decimation: BingoBoingo: it's pretty obvious that snowden got 'help' from somebody
mircea_popescu: decimation nope. understand : when usg wants to impress me it's stuck prosecuting derps like shrem.
mircea_popescu: puts every single usg drone in a very uncomfortable position.
BingoBoingo: decimation: May also be infered from film that he prolly fucked the Poitras chick to here positive reception
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform meta-people, basically. unable to act because stuck pondering implications as a passtime.
mircea_popescu: adlai all this "evangelist" bs. they should just hire linda for an evening's outcall and stfu already.
decimation: asciilifeform: they would see themselves as reformers
mircea_popescu: the usg essentially consists of this : "instead of doing anything, why not sit on your ass and ruminate the future ?"
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: No greenwald loves the cock. Talking likely Snowden Poitras affair
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i muchly doubt anyone ever fucked the poitras chick.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But you haven't even heard the loving narration.
mircea_popescu: she has that vibe. the female equivalent of the male creep.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Thar she does, but snowden was compelled to "prison rules"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more studies needed, this is the controversy, progress and change, all sortsa gunk.
BingoBoingo: Snowden2 though contacted the wrong one of the set of journalists first and was quieted.
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 03:00:58; *: BingoBoingo remembers in early 2012 before scandal Petraeus being floated as a more serious threat to Obola than Congress
BingoBoingo: Film was ambiguous, but leaned towards greenwald having been contacted first.
adlai: or one from the wrong set from the set of sets of journalists
adlai recalls some mention of poitras being contacted first, but read this in an interview with her and only her
BingoBoingo: decimation: I mean Petraeus was on track to be the next two term president following Obola based on his opposition to Obola which would have followed both without consequence
decimation: snowden might have contacted wikileaks acting as a foil for the russian security services
adlai wonders how much longer the business model of leak-digestion will survive, before leakers just... leak
decimation: at any rate, I don't think poitras or greenwald have enough of a clue to move a person of interest across borders
BingoBoingo: adlai: Snowden successfully contacted Poitras first. More than a year after attempting Greenwald the frist time. Not sure, but second snowden seemed to contact Greenwald while snowden1 in Moscow. Disappeared.
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 03:15:38; *: BingoBoingo is dissapoint in this fanfic/propaganda piece. Halfway through and no fucking?
adlai: but this is not even his final form! beware platypus-hitler
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 03:22:22; decimation: I also think the fiat machine that enables mass theft from everyone's savings is a form of usary
adlai: BingoBoingo: i've lost track of the snowden's of yesteryear
mircea_popescu: the us fed is just about ready to implement the ancient christian venice.
decimation: mircea_popescu: the meating of usary has changed over the ages
BingoBoingo: adlai: You are kinda in the USian ideology testlab. sounds dangerous
adlai isn't sure whether BingoBoingo is talking about geopolitics, ideology, or some mix of them; and to what degree trolling/mockery is distinguishable from his own actual opinions/beliefs
BingoBoingo: adlai: Modern Israel is nothing more or less than the average middle west resident imagines gryffindor to be
mircea_popescu: the common law has some categories. there's robbery, with violence. there's theft, without violence but with the knowledge of the victim. there's fraud, without the initial knowledge of the victim. there's embezzelment, where the victim isn't a person per se. and there's defalcation, which is merely negligent or reckless, rather than intentional.
decimation: it's hard to say, because who can divine the intent of usg?
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 03:25:17; danielpbarron: isn't a private key a number?
adlai: slightly related, friend who worked one of those shit-selling carts in a canadian mall, hocking 'Dead Sea' products, got asked by a straight-faced mark: "isn't that where captain jack sparrow was from?"
BingoBoingo working on that since I can't code for shit
BingoBoingo: <adlai> slightly related, friend who worked one of those shit-selling carts in a canadian mall, hocking 'Dead Sea' products, got asked by a straight-faced mark: "isn't that where captain jack sparrow was from?" << At our local malls those were all hookers at the carts
adlai: mircea_popescu: it gets better when you realize that even everypair's a number
adlai: eg, "compressed ECDSA key" is pretty much the same general idea as the proof that there are 'as many' rational numbers as integers
adlai: uncompressed ECDSA key = (x,y) on the curve; compressed = a single number that can have the coordinates extracted from it, because the lines described by the range of compressed keys each intersect the [top half of the] curve at one point
BingoBoingo: Are we sure the fanfic propaganda guy isn't a teen girl "As it turned out, nobody had worked out that her challenging Neville to a Most Ancient Duel meant that she liked him. She'd thought it would be obvious but no, nobody else had even thought of that apparently."
adlai: concatenation doesn't work, you need to interleave
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Actual line from text you though worthy of offering a solution to: "Currently she was being referred to as the Sparkly Unicorn Princess of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Sparklypoo."
adlai: (or use funky encodings)
mircea_popescu: cast down the heretic adlai, he means to leaven our numbers!
adlai is still trying to get over the amazement that there's the 'same number' of rationals and complexes
mircea_popescu: only if your definition of complexes is based on rational parameters.
mircea_popescu: true that this is the pedestrrian definition given in school
mircea_popescu: a fine example of "teachning kids math = making kids unable to understand math"
assbot: It's not the sauce, it's the poultry and other metamathematical considerations pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1DKl6TD )
adlai hasn't seen mention of transrationals yet in the thread, just thinking of dimension changes
BingoBoingo: * adlai hasn't seen mention of transrationals yet in the thread, just thinking of dimension changes << Aleph progresses in cardenality up through ALeph sub aleph
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, people have been trained to believe in this "upgrade and everything's gonna be better" mantra.
mircea_popescu: worst fucking idea ever. but it's so much like "progress", and "what the consumers should come to expect"
adlai: (not yet convinced that real numbers 'exist' outside of theory and approximations)
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> me to colleague: 'mac has to be good for... something?' him: 'take it to the range, it'll make good target' << 9" model and .22 LR makes a nice pop when phosphors are too faded
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Everything later is just NeXT abotus
BingoBoingo: Born of the same reasoning that leads one to jack off inside a pussy in a .gif
BingoBoingo: But still eventually CRT phosphors become worn and mercy needs to be applied
BingoBoingo: The lead on glass on lead pop is a satisfying noise
decimation: asciilifeform: the devilish thing about apple 'upgrades' is that the old versions no longer exist
decimation: try 'upgrading' a 10.6 mac to 10.7 and not 10.8, for instance
trinque: decimation: not that I run OS X, but I think that justifies torrenting anything prior
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Are there any open spaces? the cheapest .22 LR rounds tend to be more satisfying. If you have a camera that can capture slow motion, especially avoid the copper plate ones
decimation: asciilifeform: yes, I have a couple of early intel macbooks that have been abandoned
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Weird. Five minutes walk from here is a zone where absolute lawlessness is permitted
decimation: they run 10.6.8, and will forever I guess
decimation: even macports is failing to keep updates going, because they were 32-bit
decimation: I did manage to hack the efi bootloader into 'dual booting' gentoo once
decimation: but it was pointless because of the driver brokenness
adlai: random retardation of the day: trade history has no indication of whether an action took place on margin or was an asset exchange
decimation: it would be more 'comfortable' to use one of those tadpole laptops
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Honestly I'd prolly try to save it if I made it. Hard to find anything with built in 13w3
adlai: s2ram is just a fancy way of saying "leave the dustoff at the bureau, all you need is quick hands and an evidence bag"
decimation: yeah the suspend mode thing is really annoying
decimation: without it you just have a rather useless desktop
BingoBoingo: decimation: If you get the chance A/Ux is a pretty fun unix
decimation: eh, I rather have one of asciii's genera boxen
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: My fascination stems from it being the first vagually *nixy thing I encountered.
decimation recalls using an ancient hp 'portable' computer running hp/ux as a youth
BingoBoingo: less than 3 years later I enountered mandrake linux more than 10 years more recent and was disappoint
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adlai: though it irks me to no end that the song is not in fact seven minutes long
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If you did, imagine the warfain you'd need
decimation: asciilifeform: what about your chorded keyboard device? does that feel comfortable while lying down
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decimation: yeah, but it seems a chorded entry system of some kind would allow you to lay on your back
BingoBoingo: At some point faced with the twin maws of conspiracy and poisons one must choose discomfort of some measure.
adlai has yet to see a good human-touchscreen api for reading and editing source code... but assuming one existed, a 'tablet' would be quite convenient for bedcode
adlai: like the romans ate?
adlai: that cramps my vestigial wings
decimation: adlai: try waving your hands around like tom cruise in 'minority report' for about 10 minutes and see how you feel
trinque: adlai: I've got a sort of AST making circle menu thing in my head
trinque: have never tried to make it
trinque: you'd sort of crawl along the grammar
trinque: eventually though you need to type words...
adlai: decimation: touchscreen ≠ glove-activated vaporware
trinque: asciilifeform: cooler to look at for 5min I'd guess
adlai: ideally, something where i could hold the device with one hand, and do all tasks with a single finger... you can enter text quite fast using gesture typing, and a program-aware editor can do much much much better than the current keyboards because namespacing greatly narrows the likely lexemes
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> clutters visual cortex << Wait you trust that api???
