mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iatrogenic << nah, my money's on a yet unidentified pollutant from industrial practice. something in consumer products, from the shitty gelatin kraft/unilver uses as the basis of all their "products" - really flavoured goop, to soaps plastics w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform folks should fight whatever war they feel like.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller no, i mean low value idiots who'd gladly suck our cock if only we a) didn't bang hotties and b) validated their self-hottie delusions.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform industry is industry. they all use the same thing.
mircea_popescu: you imagine there's any difference between ANY fizzy drink ?
mircea_popescu: autism starts to move up just about the time warren buffett starts derping about how great wrigley is.
mircea_popescu: it's a by-product of the "Great Industrial Integration" of the late 60s
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's certainly damned hard to fish through the soup currently.
mircea_popescu: but incidentally : girl bought 'dijon mustard' by kraft. made to mimic actual legitimate producers.
mircea_popescu: immediately tasted the telltale bitter back of mouth aftertaste.
mircea_popescu: ALL THEIR FUCKING SHIT is made out of the same goop, with flavourings.
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mircea_popescu: in practical terms, however, most people eat pre-produced stuff, either at home or in a "restaurant"
mircea_popescu: there is the occasional shop that's competent, but by and large the label offers no protection.
danielpbarron: i've got two examples of writing uboot and they use different flags and different start addresses
danielpbarron: /tmp/nandwrite /dev/mtd0 /tmp/uboot.2014.07-tld-1.pogo_v4.mtd0.kwb
danielpbarron: /usr/sbin/nandwrite -p -s 0x100000 /dev/mtd0 /tmp/uboot.bin
cazalla: this food talk reminds me of current hysteria of hepatitis a laden frozen berries from china doing the rounds here in australia, many people such, much surprise for some reason.. while on holidays, i spot the same shit in my parents freezer, advise em that they might not wanna eat this but get met with abuse, you think you know everything response.. a month later, hep a scare! so sweet lulz
danielpbarron: and i can use the flash_erase and nandwrite that come on the stock pogo?
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mircea_popescu: "But it's the wealth gap that we should be worried about, soon to be greatly increased. Wealth gaps mean feudalism. They mean, on the one hand, universal healthcare-- everyone gets the same; on the other hand, flow chart medicine-- since everyone gets the same, let's just make a flowchart. It also means mental health parity, which is really a way to funnel the poor into the only outlet we have to deal with their rage
mircea_popescu: call me when they fill up a ranch with young fillies collected from detroit. then they may be rich in the feudal sense of powerful.
ben_vulpes: there are always those water-fueled cars...
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ben_vulpes: <NewLiberty> [] USD will kill USD, even without XBT << xbt lol
ben_vulpes: <pete_dushenski> [] Xuthus: and who would you be ? << that guy who broke his dick, right?
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ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] pollution is my guess. << "you don't need to make up and over fit models to convince me that the silicon fabrication process is realrealreal bad for life on planet earth"
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [] the fizzy drinks and synthetic beers have been around longer than autism, though. << what on earth is synthetic beer!?
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] there is the occasional shop that's competent, but by and large the label offers no protection. << nice thing about growing up proximate to actual farm land worked by actual humans is the learned skill of being able to nix Cisco-vendors after a single visit.
ben_vulpes: to all of the ex-californians, a french fry is a french fry is a french fry.
mike_c: who puts a goddamn forward slash in their nick
mike_c: note kako's wot links don't work for him
ben_vulpes: would believe 'anything from busch et al'
mircea_popescu: well, put it another way : if tax was paid on it it necessarily sucks, because well... it couldn't not suck and stay competitive.
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mircea_popescu: so sure, w/e your microbrewing friend gave you in exchange for those two 6 yos you kidnapped is prolly drinkable.
ben_vulpes: i don't think you've seen beer prices around here lately.
ben_vulpes: the delta between ye olde mass markete pricing and the locally made swill is on the order of 200-300%
decimation: asciilifeform: one way or another, iatrogenic. you can take that to the bank. << who knows, maybe it comes from giving out antibiotics like candy
trinque: plenty of excellent microbrew in the pac NW
mircea_popescu: jesus this free speech thing i can't even force a point beyond all reason without you people oppressing my metaphordisphoria
decimation: asciilifeform: the vendors aren't really trying to mimic the genuine article. << no, they optimize on 'sales'
decimation: asciilifeform: you gonna mine the seafloor for Pt?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not new at all. recall "david copperfield" - "with actual sugar on top!11"
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decimation: also they drank shit-water from the thames
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> jesus this free speech thing i can't even force a point beyond all reason without you people oppressing my metaphordisphoria << it's for the logs :P
ben_vulpes: less the children of tomorrow not get it
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trinque: ben_vulpes: childen of tomorrow wont be able to read
decimation: minerals, and poisons used in mechanics and manufacture, enriched with the putrefying carcases of beasts and men, and mixed with the scourings of all the wash-tubs, kennels and common sewers within the bills of mortality." (5)"
mike_c: an open aqueduct is mawkish? you mean.. like a river?
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trinque: heh, now it's fracking chemicals and recycled pharmeceutical piss
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ben_vulpes: mike_c, decimation: the feds and CH2MHILL are going to cover our historic open reservoirs.
ben_vulpes: nevermind the radon and bacterial buildup that closed reservoirs entail
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> so sure, w/e your microbrewing friend gave you << or my brother :D he even makes his own yeast cultures
danielpbarron: SetBestChain: new best=000000000000000007e4 height=344301 work=5843887003250562996213694 date=02/20/15 02:14:19
danielpbarron: SetBestChain: 3 of last 100 blocks above version 2
assbot: Logged on 19-02-2015 20:48:27; ascii_field: great sim heist << transparent nsa smokescreen. gsm uses toy crypto since day one (usg mandate) and has always been breakable with minimal effort.
