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undata: I'm skeptical anyone who ever read a book called "48 Laws of Power" ever had any
JuliaTourianski: berndj i have lately...been a master of this.
JuliaTourianski: "If I save myself from an adversary by retreating indoors and locking every entrance and exit, I may remain freer than if I had been captured by him, but am I freer than if I had defeated or captured him? If I go too far, contract myself into too small a space, I shall suffocate and die. The logical culmination of the process of destroying everything through which I can possibly be wounded is suicide. While I exist
mircea_popescu: coercion, wtf do you mean coercion ? you're sitting on a chair right now, your but's coerced.
mircea_popescu: but now they are 16, and a man comes and takes them to war, where they get shot and die.
mircea_popescu: this notwithstanding, a strange man comes, takes you away, puts you in a new place and makes you pregnant.
mircea_popescu: you are a little girl growing up in the house of your parents, which is all nice and good.
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski let's look through all this by using a model of yourself as a little girl.
asciilifeform: then goes the other question, is 'king hunger' a governing body?
mircea_popescu: a well.
mircea_popescu: im a sucker for it, what can i say.
asciilifeform: inevitably modern discussions of 'freedom' reveal themselves as having the purpose of convincing a chump that the entire concept, but specifically his wishes to not be a zoo animal, is delusional and he 'is bad and should feel bad'
mircea_popescu: "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied.
mircea_popescu: In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. ☟︎
BingoBoingo finds it more useful to consider freedom a conditional
mircea_popescu: mebbe use a pastebin next time.
JuliaTourianski: "The doctrine that maintains that what I cannot have I must teach myself not to desire, that a desire eliminated, or successfully resisted, is as good as a desire satisfied, is a sublime, but, it seems to me, unmistakable, form of the doctrine of sour grapes: what I cannot be sure of, I cannot truly want. This makes it clear why the definition of negative liberty as the ability to do what one wishes - which is, in e
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski let's take an oblique tack. forget coercing a man. what is coercing a woman ?
JuliaTourianski: the entire thing feels like a feel-good distraction from actual attainable action.
JuliaTourianski: so change direction from blowjobs, I wanted to ask your thought on this "freedom" we're all obsessed with. i like this critique: "To coerce a man is to deprive him of freedom - freedom from what? Almost every moralist in human history has praised freedom. Like happiness and goodness, like nature and reality, it is a term whose meaning is so porous that there is little interpretation that it seems able to resist"
asciilifeform not an expert on the economics of this, but wonders how the cost relates to the 'unit cost' - that is, what it costs to house and feed a typical vendor.
mircea_popescu: http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kimkgif.gif << next we're gonna learn kim came to the us on a hb1 visa.
asciilifeform picked a uniquely bad example, and realized
mircea_popescu: it buys even less than a lolipop on a comet, so what of it ?
asciilifeform: that is, a week of my commute, not counting toll gates or machine wear.
mircea_popescu: i have yet to meet a female argentinian that's both a) fuckable and b) owner in her own right of $100 worth of monthly income free and clear of any burden.
mircea_popescu: you gotta understand for most people $100 in disposable income would actually make a significant difference.
mircea_popescu: o look! there's a parade down my street
jurov: this looks like a trojan in python..using \\\n to trigger
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: someone took the trouble to make a trojan that works on all windowses to date ? << this is very easy given a purely-userland turd.
Azelphur: jurov: I wonder if it's a Windows line ending thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the argument i was trying to make is that, when grunting on a prison asteroid, a liter of rocket fuel makes very little difference. only L liters - sufficient for liftoff - will.
asciilifeform: case files ... the one time you'll never hear about it << once it becomes a plausible thing to claim for a side in a case -> phase transition.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: use a rechargeable prepaid card << the day of 'thumbprint please sir' or at least 'show id' is not far.
mircea_popescu: if this results in a patch to the kernel of w/e jurov's server is using...
