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02:37 adlai asciilifeform: the purpose is crystal clear. for somebody out there, this channel and/or its pervading mentality represents something they are against, and they gave their best shot to hinder its growth
02:38 adlai this is not surprising. this channel has strong ideologies and discusses them in hyperbolized monochrome, and absolute certainty polarizes absolutely.
02:38 adlai for the record, i think that's a shame and a sin, and that y'all are a little silly for this - but that may be the guinness speaking, or jack, or johnny. who knows.
02:38 * adlai xmas
02:40 adlai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8798370
02:40 assbot Hacker News ... ( http://bit.ly/1JT0izw )
02:42 * adlai derp
02:42 cazalla my sambuca says otherwise
02:43 adlai now i'm in the weird position of being out of drugs, but the workday has just begun
02:43 adlai that's a lie though, there is no shortage of caffeine
02:44 adlai also my entire flat reeks of puke, and it's not even mine >_<
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03:37 ben_vulpes adlai: "best shot" << unimpressive, if you ask me.
03:38 adlai well, they found themselves at the three point line with nobody nearby, so they tried to make the best of the situation
03:38 adlai then they got flying tackled by their own hubris, but that's nonamabusiness
03:38 * adlai trying to code
03:41 adlai pretty sure i glanced the peak for a sec there, but i'm rapidly descending. fuck.
03:41 adlai !s ballmer peak
03:41 assbot 0 results for 'ballmer peak' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=ballmer+peak
03:41 adlai weak
03:42 adlai https://xkcd.com/323/
03:42 assbot xkcd: Ballmer Peak ... ( http://bit.ly/1vvcv3G )
03:52 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17300 @ 0.00063112 = 10.9184 BTC [-]
03:52 adlai these may have been the most important 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) of the past like three months
03:53 ben_vulpes what do they do?
03:54 adlai until now, scalpl never actually considered profitability of placed offers against past execution. now it does.
03:54 * adlai is still amazed that it was net-profitable without this little reflection
03:55 adlai problem is that net-profitable over X months or Y volume is no guarantee of future performance, and not considering past execution is a little silly
03:59 ben_vulpes you crazy quants
03:59 ben_vulpes adlai: have you started hunting bots yet? or seen anyone hunting scalpl?
04:00 adlai you could say that scalpl passively hunts any and every bot that uses market orders
04:00 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12400 @ 0.00063362 = 7.8569 BTC [+]
04:01 * adlai doesn't know of anybody specific who's hunting scalpl, but knows of at least one person who said that open sourcing it is braindeadingly retarted and that it'll get hunted to death immediately.
04:02 adlai this person is a "quant", ie former algotrader at JP Stanley Chase
04:02 ben_vulpes Long Morgan Umpqua Management?
04:03 ben_vulpes i think i know the guy
04:03 adlai dunno
04:03 adlai he has a startup now
04:03 ben_vulpes it's like owning horses but 2014
04:03 adlai one of the give-me-your-exchange-API-keys-and-i'll-make-you-money
04:03 adlai so you could say he's a competitor!
04:03 ben_vulpes pahwwhwat
04:04 * adlai isn't asking for any keys though, just handing out code like it's a positive-sum game
04:04 ben_vulpes i'm aware.
04:04 adlai please, read my source and hunt me
04:05 adlai *if you can
04:05 ben_vulpes no thx, i've got other fishies to fry.
04:05 adlai well damnit how am i supposed to get better
04:05 ben_vulpes your cl is oddly object oriented
04:05 ben_vulpes gave me the willies when first i looked at it
04:06 ben_vulpes odds are better that i'm just a barbarian though
04:06 adlai when was that? chances are those willies are nothing compared to what you'll get from https://github.com/adlai/scalpl/blob/master/actor.lisp
04:06 assbot scalpl/actor.lisp at master · adlai/scalpl · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1xTlm5m )
04:07 adlai this is the first baby step in my journey to reinvent parallel computer
04:07 adlai s/er$/ing/
04:08 ben_vulpes all i've read that you've written is scalpl
04:08 ben_vulpes man it is *infuriating* how github urls can't be walked
04:08 adlai this code isn't really used in scalpl yet, i'm kinda manually hacking together a shitty version of what this could eventually become
04:10 adlai how so?
