bitcoin: a sisyphean nightmare, forever trapped in an endless wall of sperg

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theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007

also i thought mit booted him, is he burning through old cards?

# ? Feb 1, 2015 08:50

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 07:53

ClassActionFursuit: Mar 15, 2006

theflyingexecutive posted:

yo that rms card is way vintage yospos, like rock solid heart touching old

but im glad yall saw it

part of what makes it so good is that hes still handing that same card out today

# ? Feb 1, 2015 08:50

theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007

# ? Feb 1, 2015 08:52

BobHoward: Feb 13, 2012; The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull

Boxturret posted:

good food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ

i knew precisely what this was going to be before i clicked it, thanks for doing the needful

# ? Feb 1, 2015 08:52

theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007

Boxturret posted:

good food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ

lol tweet this at sarahj

# ? Feb 1, 2015 08:55

suffix: Jul 27, 2013; Wheeee!

JaysonAych posted:

holy poo poo is this real life http://ia600603.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.422824/gov.uscourts.nysd.422824.165.1.pdf

i'm super loving stoked

apparently this is the other witness they want to call:

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/

https://twitter.com/susie_c/status/561696650096549888

which actually looks reasonable except they're going to ask him about :

quote:

(1) "[g]eneral principles of internet security and vulnerabilities";
(2) "the operation of timestamps in UNIX-based operating systems";
(3) "the import of some lines of PHP code provided to defense counsel in discovery";
(4) "forensic memory analysis";
(5) "general principles of public-key cryptography"; and
(6) "general issues related to linux-based operating systems, including security, implications of various linux kernel versions, differing methods of software installation, etc."

which kind of looks like they're going to keep pushing the karpeles hacked my torrents story.

also maybe we'll finally find out whan #include means :peanut:

it's like a two year brick joke

# ? Feb 1, 2015 09:09

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

fermun posted:

nooooooooooooo

as others said this is vintage yospos but lol at another sighting in the wild. poor sarah

# ? Feb 1, 2015 09:12

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

vOv posted:

i legitimately don't understand why people are so in love with javascript

because they're idiots who can't program

# ? Feb 1, 2015 09:16

Buttcoin purse: Apr 24, 2014

vOv posted:

source your quo

BobHoward posted:

my working theory is web developers who learned it first and don't wanna learn anything else

Agreed, but is ryancarnated so unaware of everything else that he really thinks it's the best tool for everything, even kernels, flight control systems, pacemakers, nuclear reactors? I mean when I install Java the license agreement says to not use it for a nuclear reactor control system, but I've never seen anything of the sort for JavaScript so it's probably fine.

BobHoward posted:

(okay okay this isn't the first time ive seen that card, p sure i saw it linked in another yospos thread before or something, rms passes those out to women who catch his eye. because rms)

So he's still single? Can't believe it.

BobHoward posted:

i knew precisely what this was going to be before i clicked it, thanks for doing the needful

# ? Feb 1, 2015 09:24

Chocobo: Oct 15, 2012; Here comes a new challenger!; Oven Wrangler

prolonged eye contact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEUmcQT9UUw

# ? Feb 1, 2015 09:43

fermun: Nov 4, 2009

sarah jeong had never seen the apollo 10 turd stories. i'm gonna go ahead and share them again here because she's bitcoin laffs related right now.

there was another very short one earlier in the mission where the last guy to see the mission's landing module after disconnect for returning home, he saw a turd was plastered to the window as it spun off into the distance.

# ? Feb 1, 2015 09:51

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

fermun posted:

there was another very short one earlier in the mission where the last guy to see the mission's landing module after disconnect for returning home, he saw a turd was plastered to the window as it spun off into the distance.

Snoopy noooooo

# ? Feb 1, 2015 09:55

BobHoward: Feb 13, 2012; The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull

Buttcoin purse posted:

Agreed, but is ryancarnated so unaware of everything else that he really thinks it's the best tool for everything, even kernels, flight control systems, pacemakers, nuclear reactors?

reminder that by ryancarnated's own words he was so :aaaaa:

over the endless possibilities of blockchain that he dropped out of a postgrad physics degree program and took a job with a bitcoin startup and then ditched it to take a job with reddit and then thought that the best way he could promote bitcoin via reddit was to make a bespoke artisinal port of the bitcoin client to js for no apparent reason at all other than his weird obsession with the language

in other words: yes, yes he probably is that clueless

also it's not like you can or should expect scientists to be decent at writing software, here's something i saw in a recent discussion on another site when the topic came up

Carlie Coats posted:

I'll second that: even in such classically-supercomputing fields as
weather-modeling, most of the models are awful in terms of SW design
and performance. Almost always, when I re-write such codes, the
result is both more readable and at least twice as fast -- not
infrequently, ten times as fast.

And that for allegedly-high performance apps!

