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ThickAsThieves: "HP TippingPoint's Pwn2Own competition netted researchers $850,000
as all the major browsers – Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and Firefox – fell to attacks within the 30-minute timeframe for each, along with Flash. Only Java held up to the time-limited attacks, although researchers attempting to crack Oracle's code did come up with some interesting techniques that just took too
mircea_popescu: im at a loss
as to what exact tumbleweeds need to be rolling around in one's skull for the notion to form that any one of those paragraphs is something he can come up with.
mircea_popescu: from now on the correct response to anyone asking if some bitcoin corp is "licensed" or "incorporated" or legally operating within the us is simply pointing out that there exists no such thing
as a united states jurisdiction, robber baron claims notwithstanding.
mircea_popescu: " I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type of articles specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to section 1 of this order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in this order, and I hereby prohibit such donations
as provided by section 1
mircea_popescu: and we don't intend to keep our word given here
as to not keeping our word either"
mircea_popescu: "we won't keep our word
as to what we have promised in the past
mircea_popescu: "To understand the change, we need to look at some major factors that affect levels of corporate profitability generally. Businesses in industries with both substantial over-capacity and a “commodity” product (undifferentiated in any customer-important way by factors such
as performance, appearance, service support, etc.) are prime candidates for profit troubles. These may be escaped, true, if prices or costs are
mircea_popescu: also would be nice to get a read
as to whether danny webster is an uneducated welder from Leicestershire who tends to get involved in street fights. his subnormal mug certainly supports that theory.
joecool: mircea_popescu: unless you count telegraph
as digital
mircea_popescu: someone did this
as power moved from lenin to stalin but i don't recall who the fuck
mircea_popescu: it's by now a mistake to see anything in the us command economy
as meaningfully separate from anything else.
joecool: asciilifeform: cell jammers are also much more effective
as they move away from towers
mircea_popescu: specifically, "
As far
as experience shows, people don’t tend to support states that either stupidly or unwittingly include rules among their enemies. You can’t win a war against math, or against drugs, or against “social injustice”, or “kulaks”. Soon after the Soviet government moved its focus from entities to rules, it lost the support of the people. Soon after the other-Soviet government moved its focus f
gribble: Nick 'ThickAsThieves', with hostmask 'ThickAsThieves!~ThickAsTh@c-98-231-58-41.hsd1.fl.comcast.net', is identified
as user 'ThickAsThieves', with GPG key id B28732FE807495EC, key fingerprint D649FD3B664A6BCF801D727EB28732FE807495EC, and bitcoin address 1NfXM69erAWPDdNrZ2k2UkuV7HDPc6Ebwk
bitcoinpete: ;;later tell mircea_popescu: I should check out the film, I've only seen the mainstage production :) I'm not sure how very strange my naiveté is. I'm less naive than I was 2 months ago, prior to the commencement of my IRC yeshiva, but hardly deserving of expectation. Either way, and
as always, thx for reading and the feedback.You're like having a younger Taleb
as a personal tutor...
ThickAsThieves: Today, the US government gave up a major portion of its control over the day-to-day functions of the internet,
as the US Department of Commerce announced it was giving up its oversight role over ICANN"
nubbins`: from the club: "Due to the recent uproar caused by photos taken from our opening weekend, females [sic] patrons are advise [sic] of the following rule changes: 1) females are restricted from wearing clothes that expose more then 25 percent of there [sic] body. 2) exposure of breasts is strictly prohibited 3) the dance craze known
as Twerking is banned until further notice. Other forms of dancing
mircea_popescu: it could be inspected in detail, his doom
as a member of the movement was effectively sealed."
mircea_popescu: "Lenin seems to have believed that the party,
as organized consciousness, consciousness
as a decision-making machinery, had superior reasoning power. Indeed, in time this collective body took on an aura of infallibility, which was later elevated to a dogma, and a member’s loyalty was tested, in part, by his acceptance of it. It became part of the communist confession of faith to proclaim that the party was never wron
mircea_popescu: yeah, they mostly reuse them.
as long
as you give it up clean/sorted (ie, not covered in rotten meatjuices or w/e common garbage) they usually give you a few cents/kg
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic ayup. the magic that you know and love
as my endless spam is hatched on electron excitated phosphorus coatings.
mircea_popescu: it might,
as a private joke of some bored people somewhere
nubbins`: chetty: well, to be fair, that's fine for maintenance -- i've gone
as long
as two months without feeding mine and successfully revived it -- but i bake every 3 or 4 days
mircea_popescu: In insurance,
as elsewhere, the reaction of weak managements to weak operations is often weak accounting. (“It’s difficult for an empty sack to stand upright.”)
BitChrista: Soon they will be able to accept all cryptocurrencies. We will likely branch out to non-profits and social impact
as well
pLambert: doesn't have the same ring
as I just got Goxxed, but it makes more sense linguistically
mircea_popescu: cads i doubt the square of x and -x can count
as different problems in this context.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the mistaken notion that while socialism (ie, the salvation of the members of the group through recourse to the group) doesn't work, subsets of this (such
as, the salvation of women by recourse to the group) do somehow magically work.
nubbins`: i would like to sit back and have a lel
as you folks define feminism
Diablo-D3: I would like to classify feminists
as girls who are afraid to grow up and become women
mircea_popescu: not any more than google or facebook are incorporated in a proper sense, such
as mpex is.
blackwhite: trying to learn
as much
as possible about this field
Neil: My belief is that bitcoin will succeed for one simple reason, whose power almost eveyrone underestimates (apart from Satoshi): people will come to realise holding bitcoin is in their own best interest. And everything else will follow, in the future
as it already has, from $0.01 to $500. Nothing has changed.
