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pankkake: I don't get this proxy thing, is there no central authority in mpex trading?
Apocalyptic: too bad that wasn't a marker order
mircea_popescu: but if legitimate stuff came along that legitimately couldn't afford it, im sure the service would pop.
mircea_popescu: apparently reddit has decided mpex fee is now 50 btc ? shouldn't i at least be notified ?!
Azelphur: kakobrekla: nice, I can't beat that, although I do have a 5 BTC doorbell.
Azelphur: baring in mind I started off broke and in my parents attic, I can't complain.
mircea_popescu: the funny thing is that if a bunch of oldtimers whom we won't name didn't think themselves smarter than me back in 2011, and said no to teh pirate guy when i said no to teh pirate guy,
mircea_popescu: and now i don't remember it.
pankkake: I don't get it
asciilifeform: tritium, afaik, won't bio-accumulate
mgio: you can't even get thorium lantern mantles anymore :(
asciilifeform: just like the pipes sold across the street from where i live don't come with a bag of pot to smoke
mgio: last i heard he still cliams to plan on playing everyone back and even paying all back dividends on ukyo.loan bonds, but he hasn't said anything in a while now
mircea_popescu: jesus one can't even be autistically clever anymore.
mircea_popescu: jobs as organised by people who don't customarily use weaponry would necessarily degenerate in the equivalent of the female chimp flea picking fest.
mircea_popescu: the luser has already paid aol 30 bucks, he is E.N.T.I.T.L.E.D. to everything else now
pankkake: but it wasn't planned
mircea_popescu: pankkake wouldn't it kick ass if the miners actually had non-planar boards
mircea_popescu: hm i guess there isn't.
mircea_popescu: pankkake uh isn't there ?
asciilifeform: (when lacking the root key, that is. the people who have the latter, however, needn't screw with tor; they diddle your packets wherever they like.)
mircea_popescu: blg groupon is a scam in the manner the web start-up circus is a scam. make website with no utility, pretend huge customer base that doesn't exist or is bught, pretend huge growth that doesn't exist or is manufactured,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but it's a little ridiculous that they seem to somehow have constructed a pretend-world where they don't even have to consider what they're doing.
jurov: VitalyChernikov: if you can't fix noisy machine then you won't get a satoshi, i'm afraid
mircea_popescu: blg but they pushed it, didn't they ?
asciilifeform: naggum, in case this doesn't come across in his posts, did not want to popularize common lisp.
asciilifeform: but it doesn't hurt to suggest it politely.
asciilifeform: lusers don't kill themselves at the behest of a fiery flame, either
mircea_popescu: welll... don't they play football in their spare time anymore, these people ? what do they do when they're 15 ?
asciilifeform: 90% of the drama was in the form of A: 'standard is crap!' B: 'no it isn't, i love it' A: ok, how about this B: yeah, maybe this should've been different A: let's change it B: no, you'll break my satellite/aircraft carrier/jacuzzi
asciilifeform: much the same psychiatric aspects as the case of an ordinary spammer. who doesn't see the channel as a place with people, but as a receptacle
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which brings to mind : redditard wisdom is now that "i edited" the niggers article, because rather than wrap their stupid heads around the fact they couldn't matte rless,
asciilifeform: "something important happens when a previously privileged position in society suddenly sees incredibly demand that needs to be filled, using enormous quantities of manpower. that happened to programming computers about a decade ago, or maybe two. first, the people will no longer be super dedicated people, and they won't be as skilled or even as smart -- what was once dedication is replaced by greed and someti ☟︎
KRS1: Isn't there a submission form he should fill out?
pankkake: you don't use macbooks to develop, you use macbooks in node.js/ruby on rails/etc. conferences or in starbucks
pankkake: I hope he's just a scammer and he won't really buy a macbook
pankkake: I don't want to live on this planet anymore
nubbins`: !t m s.mg
nubbins`: i don't doubt it, lotta readers saw those stories
mircea_popescu: !t m s.mpoe
nubbins`: Don't ship the item. We've completed the Payment Review and canceled the payment because it may not have been authorized by the PayPal account holder.
lippoper: don't you have some 'nerds' to pick on lol
nubbins`: well, yes, because you can't
lippoper: "I used to own 25% Bitcoin and 75% Litecoin. I didn't want to sell my Litecoin so instead I dumped my bitcoin and bought 5 Million Doge!! Best decision I ever made and I'm not selling."
simlay: Also, I don't see how dogecoin is different than say lightcoin.
simlay: I don't understand wtf is happening with dogecoin.
