log☇︎
5200+ entries in 0.495s
kakobrekla: im afraid you wont go for that because you dismiss things with "notion that $item is relevant to this discussion is shocking/ridiculous"
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 3.94693692 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $900 before Sep 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1251/bitcoin-to-top-900-before-sep-2016/#b5
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00083074 BTC on 'Yes' - Bitcoin to top $900 before Sep 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1251/bitcoin-to-top-900-before-sep-2016/#b1
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2016 14:04:40; mircea_popescu: $30 a night ?! such can't be had in all of buenos aires.
SuchWow: or stick $20 into video poker and is free lol
SuchWow: i went down to the bar and got 2 heiniekens was liek $15
SuchWow: last time is was $12.99
SuchWow: $30/night has always been attainable on downtown vegas strip
mircea_popescu: $30 a night ?! such can't be had in all of buenos aires. ☟︎
SuchWow: i am at a $30/night room at resort on Fremont
SuchWow: and instead spend $20/day on hotel wifi
SuchWow: was living in Cali $50 plane tick, starte going just for fun
SuchWow: won a $3300 jackpot in 05, and had free room offers from Harrahs (caesars) for 2 years as a result
asciilifeform: the difference between 'needs moar engineering' and charlatanry that can absorb $trillion with not a blip of result ?
asciilifeform: 'In 1990, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation granted Stallman a MacArthur fellowship. The grant, a $240,000 which is more then $500K in 2000 dollars provided Stallman with a source of income and health insurance for five years. That made it less necessary to do consulting work to support himself. Although RMS now can devote more time to the writing GNU software, but actually h
botneko-chan: The main principle of cool ddos is: you give $ for bandwith and $ for us and we have fun all month
botneko-chan: can ddos pool too for $
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2016 22:30:16; phf: he can get me a pm at $150/hr and two junior devs $50/hr each in no time. selection will work by next iteration, but will depend on jquery and react
kakobrekla: "!key $nick" or something has been on my mind for a few months just havent actually gotten around to it.
asciilifeform: in other nyooz, 'pogo4' is back on crapazon, $18
assbot: Logged on 23-02-2016 08:51:15; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-02-2016#1413406 << basically us "college" chumpatron still experimenting with "what's the lowest qty of candy bar we give the cattle to keep getting the sweet sweet usg funds for them. like, out of the 100k per capita we get in fed funny money, what's the least we could dole out to the maggots in whose name the whole scheme is run ? maybe -100`000 in paper and $
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2016#1415005 << probably limited time offer. land developers are in a nasty habit of this atm. i've even seen "we guarantee that you'll be able to rent out your new suite for $1500 per month for the first 2 years. buy now!" in an attempt to sucker in would-be first-time landlords ☝︎
pete_dushenski: charge $300 a visit
asciilifeform: $1k+.
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 20:50:38; pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2016#1414273 << indeed. apparently there are the $40 water bottles that are now all the rage. i only discovered them at 'organic grocer' last week, vommited in mouth a bit at the mere prospect of such an object at such a price, only to discover that they're on every desk and every gym bag already.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2016#1414273 << indeed. apparently there are the $40 water bottles that are now all the rage. i only discovered them at 'organic grocer' last week, vommited in mouth a bit at the mere prospect of such an object at such a price, only to discover that they're on every desk and every gym bag already. ☝︎☟︎
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 5.00000000 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $700 before Apr 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1236/bitcoin-to-top-700-before-apr-2016/#b45
mircea_popescu: generally, mobster's hope and aspiration is for kids to join whatever $harvard locally and become "accepted by society"
assbot: Bitcoin business Butterfly Labs, shut down as ‘bogus,’ settles charges for $15,000 | The Kansas City Star ... ( http://bit.ly/1mX5N8K )
assbot: Logged on 23-02-2016 05:25:55; phf: random lulz, sussman signed scheme-81 chip, sold as art. https://www.artsy.net/artwork/gerald-sussman-scheme i think it was listted at $1500, but i can't quite recall. i assume buyer would not try putting it on a breadboard..
mircea_popescu: note the very epic "200k worth of fed paper is worth $500 in candybar, on a systematic scale".
