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bitcoinpete: BingoBoingo: but I didn't even post it on reddit!
bitcoinpete: catching up on the day's logs… twitter is just jammed with gox brain damage. can't take it
ThickAsThieves: "I love the sense of entitlement in your generation," she wrote, then continued. "You're welcome for your humility lesson for the year. Don't ever reach out to senior practitioners again and assume their carefully curated list of connections is available to you, just because you want to build your network."
ThickAsThieves: if they can't be instant, why pretend
ThickAsThieves: no matter how fast they are, they can't be instant
jurov: good idea, don't you think?
Duffer1: I don't see how fixing could occur without collusion by employees
wbaw: saying they don't host scammers, denying that bet fixing could be a problem...
Duffer1: perhaps you haven't been around long wbaw but if i was a gambler Bitbet would be the only site I'd trust to do what they say, no more no less
wbaw: they have lots of big competitors but they think they're different because it's magical internet money so customer service doesn't count
Duffer1: ah i'm not a gambler, i haven't kept up with the offerings in the space
wbaw: doesn't matter to me i can just go elsewhere
wbaw: other bookmakers don't call me a bitch for giving them money
ThickAsThieves: wbaw that's one issue you won't win me over on
wbaw: responses from customer support shouldn't be so rude & arrogant either
wbaw: and i can't put bets on even those his website says that i can
mircea_popescu: wbaw in a word, yes. especially because bitcoin isn't a currency in this sense.
mircea_popescu: every business will make a choice as you can't have all three.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't impact your bet in any way.
mircea_popescu: bah i can't believe i gave out the wrong link
wbaw: i didn't realise before, cazalla
cazalla: didn't you know bitbet was a scam wbaw?
wbaw: you really shouldn't still be accepting bets, it's just to take fees for nothing or skew the odds
mircea_popescu: anyway, don't sweat it, i'm sure you'll have it by tomorrow, whatever it is.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 that's basically why people need lawyers for. average joe can't possibly summon all the needed gall for even trivial legal proceedings
wbaw: how official does it need to be if their company lawyer announcing it outside a court isn't enough?
wbaw: the bet hasn't
mircea_popescu: !t h neobee
wbaw: glad i didn't put more on it
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic for instance the bitcoinica executors, couldn't care less about the btc.
Apocalyptic: mircea, wasn't aware, what case are you referring to ?
Apocalyptic: they wouldn't need to get them, just price them in the liability sheets
Apocalyptic: jurov, isn't there ?
jurov: Apocalyptic: there isn't any other way
HeySteve2: mircea_popescu, please private me regarding the news if I don't respond here
mircea_popescu: no nm, it isn't
davout: anddam: what's to tell me it doesn't compound in weird ways ?
davout: anddam: accounting is right or it isn't, it can't be sort-of right
anddam: davout: I don't but is rounding error with floats that important?
mircea_popescu: davout wasn't open office settable to use fixed point ?
mircea_popescu: scams don't go away anymore, they just age and reemerge, goat style.
mircea_popescu: why wouldn't it be ?
mircea_popescu: "Great job on the Bitblu website. It looks awesome, even in beta!! Can't wait to try it out "
mircea_popescu: i don't mean the newest scamcoin, i get it, Reggie Middleton is a random noob who figures that he's special and doesn't need to first spend his six months reading here.
ozbot: Reggie Middleton's UltraCoin - Bitcoin 2.0, aka Ultra Coin: Bitcoin's Derivative Layer That Allows T
chetty: <mircea_popescu> "i shouldn't still be a virgin, kinda the point of bitcoin!! <<<< it isn't?????
mircea_popescu: "i shouldn't still be a virgin, kinda the point of bitcoin!!1"
mircea_popescu: "There shouldn't be "insiders" in #Bitcoin - that's kinda the point of Bitcoin."
mircea_popescu: doesn't mean you'll ever be right ever again ever eleventy!"
Apocalyptic: maybe, it certainly fundamentally isn't though
mircea_popescu: if we had the luxury of discarding anything of reality that doesn't conveniently fit with our theoreitcal system, we wouldn't for instance be stuckl with quantum mechanics.
