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00:03 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433572 << wat?!
00:03 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 01:28:59; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform something like "here's a list of my deepest unrelated fears" ?
00:05 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433586 << http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-02-2016#1411373
00:05 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 01:55:56; mircea_popescu: trinque iirc the bitcoin-derived one had two parts named 1 and 2 which you both need
00:05 assbot Logged on 21-02-2016 00:38:10; asciilifeform: please throw out the old crud.
00:05 asciilifeform ^ mandatory thread
00:05 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433600 << go ahead and plug the mains cord into your arse if you want. but then complain to somebody else, not to me, when the bulb doesn't light.
00:05 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 02:18:59; adlai: rules were made to be broken, buttons elbowed, and backs broken later.
00:06 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433613 << dingdingdingding we have a winner !11
00:06 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 02:53:58; phf: trinque: it's not about "not doing things", pressing tinyscheme genesis is just not the right way to get shiva
00:06 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433616 << aha
00:06 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 02:56:58; phf: trinque: as per that rant only things needing pressing are asciilifeform_shiva_part_1_of_2, asciilifeform_shiva_part_2_of_2 and asciilifeform_shiva_fix_flag_bug
00:08 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-03-2016#1433455 << win.
00:08 assbot Logged on 15-03-2016 19:45:51; deedbot-: [Trilema] xkcd - http://trilema.com/2016/xkcd/
00:09 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-03-2016#1433530 << don't use the vendor's os. for anything. unless whole thing is a gag gift to an enemy.
00:09 assbot Logged on 15-03-2016 23:05:37; BingoBoingo: I suspect it will have to graduate from a pogo to an "edgerouter lite" sometime in the next few months.
00:09 asciilifeform and even when you install own os, remember that there is no rng.
00:09 asciilifeform on the box.
00:09 asciilifeform as on most routers.
00:11 asciilifeform ;;later tell mircea_popescu have a mindphuck - turns out google admits to having jacked up the cpu core count after the single solitary lee sedol win.
00:11 gribble The operation succeeded.
00:15 phf asciilifeform: hey, was there anything else posted re gentoo de-poetering besides the initial chicken?
00:16 phf i was about 50% into the logs that i missed, when i switched back to reading "the tunnels of cu chi" (mega book), so not sure if the gentoo recipe was posted
00:17 asciilifeform phf: strictly this, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-03-2016#1421109
00:17 assbot Logged on 03-03-2016 17:24:15; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/3YZ2895.txt << preliminary crib sheet
00:17 phf kk
00:17 phf also http://www.amazon.com/The-Tunnels-Chi-Underground-Battlefields/dp/0891418695
00:17 assbot Amazon.com: The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam (9780891418696): Tom Mangold: Books ... ( http://bit.ly/1pKstuP )
00:18 * asciilifeform buys.
00:20 phf it has a very pro-american/anti-communist bias (and there's a very surprising, complete lack of any SU mentions), but full of fascinating stories of vc tunnel based warfare
00:20 asciilifeform pretty much all american war lit reads like hans rudel
00:20 asciilifeform (at best)
00:25 phf it's very odd because guy completely discredits american position in the first few chapters, yet for the rest of the books it's noble american victories vs surprisingly successful vc tactics
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00:47 adlai deedblog-: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/3363801c-fc7a-404c-a530-8d8a8927efde/
00:47 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1MlK9BJ )
00:48 adlai oops
00:48 adlai deedbot-: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/3363801c-fc7a-404c-a530-8d8a8927efde/
00:48 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1MlK9BJ )
00:48 deedbot- Bad URL or network outage.
00:48 adlai oops
00:48 adlai deedbot-: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/3363801c-fc7a-404c-a530-8d8a8927efde/?raw=true
00:48 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1MlKbd0 )
00:48 deedbot- accepted: 1
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01:49 phf asciilifeform: were you starting with stage3 or earlier?
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02:34 adlai ;;later tell trinque deedbot- seems to have choked again
02:34 gribble The operation succeeded.
02:35 * adlai fantasizes that his 'jewish wit' was sharp enough to bridge the silicon sarchasm
02:46 adlai hehe, maybe i just wrote the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ienp4J3pW7U , robot edition
02:46 assbot Monty Python's Flying Circus - World's Funniest Joke - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/22l5FA0 )
02:54 davout http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-03-2016#1433535 <<< did someone ring? someone need a loan?
02:54 assbot Logged on 15-03-2016 23:10:27; mircea_popescu: o i forgot the jews, did i. THREE KINDS.
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03:26 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 51200 @ 0.00042051 = 21.5301 BTC [-]
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05:18 adlai what's the custom for voicing freenode webchat nobodies? (at least replying with "who may you be" gets them to shut up.)
05:18 adlai sorry massiro, should I have said "fix your connection"?
05:19 adlai massiro: (and all future !up-please-ers): introduce yourself politely via pm, or ask somebody else.
05:19 adlai !down adlai
05:28 BingoBoingo !up massiro
05:29 massiro Thank you.
05:32 massiro I wanted to share info about the payout problem with Jeb-Bush-Nomination.
05:32 massiro I wonder if you remember me... http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-01-2016#1360779
05:32 assbot Logged on 05-01-2016 05:55:53; massiro: The above site says the fee is 0.001 BTC so I think it is more than enough. Is this related to low/high S value problem?
05:32 massiro I'm sad to hear the Jeb Bush payout accident...
05:33 massiro I think it has something to do with the release of Core-0.12 (23rd February 2016).
05:33 massiro And the spam attack revealed the problem.
05:34 massiro First of all, Core-0.12 stops 0-fee tx relaying during spam attacks.
05:34 massiro Secondly, Core-0.12 abolished mining 0-fee txes by default.
05:35 massiro I have written a (small) wall of text at http://dpaste.com/22W2SCE, regarding the causes of the payout problem.
05:35 assbot Not Found ... ( http://bit.ly/1RlSaYT )
05:38 massiro Thank you BingoBoingo for giving me a voice!
05:38 BingoBoingo yw
05:48 massiro To adlai's asking, I'm an occasional bettor at bbet. Sorry to omit introducing about myself.
05:57 deedbot- [fr.anco.is] X.EUR March 16th 2016 statement - http://fr.anco.is/2016/x-eur-march-16th-2016-statement/
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06:51 thestringpuller classic starts own node cartel: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4aiiuc/hey_core_you_can_waste_your_own_resources_now/
06:59 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433627 << nothing you said in the lengthy diatribe following had anything at all to see with the topic proposed!
06:59 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 04:03:22; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433572 << wat?!
07:03 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433648 << not afaik. if you don't count various people (including alf most recently) on various occasions throwing their hands up in disgust at the dysfunctional pos.
07:03 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 04:15:31; phf: asciilifeform: hey, was there anything else posted re gentoo de-poetering besides the initial chicken?
07:03 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433649 << for my own curiosity and the calibration of public judgement, how many lines, how many hours ? or something ?
07:03 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 04:16:51; phf: i was about 50% into the logs that i missed, when i switched back to reading "the tunnels of cu chi" (mega book), so not sure if the gentoo recipe was posted
07:06 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433659 << i dunno why you think this odd. as far as my experience goes, 100% of english language literature (long before the days orwell quit and his naive, square jawed colonial subjects took over the pretense of empire) is exactly this "here are our assumptions, which clearly paint us as utterly and hopelessly stupid, let's lampshade it and carry on". i don't think by n
07:06 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 04:25:15; phf: it's very odd because guy completely discredits american position in the first few chapters, yet for the rest of the books it's noble american victories vs surprisingly successful vc tactics
07:06 mircea_popescu ow english speaker even realises there's a disconnect between what the words mean and what his actions do.
07:07 mircea_popescu which, ungenerously enough, seems just a step away from the breakdown specific to shitholes like argentina, where people altogether don't even comprehend words are in any sense meaningful, above and beyond the chirping captive populations of chickens do to reassure each other.
07:10 mircea_popescu massiro it's an interesting theory, apart from the fact that nobody uses core in production, or has for many years now.
07:10 mircea_popescu yes, various derps on poorly connected boxes still play with it. this is about as relevant to the discussion as considering what machines aspiring webcomic designers use when discussing pixar or something.
07:11 mircea_popescu might as well say "it's because pogos", which would be equally flattering just in a different direction and otherwise equally afield.
07:12 thestringpuller lol. p. sure 90% of current pixar staff at one point were aspiring webcomic designers...
07:12 mircea_popescu thestringpuller yes, but they don't come with their own home fucking computers.
07:13 mircea_popescu nobody goes "i'm going to hire joe, he's kinda meh but he has a kickass workstation!".
07:13 mircea_popescu in fact, the difference between THAT approach and what actually happens is exactly the difference between infantile and adult life.
07:13 mircea_popescu in roadtrip they go "we gotta take the weirdo - he has a car".
07:13 thestringpuller sure asking truckers to fix toy truck
07:14 thestringpuller fo shizzle. node is almost up to date 200 blocks left
07:14 mircea_popescu i mean yes, it's true that most of the firemen are kids that played with fire trucks. it is however quite pointedly not true that most of the equipment down at the fire station is toy fire trucks brought in by conscientious neighbourhood kids.
07:15 thestringpuller perhaps the toys should change. much more useful to work on toys that signal real life than say plastic thing on wheels.
07:15 mircea_popescu this entire "look what prb does" is so much cosmo kramer from kramerica industries fixing the fire dept. what was that episode
07:16 thestringpuller the secret code?
07:16 mircea_popescu "the secret code" http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheSecretCode2.htm
07:16 assbot Seinfeld Scripts - The Secret Code ... ( http://bit.ly/1YZy90f )
07:16 mircea_popescu yeah.
07:16 thestringpuller "Meanwhile, Kramer buys a police scanner and decides to help at the New York City Fire Department. When they receive a call about the fire at Leapin' Larry's, Kramer accidentally knocks out the fire engine driver, forcing him to take the wheel, realizing his lifelong dream. However, he is unable to steer correctly and crashes the fire engine, allowing the fire to spread further."
07:17 thestringpuller admittedly Kramer is pretty much a modern VC wet dream. some of the stuff he sells that's "successful" is just...
07:18 thestringpuller for instance the coffee table book about coffee tables that can turn into a coffee table
07:18 mircea_popescu a coffee table book about coffee tables!
07:18 mircea_popescu lol\
07:18 mircea_popescu kinda how decay goes : stuff is the butt of jokes and "how stupid can these stupid people be", then next decade - sop.
07:21 thestringpuller you ever read mimsy and the borogoves? short sci-fi story by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym for CL Moore and some other person that wrote as a duo)
07:23 thestringpuller sometimes I wonder if we went down another path where the educational toys actually make the next generation more stupid. i always thought it interesting that "children of the future will be smarter"
07:26 mircea_popescu well... computers of the future will be better, right ?
07:27 mircea_popescu intelligence is an adaptive behaviour ; which is why anyone with a clue would rather spend the time chatting up a random whore or street urchin than some jewish princess or "young exec".
07:27 mircea_popescu (no, no, intelligence is not a THING. it is a behaviour. like dancing.)
07:28 thestringpuller severe lack of education, these days. perhaps not enough beating. or enough starving for dropouts.
07:29 mircea_popescu or any incentive whatsoever.
07:29 adlai thestringpuller: main problem these days is too much bitcoin, they've printed 15 million already and show no signs of stopping
07:30 adlai massiro: cool wall! sorry about the impoliteness.
07:31 mircea_popescu adlai you can just up unknowns, they'll resolve it soon enough.
07:31 mircea_popescu what you shouldn't do is up known idiots, but few resist the temptation.
07:31 adlai meh, i spam enough myself, no need to facilitate spamming by schroedinger's idiots.
07:32 adlai but thank you for the blanket permission :P
07:33 thestringpuller reminds me of conversation I had with CVS cashier. dude was fresh out of high school and I began explaining how banks worked cause I was furious the ATM fees were 5 bucks in that store. anyhow after 5 minutes of confusion cause kid didn't pay attention in school states, "I ain't trynna think that hard man. I'm done with school."
07:34 * adlai tried explaining bitcoin to a flatmate, seven different ways. each time explanation was met with "why can't people just use money". known idiot is now a former-flatmate.
07:34 thestringpuller sure why not live in ignorance. get your 8.50/hr from CVS, blow it on rent, pot and booze, continue on. no incentive for agency. just a programmable cog.
07:35 thestringpuller frighteningly similar to brave new world. (give em soma and carry on)
07:35 mircea_popescu adlai i don't see the problem with this objection ? "they are. that's what i'm telling you. you don't use greek bronze weights, do you ?"
07:35 mircea_popescu thestringpuller hey, life is good, whadda ya want. partay!
07:36 adlai ah, so bitcoin is just another mettle, like gold, iron, greek bronze, and mental fortitude?
07:36 mircea_popescu well, money's a whore, kinda old by now, consequently keeps changing her attire.
07:36 adlai indeed the local rabble love to shout, "BITCOIN ZE BARZEL"
07:37 adlai well if i ever meet the guy again, i'll be sure to tell him mircea_popescu thanks him for not buying his divestment.
07:38 thestringpuller ;;later tell asciilifeform Finally experienced the stuck node thing. Interesting behavior. Wouldn't even accept the "stop" command. Had to kill -9 it.
07:38 gribble The operation succeeded.
07:39 thestringpuller mircea_popescu: i guess let them live in ignorance as long as said ignorance doesn't interfere with the adults?
07:39 mircea_popescu everything interferes with everything.
07:39 thestringpuller i never really liked babysitting.
07:39 mircea_popescu this "doesn't interfere" thing's a pregnant fiction.
07:40 thestringpuller why open a nice school in the ghetto, if it'll just get defaced two weeks later?
07:40 adlai yet a precise interferometer is about as feasible as a trustworthy kyristor
07:43 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433700 << this nonsense does not turn into fact merely by being uttered by mircea_popescu
07:43 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 10:59:58; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433627 << nothing you said in the lengthy diatribe following had anything at all to see with the topic proposed!
07:43 asciilifeform pope or no pope
07:43 asciilifeform for anyone who missed the thread, it concerned capitulation to the enemy
07:44 asciilifeform blew my mind that any such thing was on the table
07:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform well, this'd be what i mean. capitulation what ?
07:44 mircea_popescu the queston was, what the fuck are we going to do !
07:44 asciilifeform and ~i~ will have no part of it.
07:44 mircea_popescu dude again ?
07:44 mircea_popescu you will have no part in what ?
