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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c yesterday I checked your page http://www.btcalpha.com/mpif-tracker/ and I saw that mpif was 15 satoshi ahead, and slowly gaining. so i went to sleep AND GAVE IT ALMOST TEN HOURS only to wake up and find that it is now ONLY !$ ahead. I was never told this can go backwards, I was led to expect this goes up WHAT SORT OF A SCAM ARE YOU RUNNNING!
pankkake: I tried to write those at the same time
mircea_popescu: i vaguely remember tat doing this a while back. does ba nao have a collaborative lyrics page ?
mircea_popescu: davout, i give up.
pankkake: but I never write then translate, at least
pankkake: I'm not sure it all rhymes
mircea_popescu: these are the most fucktarded lyrics i saw this week.
pankkake: and now I have pinky and the brain in my head
mircea_popescu: o, what did i miss ?
mircea_popescu: ahh, nanotube did i eve say just how much i love the gribble log-in scheme ?
davout: also the exact facts about 3ds and liability shift -> http://i.imgur.com/3MkZZ2E.png
Naphex: i wouldn't count 3dsecuire as ireversible
fluffypony: I was hoping for juicy details
fluffypony: ja I meant sauce on MasterCard saying no (besides MasterCard putting Bitcoin on their lobbying form)
fluffypony: http://i.imgur.com/8uxiRNV.jpg
xmj: i'll subtly neg them by asking about their company's economics. "so... are you cashflow positive?" is king.
xmj: Naphex: please do understand that i have my own issues with venture-capitalist fundings.
pankkake: lol, no wonder I didn't get it, it was too absurd :)
pankkake: I don't understand what that means at all
xmj: Naphex: I'm starting to embrace your point of view :p
xmj: two i'm in the office with renewed server software / switched environment. tonight. both had demos / trade exhibitions scheduled in the morning when they needed stuff to work...
jurov: when i tried coworking with fellow startups i sticked out there like a sore thumb
jurov: xmj i remember something like you called him names
xmj: just get me something that's compatible with FreeBSD and i'll build you a nice production environment.
jurov: such as, i was never able to come up with complete setup for the first or second time
jurov: actually, despite being a sysadmin with 8 or so year practice and i avoid messing with physical hw whenever i can. so what, kill me.
BingoBoingo: I mean, tech has advanced enough that the financial cost of doing "Big Iron" as a hobbyist is less than doing HF amateur radio
BingoBoingo: Well, sometimes a person needs to wonder. I mean who doesn't check the prices on the not so old 30 processor capable machines
xmj: BingoBoingo: I had hoped the amount of !! would tip you off on that not being serious.
BingoBoingo: I mean suppose the rare actually valuable idea in itself that could launch a tremendous venture... Do you really want to test the alpha on someone else's iron and risk them poaching it.
xmj: BingoBoingo: I know
decimation: mircea_popescu: I'm glad you enjoyed the movie (a man for all seasons). I think I was the one that last reminded you about it - it's one of my favorites too.
xmj: I understand that.
xmj: you can prefer owning hardware. i can prefer cheapskating.
BingoBoingo: xmj: I really dunno what the cloud fascination is when these are on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sun-Microsystems-SunFire-V440-Server-4x-1-60GHz-UltraSPARC-III-16gb-PC-2100/310962886850?_trksid=p2047675.c100010.m2109&_trkparms=aid%3D555012%26algo%3DPW.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D23309%26meid%3D7397420274572172178%26pid%3D100010%26prg%3D9834%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D24%26sd%3D291131644728
Vexual: theres a lot of it atround i guess
Vexual: might just mean desktop, i dunno
assbot: 2 Chainz - I'm Different (Explicit) - YouTube
benkay: lady v, re starting as js-sweepers: "i'm sure."
benkay: and i'll be not displeased with my work if they accept that they'll need to start at the bottom to boot.
benkay: i'll be lucky if one of mine is qualified to and interested in taking on any position in my shop.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> my father didn't have the wisdom to see that, and it nearly cost him his life. the us isn;t in a much better position really. // i'd love to hear this story sometime.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> perhaps the usg isn't as inimical to btc biz as i'd previously gathered << where'd you gather that ? reddit ?
mircea_popescu: but i doubt he had much of a future as an issuer anyway, at least on the short term
mircea_popescu: and as to why he ponied up, probably bcause it's a laughably small sum, it gives the sec something it already had (i doubt any us citizen can sanely argue that th eauthority of the us govt and its agencies doesn't extend to him)
benkay: perhaps the usg isn't as inimical to btc biz as i'd previously gathered
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, he had enough sense to listen to me when i told him how to do the buy back.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> in general the fewer customers you have the better your product can be // incidentally, this is why i love consulting. customers are typically n=1 where n trusts me and my boys to deliver - which we do. in spades.
