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00:00 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4800 @ 0.00041111 = 1.9733 BTC [-]
00:04 danielpbarron BingoBoingo, "Had he lost at trial in the worst way one every count and received" s/one/won/c
00:04 BingoBoingo fxd thx
00:09 scoopbot New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/how-to-be-good-at-poker/
00:09 asciilifeform so!!!
00:09 asciilifeform i just began live-fire test of the first really dangerous patch
00:09 asciilifeform for therealbitcoin
00:09 asciilifeform a backport of the orphan trimming mechanism.
00:13 BingoBoingo Good luck
00:13 asciilifeform even if it works, it will need serious review
00:13 asciilifeform by folks who actually understand what they are doing.
00:17 BingoBoingo !up metsuno
00:18 danielpbarron metsuno, get in that WoT so i can rate you!
00:18 metsuno Thanks BingoBoingo
00:18 danielpbarron and who were you btw, forgive me i can't recall who you were
00:18 metsuno I'm need to muck around with my os first though
00:18 danielpbarron it's been a while since porcfest
00:19 metsuno we had a very lenghty discussion about bitcoin. you told me about the awesomeness of openbsd. i helped you pretend-assassinate that guy.
00:19 danielpbarron ohhh cool that's who i thought
00:21 danielpbarron that assassin thing was the best part of the whole week, besides poker of course
00:23 metsuno it was an interesting adventure. that's for sure.
00:23 danielpbarron are you going to the next one? I'm planning on it
00:24 danielpbarron hopefully with a box full of cardanos and a qntra press pass
00:24 mircea_popescu asciilifeform im not so sure this is a good idea.
00:25 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it's a test.
00:25 mircea_popescu "a test"
00:25 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: quite certainly not meant to go in the tree under any circumstances.
00:25 asciilifeform test of hypothesis.
00:26 asciilifeform it runs
00:26 asciilifeform but i very much did not like what i had to do to get it to build.
00:26 metsuno danielpbarron, I'm definitely going.
00:27 asciilifeform i will describe the algorithm here.
00:27 asciilifeform (as found in the enemy code)
00:28 asciilifeform what they did is to set a limit (default == 750) of 'orphan blocks' (terribly confusing term, nothing whatsoever to do with orphaned chains)
00:28 asciilifeform and when the limit is reached, one is picked for eviction from the cache
00:29 mircea_popescu ;;later tell phillipsjk "run into the ground" ? lay off the pipe, man. you don't have enough disposable income to cover my harem's feminine hygiene products bill.
00:29 gribble The operation succeeded.
00:29 asciilifeform but if it has antecedents, the chain of those is followed to the end and the terminus is dropped.
00:29 mircea_popescu a collection of yous is going to run exactly noting into exactly nothing.
00:30 mircea_popescu asciilifeform as i said before, it's a kudge to fix another kludge. we don't really wnat any of it.
00:30 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: you can't even begin to fathom how true this is
00:30 asciilifeform (unless you read the bugger)
00:31 asciilifeform the question does remain, however - what is to be done with toy node
00:31 mircea_popescu you know the joke with the shitting jews ?
00:31 asciilifeform ?
00:31 mircea_popescu two jews shitting in adjoining stalls.
00:31 mircea_popescu "hey, do you suppose this is work ?"
00:31 mircea_popescu "nah. if it were, we'd be paying someone to do it for us."
00:31 asciilifeform lol!
00:31 mircea_popescu anyway. "what is to be done" re what ?
00:32 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it can't fly with 0.5.3.1 as it presently lives.
00:32 mircea_popescu and you know this how ?
00:32 asciilifeform strong empirical data
00:32 mircea_popescu be specific.
00:32 asciilifeform oomkill every 20 min. or so
00:32 mircea_popescu so ?
00:33 mircea_popescu once it takes > 10 mins / block i'll care.
00:33 asciilifeform eventually db will be corrupted (may already be silently corrupt?)
00:33 mircea_popescu it'll be fine.
00:33 asciilifeform see observations of ben_vulpes re: above
00:33 mircea_popescu trust in your t-34 with non-interchangeable parts and random fabrication defects
00:33 asciilifeform other thing is, it's quadratic.
00:33 mircea_popescu it won a great patriotic war.
00:33 mircea_popescu look, let it run first.
00:34 asciilifeform every time the thing reboots, the longer the chain, the longer the re-init.
00:34 mircea_popescu let it run to where it takes > 10 minutes / block.
00:34 asciilifeform there's another aspect to it
00:34 asciilifeform the behaviour of the thing during death is by no means well-defined
00:34 mircea_popescu right.
00:34 asciilifeform not merely concerning the db
00:35 asciilifeform but if node is being used 'in anger'
00:35 mircea_popescu welcome the filth that is practical bitcoin into your heart, ascii
00:36 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 3170 @ 0.00091997 = 2.9163 BTC [+] {3}
00:36 asciilifeform enemy will search far and wide for stories of one of these things catastrophically losing
00:36 asciilifeform and if can't find, will create plausible scene.
00:36 mircea_popescu so ?
00:36 mircea_popescu enemy can not beat 12 dolla.
00:37 asciilifeform he will say 'mine is $0, runs on your winblows pc'
00:37 mircea_popescu we're upstream. enemy wants to kill bitpay, it can start a forkwar with me. enemy wants to convince people "bitcoin sucks", it can "create plausible scenes"
00:37 mircea_popescu yaya.
00:38 asciilifeform just pointing out that it may prove tricky to convince folks that a node which is, de facto, 7/8th duty cycle or worse, is a good thing
00:39 asciilifeform likewise, the orphans thing is an easy ddos vector
00:39 asciilifeform any moron can connect to one of our boxes and take a steaming shit in it
00:39 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo http://www.contravex.com/2015/01/30/how-to-become-a-good-poker-player-translated/#comment-9277 << is this guy from a parallel universe or wtf.
00:39 assbot How to become a good poker player, translated. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1EtmYp1 )
00:39 asciilifeform insta-zap.
00:40 mircea_popescu asciilifeform 12 dollars.
00:40 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Opiates are not barbiturate, and heroin withdrawal indeed often only makes people wish they were dying.
00:40 asciilifeform 12 dollars for a box that can be driven off the net by blowing on it
00:41 mircea_popescu i never heard of an "alcohol addict" dead for no alcohol.
00:41 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you have to keep blowing.
00:41 BingoBoingo barbiturate withdrawals, benzodiazepine withdrawals and alcohols withdrawls, potentially deadly "Delerium Tremens"
00:41 mircea_popescu delirium tremens is hardly that ffs.
00:41 asciilifeform the 'naturally-occurring' nodes supply most of the wind
00:42 mircea_popescu asciilifeform it is also very easy to squish a cockroach.
00:42 mircea_popescu atmosphere already supplies most of the squishing.
00:42 asciilifeform lol
00:43 asciilifeform haha, it finally croaked
00:43 asciilifeform 750 was a bit much.
00:43 * asciilifeform puts the traditional turd back on
00:43 mircea_popescu asciilifeform to be clear, did you stop the original thing again to run a something else ?
00:43 asciilifeform yes
00:43 mircea_popescu yeah srsly, just buy another box if you can't stop fucking with it
00:43 mircea_popescu and let the thing just run unmolested.
00:44 asciilifeform 2nd box came finally.
00:46 mircea_popescu decimation: why don't these kind of people with a brain just leave the country? <<< i dunno decimation. why don't they ?
00:49 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: if you were planning to kill someone, would you helpfully tell him first ? << that's not the point. in a normal society, the threat is a fundamental tool to hierarchy building.
00:50 asciilifeform -credible- thread.
00:50 asciilifeform *threat
00:50 mircea_popescu the socialist state does not want a normally functioning society, but instead this stellar configuration where the state is at the center,
00:50 mircea_popescu and every citizen linked to it to the detriment of all else.
00:50 mircea_popescu no, not credible. a threat at all.
00:50 mircea_popescu it works on fundamental structures of the hominid brain, much like flirting makes the girl wet.
00:51 mircea_popescu which is why i am not ever giving it up. the freedom to threaten is not merely my fundamental, unassailable sovereign property, but moreover essential for the construction of effectual instruments to squash the socialists and their golums.
00:51 asciilifeform this is a very sharp observation, but is it unique to the modern state?
00:52 mircea_popescu well, that quickly gets iffy.
00:52 asciilifeform what of ancient despotisms, with the public impaler, etc. - did not want to be at the stellar configuration center ?
00:52 mircea_popescu nah, no mechanised ways to handle it,
00:52 mircea_popescu the computer has a lot to do with this, it's a quantum leap in the possibilities of bureaucracy.
00:52 asciilifeform the khan rides from town to town, has squad in tow with stake
00:53 asciilifeform or, ivan iv, with cauldrons/oil
00:53 asciilifeform worked beautifully
00:53 mircea_popescu if it worked, more by accident than anything.
00:53 mircea_popescu think of it this way : most russian peasants as late as 1800 had never seen the czar.
00:53 mircea_popescu every last us residing cockroach has seen obama THIS WEEK
00:53 asciilifeform well yes
00:53 mircea_popescu well then.
00:54 asciilifeform but the basic dread of the state, by peasant, is similar
00:54 mircea_popescu no.
00:54 mircea_popescu the peasant did not fear the czar will come and fuck his daughter.
00:54 mircea_popescu the peasant loved the czar specifically for this reason.
00:55 asciilifeform more of a 'good cop / bad cop' symbiosis b/w king and next level of org chart down
00:55 ben_vulpes good evening!
00:55 asciilifeform ben_vulpes!
00:55 ben_vulpes hello sir!
00:55 ben_vulpes asciilifeform how are you?
00:55 asciilifeform feeling very much dirtied by the dirt
00:56 asciilifeform see log.
00:56 ben_vulpes it is so very filthy
00:56 mircea_popescu there's some lovely mud down here!
00:56 ben_vulpes console yourself with the reality that life is a filthy entropic process
00:56 ben_vulpes wallo!
00:56 ben_vulpes wallow*!
00:56 asciilifeform the one takeaway is that the cause of oomkill damnation in 0.5.3 can no longer be regarded as mysterious
00:56 mircea_popescu or with the thought that you were never filthier than the day you were born.
00:56 mircea_popescu asciilifeform causes.
00:56 asciilifeform aha
00:57 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: dunno i think i've been covered in both more shit and more blood than on that day
00:57 mats kakobrekla: where can i find information on bitbet api?
00:57 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: orphans pool?
00:57 asciilifeform identifiable crock o'shit; arguably an advance over the entirely enigmatic sort
00:57 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: aha.
00:57 ben_vulpes <jurov> [] i'll say more later << tenterhooks am i on
00:58 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes as a body % ?
00:59 kakobrekla there is an api?
00:59 ben_vulpes absolute terms
00:59 mircea_popescu absolutism's for the birds.
00:59 ben_vulpes <asciilifeform> [] ^ condemned to pay infinite fine, and to use only microshit << i don't see the m$ requirement
00:59 ben_vulpes you're a bird!
00:59 mircea_popescu kakobrekla was there some json ?
00:59 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: pgs. 4-5
00:59 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: implicit.
00:59 kakobrekla well that hardly counts as api
00:59 mircea_popescu yes but what were they ?
00:59 ben_vulpes and that hardly counts as a requirement
00:59 kakobrekla mats try adding "?json" at end of url and see if anything happens
01:00 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: the wretch was ordered to use only systems fully compatible with traditional usg spyware used on such occasions
01:00 mircea_popescu mats and on top of that, you can reuse addresses for as long as the bet didn't close.
01:00 ben_vulpes anyways, mircea_popescu, relativism is for the birds.
01:01 mircea_popescu no quantum computing for you. copme back, 1????????? year
01:01 mats cool. rewriting the code for bitbet audit so it'll be worthy of publication this year.
01:01 mats makes me expendable, but hey.
01:01 ben_vulpes <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: aha. << am i on the right track or did i skim logs in too light of detail
01:02 ben_vulpes mats: today you automate, tomorrow you order the automation
01:02 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-01-2015#998077
01:02 assbot Logged on 30-01-2015 05:09:29; asciilifeform: i just began live-fire test of the first really dangerous patch
01:02 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1500 @ 0.0009242 = 1.3863 BTC [+] {3}
01:02 ben_vulpes oh fuck yes
01:02 kakobrekla mats if you plan on hitting bb hard which i dont mind i suggest i add your ip to whitelist
01:03 ben_vulpes http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-01-2015#998091 << danielpbarron i require details of this assasination
01:03 assbot Logged on 30-01-2015 05:21:43; danielpbarron: that assassin thing was the best part of the whole week, besides poker of course
01:04 ben_vulpes http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-01-2015#998118 << constant refrain in fiatcorp: "no billing for poops! this isn't accenture."
01:04 assbot Logged on 30-01-2015 05:31:31; mircea_popescu: "hey, do you suppose this is work ?"
01:04 mircea_popescu only 554 lines ? by 6am ? WTF SRSLY GUISE
01:05 ben_vulpes yeah i can sort of almost keep up even with my mom coming over with multiple bottles of bubbles
01:05 ben_vulpes it's pathetic i tell ya
01:05 mats kakobrekla: nah, you won't even notice it
01:05 kakobrekla i certainly wont, but you might. anyway, i go.
01:05 ben_vulpes http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-01-2015#998143 << for srs, asciilifeform. you'll want proofs of correctness and haskell-grade type systems next.
01:05 assbot Logged on 30-01-2015 05:35:15; mircea_popescu: welcome the filth that is practical bitcoin into your heart, ascii
01:05 mats thanks.
01:09 ben_vulpes anyways asciilifeform how does the backported orphan-pruning situation handle the full tree?
01:09 ben_vulpes omg it strikes me that there isn't a blocktree visualizer that i'm aware of
01:09 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: the 'orphan blocks' in question have nothing whatsoever to do with the usual definition
01:09 ben_vulpes what praytell then are they?
01:09 asciilifeform they are simply blocks received hopelessly out of order
01:09 ben_vulpes <mircea_popescu> [] felipelalli: asciilifeform: your engine is pretty smart, thank you. :) <<< mmm win :D << once again i get no credit for the setup
01:09 * ben_vulpes throws up his hands
01:10 asciilifeform that is, anything that sails in for which you don't have an immediate ancestory
01:10 asciilifeform *ancestor
01:10 ben_vulpes right
01:10 ben_vulpes should blockchain dl be performed sequentially?
01:10 asciilifeform you can't do anything with them, except a) discard b) store in hope of gluing the chain together later
01:10 asciilifeform classical bitcoind is all (b) and no (a)
01:10 asciilifeform never, ever (a)
01:11 asciilifeform thus it is doomed to die after snarfing up sufficiently many of these.
01:11 ben_vulpes i guess the subquestion would be is b) even practical
01:11 ben_vulpes doomed << well, question answered
01:11 asciilifeform so it isn't a memory leak in the traditional sense
01:11 ben_vulpes okay but to play devils advocate for a moment theoy could be dumped into the db were it used sanely
01:11 ben_vulpes they*
01:11 asciilifeform merely toilet that is never flushed, but continuously shat in
01:11 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: if you store these, anywhere, you set yourself up for shitburial
01:12 ben_vulpes you and your poo metaphors
01:12 asciilifeform since by definition there is no way to verify these blocks
01:12 asciilifeform lacking an antecedent
01:12 asciilifeform dr. evil can come and feed you until you burst.
01:12 ben_vulpes no, i get it
01:12 ben_vulpes i also appreciate your willingness to beat sense into my skull.
01:13 asciilifeform and if, presently, 'burst' just means oomkill,
01:13 asciilifeform if disk is involved he can now have you grind to a permanent halt
01:13 ben_vulpes jesus fuck leave it as an exercise for once
01:13 asciilifeform lol
01:14 BingoBoingo !b 1
01:14 assbot Last 1 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/386XWB2.txt )
01:14 BingoBoingo Too many lulz to number right
01:15 ben_vulpes <mircea_popescu> [] mike_c: or anywhere else afaik. << http://www.listafirme.ro/polimedia-srl-22530016/ << well that's damned interesting
01:15 assbot SC POLIMEDIA SRL din Dumbravita Str. Szentes 7a, CUI 22530016 ... ( http://bit.ly/1HoQUoD )
01:21 ben_vulpes <mircea_popescu> [] asciilifeform as i said before, it's a kudge to fix another kludge. we don't really wnat any of it. << what was the first kludge?
