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fluffypony: mircea_popescu: no not yet - I pay it and its reflected immediately every time I use it
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: you back in Argentina? what's the buzz on the street like?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/PMON_2000
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik it's the all-free-everything one
kyuupichan: mircea_popescu: In east Washington state they have insanely cheap electricity; there is a lot of mining going on there
asciilifeform: indiancandy1: afaik mircea_popescu expects guests to buy own ticket
punkman: mircea_popescu: yea we'll see how that goes, though hanbot's allocation of BTC is slightly better than global bitbet allocation so far.
punkman: mircea_popescu: turns out I fucked up some math there, expected gain on pending bets is around 40%
hanbot: mircea_popescu sounds like a shrimp farmer
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the real marvel is that itanics are still being produced.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what intel overestimated was the ability of microshit to shoehorn their turd into exotic cpu. turned out to be nil. (nt on alpha - never entirely worked. etc)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it can - and was - be made to work, just that it was never clear to anyone wtf the point is.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the famous 'itanic' used an approach called 'vliw' - 'very long instruction word' - where the compiler was expected to fill up the pipeline manually, avoiding 'hazards' (instructions fighting over a resource, e.g. register or memory)
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu Ok, I'll read into it and get it taken care of.
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu ya I'll get on that this week. I have a Thompson 1927-A1 coming in next week I can probably get listed and sold ASAP.
benkay: mircea_popescu: of course it *can*. *does*, though.
BayAreaCoins: No breaks please. Bust my balls with full force. It is all good. mircea_popescu. Decimation I think there are a number of places that middle class americans already exchange BTC. I'm also not 100% convinced that is why I'm interested in what you guys have to say.
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu I mean I ship my guns using FFL's and require permits to transfer snails across state lines :)
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user GNULinuxGuy: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=mircea_popescu&dest=GNULinuxGuy | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=GNULinuxGuy | Rated since: never
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu it is decentralized. Dunno what else I could have in regards to combating that.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-07-2014#753289 ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: link to the dead man (if there is a link) ?
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu what did you do prior to CryptoCurrencies? I assume you were successful prior?
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu I've already contacted a few firms and they of course want to be involved for the same reason as any other law firms wants to be involved with anything.. Money. I think that group B would want to privately be involved with group A because it is better than having some FEDs come grab your lap top while you are reading in the Sci-Fi section
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu so still not big on the Off Shore Paper Wallet idea either eh?!
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu you a big reddit fan? :P
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu do you think we will continue to see this horrible trend of shit on shit?
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu No inventor and no employees that is always a plus. It'll be interesting needless to say. Our ebay lister is stacked with 24,000 items, but getting ebay to up our limits is a bit of a pain in the ass.
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu I never go into anything expecting to fail, but if I do that is why I have the LLC up :P
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu at a automated drop shipping company? Yes it is
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu haha hell ya
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu ah very nice. I think if I was going to live in South America I'd be looking at Belize (ambergris caye.) Any reason why you chose Argentina over the other countries?
fluffypony: mircea_popescu:so how do i leave a comment or anything to this tom guy ? <- you can just Tweet @TomOnBTC
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only him and no one else?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not afaik. just can't help but remember it in light of your post
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ever see pasolini's 'salo' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now why would they make those for export.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: part of the problem is the abysmal, 'consumer' quality of the available thermoblocks (pumbed heat sinks that fit particular cpu, gpu, etc) - not one, afaik, to this day, comes with even threaded connectors
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's the friction joints (hose to barb) that end up slowly leaking.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'correct' way to do it is to have an all-copper loop, soldered joints - like refrigerator. but, for some reason, no one does this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ground fault gizmos are SOP even in gringolandia now
benkay: <mircea_popescu> btw, if anyone's got 12 yos, get them "i sell the dead" // noted
punkman: mircea_popescu: assbot: Kickstarter project spent $3.5M to finish a working prototypeand ended in disaster | Ars Technica << punkman to be fair, that's not really either important or making a lot of sense. << indeed, who cares how much money they waste. the product was very lulzy though
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: 37coins does bitcoin over sms, bitpesa does bitcoin remittance to kenya
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: those old days when in order to have a view one first had to persuade >> http://jjlindal.net/jafl/nn_koan.php << obligatory
davout: mircea_popescu: lol didn't i show you this one ?
davout: mircea_popescu: don't even get me started
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: next, they order the blockchain whipped. and branded.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu can apparently reprocess anything into a useful feedstock. like the chicago stockyards famously used 'even the squeal of the pig.'
