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artifexd: It is named in
a comment. Variables don't contain the name.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as bitcoin protocol happily handles half
a bitcoin
Dimsler: satoshi is
a denomincation
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the satoshi is quite clearly the only unit of account,
a "bitcoin" is just
a courtesy style.
ThickAsThieves: i prefer
a response from someone i think knows what;s up
ThickAsThieves: and if so, is satoshi
a documented name, or just what people say?
ThickAsThieves: is there any argument to say they unit of account of Bitcoin is
a bitcoin?
BingoBoingo: Oh, half an hour ago there were still
a 300k or so left.
mircea_popescu: someone should make an ipo of
a totally insane thing and just keep posting wall of text after wall of text of completely rambling, nonsensically, perhaps machine-generated text whenever someone says something
mircea_popescu: didn't they call
a general mobilisation nobody showed ?
ThickAsThieves: ironically i probly used it to determine i should ask for
a refund on my BFL
mircea_popescu: seems to have started jan 2013, then taken
a 11 month break to december
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform>
a master machinist eats very well even today. << yes, but he's not in
a union is he.
mircea_popescu: this is what the us army has come to be, btw : those blondish dudes in
a buzz cut with glasses.
Mats_cd03: i wonder what
a crashed airplane with mangosteens in hold would look like
Apocalyptic: pretty sure military radars don't give
a fuck about transponders or not
Apocalyptic: I suppose you could achieve that with
a special setup with multiple coordinated radars
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, I have no knowledge of
a radar indentifying how long an object is or whatever
mircea_popescu: and you'll probably fall for 100s of feet at
a time because of inertia etc.
mircea_popescu: basically if you try to fly
a boeing behind another you'll just fall
mircea_popescu: in order for it to generate enough force to keep all those tons in the air it has to have
a certain density and flow pattern
mircea_popescu: so how do you figure two 80 meter long objects
a mile apart could appear the same one object
mircea_popescu: there are occasionally accidents where
a car follows
a leader too close and ends up losing contact with the ground because of the disrupton in airflow
mircea_popescu: in racing however the road is there to keep the cars up, and turbulence only causes
a problem at high speeds, because the cars are designed so that the air pushes them on the ground.
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, he could stay at
a reasonable safe distance while still being close enough to show as 1 spot on the radars imo
cazalla: patting
a rabbit with an open palm (as in the video) blocks it's vision which can make it become defensive
kakobrekla: but theres
a "buy now with bitcoin" button on the bottom of product page
kakobrekla: or you can chop them up and make
a nice wooden table
isthisreallyreal:
A user from bitcointalk refered me here to gain some more experince about bitcoin in generel.
bounce: oh, nice to wake up to
a spurious paste. another reason to hate trackpads.
BingoBoingo: Also, slipping typos past /. editors is
a thrill
artifexd: "All email received unencrypted is automatically deleted unread." <- Should there be
a comma between "deleted" and "unread"?
diametric: i spread myself too thin honestly, i have
a wide range of interests but never enough time to fully explore them.
diametric: nah its not something i spend
a lot of time thinking about.
diametric: mircea_popescu: I see your point, maybe not harm at its basic level. Intent has
a lot to do with it.
mircea_popescu: ("i'm not really
a waitress, i'm just on my way to the newsweek stint")
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah it's
a lot more diffuse than that. i suspect many of them actually worked in
a job that required them to dress as an animal. they do that for parties/disne\yland etc.
diametric: its
a fetish. some people like feet, some people like anal gaping, some people like making scrambled eggs compromised of equal parts chicken eggs and semen. those guys like dressing up like animals and fucking. I think anonymity is incidental
mircea_popescu: diametric i mean what, you can't be friends with
a war veteran ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it may even be
a chicken and egg thing. maybe the pedestrian anonimity thing comes from the suits.
diametric:
a consideration for what? I mean, sure its something I might factor in if its relevant to the situation, but I wouldn't dismiss someone simple because of that.
mircea_popescu: what they consider beautiful would seem
a major consideration
diametric: to what end though, i don't really care if people dress up like animals and fuck each other if they want too. I think its weird, but I would not consider myself
a better person than they on that alone.
