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mike_c: that mastercard post on qntra is great. a good candidate for promotion (slashdot? reddit?)
decimation: except - I recall when a massive snowstorm moved up the east coast and wiped out all the telco lines - suddenly everywhere was 'cash only'
cazalla: kakobrekla, what? you don't have a rewards card? here is a form, please fill out
kakobrekla: cazalla not a single one, but i get asked to join various regularly.
asciilifeform: 'Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plate commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceiv
cazalla: yall don't have a rewards card for every store?
decimation: like, at least the panopticon can be a good secretary?
mike_c: hm? i don't mind people knowing i bought lightbulbs. it was only a couple.
BingoBoingo: Wait, people actually go to Home Depot to buy stuff they'd want a record of buying?
mike_c: for "my" safety. except i'm not liable for fraud. so actually they are being a pain in my ass for their safety. fucking home depot.
decimation: mike_c: did it have a secret number on the front that you were only to share with pre-trusted individuals
mike_c: my credit card company sent me a new card recently for my safety.
undata: there's always the hard problem of bootstrapping your build tools in a secure way
decimation: could be done with a 'deed'
undata: it'd be neat to publish the hash of a given release of a package into the blockchain
decimation: one of the main problems that linux packaging aims to solve is exactly the issue ascii rants about, that is - lack of a global namespace for code
asciilifeform: ideally should come with a script that establishes that a copy is 100% canonical.
kakobrekla: he made a jenkins setup but url is private as server is not ddos ready, so ask him.
asciilifeform: or is there a new site
mike_c: assbot plz send donation to b-a donation address.
kakobrekla: this will get a bit spammy, but i want to have it in the log, so lets just get it over with.
BingoBoingo: I was thinking more like a pinky finger cased in lucite, the chunk of flesh, not the monitor
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i already own a 200 pound paperweight (lisp machine) - don't need a 30
asciilifeform: decimation: all the pleasure of good deal, ruined by getting shafted in a newly discovered (personally) way
decimation: heh a 'pound of flesh'
decimation: still, it sounds like you got a good deal
BingoBoingo: You could ask for a portion of the monkey?
asciilifeform: nor a third unicorn.
asciilifeform: it was a unicorn, and the usual shipper-insurance/vendor-guarantee combo does not really work on unicorns.
decimation: I went to a ebay 'junk dealer' once. The owner knew his electronics, but he employed a bunch of monkeys to pack, ship, and do clerical work
asciilifeform: only reason i even bother to bring this headache up here in #b-a is that it presents an interesting case
asciilifeform: but instead, a monkey, not answerable for his actions
asciilifeform: decimation: for cost of a new crystal - sure.
decimation: sounds like you got a good deal in any case
decimation: heh that's a subtle way of putting it
xinxiwang: but I guess SG is a quiet place. US has a lot of news.
asciilifeform: so here's a poor man's mega-lol. i buy two 'eizo' sx2462w monsters. both show up, were packed in new, m0d3rn expanding chemical foam. one - properly. other - with all the foam on one side of crate. naturally, frame cracked, 'bullet hole' of dead blue pixel on crystal.
ben_vulpes: "Currently, digital currencies lack the basic protections consumers have come to expect when transacting online. For example, contrary to a consumer's experience when paying wit a MasterCard product, if a consumer uses digital currency to make a purchase on line and the merchant fails to deliver the goods, the consumer has no recourse through the digital currency's network." << oh lordy
decimation: xinxiwang: I've always wanted to ask a singaporean what he thought about politics in the us compared to politics in sg
decimation: yeah, but there's a cap
decimation: re: regressive tax < pete_dushenski made me aware that Russia actually has a regressive tax, probably for the same reason you think it is a good idea - the rich are more likely to pay
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: training wheels on a function wave?
mircea_popescu: amorous answer than you were looking for but we actually are putting the finishing touches on one of our biggest data centres yet in the next couple of weeks, I actually spoke to someone a few days ago who saw it and he's never seen that many miners and flash computers in one place."
mircea_popescu: "Josh Garza – What we can talk about is everybody, so, we quite literally use every major manufacturer in the world, so, bitmain, we're actually in discussions right now with bitfury, *inaudible*, I mean, every single company. We are in the process of beginning to build our own chip, we do have hardware that is not publicly available that created economies of scale for us, kinda all over the place, probably a less gl
mircea_popescu: that's a point.
cazalla: only a scammer would mix the 2 up
assbot: MoneyBeat, A WSJ Blog, Confirms GAW Miners Is A Ponzi | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1zaVcId )
cazalla: http://qntra.net/2014/12/moneybeat-a-wsj-blog-confirms-gaw-miners-is-a-ponzi/
mircea_popescu: ie, as training wheels on a function wave.
gernika: Reading at a higher level seems akin to using higher level programming languages. The ability to pack more information into fewer lexical units is powerful. Just realized this.
mircea_popescu: i will be this codgery old guy with an ellaborate cough, an old german trenchcoat, aviator eye goggles and a sorta-functioning projector
mircea_popescu: this is a cognate of the guy who bought glasses to read. because that's what he was missing.