04:11 adlai it may not want to be walked, but when did that ever stop a determined dogsitter?
04:13 adlai ok traders. pls, xmas is over, i want some volume now. thx.
04:14 * adlai wants to see his work shattered to bits by the invisible hand
04:16 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1316 @ 0.00119106 = 1.5674 BTC [+]
04:17 adlai ;;ud havelock
04:17 gribble http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Havelock | Oct 11, 2014 ... Havelock. A small shit hole outside of the slightly larger shit hole called petitcodiac. It has a high level of inbreads. Guy 1: you live in Havelock!
04:17 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18900 @ 0.00064113 = 12.1174 BTC [+] {3}
04:19 adlai ;;ud inbread
04:19 gribble http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=inbread | A mispelling of the word "inbred". Yeah, I know, sad.
04:20 adlai https://twitter.com/ProBirdRights/status/539564722761121793
04:20 assbot i got a chapstick that was on bargain but then I realize I don't have lips why did the freemarket betray me
04:21 ben_vulpes adlai: just pissed about how https://github.com/adlai/scalpl/blob/master/ 404's
04:21 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1zlYNl4 )
04:21 adlai you could just clone the damn thing, make me feel better when i obsess over my traffic stats
04:22 ben_vulpes lolk
04:22 adlai :D
04:23 ben_vulpes happy nao?
04:23 adlai no, because github cache traffic stats
04:27 adlai http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-12-2014#960660 << the problem is all the damn json
04:27 assbot Logged on 26-12-2014 09:05:31; ben_vulpes: your cl is oddly object oriented
04:28 adlai the Right Thing™ would be to use cl-json instead of st-, and schematize everything
04:38 punkman god morgen
04:40 adlai morning punkman
04:40 punkman how goes the scalpeling adlai
04:42 adlai well thank you, how goes the deeding? :P
04:43 punkman not very well obviously :P
04:44 adlai "ask not what your qntry can do for you, ask what you can do for your qntry"
04:50 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1000 @ 0.001195 = 1.195 BTC [+] {2}
04:50 punkman qntry is giving out free laptops/tablets and internet, so we can have more derps on reddit
04:51 adlai qntry should give out free venture funding, so we can have more derps on mpex
04:56 punkman was trying to turn off all energy savings and picture "enhancement" features on TV yesterday, found out it runs FreeBSD
04:58 punkman too bad I can't ssh to it
04:58 adlai y u hate the planet
04:58 jurov <BingoBoingo> [20141226 04:56] cazalla: Well, Jurov dropped the link. << actually BingoBoingo pm'd me "act like you've discovered it" jkjk
05:00 jurov punkman maybe it has easily accessible serial port?
05:00 punkman jurov, I read Panasonic GPG signs firmware updates somewhere
05:01 punkman nobody seems to have hacked one of these yet
05:01 jurov wouldn't be beyond them to have exposed rs422 points somewhere, or at least a backdoor
05:02 punkman I hooked up debian box, mostly worked, except for HD video, or subtitles of course
05:03 jurov how so?
05:04 punkman mplayer being retarded I guess
05:05 punkman it might work if I start recompiling everything to cutting edge version
05:05 punkman but I got other things to rage at
05:05 punkman so in the bin it goes
05:08 punkman even puny first-gen xbox with XBMC worked better than this
05:08 jurov use vlc?
05:08 punkman VLC = 150% CPU utilization and no video
05:10 punkman there's an mplayer fork that's allegedly better http://mpv.io/
05:10 assbot mpv.io ... ( http://bit.ly/1zXHUjx )
05:14 punkman oh shit they rebranded XBMC, "Due to the potential for typo-bugs and breakage from Kodi renaming YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO MAKE A FULL BACKUP before performing a manual update and perform a “Reset System Settings to defaults (Soft Reset)” after the update."
