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assbot: Cautious as serpents, innocent as doves. You have been warned. | Bitcointa.lk
BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: https://bitcointa.lk/threads/cautious-as-serpents-innocent-as-doves-you-have-been-warned.200818/
BingoBoingo: benkay: You see there is a substantial difference between AM1 and RENT. AM1 went as high as 6 BTC (not the havelock asset but the underlying) and served as the TardStar for 18 months now. It is now flirting with equity under IPO price. RENT was always questionable in price.
benkay: it may be self-sabotage under the hood, as i run a 'mobile interaction software development shop'
benkay: i'm trying to take as little a dependency on the apple os as possible
benkay: i mostly use emacs as a crappy lispy wrapper around higher-order *nix functionality
assbot: Coinbase Cheating on my BTC as price fluctuates
BingoBoingo: Actual video of the demolition as opposed to gif suggest Western Kentucky accents
asciilifeform: afaik coinbase is famous for this. works as printed on the box: 'we fuck you raw.'
assbot: Coinbase Cheating on my BTC as price fluctuates
decimation: right, as in USG and friends
BingoBoingo: TI has some safety as foundry for certain kinds of applications that demand US made parts
decimation: it is interesting how TI has managed to stumble into 2014 as a profitable hardware manufacturer
assbot: Working at Vice Media Is Not As Cool As It Seems
BingoBoingo: Battle of Clickbait empires http://gawker.com/working-at-vice-media-is-not-as-cool-as-it-seems-1579711577 vs http://www.vice.com/pages/response
BingoBoingo: I just take such polite evasions as personal concessions they could not honor the history of their Alma Mater due to personal fail
benkay: pf nm i don't know why your handle struck me as unfamiliar
asciilifeform: ^ bad opsec. and, nitpick: 'durasell' is an actual battery. bought some at a 'dollar store' as student, they leaked immediately. (chinese)
asciilifeform: the 'votrax' voice synth that the ubiquitous unix 'speak' command was originally meant for came as a huge breadbox-sized potted turd
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: as seen in the popular 'IBM 4758'
asciilifeform: even if it works 'as printed on the box' - feels like gasenwagen bait.
asciilifeform: (why was it not confiscated and boiled in oil in a dungeon, in private? or kept as trophy by fuhrer)
fluffypony: closer to the time once we have our dates firmed up we can advertise it as TrollCon 2014, and give people the wrong restaurant :-P
fluffypony: somehow I imagine pankkake as the last strip
jurov: heh i treated it as malicious code that will hijack the addresses and whatnot.. only after a while read the content
bitcoinpete: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/science/a-price-tag-on-carbon-as-a-climate-rescue-plan.html?
bitcoinpete: lol ya, which is exactly this as well:
xmj: as I was saying, LHV is good. but I did need to show up in their office after registering the account online.
mircea_popescu: hmm, was it quince they inserted a slice into the woman pre copulation as a very early spermicide ?
mircea_popescu: can ythey be used as revolutionary condoms, i wonder.
mircea_popescu: try as he may, an inventor hopeful in 1700 could not make zippers. their existence is predicated on other advances.
mircea_popescu: as long as you're discussing it, you got it.
mircea_popescu: it;s almost as if there's this prion, that turns to itself anyone touching it. like a linguistic virus, even if you discuss the infected,
mircea_popescu: it's not that this is wrong. it's that this is wrong *exactly the same way* and for exactly the same reason as the thing he criticises
mircea_popescu: i suspect there's a particular neurosis that manifests as this fixation on "inventing" things in spaces that don't allow it.
punkman: that was from "The Official Blog of Ron Jeremy's Classically Trained Dick as it navigates its way through the hairy world of Show Business". That's a good blog title.
HeySteve: Ultracoin seems to aim at similar things as Open Transactions
punkman: http://boombustblog.com/blog/item/9217-bitcoin-volatility-as-a-store-of-value-the-opportunity-threat-proposition-to-money-center-banks
mike_c: some people take money as an insult. pro tip: don't ever try to bribe a hawaiian.
nubbins`: as it happens, "ars gratia artis" is very, very common in japan
mike_c: probably tough to get it through security as well
asciilifeform: joecool: in my experiments, plain old magnesium strip will do - so long as it's attached to an exposed die.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: never heard so much as a squeak of complaint out of my old '3ware'
chetty: "how american does he look.", its not the look its the smell that gives you away as american
asciilifeform: as if polar expedition
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: same idea as the famous 'inca gold' tea of the '80s.
