mircea_popescu: The reason we can export so much is demand in the U.S. is weak, Cohan said. Since 2005, the U.S. has lost nearly 2 million barrels a day of total product consumption, he said.
mircea_popescu: sure they do.
mircea_popescu: jesus the economy is doing that bad ?
assbot: Crude oil train protests planned in Sacramento, Davis - Our Region - The Sacramento Bee
decimation: it will take years to build the pipelines to the areas that need them, and it will be even more years of political stalemate preventing the investment
decimation: yeah, but the us hasn't been close to an oil exporter for that period
TheNewDeal: isn't there a relatively large premium of brent vs wti lately/
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal nah. and besides, it's been going crazy with respect to both brent and the middle east sorts.
assbot: The Diagrammer by Mergenthaler - 1970 on Vimeo
decimation: 1970's era schematic CAD machine: http://vimeo.com/75532300 - uses various light masks to etch photoresist film, which is then developed and printed
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal wti is not shale.
mthreat: well there's good chaos and bad chaos
mircea_popescu: buncha people out singing. not like they burned a car or anything.
mthreat: mircea_popescu: no chaos? here's the crowd on a city bus (and the bus didn't stop) - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152582727778245
benkay: and on the converse, has blockchain.info lost its?
benkay: hey is blockr -assets blessed these days?
benkay: it's the 2014 version of above
benkay: all this nasty state buried in the browser
benkay: worst part about js app development is the "try refreshing?" debugging method.
mircea_popescu: btw, the song of the street here is " Brasil, decime qué se siente, tener en casa tu papa"
mircea_popescu: wasn't he the PM ?
benkay: costello was the rat.
mircea_popescu: wait, was costello the stupid one ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: techs and spooks << anybody dump the hdd firmware ?
mthreat: if they somehow beat ze germans, it'll be crazy for 24 hours
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mike_c: ah, more fuel for BingoBoingo's summer heat theory.
mike_c: once a year the mpex raid array goes on summer vacation.
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benkay: hey there
mike_c: there are better ones?
mike_c: i don't mind no macros, and i'm surprised you like them. macros are the death of readability.
cazalla: indiancandy1: can you put the keyboard on your head?
mike_c: the real answer is worse: "A quick poll during my keynote presentation at PyCon 2007 shows this proposal has no popular support. I therefore reject it."
assbot: Why isn't there a switch or case statement in Python?
asciilifeform: phun phact re: 'languages of the day' - http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-isn-t-there-a-switch-or-case-statement-in-python.htm
ThickAsThieves: assuming the opposite is probly at least slightly closer to reality
ThickAsThieves: benkay i'm pretty sure i just read an article that said the opposite of what you just pasted
thestringpuller: here comes the hash power
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benkay: "U.S. stocks rebounded after a two-day slide, as the Federal Reserve's meeting minutes soothed concerns over a potential increase in interest rates.
indiancandy1: whats the score
mod6: to break the tie? i agree, penalty kicks are a shitty way to end a game.
mod6: 30 minutes of extra time now, if still scoreless, i guess they go to penalty kicks
mod6: mircea_popescu: on the near miss, it sounds like someone kicked it into the side of the net around the 75 mark.
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mircea_popescu: o wow, so i'm not the only guy to have noticed stalin's boyish infatuation with hitler ?!
mircea_popescu: Stalin had looked on with approval and malicious delight as Hitler had overrun Poland, France and Belgium, as his bombers had darkened the sky over England. Molotov had come back from Berlin thoroughly frightened; agents reported that Hitler was transferring his forces eastward; Hess flew to England, and Churchill had warned Stalin of an attack. Every jackdaw in the woods of Byelorussia and on the poplars of Galicia h
HyperChetty: <mircea_popescu> what im curious is, what tiny nation will suddenly be buying 50x its gdp worth of us bonds this autumn//the caliphate
mircea_popescu: it should have been sa if they weren't such annoying shitheads forcing the best country in thr world to rely on their 2nd pedo choice.
benkay: http://online.wsj.com/articles/fed-sets-october-end-for-bond-buying-1404928864 // i thought the bond purchases were still in full force?
benkay: funny how gribble's not returning the website's #1 result for that.
