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mircea_popescu: if i go to the tailor and i tell him i want pants that are nine feet long, he doesn't get to tell me pant length is not a fair metric.
mircea_popescu: i told you my metric. that's the metric.
mircea_popescu: i am not discussing your idea of a fair metric.
junseth: RE: college, it's not a fair metric. College inflation is largely a lie. The college I went to cost $45k/year. I paid $3k per year because the number they make you pay and the sticker price are completely different. ☟︎
junseth: I mean, this purported decay in quality involves the development of computers in your hand, cheaper foods a la GMOs (Norman Borlaug), and other nonesuch.
junseth: I mean, if what you usually purchase is 3x more expensive now than it was a decade ago, I am baffled.
mircea_popescu: behold : i declare my basket.
junseth: Haha, I like to play with this argument. If you want we can have it. I'll bite. What do you believe inflation to be?
junseth: Haha, but as you can see, at nights, ont he weekends, I do Bitcoin
junseth: But yeah, I optimize one thing at a time
assbot: Logged on 04-04-2015 00:20:38; nubbins`: i made tea from seeds once but chickened out
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and i only tested because had another debastardizer that i wanted to test.
junseth: I am a marketer. I own a DIY home security company.
mircea_popescu: junseth so what do you do ? for a living i mean.
junseth: I actually don't, believe it or not. I've been doing bitcoin since like 2008 ;P and I have never bothered to give a hoot about making sure I have a provable identity.
Bagels7: I'm just here for the random violent porn
junseth: And voilla, I end up at both trilema and the bitcoin-assets log
junseth: so I went to images.google.com and threw the URL in there.
junseth: I wanted to see where the space ghost image had gotten to
junseth: I can tell you how I got here today
junseth: Haha. Well, I wouldn't say I have heard of Bitcoin assets so much as stumbled on ya'lls stuff from time to time.
danielpbarron: wow not often I encounter someone who has not only heard of b-a or trilema but also actually likes them
junseth: Haha. Glad I stumbled on the trilema post too. Your content is always really spot on +mircea_popescu
junseth: You guys are great. Don't read it everyday, but I enjoy stumbling on the Bitcoin-assets stuff from time to time.
mats: but i thought, hey, you know, i'll try this stuff that white folk used to enslave a generation of my ancestors
danielpbarron: nubbins`> i made tea from seeds once but chickened out << i've had poppy tea; it was very pleasurable
mircea_popescu: at least, it was in a bunch of traditional romanian pastries i never cared for.
trinque: man I remember discovering erowid back when
mats: i'm new to this subterfuge thing.
mats: i think he boiled the stuff and then just let the water evaporate.
nubbins`: i made tea from seeds once but chickened out
mircea_popescu: (btw, i'd have figured you bought a hardcopy of tbofh)
mircea_popescu: americana, i say.
nubbins`: BingoBoingo then i guess i'd have to fill all these fistulas up again
nubbins`: although i've occasionally wished i had one while holding a particularly plump tangelo
nubbins`: BingoBoingo whatever it holds, i've no further need for biopsy punches
asciilifeform: nubbins`: ~3.5 hours last time but i think i've got more shit enabled this run << ?!?!?! what are you using, a vax ?! 3.5 hours?
nubbins`: wtf else am i gonna buy at a medical supply store
nubbins`: i've done things in the past that involved biopsy punches, but this isn't such an event
nubbins`: you may be wondering why i've assembled you all here
nubbins`: i'd like to start by welcoming our distinguished guests
nubbins`: ~3.5 hours last time but i think i've got more shit enabled this run
nubbins`: nor can i. guess you gotta log in
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo amusingly, i can't negrate it because i don't have enough javascript.
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2015 23:18:29; asciilifeform: i most often use 'squirrelmail', a prehistoric www frontend to own mailserv
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2015 22:53:09; assbot: [Seriously] This will most likely hail downvotes, but let me try anyway... I am prostitute, how can I accept Bitcoin? : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ic2K4W )
nubbins`: i remember coinapult
mircea_popescu: anyway. i guess coinapult died ? i seem to recall a seed round about that one.
mircea_popescu: jurov: "creator of SatoshiDICE" my ass. << that claim's interesting. i guess double jeopardy brings out the best in people ?
ben_vulpes: i'm particularly frustrated at verifying sigs and what has one.
