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mircea_popescu: Even at today's exchange rates, that's a TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLAR premium. For a privately-minted round issued in 2013.
nubbins`: i honestly feel bad for the people paying 30btc for a 10btc piece because they saw an 0.5btc piece sell for 1.5
mircea_popescu: and of course a bunch of fuctards who imagine THEY had anything to do with it
mircea_popescu: someone should make a site allowing the pedigree of coins to be traced
nubbins`: the problem with saving them for a decade is that i don't think the btc premium will hold up
mircea_popescu: so buy a bunch and save them a decade
nubbins`: yet they command a lower premium
nubbins`: if you mean a 1btc brass series 1, anywhere from 2.5btc to 5btc
artifexd: nubbins` What's a series 1 with error running for nowadays?
nubbins`: getting a surprising amount of traction on casascius coins this past week
mircea_popescu: a, the aero thing is yest news really.
BingoBoingo: Anyone mind pointing a Bitfury at ATC for a few minutes?
BingoBoingo: K, I am still waiting on a confirm on my withdrawal from the exchange
artifexd: The asks are thin. I'd be willing to do a million for 150 satoshi each.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo suppose i send you a btc so you can put a buywall at 100 in ?
artifexd: A million ATC for 1 btc
mircea_popescu: benkay here's a random thought : as long as you're not running on transactional hardware, your "transactional" db stack is exactly implementable in mysql.
asciilifeform: when i bought a digital hot air machine circa '07, it came with a whole sausage of power plugs for various phones of the period
mircea_popescu: "Now I know better. The government is in the hands of satanic, globalist traitors who are following a script to destroy America and its people"
mircea_popescu: ya that'll do a lot of good.
asciilifeform: '... If you have a 'specialty' field such as... a degree in computer science... you could be 'drafted'..'
mircea_popescu: if it comes to war and there's a general mobilisation, the us couldn't gather even ukraine's 1%
mircea_popescu: i don't give a shit that the us could deploy fifty or fifty thousand specially trained idiots.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like calling a no confidence vote and not getting any yes.
asciilifeform: 'they had a war and nobody came'
mircea_popescu: once a state makes the comitment of calling a general mobilisaiton and its ignored,
mircea_popescu: "Also, something of a consensus among military experts has emerged: Ukraine's army can't fight."
mircea_popescu: moiety some even get a purse.
moiety: mircea_popescu: you have a knack for finding naked girls outside
benkay: tits in a parking lot are cool, don't get me wrong
nubbins`: it's all a spectrum man, don't fight it
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in a parking lot, http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6681rcJVh1qk6jqko1_500.jpg
deadweasel: not a definition I would have expected.
deadweasel: civilization via wikipedia: Civilization or civilisation (in British English) generally refers to state polities which combine these basic institutions, having one or more of each: a ceremonial centre (a formal gathering place for social and cultural activities), a system of writing, and a city.
mircea_popescu: to me it registers as the #1 item on the list of why the us can't be4 taken seriously as a civilised state.
jborkl: as I understand it just the State of Texas lew enforcment takes in a billion a year mainly on weed
asciilifeform: (many u.s. police depts are funded largely by asset seizure - without anyone needing to be convicted of a crime)
mircea_popescu: holden got hit with a -40%
mircea_popescu: tyl : veteran affairs cost as much as education or health care. who knew there's a cost to all that jingoism.
mircea_popescu: ferrari sells cars by convincing poor lithe 20something chicks to blow anyone in a ferrari
Mats_cd03: why cant you use a touch screen with a voice button mounted on teh wheel
mircea_popescu: screen is meant for douche who can't afford a car at all
Mats_cd03: im not a scrub that needs haptic feedback
asciilifeform: who the hell wants a touch screen in a car
Mats_cd03: looks like a good competitor to the stuff in tesla's cars
asciilifeform: (memory from a maths class)
asciilifeform: 'stokes' is a joke, but green's is mean'
mircea_popescu: i have a steak at stake and it's fucking sticking it to me
mircea_popescu: a statschain divided upon itself can not stand!
ThickAsThieves: typiclaly a good time to comb your hair
ThickAsThieves: they just slapped a squished logo on it
asciilifeform: expect a 'MtFox' or the like, using mouth and arse- prints for N-factor authentication and 'AML' government id both
asciilifeform: 'a holy place never remains empty' (rus. proverb)
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: a team of chumpatronic engineers is working around the clock to fix this.
asciilifeform: a good portion of english-language spam shows signs of being produced in exactly this way.
ThickAsThieves: it'll get a lot of clicks today
Duffer1: rtbtc is a trade platform
Apocalyptic: <ThickAsThieves> so they are opening a trading platform // wait, rtbtc was not just charts ?
