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nubbins`: so i got that reply late last night. today, the city comes, picks up the trash out front, gets a ladder, and REATTACHES THE DECK TO THE HOUSE
nubbins`: anyway, i pasted both, parse em as you will ;p
nubbins`: i can picture the old fart hove off on his couch w/ his ipad, smoking a cigar, "y'know what? enough IS enough"
nubbins`: ^ that's the email i wrote to the city
assbot: Hi folks, I'm a homeowner on XXXXX Street, and I'm writing to complain -- onc - Pastebin.com
menahem: i've met a few bitcoin-assets ppl around the globe already, not knowing until later that they were all in the wot.
mircea_popescu: if anyoen wants to give a final look to the month's statements, please do. i'll be signing them and deeding them later today.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how they do traffic measuring these days. i have no doubt whatsoever that it can be gamed.
kakobrekla: eh? slashdot your target audience? top comment there: I bought one of these. It took a VERY long time to arrive, and only worked for a few weeks. I contacted them for warranty repair and they simply never responded after that. I am out around $3000.
punkman: I thought magic cloud miners would autoscale
kakobrekla: >That's what sucked me in, I saw a lot of posts about 1-2 month ROI's so I bought my Zens retail from GAW @ 17.95 next day worked out my ROI 217 days, the very next day 1 year ROI (approx), next day retail Zens @ 14.95 and ROI infinity +1. Early adopters were given high, magic, above market payouts to lure suckers like me in, and it worked.
punkman: "Stop holding my coins hostage, pay out my divs so I may reinvest them. I am loosing potential profit because of your practice. " << lol
kakobrekla: Blazedout419 (he is here in the chan) > I am sure will and deadterra have done quite well on this scam...
kakobrekla: punkman> kakobrekla: it seems i found 'the no guy' > http://bitbet.us/stats/14wqgUXyHpuzyuwfYssfeLuL1YtZpeVkcR/ << seems to start around the time I first mentioned it < and they say pessimism isnt worth it.
kakobrekla: http://i.somethingawful.com/u/garbageday/2014/phriday/scifi_placement/Palpek_33.gif
bounce: can we dotnet in javascript yet? with one of those nice accellerated js interpreters? It'll go lots faster that way, I'm sure.
punkman: more of a heartbeat, should I remove?
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2014 21:56:59; punkman: so I just put together something to test betting strategies on past bitbets and guess what, betting 0.1 on No on all resolved bets would result in a net gain of 9.7 BTC
punkman: kakobrekla: it seems i found 'the no guy' > http://bitbet.us/stats/14wqgUXyHpuzyuwfYssfeLuL1YtZpeVkcR/ << seems to start around the time I first mentioned it
mats_cd03: i lose bitbet :<
punkman: "You should save the "Gavin is trying to impress evil institutional investors" mud-slinging for when I get around to laying out the argument for increasing the block size, because that would be closer to the truth."
jurov: no, i don't know the term... hollowed down to the root and filled
cazalla: https://blog.coinjar.com/2014/11/05/andreas-m-antonopoulos-visits-down-under/ 30 minutes or so from where i live
RagnarDanneskjol: its fascinating for me. i really enjoy thorough research even if conclusions/methods are somewhat flawed
ben_vulpes: holy hell i blink and 800 lines appear
mircea_popescu: anyway, all the excitement i can take. later all!
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many russian policemen used it to touch themselves.
mircea_popescu: i dont even.
decimation: I found a titanium ring is good for me most of the time, completely anti-reactive to skin and also cheap
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't get it, you got cvasi-married ?
BingoBoingo: Younger dumber highschool me got pretty girl I'd been seeing pretty ring, and being youg poor white trash me I completely ignored subtexts in acquiring 10 gold ring with colored quartz rock. Girl got ideas, ring was rendered part of schoolbus floor
decimation: I've used butane soldering iron, works well
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> incidentally, i've always wanted a pack of slow-burning steel-tipped 'matches' you could solder with in the field. << SO story with those.
asciilifeform: incidentally, i've always wanted a pack of slow-burning steel-tipped 'matches' you could solder with in the field.
BingoBoingo: Only reasons I know
asciilifeform: but i cannot recommend.
asciilifeform: i've no idea why anyone else bought them.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i've a story about those things. ☟︎☟︎
decimation: I haven't wire-wrapped myself, no - only soldered. but I have considered getting into it
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> surely, just once, as a boy? << I did the disposable camera to taser conversion wrapping to get taser voltages.
JorgePasada: Bah, getting kicked out of my friends place. Be back in 30. Been a while since I've been in here.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> in .net vb << In library school I was forced into this bullshit for a semester, final project I couldn't take it. Went FU here's a mono runtime in a jail and Visual C++ 6.0 that compiles to it because fuku
asciilifeform: that was the first and last time i ever saw one.
asciilifeform: when i came to usa, i saw a c128 in, of all places, a toy store.
decimation: yeah I donno
asciilifeform: last i knew, commodore-64 still held the record for the greatest number of a particular design of computer ever built.
decimation: I didn't realize - apparently Commodore made their own silicon chips, and even made their own LCD screens
mircea_popescu: " I remember someone saying that if it hadn't been for automatic switches in the telephone network, the entire population of planet earth would have had to be telephone operators to handle the load of telephone usage in 1993 or thereabout. I get the eerie feeling that because modern computer systems are so incredibly braindamaged in their design and in the tools used to program them, the entire population of planet e
asciilifeform: i would personally help.
mircea_popescu: It says that it's from Sky Dayton (founder of Earthlink) although it is actually from Earthlink's direct marketing department. I can just see the thought going through the copy writer's head. "People won't open it unless it's from someone they know, and everyone knows Sky Dayton!"
