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mircea_popescu: "so far my best investment was, buy some mpex stocks and not logging in for a year"
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: seems like a serious amount of work to do, simply in order to make a fair gamble.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure you can find a buncha daytrading lokhs that know way better.
mircea_popescu: copumpkin well if you had smpoe and didn't log in for a year you prolly got a buncha divs and whatnot
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: one of these days, you ought to write 'n00b guide' to sports bets. for instance, i grew up thinking of the whole concept as a chumpatron (lusers bet, the sports meisters throw matches & pocket the chumpatronium)
mircea_popescu: or alternatively i could hire twenty cocksucking "masseuses" for like 12 btc a season and have the porniest pro sports team in da werld
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: If you want a lower stakes pro sports team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Greys is probably available for under 300 BTC and... No facilities to maintain
asciilifeform: once met a military type (american) who knew just one russian phrase, but knew it very well: 'don't shoot - i know secrets'
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If they come this fast I live way to close to a trascom outpost.
mircea_popescu: provided june is a hawt ukrainian blondy
mircea_popescu: "russian by june" sounds like a good book
ThickAsThieves: as good a criteria as any here !
mircea_popescu: i guess i was right... it's not that there's A problem.
mircea_popescu: the sad irony of it all beinbg that i hazily recall mod asking me if i see a problem and me saying no.
ThickAsThieves: precedent at bitbet is to say 'above x rate at any time, or by a specific time' etc
ThickAsThieves: 'ends' has a menaing after all
BingoBoingo: This might be a good time to suggest a BitBet, "Bitbet to not accept further Altcoin Marketcap bets in 2014"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i can't fucking push it either, it's a legitimate contention.
ThickAsThieves: i have a bet in there
BingoBoingo: It is a lesson in forcing better specs
ThickAsThieves: and a scam
ThickAsThieves: add to the FAQ: In a circumstance where an accepted bet is determined to have unreliable determining factors, BitBet shall choose factors as best it can, or refund all bets at its own discretion.
mircea_popescu: no but seriously, anyone got a link to any place auroracoin thing is actually traded ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno, to me this entire shit looks like a transparent attempt of the quoted site to made 10 btc or w/e.
ThickAsThieves: i left a disagree
kakobrekla: 12:32 AM (3 minutes ago) > hey guys can you resolve this as a yes, aurora already almost doubled and everyone else agrees? thanx
kakobrekla: bitstamp tard came spamming re bitstamp back in 2012 or what was it, to such extent that he got a k-line
BingoBoingo: ivet: Maybe get a cloak first?
ivet: can anyone direct me to a good irc channel for bitstamp trading?
asciilifeform: karpeles had a wife?
Bugpowder: Dude was more concerned with putting a frappachino cafe in his own fucking building than using svn.
Bugpowder: they may release a torrent
mircea_popescu: a ok
mircea_popescu: getting out of an identity theft mess will be a royal pain in the loins
mircea_popescu: a ok
kakobrekla: >Sponsored by Private Internet Access, a Bitcoin-accepting VPN.
joecool: mostly scheduler stuff, because nobody can make up mind how how to schedule tasks for 64k cpu's vs. a typical desktop
joecool: used to have a tracker for that
mike_c: commented out lines are pretty bad (or at least a pet peeve). that's what source control is for.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i capitulated re s.mpoe price making any sense like a year ago
decimation: a trustworth bitcoin exchange should exist, this is an exchange, therefore it is trustworthy?
benkay: it /is/ a coin.
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, i have a serious problem just giving 15 btc to some dorks who went and did what basically ?
mircea_popescu: mk ima go take a coinpiss and brb
mircea_popescu: i mean otherwise what, facebook is a coin
mircea_popescu: gotta have a blockchain at a minimum neh ?
benkay: what is a coin?
mircea_popescu: ripple is not a coin tho
mircea_popescu: first of all i'm banning that retarded site, it's a signal about as good as pissing in the snow.
BingoBoingo: Flip a coin?
mircea_popescu: "wow! this website is a scam, can we get a link to reddit and bitcointalk.org protest time!"
mircea_popescu: "How many incestuous half siblings does it take to screw in a lightbulb? You do the meth." << ahaha
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Depends on the motel, could go as low as $50 a week if the interstate is too fat.
mircea_popescu: dude wtf, living in a motel ? what's that, like 50 bucks a night?
