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asciilifeform: blind 'taint' analysis is one thing, a list of 1mil names and deposit addrs is quite another.
TheNewDeal: they also claimed to have followed a few large addresses that attempted to bunch and split their coins (not necessarily mix)
TheNewDeal: they draw a map of transactions in it, and you can see a bunch of silk road addresses off on the side
TheNewDeal: there was an article posted here a while back (it's in the lawgs). It was 2 dudes, one of them for sure had an indian last name
BingoBoingo: It seems like a horribly ineffective way to track ownership of coins or their movement.
mike_c: BingoBoingo: doesn't work like is inaccurate? or just that it's a bad idea to begin with.
TheNewDeal: how does their taint analysis work? maybe that's something kind of like what I'm looking for. Some 2nd and 3rd level addresses that have bumped into contact with a particular address
mike_c: blockchain.info has a clickable thing ifyou're looking follow certain txs
TheNewDeal: like a visual map
mike_c: like a chain of blocks containing addresses & transaction data?
TheNewDeal: maybe like a wget of bitcoin addresses / transactions?
TheNewDeal: does anyone know of a good bitcoin network graph type generator
decimation: duh - "The bottom line is that we have absolutely no idea if pay for Federal employees is consistent with private sector pay for a given type of job in a given location.The data is not there and it may not serve the interests of politicians to actually find out what the truth is.f"
assbot: Will Feds Get a Pay Raise in 2014? : FedSmith.com
decimation: http://www.fedsmith.com/2013/07/26/will-feds-get-a-pay-raise-in-2014/
asciilifeform: and the question of what precisely a 'living wage' might be, in bezzleworld, is a rather tricky one.
asciilifeform: other little 'secret' - with the exception of 'secret' agencies, a contractor need not be a u.s. citizen.
decimation: kinda like you can only rent a miner for more than its expected bitcoin mining return, I suspect most 'employees' of usg work for less than a 'living wage'
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: cheaper on a dollars/shit done metric maybe - not dollars/hr
decimation: if they work for less than a 'living wage', then they are essentially donating their life to usg
asciilifeform did ~3 yrs of this type of contracting. a real laugh. didn't even have paid time off.
assbot: Facebooks route to becoming a reassurance machine | Ars Technica
asciilifeform: most of the contractors are hired for a fixed salary, agreed on before-hand, as if they were normal employees
asciilifeform: even today, buying the kind of insurance available for a token fee to civil service folks or employees of large concerns - costs 1-2k usd / month if you do it 'as a human'
ben_vulpes: i'm not even as funny as a markov chain
ben_vulpes: i think vexual has a higher bash score than i
ben_vulpes: <jurov> that was more like a tweet << playing with the format a bit, yeah. 140 characters ain't enough, but less than 200 words can be fine too.
jurov: that was more like a tweet
TheNewDeal: claimed he was a teacher
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal he was a small, very vocal, very entertaining player.
fluffypony: TheNewDeal: I think the hard G sounds better if it's describing a bird :-P
fluffypony: TheNewDeal: some dude on Fiverr, I wrote the script and it cost me a whole $5 :-P
fluffypony: [2014-08-17T17:03:50+0200] <usagi> Fluffypony are you aware that I have actually been offered business as a result of you targeting me?
TheNewDeal: was he a small time player in the scale of the glbse flop?
TheNewDeal: crashing bird film should receive a 91% at minimum on rotten tomatoes
asciilifeform: wait! same usagi to whom someone dedicated a voicing of my crashing bird film ?
mircea_popescu: well, his relevancy came at a very late point. he had been making noises for a long time, but nobdy paid attention for an equally long time.
mircea_popescu: consider the situaiton where a bunch of people actually believed the earth is flat at some point
TheNewDeal: wasn't usagi giving insurance though at a VERY late point in the pirate ship?
mircea_popescu: plenty of people ACTUALLY believed a) pirate is a bright ceo etc
TheNewDeal: why the hell would anyone insure against a default on pirate?
TheNewDeal: usagi told me it was paying out on a glbse default
gribble: You rated user usagi on Tue Apr 15 13:37:58 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: Had a 1140 btc contract with usagi which entitled me to said amount on 2012-08-26. The final payment was done 2013-04-27, totaling 995 btc. The sum was 145 btc short but I agreed to let it slide because of distress on the market of the underlying 'securities' and rapid btc market (1 more message)
TheNewDeal: you got a payout from usagi at one point, amiright?
TheNewDeal: "In the event of a full pirate default, NYAN.C will loose out, and CPA holds NYAN which holds NYAN.C. Then we have contracts on the outside as well. All in all CPA will remain very solvent, it may lose 20% of it's value in a full default. But we stands just as ready to gain 20% if pirate doesn't default." - it will remain very solvent
mircea_popescu: hm. maybe pirate was earlier, there were a bunch
mircea_popescu: it was a default of pirate wasn't it ?
TheNewDeal: that was him insuring against a default of glbse?
gribble: You rated user usagi on Tue Jul 3 07:45:25 2012, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: good business, thanks =).
TheNewDeal: July 2015 is a long ways away
mircea_popescu: this because you know, merchant adoption is so important for a coin and all that.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there's been a block with a transaction in it since may.
mircea_popescu: well, it'd also need to have a transaction.
