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CheckDavid: Such
a hassle to authenticate with gribble on
a mobile device
CheckDavid: I am not doing much business in here or even trading
a single satoshi around
mircea_popescu: Leon Humphreys remained adamant yesterday that his right to fight
a champion nominated by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) was still valid under European human rights legislation. He said it would have been
a "reasonable" way to settle the matter.
mircea_popescu:
A court has rejected
a 60-year-old man's attempt to invoke the ancient right to trial by combat, rather than pay
a £25 fine for
a minor motoring offence.
wywialm: it may take
a day or so, unfortunately
fluffypony: yeah, and
a camera isn't electronics components, different tarriff heading
HeySteve: I found
a nice camera on coinsfortech selling for btc, works out about R7000 cheaper than on kalahari including shipping
fluffypony: HeySteve: it depends on what electronics...typically for PC components it's just 14% VAT and
a release fee (R15 - R30)
benkay: ;;later tell mircea_popescu let me tell you about this crazy thing some crypto cats were banging on at me about today. given
a company who's interested in genes and
a uni with
a giant set of genes and phone numbers for each, how do you match the people with the company without the company revealing what sequence it's interested in or the uni the people's gene sequences?
bgupta: So is there any way to cryptographically take
a blockchain and split it into seperate blockchains but transfer value between the blockchains on
a 1/1 ratio, without having them just simply be seperate blockchains with market dynamics?
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> i'll bet you you won't be able to guess all 4. // i likes me
a challenge
ozbot: The Vienna Offensive,
a hetalia - axis powers fanfic | FanFiction
benkay: 1970s. Fooled once, investors were not fooled again in that specific way, making the key risky asset characteristic of the latest recession
a metric of safety going forward."
benkay: "For example, subsequent to the 1990 Commercial Real Estate debacle, defaults in this asset class were well below average across the board for the subsequent decade. In the aftermath of that crisis, newly issued Commercial Real Estate Asset Backed securities did very well, because everyone was especially cognizant of the risk factors involved.
A similar thing happened in railroads after the Penn Central railroad defaulted in the early
mircea_popescu: "AllAdvantage was
a website that paid members to surf the Net. It paid to acquire these users, and supposedly leveraged its members’ eyeballs into advertizing dollars. At the initial fundraiser internet capitalist Frank Quattrone, who helped fund Cisco and many other legitimate successful concerns, and President Clinton both paid tribute to AllAdvantage"
mircea_popescu: benkay
a good theory which requires dupes to have
a functioning ganglion.
mircea_popescu: "In an expansion investors are constantly looking for better places to invest their capital, while entrepreneurs are always overconfident, hoping to get capital to fund their restless ambition. Sometimes, the investors (dupes) think
a certain set of key characteristics are sufficient statistics of
a quality investment because historically they were. Mimic entrepreneurs seize upon these key characteristics that will all
mircea_popescu: because well.... they can't compete, because they solve
a problem rather than grooming it with dysfunctional non-solutions, and so have nothing to kick back.
mircea_popescu: as
a result, all the proper urinals are nao destroyed.
BingoBoingo: Amazing how in the US Steam plants are generally just
a University thing and yet every on campus steam plant I've seen has been as boring as shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually it's devilishly simple. you'll see after
a few monthly reports.
mircea_popescu: jurov can wait, the contract'll be up at
a sane time, but in
a few days.
gribble: You rated user mike_c on Tue Mar 25 20:15:55 2014, with
a rating of 3, and supplied these additional notes: blogger, dev.
mike_c: i hate to turn down action, but feels like
a tough wager. there are
a lot of people i don't know.
mircea_popescu: you get
a list as long as you wish, provided you publish it by tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: mike_c actually i'll bet you
a certain pizza you won't be able to guess all 4.
mircea_popescu: so on the very good news front, i've already lined up 4 managers for s.mpif, whole shebang nominally worth
a little north of 170 btc atm.
ozbot: Loper OS »
A Country of Which Nothing is Known but the Name.
bounce: lopsided isn't really the word. somehow
a better word eludes me for the moment.
bounce: doing
a little survey among cryptographers of name with how and at what size they assess the NSA's knowledge advandage, if any, might be interesting. doing it every couple years maybe even moreso.
mircea_popescu: so, as kids, one party game was to whistle into an old, low baud modem. they were slow enough that it was still sort-of feasible. the game was, who gets the modem going for longer thinking it's got
a sane modem on the other end
mircea_popescu: anyway, re your "you're reaching" comment, i told
a story at teh conference that should prolly be on the record.