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That high up on the brain, thing could lie. Gotta trust the lizard brain and little higher
decimation: ^ above link demonstrates 'alternate text entry'
trinque: asciilifeform: yeah roughly that but with grammar rules
decimation: it would be good if you could only move your tongue though
BingoBoingo: If the responsible part of the brain touches the skull, my general rule is to doubt it
decimation: adlai: gesture typing sucks, at least as implemented on 'modern' phones
adlai: why should you trust an internal part of the brain any more than the grey stuff? it's not like you have [consciously available] stimuli re: what's happening there
decimation: I liked 'typing' gestures into my palm pilot, but somehow that technology disappeared
adlai: as i said, gesture typing needs to be boosted with program-awareness
decimation: yeah, modern gesture 'typepads' suck by comparison
decimation: asciilifeform: especially considering it had like 1% of the modern smartphone's cpu
adlai: when your likely input set is an entire language, even a crappy markov chain leaves tons of noise
trinque: adlai: I worked on a visual programming bullshit thing for a year and a half as a job
trinque: really don't think it can be made to do more than toy interfaces for end users
decimation: adlai: somehow customizing the input 'typepad algorithm' is a 'missing option' on all smart devices
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trinque: at least without a huge slowdown compared to typing it out
trinque: for example imagine doing sql joins with a venn diagram
trinque: but it seems like such genius with a single join!
decimation: trinque: asciilifeform has explained before why graphical interfaces suck for programming
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2015 05:30:33; decimation:
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/not-all-programmers-alike/ << "I can’t speak for everyone, but when I program, I like to be able to make use of the rather-hefty chunk of my brain that evolved as a language co-processor. Language provides compact abstractions in a way that is difficult to beat using graphics except for inherently-visual tasks (the motion of mechanical parts, etc.)"
trinque: language is precisely for this
adlai: typing [+slime-fuzzy] is likely to remain faster than pretty much any other muscle-based input, just due to evolutionary accident... but the quest here, as i see it, is for a drastically more convenient interface, which sacrifices less than the current ones (which aren't even that convenient)
trinque: this being describing some set of actions, facts, whatever, for something else to learn and/or carry out
trinque: adlai: what I'd like to see is the structure of the program in some way
trinque: use the visual part to traverse, not to write code
decimation: asciilifeform: have you followed the 'movement' to re-create stenotypes?
trinque: there are types of code mess that at least seem like they'd "look like shit" with the right goggles
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah, I looked into them, but they seem useless for programming
decimation: the story I got was that those devices are priced at bezzle rates
adlai: anybody tried one-handed dvorak?
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah but try to hook it up to your computer to run emacs :)
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decimation: ah well then maybe it's straightforward
decimation: some folks try to make a 'ghetto steno' using a keyboard
decimation: but most keyboards cannot handle chorded keypresses
adlai: being able to fully operate a keyboard-drived ui (stumpwm, emacs) with one hand would be a huge step towards using the laptop conveniently in most any position
decimation: if not single hand, why not single finger? or two? can do with morse
trinque: adlai: I've got most of what I do in stump down to a single-handed binding
BingoBoingo: adlai> being able to fully operate a keyboard-drived ui (stumpwm, emacs) with one hand would be a huge step towards using the laptop conveniently in most any position << You'd be surprised what you can do when you surrender to WIMP, your keyboard has a clit, and the ETOH has reduced you to half f a lizard's funtioning brain mass
trinque: not as happy with stump as I'd hoped
trinque: I want an uppermost level concept of task, then several layouts for that task
trinque: I'm building that now around stump
decimation: asciilifeform: nah, he's using a keyer with very small entry force
trinque: might jack the "tasks" back into helm
decimation: if you wanna hurt your hand you use a straight key
trinque: adlai: neh once I extract the tasks thing from my config maybe
decimation: asciilifeform: sure, but only if you are doing it with alot of force
decimation: note he's moving his hand side-to-side
trinque: adlai: but! it improves daily as stumpwmrc and the repl side by side are a binding
adlai: trinque: please /join #stumpwm and share if/when you do
adlai has often pondered how to get stumpwm more aware of what the windows are doing, but the ways he imagines doing this involve teaching stumpwm more about the programs than they like to reveal programmatically
trinque: adlai: I'm just farting around with window titles
trinque: and in fact this sucks, since emacs changes it several times after making a new frame and loading shit
trinque: need to find a good place to call place-existing-windows
adlai: see why i'm so curious about the lispm :P
BingoBoingo wonders if he is the exception planning his interface not around his most capable moments, but around his least...
trinque: even if all it does is edit text, check email, and transfer files
adlai: BingoBoingo: on the contrary, i think of all this as 'stoner-proof productivity'
adlai: my goal is to increase transaction costs for distractions, and decrease them for productive activities - and have some reasonably real-time control over the productivity gradient
trinque: I can be blazed as hell and press one button
trinque: boom, project is open and arranged
decimation: my understanding is that in the ru high speed telegraphy is something of a minor sport
BingoBoingo: adlai: But even if your choice of intoxicant you set a floor for its effect
ben_vulpes: adlai: this distraction thing is a human factors problem.
BingoBoingo: adlai: Do you indulge in any aqueous intoxicants which push both your peripheral and centeral nervous system to functional minimums
adlai makes no a-priori constraints on intoxicant choices, since supply, demand, and the threat of violence are strict enough already
adlai: although i have a 'standing desk', which places a lower limit to the motor control necessary for all computer use
decimation: she doesn't have anything that is slowing down the propagation along her myelin sheaths :)
decimation: yeah it is probably providing audible 'beeps'
decimation: typically the way the keyer works is that one side is continuous dashes and the other is continuous dots
decimation: asciilifeform: probably the 'keyer' electronics
decimation: the fancy ones have alternating dots and dashes when held together
adlai: this (gurl's skill) is really just a matter of having a good word->twich compiler
decimation: she might have some kind of 'grading' software
mircea_popescu goes back to catching up oin the log for the 3rd time today
decimation: asciilifeform: I think ru still uses telegraphy in aircraft
decimation: asciilifeform: we don't even have typistgurls in the usa anymore
adlai: develop a good compiler-compiler for new daily telegraphies, and you don't even need crypto!
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 05:32:01; BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Weird. Five minutes walk from here is a zone where absolute lawlessness is permitted
adlai: the real competition should be "who can learn fastest a new randomly-generated telegraph encoding"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I live on th other side of Illinois North/South Axis, still more lawless, especially if diversity is invoked
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 05:38:28; *: asciilifeform dreams every day of program-in-bed
adlai: i'm guessing the ones for hire have hardcoded, monolithic parser-compilers, from countless hours spent translating the same encoding... sure, it's impressive to watch, but useless when a new alphabet pops up
adlai: another solution is dictation, but it seems that for years to come, the best way to dictate code is via a human typist
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mircea_popescu: "you can enter text quite fast using gesture typing" basically you lot just aspire to be cripples.
mircea_popescu: "oh, how glorious if i couldn't stand and i only had one weavery appendage i could move"
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decimation: mircea_popescu: if one day you have a stroke and could only blink one eye, you might find the skill useful
mircea_popescu: i would certainly not use my only fucking remining blinker to code omfg.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu is colorblind, that's a kind of crippled
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you're not the poor sod who'd starve without coding either.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [04:55] that the fella actually thought he was 'using pgp' << wait wut? who biffed at this epic scale?
