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asciilifeform: if all you want to know is 'did the sr coins move' etc.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: Taint analysis doesn't work << except when it does
TheNewDeal: they also claimed to have followed a few large addresses that attempted to bunch and split their coins (not necessarily mix)
TheNewDeal: they draw a map of transactions in it, and you can see a bunch of silk road addresses off on the side
TheNewDeal: there was an article posted here a while back (it's in the lawgs). It was 2 dudes, one of them for sure had an indian last name
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Because of simply the wide variety of shit that gets done with coins.
TheNewDeal: I'm naive here - not sure how blockchain.info runs their taint
BingoBoingo: It seems like a horribly ineffective way to track ownership of coins or their movement.
TheNewDeal: please do expalin bb. I've read the trilema article before
mike_c: BingoBoingo: doesn't work like is inaccurate? or just that it's a bad idea to begin with.
mike_c: well, that's what it is.
TheNewDeal: how does their taint analysis work? maybe that's something kind of like what I'm looking for. Some 2nd and 3rd level addresses that have bumped into contact with a particular address
mike_c: blockchain.info has a clickable thing ifyou're looking follow certain txs
mike_c: like a chain of blocks containing addresses & transaction data?
TheNewDeal: maybe like a wget of bitcoin addresses / transactions?
TheNewDeal: does anyone know of a good bitcoin network graph type generator
decimation: duh - "The bottom line is that we have absolutely no idea if pay for Federal employees is consistent with private sector pay for a given type of job in a given location.The data is not there and it may not serve the interests of politicians to actually find out what the truth is.f"
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decimation: part of the problem with usg employee wages is that congress has held them fixed for several years now I think
asciilifeform doesn't know who could possibly disagree with this
decimation: asciilifeform: I think it's true that whatever you define "living wage" in the bezzle-world, the number has been steadying going up over the years
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asciilifeform: and the question of what precisely a 'living wage' might be, in bezzleworld, is a rather tricky one.
asciilifeform: but if you compare folks carrying on in exactly the same profession, the pay is similar
asciilifeform: perhaps from academics who escape from usg research houses to private firms
asciilifeform isn't sure where the notion of 'usg pays starvation wages' comes from.
asciilifeform: of the roughly two dozen staff in my lab, there were, i think, at most two u.s. born folks at any given time.
asciilifeform: other little 'secret' - with the exception of 'secret' agencies, a contractor need not be a u.s. citizen.
decimation: kinda like you can only rent a miner for more than its expected bitcoin mining return, I suspect most 'employees' of usg work for less than a 'living wage'
asciilifeform: on account of the mundane fact that - they are cheaper.
decimation: same goes to employees, etc
decimation: if they work for less than a 'living wage', then they are essentially donating their life to usg
TheNewDeal: quite true
ben_vulpes: decimation: holds true for lotsa places
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i didn't make this bedrock, i just drill through it
asciilifeform: decimation: generally, the containers they ship in.
asciilifeform did ~3 yrs of this type of contracting. a real laugh. didn't even have paid time off.
decimation: asciilifeform: what do you use to sort and store your electronics parts? standard little plastic bins?
asciilifeform is only familiar with the particular bureaucracy where he once worked
decimation: seems like every piece of usg does things differently
decimation: well, it probably depends on the 'traditional business culture' of the particular branch of government the contractor 'agrees' with
asciilifeform: (rather than paid 'piecework', like the customary meaning of 'contractor' in, e.g., the construction trades)
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asciilifeform: most of the contractors are hired for a fixed salary, agreed on before-hand, as if they were normal employees
decimation: yeah I would buy that. traditionally 'contractors' lard their billable rates to compensate for this burden
asciilifeform: even today, buying the kind of insurance available for a token fee to civil service folks or employees of large concerns - costs 1-2k usd / month if you do it 'as a human'
decimation: my understanding is that usg pretends that 'contractors' are replacable parts, billable hours are based on 'years of experience and education'
asciilifeform: 'contractor' here means actual contractor, vs. proper full time employees of private firms who bid on federal contracts
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah that used to be true but these days with obamacare it might be about the same as everyone else, depending on the details
decimation: asciilifeform: contractors get what their employers offer; generally "getting zip" means buy insurance on your own dime
asciilifeform: proper employees, that is. contractors get zip.
