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mircea_popescu: With total accumulated investment reaching $32.7M, BitPay has now raised more venture funding than any other bitcoin startup. << this is drastically false.
mircea_popescu: im kinda sad nobody bought their shares, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: anyway. all the derps that wanna say things about how a non-bitcoin company's management reflects poorly on anything but the well known, amply documented and oft discussed ineptitude of the VC circus : feel free to suck a cock.
mircea_popescu: ahaha cazalla that qntra ascii thing is the lulz.
mircea_popescu: "Moving along, this document is document ."
mircea_popescu: are you fat, yo ?
mircea_popescu: sciencehatesyouSorry for your loss 2 points 58 minutes ago This is sad, and it's just a shitpost from Mircea the Rapist's QNTRA << check it out, sciencehatesme.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard yes, there are some passible webdevs in argentina.
mircea_popescu: they mostly like to write ~about~ things.
mircea_popescu: except no big tits, no nude at home, and no eating dogfood. just, derpage and pretense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform these were fucking http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-09-2015#1280920 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: they sit around and talk a splendid talk.
mircea_popescu: yeah, great devs.
mircea_popescu: what's it do for them ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform perhaps they fucked madonna as well.
mircea_popescu: could have had a stable of indians doing the same job for 1.5% of the cost and 0.0x% of the liabilities.
mircea_popescu: it's dumbass "employees" doing nothing that are EXPENSIVE
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you don't understand. it's not the place that's cheap
mircea_popescu: well it's what i read anyway.
mircea_popescu: no, just make a special patch (for historical reasons called a manifest) that does exactly what you describe
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought he just meant signing patches.
mircea_popescu: he wants to pretend he's sorta kinda like me, were i to exist (which i don't, OOOOBVIOUSLY). so...
mircea_popescu: "some bum said some things nobody card about" ? he doesn't want it to be like that.
mircea_popescu: gotta have something. what he got ?
mircea_popescu: if gallippi wants to play the adult and "sign declarations", what's that mean ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i sign on gavin's dumbass "proposal", it's directly obvious to anyone what happened.
mircea_popescu: or thereabouts.
mircea_popescu: make money while i fuck your sister.
mircea_popescu: just like the spam "mmwys" kids spend it all on trying to give other jerky teenagers the illusion that "mmwys".)
mircea_popescu: (hint : they spent it ALL on trying to give people just like you the illusion that mansions, and lizard hitler.
mircea_popescu: you're not a businessman, so how would you.
mircea_popescu: we even have a prophet.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=12-01-2015#973977 << check it out, we can truly be a cult now. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: well the chinese surely do.
mircea_popescu: it adds overhead.
mircea_popescu: myeah.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i get it, you want encrypted channel for bitcoind
mircea_popescu: derps.
mircea_popescu: o noes, you lose.
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3m91ls/eyewitness_people_walking_out_of_bitpay_office_in/ <<< ahjahaha check it out, buttcoin crew is confronted with a dilemma between their own stated goals and their own mental capacities.
mircea_popescu: i saw it in the logs. i dun know what to say of this as of yet.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-09-2013#333713 << first mentioned here almost two years ago to the day ☝︎
mircea_popescu: !s cramer-shoup
mircea_popescu: in any case : one of the things i'd like to see is non-familiar stuff.
mircea_popescu: perhaps.
mircea_popescu: sort of design-by-accident approach
mircea_popescu: yeah but they were "oh, you know what, sigs for THIS really need to be dependably known"
mircea_popescu: aite
mircea_popescu: it does fucking lock the io somehow.
mircea_popescu: :)
mircea_popescu: seems lovely mod6
mircea_popescu: spiffy mod6
mircea_popescu: phf you gonna get in game to get your pile of woooly shrooms ?
mircea_popescu: i think this is the correct approach. also i like it.
mircea_popescu: aha
mircea_popescu: do tell ?
