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TheNewDeal: unless I could use a keyword like "difficulty" and get maybe the top 2 results
benkay: asciilifeform: the forum thinks s.nsa is a scam without constant updates from <strike>ken</strike> stan
TheNewDeal: I just want to ask the bot what the stats are on a bet
pankkake: jurov: looks nice, somehow I was thinking it was a openstack only thing
mircea_popescu: ima write a counterpost.
mircea_popescu: isn't he basically like a quaker ?
benkay: lol why is tat not allowed to smoke a joint?
mircea_popescu: maybe he'd like a john
fluffypony: then it really is for a "join"
mircea_popescu: i doubt he's allowed to smoke a joint
fluffypony: so TAT says we must feel free to buy him a "join"
TheNewDeal: can I ping a certain bet with that bitbet []bot
rithm: hrm...a chain of blocks
BingoBoingo: Now we just need to distribute the lawgs as a chain of blocks
TheNewDeal: that 14B bet is odd. Last difficulty change, there was a low prediction
mircea_popescu: "The post was written by a guest blogger but the veracity of every aspect of the story has been verified by Blogger Clarissa."
TheNewDeal: the brk-a bet has gone from a 2.X% to 6.8% in like one week
benkay: 'twas a guest post, mircea_popescu
assbot: >Samson Wins a Battle with a Hairdresser | Clarissa's Blog
mircea_popescu: http://clarissasblog.com/2011/03/19/samson-wins-a-battle-with-a-hairdresser/ << and this is how i know she hasn't.
assbot: A compendium of basic points about Bitcoin for the benefit of various confused noobs. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/a-compendium-of-basic-points-about-bitcoin-for-the-benefit-of-various-confused-noobs/
benkay: it looks like a stab at monetizing the link aggregator.
mircea_popescu: it's a secret tech.
mircea_popescu prepares to slap them on the butt with a lolsuit.
fluffypony: thestringpuller: that which prevents a competitor from taking over
fluffypony: Quanttek: I think they'll snag new users with the zero-fee buy, and I suppose 2FA is common enough that users won't have a problem with it
fluffypony: Shakespeare: I don't doubt that for a second
pankkake: I'm going to buy food, back in a few minutes
mircea_popescu: fluffypony it's a vc money pit looking for new ways to justify why it's not delivering anything
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: is there a way for me to follow what's going on in the game so I can confuse things? :-P
benkay: i just want a phone number that i own via gpg.
fluffypony would totally join a b-a voice
mike_c: #b-a in voice! somebody stream that.
pankkake: mircea_popescu, others: I set up a mumble server on 94.23.215.174. better certificate, hostname will come later if needed
kakobrekla: i saw a twitter convo
BingoBoingo: "3:15: I went over to the BitFury booth again and asked the man how much hashpower they have shipped to date. He stared, so I asked again. Looking like he caught a their, he smirked and said, “Why do you want to know that? You want to know how much money we make, what?” I said no, that I’m just interested to know how much hashpower is out there because of them, nothing nefarious. He wouldn’t say any answer other than hinti
fluffypony: "Uses a recurrence relation. Block reward = (M - A) * 2-20 * 10-12, where A = current circulation. Roughly 86% mined in 4 years"
fluffypony: but in principle it's interesting, a lot more interesting than CNBC-COIN
fluffypony: and you can specify a mixin count for a transaction
Quanttek: well. it's an algorith called cryptonight, which uses a big cratchpad and some advantages of cpu, so it is atm only cpu and gpu won't be that much faster
fluffypony: pankkake: there was a shitcoin called Bytecoin that nobody pid any attention to
pankkake: oh well. I mined some bytecoin but the wallet has a bug so I can't access them
Apocalyptic: btw not so smart to choose a name that close to an established s.a.
Quanttek: mircea_popescu: just a lurker and community manager of monero who wants to stay up to date
benkay: is this a bare metal thing, mike_c ?
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipster | Hipsters are a subculture of men and women typically in their 20's and 30's that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation  ...
benkay: i'm not asking for retards opinions about what a hipster is
benkay: that's fucking retarded fluffypony i want my minute and a half back
pankkake: trying to install murmur (the mumble server), it wants to install a bunch of Qt dependencies :/
fluffypony: "If you do eat meat, you must assert that choice as a cynical transcendence of vegetarians' futile attempts to save the world."
benkay: so a shibboleth
assbot: How to Be a Hipster: 28 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow
fluffypony: benkay: http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Hipster
benkay: what is a hipster
benkay: what is even a hipster
mircea_popescu: so anyone got a server running/want to set me one up ?
fluffypony: pankkake: I can only speak of ansible with the highest regard inasmuch as I have seen/worked with it as implemented by a sysadmin (who I consider to be among the most savvy *nix admins I've ever known) of mine on a project last year
pankkake: was there a discussion about ansible ?
