207000+ entries in 1.623s
pete_dushenski: though i did get
a pretty sweet arcteryx winter jacket at the end of last season that i'm looking forward to sporting.
pete_dushenski: cheaper than
a canada goose down jacket and
a bathtub full of maple syrup, i suppose.
assbot: Logged on 28-03-2014 00:41:08; ozbot: Researches find Android apps that covertly mine Dogecoin, one of them with more than
a million downl
pete_dushenski: ya wasn't there
a dogecoin mining botnet on android fones too?
pete_dushenski: "The researchers have found that it's possible to trick the Android app wrapping system so that an image can be wrapped up with malware, and delivered inside an innocuous wrapper app, which gets past both security apps and Google's Bouncer. The basis of the attack is
a custom encryption package (which they dubbed AngeCrypt) that makes the malicious APK look like
a valid PNG image file (other image formats work as
RagnarDanneskjol: well - he's not just
a tutor - he's building stuff too - talkin bout Azlph
RagnarDanneskjol: none taken - I know my security leaves much to be desired.. why I hired
a fulltime tutor
ben_vulpes: that's
a pretty funny self-indictment of javaland if you don't mind my saying so.
thestringpuller: ^ MP must say at least once
a day, "i'm too old for this shit"
ben_vulpes: it's
a forging of some kind. trial by fire.
thestringpuller: On
a side note, I've noticed Roger Ver's bitcoinstore is not...around anymore?
assbot: Who Are We? Not Nationals | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
assbot:
A conceit, or the importance of blogging pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
thestringpuller: "This engineer sees additional PGP problems: (1) ancient C codebase, and (2) lack of
a usable lib."
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: romania was for
a while on par with somalia. << but romania got "aid"
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: if we were still on gold standard, China could just dump gold and cause
a collapse
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: this is also quite right. either russia or china can in fact raise interest rates causing
a collapse. << their own rates? or just dump some us bonds and trigger us rate increase?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:
a quarter bn in 2014 ? seriously ? all into shit ? << lol. tip of the derpberg.
pete_dushenski: and there hasn't been any anonslaught for the latest piece. but it's only been
a few hours.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu i'll repent by updating my "how to run
a node" article with ben_vulpes' final work :)
pete_dushenski: (i sound like
a gangster-rapper in writing, apparently)
mircea_popescu: so that bitcoin split among
a pro and
a noob division is scarcely amazing.
mircea_popescu: the noobs aren't really capable of handling the sort of requirements to dld
a full chain.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to be perfectly fair : the bdb arrangement wasn't really tenable on the long haul. it had to be replaced with
a better db.
ben_vulpes: should la serenissima publish
a torrent?
ben_vulpes: so every blockchain could be
a snowflake.
mircea_popescu: there is one caveat, specifically, that you must make
a file named DB_CONFIG that contains
a set_lg_dir database set_lk_max_locks 500000
ben_vulpes: although if you'd be willing to share your tarball and
a version number against which i could build that might show some interesting things on
a block-by-block diffing
mircea_popescu: it'll take
a few weeks, but what's the rush, and this way you get an authenti ccopy.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes anyway, i'll pass you
a signed tarball tomorrow ?
mircea_popescu: but you don't want it to sync anyway, just feed it
a preindexed chain.
ben_vulpes: this is where docker starts coming in handy: instead of burning many hours on chasing down platform and architecture details to get the thing to work on os x, i'm leaning towards just running 0.5.3 in
a VM.
ben_vulpes: i also think that building on os x is
a bad idea
pete_dushenski: i meant on the blog.. but i see where you're going. i'll drop him
a twit.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> <mircea_popescu> anyway, the consensus seems to be 6.3 ? << i've yet to hear
a compelling argument for anything past 0.5.3 << ok, so 5.4
ben_vulpes: getting command line functionality on os x has been
a headache every time i tried it
ben_vulpes: i still depend on the qt client. need to come up with
a workflow that works for the 0.5.3 client.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> anyway, the consensus seems to be 6.3 ? << i've yet to hear
a compelling argument for anything past 0.5.3
ben_vulpes: although let's be clear, i was just browsing the release notes. if there were breaking changes merged in since then, this'd be
a lulzy way to surface them.
mircea_popescu: this is no figure of speech either. in 1992ish, plenty of romanians working for the state made ~1.20 dollars
a day
decimation: yeah it was the sane move. russia has
a sad economy but enormous natural reserves, they should price their money like kuwait
mircea_popescu: this is also quite right. either russia or china can in fact raise interest rates causing
a collapse.
mircea_popescu: trade deal (that circumvents the US dollar). In comparison, the US is
a dead man walking: unless it can continue rolling over trillions of dollars in short-term debt every month at record-low interest rates, it won't be able to pay the interest on its debt or its bills.
mircea_popescu: Financially, Russia's position is so solid that even the three Western credit ratings agencies don't have the gall to downgrade Russia's rating, sanctions notwithstanding. This is
a country that is aggressively paying down its foreign debt, is running
a record-high budget surplus, has
a positive balance of payments, is piling up physical gold reserves, and not
a month goes by that it doesn't sign
a major international
mircea_popescu: five bux, which is
a gross estimate of its actual net worth, won't make
a difference.
mircea_popescu: it's not
a matter of bankruptcy anyway. so debt is senior to equity, facebook implodes leaving
a 60 bn hole, what's going to be sold ? watsapp ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: it strikes me that if rates are hiked both stocks and bonds would take
a hit
mod6: perhaps the script should throw
a line in /etc/apt/sources.list
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can tell me anything you wish, but he IS
a kgb puppet. there's just no way he could have figured this one on his own.
mircea_popescu: the Federal Reserve is fresh out of magic bullets and faces
a choice between crashing the stock market and crashing the bond market. << this is exactly correct by the way.
mircea_popescu: "For example, it is known that after the end of World War II America's military planners were thinking of launching
a nuclear strike against the USSR, and the only thing that held them back was the fact that they didn't have enough bombs, meaning that Russia would have taken over all of Europe before the effects of the nuclear strikes could have deterred them from doing so (Russia had no nuclear weapons at the time, bu
mircea_popescu: like trying to evaluate the weight of the stone around
a man's neck who's chained to the castle wall.
mircea_popescu: more importantly : if the various cds, swaps and futures unwind, that's
a notional .5 to 100 quadrillion dollars gone
mircea_popescu: this for
a number of reasons, chief among which : the reported figures doesn't and hasn't for decades included all sorts of figures.
undata: and they have
a fiddly definition of what counts as debt
mircea_popescu: "You'd think that Obama has already overplayed his hand, and should behave accordingly. His popularity at home is roughly the inverse of Putin's, which is to say, Obama is still more popular than Ebola, but not by much. He can't get anything at all done, no matter how pointless or futile, and his efforts to date, at home and abroad, have been pretty much
a disaster. So what does this social worker turned national masco
decimation: now the us runs
a net trade deficit of >500$bn per year
decimation: but in 1980 usg was
a net trade creditor to the world
mircea_popescu: decimation nothing's as readily persuasive as
a mistake.
othernubs`: actually i may include doc/* as an addendum, it's only
a few single pages
undata: asciilifeform: no no,
a kid rock album and beer.
undata: I hear
a basket of american-flag cookies cures PTSD.
mircea_popescu: guy made some allegations of theft, fraud and embezzelment, died in custody without having been charged,
a week before the one year (seriously ?!?!?!) term he could be held without trial.