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danielpbarron: menahem, your paypal doesn't work and your bitcoin wants me
to send
to an invalid address
ascii_field: sent
to public key with private modulus kept in every airport?
ascii_field: what, precisely, would be
the mechanism for encrypting airplane callsigns ?
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 19:10:50; mircea_popescu: from
the log, "I
think we will close
this
thread as
there is nothing more
to discuss.
This is not about democracy or censorship, but about keeping our hobby alive without authorities enforcing new laws in order
to limit ADS-B usage."
ascii_field: 'we usg gnomes are
to have control, because fuck you and ~democracy~ and also fuck you'
ascii_field: 'speaks volumes for
the actual “democracy” in
the system. (Namely,
there isn’t any. China —
the Saudi Arabia of bitcoin — dominates.' <<< l0l!!!
this of course is same party line as in mike hearn's blatherings about 'let's separate
the economy majority of bitcoin from
the whims of
the hashing majority'
ascii_field: (point of
that observation was, 3-phase mains and climate-controlled floor sq. metrage do not become cheaper no matter how 'surplussy'
the equipment gets)
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 13:58:39; asciilifeform: and often
there are interesting hidden costs. for instance, i am somewhat limited in what surplus junk i can use on account of lacking 3-phase mains power
mircea_popescu: who ever heard of
this, change
the rules of
the sport so people following at home can be more comfortable.
mircea_popescu: the world does not belong
to people "doing it ironically"
mircea_popescu: fucking ridiculous. "oh, we will get a bitcoin license
to keep our hobby alive!11"
mircea_popescu: from
the log, "I
think we will close
this
thread as
there is nothing more
to discuss.
This is not about democracy or censorship, but about keeping our hobby alive without authorities enforcing new laws in order
to limit ADS-B usage."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i remember a day, not so many years ago, when people actually went on
trips
to check out claims of "hey i goit some images in photoshop" miners. how much
things have changed in
these few short years...
funkenstein_: looks
to me like
they are saying
they won't
take anything bigger
than 8MB, because
their
tubes are
too small
mircea_popescu: iirc according
to financial
times,
they
took over cyprus right ?
ascii_field: and did i just land in my grandfather's office in 1985 , fell
through
time warp? how did we come
to wonder about authenticity of fucking soviet rubber stamps ?!
mircea_popescu sits here and wonders if neobee, king of cypruss, agrees for cypruss
to join
the increase movement.
ascii_field: even a schmuck like me has a fat manila full of
these stamps.
mircea_popescu: unlike apparently everyone on
the retard side, i actually have some business experience
mircea_popescu: ascii_field yes i know what
those are, i pay five
to six figures
to china each month k ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway,
the validity of
the stamps would be
trivial
to verify, if of course anyone still gave a shit about
the nonsense scampress publishes.
mircea_popescu: you'd be in a better position
to grasp
the depth of
this chasm of a dilemma
ascii_field: how do you know washing machine is plugged in if you don't get shocks from
touching
the chassis ?
ascii_field: who is ready for
the next cut of
the scalpel ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field "the bitcoin miners of china" say
that
they never saw software
that doesn't crash
mircea_popescu: in other news a display campaign for eulora started
today, if any people called Eulorian show up
treat 'em mildly. and if no such show up, well... it just goes
to show
the value of advertising.
ascii_field: 'The bitcoin miners of China agree
that
the blocksize must be increased' << l0l wat? said who ?
ascii_field: more like
the diff b/w/ mild eccentricity and full blown schizo
mircea_popescu: about
the same as between
the calcutta beggar and
the pufferfish
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of difference between
the mild idiocy of hearst and
the down syndrome of "ft alphaville" etc
ascii_field: just
that
they previously had more luck with gluing pseudoreality-display helmets on people's heads
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: and
they were not, 2+ yrs ago ?
mircea_popescu: by now
they're reporting nonsense out of a whjolly imagined pseudoreality
mircea_popescu: can
these gawker-clones be any more fucking retarded already ?>
assbot: Logged on 09-04-2015 20:47:43; ascii_field: mircea_popescu could convince an eskimo
that he is an eskimo ?