asciilifeform: two things about this story puzzle me (confession: i never gave enough of a damn to keep track in real time...) - why nothing about satoshidice? only sued for a small part of the spam op profit and: why vorhees ponied up
benkay: wait am i reading the logs correctly? voorhees is only in trouble over the off-mpex 'ipo'?
mircea_popescu: so i guess htey made at least one friend with the process.
mircea_popescu: i think when we finally enact the new world order we make him chairman of the fed.
mircea_popescu: i don't do it personally, and the mods just get to have fun. i hold no particular audit of their success. i guess some try to beat the game or w/e, i personally don't care, and that's where the incentive structure starts.
punkman: considering a 10-way or 30-way bet, that is sure more work for bitbet mods to seed correctly. So I guess we won't see multibets until there's just too many single bets covering the same events
mircea_popescu: n owinner is unlikely. i mean, is a bet that nets you 10kx your bet unlikely at 9900:1 odds ?
punkman: yeah I suppose it'd make sense to throw tiny amounts at all unlikely winners
punkman: mircea_popescu: so what's the mindfuck with multi bets? I feel more mindfucked by trying to find N related bets
mike_c: i wouldn't kill too many brain cells trying to figure it out.
davout: i'll find my way to the door
dub: 'i don't know how I can prove I was a virgin' - posting on reddit, uh
mircea_popescu: jesus christ i nailed him.
assbot: I did a world's first! ...hopefully :) : Bitcoin
fluffypony: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/27bha5/i_did_a_worlds_first_hopefully/
mike_c: i think there's a t-shirt with the answer
diametric: or can i bruteforce this with a python script.
diametric: i wonder if they implement captcha or ip banning on multiple failed attempts
Apocalyptic: mircea, I see, my interpretation of "EC-based keys are just as secure as RSA keypairs" was different
Apocalyptic: <Naphex> mike_c: btcalpha is very good, great work. // I concur
Apocalyptic: mike_c, indeed, i'm talking in curves over GF(p), with p prime
mike_c: Apocalyptic: there are also considerations around which curve you use. i believe certain curves are known to be weak.
mircea_popescu: Naphex, i don't really perceive the benefit.
BingoBoingo: I imagine a cycle stabilizing where MP shames securities scammer, SEC scoops them up months later.
BingoBoingo: I thought settling with Erik over GLBSE shennanigans was helping, they have quite the backlog of stuff to catch up on... Gigavps, Thermos, et al..
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell Phinnaeus: I'm curious as to when Micrea had that pic taken where he's in front of the pyramid on a horse. << 2003 iirc.
mircea_popescu: that can't happen, i have a whole department working on it.
mircea_popescu: i also wonder how long before i'll be the oldest guy in bitcoin, between people pulling the satoshi melt-in-mists trick on one hand and the 5years up to your room erik trick
mircea_popescu: i wonder under what name he's back
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You also have to understand. Of the relatively early Bitcoiners MP is practically a saint. << i thought i had a bad reputation.
Naphex: https://i.imgur.com/BGN3YOD.gif
mircea_popescu: fluffypony, i guess you just explained xapo's vp for asciilifeform too.
fluffypony: "I know most of you scoff at the idea of storing BTC on Coinbase, but I am not nearly as technologically inclined as most of you. Each storage suggestion I read looks to me like this:
fluffypony: this made me cry with laughter - http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/27apui/why_i_will_store_on_coinbase/
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: BingoBoingo: i actually had wondered why $15k plus damages -- didn't realize until you pointed out that they didn't touch s.dice << yeah, funny how that worked huh.
Daniel_Krawisz: How do I get in the GPG database?
mircea_popescu: ;;rate Daniel_Krawisz 1 I remind him of Gargantua.
Daniel_Krawisz: If I see text in red, does that mean only I can see it?
fluffypony: Daniel_Krawisz: I'm not a MLP fan at all, I just got given this nick years and years ago and it stuck
Daniel_Krawisz: Thanks, I loved your thingy about the critical theory doctorates who had to clean the bus with their tits. It reminded me of Rabelais.
Daniel_Krawisz: I was the person quoted in the Forbes.com article on MaidSafeCoin if that's the quote you meant.
fluffypony: if your article on appcoins was an Instagram pic I would heart it or something
Daniel_Krawisz: I heard someone was asking about me.
asciilifeform: ^ first saw that one on orlov's page. i think he's friends with the artist.
mircea_popescu: i'd give people triangles of french velveeta
mircea_popescu: i reclal
mircea_popescu: i suppose P1 hasn't happened yet.
asciilifeform: i was expecting something more like a 2 drawer filing cabinet
mircea_popescu: moiety: ok i'll try and work it in << lol don't let these goons talk you into absolutely anything. you're a nice girl, but they need their spanking
mircea_popescu: (this is arcana, but from what i understand no agency with enforcing capacity is allowed to mention specifically any company outside of the context of bringing charges)
mircea_popescu: i dont tihnk they're allowed to.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: I still can't believe the SEC implicitly offered MPEx such a glowing endorsement today. << whay not.