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Mats_cd03: hes as clueless about what that means as you are
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: As in btter answer in 40 mins
herbijudlestoids: BingoBoingo: ? what do you mean? i thought the GHs/BTC price was always destined to go down, not a scam simply as a function of the ROI on 1GHs
mircea_popescu: you probably will, as in general i've noticed people join here after being ripped off.
Namworld: Oh... I wouldn't as much label it as a scam than incompetence. Although does the distinction between the two really matter? Same result.
mircea_popescu: o, bitfinex ? dude, srsly, it was identified as a scam a while back, what did you think ?
nubbins`: well, doctor, this is as good a place as any to voice your displeasure
mircea_popescu: moreover, the awkwardness and disability of the general folk the ban supports and nourishes serves as an adequate representation of their general mental and social inferiority.
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: im probly far less qualified? and i love working as a linux sysadmin on small projects?
cazalla: i wouldn't do that, i see at as evidence i'm actually learning something
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: theyre cunts because i should be in charge and everyone should listen to me and do as i say but they dont
nubbins`: go to 2x as many "meetups"
jayk: i didnt know any better and threw them into the garden as fertilizer
jayk: as a kid i could dig 200lbs in an hour
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I appreciate that as a competitor a great game is humiliating the competition. As a spectator though. I honestly prefer what the BCS offered, an exciting game won as an accident of time.
BingoBoingo: Aka why the superbowl was as boring as fuck
BingoBoingo: We will basically jsut change all of the labels on steelbank common lisp and offer it as an improvement on Javascript. Even give it a cute Doge pic
BingoBoingo: I only advertise the 1lvcunts as belonging to myself but superficial shit can reveal three moar.
mircea_popescu: various other things, such as banking, however...
pankkake: nor are faces, but it's not as bothering
benkay: can't say as i agree, mp. before i was limited pretty solidly on increasing revenue. nowadays, i'm only limited on revenue by my ability to find work and people to do it.
BingoBoingo: Fucker is happy to act as my paralegal too.
BingoBoingo: I paid may to many BTC for this drive through motherfucking lawyer's time back in may and I plan to waste as much of his time as I can.
nubbins`: i'm waiting for someone to sponsor me as a courtroom sketch-artist type deal
pankkake: BingoBoingo: I am a hairy monster, but for example my brother can't grow a beard as fast as me, if at all
benkay: BingoBoingo: he used to be a commercial Lisper as well.
nubbins`: BingoBoingo, i imagine you as some sort of cross between a kangaroo and an old lady with a visor
nubbins`: then had to fix it as best i could ;(
nubbins`: you give some schmo lsd and he's just as likely to achieve complete awareness
nubbins`: herbijudlestoids, one's as good as the other
mircea_popescu: "As a stage of the launch will release password protected .rar files for important downloads, followed by passwords a time later."
mircea_popescu: as opposed to all the fakers with platform machine guns and anti tank missile launchers
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: But in vitro most 5-HTP becomes various histamines as opposed to becoming serotinin.
herbijudlestoids: BingoBoingo: i mean acute as in relative to l-tyrosine
asciilifeform: standardized stego (e.g. 'let's all encode messages in the lowest color bit of lolcat photos) is about as useful as the practice of hiding your house key under the door mat.
herbijudlestoids: dear diary: today i hired mircea_popescu as a security consultant, and he told me to magically contact my counterpart to let them know they need to listen to eadio on certain frequency at certain time
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Imma just adding further reading. Sometimes the noise between the lines can have meaning. Even if it isn't obvious in your particular use case as you imagine.
mircea_popescu: so the nsa knows i talked to a hooker. fuck them, i can post pics on trilema just as well.
mircea_popescu: i think you're confused as to what otr actually does.
herbijudlestoids: i view it as like...sort of like a 'actually secure replacement for the s/web/internet' ...kind of like a public VPN that anyone can piss in
mircea_popescu: But in December, the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs issued a subpoena to Rubin, requesting he turn over Tidbit's past and current source code, as well as other documents and agreements with any third parties. It also issued 27 interrogatories -- formal written questions -- requesting additional documents and ordering Rubin to turn over information like the names and identities of all Bitcoin wallet addresses a
benkay: <benkay> the gox operation as a history of completely fucking it up
jurov: as i said, they were inspired by bitfunder/weexchange
mircea_popescu: "They test the system in the report -- and are, as one might expect, immediately hacked the moment the test computer connects with the Russian network."
mircea_popescu: code has no decimals as it is.
BingoBoingo: dub: Fetus sealed in lucite as proof of work?
