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ascii_field: and none of this should surprise anyone who understands what
a fiat bank is.
ascii_field: the sequences are -deliberately- predictable, the crypto is quite consciously weak, the authenticators are
a joke, the turdamatics require winblows, etc.
ascii_field: the money printer is something like
a black hole of 'moral hazard', it has this effect where it is more or less impossible to behave like anything other than
a scammer when sufficiently near the event horizon
ascii_field: so you strike
a deal where the place is robbed '
a little' now and again.
ascii_field: imagine you had access to money printer, but only as
a lackey
danielpbarron: "Now let me tell you about my dog: i don't have
a dog. So that is the end of that."
wangxinxi: mircea_popescu it’s possible to hedge. but it seems not very liquid. so it’s
a bit difficult in practice.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: “following the humiliating CFTC episode, Blythe [Masters] disappeared completely from the public radar. Now, with
a one year delay, she has finally reappeared… re-emerged as chief executive of the Bitcoin startup, Digital Asset Holdings.”
☟︎ wangxinxi: mircea_popescu that could be
a good idea. can we calculate the delta of such
a bet?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: LOL. And you once said "Bitbet is just
a toy"
mircea_popescu: it's
a very powerful combo, which is why all modern water purification is done by this uv/ozone thing
nubbins`: i've
a UV-C water purifier that's served me well in many
a tropical shithole
nubbins`: who needs
a water purification setup when you have ten motorcycles
nubbins`: tap your elbows 3 times, kill
a monkey, etc
nubbins`: like, he says "this is nuts, can i pick up my replacement at the branch this time?" and on his drive home he gets
a call saying his card number was stolen
mircea_popescu: yes well, it's journalism. what starts as
a discussion about us ssn ends up as
a story about
a canadian fucking
a gator.
nubbins`: sure, but linked story was this poor canadin schmo who has had NINE credit cards IN
A ROW compromised
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2015 03:09:05; mircea_popescu: "What is Social Security Number (SSN) Randomization? The project is
a forward looking initiative of the Social Security Administration (SSA) to help protect the integrity of the SSN by establishing
a new randomized assignment methodology. SSN Randomization will also extend the longevity of the nine-digit SSN nationwide."
nubbins`: what, the haxxors enumerated 100 million visa card numbers and /tried them all/ every time this guy got
a new card?
xinxi: mircea_popescu: you need to price
a binary option before you buy or sell.
nubbins`: i find this "sequencing fraud" thing
a bit much
trinque: mircea_popescu: is
a bad idea?
mircea_popescu: <trinque> publishing
a hash directly isn't
a bad idea at all, though << it is.
mircea_popescu: xinxi what's the difference between
a binary option and
a bitbet like danielpbarron was talking earlier ?
nubbins`: "It seems somehow the hacking team or the hackers have been able to get
a hold of banking 'enigma' code so they're able to generate the exact same sequence of the card that I would be receiving in the mail."
trinque: publishing
a hash directly isn't
a bad idea at all, though
trinque: mircea_popescu: cazalla: you guys just tried to add
a rando text file with
a hash in it
xinxi: there are buyers, and I’m trying to find
a big seller for them.
chetty: and besides you are making
a mess in the neighborhood, not allowed. No messy laundry or flags either
nubbins`: canada: leftist sensibilities under
a hard-right exterior
nubbins`: "The man who owned some of the equipment which was found at the tunnel saw it on television and called police. He said he had loaned it to an employee —
a construction worker who underpins homes."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform intel says this is basically
a married life phenomenon. familiar to eu/ru folks as the "going to work on car" man had enough of wife thin
mircea_popescu: it's not
a fucking ideological issue, it's
a practical matter. radiation isn't this fucking thin from outer space, it's everywhere.
mircea_popescu: "Is someone really going to settle for ‘fairly good nuclear protection’? It’s like they’re comparing radioactive fallout to
a chilly breeze, and as long as you block most of it, you should be relatively comfortable. "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think of it more as
a quick shower, rather than dirty :D
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the kids that didn't like physics class : any metal, if subjected to radiation such as
a nuclear explosion, becomes
a secondary source of gamma rays, as it slows down the rads.
thestringpuller: I get
a lot of notifications on twitter for someone who doesn't really tweet.
nubbins`: nevermind that this isn't
a bunker, it's
a fucking rotisserie
nubbins`: "
a couple inches of topsoil should be good"
mircea_popescu: the notion that anything under ~50k sqft or so is
a "bunker".
nubbins`: "all we've built so far is steel coffins roughly the size of shipping containers, but we swear we can build
a 9000sqft bunker"
mircea_popescu: the internet's for porn because really, it can't do anything else... not well, it isn't
a question of well.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` why do you want
a toilet ? YOURE IN QUARANTINE!
nubbins`: srsly, start in quarantine and make your way to
a toilet
nubbins`: also, quarantine room/hallway/elevator/generators/garage is
a fully enclosed section with no way in or out
nubbins`: that's actually
a massage table, treadmill, stationary bike, and
a rack of free weights in the laundry room
nubbins`: BingoBoingo:asciilifeform: If I did foot the whole way still ~3-4 months late, not counting the antihills of the Darien <<< get
a boat from panama to turbo, colombia
mircea_popescu: japanese ppls regularly buy 1mn dollahs worth of
a tuna capture
nubbins`: like purchasing
a thimblefull of elephant meat
nubbins`: massive, *massive* things. almost silly to see the full thing next to
a canned portion
nubbins`: i've got about
a half bunker here between the house and the backyard
nubbins`: i suspect whoever drew this has never seen, say,
a tuna
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the lulziest part there is the "rabbits and fish" thing. i imagine cazalla may have
a good laugh.
nubbins`: <asciilifeform> i was briefly
a member of
a kind of electronics club that met in
a huge old church <<< we hold pop-up art sales in churches
a couple times
a year
cazalla: i'd write this up just for the lulz but had
a few too many
assbot: Logged on 11-03-2015 03:33:45; mircea_popescu: danielpbarron and actually, since im in
a great mood : you get 100 bucks worth of bitcoin bet on any bitbet of your choice, lemme know what you want.
BingoBoingo: It is
a model I wish I would have seen 5-10 years ago
mircea_popescu: and toddf quoite the guy, "For those who don’t want to take the time watching the talk, lwn.net wrote up
a great summary of the talk, and that article is here. For those of you without
a lwn.net subscription, what are you waiting for? You’ll have to wait two weeks before it comes out from behind the paid section of the website before reading it, sorry."
mircea_popescu: <DanTheBitcoinMan> I guess it just costs them
a little bit more to keep running their scams << this is the crucial point.
BingoBoingo: DanTheBitcoinMan: Qntra has
a good number of pieces on this point
DanTheBitcoinMan: So what are everyone's thoughts here about Gavin running around and trying to promote his idea of raising the block size limit? Can anyone point me to
a very good argument detailing the reasons this should be avoided?
DanTheBitcoinMan: I guess it just costs them
a little bit more to keep running their scams
mircea_popescu: this worked historically with bfl, stuck them for
a decent sum
BingoBoingo: DanTheBitcoinMan: I'm not
a BitBet mod, but
a short on XPY with small stakes looks like Garza looking to rob again
cazalla: well, in its absence, i have 2 people who are aware what that hash represents so it should work for
a time stamp eh?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Been
a while since you've seen an American built house...