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danielpbarron: i made
a rootfs_ramdisk.img but i'm pretty sure it isn't ready due to some confusion over what needs to be done with /dev/ and also there were other files mentioned in the guide that i could not find in my result
decimation learns
a fact about silly-con valley, only to find it is even *more* true than he thought
decimation: lol yudkowsky wrote
a harry potter fan book
mircea_popescu: On 20 October 2010 von Anhalt was taken to the hospital after swallowing
a bee, which then stung him in the throat. On 22 December 2010 von Anhalt was rushed to the hospital after gluing his eye shut with nail glue.
mircea_popescu: yet he managed to call the authorities on
a cellular phone. Los Angeles police found him completely naked approximately one hour later. No handcuffs were found at the scene. The culprits apparently drove away in
a Chrysler convertible."
decimation: it seems that if you claimed to be
a german prince today you would have
a mob of kids appear. They would loudly explain why they aren't going to have sex with you, play golf against you, and then exhibit hate for you in the form of
a interpretive dance
punkman: "Prinz von Anhalt has adopted several men" oh he's made
a business of it
mircea_popescu: you can't be
a german prince anyway, their socialistoid government transformed them into names.
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 22:36:45; asciilifeform: let's do
a 'trichotomy' on the netbsd thing. as far as i can see, there are three and only three possibilities in
a case like this (i am deliberately not including the forth, of my being
a muppet.) 1) whole orchestra -never- worked 2) once worked, but
a sniveling shitgnome fucked with the docs 3) docs were once correct and described
a working sys, but
a sniveling shitgnome changed the code 'because pr
fuddos: there are
a few ntp reflections
danielpbarron: There's also some Old Testament flavour:
a prophecy prompts Shakarian's grandfather to leave Armenia for the west coast of the USA, where his son Isaac becomes an exceptionally prosperous farmer. Overlaying this is
a mysterious story which even the authors call
a "romance" -
a tale of an illiterate Armenian prophet who received
a secret message which remains sealed in an envelope until the right person comes along to open it
danielpbarron: there is
a book named "The Happiest People on Earth" that might help explain how something like kim kardashian came to be
decimation: NewLiberty: Under what law is this [pawn btc trade] offending?<< specifically, finra has declared that anyone who would conduct such
a transaction to be
a 'money transmitter' and thus would need to register with finra and the local state authorities in charge of such matters
mircea_popescu: 10k in the hands of
a judicious woman can readily beat 1mn in lobby funds.
mircea_popescu: some women you don't care if they spend 10k
a month, because they create 1mn of value or w/e.
mircea_popescu: <NewLiberty> ^^ yes, my friend that does this has household expenses >US$50K per month. << that's
a decent dozen o' slavegirls.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> danielpbarron: but
a random person off the street cannot enter that world simply by asking. << you know this is actually
a great idea for
a movie.
mike_c: seems they've been having
a lot of trouble lately
NewLiberty: Also
a lawyer, and owns law firms full of folks to keep him out of problems.
ascii_field: danielpbarron: but
a random person off the street cannot enter that world simply by asking.
ascii_field: and go on
a list of folks with 'funny' income
danielpbarron: i gave my bank manager
a "paper wallet" one time; they think i'm some crazy, but mostly harmless, coin collector
NewLiberty: Sure, the presumption is that you do it as
a pawn shop.
NewLiberty: It sounds like
a good business idea though. Send your bitcoin to bitcoinpawn, get some fiat loan with it as collateral. Pay back the fiat with interest to reclaim your bitcoins. Miss
a payment and you have to buy them back at the retail price.
ascii_field: (if you have someone appropriate in your meatspace wot, why would you be going to
a pawn shop ?_
ascii_field: what's the diff << if you mention bitcoin in
a pawn shop here, and aren't thrown out as
a nut, you're dealing with -an individual- rather than an institution under any kind of legal constraint
ascii_field: you just dealt with
a stranger outside of any wot.
ascii_field: not without having the first or second marketeer i'd run into be
a usg stooge set up for precisely this kind of harvesting
ascii_field: there is
a reason why 'silk road' etc were fantastically popular
ascii_field: the pawn shops we have here are more or less the farthest thing from the actual healthy black market (which is, i'm told, vast, but
a n00b has no way whatsoever to safely connect to it, which was my original point)
mircea_popescu: so does it consist of guy making incalls like
a fucking hooker ?!
mircea_popescu: ascii_field really ?!
a sane person can learn them by... going there.
ascii_field: they involve being part of
a social network (in the old meatspace sense)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the countermeasures aren't usually something
a clever person can learn from reading books
mircea_popescu: but i didn't mean "the world" per se. i just mean, idiots try to rob
a bookie, goes nowhere. why not ?
cazalla: jurov, and i don't mean your use of it as
a metaphor but the thing itself has me interested
jurov: cazalla not saying it's
a bad idea. just "such
a bezzle!" came to mind
ascii_field: and picture what happens if someone who grew up with virtually no social skills were to attempt to find
a way into world of 'snatch' (much less actually work there)
ascii_field: in that yes, one skilled in meatspace 'humint' can safely do
a 100k trade
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> it's one of those faux loopholes that's really
a honeypot << so turn it on at obama's girlfriend's house.
ascii_field: point was trying to make was that mass economics (e.g. weed) are not applicable to ultra-niche affair where there are maybe three people in
a continent who can even begin to attempt $task
Adlai:
A popular story is told about Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) when he was running for president in 1952 (or in 1956). Someone heard Stevenson’s impressive speech and said, “Every thinking person in America will be voting for you.” Stevenson replied, “I’m afraid that won’t do—I need
a majority.”
