fluffypony: <+ben_vulpes> what happened to the mining rig rack fab operating out of africa? <- that's going extremely well - we showed off the ASIC rack prototypes to those interested at Inside Bitcoins earlier in the year, and a couple of months later we got a lucrative exclusive contract to supply a farm, so we won't be selling the frames commercially until June next year (if at all). the GPU frames we still sell, although that market has slowed
assbot: Farmers in Switzerland routinely EATING cats and dogs with their meals | Daily Mail Online ... ( http://bit.ly/1IHR0Gc )
punkman: apparently the swiss prefer rotweiler http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255684/Farmers-Switzerland-routinely-EATING-cats-dogs-meals.html
BingoBoingo: Vexual: They sell pet supplies and small pets like blowfish
punkman: I was taking a walk at the park the other day and a giant golden retriever demanded to have my tangerine
punkman: there's barely any meat in pet food
Vexual: we've had a few hipster babies die from raw milk here in oz this week, i wonder if they might have bought better food at the pet store?
BingoBoingo: Am I the only person who thinks petco sells more interesting and safer meat than most grocers here?
Vexual: go the amiga
Vexual: blowfish you just breathe heavy, see stars, and round two next weekend
BingoBoingo: Vexual: Not yet, but it is on the to do list
BingoBoingo: http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/the_slatest/2014/12/11/undercover_cop_pulls_gun_on_protesters_at_oakland_demonstration/rtr4hlde.jpg.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.jpg
mircea_popescu: http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/13585/ultra_orthodox_jews_in_new_york_rally_against_israeli_army_draft_plans << check out the pics lol
Vexual: afiak just on the cheap high volume shit
Vexual: next to the usb hole
Vexual: funnily fiats have had "designed for windows mobile" stickers on them
BingoBoingo: Maybe, or maybe they will keep talking about urmom
Vexual: wow, xbox live taking bitcoin, some kids are gonna start learning the value of money
ben_vulpes: the ecmaboi's back!
ben_vulpes: some say the sapper errs twice
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Sappe only gets to err once, because after Erring there is no more sapper
gribble: You are now authenticated for user ben_vulpes with key 2AFA1A9FD2D031DA
mats: now i'm just another dude that sits down all day and talks at computers
mats: my hands are clean, but not because i was unwilling to bloody them
mats: moral ambiguity is for other people.
ben_vulpes: mike_c: we're masters of the bezzletronic arts of quality app authorship
ben_vulpes: <mike_c> kakobrekla: someone told me recently I should hire slovenians to build a mobile app for me. do you know anyone in that industry in your neck of the woods? << perhaps consider my humble app factory
ben_vulpes: this, from the infantryman.
ben_vulpes: king of this continent isn't worth the piss in my urethra much less the fruit of my loins.
ben_vulpes fired up the 52" tv on loan from a client today
ben_vulpes: rockets at least - either go into orbit or not.
ben_vulpes: roundaboutly saying that one can't buy legitimacy from the entrenched idiots.
ben_vulpes: <mats> afaik the cost of serious physics research runs well into nine digits << if not twelve.
ben_vulpes: <fluffypony> that particular one is a payment processor << what happened to the mining rig rack fab operating out of africa?
asciilifeform: somehow asciilifeform still believes they're running things tho << ahaha lol, which 'they.'
mircea_popescu: i tihnk the guy gave up.
cazalla: i might be inclined to read a story/book after the act, but not before
cazalla: so basically, his wife fucked him, mtgox fucked him and then big daddy USG came and fucked him one last time for good measure
cazalla: http://sharethezing.blogspot.com is the guy's blog where he writes about his wife and his decision to swing which resulted in her fucking and him watching
mircea_popescu: somehow asciilifeform still believes they're running things tho :D
mircea_popescu: apparently the libtards lose again.
mircea_popescu: now my hdd is getting raped at the rate of 1mb of nonsense/minute
asciilifeform: there are entire firms who specialize in 'legit' ddos
BingoBoingo: Oh noes Sony was the reddit police all along http://time.com/3629768/sony-hack-hackers/
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: and if you're going to, wait for the fuhrer to rubber-stamp it. as i understand, they can still screw with the contents until this is done.