decimation: as I recall the netscape was pretty much just a ripoff of mosaic
asciilifeform: 'Bitcoin interests me as an obvious example of a technological jewel tossed around aimlessly by the brutal hands of cave men. I can’t help but picture a flashlight or a radio set, left behind in the wilderness by geologists, to be picked up later by some Stone Age aboriginals; to be fought over and worshiped. Until the batteries run out.' -- your truly
decimation: I remember the original netscape - it was a pile of shit
mircea_popescu: "and the loss to the software company that has to give up two months of sales is even worse." << dat logic. so if i have sex for the first time today, rather than next week, i gain a full week of first time sexings.
decimation: I blame fiat.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha i feel so dirrrrty
asciilifeform: and, unless i'm hallucinating it, in 'connecticut yankee in king arthur's court'
asciilifeform: this actually plays out, as written, in an episode of disney's 'duck tales' i saw translated as a boy
BingoBoingo: <decimation> yeah I would be pretty scared to operate on someone with a glass blade << In an MRI tube what else can you use? Interventional radiology is lucrative
mircea_popescu: "Recently, I devoted several sleepless nights to this problem. Why is it that our computers are getting faster and faster yet we are using them more and more to render things generated on some distant server? And it’s still slow!" <<< average bovine is comforted by the second delay.
decimation: yeah I would be pretty scared to operate on someone with a glass blade
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: glass scalpel << of late i have made much use of carbide cutting tools on lathe, which come with similar warnings.
decimation: I distinctly remember seeing word on windows and thinking it was a huge step back from wordperfect on dos
mircea_popescu: i think i had wordperfect on msdos
mircea_popescu: part of the reason perhaps being that if i had, i'd start bludgeoning the machine into the ground.
mircea_popescu: "it is not rare to see a palpable (and all the more so for its unpredictability) delay between pressing a key and the drawing of a symbol on the screen." << i have never seen this.
decimation: I believe that aluminum is part of the british crown jewels too
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> primitives succeeded in making steels of a kind, from naturally carboniferous wootz traded along, e.g., silk road << Wootz yes, low hanging fruit. When I read Damascus though I think laminate forging process
decimation: yeah I saw some documentary about japanese sword-making - that steel is closer to steel, but nowhere near modern quality
decimation: yeah I think it was more "steel" than steel
asciilifeform: in some of my articles, i mention a concept called 'design space.' it, approximately, means, the set of engineering decisions that are thinkable at a given time.
asciilifeform: i could go on, but this could fill a book.
mircea_popescu: decimation: as I recall it cost around $2k in the late 80's << ahh, the days when a shitty mouse was 100 bux.
BingoBoingo: Next time I'll sign the hash of the prediction
decimation: I want someone to draw a cartoon: young man approaches greybeard lounging under a tree: greybeard - why do you laze instead of being productive? - He says: you try to make something useful - off the young one goes through trial and tribulation - eventually, ending up under a tree.
mircea_popescu: i enjoy writing the little code i do write.
asciilifeform: i didn't grok what he said, at the time, naturally
asciilifeform: as a student, i was once told by a greybeard: 'you're young, but know that you have X lines of code in you. after that - log cabin.' ☟︎
decimation: "But suppose everyone wrote their own subroutines? Isn't that a step backward; away from the millenium when our programs are machine independent, when we all write in the same language, maybe even on the same computer? Let me take a stand: I can't solve the problems of the world. With luck, I can write a good program. "
decimation: yeah, I guess in this case the 'cargo-cult' is building a wooden global namespace
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> under rusty old msdos one can, generally, actually program in c << because, again, if i want to kil a ms-dos dependency I DELETE THE FILE
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: guess how much i and everybody i knew paid.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i think when I was 9 it was like 4 weeks allowance to get Borland or whatever C compiler they were selling at the time.
decimation: asciilifeform: here's the link for what you are getting at: http://www.colorforth.com/POL.htm " Now we get down the the nitty-gritty. This is our first clash with the establishment. The conventionsl approach, enforced to a greater or lesser extent, is that you shall use a standard subroutine. I say that you should write your own subroutines. "
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: this is pretty much the stance. you have to seek it out, if you want to learn it. I guess what they are producing are not programmers at that point?
decimation: yeah "C" was going out of style when I graduated in the early 2000's, CS was converting to full-java
decimation: a few years ago I tried to make an edit to wikipedia's 'climate change' entry. a similar down's syndrome case guards that page - immediately reverting any non-libtard edit
mircea_popescu: well, i just sent you one, should be a tab opened somewhere next to where it says #bitcoin-assets
sadekjake: how do i send you a pm?
sadekjake: i have neever used an IRC before
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> So I'm reading this conversation about programming languages from 7 days ago (28-10-2014). There is a lot of trash talking about OOPs, like C++. I don't see anyone mention C. Is C just not worth mentioning? <<< c is really not ~that~ bad.
thestringpuller: yea I used one of those. I wanna get the one with the mouse in the middle (like on the think-pads) for my desktop.
decimation: yeah I use a knockoff (unicomp) myself
decimation: my dad had a 'real' ibm AT at work, I was impressed by the built-like-a-tank chassis
decimation: it was the best thing my family bought me, I learned dos, played kings quest & space quest, learned to write in wordperfect
thestringpuller: I still have it. It's all boxed up. I just need a PS/1 keyboard but those are hard to find.
decimation: as I recall it cost around $2k in the late 80's
devthedev: thestringpuller: I may just sell it, I don't have as much time as I'd like to devote to it.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: afaik they self-volunteered for gassing (for no reason i know of)
thestringpuller: devthedev: I can tell. Last article published was Oct. 17. lol