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benkay: we were noodling on the homegrown EMP this morning.
mircea_popescu: but i'd count it as a major personal failure if i somehow ended up going home with them in the first place.
mircea_popescu: someone with no books i'd fuck. someone with a shitton of "social studies" and assorted crap published the past century i definitely wouldn't
asciilifeform: copper thieves have destroyed considerably more mains transformers in usa than saboteurs with kalash, but the news blackout regarding these is nearly total.
nubbins`: right, isn't this the reason a solar flare or w/e could fuck us all royally?
asciilifeform: phun phact re: substations. the transformers are quite expensive, not many are manufactured.
nubbins`: "We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them." -John Waters
assbot: Q&A: What You Need to Know About Attacks on the U.S. Power Grid - Corporate Intelligence - WSJ
Mats_cd03: related, http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/02/05/qa-what-you-need-to-know-about-attacks-on-the-u-s-power-grid/
nubbins`: alf, i bet you've got quite the collection of books in your study
asciilifeform: of the GRU have a particular dislike of Western nuclear power stations, which reduce the West's dependence on imported oil (including Soviet oil) and make it stronger and more independent. They are one of spetsnaz's, most important targets.'
asciilifeform: 'In France protesters fired an RPG-7 grenade-launcher at the reactor of a nuclear power station. Where they got the Soviet-made weapon I do not know. Perhaps it was just lying there at the roadside. But if it was a spetsnaz officer who had the good fortune to meet those people and provide them with their hardware, he would without further ado have been given a Red Banner medal and promotion. The senior officers
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 o bviously they're going for pr.
Mats_cd03: whoevers running the show, sucks
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
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fluffypony: ;;later tell darlidada everything seems to be working 100%, need your email address to create the user account for you - let me know
asciilifeform: still a headache for the folks who have to walk around with clipboard, check off what needs new paint job
mircea_popescu: i mean unless they've got actual bunker busters they're no treaching the core. so...
mircea_popescu: i wonder what these people think hitting a nuclear plant will do.
assbot: Hamas: We attempted to hit the nuclear reactor in Dimona | JPost | Israel News
mircea_popescu: ie, the wunderkid, eatin' jam an' shittin' prunes.
asciilifeform: 'You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break? / You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake. / But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true, / if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new. / That's entropy...'
mircea_popescu: rithm lots of dumb things you can't take back. way the world goes.
assbot: I can no longer have even the smallest association with the Bitcoin Foundation, because of the complete lack of transparency
mircea_popescu: "Bobynin's voice rang like metal on metal. 'I can see the difference between you and me: you need me, but I don't need you.'"
mircea_popescu: "If a node gets hacked there are only a few ways it can impact the system, but it cant force good nodes to accept forged transfers. Generally, individual bad nodes will quickly be automatically identified and expelled from the consensus pool."
benkay: 160 hours a week in the paddy
mircea_popescu: punkman the notion that anyone still cares...
mircea_popescu: let the lazy have extra chances to self humiliation, it's a good selection exercise.
mircea_popescu: was about to bitch about it, but then i realised there's wisdom in moiety's terseness.
mircea_popescu: in this case the problem seems to be that ;;bc stuff is never mentioned explicitly.
assbot: Dispatches from the Revenge Pornography War
mircea_popescu: ima fall over myself laughing if the us navy ends up paying this guy
assbot: Texas lawyer sues Tor for providing tools used by revenge porn site | The Verge
punkman: http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/9/5883651/texas-lawyer-sues-tor-for-providing-tools-used-by-revenge-porn-site
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who's doing the speculative attacks against the dollar << 'a dead lion can be kicked even by a donkey'
mircea_popescu: anyway, all our friend needs to do now is look up to see who's doing the speculative attacks against the dollar and he'll be like i dunno... five steps ahead of the crowd ?
mircea_popescu: nothing quite like the illusion of immediate control.
mircea_popescu: i like how people keep pretending like they got an option and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: Second, they misunderstand how strong currencies like bitcoin overtake weak currencies like the dollar: it is through speculative attacks and currency crises caused by investors, not through the careful evaluation of tech journalists and 'mainstream consumers'.
rithm: what about leaving fresh blood on the blade?
colinistheman: that's the trade off
colinistheman: it's also made with high carbon steel so it holds the edge better for that reason as well
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yes - the original method is no longer known, but the modern equivalent is still pretty awesome in terms of how it keeps its edge
rithm: oh so spam is the game
colinistheman: I have a limited number of them.
fluffypony: colinistheman: anything with Damascus steel is fun, but that doesn't mean it has a movement that will withstand abuse
rithm: colinistheman but sderiously registering an identity is super important
colinistheman: why the mean?
fluffypony: colinistheman: pity you sell shitty knives
mircea_popescu: you know what the vietnamese fisherman working for two rice patties a day said ?