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: so what do some of the scenarios of pirate shenanigans look like?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: very pessimistic, but probably true. the inevitable conclusion is 'biodiesel.'
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: other than just having a mountain of coins and the ability to dispense of them erratically, how does pirate impact you?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha i recall, you described this lemma in the 'tin woman' essay
benkay: <asciilifeform> it isn't wasted 'correctly' though. it ends up feeding folks who ought to have gone hungry // <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform that's the minor part of the binomial. the major part is that it is removed from folks who shouldn't have had it. // wait how is taking the money from people who shouldn't have it and giving it to others who shouldn't have had it either not subtracting a from x and then adding a back to x?
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: if derpopolous, matonis, etc can jump ship, why not pierce
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: exactly for the reason and through the mechanisms any good investment is its own limiting factor. << this is a thought
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: if you want the babes to be REALLY impressed with your car, then it would be a pretty sweet thing. << like london. can't park your zonda anywhere
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: kako is a graybeard despite his tender years << nao i want to dox the guy, find out how tender...
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> tbh i don't get that bitcoinnews article. wtf is it supposed to be ? /// me either, it reads like it was sleepwritten
asciilifeform: and, perhaps - to decode mircea_popescu's post...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: shannonizer test?
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> i just mean, one pic at a time picblogging stuff /// instagram is what people use for this
HyperChetty: <mircea_popescu> what is this medieval patriarchy// uuh isnt that what you claim it should be??
benkay: <mircea_popescu> mike_c i think the most peer review that's happened to date was me slapping around benkay's employees. // hey now that's a dangerous word to throw at americans
benkay: <mircea_popescu> benkay no, i just had a moment of drool at the thought someone somewhere is making me a dollie :D // good taste is good taste
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Customers can change their keys as often as they wish. The more responsible actually do' << seriously, people eat the 30 btc cost ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'ebury' << the interesting part is that the piece in the link is merely a payload. the actual anal opening through which the payload was inserted - was never, afaik, found.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: clearly a provocation! everybody knows mr. o has duly used his 'dulap.'
asciilifeform assumes mircea_popescu has enough sense to decide whether to answer this
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did the lookers-into ever deliver an interesting verdict from last time ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: compared drive firmware before & after ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can't imagine it would cost much to have 'biorobots' monitor the cams in shifts.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you have not previously installed cameras on the machine cabinet, now might be a good time.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> <benkay> latin, ballroom, the classics, various kinds of combat << is this a woman you're raising here ? // statistically likely
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if power supply issues can be ruled out entirely - it is entirely conceivable that zapping the drives was the actual goal of the enemy. why? perhaps to lead to new ones being bought from a diddled supply chain.
HyperChetty: <mircea_popescu> at this rate being a camwhore will be more respectable than being a scientist within our lifetimes.// I thought it already was
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can i now order her to unperiodize herself << minor nitpick. this is actually possible.
mthreat: mircea_popescu: no chaos? here's the crowd on a city bus (and the bus didn't stop) - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152582727778245
benkay: mircea_popescu: you are the best candidate for the Frank Costello of bitcoin.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: techs and spooks << anybody dump the hdd firmware ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because no one else asked, i will. what did herr xapo say when you added him to s.derp ?
nam-shub: thanks for that mircea_popescu
mthreat: mircea_popescu: futbol para todos
mthreat: mircea_popescu: it was free
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: you need to at least repost your "Coinpeople bitplease..." rant somewhere else so I can link to it when appropriate.
mthreat: mircea_popescu: i watched the game at the big screen at plaza san martin... it was crazy
benkay: mircea_popescu: ping
justusranvier: https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/326400019257257985
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: When did you stop having a Twitter account?
mod6: mircea_popescu: on the near miss, it sounds like someone kicked it into the side of the net around the 75 mark.
mod6: mircea_popescu: it's tied nil-nil, @ 75 min
HyperChetty: <mircea_popescu> what im curious is, what tiny nation will suddenly be buying 50x its gdp worth of us bonds this autumn//the caliphate
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ua, who else.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> i wonder why this is a common mistake // it turns out that making interfaces that normal humans find intuitive is actually hard.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who's doing the speculative attacks against the dollar << 'a dead lion can be kicked even by a donkey'
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yes - the original method is no longer known, but the modern equivalent is still pretty awesome in terms of how it keeps its edge
rithm: shhhh mircea_popescu don't lie to the guy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even easier. most u.s. military installations have named (!) parking spots for the brass
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik - world's largest parking lot.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just as people who never considered becoming cabbies are now whoring in 'uber', 'whores around me' would probably work the same magic in its own field.