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mircea_popescu: sent the pcb in the dead one to be cut apart, i'll have the results in a coupla weeks, i don't expect to see anything.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the fsck is complete, the drives are fine, the failure was due to cosmic rays.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> what are the chances. << bout 80% i guess
mircea_popescu: how much were gen2 nre costs, and wasn;'t there a gen3 that's supposed to be where the real hash comes from ?
mircea_popescu: people keep publishing fundamentally meaningless reports cause why not, it's coo
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform probably why kakobrekla insists on having one on bitbet
mircea_popescu: i keep all my wallets encrypted in temporary amazon sessions
mircea_popescu: you mean the old "consultant" that broke into their stuff back in 2011 ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. normally it could have recovered on the fly, but now chief engineer wants to see why it failed right now, and i can't argue with her.
mircea_popescu: jurov when this prototyping started it was the size of a breadbox
mircea_popescu: jurov seriously, atm the form factor is roughly the size of a smartphone
mircea_popescu: jurov i think the only body cavity able to hide it would be a well worked vagina, the sort pankkake favours
mircea_popescu: but what else are engineers for, if not whipping and abuse ?
mircea_popescu: o, mpoe bot has a different interface to the trade engine, it can't be affected by this stuff
mircea_popescu: ironically, actual orders had somewhat better chances to get through than stats i think
mircea_popescu: shouldn't happen again, at least not in exactly the same way.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it wasn't an attack of any sort or even related to outside influence. it was a problem stemming from the too stringent checking imposed on proxy synchronization after the last adventure, which in an edge case put everything in a paranoid state.
mircea_popescu: i would imagine they see them in the log or don't care or something tailored to personal taste
mircea_popescu: to be honest irc is the best news channel i've ever seen
mircea_popescu: even if you know why and what happened, or at any rate think so.
mircea_popescu: sorry for teh delay. the problem with this sort of shit is once the slightest not-working-as-expected thing pops swaths of things have to now be checked
mircea_popescu: jurov nah, go relax, by the time you're back everything should be fine.
mircea_popescu: today on tap, "postpartum and parenteral gangbang, dual penetration and bukkakke. come one, come all!"
mircea_popescu: i don't think they're doing anything bad, and heck, bitcoin can benefit from the attention of more people with financial expertise
mircea_popescu: lest some bright young mind reads the log and gets confused.
mircea_popescu: also, re the earlier discussion : sm is a marketplace for illiquid assets. it's not that it just magically gets past the hoops winklevoss have to jump through, it's a very specific thing
mircea_popescu: the girl accused him of insider dealing, he swore he didn't have a clue wtf nefario was doing
mircea_popescu: anyway, you're too new to know, but the way glbse croaked was like this : theymos announced a private sale of his glbse stock (+ some aussie scammer's)
mircea_popescu: earlier about his promiting pirate, earluier about his glbse stock dealings,
mircea_popescu: at some point they were incensed about his reading pms on the forum, earlier about his poor manageemnt of forum donations,
mircea_popescu: well, better question would be "why this time" i think
mircea_popescu: (also, fb IS a motherfucking scam. not at all in the same sense, of course)
mircea_popescu: o, people love to challenge me. because i'm such a snotty asshole see ?
mircea_popescu: in fact, i did *the exact same thing* about bitcoin, it took commebnters on my blog ~3 months to get me to look again
mircea_popescu: Kleeck_ i do that all the motherfucking time. i am fortunate to have people who love/hate me enough to insist on the topic.
mircea_popescu: i guess judging by the site is a superficial approach to life.