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KRS1: company seeking investment isn't buying their goods/services in bitcoin and they've properly funded their venture. If they cannot meet their goals using the solicited funds thats another problem entirely.
KRS1: In reference to "You Can Raise It But You Can't Spend It". Whats wrong with a company sticking to their business plan, soliciting for $X amount of funds, receiving it in bitcoin, converting it to fiat? Then the proper execution of the business plan can take place with the investment model of using bitcoins for funding. If the value of bitcoins goes up or down, it does not matter. The
pankkake: shouldn't be hard to brute force actually, not many chars
mircea_popescu: yes dude, and if we don't recall a fucking name we just sit here hashing letters like idjits
mircea_popescu: with old stuff... they won't even notice.
mike_c: plus, doesn't have to be complete to publish. start with recent ones and work backwards.
mircea_popescu: well obviously a pankkake-style list isn't too helpful
mircea_popescu: benkay suppose i give you the half-bitcoin i have leftover from the painting thing ? but srsly, do it thoroughly, don't leave anything out.
mircea_popescu: suppose i just don't charge you for teh info ? :D
lippoper: they probably don't even have the mining gear yet
benkay: ah well there is a mistake in there isn't it - the way i understand the selection to work is that an exercise hits everyone who underwrote proportionately to the fraction of outstanding contracts that they wrote
mircea_popescu: kako doesn't want his tics felt up ?
mike_c: kako won't come to the us
mircea_popescu: well i don't listen to noobs.
mike_c: i don't get it. which of those do you have trouble getting money out of?
Dimsler_: yeah until you can't get your money out
kakobrekla: >That Lambo is not really a significant part of my investment portfolio. I did it when I did cuz of Greenspan saying he could not see any "intrinsic value" in BTC. So I was like fuck it, people don't care about intrinsic value, they care about shit like Lambos. Did it for the PR.
mircea_popescu: ain't working with responsible, competent people a fucking blessing.
ThickAsThieves: about a third of people I require to sign messages with their wallet for ID, don't send the message, only the sig
mircea_popescu: not that they won't get good at it with practice, just... i dun wanna be the practice.
mike_c: apparently the batteries don't do well when pierced from the bottom by road debris
Duffer1: TSA - come for the security theater, stay because we can't end the program during an employment crisis
mircea_popescu: pity tesla doesn't do RVs
mircea_popescu: wasn't really all that much... more the name than anything
pankkake: tmux doesn't have that issue, nor do latest screen git
pankkake: screen has a bug and can't handle utf-8 with too many bytes
deadweasel: can't you just set term to utf-8
mircea_popescu: don't opress my hacking!
mike_c: i think it depends on irc client. i don't think my client could even send anything that would break it.
mike_c: damn, didn't work
mircea_popescu: ya well, don't let too many opportunities pass you by while you're undecided, or else you'll end up old and bitter.
mircea_popescu: yeah well see ? you can't become prisoner of your own bad experiences.
jurov: what do you do with them? you can't give them any responsibility
jurov: because i don't except for you
mircea_popescu: so don't give them access to anything that's more dangerous than they're trustworthy.
mircea_popescu: wao-ender just negotiate with people. "o, you want to use us ? fine, but you must be naked while doing it" "o, you don't want to do naked pr ? ok, what else can you offer"
mircea_popescu: don't wait for "the time to come".
jborkl: Yeah, Romania had 1 inch of snow doesn't have the same rung
Duffer1: bitcointalk.org when MPOE-PR isn't around?
Neil: Some Chinese gals are really good fun. Don't take life too seriously.
mircea_popescu: well sure. i don't propose the chinese are racially ugly. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i don't go for the entire "hello my face is a pancake" thing
mircea_popescu: ja ma mi, so jenen is in fact "one". romanian doesn't have it. there's cineva = somebody, but there's no "one" as an impersonal Is person.
mircea_popescu: that one doesn't gramatically work in romanian.
mircea_popescu: KRS1 they really don't seem to want to.
mircea_popescu: "We don't trust anything anymore. Not even the banking institutions," Partcha said. "I had saved in dollars, and when the banks froze deposits in 2001, I got pesos back and lost my money."
mircea_popescu: but don't worry, i'll tell it again so it becomes funny.
mircea_popescu: just because most of their city is undeveloped doesn't mean it's not a city now :D
jurov: <mircea_popescu> and we didn't even know the city exists! << which city you mean?
mircea_popescu: and we didn't even know the city exists!
