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pete_dushenski: ya i started
trading stocks on my parents' accounts before i was much interested in girls
chetty: can't be having people do
things, must have experts and authorities run our lives you know
pete_dushenski: 'you've been a successful investor for 15 years but
that was just luck so you should
trust a random hobo now'
mircea_popescu: cazalla / bingoboingo : just in case you were wondering where
the ftp server went,
turns out cpanel decided
to upgrade stuff on
the 23rd, failed
to get pureftpd upgraded correctly, decided it's no longer needed and nuked it.
pete_dushenski: "Pete, you should either give your money
to a qualified money manager or go back
to work." << kids and
their ideas about success
fluffypony: pete_dushenski: analogous
to "The fraud came as a surprise. He seemed like such a nice guy. I definitely didn't expect him
to scam anyone."
pete_dushenski: "Abraham says: “Fraud in Apple Pay… came as a surprise
to all” " << mhm. right.
punkman: more likely whoever owns
the apple store
cazalla: who eats
the chargeback? apple?
pete_dushenski: "The crooks have not broken
the secure encryption around Apple Pay’s fingerprint-activated wireless payment mechanism. Instead,
they are setting up new iPhones with stolen personal information, and
then calling banks
to “provision”
the victim’s card on
the phone
to use it
to buy goods. "
pete_dushenski: "Criminals in
the US are using
the new Apple Pay mobile payment system
to buy high-value goods – often from Apple Stores – with stolen identities and credit card details." << le shock!
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: btw, many SK girls get plastic surgery
to look more western. If you ever spend enough
time with
them you'll start
to see
the differences between koreans and 'koreans'
ben_vulpes: so
they baked "free usg
thermorecal exams" into
the protocol
assbot: A Guide
To Buying 5000 Ether/Bitcoin, 2.5x More
Than Ethereum's Genesis Sale Offers | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1GKT3XF )
pete_dushenski: given
that mp's short contract date is fast approaching,
this seems quite relevant
pete_dushenski: "When deep in nitty gritty of development you sometimes forget quite how world-altering
the
technology you’re creating is, which is probably just as well since
the gravity of
the matter at hand would be continually distracting. "
pete_dushenski: While
this looked like a good direction
to be going in, a swift audit of Vitalik and Matt’s initial algorithm by
Tim Hughes (ex-Director of
Technology at Frontier Developments and expert in low-level CPU and GPU operation and optimisation) showed major flaws. "
pete_dushenski: Since our blockchain has a number of important differences with
the Bitcoin blockchain (mainly in
transaction density), stemming from
the extremely short 12s block
time we’re aiming for, we would have
to use not
the blockchain data itself like Hashimoto but rather an artifcially created dataset, done with an algorithm known as Dagger (yes, some will remember it as Vitalik’s first and flawed attempt at a memo
pete_dushenski: "Proof-of-Concept releases VII and VIII were released. NatSpec, “natural language specification format” and
the basis of our
transaction security was prototyped and integrated. Under Marek’s watch, now helped by Fabian, ethereum.js is
truly coming of age with a near source-level compatibility with Solidity on contract interaction and support for
the
typed ABI with calling and events,
the latter providing h
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "I also finished
the first draft of ICAP,
the Ethereum Inter-exchange Client Address Protocol, an IBAN-compatible system for referencing and
transacting
to client accounts aimed
to streamline
the process of
transfering funds, worry-free between exchanges and, ultimately, make KYC and AML pains a
thing of
the past."
pete_dushenski: "We are also in
the process of forming partnerships with
third parties in
the industry; George, Jutta and myself managing
this process; I’m happy
to announce
that at least
three exchanges will be supporting Ether from day one on
their
trading platforms (details of which we’ll annouce soon), with more exchanges
to follow."
pete_dushenski: douglas adams is a charming way of overcoming
the rage
pete_dushenski: the number of spoon-feeding, hand-holding signs present in
the western world is atrocious
ben_vulpes: i see
this sign every morning, yet
this morning it brought
to mind your...reprinting of
the adams short.
ben_vulpes: cazalla: come now, nobody knows who you are or
the girls are
cazalla: gabriel_laddel, maybe one day if she moves away or
they're no longer friends but would be a bit strange for me
to share pics of her on irc
ben_vulpes: wait hang on
there was context for
this conversation
ben_vulpes: cazalla: yeah, just crack open
the girl's facebook
ben_vulpes: i read it
to lady v on our morning stroll for great lulz.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski:
thanks for
that adams short.
cazalla: gabriel_laddel, sure, just let me ask
the missus for pics of her friend from facebook :P
☟︎ cazalla: my missus has a china doll in her mum's group, she is one of
the best chinese women i've seen and we have
truckloads of em here down under
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: nah,
the Chinese have a class system
thing going on.
Vexual checks an app cannon on
the horizon
assbot: FAA Says Commercial Drone Operators Need Exemption. But Doesn't Prosecute
Those Flying Without One. - Forbes ... (
http://bit.ly/1GKObBK )
cazalla: collins class?
they are diesel
Vexual: we do, but
they are very noisy
Vexual: why can't i catch a nuke sub
to somewhere?
cazalla: mircea_popescu,
that is ofn and yahoo paid a pretty penny from memory
mod6: trinque: awesome
thanks!
mircea_popescu: its main advantage
tho, is
that it reduces any need for friction.
mircea_popescu: was not. fucking complicated even without involving
the cameras.
mircea_popescu: basically a flatish
torus, looks like a cylinder from outside
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, i actually had
this design made, and
tried on live girls.
ben_vulpes: but you'll have
to
tell me how effective
they are, asciilifeform.
ben_vulpes: i
think augur designs exist approximating
this.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu:
this raises and interesting question, hypothetically
TurboSquid is WoT endorsed company. Would
the artists be required
to be WoT endorsed
too?
decimation: and another question: is it possible for a universal suffrage democracy
to
tolerate actual dissent?
decimation: so my question is: why doesn't
this happen in
the us - all sorts of crazy 'reforms' are pushed down by
the center
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: well
that doesn't sound like any fun now
mircea_popescu: unless
turbosquid guy shows up in wot
turbosquid dun exist.
decimation: this happened mere months after
the revolution was proclaimed
to be 'of
the people', 'for human rights', 'freedom', etc
thestringpuller: " strategically speaking I intend
to create a digital services marketplace, and would very much like
to use
the large and varied needs of Eulora acquisition
to seed
that platform"
decimation: you know after
the national convention
took over and started calling for massive
troop levies,
the Vendée rose up with pitchforks and starting executing anyone who appeared
to be a revolutionary
mircea_popescu: that is a literal rather
than metaphorical description.
mircea_popescu: Political collapse will be resisted, and
the way it will be resisted is by starting as many wars as possible,
to produce a vast backdrop of failure
to serve as a rationale for all sorts of “emergency measures,” << i said
this a number of
times, but it bears repeating : if
this happens every usg employee, past or present, hangs by his guts.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: now for
to find some
time
to 'play' 'games'
mircea_popescu: "Military success is unimportant, because failure is even better for maintaining order by forcing
through various emergency security measures
than success." <<
this is known as
the "north korea" versio of us future. because obviously best kim is in a state of imagined war with an imagined world.