BingoBoingo doesn't imagine his ideal interface for coding uses, but for handling "ideal datacenter" eventually
decimation: asciilifeform: the 'long range aviation command' still flies those things
decimation: heh. to annoy countries across the ocean
trinque: you can't buzz your enemies with a rocket, turning back at the last moment
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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: ceremonial, and... at one point they outnumbered rockets... Hence NIke Hercules
decimation: wait, I thought dragoons were horse-mounted infantry
decimation: oh, re: La Marseillaise < I find the lyrics hilarious, especially in modern times
decimation: a white communist and a black algerian living in the suburbs could both sing La Marseillaise and mean exactly opposite things
decimation: asciilifeform: a dog is a useful asset in the military, for a variety of tasks
assbot: Special forces soldiers and their dogs take part in tandem parachute freefall | Daily Mail Online ... (
http://bit.ly/1GQt80R )
trinque: sounds like a great way to get sprayed with shit and piss on the way down
mircea_popescu: google is now serving "filtered" results and no way to turn the shit off anymore ?!
mircea_popescu: ^ was going to say teh americans are taking their bitches
trinque: censorship, the humor destroyer
mircea_popescu: Moderate SafeSearch is on and clickable. if you click on it tho,. "Set your SafeSearch preferences in the blue box below." and the blue box says
mircea_popescu: Google's SafeSearch blocks web pages containing explicit sexual content from appearing in search results.
mircea_popescu: trinque there's this one bangbros if memory serves scene
mircea_popescu: where they did actually spend the 28k or w/e to shoot a chick being pounded in air
mircea_popescu: google has been on a shitmission the past 5 years or so, it becomes less and less useful.
mircea_popescu: well, apparently for some reason i can't have pronz in google nao.
mircea_popescu: last week they came up with the "no pronz in bloigger" thing, which got everyone riled up so they decided they'll just implement it covertly instead of overtly
mircea_popescu: and generally speaking i'm sick and fucking tired of the new generation of usians and their ideas about the world.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Maybe yoy are being singled out
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Mr Hands died organically, by horse and normal intestinal flora
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Literlly, Horse fucked Mr Hands to death
trinque: BingoBoingo: only took a few good thrusts
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: Seriously that one, small waist big tits, what is the problem?
mircea_popescu: i kinda suspect that's how the entire anal stretcher niche got to be a thing.
trinque: bet it makes for easier human skull exit
trinque: I wonder if there've been cultures that did fisting as a sort of obvious "of course you fist before squatting out humans"
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ... or not. could fall out << Sutures
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you have a purely anatomical view of what is a physiological process.
mircea_popescu: the girls that fist that i fucked don't have worse grasp than the naive set.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> superglue << Too great a chance of "healing"
mircea_popescu: similarly, the girls that can swallow a snake don't puke a lot.
BingoBoingo: Sutures spaced, don't make matching folds the same... cyanoacrylate though...
trinque: mircea_popescu: the thing does seem to have an "accepting" mode
trinque: activated by being well-fucked among other methods I'm sure
mircea_popescu: now obviously if done badly/traumatically the results are more like you know, that guy with the telephone poole
mircea_popescu: another internet classic which is apparently disappeared.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: Why did you choose to name the #b-a lordship as such? Is there a historical system of governance you are drawing inspiration from in particular?
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BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform got up to check on... deer trying to get in << Left side of their face seems to be more receptive to blunt trauma if it comes to that... if your deer are anything like ours
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cazalla: haha holy fuck, derpopulous actually told the australian senate (with a straight face) he invisions a kid on a skateboard in indonesia running a billion dollar remittance business
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fluffypony: "I think FriedCat is not a real name. Does anyone know about FriedCat's real identity ?"
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jurov: mod6: i have (upon some consultation with you) already published kinda-0.5.3.1
jurov: so to keep things clear, would be best to notch the version up.. but since you already officially announced it
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jurov: btw, #bitcoin-foundation is taken and invite-only
jurov: but #bitcoinfoundation was free and is now regged to me
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danielpbarron: height=249322 vs height=198662 (usb3: height=234461)
jurov: <Pierre_Rochard> ^ what I’m waiting for is an exchange with segregated fiat accounts held by a custodian bank. << what about paymium?
punkman: cazalla: who leaked the emails btw?
punkman: cazalla: "Antonopoulos' appearance as an expect witness" << expert*
cazalla: not sure tbh, likely someone that worked there seeing garza burned bridges with his previous cohorts
punkman: you should find out how much they paid derpopoulos
fluffypony: I hope that's autocorrect wobblies on his part
cazalla: fluffypony, nope, that is how he spells
punkman: typing on a touch screen is just the best
fluffypony: children should not be allowed to start companies.
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cazalla: ;;later tell mircea_popescu did ya see kruger of kruger industrial smoothing died?
mod6: <+jurov> mod6: i have (upon some consultation with you) already published kinda-0.5.3.1 << wat?
jurov: btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/?v=0.5.3.1 mod6 i explicitly asked you how to label this one
cazalla: apparently kruger shot himself in the head back in 2012 but it didn't work so good
jurov: and the consesus was 0.5.3.1 is as good as any
mod6: oh i see what you're saying
mod6: is that stuff patched?
jurov: yes, it was even published on website
mod6: i've never seen this before.
jurov: "chicken" was first version
jurov: then there was (your) build script with
jurov: additional patches
jurov: which we agreed upon to call 0.5.3.1
jurov: and the development goe son
mod6: that's the base code
mod6: no, the unpatched source from the powerrangers.
jurov: because it does include the version bump patch
mod6: which patches does it include specifically?
jurov: you don't know which patches your script includes?
mod6: to make it build statically, there is another patch that I still need to submit yet (probably today) and another patch & full source to submit of a modified poratronic build script.
mod6: ah, it was with my script. ok
jurov: so i propose to go on to 0.5.3.2 .. release early, release often
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mod6: so yeah, when we said we were going to release in january; we hadn't hit the 160`001 tx sig verification issue yet and we hadn't considered the last-minute requirement of a static build.
mod6: so what you have is ok, but you're missing the stuff that'll be pushed out before we make a signed tar
mod6: which we're referring to as a "milestone" release
jurov: there will be many more bumps. don't expect any Release to End All Releases in near future
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mod6: which will be: v0.5.3 + patches { 1, rm_rf_upnp, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 (static-makefile) } + modified poratronic build script & release notes.
jurov: better to make more minor releases properly numbered
mod6: we want to ensure that what is "released" actually works, and has been thoroughly tested.
mod6: we do a lot of regression testing :]
jurov: this is same pretense as what phoundation operates "it works we tested it"
jurov: nope. we are at bleeding edge and use at own peril
mod6: heh. ok what i mean is, "it compiles and we got it to fully sync, send/receive, generate..." but yeah, use at your own risk. we want to deliver something that doesn't just blow up -- kinda what ascii was frustrated with yesterday.
jurov: i am just not placing any expectations to any piece of software anymore
jurov: but i understand you as management that wants to label the product somehow,
mod6: haha. ok. but i don't see a problem with testing our own thing. even if no one else uses this, i'd like to know if it works or not.
jurov: that actually stregthens the reason for bumping the version numbers often so that we can say X blows up when.., X+1 does not
jurov: so that people won't act surprised that "there was some version published" like you did few minutes ago
mod6: when we release there will be a formal annoucement to the mailing list, signed patches by ben & I, and an included signed tar of the patched source code with release notes.
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 13:11:16; jurov: <Pierre_Rochard> ^ what I’m waiting for is an exchange with segregated fiat accounts held by a custodian bank. << what about paymium?
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jurov: Pierre_Rochard: and you're aware it's ran by davout ?
Pierre_Rochard: jurov: I am, brain had not connected all the way to “I should try it out”
jurov: set the version to 0.5.3.x.dev
jurov: so that no one mistakes that for release
mod6: jurov: so as far as shorter release cycles, i think going forward they will be. the foundation will focus on say, one specific problem and then tackle it, patch it, and then regression test, release.
PeterL: why in c is a long int the same size as int?
mike_c: because int is shorthand for "long int"
mike_c: short int = 16 bits, long int = 32 bits
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jurov: trinque, have you tried drakon editor? i actually use it for business logic
jurov: it isn't faster to create the code, but it makes it sooo easier to find the right place where stuff needs to be fixed
jurov: say, after several months
jurov: the downside is, generated code for complicated diagrams isn't anything you'd want to show to anyone
lobbes: Dr-G: You gotta fix your connection, my man. grep -c 'Dr-G' on my logs for yesterday returns over 100 lines...
thestringpuller: mike_c: lies. all lies. this is only if you use strict typing and you machine is coherent. every machine treats it differently!
thestringpuller: short ints however are always shorter than long ints hence the name
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indiancandy1: any one know anything about internet marketing#
PeterL: I am sure you can search for "search engine optimization", or SEO, and lots of sites will come up who promise to help
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PeterL: asciilifeform: why do you say he did not get the message?
