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mircea_popescu: incidentally, i might as well put it in
the open : if anyone in
the l1 / my wot is
trying
to buy bitcoin but has
trouble doing so, i'll sell you a few as a courtesy so we don't find ourselves in
this situation where clerical difficulties enact a division in
the republic.
trinque: one option would be
to formalize
the process and present it
to
the wot; surely
there's a few grand of buying per month on rotation at
the very least
trinque: doesn't look like
the whole picture, but I'm not going
to piece it
together myself
esthlos: gotta hit
the sack for now, vtron
tomorrow
esthlos: but i don't know, probably just have
to grow up
mircea_popescu: i suppose i should say "i have no proof free market in btc exists as i've not given much of a shit re usd
thence", but really now, how often needs
the dough be proofed ?
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the ~only
time i was specifically interested, ie, when
the question of defeating argentina's whore in
the election was on
the
table, i personally moved macroscopic piles of dough for
the purpose, with little difficulty.
esthlos: trinque:
that's rather interesting. anyway, I'm sure you see
the dilemma: everyone "successful" around me sees no fundamental problem with usg system, and when you say "this spec is atrocious; have you ever heard of
the CLHS?" or any infinite variation on
that
theme,
the only response is incredulity. but what, somehow I have
the magic sauce and everyone around me is wrong?
this is my current resistance
to
trilema
thought
mircea_popescu: i have yet
to see a round wheel (to arbitrary standard of roundness).
trinque: they suck, you know how
to push
the buttons and make 'em go
this way and
that, enjoy it
mircea_popescu: this is a perpetual problem in
time-settled deals, hence "cure period"
trinque was mentiuoning etc
trinque: esthlos: doesn't seem
to me
that
the compartmentalization is anything other
than a skill. only why be sad about it
mircea_popescu: well, alternatively
they charge an insurance. what
third option is
there ?
mircea_popescu: this "trade without physical existence" strikes me
to come out of
the same pot as "extrasensory events". really, ghost can interact with matter now ? how, prythee ?!
mircea_popescu: anyway, i struggle
to conceptualize what it is you want here, in a way
that'd
take it out of storytelling and into reality.
there's outfits selling gold for btc -- but
they have
to send it somewhere. iirc one even permits you
to pick it up... but ummm... HOW are
they
to know "you" are picking it up ? and so on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, only for as long as
they got
the 50k or 1 btc.
☟︎ trinque: aaa
that's it!
too bad search hasn't eaten
the linked items yet
mircea_popescu: anyway, your 1 criterion is impossible --
to wire, must know at least an iban.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what exactly is
the standard you're following here ?
mircea_popescu: i haven't been following so closely. iirc
they at some point wanted i dun recall what paperwork, i sneered and
turned off
the light.
mircea_popescu: but be
that as it may, many moons ago i eg sold some coins on an outfit davout worked for at
the
time ;
they showed up in bank as advertised, closed at price as advertised etc.
trinque: esthlos: I was looking for
the
thread where mircea_popescu mentions minds leaning schizoid or paranoid
mircea_popescu: i am not aware of a market in which large packets are advertised.
the best kept secret of any brokerage, say, is when large packets are bought or sold.
trinque: so where'd you want
them
to buy again?
trinque: asciilifeform: lol, you'd rather
they move
the market like crazy each
time?
esthlos: to be clear, model A is standard USG model, where I most clearly see
the fraud in
the
tech (if you recal, my original draw here was lispm, after I read history and saw current state of retardation), and model B is
trilema, as I'm beginning
to understand it
mircea_popescu: but yes, broadly speaking,
the model is either closed or recycled, as you say.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, you know, can sell
these chunks at auction, like usg pretends
to have done. or w/e.
esthlos: that I'm encountering
two incommeasurable pictures of reality, and instead of solidly believing one, I
try
to straddle
the gap. but
this fails and always leaves me babbling incoherently
mircea_popescu: if, eg, i had found of bitcoin in 2015 as opposed
to 2011, i might have conceivably bought a card concession like
the debit store cards
things, and simply offered it
to
the world until i had bought enough
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, no, it worked
the other way, spend bitcoin
to get
this usd credit. you know, ~debit~ card.
