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mircea_popescu: steel basically makes it a frag.
assbot: Logged on 29-12-2015 07:26:56; ben_vulpes: for asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/a/Z5mEB
mircea_popescu: chick on reddit "what kind of work do you do ?" my answer comes cool-ly : "i manage a terrorist organisation. how about yourself ?" ☟︎
assbot: The SOPS, or what might you expect from government clerks on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1XLGAtV )
BingoBoingo: It's the same fee (or maybe I'm using 0.00025 for this) to determine if a transaction is relayable
BingoBoingo: I just use a flat fee of 0.001 on my outgoing transaction now, it like spring 2013 all over again
GamerSg: to be least inclined to run a node
GamerSg: im kind of concerned now that nullc has taken a backseat that Core might give way to idiots and populist demands
BingoBoingo: too a certain kind of reckless for too long to not be unintentional
GamerSg: mats: Is this the one time when he came on here asking why a large blocksize is bad? Like back in Julyish
assbot: State Dept. counts 'bringing peace' to Syria as a 2015 win - POLITICO ... ( http://bit.ly/1kpxtSr )
palmfrond_: by scammy do you mean that they allegedly force margin calls/stop hunt? i'm pretty uninformed and that's all i've found on them from a cursory google search
BingoBoingo: I mean if you trade on Bitfinex they are perfectly happy with making you feel like a market maker, but... Bitfinex is awfully scammy. Also all that information they collect.
BingoBoingo: Well there's a very crowded space full of people who aren't anonymous at all, because they are more interested in making fiat
BingoBoingo: It's a mixed bag.
palmfrond_: don't know if this is the right place to ask, but how crowded is market-making for btc or derivatives? saw some guy on reddit asking about a colocate
assbot: Scientists find a link between low intelligence and acceptance of 'pseudo-profound bulls***' | Science | News | The Independent ... ( http://bit.ly/22vWUE0 )
punkman: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-find-a-link-between-low-intelligence-and-acceptance-of-pseudo-profound-bulls-a6757731.html ☟︎
gribble: Error: ";;bc,stats" is not a valid command.
ben_vulpes: for asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/a/Z5mEB ☟︎
mats: >The requisite causal connection is satisfied if the defendant set in motion a series of events that the defendant knew or reasonably should have known would cause others to deprive the plaintiff of her constitutional rights.” Mink v. Knox, 613 F.3d 995, 1001 (10th Cir.2010) (quoting Snell v. Tunnell, 920 F.2d 673, 700 (10th Cir.1990)).
assbot: Logged on 29-12-2015 02:11:58; ben_vulpes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/12/28/federal-judge-drinking-tea-shopping-at-a-gardening-store-is-probable-cause-for-a-swat-raid-on-your-home/
mats: http://log.b-a.link/?date=29-12-2015#1355571 << notice how judge is not mentioned at all
mod6: <+asciilifeform> in usa - about same as trucker << just heard a commercial; Dominoes is paying $75-$80k for over-the-road CDL drivers day and night routes.
assbot: i dont no biari (i know a littel java.) on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1TnkmNH )
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/i-dont-no-biari-i-know-a-littel-java/ << actual piece of interest
mircea_popescu: why SHOULD she know what the fuck a truck costs. it moves when you turn the wheel right ?
asciilifeform: 'The Hartes are also a white, financially sound couple who both happened to have worked for the CIA.' << extra-lulz
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for Luke-Jr from -1 to -2 with note: Shilled for BFL scam, probably a secret Papist, why is he still around?
asciilifeform: ely manipulated the tests or showed a reckless disregard for the truth — and he ruled that the Hartes had failed to do so.' << lulz
asciilifeform: e excessive force. He found that the Hartes had not been defamed by the raid or by the publicity surrounding it. He also ruled that the police were under no obligation to know that drug testing field kits are inaccurate, nor were they obligated to wait for the more accurate lab tests before conducting the SWAT raid. The only way they’d have a claim would be if they could show that the police lied about the results, deliberat
asciilifeform: 'Last week, U.S. District Court Judge John W. Lungstrum dismissed every one of the Hartes’s claims. Harte found that sending a SWAT team into a home first thing in the morning based on no more than a positive field test and spotting a suspect at a gardening store was not a violation of the Fourth Amendment. He found that the police had probable cause for the search, and that the way the search was conducted did not constitut
mircea_popescu: but the url takes a 27 not a 25.
mircea_popescu: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/business/dealbook/the-unsung-tax-agent-who-put-a-face-on-the-silk-road.html?_r=0 <<< ahaha check it out, the cover-up story is shaping up! it wasn't the usg using the holes in tor to try and steal some bitcoin, after which their agents stole most of it from them in turn. oh, no! it's a heroic guy that bla bla bla, just like in thye old soviet movies!
