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pankkake: I don't even like pancakes
mircea_popescu: i suppose his feeling for ghiorghios, the unshaved truck driver will be baffling for him next.
mircea_popescu: o hey. i suppose it keeps in character. first business was baffling to the kid, now legal matters take a turn...
thestringpuller: i am pretty sure reddit drops your iq at this point
thestringpuller: i havent checked the logs just woke up and saw it on reddit...
mircea_popescu: pankkake: http://bitbet.us/bet/609/bitcoin-difficulty-to-fall/ I really wonder why there are Yesses << well when it was made it didn't look as clear as it does now. and if it had another month to go, it wouldn't look clear now, either.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yes I know, I'm just teasing
ThickAsThieves: but i dont have enough cash to buy this thing back to 1000!
mircea_popescu: i'll just sell a ninja.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well what the fuck am i going to end up owing him, btc goes to 5 eur ?
davout: mircea_popescu: also i can go short directly on BC
mircea_popescu: meh. push me some anyway and i'll cover you in btc
davout: mircea_popescu: if you have some EUR collateral i can push you some ;-)
fluffypony: I'm so bad at price speculation I gave up ages ago
mircea_popescu: i'll short sell you some, how about that ?
ThickAsThieves: i havent been following, i think the whole Rockminer deal is too fishy to take any of them seriously anymore
pankkake: I think my last issue with the fisc will finally get prescribed. yay
mircea_popescu: so i'd go this shrug like "what can i do mom ? teh boyfatherland needs me"
mircea_popescu: when i was a kid the measure of your popularity was that all the kids on the block gathered under your windows screaming "Mr X, may X come out to plaaa-aaa-aaayyyyy ???"
mircea_popescu: i think i may have all the papers ready to go within the week
davout: ThickAsThieves: i'm a jew, anything all-inclusive will do
davout: "Hi, I'm from al qaeda and i'm going to do something big on june first"
davout: the way i make my living is not for you to judge
mircea_popescu: i do but i don't uyse them to do THIS stuff
mircea_popescu: dude it's been six minutes ? what do yo uthink i run here, a team of naked ninjas ?
dignork: I know one of the devs there
ThickAsThieves: i guess their real office is starbucks
mircea_popescu: shit i remember who owns that and was giving it away rent free to noobs, who the fuck was it
pankkake: by the way, GPU preorders were a thing, too. I preordered one like 15 years ago, it took months before I could have it
ThickAsThieves: i bet odesk runs most of the action on those sites anyway
pankkake: otherwise cointerra is the closest to delivering I guess
pankkake: I don't follow this a lot but there are some chinese who sell in stock stuff
ThickAsThieves: i'm still long, but keep getting sucked back into the game
pankkake: http://bitbet.us/bet/609/bitcoin-difficulty-to-fall/ I really wonder why there are Yesses
fluffypony: I agree with this commenter: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/232v5n/the_full_picture_from_danny_brewster/cgsvpkn
fluffypony: I agree that gnome is shit
pankkake: I don't have issues with those things, they are overall improvements
pankkake: nice. I was looking for openssl alternatives, and while there are some (with nicer APIs and lighter codebases), the licenses won't satisfy everyone
BingoBoingo: I've just about given them the once over. I'll probably re-read them again over a few days.
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: I've been addicted to it too
TestingUnoDosTre: I liked how it was written, just very strange
BingoBoingo: Jurov posted a link to this thing earlier and nao I'm reading it all
BingoBoingo: I wonder if that bitcoin buttplug is coming in multiple sizes
HeySteve: lost touch, next time I saw her she was at Sexpo selling a spray for tingles
HeySteve: when I met her she was a secretary at a precious metals dealer
HeySteve: I knew someone who did ok selling "marital aids"
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay "that things I generally assume don't need eliding " << you sure you know what eliding means ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder if coca-cola could be persuaded into offering coca-cola lube to go with its coca-cola lite
mircea_popescu: and i don't know how to make mcdonalds flavouring for the other
mircea_popescu: well i dunno how to make edible lube, for one,
mircea_popescu: if i knew someone who could mix the shit i would.
mircea_popescu: i'd prolly be worried she's sick, like a dog with a warm nose.
mircea_popescu: i've never met one with a cold snatch yet.
