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Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
decimation: "they are not free" << I mean
that
they lack
the will
to do otherwise, making
their "rights" and "freedoms" as useful as
toliet graffiti
decimation: even if
they are
technically free
to do otherwise,
they are not free.
decimation: according
to mircea's
theory,
the us voter want
to emulate
their soviet brothers -
turn
themselves into
the
third world gulag so
that
they can be a somebody
decimation: there were plenty of
the early ones who cashed in on bezzle money - real estate prices are not cheap around bellingham
decimation: but
this is a case of
the deer kneeling in front of
the hunter
decimation: one would
think
that
the voters would be against
the dilution of
their own power
decimation: yeah
that's
the underlying driver. bezzle -> real estate values -> suddenly life is unaffordable for
the peasants
decimation: the irony being
that
the very many who can make such policy (a senator) is whining about what bill gates says in
the newspaper
decimation: indeed. and
the question of banning
the import of said coolies is off
the
table of course
decimation: that is not what
the news was, unfortunately. Not at all."
decimation: But
the senator's attack on "three of our greatest masters of
the universe," and "super billionaires," was clearly primed by Microsoft's announcement, also on
Thursday,
that it was laying off18,000 employees. "What did we see in
the newspaper
today?" said Sessions, "News from Microsoft. Was it
that
they are having
to raise wages
to
try
to get enough good, quality engineers
to do
the work? Are
they expanding or are
they hiring? No,
hanbot: well exactly. something bound by accidental inhalation on
the lower end and hernias on
the higher
kakobrekla: iirc i paid about 5k back
them for my stuff.
kakobrekla: 0.1 is not much
to ask as far as i know.
kakobrekla: at least
that was
the estimate
that a company here gave me.
kakobrekla: something like what im building should be 15-25k -
this is custom made.
kakobrekla: well im getting mixed readings here -
the offer in otc was 2btc? which is 1k or something?
kakobrekla: impatient. < off
the shelf
thing is your best bet
then.
kakobrekla: asciilifeform having one
thing machined once is not same as having
the machine at home
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The New York
Times
benkay: <mircea_popescu> for a coupla hours
there it looked like
the whole damned charade'll have
to be
taken down and redone. // mpex?
mircea_popescu: in which we find
Theodore Y.
Ts'o doesn't comprehend what random means.
mircea_popescu: *look* random, even
though
the source material is anything but random."
mircea_popescu: "As an example,
the following string of numbers is anything but random:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 However, if
this is run
through a MD5 or SHA whitener,
the result would
mircea_popescu: for a coupla hours
there it looked like
the whole damned charade'll have
to be
taken down and redone.
assbot: Bug 659512 – no chance
to enter a password during key generation in command-line mode
mircea_popescu: Namworld yeah but
take
the recent camho invasion for instance.
Namworld: I have
those
turned off in my client since last year. I don't see
those anymore. Was quite annoying and barely helpful.
empyex: FabianB: Proxies: ".. running a final swathe of
test-all-the-edge-cases .. mpex should be back
this weekend. also fabian is pretty cool." MPEx-Status: Error reaching
trade engine (change: $proxies <newlist>)
benkay: i discovered at
the border
that my passport is expired. canadian borderfolk dgaf, but i'm *really* anticipating hitting US customs now.
benkay: oh so
this is going
to be entertaining
mircea_popescu: 64 bytes from [x.x.x.x]: icmp_seq=1
ttl=64
time=1.47 ms
jurov: or phone poor moiety and dictate signed order
to her xD
mircea_popescu: i'd rather make it so it works
than you know, make it so it phones.
jurov: but not sure if
there's room for
this scenario if mpex's completely ddos proof now..
jurov: and mpex users would be asked not
to disclose
the number
jurov: mircea_popescu: i meant for you
to have actual modem onsite,
to be able
to reach mpex even if
there's internet problem
benkay: you're already known as
the btc baron?
benkay: i just found a beer bottle with a
threaded neck onto which a cap had been crimped
to not un-thread. i did not know
that
this was possible!
kakobrekla: now if youd be in eu, id grab all
the parts and come with
them
to put it
together - not even selling - would lend it for free.
kakobrekla: >prolly better off getting alu machined locally.< i mean all
the profiles.
kakobrekla: and get
the rest of
the parts from uk/china. whichever you prefer. its same stuff.
kakobrekla: other
thing is, Z axis, while I have
the parts,
two alu blocks would still need
to be machined - if you have access
to machining you are prolly better off getting alu machined locally.
kakobrekla: asciilifeform possibly, but i suspect it still a fortune
to ship since im not in china or uk.
two more issues, as i said, its not assembled atm and would need
to be before its shipped overseas,
to see whats what.
this
takes
time.
benkay: reputation and behavior are incredibly important because you can rewrite
the blockchain basically at will, unless you do something with a merged-mine approach (but i don't know enough about mm
to comment really)
benkay: no mining per se, because
that's a feature of btc, you know?
benkay: -> magic bytes in protocol,
to separate networks
mircea_popescu: "Black men who are employed also get
the shaft by having an average life expectancy of 64 years, which means on average
they don't live long enough
to see any of
their social security
tax payments, given
that
the retirement age is 65 years."
mircea_popescu: they knew-or-should-have-known (tm)
that people are sending dope
through
the mail and stopped offerind mail services!
herbijudlestoids: anyway, 3am here, just wanted
to login and check on yall after i noticed mpex was down. lots of love.
herbijudlestoids: things have been going well on my end, after
the first big customer hit we have had a bit of a flood of
them, and our accountant has even managed
to score us significant
tax breaks around R&D for
the last FY
herbijudlestoids: but i guess mircea_popescu knows whats what when it comes
to building
the system he designed
herbijudlestoids: yes, admit i was a little surprised about
the downtime
thing upon visiting
trilema
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thickasthieves: “The US is certainly one of
the world’s leaders. At some point it seemed
that it was
the only leader and a uni-polar system was in place.
Today it appears
that is not
the case. Everything in
the world is interdependent and once you
try
to punish someone, in
the end you will cut off your nose
to spite your face" ~ Putin
punkman: mircea_popescu: anyone can connect
to a website on dial-up as it is. << I
think he meant having his modem dial a
telephone number for mpex
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't get what it'd be supposed
to do
tho. you mean dial-up access only ? anyone can connect
to a website on dial-up as it is.
assbot: Peeling
the onion: Almost everyone involved in developing
Tor was (or is) funded by
the US government | PandoDaily
kakobrekla: <asciilifeform> unrelated - is kakobrekla awake? i wish
to buy his gadget. < moving
to eu already?