BingoBoingo: "As far as what I see, according to the candidates that are out there now, Republicans and Democrats, I think he’s head and shoulders right now above the rest. I don’t agree with everything he says, he speaks a little more, actually he speaks a little more, a lot more radically than I talk. And I think that’s a positive and negative." -David Duke
BingoBoingo: SWAT officers tend to "accidentally" discharge their weapons with a high rate of frequency. It's a military problem without easy answers if you get to that point.
assbot: Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on your home - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1mfhiJ8 )
ben_vulpes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/12/28/federal-judge-drinking-tea-shopping-at-a-gardening-store-is-probable-cause-for-a-swat-raid-on-your-home/
mircea_popescu: certainly becoming a force.
assbot: Logged on 29-12-2015 00:03:37; asciilifeform: 'The main principle introduced below is the requirement for the laptop hardware to be stateless, i.e. lacking any persistent storage. This includes it having no firmware-carrying flash memory chips. All the state is to be kept on an external, trusted device. This trusted device is envisioned to be of a small USB stick or SD card form factor.' << batshit lunacy on x86
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-12-2015#1355518 <<< this didn't even work on a 286. ☝︎
assbot: The Gentlemen Prefer CoEds Club on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1JxR3lb )
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1355510 << the one thing i did was, get a buncha students put 100s of printed posters of http://trilema.com/2013/the-gentlemen-prefer-coeds-club/ in a few dozen campuses throughout the us and canada. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: Could still make a security company if they had some welding background
thestringpuller: Watching Shark Tank - D00ds want to make a security company to compete with lastpass. Mark Cuban asks them "Do you have a crypto background?" "Uh we're not techies" "I'm out".
asciilifeform: 'We thus see that, while we cannot fully eliminate the problem of subversion of the host OS security by potentially malicious processor, the construction of the stateless laptop allows us to force the adversary into a very dangerous territory, requiring them to take high risk and also making the attack very complex.' << mno.
asciilifeform: which is a crock of shit
asciilifeform: this is a mega-invention ?
assbot: Rutkowska: State considered harmful - A proposal for a stateless laptop [LWN.net] ... ( http://bit.ly/1Tn9lft )
asciilifeform: can't initialize the dram controller, much less usb etc. without a proprietary turd
asciilifeform: 'The main principle introduced below is the requirement for the laptop hardware to be stateless, i.e. lacking any persistent storage. This includes it having no firmware-carrying flash memory chips. All the state is to be kept on an external, trusted device. This trusted device is envisioned to be of a small USB stick or SD card form factor.' << batshit lunacy on x86 ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Honestly I wouldn't know what to do with a fiverr account
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 18:10:12; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1355375 << speaking of which, BingoBoingo do you want a fiverr account with whatever credit on it ?
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for ben_vulpes with note: Bash necromancer of trb things. http://cascadianhacker.com
assbot: Request successful, get your OTP: http://w.b-a.link/otp/d96104fc0ebce28f
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2014 03:50:12; asciilifeform: there is already a hard impossibility proof of turing-complete computation in a homomorphic turd.
mats: >has uncovered a database sitting on the Web containing various pieces of personal information related to 191 million American citizens registered to vote... [the data] includes names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, party affiliations, and logs of whether or not they had voted in primary or general elections.
mircea_popescu: the saudis have a shitton of cash to throw around before they need to notice the hole.
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 16:02:02; pete_dushenski: he next 12 months. this is going to be a rough ride for abdullah's stand-ins.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1355381 << there's a huge difference between fully financed deficit (such as sae runs) and fully uncovered deficit, such as the us (or argentina) run. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1355375 << speaking of which, BingoBoingo do you want a fiverr account with whatever credit on it ? ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: ryone will continue working on Roger Ver projects that will help make the world a better place."
mircea_popescu: because of a lack of liquidity at Roger Ver. The traditional banking partners that Roger Ver needs to work with are not able to keep up with the demands of the growing Roger Ver economy. The dozens of people that make up the Roger Ver team are hard at work establishing additional banking partners, that eventually will make dealing with Roger Ver easier for all their customers around the world. For now, I hope that eve
mircea_popescu: "I'm Roger Ver, long-time Roger Ver advocate and investor. Today, I'm at the Roger Ver world headquarters in Saint Kitts and Nevis. I had a nice chat with Roger Ver CEO, Roger Ver, about their current situation. He showed me multiple bank statements, as well as letters from banks, lawyers and Roger Ver. I'm sure that all the current Roger Ver problems at Roger Ver are being caused by the traditional banking system, not
mircea_popescu: http://www.fyrstikken.com/uploads/6/6/1/3/66137739/9262349_orig.png << there's a DERP fee.
mircea_popescu: hardly a criminal mastermind or anything.
mircea_popescu: "These are all public records and there are tons more if you want to dig deeper into the criminal life of Kaseem Sarad Simpson, AKA @Kazonomics on twitter" eh srsly, dude's can't drive and had a falling out with some weisz chick.
