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decimation: if the us becomes japan for the next 30 years, then it is
a great deal
decimation: the implication being that serious folks with lots of bezzlars see
a 3% 30-year loan as
a great investment - which is telling about expectations of the future
decimation: the latest fed open market meeting strongly implied that rates will be low for
a long time yet
mircea_popescu: and the "workers" are
a wrapper around that wrapper. in the sense
a rectum is
a wrapper around the condom wrapped around the cock.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : as in the centrally controlled economy of the socialist state, so in the us : the "private" sector is
a wrapper around the politburo.
decimation: the banking system is
a propaganda wrapper around usg/fed bank ownership
decimation: but it's also impossible to find
a 30-year fixed at less than 3.5
decimation: well, it is certainly the case that it is hard to find
a bank that pays more than 1% on your savings account
mircea_popescu: decimation this is why it only makes sense to buy it as
a loan, on good terms.
decimation: the problem is, even if I were to purchase
a house with say, gold or bitcoin
decimation: no, it's like having usg pay 70 bucks for
a happy mean I 'get' to eat
decimation: perhaps
a private party would make such
a deal
mircea_popescu: perhaps as
a 10 year fixed, with
a negotiable that includes your right to fully repay.
mircea_popescu: it is the fault of the people running servers that they implemented upnp instead of beating the people with the reports, sure. however, beatings suffer from
a disaster of commons type of problem : they are valuabler and expensive, but the beneficiaries resist them afore, even if they appreciate them after.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk: The users installing those routers probably don't even play with computer networks as
a hobby. It is the manufacturers, not the end-users' fault that UPnP is exposed to the Internet. <<< ther atrocity known as unpnp exists in the first place because people who do not know how to use computers wish nevertheless to use computers, and then complain to people running servers that "doesn't work".
mircea_popescu: “We were stunned by the allegations which served to negatively impact our business in this exciting and evolving financial category,” said Josh Garza, CEO of GAW. “However, we appreciate the outpouring of support by
a community that is behind what we are doing as pioneers in the cryptocurrency market; in short, they simply didn’t believe it.”
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski understand : building
a building costs to the tune of
a bn or
a few.
pete_dushenski: i'm more interested in how long you can negotiate as far as
a fixed rate term goes
pete_dushenski: 5 seems to be the norm, not sure how hard it is to get
a longer fixed rate term
mircea_popescu: decimation: bezzlar lending rates keep dropping because 'oh noes deflation' <<< if you can take an immense loan denominated in usd and at
a fixed rate, to purchase anything tangible you should do so right now.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tomorrow'll be fine, but yes, now is the time on sprockets where you let the little guys fuck by themselves
a while.
mircea_popescu: YOU ARE CONFUSING PEOPLE!! the problem we are solving is not
a problem which is why it should be solved!!!1
pete_dushenski: Robert Litan is
a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of “Trillion Dollar Economists.”
mircea_popescu: supreme executive power derives from
a mandate from the wot, not some farcical fencing ceremony...
mircea_popescu: i tell you, blond inch tall figurines drawn on
a EGA screen waving about swords are no basis for
a financial system.
BingoBoingo: Ah, I'll source the Something Awful ones when I find
a working login. 2 and 4 though. From the same post on the Butterfly Labs forum.
BingoBoingo: If I recall correctly he was
a "dev" back in ancient times
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: at the minimum, it was
a 'spare' in case of
a catastrophic break in sha2 << on this we agree. meanwhile that problem seems to have navigated away
mircea_popescu: There are certain shows that you can safely assume most people have seen. These shows were considered fantastic when they first aired. Now, however, these shows have
a Hype Backlash curse on them. Whenever we watch them, we'll cry, "That is so old" or "That is so overdone".
mircea_popescu: and then we give nooby kids with undegrad "business" and "governance" degrees
a hard time for their self-reported "experience"
punkman: mircea_popescu: going by log height #590953 to #1001132 (now), it's
a lot of time
mircea_popescu: this is like... b-
a logs are so substantial they dilate the perception of time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i once suggested, semi-seriously,
a proofofworkfunktion based on cellular automata << i recall our discussing this, in the very logs! years ago!
assbot: BitBet - LTC to fall below half
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pete_dushenski: that sammy was
a converted member of the tribe, i did not
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: i was just wondering if
a random tails user was aware of that sort of thing, or if they just downloaded it because freetalklive mentioned it << you know the answer to that q.
decimation: post
a link on the channel so folks can browse it
decimation: phillipsjk: would you be willing to upload
a sample of your ddos captures?
ben_vulpes: not trimmed from the logs, but prevented from speaking during
a roasting.
