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bitcoinpete: "Consider how the Catholic Church might have mitigated some of the deep pain caused by its abusive priests had it acted with the kind of boldness shown by N.B.
A. Commissioner Adam Silver. Instead, it chose cover-ups, denial and blame shifting — the usual default modes for institutions trying to protect themselves." << default of institutions that last
mike_c: i agree with naggum in
a lot of ways, but i ended up in python instead of lisp. i was just writing
a C module for python and it was
a brutal reminder of much time and energy is spent making sure i didn't miss dereferencing something in some random error case that would cause
a leak, etc.
bitcoinpete: kakobrekla:
a very specific subset of them, southern amuricans
MarieLynn: I have decades of project and staff management experience so I do not expect to work in bitcoin as
a developer. Bitcoin needs leadership and guidance for its 22 year old employees!! I have lots of experience developing talent 19-25
pankkake: perhaps getting
a good paying fiat job should be your immediate priority then
MarieLynn: For me it's hard to know, there is always
a fricking bitcoin dip right after I get paid!!
MarieLynn: It goes with
a feature article I am writing about
a brain wallet we are trying to decrypt right now
kakobrekla: yeah well tell that to lampelina when she wants me to remove
a spider or such.
pankkake: oh it's
a horse! of course, it's romanian
MarieLynn: Have fun rotating, there's
a lot of kookey things goin on in there ;)
pankkake: "let me tell you
a story…" contradictor falls asleep, win by default
mircea_popescu: pussies have
a big heart because all the cocks coming in and out enlarge it in the end.
MarieLynn: Mircea, thanks for the Tweet. I used to buy
a lot of art from Romania, I kept the cute export papers in French :)
kakobrekla: i was accused of same, then told pussies have
a big heart. so go with that.
kakobrekla: you mean you like to sound like
a pussy
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> pankkake most = any << defo. there's what, like
a dozen girls here.
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> if the second ones get something out of the company, even at the expense of the firsts, I'd be happy << need
a company first.
fluffypony: poor: "of
a low or inferior standard or quality."
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> MarieLynn: unfortunately I'm
a poor C developer << how da heck are you poor now.
pankkake: I'd think b-
a has
a higher female ratio than most bitcoin channels
pankkake: Missouri Securities Division sending the issuer
a letter. not much more is known
pankkake: it's 24/7, but you can get
a reply hours later. it's generally as everywhere on IRC
MarieLynn: Is this
a 24/7 thing or do you have mneetup times?
fluffypony: I'm much better at being an
A to all the Ds on the forum
fluffypony: MarieLynn: unfortunately I'm
a poor C developer
MarieLynn: Do any of you want to co-found
a 100% new coin concept? It's going to be super fun. Right now we need
a crypto-educated developer (wallets) but the rest we have already written.
MarieLynn: I am sure there are applications for our concept coin but so far it's just
a surrealist coin R&D experiment.
pankkake: Bernankoin. they didn't touch it for good reason, it simply cannot have
a non-decreasing value
pankkake: I made
a coin that no exchange touched
MarieLynn: Our coin is going to be so unique, I am not even sure exchanges will touch it with
a ten foot pole... Will be interesting
MarieLynn: Well... There are useful alt coins or coins that have
a very specific niche, I believe in those but the coingen copy paste alt coins is like vomit
mircea_popescu: "What does
a girls do when guys online keep asking for her photo?"
mircea_popescu: you'd expect "suck
a mean cock", but no. "go to
a museum"
mircea_popescu: MarieLynn there's
a chick here, by that name. she's in her 20s, tries to run online communities and also likes cats.
fluffypony: kakobrekla: how else do you start
a Bitcoin café without
a pastry consultant?
fluffypony: "Mr. Karpelès purchased
a $35,000 Backen pastry oven and
a $23,000 La Marzocco coffee machine, say the people involved in the project. He also hired an independent pastry consultant and put
a Tibanne employee full-time on the café project."
pankkake: speaking of passwords, I'm slowly moving towards requiring more than
a password everywhere to access my data
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> between Apocalyptic, pankkake, davout, and now MarieLynn (and who knows who else) I feel at such
a disadvantage for not speaking French << nubbins.
gribble: Error: '8DD69C90' is not
a valid GPG key id. Please use the long form 16 digit key id.
fluffypony: so your GPG private key, the essence of securing your identity with GPG, is protected behind
a mere username and password
fluffypony: "It was to feature
a rich menu of French quiches and coffee drinks"
bitcoinpete: MarieLynn: ripping off "investors" on havelock, joseph david being
a stooge...
bitcoinpete: fluffypony: i did
a few german lesson on duolingo, orangensaft!
