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b0n1: is there a program like goxtools for windows?
ozbot: Zynga Links Up With Bitpay For A Bitcoin Payment Test In FarmVille 2, CityVille And Other Web Games
ThickAsThieves: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/04/zynga-links-up-with-bitpay-for-a-bitcoin-payment-test-in-farmville-2-cityville-and-other-web-games/
mircea_popescu: should be a coin
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: You may have to move a bit south and west then to intercept
benkay: why even run a freezer in the winter out there?
nubbins`: here's a particularly lucid snippet from a commentor on a cbc.ca article about the storm
KRS1: here's one worth investing in..it can't possibly be a scamcoin:
KRS1: its even cold here in florida because of it, a long way from Canada
KRS1: ya that storm nubbins is in is like 3/4 of the way to a real fuckup
mircea_popescu: pity she never amounted to anything in feminism, i'd much rather mock her than luminaries a la that fat chick, what's her name.
mircea_popescu: more like a cross between zsa zsa gabor and liz taylor, managing to garner the worst parts of both
mircea_popescu: giving away a slightly used, still in working condition yoko ono to whoever identifies the quote's author.
mircea_popescu: i think that's a different trope
jurov: well, quite a few people died because they have seen it as only possibility for someone to care
mircea_popescu: it only becomes a right once you are actually willing to die for it.
mircea_popescu: some proposition doesn't become a right just as soon as someone somehwere doesn't see why it shouldn't be, that's why
jurov: but that looks like exactly such a good intention that paves the road to hell
jurov: anyway, i don't see why it shouldn't be a right that at least someone should care. of course not everyone.
mircea_popescu: by design it's a loss he can easily cope with : you've only one boss, he presumably has many employees.
mircea_popescu: do the others have a right that requires EVERYONE to care about them ?
mircea_popescu: well but how. if i could put it in a pill we could all start exchanges and reddit's dream of progress and equality could finally be realised.
rbonestell: Havelock Investments, or is havelock a code name for something else too?
mircea_popescu: i don't have a smartphone thingee
Jere_Jones: Maybe it is the symbol for delta and not a triangle
rbonestell: I have 5 people testing it right now- found and resolved a few issues. Went from alpha to beta, might go production in a week or so if nothing seriously is found.
rbonestell: I'm looking for beta testers for a Havelock portfolio Android app on Google Play- anyone?
asciilifeform: if someone found a really good use for the feather
mircea_popescu: what's a unit, you know ?
the20year: It is a whopping 50% more efficient than what I buy at lowes for 50 cents a square foot
the20year: Aerogel has a factor of R10 per inch
the20year: i guess a sewage plant in texas is now selling the waste as fertilizer, making a ton off it
BingoBoingo: That local site is now repurposed as a sewage treatment facility
asciilifeform: hence why you can buy one for considerably less than a human house
the20year: pumps were shut off a long time ago
BingoBoingo: A county government purchased on of the local Nike bases a while back for records storage. Mold and Mosture took out a good portion of the archived vital records.
the20year: Here in Ohio, even during the winter, all you need to do is dig a 5ft hole, install some plexiglass over the top of it, and you can grow tomatoes and such all year long
asciilifeform: who wouldn't love a house with a 200T door.
the20year: that's because once you go down about 3 feet , temperatures stabilize on a yearly basis, around 55f
the20year: You can do that, or just build it yourself, rent a backhoe and spend a few days
the20year: at some point , i want to bury a few connex boxes to keep temperature stable
the20year: or a dirt house
the20year: just build a underground house
asciilifeform: easy to heat a house that never gets cold
the20year: These have afterburners/scrubbers on them, the people I know that use them are heating 2000sf+ houses with just a cord of wood per year
asciilifeform: heat a dugout without smoke giving away position
the20year: sometimes built in a hill or ditch, surrounded by dirt, that's then piped underground to your house
the20year: i don't know the name for them, but the big new wood heat here locally is a insullated box
asciilifeform: see, quite a few people get wood stoves because they like the smell.
nubbins`: if you REALLY want to burn wood for heat, get a Jotul stove
nubbins`: if you REALLY want a fireplace, get a propane one installed
the20year: I don't have a fireplace in my house , next houe we have will absolutely have one. My neighbor just put one in his house though
nubbins`: only problem is that certain fuels are a lot dirtier, and require more maintenance
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> i've got a camp stove that takes kerosene, diesel, naphtha, and even unleaded gasoline << i used to have a car that took all that, also alcohol, toluene, etc
asciilifeform: if you want to run a laptop off a candle, a micro stirling engine is probably the only way to go.
