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ThickAsThieves: well hiring a PR is a great move for a scammer
kakobrekla: he needs to be raped by niggers.txt, not a pr person.
pankkake: what he really needs is a guy to take over the business
kakobrekla: >I fully believe we need to hire a PR manager, as my time can be much more effectively used actually working on things as opposed to maintaining this thread.
kakobrekla: so someone made a bet with making a withdrawal on mpex
ThickAsThieves: i can probly just put this in a spreadsheet and sort
mike_c: a demanding bunch.
mike_c: that was a house bet. i'm curious what the best gain on a user bet was. i'll look through.
kakobrekla: a wait you cant do that
mike_c: 277 was a special bet though
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> but the question is valid, ik wonder what's the best return on a bet on bitbet so far
ThickAsThieves: i learned a new word, commentariat, thanks wsj!
ThickAsThieves: Navin is founder and CEO of Neo, a startup that aims to disrupt credit risk assessment of thin-credit and sub-prime consumers by leveraging alternative credit data.
ThickAsThieves: ha there is a different Neo presenting
ThickAsThieves: Bank Innovation 2014 will be a forum for executives and innovators to collaborate and share ideas to improve customer acquisition and retention through new products and strategies.
ThickAsThieves: this from a bitcoin magazine ad: http://bankinnovation.info/
ThickAsThieves: is there a transcript of all the NY hearings?
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=buttbuttinate | buttbuttinate. The word "assassinate" after it has been mangled by a particularly stupid censor. It is a shame we still aren't sure who buttbuttinated JFK. He was in  ...
ThickAsThieves: the url is a bit... abrasive
benkay: than visit a hospital and have to trust some 'doctor'
benkay: far better to have a friend who's been through the american nursing training
twizt: time to pretend to be a doctor
mircea_popescu: whenever i hear of a start-up working on a superbowl ad...
ThickAsThieves: a small biz gets burned repeatedly
mircea_popescu: last thing a small biz needs is to try and fucking compete with the government-backed wasters.
ThickAsThieves: and gives you a popup if over a certain price
ThickAsThieves: run a service that holds like .1 btc for you in an account, it runs a chrome plugin,
pankkake: I used to have a bot posting RSS feed updates to channels, but it was some Ruby crap and blew up
ThickAsThieves: also, i think mjr has a micro blog payment thingy
ThickAsThieves: <asciilifeform> ThickAsThieves: would be interesting to see a widget like 'metafilter' with a 1btc entry. <<<< i recall at least a couple "idea men" saying theyd make similar things
benkay: what's the second best time to plant a tree?
benkay: what's the best time to plant a tree?
ThickAsThieves: well i did say it was a lazy idea
mircea_popescu: dude, if you got a seed plant it already, forget the flower. what, keep it in your pocket till it becomes lint ?
ThickAsThieves: if you want a flower to grow, maybe plant a seed
mircea_popescu: this novel nuttery with the readers. who cared, cca 1970, when telling a joke, how many people in the office were gathered round ?
pankkake: creating a blog is easy. wordpress.com, done
ThickAsThieves: but to make a blog?
ThickAsThieves: occassionally an urge to tell a tale
ThickAsThieves: in this sense i am indeed a lazy bum
mircea_popescu: but for the lazy bums a global stopgap can't hurt
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: would be interesting to see a widget like 'metafilter' with a 1btc entry.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> next thing we know, we're all moving into a cult commune with a hundred years of canned food and auto-turrets... >>> and nudity for womenz under 35 ?
pankkake: I know a blog that has *only* a RSS feed
ThickAsThieves: so a feed reader, curated
asciilifeform: next thing we know, we're all moving into a cult commune with a hundred years of canned food and auto-turrets...
mircea_popescu: dude this isn't such a horrid idea.
pankkake: you can create a "planet"
mircea_popescu: so i just crafted a double bacon burger. sadly, it can't be eaten.
ThickAsThieves: kako should just add a blog section to the #b-a website
pankkake: I basically replaced a forum I got banned from by another
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves pankkake's idea of a blog.