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sjsqd: I'm writing some articles on the bitcoin foundation via Let's Talk Bitcoin
sjsqd: Would anyone be interested in discussing it with me?
sjsqd: I couldn't find much reference to the original foundation in the documentation
sjsqd: but is it correct to title it as the 'pirate' bitcoin foundation?
jurov: sjsqd: the original one is the pirate one
PeterL: this new foundations works on the assumption that the previous one does not exist
nubbins`: sjsqd the only official statements are PGP-signed statements from members of assbot's wot
sjsqd: I have done quite an amount of research on the foundation but never seen this page
nubbins`: if you check the mailing list archives on the .foundation website, there's a bunch of stuff there
sjsqd: do you know if anyone from the previous foundation is aware of it?
sjsqd: nubbins`: the goal of my articles is to try and ascertain how transparently the foundation currently operates
sjsqd: which I'm not aware anyone else has done so far
sjsqd: its certainly interesting to see two foundations with the same name (:
sjsqd: I will look at the mailing list, if I have further questions is there any email address I could use or is this IRC channel the best method of communication?
nubbins`: think of them as the foundation and the phoundation, with the other guys being the ph
BingoBoingo: sjsqd: That foundation has never really had any transparency. Vessenes birthed it in the shadows and snuck out the same way.
sjsqd: ok great, I will keep a record of this channel in my notes then
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sjsqd: This is the first article I made if anyone is interested
sjsqd: I will probably be publishing a third at some point this week
nubbins`: this foundation is more interested in uh
nubbins`: making the codebase not a steaming pile of shit
PeterL: is gmaxwell associated with the phoundation? I remember him coming by here a few times
nubbins`: instead of campaigning/rallying/whatever
sjsqd: nubbins`:interesting
nubbins`: sjsqd the latest foundation release is 0.5.3.1
sjsqd: nubbins`:given the current state of foundation communications it is actually quite difficult to ascertain exactly what it is tasked with doing
sjsqd: I'm still quite new to bitcoin, is the client that you release an alternative client?
nubbins`: it's the official foundation client :D
jurov: no it's the original client
jurov: it should be stripped to bare minimum first
sjsqd: I guess the term official/alternative isn't the best to use
nubbins`: based on the original 0.5.3 source code, with plain ol' unix patches applied to de-turdify it
sjsqd: but I assume the client you work on is different to bitcoin core?
nubbins`: each patch is intended to be small enough that a human can read and understand it
sjsqd: but works with bitcoin just the same as any other client (multibit etc) does?
nubbins`: the goal is to trim the fat from the oldest still-working code base
nubbins`: rather than add more fat to the same, which is how the current "bitcoin core" release came to be
ben_vulpes: a right, asciilifeform excised the dns.
nubbins`: slowly bringing it closer to the ideal of "one program to do one task"
ben_vulpes: the question under consideration is "what precisely does it mean to bitcoinate?"
sjsqd: ok I will save everyone's time and look through the mailing list, I might return with some further questions later on
sjsqd: thanks for your time
ben_vulpes: the goal is to do that and nothing more.
BingoBoingo: <sjsqd> but works with bitcoin just the same as any other client (multibit etc) does? << Very different from multibit. Multibit is based on the Hearn BitcoinJ turd.
jurov: sjsqd, you can peruse the searchable logs here, too
sjsqd: BingoBoingo: I'm not that well acquainted with how the different clients originated or their quality, more just a question of whether it is a bitcoin or an altcoin client; from what I understand it is a bitcoin client
sjsqd: ahh I see the URL for logs in the title
sjsqd: thanks for the pointer
danielpbarron: sjsqd, how many LTBcoin did you get for writing those?
sjsqd: I got about 180k for the first one
sjsqd: clocked in at about 40ish USD
sjsqd: but I am holding the LTBcoin
sjsqd: (I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to disclose that)
sjsqd: not enough to live on
sjsqd: but a good alternative income
sjsqd: you basically earn based upon your proportion of page views
sjsqd: its all calculated automatically as far as I'm aware
sjsqd: there is an editor too who makes my posts more readable
sjsqd: she gets a cut before I do
jurov: sjsqd, you know about qntra? it also pays (kinda) contributors
sjsqd: No I hadn't heard of it
sjsqd: Thanks I will check it out
sjsqd: I found out about let's talk bitcoin via the foundation forums (andresen forums if you want to call it that)
danielpbarron: your 180k ltbcoin are worth about 0.02 bitcoin by my estimation
sjsqd: because I made some posts saying the website wasn't adequate in certain terms
danielpbarron: i wrote 2 paragraphs for qntra and its worth like 15 bucks
sjsqd: danielpbarron: I'm not interested in writing for money anyway
sjsqd: according to poloniex 180k is about 0.16
sjsqd: where I live I can't buy bitcoins easily
sjsqd: so its nice to have a little coming in from writing
sjsqd: I used to blog years and years ago
BingoBoingo: sjsqd: Anyway the qntra thing can probably also help with some background on differences between the Vessenes' foundation and the (dot)foundation
sjsqd: even with hundreds of thousands of page views I only ever made about 70 USD over 2-3 years
sjsqd: BingoBoingo:thanks I'll have a look on there
sjsqd: danielpbarron:I was referring to a different blog
sjsqd: pre-bitcoin days (to some extent)
sjsqd: completely separate platform, just was using it as a point of reference
sjsqd: I might look at writing something for qntra
sjsqd: let's talk bitcoin is interesting because there are quite a few podcasts and such
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PeterL: I would much prefer to read an article than to listen to some guy talking
sjsqd: I don't personally listen to them but there are some interesting topics
sjsqd: I understand the idea of bitcoin universes, I didn't get into it to make a quick buck selling for cash or anything
sjsqd: I read about bitcoin a few years back
sjsqd: downloaded the mining software, my ADD kicked in
sjsqd: and I went and played games
sjsqd: but I've read as much as my mind can understand on it (I'm not a coder though)
sjsqd: and I really like the idea of being able to carry around my money on my phone
sjsqd: or have my passport on my phone
sjsqd: and I live in a city where the government evolves quickly
PeterL: lol, bitcoin is not meant to be on a phone
sjsqd: so the likelihood of bitcoin being adopted widely is high (although it hasn't happened just yet)
sjsqd: PeterL:I use my phone, Windows computer and a VPS or two to store my coins
PeterL: read the logs, then you will understand how bitcoin should (and should not) be used
sjsqd: danielpbarron:in this specific locale the government has to allow it because of terrorism and money laundering etc
sjsqd: but it is also a locale where you could pay for a house in cash and no one would ask any questions
PeterL: do you consider your phone a safe place for your money?
sjsqd: camel to computer in 30 years
sjsqd: PeterL depends, I try to be sensible about what I install
PeterL: phones can get lost or stolen, then what?
sjsqd: I need it for work unfortunately
sjsqd: my phone is encrypted
sjsqd: and cannot be unlocked without pin code
sjsqd: all my wallets are locked and require separate passwords to open
sjsqd: a friend of mine had his phone stolen
PeterL: how long would it take an attacker to brute force your pin?
pete_dushenski: of course, your level of security depends on how much you're trying to secure
sjsqd: PeterL it wouldn't matter because all my wallets are locked, no passwords are stored locally
pete_dushenski: but no one wants to be another '4,500 btc hard drive in the landfill' guy
sjsqd: I'm looking at upgrading to a phone with a fingerprint scanner
sjsqd: or moving to the Mozilla phone or something
PeterL: pete_dushenski: paper backups are a good idea?
mike_c: easy dpb :) everybody starts somewhere.
sjsqd: pete_dushenski:yes for long term usage, no one is going to pull out a fully fledged laptop to pay for their groceries
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PeterL: why do you think you need bitcoin for groceries?
sjsqd: PeterL:I enjoy eating
PeterL: convert btc -> local cash -> food
pete_dushenski: sjsqd: just because you like to eat, doesn't mean you should steal food
sjsqd: asciilifeform:haha yes there are 2-3 of them, no I don't own any gold
sjsqd: pete_dushenski:how is it stealing if the vendor eventually accepts bitcoin?
sjsqd: asciilifeform:no I'm very sceptical of gold for a number of reasons
sjsqd: I personally believe that the entire gold/silver/etc markets are manipulated like crazy
sjsqd: and I've seen firsthand how depending upon culture people will dump their life savings into buying some gold
sjsqd: when they get married or as an investment
sjsqd: and then it sits in a cupboard
pete_dushenski: sjsqd: it's more along the lines of, just because you like to do something, doesn't mean than a particular avenue of approach is appropriate
sjsqd: its inconvenient obviously
sjsqd: asciilifeform:that's why I want to pay with bitcoin or something similar
sjsqd: I only ever pay with cash or my card
sjsqd: and my card has been cloned once, and I've had tons of issues with my bank
sjsqd: I hate operating hours of banks (even though you can access full bank services till like 10PM at nighttime here)
sjsqd: asciilifeform:yes I kind of understand that bitcoin is more of a long term cryptocurrency (my view anyway) than a day-to-day currency for a number of reasons
PeterL: save in btc, spend dollars
sjsqd: PeterL:there is almost nowhere to even spend it here (beyond paying web hosting bills etc) so I am pretty much saving it right now
sjsqd: the local currency here hasn't ever really fluctuated
sjsqd: it is permanently tied to the USD
sjsqd: the same rating for something like 2 decades
PeterL: and you don't see being tied to usd as a problem?
