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mircea_popescu: ziggla> but i have a small penis << this is no impediment, so does stoya
ziggla: and if i lost, i'd still win cause at least i'd be in a porn movie
ziggla: maybe can make a bit. Will ziggla get a role in a porn movie by June 2015?
ziggla: its wide like a soup can though
ThickAsThieves: there surely is a role
ziggla: maybe there's a role out there for us dudes with 3 inch cocks
ziggla: but i have a small penis
ThickAsThieves: ever considered a porn career?
ziggla: i guess in my opinion the most fair result is to just cancel/refund the bets at a certain point. prefer not to wait forever
mircea_popescu: ziggla a bitcoin bank might.
ziggla: maybe if we had a GSA or something
ziggla: i don't think any credit agency or bank would take my funds on bitbet as a securely held asset of mine.
mircea_popescu: in principle, if your credit / wot ratings are good, you should be able to use the proof of holding the bet you made as collateral with a gpg contract
ziggla: bitbet is like a bank
ziggla: OK. well maybe if it's not solved for like 5 years and i end up winning it will be worth a lot more at that time
asciilifeform: only way the truth (tm) comes out is if more than a few of the players involved are thoroughly pwned, rooted, results trotted out.
ThickAsThieves: nah they have a feed for PR
artifexd: <ThickAsThieves> and said theyd give a statement early Aug << Maybe they did give a statement. They held a press conference on the back loading dock at 3 am on a Tuesday and forgot to call the press... or anybody.
mircea_popescu: and we're not even a year in here.
mircea_popescu: if you will, take solace in the concept that a fiat investment arrived in contention can trivially lock your funds for a decade+
ziggla: at the end of the day, rather than wait potentially forever for a small profit or loss, i'd prefer to just receive my bet money back. it's just a long wait and i have no other bitcoins to bet so i can't even place more bets that i'd like to right now.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you're curiuous re precedent, the bfl scammers put 500 btc on a delivery bet early on in bitbet's history
ThickAsThieves: USMS needs more apparently to fabricate a reality where whatever story they give about the auction will seem true
PeterL__: reminds me of interacting with the IRS "Please submit this info within 3 days or else huge fine, expect a response in 12-16 weeks, maybe"
mircea_popescu: running a business doing that is a lot harder
mircea_popescu: PeterL__ it's funny you know because they walked right into it, they were all "o we hve a pr stragety, here's how we'll crush bitcoin's image lalal"
ThickAsThieves: so now a few people have FOIA requests pending
ThickAsThieves: and said theyd give a statement early Aug
mircea_popescu: but there's a legitimate contention here, no way to cancel.
PeterL__: didn't somebody submit a foia request for the price? have they still not heard back?
mircea_popescu: generally a bet gets cancelled early on, cause w/e, it was miswritten
mircea_popescu: ziggla not that many, and not usually in a contention.
ThickAsThieves: and always a lie to tell
ThickAsThieves: there's always a purpose to lying
mircea_popescu: after i make a decision, if their claims contradict that decision... they're lieing.
ziggla: seems like a big risk
mircea_popescu: a that sore spot. well ideally we find out once the usg finally and publicly admits to having been owned, painfully and humiliatingly.
mircea_popescu: a bitbet owner.
ziggla: a bitbet user
mircea_popescu: a not so bad
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski seriously tho, that's when it begins, when the blog's a tool of self expression.
mircea_popescu: you know where everyone really goes ? to the fucking toilet. what reason to pick a vacation in the bathroom is that!
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, im entertained. and riga looks great, nobody thinks of it as a vacation destination, but i don't recall ever hating it there.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski dude is giving himself as an example. the funny thing is that wordpress has a comment index, trilema is over 100k, his blog was 5k, but hey. HE rules.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: sounds like a blast :)
RagnarDanneskjol: nice - a little travel can go a long way if done right
BingoBoingo: It's a voted thing the people with the best measurements usually win, but some years it gets controversial
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo is mvp a purely technical measurement like batting average or is it a voted/popularity contest ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I was hoping some people might try to guess the extent of the injuries. I dun think this late in the season it really affects his MVP chances. Dude has a solid lead on that.
mircea_popescu: lmao romanians are total fuckwits. so : in 2008, the pressure on local journalism university programmes was 6-7 teenagers per place. five years later, two thirds of local media outlets went out of business, aggregate local media audience dropped to a third (not by a third!) and virtually all professional journalists that were clueless enough to have been left started streetwalking on the side.
mircea_popescu: "If no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?"