07:45 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: any alignment with a usg-enriching or dimon-enabling phork
07:45 mircea_popescu and how does this relate to what was being discussed ?
07:45 mircea_popescu i don't fuck guys. ok. so ?
07:45 asciilifeform or introduction of material from either into a future trb
07:46 mircea_popescu again. how is this related to what was being discussed ?
07:46 asciilifeform did i misthtead or what
07:46 mircea_popescu you misread so amply it boggles the mind.
07:46 adlai mircea_popescu: you did say we may have to choose the lesser of two evils
07:46 mircea_popescu IF
07:46 mircea_popescu ~~~~~IIIFFFFFF~~~~~
07:46 asciilifeform this was re the 'strategy' thread, no?
07:46 mircea_popescu we have nothing to propose of our own
07:46 mircea_popescu THENNNNNNN we will have no fucking good choices to make.
07:46 adlai other than "no fork"?
07:47 adlai there is no spoon, nor a fork. there is a knife, and it lowers kelvin.
07:47 asciilifeform but we have, e.g., a spiffy mircea_popescutronic item from last month
07:47 mircea_popescu adlai wouldja think for a moment ? if miners fork tomorrow, pre-miner-fork trb will not be defensible. because bitfury (you know, kakobrekla's friends) have access to vc capital, and will bridge the gap between us printing press and chinese mining.
07:47 mircea_popescu should have fucking killed those derps back when they were nobody and losing bitbet bets,
07:48 mircea_popescu HOWEVER we didn't, because hey, maybe they do somethign good
07:48 adlai so you're specifically suggesting a "reset PoW" fork?
07:48 mircea_popescu in the end, what they did was they sparked through the dielectric.
07:48 asciilifeform adlai: read mircea_popescu's keccak article
07:48 mircea_popescu adlai i'm specifically suggesting we better stop flailing emotionally and fucking think, because things are not going well.
07:49 adlai asciilifeform: i can't find this article. do you mean the "necessary prerequisite" one?
07:49 kakobrekla dunno about friendship - i havent been able to reach bitfury in years
07:49 asciilifeform i dun flail, i sit on sharp telephone pole and keccak on lunchbreakz..
07:50 mircea_popescu kakobrekla and at any point prior to march 2016 i would have readily believed that. now however, is simply something i can't discern.
07:50 mircea_popescu but... i want to believe. sure.
07:50 asciilifeform holyfuk wat?!
07:50 * thestringpuller just walked into the x-files
07:51 kakobrekla nfi
07:51 asciilifeform i can't wait to learn to whom ~i~ somehow betrayed the motherland
07:52 asciilifeform mtgox?
07:52 adlai fwiw, i sincerely doubt miners would "let core devs decide" if they believed "economic consensus" were against the devs; but this leaves open the problem of convincing them of this.
07:53 * adlai does not control economic consensus, nor the miners
07:53 mircea_popescu adlai they believe the rewaerd havling will kill them, which it well might ; and they see the opportunity with all the core/bitcoin-xt/blabla. will they take it ?
07:53 mircea_popescu IF they do, WHAT DO WE DO.
07:53 asciilifeform adlai: do you not see the problem of having 'konsensoooos' in he mix at all ?
07:53 kakobrekla asciilifeform apparently im accused for working for the dark side now, somehow ?
07:54 adlai asciilifeform: partially, although the market price of forkchains makes consensus crystal clear - but only in retrospect.
07:54 asciilifeform kakobrekla: that was the implication? unless i'm thick
07:54 kakobrekla well, rate away!
07:55 mircea_popescu there's a difference between "i know x" and "i don't know x".
07:55 adlai mircea_popescu: hmmm. ok, this is a valid question, my answer to which is: port Luke-Jr's keccak reset from "classic" to trb, and be ready to activate it, should a fork occur.
07:55 adlai but i don't think trb should initiate a fork.
07:56 mircea_popescu at no point was it proposed that trb does.
07:56 asciilifeform adlai: who said anything about porting some derp's turd
07:56 mircea_popescu the entire thing was, we should take stock of the situation, and make some judgements and plan some plans in a complete and responsible manner.
07:56 mircea_popescu just like we [at least theoretically/aspirationally] write code
07:56 mircea_popescu ennumerate the fucking states and test!
07:57 adlai asciilifeform: "port" in the loose sense of the word. let's rephrase that as "some poor code monkey should write a keccak vpatch for trb, but nobody should ever have to use it"
07:57 asciilifeform adlai: nuke must be tested.
07:57 adlai of course, this is why we have ATC
07:57 asciilifeform on live vermin, to be effective.
07:57 thestringpuller had*
07:57 mircea_popescu so again : 1) ~IF~ summer/july becomes the summer of forks, what do we do ?
07:58 mircea_popescu 2) IF miners come out with their own fork, what do we do ?
07:58 asciilifeform i liked mircea_popescu's algo!
07:58 thestringpuller what about the 5% needed to veto softforks?
07:58 adlai asciilifeform: you never answered my question. which is mp's keccak article?
07:58 mircea_popescu asciilifeform please note that it was strictly example and not design work ready for implementation.
07:58 mircea_popescu adlai pretty sure the one you said.
07:59 adlai ok, i also like that idea, although as you said yourself, it's not fully baked yet. i also like that it can be initially opt-in, with an ultimatum that it gets 'hardened' by some date, if it hasn't 'softened' by then.
07:59 asciilifeform the only thing i would change is to retain old capital distribution, then keccak has a chance at continuing old schellingpoint.
07:59 mircea_popescu see, now for some reason we're talking on point.
07:59 mircea_popescu i dunno wtf i shoulda done different so this happened a week ago rather than now.
07:59 asciilifeform adlai: you can't 'soften' powe
08:00 adlai asciilifeform: mircea's suggestion is implementable as a soft fork.
08:00 mircea_popescu it is ?
08:00 adlai ie, only miners ~must~ enforce it; once nodes also do, it hardens, and then miners can't choose to reverse the previously-soft fork.
08:00 asciilifeform no, wtf!
08:00 mircea_popescu i'm confused.
08:00 adlai until it hardens, miners could reverse.
08:00 asciilifeform adlai: holy fuck, 2 pows?!
08:00 adlai no.
08:00 asciilifeform wh?
08:01 adlai we're probably talking about different articles.
08:01 * adlai is talking about "hash bits of old blocks into the coinbase txn"
08:02 adlai which is possible to launch as a miner-only fork, which nodes can choose to enforce, but don't have to; and then at some later date, all nodes enforce it, and miners know they must keep enforcing it, too.
08:02 asciilifeform adlai: http://trilema.com/2016/the-necessary-prerequisite-for-any-change-to-the-bitcoin-protocol
08:02 assbot The necessary prerequisite for any change to the Bitcoin protocol on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1UyPaxv )
08:02 thestringpuller i like how bitcoin mining manufacturers don't even shy away about it: "this is the most powerful miner available to ~the public~" what miners are available to the private?
08:02 adlai asciilifeform: we're talking about the same article. read what i just said, it is about that idea.
08:03 adlai thestringpuller: all the ones that matter
08:03 mircea_popescu thestringpuller might just be boilerplate. replace "to the public" with "on god's own earth".
08:03 asciilifeform adlai: i utterly fail to grasp how this is an idea
08:03 mircea_popescu can't make this sorta judgements on the basis of fucking copywriting.
08:03 asciilifeform wtf is a 'miner-only fork'
08:04 adlai asciilifeform: it's an idea because it means that the "#b-a fork" isn't a hard-fork that can fail.
08:04 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i dunno, the crowning of five years of complete neglect of the relay network ?
08:04 mircea_popescu "dun matter anyway!"
08:04 adlai as opposed to "let's make our new blocks incompatible"
08:04 adlai breaking consensus is a hard fork. narrowing it - soft.
08:04 mircea_popescu ok.
08:04 mircea_popescu that much we agree on. go on.
08:05 asciilifeform adlai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=20-10-2015#1303934
08:05 assbot Logged on 20-10-2015 22:10:51; ascii_field: 'we'll make trucks over five tonnes switch sides first!'
08:05 adlai well what do i go on about? ultimately the whole hard/soft thing is a terrible terminology, verging on false dichotomy.
08:06 * adlai shuts up and attends to private matters
08:06 mircea_popescu adlai you go about deductively showing your proposal from the shared basis.
08:06 mircea_popescu if, then.
08:06 asciilifeform again how the fuck can pow switch be 'soft' in any sense ?!
08:06 asciilifeform it dun get any harder than pow switchout
08:06 adlai aha, here's the misunderstanding. my proposal was not a pow switch.
08:06 mircea_popescu but the article was ?
08:07 thestringpuller get the miners to execute themselves willingly - softfork.
08:07 adlai mircea_popescu: correct. i was hallucinating an alternate article, which said to http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433851
08:07 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 12:01:30; *: adlai is talking about "hash bits of old blocks into the coinbase txn"
08:07 asciilifeform softfecalmatter is how we got here.
08:07 * adlai adjusts meth-lsd dosage accordingly to reduce hallucinations
08:08 mircea_popescu i dunno what all that was but anyways.
08:08 asciilifeform adlai: this is ~exactly~ the old joke with the trucks
08:08 mircea_popescu asciilifeform keeping old coinbases has the advantage and the disadvantage of keeping old coinbases.
08:08 mircea_popescu yes, schelling point to continue, yes with the same idiots/geniuses as before, and thus at a lower adoption interest.
08:09 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the advantage is that we become distinguishable from the usual idiot attempts at self-enrichment.
08:09 mircea_popescu certainly.
08:09 asciilifeform the disadvantages - legion.
08:09 thestringpuller this kills SPV mining tho, which is good thing.
08:10 mircea_popescu i'm not pushing it either this way or that, just want to get all the things on table if possibru.
08:10 asciilifeform it could even make sense to fight on 2 fronts at once.
08:10 asciilifeform keccak-clean and keccak-trbchain.
08:11 thestringpuller clean?
08:11 mircea_popescu (and generally i dunno why this shortcircuit between facts and judgement became fashionable here, seems much too close to the habits of the "independent" demographic for comfort. trust me, if i want to say x i will say it in those exact words, as i have without exception to date. saying i don't know x means i do not know. and similarly, here, and so on. i totally can speak for myself, say what i mean etc.)
08:11 asciilifeform nowhere is it written that tmsr will field exactly one weapon.
08:12 mircea_popescu this much is very true.
08:12 mircea_popescu which was part of my initial wtf at your initial reaction.
08:12 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: sleep of reason breeds monsters etc
08:13 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: my reaction now is same as then, i am willing to take part in 1,000,001 variants but not in capitulation to the motherfuckng nazis
08:13 mircea_popescu yes yes. good.
08:13 asciilifeform if i wanted to wear brown all i gotta do is, understand, cross the street
08:13 asciilifeform but i dun wanna.
08:14 mircea_popescu i think the record well reflects this.
08:15 asciilifeform (last night for example i formally turned down the 'encouragement' to try out for 'top secret' and may very well be sacked eventually because of it)
08:15 mircea_popescu so your idea is, that we of course continue to maintain trb as is, but also develop a keccak pow variant, for use in case of forks ? or vice-versa, in case of forks develop it ?
08:15 asciilifeform aha.
08:16 mircea_popescu asciilifeform lol hey, life of your parents! funny how this works!
08:16 asciilifeform quite!
08:16 mircea_popescu how would it go, that commenter's proposal ?
08:16 asciilifeform which?
08:16 mircea_popescu lemme fish it out
08:17 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2016/the-necessary-prerequisite-for-any-change-to-the-bitcoin-protocol/#comment-116408
08:17 assbot The necessary prerequisite for any change to the Bitcoin protocol on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1UyRBjA )
08:17 mircea_popescu basically, have TWO hashes : sha(header+nonce) and sha(digest), and BOTH must be < difficulty.
08:18 mircea_popescu well, hm, that doesn't work as stated
08:18 mircea_popescu what i read there was, have TWO hashes : sha(header+nonce) and sha(digest+nonce)
08:18 asciilifeform keccak is an 'accordion'
08:18 mircea_popescu and obviously, gotta be the same nonce.
08:18 mircea_popescu asciilifeform keccak for this purpose counts as sha-3
08:18 asciilifeform and properly stretches to fit the while thing
08:18 asciilifeform Whole thing
08:18 mircea_popescu that's not the problem, the merkle tree jiggling is the problem.
08:18 asciilifeform yes but it doesn't need the idiot chaining
08:19 mircea_popescu there was no sha(sha( contemplated
08:19 mircea_popescu or you mean something else ?
08:19 asciilifeform linked comment
08:19 mircea_popescu ah ah. that's just assumption imported from current codebase, not intentional.
08:20 asciilifeform also the hashing-the-header thing is possibly evil
08:20 mircea_popescu the valuable idea there is, imo, that you have to keep the same nonce to calculate both sha values. which ACTUALLY does work, or seems to me to work, to do what the article proposes
08:20 asciilifeform enables pools.
08:20 mircea_popescu ie, give nodes a way to make money for cpu usage.
08:21 mircea_popescu asciilifeform it can stay as PART of it tho.
08:21 mircea_popescu see, the beauty of this is that it is a TRUE soft fork.
08:21 asciilifeform sure.
08:21 mircea_popescu ie, you still need the old gear + new gear.
08:21 asciilifeform how?
08:21 mircea_popescu not in the faux sense of "soft" used before.
08:21 asciilifeform ok now i'm thoroughly lost
08:21 mircea_popescu (well, it ~can~ be at any rate)
08:21 mircea_popescu asciilifeform ask a question ?
08:22 asciilifeform i thought we were bugspraying the old gear people.
08:22 mircea_popescu we CAN.
08:22 asciilifeform for their crimes.
08:22 mircea_popescu we don't HAVE TO.
08:22 mircea_popescu winning is all about preserving your fucking options.
08:22 mircea_popescu in the pow1 = sha(header+nonce) and pow2 = sha(digest+nonce), the first sha can even stay what it is now.
08:23 asciilifeform i can see preserving old capital allocation re coinz
08:23 asciilifeform but hash power distrib? lunacy
08:23 mircea_popescu asciilifeform same argument could be presented in reverse, also.
08:23 mircea_popescu to plenty, present coinbase allocation = lunacy.
08:24 mircea_popescu after all, do you know how much usg stole so far ? do they have more than satoshi yet ? if not yet, when ?
08:24 asciilifeform it depends on who the reader sees as musting die, no?
