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cgcardona_: I think that (with regards to the W3C) bitcoin's biggest lacking fundimental is that it's not a W3C tech.
cgcardona_: I still remember when Hixie was leader of the HTML5 working group and he said it was gonna take till 2019!
cgcardona_: MP - yea I'm *never* surprised when the leader of a working group predicts something will 'take years'
cgcardona_: actually i thought it might be M. Anus Porny
cgcardona_: fluffypony: i figured that we all were :)
fluffypony: cgcardona_: I'm reading his name as Manus Porny from now on
cgcardona_: fwiw I asked Manu Sporny (lead of the W3C Payments Working Group) what he thinks of bitcoin. Q: https://twitter.com/cgcardona/status/457225541284687872 A1: https://twitter.com/manusporny/status/458264859055247360 A2: https://twitter.com/manusporny/status/458265043860455424
thestringpuller: i love this channel
thestringpuller: Wow kakobrekla I just learned something new
benkay: ;;later tell BingoBoingo Where as Ruby was born with "lol, suck cocks" << it's more like "lol i suck cocks" but yeah right idea
mircea_popescu: FabianB you know the expression, "next year in jerusalem". i just.. well... sexchanged it.
bounce: I think the "jews make up a race according to western languages" premise mostly means the writer is still stuck in wwII-era propaganda.
benkay: "it's not enough that this is specifically stupid, i'm going to generalize this idiocy to the general case."
mircea_popescu: i'll borrow the expression from taleb, since i just read it : this shit's not even wrong.
mircea_popescu: "Having spent more than two decades, as an option trader and book-runner (~ 650,000 trades), I have always been leery of inexperienced academics talking about "prediction markets" when we have organic, spontaneously formed markets, and have had them since civilization started --my reaction is that of an old plane engineer and pilot being lectured by a high school English student who never flew a plane. You can't tell t
exchange01: ok i will start with that, thank you @mircea and @fluffy
exchange01: i need to register ?
exchange01: i can send you our business plan mircea if you want
mircea_popescu: well i dunno man, so far there's not much here to go on. what suggestions are you looking for ?
exchange01: I know, well, i am wondering if you guys have any suggestions as you know finding financing for that kind of business is impossible
exchange01: and being listed, but I am looking for other options and I've been told about Mpex
mircea_popescu: exchange01 i don't hold private conversations with people i don't know. this is kinda the basis of private conversations : the parties must be acquainted.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo why is this byrne kid so fixated on the entire personal attack angle ? he told thickashtieves the same thing, yet how the heck would his being clueless a personal attack on me. wtf, i'm not his mother.
fluffypony: exchange01: I have a BIRC from the University of the Internet-pre-1995
exchange01: fluffypony thank you very much for this introduction, but i am wondering are you certified to say that ? :)
exchange01: can i speak to you in private i am not familar with irc
mircea_popescu: "Holy shit! What kind of toy random number generator is GPG using? Never mind that the message is printed twice. Never mind that both messages flick by before I have half a chance to read them, let alone do anything to entropize my system. “Wiggle the mouse for moar entropies.” I wouldn’t trust a program that prints messages like this to protect my middle school slambook."
mircea_popescu: "reop is clearly influenced by signify (What can I say? I like my own designs.), but it’s not a clone." done reading there.
mircea_popescu: all the time. i recall stomping one [\\\] spotted in like... 2012 ?
fluffypony: I suppose
mircea_popescu: justusranvier can i pay you to get off that accursed blogspot thing ?
mircea_popescu: i heard that before
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I love foosball << davout is fucking criminal at that thing. he beat everyone, single against teams, everything.
fluffypony: experientia docet? I thought we were against that? :-P
mircea_popescu: jurov: Apocalyptic: imagine world directors talking about important topics whole days wrapped in clouds of smoke << this is shockingly true, i think we smoked a small dog's weight of tobacco
fluffypony: I'll suggest it:)
mircea_popescu: "Out of nowhere like a UFO website beegcoin edited by BEEG CORPORATION LIMITED, registered in London and created by young French to be, I think, a huge slap to the ego -centric bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: "You asked a serious article ? A real investigation ? Here I am here I am!"
fluffypony: I did too in the log
mircea_popescu: i think i typoed it
fluffypony: I like him already.
mircea_popescu: from what i hear i'm by no means of a minority oppinion (even if i no longer to that sort of thing on any sort of scale)
mircea_popescu: on that note, often manufacturers explicitly forbid to install updates and servicepacks since it might well break the app. << since heartbleed i'm going to forbid any upgrades as part of the contract in all cases, always and forever.
fluffypony: then South Africa 2016, we can have a Halvening Party and I'll arrange a safari
fluffypony: why on earth would I borrow money to buy a couch?
