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asciilifeform: or - for that matter - the recent discussion about what it costs to house a google worker, and why
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah, i see it more that way. it's a little nook, something to discover, some way to be "in".
mike_c: ThickAsThieves: eventually there will be a yahoo answers entry about "why does bitbet say 'got milk'" and it will be ok :)
asciilifeform: recall an incident i described some months ago, of getting ordinary circuit boards baked at a u.s. plant.
mircea_popescu: because, of course, "customers can have a car any color they want"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what the inexistend fighter jet has cost << what would it have cost ussr to build a flat screen tv ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron who's the guy and why's he refusing to sign a contract ?
danielpbarron: does it make sense to have an escrow service provider sign a contract? or is this not necessary since he's the trusted 3rd party anyway (i think he should sign a contract, but he insists otherwise)
mircea_popescu: so we just took the "milk is a scam" thing.
mircea_popescu: and "we" need to stop because this can't be everything is a scam milk is a scam kjfdshgkshdkgjsfd
mircea_popescu: eventually usagi had a nervous break down, wroiter this post about how he can't get any sleep because he keeps having to defend "his good name" and he is selling his guitar and w/e to pay off debts
mircea_popescu: well considering what the inexistend fighter jet has cost alreayd, i can only imagine what a shuttle would cost the usg
asciilifeform: yeah i haven't kept up. no idea if there's a lockheed contract for trampoline yet.
asciilifeform: in other news: 'the U.S. should consider getting its astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline.'
asciilifeform: as far as i can see, author is a (self-proclaimed) academic
mircea_popescu: like you know, whatever fucking shaman in the depths of africa rubbing sticks together "knows" and consequently doesn't need to obtain a license to opine on matters of medicine
asciilifeform: i.e. how would the cost of a double-spend possibly go down ?
asciilifeform: let's picture a source of hashing cycles, publicly auctioned. how would it not be subject to the same bidding dynamics as presently existing miners?
pankkake: but really you don't need a huge pdf to understand that
asciilifeform: there is the little detail that a (detectable) double-spend more or less buries a coin
mircea_popescu: how is this a fucking claim.
davout: "Nothing wrong with rounding but charging a fee on every chunk is a plain old SCAM." <<< that guy has it exactly backwards
davout: that's a progress
kakobrekla: they are a year behind?
kakobrekla: i had a picture where they charged me 0.01 to give me 0.
kakobrekla: retards talking about retards who did this retard thing but retards now have a retarded fix
davout: kakobrekla: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=597647.0;topicseen <<< the forums realises why two cans and a string
danielpbarron: I haven't had more than a few sips of whiskey over the course of the last few months, not because I wanted to stop drinking, but because it just didn't occur to me that I had stopped
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: pankkake when are we starting a business? we can call it "the Dropbox of water" << call it the dropbox of beer. you can go arounbd other people's tables and offer to store it for them.
mircea_popescu: ntry. Within a generation or two the prevailing winds changed, and most all of “Victorian morals” can adequately be reduced to and explained in terms of, the lords pushing their sponsored priests to go to war on their behalf, under the banners of “other people should drink gin so as to make the lord money, but the people of this parish should not drink gin so as to be able to work long and hard, thus making the l
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: bounce: I've actually always suspected the religious case for prohibition was largely influenced by the cost of drinking taking money that could have been tithed << actually, it was leftover from english historical issues. "nitially gin was a welcome industry in England because it allowed a new class of consumption for grain, thus promising to elevate the prices of grain and so the profits of the landed ge
mircea_popescu: bounce: dropping php/mysql isn't a bad idea. but the replacement... some people are magnets for failure << i suspect mysql (just by itself) may actually be a better choice than mongodb.
mircea_popescu: bounce: two or three drinks a night does qualify for alcoholism in some books << it very much depends on ethnicity and culture. your average samoan doing three vodka shots each day will be fucking dead from it.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: and he was like "but it's too much effort for a girl." << check it out thickasthieves, it's http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-03-2014#591323 all over again :D ☝︎
mircea_popescu: now, this certainly isn't to say that taking a break is not a good idea.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing to negotiate, see ? whereas as long as you are your own master for all you know your adiction is making a deal
mircea_popescu: the only logically sound way this proof works is if you're a slave and your master orders you to stop, without a specific timeframe. then yes.
mircea_popescu: see, i can appreciate that sentiment, but it has a hole in it
mircea_popescu: a nm, it got linked.
mircea_popescu: Naphex: garbage article, opionions and arguments how fun << they've been having an eve corp whose shares are traded in bitcoin/equiv MPOE shares for... a year now ? more ?
mircea_popescu: like, derps believe "there is a god above" ? well, let's put some satellites in orbit, see what they do then ? ah, they still believe it, except it's now above-er ? win.
fluffypony: pankkake when are we starting a business? we can call it "the Dropbox of water"
steven-__: but yea magic was my first thought but he is pretty busy bringing a NFL team to la
steven-__: this racism thing is just a way to sell it to the masses
steven-__: but now that its not a turd they took it away
steven-__: they let him own a turd
BingoBoingo: Well if someone wants to own a turd, they can own a turd.
steven-__: its really misplaced he has been a shit owner for years
steven-__: i noticed you guys have a lot of support for sterling
Duffer1: 5.3k usd, must be a beast
Duffer1: alienware or did you build yourself a rendering machine?
