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zach_: i can prove from my coinebase transaction history that the bet in question was sent by me
twizt: zach_: i think that answer depends on how coinbase is designed...
zach_: if i did not enter an address, it will just get sent back to coinbase correct? does that work are are there problems with that
pankkake: I don't think you have a way to prove you were that transaction
zach_: not totally sure but i don't think i specified a different address to receive
zach_: ok, how do i contact someone from bitbet then
zach_: na i'm asking because i saw on smoeother betting site that coinbase did not work for sending money to them, something about it sending it back to the same address, just like bitbet does, and there being issues with that
nubbins`: i think some guy got burned doing that a while ago
zach_: hey i have a question for a mod or someone from bitbet
mircea_popescu: i never knew it went away
asciilifeform: one thing i occasionally try to convince people off is that: the time to invent the parachute is before, rather than after, being thrown out of the plane
ThickAsThieves: assume i mean the network we all use to communicate
mod6: bitcoin will find a way. if anything, i think we'd build our own communications network if we needed to.
mircea_popescu: well how would i know ?
pankkake: I don't even understand how something so bad can exist
pankkake: I aim to sell Bernankoin to the USG!
ThickAsThieves: i sure love paying tax
pankkake: I would think more like forbid "bad" transactions
pankkake: got a "coinchat is back" mail. I thought that was TradeFortress' thing?
ThickAsThieves: This is more of a haunting than a poltergeist behavior which tends to be more violent. My wife and I have had many strange unexplained experiences happen also. I am no so keen on mediums though. There are only a few in the world that are actually any good at being specific or accurate.
bevardis1: Hey guys. I want to buy some bitcoins. How fast is it possible to do it with a reasonable price (not more than 20% increase, hopefully <10%)? I have paypal, credit card, etc. I'm european. Looking for advice here, not offers :)
jurov: Please whitelist this account for business use. I will follow up with a post from my main account, ThickAsThieves.
benkay: next computer i get excited about comes from the asciilifeform labs
BingoBoingo: I wouldn't mind a Macintosh SE/30 with less magic smoke than the last one produced.
BingoBoingo: I'd settle for does what it is told,
BingoBoingo: benkay: I would. Maybe.
fiat500: i would agree with that
fiat500: benkay: yeah, not gonna dispute this, i see it all the time, and not just with novices
fiat500: i dont think i said you shouldnt be able to... im saying you should
BingoBoingo: Before that though I banged away in motorola 68k assembler on the TI-89 and mac
fiat500: BingoBoingo: i mean in the sense that many people who are using c++ don't really understand wtf is going on behind the scenes
BingoBoingo: Eh, C++ is what the first programming classes I'd taken were conducted in.
fiat500: i think the most egregious example of this is c++, not python
fiat500: not saying its great, just a choice made by the designers, i think it adds a nice variety to the mix
benkay: i come at this all from a weird non cs perspective, so i'm sure a lot of the conclusions that i've come to are completely bogus.
fiat500: ok, i see what you're getting at here
benkay: i'm fresh out of a code retreat with some humans who really grok oop and yet failed to put together class hierarchies to implement the game of life in 45 minutes.
benkay: how do I teach someone what the ever loving fuck is going on in a Django project?
benkay: i lean towards the monadic approach these days.
BingoBoingo: I don't think .NET and OOP are equivalently problematic. OOP can be useful in cases. Somethings want to be objects. I mean CLOS is a thing. The problem is what happens once you make an object.
benkay: yeah i just can't accept FB as an example of a mature and sustained development environment delivering business value.
fiat500: i think my point is, while fb is rather large, has sw dev teams > 10 members, and uses OOP for many things, they also use fp where it makes sense
fiat500: hm, sorry, guess i was missing context then
benkay: neither. i don't quite understand your comment about wheres and whys, tho.
fiat500: i think you are conflating the 'where' with the 'why'
benkay: but i gather that you don't actually need to be scripting python, and the cleaner the break with whatever your past is (Java especially), the easier of a time you're going to have wrapping your head around the functional approach.
benkay: obviously, i don't know anything about anything and my 'advice' on programming matters should be regarded as highly suspect
benkay: BingoBoingo: i strongly recommend you not fill your cup with those idiocies. there is a strong push towards things that are easy, but taking the easy route now sets you up for a whole shitton of unnecessary unlearning later.
