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Vexual: icould consult my inner basho and write
a haiku
Vexual: did i have
a moment with truffles? i'm loathe to check
KRS|Gotyawallet:
a btc exchange opened in Romania today? cant find anything on it
ozbot:
A few gifs I have collected for your perusing. - Imgur
gribble: Error: "duckduckgo" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: When asked about their shared Catholic faith, Eszterhas said of Gibson, "In my mind, his Catholicism is
a figment of his imagination."
kakobrekla: got
a word from inside of bitstamp, mysql server with no replication and once per day local mysql dump
mircea_popescu: people spendign 12 mn to buy mining gear in
a month ? definitely.
mircea_popescu: maybe there's someone in
a cave somewhere, never turned it off.
mircea_popescu: if you went to the us army and said "you have to increase your firepower by 50%. you have one month. you can't get
a bank loan for this"
mircea_popescu: allow me to rehash the usual arguments : this bet calls for
a 50% increase in deployed hash power within
a month.
[\]: might as well sell them
a 486
mircea_popescu: so the guy can ask. course... always
a good idea to ask before rather than after lol
Namworld: Try showing coinbase the transaction out was sent to bitbet and it came back as
a winning bet, if it happens you win.
Namworld: Not really. How would you prove you sent that transaction? You can't.
A screenshot isn't good enough. I could make
a screenshot and edit it 50 times for all amounts and claim all bets as mine.
mircea_popescu: does coinbase actually allocate addresses to users, like
a sort of wallet ?
zach_: ok so if
a bet has not resolved yet is there
a way to change the address for it to send payouts
mircea_popescu: this means that it sweeps its btc into
a cold wallet, which also means it will be paying from addresses it controls,
mircea_popescu: this means, not using shitty services that don't add
a fee to txs, and not betting late.
mircea_popescu: if however you send in such
a way that your transaction doesn't make it before the bet closes, you're screwed.
pankkake: I don't think you have
a way to prove you were that transaction
zach_: not totally sure but i don't think i specified
a different address to receive
pankkake: bitbet allows you to have
a custom address, it won't necessarily use the sending address
nubbins`: coinbase cheaped out on the tx fee, guy missed
a bet deadline
nubbins`: i think some guy got burned doing that
a while ago
zach_: hey i have
a question for
a mod or someone from bitbet
mircea_popescu: and the airplane throwing thing is
a fascinating exercise in impotence.
knotwork: yeah somewhere between thrown in the deep end to learn to swim and thrown out of an airplane to incentivise inventing
a parachute there is
a slope of some slipperiness or lack of slipperiness or nasty friction or razor blades or something
knotwork: The north pole is probably
a big aerial for christmas ham radio anyway as well as
a faster than light communicator so Santa can stay in touch with the Ms. wheil delivering prezzies.
knotwork: ho yeah sure go ahead put Santa out of
a job already, fine. :)
mircea_popescu: probably
a sort of point to point over wireless is already happening in the major cities
knotwork: run your local fork via sneakernet all year, then put it on santa's plate with his cookies and milk so when he zooms around the world faster than light he picks them all up, maybe even has
a copier in his sleigh to copy it so he puts in your stocking all the chaisn from all the kids he visited before you
knotwork: print out
a buy order GPG message to mpoe-pr and snailmail it to
a penpal in Romania who drops it in
a dead-drop for MPOE-spy to pick up
mod6: bitcoin will find
a way. if anything, i think we'd build our own communications network if we needed to.
pankkake: quite
a lot of work, but sure should pay in the long run
pankkake: it's funny that no matter how hard you try to make
a bad coin, people go out there to "promote" it
pankkake: got
a "coinchat is back" mail. I thought that was TradeFortress' thing?