BingoBoingo: I have a cold storage address that starts as 1fuck (all lowercase) and lacking firstbits rights. Barely anything there. Doubt I'll awaken it until Million Dollar BTC (Much happier last chapter to that film than Million Dollar Baby).
nubbins`: as opposed to russia where everything is great
mircea_popescu: obviously "civilisation" as she means it isn't necessarily a goal
asciilifeform: plugged for good cause, as far as i can see
mircea_popescu: nubbins` romania is not a bad one, for as long as that lasts.
nubbins`: easy as fuck
nubbins`: dad: "7.25% locked in for 35 years. a real bargain at the time, as rates soared to 18% at one point"
ThickAsThieves: as i see it here, housing is fucked for along time
nubbins`: pascale just referred to the part of the toilet where all the lid hinges are as "the choda"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves as usual, they do not know what the words they're saying mean.
pLambert: could I, as a person in a rich society, just choose to spend little on my children and expect them to contribute?
pLambert: pankkake: funny, rich people view children as a liability, poor people view children as an asset
pankkake: pLambert: people think I'm a horrible person when I state money as my number one reason to not have children. but… it's true
ThickAsThieves: i did it as a joke
mircea_popescu: aww. and i thought the units could double as art!
asciilifeform: i've always thought of my gear puller as 'the pear'
ThickAsThieves: nice, now just make a hover.com and do it as a service
mircea_popescu: of the whole 1bn people online i was chosen as the one who needs a little help on the topic.
chetty: 9 killed as firefighters battle a blaze that destroyed Argentine banking archives
Duffer1: ya there was also a noticeable uptick in #bitcoin-assets participation after that as well MP
ThickAsThieves: well as a "pro" wrestler, it's surprising he'd compromise his integrity for attention
mircea_popescu: bar that, he could say something unstupid that worked just as well
mircea_popescu: he could say something intelligent that'd work just as well
mircea_popescu: he imagines that "as long as i got my coffee and can yell to the wifey for sandwiches the kids don;t know where in the house i am to come asking for money" ?
ThickAsThieves: exactly where I am as long as we have solar power and we can reach the satellite."
ThickAsThieves: The latest Snowden-related revelation is that Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) proactively targeted the communications infrastructure used by the online activist collective known as Anonymous.
Diablo-D3: theres no such thing as a physical bitcoin
ThickAsThieves: i know this might sound bad, but is there any good research on using ignorant crowds as indicators?
herbijudlestoids: basically, depending on my gross income in a given year i can have my tax treated differently...trading certain positions allows me to claim them as hedges against other positions in other markets...much better tax treatment, better overall annual return
herbijudlestoids: here ya go, i wrote this mean reversion model for EURUSD in R and as well an MQL4 copy, i noticed you support MT4 as the platform so this one is probly easier
herbijudlestoids: mostly for EURUSD since that is my bread and butter, but a couple of adaptive ones that tend to work as part of a portfolio of model
kakobrekla: as long as they pay...
herbijudlestoids: look, i dont want to come off as negative nelly on your pet project
herbijudlestoids: "The documents also show that JTRIG infiltrated chat rooms known as IRCs and identified individual hackers who had taken confidential information from websites."
herbijudlestoids: the price is only there as a barrier to entry, not as a meaningful representation of how much it costs to maintain the seat
herbijudlestoids: "However, to own a seat, a trader or broker must meet more criteria than simply being able to afford it. Prospective owners of the seats must go through a stringent review process and, once accepted, they are required to maintain high levels of compliance and ethics as the NYSE and governmental regulators constantly review members. "
asciilifeform: as always.
ozbot: Romania Cuts Benchmark Rate to Record Low as Inflation Slows - Bloomberg
mircea_popescu: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-08/romania-cuts-benchmark-rate-to-record-low-as-inflation-slows.html
mircea_popescu: so inasfar as that, it may be the case homomorphic software can be in fact written that protects the key say
asciilifeform: so let's say you have a homomorphic turd that signs arbitrary giblets with your key (which, for the sake of argument, assume cannot be extracted, as claimed)
herbijudlestoids: this is as good as the bill nye vs ham thing
mircea_popescu: as if the total heat differential i nthe universe weren't ALSO fixed.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to another ?
herbijudlestoids: soooo...defining inflation as a general price level increase is extremely fuzzy
nubbins`: mircea_popescu, you mention in a couple of articles that bitcoin is deflationary rather than inflationary, and then point to the increasing supply as evidence of this
mircea_popescu: as long as you redeem them for btc... they're as good as anything
mircea_popescu: why do you think the fiat role as a medium of exchange needs fixing ?
antephialtic: yes, I agree that the concept has major game theoretic issues. But a coin that solved this issue would be useful primarily as a medium of exchange, rather than as a store of value.
mircea_popescu: antephialtic the problem, as BingoBoingo pointed out to you, is that in your model the greatest economic activity will occur whenever a major holder moves cold wallets.
antephialtic: antephialtic: well, in that case I'm living in a state of sin anyway because velocity is traditionally computed from output and money supply. The idea that one can measure it empirically is not really seen in mainstream economics, as far as I can tell from a brief review of the literature
mircea_popescu: but anyway, if memory serves that thing started as a blog and became subscription based after building a base
chipug: in a subscription crypto service, what would you want as necessity?
jurov: just ask MP, he designated himself as official recognizer of all things btc :D