Show Idle (> d.) Chans


| Results 280501 ... 280750 found in trilema for 'the' |

asciilifeform: or rather, lacks the referents for these words that would let them say 'no'
asciilifeform: pretty basic chumpatronics, i think. why spend more effort than is required to fool the mark ?
asciilifeform: for their part, the squatters are fooled. the buildings, stay empty.
mircea_popescu: well, to maintain the pretense
asciilifeform: laugh but this is not entirely fiction. i discovered recently that it is customary where i live for the city to continue to cut the grass in the yards of empty houses
mircea_popescu: the us got a random guy from kenya to pretend like he's a law professor ; anhd some random derp from pakistan to pretend he's a district attorney.
mircea_popescu: you might find that most of the windows with lights in them are painted cardboard in the shape of a window with a light in it.
mircea_popescu: an exercise not unlike explaining why "the green stays left in the mandelbrot set for as long as it does"
asciilifeform: now, when these people are gone - THEN yes, zimbabwe.
asciilifeform: but it is not entirely a useless observation because it explains why the 'lights stayed on as long as they did'
asciilifeform: they actually run (what remains of) the living tissue of the place.
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 00:55:56; mircea_popescu: there isn't a better stock in the us.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-09-2015#1286209 << there still ~are~, for the time being, the folks born in the 1930s-40s.
mircea_popescu: that "oh, they were fired via email ? did they check make sure it's not fake ?" thing still has me lolling.
assbot: BitPay Layoffs Allegedly in the Works - NEWSBTC ... ( http://bit.ly/1KVoZwW )
asciilifeform: (oh wait, they do. winblowz)
asciilifeform: why not distribute a whole os with the thing!
asciilifeform: i suppose if ms visualbasic can be a favourite among these people, why not python.
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 00:55:24; punkman: opensource to share with the neighbors https://github.com/whitepacket/ZIB-Trojan "Replace Bitcoin addresses in clipboard with yours." "Undetectable ad-fraud smart viewer" "automated system for handling [Bitcoin] payments, providing bot-net binaries, and creating bot-net IRC channels."
asciilifeform: but at least it could send the pw+wallet off to sp4mz0rland, vs merely walled.dat
mircea_popescu: but the whole thing was the size of a thumb
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2011/entypus/ << i also had one of those large wasps that build their nests out of chjewed sand/clay (the prev ones were "paper wasps", build the nest out of a sort of paper made out of chewed wood) and fill them with spiders they caught and paralyzed, with added egg.
asciilifeform: (i.e. one that would patch the client to immediately emit whole wallet in one fat tx to $addr upon any decryption)
mircea_popescu: there isn't a better stock in the us.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the usg is cosubstantial.
asciilifeform: why otherwise would usg park them at reddit rather than in alaska.
punkman: opensource to share with the neighbors https://github.com/whitepacket/ZIB-Trojan "Replace Bitcoin addresses in clipboard with yours." "Undetectable ad-fraud smart viewer" "automated system for handling [Bitcoin] payments, providing bot-net binaries, and creating bot-net IRC channels."
asciilifeform: which is why 'They're here to work and only work, a lot, hard and for very little money. Until they fall over.' is hilariously optimistic. most of these people, i doubt could even be made useful at butugychag, where 'fall over' is a matter of 3 months or so
mircea_popescu: and what the fuck is that scary shit.
mircea_popescu: y're not here to state their oppinions, eat doritos or drink bear. They're here to work and only work, a lot, hard and for very little money. Until they fall over."
mircea_popescu: "Teh romanians entertain the mistaken view that one can't die of hunger. One can. Not only can, will. A certain count of Romanians (as large as necessary) will die of hunger, in the closer or more distant future, because otherwise the populace does not seem capable to comprehend that the only reason Trompi dropped them in the world is so they work. They're not here to enjoy themselves, they're not here to be happy, the
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 16:54:13; pete_dushenski: though for some reason the ls400 was never available with the optional in-dash fax machine that was in the toyota century https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPuD2D5VEAAl19N.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPuD2DyVEAAIUpw.jpg
assbot: What is believed to be the world's biggest wasp nest has been found in northern Tasmania - ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) ... ( http://bit.ly/1KVnHSo )
cazalla: mircea_popescu, from your pics.. that's not a nest (knife), this is a nest http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-02/world-biggest-wasp-nest-found-on-a-property-in-northern-tas/6367536
cazalla: those fucking wasps (Vespula germanica) were everywhere last summer, i had never seen them prior to that http://i.imgur.com/vSW9cw8.jpg
punkman: (for some kinds of autofocus at least, like the ones that shine an IR light)
mircea_popescu: i suppose if you count such procedures as manual then yes.
