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ascii_modem: florida law re: recording scamz0rz
<< see earlier thread re: correct attitude to law.
adlai: "Florida law makes an exception for in-person communications when the parties do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the conversation, such as when they are engaged in conversation in a public place where they might reasonably be overheard. If you are operating in Florida, you may record these kinds of in-person conversations without breaking the law."
<- pretty sure that covers anything
cazalla: adlai: if nothing else, it should at least be entertaining to see all the scammers up close, something to tell the metaphorical grandkids
<<< if you can remember their name that long but doubt it
cazalla: adlai: would qntra be interested in coverage of garza @ btcmiami?
<<< i wouldn't ask of you to waste your time doing that, it is already established he is a liar and a bad one at that, no point covering a debate of which lies can be wormed out of
ben_vulpes:
<ascii_modem> [] lispm on the block , yes
<< what does this mean?
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [] well done mod6 an ben_vulpes
<< pshaw i'm entirely tangent; mod6 does all the heavy lifting.
ascii_modem: i don't comprehend this "have to decrypt disk" bs.
<<< again we can apply above principle. everybody complaining about the disk arse search - stop imagining that you have 'rights' and start apprehending the fact that you are being pursued by maniacs who will eventually like to turn you into a lampshade.
ascii_modem: punkman: mpeg2 license key
<<< afaik -all- extant arm cpu include sub-cores running mystery turds, such as that one.
ascii_modem: mircea_popescu:asciilifeform: the confucian kingdoms breathe plagiarism like air.
<<< "plagiarism", much like "sins of the flesh", is a construction intended to work as a tool for a very peculiar purpose.
<<< i spent years working with folks some of whom fit the pattern: 'yes i got phd for washing glassware for advisor, who let me crib, who in turn cribbed from dr xxxxx himself, of the academy of turdiences'
ascii_modem: asciilifeform wait, so your SO is a black girl ?
<<< nein. but from usa. customized though.
BingoBoingo: adlai> bitfinex seeking out new lows!
<< Wouldn't be surprised at all of this Bitfinex scouting new lows is them dying.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: it may be unfair to tar all work done since satoshi with the power rangers brush.
<<< term only came of age last year.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: but parents who found out that their kids had been disciplined at school often disciplined the kid again at home
<< pretty much yes.
mircea_popescu: decimation: re: costco & amex
<< I suspect amex gives costco a deal (pays them) to force a large percentage of the upper-crust customer-base to have an amex card in their wallet
<< pretty much how that racket goes yes.
☟︎☟︎ ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes: translate the significance of this for the aerodynamically innocent ?
<< less about the aerodynamic stuff; glider guys are wealthy business owners in yacht/building fabrication (among others businesses) and they're complaining about 5% increase in cost of materials everywhere
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: it's funny how Gavin is all "I want bitcoin to compete with Visa/Mastercard", when anyone in Payment Processing knows those systems are seriously nigga rigged as is.
<< nobody expects gavin to say something sensible anymore than they'd expect ronald mcdonald to.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: cazalla: "I helped run plenty of conferences."
<< no, he has a point. that's exactly how that racket works.
mircea_popescu: decimation: I would like to put in a good word for KnC miner.
<< so it actually works out to them booking a nominal loss because of spot movement ?
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: thestringpuller: what if we created a #bitcoin-assets pokerstars home game club and had a way that every account generated was tied to a gribble-authed account, and use it as both a gaming platform as well as a record-keeping ledger for off-blockchain track of wins and losses
<<< check it out kakobrekla
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: cazalla: Gordhan is a smart man, but they're doing exactly as expected - they're just going to copy what everyone else is doing
<< your definition of smartness is very tolerant.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: so due to this thing called new year there is 57 bets waiting resolution. good luck to the mods.
<< i'd say they did pretty okay!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: gossip from the glider club: guys in construction (yachts etc) are talking about 5% cogs increases every month for the past 3
<< translate the significance of this for the aerodynamically innocent ?
kakobrekla:
<mircea_popescu> asciilifeform: kakobrekla: b/c man living as man was meant to
<< seriously, man was meant to live like that ?! i dunno...
