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mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-20#1687838 << riddle me this. when
$nobody pops in and asks a question, do you answer on the basis of the present (ie, the question wasn't fucktarded) or do you answer on the basis of some sort of judgement that the dude behind the nick is going to i dunno, stick around and then lend you a pack of ciggs in april 2021 ?
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-07-12 03:19 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just that -- have
$100, get
$100 worth of computer ; not have - not get.
pete_dushenski: just got quote for a/c at house actually :
$5k (~1.4btc). not terribru and better than coughing myself awake in the middle of the night ?
a111: Logged on 2017-01-07 15:19 mircea_popescu: and entirely unrelatedly : anyone willing to stand up an irc bot for me (as a service for hire deal) and expose some kind of programmable interface that can read messages to it, process and push out a reply ? bonus points if i don't have to learn crazy-shitstick-"
$modernlanguage".
ben_vulpes:
$girl handled whole thing from duct taping hole shut to bitching out landlord to scheduling exterminators and arranging for bill to arrive at landlord's place
lobbes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-18#1686119 << This was exactly my case. I have same appreciation towards folx here as ag3nt_zer0. I bought first btc at
$20 for purposes of silk road back in early 2014. Price quickly shot up. Found tardstalk 'securities'. I thought "Wow, pretty graphs and charts. Lemme try and catch the next boat11!"
☝︎ mod6: PATH=
$PATH:/usr/local/gnat/bin; export PATH
mod6: and i already added: PATH=
$PATH:/usr/local/gnat/bin to my ~/.bashrc
trinque: diff <(curl -s
$(cat foo | wotpaste)) foo Binary files /proc/self/fd/11 and foo differ << with his wotpaste func and foo
phf:
$ curl --silent
$(cat foo|wotpaste)|shasum
phf:
$ dd if=/dev/random of=foo bs=1024 count=100
phf: gulag
$ curl --silent
$(printf '\tFOO\t\t'|wotpaste)|xxd
phf: gulag
$ curl --silent
$(printf '\t'|wotpaste)|xxd
mod6:
$(GNATMAKE) -c
$(PROGRAM)
$(ARGS)
a111: Logged on 2017-07-06 00:43 asciilifeform: (mostly) unrelatedly, asciilifeform bought some chinese
$various , and , in the crate, discovered a phree goodie, a 'voltalert' tool, that supposedly tests for presence of mains current noncontactfully -- by looking for 50/60Hz electric field. but witness the surprise : it gives false negative on maybe 1/3 of the hot mains wires tried...
erlehmann: trinque if
${girl?} wanted to make a joke, she should know: APL is not the worst offender, merely the first. rules for identifiers in c# correspond to unicode standard annex 15.
trinque: I was relating the uniturd thread to
$girl in the pool just now, and she challenged erlehmann to start writing software in emojis. and if not, why communicate with it.
mircea_popescu: notice how this works : visa is sending "up to
$10k in bitcoin" to its own bitcoin addresses to claim "people" have "invested" in whatever nutty bullshit faux coin they have going ; visa is sending "up to 10k" faux news on dead paper to its own offices to claim someone actually gives a shit what the new york times says on any topic ; visa is then giving 10k in cash to 50 of its own merchants to pretend like you and i should d
a111: Logged on 2017-07-15 15:09 asciilifeform: meanwhile!, in sunny monkeylandia,
https://archive.is/a3GZE >> 'Visa... offering up to
$10,000 each to 50 U.S.-based small business owners that are committed to going cashless... "We are declaring war on cash," said Andy Gerlt, a spokesman for Visa.'
trinque: asciilifeform, I put my life savings into bitcoin at
$3k, please help
a111: Logged on 2017-07-15 00:18 trinque: erlehmann: the logs would benefit greatly from a proper writeup of these, so the next time someone goes "hurr durr
$shitlang" the blog post can be linked
trinque: erlehmann: the logs would benefit greatly from a proper writeup of these, so the next time someone goes "hurr durr
$shitlang" the blog post can be linked
☟︎ lobbes: On several occasions I witnessed same 40ish y/o dude cash his check (roughly
$200), buy 10
$20 scratch tickets, scratch them on-the-spot, then 're-invest' any winnings until he reached
$0.
