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asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: arc was out ages ago. it was a turd.
asciilifeform: remember also that botnet will shrink rapidly unless you work to grow it.
danielpbarron: conspicuous spending of wealth / signals strenth to other cultures
asciilifeform: point is - even a wildly optimistic figure for yield gives you... the salary of a very skinny engineer.
kakobrekla: not the owner
kakobrekla: presumably the chumps did the work
kakobrekla: building the pyramids in egypt wasnt practical.
asciilifeform: (how can this be? cargo cult. easy.)
asciilifeform: at the very least, not a single one of the several dozen gpu-mining trojans i have collected from the wild actually works if installed as intended
BingoBoingo: My laptop can sustain 12 mh/s if I want to invite a fire hazard
asciilifeform: heterogeneity of gpu (plus the need to install chip-specific driver) means that gpu is not a practical target.
kakobrekla: yes, my shit gpu does that much.
kakobrekla: yeah my entry is in there.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i find this very dubious.
asciilifeform: and on some planet there are 500,000 of them you can pwn.
asciilifeform: let's picture that these are all chumps who own asic coffee pot warmers or the like.
mircea_popescu: maybe if you're lucky and they're all gaming stations or something.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: using unicorn tears.
mircea_popescu: same thing as if you're a "senior counsel" for the sec, or anything else.
mircea_popescu: if you have any sense, come and grovel abjectly, who knows, maybe i'm feeling employer-y that day
mircea_popescu: well, if you're an idiot, try and fight with me
asciilifeform: because actually monetizing all but the most astonishingly large chumpnet for btc has become virtually impossible.
asciilifeform: back to botnet topic - we will increasingly see pointless acts of hooliganism ☟︎
kakobrekla: no idiot wrote to me in like a week :(
BingoBoingo: Will do replying to them next.
mircea_popescu: maybe just needs to be told.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Probably. This is probably going to turn into a lulzy kako screencap convo. I mean seriously though. Targeting the personal blog and not the mega news outlet for sponsored whatevers.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: I thought Cory joined because we are cool and happening
kakobrekla: i suspekt thats why Corey joined here.
BingoBoingo: If this gambling site operator continues to court thedrinkingrecord for a sponsored post... At what point is accepting money for a labeled sponsored post worth it? 20 BTC?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the fella with 100 names
mircea_popescu: and i honestly read the logs ?
mircea_popescu: i have nfi who that is ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla wait you know the guy ?
asciilifeform: it's a bottomless pit of various things
mircea_popescu: i suppose the answer to "why would one bother to rewrite the much better flame warriors guide in shitty prose" suddenly comes into view.
mircea_popescu: "The number one problem with paranoid world views is the lack of proof on either side. Nobody can disprove once and for all any of these rumors. If you believe but one of them, step by step you will have to distrust your politicians, your government, the press."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/DefendAgainstParanoia << this one is pretty lulzy.
asciilifeform: in ru world, a small-arms-themed derp is often told, 'file off yer sights'
BingoBoingo: "Weld the front sight back on so we know what the fuck we are shooting at"
asciilifeform often wonder, of the $maxint places they could go - they go here .why.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> given the fate of usd, the small coins continue to circulate largely through inertia of neglect. << prices in my area recently went to integer dollars for things sold by the unit
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Amazonfirehd: is it the hard disk that processes data and the cpu stores the data right?
mircea_popescu: you know assy... that's what you said last time
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: i'm going to write an amazing article and pad the fuck out of it <<< /me settles down for this
BingoBoingo: Amazonfirehd: He is living breathing 7 bits of text
asciilifeform: ah but see that's proper
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: what next? pay people by lines of code? << i've actually done that. "you get paid 1000 - code count"
BingoBoingo: Amazonfirehd: YOu have yet to acquire a cloak
mircea_popescu: well, cazalla is the editor in charge, BingoBoingo is his lieutenant and im here to fuck things up.