< prolly seeing different things in the pic
mircea_popescu: TomServo: I'm surprised ol' Brucey Bruce isn't parroting the "OMG NK!!1" line.
<< "Tellingly, the FBI's press release says that the bureau's conclusion is only based "in part" on these clues. This leaves open the possibility that the government has classified evidence that North Korea is behind the attack. The NSA has been trying to eavesdrop on North Korea's government communications since the Korean War, and it's rea
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: kakobrekla: b/c man living as man was meant to
<< seriously, man was meant to live like that ?! i dunno...
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo incidentally, qntra ever cover the btcexchange thing ?
<< In a couple shorter bits. Waiting for another point of lulz inflection to do much more.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Why does my brother pretend he has not the slightest bit of racism in him yet when he moves to the city chooses a Bosnian neighborhood over a black neighborhood?
<<< i can see a few reasons right off.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo lol gaw thing has its own forum ? what is this, like ognasty redone ?
<< Pretty much except redone by seasoned rural telecom bezzel turdmeisters. 3 Years experience or some shit. OgNasty down to the fan club.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: OMG MP vacation has been one of the best things to happen to MPOE price... aside from saving OpenBSD.
<< my lyf ;/
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard: Hi, I was starting to miss this place
<< preach it sistar!
mircea_popescu: this increases the pool of users from U to U+x. the average sophistication of x is
< than the average of U. in fact it's common even if we won;t rely on it that the peak of x is under the lowest of U.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: they go out, same as in usg-sponsored 'colour revolutions', because 'there's action tonight'
<< quite. which is why it's so lulzy to watch.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: But... the 3d printed gun dude says burn it all down is an ideology...
<< i agree. it is.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: undata: everybody in america thinks they were somehow robbed of making it big like everyone else did
<<< the necessary byproduct of the entire "hero" thing graham & co promote. "work hard and we'll pay one in a million ten thousand times a salary, maybe you'll be him!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: who somehow lives off their tears
<<< i do live off their tears.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: iirc, it was designed by a woman. i won't psychiatrize on this point, but let's see what mircea makes of it!
<< i dun get it, so what if a woman designed it ?
mircea_popescu: adlai: it's about time for one of those "velocity per utxo" plots to get updated, my guess is that it'll show that "strong hands" give increasingly fewer shits with each dump, while the churn at the bottom only gets frothier
<<< guy's been here what, twelve weeks ? already enlightened.
mircea_popescu: punkman: cazalla, better yet, kidnap rich guy's kid, make him buy bitcoin to pay ransom. price goes up for sure.
<<< this is unavoidable. no ransom of the future will be anything but bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: punkman: if Satoshi appears and says hey guys I lost the key to 250k coins, how much would the price go up?
<< wouldn't have any appreciable short term effect.
mircea_popescu: decimation: well, certainly one cannot be enemies with usg or usg's agents
<< everyone in bitcoin is and can.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the confucian kingdoms breathe plagiarism like air.
<<< "plagiarism", much like "sins of the flesh", is a construction intended to work as a tool for a very peculiar purpose.
ascii_modem: ben_vulpes:oh! and subject of ratpoison, did you evaluate and reject stumpwm at some point?
<< yes. rejected because heavy.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: makes me think lizard are affiliated with cf.
<<< you might also underestimate the retarded generation.
BingoBoingo:
<ascii_modem> cut-throats from a mythical (but loosely - nk) land are sent to usa. they look young and always masquerade as schoolchildren in the later grades.
<< I've never really trusted Children
ascii_modem: half your population must reside abroad under fake identities
<< see chuck palahniuk's hilarious 'pygmy', a tale about precisely this
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: other than 'surrender'
<<< actually jump into the pool. rather than just sit on the edge and dunk toes alternatively.
mircea_popescu: decimation: 16 kHz is probably the max that you will get allocated politically
<< by the time blockchain over shortwave, "politically" strictly means bitcoin-assets anyway.
mircea_popescu: Overand: per bitcoin.it wiki, transactions are about 500bytes, running at 7tps, so that';s ~3500 bytes/sec or (humorously) 28,000 bits per second
<<< not the right math. a block is at most 1mb and there's supposed to be 6 an hour.