sjsqd: fuel price rarely changes
sjsqd: PeterL:I obviously do, but have little choice in the matter
PeterL: save in bitcoin, then you don't have to be tied to usd
sjsqd: I'm not wealthy (at all) so its more an incapability of keeping more bitcoin at the moment
sjsqd: asciilifeform:I haven't really spent any, only to show friends how it works
sjsqd: On a recent flight I used the plane's WiFi which cost like 1 USD
sjsqd: and managed to teach a friend in pakistan as well as a friend in Dubai how to set up a wallet on their phone
sjsqd: and sent money from 37,000 feet
sjsqd: obviously sent them some dust just to show them how it works
sjsqd: but beyond having to scrape into my savings to pay for a VPS here or there I actually don't have any way to spend it here yet
sjsqd: and I don't carry any worthwhile amount on my phone
danielpbarron: you should better teach them how to run a full node
sjsqd: danielpbarron:that depends on people's technical ability though
danielpbarron: the whole "crypto on your phone" thing is more of a hinderance than a help
sjsqd: danielpbarron:because it doesn't contribute network resources?
danielpbarron: they need to refine technical ability then; don't give them fire without teaching fire safety
lobbes: 'crypto on phone' defeats the purpose of bitcoin
lobbes: which is a secure store of value
lobbes: that only you can access (if you know what you are doing)
sjsqd: danielpbarron:as much as I understand what you're saying its difficult to explain to people the fire safety aspect
sjsqd: Ubuntu is fairly easy
sjsqd: but is a long way from any sort of plug and play operation
sjsqd: unless people understand how to compile software its too difficult
danielpbarron: understanding these things is like understanding how to ride a horse in the 1800s
danielpbarron: if you don't know how, you are practically illiterate
sjsqd: here there are interesting applications of bitcoin besides paying for things with phones
sjsqd: money remittance specifically
sjsqd: 90% of the population are foreign
sjsqd: and send a shit ton of money through methods like western union or their banks
danielpbarron: paying for things with phones is NOT an application of bitcoin!
danielpbarron: you have apple pay and paypal and whatever app of choice for that
sjsqd: do you think there is an altcoin more suited for that?
sjsqd: I would never, ever personally use anything branded by Apple in a million years
sjsqd: I don't care if its a lifeboat on the titanic
sjsqd: danielpbarron:mainly because Adobe won't release their software on Linux just yet
sjsqd: Windows is kind of a necessary evil if you want to play modern video games or use 'creative' software
danielpbarron: you won't use apple to literally save your life but you'll use windows to save your job.. ok..
sjsqd: I do some photography work so using Adobe is pretty much mandated
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sjsqd: Unless you want to deal with the limitations of GIMP
sjsqd: or deal with Apple's Aperture software
sjsqd: I understand open source could probably do a better job
sjsqd: but we haven't quite reached that point yet
sjsqd: having said that, my disdain for Adobe is growing on a daily basis
danielpbarron: that doesn't excuse you using bitcoin on your windows computer
sjsqd: tbh, if I had the choice I'd have a separate computer for linux and a separate computer for windows
sjsqd: I have a laptop and I am moving *towards* that
danielpbarron: and even that is a bit pricy -- i picked one with a fast GPU
sjsqd: but at the moment I have a family member in intensive care unit
sjsqd: and I'm writing articles about the bitcoin foundation
sjsqd: as well as waiting for legalization of my residency status (its been 3 years of not being a resident so far)
sjsqd: so its kinda taken a back seat (:
sjsqd: I will be moving all my financial things onto Ubuntu or something similar fairly soon though
sjsqd: debian is a challenge
sjsqd: I've run a few debian VPS servers before
sjsqd: its all about balancing convenience vs security I suppose
sjsqd: screen. I hate screen.
sjsqd: its great functionally but it confuses the hell out of me
danielpbarron: you do realize debian can have a desktop environment, right?
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: you hate podcasts, but do you like radio at all?
sjsqd: the biggest thing I've noticed about computer security is that its almost impossible to get decent biometric security
sjsqd: danielpbarron:yeah I tried it once on a VPS but it didn't end well
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: curious to the reason you dislike the medium?
jurov: sjsqd: biometric is overrated
danielpbarron: thestringpuller, if there is something worth discussing, just write a blog post
sjsqd: the problem I have with debian is that unless you run some specific version (I usually run the latest version) most of the documentation on the internet is kinda only 75% there
sjsqd: and unless you're familiar with how to compile etc it gets pretty confusing quickly
thestringpuller: jurov: i kno rite. so not only will someone kidnap me, they'll cut off or extract appendages to unlock my stuff...
danielpbarron: talking free-form into a mic is for people not smart enough to write down what they mean in a concise manner
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: ah. but what about say, Gang Busters? Or rehearsed stuff. Orson Welles War of the Worlds broadcast?
danielpbarron: sjsqd, not that i'm recommmending debian, but it uses a package manager that downloads binaries, not source
sjsqd: danielpbarron:to be fair when it comes to interviews I'd rather hear the full conversation rather than what someone else has cut up from the discussion
sjsqd: danielpbarron:yeah apt-get is easy enough to use, but when you need to install a custom altcoin wallet for instance
sjsqd: that is when I get stumped
sjsqd: although I did manage to compile a few wallets on Ubuntu successfully
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sjsqd: danielpbarron:when I get the time I will probably get a harddrive, install a barebones Debian installation on different partitions for each altcoin
sjsqd: so they are completely separete
danielpbarron: thestringpuller, sure I wouldn't mind someone reading something that had already been written down; that's more like an audio book than a podcast
danielpbarron: sjsqd, save yourself the trouble and don't install any altcoins
sjsqd: danielpbarron:then how am I going to walk around with my augmented vision paying for things in 20 years time if bitcoin isn't the ideal cryptocurrency?
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lobbes: sjsqd: what others have said: save in bitcoin, spend in (local currency)
sjsqd: for now that is how I'm operating (especially given no one accepts bitcoin here except like 1 pizza restaurant)
sjsqd: but in the future if I can receive 100% of my pay via cryptocurrency I will
sjsqd: I personally have little interest in cash
sjsqd: on the topic of altcoins
sjsqd: I do see that many of them have ended up as scams and so on
danielpbarron: on the topic of altcoins, they are all scams -- avoid them
sjsqd: but there are a few that have been ok so far
sjsqd: DNOTES is quite interesting
sjsqd: they've put together the first long term savings plan
sjsqd: I have no doubt it is manipulated via bots
sjsqd: but then again, what isn't nowadays?
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sjsqd: Well that is what the limitation (in my eyes) is of most altcoins and bitcoin itself
sjsqd: no communication and no marketing
sjsqd: unless you want to dig through 2000 page threads on bitcointalk
sjsqd: or use reddit 24/7
danielpbarron: forget the forum -- forget reddit; those are distractions
sjsqd: thestringpuller:yes but most people outside of extreme enthusiasts are not going to look through logs
lobbes: forget the forum -- forget reddit; those are distractions << yes
PeterL: focus on the log for this chan, yes, that is how you will learn
thestringpuller: sjsqd: this is akin to someone pretending to be involved in history and but didn't read any history books.
danielpbarron: What did Noah do when nobody else would get on the Ark? He.. GOT ON THE ARK.
sjsqd: except a history book is just a summary of events in most cases
sjsqd: even if its provides sources, its a summary
jurov: sjsqd if someone takes an effort to do a marketing toward you, they're after your money or soul
sjsqd: to find out what is happening with bitcoin or xyz altcoin it isn't important to read through thousands of pages
sjsqd: jurov:wouldn't surprise me
sjsqd: I did save some money a few years back in a bonds thing backed by the government
thestringpuller: sjsqd: you should probably read some huxely with the logs.