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Yeah, sometime in the next couple months there's going to be surgery to pin some delicate glands into place so they never get tangled again. Once that happens I'll probably be less than portable for a while.
mircea_popescu: some sort of b-a website overhaul ?
benkay: a lampelina?
assbot: xkcd: Exploits of a Mom
mircea_popescu: this should prolly have a limit.
mircea_popescu: moiety> i am so red now you wouldn't believe << aww! sokay hon, it's just a freudian sleep.
mircea_popescu: <moiety> ive got sex weeks to find a new place and i've been panicking a teeny wee bit about it << now we know how she's making rent.
moiety: woke up this morning to an email asking if i would like to view a place i enquired about :D
moiety: ive got sex weeks to find a new place and i've been panicking a teeny wee bit about it
moiety: THOUGH! i have had some good news! I think i found a roof :D
kakobrekla: a year in this room turns any bitcoin conf into noobfest
mircea_popescu: you ever been to a bitcoin event btw ?
moiety: i just really don't like such sweeping statements and i feel she contradicts herself a bit in this article
mircea_popescu: it got a 2nd shot once buttderp guy linked it, but it could just as well not have.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony because people at a #sex met would imagine they've got an in already with anyone present ?
fluffypony: kakobrekla: like a bitcoin-assets meet would definitely not be the same as a #sex meet :-P
mircea_popescu: adult woman got stuck among a bunch of weirdo kids.
moiety: mike_c: its a legit gripe to be felt up but not to label all as gropers
kakobrekla: or maybe im a part of that werido group
kakobrekla: fluffypony i have been to a few, dunno why are you having issues with the meets.
mircea_popescu: moiety on a plain reading on that article, it'd be because they were creeps.
mike_c: we ganging up on arianna? she got groped at the meetup. that seems like a legitimate beef to me.
moiety: if she loves bitcoin so much why is she making everyone out to be creeps? afaik you get creeps at all kinds of gatherings and she'd have a better chance of me even getting to the end of the article if she didn't sound so retarded while whinging
mircea_popescu: ". Since Bitcoin is still so new, we have the rare opportunity to get onboard before the ship has sailed, becoming knowledgeable before a vast majority of people have ever even heard of it. "
chetty: and just an fyi, the only female engineer in biggish corp for years - its not realy a big deal, these women are whiners
chetty: geeze, enough with putting people in groups - wtf it matters male/female at a btc meetup?
pankkake: except those guys will do it to a male too. I don't like it either but I'm not going to blog about it
mike_c: old news :) you even commented on that post a while ago
assbot: This is what it's like to be a woman at a Bitcoin meetup - Arianna Simpson
mircea_popescu: http://www.ariannasimpson.com/this-is-what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-at-a-bitcoin-meetup/ this poor woman.
mircea_popescu: his being a friendly sort, but it gets uncomfortable pretty quickly when he puts his hand on my leg and leaves it there until I squirm uncomfortably."
mircea_popescu: "I walk in and a group of people are already sitting at a long table. I say hi and hover for a second, determining where to sit. Entirely uninvited, and before I even have a chance to react, one guy proceeds to grab me by the waist and pull me into an awkward, grope-y side hug next to him on the bench. To reiterate, I’ve never met this man in my life. I try giving him the benefit of the doubt and make some quip about
pankkake: but perhaps it has a psychological sense
artifexd: pankkake: Can you make penguirker display the total in bitcoin and whether it was a sell or a buy? Something like "Buy 4882.0000 ATC @ 0.00000220 BTC [0.01074040BTC]"
mircea_popescu: being white, male and libertarian is a problem now.
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin, viewed from the outside, seems to be vastly white, male, and very loudly libertarian. This is possibly just a result of a wider problem in the tech world [...]" etc
mircea_popescu: sounds like a 15yo cracked.com writer is trying to fit in.
pankkake: a nice, somewhat deep, round, bellebutton
chetty: mike_c, And thats a bad thing?
mike_c: well, if kakobrekla doesn't mind i'm happy to give you a dump then. i've got them all in a database.
mircea_popescu: oh and a special one for pankkake http://girls.twistys.com/preview/wgp/p/123013-31235/pics/07.jpg