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mircea_popescu: i don'
t think he's usagi because he made german-type slight style errors
nubbins`: wasn'
t smidge traded on havelock for like a day and a half or something?
nubbins`: i've got a bunch that i won'
t be roasting any time soon
nubbins`: see, that's the thing, you can'
t mircea_popescu: "NO, IT'S A BAD GOD. THIS IS NOT GOOD... NO BITBOOK REPS, NO NOTHING RIGHT NOW. THE SITE JUST STRAIGHT UP DISAPPEARED. AND I WAS LITERALLY JUST WITHDRAWING THE BITCOINS INTO CASH. I HAVE LIKE $0 I NEEDED THAT MONEY SO BADLY YOU DON'
T UNDERSTAND."
mircea_popescu: but anyway, back to the point : i didn'
t use sdrs as an example of the role of bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: benkay_ you have two metals that both work in the same capacity, and you fix an exchange rate between them which you can'
t easily change.
mircea_popescu: business consulting doesn'
t necessarily mean working for small businesses you know.
ThickAsThieves: so basically the US only likes dealing in financial instruments that don'
t require provable backing
dub: Unlike Kickstarter, the Crowdtilt campaigns don'
t feature fabulous prizes for contributing; gifting $100, for example, won'
t entitle you to 'One (1) free "accidental" shooting of your choice.'
pankkake: wasn'
t a miner named bitburner?
pankkake: well, they probably would give me better health insurance, but it isn'
t happening yet :p
mircea_popescu: Sep 22 03:16:26 <mircea_popescu>and incidentally, it occurs to me i still don'
t see your connection to bitcoin.
nubbins`: why don'
t they just raise it to infinity
pankkake: yes. though it isn'
t everything. and it seems to be their *only* way of saying they're the best
BingoBoingo: pankkake: You don'
t vote on bets, you bet on them
mircea_popescu: ya next time don'
t win on bets you didn'
t read carefully.
mircea_popescu: moar like "red sox will win world series, this bet resolves as no if world series doesn'
t exist anymoar"
pankkake: I regret promoting a bet I didn'
t specify fully then
pankkake: eh… that certainly wasn'
t my intent when creating the bet
mircea_popescu: wjhen 99% of cases manufacturer can'
t afford a 100 btc bitbet ?
ThickAsThieves: "I can'
t wait to see where share price goes once we list on a new exchange, and as we get closer and closer to delivery"
pankkake: the issue is that he wasn'
t nerd enough. he made technical mistakes, and then wasn'
t paranoid enough, thought he has the street smarts or whatever
pankkake: and why would criminals crime if they thought they couldn'
t get away with it?
pankkake: mircea_popescu: that wasn'
t how he was arrested at all so…
mircea_popescu: they can'
t prosecute you for something they already convicted someone else for.
nubbins`: we can'
t even figure out underground electrical wires
nubbins`: but "hahahahaha" doesn'
t always work
nubbins`: if it's not a joke, why can'
t i stop laughing?
pankkake: the thing that usb provided aren'
t really hardware/connector related, but a very cheap protocol
nubbins`: i don'
t think a usb drive will work in your ethernet port in ANY orientation
nubbins`: cue every single time i wonder why my device isn'
t recognized
mircea_popescu: you know i can always tell the people who have an account from those who don'
t,
gecko_x2: there prolly won'
t be another exchange unless it's distributed / p2p
ThickAsThieves: I don'
t know the official word, but I think they denied most, if not all
jcpham: i haerd burnside was playing a halloween prank and btct.cp isn'
t actually closing
imsaguy: Kleeck__, he's online now, isn'
t he?
ThickAsThieves: i have people transferring AM-PT shares to me which i can'
t verify...
turbo_ac100: gecko_x2, site seems up but API access doesn'
t work
KRS1: we are a couple of long time gear heads I have a 1986
t-top mustang 5.0 drag car thats real fun dont get much chance to play with it though.
mircea_popescu: mod6 wasn'
t implying it's a bad thing, on the contrary
mod6: daybyter: its too bad really, these devices are like the NSA data-collector nodes. i don'
t even trust the snapdragon chips in 'em any more really.
mod6: So far, and i've only spent a few hours on it, but I'm so hoplessly lost on hoon, that i don'
t see how this could be more useful than unix at this point.
mod6: its like i wanna go down this rabbit hole and figure this thing out, but I don'
t think im smart enough or something.
mod6: there is another that seems to try to translate scribbles to runes, but I haven'
t gotten it to work on my vim yet.
mod6: just a vim script for unix so the syntax can be color-highlighted. didn'
t mean to get yall excited.
mod6: i haven'
t used an LSB system since i worked on porting fbsd to sparc64
mod6: CY said he didn'
t want to do an irc channel because urbit can be sort of like IRC in and of itself. but in the mean time he'll set one up until it gets further along.
mod6: but it wasn'
t helpful what-so-ever.
jurov: au! don'
t tell me you *did* recompile it?
jurov: mod6 yeah trolling... couldn'
t resist as long-time gentoo user :)
mircea_popescu: not large enough yet i don'
t think, and has other problems
mod6: don'
t destroy the universe!
mircea_popescu: lol pity the forum isn'
t up so i could forcefeed everyone -pr's buffett quote
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think there's any way to avoid going through his caselist
mod6: I don'
t wanna get too far off course just yet. Gotta wrap up this current bitotter work and get further along with my look into cramer-shoup
mircea_popescu: basically, let's take all the reason people don'
t use forth and add mud.
mircea_popescu: you will be paid, by the miners who don'
t want to be ddos'd to shit.
mircea_popescu: the problem is that even if you aren'
t trying to do a 50% attack, it is now more lucrative to ddos someone than to increase your mining farm.
mircea_popescu: "certificates are shit but nevertheless i don'
t understand anything and really want to matter so here's my authoritative opinion on shit i really have no business discussing
jurov: i didn'
t considered human tallow there edible
jurov: no idon'
t want to see what ur doing with the keyboard
Vexual: ill grant you its more kinds or irony than a trilemma post, but just like them, don'
t lose no sleep
jurov: makes me sick... hopefully this won'
t fly
jurov: you mean like we "don'
t have to" buy a recognized ssl certificate?
pankkake: I don'
t know, didn'
t follow it much
Vexual: weve got fucking wedge tailed eagles which are way more boss, and would beast a bald eagle in any competition imaginable except baldness, and we just go about our business and don'
t parade our awesome eagles much very oft at all
dexX7: but the issuer hasn'
t put up shares for sale
dexX7: so, maybe i just don'
t see it. when does the ipo start?
nejon: sec hasn'
t made any decision
nejon: I think they wouldn'
t announce
nejon: doesn'
t really help anything
nejon: and why wouldn'
t leszek verify with cointerra?
dexX7: it's strange, because i wouldn'
t expect a scammer pay 50 btc for something that could be busted within a few minutes