# ? Feb 1, 2015 10:05

DaTroof: Nov 16, 2000; CC LIMERICK CONTEST GRAND CHAMPION
There once was a poster named Troof
Who was getting quite long in the toof

*holds envelope to forehead*

gnu hurd, pleasure cards, and rms

*opens envelope*

name three things that haven't worked for thirty years

# ? Feb 1, 2015 10:11

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Buttcoin purse posted:

Agreed, but is ryancarnated so unaware of everything

all signs point to yes

# ? Feb 1, 2015 10:29

AlbieQuirky: Oct 9, 2012; Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

rms isn't "single", he's polyamorous* and will tell you allllllllll about it

Silkwood shower needed he is the grossest

I have met him twice and the second time we met I reminded him we had met before and he said some rear end in a top hat poo poo like "I would never have forgotten that face" while staring at my tits

gently caress you Pepe le Pew you repulsive freak

he still has an office at MIT but I don't think he has a real job there, just some kind of nerd emeritus thing (visiting scholar or some nonsense)

* he calls it something else but it's just gross hippies loving whoever, so it's effectively polyamory as far as I'm concerned

Jesus seeing that horrible card triggered all the feels, sorry

AlbieQuirky fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Feb 1, 2015

# ? Feb 1, 2015 10:33

bucketmouse: Aug 16, 2004; we con-trol the ho-ri-zon-tal
we con-trol the verrr-ti-cal

Dren posted:

this is a ways back but I wonder if Ross's "How do you plan to launder your earnings?" question was not making sure prospective enployees would have good opsec it was him earnestly asking how to do so, he didn't know

he has a /tumbler/ dir in /var/www. clearly you just put the wallet in there

fermun posted:

6. less the card, more that it's the same card as last time

theflyingexecutive posted:

lol tweet this at sarahj

i have never clicked play on this video and I never will

# ? Feb 1, 2015 11:01

Alan Smithee: Jan 4, 2005; A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

fermun posted:

"Your honor the defense would like to motion for dismissal on account of this whole trial being too gay and nerdy for the jury box"

is a better defense that should have been mounted than Karpeles-framed-Ross

# ? Feb 1, 2015 11:09

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

bucketmouse posted:

i have never clicked play on this video and I never will

you really should

watch it muted though, the audio is really gross

# ? Feb 1, 2015 11:22

BobHoward: Feb 13, 2012; The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull

jony ive aces posted:

you really should

watch it muted though, the audio is really gross

oh no, you can't mute it. if you did you'd miss one of the worst programmer jokes of all time, said at the very moment gross things are happening on video

# ? Feb 1, 2015 11:25

Shazback: Jan 26, 2013

Heresiarch posted:

new browser in development

WomenIn~~Bitcoin~~Tech.js

# ? Feb 1, 2015 11:47

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

i'm the guy with the lovely beard

no, the other one

no, the other oth- well the one with "rockstar" in his job title

e: his name legit owns though

# ? Feb 1, 2015 11:52

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Shazback posted:

WomenIn~~Bitcoin~~Tech.js

why do they say "House Manager" when they really mean "Mom"

# ? Feb 1, 2015 11:57

Shazback: Jan 26, 2013

anthonypants posted:

why do they say "House Manager" when they really mean "Mom"

innovation house rockstar

# ? Feb 1, 2015 12:00

trucutru: Jul 9, 2003; by Fluffdaddy

I must say that boom February has started with the right foot. I really want Andreas to bring his expertise to the court.

Peer-reviewed articles: 1 (a 3-page one in 1997).
Non-peer-reviewed: Over 200.

# ? Feb 1, 2015 12:23

poik007: Aug 16, 2006; Thinks Mother 3 is the best game ever

this thread is so good I should make a javascript snippet that adds a 6 button

# ? Feb 1, 2015 12:39

Malloc Voidstar: May 7, 2007; Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

https://legiscan.com/NH/text/HB552/2015
New Hampshire House Bill 552
Bill Title: Requiring the state treasurer to develop an implementation plan for the state to accept bitcoin as payment for taxes and fees.

Status: (Introduced) 2015-01-08 - Introduced and Referred to Ways and Means. [HB552 Detail]

[...]

The Treasury Department states this bill requires the Treasury Department, in consultation with the Department of Revenue Administration and the Department of Administrative Services, to develop an implementation plan for the State to accept bitcoin as payment for taxes and fees beginning July 1, 2017. The Treasury Department states this bill will likely increase state expenditures because the Department has no familiarity with bitcoin cash operations and therefore cannot determine in advance how much time and effort will be required to become informed and address the areas of accounting, valuation, and management.

lol if this actually goes anywhere

# ? Feb 1, 2015 13:07

jre: Sep 2, 2011; To the cloud ?

Eripsa posted:

Synereo is about to do it's fundraising drive for the month of February. It'll be fun. I'll probably do a real thread in D&D when we go live to handle the influx of marbles.

The tl;dr is that we're building something pretty interesting. Our core technology isn't built on the blockchain and uses an entirely different method for proof of identity and distributed networking. But there's a mechanism by which users can convert a native reputation score into a blockchain-based coin and 'cash out' their social currency.

I'm only working with the group peripherally. I wrote some stuff on the white paper and I've been involved in some of the discussions and planning. The rest of it is being handled by people who appear to be professionals, for whatever that's worth. Our main tech guy is a legit mathematician and programmer who worked for a major software company for many years. He has a working prototype of the core technology, which basically can do anything Ethereum does but better and without any stupid cryptocurrencies. The funds we raise will go to polishing the UX and bringing the service live.