mircea_popescu: machine can not do anything else during, if you're say making a large tarball at the same time odds are you'll cry. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1285073 << this is a point that perhaps may pass unnoticed and trip people i think. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: ayup.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1285049 << that's ok, china is not an adult place. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1285041 << we can already do this using iptables like god intended. it didn't practically help in the field if you recall. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: didja publish it ?
mircea_popescu: you gotta meter what txn they pass you and score them.
mircea_popescu: but on the subject : the only thing that matters is the value transferred. any other approach is a waste of time. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1285009 << what abgout the idea of eulora on macos!11!! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1285003 << not run by stephen pair. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: check it out asciilifeform, "experts at Morgan Stanley" fixed the world!
mircea_popescu: ed by tools that should soon be available as open source.”
mircea_popescu: Stroustrup said: “You can write C++ programs that are statically type safe and have no resource leaks. You can do that without loss of performance and without limiting C++’s expressive power. This supports the general thesis that garbage collection is neither necessary nor sufficient for quality software. Our core C++ guidelines makes such code simpler to write than older styles of C++ and the safety can be validat ☟︎
mircea_popescu: notrly news is it ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1284988 << lovely! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: lol stalinism survived, huh.
mircea_popescu: "Adopting Russian Orthodox Christian terminology for an important house of worship, the building is called the Moscow Cathedral Mosque. Its main golden dome and tall minaret reflected the style of many Orthodox churches, except for the Islamic crescents atop them."
mircea_popescu: hands off the functional parts, yo! stick to tits and hips and whatnot
mircea_popescu: last fucking place you want the dudes to get involved, the cunt and the other set of labia.
mircea_popescu: in other news, the pin of the association of plastic surgeons from lima, peru depicts as a logo a stylisized cunt.
mircea_popescu: it can just be published as an item, you don't even need a "connection" between the two.
mircea_popescu: this way B can send any payments its customers want, and A will idem send whatever payments its customers want, and at the end of the day the whole balance is BTC settled at the agreed upon price and that's that.
mircea_popescu: also the correct way to handle this is through some sort of repo agreement. "A agrees to receive any sums from B throughout today, Sept 25th, and remit no later than by Sept 26th, at 8:00 gmt at address so and so a sum of btc equal to : the sum of btc received ; plus the sum of X currency received divided by Vx ; plus the sum of Y currency received divided by Vy ; plus [etc]."
mircea_popescu: ("https" is not a thing. it's a flavor of usg-pki. burn it.)
mircea_popescu: if you are going to put something, put pgp. not pki, and in no case http for a stateful machine.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1284827 << he has a point. the notion of putting http in there but then going "The settlement part isn’t covered by the document, for the pretty simple reason that settlement is a business matter, not a technical challenge. It would also vastly complicate everything." is pretty wild. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: https://i.imgur.com/xTTVeOb.jpg << dude who stole my cat. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1284802 << how fast do you expect to go in traffic ? 200W should be enough at the 1mph speed provided your bearings aren't made out of clay. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and yes it will have to be redone if nothing else then for that reason.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1284796 << i suspek that's what they were trying to do with the sha1. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: you don't pay the credit card, you move the balance on a bigger credit card. duh.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1284785 << pay BACK the VCs ? da fuck's wrong with you! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: almost even odds by now ?
mircea_popescu: ha.
mircea_popescu: what, like pigeons from the hagia sofia ?
mircea_popescu: lol buttfinex still pretending ?
mircea_popescu: nb.
mircea_popescu: i'm mostly following his theory :p
mircea_popescu: australia is where they try out the nutty coercion schemes, not the entertainment.
mircea_popescu: nope, what is it ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, buy her a chunk see what happens. stop keeping the poor girl in the basement of medieval scarcity culture!!1
mircea_popescu: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Préparation_du_beurre_de_Karité_-_Mali.jpeg
mircea_popescu: fanny doesn't shea butter ?
mircea_popescu: well yeah ?