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mircea_popescu: oh i see
mircea_popescu: "shouldn't the difference between .1 and .5 count for more than .23 to .1 in any and all circumstances" ? i guess
mircea_popescu: mike_c here's something i dont get
TheNewDeal: i didnt know yall supported that yet
mike_c: i meant the btc game
TheNewDeal: i have no atc
mircea_popescu: <decimation> turns back to me like nothing happened. Miriam faces these ancient human problems of violence and poverty, yet she owns a futuristic technology like a smartphone. This haunted me for months." <<< all this meaningless bs. was the daughter hawt is all i want to know.
ben_vulpes: everyone's getting 18% returns in the fiat market, and looking at me like the crazy one when i shake my head at the ridiculousness of it all.
decimation: "I met one trashpicker named Miriam who made her livelihood with her teenage daughter by selling plastic scraps for a dollar or two a day. She was telling me her story: the grinding poverty, the constant threat of extortion and murder by organized crime, the shooting of her husband, the sexual assaults on her daughter. In the middle of this heartbreaking story, her phone rings and she pulls out a nice smart phone, texts someone, and
kakobrekla: is the cobol source of the i presume ex swedish tax legislation online anywhere
thickasthieves: so nasdaq has begun hyping COIN I see
decimation: re: google < I've heard from folks who work there that it has already become a sad bureaucracy
fluffypony: I had to run the numbers myself to confirm my gut feeling
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yes - I'm backing what you said up
fluffypony: I just don't think that this is entirely plausible through mining or market buys
fluffypony: I'm confident we'd see acceptance of that change across the board in such an event
fluffypony: although I suppose you'd have little in the way of competition at that juncture
fluffypony: near as I can ascertain
mircea_popescu: i don't need to be buddies with a cockroach to know why it can't fly.
BigBitz: I forgot you and him were buddies.
BigBitz: The point was Zuckerberg has lots of cash/resources. If he was inclined to have lots of BTC I'm sure he would.
mircea_popescu: i have little worry about the actual market value of things actually on the actual market.
mircea_popescu: and whether i do or not is a matter of my own private and personal arbitrariety and nothing else.
mircea_popescu: yes, actually i can.
mircea_popescu: zuckerberg does not. which is why i'm a player and zuckerberg for all the press, is not.
mircea_popescu: if i feel so inclined one morning.
mircea_popescu: something i can do, if i want. i can sell out mpoe stock and put a 1bn dolar contract on obama's head.
mircea_popescu: <BigBitz> Anyways - I am not trying to incite an argument. I just think and believe that if they wanted it they'd get it. Cash is their king (and many others). << the world has new kings, meanwhile. the direct effect of this being that no, the old kings couldn't anything, whether they wanted it or not.
mircea_popescu: <BigBitz> Either way - don't fool yourself if you think the SUPER RICH couldn't do what they wanted with Bitcoin. Not saying it would be an easy thing but it's not at all impossible. << i'm saying it would be impossible.
BigBitz: Anyways - I am not trying to incite an argument. I just think and believe that if they wanted it they'd get it. Cash is their king (and many others).
BigBitz: I suspect plently of rich people have Bitcoin.
BigBitz: Yeah that was the second cash out - he did $3Bn this year I am almost certain.
BigBitz: So I guess he has cashed out over $5Bn.
BigBitz: He cashed out over $4B if I remember.
BigBitz: I'm sure he could do a 51% attack if he /really/ wanted. :)
BigBitz: I used to like usenet.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i know i call lo... from the url bar to go places 10x as often as i call google.
pete_dushenski: fluffypony: badminton << count me in for this team! 99.9% chance i'm the best player here :)
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i know i treat teh backdoors as a right...
ben_vulpes: great thing about new server is that i can run it as hot as i want without some virtualization layer going "mmmm, that's a little bit too hot. let's bork your input and ouput for a bit."
pete_dushenski: ^because i'll go gray waiting for penguirker
Namworld: I suppose so
mircea_popescu: Namworld i think you're missing a major component here. what you describe, I can afford, the us can not.
mircea_popescu: god damned i love answering people asking me "what's my budget" with http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mircea+popescu
mircea_popescu: no guts no gore i think it was
mircea_popescu: so what i wish to know is, anyone left on the internet that didn't shitlist mcdlv.net as far as stmp is concerned ?