punkman: there is nothing for autofocus to target when the subject is very close to the lens
asciilifeform: the 'vulvarium' link is also interesting
mircea_popescu: (digital cam autofocus thing is NOT able to resolve the n/p problem of "correct focus". it just tries. and fails, predictably, after missing some optimums)
mircea_popescu: but it's more to do with the fact that i understand how the fucking focus thing works and just time it in my head.
asciilifeform: very good hand, then.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these macro shots are glorious
asciilifeform: but we actually have these.
asciilifeform: i bet overseas folks here think i am describing a prison planet straight from robert sheckley or the like
asciilifeform: put your ear to the wall, 'bzzzzss'
asciilifeform: they like to burrow into the (made of almost nothing, typically) 'siding' of houses and nest in the very walls.
asciilifeform: perhaps only in the dc swamps.
asciilifeform: here we sorta have the opposite - as you cut, you liberate mosquitoes and earth wasps (or what are they called?) and they go straight for your flesh.
mircea_popescu: and i do mean cloud, 100s in the air at any time.
mircea_popescu: and there's this cloud of little 2mm guys jumping from where yo ustep
mircea_popescu: one of the best parts of cutting grass in like may/june was, after you cut it, the next day or w/e, you go for a stroll
asciilifeform: perhaps they were once there.
asciilifeform is not certain he ever once saw a grasshopper in this part of the globe
mircea_popescu: so i didn't ACTUALLY pay anything on them.
asciilifeform: helps that you had 220v there
mircea_popescu: i have over you the advantage that hey, corporate purchases. tax writeoff.
mircea_popescu: and i even have the exact moneyary counts. 450 lei for the item, =~ 150 bucks. 90 lei for two chord extensions (40m total), 30 bucls.
asciilifeform: if i ever encounter one of these sold at a street corner for twentybux i will certainly buy it..
mircea_popescu: because the fucking blog!
mircea_popescu is suddenly very appreciative of all the problems he never had.
assbot: Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet ... ( http://bit.ly/1WoayoK )
asciilifeform: here in zimbabwestan, that's all there is.
asciilifeform: the vibration stripped the skin off my hands every time.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck not put an actual engine in there ?
asciilifeform: and guess what, even the charger was ~built in~ to the container
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess unless you make your own order for 36v batteries that's not getting fixed, who the fuck wants to charge 3 items one by one etc
mircea_popescu: onbe of the foremost lost arts. there's an entire story to the job, including how to build waterproof hay piles.
mircea_popescu: no nm, that';s more the tool. scytheman!
mircea_popescu: why the fuck do you think scythe grass cutters insist on skill an d sharp scythe, rather than bulging biceps.
asciilifeform: the last owner fitted a very expensive and nice new blade
mircea_popescu: cuz you didn't bother to think about it.
asciilifeform: theoretically very spiffy for folks like me who despise this chore.
mircea_popescu: best cut off the 36 to 12v transformer
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt a 36 v motor is actually in there. what, this thing weighs 60 lbs ?
asciilifeform: gotta appreciate the pure genius of the chumpatronics here
asciilifeform: 3 of them.
mircea_popescu: i just cut in lines away from the house. cord was at no point past wherer i cut.
asciilifeform: and the thing was cheap, lunch money. let go for pennies by the last fella who tried to get the battery.
mircea_popescu: https://cinetext.wordpress.com/category/soviet-film/page/2/ << if anyone's truly bored, curious about the topic of cinema and doesn't read russian.
asciilifeform: the 'enforced obsolescence' thing is sop even in something as boring as yard tools. not long ago, i bought an electric grass-cutter thing. works great, but battery holds a charge for perhaps 10 min! vendor used to sell the 36v battery pack for ~200 usd. extortionate, in there are 3 12v lead acid cells. which are 50mm wide, precisely, and no replacement sold anywhere in the world fits in the container! they, turns out, contract
punkman: cute website there too
asciilifeform: incidentally all this was, afaik, ~before~ self-destructing printer cartridges and other mundane implementations of this crud became common
mircea_popescu: and how come they're not working to make a woman that self-destructs after fucking.
mircea_popescu: cazalla prolly was, in the sense of "i'll tell you about the italians so you can tell your boss im an informant and then tell me when they wanna hit my org."
