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mircea_popescu: amusingly, i bought a bunch for a third of that two weeks ago
Chris_Sabian_: but it is a bad joke that is selling for 350 satoshi each
mircea_popescu: it's a deliberately bad joke.
WillTablet: So is altcoin a joke or a deliberately bad example?
mod6: Chris:that was a buy
pankkake: Chris_Sabian_: http://coinminer.net:19982/static/ is a p2pool
Bugpowder: ATC needs a killer app though. Has anyone talked to dooglus about ATCdice/
Vexual: mod6, they pay a lot of admins, i wonder what they do all day?
mod6: So, it's kinda a wait and see situation. Ihave an email into their admins. Will give update when they make good.
Bugpowder: People said dogecoin was a joke, but ended up being very profitable for me. Altcoin's great benefit is optionality (look it up, I mean the technical finance term).
mod6: Bug: I didn't have much luck with an order on the book for a week. Try x-bt, market seems to be between 400-500 satoshi
cads: I was a trollish ass
WillTablet: I have a feeling this might take a while
WillTablet: Might take a while to sync
Chris_Sabian_: you create a .txt file with the info in it and then remain it as .conf
kakobrekla: its not a .txt its a .conf!
Duffer1: it's just a .txt you create yourself and drop in the wallet folder
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform going a little too far isn't it ?
WillTablet: Does the offer somehow make a point or do the points somehow make the offer
mod6: Need to add a node to altcoin.conf: Nodes: 188.165.216.59, 125.120.196.224, 68.35.72.33, 162.243.123.118
asciilifeform: ur own lord has slaine you. if you yourself had decided to come, with your own hand you have slain your own self.' and thus did the lord prepare for an emissary a tall gilded stake, and sat him down upon it, and to his lord he would send a message praying that in the future he not send to the wise and learned ruler a stupid and unlearned envoy.'
asciilifeform: k to a great lord.' such was the custom of drakula: when an inexperienced envoy came to him, from a king or an emperor, and could not answer the wily questions of drakula, he would be sat upon a stake, drakula saying to him this: 'not i am to blame for your demise, but your lord is, or perhaps you are. for if your lord knew that you are unintelligent and inexperienced, and still sent you to me - a wise lord, yo ☟︎
asciilifeform: ng the noble has dealt with you unjustly, and for him you have prepared a death more stately than for others.' drakula answered, 'you speak the truth. here you are - an envoy of a great lord, a kingly emissary, it is for you that i have crafted this stake.' answered the envoy, 'lord, if i have wrought an injustice worthy of death - do with me as you will. you are an impartial judge - it is not you who shall be
asciilifeform: 'came once to drakula an envoy from the great hungarian king mathias; a noble baron, of polish birth. and drakula did sit and dine with him among the corpses. and the envoy saw before him on the ground, a thick and gilded stake, and then drakula asked of the envoy: 'tell me, for what have i prepared this stake?' fear took hold of the envoy, who thought a while, and spoke: 'seems to me, my lord, that someone amo ☟︎
Chris_Sabian_: you need to add a node
benkay: maybe, but channel that into focus on important things and learn how to handle humans. it /is/ a learnable skill.
benkay: WillTablet: you're probably young enough for it to make sense the first time you read it. consider it a blessing!
mircea_popescu: 4. Step outside of your ideology. You might have been brought up in a very repressive social milieu in which some particular ideological slant was drilled into you. This is working to your disadvantage, get rid of it. Are you sticking up for your friends because they're your friends rather than because they have a point? Great for facebook, horrible for BTC. You will lose money. Are you following the crowd like a welfa
WillTablet: ThickAsThieves: so in order to make a good decision one has to look at what other people do and where that got them?
mircea_popescu: in a sense, you're being raped.
WillTablet: So any investment is just defined by how its used? Like if all pound coins but one in the world was destroyed, the one pound would become worth more than jhst a pound?
mircea_popescu: the little boy was a slice of cake!
kakobrekla: the cake is a bill
benkay: the coin is a lie
ThickAsThieves: youre trying too hard to fit it into a box, but it is a box
WillTablet: However, I'm guessing the altcoins were a lie
WillTablet: Are yoy trying to make a point here? That altcoin is just another random coin that will never be used?
mircea_popescu: no, it's a cartoon
asciilifeform: ' and ordered that in the whole city the thief be sought, 'should you fail to find him, the city shall perish.' and ordered the same night his old gold placed on the cart - with one added duacat. morning came, the mechant counted the gold, and counted again, then exclaimed: 'i have my gold again, but a ducat is extra!' and then the thief was caught, and the stolen gold brought. spoke drakula to the merchant th
asciilifeform: 'came once from the hungarian lands a merchant to the city of drakula. and, as is custom at his court, left his cart on the city street in front of the house, and his wares - on the cart, and himself went to sleep in the house. and someone did steal from the cart 160 gold ducats. the merchant came to drakula, spoke to him of the missing gold. drakula answered, 'go, this same night you will have your gold again.
asciilifeform: rself, these people are martyrs. so i wish to make you a martyr, be in the company of your fellows.' and ordered him sat upon a stake, but the other monk, sent with fifty golden ducats back to the hungarian borders, 'you are a wise man.'
asciilifeform: "came to drakula two catholic monks, from the hungarian lands, pittances to collect. he ordered them brought apart, and called up one, pointed to the yard, where one could see many sat upon stakes, or on wheels broken. he did ask: 'was i just? and who are these people, sitting on stakes?' answered the monk, 'no, lord, you do evil, killing without mercy; a lord must be merciful. and those sat upon the stakes - a ☟︎☟︎
Bugpowder: Just added a bit at $625.