08:24 mircea_popescu eventually, yes ? not like satoshi is adding any.
08:24 mircea_popescu if only it were so simple!
08:25 asciilifeform the available evidence suggests that, like a bike thief, they steal to ~sell~
08:25 asciilifeform !s waterfall
08:25 assbot 119 results for 'waterfall' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=waterfall
08:25 mircea_popescu but this does not detract from their capacity of selling.
08:25 mircea_popescu if one day they come to their senses, what then ?
08:25 mircea_popescu "sell" ? to whom ? etc.
08:26 mircea_popescu im sorry, "detract from their capacity of stealing" is what i meant.
08:26 asciilifeform then, as described in mircea_popescu's articles, they become just another player
08:26 shinohai http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433891 <<< yup :)
08:26 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 12:09:47; thestringpuller: this kills SPV mining tho, which is good thing.
08:26 mircea_popescu not those senses, their other senses.
08:26 asciilifeform waiwut
08:27 asciilifeform how would this look?
08:27 asciilifeform 'from now on we sit on all we steal so we can dump in a decade' ?
08:27 mircea_popescu asciilifeform usg currently steals to sell. perhaps. this does not reduce their capacity to steal in the future. if in the future they steal to hoard, or if the stuff they "sold" was just facade, through preserving coinbases we are baking in not just the original satoshi, but also an evil satoshi.
08:27 asciilifeform and meanwhile let it 'go to moon' ?!
08:29 asciilifeform evil satoshi is likewise present in any fork, unless you're convinced - and i am not - that enemy cannot win arbitrary pow miner buildout race.
08:29 mircea_popescu this is also true.
08:29 asciilifeform let's recall which side has si fabs.
08:29 mircea_popescu these are all the moving parts we'll have to count and balance.
08:29 asciilifeform and which - not.
08:29 mircea_popescu the usg does not have si fabs.
08:29 mircea_popescu not anymore than you do.
08:29 asciilifeform intel
08:30 asciilifeform and fuck, people like northrop
08:30 mircea_popescu intellectual property outfits.
08:30 asciilifeform they actually fab in usa.
08:30 mircea_popescu some, not so much not so well etc.
08:30 asciilifeform nope, the latter - fab.
08:30 mircea_popescu myeah, there is that.
08:30 mircea_popescu and of course the nsa foundry etc.
08:30 mircea_popescu altho they sold it to some contractor iirc ? whatevs.
08:30 asciilifeform aha.
08:31 asciilifeform 'sold'
08:31 mircea_popescu you mean like "sold" bitcoin ? :D
08:31 asciilifeform standard way to handle budget overruns
08:31 mircea_popescu aha.
08:31 asciilifeform e.g., sandia labs, was likewise 'sold' iirc.
08:33 asciilifeform so - usg can build, if pressed, machines. ~whereas~ existing coinbases they can only reallocate, save a ecdsa break, by knocking people over the head. which is loud and somewhat costly.
08:33 mircea_popescu neither loud nor costly to date.
08:33 asciilifeform and has well-documented countermeasures.
08:33 mircea_popescu to a point.
08:33 asciilifeform ulbricht was mighty loud.
08:33 mircea_popescu really ?
08:34 mircea_popescu who got shot ?
08:34 asciilifeform and if he had a pin to pull, the nazis would have nothing.
08:34 mircea_popescu if btc people were the sort where it'd cost about 1.25 heads of usg agent per bitcoin stolen, this is one thing.
08:34 mircea_popescu btc people so far seem much lower effort than that.
08:34 mircea_popescu so i can't compute this like you would. it's silent and cheap, not loud, not costly.
08:34 asciilifeform destroying the keys would be a start.
08:35 mircea_popescu not being an anglotard - even better start. and yet...
08:35 asciilifeform scorched earth device is usable by ~anyone.
08:35 mircea_popescu i would propose to you that "destroying the keys" feels exactly like "moving to argentina" does to you.
08:35 mircea_popescu so it is usable by anyone who doesn't work, live, was educated or born in the us.
08:35 asciilifeform i suppose.
08:36 mircea_popescu this utter fear of finality they bake into all their runts.
08:36 mircea_popescu "omaigerd what do you mean it's finished!"
08:36 asciilifeform and mircea_popescu knows that i'd be on the next flight if i were properly 13337 and knew how to pay the rentz there.
08:36 mircea_popescu hahahaha. and similarly i know that they WOULDNT NEED TO pull the pin
08:37 mircea_popescu if they were properly leet and called their secret legions to battle with da polis.
08:37 mircea_popescu derp, srsly.
08:37 asciilifeform l0l point
08:37 asciilifeform then we're really speaking of eating one's nagant
08:37 asciilifeform which plenty of folks do
08:38 asciilifeform and yet others - study to do
08:38 mircea_popescu yes, plenty of folk do. that don't work, live, were educated or born in the us.
08:38 asciilifeform whatchatalkingabout usa inmates drop like flies
08:38 mircea_popescu suddenly we understand the importance of national heroes like joe stack
08:38 mircea_popescu it protects an entire fucking population from the above being an absolute.
08:39 asciilifeform they suicide at drop of a hat!
08:39 mircea_popescu yehimsure.
08:39 asciilifeform usually cheaply/boringly
08:39 asciilifeform but just as dead
08:40 asciilifeform mircea_popescu this is a country where , i suspect, most folks' retirement plan is a .45 !
08:41 asciilifeform 'Colt Life&Health Co.'
08:42 asciilifeform but mircea_popescu nailed it, 'get on the boat with the shirt on yer back' is a kind of death-lite-version
08:43 asciilifeform been there, done that.
08:43 asciilifeform witnessed the effect on older folk, too.
08:45 mircea_popescu aha.
08:45 mircea_popescu i enjoy it so much i do it spuriously.
08:45 asciilifeform mno.
08:46 mircea_popescu do tell ?
08:46 asciilifeform mircea_popescu , what, threw out his capital ?
08:46 asciilifeform all of it?
08:46 asciilifeform went with shirt?!
08:47 mircea_popescu i did build and burn a number of fortunes, but in my younger years. nevertheless : you know, peter ALSO didn't HAVE TO take the imperial guard with.
08:47 mircea_popescu it's an option, not an obligation.
08:47 asciilifeform no phriend-who-owes-him-a-block-of-flats either !
08:47 mircea_popescu for actual emperors. not for fuckrags a la obama, but for actual emperors.
08:48 asciilifeform whatever nietzschetronic etc. etc.
08:48 mircea_popescu dun haet.
08:48 asciilifeform l0lz
08:49 asciilifeform yahyah mircea_popescu has esp powerz and they aint for sale and follow him through the seven worlds etc etc
08:49 asciilifeform but i was talking about mortals.
08:49 mircea_popescu dun haet!!1
08:50 mircea_popescu mortals ain't pulling any pins, you see. so yea, "anyonecandoit".
08:50 asciilifeform not ntirely unrelatedly, usg is doing an impromptu collapse drill under the guise of fire inspection, and closes the whole motherfuckng subway for 24h
08:51 asciilifeform so now i go and see what 100,000 extra cars look like.
08:51 * asciilifeform bbl
08:51 * mircea_popescu had a friend, and a fine fellow he was, who unfortunately died young. but we were friends from childhood
08:52 mircea_popescu my earliest memory of him is, we were in some rural setting, dun recall whose grandparents, and we had chicks (kids get young hatchlings to play with in the time and place, it's a time-honored tradition like getting your toddler one of those dingly noise things to put above the crib or w/e)
08:53 mircea_popescu some younger kid that didn't have one wanted to play with his, this guy would have none of it, eventually some adult intervened to make him share
08:53 mircea_popescu so he turned the chicks neck and threw the corpse at the whiner.
08:54 mircea_popescu school hadn't yet started, so we were prolly 6 or so. but this was a rare concept even at that age.
08:54 mircea_popescu ~EVEN~ at that age.
08:54 thestringpuller shutting the studio down?
08:54 thestringpuller very p. diddy-esque
~ 34 minutes ~
09:29 mircea_popescu and in other news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/dc33a2028212d40e6e9ec9b9f889e90f/tumblr_nczbyyHu0n1t2qfvbo1_1280.jpg
09:29 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1ptORZA )
09:33 shinohai ;;later tell BingoBoingo ping me when you have time to look at possible qntra submission. Grazie.
09:33 gribble The operation succeeded.
09:39 mircea_popescu (and to cap that story - yea the adults expressed outrage ["how could you do that!"] but no, he wasn't punished, because no there was no offense, and the father(s) wouldn't have it, or generally let the women run amok with their nonsense. so hurray for patriarchy or whatever, boo the psychopaths of this world!)
09:45 nubbins` http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-03-2016#1433536 << /me extends hand to receive host
09:45 assbot Logged on 15-03-2016 23:11:11; jurov: and *gasp* roman catholics
09:49 nubbins` http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433764 <<< the general case is true here too
09:49 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 11:43:02; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433700 << this nonsense does not turn into fact merely by being uttered by mircea_popescu
09:51 nubbins` http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433800 << lel
09:51 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 11:50:11; mircea_popescu: kakobrekla and at any point prior to march 2016 i would have readily believed that. now however, is simply something i can't discern.
09:55 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 60550 @ 0.0004201 = 25.4371 BTC [-] {4}
10:03 nubbins` davout you have a 21.co?
10:03 nubbins` anyone else apply for s.bbet receivership job?
10:03 * nubbins` guesses nobody except for that one turbo-unqualified nobody
10:05 nubbins` !up dbclk
10:05 nubbins` wat
10:06 nubbins` !up dbclk
10:07 davout nubbins`: just interested in seeing who's paying attention
10:07 nubbins` 8)
10:11 jurov i wish i had rather not pay attention
10:12 nubbins` jurov it would make things easier
10:12 nubbins` oh FWIW i'm doing another run of posters https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1387250.0
10:12 assbot [10/100] "What is Bitcoin?" silkscreened posters [UPDATED DESIGN FOR 2016] ... ( http://bit.ly/1pIEPUf )
10:19 trinque adlai: your deed will send as soon as this thing reimports its key into the wallet for the 30th time
10:19 adlai mircea_popescu: that is such a terrible story, the child should have been spanked for chiccicide
10:19 trinque $ LC_ALL=C bitcoind listaccounts
10:19 trinque {
10:19 trinque "" : -0.00020000
10:19 trinque }
10:19 adlai aha looks like trinque is pulling a ben_vulpes ?
10:19 trinque pardon?
10:19 adlai nvm
10:19 mircea_popescu yeah im sure.
10:20 adlai masheu beanglit
10:20 mircea_popescu what's so terrible about it ?
10:20 adlai the child should have been spanked! you don't just go around letting your kids kill things, without a little flick on the butt
10:20 mircea_popescu and why not ?
10:20 trinque when I had a cat it killed things all the time, for fun.
10:21 mircea_popescu cats are particularly bloodthirsty huh.
10:21 mircea_popescu anyway, http://trilema.com/2016/the-chick-incident/
10:21 assbot The chick incident on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/21v8z2T )
10:22 adlai mircea_popescu: i wanna answer with a log link, but the search is failing so i'll quote instead: "mircea_popescu: *-cide is never justifiable"
10:23 adlai although the * in that context was just a bunch of cells!
10:23 adlai (for the lispless in the audience, cells are a human invention, by kenny tilton)
10:24 adlai somebody on better terms with that man oughtta invite him in here someday.
10:24 mircea_popescu i don't think justification was attempted.
10:24 mircea_popescu breathing is also never justifiable.
10:24 adlai iirc somebody asked you whether you justify abortion or somesuch
10:24 mircea_popescu best find the link.
10:24 adlai !s mircea abortion
10:24 assbot 31 results for 'mircea abortion' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=mircea+abortion
10:24 * adlai lets googlebot find it
10:25 adlai it's 4:20, i got blunts to burn and chat to spurn.
10:25 mircea_popescu adlai can't propose weird stances for mp to have taken in the past and then crap out on the documentation.
10:25 adlai well it was definitely after i joined the channel, if that limits the search space.
10:26 mircea_popescu nobody's going to do your work. you wanna talk to the adults, talk like the adults.
10:26 adlai http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-04-2015#1106206
10:26 assbot Logged on 22-04-2015 01:52:22; mircea_popescu: the alternative is nothing. murder's not something to be explained.
10:26 * adlai attains enlightenment - "chix" are not subject to "murder"!
10:27 adlai thank you, buddha. you're next.
10:27 mircea_popescu you see the difference between to explain and to justify yes ?
10:27 adlai sure
10:27 * adlai wanders off in search of the buddha
10:27 mircea_popescu discretionary acts are that, discretionary. no explanation is available for the private sphere.
10:28 mircea_popescu but yes, that's the major problem of murder : a private act with major public effects. pretty major conundrum.
10:30 * adlai blows buddha-neck-dust off hands
10:31 adlai ( for the heathens - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan#Killing_the_Buddha )
10:31 assbot Kōan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1VckfYs )
10:34 adlai !t m s.mpoe
10:34 assbot [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.00042006 / 0.00042062 / 0.00042603 (374417 shares, 157.49 BTC), 7D: 0.00042006 / 0.00048142 / 0.00053073 (12408846 shares, 5,973.87 BTC), 30D: 0.00042006 / 0.00055086 / 0.00059897 (72958913 shares, 40,190.59 BTC)
10:37 mircea_popescu so i made the mistake of following the tardpedia link. therein,
10:37 mircea_popescu A student asked Master Yun-Men (A.D. 949) "Not even a thought has arisen; is there still a sin or not?" Master replied, "Mount Sumeru!"
10:37 mircea_popescu motherfucking hell these idiots already.
10:37 mircea_popescu i'm not sure there exists but i'm sure i don't know anything more offensive than the precious derpage in the eastern tradition.
10:37 adlai they were right about killing them! put them out of their fucking misery, can't you hear it in their "bushels of flax"
10:38 adlai btw: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=27-01-2016#1386701 << yes totally you have no idea. you should try it sometime!
10:38 assbot Logged on 27-01-2016 00:03:26; mircea_popescu: isn't lying fun.
10:38 mircea_popescu "if you meet a derpy teenager with whispy "beard" hair, onanistic odours wafting every which way who can'tstop prattlingabout his erotic exploits...
10:38 mircea_popescu whatever, kill him i guess."
10:39 mircea_popescu fucking bullshit, "what's the meaning of coincidence ?" "dunno dood, HE HAD TO FUCKING COME FROM SOMEWHERE" hurr durr.
