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asciilifeform awaits the first fractional-btc deathray trial.
asciilifeform: picture, chix gets 20y , for less than the 5btc asciilifeform cremated at bitbet
asciilifeform: could as easily say that the arse inserter in turn missed buying 10btc for the 5bux the marker cost, few yrs before
mircea_popescu: think : victim missed the opportunity to stuff magic marker in butt for TEN coins, not so long ago.
asciilifeform: if that.
asciilifeform: the bonus lul is that this deathray case seems to revolve around < 3-4 coinz
a111: Logged on 2017-12-15 23:05 asciilifeform: 'Shahnaz took out more than a dozen credit cards earlier this year and used the money she borrowed to buy cryptocurrency and send it abroad, according to an indictment filed by US attorneys in federal court.'
a111: Logged on 2017-12-15 23:04 asciilifeform: the deathray treason and plot!111
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-15#1752040 << to isis eh ? ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-15 20:02 BingoBoingo: Any waterfalling continues to fail: "In a court filing, prosecutors noted that due to the volatility of the Bitcoin market, both coins risk losing value. Both the BTC and the BCH have already been transferred to government-controlled wallets. The new round of seized digital currency belonged to a Utah man named Aaron Shamo, whom prosecutors say led a multimillion-dollar ring of counterfeit pharmaceuticals, including oxycodone and
shinohai: Sometimes the stars align nicely, and the universe sends German girls that are curious to know what ancient woodworking tools are and are willing to show tits for said knowledge: http://i.4cdn.org/b/1513380843137.jpg
asciilifeform: afaik krebs is -- possibly -- the best-known moxie .
asciilifeform: a moxie is more of a 'gift of gab' item. writes 'trendy' 'pgp is obsolete' treatises, appears at 'best' parties , inevitably consulted at 'seekooority cons', 'podcasts', inevitably shills for multicoloured-phone-of-the-day vendors, never skips a chance to 'plug for' other moxies ; appeals to boecks for 'technical cred'.
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> doubtless attends the best parties at burning man too, but what man would eat from that hand, party with those tools << AHA, appropriates hippy backpacker/sailing culture
BingoBoingo: iangeker: While you await mircea_popescu there are logs you may browse. I take it you are here for the China embassy position?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-05 14:25 asciilifeform: as per mircea_popescu's old piece, 'They tend to show up late at parties because they figure they can always steal the cake anyway, so why bother go early ? Let the suckers figure out first - on their own dime - where the good cakes are'
asciilifeform: i fully expect that attempts to 'fix' the 'bugs' will continue. ( which bugs? e.g. the 'bug' where bitcoin actually works; the one where it dun belong to the moxies and boecks, i.e. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-05#1637750 ; the 'bug' where it doesn't need to ask for permission from them to work ; etc ) ☝︎
ben_vulpes: as i said recently to a friend, "heck yeah that sounds like just the thing the world has been missing until right this very moment! buy anything other than bitcoin, wouldja? keep malia free for another decade..."
asciilifeform: ( funnily enough, the particular variant of nonsense from above link is not at all new, but sat on shelves for decades -- 'electric money' schemes that relied on 'unbreakable tamperproof hardware' crapola were proposed -- and laughed off -- in 1990s )
ben_vulpes: doubtless attends the best parties at burning man too, but what man would eat from that hand, party with those tools
asciilifeform: think, d00d is paid, slaves full time, to walk around and pretend to have something to do with 'cryptography'. it's a living.
ben_vulpes: This is where the special features of MobileCoin come in. The currency is designed to utilize an Intel processor component known as Software Guard Extensions, or a "secure enclave."
ben_vulpes: it's really the only way they can make waves about folks doing this kind of deed. anyone with half a brain a) is not entrappable like this b) has the requisite half ounce of paranoia to foil the wallet inspectors at ft meade
ben_vulpes: yes, these mysterious other parties
asciilifeform: the 1 likely item is that 1) exists 2) poor quasiliterate orc under usg magnifying glass from before the 'crime' was conceived , as in the new york deathray (tm)(r) plot.
ben_vulpes: not even that the girl exists!
asciilifeform: note that there's no particular reason to believe in any particular part of the story
ben_vulpes: also flying directly to isis
ben_vulpes: pff apparently *did* try sending us currency abroad. idiot.
asciilifeform: 'the defendant attempted to leave the United States and travel to Syria' << ohnoez, republikflucht!
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/a5nNN/?raw=true << txt of the Official indictment, for expert entomologists.
ben_vulpes: press release is delightfully vague too
asciilifeform: 'Shahnaz took out more than a dozen credit cards earlier this year and used the money she borrowed to buy cryptocurrency and send it abroad, according to an indictment filed by US attorneys in federal court.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: the deathray treason and plot!111 ☟︎
asciilifeform: shinohai: pretty sure the shannonizer gets rerun ~monthly, last 2 were completely different from this link's, and from one another
shinohai: Heh the tardanos are still moving "forward" http://archive.is/LWrO6
BingoBoingo: AHA, the shrinking suggests legitimacy "OH SEE GUIZE! Still have coins! (albeit orders of magnitude less)"
asciilifeform: at some point there'll be a 'terroristkingpin put to the ordinary and extraordinary question, coughed up entire bitcoin!' item.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: funny also how smaller and smaller coinz piles figure in these releases
asciilifeform: ( supposing whole thing ain't desinfo )
asciilifeform: lulzy how no mention of why usg was able to decrypt the privs
BingoBoingo: alprazolam that were sold on Dark Web marketplaces. Shamo was arrested over a year ago -- his trial has not yet been scheduled. On Tuesday, US District Judge Dale Kimball allowed the sale to proceed. Once sold, the money would go to an account held at the Treasury Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture."