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TheNewDeal: thanks for taking time to write that hard drive article ascii
danielpbarron: i got a bunch of warnings, but i seem to have my own nandwrite and flash_erase compiled from this source -> ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/mtd-utils/
danielpbarron: i'm not anywhere near skilled enough to check that source for badness though
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decimation: "nothing feels as good as fighting rightists
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decimation: "Jeder, der ein rohes Hühnerei in die Demo wirft, darf sich einmal fühlen wie Stauffenberg im Kampf gegen Hitler - doch der Vergleich hinkt: Stauffenberg war ja auch irgendwie Rechts, oder?" < Anyone who throws a raw egg in the demonstration may once feel like Stauffenberg in the fight against Hilter - but the comparison is misleading - Stauffenberg was kind of a rightist [Nazi, fascist] too?
decimation: "Und das jährliche Turnier „Golf gegen Rechts“ hat sich um den „New Golf Award 2015“ beworben. Ausgezeichnet werden dabei die innovativsten Ideen für ein neues Golf-Turnier." < the annual "golf against the rightists" tournament has been awared the "new golf award 2015" for the most innovative idea for a new golf tournament.
decimation: the modern germans have become a parody of a parody of an anti-nazi poster
decimation: of course, the fact that no actual nazis exist (nor the fact that nearly every modern german has a nazi ancestor) doesn't stop them from using it to prop up their vote-banks
mircea_popescu: <decimation> "nothing feels as good as fighting rightists << somebody's bound to sooner or later discover sexual intimacy and move on.
mircea_popescu: In addition, anti-fascism was never to have as cheap as today. Previously, he could cost you your life, today it costs no more than lip service among peers - and heard to this, the exclusive circle of the upright, decent, brave. The fighters against law form the peerage of enlightened society. Or even a shot polemical: Here is an indulgence trade takes place; the moral superiority can be acquired simply by joining the
☟︎ mircea_popescu: The repertoire is considerable: There is the rock against law and rapping against the Right, of course, sing and cry against law, but also against the right costumes and football games against law. The "Green Youth" in Hamburg regularly invites to "Celebrate against law," a political deal, which is by the way very well received by young people, and the children of the class 7b of Augustin-Wibbelt High School in Warendo
mircea_popescu: rf even dancing against law - early practice only makes me be an anti-fascist. The other hand, is difficult to measure the success of the courageous campaign of the DGB youth in Dortmund: "No sex with Nazis." And possibly mix different motivations in Berlin Initiative "According to fuck each law."
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decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah I figured you would like that
decimation: "I can be a slut - it's okay as long as I don't fuck a nazi!"
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decimation: well, didn't Goebbels have kids for his wife to poison?
ben_vulpes: there are all kinds of fluids in that gif
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ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: and in yourself, myself...
decimation:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/02/daniel_sumner_o.html > "I just have to mention that I once saw a hearing on this on TV and I was paying attention, for a while, because I thought this would be good for my class; ... But the high point of this, which made it all worthwhile, was one of the Senators asked the milk person why milk was treated so differently from every other product. And there was an awkward silence. And of course
decimation: the real reason is because of politics; and we're going to get to that in a second. But the person had to say something. He couldn't just say, 'Because I'm politically important.' Or, 'My state is politically important.' Or whatever it was. So, he said,' Well, milk is special.' And the Senator, who was not from a milk state, said,' Why?' And the witness had a problem there. He had to think of something. So he said, 'Well, milk's bulky.'
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decimation: another good one from the same podcast: " A man named Northly[?] came--he was the Executive Vice President of the North Carolina Peanut Association. Wonderful guy. He stood up as this conference was ending, and he said, 'Let me tell you about the peanut program. There's only two people in America who understand how the peanut program works. It's my job to keep it that way.'"
pete_dushenski: then 30 years later: "i never said that, but it sounds like me!"
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cazalla: thestringpuller, what's wrong with using it for a card game like hearthstone?
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thestringpuller: cazalla: "To get the in-game economy going, EverdreamSoft plans to sell 70,000,000 BitCrystals, which is the premium currency used in Spells of Genesis to forge card packs or new items." << sounds like ethereum nonsense
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cazalla: thestringpuller, ah so more a kickstarter than an actual game
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ben_vulpes: call me when no debit cards are involved
ben_vulpes: it reeks of wankery at this point, but eulora is the only btc-only game in town
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saifedean: good morning, folks, it's been too long
saifedean: so our conversation last time has gotten me to dig up the old heretic PhD and clean it up into a shorter readable paper with most the interesting bits
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dignork: pete_dushenski: /q fluffypony
dignork: my bad, tried to pm you, but garbage in buffer turned command into noise on channel
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punkman: how dare you not use adcents
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mats: Fun fact: Lenovo has been shipping adware for years, with silent remote upgrades over HTTP. Adding a MITM cert is their idea of being less intrusive than showing popup ads during powerpoint presentations.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2014 11:58:12; mats_cd03: fun fact: a piece of lenovo windows crapware downloads an xml file over
http then downloads and executes windows platform-specific binary.
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jurov: mats, i got only dead links there
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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: it reeks of wankery at this point, but eulora is the only btc-only game in town << srsly.
mircea_popescu: saifedean: in pdf << BingoBoingo you got that pdf converter thing anymore ?
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dignork: mircea_popescu: I'd love to, but currently I fail to see how to handle collusion, if player's identity is not WoT based
mircea_popescu: all that's needed really is an excellent coder willing to admin it long term.
dignork: mircea_popescu: collusion is discovered in the long run, afer the fact, f you can't ban/punish the player, code quality won't help :(
dignork: you could require an escrow for each player though
mircea_popescu: dude, if i tell you it's solved... what, want me to pay you an escrow on it ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: height=210431 vs height=186701 << is it about 10k a day or am i sorely misreading the numbers ?
mircea_popescu: "A YouTube representative called this revision a clarification of its existing policy, one that occurred late last year, intended to prevent advertiser conflicts and ensure viewers don’t feel bombarded by ads. Paul Kontonis, executive director of the Global Online Video Association, however framed it as an explicit change that prevents YouTube stars and multichannel networks from working prominent sponsor logos and i
mircea_popescu: mages into their videos without handing Google a cut of the revenue."
dignork: nah, the site should be self-sufficient imho, but I'd love to hear the solution though :)
mircea_popescu: the fucking lesson of "do not create content on a platorm you don't control" is never being learned is it.