ThickAsThieves: This is more of
a haunting than
a poltergeist behavior which tends to be more violent. My wife and I have had many strange unexplained experiences happen also. I am no so keen on mediums though. There are only
a few in the world that are actually any good at being specific or accurate.
bevardis1: Hey guys. I want to buy some bitcoins. How fast is it possible to do it with
a reasonable price (not more than 20% increase, hopefully <10%)? I have paypal, credit card, etc. I'm european. Looking for advice here, not offers :)
jurov: Please whitelist this account for business use. I will follow up with
a post from my main account, ThickAsThieves.
benkay: next computer my company actually buys me is
a well-designed thing whose default ctags implementation doesn't recurse
BingoBoingo: I wouldn't mind
a Macintosh SE/30 with less magic smoke than the last one produced.
benkay: consider it
a shit test for dev ability
benkay: all fp does is urge you at
a language level to do something sane with your state.
fiat500: benkay: thats
a great way to solve some problems, not really great for stateful systems
benkay: given the same inputs you'd have
a tough time convincing me there's
a good reason not to...
fiat500: not saying its great, just
a choice made by the designers, i think it adds
a nice variety to the mix
benkay: this is
a pretty common implementation of data structures, right?
fiat500: it switches to
a more optimal data structure when its size gets large enough
fiat500: the problem arises where
a newer, more efficient implementation is found at some point, and the internal structure of the string must change (consider it getting generalized to
a rope, as an extreme and ridiculous example)
benkay: i come at this all from
a weird non cs perspective, so i'm sure
a lot of the conclusions that i've come to are completely bogus.
benkay: that operate on
a wide variety of data structures
benkay: in
a library of functions
fiat500: not to defend django or python, but
a split method is useful enough that it should probably exist somewhere - where would you put it?
benkay: i'm fresh out of
a code retreat with some humans who really grok oop and yet failed to put together class hierarchies to implement the game of life in 45 minutes.
benkay:
a string has
a .split method? give me
a break!
benkay: how do I teach someone what the ever loving fuck is going on in
a Django project?
fiat500: if you think of objects as just structs with function pointers, its hard to argue that an object is an inappropriate way to represent state in
a stateful system
BingoBoingo: I don't think .NET and OOP are equivalently problematic. OOP can be useful in cases. Somethings want to be objects. I mean CLOS is
a thing. The problem is what happens once you make an object.
benkay: yeah i just can't accept FB as an example of
a mature and sustained development environment delivering business value.
benkay: there's
a whole stack of shit that bothers me about OOP
benkay: so you tell me if that's
a mature dev environment.
BingoBoingo: Well, generally generic BigCorp wants fungible workers, and they generally use blub as
a tool to keep workers fungible.
benkay: sounds like you're assuming BigCorp can select even an approximately appropriate tool for
a job.
fiat500: my point was that the size of the corporation (or really more generally, where
a problem is being solved) does not have
a bearing on the type of problem being solved
benkay: this is
a highly contextual conversation between BingoBoingo and myself, albeit in
a public domain.
fiat500: benkay: sounds like
a condemnation of OO/imperative programming in general
benkay: once you get into the class-based systems (which Python libraries inevitably drive you to), Python is just Java lacking
a few particular flakes of shit.
benkay: but i gather that you don't actually need to be scripting python, and the cleaner the break with whatever your past is (Java especially), the easier of
a time you're going to have wrapping your head around the functional approach.
benkay: BingoBoingo: i strongly recommend you not fill your cup with those idiocies. there is
a strong push towards things that are easy, but taking the easy route now sets you up for
a whole shitton of unnecessary unlearning later.
BingoBoingo: benkay: I'm trying to put myself in
a position to appreciate the better things when I have the background to leverage them.
benkay: BingoBoingo: why some insane algol derivative and not
a lisp?
fiat500: i mean given the notion that
a downgrade 'changes nothing' - seems like he should be arguing it was undeserved, not that it is meaningless
fiat500: what is the point of having
a rating at all?
fiat500: "The downgrade “changes nothing,” President Francois Hollande of France, Europe’s second-largest economy, told reporters today after
a summit of European leaders in Brussels."
Duffer1: star citizen needs to be
a real thing right now that i can play
Duffer1: howcome there isn't
a MP coin?