Perlboy: if you can't write code on the irc box you're talking from you shouldn't be cutting code
truffles: "t is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
VitalyChernikov: But all my salary is always spent on children or wife or food and I can't accumulate money for laptop. I am 28 years.
punkman: VitalyChernikov: shouldn't you be asking the users of your apps first?
mircea_popescu: well im off to bed. don't do anything drastic
knotwork: oh gosh you aren't on Internet Explorer are you?!?!
knotwork: though hmm somehow it doesn't "sound" quite as good
asciilifeform: couldn't help but think of casascius. and many other fine folks.
mircea_popescu: knotwork prolly doesn't exist, and you know, have fun, just don't do something stupid.
knotwork: ah other people's money is great stuff isn't it
knotwork: But buying shares wow weird, first question I'd ask myself is why isn't it listed on MPEx, the answer would likely tip me off
mircea_popescu: well, musical chairs can be a fun game, especialyl if you don't bring much money.
mircea_popescu: and didn't the hack force the guy to wipe the equity of his investors, as he had no other resources ?
mircea_popescu: didn't it get hacked recently,
mod6: select * from health_care_chumps where 't' = 't'; drop heath_care_chumps; commit;
Namworld: That's poor website security. They could have hosted it on any platform, even the most secure, it doesn't fix incompetence.
Namworld: doesn't matter if you can fetch records without even hacking, just by going to an url
jcpham: i didn't type it wrong
Duffer1: i don't know how far back the data goes
knotwork: I didn't buy into Satoshi Dice since I figured it was only a matter of time before it ran into legal problems. Didn't think oh yeah it could get bought out by someone who has all the right licenses and jurisdiction (did it?)
the20year1: i don't see why not
knotwork: They are the third party's keys that they maybe let me use but aren't really mine any way not privately anyway
mircea_popescu: i don't know dt ever did mismanage anything.
mircea_popescu: you don't mean in like early 2012 ?!
knotwork: mircea_popescu, a canadian house: https://www.google.com/search?q=igloo&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
asciilifeform: and the challenge is on the enemy to determine that it isn't.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: you can't smoke weed in the desert, it's too hot
dub: can't fault that stoner logic
nubbins`: if i don't, i might get seasick
the20year1: The increase in btc value certainly doesn't help me too much
mircea_popescu: but it didn't overall end wel lfor them.
mircea_popescu: you don't just start doing either.
asciilifeform: you don't need a princely mil-sup estate for a radio station, though.
mircea_popescu: well they're not useful to me, i don't much care for real estate and i know nothing at all of that market.
the20year1: although i don't know how you could cashflow or make money off it
quellhorst: but of course she won't do that, she thinks she can make a better google
quellhorst: she doesn't hire anyone
mircea_popescu: i don't know there's any coo willing to work at yahoo, unless you end up taking twitter experts or something
mircea_popescu: it couldn't have possibly mined 8mn in the 6 weeks it was alive
pankkake: why wouldn't it, they have billions of altcoins there
decimation: Yeah. In the US, "libertarian" means "someone who doesn't vote for either Democrats or Republicans."
pankkake: that wasn't in the same argument, but well
mircea_popescu: pankkake so logically, if bitcoin isn't money and it's bad to make money with money, then bitcoin is good ?
pankkake: https://linuxfr.org/users/thom/journaux/nourrir-les-vaches-openbsd-a-recu-des-fonds was mostly about how bitcoin isn't money and how it's bad to make money with money
pankkake: but don't worry, you also just made a friend http://pastebin.com/0nuK25es
mircea_popescu: five minutes ago i didn't even know that site existed. oh internets.
mircea_popescu: all this hero talk reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZVac0GnZ9g#t=263
pankkake: well lz4 wasn't an option when it was introduced
pankkake: I like btrfs' smart compression system; if the file doesn't look compressible it stops trying
decimation: I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole
mircea_popescu: o wait, sunos IS solaris isn't it
pankkake: yes, bill gates probably isn't a billionnaire
benkay: mircea_popescu u don't work
mircea_popescu: after noon, hail of post explaining how the author has been always [or at least past six hours] saying the sun was always there and it won't ever set, either.