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decimation: well, in DC they have crazy airspace restrictions
mircea_popescu: yeah, but it's still hard to get it with a laser.
asciilifeform: over here, i can almost see the people inside.
mircea_popescu: those are cheap tho
mircea_popescu: o that shit ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that'd be a bomber. not a city police camera
mircea_popescu: you'd have to aim at it with computerized system
asciilifeform: the buggers love to mount fisheye lenses, too
decimation: lasers are cheap too
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not hard to destroy $maxint camera if 10w+ laser aimed by skilled marksman.
mircea_popescu: \cgcardona: the header on trilema changed again? i thought it was once a quarter << i made an exception
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: tried to blind a flir drone? gasenwagen. << im still boggled by what's involved into weaponizing this. seems more like a bureaucrat striving to limit imagined risks than anything sane
decimation: asciilifeform: is your point that a greyhound fleet should yield the same revenue as the #10 silicon fab?
mircea_popescu: well it turns out i was living on argentine time when in romania
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: How has the adjustment to the new time zone been?
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moiety: poutine: transactional services?
moiety: google don't seem to have purse strings though, they just buy everything
poutine: No, but I am developing some cluster based transactional services for it
moiety: poutine: well there's a lot to learn and this is a good place to have your ears open :]do you use btc in your working life at all?
decimation: I can't think of any better proof that our "economy" is just a "USG friends & family plan"
decimation: My point is that $450 million is really cheap for a leading silicon fab firm
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poutine: moiety, Well I recently familiarized myself with several aspects of the source code, and have been writing some custom transactions myself, https://blockchain.info/tx/15c2b9bc3b93e0c0a037c5fa8402d0e34e13d3bb0ce7fca65888e5d24e597dcc is a recent one. Just taking an interest in the core functions of the cryptocurrency and the communities surrounding it
decimation: WTF. So Apple is willing to offer $0.5 billion for an actual fabbed silicon company, while Google paid $3.2 billion for Nest, which had 50,000 overpriced (and underfeatured) thermostats shipped?
moiety: poutine: ah kk. there's a wiki page on the channel homepage in the topic. what do you do?
decimation: Apple had been in talks to acquire Renesas' entire 55% stake for an estimated 50 billion yen ($479 million).
assbot: iClarified - Apple News - Renesas to Sell Display Chip Business to Synaptics, Not Apple?
poutine: spoke to some members before
poutine: moiety, Nah, I had found the channel through someone embedding an ASCII shout out in a nonstandard tx on the blockchain
moiety: how are you? are you new to assets poutine?
moiety: BingoBoingo: 4/7... im not sure if this is good they are being caught there or bad that theres so many?
BingoBoingo: moiety: We have a rather direct line from the Governor's mansion to Jail.
moiety: sounds fun... isn't that the way with anywhere with politicians?
BingoBoingo: Ah, here in Illinois our mascot seems to be corruption of the wrong sort.
moiety: we should have the manul as a national animal instead of the fricking unicorn
moiety: there's a cat they only discovered in 1992. black footed cat, though it's only the pads that are black.
BingoBoingo: I can imagine the Pallas Cat becoming an invasive species in Scotland at $500k/BTC
asciilifeform: pet the manul (tm)
moiety: i saw him! good christmas present for the photographer :D this one is extra fluffy too. if they lived here, i would go searching
BingoBoingo: Manuls are on the move http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/15/discovery-of-first-pallas-cat-in-nepal/
moiety: asciilifeform: but i had thoughts of scared looking people in puffer caots like with the manuls rather than them sitting frightened in a trap all night til the morning
asciilifeform: moiety: the radio-collared beasts obviously had to be caught first.
