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asciilifeform: i've seen actual novelists confess to owning '80s laptops which... boot into 'wordstar.' but try using one away from mains current.
asciilifeform: i always found it interesting how much functionality one... loses by rolling a 'general purpose' computer into a product. not even concerning security and the like.
asciilifeform: 'I would dearly love a dedicated word processor... runs for months on one battery charge, never crashes, presents no distractions, and, shortly, isn’t a PC. Not being a PC (or, more specifically, not running a PC operating system) is a truly under-rated and beautiful feature in any gadget.'
mircea_popescu: coincidentally, i saw one today
mircea_popescu: brb while i get my snark refilled
l337: got it, I took it literally what you said
mircea_popescu: i merely pointed out extemporaneously that he doesnm't have to necessarily sell or close down
mircea_popescu: lol how would i know!
jborkl: I sharted
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal what did I do!
mike_c: certainly still has some value. i'm sure he will get multiple offers.
mike_c: could be player-fatigue (rolling dice is only so much fun). could be competition, but i don't know who.
jborkl: finished up the "block found by" and I will be putting that online tomorrow
assbot: I just ran into a fellow /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash-assets user at /hashtag/porcfest?src=hash! That's worth a +2 in the /hashtag/WoT?src=hash. http://t.co/oI2PHHgK6u
fluffypony: I shall live blog it
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: i'm off for today and i look forward to hearing from you on the costa rica bet. it would make a lovely birthday present!
fluffypony: did I miss a blog post
ThickAsThieves: mike_c seeds.therealaltcoin.org is now set up as CNAME 54.197.241.190 - I don't think it's propagated yet tho
rithm: it's been a few years now since the 'ol bag of nuts and i were together
fluffypony: I am completely fascinated by my ability to sit on IRC on a plane
fluffypony: http://i.imgur.com/SNrVRty.jpg
FabianB: dooglus is canadian? i thought australian
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete well, i see your point, ima have to argue nao.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '...bright young men that hadn’t gone though the compiler and complexity modules of their CS programme' << i actually watched the beginnings of this change at my uni. various things were made optional, and the audiences became 'pocket sized'
davout: i rkn he still is
bitcoinpete: so nao i'm curious who moderated that costa rica bet if not kakobrekla ? mircea_popescu ?
kakobrekla: oh? i thought it was asians.
kakobrekla: bitcoinpete i dun think theres any hardcoded rule, mods call it and then you can bitch about it here
nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/FxQz6tB.gif
bitcoinpete: i don't recall, was there a consensus following that conversation?
bitcoinpete: i'm just not familiar with the sop
bitcoinpete: i've little doubt that this has arisen before
bitcoinpete: i completely understand that betting after an event has occurred, even if the bet is still "open" warrants a simple refund less admin fee
jurov: Mats_cd03: which proposal? maybe i can add onto it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "i was sentenced to hang but i ated it"
rithm: i accidentally a word
rithm: not sure why i tried to some singular entity but it feels nice to do
mircea_popescu: i just wrote a good and serious article
rithm: i'm not sure who maliki is but it sounds vaguely religious so i'll just ignore it
rithm: i was so drunk
rithm: i hope you didn't log that sonic dematerializer conversation
mircea_popescu: i log when logged.
rithm: pm's i have
rithm: i can send you copies of your if you'd like
mircea_popescu: nah i don't do pm with dubious characters
rithm: i think more than car, less than a house was here
mircea_popescu: i wonder if search finds the more than a car thing lessee
rithm: did i scam anyone? no.
rithm: i feel watched
rithm: do you know when i close my irc chat window
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: bet its like ~1100 cals har har << i once had 1800 calories in a single sundae. whatever, it's my hot body and i do what i want!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'd love to see how these folks intend to paint india without triggering nuke 'test'
fluffypony: I love that movie
fluffypony: oh I will ;)
asciilifeform: re: link: mircea_popescu and i must be the last people alive using 'squirrelmail'
benkay: sent that to a guy i know over at ebay mobile whose "vision quest to set the visual style fo ebay mobile" has been relegated to the...ipad app.