10:40 mircea_popescu "gotta do something while waiting for buddha to decide christ's more fun and come back to save or someshit."
10:40 mircea_popescu "meanwhile this cock ain't gonna rub itself, so here we are".
10:41 mircea_popescu adlai you realise - google is even better at koans than at go.
10:41 adlai oh i know, i already ready https://medium.com/my-satsang/on-k%C5%8Dans-and-turing-machines-adeac0844dac#.z82tdhxaw
10:41 assbot On Kōans and Turing Machines — My Satsang — Medium ... ( http://bit.ly/21vaiFa )
10:43 trinque https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*e-IrhTIQQ2-GaOdbDMYxGw.png << ahahahahaha check that out. model of consciousness even
10:43 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/21vay74 )
10:46 mircea_popescu trinque "but what is the meaning of the colors!" "the wild fox is dead"
10:46 mircea_popescu hurr durr we're in nirvana hall.
10:48 mircea_popescu in the same vein, mihai margineanu playing atm, just went "whenever you ask a question you don't expect answered ; why are you surprised when you get an answer you didn't expect".
10:48 trinque not bad
10:52 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1434153 << don't confuse with valhalla hall, with the valkyries. nirvana hall is just that 20 m^3 concrete cesspool from mircea_popescu's old article.
10:52 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 14:46:24; mircea_popescu: hurr durr we're in nirvana hall.
10:52 mircea_popescu asciilifeform is coincidentally the pompous name of the place where the events discussed transpired.
10:53 asciilifeform urgh
10:53 mircea_popescu !up hybridsole
10:54 asciilifeform interestingly, no effect visible to naked eye from the city subway here being closed - seems as if usg took the day off..
10:54 asciilifeform so net ~0.
10:56 mircea_popescu asciilifeform what, the assumption that alternatives exist died in practice yet again ?
10:57 mircea_popescu and silly me, to think that the guys in the subway are there by choice, and they could do something else.
10:58 mircea_popescu "no subway, no travel - i don't own a 1/100000 of the 100`000 spare car meta-pool, nor do i have anything to do that'd justify it."
10:59 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: megalopolis dies without either a) subway or b) the folks who work there, living there
10:59 asciilifeform and we don't have (b) here
10:59 mircea_popescu so tell me, as a curio : what is the correct accounting for "city having subway" in the books of a donut shop at the corner of 85th and 10th ?
10:59 asciilifeform calculate how much of, e.g., nyc, you would have to level and convert to garage, and how much to level to convert to 32-lane streets, to have a (c) everyone drives
11:00 mircea_popescu because it clearly IS part of the books, right ? trivially enumerable, as it is. just not easy to evaluate.
11:00 mircea_popescu what do!
11:00 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: well traditionally it is whatever the tax is, no ?
11:00 mircea_popescu or wait, you don't do number grid in dc, do you ?
11:00 asciilifeform there is a (primitive) grid.
11:00 mircea_popescu asciilifeform ha-HA ? tax offers no guarantee.
11:00 mircea_popescu as you recall, police is not obliged to serve you.
11:00 asciilifeform no shit !
11:00 mircea_popescu so... how do you put the subway on the donut shop's books!
11:01 mircea_popescu this is no light matter.
11:01 asciilifeform the king actually doing his thing is a best-effort affair aha.
11:01 asciilifeform you can't put motherfucking collapse on the books.
11:01 asciilifeform because it costs +inf.
11:01 mircea_popescu awww!
11:01 mircea_popescu but but but...
11:01 asciilifeform (not even maxint - you could pay maxint, theoretically.)
11:01 mircea_popescu WHAT DO!
11:01 asciilifeform the old ww1 saw.
11:02 asciilifeform 'whaddoido if a shell lands in my trench??'
11:02 asciilifeform answer:
11:02 trinque no everlasting life eh?
11:02 asciilifeform 'jump up twenty metres and scatter yerself around a bit'
11:02 trinque lol
11:02 mircea_popescu wwwwwwellllll then.
11:03 asciilifeform there is no entry in the bookz for 'asteroid' either.
11:03 mircea_popescu in case this is not obvious, transparent parallel to our bitbet adventures.
11:03 asciilifeform no shit.
11:03 mircea_popescu hey, i dunno what posterity is like. maybe they're retarded.
11:04 asciilifeform this is more or less a safe assumption.
11:04 mircea_popescu i prefer to practice safe sex rather than safe assumptions.
11:06 asciilifeform l0l
11:08 asciilifeform the chicken story is lulzy
11:09 asciilifeform i imagine every boy broke something when 'made to share' at some point
11:09 asciilifeform but i never had a whole fucking chicken
11:09 asciilifeform mircea_popescu is the clear winner in the moar-orc contest.
11:10 asciilifeform incidentally every time i open my idiot mouth and talk to colleagues, another one of my 'every boy must have...' assumptions drops like a fucking fly.
11:11 asciilifeform sometimes it is chronological,
11:11 asciilifeform e.g., i run into grown man who never saw msdos
11:11 asciilifeform sometimes - not.
11:14 jurov mircea_popescu: pls to mpex
11:14 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1434076 << l0l wut, the circa-2013 usb miner thing ??
11:14 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 14:03:05; nubbins`: davout you have a 21.co?
11:14 asciilifeform why would anyone buy ? i still dun get it
11:15 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1434092 << i learned one way to achieve this 'wonder' - doublespends followed by normal spend
11:15 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 14:19:29; trinque: "" : -0.00020000
11:15 asciilifeform wallet (incl. trb) ~much~ dislikes doublespends
11:15 asciilifeform you end up with this barf.
11:15 trinque I'm aiming to build the calls necessary to run deedbot's needs over shiva.
11:16 asciilifeform trinque: neato!
11:16 trinque too much manual lever-pulling at the moment
11:16 asciilifeform trinque: what do you need to make this go ?
11:17 asciilifeform imho the mega-reasonable thing to do, and the thing i would be doing right now if not sitting on a stake possibly, is to abstract out the wallet idiocy
11:17 davout trinque: that -0.00020000 comes from the "accounts" mega-turd?
11:17 trinque davout: yes
11:17 asciilifeform which is to say, incorporate db calls into shiva
11:17 asciilifeform and go from that to tx-crafting
11:17 asciilifeform while staying in shiva.
11:18 trinque asciilifeform: right, I would at least need sendrawtxn (can make txn elsewhere) but it would also be nice to have createrawtxn and signrawtxn I suppose.
11:18 trinque I can do the latter two outside too
11:18 asciilifeform you need the blockchain for this.
11:18 trinque had my own external wallet db for btcd
11:18 asciilifeform (at least in practice)
11:19 trinque I was simply keeping a sqlite db of txns
11:19 trinque hypothetically I would like to simply be able to inquire the balance of any address at any time
11:19 trinque this seems heavy given the db structure used
11:19 asciilifeform this is O(N) trinque.
11:19 trinque yep.
11:19 asciilifeform intrinsically.
11:20 davout this "accounts" thing is such an abomination...
11:21 davout http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1434210 <<< the rasperree-pee-that-can-also-mine-sort-of
11:21 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 15:14:21; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1434076 << l0l wut, the circa-2013 usb miner thing ??
11:22 asciilifeform the notion of the machine undertaking to solve the knapsack problem is ludicrous in itself.
11:22 asciilifeform and from it flow the other atrocities of the 'wallet'.
11:22 asciilifeform is everyone familiar with knapsack ?
11:25 trinque yep, you have finite volume and items of varying volume and value, want to pack the knapsack by optimal value
11:26 * trinque worked on warehouse software in ancient days
11:27 mircea_popescu asciilifeform> but i never had a whole fucking chicken << seriously ?!
11:27 mircea_popescu my sister killed more than these by being a kid and accidentally stepping on their heads than i can recall.
11:29 mircea_popescu trinque> I'm aiming to build the calls necessary to run deedbot's needs over shiva. << bless your heart.
11:29 mircea_popescu davout> this "accounts" thing is such an abomination... << consensus on this since... 2011 ?
11:30 mircea_popescu trinque i recall me losing my top over this back in 2013ish or w/e the first time bitcoin-idiocy got in the way of bitbet, being told "oh wait, this is an actual problem - we don't resolve problems, we write code here at prb!"
11:31 mircea_popescu "Fix the motherfucking code before you have to be fired. To recap : a. If I want to make 1 Mb txs I make 1 Mb txs ; b. correct inputs are selected to feed the outputs as if a human or better was doing the selecting." << also march, as fate would have it.
11:33 davout pretty much
11:35 mircea_popescu asciilifeform how exactly is the notion ludicrous in itself ?
11:40 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: knapsack problem is this np-complete boojum for which you can, yes, have various crapsack approximations
11:40 mircea_popescu so then.
11:40 asciilifeform which is what we have in trb
11:41 mircea_popescu not at all.
11:41 mircea_popescu well... by some standard a brick is a computer, so sure.
11:41 asciilifeform the tx selector thing
11:41 asciilifeform for 'pay x btc to addr a'
11:41 asciilifeform machine solves 'from which unspent ins'
11:41 mircea_popescu ~random
11:41 asciilifeform poorly.
11:42 mircea_popescu even historical order would acvtually beat trb on this.
11:42 asciilifeform the create-new-addr-every-time thing also guarantees fragging and pestilential multitudes of 'young' unspent coin
11:42 asciilifeform as if the knapsack thing were not enough
11:42 mircea_popescu both the "shittier than historical" and "new addr for change" bits are satoshi's dubious kludges to protect "anonimity"
11:43 asciilifeform let's pile up moar, moar!111 variably-valued items for the solver!1111
11:43 mircea_popescu except for a very poorly defined, mostly felt notion of "anonimity"
11:43 asciilifeform ^^^
11:43 asciilifeform was the idiot justification aha.
11:43 asciilifeform enemy could not possibly spend extra few 100 cpu cycles!1111
11:43 asciilifeform to recalculate the origin.
11:43 mircea_popescu whitening.
11:43 asciilifeform aha.
11:43 mircea_popescu it is a really hard thing to pass.
11:43 mircea_popescu nanto or how do they call it.
11:43 asciilifeform exercise in electrically-assisted self delusion
11:44 asciilifeform like most kompyooooting claptrap.
11:46 asciilifeform but anyway, unlike the pow wars or whatever apocalyptic thunderclouds, the wallet ~could~ be fixed if anyone gave half a fuck
11:47 asciilifeform i kinda assumed formerly that mircea_popescu fixed it in his
11:47 asciilifeform (not with own hands, naturally, but whatever makes mpb)
11:47 mircea_popescu or, in the words of the ballas master, " Yet given the infinity of the internet you still surf the same 5 websites, looking for and finding exactly what you want, like a baby playing peekaboo in a mirror over and over and over and over and over and over and..."
11:47 asciilifeform was surprised to learn that this was not so
11:47 trinque fixed or removed and cauterized?
11:47 asciilifeform fixed fixed.
11:47 asciilifeform mircea_popesc-fixed
11:47 trinque I was doing just fine without a wallet using btcd
11:47 mircea_popescu you learned what how when ?
11:47 trinque and shitting my own txns in from elsewhere
11:48 trinque jumped onto trb intending to cause myself severe pain such that gears of progress and whatnot
11:49 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: by implication, from various mircea_popescu gripes about tx-sending.
11:50 asciilifeform pretty much all i know about mpb comes from these !
11:50 mircea_popescu heh.
11:50 mircea_popescu "on the basis of the leaks coming from the invisible aircraft we have learned that it is a duck."
11:51 trinque does it float?
11:51 mircea_popescu only in air.
11:51 asciilifeform approx.
11:51 trinque close enough
11:52 asciilifeform when i see that birdshot works on it, i know it is prolly not a mig...
11:54 mircea_popescu amateur hunter returns empty handed from swamp. "nothing but migs out there good god what's the world coming to!"
11:54 asciilifeform from 'linux', lulz,
11:54 asciilifeform # /etc/localtime is a symlink with glibc > 2.15-41
11:54 asciilifeform ^ how the FUCK is this any business of libc.
11:54 mircea_popescu recall the threads about ntp, political time etc ?
11:54 mircea_popescu like that.
11:54 asciilifeform uhah.
11:59 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433702 << it is what there is.
11:59 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 11:03:11; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433648 << not afaik. if you don't count various people (including alf most recently) on various occasions throwing their hands up in disgust at the dysfunctional pos.
11:59 asciilifeform i don't have another, functional os buried somewhere
11:59 mircea_popescu aha.
11:59 asciilifeform for me right now it is gentoo or unabomber cabin.
12:00 hanbot phf / anyone who mac-erizes or might mess with gpgtools, tell me menu option & any steps involved in exporting pubkey if you have a moment? i'm trying to put a eulora wiki guide together and these derps have like zero documentation.
12:00 asciilifeform 'perelman-os'
12:01 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: fwiw the mask set i published here will build a depoetteringized (though not dedrepperized) gentoo, which will stay that way. but various more or less essential items, e.g., 'wireshark', will not build.
12:02 mircea_popescu i am aware.
12:02 asciilifeform there is a dedrepperized (experimental, musltronic) gentoo but it is VERY spartan
12:02 asciilifeform e.g., no emacs.
12:02 asciilifeform so not really os.
12:02 asciilifeform mircea_popescu ah so you tried it.
12:02 asciilifeform i did not think anyone gave a fuck.
12:02 mircea_popescu why not ?
12:03 asciilifeform because everybody here, afaik, already has some ruin he inhabits
12:03 asciilifeform but i have nfi.
12:03 mircea_popescu you think like the man of a single woman.
12:04 asciilifeform i speak like diogenes of a single barrel.
12:04 mircea_popescu !b 2
12:04 assbot Last 2 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/0MWNF9W.txt )
12:04 asciilifeform though i have a few dozen mostly broken ones.
12:04 mircea_popescu everyone's a diogenes of a single candle.
12:05 asciilifeform and single turtle, aha.
12:05 mircea_popescu actually that's a great name for the temple for this here cult,
12:05 mircea_popescu Temple of the Diogenes of the Single Candle.
12:06 mircea_popescu teh dsc sounds like a pretty kickass patron deity, thinking about it.
12:07 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 66650 @ 0.00042006 = 27.997 BTC [-]
12:07 asciilifeform much of modern tech is really reducible to 'let's give diogenes 1000w projector, he will surely find honest man!111'
12:08 mircea_popescu hey, he wins at go.
