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mircea_popescu: only years later
a 2nd thing was found. the magic involved was pretty evil, however :
mircea_popescu: so, aids "had no cure" for
a while in the disco era. but then, late 80s/early 90s
a certain thing was found that'd slow down its rate, adding 5 maybe 10 years le if well managed. after much hand wringing this was released to the public,
mircea_popescu: it's vanishingly improbable for an antibody to not exist. thus finding it becomes
a matter of... well... how much hashing you're doing
mircea_popescu: tbh i think this throws
a monkey wrench in the future viability of "big pandemic" scenarios.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Problem is scaling up production is
a pain...
ben_vulpes: and here i was hoping for
a new global pandemic
BingoBoingo: Generally though if you get
a monoclonal antibody that targets something, it's going to kill it. The remarkable thing is they went ahead and found three just to be safe.
BingoBoingo: chetty> lmao, that magic serum they are testing for ebola, made from tobacco << Mouse antibodies made inside
a tobacco plant!
mike_c: sure, gotta have
a hook for early adopters
mircea_popescu: and actually speaking of it : making
a collision for 4 byte short ids is not that hard. i hope you check against fingerprints ?
ben_vulpes: what, pipe it into your os clipboard and call it
a day
mircea_popescu: and add
a fucking cr , im sick of fishing the otp out from 33ae4284-cdba-46a1-b0ae-8f94f23b74acmirce
mircea_popescu: because of ben_vulpes there's going to be
a lot of extra ;;ident spam in here because fuck me if im going to type my keyid.
pankkake: if you provide me with
a CSS (or even
a full template, venus, the thing used to generate the planet, has templates), I'll enable it
pankkake: for the lulz, though I've had enough lulz after
a few years
mircea_popescu: mp "what's wrong with using blogs.b-
a for
a news source ?" op "What’s wrong with it is that if you visit with an iOS device, you’re redirected to
a page that says “no hipsters allowed.”"
punkman: "The program has brought in more than $150 million in restitution and fines via five cases from eight whistleblowers. That has translated to more than $15 million in payments to the whistleblowers, including
a $14 million jackpot to one person. "
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Vitalik's also been pulling shenanigans like Bitcoin Magazine for
a while
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: I'm pretty sure this isn't like MaidSafe - Vitalik does the tour circuit, and he's been building up to this for
a while
BingoBoingo: <fluffypony> you have to admit, though, he's
a good salesman << How do you know much of it wasn't
a hail mary with his own kitty?
ben_vulpes: <ThickAsThieves> <+Vexual> incidetally, whats
a satoshi called in atc?
a tat? /// altoshi << quit being so modest
Apocalyptic: <fluffypony> you have to admit, though, he's
a good salesman // you mean Vitalik ?
fluffypony: you have to admit, though, he's
a good salesman
thickasthieves: spider sense is tingling over there not having been
a closed/hacked btc exchange lately...
Shakespeare: Rudder’s response: “To wring his hands all day for
a hundred thousand dollars
a year?”"
assbot: How the U.S. got mixed up in
a fight over Kurdish oil with
a unified Iraq at stake - The Washington Post
Shakespeare: "
A federal magistrate signed three separate search warrants: one for each of the three hidden services. The warrants authorized the FBI to modify the code on the servers to deliver the NIT to any computers that accessed the sites. The judge also allowed the FBI to delay notification to the targets for 30 days."
ThickAsThieves: <+Vexual> incidetally, whats
a satoshi called in atc?
a tat? /// altoshi
cazalla: that's useful for keeping
a log, almost
a month since i had
a few
BingoBoingo: Vexual: Nah,
a small profit, but... The way BTC and fiat move against each other...
Vexual: did you ever make
a loss on leu
Vexual: incidetally, whats
a satoshi called in atc?
a tat?
ben_vulpes: one can run
a ripple client. it's not
a bitcoin fork.
ben_vulpes: still
a cool thing to hack on for anyone who wants to write hard software but not make any more.
mircea_popescu:
a lot more thought will have to go into SPECIFYING B ITCOIN
ben_vulpes: "
a cryptographically-secured transaction ledger"?
ben_vulpes: "
a cryptographically-secured distributed record of transactions"
Vexual: military tank was
a valid search term
mircea_popescu: right, because if i gotta kill some idiots on
a hallway somewhere im going to take an anti tank missile launcher
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> wait. isn't
a piece of armor made out of floor tile actually going to SHARPEN the blade on its way in ? << You forget 'Murican series with subsequent blindspot towards sharp objects as
a thing to armor against.