BingoBoingo: Broke 3 Zamac turds, moved to a beauty in 440 stainless steel
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i confess that i don't have a clear picture of who was working on it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and in people i know to be clever! << wait, do you mean me ?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i own two halves of a broken corkscrew (owned. used to show people.) << I imagine my current corkscrew will outlive me
asciilifeform: and items are made to spec.
mircea_popescu: i broke a quarter inch thick garlic press into shards etc
asciilifeform: thing is, the chinese in this respect do not suck. american turdmeisters supply the spec.
mircea_popescu: back when the chinese still sucked, 90s,
mircea_popescu: i broke tons of all sorts of cruddy kitchen implements
asciilifeform: i own two halves of a broken corkscrew (owned. used to show people.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: degradation of metal goods proceeded by a similar, if not entirely identical way as organics - not impurities as such (modern alloys are chemically superior to those of the past) but through using tech that ought not be used
BingoBoingo: Qntra shares really aren't a problem so long as they remain countably infinite
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: infinite shares with no plausible picture of how they are to be worth something <<< this is similar to the problem of marriage neh ? "woman can bring infinite children with no idea how they;d amount to anything"
asciilifeform: (the first person who told me that there are now small arms with zamac parts, i did not believe him!)
asciilifeform: incidentally, the mosins (and other items of the period) prove that, if one really wishes it, it is possible to mass-produce 'non-synthetic tomato' to some extent.
BingoBoingo: Olin brass has to butter their bezzel bread
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the non-soviet ones are ~$1/round
asciilifeform: probably mythical, but there it is.
asciilifeform: legend has it that stalin had the fuhrer's skull (what remained of it) as ashtray.
asciilifeform: 'That same year, columnist Drew Pearson reported that Representative Francis E. Walter (D-Penn.) had presented President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a letter opener made from the forearm of a Japanese soldier. ‘This is the sort of gift I like to get’, Pearson quotes FDR saying.” '
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Saw that film
asciilifeform: we call them endearingly, мосинка.
mircea_popescu: the crown of teeth!
mircea_popescu: cannons are indeed out of fashion, but for whoever ends up crowned : consider making your crown out of the extracted teeth of us congressmen, imf directors and so on and so forth.
assbot: Cheaper Than Dirt! - 7.62x54R
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Winchester makes them nao http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/ProductListing.aspx?catid=607
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'the man with the rifle - shoots. the one without - follows him. when the man with the rifle is killed, the one who is following him picks up the rifle and shoots.' -- american film about stalingrad
mircea_popescu: speciofically, a captured turkish cannon.
mircea_popescu: but speaking of crowns : romanian king (prince karl of hohenzollern-sigmaringen) had the interesting idea of making his crown out of iron
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/product/7-GRI660LX and the shells...
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: plus, afaik no one in usa makes the shells.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the paperwork will run you more.
asciilifeform: i don't have any nitpick at a 'group trilema' - but not sure why it needed to be nyooz-flavoured.
BingoBoingo: Oh Mosins are still under $150 per in the US.
mike_c: read the next line :)
mircea_popescu: and like wsj, nyt etc, it's worth whatever the crown says it's worth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mike_c: wsj, like nyt et al is an organ of the crown. << so is qntra.
asciilifeform: thing about botnets, this is a whole planet, largely undocumented in open literature
asciilifeform: that's what i was thinking
mircea_popescu: just like you died and went to fucking warcraft heaven
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform speaking of which, you know how they announce job vacancies here ?
asciilifeform: if that.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: employees hadn't machines so armed << employees owned the shirts on their backs
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> yeah, but also like slaves they're worth w/e they bring in. << also this one
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> but idea is, if you own them, better keep them busy. like slaves. << oh god i know this one
mircea_popescu: yeah, but also like slaves they're worth w/e they bring in.
asciilifeform: but idea is, if you own them, better keep them busy. like slaves.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform besides the point tho. negotiable instruments, like anything else.
asciilifeform: as i understand, their market values vary wildly based on geography