assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 46 @ 0.09791304 = 4.504 BTC [-] {2}
adlai: you heard it here first: the next reward halving is an appropriate occasion for a 420 celebration
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adlai: it'd be cool to watch a gold pop correspond with a bitcoin rally
adlai: could even get a nice vicious feedback loop going
xanthyos: who knew satoshi would look roughly like christian bale
xanthyos: gotta find a pose that's close to this mugshot to make a cute meme
xanthyos: no wonder the price hasn't moved much since
xanthyos: oh, breaking bad season 6, this site is all hoaxes.
adlai: looks like somebody needs to upgrade their log parser to LALR
adlai: jurov: what happens when a coinbr account has assets but no btc when you need to charge the management fee?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1105 @ 0.00120999 = 1.337 BTC [-]
[Namworld]: If facebook likes are from bot... the bot accounts are pretty impressively well made. Photos of same person over years, often multiple years of Facebook usage, conversations that somewhat make sense when translated, although not sure if it's issues of translation or just gibberish. Just doesn't look like gibberish.
[Namworld]: For some reason, they just like tons of random pages. If I had to guess, hacked accounts/people not bothering to remove liked pages.
[Namworld]: I read something about some FB users just liking tons of stuff like they collect likes and using FB in odd ways.
[Namworld]: Yes, well it's started. For some reason, it seems slow to work on getting website clicks. It gets you clicks faster for fanpage like button.
[Namworld]: I'll try raising the bid a bit I guess.
[Namworld]: Facebook ads shows 50 clicks. So instant bounce/no wait for loading. How many of those 21 bounced?
[Namworld]: Yet when it's clicks for fanpage, they result in a fan, and randomly selecting fans gives you a realistic profile.
[Namworld]: So hacked accounts or copied info/posts from account with privacy settings set to public.
adlai: facebook would probably catch onto copied accounts quite fast, they run facial recognition on every photo
[Namworld]: Either way there seems to be rampant networks of click-happy bots ramping up costs. At least on low bids/global audience.
adlai: they use it to suggest tags
[Namworld]: Hmm, I guess there's other smaller social networks, especially in non-english countries. I guess facebook botnets could crawl and use info from profiles elsewhere.
[Namworld]: Because the photos on those suspicious accounts have pictures of same person posted over and over. Yet they don't act like humans. Especially when you start tracking them once on your website.
[Namworld]: Photos must be coming from somewhere. So hacked accounts very plausible I guess.
[Namworld]: Easier than copying from elsewhere. I doubt it's hard to come up with a lot of FB credentials on black market/from a botnet.
mircea_popescu: [Namworld] pretty much all. but it'd show in the log for merely asking for the page, anyway
mircea_popescu: [Namworld] anyway, let me know when it's finished and i'll do a sumup
[Namworld]: Aye, should have at least 500 clicks once it's done. At least FB side. Apparently most don't even get to have a request sent to the actual website.
[Namworld]: Since ads are not direct link but a FB link that tracks and redirect, I guess bots just click and never request the page they're asked to redirect to.
cazalla: if anyone remembers .au police taking a bitcoin atm.. cops have revealed the inventory from the bust, no info on actual bitcoin amount so nothing newsworth but this paragraph is lulzy "The cash haul was more than $313,000, with property seized including vehicles, mobile phones, computers and a rare Bitcoin ATM."
hanbot: "police stole everything!"
adlai: crowdsource stats, collect a bounty to distribute among all entities providing valid signatures for transactions during black friday. pay the consumers for their data!
adlai: or just sum all the transactions during that day to get an upper bound, and assume that bitpay account for X%
mike_c: silly bots. thx bingo.
mike_c: this is the problem with relying on robots to serve our needs.
mike_c: #b-a -> {assbot, gribble}
cazalla: adlai, the stats are not really point of article, more so to point out stupidity of this bitcoin black friday scheme
mike_c: cazalla: I would like to write an article for qntra with graphs in it. how should I go about this?
adlai: stats, whether an official press release or some guess based on data, are needed for bet resolution
cazalla: mike_c, can you use images for the graphs or is it code
mike_c: images. but embedded in the right spot. and ideally presenting you with the least amount of work necessary.
mike_c: like, maybe I should just have a WP account.
mike_c: and I can write it myself. and then you review and publish.
cazalla: mike_c, technically you already have an account, i create them for authors and use for publishing their articles, i can change so that you can log in and post a draft
mike_c: and upload images to put in the draft?
mike_c: works for me. I pinky-swear not to break anything.
cazalla: i do that via ftp, wordpress won't let me upload images, i think one of the dir permissions are off or something
mike_c: that's not a bad thing. but makes it harder for authors.
cazalla: you can email the images, i'll upload and then send you the URLs
mike_c: that's fine with me, but you might want to think about how to get yourself more out of the workflow. makes scaling and doing this long-term easier.
mike_c: no no, we don't need more robots involved.
mike_c: unreliable suns of bitches
cazalla: mike_c, it's not really that much work atm anyway and what else am i going to do but play pokemon all day during slow periods
ben_vulpes: but what about making money while you sleep, cazalla!?
mike_c: hehe, i was thinking more about getting ready for the not-slow periods :) but this is fine with me.
cazalla: ben_vulpes, i learned this lesson a few years back already
mike_c: also, now that I have access, you just gave me access without checking if i'm authenticated :) and I'm actually the reddit police! (j/k)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21080 @ 0.00050585 = 10.6633 BTC [-] {2}
cazalla: well difficult without gribble around
cazalla: still, good point, i have been caught slipping
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 120 @ 0.00870083 = 1.0441 BTC [+] {2}
cazalla: anyway, taking a walk to reflect on this act of stupidity
ben_vulpes: thanks for bringing her back, nanotube
nanotube: looks like someone is trying to eat up some cpu by hammering the web server
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: It's a game. The story is in the teams not the sponsors. No one remembers the sponsors of the bowl games.
