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assbot: Logged on 15-02-2016 13:16:28; asciilifeform: (can anybody identify the kbd ?)
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-02-2016#1406031 << looks like 'bloomberg terminal' model, neh ? ☝︎
pete_dushenski: how comes the website ?
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 399.9, Best ask: 400.0, Bid-ask spread: 0.10000, Last trade: 399.96, 24 hour volume: 28420.58864334, 24 hour low: 396.12, 24 hour high: 412.5, 24 hour vwap: None
shinohai: Sadly even that has devolved based on what religious leader you happen to follow. At least in usa
trinque: at least religions of the past had something of an enumerated list of prohibitions
trinque: shinohai: I mean specifically that they see all things as prohibited, aside exceptions you "get to" ☟︎
BingoBoingo: But apparently it doesn't count as obesity anymore until a person is so fat they spread out like a pancake
BingoBoingo: Notice though how all of those ideological avatars are rotund. Every single one of them is obese.
shinohai: I do get to decide not to eat 4 buckets of Wal-MArt chicken in one sitting so as not to be labeled obese.
trinque: hell of a mentality, where the things you do are the things you "get to" do
shinohai: tumbrinas don't get to decide what is anything.
BingoBoingo: In other news there's rumbling ECB is set to kill the 500 euro note, but no source worth linking yet
BingoBoingo: A lot of insulins on that list
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BingoBoingo: But this was also back when floor space for the kiosk was $5000/month no idea where that has gone, but likely down.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: To be fair this was 07-08 and base pay was above minimum wage. No idea if it still would be
mircea_popescu: the attempt to waitress-ify all consumer facing jobs is long in the tooth.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> folks working in ~shops~ somewhere make commission ? << I fucking made commision selling watch batteries in the mall.
mircea_popescu: and is taken on "training" to various hotels where she is expected to fuck the "senior management" and she gladly complies. because hey.
mircea_popescu: typical airhead 5foot11 blondi that doesn't college and doesn't straight callgirl moves to pretentious store to sell perfume and designer clothes on comission.
asciilifeform: wake me up when they start making ones with faces.
mircea_popescu: where 200 < this < 1500 or so
mircea_popescu: and just like the apple shitheads, they have to spend this % of their income on storep roducts
mircea_popescu: and they also have to be this tall and this booby and this slutty
asciilifeform: any public evidence that they are paid below market rate for other clerks ?
mircea_popescu: they get less than they'd ask for to deliver the same work, if they weren't in the apple ml.
asciilifeform: afaik they get no commission.
asciilifeform: can mircea_popescu give example of the levels ?
mircea_popescu: you realise crapple only hires salespeople from the fanbase yes ?
mircea_popescu: just because they're not lame as fguck about it, going telloing kids what the levels "should be" doesn't mean they don't exist.
mircea_popescu: becauyse of the frustrated mlm need.
mircea_popescu: they worship steve, don't they ? why ?
asciilifeform: where are the hierarchical levels then ?
mircea_popescu: and by this definition all consumer crud IS IN FACT consumer crud. which yes. it is.
asciilifeform: if chump sends the new chump on his merry way to the crapple store, we have a scam, sure, but how is it 'mlm' ?
mircea_popescu: i think that definition was never stated as such.
asciilifeform: but the traditional definition remains, does chump take money from chump.
asciilifeform: by this notion all consumer crud is 'direct market'
mircea_popescu: heck, who knows, maybe ackerman's mping all over "classic" finance, started with the easier to lance boil.
mircea_popescu: not by pete telling them to buy one.
mircea_popescu: notrly. mercedes is sold by poor beta muslim boys telling each other THEY WOULD buy one ☟︎
mircea_popescu: if apple isn't direct-marketed then what is ? and what's an apple fan ?
mircea_popescu: "get to be an iphone's worth of cool by telling all your friends" ?
asciilifeform: last i checked, they didn't offer 'get ipnohe for selling five'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where's the consumer direct-sale chumpatron in, e.g., apple ?
asciilifeform: (they are not true iridium toilets because i can identify them visually)
mircea_popescu: it's so bizarre that the usg doesn't embrace herbalife. yes all the arguments against it are solid, but they cut just as much against say, apple. google.
asciilifeform: platinum toilets ftw!
asciilifeform: (can anybody identify the kbd ?) ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (is there some principle whereby they would wait until i do ? why ?) << Welcome to the weird that is Bitcoin broadcasting
jurov: davout ty!
