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funkenstein_: I would resubmit the privkeytools patch to ml, but I'm unsure where the rebase should go (in patch order) and - would rather await further tests from trinque and others, seeing as this touches live ammunition
BCB: I actually have a full bottle of Deanston's Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky on my desk right now if anyone would like a taste.
mats: FB, TripAdvisor, and Sonos offices I've visited, have had folks with growlers on their desks, open bars, the works
mats: wet offices are more common in tech companies in my brief experience
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo> http://qntra.net/2016/02/austrian-minister-seeks-constitutional-protection-for-cash-payments/ << actually this is a fucking great idea. the right to settle commerce without interference from third parties is way more important than the right of women to not be chattel property. << Well isn't that why we're here?
BingoBoingo: One place I worked telephone answering department manager was a guy who kept vodka filled chocolates on his desk.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: understand, this is not a covert thing, the bottles come out at meetings etc
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The only dry office is the one that hasn't been checked thoroughly enough
mircea_popescu: http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/BCB/ << lol wouldja look at that thing.
asciilifeform: but this is speaking strictly for the swamp, i have nfi re: the rest of the continent
asciilifeform: so far my understanding is that the latter is found largely on the left side of the potomac river, the former - on the right
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i was told long ago that there are, so to speak, 'dry' ~and~ 'wet' offices in usa, but did not see with own eyes until recently
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the name's nevertheless familiar. where do i know you from ? << Bitcointalk
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo> http://qntra.net/2016/02/austrian-minister-seeks-constitutional-protection-for-cash-payments/ << actually this is a fucking great idea. the right to settle commerce without interference from third parties is way more important than the right of women to not be chattel property.
asciilifeform had surreal experience this morning that BingoBoingo might appreciate. was looking through cabinets at rupturefarms for $officesuply, and opened one that contained... bottles of whiskey
BCB: I thought it was turning into the bankchain
asciilifeform: was there ~ever~ a time when mircea_popescu was ~not~ 'having a ball' ??
BCB: is bitcoin still a thing
mircea_popescu: you know you can self voice, dpb is in the lordship
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> ftr adlai makes me very sad, it is clear that the man has the aptitude for constructive work, but somehow falls down every time << seems to me like he's zig-zagging broadly towards sense, but who knows these things.
trinque studied the art of fundamentally not giving a shit
trinque: and perhaps one of those options incrementally improves his life, perhaps it doesn't
trinque: better to only consider the option he has
asciilifeform: iirc there was a spiffy mircea_popescu essay about this, long ago.
asciilifeform: from this effect, i think, comes the proverbial 'but he was so happy! why did he eat the nagant?!' thing
asciilifeform: in the final '9 dan' stage, one is indistinguishable from a normal person
BingoBoingo: Exactly. The Big Book has a chapter called "into action" but it does not have chapter titled "Into Feeling" or "Into Thinking"
asciilifeform not yet fully master of the Art
asciilifeform: it doesn't make one less depressed, but does lead to reduced adlaiing.
asciilifeform: what i meant to say, is that i studied the Ancient Art of Shutting The Fuck Up
BingoBoingo: Sure it is. Many actual solutions to life's problems are this at their core.
asciilifeform: not really 'solution' in the usual sense
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> just too busy for wankatronics << AHA, there is a solution.
shinohai: Perhaps laying off the sauce would help.
asciilifeform: but i think i spent more of my life adlaiing than not ☟︎
asciilifeform: just too busy for wankatronics
BingoBoingo: How did asciilifeform early 00's fix that?
asciilifeform: and then gets into a foul fugue, where he posts cryptograms discussing having nothing to live for, etc.
asciilifeform: ftr adlai makes me very sad, it is clear that the man has the aptitude for constructive work, but somehow falls down every time
BCB: I just noticed it recently. Have had much time to poke around
assbot: You rated user bcb on 05-May-2014, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: He sold me 1 bitcoin via paypal back when it was under 100..
asciilifeform wonders how many rounds of '101' gavin's handlers consider him good for, until he goes to pasture
danielpbarron: i wasn't even nervous. I figured if MPEx wasn't going to win, I didn't want any part of bitcoin
BingoBoingo: From the mines: "The democratic party is aborting much of its future voterbase"
mircea_popescu: if further evidence that social media rots the brain could be needed...
mircea_popescu: the nature of virginity. back then people actually thought a mp-gavin dispute could possibly be resolved any other way.
danielpbarron: yeah most of my gains were betting on MPEx beating the previous hard fork scare that drove the price of MPOE into the teens
PeterL: but just 'hodl'ing, it is hard to beat parking fee
mircea_popescu: irl brokers lend out the shares to pay for this.
mircea_popescu: there must be a way to solve this - like if user agrees never to trade for the following year, deposit shares and instead of charge maybe even pay him something.
