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mircea_popescu: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as
a supported platform
pankkake: but hardware with those fancy web interfaces is such
a bad idea
pankkake: I've seen that, scary… pretty sure my server in
a datacenter has ipmi, I don't know how filtered it is
mircea_popescu: everyone : there's
a new ipmi exploit, it's perfectly capable to root your box.
pankkake: makes
a better Ripple in any case
pankkake: "user currencies" is actually
a good idea, but it's decentralized (except its trading between users); you'd have an issuer
pankkake: however perhaps
a web of trust on the blockchain could be useful
pankkake: besides the misspelling "contacts", I'm not sure what's the point of
a blockchain
mircea_popescu: now, that i do it with
a 200kgf vice and an acetylene blowtorch... well.. just
a matter of style.
bloctoc: I traded bitcoin for mastercoin because I want to try out
a p2p passthrough for mpex.co
thestringpuller: "What's the difference between
a topless girl and
a computer?"
mircea_popescu: basically as best anyone can determine the body of shills that were trying to push ripple half
a year back and got trampled underfoot have mooved on to this thing.
mircea_popescu: KRS1 iirc it's some attempt to do something very similar to colored coins while claiming
a different name for the thing, and some snappy website.
nubbins`: the spread of language is
a fascinating topic
KRS1: He must have
a staff of people scraping the internet daily to see what people are saying about him.
KRS1: What
a fool..obviously thinks too highly of himself.
KRS1: Max Keiser@maxkeiser 28 Nov Somebody out there should start
a 'keisercoin' I'm pretty sure it would go from $0 to $100 mn. pretty quickly
nubbins`: i tried on like fifteen different ones before i found one that (
a) i liked and (b) fit well
nubbins`: not sure about ordering
a ring online, too :P
nubbins`: it's all
a bit light on detail
nubbins`: not
a fan of the woven carbon look
pankkake: the stealth bomber looks better than the classic… but I don't even have
a use for the first one :p
pankkake: I've ordered one (through kickstarter, though they also were open on
a bitcoin one)
nubbins`: ah! there's been
a couple of nibbles on my auction for
a redeemed casascius coin.
dub: yah
a buddy filmed on of those in ubud
firstblockchain: still, not as bad as Sulawesi, Indonesia. There, the person isn't considered "dead" until the cremation has happened. So, until they can save enough money for
a proper cremation ceremony, the corpse stays in the house with the family. They dress it every day and sit it in
a chair in the family room. And put it back in bed at night.
firstblockchain: they are wrapped in cloth, and there's
a ton of incense burning, but still on
a 90+ degree day, it is one stinky parade
firstblockchain: wild, right? last one in our village was
a creamation for over 100 bodies. They have to save up for the cremeations, so the bodies rest in shallow graves for up to four years until the big "group creamation" is ready to go. Then they parade the corpses through town to the funeral pyre.
dub: some odd customs over there for sure, saw
a couple fo funerals type parties up close
dub: got bitten by
a monkey in that fucking monkey forest tourist scam
unbalanced: You might as well try Indonesian coffee from strangers. Live
a little before someone shows up and stabs you for your coins.
firstblockchain: unbalanced - lol - just got
a notice from bitpay about the overpayment. They won't let me accept it without opening
a support ticket first. It says you can also request
a refund.
firstblockchain: Quite the extreme - say, all the Chinese fiat investors, startups concered only with Gov't regulations, etc.. I met at Bitcoin 2013 in Singapore
a few weeks ago - and say, what's been going on HERE for apparently much,much longer
firstblockchain: unbalanced - been
a wild two months since I started it. I figured, let's just do it and see what happens. Mostly getting to meet people involved with BTC and learning about all the possibilities - and different angles
unbalanced: Okay now I want to try Indonesian coffee. Will grab some at my usual stop for
a change of pace.
firstblockchain: Trying to find people with rentable / purchasable land in Costa Rica who are bitcoin friendly. Want to set up
a few solar powered yurts, wire up with some good internet, plant some tubers and coffee and operate from there. Going to be
a pain to ship my roaster there from indonesia though...
firstblockchain: next house - complete off-grid solar electric system purchased with BTC. - and
a composting toilet too ;)
nubbins`: unbalanced: all this does is create
a situation where people are reluctant to spend more than they have to
unbalanced: Huh. The MPOE bonds on that spreadsheet have too much of
a history of Taleb-flagged "blow ups" for my taste.
