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fluffypony: I agree - "Blockr.io will continue to operate as usual for now as Sašo and Samo transition to their work at Coinbase."
mike_c: that's how i read it.
fluffypony: I mean "will blockr.io stop support ATC, thus culling it from the list of coins for which it provides blockchain explorers"
mircea_popescu: the noun i get, the verb i dont.
TheNewDeal: do i smell a new otc rating coming?
TheNewDeal: best comment on the article "I want a spider goat condom, that I can pass down to my male grand child."
pete_dushenski: i've got year of the flood on my reading list
xanthyos: glad i wasn't the test case
punkman: heh >> dustintheweb: Story time: I just bought 0.2 from a Lamassu ATM. It timed out in mid process w/out ever updating the bitchain. I about crapped my pants, but the business owner opened the box for me, got my money out, then we tried it again until it worked.
mircea_popescu: people here have shit like i dunno, laser cutters all over their kitchen. so... you're in good company
X-Rob: And I have fun.
X-Rob: I've probably spent about 10k over the years on video cards, power supplies, etc. I haven't put any dollars into it in over 18 months (since ASICs became The One True Way(tm), basically).
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> <X-Rob> I normally just reinvest into hardware. // this strategy is bound to fail << i think he pretty much said he enjoys the tinkering aspect. so from his pov it's perfect, put some money in, letting it run itself out. bitcoin, the very complex and realistic online mmorpg/mud
mircea_popescu: it's like "dudes if you don't make the world friendlier to stupid people i'll stab myself in the eye"
TheNewDeal: apparently he was quite angered after I downed him the first time
mircea_popescu: the reality in the field is exactly opposite : i can dump porn pics all day and it'll stil be more important for bitcoin than tim swanson';s "books".
mircea_popescu: haha reread because well i edited it
X-Rob: But, if people are going to drive the prices up, then I"m going to take advantage of it
X-Rob: and a lot of the time I then have to help smaller pools configure their servers correctly
X-Rob: Apocalyptic: I normally work on ;;genrate + 10%, and I justify the +10% as 'I know what the fuck I'm doing, and you're going to get that hashrate pointed wherever you want it'
X-Rob: that paid off all my avalon3 gear which I bought on a whim and then immediately regretted.
X-Rob: EG, when BTCD emerged, I managed to earn 3BTC in 2 days.
X-Rob: Apocalyptic: It works in my, specific, limited circumstances. I have access to free power, and, I lease my hardware out. I also get to ride the wave of pump'n'dump coins, without actually any exposure.
Apocalyptic: <X-Rob> I normally just reinvest into hardware. // this strategy is bound to fail
TheNewDeal: what do you have now? did I see something like 13.6 TH?
X-Rob: I normally just reinvest into hardware. Vicious circle etc.
mircea_popescu: i dun even recall, maybe 100mn ?
mircea_popescu: sounds like btc is nao copying mpex, i recall how pissed ppl were on the first and original sd dump
TheNewDeal: really pissed, because I should have set an alarm and bought some coins
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I don't have one yet...
asciilifeform: there is a third option, that i'll bring up for completeness because it appears to be very popular these days: piss in a paper cup, write 'beer' on it, drink up.
jurov: <mircea_popescu> [09:28:56] mp lists derps, ... nobody wants to do series a anymoar. << but i was waiting with any advertisement till F.DERP gets online
chetty: <usagi> Thanks, I was looking at monsanto the other day actually and according to them at least, they don't produce "terminator seeds".// YET
usagi: Thanks, I was looking at monsanto the other day actually and according to them at least, they don't produce "terminator seeds". http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/terminator-seeds.aspx
chetty: asciilifeform, I still dont care to eat 'unknown' stuff. THe way they go about creating those things is insanity
chetty: <asciilifeform> there is only, at present, 'foods optimized to resist gargantuan quantities of herbicide on the field.'// actually I dont think they much have a clue all the effects of the 'engineering' they been up to
thestringpuller: maybe after I finish the visualizer
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: i say you start your own blog. super easy to do. then you can be the home of #b-a comics!
thestringpuller: i can write a few scripts and then my buddy can draw frames
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: i wonder what the noose did for the rope industry...
asciilifeform: people debate 'gmo food' as if i can go and buy, e.g., tomato plant that expresses caffeine, etc
pankkake: it's how I write dizzy when I'm dizzy
pete_dushenski: i drank coffee too
pankkake: I feel more deezy than hungry
pete_dushenski: pankkake: i was never much good at it myself but tried again a few weeks ago and breezed through 24 hours. no sweat.
pankkake: tried fasting, I don't take it well
pete_dushenski: cazalla: pete_dushenski, "Yes, dear People Of The World, you belong to your family, your faith, and your traditions, not your ?nation.? Where else does this exist than perhaps countries such as Japan? Families have been destroyed, faith abandoned, very little tradition left. What's left but nationalism? (I started to fall into this trap). << that's sorta teh point of their nefarious exercise. what's left is your own
pete_dushenski: http://bitbet.us/bet/1010/bitcoin-to-drop-under-450-before-september/ << did not expect this to resolve while i slept.
artifexd: I'm sure they do.
