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BingoBoingo: Oh, I set up a board on the floor next to my desk
davout: as in, i don't have an actual board at hand to do this
BingoBoingo: davout: I have to warn you though that I have lost to Namworld (though truffles beat Namworld)
davout: east i meant
BingoBoingo: davout: If we go on those criteria I could prolly hire a jew, but I am GMT -6
davout: BingoBoingo: i'm pondering whether i should play myself or let my little brother play against you
BingoBoingo: davout: I might have to read again, because vodka. Shame you can't play chess nao.
mircea_popescu: in what fucking sense ? i thought they were pop.
mircea_popescu: i didn't actually dig into it.
mircea_popescu: at least i got some sane people in my feed.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure they covered "issues" in primary school.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: We covered dictionaries in primary school that I remember.
BingoBoingo: davout: Neither can I.
davout: BingoBoingo: ok, with pleasure! I can't play right now tho
BingoBoingo: Caveat is the kicker I supposed for this months long tournament is expiring on the 28th, because obligations can not be kept open forever.
BingoBoingo: That is nearly when I made my first appearance.
BingoBoingo: Fuck, I dunno who that is.
BingoBoingo: Yeah. Between viewings one and two I did the paper reading.
ThickAsThieves: omg how do i get cash into gox someone should arb that /s
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: I'm only one timezone over and haven't slept yet.
ThickAsThieves: sorry i'm delirious from randomly waking up too early cuz i had feeling itd be crashing
ThickAsThieves: i know
ThickAsThieves: i'm on No
ThickAsThieves: i might win! <cazalla> http://bitbet.us/bet/281/btc-usd-at-mtgox-will-be-above-150-on/
BingoBoingo: Had to watch it twice since I understand spoken Spanish survivably but Italian not so much.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I watched La Terra Trema. JP Morgan will have to find a wholesaler sometime.
BingoBoingo: I'm still leaving the offer out there if Goldman or JPM wants to try outrunning YCombinator that I tucked in my footnotes
mircea_popescu: Namworld ty, i dumped it on twitter :D
MisterE: coz I root for the to fail heh
MisterE: hate to say it but Azure was good before the upgrade now I hear no complaints
mircea_popescu: i was talking to a friend earlier and i said "tis hard being a woman". she retorted "yeah, not only our brains don't work but tits and asses both droop with time too!"
mircea_popescu: i read very little and understand even less.
mircea_popescu: i have a new formula for computing the market value of bitcoin
BingoBoingo: chetty: Inertia and aversion to learning I imagine.
chetty: I really fail to understand why anyone would still be using windows
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: For OEMs I hink I've read it goes down to at least $25
BingoBoingo: Maybe, but I'm not in the wrong business that Facebook and Whatsapp are
B007: but I don't think you can compare Microsoft to WhatsApp
B007: Microsoft? I don't think you know what you're talking about
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i can't find people to take these easy bets with
ozbot: Twitter / Mircea_Popescu: @Falkvinge @kLee1977 I'll bet ...
BingoBoingo: cazalla: It actually looked better days ago when I pointed it out to KRS-One
greenspan_fan: I have an absurd number of graphs in assorted subdirectories...
BingoBoingo: Well, a lot of roads I have little occasion look much more impressive than they used to. Doesn't offer much utility though.
greenspan_fan: maybe? I honestly can't tell
greenspan_fan: I think it would be worthwhile to apply w/ that idea, like a startup version of the sokal affair
greenspan_fan: I already have a tagline: the world's newest profession
BingoBoingo: I think we should replace this "content aggregating" with pankakke's brilliant term "assass"
mircea_popescu: i mean sure, steal and distribute warez, get qt pissed off.
greenspan_fan: I worked at one point for a place that was getting into social media, but once you're out of that sort of giddy milieu it just doesn't seem like it's much of a priority
greenspan_fan: I think you underestimate how easy a content aggregator is to run
greenspan_fan: I wonder if the opining actually shapes matters, like, at all?
BingoBoingo: I could see Deadspin surviving with Fleshbot.
moiety: i thought it was hilarious when they accused the downing street cat of being a spy
moiety: lol! i didn't know about this "incident"
mircea_popescu: i suppose maybe maintain the appearance of things working in the eyes of complete noobs for an extra... hours ? coupla days ?
BingoBoingo: I'm impressed it took them this long.
moiety: yay a new way i could lose?
asciilifeform: unless i'm missing something.
asciilifeform: as i fall asleep
asciilifeform: (i can easily estimate an upper bound, using 'ah he has 16 queens')
BingoBoingo: I cannot.
mircea_popescu: and i forget who else was asking me about it.
asciilifeform: the common factor between btc and gold, etc. is (no surprise to anyone, i hope) - behaviour as a closed (i.e. conserved) system, and easily verified as such
greenspan_fan: the things I'm thinking of are either flaws in the protocol, flaws in the software, concerted regulation or an attack via a sufficiently powerful adversary
greenspan_fan: I can't spend "knowing how to make an engine", but knowing that I can do that (and having the plans/information to do so) stores value
benkay: more like "o now i have credit for a billion pizzas at this local bitcoin brokerage"
benkay: i expect a new whore at the door
greenspan_fan: Well, given the above, I expect that btc is just a placeholder for something that will have numerous quantitative technical improvements.
benkay: i'm going back to figuring out how to represent a 32-bit int in ragel on java.
mircea_popescu: i mean, we can do blockchain propagation and mining via email ffs.
greenspan_fan: brb, all I have is paper
greenspan_fan: I think you're underestimating how hard it would be to patch
asciilifeform: the answer here, i suspect, depends on whether you like the taste of bullocks.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan dollah i meant.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu worth how? I have less than 100 000 btc, for example
mircea_popescu: i've been back to say hey next time listen to me before you get into this
mircea_popescu: which i beat the shit out of when they decided to start letting people
Bugpowder: I built the gene in the mouse video... the fish video is 2 more series of evolution better...
moiety: A Japanese-American Team created green-fluorescent cats as proof of concept to use them potentially as model organisms for diseases, particularly HIV.[42] I volunteer to look after them
moiety: i need glofish in my life
moiety: it is really cool, i started an album after the illustrating science challenge last year
Bugpowder: I think I put it there many years ago
Bugpowder: I think.
moiety: Bugpowder, may i please use this picture?
mircea_popescu: i can't help but think you're pretty close to biofilm 3d printing.
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: I played that game quite a bit in grad school.
mike_c: hah, yeah, i read that. but that is a minor consideration against the order of magnitude changes when it goes up.
mike_c: benkay: recently? don't think so. i've been around for a couple discussions on the topic.
mike_c: i already installed opera just for you kako. opera next is probably beyond your service contract.
kakobrekla: i prolly wouldnt
kakobrekla: but i understand if you will not fix it
mike_c: ok, maybe i'll change it now.
benkay: and i think it's a blocking call.
mike_c: yes, that one i didn't want to bother serving locally. but i will probably change that b/c their server is down more than mine.
moiety: i was just reading the income page - nice page mike_c
mike_c: you don't have to clear cache. i version my static files like a good webdev.
mike_c: oh, i don't support mac
mike_c: sry chan, i'll pm.
benkay: i think the assettes crashed your server, mike_c.