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asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: correct if i've my dod-speak mixed up, but 'designated marksman' is not a sniper - he engages only within visual contact distance
mircea_popescu: you know i suspect potapov is like the ru mil pythagoras.
mircea_popescu: i doubt mosin pierces kevlar.
asciilifeform: i heartily recomment 'deep c' even to folks who despise c and hardly program at all in anything
mircea_popescu: yeah. that's further than i'd go.
mircea_popescu: dragosb i play very little these days. i mostly played live, and mostly pre-consumer internet.
dragosb: Hello Mircea ! I read a article on your blog about How to be a good poker player, and I was pondering do you play on-line or live?
felipelalli: About coinbr.com, what happens if my account stay negative "forever"? I will be in debt or it shall be forgiven?
mircea_popescu: and as to limited recourse, it can be limited whatever way. generally it is, "lend me this money to buy this house, i pay you so and so, and if i don't you keep the house."
ben_vulpes: i think i get it.
mircea_popescu: belly dancer expert walks and i'm more than welcome to repay myself.
mircea_popescu: this is the sort of thing. the professional has no interest in leaving their current place just because i want to relocate them, and the situation isn't feudal, where i just order them moved.
mircea_popescu: let's work a model. suppose i own 85`000 square footage of marble flooring, used for running a harem. suppose i come to the conclusion my harem doesn't attract good / numerous enough cuntage. suppose i decide this is because there's no belly dancing happening. suppose i go to a belly dancer in city and say, listen, i'll loan you 10k golden pistoons if you start a belly dancing school on my marlbe acreage.
ben_vulpes: oop! limited recourse i mean.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i curious about the no-recourse mortgages as well. lender returns payment stream, keeps asset?
ryan-c: ben_vulpes: I don't think so. I'm not Ryan X Charles.
ben_vulpes: ryan-c: do i know you?
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 18:41:39; sjsqd: even with hundreds of thousands of page views I only ever made about 70 USD over 2-3 years
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 18:29:13; sjsqd: but I assume the client you work on is different to bitcoin core?
mircea_popescu: i vote #b-a best afternoon show in town.
mircea_popescu: yeah, inasmuch as gavin tiptoes around my lunch hour, i would propose they're painfully aware of it, yes.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-03-2015#1041403 << i guess i lose for being vague! ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 14:19:27; jurov: i am just not placing any expectations to any piece of software anymore
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 14:04:18; jurov: so i propose to go on to 0.5.3.2 .. release early, release often
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 13:57:22; mod6: i've never seen this before.
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2015 11:11:30; fluffypony: "I think FriedCat is not a real name. Does anyone know about FriedCat's real identity ?"
hanbot: hey asciilifeform! i'm putting a gentoo box together for playing eulora, i want it nice and secure, have zilcho gentoo experience. how wouldja advise me?
asciilifeform: (will point out, for the record, that there are other adas, not descended from gnat - but i will never see them so long as i live, and quite likely neither will you)
thestringpuller: What ada compiler should I learn on?
mircea_popescu: (which is why i won't take a mortgage deal that has recourse past the item bought, nor would any sane businessman. yet usian idiot consumers regularly do, because hey. they've come to expectorate.)
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i would say this is true for the zero asset corporations. the non-zero asset corporations seem to be holdling their own, but too early to tell.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mpex, as i understand, consists of ultra-long-haul folks
asciilifeform: ^ if above reasoning is flawed, i'd like to learn how
thestringpuller: ah I guess the liquidity loan from F.MPIF -> S.WOL is similar
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i don't have credit cards << do you deal with credit at all (i.e. loc)?
mircea_popescu: i imagine this must be cribbed off one
mircea_popescu: sadly i don't have credit cards, as i don't subscribe to open liability deals. but i wonder what the original texts say
mircea_popescu: cazalla i had not no
lobbes: So one defines their own data types in ADA? I'm not sure why I find that interesting
asciilifeform: 'it's not sexy. whaddayamean i have to specify thing'
PeterL: ok, I'll get right on that
assbot: I just realized /hashtag/golang?src=hash's "go get" falls back to HTTP when HTTPS fails ☹ /hashtag/RussianRouletteSoftwareDistribution?src=hash /hashtag/CurlPipeSudoBash?src=hash /hashtag/yolo?src=hash /E_I_T ☟︎
sjsqd: Yes I will. I can already see part of the reasoning when it comes to transparency.