TestingUnoDosTre: I'de throw at least a btc at that for development... and trials
mircea_popescu: i should have just kept it secret like ninjashogun advised
Duffer1: i dunno if you made it alcoholic i'd agree
mircea_popescu: you laugh but i'm dead serious. this could be the #1 thing sold in the states.
mircea_popescu: ok, i got an idea earlier today, which i'd go halves with you into.
twizt: i guess i need to trade with some people
mircea_popescu: the things i learn hanging out with you bums!!11
danielpbarron: ya, I agree, but he doesn't throw chips in while doing it
ThickAsThieves: i think i talked to two once, but you may be right
BingoBoingo: I've heard such things. We are supposed to dip below freezing around St Louis
mircea_popescu: apaprently dodd-frank is getting shut down i nthe courts.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i rent commercial space also, and know this.
TestingUnoDosTre: was just talking to a self proclaimed business man at the bar today, telling me I had to be creative while filing my taxes
mircea_popescu: i know, because http://bitbet.us/bet/802/bitcoin-to-drop-under-300-before-june/#c2775
mircea_popescu: i was talking of timisoara, right now, and asciilifeform of some northeast us i guess
mircea_popescu: then it came up for sale about twice a year, i never bothered to make offers again, but i have little doubt it'll continue indefinitely.
mircea_popescu: i lol because, well, in typical style of the earlier quoted clueless "businessman" in his own head, they came up for sale once, in late 2009. they wanted x. i made an offer, roughly 0.15 x
mircea_popescu: a phone call and twenny minutes later, i introduce them to the cabdriver who turns on the lights each night
mircea_popescu: she's like, wtf am i talking about, there's like, lights at night and everything.
mircea_popescu: i'm like don't be fucktarded already, nobody EVER bought there, what's wroing with you
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i had the opportunity to laugh my ass off at a schmuck last week. son of a friend with this pushy, clueless fiancee. she wants them to buy (mostly on his mother's dough) an apt in this building
mircea_popescu: perhaps one could go lower than that, but for the time being i can't imagine how.
mike_c: ah. i don't know the backstory
mircea_popescu: I have to look for a project that gives me a paycheck and allows me more time to spend with my girlfriend who had a miscarriage while i was sitting in the waiting room in the hospital working on SP...
mircea_popescu: vision and a budget steps in and takes over. At this moment there is a deficit in player funds, and I would be able to cover them by taking out another bank loan but at this point I would rather sell it and cover all balances from the buying price, as it is pointless to run an internet business with no marketing or development budgets and basically working full time to maintain the just under $1000 in monthly turnover.
mircea_popescu: After working on the project for the past year, sacrificing my other businesses, investing a lot of time and money and running into personal debts to get it to where it is today, I don't have the time or personal stability to move the business forward to its full potential. Since november I have been working with no marketing budget and no development budget and for the future of SP it is better if somebody with a new
mircea_popescu: so i guess the guy's insolvent and that's his way of breaking the news ?
mircea_popescu: "Total owed to players: 19 BTC in player balances in the system, 3.9 BTC in pending withdrawals (I will cover these funds out of the buying price so after buying, company will have 0 liabilities towards its players, software companies or whatsoever)"
nubbins`: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--w6MSH7Dt--/k6z9acgdcqu5lqje4vpq.jpg
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BingoBoingo: I think the Seals breach pretty much killed BTC poker.
nubbins`: "i used lithium before it was in cells"
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I changed watch batteries at a mall kiosk years back. I still see them on the shelves. There's still many available
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it's been years since i saw one for sale.
TestingUnoDosTre: Not that I condone sheer stupidity, but this was a major ripoff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nztzwMiQTaI
adolf_fishler: i cant not laugh at that every time
nubbins`: unfortunately i'll never know
adolf_fishler: i swear!
nubbins`: i gave it a chance
nubbins`: altho tbh i generally just walk to the bank
mike_c: the only thing i use the phone for is depositing checks. that is handy.
nubbins`: i do banking on my phone more often than i do it on my laptop.
nubbins`: who said i didn't? :D
BingoBoingo: artifexd: I actually probably would have been more likely to have written this http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/baseballs-new-strategy-drop-the-ball-on-purpose/
thestringpuller: i feel like I should jump the bandwagon for when it bubbles
benkay: mircea_popescu: would you tell @patrickmcguire that i broke the canadian bitcoins story a month ago?
nubbins`: guess i'm just lucky