01:22 asciilifeform 'inv'
01:22 asciilifeform i.e. nodes barf blocks at one another without any real logic
01:22 asciilifeform mr s. did not know 'gossip protocol'.
01:23 asciilifeform did not like mathematics.
01:24 ben_vulpes hm.
01:24 ben_vulpes yeah, that's a steamer.
01:26 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28464 @ 0.00041111 = 11.7018 BTC [-]
01:26 ben_vulpes so what's the plan? backport the magic 750 or discard all ahistoric blocks?
01:27 asciilifeform i backported it. horrendous ugly.
01:27 asciilifeform if you discard all of them - never syncs.
01:27 asciilifeform (mike_c tried it)
01:29 asciilifeform mircea_popescu appears to favour releasing the thing sitting now on my desk - a 0.5.3.1 that continuously reboots
01:29 asciilifeform (and slowly grinds to a halt prior to doing so)
01:29 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29850 @ 0.00040671 = 12.1403 BTC [-] {2}
01:30 asciilifeform approx. every 20 min.
01:30 asciilifeform (present height - 183172)
01:30 ben_vulpes brutal.
01:31 ben_vulpes how fast does that number go up?
01:31 asciilifeform right now, ~45 sec. / block
01:31 asciilifeform varies.
01:32 asciilifeform if you recall, bitcoin is not 'bittorrent' and does not make use of the multitude of nodes known to it at a given moment for fetching the blockchain
01:32 asciilifeform instead, it locks onto one particular peer
01:32 asciilifeform and snarfs from him, until it doesn't
01:32 asciilifeform then picks another.
01:32 ben_vulpes myeah.
01:33 ben_vulpes something tells me that block downloading and peer selection is an important thing to look at in the next few arbitrary time units.
01:33 ben_vulpes that something being a certain animated unicode set
01:34 asciilifeform block downloading is almost certainly fated to be 'embraced and extended' by a sane implementation
01:34 mircea_popescu asciilifeform im just in favour of actually testing
01:34 asciilifeform (negotiate torrent-like loader, if can do - do; if cannot - fallback to classic)
01:34 mircea_popescu let it run, see what actualy happens
01:34 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: grinder is grinding.
01:34 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: kinda what i'm thinking
01:35 ben_vulpes anyways, i'm off for the eve.
01:35 ben_vulpes my thanks for your valuable insights.
01:35 * asciilifeform to bed
01:35 mircea_popescu big fucken deal, if product ends up being "spend $12 and three hours of your time following these instructions. if you have prior chain, you have node right off. if not, you have node in a month"
01:36 asciilifeform if converges >>> then just as mircea_popescu said.
01:44 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> did not like mathematics. << this guy is a cryptologist that didn't like coding or math.
01:44 mircea_popescu very strange beast.
01:45 mircea_popescu <ben_vulpes> something tells me that block downloading and peer selection is an important thing to look at in the next few arbitrary time units. << that something is athena riding a flaming shield.
01:46 thestringpuller ^- doesn't she do that already?
01:51 mircea_popescu a) fredrik de boer is a choad ; b) the left can't "win". because it's stupid. a bunch of frogs in a lake can win just as much. wtf can the terminally retarded gonna "win" ?
02:04 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25126 @ 0.00041096 = 10.3258 BTC [+]
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02:20 mats http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/29/hipster-churches-sillicon-valley-evangelical-new-home
02:20 assbot Hipster churches in Silicon Valley: evangelicalism's unlikely new home | US news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1JSe7xa )
02:24 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 57700 @ 0.00043445 = 25.0678 BTC [+] {2}
02:29 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 4546 @ 0.00095999 = 4.3641 BTC [+] {4}
02:30 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 2543 @ 0.00097554 = 2.4808 BTC [+] {6}
02:40 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4200 @ 0.00043467 = 1.8256 BTC [+]
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02:59 cazalla well that was short lived.. "you have been banned from posting to /r/Buttcoin"
03:02 fluffypony lol
03:07 punkman but... how? http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/01/itunes-connect-bug-logs-developers-into-other-developers-accounts-at-random/
03:07 assbot iTunes Connect bug logs developers in to other developersโ€™ accounts at random [Updated] | Ars Technica ... ( http://bit.ly/1CShGBz )
03:09 scoopbot New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/where-did-your-years-go/
03:14 punkman https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8hdv99IEAA1ZUs.png
03:14 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1CSiO8p )
03:17 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11900 @ 0.00043467 = 5.1726 BTC [+]
03:18 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35800 @ 0.00043498 = 15.5723 BTC [+]
03:31 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24574 @ 0.00041751 = 10.2599 BTC [-] {2}
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03:59 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24764 @ 0.00043404 = 10.7486 BTC [+] {2}
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04:54 punkman http://cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-treasure-hunter-eluded-police-cash-tradecraft
04:54 assbot Feds: Treasure hunter eluded police with cash, tradecraft | CNS News ... ( http://bit.ly/1LpoE4F )
04:54 punkman !up badon
04:54 badon hi punkman
04:54 punkman hola
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05:27 jurov <mircea_popescu> big fucken deal, if product ends up being "spend $12 and ...". you know this does not match expectations of general public
05:27 jurov for $12 they expect something that just works and it isn't worth waiting a month for to be done
05:28 jurov if you want them to wait through all the oom plodding, make them pay $300
05:30 jurov also, for all the aspies having such "bad engineering" just feels unacceptable at any price
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07:10 danielpbarron ben_vulpes> ..i require details of this assasination << i paid someone $5 to put on on the list, everyone on the list gets assigned a target, the object is to squirt your victim with a water-gun without any witnesses, you get $5 back per kill
07:12 danielpbarron it took me the whole week just to figure out who my victim was, and i spent most of saturday stalking him at his campsite, finally got right as he was stepping out of his camper, his daughter heard it happen but nobody saw me
07:14 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32673 @ 0.00042209 = 13.7909 BTC [+]
07:17 punkman http://unmonastery-wiki.mirelsol.org/doku.php?id=book_of_mistakes:working_texts:mist_200_year_plan
07:17 assbot book_of_mistakes:working_texts:mist_200_year_plan [unMonastery wiki] ... ( http://bit.ly/1ETzpId )
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07:40 jurov punkman wtf?
07:42 jurov and i got this scam email:
07:42 jurov The King of Thailand has been dead since about the end of 2008. The current King of Thailand is a fake one. The Government of Thailand does not dare to announce his death because it will put Thailand in great trouble. The King of Thailand was keen on photography and he has been seen using his outdated Canon G9 camera even as late as 2012. In addition, his double forgot to remove his watch and appeared to be wearing two watches in the public. Thes
07:42 jurov big mistakes.
07:43 jurov Mr. Dimitri Khalezov is an important researcher and witness to the 9/11 event. In fact, he was a nuclear intelligence officer in the former Soviet Union. He testifies that WTC 1, 2 and 7 were demolished by three underground thermonuclear devices during the 9/11 event. As a matter of fact, there were large cavities found at ground zero (point of nuclear explosion in all English dictionaries printed prior to 2002) and tens of thousands of first
07:43 jurov responders and local Manhattan residents have suffered from cancers as a result of exposure to this radiation.
07:43 jurov sprinkled with clickbaits
07:46 jurov ;;seen Chaang-Noi
07:46 gribble Chaang-Noi was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 50 weeks, 4 days, 6 hours, 47 minutes, and 13 seconds ago: <Chaang-Noi> might have to sue em
07:46 jurov ;;seen goat
07:46 gribble I have not seen goat.
07:49 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13300 @ 0.00041729 = 5.55 BTC [-]
07:53 punkman jurov, dunno some kind of commune-hackerspace in italy
07:58 punkman http://unmonastery.org/
07:58 assbot unMonastery ... ( http://bit.ly/1ye0Yar )
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08:38 chetty I am curious, Do female suicide bomber have to be escorted by a male relative?
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08:54 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40950 @ 0.00042352 = 17.3431 BTC [+] {2}
09:03 davout "Error(473): #bitcoin-lizards Cannot join channel (+i) - you must be invited" <<< lol wtf
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09:33 nubbins` hi
09:33 nubbins` kakobrekla is it possible for assbot's OTP urls to be predictable (i.e. http://w.b-a.link/otp/MY-FINGERPRINT)?
09:33 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Cjjgh5 )
09:33 nubbins` dat inability to create simple bash script, etc
09:34 nubbins` cazalla tell us more about your web of hate
09:34 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9411 @ 0.00042629 = 4.0118 BTC [+]
09:35 nubbins` is there anyone here who hasn't made the local news for threatening people? o.O
09:35 danielpbarron http://w.b-a.link/otps/nubbins%60/last
09:37 danielpbarron coindesk's redditnote piece is exactly the same number of words as mine if you strip out the quotes and the last line about his former job (which i probably should have included in mine); but theirs has less characters than mine
09:42 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 3176 @ 0.0009207 = 2.9241 BTC [-] {8}
09:47 kakobrekla nubbins` what danielpbarron said
09:47 davout ^neat-o
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10:03 davout yhwh_: your IP showed on join
10:17 fluffypony hah hah
10:17 fluffypony http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2u6k9u/im_a_dominatrix_and_i_was_supposed_to_be_whipping/
10:17 assbot I'm a dominatrix and I was supposed to be whipping a blonde client...but instead I whipped a brunette... : funny ... ( http://bit.ly/1CTsxve )
10:19 mircea_popescu lol
10:23 mircea_popescu !up JodaZ
10:24 davout JodaZ: o hey
10:24 JodaZ can i advertise for sale here once?
10:24 mircea_popescu you can do anything once.
10:24 JodaZ :)
10:24 davout JodaZ: -> #bitcoin-otc
10:24 mircea_popescu but yeah, nobody cares, just don't repeat yourself.
10:25 mircea_popescu cazalla: well that was short lived.. "you have been banned from posting to /r/Buttcoin" << what sort of low quality shilling have you been engaging in!
10:26 mircea_popescu jurov: if you want them to wait through all the oom plodding, make them pay $300 << in the immortal words of baal (quite literally) : we shall take your position into consideration.
10:27 mircea_popescu (the immortal words in question : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oW_rEi8X4Y )
10:27 assbot Diablo 2โ˜…The Search for Baal Cinematicโ˜…[Original]Official Diablo II[D2 Cut Scene] Trailer - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/15PhBll )
10:31 mircea_popescu chetty: I am curious, Do female suicide bomber have to be escorted by a male relative? << lmao good one.
10:32 danielpbarron you play d2?
10:33 mircea_popescu sure.
10:33 mircea_popescu had a kickass soceress
10:33 mircea_popescu before they came up with bs teleporting gear for paladins and whatnot
10:34 mircea_popescu nubbins`: dat inability to create simple bash script, etc << dat unreading of teh logs. http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=17-01-2015#980456
10:34 assbot Logged on 17-01-2015 16:26:57; kakobrekla: ;;later tell ben_vulpes as requested, json; http://w.b-a.link/user/ben_vulpes/json and http://w.b-a.link/trust/ben_vulpes/kakobrekla/json
10:34 danielpbarron i had a kickass MF barbarian
10:34 mircea_popescu sorcs could really only be frost
10:34 mircea_popescu sadly. i liked teh hydra in d1 a lot.
10:34 nubbins` how could i have missed it
10:34 mircea_popescu nubbins` because the log is so incredibly fucking densely packed.
10:35 nubbins` no kidding, hey?
10:35 nubbins` oh, hbd to me
10:35 nubbins` this is my jesus year
10:35 danielpbarron i liked the necromancer but he wasn't very powerful
10:35 mircea_popescu "When Tommy Thompson and his longtime companion did leave the Florida hotel room, usually alone and her more than him, they would use a combination of buses, taxis and walking around to shake anyone who might be tailing them."
10:35 mircea_popescu for the record that guy was decent.
10:36 nubbins` kakobrekla +1 top kak
10:36 mircea_popescu danielpbarron yeah i liked him too, but yeah, not useful in pvp
10:37 davout i kinda ragequit d2 after my hardcore javazon died...
10:37 danielpbarron LOL
10:37 davout my alt+f4 wasn't swift enough
10:38 danielpbarron i quit when a friend of mine got all my expensive MF gear trade hacked while using my account
10:38 mircea_popescu davout bitch to play, the javazon
10:38 davout such lag in cow-level
10:39 davout diablo 1 was best diablo
10:39 mircea_popescu danielpbarron in retrospect, the "expensive" gear of the d2 era was a good joke. 1k would have decked you and alts.
10:39 mircea_popescu these days... heh.
10:40 mircea_popescu nubbins`: is there anyone here who hasn't made the local news for threatening people? o.O << me, for one.
10:40 danielpbarron expensive in SOJ terms, not dollar terms; i didn't have credit cards back then
10:40 nubbins` well, you know how to threaten people the right way, obv
10:40 mircea_popescu danielpbarron oh lol teh stone of jordan
10:41 mircea_popescu fucking idiot blizzard can't make an economy.
10:49 adlai does assbot ever pick up ratings left with gribble after the wotfork?
10:49 PeterL I think you have to add ratings to both wots now
10:50 mircea_popescu adlai ideally a way to crossover is being developed, but practically i've not heard anything from nanotube for a week or so.
10:51 adlai shouldn't it be as simple as, every rating has to contain a signature of the rating data, and then gribble and assbot can just spider eachother all day long?
10:51 adlai and any other wots that spring up
10:51 adlai wot-bots. the web itself would grow larger than any individual bot.
10:52 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15850 @ 0.00042214 = 6.6909 BTC [-]
10:52 mircea_popescu ideally.
10:52 davout http://lyle.smu.edu/~tylerm/fc15.pdf
10:52 assbot 404 Error: Lyle Page Not Found ... ( http://bit.ly/15Pm8Em )
10:52 davout ยซย Thereโ€™s No Free Lunch, Even Using Bitcoin: Tracking the Popularity and Profits of Virtual Currency Scamsย ยป
10:53 mircea_popescu meh pdf. who's the author ?
10:53 davout "We manually inspected all services on the list to identify only those operations established with fraudulent intent. For instance, we exclude Hashfast, a mining company that recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as well as losses from Mt. Gox, a bitcoin exchange that failed."
10:53 davout i stahped there
10:54 adlai http://view.samurajdata.se/psview.php?id=3f1cb5e9&page=1
10:54 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/15PmqLt )
10:54 adlai (pdf processed server-side, cloud magic)
10:55 PeterL davout: they think they can differentiate between fraudulent intent and incompetence?
10:55 davout looks like it
10:56 adlai this viewer thingy is cool, you can link straight to the tl;dr: http://view.samurajdata.se/psview.php?id=3f1cb5e9&page=15
10:56 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1CjtIFf )
11:03 mircea_popescu PeterL derps that know about bitcoin about exactly the way they know what's best for africa.
11:03 mircea_popescu never left chelmsford.
11:04 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13000 @ 0.00042647 = 5.5441 BTC [+] {3}
11:05 jurov mircea_popescu: jurov: ...... immortal words of baal (quite literally) : we shall take your position into consideration. << seems death threats are en vogue recently
11:06 mircea_popescu lol didn't mean it like that
11:06 mircea_popescu twas suppost to be funny.
11:06 fluffypony BITCOIN WILL SAVE AFRICA!
11:07 fluffypony who needs water or clothing or food when you're a starving African child that has BITCOIN!
11:07 jurov mircea i know :) just had a double take on the (quite literally) part
11:07 mircea_popescu well baal is immortal.
11:08 mircea_popescu so i had a pile of sour cherries for breakfast
11:08 mircea_popescu and now it looks like i'm going to have a chocolate cake snack.,
11:08 PeterL literally or figuratively?
11:08 mircea_popescu if i die let it be known i blame the government
11:08 mircea_popescu literally.
11:09 mircea_popescu !up jborkl
11:09 jborkl Been stuck up the airport runway for over an hour :(
11:09 jborkl The peeps are restless!!
