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Mats_cd03: benkay: i forget exactly what it was you wanted. tx ids and
a json api?
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Looked like
a warning shot. I imagine actual violence comes later.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: It wasn't
a long thing, seemed like
a strong warning.
BingoBoingo: For
a while ~50% of the hashrate was out of the game.
Mats_cd03: benkay: im going to push some bit-c eventually, just
a matter of time
BingoBoingo: And what was this weekend? We could have
a full blown pool war.
assbot: How Tony Gwynn Cracked Baseball's Code And Became
A Legend
moiety: i've made
a start to the wiki bot commands list with assbot, i'll finish gribble tomorrow. mod6 and i working on atcbot soon. totally wiped out, night all :]
decimation: the genius thing is that he got the critics to rave that he was writing
a movie about Obamacare
decimation: re: elyisum (from steve sailor's review): "Elysium originated in
a disastrous visit to Mexico in 2005. While shooting
a Nike commercial in lovely San Diego, the Boer crossed the border one evening to see Tijuana, where he was abducted by corrupt Mexican cops who shook him down for $900 in return for not killing him."
BingoBoingo: decimation: No, it just realized its only potential value is
a a social club
BingoBoingo: decimation: I went to
a Methodist college, but... Methodism isn't
a real religion anyways.
mircea_popescu: "Then he got to her essay. As he remembers it, she mentioned
a French teacher she greatly admired. She described their one-on-one conversation at the end of
a school day. And then, this detail: During their talk, when an urge to go to the bathroom could no longer be denied, she decided not to interrupt the teacher or exit the room. She simply urinated on herself."
decimation: mats: heh yeah you are right. I think he was trying to convey several points: 1.) half measures don't work - shoot down the third world shuttles when they invade 2.) democracy turns to decadence - too weak to hold the allodial rights to
a domain
mircea_popescu: so apparently bitcoind has
a serious problem with moving timezones
mircea_popescu: economy is still
a zero sum game, and you don't actually have political directionality.
mircea_popescu: no but there's no difference between avoiding
a debt and making
a gain. inasmuch as the offer is there, it's indifferent who you buy from. if you buy from me you prevent someone else from doing so, who will in turn have to buy from the "Founders"
mircea_popescu: anyway, it exposes the hostile agents to
a hard case of the "either stupid or evil" dilemma.
peterl: do you expect people to actually buy shares from you, or will it just be
a way to expose the sham they are running?
mircea_popescu: no. this is
a way to expose the usg agents trying to push bitcoin
a certain way.
peterl: ah, so this is
a way to make money off the endless stream of derps?
mircea_popescu: that's the whole selling point of
a series
a : "buy before the masses"
peterl: What happens if they sell out to
a big company instead of listing?
peterl: I figured. is there
a simple way to understand it?
BingoBoingo: I think at my lowest points I made
a couple tanks of gas off of them. Stopped because their editorial policies made anything useful impossible.
mircea_popescu: While Demand Media went public for
a blistering $2 billion in 2011, its articles were largely useless, with titles ranging from "How to Boil Water" to "How to Turn on
a Mac Computer." Google, in an effort to serve up quality content to its users, dropped Demand's articles down in the search results. The company's traffic plummeted and its shareholders were left researching "How to Write Off
a Worthless Stock."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo actually romanian booze doesn't give you
a hangover
mircea_popescu: it's all
a case of "hey dawg, we heard you like endorphins so we put more endorphins in your endorphins so you can space out while you';re spacing out"
BingoBoingo: On the plus side though people would do anything for
a bitcent.
BingoBoingo: Also so many people fell for other idiots pitches where they were making asics in their garage. It was
a nightmare.
BingoBoingo: They could not understand Cex.io was
a PMB with greater risk to themselves.
BingoBoingo: This goes into the distinction between mike_c and TheNewDeal trying to buy into my no bet against the same hard boundaries and only one of them speaking
a language I could agree to.
BingoBoingo: It doesn't work. I tried throwing around trilema cookies when TF's coinchat was
a thing.
mircea_popescu: and you know, collect 20 bux
a week in exchange for equipment these idiots "use" to make the sun keep rising
mircea_popescu: which in turn creates
a class of guys selling them participation.
mircea_popescu: well, it was promoted also by
a set of tards that promote everything
mircea_popescu: the one thing that may make
a datacenter feasible is having someone trustworthy to oversee it
mthreat: dumb mining question: is electricity the biggest cost these days? If so, has anyone set up an operation in
a locale with cheap (possibly subsidized) electricity?
