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asciilifeform: i have, as some may know, other projects
gribble: Nick 'asciilifeform', with hostmask 'asciilifeform!~asciilife@pool-71-191-53-82.washdc.fios.verizon.net', is identified as user 'asciilifeform', with GPG key id B98228A001ABFFC7, key fingerprint 17215D118B7239507FAFED98B98228A001ABFFC7, and bitcoin address None
mircea_popescu: what's that mean, keep ear on pubis to detect internal queefs if and as they happen ?
bounce: as long as you drink responsibly
asciilifeform: no one unearthed a copy they're willing to certify as having been leached when new
mircea_popescu contemplates how his handcranked, slave operated blockchain is actually self-emerging, as predicted by some knowledgeable people.
asciilifeform: meaning, we may as well be asking folks to run arbitrary binary turd that mr. sp4mz0r built in his cellar, for winblows 98.
asciilifeform: short as in - not much more than levenshtein distance between the trees.
asciilifeform: as in, actually read.
jurov: as coined by norman mailer iirc
jurov: lol passing it as lore?
ben_vulpes: well then the thing wants a treasurer as well.
mircea_popescu: to differentiate from the scam currently masquerading as a bitcoin "foundation"
mircea_popescu: discontinued or ammended in such a way as to no longer conflict with Bitcoin."
TheNewDeal: Mp as far as the shitty spot price goes, couldnt one set up some actual usd deverable calls/puts at certain prices to protect against a rigged signal?
asciilifeform: mike_c: 'things must be made as simple as possible, but not simpler'
Mikayla: just doing as instructed
undata: asciilifeform: yep, as old as possible
Mikayla: do you want clear quality to as the image?
Mikayla: Just takes one man, or a group, to excell in hacking and to pick you as a target
ben_vulpes: if qt's nixed, the average user's nixed as well.
ben_vulpes: he wants it to build on mac s/e as well
asciilifeform: the ms vc liquishit is to be burned as well.
ben_vulpes: as much as i'd like it gone, i'd also like something in the wild before the stoolies attempt to fork.
wywialm: yes, i would - as i said i would even consider 60 days, but then it wouldn't be much of unit testing
los_pantalones: yeah, worrying about the width as a % of the underlying is not a bad way to look at things
wywialm: well it is common to refer to premiums as % of underlying
wywialm: i just thought it might be a good idea to quote it as x.eur is quoted
asciilifeform: dia storage devices, and paperwork was seized. The actual grounds for my arrest was cited as "harassment". This concerned a suspected fake news story that had been exposed on my blog.'
The20YearIRCloud: But not as bad as detroit, and Ohio has a pretty great senate/house that keeps the rest of the state from turning into a cesspool.
mircea_popescu: Mikayla as per a, link to your previous work, then i'll give you a string you can take your pic.
wywialm: ok, then. for start i would buy put option, delivering 100$ unescrowed, as a sort of unit test, at 0.25 btc per 100$ strike, i offer 0.03 btc, matures in 21 days. is it ok, los_pantalones or TheNewDeal?
asciilifeform: as well as src
wywialm: mike_c, it's actually simpler than options on btc/usd rate. if you properly treat btc as the center of this financial universe, the usd and eur are foreign assets and they should be deliverd
mircea_popescu: bounce google came up with the fucktarded idea of basically replacing their algorithm with a by-hand list (yeah, just at the top, which is like saying "just where it matters"). as a result, all sorts of shitholes like facebook, wikipedia etc are basically google spam repositories.
ben_vulpes: log as well which is kinda odd
bounce: gay just as soon as it's hip to be gay. now wouldn't that be an interesting trend.
bounce: as in happy. these are supposed to be happy stories.
asciilifeform remembers recent machining textbook (american) which defended barbarian units of measure as 'intuitive to humans'
mircea_popescu: as opposed to 10**3, where 3 is a power of 3.
mircea_popescu: as discussed http://trilema.com/2013/mpex-one-year-of-dividends/#footnote_4_47551 because trilema, again a year ahead of public discourse in the space.
mircea_popescu: and i asked if it actually is basic because microsoft could just as well rape perl and call it "visual basic for backscratching"
bounce has so far successfully avoided more understanding than to look away in a hurry as soon as anything like it comes into view, so can't help you there. so not sorry.
ben_vulpes: *shrug* i don't 'em as hot as you do i guess
ziggamon: bounce: it’s a distributor for now. If we manage to get usage we’ll go straight to operators, and then prices will be much lower as well
punkman: "Eurostat arrived at the €2.1bn figure on the basis of new methods of calculating member states’ GNI since 1995, taking account of previously unreported or under-reported black economy elements, such as drug dealing and consumption or the sex industry."
asciilifeform: so long as it's, e.g., new refrigerator every 15 yrs and not 15 months
asciilifeform: yes, that kind, as i understand
decimation: I bet the ohio state university library is as good or better than maryland, but it's also not near any cheap housing
mircea_popescu: then as a sense of familiarity develops, more of truth can be let out.
mircea_popescu: pretty much every whore i ever talked to readily identifies it in the field as mere pretense.
asciilifeform: 'plan was to make some money in Silicon Valley and then retire as an independent scholar...' << notice, mr mold also didn't much care for arbeit macht frei.
mircea_popescu: is this like "i don't eat anything for as many as 20 hours a day, so i'm therefore anorexic" ?
