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mircea_popescu: there's been
a digital revolution since, which they've been covering ad nauseam ever since hte days of the information superhighway
ThickAsThieves: "These people had obviously spent
a long time plotting this crime and I doubt they would have been able to keep their plans secret for all that time, without telling others about their elaborate scheme."
ThickAsThieves:
a Huawei spokesperson says "at this stage there are no plans to launch
a dual-OS smartphone in the near future."
ozbot: Crypto-Stock wont allow me to post
a project`
mircea_popescu: "outperformed almost everythjing except for mpex stocks which we don't talk about because they suck because they suck because they suck because they have been outperforming all our retarded shit for three years straight now and mp is an asshole who fucks
a lot of women and is currently paying one with
a huge rack to humiliate us in public so fuck that shit mate!11"
mircea_popescu: he's
a lumberjack and he's okay, he sleeps all night an' he chats all day...
mircea_popescu: everyone's
a conservative until they become the richest guy in the valley, at which point their concern suddenly becomes "what if all these thirtysomething conservatives do what i do only better ? QUICK! TO THE LIBTARD MOBILE!"
nubbins`: gates is trying to soothe
a guilty conscience
nubbins`: everyone's
a conservative until they go broke ;(
chetty: well it kinda helps if you had
a father - that was an adult
nubbins`: everyone's
a liberal until they get some money
mircea_popescu: this'd be universally true of everyone tho. nobody has
a clue what it's like before it's like...
chetty: yup, but its more than that, they have no clue what
a grown is - never saw one
mircea_popescu: "Yesterday as I walked to the gym, I saw that all the treadmills were occupied by fatties. so I chose the stairmaster/step machine for
a try. to my surprise I saw that you could set your gender only with two options! male and female! I was outraged because although I was assigned
a male because of my very big dick I identify with leopard slugs which are hermaphrodites with penises on the back of their heads! so like an
nubbins`: who would have thought that
a complete lack of meaningful adversity would have produced generations of useless shitbags
mircea_popescu: which is true. there is
a lot of fludity in human gender, and it is
a lot of
a function of environment
mircea_popescu: somebody linked recently
a post about feral children in the romanian sewers
mircea_popescu: and it's overall
a collapse into feminity (as it is women that mature over being hurt
mircea_popescu: they just want to be hurt. there's
a difference between being hurt and mattering.
LordPutin: myspace is making
a comeback they're implementing bitcoin wallets on their site now
nubbins`: not that
a white kid getting killed in fucking syria matters
nubbins`: whoever wrote that has
a point, even if badly expressed. they want to stop being an utterly useless shitbag and do something "that matters"
nubbins`: "i'm tired of being
a fighter. i want to manage my facebook reputation"
mircea_popescu: I want to run away to Syria and become
a fighter, or
a pirate singing sea shanties, or
a cossack in the Orenburg steppe, or to join
a Chechen teip and steal horses from the lowlanders.
mircea_popescu: "I’m tired of university. I’m tired of having
a fucked up sleep schedule, and studying. I’m tired of the fucking time I waste on the internet liking ironic meme pages and managing my facebook reputation, and shitposting on ylilauta.
nubbins`: Mats_cd03: i'll make you
a shirt if you pay for it (how many times have i said this on irc!)
antephialtic: heh, OK. well that makes things
a bit more clear
chetty: hehe, so what is it MP is
a crowd or MP is really all, I am confused
antephialtic: jurov: It's apparently
a very common name in Romania. I was under the assumption that the whole MP persona is
a farce
antephialtic: MPEx is definitely
a team of people. I think "MP" is the one on IRC, tweeting, writing trilemma posts, and posting on bitcointalk
benkay: can stand up, operate, diddle wp blogs, options bots, automated gpg airgapped systems (!) , post all day on btctalk and maintain
a presence in here
benkay: that man once tried to get me to build
a thing
benkay: ;;later tell mircea_popescu hey if you have it on hand i'd appreciate
a link to where dr forehead claims that since he outperformed the scams he made money for his clients
benkay: are you
a slackware guy, BingoBoingo?
BingoBoingo: Unless it means
a member of the House of Lords on the payroll
BingoBoingo: benkay: They have
a lot of non-public subfora it seems
BingoBoingo: Traveling among more and less rural Mid 'Murican shitholes it becomes clear the difference between
a TV news crew in Quincy Illinois versus one in St Louis Mo or Chicago
benkay: what's the wpm on
a podcast?
BingoBoingo: chetty:
A big problem with bitcoin podcasts is the voices of the presenters in many cases, just weren't meant to be heard
benkay: i suppose that presumes being able to put one's thoughts into coherent words instead of babbling into
a microphone.
