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mircea_popescu: the asshole's laying out some shit from his case onto
a small table
kakobrekla: he who can make
a shapened stick can make
a buttcoin
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids you familiar with the concept that he who can't make
a sharpened stick can't make an airplane or anything else ?
mircea_popescu: see Jere_Jones people have
a lot of trouble stepping outside of the environment they perceive as familiar and thus imagine safe.
herbijudlestoids: yea well its kinda fuckin hard to be
a successful daytrader in
a 0 liquidity market :P
KRS-One: I demand
a certain quality of bait.
mircea_popescu: They’re not in fact receiving as much as recognition of status or effort, they find themselves in the untenable position of
a poor immigrant who is spending all his wages and borrowing at unbearable, immigrant-ghetto rates to buy flowers and wine for some local beauty who barely even registers their desperation or even presence.
Bugpowder: but it was good to talk to
a good lawyer team about bitcoin financial issues
Bugpowder: I'll give it
a try again. I have
a bit of an issue because I use
a sub key for my own key and need to specify it directly in the pyMPEX script.
mircea_popescu: mod6 that's their curse, nobody with
a clue has accounts
kakobrekla: bought
a fucking car. why does this ring
a bell.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well old timer, was really excited when btc broke 30, posted
a story on forum about how he bought btc w/o his partner's knowledge out of their savbings, then sold out and bought
a car
decimation: ascii - in your article the interviewer proposes fixing the diddled NIC with
a TPM chip - lel
ozbot: So you think you're going to start
a Bitcoin business, right?
mircea_popescu: it's not hard in
a technological sense, that's the easy part (even if it's what the emotion mill people seem to stumble over)
mircea_popescu: ie, the appearance and the reality easily cleaves (
a word is an engineering term if appearance and reality never cleave)
Duffer1: "Our initial investigations indicate that
a vendor exploited
a recently discovered vulnerability in the Bitcoin protocol known as “transaction malleability” to repeatedly withdraw coins from our system until it was completely empty."
ThickAsThieves: "First off, Facebook says that San Francisco residents have the smallest chance of getting into
a relationship among people in any of the 50 largest American cities."
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves "because they were saving it so karpeles could offer
a "credible" lie as to why his well known fractional reserve scam blew open" ?
benkay: pankkake: i want to sleep in
a completely-blacked out room that spins up the lights with the daylight.
davout: pankkake: haha i remember reading this article
a while ago, awsum
benkay: we installed one in
a shop of mine once
benkay: i'm
a huge fan of the pot lights
mircea_popescu: i put
a lookout for the "mysterious m_c player emptied jd bank" threads
mircea_popescu: check out these fuckwits. "here's
a scathing mp article we stole. would you like to buy ripples now ?"
mircea_popescu: both the big jumps are simply switching to
a different, more powerful, cheaper, easier to deploy aspect of the same principle
kakobrekla: sez I'm hiring devs &
a designer. Email me at jobs@secretbitcoinproject. on top
benkay: some day shortly after that i'm ditching laptops as
a 'work' machine.
benkay: "oh and also we added new widgets to the UI and forced
a push out to all boxen so here you go now your perfectly serviceable 2 year old device runs at 1/4 speed because ACCELEROMETER-CONNECTED UI WIDGETRY"
CheckDavid: <mircea_popescu> apparently the best thing for
a battery is for it to be charged, stored
a week or two, discharged, recharged etc. <-- what?
mircea_popescu: apparently the best thing for
a battery is for it to be charged, stored
a week or two, discharged, recharged etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wtf do you care, you got
a car anyway, right ?
mircea_popescu: you can just sit on it at your cafe while wearing
a hat
mircea_popescu: seems for all the trouble you could have just had
a dildo.
davout: an ipad is
a pretty good reddit terminal
mircea_popescu: so how do you produce
a tilde and three dashes ? you dictate it /
davout: mircea_popescu: yeah, irc on
a tablet, bad idea, provisioning
a vm on
a tablet, that's too mainstream
mircea_popescu: then again i guess who the fuck provisions vms from
a tablet.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would you run ios on anything but
a tablet.
davout: not sure about
a laptop that's not plugged to the power
davout: mircea_popescu: yeah ios sucks, but on
a powered laptop or on
a desktop the wifi doesn't go just because the display goes off
mircea_popescu: chick has
a tablet, can't be used for irc because apple has decided it will turn off devices. unless you root the shit you're stuck.
mircea_popescu: which opens
a door just in time.
a brazilian made "ancient" technology nic could command
a premium in the marketplace
mircea_popescu: which ironically will be
a major chance for the third world.
mircea_popescu: Well, I would say that it took me approximately 500 man-hours to get to the stage of having
a working "shell"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform omfg, look, slovenian! kakobrekla has been
a bad boy!
mircea_popescu: HeySteve2 does it have
a sarcasm detection mechanism ?
deadweasel: asciilifeform: that's
a good read, ty.
herbijudlestoids: even
a small amount of BTC, say 0.01 would be able to offer
a reasonable bid at say 0.005% off the implied price
herbijudlestoids:
a bot that makes the market in BTC/USD at the 0.5*(ATCdiff/BTCdiff)+0.5*(ATDnextdiff/BTCnextDiff) implied price
BingoBoingo: If anyone else wan't
a tip from the breaking news department, I know the spoiler to Million Dollar Baby!
BingoBoingo: Roughly, can't swear to it though. It has been
a while.
herbijudlestoids: which 8+ years tho? cant believe you never heard
a mosquito in your life
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: I'm
a bigger fan of the dark chocolate
BingoBoingo: shame, such
a think line between altcoin and moon
BingoBoingo: Nothing is worth anything without
a credible niggers.txt and
a watermelon
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Nothing is official thought until
a n00b makes
a n00b decision
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Maybe ask kakobrekla, he's somalian, like
a pirate
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: you could just post
a half decent world star hip hop video
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a northern colony, New York under the Dutch, and in metropolitan Philadelphia's Moravian and Pennsylvania Dutch communities; the African Burial Ground in New York City originally was known by the Dutch name "Begraafplaats van de