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thickasthieves: i'm not sure we mean the same thing
nubbins`: i found a piece of paper yesterday that said "1:30pm tuesday oct 7" and i can't remember if i'm supposed to be meeting someone here or not
thickasthieves: generally i subscribe to the belief that all extremes and ideals are only achievable for a moment at best, and that a robust/sustainable approach to theory and design is better
thickasthieves: i'm just thinking out loud here, waiting for someont to bring me to earth
dbolser: perhaps I need to study alt-coin failure modes
dbolser: I was thinking something along those lines
dbolser: ben_vulpes: yeah, I'm vague there too... like if the price stays really low, it's still a tool for international trade
thickasthieves: i think...
thickasthieves: the problem i have with the point is it acts like price is a driver of anything but speculation
dbolser: thickasthieves: I don't argue that the two are related in a complex way, but I wonder if there is a lower bound on price whereby mining 'colapses'
dignork: so I invited dbolser here, because we where discussing MV=MC in #bitcoin, but no traction there.
dbolser: I figure cost of securing network is proportional to price
mats_cd03: am i wrong?
mats_cd03: i am under the impression SIM cards have DMA
ben_vulpes: but i dunno
danielpbarron: i'm not sure how you, ben_vulpes, were able to !up him without being authed
danielpbarron: ben_vulpes, i lost auth
ben_vulpes: i dun get it either, danielpbarron
nubbins`: MFW i couldn't zero my btc balance upon withdrawal
thickasthieves: Note that it's ironic that I actually made this purchase by mistake because I thought the "Deposit" button meant , yknow, depositing funds, not exchanging currencies. Your system of dollarifying all numbers is obnoxious. Let people type in bitcoin amounts and understand it as a separate currency. You're just confusing things."
thickasthieves: this was my message to Circle, to which i got that form response "I shouldn't complain since the price has gone down anyway, but why didn't this order go through? I just want to know how to avoid the problem in the future.
nubbins`: i did the full gamut w/ my circle account, A+++ would buy satoshis from again
thickasthieves: this is all Circle had to say about my inquiry as to my order being cancelled "We may have delayed your transaction due to our fraud prevention monitoring. I apologize for any inconvenience! We should have this issue resolved in the next few days."
nubbins`: why do i read comments on CBC articles?
kakobrekla: sry i misread it first time
thickasthieves: really i'd rather focus on getting people to quit choosing arbitrary denominations
dub: I do
nubbins`: so i click a gop.com link that was posted in this channel
mats_cd03: as i understand it moore's law doesn't mean shit anymore
mats_cd03: i see the scalability roadmap refers to moore's law
BingoBoingo: Maybe I need to stop bashing my hand with the OED when I typo and find a correction that doesn't affect the typing hands.
BingoBoingo: Sweet, lotta bearwhale fan art out there. I'm waiting for the slashfic.
thickasthieves: i suppse it was probably also illegal where SR was hosted
startup2`isninja: I'll be back tonight. I may have another offer for people, it would be a 1-year position and primarily of interest to people who want a hedge against price movements against them. My previous offers were not closed via -assets or -otc. (No transactions done.) the total size of the offering would be up to 100 coins, US legal system and contracts, and approximately 2 weeks from now until wire (or transfer.)
sgornick: mircea_popescu: To not add qntra-specific noise to #bitcoin-assets. Lots of chatter will be added from it, I suspect.
mircea_popescu: <bgupta> I might << if you do, blog it.
punkman: I guess guy was talking about datacenters or something "a high-end user's connection speed grows by 50% per year"
mircea_popescu: i am a fourth in and nobody can sleep because of you
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform I HOPE YOU ARE HAPPY WITH YOURSELF
pete_dushenski: decimation: what I find amusing is that the lefties don't get that they are in a relgious war because they don't even realize that what they are derping about is metaphysics << definitely amusing. though you have to figure that *some* know the equalitarianism can't be measured.
bgupta: gobimint making ti really hard to know where to show up and say "I am sparticus!"
bgupta: I might
mircea_popescu: yup, same exact one i found. check out the unspeakable diversity of the interwebs,
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2014 18:55:26; asciilifeform: as i understand, the term originally applied to brands of optical rifle sight designed to withstand the field (water, whacking over enemy's head, etc.) vs ones that only need to survive a leisurely duck hunt
mircea_popescu: whatever the gentoo repackages are called i forget
asciilifeform: lol. next i post the ebola-free pudding recipe.
mircea_popescu: but i mean, "guy came in with 10lbs of undeclared stuff, got it confiscated"
mircea_popescu: what uncharitable bs. really, it's that hard to identify hash chips ? i had no idea o.O
mircea_popescu: heh i guess.
