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Jason: i did and never got a response. i'll try again. maybe they changed stuff around
blackwhite: sorry I can’t be of bigger help.
Jason: blackwhite: of course I know i'm just picking on you, but hey - maybe you'd be able to give me some pointers.
blackwhite: I see.
Jason: blackwhite: i did try twitter and my tweet (twat? whatever they call it) went ignored, too
Jason: blackwhite: as I remember it, in 2013 they didn't have phone support?
Jason: i'd love to use Square. being an internet sales business, it'd benefit me greatly.
Jason: blackwhite: as I mentioned, support is ignoring me. do you have any suggestions?
Jason: blackwhite: well, my account was banned in 2013 for being 'high risk'. when I contacted support, they simply didn't respond to me. luckily, all of this happened before I switched my entire business to Square (my account was several months old, though). had I of completely switched to Square before I was banned with no explanation, it would have probably ruined my business.
blackwhite: i just work there
Jason: blackwhite: i hear you're the squareup man?
benkay: http://i.imgur.com/BfECj.jpg
Mats_cd03: i can verify i am dog with shoe on head
benkay: i don't know man. i think relationship with this client calls for a little subtlety
pankkake: oh, right. not a thing I'd tell my parents either
benkay: i'm staring at my email, billing by the quarter hour, waiting for someone to drop the ball hard enough for me to call off a deploy on my own.
benkay: i'd rather be hacking on a bitcoin thing and not getting paid right now.
joecool: mircea_popescu: many of the girls you post in here lack shoes, i am trying to solve a shortage of shoes in pictures
pankkake: I didn't understand it that way
benkay: I'm hostile to unsubstantiated claims.
blackwhite: i see
mircea_popescu: yeah, "cuz we care" i guess.
blackwhite: I don’t understand
blackwhite: haha why should I prove it?
blackwhite: yes I work for Square
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i originally asked him because i was going to give him a 1 if he can prove it, but seems he ignored it for some reason
pankkake: since they did not read the text I was sending them, I ended up sending a goatse
mircea_popescu: and perhaps, if i feel in a good mood, "get in the wot"
pankkake: I spent a week trying to verify my "identity" with a french paypal-like
mircea_popescu: i coulda sworn
benkay: either that or he's playing some crazy game i don't understand.
benkay: in conclusion, i have determined that the PMs incompetence is undermining his malice.
benkay: mind you i've already sent the executive team the 'deploy briefing' email i'm in the habit of sending out before deploys...
benkay: 'HOLD THE PHONES B I FORGOT TO INFORM ADMIN STAFF ABOUT DEPLOY WAIT WAIT WAIT'
benkay: man so i have this pm who'd love nothing more than to get my guys fired
ThickAsThieves: this is the 3rd or 4th offering i think
mircea_popescu: come one come all, i just kicked inactives and we're down to like 800 members nao. taking all comers.
mircea_popescu: so i wonder if teh numerous sikrit agents dutifully scraping this are also dutifully scraping my in-guild rift convos.
bounce: re strangecoin, I get the feeling I can stop reading after this: ``Of course, when I give you a dollar for a burger that's not really a zero sum transaction, because otherwise we wouldn't be motivated to enter into the transaction in the first place.'' -- conflating currency-mediated transactions with barter
mircea_popescu: artifexd i dunno, it's been illo tempore policy that people accidentally spamming or otherwise unintentionally misbehave contribute to the port fund ☟︎
artifexd: What is the precedent for asciilifeform's donation? I don't see anything about it in http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoin-assets-rules-and-regulations/
mircea_popescu: i would imagine to kako's beer fund
bounce: can't recall if this is what I recalled, but it sounds familiar
Apocalyptic: benkay, I assume it wasn't an intentional paste
bounce: explains it better than I could. if reduced at absurdum it's inevitably too expensive to ever fly well, and it very much looks like lockheed martin deliberately aimed for that because a project that looks it'll succeed Real Soon Now but never really does is the ultimate goose with the golden eggs for the military industrial complex
bounce: if I'd wanted to be mean I'd point out that the space shuttle looked spiffy enough but didn't do a very good job of shuttling, n'mind at a suitably low price tag. not that hard to argue it set humanity's progress toward colonising space back a good score years or so.
asciilifeform: http://b-i.forbesimg.com/kashmirhill/files/2013/12/octopus-rocket-copy.jpg
Mats_cd03: jurov for some relative value of short, it doesnt go very far and i dont think you can carry much of a payload either
bounce: oh I get the point that there'll be some equilibrium or other (pterry's vetinary letting the crime guild regulate the crime) but I don't think the equation is that simple
bounce: yeah no, I don't think it's straight up incentive, or at least not as strong as implied as there's strong pull the other way too. eg gangs don't extinguish themselves
mircea_popescu: i would imagine that's how it lands.
