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decimation: well, those are high income brackets though
pete_dushenski: germany's top bracket: 45%
assbot: Individual income tax rates | Australian Taxation Office ... ( http://bit.ly/1FH732G )
decimation: some us states charge upwards of 10% 'sales tax'
pete_dushenski: i now know a few off the top of my head
decimation: that's hardcore, what are the marginal rates?
pete_dushenski: decimation show me a country with no income tax that's not in affrica
cazalla: and then your local council strong arms you on top of all that as well
decimation: cazalla: do you have to pay income tax too?
pete_dushenski: i was reading up on the russian tax code this weekend and it's completely fucking reasonable.
cazalla: yeah, stamp tax, land tax, fuck you for even being born tax type shit
pete_dushenski: have to balance bookz!
pete_dushenski: a yes, typical "cross my heart" shit
pete_dushenski: is there also province/state tax on top?
cazalla: there is talk of raising it due to budget shortfalls despite the government that brough it in promising the legislation would never allow for such a thing to occur
cazalla: pete_dushenski, ya didn't know this?
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decimation: amusing: http://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/the-conformity-of-lawns/index.html << " As William Levitt himself promised his government patrons, “No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.” He meant this quite literally." << the nature of modern us 'home ownership'
kakobrekla: Shabnam Ansar i don't understand a lot of stuff you say, nevertheless i read them all... you are just so amazing n my role model
ben_vulpes: > written about in regards to
adlai types too fast to have written that bet
adlai: why wasn't this one on bitbet? https://www.facebook.com/stephenhawking/posts/735607129859720
kakobrekla: these are my findings from very short time of fiddling with the thing so i may be off.
kakobrekla: as far as i gathered it was ddosing one at a time before ratpoison - it jumped to the last one joining. now it just adds to stack.
kakobrekla: apparently thing doesnt jump anymore but spreads bw
kakobrekla: one of the two co-authors of trezor
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ben_vulpes: promises by someone out of the wot are to be taken seriously? :P
decimation: apparently our friend's promise to 'move on' was not to be taken seriously
kakobrekla: i can try the waters
ben_vulpes: is the dosser of the uncloaked still around?
cazalla: gameboy app tells me there were 9 people there but i only saw the reps so like i said, it's an autists dream come true
cazalla: dunno why they even had reps there, gameboy picks up the items automatically over wireless, they could've just left their gameboy on the counter and had customers walk up to it, do a 360 and then walk out the shops
cazalla: decimation, nah it was this http://www.nintendo.com.au/index.php?action=news&nid=3580
cazalla: mats_cd03: too quick to burn bridges is all i'm saying <<< i gave him the opportunity but then he started with the gaw miners, altcoins are legit cause he made money with it
decimation: well, I guess I assumed you went to some kind of trade show with nintendo present.
cazalla: decimation, why would you ask me if i went there? i don't get it
assbot: electronica - Electronics trade fair for components, systems and applications ... ( http://bit.ly/1zH4U52 )
decimation: http://www.electronica.de/ << the 'world's biggest' electronics trade fair. probably not consumer or games focused though
cazalla: decimation, what's that? a clear no btw
decimation: cazalla: did you go to "electronica"?
decimation: nintendo has pretty much gone downhill since the 'NES'
cazalla: if you have full blown autism, nintendo run the best events, you don't have say shit or look at anyone to collect the promo items they give away
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I said systemd was a fungus. I agree, I don't see how this kind of thing is tolerable. Politically, I think Linus is up against a wall to some degree, because he knows redhat, inc pays for most of the kernel 'zeks'
decimation: re: Opera << i use the webkit based one, probably offers little protection against firefox based attacks
adlai: the macbook pro I used at my last office job still boots into dvorak and has to manually be switched to qwerty, last I checked
adlai learned dvorak on a rollup keyboard that couldn't be rearranged
adlai: oh you'd actually rearrange the keys?
