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los_pantalones: mircea_popescu this is admittedly from the first time i looked at the contracts
mircea_popescu: and i brb.
mircea_popescu: i've been trying to write an article the past half hour, so, i can use the break
los_pantalones: well, i look just like al gore iii in his mugshot
los_pantalones: no, i do not
los_pantalones: yeah, i'm a noobie
dexX7: or maybe it's only because i'm too used to the original
los_pantalones: i am the twitter guy
mircea_popescu: what's wrong with it ? (just curious, i dun do forums anyway)
dexX7: i don't like the .lk design
Namworld: Anyway, I'm going off, gn all
Namworld: That's the only thing I can imagine someone going after, the doxed userbase without having to pay balances
bounce: then call it a day. then what? a rotten website and trading "engine", an unwilling user base (I mean... well, they didn't walk away before, did they?), and, trouble with nosy 'merkin regulators. what'd be in it for them?
fluffypony: I don't think they'd be stupid enough to cover the rest, unless they never want to ever achieve any level of profitability
fluffypony: I read somewhere they're offering 1 BTC and are willing to absorb all the liabilities
Namworld: "This PR team apparently sees nothing wrong with this Sponsor’s association with Silk Road Equity LLC (I am not shitting you)."
benkay: i'm off to harass the womenfolk and ingest intoxicants
TestingUnoDosTre: showed up for me as well, after I viewed at least one of your articles
artifexd: Personalized search, I guess.
artifexd: http://i.imgur.com/SzVdluK.png
artifexd: I love that.
artifexd: urthermore, putting bitcoins on your phone is probably the goddamn stupidest thing that I've ever heard of. Bitcoins are going to be the world's reserve currency4, and as such fated to rise to prices per coin that dwarf even the outlandish Winklevoss' most media-hungry "predictions". To leave such a precious commodity within reach of anyone with a USB cable5
artifexd: Yep. I was looking for this paragraph:
benkay: it's probably a bad thing that i'm the search engine for my blog
artifexd: benkay: I'm trying to find an article that I think you wrote. In the article the statement "Storing bitcoins on a phone is the god damned stupidest fucking thing evar." Or something to that effect. Do you remember that?
TestingUnoDosTre: oh my gawd, I'm laughing my ass off while reading this forum. How the hell did he pull this off?
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm wondering because shortly after he left, the books are going wild with buys
TestingUnoDosTre: ;;rate mircea_popescu 2 I bow to my bitlord, for despite his friendly demeanor, we are not equals
gribble: Error: 'I' is not a valid integer.
TestingUnoDosTre: ;;rate mircea_popescu I bow to my bitlord, for despite his friendly demeanor, we are not equals
cgcardona_: so of course I didn't come on board w/ root
cgcardona_: but i've joined teams of 80 engineers
cgcardona_: not i
benkay: in an odd turn of events that no doubt indicts my past masters for incompetence i've always had root on der boxen
cgcardona_: sure. when I found out my gf was pregnant.
benkay: baron must do his lords work or be stripped as i understand it
artifexd: Because, seriously, who the fuck am I?
artifexd: Honestly, I think I'm feeling a little overwhelmed that he appointed me as a bitcoin baron. http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-04-2014&bots=true#622843
benkay: some day i'll get to say that to someone in all seriousness.
artifexd: And yet, every time I talk, he gives me the time of day. When I question him, he responds reasonably. I guess that encourages me to treat him as an equal.
artifexd: Here, mircea and I should not exist in the same caste. I'm just a normal dude. He's a Romanian Billionare. WITH A B! I can conceive of no reason that someone that high up the food chain would give two shits about what I think or why I think it.
artifexd: When I was in the Navy, lower ranked officers were nothing special, but even lower enlisted (like myself) didn't have conversations with the Captains and Admirals. There was the understanding that they were "people" just like us (meaning the enlisted folk), but their concerns and our concerns didn't overlap enough to allow for everyday conversation. There
benkay: JorgePasada: i can't rate you unless you get in the WoT.
artifexd: Or rather, that I have access to the same information he does.
artifexd: I think my (possible?) mistake is in thinking that he has access to the same information as the rest of us (specifically, me). He may have more people to pour over it and analyze it, but the raw information is available.
benkay: i'm with you 100%
benkay: asciilifeform: points about verification aside, that'd be the point i'm trying to pound into artifexd
benkay: not that i'd know. derpy kid as myself.
benkay: artifexd: i think the joke is that the nsa would love to have access to mp's intel.
artifexd: Unless his "I got my own nsa" statement was not a joke and was actually a comment on his research team.
