mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: plot twist, ascii is the gasenwagon driver. << wait i thought ascii was mpoe-pr
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: I think they started with 150 BTC, but I'm not exactly sure. << started with 50 then got another 113.change
mircea_popescu: the curse of neckbeards, to be so fucking incapable of expression that it's upon the innocent bystanders to describe their situation, hopes and aspirations, spiritual being.
mircea_popescu: not for lack of trying, either.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation well, the DC part of argentina's "washington dc" is roughly the size of france. it's a huge country. as such, it's upper germania, illyricum, syria, v
mircea_popescu: but it allows cheap diagnosis of the means available for a critical process.
Naphex: regarding truecrypt shutdown, most of the posts regarding it have the same comments, in slightly different writeing spanned across most top posts :o
xmj: make it american apparel, they have good shirts
fluffypony: nubbins`: t-shirts look good, why not put "#bitcoin-assets // freenode" on the back?
fluffypony: 3. Run clam-qt.exe with the --salvage wallet argument.
fluffypony: "1. Run clam-qt.exe once to auto-magically create the AppData/Clam folder.
jurov: gonna ask surda how he's going to write off the loss according to austrian accounting standards, if this gets full gox
jurov: asciilifeform, you say there are no truly online ups on the market (where batteries are always connected to an inverter)?
benkay: random_cat_: get together again on Tuesday? i'll stick around this time, i promise
benkay: saved me a lot of work recently with simple stuff that works-as-expected like lazily moving the cursor through huge tables integrated with list comprehension in python
jurov: benkay: have you tried sqlalchemy? as soon as one needs to create query programmatically, it's much better than gluing together sql strings
kakobrekla: see them go from 15 to 35
kakobrekla: blah cant find the link
kakobrekla: like half of them didnt live up to atx spec
kakobrekla: why do you dislike the ups?
kakobrekla: plot twist, ascii is the gasenwagon driver.
asciilifeform: just tired of snow crashing pc when neighbours turn on their electric chairs (or whatever it is they've got in basement)
nubbins`: pseudoscience abounds at the edge of science and consumerism
kakobrekla: asciilifeform apparently they worry about capacitance
nubbins`: can add PGP fingerprint to the back for an extra $5 if people want
assbot: imgur: the simple 404 page
kakobrekla: hrm ill try to find the link
asciilifeform: curious then
kakobrekla: other
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu this'd be the pill against your smoking hdd controllers, as i gather.
asciilifeform: they knew.
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
asciilifeform: re: conundrum from last night: i did find out who was the original maker of ferroresonant transformers - which the box that hummed under classical soviet tvs was copied from.
nubbins`: can't figure out a way to get the channel name + freenode in there without making it look like something you bought at a convention
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
assbot: The instrumentation of humanity pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
BingoBoingo: Headed to bed, but I'll just suppose now... Maybe the most important May Trilema http://trilema.com/2014/the-instrumentation-of-humanity/
asciilifeform: re: truecrypt audit touching none of the interesting stuff: i thought this was well-known.
assbot: Blackhawks Twitter Account Tells Mexican President To Fuck His Mother
BingoBoingo: Or maybe it's 160 they started with
BingoBoingo: I have a feeling mike_c already curses the existence of f.mpif
BingoBoingo: I think they started with 150 BTC, but I'm not exactly sure.
thestringpuller: what's the overall ROI on jd mpif account?
BingoBoingo: Looks like the BitBet propositions cue is filling up after hanbot's statement
decimation: mircea_popescu: "the pitch of despair of the Franks and the Goths and whatever other barbarians by far and quite widely exceeded the bitterness of actual Roman Romans " So you are saying that Argentina is roughly upper Germania ca. 700? Sounds legit.
benkay: on the menu this week: charred corn crepes and long-marinated pastor
BingoBoingo: The statements are just flying today
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Nah, the midwest and south aren't too different this time of year other than the particulars that make the heat and humidity suck
assbot: Why are Sony and Samsung keeping 4K content to themselves? - CNET
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benkay: it's a joy to pick a point on the performance curve.
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benkay: why is there no -assets bc-a-a-s provider?
benkay: so who are the blockchain-as-a-service providers?
benkay: you're talking about the clutch.
benkay: there are still gears, however.
benkay: a significant chunk of the remaining apps are going to get popular and have load requirements that rendering the abstraction layer insufferable.
thestringpuller: Damn BingoBoingo, i feel the same exact way
benkay: that demonic AI in between you and the gearbox will prevent you doing anything to burn fuel at a rate sufficient to eke performance out of the thing.
benkay: and with an automatic transmission you're limited to "GIVE ME ALL THE FAST RIGHT NOW...please."
benkay: that layer of abstraction in between you and the machine is going to either give you a headache down the road or you're not going to get the performance the machine is capable of
benkay: in the same way that if you're relying on an Object Relational Model to talk to your database, you're not actually writing data to your data store.
gribble: Error: User doesn't exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
kakobrekla: do you have the breaks on auto as well?
