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mircea_popescu: mike_c guy could have gone
a lot further if he actually used his chances rather than thinking he's smarter that everyone. that's the tragedy part of this drama here.
mike_c: seems like
a reasonable attempt at an orderly shutdown though. not bad for
a failing btc business.
mircea_popescu: I have to look for
a project that gives me
a paycheck and allows me more time to spend with my girlfriend who had
a miscarriage while i was sitting in the waiting room in the hospital working on SP...
mircea_popescu: vision and
a budget steps in and takes over. At this moment there is
a deficit in player funds, and I would be able to cover them by taking out another bank loan but at this point I would rather sell it and cover all balances from the buying price, as it is pointless to run an internet business with no marketing or development budgets and basically working full time to maintain the just under $1000 in monthly turnover.
mircea_popescu: After working on the project for the past year, sacrificing my other businesses, investing
a lot of time and money and running into personal debts to get it to where it is today, I don't have the time or personal stability to move the business forward to its full potential. Since november I have been working with no marketing budget and no development budget and for the future of SP it is better if somebody with
a new
mircea_popescu: Satoshi Poker has $118.50/mo net operational costs for the rent of
a dedicated server and VPS webhosting package (website and gameserver/bitcoin systems are hosted seperately for security reasons)
nubbins`: apparently the original picture was
a tweet directed at american airlines
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: It read like
a pretty big something
mircea_popescu: they probably accidentally sent her
a care package full of dongs
mircea_popescu: pankkake prosecuting poor satoshipoker guy. WHY R U SUCH
A TROAL!
mircea_popescu: you need someone actually competent for
a field to exist.
nubbins`: ^ never to recommend
a bad movie again
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But omission is
a swell way to transfer information
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> asciilifeform:
A number of watches still use silver oxide cells... << the better ones, anyway.
BingoBoingo: Now...
A lot of similar batteries in the same form factor will emit the long form labeling and the naming tends to be less complete.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I changed watch batteries at
a mall kiosk years back. I still see them on the shelves. There's still many available
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
A number of watches still use silver oxide cells...
adolf_fishler: Dr. Gay Hitler, son of George Washington Hitler, was
a local dentist, serving our community from 1922 through 1946 from his office on West Main Street.
nubbins`: nicolas cage is such
a bad actor
nubbins`: thestringpuller: there's
a trilema article, one sec
nubbins`: my phone is built into
a computer ;(
mike_c: my bank wants me to update my mobile app with
a new version that can pair with bluetooth devices. that makes sense.
benkay: mircea_popescu: would you tell @patrickmcguire that i broke the canadian bitcoins story
a month ago?
kakobrekla: its not
a life and death situation is it? ill see re that next time we meet.
BingoBoingo: MP had
a good writeup on the subject of Address reuse being good for certain kinds of privacy, but finding it might take some digging.
BingoBoingo: There are
a number of reasons to want wallets with different kinds of behavior. For some purposes different change addresses is
a bug.
BingoBoingo: I like the Multibit interface more for handling multiple wallet, but I'm liking Electrum more and more as I play with it. I just wish there was
a good solution for handling both Deterministic and random generation wallets.
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: yeah, and with
a sufficient number of nodes it's also good from
a privacy perspective
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: More nodes in general is good. Since I've started playing with electrum, I've become
a bit interested in seeing how without
a sufficient number of servers its model might approach par with SPV in some ways.
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: More electrum servers is
a good thing.
fluffypony: benkay: not for mining, just as
a spare electrum server
fluffypony: jurov: didn't even know they have
a VPS offering
fluffypony: ooooh,
a credit card sized C64 would be magic
BingoBoingo: I wonder when someone will release
a "Vaxberry Pi" credit card sized vax board
BingoBoingo: artifexd: Well, I probably would have opened it
a bit differently.
fluffypony: pankkake: had an average-ish experience with them
a while back, will give them another spin
fluffypony: any recommendations for
a reasonable VPS provider that won't throw
a tantrum if I run
a bitcoin node? DigitalOcean want me to provide DNA samples and ownership of my unborn child to allow me to create
a new VPS (despite having two hosted with them for the past 18 months)
TestingUnoDosTre: Funny comment from the pi calculation slashdot article" Goddamn mathematician wasting precious ammunition to have
a statistics wank-fest after MY goddamn zombie apocalypse?