BingoBoingo: It's the Bitcoin bowl. There was an obligation to bring attention to how completely mediocre the competitors are.
mircea_popescu: [Namworld] i guess if they're only interested to see where the ads lead, they wouldn't follow the redirect. trivial curl thing.
mircea_popescu: adlai the exchange-reported tx for that day are small, and the books didn't even hold enough.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> like, maybe I should just have a WP account. << i can see this.
mircea_popescu: can prolly set to you know, save draft only. then editor can publish.
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> i do that via ftp, wordpress won't let me upload images, i think one of the dir permissions are off or something <<< sooo... set em right ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c> unreliable suns of bitches << mp waits patiently for mike to run into women.
mircea_popescu: nanotube gribble is down and everyone's butthurt about it.
assbot: No matter how badly your season ended, you are nowhere near the level of embarrassment of NC State and UCF fans. /hashtag/BitcoinBowl?src=hash
mircea_popescu: except for me. i'm watching zoey monroe being fake-gangraped and am all zen about all things.
mircea_popescu: "timisoara businessman accused of romania's outgoing president's brother [who is being sent to jail for a pile of various fraud, corruption and graft charges]"
mircea_popescu: article goes on to say that name wasn't released, but that the pracitce of buying information about various legal misdeeds of other people is by now a common practice in romania, for they convicted who are also rich. like a trying to get out of jail thing.
BingoBoingo: The ways people cope with the law are weird
cazalla: mircea_popescu, was not sure which dir to set to write, figured better to leave alone, it's not really a big issue as is
cazalla: mircea_popescu> except for me. i'm watching zoey monroe being fake-gangraped and am all zen about all things <<< ya like the blondes eh
mircea_popescu: "Sunt fondatorul uneia din cele mai mari retele de bloguri de nisa din Romania (Stepout Media), cu siteuri precum: www.construimimperii.ro," i am the founder of one of the biggest niche networks in romania, with sites such as webuildempires
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the 20yo makemoneyasleep zombie crowd was funny in 2009, will stay funny in 2019
BingoBoingo: ascii_in_bed: Done as in nearly abated, of done as in the virus successfully poetteringized the meat.
ben_vulpes: mats: today i discovered that docker images have a 10GB limit unless you specify otherwise with dm.whatever options on the command line for the docker daemon
mircea_popescu: what would happen if some idiot somewhere didn't constantly put magic numbers into everything!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes check it out, docker is like bdb, except differently named undocumented config file.
ben_vulpes: well /etc/default/docker but look at it through whatever lens you like baws
ben_vulpes: oh and it's not a *hard* limit, just a default.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1000 @ 0.00123759 = 1.2376 BTC [+] {3}
cazalla: <ben_vulpes> sports games are stories now? <<< and yet it got a bunch of retweets lol
ben_vulpes: cazalla: retweets are qntra's metric of choice today?
cazalla: tbh i was getting into it, a lil' disappointed twitter is yet to unban me
cazalla: on it's own it's a terrible metric but i keep an eye on it just to see if people are picking up the stories qntra runs
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 372.87, Best ask: 373.5, Bid-ask spread: 0.63000, Last trade: 372.87, 24 hour volume: 2874.85753656, 24 hour low: 372.85, 24 hour high: 377.5, 24 hour vwap: 375.921112973
assbot: New York Times propagandists exposed: Finally, the truth about Ukraine and Putin emerges - Salon.com ... (
http://bit.ly/1sb7MD8 )
mircea_popescu: punkman well yes, "fairness" as misunderstood by the butthurt parade is going against a hard limit of the universe.
mircea_popescu: you wanna trade, move to fucking ny. you don't wanna move to ny, stfu and snort coke or w/e they do in la.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wait, salon is complaining about nyt propaganda ?!
BingoBoingo: Oh qntra is #6 on google for "bitcoin bowl preview"
mircea_popescu: anyway, "Patrick L. Smith" is making way too much of an interview with... kissinger.
mircea_popescu: anyway, salon and the derpage is entirely irrelevant to why and wherefore "we knew all along" and saw through the nuland bullshit from day one.
mircea_popescu: moar plowing flies, didntcha know, some anon derp working for some anon flavour of teh us propaganda has been really pulling the yoke!
mircea_popescu: that they don't even mention orlov in there is insulting to the russian foreign service lol.
BingoBoingo: See this Salon ignoring Orlov thing is like the rest of the "Bitcoin Press" lapping up Bitpay spending out the ass to sponsor a bowl game while ignoring... That there's actually a game that's now going to be played with teams and stuff.
