mircea_popescu: watching club fed try to dig itself out of the pile of fake bitcoin auction and all that surrounding fraud, on top which is piled a layer of lying to jury every which way to cover up for actually criminal "investigator", on top of which is another layer of lying every which way to protect his co-conspirators, which are now coming to light...
pete_dushenski: to paraphrase the simpsons comic book guy : best. fall. ever.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu "Ethereum now actually exists, and those who were lucky enough to take up Mircea Popescu’s offer to buy ETH from him that he doesn’t have at a price of $0.12 a piece are welcome to try their best to collect." << from ethblogthing
assbot: Logged on 28-09-2015 19:23:52; kakobrekla: how many lamborghinis in their lamborghini account?
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-09-2015#1287004 << just count the doors swinging up.
pete_dushenski: "As society’s average level of sophistication goes up, information-driven inequality may increase. This will happen if informational advantages build on each other -- the more you know, the better you understand how to learn more. If that’s the case, then educating the general populace about finance might actually exacerbate inequality, instead of correcting it."
pete_dushenski: "Differences in education are dangerous because unsophisticated people generally don’t realize they’re unsophisticated."
pete_dushenski: "What if the rich get richer because they know how to invest their money more effectively? New research shows that this may be a factor behind the rise in inequality."
phf: this goes back to tom knight and the lisp machine koan. you can't substitute understanding, and every piece of your stack where your understanding is limited by "stuff is happening i think" is going to bite you in the ass. specifically you can't take an opaque blob that barely runs on dev's machine and expect it to cleanly deploy, and no amount of container is going to change that.
gabriel_laddel: fire the client?
gabriel_laddel: Bahaahahah the 2nd comment is from Joe Armstrong (created Erlang) and reduces to "yeah, I dunno".
gabriel_laddel: I love that these people *never* question the god-given axiom "all GUI development must be done on 'the web'"
gabriel_laddel: This is terrible and we should all be ashamed. No wonder PHP is so popular. How am I supposed to tell a new web developer that this is what they have to look forward to?"
gabriel_laddel: And I’m really not picking on Ruby, or Rails, or this particular app. I hate deploying my own web software, because there are so many parts all over the system that only barely know about each other, but if any of them fail then the whole shebang stops working. I have at least five things just running inside tmux right now, because at least I can read the logs and restart them easily.
gabriel_laddel: "We’ve been doing this for 20 years. We should have this by now. It should work, it should be pluggable and agnostic, and it should do everything right — so if you threw away the web gui, it would look like something a very tidy sysadmin set up by hand, not autogenerated sludge.
assbot: Logged on 28-09-2015 19:35:49; ben_vulpes: http://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/17/the-sad-state-of-web-app-deployment/
mike_c: however this time around he doesn't seem to be publicizing the address that 16k bitcoin is stored in..
BingoBoingo: In other news craptop running a Stator build is now up to September 11th
mike_c: what was that stupid multi-sig address they used..
mike_c: holy shit it's down to 1800 btc? what did they start with, 30k?
ascii_field: trinque: depends on whether you are a terrurrrist
ascii_field: (how many will pakistan buy ~at the current price~ ?)
assbot: Logged on 28-09-2015 06:01:03; mircea_popescu: i would very much in my right mind buy one. what the fuck do i care about all the bullshit ?
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-09-2015#1286827 << if you wanna buy ~all~ of them, whatchawaiting for, call ze germans
assbot: Carly Fiorina: I Supplied HP Servers for NSA Snooping | Motherboard ... ( http://bit.ly/1Gd37aB )
ascii_field: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/carly-fiorina-i-supplied-hp-servers-for-nsa-snooping << mega-l0l
punkman: ben_vulpes: sure sad, but I don't see that derpy rails "devs" would make anything better if they chanced upon better tools
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: I don't think they actually have any functional cars in their livery though. They prolly tried converting them to run on an alternative fuel and got butthurt when the Ether ended up detonating in their fuel line.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Prolly 2, though they may be Ferrari people
kakobrekla: how many lamborghinis in their lamborghini account?