pete_dushenski: i hadn't quite appreciated the size of the undertaking when i started
sjsqd: Please understand that I've spent many years of my life writing about issues such as internet censorship and the like
sjsqd: danielpbarron:then I would do my best to be considered.
sjsqd: for this series of articles I will probably keep them on let's talk bitcoin, but for future articles or if I come up with anything else to write at the same time I might consider qntra.net
lobbes: <sjsqd> I would actually prefer running some form of cloud OS (provided it was encrypted) for a portion of my holdings << Oh god no
sjsqd: so that is purely the reason I ended up writing
sjsqd: as there are many issues with the foundation (andresen edition) I was invited to post on the let's talk bitcoin website
ben_vulpes: <sjsqd> I understand the idea of bitcoin universes << what you don't seem to understand is that there are separate WoTs in action.
sjsqd: I don't think anyone has to read my articles or consider my viewpoint, its just my way of writing about the foundation
sjsqd: I don't spam my article URLs or anything like that (I provided it here because it was relevant to show what I was writing)
ben_vulpes: <sjsqd> its all calculated automatically as far as I'm aware << so how would you know if things are working as expected?
sjsqd: all I do is tweet the link to the article
sjsqd: ben_vulpes:I'm not motivated by money, it is just nice to be able to write something and get at least a little appreciation for it
sjsqd: I will definitely write about this bitcoin foundation in my articles at some point
sjsqd: ben_vulpes:noted. I had taken that title from what appears to be an unrelated bitcointalk thread.
sjsqd: danielpbarron: haha, its actually been very many years since I spammed an IRC channel
thestringpuller: damn I wish I could have bashed that
sjsqd: I like the idea of my phone being shot at by terrorists
sjsqd: I would actually prefer running some form of cloud OS (provided it was encrypted) for a portion of my holdings
sjsqd: running linux exclusively to keep my internet money safe is too inconvenient to be worth it (although I will be moving to a better system very soon)
sjsqd: and I also barely own any cryptocurrency
sjsqd: I run a software firewall, as well as malware bytes, an adblocker that blocks malicious sites
sjsqd: because I tried to buy $50 USD worth of bitcoin
sjsqd: then I get a message asking for a copy of my ID as well as a video interview
sjsqd: and thought "oh wow this is cool I can now manage all my money from one place sort of"
sjsqd: and added all my bank accounts (I have 3 in 3 different countries)
sjsqd: I used one of those bitcoin exchanges recently
sjsqd: and I got permanently banned from using paypal for life too
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: i see what you mean now. re-up on fiat with your bitcoin.
sjsqd: I would use it 100%
sjsqd: danielpbarron:I wouldn't buy them just yet because cash still works just as well
sjsqd: so I'm not 'set up' just yet
sjsqd: I should probably note that I only just moved back here anyway
sjsqd: but I do think that at least 2-3 of them will shine above the rest
sjsqd: I do get the hesitation towards altcoins
sjsqd: but the bank took my money anyway (I got it back after filing forms etc)
sjsqd: of course I didn't get any cash
sjsqd: I went on a work trip to lebanon once, tried to use my ATM card twice and it lagged out
sjsqd: I'm paying like 20 USD just to withdraw cash
sjsqd: I had to try 5 different ATM machines the other day
sjsqd: If I want to use my debit card from another country here
sjsqd: and I'm pretty sure their jobs are going to disappear within a few years
sjsqd: every time I have an issue with a bank it requires dealing with 20 humans
sjsqd: I trust a computer
sjsqd: but in terms of whether I trust a computer or a human more
sjsqd: I'm not even that familiar with how traditional currency or banking works
danielpbarron: i cashed out some bonds that my grandma got me when i was born; did the math and realized it should have been worth many ounces of gold instead of a measly 1k or whatever it matured to
sjsqd: PeterL:yes I will be adding it to my reading list
sjsqd: and I got 50 USD in interest
sjsqd: I did save some money a few years back in a bonds thing backed by the government
sjsqd: I have no doubt it is manipulated via bots
sjsqd: I do see that many of them have ended up as scams and so on
thestringpuller: lobbes: i wouldn't save in bicoin during a bubble
sjsqd: I personally have little interest in cash
sjsqd: but in the future if I can receive 100% of my pay via cryptocurrency I will
sjsqd: for now that is how I'm operating (especially given no one accepts bitcoin here except like 1 pizza restaurant)
sjsqd: danielpbarron:then how am I going to walk around with my augmented vision paying for things in 20 years time if bitcoin isn't the ideal cryptocurrency?