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benkay: "Findings from both research groups grew out of experiments in which the blood circulation systems of old and young mice were surgically connected, in
a manner akin to Siamese twins. In such experiments, older mice essentially got younger while younger mice got older."
mircea_popescu: "please not to refer to all the unemployable women here hoping for
a good marriage by
a term implying we're thai ladyboys"
mircea_popescu: “You guys sound like you are on
a roller coaster right now, McHale said to the crowd as they groaned to another one of his flopped jokes."
benkay: asciilifeform: would you grace me with
a link to that piece explaining why women look at the sciences and run screaming in the opposite direction?
gribble: You rated user jurov on Mon Apr 21 06:09:46 2014, with
a rating of 5, and supplied these additional notes: Years of promises kept..
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i meant the guy has been operating
a mpex broker for about two years now, it never ran into any difficulty, and met him twice in person
fluffypony: danielpbarron: I think part of the WoT is extrapolation of information upon which
a conclusion can be drawn, and sometimes that information needs to be expanded by talking to the rater
danielpbarron: doesn't this necessarily mean that MPEx knows the user's credentials, and could disable them if it turned out to be
a scam?
danielpbarron: for example:
a user is in the WoT, and has
a rating of 3 or more given by mircea_popescu, describing him as an operator of
a specific pass-through; is it safe to trust this user on that information alone?
kakobrekla: yeah but you can go to buttfucker and post
a passthrough as evedence present
a malfucked pgp signature which none of the 'investors' know how to check anyway and thats that
mircea_popescu: but if you ever asked your pt op for
a mpex signed stat, for instance, you should know
danielpbarron: is it safe to assume that
a user operating
a pass-through for MPEx has
a lot to lose if he were to decide to run with the money? To clarify, is it MPEx's official policy to publically shame and/or revoke access for such
a user?
mircea_popescu: "invest with the twinkletoss brothers! there's
a spare included!"
mircea_popescu: benkay
a, was
a more complex discussion, see the whole log.
benkay: iirc you also made
a comment about massive gold reserves in proximity
benkay: mircea_popescu: your comment was along the lines of 'romania gave
a bunch of money to basically anyone who showed up claiming to be
a businessman and
a bunch of guys blew it in advertising'
fluffypony: "Apple does keep an older version of OpenSSL around that isn't vulnerable to the exploit. Safely chained to
a wall. In the dungeon. It prods it with sticks now and again to make sure it's still breathing."
fluffypony: [20:16:16] mircea_popescu: openssl is not in ios ?! <- they implement Open Group's CDSA/CSSM, they hate OpenSSL because it doesn't maintain
a stable API between versions
benkay: hey mircea_popescu on an entirely different topic what was this situation where romania just gave oodles of cash away to 'businessmen' once upon
a time? sounds like quite the story.
mircea_popescu: it's somewhere betweet "unadulterated nonsense" and "who gives
a shit", but sure.
bounce: generating 4kbit keys takes over
a minute? try validating
a 1kbit signature on
a z80 (certain ti calculators with signed firmware)
benkay: well that's
a given, bounce no points
benkay: client wants to do
a thing with asymmetric crypto on the major mobile platforms, my guys are handling the ios side. apple provides
a handy dandy set of apis for generating keys (your second 4096 bit key on
a bleeding edge iphone will take over
a minute to gather 'adequate' 'entropy', btw).
bitcoinpete: "FXBTC said that long-term financial losses stemming from what it termed
a “blockade” by the PBOC resulted in the management team deciding to end the service."
Framedragger: i guess. i just made
a literal mapping from own tongue onto english. but english failed on me :( so, "pompous"
Framedragger: i choose the "to shake
a pompom vigorously" interpretation
bitcoinpete: General Aladeen: [to his pregnant wife] Are you having
a boy or an abortion?
bitcoinpete: "Sacha Baron Cohen attended The 84th Annual Academy Awards (2012) in character and full costume as Aladeen, accompanied by his "virgin guards". While giving an interview on the red carpet to an unsuspecting Ryan Seacrest he brandished an urn he claimed to contain the remains of deceased North Korean dictator Jong-il Kim. Cohen then spilled the ashes all over Seacrest's tuxedo. As
a result, Cohen was banned from entering the auditori
ThickAsThieves: i could probably add
a hundred or so if i plugged it to the forum
mircea_popescu: what, if bin laden becomes
a tritium level member they're going to support bombing tall ny buildings ?