BingoBoingo: Oh shit! Expenses of 410,000 CHF a month and only 200,000 Swisscoin on their balance sheet.
trinque: "First of all, it is indeed true that the foundation???s finances are limited" << anditsgone.jpg
Naphex: for the lulz
mircea_popescu: certainly most "vc" funds are spending more on "the internet" than they will ever make back.
mircea_popescu: i believe this is true by now for the average business.
davout: "let's give a bunch of five years old some charts and crayons, see what trends they can come up with"
punkman: http://knowledge.zurich.com/cyber-risk/cyber-costs-threaten-to-exceed-benefits/ "Could the Internet cost your business more than it’s worth? A new report offers a surprising answer that you won’t want to miss."
assbot: Logged on 06-08-2015 22:09:02; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-08-2015#1228030 << to expound on this for the log readership : it is not trivial but definitely feasible to cause any running implementation of asymmetric cryptography to leak key bits if it is possible to direct encrypted matter at it in an automatic fashion and have live access to the results somehow. this theoretical fact is practically verified for pgp, and
davout: would you have a link to one of these threads at hand?
mircea_popescu: there's at least one huge difference.
davout: tbh i don't think there's that much difference between "I use an https API of which I've validated the cert fingerprint, and include GPG-signed receipts in the responses themselves" vs. "I wrap everything in GPG"
mircea_popescu: generally people tend to create their own private tunnels.
davout: re jurov's comments suggesting an mpex-style API, there's a slot for signed receipts in the returned JSON
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 00:33:51; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1284827 << he has a point. the notion of putting http in there but then going "The settlement part isnt covered by the document, for the pretty simple reason that settlement is a business matter, not a technical challenge. It would also vastly complicate everything." is pretty wild.
davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285109 <<< i guess there's a balance to be had between an overly general document and something that can be used as a base to implement right away
assbot: I built more stuff that's very complicated like...CPUs and soldering them - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1iVMFqu )
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> Next they shall endorse TradeFortress' newest empire, with plenty of donations. << Again
mircea_popescu: what else are they for.
shinohai: Next they shall endorse TradeFortress' newest empire, with plenty of donations.
assbot: Using The Blockchain To Fight Crime And Save Lives | TechCrunch ... ( http://bit.ly/1Jy6Csn )
shinohai: http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/27/using-the-blockchain-to-the-fight-crime-and-save-lives/ <<< made me gag on Monday morning.
punkman: "There is a serious amount of press focused on issues related to Nazi-era forced art sales from Jewish owners during the 1930s and 1940s. There is a general art market fear of the possibility of Nazi-looted art and whole provenance departments have grown up in museums, auction houses, law firms, etc to deal with the possibility that there might be a claim from heirs to any bit of art."
punkman: I got two m^3 tanks, they tend to last for a few days
mircea_popescu: (and random discussion YET AGAIN undercovers the well lied about ustardian poverty. hey random schmuck, did you know your DAD could afford 5x the water that may be wasted on your stupid head ? forged granpa.)
mircea_popescu: the future never came to me. i generally get 7 to 10, and a coupla hundred galons is, if you do the math, just about one ton.
mircea_popescu: If your house was built in (<1980 is 5-7, 1981-1991 is 3.5, 1992> is 2.5) the standard flow for showerheads then was 5-7/3.5/2.5 gallons per minute.
mircea_popescu: and if you do the math, the per-capita water coming out of 15 tons would be under half a liter. ie, not even enough to drink.
punkman: "a full building with 35,000 people would produce 7 tons of poop per day, plus all the additional wastewater for showers, brushing your teeth and so on, totaling up to 15 tons per day of wastewater."
punkman: "when you poop in the Burj Khalifa, that waste is actually trucked out of the city. Trucked out of the city! " << creates jobs
mircea_popescu: dubai itself is one major arab startup in the hotel industry.
BingoBoingo: <punkman> dubai is kinda startup-y << First rule of being a start-up-y place is high rent and cost of living. Burns the capital faster.
mircea_popescu: it won't fucking work, lebanon is the equivalent of new mexico. about as defensible as a bowl of china.
punkman: "Ten years ago, however, very few Lebanese were starting high-risk, fail-fast, profits-after-5-years companies like their present-day entrepreneur counterparts. “We didn’t have this culture of entrepreneurship,”"
mircea_popescu: fucktard. how are any of these under your control.
mircea_popescu: "If you set aside the sociopolitical factors beyond your control, youre left with daily inconveniences of fragmented infrastructure like electricity cuts of up to 6 hours, regular water shortages in the summer and fall, and an average internet speed of 3.11 Mbps to put things slightly in perspective, estimates abound that doubling Lebanons
mircea_popescu: start up and gtfo, lebanon's the next syria
mircea_popescu: we prolly just don't understand 20something yo aesthetics.
mircea_popescu: and who's alienhead, buterin or trump ? tbf trump's head is mostly local, with the exception of the venusian hairpiece of course.
mircea_popescu: answer : ETHEREUM CAN NEVER REACH ZERO BECAUSE IT IS A TECHONOLOLOLOL
mircea_popescu: question : how many days of 15% straight drops does it need for ethereum to reach 0 ?
mircea_popescu: oshit, look at that, in other news trump is no longer shorter odds than 1 on bitbet.