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: My concern is more the rural roads where I'll be cruising and then an old person in a buick or fucking red neck in a tractor interupts me.
mircea_popescu: omfg who are these idiots
kakobrekla: cant find the one i had in mind.
BingoBoingo: gears become a hassel when you share the road with American drivers
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That car anology explains sucinctly why I stay with automatic transmissions. I respect the limits of my ability to control a motor vehicle and anything that reliably saves me cogitive overhead is welcome.
bloctoc: does the 1% go to NAV calculation immediately?
thestringpuller: yea. sadly the n00b me should have invested in MPCD, but as you once said. We pay for our lessons.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller, when was this nyan.a thing made ?
penguirker: New blog post: http://thewhet.net/2014/line-betting-on-bitbet-may-2014/
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the funny thing is usagi claims you copied his NYAN fund. But in actuality you took the concept and did it correct. Despite how many scammers were parading as "asset issuers", you managed to recoup ~52% of the original capital invested. MPCD.A based on your statements actually made a profit (since MPCD.A got paid out before B and C of course), etc.
mircea_popescu: a nm there it is,
mircea_popescu: decimation: They audited: the bootloader and the Windows driver << lolaudit oif all time.
kakobrekla: late to the party.
gribble: You rated user deadterra on Wed Sep 4 18:41:21 2013, with a rating of -5, and supplied these additional notes: sloppy opprtunistic unreliable, bad at what he does, avoid.
mircea_popescu: "that bingoboingo thinks he can drive because he's never tried to put the gearbox in reverse straight from the 4th."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Thank you for continuing against Usagi. His declaration of "Let me tell you about bingoboingo. He is a successful fund manager because he has never had to weather the storm of an exchange shutdown. Wake up." made me lol. << makes two of us.
assbot: Manipulism and the Weapon of Guilt
Naphex: but explains some of the canary
BingoBoingo: decimation: And if you put that together with the identified problems adding to the task
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: It's all about the Tuba
jurov: from http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=1-05-2014 i gather nav did not change, just MP put 1.05% haircut in the price
decimation: kako: which part? that the crazy argentinians would build a village with insufficient flood protection, or the idea of people riding old bicycles through the ruins of western civilization?
decimation: to be fair, the exploits on ascii's link appear to be attacks on a running system, not a cold system
jurov: i'm working on report and want to price them
decimation: based on my point about the "audit" though - and asciilifeform's link, one must wonder why the USG would bother when it's probably weak
thestringpuller: benkay: just buy the book
decimation: Obama: Those who argue otherwise -- who suggest that America is in decline or has seen its global leadership slip away -- are either misreading history or engaged in partisan politics.
bitcoinpete: fluffypony: mircea_popescu kakobrekla since i'm still not 100% clear on the pirate insurance thing, i've updated the usagi article to include the milk story, since that seems to be more solid footing
Naphex: BingoBoingo: so after 1 month of usage any suggestions/complaints regarding the frontend?
decimation: vox populi, vox dei. So as long as you get the people to say/think/do what you want, it's legitimate
nubbins`: ah, who knows? most of them never get opened
thestringpuller: nubbins`: the private key is unredeemable so to speak
nubbins`: there are plenty of 1 BTC silvers with really poor, uneven lasering on the edges of the holos
thestringpuller: has there ever been any defective casascius coins
BingoBoingo: Well, in the future the BTC/RON operation will likely have months with bigger swings. There may also be months where it just sits, like ATC/BTC did for the most part.
pankkake: that's what got me - I have more EUR than initally but would have done better if stayed in BTC. not that I really care as I wanted to stay in EUR for the time being
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decimation: All other components not explicitly included
BingoBoingo: Also there's the part where any high price could become BTC's new permanently elevated plateu
decimation: Note what they chose to *not* audit on page 2:
BingoBoingo: I'm actually kind of surprised the BTC/RON operation avoided a loss, but the $525 to $500 yo-yo stayed with us long enough for Naphex's exchange to catch up.
thestringpuller: I should have said something like "one of the funds managers"
BingoBoingo: I still can't belive Usagi called me a fund manager. I manage four piles of money. Everything that goes into making it a fund is through Mircea. This distinction is evidence of the root of Usagi's failure.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: And remember that a small number of positive rating isn't necessarily an endorsement.
thestringpuller: oh yea I remember that. I think it's in the WoT too that's why kako has him at 1 and not neg rated
fluffypony: thestringpuller: click link above
BingoBoingo: bitcoinpete: Yeah, the kakobrekla situation reads like a negotated settlement.