sjsqd: a decent whack of money
sjsqd: sat there for an entire year
sjsqd: and I got 50 USD in interest
sjsqd: not worth it at all
sjsqd: all my bank accounts get chewed out the ass with fees and such
PeterL: sjsqd: important stuff shows up on qntra.net if you don't want to wade through the logs
sjsqd: PeterL:yes I will be adding it to my reading list
danielpbarron: i cashed out some bonds that my grandma got me when i was born; did the math and realized it should have been worth many ounces of gold instead of a measly 1k or whatever it matured to
PeterL: that inflation will kill you on long-term investing
danielpbarron: best gift for a baby? golden pacifier or something
sjsqd: I'm not even that familiar with how traditional currency or banking works
PeterL: sjsqd, you should get in the wot too
sjsqd: but in terms of whether I trust a computer or a human more
sjsqd: I trust a computer
sjsqd: every time I have an issue with a bank it requires dealing with 20 humans
sjsqd: and I'm pretty sure their jobs are going to disappear within a few years
sjsqd: If I want to use my debit card from another country here
sjsqd: I had to try 5 different ATM machines the other day
sjsqd: miraculously it works on a different machine though
danielpbarron: think of FIAT like illegal drugs and you'll have an easier time
sjsqd: I'm paying like 20 USD just to withdraw cash
sjsqd: so it *should* work unless the internet is down
sjsqd: I went on a work trip to lebanon once, tried to use my ATM card twice and it lagged out
sjsqd: of course I didn't get any cash
danielpbarron: if you want just a 20-bag, it costs a much higher premium
sjsqd: but the bank took my money anyway (I got it back after filing forms etc)
sjsqd: I do get the hesitation towards altcoins
danielpbarron: you should better keep savings in bitcoin, and find local street dealers to sell you FIAT as needed
sjsqd: but I do think that at least 2-3 of them will shine above the rest
sjsqd: danielpbarron: there are only a few BTC sellers here so its economically unfeasible to use bitcoin like that yet
sjsqd: I should probably note that I only just moved back here anyway
sjsqd: so I'm not 'set up' just yet
sjsqd: that and its a free market
danielpbarron: this ties into the "don't buy groceries with bitcoin" thing
sjsqd: danielpbarron:I wouldn't buy them just yet because cash still works just as well
danielpbarron: buy a months worth of FIAT with bitcoin, and use that to buy groceries
sjsqd: but potentially in 5 years time
sjsqd: if bitcoin or similar is stable enough\
sjsqd: I would use it 100%
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: i see what you mean now. re-up on fiat with your bitcoin.
thestringpuller: now is the best time to do it cause there is not a lot of volatility
sjsqd: and I got permanently banned from using paypal for life too
sjsqd: after several thousand USD worth of transactions and 0 complaints
sjsqd: I used one of those bitcoin exchanges recently
sjsqd: and added all my bank accounts (I have 3 in 3 different countries)
sjsqd: and thought "oh wow this is cool I can now manage all my money from one place sort of"
sjsqd: (keep in mind the bank accounts were verified via the usual 0.01 transaction shit)
sjsqd: then I get a message asking for a copy of my ID as well as a video interview
sjsqd: because I tried to buy $50 USD worth of bitcoin
danielpbarron: kinda the point of why bitcoin will eventually win
sjsqd: although windows isn't the absolute best solution for computer security
sjsqd: I run a software firewall, as well as malware bytes, an adblocker that blocks malicious sites
danielpbarron: it's not even a mediocre solution; it's not even a consideration
sjsqd: and keep my system 100% updated at all times
sjsqd: and I also barely own any cryptocurrency
sjsqd: so at this point in time
sjsqd: running linux exclusively to keep my internet money safe is too inconvenient to be worth it (although I will be moving to a better system very soon)
danielpbarron: a lot of these things were discussed in here recently; you should definitely get to reading the logs
sjsqd: I would actually prefer running some form of cloud OS (provided it was encrypted) for a portion of my holdings
sjsqd: I like the idea of my phone being shot at by terrorists
sjsqd: and just kinda shrugging
sjsqd: and walking into a phone store and purchasing a new phone
sjsqd: logging in and getting access back in 3-5 minutes
danielpbarron: the only redeeming quality about you is that you ended up here somehow
sjsqd: danielpbarron:that would be for day to day usage
sjsqd: danielpbarron: haha, its actually been very many years since I spammed an IRC channel
danielpbarron: that is a luxury afforded to you because you are new
jurov: sjsqd you will never be safe if you treat technology as magic
danielpbarron: now your task is to read the log for at least 6 months
jurov: "just throw this spell to it"
ben_vulpes: <sjsqd> but is it correct to title it as the 'pirate' bitcoin foundation? << no.
sjsqd: ben_vulpes:noted. I had taken that title from what appears to be an unrelated bitcointalk thread.
ben_vulpes: <sjsqd> nubbins`: the goal of my articles is to try and ascertain how transparently the foundation currently operates << the goal of your articles is to apparently rack up pageviews.
ben_vulpes: you yourself may ascertain whatever you may ascertain.
sjsqd: I will definitely write about this bitcoin foundation in my articles at some point
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ben_vulpes: <nubbins`> think of them as the foundation and the phoundation, with the other guys being the ph << no, we're the fundation!
sjsqd: ben_vulpes:I'm not motivated by money, it is just nice to be able to write something and get at least a little appreciation for it
sjsqd: all I do is tweet the link to the article
sjsqd: and post it onto /bitcoin/ subreddit
jurov: sjsqd it depends whose appreciation you want
ben_vulpes: <sjsqd> its all calculated automatically as far as I'm aware << so how would you know if things are working as expected?
jurov: those stupider than you or those more intellinget than you?
sjsqd: I don't spam my article URLs or anything like that (I provided it here because it was relevant to show what I was writing)
sjsqd: I don't think anyone has to read my articles or consider my viewpoint, its just my way of writing about the foundation
ben_vulpes: <sjsqd> I understand the idea of bitcoin universes << what you don't seem to understand is that there are separate WoTs in action.
sjsqd: as there are many issues with the foundation (andresen edition) I was invited to post on the let's talk bitcoin website
sjsqd: so that is purely the reason I ended up writing
lobbes: <sjsqd> I would actually prefer running some form of cloud OS (provided it was encrypted) for a portion of my holdings << Oh god no
sjsqd: for this series of articles I will probably keep them on let's talk bitcoin, but for future articles or if I come up with anything else to write at the same time I might consider qntra.net
sjsqd: danielpbarron:then I would do my best to be considered.
sjsqd: Please understand that I've spent many years of my life writing about issues such as internet censorship and the like
sjsqd: so when a platform exists that can at least reward you a little
sjsqd: you may not be that cynical
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PeterL: mats: kill yourself << a bit harsh?
assbot: Kerckhoffs’ history and principles of military cryptography, translated and adnotated. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/17RoW4G )
pete_dushenski: i hadn't quite appreciated the size of the undertaking when i started
PeterL: pete_dushenski: good practise in any event << darn canadian spelling looks odd
BingoBoingo: sjsqd: Read the logs a while and come back later
BingoBoingo: sjsqd: Try to understand why the second (dot)foundation was discovered necessary
sjsqd: Yes I will. I can already see part of the reasoning when it comes to transparency.
BingoBoingo: sjsqd: Just don't burn too much time on conversation here before you get to understanding a large part of the *why* the (dot)foundation does things as peculiarly as they do. A good amount of history there.
ben_vulpes: sjsqd: also, don't poison the well against yourself.
assbot: I just realized /hashtag/golang?src=hash's "go get" falls back to HTTP when HTTPS fails ☹ /hashtag/RussianRouletteSoftwareDistribution?src=hash /hashtag/CurlPipeSudoBash?src=hash /hashtag/yolo?src=hash /E_I_T
PeterL: other people realizing the dangers of dependencies?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well what follows is "#PSA: using @golang's "go get" on conference wifi is equivalent to running a passwordless telnet server on your laptop. srs shame on go devs"
PeterL: does Eulora have an official website?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Kid's just been hit with the discovery he's got a year of learning and unlearning to get to zero. Just maybe this one gets there.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Kid's not hopeless though. He was luck enough to make it in the place where he could ask questions and people were polite enough to point him where to start the reading. Rest is on him.
PeterL: asciilifeform: you don't like golang?
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2015 23:44:58; *: asciilifeform was simply floored with mindfuck that anyone would choose google's turdlang for a piece of critical infrastructure, and could not resist ringing the bell
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: so brought up ADA at work, and coworker started having Vietnam-esque flashbacks from school. Is this normal behavior?
PeterL: and this is what you want people to use?
PeterL: could we make a prettier version?
PeterL: ok, I'll get right on that
PeterL: what part do you find ugly?
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PeterL: in my initial introduction to ada, it seems verbose, with extra words hanging around where a symbol could work just fine
PeterL: well, it has the same named closing tags like you complain about in html (begin thing ... end thing)
PeterL: programs should be boringly obvious what they are doing?
pete_dushenski: spocking "may interfere with the security features and reduces its lifespan."
pete_dushenski: not that they wear out, of course, but they snap like a twig in the cold
jurov: bundle ready for tickets
PeterL: pete_dushenski: not that they wear out, of course, but they snap like a twig in the cold << the dangers of living in a frozen wasteland
lobbes: So one defines their own data types in ADA? I'm not sure why I find that interesting
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mats: dow down 100 points huhu
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mircea_popescu: dude, the fucking notion that this shit sounds credible.
mircea_popescu: Theodore Sturgeon, respected creative and prolific science fiction author, shed the following offhand remark which instantly codified as Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is shit." One might visit a university library and walk through Women's Studies or hyphenated-American literature areas and wonder where Sturgeon's 10% is cloistered. Why pay parking fees? The 90% will come knocking at your door, then break it down d
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im sure it's all the same. but the point being... this works ?
mircea_popescu: sadly i don't have credit cards, as i don't subscribe to open liability deals. but i wonder what the original texts say
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i don't have credit cards << do you deal with credit at all (i.e. loc)?
thestringpuller: random point: do you think bitcoin will ever be ready for credit?
thestringpuller: ah I guess the liquidity loan from F.MPIF -> S.WOL is similar
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: repay with your life? (not in sense of deadmen don't pay, but contractual servitude)
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: then in that case entire meatspace family is in servitude? wasn't this a thing in history? Can't repay debt so X generation of people are slaves?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller these things aren't related. bitcoin has been fine for credit for years. idiots aren't or ever will be ready for life.