asciilifeform: i most often use 'squirrelmail', a prehistoric www frontend to own mailserv
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i typically compose in emacs but do not use it as a 'client'
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: do you do email in emacs? i've been using mu4e and am about out of patience - coming back around to "show me the ancient tools that handle this ancient problem".
asciilifeform: joy helping people who have nothing, I create jobs.. I do better then [sic] [O]bama creating jobs my employees are all happy now."'
asciilifeform: 'At the time, Clock argued that he was simply a sort of benevolent overlord. "I decided to help other people and give them this opportunity, I see myself as a do gooder, I know many might argue with that, but when you get people coming to you saying they used to have NOTHING and were begging on a street corner looking for $30 and now he's a boss, sure makes me feel good," he added. "I actually feel more of a [R]obinhood and en
assbot: [Seriously] This will most likely hail downvotes, but let me try anyway... I am prostitute, how can I accept Bitcoin? : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ic2K4W )
asciilifeform: <ben_vulpes> i don't like it, it's just the ad-hoc thing that works today << i'm not convinced that there could be any reasonable alternative.
ben_vulpes: i don't like it, it's just the ad-hoc thing that works today
trinque: I am well convinced that you guys like your process and there's nothing wrong with that.
ben_vulpes: trinque: you and i can collaborate any time that we want, by derping at our respective repos
nubbins`: i dunno man
nubbins`: or of who i "want" "working" on it
nubbins`: it's not a question of who i want working on it
trinque: all I'm saying is use tools that don't slow down the work, and have merge nazis using shame and dishonor at the center
mircea_popescu: i don't drive either, but yeah.
trinque: mircea_popescu: damn, yeah I don't drive american cars
mircea_popescu: the only time i trusted a us pos i had a break plate of a ford explode. just like that.
nubbins`: ehh, i once got a chrysler neon up to 205.
nubbins`: asciilifeform i used that example because i've seen precisely this sort of bullshit committed to svn
trinque: not at all what I'm saying
trinque: ok, I am aware of your perspective
ben_vulpes: does *not* compile to my requirements, i mean.
ben_vulpes: trinque: i keep my own vcs system and apply patches directly from mu4e
nubbins`: i think the original was hyphenated
trinque: but I see the sense of this
nubbins`: anyway alf if you get some spare cycles, can you try my patch & verify that i'm not crazy?
nubbins`: i'm not joking
trinque: asciilifeform: heh I replied to you there as undata and the opinion still stands
nubbins`: i haven't verified that you necessarily need to apply the dns snip patch for it to compile on gentoo
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 00:34:02; asciilifeform: but i will not be signing any patch that i can't apply with my mind, in my mental model of the code.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i must remind readers that my 'dns snip' patch does not remove all usage of dns from bitcoin
mircea_popescu: someone at royal mcbee i imagine.
nubbins`: asciilifeform i think i've got it
asciilifeform: i can't recall losing one...
asciilifeform: in other news, i think i've a fixed-ram-space bitcoind running...
asciilifeform: now i realize it was true. except not outhouse, but pc arch and the whole stack of softs.
asciilifeform: i even saw it, in dreams
asciilifeform: as a kid i always imagined that the shit tank was bottomless.
mircea_popescu: well i can be faulted all anyone wants, but guyess what!
asciilifeform: (to be fair, pc arch standard is dead and what i said is probably wrong for at least every box in seven on the market.)
nubbins`: tbh i forgot about the guy
nubbins`: "i am so rich that 5000 btc is a mere pittance, but a bunch of forum scamzors will have to collectively shell out ~$10k in airfare in order to unravel the mystery"
mircea_popescu: there must be some eeprom in the bios that i don't know about.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu whoa i didn't read that far.
mircea_popescu: "I have made and sold 9 2015 wooden physical bitcoins listed below. Each one of those coins has hidden in or on it a part of the puzzle. The key to decoding the first part of that puzzle is coin #10 which after much though is being given to someone whom i already chose from this forum. In order to decode each individual wooden coin you will have to have #10 in its physical presence and in order to solve the entire firs
mircea_popescu: i mean, buy a plural ffs.
nubbins`: tempted to move 5k coins and post tx in the thread claiming that i've found the capsule ;/
nubbins`: anyway i guess the dude saw my auction and got jealous
nubbins`: asciilifeform i don't think he can produce a good story -- that much is obvious -- but it'd be nice for him to condense his stupidity into a single volume that could be burned
nubbins`: jurov yeah i stupidly attached the shasum of my patch file to the filename