BingoBoingo: And here I was thinking Geocities had taught everyone that lesson while it still lived
mircea_popescu: new generation of mouthbreathers every what, 5 years ?
mircea_popescu: dignork cool, but what i'm really looking for is someone to do the site.
dignork: mircea_popescu: I can't currently handle it myself, but I can bring a friend and we'll split the work, would you be interested to cooperate?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well... the problem is the previous attempt failed on pretty much exactly the same lines. who is this friend, why's he not in the wot etc.
assbot: Sim card database hack gave US and UK spies access to billions of cellphones | US news | The Guardian ... (
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mircea_popescu: noooo, you're telling me tim draper "won" the "auciton" ? again ?
BingoBoingo: Got part of the second one. Third is yet to come
BingoBoingo: They were said to have happened and Tim Draper's name came out of the hat more than once.
mircea_popescu: yeah yeah, i recall, the usms "auction" where they forgot to publish the results, in spite of foia, and their late promise to respect foia on an arbitrary extralegal self appointed date.
mircea_popescu: but i think it'd pretty much require best kim involvement for that result.
BingoBoingo: Don't think they'd waste her ass on this. Maybe second or third best kim.
BingoBoingo: Armenian Kim has the better, if somewhat smaller ass.
mircea_popescu: that guy is nuts btw, check this out : he kicked his uncle out of power, if you recall ? the guy who pretty much made him succeed.
mircea_popescu: then killed his kids, then the kids' kids, like fiddy bodies by now.
mircea_popescu: somehow THIS is acceptable to the "democratic west". what wasn't acceptable was you know, gaddafi an' his harem.
BingoBoingo: Right. Then again gaddafi was a softer target
assbot: Logged on 19-02-2015 20:48:27; ascii_field: great sim heist << transparent nsa smokescreen. gsm uses toy crypto since day one (usg mandate) and has always been breakable with minimal effort.
chetty: asciilifeform, ploy to get people to update to the ones they nice backdoors to?
mircea_popescu: mno. for that matter, i didn't watch my own birth happen, either.
mircea_popescu: my point is... they who tell the story and then act on the story are responsible toanswer as to their own consistency.
mircea_popescu: haha it is kinda reversed huh ? democrat pres clinton supported one side in the serb-bosnian conflict,
mircea_popescu: dem pres obama supports the OTHER side in the ukr conflict.
mircea_popescu: i guess social sciences have made some progresses over the years ?
mircea_popescu: (dja know the joke with "what, you think medicine has not progressed in the interval ?!?!")
mircea_popescu: "WizSec has been investigating the MtGox crash since soon after it occurred, making us probably the longest running non-official investigation."
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: so anyone wants to make a poker site ? << actually yes.
mircea_popescu: "every hand can be a new post. and hwat, you password protect it, so there's security"
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assbot: Male Student Allegedly Banned from Campus Because His Resemblance to a Rapist Was Triggering? - Hit & Run : Reason.com ... (
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mircea_popescu: "t’s devastating to think of a student being unable to walk around campus without having to risk being traumatized by reminders of her rape."
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mircea_popescu: who the fuck asked the stupid bitch. if she can't come to terms with the world she should stay in the asylum
pete_dushenski: typical "make the world conform to me so it's more fair"
mircea_popescu: that's the way this world works : normally adjusted individuals on the street, individuals who for whatever reason can't cope, in the coop.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform then they wonder why they have to pay people immense sums to keep secrets that still don't, and i don't have to pay them anything other than "yeah, yeah, i'll stick it to those dudes".
mircea_popescu: not that i mind the arrangement... but in absolute fairness it IS stupid as all fuck.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no because see, "to protect identities" this is not reported.
mircea_popescu: they've really built the most hallucinant re-enaction of the soviets : the guy doesn't have the right to anything EXCEPT he has the right for no one to know how the government fucked him over.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my construction (which obviously could be wrong) is that "the authorities" refuse to disclose it "citing privacy concerns"
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 02:47:31; asciilifeform: there is a related soviet joke. abramowitch (generic jew, not the oligarch) calls a friend who was over for dinner last night:
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 02:47:40; asciilifeform: 'we're short of a few silver spoons. shame on you';
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 02:47:46; asciilifeform: friend denies
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 02:48:01; asciilifeform: next day, A calls again 'we found the spoons. but the stain on your reputation... it remains.'
danielpbarron: is it about 10k a day << more like 5k: 183012, 189051, 194563, 200106, 204520, 210431
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron which setup is this again ? pogo and sata ?
danielpbarron: also this is with 2 gigs of swap killing the drive
mircea_popescu: hopefully this alleviates with better pogo density on the network.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at the time this was put in, the blockchain was mb not gb.
danielpbarron: all the times i called into Micon's stupid podcast i was trying to get him to integrate the WoT
mircea_popescu: he means well, but he doesn't have the tools to examine himself with.
danielpbarron: i sent him a tweet reminding him you tried offering him a job last year; maybe this mess has snapped him out of it
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: The Seals release on the matter makes it seem he's clearly already decided on a course of action
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i need that like i need more women that'd date me if i paid them a salary for it.
danielpbarron: a legit collusion free poker site would make a lot of money; seals wasn't dying for lack of players. they just all flocked to pokerstars play money where collusion was not profitable
danielpbarron: people have actually been BUYING play chips that they cannot cash out
mircea_popescu: early days of the republic are ALL ABOUT barriers to entry.
mircea_popescu: a decade later or w/e, the world can be as full of "i too could have been in" as it pleases, for all the good it'll do anyone.
mircea_popescu: "no you schmuck, you couldn't. as proven by ? didn't."
pete_dushenski: if it takes me 5 years to learn how to code, by golly i'll do it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then when we start hiring, we hire slaves, like anyone hiring. and then the slave-born cry and whine that "oh look, bitcoin's no better".