VariaVarietatis: guy is quite the showman not so big on facts
BingoBoingo: I dun remember off the top of my head.
VariaVarietatis: oh i'm sloppy tonight surfing the blogs made me want to chat
BingoBoingo can't wait for the kits to make a VW Golf "Roll Coal" come out
mircea_popescu: no, he's derping on and on about patent fucking nonsense such as "Conceivably, one could compound that by overlaying 'network'-oriented jurisdictional issues -- for example, the use of telecom systems to transmit information (from software to managerial decisions) with an intent to deceive and defraud."
mircea_popescu: fascinating that the author manages to go through all that without at any point rising to the very moderate level of awareness that's included in the observation that "all this retarded pseudo-legalistic bullshit just ate its own tail, and now ill have to go. vw shot it in the head, thanks god."
mircea_popescu: but anyway, this is the path : expose the state to millions of unknown cases. trillions, if at all possible.
mircea_popescu: anyway, vw takes the cake for fighting the insanity of statal overbearing. and the more insane it gets, the more of this will happen, until eventually maintaining even the pretense of "law enforcement" will become ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: "So those vehicles -- 11 million of them and counting -- are damaged goods. They will *never* be able to meet environmental regulations. That means either (a) they'll need to be taken off the road or (b) environmental regulations will need to be rewritten to include a carve-out for VW diesel owners." << or ship them to pakistan.
mircea_popescu: i would very much in my right mind buy one. what the fuck do i care about all the bullshit ?
mircea_popescu: So, right there, VW diesel owners have a pretty ironclad case for what boils down to speculative financial compensation: the difference between what the cars 'would have been worth' if this flaw hadn't been exposed and what they *are* worth -- which is zero, if only because no one in their right mind would buy one (and in many cases reale may now be forbidden by law) << what ?
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2015 22:06:11; trinque: I've written a nice little parser in ply that'll handle that and also messages to interact with the buy/sell board.
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2015 16:16:35; punkman: " If I was to keep him from kidnapping those two women, which he'd do if I didn't turn myself over to him, I was going to have to turn myself over to the DOJ folks, so they could take the appropriate action to protect those people, and maybe even figure out just who this sick fuck was, and stop him." << cool story bro
gernika: ktrace/kdump seems to be the closest match, fyi
deedbot-: [Trilema] The saddest thing, or a classification of rape - http://trilema.com/2015/the-saddest-thing-or-a-classification-of-rape/
assbot: [L] SFYL pending. Captain of the industry TradeFortress reboots 'inputs.io' as 'wallet.la' after previously losing $1.2M worth of Bitcoin in a "hack". : Buttcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1RaosrR )
BingoBoingo: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3mkkfb/l_sfyl_pending_captain_of_the_industry/
gribble: The operation succeeded.
trinque: I've written a nice little parser in ply that'll handle that and also messages to interact with the buy/sell board.
trinque: ^ deedbot- will no longer chew up wrapped messages such as the above
Naphex: pete_dushenski: the annoying captchas are there too get rid of bots; since xotika is mostly all backend the site is just a thin client to the backend
assbot: Experience: I mine for 100-year-old jeans | Life and style | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1jnJZSt )
punkman: " If I was to keep him from kidnapping those two women, which he'd do if I didn't turn myself over to him, I was going to have to turn myself over to the DOJ folks, so they could take the appropriate action to protect those people, and maybe even figure out just who this sick fuck was, and stop him." << cool story bro
punkman: http://www.myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&start=120#p144158 "He would kidnap Ross Ulbrichts sister, or mother, or ideally both. Get a video capable phone in front of Ross Ulbricht, and he'd give up that fucking pass phrase, and Diamond would have them tortured until he did. I had his bonafides by now, and knew him well enough to know he was serious about this."
shinohai: Arming the taliban was cool
pete_dushenski: "But are we satisfied with Shakespeare’s being genuinely meaningful only to an elite few unless edited to death or carefully excerpted, with most of the rest of us genuflecting in the name of “culture” and keeping our confusion to ourselves?" << yes!
pete_dushenski: http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-facelift-for-shakespeare-1443194924?mod=trending_now_2 << goddamit cascadians ! always think they know better eh.
