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mircea_popescu: "some local computer shop owner yelled at me over the phone when I asked him to email me a price list, telling me that he would never waste his time on email because it took 20 times longer than a phone call"
asciilifeform: i'm interested specifically in the trojan payload
thestringpuller: i guess that might work though...if you only have referentials by pk in your queries; once you retreive the column you could deal with decryption...but hmm
dexX7: but you can't have it both ways, i guess?
ThickAsThieves: but that was the definition i was going for
ThickAsThieves: i never made the word until now
asciilifeform: haha i assumed it was a rubber
dexX7: i think so
ThickAsThieves: <dexX7> CheckDavid: as said, i'm not really sure how it works. // no one soes
CheckDavid: I see
dexX7: CheckDavid: as said, i'm not really sure how it works. there seem to be central processing servers. new in the sense of "not bitcoin, new underlying technology"
dexX7: CheckDavid: i don't know much about ot, but it seems it's something completly new, more like a next gen bitmessage + encryption + central server bundle. mastercoin has it's own transaction types etc. and stores them encoded in the blockchain
asciilifeform: also i thought 'witch' in english was female.
asciilifeform: i pictured it in my head as a witch who rides a DP (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Machine_gun_DP_MON.jpg) instead of broom
ThickAsThieves: dunno, i recall needing to pay for larger usage
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i gotta ask, wtf is a Gunwitch ?
mircea_popescu: no wait i fucked it up
bitcoinpete: I love the "counting on startups" bit
mircea_popescu: it's an ancient thing, ot, i recall sponsoring it in like 2012
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that way i could somehow filter out idiots << but they're already filtered - they aren't in your living room, and they aren't in mine. on the other hand, if filters could physically zap spammers, there would be considerably more interest in filter...
mircea_popescu: then again i guess i already have that too, in the form of a philosophy degree
mircea_popescu: that way i could somehow filter out idiots who in 2014 create "momentuous historic events" that "revoilutionise bla bla" by poorly reimplementing 2011's mpex
mircea_popescu: and actually... i wish an ancient would come this way into time and bring me blueprints of his fucking spam filter
asciilifeform: and i think mr. a meant 'hammer through their thick retarded heads' rather than merely 'tell them.'
mircea_popescu: then again, i suppose the atomic view is also ancient, so... perhaps that's why we can't make time machines yet
asciilifeform: so, if i could teach just one thing to these lost souls:
bitcoinpete: "The other telling tale in terms of currency besides the fact that no central bank is going to ever let (go of) control of how they deal with their own economy, is no one that I've seen so far that's in traditional sales that is taking bitcoin keeps it as bitcoin. They all translate it to dollars. And if you translate it into dollars it's not a currency." - Mark Cuban
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i think that has already been answered, but are options completely disabled or is only the bot not quoting?
mircea_popescu: i suppose we should have a bet as to when he goes the way of ciuciu, eskimobob and so many other great names
KRS-One: i like that cunt
mircea_popescu: ahahaha o may gawd i nearly fell over
mircea_popescu: However utility functions are often not linear, i.e the more a person has already spent on their safety the less they are willing to spend to further increase their safety. Therefore the $50 valuation should not be taken to mean that a human life (1 million micromorts) is valued at $50,000,000.
mircea_popescu: punkman i suppose the putin-ness has to do with ethnicity. eyck painted locals and putin is apparently baltic stock
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete i don't think author even understands there's any depth to the matter. the bread's all flat to him, like he was born in the internet age.
mircea_popescu: i wish i could get dali to ilustrate eulora
punkman: I lol'd "If everyone – including the women – looks like Putin, then it’s van Eyck."
justusranvier: I passed that message along
bitcoinpete: Huh… nuts I must be. This, I did not know
bitcoinpete: Moderately familiar with Hinduism and Buddhism. I guess the branch-tree argument is valid. Continuity is continuity
mircea_popescu: but if you go by headcount i guess you gotta count the muricans.
mircea_popescu: i guess you can include the various protestant and neoprotestant sects in there.