rithm: shhhh mircea_popescu don't lie to the guy
mircea_popescu: colinistheman this is pretty much the only thing you could be doing that's worth your time.
assbot: Bitcoin address authentication - bitcoin-otc wiki
mircea_popescu: jurov looks like the challenge string
mircea_popescu: colinistheman you gotta encrypt it
gribble: Error: Authentication failed. Please try again.
mircea_popescu: anyway, in sum, if i were co there i'd fire myself over this pic.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even easier. most u.s. military installations have named (!) parking spots for the brass
mircea_popescu: i can probably identify employees by the age old "distance to gate" metric
mircea_popescu: http://www.propublica.org/images/ngen/gypsy_big_image/gt_fort_meade_630x420_130830.jpg << one wonders, why the fuck not just make a garage already.
gribble: Request successful for user colinistheman, hostmask colinistheman!~colinisth@unaffiliated/colinistheman. Your challenge string is: freenode:#bitcoin-otc:9177b607b37f4d96238bb085f90659242452a37931b87d554336aa9a
colinistheman: ;;bcregister colinistheman 1CLoPNdpVwRcTovEu1JCsuD9aQ2riXWLAS
gribble: (bcregister <nick> <bitcoinaddress>) -- Register your identity, associating bitcoin address key <bitcoinaddress> with <nick>. <bitcoinaddress> should be a standard-type bitcoin address, starting with 1. You will be given a random passphrase to sign with your address key, and submit to the bot with the 'bcverify' command. Your passphrase will expire in 10 minutes.
gribble: Error: '1CLoPNdpVwRcTovEu1JCsuD9aQ2riXWLAS' is not a valid GPG key id. Please use the long form 16 digit key id.
colinistheman: ;;eregister colinistheman 1CLoPNdpVwRcTovEu1JCsuD9aQ2riXWLAS
chetty: well at least learn to change a tire before you get behind the wheel
mircea_popescu: you'll have to know about things a little under the hood, like encryption
mircea_popescu: btc is like, yu know, the car. it doesn't exist out of a vacuum. if yu want to be a decen mechanic, and even to be a good driver
jurov: colinistheman you can start with btc addy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just as people who never considered becoming cabbies are now whoring in 'uber', 'whores around me' would probably work the same magic in its own field.
colinistheman: I added 15 new knives today. They are at the bottom of the page when it's set to "unsorted"
mircea_popescu: !up colinistheman
mircea_popescu: Girls Around Me is a simple app that takes your location, and then queries Foursquare and Facebooks location APIs to find any girls (or boys) that are geographically close. Youre then shown a map, powered by Google, with faces (pulled from Facebook profiles) pinned to it.
mircea_popescu: mostly for the pic
assbot: Researchers crack the world’s toughest encryption by listening to the tiny sounds made by your computer’s CPU | ExtremeTech
mircea_popescu: since we're on this, http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/173108-researchers-crack-the-worlds-toughest-encryption-by-listening-to-the-tiny-sounds-made-by-your-computers-cpu
pankkake: no, LUKS *is* the metadata
kakobrekla: dont be the party pooping deer.
pankkake: it just means I cannot change my key securely, and have to rewrite the data. so what?
pankkake: I don't mean private key, I mean the metadata block. i.e. what luks does
asciilifeform: pankkake: any disk crypt scheme where the key lives on disk is nuttery
pankkake: the only issue with a SSD is a security one. if you use full disk encryption, you have to consider that the "change key" operation might leave a copy of the old key in the spare area
asciilifeform: (yes - you can fuck with the os of an hdd. i hope this is a 'revelation' to no one.)
mircea_popescu: pankkake Mats_cd03 i was on the ssds suck technologically bandwagon for many years. the past few however it's pretty much groundless.
asciilifeform: nope as in 'installed guaranteed sinusoidal power source', eliminated the possibility even in theory ?
asciilifeform: one could even set up an array of these, in sealed box, for a given type of drive
mircea_popescu: currently i wanna find out what the holy shit is happening tho, because this ain't normal.
asciilifeform: other variant: you can get a 100mW diode laser for 100 usd or so. zap the dies right through the package.
kakobrekla: well how do you know its done then
kakobrekla: pour it down the drain
kakobrekla: the problem of that video is that its not full enough
mircea_popescu: higher end drives have good diags on the drive anyway.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 well yes, for one thing they're in a 1+0 raid. for the other thing it';s not like i'm letting them reach the end of wear levelling
asciilifeform: the drive can even be sold after this, or used in 'civilian' application.
asciilifeform: other, 'gentle' idea, dissolve 'windows' into the eeprom with nitric acid. replace cover. when time to decommission, use a UV lamp.