BingoBoingo: Bitch wants me to insure their BTC balances though doesn't want my niggers.txt. Loser?
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: I mean if you want letter perfect code Common LISP is the language, but in the garbage you pasted I can't say if you are protecting from garbage overloads or some shit.
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: I don't speak R to the computer for the same reason I don't speak Attic Greek in conversation
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: How do yoy know I don't have better deets
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: I am trying to get some play sports book to let a freiend who hasn't cared for long enough's funds
decimation: Perhaps I am deluded, but I thought it clarifed matters w.r.t. currency adoption
decimation: Certainly whoever wrote that virus wouldn't be dumb enough to use unique addresses?
decimation: heh yeah. sorry I couldn't find a better reference.
Duffer1: i can't imagine how they'd solve that issue
mircea_popescu: wasn't there some sort of limit in place ?
mircea_popescu: was i2p strong ? i don't even remember
Duffer1: even if you don't transact you're still learning the right habits
mircea_popescu: noobs usually don't figure it out/need prodding.
mircea_popescu: jesus google is shitty, there's a conjunctive verbal form there, definitely can't work as a noun nor does it mean whore.
mircea_popescu: lele actually wouldn't be recognised as such. it's a disused word and most speakers would only take it as an antiquated form for older sister/girlfriend
asciilifeform: my argument isn't even that 'the great anti-btc firewall of earth' is coming, but that modern telecom is an extremely fragile beast
herbijudlestoids: newp, reading the "I can't even" now lol
nubbins`: "we can't open this, can you send it in .doc?"
asciilifeform: and ms isn't a company in the sense of, say, coca cola (or even the original 'standard oil') - it's a crown monopoly
nubbins`: but i don't think there's enough to gain from blocking all unsigned apps for them to risk it
nubbins`: don't get me wrong, they'll fuck ya raw all kinds of ways for a buck
nubbins`: asciilifeform, that'd be the worry, but i don't think it'll happen any time soon
asciilifeform: nubbins`: don't be surprised if mac os '11' or whatnot simply refuses to run 'unsigned' apps
asciilifeform: and you still won't get layout docs
asciilifeform: you don't actually need to understand very much about an IC design to clone it.
decimation: I guess it wouldn't include said trickery
decimation: So, why doesn't some no-name Chinese fab make a relatively "generic" chip and take over the market?
asciilifeform: if you don't optimize for a particular fpga, you can't get anything close to the maximum rated clock of the sdram in question
asciilifeform: because the opencores libs aren't optimized for a particular fpga
decimation: Why hasn't something like "opencores" largely replaced that?
asciilifeform: "can you prove to me the entire troop of us hedge funds aren't little maddofs running around, shielded..." << i can prove that this /must/ be so
mircea_popescu: can you prove to me the entire troop of us hedge funds aren't little maddofs running around, shielded by "industry standards" ?
Dimsler_: there wasn't any
mircea_popescu: now, people do have options. it's just they won't take them.
mircea_popescu: it's funny tho, making exactly the wrong moves. you couldn't pay them to be this conveniently stupid.
mircea_popescu: doesn't mean it's bad. just means it's much better at other things.
decimation: Therefore no reason why you couldn't run a btc credit card
decimation: There's no reason in principle why one couldn't extend bank credit which is convertible to claims on BTC
mircea_popescu: has electricity replaced female labour in the house or hasn't it ?
mircea_popescu: you don't study lezzies.
kakobrekla: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsE0BwQ3l8U&feature=youtu.be&t=27m47s
decimation: and won't
decimation: yet they don't
mircea_popescu: and didn't even know it.
mircea_popescu: ok so. it doesn';t matter what people do or don't do
mircea_popescu: well you see... 50k ain't 10mn. not even close.
mircea_popescu: i'm kind-of curious if he actually finds one. afaik it doesn't exist. ☟︎
deadweasel: mircea_popescu, at some point, don't you have to start worrying about physical security.. hired goons of the status quo and whatnot?
mircea_popescu: they can't flawlessly merge ten billion likes into the value of an oil tanker.
mircea_popescu: this is why visa can't compete, not really, even if it doesn't know it yet.