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> but that was interest free loan no? << no.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: but what if your revenue stream is no longer a stream but a trickle like man with swollen protrate trying to pee?
mircea_popescu: imaginary sources of bitcoin, pretend "bitcoin businesses" like coinbase or w/e suffer from the problem ytou describe
mircea_popescu: actual bitcoin companies, such as for instance listed on mpex, generally don't have the problem.
mircea_popescu: this widely consensusified notion has no met any sort of practical validation so far.
mircea_popescu: bitbet largest revenue to date is not when btc was 3 bux
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i would say this is true for the zero asset corporations. the non-zero asset corporations seem to be holdling their own, but too early to tell.
mircea_popescu: anywya, it was a point long discussed (among the financial minds) that the nature of btc makes distinction of loans and equity difficult. this was principally centered around the mpoe bonds back when those ran.
mircea_popescu: buncha threads from 2011/2012 prolly very informative for this topic
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the explanation is that "exchange value of btc" is a broadly meaningless notion, and only vaguely useful as a temporary crutch.
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as the "exchange value of money". money is the one thing without an exchange value, being the exchange value of all things.
mircea_popescu: consider the bank loans you money for a mortgage, and tomorrow houses go for 2 dollars each.
mircea_popescu: but that aside : the terms of the loan specify the recourse, and that's that.
mircea_popescu: (which is why i won't take a mortgage deal that has recourse past the item bought, nor would any sane businessman. yet usian idiot consumers regularly do, because hey. they've come to expectorate.)
mircea_popescu: the trick is to not write that many donations while alive
mircea_popescu: the former are mortgages proper (if the payer goes bust you get the item and that is all) , the latter are commercial paper (if the payer goes bust you suck it).
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15694 @ 0.00037051 = 5.8148 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: no recourse real estate deals are in the vast majority of the time attempts by some crown or other to hike the land values.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: you've said GNAT is bad, you would not have it with a GNU or in a zoo?
mircea_popescu: like, give a million no recourse loan to the nude girlies show to produce itself on your new fairgrounds
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thestringpuller imagines asciilifeform reading graphs as their tabular representation and constructing image in mind
thestringpuller: what was that thing you showed us a while back...ratpoison? Some OS
hanbot: hey asciilifeform! i'm putting a gentoo box together for playing eulora, i want it nice and secure, have zilcho gentoo experience. how wouldja advise me?
hanbot: asciilifeform thanks, will dig in.
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gabriel_laddel: (that can be found in the first 10 pages of google results)
gabriel_laddel: (that are not preliminary drafts of PURSUING THE LIMITS OF FAILED SYMMETRY)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9629 @ 0.00037111 = 3.5734 BTC [-]
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 11:11:30; fluffypony: "I think FriedCat is not a real name. Does anyone know about FriedCat's real identity ?"
mircea_popescu: so nice to see qntra redo the bitbet history with this gaw scam
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 13:57:22; mod6: i've never seen this before.
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 14:04:18; jurov: so i propose to go on to 0.5.3.2 .. release early, release often
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 14:19:27; jurov: i am just not placing any expectations to any piece of software anymore
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: you lose due to recency bias! I’ll extend the thanks to you regardless haha
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-03-2015#1041414 << here's the long story : traditionally, "int" means a word, and word means a register size, which is machine dependent (was 8 bit, then 16, then 32 and now is 64). because historically the register was inconvenient for human use, the notion of "long int" was born, as a dword (two words) or qword (four). because historically the register was inconvenient for memor
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 14:34:51; PeterL: why in c is a long int the same size as int?
mircea_popescu: y usage, the notion of short int was created, sometimes as small as a byte (8 bits).
mircea_popescu: both of these are becoming obsolete as ram is cheap and 64 bits plentiful. so in the future, int will just mean "integer number" and that's that,
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 18:24:10; sjsqd: do you know if anyone from the previous foundation is aware of it?
mircea_popescu: yeah, inasmuch as gavin tiptoes around my lunch hour, i would propose they're painfully aware of it, yes.
mircea_popescu: dude it's so great to come to logs after a nice meal and find all sorts of gems like these.
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 18:29:13; sjsqd: but I assume the client you work on is different to bitcoin core?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 40 @ 0.042 = 1.68 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 166 @ 0.012 = 1.992 BTC [+]
gribble: Current Blocks: 346213 | Current Difficulty: 4.668437631686029E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 346751 | Next Difficulty In: 538 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 3 days, 20 hours, 13 minutes, and 42 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 47691297024.3 | Estimated Percent Change: 2.15687
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 18:29:42; asciilifeform: sjsqd: starting point was phoundation's release circa 2012
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 202 @ 0.012 = 2.424 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 18:38:01; sjsqd: you basically earn based upon your proportion of page views
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 18:41:39; sjsqd: even with hundreds of thousands of page views I only ever made about 70 USD over 2-3 years
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ryan-c: ben_vulpes: I don't think so. I'm not Ryan X Charles.
BingoBoingo: That's always good to hear. The world needs less javascript.
ryan-c: when all you have is a hammer...
BingoBoingo: You just end up poorly reimplementing Common Lisp or Ada
ryan-c: mircea_popescu: probably at least 50,000 in the US
BingoBoingo: ryan-c: You know keyservers exist in a much more user friendly form than that abomination make by the okcupid people
ryan-c: BingoBoingo: My gpg keys are in pgp.mit.edu and sks-keyservers as well.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i curious about the no-recourse mortgages as well. lender returns payment stream, keeps asset?
ben_vulpes: so borrower defaults, lender gets house and payments.
mircea_popescu: let's work a model. suppose i own 85`000 square footage of marble flooring, used for running a harem. suppose i come to the conclusion my harem doesn't attract good / numerous enough cuntage. suppose i decide this is because there's no belly dancing happening. suppose i go to a belly dancer in city and say, listen, i'll loan you 10k golden pistoons if you start a belly dancing school on my marlbe acreage.
mircea_popescu: this is the sort of thing. the professional has no interest in leaving their current place just because i want to relocate them, and the situation isn't feudal, where i just order them moved.
mircea_popescu: now, if the school goes well and makes money im getting my pistoons back.
mircea_popescu: if not, fuck me and my stupid "palace" with no running water up on a mountain in the desert.
mircea_popescu: belly dancer expert walks and i'm more than welcome to repay myself.
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mircea_popescu: the idea being that contracts (of the old sort) are flexible and useful, just as long as the chumps grok that there is no such thing as "a standard contract".
mircea_popescu: and as to limited recourse, it can be limited whatever way. generally it is, "lend me this money to buy this house, i pay you so and so, and if i don't you keep the house."
mircea_popescu: which is the very definition of mortgage (a topic of not little historical interest, because it's one of the rare cases where we can observe biological evolution at work in what's supposed to be fleshless abstractions)
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of similarity between how prokaryotes ended up with mitochondria and how commerce ended up with the mortgage.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 46 @ 0.04499913 = 2.07 BTC [+] {2}
mike_c: the first trade after that debacle is a buy?
felipelalli: About coinbr.com, what happens if my account stay negative "forever"? I will be in debt or it shall be forgiven?
dragosb: Hello Mircea ! I read a article on your blog about How to be a good poker player, and I was pondering do you play on-line or live?
mircea_popescu: dragosb i play very little these days. i mostly played live, and mostly pre-consumer internet.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, on that score : as mike_c correctly pointed out a week or so ago, headsup is actually a broken game now, courtesy of teh damned computers.
mircea_popescu: just say how many lengths of chord you want to hang yourself with.
[]bot: Bet placed: 5.03285372 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May"
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BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: You only say that becasue you are going through practice where Ruby forces still more bondage and discipline upon you
BingoBoingo kinda wants Mosin, has never lost to itself
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: What of the wrist of who fires that
BingoBoingo: Ears are guarenteed to fail on a long enough timeline, visit nursing home if you have pretenses otherwise.
BingoBoingo: The best deer rifle in history is the cheapest.