BingoBoingo: mats: Feel like submitting a write up of the damage to qntra?
mats: my mind implodes at the number of stupid things in this bill.
assbot: Logged on 23-02-2014 06:27:42; asciilifeform: and picture 100% of the chemical energy converted into a radio emission of whichever type you prefer.
scoopbot: New post on Qntra.net by cazalla: http://qntra.net/2014/12/coinjelly-exchange-warns-users-they-have-24-hours-to-remove-coins/
asciilifeform: chemically-powered emp bomb is one of those weapons that really fails basic physics, for almost any scenario, but the brass can't ever fall out of love with it
asciilifeform: one wag asked why they did not drop an ordinary bomb, with same amount of trotyl as the emp vircator bomb, on the station
asciilifeform: emp arms powered by chemical explosives are 'sexy', suck in grant money like nothing else, even deployed (!) by usa in gulf war 1 - taking a tv broadcast antenna out of action for a few hours (they had to change an amp)
asciilifeform: (in the case of the latter, charged particles circulate in the van allen belts, turning it into a gigantic electromagnet)
asciilifeform: ^ text descibes not only what is physically-possible on the subject, but the author's struggles to convince management that it is entirely infeasible to set up a nuke-style 'emp' using anything other than a nuke
asciilifeform: let them hire a translator:
asciilifeform: 'a report on the threat posed by man-made electromagnetic pulse weapons to United States interests through 2025, including threats from foreign countries...' >> easy:
asciilifeform: 'describe the actions the United States is taking to support implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, including the eventual establishment of a tribunal to hold individuals accountable for abuses' << sovereignty, what's that
mats: 'the President should establish and maintain an intelligence and law enforcement cooperation scorecard with metrics designed to measure the number of instances that intelligence and law enforcement agencies in the United States require assistance from intelligence and law enforcement agencies in Ukraine'
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2014 21:57:45; mircea_popescu: "mr devektorovskyi, what are we to do then ?"
mats: these are things that should be done already.
mats: i'm wondering why this is even in the bill.
mats: 'Each United States diplomatic facility that [is in] ... the Russian Federation, or any country that is a former member of the Soviet Union shall be constructed to include a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.'
mats: http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20141208/FY%202015%20IAA.PDF >> "The Secretary of State shall ensure that ... every supervisory position at a United States diplomatic facility in the Russian Federation shall be occupied by a citizen of the United States'
asciilifeform: implicit message: 'there were only a few torturers! and they've retired! go back to sleep'
mircea_popescu: not here. and who the fuck came up with that url scheme i wish to know.
ryanxcharles: this is why javascript is the best programming language for any task
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: (article) 'But this is no sort of economic activity, it's just an elaborate waste, of everything. The participants could all be dead for all it'd matter to anyone...' << obligatory >> http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2011/07/dead-souls.html
adlai: but "\"is_hidden\":true," pushes the length of SOME messages over 240 characters
adlai: maybe i need to throw their endpoint servers through a plate glass window
adlai: their API fails to verify messages 240 characters and longer
adlai: holy fuck. bitfinex are not just derpier than imagined, they're derpier than it is possible to imagine
scoopbot: New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/hello-everyone-im-facebook-martin-and-this-is-the-racquetball-trick/
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2014 04:47:20; PeterL: now you should be able to say: scoopbot -fetch and he will get the scoop
gribble: thepiratebay.cr is up
asciilifeform: ;;isup thepiratebay.cr
mircea_popescu: the common man shapes his boogers.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to get an idea of this crazy : every time you go into a shop of any kind, you have a 50-50 chance for the sales person to try to provide what you're asking for OR to try and convince you not to buy anything.
ansc: but it shows that the common man is willing to ebdure idiocy on a vast timescale that exceeds our patience by orders of magnitude
mircea_popescu: great mine canary that. you knew that once that ended, there shall be war.
mircea_popescu: i kinda enjoyed their taunting letters up until 2010 or w/e.
kakobrekla: >The Pirate Bay goes offline after police raid server room
ansc: i am so scared bc i don't see a peaceful exit from the current communist idiotic system
ansc: in our current system, one man one vote, how can we ever escape communism, other than by a collapse of the currency?
TomServo: ansc: What is the point?
ansc: mp you recently wrote about the two kinds of ppl: freedom attaining and not. on trilema.
mircea_popescu: we don't really happen to know atm how the fuck.
mircea_popescu: whether you know or not how exactly, gravity still works.
mircea_popescu: like, say, the price of oil bends your future irrespective of who you are. do you call this relating to oil ?
mircea_popescu: except, of course, fiction in those parts where it's hermetic, and otherwise insanity.
mircea_popescu: things that are completely independent are by that very fact also completely hermetic. like the ravings of the insane.
mircea_popescu: the subiacent point there, perhaps unapparent, is that every human construct fundamentally relies on truth to be recognisable as such.
