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mircea_popescu: every business will make a choice as you can't have all three.
mircea_popescu: Up until recently it was practically impossible to become embroiled into any sort of dealing with the subgroup, their ownership being strictly assumed and their lives strictly subsumed by the corporations competent at dealing with the human cattle : fastfood providers, supermarkets, the government. Both as employers and providers these specialised bureaucracies have the necessary tools, including cattle prods (or whate
mircea_popescu: if you're curious as to how that goes, see http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoin-prices-bitcoin-inflexibility/
anddam: benkay`: troll as in fishing?
mircea_popescu: "When using only an HD wallet design, you can regenerate the wallet (and all of the addresses) at any time using a seed which can be presented as a mnemonic string of words, without reducing the amount of entrophy like brain wallets do."
mircea_popescu: dignork i use local logs for that purpose. log website only does daybased, and i suppose global search may be a little cpu intensive as a publicly exposed service.
KRS-One: I get out quite often when I'm not working as much too.. I like the bachelor's life.
benkay: no no there is a thing as too soon
asciilifeform: and likewise for one which is thought to receive (so long as the cage is in place, and likewise supply and ground rails are filtered)
BingoBoingo: Introducing noise as a reciever isn't too new
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: As far as I can tell Khosala lives in Ft Meade
asciilifeform: incidentally, xilinx might as well be run out of ft. meade
asciilifeform: on the other hand, the 'listens for magic packet on radio, using power rail as antenna, and shorts power rail to ground when received' can be fit into any ic
asciilifeform: (fpga has no idea where the 'cache' will be on the fabric, or even that it will be configured as cpu rather than, say, decompressor)
asciilifeform: one can try to play 'whack-a-mole' (playing as the mole) with the customs, and some people do.
asciilifeform: but as soon as the western rights holders complain
asciilifeform: just as soviet pdp-11s would've been, if anyone had wanted them.
asciilifeform: as in, what it'd cost to produce it given that you're china or ussr and piss on copyrights/patents
BingoBoingo: decimation: For a couple of weeks that was allowable, but only as a "most charitable reading which would still leave them insolvent"
BingoBoingo: decimation: As far as I can tell its horde is lost to Derp and Herp
BingoBoingo: Well cold as it is this time of year, generally you can dig rabbit, minimal pulling required
mircea_popescu: i suppose to some degree, at the level of a challenge, as in, some schmuck pulls a gun and i blow his head off
greenspan_fan: insofar as "attempting to act rationally" has benefits associated with it, and insofar as I understand how to do so
mircea_popescu: unless by "my own" you mean "1k random people i've chosen to represent as my own pebbles"
mircea_popescu: these days it's used as a sort of chip-n-dip
mircea_popescu: the cogito goes as proof of existence, it's abused to all hell by people who lack the context to understand what's being said.
asciilifeform: (there was a great robert sheckley story about folks who were paid to be knocked out and put on a nosediving plane, sinking ship, etc. and filmed as they try to wiggle their way out of odd situations)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: should you find yourself alone with... doesn't even - horror of horrors - speak your language << might as well put him alone on a nuke sub with overheating reactor
greenspan_fan: insofar as I can't sample all possible histories after the fact
mircea_popescu: and similarly as you can't here, you generally can't anywhere else.
mircea_popescu: "What of it? People who don’t know MtGox won’t buy this story as long as you provide zero evidence to back it up, that’s what of it."
mircea_popescu: as far as a sufficiently entrenched glbse "investor" idiot is concerned, i just got lucky
greenspan_fan: nothing so formal as that
mircea_popescu: max keiser was not actually able to create an altcoin as successful as tat's.
mircea_popescu: it's about as good as holy water.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as you don't draw any inference from it, you may continue to think so.
mircea_popescu: for instance, there are people right here working for me as we speak and probably reading this. i have no fucking idea where their working for me is going,
greenspan_fan: tell me, and I'll strive to correct it, insofar as such is possible
greenspan_fan: the matrices, as a form of description
mircea_popescu: are you going to try and resurect an argument as to agency underneath there ?
greenspan_fan: what's interesting (and Taleb hits on this as well) is that people are generally really poor at evaluating power-law types of extremes
mircea_popescu: i actually translated it in romanian cca 2011 so as to equip teh countrymen with t\he tool
greenspan_fan: kinda disturbed to find out all of you read TLP as well...
jurov: did you try passing 'PUSH|X.YZ|123GPGKEY|100' as parameter ?