Namworld: Ok, I'm laughing now. This is too much.
Namworld: I believe this is based on past addresses used by MtGox, as per past transactions listed in their API
bitcoinpete: In which I figure out how to use footnotes:
joecool: altria, rj reylolds, and lorillard i think are the big 3
mircea_popescu: i guess you must have yeah.
mike_c: it's interesting, because i have always heard anecedotally that taxes were killing US tobacco. i guess i heard it from the tobacco lobby :)
mircea_popescu: usa tobaccomuch more productive. i guess bans help indeed.
mike_c: i thought it would, but it does not. altria has doubled over the last few years
mike_c: I believe Altria holds PM USA
asciilifeform: i think every other customer of that place is part of the DOD wankatron.
mircea_popescu: but i can't readily think of anything which'd be improved by being made in the us.
B007: I never stated anything about profits or size compared to fb
B007: I which I could get in....tfw no money
mircea_popescu: therefore i am special
mircea_popescu: all those "guns are not toys" adds backfired i guess
mircea_popescu: i would guess this'd be because a gun is pretty much the coolest toy adults can afford.
mircea_popescu: i suppose in an extremely rare case a shot could ricochet of a rib or something, but srsly nao.
mircea_popescu: i just can't conceive how that'd happen. maybe if the round was hand filled with dust ?
asciilifeform: but, i wasn't there, did not see this alive.
asciilifeform: i also recall accounts of 45acp failing to perforate NK soldiers during korean war
mircea_popescu: even taking a more historically accurate 200 km/h which is what i did...
asciilifeform: a while ago i mentioned tommyguns that were sent to russia during 'lend-lease'
ThickAsThieves: depends on strength i guess
asciilifeform: if i recall, some u.s. police academies require taking a shot from a taser.
ThickAsThieves: i did a police ride-along and demo day once
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what sort of reverse midas effect this is, but it's uncanny
asciilifeform: damn, i should read the u.s. fishwraps more often, full of lulz
mircea_popescu: i don't think i ever played an ios game
Duffer1: i had one of every class to learn pvp weaknesses
ThickAsThieves: what if i wanna have a druid AND a vampire?
Duffer1: i don't miss wow hehe, i do miss cracking out on a good mmo though, it's been a really long time
ThickAsThieves: i think their budget was just nil
ThickAsThieves: i dont see how they could not be the same team
Duffer1: in wow i always got the sense that the texture artists were really unhappy with the models they got
cazalla: cheap runs on more computers which i would guess is why it's so popular, it'll run on a calculator
Duffer1: i agree
ThickAsThieves: i dont play that either
cazalla: disagree it's borderlands type though as i hate that style too
cazalla: i don't mind it
ThickAsThieves: i hat ethe art style
ThickAsThieves: i'm not terribly familiar with LoL, even though it's more popular
ThickAsThieves: in LoL i think it's entire outfits
cazalla: yet to play that but i assume outfits are just their version of LoL skins?
cazalla: i'm looking forward to EQN but i doubt it'll be as hardcore as the original, that's not so bad once you have kids though
Duffer1: i have no interest in mists of pandas or the new one
cazalla: i quit after that wotlk, far too much hand holding, it became really boring
ThickAsThieves: they introduced that around the time i stopped playing
ThickAsThieves: i just bought more accounts
ThickAsThieves: fuck me if i'm gonna spend all the time to level
cazalla: although i will agree that with an older game like WoW, it makes sense to let people buy levels as it's population heavy at the top end
ThickAsThieves: so i had to roll them myself as leader
Duffer1: i like how wow eventually tackled that problem
ThickAsThieves: well i said a certain amount
cazalla: buying/selling items that i find legitimately in game is just common sense
ThickAsThieves: i think a certain amount of paying to level is fine
cazalla: no, i had full version of stuff
cazalla: i hate that sort of thing
wao-ender: I think it's happening already
cazalla: i wonder if using bitcoin as in-game currency would stop mudflation