11:10 mircea_popescu stand up and announce "This has now been converted into a nudist flight. Everyone please remove all items of clothings. Thank you."
11:10 ben_vulpes i'm making a bacon and caramelized onion omlette
11:11 pete_dushenski jborkl: westerners are always restless
11:11 mircea_popescu !up jborkl
11:11 jborkl No word, just stuck
11:11 pete_dushenski which is why they love smartphones that advertise "turn downtime into uptime"
11:11 davout for before take-off enjoyment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK5n5bQW8FE
11:11 assbot le cochon et le canard - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/15Pq343 )
11:11 pete_dushenski when they just use them to flip through buzzfeed or some such
11:12 jborkl Austin to Denver on united
11:12 PeterL spend more time doing useless shit and you won't have to think about how worthless you are
11:12 jborkl Maybe they found out I have bitcoin on me
11:13 jborkl Lol
11:13 pete_dushenski davout: lmao
11:13 mircea_popescu davout the note on that video suggests romanian origin.
11:13 mircea_popescu and they seem to me to be romanian francophones
11:13 PeterL how does one have bitcoin on them?
11:13 jborkl Joke joke
11:13 pete_dushenski jborkl: impossibru to have the clouds on you ;/
11:13 PeterL you have a private key tatoo?
11:14 mircea_popescu so the man has a little bullet. stop hussling him!
11:16 jborkl What , hehe I missed something ?
11:16 pete_dushenski PeterL: sorta making the efforts of using a smartphone to always be connected quite counter-productive to the intended objective
11:17 PeterL whose intended objective?
11:17 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu: seems like yesterday turned into national "let's translate romanian poker articles into engrish" day
11:17 pete_dushenski quelle fun :D
11:17 mircea_popescu lol
11:17 mircea_popescu hard huh.
11:18 pete_dushenski lol not easy
11:18 pete_dushenski but perfectly enjoyable
11:18 pete_dushenski the ol' noodle enjoyed the challenge
11:20 asciilifeform 185063.
11:21 mircea_popescu !s from:asciilifeform
11:21 assbot 43267 results for 'from:asciilifeform' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=from%3Aasciilifeform
11:21 jborkl Something broke, they want to override it and see how that works out
11:22 jborkl So, see ya laters!!
11:22 mircea_popescu 30-01-2015 06:30:13 <asciilifeform> (present height - 183172) so it made < 2k in the past 10 hours ?
11:22 asciilifeform aha
11:22 PeterL was it running that whole time?
11:23 asciilifeform PeterL: in the sense of being switched on - yes
11:23 asciilifeform !s oomkill
11:23 assbot 17 results for 'oomkill' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=oomkill
11:23 mircea_popescu 2k > 100.
11:23 danielpbarron lol
11:23 asciilifeform it's connected to the wild net (as opposed to existing node, which would be a more deterministic, if less realistic, test)
11:23 asciilifeform so very much luck of the draw.
11:23 mircea_popescu quite.
11:24 mircea_popescu (something the oomkills help, not hinder)
11:24 mircea_popescu ie, get connected to9 shitty node, die faster. it's quite evolutionary.
11:24 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: if this worked at all well, it'd be synched by now.
11:25 mircea_popescu somehow i suspect that if you had to design say a heron, it'd look a lot less like nature's variant and a lot more like an aircraft carrier
11:25 TomServo lol
11:25 asciilifeform herons don't crash.
11:25 mircea_popescu herons crash all the fucking time.
11:32 davout heron airprox
11:33 davout "heron, go away, this is a class A airspace"
11:39 mircea_popescu !up nokia
11:41 pete_dushenski nokia... i just bought my first one in 15 years this week
11:41 pete_dushenski waiting for the nanosim adapter to arrive
11:41 pete_dushenski then experiment unsmartphone commences!
11:41 kakobrekla which one
11:42 pete_dushenski blu tank ii they call it
11:43 pete_dushenski http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00O5EUBSI?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
11:43 assbot BLU Tank II T193 Unlocked GSM Dual-SIM Cell Phone with Camera and 1900 mAh Big Battery-Retail Packaging-Black Blue: Amazon.ca: Cell Phones & Accessories ... ( http://bit.ly/1A74oRT )
11:43 nokia nokias are tanks
11:44 pete_dushenski nokia: in another time, yes. not sure about the new touchy ones
11:44 kakobrekla dunno, last nail hammering nokia i had was 3210
11:44 kakobrekla imo build quality only went down from there
11:44 pete_dushenski sorta like old mercs were panzers, the new ones are ospreys
11:45 mircea_popescu i kinda agree, they don't make the bricks like they used to in the 90s
11:46 mats 11:41:34 <+pete_dushenski> then experiment unsmartphone commences! << me too. bought a motorola C115 so i can play with osmocomBB
11:46 pete_dushenski kakobrekla: i think the 3310 was my first phone
11:46 ben_vulpes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_StarTAC << one of my favorite phones ever
11:46 assbot Motorola StarTAC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1A75kpC )
11:46 nokia anyone do the *3001#12345 trick with the nokias?
11:47 pete_dushenski ben_vulpes: yes!
11:47 kakobrekla heres my first phone i got as a kid, also indestructible ; http://itm.siol.net/_m/media/Sagem/39/RC_815_large_363.jpg
11:47 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1A75uNM )
11:47 mats http://bb.osmocom.org/trac << foss baseband firmware
11:47 assbot OsmocomBB ... ( http://bit.ly/1A75tt3 )
11:47 pete_dushenski kakobrekla: colourful :D
11:47 kakobrekla mhm :D
11:48 pete_dushenski well i intend to test nokia's latest to see how it stacks up against my rose-tinted memories
11:49 kakobrekla the thing with the phone was, when you were sending sms you had to type in the destination phone number from your head, no way to use saved entries.
11:50 kakobrekla good for memory!
11:51 pete_dushenski if only we could teach 0.5.3 to be so good with memory
11:53 davout lol
11:56 pete_dushenski !b 4
11:56 assbot Last 4 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/0JPAJQQ.txt )
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12:19 asciilifeform http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-January/000038.html
12:19 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1yUtLEL )
12:20 asciilifeform mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes ^ turd from last night's thread
12:20 asciilifeform placed on www for the record.
12:24 mircea_popescu "Keeping in mind that actual stalking has never been dealt with in any significant way ever, the desire of a few female writers to curb online anonymity wouldn't be enough to get an @ mention, except that this happens to coincide with what the media wants, and now we have the two vectors summing to form a public health crisis. "Cyberbullying is a huge problem!" Yes, but not because it is hurtful, HA! no one cares about
12:24 mircea_popescu your feelings-- but because criticism makes women want to be more private-- and the privacy of the women is bad. The women have to be online, they do most of the clicking and receive most of the clicks. Anonymous cyberbullying is a barrier to increasing consumption, it's gotta go."
12:25 mircea_popescu in retrospect this is the best discussion of this ever-returning zombie of "cyberbullying" i ever read.
12:26 BingoBoingo !b 3
12:26 assbot Last 3 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/0SCDC38.txt )
12:27 mircea_popescu "If Hess has made you wonder, hmm, maybe unrestricted anonymity is bad because it gives trolls too much power, then the system has successfully used her for its true purpose: brand it as bad, to you. She is unwittingly teaching the demo of this article, e.g. women in their 20s with no actual power looking to establish themselves, who are the very people who should embrace anonymity, not to want this: only rapists and t
12:27 mircea_popescu oo-weak-to-try rapists want to be anonymous. Smart women write clickable articles about their sexuality for nothing, because what good are you if you can't make someone else money? Interesting to observe that the article's single suggested solution to cyberharassment is to reframe a criminal problem into a civil rights issue using a logic so preposterously adolescent that if you laid this on your Dad when you were 16 h
12:27 mircea_popescu e'd backhand slap you right out of the glee club: "it discourages women from writing and earning a living online." Earning a living? From who, Gawker? Most of the women writing on the internet are writing for someone else who pays them next to nothing. None of them control the capital, none of them get paid 1/1000 of what they bring in for the media company. You know what they do get? They get to be valued by work, and
12:27 mircea_popescu in gratitude they are going to the front lines to fight for the media company's right to pay them less."
12:28 mircea_popescu this is quite exactly it, and it's not limited to poorly educated, insufficiently fucked, infantilized 20something wymyn.
12:28 mircea_popescu the mirror-image infantilized 20something bois are idem fighting for paul graham's right to pay them nothing while turning them into a strange sort of pulp fiction's gimp
12:29 mircea_popescu the funniest thing in all of this isn't exactly the horde of children who don't understand how the fuck they were tricked exactly. the funniest thing is the plethora of articles about how "apple could buy russia"
12:30 mircea_popescu it's going to get even funnier once they actually try.
12:30 asciilifeform why not 'buy' whole planet. what, not enough ink in printer ?
12:30 mircea_popescu no but you know, the fumes of confused teenagers are going to somehow coallesce into moving as much as a hair of actual matter. ANY DAY NOW
12:31 mircea_popescu i could be sitting in a parisian cafe cca 1815 and lol the same way for the same reasons at the same people
12:31 mircea_popescu this, they call progress.
12:34 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49050 @ 0.00041326 = 20.2704 BTC [-] {3}
12:44 asciilifeform fumes of confused teenagers are going to somehow coallesce into moving << 'dog barks, caravan moves'
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13:06 BingoBoingo ;;bc,stats
13:06 gribble Current Blocks: 341191 | Current Difficulty: 4.127287389469702E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 342719 | Next Difficulty In: 1528 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 3 days, 16 hours, 26 minutes, and 51 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 45460765013.5 | Estimated Percent Change: 10.14684
13:09 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: thank you sir
13:10 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49615 @ 0.00041894 = 20.7857 BTC [+]
13:11 ben_vulpes i can't believe that people want to fuck around with sidechains and altcoins when there's interesting work to be done in improving how the satoshi codebase handles block downloads
13:11 ben_vulpes this "orphans" routine though, i must say i love it.
13:11 ben_vulpes 'tis another dagger in my belt.
13:12 adlai http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-01-2015#997393 << dat %
13:12 assbot Logged on 29-01-2015 19:26:09; gribble: Current Blocks: 341060 | Current Difficulty: 4.127287389469702E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 342719 | Next Difficulty In: 1659 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 2 days, 14 hours, 9 minutes, and 1 second | Next Difficulty Estimate: 47714824514.9 | Estimated Percent Change: 15.60819
13:15 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: that was cribbed almost wholesale from evil bitcoind
13:21 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes the problem is that people are insulated from reality (least it hurts their feelings) and so they are also insulated from everythning interesting, and in the end their own life.
13:21 mats hard work is hard. totes believable.
13:21 mircea_popescu right.
13:22 mircea_popescu people interested in actually doing stuff have b-a. everyone else can be "a contributor" (for bois), or "part of the community" (for womyns)
13:22 mats why do any work when you can generate an altcoin from a bootstrap website and watch netflix
13:23 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-02-2014#509005
13:23 assbot Logged on 16-02-2014 22:03:29; asciilifeform: obligatory russian drowning joke
13:24 mircea_popescu essentially, because it's fun.
13:24 mircea_popescu "why does the horse run, while the worm can but crawl ? because the horse enjoys to run."
13:30 asciilifeform i can't believe that people want to fuck around with sidechains and altcoins when there's interesting work to be done in improving how the satoshi codebase <<< not only sloth, but avarice, is involved. nobody gets rich from honestly fixing satoshi's bugs
13:30 asciilifeform sc4mz0r1ng? promises riches, at least to the foolish
13:31 ben_vulpes bah wealth
13:31 ben_vulpes la vie, c'est le travaille
13:32 asciilifeform arbeit macht frei.
13:32 ben_vulpes i'll settle for stakes and sucking holes in everyones chest.
13:32 mircea_popescu asciilifeform that's beyond short sighted.
13:32 mircea_popescu nobody gets rich from being o'reilly's or Sara Miller McCune's hand puppet.
13:32 mircea_popescu people DO get rich, in the manner of their choice, out of accumulating this sort of capital.
13:33 mircea_popescu linus is rich, in that ~he can do what he pleases~. your definition of rich.
13:33 mircea_popescu so is taleb. so is everyone that DIDN'T join the system.
13:33 asciilifeform except that no one does honest scientific collaboration 'to get rich' specifically.
13:33 mircea_popescu the only poor people are the "rich people" making 500k to 5mn a year to pay for their mortgage and college loans.
13:33 asciilifeform them's chumpers.
13:33 mircea_popescu a sudanese, poor as the dirt hre sits in, still has a chance.
13:34 mircea_popescu antonoderpopo no longer has a chance, because he's dead, because a rich guy killed him.
13:34 mircea_popescu and death is forever.
13:34 asciilifeform zombie may even envy the dead.
13:34 mircea_popescu zombie generally does.
13:35 mircea_popescu which explains why suicide is such a big deal in zombieland.
13:36 PeterL so, I'm reading through the bitcoind code as published by the Foundation,
13:36 PeterL / Some explaining would be appreciated << this comment sounds like something asciilifeform would put in?
13:36 asciilifeform where's this
13:37 PeterL by the COrphan class
13:37 mod6 that's an original v0.5.3 comment
13:39 mod6 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.5.3/src/main.cpp#L2788
13:39 assbot bitcoin/main.cpp at v0.5.3 ยท bitcoin/bitcoin ยท GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1CjNmB2 )
13:39 asciilifeform PeterL: also these are not the same orphans!
13:39 PeterL which orphans are these? how many kinds of orphans are there?
13:39 mircea_popescu seriously let's start calling them parentless blocks / pblocks
13:40 mircea_popescu this confusion is counterproductive.
13:40 asciilifeform see last night's thread: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-01-2015#998265
13:40 assbot Logged on 30-01-2015 06:09:29; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the 'orphan blocks' in question have nothing whatsoever to do with the usual definition
13:40 mircea_popescu PeterL orphans are short lengths ofchain that were abandoined in favour of a competitor.
13:40 mircea_popescu parentless blocks are blocks which arrived to a node before their parents, and so can't be evaluated for validity (yet)
13:40 asciilifeform my understanding is that the demented name confusion came about because originally these were handled using the same routines.
13:40 mircea_popescu yes.
13:41 mircea_popescu because system engineering is a topping for pizza.
13:41 asciilifeform street pizza.
13:41 PeterL 10000 btc pizza?
13:41 asciilifeform http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=street+pizza&defid=6660692
13:41 assbot Urban Dictionary: street pizza ... ( http://bit.ly/1CjNEI3 )
13:42 ben_vulpes mk a contention:
13:42 ben_vulpes "reference node should only keep track of a single chain: the longest discoverable"
13:42 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 3235 @ 0.00096678 = 3.1275 BTC [+] {10}
13:43 mircea_popescu how ?
13:43 ben_vulpes that, i do not know.
13:43 asciilifeform the whole process for learning which the 'longest discoverable' is
13:43 asciilifeform requires keeping track of a certain quantity of non-longest.
13:43 ben_vulpes but in keeping around orphan chains, the enemy can pollute ones disk trivially.
13:43 mircea_popescu lol how about "bitcoin should just work" then
13:43 asciilifeform but again, these are the -other- orphans.
13:44 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes yes. which is why the only sane way for bitcoi nnodes to work is gossipd
13:44 mircea_popescu but that is a point for later.
13:44 mod6 pblock is probably not a good name, since in most of the code "pblock" is what is denoted for a pointer to a block.
13:44 mircea_popescu ah eys right mod6
13:44 ben_vulpes bastardblocks
13:44 mircea_popescu ?blocks
13:44 mircea_popescu that's obvious and intuitive enough ?
13:45 mod6 they really are "orphans", since an orphan is someone with out parents right? so im fine with calling them orphans, i think there is confusion around how these come into existance.
13:45 mircea_popescu except they're not orphan, they're just "not in the presence of their parents"
13:45 mats http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2015/01/technical-analysis-of-qualys-ghost.html << i'm slow on the draw, but this was a good read.
13:45 assbot lcamtuf's blog: Technical analysis of Qualys' GHOST ... ( http://bit.ly/163qQxZ )
13:45 mod6 mircea_popescu: fair point there.
