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nubbins`: they apparently think that not responding to my messages, phone calls, and letters is
a reasonable way to deal with
a court order requiring them to pay me
nubbins`: just having
a hard time with some meatheads that are former tenants of mine
mircea_popescu: if messiah comes tomorrow riding
a box of flaming fans
mircea_popescu: this is
a discussion about what if god gets your wife pregnant.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense this isn't
a discussion about mining,
mircea_popescu: but it wouldn't be
a flamethrower, it'd just be
a lucky freak.
mircea_popescu: if the shaman heals you he's still no doctor, even should the mage light up
a fire he's still no matchstick
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform same reason
a girl wearing
a funny hat doesn't function as the emperess of china.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, if I get
a parrot that extracts correct nonces out of
a bag, i don't have
a miner.
dexX7: people say
a sat-solver is useless, because it would only provide an advantage, if sha is broken
nubbins`: not sure of the exact numbers, but the price of
a shirt was roughly 2x today's price when that was happening
mircea_popescu: the price of cotton figures what, 18 cents in the cost fo
a tshirt ?
nubbins`: ^ for
a while there, t-shirts REALLY weren't free
nubbins`: can't even imagine what
a box of kraft dinner costs ;)
nubbins`: it's quite
a price for two, really
bitesak: thats quite
a price for 1 bitcoin
nubbins`: just
a matter of how close you can get your horseshoe to the stake
nubbins`: but i don't think it would be
a bad idea, short-term
nubbins`: any guesses as to when we'll see
a BTC-USD all-time high?
kleeck: You can use
a NAS, but you don't SHARE the backup partition.
topace: "
a guy that knows
a guy that knows how to use computers"
kleeck: And uses network shares as
a backup solution..
topace: they have "
a guy that knows
a littlbe bit about computers"
kleeck: So, this wasn't
a system admin, then?
topace: and as
a clueless IT person, thats probabyl what i would do too
kleeck: His backup was
a network share?
topace: i tried to explain to him how
a moutned network drive != backup
kleeck: First off, your users shouldn't be able to get
a zipped exe, or an exe, at all.
topace: bringing
a lot of new people to bitcoin
topace: thats
a pretty shitty virus
kleeck: My IronPort has been stripping zipped .exe files for
a month now., all from DHL, UPS, and FedEx. Thanks for the headsup...
kleeck: Heh. Just got
a notification email from the my State's Healthcare Association regarind CryptoLocker.
jurov: <mircea_popescu> as
a result mpex now returns executed collateral immediately upon execution.<<< immediately on opex you mean? or it's about futures?
mircea_popescu: as
a result mpex now returns executed collateral immediately upon execution.
mircea_popescu: so mike_c, it may please you to find that not only are you in the mpex faq now, but process of arguing about it ended
a coupla hours ago with my complete capitulation
nubbins`: now, both allowed you to pay with
a cc without having
a paypal account
benkay: i would love to build
a thing under someone with
a decade's domain experience
pankkake: there's more than doing an ebay though. there is
a need for easy small shops (like bigcartel.com)
mircea_popescu: when i say someone to do it i mean someone with
a decade's worth of experience in
a relevant position.
pankkake: Python, where I use many libs rather than
a framework
pankkake: I'm
a developer, mostly worked for web startups
mircea_popescu: i dunno. i been crowing about how it'd be
a good idea for years.
nubbins`: i think SR was
a straight-up 10?
mircea_popescu: they'd make
a helluva lot more if they could just take
a file out of dpr's book and tell the govt to suck on an onion./
nubbins`: they make
a lot through ebay fees
pankkake: the make
a lot through paypal fees, or sneaky currency conversion fees
mircea_popescu: i don't have
a hard time imagining why they'd want to tho.
pankkake: I have
a hard time imagining ebay adopting bitcoin
nubbins`: you'd get at least
a few whitepapers out of it
dub: tl;dr? seen it mentioned
a few times today
nubbins`: your chinese takeout box has had
a badbios this whole time
benkay: dub: i wanted it to have
a badbios
pankkake: somehow when I see savage I think of
a horse running free in the grass
benkay: hey mircea_popescu what were you implying the other day when you queried for the s.mg price and then made
a comment about an in-game thing?
mircea_popescu: i don't recall now if it was written as
a bitcoinica envy clone or not.
mircea_popescu: btw pankkake you're doing
a very small amount of parroting over here! i thought we had
a deal!
mircea_popescu: no but seriously, much more of an economist than
a philosopher, for instance.
mircea_popescu: opc0d3 you know you could save yourself
a lot of embarassment by reviewing the logs for
a few days before blindly jumping in.
opc0d3:
a cute little parrot on his shoulder
dub: tycho is that guy that forgot how to run
a pool yeah?
opc0d3: what
a load of BS>... ICBIT is not 'fictitious' nor does it have no volume.... so much misinformation and lies in here
mircea_popescu: nubbins` except
a fictitious exchange with no volume could be just as well run off dreamweaver.
nubbins`: see, the thing is: coca-cola can afford to pay for gold-tier support contracts, so they can use .NET and if it breaks (which it doesn't), they have
a big red telephone they can pick up to get it fixed
opc0d3: pankkake: doesn't mean that running
a .NET site is stupid or bad idea.
pankkake: you know, multi billion dollar companies aren't
a very good example of competence or efficiency
Apocalyptic: do they ? i feel more secure running
a linux server honestly
pankkake: oh
a webchat user, the advance sign of retardation
Apocalyptic: well the fact site is running on ASP makes me chuckle
a bit
benkay: come back with
a wot identity opc0d3
mircea_popescu: and to clarify, opc0d3 , you don't get to come in after
a coupla years and call established fact "fud" and "bs".
mircea_popescu: then they magically don't have the dough to pay the winners, and go into
a cone of darkness for
a half year
nubbins`: pankkake: there's nothing stopping that from being
a renamed .jspx ;)
opc0d3: mircea_popescu: they have more volume now. you obviously bought futures in
a thin market, and it moved against you.
pankkake: > trusting
a website with urls in .aspx