VariaVarietatis: shinohai: going on for YEARS see the attempt to buy off putin with 15b in arms http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE9760OQ20130807 pepe writes about it http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-02-130813.html all about gas
mircea_popescu: the problem with the wsj nonsense is that it makes me discount the gizmodo nonsense in the same breath.
pete_dushenski: http://www.wsj.com/video/woman-hears-over-100-cat-calls-walking-through-nyc/5ABE5229-EE45-4C41-AD68-710E8A2EB6F9.html << city of 10 mn ppl, call it 5 mn men, and omgerd one of them talks to you EVERY SIX MINUTES ON AVERAGE.
pete_dushenski: ^ older data, only one geographic region, but looks like the bots were yielding ~$70/hr.
pete_dushenski: in any event, as i linked in http://www.contravex.com/2015/09/09/botlove-botlulz-and-playing-wannabes-like-a-flute/ >> http://gizmodo.com/one-chart-that-shows-how-much-money-ashley-madison-made-1727821132 : "When the engagers were turned off in early 2011, the company’s income took a nosedive. So did their conversion rate. When they were turned on again 14 months later, revenues and conversions skyrocketed. It
VariaVarietatis: whats the issue
HeySteve: but they hinted they had some VIPs, released some info to show they're serious... maybe some names were held back? the ones who paid?
HeySteve: I was thinking about the timeline, not sure I have it right
HeySteve: was doing a bit of gardening there, it's a lazy sunday for me
HeySteve: the stork joke
mircea_popescu: eventually the old man "you can admit we're lost you know."
mircea_popescu: they were probably the magnum opus of some ambitious intern wanting to be vp / dubious hire a la charles ryan dude implementing ai in java
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: Read The Spinoza of Market Street by Isaac Bashevis Singer | 25,629 Free Classic Stories and Poems | FullReads ... ( http://bit.ly/1Wqhsdf )
pete_dushenski: http://fullreads.com/literature/the-spinoza-of-market-street/ << read this after hanbot brought up isaac bashevis singer. quick, sharp, heartful read. recommended.
pete_dushenski: i was actually looking up nannies/babysitters earlier and was expecting them all to be $25/hr or some shit. pleasantly surprised to find several ads for $10/hr cash
assbot: ,,O Brother,Where Art Thou?'' Three Sirens-,,Go to Sleep Little Baby!'' - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1WqgJsA )
gribble: Paisley (design) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_(design)>; Paisley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley>; Paisley - Paisley Scotland: <http://www.paisley.org.uk/>
pete_dushenski: turns out i didn't know ALL the vocab in 'o brother where art thou'... miscegenated ! (mixed race relations)
mircea_popescu: let alone that bitcoin is and was from the onset conservativism in a pill and rejection of two centuries of "progress" in the most absolute form imaginable.
mircea_popescu: and in the random soup of derp news,
gabriel_laddel: ben_vulpes: to be clear - I've "banged together" nothing, unless you want to count a patch allowing one to use truetype fonts. The majority of my work is assembling obtuse packages for noobz with justification as to *why* certain decision were made.
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 22:32:46; ben_vulpes: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel plz for to record some interactions with this magical realtime 3d system you've banged together
mircea_popescu: and none of that faux hebrew-like notation, either.
mircea_popescu: o hey daniel meet me in game for the stuffs.
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 21:23:16; hanbot: i seek an honest yiddish proficient to tell me if there's seriously a word that'd sanely translate to "write-up" in english
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is the sort of inept wanna-be me idiot who keeps slaves that'd rather run away.
mircea_popescu: gotta love the list making abilities.
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 15:54:22; danielpbarron: in new york city, there are spikes on any public facing surface that might have otherwise been a suitable place to sit
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-09-2015#1286435 << in romania they were starting with it for pigeons.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i am thoroughly mystified as to what is happening in this photo << the woman is being denied sensation and, inasmuch as identity is a formal matter, identity.
mircea_popescu: was it so hard to say "the little black prince and his oligarchs met the people's representative Xi" ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-09-2015#1286400 << and then when putin goes places with the palace "billionaires" aka oligarchs the propaganda machine goes nuts.
