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asciilifeform: anyone who thinks this is a waste of time - say.
mircea_popescu: remarkable, the guy's patience.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, that was 'meow mix'
asciilifeform: this was the only way to not have the binary turdlets live in the mailing list set
WhiteCrane: is it possible to make a profit on bitcoin?
jurov: any trick how do i clean the sources to leave only what's in manifest?
asciilifeform: because all that was done in patch 1, is remove ifdef crud ☟︎
asciilifeform: incidentally, the 'chicken', if built, should produce a binary bitwise identical with original.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, it was there.
WhiteCrane: is it possible to get bitcoin money the ski mask way?
asciilifeform: just to demonstrate concept
asciilifeform: linked turd is fresh but includes only a simple turd excision - removal of qt
mod6: its an old fav. good times.
mod6: asciilifeform: did you spend any time playing corewars?
mircea_popescu: i just don't feel that stuff under 1mb can properly be called code.
asciilifeform: ^ the gods love a joke
mircea_popescu: can't we put some pngs in there or something ? .o files ?
mircea_popescu: seriously asciilifeform, who do you expect to take 19kb seriously ?
jurov: not needed,they say the result can be easily checked with some 100 operations
jurov throws the dices and launches the necessary ECDSA pen&paper computations
mircea_popescu: bounce nah they pay into it five bux or w/e each time they get a ss check, and then get a loan once a year to replace the washing machine or w/e
bounce tries to feel old. nope. no instant riches.
mircea_popescu: but seriously, old people in eastern europe have this thing, like a loan co-op
mircea_popescu: if it does, it's better to have it than not
ben_vulpes: it doesn't help, but not having the intake hole hurts.
asciilifeform: how does that help ben_vulpes, or me, or jurov, or, or, crap out whatevers?
jurov: to bellyfeel the serenissima
asciilifeform: say mr putin drops 10000 btc in the piggy
asciilifeform: how on earth can people without time or skills contribute?
mircea_popescu: generally the idea is to spend none, or else with very high roi.
ben_vulpes: and to have a contingency plan for that happening
ben_vulpes: the point is to provide the opportunity for btc to flow in
mircea_popescu: bounce so that people who don't have the time or the skills to contribute can still contribute.
ben_vulpes: there's no goal for the hoard
bounce: "there be dragons" is maybe a little weak in this context.
bounce: is there a general goal and or purpose for starting the hoard in the first place?
mircea_popescu: jurov the cockfest rules clearly say that no foundation can grow past 3 members unless it involves a good looking woman.
ben_vulpes: i'll just sit here and have the culture attached in my lap please
jurov: we need cultural attachee then... any nominations?
mircea_popescu: generally, once there's a pile of money, stupid ways to waste it can be devised.
ben_vulpes: mpex's paid enough to the worthy ladies already
jurov: or the rectothermal-themed male beauty calendar?
mircea_popescu: actually, maybe sponsor a worthy young lady to come to april conference. that's a decent way to spend foundation moneyz i say!
jurov: ben_vulpes 1% is limit not threshold
ben_vulpes: or a zero payout to treasurer
mircea_popescu: what's that mean, keep ear on pubis to detect internal queefs if and as they happen ?
ben_vulpes: treasurer's duty's to audit the booty
jurov: truly a treasurer's duty :DDD
mircea_popescu: no, but bang the wedded whores.
ben_vulpes: wed the banging whores?
mircea_popescu: widding the binning wars!
mike_c: just trying to win the bidding war
ben_vulpes: you're in the big zone mike_c :P
bounce: bidding war for treasuryship?
mircea_popescu: 1btc / year not to exceed 1% of funds collected ?
jurov: i want to ask for modest remuneration, like, 1BTC/year.
mircea_popescu: piss on people freely and abundantly for two days.
mircea_popescu: maybe pay chicks to do lapdances for coder ppls reading the scipt
asciilifeform: it's gotta be more interesting thatn this
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform maybe buy you a complimentary book copy of the code ?
ben_vulpes: be a target
asciilifeform is now curious what foundation will do, if not this shit
mircea_popescu: which is why he's not getting any tits
jurov: can they ask from treasury, too?
mircea_popescu: o, stan's work and the foundation are unrelated
jurov: but this looks to strict p2p project
mircea_popescu: except if they order more than you got, in which case you throw an exception
mircea_popescu: well they order it and you pay it
jurov: moment i want to have a clue how we eventually switch to dispensing from the treasury
mircea_popescu: jurov so you wanna be teh treasurer of btc foundation ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform of any human endeavour ever conceived this much is true : better to have money than not.
asciilifeform: can't think of what part of this costs anything, really
mircea_popescu: basically just hold on to 'em ?
ben_vulpes: well there are no plans for expenditures on the table atm
mircea_popescu: i thought bitcoins are for tits.
asciilifeform: unless donation is to buy me coffee
mircea_popescu: a so jurov treasurer ? okay.
ben_vulpes: if there are donations, someone must be responsible for said donations.
jurov: ^ was my reaction too
ben_vulpes: ...to the forum
ben_vulpes: jurov and i bring a pm regarding treasury duties for a theoretical -assets foundation
Duffer1: not that i'm aware of
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ben_vulpes: what's today's panic, MosesEX
asciilifeform: no one unearthed a copy they're willing to certify as having been leached when new
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the joke being how your " kick off 'bitcoin' tree" is genesis-y
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-10-2014#894058 << that one ?
mircea_popescu: make sure you include adequately quotable quote in there.
asciilifeform will kick off 'bitcoin' tree by posting manifest of subset of original tree with turdlets snipped. anyone who wants to determine that these, in fact, came from original tarball, can do his own homework.
BingoBoingo: mats_cd03: Interesting in writing a qntra piece or two?
mircea_popescu: lol "o let's sell all these <<confiscated>> coins"
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mircea_popescu: the theoretical problem is well obvious.
mircea_popescu: the practical problem, that is.
mircea_popescu: i srsly don't see the problem with a patched diff.
asciilifeform: that any system where the 'patient' sees a blurred boundary between the trivial and the absolutely impossible - will produce the learned helplessness.
asciilifeform: one could reformulate the old vivisectors' conclusions in the following way:
asciilifeform: everybody's read of the old experiments with the dogs, the electrically-boobytrapped floor of the cages, and 'learned helplessness'
asciilifeform: and here's a thought:
mircea_popescu: what sort of twitter is this!