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decimation: maintenance on those helicopters alone would run easily
a couple mil per year. this must be some kind of laundry
BingoBoingo: I'm fine quoting
a price in bezzel dollars
decimation: well, it's
a supply and demand thing right?
BingoBoingo: Big firm in Chicago so I want to ad
a Chicago sucks surcharge
BingoBoingo: So,
a lawyer is inquiring what my hourly rate is as an expert witness... What does everyone else charge?
BingoBoingo: I dunno that there's
a better reason at all.
BingoBoingo: According to him flappy plane is
a total mischaracterization of his vision
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I mean the fork they want already exists in Google's "android",
a linux built with the OpenBSD libc
BingoBoingo remembers being
a Junior in college and contemplating buying
a giant pile of Liberty Dollars. Then I go BTC to silver around $100/BTC, Should have got those liberty dollars and went the other direction.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i only played civ 1, but nukes were
a splendid tool to destory ships << This, in civ2 I loaded aircraft carriers with nuclear missiles
mircea_popescu: i only played civ 1, but nukes were
a splendid tool to destory ships
undata: seems like
a drive related to being suicidal
decimation: maybe the real bitcoin foundation can apply for
a certification
mircea_popescu: The CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4) establishes cryptocurrency standards that help ensure
a balance of openness & privacy, security & usability, and trust & decentralization.
undata: there's both
a bootstrapping problem there as well as
a finger-vs-moon thing
undata: "the recovery" << there's
a good one
mircea_popescu: but
a state with economic involvement and the custody of the currency is like...
mircea_popescu: this'd work fine in practice for as long as the martian contraption owner didn't also have
a cock
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu cute! that's pretty much what the non-migratory fauna look like here atm. twas -35C last week, though
a blessed -10C today
cazalla: anyone have
a windows phone?
pete_dushenski: i ordered
a model m and
a unicomp to see how they stack up
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> pete_dushenski, i can see paying $2,500 for
a ship in
a game, not as
a pre-order mind you. i hope for
a game where bitcoin is the ingame currency and players set pricing for resources independent of publisher << it;'s called eve
cazalla: pete_dushenski, i can see paying $2,500 for
a ship in
a game, not as
a pre-order mind you. i hope for
a game where bitcoin is the ingame currency and players set pricing for resources independent of publisher
undata: there's something amusing in there about proles pouring enough money to build
a real rocket into
a toy, but..
undata: pete_dushenski: yeah, upcoming space sim with
a generated universe
pete_dushenski: cazalla if gta5 can deliver, then surely something with
a fraction of the drugs, violence, and sex industree can
pete_dushenski: and calling buterin's scam
a "publishing platform" is awfully generous
pete_dushenski: "To date, the developers have raised just over $65m from nearly 700,000 backers, which makes Star Citizen the largest crowdfunded project there has ever been by
a huge margin. (The next largest,
a publishing platform called Ethereum, has raised
a comparatively paltry $18m.)"
cazalla: and if they did, it was merely so they could take the game back for
a refund after copying the cd key
mircea_popescu:
a ? well i guess that's something i learned today then
undata: target... recently infamous for
a massive theft of credit cards
mircea_popescu: hopefully i'll get
a price per head, so i won't have to pay per pound.
undata: I watched
a documentary recently on the prevalence of suicide in some dreary UK town. I'm not surprised.
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undata: I dated
a black virologist for
a time; her prescription for Africa was 30 years of quarantine
undata: "The sale also became symbolic of
a quest for redemption after he became what he called an “unperson” in the scientific community seven years ago; he had told the The Sunday Times of London Magazine in an interview that he was pessimistic about Africa because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says not really.”
undata: the guy might as well submit
a bill to bring back the gold standard while he's at it
bagels7: you have failed to give me
a coherent response
bagels7: i would just like to point out what
a burden it would be to marry
a crazy woman in today's politically correct world where the woman can do no wrong.
rithm: just make sure the miners have
a ul sticker on them tho amirite
mircea_popescu: davout: cazalla: i don't even get why they feel the need to talk about bitcoin << virgins also feel
a need to talk about the cock.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I can't believe in 2014 we have GoDaddy leading the way in managed DNSSEC and Facebook leading the way in correct Tor hosting for clearnet sites <<< bwahaaha this IS
a fucking point. and it goes on : microsoft leading the way for linux, on it goes.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: that fuckwit infosec "expert" that's helping them irritates me <<< i don't recall an infosec expert of the webz that wasn't
a sort of "assigned female at birth genderqueer individual".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: So, what's the hypothesis. Hardware breaking and mining farms being more selective about the hardware they keep on? <<< mining moved away from the general public to "specialised experts". this always results in
a drop of quality.
davout: also your domain name is
a unicode domain
cazalla: reminds me
a bit of iraqi info minister, no bitcoin in the city at all!
fluffypony: the most annoying thing is that they should have expended effort in using eschalot to create
a memorable address
BingoBoingo: That's
a good question, but given the options market is hibernating in wait of better price signals some large share dumping seemed inevitable... prolly...
mats_cd03: anyway, like mp says, something something usg catching
a falling knife twice
BingoBoingo: Either in the sense of
a literal ocean going craft or the metaphorical Ford Crown Victoria
BingoBoingo: What's wrong with the mud? Also maybe considering saving up for
a boat.
BingoBoingo: I have to admit I've been eyeing the pretty Bitcrane machine as
a spaceheater++
BingoBoingo: Also thinking maybe
a ploy by manufacterers with farms to get consumers to buy this spendy time of the year at any cost?
punkman: maybe not enough money to pay electricity for
a few operations
mircea_popescu: why not charge 100 for
a thing that doesn't work, so suckerlifeform can buy 20 ?
decimation: the end-to-end principle would suggest
a minimal amount of protocol overhead is needed - let the application layer figure things out
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Things exist this way because danielpbarron is right and there is
a vengeful old testament god. Jesus and mercy were
a lie!
decimation: no asciilifeform, the real thing is you make
a light that says 'pay money to dealer'
decimation: is
a child powerful if she pulls
a lever to demolish
a building?
decimation: but each one has
a tyrannical journey to the top