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Duffer1: they made the block reward like a 12 month long sin wave because.. who knows
CuWireBeard: How many Earthcoins do I need for a tree to be planted in my name on Earth Day?
mircea_popescu: hello sir. i am with fortune a business company of the united states and would like to short blong
BingoBoingo: blong being a away to say long on btc could make the20year and his real estate venture shorting blong
BingoBoingo: If a blong is even a web venture.
BingoBoingo: It's just a matter of figuring out what sort of format a blong is.
fiat500: more creative destruction of wealth, its a new economy
fiat500: in my mind this is worse than a scam, its just sheer incompetence, how do you collect 900 btc for hardware purchases and end up sourcing only 28TH/s for delivery sometime next year?
ozbot: Starting a new FPGA mining farm/contract Cognitive Resurrected on[Havelock]
mircea_popescu: krs has been a little antsy of late.
fiat500: im just imagining some dude with 1000s of BTC saying "yeah i want to sell off super fast such that i cause the price to plummet and in turn lose a lot of money"
harkbarker: http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/20/5231006/nsa-paid-10-million-for-a-back-door-into-rsa-encryption-according-to
mircea_popescu: wao-ender incidentally : bitbet is a cat bond escrow by default.
asciilifeform: 'president buys his coke in a transformer booth at Eastern Market st.'
mircea_popescu: "I've never been more embarrassed professionally in my life with a senior member." aka, you should see the junior members.
mircea_popescu: Carey interrupted a monastery tour guide with slurred speech, sulked on a group walk through Red Square and later tried to sing with a band at a Mexican restaurant in Moscow. They refused to let him.
asciilifeform: “A tobacco store lady talking about physics in the wee hours of the morning doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me,” Carey told investigators..."
mircea_popescu: after his alcohol-fueled binge on a two-day visit to Moscow in July that included a late-night meeting with local women and offensive behavior to his Russian hosts.
pizzaman1337: no, I mean, something I can trust more than a shell on some else's box. I want root.
KRS|Gotyawallet: something with a gui right
KRS|Gotyawallet: jurov has a free shell
ozbot: The Cubli: a cube that can jump up, balance, and 'walk' - YouTube
mircea_popescu: rather than a re-bot
mike_c: what, a counter-bot has to be complicated? :)
mircea_popescu: twist : that playing was generally a better use of that time than the alternatives they had
asciilifeform: it's a consequence of how the markov chain works
mircea_popescu: this is != writing a string that works.
mircea_popescu: basically you were writing a bot that played and won.
KRS|Gotyawallet: i've been reading about that sort of thing since i was just a kid
KRS|Gotyawallet: its a bit of a fun distraction for me
mircea_popescu: supposedly i was a theoretical physicist in my youth
KRS|Gotyawallet: i see you know a thing or two about physics mircea_popescu
mike_c: hehe. well, i could write a counter-bot pretty quickly since he provided the source code.
mircea_popescu: mike_c here's a bomb for you : there exists a sequence which makes the bot get 0%
mircea_popescu: is that a birthmark or a beltmark ozbot ?
mike_c: ozbot is a good robot that does what its told. ascii's robot reads my mind in uncomfortable ways.
mircea_popescu: you wanna be a car executive you don't show up at the vp meeting acting like you belong there
mircea_popescu: the correct way is to do for instance conference evanghelizing for s.nsa fior a uyear.
mircea_popescu: mike_c gotta give the twentysomething enthusiasts a way in.
mike_c: outsourcing evangelism is tough for such a technical product.
mircea_popescu: yes / maybe if we find a good outsourcer.
mircea_popescu: so if you see a lot of "plz to change gpg it is hard to use" you can guess it's them.
asciilifeform: nsa did write me a letter once: 'dear mr. s, we regret to inform you that we have no openings matching your..... '
Duffer1: ohh i thought it was a euphemism for.. well n/m
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no see, if they can run a reflow line they get to sit at the table with the adults.
asciilifeform: 3.5 if they can run a reflow line.
mike_c: not really bad. but conclusion is that he's not plunking any money down on mpex. now he has a company listed there.
mike_c: wow that link on ascii dissecting mpex. I guess a few things have changed since february.
