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mircea_popescu: they got a similar system here but it dopesn't cover 2/3 of the cost, more like 1/3, and the red tape is beyond obnoxious.
mircea_popescu: how much roof you got ? do they use all or just half ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves pretty sweet deal. i'd drop 15k on a 10kW solar system.
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : blogger butthurt over blogger.com having deleted some pix off his blog. turns out... he had stolen them from some guy who had stolen them from trilema
mircea_popescu: Meanwhile, “pretty young things swarmed Warren as soon he walked through the doors, asking to have photos taken with him,” said one observer. “He graciously did it. A few people asked him to open his wallet in the picture. Oddly enough, he did this too.” According to the onlooker, Buffett had “just a few dollars in his wallet.” The source added, “He’s more popular than the Dalai Lama!”
mircea_popescu: hey, if fags can be married everywhere regardless whether they married, why shouldn't rednecks carry wherever they go.
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone here with a lot of insurance experience or connections ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno, the us is no longer sane, so one feels bound to insist.
mircea_popescu: "soliciting while being poor, unpleasant and unattractive, in a loud and obnoxious manner"
mircea_popescu: prostitution is , in the romanian legal tradition, a part of the creating a public disturbance/being a bum area.
mircea_popescu: he's got nothing there, nobody ever granted a cause for anything but the most outrageous streetwalking.
mircea_popescu: so... can he sue ? should he report her for prostitution ? is there some fruits of the poisonous tree doctrine ?
mircea_popescu: then, the next day, guy realises that the bird costs 2500 euro and besides, he had it since it was a chick and htey had a special relationship
mircea_popescu: this guy threw a party, asked a girl to sleep with him, she said she'll do it if he's "generous"
mircea_popescu: people ask for free advice all the time. some of the shit's pretty weird.
mircea_popescu: so romania has a large lawyer's forum, where pretty much everyone that's not fucktarded in the profession has an account. think fuckedcompany, except for lawyers.
mircea_popescu: fucking losers these kids. if i were 20 and doing a lulzy project like that, the russki'd be naked.
mircea_popescu: MrWDunne: Also the actual business plan is a 25 page PDF << i like this part best so far.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla means "that's who she blamed" in slovenlyan right ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from a mathematical standpoint : the most important quality of markets is that you can't isolate participants.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no but that's always what it is, "dumb x". the mkt isnt dumb
mircea_popescu: yeah. the master model of the preoblem is "cornering X market", such as the 5 i think to date attempts on silver/gold
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform trader experience is that any strategy that starts with "if you had a lot of money" is a loser.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony really they backed off over twitter threats and general discontent
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, the rng of the java thing is particularly atrocious. piuk (blockchaininfo) made some fixes on a fork)
mircea_popescu: but srsly, anyone heard of this major bitcoinjs-lib hole ?
mircea_popescu: the... wait for it... the random number generation code.
mircea_popescu: "To reward the work of the developers, Drake is “offering three bounties of 0.20 BTC each for anyone that finds and fixes (via pull request) any bugs/code issues that potentially cause wallet data loss, a major security bug in the Coinpunk wallet code (coinpunk/models/wallet.js), bitcoinjs-lib, or in the random number generation code”."
mircea_popescu: "After scoring a major grant awarded by the Bitcoin Foundation, Coinpunk’s beta version is finally available. The project, which is being developed by the veteran startup founder Kyle Drake, intends to build the first fully open-source, self-hosted do-it-yourself Bitcoin wallet service that you can run on your own server."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: somehow i seem to have missed this ? did bitcoinjs announce something ?
mircea_popescu: Due in part to this process, we have been notified of a security bug in bitcoinjs-lib (the bitcoin javascript library counterwallet uses) that was internally disclosed to us by the bitcoinjs-lib team yesterday evening. We worked with them on applying a fix, which was made live late last night and this security notice was drafted pending confirmation from the team. However it appears the bug has already been exploited i
mircea_popescu: lol counterparty.co srsly ? "pls to trade your bitcoinz for very valuable xcp"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: how your software will handle large volumes << that's the funniest thing i read today.
mircea_popescu: going through the londerfull log of this mrwdune dood. did he at least have the sense to locate in Guernsey ?
mircea_popescu: bs auth in-house giga scheme anyway, prolly more broken than a 50yo whore.
mircea_popescu: what the hell useless. have your wizard rewrite the auth scheme