kakobrekla: blend them.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 the only problem with ssds is that they're more difficult to properly decomission
Mats_cd03: with the added cost you get faster io. i bet mpex isn't io bound
Mats_cd03: ssds are anathema
benkay: <mircea_popescu> TheNewDeal what's an asshole in the dark. // huh i coulda sworn you were talking about the differences just recently
mircea_popescu: fucking dangerous these things, because people are tards and don't properly balance them
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nubbins`: they tried fracking inside a UNESCO world heritage site here last year
nubbins`: there was a time when western canada's tar sands were unproductive
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones they still holding on to that gulf moratorium ? or did that go away
los_pantalones: they put a pipe in a 3 ft wide layer of rock 10k feet below ground
los_pantalones: now they are fracking
los_pantalones: they used to vertical drill
mircea_popescu: r the future.
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indiancandy1: did you see the game got put on pornhub young brazilians get fucked by entire german soccer team
mircea_popescu: what's the odds on invasion ?
mircea_popescu: so should i buy some APCs just in case argentina loses and then it's argentina-brazil for 3rd place ?
mircea_popescu: let them think whatever they wish, they'll stil get killed if they step on the line.
mircea_popescu: pankkake why should it be upon me to educate other people's children ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake you know, that account is old. i had a two year or so gap in there, some time they "upgraded" their website.
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> they made twitter an iota less relevant. < just like a drop of shit can ruin a bottle of wine, a drop of wine doesnt fix the bottle of shit, ya know.
pankkake: teaching them to be a mob?
mircea_popescu: they made twitter an iota less relevant.
mircea_popescu: they have lol.
pankkake: well, for now redditards think they accomplished something
mircea_popescu: the trial account has gone as far as it'll go.
mircea_popescu: but yes, bitcoin has nothing to do with this, this is the trade engine.
mircea_popescu: so as a mpex update : all 8 drives + the raid controller are going to be cut up. replacements are going in. mpex won't be back today, but i expect it to be back tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: "part of the appeal was that having no experience and looking for exposure, they didn't actually want to be paid"
ThickAsThieves: god forbid they have experience
ThickAsThieves: "@BTCFoundation hires Thorsen French as outside lobbyists. Part of the appeal was they weren't invovled in past financial services battles"
kakobrekla: there is a log? oh my god mircea, i think i love you.
mircea_popescu: all he needs is to constantly kick the 2-3 closest competitors off the block. a la mtgox-tradehill
nubbins`: but apparently pornhub and similar sites have been flooded with uploads of the germany-brazil game
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron this being the most dangerous part of someone getting 51% : he now has a serious incentive to ddos the world.
pankkake: the state is "somewhat worried"
Mats_cd03: jihadis have a flair for the dramatic. ends up with p good war porn
Mats_cd03: i enjoy the videos quite a bit
mircea_popescu: cazalla: ISIS videos have been on there for weeks << yeah but who ever cared about that :p
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: wouldn't be too far-fetched to see people being paid in bitcoin, avoiding government taxation << inasmuch as you've seen this like... yesterday ? yeah.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: seems like that is going to happen a dozen times over << im hoping about 5 (of which 3 already happened. 2 moar reserved for WCs)
pankkake: do ddos the farm, you'd have to know what ips they have. pretty easy to hide from the public
mircea_popescu: least ddos-able miner farm ever (which currently is the major problem)
mircea_popescu: pankkake plus you get unexpected bonuses. such as parking one in every trailer park in the us.
pankkake: perhaps you want to quickly change the state you operate in. because power costs, laws…
mircea_popescu: also you have to steal the whole thing. if people had to steal the WHOLE old lady, they a) couldn't use bikes and b)wouldn't be bothered.
mircea_popescu: you need machinery for that, not really the same as backing in some pickup trucks.
fluffypony: just steal the whole container
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: if you want to expand I think grabbing an existing warehouse and expanding within the warehouse is eminently more manageable, both from expansion and security perspectives
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mircea_popescu: "and if a server blows you just get another one"
mircea_popescu: but i was trying to sell a sysadmin friend on the concept of ironman isp, doing something quite similar.
fluffypony: it seems nice from a visual perspective, all these shipping-container-modules
mircea_popescu: asic miners are also the eminent tool for this. an isp can't do it because customers wil want upgrades etc
mircea_popescu: seeing how you then don't need a warehouse anymore, just a lot.
fluffypony: they shove ASICs in tanks of fluid
mircea_popescu: quote them in rolls!