ThickAsThieves: so they are opening a trading platform
nubbins`: but it is a nation of immigrants, so y'know. pockets everywhere
Mats_cd03: is there a sizable irish pop in cn
nubbins`: nor a dennis, for that matter
nubbins`: "O'Keefe said the city will act quickly on complaints once they're received, but if a landlord refuses to allow an inspector into the unit, the city then has to go to court. If an order to clean up a property is then ignored, they would have to go to court again."
nubbins`: followed by a look of utter confusion and a few more paragraphs of story-time?
nubbins`: did someone whisper it in his ear while he was reading a story?
mircea_popescu: pretty sure it's not the first thing posing as a bank no
Apocalyptic: it's been around for a while afaik
punkman: "Make music with the world. "The Cypherfunks" is a decentralized band & cryptocurrency. A new way to make music in the 21st century! The cryptocurrency, enables the new music collective."
diametric: ThickAsThieves: its been a while since I've done any PHP code, but all connections get closed if you open them with mysql_connect vs. pconnect
ThickAsThieves: does LAMP have a way to autclose db connections (of a certain age) across all hosted sites
deadweasel: nice to have a shake-out now and again.
azi`: why would anyone use a service described as "bitcoin bank"?
nubbins`: meh for some, a boon for others
nubbins`: i'd say the big news is a functional html5 web wallet
diametric: Why is in a category called 'chemtrails'
mircea_popescu: sooo... is this a fake ?
ThickAsThieves: get a MPOE-RedditPR
mircea_popescu: BUT IT HAS A MARKET CAP! with a fluffball and all.
mircea_popescu: (twist : Autumn Radtke was a chick) ☟︎
deadweasel: you have died from from plague. your party died in a river crossing.
mircea_popescu: but black slavery is a modern not pre-iron-age phenomena
mircea_popescu: putin could just get done with it and declare obama must now spend a week naked in chains pulling the plow under the whip somewhere in rural ukraine.
mircea_popescu: now that'd be a riot.
mircea_popescu: "A Kremlin aide was quoted on Tuesday as saying that if the United States were to impose sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, Moscow might be forced to drop the dollar as a reserve currency and refuse to pay off any loans to US banks."
moiety: i think that's the only chess set you can commit a murder with
mircea_popescu: d here for supporting Romney? Why should we want Obama for a second term? Please, no soundbites you got from twitter." As the kid's head melts like he was staring into the Ark of the Covenant we'd see clearly that he isn't an Obama supporter at all. He may be voting for Obama, I have no idea, but he wasn't there for Obama, he was there for himself under the pretense antagonizing Fox, which is why his main argument
mircea_popescu: Imagine Gretchen Carlson doing what she should have done if she was smart: kept the interview going longer. "Oh, I'm sorry, Max, we must all be dummies here at Fox because when you told us you were pro-Romney we... just believed it. We do that with the Bible and pre-war intelligence, too, gosh golly. Well, you have a Columbia education and I'm giving you a national platform, why don't you tell us why we're all stupi
mircea_popescu: Imagine you are in the target demo for Fox & Friends (i.e. your ex-husband drives an F150 and your daughter's Nokia is bedazzled), would you feel punked? What would you see in the video? You'd see a wise ass, a self-aggrandizing cynic, a douchebag. So if he's pro-Obama, then the point is obvious: pro-Obama people are idiots. Thanks, Max, you helped the cause.
ozbot: Satoshi should give away a good chunk of the 1.000.000 btc he has
mircea_popescu: we're in the middle of a debate as to how scammy this is.
mircea_popescu: not a bad place to be
mircea_popescu: *nigger in this context is a term of art. see http://trilema.com/2013/fried-chicken/ for the definition.
punkman: "During the first phase of the MazaCoin pre-mine, the Traditional Lakota Nation as represented by the BTC Oyate Initiative will pre-mine 25 million MazaCoins as the starting point of a National Crypto-Currency Reserve. This reserve is critical as a symbol of national sovereignty, and vital for the future of MazaCoin. "
mircea_popescu: another "altcoin" with a 349587598437598349534 "mkt cap" ?
punkman: "KAM Analysts have come out and established the opening price for MZC at $1.00 USD as a opening price. "We felt this was a reasonable opening price with the Alt Market the way it is currently, Dogecoin is setting around $1.17 in some exchanges and MAXcoin is still right around $1.28."
jurov: yes. but hannah's would only work if gpg would be akin to religion... only zealots could think of giving such responsibility to a child
benkay: she wrote a story a while back
jurov: just a disaster bound to happen
jurov: everyone gets all heprderp and then comes schneier "just think of a sentence and use first letters"
dignork: entropy is lower to a gibberish of comparable length