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asciilifeform: hard to sell swamp to people who understand what a swamp is.
mike_c: there is a difference between selling real estate in florida that is secretly swampland, and openly selling swamps.
asciilifeform: eventually, mining breakthrough, and people will regret having undermined the whole concept of blockchain by having a swarm of little chains
nubbins`: alts have two purposes: to experiment with ideas and to have a lel/run a scam
ThickAsThieves: in a world where there can be any number of alts, all on same codebase, no one alt is better than the other
pankkake: well anyone printing it for more than a few hours is a fool
nubbins`: and we all have a chuckle and a kid slices his neck open
nubbins`: "lel pre-razored apples, what a riot!"
nubbins`: i know it's a big lel, but you should kill this before it grows legs
benkay: ah well i'm giving the wrong instructions anyways. it's a bit obfuscated: https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/blob/master-1.5/src/main.cpp#L3141
benkay: magic value is a part of a header sent between nodes. genesis block is the root of the merkle tree.
benkay: a client being the Satoshi implementation or bitcoinj or multibit w/e
ThickAsThieves: is the same question as "do you have a dump of the genesis block?"
ThickAsThieves: and what a client network?
benkay: ThickAsThieves: the "magic value" is a header in the protocol that identifies which network a client is a part of
benkay: but running a full satoshi client for each chain is a little, ah, shall we say wasteful.
nubbins`: Duffer1, nah, have had this for just over a year
nubbins`: tat, got a link?
Duffer1: seems like a terrible thing to tell the press, but what do i know
nubbins`: MAY SMASH IT ANYWAY TO SHOW THEM A LESSON
nubbins`: works like a charm now
nubbins`: no, they mail you a box to return your broken phone in
nubbins`: so i guess i get a free box in the mail any day now ;p
nubbins`: cajoled apple into fixing it for free, later realized that the bottom of the port had a bunch of impacted lint
ThickAsThieves: Kozak was attempting to argue that foreign journalists were biased against Russia and were intentionally working to paint the Sochi games as a disaster. But in the process, he may have just spooked everyone assigned hotel rooms to attend the games.
ThickAsThieves: when will someone put one in a microwave?
nubbins`: srsly, the only part of these videos where i cringe is when i see a metal implement striking concrete
asciilifeform: soviet version of the joke: 'man buys a ticket, rips it up and walks - to spite the trolley conductor.'
ozbot: R3 Destroys anti bitcoin iPhone with a rifle in exchange for a Nexus 5 - YouTube
nubbins`: this is like if that single dad who paid us $400 for a bespoke kid's book said "fuck pink eye" and put his book in the shredder
nubbins`: "really sending a message to apple here"
nubbins`: i'm actually a bit upset here
Duffer1: oh hey dex, haven't seen you in irc in a while, stayin busy man?
Diablo-D3: smashing a phone is basically telling the people who suffered in china to make it their lives have no meaning and they are dying in vain.
nubbins`: some wizard with a dart hangin out of his face
Diablo-D3: its a fucking company
nubbins`: naw dude, they're totally going for a windows phone this time ;p
kakobrekla: and then get a new one
nubbins`: i'll send 100btc to everyone who smashes their dick with a hammer
kakobrekla: so in a few days they will say "sry, you can has btc"
nubbins`: there's a steady push towards an apple device being a device of consumption rather than production
pankkake: there'se a language where the keywords can be either French or English
asciilifeform: nubbins`: in exactly the same way that a junkyard full of bricks, roof tiles, etc. resembles a house.
nubbins`: or interface builder, to a lesser extent
nubbins`: so Web w = new Web(); creates a new Site, etc
nubbins`: what was once called a site is now a web, etc
nubbins`: nothing shows a more callous disregard for developers than code relics
nubbins`: btw, objective-c is a brutal language to comprehend
asciilifeform: nubbins`: last i checked, those were just a thin gui skin on top of gdb and gprof.
nubbins`: anyway, on a related note, xcode comes with some great code analysis tools
diametric: automatic code reviews.. what a joke
nubbins`: unless there's a problem suspected
pankkake: and in the same way, you can sneak malware. rendering the whole thing "for your protection" a lie
nubbins`: it was a real fuckaround
pankkake: reminds me of the flash light app that had a secret feature
nubbins`: you had to open a blockchain account
pankkake: are lambos a good store of value?
pankkake: if accepting bitcoins means a lot of publicity and sales, that's not bad :)
pankkake: IPO was getting a lot of coins without accountability
ThickAsThieves: Overstock and Tigerdirect etc get a few extra hundred thousand and fade away
pankkake: by the way, they don't even have to provide a reason for refusals :)))
nubbins`: pankkake, the only reason it got in there in the first place was a sneak attack
ThickAsThieves: god forbid Apple has a good reason
mike_c: whale sold the puts, so mpoe could excercise for a mpex profit today
mike_c: i bet the option whale is having a bad day.
PsychoticBoy_: I do not change name because I am a very very reputable member of this community :)
mircea_popescu: "o herpderp i take a year off come back everyone forgot everything"
mircea_popescu: PsychoticBoy_ listen here, just because you ran a shit asset on the global scam exchange
Apocalyptic: yeah, was a one time thing though
KRS-One: she better not travel quickly though any areas of great pressure difference or there could be a big ole mess.
KRS-One: World might even be a better place.
KRS-One: might even take a few times..
grazs: he's a tool
ThickAsThieves: MaxKeiserTV has 39K subscribers. His “personal” twitter handle has close to 91K followers and the Maxcoin “official” twitter handle has 4.2K followers. Pretty impressive for a coin that hasn’t launched yet!
ThickAsThieves: MaxCoin, the new crypto currency founded by Max Keiser will launch on February 5 and it has a good chance of crossing $20 million in market cap its first month of mining.
cazalla: but then i only needed to move a desktop + clothes until i bought a home
Mats_cd03: Also ozbot needs a voteban command
BingoBoingo: benkay: What can Yogi handle? Oh Lord Jesus its a fire? Fuck no!
benkay: business as waterwheel; water must flow. business must come through the operation. if business is a whole bunch of metalworking work, then wallets can be a small fraction of the biz and still work. if biz throughput is just wallet engravings, well, that sustains a much smaller operation.
benkay: well you gotta operate it, keep lights on, run a business you know.
herbijudlestoids: but a steel engraving machine only costs 700AUD?
benkay: wallets might make a nice revenue stream for a fab shop, however.
benkay: you're not going to run a fab shop on wallets.
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Find what makes a good cold wallet?
herbijudlestoids: BingoBoingo: what constitutes a good one?
BingoBoingo: A lot of business there
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Quite a bit for good ones
Namworld: What are you talking about? I don't have a clue what all you're saying is supposed to be about.
BingoBoingo: I have like, never wanted to enter a three month coma before like ever in my short ass life.
Namworld: Well I haven't seen such an orderbook in a while.
Namworld: That zerohedge article... it's gonna be good... in a sad sad way. I can feel it.
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Ain't deadly with a body count
Namworld: Bitfinex had a brain fart.
BingoBoingo: Namworld: Was nevar a thing
BingoBoingo: I am glad I dun let drunk me know cold storage addresses because 12 years a Goat would get an Oscar.
BingoBoingo: Namworld: I'll give you that roughly 300 btc if you can perfectly surgically extract a lobe of your lung. Remember. Nao ignore. DO better or be a bit hobo.
Namworld: They say a picture is worth a thousand word after all.
Namworld: It's a good condensed explanation.
BingoBoingo: jayk: No reason, was a boring game
jayk: i should add a section to wiki with bold text face Peyten's Fumble