asciilifeform: (why? the caps on the alphabetic rows are not identically shaped)
asciilifeform: it also doesn't help that most non-'model m' keyboards are not readily (visually) dvorakizable
asciilifeform experimented with dvorak a few times over the years, found that he doesn't enter enough human language text to make the effort worthwhile ☟︎
asciilifeform: also helps to have f-keys in 'godly' position (to the left of 'ctrl' rather than on top of kbd)
asciilifeform: my ctrl key is where the gods intended it to be (to the left of 'a') likewise.
adlai: amazingly, it looks as though these dongles are NOT encrypting the keys before sending them to the printer, so my fears aren't totally crazy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have not actually pressed any F key in... uh. months ? << 'midnight commander' naturally. and i have f1-f12 mapped to useful things in 'emacs' as well. unlike (apparently) many emacs users, i don't treat my hands as an object of religious sacrifice.
adlai: well, just to go off on a while tear here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho2d1HxtXfk
asciilifeform: a living thing - would not tolerate this.
kakobrekla: well you get a new one without the wifi and when done printing blend it with Blendtec and throw dust in magma
adlai: maybe my priorities are misplaced, but one huge problem I saw with the whole entropy thingy is... the printer
asciilifeform: so the chaps 'building their own' distro are likewise stuck with it.
asciilifeform: not enough to bake their crap into mainstream linux distos. needs to be in mainstream kernel.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, other users of 'opera' - which one do you use? the 1990s close-source turd? or the 'new, impr0v3d' idiocy that uses 'webkit' (chrome) rendering engine ?
kakobrekla: fuck that search, it finds too many things!
asciilifeform: (not sure why he turned that thread into an article, but there it is)
assbot: Proof That Mycelium Knows How To Make A Better RNG For Its Entropy Dongle. And Isn't. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1y61MkH )
kakobrekla: adlai there are pages of bashing of that thing in logs
asciilifeform: ^ the sram thing
asciilifeform: this is not an uncommon tactic among the lowest of the lowliest sc4mz0rz
adlai: "Secure Bitcoin Live USB key for offline transactions" (I didn't click the link, just reacting to the title)
asciilifeform: packaging their turdware in this form gives it a 'hardware' perfume.
adlai: why does chromium need to be incognito if it's an offline thingy
kakobrekla: wait whut, they diss usb but support wifi ?
ben_vulpes: fuel for the fire
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: this appears to be a 'linux live cd' of a kind.
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kakobrekla: aha seems they are selling the product.
asciilifeform: what to make it from - is up to the maker. delay-line spool, if you like.
asciilifeform: i bring up sram as concession to the fact that the hypothetical calculator discussed earlier needs a small working memory
asciilifeform: you can do this now, find an old programmable calculator.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: they were (or claimed to be) distilling bit flip errors from sram at room temperature
kakobrekla: yes but i cant recall what were they doing
asciilifeform: no rng needed for this.
kakobrekla: hm what happend to that guy that was last here arguing about random from ram and temp n shit
asciilifeform: only output - public key of addrs, and (human-readable) signed tx-es.
asciilifeform: with no flashable components of any kind whatsoever therein.
kakobrekla: in theory.
kakobrekla: well you can enter your own private key in trezor and null it after done
asciilifeform: for a second or two.
kakobrekla: well you must store to compute
asciilifeform: i'll repeat - dedicated gizmo wherein to crunch the bignums - useful. store keys - no thanks.
asciilifeform: the reason i even bothered to respond to the trezor thing is to share the hypothesis that all of the available products are dumb because the problem they are 'solving' - is dumb.
punkman: asciilifeform: doubt they will open source it
asciilifeform: punkman: and where are the circuit and firmware source for this one ?
punkman: http://www.hardbit.cn/ this doesn't have USB, talks with QR codes only
punkman: I don't get their whole recovery seed, pin codes, password mess
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: not in the pcb shots i saw. last time i gave a damn.
kakobrekla: is there some physical button to enable upgrade ?
asciilifeform doesn't need this for anything, but wondered if exists
asciilifeform: punkman: ty
asciilifeform: punkman: i am still not able to find a copy of the actual code actually running on the physical device.