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Tue Aug 18 03:29:48 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-08-2015#1241775 << the point here being (perhaps unfamiliar to some readers) that wheat is not a sort of plant that survives, except in particular situations : say post volcanic eruption, when everything's been burned down. then the weed makes a quick colonisation, because of its disproportionate seeds.
Mon Aug 17 19:41:43 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> but to get back to the ratchet thing : it is both impossible and a very stupid idea to have freefixing for bitcoin block size. because the network is trivial to disrupt when it comes to mining difficulty (by design and deliberately), it will guaranteedly be moved down to 0 over time and the defense's necessarily too expensive.
Mon Aug 17 19:34:13 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> it's not called settlement, it's called delivery. settlement is sitting down and agreeing the paperwork.
Mon Aug 17 08:40:11 UTC 2015 <punkman> "“Not everything is for everyone and that’s the way it is,” he said, teeth gleaming indifferently. His theories about shoes were tinged, predictably, with a seeming misogyny. They come, he insisted, with a great deal of “sexual energy” – which is perhaps just as well, as the only thing it’s possible to do in a pair of his heels is lie down."
Sun Aug 16 23:38:48 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> I dunno how you find old Trilemas, even Qntra is starting to really slow down the brainchain index
Fri Aug 14 09:28:14 UTC 2015 <punkman> "To give you an idea of how desperate a retailer has to be to close overnight, the tiny supermarket where I work, which is about half the size of a Wal-Mart’s food section, lost 1 million dollars per year when it closed down overnight in 2009. "
Thu Aug 13 20:31:42 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> call to the new operator will truncate that value down to fit into a 32-bit integer, thus allocating an undersized buffer. Subsequently, chunk_size worth of data is read into this undersized buffer. Even if the value is truncated to 32-bits, the function will still read 0xFFFFFFFF bytes into the buffer, leading to a heap overflow...'
Wed Aug 12 22:40:45 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "The great majority of reviews give an inadequate or misleading account of the book that is dealt with. Since the war publishers have been less able than before to twist the tails of literary editors and evoke a paean of praise for every book that they produce, but on the other hand the standard of reviewing has gone down owing to lack of space and other inconveniences. Seeing the results, people sometimes suggest that
Wed Aug 12 21:15:42 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> <ascii_field> boils down to the hardness of the fritz chip << the reason they don't call it that is because they are trying to avoid the literature documenting the costs of making it hard and the limitation its softness imposes.
Wed Aug 12 03:21:46 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> in this vein : went to pharmacy here, told pharmacist what i want, he went and fetched. cox-2 inhibitor, no prescription needed becasuse the criteria in argentina is "do you speak the language ? if not, get someone who does to write what you need down for you"
Tue Aug 11 21:53:19 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> <ascii_field> mircea_popescu: this particular delusion is known to have originated with a particular academitard, but his name escapes me << Actually harder to pin down. Variations had been going on in Black Christian circles since the early 1800's at least, but Nation of Islam really brought this crazy to the mainstream
Tue Aug 11 08:59:59 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> In my current situation knowingly servicing the drug crowd for pay is too much risk. I'm out on bail. If they want to even ask for my service and get acknowledged they need GPG down already.
Tue Aug 11 03:45:09 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> and the only place where this matters is reddit, much in the way the only place you find bilge is down in the keel ?
Mon Aug 10 05:43:28 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> the notion that "all kinds of stuff over all kinds of platforms" is in any sense locked down's amiss.
Sun Aug 09 03:21:57 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> asciilifeform: i know you wrote rotor for a reason, of this there is little doubt, but believe it or not, your instructions aren't dumbed down enough for me
Fri Aug 07 23:23:11 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> trinque ubuntu folks had the process down pat for their thing, which is how i even ended up recommending it, briefly.
Fri Aug 07 19:02:47 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> at least the 'nail down' part is
Fri Aug 07 13:40:54 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> i know pretty much everyone here is very down on the whole concept, and perhaps you're right. but in point of fact, that thinking is at least in part supported by refusal to consider the plain fact that THERE IS NOTHING USEFUL FOR MOST WOMEN TO DO.
Thu Aug 06 16:44:26 UTC 2015 <gribble> trilema.com is down
Thu Aug 06 10:44:27 UTC 2015 <gribble> trilema.com is down