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BingoBoingo: Like the camera trap at the gas station
moiety: oh! i thought they were capturing them physically as well lol. oh, i'm really glad you said that
Duffer1: what's that command?
asciilifeform: moiety: 'camera trap' doesn't trap anyone
moiety: why must they attach cameras to cat traps? D;
moiety: these lil folks are amazing asciilifeform! i thought they looked like the sand cat in head shape, same genus :] like sand cats with more patterns
BingoBoingo: Well, with the exception of some of the only in captivity big cats
asciilifeform: ^ possibly the rarest of all felids
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asciilifeform: ;;later tell moiety there are cats in argentina found almost nowhere else - oncifelis guigna, in particular
Mats_cd03: thanks ThickAsThieves
asciilifeform: (they wanted to be petted)
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asciilifeform: hence the very dour tone of the piece - 'mpex will work great until it won't' etc
asciilifeform: given as the only stock exchange widget i was aware of was... glbse.
asciilifeform: at the time, i was a very pessimistic skeptic of any btc-based system driven by human hands (vs. mechanically decentralized a la the blockchain)
asciilifeform: cgcardona: story behind that post. one day, mpoe-pr (first contact) writes to me, asks, 'mr. p found your piece re: btc interesting, have a free demo of his mpex system, write us a review.' so i had test drive, wrote review.
asciilifeform: cgcardona: this is you right << aye
cgcardona: still a very cool company FWIW but def a difference before/after the IPO
cgcardona: i was at Trulia before/after the IPO and there was a noticable difference
cgcardona: mike_c: thye're public https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:TWTR
mike_c: wait, brain fart. of course they are public. ok, nevermind.
mike_c: idk. they aren't even public yet. i guess i expected more of a laissez faire attitude.
csshih: it's twitter
mike_c: (on twitter)
mike_c: interesting.. so the mob can silence anyone.
BingoBoingo: mike_c: I think bans are probably automated when a landslide of reports from a TOS violating reddit witchhunt occur
pankkake: mass report/block does this
pankkake: I don't think so
mike_c: some employee had to pull the trigger, no?
mike_c: talk about a battle of retard nations. twitter vs bitcointalk. which is worse? bitcointalk banning mpoe-pr or twitter banning mircea?
assbot: Loper OS » A Review of MPEx, the Bitcoin Stock Exchange.
cgcardona: asciilifeform: this is you right? http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1108 nice post
jurov: BingoBoingo: that's not surprising
duke_: i can talk now ?
BingoBoingo: I swear the Buttcoin people offer more insightful commentary into Bitcoin than r/bitcoin
jurov: !up tych0
joecool: https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu < looks like twitter got mad
assbot: _niko comments on Please report this person to twitter. They are threatening Andreas saying they will kill him.
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cgcardona: the header on trilema changed again? i thought it was once a quarter
asciilifeform: tried to blind a flir drone? gasenwagen.
asciilifeform: wouldn't want uppity peasants to get ideas.
asciilifeform: this looks just like the other pieces on the subject, but sheds some light on the actual reason for the draconian punishments:
assbot: Blinding light: The US crackdown on not-so-harmless laser strikes | Ars Technica
ThickAsThieves: If braces are worn during off time and at night, there usually is no need to wear them during the day. It may take a month or so for it to subside. Heat is NOT good. Hope this helps. Also...avoid repetetive hand movements and relax hands every 15 minutes, easy to say...
ThickAsThieves: Custom ones are the most comfortable. An orthopedic has to prescribe it. They wet a sheet of thick plastic, mold it to your hands and let it dry. There are no seams, have Velcro closures, and your wrists are positioned at exactly the right angle for relief. Also, try sleeping with your hands resting on pillows, without braces, hard to maintain through the night though.
ThickAsThieves: Mats_cd03, mom says: Surgery may be better now than in 1999. If you wait too many years, the nerve becomes permanently damaged and surgery won't help. No way to know in advance though. For immediate relief, cold compress works best or cool hand soaks. Store bought braces may work. The stiffest braces are best and sleeping with them gives the nerves a rest and that may be enough. Go to
mircea_popescu: took ~4 years to go from 0,001 to 500, will it need 4 more to go to 500k ?
mircea_popescu: depends. btc = 500 death threats, btc = 500k own computer parts factories
asciilifeform: this'd call for an entirely open hdd design, something we're unlikely to see
mircea_popescu: entire thing is used as block chipher
mircea_popescu: but i mean, how hard would this be, just a pluggable microsd.