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.
assbot: Financial aid director at North Idaho College arrested for offering scholarships for sex @insidehighered ... (
http://bit.ly/1z5pvhy )
ben_vulpes: the curve is full of these oom steps up in complexity
danielpbarron: fwiw, i have actually coded things that worked before; I made my own minecraft plugin that used a database to keep track of credit/debt between players when they took items from chests / it broke when an update totally revamped the inventory control system and I abandoned it / also, it was java :/
mircea_popescu: that guy was probably doing them a favour, whoever they were.
mircea_popescu: "The financial aid director at North Idaho College was arrested this month and fired for offering to trade scholarships for sex with a student. However, the student wasn't real.
mircea_popescu: Joseph Bekken was arrested and jailed on charged of attempted misuse of public funds, attempted procurement of prostitution, burglary, using a computer in a scheme to defraud and bribery."
ben_vulpes: danielpbarron: and you avoided letting it trap you
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22651 @ 0.00040734 = 9.2267 BTC [-]
danielpbarron: i also coded a thing that would simulate players having to learn each other's language by speaking to each other to build up understanding; had the effect where a group of friends could talk in long sentences that strangers couldn't understand; strangers would have to talk in very short lines like "yes" "no" "here" in order to understand each other
danielpbarron: that part of it ended up being my favorite part; it worked very very well
danielpbarron: it would scramble lines based on how many words you had already seen from that player
danielpbarron: i think i still have the code lying around somewhere; i'll try to find it
ben_vulpes: is anyone familiar with these white "ceramic" "nonstick" pans?
ben_vulpes: shit's going to nuke my testes somehow, right?
mike_c: collusion-free poker is nice, but I think bots are more the problem.
mircea_popescu: it's been a decent replacement for teflon for a while now.
mike_c: most collusion isn't as profitable as one might think (if at all)
mircea_popescu: mike_c you jus' sayin' or you actually thought about this ?
ben_vulpes: technology gets worse over time not better
mike_c: i have thought. i have played a lot of poker in my time.
mike_c: no, bots and collusion are entirely separate
mircea_popescu: well so if you play 1k hands for an average of 1k a hand and come out 7k ahead is it a good game or a bad game ?
danielpbarron: if the bots aren't colluding then it's not an issue
mike_c: statistically insignificat
danielpbarron: i'll gladly play against non-colluding bots any day; a bot can't out-bluff a real person; the whole point in having bots is that they share info with each other
mike_c: over 1k hands you have no idea what your return is
mircea_popescu: i guess we go at this the other way then : we play poker, you see five + two cards, i see five + twelve cards.
mike_c: you have to put up much more money though
mike_c: when i lose, i lose 1x. you lose, you lose 6x
mike_c: you are paying 6x the blinds I am
mircea_popescu: yes, i pay more rake. that's there but not really significant.
mike_c: untrue. rake is brutal
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: you've been playing poker in north idaho with college admins it seems.
mircea_popescu: just generally. poker hand is a commodity, like pork bellies.
mike_c: Live rake is much higher than online.
mircea_popescu: live rake is not going to have 6 man collusion either, is it!
mike_c: No, I'm not. the profit margins both live and online are significantly affected by rake
mike_c: ok, so we're discussing online. where the profit margins and the rake are smaller
mircea_popescu: unless they were looking at making an offline site o.O
mike_c: anyhoo. Let me see if I can dig up some real stats.
dignork: danielpbarron: most bots do not collude - they make more money on the long run by playing with fish on small stakes. But yes, theoretically they could collude. It's just they are more profitable when they are not.
danielpbarron: dignork, i don't see what the problem is with a bot that doesn't collude
nubbins`: this is one of the nicer pieces of kit i've picked up over years of outdoorsyness:
mike_c: Pokerstars has $3 cap at common no-limit games
danielpbarron: if someone's in the WoT and they want a bot to play for them, I say go for it
dignork: danielpbarron: me either, but most players assume that bots are evil, hence all this bot-hunting madness
☟︎ mike_c: figure 80 hands/hour, avg $1 cap, 6 players at table (5 colluding)
mike_c: colluders are paying $66 an hour to play at a $1/$2 no-limit game
mircea_popescu: why "avg" ? you always fill the table. why "80" ? bot plays all the tables. all of them.
mike_c: average because max rake isn't every hand
mike_c: 80 because that's a common number of hands per hour at online
nubbins`: i taught my roomie about CAs yesterday using them as an example
mike_c: then who the fuck is it making money off of?
mircea_popescu: if you have 500 human players, you're running 500 tables, with a total of 3k "players"
dignork eagerly waits for the day when there will be a discovery on diddles bios on Lenovo
mike_c: Yeah, exactly. so we're talking about one table with me and 5 of your stupid bots colluding.
mike_c: to be clear, are you the site operator or just some other player running these bots?
mircea_popescu: this is like asking "who sent this bitcoin transaction"
mike_c: and also to be clear, i am talking about collusion, not bots.
nubbins`: i used to work for a national insurance company, every corporate machine was a lenovo
nubbins`: but they also didn't hash passwords, instead opting to store them in plain text
mike_c: because my whole point was bots are the problem, not collusion.
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.
mike_c: that is not what makes bots win. it simply gives bots a small bump over what their skill would be otherwise.
mircea_popescu: but if you want a statistical model, play with someone like this : three cards face up, two in the hole for you, two in the hole for them, a ten card window for them you can't see.
mike_c: for example, a bot will destroy you in headsup hold'em because it is now a solved problem.
mike_c: hand gesture my nuts. it's solved.
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danielpbarron: if you realize you are heads up against a bot, couldn't you use its algorithm against it?
mike_c: what's the emoticon for sticking a tongue out?
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.