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 12:02:14; punkman: http://www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9352095/netflix-cuba-paquete-internet "The government hasn't tried to stamp out El Paquete, and Dany works to keep it that way. "We don’t put anything in that is anti-revolutionary, subversive, obscene, or pornographic. We want it to stay about entertainment and education,""
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-09-2015#1286390 << dany is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 11:38:11; assbot: NSA Director Admits that Sharing Encryption Keys With the Government Leaves Us Vulnerable to Bad Guys | Zero Hedge ... ( http://bit.ly/1YGZQfb )
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-09-2015#1286384 << "but fuck you, the alternative is our irrelevancy and we oooobviously can't have that" amirite ?
fluffypony: I don't know if we have much in the way of Juice in here
hanbot: i seek an honest yiddish proficient to tell me if there's seriously a word that'd sanely translate to "write-up" in english
cazalla: hdbuck, did ya see the video? full blown aids with a stroke to boot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ2UAYgIXG8
pete_dushenski: what are they gonna seriously say ? yellen is fat and osteoarthritic ?
hdbuck: bug in the matrix http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-26/fed-refuses-comment-yellens-health
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell naphex why the google captcha ?! i dun wanna pick the pictures that look like salads just to look at the moving pictures of girls making salads !!
pete_dushenski: "Royal Tiffany is 26. Born in Naples, she currently lives in Rome. She studied business and marketing, works as a secretary" << this is where your 'marketing', 'social sciences' and 'environmental sciences' degrees are going to land you, girls. rt is just blazing the trail for yous.
pete_dushenski: wonder how it's stood the test of time
pete_dushenski: was i thinking of 'stargate' ? i remember there being large collars on the egyptianesque soldiers, but can't recall if they exploded now
pete_dushenski: ^ aha. 'invader zim' too. one for thestringpuller
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: for some reason, hollywood really likes the idea of the 'bomb collar.' i've personally seen at least four separate films that had these.
pete_dushenski: not like anyone is going to hack your jeep and drive it off the road just because you thought 'wifi in my car ?! oh cool !'
pete_dushenski: "The device would emit encrypted radio waves that would be picked up by satellites and “used to track fugitives from justice, terrorists, illegal immigrants, criminals, political opponents, defectors, domestic help, and Saudi Arabians who don’t return home from pilgrimages,”" << what could possibly go wrong ?
pete_dushenski: "An investigation is underway as to whether US military personnel tried to get the government to foot the bill for a total of $96,576 (£63,268) spent on strippers in Las Vegas. The Pentagon's Inspector General is also looking into claims the personnel tried to expense $952,258 (£623,838) spent in casinos."
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: then again, maybe it's just my very professional looking motorola razr and dun-fuck-wit-me-mercedes
pete_dushenski: danielpbarron if you're pretending to actually have a conversation, i've found that this trick *still* works. at least at airport in '5min' waiting zone. can stay there 15min+ if on phone lol
pete_dushenski: danielpbarron there are more police than cockroaches in nyc, though i suppose it can be tough to tell one from the other
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 23:31:19; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285945 << this ~almost~ beats the saudi slave collar patent for sheer lulz
jurov: there surely is a patent about spikes retracting on payment
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 00:03:13; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285778 << if we're doing crackpot evil inventions, i much prefer the 'drm chair'
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-09-2015#1286040 << alf has it. it's one of these tongue-in-cheek artsy things, not reals !
jurov: looks like she has fleshlight in the vag
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 07:27:37; mircea_popescu: and from the department of disturbing : http://40.media.tumblr.com/2faa83afb2f7f32bbb6e6a738ea42096/tumblr_mry3n2FVUb1rvm78zo1_1280.jpg ; http://36.media.tumblr.com/fb2722e63af7161c7fde34a7694b7f0e/tumblr_mry3n2FVUb1rvm78zo2_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: The reason it is notable, is that someone at or near the location in Sterling, VA is performing a MITM attack on Cryptome visitors, and this image out of the slidedeck with the two GPS coordinates is the U.S. Government performing a MITM attack against Cryptome and sharing the collected intelligence with the Brits, or the U.S. Government giving the British government backdoor access into the U.S. (illegal) collection systems.'
asciilifeform: 'the address for Cryptome is listed to be the location of a fiber optic cable junction in Sterling, VA (next to an Amusement Machine company)... which is quite some distance away from your location in NYC, and a considerable distance from your ISP who hosts your file, and it is located away from any signal switching systems use in the area, but it is virtually next door to fiber that goes to a large NSA listening post nearby.
