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DreadKnight: so I found this awesome commenting system / forum
a while ago, but the devs stick with
a manifest to not allow editing posts for too long; and even the devs make no sense in posts at times xD
mircea_popescu: " I would rather trust my funds with Cryptostocks than MPEx" well that's
a winning proposition for sure. i would say he should, and that'll be punishment enough.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight it's an absolute cesspool. i doubt 4chan could make
a worse one if they tried.
assbot: Smack That Ace is using
a ring of accounts to create scams!
mircea_popescu: lol "
a professional" ==== "someone who gave <tips> on
a forum populated by retards"
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, sounds good, compared to 32 degrees here (I'm more of
a winter / cold person)
DreadKnight:
a bit caught up with silly freelancing atm; and the heat doesn't help xD
mircea_popescu: o no, gotta express oneself. here we are after just
a few short month on the campus, with something to say on all topics and we always wanted to try the swamp out!
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell coinfire how about i give you
a bitcoin in exchange for not being retarded anymore.
BingoBoingo: "Here we are just
a few short months later and we’ve heard from various people in the industry that we are quickly creating one of the most reliable cryptocurrency news sites and we’ve gathered up
a team of kick ass volunteers to help us grow this madness out." << Is this in reference to the pats on the back for making
a phone call and finding out "insured wallet" wasn't insured?
mircea_popescu: "Here we are just
a few short months later and we’ve heard from various people in the industry that we are quickly creating one of the most reliable cryptocurrency news sites and we’ve gathered up
a team of kick ass volunteers to help us grow this madness out."
mircea_popescu: "The fund which received regulator approval from the Isle of Jersey back in back in July and was set to launch this month has joined The Bitcoin Foundation as
a Silver Member."
xmj: assbot: is
a case of NIH
steven-__: in the same way b-
a is sort of
a internet chat room
steven-__: they have been doing 2 shows
a week for almost 600 eps
steven-__: its
a news / comedy show but it also has
a strong fan base that sends in tips they broke that bo birddog? story pretty much the house it happened
TheNewDeal: bet also presents
a decent hedging opportunity. Speaking of which, I'm loving all these active price bets lately
TheNewDeal: no doubt. I think it's
a great bet, and
a somewhat ballsy one as well
TheNewDeal: just curious. I was trying to make
a bet on MMM on
a BTC basis in the past, and it kept on getting rejected. The brk-
a bet surfaced not too long after
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ;;google senior executive service pay << these folk get options. whole different story, as bubbles happen 3-5 times in
a lifetime.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, gotta show the kids what it means to be the boss and what
a boss does.
assbot: An era ends today.
A new era starts today. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:they aren't rich, in the customary sense - but not paupers. << compare what'd happen to the us bureaucrat pauper vs the russian bureaucrat once someone in
a hostile nation put the kaibosh on them. they're paupers.
TheNewDeal: MP, whered you get the idea for the brk-
a bet?
mircea_popescu: decimation: at any rate it's not clear to me that clowns like Hayden or Alexander would even recognize skills if they saw them << precisely. suppose they DO recognise them, like, "this chick looks like she could suck
a golfball through
a gardenhose." now what ? the last guy that recognised that skill lost his job.
mircea_popescu: decimation: Hayden emphasized that the personnel problems are far less significant than the technological ones << well, i disagree. now, from
a bureaucrat pov, sure, they generally can fill any jobs they want filled, according to their selection process. this however does not mean they are gaining any sort of valuable human capital.
mircea_popescu: dude. lordosis just like that is usually
a pathologic curvature of the spine. teh lordosis ~behaviour~ is different.
ben_vulpes: is that
a function of having borne young or not feeling hawt?
TheNewDeal: currently on the search for
a % base graph of bitcoin days destroyed
decimation: probably worth the price if you are in
a hurry
decimation: that's pretty much the equivalent of breaking windows, replacing them with more expensive (yet worse) windows (heh), and counting the whole project as
a net positive GDP
decimation: asciilifeform:
http://www.nsa.gov/careers/FAQs/index.shtml Below are entry-level salaries (including locality pay) for several different skill fields. (Entry-level is defined as having
a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.) Language Analysis & Intelligence Analysis $42,209 Computer Science $55,293 * Mathematics $51,894 * Computer/Electrical Engineering $56,375*
decimation: if such people exist, they are probably pretty sad these days, given the point made
a few weeks ago about how they would have to live as paupers
decimation: Hayden emphasized that the personnel problems are far less significant than the technological ones: "The issue is not people but external changes. For the N.S.
