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asciilifeform: the interesting thing is that nsa-as-we-know-it, but with a pill against modern crypto hidden in an 'indiana jones'-style vault, would scarcely be distinguishable from what we can now see
mircea_popescu: bounce watch the influence spheres move as a result.
mircea_popescu: shit bullet as asciilifeform;d say.
asciilifeform: phone should be regarded as something like plaintext email.
Duffer1: strategies to counter congress likely weren't as available as the rest of snowden's material
cads: I mean, you're familiar that QUANTUM is allegedly a massive attack and risk mitigation suite with a huge encyclopedia of attacks and expert systems for deploying them. And that other aspects of the tailored access unit have allegedly done such things as pushing backdoors into cryptoprotocols.
cads: including stuff that the media has spun as "the ability to store all the transfers on the internet for a whole 4 day review period"
cads: I'm being more pessimistic than necessary - his advice is actually about as decent as you can get
bounce: that still depends on the front making intelligent decisions as to what to sign, but, you know...
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves:hourly from the get-go just doesnt work << it does work in some fields. lawyers are the typical usecase, but also many high-demand few specialist engineering fields. you pay the hourly rate to qualify yourself as an actual customer
bounce: "arrange things such that sensitive stuff is offline as much as possible"
cads: airgapping bothers me, but the way I'd use it is as a fully offline reference system
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well that general question has been answered in the general as best it could on the post man.
cads: I'd be known as that mathematician that hasn't done any actual math, but has a harem of booth babes and has pushed forward the field into the next millenium.
mircea_popescu: basically, always and everywhere take THEM as the joke, see how long they last.
cads: the AMA and university bodies and others that organize math conferences tend to be way to conservative to take that as anything other than a joke
mircea_popescu: cads do this as a power play. it's what i'd do if i were somehow inexplicably interested in math academia.
cads: I could always seduce the secretaries as I went along
cads: prototyping as a service
bounce: heck, not even code autitors so much as systems design auditors
bounce: the brave new bitcoin world so needs code auditors, as well as financial auditors.
mircea_popescu: far as i'm concerned it's still "kako didn't like them"
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic as far as i know, stamp's problems in our heads all trace to kakobrekla not likeing them, which was a year ago and he never really explained past "i met them and they're fucktarded".
mircea_popescu: kickback culture is about as ingrained as kleenexing in the us, i just can't imagine any context in which it'd have been omitted.
mircea_popescu: we're talking cyprus here, which is worse than greece, which is about 50x as bad as chicago in 1890.
diametric: I saw that, did you make sure the PTC teeth didn't break? Every time I've had that happen, PTC teeth broke and the whole fitting was weaker as a result.
diametric: But it won't cover all jams (such as popping the bowden tube and filament just freely spooling in the air)
diametric: cads: the servo motors that have the torque required as much more expensive
kakobrekla: well you can send as many as you want, those are free.
diametric: I've used giant cardboard boxes as enclosures on parts I had warping issues with
[KS]: if you have enough experience, you can even evaluate the "avg lifetime worth" of a customer, that helps price your service as well.
thestringpuller: As T-Pain would say, "Whatever I send out homie I'm a make back. Put that on my Maybach"
ThickAsThieves: however it's just as much a burden on you as tge customer
benkay: bounce: if you go that route you gotta set aside the time for mentorship and training as well.
ThickAsThieves: as a amonkey
nubbins`: TBF i worked as a programmer for 5 years
thestringpuller: as he just said learn a trade
Namworld: not share it around. Not before having invested as much as I could reasonably do first.
Namworld: As for most others who lent me smaller amounts... I typically have to run after them for repaying them?
VanCleef: alot of neobee problems seems to be related to bitfunder and ukyo as well
thestringpuller: I'd assume as long as you make a profit despite capital expenses, credit/debt can be good sometimes
nubbins`: same root as "gentleman"
Namworld: Speaking of life quality, by all estimates, I won't be lacking funds in the future. But as long as that's not a reality and is just on paper, my living standards are pretty low. Well according to local standards anyway.
mircea_popescu: almsot as good trollage as the forum on display.
chetty: ThickAsThieves, I actually did 5ish years as vegetarian, it was fine health wise
chetty: typical of whats being put out as 'science' these days actually
mircea_popescu: pankkake just as soon as someone with an actual gold business grows some balls.
