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mircea_popescu: yeah, but suppose it becomes law
tomorrow
that should your signature be forged, you're responsible as if you had signed.
nubbins`: not necessarily
the most eager
to embrace
technology
nubbins`: well,
there are plenty of judges
that won't accept emailed documents but will accept faxes
deadweasel: yes, wake up,
the price is actually $33/btc
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nubbins`: you just said
two opposite
things
nubbins`: well,
that makes more sense now
mod6: oh
thats
the date, not
the month. got it.
nubbins`: and so i'm left
trying
to decide just how greedy i am
nubbins`: but if i sit on
them with
the expectation
that
the
trend continues, i risk losing out on potential gains as well
kakobrekla: its a copla of years chars since its started
to chart
nubbins`: anyway,
the dilemma is
that if i sell
this stack of btc now, i could lose out on potential gains if
the
trend continues
to rise
☟︎ mod6: kakobrekla: i can't figure how
those numbers are linear
though
mircea_popescu: on
top of everything else however, like
tech obsolesncence etc,
the independent miners now also have
the problem of dealing with people who mine for political rather
than economic reasons
mod6: kakobrekla: what does
the x axis rep? im cornfused.
nubbins`: i'm having
trouble deciding how greedy
to be
b0n1: nubbins`, because i
think
there is great potential after
the opening
nubbins`: ^
that's getting a bit ridiculous
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b0n1: nubbins`, maybe some cool sources
to read a bit about
that
mircea_popescu: yes yes. if you have a good opportunity
they'll provide you goods. learn chinese, go hang out
there fgor a year. it's a living.
nubbins`: b0n1: curious
to know what you're getting at here
b0n1: or as mircea_popescu said any
textile stuff. you could just go
to a
trading company
that ship
the stuff always straight
to europe
b0n1: coingenuity, what do you
think of jade?
mircea_popescu: start by getting
the job of chinese foreign
trade minister
b0n1: coingenuity, is it difficult
to get
the export authorization?
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, china buys 100-150
tons a month.
thanks
to
the jpm&co keeping
the price low with
their derivative
trades,
mircea_popescu: yes, all hail b0n1,
the new black gold market czar of china
coingenuity: you can bribe
them and get an export authorization, or so i hear
coingenuity: you pay your 'tax' in
the form of price-fixes by
the government, which is
the only authority allowed
to sell/buy
b0n1: do you have
to pay
tax on gold in china?
nubbins`: "5-level eq, all
tubes, sub-harmonic generator, and here's a usb port"
mircea_popescu: but speaking of gold, anyone saw
the 2mn oz paper sale on
the 11th ?
pankkake: nubbins`: exactly, and I already have
tubes for my amp anyway ;)
mircea_popescu: think of dealing with
the mob, it's how china handles its export business.
mircea_popescu: basically you need
to sign an agreement
that if you steal
their money
they'll kill you with knives.
b0n1: well but
there are certainly high market entry barriers, right? Maybe you need licences
that are difficult
to get?
mod6: pankkake: seems like india has import controls, something like 15%
tax on gold import
mircea_popescu: also,
tshirts, electronic appliances of all kinds, small plastic
toys
b0n1: jade? is
there actually a market for jade in europe?
b0n1: what is a good chinese commodity for
taking out and selling elsewhere more expensive
nubbins`: pankkake: plus you could be all badass walking into
the music store
topace: do
the coinabul peeps every lurk on irc
these days ?
pankkake: don't you have
to smugle it? or it's india
pankkake: I like vacuum
tubes for
the looks basically :p I'd buy
that kind of random number generator
b0n1: meaning
to ship it out and sell it on for example european market
b0n1: is it profitable
trading gold in china?
mircea_popescu: basically you put a diode into backwards mode and count
the electrons
that make it past
the barrier
pankkake: could a vacuum
tube be used as an entropy source?
mircea_popescu: "Hey, Reddit, Ycombinator, and Metafilter readers! You know what, I'm proud
that
this article has become a benchmark, but I've written a lot of others I like
too, some of
them more recently
than 2004. It would sure be nice if my other articles got some love instead of just
this one being linked from a discussion every week."
mircea_popescu: get everyone drunk, person with worst score picks up
the
tab
mircea_popescu: if you make it a webservice
this'll be a great group activity at april conference.
dub: 20 years ago we could modulate an RF signal such
that your skull would resonate a recognisable signal you would hear inside your head
mircea_popescu: nubbins`
the interraction happens
through em not airwaves.
nubbins`: contact mics are orders of magnitude more sensitive
to
touch vibration
than air vibration
dub: you're wrong but keep
talking
nubbins`: yeah, what i'm saying is
that you'd deafen me before
the contact mic would pick up
the audio from my stereo
nubbins`: they're almost completely insensitive
to air vibrations. you'd need
to have it in your hand
dub: I'd need
to be a bit nearer
to you but its doable
dub: is it still going
to be random if I control input into
the mic? because its
trvial
to do
that remotely
nubbins`: any amplifier would introduce its own brand of consistency
to
the signal, &c &c
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> on
the surface it sounds great. rub
the contact mic against any surface and get all
the entropy you need << o no, not at all. you can't use such low bits.
nubbins`: well. incredibly sensitive
to
touch, incredibly insensitive
to regular sources of sound
nubbins`: these
things are incredibly sensitive
though
nubbins`: but i don't
think it's quite
that straight-forward
nubbins`: on
the surface it sounds great. rub
the contact mic against any surface and get all
the entropy you need
mircea_popescu: for some values of useful. i prefer
them
to avalanche processes, but
they have
to be well filtered
nubbins`: hm, i wonder if a contact mic would be useful in
the context of RNGs