mircea_popescu: joecool: poweliks is a really interesting infection that often pulls in the cyperlocker ransomware, that hit the wild a couple months ago << look at that, someone took the trouble to make a trojan that works on all windowses to date ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: let's put it this way. a pile of usd without at least seven or eight decimally-significant zeros trailing after it, would make absolutely no difference to how i live. <<< this is like... the definition of poverty!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: jurov: except that i can't use paper usd for anything << do what the soon-to-be-"protected" folk do, use a rechargeable prepaid card lol
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^^^^^ < at this level it is difficult to distinguish simple idiocy riding on featuritis (because nobodies wish to get a place in the sun, and absent actual skils what better avenue trhan the pretense of adding value ?) and actual malice as oyu describe.
mircea_popescu: fuck him. he has a known fraud as an "investor" ? he's fucked.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> this "innovation" is the fucking thing bitcoin was made to kill.//so they make a lot of messes, thats how kiddies learn and once in a while something useful actually gets invented
mircea_popescu: fucking ignorant derps. "here's a shitpie i made. my investors are ken lay and i'll be making a whipetatter"
mircea_popescu: mrjr: thestringpuller: i'll work on getting my creds in order :) meni rosenfeld is one of our investors, and our cto Shaul Kfir was a reviewer for the sidechain paper. <<< myewah, the surprises keep right on coming
mircea_popescu: motherfucker someone made a clear "here's the water, here's the flour" thing so it's simple and obvious, all sorts of derps come up with all sorts of "improvements" consisting of various doughs. "it stores better as canned frozen dough with our magical chemicals than as simple flour! and you can make things!"
mircea_popescu: mrjr: there's edge cases with malleability etc, but the benefits are that bitcoin operations can have their coins kept in a tx form, not as the information of the privkey << this is so braindamaged i can'teven be bothered.
saifedean: he keeps trying to recruit me to work with him, and i keep trying my best to bluntly explain to him that his whole thing is going to a giant fat zero, and that the best outcome possible for him is to lose only all his money
mircea_popescu: saifedean so do your countrymen a favour, write a local language lenghty piece on exactly how neobee worked, what it was etc.
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: picture a zoologist encountering an alien equivalent of the scorpion for the first time. what will his most important, though scientifically 'fuzziest' observations be? that the animal is - venomous.
asciilifeform: now all of their works are 'guilty until proven innocent' and this is actually a useful heuristic that saves valuable brain cycles when ferreting out the actual logic behind their actions (when there is a logic.)
asciilifeform: same from the perspective that french rev. saw 'kings' as a thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: there is precisely one enemy. but with many tentacles. <<< one you see now. once china's idiotic mr Xi shows up you'll be of a differing opinion. that fuckwit came up with a "war on corruption" that includes the theory that conjugal infidelity is both a sign and a symptom of graft. this is what they do over there now, prosecute cocksuckers & sluts.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: hence, they add up to an act of sabotage. what probably amounts to a hard fork that 'no one' noticed. << i dun think so, fwiw
mircea_popescu: yeah, sure. give it a minute.
mircea_popescu: for a zoologiocal metaphor, the man once bit by a scorpion will readily recognise the "scorpion biting" as an activity that to the naive may well look rather cute.
asciilifeform: a bezzle is there, whether or not the 'wave function collapsed yet'.
mircea_popescu: the naivity of contemporaneity, as it's called. hitler also seemed pretty reasonable to plenty of people as far up as perhaps 1940, but that's not preventing a current understanding of the guy to see him as pretty fucking broken as early as 1930
asciilifeform: enemy is built out of useful idiots, in the same way that a tree is made of atmospheric co2 and soil nutrients
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: at this point, the enemy is enemy not simply because of what he does or may do, but because of what he has done and what he is. <<< well, at the previous point the enemy was not an enemy at all, just a bunch of derps. it's ony recently that trilema went from "power rangers" to "gavin has turned", and for a while there prior to the 2013 debacle he was not even being treated in concordance with the idiocy
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: its a pretty neat feature for say senior to give jr. allotments of capital at guarenteed future date << there are better solutions to this problem.
mircea_popescu: The FBI claims that it cannot discuss the case in open court "without damaging the very national security law enforcement interests it is seeking to protect." Instead, it has filed a secret declaration outlining its case. "This is an especially circular and Kafkaesque line of argument," Shapiro counters. "The FBI considers it a national security threat to make public its reasoning for considering it a national security
mircea_popescu: the very definition of a terrorist organisation.