jurov saves http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--lfD7I_3I--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/776348485761937325.jpg
assbot: FOR THE LOVE OF CONTENT MANAGEMENT I AM GOING TO LEARN ABOUT KINJA which apparently has headline limits in length no actually it just has a counter regarding headline length and it's unclear exactly how long headlines can be and if they can be really long or not, but one thing is clear and that is that headlines can't have italics anyway this headline [oh no according to Twitter, which is apparently where you go for Kinja documentation, you can h
benkay: <BingoBoingo> http://paulford.kinja.com/wait-we-didnt-have-a-cms-team-1593914473 // i'm dying over here
mircea_popescu: i c.
mike_c: not like i have all of romania reading it or anything.
mike_c: what's the point of charging? if i ever want to make some pennies i'll toss up a BB affiliate ad.
mike_c: but no, i don't really expect to ever charge.
mike_c: thestringpuller: i'm more likely to pay people to read it than to charge :)
Apocalyptic: mircea, I don't get it
Apocalyptic: "I made a deposit and started to play. The games were a little glitch, especially Blackjack" // huh
mircea_popescu: i must've
mike_c: well, i was trying to search for "f.derp", but seems it didn't like the period
mircea_popescu: o o i thought you meant you broke som,e story
HeySteve: cool mircea_popescu, I'll let him know
mike_c: i broke it. http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Amircea+*derp
HeySteve: cool I should rate you also, plus quite a few others
rithm: yeah i stumbled on someone from this channel's blog last night accidentally
HeySteve: yeah mircea_popescu, the one I linked to above
mircea_popescu: HeySteve o wait, were you with the one crypto news site i kinda liked ?
rithm: hey i just copied and pasted it
HeySteve: ok thanks, I think that covers it. I have written up some pre-amble then will add these lines verbatim apart from adding capitalisation and punctuation. will ask if any further questions come up.
mircea_popescu: i was wondering where's pankkake
ThickAsThieves: commenters saying i stole the bet wording! slander
rithm: there's a certain judge and we just (not i) a suborndinate installed his new computer
HeySteve: mircea_popescu heh some people probably won't appreciate this fund, but it expands an investor's options so I don't see the downside
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have no fucking idea.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve not really. i don't think the world has spawned yet such an asshole so as to be able to match with me.
HeySteve: mircea_popescu, he's very comfortable I'd say, retired now, but he could have been loaded
HeySteve: mircea_popescu yes in a sense, I know a guy who was offered a fortune for his finance site but held on
ThickAsThieves: i think the need to buy bitocin in addition to any VC investment related to a bitcoin co is obvious
ThickAsThieves: what i mean is,
HeySteve: I hear what you're saying, the art is in the timing
ThickAsThieves: i dont think the btc startup bubble will be nearly as bad
HeySteve: I think mostly the guys who sold their companies during the mania made out like bandits
mircea_popescu: (and i don't mean "were briefly rich during the bubble". i mean "are rich today and were not before that")
ThickAsThieves: i see
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves by the set of lawsuit threats i would guess they know.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: little to contribute, much to learn - how does that sit with others who have come to that realisation here? << i just try to pretend it's philosophy :D
mircea_popescu: For everyi Series A / seed funding announced by the circlejerk that is either in excess of 1 million USD or for a company valued through such funding over 100 million USD, I will create a synthetic asset on MPEx.
ThickAsThieves: i dunno, it's kinda a sad hedge, being that those companies are relying on bitcoin
mircea_popescu: HeySteve yeah, i suppose it would be.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i don't mind them either, honestly, but a) people found out about gallippi's past, and generally, the thing's coming apart. gotta cut them loose.
ThickAsThieves: i dont mind BitPay though, they are taking one for the team
HeySteve: BingoBoingo, yeah I saw that... will it at least be seen on national TV?