13:46 mod6 maybe "disconnected blocks" or something
13:46 mircea_popescu works
13:46 kakobrekla lost i say.
13:46 ben_vulpes hah lols
13:46 ben_vulpes lost
13:46 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: that is a point for later << that's a point from last night
13:46 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-01-2015#998303
13:46 assbot Logged on 30-01-2015 06:22:59; asciilifeform: mr s. did not know 'gossip protocol'.
13:46 mod6 kakobrekla: i like that.
13:47 pete_dushenski plus ca change: http://www.contravex.com/2015/01/30/sthennow/
13:47 assbot s/then/now. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/163rcVf )
13:47 pete_dushenski ^that cyberbullying convo was well timed
13:47 mircea_popescu asciilifeform well really it was a point from ever since gossipd was discussed, but w/e, not mature yet.
13:48 asciilifeform 185554.
13:50 pete_dushenski later gang!
13:51 mircea_popescu 500 in 2 hours ?
13:52 asciilifeform aha
13:52 mircea_popescu so at the present rate, done by conference time :D
13:53 asciilifeform not linear.
13:54 mircea_popescu well technically it's improved, over the 200/hour earlier :p
13:56 ben_vulpes https://github.com/diafygi/webrtc-ips << well here's some strange
13:56 assbot diafygi/webrtc-ips ยท GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1CjOXGW )
13:56 ben_vulpes https://diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips/ << and the demo (warning: hostile)
13:56 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1CjP19y )
13:58 jurov i propose "mislaid blocks" :DDD
13:58 mircea_popescu teh slutblox
14:03 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> except they're not orphan, they're just "not in the presence of their parents" << Latchkey Blocks
14:04 ben_vulpes ;;later tell pete_dushenski i'll be lucky to get my butt in a miata this decade
14:04 gribble The operation succeeded.
14:05 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: webrtc-ips << lol!!
14:06 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: wanna be hero? post some packet filter rules for this crap
14:06 jurov forlorn, delinquent, remiss, slack, behindhand, belated ...literary english has plenty of words. just dorks know none
14:06 asciilifeform no reason not to chop it off at the wall.
14:06 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13440 @ 0.00042741 = 5.7444 BTC [+] {2}
14:06 jurov whole IT is master, slave, orphan, vorgin, etc.
14:06 jurov *virgin
14:06 ben_vulpes obsessions of the unsexed
14:06 mircea_popescu jurov word.
14:07 mircea_popescu beloated blocks is not bad.
14:07 davout lol jurov
14:07 mircea_popescu sorta like belation causing bloat thing
14:07 asciilifeform bloatsam.
14:07 asciilifeform (as in floatsam)
14:08 asciilifeform or was it flotsam
14:09 ben_vulpes the latter
14:09 ben_vulpes blocksam
14:10 mircea_popescu brock pierce ?
14:11 ben_vulpes any time anyone brings up brock i think of pokemon.
14:11 asciilifeform when someone brings up 'pierce' can't help but think of pederasts
14:11 asciilifeform or rather, russian prison buggery
14:11 asciilifeform which, according to scholars, divides those who have been 'lowered into pederasty' into the 'pierced' and 'unpierced' species
14:12 ben_vulpes 'pierce' << i think fondly of that time in my life when i had several holes in my face
14:12 asciilifeform the former, those who have been ceremonially buggered in the usual sense, the latter - those who have not (or not yet), but have been assigned the caste
14:18 asciilifeform 'getdata... ...can be used to retrieve transactions, but only if they are in the memory pool or relay set - arbitrary access to transactions in the chain is not allowed to avoid having clients start to depend on nodes having full transaction indexes (which modern nodes do not).'
14:18 asciilifeform (from the bitcoin.it www)
14:19 * asciilifeform wonders if anyone else considers this to be lame
14:20 ben_vulpes i.
14:20 ben_vulpes have in fact complained about this in the past.
14:20 ben_vulpes !s getdata
14:20 assbot 3 results for 'getdata' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=getdata
14:23 BingoBoingo Making money in college Illigu
14:23 BingoBoingo http://dailyegyptian.com/western-courier-editor-suspension-adds-to-list-of-student-censorship/
14:23 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Dfk9Ur )
14:23 mircea_popescu asciilifeform can be safely snipped.
14:23 jurov http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/search?_filestring=&_string=getdata
14:23 assbot Satoshi 0.5.3.chicken general search: getdata ... ( http://bit.ly/1Dfker9 )
14:24 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: what can be
14:24 mircea_popescu it will cause trouble at some point down the road, because eventually the blockchain will overwhelm the index.
14:24 mircea_popescu however, it can be implemented as rolling window, which is how in point of fact "relay set" works
14:25 * asciilifeform was thinking the opposite - civilized nodes could provide arbitrary tx access
14:25 ben_vulpes hear hear
14:25 ben_vulpes not really the remit of the RI tho.
14:26 ben_vulpes RI, by my understanding: downloads and verifies blockchain; regurgitates blocks on demand; relays transactions.
14:27 mircea_popescu asciilifeform not indefinitely.
14:30 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: so long as overhead is O(n) or below, why not
14:31 mircea_popescu i dun think it is.
14:31 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1450 @ 0.00096878 = 1.4047 BTC [+] {3}
14:31 asciilifeform 0.5.3 - certainly not
14:31 mircea_popescu right.
14:32 asciilifeform mathematically - quite achievable
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14:35 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: undergrads who 'rock the boat' end up 'having problems', one way or another. see also the folks who posted diffs b/w one semester's textbook and next's
14:36 asciilifeform (for non-usa folks: the 'college racket' does not consist merely of tuition and housing that go up ~10%/yr., but also miscellaneous vampirisms like textbooks that stay almost exactly the same but for the exercise set orderings, at 100-400 usd a pop, moving target every semester)
14:36 ben_vulpes i didn't even see the reorderings, asciilifeform
14:37 mircea_popescu you know the one time a smarmy teacher tried to be all american and make the class buy a book we complained to the provost and he nearly got kicked out.
14:37 mircea_popescu apparently growing up in the civilised world has its advantages
14:37 mircea_popescu (it didn't last tho, meanwhile romania joined nato and every college prof is hawking his own dumbass books)
14:41 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 56900 @ 0.00042156 = 23.9868 BTC [-] {2}
14:42 ben_vulpes <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: undergrads who 'rock the boat' end up 'having problems', one way or another. see also the folks who posted diffs b/w one semester's textbook and next's << can't say as that was my experience. i rocked the boat constantly and still managed to eke some funding out of the university for harebrained rocket schemes
14:46 coderwill ben_vulpes: hello, apologies, i have been busy for a few days, but noticed your mention the other day about options
14:46 ben_vulpes oh, mostly just trolling you
14:47 coderwill ben_vulpes: the first thing i asked was to see the cap table
14:48 coderwill ben_vulpes: sorry wasn't around to reply
14:49 coderwill so when i asked to see the cap table, was told that no one except investors are allowed to see cap table
14:50 coderwill then what mike_c said was almost exactly what happened afterward, ironically
14:51 mircea_popescu next time tell them "listen bub, i'm not fresh off the turnip truck. you want to hire me on pure salary, it's $1,5mn the first year payable upfront and increasing by 1mn each eyar after that.
14:51 mircea_popescu now go get that cap table."
14:52 coderwill yeah, i thought about that at the time, but then was like, well, i guess i'm getting to work at one of the most well-known wallet providers, that could be good for subsequent opportunities
14:52 mircea_popescu except it's moreover bad.
14:52 coderwill correct, that was a naive thought in many regards
14:52 mircea_popescu well, at least now it's in the logs.
14:53 trinque coderwill: nah man, that "this will at least be good for my resume" thing is just a way of learning to love the pole
14:54 mircea_popescu it's how amanda hess works, at any rate :D
14:54 coderwill haha, it's all good
14:54 trinque everyone in the industry under 30 is a perma-intern
14:55 coderwill i am thankful for the opportunity and it has let me to better places, but definitely not what i was expecting when i came on board
14:55 trinque that said why fight for equity if the businesses wont even be there in a few years
14:56 ben_vulpes yeah fuck equity
14:56 trinque maybe 2 of the 7 I've worked for still exist
14:56 ben_vulpes short the shartups
14:56 trinque one of those is my own
14:56 coderwill at the same time, there are some people i really enjoyed getting to know who i'd be happy to work with again. it's just a few that made it very strange for everyone
14:57 coderwill trinque: agreed, equity is not all it's cracked up to be
14:57 trinque well it's not equity; it's that the companies are largely worthless
14:58 trinque I had looads of shares of the terrible rails startup I was a part of years ago
14:58 trinque company's dead; shares aren't worth one reddit note
14:58 mircea_popescu trinque pushing for equity is an essential tool in evaluating the company.
14:58 mircea_popescu peopel tend to forget that working for a start-up is a LOAN.
14:58 coderwill trinque: reminds me of a quote from @fakegrimlock - https://twitter.com/fakegrimlock/status/487334449089372161
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14:59 trinque mircea_popescu: oh certainly!
14:59 trinque just commenting on the worthlessness of american startups
14:59 mircea_popescu well the only way to survive is to nmot work for a worthless one.
14:59 coderwill mircea_popescu: i like your idea about working for a startup being a loan
14:59 scoopbot New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/the-meta-problem/
15:00 coderwill mircea_popescu: seems like the ones that think of it that way are far and few between
15:01 mircea_popescu coderwill think of it in sexual terms. "honey let's fuck". "are you going to be around in ten years to raiuse my children ?" "nope" "so i'm loaning you my taxed income in the future ?"
15:02 mircea_popescu traditional employment of the "that's a firm to put 30 years in with" isn't a loan particularly for that reason.
15:02 coderwill haha
15:04 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34734 @ 0.00042959 = 14.9214 BTC [+]
15:06 coderwill it's a bummer people can't be more straight-up with potential hires
15:06 trinque mircea_popescu: seems this state you describe in the article is terminal
15:06 mircea_popescu which one ?
15:06 trinque coderwill: you have to force them to be, and if you can't, why would they?
15:06 coderwill i guess there is a flipside though, which is people wanting everything
15:06 trinque mircea_popescu: the meta problem
15:06 trinque if a person can't reason enough to reason that they'd better improve their reasoning, fucked
15:07 ben_vulpes fucked without external intervention.
15:07 trinque maybe someone external can force them to do otherwise, but they never will
15:07 trinque right
15:07 ben_vulpes hence beatings.
15:08 coderwill trinque: re: hiring, probably best to start small with people you trust almost unconditionally
15:09 coderwill or maybe a better way of saying it, a person who comes to the table thinking "what's in this for us" instead of "what's in this for me"
15:09 mircea_popescu trinque aka d-k as hanbot points out
15:10 mircea_popescu <trinque> maybe someone external can force them to do otherwise, but they never will << main point of slavery.
15:10 mircea_popescu "you'll be eating dogfood off the floor until you can X"
15:10 trinque poking at the roots of the brain directly, read that in another recent article
15:10 mircea_popescu coderwill yes, that and the frankness are the predicates of this place, and why it works, and why qntra will sink gawker and so on.
15:11 mircea_popescu it's just altogether a much better model.
15:11 mircea_popescu it only works for rich, smart people, but then again let gavin have africa, and graham sillycon valley, they'll have fun together.
15:12 ben_vulpes <coderwill> trinque: re: hiring, probably best to start small with people you trust almost unconditionally << i've had decent success hiring friends and their friends.
15:12 trinque ben_vulpes: dat irl wot
15:13 ben_vulpes wots rule everything around me
15:13 ben_vulpes mind you, coderwill "friends" is not the criteria.
15:14 coderwill mircea_popescu: yeah, hope something positive comes out at the end
15:14 ben_vulpes it's more like "dood i know and respect knows and respects this other dood, so i guess i'll give him a whirl".
15:14 trinque ^ requires good stock that knows the meaning of respect
15:14 ben_vulpes tricky, indubitably.
15:16 asciilifeform 185964.
15:17 ben_vulpes as an aside, the whole vesting thing is odd.
15:17 ben_vulpes i've been batting around the notion of a qntra-style stock pool, where stock in the operation would be issued in direct proportion to hours clocked on the project.
15:17 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: lol!
15:17 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: why not by the pound ?
15:17 asciilifeform !s which screw
15:17 assbot 16 results for 'which screw' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=which+screw
15:18 ben_vulpes i don't quite know if this is topologically different from an option pool with a vesting schedule, except that it provides some fairness proportionality to the time worked
15:18 asciilifeform try paying the 'which screw' man by the hour.
15:18 ben_vulpes i've no business with "which screw" men.
15:19 ben_vulpes everything we touch gets the shit automated out of it as a precondition of touching it.
15:19 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: what do your men do, the profit from which is at all proportional to the time spent?
15:19 asciilifeform iirc there was programming involved?
15:19 ben_vulpes read, think. occasionally commit a line or two of code.
15:20 ben_vulpes others: read, think, occasionally produce a UI layout.
15:20 asciilifeform and the fella who has to think for two hours to come up with xxxx, should be paid 2x the pay of the 1h one ?
15:20 asciilifeform am i the only one who thinks this is odd
15:20 ben_vulpes the fella who thinks for twice as long is generally not paid nearly what the one who can see it instantly.
15:20 ben_vulpes (is).
15:21 asciilifeform the latter is called 'which screw'
15:21 ben_vulpes you're forcing a metaphor.
15:22 ben_vulpes some read and do (the correct thing) very quickly, and are remunerated in proportion to their time spent and speed at which they do it.
15:22 ben_vulpes this allows the man who only cares to work for 15 hours per week to do so, comfortably, provided he's good at what he does.
15:22 asciilifeform hourly billing, esp. for engineering, always seemed like the worst possible incentive to me
15:23 asciilifeform the most valuable contractor is the one who magicks away the problem in seconds and then gets out of yer face
15:23 ben_vulpes well, we work with derpy web stacks man.
15:23 ben_vulpes each a snowflake with its own peculiarities.
15:23 asciilifeform especially there, this ought to be true ?
15:23 asciilifeform the master of a particular turd can 'turn the screw'
15:23 ben_vulpes as we get up to speed on a given codebase/ops story, shit moves vastly more quickly.
15:23 asciilifeform civilian - will be reading the horror for weeks
15:24 trinque really hard to quantify this stuff
15:24 ben_vulpes no doubt, asciilifeform, no doubt.
15:24 asciilifeform the gnarlier, uglier, the proggy, the more potential for 'screws'
15:24 ben_vulpes but someone must invest the capital to justify loading it into a team's shared understanding.
15:25 * asciilifeform finds the above ^ a bit confusing but may be out of depth
15:26 ben_vulpes the source must be read, neh?
15:26 ben_vulpes this takes time.
15:26 ben_vulpes someone must foot the bill for that.
15:26 asciilifeform unless you already knew (or even wrote) it
15:26 asciilifeform (consultant)
15:27 ben_vulpes sure, for greenfield absolutely.
15:27 cazalla nubbins`: cazalla tell us more about your web of hate <<< some kid printed out ICQ chatlogs that he was not even involved in and took them to the police
15:27 ben_vulpes but what about the project whose maintainer has ghosted themselves off to the next interesting thing?
15:28 asciilifeform even for straight reverse-engineering, there are order-of-magnitude variations in the amount different folks have to read to grasp the problem
15:29 asciilifeform i bet you can think of some examples of this, from your own practice
15:29 cazalla nubbins`: is there anyone here who hasn't made the local news for threatening people? o.O <<< i made TV too because what else happens in the sticks, thankfully minor at the time.. all this shit because i said i was gonna machine gun a bunch of people
15:29 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: several.
15:30 ben_vulpes i'd not go so far as to say "order of magnitude"
15:30 ben_vulpes perhaps 2x to 3x
15:30 cazalla mircea_popescu: cazalla: well that was short lived.. "you have been banned from posting to /r/Buttcoin" << what sort of low quality shilling have you been engaging in! <<< i criticised the jews :\
15:30 mats cazalla: lemme guess. 'ButterNubber'?
15:31 cazalla mats, that's not me
15:31 ben_vulpes in our snowflake of a case, that's more due to the difference between people who've seen things like the bug under the microscope before, and people who've yet to learn the myriad of tools and mental models to cope effectively.
