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Duffer1: since it's price is now roughly equal to another major exchange that doesn't have liquidity problem, though i suppose coinbase isn't a true exchange
Duffer1: i mean, the price premium that drew arb to gox is no longer there
nubbins`: so i can get a garnishee order put on their paycheques
nubbins`: so now i have to waste a bunch of time filing paperwork with the sheriff's office
nubbins`: jurov, i generally don't talk to myself anymore ;)
nubbins`: i'm so fucking addled
mircea_popescu: even if i crack 1000 consecutive blocks in half an hour.
mircea_popescu: i have a coincidental parrot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, if I get a parrot that extracts correct nonces out of a bag, i don't have a miner.
mircea_popescu: i think the moon simile carries.
dexX7: i like the idea
mircea_popescu: maybe i'm rusty, but afaik mining != sha(sha(block+nonce))
mircea_popescu: so i'm reading old logs : Jun 21 14:49:17 <mircea_popescu>well it was 1/4 bn earlier thisd year
ThickAsThieves: i read the wiki, i know plenty!
mircea_popescu: i guess nobody today remembers machlup as the initiator of the "information economy" concept
nubbins`: and i mean, i get shirts wholesale, but they're still not free, ya know!
nubbins`: i'd likely have lost my shirt in some other manner
kleeck: I hear you.
nubbins`: which is really the best i could ask for, given how many times i've lost my shirt on poor investments
nubbins`: it turns out that if i had just done nothing with my btc, i'd be in exactly the same financial situation as i am today
nubbins`: anyway, i did some math the other day
ThickAsThieves: good stuff i hope
bitesak: I bought me first at39cents and have made many 'wrong' decisions along the way on selling them :)
kleeck: I too looked into the eyes of insane profit % and said, "Nay! I will not take you!"
nubbins`: my first btc cost $16, and i smoked it
kleeck: I won't say what I did with those...
nubbins`: better done if i hadn't won and lost several fortunes in that period of time
kleeck: I bought my first @ 9$.
kleeck: Yes. I dare say I'm gonig to take some profits now.
ThickAsThieves: looking at the situation I think many would say it's overpriced
nubbins`: but i don't think it would be a bad idea, short-term
nubbins`: i'd normally be really stressed out about buying btc at 225
nubbins`: hm, i wonder
JoeyMe: no, I meant difficulty
nubbins`: i was surprised at the amount of support ~200
ThickAsThieves: i think this ebay news is floating it
ThickAsThieves: i thought we'd be pulling back already
nubbins`: i know right?
kleeck: I see.
topace: i run www.canadianbitcoins.com
topace: "hi, i'd like to buy exactly 2.00000000 bitcoins, how do i do it? can i give you my creditcard number?"
kleeck: I see.
topace: and as a clueless IT person, thats probabyl what i would do too
topace: i tried to explain to him how a moutned network drive != backup
topace: one guy i talked to said it infected their backup system from the desktop it was clicked on
topace: it took me half an hour to explain to him, i only buy and sell bitcoins,. i have nothing to do with cryptolocker
topace: i had one guy ask me how i hadnt been arrested yet becuase he knew my address and phone number he was going to report me to the police
Luke-Jr: I'm skeptical it'll get that far.
Luke-Jr: then I'll add support to BFGMiner
nubbins`: i got an email about it the other day
benkay: i also want to work with tools that i enjoy
benkay: i would love to build a thing under someone with a decade's domain experience
mircea_popescu: when i say someone to do it i mean someone with a decade's worth of experience in a relevant position.
pankkake: though I use most libs of the Pyramids stack
pankkake: I haven't kept up with the latest frameworks
benkay: when i get back from le argent i gotta defuck this django stack
pankkake: though I previously used Django
pankkake: Python, where I use many libs rather than a framework
pankkake: I'm a developer, mostly worked for web startups
benkay: pankkake u ams dev, unless I misremember
pankkake: well, if I do something, that will be it
pankkake: I've been meaning to write it but my productivity is close to zero these last few months
mircea_popescu: i dunno. i been crowing about how it'd be a good idea for years.
mircea_popescu: maybe i completely misunderstood the business model there.
nubbins`: i think SR was a straight-up 10?
mircea_popescu: i don't have a hard time imagining why they'd want to tho.
pankkake: I have a hard time imagining ebay adopting bitcoin
mircea_popescu: i think my cock might be bugged
benkay: dub: i wanted it to have a badbios
mircea_popescu: actually i think there's a rss to twitter feed.
benkay: i'd started imagining game/stock tie-ins
mircea_popescu: or i don't recall which
pankkake: so I'm ok with that
pankkake: somehow when I see savage I think of a horse running free in the grass
mircea_popescu: i don't recall now if it was written as a bitcoinica envy clone or not.
pankkake: I don't understand futures, options, and have no idea what icbit is :)
nubbins`: once the conversation turned to books, i began silently lamenting my inability to finish reading one hundred years of solitude
pankkake: well he probably came earlier and will come back later. I wonder why he picked me, I wasn't even parroting this time
pankkake: I haven't read your latest blog stuff so I have nothing to disagree with
pankkake: I need to insult you more
mircea_popescu: btw pankkake you're doing a very small amount of parroting over here! i thought we had a deal!
benkay: i suspect i alreaady understand mises work just from the subtitle of that one book
benkay: i've lined up the modern money theory stuff on the premise that coming through that'll inoculate me against some brands of idiocy
benkay: nah i have two weeks of reading and boozing and wenching coming up and i want something meaty
mike_c: i will share all the prize money with you benkay
benkay: i think i have wondered at this myself
mircea_popescu: i'm lucky i'm not the only person reading these logs, it turns out. anyway, we're in the process of arguing about it.
mircea_popescu: so for all they know i could be making shit up.
nubbins`: it's art if i publish it
benkay: i am making put arts
mircea_popescu: nubbins` from what i hear you weren't alone
nubbins`: ah, i haven't worked with .NET since around 2005-07
opc0d3: i personally don't use any MSFT products, but would never be so idiotic to laugh at developers that do
opc0d3: i run linux on all my servers. but can tell you from experience that big corps prefer MSFT
Apocalyptic: but what do I know...
Apocalyptic: do they ? i feel more secure running a linux server honestly
opc0d3: Apocalyptic: yeah, funny that most of the worlds corporate software runs on .NET , i wonder why multi-billion dollar companies use .NET... what idiots@!!
mircea_popescu: opc0d3 you don't have what to think i'm full of shit with.
opc0d3: mircea_popescu: even though i think you're full of shit.... your picture on that horse is hilarious. +1
opc0d3: mircea_popescu: it's in your interest to slander you competitors. so, forgive me if I call you on your FUD and BS