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pankkake: I usually don't care
pankkake: paying cash is hard for me, I can't do mental calculus
nubbins`: none because they can't afford one
nubbins`: i'm surprised they didn't ask for bamboo tanks
ThickAsThieves: incidentally i did few t-shirt orders for clients, but the last one was a yoga studio
nubbins`: punkman1: for some reason, you can't buy 100% organic cotton tank tops.
asciilifeform: PCB is lead-free, ICs aren't.
punkman1: wouldn't want any tin whiskers
mircea_popescu: tin doesn't fragment oxidizing does it ?
mircea_popescu: deadweasel don't be that happy. http://www.bcmamedicalmuseum.org/object/i2995w.jpg
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 the artist wasn't paid so well, but he took solace in the notion his handywork will be embossed on generations of boxes.
deadweasel: omg, so glad I don't have a uterus
nubbins`: wasn't an offer to share ;)
nubbins`: mircea_popescu, this is why people don't give
chipug: 51 cents?! wtf im like 2 months behind on rent and won't beg.
nubbins`: i love my wife, doesn't mean i give her a nickel every time she does math wrong
Duffer1: "Max Keiser ‏@maxkeiser 28s.@DogecoinCharity Nobody has created more BTC millionaires than @KeiserReport I hope you weren't left behind."
ThickAsThieves: i can't even read the Neo thread anymore without using the PR account, I have so many people ignored
mircea_popescu: YOU don't.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves only because they don't know what they're missing.
mircea_popescu: they didn't start this way, back when larry and serghey, but over the course of "business" various moles slowly optimized towards it
Apocalyptic: i don't believe that's pow-able
mircea_popescu: he imagines that "as long as i got my coffee and can yell to the wifey for sandwiches the kids don;t know where in the house i am to come asking for money" ?
ThickAsThieves: Former Minnesota governor and pro wrestler Jesse Ventura is currently on the press circuit around the launch of his talk show Off the Grid, but only from an undisclosed location in Mexico, safe from the prying camera-eyes of drones. "I'm off the grid," he said in an interview with CNBC yesterday. "I move about with my TV show so that the drones can't find me, and that you won't know
mircea_popescu: whoa. so i go to call up benkay who ofcourse isn't on, and i hit on bettyclamp ? who are ye!
punkman1: I don't think it works in the UK, not sure
Duffer1: i went from pandora to grooveshark to spotify, i haven't tried google music or lastfm
Duffer1: i haven't even tried gmusic
Duffer1: doesn't
Duffer1: their channels are more in line with the type of music you're likely looking for, spotify's radio feature just don't compare
ThickAsThieves: basically "Forumite doesn't use escrow, news at 11!"
Duffer1: i don't know if i know enough to discount his seemingly algorithmic financial-word-salad spam
benkay: building a finite state machine. can't be arsed with option pricing.
DrSteveBrule: for example, i see 1000 @ 0.487 = 487 BTC with a stike at 500 / doesn't that mean they bought 1000 contracts at 0.487BTC?
flins: but isn't the lot size 0.1btc?
DrSteveBrule: My apologies, I don't want to sound like one of those crazy people who just wants to come in a speak bullshit. My reasons for my current short position are 1) Elliot wave principle 2) I don't think the Chinese gov likes bitcoin 3) 4 million dollars worth of option puts bought on http://mpex.co/
Vexual: im in a loop thinking of numbers i don't understand, but there are external govt regulators vitoing bullshit on wall street no?
Namworld: MPEx doesn't need more members and doesn't offer much support.
herbijudlestoids: Namworld, didn't you see it says *free*
nubbins`: technically wasn't really math fiction tho
mircea_popescu: "two large primes whose product doesn't commute
asciilifeform: btw the whole homomorphic business reminds me of an old sf story, where some malefactor stumbles upon a pair of large integers whose multiplication doesn't commute.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids yes. and the early spikes aren't exactly easy money either.
mircea_popescu: it never works. it can't work.
asciilifeform: in principle, 'all blades have two edges,' etc. but in practice, the one and only objective of the folks funding homomorphic is a kind of satanic opposite of my purpose outlined in 'don't blame the mice'
asciilifeform: if it 'keeps key safe' via the whole proggy becoming the key, you haven't accomplished much
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't be necessarily running a compiler there
mircea_popescu: turns out it wasn't pointless!