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mike_c: danielpbarron: no. that's what solved means.
mike_c: you going to beat a bot at tic-tac-toe because you know its algorithm?
mike_c: and heads-up poker isn't 6 person poker.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron “We define a game to be essentially solved if a lifetime of play is unable to statistically differentiate it from being solved at 95% confidence,”
mike_c: you think you can beat it, there are machines in vegas where you can play against it for real money
mike_c: that was for danielpbarron
danielpbarron: for the sake of argument, say heads up is broken; no heads up!
mike_c: my point was collusion isn't what makes a bot win.
mike_c: a bot's winrate can be bumped up by collusion, but it is far from the biggest factor in its success or failure
mircea_popescu: mike_c a bot that knows the distribution tables really well has an edge. sure.
mike_c: but, this argument aside, the point of bringing it up - does your solution handle the bot problem?
mike_c: because that would be interesting.
danielpbarron: all of this is a moot point anyway if the pre-requisite for playing is being in the WoT
mircea_popescu: mike_c also, they play limit headsup, which... nobody plays.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16500 @ 0.0004119 = 6.7964 BTC [+] {2}
mike_c: and why does nobody play no-limit headsup anymore? and limit? because of this.
nubbins`: if the pre-req for playing is being in the WoT, the games are gonna suck
mike_c: people love headsup, but nobody will play online anymore cuz bots.
danielpbarron: well now i feel like a dick for having recommended people play only heads up to prevent collusion
mike_c: obviously it's not b/c collusion
danielpbarron: nubbins`, uh.. what/? when I play face-to-face it's WoT poker
danielpbarron: i only play with people I know, or someone i trust knows
BingoBoingo: Anyways the problem with bots in poker is they don't respond appropriately when you are drinking and talking shit at the table
mike_c: solvable problem. run 50 bots and pay somebody to sit and chat
mike_c: looks no different from the nuts who don't use bots and multi-table ridiculously
dignork: BingoBoingo: they don't, so you have one dude faking bot's responses for 10s of them.
danielpbarron: "if the pre-req for chatting on irc is being in the WoT, the chat is gonna suck"
mike_c: i don't know that wot solves it all. so we start neg-rating on suspicion of bot use?
dignork: mike_c: you don't have to neg-rate them, just abn them from poker site
danielpbarron: if you suspect someone is cheating, do you want to play with them?
mike_c: dignork: on what? suscpicions?
mike_c: danielpbarron: but this problem is solved by weekly home game. online poker is different.
mike_c: you are more meant to play with strangers
danielpbarron: i don't see how it's any ddifferent; i wish i could play online with my weekly poker buddies
mike_c: so i'm playing with stranger, he runs good or makes a couple good bluffs, and so i negrate him?
danielpbarron: in fact we figured out a way with pokerstars home game
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.
mike_c: yeah "meant". otherwise it fails as business
mike_c: dignork: over the long long long term only.
nubbins`: <+danielpbarron> "if the pre-req for chatting on irc is being in the WoT, the chat is gonna suck" <<< *cough*
dignork: mike_c: well, define "long". 100 hands? 200?
mike_c: no, that's the problem. more like 1mm.
danielpbarron: mike_c, you don't play with strangers, unless they are vouched for by someone you know
mike_c: idk, i am unconvinced. of course, we are assuming the solution here which mp hasn't specified.
danielpbarron: my recommendation to Micon wasn't even to bar access based on WoT, but to just give players option to link to WoT identity so that I can make the determination myself
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 56650 @ 0.00041367 = 23.4344 BTC [+] {2}
danielpbarron: and tournaments could have something like assbot to limit who can join
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: weekly can be daily when we don't have to drive miles to get to the game
mircea_popescu: i also don't see how email will ever get enough interest if the only problem it solves ios "we'll save you the 9.95 a plastic maibox costs"
mike_c: the sites already solve that. i know my friend's nicks and i can play with them if i want.
mircea_popescu: the problem with teleologists is that they misstate both the problem and the solution.
mircea_popescu: well i intend to, depending how this dignork thing works out.
mike_c: ok, i'll reserve comment until then. and you're a teleologist.
danielpbarron: the reason the pokerstars homegame thing didn't work out so well is we could only do tournaments; there was no way to do cash games
danielpbarron: not that they don't have a cash game option, but it would let players rebuy without any accounting, which made linking to bitcoin impossible
danielpbarron: plus, if that ever took off i'm sure pokerstars would have killed it
nubbins`: if there's one lesson bitcoin teaches people mercilessly...
nubbins`: now it's mostly me just antagonizing TECSHARE
mats: BingoBoingo: you ever get any of my PMs?
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> if there's one lesson bitcoin teaches people mercilessly... << exactly. "if you don;t know the owner, the thing doesn;t exist". exactly contrary to how the us currently works, all impersonal and "it's our policy" and bs.
mircea_popescu: soo... if i want some laser handcarved items that were cut out of a log with an axe by adrunk sailor
nubbins`: i doubt he stopped checking the forum ;p
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14429 @ 0.00040088 = 5.7843 BTC [-]
nubbins`: ;;buy 1 "Collection of laser-cut wood items" @ 0 BTC PM for details
saifedean: it's february 2015 because i fixed it up just this week
mircea_popescu: aha. Preliminaiy version: do not quote without author permission. << ironically, only typo is in the warning
mircea_popescu: saifedean a particularly interesting metric, other than the 5.5bn eu / 6.5 bn us (which by now is more like 10 anyway), would be subsidy per joule.
mircea_popescu: (in the case of ethanol in the us, include ALL agricultural subsidies, not just the direct for ethanol stuff)
saifedean: in fact, if you think about it, you can't really even calculate a subsidy per joule, since the moronic process probably consumes more energy than it produces, so the more subsidies, the more joules are wasted!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23554 @ 0.00041519 = 9.7794 BTC [+] {2}
saifedean: if the thing could produce more joules than it consumes, it wouldn't need so much bezzle to keep it running
assbot: Logged on 20-02-2015 16:07:02; dignork: danielpbarron: me either, but most players assume that bots are evil, hence all this bot-hunting madness
danielpbarron: " speculation of the dangers of trapping " << url broken
thestringpuller: ah yes. danielpbarron it seems that way for the all the links
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: scoopbot does seem to be working fine...for nao ;)
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: "The overbearing regulatory climate in the US for exchanging fiat for Bitcoin seems to have similar consequences as its War on Drugs." << curious how you get here logically
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: these brokers could have a physical shop
pete_dushenski: there are (were?) in fact a few such operations in canada
pete_dushenski: meeting people on the street to sell things will always bear this risk, regs or no regs
pete_dushenski: you could be selling an ipad and have the same thing happen
mircea_popescu: i dunno man. that 11k the guy reported lost would have paid 1year rent + hardening measures.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: perhaps not in nyc, or at least not manhattan
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2015 03:22:43; asciilifeform: nubbins`: what state's your beast in now << stuck on crafting the ramdisk (in-ram root fs) for netbsd. as of a week ago. haven't the time, presently, to do anything
ascii_field: danielpbarron: see if you are able to set up the cross-compile system (netbsd carries its own) on your box
danielpbarron: i'm downloading this right now -> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.1/source/sets/src.tgz
ascii_field: danielpbarron: at present time there is no support whatoever for the eeprom in netbsd. this means that it can be used, but only if the userland (yes, all of it) is baked into a ramdisk baked into the kernel (which in turn is loaded by uboot in one shot at powerup)
☟︎ ascii_field: danielpbarron: the netbsd kernel and userland are sufficiently compact (vs linux) to make this a worthwhile exercise
☟︎ danielpbarron: is this something i should be able to teach myself in a reasonable amount of time?
ascii_field: danielpbarron: you could find the bug in the netbsd ramdisk build script as well as i could
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.
