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mircea_popescu: look at that, Jere_Jones is nao rich, over 51!
ThickAsThieves: i got into a zone where i was doing well by not thinking, but couldnt keep it up
ThickAsThieves: i love that thing
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, will look into that, thanks
Apocalyptic: generally any statistical analysis is irrelevant on tiny samples
mircea_popescu: just impossible to verify entropy quality on tiny samples.
Apocalyptic: the probability of others guessing that is quite high though
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic the problem of rng quality only appears on large datasets.
Apocalyptic: then i don't trust my hd RNG very much
Apocalyptic: I was tempted to dd if=/dev/random bs=8 count=1 > secret
mircea_popescu: so then that
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic you know the von neumann coin debias algo ?
Apocalyptic: do you need random bytes that others do not have a copy of? // now -assets has them, seems about right
asciilifeform: depending on how crufty your coin is, you may have to throw it several hundred times.
asciilifeform: for 8 bytes, toss a coin manually and apply von neumann's debiasing algo.
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: more importantly, do you need random bytes that others do not have a copy of?
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, just 8 bytes, I need the best entropy i can reallistically get
Jere_Jones: What's the budget and timeline?
Apocalyptic: guys, and particularly asciilifeform, what hardware would you recommend to generate random bytes ?
devthedev: What do you need transcribed :P
asciilifeform: seems like there was a time when anyone with something to write had decent penmanship.
mircea_popescu: anyway, anyone can transcribe my shit ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's the good king vlad.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is that you ?
mircea_popescu: telling natl liberal party to get stuffed.
ThickAsThieves: i'm betting it leans slightly to the left
pankkake: my signature is never the same
ThickAsThieves: broken cursive seemed to be a big indicator, if i recall
diametric: its popescu's all the way down
ThickAsThieves: i read a book on graphology once, pretty much says, people who write crazy, are mor elikely to be crazy
mircea_popescu: herpetology was taken
pankkake: I think I was paid by Hashfast too
asciilifeform: textual analysis, wonderful thing
mircea_popescu: except on weekends. then she's thestringpuller
mircea_popescu: they're doing textual analysis on me, coming to th conclusion i'm nick szabo
mircea_popescu: i think some people here actually found this place because they ran over something she said.
asciilifeform: the swine appear to be indifferent to the pearls, though
mircea_popescu: she writes well, that's good enough.
mircea_popescu: i never measure it tho. what do i care ?
asciilifeform: just, how low does the signal to noise ratio need to go
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i meant you in the sense of your firm, naturally
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one of the great mysteries that my puny brain is powerless to digest is why you & mpoepr haven't decamped and left that forum to the radioactive cockroaches and rats
pankkake: there has been like three scams in a week
mircea_popescu: "sometimes i imagine i'm in a floating third world bazaar full of people trying to sell socks and pick pockets and not much else"
mircea_popescu: MPOE-PR: "i just... i can't even... i wasn't going to say anything tonight, but this forum has decreased in intelligence and self-awareness since last fall at least three fold"
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pankkake: I forced myself to log out and missed all the good things!
mircea_popescu: o look, they could have got a mpex seat
mircea_popescu: these people. i wonder if there's anyone but the scammers left on that forum
ThickAsThieves: they say they lost $30k and will cover it
mircea_popescu: "So above you see pankkake continue to smear the company ActiveMining (by calling it an investment scam, associating it with the known 'LabCoin scam', saying the CEO is facing jail and accusing me of being a scammer (!)) after Ken publicly refused to pay pankkake's blackmail money demand." ☟︎
pankkake: still not trading so no
ThickAsThieves: pankkake doesnt even troll
Bugpowder: Need to figure out a better JSON parser for Matlab first.
ThickAsThieves: what's wrong with these people
mircea_popescu: I offer 1M Nxt ? what's that worth ?
mircea_popescu: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9db3yoO1v1ry97voo1_500.jpg << aren't those great tits ?
kakobrekla: did you make the chart Bugpowder?
ThickAsThieves: yeha if we spend all the idiots now, what will the smarties pillage?
mircea_popescu: we want a high avg iq more than that
mircea_popescu: well... the more idiots are being drawn away from bitcoin, the better.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is a whole u.s. subculture of astoundingly illiterate folks who will fall for this
pankkake: guncoin is worse, because it says "i trade guns"
mircea_popescu: the true part is that gun dealers are being squeezed by obama's goons exactly on the pp side.
mircea_popescu: never you mind that.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is actually true.
pankkake: yes, I almost invested in usagi stuff but people said noooooooooooooo and then there was no usagi
ThickAsThieves: how cna they print that shit
ThickAsThieves: "Guncoin claims to exist out of a real public need. In the United States it is very difficult to find conventional payment processors willing to serve online firearm dealers. When a third party payment processor is willing to process a transaction it involves an incredibly high fee."
mircea_popescu: of me hiring whoever to mess up his biz
BingoBoingo: Usagi I think was largely pre-pankkake
mircea_popescu: who was usagi threatening to sue because it's me ?
mircea_popescu: or was usagi before p's time
mircea_popescu: wait. usagi invented that neh ?
mircea_popescu: actually you're right, the pankkake theory is really...
BingoBoingo: It wouldn't be the first time.
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Duffer1: this is a bizarre troll, i wonder what the endgame is
mircea_popescu: "The information & proof has now all been given to the buyer to do with as they please (legal action) - (see below), now with their consent I have the approval to post the identity of this Troll."
Duffer1: wait so "Prism" is claiming Crumbs is MP/Pankkake and MPOE-PR and that he was hired to find out this information by a high value neobee holder
mircea_popescu: SolarWindMiningCompany << wait aren't these those idiots with the insane ipo plan ?
ThickAsThieves: and there is def evidence of 2+coin accounts being sold
mircea_popescu: all these names i don't know
ThickAsThieves: so there will be persistence
ThickAsThieves: i think it does serve purpose cuz now accounts with more than 1 coin go up in scammer value
mircea_popescu: listen, with the new 0day scammer registration programme, does ignoring even serve any purpose anymore ?
Jere_Jones: Hmmm... the first name on your list is the dude that sold me my first bitcoins.
ThickAsThieves: tahts the forum
ThickAsThieves: cuz i also ignore total idiots
mircea_popescu: they're not even looking at him, more liek trying to get in the shot.
mircea_popescu: isn't it fucking pathetic ? i mean it's obv the girls aren't there cause of the guy.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : check out this shot https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhQVp6XIEAANOCd.jpg:large
mircea_popescu: gotta love twitter folk.
mircea_popescu: " The Fed isn't printing."
ThickAsThieves: ffsixtynine uses socks to be somewhat pumpy
ThickAsThieves: bitcoinnewsfeed is velacreations i think
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves meanwhile i got the list.
ThickAsThieves: crumbs is basically who almost knows what he's talking about but usually takes the trolling just ove rthe edge
mircea_popescu: who is even a mod there these days ?
mircea_popescu: who am i close to, thermos ? bear ?