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 21:50:04; assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 14:51:18; pete_dushenski: "Camera Restricta is a speculative design of a new kind of camera. It locates itself via GPS and searches online for photos that have been geotagged nearby. If the camera decides that too many photos have been taken at your location, it retracts the shutter and blocks the viewfinder. You can't take any more pictures here." << notbad for an 'artist' (philipp schm
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285778 << if we're doing crackpot evil inventions, i much prefer the 'drm chair'
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 23:42:07; mircea_popescu: what, the bulger crime family never happened, right ?
mircea_popescu: nothing but nagging and an insistence of posing the likes of which isn't yet encountered on instagram!
mircea_popescu: how did this shit pass for literature again, it has all the drawbacks of cancerous womanhood.
mircea_popescu: that fucking letter to the bum from his IDIOTIC mother about how that slut of a sister of his lied to everyone and wouldn't fuck
mircea_popescu: they didn't sit around being americans for more than an hour a month.
mircea_popescu: show me the ghetto kingdom they built themselves.
mircea_popescu: but you will notice that we're not merely aghast at inept fiat govertnment. we have substitute. we collect fucking taxes. heck, b-a collection is above the historical maximum for ANY fiat state known during the past century or more. well over 90%.
mircea_popescu: besides the point.
mircea_popescu: in other words : inner city blacks are subhuman, and not a proper example in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: (and you will also note that elephants in zoo may break cages/lay waste to the hay depot, but do not as a rule figure out hjow to use gps to locate the central bureau of zoos and burn the local pencildicks in charge.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consequently the negative taxation they beenfit from does not figure in their breaking of cages.
asciilifeform: the elephants in the zoo also do not see themselves as owned by the crown..
mircea_popescu: inner city black man does not see himself as owned by the crown.
asciilifeform: the taxation is at its most negative in the inner cities (ferguson et al) where the 'robin hood action' is quite lively
mircea_popescu: they are all, without exception, living above their means on govt supports.
mircea_popescu: of the bent over crowd.
mircea_popescu: certainly. still, look at the demographics.
asciilifeform: iirc it was the latter.
asciilifeform: or did they collectively bend over and lube up for usg in gratitude for removing the irritant
asciilifeform: did the locals ferry the outlaw to mexico? or even across state line ?
asciilifeform: thinking of, e.g., the erik frein case
mircea_popescu: look at the demographics.
asciilifeform: possibly to where there isn't really a trace of this (at least afaik) left ?
mircea_popescu: i recall the part, but where do you take it ?
assbot: George Orwell - Mark Twain -- The Licensed Jester - Essay ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lc707t )
asciilifeform: 'In ROUGHING IT there is an interesting account of a bandit named Slade, who, among countless other outrages, had committed twenty-eight murders. It is perfectly clear that Mark Twain admires this disgusting scoundrel. Slade was successful; therefore he was admirable. This outlook, no less common today, is summed up in the significant American expression 'to MAKE GOOD'. '
mircea_popescu: 1970s russians believed the soviets are non-dumb. just like 2010 chinese believe the same about their idiotic leadership.
mircea_popescu: today, they sit in govt dole.
mircea_popescu: hjas nothing to do with the code folks. in the 19th century, the us was a place where people earned their keep.
asciilifeform: it is interesting to note the extent to which the 'code' folks succeeded. 19th c. usa was a place where rogues, bandits, brigands of every conceivable sort - were popular heroes
mircea_popescu: that's the truth, that's the movie you make. or fuck you.
mircea_popescu: the average "criminal" being definitely more lovable, and in general more ethically respectable than the BEST of the law enforcement criminal gang.