Namworld: There's an infinite number of stats and types of reports and what not.
mircea_popescu: Namworld i have no idea how their stats look, so this is as good as anything.
ansc: which is, as everything you write, a very true if somewhat hyperbolic assessment of the present state of the union.
ansc: mp you once wrote 'thee is only one thing that matters today: bitcoin' or something similar
mike_c: I thought you might know some people in your irl wot from the area.
mircea_popescu: lol welcome then.
mike_c: what I heard was that there were a bunch of reliable firms in eastern europe, with ukraine and slovenia being mentioned explicitly. and ukraine seems risky choice these days.
kakobrekla: lol mike_c all you got is they should be slovenians and thats that?
mircea_popescu: mike_c i thought they just had ? or was that bitpay.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well it means more shares which means more mkt cap right ?
mike_c: kakobrekla: someone told me recently I should hire slovenians to build a mobile app for me. do you know anyone in that industry in your neck of the woods?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: yes from the contract, but what would invoke this clause?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller "Should Coinbase make dilutive issuances after July 8, 2014, D.CBSE will be diluted proportionally."
mircea_popescu: fuck them for having 404 pages in the first place, they should fix both their website and the broken process which resulted in this being a problem in the first place.
kakobrekla: i havent bothered to click
mircea_popescu: i guess the issue is, their page is now 404 and they don't want you linkign to a 404 page
mircea_popescu: fluffypony they wish to be important.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i was answering thestringpuller
fluffypony: why would you remove the link
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what dilution? the additional vc?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller how do you figure ?
adlai: none of the derps have been consummated yet, right?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: at least you are managing demand, reminds me of Tesla having a 15000 car wait list, while producing ~5000 cars a year. Won't have to worry about new customers off the blocks.
Namworld: Campaign is over by the way
mircea_popescu: hey, you're not the only one.
thestringpuller: will any news be announced between now and then?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform don't throw out your draft letters! will have to append to them!
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nah, asciilifeform was late and then got sick so i gave him the benefit of the "once per year, report delayed for a month"
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: was there a S.NSA statement for November 2014?
thestringpuller: php is the only server side web tech i've found that integrates with gpg
mircea_popescu: anyway, my heart goes out to the poor souls stuck working knee deep in this crud because of their idiotic employer.
fluffypony: I don't disagree with their decision to call it "nodejs", I think the nodejs developers are the issue - htf do they call the binary "node" when clearly that's a word that may occur on the command-line, being common in computin' circles
thestringpuller: maybe "babysit"? essentially treating the children as children, much babysitting
thestringpuller: instead of pamper as the word
thestringpuller: that and students who like to have mental breakdowns, they have shrinks to talk you out of your alcoholism
mircea_popescu: best racket ever, if princeton sold shares in itself it'd obliterate the apple.
mircea_popescu: for grant money the govt pays.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile business sells them out like common hos.
thestringpuller: give business 5 good years, and they pay tuition
mircea_popescu: i dunno how it goes in the us, but eu folks are more thna happy to oblige, and also because humans are generally lazy most machinery mostly sits idle
asciilifeform: except when you can't get the time even for maxint.
mircea_popescu: you can coax time on expensive machinery for very little money. what costs is the bezzle support, you know ? most of grant money goes back to university to "pay for" grad students etc.
assbot: Logged on 11-12-2014 15:04:03; mats: afaik the cost of serious physics research runs well into nine digits
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller exactly my point. it sounds like a pro until the 250kg beast licks you.
thestringpuller: That sounds like a pro rather than a con.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller trust me, it's like wanting your own tiger.
thestringpuller: i like how mircea_popescu is more cheerful during the holidays
mircea_popescu: nubbins` http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2014#951292 that shit made my ears spin. there's actually people walking the earth that put up with this shit ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: so now you have to symlink it because half the shit expects "node" and the other half expects "nodejs" <<< bwahahaha you guise, stahp.
mircea_popescu: right, because so much crypto work is being done in the least apt language for the purpose.
mircea_popescu: "my cock is the right tool for everything! it can fuck things up, mess them up, screw up and everything else i normally do!"
mircea_popescu: mats: 'Javascript is the languge of heaven. It is the right choice for every programming task.' << :D
mircea_popescu: dude check out the poor entropy in kbd mashing. who knew!
mircea_popescu: the dispute (in typical redditesque retardom) was whether 7 is "less likely" or "more likely" to stad for a nsa-diddled ecdsa curve than 5976928769872976597967965769845 or w/e
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: way to argue the null case ;p << no but it was relevant in context.
nubbins`: what is mathematics if not perspective?
asciilifeform: (if anyone is unclear on why 'i'll bring in a few $b and then do physics with it' is a nonstarter, they must read the eotvos threads.)
asciilifeform: and exterminate the buggers
asciilifeform: the cost of serious physics research runs well into nine digits << it costs $maxint. and not for the reasons you may think:
ryanxcharles: i don't have time to respond at the moment but i'll come back later
Naphex: you need to read between the lines ^^
Naphex: thats where the plan is at
mats: afaik the cost of serious physics research runs well into nine digits
mats: 'A better way to do physics research is to build a lot of wealth outside of academia, and then fund myself as a scientist. That way I have complete freedom and I'm not facing the crazy competition for government funding. If I can pull it off, that's exactly what I'll do.'