decimation: having to learn runes to read beowulf is one thing, acting as some weirdo's bitch is another
BingoBoingo: <decimation> asciilifeform: maybe as a mercy gesture the prisons stock high-mercury mackerel << Heavy metal poisoning is slow
decimation: asciilifeform: maybe as a mercy gesture the prisons stock high-mercury mackerel
thestringpuller: "You hold up MPEx and Satoshi Dice as successful businesses, and give them valuation in the millions of dollars. I mean, seriously, what is there to argue? I've already provided you evidence and reasons as to why the utter nonsense you're claiming is evidence for your arguments is false and you just keep providing the same nonsensical arguments over and over. BFL has sold tons of hardware, that is verifiable proo
asciilifeform: as i understand, one's kaishakunin would typically be a respected teacher, who approves of you enough to take the risk of embarrassing himself by chopping incorrectly.
decimation: we are all in the same big zone together, might as well let the string be 'zekd'
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kaishakunin&defid=1111214 | Samurai Who Performs Kaishaku During Seppuku. The Kaishakunin Used A Katana Known As A Dotanuki.
asciilifeform: respect as in 'i wish this person to do the privilege of being my kaishakunin.'
BingoBoingo: Eh, when you write off a venue like bitcointalk as worthless, best to stand by that decision unless something material about the venue changes for the better.
decimation: as I recall, reading about stan's encounter and further correspondence on that post is what interested me in this channel
decimation: as in, pop spy
TheNewDeal: did anyone else (like goat or theymos) get in trouble a la http://bitbet.us/bet/486/james-gibson-aka-gigavps-to-be-named-as/ ?
mircea_popescu: and that specifically includes "the countries", ie, governments and their minions. it doth not include "the people" as such.
mircea_popescu: decimation the original only writes bytes in pair. sane implementation write bytes as presented
BingoBoingo: decimation: Not even a real counterfeit problem so much as not enough ID numbers problem
asciilifeform: decimation: if the chinese had simply copied the die, as folks often do, the vulnerability would be no surprise. but instead they reimplemented the thing bug-for-bug.
mircea_popescu: URL tested:http://qntra.net Test performed from:New York, NY Test performed at:2014-10-24 02:21:20 (GMT +00:00) Resolved As:23.235.236.98 Status:OK Response Time:0.604 sec DNS:0.241 sec Connect:0.091 sec Redirect:0.000 sec First byte:0.091 sec Last byte:0.181 sec Size:35273 bytes
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, can't resolve host, as you can see in https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/qntra.net , some DNS servers all around still didn't catch up
mircea_popescu: no_imagination oversimplified. i mean... it's in the stuff you read, as short as it gets.
no_imagination: mircea_popescu: read some of your stuff. is it fair to say you value BTC as a store of value and the rest is secondary?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu speaking of travel plans, some close friends decided to GET MARRIED on the same weekend as the third conference. so ya.
asciilifeform: as a routine matter.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:meyer lanski famously told some older street thoughs, as a 12 yo, "you get nuttin' for nuttin'". that's all it is. at 12 he's as rich as me telling the sec how to behave. << beauty.
artifexd: Ah no. That was joecool. Same color as you.
jurov: rly? masculinity as a measurable natural resource?
midnightmagic: "It's about the same likelihood as that you would get spontaneously quantum teleported by tunnelling through solid wall, that's why such things just don't happen." <-- this is incorrect
BingoBoingo: Skipped those after first one broke in hours. The tiny trackpad used as a micro trackball was very functional though
mircea_popescu: lmao these logs... nubbins` using cohen as an argument ?!
asciilifeform: if as a 'touch' gizmo - check first.
asciilifeform: why is it even still possible to identify 'large miners' as existing.
asciilifeform: miners << is there any actual reason why an arbitrarily large miner should not choose to appear as a large number of arbitrarily small ones, from the network standpoint ?
asciilifeform: undeserved prize tastes ten times as good.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as much as a new news site brings about ddos.
kakobrekla: stock selection code < as shitty as it gets.
mircea_popescu: aww, no "as mp said" ? sucks.
asciilifeform: (as in, personally leeched as long ago as possible, and sat since)
mircea_popescu votes yesterday as "most likely to be reread"
nubbins`: and use that as a starting point
kakobrekla: implication is that it must be the bank's < we also have such setups with but no such implication as atms are compatible over all banks
asciilifeform: i give the library tidbit as an example of what, in my mind, 'not living as rat' involves
bounce: "free" as in part of the crushing tuitition debt package deal
asciilifeform: ^ yes. just as freedom may or may not be about a hacksaw, depending on whether one is in prison, and of what material the prison is made (a pair of clippers may suffice for a savage rope cage, etc.)
mircea_popescu: meyer lanski famously told some older street thoughs, as a 12 yo, "you get nuttin' for nuttin'". that's all it is. at 12 he's as rich as me telling the sec how to behave.
asciilifeform: lol i was beginning to think that diogenes was mentioned precisely because my 'best' is as odd as his was.
mircea_popescu: well, the problem with "discussing the art of living" is diogenes. as in, discussion requires common ground. which isn't a given.
asciilifeform: even the comparatively smaller undertaking i'm presently engaged in - still doesn't come cheap. (i speak of the tooling which i have not charged to the piggy, but also of the fact that i cannot convert btc to usd even for those portions where expenses invoiced. as previously recounted here.)
undata: asciilifeform: how about "Life is about projects, and wealth should only be interesting inasmuch as it supports those endeavors."