15:31 mats the mystery continues.
15:31 ben_vulpes a bit of economics: in training those people, their value delivered goes up disproportionately to their wage hikes.
15:31 trinque ben_vulpes: is being drunk a mental model or a tool
15:31 trinque that one makes django a breeze
15:32 ben_vulpes trinque: well if you know what you're doing, and you're climbing with Ballmer...
15:32 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: their value delivered goes up disproportionately to their wage hikes << naggum wrote at some length on this subject
15:32 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: i'd love to read it
15:32 ben_vulpes there's another side to that as well, which is that the people with whom I work who do things at the 2x-3x range of the others actually enjoy teaching juniors and collaborating on these projects.
15:33 ben_vulpes non monetary remuneration.
15:33 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3134574475962391@naggum.no.html << one bit. there was more, somewhere
15:33 assbot Re: Newbie questions - Naggum cll archive ... ( http://bit.ly/1EuQTx6 )
15:34 asciilifeform http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3184272714185846@naggum.net.html
15:34 assbot Re: What Lisp needs to beat Java, etc. - Naggum cll archive ... ( http://bit.ly/1EuR3EM )
15:35 asciilifeform 'Let's put it another way: Money will _not_ get you any Open Source or Free Software. People create software like this because they want to, _not_ because they get paid. Money is a basically a _detractor_ for creative people who want others to use their software and through that become personally visible. It is pretty sad, but money does not offer visibility to someone who is begging for others to notice him. Open Source a
15:35 asciilifeform nd Free Software are proofs that computers are alienating in the old Marxist sense and the Open Source and Free Software projects are reactions to this sense of alienation, in order to make the person stand out from the computerized nothingness.'
15:36 danielpbarron it's like a starving artist kid i know that will spitefully do a poor job if you pay him to draw something
15:38 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: we definitely diverge from the original topic significantly here, but "community" and "belongingness" is a core part of what we do.
15:38 ben_vulpes we have relationships with our clients, get to know their business and make a nominal difference in how they do it.
15:38 coderwill ben_vulpes: sorry, delayed reply - yeah i get what you are saying about hiring friends
15:39 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: yeah, linked piece is not quite what i was looking for
15:39 asciilifeform it's in there, somewhere.
15:40 asciilifeform (*in the archive)
15:40 ben_vulpes myeah.
15:40 ben_vulpes i'd like to be more familiar with that archive.
15:40 * ben_vulpes files it for peacetime
15:40 asciilifeform http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/index.html
15:40 assbot Erik Naggum comp.lang.lisp archive ... ( http://bit.ly/1yMUgap )
15:41 * asciilifeform at one point snarfed up all of it
15:43 trinque !up felipelalli
15:43 trinque felipelalli: you're going to want to get yourself a cloak
15:43 trinque and a properly configured irc client
15:44 trinque somebody in here likes to ddos IPs that appear in logs
15:45 trinque I'm sure we're all being scanned for hax as well
15:45 trinque ^heh! fled
15:53 cazalla why the name change trinque?
15:56 trinque cazalla: this was always my otc handle, and hence the name that made it into assbot
15:56 trinque and why use an alias
15:57 cazalla guess i gots to make another symlink in my mind much in the same way i made one for bitcoinpete
15:58 BingoBoingo !b 4
15:58 assbot Last 4 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/25RYXFV.txt )
15:59 trinque BingoBoingo: is this to highlight "why use an alias" for when I'm hauled off to room 101?
16:01 BingoBoingo trinque: Nah, just wanted to highlight brain symlinks
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16:27 kakobrekla i know changing names is not a good practice, but perhaps for the sake of sync we could allow to update your name once (given properly signed request from adequate gpg key)
16:34 ben_vulpes changing names not a good practice?
16:34 ben_vulpes so long as the fp doesn't change how does that matter?
16:34 ben_vulpes felipelalli: you'll need a cloak.
16:35 kakobrekla ben_vulpes think of it this way: why dont we just use FP instead of nicks ?
16:35 asciilifeform kakobrekla: that was sorta the plan in 'gossip'
16:35 asciilifeform nick is just something you'd assign locally to an fp, for convenience
16:36 kakobrekla reminds me of http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-01-2015#998582
16:36 assbot Logged on 30-01-2015 16:49:48; kakobrekla: the thing with the phone was, when you were sending sms you had to type in the destination phone number from your head, no way to use saved entries.
16:36 kakobrekla yes, locally
16:36 kakobrekla thats different matter.
16:36 asciilifeform this is actually more like how names work in life
16:37 asciilifeform i.e. you have some say in what folks you meet will call you, but not 100%
16:37 kakobrekla but say you rated undata at some point, and then he changes nick to pirateat40 and you will wtf next time you check your ratings
16:38 felipelalli ben_vulpes: why?
16:38 davout kakobrekla: dat true
16:38 kakobrekla now, this is just a one time inconvenience, but say everyone would change all the time. nicht gut.
16:38 davout i can hardly remember who this kakobrekla guy is anyway
16:39 kakobrekla see its already hard for frenchies.
16:40 asciilifeform so:
16:40 asciilifeform bitcoind limited to 'orphanage' of 50 blocks (running on ordinary pc) never syncs
16:41 scoopbot New post on Qntra.net by cazalla: http://qntra.net/2015/01/police-warn-bitcoin-extortion-letter-recipients-not-to-pay/
16:41 asciilifeform stuck at 3466.
16:41 jurov and does the std limit of 750 help with oom after all?
16:42 asciilifeform almost certainly not (quite definitely not on 'pogo')
16:42 asciilifeform mircea_popescu was right in that a fundamentally more intelligent mechanism for retrieving blocks is necessary
16:44 asciilifeform testing a build of same with constant of 250
16:45 asciilifeform if the memory footprint can actually be limited, the smaller machine can perhaps be allowed to swap to disk.
16:45 davout being able to request blox from peers for a certain height would solve the whole thing instantly
16:45 asciilifeform aha.
16:46 jurov malicious peers can poison us with orphan chain up to that height
16:46 jurov anyway
16:46 jurov i'd suggest to use difficulty
16:46 davout if you're connected to only malicious peers you're kinda fuxxored anyway
16:46 asciilifeform malicious peers not even needed for this
16:47 asciilifeform it happens reliably, anyway
16:47 jurov yes. but if we put in expected difficulty instead of checkpoints
16:47 jurov then producing fake blocks is.. well dificult
16:47 davout "malicious peers not even needed for this" <<< how?
16:47 asciilifeform davout: the flood happens nearly always in the natural process of loading blocks
16:48 jurov (just spur if the moment idea)
16:48 jurov *of
16:49 davout ah, i thought you were referring to jurov's 'malicious peers' objection to consider requesting blocks based on height
16:54 jurov now that is something. if i secretly make 350k alternative blocks with minimal difficulty, will that altchain get chosen if we have no checkpoints?
16:54 asciilifeform experimental result:
16:54 asciilifeform (250, x86)
16:54 asciilifeform ten minutes of run, 127937 height (and going at that rate), at no point process exceeded 90MB
16:57 asciilifeform but!
16:57 asciilifeform seems like it got lucky with peers
16:58 asciilifeform log shows that only two 'bastards' came in
16:58 * asciilifeform resets
17:01 asciilifeform grep "ORPHAN BLOCK" ~/.bitcoin/debug.log | wc -l
17:09 asciilifeform ^ 'bastard count'
17:18 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22125 @ 0.0004171 = 9.2283 BTC [-]
17:18 mod6 Anyone wanna test out a perl script for me? http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Wp8V8n9h
17:18 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1yVycPy )
17:19 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11346 @ 0.00041058 = 4.6584 BTC [-]
17:22 asciilifeform 2nd run (see above) :
17:22 asciilifeform after ~15 min, 950 (iirc) bastards, 85MB max footprint - reached a wedge state at 119970 (1983 bastards, came in burst)
17:23 mod6 yal
17:23 asciilifeform ERROR: ConnectInputs() : xxxxxxxxx mapTransactions prev not found yyyyyyyyy
17:23 asciilifeform ERROR: AcceptToMemoryPool() : ConnectInputs failed xxxxxxxxx
17:23 asciilifeform ^ of this form
17:26 asciilifeform go figure, dislodged.
17:26 davout jurov: "now that is something. if i secretly make 350k alternative blocks with minimal difficulty, will that altchain get chosen if we have no checkpoints?" <<< i don't think so. if you have 8 peers you'll get two different blocks at different diff for the same height, hard to feed you a bogus chain
17:26 asciilifeform stays in mem footprint
17:27 asciilifeform (2800 bastards in)
17:27 asciilifeform 124000 & counting
17:27 asciilifeform this is actually an unsurprising result
17:27 asciilifeform if connects to a peer who insists on pumping it full of bastards, cyclically, of course it wedges.
17:28 asciilifeform but when wedged, does not oom.
17:28 mod6 wait until you get to here:
17:28 mod6 http://dpaste.com/1K109AP
17:28 assbot dpaste: 1K109AP ... ( http://bit.ly/1EURyoS )
17:29 asciilifeform based on the footprint, the orphanage burner functions
17:31 asciilifeform same effect at 131019...
17:31 asciilifeform 4570 bstrds
17:32 asciilifeform 117MB max footprint
17:32 asciilifeform dislodged
17:33 asciilifeform ergo, when it hits a retarded peer, grunts for a while
17:33 asciilifeform would be more economical to simply chop the connection
17:33 asciilifeform retards can go pound sand
17:34 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27000 @ 0.00040756 = 11.0041 BTC [-] {3}
17:35 mats cheer up
17:36 mats can you feel ma love from over the tubes?
17:37 trinque he said, inching closer, staring without a blink
~ 15 minutes ~
17:52 asciilifeform blocks=136927 bastards=7631 peak=120M
17:54 mod6 you're running with a 250 size limit cap now right?
17:54 asciilifeform aha
17:55 asciilifeform (on x86 box)
17:55 mod6 cool
17:57 * danielpbarron now has 3 pogoplugs
17:58 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 12 @ 0.10442915 = 1.2531 BTC [+] {4}
17:59 mod6 that's neat. gonna test RI on 'em?
18:00 danielpbarron what is RI
18:00 mod6 reference implementation
18:01 mod6 (v0.5.3 + patchez)
18:01 danielpbarron ah, yes
18:02 mod6 werd. lettuce know how it goes. :]
18:02 * BingoBoingo considering http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2760 as future desktop machine. Seems to satisfy stuff in bag, carry much distance criteria.
18:02 assbot The Linux Mint Blog ยป Blog Archive ยป Introducing the MintBox Mini ... ( http://bit.ly/18Cxltn )
18:03 asciilifeform BingoBoingo likes soldered-in wifi ?
18:04 BingoBoingo solder melts
18:04 BingoBoingo Antennas snip
18:04 asciilifeform why not buy things that don't require mutilation.
18:06 * BingoBoingo still populates list with candidates. can see merits of wifi for hotel camping scenarios, but prefers unpluggable wifi
18:12 asciilifeform blocks=137849 bastards=8647 peak=128M
~ 16 minutes ~
18:29 ben_vulpes interesting hostname, berndj
18:29 ben_vulpes hmph. nevermind.
18:29 asciilifeform http://lurkmore.so/images/2/2e/66548.jpg << bitcoin 'core' developer
18:29 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/18Cy6mf )
18:30 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: http://lurkmore.so/images/e/ed/ArApp.jpg << see also
18:30 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/18Cycum )
18:30 asciilifeform ought to be a book!
~ 25 minutes ~
18:55 danielpbarron i'm ssh'd into this thing; pretty neat
18:58 danielpbarron http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2tzjp7/hi_reddit_im_bill_gates_and_im_back_for_my_third/co68xd5?context=8 << persistent guy!
18:58 assbot GoldenVizions comments on Hi Reddit, Iโ€™m Bill Gates and Iโ€™m back for my third AMA. Ask me anything. ... ( http://bit.ly/1DfXEP9 )
19:00 danielpbarron "This will take some time but getting into the Web of Trust is something I have wanted to do and have been studying for a few months now."
19:04 asciilifeform blocks=144806 bastards=11847 peak=145M
19:05 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21382 @ 0.00042654 = 9.1203 BTC [+] {2}
19:08 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3800 @ 0.00043333 = 1.6467 BTC [+]
19:15 scoopbot New post on Qntra.net by Bingo Boingo: http://qntra.net/2015/01/police-offer-well-surveilled-online-exchange-zone/
19:15 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 61100 @ 0.00043633 = 26.6598 BTC [+] {2}
19:29 mircea_popescu !up berndj
19:29 mircea_popescu !up Takeshi
19:30 mircea_popescu anyone want the clearly very valuable oyvey.eu domain ?
19:31 mircea_popescu lol cpt buttarms
19:33 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes: i've been batting around the notion of a qntra-style stock pool, where stock in the operation would be issued in direct proportion to hours clocked on the project. << risky if it ends up promoting clockpainting.
19:33 jurov ben_vulpes: sell that idea to reddit
19:34 mircea_popescu qntra works very well, at least so far, because everyone's work is fundamentally public, there's no meaning in "writing words' outside of obviously others reading them. so trying to thin out the product as it were is painfully visible and liable to cost whoever does it more than it's worth.
19:34 jurov they can give scamcoins according to time spent there
19:34 mircea_popescu with something private like you know, coding work, this may prove unfeasible.
19:34 mircea_popescu jurov kinda what they do already no ?
19:35 jurov well, yes.
19:39 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what do your men do, the profit from which is at all proportional to the time spent? << this is a well pointed question. it'd seem your business is ass-backwardss : people do the job of computers, and i guess computers do the job of people ?!
19:39 trinque seems just issuing bonuses when times are good is more manageable
19:39 trinque maybe that's applicable to stock as well; just issue shares as you personally see fit
19:40 * trinque wonders if there are rules on "fairness" in regards to giving employees stock
19:40 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 50214 @ 0.00042159 = 21.1697 BTC [-] {2}
19:41 mircea_popescu "everyone must get the same"
19:41 trinque jesus
19:41 trinque mircea_popescu: really?
19:41 mircea_popescu well what ?!
19:42 trinque well presumably I own the fucking thing, at least in my own delusion
19:42 trinque I can't just decide a guy has pleased me and give him some?
19:42 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1560 @ 0.000932 = 1.4539 BTC [-]
19:43 mircea_popescu maybe you don't understand this whole "fairness" concept.
19:44 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> with something private like you know, coding work, this may prove unfeasible. << Also as unequally as prose may be weighted, code is especially unequal when it comes to volume versus value.
19:44 trinque seems dangerous to give stock at all then, if there's anything at all on the books about "fairness" to whoever
19:44 mircea_popescu trinque yes, capitalism does not work in the hands of idiots.
19:44 mircea_popescu like gpg. like everything else worth using.
19:45 mircea_popescu it's that fabled lightsabre that only lightsabers if wielded by master.
19:46 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo yeah, you're right. qntra was a bold step into the darkness, perhaps too bold. trying it with coding is taking a bold ~train trip~ into the wilderness.
19:46 asciilifeform pay for quantity or time is how the fabled 'indian coder' came about.
19:46 asciilifeform (the notion was once taken to extremes in that country)
19:47 trinque I suppose I should stop being surprised.
19:47 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo yeah, you're right. qntra was a bold step into the darkness, perhaps too bold. trying it with coding is taking a bold ~train trip~ into the wilderness. << Well with Qntra and prose having editorial controls helps to level the problem. I can not imagine a similar arbiter existing for code.
19:47 asciilifeform time is the less immediately-suicidal variant - all you end up with is a clock-watcher and a lighter wallet
19:47 trinque the incoherence of it all sets off instinctual rage that if nothing else keeps me hammering away at the wall
19:47 asciilifeform 'weight' is the killer
19:47 asciilifeform you have to live with... the code. afterwards.
19:48 mircea_popescu ^
19:48 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i know precisely one place where this approach worked.
19:49 asciilifeform 'The practice is pervaded by the reassuring illusion that programs are just devices like any others, the only difference admitted being that their manufacture might require a new type of craftsmen, viz. programmers. From there it is only a small step to measuring "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code produced per month". This is a very costly measuring unit because it encourages the writing of insipid
19:49 asciilifeform code, but today I am less interested in how foolish a unit it is from even a pure business point of view. My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.'