12:08 asciilifeform speaking of which, how about them 1900 cores.
12:08 mircea_popescu what of it ?
12:08 asciilifeform (from, iirc, 1200, after the machine loss)
12:09 asciilifeform since when is this done.
12:09 mircea_popescu since forever ?
12:09 mircea_popescu or hwat ?
12:09 asciilifeform i distincly recall stipulation that all 5 games will be played against same thing ?
12:09 asciilifeform or did i dream this.
12:09 mircea_popescu heh.
12:10 mircea_popescu machine is not a thing in the sense here contemplated.
12:10 asciilifeform being rather the collective best effort of the king's horses and king's men ?
12:10 mircea_popescu the whole deal was something like "and lee sedol will now play the whole nation of china - elect a representative, or two, or whatever. the go competence of the entire han race is being judged"
12:11 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433733 << i read it. marvelous tale. and - unsurprisingly - barfalicious hollywood film 50 yrs later.
12:11 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 11:21:59; thestringpuller: you ever read mimsy and the borogoves? short sci-fi story by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym for CL Moore and some other person that wrote as a duo)
12:13 mircea_popescu ahh this mango lassi.
12:13 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433736 << in some circumstances ~maladaptive~
12:13 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 11:27:35; mircea_popescu: intelligence is an adaptive behaviour ; which is why anyone with a clue would rather spend the time chatting up a random whore or street urchin than some jewish princess or "young exec".
12:13 mircea_popescu notrly.
12:14 mircea_popescu the adaptive behaviour is teh intelligence - the rest, will, if you will, or whatever.
12:14 asciilifeform what if test is 'be not as large as a mouse, there is nothing to eat but for cockroach'
12:14 mircea_popescu dumb mouse.
12:14 asciilifeform sometimes it is maladaptive to be larger than roach
12:14 asciilifeform where then, the intelligence.
12:15 mircea_popescu and if it is, it's also unintelligent.
12:15 asciilifeform in the end, the stone - who outlasts all - is most intelligent then.
12:15 asciilifeform brick lisp !
12:15 mircea_popescu notreally, as it doesn't adapt.
12:15 asciilifeform this is not imho a very interesting concept of intelligence.
12:15 mircea_popescu but it is more reliably notstupid than people, for sure.
12:15 mircea_popescu why haet.
12:16 asciilifeform l0l this was even in my brick article
12:16 asciilifeform english folks say 'stopped clock is right 2x a day'
12:16 asciilifeform beats a great many people aha.
12:16 mircea_popescu now why'd you strawman the "adaptive behaviour" ? what the fuck do you care what the outcome is.
12:17 asciilifeform i merely happen to live there.
12:17 asciilifeform so not entirely indifferent to whether surrounded by cockroach
12:18 asciilifeform mircea_popescu lives on mt olympus with the other godz and naturally gives not a fuck
12:18 mircea_popescu that you don't like the outcome is not cause to alter the definitions lol.
12:21 asciilifeform evolutionary process is mega-adaptable but is not in any useful sense intelligent
12:22 mircea_popescu behaviour!
12:22 asciilifeform because cannot plan or 'think outside local maxima'.
12:22 mircea_popescu process is not behaviour.
12:22 asciilifeform 'be born a cockroach' is not behaviour of anything but evolutionary process
12:22 mircea_popescu so ?
12:22 mircea_popescu i am sorry strawman doth not make much sense and commiserate !
12:25 asciilifeform i commiserate that mircea_popescu thinks the 'idiot god' of hill-climbing optimizer is 'intelligence'
12:25 mircea_popescu not what i said.
12:25 mircea_popescu the root of the problem would seem to be the self-serving but otherwise bluntly unwarranted assumption that "intelligence is useful in all circumstances".
12:26 mircea_popescu this is not so.
12:26 asciilifeform pretty much what i said, no ?
12:26 mircea_popescu no. you said maladaptive.
12:26 mircea_popescu that presumes you act on it.
12:26 asciilifeform take the famous sea cucumber.
12:26 mircea_popescu aite.
12:27 asciilifeform 'The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore, so it eats it! It's rather like getting tenure.'
12:28 mircea_popescu must not be the same animal, sea cucumber i think of is an echinoderm.
12:28 mircea_popescu it moves.
12:29 mircea_popescu (actually it's the jumping champion, some 1km jumps)
12:30 asciilifeform ah right
12:31 mircea_popescu but anyway, so animal that stops locomoting gives up brain cells used for handling that.
12:31 mircea_popescu recall pigeon experiments ? brain is plastic, takes over function of lost partys
12:31 mircea_popescu at the expense of other processes, of course. so what of it ?
12:31 asciilifeform aha.
12:32 asciilifeform this is adaptive.
12:33 asciilifeform and the beast can't exactly grow a new brain if environment changes and it could take the chance of moving to a new rock.
12:34 mircea_popescu so because enthalpy, you propose no commerce is possible.
12:34 asciilifeform not in closed system !
12:34 mircea_popescu non-closedness of a system is an accounting fiction.
12:35 asciilifeform and this is where we find out that mircea_popescu stands outside heat death.
12:36 mircea_popescu why ?
12:38 asciilifeform largely since i never get the sense he is discussing a place where he ~lives~
12:38 asciilifeform vs some distant zoo
12:38 mircea_popescu also duck ?
12:38 asciilifeform prolly goes with the job.
12:40 asciilifeform i can see it already: harem gurl: 'i stepped on rusty nail!' mircea_popescu: 'here's an impregnation, perhaps after 20 generations your descendants will have shell armour on their feet'
12:41 asciilifeform 'meanwhile have a rusty knife'
12:41 mircea_popescu did i ever recall the story of the slavegirl that had never seen railroad tracks ?
12:41 asciilifeform nope
12:41 trinque "here's an impregnation" << lolol
12:42 mircea_popescu so we go to cross some tracks and i say "careful not to touch the shiny parts!" and she carefully steps to not touch the shiny parts.
12:42 asciilifeform who the fuck has not seen railroad ? blind gurl ?
12:42 asciilifeform wat?!
12:42 mircea_popescu later finding herself at a good time for such, inquires why parts were shiny ?
12:42 mircea_popescu "because trains go on them, polish them"
12:42 mircea_popescu "so then why not step on them ?!"
12:42 mircea_popescu "no reason."
12:42 mircea_popescu "i thought it was something with electrictiy!!1"
12:43 mircea_popescu asciilifeform not all people come from europe you know.
12:43 mircea_popescu who else has rail ? new england ?
12:43 trinque portland wants to be yurp bad enough to have put some in
12:43 mircea_popescu aokthen!
12:43 asciilifeform there are rails here!
12:43 trinque couple of hipster chicks get flattened by it per year
12:43 mircea_popescu trinque funny, was same in india!
12:44 asciilifeform every day 1000 tonnes of coal went past my old flat
12:44 asciilifeform and there were a few splats also.
12:44 mircea_popescu anyway, i wonder why asciilifeform is so convinced that one may only see the truth of things that don't affect them personally.
12:44 asciilifeform prolly because 20 pack a day mathematics habit
12:45 mircea_popescu what is this. mayhap the explanation isn't that mp lives in a heat-death immune dirigible (upgraded from atomic) but simply... does not care ?
12:46 asciilifeform i am reminded of dan mocsny's 'whichever one of us leaves usenet first is the Real Man' mega-flame
12:46 asciilifeform (moscny - won.)
12:46 mircea_popescu how ?
12:46 asciilifeform he left.
12:46 mircea_popescu no, how are you reminded
12:46 asciilifeform ah the not-caring olympics l0l
12:47 mircea_popescu but look at the jump : 1) unexplained item can be explained by a or b ; 2) it's a b-olympics!
12:47 mircea_popescu what goes from 1 to 2 ?
12:47 asciilifeform side thread
12:48 mircea_popescu the jump is the mechanism at issue here nevertheless.
12:49 asciilifeform well, to re-connect the frags, i take issue with everett's device as problem solving tool, because if you admit it, none of the other things we do make any sense
12:49 mircea_popescu these are as far as i've seen the two mindbugs of the republic : a) A -> B therefore B-> A, ie backflow ; and b) the above.
12:49 asciilifeform why not just fellate our pistols every morning while enemy is still alive ?
12:49 mircea_popescu there is no capacity of sense in phenomenology.
12:49 mircea_popescu nothing "makes sense" in the sense you want it to.
12:49 mircea_popescu ethics (ie, the mechanism to answer "what should i do") is a very severely limited science.
12:50 asciilifeform so why is mircea_popescu eating cake and not rusty nails ?
12:50 mircea_popescu will. not intelligence.
12:50 asciilifeform and contemplating trbtronics, rather than praying to vishnu ?
12:50 mircea_popescu because i can.
12:50 asciilifeform but can also these other things.
12:51 mircea_popescu why did the man get out of bed ? he could stay in bed, regress to childhood and whatever, paint posters to show mommy.
12:51 mircea_popescu yes, i can also these other things.
12:51 * asciilifeform swaps gas mask cartridge
12:52 trinque why did the shark swim when it could stop?
12:52 mircea_popescu (ever wondered, btw, why some men favour ugly, unattractive women ? the freudian explanation is exactly above - they seek to reunite with mother, in which case sexual appeal is a hindrance not an asset.)
12:52 mircea_popescu trinque shark swims to breathe tho.
12:52 trinque right, I know
12:53 asciilifeform https://bitbet.us/bet/1249/alphago-will-defeat-lee-sedol-overall-in-march << lulzy wankage in commentz
12:53 assbot BitBet - AlphaGo will defeat Lee Sedol overall in March 2016 match :: 80.22 B (54%) on Yes, 68.59 B (46%) on No | closed 1 week 16 hours ago ... ( http://bit.ly/1Q5VsDd )
12:53 trinque "why does it feel good to will things into being?"
12:53 asciilifeform was this dear old nubs?
12:53 mircea_popescu who ?
12:53 asciilifeform bbet anons raging
12:53 trinque ask the dumb hill-climbing optimizer?
12:53 mircea_popescu i dunno.
12:54 mircea_popescu trinque possibly the least offensive koan of the lot is the one with "why did i rescue the scorpion ? it is my nature!"
12:54 mircea_popescu rarely was i so happy to hear of a monk's demise.
12:55 asciilifeform there are many fables where a scorpion kills a man, but is this actually possible ?
12:55 mircea_popescu i think some but not most are venomous enough.
12:55 asciilifeform (short of allergic shock)
12:55 mircea_popescu of course - a bee can kill a man, if it's the right bee and the right man.
12:55 mircea_popescu aha.
12:55 trinque http://transform.to/~dragondm/lit/koans << heh not bad
12:55 assbot 404 Not Found ... ( http://bit.ly/1pukQsF )
12:55 trinque penultimate
12:57 mircea_popescu bad restating. they took out the dying part - very indicative of the cocksucker sort they are.
12:59 asciilifeform who's they
13:00 asciilifeform translator?
13:00 mircea_popescu they is teh community.
13:00 mircea_popescu mno. the numerous lee sedols of that pointless boardgame.
13:03 asciilifeform speaking of
13:03 asciilifeform i'm kinda surprised the whiners aren't here yet
13:03 asciilifeform (re bbet)
13:03 mircea_popescu bar too high ?
13:04 nubbins` <+asciilifeform>was this dear old nubs? << nope, i have more pressing concerns than anonymously trolling bitbet comments
13:04 nubbins` also, shipping dept managed to get crate delivered for half of what i quoted you, so plz PM signed refund address at your convenience
13:08 asciilifeform nubbins`: i will ! ty
13:09 asciilifeform nubbins`: soon as i get home.
13:09 nubbins` i'd considered sending you a mystery prize but figured that'd be a bit too fast & loose
13:09 asciilifeform l0l
13:10 asciilifeform i actually considered buying some b00kz from nubbins`
13:10 asciilifeform but now i am too p00r.
13:10 asciilifeform ftr i enjoyed the photos from 'whale & other disorders.'
13:11 nubbins` tyvm!
13:11 nubbins` most of the contributors attempted to refuse some of their payment
13:12 nubbins` "this is too much, i'm not joking"
13:13 nubbins` in terms of retail value, we handed out $10k worth of books to contributing artists
13:13 nubbins` i was a bit :0 when i did the math
13:14 asciilifeform nubbins`: actually ok to tx back to originating addr
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13:48 trinque mod6: what's the proper way to get you changes for v.pl? would be nice when press blows up to be told what vpatch barfed. want to just add that yourself?
13:51 * trinque gets a vpatch
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14:08 asciilifeform http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-wrong-kind-of-victory.html?m=1 << orl0l
14:08 assbot ClubOrlov: The wrong kind of victory ... ( http://bit.ly/22mIx3T )
14:09 asciilifeform where he discovers turkeydollarz...
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14:27 trinque http://dpaste.com/0YKDMWF << miserablol
14:27 assbot dpaste: 0YKDMWF ... ( http://bit.ly/1UgeARG )
14:30 * trinque will put his awk shitwaders on later
14:34 trinque anyhow, looks like polarbeard_add_getpeerinfo_rpc.vpatch needs rebasing
14:37 trinque http://dpaste.com/34Y62T4.txt << these press
14:37 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1R3zduP )
14:41 trinque http://dpaste.com/179T4JC.txt << bad press with polarbeard_add_getpeerinfo_rpc.vpatch
14:41 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1R3zL3M )
14:49 trinque wb funkenstein_
14:49 funkenstein_ greetings trinque :)
14:50 funkenstein_ i saw something about keccak, afaik maxcoin has the highest hash rate of all keccak coins at the moment
14:50 funkenstein_ copper lark was first i saw to use it
15:01 asciilifeform funkenstein_: keccak-with-hash-over-arbitrary-blocks-pulled-from-chain
15:01 asciilifeform ('proof of storage')
15:01 asciilifeform as per mircea_popescu's article
15:03 funkenstein_ which part of that article is worth discussing?
15:04 funkenstein_ its a nice idea but already been through the problems i thought
15:05 phf trinque: yeah, polarbeard_better_log_messages depends on a conflicting patchset
15:06 phf trinque: specifically, http://btcbase.org/hash/02CCC72E42939509FC180861DB7FFEC50563A84869F35671FCF720090F9782674EDCC89C4174175691566FAC7277F1EBE0F50253D1E4A995EB960F5B43CCE2A3
15:06 assbot patches for hash 02CCC72E42939509FC180861DB7FFEC50563A84869F35671FCF720090F9782674EDCC89C4174175691566FAC7277F1EBE0F50253D1E4A995EB960F5B43CCE2A3 ... ( http://bit.ly/1UA4udk )
15:07 phf depends on deprecated asciilifeform_malleus_mikehearnificarum's version of main.cpp
15:08 asciilifeform funkenstein_: which problems ?