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i printed out the source code 3 years ago and i retype it into each server i want to run nginx on to ensure no problems. << laugh all oyu will but when i was a kid this was exactly how you did it.
fluffypony: yeah just a pity that they use Google Code
fluffypony: I can give you a list of deps
xmj: ben_vulpes: this setup is a bit ... shall we call it legacy inspired. But yes. NGINX and uwsgi <3 it works.
decimation: as for the short-term stability, I want to measure the phase noise with a proper lab instrument
decimation: it would be nice to have a 1pps output for time-tagging too
decimation: I like the idea of sending a single udp packet as a request and receiving a stream of udp packets in reply
ben_vulpes: i heard a rumor that nginx has 0% test coverage
ben_vulpes: the go situation doesn't even have a production ready wallet
ben_vulpes: "THIS IS NOT A WEB SERVER PLEAZE FOAR TO HIDE BEHIND APACHE OAR NGINX PROXY PASS"
decimation: asciilifeform: I ordered a tcxo version of that gps timing module from some junk dealer in shenzhen http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEO-7N-Flight-Controller-GPS-Module-with-3-Axis-Compass-Pixhawk-APM-2-6-e-/281404421897?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item418502b709
ben_vulpes: <xmj> ...and django, and uwsgi, and $crap << hey have you ever done anything with uwsgi or gunicorn as a dev server?
asciilifeform: one caveat with using addresses - 'decoder' must not rely on the garbage addr's balance never moving on own volition. one might, at any time, end up producing an addr to which someone has a key.
asciilifeform doesn't give enough of a damn to crunch the numbers
mircea_popescu: but anyway, a discussion for other times!
mircea_popescu: it's not clear that wasting the tx fees for a very narrow space (ie, the amt) is actually cheaper than wasting the min tx for wider space (the address
mircea_popescu: which is why the b-a deeds system will use addresses rather than amounts.
punkman: is this a scam? "Look there's a fucking system!"
punkman: I was playing a bit at moneypot.com (dice thingy), then I saw this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=709185.msg8776834#msg8776834
mircea_popescu: suppoisedly sucking cock (a da [la] muie, contracted to muie) comes from gypsy language, where muie means mouth.
thestringpuller: seal the original cart in a bag
thestringpuller: i should just buy a Wii-U and get the downloadable version to play for 15 bucks
asciilifeform: if kept as collectible - seal it in a bag under nitrogen, why would you play it.
thestringpuller: i'm terrified of modifying because this is a cartridge that appreciates in value due to rarity or something
asciilifeform: use two lithium (specifically) aa batteries in a common series holder (as pictured.)
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2014 18:52:57; asciilifeform: it doesn't have to be a coin cell, either. can attach one of, say, these - http://www.ictradenet.com/models_pic/BH2AA-W.jpg - to outside of cartridge. drill a hole, attach terminals to correct spots. won't win any beauty contests, but will work.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: do you think there is a way to have an externally chargeable battery as "save" battery on video game cartridges
asciilifeform: the fellow who built it may or may not have been a tattooist in russian prison.
mircea_popescu: a well designed little apparatus.
asciilifeform: except - object on upper side of motor is a commutator.
asciilifeform: to start apparatus, it is presumably given a small clockwise twist while current applied.
asciilifeform: a la old-fashioned school bell.
asciilifeform: on 2nd look, the blue cylindrical object is a dc motor.
mircea_popescu: a no.
mircea_popescu: obviously a lot of blood, sweat and tears went into that.
asciilifeform: is that a 'B' battery ?
penguirker: New blog post: http://trilema.com/2014/lets-translate-a-little-rinduieli-de-marin-sorescu/
mircea_popescu: a million before the fiat inflation of human population, back when they still had hard people, and a limited supply worldwide
mircea_popescu: the bloodiest massacre in human history, a million or so killed over a few weeks.
mircea_popescu: which means long supressed passion will finally prevail, in a razing of city halls the world has never seen
asciilifeform: t, shops, warehouses. The crowd has - a correct instinct. It would like to destroy the city - the citadel of power of the political and economic kind - the root cause of its travails. The crowd is stopped in its tracks by those who have plans for the city hall, for the presidential palace. We will not stop the crowd.' (Limonov, 'The Other Russia.') - translation mine. ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Take a look in History, flip through her pages. The first action in revolutions of recent history -- the erection of barricades. They'll smash the cobble stones of the street, dig them out, and block off the road with them. They'll stop cars, buses, fill the street with bricks. And also they'll attack, plunder, raze, and put to the torch the city hall, administrative buildings, presidential palace, parliamen ☟︎
ThickAsThieves: fleeting is a lifetime for some, i guess that's good enough
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: limonov had a beautiful discussion of this.
asciilifeform: if correct solution could be applied from correct position - problem would be lying dead in a ditch, right along with a few thousand fellow problems, similarly perforated.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's why i carry a lot of sympathy for BingoBoingo's legal troubles.
mircea_popescu: it only works in the first place because of a very narrow overton window achieved over decades of lazy prosperity.
mircea_popescu: the more people saying nigger and proposing rape as a solution to minute problems, the less effectual this teflon process is.
asciilifeform: i doubt anyone could persuade him that phenomenon in question is not a barbaric libel by russian queer-haters.