artifexd: Sure. But there's nothing other than "Because I said so".
artifexd: Without inside knowledge, how could you verify it? The only information that actually links to the miner is the coinbase script and I haven't seen any scripts with "Mined by US GSA" in them.
artifexd: If it is an educated guess, that's cool. What I'm asking is whether you have any independently verifiable proof that governments are mining? (Like, verifiable by someone like, you know, me)
TestingUnoDosTre: should I be laughing or not?
mircea_popescu: apparently i got my own nsa
mircea_popescu: ahaha. ty bitcoin-assets wiki, i had forgotten this one
cgcardona_: i haven't checked the charts. how long before was it?
cgcardona_: I like this one. http://bitbet.us/bet/798/bitcoin-to-drop-under-400-before-june/#b62 - looks like someone came in right before it broke 400 and make some coin
TestingUnoDosTre: I was joking as well
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm looking to start a blog on climate science
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre actually i think jurov does
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ i mean for curiosity's sake, re-do the same graph but not in log(10). in log(1024) instead. fucking flatlines.
cgcardona_: i see your point. on a log scale
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/78Rz5KL.gif << look from 700 to say 900
mircea_popescu: artifexd I do understand your point that << that's only half the point. this much is valid, but!
artifexd: graphsketch.com << That's going into my bookmark list. I resorted to some silly site where I had to take screenshots and upload them to imgur.
mircea_popescu: that's what i fucking had in mind. im entirely unsure why i thought /log(x) is a homomorphism of a log scale, but anywa
artifexd: Random formulas aside, I do understand your point that any growing trend can be fitted to match any other growing trend if you futz with the scales enough.
artifexd: For further science and verification of mircea_popescu theory, here is tan(x) graphed against sin(x): http://i.imgur.com/oplWqjI.png
mircea_popescu: artifexd i guess my worst fucking example ever.
artifexd: I guess if you shift it, it could fit.
artifexd: For science, here is cos(x) graphed against sin(x) on a log10 scale: http://i.imgur.com/IFbIx3C.png
cgcardona_: that's a kickstarter I'd fund ^
mircea_popescu: i reiterate. the above was... a success ?
mircea_popescu: joecool i heard the same thing but notrly substantiated.
joecool: i assumed they gave up running an exchange and were focusing on trying to sell a plaform to someone else
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm thinking of making a bet along the lines of "bitstamp will issue a news statement that they are freezing bitcoin withdraws in the next 3 months." Thoughts, comments?
mircea_popescu: well we had bad experiences. in bitcoin i mean. there was that atrocious hole last year, pretty much put bitcoin-central on its ass.
mircea_popescu: lemme see maybe i have a link
mircea_popescu: rails is like... o god. i think only php is moar hated than rails here
cgcardona_: i doubt your antiquated
cgcardona_: for the ssl endpoints I pay
mircea_popescu: i guess i'm just hopelessly antiquated
cgcardona_: i have projects on heroku yea. i'm a rails dev for part of my job
cgcardona_: i pay them about $40 a month
mircea_popescu: i guess, but let alone cool, let's talk money.
mircea_popescu: i mean holy shit.
cgcardona_: now I'm picturing sean parker as the maitre d'.
thestringpuller: 22:23 <+cgcardona_> it's funny how IRC is **still** the best social network (forgive the term)i miss BBS; it got phased out when I was just a little one
mircea_popescu: the bank clerk was all excited "oh, you're going ? i'm going too!"
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre true story : i was in the bank the other day, and they had these timberlake concert fliers. i picked one up and told my pa "doesn't this guy look just like a waiter ?". he did, dressed all up for the job, too.
mircea_popescu: and i mean if those two fit... then there's no fucking hope anymore.
mircea_popescu: just for your own education, take two random things, such i dunno... sin(x) and cos(x) then draw them on a log graph. see how splendidly they fit
cgcardona_: yes I'm glad I found this room MP. the bitcoin forum is the bottom of the barrel and reddit is mostly memes and flamewars as well. (though don't ge me wrong. I enjoy a good meme and/or flamewar)
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-assets-m/#footnote_0_53902 << i'll send you cookies :P lol
mircea_popescu: i would say upon examination this is exactly typical of the reddit mental process. very circular, very brandy futility.
kakobrekla: i dunno mp just dont take my ip, i got just this one.
cgcardona_: i think it's funny how you can see the large dip in the green line which is the green line. I'm wondering if that is just bad data or there really were just that many fewer addresses used those days
cgcardona_: i'll see if I can dig up the reddit thread
cgcardona_: the first time I saw it I thought it was fake because it fit so well.