The20YearIRCloud: Just about, granted I think what happens is they require personal financial statements from
a person during the proceeding, and he declared ~$40k worth of stock
mike_c: heh. that must have been interesting for the court. "see, i have units in
a fund of this panamaian company that has shares in this other company"
mike_c: wait, were RENT shares actually mentioned in the court proceedings? or just
a general order.
The20YearIRCloud: It was, court gave one of our largest shareholders
a few months to sell all his stock which led to the price being in
a slump for quite some time, now it's all worked through and the price can at least have
a chance to rise
mike_c: hah, interesting. sounds like
a pain.
The20YearIRCloud: Business is good, just have one vacancy on
a house we just finished, other than that things seem to be doing well
The20YearIRCloud: I check in once in
a while here and still idle on
a few IRC chats, granted I guess slack does
a IRC connection as well
gribble: The20YearIRCloud was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 10 weeks, 3 days, 22 hours, 58 minutes, and 55 seconds ago: <The20YearIRCloud> Big thing has been to have em look over all the financial documents as we're filing taxes for 2014 next month and I didn't want to submit till they had
a good idea of it.
Adlai: "I have to get back to work, have
a nice end of days!" - Jesus 2.0
felipelalli: I have to back to work, have
a nice end of day guys!
ascii_field: it's one of those faux loopholes that's really
a honeypot
ascii_field: the cash register won't 'ding' without
a passkey from stalin
ascii_field: but i for one can more easily comprehend how to move to ar and learn to be
a shoemaker or ocelot-walker or whatever, than turning into one of the above
ascii_field: suggesting that there is
a substantial '2) ?????' in the path to '3) profit!!11!!!'
danielpbarron: yeh you're right; but i could pay for simple food/rent from
a strictly bitcoin income
ascii_field: danielpbarron: that is.. not outside the realm of possibility for me... not that i've made such an inquiry << the odds are that after you were to make two or three such inquiries, you will come across
a usg stoolie
danielpbarron: idk, i got
a weed guy; shouldn't i also have
a fiat guy?
danielpbarron: couldn't i just pay
a guy
a premium to buy it for me?
ascii_field: go and buy so much as
a spool of 0805 resistors with btc.
danielpbarron: i could probably get to
a non-fiat point; no kids no car no morgage no wives
ascii_field: think kaspersky gives
a flying fuck re: lawsuits in u.s. courts ?
ascii_field: (previous thread) if mircea_popescu seriously applied his criteria re: who is 'marginal', #b-
a would likely be the #mircea_popescu-kakobrekla-jurov channel instead
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i never followed that franchise, but did batman have
a vallet / << He did indeed
mircea_popescu: i never followed that franchise, but did batman have
a vallet /
mircea_popescu: there are people who don't give
a shit about some woman's spawn. more women, mopre spawn.
ascii_field:
a server doesn't have
a family the enemy can take hostage
mircea_popescu: "Here's one that even The Onion would reject as too blatantly ridiculous: American right-wing radio and TV clown Glenn Beck believes that Sean Smith aka Vile Rat, the EVE Online diplomat who was killed earlier this month during the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, was actually
a CIA agent, relaying communications to his fellow undercover agents at Something Awful."
☟︎ ascii_field: not
a guarantee of defeat, sure, but machines are exactly as 'loyal' as their operator is clever and conscientious - men are not.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field see, this is how i distinguish
a genius geek from
a simple geek : the latter programs computer to interact with him. the former, to interact with the girls.
danielpbarron: oo speaking of which; if you want to knock someone offline for
a spell, open up webchat to b-
a from their ip :D
mircea_popescu: there exist people, and not just in florida, who can get you
a pellet of usd 100 notes on
a half day notice.
mircea_popescu: your argument reduces to "i can't make
a bottling plant out of
a gallon of juice". sure.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the guy's 11k are NOT
a crate of dollars. barely one brick.
ascii_field: aha. the only thing the hypothetical crate would do is get me moved up
a few spots in gassing queue if it got out
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: as is the nature of "becoming known" to
a plug so you can re-up in the future.
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: seems like this fringes thing is
a fence-sitting
ascii_field: for folks who aren't subjects of us, try the mindfuck on for size: if
a crate of benjamins were to drop from the sky into my yard, there is literally nothing game-changingly useful that i could do with them