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mircea_popescu: there's 13mn bit coins sloshing around, and these twerps with 10 btc between them dare speak ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, in wha tfucking world 30 btc is exorbitant ? srsly nao
mircea_popescu: i'm a professional shitter, with shits flushed in many different toilets over 5 continents
mircea_popescu: i guess the part where professional = being paid has kinda gone away past decade or so huh
mircea_popescu: "Brad Edwards is a professional blogger with work published on many different platforms. Writing on a wide range of topics, from digital marketing to new music to health and nutrition, Brad's interest in Bitcoin and monetary reform is part of what inspired the genesis of The CoinFront. W"
mircea_popescu: who is this fuckwit anyway ?
fluffypony: tut tut
fluffypony: every stock exchange in the world has an active Twitter account
fluffypony: "The exorbitant membership fee, 30 BTC, coupled with the fact that their twitter account hasn't been touched since last June, suggests that the exchange is defunct, or at least no longer being actively promoted. "
mircea_popescu: tho considering changing it to tits
mircea_popescu: too much fucking hassle to keep chaging the headers
fluffypony: needs to be the header on Trilema on May 28th each year
mircea_popescu: is that an airgun ?
assbot: The CoinFront Andreas Antonopolous Threatened With Murder Over Twitter | The CoinFront | Bitcoin News
mircea_popescu: i think the guy's been around for a while.
Apocalyptic: <CyrusV> any romanians out there? trying to let you guys know about #bitcoin-romania
joecool: kakobrekla: prepare to receive a dose of freedom
kakobrekla: good thing i donated a week ago. now im on the list of supporters err i mean terrorist.
diametric: this whole thing feels like lavabit
diametric: nobody knows for sure, but for the truly paranoid, its best to stay away.
mike_c: kakobrekla: sorry, i meant techcrunch has been confirmed fucked for a long time :)
kakobrekla: luks also appears to be unadited
joecool: kakobrekla: i thought it was the case for a couple years now, or is this a case of rumors turning into fact?
kakobrekla: long time being couple of hours ?
mike_c: ah. it's pathetic, but tc == techcrunch to my brain. of course, it has been confirmed fucked for a long time.
kakobrekla: so the story with tc is now confirmed fucked?
asciilifeform: folks captured with a burning laptop are liable to get rectothermed on the spot
BingoBoingo: Mr. Officer you shoudn't have startled the laptop like that.
BingoBoingo: Spz. unfortunately timed battery fire?
asciilifeform: there's also opsec value in misleading the enemy into thinking he's captured an intact device.
kakobrekla: but the you dont get too see the view from gasenwagon
asciilifeform: (you don't want visible pyrotechnics, smoke, if captured alive. and if you aren't keen on surviving being captured alive, invest in cyanide tooth, not thermite)
BingoBoingo: jurov: nuclear device emits on the spectrum, can be located. Aluminum and rust not so much.
asciilifeform: jurov: the motorcycle fellow in stephenson's 'snow crash', yes
mike_c: probably tough to get it through security as well
asciilifeform: for stationary setups, the traditional asbestos safe works fine.
BingoBoingo: Wait, does noone else have asbestos pad protecting their desk?
asciilifeform: last thing you want, in a false alarm, to set your desk on fire
BingoBoingo: Oh, I was thinking bag of thermite inside laptop opposite logic board and storage. Kensington lock slot repurosed for inserting a sparking striker which is then turned like a key
asciilifeform: joecool: if you know basic glass blowing, you can package it in a neat little bulb - a la the old-style camera flash cartridges.
asciilifeform: joecool: in my experiments, plain old magnesium strip will do - so long as it's attached to an exposed die.
joecool: asciilifeform: you pack the thermite inside and have a way to trigger ignition?
asciilifeform: no time to stuff in bag, in the field.
joecool: i was just going to say that
BingoBoingo: Or thermite bag with sparking device.
asciilifeform: laptop with 'grenade' pin probably crossed the mind of everyone who read the dpr/ulbricht papers.