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Did I ever mention how your presence makes me miss truffles?
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: I know people rip on Wikipedia in this chan, but it wouldn't be the worst place to start in understanding how 1950's tech works
BingoBoingo: Well, decent doesn't say too much... How many people alive can make them sing (I actually, literally mean sing)
fluffypony: I love the exposed resistor
BingoBoingo: The few I've worked on take 357 batteries though, and that is a lot of silver for a year and a half of function.
BingoBoingo: I have yet to see anything as beautiful as the original accutron movements.
BingoBoingo: I'd like to see more accutron like tuning fork movements though.
mircea_popescu: perhaps resolvable, but i think people just gave up
BingoBoingo: ANd the only I've known of were all made by Japs
fluffypony: bounce: http://i.imgur.com/ppkGOKj.jpg
BingoBoingo: The couple I've seen inherited the worst parts of quartz and mechanical movements.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I have yet to actually see a quartz automatic outisde of a few questionable seiko examples
BingoBoingo: The sun's overrated. I'd kind of prefer an all tritium powered watch
fluffypony: bounce: I have 3 Citizen solars
BingoBoingo: I own more watches than other battery powered devices, but of the ones that don't operate on mechanical energy, solver oxide cells are the most prevalent.
Diablo-D3: I have nothing that uses batteries anymore
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform needed some batteries for his demo yest, i had the maitre d' scare up some batteries, he came back with two alkalines
Diablo-D3: I use lsd nimhs in all.... two devices that need batteries
fluffypony: alkalines are still available here - just yesterday I had to buy some AAs and got to choose between alkalines, lithiums, and nimh rechargeables
BingoBoingo: I have yet to see a Lithium 364 button cell
Diablo-D3: I put lithiums in anything that a regchargable is inappropriate for
BingoBoingo: ... Usually I buy lithium batteries at the store, Li-ion, LI-polymer and otherwise
BingoBoingo: If they were there I dunno that I would want to buy them
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 i bet you that i won't be able to buy a graphene supercap battery at a convenience store in 2019.
BingoBoingo: The logs are sparse the past couple days, so I doubt many newcomers...
BingoBoingo: Diablo-D3: Actually I am hoping for a revival and enhancement of Silver-Zinc batteries
Diablo-D3: [04:32:16] <BingoBoingo> I'd like to no longer have LI-ION batteries
Diablo-D3: [04:31:43] <BingoBoingo> I no longer have nickel cadmium batteries
BingoBoingo: I ended up travelling just a little bit this weekend.
mircea_popescu: gonna put some pix up once i go through my mail and stuff
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell bitcoinpete When you asked about a line betting operation did the tweet I offered convey enough info?
BingoBoingo: I'd like to no longer have LI-ION batteries
BingoBoingo: I no longer have nickel cadmium batteries
Diablo-D3: I dont think I even own a chess board anymore.
Diablo-D3: I hate doing that
BingoBoingo: This is pretty much the mode I've offered to any players approaching me in this channel
BingoBoingo: As white I'd play the queen's gambit. As black responding to E4, the pirc, to d4 the slav, and to anything else a spanking.
bounce: I need a shower and to find me a board, but I could be up after.
BingoBoingo: I'll even offer the four possible opening lines I'd play
BingoBoingo: Eh, I've imbibed quite a bit of ETOH since this conversation started
Diablo-D3: I havent played chess in long long time
Diablo-D3: yes, I could care less what schools do
BingoBoingo: That isn't how schools have been capable of thinking though. I learned turtle graphics at 11 on an Apple II with software written in 1995. Schools make the worst decisions.
Diablo-D3: I learned C when I was 14.
Diablo-D3: I dont understand how people can handle a language that successfully resists static analysis
Diablo-D3: BingoBoingo: I will agree ruby is very python inspired
BingoBoingo: I think asciilifeform is right about the Lisps being the future though
Diablo-D3: best $150 I spent
Diablo-D3: BingoBoingo: I just needed a ti calc because it was mandatory for math classes in high school
BingoBoingo: Diablo-D3: My TI-89 met it's end in my usefulness when I realized the cheaper Mac Classic was basically the same thing.
bounce: it's a good example since (I'm told, haven't investigated) various smart card type things have a z80-type core on board
BingoBoingo: bounce: I like the Z80 as an example to suppose.
Diablo-D3: BingoBoingo: I never use my ti-89
bounce: you were talking about z80, and I thought it was interesting enough to explore that a bit. still have a kaypro in an attic somewhere. should probably dust if off some time
BingoBoingo: Diablo-D3: I actually sold my TI-89 for money to buy weed