the other leaders << this is a good half of what the catholics used to do too.
mircea_popescu: which really is the best outcome of a failed civilisation anyway.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: dosen't matter really. have you met any American cattle? when the country fails they'll find themselves rejected everywhere / killed outright. << the younger females will still be usable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: just as the cattle rancher. he will be zapped, when the story is sufficiently forgotten and no longer media-enabled << "we never forget. expect us."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'can't delete avahi-0.6.31p10 without deleting cups-libs-1.6.3p0 gtk+2-2.24.20p1 gvfs-1.16.3' << brain damage beyond belief <<< "can't delete usg without deleting roads and the sky above".
cazalla: mircea_popescu, yeah, i'll leave the mac 10 spray it everywhere and hope it hits to someone else
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i dont leave the house if i dont have to. << this can turn into a debilitating issue you know.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i hear bitcoins in argentina are dirt cheap too <<< nah, they just don't really exist. yet.
mircea_popescu: cazalla as a general rule, the two bullet approach is probably best. (news outlet can write on any matter at most twice)
cazalla: yeah, that site was sold in november because the guy running couldn't keep up the pace of coindesk seeing they're funded by gaw adverts and newsbtc was not at that time
kakobrekla: >Fuck, the NEWSBTC site said people who are “against paycoin” are “cryptoextremists”.
mircea_popescu: adlai: in the case of multiple business addresses, it's easy, but in the case of the business using a single address, you can still see which input from the customer transactions was used <<< but it's meaninless.
mircea_popescu: oh in ba ? maybe they've got a game or something.
mircea_popescu: how's the pm racket
mircea_popescu: gernika they're all bankrupt. look at the people who adopted before me, see who's still moving.
mircea_popescu: in fact, "early adopter" will probably go the way of nigger : from a statement of fact to a slur.
mircea_popescu: they don't; get better sex, they don't drive better cars, live in more comfortable houses or enjoy happier lives.
mircea_popescu: i've noticed trhe same. in fact, on a broad look, i fail to think of any particular field in which early adopters are top performers. not even idle chit-chat, where they should be supported by their endless stream of novelties.
mircea_popescu: Over the course of my career, I've noticed that dramatically fewer of the "early adopters" build successful, secure, mission-critical systems.
mircea_popescu: o hey there. how you liking it ?
mircea_popescu: "Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible" quite.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: it must suck to be universally accepted as mind-numbingly stupid and yet not have the intelligence to be introspective enough to see it within yourself and change for the better << guy's wilful. intelligence can do relatively little, and it generally manifests in people who don't have much will to speak of.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: Luke-Jr: 'spam' debate aside - how do you intend to filter the dice txes when the dicemeisters let go of the idiocy of reusing addrs ? <<< why idiocy ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: Catholicism is a snare and a racket. If you're going to have belief in a higher power, at least choose a religion that isn't controlled by a central body with billions of USD at stake. << "if you are going to use shitty software, at least use some fly by night operator rather than microsoft" ? not logical, this. obviously you want the biggest, richest one there is.
mircea_popescu: *: Luke-Jr wonders what kind of former Gentoo dev hates USE flags <<< always fascinating just how facetious this dude gets. i wonder if they have like, a special school in Stupid Kingdom or it just somehow naturally occurs. like radon pouches.
mircea_popescu: "Luke-Jr: adlai: Catholicism has always made a big deal of any attempts to change doctrine; one couldn't do that unnoticed" << now s/catholicism/bitcoin/ and pray. i know ben_vulpes is at times worried on the score.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: kakobrekla: i don't think i've been politically correct or pretending. in case there's any doubt, i also think that there's some level of delusion involved... but i also value conversation over insult <<< how do you distinguish ? "insult" is a subjective construction, like love. it has nothing to do with phenomenology.
mircea_popescu: th its historical roots during the french years.
mircea_popescu: Vexual: Luke-Jr: Is it the current one that really annoyed you? << im pretty sure he held the same opinion at the time of jp2. since then there's been one who... abdicated ?!?! (i didn't know they could do that) and all sorts of innovative bs. i can readily see his argument, in that the papacy since perhaps Pacelli has little to do with what is preserved in the literary record of the renaissance and a lot more to do wi
mircea_popescu: e are essential matters for its future, only serving is much in its control, and even then, rather vaguely.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: the question still stands. how does humanity pick a monarch, or conclude that a currently serving (because it's both a privilege and a duty) monarch is incompetent << humanity does not pick a monarch. and a monarch is not serving, the humanity is serving. if it doesn't [do a good job] of serving, or if it's not lucky to get stuck with a good monarch, it will diminish and eventually extinguish. while both of thes
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's no "bootstrapping" a monarchy just like there's no training a virgin. a monarchy exists because it exists, if it does. that's all it can do.
mircea_popescu: "Adlai: what criterea would you expect a monarch to use when picking a successor?" <<< welcome to the "none of your business, pleb" side of the monarchy stick. why would you expect you're qualified to discuss that ?