15:08 phf and this one too http://btcbase.org/hash/BB842420BCC67752EDF8E658524B135F499C5F8676557A6C12F47F204303E34BD73BEABDF6E9146BA452947C4E5CD298529969FAB90F16942F6BF0C1229F7043, asciilifeform-programmable-versionstring which is also deprecated
15:08 funkenstein_ see jurov's comment
15:08 asciilifeform funkenstein_: i mean, ~other~ than it being a hardphork
15:08 asciilifeform funkenstein_: link plox ?
15:09 phf trinque: i say, press to polarbeard_remove_shrink_debug_file, then patch -p1 < polarbeard_better_log_messages, then vpatch the result, then do same for polarbeard_add_getpeerinfo_rpc. that's sort of easiest, fastest way to regrind
15:10 funkenstein_ http://trilema.com/2016/the-necessary-prerequisite-for-any-change-to-the-bitcoin-protocol/#comment-116397
15:10 assbot The necessary prerequisite for any change to the Bitcoin protocol on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1UEI3BP )
15:11 BingoBoingo ;;later tell shinohai pls to submit it
15:11 gribble The operation succeeded.
15:12 shinohai Here it is BingoBoingo but ill have to resubmit, stoopid Obama went and named someone else to scotus. http://dpaste.com/3164N6J.txt
15:12 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1UA5xtD )
15:12 BingoBoingo pls do that then
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15:30 asciilifeform ;;later tell mircea_popescu https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1183 << i had nfi this existed. a whole own poetteringism, hilarious, touches ~all binaries on affected pseudolinuxen, ruins aslr and number of other things, random (!) crashes, ardent defenders (ahaha), etc.
15:30 assbot #1183 (Don't enable prelink by default in Fedora) – FESCo ... ( http://bit.ly/1R3GSt1 )
15:30 gribble The operation succeeded.
15:32 mircea_popescu uh.
15:37 asciilifeform the comments are mindblowing.
15:42 asciilifeform http://lwn.net/Articles/341244 << drepperism!
15:42 assbot Is pre-linking worth it? [LWN.net] ... ( http://bit.ly/1R3Iv9X )
15:43 asciilifeform ^ worth reading for the commentz
15:44 mircea_popescu what is pre-linking ?
15:44 * mircea_popescu discovers that he can't rightly say what fedora even is. is it what, a distro ? some sort of centos ?
15:44 mircea_popescu what ?
15:45 jurov fedora is opensource kitchen for redhat
15:45 mircea_popescu ah right.
15:46 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: there is no legit thing called prelinking
15:46 asciilifeform it is a poetteringization of the ordinary glibc execution process
15:46 jurov and prelinking is writing directly to the binaries/ dynamic libs what virtual memory address are they going and which addresses can all the other depending libraries found at
15:46 asciilifeform where the items, having been linked dynamically, are pseudo-staticized periodically (!) by a cron job
15:46 asciilifeform badly.
15:46 mircea_popescu my meagre understanding of computing doesn't allow me to discern the intended meaning.
15:46 mircea_popescu "pre fuck" i can imagine what'd be. pre linking... no.
15:47 mircea_popescu uh
15:47 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it is a highly bizarre idiot hack nominally to 'save cycles' but really 'because ftmeade asked'
15:47 mircea_popescu but what does it do ?
15:47 asciilifeform and this being unusually transparent, in a cartoon way
15:47 jurov basically it's like "printf has address 0x000002254fe5450"
15:48 jurov and every binary that calls it gets written this addy in it
15:48 asciilifeform sometimes hoses entire box, see epic http://lwn.net/Articles/340121
15:48 assbot Why people don't test development distributions [LWN.net] ... ( http://bit.ly/1UAbLd8 )
15:48 mircea_popescu what
15:48 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it is sorta like a cache for dynamic linking
15:48 asciilifeform or claims to be.
15:49 mircea_popescu i see.
15:49 asciilifeform today it exists at all only in the most direly diseased pseudolinuxen
15:49 mircea_popescu so what it this supposed to achieve for the putative enemy, make proper allocation impossible or what ?
15:50 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it gives excuse to munge every single executable on the box
15:50 asciilifeform also demolishes aslr
15:50 asciilifeform and creates a number of other interesting difficulties
15:50 mircea_popescu ah right because stuff like hashes no longer mean anything\
15:50 mircea_popescu so what is this, excel-polymorphism ?
15:50 jurov it's supposed to avoid determining where the actual printf is located every time you run some program, which can be solved byt other and better means
15:51 asciilifeform discussing an item like this is almost like anatomizing a teratoma
15:51 asciilifeform as if it were an actual animal
15:51 asciilifeform it is quite far from whatever actual purpose it was conceived for.
15:52 mircea_popescu hey, anatomizing teratoma is exactly how noobs learn cytopathology etc.
15:52 asciilifeform aha!
15:52 asciilifeform hence why i put it on the dissection table here.
15:53 mircea_popescu why the cron job
15:53 mircea_popescu shouldn't this run at the beginning every time ?
15:53 asciilifeform it does.
15:53 asciilifeform and then again, and again...
15:53 asciilifeform WHAT IF YOU HAVE NEW BINARY!111111
15:53 mircea_popescu then let me run it first ?
15:53 asciilifeform that must be victi^H^H^Hoptimized
15:53 mircea_popescu Hoptimized lol
15:54 asciilifeform hopetimized.
15:54 asciilifeform changimized.
15:55 mircea_popescu asciilifeform inasmuch as he steal speaks of "its money", orlov doesn't actually get the turkey dollars thing. he earnestly thinks that there is ONE kind of usdollar, and PART of that one is "wasted". whereas the situation in the field is that there's two kinds, ands the bezzle part can only be bezzled with.
15:55 mircea_popescu but anyway.
15:55 asciilifeform anyway prelink was supposed to solve problem of 'why linux box takes multiple minutes to boot'
15:55 asciilifeform via plugging wrong end of funnel, naturally
15:55 mircea_popescu who the fuck boots them
15:55 asciilifeform no one (tm) would ever, say, remove the idiot sea of crud
15:55 mircea_popescu i still don't get this. all this derpage from the early days of systemd "it makes servers boot faster"
15:55 mircea_popescu dude...
15:55 asciilifeform that takes up the boot time
15:55 asciilifeform not servers.
15:56 mircea_popescu this was an actual argument illo tempore.
15:56 mircea_popescu but anyway, who reboots linux.
15:56 asciilifeform laptop folk
15:56 asciilifeform they have no working sleep mode, recall.
15:56 mircea_popescu if a box goes down trying to figure wtf takes 10x to 100x longer than it takes t oboot
15:56 asciilifeform typically.
15:56 mircea_popescu fuck laptop folk.
15:56 asciilifeform they're pre-fucked, the notion was to slightly unfuck'em
15:57 mircea_popescu no. stop interfering with god's will.
15:57 mircea_popescu they deserve to suffer for their portasins.
15:57 asciilifeform (it was 100% fraudulent, as you might expect)
15:58 mircea_popescu "• It spends it on a bunch of aircraft carrier groups. These are very useful for launching attacks on defenseless countries. But it is very important to keep these aircraft carriers outside of conflict zones that may involve China or Russia, or even Iran, because each of these countries has several cost-effective ways to destroy an aircraft carrier: ballistic missiles, supersonic cruise missiles and supersonic torped
15:58 mircea_popescu oes. The entire aircraft carrier fleet is obsolete, and is another huge waste of money." <<< aaaaactually... romania has the capacity to sink us carriers. so does israel. so does brazil
15:58 mircea_popescu so does half the fucking world already. it's not 1990 anymoar.
16:00 nubbins` funkenstein_ merciless mercantile morals!
16:00 mircea_popescu lol re aegis-khibiny thing tho. funny how that's not at all discussed in english huh.
16:00 nubbins` <+asciilifeform>nubbins`: actually ok to tx back to originating addr << 10-4
16:02 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: pretty sure everybody knows about the surface torpedo etc
16:02 mircea_popescu prolly the russians just elbowed the something or other.
16:02 asciilifeform it officially Unexists for the purpose of the comical 'war games' the pentagon conducts.
16:04 mircea_popescu and of fucking course the army of dead empire is the nest of corruption. wtf. jannissary corps v2.0
16:04 mircea_popescu i forgot what the chinese thing was called, but anyway.
16:04 asciilifeform one look at the boats and it is pretty obvious that their purpose is ~not~ to fight in battles
16:05 asciilifeform but to move inventory
16:05 asciilifeform logic being, if it burns down and takes 30 f-whateverthefuck planes to the bottom of the sea, so much the better! buy moar!
16:06 asciilifeform ;;later tell BingoBoingo where is the qntra on the police station mega-postal ?
16:06 gribble The operation succeeded.
16:09 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1434522 << how much is it ?
16:09 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 18:50:31; funkenstein_: i saw something about keccak, afaik maxcoin has the highest hash rate of all keccak coins at the moment
16:10 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1434528 << you thought wrong. a bunch of nobodies declared idiocies about things in their head, generally on reddit/medium/wherever they gather.
16:10 assbot Logged on 16-03-2016 19:04:24; funkenstein_: its a nice idea but already been through the problems i thought
16:15 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> ;;later tell BingoBoingo where is the qntra on the police station mega-postal ? << WHAT?!?
16:15 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-take-third-brother-into-custody-in-shooting-of-police-officer/2016/03/14/74b97f36-e9e6-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html
16:15 assbot Brothers filmed attack on police station that left officer dead, authorities say - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1PctO2i )
16:16 asciilifeform etc
16:16 asciilifeform schmuck walks into police station, spins round and round For Piglet
16:16 asciilifeform cops then open up, killing at least one among selves
16:16 asciilifeform shooter's brothers film whole thing.
16:18 BingoBoingo Interesting mortadella there, will qntra unless you direly want to do it
16:18 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: as usual, take it
16:18 asciilifeform i have nothing.
16:19 BingoBoingo Ok, I just suggest it because I know few things as refreshing for the mind as digging into an especially lulzy incident for qntra.
16:19 asciilifeform i would do 10,001 things if had time but i do not,sadly.
16:19 asciilifeform (things incl this)
16:34 thestringpuller asciilifeform: http://dpaste.com/02258P0.txt << deturdified that article for you
16:37 asciilifeform neato
16:39 mircea_popescu asciilifeform so wait, an hero killed no-one, police did all the murderin' ?
16:40 thestringpuller asciilifeform: I also found this on LTM within neural nets: http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/ << It looks as if LTM is possible but pretty complex (gates within the NN itself)
16:41 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Any idea where the video is? I can't seem to find it on "World Star Hiphop"
16:41 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: nfi
16:41 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: correct
16:46 deedbot- [Qntra] Aspiring 'An Hero' Survives Police Station Assault - http://qntra.net/2016/03/aspiring-an-hero-survives-police-station-assault/
16:46 mircea_popescu lol
16:46 BingoBoingo Just to be pedantic 'An Hero' is the technical term for anyone acting with intent to off themselves
16:47 BingoBoingo In this sense Ford was a failure
16:47 mircea_popescu aha.
16:47 BingoBoingo Meanwhile Lavoy Finicum was a hero because he was fighting the powah
16:48 BingoBoingo ;;google an hero
16:48 gribble An Hero | Know Your Meme: <http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/an-hero>; Urban Dictionary: an hero: <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=an+hero>; An hero - Encyclopedia Dramatica: <https://encyclopediadramatica.se/An_hero>
16:51 nubbins` maybe he an hero'd by pretending to reach for a weapon
16:51 nubbins` i think this is called "an hero by cop"
16:52 BingoBoingo By running the initial blockade Finicum was clearly excercising his duty to evade in an effort to continue the fight later
16:52 BingoBoingo Also the FBI did squeeze of a couple shots before his hands went anywhere near his waistband
16:57 mircea_popescu ;;bc,stats
16:57 gribble Current Blocks: 402984 | Current Difficulty: 1.584272037673917E11 | Next Difficulty At Block: 403199 | Next Difficulty In: 215 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 day, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 51 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
16:58 BingoBoingo ;;nethash
16:58 gribble 1218294335.6
16:59 mircea_popescu jurov done.
16:59 jurov ty!
17:02 deedbot- [Qntra] America Rejected By All But Its Worst - http://qntra.net/2016/03/america-rejected-by-all-but-its-worst/
17:06 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: where do i get the correct lsd to digest that article.
17:07 funkenstein_ BingoBoingo, you saw the footage from inside the Lavoy Finicum mobile?
17:17 BingoBoingo funkenstein_: decline to comment
17:17 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Which?
17:19 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: If you are talking Kasich the correct lsd is the one that extracts lulz from setting the man up to fail.
17:20 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: life - or what passes for life - in usaschwitz - happens on the coasts.
17:20 BingoBoingo I don't know anything of these coasts.
17:21 BingoBoingo The Bahamas gang's reign is ending and the electoral progress is a mess in an effort to rig the contest in Clitler's favor. Qntra however has to prepare for lulztingencies. Among these is a contested convention.
17:23 BingoBoingo Seriously though I know nothing of Coastal life in USia
17:25 BingoBoingo I know places where actual food happens seasonally and mass food is recycled in the fields though the Corn Cycle. I rightly can't believe the Coast or Death phenomenon as anything other than a form of Stockholm syndrome.
17:25 shinohai join #verge
17:26 shinohai shit
17:39 BingoBoingo ;;ticker --market all
17:40 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 415.37, vol: 4238.65955648 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 413.825, vol: 5827.13841 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 417.17, vol: 6827.4166771 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 419.962284, vol: 23502.07510000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 417.335, vol: 1466.60524061 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 424.402224, vol: 61.35244944 | Volume-weighted last average: 418.104775095
17:40 BingoBoingo ;;more
17:40 gribble Error: You haven't asked me a command; perhaps you want to see someone else's more. To do so, call this command with that person's nick.
17:51 asciilifeform http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/20030701/nth-country.pdf << historic lulz (unrelated.)
