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deadweasel: it is
a pretty cool looking turtle mind you.
mircea_popescu: ferent types of string, nine different types of soft plastic, four different types of hard plastic,
a piece of carpet-like material, and two tar balls to boot.
mircea_popescu: In 2009, marine biologists with Disney’s Animal Programs in Melbourne Beach, Florida, discovered
a green sea turtle that was having trouble digesting food. They found that
a piece of plastic had lodged in the turtle’s gastrointestinal tract. When biologists removed the obstruction, the turtle defecated 74 foreign objects in the subsequent month. Among the items documented were four types of latex balloons, five dif
deadweasel: plastic bags were
a bane, I basically went around picking them up all day so animals wouldn't choke.
ThickAsThieves: lol the thing is so old it couldnt pass
a an emissions inspection probly
nubbins`: and
a big sign at the end that says "why not use less plastic bags?"
nubbins`: there's
a lovely section of the East Coast Trail that runs right past it
pankkake: I still use
a 15 year old computer!
deadweasel: i lived on
a landfill for
a few weeks. reclaimed section with exotic wildlife on it, mind you.
deadweasel: you should run
a computer disposal service that only accepts btc!
nubbins`: and then at the end you find
a smashed hard drive covered in dog vomit
ThickAsThieves: well you put everything on
a conveyor back into the dump
ThickAsThieves: how is it not worth $7.5m to dig up
a 4-foot deep football field?
nubbins`: you can already do
a crazy amount of stuff via google
nubbins`: probably only
a matter of time
nubbins`: can i just say that i had no idea how much having
a safety deposit box makes you feel like
a baller?
nubbins`: like
a landlord from
a dickens novel
ThickAsThieves: and
a huge gain for the bidder, cuz it was probly the week before closing
mircea_popescu: that was
a 10k btc loss or thereabouts for the hapless author.
nubbins`: there appears to be
a large amount of fail happening with HIF
mircea_popescu: this is all
a discussion of
a blockchain fork, not of
a software fork
pankkake: there's
a blockchain fork of bitcoin already, the bitcoin-scrypt thing
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you're always on both sides of
a fork. by definition.
pankkake: infinitecoin has
a better progression than litecoin
mircea_popescu: you have to appreciate the following mechanism : if there's
a blockchain fork, the two forks can be sold and bought independently.
pankkake: probably over issuing
a block of 100000 BTC for
a bailout
nubbins`: the bohemian rhapsody one, you could hear
a few piano parts where they happened to be around the same freqs as his voice
nubbins`: you can hear the backing tracks in
a lot of these, very faintly
nubbins`: there's
a ton of these acapella videos on youtube, some of them are pretty funny
Venat: is there
a way to track how many addresses there are currently
ThickAsThieves: freddie mercury babbling sounds on stage can communicate better with
a crowd than most leaders
nubbins`: y'know, the first time i bought
a Queen cassette, the fucking thing was spooled backwards
nubbins`: pretty lelly when the headbanging part comes up and it's just silence for like
a minute
ozbot: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (
A-Cappella) - YouTube
markedathome: so now that bitcoin has passed 1000usd, will 'the good wife' do
a followup to their "bitcoin" episode?
mike_c: this actually has
a chance. insane.
nubbins`: well, few things feel as good as taking
a shit
nubbins`: seriously, there must be
a guy out there somewhere with
a beowulf cluster of raspis
nubbins`: "raspi is cheap, let's get
a bunch of those and install apache"
gribble: MtGox lag is 4.850078 seconds. During this time, light travels 0.00971950200782 AU. You could have sent
a bitcoin from Saturn to its largest moon, Titan (0.00802 AU).
nubbins`: no point for me to lie, most people here probably already think i ate too many paint chips as
a child
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you got
a problem with 1000 ? are you an anti-thousandist ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: if someone made
a bitcoin charts like api that was more reliable would you be willing to run the MPOE bot off that?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so now you know the announcer is
a lying sob.
pankkake: you'd be safer with
a buttplug
ThickAsThieves: "I was on the verge of pulling the trigger at $65 when there was
a lull
a couple of months ago!! Am kicking myself right now!"
nubbins`: that's
a polite, lucid response
deadweasel: Thanks so much for reaching out. I'm embarassed to say, I was not familiar with MPeX - just having
a browse noew and getting caught up.
mircea_popescu: planning is hard, homie. if it were easy i'd have to find
a honest way to make
a living.
pankkake: I'm probably missing and messing up stuff, I am
a bit delirious
pankkake: anyway, the idea is that anything they will release next will be
a chain fork of ProtoShares
pankkake: oh also there was
a bounty of $5000 for anyone who could prove it would work faster on the gpu (as the objective of the pow was that it shouldn't)
nubbins`: why does almost everything in the sphere of btc reek of
a complete lack of planning?
pankkake: but basically he released protoshares, an altcoin, which is has
a memory heavy proof of work
nubbins`: and even casually mentioning you own some btc is generally construed as meaning you've got
a bunch of money
ThickAsThieves: hey anyone else have this kinda phenomenon where you dont talk about bitcoin socially because when you do it's like youre creating
a little monster?
nubbins`: on
a somewhat related note, anyone else think voorhees looks like Gob from Arrested Development?
nubbins`: and even this one didn't have
a shower curtain
nubbins`: otherwise your socks get wet every time you take
a piss
ThickAsThieves: this made me wonder why bathrooms dont naturally have
a shower drain in the middle of the room
nubbins`: apparently there was
a bad batch of copper put out about 20 years ago, and it's all starting to fail
nubbins`: i had
a gallon
a minute coming down through the ceiling
ThickAsThieves: luckily the installers did
a good job, and we caught the leak early enough to have no notable damage
ThickAsThieves: ah we 2 inches of water in half our house
a few weeks ago
nubbins`: had to cut
a flowing pipe and fit
a valve onto it
nubbins`: had
a pipe burst
a few months ago
nubbins`: yeah, ours is in
a good location, but really old and starting to fall apart
nubbins`: that's
a nice size for
a rental
jcpham: mines 3/1 it's
a tiny house
nubbins`: ours is
a 5-bedroom, 1.5 bathroom
deadweasel: I just sent
a contact info invite to -assets
jcpham: i sense ThickAsThieves is
a landlord
nubbins`: well, name
a person who owns more than two homes who isn't an asshole