ThickAsThieves: get a lightbox, calibrate the camera mount placement
asciilifeform: if you are considering a machine for the comparison, you are in a state of sin.
pankkake: the images would then be comparable by a machine
pankkake: is there any way to take pictures in a reproducible way?
asciilifeform: and sit with a jeweler's loupe, etc.
asciilifeform: but this requires the user to actually give a damn
asciilifeform: there is no 100% defence, even in principle, against a world-class forger
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> a sufficiently qualified enemy deserves your arse. <<
asciilifeform: a sufficiently qualified enemy deserves your arse.
asciilifeform: the way a Pashtun understands his Kalash.
asciilifeform: each unit will also come with a set of high-res photographs of its internals, signed with my personal key.
asciilifeform: pankkake: there are two identical rngs (removable.) each is an analogue device, with convenient probe points and a very simple circuit (29 parts, 26 of them passives)
pankkake: I don't have any knowledge of a foolproof seal
pankkake: hmm… how about a seal?
benkay: i'm thinking about this mid-delivery interception of computer bits and pieces to put hardware on 'em before they hit the data center in a fashion that the end-customer is generally never wiser
asciilifeform: benkay: if you can be more specific, you'll get a more interesting answer.
gribble: pigeons was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 6 weeks, 4 days, 3 hours, 19 minutes, and 8 seconds ago: <pigeons> should make an exact mpex clone with no new functionality just charge 5% to view it in a bootstrap template
benkay: mircea_popescu: you're all over today man. first it was what's more appealing to the bell curve and now it's about who gets to vote on a thing.
mircea_popescu: benkay in which case they don't get a vote at all.
mircea_popescu: i guess we have a political debate to settle huh.
ThickAsThieves: just use a secret/encrypted channe;
benkay: there's a bet in there!
kakobrekla: well, i gotta take my gf out for a walk nao but when i get back sure
ThickAsThieves: in dollars, probly the 2bn bet, in bitcoins, probly a BFL bet?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla mind running a coupla queries ?
mircea_popescu: but the question is valid, ik wonder what's the best return on a bet on bitbet so far
mircea_popescu: there was a guy who got 0.4 BTC trading 200 ltc in twenty minutes yesterday
deadweasel: that might require reading a document!
polac: somes of you have won a bet lately
deadweasel: not if you're early on the correct side of a bet.
deadweasel: polac: be sure your bet will make it on-time. check for slow transactions, include a transaction fee.
mircea_popescu: well maybe to him it's a good thing
mircea_popescu: use a special address to receive.
mircea_popescu: if however you do not run a full node, then you will be in trouble most likely.
jurov: polac: you need a wallet that contains actual private keys (such as bitcoin-qt/multibit/electrum)
mircea_popescu: polac IF you run a full node wallet, then yes you control the address, and so will be ok.
kakobrekla: get a better rate
BingoBoingo: polac: 0.01 BTC, but yes. Because it is a sure thing.
BingoBoingo: polac: That's what you'd get. Betting 1.0 BTC would return to you a total of 0.99 BTC
polac: yes i know that is a calculator. but i dont know if is the clean amount or total amount
jurov: polac have you noticed there is a calculator?
polac: ok is related a bet on bitbet.us . if i make a BET that is obvius that will win.. .. how i know how much BTC i will get on reward how i make the calc
mircea_popescu: that's the first time someone wanted to know if im a bot ;/
BingoBoingo: polac: IRC is a slow medium. Put forward the questions and someone should get to them within an hour or day or so
BingoBoingo: "a company called COEPTIS is preparing to launch the Global Standard System (System) that will issue a medium of exchange called the Global Standard Currency (Currency). This Currency, which will circulate electronically on a closed settlement platform, will be 100% backed by physical gold, providing for freedom from default and fully protecting the holder’s value."
polac: hello i ahve a question please
BingoBoingo: has most of the prepared statements now. Looks like to get a full one for the questions, or at lest the interesting questions I might have to make it
mircea_popescu: that's not a transcript tho, just the collection of written matter submitted.