A., technology is
a two-edged sword. If technology in the outside world races away from us -- at breakneck speed -- our mission is more difficult. It can be our enemy."
decimation: so this layer hack is
a function of the firmware on the keyboard?
decimation: huh do they have
a unicomp controller gizmo? I assume it's
a clone of the model m with usb gadget
kakobrekla: you can do most if not all of those tricks in os instead but ps2 is becoming
a rarity anyway.
kakobrekla: fyi you can remap any key to act as
a layer switch so have n of different full layouts
kakobrekla: the only thing i miss is that far right enter for some reason but i have
a programmable hw ps2 to usb converter and remaped keys / macros
lobbes: <mircea_popescu> there should be
a new constitutional amendment. "no one may run for elected office, be it presidential, as member of congress or senate or any other, who can not recite the entirety of all laws, regulations etc" << Does that include all migratory bird treaties?
kakobrekla: it has
a built in matrix thingy, if you misaddress the pointer to the screen line it will automatrix.
mircea_popescu: there should be
a new constitutional amendment. "no one may run for elected office, be it presidential, as member of congress or senate or any other, who can not recite the entirety of all laws, regulations etc"
mike_c: death. you know, if you think it's
a good idea.
mike_c: the thing is, there is currently
a bunch of free money on the table.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> turns back to me like nothing happened. Miriam faces these ancient human problems of violence and poverty, yet she owns
a futuristic technology like
a smartphone. This haunted me for months." <<< all this meaningless bs. was the daughter hawt is all i want to know.
assbot: Schneier on Security: The US Intelligence Community has
a Third Leaker
decimation: turns back to me like nothing happened. Miriam faces these ancient human problems of violence and poverty, yet she owns
a futuristic technology like
a smartphone. This haunted me for months."
decimation: "I met one trashpicker named Miriam who made her livelihood with her teenage daughter by selling plastic scraps for
a dollar or two
a day. She was telling me her story: the grinding poverty, the constant threat of extortion and murder by organized crime, the shooting of her husband, the sexual assaults on her daughter. In the middle of this heartbreaking story, her phone rings and she pulls out
a nice smart phone, texts someone, and
gribble: Error: "calkc" is not
a valid command.
gribble: Error: "calk" is not
a valid command.
decimation: asciilifeform it seems to me that
a router is exactly the kind of device that 'wants' to be
a dataflow architechture,
gribble: Error: "cal" is not
a valid command.
decimation: poor exploit << sounds like
a router hack
kakobrekla: yeah, just thought it was funny
a buck of doge gets
a mention.
kakobrekla: As many as 8,000 Dogecoins, equivalent to $1.42, were lost as
a result of the hack.
decimation: that seems to be
a pretty important detail
decimation: the question is: if this isn't
a scam, where are they going to trade bitcoin?
☟︎ assbot: Nasdaqs LaValle: Bitcoin ETF
A Turning Point | ETF.com
decimation: "Warrants become
a lot easier to serve when it's only one or two mega-social sites involved rather than
a multitude of host providers and network companies. (Conspiracy theorists are already taking note of that same Person of the Year article's mention of FBI Director Robert Mueller just dropping by to say hello to Zuckerberg in the midst of
a company meeting.)"
decimation: it's amusing to watch the half-life of
a silly-con valley company - only takes ten years to go from young turks to us dept. of search engine
decimation: re: google < I've heard from folks who work there that it has already become
a sad bureaucracy
fluffypony:
a change in PoW because the mining network is being replaced by
a single competitor is
a completely different value proposition
mircea_popescu: i don't need to be buddies with
a cockroach to know why it can't fly.
mircea_popescu: he has lots of resources as long as he uses them
a certain way