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andyfletcher: /me is happy to wave a finger in the direction of the SEC and say "Not allowed"
mircea_popescu: andyfletcher anyway, you should get a cookie for being the first commentator of the matter to have spotted it. somehow the press covered it extensively but failed to notice stuff like that.
kanzure: asciilifeform: (this was a few years ago, so no glass comments etc)
asciilifeform: kanzure: we're still just as far from a 'human price' svga ocular as we were in 1990.
mircea_popescu: andyfletcher let's try something simpler : http://trilema.com/2014/interacting-with-fiat-institution-a-guide/#footnote_1_53360
Apocalyptic: kanzure, heh, you remind me of a dude
asciilifeform: funny how my father actually spent a good deal of life doing the same (reversing western consumer junk for the soviet market)
bounce: in a way the habitually ignored overly verbose blatter found in intrusive popups on desktops today is the other extreme... with the same effect
mircea_popescu: "I was born like this, I had no choice. I was born with the gift of a golden voice"
kanzure: "oh a few hundred thousand lines of terrible, shitty z80 asm? why of course i'll reverse engineer that!" https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal
asciilifeform: kanzure: in my spam flick, you can see the bugger stuff a plate in a non-bot-enabled plate reader
asciilifeform: because wtf is the point of a robot then
mircea_popescu: bounce a lot more thought will have to be poured into those things
bounce: though an environment where a lot of what's being done in fiat is flat out impossible is a good dampener already
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in our case it was a gurl holding a fist over 'big red button'
bounce: well, though this is a dangerous suggestion, might look at some sort of theoretical underpinning of why regulating, with what overarching goal if you will. I don't really see them do more than plug holes that may or may not exist
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just add a bit of plastic foam!!!
mircea_popescu: kasa32 are we trying to write a block buster movie script here ?
asciilifeform: kanzure: what's interesting is that virtually everyone who owns one of those machines has a grad student wretch supervising it's stumblings in perso
mircea_popescu: there's a thousand to go that i and anyone else with a shred of sanity left would readily agree are prosecutable
bounce: they're chasing an idea of "fairness" that's a poor fit to fiat, possibly worse for bitcoin
mircea_popescu: than go all out with idiocy that'll never work a la us congress.
kanzure: mircea_popescu: i don't have a specific project in mind, and if i did, i would just buy the dna from a synthesis company.
kasa32: <mircea_popescu> yes but if you are called as a witness in a trial, they might bring you there by force
mircea_popescu: kanzure which is why i am trying to get a specific out of you.
kanzure: mircea_popescu: all sorts of things. it's a basic requirement for conducting almost any interesting molecular biology project ever.
asciilifeform: kanzure: tried to! even landed a conference with them. guess how it went.
asciilifeform: kanzure: i actually spent 2 yrs. writing a total replacement for the idiot software stack those things came with.
kasa32: <mircea_popescu> you mean cos of megauploads a legal entity?
kanzure: mircea_popescu: i had a colleague on that project and he's still convinced that microfluidics is the way to go, so he's still working on that in portland
asciilifeform: kanzure: last i spoke with him, he burned out and became a programmer!
mircea_popescu: kasa32 you must have missed the part where i told you this is a civil matter.
asciilifeform: much easier to fix a dead merrifield or whatnot than build all of civilization from raw materials
kanzure: but again i think this approach is probably bad; why not just build a bigger version like the traditional machines
kanzure: that might have been for a new laser
asciilifeform: how is microfluidics a hard problem?
kanzure: asciilifeform: that was a long time ago
mircea_popescu: "come to -assets. only a coupla hundred people here, but you probably have friends in common"
asciilifeform: kanzure: i think you used to work with a chum of mine from uni
kanzure: mircea_popescu: interesting. there's a few people showing up with my name. i want them gone.
kanzure: benkay: that link is a good one for explaining it
mircea_popescu: a bryan bishop fellow.
kanzure: bounce: do you have a link for that?
benkay: jurov: a link to my post there would be neat
bounce basically never uses autocompletion. currently maybe not even bound to a key.
asciilifeform: 'how i need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.'
tg2: Pi to 1k only takes a few days
asciilifeform: (trachtenberg was a mathematically-inclined fellow who ended up in auschwitz)
asciilifeform: a la Trachtenberg's arithmetic
asciilifeform: when i was a student, i tried to work out a way to crank reasonably-heavy rsa mentally.
mircea_popescu: you need a client for it tho
velacreations: mircea_popescu thanks, is there a way to reference their name just by clicking on it, or do I have to type it out every time?