asciilifeform: u.s. civil service folks get benefits package similar to that in any large firm
RagnarDanneskjol: i don't know for certain, just have to use all these benefits comparison resources for work and it appears dental/vision is always heavily discounted for gummint folk. and yes, they get the pretax bennies too
decimation: I guess if by "subsidized" you mean "group purchase price" then yeah
decimation: although I think they pay pre-tax money
decimation: I think health benefits are, but dental and vision are not
decimation: mircea_popescu: minor nitpick - I don't think USG employees get dental actually: http://www.benefits.gov/benefits/benefit-details/4587 "Dental and Vision benefits are available to eligible Federal and Postal employees, retirees, and their eligible family members on an enrollee-pay-all basis."
ben_vulpes: it's all in the context
BingoBoingo: Vexual is often bashable, often not for his own uttering but for those of others that surround his.
ben_vulpes: i think vexual has a higher bash score than i
gribble: dexX7 was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 9 weeks, 5 days, 6 hours, 23 minutes, and 33 seconds ago: <dexX7> i think i can up myself
ben_vulpes: its the simple things in life
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mod6: after crafting the leaky flask, im like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F55olo6F94
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ben_vulpes: U TROLL
kakobrekla: but did you write tests ??
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell mike_c all for you baby. took two hours as i refactored the whole way login works. let me know if stupid shit happens around logins.
HeySteve: I have updated my game thread if anyone feels like splashing out with some testnet coins
mike_c: benkay: nice work on the raw login! thx.
BingoBoingo: benkay: because this makes stuff so much easier
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell muXne http://piratrad.io/
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell Vexual http://piratrad.io/
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell Mexual http://piratrad.io/
ben_vulpes: <jurov> that was more like a tweet << playing with the format a bit, yeah. 140 characters ain't enough, but less than 200 words can be fine too.
jurov: that was more like a tweet
TheNewDeal: thanks for the history lesson
TheNewDeal: claimed he was a teacher
mircea_popescu: he did also sort-of maintain employment in the interval, so w/e.
mircea_popescu: i duinno that he did ever make any money, i highyl doubt it. he did go to some personal trouble to try and cover for the various potholes he made, at some point even selling (or claiming to ?) his guitar
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal> what was most annoying was he PMed me after I spoke with him here. Over the next hour or so he tried to convince me of his smashing businesses successes, and the danger of healthy skepticism << This is the reason for his neg rating.
TheNewDeal: what was most annoying was he PMed me after I spoke with him here. Over the next hour or so he tried to convince me of his smashing businesses successes, and the danger of healthy skepticism
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you may have the best roi of all the hollywood majors.
fluffypony: TheNewDeal: I think the hard G sounds better if it's describing a bird :-P
asciilifeform was fully immune to pirate, usagi (?), all the other early birds of btc scamdom - how? by having nothing for them to snarf.
TheNewDeal: always thought G was soft though
fluffypony: TheNewDeal: some dude on Fiverr, I wrote the script and it cost me a whole $5 :-P
TheNewDeal: 3-5 times better
TheNewDeal: hadn't watched it with the voiceover yet
fluffypony: [2014-08-17T17:04:11+0200] <usagi> Look at my WOT brother. The wot itself is telling you how transpareently obvious you are
fluffypony: [2014-08-17T17:03:50+0200] <usagi> Fluffypony are you aware that I have actually been offered business as a result of you targeting me?
fluffypony: I linked that video to him in -otc the other day
TheNewDeal: was he a small time player in the scale of the glbse flop?
fluffypony: I'm still waiting for someone to review my film
TheNewDeal: I'm just trying to piece usagi's relevancy in the mix
TheNewDeal: crashing bird film should receive a 91% at minimum on rotten tomatoes
asciilifeform: wait! same usagi to whom someone dedicated a voicing of my crashing bird film ?
mircea_popescu: they all traded with each other, often on bizarre terms, which'd make any judge simply lump everything together in disregard of any veils.