assbot: Kazonomics - Poses as a rich and successful Bitcoin-Guru but is in fact a dirt poor & notorious criminal who just can´t stay away from trouble. - Welcome to Fyrstikken ... ( http://bit.ly/1mLkdcD )
mircea_popescu: somehow "hardforking the blockchain to accomodate dust transactions" wasn't a concern, back before hussein bahamas climbed atop mit and started throwing meatballs and chicken nuggets at the rotinculo chorus.
mircea_popescu: assbot: A year of Taliban gains shows that ‘we haven’t delivered,’ top Afghan official says << loller.
punkman: here's a pick for you http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2603596/
BingoBoingo: Also some of the saved boozelars have gone into the gas tank, because some days there isn't a storytime club meeting in reasonable walking distance.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: ya, that's actually a smarter use of funds
pete_dushenski: he next 12 months. this is going to be a rough ride for abdullah's stand-ins. ☟︎
pete_dushenski: "Saudi Arabia, its finances hit by low oil prices, announced plans to shrink a record state budget deficit with spending cuts and a drive to raise revenues from sources other than oil. The government of the world's top oil exporter ran a deficit of 367 billion riyals ($97.9 billion) in 2015, the Council of Economic and Development Affairs said on Monday." << i wouldn't be surprised if we saw a regime change in t
BingoBoingo: I don't have a current reddit account "broken in" enough to chance on shitting qntra into reddit. Gotta farm some more "wheymens"
pete_dushenski: shinohai: pff. b-a doesn't rubber stamp, we brand with iron directly on skin.
assbot: Kazonomics - Poses as a rich and successful Bitcoin-Guru but is in fact a dirt poor & notorious criminal who just can´t stay away from trouble. - Welcome to Fyrstikken ... ( http://bit.ly/1me9MON )
BingoBoingo: http://www.fyrstikken.com/blog/kazonomics-poses-as-a-rich-and-successful-bitcoin-guru-but-is-in-fact-a-dirt-poor-notorious-criminal-who-just-cant-stay-away-from-trouble
junseth: All right, I'll be back in a few months to make sure that ya'll are still the weirdest enclave in the space. Just doing the prison rounds, wanted to take a count of the inmates. Time to pretend like real life is real life.
junseth: I don't care. For those of us who are long termers, a cheap Bitcoin is a good bitcoin
junseth: At this point, that debate is like trying to tell a Christian evolution is real.
BingoBoingo: Oh, a little bit of everything. Picking fights with XT and blockstream at the same time
mircea_popescu: for the record, ottoman fashion's pretty cool. they invented a lot of things above and beyond the ottoman
BingoBoingo: "On Sunday afternoon, as rain continued to pummel much of the St. Louis region, 2015 officially became the wettest year on record. It came amid reports of widespread flooding, a plea by officials in West Alton to evacuate and the closure of Interstate 70 through the heart of St. Charles County. And with rain continuing Monday, river levels throughout the region are expected to hit near-record crests by New Year’s Eve."
assbot: 5 results for 'tlsnotary' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=tlsnotary
adlai: i mean fuck, it's even got a leet checksum
adlai: he does fall for the fallacy of ascribing relevance to bubble inflation velocity in a post-fiat-escape-hatch market
assbot: A year of Taliban gains shows that ‘we haven’t delivered,’ top Afghan official says - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1JbPMpP )
mats: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/a-year-of-taliban-gains-shows-that-we-havent-delivered-top-afghan-official-says/2015/12/27/172213e8-9cfb-11e5-9ad2-568d814bbf3b_story.html
BingoBoingo: So who's online that might be up for spotting me a proofreading?
adlai: at least the leddit captions that with a real cobra
adlai: "you are doing that too much. try again in 49 seconds." jesus christ marie it's a fucking IP address
adlai realizes maybe if he wants people to listen to him, he should speak meat or blockchain at them rather than #b-a :(
adlai: for such a long lurker he does do a terrible job at it. wake up, sam! your elbow should be blue and purple by now, neh?
gribble: You rated user STRML on Mon Dec 28 03:56:10 2015, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: epsilon risked, nothing gained (nothing lost).
adlai: "they say a lot of things about whoring being the oldest profession, but somebody had to pay, so Finance was First." - eden shochat, local vc chump pumper. has a good talk i'd link but nobody else medaber ivrit...
fluffypony: right after I file to be recognised as a "thought leader"
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 06:59:44; mircea_popescu: if they're worth a shit they'll find and if not, a well. most stuff developing in an uterus is meant to abort sooner or later anyway.
BingoBoingo has already lost a substantial amount of liver weight since the sobriety experiment began as measured by poking the upper right quadrant of my abdomen and contemplating the size of the organ I just pissed off.