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assbot: Logged on 12-02-2016 17:44:17; trinque: to be a simpleton... one will die either way.
adlai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-02-2016#1403712 << "So I believe that even my master, when he spoke of the simple, was using a rather simple concept." http://www.obooksbooks.com/2015/4115_142.html ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 12-02-2016 17:35:04; asciilifeform: but i think i spent more of my life adlaiing than not
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for mircea_popescu from 7 to 10 with note: I have received more coin from Mircea than I have sent him (indirectly, respectively, directly - respectfully)
adlai has stopped telling people that bitcoin is not 'network marketed', i mean it is digital money, runs on networks, flows in tubes (both parallel, and series of)
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for Pierre_Rochard from 2 to -1 with note: "Yesterday's ally becomes today's opposition." - Wants to be vocal, and hide in the shadows.
deedbot-: [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] What else have you “come to expect” from your stock exchange? - http://www.contravex.com/2016/02/14/what-else-have-you-come-to-expect-from-your-stock-exchange/
ben_vulpes: before i confirm your work, please tell me how you determined that these were all unused? ☟︎
ben_vulpes: polarbeard: i *will* however read through several hundred lines of deletion
asciilifeform: (is there some principle whereby they would wait until i do ? why ?)
asciilifeform: interestingly, immediately while i sent the double.
asciilifeform: funnily enough, the malleators got to it first.
kakobrekla: the easiest is to pull wallet from backup :)
mod6: i think i had to do a -rescan too
mod6: i'll log my usage next time i use it.
mod6: asciilifeform: yeah, that pywallet thing is hairy, but i did eventually get it to work
asciilifeform: (would have to laser a few million holes)
asciilifeform: this kind of thing would be an expensive but very decent display-shield. ☟︎
asciilifeform: (the latter has microscopic holes lasered in it, in a circle pattern approx. the size of a printed period)
asciilifeform: it has a power led that shines through the aluminum chassis
asciilifeform: in my collection of junk there is an apple wireless keyboard thing
asciilifeform: to pick up a thread from yesterday, re: rf shields that pass light,
trinque: I saw the same error with pywallet
trinque: asciilifeform: funkenstein's patches applied to bitcoind patched with the 99996 script for me
asciilifeform: does pywallet actually work with trb ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Shame. That 6502 box looks like it would make a spiffy musical instrument since it has the game port for midi
BingoBoingo: Bugged shinohai to write to for the occasion to dust off the preecture
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo "thousands of years of cultural tradition assualting the beloved practice of open defecation in rural India" << should be fixed now
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> what's a ~honest~ mine cost ? << during the Altcoin srs bsns days rented hash with varying relability from https://www.miningrigrentals.com/rigs/sha256
trinque: rather than having window management both at the x11 level and again in emacs
trinque: amounts to being able to get around rather quickly with a uniform set of keybindings and a simple mental model
trinque: so that all windows are emacs buffers
trinque: I use the thing, love it actually
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "thousands of years of cultural tradition assualting the beloved practice of open defecation in rural India"
mircea_popescu: http://40.media.tumblr.com/b4ae78d04011ef41870a94e938edd05b/tumblr_nltsroIJdF1s9sr6mo1_1280.jpg << the ACTUAL devil.
ben_vulpes: this is why tab aligned shit in code is the devil
asciilifeform: now, mad kudos to anyone who can locate a 'mensch computer' available for purchase...
asciilifeform: interestingly, the chip design is licensable... http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/w65c02s-core.cfm - presumably for serious dough
asciilifeform: appears to use a variant of the 6502 processor that is still made by western design inc.
asciilifeform: but sounds vaguely and pleasantly temple-os-y.
asciilifeform does not own this box, cannot recommend or disrecommend !!
asciilifeform: several assembly language library routines built into firmware and a ROM monitor allowing the ease of programming any of the included devices including graphics, sound, game controllers, communication to a PC, Printer or Modem or other solid state devices. The ROM monitor provides an easy interface menu for checking registers and modifying data in memory. All software listings, schematics and documentation are included.'
asciilifeform: 'The Mensch Computer is a solid state computer that was never designed to compete in the PC market. It's not a PDA, calculator, home controller or personal organizer, but it could be any of these things. It was designed to provide simplicity without complexity allowing users to evolve it into their own creation. Many people put a lot of thought and many years into the design to provide a head start for many projects. There are
asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo some lulz, http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/Mensch_Computer.cfm
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2016 13:43:13; *: adlai offers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_(2009_film) for any movie bloggers who are curious about how much tanks are loved
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=10-02-2016#1402007 < watched. not bad. i return the ball with another war flick; 'lepa sela, lepo gore' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116860/ ☝︎
asciilifeform: punkman: see thread from 1/2hr ago