ThickAsThieves: oh yeah i forgot jurov had
a blog cuz i filed it under MPEx tutorials
Naphex:
a lot of other fun stuff like corruption, inside deals, and pref specs go on as well
Naphex: so
a lot of companies will just price that in their bid, pushing it up
mircea_popescu: Naphex what i mean is, technically speaking any
https site satisfies the "it uses x509" criterion. and so,
a contractor could in principle slap
a lamp on
a box, draw up 3 pages and there you go, invoice for 50 billion.
Naphex: <+mircea_popescu> Naphex so they're going to pay anoither 50 bn or w/e obamacare.com cost, to have someone make them
a https site ?
mircea_popescu: Naphex so they're going to pay anoither 50 bn or w/e obamacare.com cost, to have someone make them
a https site ?
ozbot: Obama Administration Launches Plan To Make An "Internet ID"
A Reality | Zero Hedge
mircea_popescu: "Dr. Keith Ablow is
a psychiatrist and member of the Fox News Medical
A-Team." unintentional irony ftw.
mircea_popescu: we. you know, doctor
a-blow is... somehow, don't ask how, part of all this.
mircea_popescu: right. because doctor
a-blow is now allowed to put his opinions on the same table.
ozbot: Lil Debbie - BAKE
A CAKE - Official Video - YouTube
mircea_popescu: cazalla only for people who actually control
a harem of willing babes.
cazalla: mircea_popescu: going back to KLYE discussion earlier - do you think there is
a market for insex type content + bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: BigBitz in fact, local bitcoins could just verify
a btc address signature, for the same effects, not having to hold any btc in the process.
mircea_popescu: as they say, the best way to sink
a good team with
a good idea is
a bad revenue stream.
mircea_popescu: but then again... hey. business isn't
a skill we're born with.
mircea_popescu: so you know, they just eat
a pie of risk for no upside.
BigBitz: the time the guy got away with 80BTC I found it and alerted jeramis before they lost
a lot of their BTC.
BigBitz: Naphex LBC has been bit
a few times. I prevented their last big one.
mircea_popescu: im counting the money, he's cunting the blondies, we got
a whole system
mircea_popescu: at 9k per month for
a spot in
a rotation, this is NOT being picky.
gribble: (gpg eregister <nick> <keyid>) -- Register your GPG identity, associating GPG key <keyid> with <nick>. <keyid> is
a 16 digit key id, with or without the '0x' prefix. We look on servers listed in 'plugins.GPG.keyservers' config. You will be given
a link to
a page which contains
a one time password encrypted with your key. Decrypt, and use the 'everify' command with it. Your (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: well what if i told you there;s going to be
a marvelous ad network, allowing ytou to make entire pennies each day!
bounce: heh, right. I got plenty original material to post, just can't be arsed to find
a place to post it, then post it.
bounce: still have
a book with bunches of hexencoded code printed, for you to type over. I perhaps should scan the thing, then see if I can't OCR and put it in an emulator.
Hasbro: mircea_popescu: trusting me would be
a very bad idea
mircea_popescu: well... no pressure other than the fact that obviously i want something like this, so if you pass i'll just have someone write
a ocmpetitor.
gribble: (rate <nick> <rating> [<notes>]) -- Enters
a rating for <nick> in the amount of <rating>. Use optional <notes> field to enter any notes you have about this user. <nick> must be the user's GPG-registered username, Your previously existing rating, if any, will be overwritten.
mircea_popescu: arsenische anyway, it's
a big move, feel free to think it through, ask any questions. no pressure.
mircea_popescu: showing 1mn impressions/10k clicks
a day when he knows it's all bots is worth 0 to anyone.
arsenische: I appreciate your suggestion to focus on the most valuable publishers and get rid of all the trash. But... won't it be difficult to maintain
a binary approach (accept/reject)? Maybe we could just evaluate ad units to have some "quality" attribute, and allow advetisers to set the theshold for their campaigns.
mircea_popescu: arsenische kakobrekla did the coding and maintains the codebase, he gets
a signed list of bitcoin addresses to use whenever needed. i keep the books, and generally handle the business side for it.
mircea_popescu: 2. we kick out all the current publishers. we require all publishers to come here and have their platform approved to be added to
a-
a.
mircea_popescu: arsenische okay, i have
a proposition for you. it goes like this :
mircea_popescu: punkman is there such
a thing as fagrap ? i mean there's everything else, some chick introduced me to her christian rap brother.
mircea_popescu: currently, what's your revenue model ? you charge advertisers
a % ? how much ?
arsenische: there is much work to be done. we need to find
a solution for better ad unit classification and evaluation. improve accounting and statistics for advertisers.
mircea_popescu: tbh if it manages to make
a couple of percents in
a month i'll be happy.