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mircea_popescu: anyone still has a tardstalk account ?
mircea_popescu: and one of those rare situations where there's more buyside than the whole equity, by a wide margin. even if you discount the penny offers.
punkman: supposed to be winter here, a balmy 24 C
cazalla: still not a peep out of bitpay despite their promise that this years bitcoin black friday would be bigger than previous year
mircea_popescu: http://live.coinbr.com/?mpsic=S.MPOE << monthly chart looks like a fucking coronary
cazalla: mircea_popescu: the proper way to say it about a negative is "this excludes" or "this accounts for". so which of the two ? <<< will keep in mind for december
mircea_popescu: a nm, dyslexia strikes again lol. 351
mircea_popescu: the proper way to say it about a negative is "this excludes" or "this accounts for". so which of the two ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla "*This includes a deduction of 175 words"
mircea_popescu: jaja he looks like such a total derp.
mircea_popescu: “The theft of Sony Pictures Entertainment content is a criminal matter, and we are working closely with law enforcement to address it,” a Sony spokeswoman said in a statement to Variety.
mircea_popescu: what i mean is : qntra is a bitcoin property. if bitcoin does well and qntra does well, it's not possible in a year for it to not be worth btc.
cazalla: it's not an immediate need, looking more towards long term, do i look back after a year and think yes, on a per hour basis, this earned more btc than turning my mcbucks to bitcoin
cazalla: because there comes a point where i can make more working mcdonalds and using mcbucks to buy btc instead of qntra to btc for my efforts
cazalla: so what is the solution/plan, the site is going into its third month, it would be nice to generate some revenue even if it is only a small amount
cazalla: i was going to attribute traffic drop to 2014 being somewhat of a write off but ccn is up and up so perhaps some penguin/panda styled penalty on coindesk, who knows
mircea_popescu: unless you're peron, she's gonna be a waitress.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, take a case like eva peron : prostitute at 15, singer/dancer at 17,
mircea_popescu: problem is like this : advertising is association. think of it like a woman (the publisher) getting married (the advertiser).
cazalla: maybe i'll whack up a sponsorship page outlining the demographics per quantcast
cazalla: i know but point is, CTR could be 100% but who cares if it didn't convert to a paying customer, total revenue this month = 0
mircea_popescu: just, you know, a newspaper.
mircea_popescu: so wait, out of the 10k uniques quantcast reports for a whole month that leaves like 4k people, of which ~80 clicked ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, as a general policy it's ok to take per-conversion deals with things that for whatever good reason sell themselves.
assbot: Evry btc company needs a /VitalikButerin or /gavinandresen . /Cancoin has /lastcanal , lead architect & heady genius single handedly winning
pete_dushenski: or canada can choose not to spend a dime protecting it
decimation: asciilifeform: well, what about a rifle system that was designed from the ground up to work in very cold conditions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_International_Arctic_Warfare
asciilifeform: serious technical question. how exactly might one improve on a 1890s rifle in the given application (almost never fired; when fired - typically, at large land animals (hence, want full sized cartridge); extreme cold; etc
pete_dushenski: "A US man has been handed a US$500,000 fine for selling the StealthGenie malware in the first prosecution of a mobile spyware slinger. Police collared Hammad Akbar, 31, in September after he allegedly sold the malware to an undercover agent in 2012."
pete_dushenski: like at a luau?
decimation: don't get me wrong, lee-enfields are fine guns, but canada has the skills and money to invest in a more modern arctic gun, and apparently they can't afford it or don't want to
pete_dushenski: what a moustache!
pete_dushenski: canada can only claim a la obama: with words
decimation: well, russia is beating back canada's claims to the arctic, and seemingly doing a good job at it
pete_dushenski: canada is in a similar position in the sense of resource wealth
decimation: actually I was thinking while gasing up my car today... if you add up the fact that usg is funded to a big degree by printed dollars, and that now opec has decided to flood the market with oil to kill off drilling in north america, you realize that you have 'oil printing' vs. 'dollar printing'
pete_dushenski: decimation but he's definitely in a fortunate position to start with
cazalla: decimation, of course, meanwhile they upped the pension age to 70 from the year 2035, of course, no money for pensions will be available to pay such a thing by then
pete_dushenski: and how to align himself with a religion, and how to politik, and how to generally run a nation state (at least one full of russians)
pete_dushenski: keep in mind i'm but a lowly observer... from the clouds
assbot: Agency Goes To The Active, Or How Putin Doesn’t Understand How The World Works. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1FH7jyF )
cazalla: decimation, something like 1 in 5 aussies gets some type of welfare, you can get disability for a sore foot if you are determined
decimation: I'm okay with a high VAT/GST/sales tax if it comes with no income tax ☟︎
decimation: so anyone who isn't 'living on welfare' in australia is a government employee
pete_dushenski: russia has other taxes, like vat of 18% and a special welfare tax of 25% on first $14k earned
decimation: wow 37% over $A 80k?
