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mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i closed at the "i borrowed
a clothesline"
mircea_popescu: "To give you some idea, at PorcFest last year our booth took in about 3 Bitcoin all week. At the time Bitcoin was about $100. This year I took in 3 Bitcoin the first day, when Bitcoin was about $600. By the end of the week we had earned over 8 Bitcoin for our various commercial and non-profit partners, which is
a windfall I could hardly believe."
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i'll tell you what to do. stfu, crawl in
a corner, and die. << i take it you're not working 120 hours
a week on wol ?
gribble: Error: You haven't asked me
a command; perhaps you want to see someone else's more. To do so, call this command with that person's nick.
artifexd: It would appear that my assessment of the Germany-Brazil game was
a little off...
thestringpuller: top comment: "He's offering
a derivative with bitpay as the underlying. These are not bitpay shares."
pankkake: it's
a bet your tx is confirmed within 15min basically
fluffypony: so Klye is "Giving up gambling as well as smoking cigarettes and drinking.. Trying to make
a lifestyle change in order speed up my repayment and regain some honour."
chetty: actually events like this are
a good thing, makes people more aware/more careful about security
assbot: New Law Brings Russia One Step Closer to
a 'Closed Internet' - The Wire
mike_c: not acting like
a tough guy on twitter.
mike_c: if my engineers were working 120 hours
a week I would be saying "we're fucked. what happened? how did we plan so poorly?"
mike_c: i'll tell you what to do. stfu, crawl in
a corner, and die.
mike_c: nobody works 120 hours
a week. that is retarded.
assbot: Heard from an /blockchain employee "I just wouldn't know what I would do with myself if I wasn't working 120 hours
a week." Love this team
benkay: <mircea_popescu> or wait. this wasn't
a case of "secret agent ran off from secret service, MUST be found. also send
a message to any other agents looking to defect : we will declare martial law to find you, and we don't care if it's boston" // waaaaat
mircea_popescu: or wait. this wasn't
a case of "secret agent ran off from secret service, MUST be found. also send
a message to any other agents looking to defect : we will declare martial law to find you, and we don't care if it's boston"
Pierre_Rochard: re: taleb, if the point hasn’t already been made, isn’t the noble’s retinue paid? If you want
a scholar in your court, you may have to bribe him
mircea_popescu: 11 million free users, premium subs for 3.x
a month, 580 paid users.
bitcoinpete: intolerable. The more egalitarian ideologies of the eighteenth century, it may be suggested, offered resolution of contradictions that had become burdensome beyond endurance. From this vantage point, Louis XIV’s rise to power seems less
a turning point than does his death."
bitcoinpete: "While it may seem foreign now, at the time, the concept of the person as an individual flew in the face of tradition. Questioning this perspective sowed the seeds of
a new worldview where tradition and social hierarchy were displaced in favor of individual pursuits."
bitcoinpete: but you gotta treat the guy more like
a foreign dignitary/president/royal that
a blogger
ThickAsThieves: thatd be
a dun kickstarter theme, funding destruction of historical objects
mircea_popescu: then shit in
a bag and put it in
a permanent display at the tate.
ThickAsThieves: just send him
a large box marked ANTFRAGILE - HANDLE WITHOUT CARE
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete i'd burn them and send him
a youtube of that.
bitcoinpete: so if you send taleb the dead sea scrolls to his house with
a hand-written card asking him to hit dat webchat
mircea_popescu: like suppose i send cia's shadow ops director
a buquet of n roses on the day he forgot to send his wife the n number as he should have.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves he gets
a clue an entity exists that is powerful enough and informed enough
ThickAsThieves: well if TLP watches the vid, does he get any clue of why he might wanna visit #b-
a, or what it is?
ThickAsThieves: well i didnt see the shorter video, but there may also be
a communication gap
mircea_popescu: im not including tlp in the next set for lack of
a means to get in touch.
bitcoinpete: and his publisher will surely have him do
a public appearance or two
bitcoinpete: we can always wait until he does
a book signing and have someone show up with
a logged-in laptop
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete sadly the odds of tlp actually seeing that video are nil, because
a) he hasn't approved the comment on his blog still.
a bunch of fucktards made > 50 comments since then with their fucktardery. if i were him i wouldn't ever read the comments on that blog, i'd rather read coindesk.
bitcoinpete: ThickAsThieves: what
a fucking project that'll be
chetty: thanks, the page could use
a little more info it doesnt show current block
bitcoinpete: "The ecology of the water body is not likely to be affected much and it will also reduce evaporation, thus helping preserve water levels during extreme summer. Solar panels installed on land, face reduction of yield as the ground heats up. When such panels are installed on
a floating platform, the heating problem is solved to
a great extent."
gribble: Error: "block" is not
a valid command.
davout: mircea_popescu: i'm in the process of collecting facts that comes before building
a considered opinion :-)
mircea_popescu: total trollage, the argentines are gonna end up with
a trolface on their fglag
assbot: El Gobierno pidi ayuda
a EEUU para identificar
a los usuarios de Twitter que apoyan
a Campagnoli | Jos Mara Campagnoli - Infobae
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> redis works well for its intended purpose << o no we detect
a puckering butthole?
mircea_popescu: someone should make cocksucker (abbreviated C*). the logo is
a woman with
a penis in mouth.
davout: you are on
a big endian system? god help you
fluffypony: I'm calling it
a "troll database" from now on
fluffypony: [16:34:00] @todor: it's
a troll database basically
davout: i read
a couple things about migrations to
a model where only
a rolling window of blocks need to be kept which is quite interesting
mircea_popescu: fluffypony look at that shit. they make 4k
a year now. houses are supposedly selling for 8 month's median wage in ohio.
mircea_popescu: i think people don't quite correctly evaluate the cost of running
a node yet.
mircea_popescu: this may become
a fucking issue, incidentally. the guy gets paid 6 cents for everyone else to have to permanently store 1mb
mircea_popescu: no plural. THE virtual currency. no past tense. IS challenging sovereignity of states. not some either, all of them. and has been, for
a fucking while.
pankkake: I am pretty much
a djihadist already
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c the "Only send Bitcoin" type warnings should prolly have
a red triangle rather than the current gray thing
ThickAsThieves: something funny about
a supposed ISIS blog being hosted at wordpress.com and using google fonts
ThickAsThieves: i decided it
a bad idea, aside from security, it's
a managed services box, so i'll just end up closing the account in December anyway
fluffypony: all it does is check that the peers its connected to are legit and active, and then it updates the
A record
kyuupichan:
A spam block if ever there was one. Wonder if it's some agency trying to link addresses.
bitcoinpete: when there's limited spots, it's
a highest bidder sort of affair
bitcoinpete: hey, if you can spend $75k on
a nanny, why not
a daycare
mircea_popescu: <benkay> what the fuck are these expiring backups, goatfuckers? << this has always been
a thing with bitcoin.
benkay: bitcoinpete: w/ some versions of bitcoinqt, you get
a new addr for change from each previous txn
benkay: i got mah tails in
a twizt
assbot: Two women from different parts of the world, showing allegiance with
a gun, flag and holy book (via /saliltripathi)
http://t.co/NgjUOhcEOz