PeterL: me too
danielpbarron: asciilifeform> thing is that you can't 'hodl' on coinbr, it has parking fee << so for i've more than managed to beat the parking fee
PeterL: so owning buldozer yields $x from rentals, does opening broker service yield $x from potential clients? I don't think the market is strong enough for that yet, but I could be wrong
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: rng is tricky bit on those
asciilifeform: dozers, excavators, trucks
mircea_popescu: so then... there's a ton of buldozer rentals in your neighbourhood ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: same anywhere, i think
BingoBoingo: There are three places in town I could rent a bulldozer
mircea_popescu: actually back in ro you could rent any machinery. they all have "call here to rent this item" on them
PeterL: but would you earn more in broker fees than buldozer wages?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (gotta get used to ~having~ a signable name...) << you speak wise.
PeterL: there is a high investment required for competition, needs a seat on MPEx, not sure if the small number of potential users would justify that
asciilifeform: which is fair, but it means that i have no use for it
asciilifeform: thing is that you can't 'hodl' on coinbr, it has parking fee
asciilifeform: and why would i want them to slowly melt away ?
asciilifeform is not a user of jurov's service, but always found it interesting that it has no (afaik) competition. must be quite good.
danielpbarron: and thank you for running the service :D
danielpbarron: ok thank you for the clarification
jurov: no, if I decide to, it will not be shut down at a moment's notice, the situation is NOT so dire
assbot: Logged on 12-02-2016 14:41:19; jurov: it's not about speed, but rather structural, mpex api makes sharing an account in this way hard
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-02-2016#1403585 << ok, my main concern is that I have quite a bit of shares that I had not intention of selling any time soon, and I'd imagine if you shut down you'd just liquidate it all at whatever the current bids are ☝︎
punkman: PeterL: signing is not easily done with a touchscreen phone << it's not really the interface, more that phones suck
PeterL: well, guy off the street does not get access to reactor controls
PeterL: I was thinking of typing gpg commands like in a terminal, I guess it can be as easy as clicking a button if you set things up
asciilifeform: interestingly, these were an 'ultimate' weapon, in the sense that nobody, afaik, found a pill against them (at least during ww2)
asciilifeform: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/4a/b4/c1/4ab4c1f07bb75d9491a47fcd02dc0288.jpg << e.g., this
BingoBoingo: That might just be you. The fishboat came first11!!!111eleventy
assbot: Logged on 12-02-2016 13:39:30; BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> instrument of trolling >> a trawl? << A Trawler, like the boat. It puts out lines that catch lulz.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-02-2016#1403533 << maybe just me, but i normally think of a ww2 mine trawl, the kind towed by a tank ☝︎
PeterL: signing is not easily done with a touchscreen phone
asciilifeform: (gotta get used to ~having~ a signable name...)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-02-2016#1403591 << what's so hard for peasant learning to sign his name ? hard in more than one way ! ☝︎
assbot: You'll soon track Bluetooth devices directly over the internet ... ( http://bit.ly/1QbKYOn )
asciilifeform: http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/11/bluetooth-internet-of-things-support << no toiletron left behind!1111
davout: "i'll have to look into it sometime"
davout: mircea_popescu: "i have no time for this gpg business"
mircea_popescu: yet for a class (or perhaps a reunion of classes, dunno yet) of folk it seems the height of impossibility.
gribble: wywialm was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 7 weeks, 1 day, 4 hours, 35 minutes, and 31 seconds ago: <wywialm> thanks, BingoBoingo
jurov: was talking about this with wywialm, told him ok let's do it but the other dudes should go into wot too
jurov: trading derivatives instead would work much better, but that needs to redo whole thing completely
jurov: it's not about speed, but rather structural, mpex api makes sharing an account in this way hard ☟︎
jurov: danielpbarron: that "nobody cares" quip was definitely not about coinbr. there inability to provide solid service still after 3 years drives me mad
mircea_popescu: who knew that insane as they might be, divorced from any sort of reality as they may find themselves, nevertheless getting lawyers to not be upset with them is THE ONE TRUE THING they care about.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo dude that thing hit reddit exactly where it hurts lol
Reydev: Ill register a sig later, dont have much useful to add anymore. Im building the richlist anyway, even if its just an exercise in the end :) and ill be lurking some
polarbeard: if I can drop an idea, perhaps tagging the ml submission subjects would help...
asciilifeform: i have given up trying to telepath out what is and isn't obvious to folks
mircea_popescu: you realise none of this is obvious, do you ?
asciilifeform: It was turned into shiva part1
polarbeard: I see the light.