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-02-2016#1413406 << basically us "college" chumpatron still experimenting with "what's the lowest qty of candy bar we give the cattle to keep getting the sweet sweet usg funds for them. like, out of the 100k per capita we get in fed funny money, what's the least we could dole out to the maggots in whose name the whole scheme is run ? maybe -100`000 in paper and $500 in chips ? for ☝︎☟︎☟︎
pete_dushenski: in other news, apparently $20k baby wraps are a thing.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-02-2016#1413357 << cdn ain't what she used to be. btc is like 600 bones atm… not that that's the point, on which i agree with you that culture != $$$$ (as per http://www.contravex.com/2014/11/14/terrible-nasty-unfair-evil-no-good-money-and-its-relation-to-net-worth/). that being said, i see even fewer cultured fellows with lower net worths than with higher net worths and ☝︎
phf: random lulz, sussman signed scheme-81 chip, sold as art. https://www.artsy.net/artwork/gerald-sussman-scheme i think it was listted at $1500, but i can't quite recall. i assume buyer would not try putting it on a breadboard.. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 22-02-2016 23:54:45; pete_dushenski: if you're not making $100k++ per annum and cannot afford extra rooms in house or apartment to enjoy as 'office', then yes, a jungle man is you. in which case, you're using a phablet primarily and a dusty laptop on rare occasions when you need to print a document. the only exception being, perhaps, g4amerz.
pete_dushenski: if you're not making $100k++ per annum and cannot afford extra rooms in house or apartment to enjoy as 'office', then yes, a jungle man is you. in which case, you're using a phablet primarily and a dusty laptop on rare occasions when you need to print a document. the only exception being, perhaps, g4amerz. ☟︎
asciilifeform: any hospital will do, just walk a man in who is pre-prepped with $pill to mimic, e.g., schizo
asciilifeform: 'I have one bet on at 2:3 against AlphaGo winning against Sedol in March - they get my $667 if AlphaGo wins, I get their $1000 if AlphaGo loses. Does anyone else like those odds? (They originally offered me $1000 to $1500 and I've decided that I regret not taking the full amount.) EDIT: Have reached current betting capacity on Sedol at $1500 to $2250, others may still be taking bets.' << the whole thing.
ben_vulpes: i read 'tc' in the sense of 'can express arbitrary actions', in the vein of the old joke about programming in $shitlang: "hey, it's turing complete, we can make it do whatever we need"
jurov: yes, everything worked. except perl -e "print system('ls') or die $!" returned just -1
jurov: most perl scripts meddle with $SIG so they worked fine
mod6: it'd be like doing the same thing in a bash script: PWD=`pwd`; echo $PWD;
phf: i proposed a solution to that problem. have a set of gpg commands that work with .wot. so something like vgpg verify file, will 1) tmp=mktemp -d gpgxxxx 2) gpg --homedir $tmp --import wot/*.asc 3) gpg --homedir $tmp --verify 4) rm -rf $tmp, so that no foundation operations ever work with ~/.gnupg and always work with ~/.wot
phf: $('#patchset-select select').on('select', function() { alert('foo') }) doesn't do what i think it should
BingoBoingo: <punkman> "Out of a 38,615,161 United States dollar judgment against the firm and Sonny Vleisides the firm is to pay 15,000 and Sonny Vleisides is to pay 4,000." << so they only have to pay $20k out of the $38 mil? << Yes, then Jody/Dora the explorer has to pay either $XXX,XXX or Bitcorns
punkman: "Out of a 38,615,161 United States dollar judgment against the firm and Sonny Vleisides the firm is to pay 15,000 and Sonny Vleisides is to pay 4,000." << so they only have to pay $20k out of the $38 mil?
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 2.35776456 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $700 before Apr 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1236/bitcoin-to-top-700-before-apr-2016/#b43
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 5.11262093 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $700 before Apr 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1236/bitcoin-to-top-700-before-apr-2016/#b42
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00000000 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $1,000 before Jul 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1234/bitcoin-to-top-1-000-before-jul-2016/#b35
kuzetsa: kuzetsa@yurizoku ~ $ busybox vi
assbot: Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 052501 (2016) - Candidate Resonant Tetraneutron State Populated by the $^{4}\mathrm{He}(^{8}\mathrm{He},^{8}\mathrm{Be})$ Reaction ... ( http://bit.ly/1Xz3E0p )
adlai: (format () "~$" (reduce '+ (reduce 'mapcar '(abs cdr) :from-end t :initial-value (btc:listaccounts 0 t)))) -> "15863.10"
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00056657 BTC on 'Yes' - Bitcoin to top $600 before Jul 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1232/bitcoin-to-top-600-before-jul-2016/#b32
jurov: and there's qntra. phf, say, if you write the why and how of V, you'll surely recoup the $99 several times.
asciilifeform: mats: sucks for plebe. but have you tried having $1B there ?
