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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i kinda followed the whole thing; even bought - back when it was not clear what it was - the device (1st ed. 'raspberry')
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: broadcom. but also the apologists (many of whom, i gather, weren't even -paid- shills, but merely fools)
mircea_popescu: http://33.media.tumblr.com/d8d38ac8f7c9b15db664eec17b101f88/tumblr_n32qv5ENti1svwz07o1_500.gif internet marketing.
cazalla: mircea_popescu: there was a fetlife "btc" fetish group <<< buttcoin? at least it'd be a fitting name
mircea_popescu: for illustrative purposes, http://38.media.tumblr.com/545009b7f49c13e5d45dafddfc2406a3/tumblr_n676jqxaMl1ttk21ho5_r1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jorge_Stolfi << lawl.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i wouldn't know either way, just saw a wikipedia page!! after googling
cazalla: drinking this https://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_788413
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: ;)
cazalla: mircea_popescu> archive.today thing works fine. <<< i have started to do this
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2015 00:01:46; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and deliberately pseudo-open architecture (runs linux, sure, but with massive closed blobs required even to boot. and vendor regularly pays media mouthpieces to lie about it; also posts astroturfed comments)
asciilifeform: to borrow mircea_popescu's terminology, buying a dedicated, e.g., rsa silicon, communicates information to enemy which he has no business learning
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've no idea who he is, but he fit my expected pattern for the inevitably next mr yetmoarspam far too well
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: (these are often included as coprocessor 'cores' on conventional cpu)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he specifically mentioned cryptoaccelerator modules
danielpbarron: http://danielpbarron.com/Avatar_X.txt "On why your comment was removed? Well, you decided to do a slight snide remark and at the same time promote another site. If you had just said: qntra is worth a look. they are more into articles and commentary though. Then you comment would be still there."
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 21:25:02; asciilifeform: trinque: the hypothetical 'mutual assistance' org you suggest would roughly resolve to a 'society for let's we all get filthy rich, and not warren-buffet-usg-rich either, but mircea_popescu-rich'
mircea_popescu: trinque hence "<mircea_popescu> well... maybe his uncle!"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the short-term picture? sure
trinque: mircea_popescu: I want the book on your life someday.
trinque: mircea_popescu: wow, very cool
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i just think you'd admire someone who'd want to completely gut the welfare state
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you must be thinking of another usa on another alternate planet earth
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: would like Francis Underwood if he were a real person.
asciilifeform: http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141024152906/starfrontiers/images/0/07/13mm_gyrojet_pistol_round.jpg << rocket
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking of small arms, are you familiar with (historic) 'gyrojet' ?
asciilifeform: http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/jp_tankhunters/fig1_japanese_lunge_mine_antitank.jpg << obligatory 'for when it no longer matters' weapon
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in english-speaking world 'weirdo' rounds (explode, flechette, etc.) are generally made for '12' shotgun
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: are you sure you were thinking of -this- .50 ?
mircea_popescu: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/50_AE_and_32_ACP.jpg/275px-50_AE_and_32_ACP.jpg there.
asciilifeform: http://www.firearmstalk.com/images/3/9/0/8/3/thumb2_rounds-178.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cpu bitcoin miner would barely make any satoshi << cargocult
mircea_popescu: mike_c anyway, the demographic that supposedly "doesn'ty exist" and "doesn't matter" and "never wins elections" and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: mike_c politically active, politically unafilliated, filthy rich, mostly azn, some caucasian.
cazalla: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/world/europe/german-law-requires-more-women-on-corporate-boards.html?_r=0
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's on qntra alrady
gribble: nickel iron battery information: <http://www.nickel-iron-battery.com/>; Nickel–iron battery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93iron_battery>; Nickel-Iron NiFe batteries by Iron Edison: <http://ironedison.com/>
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it also laughs at deep-cycling, overcharging, heat, vibration...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you know how, then yes!
cazalla: mircea_popescu, it's not that i'm interested in it (or would understand/appreciate the issue tbh) but it seemed obvious way to poke a hole in orlov's prediction, at least that it might occur in my lifetime anyway
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: moves the mineral question to the storage battery
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'mineral - wrong word, yes. meant 'полезные ископаемые' in general
cazalla: mircea_popescu, whether you care or not would be influenced if you are to run out tomorrow or 100-200 years from now though
asciilifeform: jurov: recall mircea_popescu's 'act from cause not towards purpose' heuristic? it applies here
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and deliberately pseudo-open architecture (runs linux, sure, but with massive closed blobs required even to boot. and vendor regularly pays media mouthpieces to lie about it; also posts astroturfed comments) ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'raspberry pi' << terrible machine for the money, plus long history of disinformation and hype bordering on outright fraud: >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-03-2014#540882 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=22-01-2015#988359 etc ☝︎☝︎
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 22:59:43; airgapped: pete_dushenski: working, I specialize in "secure" microcontrolers
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: ic is inherently nonverifiable
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 03:30:18; mircea_popescu: and that is, joining the wot early, and helping set the world on fire. it. strictly it.