hanbot: in that case, i suppose she rapes a baby.
mircea_popescu: "Why are you locking up these important notices in a PDF turd hosted on a site with Facebook integration." BingoBoingo because they seek external validation, and they believe inaccessibility and hermetism are a good proxy. like all ignoramuses ever do believe.
mircea_popescu: hanbot well... you are aware vampirism is a rape metaphor yes ?
mircea_popescu: sounds like a fucking degree.
mircea_popescu: but still. takes a while.
mircea_popescu: gernika i had a slavegirl apply this process to a few pages of shaw. took her A YEAR
mircea_popescu: undata yes, danielpbarron is a biblical literalist.
mircea_popescu: a song about forced prostitution and hunger in earlier france.
mircea_popescu: i specifically meant rengaine as a reference to "Quand je m'endors bercée par une rengaine j'suis soudain réveillée par des cris"
mircea_popescu: decimation A more interesting question is: how does 'black music' go from Louis Armstrong to thug rap in 50 years?
mircea_popescu: and so i tried to read that thing with the eyes of a stranger
mircea_popescu: every single snail leaves a fossil. few cephalopodes do. etc.
mircea_popescu: it's nto as simple as a headcount.
BingoBoingo: Everyone gets a dissapoint today!
mircea_popescu: i had a much better impression on dawkins
mircea_popescu: it's a worhtwhile argument that the only reason blacks aren't chimps is that some middle links died off ?!
mircea_popescu: ve chimpanzees none. But I think it’s a worthwhile argument."
mircea_popescu: "DAWKINS: No, never. But suppose an intermediate species hadn’t gone extinct. Suppose relict populations are discovered in the African jungle. In order to deny chimpanzees rights, you would have to set up apartheid-like courts to decide whether this individual counts as human. Because it’s a continuum. As a practical matter, the intermediates haven’t survived, so it’s possible to give humans basic rights and gi
BingoBoingo: But... can only trust the pravda so much. Prolly from when Obama's great grandfather was sent on a secret mission to assasinate the great reptillian
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, it's why we needed a qntra to serve as the billboard next to the city's gates. Gotta put indictments somewhere.
mircea_popescu: lol nubsy has a trade network.
gribble: diana_coman was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 7 weeks, 5 days, 6 hours, 54 minutes, and 28 seconds ago: <diana_coman> I'm to blame for Sweete__ being here, since he pm-ed me about trading and I asked him why wasn't he in here if he was a trader
rithm: just means they have a lot of miners mining away
rithm: but iff all they have is a bunch of miners that doesn't imply new coin generation or a pool
rithm: new coin generation not something to be obscured though, that's for sure for a mining op, huge red flag
rithm: generation address pretty easy to prove for a mining op
cazalla: 28k bitcoin yet can't point out a single block they've mined
mircea_popescu: "In investigating these claims, BitBeat viewed a bitcoin address at Blockchain.info that was cryptographically proven to belong to GAW and in which almost 28,000 bitcoins"
rithm: also coinbase lists "square" as a customer
mircea_popescu: anyway, i need someone to go there and bring me a coupla affiliate managers.
asciilifeform: i almost fell down. someone showed me a new intel cpu, and it had the inscription 'vietnam.'
BingoBoingo: Looks like a job for asciilifeform or ben_vulpes
mircea_popescu: yeah, it cost me some money, but it also established a point. to my benefit, and of course to anyone else's who's paying attention, but that's a freebie for small fish.
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2014 12:56:26; nubbins`: mircea_popescu:well if he did nubbins has some 'splainin' to do lol. <<< nope, in fact, i am also mildly perturbed by the fact that i mailed over $4,000 of goods to the guy and we didn't even get a couple measly pictures out of it
mircea_popescu: adlai not what it was. more of a "couldn't really refuse" sort of thing.
rithm: unsecured loans are not a good idea, people.
rithm: mircea_popescu did better at "more than a car, less than a house" than me
mircea_popescu: money well spent, because it resolved a particular set of otherwise very pernicious claims.
rithm: unless you spent a lot time cementing it into your relaity
adlai has all kinds of things to say about giving 200btc to such a person, although they're founded on initial impressions so he'll keep them to himself
mircea_popescu: as in, you know, rather than book a loss, pretend like it never happened. because if you don't agree it happened, it didn't really happen.
mircea_popescu: adlai guy was pretty much a sort of vessenes of 2012
adlai: the name rings a bell, I'm sure google can deliver, if it's really relevant that I know this particular scam (it was a scam, no?)
rithm: i would regret allowing myself to listen to the scammer in the first place, more than the money, it's a gut feeling thing
adlai: although I guess retiring is a form of buying your own time
adlai: if a scammer runs, but nobody in #bitcoin-assets lost money... did it even happen?
rithm: favorite quote so far: "That's enough money to create a small industry of people whose sole work is just sort of talking about bitcoin all the time."
mircea_popescu: where did they find a pretentious noob blogger to write this typical sort of pretentious noob blogger shit