BingoBoingo: Any waterfalling continues to fail: "In a court filing, prosecutors noted that due to the volatility of the Bitcoin market, both coins risk losing value. Both the BTC and the BCH have already been transferred to government-controlled wallets. The new round of seized digital currency belonged to a Utah man named Aaron Shamo, whom prosecutors say led a multimillion-dollar ring of counterfeit pharmaceuticals, including oxycodone and ☟︎
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !~later tell phf plox to update ffa in /patches , ty
mircea_popescu: really needs the stuff from
mircea_popescu: http://www.eulorum.org/Account_Setup << ad-interim "how to set up a key" guide. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Not as wonderful as it could be, but compared to Kev...
BingoBoingo: Ah, the wonderful contrast
robbinhood: Thanks for the opportunity.
shinohai still has all the re-written #b-a wiki articles nonetheless ....
shinohai: Oh that's right! I was working with trinque on that in clwiki .....
robbinhood: okay, I'll do that
mircea_popescu: so was trinque. lol.
shinohai the trilema wiki got put on back burner, I forgot why.
shinohai: I've been meaning to do a totally new, 2018 trilema writeup of all that.
shinohai: Was on Eulorum wiki I think?
mircea_popescu: shinohai was there a noob primer for this i keep forgetting
mircea_popescu: in the meanwhile -- it'd be a very good idea to make yourself a pgp key and register it with deedbot.
mircea_popescu: alright. that concludes this first phase, which you've survived. im guessing a decision will fall in about two weeks, i'll notify you by name here in either case. you can see it by looking for http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Amircea+%22robbinhood%22 ☟︎
robbinhood: I prefer to work 20 hours
mircea_popescu: would you ideally prefer to work 20 hour weeks or 40 hour weeks ?
robbinhood: With me, it is your bitch slap you in prison, and with all of the National Asylum
shinohai: Well, I see "Bitch" in there. This is why I don't translate Chinese.
mircea_popescu: you worded as a freelance translator online, on one of the "hire freelancers" websites, such as freelancer.com
mircea_popescu: ah, like get a freelancer or w/e they're called ?
robbinhood: worked as freelance translator online
robbinhood: I was trying to learn computer programming
mircea_popescu: well... "break of study", what's that. were you in jail ? did you run off to europe ?
robbinhood: finished highschool when I was 20, then there was 1 year break of study
mircea_popescu: ok, so - you finished highschool seven years ago. in this interval you did three years of college (current being fourth) and what else ?\
robbinhood: no but I work as a freelance translator
mircea_popescu: is this your last year ? or is it a 2nd undegraduate you're completing ?
robbinhood: Senior in Dalian University of Technology, learning Computer Science
mircea_popescu: how old are you ? did you go to school ?
mircea_popescu: "yes im in china" is a very wasteful way to answer that question. try something like x neighbourhood y city, which is so and so and here's a pic i took last week on my blog.
mircea_popescu: but, evaluation is evaluation. gotta get some concrete details out of teh applicant.
mircea_popescu: it's not totally out, no.
RagnarDanneskjol: was not clear m is totally out
a111: Logged on 2017-11-12 16:18 mircea_popescu: the republic is looking for an office girl in mailand china, if you know anyone.
mircea_popescu: you know it's odd, you're the 2nd guy claling it "translator position". the item actually is http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-12#1736490 ☝︎
robbinhood: I'm here to talk about the translator position
mircea_popescu: fiat just dun stick to bit-coin does it.
BingoBoingo: In other three years later drama. The Bitcoin bowl has been replaced by... "The Bitcoin Arena" home to some Danish hockey team.
shinohai: "Hey Vern, go out to the barn and get the GC-MS ... these here dimethacrylates look like they got contaminated by that there RC-cola bottle.
mircea_popescu: dude's too annoying to have any friends -> 0 opportunities.
BingoBoingo: Brb, tengo que hacer pipi.
BingoBoingo: Well, consider that some of them may have failed out of being able to maintain even positive enough to buy relations with their suppliers.
shinohai: I never understood that, the pop bottle thing. Mexican meth is like super cheap, all but the poorest of poorfags could get some even.
BingoBoingo: Eh, the pop bottle method shrank many of the mobile ones to shitty gm go karts producing for personal use
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In my part of old country retirement vehicle is typically malformed bus. Trailer park trailer is the shipping container shanty.
BingoBoingo: Most common use of retirement vehicle I remember from old country is where the fail kids live in their Baby boomer parent's yards.
asciilifeform: 'vehicle' is a stretch, they're ~shippingcontainer
shinohai: Trailer park trailers can't drive away when you make sulfur gas clouds feed into the ventilation system either! :D
BingoBoingo: Retirement vehicle is a different kind of poverty than trailer park. Trailer park trailer is not mobile denotes still greater poverty.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how this "retirement vehicle" thing became popular (i could guess) ; but it's evident.
shinohai: Actually, lots of SA is looking more "First world" (from my ideal, anyways) than the US lately. The trailer-park culture creep is real here.
BingoBoingo: Well, 1ster world than USia
shinohai: I can think of no more useful assistant to have in a 3rd-world country. Those 3 am impacted wisdom teeth are no joke.
BingoBoingo: Who dayjobs as English teacher.