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)
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: you can't use bitstamp ? or bitcoin-otc ? or one of those schmancy atms ?
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)
danielpbarron: well at least i'm in the fortunate position of getting my fiat stuff done in one heavy time period, leaving the rest of the year open
danielpbarron: i can see how draining this would be if my free time was limited to a couple hours nightly
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".
danielpbarron: people who aren't in the WoT should be concerned first with .. getting in the WoT
thestringpuller: i'm talking of people on fringes who aren't connected strong enough to make large trades at this point
danielpbarron: idk how large of at trade you're talking about, but i did several deals worth several thousand dollars in otc through escrow agents
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: the cannabis example is irrelevant because of the precise physicality of the item
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 51370 @ 0.00040029 = 20.5629 BTC [-] {2}
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: is this for digitized of physical fiat? i'm assuming former
thestringpuller: well how do you acquire btc with cash without phsyical presence?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25530 @ 0.00039562 = 10.1002 BTC [-] {2}
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: i'm saying that a physical presence is simpler to manage for a digital asset than a physical one
thestringpuller: yes the inventory for coin is simpler to manage but risk of gun in face is still apparent for anything valuable...
thestringpuller: setting up a shop is what cannabis shops have done and crime rate has gone down from relaxation of regulations
thestringpuller: i don't see how this point is irrelevant due to cannabis being a physical good and bitcoin being a digital good
pete_dushenski: it's basically the transportation to and from the shop, requiring "ex-military sekurity"
mircea_popescu: motherfucker this guy totally beat me to the punch reviewing kerouac.
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: either way, it's not illegal to sell btc, no special id required
danielpbarron: i don't get who would actually type in his password at gunpoint -- or, yet another reason to not do bitcoin from a smart phone
danielpbarron: while the mugger is at it he should get the victim to sign over deed to house and car
NewLiberty: The cop should be in the cell next to him
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.
mircea_popescu: how well this works in practice... well... nothing works well in practice.
PeterL: thestringpuller: first line of your article, s/a place where transactions/a place where transactions happen
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: ok, depends on the quantity and your ability to discern dood from secret agent man
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
ascii_field: ^ i can see reverse direction (btc to usd) being problematic. but usd to btc ?
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
danielpbarron: in my extensive experience in that realm, WoT also applies
mircea_popescu: just, you know, "consumers have come to expect". and they will die with that "expectation".
mircea_popescu: because why bother, when you can just wail and wait for tit.
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: yes exactly! which goes to point mircea_popescu just brought up
ascii_field: for folks who aren't subjects of us, try the mindfuck on for size: if a crate of benjamins were to drop from the sky into my yard, there is literally nothing game-changingly useful that i could do with them
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: seems like this fringes thing is a fence-sitting
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: as is the nature of "becoming known" to a plug so you can re-up in the future.
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: "you don't know me yet, but lemme build some trust somehow"
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ascii_field: aha. the only thing the hypothetical crate would do is get me moved up a few spots in gassing queue if it got out
ascii_field: hence, no, definitely not equally problematic in both directions
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: then you're dealing with smaller amounts ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the guy's 11k are NOT a crate of dollars. barely one brick.
mircea_popescu: your argument reduces to "i can't make a bottling plant out of a gallon of juice". sure.
mircea_popescu: there exist people, and not just in florida, who can get you a pellet of usd 100 notes on a half day notice.
ascii_field: at the risk of repeating myself, my rent, for example, is ~2k/mo, and not under any circumstances payable in cash
ascii_field: or through anything other than an american bank
PeterL: ascii_field: you can take cash into grocery store, exchange for food, neh?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: yes. and this one of the very few reliable auto-tipoffs available to the gasenwagen
ascii_field: anyone who buys, say, $50k of gift cert cards in cash, is guaranteed to have some official scrutiny.
mircea_popescu: so pick up nomenklatura daughters, have them do it for you.
mircea_popescu: remember, any systematic weaponry can be turned around the operator.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: aren't there still political factors involved calling up senator to deliver shipping container of benjies to you?
danielpbarron: oo speaking of which; if you want to knock someone offline for a spell, open up webchat to b-a from their ip :D
ascii_field 's spells don't work on flesh, only on iron
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: seems only way to avoid gasenwagen in this sense is to become BTC version of pablo escobar...
mircea_popescu: or that schmucky someting awful kid, whatever his name was.
ascii_field: humans-in-the-loop is what -every single person nailed by usg so far- had in common.
☟︎ ascii_field: not a guarantee of defeat, sure, but machines are exactly as 'loyal' as their operator is clever and conscientious - men are not.
mircea_popescu: "Here's one that even The Onion would reject as too blatantly ridiculous: American right-wing radio and TV clown Glenn Beck believes that Sean Smith aka Vile Rat, the EVE Online diplomat who was killed earlier this month during the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, was actually a CIA agent, relaying communications to his fellow undercover agents at Something Awful."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the only thing that's blatantly ridiculous is that beck forgot to mention where he got it
thestringpuller: ascii_field: this very much reminds me of aku's mentality in Samurai Jack...
mircea_popescu: " machines are exactly as 'loyal' as their operator is clever and conscientious - men are not."
ascii_field: a server doesn't have a family the enemy can take hostage
mircea_popescu: there are people who don't give a shit about some woman's spawn. more women, mopre spawn.
mircea_popescu: there aren't computers that don't depend on their compilers etc.
ascii_field: cheaper to knit the transistors than to build organization from scratch out of orphan bachelors
mircea_popescu: nothing in principle wrong with either approach, which was the point.
ascii_field: not so many warrior monks on the ground in modern world, afaik
mircea_popescu: and again : sean's dead. your argument is therefore invalid.
thestringpuller: ascii_field: out of orphan bachelors << an organization of Batmans?
mircea_popescu: i never followed that franchise, but did batman have a vallet /
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: where does the dead usg sysadmin come in? somehow missing it
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i never followed that franchise, but did batman have a vallet / << He did indeed
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo did he ever end up kidnapped by evil man ?
