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assbot: Searching pgp.mit.edu for key with fingerprint: DAAEE6B5D72910B74A6F01F952A4B5B2F3188BF2. This may take
a few moments.
assbot: That does not seem to be
a valid fingerprint.
danielpbarron: assbot should also accept
a link to an ascii armored public key like deedbot; not sure why it still depends on
a keyserver and fingerprints
☟︎ vhost-: does it need to be on
a keyserver?
trinque: vhost-: if you do !register with
a pubkey I'll rate you so you can self voice
trinque: vhost- is
a friend of mine who wrote the bot deedbot- is based upon
danielpbarron: maybe i'm just not well informed, having never used such
a service, but what is the point if these things are all forbidden? (irc, peer-to-peer, etc..)
danielpbarron: it's banned as both "peer-to-peer software," and as
a "CPU intense application" (if mining)
lobbes: Anyone have
a good recommendation?
☟︎ lobbes: edis changed its TOS to ban IRC bouncers and "BitCoin" activities; I am in the market for
a new vps provider
adlai: it seems to be
a stylistic choice, everything in the basis is past tense
ascii_field: adlai: in
a healthy civilization, they are the -only ones- who have it
ascii_field: interesting that this kind of thing can be done to
a general and former cia fuhrer
☟︎ adlai: that number is estimated off
a finex account
adlai is glad he's not running
a profit center with [the current version of] scalpl... it would've lost ~5% by now, by btc accounting
☟︎ jurov: ikr, the database is supposed to index the blockchain so that getting transaction history for
a wallet does not require to scan gigabytes of data
mike_c: Yeah. listed Oct. 13, i think first post was like
a week earlier
mats: i love
a good conspiracy
mircea_popescu: "If you think bankers make too much money, focusing on how much they are paid will get you nowhere. If they are not paid 50% of firm revenue, they will go to another bank that will pay them that much. If no bank will pay them that much, they will go start
a new bank. If that sort of compensation is outlawed at any bank present or future, they will start
a bank where they are the equity owners and get paid that much. Th
mircea_popescu: oh gawd, the 80s, time of bad hair, bad clothes and people who thought stapler discounters are
a hot vc idea.
mircea_popescu: "One of the hottest venture capital investment ideas–bankrolling office-supply discount chains–is starting to sour. In the past two years, investors poured nearly $200 million into at least 16 office-supply “supermarket” chains. But today, the flood of entrants threatens
a market-share war, and the result may be hard times."
mircea_popescu:
a theoretical knowledge osama experimentally verified.
ben_vulpes: okay here's an argument for
a protracted decline
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> dude, i have nfi << me neither, i'm just
a millwright trying to not starve this decade.
mircea_popescu: dude, i have nfi, im following here. you make
a statement, i wanna see how you got to it
mircea_popescu: it's fundamentally what makes people chase college degrees instead of being plumbers ; and the impulse that makes people quit their job and take up gambling after
a neighbour strikes the powerball.,
ben_vulpes: actually, i totally get it all of
a sudden.
mircea_popescu: that reason having
a lot to do with the equity of your position, which you don't account for.
ben_vulpes: the linked article on one hand doesn't make
a terrific amount of sense to me because for whatever reason (perhaps i'm
a particularly well-doing con man), i can sell into the buy side of "professional services" at rates that my "bankers" can't touch on their own.
mircea_popescu: " They also remember the high-tech crash of 1984, and the screams of pain up and down Wall Street." << heh it nearly killed gaming altogether, and is responsible for killing consoles. (yes they still exist, but gaming is essentially
a pc item)
☟︎ cazalla: Vexual, no idea, some people are pinning the theft on friedcat and provided
a supposed chinese police report but turned out it was
a .. random birth certificate
mircea_popescu: if THAT is what is meant by "equity" the speaker is
a retard.
mircea_popescu: it seems
a rehash of "i could code mpex in an afternoon. you kidding, it has no css even"
ben_vulpes: but at the same time, because i'm not
a nightmare to work with, i have
a near-infinite sell wall of talent.
ben_vulpes: perhaps i'm insane or
a particularly good scammer, but i can close deals that none of the programmers on staff could ever dream of. hilariously, because they're on staff.
ben_vulpes: I don’t believe payments to owners in professional services firms are the residual profits. And why should they be, when the employees can leave and set up shop across the street with almost no need for equity capital? In the implicit negotiation over distribution of revenue, the employees have all the bargaining power. The equity will be paid
a fair return, but will not receive any structural
ben_vulpes: and on the other hand, well, nominal equity in
a thing?
cazalla: the new australian chinese mums have
a good scheme going on.. their mothers come here from china to cook/clean etc for
a year so new mum can take it easy, explains why all all the other mums look tired but this china doll looks as good as ever
ben_vulpes: anyways as
a point of data, it's year 1.5ish of this insane enterprise, and i'm just now beginning to approach the salary of
a "programmer" in my geographic region.