ThickAsThieves: hmm i see a 'plain' command for sending strings as is
mircea_popescu: "One of these is Soma. The drug we all know and love. The other is a drug called Meprobamate also known as Miltown/Equanil for those of you who are close to retiring. See a similarity? Are you old guys out there chuckling? "
nubbins`: phun phact: DXM is just as effective in pill form as it is in syrup form, and pills don't taste like goat anus; syrups are popular because people feel that having their throat coated with the shit means it works better
nubbins`: regarding the "why" of snorting rits, it's because they're cheap as fuck
mircea_popescu: people use ritalin as cocaine />
kakobrekla: yes that show was as terrible as it gets, sponsored by mtgox.
asciilifeform: if unspent, sort of speaks against the 'no such thing as taint' hypothesis
mircea_popescu: studio as in, apartment.
mircea_popescu: also happened to be either posing as or actually an underage fellow
dexX7: as self proclaimed regulator of teh bitcoins
mircea_popescu: As alleged in the indictment, the defendants and their co-conspirators saturated Internet marketplace websites, such as eBay.com, Cars.com, AutoTrader.com, and CycleTrader.com, with detailed advertisements for cars, motorcycles, boats, and other high-value items generally priced in the $10,000 to $45,000 range. Unbeknownst to the buyers, however, the merchandise did not exist. The so-called sellers corresponded with th
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones my question is different. will blocks with a 0 miner fee be accepted as valid ?
asciilifeform: 'phonewalla' (as described in film 'slumdog millionaire')
benkay: jurov mircea_popescu you are both right as always about physics stuffs
mircea_popescu: so as to inflate away the property rights acquired
benkay: Apocalyptic: i'm a bit of a pariah among locals in bitcoin right now due to the glee i exhibited over the past 4 months in their demise. my only consolation is that the derps will turn over, as they do here. it just seems to be slower around here, mostly i think 'cause people lack any sort of hustle in these parts.
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asciilifeform: it went out of style, as i understand - because it mostly just annoys people
mircea_popescu: that's ok, i'll just take it as reflective of my mordant wit and deep understanding of matters
mircea_popescu: pretty much anyone who said this or variations thereof the past few weeks is either going to be prosecuted or called up as a witness.
dexX7_: Duffer1: as far as i know there is some kind of "claim portal" website
ThickAsThieves: well i at least care in that it's representing scams as things with actual value over things that aren't
mircea_popescu: many channels are logged as a matter of course, including #bitcoin-dev
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as "disregard what mp says expect to be able to survive"
ThickAsThieves: as it seems they were approached
mircea_popescu: dexX7_ part of it was lost to the usg, as a result of karpeles signing false documents
mark0v: at $10/coin... which was stupid because as the price rises, they'd never be able to buy back coins to pay investors back
jurov: but i have an idea, put bash quotes on tshirt as qr codes
benkay: weight one end so as it hangs down super deep
mircea_popescu: aircraft impossible to make large enough for nuclear power to work. submarines pretty much only work as nukes.
benkay: everyone knows i'm only peripherally interested in technology as a tool to make shitloads of money.
benkay: those with mastery of toolchains that enable productivity will help those with capital multiply it and everyone else will serve as labor in the oop salt mines?
mircea_popescu: kinda curious how the dev thing (as a cultural construct mind you) will fare.
mircea_popescu: well but as to which part ?
mircea_popescu: and this makes no sense because for the money it'd cost to plant 1mn idiots in 100k forums nobody really reads, the attacker could jhust as well have built a mining farm
mircea_popescu: basically twitter is what i always wanted as a kid in school : a chance to spy on the losers conversations.
mircea_popescu: he never ever even bought a record, as they're not sold where he lives
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "The Boeing Black phone is manufactured as a sealed device both with epoxy around the casing and with screws, the heads of which are covered with tamper proof covering to identify attempted disassembly."
decimation: As to asciilifeform's point about outbidding the fiat printers, I think that's quite possible in an environment where bitcoin is melting up
ThickAsThieves: as in people invading US soil?
diametric: lol.. so latest story going around is MtGox's cold storage failed. As in they can't get the private keys to work properly..
duduqa: ThickAsThieves: they can change oppinion as quick as Sen Schumer
duduqa: asciilifeform: localbitcoins.com as well
diametric: stopping bitcoin will work about as well as stopping piracy.
ThickAsThieves: find it hard to believe as well
Apocalyptic: <ThickAsThieves> just the useful people // yeah as mircea said
duduqa: asciilifeform: the question i ask is "would the adoption from small places such as cyprus, or Honduras ZEDEs, or African regions be enough to bring such wealth and power to overcome bitcoin's adversaries?"
duduqa: as disruptive to politics/government/central banks as bitcoin can be, I expect it to be treated and regarded as pedophilia in a short time
duduqa: asciilifeform: do you envision the possibility of bitpay and coinbase being shut down, as well as second market's BIT, bitcointalk and localbitcoins.com etc vanishing from america?
duduqa: such as with marijuana?
duduqa: basically what would be your expectations of the consequences of a formal US government (declaraton of) ban of bitcoin. Even as noob as I was, I do not fear stuff as ~bitcoin will die~
duduqa: first of all, I'd like to excuse myself for some dumb stuff I might say...I have no tech nor economics formal background, interested in austrian economics as a hobbist
kakobrekla: lol ass. as.
kakobrekla: if you say write ass you speak and read as it is written, i say serbian