BingoBoingo: The thing's got like 8 decades of history. Prolly happened several times.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7576 @ 0.00039555 = 2.9967 BTC [+]
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.
NewLiberty: Yes, the "equation group" are just the ones that have been caught doing it.
NewLiberty: I don't imagine that they are alone in that effort.
pete_dushenski annoyed that there's no cross-platform scrabble game that works between desktop and mobile w/o facefuck account
ascii_field: incidentally, one possible reason for k's use of the fictional name was to streamline the process of getting the c&c domains sinkholed
ascii_field: picture this call to icann: them: 'who' k: 'nsa. please transfer domain to us'
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
ascii_field: ^ did i miss any other folks who live on atomic dirigibles and don't 'depend on paycheck'
NewLiberty: Also, plausible deniability for them to avoid making specific enemies. Presumably they like selling things and doing business in jurisdictions where assets can be seized by libelous claims.
ascii_field: NewLiberty: nothing to do with libel suites. notice that not one av vendor on the planet has yet fingered usg in the open. regardless of how obvious (e.g., 'stuxnet') the smoking guns.
ascii_field: because 'av vendors can have problems too'
NewLiberty: libel is the least of the concerns, but one that alone would be sufficient deterrance
ascii_field: think kaspersky gives a flying fuck re: lawsuits in u.s. courts ?
NewLiberty: Only if they sell anything anywhere for dollars
danielpbarron: i could probably get to a non-fiat point; no kids no car no morgage no wives
ascii_field: danielpbarron: lucky fella, must be 100% theorist. i, for one, couldn't even get any of my experimental supplies without using electric fiat
ascii_field: go and buy so much as a spool of 0805 resistors with btc.
ascii_field: (not even speaking of pcb assembly service, etc)
danielpbarron: couldn't i just pay a guy a premium to buy it for me?
danielpbarron: idk, i got a weed guy; shouldn't i also have a fiat guy?
ascii_field: danielpbarron: got one you'd trust to buy 100k-usd of factory time ?
ascii_field: danielpbarron: one you'd trust to have the goods physically protected in the necessary ways ?
danielpbarron: that is.. not outside the realm of possibility for me... not that i've made such an inquiry
ascii_field: this is not an easy problem if you're talking about something necessarily high-value and non-parcellable
ascii_field: what if your 'weed' could -only- be purchased in 100k-usd chunks ?
ascii_field: not saying that this is an impossible problem to solve
ascii_field: but that the intersection of folks who -have- the problem, and those able to solve it, is thus far zero
ascii_field: suggesting that the combination is 'not thermodynamically favoured' to borrow the chemists' expression
ascii_field: danielpbarron: that is.. not outside the realm of possibility for me... not that i've made such an inquiry << the odds are that after you were to make two or three such inquiries, you will come across a usg stoolie
ascii_field: -that- is what it means to 'go outside wot'
danielpbarron: yeh you're right; but i could pay for simple food/rent from a strictly bitcoin income
NewLiberty: If there were more with the problem ic could be 'worth it' to you to solve it for yourself and others.
ascii_field: NewLiberty: that's precisely the observation i was making: there is no one who has found it worth his while to solve the problem for others
ascii_field: suggesting that there is a substantial '2) ?????' in the path to '3) profit!!11!!!'
ascii_field: and yes there are many folks in usa who run on cash
ascii_field: but i for one can more easily comprehend how to move to ar and learn to be a shoemaker or ocelot-walker or whatever, than turning into one of the above
ascii_field: ah and on the subject of gift cards, you can't buy them in usa without gov. id
BingoBoingo: I bough pnoHe and minutes cards for said without ID
NewLiberty: I almost became 'unbanked' this week. I've had >10 accounts terminated by banks this year. It seems with the latest guidance from the Fed, banks categorize 'precious metal dealers' in the same bin as 'arms traders' and 'ponzi operators'.
ascii_field: the cash register won't 'ding' without a passkey from stalin
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: once you turn said pNohe on from your home, it may as well be registered to your face
ascii_field: it's one of those faux loopholes that's really a honeypot
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felipelalli: I have to back to work, have a nice end of day guys!
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Adlai: "I have to get back to work, have a nice end of days!" - Jesus 2.0
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joecool: ddos guy still hang around here?
Adlai: "he who smelt it, dealt it"
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gribble: The20YearIRCloud was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 10 weeks, 3 days, 22 hours, 58 minutes, and 55 seconds ago: <The20YearIRCloud> Big thing has been to have em look over all the financial documents as we're filing taxes for 2014 next month and I didn't want to submit till they had a good idea of it.
mike_c: he switched to slack. it's irc from silicon valley.
The20YearIRCloud: I check in once in a while here and still idle on a few IRC chats, granted I guess slack does a IRC connection as well
mike_c: how's business? stock price seems to be rising.
assbot: The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.
The20YearIRCloud: Business is good, just have one vacancy on a house we just finished, other than that things seem to be doing well
mike_c: about double from ipo. not too shabby.
mike_c: not quite as good as fiat, but what can you do :)
The20YearIRCloud: The big thing was working through the bankrupt shareholder(s) that were forced to liquidate, it took seemingly forever to work through them
mike_c: hah, interesting. sounds like a pain.
The20YearIRCloud: It was, court gave one of our largest shareholders a few months to sell all his stock which led to the price being in a slump for quite some time, now it's all worked through and the price can at least have a chance to rise
mike_c: wait, were RENT shares actually mentioned in the court proceedings? or just a general order.
mike_c: heh. that must have been interesting for the court. "see, i have units in a fund of this panamaian company that has shares in this other company"
mike_c: have you given any further thought to unwinding from havelock?
