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mircea_popescu: "What would government involvement in Bitcoin look like? Well one of their first goals would be to let the project stagnate. The disappearance of the founder "Satoshi" and appointment of Gavin Andresen, someone who has publicly admitted he doesn't want much to change in Bitcoin allows us to see one big reason for stagnation." << from the solidcoin derpage.
assbot: mcxNow Says it is Becoming mtMOX: Can RealSolid Count to 3? : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1EYL7Sc )
mircea_popescu: as far as i can tell, a sort of wanna-be -assets minus the cool stuff.
mircea_popescu: oh that thing. mkay.
mircea_popescu: foir the terminally curious.
BingoBoingo: http://dpaste.com/01TD6GH << Looky their reaction
mircea_popescu: bwahahaha oh the precious. reminds me of all the forum ninnies getting ready for "mp's extradition!11"
mircea_popescu: I know people think "one day" SolidCoin/MicroCash will be worth a lot but it's hard to sell that to a wife as I'm sure some of you may be aware! <<< actually, it's difficult to sell that generally.
BingoBoingo: To think that the Ad platform was going to come before a place to park an ad platform!
mircea_popescu: So people are asking what is happening with MicroCash, especially in regards to me. There are 2 problems I ran into in late May. 1) Needing to make some money 2) Lack of motivation
BingoBoingo: Thanks, benefit of having last November's mcxNAO article I wrote to crib off of.
mircea_popescu: i enjoyed the article lol.
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BingoBoingo: Yes, the Bitcoin to shitcoin thing
mircea_popescu: what was this thing ?
punkman: yeah I mean it'd change back to notary if it disconnects, but otherwise not smart enough yet
mircea_popescu: punkman no i mean, back to being punkbot
punkman: all that uptime, I must make it disconnect more
mircea_popescu: punkbot tell this man's wife 0.1 BTC and tits already.
assbot: Wife acceptance factor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1EYGLKH )
punkman: "I'll be willing to complete the beta as quickly as possible if people want to donate some BTC to me, this way I can show the wife it's more like a job than a hobby. As to the amount, I think 250BTC would be enough to get her off my back"
assbot: Between the hammer and the anvil… pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1xizrHF )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform undata http://trilema.com/2014/between-the-hammer-and-the-anvil/ << there, you inspired me.
BingoBoingo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pants-up-don-t-loot-ferguson-billboard << Oh, the ways white America scores own goals
assbot: Rap Genius Co-Founder Finally Pushes Venture Capitalist Over the Edge ... ( http://bit.ly/1xKQKA8 )
cazalla: BingoBoingo, when is the grand jury decision due?
assbot: National Guard troops will hit St. Louis city's streets in secondary role : News ... ( http://bit.ly/1vkLVj9 )
decimation: they have always hated suburbs, nuclear power, shopping malls, automobiles... and plastics, which could not exist under a centrally planned green economy. I would therefore like to ask all my readers to take a look around them and note everything plastic, and then say a quiet "thank you" to the right-wingers who made it possible for everything that Brutopians consider "wasteful" to exist at all. << Herr Kokkarinen
decimation: > It is certainly amazing how technology and commerce allow mass production of plastic spoons to be sold for three cents apiece, well worth the time and convenience they save me. However, all centrally planned green policies and their wannabe implementers always assign zero value for other people's time and convenience. Since the left instinctively despises everything that gives normal people more time, freedom or material wealth,
kakobrekla: here is the latest comment http://dpaste.com/0A3QQFC.txt
asciilifeform: finger that fell off in the poker tournament << leprosy ?
kakobrekla: yup, tried from de, no luck
assbot: I will soon put the finger that fell off in the poker tournament on eBay for sale
BingoBoingo: Gotta bribe the tribal chiefs with something
BingoBoingo: Eh, US will probably have to bring back Woodrow Wilson bills sometime these next couple decades
decimation: 'only an enemy of the state would use cash'
decimation: asciilifeform: the story and the source indicates the idea-balloon has been floated
asciilifeform: 'ban the benjie' << mega-lol
assbot: U.S. Should Quit $100 Bill to Stop N. Korea Counterfeiting | TIME.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1EUhO10 )
asciilifeform: try buy $1b 'of them' and notice that most of the resulting 'ownership' is physically-inaccessible leveraged crud
decimation: how's that?
asciilifeform: let a thousand synthetic diamonds bloom.
