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mircea_popescu: chipug you still trying to promote a website chat thing ?
ThickAsThieves: i guess he's a runner
benkay: next they'll be telling us what the real value of pepsi stock is in dollars, and how many dollars can buy a btc.
ThickAsThieves: "A top market overseer called for a sweeping review of computer-driven securities markets Thursday, saying regulators should focus on “points of failure” such as computerized links between stock exchanges and so-called mini-flash crashes in stocks."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when you're done with that, you can work on explaining why the secret ruler of a self-proclaimed drug marketplace which can't sell drugs has to order "hits" over unknown derps it can't verify got killed.
kingofsports: @bugpowder u looking to sell any coins? remember when they were $100 a pop ;)
asciilifeform: still don't understand why a fellow buying/selling stolen card #s needs to meet anyone in person.
mircea_popescu: "get in bed with a local politico now!"
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder message seems to be more along the lines of a shakedown than anything
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 will, it's a wonderful thing.
Duffer1: so a noob gets it, but jimmothy is told it repeatedly in a months long thread and still doesn't seem to understand
Duffer1: it was probably a heartstopping amount king
asciilifeform: or maybe it was a previous atmel
asciilifeform: if anybody here has a box of ATSHA204 and an electron microscope, now's your hour!
asciilifeform: i consider the 'host box doesn't know it has a crypto widget attached' an essential feature of cardano, but maybe that's just me.
ThickAsThieves: <pankkake> 1MPGRCrbib3aFGtTCLF5nADZcLEAgdTu7E just got 500000.00 ATC! I guess we need a blockexplorer too
asciilifeform: there are other pocket-sized arm/linux affairs, they cost a little bit more.
mircea_popescu: better ship a version w/o case and w/o daughterboard.
asciilifeform: ras.pi, for anyone who doesn't have one lying around, is a (relatively) cheap arm box.
BingoBoingo: Rpi might actually be an interesting thing if maybe they would have went MIPS (or FPGA and pick a core of choice) and offered ECC Ram
asciilifeform: remove cardano i/o daughterboard, attach ras.pi or commodore 64 or whatever, you have a machine-controlled unit.
punkman1: there's a ton of raspberry pis
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that said, some raspberry pi enhancing boards may be a good idea.
punkman1: just a breakout board for the atmel chip?
asciilifeform: it has a (satanic) rng built in.
BingoBoingo: punkman1: They heard a lot of crypto words and forgot to check definitions, functions, and definite functions
truffles: is that a play on technotronics hmm
punkman1: the qz blog has a blog about itself? that's nice
pankkake: even ~4 years ago we had clients ask for a SPLASH PAGE
pankkake: why can't we just have a page with one article in it and that's it
mircea_popescu: basically "we have to take corporate money for political functions because a) we like money and b) politicians gotta meet with the corporate ppls somewhere".
mircea_popescu: Dimsler the reason i get into pissing matches with the pro-illiterate is that i have a flow like a fire hydrand and their bosses are made of sugar.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 nah, see, this is mostly a campaign financing darkpool thing.
mircea_popescu: holy shit on a stick, because hatguy and armpitbeard girl said so one day and drew some doodles on their starbucks napkins ?!
mircea_popescu: bunch of hipster doofuses who imagine they're doing "a new kind of global business news outlet".
mircea_popescu: a, no. pet slaves are actually quite competent, intellectually.
asciilifeform: so there could be a hope for slavecoin after all.
asciilifeform: not that this is a scenario that would actually play out. just pointing out what would happen if one were to actually devise a 'one man one hash' scheme
mircea_popescu: there is literally no way in which one could design a pow based on "the people".
asciilifeform: (hanging upside-down with arse tubes in a camp)
mircea_popescu: as a side-effect of this sad state of affairs, no proof of work can be devised that'd allow them to hash.
asciilifeform: i'm still waiting for 'slavecoin.' it would be the perfect 'gift from the gods' to the 'anyone with a computer Ought to Matter!' crowd.
pankkake: primecoin would be best, it has enough volume for a big botnet
mircea_popescu: pankkake was a link here coupla days ago bout some game site that got hussled by ny for 1mn over having made $3500 from exploiting user gpus
asciilifeform: pankkake: the ones i've seen most recently mine scrypt coins (the ones that are actually worth a little)
mircea_popescu: a war is decided by which way the hills slope
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. a war isn't decided by personal valor.
mircea_popescu: i only bought like a dinner's worth
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform indeed. as if such a thing belongs anywhere outside of a creative reenactment society meeting
pLambert: the20year: does it have a scheduled end if not everything is sold?
mircea_popescu: that shit i always found hysterical. man with a computer wants to matter.