unbalanced: Exactly. Mining, or
a useful web service, or BTC-denominated investments.
thestringpuller: the more volatile the currency is the more likely there is to be
a loss on MPBOR
unbalanced: How do they know "
a good month" in advance?
thestringpuller: would be to buy BTC and invest it in
a good vehicle like MPBOR bonds on
a good month
thestringpuller: person spends some of those btc to you for
a cup of coffee
unbalanced: Not to buy
a cup of coffee, although if I'm
a coffee roaster, I may want to *accept* Bitcoin.
thestringpuller: unbalanced: no you can't, because that's not
a good utility for it, and never was
unbalanced: (which allows them to continue earning
a living)
unbalanced: The only valid thing to spend
a deflationary currency on is something that will make you more money than holding it.
unbalanced: They could throw up
a matrix of 100 propositions by 12 deadlines. But I guess that becomes proposition spam with no one anchoring each one.
unbalanced: But you're right, they wouldn't have
a defined payoff.
unbalanced: If we assume that mpex BTC options are the only ones that count,
a series of bitbets would let people speculate on something further out.
thestringpuller: unbalanced: how would that be an alternative to options? wouldn't that be more of
a futures contract?
unbalanced: How much of that are you willing to allow? I could see
a line monthly bets on BTC at 1000, 1100, etc all year long as almost an alternative to options.
gribble: MtGox lag is 4.040613 seconds. During this time, light travels 0.00809734321104 AU. You could have sent
a bitcoin from Saturn to its largest moon, Titan (0.00802 AU).
unbalanced: (Hi, I'm Troy McClure... I hung around here
a lot during the April bubble, then reverted to reading the log site assbot made.)
nubbins`: it's really odd, almost like
a penny
nubbins`: that's
a silver maple leaf underneath
nubbins`: oh hey, i got
a krugerrand in the mail today
nubbins`: great, always
a pleasure to work on something new
nubbins`: books, we usually do less than 100 at
a time
nubbins`: we really, really need
a stack cutter.
unbalanced: I'd like to do an MPEX options calculator too. I will put
a coinbr affiliate link up there, jurov... I'm not against affiliate links, I'd just want to add something useful to site to earn the traffic.
unbalanced: So charts,
a mining calculator, how to guides...
unbalanced: But instead of quoting Tufte he links at the top of that post to
a Naomi Robbins PDF from U of Ottawa, so I hold out hope.
thestringpuller: unbalanced: you want to make
a replacement for bitcoincharts?
unbalanced: thought you might have missed
a word there but didn't want to get all the profanities for pointing it out
kakobrekla: they fuck me in the ass like
a dog, then they expect profanity
unbalanced: I'm sure bitcoinwisdom or clarkmoody could add Virtex too but we do
a lot of charting at work so we figure it might be
a way to make ourselves useful.
unbalanced: What was that old Saturday Night Live skit where someone was so slow at conversation, the conversation would move on and then he'd come up with
a comeback to something 3 topics ago?
nubbins`: roasting actually stinks, better to move into
a coffee shop ;)
unbalanced: Okay, so we move *next door* to
a roaster. Noted.
unbalanced: The coworking space I'm in should move into
a roaster's. Or move
a roaster in. People would never leave.
nubbins`: haven't touched it in
a while tho
nubbins`: did
a few pounds
a week for
a couple of years
nubbins`: i almost went into roasting as
a full-time business
nubbins`: the folks at Sweet Maria's do
a lot of direct-from-the-farm buying
unbalanced: I've been planning to write an article about direct global commerce / disintermediation and was thinking of coffee as
a perfect case, and when I read your post earlier today in the logs it prodded me to actually fire up the IRC client for the first time in
a while.
unbalanced: firstblockchain, if you're still lurking, ping me sometime re: direct BTC trade for coffee, I'll mention it to
a local roaster...
nubbins`: honestly, with
a Skerton, an AeroPress, and
a kettle, you could make
a cup of coffee that would rival any other. All for about
a $60 investment.
nubbins`: Hario Skerton is
a good, affordable hand-cranked burr grinder, but it's tiring