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benkay: unlike the rest of the combudder world apful appears to take the notion of 'kaizen' seriously. this in my humble opinion is the only way to stay profitable
as a manufacturing shop.
decimation: and if you are going to go through that trouble, might
as well build a high bandwidth source of random values
BingoBoingo: moiety: Blockchain
as a collection of lucite bocks with the data engraved. Machine spits a new one out each time a new one is confirmed
moiety: BingoBoingo: HOW about the paperweitghts lit up though?
as per transaction or confirmation?
BingoBoingo: moiety: Maybe? I dunno... Loud dog that grows to that size
as an adult,
as opposed to one that's still a growing puppy at that size seems more practical to feed
moiety: she will have missed you just
as much artifexd :]
benkay: he oscillates,
as do we all.
moiety: artifexd: the one i grew up with was incredibly nervous. perfect show lines aside from the fear so we got her
as a pet. most wonderful creature
moiety: mike_c: the day you offer me a manul instead of a unicorn
as national animal.. i'm in!
princessnell: moiety, would you say this vid about sums your experience
as a btc grrl?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah, swing the thing
as hard
as you like and on a forgiving surface it has a maximum impact force.
mircea_popescu:
as the situation is reversed however... no amount of derpage can possibly help.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : the eventual winner doesn't quite have the same needs from his equipment
as the eventual loser does.
mircea_popescu: basically nuclear weapons,
as well
as tomahawks, aircraft carriers and so on are further elements in a class of weapons inaugurated by the byzantines, with their greek fire :
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo not nearly
as sexy. it was possible based on pre-ww2 england style industrialisation.
mircea_popescu: but sure,
as the ice moves around we may get to various mineral riches in siberia, canda etc
moiety: metaphor...i never get
as far
as having a real rug :P
mircea_popescu: mike_c such
as that b-a blogs thing is only half a year old ?
mircea_popescu: just
as long
as he doesn't allow people to talk of guns in his presence ?
pankkake: I thought of repurposing twitter
as a file hoster, but I'm not sure how much overhead this would be :p
mircea_popescu: the idea immediately popped that people who are doing this
as a matter of course can't be
as stupid
as i had thought.
mircea_popescu: but whore-out-of-the-blue seems reasonable
as an approach, at least because people who manage to react well to women generally react well to new things.
mircea_popescu: after the failure, the actual ceo disappeared, but antonopoulos reinvented himself
as... more "professional".
mircea_popescu: somehow
as people start to smarten up and realise how shitty us management is failing them, the idea doesn't form that they need better management,
mircea_popescu: But then the troubles begin. First, given the short replacement cycle of its widget, it becomes harder and harder for Company B to contain costs while continuing to increase production. Costs of key inputs, such
as certain metals, plastics, energy to run the plants, and shipping and distribution costs, all start going up, making their widgets more expensive to produce. At the same time, it becomes increasingly difficul
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when you said cycle i thought you meant, electrically.
as in, hifreq.
mircea_popescu: "a flashlight concerning itself with implementation details,
as opposed to broad theoretical considerations"
mircea_popescu: far
as i can discern this is it, the permanent mode of industry since forever, and how things sould work, and how things that work do work.
mircea_popescu: "This, then, should be the new main thrust of industrial activity: to manufacture and distribute products with the understanding that this process will run out of resources and stop. These products must be designed to outlive the process by which they are made, by
as long
as possible." << i can't fucking imagine why this would have to appear
as new.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well google, like wikipedia, is only intended
as a good enough first approximation.
mircea_popescu: anyway, bitcoin
as made by saotshi is eminently blind-friendly. you can get everything
as json from bitcoind and put it through your favorite reader.
mircea_popescu: mike_c another rule is that you can't send people mail
as single-image pdfs.
ThickAsThieves:
As an interim measure in advance of issuing tactile-enhanced Federal Reserve notes, the BEP is providing currency readers, free of charge, to eligible blind and visually impaired individuals.
mircea_popescu: "
As companies try to retain top employees and hit growth targets, some are ditching the annual salary review and doling out raises and bonuses several times a year."
