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benkay: how does slowing down bond purchases imply
a not increase in rates?
benkay: "U.S. stocks rebounded after
a two-day slide, as the Federal Reserve's meeting minutes soothed concerns over
a potential increase in interest rates.
mod6: to break the tie? i agree, penalty kicks are
a shitty way to end
a game.
indiancandy1: with
a burka but the reflection of the mirror shes got
a g string on
indiancandy1: i have
a pic on my phone i wish i culd show u its
a girl taing
a selfie
mircea_popescu: but i'd count it as
a major personal failure if i somehow ended up going home with them in the first place.
mircea_popescu: someone with no books i'd fuck. someone with
a shitton of "social studies" and assorted crap published the past century i definitely wouldn't
nubbins`: right, isn't this the reason
a solar flare or w/e could fuck us all royally?
assbot: Q&
A: What You Need to Know About Attacks on the U.S. Power Grid - Corporate Intelligence - WSJ
nubbins`: more of
a make-work project than an attack
mircea_popescu: i wonder what these people think hitting
a nuclear plant will do.
rithm: can i ask for
a refund for my bitcoin foundation donation
mircea_popescu: "If
a node gets hacked there are only
a few ways it can impact the system, but it can’t force good nodes to accept forged transfers. Generally, individual bad nodes will quickly be automatically identified and expelled from the consensus pool."
benkay: 160 hours
a week in the paddy
mircea_popescu: let the lazy have extra chances to self humiliation, it's
a good selection exercise.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> i wonder why this is
a common mistake // it turns out that making interfaces that normal humans find intuitive is actually hard.
rithm: is that
a lubricant or oxidizing agent?
colinistheman: 1095hc is
a good steel. you have to keep it oiled tho
fluffypony: colinistheman: anything with Damascus steel is fun, but that doesn't mean it has
a movement that will withstand abuse
rithm: until you give gribble
a handjob
assbot: Knives4Bitcoin.com - German Damascus VG-10 Knife, Speed Assisted
A/O Large Folding Knives Pocket G-10
mircea_popescu: you know what the vietnamese fisherman working for two rice patties
a day said ?
gribble: Error: "freenode:#bitcoin-otc:9177b607b37f4d96238bb085f90659242452a37931b87d554336aa9a" is not
a valid command.
gribble: (bcregister <nick> <bitcoinaddress>) -- Register your identity, associating bitcoin address key <bitcoinaddress> with <nick>. <bitcoinaddress> should be
a standard-type bitcoin address, starting with 1. You will be given
a random passphrase to sign with your address key, and submit to the bot with the 'bcverify' command. Your passphrase will expire in 10 minutes.
gribble: Error: '1CLoPNdpVwRcTovEu1JCsuD9aQ2riXWLAS' is not
a valid GPG key id. Please use the long form 16 digit key id.
chetty: well at least learn to change
a tire before you get behind the wheel
mircea_popescu: you'll have to know about things
a little under the hood, like encryption
mircea_popescu: btc is like, yu know, the car. it doesn't exist out of
a vacuum. if yu want to be
a decen mechanic, and even to be
a good driver
colinistheman: this series of instructions is
a little overwhelming
mircea_popescu: Girls Around Me is
a simple app that takes your location, and then queries Foursquare and Facebook’s location APIs to find any girls (or boys) that are geographically close. You’re then shown
a map, powered by Google, with faces (pulled from Facebook profiles) pinned to it.
Mats_cd03: so encrypt swap with
a random key?
pankkake: the only issue with
a SSD is
a security one. if you use full disk encryption, you have to consider that the "change key" operation might leave
a copy of the old key in the spare area
assbot: Fixing
a Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drive
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 well yes, for one thing they're in
a 1+0 raid. for the other thing it';s not like i'm letting them reach the end of wear levelling
nubbins`: everybody freaked the fuck out, now there's
a fracking moratorium
nubbins`: they tried fracking inside
a UNESCO world heritage site here last year
nubbins`: there was
a time when western canada's tar sands were unproductive
los_pantalones: they put
a pipe in
a 3 ft wide layer of rock 10k feet below ground
mircea_popescu: “The USGS undertook this assessment of the Bakken and Three Forks Formations as part of
a nationwide project assessing U.S. petroleum basins using standardized methodology and protocol,” said Acting Director of the USGS Suzette Kimball. “Through this improved understanding of our energy resources, government, industry, and citizens are better able to understand our domestic energy mix and make wiser decisions fo
mircea_popescu:
A key component of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy is the availability of sound science to guide informed decision-making regarding the safe and responsible development of America’s domestic energy resources.
mircea_popescu: i mean, i don't in any sense mind if it happens, but it's not
a goal.
mircea_popescu: pankkake you know, that account is old. i had
a two year or so gap in there, some time they "upgraded" their website.
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> they made twitter an iota less relevant. < just like
a drop of shit can ruin
a bottle of wine,
a drop of wine doesnt fix the bottle of shit, ya know.
mircea_popescu: so as
a mpex update : all 8 drives + the raid controller are going to be cut up. replacements are going in. mpex won't be back today, but i expect it to be back tomorrow.
☟︎ kakobrekla: there is
a log? oh my god mircea, i think i love you.
mircea_popescu: all he needs is to constantly kick the 2-3 closest competitors off the block.
a la mtgox-tradehill
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron this being the most dangerous part of someone getting 51% : he now has
a serious incentive to ddos the world.
danielpbarron:
a miner doing 51% can take
a ddos; any others would not be able to make the longest chain without up-to-date blockchain data
Mats_cd03: jihadis have
a flair for the dramatic. ends up with p good war porn
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: seems like that is going to happen
a dozen times over << im hoping about 5 (of which 3 already happened. 2 moar reserved for WCs)
mircea_popescu: also you have to steal the whole thing. if people had to steal the WHOLE old lady, they
a) couldn't use bikes and b)wouldn't be bothered.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony who's going to steal from
a steel container ?
mircea_popescu: but i was trying to sell
a sysadmin friend on the concept of ironman isp, doing something quite similar.
fluffypony: but it doesn't seem to be
a very clever use of space