19:49 mircea_popescu i dunno if you like balzac much, but the only reason the fat lazy fuck exists as a writer is because he had to pay his eternal debts and the newspapers paid by the line.
19:49 ben_vulpes i'm apparently in the unique situation of reading through all code that gets produced in my shop and having more or less everyone's eyes on everyone's product.
19:49 asciilifeform https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html
19:49 assbot Page not found | Computer Science Department The University of Texas at Austin ... ( http://bit.ly/1vhLve1 )
19:49 asciilifeform 'On the cruelty of really teaching computing science' (dijkstra)
19:49 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes that'll scale about as well as "i don't need condoms, i only fuck clean girls"
19:49 ben_vulpes i was just about to say.
19:49 trinque ben_vulpes: it just occurred to me that perhaps the group could somehow quantify their mutual perception of who has contributed?
19:49 ben_vulpes NO QUANTIFICATION
19:49 trinque is that faiaaaiiiirrr? *wiggles eyebrows*
19:49 mircea_popescu trinque hey, you're really building teh reddit
19:50 trinque damn it; I did.
19:50 ben_vulpes you stop it with your mad quest for metriced decisionmaking
19:50 trinque but doesn't have to be flat
19:50 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes fucks with bigger tits that last longer should be paid more!
19:50 asciilifeform the group could somehow quantify their mutual perception << l0ll!!!
19:50 ben_vulpes yeah i do it manually on walks with individual contributors
19:50 trinque asciilifeform: the fuck; you never do peer code review?
19:50 asciilifeform nope
19:51 ben_vulpes asciilifeform clearly has no peers capable of reading his code
19:51 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6786 @ 0.00040931 = 2.7776 BTC [-]
19:51 ben_vulpes it's actually a manual walking of the shop wot
19:51 ben_vulpes hm.
19:51 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes trinque well have you looked at the sort of shit he outputs ?
19:51 ben_vulpes WHATEVER
19:51 trinque mircea_popescu: doesn't what someone is paid quantify it ultimately anyway?
19:51 mircea_popescu 4mb bitcoind that doesn't fucking work etc.
19:51 trinque haha
19:51 trinque ben_vulpes: right, internal wot, exactly
19:52 trinque doesn't matter though, nanny bama will burn your house down if you try to introduce hierarchy
19:52 trinque I can't process that
19:53 mircea_popescu so i just re-read this article, it's getting to the point where i manage to piss MYSELF off.
19:53 mircea_popescu i wonder if anyone ever trolled themselves off the internet.
19:55 BingoBoingo !b 3
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19:56 trinque mircea_popescu: which?
19:56 mircea_popescu the last one.
19:56 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com3690.3 %3692.6 %
19:56 mircea_popescu http://qntra.net/2015/01/the-hard-fork-missile-crisis/3280.3 %3282.3 %
19:56 assbot 502 Bad Gateway ... ( http://bit.ly/1yOjHbP )
19:56 mircea_popescu ^ check it out, a challenger appears.
19:57 trinque the write on the screen bit -> my sides
19:57 mircea_popescu http://www.donotlink.com/ << btw.
19:57 assbot Link without improving "their" search engine position | donotlink.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1yOk0U1 )
19:57 mircea_popescu how do you know you REALLY piss people off.
19:58 asciilifeform lol!
19:59 mircea_popescu http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2t7k6w/the_emperor_is_buttnaked_btc_block_size/cnx2cor
19:59 assbot dgerard comments on The Emperor is Buttnaked (BTC block size discussion with Gavin) ... ( http://bit.ly/1vhO67K )
19:59 mircea_popescu othar efforts in the same vein.
20:00 mircea_popescu ahh, i recall the age of the romanian pond, when a bunch of retarded ~romanians~ similarly entertained delusions of, you know, we will HURT THIS GUY!!111
20:00 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 43500 @ 0.00041322 = 17.9751 BTC [+]
20:00 mircea_popescu because obviously anything's within reach.
20:02 mircea_popescu meanwhile :
20:02 mircea_popescu [ย–]Institutional_Invest 1 point 9 days ago TLDR of this discussion?
20:02 mircea_popescu [ย–]wonderkindel 5 points 8 days ago Gavin sees a major shitstorm ahead, does not know of any way out, but hopes that cartels of honest miners will materialize to keep the dream wet.
20:02 mircea_popescu check it out davout, r/buttcoin gets it ?!
20:02 ben_vulpes http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2u7ddq/the_real_reason_ryan_charles_was_fired_from/
20:02 assbot The real reason Ryan Charles was fired from reddit: he spent the entire duration of his employment working on a port of bitcoin core to Javascript. : Buttcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1vhOTp9 )
20:03 mircea_popescu lawl
20:03 mircea_popescu it wasn't javascript
20:03 mircea_popescu it was xml.
20:03 mircea_popescu inspired by a returnofkinks.com post.
20:03 BingoBoingo lol
20:05 trinque lol @ notch did minecraft in js
20:06 ben_vulpes returnofkinks << bahahaha
20:06 davout mircea_popescu: yeah well, if honest cartels don't make it we can only hope about "maybe assurance contracts, maybe bonded identies tied to transaction fees"
20:07 mircea_popescu that "assurance contracts" in particular is such insane dumb only hearn could have sprouted it.
20:07 mircea_popescu do you know how syria could have bombed new york ?
20:07 mircea_popescu ASSURANCE CONTRACTS!
20:07 davout they're called difficulty futures goddammit
20:07 davout XD
20:08 mircea_popescu a bunch of derps in beirut getting together and agreeing to have bombed new york is how new york will have been bombed.
20:08 mircea_popescu subjonctive died out in english because it was stupid, time to reimplement it out of javascript and call it something else!
20:08 mircea_popescu do you know how "the sanctions" destroyed putin ?
20:08 mircea_popescu by washington agreeing with reddit that they did!
20:08 mircea_popescu redditardssurance contracts!
20:09 davout on an other topic, wrt to pogo plug chain sync
20:09 asciilifeform 'Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. He spends part of his time in a fantasy world in which things happen as they should ย— in which, for example, the Spanish Armada was a success or the Russian Revolution was crushed in 1918 ย— and he will transfer fragments of this world to the history books whenever possible. Much of the propagandist writing of our time amounts to plain forgery. Materi
20:09 asciilifeform al facts are suppressed, dates altered, quotations removed from their context and doctored so as to change their meaning. Events which it is felt ought not to have happened are left unmentioned and ultimately denied.' (orwell/nationalism)
20:09 davout i'm kinda hesitating between genius and braindamaged for the following idea: what if the chain gets synced backwards from the top?
20:10 davout see a bunch of nodes sorta agreeing on the same chain tip, take it, work backwards to genesis block easily since you can easily fetch previous block, once done verify chain and get back to usual bzns
20:11 asciilifeform work backwards to genesis block >> or to perdition
20:13 davout asciilifeform: yeah, there's that but unless you're maliciously partitioned away from the legit network it wouldn't be trivial to fool you
20:14 davout you'd kinda notice it quickly too if every other node you ask about this (N-1) block tells you to gtfo
20:14 davout just my 2 gavincoins
20:14 davout i'm off, laterz
20:19 asciilifeform blocks=180294 bastards=18412 peak=168M
20:19 asciilifeform pogo: 187387
20:19 mircea_popescu davout how do you know what the top is ?
20:20 mircea_popescu asciilifeform and how well that worked for the nationalists is evident everwhere around us!
20:21 mircea_popescu what was the hands-down, no question asked, no doubt possible dominant party and c ultural force of the 1930s ?
20:21 mircea_popescu anihilated by 1960.
20:21 mircea_popescu completely gone by 1990.
20:21 mircea_popescu such success...
20:21 mircea_popescu that the socialists are doing the same thing...
20:21 mircea_popescu so what, anihilated by 2020, completely gone by 2050, hopefully we'll be smarter than to do it over.
20:23 mircea_popescu (but to anyone not quite seeing the world for what it is : yes we are at war, and yes the year is about 1944, and yes the fucking nazis are running the fucking concentration camps and invaded russia and so on and so forth. you had no idera about it, but similarly you had no idea about it in 1944. the only reason this is being an issue is because the introduction of the bitcoin tank/bomber/submarine is massively turning
20:23 mircea_popescu the tide, and suddenly all sorts of disparate and previously doomed forces are now converging.
20:23 mircea_popescu you wouldn't have known there's such a thing as "french partisans" if there wasn't a 1945, either)
20:25 mircea_popescu so no, when i'm talking about hanging each and every us bureaucrat, through a war crimes court, within our lifetime i am not being in any sense and to any degree metaphorical.
20:27 mircea_popescu !rated danielpbarron
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20:30 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21050 @ 0.00041175 = 8.6673 BTC [-]
20:32 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34218 @ 0.00041563 = 14.222 BTC [+] {2}
20:34 danielpbarron i've got archlinux on this thing now
20:34 danielpbarron i'll look into doing openbsd later once i get the hang of this
20:35 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: http://web.archive.org/web/20110125101820/tacomaconfidential.typepad.com/the_murder_book_2008/2010/10/hans-reiser-former-genius-convicted-murderer-and-future-mad-scientist.html << criminal justice mega-lulzmine
20:35 assbot The Murder Book : Hans Reiser: former genius, convicted murderer and future mad scientist? ... ( http://bit.ly/1HuBiQp )
20:36 asciilifeform specifically,
20:36 asciilifeform 'At one point, before trial, Hans was offered a three-year-sentence if he pled guilty to manslaughter. He refused and will now serve at least 15 years behind bars.)'
20:36 * asciilifeform did not verify this
20:36 BingoBoingo Ah
20:36 asciilifeform the 'plea bargain' thing works by demonstrative public floggings like this
20:37 ben_vulpes former genius?
20:37 ben_vulpes i wonder how that works.
20:38 asciilifeform !b 2
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20:39 asciilifeform it works like this: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-01-2015#999195
20:39 assbot Logged on 31-01-2015 01:09:34; asciilifeform: 'Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. He spends part of his time in a fantasy world in which things happen as they should ย— in which, for example, the Spanish Armada was a success or the Russian Revolution was crushed in 1918 ย— and he will transfer fragments of this world to the history books whenever possible. Much of the propagandist writing of our time amounts to
20:39 asciilifeform modern state claims sovereignty over not only present, future, but also past.
20:39 ben_vulpes satoshi the thought-criminal.
20:40 asciilifeform the easiest, most often reached-for weapon is 'this never happened'
20:40 asciilifeform if it fails, then, 'thought crime'
20:43 asciilifeform danielpbarron: iirc, openbsd will not see the nand flash on the 'pogo.'
20:43 asciilifeform danielpbarron: there may be an experimental driver.
20:48 danielpbarron oh :<
20:52 midnightmagic uh. just for the record, I strongly disagree with plotting the violent overthrow of the USG. I do not, have not, will not, and would not even in the face of violent coercion, consider the use of violent and/or lethal force as a vehicle of governmental change. I am not a seditionist.
20:53 danielpbarron what about financial overthrow?
20:53 midnightmagic fair game if it's a peaceful choice on the part of people.
20:53 asciilifeform 'if you saw a man drowning, and had the choice between saving him and taking a photo, what aperture and exposure settings would you use ?'
20:54 midnightmagic financial starvation of classic authority structures is the primary reason I am interested in bitcoin: because it allows us to do so without shedding a drop of their blood.
20:56 * asciilifeform does not expect to outlive usg by very long
20:56 asciilifeform ^ for reasons described in the 'last psychiatrist' essay linked to by mircea_popescu.
20:58 asciilifeform midnightmagic: if you're actually expecting to 'starve' the state by using bitcoin, you may end up somewhat disappointed. it lives on flesh, not money.
20:59 asciilifeform it is worth reading about ancient slave empires
21:00 asciilifeform particularly relevant here is that of the inca
21:00 asciilifeform who did not (afaik) make use of money, but had extensive system of slave labour (corvee labour, technically, form of taxation) and the closest thing to a totalitarian state they could pull off under their tech level
21:01 asciilifeform complete with collectivized agriculture.
21:01 asciilifeform notably absent from the picture: fiat (or any other) currency, debased or otherwise
21:01 asciilifeform not trying to argue that usg will somehow transmogrify into inca empire when it 'needs to'
21:01 decimation asciilifeform: "nationalism" strikes me as the wrong word here
21:02 asciilifeform but that it is not entirely impossible to find a pill against whatever kind of resistance
21:02 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29264 @ 0.00041175 = 12.0495 BTC [-]
21:02 decimation orwell was probably trying to name his enemies, but 'utopian dreamers' seems more fitting
21:02 midnightmagic dude. seriously plotting or fomenting the physical murder of the USG is sedition, insurrection, and various related crimes and there's no fucking way I'm interested in being associated with it just because I'm lurking in here.
21:02 asciilifeform as described in the mega-super book, 'the art of not being governed' (j.c.scott)
21:02 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i forget, who is hans reiser ?
21:02 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: reiserfs.
21:02 mircea_popescu <ben_vulpes> i wonder how that works. << drugs are bad mkay ?
21:02 decimation he was the guy who wrote a filesytem; murdered his mail order bridge later
21:03 decimation lol s/bridge/bride
21:03 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: killed (reasonably certainly) wife
21:03 * asciilifeform still uses reiserfs...
21:03 midnightmagic so. no offence, I'm pretty sure you guys aren't actually real seditionists, but I wanted to be on the record about what I think about violence.
21:03 asciilifeform midnightmagic: 4 times is probably enough for the nsa tape
21:04 mircea_popescu midnightmagic i added it to the bash for you. once jurov or some mod gets around to looking at it it may even show up
21:04 mircea_popescu pity deedbot's temporarily dead.
21:04 * asciilifeform envisions meeting midnightmagic at neighbouring gallows: 'but i....'
21:05 joecool reiser4 is an excellent fs, i used to talk to some of his employees back when i maintained a patchset
21:05 mircea_popescu <midnightmagic> financial starvation of classic authority structures is the primary reason I am interested in bitcoin: because it allows us to do so without shedding a drop of their blood. << this is a good principle. however, people starve best if they are surrounded by barbed wire manned by other people firmly decided to escalate force to any degree.
21:05 joecool too bad he had to shove nina in lost+found
21:05 decimation midnightmagic: you would not resort to violence under any circumstances?
21:05 mircea_popescu so... yes. for as long as the usg is willing to die peacefully, it will die peacefully. and if it wishes to try and make a break for it, all the same, it will die bloodily.
21:05 mircea_popescu the only point not in contention : it will die.
21:05 mircea_popescu and i will be there to piss on its grave.
21:06 midnightmagic decimation: justified violence can take many forms including self-defence from immediate and credible threats to life and limb.
21:07 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> not trying to argue that usg will somehow transmogrify into inca empire when it 'needs to' << ballas is fundamentally (if perhaps unaware-ly) arguing that it already has. that's where his numerous psychanalisis pieces on the public mindset converge.
21:07 asciilifeform aha
21:07 midnightmagic wolman also agrees
21:07 asciilifeform presently the corvee labour is proxy, through taxation and debasement
21:08 asciilifeform if these somehow hiccup - then direct.
21:08 ben_vulpes <midnightmagic> uh. just for the record << lol what inspired this insipid bit of authority pandering?
21:08 mircea_popescu hey, guy's entitled to his own position.
21:09 ben_vulpes i'm just amused at the presentation
21:09 midnightmagic ben_vulpes: As opposed to what? Pandering to the likes of you?
21:09 mircea_popescu zing.
21:09 midnightmagic please.
21:09 ben_vulpes HEY GUISE IM STRONGLY SOMETHING OR OTHER
21:09 mircea_popescu midnightmagic no, srsly, that was good >D
21:09 ben_vulpes it'd be cool man!
21:09 ben_vulpes like the first time anyone's ever done so!
21:09 ben_vulpes you could be the first! best!
21:10 mircea_popescu quite.
21:10 asciilifeform let's all xxxxxxxx.
21:10 ben_vulpes normally i'm brushed off like a fly.
