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punkman: "I'll be willing to complete the beta as quickly as possible if people want to donate some BTC to me, this way I can show the wife it's more like a job than a hobby. As to the amount, I think 250BTC would be enough to get her off my back"
decimation: they have always hated suburbs, nuclear power, shopping malls, automobiles... and plastics, which could not exist under a centrally planned green economy. I would therefore like to ask all my readers to take a look around them and note everything plastic, and then say a quiet "thank you" to the right-wingers who made it possible for everything that Brutopians consider "wasteful" to exist at all. << Herr Kokkarinen
asciilifeform: let a thousand synthetic diamonds bloom.
asciilifeform: this is why an art forget should be regarded, by sane folks, as a hero
asciilifeform: but the lizard who buys a $40m rembrandt is not a fool, he knows he can get $50 next year
asciilifeform: turd-art as a bezzle altcoin
asciilifeform: and that woman is probably planted on a solid gold toilet as we speak
kakobrekla: dafuq do you know, maybe you need to bridge two pins together with a diode hanging for no reason to make it work
decimation: if that were a EE senior design project I would give it an F
kakobrekla: some sort of arduino with a keypad
gribble: Error: 'melanie_shapiro' is not a valid integer.
kakobrekla: > Melanie excels at using the most up-to-date social tools to creatively promote a brand and attract relevant customers.
decimation: also here's her PhD: http://shesquad.com/melanie-shapiro/ "Dr. Melanie Shapiro holds a PhD in Consumer Behavior and specializes in customer acquisition, branding strategy and digital marketing. "
decimation: that clip is a parade of every nerd stereotype
decimation: lol that guy put like a gallon of solder on that dip
cazalla: asciilifeform, maybe post it as a comment then you can get credit for pointing it out
cazalla: <asciilifeform> cazalla: ^ consider for 'qntra' <<< amusing now that i've googled what a solder bridge is, i wouldn't want to add it and act smug as if i knew prior though
nubbins`: those ul bullets are taking up a massive amount of space
nubbins`: cazalla something like this might let you have a bit more usable real estate on the sidebar
asciilifeform: there are a few more of similar derps pretending to debug, etc.
asciilifeform: a scene of a kid pretending to solder
decimation: asciilifeform: is there a good free vhdl simulator w/timing analysis?
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/?define.php%3Fterm=trolling&page=301 | Bricking your hardware leaves you with a new paperweight. Can be the end effect of a faulty flash or firmware update, a modification (mod) gone bad or being  ...
cazalla: who is gonna use such a thing? i don't even need to be technically minded to know there is no chance i would use a wallet with a camera
mats_cd03: ya. it lives in a box lined with dryer sheets
nubbins`: a rival!
mats_cd03: as a young man i ruined the interior of a rival's BMW with durian extract i bought on the internets
mats_cd03: durian is a weapon of mass destruction
decimation: when I lived on the east coast I used to walk to work. at one corner, there was a 'crab shack' with a dumpster - in the summer the smell was repulsive for at least 500 feet
TheNewDeal: Walked by a dumpster at a sushi joint and I almost vomitted
decimation: any building in korea where kimchi is made has a permanent 'stank' ☟︎
decimation: how to rot fish in a jar 101
asciilifeform: norway ought to run a cultural exchange with korea, teach them lutefisk, rakefisk.
nubbins`: nah, it's great. when was the last time you saw a new major kitchen appliance that you'd never heard of?
mats_cd03: used to be they'd just put the ingredients in a clay pot and bury it.
mats_cd03: i'm also not a big fan of koreans. so i'm biased.
nubbins`: TheNewDeal unfortunately with no korean market here, side dishes are a practical impossibility
asciilifeform: a turd is so much more offensive when in an otherwise pristine art gallery, than in a back alley.
asciilifeform: 'i meant what i said, and i said what i meant, a walrus is certain one hundred percent' - or how did that rhyme go...
kakobrekla: just a guess though
asciilifeform will laugh if it comes out that #b-a search was using 'google' internally
asciilifeform: ^ #b-a search is broken. why am i seeing text that does not contain the literal word 'structuring' ?
undata: a vending machine for numbers
undata: AML/KYC on a vending machine.
danielpbarron: welcome to a channel that actually matters
decimation: "The Brazilification of society can be a samba carnival assuming you approach it the right way, and most importantly, get to live on the pleasant side of the barbed wire fence."
decimation: asciilifeform: I've been reading Herr Kokkarinen, there are some great quotes there: "Instead of being some hardcore immigration restrictionist, I very much look forward to the future when we white devils become a minority in all Western countries... We educated conservative white males will prosper in the Balkanized low-trust society whose overburdened social welfare net has run out of other people's money and collapsed into a
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: did your run lead to a similar barf ?
asciilifeform: quite a few browsers will try to ungzip
ben_vulpes: but asciilifeform's server is setting a text header?
