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parseval_: kakobreklaa: Would it be possible for me to get a login for the MPEx websocket?
mjr_: my point is that if people have a choice, they will pick the best option
mjr_: i do like seasteading, but its a tougher sell right now...and yes, i agree that startup cities will happen soon
parseval_: I was thinking of making an easy library for BTCTC API but I'm a little worried it might help botters.. however, if they need a third party API to make it work for them, then in all likelihood they would be easily manipulated bots
ThickAsThieves: maybe he's prepping to put a new ask wall up at 3
parseval_: Looks like a dump
Scrat: aka filthy rich, doesn't give a shit about the status quo
ThickAsThieves: if you're gonna buy a cheap city, is the US the best place though?
mjr_: using technology...i think that the tech guys should build a model city, with its own schools, health care, and public services (fire, police, etc)
mjr_: where public transit works and is nice, where its laid out in a way that makes sense, and designed well
parseval_: 13% of my coinflow site visitors have chinese as their primary language.. A few weeks ago it was significantly less. I wonder if BTC is trending up in China more now
mjr_: imagine a city built for the future
AndChat|356841: Doesn't Vermont offer a fiber service for less than the of Google and it's faster
parseval_: I'd look for a WFH job and get cheap housing and fast internet
parseval_: I have a 50/35 connection now, but I want 1GB/1GB
ThickAsThieves: a good what-if has to be within the possibility of occurring in the recent past
mjr_: A. Worse if it ran detroit
parseval_: I almost think that's a good thing
dance4x: actually is there a way to only allow certain assets to come through?
Scrat: what a legend
mpexbot: grilledcat: (help [<plugin>] [<command>]) -- This command gives a useful description of what <command> does. <plugin> is only necessary if the command is in more than one plugin.
grilledcat: Yeah, but that was a sell into the bid wall. Bids and asks are far apart right now.
grilledcat: S.MG lowest ask on MPEX is 0.000269 though, so not quite as big a difference as it looks :)
mircea_popescu: lol the pts got a pretty good business going, buy on mpex sell on for +50%
grilledcat: Not that he has to prove himself quite as much when he's already given out more than the IPO was. He has a religious following by now :)
mircea_popescu: a a
grilledcat: that does make sense of a lot of stuff
mircea_popescu: there's a reason nigerian spam doesn't spell right. that reason isn't that nobody in nigeria can proofread.
jborkl: oh the guy that got hit by a semi and couldnt pay back his loan
mircea_popescu: was a full book of stories.
jborkl: aethero had a story about being run off the road by russians right ?
jborkl: theymos dumping glbse was a good one
jborkl: that guy was a iduot
mircea_popescu: course it was a week before glbse popped
mircea_popescu: he had a scheme and everything, people were all on board,
mircea_popescu: some forum dork came up with the idea of making a glbse asset
jborkl: whick one do you think was the dumbest? Dank bank was a good one
mircea_popescu: i can see a marked improvbement.
mircea_popescu: considering that only a year ago they were throwing btc by the million to a clear ponzi,
grilledcat: Yeah, but the fact that you can pretty much set up a cargo cult copy of a successful security and have it make you rich from idiots is bad for BTC.
dance4x_: Looking for a 15 BTC loan tied to BTC/GOXUSD rate. Can secure it with 100% collateral.
Scrat: worst time axis for a graph
mircea_popescu: and didn't quite turn a profit. CLEARLY ITS A SCAM
mircea_popescu: late on a bet
pankkake: "If you are a member of coinchat, you are forced to use this wallet system to withdraw funds …. which has a lot in common with a money-laundering operation"
thestringpuller: i heard porn is a dying industry
KRS1: i'd invest in porno before gaming..customer base is too fickle, but everyone enjoys a good facial.
Apocalyptic: i heard BNP is a bit better
pankkake: I take part in developping a scraper for bank websites so I really hate bank websites :p
pankkake: they feel like a post office - open only when you are working
Apocalyptic: <ThickAsThieves> maybe they should make a list of cooperative banks instead // it's there
ThickAsThieves: i boycott a bank and then what?
ThickAsThieves: maybe they should make a list of cooperative banks instead
PirateKitteh: helping children but thats not the point MPOE-PR is not a pr HE constantly insults people. boo-hoo who does not get insulted on the interwebz?
ThickAsThieves: MPOE-PR is not a pr HE constantly insults people."
ThickAsThieves: "What's the good way of being a pedophile?"
ThickAsThieves: "MPOE-PR and erik voorhees suck. he screws investors over. And Mireca Popescu is an alter ego of MPOE-PR and is a pedophile (in a bad way)."