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05:37 davout punkman: does the deeds system actually work?
05:38 ben_vulpes davout: seemed to at the time
05:38 punkman yeah someone was cashing out the faucet
05:39 ben_vulpes that was a stated goal though, correct?
05:39 davout deeds.bitcoin-assets.com isn't very informative in this regard, but maybe it's just me being too lazy to actually figure out how to talk to punkbot
05:40 punkman davout, no it's dead at the moment
05:40 davout punkman: whaddaya mean?
05:40 davout oh ok
05:42 ben_vulpes well i'm going to try to sleep again
05:44 davout i was thinking about it the other day, about how it might make sense to embed some variant of it in a smartphone photo app >> take a pic, boom proof of existence
05:45 ben_vulpes not terrifically diddle-resistant tho
05:45 ben_vulpes nor would one want keys on a phone.
05:46 davout why would this require keys on the phone ?
05:46 punkman ben_vulpes: you just send pic to some bot
05:46 davout just sha256 it and send that to the bot
05:46 punkman can do this with existing bot, if you compress it to 32kb or less
05:47 punkman *compress pic
05:47 davout the bot doesn't, and shouldn't, know about the actual data it is timestamping
05:48 davout iirc that's absolutely not how the deeds system is implemented
05:49 punkman it doesn't really care about contents
05:49 punkman doesn't work without GPG of course
05:50 punkman davout, related http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-12-2014#940116
05:50 assbot Logged on 01-12-2014 15:03:57; punkman: while we're on the topic, I want to make a service that fetches a URL, hashes contents, and then bundles and notarizes those. thoughts?
05:51 davout what made you decide on requiring the contents to be gpg signed ?
05:51 punkman davout, spec
05:52 davout who decided, and why, that the contents should be gpg signed ?
05:52 davout guess i didn't see the spec
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07:34 punkman http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141219-spectacular-real-virgin-births
07:34 assbot BBC - Earth - Spectacular real virgin births ... ( http://bit.ly/1zErnTP )
07:39 punkman davout: who decided, and why, that the contents should be gpg signed ? << it was mp's spec. even if you don't want to tie messages to identity, need some kind of access control and WoT works well for that
07:45 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9950 @ 0.00065088 = 6.4763 BTC [+]
07:57 BingoBoingo http://qntra.net/2014/12/reminder-bitcoin-bowl-today/
07:57 assbot Reminder: Bitcoin Bowl Today | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1vgLsrQ )
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08:28 ben_vulpes https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.5.3/src/bitcoinrpc.cpp#L1927 << lovin the html coded right into bitcoin
08:28 assbot bitcoin/bitcoinrpc.cpp at v0.5.3 · bitcoin/bitcoin · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1JTuLxD )
08:38 Azelphur why wouldn't it be? that's the JSONRPC interface, which is HTTP
08:42 ben_vulpes on the other hand, why not code it right in...
08:43 ben_vulpes perhaps stick it in share?
08:43 Azelphur wat
08:43 * ben_vulpes shrugs
08:43 ben_vulpes i don't know shit about shinola, though.
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10:21 BingoBoingo http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2887312/Now-Whitehall-s-crazy-eco-zealots-want-ban-gas-cooker-writes-CHRISTOPHER-BOOKER.html
10:21 assbot Now Whitehall's crazy eco zealots want to ban your gas cooker, writes CHRISTOPHER BOOKER | Daily Mail Online ... ( http://bit.ly/1xnOB0k )
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11:11 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 44702 @ 0.00064297 = 28.742 BTC [+] {2}
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11:52 asciilifeform http://pastebin.com/jq6K7Wk4
11:52 assbot Fan Mail from Mr. Spam! - Pastebin.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1x7GmDP )
11:59 BingoBoingo Yes. Call out comment point scores. 6 from 5 comments. Way to wound a man's ego.