mircea_popescu: diametric what's harm to do with anything ? i'd rather take
a smoker than someone who watches tv.
diametric: honestly its just
a degradation of the signal to noise ratio that happens in any online community that gains popularity with the masses.
diametric: "the guy that runs bitbet made the bet and he's
a scammer!" many lols were had.
mircea_popescu: i don't know how hard im trolling either, tbh, but i figure it should be somewhere between my penis and
a brick wall.
benkay: they're in
a tough spot. they're guaranteeing cold storage for customer funds, but also that they can send funds on demand. this requires they commingle, which is anathema.
benkay: it's
a rails stack, who said anything about scaling?
Duffer1: Hirethestache it appears coinbase keeps track of all addresses generated by your transactions (they appear to use
a new address for every deposit/withdrawl) you can view them under Account Settings - Bitcoin Addresses
mircea_popescu: "Being quiet and studious is broadly unknown in
a western culture that prizes “views”, “likes” and the inane extraversion required to generate them." no see, that's attacking people's self esteem.
benkay: mircea_popescu Hirethestache doesn't CB allocate users
a specific receipt address?
mircea_popescu: Hirethestache wait, you think the berkshire bet ends in
a week or is this some other bet you're talking asbout
benkay: you may consider
a dicelist and
a deterministic wallet, Hirethestache.
mircea_popescu: Hirethestache if you say you have
a cold wallet, you can just use that as
a bitbet outbound address
benkay: mircea_popescu: i guess 2012's
a while ago in buttyears
mircea_popescu: benkay as an experiment i put
a privkey in
a window at some point in 2012.
mircea_popescu: having
a few cents in there for convenience is fine, but don't go overboard
bitcoinpete: Also partially inspired by Rabbi bin Popescu's "
a bug in the implementation of physicality" line.
Hirethestache: Oh yeah, I don't have any coins directly on it. I have
a small Coinbase account,
a small amount on my nexus wallet, and everything else on
a paper wallet in
a safe
benkay: spend 200 bucks on
a linux netbook.
benkay: do you not have
a computer?
Hirethestache: I'm mobile, and there are not any iOS apps for BTC wallets that I know about. I have my android with
a small wallet, but it's not on me ATM.
benkay: you might consider developing
a workflow that includes owning your own bitcoins.
Hirethestache: I've searched for
a simple guide, but there are not many resources on the specific resolve
Hirethestache: Is it possible to send
a wager to Bit et from Coinbase?
mircea_popescu: or perhaps something along the lines of "Yes well, I once asked
a married woman to my hotel room. She said no and yet showed up."
ozbot: O hai. I was justing doing
a penetration test of your site. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: "damn these reality check things getting in the way of my delusional substitute for
a through process"
khersonus: "if you look at the whole pie I’d be muchly surprised if
a tenth of all Bitcoin trade ever sees
a so-called exchange website" < if this is really true, I can see your point. I've just never witnessed that much otc trading, perhaps.
ThickAsThieves: "Can someone explain to me why Berkshire stock has the value that it has? It has never paid
a dividend. What benefit is there in owning such
a stock, other than it increasing in value?"
khersonus: it still doesn't seem like it would be that difficult of
a problem. I'm surprised you haven't come up with
a solution, given the potential profit it could have and has had for mpex
ThickAsThieves: to play devil's advocate, why wouldn't MPEx use
a decentralized system to manage its issuances, assuming things like orderbook delays were not
a problem?
khersonus:
a proper index could publish all of its calculations. It could even be
a collection of scripts that everyone could run to verify the data on their own. mircea could just publish the verified results.
mircea_popescu: khersonus so what is the ownership of bitbet going to do, change the brk-
a market ?
khersonus: Duffer1: maybe that's true. But maybe this big bet on berkshire is also
a conflict of interests? he owns most of bitbet anyway, I thought
Duffer1: that would be
a pretty massive conflict of interest khers
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves o hey, the bet is officially
a net positive nao. Yes pays: 0.99990488
mircea_popescu: the problem here would be that bitcoin is
a two tier society.