asciilifeform: almost as if the 'hollywood code' never died..
mircea_popescu: the cinematic vocation of 2010s is, depicting the us president as a sort of nero.
asciilifeform: or the like.
asciilifeform: and the heroic chekists who nailed him
mircea_popescu: what, the bulger crime family never happened, right ?
asciilifeform: iirc they're making one about ulbricht
mircea_popescu: what's this bullshit 1950esque "bad guys against the angelic aparatchiks" ? where the fuck is the hollywood movie about carl force V
mircea_popescu: what's more sad is the fucking mosfilm level of the script. seriously, the "idealistic da" ? what the fuck, there is no even remotely ethical da in the us, nor was there, for 30+ years.
mircea_popescu: it's sad that crud like that is going to be forever associated with "the first attempt to put the internet in the #1 position for marketing a movie"
mircea_popescu: in other news, snakes on a plane is an incredibly bad film. down there with tucker max productions and shit.
asciilifeform: and dollars to doughnuts, there are 15 y.o. 'contributing'.
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 22:12:50; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285749 << and how the fuck does "the government" know the mind of man.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285806 << always possible that it made mistake! poor mr schmuck dies under torture, didn't know the password ? so sorry !
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 22:10:45; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285737 << orin kerr is an imbecile, who the fuck taught him to read and write.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285945 << this ~almost~ beats the saudi slave collar patent for sheer lulz
trinque: proposes we spend some umpteen trillion dollars to stimulate the whatever
trinque: mircea_popescu: he's the derpy looking socialist from vermont
mircea_popescu: in the crooked timber of the english language, no kant was ever translated.
mircea_popescu: i didn't invent the broken!
mircea_popescu: i mean should say "THE BET", as it does now. unchanged, that bit.
kakobrekla: it says the bet now.
kakobrekla: you mean should say the prop
mircea_popescu: where you put the body in, the title should stay "THE BET"
mircea_popescu: all they can say is shit about money. thanks to the imbecile yet overvoiced females they got, language doesn't woirk for fucking, for gambling, for nuttin.
mircea_popescu: "THE BET" can stay as it is.
mircea_popescu: there's no rule that urls are metasyntactical
punkman: I used "Props" in the cli app :P
kakobrekla: the url is bitbet.us/bet/xxx
mircea_popescu: the individual quanta of money sent to a prop, were and remain "bets"
mircea_popescu: no, the idea is, the previous meaning of the word "Bet" as in, the page with a description and so forth, is now called prop
mircea_popescu: from henceforthj they're gonna be "bets" and "props"
mircea_popescu: anyway, since you're looking at it : can you change "new bet" to "new prop" in the header
mircea_popescu: meh, why the fuck are we even supporting that.
HostFat: now, I need to find where are these addresses :P
HostFat: I'm more on the idea that I didn't put anything than a wrong address
mircea_popescu: but i guess a warning if the field value doesn't verify as an address may be a good idea, when kakobrekla has some time for this.
mircea_popescu: this can be readily verified for the entire list visible there, not so much for json because well, json doesn't have the links baked in, being json
mircea_popescu: i mean, if you look at the top bet right now on the list (24-09-2015 Rejected Namibia Vs New Zealand)
mircea_popescu: then how would bitbet send you refund ?
mircea_popescu: well, what was the return address you specified ?
mircea_popescu: that within a day or two you should have hat the 0.1 or w/e it was refunded.
mircea_popescu: ok, so what's the problem ?
HostFat: maybe I can even find the addresses ...
HostFat: as I remember, they were both of 0.1 BTC
HostFat: I'm not sure that they are available, but they are visible here
mircea_popescu: the date carries a url
assbot: BitBet - The ETH scam won't see 2016 :: 51.16 B (28%) on Yes, 134.11 B (72%) on No | closing in 2 months 1 week| weight: 88`056 (100`000 to 10`000) ... ( http://bit.ly/1LbXuRI )
mircea_popescu: link to the actual bets.
assbot: Logged on 05-06-2015 12:49:29; mircea_popescu: for the other thing : plox to not email bomb me ; bitbet's not keeping your bitcoin, rejected props get refunded as it gets around to it ; yeah 1 btc is prolly enough for that purpose ; if https://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/ and https://bitbet.us/bet/7/bfl-will-deliver-asic-devices-before-march-1st/ being paid out isn't going to convince you i guess nothing will.