Naphex: just bought a new PC 17,224.89 Lei :(
BingoBoingo: Cool. Yeah, it's kind of a slow night. Anythings you do in Bitcoin or would like to do in Bitcoin?
bounce: dropping php/mysql isn't a bad idea. but the replacement... some people are magnets for failure
pankkake: and a gay language invented by a homophobe
BingoBoingo: Worse, it's a bunch of forum derp.
bounce: IIRC the criterion was like five glasses a week. though it went upward if you're a student, upward again if you're a medical or technical student, and upward again for certain cities with skewed (as in, mostly male) student population
bounce: wikipedia claims delirium tremens only kicks in after a week or so
bounce: two or three drinks a night does qualify for alcoholism in some books
fluffypony: <- bit of a flashlight nerd
BingoBoingo: Be a shame if he had to with them twice
fluffypony: and he was like "but it's too much effort for a girl."
BingoBoingo: Sounds like a waste of six months you could have spent with a reasonable girl
fluffypony: I had a girlfriend that said I was an alcoholic because I enjoyed a drink or two or three every night
fluffypony: BingoBoingo:http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/05/05/a-pragmatic-test-for-alcoholism/ <- too true
BingoBoingo: Naphex: Did you know there is a clean pathway between Isk and BTC?
ozbot: Why Eve Online's economist thinks bitcoin could be a scam | Polygon
BingoBoingo: A mix of resuse some addresses never, and reuse some addresses frequently.
BingoBoingo: artifexd: Well the thing is best practices for users involve a degree of esoterism
artifexd: I certainly believe that reusing addresses has a time and a place. I'm just trying to wrap my head around the idea that it increases anonymity.
BingoBoingo: artifexd: It can make a ton of good. Someone suspects an address is yours because of a transaction between it and an address you claimed. You can assert, no that's a service's address and disavow it.
artifexd: That makes some sort of minor sense for a service that just holds money to send it back to its users, but that logic doesn't do a user of bitcoin any good.
artifexd: As in: Send me money. I'll send it to you later. But I may send the next guys money before I send yours. I may also send you a different amount than you sent me.
ozbot: A reporter, a reddit founder, a lawyer, and an ex-NSA chief walk into a debate | Ars Technica
decimation: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/a-reporter-a-reddit-founder-a-lawyer-and-an-ex-nsa-chief-walk-into-a-debate/ more lulz
BingoBoingo: I remember the good old days of the student health clinic where the meeting with the doctor was merely a formality.
mircea_popescu: The worst part is the prescribe the exact same thing I would have prescribed myself if I could just go to the pharmacy with a shopping list like an actual human being at a store << this is how i shop for medicine.
mircea_popescu: Naphex: cloudflare makes little sense to me << or to anyone whose brain works enough to power a goat.
mircea_popescu: "others have done well" is always a poor argument.
mike_c: yeah, i've read those. i just find a tough stock as a potential investor.
mircea_popescu: which is... unremarkable i guess. like any huge old commodity business, a power company or w/e
asciilifeform: but this is a secret from no one.
mircea_popescu: so in a sense, mpex price has been more or less matching btc inflation.
mircea_popescu: not nearly as remarkable a feat.
asciilifeform: despite the fact that a great many people technically are.
asciilifeform: much as no one is excited to see themselves as a zimbabwe dollar billionaire
asciilifeform: when that time comes, one ought to expect a lack of interest in how many $b something is worth
mircea_popescu: but this seems hardly a discussion of value and worth.
mircea_popescu: not that i didn;'t say roughly the same about 100s of millions a year ago, but still.
mircea_popescu: mike_c "and a company that will probably be worth billions this time next year." well look, i like myself just as much as the next guy, but srsly, billions ? seems improbable.
asciilifeform: much like a high vacuum system, familiar to physics students, tends to start with a mechanical pump, then turns on ion-diffusion or other high vacuum source.
asciilifeform: taking pre-orders for improbably nice electronics is a good preliminary filter for a chumpatron.
mircea_popescu: except in march it's like a big wave.
mircea_popescu: "Here at Rockwell Automation's world headquarters, research has been proceeding to develop a line of automation products that establishes new standards for quality, technological leadership, and operating excellence. With customer success as our primary focus, work has been proceeding on the crudely conceived idea of an instrument that would not only provide inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detracto
asciilifeform: ''Let's see, I'm wealthy and respected. What's missing? 'I know!' he shouts, slapping his forehead so hard he loses consciousness, 'I'll launch A Ponzi scheme. That way every day will tingle with the excitement of wondering whether my world will collapse in ruins and I'll be dragged off to prison while simultaneously being reviled by the whole world.''
mircea_popescu: "The Forex Exchange market has become an up and coming method of financial trading. As an innovator and initiator in the online foreign exchange business, Rockwell Partners S.A. is a mover and a shaker and on the forefront of the online trading market."
mircea_popescu: wait it had a parent ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i don't even see how you can ponzi at 50% a month. that is insane. << actually romanian ponzi thing did 800% in 3 months. it paid out for a year and a half.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: (i'm secretly hoping i'm not the worst in the channel at languages) << he's just speaking a secret italian nobody else knows about.
asciilifeform: 20 btc. cost of a well-worn toyota.