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mircea_popescu: Fun noobs have a reputation of wishing to get involved in the most complex end of any matter first thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but an option to deliver tomorrow an euro deliverable next week is a whole other layer of nutso.
mircea_popescu: look at the math involved sometime in an idle hour, but from a fundamental perspective, none of that "this is hw it's done because it's how it's done" circularity.
mircea_popescu: irrespective of widespread belief to the contrary, im pretty sure no entity currently can value options on forex futures
mircea_popescu: what's the difference between apple pie and pineapple pie ?
mircea_popescu: that one is an option on the future and the other on the spot o.O
mircea_popescu: seems to me like someone likely ran off with a wallet.
mircea_popescu: about as pleasant a thing as fifty years worth of dilbert rolled up in one fat joint.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic i dunno wtf he's doing, im sitting here debugging a lengthy string of nonsense resulted from engineer deciding arbitrarily to selfmanage mid process.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, ddos'd/hacked is an unlikely combo. which was it ?
mircea_popescu: decimation pretty sure they actually let you trade on cme.
mircea_popescu: but you can use a broker, by now they cater even to people with 10k or something.
mircea_popescu: punkman and you're doing this suddenly and without consultation while it's also down unnaounced because why ?
mircea_popescu: they do a typically fiat thing whereby they act like gpg is sorta like you know, this soft toy thing. they get an address like it were a social media profile.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller not on their site ? maybe it's really /coinbasederp instead ?
mircea_popescu: punkman that's good. so what is the problem, exactly, what's the plan to resolve it, usefull stuff like that, pls.
mircea_popescu: decimation doesn't have to be in chicago. everyone does it, including all the web providers, optionsxpress, schwab, you name it
mircea_popescu: punkman im not one iota closer to a sensible situaiton here.
mircea_popescu: and jack shit i can do about it, too, because notary's dead and so on and so fucking forth.
mircea_popescu: am i going "this has to be reimplemented for the third time" ?
mircea_popescu: can i get more detail out of you than "it's being worked on"!
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla he likes the word. it bestows journalismity.
mircea_popescu: and holy shit, don't you just love this brave new world with such policemen in it.
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE if it's like 3-400 how about getting a pair.
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE how about i buy you some dedis and you admin them and run a host for btc business ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, i see you're trying to connect to a vps that a) you've not connected before and b) is being attacked ? come back next week."
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE how about write the script so that you keep track of foreign hosts, and once packet limit is reached for a vps all foreign hosts that aren't on the list of hosts it connected in the past 24 hours get banned across the entire network ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla yeah i see. qntra is so successful i got lost among the articles :)
mircea_popescu: i seem to recall a bunch of these, and they're all fucking respectful.
mircea_popescu: just as an idle exercise, imagine how that article'd have sounded if the criminals were some usg agency, stealing the woman's drive and not giving it back.
mircea_popescu: Phraust not much really. same old bs, restated in all seriousness by a new generation of turnips.
mircea_popescu: "Welcome to the new ransomware economy, where hackers have a reputation to consider." "welcome to the post-modern world, where 'criminals' are more reliable than governments, and certainly more useful."
mircea_popescu: "So what can we all do to protect ourselves? Keep our computers backed up on an independent drive or by using a cloud backup service like Carbonite, take those software update and “patch” alerts seriously"
mircea_popescu: and it shits on his useless applepad or whatever the fuck it is.
mircea_popescu: "moms who persist in using big, boxy PC computers and small-town police departments."
mircea_popescu: decimation: my only problem is that it seems somewhat dangerous << from what i hear it's actually safer than flying planes.