BingoBoingo: Seriously Cloudflare sites are more unavailable than any others I've seen
mircea_popescu: i';d have left a link on their blog but of course.... cloudflare claims the host is broken
mircea_popescu: i guess. but an oscillator's still an oscillator, no matter the period.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-03-2014#574604 << i can't believe this fucktard actually came back under a new name but referenced his old persona. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: if indeed they're stupid enough to fork it, i will sink their fork on the open market.
mircea_popescu: well at least you point it out for the rest of us. i didn 't click
ben_vulpes: i miss all the good stuff
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is going on in these people's brains i wish to know.
mircea_popescu: "i know this is irc... but still" ?!
WolfGoethe: I'm in NYC and go to all the bitcoin dev meetups. coded an api open source project and trying to give back. came here looking to chat and I am being judged so harshly? i know this is irc... but still.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> if you compare how you treat your pets and how the average liberal intends to treat "those people" you get a scary identity. << oh come i only feed the pets when they behave
mircea_popescu: i guess more derps getting listed.
WolfGoethe: I see this like a grass roots social justice movement
WolfGoethe: not many who can think on your lvl in the scene, from what I recall
WolfGoethe: I do want to think tacticall with you tho
WolfGoethe: maybe once I have some green tea
mircea_popescu: this is like saying, "i have a computer, it is my duty to generate random strings and publish them"
WolfGoethe: I code web mostly. many platforms. had a few startups. did the napster of Ringtones in 2000. and a few social networking sites. and now working on some bitcoin stuff. ☟︎
WolfGoethe: I was bron human, this it is my duty to think.. very unamerican I know lol
WolfGoethe: I'm a coder mircea and entrepreneur, nothin special
WolfGoethe: I'm no expert but I am trying to think deeply
WolfGoethe: I welcome any reading resources you have. I've gone thru mullins works, griffths works, "history of money by jack weatherford" was also awesome. and several books on europe in the 30;s
decimation: I suspect by "evolve bitcon" you mean "increase the usd price"
WolfGoethe: I have been discussing with many folks why the price is tanking. it seems quite natural considering that btc is more of an asset than a currency... merchants are covnerting right to fiat and thus putting sell pressure on the exchanges
asciilifeform: 'i'm a hunchback, everybody should be a hunchback'
asciilifeform: it all sums to this. yes, i get it, you (for some value of 'you') like to pull your network cards out every morning, and cry when your 'eth0' ends up 'eth2' etc.
asciilifeform: decimation: i think it's in stock udev though
decimation: asciilifeform: I should have known that lennart was behind that
thestringpuller: that was enlightening tho. i now can view socialism from a different light. ty mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: i dun blame anyone. i'm more into hangings than into blamings.
thestringpuller: I blame the hippies.
decimation: that's what I was about to write :)
decimation: "For example, to run Egypt - a country of 10 million people, then - Cromer had about 1000 British civil servants. If you count all the Western diplomats, development experts, NGOistas, and the like, for whom the present parlous state of Egypt provides employment, how many do you get? A lot more than 1 per 10,000 Egyptians, I suspect. How many Westerners are employed in bandaging and rebandaging the permanent ulcer of Africa? Um, a
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i'm kinda zone blind, i tend to have more fun in the "bad" parts of town
The20YearIRCloud: I'm sure they're there, the problem i have is that those places are such cesspools because of liberal ideology
mircea_popescu: i guess since legal matters so much all planes sohuld be equipped with a congressman the way old ships were equipped with a priest
The20YearIRCloud: Not that I wish evil in liberals (They're people too), but their mindset sponsors alot of really awful things
decimation: as I recall Mr. Yarvin quoted Lord Cromer as saying that he reckoned he could effectively rule egypt if he could publicly hang one egyptian of his choosing per year
The20YearIRCloud: i figure it'll all come around eventually and they'll figure out what's going on
mircea_popescu: if i ran a country i'd give linus the right to pass death sentences, and sent the secret service to execute them.
decimation: what I find amusing is that the lefties don't get that they are in a relgious war because they don't even realize that what they are derping about is metaphysics
mircea_popescu: anyway, i keep hoping maybe one days one of these libertards with unwarranted delusions of awareness comes by to peddle his stock of derpage.
decimation: I think that this guy hangs out with the lesswrong crowd too
mircea_popescu: i have no idea who that is.
mircea_popescu: "how to pretend like i'm doing something really important by doing something really really complex, that happens to also be very stupid"
decimation: heh I thought of your post on forgiveness
decimation: but I also submit it's because the underlying hardware world is crazy
decimation: but I agree that the ethernet enumeration is crazy
mircea_popescu: which i guess is burning
decimation: one specific instance I know of - dell reversed the '1 and 2' ethernet ports in the bios
asciilifeform: decimation: i don't give a damn - it was sane before, and is turd-encrusted now in 100 ways