11:59 punkman lol!
12:02 punkman http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-stops-xbox-and-playstation-attacks-141226/
12:02 assbot Kim "Santa" Dotcom Stops Xbox and Playstation Attacks | TorrentFreak ... ( http://bit.ly/13JNJpt )
12:02 punkman "“Thanks @KimDotcom for the vouchers–you’re the reason we stopped the attacks. @MegaPrivacy is an awesome service,” Lizard Squad tweeted, confirming the successful intervention."
12:06 BingoBoingo http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/12/26/7450623/bitcoin-bowl-mascots-giant-smiling-bitcoin-bitcoin-dog-other-bitcoin-dogs
12:06 assbot Meet Mr. Bitcoin and Curly the dog, mascots of the Bitcoin Bowl or whatever - SBNation.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1x7HyHh )
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12:26 BingoBoingo https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2qg8ki/satoshi_nakamoto_institute_launch_podcast_first/cn5v1mk
12:26 assbot Floorca comments on Satoshi Nakamoto Institute Launch Podcast (First episode linked: Appcoins and Bitcoin Maximalism from Daniel Krawisz and Michael Goldstein) ... ( http://bit.ly/13JQTcA )
12:26 BingoBoingo "I keep seeing rabbits."
12:27 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 2871 @ 0.00117582 = 3.3758 BTC [-] {25}
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12:41 adlai http://massachusetts.obituaries.funeral.com/2014/12/24/alexander-h-petro-12212014-kingston-ma/ << dear future, pls don't end my obituary with "Sent from an iPad"
12:41 assbot Alexander H. Petro 12/21/2014 Kingston, MA | Funeral.com - State of Massachusetts Obituaries ... ( http://bit.ly/13JTaof )
12:43 assbot Last 1 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/2TD0PAF.txt )
12:43 BingoBoingo !b 1
12:47 jurov future will end the obituaries "Created by Facebook"
12:47 kakobrekla and "4 likes" ?
12:47 asciilifeform obligatory: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2011/07/dead-souls.html
12:47 assbot ClubOrlov: Dead Souls ... ( http://bit.ly/13JTV0v )
12:48 adlai obligatorier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivg-5lu3EGw
12:48 assbot George Carlin on dead people and computers - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/13JU2ZV )
12:51 adlai ok, the orlov piece is good. i'll settle for equally obligatory.
12:54 adlai the lines between faking dead social media profiles, faking a living person's profile (that they don't know of), and creating profiles for a person never even born - are quite fine.
12:58 adlai ah, that's what the orlov post reminds me of! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back_(Black_Mirror)
12:58 assbot Be Right Back (Black Mirror) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/13JVgV9 )
12:59 adlai oooh! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror) thank you santa!
12:59 assbot White Christmas (Black Mirror) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/13JVsDP )
13:00 kakobrekla is it stealable yet?
13:01 adlai fuck me, ask google
13:07 adlai (signs point to yes)
13:12 BingoBoingo !up McNumpty
13:12 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42150 @ 0.00065497 = 27.607 BTC [+] {2}
13:13 adlai humpty numpty sat on the wall. was he put or did he call?
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13:25 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3666 @ 0.00065725 = 2.4095 BTC [+]
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13:41 BingoBoingo So the new North Korea movie. Not bad. Indicts the United States about as seriously as it indicts North Korea.
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14:11 cazalla http://qntra.net/2014/12/governor-for-reserve-bank-of-india-talks-bitcoin-is-worrisome-security-issues/
14:11 assbot Governor For Reserve Bank Of India Talks Bitcoin: Is Worrisome, Security Issues | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1t6lJmb )
14:12 cazalla BingoBoingo, i was going to watch that yesterday, settled on dumb and dumber to, fell asleep from the sambuca and up at 430am given i nodded off early
14:13 asciilifeform 'For us as the Reserve Bank... ...we'll have to figure out how we make money because the way we generate most of our revenue is through forms of seigniorage, people are willing to hold currency free of interest and that's how we make money...'