ITS HAPPENING

Lol, so you still haven't realised the whole project is a pump and dump of "ampcoins"

# ? Feb 1, 2015 13:09

Erenthal: Jan 1, 2008; A relaxing walk in the woods; Grimey Drawer

trucutru posted:

I must say that boom February has started with the right foot. I really want Andreas to bring his expertise to the court.

the gold fringed court is just about to convict a poor railroaded ulbricht for a crime which he did not commit

the judge, smirking, raises his gavel when suddenly the door bursts open

# ? Feb 1, 2015 13:10

A Pinball Wizard: Mar 23, 2005; I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands; College Slice

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

https://legiscan.com/NH/text/HB552/2015
New Hampshire House Bill 552
Bill Title: Requiring the state treasurer to develop an implementation plan for the state to accept bitcoin as payment for taxes and fees.

Status: (Introduced) 2015-01-08 - Introduced and Referred to Ways and Means. [HB552 Detail]

[...]

The Treasury Department states this bill requires the Treasury Department, in consultation with the Department of Revenue Administration and the Department of Administrative Services, to develop an implementation plan for the State to accept bitcoin as payment for taxes and fees beginning July 1, 2017. The Treasury Department states this bill will likely increase state expenditures because the Department has no familiarity with bitcoin cash operations and therefore cannot determine in advance how much time and effort will be required to become informed and address the areas of accounting, valuation, and management.

lol if this actually goes anywhere

# ? Feb 1, 2015 13:13

Erenthal: Jan 1, 2008; A relaxing walk in the woods; Grimey Drawer

the defense would like to call logansryche as an expert witness in intellectual property law and online economics, your honor

# ? Feb 1, 2015 13:17

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

"We would like to enter into the record exhibit 1034"
"Objection. That is a dog dick coffee table."

# ? Feb 1, 2015 13:18

A Pinball Wizard: Mar 23, 2005; I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands; College Slice

The much-publicized court case dragged on for months, and Sarah had found the whole experience thoroughly amusing.

Preposterously, the 'Dread Pirate Roberts' had denied wrongdoing, and the prosecution's lawyers had been forced to parade Ross's idiot co-conspirators through the witness stand.

It took five days.

The site admins, the dealers, the FBI agent posing as an assassain, four confidential informants, seven expert witnesses: a seemingly endless stream had flowed through the courtroom and testified to their interactions with him.

Worst of all had been the exhibits: Exhibit A - a laptop found in Ross's posession. Exhibit B - a complete copy of the Silk Road on the laptop's harddrive. Exhibit C - a series of incriminating diary entries. Diary entries? On and on it went, until, by Exhibit Q - a timestamped video of Ross dancing around in his underwear and chanting "I'm DPR, I run the Silk Road" in a singsong voice - Ross could stand the humiliation no longer, and he'd agreed to settle out of court.

# ? Feb 1, 2015 13:31

poik007: Aug 16, 2006; Thinks Mother 3 is the best game ever

and then the judge, both lawyers, sarah and the fbi agent remove their masks - its mark karpeles

# ? Feb 1, 2015 13:34

Weatherman: Jul 30, 2003; WARBLEKLONK

A Pinball Wizard posted:

eh, new hampshire's bloated legislature is full of those free state mongoloids so it's not a happening as such

it got referred to a committee and most likely will die there

why do I know this poo poo, im not even american

# ? Feb 1, 2015 13:38

unpacked robinhood: Feb 18, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Twinklevoss wins

# ? Feb 1, 2015 13:42

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Powered Descent posted:

What's the hex on the last line? I'm too lazy to figure it out, also I'm afraid that I'd fall helplessly into RMS's embrace

Hex editors and hex code translator sites tell me it's "g��4;*� � �,dd�*�L" or something similar, so probably some security key or something.

# ? Feb 1, 2015 13:57

Mercury_Storm: Jun 12, 2003; *chomp chomp chomp*

Eripsa posted:

Synereo is about to do it's fundraising drive for the month of February. It'll be fun. I'll probably do a real thread in D&D when we go live to handle the influx of marbles.

The tl;dr is that we're building something pretty interesting. Our core technology isn't built on the blockchain and uses an entirely different method for proof of identity and distributed networking. But there's a mechanism by which users can convert a native reputation score into a blockchain-based coin and 'cash out' their social currency.

I'm only working with the group peripherally. I wrote some stuff on the white paper and I've been involved in some of the discussions and planning. The rest of it is being handled by people who appear to be professionals, for whatever that's worth. Our main tech guy is a legit mathematician and programmer who worked for a major software company for many years. He has a working prototype of the core technology, which basically can do anything Ethereum does but better and without any stupid cryptocurrencies. The funds we raise will go to polishing the UX and bringing the service live.

ITS HAPPENING

# ? Feb 1, 2015 14:02

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

Mercury_Storm posted:

I'm dying please send help

# ? Feb 1, 2015 14:16

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crusader_complex: Jun 4, 2012

lmao at rms' card, in addition to everything else

# ? Feb 1, 2015 14:17

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