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benkay: mircea_popescu: what kinds of things have you noticed b-a missing?
chetty: travel in is not a problem, its the mail
mircea_popescu: i will have you know i cam through with a full bottle of tuica
artifexd: nubbins`: I'll commit to two #b-a shirts. An XL and a S.
mircea_popescu: but that was a few years back.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think that's a reference to the CDO whose only asset to not collapse in value was MPOE bonds
assbot: NYAN.A Holders...what happened?
fluffypony: thestringpuller: I see you're fighting a losing battle with Mr. It's-Not-My-Fault-I-Didn't-Do-Anything-Wrong
thestringpuller: when will we get "Not a member Bitcoin Foundation" t-shirts
fluffypony: and if you do a woman's one I'll order 2 for the wife as well
nubbins`: fluffypony: i'll do up a mock-up this week and hopefully get an order page set up
mircea_popescu: spending her days playing the trophy whife in suburbia and coming a few nights a week for a total anal gangfest in da hood.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: always trying to borrow a couple of bucks
nubbins`: "#b-a, where the bezzle comes to die"?
fluffypony: nubbins`: when are you designing b-a t-shirts? you know we'll all buy and you can make a smart profit off it
Pierre_Rochard: it’s been a while - the bezzle is time consuming
fluffypony: nubbins`: excellent time to make a decision
nubbins`: worst hangover of my life yesterday, struggling not to vomit as i get out of bed, glance at FB on my way to make coffee and see that a friend is selling a trumpet
fluffypony: is that a name for a sex toy?
nubbins`: so i bought a trumpet
fluffypony: he needs a pat on the back and a cookie, he did an excellent job
mircea_popescu: im regarding it purely as a graph theory / algebraic structures isse
danielpbarron: well they definitely shouldn't get a -1; I don't trust the first guy, so why would I trust his negative ratings?
danielpbarron: why not a +1 with that someone else? (the enemy of my enemy is my friend sort of thing)
gribble: You rated user usagi on Sat Nov 24 19:40:40 2012, with a rating of -1, and supplied these additional notes: None.
mircea_popescu: that's a list
fluffypony: I love the way the guy has a ninja mask in his picture
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: apparently you called bitcoinpete out as being a liar - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=631605.msg7070591#msg7070591
fluffypony: a Brainfuck interpreter written in Bash
mircea_popescu: i guess coming up next week, obama promises the us will never use its nuclear arsenal, as part of the inauguration of a primary school in a provincial town in kenya.
Mats_cd03: walked off a base then gets two soldiers killed in ensuing rescue ops
Mats_cd03: dude is a pos
mircea_popescu: so it's a "cost cutting measure"
mircea_popescu: weak hand administration probably figured "it's win-win" because they give up five worthless towelheads which had to be kept at a per day cost far exceeding the cost to rent a private jet.
chetty: Sergeant Bergdahl's recovery is a reminder of America's unwavering commitment to leave no man or woman in uniform behind on the battlefield.
mircea_popescu: dude this should be a book. every chapter's title could be "and here we punch ourselves in the face for no reason whatsoever"
mircea_popescu: everyone can has a million dolla these days. even people affraid of forum retaliationz
mircea_popescu: there is many dodgy scam things going on at asicminer which has personally costs me over a million dollars"
mircea_popescu: like, firs tweek, one pm a day per person. next week, two. then four. ETC!!11
mircea_popescu: pankkake: my point is just that n+1 is much better than n; just a game of probabilities << yeah, the game works like this : the more backups you have the more avenues for theft. the fewer backups you have, the more avenues for accidental loss.
fluffypony: then having a million site and customer backups won't help us to continue functioning immediately
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: yep - and the reality is that a natural disaster that destroys a city will probably affect your business' ability to function anyway << this is, again, the nonsense i was rejecting.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Joshua Zipkin of AMT (Advance Mining Technologies) threaten to kill a fellow Bitcoiner. : Bitcoin << so is this going to be the talking point of the militant us left for the remainder of 2014 ? "bitcoin is bad because bitcoiners kill people" ?
fluffypony: [14:32:39] ThomasV: actually I believe I gave my business card to a journalist from coindesk during the amsterdam conference
fluffypony: [14:30:36] ThomasV: they sent it to my research address, with a deadline for answering
mircea_popescu: i am literally getting a billion dollar idea a day just walking down the fucking street and noticing that wait, they actually don't have x ? bwahahahaha etc.
mircea_popescu: if you can't make a million here, there's something seriously wrong with your head.
mircea_popescu: the egyptians have more of a clue, and they're mostly illiterate.
