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mircea_popescu: nubbins` welcome to dyslexia club. "honey, i can remember a very emotionally charged conversation but i don't recall if you were trying to dump me or marry me. which was it ?"
nubbins`: i always forget until i remember that one traitor standing up in his rags in a post-apocalyptic wasteland saying "why didn't i take the blue pill?"
mircea_popescu: if the film's good trp can't be an insult, nor a reason not to worship me.
benkay: because obviously if you think there's a difference between men and women you must be some kind of evil human
mircea_popescu: ie, kids who lived their entire life in a us town and imagine their us "education" is actually a thing.
mircea_popescu: i doubt a two year old needs to be taught.
benkay: if you've failed to teach a two year old how to get out of a car, you've failed as a parent and don't deserve to propagate your genes.
gribble: Error: "leater" is not a valid command.
BingoBoingo: Well, I mean the War of Life announcement was a nice surprise. So much better than dice.
bitcoinpete: BingoBoingo: Well... It will be a while before I bet against difficulty on BTC << get that exa http://bitbet.us/bet/713/btc-network-hashrate-will-exceed-1-exahash-s-before/
mircea_popescu: (actuyally a really cool system would be one that tokenized the title and the url, and only read the title in chan if there were at least 3 extra stems)
FabianB: benkay: i do run a cjdns/hyperboria node in nyc
bitcoinpete: ;;later tell mircea_popescu are you familiar with e.m. cioran? my romanian friends found me a translation of "the temptation to exist" for my birthday :D
benkay: maybe i don't buy a machine shop and instead buy a tampon shipping company
benkay: all of these tampon subscription services are jamming piles of crap into a box and shipping it for 20 US, which i get, but at the same time
benkay: a box of the fancy tampons goes for 6.50 in a grocery store
benkay: is anyone running a cjdns node?
nubbins`: we go through occasional spurts of high usage (re-glue mesh onto frames once or twice a year)
benkay: "In May, in what appeared to be a thinly veiled reference to BNP Paribas and other banks under probe, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder warned that "There is no such thing as too big to jail," signaling that for the first time in decades the government was ready to press guilty pleas on financial institutions."
benkay: <thestringpuller> group photo with the cryps! // actually, that's a good name for this gang right here
gribble: You rated user BingoBoingo on Wed Mar 5 13:16:06 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: Did what he said he was going to do.
gribble: You rated user artifexd on Wed Mar 5 02:06:14 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: atc trade.
BingoBoingo: Is there a good ATC node?
artifexd: I need a little time to get my altcoind synced up.
BingoBoingo: artifexd: Since this is a personal purchase, could you do 25k @ 238?
nanotube: ThickAsThieves: ^ two different estimates are available. 'since last change' is highly volatile shortly after a change.
mircea_popescu: bulgaria is such a shithole.
chetty: "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand." — Milton Friedman
mircea_popescu: if you pack your stuff so it fills a container, you can ship anything you want.
mircea_popescu: movie studios also order this shit by the thousand, for dozens of films at a time.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: you can trust him all you want, giant printouts don't transport well. << yea they do. the movie studios usually will send a deconstructed cutout to the movie theatre for promotion and the theatre staff has to assemble it.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: a whopping 20mL << it oxidizes like crazy so it's not really sensible to put it in large containers, you'll waste 99%+ of it and it polutes like shit.
thestringpuller: you've got a fweeen in meeeee
assbot: Randy Newman- I Iove L.A. - YouTube
mircea_popescu: i guess 40% is still a thing. out of 15 mn or w/e it was... yeah they can probably keep making these shitty flicks forever.
mircea_popescu: where do they get all these girlies that can't act remains a mystery tho. it can't be reddit.
mircea_popescu: lmao dank made into a book ? as fate has it i unloaded a bunch of movie dvds a chick made for me cca 2010. they'd been waiting ever since.
thestringpuller: FabianB: I was referring to having a sign printed by nubbins lololol
thestringpuller: new motto is if you want something done right, pay #b-a to do it :P
ThickAsThieves: <+FabianB> isn't it a good thing there are different competing formulas for forecasts? /// Well, the estimated next diff feature is meant to be useful (as accurate as possible), not "competitive".
nubbins`: a whopping 20mL
nubbins`: found the largest bottle of cyanoacrylate i've ever come across in a hardware store today
thestringpuller: "Cry more pls. I think if we all cry and make a little bit more threads ghash will finally respect us and stop making huge profits. Thanks OP for changing the world like you do we need more threads and people like this. op4prez" << Reddit isn't all redditards...
FabianB: isn't it a good thing there are different competing formulas for forecasts?
BingoBoingo: Well... It will be a while before I bet against difficulty on BTC
assbot: Help publishing a book - The Tale of Dank | Bitcointa.lk
fluffypony: benkay:https://libertyvps.net/ << anyone tried 'em? <- I have a Windows VPS with them that I use to check if stuff compiles on Windows, seems fine
mircea_popescu: <benkay> YOU DON'T GET A SECOND FUCKING SEED ROUnD << second virginity auction!
benkay: YOU DON'T GET A SECOND FUCKING SEED ROUnD
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell asciilifeform get a load of this : google knows of a sergey and an andrey prokofyev. no alexander.
kakobrekla: does it really look like a phone?
mircea_popescu: "They spoke about the other students in Nerzhin's class, who had graduated on the day the war started. The most gifted had been killed or got shell-shocked - they were the ones who always rushed into action, without a thought for their own skins. Those of no promise were now either completing their post-graduate work or teaching in universities and institutes."
