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mircea_popescu: except he did that at a time when they were worth cents to the dollar, and they're long gone.
mircea_popescu: also, the passports in question don't ever cost that much. he's pulling a kakobrekla's car trick on the value of bitcoin that could have been. by the same measure, his donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the scam foundation.
mircea_popescu: for the record, for the unassuming individual capable of normal socialisation (ie, score a gf if one wants a gf) about 1k usd a year is plenty in argentina.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: why would anyone buy the st kitts passport described in the article? 400k usd would get you a fairly comfortable 2 yrs in Ar or the like (or however long it takes there to get passported)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's been discussed even in log a few times.
mircea_popescu: o hey you got a hat ?! cool!
asciilifeform: a: 'orcs came and burned my village to the ground' b: 'shuddup, enough whinging, do something to improve yer lot'
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thestringpuller: how in the fuck does a pennyles german come here 65 years ago and build more in a decade or two than his own grandchildren could hope to build in a life time << a phenomenon bitcoin will see as supply slowly decreases
cazalla: how in the fuck does a pennyles german come here 65 years ago and build more in a decade or two than his own grandchildren could hope to build in a life time
mike_c: there's another 14 btc for bitbet investors. maybe this bet will spark a rally in the stock. ☟︎
cazalla: like a heaven's gate inductee
cazalla: I get nervous and have a cigarette
cazalla: may i recommend a step by step tutorial for the borderline retarded such as myself who have the resources but not the know how to run it, provide a step by step diy and it will grow
BingoBoingo: Still it's worth giving people with something to say directions to a place they can matter.
cazalla: has he not been here before? notice he tweets a lot
davout: BingoBoingo: ty! the beautyon guy has been around for a while iirc
davout: i saw that when i tried to explore this deeds thing, but i also understood (from a log bit I can't seem to find) that the thing has been/is being re-implented two or three times
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BingoBoingo: Nah, just a bunch of ARs and some 1911's
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> minute an' a fucking half of full automatic fire, flames half meter high for crying out loud. << What reasonable magazine takes 1 minute+ to discharge at full auto?
BingoBoingo: Worst part? his wife wanted to keep her pecan balls safe so unlocked the safe in a room full of everybody.
mircea_popescu: minute an' a fucking half of full automatic fire, flames half meter high for crying out loud.
cazalla: what did you expect? it's TV and booze, what else does a bogan from the bush have in australia?
mircea_popescu: what is this, for people who never discarged a weapon /
mircea_popescu: i did leave them a splendid link to that great scene in miller's crossing, but i guess when you're an idiot it's easy to miss the more subtle messages.
mircea_popescu: 1k txn is ~ 400kb. that means with a 800kb block that merely creating a 1k 1btc txn bundle will guarantee 50% separation on gavincoin chain.
mircea_popescu: and if he had a year, do you think he'd have spent xmas and new year's "filling his hdd with blocks" while i was on vacation ?
BingoBoingo: But he has to take a year, because I got Chicoms reading Stan!
mircea_popescu: haha he doesn't have a year.
mircea_popescu: ah, but it's not a matter of not being 50kb blocks.
BingoBoingo: He has to take at least a year or the Chicoms will nevwer mine for his chain
mircea_popescu: he's prolly aiming for putting it in by february, but won't actually have the tech resources to do it and rather than risk a total humiliatory blowout delay it to march ☟︎
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: There was a 50kb block Tonight!!!
cazalla: punkman, in the alpha technologies example, they are alleged to have used bitpay to cash out btc pre order money for their non-existent scrypt asics, all they needed to do was pay the rent on a shop front to get it going http://media.coindesk.com/2014/12/Dec-10-Alpha-Technology1700px-630x472.jpg
tsoulus: Oh I'm just lurking about, had some interest in bitcoins for a while
BingoBoingo: Well, yeah the idictments so far are a lot of qntra's meat.
mircea_popescu: cazalla if you get enough of those together, that list + a "we don't wanna say" from bp/cb is good enough.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, been there for a while apparently
cazalla: example of one fraud merchant who used bitpay to bilk people for at least a year lol
cazalla: i still wanna know how much fraud bitpay, coinbase etc are processing, they won't give me a clear cut response
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo here's a simple fact : bitpay made what, 1% of less than 12mn in december ? that comes to... half what mpex made ?
BingoBoingo: If some mother fucker can't make a change address indistinguishable from a destination address...
