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mircea_popescu: "Wells was
a loyal employee—in 10 years, the only time he had called in late for work was when his cat died."
KRS-1: i visited many data centers and the sales people at each one do
a great job at making you think not even houdini could get in or out
KRS-1: 8 foot thick walls of steel reinforced concrete is
a bit much to believe
mircea_popescu: s/
a guy without
a family/
a guy without
a family who cares about you pointing guns at him/
error4733: everything is useless if it's
a inside job...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if there's
a man with
a rifle standing by it
a hot chick wearing just
a belt still can rip anything off she pleases.
mircea_popescu: when your heart sends
a pulse the small vesells in the retina dilate.
topace: the iris scanners at my data center supposedly can even tell the difference between
a dead eye and
a live eye (so if someone kills me and takes my eyeball, tehy STILL cant get in :p)
topace: if you dont own your own servers and have them locked in
a cage that only you have access to, you're just asking for trouble.
topace: its incomprehensible to me that anyone would use
a shared/rented/vps hosting platform for anything bitcoin related
mircea_popescu: i would guess they just need to do
a complete audit by now
gribble: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX]) -- Return pretty-printed mtgox ticker. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure that the three letter code you enter is
a valid (1 more message)
damientrog: it's
a gold mine left to waste right now
ThickAsThieves: erik argues away promoting the site
a lot, explains away adding features, and barely communicates at all
ThickAsThieves: kakobrekla sounds likea good name for
a beastly street fighter character, much better than blanka
mircea_popescu: BTCOxygen
a business plan is
a good start.
a wot presence is necessary.
BTCOxygen: I will be editing this in
a few hours.
mircea_popescu: also isn't it traditional to have
a square box with shadow and reflection underneath ?
MJR_: it sure does, you would be
a fool to pass this up
BTCOxygen: Anyone here interested in Investing on
a 200% annual return asset ?
MJR_: lol, that was
a great thread, and i love erik's response
MJR_: and if i think they are it isn't worth my time...tiberius is
a perfect example, he will recycle arguments, switch to ad hominem, it is very easy to spot
MJR_: how much value does someone get in
a chan where no one can hear them?
MJR_: just saying without understanding the incentives in
a situation, you can't change that situation in
a controlled manner
MJR_: so now that you have
a more accurate picture of the value proposition, you can change the incentives to stop trolls
MJR_: but truffles also brought up an interesting question...what if it all seems to me to be roughly equal in value? that is where randomness and chance play
a role,
a role that we have tried to minimize (though people still flip coins from time to time when they can't decide)
mircea_popescu: "I can assure you btcrow.com is not into defrauding anyone. We've processed transactions over 500 BTC at
a time."
MJR_: in this case, short sighted economists view it as
a choice between $0 and $10, but that is not the whole picture
MJR_: it is
a simple equation...you are deciding between two choices, whichever choice is more valuable is the choice you will make
MJR_: no such thing as
a free lunch...and morals have
a dollar value
MJR_: for example...almost any woman could prostitute...why don't they all do it (and not just in
a metaphorical sense)?
MJR_: basically, the offerer can view part of his offer as accrued honor or fairness...which is worth something, the decider can view his role as
a fighter of injustice as
a value, and it is rare to find
a society where an 80/20 split is accepted
mircea_popescu: but it should be he explaining his project rather than me possibly arguing with
a strawman
MJR_: trolling is
a perfect example of not having
a broad enough scope for defining "value"
MJR_: yeah, i appreciate it from
a theoretical perspective
MJR_: but people with
a ton of money will always have an advantage over people without
mircea_popescu: so, betsofcoin w/e scamming, blockbet scamming, i guess bitbet marks
a new record of market dominance
mircea_popescu: physical security is not such
a big deal, as i was saying yest
Scrat: i still think it's
a hassle unless you're dealing with tons of forms and dynamic data
jurov: mjr_ so what new... user asked me to escalate
a problem to mpex... that will be inevitably axed :/
MJR_: i really want to get around to building
a site in angularjs. with node.js on the server
jurov: thus giving it
a purpose
jurov: KRH1: let's make
a bot that will autopost new /dntg stuff to #bitcoin-anal
MJR_: you should put some header on the site to kinda specify, and maybe throw up
a webpage for that chan
KRS1: Yes, in
a matter of words, I suppose. Maybe if I explain it to Mircea Popescu he can come up with
a more simple way.
KRS1: I got
a fish on the line
Scrat: on
a second glance the code i gave you sucks ass :p
Scrat: MJR_: i hope you;ve converted it to
a socket pool
MJR_: i'm using node.js to run
a console app
sharktopuz: anyone want
a chance to win
a free Bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: <!–mfunc echo PHP_VERSION; –><!–/mfunc–> as
a comment allows rce
mircea_popescu: lmao so apparently there's
a huge hole in wp super cache,
orkaa: ThickAsThieves, it wouldn't be
a problem then
mircea_popescu: so
a coupla weeks ago i followed
a dozen or so domme bitchez on twitter
orkaa: everything is
a store of value, it's just that the clock is ticking
error4733: ok give me for you
a good exemple for
a store value ?
thestringpuller: tiberiusiv: if your mom was
a store of value there would be
a huge market.
error4733: fact is we can conceptualise
a money now, not 200 years ago
mircea_popescu: the store of value user takes
a position with the expectation that with the passage of time the price of bitcoin will not vary.
mircea_popescu: in
a very simple sense, the speculator takes
a position in the expectation that with the passage of time the price of bitcoin will vary
Namworld: Considering how well BTC seems to be
a good store of value, I think anyone doing
a store of value is speculating.
gribble:
A market order to buy 11000 bitcoins right now would take 1770138.2261 USD and would take the last price up to 166.0000 USD, resulting in an average price of 160.9217 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0013 seconds
Scrat: (which technically noone will give
a shit about)
gribble: MtGox lag is 1.059392 seconds. During this time, light travels 0.00212300970646 AU. You could have sent
a bitcoin across the outer diameter of Saturn's rings (0.0024 AU).
MJR_: it didn't specify if it was
a n of m scheme, but i thought i read that somewhere
mod6: he's
a scammer, and should be labeled as such
MJR_: error4733: i don't hold
a lot of bitcoins...i have bitcoin denominated assets
joecool: seems like
a solid thing to do
MJR_: i am just saying, if i had 11,000 bitcoins...10,500 would be only accessible with
a multisig transaction with the horcruxes split up into 7 locations lol
MJR_: joecool: i don't have
a paper wallet
MJR_: so that is the tradeoff...how much convenience or security do you need, the best way is to keep large portions in
a paper wallet.
a little bit on your home computer encrypted, and spending money in an online wallet
truff1es: id be nervous if i had
a lot of digital money these days
MJR_: but it is really inconvenient to go to
a safe deposit box to get
a paper wallet you left there, but you will almost certainly not be hacked
MJR_: it is very convenient to use
a wallet you dn't control...but if they are hacked your coins are gone
MJR_: but of course you should probably use
a nice big round number, or
a bunch of 1btc transactions
MJR_: if you need
a higher level of guaranteed anonymity, it is
a great idea