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i don't know. I guess I didn't feel like it fit the rest of his portfolio. << iirc he ended up with it
as part of some other acquisition
pankkake: artifexd: more entities to annoy, more chances that one puts up a fight and doesn't censor
as easily; also, most TLDs currently depend of governments
mircea_popescu:
as for the kids that keep going to airports pretending like they belong there.
mike_c: hah. nah, i don't do biotech. i prefer revenue-generating activities
as opposed to funding R&D.
mircea_popescu: anyway, for that matter, the big part in there is "didn’t generally view asset prices
as excessive".
mircea_popescu: what, you're telling me because the us
as a whole is in freefall because pretty much any field you look at consists of people given tasks they can't do with tools that can't do them ?!
mircea_popescu: but anyway, this was the fundamental argument of the euroskeptics
as to wtf is wrong with the euro : replacing twenty cbs with just one merely further exacerbates the centralisation problem
mircea_popescu: it does work exceedingly well in small countries with exceptionally gifted cbs,
as romania will attest (and before that, azn minor players)
benkay: the Fed said that while it didn’t generally view asset prices
as excessive, valuations for social media and biotechnology firms “appear to be stretched,”
mircea_popescu: the feminist is not interested in any positive goal
as much
as she's interested in "fucking up" the dudebro.
mircea_popescu: people, in general, alone
as well
as in groups, have one thing on their mind : how to fuck other people in the ass.
benkay: demand goes down because prices will be lower tomorrow, which exacerbates the supply problem
as nobody can unload goods at a profit?
nubbins`:
as an additional "fuck you", he specifically purchased shirts that are not 100% cotton
benkay: strikes me
as a coca-cola play: the machine will be around forever, selling crap to the lcd. closest thing to a perpetual annuity one can hope for by my read.
davout: pankkake: being filmed by Arte
as we speak :D
Rassah: mthreat: Not
as much. Since the motions will be repettitive, you will get only a small amount of variance from that. We had considered something similar, with maybe having to press a button a bunch of times and use the timing diference, but it adds an insignificant amount compared to what we get from the chip already
Mats_cd03:
as well
as a project known
as vivisect, which is also python like radare
Mats_cd03:
as i understand it, vm-based packers are really hard to use properly
benkay: <Rassah> who won't be bothered to create a Tails linux distro on a USB, generate addresses on them using Bitaddress or something, printing to a USB connected priner, and wiping the printer // this is what one calls a "strawman" argument.
as a person nominally involved in "public relations" you should never commit such derpitude in public.
Rassah: BingoBoingo: I know. Priv > pub > address. I
as shortening
Rassah: Nikita: Total size 32 kBytes, we use about 21 kB
as entropy source.
Rassah: asciilifeform: Work on this device was started in early September. So we have had a lot of tests on the chips by people who have been working on bitcoin cryptography for years now. So it seems
as if they are aware of most of these concerns...
mircea_popescu: understandable, especially
as pgp has been around for three decades.
BingoBoingo: Rassah: And the last tolerable version of Multibit does something else
as well. When PGP/GPG has the ascii armored text block already it just isn't worth trying to replace it with bitcoin signing just to save a few bytes.
assbot: CiteSeerX — Power-up SRAM State
as an Identifying Fingerprint and Source of True Random Numbers
Rassah: We don't use hashing
as a source of entropy, no. Only to combine ours with a salt
BingoBoingo: Oh it is abnormal
as hell, but because of its role it is still a transmission
Rassah: BingoBoingo: I think Prius calls it a transaxle too. But I don't see it
as any sort of normal "transmission"
mircea_popescu: Rassah
as in i get the impression things may change or w/e. anyway.
Rassah: - floating ADC inputs,
as Peter suggested;
Rassah: - the built-in TRNG; nobody trusts these things anymore
as primary
Rassah: It's a USB stick that you stick into your priner's USB port, it detects a photo, and you hit print, making your printer print a bicoin paper wallet that's never been exposed to the web. Soon
as you pull the stick out, the keys are gone for ever
Rassah: I am especially concerned about the one where mining in a pool is made difficult to impossible by making sharing a secret key that lets the miner steal all coins a requirement. The way I see it is, we either have pools that concentrate mining power, but don't actually own or control that power, or we create incentives for individuals to amass tons of mining power, since being a smal miner or
as part of a pool is impossible, and
Rassah: It's supported by bitcoind, blockchain.info, Armory, Mycelium, and probably many others. I figured bitcoin message signing is a step in the right direction, because not many are working on making PGP keys secure
as hell, but tons of people are woking on making Bitcoin keys secure
as hell, and easy to use from wallets. Otherwise I don't know what the difference in implementation is between PGP and BTC signing
Rassah: That's partially why Realcoin, too. Get the pot stirring, maybe someone will get upset and make something better, maybe not, likely it won't go anywhere (he doesn't think it will last may years), but
as long
as he had fun, he does't give a shit
Rassah: Brock is not
as insultingly direct
as you, but the best way to describe him is chaos. He has a shitton of money, and his goal in life is to create
as much chaos and clusterfuck
as possible using that money. Including investing in things that compete directly against his own companies and prior investments.
pankkake:
as there wasn't much to say, so it ends up being weird
nubbins`: ThickAsThieves, crazy software. probably not
as slow these days with the abundance of cheap ram
Rassah: but I purposefully worded it in the OP
as if I had lost it all