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mircea_popescu: should be standard practice for any article mentioning fiat. the msm is doing it to us, obviously we'll be doing it to them. let teh public pick up the pieces.
mircea_popescu: i'd love you long time.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if you add another whole paragraph about how dollars are inherently unsafe, used by terrorists and probably not going to "make it", culled directly from the idiocy spewed by idiots about btc
mircea_popescu: check that out, this new year was 1420070400. at some point during ny eve it crossed 1,42 trillion
assbot: Remittance Company Xoom Loses Corporate Cash To Fraud | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1IlQryE )
mircea_popescu: jurov: ;;later tell mircea_popescu care to send qntr shares over? << aye.
mircea_popescu: i guess the largest shock to noobs is swallowing the actual history of mp-*, as it was.
mircea_popescu: pity i hadn't made a derp for THIS one.
assbot: Xoom Corp. CFO resigns after fraudsters steal $30.8M in corporate cash - San Francisco Business Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1Dg3uDG )
pete_dushenski: anyways, now we know that mike_c is $100/hr!
pete_dushenski: but of course the cost to build doesn't equal the value of the finished product
pete_dushenski: surprisingly close to the ~500 btc ipo
pete_dushenski: let's say we're talking that level of professionalism
mike_c: your estimation was $50 / hr. I doubt that is the case.
mike_c: how much do you think it would cost to hire someone to build something like that and trust that it would be done well?
pete_dushenski: your salary would be based on your skills as applied to this project
mike_c: (not that i'm bitter)
pete_dushenski: lol this we know ;)
mike_c: i am worth much more than that.
pete_dushenski: what did it cost to build ?
pete_dushenski: mike_c don't suppose there's been any bidders for wol eh ?
pete_dushenski: heh i like the sound of that
mike_c: the new analyzer will tell you how much to bet based on your input of % of event happenning.
mike_c: well, the "correct" amount to bet depends on what you think the % chance of the event happening is.
pete_dushenski: the optimised tangent always encourages what is imo over-betting
pete_dushenski: can't say it terribly influenced my decisions, or if it did, not for the better.
pete_dushenski: i've used it a few times
pete_dushenski: mike_c so anything exciting in the pipeline for btcalpha ?
pete_dushenski: those years in the trenches...
mike_c: oh i miss mpoe-pr: "Yes, for as long as you don't try to take them out they're safe."
assbot: Any questions ? pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1DfWiaJ )
pete_dushenski: lol this is the random trilema post that just popped up for me: http://trilema.com/2013/any-questions/
jurov: it's the same as last month?
jurov: ;;later tell mircea_popescu care to send qntr shares over?
mike_c: yw. a few bitcents in the tip jar :)
jurov: mike_c thanks!
thestringpuller: glad to know you haven't been kidnapped by terrorists mr. nubbins`
nubbins`: in fact, #2 from the publicly-available ones :D
nubbins`: #52, that's pretty low
TomServo: nubbins`: if you're still wanting to see your work in the wild, here you go: http://i.imgur.com/EAXAWHL.jpg
thestringpuller: sir nubbins` returns for the btc apocalypse
mike_c: ;;later tell jurov re: dec. qntra shares http://dpaste.com/3FJ1DGC
cazalla: woohoo, go to shops, find an intact tower on side of road otw back
cazalla: BitBet.us - Rejected - that feeling of failure :\
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) to drop under $40 before Mar 2015" http://bitbet.us/bet/1096/ Odds: 96(Y):4(N) by coin, 96(Y):4(N) by weight. Total bet: 1.12 BTC. Current weight: 99,703.
[]bot: Bet created: "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) to drop under $40 before Mar 2015" http://bitbet.us/bet/1096/
asciilifeform: would you buy an x86 pc box and use it with the factory-installed softs? no? then why would you do this with router ?
asciilifeform: must remind readers that your machines are as 'real' - or unreal - as you are.
asciilifeform: (see earlier 'arm' threads)
asciilifeform: as in something that doesn't have a multitude of undocumented internal sub-cpu cores running fuck knows what
punkman: as in old router/modem thingy?
asciilifeform: (this gets you over the arguably low bar of having the router be no more exploitable than the machine(s) it is connected to...)
