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ThickAsThieves: maybe it's not greed i dunno
ThickAsThieves: i mean greed is certainly there
mircea_popescu: anyway, i disagree with the theory the motivator is greed.
ThickAsThieves: i agree that it's a silly endeavor though
ThickAsThieves: well ty, i'm still trying to not sound like a 10th grader
mircea_popescu: dude i like this guy's writing.
ThickAsThieves: i meant it as deluded (away) from
ThickAsThieves: i guess i should add alt text to the ad on my site
mircea_popescu: i got affiliates, supposedly. let them do the seoz.
ThickAsThieves: i mena i guess it's all in the name
mircea_popescu: not like i own the trademark.
ThickAsThieves: i just can't resist thinking "wtf does it say 'got milk' on this header, but doesnt even say 'bitcoin'?!"
ThickAsThieves: i look forward to the realization of blacklisting methods for Wired and such
ThickAsThieves: i guess it at least goes to your word promising to blacklist people
mircea_popescu: nobody cares about usagi, but some people - such as for instance I - care about the fact that we were doing insider jokes in 2011.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah, i see it more that way. it's a little nook, something to discover, some way to be "in".
ThickAsThieves: but mp i'm sensitive!
mircea_popescu: "It’s an ugly thing, watching all these kids shoot from the hip." << ThickAsThieves haha actually i kinda enjoy it for the comedy value
asciilifeform: recall an incident i described some months ago, of getting ordinary circuit boards baked at a u.s. plant.
danielpbarron: does it make sense to have an escrow service provider sign a contract? or is this not necessary since he's the trusted 3rd party anyway (i think he should sign a contract, but he insists otherwise)
ThickAsThieves: i'll rephrase
mircea_popescu: well considering what the inexistend fighter jet has cost alreayd, i can only imagine what a shuttle would cost the usg
ThickAsThieves: i forget, what the heck does Got Milk? mean on Bitbet anyway?
asciilifeform: yeah i haven't kept up. no idea if there's a lockheed contract for trampoline yet.
ThickAsThieves: http://devilsadvocate.biz/be-one-of-us/ (also note i added bitbet ad to footer, thanks mike_c!)
asciilifeform: 'i have psychic powers!' - 'tell me what is under the upturned pot.' 'fuck you i'm dragon.'
asciilifeform: as far as i can see, author is a (self-proclaimed) academic
pankkake: so I guess it's like writing "no girls allowed" in your treehouse
mircea_popescu: i don't think so.
asciilifeform: i.e. how would the cost of a double-spend possibly go down ?
kakobrekla: i had a picture where they charged me 0.01 to give me 0.
danielpbarron: I haven't had more than a few sips of whiskey over the course of the last few months, not because I wanted to stop drinking, but because it just didn't occur to me that I had stopped
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: bounce: I've actually always suspected the religious case for prohibition was largely influenced by the cost of drinking taking money that could have been tithed << actually, it was leftover from english historical issues. "nitially gin was a welcome industry in England because it allowed a new class of consumption for grain, thus promising to elevate the prices of grain and so the profits of the landed ge
mircea_popescu: bounce: dropping php/mysql isn't a bad idea. but the replacement... some people are magnets for failure << i suspect mysql (just by itself) may actually be a better choice than mongodb.
mircea_popescu: bounce: eh, finance's not supposed to /drink/ anyway. << oddly, all good doctors i ever knew smoked like turks, and all good finance people were drunks. check out romania's cb president pro vita, his face has the distinct red marks of enjoying wine.
fluffypony: well that's the lesson that I learnt
mircea_popescu: see, i can appreciate that sentiment, but it has a hole in it
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yeah...part of it was also to prove to myself I wasn't an alcoholic:)
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: so I stopped for 6 months to demonstrate I wasn't << alternatively you could have belted her butt to demonstrate it's not her place to say. better for humanity, because she probably went on to write opinionful articles about things.
mircea_popescu: artifexd: It makes more sense when I notice that mp has never (that I've seen) recommended that users reuse addresses. His statements have always (that I have seen) talked about services reusing addresses. << yes, this is an important, and also correct, observation.
mircea_popescu: artifexd: I can also just assert that the address isn't mine. Period. << absolutely. on the other hand, reusing addresses actually makes the stupidirty of "calculating taint" much more expensive.
steven-__: i wonder if you lose your stuff like data in other failed startups
steven-__: I thought that post was just native advertising
steven-__: i noticed you guys have a lot of support for sterling
Naphex: i'm gonna use it for mining :)))
fluffypony: http://i.imgur.com/AfSp6X7.jpg
steven-__: I have held coin on and off for 2 years but never in any sort of safe way
steven-__: I'm still warping my head around it all, so not yet
steven-__: I have been idling here for some time still learning
bounce: russia running mostly on vodka, I don't suppose that'll change any time soon
BingoBoingo: bounce: I've actually always suspected the religious case for prohibition was largely influenced by the cost of drinking taking money that could have been tithed
fluffypony: bounce: I think that the qualifying factor is whether it changes your behaviour
fluffypony: I meant which ones specifically
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Flashlights. It's storm season and I learned all of the ones I have around are aging and their bulbs suck
BingoBoingo: I really hope csshih's employees don't fuck up getting the package out today.
fluffypony: and I was like "yep, but I love her"
fluffypony: so I stopped for 6 months to demonstrate I wasn't
fluffypony: I had a girlfriend that said I was an alcoholic because I enjoyed a drink or two or three every night
Naphex: ah yeah i know of it
BingoBoingo: That reaction is the same reason I didn't check for you
artifexd: Ick. Forums. It occurs to me that I don't care that much.