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Actually doesn't look that different compared to some of the 2012 era BTC sites
fluffypony: yes but this one is the "official worldwide" lottery
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i suppose not everyone's fortunate enough to be on the receivingend of reader's digest prizes and stuff. which is why they keep doing this firstbiggestbest thing.
fluffypony: first official biggest only best bitcoin foundation
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4132 @ 0.00050994 = 2.1071 BTC [+]
mats: ;;seen thickasthieves
gribble: thickasthieves was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 weeks, 6 days, 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 31 seconds ago: <ThickAsThieves> but you da boss
mats: i wonder what the odds are tat went and got a day job
mats: i remember some disagreement with the missus on the subject of day trading
cazalla: bit of a disagreement on trilema.com in the comments too mats
mats: hm, ongoing protests in berkeley
cazalla: mats, about a month ago, forget which article, wasn't that dramatic
cazalla: i'm sure they'll kiss and make up
assbot: What's to stop rogue programmers inserting malicious code into Bitcoin wallet software? : Bitcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1w4GfZa )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5061 @ 0.00051063 = 2.5843 BTC [+] {2}
adlai is glad to have abandoned bc.i before the shenanigans beganigans
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 17 @ 0.10607047 = 1.8032 BTC [+] {9}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 27 @ 0.1166655 = 3.15 BTC [+] {6}
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1997 @ 0.00051629 = 1.031 BTC [-]
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5156 @ 0.00052935 = 2.7293 BTC [+]
cazalla: late here so not a big write up but seems like some lulzy shit
fluffypony: what assets did they have besides the ASICs?
cazalla: boards and shit, which the venezuelan congressman bought
cazalla: at least from what i can tell, BingoBoingo maybe you are inclined to look it over a bit more, i'll take another look in the morning , zzz now
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 5518 @ 0.00120974 = 6.6753 BTC [-] {16}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 172 @ 0.10050001 = 17.286 BTC [-] {3}
punkman imagines future state of venezuela, funded by btc mining operations
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15050 @ 0.00053346 = 8.0286 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: let me guess, it was only because of evil republicans pushing their obsolete, meanwhile technologically-revolutionized ideas about scarcity
BingoBoingo: "We’re still waiting for Kozmo 2.0. But there’s also good reason to applaud the folks behind Flooz.com. They wanted to create their own internet-based currency, and though Flooz was a flop, bitcoin has now shown that digital currency can play huge role in the modern world."
BingoBoingo: "Even the Pets.com idea is looking mighty good. The basic notion that people wanted to buy pet food online and have it delivered to their homes turns out to be a sound one."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, totally, because "ideas" are what matters. so what if flooz.com was roughly equivalent to reddit derps making redditcoin. IT WAS AN IDEA.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure all the various 19yos that had THE IDEA of you know, a bunch of naked women in your house, are spiritual forefathers to the harem.
BingoBoingo: Sure and pets.com was an idea, that could have totally worked if the thing actually was budgeted to live off of retailer profit margins instead of a VC funded money fire
mircea_popescu: anyway, wasn't pets.com basically groupon arbitrarily limited for the pets scam only ?
mircea_popescu: ie, "we're fleecing the living dailights out of you for no reason, but if you assemble in large groups we'll fleece a little less ?"
BingoBoingo: Oh, it was a whole Amazon.com style retailer I thought
mircea_popescu: it was just a petfood seller with the odd idea of actually buying warehouses.
mats: gambling is a rough biz
BingoBoingo: Oh, the sock puppet sold for $125,000 to another startup?
jurov: <adlai> [20141208 01:41] jurov: what happens when a coinbr account has assets but no btc when you need to charge the management fee? << for now unpaid fees just keep piling up as negative balance
adlai: and is there an api to this thing?
mircea_popescu: " Very little overhead - because hardware sales is just a necessary part in this service industry." mkay, very logics in this verbiage.
mircea_popescu: Oct 13 04:07:13 *jdany has quit () heh i knew i saw the name.
BingoBoingo: Amazing how the forum dreams have shrank from million BTC datacenters to, pls halp my store.
gribble: jdany_ was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 9 weeks, 1 day, 0 hours, 43 minutes, and 1 second ago: <jdany_> I figured you get fed up, dumped and bailed
adlai has grand dreams but keeps his mouth shut, mostly
mircea_popescu: the pets.com thing, incidentally, was exactly opposite to bitcoin : wildly popular with the something awful centered libtard crowd.
BingoBoingo: Sure. They figured if pets.com could get dollars dumped on them, any idea could get them paid. On the other hand Bitcoin even in the earliest days supposed people STFU and get in line.
danielpbarron: is 15% monthly gains considered a conservative estimate or what? are the tardstalkers still so gullible?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron these numbers are i suspect based in biology. they're not about to change.
mircea_popescu: "They believe the extreme difficulty of collection that the Debtors and/or the Committee will face in the event a judgment is entered against Mr. Barber warrants an approval of the Mutual Release, subject to the right of the Debtors and the Committee to pursue claims against Mr. Barber to the extent there is insurance coverage available to pay such claims."
mircea_popescu: "Mr. Barber’s financial statement shows that he is currently insolvent on a balance sheet basis."
