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mircea_popescu: <
nubbins`> some kid named johnny cowabunga bought << nfw ?!
rithm:
nubbins`, i finally bought a mtte and fram for that print
cazalla: adlai:
nubbins`: yes, but it could ignore text within blockquote tags <<< this is correct, it does ignore them and this is actually one of the first things discussed when qntra was launched
jurov:
nubbins` if you're ever gonna make some b-a book, these reich images are very fitting
mike_c:
nubbins`: can you vouch at all for kialara? i'm going to get one.
ben_vulpes: +
nubbins`:i've got some neat physical bitcoins, some strange bullion pieces, etc << don't forget newspapers lol
mircea_popescu: adlai>
nubbins`: yes, but it could ignore text within blockquote tags << it does actually.
jurov: <
nubbins`> you're just using it wrong ;p << lol what?
adlai:
nubbins`: yes, but it could ignore text within blockquote tags
TomServo: Hey
nubbins`, didja see my PM?
badon:
nubbins`: In 500 years - heck, in 80 years, most of that stuff will be broken. The surviving specimens will be the proverbial "Ming vaaaaz".
badon:
nubbins`: Right, especially in auctions.
badon:
nubbins`: The silver version I sold for $1200. A few months later the specimen was back on the market, and it sold for $4'000!
badon:
nubbins`: Oh yeah, the pottery enamel is famous.
badon:
nubbins`: Collectors need something interesting. Mass-production commercialization isn't very interesting.
badon:
nubbins`: China mastered enamel in ancient times - and I mean truly MASTERED it. I saw some enamel work that I mistook for being modern, but it was ancient.
badon:
nubbins`: They copied the Chinese enamel.
badon:
nubbins`: That's time dilation.
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` imo all this "tech" stuff is a waste of time. i might buy a computer today because i want to use it.
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` did you kick out violent times out of clocks by suggesting they space out, too ?
badon:
nubbins`: You're too sophisticated for that kind of thinking.
badon:
nubbins`: Yeah, but they aren't all there is. The lunars are the original flagship series of the China mint. The pandas were minted for foreigners.
badon:
nubbins`: It's all fiat.
badon:
nubbins`: The collectors are fleeing the West. Everybody wants Chinese. Even the Anglosphere has reduced itself to imitating Chinese lunar coins.
badon:
nubbins`: That's one reason why I like the Chinese coins so much. They're still producing rare coins each year, and Chinese collectors are mostly unaware of them. Canada is not populous enough to make a coin with a mintage of 25'000 extraordinarily valuable, but China is populous enough to make a coin with a mintage of 100 extraordinarily valuable. Make sense?
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` that's at least in my disinterested and ignorant view, the bane of "numismatics" applied to things made after ww2.
badon:
nubbins`: CC data has led to recognition by NGC and PCGS.
badon:
nubbins`: Ah, so you've had a taste of the nectar of numismatics :)
badon:
nubbins`: Start with a CC forum account, can you do that?
badon:
nubbins`: By the way, the CC (and me in general) tends to make coins more valuable when comprehensive information is made available about them. That gives you an edge.
badon:
nubbins`: If you want, I can create the project for you in the forum, and we can do some experimenting to get it rolling.
badon:
nubbins`: The CC will make you seem like a genius :)
badon:
nubbins`: Only your expertise is needed. The CC project as a whole is led by me, and we have a professional data entry team to do the grunt work.
badon:
nubbins`: Oooh, you're a physical bitcoin collector. People here suggested that the CC should track those, but the CC would need someone to lead a project to do that.
badon:
nubbins`: I'll repaste them, one sec. I started keeping a list of examples based on mircea_popescu questions.
badon:
nubbins`: What's your lowest mintage coin?
badon:
nubbins`: Did you see the examples that I pasted here earlier?
badon:
nubbins`: Right, but it's much more focused.
badon:
nubbins`: Indirectly, yes.
badon:
nubbins`: It's a sophisticated storehouse of structured data.
badon:
nubbins`: punkman seems to have an interest in numismatics too.
badon:
nubbins`: "The guy with the stuff for the thing"
BingoBoingo: badon: He's canadian and a printer.
nubbins` is probably SLP atm
badon: [
nubbins`] #bitcoin-otc +#bitcoin-assets
badon:
nubbins :No such nick/channel
mircea_popescu: get in the wot an' talk to
nubbins` you'll be like two peas in a pod.
mircea_popescu: badon listen, get registered in the wot, i'll rate you just for
nubbins` pleasure.
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2014 12:56:26;
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:well if he did
nubbins has some 'splainin' to do lol. <<< nope, in fact, i am also mildly perturbed by the fact that i mailed over $4,000 of goods to the guy and we didn't even get a couple measly pictures out of it
assbot: Logged on 30-11-2014 20:23:56;
nubbins`: but FYI, i'm negotiating a price with a buyer now for my genesis block newspaper (the times jan 3 2009)
adlai:
nubbins`: "you can't not communicate". that would say that either the owner of that domain is a liar, and said at that time that he hates newfies, or that bot has become unreliable.
adlai: punkman: either
nubbins` or I are kinda missing the point, can you explain it again pls?
adlai:
nubbins`: the bot's signature on a file isn't proof-of-existence, it's proof-of-that-server-said-this-to-me-at-that-time
adlai:
nubbins`: think what through? you can change whatever you want in your own browser, but you can't change the communication between bot and server without compromising somethnig
punkman:
nubbins`: preview before bundling, so you make sure it didn't need JS enabled when you only asked for HTML
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` can you appreciate how damned rare it is, a few occurences over tens of thousands of LINES ?
adlai:
nubbins`: aka the idiot tax
adlai:
nubbins`: possibly, i'm against concept reuse :P
punkman:
nubbins`: pretty expensive
punkman:
nubbins`: did you ever try a tincture? I always wondered how that worked
nubbins`: <+
nubbins`> or you're a sheet of wallpaper in a strange room
nubbins`: <+
nubbins`> i didn't grok "weird" until i tried salvia
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` im merely bringing the argument that an inclination to be impressed with what one sees and a tendency to get excited about what's directly seen is more a thing of youth than a thing of humanity.
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` they pretend like it's painful... but it's not.
punkman:
nubbins`: cup of kratom tea, great substitute for coffee
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` and if you're not a musician NOBODY WILL HEAR ABOUT IT
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` so then are they fucking addicted to the big mac lawl.
mircea_popescu:
nubbins` they're rather close anyway, so mass works nearly good enough
ben_vulpes:
nubbins`: i'm a bit surprised you're not holding onto it for another decade
mircea_popescu:
nubbins`: well. i mean, you can pickle and ferment anything, but i doubt regular cabbage would be any good <<< are you fucking kidding me ? regular cabbage, without none of this fish sauce crap, is THE THING.
punkman:
nubbins`: does regular cabbage work?
BingoBoingo:
nubbins`: That's what the flintstones are for.
decimation:
nubbins`: I think we discussed korean kimchi 'fridges' awhile ago
decimation:
nubbins`: hey I have a question - is there somewhere in north america where one can order custom calendars?
mircea_popescu: <
nubbins`> i guess now that i've got a cloak, maybe i'll find out if these random power-downs are due to bad RAM or a 0-day << 99% they're due to transients from your power source.