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2015 15:40:59; assbot: You rated user felipelalli on 21-Jan-2015, with
a rating of -1, and supplied these additional notes: has
a very strange idea of when it's time to talk..
phillipsjk: My router reported
a "smurf" attack, but I think it is
a mis-diagnosis.
phillipsjk: I am not sure it was
a true amplification. I suspect it was
a flase positive because the addresses ended in .255
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2015 15:40:59; assbot: You rated user felipelalli on 21-Jan-2015, with
a rating of -1, and supplied these additional notes: has
a very strange idea of when it's time to talk..
phillipsjk: "Technology companies that want to sell equipment to Chinese banks will have to submit to extensive audits, turn over source code, and build “back doors” into their hardware and software, according to
a copy of the rules obtained by foreign companies already doing billions of dollar worth of business in the country. The new rules were laid out in
a 22-page document from Beijing, and are presumably being put in place so that the Chin
phillipsjk: Exposing UPnP to the internet defies all common sense. Add to that, many of the Pwnt routers appear to be in China, I am going to call it
a deliberate back-door on the part of the manufacturer.
phillipsjk: The users installing those routers probably don't even play with computer networks as
a hobby. It is the manufacturers, not the end-users' fault that UPnP is exposed to the Internet.
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2015 15:12:13; mircea_popescu: phillipsjk: The captures are 5.0GB each. Just
a little too large to fit on
a DVD:P << last time we diagnosed this it was mostly unpnp pwnt routers that yielded it.
phillipsjk: I also wanted to comment that behavior that seem stupid from the outside is sometimes completely rational. Quoting MP: 'last time we diagnosed [the DDOS bot] it was mostly unpnp pwnt routers that yielded it. long known as
a problem, little to do about it because "must have lusers on the internet"'
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-01-2015#997218 (as an example)
☝︎ phillipsjk: Sometimes I think mental illness is
a rational response to life events.
phillipsjk: so in
a word yes, I know the fixed hierarchy is largely fiction.
decimation: he is definitely running
a 'sampling' system
decimation: yeah I'm pretty sure he's built
a half-ass 'sigma-delta' adc
decimation: yeah it's hard to 'enjoy' paying nothing for
a car if you never do it
decimation: aye, one can't keep
a chumpatron going if it kills the chumps
pete_dushenski: I would recommend you sell your bitcoins and buy your alts you were just pumping , because holding onto MPcoin won't be wise. At least with litecoin and peercoin you will lose your investments at
a slower pace.
cazalla: still
a coinbase despite telling the faithful that coinbase will add litecoin and that he'll leave if they don't
pete_dushenski: and now lee is presumably sipping mai tais somewhere because i swear he hasn't made
a peep in 12 months
cazalla: no proof of course but i wouldn't put it past
a guy to do that..
a guy that is willing to get up in front of
a room and admit what he says isn't true but that it's OK because "marketing"
pete_dushenski: cazalla:
a,
a newer thing then, another "but it worked for the us" scenario
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> the 'cynical' answer would be that he didn't give
a flying fuck about asic resistance in the general sense, but planned to build own asic << There was drama about
a collaborator of his GPU mining this GPU unminable coin from the start
cazalla: pete_dushenski, it has had one for the last year along with
a *talk.org forum.. it's pretty much the blue print for altcoins at this point, launch your altcointalk.org, have
a foundation and premine under the guise the foundation will use the coins in some fund to spread adoption
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: at least litecoin didn't have
a phoundation crudding it up to its gills over
a period of years
cazalla: he is malicious because he contains to appear at conferences to tell people how
a coin is all about the marketing regardless of whether what you say is factual or not. he's just the first iteration of garza
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the cynical answer could also be that he's
a bad actor who tried to detract energies away from bitcoin at
a pivotal moment