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fluffypony: I just did 2 sets of cards (1k each)
fluffypony: what do I pay my guy
mircea_popescu: i would guess that principally depends on what 45 buys you.
chetty: example: oh boy I got HUGE tax return = free money, completely ignoring that is the gubermint returning your money they took
kakobrekla: apparently i still have one.
fluffypony: yeah I'll pay the extra
moiety: though i didn't mean the E and Y to be giant
moiety: yeah i'm just signing in to go over it all
moiety: ahh kk i still ickle behind on logs
fluffypony: moiety: from earlier - fluffypony: if anyone's interested, I'm looking for someone to buy a $900 item (aforementioned flash drive) on Amazon for me and ship it to me, will pay in Bitcoin and also pay for the effort
moiety: old flt finally emptied completely yesterday. i felt broken after it lol
fluffypony: I'm excellent tks :)
moiety: fluffypony: I love it, it's amazing! but i got stuck in the empty old flat for a few days and haven't had internet here. I've moved half hour drive away in the smallest car you can buy i think and me and mum aren't exactly weight lifters lol how are you? :D
moiety: BRI haven't heard of Malcom btw mircea_popescu, i was going to dig a little, if you wanted ☟︎
moiety: hello all, I'm really sorry for my lack of presence this past little while, had some problems with moving. I'm trying my hardest to not be offline.
gribble: moiety was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 day, 21 hours, 9 minutes, and 40 seconds ago: <moiety> i do but there's a lot of time left
fluffypony: if anyone's interested, I'm looking for someone to buy a $900 item (aforementioned flash drive) on Amazon for me and ship it to me, will pay in Bitcoin and also pay for the effort
fluffypony: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81cZ%2B1fyHpL._SL1500_.jpg
fluffypony: it's been a year since Kingston released a 1tb HyperX Predator flash drive, I can't believe no other manufacturer has one yet
mircea_popescu: i'm not putting their name in the spec tho.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony it's missing two key ingredients, the most important one being - done by people i trust.
mircea_popescu: i'm not checking some random site i never heard about fwiw.
mircea_popescu: and i have mixed feelings on pruning and checkpoints
mircea_popescu: well, it's definitely the blockchain-friendliest approach, seeing as only a hash is stored in the first place. moreover, i don't see how nonspendable tx helps anything other than pruning
mircea_popescu: if that's true i doubt it's significant tbh
punkman: not having to keep it in unspent tx list is the more important part as I understand it
punkman: I think the script is shorter for the unspendable tx
mircea_popescu: so based on mike_c's discussion last night, i think i have a very good addition to b-a kako. it'd go like this : ☟︎☟︎☟︎
Mats_cd03: asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo: while I weld the server shut to drop off at the colo << if you don't already own one, a very usable spot-welder can be made from the ubiquitous 1F+ capacitors sold for use with automotive 'boom-booms.' << 'dis spark plugs?
fluffypony: I guess Farmville lives on in perpetuity
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: you're surely used to this "if i pretend not to notice" routine
bitcoinpete: the best is how they pretend i never called them out
mircea_popescu: i guess they share a lot of screens
mircea_popescu: So why do I not want Common Lisp to be a mass market language? Because this kind of people will want to exert influence over something that is good because it has been restricted to the “elite” that has made a conscious choice to be different from /something/, indeed to /be/ something. The very word “exist” derives from “to step forth, to stand out”." << this, incidentally, is why the same splooge tries to
mircea_popescu: i like naggum.
mircea_popescu: So why do I not want Common Lisp to be a mass market language? Because this kind of people will want to exert influence over something that is good because it has been restricted to the “elite” that has made a conscious choice to be different from /something/, indeed to /be/ something. The very word “exist” derives from “to step forth, to stand out”.
asciilifeform: (pictured here - not mine, though i own both - http://webwit.nl/input/misc/symbolics1.jpg)
mircea_popescu: http://i.vimeocdn.com/video/464650250_640.jpg ?
asciilifeform: i think everybody alive knows that tale
mircea_popescu: ok. do i need to say any more ?
mircea_popescu: davout but that aside i dun see much problem with it. gavin is copying the sec, hard to find fault even should you be so inclined.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i eventually found out - device in its simplest form (simply deny write) - is commercially available (if expensive, for reasons of golden toilet.)