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 08-12-2014 15:26:33; mircea_popescu: "Mr. Barber’s financial statement shows that he is currently insolvent on a balance sheet basis."
mircea_popescu: "Mr. Barber does not have the ability to fund a defense of any cause of action and would likely be forced into a chapter 7 if forced to defend against claims brought by the estate. The financial statement suggests that such a chapter 7 filing would be determined to be a “no asset” case. Accordingly, the Debtors and the Committee believe that absent a settlement, it would be very difficult to collect anything at all
mircea_popescu: from Mr. Barber, even if a judgment was already in hand today. This factor weighed heavily in the Debtors’ and Committee’s decision-making."
mircea_popescu: so the tardstalk schmucks were going around acting as if this utter bum is somehow a businessman.
mircea_popescu: "It also shows that he has no material unencumbered assets, and that his encumbered assets (primary residence and vehicles) have no equity."
mircea_popescu: so the "legal process" in california is so very effectual, guy walks o jesus. ok, ima write this up.
fluffypony: have we spoken about the new Just Dice yet?
fluffypony: I'm still trying to figure out the raison d'être for CLAMs
fluffypony: I dunno, maybe dooglus can enlighten us
assbot: The reasons why Bitcoin securities can't be regulated by the SEC pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1G7bshw )
mircea_popescu: but that's essentially it, right ? "your honor, this is internet funbux likle wow gold and monopoly money, stfu and go home".
mircea_popescu: seems to me better to defend the defensible position rather than try and defend an undefensible positon that's nevertheless slightly more inland. but wtf do i know about strategy.
fluffypony: CLAMs are "special" because if you owned Bitcoin or Dogecoin or Litecoin at some magical date when it launched or whatever, then you can "redeem" CLAMs
mircea_popescu: wait i recall this thing. why do you figure it's related to dooglus ?
fluffypony: so in a court of law I'm certain the argument could be made that it has equivalency, and merely giving it a new name doesn't make it any different to Bitcoin
mircea_popescu: dooglus duide seriously that was the stupidest move ever. you could have just sold the damned site.
mircea_popescu: i like this guy, but he has the communication abilities of an engineer, and as a result ends up with the local minimums ffs.
BingoBoingo: Maybe that's the point of the clams thing, being a kind of retarded mess that's going to be a huge pain for rgulators.
fluffypony: tell the regulators that the USG owns CLAMs by virtue of them having a bunch of BTC in May?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 127 @ 0.01027433 = 1.3048 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: Oh, I'm thinking make the attourneys or whoever sink fucktons of time into figuring out just what clams are.
gribble: You rated user dooglus on Wed Jul 2 22:02:07 2014, with a rating of 3, and supplied these additional notes: Truly a pillar of the community..
gribble: Successfully removed your rating for dooglus.
mircea_popescu: im so fucking sick of asicminerism i can't even begin to tell it all.
☟︎ TomServo: these clams are some pretty good lulz though
BingoBoingo: The big flaw with it is that dooglus came with too much quantity of name for this. People are going to be all "let's make clams have value" and dooglus goes back to what he tried to avoid.
TomServo: at least they're upfront about wanting to redistribute 'satoshi's horde'
mircea_popescu: the onl;y thing i see them being upfront about is being derps.
TomServo: because not every slang word for cash was used yet
mircea_popescu: because you can't fucking write text, it's not what you're saying, it's how you're saying it that matters. gotta make a fucking drawing of it.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8950 @ 0.00053371 = 4.7767 BTC [+]
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assbot: 276 results for 'just because from:mircea_popescu' - #bitcoin-assets search
mircea_popescu: jurov sometimes when clicking on charts on coinbr i get nginx "service temporary unavailable". it always goes away if i reload
jurov: it's anti-ddos rate limit
jurov: on the second visit, browser has cached stuff and doesn;t do so many requests
jurov: but it's something i must fix
mircea_popescu: anyway, i was going to link to you and figured graphs are cool, but will just link the root and well...
assbot: Logged on 23-11-2014 05:04:09; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is why, in my unofficial wonderland, you can't even open a socket without transmitting an rsa-signed a 'this is me, and my wot' breath of life packet.
jurov: asciilifeform you basically want telco network, where every packed knows who paid for it
assbot: This is the largest investment in a BTC company to date.
http://t.co/MZl7B4Nj9F /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash-assets /Mircea_Popescu /hashtag/MPEx?src=hash
fluffypony: well I guess he struggles with the interwebs
jurov: asciilifeform: on one side we explain to everyone how wot ratings are to be manually examined and not rating or similar number used... on other side you consider rating suitable for routing priority?
jurov: *and not cumulative rating...
jurov: so how do you imagine_
jurov: any wot that can be collapsed down to one number can and will be abused
mircea_popescu: "as it's what I built & delivered 18 years back ;-)" o that's nice.
assbot: Logged on 23-11-2014 05:11:53; asciilifeform: a 4096-bit rsa signature and key fp fit handily in a udp minimal packet.
mircea_popescu: dude how is it that all these dudes with wild historicity claims fail to back them up ?