BigBitz: I found it... strange... they announced it but then wrapped it up with their own 'Solutions'
BingoBoingo: "But I can't answer that because the people who disclosed this decided they want to make money off of this. There's no way for others to verify." Wisniewski was referring to an offer by Hold Security to notify website operators if they were affected, but only if they sign up for its breach notification service, which starts at $120 per year.
cazalla: clearly a smart guy though, his leftism essay helped me to understand some of the frustration i feel towards leftist people but wasn't smart enough to figure out myself
cazalla: i mean, some of the school shooters have a higher kill/death ratio than him
BingoBoingo: Though I wonder what Dr. K's FBI file looked like when he was in Academia
cazalla: i don't really see the connection between unabomber and elliott rodger types besides the violence
cazalla: no i'm asking in the sense that access to online porn and rapes dropped during same period
cazalla: BingoBoingo, i know the quote and he's understandably upset but to jump to bombs even before angry letters might be a bit much
BingoBoingo: re were too many people around my cabin so I decided I needed some peace. I went back to the plateau and when I got there I found they had put a road right through the middle of it... You just can't imagine how upset I was. It was from that point on I decided that, rather than trying to acquire further wilderness skills, I would work on getting back at the system. Revenge."
cazalla: BingoBoingo, i like Ted's essays, wonder if it was all that mk ultra stuff that tipped him over though
BingoBoingo: Identify the author: http://i.imgur.com/HbHjvhj.png
thickasthieves: i dont think bitpay cares about TBF beyond it's ability to serve as a tool to its own ends
BingoBoingo: thickasthieves> because bitpay actually has necessity << No more than most. Anyways I though they were more focused on wallet fork.
fluffypony: http://i.imgur.com/m3GWyik.jpg
chetty: well I can get some pretty good wine here for about 25 peso, and peso is about 12.5 to the dollar
rithm: so like these pictures i'm seeing of rumored iphone 6c's
rithm: i must be behind
fluffypony: I haven't even tried it yet
fluffypony: I wonder if tox.im breaks the triangle
fluffypony: wrt naming systems I suppose it's a degee
fluffypony: so with software I think that often times it's this intuitive to use - secure - performant triangle
fluffypony: I was going to say that with Zooko's triangle it was believed that a naming system couldn't be simultaneously human-meaningful, decentralised, and secure (you had to pick 2)
fluffypony: I was going to elaborate on it earlier
fluffypony: thickasthieves: I referred to it in the context of software
thickasthieves: i understand i have the hindsight zookoi didnt, but then why refer to his triangle anymore?
chetty: well I don't 'get' most of the icon stuff .. maybe I am not human
chetty: these days human meaningful is pretty squishy, I mane is bff,lol,txt really meaningful?
thickasthieves: so i'm right?
pankkake: I guess
thickasthieves: i also dont totally see how you could then go "applying" zooko's triangle to things not domain names
xmj: i have not received one application from a female FreeBSD systems administrator
xmj: i need one more "yes" to consider the team complete.
fluffypony: but I think you often encounter Zooko's Triangle
fluffypony: otherwise I'd drive a Land Rover Defender
fluffypony: to be fair, I to prefer form over function
thickasthieves: so glad i got out of the design world
pankkake: I've never used an application with speech bubbles
BingoBoingo_: That's what I got out of the Rushwallet wall of text
fluffypony: yeah - I saw that too
pankkake: funny that rushwallet thing, coindesk makes it news but I found a 1-year old announcement on reddit
xmj: I think..
xmj: fluffypony: that was the south-african Pty i poked you about. German/South african company
xmj: fluffypony: I have the first customer asking if I can give'm a quote.
Vexual: i check all my shit for eastern europe and ios b4 i post
Vexual: may i use my imagination?
mircea_popescu: and with that, i wish you a merry xmas.
pete_dushenski: i'll let your fertile minds play with that while i bid ye "hasta manana"
pete_dushenski: "How...how's the work going... dear?" she yelped miserably. The soldier shook her. "Put some affection into it!" he roared. She sobbed again. "How...how's the work going... dear?" she yelped miserably again, but this time with a kind of pathetic pout at the end. The mighty Khan sighed. "Oh, not too bad I suppose," he said in a world weary tone. "We swept through Manchuria a bit and spilt quite a lot of blood there.
mircea_popescu: what am i, an entertainer ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i just picked up atlas shrugged today
RebeccaBitcoin: However to what you were really asking, yes, i am satisfied with the response to my entropy question
RebeccaBitcoin: I am satisfied with my learnings from this chat
decimation: I must retire for the evening but I would be curious about what you think about that, given your proximity to the affairs in that region of the world.
RebeccaBitcoin: no, I have not been "satisified"