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mircea_popescu: in other news, the somethingawful coverage of bitcoin has changed from "clearly the people behind bitcoin are marginal fuckwits who don'
t understand central topics everyone else understands" two years ago to "clearly the media is writing positive articles because it talks to a general audience which is very poorly educated and doesn'
t understand central topics only we understand"
Ghaleon_: this is bangkog and tequila don;
t mix
nubbins`: talking her through breakfast so she doesn'
t choke on it
mircea_popescu: by now my shit is too complex for me to even say, and i don'
t even code ;/
Neil: Don'
t wanna waste everyone's time if it's just gonna be rejected again
ThickAsThieves: Can'
t you just say, diff will not change more than 16%, then have a close date?
Neil: I don'
t think so. Who can answer definitively?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves amusingly, it's exactly the converse. in public he can stand symbolic, in private he can'
t be more than just himself.
mircea_popescu: leah derpman is still "hiding for her lyf" and she didn'
t even talk to me, so well it worked.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves to be flatly honest, i suspect these just aren'
t matters that anyone over there ever considered. at all.
mircea_popescu: i mean wasn'
t anything of much interest, i guess, and i'm trying to be hospitable/accomodating to the strange mores of these foreign peoples,
mircea_popescu: "outperformed almost everythjing except for mpex stocks which we don'
t talk about because they suck because they suck because they suck because they have been outperforming all our retarded shit for three years straight now and mp is an asshole who fucks a lot of women and is currently paying one with a huge rack to humiliate us in public so fuck that shit mate!11"
nubbins`: what, making fat stacks isn'
t an achievement? ;D
mircea_popescu: im sure he doesn'
t like tits-pr. me... i'm an abstraction.
nubbins`: dr leering forehead really doesn'
t like you
mircea_popescu: men don'
t normally, but then again female is the default gender so if you vegetate for long enough you will start exhibiting feminine traits)
nubbins`: ;;later tell benkay i don'
t hate the look, i hate the fact that it's barely functional. ;(
BingoBoingo: antephialtic: Their writing styles aren'
t similar at all
ozbot: Weev Is Still in Jail Because the Government Doesn'
t Know What Hacking Is | Motherboard
chetty: wasn'
t that on bitcointalk?
benkay: you don'
t have to have an account to read
BingoBoingo: There are reasons certain people get to be on TV and radio and others aren'
t BingoBoingo: chetty: A big problem with bitcoin podcasts is the voices of the presenters in many cases, just weren'
t meant to be heard
BingoBoingo: Also some stuff can'
t be digested well from audio.
benkay: implicit due to previous conversations is the notion that america doesn'
t produce worthwhile comedy.
benkay: upshot was "honey, if there's no text, and it ain'
t comedy, i ain'
t interested."
benkay: babydoll wanted me to watch some maddow thing about god i don'
t even remember
BingoBoingo: I seriously can'
t get over how much better your site looks Benkay
benkay: they probably won'
t allow me to make commits on the clock for much longer anyways.
joecool: still doesn'
t mean I think it's a great idea to ship a product without a convenient simple auth system (easier than carrying around a heavy armored briefcase), but yeah ttyl :P
joecool: mircea_popescu: bolt cutters to take it and shouldn'
t be too hard top open in in the right environment after
joecool: ie. if you did leave your unlock key on a public computer it wouldn'
t matter unless the attacker also held your device
joecool: mircea_popescu: don'
t do that?
joecool: the cardano seems ok if you can maintain physical security, it doesn'
t even try to stop an opportunistic attacker, i really don'
t see why it shouldn'
t have at least a simple auth system
bitcoinpete: asciilifeform: you're right, the cardano isn'
t the holy grail. but teleportation still is. i've edited the article accordingly.
MisterE: I haven'
t travelled much in Laos there's not really much there heh
MisterE: antephialtic: thats how they pronounce it but proper spelling is Vientiane, I have been there several times for visas but can'
t say I enjoy the place
MisterE: joecool: if you can work remotely don'
t hesitate
mircea_popescu: so now they won'
t ever get out of them if they can help it
Mats_cd03: if someone makes
t shirts with "i am satoshi nakamoto" with a v for vendetta theme or ghost in the shell, i will be your first customer
antephialtic: besides, I don'
t think MP is the one in trouble here. Voorhees, on the other hand ...
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 i don'
t see why not. i thought it already is, but more like "he is satoshi nakamoto"
mircea_popescu: to make a legal request you gotta make that legal request. i wouldn'
t presume to teach teh sec how to do that.
novusordo: didn'
t know about the cardano, interesting
mircea_popescu: "Make no mistake that the US gov'
t already knows the real identity and location of MP."
mircea_popescu: lol if it weren'
t a security issue i suppose i could make rings for people
diametric: asciilifeform: I swore you had told me you couldn'
t before.
mircea_popescu: can'
t you get models taht are essentially draw-driven ?
BCB: these guys don'
t fuck around
[\]: mircea_popescu: I forgot you don'
t play well in the sandbox.
Ademan: like, $10 pricey, if you want them for prototyping and don'
t summon too much blue smoke they're probably useful though
mircea_popescu: you know, just because i ask for x y z doesn'
t automatically mean i consider all of these "identification"
dexX7: shouldn'
t be one on mpex?
Ademan: asciilifeform: RAM for what? SHA256 doesn'
t need much memory
Ademan: dexX7: yeah, saw that, wasn'
t gen3 supposed to be out by this month though?
Ademan: I can'
t wait until the absurd amount of funds on wallstreet join in the price rollercoaster
dexX7: ah i didn'
t know that not everything was already released
Ademan: mircea_popescu: considering the trezor hasn'
t been released yet though, it hardly bothers me.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can'
t blame them. it's only the past 10-20 years that you can safely go in the undies of people picked off the street.
mircea_popescu: at the time bitcoin didn'
t look as big as it does today. iirc it was ~2-5 bux per or somesuch
mircea_popescu: this obviously will have to chance, and this obviously will change. it's just that a number of otherwise well meaning people didn'
t even know they had this problem until last month
mircea_popescu: well... it doesn'
t have the people, the brains, the training or the intellectual culture.
mircea_popescu: but the real clash isn'
t "you wanna phone me ? get on irc"
ozbot: Charlamagne Doesn'
t Care if White People Say N-Word - YouTube
mircea_popescu: tech crutch. read all about how you don'
t need to really understand anything about new tech.
dexX7: i don'
t get it? why did you mark this bet?
ninjashogun: benderp - it doesn'
t just take a weekend. Part of what I'm doing is the ideation portion. For example I'm soliciting mirceau's feedback on just one aspect right now.
Apocalyptic: it's wasn'
t humiliating enough to get hacked & lose all funds, but now they came with the IDEA of an btc insurance company
mircea_popescu: well maybe the usg open sources its english translations/summaries of romanian
t articles