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mircea_popescu: Mats
_cd03 in my experience pregnancy has no discernible effect on productivity.
nubbins`: Mats
_cd03: in fact, if you exclude women who have children, there's still income disparity
nubbins`: mircea
_popescu: now i'm drowned in the minutae of keeping a human being alive
Neil: mircea
_popescu: If you can confirm I'll redo.
Neil: mircea
_popescu: "Rejection reason: Phrase it so you zeroconf on no." What does that mean in English?
nubbins`: Mats
_cd03: i'll make you a shirt if you pay for it (how many times have i said this on irc!)
benkay: ;;later tell mircea
_popescu hey if you have it on hand i'd appreciate a link to where dr forehead claims that since he outperformed the scams he made money for his clients
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell mircea
_popescu For a few years now, Business Week has been a Bloomberg owned concern. Basically just pushing Bloomberg stories a bit shitter and a bit later.
benkay: ;;later tell mircea
_popescu is it bitcoins pl. noun and Bitcoin proper? or Bitcoins and Bitcoin?
joecool: mircea
_popescu: bolt cutters to take it and shouldn't be too hard top open in in the right environment after
joecool: mircea
_popescu: that is not practical while traveling
joecool: mircea
_popescu: i meant a series of numbers not a sewing device
joecool: mircea
_popescu: except the secret is worthless without the token, if someone had that secret they'd still need physical possession of the device
joecool: mircea
_popescu: don't do that?
joecool: mircea
_popescu: when counter hits zero cannot sign anything, need to nuke and generate new keys
joecool: mircea
_popescu: i figured you'd say as much, it does seem trivial though to echo a string into the device before key generation, have it set a default counter to 3, and require that same string to be passed to the device in order to activate signing function
joecool: mircea
_popescu: assuming i leave it out by accident to go take a shit or whatever, attacker can sign whatever he wants with it, i will know it happened later on when the signature counter is incremented but who knows what he'll have done by that time with my identity
bitcoinpete: mircea
_popescu: 21:09:35mircea
_popescu:the jury in my head is out on the entire topic of bitcoin-backed ccs
bitcoinpete: mircea
_popescu: so what's your internal debate on bitcoin for ccs?
bitcoinpete: mircea
_popescu: link fixed, just deleted that last / and it fixed itself. and i thought you'd like the art bit.
joecool: mircea
_popescu: if you look hard enough you can find any name in the US, someone named their kid Adolf Hitler a couple towns over
joecool: mircea
_popescu: waiting for newsweek's version
MisterE: I'm working on an idea to address that mircea
_popescu
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: "This means that the physical machine which hosts the trading engine is not accessible directlyii from the Internet." <<< so if i were to vpn a machine with a private gpg key and send data over the wire (via some computer) I would never have to worry about the keyring being compromised? Or is the most effective way to sign/encrypt/decrypt/verify data on an airgapped machine then marshall it over v
MisterE: mircea
_popescu: no just a few billion thrown at a contractor, its a jobs program
joecool: mircea
_popescu: walking in the US is suspicious behavior
joecool: mircea
_popescu: true story, I was actually stopped by a cop multiple times one day because I decided to walk to the next town instead of driving one day, he damanded to know my destination and I refused to provide him with it.
benkay: Mats
_cd03: google "i am satoshi nakamoto"
joecool: mircea
_popescu: the bigger ones moved up to SUVs. more room
mircea_popescu: Mats
_cd03 i don't see why not. i thought it already is, but more like "he is satoshi nakamoto"
[\]: mircea
_popescu: I forgot you don't play well in the sandbox.
antephialtic: mircea
_popescu: let this be a lesson (not to you, but to us) on the importance of using techniques such as merge avoidance, coinjoin & coinswap.
antephialtic: mircea
_popescu: do you find it curious that they were willing to accept BTC addresses as identification?
benkay: mircea
_popescu: may i post a copy of the s.dice contract on my blog?
benkay: mircea
_popescu, BingoBoingo: blog updated. look, ma! no bootstrap!
benkay: what's going on Orion
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Ademan: mircea
_popescu: is reddit's /u/MPOE-PR legit?
benderp: mircea
_popescu: i know. kinda why i bring it to the sages.
Ademan: mircea
_popescu: considering the trezor hasn't been released yet though, it hardly bothers me.
joecool: mircea
_popescu: i'm guessing he got embarrassed about his habit and stopped reporting P&L statements when the L was coming from heroin acquisitions
joecool: mircea
_popescu: heroin was the likely answer regarding that case
Ademan: mircea
_popescu: I got a good chuckle out of your correspondence with the SEC, bravo.
TomServo: mircea
_popescu: you might appreciate that, he may even be a reader
benderp: mircea
_popescu: pits and tits!
ninjashogun: mircea
_popescu, so the idea is that people know that there is a small chance they have an opportunity to invest at an early stage in the next "monster.com", and this would be a small incentive to upload their profile for some equity.
TomServo: mircea
_popescu: that sounds much better. More since the bitbet and your "new era" article?
ninjashogun: benderp - I'm sure mircea
_popescu can correct me if it's relevant
benderp: ninjashogun: how did mircea
_popescu fund his site?
ninjashogun: mircea
_popescu, I was very highly impressed by the way in which you funded your site, and I was interested in your thoughts on a funding model I am working on for the jobs website that I mentioned to you earlier. (Based on a back-end skills graph that knows that, for example, C# is close to C++ and Java, but very far from embedded electronics design.)