BingoBoingo: Now nubbins` is a person I could see having issues making the overland trip, living in the continent's cold storage as he does.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I am actually thinking I might be able to depart as late as January if I concede to taking the occasional bus.
asciilifeform: chetty: a certain mr. kevin sanders, as i recall
chetty: <jurov> what about brazilian men?// men are as rare here as anywhere else in the world
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'll post a pgp turdlet as comment, soon as i'm done destroying some battery holders here (mechanical strength test)
asciilifeform: as if it took actual thinking to build a simple analogue rng.
mircea_popescu: as if.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the code is intimately tied to the hardware (published recently as hand-drawn schematics, then converted to verilog by a mr. brad parker)
jurov: mycelium wants to hide their proprietary server behind tor as ddos mitigation? good luck
BingoBoingo: jurov: Satoshi probably fits into the trinity as Casper the Holy ghost.
xmj: pankkake: 2K was recommended by a *very* paranoid person as "good enough"
assbot: Thomas Piketty’s Capital hailed as an unread classic
bitcoinpete: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/thomas-pikettys-capital-hailed-as-an-unread-classic-2014052987018
mircea_popescu: prolly prop up argentina gdp a good 1% as everyone runs to buy hot coffee and fur coats.
mircea_popescu: i have half a mind to print my collection of babes frolicking nude in snow as building sized posters and hang them up one night
jurov: i'd understand retail as people don't like to go shopping when it's cold and dark outside, but housing?
mircea_popescu: "I cant afford to call Australia as I'm in Canada."
fluffypony: "I cant afford to call Australia as I'm in Canada."
fluffypony: "[14:16:42] kamaradski: hmm as another possibility, could i for example check the IP of the wallet and crosscheck it with the computer that is makeing the sale ?"
mircea_popescu: and now the quest is on as to who'll be the first vip
mircea_popescu: basically, in the 90s british ruled, but then their ceo reitred and lufthansa promoted an excellent guy as ceo
ThickAsThieves: S&P ranked TSLA as junk
xmj: mircea_popescu: a rapper's target audience not being as privileged as he is, he has to convince them he came from the hood
xmj: mircea_popescu: do you keep the OS you're running it off just as secret?
xmj: mircea_popescu: your call to maintain privacy as to what stack you use
mircea_popescu: i currently don't. people who were around long long ago, when the year was 2012 and bitcoin was young know. i intend to maintain it as such, both in recognition of their privilege, and due to the fact that noobs really have no business knowing, or asking.
mircea_popescu: no, this chan is only as a sidepoint an info resource
ThickAsThieves: my instinct is to approach it as customer service
ThickAsThieves: as i think you do too
mircea_popescu: as above.
ThickAsThieves: i've got like 20 post ideas saved as drafts though, so, in time
mircea_popescu: they do need to be women, willing to relocate and live as slaves for a few years. but those aside, yes, they can.
joecool: xmj: np, might wanna bookmark slickdeals and fatwallet too as they sometimes carry related info (FT wins though for travel specific advice)
asciilifeform had a shoebox full of toilet paper infla-money as a kid - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%86#mediaviewer/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Ukraine-1991-Bill-1-Obverse.jpg
asciilifeform remembers reading, horrified, as a child, about some south american dictator giving his chum an unlimited bank account. now lives in a place where this is, more or less, SOP.
decimation: as for lasers on aircraft, you don't neet to blind the pilot - simply dazzle
asciilifeform: choppers fly low, as well
decimation: asciilifeform: is your point that a greyhound fleet should yield the same revenue as the #10 silicon fab?
moiety: we should have the manul as a national animal instead of the fricking unicorn
moiety: oh! i thought they were capturing them physically as well lol. oh, i'm really glad you said that
asciilifeform: given as the only stock exchange widget i was aware of was... glbse.
mircea_popescu: entire thing is used as block chipher
asciilifeform remembers facing pediwikian firing squad as a hardened spammer
asciilifeform: twofish was submitted as an aes candidate
mircea_popescu: as long as you always regen your otps it's as unbreakable as it gets, and your decrypt function is simply bytexor or we
pankkake: truecrypt has been know as a shady unaudited mess of code for years
asciilifeform: punkman: gpg isn't really built for use as raw block device
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: Ass as usual
gribble: Nick 'Duffer1', with hostmask 'Duffer1!~Duffer1@c-98-232-231-188.hsd1.or.comcast.net', is identified as user 'Duffer1', with GPG key id D5B0A00741A54A60, key fingerprint 68D283ADB0688306D98C5BE0D5B0A00741A54A60, and bitcoin address 1MHKhfiC7AgZdErt9b8xkXbcKoWSxPjJgG
asciilifeform: limonov's nazbols have about as much to do with classic nazi as mussolini's folks with the romans.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: aye. but i always think of the ottoman world as 'east'.
pankkake: fluffypony: I've got comments downvoted (not on reddit but with similar moderation) for no reason. like a purely informational thing, and as one of the author of the software that was talked about in the article. usually the first downvote calls for the rest of the mindless voting
mircea_popescu: then you're voiced for as long as you don't split (even if you lose id)
BingoBoingo: benkay: At one point I had a chance to see the actual Buckminster fuller house (as a pile in storage)