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mircea_popescu: mircea
_popescu> "everyone" knows academi has been hiring overtime. << these are all noobs.
danielpbarron: i made a rootfs
_ramdisk.img but i'm pretty sure it isn't ready due to some confusion over what needs to be done with /dev/ and also there were other files mentioned in the guide that i could not find in my result
punkman: mircea
_popescu: (the guy fatass kim is trying to immitate, basically. paid $$ to be adopted by some ex german prince) << lol! Prince Frederic (Gabor's current husband) paid some old lady to adopt him too, rest of family doesn't recognize him.
mircea_popescu: <ascii
_field> danielpbarron: but a random person off the street cannot enter that world simply by asking. << you know this is actually a great idea for a movie.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field the problem you espouse is entirely of your own imagination.
ascii_field: (if you have someone appropriate in your meatspace wot, why would you be going to a pawn shop ?
_ mircea_popescu: ascii
_field really ?! a sane person can learn them by... going there.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: the countermeasures aren't usually something a clever person can learn from reading books
cazalla: mircea
_popescu, i wonder just how much the cops would be willing to pay if ransomware maker crafted it specifically for gov depts and not at home users
ascii_field: re: earlier thread: somewhat reminiscent of the 'sling dope' thread on mircea
_popescu's www
dignork: mircea
_popescu: wawert is the guy I mentioned to you earlier
mircea_popescu: <ascii
_field> it's one of those faux loopholes that's really a honeypot << so turn it on at obama's girlfriend's house.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field> but that the intersection of folks who -have- the problem, and those able to solve it, is thus far zero << this is merely an artefact of your own perspective, is my story an' im stickig to it.
ascii_field: (previous thread) if mircea
_popescu seriously applied his criteria re: who is 'marginal', #b-a would likely be the #mircea
_popescu-kakobrekla-jurov channel instead
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Well, that's kind of the problem with literature by committee. At some point someone's going to make the thing suck.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> i never followed that franchise, but did batman have a vallet / << He did indeed
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: where does the dead usg sysadmin come in? somehow missing it
thestringpuller: ascii
_field: out of orphan bachelors << an organization of Batmans?
thestringpuller: ascii
_field: this very much reminds me of aku's mentality in Samurai Jack...
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: seems only way to avoid gasenwagen in this sense is to become BTC version of pablo escobar...
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field see, this is how i distinguish a genius geek from a simple geek : the latter programs computer to interact with him. the former, to interact with the girls.
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: aren't there still political factors involved calling up senator to deliver shipping container of benjies to you?
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: yes. and this one of the very few reliable auto-tipoffs available to the gasenwagen
PeterL: ascii
_field: you can take cash into grocery store, exchange for food, neh?
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field the guy's 11k are NOT a crate of dollars. barely one brick.
thestringpuller: pete
_dushenski: "you don't know me yet, but lemme build some trust somehow"
thestringpuller: pete
_dushenski: as is the nature of "becoming known" to a plug so you can re-up in the future.
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: yes exactly! which goes to point mircea
_popescu just brought up
thestringpuller: pete
_dushenski: yes so this is pretty much like drug dealing. or at least from my limited experience of "riding along" with drug dealers
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski> thestringpuller: you can't use bitstamp ? or bitcoin-otc ? or one of those schmancy atms ? << it's bs, all of it. people can trade ~infinity btc/usd without any problems PROVIDED THEYRE IN THE WOT
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field> mircea
_popescu: asciilifeform and then << the general concept being that people will find themselves under so much pressure as the thing advances, that marginals (ie, people who depend on paychecks etc) are prolly in a very weak position to participate anyway.
thestringpuller: pete
_dushenski: is this for digitized of physical fiat? i'm assuming former
thestringpuller: pete
_dushenski: I personally use bitcoin-otc but that's only because I have trusted people to sell me coin. For someone on fringes of this footprint who needs local fulfillment this creates the risk of "trapping".
thestringpuller: pete
_dushenski: see the difference in mitigated risk between the overbearing nature of War on Drugs in state such a Virginia or Texas, vs say Colorado or Washington in regards to cannabis shops. Yes the risk involved in transit (large sums of money between shop and "bank", and transit of goods being guarded by ex military sekurity)
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: asciilifeform and then when we start hiring, we hire slaves, like anyone hiring << simply wanted to point out that all of the #b-a projects (with possible exception of kakobrekla's work) are powered a hundred percent by the fiat economy's surplus - that is, free hours of various folks involved - and to some extent are at the mercy of their day job fortunes (see, e.g., the demise of moiety)
thestringpuller: pete
_dushenski: re: War on Drug << We can't buy Bitcoin without the help of Coinbase, or submitting to enemy's wishes, so alternative is to hit the streets. This is similar if not exact mentality of aspiring drug dealer wanting his own corner.
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: perhaps not in nyc, or at least not manhattan
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: scoopbot does seem to be working fine...for nao ;)
mike_c: mircea
_popescu: not teleology, I just don't see how a poker site gets enough traffic if the only problem it solves is "we'll host your weekly poker game".
danielpbarron: mike
_c, you don't play with strangers, unless they are vouched for by someone you know
dignork: mike
_c: well, define "long". 100 hands? 200?
dignork: mike
_c: yep, it's close to impossible to get a hard proof, but statistical violations are good enough, with a very small false positives.
dignork: mike
_c: you don't have to neg-rate them, just abn them from poker site
mircea_popescu: mike
_c also, they play limit headsup, which... nobody plays.
mircea_popescu: mike
_c a bot that knows the distribution tables really well has an edge. sure.
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: gladly suck our cock if only we a) didn't bang hotties and b) validated their self-hottie delusions. << These are usually the girls who start false accusing despite being squelched.
mircea_popescu: mike
_c collusion and bots are different topics. however, because collusion offers a small but systematic bonus, it's what makes bots always win. in the .5 to 1.5% range, depending.
dignork: mike
_c: collusion is insignificat for a poker shop in financial means, it's a PR problem when discovered, and consequently the lose players/source of income.
mircea_popescu: mike
_c you jus' sayin' or you actually thought about this ?
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski no but he has a point. making an irc bot excellent coding exercise. i agree, good 1st time thing for intelligent person.