Neil: Of course,
as a speculator I believe you'd benefit by holding, but I don't begrudge you deciding what to do with your own money. Hopefully vice versa.
blackwhite: well to be honest I am not so much interested in bitcoin
as a currency but more
as a technology. I don't mine but purely trade my services for bitcoin. So its all good
blackwhite: hoarding could threaten Bitcoin’s status
as a medium of exchange, leading to its complete demise
as a currency.
blackwhite: yeah but consider this argument for instance: "If Bitcoin matured into a complete currency, with large numbers of workers using it
as their medium of account, then its inflexibility could bring economic havoc. Money-supply “shocks”, like the disappearance of Mt Gox, could set off a systemic collapse. Given a loss of faith in exchanges, users might withdraw their coins in a panic, leading to a dangerous decline in transaction volume. Such
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Your lemma is sensical so long
as it is restricted to hard POW's
BingoBoingo: I mean for the first set you could probably encode information much
as RSA does. I don't have enough vodka on hand to speculate if that would be a good idea. Most of Elliptic curve cryptography works on spaces that can be played with in graph theory world though.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's clearly interesting. or
as the romanian expression goes, "un prostovan arunca o piatra in apa si zece filosofi se chinuie s-o scoata"
mircea_popescu: now. does this mean your key will simply have to be twice
as long for equal security ?
mircea_popescu: "you can make any sha key you want,
as long
as every other byte is FA"
cads: mircea_popescu> this could be understood on a macro level
as "if there are outside constraints on your pow process, you'll need that many more iterations"
cads: first example of a scientific computing cryptocurrency (and I certainly hope we'll see more useful ones
as well)
mircea_popescu: im not debating whether it's interesting, it's definitely interesting. i'm just saying it;'s stupid. stupid things are usually interesting, at least
as amusements
mircea_popescu: this could be understood on a macro level
as "if there are outside constraints on your pow process, you'll need that many more iterations"
cads: mircea_popescu: lets leave aside the author's obvious retardation and focus on prime coin and the idea of doing externally useful work
as a side effect of the cryptocurrency.
mircea_popescu: nao what ? purely ideological construct, works just
as well in any random direction.
mircea_popescu: the gargle holds no futher merit past its function
as a retard magnet.
cads: but only gives
as an example Primecoin, a c-currency where the proof of work involves finding primes.
cads: the author seems to hint that if a proof of work system is going to be malignant and self expandingit may
as well be proof of some universally useful work
cads: Arguments like that have been raised originally against high frequency trading, and
as we're familier with, against the hashchain algorithm.
benkay: wow that kotaku article's full of lulz
as well. dude crumpled some modern tin fake building and didn't die.
BingoBoingo: I swear I tried to do the basketball post
as honestly
as I could without calling it nigger golf
benkay: you have the price dial to turn
as well
BingoBoingo: Oh, benkay I would have pegged you
as being from the Republic of Oregon
joecool: benkay: well if you want lots of pageviews and don't really care who its from, use buzzfeed
as example (or newsweek lol)
mircea_popescu: the nato exercise in 2012 consisted of a romanian team flying migs (old migs, mind you)
as "the enemy"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: US only really advertised the MIGs
as potention OPFOR... Prolly for morale reasons
mircea_popescu: well the problem is... strategic bombers are useless in this context. the russians can airplane-intercept tomahawks
as it is.
mircea_popescu: snotty eu refused to let them in when they had a chance, and much to their detriment,
as a eu member turkey would have definitely taken the eu out of any crisis
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation
as far
as i recall the theory behind carbon dating and especialyl the "constant decay" part has been under fire for decades.
mircea_popescu: and
as far
as guns are concerned, they're for killing not for displaying.
mircea_popescu: lnovy yes, in the sense that it's much easier
as a solider.
lnovy: Are those really comparable? It's bit different to kill and to kill
as a soldier, no?
BingoBoingo: Might be more valuable operating the missiles, or
as officers commanding the mine grunts
ThickAsThieves: i'm not interested in them
as a foolproof secure storage
benkay: unless of course i'm
as usual missing an important part of the situation
HowardF: not
as insulting, no, but probably also not anywhere near enough to make it worth while.
ughlol: resources count
as well. not just passion and drive.
benkay: no i mean that you can't use flappy bird
as an example of how much money you'll make, ughlol.
benkay: ughlol: you're making the mistake of looking at a random event
as a reproducible event.
ughlol: TomServo: I was thinking of having people register
as helpers. People that have reputation, whose identity we can verify.
HowardF: ( having written and worked for several very large social networks by the way, let me assure you, ads don't make
as much
as you think )
nubbins`: and if they ever stacked blocks
as a child
benkay: chetty: in my dream every seat but the mid-row passenger seat in my truck was filled with a cop, and
as I went to hop in my truck to do something, other cops stuffed me in the empty seat. and i haven't even been watching movies lately?