14:13 asciilifeform lol, mask fell off
14:13 BingoBoingo Ah. It's basically Pineapple Express with less drugs and more scenes filmed in Asia.
14:15 cazalla asciilifeform, he was having a laugh with the host while saying that
14:15 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: he threatened to call my mummy
14:16 ben_vulpes lo, i do quake!
14:16 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: indian central bank governor ?!
14:16 ben_vulpes no, our beloved spamgun
14:16 asciilifeform aha
14:18 ben_vulpes interesting to watch the attack escalate.
14:18 asciilifeform expect that he'll be with us for some time. see 'last psychiatrist' re: psychopaths with 'ego wounds'
14:18 asciilifeform and naggum re: same.
14:19 asciilifeform these people orbit the folks they've latched onto - sometimes - for years.
14:19 ben_vulpes oh great.
14:19 asciilifeform all the while spouting re: how 'they've moved on'
14:20 ben_vulpes if only tiberius were still with us. now *that* was some trolling.
14:23 asciilifeform http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3219696842344424@naggum.net.html http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3219914234362460@naggum.net.html << naggum dealing with his own mr. spam
14:23 assbot Re: Unwelcome mail from the stalkers - Naggum cll archive ... ( http://bit.ly/1t6nRKL )
14:23 asciilifeform in particular,
14:23 asciilifeform 'it is _never_ politeness and courtesy these lunatics want. (If it were, they would simply prove the superiority of being polite and courteous.) They want _other_ people to be polite and courteous because _they_ do not want to feel humiliated or threatened, but who can tell what makes a deranged lunatic feel humiliated or threatened by just and proper criticism, especially by proxy as the worst of these outcasts do? These pe
14:23 asciilifeform ople react extremely hostilely to any feeling that somebody else tells them what to do and are unable to cope with the helplessness and powerlessness they feel after being told what to do, but this is not anybody else can fix for them.'
14:28 asciilifeform http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3233665390989375_-_@naggum.net.html << another mr. spam of his
14:28 assbot Thomas Bushnell - Naggum cll archive ... ( http://bit.ly/1t6oHHq )
14:28 asciilifeform some folks i've introduced to herr naggum's writings turned their nose, mainly on account of these pieces
14:28 asciilifeform 'why was he so xxxxx ?'
14:29 asciilifeform it is because he dared to put psychopaths in their place. and so attracted at least half a dozen of these 'orbiters.'
14:29 asciilifeform they did their best to destroy the little corner of the net where naggum dwelled.
14:30 asciilifeform one might say that they 'won.' likely, naggum became wormfood that much sooner than otherwise could have.
14:33 asciilifeform dan mocsny (discussed on a few occasions, another well-known usenet figure) also had orbiters.
14:34 asciilifeform just the same as mr. spam, or naggum's stalkers, in that they would regularly insist that 'they're done with' him and the 'pit' he dwelled in - but seemed to structure their entire waking lives around frequenting his haunts and crapping out abuse
14:38 ben_vulpes difference this time around seems to be that this orbiter is now terrified for his business propositions in the shartupsphere.
14:38 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: how ?
14:39 ben_vulpes well his *name* you see
14:39 ben_vulpes it is now tarred by association with #bitcoin-assets
14:39 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: scammers have been switching names since at least babylon.
14:39 asciilifeform let him get with the game.
14:40 asciilifeform folks have become 'bitcoin ceo' etc. after loud and public criminal convictions for embezzlement
14:40 ben_vulpes that's not "ycombinator ceo" though
14:40 asciilifeform if anything, we've helped mr. spam's fiat credentials.
14:41 asciilifeform 'despised by terrorists!'
14:46 punkman https://twitter.com/stribika/status/548493493438791680
14:46 assbot 3000 Tor relays in an hour, all called LizardNSA[0-9]+Interesting.