ben_vulpes: a i figured chrome tried to turn it into text, rendered it
asciilifeform: i mean, it's actually a gzip
ben_vulpes: with a .gz suffix
ben_vulpes: is that actually a text file?
undata: whereas in the case of the guy who denies he's in a gas chamber, he's straining his best to deny the category
asciilifeform not a shrink, cannot answer. but will point the interested reader to the - not really secret - chronicles of german camp inmates collecting scraps of ss uniforms, role playing the roles of jailers, other manifestations of syndrome
asciilifeform: it will be a 'temporary relocation center' to them, even when the shower heads start hissing out the zyklon. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: at this point, quite a few people will not believe, e.g., the camps, even when they end up inside. ☟︎
undata: ^ I found that a fascinating way of describing it.
asciilifeform: undata: one hypothesis is that the average chump has a limited width 'revelation register' that easily overflows.
mircea_popescu: “Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.” 1896 ~John Dewey, of the dewey system.
mircea_popescu: actually, someone should make a backup service, exactly identical to tarsnap except it only accepts material gpg-encrypted to your key.
nubbins`: gotta find a neat angle on it tho
nubbins`: thinking about making a pgp infographic-type poster
nubbins`: and leave a blank space in lieu of a picture 8)
nubbins`: a beggar is not one who accepts money but one who begs for it
punkman: hey 20 million bezzlars, that's gotta last them at least a year
thestringpuller: cazalla: a pokemon exchange?!? lol. i think I may be the only one in this channel who plays pokemon.
mats_cd03: what a nice picture
punkman: "The reason we were able to attract A-list investors is our group of founders and the promise of blockchain technology."
punkman: "The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce it has received a $1,000,000 donation from Jan Koum, CEO and Co-Founder of WhatsApp. This marks the largest single donation to the Foundation since its inception almost 15 years ago"
cazalla: mebe you nintendo could even use blockchain technology to timestamp when you found a pokemon so no-one can sell you dupes
mircea_popescu: exactly like star trek ninnies, speaking a wholly unintelligible pigdin and laughing out of the blue for nutty reasons.
mircea_popescu: all these fucktarded nsa "codewords". it would not surprise me if the central nodes in the administration of all this perpetually overbudget, perpetually mismanaged nonsense are desocialised to the point they can no longer interact with people in a shop or bar or w/e
danielpbarron: the amount of "work" that goes into finding a shiny would put it in the 1 to 10 BTC range
cazalla: i wonder if nintendo capitulated and will allow 2 male pokemon to make a baby pokemon
cazalla: a shiny of course
cazalla: i doubt there is any demand for it but i would buy a desired pokemon for btc
mircea_popescu: no, i never played such a thing.
danielpbarron: it was a gameboy game first; you could trade via the connection cable
TheNewDeal: pokemon was also a card game back in the day, like Magic. Not sure if he's talking about software game
mircea_popescu: my idea of a pokemon is roughly speaking a beanie baby. what's to gpg there ?
cazalla: you know, with the new pokemon game coming out in a few days time, idea of a bitcoin pokemon market would be great, could even have gpg pokemon contracts
mircea_popescu: “The welfare state reduces a citizen to a client, subordinates them to a bureaucrat, and subjects them to rules that are anti- work, anti-family, anti-opportunity and anti-property... Humans forced to suffer under such anti-human rules naturally develop pathologies. The evening news is the natural result of the welfare state.”
mircea_popescu: “I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.”
dignork: and a DRM solution, to protect the assets.
thestringpuller: here's a dick pick + some dollars
dignork: "For now, Snapcash is available to Snapchatters in the United States who have a debit card and are 18 or older." << there is such a thing?
cazalla: thestringpuller, need a few cuppas first
mircea_popescu: (but seriously, if you, like me are a fan of the old amiga stuff, with HARD mobs and tough as nail bosses etc ? try it.)
adlai: it gives you a resolution bound for the precision of mental disorder diagnosis
TheNewDeal: it's a nice meta piece on psychologists
mircea_popescu: "beverage" comes to mind. because yeah, carbonated high fructose corn syrup needs a thing to be, like water and wine.
adlai: no, seriously. some big association of mental scientists (lol) recently admitted that they have nfc what schizophrenia actually is, and that they should probably drop the term and start analyzing the conditions it refers to from a blank page
adlai: it's a made up concept to lump together a bunch of conditions that psych(olog|iatr)ists have epsilon understanding of
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: 50k btc sold under mkt value with unreleased results is a good way to lay the groundwork for intentional price plummet <<< if it had worked.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: this raises a question, can schizophrenic even use pgp as intended? <<< well if he has split personality, then they won't know about each other's keys.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i trust myself only with a 9 << just as long as you find a kim to trust you with her 6.
mircea_popescu: well, if "perfect butt, perfect shape" is your thing, then obviously it only lasts a little.
adlai: maybe I'm doing it wrong, but ";;auth adlai" gives me a challenge string, and I need to reply ";;verify http://pastebin.com/blabla" with a signature for the challenge string, using my wot key