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pankkake: goat started the trend, I guess
moiety: scotland has sun! I'm in shock :]
fluffypony: I just got your reddit reply...sent 3 hours ago...I should check that more regularly
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell danielpbarron I also don't think it is possible to build bitcoind/qt on any platform without throwing at least an error.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell danielpbarron I'm coming around to the idea that it i probably best to keep your bitcoin wallets away from your nodes.
thestringpuller: i feel like that's an anagram that is going over my head
mircea_popescu: i'd guess the berkshire bet will have reached half its total bet sum sometime this autumn
Azelphur: I helped
moiety: I'm turning in, night everyone :]
mircea_popescu: i'll tell you :
asciilifeform: this is a fairly well-known fact (i thought)
mircea_popescu: "Meanwhile, back at Symbolics, there were huge internal management conflicts, leading to the resignation of much of top management, who were replaced by the board of directors with new CEO’s who did not do a good job" i dunno..
mircea_popescu: course... i seem to also remember some massive rms drama
mircea_popescu: ok, i win. bob beck sunk symbolix.
mircea_popescu: "We had great success amongst primary customers. I think we could have found a lot more of them if our marketing had been better. For example, did you know that Symbolics had a world-class software development environment for Fortran, C, Ada, and other popular languages, with amazing semantics-understanding in the editor, a powerful debugger, the ability for the languages to call each other, and so on? We put a lot of
asciilifeform: the problem is made somewhat more dire by the fact that the folks traditionally interested in the subject ('library sciences' types) - as i understand - didn't make the jump to electronics really
mircea_popescu: i mean even the notion of a blog is maybe 20 years old tops. that's within reasonable lifespan.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how will it work out
asciilifeform: i used to be a quasi-serious student of the subject of 'why smbx dead' - until i realized that i'm getting nowhere, everyone i want to talk to is buried.
mircea_popescu: i suspect the problem had a lot more to do with them being plagued by bob becks than anything intentional.
asciilifeform: (i'm with '2')
mircea_popescu: ya i guess im more like 1
asciilifeform: re: fans/spindles: i know folks of two opposing schools of thought re: comp noise. variant 1 - powerful machine, must sing, like 'harley davidson'; variant 2 - want quiet, like german bmw, not air-cooled 'trabant'
asciilifeform: lol yes. i did much the same thing, in a vastly different context (scintillation counter, bio. assay)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, decay experiments, i dunno if you know, are - or were ? - this particular brand of evil.
mircea_popescu: cause it was in the physics lab and i was sleepy
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno what your noise issue is man, i used to live with the large ventilated felix
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: ssd - if there were a hardware raid that worked well with ssd of some description (or, for that matter, vice-versa) i would buy it. on account of hating spindle noise.
artifexd: "Long" meaning "since I came onboard"
artifexd: Any recommendations for what to ask them? I mean, what are things that are in question when one company acquires another? For example, it didn't even occur to me that my salary would change, as mentioned by dignork
artifexd: If it makes a difference, I'm a programmer/coder/developer. My official (self-appointed) title is "Deviser and Artifex".
dignork: artifexd: i'm not a real accountant :), but you should consult one, move to IRA maybe, dunno.
artifexd: I figure the lump sum payment I get from stock options is already set, right?
artifexd: Goal number 2: Maintain the autonomy that I have enjoyed for the last few years.
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: I wanna know how to cook a veggie burger with a steak bun, sounds tasty.
artifexd: That's the thing. I don't know what advice I need.
artifexd: Any thoughts or advice for me? Is there any extra information I can provide that would help get better advice?
artifexd: The company for which I work is being bought.
artifexd: I could really use some advice. I find myself in a position that I, honestly, never expected.
danielpbarron: i include the address in the signed contract for exactly that reason
benkay: i disavow receipt of any btc.
benkay: and jurov how dare you intimate that anyone sent me any btc?! i live in the states! they'd put me in the gasenwagen!
