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asciilifeform: seriously, how much radiation damage someone would need, to swallow this crap
ozbot: Google is researching ways to make encryption easier to use in Gmail | VentureBeat | Security | by H
asciilifeform: then it was found that creatures merely do 'bang-bang correction' when 'solving' the motion equations.
asciilifeform: there was, if i recall, suspicion that higher animals (e.g. dog catching ball) can crunch diff. equations - until high speed photography developed
fluffypony: the three Rs - Reading, Riting, and Rithmetic
asciilifeform: yeah mine was dead too
jurov: i tried that switch but did not recognize any sound
mircea_popescu: aren't these gizmos like required by the classification board ?
Naphex: oh man, the tehnology nowadays, and i used to just turn on the water
ozbot: The sound of a princess... on the toilet | CNN Travel
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asciilifeform: last thing i expected to find
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that'd be a good study. i'm also curious.
asciilifeform: 'It would be interesting to do a study on men who need Viagra to have sex with their partners. How many of those same men are able to wank off to porn (whatever variety they like, but most likely it would feature women from the most physically attractive 1%) without chemical assistance?'
davout: mircea_popescu: lazyness would command to get a chamber pot instead
asciilifeform: herr mocsny had a good point about this
mircea_popescu: "honey! i gotta pee! get honey and honey, let's get moving on this!"
mircea_popescu: wouldn't that be the curse of all time.
mircea_popescu: it needs like three women working it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's not a fair test. i own my cock, but it's also too big to wiggle.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ok, you wanna talk about getting under my skin ? this shit gets under my skin.
mircea_popescu: 70 of them, takes two months.
mircea_popescu: in like inch high letters, one letter at a time.
mircea_popescu: "I THOUGHT I WAS SMART. TURNS OUT I WAS JUST ANOTHER LITERATE IGNORAMUS"
fluffypony: which seems great in theory, but as mircea_popescu pointed out it's easy to fake
fluffypony: ok so it's an implementation of this: https://iwilcox.me.uk/2014/proving-bitcoin-reserves
mircea_popescu: it works worse than the one bit matchbox computer ;/
mircea_popescu: Reality doesn’t work that way."
mircea_popescu: ndiose master Mircea Popescu (ie, me), without anything like that ? O, why, because you’re a special little trainflake of brilliance and genius who can ? Really ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back at the other side of mean : "Problem 4 : Permeating all the foregoing and sufficiently so to become a problem in its own right is the incredible arrogance of the recently liberated corporate slavebois working as independent coders. Seriously, start working on the BTC securities trade system of the future without ever having worked for MPEx, without having humbly presented your inept ideas to the most gra
asciilifeform: i deserved this computer. and, apparently, some people today, still deserve.
fluffypony: I would've complained about the stack size
asciilifeform: so next day he gives it to me
mircea_popescu: fucking bitchslap these idiots with a trout omfg.
ozbot: Proof of Liabilities tools
mircea_popescu: so i get 50 btc from 100 users. i spend 4925 of these 5k btc
fluffypony: oh I take it back
mircea_popescu: ok, this is a fucking scam.
mircea_popescu: gotta love this.
davout: mircea_popescu: still beats the "specification is useless because code" approach
mircea_popescu: since this seems to be server side
mircea_popescu: so can i just copy the html page saying success, much coin excess ?
davout: apparently some french guy that was smart enough to move to china
davout: fluffypony: yeah, that's just a clever way to present the data
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform vault of satoshi is unrelated to that guy afaik
fluffypony: afaik they're using this: https://github.com/olalonde/proof-of-solvency
asciilifeform: one of you told me that the fellow behind 'vault' (argentinian?) has actual brain. so does he keep it in a case, buried in the garden with kalash? or use it for other ventures? because 'vault' doesn't reveal evidence of its use.
mircea_popescu: well sure. marketing to people who went to the same school as you did always works well.
ThickAsThieves: it works out okay if youre marketing to stupid people though
mircea_popescu: this has to be the result of training, methodically making the wrong choice on every turn is not something that can be explained by simple randomness
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if thery go to a dedicated university to be stupid, these people.
ThickAsThieves: i do not plan to make one
ThickAsThieves: trouble is you can only see this if you have an account
mircea_popescu: tryin to keep up with all the innovative innovations
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood you brought the news. i was askin'
mircea_popescu: well in that case they did exactly nothing ?
Naphex: yeah, don't think they signed it yet
asciilifeform: right, we can all write this kind of 'vault'
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves bitbet model ? published addresses, you can traverse chain at your leisure ? /// You can verify cold wallet and your own personal balance. You cannot verify hot wallet though ("security reasons").
mircea_popescu: but.... maybe they made public MY cold wallet ?
Naphex: mircea_popescu: they just made public their cold wallet, so people can check they have the funds
fluffypony: played the iPad one for hours figuring stuff ou
HeySteve: yep, I think I finished that one
mircea_popescu: Naphex so basically what is it, an address with a sum that signed a message ?
mircea_popescu: o hey look at that, sorta dott. HeySteve is it released ?
mircea_popescu: HeySteve yeah very competent team there.
HeySteve: that robotzi show has cool animation, reminds me of this: http://amanita-design.net/games/machinarium.html
Naphex: i think they just published their cold wallet
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves bitbet model ? published addresses, you can traverse chain at your leisure ?
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: yeah noticed that
asciilifeform: washington airport muppetron: 'sir, anything to declare?' me: well, just this...
asciilifeform: good, might be for sale then!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform those migs not anymore, because they've been gutted for parts.
asciilifeform: (finding where they sit - exercise for alert reader)
asciilifeform: speaking of which, does any in the pile of MIGs at TSR airport actually start?
asciilifeform: i like to imagine that certain people are destined to end up in cartridges
ozbot: Sniffer mice have a nose for explosives - tech - 03 February 2011 - New Scientist
asciilifeform: '...a detection unit contains three concealed cartridges, each of which houses eight mice. During their 4-hour shifts in the detector, the mice mill about in a common area in each cartridge as air is passed over people paused in the archway and through the cartridge...'
mircea_popescu: speaking of "Testing everything", my fav robotzi episode of all time :
mircea_popescu: http://www.siliconhell.com/Images/humour/CatCarrier.jpg everyone has seen this i trust ?
asciilifeform: chemist hero who tasted everything he made
asciilifeform: how: the creature i now keep as a pet was intrigued by the idea, when we met.
mircea_popescu: no need for test gear.
mircea_popescu: i know right ? i can taste it on them if we're compatible too
asciilifeform: because the device ended up working -without being built-
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davout: ;;rate tcatm 1 bitcoincharts, been around a while
asciilifeform: it was a good job that my net worth was a few zeroes short of actually building this bugger then.
asciilifeform: no, this
fluffypony: asciilifeform: so like this http://vimeo.com/31688625
asciilifeform: and see, if i had this in me pocket, could've found which of the twelve beagles would relay orders to my canine empire.
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mircea_popescu: ;;rated tcatm
gribble: I have not seen tcatm.
Naphex: ;;seen tcatm
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the point of carrying minesweeper isn't usually so you can jump on the best mine.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought you were just gonna check if they're ovulating
asciilifeform: phun phact: as a student, i once seriously planned to build a pocket gas chromatographer, to pick up gurlz. how!? to do this - exercise for alert reader. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: spectrometer << the one fellow who did get a little thorough arsework in the queue at Dulles with me, did in fact pack one!
fluffypony: way too many