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ThickAsThieves: peterl, you still havent clarified whether there are ever was a problem or misunderstanding
deadweasel: or mpexbot or assbot or a fuckingbot
deadweasel: ozbot should spam the channel with that at least once a day. boom, no more support.
mike_c: http://bitbet.us/faq/#140 explains how you can lose money on a bet.
ThickAsThieves: even on a winning bet
ThickAsThieves: maybe give a specific example
mike_c: lurking around, yeah. you can just ask if you have a question.
Apocalyptic: looks like they're a bunch of winners
blackwhite: but here is a few things
radan: why isn't bitcoin run like a democracy
thestringpuller: blackwhite: do you have a portfolio?
mike_c: there is a lot of competition already if you are talking about stuff like https://bitcoinwisdom.com/
blackwhite: how many of you are using some sort of dashboard tool to follow bit coins? And is there room for someone making a better dashboard dealing perhaps not only with bitcoin but also other currencies?
gribble: Error: "msg" is not a valid command.
gribble: End-to-end auditable voting systems - Wikipedia, the free ...: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_systems>; Cryptography - Electronic Voting - Stanford Crypto Group: <http://crypto.stanford.edu/pbc/notes/crypto/voting.xhtml>; Cryptographic Voting Protocols: A Systems Perspective - Usenix: (1 more message)
thestringpuller: i can't find the specific article but do a bit of googling and you'll find it
blackwhite: so digital voting. Government send me a "coin" for voting. I send it back to vote. Everyone can see it, cheating much less possible? Thoughts?
mike_c: i'll take another look at pypy, that's a good idea. i haven't poked around at it in a while.
Mats_cd03: then create a generator so you can fill element by element?
Apocalyptic: but if you think you can get close to a native C prog speed you're mistaken
Mats_cd03: a jit would fix that
mike_c: indeed it would.. i'm always a little worried about incompatabilities
Mats_cd03: python is doing a lot of background noise between iterations
mike_c: well, the slow part (i think) is a have a big 2-dimensional array that i'm doing a lot of lookups into
benkay: thx for handling b-a.com
kakobrekla: i was actually contemplating just copy pasting the output of current wp in a html file
jurov: and a designated secure server
kakobrekla: bitcoin-assets will have a designated admin/maintainer from now on
mike_c: yes, it was a wordpress plugin that opened a small hole.
Mats_cd03: what a stupid question
Mats_cd03: its slowly dawning on him what a multinatl company has to deal with on a daily basis in order to engage in commerce
diametric: hmm for some reason I swore Bitstamp held a bank account in the US but I'm probably mistaken then.
jurov: two cans and a tentacle
steven-__: benkay: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2014/03/19_webwallets-will-always-fail-fr33aids-wallet-robbed-blockchaininfo-complicit-in-2fa-compromise.html has a broken link to http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2014/03/2014/03/05_those-coins-theyll-be-happy-with-their-new-master.html
asciilifeform: author of that turd 'knows' that he won't be personally sold, and it shows. (not by itself damning - authors of designs for meat processing plants don't expect to ever become chickens, either. but in this case it spoils the flavour in a rather obvious way.)
novusordo: sounds like a radical liberal wet dream
gribble: Error: "atc,stats" is not a valid command.
benkay: mike_c_d: i'm fighting to get my block erupter up on a macintosh during late-night sleepy hours
ThickAsThieves: i suppose a good headhunter would also make sure you got the best salary and benefits
ninjashogun: does anyone know why recruiters (headhunters) don't share their bonus with their successfully placed recruit, as a cash payment (/incentive)? Especially where they make a large commission?
ThickAsThieves: "Under the swap–known as a “non-deliverable” forward because the contract is settled in cash without the need to deliver bitcoin–the parties agreed to pay each other in the future a certain amount based on the values of the two currencies. "
nubbins`: ^ that picture was taken a stone's throw from my house
asciilifeform: need Europe? It is hard to find a more self-sufficient people than yourselves. It is Europe who has need of you, but you need it not. You are so many - a whole three countries - but where is your unity! You have everything your own: much land, energy, fuel, water, science, industry, culture. When we had our Yugoslavia and we were united, we felt ourselves to be a great strength, able to shift mountains. But n
asciilifeform: 'Russians! I'm speaking to all Russians, those of you who live in Ukraine and Belarus are also called Russians here in the Balkans. Look at us and remember - the very same thing will be done to you, should you break up and show weakness. The West - is a chained, rabid dog, that shall tear out your throat. Brothers, remember the fate of Yugoslavia! Do not allow the same to be done to you! Russians, why do you
nubbins`: a word of mouth marketer
jurov: Kirk will teach a maverick entrepreneur how to think like an executive
ThickAsThieves: iOS is a tax on your internet life probly
nubbins`: for extra lels, look up prices with a few different web browsers.
