log☇︎
124900+ entries in 1.388s
cads: mircea_popescu: how much money is good enough to play?
cads: mircea_popescu: what type of option is traded on the mpex?
cads: mircea_popescu: do we still have to pay 30 BTC in fees for account registration?
cads: mircea_popescu: oh thanks to dogs there is a faq.
cads: mircea_popescu: as of this moment what I see when I look at mpex.co is a hellacious mass of legal jargon smattered with quantitative data readouts :)
cads: hey mircea_popescu, I just noticed the romanian version of your charter
cads: mircea_popescu: if you do not wish to mention any details about it that is perfectly fine
cads: mircea_popescu, I think I must have seen your name around the BTC sites and community before today.
cads: mircea_popescu: I only know a little lore about him - I'm not a student of MIT
cads: mircea_popescu: you're correct
cads: mircea_popescu: okay, which of these 3 lovely MIT students do you choose: http://philip.greenspun.com/images/pcd2668/three-graces-straight-full-27
cads: mircea_popescu: they look like conjoined sisters
cads: mircea_popescu: oh dear jesus both please!
cads: mircea_popescu: are the american romanian girls just all the pretty girls from romania, or are the girls even prettier back home?
cads: mircea_popescu: thanks for linking me to the charter
benkay: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=80003437&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=z8WH&locale=en_US&srchid=e8237cef-3548-4ffc-9811-1de442f6ebcb-0&srchindex=6&srchtotal=24&goback=%2Efps_PBCK_*1_Ken_Slaughter_*1_*1_*1_*1_*2_*1_Y_*1_*1_*1_false_1_R_*1_*51_*1_*51_true_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2&pvs=ps&trk=pp_profile_name_link
benkay: and mircea_popescu spends his time browsing prole food review sites
kakobrekla: !r unbalanced_away
benkay: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=80003437&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=z8WH&locale=en_US&srchid=e8237cef-3548-4ffc-9811-1de442f6ebcb-0&srchindex=6&srchtotal=24&goback=%2Efps_PBCK_*1_Ken_Slaughter_*1_*1_*1_*1_*2_*1_Y_*1_*1_*1_false_1_R_*1_*51_*1_*51_true_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2&pvs=ps&trk=pp_profile_name_link
smickles: mircea_popescu: my wife declined your invitation to romania for sex dungeon activities
smickles: mircea_popescu: they probably just mean the same thing
MJR__: what's new mircea_popescu
mod6: (15:02) < mircea_popescu> "o no, too busy yakking" << yeah like wt
mircea_popescu: Bowjob actually i liked this 1 https://twitter.com/pete_earle/status/315213611452731393
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah i dunno what that guy is on
kakobrekla: trading on current exchanges while dips : http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/You_3ace5c_2337479.jpg
gribble: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_wave_principle
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: Asks: ['4484 @ 0.00444443', '1000 @ 0.00449999', '60000 @ 0.0045', '13055 @ 0.00499977', '1000 @ 0.00499979']
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: Bids: ['250 @ 0.00380002', '249 @ 0.00380002', '250 @ 0.00380001', '7000 @ 0.003308', '100 @ 0.00320005']
mod6: mircea_popescu: *nod*
smickles: mircea_popescu: oh please keep that trailing 0 in the mpsic, i don't want to recode things
jcpham: mircea_popescu have you seen the amagi metals silver bullets?
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah i wouldn't put my btc's on it.
mircea_popescu: MJR__ yeah. in some broken environments however (such as, the web) you're desperate fgor air however
mircea_popescu: MJR__ as far as i can see, the job of the provider is to ensure you don't get squished.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you demonstrate how to steal a vault full of diamonds in Belgium, I'll give you a U.S. dollar in bounty.
mircea_popescu: MJR__ i wastalking, with a spectrum analyzer.
asciilifeform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is your cold machine kept in a Faraday cage room, with optically isolated power?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you hand-type the public keys and signed transactions?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, ok, MPEx might be using cold wallets, kept on Mars. But most BTC users don't. and if you want to spend any, you have to defrost.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hope you'll enjoy having him as the sole client, then
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu cool makes sense then
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a slice of stake from the grocery also doesn't have a fixed purpose. you can cook and eat it, or put it out in the sun and wait for it to grow with thousands of flies.
mircea_popescu: MJR__ it's not.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you speak as if that's evidence of effectiveness
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yeah, because that worked out so well for personal computing (and later the Net)...
smickles: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu does have a 'real' business
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at MPEx? what else "just happens" there?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that is, why do you hire them?
