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asciilifeform: a la printer cartridges.
mircea_popescu: i just cut the end and plugged it into a universal transformer.
asciilifeform: lose yer brick, go crying back to the vendor like a good consumer.
mircea_popescu: just make a power jack and kill everyone marketing a laptop on a different scheme,.
asciilifeform: the u.s. right now is sort of like a slice of meat sitting in a freezer. no flies, bacteria sit and wait, and so on
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there won't be 'fight' in the usual sense, more of a one-sided clobbering
mircea_popescu: you are proposing a contradiction in terms.
asciilifeform: or been outdoors for more than a few hrs at a time
asciilifeform: people who have never so much as swung a fist
asciilifeform: quite a bit smaller then, vs. now
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you know of any time or place where a revolutionary army successfully formed from people who had to forsake air conditioning and 'x box' ?
mircea_popescu: that is never a valid criterion.
asciilifeform: also was no one awake in the '90s? used to be that it was generally understood that if you put plaintext over the wire, someone, somewhere will read it. if only a bored sysop.
asciilifeform: now, somewhere in the bureaucratic jungle there still live a few old-timers who wish they could grab people and wire them to the mains to get the truth, etc. this must be so, or the whole edifice would've collapsed already.
Rulother__: mp, a bit of extra security really. Sorry was taking care of work here.
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin is already a centralized server since bitcoin software stores all history of transactions."
asciilifeform: see the now-famous 'TOR incident' as an obvious example. what does one need to have in place of a brain to rely on a winblows box for 'anonymous' naughties?
mircea_popescu: whyt do you need a "secure" mail service, what's it for ?
mircea_popescu: he just has a fetish for soviet us stuff.
mircea_popescu: Rulother__ you know, trading a scam makes one a scammer.
Rulother__: Here's my problem Snape, you could of used your 90k shares, sold them bought at a low, resold at a high and repeat. You could of made your money back by now.
kleeck: LOL: http://imgur.com/a/H3tIr
Exocyst: just a guess mircea: http://dcx.smidge.com/
Exocyst: There's BTC to be made, but this has been a crazy fortnight
Hiro2: Exocyst true.. like buying a bond higher than it's price worth
Hiro2: seems like the only thing I could be sure is that I got into btc investments at a really bad time, lol
Exocyst: Should be a moving day, lot of coins have been pulled out of ASICMINER over the last week.
Exocyst: I think Labcon will peak at 0.00325 in Late November, then decay like a PMB as they fail to get a gen 2 chip in production
afrotec: yeah thats a tanker for ya
Namworld: Well BTCGarden raised 32,000 BTC... for what? Having a very cheap and badly translated website promising the moon?
afrotec: i wouldnt say a huge downturn, but you'd see sell orders for sure
Exocyst: What if he announces a new initiative backed by venture capital? (everybody down?)
mircea_popescu: you should probably start a wp blog
mircea_popescu: why is everything a platform these days
Rulother__: On a side note, pita chips, peanut butter and sriracha is tasty
Rulother__: You saw what one tech Q&A did, the mgnt q&a should have a similar response. I'm not talking huge or anything or lasting for that matter.
Rulother__: I suspect that lc will take another price boost after the management does their own q&a
Menoetius: bit of a weird IPO reason aswell.. to reduce fee's
pankkake: I don't see any reason to buy shares either… I could consider it like a kickstarter though :p
afrotec: but dont see much of a reason to buy shares, i do want to be a customer though
dexX7: it's not a problem with basic, creativx does great, i'd say
ThickAsThieves: a war of good and evil!
dexX7: the q&a isn't that bad
ozbot: Starting a new FPGA mining farm/contract Cognitive Resurrected on [BTC-TC]
pankkake: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67547.msg2891901#msg2891901 "I'm currently working closely with a new 28nm developer"
Rulother__: <labcoin_dev> well,of course it's not a 100% true statement
ThickAsThieves: Labcoin Q&A starting now in #labcoin
matuszed: BTC so desperatly needs a liquid exchange
[1]lewicki: might pull a may 13th
matuszed: Wonder if theres a lotta coin flowing out of Securities and into cash
dandate2: yeah we wanted to list our company on the exchange but didn't know it would cost 5 btc to do so. it hasn't listed yet so we were hoping to get a refund
mircea_popescu: dandate2 what are you getting a refund of ?