BingoBoingo: All of
a sudden any user makes their own wildly incompatible bedrocks.
BingoBoingo: afaik asciilifeform HN and the aggregators banned you for
a reasons...
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: In that case you aren't playing chess, but instead
a more interesting game.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo by open i mean,
a situation that doesn't have
a fixed border at the 8th column, ora fixed nuymber of pieces and no generators etcv
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: If you wipe out the other pieces two bishops and
a king can mate
a king. actually works better with less clutter on the boardd.
mircea_popescu: obviously if they do that, they have
a bullet for you, too.
mircea_popescu: the "value" of the sabotage is high. to expect an agent to do
a high value thing just so YOU can capture its benefits...
nubbins`: right on! so this local arts newspaper wants to do
a spread on pink eye for their july issue
assbot: Delusional CEO Says Google Punishes Successful L.
A. Companies
BingoBoingo: By the time
a person takes it they are too late to reconsider another institution so after
a year of shoveling shit they either get their act together or die.
BingoBoingo: Still, I think the matriculation test is
a valuable idea.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: I also can't be arsed to make
a Fiverr account. << yeah i kinda need fiver type of things but can'r be arsed either.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: When I had access to chalkboards I used
a caco3/caso4 mix, whiter lasted longer.
BingoBoingo says this
a someone who tried to start
a blackboard vs. whiteboard flamewar.
BingoBoingo: They whore successfully on their own of whore for
a master. Classes can be taken around that.
mircea_popescu: seems the one thing
a woman can do to make sure she won't be remarkable, or remembered, is stay in school as
a teenager.
BingoBoingo: The dark hair and ridiculous lipstick on
a girl do it for me.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if given
a choice to drink marylin or eva who'd people pick
moiety: i have
a 5 gallon brown demi john and
a 1 gallon clear one. i want to start making my own things.
buanz0: BingoBoingo: I like my absinth with good iced water, depending on the kind of absinth I might add
a bit of sugar. the cube thing is just for show.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo im seriously considering
a dolce-de-leche only diet for conference
mthreat: mircea_popescu: ever notice people walking around with
a big thermos and
a small silver cup with
a silver "straw"?
benkay: i have
a bag of mate in the cupboard
buanz0: the national drink is
a herbal infusion known as mate
BingoBoingo: Usually there's only
a little vomitting. I've only had the experience thrice before surrendering to it being unpleasant in spite of the right genetics.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Strega's nice. mthreat buanz0 If you want to robotrip just drink the tussin. Unless you have unfortunate genetics at CYP2D6 you'll survive
a bottle.
mthreat: mircea_popescu: actually,
a place you might like is one of the "secret" speakeasys
buanz0: i drink it as
a stomach med
mthreat: BingoBoingo: an italian told me that in italy they drink it like
a medicine
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ack, mthreat At their best bitters of any sort are
a garnish, not
a drink of themself.
buanz0: i will do that later, just popping in for
a quick WASSSSSUUUP per your request, mircea_popescu
mthreat: BingoBoingo: hmm. it's
a italian aperitif, I believe. Not very good by itself.
buanz0: fernet is
a herbal bitter that argentines love
mircea_popescu: it'll give you
a challenge and then you're part of the cool kids
BingoBoingo: Eh, if it isn't
a good brown liquor, I'm prefer the closest thing I can find to
a pure solution of ETOH and water
BingoBoingo: Then again as mircea_popescu pointed out last month... I probably need to target
a cleaner class of girl...
BingoBoingo: So... after
a lot of drinking on the matter I think I know what I'm doing with the portable.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> heat math << unterseeminer. << going into the trouble with pressure watertight sealing for hardware with lifespan measured in months? dunno << he has
a solid point. the most important effect of overheat is shortening lifespan of chips. for miners ? who gives
a shit, they're bricks in
a year anyway
BingoBoingo: bitcoinpete: I cover too much distance for
a bicycle. Also Bicycle may not have room for... compartments.