mircea_popescu: i recall that "badon effect" dude reducing his "2004" to "2012" on the first cursory examination.
mircea_popescu: jurov i imagine he just wants a more continuous bgp arrangement.
jurov: how will router determine? ;;gettrust self source?
mircea_popescu: rather than the very discrete "either you're in or out of the group" thing
jurov: "will simply prioritize, say, udp packets signed with particular keys" sounds to me exactly like "either you're in or out of the group"
mircea_popescu: currently the way it works is however many people can route you in or out. and that's that.
mircea_popescu: (so not wanting to relive the experience of the cabal they mostly don't use it)
xanthyos: asciilifeform: were you ever into packet terminal on ham radio?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, the derps derped about their webwallets on blockchain.info being safe. In the end it was blockchain.info that fucked them.
mircea_popescu: "There seems to be a new buggy program that reuses the same R value for all signatures in a transaction. It started around September 2014"
mircea_popescu: "Note that the addresses that appear only in the second list still may be in danger, e.g., if they stem from a BIP32 wallet and one knows the "xpub" public key."
mircea_popescu: specifically, this gives the lie, exemplarily, to "oh, bip32 poses no threat to your security"
mircea_popescu: but in this line of thinking you're baking in ulterior considerations into an anterior branch of the thought tree.
mircea_popescu: plurisemy and syntactico-lexical ambiguity are the actual reasons language is an adequate medium of thought,
mircea_popescu: if i'm sending it to the mcdonalds factory it might be.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> more of a 'steer is not functionally identical to a cow' sort of thing here. << WHen collected for meat it is
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : bug parts are functionally identical to rice,
mircea_popescu: so. obviously for the needs of your own bed you may employ whatever perverse criteria.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the entire content of chumpatron X is going to be x.
mircea_popescu: all people in prison - prisoners. whether "guilty" or "innocent". all those in the insane asylum - insane.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ^ also see first note there, oddly on point.
ben_vulpes: re bug parts and rice have y'all heard about the cockroach protein farms in china?
mircea_popescu: reflect that it's too bad we gave anyone over 40 the vote" <<< for what it's worth, this is a woesome misrepresentation of the male. it's the beta male fighing for cotnrol, about as relevant in the discussion as the fat female fighting for reproductive equality.
mircea_popescu: by this token a discussion of primitive village demographics will center on the visible males
mircea_popescu: whereas the chieftain fathers 50% of the actual offspring on a regular basis.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16423 @ 0.00053474 = 8.782 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: * BitLuckInfo has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) << you know this makes me feel a lot better about giving out voice / ratings to noobs.
mircea_popescu: i wish to see the noob that does that, rather than coming in here trying to derp about how "they did it 18 years ago"
mircea_popescu: let 'em figure it out. the stuff's there, they may, eventually they will, who cares.
ben_vulpes: and in what sense does redirecting a ddos actually lead to a rotting corpse?
mircea_popescu: no but seriously, so through this or any other million ways one so inclined could create a ddos network. ok, so ?
mircea_popescu: seems to me more like discussing @ cavalry officer's mess all about how there's a bunch of reeds on a riverside "free for the taking"
mircea_popescu: but the noob was an online expert. he'll figure it out.
mircea_popescu: because the sort of people who "invented it all 18 years ago" tend (in my experience at least) to also be the sort that won't have their venues limited by kids with fiddy routers.
mircea_popescu: i could of course be entirely wrong, maybe he's really a woman and needs special encouragement to "participate".
assbot: This is the largest investment in a BTC company to date.
http://t.co/MZl7B4Nj9F /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash-assets /Mircea_Popescu /hashtag/MPEx?src=hash
mircea_popescu: * iang_fc (ae3f267d@gateway/web/freenode/ip.174.63.38.125) has joined #bitcoin-assets <
adlai just got approval to work in lisp
adlai: speaking of blub :D
mircea_popescu: and it owned... you know. valuable shit. like all of 'em.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6421 @ 0.00053306 = 3.4228 BTC [-] {2}
mats: TSLA tumbles another 4%
fluffypony: 'Such a move baffled the veteran bankruptcy judge, Dennis Montali. "What troubled me was to read that Mr. Ochoa will allow the debtor to buy mining boards?" he said from the bench. "This is like a patient that is going to die from three different things and now you're suggesting a fourth surgery," he added. "Now they want to do a hip transplant? Why?"'
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 366.78, Best ask: 367.01, Bid-ask spread: 0.23000, Last trade: 367.01, 24 hour volume: 8639.23100628, 24 hour low: 365.25, 24 hour high: 377.5, 24 hour vwap: 369.680083909
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14896 @ 0.00053056 = 7.9032 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> aka 'structured asic' <<< this was true last year. meanwhile tho... look at the hash per power figures.
rithm: that shitexpress blog post gets my vote for blog post of the year
mircea_popescu: "Anyone who plans to waste the shareholders' money can undercut the competition. The easiest thing in the world is to charge too little, it is just as easy as spending too much of other people's money. Customers will flock to those who do because they are giving away some, if not all, of the value for free. Somebody may even pick up the underpriced goods and sell them at a profit when the stupid company ceases to ex
mircea_popescu: pretty great. ima save five gallons of twitter for a few years ?