KRS|Gotyawallet: theres actually decent volume..just need to work on the graphics a bit :D
KRS|Gotyawallet: i heard once a year there are complimentary seat offers
mircea_popescu: i stgill have mail going "whatg, 500 dollars for a seat ?! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!! HOW DARE YOU!!!"
mircea_popescu: benkay there isn't a fixed fee. you negotiate it when you list.
gribble: Loper OS » A Review of MPEx, the Bitcoin Stock Exchange.: <http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1108>; English - MPEx: <http://mpex.co/faq.html>; MPEx - Bitcoin: <https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MPEx>
the20year: $250k based on the initial investment of $92k , or a total growth of 271%
mike_c: a performance bonus for raising capital?
the20year: Right now the way it's written if we can hit $250k in capital, I get a performance bonus
mircea_popescu: (mpex shares are non voting. as a result, the operator has to maintain majority)
mircea_popescu: you'll definitely be keepiong a 50% stake.
Duffer1: do you have a target 20?
pankkake: I thought it was just a pot
pankkake: not sure about Petain himself, but the Vichy gov started a lot of shit that are still going on today
gribble: Error: "wikipedia" is not a valid command.
mircea_popescu: well, i have some respect for the variety tradition, but barnum is a sort of paul little without a cause.
mircea_popescu: making a list of "bad" people generally is really an exercise in measuring the weight of air, in air, with a scale and weights made out of air.
mircea_popescu: that's a machine that's still slapping people today.
Duffer1: i think lincoln is a good choice, the damage done is undeniable
mircea_popescu: had it been the case i'd have perhaps had a different name to top my list
Duffer1: they claimed "states rights" meanwhile they were trying to unite the south in its own federal control and mandate a single religion
Duffer1: or bush as a more modern example :P
mircea_popescu: obviously the statal propaganda machine will have tried to make it all about a simple, cut and dried issue.
the20year: There was a pretty interesting quote made by a southern general after the war, i need to dig it up, being just about that. And that over time the civil war would be made about slavery and nothing else
mircea_popescu: that vision has meanwhile been realised, and unsurprising anyone with a clue, you mostly don't like it.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand saying that the civil war the direct result of the southerner's staunch opposition to high taxes and unsound money coming into conflict with lincoln's vision of a leviathanesque all-controlling state.
Duffer1: i dunno, i feel it's a case of a little leaven fermenting the whole lump
mircea_popescu: rather than a set in stone thing.
Duffer1: sold to a harsher plantation owner
the20year: It's a wonderful system we have here
the20year: Slaves were extremely ineffective at work, however a 'free' black was significantly more valuable
mircea_popescu: so what's the gain of the war ? picked a different nigger to pile on ?
Duffer1: it's a for-profit prison system
mircea_popescu: it was entirely a different thing in 1820.
the20year: And slavery today isn't very popular at all , outside of sexual slavery which is a whole other ballgame
Duffer1: even if they didn't intend to keep them, southern laws forbade their existence outside of any context that didn't revolve around a white master
mircea_popescu: however, it was dieing out in a sustainable way, rather than creating the black ghettos that the war created.
mircea_popescu: the20year that's a huge discussion tbh
the20year: There could of potentially been a slow transition
the20year: certainly would have been a very interesting situation
mircea_popescu: if the slavery question were allowed to die out rather than used as a pretext for a war, you wouldn't still be fighting over the mason-dixon line in 2013 ffs.
mircea_popescu: a perfect illustration of the incredible damage lincoln's imbecillity did to that country.
Duffer1: i die a little inside every day :/
ozbot: What Is Duck Dynasty and What Does It Have to Do With a Man's Anus?
ThickAsThieves: http://gawker.com/what-is-duck-dynasty-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-a-1486356857
ThickAsThieves: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal also weighed in: "I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended."
FabianB_: "anyone with a verified account will be able to quickly send money to their MtGox account via 128 global currencies." <-- 128 currencies? I only see 4 countries moneypolo operates in, how could that be 128 currencies?
mircea_popescu: for "guy starts service, 3 months later he's making 500 a day"
TomServo: a fair point, I wasn't intending to misconstrue
mircea_popescu: just forcing the point that "6k one day" != "6k a day"
mircea_popescu: more like 500 a day irl, not that such a thing is bad
TomServo: Yes, the 6k is a very recent thing
mircea_popescu: 6k a day, but for two weeks.