BingoBoingo:
<kakobrekla> idk if we believe in good intentions.
<< Of course not, but it will probably be the myth lesser shitgnomes trot out.
BingoBoingo:
<kakobrekla> one could argue that just like software, silbert was always broken, just only now encountered problematic input.
<< Prolly should have tested him on Vax before releaseing him then
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: there is a school for that?
<<< one of the best features of b-a is its potential for culture shock.
mircea_popescu: adlai: fwiw, assuming that the fiat parasite sticks around in some form or other, i'd rather have it operate a single UBI program than dozens of badly-coordinated welfare axes
<< this is not unlike saying that if computer gaming sticks around, you'd rather it consists of one single game.
mircea_popescu: *: adlai wonders how many decades/centuries it'll take for speciation to start between "Homo operandus" and "Homo ignavus"
<< speciation takes 10s to 100s of ks of years.
mircea_popescu: decimation: kakobrekla: if your bosnia link is true, it strikes me that the most important thing to have in a 'shtf' situation is alot of people on 'your side': family, friends, etc
<<< it's pretty accurate. there's no doubt in my mind the guy has first hand experience (ie, is not an internet poseur)
mircea_popescu: "You begin to wonder if you should feel guilty taking all this money from the poor Congolese — who are now (you must conclude) even poorer as a result."
<< because that's what money is, right ? a fetish.
mircea_popescu: adlai: this article is more thought-provoking than most drugs out there
<< no, it's not thought provoking.
mircea_popescu: "assbot: Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct | Melting Asphalt "
<< bwahaha ok.
mircea_popescu: www.sonicfitness.com/cache/uggs.php?uggs=ugg-bottes-pas-cher-france.php
<< caches.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: the notion that an order once placed must live on until filled is pretty lulzy
<<< that's not what's going on there.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, do you define inventor as someone who has invented something before ?
<< i define inventor as someone who is a) intelligent and b) completely contemptuous of rules.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: anyone wanting to hire 30 inventors needs his head checked
<<< and what could you do for them ?
ben_vulpes:
<ascii_modem> perl and the like cannot really die; the human folly that makes them irresistible for some folks - is immortal
<< not to mention at the heart of so many terminals.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, dja mean qntra or gaw has been largely ignored ?
<<< i meant qntra but it was like the 2nd post i made so sorta makes sense not many people read it
mircea_popescu: *: decimation thinks that time horizon has already been reached
<<< pretty much. i dun know any great programmers that want to go to the us. i know some great progreammers stuck i nthere that haven't yet figured that yes, they can leave
mircea_popescu: cazalla: well, that didn't take long.. bitcoinfoundation.org has redesigned their website yet again
<<< gotta do something...
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: what does it mean to bitcoinate?
<< download and verify blocks, create and broadcast blocks which are in turn verified.
mircea_popescu: "You need to learn an important lesson and it will not be complete until you are completely humiliated -- or you figure out that what you have done is so bad and stupid that you simply leave us alone until the shame wears off."
<< surprising naggum never made the next logical step into bdsm.
mircea_popescu: davout: who decided, and why, that the contents should be gpg signed ?
<< oh for cryssakes it was in the log like 20 times.
☟︎ decimation: re: orcs in the desert
<< the us could roll them over in about 2 days if the us were willing to commit the men & willing to actually fight to win
decimation: re: air war attrition
<< manned aircraft are on the way out anyway, with proper secure comms and a decent AI, a robot army of aircraft makes more sense
decimation: ascii_modem: ephialtes doesnt care abou straightening own back - knows it's a fantasy - but happy to turn everyone else into hunchback.
<< "There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honoured. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to
kakobrekla: [22:04:05]
<ben_vulpes> !up ben_vulpes
ben_vulpes:
<ascii_modem> [19:31:50] these are not convertible to btc except via humiliating pederast temples
<< lol i love this routine
BingoBoingo:
<ben_vulpes> "that 2x2 thing up at 30kft moving at mach 1.8 couldn't *possibly* be an airplane!"
<< I though it couldn't get anywhere near that fast because it is too fat.