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mircea_popescu: well, the best advice being, don't go ordering 1k units out of the gate :)
mircea_popescu: basically it induces a lot of uncertainty on your end, as in, you're not even sure what words mean so multiple restatements are actually beneficial because they'd expose errors ?
mircea_popescu: if you find a difference we damn well wish to hear about it.
mircea_popescu: if you run linux you can hash the code for free, compare to what's printed on the thing.
mircea_popescu: dawg you refuse to read ? "If desired, it can be read on a common instrument sold for this purpose and its contents checksummed or otherwise perused. The checksum of your firmware ROM is printed on the bottom of the chassis, under the unit’s serial number"
mircea_popescu: now, you will need a rom reader, and the ability to grok microcode,
mircea_popescu: i don't see how a blackbox item would be useful or practical.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if mining manufacturers are by now screening their released copy to bitbetproof it.
mircea_popescu: i feel we need a channel mascot girl, who could moon for us.
mircea_popescu: B) Cardano’s firmware. This is a socketed antifuse (OTP) ROM which is unique to your unit and is engraved with the latter’s serial number. If desired, it can be read on a common instrument sold for this purpose and its contents checksummed or otherwise perused. The checksum of your firmware ROM is printed on the bottom of the chassis, under the unit’s serial number. For your safety, this ROM is non-reprogrammable
mircea_popescu: finally they've managed to work themselves to the actual ideological disagreement in question.
mircea_popescu: mike_c you're kinda late to that party tho, by now my picture is more widely affixed to dictionary entries than goldstein
mircea_popescu: more like it, someone did a larger arb with the azn mkt
mircea_popescu: "one of the places - one of the place's most one place"
mircea_popescu: the cuts will look like freenode join/part storm on a bad day
mircea_popescu: lol. come watch derpy jewboy turn into al pacino over here!
mircea_popescu: so what, simon templar gets to act me in the made for tv movie ?
mircea_popescu: it's what makes a country great, it's what'll make the country of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: 1. make sure you have a motherfucking point ; 2. explain it to anyone asking / willing to listen ; 3. beat the shit out of anyone not wanting to listen.
mircea_popescu: maybe he can't admit she taught him a lot, but nevertheless she has and it's quite visible.
mircea_popescu: now suddenly appreciates how business works and so forth.
mircea_popescu: anyway, my takeaway from that thread is that the sandman or w/e guy that was derping all over the bitbet thread nad being used by mpoe-pr for anvil dropping practice
mircea_popescu: I think it's insane that BitPay cannot repay my whole 4 BTC back, after all they are damn revolved around bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: then they wish to whine to somebody. well... dohn't fucking buy it, mine it like everyone else.
mircea_popescu: sure, they get whatever sword. but they didn't EARN it so they have no idea what is what
mircea_popescu: basically people buying it on the exchanges are exactly like the players buying game goods/toons on the illegal markets in most games
mircea_popescu: somehow groking that bitcoin isn't a consumer affair is hard, and too many losers pushing it as such for lack of a clue.
mircea_popescu: this happens every time bitcoin perks up. buncha consumers get sucked in by the irresponsible media hype, then they get hurt.