bounce: c'mon, cook up
a nice 20 questions to finnagle the truth out of oracle schneier
bounce: I think you're reaching with that line of reasoning. I know how I read it and I disagree with how you read it. I will allow that
a-priori notions on either side (or both) might have something to do with the interpretation.
bounce: wouldn't surprise me if the NSA has everyone with
a little crypto knowledge on watchlists just to see the privately-circulating papers
mircea_popescu: now without offense, let me just propose to you as
a theory that it's possible you'd not know how you read it. in the same sense advertising works.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i know what he's pretending he's trying to say, but that ain't at all what he;s saying. what he's saying is "resistence is futile", that's the message, and it's
a ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: <bounce> still, they know what we know plus
a bunch << this is strictly false.
bounce: still, they know what we know plus
a bunch we don't know much about. we don't know how big it is, we don't know what it does. for that reason you have to be careful with their "gifts". that's the point he's making.
Apocalyptic:
a possible explanation may be that cryptography as
a field wasn't that broad in academia back then
Apocalyptic: "best guess (last I heard) was that they're about five years ahead of the open community with the research" that may have been accurate
a few years ago
bounce: yeah, but we're not talking NSA as
a whole. we're talking the stuff that comes out of there in the form of algorithms
mircea_popescu: heck,
a lot of smart people worked for microsoft, and alcatel, and whatever other pointless dinosaur. adobe.
mircea_popescu: nobody is denying
a lot of smart people work for the nsa.
mircea_popescu: if spending money solved problems the phoenician empire'd still be
a thing.
bounce: you can see how that works in, say, DES, where the NSA suggested stuff that turned out to be resistant to
a type of attack not known publically at the time DES was finalised
bounce: actually, no. they employ
a fsckton of mathematicians and they know everything that's in the open plus an unspecified amount we don't know about. best guess (last I heard) was that they're about five years ahead of the open community with the research
bounce: though the real question is, is that
a /signed/ tag?
mircea_popescu: "Additionally, algorithms from the NSA are considered
a sort of alien technology: they come from
a superior race with no explanations."
bounce: you need to speka lisp-
a to understand-
a bounce: you more or less missed
a chance to snag
a few subs for essentially free down in the crimea
fluffypony: “My cofounder turned down
a job at Google to focus on our company.” Translation: He applied for an internship
a while back and it fell through.
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: likewise...I just find myself way too unproductive for the first ~4 hours after waking up if I'm hanging like
a little bitch
BingoBoingo: I wouldn't be where I am today without the ability to swiftly dispatch
a hangover
BingoBoingo: The hangover suggested it would be
a good idea
fluffypony: mike_c: the comments are
a cesspool of stupidity..."Wow! Finally coin with the future!"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you happen to have
a loglink to where i propositioned you to do atc investment for me ?
benkay: how is that
a bargain at all, jurov ?!
davout: do
a simple test, ask the legal person, or whatever lawyer you have the following question : "do we need some sort of financial license to do what we do?"
Naphex: there'se 3 more working on
a bitcoin atm
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Stepped on it with show. Also the mouse was actuall
a mouse. Was skittering around the garage while I was trying to IRC and smoke cigarettes in it.
davout: the easiest is
a payments service provider license
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: There's also
a deadly form of porcine mega shits killing off the pork here
davout: Naphex: your banking relationship may be great, but as soon as you handle someone else's fiat by opening them an account, allowing them to cash in and out, you need
a financial registration
davout: mircea_popescu Naphex i'm afraid lawyers don't have
a lot of clues when dealing with bitcoin, iirc gox had baker & mc kenzie
mircea_popescu: Naphex that can't be
a gc, it has to be
a corp officer. he can hire whoever, but ultimately signs off on it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform get used to it, gc is what
a cto of law is called.
Naphex: davout: not sure how to answer that, or if
a financiall registration is required. but all is operating completly legally
davout: mircea_popescu: send half
a bitcoin, that'll do just fine
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller can i pay you to send davout
a cookie ?
kakobrekla: its just side effect, not
a pleasant one
kakobrekla: anyway i dun think its opening of corps that makes you
a biz man
kakobrekla: what is it with you and corps, you speak of it like
a hobby
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla or you could register
a ro corp like sane ppls.
mircea_popescu: Naphex well if you like gpg add
a gpg sig to gribble wot so i can get your pubkey.
mircea_popescu: if you're concerned about getting spammed simply make
a sensible limit per upload (5mb ?) and only keep one record per account (the last)
mircea_popescu: this substantially improves your security and helps
a lot of things
mircea_popescu: and add
a simple html form where i can dump my files as
a gpg -r -
a mircea_popescu: on the page where one can submit documents to be verified, add
a link to
a textfile constructed as gpg -export-pubkey -
a | gpg --clearsign -
a