Apocalyptic: pankkake, yeah, a public API is under construction
mircea_popescu: benkay i dun see a problem.
pankkake: ThickAsThieves: yeah, it's a high level of full of shitness. I hope nothing comes out of it, because the real motives probably aren't good
benkay: hang on WillTablet i have a book for you
WillTablet: They have a market simulator though I suppose the psychological effect is different if its not real money
ThickAsThieves: "We'll talk with France about how we can maintain a high level of data protection," Merkel said.
nubbins`: gave my dad a casascius coin for his birthday one year
benkay: sounds like a rat fuck of bad decisions, WillTablet
ThickAsThieves: tsla is a pretty nicely volatile stock to play with
WillTablet: mpex costs like 30 BTC a seat though
mircea_popescu: like you know, knowing what a space cadet kbd is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the point there being that there's a point of delinquency where loan packages become unworthy. all this is old fiat finance grease.
ThickAsThieves: i saw a btcjam presentation once, he was surprisingly transparent
benkay: the fundamental assumption is that a given operation will grow in value faster than btc.
benkay: it's a really good question, WillTablet.
asciilifeform: 'Filtration System, a Marvel to Behold! It Removes 80% of Human Solid Waste!'
mircea_popescu: (course ignoramuses that they are, it was a victorious point of pride)
mircea_popescu: pankkake it;s more like a logical continuation of glbse.
nubbins`: if there's one thing that speaks to a man's repute, it's his constant need of loans
benkay: hey WillTablet let me give you a bit of insight
WillTablet: Ima lend it to a reputable borrower on btcjam or something
WillTablet: I gave myself a challenge - break even on the $18 worth of server I used to mine about 0.007 BTC worth of dogecoin
mircea_popescu: as a result got a pretty bad wrap in the english language press of the time
mircea_popescu: he beheaded a bunch of medieval jpm&co bankers
asciilifeform: always had a soft spot for herr Tepes.
nubbins`: the only instance i can recall that a canadian went the other way is when that guy swam from windsor to detroit after slamming 8 beers, to see if he could
mircea_popescu: the actual subject is mircea the old, http://istoriiregasite.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/cine-a-fost-mircea-si-de-ce-i-s-a-spus-cel-batran/
mircea_popescu: nubbins` because you were a smartass with derpy nonaddresses
mircea_popescu: it's five hours a day.
mircea_popescu: he's not a producer, she is a whore, honesty all the way.
nubbins`: "i'm a producer" can almost universally be responded to with "no you're not"
TATwalking: I tell ya tho software producing takes a shit ton of time to get good at
benkay: you guys we need a stage musical
mircea_popescu: A scientific study published in 2005 found that promiscuous men and women are judged equally harshly and a recent poll showed that both genders tend to express strong preference for sexually conservative partners.
Mats_cd03: it was a game first i thought
mircea_popescu: cads i thought pokemon was a cartoon series.
nubbins`: 10k "producers" watching a 5 minute tutorial on youtube and "releasing tracks"
nubbins`: altho i suspect the "free" vs "$10k+" thing is a deciding factor when choosing softsynths over modulars too
nubbins`: you have a point, they're doing it all with softsynths
mircea_popescu: i could but srsly... i prefer tits and a nicely formed hip-thigh complex.
nubbins`: dubstep is essentially "i bought a bunch of Moog modules and can't be fucked to learn how to use any of them"
benkay: well once upon a time
nubbins`: dubstep, aka run some techno through a VCF
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, write a russian variant!
nubbins`: (dub: don't want to be paged? don't choose a nick that's a genre of music)
benkay: he's also a wannabe quant computer guy
nubbins`: i can't even get a break!
mircea_popescu: "i know! let's give a bunch of clueless twits the unwarranted, indefensible idea that what they know and think is universal, and then let's have them write it all out.
mircea_popescu: "The term can carry a moral judgement and is viewed in the context of a mainstream social ideal for sexual activity to occur within exclusive committed relationships."
mircea_popescu: like for instance the mtgox thing ? totally impredictable and shocking for a few people.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah, well, that'd be a funcrtion of you growing less retarded over time.
ThickAsThieves: "is this a joke?"
benkay: nobody on that show can tell a joke.
mircea_popescu: you don't realise this on the first pass, watching it or w/e, but just try as a cw exercise to improve on them.
mircea_popescu: bah fuck me, "his wife is in a coma".
mircea_popescu: all that's missing is herbi driving a jet over his cat or something.
mircea_popescu: wait this was a woman ?