BingoBoingo: Arised because another TwoBitIdiot like account https://twitter.com/ryanxcharles raised the issue of a Bitcoin Texas nonference
mircea_popescu: She said the two had been living in a motel with her 2-year-old twin daughters
BingoBoingo: Texas since #BitcoinTexas is a hashtag http://gawker.com/family-that-gets-arrested-for-meth-together-makes-out-i-1535467958
mircea_popescu: did you write a script for this yet ?
asciilifeform: took a break from my usual doings, wrote psot:
mircea_popescu: "Out of this cesspool of vice rises that hideous monster, a possible menace to every home in the South. He has the savage nature and murderous instincts of the wild beast, plus the cunning and lust of a fiend."
mircea_popescu: wait women are a race ?
Duffer1: common B-A injuries: severe bruising from facepalm repetition, permanent eyeroll syndrome
copumpkin: it was a mistake, he was trying to say "caso"
copumpkin: yeah, giving a speech in italian
BingoBoingo: 100k/BTC might be as forgetable a milestone as silver parity
mircea_popescu: copumpkin can i get a summary ? i just fucking banned youtube.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Make it a troll buy around $100k/BTC Matheny will prolly still be there by then.
benkay: mircea_popescu: u gon have a headache with that one
mircea_popescu: this sort of irresponsible behaviour on his part is intolerable by a major.
mircea_popescu: matheny needs to be out of a job. ☟︎☟︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Throws a baseball too good for that. Was told to just watch actual porn and skip the tweets
mike_c: which shows a complete lack of ability to run a sportsbook.
mircea_popescu: Neil at any rate, i wasn't saying there's something wron with the compilers, i said it depends how shit's implemented. basically, a write-out of "undefined"
kakobrekla: a pdf.
mircea_popescu: mike_c he easily gets a pass from me too, he can say whatever the fuck he wants
mike_c: the guy is 83, he gets a pass. he has quite a track record of not being stupid.
mircea_popescu: Neil when do you release such a wonder anyway ?
kakobrekla: cazalla got a link to that
mircea_popescu: dexX7 yeah, they managed to lose their customer db a week or two ago. maybe that's all they lost, who's to know at this point.
nubbins`: ^ such a saucy quit msg :0
ThickAsThieves: viewers weren't happy. "This is misleading and had our entire family running to the TV to find out what was going on, only to find it was a commercial," reads one complaint.
ThickAsThieves: The FCC has issued a $1.9 million fine against Viacom, NBC Universal, and ESPN for their promotions of 2013 action movie Olympus has Fallen. According to a filing, it started receiving complaints in March of 2013, when Viacom-owned Comedy Central aired a trailer containing the two-tone emergency signal. The trailer aired several more times on other channels over the following days, and
ThickAsThieves: i'll probably bore of it in a couple weeks
ThickAsThieves: and their heart hurts a little
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: A nice first step is checking your feed for Maybe controversial tweets from people you follow. If there are a lot of responses call out some of the idiots.
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Well you have to scope the people out a bit first and remember people like @maxkeister take the same approach to criticism Pirateat40 did, they ignore it.
ThickAsThieves: like must have 250BTC trades in a 30-day period
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Just like 0.032 BTC for a Novacoin!!!
BingoBoingo: I wonder how much it costs people to retain this dude's services a'la med 20th century Boxing http://mlb.mlb.com/cutfour/index.jsp#contentId=68612078
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: betting on a proper, long-awaited nato vs. russian shooting war is great fun, but ww3 makes it a little hard to collect.
benkay: someone is sporting a foundation lifetime member badge in that thread
BingoBoingo: Well, a hammer is usually the right tool for this kind of job
asciilifeform: this was a machine with a deliberately non-standard (40mm?) mechanical drive
asciilifeform: i have a dell laptop circa 2007 lying around in some box. it has a 'hammer here' target embossed on the bottom.
BingoBoingo: I kind of imagined an Ipad destruction machine would "fold" the thing over a few times before puncturing.
asciilifeform: there is probably already a custom hydraulic press on the market for puncturing 'ipads' and the like
asciilifeform: they stand to win big from the fact of bureaucrats (government and corporate both) mandating destruction of a whole machine upon write-off
asciilifeform: e.g. mailing a personal box with live (!) environment to somebody.
asciilifeform: thinking that problem with modern hardware is limited to 'rooting' is a failure of imagination.
asciilifeform: but this is 'coming soon to a cheap x86 box near you' at any rate