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mircea_popescu: but speaking of gold, anyone saw the 2mn oz paper sale on the 11th ?
mircea_popescu: think of dealing with the mob, it's how china handles its export business.
mircea_popescu: basically you need to sign an agreement that if you steal their money they'll kill you with knives.
mircea_popescu: also, tshirts, electronic appliances of all kinds, small plastic toys
mircea_popescu: b0n1 no. china is a net importer, and because of govt pressure consumer gold is even more expensive
mircea_popescu: basically you put a diode into backwards mode and count the electrons that make it past the barrier
mircea_popescu: dude wrote an article a decade ago, which saw 100bn page loads and 34 comments.
mircea_popescu: "Hey, Reddit, Ycombinator, and Metafilter readers! You know what, I'm proud that this article has become a benchmark, but I've written a lot of others I like too, some of them more recently than 2004. It would sure be nice if my other articles got some love instead of just this one being linked from a discussion every week."
mircea_popescu: get everyone drunk, person with worst score picks up the tab
mircea_popescu: if you make it a webservice this'll be a great group activity at april conference.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the interraction happens through em not airwaves.
mircea_popescu: what you do is you put up a mic and sample it at 0.00000001 hz.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> on the surface it sounds great. rub the contact mic against any surface and get all the entropy you need << o no, not at all. you can't use such low bits.
mircea_popescu: for some values of useful. i prefer them to avalanche processes, but they have to be well filtered
mircea_popescu: it's one of those rare bits written by a competent translator, ie, one who has solid familiarity in two different fields.
mircea_popescu: "random number" really shuld be "number obtained randomly"
mircea_popescu: well, actually, randomness is not a property of numbers. it's a property of processes.
mircea_popescu: maybe someone brings good quality hardware rngs to the masses.
mircea_popescu: it's a sad state of affairs when a man can't really find a friend past his creditors.
mircea_popescu: rivkin's protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, the us has managed to drive itself into this narrow ally where practically speaking china is it's closest ally.
mircea_popescu: mod6 mata hari was supposed to die in her bed, except they couldn't find it, so they did the next best thing :
mircea_popescu: what's this, infantry engagement ? spying is about information not killing people
mircea_popescu: the yurpeans are romantics, they've not killed a spy since forever.
mircea_popescu: im telling you, a lot has changed in the past ~6 months, and a lot in tjhe past 6 days.
mircea_popescu: why, even last year the us could get away with kidnapping the future president of france.
mircea_popescu: except in this field the eu has more money and more human capital.
mircea_popescu: actually there's some talk of the eu making its own sigint and ditching nato
mircea_popescu: and no, the recent spying scandals have cost the us in europe more than what clinton has managed to build.
mircea_popescu: i mean... that in bitcoin crazy lalaland people like that scam whose name escapes me now take pride in 80% return rates is onme thing. but mainstream ? just wow.
mircea_popescu: you mean the borrowed shirts they currently wear ? or what "their" ?
mircea_popescu: measure has its downsides, definitely. also kind of unavoidable.
mircea_popescu: you mean nobody cares about yet another group of posers ?! but who could have imagiend this!
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares anyway, not like that cryptowhatever is doing anything
mircea_popescu: i don't think you;'re getting banned here for expliciting it.
mircea_popescu: obviously it'd be the forum administration deleting old smoking gun posts, not kakobrekla
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic it's a joke, kakobrekla was complaining above he got banned for reposting deleted posts.
mircea_popescu: kleeck yeah, totally, bric needs more reasons to move away from usd. the chinese also summoned the us ambasador in paris, i bet.
mircea_popescu: provided kakobrekla didn't delete all the posts meanwhile, of course.
mircea_popescu: the deal got altered after the ipo so as to vacuum most value from the supposed "investors"
mircea_popescu: well basically the guy made an ipo of his own site, which included a hefty licensing fee to be paid to himself
mircea_popescu: samson_ you know tjhe story of the fraudulent ipo of cryptostocks itself righ ?
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> adis99: I'm kind of wondering why they allowed such a puny bet to be protected from market forces. << mod just forgot private bets need 10btc in zeroconf.
mircea_popescu: godaddy domain Registered OnMarch 30, 2013. so it has to be.