the20year2: I'm curious what signfiicant tech the f35 produces that the f22/f35 didn't have
Mats_cd03: well no i think the project is cool and i dont have a lot of problems with pouring R&D money into potentially useful technology
jurov: i heard funny hypothesis that f35 is chinese inside job to bleed usg dry
Mats_cd03: (yes i know starscream is an f-15)
mircea_popescu: benkay so maybe tell her about this marvelous wot thing we got ? liz i mean.
Mats_cd03: i rather appreciate whats being done with the f35 personally
the20year2: Which I have a problem with, when programs like LCS and the F35 are front and center taking up significant sums of money for low results
benkay: mircea_popescu: naw man i like 'em effeminate and making dinner not deep in the server room.
the20year2: guess i'm just not seeing it
pLambert: this guy bitching about "sequestration", has the US defense budget actually gone down at all? I thought we were still spending more every year?
mircea_popescu: if some guy in my neighbourhood decided to go around telling everyone he's the bestest there is, i'd also expect him to send a nubile young woman around for purposes with some frequency.
mircea_popescu: pLambert i suspect it was part of the marshall plan
benkay: no options, no statement, thestringpuller. who cares, anyways? it's a scam under investigation by the SEC. doomed, I tell you (to enjoy the new scion TC!)
mircea_popescu: but it's fucking ridiculous that i have to maintain a private supply network in fucking 2014
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've ever bouight supermarket-anything
jurov: every time i'm shopping in austria i must fight rage, everything is really fresher
benkay: this is very similar to the constant ongoing mining fiasco and how product tends to get delivered (in my extremely limited experience): "you ship a thing. it shows up on my door. if it works, 30 days later i send you a check. otherwise, get out of my face."
benkay: another thing is, as i said to my colleague recently re a contractor: "ain't nobody motivated by money in the bank."
asciilifeform: 'i promise to ship a shitload of xxxx. send me xxxB.'
benkay: i want to ship a shitload of features! it's going to cost 500B.
benkay: man this is what i have to say to people who crowdfund software: http://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/johnny-cash-finger-2.jpg?w=700
Mats_cd03: i'll take a copy of the zip if you'd upload it
mircea_popescu: i can forward you the entire thing if you're curious
nubbins`: i don't want my airbag to have the power to decide whether i'm allowed to alter photographs :(
mircea_popescu: in this case, i doubt the people working at the ro firm actually have access to the server tho
mircea_popescu: kanzure i was just writing about one as ThickAsThieves posted that link
mircea_popescu: i think there must exist somewhere people doing email spiderin by hgand
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, i had accounts on neither, but that doesn't prevent people from trying to phish and etc
asciilifeform: for what it's worth, i had (empty) accounts on both.
kanzure: mircea_popescu: i mean they are a target for phishing if they also signed up for coinbase
kanzure: i dunno about that. that's more thought than i'm willing to put into it.
kanzure: i'm sure it's going to be the same users
kanzure: yeah i should do it
mircea_popescu: kanzure generally s/someone/i/
novusordo: oh, that's what you meant by "buy it from kako" i assume
novusordo: i'm having a hard time understanding what 'username' and 'pass' I'm supposed to supply the mpex socket with...
ThickAsThieves: http://i.imgur.com/ik2M9Zw.png
ThickAsThieves: "Within 30 minutes, I was able to gather 400 unique email addresses, distinctively associated with Bitcoins"
novusordo: oh, the socket seems to have what i'm looking for
novusordo: i'm looking for historical data that I can crunch
ThickAsThieves: novusordo, i think coinflow.co still works
novusordo: are there any good historical sources of mpex data besides @MPEX1 on twitter? i'm not finding much for historical volume
novusordo: it's nice because i can just use it for any forum member
novusordo: [KS]: i've seen that, I have my own script I wrote before that came around that sends me a text message when he posts
mircea_popescu: “Switch just two people— the battalion commander and command sergeant major—from the best battalion with those of the worst, and within ninety days the relative effectiveness of the battalions will have switched as well,” I’d say. I still believe I was correct.
mircea_popescu: i tell you, really good sentence.
mircea_popescu: but i do recall what i did to them.
mircea_popescu: i don't recall the last time someone gathered the guts to try and play a trick on me,
ThickAsThieves: i also dislike april fool's day fwiw