BingoBoingo: Bolt action so cleaning... More popular "deer" rifle is sks, still corrosive primers, much less range, still moar cleaning
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Yes sks, you also get diminished charge behind bullet for no less cleaning
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Equivalent to US .30-06 caliber. Beats any man wearable armour
mircea_popescu: in any case im notsure you'd want a plain bolt action for that purpose.
mircea_popescu: more like a "tough as nails, swiss made SKS". like the mac10 maybe.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, not for the whole club, but if you have people designated to hit marks at a distance...
mircea_popescu has never actually seen a mosin used in practice. ever. anywhere.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Mac10's caliber is recognized now as sub pistol, .380 ACP isn't beating a single sheet of kevlar
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's all in the filling. they make dup double strength cartridges now.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: moder sniper rifle has bullets of similar power to mosin, simply smaller case
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, much better barrel. accuracy is a thing.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Sure, but at the point barrels make a difference operator makes a far greater difference
mircea_popescu: by the time you're shooting policemen you're not going to save on the rifle. those suckers cost thje enemy like 1.5-3 mn a pop.
mircea_popescu: you know i suspect potapov is like the ru mil pythagoras.
BingoBoingo: USia claimed its own for a bt in the Hathcock guy
BingoBoingo: Hathcock's narrative though included using light machine guns as bolt action rifle because US lacked adequate sniper rifle for 'Nam
BingoBoingo: USia's hotness this past decade has been taking M-14's and converting to "designated marksmen rifles"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8950 @ 0.00038309 = 3.4287 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: M-14's original service life of course having been... lacking
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Yes. His range extends to visual past what assualt rifle can not reliably hit fatally, but still visual
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Russian equivalent for role is Dragunov
BingoBoingo: Basic requirements for such tool are full power rifle round and semi auto action
BingoBoingo: In contemporary USian deployments designated marksmen carries M-14 with a plastic stock and has specialization like the machine gunner
BingoBoingo: Mosin's great virtue for USian civilian is that it costs roughly 1/10th anything equivalent from domestic manufacterer
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure for 4 digit numer of USD
BingoBoingo: Nah, 5 exists, 4 though is the sweet spot.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 400 @ 0.0045519 = 1.8208 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Yes. For me it was called "Freshman Year"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14450 @ 0.00038309 = 5.5357 BTC [+]
decimation: re: no recourse mortgages < banks hate these, but you can get them
decimation: one semi-popular scam to run in the us is to buy a house with your "IRA"
decimation: well, functionally in the us nearly all mortgages are 30 year fixed loans
decimation: it's all a game of who can pass the liability to usg the most directly
BingoBoingo: If fiat world could have played nicely, I'd happily be retired in a condo in an "interesting" neighborhood by now, but...
decimation: at any rate, you can purchase a house with your retirement account, and a no-recourse mortgage is used for that
decimation: the irs says you can't live in it until you retire, but you can rent it out
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 250 @ 0.00463785 = 1.1595 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: /Radomysisky /3DPConfidential The guy likened you to a rapist simply because you speak with passion on the topic of politics and technology.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> it's all a game of who can pass the liability to usg the most directly <<< quite.
mircea_popescu: isn't cody wilson the guy with that blog, what was it called
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Market means the same. At best I assume Cody is an agent...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I suspect is is merely a broad net to collect information on malcontents
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Maybe not, but having your product obstructed by every domestic shipping company... maybe?
mircea_popescu: tbh, that is the only logical end game : US of Best Korea, where everything is banned not because they can't afford anything, but for Ideological Reasons. Honest.
mircea_popescu: i used to know poor people like that. all the things they couldn't afford, they didn't do not because they couldn't afford them
Liberza: so, asicminer is dead because friedcat has been kidnapped by mongolians.
mircea_popescu: so basically... either water the plantville farm all day, or else go talk to tlp's intensive pilling unit, or worse!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Only if electrolytic machining apparatus is refined. Otherwise plastermolds
mircea_popescu: lol alf's crazy gnome lab. "insert pipe here, piss in this funnel and point this end towards enemy".
Vexual: yeah and he claims hes not a hipster
mircea_popescu: listen, do this : pirate it, sit the girl down one fine evening after a delicious repast, watch this thing.
mircea_popescu: if there's a way to show the cultural superiority of the 4th republic, this film in this context is it.
mircea_popescu: metallic arsenic bullets. an assassin's dream come true
mircea_popescu: for that matter : sodium bullets encased in very thin metal : just thick enough to carry it through the air. once it fractures on impact, sodium released.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform such trials particularly suited to electroprocess.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> (who has du in his cellar? anyone with a boat or airplane graveyard) << Anyone in Iowa has too much
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform got a link to where you go "omg wtf bbq am i the only one trying to run these shitstacks"
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decimation: re: wilson < it strikes me that he's just trying to get publicity
decimation: he recently posted that fedex banned shipping his 3d milling machines
decimation: obviously, he's selling them as 'death in a box'
decimation: sure. and whoever is free to make a press release about it
decimation: so I don't think he's serious. although the idea of milling your own 'm-4gery' out of an '80%' receiver is a neat one
decimation: asciilifeform: one thing that bewilders me is why suppressors and subsonic ammo is not popular in the us
decimation: I guess going deaf at the range is an implied rite of manhood
decimation: you can buy them in the us, if they are legal in your state and you submit many forms to usg
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decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I'm not sure what you agree to when you buy one but you definitely need a note from stalin
decimation: I suspect the real reason that usg makes it difficult is because a suppressed small arm has real utility against usg
decimation: asciilifeform: the relatively silent firearm can be used to ambush and retreat?
decimation: mircea_popescu: didn't you make the point about how the guns we are allowed to keep are of little threat to usg anyway?
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decimation: well, I'm thinking of a more military scenario
decimation: asciilifeform: it's not even clear that having full auto ar-15's would be much of an advantage at all
decimation: asciilifeform: but I agree with your point. ultimately any resistance to usg is going to be economic
decimation: particularly, as you have pointed out, the ammo factory
assbot: Logged on 26-11-2014 00:46:13; asciilifeform: have to understand, jet fighter is not really a complete machine. it is a tentacle of the larger industrial slave empire which produced and employed it.
decimation: asciilifeform: pounding a wedge between usg and its ability print bezzlars is the proper route of resistance
decimation: that, and finding a way to mill bullets at home :)
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decimation:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102477304 < "When it comes to price growth, however, New York topped the list for prime property worldwide, according to Knight Frank. Prices jumped 18 percent in New York in 2014. Aspen, Colorado, ranked second, with prices up 16 percent."
decimation: and the fed is worried about how inflation is too low
mircea_popescu: decimation i had made that point, yes, but the counterpositive is not necessarily true.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the price thing is amusingly at work in all sorts of ATF stuff.
mircea_popescu: tons of things "legal if you have a license we aren't issuing because we're at liberty to do this."
decimation: some rich 'collectors' in the us obtain the proper notes to get fully automatic machine guns
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decimation: as you can imagine, only the rich can have such a hobby
mircea_popescu: the buffett-rich, the people who are not merely willing to go on the record stating "i am representative of richness, i couldn't exist outside of usg, therefore usg is EVERYTHING", but actually believe it.
decimation: didn't Carnegie, Rockefeller, et. al. bail out us banks from their personal accounts?
mircea_popescu: the j p morgan bailout was essentially a "everyone come to my house!" and then "you will do like so because i say so"
decimation: and crassus was said to have wealth equal to the treasury
mircea_popescu: to properly grok how rich the triumvir was : he could afford to pay for ~18 million usians to go fight for tikrit.
mircea_popescu: the cost for the 20 measly thousand the dod scrounged together (and who faced exactly the fate of crassus' host) was > 1bn
mircea_popescu: know many dudes with 1trn in loose change knocking around ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he was one of the three, nothing is misidentified is it.
mircea_popescu: oh. well, no. he wore the banking crown, nobody disputed that, and for good reason.
decimation: well, morgan and his other monopoly friends thought they could 'endow' their bailout wealth to usg via the federal reserve
mircea_popescu: a crown in the traditional sense is a very primitive instrument, because it purports (necessarily, but ineffectually) to hold ALL sovereignty. now the poor bearer's stuck deciding how fires are to be put out, how wives are to be kept, etc.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is entirely counterfactual nonsense that never happened.
mircea_popescu: an' generally, i'd be wary of trusting the current retards' retelling of century old banking history.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, they're too stupid to understand it, for another they don't speak the language, for the third they imagine they have political judgements to make.
decimation: did morgan et al not meet on jekyll island to institute the fed?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i dunno where that wb quote is, somewhere in his 70s brk letters. all poetic about how great paying taxes is because hey, being rich's unfair.
mircea_popescu: he died iether before or soon after, and had for a while retired.