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mircea_popescu: ascii_field are you in
a position to negrate this "degree-1" "meatwot" ?
ascii_field: saudi brass spend
a million usd like i spend
a dollar in
a coke machine. and i know this through degree-1 meatwot.
mircea_popescu: for as long as you don't have
a method to make them laugh, you're not to epxect to be paid for your "Comedian services".
mircea_popescu: apparently the web doesn't have the quote. something like "my dear, i'm going out to find my pride. and if i ever find it, we'll see if it's still worth
a damn to either of us."
mircea_popescu: or else he can not make them, just found some meteor, in which case he has no business being
a seller. because nobody may sell what he can't make.
ascii_field: it is entirely possible to find
a potential exploit in the course of unrelated work. developing it into an ACTUAL exploit takes sweat.
mircea_popescu: either he can make them, at some rate whatever it may be, but nonzero (even if it's so low in the end it ends up being 0), and then he has
a business being
a seller.
mircea_popescu: this precludes any bothering. because bothering is
a thing of work, which is
a reason to suspect.
mircea_popescu: but the caveat being that if seller has exactly one, and no reason to suspect he will ever have more, this entire thing is
a wot. aka, waste of time.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: understand, if i'm merely thick and you can describe
a working mechanism, people ~will~ use...
mircea_popescu: seller has
a minimum of two 0 days. he creates
a wot account for the purpose of selling these and future ones indefinitely. seller publishes one freom that account as
a proof, announces he has more, explains what it costs. sends it encrypted once gets paid. gets rated. what's the big deal.
ascii_field: so i generate
a new key. but, you will say, next buyer will not deal with
a nobody ? then why would they have dealt with me earlier ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i'm not sure why such
a concern would be of any interest. this "fund" is not represented in the wot. consequently, any piece of email purportying to be from them ACTUALLY IS every time that is detrimental to them
assbot: The pseudo-Bitcoinsphere feels just as squishy-poo as the Romanian pseudo-blogosphere felt five years or so ago. on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1Y9f9Nm )
mats: i know
a broker with buyers, however...
mats: when i'm in
a different jurisdiction, yes, will be exciting
mats:
a fella you own, of course
ascii_field: and it isn't like
a schmuck from the street can get 20k as it is now.
ascii_field: mats: and yes, i have something that i know is worth $10M but since i don't have blue blood i can only get
a hundy for it, i would MUCH prefer to burn it.
mod6: as far as the 'experimental' patches, i agree about the 'maxint_locks' patch.... maybe there's
a better word than experimental. and, anyway, this will all change soon anyhow, so not sure how urgent it is.
mats: is it
a scam if you sell
a commodity for 1/10 of what its worth, knowing you could not move it for market value anyway?
williamdunne sees no reason why most people would need to directly touch
a blockchain
assbot: Logged on 30-05-2015 17:38:54; asciilifeform: think of it this way (possibly paraphrasing old thread.) imagine you discovered
a cache of plutonium bricks in your back yard. (rtg in space probe fell apart?) would you let them go to
a scrap dealer for 100 usd each? knowing that they are worth millions, and at the same time risking your arse by revealing that you ever had them to begin with? or would you say 'fuck you' and dig
a deeper hole?
ascii_field:
a parallel-constructed nsa tap is just another 'anonymous tip' to these folks.
mircea_popescu: "Hess said that data currently available on investigations, including the annual wiretap report indicating that agents encountered encryption only
a handful of times during the course of the year, is simply wrong." << it is simply wrong, because it never figures in court matter, because they parallel construct to all hell and don't know how to do it well
mircea_popescu: you are
a SERVANT. nothing more. just like your mom used to be, minus the assfucking.
mircea_popescu: listen up raj your mother-s
a whore go back to india : you don't fucking get to score the questions
mircea_popescu: "Asked how often investigations are stymied by encryption, Kiran Raj,
a senior counsel of the Department of Justice, responded with
a non-answer. “It is an important point that you make, that we have to provide the sense of
a scale,” he said."
kakobrekla: >The ETH scam won't see 2016 < isnt this
a negative bet?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i dunno why old people put up with it, seriously. << Took grandpa until halfway to his eigth decade to take
a stand on no more fingers and scopes up the butt and no more needles in the eye.
ascii_field: 'The Court observed that, according to the government, Mr. Merrill would only be allowed to discuss the kinds of records the FBI demanded in “
a world in which no threat of terrorism exists, or
a world in which the FBI, acting on its own accord and its own time, decides to disclose the contents of the Attachment.”'
mircea_popescu: e was discharged home on hospital day 3 with
a sodium level of 133 mmol/L and baseline mental status."
mircea_popescu: "Then, the patient gradually became more alert with an increased ability to follow commands over the next evening and was at baseline 38 hours after presenting to the hospital. The patient did have significant associated morbidities including 3 thoracic spine compression fractures,
a comminuted humeral head fracture likely secondary to seizures and requiring arthroplasty, and multiple rib fractures secondary to CPR. Sh
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 15:29:21; mircea_popescu: im kinda surprised it's not here yet. but perhaps the roll up of the "college debt" nonsense will come to that : people get auto-ressetting debt on
a 7 yo period.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it's
a straight usg colony
gernika: Was there ever
a check on nonsense rulings like this and recent Supreme Court decisions?