MarieLynn: I want
a bitcoin ATM card else my hopes of
a bitcoin life are limited.
fluffypony: between Apocalyptic, pankkake, davout, and now MarieLynn (and who knows who else) I feel at such
a disadvantage for not speaking French
MarieLynn: My boyfriend has
a gun license and apparently that got him validated. I only have provincial health card with photo and passport and thats not good enough.é
MarieLynn: I am not
a frequent user of IRC since 1997, sry
gribble: Error: 'bitcoinpete' is not
a valid integer.
pankkake: do you mean earn
a living with bitcoin?
MarieLynn: I am
a lonely basement hacker. I build websites and online businesses.
bitcoinpete: " So far my experience of Bitcoin has been rather sad. I received my first Bitcoin paycheck
a few months ago and promptly lost 30% of it due to the dip. I was then almost unable to extract it from Vault of Satoshi because they stopped sending out checks. I was able to pay for my membership to Bitcoin Alliance and Bitcoin Foundation at least. "
bitcoinpete: "For
a few months, I have been developing business relationships with people in Bitcoin. As with any of the communities I have joined and thrived in the past 25 years, I am paying my dues in Bitcoin by doing some volounteer work."
mircea_popescu: fluffypony no, i meant as
a kid. they do this "o write
a business plan" many places.
fluffypony: I always enjoyed it as
a way to cement my thoughts
ThickAsThieves: haha, cleaning old stuff and found
a business plan i did to open
a record store, i was pretty young obv: "XXXX XXXX will help me with of retail store's responsibilities. He is an extremely trusted friend and works very well with people. I whole-heartedly feel he is my best and favorite choice for the position."
artifexd: Bloomberg is using Kraken as the source? WTF? They had less than 10btc of volume in the last 24 hours. Talk about
a fucked up signal.
mircea_popescu: Thomas is Chief Technical Officer at Ripple Labs,
a company that created its own payment protocol and prides itself on
a transparent public ledger of transactions."
Apocalyptic: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: ბ is
a mouse? // looks like an apple to me
pankkake: if only it was written in
a simple and eficient language
ozbot: O metoda simpla si eficienta de-
a produce un blog excelent, pe pasi. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea
ozbot: The idea for
a great film… pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform course the flaw there is to assume people whose tech is bow and arrow have the means to fight
a Ww.
ThickAsThieves: but then are like, well
a million people left, so there's that
ThickAsThieves: well part of my dafuckness is how they are all "It's
a flat out good report. All of the metrics that you want to see improve, did," said Tom Porcelli
mircea_popescu:
a lot have left,
a lot more are leaving and
a helluva lot more will be leaving.
ThickAsThieves: "The one thing I would be careful with though is the decline in the unemployment rate, the decline in the unemployment rate was
a function of the labour force falling by 806,000, that is gargantuan decline," he added.
mircea_popescu: lol. ah if only they had enough sense to do what told
a while back.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if asicminer has figured out yet that it can probably make
a decent penny selling such "board seats"
ThickAsThieves: the trio had fled the country (Pierce reached
a settlement).
mircea_popescu: or if they will take 2.0 as
a thing that actually existed, and continue the count.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves im kinda curious how far the nonsense will go. specificaslly, if the comatose media-only "Web 2.0" will be forgotten and
a new web 2.0 will be enacted, out of the same pressed shitboard,
ThickAsThieves: i saw someone use ethereum and the like as
a Web 3.0 reference
ThickAsThieves: even when we break out of the channel and its impossible log, we create
a web of cross-referenced blogs to further fuck with newcomers
pankkake: though I actually read your first post thanks to
a trilema pingback, so, it werks
pankkake: that was
a tentative joke. anyway, have to agree on the trend of linking to trilema on every blog post