BingoBoingo: benkay: I'm trying to put myself in a position to appreciate the better things when I have the background to leverage them.
Duffer1: oh ya politicians say things but all i hear is bbzzzzzzzz
fiat500: i mean given the notion that a downgrade 'changes nothing' - seems like he should be arguing it was undeserved, not that it is meaningless
Duffer1: star citizen needs to be a real thing right now that i can play
Duffer1: i wonder why sex coin didn't survive...
CuWireBeard: How many Earthcoins do I need for a tree to be planted in my name on Earth Day?
mircea_popescu: hello sir. i am with fortune a business company of the united states and would like to short blong
Duffer1: i'm surprised it's on the jd blog, highlighting the tragedy of gambling addiction would drive users away, or make them more disappointed in themselves for staying
kakobrekla: or should i say vs 1% house edge
Duffer1: how did i know that was going to be about nokawa
fiat500: kakobrekla: what did i slander exactly?
fiat500: im just imagining some dude with 1000s of BTC saying "yeah i want to sell off super fast such that i cause the price to plummet and in turn lose a lot of money"
mircea_popescu: anyway. i wonder how many shitty officers are breathing easy now, because they won't get fired because well... they dont' get drunk so it's all ok.
mircea_popescu: "I've never been more embarrassed professionally in my life with a senior member." aka, you should see the junior members.
mircea_popescu: i say take his citizenship, he doesn't fit in.
pizzaman1337: I guess it depends on your definition of root?
Duffer1: i'd be an alcoholic too
pizzaman1337: no, I mean, something I can trust more than a shell on some else's box. I want root.
pizzaman1337: I want something I can "completely" control
pizzaman1337: the internet seems to disagree: http://www.quora.com/Amazon/Can-I-use-Amazon-gift-cards-to-pay-for-AWS
pizzaman1337: wait, I wonder if you can use AWS with an amazon gift card, which you could buy with BTC...
mike_c: i assumed we were not connecting semantically on the challenge. i did it for fun :)
mike_c: it's pretty counter. i'm up like 100-0
wao-ender: what do you think of? I just had talk with some guy who is pro in risk assests managment
wao-ender: also, I have in my head some cat bonds, did you heard of them?
wao-ender: mircea_popescu: I just thinking about something similiar you just wrote at trilema http://trilema.com/2012/probably-the-hottest-business-idea-of-the-moment-in-btc/ (thx 2 jurov)
asciilifeform: i still find it hilarious how much time people burned playing with that thing.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what that site threw at me, but it didn't werk
mike_c: i just did :)
mike_c: i can provide strings of arbitrary length
mike_c: you have JS on at all? i could publish the html/js somewhere else
mike_c: i could publish an arbitrary number of long strings of numbers that win
mike_c: um, not sure exactly what the challenge was. i'm done!
mike_c: this is educational as well. i am surprised at the patterns that fool it.
KRS|Gotyawallet: i've been reading about that sort of thing since i was just a kid
mircea_popescu: supposedly i was a theoretical physicist in my youth
KRS|Gotyawallet: i see you know a thing or two about physics mircea_popescu
ThickAsThieves: i forgot my hat
mircea_popescu: mike_c i give you an hour. .1 btc if you manage.
mike_c: hehe. well, i could write a counter-bot pretty quickly since he provided the source code.
mike_c: fail. http://i.imgur.com/JKY7bwv.png
mike_c: fuck! i hate that mindreading robot.
asciilifeform: mike_c: i wrote that. (or actually, johnny von neumann did.)
asciilifeform: not unlike, if i'm not mistaken, what is happening with mpex.
Duffer1: cardano seems pretty simple, even i got it
Duffer1: ohh i thought it was a euphemism for.. well n/m
Duffer1: i think i'm too young to hear that one
Duffer1: i wonder if that makes rsa legally vulnerable to fraud suites
KRS|Gotyawallet: im retro like that, i dig ascii too..nothing like simplicity.
mike_c: wow that link on ascii dissecting mpex. I guess a few things have changed since february.
KRS|Gotyawallet: so if i buy 6 seats i can resell 7 thats tight
KRS|Gotyawallet: i heard once a year there are complimentary seat offers