mircea_popescu: kasa32 the whole thing's published, http://trilema.com/2014/interacting-with-fiat-institution-a-guide/
mircea_popescu: store btc as a service, if done right (like say bc.info used to do it) has its places. you go to trade some btc in ny central park, you take a blockchain url with you.
asciilifeform: seems like a basic biological function
asciilifeform: and, for things one can't remember (e.g. gold, disk of warez) one can remember a hiding place
asciilifeform: most people can remember enough key to make keeping some physical thing or other a reasonable proposition
kanzure: you're saying i should be grateful for irc? that's a funny one
mike_c: "we’ll use multiple security layers to verify that you have authorized the request. This will initiate a sequence of secure steps to get your requested bitcoins transferred to your wallet within 24 hours."
mike_c: it's a sequence of steps. layers.
asciilifeform: maybe i'm thick, but it seems to reduce to a poor version of 'brainwallet' but with a 'priest'
asciilifeform: how do the mountain people decide whom to disgorge a key to?
benkay: the scam contention being that there's no way they can actually resist a haircut.
asciilifeform: the way that a child drawing a stick figure in mud 'begins to make sense', but a drunken hippie taking a shit onto a canvas doesn't
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform itd be a pretty korean thing to do, you know ? buy a mountain, sculpt the faces of great bitcoin jesuses all around, have a light at the top to represent satoshi...
asciilifeform: when do we get a mountain for burial of pgp keys?
mircea_popescu: mike_c aaa, but was it built from the ground up with a cock in mind ?
mircea_popescu: it's just big enough to fit in a mountain.
kanzure: even if everyting is okay it is probably a good idea to terminate
mike_c: xapo will fix all these problems. they bury shit in a mountain.
GreenBits: Im not too concerned this is a cut and run, too much capital invested at this point. But that is interesting TAT
asciilifeform: just feels like a mindfuck to wander into, e.g. leningrad hermitage and see... colouring books.
mircea_popescu: you know, like coloring books, nobody says they shouldn't exist, just, they should exist in a much more fucking responseible fashion
benkay: a little anal always consoles me.
mircea_popescu: seems a dubious consolation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform question of mothers towards their young sons that got a girl pregnant, since forever :
mircea_popescu: "<benkay> would you clearsign a statement that I can host please" read to me that you want him to permit you to host it in writing lol.
benkay: i'm asking for a thing that stands on its own.
mircea_popescu: benkay no i get that part, but once he signs a gpg statement what do you need permission to host it for ?
benkay: i want a gpg signed thing!
artifexd: While I expect that TAT will only issue an "I am no longer affiliated" type statement, adding a reason why would be nice.
benkay: or bitcoin sign a message
benkay: would you clearsign a statement that I can host please, ThickAsThieves ?
ljack: I hate that I missed your announcement TAT, is there any chance you will be posting it in a public place besides here?
ThickAsThieves: gimme a few mins to auth and sign message
Diablo-D3: with a coupon code thats like
Diablo-D3: think if I start a forum thread, in dollars
benkay: it'd be a nice precedent.
velacreations: exactly, MP, how does a fund manager just "quit" without notifying the fund?
psterryl: has there been a hack as some people are suggesting?
mircea_popescu: yes well as general practice, the underwriter of a stock can't just quit, they have to leave the stock to be shepherded by someone else.
neilol: just a few uninformed not paying attention
neilol: Jesus - sorry, not speaking for you TAT, didn't realize it was actually a sensitive issue
mircea_popescu: basically what happened here, the cfo ran off with a block of shares ?
ThickAsThieves: In case any of you missed it, Havelock has shared that "the compliance officer of Neo and Bee Ltd has stated that due to an increase of abnormal activity on the LMB share platform, there may be a high possibility of questionable trading activity. While Neo and Bee Ltd investigate the issue further they have strongly recommended that we halt trading and transfers."
pLambert: And Herp sees the trade stopping as a good thing: "This was probably a good move due to all the manipulation. Spamtroll manipulators had a field day recently while Neo was busy elsewhere." https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=529946.msg5956564#msg5956564
benkay: if there were actual btc on the line, the mod who approved it might get a caning
pLambert: yeah, looks like the bet should resolve to "Yes" even for a temporary halt of trading?
mircea_popescu: how the fuck some "company" slash "ceo" that can spend enough to mediabuy a small mediteranean island can't get their corp comms in working order is beyond comprehension.
BingoBoingo: http://gawker.com/park-slope-kids-salon-stop-calling-your-wifi-lulus-a-1553651388