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mircea_popescu: until such a time you can peddle rumours on your own authority you'll be stuck building up that authority. so first, make a name, second, spend some time doing the job.
mircea_popescu: anyway, listen referredbyqntra, make yourself a wot account, try and write any of these up to a reasonable standard, if you manage they'll prolly get approved.
mircea_popescu: god knows i've been squeezing the door on bitfinex for years now, i don't know who exactly imagined they'll survive the process. anyway.
mircea_popescu: so the part here that is documented isn't exactly news, on either of these two. the part that's be news apparently isn't documented.
mircea_popescu: i suspect part of the reason it has a problem "sending even one btc" is that the collected capital of its ... customers, shall we call them that, is not much higher than one bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: punkman someone tried to make a 0 btc bet as to whether "it survives".
mircea_popescu: when BingoBoingo builds his castle, he'll cultivate poison ivy for the walls
mircea_popescu: tho i must confess it does add the valuable "oh, go plant some trees all over europe" dismissal to an otherwise abundant arsenal.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you're not going to persist with this, are you ?
mircea_popescu: the way it's going now we have software written by lumberjacks and trees planted by pencilnecks.
mircea_popescu: wouldn't it be better if you fixed the software and let the agriculture/forestry students plant the trees ?
mircea_popescu: hmm, anyone know how you say salt fermented curd in english ?
mircea_popescu: or more properly said : to finally splitting the fake-www chain from www.
mircea_popescu: im so looking forward to moving entirely off the www already...
mircea_popescu: well yeah, that goes without saying. student means vagabond and "university town" means tramp central.
mircea_popescu: depending, one sometimes needs backup. but it's funny how "the people" changes once it's no longer in a group that supports it.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i bet you you don't harrangue the participants.
mircea_popescu: "honey, if you put half the energy you waste on this stupid shit into sucking cock you wouldn't have any of the problems killing you atm."
mircea_popescu: well, not necessarily, just i dunno, to hang out with the angry dumb girlies.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ftr, that "hack" appears to have been a leak.
mircea_popescu: it's the clenched teeth after having trying to think and managing to exhaust oneself.
mircea_popescu: (and no, before you ask : "dictatorship of the law" is the sure mark of a man out of ideas.)
mircea_popescu: was for a while. nothing lasts forever : will-based systems go the way of russia once the will is out ; intelligence based systems go the way of lybia once the intelligence's out.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i disagree. intelligent attempts result in something like lybia. determined attempts result in somewthing like cuba/venezuela/nk etc.
mircea_popescu: "The Ceremony Administrator boots the laptop from a DVD" << example of "security".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dinosaurs and other fossils from a pre-bitcoin world trying their best to not have noticed.
mircea_popescu: and no, contrary to all the pompous / ceremonious bullshit, there's no security there nor any measure of trust worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: George: "Well, then, I am gonna have to ask you to turn your key."
mircea_popescu: missiles from a submarine. Both of use have to turn our keys."
mircea_popescu: Maura: "I refuse to give up on this relationship. It's like launching
mircea_popescu: George, in his apartment with Maura: "And so, for all these reasons, we are