TestingUnoDosTre: Was worried the world wide web was invented by
a guy that just recently wants to format an opinion on password managers. Phew
BingoBoingo: Java programmers who merely stitch together libraries and want embeded chips capable of running Java when
a Z80 would be fine
BingoBoingo: Really this is just the case of doing something already know yet forgotten and presenting it as
a new scoop.
pankkake: apparently danny let
a cat die
pankkake: I think I saw
a butt plug where you could store things
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "If I believe at any point there is value or use in them I can just… take… them. If experience is any guide, I shall take them the next day" << do you reccommend that as
a general strategy?
bounce: they did used to have technology, like that earthquake detector, that they subsequently forgot how to make work. bit sloppy for
a state to forget its own achievements, and not even the excuse of getting toppled and replaced
mircea_popescu: buncha equal peons, and the emperor drunk out of his mind. between these,
a bureaucracy, completely arbitrarily "educated" by rote.
bounce: anyway, china going communist has, well, at least given
a different flavour to the thing. wonder if and when they're going to do something about that
bounce: china was always quite
a lot self-centered. this appears to be
a bit less the case of late.
benkay: yeah well what is
a people?
benkay: just
a mass of undifferentiated atoms banging off each other
benkay: for
a century at
a time with interruptions
bounce: interesting to see the differences. as an up-and-coming empire they're occasionally serious about appearing to be
a functional government (as well as not that respectful of human life; they feel they have too many people running around already), where the US, er, works
a bit differently.
bounce: I'm reminded of the register, where they used to moderate each and every comment, and then gradually lifted the requirement. they have
a reasonably vibrant commenter community, without requiring facebook or real names or what-have-you.
mircea_popescu: bounce it's not trivial to actually burn down
a modern transformer.
mircea_popescu: and because of ecological concerns, old style coolant mixtures that were azerotropic were replaced with new, more expensive formulations.
a punctured coolant room means you have to empty, was and refill.
bounce: or that. anything to cause
a nice electrical fire. bullets have
a harder time there, despite their awesome speed. substations are like that.
bounce: assault rifles are still
a bit of
a poor choice. wrenches do better.
benkay: (how the fuck do you snipe *anything* inside
a substation - lines of sight have to be like 20ft max)
bounce: you really need no "sniper" people (or just people with
a fork lift driving into
a high voltage mast, as happened elsewhere) for an unstable grid. politicians will do just fine.
Apocalyptic: <benkay>
a sniper opened fire on an electric(al) substation? << sounds legit
benkay:
a sniper opened fire on an electric(al) substation?
mircea_popescu: it's gonna be
a long hot summer boys and girls. no better way to get the masses to believe in global warming than keeping them without ac for
a summer.
ozbot: It's way too easy to cause
a massive blackout in the US - Vox
TestingUnoDosTre: Fun fact: someone I know sent to
a dispensary in Denver that sold bath salts, but the cashier had to warn" not the ones you're thinking of"
danielpbarron: "The juveniles told the officers that there was
a party that was out of control and people were drinking and smoking weed" NARCS!
benkay: why is altcoin
a currency and bitcoin not?
BingoBoingo: I've just been locking the price into
a range I find sustainable and magic happens
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Not
a killing, but steady incremental gains
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you makin'
a killing on this thing yet ? :D
mircea_popescu: "Is this still being mined.... I mined it when it had
a coingen.io logo still and No source hahahaha"
arizona: I don't say much here. I enjoy reading and learning. I like your columns, Mr. Popescu. You are
a very good writer.
mircea_popescu: are you
a hot blonde with
a sister whose name is alabama and was played by patricia arquette in tarantino's movie ?
kakobrekla: >API calls are returning
a captcha page. Regular visits to the site do so as well, but unlike me, my bot is unable to solve the captcha on its own.
kakobrekla: <mike_c> yes, this is different because you can't sell
a position. < its taking awfully long for someone to code that.