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mircea_popescu: through such eminent strategies as giving away whatever passes for a password in that particular altscam world ?
bitcoinpete: http://reason.com/blog/2014/07/10/senate-judiciary-committee-backs-constit << on the us as "a country"
mircea_popescu: and stupid as she is, she goes for it.
mircea_popescu: as long as the scammers actualy waste it, rather than keep it, this is financial sterilisation.
asciilifeform: the people who did that kickstart, for instance, are separated from their true motherland - the uranium mines - for so long as the money lasts them. ☟︎
asciilifeform: sane people don't sell prototype as product.
asciilifeform misread as 'prosperous social engineer'
assbot: Buttcoin Foundation ROCKED as founder exposed to be PAID SHILL for Butterfly Labs : Buttcoin
pankkake: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2adssm/buttcoin_foundation_rocked_as_founder_exposed_to/
fluffypony: holy fuck this dude is as bad as usagi
punkman: lol "The Game Changer: Uber as a Car-Ownership Alternative"
xmj: 10:30:15 <+thestringpuller> it's late as fuck go to bed
thestringpuller: it's late as fuck go to bed
mircea_popescu: people pretend to ignore the fact that human life, like all life, is an exercise in exploring the possibilities. as you increase the population you necessarily lower the averages.
mircea_popescu: as you add more people it only gets worse.
mircea_popescu: so if population is 5 and per capita avg attention ready to be paid 2.1, then you have 2.1x as much attention as needed.
mircea_popescu: think about it... every new human has the same basic needs, but as you keep adding them to the long end of stupidity they don't actually add a full measure of attention.
BingoBoingo: But how does it taste? Usually it takes some work to make a Capon Aviagen sent a team of scientists to Sanderson last autumn to study the issue and has acknowledged that an undisclosed change it made to the breed's genetics made the birds "very sensitive" to being overfed, he said. "We fed him too much. He got fat. When he got big, he did not breed as much as he was intended to," Cockrell said about the breed of rooster.
TheNewDeal: and they refer to all their customers as "friends"
TheNewDeal: that's what I figured as well
TheNewDeal: just wondering about any resolution plans for http://bitbet.us/bet/951/ , as I'm tired of reading all the derp comments
mircea_popescu: i mean i guess you could technically not use old acct as a ref but why would you.
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 ?
pankkake: as a scientist you have to be published by those things. and be cited
mircea_popescu: Investigators took Tichelman's fingerprints from the wine glass, according to KGO-TV. An obituary posted in the Santa Cruz Sentinel describes Hayes as a husband and father to five children.
asciilifeform: and given as no one would go there just to see, here's some pics - http://imgur.com/2FIpuIy,FzMqMR9,NP0uzz5,IFSX1eE,HNMQjdq,bCs3u7l,pn5XiLa,nboYysE,ZOibTdz,2LXc9IW
assbot: Police to take graphic photos of teen as evidence
pankkake: takes 24h for me :( but I guess mpex doesn't have as much data
jurov: same as the other ones
gribble: Nick 'thestringpuller', with hostmask 'thestringpuller!~leflor@99-39-97-12.lightspeed.tukrga.sbcglobal.net', is identified as user 'thestringpuller', with GPG key id 0FF2943DA179E169, key fingerprint 6ACE36E786F39A4ADC4506DE0FF2943DA179E169, and bitcoin address None
mircea_popescu: as an aside, mpex update : hardware changed and tested, os installed and failed. os reinstalled and failed. hardware retested and failed (!!!). hardware rechanged. tested, passed, tested, passed, os resintalled, tested.
mircea_popescu: generally as cixi aptyl observed, capitalism is fucking loud.
decimation: yeah I think Carlyle would agree with you: "Deduct what they carried with them from England ready-made, -- their common English Language and that same Constitution, or rather elixir of constitutions, their inveterate and now, as it were inborn, reverence for the Constable's Staff; two quite immense attainments which England had to spend much blood, and valiant sweat of brow and brain, for centuries long in achieving; -- and what new
mircea_popescu: and as i tell my neighbours that complain about my music, "either get lost or i'm going to kill you"
mircea_popescu: as i generally tell my neighbours that listed to the music too loud, "either turn it off or i'm going to kill you".