BingoBoingo: Turns out it was
a site they collaborated on
BingoBoingo: They suggested
a link as an example of how I could make my site look "better" I pointed out the linked site should die in
a tire fire.
BingoBoingo: The big underlying theme its whole run though has been people hating an OS by
a company primarily concerned with making cruddy dev tools
benkay: i worked for one of the perl greybeards who built and ran the place for
a while
BingoBoingo: I dunno that there could have been
a better way to get that information.
BingoBoingo: The OpenBSD saved by MP got roughly 15x the views the Counterparties link did. The two slashdots were
a valuable experiment in seeing the crowd's view of Bitcoin as magic savior of geeks versus
a functional tool for use.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell mircea_popescu For
a few years now, Business Week has been
a Bloomberg owned concern. Basically just pushing Bloomberg stories
a bit shitter and
a bit later.
BingoBoingo: Next step might be running open Genera in
a VM as your primary operating system and depreciating the *nix things
benkay: maybe not, though. i did
a complete 180 on my personal image over the past four months as our firm has gained traction.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, I killed my backgound image. Might make
a more subdued version.
toffoo: first missed asicminer div today in over
a year+
joecool: still doesn't mean I think it's
a great idea to ship
a product without
a convenient simple auth system (easier than carrying around
a heavy armored briefcase), but yeah ttyl :P
joecool: heh, you're correct
a briefcase safe will stop
a casual attacker while I take
a shit
joecool: mircea_popescu: i meant
a series of numbers not
a sewing device
joecool: ideally you'd be able to jam
a pin in directly on the device to activate it but this increases cost and size substantially
bitcoinpete: at least the canadian bitcoins guy had someone to blame, the flexcoin guy was just like "oops, what happened? peace up,
a-town down"
joecool: ie. if you did leave your unlock key on
a public computer it wouldn't matter unless the attacker also held your device
joecool: mircea_popescu: i figured you'd say as much, it does seem trivial though to echo
a string into the device before key generation, have it set
a default counter to 3, and require that same string to be passed to the device in order to activate signing function
joecool: mircea_popescu: assuming i leave it out by accident to go take
a shit or whatever, attacker can sign whatever he wants with it, i will know it happened later on when the signature counter is incremented but who knows what he'll have done by that time with my identity
joecool: the cardano seems ok if you can maintain physical security, it doesn't even try to stop an opportunistic attacker, i really don't see why it shouldn't have at least
a simple auth system
bitcoinpete: from citizen: "Canadian Bitcoins is the latest bitcoin exchange to be successfully targeted by thieves. Japanese Mt. Gox was forced out of business last month after hackers successfully infiltrated the exchanges’ security and stole as much as $468 million US worth of bitcoin." karpeles is
a hacker now?
mircea_popescu: flat fee. you give away
a server ? that'll be 100 btc.
mircea_popescu: so everyone knows not to keep over 100 btc in hot wallets, and so every hoster has
a serious incentive to do security.
joecool: mircea_popescu: if you look hard enough you can find any name in the US, someone named their kid Adolf Hitler
a couple towns over
dexX7: spoiler: wired.com posts
a story on sd + sec, too
MisterE: not for
a fat whitey like me :)
MisterE: also lots of drug gangs and chances for big problems if you wanter off the well worn path without
a guide /friend in Laos
antephialtic: Vang Vieng is
a party location. Went there when I was in college with
a few friends. It's like heaven on earth
mircea_popescu: "SatoshiDice.com, according to
a copy of the request posted on the website trilema.com."
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "This means that the physical machine which hosts the trading engine is not accessible directlyii from the Internet." <<< so if i were to vpn
a machine with
a private gpg key and send data over the wire (via some computer) I would never have to worry about the keyring being compromised? Or is the most effective way to sign/encrypt/decrypt/verify data on an airgapped machine then marshall it over v
MisterE: you can have western standard of living for
a few hudred USD /month
joecool: MisterE: did you own
a VPN company for awhile?
MisterE: I recommend everyone with
a head on their shoulders gtfo of US now
MisterE: mircea_popescu: no just
a few billion thrown at
a contractor, its
a jobs program
antephialtic: In many parts of the US, especially the south, townships are designed such that walking is impractical and everyone must have
a car
joecool: mircea_popescu: true story, I was actually stopped by
a cop multiple times one day because I decided to walk to the next town instead of driving one day, he damanded to know my destination and I refused to provide him with it.
dexX7: says
a guy who rides
a horse in the desert ;)