assbot: C3TV -Too Many Cooks - Exploiting the Internet-of-TR-069-Things ... ( http://bit.ly/1HDc671 )
assbot: Major Problems with TR-069 - RouterCheck ... ( http://bit.ly/1HDc5QC )
assbot: The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit - Dmitry Orlov - Google Books ... ( http://bit.ly/1xMOThs )
asciilifeform: (yes, people found ways to 'milk' it.)
asciilifeform: quotes the dollar officially at 12 bolivars. meanwhile, black rate is ~17 << mega-lol!! >> at one point, iirc, 'vanity' exchange rate of soviet ruble was 12 per usd.
assbot: C3TV -Internet of toilets ... ( http://bit.ly/1HD7KNm )
punkman: asciilifeform: not everyone can afford golden toilet, but anyone can have a throne with ipv6. << relevant http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6370_-_en_-_saal_g_-_201412281900_-_internet_of_toilets_-_tbsprs.html#video
mircea_popescu: finally found the internet end of the cable ?
mircea_popescu: maybe it's first past the pole.
kakobrekla: not by that much...
mircea_popescu: i guess cause i'm taller ?
kakobrekla: wai you get all the fun
mircea_popescu: if anyone cares, there was another ddos bout, but it didn't do anything.
mircea_popescu: now, why that is...
mircea_popescu: but they're not stopping.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Old lead mining town there. Can't expect much brightness there.
assbot: The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Blowback on the Saudi Border – Senior General Killed ... ( http://bit.ly/1BCgjnJ )
decimation: http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/january/05/blowback-on-the-saudi-border-senior-general-killed/ << us isn't dumping oil, saudi arabia is, and not doing too well
BingoBoingo: Well, I imagine dilemma isn't too different from my present ability to buy a gallon of gas for $2 because America is dumping its entire oild reserve now to try to fuck Russia in this moment.
mircea_popescu: http://cachecdn.cdnhost2000xl.com/tthumbs/2/27145.jpg and a vignette to help the thinking process along.
mircea_popescu: should it do that, what's the likely evolution of the black market rate ?
mircea_popescu: the govt is considering yielding, and bringing the official bolivar to 50ish.
mircea_popescu: so practical macroeconomics exercise. venezuela, which is in the shitter, quotes the dollar officially at 12 bolivars. meanwhile, black rate is ~170.
mircea_popescu: also that.
BingoBoingo: Except now there are too many places in college for the kids, because people dun wanna go no moar.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like "there are not enough places in college for all the kids"
mircea_popescu: ipv4 "not being enough" is a sad symptom of letting too many people in.
BingoBoingo: At this rate actual IPv4 addresses will never be exhausted. too many are simply occupied atm by lusers and spammzors
mircea_popescu: <assbot> New lie detector relies on full-body suit for better accuracy | ITworld << makes me think... most dudes think they know fucking...
decimation: can you see if it is actually http traffic or is it more pnp reflection?
mircea_popescu: http://pastebin.com/mhmhnATj << tales from the ddos.
mircea_popescu: take a week to work in say a supermarket or something. the helplessness of common postmodern man (well, mostly woman) is impressive.
decimation: what about those who make 'tools'?
mircea_popescu: decimation there's a fundamental difference between those who use tools and those who make tools.
cazalla: not the app one you download but the paid monthly service, i thought it was more recent but perhaps i am wrong, i bow to your knowledge as a pokemon master
thestringpuller: cazalla: ya. since black and white I thought
cazalla: thestringpuller, didja know even pokemon has cloud storage for pokemans with the pokemon bank
asciilifeform: decimation: await the next version, resembling 'iron maiden' ?
decimation: http://www.itworld.com/article/2864675/new-lie-detector-relies-on-fullbody-suit-for-better-accuracy.html << lol these guys want to sell gimp suits for hazing usg employees
decimation: svetlana: why doesn't someone fix the 'problem' with cloaks by re-writing ircd into something sane?
assbot: Supreme Court justice second-guesses decisive vote in gaming free speech case | Ars Technica ... ( http://bit.ly/1tEwMU4 )
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: bona fide throne has homo sapien to catch turds with mouth
asciilifeform: or something like that.
asciilifeform: not everyone can afford golden toilet, but anyone can have a throne with ipv6.
thestringpuller: i hate it more than "The cloud"
thestringpuller: "The internet of things this, and that"
thestringpuller: "We are ready for the internet of things"
thestringpuller: the CEO of the company I'm at keeps using that word all the time