mircea_popescu: this has been known since forever as the noble lie. ie, most people have no fucking business giving their opinion in the forum.
mircea_popescu: neighbourhood 1 gets together to "do something for environment", blows up all the leaves with leafblowers. N2 pledges to stop eating beef so as to help reduce cowfart methane production. the importers normaly supplying them suffer a shock, a bunch of meat is discarded.
gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'nam-shub', with hostmask 'nam-shub!~nam-shub@67.174.198.159', is identified as user 'bloctoc', with GPG key id ABFF7572BA373348, key fingerprint 2DD75790350D7D689339038DABFF7572BA373348, and bitcoin address None
nam-shub: as in hasta luego
benkay: "U.S. stocks rebounded after a two-day slide, as the Federal Reserve's meeting minutes soothed concerns over a potential increase in interest rates.
mircea_popescu: Stalin had looked on with approval and malicious delight as Hitler had overrun Poland, France and Belgium, as his bombers had darkened the sky over England. Molotov had come back from Berlin thoroughly frightened; agents reported that Hitler was transferring his forces eastward; Hess flew to England, and Churchill had warned Stalin of an attack. Every jackdaw in the woods of Byelorussia and on the poplars of Galicia h
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jambo | 99% of washing line crime convictions in 2013 were held accountable to 'jambo's' or the 'scumbos' as they have become better known. They mostly inhabit a ...
mircea_popescu: but i'd count it as a major personal failure if i somehow ended up going home with them in the first place.
mircea_popescu: woa dude you look old. i always saw you as this peter pan sorta 22 yo
mircea_popescu: also known in romanian as "copilu' minune minca gem si caca prune"
colinistheman: but its ok to use them as long as you clean them up
colinistheman: yes, as does all high carbon steel
mircea_popescu: as in, pig iron ?
colinistheman: it's also made with high carbon steel so it holds the edge better for that reason as well
colinistheman: such as oiling it
colinistheman: I am honestly confused as to what I am doing right now
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.
asciilifeform: 'girls around me' << ancient scandal. as i recall, it was censored.
asciilifeform: as if spindle drives didn't swap sectors silently
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nope as in nothing shows up on measurements.
asciilifeform: nope as in 'installed guaranteed sinusoidal power source', eliminated the possibility even in theory ?
mircea_popescu: tho afaik previously it was held as unproductive.
mircea_popescu: “The USGS undertook this assessment of the Bakken and Three Forks Formations as part of a nationwide project assessing U.S. petroleum basins using standardized methodology and protocol,” said Acting Director of the USGS Suzette Kimball. “Through this improved understanding of our energy resources, government, industry, and citizens are better able to understand our domestic energy mix and make wiser decisions fo
mircea_popescu: “These world-class formations contain even more energy resource potential than previously understood, which is important information as we continue to reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign sources of oil,” said Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell. “We must develop our domestic energy resources armed with the best available science, and this unbiased, objective information will help private, nonprofit an
mircea_popescu: the trial account has gone as far as it'll go.
mircea_popescu: so as a mpex update : all 8 drives + the raid controller are going to be cut up. replacements are going in. mpex won't be back today, but i expect it to be back tomorrow. ☟︎
ThickAsThieves: "@BTCFoundation hires Thorsen French as outside lobbyists. Part of the appeal was they weren't invovled in past financial services battles"
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: wouldn't be too far-fetched to see people being paid in bitcoin, avoiding government taxation << inasmuch as you've seen this like... yesterday ? yeah.
mircea_popescu: pankkake plus you get unexpected bonuses. such as parking one in every trailer park in the us.
mircea_popescu: and as for expansion... those shits stack 10 iirc.
mircea_popescu: you need machinery for that, not really the same as backing in some pickup trucks.