thestringpuller: if you get approval i suppose it is okay
chetty: no if about it, now I wonder if they had to pay capital gains tax
chetty: IRS said its property, so I guess so
usagi: I don't think they are interested in stopping it
StephanLivera: pankkake, I think regulation is pretty irrelevant - government might SLOW bitcoin, but it will not stop bitcoin. it's just come too far, and the benefits are too great for it to be stopped now
StephanLivera: I think it's really a matter of time until the next round of bank failures, bank bail-ins, currency devaluation etc. When that happens, people will be heading for the hills, nobody wants to be left holding the fiat bag
cazalla: i was just reading http://trilema.com/2014/lets-pretend/ again
punkman: so you go up to the machine to withdraw some money, and the machine is like fuck you dude, I don't take pirateat40BTC
RagnarDanneskjol: I know -will be easy to pick off devs
RagnarDanneskjol: still. i feel I can somehow interject with a better technical solution for them and retain the business/sleep better at night
RagnarDanneskjol: I know - I think too much is getting lost in translation here with them.. but you're right
mircea_popescu: you're not the master of the fucking world on other people's money. suppose you were a plumber and i hired you to build me a toilet on the ceiling. after you explained to me this design i have is idiotic, as long as i'm paying you;d better build it.
RagnarDanneskjol: because they would be spending an inordinate sum of money on me and devs I locate to build something I know to be rotten
RagnarDanneskjol: king through an interpreter).. yet they are determined to move forward. i am inclined to pass on it altogether unless I can convince them to build a solution that doesnt so explicitly violate the laws of capital-debt / reality
RagnarDanneskjol: I have a moral dilemna. This company in China wants to retain me to hire them a team of devs to build them a chinese version of ripple. They have an enormous budget and the account would be a boon for my business. Of course ripple is junk as so nicely described here: http://trilema.com/2013/ripple-the-definitive-discussion/. I've tried to reason and communicate this to them (i am wor
RagnarDanneskjol: I love the ozarks. All those lakes and hillbillies
BingoBoingo: So here's a quick preview of something from a post I'm working on: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Missouri.png
punkman: damn heisenbugs, girl was just here, I tell her come check out the weird-colored monitor, and it fucking fixed itself!
mircea_popescu: "I know some of this stems from the fact the website contains advertisements. A great debate has taken place internally about those advertisements.
cazalla: pete_dushenski, "Yes, dear People Of The World, you belong to your family, your faith, and your traditions, not your “nation.” Where else does this exist than perhaps countries such as Japan? Families have been destroyed, faith abandoned, very little tradition left. What's left but nationalism? (I started to fall into this trap).
mircea_popescu: "In the spirit of being open and transparent (a guiding principal of this site and our editorial policies), I am adding this note to this story and taking full responsibility that I have failed our readers and offering my most sincere apologies."
pete_dushenski: i actually saw a pic of some tibetan monks there lol
mircea_popescu: i'm going to be a barber and ima peel everyone bloody today ;/
mircea_popescu: i have an idea, let's all call ourselves things we aren't and then do a shitty job of it.
mircea_popescu: Editors Note from Mike: I am adding this note after this piece is published to state that this is a personal opinion piece from Brendon.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, might've upgraded it, this is just after d3 lauched so don't really remember, point being i doubt they need a kickstarter to continue blogging
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-08-2014#799730 << usagi: I've been busy. But today is a big day :) ☝︎
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mircea_popescu: fluffypony yeah the original was a more or less adult dude. acct may have been sold i hear.
BingoBoingo: "Given these deliberate, coordinated and intensifying violent attacks on lives and property in Ferguson, I am directing the highly capable men and women of the Missouri National Guard to assist Colonel Ron Replogle and the Unified Command in restoring peace and order to this community."
fluffypony: so I'm thinking it's a bought account
mircea_popescu: cazalla: i had a diablo blog doing 1m uniques a month and it was fine on $20 month vps << that's pretty impressive for the vps.
fluffypony: I don't think he's a mod
mircea_popescu: i mean asciilifeform needs it to prop up his "competence behind the incompetence" theory, but otherwise in practice it's not observed.
pete_dushenski: ya, i can see the holes in the aryan theory now
mircea_popescu: kinda derpy ones i guess, but anwyay.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if that's particularly contemplated. whenever asciilifeform uses that i just replace with "secret agents"
mircea_popescu: well i imagine asciilifeform's theory is that snowden is kosher while i gave manning as an example of not.
pete_dushenski: the only part of the article i didn't totally grok was the aryan bit
pete_dushenski: i feel just fine either way :)
mircea_popescu: well if it makes you feel better i have a lot of disdain for romanians too.
mircea_popescu: (and i didn't think much of english speakers back in 2010, either.)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: If you're going to really be the best MP scholar you can be, you need to be able to tackle the Romanian writings << sorry folks. i didn't do it on purpose, i just had nfi we'll end up here.
mircea_popescu: hanbot: np << i think hanbot read them all.
mircea_popescu: and that way i won't have to put you back on ignore either.
mircea_popescu: i guess at some point i probably will again.
usagi: Well mp if you have any advie for me go ahead, I'm all ears
mircea_popescu: at some point i probably did
usagi: Ehh I thought you had me on ignore?
mircea_popescu: <usagi> Well Bingo it's true I am eccentric. I am pretty sure a lot of people think i'm nuts. But dangerous? I'm just asking what the deal is with that one <<< you massively overestimate your own ability, and then derp about it in an unconvincing but ceaseless manner which entraps the more idiotic bystanders.
BingoBoingo: usagi: I've chatted with you before several times. Your memory's reliability is not my concern.