21:10 ben_vulpes it's your lucky day!
21:10 mircea_popescu basically, he's not the right age to run away from home with you vulpes.
21:10 ben_vulpes shame, that.
21:10 * asciilifeform notes for the record (tm) that he is not in favour of deposing glorious fuhrer kim jong un, as that would be criminal, seditious, murderous, immoral...
21:10 mircea_popescu possibly also not the right gender.
21:10 ben_vulpes nah, plenty of labor to go around.
21:11 ben_vulpes solar troughs don't build themselves.
21:11 mircea_popescu i am in favour of deposing any kim, just as long as a) it's done violently and b) not by the us.
21:11 asciilifeform hey kakobrekla, can we have a '! oath <argument>' - returns 'plotting or fomenting the physical murder of <argument> is sedition, insurrection, and various related crimes and there's no fucking way I'm interested in being associated with it just because I'm lurking in here.'
21:12 asciilifeform e.g.,
21:12 mircea_popescu i would like to learn more about how one can make money by renting out the space inside his nose.
21:12 asciilifeform !oath kennedy
21:13 mircea_popescu incidentally, is sedition actually still a crime
21:13 ben_vulpes yup!
21:13 trinque pretty sure the round of patriot legislation covered everything
21:13 asciilifeform nobody cancelled it
21:13 * ben_vulpes recently filled out passport paperwork
21:13 mircea_popescu oh there's that.
21:13 ben_vulpes you gotta swear to all sortsa funny stuff
21:13 trinque good ol enabling act
21:13 ben_vulpes including not calling the funny stuff funny
21:14 ben_vulpes don't call the funny stuff funny, midnightmagic, they might erect you your own gibbet
21:14 asciilifeform that's the thing with sucking state cock, it's infinitely long
21:14 mircea_popescu In 1981, Oscar Lรณpez Rivera, a Puerto Rican Nationalist and Vietnam war veteran, was convicted and sentenced to 70 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and various other offenses. He was among the 16 Puerto Rican nationalists offered conditional clemency by U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1999, but he rejected the offer. His sister, Zenaida Lรณpez, said he refused the offer because on parole, he would be in "prison
21:14 mircea_popescu outside prison." Lรณpez Rivera is said to be "among the longest held political prisoners in the history of Puerto Rico and in the world." He has been jailed for 33 years, 8 months and 1 day.
21:14 asciilifeform throat - finitely deep
21:14 mircea_popescu yep, check it out.
21:15 midnightmagic sedition has never not been a crime.
21:15 mircea_popescu who knew the us holds the record for "longest held political prisoner"
21:15 asciilifeform ;;google treason never prospers for the reason
21:15 gribble Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper ...: <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnharing173129.html>; Treason - Wikiquote: <http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Treason>; John Harington (inventor) - Wikiquote: <http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Harington_(inventor)>
21:15 mircea_popescu midnightmagic you have to excuse me, i come from a jurisdiction where sedition is considered the right and proper attitude of the citizen.
21:15 mircea_popescu and has been, for centuries.
21:16 midnightmagic mircea_popescu: I'm not surprised by that sort of record. :( Their prison population is a disgrace to humanity.
21:16 mircea_popescu asciilifeform quite exactly that.
21:16 * trinque mumbles something jefferson something... sighs
21:16 ben_vulpes nah, give up trinque
21:16 asciilifeform at least we can take copies of 'declaration of independence' (the u.s. one, not mircea_popescu's...) to jail now
21:16 trinque ben_vulpes: oh I have
21:16 asciilifeform at least if 'it was not used in the commission of the crimes'
21:16 trinque still, he said that much
21:17 asciilifeform (as per the barrett brown sentence)
21:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform "he bitchslapped the officer with a large print version of the complete tax code"
21:17 asciilifeform pretty sure complete copy would leave a man not only dead but street pizza
21:17 midnightmagic I'm not sure but I think that non-US citizens can't be tried for treason..
21:17 mircea_popescu midnightmagic im sure the usg thinks it can do anything it pleases.
21:18 trinque midnightmagic: what in the fuck treason do you think you've committed by being within earshot of a discussion of history
21:19 mircea_popescu Laura Berg, a nurse at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in New Mexico was investigated for sedition in September 2005 after writing a letter to the editor of a local newspaper, accusing several national leaders of criminal negligence. Though their action was later deemed unwarranted by the director of Veteran Affairs, local human resources personnel took it upon themselves to request an FBI investigation.
21:19 mircea_popescu Ms. Berg was represented by the ACLU. Charges were dropped in 2006.
21:19 mircea_popescu On March 28, 2010, nine members of the Hutaree militia were arrested and charged with crimes including seditious conspiracy.
21:19 mircea_popescu apparently quite alive and kicking, as a legal device.
21:19 mircea_popescu erryday a new reason to not want to be an usian.
21:19 asciilifeform hutaree charges were dropped, iirc
21:20 asciilifeform they may have been an unsuccessful 'death ray' gambit.
21:20 mircea_popescu yeah.
21:20 asciilifeform !s new york death ray
21:20 assbot 10 results for 'new york death ray' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=new+york+death+ray
21:20 asciilifeform ^ intro for n00bs
21:21 mircea_popescu "Three members pled guilty to possessing a machine gun and were sentenced to time served."
21:21 asciilifeform odd
21:21 asciilifeform ianal, but that's a 5-year minimal
21:22 mircea_popescu well who knows what happened thar.
21:22 mircea_popescu ah, plea bargain.
21:23 asciilifeform at this point one can probably 'plea bargain' to witchcraft
21:23 asciilifeform or killing president garfield
21:23 trinque "seditious intent"
21:24 asciilifeform 'erryday a new reason to not want to be an usian' >>>>> 'every day a new reason not to want to be dragged behind a truck until nothing remains on the rope but a flap of skin'
21:24 trinque you know, like raping someone with your eyes
21:24 mircea_popescu 18 U.S.C. ยง 2384 "If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or p
21:24 mircea_popescu ossess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both."
21:24 mircea_popescu immunity granted by gtfo.
21:24 mircea_popescu "The federal government has never won a sedition case against militia-types, white supremacists, or neo-Nazis. Since World War I, they have won numerous seditious conspiracy cases against Puerto Rican independentistas, communists and others on the left, but no one on the radical right has ever been convicted of plotting to overthrow by force of arms the government of the United States."
21:24 asciilifeform just don't sail on a flagless semi-submersible boat.
21:24 mircea_popescu or, apparently, by not being a libertard.
21:25 asciilifeform or work in a nuclear program
21:25 asciilifeform these - apparently - are specifically (inverse?)extraterritorial
21:25 mircea_popescu midnightmagic seems you're safe enough here. careful in #gavincoin-assets tho
21:26 mircea_popescu the above being also an interesting consideration for they who wish to argue "the libertards are in charge". pls start from that and let me hear the logic.
21:26 trinque anyone else from the US want to piss himself publically?
21:27 asciilifeform midnightmagic: you won't be going to jail for sedition. it'll be something more prosaic, like 'conspiracy to manufacture a controlled substance'
21:28 asciilifeform (do you have a garage? garden shed? did you take chemistry in school? probably guilty.)
21:28 mircea_popescu come to think of it... bitcoin not being money, not really a good... clearly it is a SUBSTANCE, right ?
21:28 mircea_popescu it gotta be something.
21:28 mircea_popescu so therefore...
21:28 trinque it's economic warfare
21:28 asciilifeform !s financial terrorism
21:28 assbot 0 results for 'financial terrorism' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=financial+terrorism
21:29 asciilifeform http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/bernard-von-nothaus-the-domestic-terrorist-you-can-call-a-hero/2013/09/11
21:29 assbot Bernard von NotHaus: The 'Domestic Terrorist' You Can Call a Hero ... ( http://bit.ly/1KfjTYb )
21:29 asciilifeform ^ him
21:29 asciilifeform ย‘Attempts to undermine the legitimate currency of this country are simply a unique form of domestic terrorism. While these forms of anti-government activities do not involve violence, they are every bit as insidious and represent a clear and present danger to the economic stability of this country. We are determined to meet these threats through infiltration, disruption, and dismantling of organizations which seek to challen
21:29 asciilifeform ge the legitimacy of our democratic form of government.ย‘
21:29 asciilifeform (prosecutor)
21:30 mircea_popescu asciilifeform in practice what he did is not really defensible tho.
21:30 mircea_popescu it's not much unlike someone going around trying to pass gavincoin for "real bitcoin", which we don't stand for.
21:30 asciilifeform nothaus was a diagnosable idiot
21:30 asciilifeform just the right candidate for 'death ray'
21:31 asciilifeform but, interestingly, http://www.nysun.com/editorials/beyond-bernard-von-nothaus/88958
21:31 assbot Beyond Bernard von NotHaus - The New York Sun ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ckyr9z )
21:31 trinque ;;gettrust midnightmagic
21:31 gribble Currently authenticated from hostmask midnightmagic!~midnightm@unaffiliated/midnightmagic. Trust relationship from user trinque to user midnightmagic: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 2 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=trinque&dest=midnightmagic | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=midnightmagic | Rated since: Mon Mar 7 15:45:54 2011
21:31 mircea_popescu We are determined to meet these threats through infiltration, disruption, and dismantling of organizations which seek to challenge the legitimacy of our democratic form of government.ย‘ << this part is the funniest, incidentally, considering the APPALLING record of usg agents trying to infiltrate a god damnd public channel so far.
21:32 trinque I'm gonna head out; man that pissed me off
21:32 * asciilifeform still thinks we get the discount-shelf infiltrators here
21:32 asciilifeform srsly, e.g., mr. spam ?
21:32 mircea_popescu nah.
21:33 mircea_popescu horvath's just an eager idiot.
21:33 mircea_popescu if oyu carefully read the log, you'll see a couple explicitly exposed tho.
21:33 asciilifeform i remember the dude from ro
21:33 mircea_popescu such lol
21:33 mircea_popescu anyway, off to eat brb
21:39 BingoBoingo So who what's to test qntra's new, more modern CSS?
21:40 hanbot that sucks.
21:40 asciilifeform blocks=183670 bastards=23739 peak=206M
21:40 asciilifeform pogo: 187845
21:43 asciilifeform inference, with only a small leap, is that orphanage-burner testatron would have oomkilled precisely one time, had it ran under 128M constraint
21:43 asciilifeform the logical thing to do, for it, would be to jettison the entire orphanage if approaching the hard limit
21:44 asciilifeform this would require replacement of allocator (as suggested in thread from 2 days ago)
21:44 asciilifeform who the hell writes a program as hungry as this, that is entirely unaware of its own resource consumption and lacks any feedback mechanism ?
21:45 * asciilifeform knows how/why but still bewildered that no one has at any point seen it fit to bolt on basic sanity
21:45 hanbot disk space doubles every runtime.
21:45 asciilifeform hanbot: figure in question is ram footprint
21:45 hanbot that triples.
21:46 asciilifeform not in the experimental 'orphanage burner' build
21:46 hanbot are you contradicting internet economists?
21:46 asciilifeform l0lz
21:47 hanbot for the record, i deeply enjoyed the sedition discussion. i vote for asciilifeform as most likely to sedite.
21:47 * asciilifeform hoists jolly roger: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-January/000038.html
21:47 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Kfln4D )
21:48 asciilifeform ^ also happens to explain the memory thing
21:50 asciilifeform ben_vulpes et al: happen to remember what block height was at the time 0.5.3 was current? if this is in the log, i have utterly failed to find it
21:54 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: dude from ro?
21:56 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 74500 @ 0.00040996 = 30.542 BTC [-] {2}
21:56 ben_vulpes * asciilifeform [] knows how/why but still bewildered that no one has at any point seen it fit to bolt on basic sanity << features, bro
21:57 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: "block height" << excellent question
21:58 ben_vulpes "git" shows sun march 11 2012 as last commit at ref tagged as v0.5.3
21:58 mircea_popescu 0.5.3 was march-ish 2012. about 170k
21:59 mircea_popescu nah pretty sure it was spring.
21:59 ben_vulpes march *is* spring
22:00 mircea_popescu o nm i read the 11th as a month
22:00 mircea_popescu march yes.
22:00 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> the logical thing to do, for it, would be to jettison the entire orphanage if approaching the hard limit << this may be a good idea, if actually something's needed.
22:01 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 56050 @ 0.00040626 = 22.7709 BTC [-]
22:02 asciilifeform needs replacement std::allocator - proggy is not normally aware of own footprint
22:02 mircea_popescu myeah.
22:03 * ben_vulpes just observed an interesting
22:03 asciilifeform even if for some peculiar reason it were not possible to reduce consumption, the thing ought to know when about to be killed - and shoot itself in the head with some decorum, rather than wait
22:04 ben_vulpes toolbox on the table has a top tray and a bottom tray, connected by parallel braces, mounted at identically-spaced points on both trays. trays move on an arc defined by mechanisms constraints.
22:04 * asciilifeform has one of these
22:05 ben_vulpes there's an interesting configuration of the trays where the center of gravity of the top tray is balances the CoG of the bottom tray. this requires torquing the whole assembly such that the CoG's go in a funny place.
22:06 hanbot ben_vulpes it's a trap!
22:06 mircea_popescu vulpes is home alone and trying to find alternative passtimes to masturbation.
22:06 ben_vulpes resulting in the thing resting at the unstable point at the top of the arc.
22:07 ben_vulpes i'd post a pic but...le "smart"phone.
22:07 ben_vulpes anyways, the parallels between how bitcoind only accidentally works and misc odd behaviors of this ancient floppy plastic toolbox are very apparent to me at precisely this moment.
22:08 ben_vulpes a thing i learned about engineering when i was...oh, six...was that the steam engine doesn't just work because doodz sat and tweaked at it until everything went around just rightly.
22:08 ben_vulpes no
22:08 ben_vulpes someone *designed* each and every mechanism to work together.
22:08 ben_vulpes if you'll forgive the rant, this is what the satoshi codebase lacks.
22:09 ben_vulpes a coherent vision of how all of the parts interact, the emergent behaviors of the system and a robustish bit of software that can make sense of the system.
22:10 mircea_popescu dude.
22:10 mircea_popescu it's a prototype.
22:10 mircea_popescu it was never seriously supposed to work, and it was specifically not intended to be used.
22:10 mircea_popescu but... "the community"
22:11 ben_vulpes once it worked, though, it was doomed to work.
22:11 ben_vulpes "software never fails", and so on.
22:11 mircea_popescu asciilifeform well actually, the thing could just look at how much memory it can allocate and then never outpace it.
22:11 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes yeah.
22:12 ben_vulpes kinda fascinating
22:13 ben_vulpes it's almost as though the satoshi codebase were a projection of software that knows how to talk to the one! true! bitcoin protocol.
22:13 mircea_popescu something simple like, "whenever a parentless block is handed over the retaining of which would cause memory pool for holding parentless blocks to be overrun, a) drop the handed block ; b) close the connection and ban that peer for half hour ; c) discard all chains of parentless blocks longer than six items ; d) connect again"
22:13 mircea_popescu !up teek
22:14 ben_vulpes should really ask for specific blocks and drop all unasked for
22:15 mircea_popescu this ensures that trying to ram-dos the node would require as many different nodes as a fifth of the total number of blocks it can hold.
22:15 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes that's not how this works tho
22:15 ben_vulpes pardon?
22:15 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: pardon?
22:15 mircea_popescu you don't ask for bloicks
22:17 ben_vulpes inv cannot be used for block retrieval?
22:17 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: straight to jurov's www
22:17 mircea_popescu yeh
22:17 asciilifeform http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/main.cpp?v=0.5.3.1
22:17 assbot Satoshi 0.5.3.1/src/main.cpp ... ( http://bit.ly/1A9q3cd )
22:17 asciilifeform incidentally
22:17 asciilifeform the testatron just now outpaced the 'pogo.'
22:18 mircea_popescu asciilifeform btw, you're writing me a letter right ?
22:18 asciilifeform yes.
