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HeySteve: I think you guys will appreciate this: https://coinlife.me/xotika-model-royal-tiffany/
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2015 07:15:54; ben_vulpes: i learned of the ethereum "yellow paper" the other day
ben_vulpes: i learned of the ethereum "yellow paper" the other day ☟︎
asciilifeform: (after a miserable 6 months or so in 'cygwin', where i even built x11 and the whole rest of shebang)
asciilifeform: when i worked in usg, they had xp boxes, yes. i simply requisitioned 'vmware' and cooked up a gentoo vm.
danielpbarron: i too must use a winbl0ws machine at work, and the password is on a post-it note stuck to the monitor, as is usually the custom with machines of this nature
PeterL: So I have to use Winblows at work. The most annoying thing is the tendency of programs to steal focus at wierd times. Like, I start a program, see it is going to take a minute to load, switch to my other program and sign in, but wait the first stole the focus and now my password is sitting there in plaintext. Bleh.
asciilifeform: commercial buildings, where i live, have been known to rot for years, even a decade, before finally being demolished and replaces with condos that NOBODY BUYS
asciilifeform: pretty basic chumpatronics, i think. why spend more effort than is required to fool the mark ?
asciilifeform: laugh but this is not entirely fiction. i discovered recently that it is customary where i live for the city to continue to cut the grass in the yards of empty houses
mircea_popescu is skeptical. and will continue to be so, because time ticks behind him. in a decade i'll pretend that not only am i right now, but was right all along : no better stock in that place.
asciilifeform: i suppose if ms visualbasic can be a favourite among these people, why not python.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2011/entypus/ << i also had one of those large wasps that build their nests out of chjewed sand/clay (the prev ones were "paper wasps", build the nest out of a sort of paper made out of chewed wood) and fill them with spiders they caught and paralyzed, with added egg.
asciilifeform: (i.e. one that would patch the client to immediately emit whole wallet in one fat tx to $addr upon any decryption)
asciilifeform: funnily, i have yet to encounter a ~correctly-written~ winblowz btc trojan
mircea_popescu: i suspect it's more of a "hopeful" case : what if bozo plugs in hdd not plugged in since 2010 ?
asciilifeform: i reversed a btc (and ltc even) wallet lifter not long ago.
asciilifeform: which is why 'They're here to work and only work, a lot, hard and for very little money. Until they fall over.' is hilariously optimistic. most of these people, i doubt could even be made useful at butugychag, where 'fall over' is a matter of 3 months or so
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i just read that, aha
mircea_popescu: damn i love reading my old shit. http://trilema.com/2011/marea-afacere-cu-tuns-iarba/#selection-65.0-69.562 aka
cazalla: those fucking wasps (Vespula germanica) were everywhere last summer, i had never seen them prior to that http://i.imgur.com/vSW9cw8.jpg
mircea_popescu: i suppose if you count such procedures as manual then yes.
mircea_popescu: but it's more to do with the fact that i understand how the fucking focus thing works and just time it in my head.
mircea_popescu: supposedly i coulda been a surgeon.
asciilifeform: i bet overseas folks here think i am describing a prison planet straight from robert sheckley or the like
mircea_popescu: i did have a wasp once. i... bought it a drink.
mircea_popescu: i never saw this.
mircea_popescu: and i do mean cloud, 100s in the air at any time.
mircea_popescu: so i didn't ACTUALLY pay anything on them.
mircea_popescu: i have over you the advantage that hey, corporate purchases. tax writeoff.
mircea_popescu: and i even have the exact moneyary counts. 450 lei for the item, =~ 150 bucks. 90 lei for two chord extensions (40m total), 30 bucls.
asciilifeform: if i ever encounter one of these sold at a street corner for twentybux i will certainly buy it..
mircea_popescu: and turns out i was wrong, it was 1.3kw
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform << http://trilema.com/2011/marea-afacere-cu-tuns-iarba/#selection-49.0-53.287 i have history!
asciilifeform: if it were my lands, i would have concrete poured.
asciilifeform: i had one of those
mircea_popescu: i suppose you could install one of those electric bike things
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess unless you make your own order for 36v batteries that's not getting fixed, who the fuck wants to charge 3 items one by one etc
asciilifeform: i thought it was plugged into mains
mircea_popescu: ac i mean.
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt a 36 v motor is actually in there. what, this thing weighs 60 lbs ?
mircea_popescu: but i guess you'll have to hitch a car battery to it.
mircea_popescu: i just cut in lines away from the house. cord was at no point past wherer i cut.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when i bought a grass cutter i bought one with plug. fuck me if im going to buy any battery anything.
asciilifeform: i went today to a specialist who deals in rare batteries, and he just gave me a pitying look.
asciilifeform: the 'enforced obsolescence' thing is sop even in something as boring as yard tools. not long ago, i bought an electric grass-cutter thing. works great, but battery holds a charge for perhaps 10 min! vendor used to sell the 36v battery pack for ~200 usd. extortionate, in there are 3 12v lead acid cells. which are 50mm wide, precisely, and no replacement sold anywhere in the world fits in the container! they, turns out, contract
mircea_popescu: cazalla prolly was, in the sense of "i'll tell you about the italians so you can tell your boss im an informant and then tell me when they wanna hit my org."