Naphex: https://github.com/bitpay/insight-api/blob/master/lib/TransactionDb.js is this the real life?
nubbins`: sharepoint renamed a bunch of shit between major revisions, but literally just swapped the names around and kept the api calls, function definitions, class names, etc the same
Naphex: not to talk about all the hellish packages in npm
fluffypony: so now you have to symlink it because half the shit expects "node" and the other half expects "nodejs"
fluffypony: my favourite is Ubuntu changing the binary name
BingoBoingo: I don't get much choice in the matter thanks to my good friend CYP2d6*39*???
BingoBoingo: Spiders always shrink on the knuckles
BingoBoingo: A followup is happening... once I start punching spider sized spiders in the garage during gicarettes and not cornish game hen sized spiders
BingoBoingo: I don't have any. Have you not read the sad saga of Normal man???
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: They already stole a fucking car
BingoBoingo: I am in no fair way other than tripping balls right now. How do robitussin bottles not exist as single serving containgers
nubbins`: way to argue the null case ;p
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Do you have the same romantic attachment to 7.65 that I do. It is bond caliber
nubbins`: <+BingoBoingo> The fuckers, part of his pre-trial release conditions was a prohibition on alcohol, 21st amendment yo! <<< i have a friend prohibited from imbibing for 4 years as part of the punishment for a drug offense
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> but the principle remains. "small integers" are not in fact either small or integers but for our perspective. <<<< o.O
BingoBoingo watches the latest episode of Ramsey's Hell's Kitchen because better than Robitussin
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Like I am going to totally fire up the AIDS computer to follow every lead
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: How can we know you aren't the blond wife? Other than if that was the OH SHIT HUGE SPIDER, case certain people would be much more attentive to your equine needs
BingoBoingo: rithm: Why does the fluffy mare fear you?
fluffypony: had a bit of a false start on one of the projects, shitty resources, so that's just picked up again as of a few weeks ago
mircea_popescu: now /me waits patiently for the home videos of fluffyfamily.
BingoBoingo waits for the scorpions to shrink again, fuck you robitussin cold and flu
fluffypony: I've got stuff I'm building on the business side
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: It is alright. The coinfire account on twitter blocked both myself and cazalla that one time we made a blog even though... Eventually we may want to hire their meat.
mircea_popescu: oh i recall the derp. i think i told him off back when i was on twitter.
fluffypony: he's the guy that keeps getting "interviewed" by Seaman
fluffypony: either outrightly or through blind ignorance
fluffypony: but I do applaud the effort if it'll make shit like Jackpotcoin irrelevant
fluffypony: the economic hinge makes sidechaining unpalatable for us
fluffypony: but that also means that the altcoin is indelibly linked to Bitcoin's value
adlai: i don't mean it in that sense, i mean that their goal is to make innovations in other chains accessible to the bitcoin asset
mircea_popescu: so you are in the endsaying this is more of a hobby than serious.
fluffypony: the network effect of BTC works against that
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i dun think his idea is directly applicable (stolen by btc), but nevertheless, someone with a better business value proposition can just fork your code.
fluffypony: to get back to the previous convo, though - it isn't an "investment", nor has it been pitched as such
fluffypony: pubkeys) thus breaking compatibility with every existing application, and then enforce the standard for some time before the utxoset is sufficiently large to allow for a measurable level of privacy (see MRL-0001 on lab.monero.cc as to why this is true)
fluffypony: adlai: the problem is that the "amazing tech" can't easily be copied by BTC - although I'd agree fully on that being applicable to altcoins based off of the Bitcoin codebase. the problem isn't so much the code, it's that the stealth addresses + ring signatures are such a radical departure that Bitcoin would (obviously) have to hardfork to an address format that is completely different to their current one (since it requires 2x 256-bit
BingoBoingo: Is the robitussin bottle really not supposed to be a single serving?
scoopbot: New post on Qntra.net by thestringpuller: http://qntra.net/2014/12/microsoft-xbox-and-mobile-marketplace-now-accepts-bitcoin/
BingoBoingo: Isn't that what the civil war was over?
BingoBoingo: Ship it to the deep south.
punkman: I mean humanure is fine, if you are in the wot
mircea_popescu: what do you think the earth is if not hardpacked, ancient sewage.
mircea_popescu: for the field.
mircea_popescu: feel the morse.
thestringpuller: that's another option have little magnets implanted in finger tips
mircea_popescu: real programmers just sense the bits.
undata: however anything like that becomes another point to siphon data off the thing if you derp using it
undata: there are many simple text-output LCDs
thestringpuller: punkman has the right idea!
thestringpuller: for situations arising "in the field"
thestringpuller: in the way key on cardano is nontrivial to remove
mircea_popescu: it'd decript somethinmg you got off a pastebin for you, but obviously it can't guarantee the computer you're on won't read your memo too