Luke-Jr: and thought you were full of crap since you couldn't substantiate it
Luke-Jr: oh, so I'm supposed to just believe everything you say but can't/won't provide evidence for?
mircea_popescu: next time, listen. it's not like it's coming out of my pocket if you don't, you know ?
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of things you didn't know. but the fact that i said mtgox is going down, you knew.
Luke-Jr: I didn't know you had access to MtGox's code
KRS-One: Not trying to suprise you, I don't know much about you.
mircea_popescu: isn;t this the guy who didn't have the time to either a) get with the program or b) read the indicated article detailing the unsuccessful attempts of the last nitwit who thought he's too good to do what he's told on the grounds of well... he's special ?
bloctoc_: I don't know but it's in the bitcoin-assets archives a couple of days after the transaction
BingoBoingo: Introducing noise as a reciever isn't too new
asciilifeform: semiconductor is not magic, isn't cursed, one can form reasonable hypothesis about enemy action.
Apocalyptic: BingoBoingo, I haven't heard similar complaints so far
Apocalyptic: BingoBoingo, huh, doesn't seem likely to me
BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: Every now and then t reverts to displaying stats from days earlier. Hard to describe
BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: Of late your exchange hasn't exactly been reliable either
Apocalyptic: doesn't surprise me tbh
BingoBoingo: Imma be disappointed if MP can't make a dungeo session bout this http://dpaste.com/1668650/
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I imagine don't buy CPUs, but buy understood FPGAs and force them into an acceptable image
BingoBoingo: What I want to know is now that MOPS based OpenRISC is very mature why can't I get a 4 ghz laptop with one of those.
benkay: isn't it rather the fear of being found at customs rather than the actual searches?
asciilifeform: it isn't so much that it uses 'too many' pirated bits, but the price point per se
asciilifeform: i haven't the exact figures, but the actual (physical) unit cost for most ICs is very small.
BingoBoingo: decimation: He probably isn't wrong. People need to see the retard spewing from ##mtgox-statement
BingoBoingo: I've seen Ghostbusters, the Keymaster always does alright. Even if herp and derp don't
decimation: Lol Bingo. Except Gox isn't gone, it's horde resides in stronger hands?
BingoBoingo: I can't try to read a part in this god damned score without singing it to proofread my alterations.
BingoBoingo: I totally shouldn't have drank before writing this upcoming blog post.
decimation: Bingo surely the winklevii didn't keep their coins on Gox right?
the20year: I know it doesn't make a difference to any of you, but I managed to come up with a mobile lighting solution for doing video inside the dumps we're buying
the20year: isn't mircea here ?
asciilifeform: the site itself isn't very informative...
asciilifeform: and you needn't be a magician.
ozbot: Why you shouldn't trust your VPS provider | gcr's journal
nubbins`: !t m s.mg
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu no I don't, see above
nubbins`: it's one of, if not the only, starbucks in the world that doesn't have "STARBUCKS COFFEE" written on the outside
mircea_popescu: i ain't payin' squat.
greenspan_fan: I'm from the NSA man, you can't touch me
greenspan_fan: you don't care if you live or die?
mircea_popescu: alternatively, i couldn't care less.
greenspan_fan: glibly; I've succeeded so far, haven't I?
mircea_popescu: this doesn't sound like making mommy too happy yet.
mircea_popescu: or you can control their effects, provided you don't act at all.
mircea_popescu: well, so you can control your own actions, provided you don't control their effects
mircea_popescu: you can't trust anything, get real.
greenspan_fan: well, for instance, I don't know my mom haha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: should you find yourself alone with... doesn't even - horror of horrors - speak your language << might as well put him alone on a nuke sub with overheating reactor
greenspan_fan: yeah I wasn't arguing based on that
mircea_popescu: and who maybe doesn't even - horror of horrors - speak your language.
mircea_popescu: so you say. maybe you do. maybe, however, you don;t.