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mircea_popescu: right.
mircea_popescu: the vote is in : the us public does not care whether the us ends.
mircea_popescu: these people were already not saving enough.
mircea_popescu: "Consumer spending in the U.S. rose in January even as incomes dropped by the most in 20 years, showing households were weathering the payroll-tax increase by socking away less money in the bank."
mircea_popescu: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-01/consumer-spending-in-u-s-climbs-even-as-taxes-hurt-incomes.html
mircea_popescu: oldest coinbase award moar like it
mircea_popescu: this is afaik the record
mircea_popescu: 15kb tx, no fee
mircea_popescu: https://blockchain.info/tx/36d2d306bf3798b9e3730239f58095cd7baeea5963cb9bcc736b6aa20b0b90c5?show_adv=true
mircea_popescu: bitbet is like vegas nao
mircea_popescu: ;;calc 1689.81 * 33.25
mircea_popescu: ;;ticker
mircea_popescu: who knows, maybe bad experiences.
mircea_popescu: i guess if you sit there and mash the f5 there's little difference between an hour and all eternity
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yea prolly.
mircea_popescu: gotta give scammers like mircea_popescu some slack eh.
mircea_popescu: stuff has to be checked, for one, it's not exactly pennies we're dealing here. stuff breaks half the time, as it was indeed the case this time. new code and all that.
mircea_popescu: banks regularly hold payments 2-3 days, what about that.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ok but i mean... today is still the 1st wtf.
mircea_popescu: wtf is wrong with people srsly!
mircea_popescu: I am done using this site. When you place a bet with a professional you want to be paid when the bet has resolved. Not when someone is good and ready to pay you. Mircea Popescu is a no better than any scammer before him."
mircea_popescu: "Anonymous
mircea_popescu: who are those ?
mircea_popescu: nothing much came of it in the case of bitbet for instance, it took off way
mircea_popescu: mjr__ to some degree. the way it practically works is mostly by putting min bids in during ipos
mircea_popescu: i started off trying to be nice but by the end i was thoroughly pissed off so.
mircea_popescu: jurov here's the rand you promised http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoind-not-quite-ready-for-prime-time/
mircea_popescu: cool
mircea_popescu: yeh
mircea_popescu: um wut
mircea_popescu: a kk
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller which one ?
mircea_popescu: depends on the exact circumstances tho
mircea_popescu: blu3gr1f1on in general they're over
mircea_popescu: mjr__ i do a mix of both
mircea_popescu: that doesn't seem to get as much love for some reason
mircea_popescu: that's 100:1. end weight of even 11 makes you money.
mircea_popescu: jurov what about a bet like http://bitbet.us/bet/2/s-mpoe-will-crash-this-spring/
mircea_popescu: dooglus' stuff, no ?
mircea_popescu: people already do on the forum no ?
mircea_popescu: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-grid/bitcoin-virtual-currency-legitimacy-online-retailers
mircea_popescu: this bitbet stuff is informative.
mircea_popescu: http://blockchain.info/tx-index/57549811/c6258eff0639d758015ed5dcdd8a1f1dcf7580ac833d52336b6ec4469f9281b5 and a 2.8kb tx with 0 fees ahaha
mircea_popescu: so if odds are even and weight under 1k (out of the orig 100k) you may end up -
mircea_popescu: becauyse site rtakes 1%
mircea_popescu: gotta be careful with the weights
mircea_popescu: Zillion np np
mircea_popescu: check that out, 3.5kb tx :D
mircea_popescu: jurov : http://blockchain.info/tx-index/57549707/fead082c83a0625eb8cc22452b7f213d7be041e29a7d2c203e704b01ec6bb04b
mircea_popescu: you mean 21-02-13 19:54 No 357 2.00000000 19PN8 1.98876913 1Bye9 ?
mircea_popescu: um looking into this
mircea_popescu: which line we talking about ?
mircea_popescu: it is ?!
mircea_popescu: sorry for the delay everyone. bitcoind is not yet exactly mature, needs a little expert oiling
mircea_popescu: Zillion there you go.
mircea_popescu: are these connected somehow ?
mircea_popescu: like brejnev'd except worse
mircea_popescu: juroved works.
mircea_popescu: anyway, certainly a valid development direction, this.
mircea_popescu: :p
mircea_popescu: and dividends pass through to original owner
mircea_popescu: 0.1% or w/e
mircea_popescu: paying a fixed fee per week makes sense
mircea_popescu: lol listen
mircea_popescu: this probably can be reused
mircea_popescu: actually iirc topace was working on some automation for crediting pushes to his PT
mircea_popescu: there's no reason it can't be automated, for sure.
mircea_popescu: locating shortable blocks
mircea_popescu: at least it is irl
mircea_popescu: this may be a decent line of business
mircea_popescu: lol jurov
mircea_popescu: possibly for a fee tho
mircea_popescu: im sure any of the pt ops would do this, for instance.
mircea_popescu: what's the impediment ?
mircea_popescu: unlike the bitfinex system w./e that is, you actually have signed receipts to prove this on mpex.
mircea_popescu: mjr_ you can find an escrow you trust, push to them.
mircea_popescu: mjr_ and why can' you ?!
mircea_popescu: np np
mircea_popescu: you can be sure of that.
mircea_popescu: Zillion srsly, we ran into some sendmany hairs, working at it, it will not be long.
mircea_popescu: cooonfirmed
mircea_popescu: Zillion dun' worry, it'll be paid before bfl ships :)
mircea_popescu: nice that you found btc then
mircea_popescu: i certainly dislike people that do that more than people that do coke.
mircea_popescu: i guess this teaches the importance of not fudging numbers.
mircea_popescu: that's why the internet is so fulla hyperbolae
mircea_popescu: but it's always easier to self aggrandize and hyperbolize than make points
mircea_popescu: it's not a set of survivor or w/e
mircea_popescu: just make your motherfucking point, that's what a congress is for.
mircea_popescu: <pigeons> lieing and misleading sucks. even though lying and misleading is expected of politicians, it still sucks, and because of their position, perhaps sucks more <<< this. nonspam detected.
mircea_popescu: yeah.
mircea_popescu: splnkr ya well, here's the deal : if there actually existed 170mn jobs in the us it wouldn't be in the crapper would it
mircea_popescu: pigeons spam detracted
mircea_popescu: does not compute
mircea_popescu: she's among the best congress has to offer and that's what she says
mircea_popescu: splnkr that's my point
mircea_popescu: im sure that makes all the difference :D
mircea_popescu: they're basically as dumb as reddit.
mircea_popescu: why are these people even in congress ?
mircea_popescu: "Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) claimed today that "over 170 million jobs" could be lost due to sequestration. "