14:46 asciilifeform lol
14:46 asciilifeform not even mine.
14:47 punkman same guys Kim Dotcom paid off with Mega vouchers
14:47 punkman https://twitter.com/LizardMafia/status/548525026027507712
14:47 assbot To clarify, we are no longer attacking PSN or Xbox. We are testing our new Tor 0day.
14:47 punkman https://twitter.com/LizardMafia/status/548337811112611840
14:47 assbot Our ddos was possible thanks to rooted undersea routers used on transatlantic cables.
14:49 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22250 @ 0.00063375 = 14.1009 BTC [-]
14:54 BingoBoingo Naggum has a gift for words http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3219937161138067@naggum.net.html
14:54 assbot Re: What obstacles do Common Lisp programmers face? - Naggum cll archive ... ( http://bit.ly/1t6tjgG )
14:57 ben_vulpes a philosophical question
14:57 ben_vulpes what does it mean to bitcoinate?
14:57 ben_vulpes - download and verify a blockchain
14:57 ben_vulpes - keep up to date with the main chain
14:57 ben_vulpes - create and sign raw transactions
15:05 BingoBoingo http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3220049241757109@naggum.net.html
15:05 assbot Jean-Francois Brouillet - Naggum cll archive ... ( http://bit.ly/1wOTbmq )
15:07 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: interested in your take on my question
15:07 ben_vulpes *i'm* interested..
15:09 asciilifeform wai wat
15:09 asciilifeform which question
15:10 ben_vulpes what does "bitcoinating" entail?
15:11 asciilifeform i'd say - entails being usable for any application pertaining to bitcoin whatsoever.
15:11 asciilifeform including ones that involve arbitrary walks of blockchain data.
15:11 asciilifeform or crafting of perverse (but relayable) transactions
15:11 asciilifeform etc.
15:11 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: arbitrary walks of blockchain data << i think that i disagree here.
15:11 asciilifeform yes, this means that the traditional bitcoind does not entirely 'bitcoinate.'
15:12 ben_vulpes i'm currently of the opinion that providing a tube through which to suck the blockchain is accetable.
15:13 ben_vulpes querying of arbitrary bitcoin data is beyond bitcoind's remit imho.
15:13 asciilifeform at the very least, one must be able to determine 'balance' of an arbitrary address.
15:13 ben_vulpes open to discussion on the topic!
15:13 asciilifeform or it is unusable for a large number of extremely ordinary things.
15:13 ben_vulpes why is balance enough in that situation? what can you do with balance that you don't in reality need the specific unspent outputs for?
15:13 asciilifeform customary workarounds like importing a private key and then 'losing' it are idiotic.
15:14 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: consider the usual apparatus that wants to know that 'it's been paid' without holding any secrets whatsoever.
15:14 ben_vulpes so watch incoming blocks.
15:15 ben_vulpes one can know an arbitrary address has been paid an amount trivially that way.
15:15 asciilifeform what if 'incoming' happens every four days, when the satellite drifts overhead ?
15:16 asciilifeform classical bitcoind behaves very poorly if the assumption of always-on high speed net connection is violated.
15:16 asciilifeform what if 'incoming' happens every six months, when the mail ships sail in ?
15:16 ben_vulpes then you know the last received block and ideally you have all of the blocks since then and can walk them.
15:16 asciilifeform or when there's a gap in the usg shortwave jammers
15:17 ben_vulpes that's why i'm suggesting that data analysis be not a part of bitcoin.
15:17 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: well in theory, yes. but go and try this exercise with traditional bitcoind.
15:17 asciilifeform analysis not part, sure.
15:17 asciilifeform but all of the necessary 'hooks' should be there.
15:18 ben_vulpes i've used it to watch incoming blocks, but not suffering 6 month discontinuities.
15:18 asciilifeform without having to open up the abdomen, insert them, and re-suture in the future.
15:18 ben_vulpes what actually happens?