HostFat: I could have them back
HostFat: so, here you said that after a while, if they were rejected
assbot: Pope Francis Lays Hands On Ailing U.S. Infrastructure - The Onion - America's Finest News Source ... ( http://bit.ly/1PD9Vnk )
mircea_popescu: during his very brief toying with teaching, /me decided to flunk the entire, 6-group year, >100 twerps. had chat with provost, agreed to forget about the entire thing.
Bingo_VACAY: But professor would have "up adjusted" the grade anyways
mircea_popescu: but no, three-ring binder logician musts needs formal match because it's his only interface to the world.
mircea_popescu: they just know THE METHODS, completely blind to the substance, protest "d is poorly defined". da fuck difference does it make. not like d can ever be the deciding factor.
mircea_popescu: somehow the concept that if a => b => c => d => f then if (a || b || c || d || f) reduces to if (a) is not directly fucking obvious to this horde of illiterate college graduates.
assbot: BitBet - The Hearn-Gavin scamcoin will fizzle in 2016 :: 101.11 B (97%) on Yes, 2.96 B (3%) on No | closing in 9 months 1 week| weight: 89`332 (100`000 to 1) ... ( http://bit.ly/1LbUSmR )
mircea_popescu: https://bitbet.us/bet/1191/the-hearn-gavin-scamcoin-will-fizzle-in-2016/#c5151 << this bet has been SUCH a lulzy excursion into the "how tenuous a grasp of logic does the general public possess ?"
assbot: Logged on 21-04-2014 19:22:37; mircea_popescu: the devil himself knows not the thought of man
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 20:08:43; trinque: http://volokh.com/2012/01/24/encrytion-and-the-fifth-amendment-right-against-self-incrimination/ << wherein he agrees that the govt "knowing that you know" the password is sufficient to obviate pleading the 5th
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285749 << and how the fuck does "the government" know the mind of man.
mircea_popescu: basically the situation is, the chumpatronic engineering progresses much faster than the chumps.
mircea_popescu: gotta grant it to the pump artists, did a much better job with this than the other team did with ripple.
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 19:55:57; ascii_field: 'Orin Kerr, a constitutional scholar and former federal prosecutor, suggested that the "Fifth Amendment issues raised by the content of the passcode could be addressed by having the defendants just enter in their passcodes rather than handing them over to the government."'
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285737 << orin kerr is an imbecile, who the fuck taught him to read and write.
punkman: if I had 500k eth I'd definitely trade them in for 1040 btc on poloniex
mircea_popescu: didn't they give out 500k to that random hamplanet for reasons ?
punkman: you now need 540k eth to sell below 0.001, someone must've read the logs
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285696 << awww, look at that, back to 32 ? i guess down 8% today is better than the ~16% yesterday. at this rate it will be stable in an infiniy of days!
mircea_popescu: bah i should look at the pics before commenting. while the general principle is correct that pic doesn't illustrate it at all.
mircea_popescu: down the fucking drain of public spending, that's where. stop spending money, it is like giving kids candy.
mircea_popescu: fucking lalaland where the govt is spending trillions, the populace turns into lazy & stupid cattle whose only aspiration is a govt college certificate for a govt "job" doing nothing and spending its time on reddit. then we wonder where did america go.
mircea_popescu: fucking idiots, anyway. the only correct thing is to fire the entire civil service, keep the thing closed for ten years, then tentatively put out half a bn or so see what happens.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285683 << very logical. fucking asswipe caved on the PREVIOUS attempt to use the last remaining power of the senate and reign in the fucking out of control kenyan through the purse.
jurov read "camera recta" at first.. would kinda work either way
mircea_popescu: people, stop making stupid women. there's enough of them around as-is.
