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mircea_popescu: SILVER, IMMACULATE CONDITION, 2 X KEEPERS FROM NEW, MOT JULY 2014, TAX, FULL SERVICE HISTORY PART MAIN DEALER, CD PLAYER, AIR-CON, MULTIFUNCTION STEERING WHEEL, HEATED SEATS, FULL … £3,495
mircea_popescu: take leah of #suckstobeleah fame : she had a 175k mortgage and no jaguar.
mircea_popescu: it so happens both of those are 10x as expensive and 100x as scammy on a roi basis.
mircea_popescu: somehow people are expected to buy houses and college educations, but a jaguar throws red flags
mircea_popescu: “If one guy has a Jaguar on a (government) GS-12 salary, that’s a red flag,” McConnell said.
mircea_popescu: i don't usually turn them off, i usually end up turning some chick on
mircea_popescu: to describe the entire operation as schweitzer would be charitable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not really purges, more like desperation. for every snowden twitter knows about there's dozens that various interests know about
mircea_popescu: he;s lying. nobody who actually does it advertises it.
mircea_popescu: "'I get probably seven or eight hundred and I read the majority of those. Every day." he
mircea_popescu: KRS-One not that novel, it's been introduced by the forum investors years ago
mircea_popescu: whatever it may be, virgin, apple, i didn't even look. whose ceo is cook nao ?
mircea_popescu: it's circular, otp is only impractical because people have been designing things to make it impractical. otherwise otp generating doohickeys would be trivial to make.
mircea_popescu: sorry, i generally agree with his point that people overuse random for no good reason, and that entropy isn't readily understood by the average coder,
mircea_popescu: "Because almost all of the cryptographic algorithms we use do not hold up to information-theoretic security. They can “only” offer computational security. The two exceptions that come to my mind are Shamir's Secret Sharing and the One-time pad. And while the first one may be a valid counterpoint (if you actually intend to use it), the latter is utterly impractical."
mircea_popescu: o wait, he doesn't mean "quantum", he just means micro, as in subatomic. nm.
mircea_popescu: jurov well here we go "I believe that the “gold standard” for “true randomness” are quantum effects."
mircea_popescu: so windows viruses / toilet paper / strong cryptography < topics on #bitcoin-assets within the past 5 minutes
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay and the reason for the over "preference" is that all toilet paper they've ever seen on tv is shown that way.
mircea_popescu: and THESE fuckwits "are involved" in Bitcoin, if you ask them ? they're part of "the community", according to reddit ?
mircea_popescu: diametric: ##mtgox-chat is hilarious. So many people ran the tibannebackoffice.exe malware.. what a bunch of idiots. << waitwat!
mircea_popescu: wasn't he like rescued from a romanian orphanage by some french ppls ?
mircea_popescu: Jan 12 23:14:43 <assbot>[MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3293 @ 0.0006592 = 2.1707 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: -17% on assets, -22% on fees, half your money back in half a year.
mircea_popescu: Oct 08 18:08:11 <assbot>[BTCTC] [FN] [BTC-GROWTH] 14 @ 0.083 = 1.162 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: Oct 08 18:07:10 <assbot>[BTCTC] [FN] [BTC-GROWTH] 7 @ 0.083 = 0.581 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: Oct 06 15:25:37 <assbot>[BTCTC] [FN] [BTC-GROWTH] 10 @ 0.08 = 0.8 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: Sep 21 03:21:59 <assbot>[BTCTC] [FN] [BTC-GROWTH] 50 @ 0.09594299 = 4.7971 BTC [-] {5}
mircea_popescu: Sep 21 01:55:33 <assbot>[BTCTC] [FN] [BTC-GROWTH] 2 @ 0.09612 = 0.1922 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: Aug 15 18:44:59 <assbot>[BTCTC] [BTC-GROWTH] 96 @ 0.098 = 9.408 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: Aug 15 18:44:58 <assbot>[BTCTC] [BTC-GROWTH] 2 @ 0.09801 = 0.196 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: normally i'd say "i wish to meet that elated 1% of bitcoin financiers which actually make 2% a year", but i think i already have.
mircea_popescu: the zinger being, of course, "Aug 15 15:49:39 <parseval>This guy is charging 2% of assets annually plus 20% of profits for management fees"
mircea_popescu: Apr 13 11:01:55 <`MBot>[ GLBSE ] [ TRADE ] [ TYGRR-BOT ] [ 98 x 1.0 = 98.000000 BTC ]