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Neil: That $250k went straight into BTC as soon as it could
Neil: As always, asked to sign "Confidentiality agreement". Turned up without said paper, amongst all the rest.
ozbot: Interacting with fiat institutions [such as the SEC], a guide
Neil: Cool, thought as much
mircea_popescu: 1.5ish as wide, about the same as tall as it is inow
davout: basically my point is that the mm algo is now what i imagined it to be initially, so that it should work as everyone expects it
LordPutin: they havea file on you as well dood
HeySteve: Chilton said as much
bitcoinpete: benkay: well, in a nutshell, those were the dreams-of-smed-school days, a dream resolved by B- grades and a lot of poker. after undergrad, this being alberta, i spent a year selling trucks and started blogging. after selling truck got boring, i did an after-degree in environmental health and spent 2.5 years working as a public health inspector with the province. then…bitcoin. always had an interest in tech, investing,
moiety: not btc!!! << play money as mircea woould say :P
mircea_popescu: in general because old men fear shameless hussies as the likely agents of young alpha males, which is how you say "evil" for old people.
ozbot: Interacting with fiat institutions [such as the SEC], a guide
okcjosh: will it pay off? Right now a may GHS is around 33% the price of a live GHS. Does buying 3 times as many GHS for may have a good chance of paying out more, based on estimated Diff increase?
mircea_popescu: Shakespeare people often misrepresent their boredom and pointlessness as "discontent"
asciilifeform: freshly-uplifted 'bullied' folks can be relied upon as lackeys
mircea_popescu: or else as an amateur, having at least seen that film.
mircea_popescu: one may discuss pedophilia either as an actual professional, having gone to proper school for it
asciilifeform: 'no idea why they'd be anti gay' << same reason as in russia, as described by mr. o - 'As Prof. Cohen recently pointed out, prior to Americans' gay rights agitation, Russian gays used to be called “faggots”; now they are being called “American faggots,” and gay rights in Russia have taken a giant leap back.'
mircea_popescu: Shakespeare now, getting back to your original q, economic independence is not problematic, just as long as its not backed by legal independence.
asciilifeform: (2024: listed as 'S.POOJ.' ye read it here phirst.)
mircea_popescu: the answer my friend (as you well know) is that feminism is not a theory, nor science, but a marketing ploy.
mircea_popescu: usually known as the power of fuck you.
asciilifeform: chetty: u.s. 'reservations' as they presently exist aren't the least bit 'extraterritorial' - they've been busted open for something as mundane as 'war on drugs' in the past.
mircea_popescu: "you may continue to pretend you're a country just as soon as you come to terms with us being immune"
mircea_popescu: in it, the father teaches his pubescent daughter the difference between "us" and "those people" as a matter of course,
mircea_popescu: they have this special immunity thing, they don't have to as long as they stay in the "foreigner" zone
Shakespeare: as an aside while i read, do you consider a state leader imposing law that results in more children to be smart or dumb?
asciilifeform: i picture this hypothetical device as being a kind of topologically reverse version of the 'milking machine' japan recently became famous for.
Shakespeare: it's boring as fuck anyway
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more open minded, in this context, is for instance considering the point that a severe beating is liable to be at least as effective an educational tool as speech.
asciilifeform: how come nobody goes around telling, say, electrical engineers to be 'more open minded,' and consider devils as an alternative to maxwell's equations in explaining electromagnetic phenomena ?
Shakespeare: my wife is pissed at me because i said people dont pasteurize chemicals and i wasnt polite enough (being wrong wasnt even the issue, as she was talking about apple cider vinegar, and i was talkign about acetic acid)
mircea_popescu: The current digital currency narrative, while certainly attractive to entrepreneurs, venture capital, and the media, is extremely "First World" in nature. And a primary question remains -- do such innovations, as we know them today, address the needs of consumers and businesses on both sides of an international transaction?
mircea_popescu: "The Piraeus bond deal underscores both the continued improvement in the perception of Greece’s economy as well as the flood of cash in the financial system that has depressed returns on debt of all stripes."
