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nextime: for 20$ in a week, tooling fee if we will have a continued relationship isn't an issue
asciilifeform: i'd like a ballpark figure, incl. NRE.
nextime: asciilifeform : so, maybe you can just drop me an email with specifications and part list, so i can give you a quotation for assembly both in turnkey and kitted?
asciilifeform: nextime: i should probably specify that pcb is to be sent in (we already have a good working relationship with a pcb maker)
asciilifeform: nextime: there is already a source for the pcb per se; but i'm shopping around for assemblers.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: over here, this traditional reply usually comes with a five, six (usd) figure quote for running the fiber. (add insult to injury)
mircea_popescu: davout you ever were a client of anyone else before ?
asciilifeform: ('paste' is a substance with roughly the appearance and consistency of toothpaste, with small solder globules suspended.)
mike_c: his does look a little neater :) but results are what counts.
asciilifeform: it's simply that it's a bitch
fluffypony: anyway, I can get him to hop on here and you can have a chat to him and see
asciilifeform: once again, virtually anything can be done under a good microscope, with steady hands
asciilifeform: nobody's manually soldering a tqfp-64.
fluffypony: "For the slaves, i was thinking about using a pic18f67j60, it is an 8 bit MCU with an ethernet mac/phy embedded, and it is very powerfull. the same circuit we have for the expansion board with this MCU and a magnetic rj45 connector will cost the same for prototipes and no more than 15$ each in production for low batches."
fluffypony: "easy also to prototipe, so i expect to have a "few prototipes" costs between 15/20$ each, and a production price no more than 10/12$ each for low batches ( ~ 100 pieces )"
fluffypony: asciilifeform: no secret at all - we have a design for a remote power on/power off system for mining rigs that we're busy finalising with them
ThickAsThieves: more like a, ifyerinapinch kinda thing
ThickAsThieves: but they just posted a big update this week
asciilifeform: when a fellow isn't reliable, hard to be sure how much because of his own head and how much because he relies on muppets.
ThickAsThieves: not sure if youve any interest, or whether it's a good idea, but i'd be happy to try and connect you to Friedcat at ASICMINER if you think he might have any connections of interest re pcb or components
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: I expected you as more of a Devil Wears Prada kinda guy :-P
kakobrekla: not the owner, a guy who works at the second link i gave you
kakobrekla: even doing placement on a small run
ThickAsThieves: [16:09] <+kakobrekla> the devils advocate? /// one of my fav movies, also a term many people have used on me, also what i feel the essence of blogging is
kakobrekla: is this a new blog of yours?
ThickAsThieves: it's not a matter of lack of interest
ozbot: Updated: A debit card for bitcoin: Xapo could solve the payment problem with help from banks —
fluffypony: http://gigaom.com/2014/04/24/a-debit-card-for-bitcoin-xapo-solves-the-payment-problem-with-mastercard-tie-in/
bounce: except they might at the drop of a hat decide that they don't like where some of their users send their money and stop doing it
fluffypony: couldn't you have gone with a VISA partner?
davout: bounce: you got a point
France-bitcoin: gribble is giving a list of chan to be on to proceed
davout: yea, i've been talking for a couple of minutes before realizing i didn't voice myself ><
mircea_popescu: liek a supybot or what is it ?
mircea_popescu: o that's a thing ?
France-bitcoin: mircea_popescu, a blog name...
punkman: The DarkMarket daemon << is this just a rebranded tor bundle thing ? << no it looks like a piece of shit implemented on top of 0mq, which didn't even do security for the first few major versions
mircea_popescu: France-bitcoin srsly ? what a name.
mircea_popescu: The DarkMarket daemon << is this just a rebranded tor bundle thing ?
HeySteve: ah wait my mistake, they do say they have a rep system
HeySteve: ThickAsThieves: "At the moment, DarkMarket displays only a bare IP address for every user..."
HeySteve: bitwasp too, where one can have ephemeral markets that come and go like a stream of soap bubble worlds
HeySteve: I see a reputation system as pretty critical to the success of something like dark markets
fluffypony: and you have to wade through a French website to activate it
fluffypony: ended up just being a tc debit card
fluffypony: I actually have a BTC debit card from the now defunct thebitcoincard.co.uk
bounce: zeromq is a p2p thing now?