BingoBoingo: Seriously what is wrong with data makes it into a block or data does not???
cazalla: mircea_popescu: I HAVE A GREY BEARD YO! <<< i noticed this.. while using tweezer to pluck the 10 or so grey hairs i began sporting this year, i thought well at least not as grey as mp
BingoBoingo: One crack rock and a text file can test against an actual spec.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: i like to imagine that you'll get the thing into a shape where i can ask nubbins` to print it << This
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i like to imagine that you'll get the thing into a shape where i can ask nubbins` to print it
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: not terribly. castoffs from the pre-production days are always looking for a good home.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes will probably find it an interesting detail, that when i shopped around for certain parts for my pcb assembly apparatus, quite a few vendors turned up who offer bits'n'pieces of what was once the u.s. semiconductor industry
ben_vulpes: a wealth of knowledge that would have doomed me to a life in the suburbs under buzzing "lights".
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Because I may not like that it was a thing, but... True Grit was apparentlyt remade
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo time for qntra to have pictures ? << It's had a couple... Why???
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> aha, process man << I'm just maintaining a list of Loper machine prospects with insufficient chance of death before your complete demo.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> a mix not unlike "paralegal work, some pr, copywriting and sucking cock tied naked to bridges" << OMG It's QNtra!!!
mircea_popescu: a mix not unlike "paralegal work, some pr, copywriting and sucking cock tied naked to bridges"
ben_vulpes: consider the rocketry a undergrad's self indulgence, not too different from your lisp machine obsessions.
BingoBoingo: I mean it took a fuck ton of beating to get former classmates to recognize this https://twitter.com/aaronrogier/status/524368864692293634
mircea_popescu: ah, the drama of building a new world with hands and however you call that little thing they mix mortar in
asciilifeform: what other gain possible from such a thing
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ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: that's a good question
cazalla: personally, my own feelings match gaggi's "why take a chance" scene
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: To my knowledge the irony of ironies is that ben_vulpes has a day job while I merely chse worms away from plants fruiting seasonal delights.
cazalla: yeah, i youtubed it but google gave me a scene from Casino Royale instead..
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But the qntra is a global conglomerate. Too early for him to have peanut butter jelly time.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, the someone that is writing that piece has a day job
undata longs for the day he can just sit down with some parenthesis and build a web thing that makes sense
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I've got a lot of red skin under my black beard after I prepped for fiat job interview Tuesday.
mircea_popescu: I HAVE A GREY BEARD YO!
undata: s'what I get for thinking business was what a man does in 'merica
ben_vulpes: poor undata's under a lot of stress
undata: dunno if that's biologically a thing
undata: my hair is engaged in a slow migration from forehead to chin
BingoBoingo: Bin Laden would probably die if a single hair from my chin found his larynx. A lot of stored energy in those curls
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: WolfGoethe: Have you been watching the longs in the interim since MP stripped your voice? / WolfGoethe: nope, coding a new btc escrow market < goes straight to bash
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Then grow a better beard.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: it's hard enough to recognize a man in the first place
BingoBoingo: undata: Problem with Reddit is it is hard to realize that a man is a man.
undata: BingoBoingo: I mean that force in society by which a man knows which way to go.
undata: mircea_popescu: there is a phenomenon where the ants swarm in a vortex until they starve
undata: reddit as a sort of shared mindless leader, or at least a point to swarm around
undata: @mircea_popescu | <undata> it's that imitative mind << imitathive << the reddit hive seems to have caused a malfunction in something very normal and human
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Logged on 06-12-2014 02:50:54; decimation: apparently they kicked the guy off the project because of his refusal to commit a pronoun patch << well he wasn't being paid, so technically they uh.
ben_vulpes had not planned on a normalization excursion tonight, rather, wanted the otc db shooped into mother postgres
ben_vulpes: dunno if anyone ever noticed this but the gpg.db file has a users table
BingoBoingo: As far as anyone knows localbitcoins is 3 Belgians and a 5Is leak. ☟︎
WolfGoethe: nope, coding a new btc escrow market
BingoBoingo: A veto block of other team owners opposes the rams moving because it would prevent them from blackmailing their city governments with the threat of a move to LA
BingoBoingo: So the StL rams majority owner proposed a new stadium complex in LA.
mod6: what a waste of taxpayer money
BingoBoingo: Eventually, probably on a reconcilliation ballot or some shit. I don't see a need for them to though. Their denial has only made his legend stronger.
mod6: I think i have a rookie card of his somehwere around here.
BingoBoingo: For the average to exceptional player the NFL offers more moneyper year over less years, while MLB offers more total money over a longer period of time.
mod6: i was following the twins closer until a certain $100M player came down with "bi-lateral leg weakness"
mod6: *bloop* irssi just told me that i've passed my #b-a byte allotment for the year.
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mod6: yeah, lol. they're like $8 or something at Target field. its bananas. mind as well get a mixed drink.
BingoBoingo: When I go to the cards games most I eat there is a hot dog. Gotta make hose $6 beers work.
mod6: a likeable guy, but just lost control of that team a few years back.