benkay: <jurov> apparently my contract with benkay stipulates i should shift blame to him at this point // oh you
mircea_popescu: In the first two weeks, I was served legal papers a total of seven times and was in contact with the FBI every other day. (This was the period a prosecutor would later characterize as my "period of silence".)
mircea_popescu: i find that highly improbable.
assbot: Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit | Comment is free | theguardian.com
Namworld: I started playing the game FEZ. Loving it.
jurov: someday i buy namesys and make shishkin sew reiser4 in there >:D
thestringpuller: i guess last month it was
mjr_: and that was probably the most interesting interface i've ever seen
mjr_: i was just dicussing API's with an associaet
mjr_: ah ok, i just clicked
mjr_: i have seen some really cool things here
jurov: apparently my contract with benkay stipulates i should shift blame to him at this point
mjr_: and i guessed romanian
mjr_: i don't know what language it is in
mjr_: i'm not sure
mjr_: i was wondering if you had the documentation about when you were under DDOS and set up the IRC/gpg/pastebin alternate trading system
jurov: <benkay> [15:31:28] i want the mods to vet the bitbet queue. << cuz he got his salary today xD
fluffypony: ok I go sleep before I say something else inane, night night
fluffypony: holy fuck I'm too drunk for IRC
moiety: oh now i have heard of that
moiety: i didn't know there was such a thing lol
moiety: if i could have a pet one, i would call him marvin
davout: gosh, i ain't even high
davout: i is manul actually
fluffypony: does anyone have a freelance dev that is au fait with QT 5 and C/C++? I have some urgent UI work that needs doing
davout: "can i have the bacon interior option?"
fluffypony: I saw the gettrust and then tabbed on to davout
moiety: username can't be taken that quickly I don't think.
Jezzz: so either I lost it, or username was taken by someone else
pankkake: slave leia, one of the fetishes I actually don't have. too mainstream, perhaps
pankkake: https://i.imgur.com/xMhg91X.jpg
pankkake: https://i.imgur.com/M5EhOor.jpg
pankkake: since ozbot is down: https://i.imgur.com/Ufskr7i.jpg
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller no question of could, but why'd i bother ?
pankkake: I'm pretty sure blowjob-giving secretaries would help businesses productivity tremendously
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu i imagine you could motivate people with your harem
mircea_popescu: they're my lists and i ain't givin' them to you!
thestringpuller: yea I know i was there when you wrote it on irc :P
fluffypony: thestringpuller: it was just a dump from a convo on IRC, I'll probably expand it at some stage
bitcoinpete: heh this is what i get at bitstamp right now: http://imgur.com/ULCs31K
bitcoinpete: chetty: i'm probably being too kind
fluffypony: bitcoinpete: I lose track, I might actually be on Bitcoin '95 at this stage
bitcoinpete: fluffypony: i thought ethereum was 3.0
danielpbarron: i'm just curious what he meant by this one: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/05/02/building-bitcoin-0-7-2-on-openbsd/
danielpbarron: i linked him to this http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/05/02/building-bitcoin-0-7-2-on-openbsd/ and he stopped talking
danielpbarron: no, he was saying I should upgrade to the newest version
fluffypony: I'm already using Bitcoin 2.0, haven't you heard?
danielpbarron: someone from #bitcoin PM'd me to plead with me that I not run bitcoind 0.7.2, earlier today
moiety: asciilifeform: i hope it all went well
moiety: i think they would all speak russian
asciilifeform: or any other proper (i.e. having declensions) natural lang
davidlatapie: I have to know Karpeles would come in the conversation...
fluffypony: I just assumed that pankkake and Apocalyptic are nude all the time
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I think he meant he already is nude
davidlatapie: mircea_popescu: I already am
pankkake: I thought nood was intentional
moiety: I'm torn between this and Manul Manor
davidlatapie: joecool: in that particular case, I think this is different. owner left and gave the key to me, I gave them to a webmaster who was in holidays until last week and was supposed to handle the transfer to a reliable person (the one in change of mintcoinfund.org)