airgapped: pete_dushenski: working, I specialize in "secure" microcontrolers ☟︎
jurov: oh and mircea_popescu withdrawals pls
jurov: <mircea_popescu> i don't recall why we didn't like the pi for this purpois << alf proclaimed it as depending on binary turd (that supposedly leaks key material by any channel conceivable), thus unworthy
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.airgapped.1:9fdc995fb92b89f46ae90459ad60e2b6c87f4627292744d93d9e0c7c8f3f0be7
airgapped: pete_dushenski: yes
assbot: irc_bots:assbot [bitcoin assets wiki] ... ( http://bit.ly/1Bg8Xrk )
mircea_popescu: airgapped http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/irc_bots/assbot <
airgapped: mircea_popescu: thanks
mircea_popescu: $ curl -IL http://trilema.com/wp-content/themes/trilema/trilema_credits.php | more
sjsqd: the page that shows as being blank = http://trilema.com/wp-content/themes/trilema/trilema_credits.php
mircea_popescu: ideally you want exactly what ben_vulpes was proposing : a node server with a wallet client
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: though i still insist that 'red' cryptomaterial should not touch the networked box
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i like PeterL's suggestion
asciilifeform: trinque: the hypothetical 'mutual assistance' org you suggest would roughly resolve to a 'society for let's we all get filthy rich, and not warren-buffet-usg-rich either, but mircea_popescu-rich' ☟︎
asciilifeform: and i am specifically not speaking of mircea_popescu's favourite 'rescue animals', young gurlz
asciilifeform: PeterL: when i went to mircea_popescu's conference-2, had an attache of rng samples, which nobody at any of the borders was interested in so much as opening much less demanding to know how to plug them in
chetty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if waste of time, then what is the correct answer that machine like 'scalpl' is actually approximating when it grinds ?
mircea_popescu: http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0060/6102/products/book_buy_sell_sell_new_1024x1024.jpg?v=1291137799
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu doesn't 'believe in' infinitesimals either, does he
asciilifeform can see where mircea_popescu is going - 'no clockwork universe' - but a trading engine in sufficiently small time span does behave rather like a clockwork universe
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: defined as 'what bits would you send back in time to time T1, if you could, from time T2, to maximize profit from investing C coin'
PeterL: mircea_popescu: Is F.DERP statement coming soon?
decimation: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/01/greg_page_on_fo.html > "And there have always been voices to let market signals determine how farmers planted their crops. Don't make people grow cotton just to maintain their base acres in the cotton program, when the world is crying out for more soybeans to feed itself."
adlai: asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's somewhat like saying that 'engineers hate friction'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm sure the denizens liked it also. but as al said, 'first ecstasy, then laundry.' we're living with the results of '90s sv.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: almost all american programmers of a certain age once wrote lisp of some description
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this ancient fallacy has a name: 'dwim'
decimation: mircea_popescu I thought you were just making a point about "I use this thing and it works" is so 90's
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 22:06:11; mike_c: yeah, some like ada :D
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> "implying she might run in 8 years?" << no, being facetious.
danielpbarron: asciilifeform, http://www.amazon.com/dp/3540693351/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_asp_tErxI.1VXP299
asciilifeform: procedure Puts (Str : Char_Array);
asciilifeform: pragma No_Run_Time;
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: srs
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes lol when she's 80
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> which is why the democrats have alternatives. because she's not running. << implying she might run in 8 years?
cazalla: pete_dushenski, pretty sure she can't announce nomination until such and such a date.. part of what made the bitbet bet's that clinton and rand would announce last year an easy win
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu and i'd still bet a nickel on the republicans
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu repblicans don't exactly 'have alternative', much less plural
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: point was that these folks live in a perverse sandbox world where it literally doesn't matter what happens
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu except she's not running... yet.
ben_vulpes: <pete_dushenski> asciilifeform clinton's going to claim 'hacked' when one of these emails shows something undue ? << a good reason to use usg mailservers and own your keys
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski not my country, whadda i care. she's still the only not braidamaged runner so far.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu i seem to recall you saying something to the effect of 'old women in power are the fucking worst'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's rich if it's denominated in plutonium!
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 21:40:01; mike_c: $5 / month is rich?
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 21:02:54; mike_c: seems there ought to be some reasonable blockchain evidence one way or the other. don't we know the ulbricht address in question?
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 21:02:00; mike_c: i understand the theory :) I don't get the basis.