pete_dushenski: i now know a few off the top of my head
pete_dushenski: decimation show me a country with no income tax that's not in affrica
pete_dushenski: for a european country
pete_dushenski: a yes, typical "cross my heart" shit
cazalla: there is talk of raising it due to budget shortfalls despite the government that brough it in promising the legislation would never allow for such a thing to occur
decimation: amusing: http://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/the-conformity-of-lawns/index.html << " As William Levitt himself promised his government patrons, “No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.” He meant this quite literally." << the nature of modern us 'home ownership'
kakobrekla: Shabnam Ansar i don't understand a lot of stuff you say, nevertheless i read them all... you are just so amazing n my role model
kakobrekla: as far as i gathered it was ddosing one at a time before ratpoison - it jumped to the last one joining. now it just adds to stack.
cazalla: dunno why they even had reps there, gameboy picks up the items automatically over wireless, they could've just left their gameboy on the counter and had customers walk up to it, do a 360 and then walk out the shops
cazalla: decimation, what's that? a clear no btw
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I said systemd was a fungus. I agree, I don't see how this kind of thing is tolerable. Politically, I think Linus is up against a wall to some degree, because he knows redhat, inc pays for most of the kernel 'zeks'
adlai learned dvorak on a rollup keyboard that couldn't be rearranged
asciilifeform experimented with dvorak a few times over the years, found that he doesn't enter enough human language text to make the effort worthwhile ☟︎
asciilifeform: my ctrl key is where the gods intended it to be (to the left of 'a') likewise.
adlai: well, just to go off on a while tear here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho2d1HxtXfk
asciilifeform: a living thing - would not tolerate this.
asciilifeform: whichever one of you said 'linux is a corpse, and systemd is a fungus growing on it' was correct.
kakobrekla: well you get a new one without the wifi and when done printing blend it with Blendtec and throw dust in magma
adlai found it already from search.b-a, reading
assbot: Proof That Mycelium Knows How To Make A Better RNG For Its Entropy Dongle. And Isn't. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1y61MkH )
asciilifeform: pete's article: http://www.contravex.com/2014/07/17/proof-that-mycelium-knows-how-to-make-a-better-rng-for-its-entropy-dongle-and-isnt
asciilifeform: packaging their turdware in this form gives it a 'hardware' perfume.
asciilifeform: it's a generic usb drive.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: this appears to be a 'linux live cd' of a kind.
asciilifeform: i bring up sram as concession to the fact that the hypothetical calculator discussed earlier needs a small working memory
asciilifeform: not a well-behaved rng by any metric whatsoever.
assbot: 1 results for 'bit flip sram' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=bit+flip+sram
asciilifeform: for a second or two.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: not in the pcb shots i saw. last time i gave a damn.
asciilifeform: punkman: i am still not able to find a copy of the actual code actually running on the physical device.
assbot: 5 results for 'kill file killed' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=kill+file+killed
assbot: 0 results for 'killfile killed' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=killfile+killed
kakobrekla: still i kinda think its a tad better than plain webwallet
asciilifeform: a dicelist is a list of folks who are to be diced.
kakobrekla: myea its worse than it thought this. a well, lucky for them btc has no chargeback!
asciilifeform: if these are not available, we shall be needing a new 'homo cryptographicus' who can
kakobrekla: well ill attach a note, never upgrade.
asciilifeform: or rather - it is a joke. but on the chumps.
asciilifeform: so not a joke.
asciilifeform: (published pcb prints of that product show a microcontroller reprogrammable in-band - that is, via usb.)
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: those will be going to people who run winblows and possibly a webwallet << if these are dear friends, think again before helping to culture a dangerous sense of false security.
ben_vulpes: kakobrekla: no you don't understand unless it's a perfect solution it's entirely worthless
kakobrekla: one step at a time, those will be going to people who run winblows and possibly a webwallet
asciilifeform: so far bitcoin is the only coin that can live -entirely- in a brain, and failure to use this property is a kind of fundamental waste.
asciilifeform: why not simply a keyboard jack.
asciilifeform: that is, a dedicated box for signing tx is useful, but why does it need to store keys?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: use the python tools to do anything with the Trezor << one of these days, someone should explain to me why a gadget like 'trezor' is necessary
ben_vulpes: this is not cargo cult deconstruction - this is taking the time to do a thing correctly.
ben_vulpes: similarly, there must be a garage, white sheet on the ground, binder for part numbering and notes.
asciilifeform: yes, but opening up the hood and taking the engine apart is a very different order of task than paint.
ben_vulpes: overhauling the engine consists of a myriad of turdlets.
asciilifeform: this is a tremendously annoying mental glitch that i see just about everywhere - from '3d printer' enthusiasts to man-in-space aficionados. it being, the notion that solving myriad 'small, solvable' problems somehow brings us closer to solving the 'big ones' for which we have no angle of approach
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, whoever else: after some hours and a restart the thing jumped << if it needs hand-holding for normal operation (including blockchain sync) it isn't a usable gizmo.
asciilifeform: lead crystal << simply a less-leaded version of the (formerly) ubiquitous glass from which crt is made.