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pankkake: thestringpuller: weird! I've known it since childhood
pankkake: http://www.istorage-uk.com/datashur.php the battery is a nice touch, I was wondering how to boot from these devices [I AM NOT SUGGESTING THIS IS SECURE GUYZ]
nubbins`: i'm wondering if this is a common thing or if i have a shiny gem
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i've no idea whether it is possible to build an unmolested autarkik village in modern ar. <<< you can do pretty much exactly whatever the fuck you please. yesterday';s newspaper carried a report of a gang of 5 men that attacked a minor detention center to get a kid out
asciilifeform: i've no idea whether it is possible to build an unmolested autarkik village in modern ar.
chetty: I think right now a lot of locals are just trying to survive until the next election
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as for what the germans did there - if i recall, they built self-contained villages and had little to no contact with the locals.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where, as a boy, right before leaving, i traded a shoebox full of toilet paper money for 1 usd.
chetty: argentina has a high import tax on everything, I am looking into other ways to get things
nubbins`: like this meat puppets one i have
nubbins`: i tell ya, there's something deeply satisfying about listening to music this way
mircea_popescu: i will have you know i cam through with a full bottle of tuica
chetty: I would ask for shirts but someone would need to deliver, customs here is impossible
artifexd: nubbins`: I'll commit to two #b-a shirts. An XL and a S.
mircea_popescu: i thought it has something to do with that rainbow cat thing
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think that's a reference to the CDO whose only asset to not collapse in value was MPOE bonds
fluffypony: thestringpuller: I see you're fighting a losing battle with Mr. It's-Not-My-Fault-I-Didn't-Do-Anything-Wrong
danielpbarron: I'd buy one
thestringpuller: I want to buy 50 of those and hand them out at Bitcoin meetups
fluffypony: and if you do a woman's one I'll order 2 for the wife as well
thestringpuller: what am I ordering?
thestringpuller: I'll take 100
fluffypony: I'll order 4
nubbins`: fluffypony: i'll do up a mock-up this week and hopefully get an order page set up
mircea_popescu: i can sorta visualize the bezzle as this very raunchy bubble butted 20something mulatto
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard, you're the guy i was trying to get to audit the ohio rental asset thing right ?
nubbins`: worst hangover of my life yesterday, struggling not to vomit as i get out of bed, glance at FB on my way to make coffee and see that a friend is selling a trumpet
nubbins`: so i bought a trumpet
Sebastan: how can i make it permanent?
Sebastan: thanks mircea_popescu... do i have voice now permanently?
mircea_popescu: i c
bitstein: I'll be sure to let him know, thanks
bitstein: Pierre_Rochard and I are very close friends
danielpbarron: well they definitely shouldn't get a -1; I don't trust the first guy, so why would I trust his negative ratings?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron, that definitely doesn't work like any group algebra i ever heard of
Pierre_Rochard: enemy of my enemy is my friend vs. scammers scamming scammers. I think the latter makes more sense in the context of trust relationships
mircea_popescu: i wonder if the current treatment of neg trust over l2 composition is to ignore the 2nd layer negs or to convey them
danielpbarron: i get the feeling that he's trying to do some sort of poorly managed public relations campaign right now
fluffypony: hah hah - I gave up arguing with him
Pierre_Rochard: more comfortable than wearing stockings I would guess
fluffypony: I love the way the guy has a ninja mask in his picture
assbot: Figs comments on CMV: if I know Perl or Python, I don't need to learn bash.
fluffypony: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/26z1er/cmv_if_i_know_perl_or_python_i_dont_need_to_learn/chw49ml
mircea_popescu: i wonder if up next is china announcing that it will sanction any countries that implement us aml/kyc measures.
fluffypony: save the environment, buy energy efficient lightbulbs that come in packaging like this: http://i.imgur.com/7Xh1Hwa.jpg
mircea_popescu: i guess coming up next week, obama promises the us will never use its nuclear arsenal, as part of the inauguration of a primary school in a provincial town in kenya.
mircea_popescu: i tell you, they cut the most important policy pillar over nothing ?! it's beyond comedic.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the real world... i guess the secretary of state better be careful traveling.
mircea_popescu: no i get that part.
mircea_popescu: "ex board member here using an anonymous alias so i will not receive backlash from other board members or friedcat
fluffypony: this is how I imagine Mats_cd03 cruises the streets: http://i.imgur.com/0koacPX.jpg
mircea_popescu: i wasn't distinguishing.