BingoBoingo might need to get a still more expendable portable for next year when crossing the Darien and evading FARC
joecool: never saw the need to have a TB of space in a laptop
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It is. It doesn't get the good secrets.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: portable ought to be considered expendable, anyway.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That is the big concern, but... It's the portable so only space for one internal disk.
joecool: but yeah sure, raid is cheap insurance, much cheaper than data recovery
asciilifeform: joecool: this no longer works on current disks (controller firmware stores calibration parameters unique to the platters.)
joecool: logic board used to toast on certain older models, then you needed an exact donor and cross fingers to recover
joecool: asciilifeform: well HD's can have that issue too, just not super common
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the most annoying thing about ssd isn't even the limited burn cycles, but the abrupt and catastrophic failure of controller.
joecool: same, wasn't aware you could tell the firmware to reserve space until recently
BingoBoingo: joecool: I generally just leave freespace and hope for the best.
asciilifeform: considering that a gentoo box can take a week to provision, i rather like raid.
joecool: BingoBoingo: do you actually set up the reserved space with hdparm or just leave free space?
BingoBoingo: For less portable things I just sync directories across disks
joecool: so it's very tolerant of what you throw at it
BingoBoingo: (Atm my storage longevity strategy in the portable involves an SSD with substantial unallocated space for firmware to fall over into
asciilifeform: (of continous spin time)
mircea_popescu: mixed batches same model is the way to go ya. and platter not ssd
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: ok so he'd need to split it into a bunch of 1.44mb ZIP files
joecool: BingoBoingo: mixed batches work better in the long run, i had a batch of 4 WD drives from the same lot, 100% failure rate in about a year
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it isn't a backup mechanism - one uses raid to keep working when disk croaks, without losing day
BingoBoingo: Just the summer after highschool working in a data recovery shop back in the early 0's turned me off of the raid concept
fluffypony: how hard is it to backup
BingoBoingo: The stuff that makes most RAID setups complain.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it isn't a backup or whatever strategy, it's a 'you can't buy disks that aren't garbage for years now' strategy.
mircea_popescu: raid can actually be backup if you want it to
asciilifeform remembers to stuff a new drive in raid rail
asciilifeform: 'If the deer comes out of the forest and walks up to the hunter, it is not proper hunting, and this is not proper con artistry or grift or embezzlement or any other term we use to describe proper works of evil. If the victim, at the sight of the economic predator, goes into doggie submission, we must stop discussing the phenomenon in terms of conflict and consider whether what we are observing might be some stra
mike_c: how would he know it was coffee unless he did the spilling! get your broomsticks.
mircea_popescu: that's a summary of 80% or so of what the power rangers have to say
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, he builds them !
mircea_popescu: "*shrug* Thanks for your opinion, but you don't know what you are talking about. Try designing a web wallet sometime. You need to keep what happened here in perspective. You are flying off the handle at me because someone spilled coffee on a raid "
mircea_popescu: he was being loled at by mpoe-pr and deprived FOR EXACTLY THE SAME REASONS 3 years ago
mircea_popescu: i guess usagi is the finest example that mere age in the space counts for nothing,
mircea_popescu: lets get twitter to ban bcda
fluffypony: COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!
fluffypony: and there's a central bank warning about Bitcoin
asciilifeform: chetty: i was recently told that many folks over here no longer rot when dead - like saints were once said to.
mircea_popescu: "how to seem american : eat your deodorant"
mike_c: plus we shower more than once a week
chetty: asciilifeform, nope its from the high chemical content of the food, you can smell the preservatives most americans eat all the time
nubbins`: slippery and with occasional stray hairs stuck to it?
kakobrekla: not that soap is like pussy.
nubbins`: TANCSSOP, too
nubbins`: mircea_popescu tell me about it ;(
chetty: well after a couple years out of us I could tell americans by smell
asciilifeform: chetty: i thought it was the 'sprechen sie englisch'
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: besides, the Send An Artist To The Conference Fund currently sits at 0 BTC << now this is unfair.
chetty: "how american does he look.", its not the look its the smell that gives you away as american
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at least one fellow i know thought that going to timis was a daring thing
mircea_popescu: so let him report five bt cworth of trades
mircea_popescu: jurov, well, he;s a theoretical economist like right ?
mircea_popescu: diametric: how american does he look. I'm very american looking and sounding. I'm not sure I'd survive such a trip. << on the positive side, if you do survive it, you'd be looking normal.