decimation: of course, 'forging' the work of old masters (imitating it openly) is also virtuous
asciilifeform: every mouse, every rat, gnawing on the sacks in which bezzle lords safely squirrel away their wealth - is doing good work.
decimation: especially if the forgery is the ugly canvas-vomit of some drunken fag-hag
asciilifeform: but the lizard who buys a $40m rembrandt is not a fool, he knows he can get $50 next year
decimation: perhaps the religion of the age can be identified by its idol trade
asciilifeform: mostly small-time chumps there
decimation: in the middle ages, trade in 'relics' was pretty much the same thing
asciilifeform: canvas, the original altcoin for the lizard lords.
decimation: that's an interesting point. it would 'have value' even behind the iron curtain
assbot: Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World - News - The Independent ... ( http://bit.ly/1EUg7kj )
decimation: I suppose this is what became "resistance through culture"
assbot: zang tumb tumbl — i keep telling people to look at where things come... ... ( http://bit.ly/1EUfneS )
decimation: asciilifeform: http://countersignal.tumblr.com/post/102817028423/i-keep-telling-people-to-look-at-where-things-come << I didn't realize that usg/nato were responsible for 'cultural marxism'
decimation: asciilifeform: the page I linked above does list her prominent bezzle connections
decimation: maybe they have some secret new technique for joining circuitry with solder bridges
asciilifeform: and that woman is probably planted on a solid gold toilet as we speak
asciilifeform: piece of shit has attracted far more attention from actual people than ever deserved
kakobrekla: dafuq do you know, maybe you need to bridge two pins together with a diode hanging for no reason to make it work
decimation: also note he isn't actually soldering anything together
decimation: Decadence does not derive from an excess of civilization, but from the attempt to take advantage of civilization in order to elude the prohibitions of which it consists. http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/2010/06/1344.html
kakobrekla: anyway the logo is not so bad
decimation: if that were a EE senior design project I would give it an F
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kakobrekla: > Melanie excels at using the most up-to-date social tools to creatively promote a brand and attract relevant customers.
nubbins`: they don't touch on that at all
decimation: lol that guy put like a gallon of solder on that dip
decimation watched without skipping, realizes the loathesomeness
nubbins`: in the sidebar, i mean
nubbins`: cazalla BingoBoingo the underlined links should also go, they look not nice
cazalla: asciilifeform, maybe post it as a comment then you can get credit for pointing it out
cazalla: nubbins`, i'll defer to BingoBoingo for that
cazalla: <asciilifeform> cazalla: ^ consider for 'qntra' <<< amusing now that i've googled what a solder bridge is, i wouldn't want to add it and act smug as if i knew prior though
asciilifeform: that clip was unbelievably loathesome, so much so that even hard to begin describing how
nubbins`: those ul bullets are taking up a massive amount of space
nubbins`: cazalla something like this might let you have a bit more usable real estate on the sidebar
asciilifeform: there are a few more of similar derps pretending to debug, etc.
asciilifeform: a scene of a kid pretending to solder
asciilifeform: taken from the ad kakobrekla linked
thestringpuller: what's the story?
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer ... ( http://bit.ly/1EXr5Hu )
kakobrekla: fits the desc of the device
asciilifeform: 'no real things were harmed in the making of this film'
asciilifeform: or why soldering monkey (almost painful to watch)
kakobrekla: asciilifeform to let us know they spend more on the video than their tech gear
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: what i can't figure out is why the rigol appears in that film
decimation: asciilifeform: is there a good free vhdl simulator w/timing analysis?
asciilifeform: this is the miser's version of the one i have
kakobrekla: sorry i forgot which model you had, recalled the brand.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: nope. that's the cheapo rigol
kakobrekla: also did you see the rigol
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/?define.php%3Fterm=trolling&page=301 | Bricking your hardware leaves you with a new paperweight. Can be the end effect of a faulty flash or firmware update, a modification (mod) gone bad or being  ...
cazalla: who is gonna use such a thing? i don't even need to be technically minded to know there is no chance i would use a wallet with a camera
cazalla: asciilifeform, don't forget the camera
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: most people use methyl mercaptan, i thought
mats_cd03: i still have the vial, half full. 'for emergencies'.
decimation: wow that's pretty nasty
mats_cd03: as a young man i ruined the interior of a rival's BMW with durian extract i bought on the internets
nubbins`: i've never tried durian