BingoBoingo: I'm not at all surprised this http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/06/01/may-combined-trading-statement/ didn't spark f.mpif trading activity in either direction.
bitcoinpete: though perhaps i misrepresented the kakobrekla bit
bitcoinpete: thestringpuller: looks that way!
thestringpuller: Pulled the RSS and said "Wow he depred again? Is that even possible?"
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: This Usagi conversation has me thinking I might need to blog sometime soon on loses in Bitcoin.
bitcoinpete: looks like you guys were having quite the tete-a-tete with usagi
Apocalyptic: gotta educate the people on how to use GPG
thestringpuller: particularly the ones who are computer illiterate
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Thanks, I am indeed trained as one.
Apocalyptic: nice thestringpuller
thestringpuller: and they say "Wow this isn't so bad"
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chetty: ya think there is any actual food in it?
BingoBoingo: I think slurry of miscelaneous carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids in aqueous suspension is as specific a description as possible for the slurry
BingoBoingo: Blazedout419: Milk might be too generous a description of the input
fluffypony: thestringpuller: my favourite is that he feels he is owed an apology
assbot: CASEYVILLE: Brothers passed out in Dairy Queen parking lot face heroin charges | Top Stories | News Democrat
BingoBoingo: It's like Dairy Queen trying to talk about actual ice cream http://www.bnd.com/2014/05/31/3234384/2-brothers-found-passed-out-in.html
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: I'm more outraged that he feels entitled to opine on funds, success, or management
thestringpuller: Ultimately I think usagi is trying to cling onto the forum. If he's labeled a scammer there how will he raise money?
chetty: the author is giving it away thru FB, I dont FB tho :(
thestringpuller: Then I got mad because humans are this stupid...
BingoBoingo: Seriously, the gall of Usagi to call be sucessful or a fund manager
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Thank you for continuing against Usagi. His declaration of "Let me tell you about bingoboingo. He is a successful fund manager because he has never had to weather the storm of an exchange shutdown. Wake up." made me lol.
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chetty: Whether called crab mentality in the Philippines (If I cant have it neither can you) or the Jante Law in Scandinavia (Dont think that you are more than others), the tall poppy syndrome in collectivistic-influenced commonwealth countries (Cutting down the tall poppy), or schadenfreude in Germany, these syndromes all describe the same condition of pathological narcissism that thrives commonly in collectivism on undermining
assbot: Manipulism and the Weapon of Guilt
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mircea_popescu: lol like the leg ?
BingoBoingo: Who knew Twitter was the one holding you back all along?
mircea_popescu: <Blazedout419> thoughts on AM shares?? Can not decide if they are worth .2ish or not << likely not.
BingoBoingo: get usb key with giant plastic case, use empty space to hide chip from another usb drive, swap chips to access secrets hidden as [fill-in-the-blank]
pankkake: how do I steganography in the real world?
pankkake: so I could do everything I want with a simple USB key, but wouldn't mind another layer of security, however crappy itis
pankkake: nubbins`: maybe that's what I will do… they're more of a bother than anything else to run now
BingoBoingo: pankkake: Amputate leg, put pistol safe in prosthetic
pankkake: and I don't think anyone could really manage to steal and replace the unencrypted data
nubbins`: Blazedout419 for the street cred without the financial risk, turn a USB block erupter heat sink into a keychain
pankkake: none, I just want some storage that would almost never leave my sight, and the only non-software encrypted part would be a /boot partition
asciilifeform: pankkake: what is the expected enemy?
fluffypony: Blazedout419: maybe as a joke thing, like "hah hah I bought some AM shares back in the day'
Blazedout419: thoughts on AM shares?? Can not decide if they are worth .2ish or not =\
assbot: Crypteks USB Kickstarter Goes Silent. The dark side of crowd-funding. : gadgets
pankkake: http://www.reddit.com/r/gadgets/comments/1edvhu/crypteks_usb_kickstarter_goes_silent_the_dark/
asciilifeform: if machine was used recently - the ones with fingerprints.
asciilifeform: answer to keypad riddle, since nobody bothered attempting it: the dirtiest and most worn keys are the numerals in the code.
asciilifeform: consecutive times), the current encryption key is deleted...' << translation: passcode is not the prng seed.
asciilifeform: 'Each time hacking is detected (i.e. the wrong PIN is entered a total of 10
asciilifeform: from manual: 'The iStorage datAshur, unlike other similar drives, is preloaded with an unlimited number of randomly
asciilifeform: (hint: principle is the same regardless of whether keypad is electric or mechanical.)
asciilifeform: there we go.