pankkake: currently I have two solutions, which slightly benefit from obscurity
pankkake: I don't have any clear text backup
BingoBoingo: OMG Gawker has an essay about adversity I can relate to (after the shitty intro) http://gawker.com/when-god-grabs-you-by-the-balls-1584192836/all
fluffypony: I was thinking more about some of my business units where physical stock would be destroyed and the logistics chain would disappear
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: yep - and the reality is that a natural disaster that destroys a city will probably affect your business' ability to function anyway << this is, again, the nonsense i was rejecting.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I need to threaten someone << no, you just need to infiltrate the command centers of your would be "enemies" and then lead on their nonsense for lulz and butthurt.
mircea_popescu: artifexd: asciilifeform: Exactly why I'd like to offload that to someone else. << lol i'm sure you';re the first that thought of that :D
fluffypony: [14:32:39] ThomasV: actually I believe I gave my business card to a journalist from coindesk during the amsterdam conference
fluffypony: [14:29:35] ThomasV: I saw that email well after they sent it, because they did not use my normal email address
mircea_popescu: i am literally getting a billion dollar idea a day just walking down the fucking street and noticing that wait, they actually don't have x ? bwahahahaha etc.
mircea_popescu: argentina is an incredibly rich country populated by the most pompous, clueless, ineffective and ineffectual people i have encounter in my entire life, travelling five continents.
Mats_cd03: I wonder how many people have been suckered
Mats_cd03: Take me home... I want to go...
jurov: good i did not go
pankkake: ;;later tell mircea_popescu storing your only two backups in the same city is no doubt risky, but still it's unlikely that you manage to salvage none if case of a natural disaster. one of the reasons I don't think paper is the ultimate backup though
fluffypony: I need to threaten someone
fluffypony: I feel like I'm left out
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dignork: benkay: sorry, i typed into wrong window, we tried to play with multisig transactions on testnet
artifexd: Eh. Nothing major. I wrote some software many years ago that still sells enough to make it worth my time to keep the website up. Making purchases go straight to bitcoin would be nice.
artifexd: asciilifeform: Exactly why I'd like to offload that to someone else.
artifexd: There are many payment processors that take bitcoin and give the seller fiat. I'd like to see a payment processor that takes fiat and gives the seller btc.
decimation: I mean "yo dawg, we heard you like to launch ICBMs - so we put an ICBM launch in your ICBM lauches"
TheNewDeal: asciilifeform how did you know about chicago elevators? Is that were you reside? I'm working in Chicago for the next week...
decimation: there was some dumb tv show like pawn stars or something like that where some guy was trying to sell a "missile key" for $30k if I recall
TheNewDeal: I was inquiring about darkcoin when you brought it up
TheNewDeal: mircea_popescu I've been trying to find a list of premine / scamcoins that you provided in the past. It was in a wikipedia format. Can't find it in the logs
decimation: Yeah I guess you can wire the address lines for the input to link to the outputs you want to simulate
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> mp actually helped design that? didn't know he had that know-how << i'm really good at piggybacking on people's work.
TheNewDeal: I'm going to go enjoy a smoke and ponder that thought
decimation: yeah I guess you can just craw through its contents turing-machine style
TheNewDeal: now I understand why that crazy comp science teacher told me I had it easy
decimation: Also I found this amusing link: http://blog.notdot.net/2012/10/Build-your-own-FPGA
TheNewDeal: I though the card sorter was the actual machine that computed, no>
TheNewDeal: oh my gosh, just talked to t his electrician the other day that told me he used to do maintenance on card sorters, like IBM's 074. Just thought I'd toss that in on the topic of old hardware
TheNewDeal: Thought I heard him say something about hardware not being his fortay
joecool: i have no idea what my keyboard controller is capable of anymore, so yeah points totally valid
TheNewDeal: I guess "NSA dealio" was a little... nonspecific
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: i built the rng. yes, it is only one of the components.
TheNewDeal: I thought MPEX's NSA was developing some RNG
asciilifeform: decimation: i'll helpfully point out where this line of thought ends: if you can't re-create the device in its entirety from the published docs, it isn't worth using.
asciilifeform: decimation: if it did, i'da bought it, and wouldn't be trying to build
asciilifeform: if it's a crypto gizmo and has seal - which i didn't put there - i've no interest in it.
decimation: I feel better about a device when it has a calibration seal
asciilifeform: 'doctor it hurts when i do that. -- don't do that.' ☟︎
decimation: Last I called, NIST wanted $5-10k for "labor costs" to measure the phase noise of a microwave oscillator
decimation: well, to be fair I think the application is to generate noise for comms. simulation purposes, not crypto
joecool: asciilifeform: probably, I honestly never looked at that, will go read now