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mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: yes, and on an island you can be the one lobbing rockets at whatever ship/aircraft is lobbing rockets at you << no you can't. why do you think "international waters" are so important.
decimation: yeah that's a fair point
mircea_popescu: this is very time-invariant.
mircea_popescu: if you wish to be equity neutral the more common strategy is "buy the equities short the index" or vice-versa.
decimation: there are plenty of short funds avialable, but they all have extremely high costs
decimation: well, the problem I have is picking the stirke price and quantity that is appropriate
mircea_popescu: who was the guy with the "short" fund, had some of the horrid0est results ever. i recall discussed here maybe cca 2013
mircea_popescu: if you do that you will lose money.
decimation: aye, you have to 'leap' from one ex date to the next
mircea_popescu: decimation options have a very strong time correlation. unless you have a very clear date in mind, they're not usually the right tool
mircea_popescu: entire fucking building reeks of pot. these people...
decimation: asciilifeform: yes, and on an island you can be the one lobbing rockets at whatever ship/aircraft is lobbing rockets at you
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2014 00:14:28; asciilifeform: imagine you possess a death ray that magically zaps a rocket, from any distance.
asciilifeform: decimation: see old thread: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-02-2014#488934 ☝︎
decimation: if people wanna use icbm's they are gonna have to be committed
asciilifeform: island only works if you have thermonukes ready to pop in every major enemy population centre and they know it.
asciilifeform: not enough info from my perch to even say something reasonable beyond 'it ain't happening'
decimation: well, I would pick an island in the middle of the pacific for definisibility
asciilifeform: but this is rather like asking about that kind of martial colony would feel best
asciilifeform: and pet economy to feed the two.
asciilifeform: decimation: i don't think any lottery on the planet pays a tenth of what it'd cost.
decimation: asciilifeform: well if I win the swedish lottery I'll fund your fab
nubbins`: spent much time in a foreign country?
asciilifeform doesn't know for a fact whether he could tolerate it long-term
asciilifeform: but we're on 'junkyard wars' not 'who wants to be a quadrillionaire'
decimation: not that this would be of any use to the target audience
asciilifeform: decimation: ideally i would be designing it full time in b-a or whatnot
asciilifeform: the output is a kernel and a rootfs (in 'turdel', deliberately baked into one binary to simplify testing)
decimation: asciilifeform: ideally the thing would have a small lcd terminal for programming ips, keys, etc
asciilifeform: nubbins`: my plan is to fit bitcoind & its deps in there
asciilifeform: nubbins`: it's what i'm building the whole shebang (as seen in turdel) with
nubbins`: still working on cross-compile toolchain for darwin->arm
decimation: because the whole thing is predicated on 'usg prints money true/false'
decimation: well these days bonds and stocks trade as one
mircea_popescu: options are rarely the way to go for something like that.
decimation: mircea_popescu: apparently so. I'm trying to find a way to hedge my mostly long position on us equities
mircea_popescu: it always seems remarkable when the sec comes out with "oh, clearly they had insider info, held 90% of this improbable strike". but if you go combing over the market, you'll see lots of similar situations all the time.
mircea_popescu: decimation bear in mind that this sort of thing is seen often enough.
decimation: weirdly the dec 19 SPY put option with the most open interest is 135
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 21:28:26; jurov: " is set to become the world’s first trading platform with a direct connection to the classic banking system" davout perhaps you may something to say about that?
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072986 << everyone's going to be the first guy to stick a finger in teenaged pussy. FOREVER.
decimation: usians have been brainwashed too long to be turned into north kr-ites
decimation: one of them might be a laser
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 20:44:33; asciilifeform: still think 'usg as high-tech north kr is impossible', ?
asciilifeform: decimation: from earlier newpiece today re: a tax guy
asciilifeform: (speaking of the black barrel)
decimation: is that the bot they sent after the boston bombers
asciilifeform: the other two barrels, no idea
asciilifeform: if the thing is to be given to 'civilians'
mircea_popescu: http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/c/b6/cb6523a6-02dc-5cc2-be49-762e7e525851/5514637854c52.image.jpg << is that actualy a gun ?
asciilifeform: that upnp will have to be grudgingly brought back, if only as a separate process
asciilifeform: jurov made this observation in october
decimation: this is why half the 'cloud' shit even exists
decimation: gulz at your party gonna configure their services
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: think about it for a minute
mircea_popescu: decimation that's unused, yes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because how is anyone to connect to this thing!
decimation: the router that runs nat and has a firewall you mean?
asciilifeform: decimation: how many in target audience will have well-configured anythign?
asciilifeform: the demo turdel dhcp's, yes
asciilifeform: dhcp also means we have to bring back upnp
asciilifeform: and can't imagine i'm the only one
asciilifeform: decimation: this will make, e.g., setting static ip, impossible
decimation: why not an init with the auto-kill while loop
mircea_popescu: fun fact : you can acutally hand-load the entropy pool.
asciilifeform: anyway that thing under no conceivable circumstances ought to be remotely shellable and sitting on public net at same time
decimation: asciilifeform: I thought it didn't have an rtc
asciilifeform: not to mention user i/o
asciilifeform: normal box has at least the entropic component of cpu vs real time clock frequency drift.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 19:55:07; asciilifeform: observation: sshd on a box with no rng may as well be replaced by telnetd
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072895 << wait. and this is unlike normal openssh how again ?
mircea_popescu: save in very narrow conditions (say, the it dept)
mircea_popescu: as a self-organised thing i never saw it exist
mircea_popescu: afaik the way this works is, there's someone in management who's not retarded, cultivates these.
asciilifeform: or with own management, which largely functions to insulate it from the nominal management.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so the skunkworks without the management ?
asciilifeform: decimation: the basic 'meta' picture in my head is the small group inside virtually any gigantic and ossified organization that actually gets things done
decimation: as if including the diversity-based hiring quotees could enhance the outcome?
asciilifeform: can't say the sachs thing is a living animal. but a bone, with just enough meat on it to be worth picking up.
mircea_popescu: i hear this is how they get laid, too.
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1072854 << i suspect you're confused as to the meaning of at least one word in there :D
mircea_popescu: so alf, guy was in zh two years ago. it never caught. also supression ?
decimation: it seems from the wapo article about the anti-al-quaeda chap that he ran the 'meta-cia'
asciilifeform: meta-cia i can't even take credit for
decimation: asciilifeform: perhaps, but I can't imagine that the employees look much different than the post office today
asciilifeform: decimation: the historic, self-admitted 'national character' of cia (as described in their authorized histories, note) is as a gang of 'younger sons' of old-money lords in usa. on account of the elementary fact that these were the only possible recruits because no one else was cultured or spoke languages.
nubbins`: root@debian:/# tftp 0x800000 turdel_with_telnet
decimation: one is confused why the cia would bother to find such a complex excuse to be embarassed and embarass others
asciilifeform: i suppose we'll see if there is a gnome with a hand-edited 'google blackhole' chart, soon enough
asciilifeform: notably, did not see the document linked on cryptome
asciilifeform: but yes, did see the pics
mircea_popescu: do you wish to see the html ?
asciilifeform: of the kind google is famous for
asciilifeform: incidentally #b-a is not at the top of the page like usual.
mircea_popescu: includes > dozen pics of the same bespectacled fellow
mircea_popescu: check it out, alf is a tachyon. has read the future.
mircea_popescu: one that doesnt 404 ?
mircea_popescu: used to, but became too much hassle
mircea_popescu: afaik they do not any longer
asciilifeform: incidentally they normally publish the letter