PeterL: if you expect to get rich off $1 sales, you need the garden market, not the few individuals outside it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: rats orbiting $100M houses of the lottery winners aha
phf: is renew your $99/yr dev license)
PeterL: pounds of lard (roughly $USPOP * 300)
mircea_popescu: consider this simple point : so i materialize out of the ethers and offer well trained young slave to us kid, for $sum. how can he pay ? he can't. he has no money, the usual way he pays for things (begs daddy-government's agent, called "bank" for absolutely no reason much like fast-food is unrelated to food, being a species of engine oil) does not work for this purpose. what's left ? we just discussed how he can not do
davout: i'd be very happy with such an answer, i could simply display "Fees on our end are $x, see with your bank for fees on your side"
jurov: heh that won't really work (our fees are $x, add to that $random on the murican side)
mircea_popescu: davout bout $100
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: why would you need a spreadshit on a box where you can dynamically conjure a porthole into $arbitrarydatum onto the display ?
asciilifeform: incidentally, who remembers how kennedy put $1 on fidel castro's head ?
shinohai: https://redd.it/461ts8 <<< Let's not include a fee because it's only $25
jurov: also have other $projects which I host e.g. wiki for
asciilifeform: or, perhaps overworked subject in my writings, the computer market: there is $wintelcrud laptop, there is crapple, but there is no (longer) tadpole computer corp.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-02-2016#1406042 << as with all new german cars, yes. this comment on baruth's blog recently sharply sums up this arriviste betaboi phenomenon : "If you’re distraught about the Macan demo now, wait until the 4cyl comes out with a $499 lease special and a whole new segment of buyers. I can tell you from experience (I sell Audis as well) that the ‘aspirational’ luxury bu ☝︎
shinohai: $400 again >.>
BingoBoingo: But this was also back when floor space for the kiosk was $5000/month no idea where that has gone, but likely down.
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 2.00000000 BTC on 'Yes' - Bitcoin to top $600 before Jul 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1232/bitcoin-to-top-600-before-jul-2016/#b29
assbot: I’ll bet you $5,000 that bitcoin’s first hard fork works out just fine — Medium ... ( http://bit.ly/1ogRDRA )
shinohai: That's good since that $400 box only produces pennies a week.
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 8.88800000 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $600 before Jul 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1232/bitcoin-to-top-600-before-jul-2016/#b28
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00000000 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $600 before Jul 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1232/bitcoin-to-top-600-before-jul-2016/#b27
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00000000 BTC on 'Yes' - Bitcoin to top $600 before Jul 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1232/bitcoin-to-top-600-before-jul-2016/#b26
assbot: This startup bets up to $10,000 that your marriage will end badly - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/20TglIG )
asciilifeform: anyway this notion that plebes could steal serious money without official approval is lunacy. if $maxint grows legs, it is because lizards had a shadow payment to make, a la isis, and not because some uppity kid was rewarded for nietzschian 'will' or wtf else.
gribble: Romanian Billionaire Saves OpenBSD | Bingo Blog: <http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/01/19/romanian-billionaire-saves-openbsd/>; Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall ...: <http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/14/01/20/0348247/romanian-bitcoin-entrepreneur-steps-in-to-pay-openbsd-shortfall>; OpenBSD Project survived after $20,000 Donation from Romanian ...: (1 more message)
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00100000 BTC on 'Yes' - Bitcoin to top $600 before Jul 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1232/bitcoin-to-top-600-before-jul-2016/#b25
BingoBoingo: In other news canon powershot A495 (2010 vintage) solid little camera. Picked one up for $25 and change. Manages to get by using two AA batteries.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu is using `nohup $cmd &`, yes?
asciilifeform: i found, near $rupturefarm... of all things: 'ural' dealership !
ben_vulpes: danielpbarron: i have tasked $admin with procuring milagro cointreau and fresh lime juice for the entirely made up national margarita day
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
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
assbot: Logged on 11-02-2016 06:10:23; ggggg: $eth kills me ... stayed out thought it was vaporware
ggggg: you can buy anything you want, just as long as it is under $100
ggggg: true, but there is $ backing it
ggggg: $eth kills me ... stayed out thought it was vaporware ☟︎
asciilifeform: (who remembers?? 'i was never a sc4mz0r, but now you called me one, and thereby i now lack the money to fill $promise' )
BingoBoingo: * mircea_popescu recalls the lulzier years in 2011-2012 back when roger ver was actually pretending to be like, a business man, and stuff. << NEver forget $50 Blockchain.info chargeback because Ver's sticky hands were in all the things then
phf: that's the phone that i use http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007F9XJDY i guess it's discontinued, since the only available option is same for $250 :o
asciilifeform: http://www.ciphersbyritter.com/NEWS3/MEMO.HTM#70dpbv$gal$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com << l0ltr0nic
assbot: Coinodeal.com Western Union Scam -$300 : Scams ... ( http://bit.ly/1KDCKCh )
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00000000 BTC on 'Yes' - Bitcoin to top $600 before Jul 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1232/bitcoin-to-top-600-before-jul-2016/#b23
mircea_popescu: I spent nearly all of my hours at the Lab, often to the detriment of my class work, which is why I took 5 years to graduate. During my time there, I worked mostly for credit, only very occasionally for tiny amounts of money—about $5 per hour for a small number of hours a week programming MACSYMA, as I recall. Most of my time was as a volunteer, and in that time I did some additional work on MACSYMA but also some pers
BingoBoingo: Desire for FPGA instead gets you $6 PASCAL machine