Shakespeare: basically seens as the cuddly mobster with a beach bod
Shakespeare: Putin is doing pretty well with his branding as is
mircea_popescu: putin should come out of the closet as a furry or something, just to troll reddit.
asciilifeform: as always, when using a technical pidgin like english, everybody loses something.
asciilifeform: mr. o's problem, as it often is, is that he blogs in english.
mircea_popescu: as hamlet plainly states.
asciilifeform: orlov's position, as far as i can tell, is that u.s. inherited the crown of idiocy worn by the old ussr
asciilifeform: from the standpoint of americans, it is a beautiful thing if poland, ua, baltics, etc. are stuffed with as many missile bases as physically fit, aimed at moscow
mircea_popescu: "Unlike competing Polish, Russian, Hungarian or Romanian nationalisms in late imperial Austria, imperial Russia, interwar Poland and Romania, Ukrainian nationalism did not include antisemitism as a core aspect of its program and saw Russians as well as Poles as the chief enemy with Jews playing a secondary role." lmao.
mircea_popescu: and inasmuch as this is the case, which exact label one picks serves as a group identification. if you use the russian propaganda terminology you basically are throwing up a flag and little more.
mircea_popescu: im merely saying that the neonazi label is about as approximative as calling them "knights of the cuisinart", or freemasons.
mircea_popescu: "death to the jews" is, at least in europe, about as common as "open your legs, i'm not gonna do anything"
mircea_popescu: no, as i say. it can't be a proper nazi party for as long as it seriously contemplates accepting any ukrainian national in its ranks.
asciilifeform: but, what would be needed for it to qualify as a proper nazi party? merely the brand and logo?
mircea_popescu: for instance, a rejection of ukrainians as lower stock ?
mircea_popescu: which... you know, has to to with nazism about as much as mice and men with martin short and steven segall has to do with french impresionism
mircea_popescu: as far as i recall the nazis raped ukraine pretty good, the notion someone there actually is much of a nazi is ridicxulous on its face to begin with.
bloctoc: thanks benkay. So, I'm looking at S.EUR as... WTF is S.EUR?
ThickAsThieves: as little as possible at least
ThickAsThieves: i'm owed too many BJs as it is
bitmia: both as a seller and a buyer
chetty: but as a buyer I dont really want my crypto too easy
chetty: well maybe if you had asked, hey guys, what do you think of X as a data soirce ... just sayin
BingoBoingo: If there was a conjunction is this language that functioned as a one way or such that [(A&B) or B] I would have use it instead
LordPutin: i'm so scared, i failed her as a father
ThickAsThieves: "We've collected and analyzed data from numerous sources to create as complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities as we could. "
jurov: so it's the same company as made XRP?
mircea_popescu: this being written as a sort of pulp fiction-esque prequel of today's lineup.
benkay: can't say as much stuck, and i missed out on the apparently crucial canings...
mircea_popescu: as a business concept.
asciilifeform: 'Russia promised to respond “symmetrically.” In its arsenal is: popping the huge financial bubble and causing a resumption of the financial collapse of 2008 by any number of means, from requiring gold instead of fiat currency as payment for oil and gas, to dumping US dollar reserves (in concert with China), to putting the EU on a fast track to economic collapse by giving the natural gas valve a slight clock
mircea_popescu: "The two versions of Russia—McCain’s “gas station masquerading as a country” and Lake’s fearsome conqueror—both start from the same bitter knowledge, even if Senator McCain and Mr. Lake will never admit that fact in public. It’s a simple one: Russia will take Crimea, won’t pay a big price for it, and there’s not a thing anyone can do about it."
mircea_popescu: because if they do hold enough they're going to trigger a contest with the chinese as to who dumps them first
ozbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment
mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/#b94
benderp: it's kinda rough as these airplane pieces can be
mircea_popescu: "OP, I know cryptostocks makes it seem as though starting your very own security is a sort of past time accessible to anyone who'd like to try, sort of like adopting a pet fish. This has nothing to do with bitcoin securities in fact and everything to do with play-pretend exchanges exploiting those who'd like to try but aren't ready for one reason or another."