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i kinda suspect that usb disk wp is one of those gizmos that everyone who needs - already has. << not so.
dub: I like the css on that page, makes the blue hyperlink text not actually be a link
asciilifeform: it, incidentally, isn't a u3 stick. but a much earlier (circa '03?) chipset for which i found docs
asciilifeform: i've a 'you could have been owned' stick i like to lend to xp users.
dignork: no hardware switch i mean
dignork: U3 had wp? I had one, no switch
dignork: but there is much more common use-case, gave a usb disk to colleague to copy a movie w.e, now i need to reformat it...
asciilifeform: (try booting any os - not patched for this purpose - from a wp'd disk, see what i mean here)
dignork: asciilifeform: i understand the implementation complexity (not too bad), and just wonder how come it's not a marketed thing.
asciilifeform: i kinda suspect that usb disk wp is one of those gizmos that everyone who needs - already has.
asciilifeform: dignork: it's a useful gadget. i have one.
dignork: it seems rather trivial gadget, but i've never seen it implemented so far
mircea_popescu: i dunno what the fuss is all about
asciilifeform: (how i know? they don't always remember to... take them off.)
asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo: while I weld the server shut to drop off at the colo << if you don't already own one, a very usable spot-welder can be made from the ubiquitous 1F+ capacitors sold for use with automotive 'boom-booms.'
mircea_popescu: "Yeah. I was just kind of wondering how much trouble it could cause if hundreds of people internationally started contacting his government demanding action to investigate his bitcoin involvement and possible unethical activities."
mike_c: true. i do own ghash.
fluffypony: yeah I suppose
mike_c: the thing is, it depends who you are "proving" to. since i am a b-a lackey, clearly i could get the logs mucked with. and nobody is going to care that fluffypony's copy agrees with it.
fluffypony: I log, and I'm sure dozens of others do
mike_c: log.b-a or my blog still requires trust. blockchain doesn't, but i'm not a fan of abusing chain for this kind of stuff. pastebin i guess works. nobody would believe they were in on the scamz.
mike_c: well, basically what i said. i want to be able to say "here's the signed statement. here is incontravertible proof i have not mucked with it since XX date"
mdev: bitcoin trusts no ones date, they don't use dates they use difficulty I think
mdev: or various I suppose
mike_c: like, i want to be able to say today "here is proof that I signed this on June 1st, not June 13th"
mike_c: yeah, that works going that way. i need to go the other though.
mike_c: i don't think there is, but thought i'd ask to make sure i wasn't missing some clever trick.
mike_c: but i could sign something today with june 1st in it.
mircea_popescu: i suppose if you have a tech run a team of techs he's technically management now
fluffypony: the "lead developer" maybe, by some definition of management I'm unfamiliar with
mircea_popescu: i would hope mpoe-pr is in there ?
mircea_popescu: "Joe: No way, no way. Tried it once, doesn't work. You got four guys all fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black, but they don't know each other, so nobody wants to back down. No way. I pick. You're Mr. Pink. Be thankful you're not Mr. Yellow."
Blazedout419: why do i have to be mr pink?
mircea_popescu: which is why i was so weirded out.
Blazedout419: I was talking to kakobrekla anyways not asciilifeform
Blazedout419: Well sorry if it came off that way, but that is the first time i have ever been called a troll
Blazedout419: I was just asking a few questions...then it got crazy in here :p
mircea_popescu: i think wot has come a lengthy road.
kakobrekla: ok. i could go on but i rather wont. :)
mircea_popescu: generally, i rarely think someone is as smart as they think themselves. similarly, i rarely think someone is as dumb as they think themselves. so there :D
mircea_popescu: or maybe i just like living interesting times.
mircea_popescu: so if you're all drama llamas i'ma just be mellow.
mircea_popescu: the truth of the matter is that i don't have an actual personality, i just do the opposite of what y'all are doing.
mircea_popescu: i'm just reactively tolerant
Apocalyptic: I guess mircea is running low on entertainment tonight :)
pankkake: yes, but since he was !uped back, I'm biting :)
pankkake: I don't trust him, and I backup the otc db :)
mdev: just putting a lot of trust in nanotube, i've never seen really the guy talk but I think he owns gribble as well, and is founder of #bitcoin as well
FlyDuch: guys can i sell btc for ltc here
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the gear they sold is sold. i thought he meant sold hashes, ie, rented gear
pankkake: so I don't understand "not yet amortised"
mircea_popescu: i thought the earlier 200 btc scandal was over pps
mircea_popescu: which i am.
pankkake: ooh I like that schoolgirl
mdev: where do I register again?
mdev: I been banned in there a lot, in the past some ops agreed the ban shouldn't have been set but didn't do anything to lift it!
mdev: I talked to another op in private about it, and lol...that channel is just not good with them at the helm that insult and put down everything, from andreas, to blockchain.info, to /r/bitcoin to altcoins, list goes on and on
Apocalyptic: from what I gathered