mircea_popescu: wtf does this work when the "value" given away isn't even worth anything.
assbot: And now I shall be off scarfing smoked salmon and fresh apple pie seasoned with free market tears, or Why a collection of confused retards does not amount to a free market. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1ywDtJd )
mats: mircea_popescu:
http://pastebin.com/E5NU7nXx and as for subtext, idk that there is any ... the man is powerful and developing a young woman, and wants people at the hotel to know it.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2750 @ 0.00053071 = 1.4595 BTC [+]
assbot: The20YearIRCloud +v failed; L1: 0, L2: -2
mats: ;;gettrust The20YearIRCloud assbot
TomServo: ;;gettrust assbot The20YearIRCloud
mats: ;;ident The20YearIRCloud
gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'The20YearIRCloud', with hostmask 'The20YearIRCloud!uid38883@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-ktibawvxckycpvip', is identified as user 'the20year', with GPG key id 359D91C634AE8E53, key fingerprint DF515FC27907A1FC3236C7E8359D91C634AE8E53, and bitcoin address None
mats: you have been banished from the island
The20YearIRCloud: So far i've given out 8 posters, so far no one has cashed them in, go figure
The20YearIRCloud: Granted none of my renters have PC and none can figure out how to do it via mobile phone
The20YearIRCloud: But if you want to retaliate at me for my tenants not cashing in the posters.....then so be it. I've tried to do my part in educating them about bitcoin, how to cash them in and so forth. I realize the print cost for the posters was paid out by someone. But I don't understand why you're getting mad at ME over it.
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2014 12:56:26; nubbins`: mircea_popescu:well if he did nubbins has some 'splainin' to do lol. <<< nope, in fact, i am also mildly perturbed by the fact that i mailed over $4,000 of goods to the guy and we didn't even get a couple measly pictures out of it
fluffypony: did you at least teach them the secret handshake?
The20YearIRCloud: I've explained for 5-10 minutes per tenant how it worked, to go on IRCwebchat, and to cash them in. I still have the 42 or so left over still sitting in my closet. I can mail em back to someone if they want. Howver i don't know what I am supposed to do if no one follows my directions or the ones on the posters.
The20YearIRCloud: I told them they'd get $35-$40 worth of bitcoins for free, and all it would do is take at worst an hour of their time, at best 5 minutes.
jurov: i'd be eager to try one myself, with some phto documentation.. or that was verboten?
The20YearIRCloud: Heck, i gave two out to guys who worked for me, and I know for a fact they're dead broke and they still couldn't figure out how to do it.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27600 @ 0.00051884 = 14.32 BTC [-] {2}
The20YearIRCloud: I had told MP that it would have been a much, much better process if I ran a contest or something locally for the posters, that way they would have gone to houses where they wanted them or were higher educated. Yet i even had one tenant flat out refuse the poster after I put in their hands because it was 'too complicated' and 'all we have is a nintendo wii
The20YearIRCloud: Maybe I could give mircea_popescu their phone numbers and he could call em and ask them why? What the heck is expected of me beyond explaining to them how to do it and giving them the poster? Am I expected to spend a hour getting them on IRC and doing it all for them?
mircea_popescu: mats pls to put in comment at article tho. pastebins expire etc.
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http://bit.ly/1wUaTGn )
The20YearIRCloud: Well, two of the posters look to have disappeared, i texted the guys who had em and it looks like after I put em in their work truck they went away or something.
mircea_popescu: (i know they failed on that power thoroughput specifically, but it's a year old+ bet. it actually improved meanwhile)
The20YearIRCloud: I'm going back and texting those who got them asking for speciifc explanation on why they didn't cash them in.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud well nothing's specifically expected from you, that;s the problem with statistics.
The20YearIRCloud: I'm asking you what you want me to do when I've given 8 to clients/tenants and none have cashed them in. I've got a negative rating from you over it, so i wouldn't mind resolving it if at all possible.
fluffypony: I still think you should've taught them the secret handshake, problem solved
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud i dun want you to do anything specifically.
The20YearIRCloud: Explain why I have a negative rating mentioning the posters. What else am I supposed to do with them?
mircea_popescu: <jurov> i'd be eager to try one myself, with some phto documentation.. or that was verboten? << try what you mean ?
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud looky at what it says. "If you believe him you're stuck crediting a large pile of very improbable things, such as that no one out of dozen low income renters is interested in cashing ~50 bux worth of free BTC, or that buyers somehow materialize on Havelock to buy shares at 2x the going price for a single IPO day."
The20YearIRCloud: At least, i'm not aware of any codes on them, if there were, they weren't obvious.
mircea_popescu: what exactly caused them, how they're to be construed etc etc is entirely open to anyone's interpretation.
mircea_popescu: no, you get a negative rating the same way anyone ever did : by making a large enough pile of claims improbable enough.
The20YearIRCloud: What do you think I did with the posters? Just put em in a closet to have to resell some day in the future?