ThickAsThieves: User adoption as measured by wallets
FabianB: "12:49 <+davout> e-mail interface would be neat-o" <-- looks like the irc interface is down as well, so it's probably not the frontend server, it's the trade engine itself
asciilifeform: Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, / Who never to himself hath said, / This is my own, my native shell! / Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, / As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, / From wandering on a winblows hell!
assbot: Twitter / dougmillsnyt: Obama reacts as he is greeted ...
decimation: " It's not unusual for the first couple of units to have components changed by designers who are not expert solderers just to prove that the mod works as intended. Once everyone is happy then some of these units become demo models, "
decimation: the max "resolution bandwidth" for the device is only 3 MHz, that's the width of its filter as it tracks over 20 GHz
asciilifeform: note (e.g. at 47 minutes) the pcb-as-passive-component trick
asciilifeform: same 'scam' as my 100mhz scope
asciilifeform: decimation: same as on my chinese scope!
decimation: there are some interesting design choices (some he points out, some he doesn't). as ascii would say, figuring out the details is an excercise for the alert reader
decimation: I think his past experience was as a pcb designer
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Difficulty isn't as lucrative as betting against Serena Williams
colinistheman: From what I gather, sonny vleisides, carried on the scam of his father. Your article seems to touch upon this. "I came to know my real father only as an adult. So when I got the opportunity to know him better, I was eager and curious. His name was James Ray Houston:
asciilifeform: '…we need a word that describes the artifacts generated in response to irrational actors who demand to be fooled. As the old saying goes, “A fool and his money are soon parted” – at the fool’s own insistence, no less! If the deer comes out of the forest and walks up to the hunter, it is not proper hunting, and this is not proper con artistry or grift or embezzlement or any other term we use to describe ☟︎
kakobrekla: i meant saved as in ctrl-s
assbot: BFL Late Monarch and How to Handle it. Josh, as COO, I request your reply to this.
colinistheman: http://knives4bitcoin.com/BFL_Late_Monarch_and_How_to_Handle_it._Josh,_as_COO,_I_request_your_reply_to_this.htm
kakobrekla: i have a few of those swiss army knifes i got as gifts and they satisfy all my cutting needs
ThickAsThieves: "Realcoin will use a Bitcoin 2.0 software protocol known as Mastercoin" the pain!
asciilifeform: pierce << ideal example of the animal described on one of mircea_popescu's essays - he could be packed into prison for life, any time, based on what's in his file. so he does as instructed. ☟︎☟︎☟︎
indiancandy1: lots of ppl as i got a big following
asciilifeform: at that point it will be worth about as much as those cars parked at Pripyat.
thestringpuller: top comment: "He's offering a derivative with bitpay as the underlying. These are not bitpay shares."
fluffypony: so Klye is "Giving up gambling as well as smoking cigarettes and drinking.. Trying to make a lifestyle change in order speed up my repayment and regain some honour."
mircea_popescu: as much as the russians would beg to differ.
gribble: Nick 'Pierre_Rochard', with hostmask 'Pierre_Rochard!~Pierre@198.255.186.129', is identified as user 'Pierre_Rochard', with GPG key id E416CE33F64FCA5E, key fingerprint 3861EADB8E3A62CFD751E70BE416CE33F64FCA5E, and bitcoin address None
bitcoinpete: "While it may seem foreign now, at the time, the concept of the person as an individual flew in the face of tradition. Questioning this perspective sowed the seeds of a new worldview where tradition and social hierarchy were displaced in favor of individual pursuits."
bitcoinpete: lol he probably gets off my role playing as chess pieces
mircea_popescu: like suppose i send cia's shadow ops director a buquet of n roses on the day he forgot to send his wife the n number as he should have.
bitcoinpete: "The ecology of the water body is not likely to be affected much and it will also reduce evaporation, thus helping preserve water levels during extreme summer. Solar panels installed on land, face reduction of yield as the ground heats up. When such panels are installed on a floating platform, the heating problem is solved to a great extent."
ThickAsThieves: layout of trading tools is not as intuitive as other sites
mircea_popescu: The firm, which describes itself as an “international digital wallet that allows you to securely buy, use, and accept bitcoin currency”, is going from strength to strength, with an estimated 600,000 people now using its wallet service, up from 200,000 in August.
mircea_popescu: as real as angelina's boobs.
benkay: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/immigrants-from-latin-america-and-africa-squeezed-as-banks-curtail-international-money-transfers/