dandate2: i created an asset without knowing there was a 5btc fee, it hasn't been approved yet can i get a refund
Exocyst: BFL gets the last laugh. 30,000 for a machine that will be obsolete by the time it is delivered
Exocyst: Smidge: " smidge has quit (Quit: sorry, but you've mistaken me for someone who gives a fuck...)"
Exocyst: We'll see, there is so little info from friedcat. BTC is a high risk game.
Exocyst: true but, you only need to hold them for an hour a week
Exocyst: but you got to up your liquid during a market contraction
weex: I prefer to set a % to have in each and rebalance. Change the % only if information comes to light that changes your outlook for them.
Exocyst: Why hold anything during a contraction with the potential for a 32,000 BTC scam (BTCGARDEN)
weex: my theory is they have a large Chinese following
mod6: we got a good shallacking
Hollywood: kako i wroye a bitbet for it ealrier
kakobrekla: now we need a bitbet
thestringpuller: making millions of btc a year
thestringpuller: i thought bit day trade was a successful business
Hollywood: mtgox volume down to only 6700 , how this has changed in a few months
Hollywood: $200 million invested in Avalon, after they broke up. All mining revenue is approx $11 million a month- fractured into a million parts. So even if they mined 20% of the network that is 100 months
Lyspooner: as far as i can tell, wsj took the story from bitcoinexaminer who took the story from a 2 year old mistaken article about avalon
Hollywood: no, just a big heatsink on top for now it looks like
Hollywood: Coinado has a running board with BFL sample chips
smidge: all, pls vote yes on the poll to have Smidge.Com A listed on bitfunder: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=269455
Hollywood: no, he is still a bum holding a different sign
Hollywood: mircea_popescu> as if being a bum is different based on the type of currency you don't have. <lol, yeah the guy on the side of the road is begging for BTC so it is ok
afrotec: how about: self storage, meets rent a datacenter, meets pot
mircea_popescu: as if being a bum is different based on the type of currency you don't have.
Namworld: It just occured to me that those ads about making 71 dollars an hour (I think almost all of them have 71 for some reason) and like X grand a month. Well I make more than that.
afrotec: if its a legit company then i want some legit answers
Rulother__: I'm actually curious if they have a guy come out later and give good answers.
jcpham: sit on a park bench in the city for an hour and listen to strangers walk by on their cell phones
mircea_popescu: for like a pop singer chick
mircea_popescu: cutetruth isn't such a bad name
frb: jcpham: all what info? a few bitcoin addresses and a gmail account?
ThickAsThieves: it's a good starting posititon jcpham
jcpham: i just think every ipo is a scam
ThickAsThieves: then a PR announcement
ThickAsThieves: this will force them into a corner hopefully
Rulother__: Got a craving for beef
Rulother__: I need either a nice steak or a cheese burger
kakobrekla: how is that unrealistic for a bag of air
Guest73018: labcoin seems to be taking an unrealistic beating, are they themselves dumping to make a panic ?
Graet: going for strike 3? pool wasnt succesful exchange thing is a lawsuit...
ThickAsThieves: they have a channel
Wild0wnes: anybody bought bitcoins with canadianbitcoins? wondering if a 'merican can get them and what the fees work out to... 100.40/ is a considerable difference in price if so
ThickAsThieves: you take a loss when you dump it, not when the price moves
ThickAsThieves: but Havelock has a different wallet for every asset
pankkake: you can't automate a few days ahead?
pankkake: it's a scam in the sense that investors are never going to profit and the issuer is likely aware of it
pankkake: satisfied by a "NDA" and pictures of an empty building
ThickAsThieves: and then maybe the market gets a little calloused