the20year: the ones i've seen, by people who were supposed to be experts were all way more innefiicent and more expensive than a standard steam turbine system using a solar trough
asciilifeform: but it remains a 'crackpot field' for some reason.
asciilifeform: the20year: a few mW
asciilifeform: there's a traditional schoolboy version made from aluminum can, that will run off body heat.
nubbins`: i've got a camp stove that takes kerosene, diesel, naphtha, and even unleaded gasoline
asciilifeform: it doesn't get any simpler than a stirling engine.
asciilifeform: you could run a computer on anything that combusts.
ThickAsThieves: a rite of passage
BingoBoingo: plambert: I don't imagine it really makes much difference. How much difference does pouring a gallon of milk make for a river.
ThickAsThieves: it's been almost a year since I cancelled my order for one
mircea_popescu: early on a fpga
mircea_popescu: a capsein-containing strain of basmati rice, making your rice naturally hot.
mircea_popescu: the idea being that expenses a company makes may either result in tangible or intangible goods, these being terms of art and defined in the original standard
BingoBoingo: I've submitted the BitBet and sent a bit to fund yes. I dunno if him getting substantial jailtime in his criminal case later this month would help or hurt the chances of yes winning.
mircea_popescu: he had a lengthy history of dubious relations with basically unfuckworthy women, is more of what i had in mind
mircea_popescu: a a
BingoBoingo: Well, he acknowledged his summons, and now has his fingers in his ears. This was a civil case. The time to evade, ignore, and avoid service was with the summons.
BingoBoingo: I'm looking at the Pirate Ponzi filings on PACER and it looks like we can add being a deadbeat to things Mr. Shavers sucks at in addition to all of the other things in his fail pile
mircea_popescu: it could have been a rather tough half hour.
Duffer1: though i have made it a new years resolution to chill on the hating
BW^-: kakobrekla: what's a moar?
mircea_popescu: if yhou imagine a facebook page "adds trust" you should be on reddit.
BW^-: feel free to add me on Skype, Facebook, etc. if you want a quick path to some sense of trust now.
BW^-: Duffer1: mircea was kind to ask me for a WOT
BW^-: anyhow, if there is a prospective interest in making more fiat out of fiat through turning over Bitcoin, I would be very happy to talk
gribble: Error: I am not seeing this user on IRC. If you want information about a registered gpg user, try the 'gpg info' command instead.
ArsKisS: anyway, I dont participate scams. have a nice day
BW^-: If anyone here is interested in making profit on your fiat in a Bitcoin-industry business, open conversation with me.
mircea_popescu: some people with nary a financial interest in the world do keep a keen eye to see what of the old time bitcoin brings back. it's really an anthropology goldmine first and foremost.
mircea_popescu: back when sound money was a thing, middle class males spent their first three decades in their parent;s house and were generally unable to talk to strangers throughout their lives.
topace: the only place to trade it is a passthru
Duffer1: havelock is a passthrough
VanCleef: its a death trap
mircea_popescu: pankkake say, if i want to hedge my exposure to your coin, can i use a hedgdoge ?
mircea_popescu: pls our lady of teh governments save us in this our hour of need! we can not live in a world where even a single good idea still draws breath
ThickAsThieves: NEWSFLASH: Bitcoin Doing Well Cuz It's a Good Idea
mircea_popescu: this is the story of the cat that looked at a mirror and decided the mirror is the painting of a cat.
mircea_popescu: so it'd seem i invented a dish. fried chicken livers in onions with a side of basmati and mild mango chutney
Duffer1: the pretext for the poundings seemed a bit far fetched
mircea_popescu: a scam without any passive can last indefinitely.
mircea_popescu: it's been there for almost a year because nobody [of any import] was stupid enough.
Duffer1: how is that not a pyramid scheme and how has it been around for almost a year?
mircea_popescu: it SEEMS like a little over a day, but in fact it has been two days + doing the work of 30 hours
mircea_popescu: this is like 10-15%, it's a sample.
mircea_popescu: but wait, a retarget is every 2100 blocks or so.