The20YearIRCloud: So, in other words : I did what was requested of me with the posters, I get neg repped for them. I did what my shareholders wanted by selling them more treasury shares at a specific USD value, I get neg repped for it. In both cases I did what was asked of me, with proof (Phone numbers and shareholders on my IRC chat) and still get negative rep because of it?
mircea_popescu: so your sworn testimony here is that out of however many tenants, not one has a working smartphone ? or what is it ? computers don't really so much enter into it as far as i can see.
mike_c: do you see why it would look weird for you to sell shares at an inflated price when your investors could have bought them cheaper on the open market?
The20YearIRCloud: Most of em have working smart phones, their statement to me was that they couldn't figure out how to get on IRC.
The20YearIRCloud: mike_c: they wanted to invest more cash directly in the company that would go to our bank, and not buy shares from individuals on the open market.
TomServo: I'd think your average low income earner would bend over backwards for fiddy bux.
mike_c: The20YearIRCloud: do you list the address of your properties anywhere?
The20YearIRCloud: I've already sent messages out to those that i gave em to asking for a reasoning to them not cashing em in. Two guys have already told me they never got em even after I put em in their vehicles.
The20YearIRCloud: It's not public but if someone REALLY wanted em, i'd make the properties & deeds available. Around last year I gave mircea_popescu deed copies of 2 or 3 of the properties.
The20YearIRCloud: Our board of advisors has copies of our deeds and bank statements.
mircea_popescu: i remember you promising to put your deeds online but not carrying through. i dun recall this "given me" deeds.
mircea_popescu: nfi why i wouldn't have said something at the time, either.
The20YearIRCloud: I sent you to landaccess.com and showed you how to look up TIF copies
The20YearIRCloud: Since everything is in the company name and the deeds are publically available.
dub: its not a proper website without!@
The20YearIRCloud: We had a whole conversation about how we use deeds in Ohio and not torrens titles
The20YearIRCloud: You can also use the auditor to try and look up the data ,but depending on the county, some auditors are more than a year behind on their record updates.
mircea_popescu: grep -n "landaccess" FreeNode-the20yearircloud.log FreeNode-the20year.log comes up emtpy.
The20YearIRCloud: There are counties near us that do not have online access outside of the office specific intranet. You have to call and ask for emails.
mircea_popescu: anyway, im pretty sure i never actually evaluated either the site involved or w/e it contained. im entirely unsure why is this not public again ?
mircea_popescu: how's property register work other than as a public matter.
The20YearIRCloud: Those are the only two I can think of that i'd use. At any rate I just sent you links to two different auditors, between those two there's 10 different units.
The20YearIRCloud: Because I had threats 6 months back from people online that they'd call the tenants and threaten em.
dub: how does murica have unemployment with this insane inefficiency
The20YearIRCloud: The same counties that are intra-net only have the entire county on one giant CAD file that's accurate to within a few centimeters
dub: I can grab basic detail of any property in my countRy from a single web GIS interface for free, its then $50 for complete records of every time someone farted near it
The20YearIRCloud: But, at any rate, the individuals on our BOA have access to bank records and property deeds/addresses. Additionally I've re-sent a link to MP just now showing one county's records on us.
The20YearIRCloud: Columbus Oh is like that, the records are fantastic, with additional property photos (not google earth/streetview ones) that the assessor has taken of each home in the county.
The20YearIRCloud: board of advisors. We built a committe that goes over all the company's financials and details once or twice a month.
The20YearIRCloud: I'll have to ask, our goal is to build personal profile pages with things like FB & linkedin profile pages, could include WoT data too.
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.
assbot: Logged on 02-06-2014 18:30:38; mircea_popescu: Up until recently it was practically impossible to become embroiled into any sort of dealing with the subgroup, their ownership being strictly assumed and their lives strictly subsumed by the corporations competent at dealing with the human cattle : fastfood providers, supermarkets, the government. Both as employers and providers these specialised bureaucracies have the necessary tools, including cat
mircea_popescu: dub yeah but the us doesn't generally even have torrens deeds.
mircea_popescu: being the most democratically advanced democratic advancement.
jurov: to me it looks like deep decolt
jurov: how is that cut in the cloth called in english?
mircea_popescu: "Paragraph 16 of the resolution condemns Russia for selling arms to the Assad government in Syria. It does not mention, of course, that those weapons are going to fight ISIS – which we claim is the enemy -- while the US weapons supplied to the rebels in Syria have actually found their way into the hands of ISIS!"
undata: I've met him a few times
mircea_popescu: i wonder what it's like, you know, man captive in the monkey cage @ zoo.
undata: I admire old cranky bastards that stick to their guns
mircea_popescu: "How does Congress get away with such blatant falsehoods? Do Members not even bother to read these resolutions before voting?"
mircea_popescu: in a word, members of congress aren't really that far above executive associates at jack in the box.
undata: poor guy thought the US myth was a real thing
undata: reminds me of various family members... "if we'd only get back to the *constitution*!"
undata: the US constitution and laws resulted in this; this is therefore what a USA *does*
mircea_popescu: This dangerous legislation passed today, December 4, with only ten (!) votes against! Only ten legislators are concerned over the use of blatant propaganda and falsehoods to push such reckless saber-rattling toward Russia. Amash, Duncan, Grayson, Hastings, Jones, Massie, McDermott, Miller, O’Rourke, Rohrabacher.