PirateKitteh: It would be very interesting to see a drone with a bolo.
ThickAsThieves: ' the hunting licenses do have their restrictions. Weaponry is limited to a "shotgun, 12 gauge or smaller with a barrel length of 18 inches or greater" and firing lead, steel, or depleted uranium shot. "Glass, salt, flechette, ball, slug, sabot, bolo, and exploding ammunition may not be used," '
PirateKitteh: Now we need a comprehensive blacklisting of folks in bitcoin
ThickAsThieves: "We take any public address or export from your wallet and email you a spreadsheet updated with the currency conversions accurate to the moment of the transaction."
ThickAsThieves: i have a cat sleeping on a pillow on my desk right now
topace_home: CheckDavid, A/S/L? and are you naked?
CheckDavid: Anyone wants to earn free Bitcoins just for chatting with me? Send me a PM =)
Scrat: "eat a bag of penii"
mircea_popescu: Scrat ya just a couple
Scrat: too small a sample
Scrat: mercedes sounds like a fat girl name
mircea_popescu: Mercedes, a junior at Penn who is on financial aid, said that at her mostly Latino public high school in California, it was the troubled and unmotivated students who drank and hooked up, while the honors students who wanted to go to college kept away from those things.
gribble: #16969 Sun Jul 21 00:24:28 2013 mircea_popescu BUY 1.0 ISK, PLEX @ 1 BTC (Negotiable rates. Also looking for a well skilled industrialist. PM.)
mircea_popescu: ;;buy 1 "ISK, PLEX" at 1 BTC Negotiable rates. Also looking for a well skilled industrialist. PM.
mircea_popescu: a ok
mircea_popescu: "I have been involved in network engineering since dial up and isdn lines were the only mass connection options available to non businesses. so yes, I am VERY aware what a DDoS is, http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/10/bitcoin-crash/
ozbot: [Proposal] Bitcoin as a payment option for either PLEX or Subscriptions - Assembly Hall - EVE
KRS1: 4 slaves is a harem
mircea_popescu: whatever i'm missing out of this convo makes it a shitton better.
KRS1: Sorry, I tend to come off a bit blunt for our panty-waist modern society. I think it all started because of women's lib.
thestringpuller: ThickAsThieves: do you have a minute?
FabianB: mod6: well, i didn't measure it, was just a feeling
dexX7: <@assbot> [BTCTC] [AMC-PT] 250 @ 0.0025 = 0.625 BTC [-] << shouldn't it show a [+] as they were bought and not sold?
rulother-gs: So you seem pretty convinced that am is a scam
KRS1: what is up with hashrack seems too good of a deal
ThickAsThieves: VMC has a monster logo in ads now
Namworld: Is that really a thing?
mircea_popescu: anyway. purple prose, it's a thing. pretty much the only usable literary output of our american friends. roughly the equivalent of kitsch, something to laugh at smugly.
ozbot: Art over time, a graph of progress. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/art-over-time-a-graph-of-progress/
Apocalyptic: usagi, what are you doing for a living ?
usagi: I wish I could quit my job and just write computer programs all day. if I could do that I would turn netwhack into a game that rivals nethack, for starters
usagi: Of course it's a mere trifle, a side project I was into for a couple of months/years on and off, it could be much more than it is now
usagi: Of course I'd work on it and add a few more levels, finish it, but I wonder if he thinks it has potential?
peterl: won't they just use a sockpuppet account?
Namworld: I bet it's a confused individual thinking it's AsicMiner
ThickAsThieves: currencies in general should be subject to a higher degree of scrutiny, and thechilling effect this could have on the still nascent bitcoin industry. The Bitcoin Foundation isalso concerned that certain statements could lead to confusion concerning the money launderingregulatory framework as applied to virtual currencies in general and bitcoin in particular."
usagi: Because of the death penalty for forging paper money in china, the use of red ink became taboo and even today there remains a strong belief that to write someone's name in red ink means that they will die.
usagi: that's a reasonable article if you're looking for a general background
usagi: "Amazingly, the Chinese only used paper money on any meaningful scale for about 300 years of a 400 year period between 1050 and 1450, overlapping the Song, Yuan (Mongol), and Ming dynasties." - http://www.computersmiths.com/chineseinvention/papermoney.htm
peterl: could you give a year range for yuan, tang and qing dynasties for the non-chinese historically adept?
mircea_popescu: a i c
ThickAsThieves: [05:38] <DeaDTerra> I am working for OpenCoin and then a swedish fixed exchanged called btcx.se :)