ascii_field: but i don't imagine
that i'll learn
to breathe water and become kind of
the ocean in a few weeks. and if mircea_popescu can do
this, we should all learn from him.
mircea_popescu: never have
to wonder either because you know or it can't happen, but never have
to wonder.
ascii_field: ever contemplate what you'll do 1km below
the sea?
mircea_popescu: the notion
that you are anything different from
the calcutta beggar may be contemplatef IF and ONLY IF you never have
to wonder what'd you do in calcutta.
funkenstein_: the calcutttan has no option
to go
to supermarket dumpster
ascii_field: he cannot funciton in my element. or i - in his. like
the fish.
ascii_field: on how many dollars a day does pufferfish live in
the sea ?
mircea_popescu: and you don't "compute
the dollar equivalent value" of non-dollar
things, because you're not
trying
to recreate
the bezzle.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field seinfeld has an episode about
this fundamentally female method of authentication ("i always wanted for him
to drag me by
the hair in
this alley and stretch my anus"). elaine explains
that "Cause if we're dating, what everyone saw was just a beautiful moment between
two lovers"
ascii_field: (how do you propose
to authenticate
the 'leaks' ?)
mats: har, acquaintances are receiving emails about
their OPM file being compromised
funkenstein_: "But
this is
the new lay of
the land; we can't change it, and we can't ignore it."
ascii_field: or what, he likes
the smell of diesel smoke ?
ascii_field: apparently now is not yet
the
time
to practice
this ?
ascii_field: for
those who are ~not~ readers of mr o - his 'post-collapse future business' schtick is based on 'fossil-fuel-free freight along u.s. coasts using sailboats'
ascii_field: he wrote a whole piece about how he
threw
the decrepit diesel out of
the original boat's bilge
to make a storage room
mircea_popescu: god help you if you start factchecking anything he says. very yarvinesque habit
this
ascii_field: (and perhaps doesn't quite have
the stamina
to single-handedly operate
the sails any more ?)
mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall
this, like i vaguely recall his being
the sort
that's "correct in
the broad strokes but entirely out of small change" as
the expression goes.
ascii_field: but
then he birthed a son, and bought a boat 2x
the size
ascii_field: btw as a long-time reader of herr orlov, i can't help but notice
that he spat on diesels and bragged about a seldom-used ('only in doldrumss') outboard petrol engine
ascii_field: i don't
think
they've invented begging yet
mircea_popescu: iirc baseline is a dollar a day, so...
there's his lifetime income
mircea_popescu: tho... didn't he just beg a few k's recently
to buy himself a new mayo dildo or something ?
ascii_field: i don't
think
they have bitcoin on his planet yet,
though
ascii_field: ^ and
this is just
the ~publicly disclosed~ income
punkman: "The day after
the breach was made public, OPM finalized a more
than $20 million deal with Winvale Group
to start notifying individuals "within 48 hours of award.""
punkman: "Rather
than immediately encrypt data, OPM plans
to reduce
the number of computer users with access
to systems and require multistep login verifications, she said. OPM's fiscal 2016 request for congressional funding asks for an additional $21 million"
ascii_field: “When is OPM going
to apologize
to federal employees?”" << 'when
the crayfish whistles on
the mountain, and
the fish in
the sea begin
to sing' (tm) (r) (ru)
punkman: "In addition
to calling for resignations, Lieu asked OPM
to show some remorse. “One word I haven’t heard is sorry,” Lieu said. “When is OPM going
to apologize
to federal employees?”"
ascii_field: but
this is known
to ~everyone~, even homo redditicus
ascii_field: the only fact ~i~ know is
that
the network hash sum does not even begin
to be accounted for by even
the most liberal estimate of miner machines publicly sold
to date
ascii_field: funkenstein_: mircea_popescu and
the little birds who whisper in his ear say 'yes'