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 21:46:56; mats: fun fact: gpg's serialization layer uses s-expressions rather than asn.1 and as
a result, despite being hand-rolled in C, there doesn't appear to be any memory corruption in canonical mode
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: there is nothing
a telco does which is ~not~ in some way monopoly-milking
gernika:
A mobile phone company I worked at recently was fully indianized.
BingoBoingo: But would still need to improve over his last round with another minute and
a half
mircea_popescu: <deedbot-> [BitBet Bets Bets] 11.28000000 BTC on 'No' - The ETH scam won't see 2016 << whoa that's some decent bang for
a buck. ty internets.
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> mircea_popescu: go and grow perfect si crystal, and do
a perfect litho on it, and come back ? << ANd biology isn't relevant to Bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> naggum ~had~ something like #b-
a - comp.lang.lisp. very similar mix of brain. << not unlike saying you have si in your fridge. there's bottles there, very similar "mix of atoms".
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go and grow perfect si crystal, and do
a perfect litho on it, and come back ?
BingoBoingo actually wondering if
a "coldfire" board can be used to make such
a machine
ascii_field: but it will run beautifully on emulator. of which there are at least
a dozen.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: it will not boot
a mac. not only entirely different peripherals, but slightly differing cpu
BingoBoingo: The more I play with TI-92 the more I wish it was still more of
a "desktop" calculator with keyboard, mouse, and montior
ascii_field: as it is, you gotta understand that yields are nowhere near 100% and especially not in
a discount factory primarily used by students graded on
a curve.
BingoBoingo: Or Rush down the center (done while carrying
a ball handed to you)
BingoBoingo: "Kaepernick goes wide. And there’s another break. Everyone has
a drink. My, there are some breaks. More breaks than Alcatraz."
assbot: Jarryd Hayne's debut as seen in Australia:
a fumble, flags and breaks – as it happened | Sport | The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1KkN3EF )
ascii_field: like that fella who knows how to make
a working kalash from
a shovel
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 16:11:49; mircea_popescu: that's all they ever did right. not
a tiny thing, either, but has exactly 0 to do with tech.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 15:38:30; mircea_popescu: if there's
a good argument against suicide, naggum-b-
a might be it.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 15:30:36; mircea_popescu: (inflation being, of course, just the monetary equivalent of "stealing the having been stolen from". people do
a pretty decent job of managing to forget their parents lived better than they will.)
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 14:52:55; mircea_popescu: however, back in the day when 9 oiut of 10 bridges DIDNT stay up, there didn't even exist bridgebuilding as
a distinct and named activity.
mircea_popescu: that's all they ever did right. not
a tiny thing, either, but has exactly 0 to do with tech.
☟︎ gernika: He must have been *something* of
a thing to have been assigned reading pre-internet. Also there was the well known MacIntosh commercial. I must admit to being completely unaware of his internet cachet.
mircea_popescu: if there's
a good argument against suicide, naggum-b-
a might be it.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 21:24:02; phf: i suppose one half of b-
a should start on
a linux distro and the other work on cl-emacs naggum always wanted *ducks*
mircea_popescu: (inflation being, of course, just the monetary equivalent of "stealing the having been stolen from". people do
a pretty decent job of managing to forget their parents lived better than they will.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: im kinda surprised it's not here yet. but perhaps the roll up of the "college debt" nonsense will come to that : people get auto-ressetting debt on
a 7 yo period.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 19:51:41; phf: anton_osika thread reminds me of thomas jefferson arguing for debt relief while heavily indebted, he also uses "this is best for the people" argument, with the main difference that the debt question was at the time open, where's what osika is arguing against is the core idea of gpg contracts. the point of the thread has been fully answered in gpg contracts article and with
a poetic take in hanbot's story, both
BingoBoingo: Of course so long as you want it to stay
a clean room, but eventually gotta end the cleanroom some way.
mircea_popescu:
a mini-cleanroom is to be made in your yard out of shipping containers.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 18:09:08; ascii_field: but it is very clear, from their www, that it is
a 'if you have to ask for prices, you can't afford this' affair.
mircea_popescu: yet somehow the proposition is that "usg" has
a sort of control over an activity which generally fails.
mircea_popescu: however, back in the day when 9 oiut of 10 bridges DIDNT stay up, there didn't even exist bridgebuilding as
a distinct and named activity.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's true that organic complex systems take
a number of tries to arrive at
a result. but that sort of failure rate is not seen in nature - woman doesn't abort 10 for every one it carries to term. aborts less than half.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 18:01:16; ascii_field: and it takes
a dozen runs or more, to arrive at
a usable chip.