chipug: that's what i find so funny about people talking about bitcoin safety and hacking... it's all a continual cycle nowadays and that won't change. like leapfrog
mircea_popescu: as if the total heat differential i nthe universe weren't ALSO fixed.
jborkl: Don't go into OTC and announce you are a chick.
mircea_popescu: haha i wouldn't say that,
mircea_popescu: i didn't even know girls were allowed here.
mircea_popescu: i didn't. let's fix.
nubbins`: wait, you're saying bigger brains aren't smarter?
nubbins`: i don't know how much apple i get, that's what's wrong
nubbins`: i can't speak to past definitions, but everything i'm reading says that the thing which is inflating is the price of goods
mircea_popescu: prices aren't a reference point for inflation tho, this is like saying she's a good lay cause she's a redhead.
nubbins`: you can't say that there's deflation because pumpkins are cheap on november 1.
nubbins`: i don't get it
herbijudlestoids: fofoa.blogspot.com (don't hate me for blogspot)
mircea_popescu: dub "life is sweat and blood and making love to a woman you don't know and nobody prints your name in trilema until the day you die"
asciilifeform: (it won't be ECC, it'll be some very spiffy looking lattice work or the like.)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Don't forget the form for selling credits
mircea_popescu: and you mustn't have liked it much in school.
nubbins`: can't lift existing art
nubbins`: nah see that won't work
mike_c: 100:1 readers to commenters isn't bad
nubbins`: kakobrekla: not to mention that most of log isn't worth saving in the first place ;p
benkay: mp suggested blogging as a series of notes to self, as one can't actually remember all the bullshit waded through over a significant period of time.
nubbins`: log isn't really in a suitable format for books
nubbins`: 'through the looking-glass' isn't long enough, know what i mean?
nubbins`: not being religious, i can't think of a book i care enough about to put such an enormous amount of effort into
Duffer1: i don't know if the audience for that manner of analysis is here yet in bitcoinland, but i bet it will be sometime
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 "how to spend money you don't have to pay people nobody reads to say ridiculously stupid shit which is how they got to not be read in the first place" ?
nubbins`: you can actually see the people in the crowd who just aren't listening
mircea_popescu: because they wouldn't download a multiplex, or a car.
nubbins`: chewing your hair doesn't count
nubbins`: wait a minute, i wasn't doing that before.
mircea_popescu: you just don't really wanna think about it.
ThickAsThieves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6kgvhG3AkI#t=3150
nubbins`: reminds me of when billy corgan let it slip that he didn't like the way his band played on siamese dream
mircea_popescu: i didn't know you still had menstruation in frigid slovenia.
mircea_popescu: dub sorry your message couldn't be delivered because clourflare. ray id 98759847
mircea_popescu: it wasn't nearly as bad as cloudflare.
chipug: thanks ThickAsThieves you know, i typed it and was sitting thinking, that doesn't look right
chipug: truffles: i don't shave. can't stand the stubble. epilation ftw my balls are as smooth as the day you were born
KRS-: I don't see that it serves a purpose, unless I'm missing something.
mircea_popescu: !t m ^oix
mircea_popescu: $t m ^oix
chipug: no goats, i don't know him
chipug: "mum, why doesn't our car have a huge penis on it?"
chipug: i wasn't thinking on the falling, more the giant cock in front of her
chipug: BingoBoingo: i like how the mother in the background isn't caring about her young child, too busy snapping the giant cock in front of them both.
mircea_popescu: it died, because i didn't invite idiots and everyone got bored and went back to btctalk
jcpham: I wouldn't read the forum on any type of regular basis
mircea_popescu: chipug anything that doesn't involve you trading anything you value for them
chipug: I wanted to see how pool mining worked, so I used doge. then i was given some. I don't know what i should be doing with them
mircea_popescu: "Dogecoin Control Group is running out of retarded sacharine stories to pump their scammy coin. Strangely, the "defraud early investors" thing they pulled yest isn't mentioned"
mike_c: hah, yeah. there's even a website for it isn't there? btc sob stories.