esthlos: presteigous company full of smart people, 100+B USD in assets, and
tech is all microshit, aws, scala... what
the fuck do I believe
Mocky: gotta ask, has asciilifeform done such disclosure in
the past and regrets?
a111: Logged on 2018-05-23 03:02 mircea_popescu:
the only known pill
to
the mess being a sort of encapsulation, "the worldview from x priors
through y structure is z" ; which is why disciplines such as
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-19#1815636 are even interesting
to
the
thinking man. it's not
that "in reading ancient cuneiform i gain a new skill of flour and water mixing into novel bread", but it is
that "in managing
to regard
the world
through
the eyes of a reconstructed
esthlos: in
the vein of
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-23#1817320 ,
trying
to reconcile
the sheer fraud of USG
technology has driven me
to
the limits of sanity for a number of years now, and even with
trilema providing
the only solid counterstructure I've found, I do fragment when very successful (in USGland) people around me see no fundamental problem with USG system
☝︎ douchebag: Well I would much rather be paid for finding a vulnerability
than go and exploit it and risk going
to prison
douchebag: Well, you see how
this would be a bad business strategy?
douchebag: Thus, making it impossible for
terrorist
to exploit
douchebag: Well, not exactly since
the vulnerabilities are being patched
douchebag: Aside from
that, I don't really see what's bad about a responsible disclosure policy. I don't believe
that asking people
to not fuck your shit up in exchange for payment is
too much
to ask
a111: Logged on 2018-05-22 20:59 mircea_popescu: well, do you
then see how
this is
the only available blade of "fiat corrupts" for
the empire ? dull and small as it is, it's
their mangy goat, one and only.
douchebag: Well I've been paid via bitcoin
through hackerone before. Oh and yeah, I don't agree with
the code of conduct shit either, but it's whatever. It's worth considering
that all of
these companies have a dedicated security
team patching
the vulnerabilities found,
triagers are being paid
to validate reports, and obviously people who make
these reports are being paid.
mircea_popescu: it is not always
the case one can
take
the contents of webpages at face value.
mircea_popescu: douchebag, in
the same vein, "various outfits offer bitcoin plastic" as per recent piece hanbot published.
mircea_popescu: trinque, for instance. or maybe
there's a great book awaiting
the writing in
there ; or a great woman he's not yet met, or nobody knows
the future. which is why
the "things not
to do" list is so fucking short and vague.
trinque: and hey, for all I know
there's money
to be chumped out of
the webturd security racket and into bitcoin, and he's just
the man
to do it.
trinque had not read
the barometer piece, hilarious.
mircea_popescu: Mocky,
there's a usg-reservation in mexico.
there's however also
the headquarters of
the only military force
to humiliate
the usg at home
to date,
they pretty much conquered
the old mexican lands well into arizona.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-05-23 02:58 douchebag: However, I'm not sure if
that's a fight
they will be able
to win in
the longrun
Mocky: I've never been, but a look at job listings for mexico city features
tons of amzn, cisco, jpmorgn, ibm, honeywell etc.
mircea_popescu: "so what's wrong with following social convention ? it has its uses, such as you know,
the rote possibility of meaning in language" "sure.
there's nothing wrong with following social convention. but
there's plenty wrong with attempting
to enforce it on unwilling participants. maybe
they have good reasons
they're not following it ~in
that case~."
mircea_popescu: are you aware btw of
that great write-up of
the stubborn physics student ?
a111: Logged on 2018-05-23 02:53
trinque: douchebag: what do you make of
the notion
that
the "consumer economy" will not last forever?
a111: Logged on 2014-05-20 13:40 mircea_popescu:
there was a necrodearia/mizerydearia character active 2009-2011ish,
the utter epitome of it.
douchebag: Linux version 3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64 (builder@kbuilder.dev.centos.org) (gcc version 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9) (GCC) ) #1 SMP
Thu Mar 31 16:04:38 UTC 2016
mircea_popescu: did
they use weak debian
too,
to prove
the point re rngs for your benefit ?
douchebag: Here's
their /etc/passwd file for anyone interested
douchebag: Just found a local file disclosure vulnerability in
the UK National Health Service