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fluffypony: mircea_popescu: like there's no problem in saying that
a lot of wealth in South Africa still lies in the hands of whites by virtue of being born into privilege and so on, this is
a known thing and it is spoken about and there are policies that are trying to correct this by providing an easier route to good education for the less fortunate and so on
pete_dushenski: it single-handedly got me
a rating comment of "pimp" after all
fluffypony: eg. your grandfather had no education and so lived in poverty, thus your father had no education and lived in poverty, and now you finally have an opportunity to get
a reasonable education and can pull yourself out of poverty, but there are decades that must elapse before it's more "balanced"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you know that strikes me as
a very charitable read.
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fluffypony: RebeccaBitcoin: South African expats are literally the worst, they're
a running joke on the /r/southafrica sub-reddit
fluffypony: so to remove him all you have to do is have
a change of hands within the party
RebeccaBitcoin: I've heard from others that it is "continuing to go downhill" but that's based on
a limited number of people, mostly from cape town
RebeccaBitcoin: I don't know enough about it to really have
a valid opinion
mircea_popescu: under your criteria, specifically,
a lot of foreign investment
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> decimation: nope - too many overseas companies with skin in the game, they won't let
a despot ruin their income ;) <<< this is at best naive.
fluffypony: decimation: nope - too many overseas companies with skin in the game, they won't let
a despot ruin their income ;)
fluffypony: by old-school I mean that
a lot of the older ones especially struggle to shed the ingrained views that Apartheid taught them
mircea_popescu: is pretoria like
a sort of pennsylvania, amish et all ?
decimation: Why wouldn't pretoria be
a nice place if it's old-school Afrikaans?
fluffypony: yeah, the building ownership thing was
a fuckup
fluffypony: we used to go up there when I was
a kid
mircea_popescu: i mean all the sympathy for them people being surrounded by
a bunch of arab derpage, which they consistently own bareback.
decimation: well, going down this road would be
a good first step
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Vexual: what about
a gps inside that only sees the sun if the crack it with one of those doorknocker things that jerusalem has
Vexual: like buy
a known safe, and move the intenals?
RebeccaBitcoin: someone types it in, then
a few mins later, take the thermal image
decimation:
a keypad seems like
a terrible design for sensitive data entry
ben_vulpes: RebeccaBitcoin: you gotta get
a real client, for starters.
RebeccaBitcoin: Before this conversation got out of hand, i was mainly referring to the ability of this site to generate
a random wallet. I've read before that mouse entropy is crap. While there are 2892383289 ^298289 possible private keys for Bitcoin,
a wallet like this might be much more limited. As such,
a system like this might only be capable of generating
a decimation: heh yeah well we need to find
a sufficiently rich prince
RebeccaBitcoin: set up
a bot to monitor the balances of the private keys
fluffypony: RebeccaBitcoin: if you put 10 BTC in
a wallet and posted about it on Reddit and some netsec mailing lists and gave it 90 days that would be
a concrete test
decimation: if you can't find the source of the javascript on your webpage you are in
a world of hurt
RebeccaBitcoin: Safe = If I put 10btc in
a wallet and post the public key here, will it get stolen within 90 days
decimation: rebeccabitcoin nothing that runs on
a von neumann machine connected to the internet using unaudited untrusted firmware is safe
RebeccaBitcoin: Obviously you're completely misreading this. Anthony is
a little dweeb.
decimation: yes, you put
a n00b who failed landing 101 in the cockpit, how did that happen?
Vexual: you wouldn't discard
a printer
fluffypony: Electrum isn't cold storage, it's
a hot wallet to use every day
decimation: to do
a proper job would require thousands of good man hours, which you can't afford
fluffypony: RebeccaBitcoin: again - for ordinary users you simply need something that is completely under your control, and for your purposes Electrum is fine. It is small and lightweight, it doesn't download the full blockchain (about 20mb in downloads is all it needs thus far), and it has
a 12 word mnemonic you write down to backup your wallet. It's literally all I need.
cazalla: RebeccaBitcoin, you bought ether, correct? theft is not
a concern if you're giving your bitcoins away
RebeccaBitcoin: "If I compile the php script and then reconcile it with
a mysql database, then reconfigure it to your home computer's settings I can find your brain wallet"
peterl: does having
a python script generate
a bunch of random dice rolls count as rolling dice?
mircea_popescu: (seriously tho, here's
a good approach : make your dices out of ice. they will melt, yes, and not be even, yes.
fluffypony: well I guess the title of the site is
a giveaway
RebeccaBitcoin: to the earlier question, no, I'm not going to write
a scathing review
fluffypony:
a web wallet is not that middle ground
fluffypony: there's
a middle ground between paranoid and convenient
RebeccaBitcoin: its not
a meaningless distinction. Someone told me yesterday that to make
a paper wallet I should use
a new laptpo, and
a new printer, then I should take both and destroy them. Then I should put both in
a fire
peterl: is it
a risk to advertise which type of wallet you use?
RebeccaBitcoin: so nerd safe = the type of people who print
a paper wallet then toss the printer over niagara fallls
ben_vulpes: i mean it said "okay!" after
a hilariously short period of time.
fluffypony: RebeccaBitcoin: is your aim to have
a Bitcoin wallet so you can send and receive Bitcoin, or is your aim to write
a scathing review?
fluffypony: from an entropy perspective it's
a perfectly viable aspect
RebeccaBitcoin: to make
a instant web based wallet you move your mouse around
Vexual: i dunno, one might ace the poop outta one sememster and let
a good load of stuff done
decimation: dc is
a swamp though, so I'm sure you will collect
a variety of fauna
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well sure. meanwhile 9x% of all internet websites do not make 10 bux
a day
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