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jborkl: mircea_popescu : is there a public price and volume record of S.MPOE available?
mircea_popescu: it's not bad. course it's a layer of lulz, just as much a satire of its authors intent as of early forum fucktardery.
mircea_popescu: "well ok, wrap the cup in a towel. condensation problem... no longer immediately visible"
fluffypony: http://imgur.com/a/Z2szr
fluffypony: that's a piece of shelving
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mircea_popescu: make it a good one.
thestringpuller: you're making me want to start a blog!
assbot: LSM Labs: A Poorly-VeiledScam http://t.co/1aTVsxNNvC
HeySteve2: um yeah, I don't tweet much. not sure how to link to a tweet
mircea_popescu: time for a trim, seriously.
HeySteve2: yeah Samuel did a piece on BFL http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/we-need-to-talk-about-butterfly-labs/2014/05/15
mike_c: normal webstack. just a little more robust and scalable than usual.
assbot: LSM Labs: A Poorly-Veiled Scam » CryptoCoinsNews
mike_c: i'll keep that in mind punkman. i've still got a couple more server types to get through.
punkman: mice_c, if you got a good recipe, I can turn the thing into an ansible script. I don't trust myself to come up with the recipe though.
mircea_popescu: course that was like a week ago
mike_c: (yes, a tim allen reference)
pankkake: I'm a cheap ass, I almost always send zero fee
nubbins`: brb popping 3 doors down to have a beer with the hippies
mircea_popescu: actually, i pay 2-5 dollars on a regular basis for 10-100k worth of btc.
jborkl: yeah, kinda a logic loop fail there on Gavins part
nubbins`: the Square app + credit card reader helped a lot
nubbins`: i got drunker than i planned, smoked a ton of drugs, and still managed to not lose track of the money
nubbins`: anyway, fun times these days. we had a big show on the 4th
nubbins`: actually, that's a lie. we have a box full of misprinted shirts that we use for test prints
fluffypony: as long as we don't end up with "thank doge" due to a misprint
nubbins`: wait, no, that's a dead kennedys song.
mircea_popescu: someone had a kickass idea these days about a b-a shirt
fluffypony: maybe we should come up with a couple and then put it to a gpg signed vote
TomServo: what about "too honest for a shady logo"
nubbins`: styled #b-a, of course
nubbins`: heh. well, to a point
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: sent a msg, haven't had a reply
nubbins`: fluffypony i just got a ;;later tell about just that
jborkl: well you know you make a really good point as always
mircea_popescu: Why The Sky May Contain A Pie, And Wherebouts Would It Be.
TomServo: His last post is a link to "Why Mastercoin Could Go to 1 BTC"... not going to read it, sorry.
mircea_popescu: wasn'ty he supposed to be a lawyer ?
danielpbarron: that sounds like "DACs" or whatever they are called (decentralized autonomous corporations a.k.a. scams)
pankkake: handmade… by a chinese
pankkake: ahah, imagine a bot creating businesses
mircea_popescu: pankkake this is just a restatement of why you can't have "decentralised" stock exchanges.
pankkake: the issue is that it just be a dumb human
fluffypony: article rewriters seem to be getting a little better with time too
mircea_popescu: ed type of conferencing services can provide a great return on investment ROI and help save time."
mircea_popescu: "A video based conferencing technologies has been a great challenge for non-cooperating technologies. The video conferencing services are associated with configurations and compatibility. Some managed network services are now offered organizations continue their import voice based meetings and cloud based conferencing services that help individual executives. It is more reliability as well as ease of use. The cloud bas ☟︎
gribble: You rated user punkman on Sun Apr 13 18:38:02 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: New blood.
fluffypony: for a moment I thought their script was unlicensed
fluffypony: well that's a relief
mircea_popescu: the cases where one strikes oil a la pirate are rare.
