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mircea_popescu: what, dropshipping is worth fiddy trillion now ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Many merchants are shitty on Alibaba, but... A lot of people like consuming and reselling shit. << wasn't this essentially the pitch of ebay too ?
mircea_popescu: this entire "stolen emails" thing is a decade old by now.
assbot: O hai let me verify your identity! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
assbot: The Events of Failday pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
ThickAsThieves: Bitcoin payments on Expedia exceeding their expectations, “I think we’ve already seen what we’ve needed to see..."
BingoBoingo: Huh, even with Death owning the board, life is still a value purchase
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what trilema article?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves "we're not sorry we stole but terribly terribly sorry we got caught"
mircea_popescu: then they wonder why they're despised in bitcoin. well... this'd be why. stupidity does it.
ThickAsThieves: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a White House watchdog group that condemned the Obama administration's phone surveillance program earlier this year, has released another report ... According to the board, though, it's completely legal.
mircea_popescu: so the next fucktards aren't gonna know.
mircea_popescu: and he ain't putting the by now years old trilema article al over his shitty "service"
mircea_popescu: and so sam "didn't know" today.
mircea_popescu: bitpay fucktards didn't put the trilema article on he topic all over their site,
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the record : Bitcoins Reserve / sam lee need to a) read the fucking history. this retarded shit happened once to bitpay.
ThickAsThieves: Sheryl Sandberg apologizes for Facebook's News Feed experiment: 'we never meant to upset you'
asciilifeform: reduction to practice - exercise for alert reader.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cannon car would be a major danger for the one bhind it << the one behind also fires. and so on, to the end of the column. don't stand there...
rithm: mircea_popescu took a vacation?
benkay: so obviously the correct solution was to machine and harden our own .25M bearing races to decouple torque on stability fins from airframe.
mircea_popescu: "Following the overtaking of Lee’s email, the attackers processed a password challenge, which then provided them with a list of all of the passwords that had been previously listed within the browser. They then retrieved Bitcoins Reserve’s domain register, and then proceeded to add another DNS record that gave them access through Google to the company’s admin page for their apps account. "
benkay: vortex shedding was imparting a torque on the airframe, inverting control and confusing controller.
benkay: they're vastly larger than the canards.
asciilifeform: why the rotating vanes?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes but your cannon car would be a major danger for the one bhind it
benkay: <mircea_popescu> he didles rockets in hs spare time iirc. // once upon a time.
asciilifeform: consider the children's toy 'newton's cradle.'
asciilifeform: incidentally - it is, in principle, possible to build a car which could survive a crash intact. not by rigid construction (driver would get blended anyway) but via: momentum transfer. eject something out the back... a la 'recoil-less rifle.' work it out.
mircea_popescu: notrly, the mesh composites they have...
mthreat: it's amazing the fuel cells don't rupture in F1 cars
benkay: an acquaintance crashed a Ford "Mustang" into a tree one time. the crumple zones are so well-distributed around the car that the cupholder crushed his unopened cola can, dousing everyone in the car in a fine mist of sugar water.
asciilifeform: 'electronics' by forrest l mims contains a recipe for just such a pill. first baked in the early '50s.
asciilifeform distinctly recalls soviet flyers being instrumented in this fashion, at least early on
mthreat: mark webber had a thing about how he swallowed a pill that monitored his body temps, etc, during the race
mthreat: since that is what they want to measure
mthreat: i don't know... probably close to the driver
mircea_popescu: is that sensor right under the hood above the radiator ?
asciilifeform: mthreat: likewise the front of the car compacting.
mthreat: asciilifeform: sounds right - racing seatbelts are designed to "rip" a bit on impact to absorb some of the force
assbot: Jeremy Allaire: Bitcoin Developers Need to 'Step Up'
mthreat: and the driver was ok, maybe some bruising
mthreat: last F1 accident I remember, tehy said the sensor said 26G
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah they did stop being difficult :D
asciilifeform: i suppose they get 10 - if hit a wall!
asciilifeform: can't think of anything save for pyrotechics where one gets 10G.
mircea_popescu: he didles rockets in hs spare time iirc.
mircea_popescu: now that'd be cool.
benkay: did so by example: "now on this other actually tightly-coupled gps imu an acquaintance built, he actually used the IMU to maintain a lock on the GPS sats while under...10G acceleration".
mircea_popescu: i did not know that.
mthreat: mircea_popescu: ok.. do you know the guy who wrote proofofexistence.com is from bsas?
