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benkay: lob it at
a bunch of programmers, watch the sparks
benkay: python is
a code smell
mike_c: ok. that computes. seems like
a logistical nightmare though. who guards the dump truck with $400m in it?
mike_c: who understands this: "ISIL stole $400 million in
a raid on Mosul's central bank". what, it was stacked in the corner in bills?
mike_c: it's just looking for something said X weeks ago that's
a pita
mthreat: if things go smoothly we'll have
a #bitcoin-assets log search engine in
a few hours
punkman: unless you are flipping
a really bad coin
punkman: so I just put together something to test betting strategies on past bitbets and guess what, betting 0.1 on No on all resolved bets would result in
a net gain of 9.7 BTC
☟︎ benkay: the label on this beer can is misaligned by
a whole damn .125
mircea_popescu: actually
a pretty good pic of her huh, she's like the mother of disdain
mircea_popescu: that doesn't make them less of
a waste of, presumably, valuable brain gasoline.
mircea_popescu: it's deposited to mpex, and
a sum withdranw to pay for same. so... what ?
mircea_popescu: sothe 10btc is... moved to my wallet, from which
a diff sum is spent on whatever, baby squirrel tears. so what now ?
mircea_popescu: so you have
a guy's affidavit that he sent me 10 btc to addy x in tx y.
ThickAsThieves: Evan Duffield has given much praise to the Dark Wallet project that was spearheaded by crypto-anarchists Cody Wilson and Amir Taaki, but stated that "it's not
a completely decentralized approach.”
ThickAsThieves: “I believe the central problem with Bitcoin is that the public ledger, although
a remarkable accomplishment, also allows
a gross invasion of personal privacy by permanently listing all transactions the users have ever done publicly.”
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: conveniently occurring just as the price topped << anything having taaki involkved and not being
a scam ?
mircea_popescu: myeah. giving the site ot mr evil doesn't hurt anything on
a plaintext site.
ThickAsThieves: "Same here. I think IQ is bullshit and is
a way of the gevernments to bracket us. Qualifications are
a load of crap too. Who need
a piece of paper to tell people that they can create the next "E=MC Squared"."
Azelphur: it served me
a screenshot of
a small businesses website that creates embedded art firmware/software
mircea_popescu: for the record, had occasion to punish girly to cat food only diet for
a week or so.
mircea_popescu: In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at
a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each
mike_c: it's
a starting point, not an endpoint.
mircea_popescu: i use the plainest language of anyone i'm aware of, and yet people claim you need
a degree to argue with me. wtf is that all about.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: moreover, and more dangerously :
a term of art that has
a common speech homophone will only notify those in the know of its status
mike_c: so i guess it's
a euphimism for dumb language.
mircea_popescu: mike_c and the "not
a lot of jargon" thing is roughly like the vietnam forest without
a lot of vietcong in it.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing plain about language just like
a measurement isn't the thing measured.
mike_c: i think it's somewhat valid. plain = not
a lot of jargon.
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: I'd love to have
a voice channel, but I think it would work better if we scheduled it - like
a session every two weeks or something?
mircea_popescu: srsly, the notion that there exists such
a thing as "plain language"...
mircea_popescu: My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to
a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: having
a WoT account doesn't mean everything you write is signed << why not ? inasmuch as only you could have written it...
benkay: but also i'm running
a different, longer play.
gribble: Error: "16:11" is not
a valid command.
benkay: it's not that bad
a move from their perspective, mircea_popescu. if they want to chase milli+ contracts that run only on .NET and POJ, that's
a legit business move.
gribble: Error: "16:11" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: "you dumb fuck, i have to hear from random passerby';s how utterly you suck at your job ? go fuck
a goad in the market, you're never working in this line again"
benkay: asciilifeform: i had no intention of giving that impression. i'd love to own
a machine shop but I need
a pile more capital to make that happen. ergo...software.
benkay: well back up
a sec - just what does that get me?
mircea_popescu: so at this juncture you send the boss's boss
a link to this log
benkay: and i'm sitting over here not exactly swimming in work but definitely
a bit busy helping people who trust me to run the technical side of their businesses, and definitely overwhelmed by the talent seeking work with me.
benkay: separately,
a local company'd killed off their division of programmers who work in this particular stack due to the 'difficulty' of finding them. several of these devs left their employers due to the boss' unwillingness to put steel behind the right technical decisions with clients.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: BingoBoingo: didn't you know that the biggest Australian export after resources are bitcoin scams? (inputs.io, hair dresser ipos, kenilworth and on it goes) << i've often thought of this. add patrick harnett and
a whole other bunch of new zealand folk
benkay: so last night i'm at the user group thing, making friends, introducing people to each other, the usual shit necessary to keep
a user group's momentum up, and not one, not two but three people on whose skills and capabilities i've been sold for
a while come up to me gently asking about opportunities to contract
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, please, by all means, even the story cunt
a bit
mircea_popescu: with the kitten. who, mind you, gets up in
a cab and drives away with two guys who are clearly foreigners, barely speak the language, and she's just met two hours prior in
a bar at
a bdsm munch.
mircea_popescu: tells us all about how she's tried being
a 2nd subbie in
a relationship and it was ok but they ended it amiably and she's not looking for anything
mircea_popescu: there's this chick that looks just about 12 (and later confirmed her weight as 43 - !!! - kgs) that takes
a liking to my girl, they chat, i buy them wine,
benkay: not that i found any worth my time to begin with, so i don't even have
a sample of potential masters to compare to each other.
benkay: i spent my early twenties looking for
a man worth my loyalty and then gave up.
mircea_popescu: 'More interestingly, many Americans no longer even understand the concepts of loyalty and treason?again, not surprising, since for
a few generations now they have been ruled by traitors, whose routine acts of betrayal are designed to benefit just about anyone?from Israeli arms smugglers to Afghani heroin dealers?except the people who supposedly elect them to office.' << that's not the why.