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fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: FIX is quite an interesting, old (early 90's) protocol that is basically pipe-char separated key-values (key is always numeric and based on
a predefined list), and you literally dump the ASCII over
a TCP session
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> with
a dangly piece of wire running precariously from your roof to the pole << funny, that's how romania does optic fibre.
fluffypony: admittedly their approval process isn't much of
a process
benkay: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu posted
a picture
a few months back of the amusing repair job done on the wire into his house/
fluffypony: benkay: when the wind blows that piece of wire hits
a tree and our Internet drops
benkay: i'll let you know how it goes in
a decade.
benkay: fluffypony, ThickAsThieves i'm testing
a scarcity hunch
benkay: <fluffypony> with
a dangly piece of wire running precariously from your roof to the pole << and i thought the romanian internet situation was dire.
ThickAsThieves: jurov otherwise i'll leave it to them to present
a more elaborate document of their plan
gribble: Error: You have not given this nick
a rating previously.
ThickAsThieves: thank you very much for your input and for pointing our
a direction! It most certainly helps.
benkay: mircea_popescu: regarding the emacs thing, it's just
a bit of lisp to make working with gribble and assbot
a little more pleasant.
mike_c: and if you're in there, small bug report: weight_current is an int, but weight_end is
a string.
ThickAsThieves: i have additional request,
a "scroll to bottom" button on the log
fluffypony: meanwhile there are 6 hops between the "mtgox" address and the ScamSafe address, any of which could be an exchange or
a tumbler
bounce: entirely underwater appears to be less of
a problem than half-submerged
bounce: plastic liner, perhaps mineral oil instead of air for
a filler
bounce: you're trying to play
a numbers game. why the spendy alloys when something stupid like concrete would do?
bounce: why not? just thicken them up
a bit. perhaps fill with cooling liquid if pressure becomes
a problem. no need for air inside.
bounce: that's 3.5e11 dollahs. maybe
a little on the spendy side.
fluffypony: if anyone wants me to put them down as
a CoinBr referral...first to give me their invitation code gets it
bounce: parkers? but wouldn't
a cold war bunker be cheaper then?
bounce: maybe cheaper to get
a 2nd hand sea platform or something
bounce: and then you have
a submarine. then what?
hanbot: ;;rate jurov 1
A dili-, intelli-, gent.
davout: ;;rate hanbot 1 delivered
a fuckton of worthy smackdowns
fluffypony: with
a dangly piece of wire running precariously from your roof to the pole
fluffypony: HeySteve: run
a bouncer off
a VPS or something, then you won't miss anything
hanbot: ;;rate kakobrekla 1
A reliable bloke who rolls
a good fag.
hanbot: ;;rate davout 1 Delivered
a worthy smackdown.
fluffypony: asciilifeform: if you're
a company that doesn't want to trust your data to DropBox for sensitivity reasons, but still need to have similar functionality, it's great
fluffypony: Naphex:
http://owncloud.org - it's just
a FOSS implementation of
a Google Drive/DropBox style service, so you have to host your own server to run it
Naphex: i'm not
a fan of the cloud
fluffypony: Naphex: I'm not, just
a friend using them for his ownCloud data (1gbps colocated box)
mircea_popescu: hey, DRKP or KDPR or DERP or wtf it's called secret services : drop the man
a memo wtf.
mircea_popescu: i mean... not
a single correct one at all. 0. zilch. nada.
mircea_popescu: benkay sure.
a lot of excellent application for homomorphisms in crypto, many of them empowered/exposed by bitcoin
kakobrekla: anyway im off for
a couple of hrs. later
fluffypony: lol - "If gox is solvent I'll buy you
a Frappucino"
fluffypony: kakobrekla: can you make assbot ping Anduck every day at
a random time? :-P
mircea_popescu: (it's roughjly the equivalent of
a normal ib liquidity clause)
mircea_popescu: you get
a 10% cut of the results, report your trades monthly.
mircea_popescu: ima make you
a s.mpif manager, give you 50 BTC , your job is to try and make
a profit trading s.mpif of mpex.
mircea_popescu: it goes like this : the s.mpif is going to be reporting its assets monthly. meanwhile it will probably trade. there should be
a mechanism to buy/sell shares to ensure the market stays liquid and more or less alligned to net value. so what i want to do is :
ThickAsThieves: thank you very much for your input and for pointing our
a direction! It most certainly helps.
Anduck: is there
a good summary of that whole neo bee casE?
toddf: so "I made money, just curious to talk to others who are also there" is
a bad argument?
mircea_popescu: this is
a poor argument. if you read the logs you'll see you're by no means singular in making that error.
toddf: I've put some money in, and have already returned my investment plus, keeps on truckin, so .. 100th at least seems not to be
a scam to me
toddf: so am i in
a void or is any news or chatter about picostocks.com just nonexistent? ;-)
mircea_popescu: said by
a 6 yo puerto rican kid on the lam to
a 50 yo retired blonde prostitute.
mircea_popescu: "Fuck! He don't know the score. He sees
a dame like you and
a guy like me. He don't know."
fluffypony: fast forward 2 years and they "go bankrupt" and this new crowd that registered
a business like
a month ago "buys" all their existing contracts and databases and everything for $100 or something stupid
CheckDavid:
A position of experience and financial success
fluffypony: there was
a rental agency that had this awesome comm structure - find
a tenant and you get half of their management fee for the lifetime of the tenant (they charge ~10% of the rent as
a management fee)
mircea_popescu: informal only works if you're either part of the core or part of
a group that can squish them.
CheckDavid: Though I was thinking about starting collaboration in
a more informal manner.
fluffypony: otherwise after
a year or two the company can "fold" and reopen to service all the old clients, cutting you out the loop
mircea_popescu: always very easy to find out which. just, need
a little experience in business.
mircea_popescu: it's building their equity. either they pay for it or you get
a share of it.
mircea_popescu: in NO case do you work for
a startup on
a comission basis wtf is this, the land of where they get shit for free ?
mircea_popescu: anywya, if you're working for
a start-up you want either equity or
a salary.
mircea_popescu: yeah it's kinda how large deals work. industrial equipment is
a perfect example.
fluffypony: CheckDavid: there is actually some precedent - I have
a very good friend who moved here from Sweden to sell industrial cleaning equipment/supplies. he knows the cost of the product, and dependent on the size of the sale he can offer
a discount to the client. his comm is based on the "profit" in that it's (sales - cost of sales), so he won't offer
a discount on small sales but might determine it worthwhile reducing his comm on
a larger sale
CheckDavid: mircea_popescu: just
a contract for sales rep that sets commissions to be based on profit instead of sales volume
fluffypony: I mean, I can understand if there's
a fixed CoS and they're calling (CoS - Sales) "profit"
CheckDavid: Dissimulating profits is
a pretty straightforward process
chetty: sounds like
a bad deal CheckDavid , company can just spend whatever of ads and exec salaries and you get squat
CheckDavid: I was sent
a proposal to represent
a business in acquiring projects for them on
a commission based rewards schedule.
CheckDavid: Who needs to be smart when you can fool
a genius?
mircea_popescu: ie, that it's not accidental, but deliberate, as part of
a broader govt sponsored industry agreement to keep mobiles weak cryptographically
CheckDavid: How do you map
a reason to an expectation?
mircea_popescu: i suspect the reason why good crypto is
a hassle on smartphones is exactly what one'd expect.