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mircea_popescu: so basically... this is a pool to doublespend.
TestingUnoDosTre: Can someone explain this to me. Purchase of 382 Btc at 505, followed by 20 btc at 500. Was the first purchase a market buy?
mircea_popescu: Arleigh Burke-class. that's a... radar ship. derp.
pankkake: nice, I would have liked that a year ago (though I eventually recovered my coins)
mircea_popescu: i doubt there exists a us ship that actually can defend itself against modernised su's, but hey.
assbot: Need a nickname, Naphex.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 5 == initial quote. traditionally, gov. payola contracts have overrun, renewal, etc. provisions. add a zero.
mircea_popescu: "The original bullhocky story about the cattle endangering desert tortoises fell apart when the truth was discovered that only recently the BLM had gerrymandered the boundaries of endangered habitat and created a mitigation area needed to replace habitat where Harry Reid’s son and a Chinese energy company planned to build a 5 billion dollar solar energy project."
asciilifeform: in usa, they broke the mechanism that separates the usefully servile class from 'lumpens.' sort of like growing edible mushrooms in a bathroom infested by mold, because, hey, you can.
mircea_popescu: bounce in a civilise country, yes.
asciilifeform: erests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.'
asciilifeform: 'labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of -- because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) int
mircea_popescu: Vincent: What's more chickenshit than fucking with a man's automobile? I mean, don't fuck with another man's vehicle.
mircea_popescu: Lance: What a fucker!
mircea_popescu: you;'ll have to excuse me, i'm indulging a bottle of cognac and my inclination to be wtf'd.
mircea_popescu: dude... and this is STILL not enough reason to just send the national guard and beat anyone not rich into a pulp ?
asciilifeform: i know a fellow, not far from where i live, with a secret chicken coup
mircea_popescu: whereas you'd prolly end up in a holding cell
asciilifeform: my new pad, as of next month, has a yard. so i shall find out.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I dunno about in your location, but here a license is nominally required. Much as for fishing.
asciilifeform: (rabbit is a common garden pest here)
asciilifeform: i've often wondered if the local busybodies would go apeshit if one were to set up a snare.
mircea_popescu: there's a thin sliver of romanians who wannabe us hipster liberals.
mircea_popescu: so a bunch of romanians found an ancient article in which i sliced a rabbit and are having aneurisms all over my comment section. kinda funnay to watch.
mircea_popescu: http://www.tandyonline.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/a/n/antex-st4-stand_1.png
mircea_popescu: maybe a giant soldering iron.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well I was more imagining what it would take for a Rasberry Pi to truly be a TI-89 surrogate than imagining a project for myself in the near future.
mircea_popescu: yeah we kinda need a mascot or something don't we.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: maximally evil closed build chain, but you can actually specify a circuit, e.g. pdp-11.
BingoBoingo: Ah, this Baron thing is hard. Especially when it comes to considering what may be worthy of accepting someone as a Ridder or Jonhkeer
chairman_meow: I haven't invested much. it's a small amount. I'm looking for more returns on bitcoin price swings
mircea_popescu: http://youngcons.com/this-actually-happened-irs-sent-a-five-year-old-boy-a-letter-about-his-taxes-his-response-is-hilarious/ << great for a lol, even if obviously fake.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, anyone can invest a bitcent anywhere, hardly a qualifier.
BingoBoingo: Well I wouldn't be averse to offering trust for a small trade if I knew what the person's shtick is
mircea_popescu: it benefited a few.
mircea_popescu: i spent some money trying to educate a bunch of idiots.
mircea_popescu: you need a rating from someone assbot trusts.
chairman_meow: so.. I need a trust connection to assbot?
mircea_popescu: as if anyone gives a shit if danny brewster's daughter ends up in a snuff video or in cypriots have talent
mircea_popescu: but a bigger part of which being that when they go to shit, they can try to divert the discussion on unrelated emo topicsa
Apocalyptic: guy has a point
Apocalyptic: "The lesson for anyone in the public domain should already be clear: Don't try to answer rumours on Reddit, unless you are also prepared to provide cast iron proof of what you say, don't discuss your family affairs on a public forum, and especially don't mention your children - this is stupid beyond belief"
bounce: apparently biometrics stays afloat on the pretty pix in teh moveez, for if you spend but a few seconds thinking about it, it becomes obvious that it cannot be a good fit for the purpose
BingoBoingo: bounce: A big point is that OpenBSD is already on Vax working well, and they are very unlikely to abandon it.
BingoBoingo: bounce: Sure but I dunno what a MIPs cooks as. A Vax though is a noble animal that has the potential for a delicious meat pie. Also just the sound of Vaxberry Pie works.
Apocalyptic: "I have a family funeral to attend." #1 BS excuse
mircea_popescu: fluffypony there is a test.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yeah that was actually a pw.
mircea_popescu: bounce tbh biometrics was a thing of the 70s i thought. pretty much all sf of that decade had it, and by 90s it was in every action movie out there.
fluffypony: maybe there should be a test
mircea_popescu: make a math that doesn't need numbers ?
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: agreed. is this about the time I self-identify as a bitcoin-assets cultist?
mircea_popescu: whosoever can not use a computer, should not be using computers.