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mircea_popescu: hey fluff, mind sending the girl a pm to come here ?
mircea_popescu: you got a reddit acct ?
mircea_popescu: punkman you got a means to contact the chick ?
mircea_popescu: i can't even make heads or tails of wtf she's on about. basically google has created a new breed of hermetic nonsense.
mircea_popescu: "violet blue ® @violetblue · 12m Tried to disable all Gmail Labs to try and eclipse the 707, but I get a Google server error message and can't save settings. Great."
mircea_popescu: it has a distinctively soviet flavour. "in our country you can buy anything yo ucan possibly wish for, on the cheap."
bounce: could use one of these: http://thingm.com/products/blink-1/ -- cool thingy, got kickstarter-funded august 2012. can you buy'em? in two online stores! well, only one, the other gives a page not found. and their own doesn't sell this one, it only sells the mk2. well, pre-orders for the mk2. which is on possible production problem hold. so, no, they really don't sell much of anything.
davout: fanny wants a duster, i'd rather pay for a sandero
davout: on an unrelated note i'm buying a romanian made car today
mircea_popescu: davout i tell you, it's not a matter of it being reported to me. cashier had no trace of it.
mircea_popescu: no. i made a payment to someone, which went through, and it wasn't stuck. monday morning.
davout: wat, you made a payment to someone at sg and it's stuck ?
mircea_popescu: "o he's a good guy, let's just give him three days' full credit"
mircea_popescu: it's a societe generale subsidiary, too. i really would like to know how the fuck that worked.
mircea_popescu: davout my bank reported a hold and payment i completed at like 4am monday after noon wednesday.
fluffypony: the widespread adoption pitch seems to be a popular one lately
mircea_popescu: fluffypony how is it different from a repurposed yubikey ?
mircea_popescu: europe sits atop a lake of fine wine in which supernumerary purebreed horses are flung.
punkman: moiety: " a mix of peach, citrus and mild mango."
mircea_popescu: punkman "it tastes like woman with a career"
punkman: moiety, I'd say it's kinda unique, a bit citrus-y, but I'm not good at describing such things
moiety: recently, there was a runaway horse that had no jockey and it banged into another one and they both had to be put down
mircea_popescu: moiety you don't always break the horse's leg on a fall.
mircea_popescu: a
davout: speaking dutch with a mouth full of m&ms sounds more accurate
fluffypony: except I once heard a recording of some chick reading Afrikaans poetry, and it was beautiful
fluffypony: it's more guttural and a lot uglier sounding than Dutch
mircea_popescu: isn't that basically a dutch creole ?
mircea_popescu: wait. how can a guy from china not speak chinese ?
Shakespeare: cuz he responding to a guy from china who wasn't speaking Chinese
fluffypony: so like a 3PO but better?
mircea_popescu: "I got the impression that she is a savvy professional that has begun to wrangle in books that were previously lacking." finally.
Shakespeare: just posted a blog update
mircea_popescu: a, that also works
fluffypony: the takeaway for me has been that there are precious few business people in this space, just a bunch of nerds that think running an ecommerce store == being a businessman
mircea_popescu: nothing could be further from the truth, and this is experience not a guess.
mircea_popescu: ah. you gonna get pissy if i tell you the whole adventure simply displays a shocking lack of strategic competence on your team ? :D
fluffypony: I know - but we've shelved the "big" IPO and raised a smaller amount privately, so the idea is that we're going to complete the product and bring it to market, and then if we feel it necessary we can always do a second round of funding to enable merchant acquisition
fluffypony: the focus on Vertcoin wasn't just for shits and giggles, the idea was that the IPO would be a VTC-only IPO, so the focus on Vertcoin would also provide benefit to them
fluffypony: the Vertcoin thing was a failed suggestion from people who thought it would be a good idea
fluffypony: the aim was to have a more general use altcoin remittance system
Asa9: lol! I'm in the process of moving to a new house I just bought.
mircea_popescu: Asa9 i have been a bitch to deal with. you ?
assbot: TIME magazine/.com invites me to write one article a week for them. "This is a platform, not a freelance assignment, so it is unpaid." HAHA
assbot: 300 Bitcoins to be worth more than a share of Class A Berkshire Hathaway Stock on March 31st 2015 - Predictious
fluffypony: but that's just a guess
jurov: Behind all of this is a security system built not only with past mistakes in mind, but also with an eye toward any future threats.
jurov: “It’s a free service to store, send and receive bitcoin,” Allaire says of Circle’s prodcuts. hahah what a typo