BingoBoingo: This particular idiot tested this with 12 gauge again in
a worn test.
mircea_popescu: i know i sometimes crack
a tile to make
a sharpener if in
a pinch
mircea_popescu: wait. isn't
a piece of armor made out of floor tile actually going to SHARPEN the blade on its way in ?
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform blows dust off '2nd product' prototype... << Is it
a hammer? Just
a simple, heavy, old fashioned breaking shit hammer?
mircea_popescu: one exists as
a private only thing, the other not updated since 2013
mircea_popescu: all this living on
a server somewhere, meanwhile forgotten about
mircea_popescu: so about... well just about five years ago i did this thing where i gave
a free domain + free cpanel hosting to
a bunch of romanian bloggers that seemed more or less okay.
mircea_popescu: this dude sorta sits there and chats for
a while, then makes
a post that makes you suspect maybe he understands
a lot more than he lets on.
mircea_popescu: Whereas historically
a maliciously stupid idea might be contained by geography and manage to make one village suffer while its neighboring town dismissed it, the Internet allows the maliciously stupid to grow self reinforcing networks where they can oppose cognitive function together. << "oppose cognitive function together altogether" lol.
mircea_popescu: "I'm not surprised you get along well with all the other neighbours. If you put fifty children with Down's syndrome in
a room there is going to be
a lot of hugging." << hawthorne should be quoted more often.
assbot: Page not found | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
mthreat: mircea_popescu: if I can make it, i'll be there. Ya, just working in the afternoons right now, for
a month test
The20YearIRCloud: Let it be known - I tried to explain company concepts to
a bot
mthreat: mircea_popescu: oh, hmm not sure. i'm actually working for
a local startup. I'm
a working stiff again.
The20YearIRCloud: I've never met
a markov chain that put reasonable responses together
mthreat: i have
a theory that everyone is
a markov chain, but some of us are larger chains than others
BingoBoingo: The20YearIRCloud: Vexual is
a Markov Chain
Vexual: protip: you'll need
a pencil
Vexual: got
a sheet of foolscap?
Vexual: you couldn't flip
a house if it was already upside down
The20YearIRCloud: One house I worked with sold at $155k and was over 6,000 finished square feet, came with
a full granite wet bar in the basement with
a walking sauna
cazalla: 75k for
a house, that's just the deposit in this suburb :\
peterl: currently US banks require
a large down payment to get
a mortgage, USians have no savings, therefore they can't buy
a house
The20YearIRCloud: Most people I've talked to don't have the cash outlay to fix say
a $4k roof when the time comes, and they make the choice of renting so someone else has to deal with it.
Vexual: well they might want
a kick in the rectum wehn you ge some more cahs
The20YearIRCloud: Yes, and that's why rehab is so slow, becuase they both have families, and my preference is not to give them
a income rollercoaster
Vexual: but you have
a crew you employ on
a permenant basis?
The20YearIRCloud: On top of that, i've had to make the choice between quick repairs and losing them to other firms, and giving them all the work they can handle at
a slower pace. They prefer working for me over other crews, but in order to speed up the rehab time, I have to hire more people. The more people I hire without
a big budget, the higher the chance of regular layoffs
Vexual: why are your good ol boys so slow at fising
a house?
The20YearIRCloud: The refinance is prime + 2% as
a commercial mortgage to our LLC, which is
a pretty decent rate. The big benefit compared to just going out and refinancing all the properties at once is that the investors essentially won't see any decreases in the small dividends that they're getting now, only growth.
The20YearIRCloud: Yeah , it's
a 100k line of credit @ 5% or so and interest only payments, we use LOC to go out and buy new properties, rehab them then refinance the property to cashout the LOC
The20YearIRCloud: We have preliminary approval finally from
a lender who offered us pretty attractive terms, and the setup is essentially open-ended
The20YearIRCloud: None do, however in this case I had
a investor complain because I wasn't addressing the concerns from those individuals
The20YearIRCloud: Yes, in order to try and be SEC complaint, all the shares go through
a HK holding corporation
The20YearIRCloud: At least , I think that's what they were about, one notable one was my choice of director for the HK corporation we have, and the other was complaints about
a website I started 5 years ago
gribble: Error: "yivkrtticker" is not
a valid command.
Vexual:
a furious fit in the shit pit from
a mick dick, trying to make her slit chink
peterl: mircea_popescu: your MPOE report mentioned
a new advertising listing, has this been discussed here?
nam-shub: I know
a guy who can assemble random financial transactions for consumption by the accounting community. more or less in an automated fashion. (There was
a discussion prior about
a b-
a accountant.)