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mircea_popescu: With total accumulated investment reaching $32.7M, BitPay has now raised more venture funding than any other bitcoin startup.
<< this is drastically false.
mircea_popescu: sciencehatesyouSorry for your loss 2 points 58 minutes ago This is sad, and it's just a shitpost from Mircea the Rapist's QNTRA
<< check it out, sciencehatesme.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> why would an outfit like bitpay even have expenses on top of bandwidth ?
<< Their office is literally around the block from a hooters knockoff that does pizza instead of wings. They spent on location
jurov: speaking of him, surely you have cleartext version...
<< davout
assbot: Logged on 24-09-2015 06:24:52; mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> the other major atrocity is the fingerprint (yes).
<< im noit so sure. hash functions are fixed length output.
davout: punkman: hm, dropped mine apparently, last X.EUR statement didn't make it
<<< trinque
cazalla: apparently they're being installed along the hume highway which is a highway around 1000km in length which connects sydney
<->melbourne as well as a bunch of rural towns together, but from what i've read, you'd have to stop every 200-250 km to recharge this car for 45m, meaning the trip takes an extra 3 hours.. keeping in mind my piece of shit car does 750km of that trip on one tank
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> in other nyooz, 73 connexions on zoolag, 41 - on bucephalus.
<< i see 64. not really a big deal there.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> the other major atrocity is the fingerprint (yes).
<< im noit so sure. hash functions are fixed length output.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: one example of something which Must Die is 'subkeys'
<< absolutely. i have no fucking idea what chickenbrain thought that's a thing. "o hey, you know what this chevy is made out of ? chevys! because they didn;'t get me that lego set when i was nine and now im fucked in the head."
☟︎ assbot: Key 4A63EC22 / "Alexandre Bergeron
<bergealex4@gmail.com>" successfully imported.
BingoBoingo:
<brg444> GPG 1.2 on OSX 10.7.5
<< The correct answer to this question was "Fuck you for asking" but since you raised the issue something in the 1.4 series may work better. GPG 2 is right out of the game.
mircea_popescu:
<punkman> would make sense for assbot to grab dpasted keys like deedbot did
<< word. the shitserver dependency is turning out to be a pain. for kakobrekla konsideration.
punkman: "anyone old enough to remember the PopUp wars knows this ad crap won't stop until it breaks the web, and gets blocked by browsers."
<< except you can still get popups, because fuck browsers
BingoBoingo:
<mike_c> BingoBoingo: i don't know about safety net, we couldn't even protect altcoin
<< Altcoin had to die for our sins of believing in a monetized testnet for a few months
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> thing is, 'strategic' mining in the sense of 'protect' pretty much guaranteed to fail - because 'customs inspector's theorem' applies
<< Host in Sinaloa datacenter
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: only if you regularly add units to keep up with diff
<< Then get four. You'll get at least 1 conf a month for a year
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> Power Supply 10 x 1600 W Form Factor 11 U rack
<< reasonably even out power savings from pogo
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> asciilifeform but even in bulk that's 60 calories to the dollar.
<< Math is either off or FCS is now the expensive component of trash food
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> how the fuck do you price this shit now ?
<< same way sub saharan africans can buy anti-malarials that before gouging cost $13.50 a pop in USia
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> i very much doubt there's any meat in mcdonalds&co.
<< WHen I was there the actual "beef patty" seemed to be all beef though small. Just what part of beef...
BingoBoingo:
<punkman> how much pork does $3 buy?
<< Little
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> it staves off caloric starvation, but just about everyone who makes a habit of these 'meals' suffers from one or more kinds of malnutrition.
<< Yhis
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> to the point that living on the dole virtually guarantees candidacy for that freakshow forum BingoBoingo reads
<< This 600-800 calories to the dollar is not an unrealistic target in USia
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> dude... a girl that weighs what 5 weigh costs what 10 cost.
<< Ah, if girl can pregnancy.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> so how do the fatties survive ?
<< Two years of leaching off family and then "blackface"
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> i would expect that probably changed.
<< Only really changed in healthcare and only in a way that ascii must eat shoes for a year to be lumpen
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> what's wrong with strychnine
<< Occasionally results in angry hulk rather than cadaver
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> often enough, 'insurer' (misnomer, these are not insurance co. in the traditional sense) will find a way to avoid paying
<< This many times "insurer" is or was payment handler for actual business's healthcare claims
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> cazalla insurance has no option but to pay.
<< WIth the added danger that until Obola care came to all sorts of present evil could be vetoed by actual businesses
BingoBoingo:
<shinohai> I wish mpoe-pr was still there, btctalk was worth reading then.
<< I think most people here value her health too much. When she left the Fillipenis wasn't so bad. Now it is pretty much all aids
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> is the guy even here ?
<< My vague recollection is back in the day he wasn't an MPOE-PR fan. Usagi critic sure but though MPOE was just a differnet evil. Then again I am drunk early and memory flawed.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> gasenwagen!
<< Tis the People's Wagen nao
mod6:
<+phf> shinohai: you probably have rm_gitignore.patch applied, which removes .gitignore files from src/obj/nogui and nukes the folders along the way?
<< i said to disregard this patch. reason is, it wipes out output dirs required by the bitcoin makefile.
☟︎ wywialm: to francis' defense, he does a lot more of the pretense of that than actuality of it
<< that is another good point