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr: Adlai: I favour absolute monarchy and small government. <<< afaik that's pretty much ... the majority view here ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: this "spam on the blockchain" is only a thing because blocks go unfilled for the most part << exactly.
mircea_popescu: "mats: but yes. be less poor." is this in the bash even ?
mircea_popescu: but when teh cock is hard, there's work to be immediately done.
mircea_popescu: if it weren't hard then yeah, one'd be excused.
mircea_popescu: "the cock is hard" is no excuse.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-12-2014#954797 << here's what blacklists are : some inept "Architect" designed a house that doesn't stand up, so some of the construction crew are left behind supporting walls and whatnot with their backs.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nono it was just an example.
mircea_popescu: that's why we don't fucking talk to people on the bus, in the train, at the bank. because outside the novelty of it, it's so god damned boring.
mircea_popescu: low tech b-a, on dead trees. because the dirty little secret nobody wants to admit is that people sorted by geographical proximity yields an incredibly limited and ultimately boring set.
mircea_popescu: i ended up fucking reading, which is roughly the equivalent of a gamer that ends up firing his nintendo gameboy because fuck this "real world" shit.
mircea_popescu: and now, to the log!
cazalla: thestringpuller: is anyone paying the tax? <<< qntra yet to turn a profit, i'm yet to sell any shares so i don't believe i owe any, no gains from anything else to speak of
scoopbot: New post on The Whet by han@thewhet: http://thewhet.net/2015/line-betting-on-bitbet-december-2014/
HeySteve: just found a holiday project http://www.stormthecastle.com/catapult/mark-thomas-modified-ogre-catapult.htm
jurov looks at thestringpuller sternly
jurov: well.. it is already these 2 months
thestringpuller: i've kept an eye on the depository but can't distinguish tax vs donations
thestringpuller: is anyone paying the tax?
jurov: i should prolly make an overview who paid the tax, but such bureaucratic overhead would cause them to rise :DDD
jurov: will start doing any requests next day after tmrw, or when the shares come, whichever is later
jurov: and all others
jurov: otherwise you'd know it's near start of next month
jurov: thestringpuller you obv did not do that :)
thestringpuller: (or at least toward the ends)
thestringpuller: and it'll be the last article of each month
thestringpuller: goes on the frontpage usually
HeySteve: wishing you all the best for 2015
thestringpuller: mod6: "I run the streets all day, I don't get no sleep."
mod6: thestringpuller: there are a simple/complex example in here, although, not sure on the accuracy: https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-examples#simple-raw-transaction
ben_vulpes: anyways, with the unspent outputs pool and ones pk's secured elsewhere on disk, a determined and angry bitcoiner should be able to manage their own wallets with a minimum of fuss.
ben_vulpes: nominally, returns interesting data about the unspent outputs pool. the output of which one should be able to grep through to find ones own unspent transactions.
ben_vulpes: it may be unfair to tar all work done since satoshi with the power rangers brush. gettxoutsetinfo + createrawtransaction + signrawtransaction are pretty close to a minimum viable bitcoind.
ben_vulpes: and to those following along with the "minimum viable bitcoind" saga at home, while createrawtransaction and signrawtransaction entered ~0.7, gettxoutsetinfo is not included.
scoopbot: New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/investigations-in-the-bone-heap-of-the-lost-generation-today-mashable/
pete_dushenski: "the teacher is right, you ARE good for nothing"
pete_dushenski: but parents who found out that their kids had been disciplined at school often disciplined the kid again at home
decimation: or harsher, as the case may be
pete_dushenski: and both his parents were teachers at the school too so that might've been easy treatment!
pete_dushenski: my dad got a stick across the knuckles
decimation: my dad (who went to school in the 60's) told me that back then children were reguarlly spanked for misbehavior
decimation: the bitching and moaning would raise hell
pete_dushenski: decimation speaking of things you can't get away with anymore, i was watching a bit of the breakfast club today and... can you possibly imagine a school giving students 8-hour detentions on saturdays anymore??
decimation: same for south africa: "The chain was named after the United States chain F. W. Woolworth Company but, because of the contemporary trademark laws, the name was legally used without permission. No financial connection ever existed between the companies."
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller omg no
decimation: ah reading wikipedia, apparently the australian version of woolworths just stole the name, no actual business connection to the us store: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworths_Limited
pete_dushenski: cazalla it was interesting to note where the same names popped up between canada and aus. everything from street names to stores to parks
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nigga+rigged | nigga rigged. Half assed way of fixing something that is busted. Often involving duct tape or whatever your broke ass has layin around the house. That fool nigga ...
pete_dushenski: cazalla speaking of woolworth's, canada used to have a department store by the same name. went bankrupt a couple decades ago
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: "nigga rigged" << til
decimation: re: costco & amex << I suspect amex gives costco a deal (pays them) to force a large percentage of the upper-crust customer-base to have an amex card in their wallet
cazalla: pete_dushenski, i'd wager costco isn't doing too well here. aldi enjoys far more popularity as an alternative to the main 2 coles and woolworths
thestringpuller: I also think the timeout on a credit card transaction wire is like 15-20 seconds