CheckDavid: And maybe it's not ' beautiful' as good
CheckDavid: Gold is always mentioned historically as a store of value and currency
CheckDavid: mircea_popescu: for example. I rarely see platinum as an instrument on brokers. But gold is very common
mircea_popescu: it was always about the salvation of the worthy, never about the salvation of the flock as a whole.
mircea_popescu: so basically "mp is the only solvent entity in bitcoin finance we would like us to spend his money just as we whine about how mean and evil he is" ?
pankkake: kakobrekla was also nominated as Cognitive new CEO
wywialm: thats funny that govt always points to costs and expenditures as something inherently positive
mircea_popescu: which brings in an interesting side point : recently the us propaganda press ran a story comparing military spending, showing the us as the sum of europe and other states.
mircea_popescu: it does get complicated real quick just as soon as one tries to take the theoretical model to the actual market
wywialm: but the product differentiation is a good defense against dumping, as it can work only in very simple markets, food and education is not one of them
mircea_popescu: in fact, mcdonalss DOES sell for free in most of the us, it does more business as a proxy for usg welfare than anything else.
mircea_popescu: phase 1 lasts 3-5 years, and is actually evaluated as part of the financing of a new development.
wywialm: as a theoretical possiblity - i agree. but empirically, i have never seen it done
mircea_popescu: yes, but as a model, this is the economical reason you were asking for earlier.
mircea_popescu: and moreover, the entire point of the economy is to close the zero-infinity price window as soon as possible.
mircea_popescu: as a de facto monopoly, Y can now charge infinity for X.
mircea_popescu: however, if dumping is allowed, then company Y could sell product X for 0. inasmuch as none of its competitors have more money in the bank, they would necessarily go out of business.
mircea_popescu: whoever manages to produce x as defined cheapest wins most of the market.
wywialm: at least partially, and as far as i managed to research it, i believe it's a non-issue, perhaps you could point to something convincing me to believe otherwise?
wywialm: and regarding emergency medicine: i agree with mircea_popescu, adding that the most probable explanation for this are large economies of scale and perhaps public good as well
bounce: so I'll buy that as a vivid example of getting the right knowledge at the right place, but don't buy the form as a solve-all.
bounce: heh. guilds have the same problem as, well, anything else that gets power. it tends to become more important to hold onto power (by whichever means) which eventually might come at the cost of the thing they exist for
mircea_popescu: anyway, as technology frees more and more time, people can't resist the temptation to try and feel it with a delusion that they actually matter.
wywialm: true as well
BingoBoingo: The thing read as though "I wanted to go insolvent on my schedule, but I deposited with people who went insolvent first"
BingoBoingo: Seems like it as his solution to Neo's lack of money is trying to take his equity in no money for someone else's money to acquire his worthless equity
BingoBoingo: The thing is he seems to describe it as neo's money
asciilifeform: as if these had any trouble buying chinese readers
asciilifeform: just so people couldn't use it as a generic magstripe reader.
BingoBoingo: Well, the history of ventures without MP as a coauthor on MPEx hasn't been spectacular with X.EUR's fate undetermined as of yet. Maybe davout should be included in the asked as well.
asciilifeform: aside from 'have useful idea, mp might invite you as co-author'
tg2: any companies, they companies would pay the insurance as a sign of faith against insolvency
ozbot: Interacting with fiat institutions [such as the SEC], a guide
mircea_popescu: anyway. i gotta go now to stand trial as a witness in a civil proceeding @ a local bar, so.
gribble: Nick 'rithm', with hostmask 'rithm!~rithm@unaffiliated/rithm', is identified as user 'rithm', with GPG key id None, key fingerprint None, and bitcoin address 113UToFpzVkTHnavtNkUJtjdFQW2BU5xLW
truffles: "We've been purposely vague up until this point as to what exactly Coinigy is, and how it works. " good stuff
kakobrekla: yes, pay as you go.
kakobrekla: so pay as you go
gx: kakobrekla regarding latency, the <20s is a catchall as not all exchanges offer websockets support. so we're forced to poll.
phf`: gx: just fyi mac speech synth pronounces it as "coy-niggy"
gx: regardless, appreciate the feedback, as negative as it's been :)
gx: we've been tossing some ideas around, such as MPEZ or HAVELOX. but they're not rolling off the tongue.
kakobrekla: as far as i can tell
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domsch: and yes, this is an NFS terminal. They are not ready for serial production yet as we will do some tests in Zurich sometime soon.
domsch: as a young kid that is just getting started, doing the above is pretty much the “only way” to prepare oneself. A problem that I have seen in the past is that a lot of people are reluctant to work with youngsters like me - which I do really understand.
domsch: in the early days of a startup titles don’t matter anyways as we still have to prove all of the hypothesis and actually get a working model up and running. So all these fancy titles are useless. It’s about getting shit done.
domsch: yeh I definitely understand where this is coming from. As people say: “It doesn’t matter what your idea is, it only mattes who you know.” That’s why I’m trying to be surrounded by the right guys. I am working on the networkign right now and meet the right people that have been there, done it.
domsch: I can tell you a personal story, how I tried to run my first startup, (a performance based advertising network, known as CPA = Cost Per Action) and how I was scammed out of my last $1000 and had to work over the summer as a construction worker to get enough money to continue working on the project.
domsch: yes I really like what Bigfoot is doing. I don’t think that anyone in this space can be treated as a competitor (in broad perspective of course) - we are mostly all after the same and pursue the same ideals.
twizt: that thing looks as big as a mac mini
tg2: I knew somebodyw as working on a wallet-splitter where you sent to an address and it split it by a fixed % and sent back out to the other x addresses
Namworld: They got like .0032 instead of ~0.0011 I think as the sale price commanded.