BingoBoingo: Right. Urbana's dissertation is '05 so likely that is the last time he felt anything close to a lash. Anndruserrren Has well...
mircea_popescu: it's a theory.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, to make the point plain : the real world, practical value of a libertard, such as a liberal with a phd from urbana & his firends, is just about epsilon.
assbot: Bitcoin vs. Dogecoin: a Shallow Semantic Look | Robert McGrath's Blog
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Oh, I'm reading such things http://robertmcgrath.wordpress.com/the-next-big-thing/bitcoin-vs-dogecoin-a-shallow-semantic-look/ << Guy studies CS, ends up attemtping semiotics
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo guy's in the team of "let's see if we can actually have a measurable impact on teh hated Bitcoin by lending our most valuable social-sciences-and-pointless-studies wisdom to dogecoin"
BingoBoingo: benkay: Lisp (sort of, hiding somewhere) courtesy of MP's linked schmuck with a blog https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/11057/Semantic%20Infrastructure%20for%20a%20Ubiquitous%20Computing%20Environment.pdf?sequence=2
assbot: Popescu Gives High Class Narrative of “Why Dogecoin is a scam” | Robert McGrath's Blog
mircea_popescu: http://robertmcgrath.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/popescu-gives-high-class-narrative-of-why-dogecoin-is-a-scam/ << at least this scmuck with nothing to say understands who he should be saying it at (had he something to say). so far, andreesseen 0, anon schmuck with a blog 1.
mircea_popescu: how do you expect to compete with me ? you're fucking old. what is this, begging for a burial ?
mircea_popescu: s a chew toy."
mircea_popescu: "You might say that's a good idea, shareholders should be treated equally. The problem is the shareholder base itself has changed dramatically. You've had a dramatic rise in hedge funds. Very short-term trading and dramatic rise in short-selling [investors betting that a stock's price will fall]. If you're a public company, you become the shuttlecock between warring longs and shorts. They bat your stock around like it'
benkay: a) anonymity's a red herring b) if they're using CB to recv btc, who cares?
mircea_popescu: there's probably 100 chicks looking for ways to make money with their tits on girlsbitcoin thing, there's maybe 100 bux each could make. a total of one met hers. 99% failure
thestringpuller: i was actually going to purchase a tesla
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah, that's been mentioned here before. I just wonder what kind of shitfits will happen here the resistance Tesla see to selling a $60,000 vehicle
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know, dacia has been making a 5k euro car for years now
assbot: Need a search term.
thestringpuller: like you'll see 2 terahashes hit a coin for a few days then drop and so on but I guess this has already been discussed to death
BingoBoingo: Looks like atc diff will be dropping twice in a row
mircea_popescu: that's like a law of thermodynamics.
hanbot: http://www.writerscafe.org/mirceapopescu44 sounds like a fun confusion target :D
mircea_popescu: <benkay> i mean i have no idea man - ancient disaster prostitution tourism? << a certain party tends to take girls for nude shots in various cemeteries.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell jborkl http://www.bcoinnews.com/part-2-bitcoin-difficulty-hash-target/ << this is a nice explanation, i bet useful for many people.
mircea_popescu: "Phone use in Saudia Arabia has a penetration rate of 170%, with an estimated average of 30% of individual income spent on mobile phone and Internet costs in 2014."
benkay: oh man i was trying to write code and then mircea_popescu dropped a blogbomb with a szabo link
mircea_popescu: a lz4 bug which depends on 16mb blocks on 32 bit seems dead in the water
asciilifeform: turn on the kitchen light, you can tell who is a cockroach - by the desperate scurrying.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin has a flag ?
assbot: Whilst most hotels fly the flag of whatever country they're in, Malla Castle flies a Bitcoin flag. http://t.co/ZsCQFwTt5C
fluffypony: will put them all up in a blog post when I get a chance
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla o i thought the part circled in red is what you meant. well they had a few PTS iirc
mircea_popescu: "Facebook then analyzed the future postings of those users over the course of a week to see if people responded with increased positivity or negativity of their own, thus answering the question of whether emotional states can be transmitted across a social network. Result: They can!"
nubbins`: BingoBoingo he was complaining in -otc earlier about not getting a fair shake
asciilifeform: if you want a 'closed' channel, then we can do that right now - gpg mailing list.
asciilifeform: unless by 'encrypted' you also mean link saturation and some variant of 'onion route' (a la the claimed mechanics of tor) - same problem.
asciilifeform: channel still lives on a distinct physical box that belongs to someone
mircea_popescu: "I could really do with a female collaborator to make this instructable more useful and make sure it is one sided..."
mircea_popescu: in fact i wager a guess that 2/3 of the wot has a better feedback
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if thorstein veblen was right - we'll be deluged with 'customers.' at least for a while. << you're too soon. we'll scam them later.
benkay: i have a cook
mircea_popescu: benkay it's a fact.
assbot: Cam Girl Adventures: Happy new year and a late Marry Christmas!
assbot: How To: Cast Iron Skillet Non-Stick and Lasts a Lifetime
BingoBoingo: Indeed, these were located a bit rusty, but that was corrected
BingoBoingo: benkay: Well, I'm turning a bunch of oil into a uniform layer of polymer over the cast iron so I can fry shit without it sticking to the pans
BingoBoingo: Is this another interview for a cryptocoinnews article?
mircea_popescu: want to participate in a btc giveaway for camwhores ?