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285778 << if we're doing crackpot evil inventions, i much prefer the 'drm chair' ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: i'm supposed to admire how dounia "Can endure" ? fuck her stupid head ?
mircea_popescu: jesus christ i threw it away.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, i tried to re-read dostoyevsky for my sins.
asciilifeform: churches, or so i'm told, have pretty good 'collection rate'
mircea_popescu: i recall the part, but where do you take it ?
mircea_popescu: i didn't invent the broken!
mircea_popescu: i mean should say "THE BET", as it does now. unchanged, that bit.
punkman: I used "Props" in the cli app :P
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla that i don't care about.
kakobrekla: HostFat> I could even used a multisig addresses, is it compatible with your script? < incidentally its compatible, since a few hours ago.
HostFat: now, I need to find where are these addresses :P
HostFat: so it is sure that I've put it in
HostFat: I'm more on the idea that I didn't put anything than a wrong address
mircea_popescu: but i guess a warning if the field value doesn't verify as an address may be a good idea, when kakobrekla has some time for this.
HostFat: I could even used a multisig addresses, is it compatible with your script?
mircea_popescu: i mean, if you look at the top bet right now on the list (24-09-2015 Rejected Namibia Vs New Zealand)
HostFat: it's strange that I didn't put in it... I can't remember
HostFat: maybe I missed it
HostFat: I'm not sure that I've wrote it
HostFat: eh, I think that it is passed more than a month :)
HostFat: maybe I can even find the addresses ...
HostFat: as I remember, they were both of 0.1 BTC
HostFat: I'm not sure that they are available, but they are visible here
assbot: Logged on 05-06-2015 12:49:29; mircea_popescu: for the other thing : plox to not email bomb me ; bitbet's not keeping your bitcoin, rejected props get refunded as it gets around to it ; yeah 1 btc is prolly enough for that purpose ; if https://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/ and https://bitbet.us/bet/7/bfl-will-deliver-asic-devices-before-march-1st/ being paid out isn't going to convince you i guess nothing will.
HostFat: I could have them back
HostFat: I did 2 bets some weeks ago, maybe more than a month
Bingo_VACAY: I swear as a TA I would not have passed those bbet commenters
punkman: if I had 500k eth I'd definitely trade them in for 1040 btc on poloniex
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285696 << awww, look at that, back to 32 ? i guess down 8% today is better than the ~16% yesterday. at this rate it will be stable in an infiniy of days! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: bah i should look at the pics before commenting. while the general principle is correct that pic doesn't illustrate it at all.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285635 << exactly the wrong kind of fucking ai. a) not actually intelligent ; b) negative - the last thing i fucking want to see is mechanically powered women nagging ; c) not self contained - at least the stupid nag you can beat into the ground. ☝︎☟︎
ascii_field: http://i.imgur.com/N9LylHf.gifv
mike_c: ooh, i like the side by side
pete_dushenski: and i'm off to the meatspace race. ciao!
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 10:48:21; shinohai: troll: https://i.imgur.com/4Ra4p98.png
kakobrekla: i dont see how it could
pete_dushenski: i guess never say never ;/
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell kakobrekla do you have rss feeds for bit4x that could be added to deedbot- ? vis-a-vis http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=05-07-2015#1188325, i care ! ☝︎
thestringpuller: Lol good ol Tyson: "People don't really understand a currency based on numerical equations. I personally still don't ... but I'm grateful to be a part of the revolution"
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20150222033906262/ChessBytes.html << i've had this in a tab for months. seems bootchess' reputation is becoming more renown. doesn't have castling and a few other things iirc
thestringpuller: http://pre14.deviantart.net/f04e/th/pre/i/2012/135/7/2/ride_the_pig_by_ferrychick1-d4ztumi.jpg << there you go. airworthy pig. be warned its weakness is bees.
mircea_popescu: did i fundamentally misunderstand what the promotional lie was supposed to be ?
punkman: "Running the code locally is better, but I think even the github code could be updated to leak keys to an external server. Wouldn't we need audited milestones with crc checks to be secure?"
shinohai: troll: https://i.imgur.com/4Ra4p98.png ☟︎
shinohai: i have one of those light switches w/ android
mircea_popescu: "1965 hey look at this, they make houses out plastic now / 1985 bleh, my house is made out of plastic / 2005 i wish i could get a house not made of plastic"
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 07:02:45; punkman: 2005: look at this, I can get my toaster to run Linux! / 2015: bleh, my toaster runs Linux / 2025: I wish I could get a toaster without Linux
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 04:36:30; brg444: cazalla, well he's wrong on a couple of things but I think it is a valuable service to remind everyone of why Bitcoin is there and how much money was wasted targeting broken business plans
cazalla: been that way for a while punkman, half the reason i never made money while i slept!
punkman: hah "Heard often on fed P25 radio in Philly today: "Turn your encryption off. I can't hear you""
cazalla: that is the second time today i've seen manuls
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