TheNewDeal: so a 51% attack right now would be how many TH?
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal well it's got 1.7th perm from now on, plus whatever other people throw at it, so im guessing a 5 to 10 th rate going forward is probably its level
mike_c: what noun? cull is a verb.
mircea_popescu: (more likle, the implication is you're from the us, and thus mate once for a lyftyme)
TheNewDeal: do you think the females would enjoy a reused condom?
TheNewDeal: do i smell a new otc rating coming?
thestringpuller: TheNewDeal is a master at vivisecting animals into humans
TheNewDeal: best comment on the article "I want a spider goat condom, that I can pass down to my male grand child."
asciilifeform: not really the sensational chimera the article suggests. ordinary goat that secretes a usefully spidersilky protein in the milk.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: this animal appears as a minor character in m. atwood's book 'oryx and crake', where it is called 'spoat/gider'
mircea_popescu: sad that the story fails to include a "he mumbled god dangit while kicking the machine a couple of times"
xanthyos: punkman: he spoke to me just a couple hours ago planning to try the lamassu
punkman: heh >> dustintheweb: Story time: I just bought 0.2 from a Lamassu ATM. It timed out in mid process w/out ever updating the bitchain. I about crapped my pants, but the business owner opened the box for me, got my money out, then we tried it again until it worked.
xanthyos: completely reputable individual who refuses to wot or use a real irc client
TheNewDeal: is anyone familiar with a terry tibs?
mircea_popescu: people understand it's fucking stupid to undertake administering a shithole.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo it's looking pretty gnarly huh.// just needs a handbasket
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal> on bitbet, people always write up a bet about stocks like GOOG will close at above 1200 before jan 1 << so it's like freedom, let them have fun.
assbot: Pushing the soft tender flesh of a friend against the sharp rotating blades of the immutable machine. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2014/pushing-the-soft-tender-flesh-of-a-friend-against-the-sharp-rotating-blades-of-the-immutable-machine/#comment-105667
X-Rob: as a lot of them just leave the defaults. Which is fine for a slow, scrypt, pool. But terrible when you point TH of SHA at it.
X-Rob: and a lot of the time I then have to help smaller pools configure their servers correctly
Apocalyptic: if you find people willing to rent hardware for a ridiculous price then you're good regardless
Apocalyptic: that's a different story, as you're not the only one bearing the cost
X-Rob: that paid off all my avalon3 gear which I bought on a whim and then immediately regretted.
TheNewDeal: on bitbet, people always write up a bet about stocks like GOOG will close at above 1200 before jan 1
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal the common wisdom at the time was that someone butterfingered. either it was meant to be a buy rather than a sell, or too many zeroes or something
mircea_popescu: (there was this event, back in 2012 iirc, when someone sold like 1mn shares in shallow bids, resulting into a temporary 99.9% drop of the price)
TheNewDeal: dropped to 442 a few hours ago
gribble: Bitstamp | A market order to buy 1000 bitcoins right now would take 480559.8422 USD and would take the last price up to 492.0000 USD, resulting in an average price of 480.5598 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0276 seconds
gribble: Error: "marketbuy" is not a valid command.
TheNewDeal: didn't know bb was a librarian
asciilifeform: chetty: the poster is a favourite of librarians.
asciilifeform: there is a third option, that i'll bring up for completeness because it appears to be very popular these days: piss in a paper cup, write 'beer' on it, drink up.
chetty: you worked for N*A asciilifeform ?
asciilifeform: (actual poster in a former workplace of mine)
asciilifeform: 'a decade in the lab could save you an afternoon in the library.'
asciilifeform: just as, if you want a glass of beer, no need to go to the pub - find some sand, salt, build a forge, having the glass, find some hops, barley... perhaps you will drink a superior beer in a few decades
asciilifeform: well, technically not required. you can always decide to spend the next 20 years as a historian and walk the author's sources yourself, coming to his - or a different - conclusion.
jurov: <mircea_popescu> [09:28:56] mp lists derps, ... nobody wants to do series a anymoar. << but i was waiting with any advertisement till F.DERP gets online
asciilifeform: in so far as food can still be produced via traditional low-tech methods, the dream remains a dream
TheNewDeal: pete_dushenski , from a book my father was reading, one does not need to fast for 24 hours to reap the benefits
asciilifeform: usagi: at present, they have a very lucrative business (in usa) of filing mass lawsuits against folks on whose property their product ends up, through whatever means. hence the unprofitability of 'terminator'
chetty: <asciilifeform> a historical annoyance, for all forms of state, is that folks can, in general, grow food without asking it permission first.//+++++
asciilifeform: a historical annoyance, for all forms of state, is that folks can, in general, grow food without asking it permission first.
asciilifeform: chetty: even with the poison, to approach something like the lethality of the mass automobile would be quite a feat. the more interesting aspect of present-day 'gmo' is geopolitical ('terminator seed', etc.)
chetty: <asciilifeform> there is only, at present, 'foods optimized to resist gargantuan quantities of herbicide on the field.'// actually I dont think they much have a clue all the effects of the 'engineering' they been up to