ozbot: Inside the ‘DarkMarket’ Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize | Threat Level | WIRED
ThickAsThieves: A user downloads the DarkMarket software, which runs as a daemon in the background of the user’s operating system, allowing them to connect to the DarkMarket network through any browser. The DarkMarket daemon incorporates a library of commands for peer-to-peer networking known as ZeroMQ, which allows the user’s PC to become a node in a distributed network where every user can
ThickAsThieves: it seems each user is a host of the network
ThickAsThieves: that makes them like the 11th co to claim a btc credit card
bounce: huh, there's actually a(t least one) shipyard in cuba
mircea_popescu: " but only that it hopes to have one through a partner bank"
mircea_popescu: they ate the swrawberry for a week afterwards
fluffypony: I don't have a submarine, but I hope to have one through a military contractor...I can haz press coverage nao?
fluffypony: "This story was updated at 9:52am PT to reflect the fact that Xapo does not have a formal relationship with MasterCard, but only that it hopes to have one through a partner bank. This is contrary to earlier claims made by Xapo to Gigaom both in person and in writing that Xapo would issue a MasterCard-branded debit card. A MasterCard representative confirmed that it has no relationship with Xapo."
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: http://gigaom.com/2014/04/24/a-debit-card-for-bitcoin-xapo-solves-the-payment-problem-with-mastercard-tie-in/
moiety: actually a video
BingoBoingo: If all caps is a must it will take longe rthough
moiety: right into a jar (thinking ahead)
Naphex: nice move, doable. mastercard might have a field day though :D
Naphex: "Casares explained that Xapo added the product due to demand from current customers who have wanted a way to spend the roughly 10% of their funds (on average) they keep in the company’s hot wallets. The remainder is stored securely in cold storage."
Naphex: ThickAsThieves: i think they just have a multi-account system, issue a mastercard, give USD, take BTC
asciilifeform: or at least have a share in one
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if we get someone trustworthy doing mining at some point << the way i understand it, mining is -EV unless you own a semiconductor plant.
jborkl_: Almost done integrating a blockexplorer to my site- just waiting on the blockchain to dl
kakobrekla: <hanbot> ;;rate kakobrekla 1 A reliable bloke who rolls a good fag. < jurov must be jelly
mircea_popescu: dooglus you been putting any work into getting a physical machine ?
mircea_popescu: offer guaranteed values for a week, say.
Naphex: dooglus: ever tought about putting out an API? I've heard of guys who'd want to put JustDice in a Romanian Gabling Machine :)
asciilifeform: you can use 'vi' instead of 'emacs' if you were to buy a parenthesis-counting slavegurl ?
dooglus: "whether his 3 digit jd acct is worth money" -- probably a little for vanity's sake, and more if it has a negative investment profit
asciilifeform: not exactly 'FDA Grade A'
asciilifeform: even selling the female lusers, that'd be a serious haircut
mircea_popescu: in typical eeuropean quaintness, your average gypsy worker guy with a sack would generously play the part, for the benefit of any mom needing it
mircea_popescu: consequently, for centuries, the ultimate parental threat was, "i'ma give you to the gypsy man, who comes by with a sack to collect bad kids"
mircea_popescu: here's a fun bit of the history of racism in europe :
mircea_popescu: where one lives on a boat in a 2x3 space, separated by a hanging sheet from all the other prostitutes
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the us has a serious problem with the absnece of an evil empire.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was a particular type of them. ro military used them extensively.
mike_c: jd creates a new account whenever someone not-cookied visits JD
mircea_popescu: holy shit you've had a ton of new accts huh
benkay: would it be a terrible idea to allow people to request voice in chan via pm once every so many minutes?
mircea_popescu: a
mircea_popescu: that's a dacia 1310
Naphex: that a lada? :p
mircea_popescu: isn't that a demon ?
mircea_popescu: the nefarious influence of mp : ThickAsThieves wants to ask me q's in private, ends up making a new blog to publish the results on.
ThickAsThieves: vitalik should come for a visit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's sd done by a better guy, with a better model.
asciilifeform: since i've been living under a rock, i gotta ask - is jd just sd with new fuel rods?
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=THQ | Jun 24, 2007 ... THQ. abreviation for "team hit and quit" one guy dates a girl, fucks her, dumps her , and then his friend does the same. Me and my best friend ...
gribble: Error: "us" is not a valid command.
ThickAsThieves: if anyone is feeling like a cringe: http://bitshares.org/
mircea_popescu: it WAS a great beast. no longer very useful other than an old codger who once ruled his slice of the world,
fluffypony: I don't understand...maidsafe's trying to do a bitbet?
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> i think you misunderstand the entire maidsafe thing. they just saw the bitbet treatment of late bets and are trying to implement something a) bigger and b) community-positive.
fluffypony: Naphex: it's significantly faster for HFT than a RESTful API :)
mircea_popescu: <bounce> and then you have a submarine. then what? << then they could hold their breath ? :D
Naphex: but i wrote a interface for it just in case :p