The20YearIRCloud: especially with this new down time, the problem is what to do to give investors liquidity
The20YearIRCloud: Just about, granted I think what happens is they require personal financial statements from a person during the proceeding, and he declared ~$40k worth of stock
Adlai: A popular story is told about Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) when he was running for president in 1952 (or in 1956). Someone heard Stevenson’s impressive speech and said, “Every thinking person in America will be voting for you.” Stevenson replied, “I’m afraid that won’t do—I need a majority.”
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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: point was trying to make was that mass economics (e.g. weed) are not applicable to ultra-niche affair where there are maybe three people in a continent who can even begin to attempt $task
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.
ascii_field: lol, why not brezhnev's girlfriend's house
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin, the technology that’s meant to revolutionize the way we think of money, is simultaneously revolutionizing the way we get mugged."
mircea_popescu: lol great story bro, except... "gimme your valuables". what's so revolutionary there ?
dignork: mircea_popescu: wawert is the guy I mentioned to you earlier
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ascii_field: re: earlier thread: somewhat reminiscent of the 'sling dope' thread on mircea_popescu's www
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: in that yes, one skilled in meatspace 'humint' can safely do a 100k trade
mircea_popescu: people work as tellers in pond shops for minimum wage. there's no big deal humint involved.
mircea_popescu: yes. and bookies and what have you. ever seen snatch ?
ascii_field: and picture what happens if someone who grew up with virtually no social skills were to attempt to find a way into world of 'snatch' (much less actually work there)
ascii_field: this is 99% of how usg collects its 'death ray plotters'
jurov: cazalla not saying it's a bad idea. just "such a bezzle!" came to mind
cazalla: jurov, and i don't mean your use of it as a metaphor but the thing itself has me interested
mircea_popescu: but i didn't mean "the world" per se. i just mean, idiots try to rob a bookie, goes nowhere. why not ?
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cazalla: ah shit, it's useless for using with australian bees
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the countermeasures aren't usually something a clever person can learn from reading books
ascii_field: they involve being part of a social network (in the old meatspace sense)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field really ?! a sane person can learn them by... going there.
jurov: lmao "How do I stop the bees getting to the honey while it’s draining out of the Flow™ hive?"
mircea_popescu: to any functioning suchshop. "o wow, they have really thick glass and they make me put the stuff in that roller thing"
ascii_field looks for 'washington dc black market but not the usg stoolies' phone book
mircea_popescu: go to buy "really thick glass" , "you mean bulletproof ?" "yuah that's ti!"
ascii_field: yes they exist here. regulated as tightly as gun shops (in fact, the two are often combined into one establishment)
mircea_popescu: so does it consist of guy making incalls like a fucking hooker ?!
ascii_field: except that everything inside is priced to avoid ever selling
ascii_field: the idea, as i understand, is that price is slowly lowered (as debt carries on) until the thing is gone
NewLiberty: hookers and hockers are different, but you can get screwed with both
ascii_field: the pawn shops we have here are more or less the farthest thing from the actual healthy black market (which is, i'm told, vast, but a n00b has no way whatsoever to safely connect to it, which was my original point)
ascii_field: there is a reason why 'silk road' etc were fantastically popular
NewLiberty: They give secured loans with the arbitrary stuff of value as collateral. When the borrower doesn't pay the stuff is sold.
ascii_field: i can only speak for myself, but -no one in my meatspace wot- is any kind of route whatsoever into that world
ascii_field: so i couldn't go there for any amount of money
ascii_field: not without having the first or second marketeer i'd run into be a usg stooge set up for precisely this kind of harvesting
jurov: well...van you loan from pawn shop against bitcoins?
ascii_field: i mean, you could talk to some arbitrary pawn shop fella about it, but if he fucks you - you will have no recourse
ascii_field: you just dealt with a stranger outside of any wot.
jurov: why? they can't get MSC-registered?
jurov: and how is he going to fuck you?
jurov: bank can fuck you too, what's the diff?
ascii_field: bank follows well-understood rituals for fucking you
mats: jurov: dunno why the page is down. bright side, the content of those links are easily google-able
ascii_field: which you are generally familiar with when you walk in
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ascii_field: what's the diff << if you mention bitcoin in a pawn shop here, and aren't thrown out as a nut, you're dealing with -an individual- rather than an institution under any kind of legal constraint
ascii_field: (if you have someone appropriate in your meatspace wot, why would you be going to a pawn shop ?_
NewLiberty: It sounds like a good business idea though. Send your bitcoin to bitcoinpawn, get some fiat loan with it as collateral. Pay back the fiat with interest to reclaim your bitcoins. Miss a payment and you have to buy them back at the retail price.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the problem you espouse is entirely of your own imagination.
ascii_field: NewLiberty: under the book-length morass of regulations pertaining to pawn shops where i live
NewLiberty: Sure, the presumption is that you do it as a pawn shop.
ascii_field: but to be fair i thought we were still speaking of btc-for-100kusd-spent-elsewhere trick
danielpbarron: i gave my bank manager a "paper wallet" one time; they think i'm some crazy, but mostly harmless, coin collector
ascii_field: the basic problem that remains unsolved is -what to do with the usd-
ascii_field: granted, i am possibly the only one here who understands why this can be an insurmountable problem
danielpbarron understands that most of the things worth buying are heavily watched and regulated in the USSA
mircea_popescu: this is getting to gnarled up to be approached. i'm out.
jurov: i was thinking you just need to prove where you got the dough
ascii_field: and risk being billed again and again for other imagined tax liabilities
danielpbarron: haven't mobsters been dealing with this problem since.. always?
ascii_field: and go on a list of folks with 'funny' income
ascii_field: danielpbarron: yes! they have. by being part of social networks that are empire-in-empire
ascii_field: danielpbarron: but a random person off the street cannot enter that world simply by asking.
NewLiberty: ^^ yes, my friend that does this has household expenses >US$50K per month. Not your average person on the street.
NewLiberty: Also a lawyer, and owns law firms full of folks to keep him out of problems.
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