mircea_popescu: "In the first six months of 2017, AlphaBay sold more than
$5 million in stolen credit-card numbers, Mr. Barysevich said. “AlphaBay was the biggest marketplace on the Dark Web,” he said."
shinohai thought about this piece when Coinbase recently asked for more VC
$$$but couldn't turn it up .....
mircea_popescu: the guy who learned in earnest how to "empathy" has not merely lost his time in the pursuit of subliterate idiocy ; but actually invested that time into implanting harmful gargauni into his skull, much like someone who spends
$100 to buy some radium which he then swallows isn't out merely the
$100 he paid for the radium
phf: gulag
$ nc 104.40.149.77 22
mircea_popescu: the guy was just liek... "well, the fine's
$120 ; carry on but get it done will ye"
mod6: they get an
$8.50 pack of cigs, and
$1 of gas.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mod6: how do you get '
$1 worth' ? drip from the nozzle ? << Cut your number of wheels in half
mod6: but not a week goes by that some fuckstick isn't standing in line to get
$1 worth of gas. aka, fart into his tank.
mod6: yeah, here it's
$2.20/gal. takes me ~
$60 to fill up the burby.
BingoBoingo: This is pointedly no opteron thread. 10,000 could likely be had by late September and
$maxint certainly had by next August
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just that -- have
$100, get
$100 worth of computer ; not have - not get.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: next the usg is going to get off its ass, discover the whole rapereum "ecosystem" was
$7600.
shinohai: fake news is where the
$ is at these dayz
trinque: nobody's asking you to compute in your home in
$standardLang; fuck in perl and shit in brainfuck, but speak something civilized in public.
mircea_popescu: but imagine, you know, an ancient all steel 8086 case, with a wired mouse on the right and a round metal box on the left, also wired in. box clearly labeled, "#@
$!#", and inside, some dead bugs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there was ONE instance of dude having his trade unwound. he promptly got pissed off and went and lost his wad on
$randomscam.
mircea_popescu: the ~only way to specify the security of a certain, definite, given system is still "good for up to
$x btc"
mircea_popescu: "do not put over
$x in aggregate on this system" is pretty much the only way you'd do it anyway.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-02 15:39 mircea_popescu: could I do something like !
$mirror <url> 5 so as to get it to spin up 5 separate instances, load url, unpack it and serve ?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> a TWO-DOOR toyota. <<
$4000 buys a sports car convertible
sina: ha that is interesting, but the ikea thing is just a
$5 polished metal bowl that has been setting stuff in peoples houses on fire
phf: yeah i wonder, i looked into it 10+ years ago, and punted at the
$2000 or whatever price tag
BingoBoingo: AHA and ~
$5 to
$10 at garage sale after original purchaser learns math
mircea_popescu: even if such a dig takes less than one hour of derp's time and no transportation, the fact remains that 1mn hours of minimum wage are > 1mn
$ even in russhitia ; wheas a brick of anything is < 100k.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-25#1674362 << speaking of bigots : so i'm walking with girl through utter shithole, true poverty area. stench of sewage in the air, houses made out of
$200 in materials and so on. i spot a rabid dog by that sure sign of drooping salivation, so i go in between and keep my eye on it.
☝︎ mp-en-managua: and of course, from the mandatory list of idle bullshit, "Gnosis
$12.5 million for decentralized prediction market. " because totally, we've entirely forgotten how whatever random redditardesque thing was going to take over from bitbet at any point nao because it has to because redditard friendly is all that matters to the redditard mind AND IT WAS
js-of-mp: ah, that iirc already exists, wikitards found some
$rando.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-22 19:51 lobbes: ben_vulpes: if the "community" can't soak people who want to come there and spend money adequately to make tourism +ev for the hosts incl. cities, how can they even justify continuing to live << I grew up on The Cod in Massachusetts; "working class" locals were always bitching about how much they hated tourists, but that tourism
$$$ is the ~only~ thing sustaining that particular sandbar. Fishing is dead, and retail and landscaping indus
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and then 4th stage is the 'gentrifying' sections of detroit, that are being rebuilt into masses of cardboard condos that sell for
$1M. << St Louis appears to want to go from 3 to 4, but uncertain if three can really be moved past