mod6: those ten probably just hit the wrong voting button. margin of error or something.
undata: there are a small but nonzero amount of US politicians that are pro-market and anti-war
mod6: i imagine these guys just sit there allday looking at pornhub and playing flappy bird on their new galaxy 5s IF they even show up to the session
undata: I think one of Ron Paul's best thoughts was to allow competition of currencies
undata: this was well before bitcoin
punkman: this joehoe guy made a nice sum today
punkman: "Dude you took from my address, I was saving up for my family for christmas and you went and stolen it this morning.. Please have the heart to give it back, PMing you now"
punkman: I hope he doesn't give anything back
punkman: "One of these address' is mine, can you place contact me, I can provide proof with screen shots or teamview."
undata: please thief, have a heart!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, that's the future. fucking teamviewer.
gribble: dimsler was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 9 weeks, 0 days, 19 hours, 2 minutes, and 38 seconds ago: <Dimsler> lol
mircea_popescu: what the us ~~~citizen~~~ expects of its government, after the tsa-at-airport free masturbation test drive
punkman: last quote was from a "dimsler"
mircea_popescu: there's going to be a special agency specialised in giving orders to random derps via teamviewer.
mircea_popescu: "take off your clothes. jack off. vote this on reddit."
undata: stuff like that is installed on every "point of sale" system on earth, too
undata: by people who think having your network use static IPs is more secure
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5683 @ 0.0005079 = 2.8864 BTC [-]
assbot: blockchainwallet comments on VICTIM: 100 Bitcoins STOLEN from blockchain.info Wallet during the Security Leak 12/7/2014 ... (
http://bit.ly/1yJ6iGk )
undata recalls sending friends song.mp3.exe in high school
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform by now it's this very special social behaviour, lemme tell you the long story.
mircea_popescu: inept "hiring"/"outsourcing" websites, modelled after get a freelancer (which has been in fact on an insane buying spree, they recently swallowed up warrior forum - the epicenter of those idiotic "infoproducts" consisting of yellow underlined text and a fetishistic "box" with reflections and whatnot)
mircea_popescu: promote a particularly insane view of hiring, where to hire someone for an hour is essentially a nonsexual camwhoring arrangement. you're to tell the op what to do, as micromanagement-y as moving their own hands.
mircea_popescu: the software platform this nonsense happens on is teamviewer (and before that, and to some degree supporting it today, skype)
mircea_popescu: so, all over the world right now, tons of people wasting each other's time in pairs, like retarded marmocets trying to move a ball across the field.
mircea_popescu: it's essentially for the masturbator "play an elaborate sort of sims while pretending to be at work"
cazalla: mircea_popescu: cazalla nice publish srsly. <<< would've made a summary but was late
mircea_popescu: and for the masturbated, "let the superior white man do things for you for a few dollars"
mircea_popescu: so it works out great for all the parts involved : corporations pay ; their employees are kept out of trouble ; third worlders eat.
mircea_popescu: it's a modern solution to a modern problem. meanwhile actual people can get on with their actual work unmolested.
mircea_popescu: obviously the serious ethical violation and outrageous immorality of them having any btc is why <punkman> I hope he doesn't give anything back
assbot: Logged on 02-12-2014 17:36:10; xanthyos: 0.25925176 BTC will arrive in your My Wallet account on Monday Dec 8, 2014.
mircea_popescu: coupla bitcents every week. eventually it adds up to something worth stealing.
punkman: from linked paper: "The analysis is very disturbing: it appears that the bitcoin core client has NOT yet finalized the process of several security upgrades which propose a solution to this problem (deterministic random generation) event though a first solution was already submitted in January 2013"
☟︎ assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18500 @ 0.00053584 = 9.913 BTC [+] {2}
punkman: the R value thing, instead of using RNG, you can just hash tx+key or something like that.
punkman: so the Android wallets don't break again
punkman: me neither, I use dumbphone
mircea_popescu: im not all that convinced deterministic generation (nothing random about it) is such a brilliant idea.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile it also makes it easier for everyone's wallets to be broken
punkman: it makes sense for this little thing
mircea_popescu: little men in little cubical spaces doing little things in little excel cells.
punkman: because accidental re-use even from different users can reveal keys in various ways
punkman: so if you hash tx+something, that's not gonna happen
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem only appears if r values are equal
mircea_popescu: if hashing or w/e other prngsauce is used, it won't be equal.
mircea_popescu: ofcourse the actual random r is a general class solution, and provably stronger than prng r for general applications.
mircea_popescu: am i the only one that sees the homeric lulz involved ?
mircea_popescu: "The reasons for this are history not known to me, but it might even be linked to Dual_EC_DRBG." <, is, afaik.
BingoBoingo: Indeed. "To satisfy portable code, srand() may be called to initialize the subsystem. In OpenBSD the seed variable is ignored, and strong random number results will be provided from arc4random(3.) In other systems, the seed variable primes a simplistic deterministic algorithm. If the standardized behavior is required srand_deterministic() can be substituted for srand(), then subsequent rand() calls will return results using the d
punkman: " They will suddenly see strong randomization where they did not before. There may be a few broken because the have a deeply hidden dependency on determinism. Sorry, but that is what it is going to take."