BingoBoingo: artifexd: Not that I know of you can check the forums. His nick is r3wt
artifexd: Did the guy that wrote openex ever come back? I haven't noticed him since then.
artifexd: It makes more sense when I notice that mp has never (that I've seen) recommended that users reuse addresses. His statements have always (that I have seen) talked about services reusing addresses. Which... ok. I'll buy that.
artifexd: I certainly believe that reusing addresses has a time and a place. I'm just trying to wrap my head around the idea that it increases anonymity.
artifexd: I can also just assert that the address isn't mine. Period. The first time I came into possession of the coins was when they arrived at the address I claimed.
artifexd: As in: Send me money. I'll send it to you later. But I may send the next guys money before I send yours. I may also send you a different amount than you sent me.
artifexd: OH! I GET IT!
decimation: My first thought is to rue those insights that would have been lost because some peasant wasn't in the right WoT. Then I remember the concern most nobles demonstrated by searching for talent within their own fields.
decimation: mircea_popescu: i'm not even reactionary, myself, i've not gotten so far. some visiting french politics professor called me "white" << Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like today if Marx had perished while affixed to the wall of some landgrave's dungeon.
mod6: ok, i ripped that part out. will be less confusing without that in there.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 lulzy, all the ifs i nthat thread.
mircea_popescu: "Guest95361: I can say with 100% certainty that they have them" lmao do these fuckwits even comprehend how this bitcoin thing works ?
mod6: oh huh, i'm adding on this "?confirmations=2" part to the end of the req.
BingoBoingo: I remember the good old days of the student health clinic where the meeting with the doctor was merely a formality.
mircea_popescu: The worst part is the prescribe the exact same thing I would have prescribed myself if I could just go to the pharmacy with a shopping list like an actual human being at a store << this is how i shop for medicine.
mircea_popescu: o fluffypony already covered it. kay. i subscribe.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: I haven't seen you chat in here yet << no, he's been here before.
mike_c: yeah, i've read those. i just find a tough stock as a potential investor.
mircea_popescu: which is... unremarkable i guess. like any huge old commodity business, a power company or w/e
mike_c: or, 0.007 i guess
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda my point. i don't really think btc went up in price 10x, or mpex foe that matter.
mircea_popescu: i guess sure, if btc ends up 1 mn dollarts then mpex will be worth w/e, many trillions
mircea_popescu: i don't think your typical mpex holder has any interest in the bitcoin price of tyhe various fiats.
mircea_popescu: not that i didn;'t say roughly the same about 100s of millions a year ago, but still.
mircea_popescu: mike_c "and a company that will probably be worth billions this time next year." well look, i like myself just as much as the next guy, but srsly, billions ? seems improbable.
asciilifeform: ''Let's see, I'm wealthy and respected. What's missing? 'I know!' he shouts, slapping his forehead so hard he loses consciousness, 'I'll launch A Ponzi scheme. That way every day will tingle with the excitement of wondering whether my world will collapse in ruins and I'll be dragged off to prison while simultaneously being reviled by the whole world.''
asciilifeform: it started as an importer of electronics, if i recall
asciilifeform: (phunphact. first tv ad i ever saw was for the mmm parent company)
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i don't even see how you can ponzi at 50% a month. that is insane. << actually romanian ponzi thing did 800% in 3 months. it paid out for a year and a half.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: (i'm secretly hoping i'm not the worst in the channel at languages) << he's just speaking a secret italian nobody else knows about.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: I guess that's the value of drama << asciilifeform check this out. the derpy openssh vulnerability ppl wanted 20 btc. the neobeeq drama was 80 btc.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: well, didn't you hear? mp is extradited to antartica to face AEC security fraud charges. << no dude, i just had an argument with a bottle of wine and some lazagna.
asciilifeform: because of 'lemon problem' (perhaps not the right term of art, but i can't think of the right one)
asciilifeform: re: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=gjkivAf3 - if this were genuine, author would never offer it for public sale.
mod6: ah that. yeah, i recall.
BingoBoingo: mod6: Maybe. They already have a useful version of that. I'm more refering to their having a working LibreSSL package, their fork from OpenSSL
BingoBoingo: I wonder how many of these little things, perfectly amusing in an IRC bot, occured in the goxfail and how many lurk in bitcoind 0.9
benkay: i mean the engine is computer controlled i assume, implying e-gas.
benkay: i'm enamored of this 04 civic. everything's manual.