asciilifeform: as it is, they famously lack enough even to supply infantry
ninjashogun: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7419618 is showing as dead for me, bitcoinpete
ninjashogun: When I had been coming in here it was following an experience over a similar channel (related to doge) on a loan. As someone here (asciilifeform?) explained, I should have 'no problem' getting a loan of $20K. In fact I did have "no problem" on it, but in the end I couldn't collect it, and had come in here over a few days to see if anyone were interested in the same.
ninjashogun: I'm Robert, as I mentioned. I hadn't talked to you guys before. ☟︎
dignork: ninjashogun, as simple as possible, wifi transmitter on key-storage device will leak cpu state of key-handling process, game over.
BingoBoingo: ninjashogun: Maybe you are the wrong audience as you aren't concerned very far
ninjashogun: personally anyone who could bruteforce all that, while breaking wireless encyrption and your whole network stack, can see the damn document as far as I'm concerned. and they still wouldn't have my private key.
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, further, as a practical matter you are not being asked to transmit a real key. You are just transmitting a stupid session key that is used to sign a single document. And if that session key is used in javascript, which is VERY far from the metal (it's a VM, running in interpreter, JS running in a C++ program, firefox, running on Windows) you would have to have insnae precision on learning exact CPU state.
BingoBoingo: It isn't just about the definition of an airgap, but of the motivations behind it as well that make radio the wrong medium for connecting to such boxes
ninjashogun: dignork - but then they could no longer treat it as a mass-storage device.
ninjashogun: Again, none of this is to take away from the design as I've already read about it here. I like it a lot.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu - be so kind as to take care of our dear guest. i'ma lie down now.
ninjashogun: (my hardware has future versions as well, that we haven't done any work toward)
ninjashogun: What changes with Wifi? Well, you can still have a man in the middle, but it would be much more prohibitive. It would need a complete access point that connects to the device masquarading as the computer, while exposing itself to the computer and hiding the true signal from the computer. It's possible, but more difficult. And in the end the computer can do a complete secure session (in javascript with the browser) compl
ninjashogun: BingoBoingo, since this device as described does NOT retain the signed document in memory, it is therefore signing something without knowing what it is, if it has been transferred between the PC and storage medium.
ninjashogun: BingoBoingo, also, in my personal opinion as a security observer, a man in the middle attack with a PC (or laptop) being opened, and a second usb host being inserted between the real USB and the device, whose purpose is to subtlely alter what is being signed, is a very real risk.
BingoBoingo: ninjashogun: I mean why not some sort of cable that might only incidentally happen to function as an antenna, for which shielding is possibly. WHy demand an active antenna throwing your bits around?
ninjashogun: BingoBoingo, however, it is absolutely doubtless that wifi protocols get roughly 100x as much security research as the usb protocol does.
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, in fact it could be set to ONLY sign/encrypt/decrypt the next 1 message or 2 messages. So that it can't be stolen off someone's body, as it's in theri home and will only sign the next 2 things.
mircea_popescu: with the dongle as a central server
mircea_popescu: to further save costs, the entire thing could be done over the web, as an app
ninjashogun: it could also come iwth storage, so that it could be used as a "wireless storage device" (thru the browser). rather than have to plug and unplug a usb stick.
ninjashogun: this suggestion isn't for the current version, which as a piece of hardware is great.
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, I don't mean to pick on Romania. For many of my examples I'm really thinking of Hungary, and using it as an analogy.
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, I think your model is a very, very fair one under normal circumstances. (Such as the Efficient Market Hypothesis.) However, I have very deep theoretical proof that your model is mistaken, and that these founders were in fact leveraging the same opportunity inefficiency that I am.
mircea_popescu: as it is you're proceeding on a very poor sample
ninjashogun: Note that the wireless portion doesn't exist at all. I don't even have a specan (spectrum analyzer). The only eqiupment I developed is with large arduinos, as well as mockups of what it could look like.
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, I know how one "traditionally" secures capital, but it is usually against assets such as a house, etc.
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, at this point I need the loan in order to get to the stage of prototype that the investors need to test (as part of their due dilligence also) and see in close to the final form factor.