BingoBoingo: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/04/15/a-better-toy-computer-vaxberry-pie/
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> unless you believe user education is going to work and everyone is suddenly going to start using secure one-time passwords :-P << i just belive everyone who isn't is going to be relegated to the salt mines. why should every human qualify as a "user" ?
fluffypony: bounce: also most of the iOS bypass bugs I've played with have exposed photos, or the dialler, or something...not a complete unmitigated unlock
fluffypony: Naphex: yeah but that's a different attack surface entirely, I'm just talking about taking the general security level of the general populace up a notch
fluffypony: I don't think there's been a successful attack on TouchID / Samsung's fingerprint login that lifted a fingerprint from the device and used it to unlock it?
bounce: sure, pickpockets and petty thieves usually prefer billionaires, that's a fact.
fluffypony: bounce: we're talking about a significant improvement over the current state of affairs, that isn't snake oil
bounce: hax! and yet you can see paypal deaffirm their religious beliefs in fingerprint "security". no wonder the hatted bunch keeps on having a field day.
bounce: pretty speedy response at least. but how the fsck do you fail to account for p/l on a day you "restart your systems"? what're they running, batch-only dinosaurs?
jborkl: artifexd ty - I am using a js cache on the server
bounce: bit heavy on the js for a page that doesn't look like it should need any
artifexd: jborkl: Dude! That is a seriously massive improvement!
mike_c: so i dump a 5mb buffer on the stack?
asciilifeform: i sorta have a blog about this.
Naphex: just wouldn't use it for a big project involving 4+ programmers in a usual work day
asciilifeform: 'we refuse to produce any more C programmers who are a danger to themselves and others.' -- my old dean ☟︎☟︎☟︎
bounce: should be plenty market, if a bit cash-strapped
fluffypony: instead of live reporting off DB2 (each business unit pays for DB2 access they use over the month, so it's pricey) it was cheaper to drop and re-copy the entire DB every night to a reporting DB
bounce: not a bad move otherwise. though I'd still be mighty tempted to just quietly start and refactor parts until I have a fully working system, even if it takes a few years
bounce: OS/2 does funky things to the hardware, apparently a bitch to emulate
fluffypony: the one, Standard Bank, ran OS/2 warp in a VM for their home loans client
bounce: really should do linux (well, *BSD really) thin clients at least for all the desks, and something reasonable for a back-end. which might still be some mainframe or other.
Naphex: a lot more risk to expect from handling money and bitcoins then public transport data
bounce: you worked at a bank before?
bounce: if that's a question.... anyway, whose phone's gonna ring when the dashboard turns red?
Naphex: realtime monitoring, rrd's for everything with alerts, everything critical is on a dashboard :)
Naphex: there's a slave there who does it :))
davout: Apocalyptic fluffypony i wouldn't care about that, i'd care about having a fault tolerant memory db, that slowly gets synced to an actual rdbms
kakobrekla: maybe a golden chain.
kakobrekla: all you really need is a better string.
Apocalyptic: davout, a trading engine
Apocalyptic: davout, i don't need to benchmark something I know will require 1 ASM MUL EAX,EBX instruction for exemple compared to a Java arbitrary-precision library
bounce: naphex: suppose you cook up a new feature. how does it go in? save work, reload and go?
davout: Apocalyptic: is it what you think or have you actually benchmarked it ? also cpu cycles are a couple of order of magnitudes cheaper than the time it takes to handle it the code level by hungry humans
Naphex: time to start writing a new exchange engine, with its own kernel ;]
davout: Apocalyptic: what's wrong with a bigdecimal type?
Apocalyptic: mircea, because he uses some arbitrary precision library he doesn't have a clue that he doesn't need it
mircea_popescu: you're on a 64 bit system, who the fuck is going to deposit enough dollars to take you out of maxint
mircea_popescu: Naphex why keep a scale value ?
bounce: alright, so, you cook up a new feature. hit reload and it goes live? or how does that work?
Naphex: mircea_popescu: bigdecimal gets to deal with all that, and you don't have to store multiple currencies with a scale value as well
kakobrekla: ;;rate usagi 1 Had a 1140 btc contract with usagi which entitled me to said amount on 2012-08-26. The final payment was done 2013-04-27, totaling 995 btc. The sum was 145 btc short but I agreed to let it slide because of distress on the market of the underlying 'securities' and rapid btc market price rise. The contract did not involve a clause re. wot, but since he is asking back btc, I will leave it here.
Naphex: is from a java / rpc server standpoind :]
Apocalyptic: <Naphex> easier to debug, maintain and analyze code others produced // ok this is a point
kakobrekla: ;;rate usagi 1 Had a 1140 btc contract with usagi which entitled me to said amount on 2012-08-26. The final payment was done 2013-04-27, totaling 995 btc. The sum was 145 btc short but I agreed to let it slide because of distress on the market of the underlying 'securities' and rapid btc market price rise. The contract did not involve a requirement of leaving the feedback, but since he is asking to give him back btc 'for old time
Naphex: Apocalyptic: its not that, but a lot more went into picking java, and i definetly wouldn't have picked C:P
Naphex: Apocalyptic: as in write a C .so to implement/optimize bogdowns