17:51 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1S4POAE )
17:51 asciilifeform (warning: massive scan)
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18:55 BingoBoingo http://phys.org/news/2016-03-storks-winter-migration-favor-junk.html
18:55 assbot Storks give up on winter migration in favor of junk food ... ( http://bit.ly/2552Jtv )
19:03 mats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p72KRQwYeMo
19:03 assbot Failed Attack Of Russian Terrorists On Ukrainian Armed Forces. (English subtitles) - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/2553tyF )
19:04 BingoBoingo In other news Orange Clinton is threatening riots if the RNC convention denies him the nomination
19:12 mircea_popescu that's a new one.
19:12 mircea_popescu who the fuck is supposed to have made that youtube video ?
19:13 mircea_popescu "directly to that bush" ? srsly ?
19:15 mircea_popescu nobody can be this inept. "armed forces" ? ffs.
19:23 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21350 @ 0.00042004 = 8.9679 BTC [-] {2}
19:34 mats amateur hour
19:41 mod6 o/
19:42 mod6 <+trinque> mod6: what's the proper way to get you changes for v.pl? would be nice when press blows up to be told what vpatch barfed. want to just add that yourself? << hey, uumm... so yeah, i think it does tell you which one barfed on press. did you use (v | verbose) in there? or have a dpaste of what it did?
19:44 mod6 also: /bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string << i think you can resolve this locally by installing gawk
19:45 mod6 anyway, I see you patch, thanks for posting. when I get around to making another version of V, i'll throw that in there.
19:45 mod6 s/you/your/
19:46 trinque k, ty
19:47 mod6 mircea_popescu asciilifeform ben_vulpes trinque phf, et. al., I've been mulling it over while i've been following the logs for some days now about what seems like a good fork to have in our possession: at this point, im inclined to think implementation of Mr. P.'s outlined ideas are the best choice, currently.
19:49 mod6 However, my main objective is still to finish up the v054 release before diving into any of that quite yet. It's my fault, I havent done jack-shit all month basically. I've been meaning to work with trinque and get these makefiles battle-ready, but have had a number of meatspace things get in the way.
19:54 mircea_popescu eh no matter of fault mod6
19:54 mircea_popescu the thing is, the more features the putative fork has, the better, i suppose.
19:55 mircea_popescu except by features i don't mean "features". obviously.
19:55 mod6 hehe, ofc.
19:55 mircea_popescu healing the relay-miner divide, if in fact the thing on trilema does it, would be a great one.
19:55 mircea_popescu but possibly there's other easy fruit to pick
19:55 mircea_popescu too bad i constantly strangle the easy fruit pickers. if only they fucking picked in THAT direction ffs.
19:56 jurov mod6: Mr P.'s outlined ideas would benefit from deeper adversarial analysis, maybe it comes out it's possible only 1000 times slower using rainbow tables or other techniques I proposed in the comments
19:56 mircea_popescu jurov quite so.
19:56 mircea_popescu dja understand the amended form we came to well ?
19:56 mod6 jurov: ah, very much so.
19:56 mircea_popescu maybe it'd benefit from a going over once more.
19:57 jurov yes pls
19:57 mod6 i like what i've read, more analysis and discussion of implementation decisions are required for sure. i think we'll get there as this thread continues over the next 45 days.
19:58 mircea_popescu ok. so currently, for every block being mined : a header is calculated ; to this a nonce is added, the combine hashed. the resultant hash has to be smaller than a number to qualify as a found block.
19:58 mircea_popescu word ?
19:58 jurov yes
19:58 mod6 ya.
19:58 mircea_popescu in the proposed model : a header is calculated, same way. to this, anonce is added, the combine hashed. this is hash 1. a digest is calculated, on the basis of past blocks. to this, the SAME nonce is added. the combine hashed. this is hash 2
19:59 mircea_popescu BOTH hash 1 and hash 2 have to be under a number to qualify as a found block.
20:00 mod6 ok and this goes back to the discussion this am right? re: sha(header+nonce) AND sha(digest+nonce) ? or did i read that wrong?
20:00 jurov how is the digest from past blocks done?
20:00 mircea_popescu it does. i specifically left the "hashing" undefined. it can be defined so both use sha3. or first stays as is and 2nd sha3. etc.
20:00 mircea_popescu this is a twistable knob.
20:00 mircea_popescu jurov the digest from past blocks is done like so :
20:01 mircea_popescu out of every Nth preceding block, the nonce-th byte is put in a string ; the combine hashed.
20:01 mircea_popescu N is another twistable knob. can be 1, can be whatever.
20:02 mircea_popescu see footnote 2, example : http://trilema.com/2016/the-necessary-prerequisite-for-any-change-to-the-bitcoin-protocol/#footnote_1_64828
20:02 assbot The necessary prerequisite for any change to the Bitcoin protocol on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1S52R51 )
20:02 mod6 ah right.
20:03 mircea_popescu and yet another twistable knob exists : the nonce may be shifted before taking the nonceth element.
20:03 mod6 it's too bad we're so time constrained on this, it'd be nice to see a poc of both : with shifting and without.
20:04 mircea_popescu knob 1 above decides whether to obsolete current miners entirely or just partially, and is a [true] soft vs hard fork ; knob 2 decides how much i/o pressure to put on relay nodes ; knob 3 decides how much relay work to require in the mix.
20:04 mod6 well, i guess one could just add in the shifting and then make it a toggleable things.
20:04 mod6 -s
20:05 mircea_popescu mod6 it's not entirely impossible to make the shifting a function of difficulty differential (note that there isn't a rule BOTH hashes have to be under THE SAME number. if there's two numbers, you could have an equalizer algo that does the shift moving)
20:05 mircea_popescu but, obviously - the more moving parts, the more problems.
20:05 jurov well then my comment still applies - miner can keep the nonce constant and churn hash1 by changing one transaction in a cycle
20:06 mircea_popescu jurov how ? his hash2 won't change.
20:07 jurov ah that
20:07 mircea_popescu my modeling shows it'd be way the fuck cheaper to calculate nonce blocks than to try and churn merkel trees
20:07 mircea_popescu now, your observation is correct in that this possibility puts a hard limit on how much miners can be raped.
20:07 mircea_popescu but i don't think SUCH hard rape is contemplated at all.
20:07 mircea_popescu just... a little breather for nodes.
20:08 mircea_popescu the thing is, currently nodes only need disk ; cpu is wasted. ideally a node should use both, so that it makes sense to keep boxes as relay nodes.
20:09 mod6 all of this good information needs to go somewhere other than the logs.
20:10 mod6 we need like a tmsr stenographer.
20:10 mircea_popescu lol. i dunno, there is the search here.
20:10 jurov there's wiki
20:10 mod6 yeah, but i can't ever find shit. and these details are too important to be lost.
20:10 mircea_popescu yeah.
20:11 mod6 unless we use a flag, like BUTTSECKS.
20:11 mod6 then we search for that flag, and we see exactly where we should for whatever important topic.
20:11 mircea_popescu wrap every important detail in a buttsekcs condom ?
20:11 mod6 hah, yes.
20:12 mod6 dare i say, that I would lay out 10 BTC, 2 BTC per year for someone to handle this task.
20:13 mod6 hell, i'd do it myself, but there's no way i can keep up with that too.
20:13 mircea_popescu first foundation expenditure ?
20:13 mod6 naw, this is a mod6 request.
20:13 mircea_popescu so do it on the foudnation and donate the needed funds to it.
20:13 mod6 the foundation makes money by not spending any.
20:13 mircea_popescu better that way.
20:14 mircea_popescu and holy shit b-a is hiring like crazy, where are all the people looking for jerbs,
20:14 mod6 <+mircea_popescu> so do it on the foudnation and donate the needed funds to it. << i guess i could just do that.
20:15 mircea_popescu be like rockefeller you know ?
20:15 mod6 ben_vulpes: any thoughts on this? If I dump 10 BTC to the foundation, will you approve 2BTC/yr for a stenographer?
20:15 mircea_popescu course the other end is harder. who can even do a good job of this.
20:16 mod6 bingo.
20:16 mod6 hanbot
20:16 mircea_popescu hm
20:16 mod6 jurov (who's got too much other shit to do)
20:16 mircea_popescu yeah maybe she could huh
20:16 mod6 asciilifeform (who is one arm shy of this job)
20:16 mod6 shinohai perhaps
20:17 mod6 I'd even say TomServo or thestringpuller would be good candidates as well. Any wot regs.
20:18 * shinohai applies
20:18 davout http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1434765 <<< blawg?
20:18 assbot Logged on 17-03-2016 00:09:59; mod6: all of this good information needs to go somewhere other than the logs.
20:18 mircea_popescu yeah but it's a certain sort of job for a certain sorta person.
20:18 mircea_popescu shinohai you got the patience to stick with it ?
20:19 mircea_popescu davout by all means, you got one neh ? :D
20:19 shinohai what would stenographer need to do?
20:19 davout i saw this one coming :D
20:19 mircea_popescu write down a summary of all the important shit.
20:19 mod6 The key to this job is to save the really succint details of technical discussions surrouding future development. Needs just the right amount of information, too much will be cumbersome.
20:19 mircea_popescu sorta like a careful bash of technical discussions rather than lulz.
20:19 mod6 right.
20:19 mod6 that exactly.
20:20 davout !b 3
20:20 assbot Last 3 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/0TKYJM2.txt )
20:20 shinohai so make a state of therealbitcoin address for dummies?
20:20 mircea_popescu lol
20:20 mod6 heheheh
20:20 mircea_popescu shinohai no more like keep the notes organised so mod6 doesn't go blind looking for where the fuck i said about knobs and where was it.
20:20 mod6 shinohai: eh, I'd say more like a really well kept-up wiki, but yea, that's kinda the idea.
20:20 mircea_popescu actially a wiki format prolly IS best for this,
20:21 mircea_popescu because lets people to fix your shit if needed.
20:21 mircea_popescu mod6 word.
20:21 mircea_popescu WHY DOES EVERYONE IN THIS CHAN STEAL MY IDEAS ALL THE TIME
20:21 mircea_popescu right before i get to say them!
20:21 mod6 *nod* yeah, needs to be editable in a way incase of mis-quote or something.
20:21 jurov like... http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/tmsr
20:21 assbot tmsr [bitcoin assets wiki] ... ( http://bit.ly/1XYs04a )
20:21 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1434782 << l0l i know where
20:21 assbot Logged on 17-03-2016 00:14:09; mircea_popescu: and holy shit b-a is hiring like crazy, where are all the people looking for jerbs,
20:21 asciilifeform they are in my yard
20:21 asciilifeform eating from plastic bowl
20:21 mircea_popescu cats !?
20:22 mircea_popescu yo cwazy.
20:22 asciilifeform except they aren't people but catz
20:22 mod6 jurov: yeah, totally could be something that already exists like that sure. the realy problem is finding souls to actually DO the work there.
20:22 asciilifeform cause who else lives on 2btc!
20:22 mircea_popescu and for the record alf you stole my v idea too!
20:22 asciilifeform which
20:22 mircea_popescu i dunno, they were all good.
20:22 mod6 well, no one said you were gonna live off of 2 BTC a year, unless you live on the dock and eat fish-heads for dinner every night.
20:23 mod6 but it's a hell of a lot more than you get when you just volunteer for some shit.
20:23 mircea_popescu one does not live ON btc. one lives FOR btc.
20:23 asciilifeform ^^^
20:23 mod6 *nod*
20:23 mircea_popescu ask not what yer country can do for you!
20:23 mircea_popescu for currently, it can at most get you in trouble, and that if you're lucky.
20:24 mod6 I'd even be open to the idea of two people splitting up the work there. Say, split 2BTC/yr between 2 individuals so that we get good coverage at all times.
20:25 mod6 Work amongst yourselves to decide who's on duty when so you don't have to worry if out of town or at whorehouse or whatever.
20:25 * asciilifeform reads logz to see wtf this even was
20:26 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo WORLDSTARHIPHOP < ?
20:26 mircea_popescu dude it's gotten so bad ~i~ have to ask for tmsr-pravda articles be translated.
20:26 * asciilifeform misreads as 'wordstar hiphop'
20:26 kakobrekla http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1434837 < the very same btc said to be worthless/useless/br0kended a couple of days ago
20:26 assbot Logged on 17-03-2016 00:23:07; mircea_popescu: one does not live ON btc. one lives FOR btc.
20:26 funkenstein_ aha a separate hashing of solely the proof of storage digest, this looks like it could work
20:27 asciilifeform kakobrekla: neh, the other btc
20:27 mod6 kakobrekla: if you don't like the weather, just wait a few days.
20:27 mircea_popescu kakobrekla slightly not the same.
20:27 mod6 :P
20:27 mircea_popescu but do link with the quotes.
20:27 funkenstein_ could be added in a la myriad, with separate difficulty
20:27 mircea_popescu funkenstein_ what is this myriad ?
20:28 * mircea_popescu is starting to suspect this lecherous dwarf may be the only one who cavorted with the scamcoins enough.
20:28 funkenstein_ its a coin with multiple difficulties for each hash function they use
20:28 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30592 @ 0.00041989 = 12.8453 BTC [-] {2}
20:28 funkenstein_ hehe, likely guilty as charged
20:29 kakobrekla im sorry what other btc, the non existing one ?
20:29 kakobrekla afaik the real bitcoin foundation collects btc not imaginary btc (at least bbet was sending those)
20:29 mircea_popescu !s worthless
20:29 assbot 499 results for 'worthless' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=worthless
20:30 asciilifeform kakobrekla: the one which nobody ended up dumping massive qty of, the price of - not tanked, etc
20:31 * funkenstein_ retracts myriad scheme suggestion, it is broken
20:31 nubbins` lel
20:32 mircea_popescu shock.
20:32 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1434864 <<< obligatory >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqT2uOa1-d0
20:32 assbot Logged on 17-03-2016 00:29:57; mircea_popescu: !s worthless
20:32 assbot The Brave Little Toaster - Worthless (No Interruptions) - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1RlDtv1 )
20:33 mircea_popescu no but srsly. am i gonna also !s "dump massive" or you get the point.
20:35 funkenstein_ so in this suggested coin you have proof a pool operator (aka miner) has a full copy of the block chain
20:35 mircea_popescu aha.