ThickAsThieves: "The company has asked a French court to suspend this order while it appeals the CNIL's decision and fine, but the CNIL insists that if Google can promote its own services on the homepage, it can also publish the news of the sanctions."
asciilifeform: the situation re: botnets is interesting. mining remains the only way to monetize a crapnet without dealing with humans
mircea_popescu: they do have a cost, even if you're not paying the elec. cost of opportunity in that case.
the20year: buyahash's dividend has done pretty decently, but their big benefit was a foray into equipment sales
the20year: The big thing we offer is a effective BTC short, since we're primarily denominated, and a opportunity to get reasonable gains in fiat
the20year: I think long term the growth will be fantastic, but i was also called a idiot when btc was at $1250 trying to get more shares sold for fresh capital because they expected btc to hit $2k or $3k in just a few weeks
benkay: like a perpetual mining bond's value going to zero.
benkay: it's not a risk, it's a certainty.
ThickAsThieves: In a live support chat with a Verizon representative, Raphael asked if there was any throttling of websites hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), which include Netflix, and was told, "Yes, it is limited bandwidth to cloud providers."
the20year: benkay: that's a risk investors take, otherwise it only makes sense to invest in things that are like BTC exchanges, options ,ect
mircea_popescu: a
the20year: even moreso when everything is not only filed with the county, put online, but everything we buy has a title company certification letter too
mike_c: "we are releasing a total of 228,534 additional units at .0055btc per share"
Mats_cd03: i like vax features a lot
mircea_popescu: basically the libor was a scam, the forex is a scam too. fiat is about as bad as bitcointalk
Mats_cd03: and the front-end for a satellite dish was running vb6
Mats_cd03: thats a gud one
Mats_cd03: is 'poop shoe' a reasonable pronunciation
pLambert: so, any guesses on how far RENT is going to fall once trading goes active in a couple hours?
ThickAsThieves: i enjoy being a serial journeyman
herbijudlestoids: gnight fellows, have a loverly weekend
benkay: in any event, we now have a test case for "you can raise it but you can't spend it".
mircea_popescu: "I was told that up until a few weeks [at time of the interview] ago, there was hardly any development environment to test changes. Most changes were done straight on the production environment."
mircea_popescu: a well. good run
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i imagine as brokerages develop they'll keep a vanity gen side.
mircea_popescu: as if i give a shit what X dork said on any topic.
mircea_popescu: how hard can it be. publish a bitcoin donation address.
Duffer1: actually the irs wants to allow a free automated tax service but turbo tax and hr block have spent millions to successfully lobby against it
ThickAsThieves: here you must collect both fed and state tax from your customers, then make paperwork showing the details, and if you are late you get a fee
mircea_popescu: but he's still a small business owner.
mircea_popescu: not like it's a permission slip from the white house.
mike_c: hm. b/c they are a us company. seems fishy
herbijudlestoids: its serves the role of altcoin with a long name
herbijudlestoids: i am starting a new altcoin called herbijudlestoidscoin
herbijudlestoids: well, that was a poor movie
ThickAsThieves: This is still a Wild West kind of environment,” Casey said on the show, while noting that episodes like this can happen periodically as none of the exchanges are regulated by the SEC.
mircea_popescu: does your rate hang low, can you tie it in a bow...
mircea_popescu: phish lost a bunch for sure, as the rate went low
ThickAsThieves: only major electric shock ive seen is when our bass player grabbed a copper pipe in the basement practice space while bullshitting. he wasn't grounded properly and ended up ripping the whole pipe out because of the shock forcing his grip
mircea_popescu: they'll burn the same at all the steps, from 1.5 to 12, and therein learn a valuable lessons.
mircea_popescu: buy one of those stepped transformers, 1.5 to 12 V, then shove a metal dildo and touch them with the other side.
mircea_popescu: here's a fun experiment to teach young girls physics in a pleasant manner :
nubbins`: 120V, 240 may be a different color
mircea_popescu: there be a difference.
nubbins`: ooh, a second twist
mircea_popescu: but anyway, an ability to grade crude with your mouth is actually a valuable skill.'
nubbins`: he gave me a trove of secret docs
Duffer1: mention snowden a few times just to make sure someone reads it
mircea_popescu: somewhere in a nsa psych lab somewhere they're screening all this right now