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pankkake: do they know it's a bitcoin business?
twizt: its a thinkPad
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: There have only been a couple revision to this model, but to the best of my knowledge the battery is identicle until the one released a couple months ago.
BingoBoingo: the keyboard has chiclet keys, but they have enough curve on top to make navigation something other than a pain
BingoBoingo: twizt: It has the clit and a trackpad
nubbins`: my last office job, every computer in the building was a lenovo
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: problem with ancient laptops is the almost total impossibility of finding a working battery.
PLambert: I thought Ubuntu was releasing a mobile version soon, that would imply they are trying to support touchscreens?
nubbins`: after a fashion
PLambert: isn't android a linux version made for touch screens?
nubbins`: thinking about putting linux on a touchscreen netbook for my mother. distro recommendations?
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Such a shame Roger Ver was so readily displaced as the used electronics BTC Jesus
nubbins`: nah. just listed a rare casascius coin on ebay, starting bid $3.8k
Vexual: yeah but give an east berlin chick a club and she'll just start dancing
mircea_popescu: serbia isn't big enough to have a weather
benkay`: in the meantime, it's an acceptable shorthand for a whole buncha shit.
pankkake: devops is still a thing?
the20year: Anyone want to take a look at the revised rentalstarter business plan/disclosure?
KRS1: I used cashintocoins.com a few times- very good service.
ThickAsThieves: "This 152-year-old law forbids any American from issuing a check, note, or token that’s worth less than $1"
ozbot: Could a Civil War-Era Law Stamp Out Bitcoin? | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
ThickAsThieves: they were waiting for a dip to buy in first
Duffer1: wow that got that done a lot faster than i thought they would
ThickAsThieves: https://help.overstock.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5794/c/4
PLambert: duffer1: right, puppet is a good word for what I meant
PLambert: just need a couple bitcoins, send to stooge's account, buy shares, repeat
PLambert: bah, you beat me by a second again :(
PLambert: bah, you beat me by a second :(
asciilifeform: perhaps the gold was 'borrowed' from a neutron bombardment reactor at sandia or somesuch.
asciilifeform: considering the inclination of usg to run things at a loss (so long as said loss can be pawned off on some chump),
mircea_popescu: they're putting a guy on the moon.
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine why they'd care about lending a little gold so various us idiots can save a little face.
asciilifeform: there's a serious problem with the horseless carriage - you can't whip its arse to make it go faster.
mike_c: that's a big problem with bitcoin. you can't roll up a fat stack with a rubber band and slap them on the table.
KRS1: like..if I have a wallet, I need it to be deep for fat stacks, but if its cold I can't exactly whip it out
mircea_popescu: Like a month ago, in September I witnessed a lot of double-spending against BetCoin Dice. I
mircea_popescu: i guess this explains why elegius actually found a coupla blocks today
deanclkclk: because, if bank A give to Bank B...bank A is decreasing it's money stock and giving it to Bank B
mircea_popescu: if it is the central bank you have by any sensible definition a central command economy like the soviets, and even discussing "banks" is just a masquerade
mircea_popescu: it isn't the central bank in a functioning economy
deanclkclk: but, with a deposit being 0...wouldn't that cause the T account to not be balanced?
mircea_popescu: note that accounting generally is just a convention, and it may be uniquely adequate or uniquely inadequate to resolve any factual problems. in some formulations inflation is opaque to accounting, in some others quite transparent. this doesn't make inflation go away, even if it's very tempting for all governments historically to pretend so.
mircea_popescu: this is a purely accounting q, but :
mircea_popescu: that's a 400% inflation.
deanclkclk: well if someone can show me how that would reflect on a T account..it would make a whole lotta sense
mircea_popescu: myeah. best i can tell, you've painted yourself in a corner trying to understand this and now nothing makes sense.
mircea_popescu: ib just takes a liquidity loan.
mircea_popescu: well, you've constructed it so it doesn't make any sense. take a better example : say i run a whorehouse and you bring me your wife. then one day you want to have sex. just because i've sent her to work the streets of mexico doesn't mean you can't have sex,
deanclkclk: but, it is said in a fractional reserve bank...the depositor still has access to his deposit even though it's loan out
mircea_popescu: if in 2010 the total volume of payment insturments is 5, and in 2011 it's 6, then you've had a 20% inflation.
deanclkclk: well just looking at a t account..how can fractional reserve banking be inflationary
deanclkclk: anyone here who's a money manager? I want to ask something about fractional reserve banking
truffles: just watch a few eps
truffles: well its not that great of a show
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what it is, outside of a pulp fiction reference.
mircea_popescu: im a fonz, what are you on about.
truffles: so ure not saying ure not a complete asshole but on the cusp?
KRS1: i've been expecting a drop, not this rise =/
truffles: we have a rematch to do
truffles: there is a term for this
Vexual: you see butterfly tramp stamps, but a sould cant be sold
truffles: how does one sell a soul though
Vexual: nubbins' showed a gif of the supposedly gone woodie guthrie
truffles: no i just have a paper towel out
Vexual: do you eat pistachios on a handmade picnic rug?
truffles: nah just a thrill seeker
Vexual: you might be a hipster
truffles: id be bored in a year
Vexual: theyre those people that pay $120 for a tshirt
Vexual: this might be a uk keyboard
Vexual: ill draw you a lemonade stand in shaky biro, with a complete lsd lab drawn in chem notation
Vexual: it looks like a fucked up mickey mouse in basketball shoes
truffles: gotta stare at it to tell its a sack
truffles: looks like a finger
nubbins`: mildly surprised they (a) chose it and (b) gave it a full page spread on the first page of section B
truffles: a gang of dicks?
nubbins`: managed to sneak a dick into the local paper, even
truffles: a bag of dicks?
nubbins`: there are a lot of dicks in the acid zines, usually
truffles: is there a package of dicking or package of dicks?
nubbins`: we do a combination of client work and dicking around on our own
Vexual: like, you sorta get a corel file, work your magic, and then get bitcoin or canadian paper?
Vexual: now you have an artis come with a market and you do the printing?
nubbins`: a bit here and there
Vexual: id like to see a supply chain block chain, so i can get 2 % on tshirts that nubbins sells on my design etc
nubbins`: i knew a guy who claimed to have been in the wet parts business for a while
Vexual: cremated to a blockchain
diametric: the bible is full of references to foreskin as a currency
Vexual: aren't there a few churches that claim to have our lord foreskin?
nubbins`: i'd buy a belt made from the skin of someone with a ton of moles
asciilifeform: you can get your books bound in human skin. but you can't buy a decent laptop.
Vexual: heres a thought, can current pop ever exceed ancestors?
Vexual: id like a ford with four of those 1l ecoboots engines and electrinic throttle running each wheel
nubbins`: when i read about it as a kid, the book claimed that the chassis had so far outlasted something like 4 engines
asciilifeform: i know of no way to obtain such a thing without paying a price for which one could buy a (mass-produced) airplane.
nubbins`: iirc, ford made a car with a stainless steel chassis in the 20s
nubbins`: after a point you're looking at bespoke parts
asciilifeform: but for a laptop with, say, stainless steel chassis and keyboard, i'm not so sure.
asciilifeform: there is a market for those.
Vexual: everything at a price