15:18 cazalla well, that didn't take long.. bitcoinfoundation.org has redesigned their website yet again
15:18 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: well, in one case (~2? years, not six months) - hard-wedge.
15:19 ben_vulpes ah, surely.
15:19 cazalla looks like they removed the black kid photostock images too, such racists
15:20 ben_vulpes that though is not a function of intermittently walking the recent blocks. function of braindamaged "db" implementation.
15:20 cazalla they've also reattributed what were patrick murck's articles to one jinyoung
15:21 ben_vulpes i'm circling around the notion that all bitcoin should do on the topic is vomit forth blocks on command, referenced by height. perhaps transactions, but i'm not even convinced about that.
15:23 asciilifeform vomit forth blocks on command << let's rephrase.
15:23 asciilifeform say it's 1970 and you just bought a tv set.
15:23 asciilifeform crt.
15:24 asciilifeform if it asks you to set the vertical and horizontal scan frequencies manually, independently...
15:24 asciilifeform every time you use it.
15:24 asciilifeform is it a proper tv ?
15:24 asciilifeform an oscilloscope, maybe. but not tb.
15:24 asciilifeform tv
15:25 asciilifeform blocks get parsed.
15:25 asciilifeform in other words, everything that is a 'timeless' part of bitcoin - i.e. cannot ever change or hardfork - must be a working part of the client.
15:25 asciilifeform because, by definition, there will be no variation in it.
15:25 asciilifeform so there it must sit.
15:27 ben_vulpes i'm not arguing against parsing the blocks. it must verify the chain on download and be able to regurgitate the data on command. i suppose that i'm being too dense to grasp your meaning.
15:28 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: when you said 'vomit forth blocks' - sorta implied that one must delve into the protocol docs to make use of said vomit.
15:30 ben_vulpes ah, forgive me. i mean "blocks" as in relatively easily handled block data. for example, the json that's returned from getblock.
15:31 asciilifeform then sure.
15:31 asciilifeform unrelated: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/195369-mips-creator-ci20-the-raspberry-pi-competitor-that-isnt << infuriating idiocy
15:31 assbot MIPS Creator CI20: The Raspberry Pi competitor that isn’t | ExtremeTech ... ( http://bit.ly/1wOYORL )
15:31 asciilifeform 'what exactly is the point' << the point is that it isn't an 'arm.' and isn't a closed turd.
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15:37 asciilifeform (see thread: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-12-2014#960128 )
15:37 assbot Logged on 25-12-2014 03:52:10; asciilifeform: every day i wonder why the 'arm' architecture so thoroughly beat 'mips' (closest competitor in the 'risc' world) in the markets
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15:58 decimation lol re: mr. spam's email << me thinks the lady doth protest too much
15:59 decimation so Mr. Graham just shat a retarded essay >> http://paulgraham.com/95.html
15:59 assbot Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In ... ( http://bit.ly/1wP4ISS )
15:59 decimation "But this whole discussion has taken something for granted: that if we let more great programmers into the US, they'll want to come. That's true now, and we don't realize how lucky we are that it is. ... And if we don't, the US could be seriously fucked."
16:00 * decimation thinks that time horizon has already been reached
16:02 decimation thought experiment: what if tomorrow infinite immigration between the US and say Europe was allowed? What percentage of "exceptional programmers" would leave their current lives to go work for some hobo in Silly-con valley?
16:08 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 62300 @ 0.00063118 = 39.3225 BTC [-] {3}
16:14 decimation asciilifeform: your 'offline' blockchain scenario is interesting. thought experiment: what if there was a new cold war and the Internet cleanly split in two halves?
16:14 decimation which half of the blockchain is now 'valid'? the one that is longest?
16:15 decimation if a harddrive were sent across the iron curtain, how would the transactions on the other side be reconciled?
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16:55 asciilifeform decimation: the planet is also split in half? and the halves end up in two separate universes ?