BingoBoingo: A bunch of now worthless hiding places http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/no_author/want-to-hide-handguns-at-home/
assbot: A Summary of Phinnaeus Gage's Investigation into Brock Pierce Thus Far
fluffypony: on a poster?
fluffypony: you're telling me that's a 300 BTC wall?
fluffypony: yep - and the reality is that a natural disaster that destroys a city will probably affect your business' ability to function anyway
pankkake: my point is just that n+1 is much better than n; just a game of probabilities
pankkake: and since they're not done the same way, it really would have to a catastrophic failure to lose it
pankkake: ;;later tell mircea_popescu storing your only two backups in the same city is no doubt risky, but still it's unlikely that you manage to salvage none if case of a natural disaster. one of the reasons I don't think paper is the ultimate backup though
assbot: Joshua Zipkin of AMT (Advance Mining Technologies) threaten to kill a fellow Bitcoiner. : Bitcoin
asciilifeform: artifexd: anyone who collects fiat from the 'unwashed masses' is a candidate for 'having problems' eventually.
artifexd: There are many payment processors that take bitcoin and give the seller fiat. I'd like to see a payment processor that takes fiat and gives the seller btc.
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: re: elevator locks: a few years ago, a photo of a new york elevator key was posted on the net. people promptly rushed to their cnc lathes...
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: nope. just read a little about the lock.
TheNewDeal: like a fireman's lock?
decimation: there was some dumb tv show like pawn stars or something like that where some guy was trying to sell a "missile key" for $30k if I recall
asciilifeform: apparently, this is a famous lock.
TheNewDeal: mircea_popescu I've been trying to find a list of premine / scamcoins that you provided in the past. It was in a wikipedia format. Can't find it in the logs
mircea_popescu: and so was a major vault hoilding trillions worth of paper.
mircea_popescu: coupla years ago a hurricane hit new york with a lot of watter.
decimation: implementing a turing machine would just re-invent the cpu model
TheNewDeal: I'm going to go enjoy a smoke and ponder that thought
asciilifeform: (if you can't see how, think for a minute)
asciilifeform: you can do logic (inefficiently) with a rom.
asciilifeform: card sorter - so you don't have to kill the fellow who dropped a deck.
decimation: the idea of swapping out a card in your CPU is amusing to me
asciilifeform: afaik they still have it in a closet somewhere.
asciilifeform: my uni's first computer was a d-17b
asciilifeform: mp provided a reason why to do it. and useful tips on related subjects.
TheNewDeal: I guess "NSA dealio" was a little... nonspecific
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: it's about the basic question of what it means to trust a machine
asciilifeform: decimation: there is no arcane secret in building a decent analogue rng.
asciilifeform: $100k if you know a fellow who owns the above and trust him.
decimation: they could use a revese-biased external diode with an A/D or comperator or whatever
asciilifeform: decimation: pretty much everyone fucks the goat right off the starting line - by using a vlsi rng
asciilifeform: aside from this, even a hypothetically impregnable seal is an attack against the owner (he cannot examine the package either)
mircea_popescu: it's almost like wanting to marry a virgin specifically.
asciilifeform: if it's a crypto gizmo and has seal - which i didn't put there - i've no interest in it.
decimation: I feel better about a device when it has a calibration seal
decimation: Last I called, NIST wanted $5-10k for "labor costs" to measure the phase noise of a microwave oscillator
decimation: it's a good point. Part of the problem is that actual calibrated analog noise sources are expensive
mircea_popescu: benkay, "it's all hazy probability fields at this point" << so start before you fly over, get a nice scorpio, maybe it turns out a girl with big green eyes etc.
asciilifeform: decimation: LFSRs suck. and virtually every academic treatise on rng design assumes a very impoverished physical entropy source.
decimation: You can just put the user 4-digit pin into a key derivation algorithm :)
joecool: asciilifeform: not without a pin
asciilifeform: if you plug dumbcard into a pwned box, it will sign whatever the enemy wants to sign.
joecool: asciilifeform: pretty sure in the case of the smartcard it needs to initialize the card to know that it is, all it sees is a reader otherwise
asciilifeform: joecool: not only this, but laptop 'knows' that a crypto gizmo is connected.
joecool: the only assurance you have is a signature counter in the smartcard
joecool: i'm a big fan of westone's products, i switched to them from shure awhile back
asciilifeform: bose is a terrific scam (what spends so much on glossy magazine ads, and isn't ?)
joecool: switched to an amp and they sounded like a very different pair
joecool: can be solved with an amp, i didn't believe sensitive IEM's would be affected till i had a pair with a picky crossover