MJR__: mircea_popescu: nice article
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one naturally wants to ask: why were they there?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the "I fire..." quote reads like "I expel rabid badgers from my house every day."
jurov: https://twitter.com/coin_br << like, used here
deadweasel: mircea_popescu: it's happening, BTC is a huge push towards it, the algorithms that come out of this could fuel future AI
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bruteforce mining is a contest of fiat bank accounts (and perhaps botnets.) I prefer contests of wits.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but yes, that's the only sort of BTC mining I'm personally interested in (well, that and optical computers.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well yes. and cryproanalytic attacks on hashes aren't new, per se.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and no, this wasn't my idea. I may or may not have a better one, however.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: I can't bring myself to read the btc forums, did anyone discuss it there?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Orlov has been writing since the mid-2000s
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: collapse veterans think quite alike.
asciilifeform: benkay: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mavrodi . or what MP said.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yeah, it is a badger, isn't it. They also had: "Groundhog Fat: Enriched!"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they were behind the counter, so presumably not cheap. I didn't ask...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: here's a photo: http://greenapteka.com/zen_cart/images/Barsuchiy%20shir_capsules.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my local Russian grocery actually sells pills claiming to be made from dead weasels.
mod6: haha mircea_popescu, na.
deadweasel: it's coming backin states mircea_popescu
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah, basically.
Chilca: mjr_: are you here?
Bugpowder: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD/accumulated_orderbook.png
mod6: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cowpens
dub: mircea_popescu: yeah those are dealbreakers on spain
smickles: mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/oaJhsoO.jpg
mod6: (21:34) < mircea_popescu> i'll go to anywhere i want and strike up a chat with anyone i want. pick up a street walker if i feel like it and go watch the game with her. << the sign of a true travel bug
tiberiusiv: http://www.mercedes-benz.ro/content/romania/mpc/mpc_romania_website/rong/home_mpc/passengercars/home/new_cars/models/e-class/_w212/configurator/configurator.html?tp_ccci=/dsc_ro/globalsessionid/DSC_ro3E2D3232336E3B7BFF333A6301020900/dsc_locale/ro_RO/appId/DSC_ro/siteLocale/ro_RO/P3501ViewBean.jam1%3bjsessionid=0000iBB1YEY0PeDNC29nXrqoZkJ:16pcreqrr#_int_passengercars:home:model-navi:configurator
mod6: mircea_popescu: hehe, i do :)
smickles: mircea_popescu: "Hello? This is dog. I'm stuck in 1935. Send help" http://i.imgur.com/apaveS3.jpg
smickles: mircea_popescu: the idea was to make the laws in accordance with what the gods wanted, which was decided upon by debate
smickles: mircea_popescu: http://imgur.com/gallery/lrHmx
mod6: (19:46) < smickles> mircea_popescu: and smokers << this is ironic as obama is a smoker
smickles: mircea_popescu: and smokers
smickles: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s0d-GHe6W8o/UUocFG_0D_I/AAAAAAAAHbg/4PysJZ5-vwU/s648/Dont-Steal-The-government-hates-competition1.jpg < /me lold
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah
smickles: mircea_popescu: fine, 25 day
smickles: mircea_popescu: 30 day oix :D
unbalanced: mircea_popescu, I read your stuff (er, MPOE-PR's) about "you're not exceptional, get over yourself" or somesuch. Brilliant... and I had to agree. I'd come to that realization already tho.
unbalanced: mircea_popescu: thanks for the FAQ link btw... I'd already read it, but I'll have to take a vacation to implement and the now-$2100 equiv for a seat is out of my budget range. I was too late to the party so I'll have to stick with the passthroughs.
smickles: mircea_popescu: mtgox cooled things off by stopping usd trades for ~10 min following midnight utc
unbalanced: mircea_popsecu: see above, I bought in. Kiss of death.
kakobrekla: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD/accumulated_orderbook.png
Bowjob: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-MccfK4Ruw2c/UUtLHPSPkGI/AAAAAAAAA2Y/OSWxUTiEDjA/s716/IMG_20130321_204509.jpg
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user jborkl_ has been recorded.
smickles: ;;rate jborkl_ 1 sent first :)
mjr_: ;;lucky mjr_
mjr_: its weird though, i was inspired to use my real name by mircea_popescu
gribble: You are identified as user Josh_Rossi, with GPG key id C286BB96FE9B6CD3, key fingerprint 3812AFD43A6B8A057F37D858C286BB96FE9B6CD3, and bitcoin address 1LokQrHj14NU93tC6pZfTZyyRHhAVakQmX
mod6: yeah, i'd say stick with mjr_ or whatever. cause i thought Josh_Rossi was a newb
gribble: You are identified as user Josh_Rossi, with GPG key id C286BB96FE9B6CD3, key fingerprint 3812AFD43A6B8A057F37D858C286BB96FE9B6CD3, and bitcoin address 1LokQrHj14NU93tC6pZfTZyyRHhAVakQmX