deedbot-: [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] O Brother Where Art Thou? - http://www.contravex.com/2015/09/26/o-brother-where-art-thou/
fluffypony: on the Garden Route
assbot: The Obamas welcome Xi Jinping and his wife for a state dinner – in pictures | US news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1LTCXM0 )
punkman: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2015/sep/25/white-house-state-dinner-xi-jinping-in-pictures
punkman: "Paquete subscribers pay between $1 and $3 per week" "In addition to the subscription fees, revenue for El Paquete comes from a classifieds section called "Revolico." Sellers pay to list their items, and you can get a premium listing if you pay more. Revolico is the cash cow of El Paquete."
assbot: This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet - Vox ... ( http://bit.ly/1YH1iy9 )
punkman: http://www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9352095/netflix-cuba-paquete-internet "The government hasn't tried to stamp out El Paquete, and Dany works to keep it that way. "We don’t put anything in that is anti-revolutionary, subversive, obscene, or pornographic. We want it to stay about entertainment and education,""
assbot: NSA Director Admits that Sharing Encryption Keys With the Government Leaves Us Vulnerable to Bad Guys | Zero Hedge ... ( http://bit.ly/1YGZQfb )
HeySteve: punkman, so your privkey is associated with your phone and therefore location, social contacts, message history, etc.?
punkman: well they got $10mil in June, can't be using old and dusty gpg now, gotta come up with their own stupid shit
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: ima make sure to ask hitler what the red army needs moar of.
HeySteve: it's made me want to rewatch Shaun of the Dead for some reason, but can't find it in my movies folder
HeySteve: there was a linked vid of mike and gavin in a pub answering questions
HeySteve: probably, the something awful guys found a couple in brazil I think, to make the infamous 2 girls 1 cup vid
HeySteve: atm there is a vile thread on reddit praising Gavin - and I mean vile for reddit
assbot: Xotika Model Royal Tiffany Discusses the Bitcoin Life > CoinLife ... ( http://bit.ly/1VgPFJH )
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 07:15:54; ben_vulpes: i learned of the ethereum "yellow paper" the other day
mircea_popescu: and from the department of disturbing : http://40.media.tumblr.com/2faa83afb2f7f32bbb6e6a738ea42096/tumblr_mry3n2FVUb1rvm78zo1_1280.jpg ; http://36.media.tumblr.com/fb2722e63af7161c7fde34a7694b7f0e/tumblr_mry3n2FVUb1rvm78zo2_1280.jpg
assbot: Urbit just released a revolutionary whitepaper for fullstack, decentralized computing : ethereum ... ( http://bit.ly/1jk4S0Z )
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/3mdkn0/urbit_just_released_a_revolutionary_whitepaper/ <<< aaand the inevitable merge :D
mircea_popescu: omaigawd ethereum rallies!!11
asciilifeform: it was hilarious, stooges would actually be sent around every now and then to make sure that everything that was connected into the Official net ~was~ a winblowz box!
asciilifeform: (after a miserable 6 months or so in 'cygwin', where i even built x11 and the whole rest of shebang)
asciilifeform: when i worked in usg, they had xp boxes, yes. i simply requisitioned 'vmware' and cooked up a gentoo vm.
PeterL: So I have to use Winblows at work. The most annoying thing is the tendency of programs to steal focus at wierd times. Like, I start a program, see it is going to take a minute to load, switch to my other program and sign in, but wait the first stole the focus and now my password is sitting there in plaintext. Bleh.
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mircea_popescu: ontent to eat native grass. And never mind that there likely were more bison produced naturally on the Great Plains before farming than all of beef farming raises in the same area today."
mircea_popescu: quote of interest, "The Dust Bowl was no accident of nature. A functioning grassland prairie produces more biomass each year than does even the most technologically advanced wheat field. The problem is, it's mostly a form of grass and grass roots that humans can't eat. So we replace the prairie with our own preferred grass, wheat. Never mind that we feed most of our grain to livestock, and that livestock is perfectly c
asciilifeform: like the physical fighter jets did
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the physical manifestations of this bezzle are surprisingly public and visible
asciilifeform: just keep prices at 400-500K for the remaining chumpers
mircea_popescu: im sure they're trying to stuff the bill into SOMETHING. an acquisition of some sort, vc capital somewhere, a credit card balance movement to a larger credit card. it hasta.
asciilifeform: it normally does not last very long, and the thing drops to below-value-of-land (buyer must pay for demolition)
mircea_popescu: (btw, it is also customary for banks to continue servicing abandoned bank accounts. for the same reasons as the grass cuttings - they figure they got a claim to A THING and sooner or later will make good on it. with interest.)
assbot: Logged on 04-08-2015 04:10:54; asciilifeform: 'In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
asciilifeform: them, also, yes.
mircea_popescu: except man is not the measure of all things.