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mircea_popescu: we'll finally be in
a position to put some fences up and make sense of the damned thing.
decimation: this is
a pretty simple thought experiment, and the obvious conclusion is that computers (as they are now) are hopelessly insecure
mircea_popescu: never trust
a baby boom, for the baby boomers are almost always the end of things.
decimation: re: 48v DC << yeah most higher end servers can be ordered with 48v DC power supplies. works best with
a rack-sized 48 v lead-acid battery
mircea_popescu: infectious, of course, but nothing much than
a tool of contagion.
benkay: but he's not wearing an overcoat, he's got
a nice pair of slacks and
a collared tee, and everyone except the weirdos in the corner are drinking with him.
mircea_popescu: little girl taking
a drink from suspicious man in overcoat is not making
a mistake
mircea_popescu: the notion that derps imagining themselves involved and part of and etc still treat hearn as anything but vomit behind
a bar is perhaps the best argument against democracy.
mircea_popescu: it went something like, "if
a lock fails that lock can be replaced, but if software failed ALL
a company's products fail at the same time so there's nobody to absorb the costs"
mircea_popescu: as if bitcoin'd suffer from
a complete ban on all the tard venues, or computers from
a complete disappearance of bad software
benkay: nah, torch anyone who implemented it in their own codebasen. no crime in releasing shit to the world, only
a crime to put that shit in your cliquot
mircea_popescu: which is exactly how it was argued for software responsibility immunity in the 80s : that ALL software failures are clearly of
a coal-abl etype, and so not granting immunity would make software "impossible"
benkay: so while best practices are
a thing and brokers do get put to the coals, as with all regulated things only the dumb and most obviously rule-breaky are going to get their feet torched. i can't imagine it being any other way with programmering - the smart ones will shift the blame to the dumb ones, who will take the fall. age old story.
benkay: the people doing the sale failed to do it on their own at 900k, so this vulture swooped in, started ratcheting the price down and as all the buyers trickled in said something along the lines of "I know that this isn't really what you're looking for, but how about I give you
a call sometime next week and I'll show you some houses that might fit your budget and expectations
a little bit better".
benkay: house immediately downhill from the 'rents went on sale for 900k, reasoning being "well it was built by and inhabited by Dr. Hawthorne of this grand street
a few blocks over who also built the insanitarium at the top of said street which is now
a seminary"
benkay: reminds me of
a great hustle
a neighbor got put through recently
mircea_popescu: btw mthreat wouldja be interested in filling in the logs for the first missing year, and generate
a drop-in blob kakobrekla can put into his log thing too ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im putting
a whole array in, what's to do.
Cosmos: I brought entertainment & then I faded down to
a speck of nothing
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A mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ianal, but it'd seem cribbing is better. rather than writing from scratch and inventing
a new mistakes-space, they just take out some mistakes of
a well documenterd space
Cosmos: yea they're just rip-offs cept for those that don't use btc tech at all..but, some still have good, relevant, unique applications, and quite
a few have presented astronomical % gain opportunities, just cashout to BTC b4 the dump and keep multiplying it.......
Cosmos: it's heresy to talk of BTC in cryptocointalk, for instance. heresy to spend more than
a couple words about alts, (they're all 'shtcoins') in bitcointalk, for instance
moiety hasn't even linked
a manul yet
mircea_popescu: people that follow sports can't be given
a ton of power either ?
mircea_popescu: corrientes, which is
a major avenue, is COVERED in swat vans, fire trucks, miles of it from the center.
Cosmos: that's
a mathematical impossibility, i'm afraid
moiety: ahh, never apparently. At the end, I was told there wasn't the initial "falling in love"... i was
a convenient wallet/housekeeper/etc mircea_popescu
Cosmos: +
a well-known cryptoblog
Cosmos: I have
a billion 'flatfile' notes as you say, recorded in HDD, but this I just pulled out of my brain
Cosmos: I had
a fundamental passion for biotech, anatomy, biophysics, human enhancement
nubbins`: isn't it funny how everyone on irc is
a "trader" and they all make money
gribble: Error: "then," is not
a valid command.
Cosmos: I'm
a finance & philosophy type
Cosmos: Now you just proved you have
a nontrivial amount of ego
assbot: projectplatypus /
A Man for All Seasons
assbot:
A Man for All Seasons - The Devil Speech - YouTube
Cosmos: ~ E N C Y C L O P E D I C
A L T C O I N S D
A T
A B
A S E ~ * = Virtual CryptoCurrencies marked w/ "*" symbol are not currently listed on Cryptsy/MintPal's BTC-/LTC-Denominated Markets at the moment, & are thus pending larger-scale community adoption. ꜝ = This symbol denotes that the name or acronym entered for the CryptoCurrency in question is merely
a personally-preferred colloquial term, and not the actual ter
Cosmos: I have been -looking- for this for
a while
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Fell apart. If attempted would require something roughly resembling
a schedule
Cosmos: It's the psychology of 'return the favor' - when wanting something, ask/suggest being given
a minute fraction of it, to make the other party comfortable about your humility and more likely to actually give the whole amount you ulteriorly desired in the first place
Cosmos: I'm acutely aware of how appearing as
a newbie & suddenly talking big about myself & donations & work etc makes me look at first glance, which is why I'm playing it up w/ it massively, for mutual entertainment
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A nubbins`: see, that'd be
a good cover story for dov charney, if it weren't for the fact that he was strolling around
a clothing factory naked ;(
Cosmos: ok its
a donation, not
a bribe
assbot: Let's have
a little fun then, shall we. | Bitcointa.lk
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo> The word tip cleanly refers to
a bribe of sorts... To Insure Prompt service. << nah, i disagree.
assbot: Let's have
a little fun then, shall we. | Bitcointa.lk
BingoBoingo: Cosmos: Seriously get of the forums and start
a blog
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Well, tipping is
a present you give somone you pity to save you from inconvenience
BingoBoingo: The word tip cleanly refers to
a bribe of sorts... To Insure Prompt service.
Cosmos: just as
a token of appreciation
nubbins`: someone tosses you
a couple of pennies, you don't call it
a paycheque
mircea_popescu: Cosmos you understand the basic idea that the value of
a review strictly rests with the known facts of the reviewer,
Apocalyptic: Cosmos, what work have you exactly done, excluding the mere fact of putting variably relevant links to bitcoin-related services together in
a huge list ?
nubbins`: gribs is making
a grab for the SR coins
mircea_popescu: it may be he has
a further job for an eager but diligent young man
mircea_popescu: well, ok, here's
a tip : you've found the place where bitcoin actually happens. if you spend your next year reading the logs (they're in the topic) you'll be better off than if you spend your year doing anything else.
assbot: ~
A Landscape of Crypto~
Cosmos: so are you
a co-owner or employee of bitbet
nubbins`: there's
a very narrow range of acceptable temperatures here
nubbins`: i have
a relative who lives in brazil, he said one time it plunged to 9C overnight and homeless people died from exposure :0
mthreat: foo* is
a prefix search, matches any word beginning with "foo"