benkay: had to explain to someone that their 'coupled' gps-imu thinger on a phone was not coupled in the strict sense of the thing.
asciilifeform: as exemplified by the iconic russian iPnohe.
asciilifeform: (a pnohe is not necessarily a phone. could be any gizmo with the customary 'amazing! smart!' feature set.)
asciilifeform: mthreat: you don't even need a genuine physical one, just whatever diddles the appropriate field in the pnohe
mircea_popescu: mthreat we need o get the ba registrar of deeds moving already
mircea_popescu: we support women being sluts FOR BEING SLUTS, not for being something else that isn't being sluts. good god.
mircea_popescu: way to go on hitching the derpy equalitarian aggenda on sluttery.
mircea_popescu: emale sexuality in this way; even women and men who advocate liberated female sexuality, are sometimes guilty of using it against other women because the insult is so readily available and so ridiculously ingrained in us."
mircea_popescu: "For the record, I don’t think that a female who has frivolous and frequent sex with different men has any cause for shame, at least not if she’s doing it because she enjoys it and because it’s making her a happier and better citizen of the world, and if she is doing it for other less helpful reasons, then those reasons are what she should be dealing with, not the “symptoms.” Sadly, few people actually view f
mircea_popescu: diametric now that depends.
mircea_popescu: and got snarled in translation.
mircea_popescu: maybe she just meant "swallowed the snake"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/femen-12.jpg << 'praise be to those who vanquished the dragon' << wtf
benkay: ovaries are not where the thinking happens
mircea_popescu: no, she just thinks ovaries. o gawd.
mircea_popescu: Some of us are trying to use ‘grow some ovaries’ as a female-friendly equivalent to ‘grow some balls,’
benkay: does this person think that sluts are bad?
benkay: and i'm clearly alluding to his business and life inexperience.
mircea_popescu: things that are inconvenient don't exist.
benkay: No one calls a male past the age of puberty “a good boy.” // lies - i called a guy a "nice kid" just two days ago.
mircea_popescu: mp's feminism today : chick bitching about how society should change because she has no money and a trampstamp http://thisnorwegienne.com/trampstampingness-tramp-stamp
mircea_popescu: benkay i don't get it, twitter is not making money. what vc arm ?!
mircea_popescu: black chicks can get done now too!
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 1.32 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 11007.33 GH/s
mircea_popescu: o check it out, gold tattoo is now a thing
benkay: pull more money out of the markets and dump it into your friends' idiotic startup scams.
assbot: Enter Twitter’s New Venture Capital Arm? - Digits - WSJ
BingoBoingo: OMG ATC diff going to the Moon!!!
mircea_popescu: for a long time they've been bitching
mircea_popescu: benkay that shit should be lulzy, i got tons of upset romanian scammzors/spammers/whatnot documented on trilema
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: so is this a thing, you reply negatively to a tweet, then poster deleted op and retweets anew, disconnecting your comment from their feed << that sounds like exactly the sort of thing you'd see on twitter.
jurov: i mean, if someone non-derpy will be around here to help me
davout: jurov: so you want to promote paymium in slovakia?
jurov: nothing to see here, move along
jurov: davout: to get merchants around here into paymium
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/femen-12.jpg << any idea who this one is btw ?
mircea_popescu: suych an epic thread
BingoBoingo: "Well you're totally not paying your rent with my one free Bitcoin, you know?" https://www.stripperweb.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-181800.html << How times have changed
jurov: i'm trying to figure out something around here, would need to set up slovak translation and support, is that intersting for you?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when they last changed a lock? 1790?
benkay: wait i thought an0 was for companies with no assets period?
mircea_popescu: so everything here takes the same brass skeleton keys pretty much. i have a 2`800 grams pile of different keys ;/
mircea_popescu: meets the definition of tangible.
mircea_popescu: benkay that since eulora could sell it off if it decided not to want it it's worth something.
benkay: and do forgive any misunderstandings of terminology.
benkay: what was the rationale, mircea_popescu - that since it was a purchase with a 1-year buyback agreement you could book it as opex instead of capex?
benkay: not that i know *anything(
asciilifeform: 'human dishwasher' << one item i keep expecting to see from the chicoms. looks precisely like the mechanical kind, but has a nice little fellow living inside (first eats scraps, then washes, then returns to his compartment. convenient sewer hookup for both!)
benkay: it did seem a pretty tortured way to shoehorn an asset bearing company into an0 reporting.