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 14:51:18; pete_dushenski: "Camera Restricta is a speculative design of a new kind of camera. It locates itself via GPS and searches online for photos that have been geotagged nearby. If the camera decides that too many photos have been taken at your location, it retracts the shutter and blocks the viewfinder. You can't take any more pictures here." << notbad for an 'artist' (philipp schmitt)
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285635 << exactly the wrong kind of fucking ai. a) not actually intelligent ; b) negative - the last thing i fucking want to see is mechanically powered women nagging ; c) not self contained - at least the stupid nag you can beat into the ground.
ascii_field: (and certainly no public trials or other circuses)
ascii_field: the one where ada.
ascii_field: trinque: nah, this'll be the ~other~ usg
trinque imagines the system freezing due to winblowz 2022 as one pounds the touchscreen begging it to take input
ascii_field: the automated inquisitor.
ascii_field: this is precisely the condition needed for the coke machine
trinque: ascii_field: the govt is not forcing confession; it's forcing you to tell it the truth it already knows!
ascii_field: 'nobody expects the spanish inquisition', but only a fool at this point would not expect the Coke Machine.
assbot: Encryption and the Fifth Amendment Right Against Self-Incrimination - The Volokh Conspiracy ... ( http://bit.ly/1G7M8GH )
trinque: http://volokh.com/2012/01/24/encrytion-and-the-fifth-amendment-right-against-self-incrimination/ << wherein he agrees that the govt "knowing that you know" the password is sufficient to obviate pleading the 5th
ascii_field: 'Orin Kerr, a constitutional scholar and former federal prosecutor, suggested that the "Fifth Amendment issues raised by the content of the passcode could be addressed by having the defendants just enter in their passcodes rather than handing them over to the government."'
mike_c: that's going in the toolbox. thanks.
punkman: mike_c: yeah you just pipe the diff to it
mike_c: ooh, i like the side by side
punkman: handy for viewing diffs side by side and colorized on the terminal https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cdiff
assbot: Ketchup isn’t the king of American condiments. Mayonnaise is - Quartz ... ( http://bit.ly/1VdOArD )
pete_dushenski: and i'm off to the meatspace race. ciao!
pete_dushenski: “Women are telling us that if they reported pain during a study they were thrown out of the study,” Dr. Zuckerman said.
assbot: Medical Panel Calls for Further Study of Bayer Sterility Device - WSJ
pete_dushenski: because there's nothing there ?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: though for some reason the ls400 was never available with the optional in-dash fax machine that was in the toyota century https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPuD2D5VEAAl19N.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPuD2DyVEAAIUpw.jpg
pete_dushenski: ls400 was the luxury sedan that launched the brand and turned the segment on its head, showing that high-end cars could be built to last, comfortable, and as boring as wallpaper paste
pete_dushenski: !up thestringpuller
assbot: Log In - The New York Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lb3zxK )
pete_dushenski: you're the boss.
kakobrekla: or the quote on eurusd for that matter.
kakobrekla: do you think my users define the price of aapl stock?
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: gigavps was known for the perpetual mining bond on GLBSE gigabond or whatever. MP recently declassified some logs from him way back when proving it was a ponzi all along.
kakobrekla: there 10+ ticks per second, jiggabytes of garbage nobody that isnt trading wants to see
pete_dushenski: that's a very vague statement. a garage full of asics could be an 'operation' and it could be in YOUR basement and therefore about as trustworthy as they come
thestringpuller: just noticed there has never been a single truly trustworthy mining operation to date.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: "Camera Restricta is a speculative design of a new kind of camera. It locates itself via GPS and searches online for photos that have been geotagged nearby. If the camera decides that too many photos have been taken at your location, it retracts the shutter and blocks the viewfinder. You can't take any more pictures here." << notbad for an 'artist' (philipp schmitt)
thestringpuller: Lol good ol Tyson: "People don't really understand a currency based on numerical equations. I personally still don't ... but I'm grateful to be a part of the revolution"
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20150222033906262/ChessBytes.html << i've had this in a tab for months. seems bootchess' reputation is becoming more renown. doesn't have castling and a few other things iirc
pete_dushenski: who's that atop the pig ?
pete_dushenski: !up thestringpuller
assbot: The bitter rivalry behind the world’s smallest chess program ... ( http://bit.ly/1LaX5il )
assbot: Kaspersky User-Agent Strings - NSA - The Intercept ... ( http://bit.ly/1LaWWvh )

|