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Bugpowder: I think MBPOR is probably
a good investment
mircea_popescu: basically, you can pcik your poison and make 5%
a month.
Anduck: i just received my divs - from
a broker
gribble: Error: I am not seeing this user on IRC. If you want information about
a registered gpg user, try the 'gpg info' command instead.
kakobrekla: yea put
a sock on the head instead shoe
Ukto: does that make you think of any recent movie actors who played
a great roll in
a dc comics movie, who suicided? >,>
kakobrekla: if they would done the experiment in russia they would get
a couple of billionths of
a Kelvin lower
pigeons: ok i'll start
a s.dice passthrough on btct.no
Bugpowder: I wonder if this is like
a really amazing breakthru or not
mircea_popescu: GNP on par with Chad for
a decade or so, and all that.
smickles: if you are interested in sending btc to it, I'll give you
a fair share of profits/losses
smickles: Bugpowder: it's
a one month test
mircea_popescu: this is getting
a little bit crazy, 10 deposits the past 5 hours
mircea_popescu: well, kinda hard to run
a blog 30btc worth of awesome, but not impossible
jcpham: if this person isn't crazy and runs some awesome gold blog, can they have
a free mpex account?
mircea_popescu: so whats
a gold eagle go for these days ? over 30 btc ?
jcpham: mircea_popescu i put out
a feeler and someone has offered me anything i want for
a mpex account
kakobrekla: it needs
a bitcoind mod which iirc is somewhere online
jcpham: matonis has
a forum account
Ukto: there is
a huge list of illegal things, and much larger list of items that are 'gray areas' that could be used to make 'legal seeming things' illegal.
Ukto: i know
a federal DA
jcpham: there is
a law firm in atlanta that is sending infringement claims
mircea_popescu: Under plea agreement discussions that were never finalized by
a judge, and that occurred in February 2011 before Stuart was charged with any crime, Stuart says New York authorities pressed him to install
a backdoor in his software and distribute it to clients so the data of gamblers and bookmakers could be retrieved.
mircea_popescu: Stuart asserts that New York authorities only came after him because they wanted to use him as
a conduit to uncover illegal gambling operations in that state. He says the New York district attorney’s office tried to strong-arm him into
a plea agreement that would have had him hacking into the systems of his software clients in order to obtain the usernames and passwords of gamblers and their bookmakers to help author
mircea_popescu: just so my servers face the internet through
a single webserver
Ukto: [12:10] <kakobrekla> use mpex.co and its on
a different domain suddenly.
mircea_popescu: there is
a webserver which is pretty well secured for this purpose, which conduits your communications.
Ukto: [12:10] <kakobrekla> use mpex.co and its on
a different domain suddenly.
kakobrekla: use mpex.co and its on
a different domain suddenly.
kakobrekla: time for
a blockchain.info payable and stable alternative
Ukto: who wanted to use them as
a payment gateway?
mircea_popescu: "This means that the biggest risk of our project is gone and our NRE is
a fruitful spend."
mircea_popescu: i suspect pigeon's loadning to jurov will probably be half or
a third of the actually repaid loans
Namjies: I even got
a 4% per week loan over 2 month repaid in full with interest.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, if anyone wants to buy me
a somethingawful account i'll pay teh btc .
smickles:
a bit higher ticket than just lunch
jurov: he was asking every day in -otc who'll order and pay him
a pizza
smickles: make
a purchase, declined. call, get it manually approved, make the next purchase... declined
jurov: it reminded me of
a story by Jack London
a bit
mircea_popescu: i even dropped the author
a line let him know. so rare these days
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder in principle it could make
a million btc on 0 capital.
Bugpowder: Well, my Intermediate bond index fund has an SEC yield of 1.5%
a year, so sounds like you are doing well.
kakobrekla: anyway i have more important things to do and
a year of backlog
mircea_popescu: "The problem with geologists is that they invented such
a complicated language that it would be easier to understand
a half-naked Papuan stepping out of
a jungle in the Stone Age than
a bunch of dressed-up geologists attending
a conference in Vancouver or Toronto – well, unless they step out of the room to grab
a beer and begin taking on mundane subjects like good bars, sports, and field equipment."
Ukto: "Our current superconducting 128-qubit processor chip is housed inside
a cryogenics system within
a 10 square meter shielded room." wow
kakobrekla: i know i know its sad, but its also
a bit funny.
jcpham: this one is
a used junk car
jcpham: like
a 6970, 6950, and 7870
jcpham: it's going to end up beina
a big pita for 700MH/s
mircea_popescu: one of those can't do math but feels people through
a closed door types.
mircea_popescu: and the thing is... he was
a great poker player, he was
a worse bj player than most girls i know
mircea_popescu: i knew
a guy like that, his defining moment being when he spent one week geting together 50k to participate in
a casino tournament
Bugpowder: he is
a very risky better on seals
Bugpowder: Apparently (pre-seals) he got people to stake him $220,000 for
a series of about 50 tourneys. After
a few tourneys, he started gambling on the side with the money
markedathome: evoorhees: the sd app is out of sync by about 0.05, possibly caused by
a crash that happened that took out the machine (machine not the app), so don't know if app is misreading something somewhere
mircea_popescu: he walked away with the trollish satisfaction of having tricked
a buncha people, sure.
Bugpowder: time to put in
a stink bid I think...
evoorhees: and in fact, it is impossible to stop US players from using it (since SD cannot prevent
a payment to
a bitcoin address)... so it'd be an interesting case
evoorhees: SatoshiDice is not
a US entity, is not hosted in the US, and does not use US currency
evoorhees: S.DICE dividend is going out in
a matter of minutes fyi
smickles: heh, win >1kbtc, get
a free pair of loaded SD branded dice
mircea_popescu: big winners are
a casino's best friend. they give everyone else hopes.
Bugpowder: Take
a bunch of streamers and run circles around everyone who passes by until the dancefloor is packed
Bugpowder: How do you get
a dancefloor started?
mircea_popescu: i always suspected rassah = pretty hawt chick. is this
a fact ?
smickles: < mircea_popescu> ill pay
a whole coin just to give smickles the headache of liquidating all that <<< i've been charging .75btc/hr for that service
mircea_popescu: ill pay
a whole coin just to give smickles the headache of liquidating all that.