ThickAsThieves: then you check a few hours later and they revert
ThickAsThieves: although(<--- !) all is a lot
ThickAsThieves: but all is not a
ThickAsThieves: maybe one day alot will be a word
ozbot: Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
VanCleef: i demand a public apology from obama
ThickAsThieves: 'In a statement, Huawei spokesman Bill Plummer criticized the spying measures. “If it is true, the irony is that exactly what they (NSA, US) are doing to us is what they have always charged that the Chinese are doing through us,” he said. “If such espionage has been truly conducted, then it is known that the company is independent and has no unusual ties to any government and that
ThickAsThieves: i hear ya kako, wordpress is a bitch
kakobrekla: ThickAsThieves there was a breach yesterday, i decided to kill the container until uncompromisable version is up - you dont want to be running code that you dont know what it does. ☟︎
ThickAsThieves: We decided we needed some non-news, an uglier website, and a more generic name
dexX7: "For me as outsider it looks like jimmothy is a paid shill/troll from an competing Bitcoin investment plattform.
ThickAsThieves: as a gem, maybe
VanCleef: rockxie ipo might be a decent buy
nubbins`: your daughter needs surgery next month so you're looking for a BTC fund to invest in?!
ThickAsThieves: not sure if it was sposed to be a real update or just financial projections
nubbins`: http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/gwar-frontman-dave-brockie-a-k-a-oderus-urungus-reportedly-dead-at-50/
ThickAsThieves: VanCleef, I helped with a local compilation of beats by local producers
VanCleef: isit a guy or a girl?
Diablo-D3: who in here was looking for a cheap dedi server?
ThickAsThieves: "Claim 1: Kraken controls a certain amount of Bitcoins."
ThickAsThieves: seems like a hedge at best
ThickAsThieves: he's been a board member and primary reseller for a long time
mircea_popescu: people just gotta use teh noggin a lot more, everywhere
mircea_popescu: (hint : just because your "employer" tells you to do something, it doesn't follow it's a good idea to do - either for them or for you)
mircea_popescu: well i hadn't been doing business with actual romanian corps (as opposed to foreign run subsidiaries) for a decade. i had not been hiring romanians. for the past year i've not been writing in romanian, either, which means i don't even read the press
dexX7: let's look at the competition. knc's neptune coming q2: "Minimum 3000GH/s" + "A 30% reduction in watts per GH" (currently about 1.6 w/gh afaik) + "$ 9,995.00"
VanCleef: pepe escobar a name you can trust
mircea_popescu: who could have imagined that one day chips able to do 12.8 gh/s were going to not be worth a dollar.
VanCleef: so what's a fair share price for am atm?
mircea_popescu: obviously difficulty is still popping up, add in delivery and lead-in times and you're looking at a very tenuous bottom line
mircea_popescu: from which you have to repay 6 to 12.8 dollars for the chip + all other setup and fixed costs and make a profit.
mircea_popescu: .5 dollars a day (.833 dollars a day in mining revenue, .236 dollars a day in elec costs for chip only)
gribble: Error: "gen" is not a valid command.
mircea_popescu: a a
chetty: from a friend on a forum: " but just visiting vircurex gets my system hacked, with 100% certainty"
benkay: you are a perpetual wealth of information
jurov: then there was a bug where it would eat your money without giving btc
benkay: <phantomcircuit> the better solution is to create a new "key" type that stores
benkay: does anyone have a link to the Kraken "oops we dropped 600 BTC on the flor"?
MisterE: "A recent study by the Standish Group, a firm in Boston that researches failures, found that only 5 percent of large federal IT projects in the last decade fully succeeded. Of the rest, 41 percent were failures, canceled before they were turned on."
benkay: maybe a suggestion
benkay: hey here's a weird thought
KRS-One: Maybe such a position gets a complementary (gratis, free) Trilema credits or membership?
nubbins`: got a CIS kit on the way for it too
nubbins`: we occasionally get requests for color digital prints, and it's a pain having to outsource it
nubbins`: dan deacon is pretty good, have a listen to "bromst"
TestingUnoDosTre: anybody a fan of mmoths ? https://soundcloud.com/mmoths/untitled
TestingUnoDosTre: Have you seen this movie, it's pretty unique with a good sound track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hKW8kKXi6g
TestingUnoDosTre: alright but if I go make a cold wallet on a flash drive, sell the flash drive to my brother, and tell him that he can't use the coins for 2 years, who owns them?
nubbins`: then a storm wednesday night lasting thru friday
benkay: in 'real world' scenarios, you cannot ever trust your counterparty to not spend coins from a private address.
nubbins` cracks a beer