22:26 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 92785 @ 0.00041141 = 38.1727 BTC [+]
22:30 hanbot friendly reminder to not go to the library horny: http://www.inquisitr.com/1802797/kendra-sunderland-admits-to-filming-library-sex-video/
22:30 assbot Kendra Sunderland Admits To Filming Library Sex Video ... ( http://bit.ly/1yOZxyb )
22:30 mircea_popescu is she the short sweet ass ?
22:32 hanbot i dunno anything about her ass other than it being in the wrong jurisdiction
22:33 mircea_popescu http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_FoybKuEX4/U5kM8U4ojmI/AAAAAAAAE3Q/aEy-LTb80Wc/s1600/steph-kegels-library-cam-1.gif
22:33 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1yP0rLh )
22:33 mircea_popescu her.
22:35 mircea_popescu best library slut so far.
22:35 hanbot nah, apparently that one wasn't indecent enough for a year of jail
22:35 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6850 @ 0.00041625 = 2.8513 BTC [+]
22:36 mircea_popescu she takes it pretty far, eventually is all naked
22:36 mircea_popescu clearly enjoying herself too, which goes a long way
22:36 cazalla i remember seeing that and thinking surely it's staged
22:37 mircea_popescu doubt it.
22:37 mircea_popescu the budgets these girls make work...
22:43 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 70971 @ 0.00043627 = 30.9625 BTC [+] {3}
22:44 BingoBoingo davout: How is the new Qntra mobile experience?
22:45 TomServo BingoBoingo: Looking very nice over here.
22:45 BingoBoingo TomServo: Thanks.
22:50 cazalla wow, they fkn locked the fork off thread because hey.. can't have actual blocksize increase discussion can you.. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=919629.0
22:50 assbot Fork off ... ( http://bit.ly/1LtsZ75 )
22:52 mircea_popescu lolwut
22:52 decimation http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=30-01-2015#998153 << solution: only signed packets get to initiate transactions on your node?
22:52 assbot Logged on 30-01-2015 05:39:06; asciilifeform: likewise, the orphans thing is an easy ddos vector
22:55 decimation lolz "Implicit in the the nature of the location an the assertion of the police station being a "safe space" for conducting commerce is that this location open 24 hours a day and 7 days per week is under constant surveillance." << http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-01-2015#979013
22:55 assbot Logged on 16-01-2015 04:45:31; mircea_popescu: you're stuck hiding in your gated compound from imaginary niggers.
22:56 mircea_popescu heh
23:02 decimation I like that line, because it summarizes the activity of about 90% of the american 'security state'
23:03 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 47700 @ 0.00041625 = 19.8551 BTC [-]
23:04 trinque mobile qntra looks great!
23:05 BingoBoingo Thanks
23:10 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 100982 @ 0.00042291 = 42.7063 BTC [+] {2}
23:10 asciilifeform https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=919629.msg10295619#msg10295619 << mega-lol
23:10 assbot Fork off ... ( http://bit.ly/1uKXNph )
23:10 asciilifeform so -that- was the 'run into the ground' thing
23:11 * asciilifeform was never able to read the phorum for more than a few min. at a stretch
23:11 decimation !rate midnightmagic 1 is not a seditionist
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23:13 asciilifeform 'Any more information on this? The fact that he is secretly building 10k nodes on a network with 7k active nodes and dropping is a concern in itself and makes me want to support Gavin's hardfork even more so.'
23:13 * asciilifeform chokes from lulz
23:15 BingoBoingo !b 2
23:15 assbot Last 2 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/3FEMWNP.txt )
23:16 decimation asciilifeform: you are a seditionist apparently
23:16 asciilifeform how classy
23:16 decimation why didn't you bring your concerns to the community so they can try and find a solution together?
23:16 decimation voice, not exit
23:17 asciilifeform and here i was, thinking i'll have to hang for jaywalking
23:20 asciilifeform 'Gavin's testing of 20MB blocks shows that loading (disk io) for these is 4x faster than 20 1MB blocks.' << did someone actually make this argument ?
23:20 asciilifeform disk readahead caches, etc. evidently never happened?
23:20 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21819 @ 0.00043956 = 9.5908 BTC [+]
23:20 * asciilifeform must have awakened in parallel universe
23:20 BingoBoingo New Speak
23:20 decimation asciilifeform: how can 20 MB 'load' faster than 20 MB?
23:21 BingoBoingo Also for inquirers into the new qntra bsns http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/check?ucn_uri=qntra.net&doctype=Inline&charset=%28detect%20automatically%29&ucn_task=conformance#
23:21 assbot Result for http://qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1uKZgfq )
23:21 asciilifeform decimation: fragmentation & seek penalty on ancient mechanical drives ?
23:21 asciilifeform decimation: plus an obligatory helping of os brain damage
23:21 decimation I guess. Like is he literally comparing fread(20MB) vs 20x fread(1MB)?
23:21 asciilifeform assuming there was any actual comparison
23:22 asciilifeform they sure don't make lying sc4mz0rz like they used to.
23:23 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: It used to be they couldn't fake as many
23:23 decimation well, apparently no one can inspect anything at the layer below 'libc'
23:24 asciilifeform forget the source; evidently, books - do not exist
23:25 Apocalyptic <cazalla> wow, they fkn locked the fork off thread because hey.. can't have actual blocksize increase discussion can you.. // this is outrageous, but not unexpected
23:25 BingoBoingo Books are for those with a Book budget
23:26 asciilifeform or a set of legs
23:26 asciilifeform libraries - not banned yet
23:26 asciilifeform (though it is being worked on)
23:26 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 53221 @ 0.00041346 = 22.0048 BTC [-] {2}
23:27 decimation asciilifeform: most 'modern' libraries have slowly self-banned books
23:27 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7650 @ 0.00040859 = 3.1257 BTC [-]
23:27 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> so -that- was << myeah lel.
23:27 decimation they are 'too expensive', and generally disfavored over other 'media' and 'meeting spaces'
23:27 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: But using legs option for the book budget costs time other wise spent in the Herp pile
23:28 asciilifeform laugh if you will, but i'm still trying to apprehend what it is 'most people' actually -do- with their time
23:28 mircea_popescu asciilifeform> "makes me want to" clearly the intensity of desire is related to the effectuality of results.
23:28 decimation derp on irc?
23:28 mircea_popescu (law of attraction)
23:28 asciilifeform just how many hours can one wank in one sitting
23:28 mircea_popescu depends if they touch the wiener or not.
23:28 mircea_popescu if they don't... many.
23:29 asciilifeform doesn't sound like much fun
23:29 BingoBoingo I believe the technical term is "Circlejerk" as in formally with a bunch of fellows sitting around a bottle of lube they all Herp their Derp
23:31 BingoBoingo https://i.imgur.com/3OLI0Kx.gif
23:31 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1tIjPOa )
23:33 mircea_popescu decimation> I guess. Like is he literally comparing fread(20MB) vs 20x fread(1MB)? << the guy's technical incompetence is not just amusing in itself,
23:33 mircea_popescu but in what it reveals of teh retarded follower set.
23:33 mircea_popescu maybe they should want really hard for fread to act differently ?
23:34 asciilifeform oughta phone poettering.
23:34 asciilifeform he'll help.
23:34 mircea_popescu where was that bit about ls implementations that take less than half the ram are fat shaming and therefore not allowed ?
23:34 asciilifeform was it dan mocsny?
23:35 asciilifeform i definitely recall he was 'advocating' for 'diversity' in petri dishes, in every lab!!!11!! in one post
23:35 mircea_popescu nah some recently linked spoof of feministos
23:36 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo dude those rats are fucking adorkable.
23:36 asciilifeform as with many idiocies, this one may be approaching 'parody event horizon' where the reality is not readily distinguishable from the spoof world
23:36 mircea_popescu right.
23:36 cazalla aaand gavin appears in the new blocksize thread after previous one was locked https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=941331.msg10315826#msg10315826
23:36 assbot Bitcoin 20MB Fork ... ( http://bit.ly/1uL12NC )
23:36 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Seriously
23:36 mircea_popescu cazalla lol they made a new one without all the inconvenient stuff in it ?
23:36 mircea_popescu why does gavin behave exactly like a cheap forum scammor ?
23:37 cazalla i guess OP might've locked the first one but who really knows
23:37 mircea_popescu is it perhaps because the path of evil is really quite narrow ? funel shaped at first, line thin six months later ?
23:37 BingoBoingo https://github.com/The-Feminist-Software-Foundation/ToleranUX << The Inclusive not *nix
23:37 assbot The-Feminist-Software-Foundation/ToleranUX ยท GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1uL16Ne )
23:38 danielpbarron "The video was leaked by either another student on the OSU campus, or another web cam model from Romania." << from the naked library video thing
23:38 danielpbarron the "fork off" thread looks like it was closed by railzand https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=919629.msg10303614#msg10303614
23:38 assbot Fork off ... ( http://bit.ly/1tIl7sz )
23:38 mircea_popescu "If bitcoin costs 4 dollars to teleport "virtual gold" , I'm going to switch to an alt that can allow me to teleport another form of "virtual gold" for a couple pennies."
23:38 mircea_popescu thjat part was pretty good.
23:39 mircea_popescu if the world were signficiantly impacted by people whose choices are governed by the difference between 4 bux and "pennies", we could just burn it, for it failed.
23:39 mircea_popescu no wonder he eats shit. i've yet to see food at 4 dollars.
23:39 cazalla BingoBoingo, is that FSF a good troll or what?
23:39 BingoBoingo It is indeed a good troll
23:39 decimation what about the poor russian family who was trying to move 50 bux?
23:40 mircea_popescu i dunno, how about the wife starts camming ?
23:40 BingoBoingo decimation: Their optimal solution was actually using Western Union and him buying BTC in Russia where the liwuidity is
23:40 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27350 @ 0.00040859 = 11.1749 BTC [-]
23:40 mircea_popescu lmao & gavin
23:40 mircea_popescu "I think we should target somebody with a "pretty good" computer and a "pretty good" home internet connection."
23:40 scoopbot New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/you-are-poor-lolz/
23:41 mircea_popescu BECAUSE ACCESSIBILITY DRIVES ADOPTION!!!1
23:41 mircea_popescu the logic of logical logicians, also internet economists and generally stupid fat people.
23:41 * asciilifeform goes to buy a Pretty Good Computer
23:41 asciilifeform do they still have those.
23:41 BingoBoingo Pogo is pretty good computer
23:41 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 113650 @ 0.00040657 = 46.2067 BTC [-]
23:41 asciilifeform l0l
23:42 asciilifeform seems like BingoBoingo has not tried it yet
23:42 BingoBoingo Or at least somewhat adequate computer for a fifth of cheap whiskey
23:42 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i think the girl contributing to the computer community over at best buy would go "do you want good or do you want pretty ?"
23:42 BingoBoingo I have not tried it, but it seems like the most computer you can get for the equivalent of a fifth of Evan Williams
23:42 * asciilifeform realized that BingoBoingo could actually get vga on that thing, if he wanted, using one of the ubiquitous usb2 framebuffer boxes
23:42 BingoBoingo Indeed
23:43 BingoBoingo And qntra is now VGA friendly-er for readers
23:43 asciilifeform http://h30094.www3.hp.com/product/sku/3967421
23:44 assbot HP USB Graphics Adapter - USB video cards - HP: NL571AA ... ( http://bit.ly/1uL1XgT )
23:44 * asciilifeform ^ has bag of these
23:44 mircea_popescu "Hello, My name is Manikanteswar, Business Executive Media Buying for Capslock Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd (www.capslocknetwork.com), one of the biggest upcoming Ad Network in the Industry. I'm contacting you as we are looking for inventory like yours and we are ready to discuss the terms of a very profitable partnership. "
23:44 mircea_popescu cazalla you folks got one of these ?
23:44 asciilifeform http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/FB_UDL.html << driver
23:44 assbot Linux Kernel Driver DataBase: CONFIG_FB_UDL: Displaylink USB Framebuffer support ... ( http://bit.ly/1uL28ZA )
23:45 cazalla mircea_popescu, nope
23:46 mircea_popescu hm i guess im speshul
23:47 cazalla BingoBoingo has made room for adverts on the left/right side of qntra so we're ready for gaw miners adverts though
23:47 mircea_popescu lol
23:48 BingoBoingo cazalla: Actually I dunno how to fill those spaces. I just made em. No idea how to fill them.
23:48 mircea_popescu i dun think qntra is advertising huh.
23:49 decimation asciilifeform: do you (safely) examine the various malware turds that end up in your domain mailbox?
23:49 BingoBoingo Well, eventually is possible for some levels of eventually. We just need companies to emerge which would find advertising on qntra an economic proposition.
23:49 decimation I suspect one can learn much about malware by putting out a few honeypots
23:49 asciilifeform decimation: occasionally
23:49 asciilifeform decimation: not long ago, i did this for a living.
23:49 decimation or just rain buckets
23:50 asciilifeform it wasn't just from one spambox of course.
23:50 decimation I would guess that most malware is trivally derived from some toolkit
23:51 asciilifeform 80-90% of what i saw was a variation on some very tired theme.
23:51 asciilifeform at least half the time - 'zeus' et al.
23:52 mircea_popescu "It's hard to take any of his thoughts seriously when he says stuff like 'libertard', which isn't clear what that has to do with his main point, or if he means retarded liberal or libertarian."
23:52 mircea_popescu /r/anarcho-stuff does not like me because it is not directly clear what side of a meaningless debate i favor!
23:54 decimation in theory, a libertarian is in favor of freedom from the state, but in practice they generally find themselves to be enslaved by statist liberals
23:54 mircea_popescu but notice the guy who essentially says, "i can not eat this butter because it doesn't come in a properly labelled box"
23:55 mircea_popescu i have seen this irl, incidentally. lots of traditional products come in no box. such as smoked trout in pine leaf, or a certain type of cheese in pine bark
23:55 mircea_popescu or on it goes.
23:55 mircea_popescu i personally loathe labels and take them off pretty much everything, but apparently the converse mental condition also exists.
23:55 asciilifeform srsly ?!!
23:55 mircea_popescu "you're really good but we can't hire you because no diploma"
23:55 mircea_popescu asciilifeform yes ?
23:55 asciilifeform diploma - sure
23:55 asciilifeform cheese?
23:56 mircea_popescu yep. you need nothing more than your own fucking nose to distinguish cheese.
23:56 asciilifeform i was having this dispute with pet not long ago. whether anyone voluntarily eats synthetic cheese
23:57 mircea_popescu ;;google brinza de burduf in scoarta de brad
23:57 asciilifeform it finds its way into spots where its presence cannot be explained by mere pauperism
23:57 gribble Bucegi Farm: <http://www.ferma-bucegi.ro/en/>; Ferma Bucegi: Branza de Burduf in coaja de brad: <http://www.ferma-bucegi.ro/>; Branza de burduf - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQzXWyxNmxo>
23:57 asciilifeform some folks, it appears, actually insist on it
23:57 asciilifeform through childhood habit, brain damage, or some other cause
23:57 mircea_popescu http://www.informal.ro/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/burduf-3.jpg << this guy
23:57 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1uL3MKH )
23:57 asciilifeform incidentally (non-u.s. folks) if you visit usa and are offered 'american cheese' - run, not walk, to exit
23:58 decimation asciilifeform: you wouldn't prefer a slice of 'velveeta' to a block of cheddar of known provenance?
23:58 asciilifeform 'velveeta' iirc isn't even a dairy product
23:58 asciilifeform 100% petro
23:58 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> 'velveeta' iirc isn't even a dairy product << Velveeta is totally a dairy byproduct
23:58 mircea_popescu hm... i wonder how good of an anal lube it makes.
23:58 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: what's that made in? a pipe ?
23:58 decimation nah I think it has milk in it
23:59 mircea_popescu asciilifeform it's a chunk of pine bark
23:59 asciilifeform neato
23:59 * asciilifeform wants
23:59 decimation "In 2002, the FDA issued a Warning Letter to Kraft that Velveeta was being sold with packaging that described it as a "Pasteurized Process Cheese Spread",[8] which the FDA claimed was misbranded because the product declared milk protein concentrate (MPC) in its ingredients listing. Velveeta is now sold in the US as a "Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product",[9] a term for which the FDA does not maintain a standard of identity, and which
23:59 decimation therefore may contain MPC."
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