20:36 asciilifeform l0l lavabit case unsealed
20:38 asciilifeform (unrelated)
20:39 ben_vulpes mod6: could be convinced
20:40 mod6 ok, cool
20:44 asciilifeform https://cryptome.org/2016/03/usg-lavabit-unsealed.pdf << mega-turd
20:45 mircea_popescu meanwhile, at #eulora : http://dpaste.com/29BJV3V
20:45 assbot dpaste: 29BJV3V ... ( http://bit.ly/1RlElzH )
20:46 asciilifeform the court transcript is pure circus
20:46 asciilifeform worthy of freisler
20:46 davout mircea_popescu: btw, pls to read last x.eur statement, contains statement of collateral to be certified by mpex
20:46 mircea_popescu which was the lavabit ?
20:47 mircea_popescu davout i did read it. you had 40 btc deposited iirc, neh ?
20:47 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: cryptome link, scan
20:47 mircea_popescu asciilifeform no i know, but which was it ?
20:47 davout mircea_popescu: yes
20:47 mircea_popescu alrighty then.
20:48 asciilifeform pg 80 iirc
20:48 davout danke schön
20:48 mircea_popescu oh oh the email thing, i recall now
20:48 asciilifeform aha.
20:48 asciilifeform the usg-gets-paper-masterkey one
20:48 mircea_popescu yaya
20:51 mircea_popescu i don't get all these people participating in "sealed" pseudo-legal proceedings.
20:51 mircea_popescu there is no justice outside of the public forum. if party can not speak in public, it may not pretend like it has a case.
20:52 asciilifeform bbbbbbut s333333kr1tz!11111
20:52 mircea_popescu tough titty.
20:52 mircea_popescu don't engage in activities you're ashamed of.
20:52 mircea_popescu if you do - don't come to me to bail you out when they blow up.
20:52 asciilifeform that'd be ~all of this here zimbabwestan aha.
20:54 asciilifeform and at any rate none of these folks work in 'justice' business, they work in 'societal security' aka hitler's service.
20:54 mircea_popescu aha.
20:54 mircea_popescu sucks to be them, i guess.
20:54 funkenstein_ asciilifeform how long did you live in zimbabwe?
20:55 asciilifeform funkenstein_: the great zimbabwe of usistan
20:55 mircea_popescu he lives in washington dc and doesn't care for term propriety.
20:55 asciilifeform '92 - present
20:56 asciilifeform train stations still closed !
20:56 funkenstein_ so you are comparing usistan to a place you know nothing about?
20:56 mircea_popescu eh whadda ya need 'em for.
20:56 mircea_popescu you ever been funkenstein_ ?
20:56 funkenstein_ nope
20:56 mircea_popescu aok.
20:57 asciilifeform but he is very ready to 'you know nothing' aha.
20:57 mircea_popescu i think he dislikes your cultural imperialism.
20:57 funkenstein_ you seem to like talking about it, i assumed you'd been there
20:57 mircea_popescu "in my mind - i've been many times"
20:58 asciilifeform funkenstein_: rhodesiana aficionado
20:58 funkenstein_ :) cool
20:58 mircea_popescu what, zimbabwe is in rhodesia ?!
20:58 asciilifeform funkenstein_: and of subj of countries-not-on-the-map-no-moar overall
20:59 funkenstein_ get a new map if you need one
20:59 mircea_popescu http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-28242-Zim+embassy+buildings+in+ruins+Parly+hears/news.aspx kinda lulzy.
20:59 assbot Zim embassy buildings in ruins: Parly hears ... ( http://bit.ly/21vZ5nW )
20:59 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: ==
21:01 funkenstein_ lol, with thumbs up even
21:02 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo WORLDSTARHIPHOP < ? << It's basically black youtube for fights and shit
21:02 mircea_popescu aok
21:04 mircea_popescu and in other dribbles, http://40.media.tumblr.com/8994722978b9ab1525d2899ed7c7d611/tumblr_mir1m6gTvy1s40vqwo1_1280.jpg
21:04 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1RlFFCL )
21:05 BingoBoingo Anyways worldstar isn't a tmsr thing, it's more an internet thing. basically If you sucker punch someone it is normally assault. If you shout "World Star" while you do it, it becomes instead a prank.
21:05 mircea_popescu ah i remember now.
21:09 BingoBoingo Just one of those black privilege things
~ 28 minutes ~
21:38 asciilifeform ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://dpaste.com/3RR5F37.txt << have another lul
21:38 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1QZjTkM )
21:38 gribble The operation succeeded.
~ 24 minutes ~
22:02 asciilifeform http://www.elweb.cz/fotky/400.jpg << interesting serendipitous find. a cpu-less rs232 viewer (some brain required!111) i thought about this very thing some years ago, and laughed it off mentally, but someone - built.
22:02 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/255iz7q )
22:02 asciilifeform kakobrekla ^ one step beyond mere 'data diode' !
22:06 phf that look like shift register, "some brain" indeed
22:06 asciilifeform to read output!
22:06 asciilifeform not to build.
22:06 phf that's what i mean
22:07 kakobrekla aha interesting concept but missing a lot to make it practically useful
22:07 asciilifeform i can't be arsed to figure out presently whether this eats start/stop-bits correctly.
22:07 asciilifeform kakobrekla: you get the basic idea tho
22:07 phf you read output by counting lit up leds
22:08 phf at transmission rate
22:08 asciilifeform well no, it shifts'em in
22:08 asciilifeform so read at leisure.
22:09 asciilifeform message better be short.
22:09 asciilifeform i've thought for many years about such tools. decomputerize, if you will, as much of the critical 'nuke launch' loop as possible.
22:10 asciilifeform (for whatever your nuke is. pgp, bitcoin, whatevers)
22:11 asciilifeform in the old dayz, you could actually buy eprom burners that were not, in the ordinary sense, computerized
22:11 asciilifeform as in, toggle buttons.
22:11 asciilifeform to input each word.
22:11 asciilifeform and lamps - to read.
22:14 phf su avionics were predominantly analogue, including space stuff, like trajectory calucations, until quite late in the game
22:16 phf but i rarely see "sophisticated" systems outside of cute hacks like that rs232 visualizer. presumably have to be doing this stuff full time for years, with the explicit goal of solving computing problems using analogue means
~ 25 minutes ~
22:41 mircea_popescu asciilifeform awww.
22:42 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: l0ltr0nic
22:42 asciilifeform phf et al: to continue the eprom thread, i was never satisfied with the lights box answer to 'how to keep rom burner from lying'. what i really want is a photographic rom, where the storage die is something like 'microdot' and the reader is generic (in chip package) & separable.
22:42 asciilifeform microdot is trivial to reproduce reliably
22:43 asciilifeform 100 y.o. tech.
22:43 asciilifeform bonus if the photo slide is ~composable~
22:43 phf microdot?
22:43 asciilifeform i.e. i can insert >1 on top of one another.
22:43 asciilifeform microdot.
22:43 phf ah, ok, got it
22:44 asciilifeform the ultimate vpatch !
22:44 asciilifeform anyway this is page [redacted] from ye old 'coffin notebook'.
22:45 asciilifeform presented here because thread.
22:45 phf this is a borderline art project
22:45 mircea_popescu ^
22:46 asciilifeform it is in re the 'specificity of diddling' thing.
22:46 asciilifeform enemy can embed extra mosfet in the reader, or whatever, but how does he know ~where~, etc.
22:46 phf kind of stuff i'd see come out of martin howse's workshop (and his people)
22:46 asciilifeform (and say i can hook up N of these, and the net result is xor of the lot!)
22:47 asciilifeform ^ then they can contain literally ~anything~ and still produce my intended bitstring.
22:47 mircea_popescu dude, the "enemy" has enough trouble finding its own arse.
22:47 phf defending against hypothetical lizard alf
22:47 asciilifeform enemy can be persuaded to make a good faith effort to at least occasionally find his arse
22:47 asciilifeform esp. if we keep kicking him in it.
22:47 mircea_popescu but not much more.
22:48 asciilifeform anyway hopefully everyone understands against whom my designs are actually made.
22:48 mircea_popescu and in other borderline art project news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/3470835acf69ddd9f2d81b5c341340d5/tumblr_ntnoh08fJz1s3qr6wo1_1280.jpg
22:48 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1pMLuwQ )
22:48 asciilifeform they are built with the assumption that i will eventually be cokemachined personally and somehow made to fight for the nazis.
22:48 asciilifeform it is a dismal thing, to play chess with self.
22:49 mircea_popescu srsly.
22:49 asciilifeform but how else.
22:49 mircea_popescu gurlz!
22:49 asciilifeform not like i got anybody worth playing.
22:49 asciilifeform l0l
22:50 asciilifeform phf: i am long-time fan of howse.
22:50 asciilifeform though i know him as '1010'
22:51 phf oh, ok, now things make even more sense
22:52 asciilifeform 'The Dark Interpreter is influenced and guided by body capacitance, skin resistance, biological micro-voltages and the fleshy conduction of all signals. These are ways of saying that the Dark Interpreter is completely open. It is not to be considered as a closed and bounded device which is subject to an exterior control "by the body." The Dark Interpreter is an electronic and thus earthy shadow of the body, it is (inside) the
22:52 asciilifeform body. The Dark Interpreter is thus not to be controlled. It is an obsidian electronic mirror, the earth and skin itself.' << i lack the wordz.
22:54 asciilifeform 'Inspired in part by a cursory reading of Kafka's short story, In the Penal Colony, in which a complex executable mechanism, its workings and social procedure, are described, a mechanism which inscribes the sentence (of the law) directly on the skin of the 'Condemned Man', pain registers attempts to directly translate or transfer the operational codes which are running on a computer's CPU (Central Processing Unit) in 'real tim
22:54 asciilifeform e' (whilst a common program such as the Firefox web browser is running) into the slow and painful inscription of a needle, piercing the skin of the operator or user's hand. A particular, common operational code such as that dictating the movement of the contents of one place in memory to another location, results in the needle achieving a certain depth in the hand, another opcode, say demanding the addition of two values, migh
22:54 asciilifeform t barely touch the skin of the hand. The repetitive rhythms of changing operational codes, as an application for example initialises its opening state, are translated into the hypnotic, up and down movements of the needle (making use in the second prototype of a CD-ROM ejection mechanism), appearing somewhat like the slowed, jerked motions of a sewing machine.'
22:54 asciilifeform ^ mega-art.
22:54 asciilifeform i have not, it turns out, been keeping up with the fella.
22:54 asciilifeform why isn't he here, again?!1111
22:54 asciilifeform 'If codes can fuck your computer, where’s the porn that depicts them?' << him
22:55 hanbot mod6:
22:55 hanbot jurov: yeah, totally could be something that already exists like that sure. the realy problem is finding souls to actually DO the work there. << i'd be happy to help out however i can. how far back do you see this having to go btw?
22:58 asciilifeform http://www.1010.co.uk/org/psplague.html << glorious
22:58 assbot psplague ... ( http://bit.ly/1XwydmB )
22:59 asciilifeform 'Inspired by Julian Oliver's psworld, psplague further explores the links between environment (simulation) and code. Rather than mapping a computer's internal processes onto visual features in the world (as in the case of psworld), in this instance (psplague) UNIX-like processes are attached to medieval villagers within a simple SIR (susceptible, infected, recovered) model of plague infection. When a villager becomes infected
22:59 asciilifeform and dies after a period of time, the attached process running on the computer is terminated or killed. Warning: psplague can result in a more or less instantaneous hard crash.'
23:06 asciilifeform unrelatedly,
23:06 asciilifeform continuing levison thread >>> https://archive.is/5tCtf
23:06 assbot Ladar Levison - As many of you already know, the government cited... ... ( http://bit.ly/1XwzoCG )
23:07 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20000 @ 0.00042133 = 8.4266 BTC [+] {2}
23:10 asciilifeform back to the microdot,
23:10 asciilifeform b&w photography is ULTRA EASY
23:10 asciilifeform even in JUNGLE CONDITIONS
23:10 phf i periodically revisit his page for inspiration, but i suspect that's he's probably some form of northern european anarcho leftist, which now's been fashionable long enough to perhaps swing back to fascism again. in other words he will probably find b-a rhetoric toxic. but i'm guessing from spending much time with other members of that crowd
23:10 asciilifeform it is the caustics, heavy metals, cleanroom, etc. that suck donkey cock
23:10 phf for all i know he wear leather boots and listens to martial industrial..
23:11 asciilifeform but these possibly can be commoditized into a thing that contains no logic as such
23:11 asciilifeform but simply takes a piece of film.
23:11 asciilifeform phf: actually i see him as something more like a lacan who dropped out of physics, or the like
23:13 mod6 hanbot: hi, cool. probably would have to go back to at least the beginning of this whole hard/soft fork discussion i'd think.
23:14 punkman "We didn’t see any of this happening,” Ramos said. “They’re saying Michael wanted to kill himself. We just don’t know.” She said that Michael Ford’s mother suffered a heart attack after police in Prince George’s burst into her house to search it following the shooting and that she is now at the same hospital as her son." << we just don't know, lol
23:14 asciilifeform that makes ... 2? 3? usg-authored corpses in the case now ?
23:14 asciilifeform 4 ?
23:14 punkman oh wait I misread heart attack before station shooting
23:14 mod6 anyway, think it over for a bit. i'll get some coins into the foundation in a few days and then will try to write something up that can be signed.
23:15 phf "if i cut the tape, he realized, my world will disappear. reality will continue for others, but not for me. because my reality, my universe, is coming to me from this minuscule unit. fed into the scanner and then into my central nervous system as it snailishly unwinds."
23:16 asciilifeform aha!
23:20 punkman speakinf of film, I've thought of doing backups on microfilm reels. Small reel holds 5k A4 pages or something.
23:22 asciilifeform punkman: not sure if i ever viewed a microfilm reel without blots
23:22 asciilifeform i suppose you could 'turbo code' it (m of n)
23:23 asciilifeform sorta like folks used to do with cassettes.
23:23 punkman yeah, some redundancy in the data, plus compression, then OCR
23:23 punkman which should also work on paper
23:24 punkman (I mean printed A4 pages)
23:25 punkman "At 42X Reduction, a 215 ft. Roll of Archive Microfilm will hold approximately 12,300 images"
~ 16 minutes ~
23:41 BingoBoingo http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=4009
23:42 assbot JL: More Hoodrats, Mom, Please! ... ( http://bit.ly/255qIbY )
23:45 danielpbarron http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1434750 << how does this relate to more or less "relay work" ?
23:45 assbot Logged on 17-03-2016 00:03:15; mircea_popescu: and yet another twistable knob exists : the nonce may be shifted before taking the nonceth element.
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