rithm: i can see how something like this plus a ram scraper would be effective
joecool: it's simple but effective tool to pull in all sorts of junk, the case i was called in to look at was actually a POS system :-\
joecool: asciilifeform: poweliks by default runs a keylogger and is pretty candid about storing the output in plaintext in a tmp file
asciilifeform: crapware artists, generally, aren't focused on 'maximally pwning' a chump in the abstract sense, but in extracting whatever it is that he is worth - e.g., cc #s
rithm: oic there's now PE or even a filesystem object
rithm: i review a lot of the desktop stuff, not actually interface with it on the frontlines
joecool: poweliks is much more simple, usually creates a binary in registry hides it with a null character and puts it in with something that gets called up a lot (like thumbnail cache)
joecool: it's been a long time for me, but that was the most sophisticated and difficult infection i've seen, XP was hit really easy with it
rithm: used to see a good bit tdss
rithm: i don't see a lot of those infections
rithm: so the payload is a real basic thing, modifying files. i hate it
joecool: poweliks is a really interesting infection that often pulls in the cyperlocker ransomware, that hit the wild a couple months ago
asciilifeform: crapware written for intelligence-gathering purposes ( BingoBoingo's picture above ) rarely takes the shape of a 'botnet', usually there is some effort to target a narrow set of chumpers.
rithm: i had an engineer reinstall windows on a cryptowall pc this week and return it to the client
rithm: so like a .sql db is plaintext unless encrypted
asciilifeform: virtually nobody dredges through a chumpnet's entire accessible data set, on account of this being very much like actual work.
rithm: not immediately although that could be a later payload
asciilifeform: it's of more use to me as a scientific toy than as a few new tires for car or a dozen spare disks.
asciilifeform: let's put it this way. a pile of usd without at least seven or eight decimally-significant zeros trailing after it, would make absolutely no difference to how i live.
asciilifeform: last farmer's market of the year on my street is tonight, and i shall be buying a few tomatoes possibly with it
undata: xanthyos: that should've been expected with such a sharp rise.
mrjr: got a blog / post on the issue you're describing? sounds interesting
asciilifeform: bip64, aside from complicating the protocol and giving relevance to the gavin shitgang, is also a jam-tomorrow chumpatronic engineering structural element ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform admits that he suspects bip64 of being a plot to create usg-like bonds in btc. folks will be asked to trace X proper btc for X+epsilon 'locked' ones that are to land back in their pocket 'in the future', should they live long enough, but are actually recovable 'because this is how the world works' ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
mrjr: the remaining 200k+ BTC can be stored in a form that is in-accessible to the operator, and unavailable for "rogue txs" that steal everything
asciilifeform: if a critical mass of ntp servers (e.g. the u.s. hierarchy) is pwned, there go your timelocks.
mrjr: discarding the privkey is a measure against internal theft, which is key to this scheme
mrjr: you still need a cron, to send the nlocked txs every day
mrjr: I operate a 1000 ATMs, and I have a stash of 10,000 BTC (les pretend i do :) )
mrjr: the why is: the operators of the ATM no longer have a need to reach out for the cold-stored 1000 BTC
mrjr: you pre-sign the txs that move the remaining 1000 BTC - x days to a non-practical multisig
mrjr: say you presign 50 BTC / day to a given ATM, coming from your stash of 1000 BTC.
asciilifeform: in the case of delay mechanism: you've broadcast a set of delayed transactions that will keep landing in the now-stolen addr. nightly.
mrjr: there's an alternative pre-signed transaction chain that sends the coins to alternative addresses, possibly more protected, and a pre-signed "lockdown" transaction that just sends the coins to a non-practical (from an operation standpoint) multisig
mrjr: thestringpuller: i'll work on getting my creds in order :) meni rosenfeld is one of our investors, and our cto Shaul Kfir was a reviewer for the sidechain paper.
mrjr: thestringpuller: our first service is just what you wrote, giving the network a means to trust that a tx will be valid on time (unless ofcourse it was double spent, in which case you get notified)
mrjr: the tech is useful e.g. for an exchange/bank that keeps large amounts of BTC, but has a daily use for BTC as clients withdraw funds.
mrjr: we're working on a whitepaper to have some feedback on our design :)