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MJR__: I like notifying about the relative strength of a password
MJR__: well, I personally don't like disallowing weak passwords
tiberiusiv: i dont get why cavirtex is voluntarily going to regulators in canada
MJR__: I think mpex does that well
mircea_popescu: MJR__ as far as i can see, the job of the provider is to ensure you don't get squished.
kakobrekla: hehe http://i.imgur.com/STSOYR9h.png
mircea_popescu: that's easy : i just walk in there, say hi and hit them across the head.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you demonstrate how to steal a vault full of diamonds in Belgium, I'll give you a U.S. dollar in bounty.
mircea_popescu: MJR__ i wastalking, with a spectrum analyzer.
mircea_popescu: if you demonstrate key stealing off a laptop i'll give you a btc in bounty
mircea_popescu: in practice most everyone uses a qr gun from what i understand.
mircea_popescu: robonerd i don't think anyone's lookingto give away hardware atm
robonerd: well how can i get in on the bitcoin surge? i'm an apple ios developer, i can write bitcoin related software to help ppl in exchange for btc mining hardware
mircea_popescu: otherwise i don't trust them things personally, but ymmv.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think mpex quite clearly showed you don't have to be.
robonerd: i want to buy in on a asic-based mining op. i only have $200 to invest
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla house. i got a garden and there's also a 2nd floor
mircea_popescu: i get it, makes for a decent novel plot
mircea_popescu: i've paid 22k for a year.
deadweasel: unlesss I'm trying to use coinbase or mtgox
asciilifeform: Reminds me of: "I remember someone saying that if it hadn't been for automatic switches in the telephone network, the entire population of planet earth would have had to be telephone operators to handle the load of telephone usage in 1993 or thereabout. I get the eerie feeling that because modern computer systems are so incredibly braindamaged in their design and in the tools used to program them, the entire po
deadweasel: i see
MJR__: I agree with you
MJR__: I was kidding
jurov: i can't resist trolling them... hosting company with deal customer link on frontpage, wtf?
mod6: i had high-hopes for bvps
smickles: I wan't a scribe to follow me around and record my activities in iambic pentameter
mircea_popescu: i've not yet actually fired anyone at mpex. it's not quite large enough to have a hr to do mishiring
mircea_popescu: i don't hire them, they just get hired.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the "I fire..." quote reads like "I expel rabid badgers from my house every day."
benkay: "I fire twentysomethings of his particular school of mental retardation "
jurov: oh mp, have you seen i coined a new term befitting teh community? "mining scene"
mircea_popescu: that's i think the motivating factor : one clever idea, lots of value in it.
kakobrekla: ltc is back to 0.006 i see :)
jurov: i have already seen it
mod6: i <3 this channel
jurov: so, i've read the scrollback and some links. and all i'm remembering is that mircea tried to stabilize a vagina by poring concrete.
Doffx: I haven't been following anything in the asset world for a while
Doffx: Haha, I just needed a rough estimation
ThickAsThieves: and i'm the expert here bro!
Doffx: Yeah, I like the answer
Namworld: and they already paid for manufacturing 50 more TH I think
Diablo-D3: ThickAsThieves: I really doubt half
ThickAsThieves: wow i got an answer https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg1659490#msg1659490
mircea_popescu: i guess we will have > 9000 of them by the time year's out
benkay: I learned this thing about conferences recently
Namworld: I like plain figs tho...
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla o i c, the "community"
mircea_popescu: so i'm currently eating nutella dipped figs.
mircea_popescu: ai isn't wits, really. but anyway, i always imagined the headlines. "bitcoin provokes singularity"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bruteforce mining is a contest of fiat bank accounts (and perhaps botnets.) I prefer contests of wits.
mircea_popescu: because i always thought that minsky & all may be nice and good
mircea_popescu: but i always suspected this is going to be the one way we end up with ai
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but yes, that's the only sort of BTC mining I'm personally interested in (well, that and optical computers.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and no, this wasn't my idea. I may or may not have a better one, however.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: I can't bring myself to read the btc forums, did anyone discuss it there?
mircea_popescu: i guess once you've seen her whore out you'll never buy into the virgin mary theory again.
mircea_popescu: since its unlikely that guy reads romanian, i'd say woot! people are getting it!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform jesus christ that sounds as a complete rewrite of an article i wrote in like 2010
benkay: deadweasel: i prefer to be the one purchasing sex, and i don't find myself attracted to vote-grubbers.
asciilifeform: benkay: I hear protection rackets are a good investment: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2013/03/where-theres-no-government.html
benkay: i hear no good ideas.
benkay: peanuts i tell you.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i bet you that's the banking mavrodi fambly.
benkay: not necessary i have a pi far
deadweasel: i can't let my fellow badgers be excluded
benkay: i'm launching a mining company
benkay: "you have no idea if i'm serious or not!"
benkay: i am going to adopt this attitude.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they were behind the counter, so presumably not cheap. I didn't ask...
benkay: i know this isn't a super dev-y group, but some of you might enjoy
benkay: o i can read thank you
deadweasel: in fact, i'm selling those.
deadweasel: mod6, you need more time for you first, then you might be more useful here, for whatever it is y'all are doing. options i think
mod6: i just need to get some of this personal stuff sorted so i have more time for you guys.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't swallow dead weasel pills
Namworld: I think deadweasel is the key to rejuvenation. I suggest we ground him to a thin powder and make pills.
deadweasel: fuck me, I'm still at work...... gonna go pretend for a bit.
deadweasel: i'm REVERSE AGING!
mircea_popescu: yes. i infected you. totally.
deadweasel: jesus christ, did I just say "i was like"
deadweasel: i was like, none of that pls
mod6: well, what i mean is, in his trial
mircea_popescu: so i heard lol
mircea_popescu: ya well i got news for you
mod6: i need to stay out of jail
mod6: yeah, i'll fucking rage
mod6: i used to just live on peoples front porch couches after IBM
mod6: i can't go back to living inthe street again
mod6: well, basically yes. but, i've got some living situation that needs to be solved.
mod6: i know tons of shit, and can get stuff done. the problem is im poor and have no representation against these evil assholes.
deadweasel: but my feelings are as I have stated
mod6: anyway, i can't say any more.
mod6: when i first signed up with these guys, the first thing they did was sue VMWare
deadweasel: i see where you are going. but he shold not suffer un endingly because he's worried about what they might say
mod6: wont be long i think.. the process is alreay in motion, and has been in motion since the beginning of this ydar.
deadweasel: i'm gon go thow myself down a flight of stairs
mod6: anyway, i gotta finish unwinding this stuff then i'll be free of this obligation.
deadweasel: now I've got health insurance!
deadweasel: i was contractor up until monday.