16:56 asciilifeform decimation: that cannot communicate by radio, homing pigeon, or narco-couriers with scrolls up their arses ?
16:58 asciilifeform paul graham << what the everliving fuck is a 'great programmer' anyway
16:58 asciilifeform and when do we let the great, e.g., bootblacks in ?
16:58 asciilifeform street sweepers ?
17:05 asciilifeform paul graham << sahib says 'moar coolies pleez'
17:07 Apocalyptic <asciilifeform> paul graham << what the everliving fuck is a 'great programmer' anyway // he gave some interesting property of such a creature, but no definition alas
17:08 asciilifeform 'I asked the CEO of a startup with about 70 programmers how many more he'd hire if he could get all the great programmers he wanted. He said "We'd hire 30 tomorrow morning."'
17:08 asciilifeform ^ what definition of 'great programmer' portrays a creature you can even think of 'hire 30 tomorrow morning' of ?
17:09 asciilifeform imagine wanting to hire 30 'great mathematicians' tomorrow morning.
17:09 Apocalyptic to quote "A great programmer will invent things an ordinary programmer would never even think of."
17:09 Apocalyptic note the dubious claim that a programmer nowadays will invent stuff
17:10 asciilifeform anyone wanting to hire 30 inventors needs his head checked
17:10 asciilifeform hire for what
17:10 asciilifeform and why would they want to work for you
17:10 undata laying brick in some marketing related startup
17:10 Apocalyptic asciilifeform, do you define inventor as someone who has invented something before ?
17:10 asciilifeform presumably
17:11 asciilifeform or otherwise 'can you play violin? don't know, i've never tried yet'
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17:12 asciilifeform unless mr. 'i want to hire 30 great programmers tomorrow morning' wasn't writing from a psychiatric hospital, the parsimonious hypothesis is that he meant something other than inventors when said 'great programmers.'
17:13 asciilifeform i don't think it is a mystery, to anyone even remotely connected with the sordid business, what it was that he meant.
17:13 asciilifeform what he meant was human compilers.
17:13 asciilifeform obedient, diligent coolies.
17:13 Apocalyptic he meant people that will presumably invent something worthy for the company
17:14 asciilifeform Apocalyptic: you don't need 30 of those. no existing company is equipped to fully utilize the output of 3, much less 30.
17:14 asciilifeform actual inventors, that is.
17:14 Apocalyptic should have been "invent" by the way
17:14 Apocalyptic no argument on that
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18:42 decimation asciilifeform: all the 'ceo' will accomplish hiring 30 'actual inventors' will be to produce 30 disgrunted ex-employees
18:45 decimation asciilifeform: thinking about my scenario earlier (two halves of the world), the real issue is that transactions need to be communicated as well as the blockchain
18:49 decimation http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/5859/what-are-orphaned-and-stale-blocks/5869#5869 << using this guy's terminology, the shorter chain suddenly becomes extinct
18:49 assbot What are orphaned and stale blocks? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange ... ( http://bit.ly/1xWatQ5 )
18:50 decimation I assume all of the transactions in the extinct chain are swept into new blocks from that point forward?
18:53 decimation http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/13989 << according to this guy, the answer is 'yes', they are kept around in the mempools of the running clients - but this seems just a little bit shakey...
18:53 assbot blockchain - What happens when you send a transaction that ends up in an orphaned block. Is it recoverable? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange ... ( http://bit.ly/1H3gThT )
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20:46 asciilifeform decimation: old thread re: 'cold war bitcoin' >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-01-2014#461620
20:46 assbot Logged on 27-01-2014 05:25:17; asciilifeform: there is, for instance, a legend of an occasion where it was necessary to move several $mil in dollars out of the ussr
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23:00 decimation asciilifeform: of course, bitcoin would be how this would be accomplished today (assuming sufficient anonymization of transactions)
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23:41 thestringpuller ;;later tell cazalla has pete visited you yet? lol
23:41 gribble The operation succeeded.
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