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pankkake: http://www.discogs.com/Bob-Dylan-Bob-Dylan/release/3395485 The title of A1 is misinterpreted on the label and reads ''She's No Good''.
pankkake: where did you find the info? discogs?
nubbins`: no mention of the labels being reversed though, from what i can find
nubbins`: okay, it's apparently the first canadian pressing
pankkake: thestringpuller: weird! I've known it since childhood
assbot: datAshur - The iStorage datAshur is the world' s most secure, easy to use and affordable USB flash drive
pankkake: http://www.istorage-uk.com/datashur.php the battery is a nice touch, I was wondering how to boot from these devices [I AM NOT SUGGESTING THIS IS SECURE GUYZ]
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=numismatic | Nov 5, 2007 ... the study or collection of coins, medals, paper money, etc.
pankkake: amplified by people who tag their releases wronger
nubbins`: and one of the song titles is wrong
mircea_popescu: More surprisingly, the socialbots that generated synthetic tweets (rather than just reposting) performed better too. That suggests that Twitter users are unable to distinguish between posts generated by humans and by bots. This is possibly because a large fraction of tweets in Twitter are written in an informal, grammatically incoherent style, so that even simple statistical models can produce tweets with quality s
mircea_popescu: Freitas and co also monitored the Klout score of each of their social bots to see how they fared. (Klout is an online service that measures the influence of Twitter accounts, giving them a score between 0 and 100). “We find that the socialbots achieved Klout scores of the same order of (or, at times, even higher than) several well-known academicians and social network researchers,” they say.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah, likelyhood of the outcome is pretty even, but weight is finally keeping late bettors in check.
mircea_popescu: 4 others took advantage and escaped
mircea_popescu: didn't find him there
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i've no idea whether it is possible to build an unmolested autarkik village in modern ar. <<< you can do pretty much exactly whatever the fuck you please. yesterday';s newspaper carried a report of a gang of 5 men that attacked a minor detention center to get a kid out
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, the problem is argentina has been 90s russia for ~50 years now.
chetty: benkay, it wont, but that seems to be the attitude in many places. The ills are blamed on who/what has current power so folks think changing that helps
penguirker: New blog post: http://trilema.com/2014/la-florida-and-other-places/
asciilifeform: i've no idea whether it is possible to build an unmolested autarkik village in modern ar.
chetty: I think right now a lot of locals are just trying to survive until the next election
asciilifeform: (there being - in argentina)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as for what the germans did there - if i recall, they built self-contained villages and had little to no contact with the locals.
asciilifeform: in other news,
asciilifeform: ^ where they traded a captured great master for a nobody
assbot: The 1962 Spy Exchange of Powers for Abel | Francis Gary Powers, Jr.
asciilifeform: re: u.s. exchanging five taliban for one grunt: there is precedent.
nubbins`: you can hear this done incorrectly on the Pixies album Surfer Rosa
nubbins`: phun phact, quality degrades as you get closer to the middle
kakobrekla: meh, most of the gain from vinyl comes from proper mastering imho
chetty: argentina has a high import tax on everything, I am looking into other ways to get things
nubbins`: kakobrekla it's the worst on 45rpm 12"s
nubbins`: i tell ya, there's something deeply satisfying about listening to music this way
penguirker: New blog post: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/06/01/may-combined-trading-statement/
kakobrekla: its seems its one and the same now.
chetty: travel in is not a problem, its the mail
kakobrekla: weird mp came through in the first place.
BingoBoingo: The rainbow cat thing was what usagi named his shit after
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think that's a reference to the CDO whose only asset to not collapse in value was MPOE bonds
fluffypony: then he insults you
chetty: how do you tell one derp from another?
BingoBoingo: Thermos?
mircea_popescu: damn, you just referenced every derp on the forum.
fluffypony: thestringpuller: I see you're fighting a losing battle with Mr. It's-Not-My-Fault-I-Didn't-Do-Anything-Wrong
thestringpuller: I want to buy 50 of those and hand them out at Bitcoin meetups
fluffypony: and if you do a woman's one I'll order 2 for the wife as well
nubbins`: that's the bezzle alright
mircea_popescu: spending her days playing the trophy whife in suburbia and coming a few nights a week for a total anal gangfest in da hood.
mircea_popescu: i can sorta visualize the bezzle as this very raunchy bubble butted 20something mulatto
nubbins`: "#b-a, where the bezzle comes to die"?
nubbins`: what's the phrase again?
nubbins`: also excellent ammunition for when the tourette hooker neighbour starts acting up
Pierre_Rochard: it’s been a while - the bezzle is time consuming
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard, you're the guy i was trying to get to audit the ohio rental asset thing right ?
mircea_popescu: read the logs to get up to speed.
mircea_popescu: the way it works is that assbot looks at hte people it trusts, if they trust you you can ask it to voice you.
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