pete_dushenski: "In an interview with Reuters, Obama said he was concerned about Beijing's plans for
a far-reaching counterterrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over encryption keys, the passcodes that help protect data, and install security "backdoors" in their systems to give Chinese authorities surveillance access." << 'but it worked for the us (tm)'
pete_dushenski: the idea that bankers are inflating dollars of their own volition is
a bit off
pete_dushenski: when in fact that market is
a result of too many and too perverse of regulations, not the result of
a lack regulation
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2015 07:05:35; pete_dushenski: "Proof-of-Concept releases VII and VIII were released. NatSpec, “natural language specification format” and the basis of our transaction security was prototyped and integrated. Under Marek’s watch, now helped by Fabian, ethereum.js is truly coming of age with
a near source-level compatibility with Solidity on contract interaction and support for the typed ABI with calling and events, the latter
assbot: How the adage “time is money” and the existence of Google+ prove that Facebook is worth less than dust. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1GL3HgY )
pete_dushenski: 'you've been
a successful investor for 15 years but that was just luck so you should trust
a random hobo now'
pete_dushenski: "Pete, you should either give your money to
a qualified money manager or go back to work." << kids and their ideas about success
fluffypony: pete_dushenski: analogous to "The fraud came as
a surprise. He seemed like such
a nice guy. I definitely didn't expect him to scam anyone."
pete_dushenski: "Abraham says: “Fraud in Apple Pay… came as
a surprise to all” " << mhm. right.
assbot:
A Guide To Buying 5000 Ether/Bitcoin, 2.5x More Than Ethereum's Genesis Sale Offers | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1GKT3XF )
pete_dushenski: While this looked like
a good direction to be going in,
a swift audit of Vitalik and Matt’s initial algorithm by Tim Hughes (ex-Director of Technology at Frontier Developments and expert in low-level CPU and GPU operation and optimisation) showed major flaws. "
pete_dushenski: Since our blockchain has
a number of important differences with the Bitcoin blockchain (mainly in transaction density), stemming from the extremely short 12s block time we’re aiming for, we would have to use not the blockchain data itself like Hashimoto but rather an artifcially created dataset, done with an algorithm known as Dagger (yes, some will remember it as Vitalik’s first and flawed attempt at
a memo
pete_dushenski: "Proof-of-Concept releases VII and VIII were released. NatSpec, “natural language specification format” and the basis of our transaction security was prototyped and integrated. Under Marek’s watch, now helped by Fabian, ethereum.js is truly coming of age with
a near source-level compatibility with Solidity on contract interaction and support for the typed ABI with calling and events, the latter providing h
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "I also finished the first draft of ICAP, the Ethereum Inter-exchange Client Address Protocol, an IBAN-compatible system for referencing and transacting to client accounts aimed to streamline the process of transfering funds, worry-free between exchanges and, ultimately, make KYC and AML pains
a thing of the past."
pete_dushenski: douglas adams is
a charming way of overcoming the rage
cazalla: gabriel_laddel, maybe one day if she moves away or they're no longer friends but would be
a bit strange for me to share pics of her on irc
cazalla: my missus has
a china doll in her mum's group, she is one of the best chinese women i've seen and we have truckloads of em here down under
cazalla: gabriel_laddel, 2nd looks
a bit haggard
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: nah, the Chinese have
a class system thing going on.
ben_vulpes: Vexual: you're
a...nuke canoe! nuke canoe!
Vexual: nope, we can't even make
a canoe
Vexual: why can't i catch
a nuke sub to somewhere?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, that is ofn and yahoo paid
a pretty penny from memory
mircea_popescu: basically
a flatish torus, looks like
a cylinder from outside
decimation: and another question: is it possible for
a universal suffrage democracy to tolerate actual dissent?
thestringpuller: " strategically speaking I intend to create
a digital services marketplace, and would very much like to use the large and varied needs of Eulora acquisition to seed that platform"
decimation: you know after the national convention took over and started calling for massive troop levies, the Vendée rose up with pitchforks and starting executing anyone who appeared to be
a revolutionary
mircea_popescu: that is
a literal rather than metaphorical description.
mircea_popescu: Political collapse will be resisted, and the way it will be resisted is by starting as many wars as possible, to produce
a vast backdrop of failure to serve as
a rationale for all sorts of “emergency measures,” << i said this
a number of times, but it bears repeating : if this happens every usg employee, past or present, hangs by his guts.
mircea_popescu: "Military success is unimportant, because failure is even better for maintaining order by forcing through various emergency security measures than success." << this is known as the "north korea" versio of us future. because obviously best kim is in
a state of imagined war with an imagined world.
mircea_popescu: "Now, supposing
a financial oligarchy has seized control of the country, and, since it can't control its own appetites" such nonsense. what appetites ?
thestringpuller: lol mircea_popescu there is not going to be
a test server for experimental anymore?
decimation: yeah but I don't think it 'wants to fail' because of
a secret cabal of financiers
mircea_popescu: being anti-nazi was the thing in 1943. today... would you not fuck
a nazi ?
mircea_popescu: lol. then again, egypt was
a military dictatorship under the mubarak dude, who wrested egypt in
a coup from the... previous military dictator.
mircea_popescu: "Egypt has been democratically reformed into
a military dictatorship. "