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BingoBoingo: Instead of the stadium gates you arrived at the parking garage.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I think you missed
BingoBoingo: If speed were the greatest virtue public transportation would not be a bus network, but coin operated people howitzers on every street corner
BlueMeanie4: first person to bid or to execute a contract
BlueMeanie4: sure, and this isnt a problem unless youre doing something where people are competing to be the first
BingoBoingo: Miners routinely exclude transactions
BlueMeanie4: because the miners can exclude some transactoins and fatally bias the market
nubbins`: thought i hit a roadblock with the poster color separations, wife suggested a solution that's even better than what i'd originally planned
BlueMeanie4: this is also a problem with Bitcoin, and thats why Counterparty cant be used for anything serious
BlueMeanie4: theres the problem of competing to execute contracts
BlueMeanie4: the problem with using IRC is that you cant have high speed contract resolutoin
BingoBoingo: BlueMeanie4: A disctinct advantage of IRC is its robustness, DDOS'ing even aggressively at best interupts parts or the network rather than killing it.
mircea_popescu: now whether it's irc or a website or anywhere else should come down to a technical discussion
mircea_popescu: somewhere they'll fuck around.
BlueMeanie4: you apparently think the whole world has all day to fuck around on IRC
BlueMeanie4: im trying to explain USABILITY to you
mircea_popescu: the only - the ONLY - reason any website is online right now, google including, whitehouse.org included, is that nobody can be bothered to knock them off.
asciilifeform: BlueMeanie4: 'to criticise is to volunteer.' suggest your variant.
mircea_popescu: no dude. i'm just trying to explain internet to you.
BlueMeanie4: so youre threatening any alternatives?
mircea_popescu: what do they teach in cs these days ?
BlueMeanie4: what makes you htink you can do that
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 then i don't like you and ddos your system. what now ?
mircea_popescu: hanbot "demonstrating that perambulatory sculpture of the conspicuously unfucked might as well also possess meterological dominion over those parts of the world otherwise dangerous to honest hard-working folk predisposed to believe in peram…well, you know." ahahaha epic.
BlueMeanie4: if people want to short
asciilifeform: BlueMeanie4: use telex if you like. still gotta prove you own the private key
BlueMeanie4: no one can use this thing
mircea_popescu: irc is an incredibly great system, give yourself some time to discover that first.
BlueMeanie4: i may make a contract system that doesnt use irc
mircea_popescu: and in the window that pops say !up
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BlueMeanie4 well we all use automation so it's not that fresh in head :) << I do it by hand
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 well we all use automation so it's not that fresh in head :)
BlueMeanie4: SHIT YOU DONT EVEN KOW HOW TO DO THIS
mircea_popescu: then you decrypt the otp and go ;;everify freenode-blabla
kakobrekla passed the arian test although black
mircea_popescu: try it again now, it's not the big deal it looks like.
mircea_popescu: usability is good ; barriers to entry are better.
BlueMeanie4: maybe ill try again next year
mircea_popescu: when you don't have to deal with them
mircea_popescu: the hassle at the beginning will repay in spades later,
mircea_popescu: it's a time tested system to keep idiots out.
BlueMeanie4: let the techno condescention begin
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 keep your cool and think of it ths way :
kakobrekla: they dont teach pgp in cs?
gribble: (everify <otp>) -- Verify the latest encrypt-authentication request by providing your decrypted one-time password. If verified, you'll be authenticated for the duration of the bot's or your IRC session on channel (whichever is shorter).
asciilifeform: BlueMeanie4: everify yournickname thatstringstartingwithfreenode
BlueMeanie4: its the second time i did this
BlueMeanie4: fuck this
mircea_popescu: no, THERE you need the name.
mircea_popescu: it looks and sees a diff guy is putting in the decrypted string and calls shenanigans.
gribble: (everify <otp>) -- Verify the latest encrypt-authentication request by providing your decrypted one-time password. If verified, you'll be authenticated for the duration of the bot's or your IRC session on channel (whichever is shorter).
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 you gotta do the ;;eauth party ourself too!
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 no name needed. take it out.
gribble: (everify <otp>) -- Verify the latest encrypt-authentication request by providing your decrypted one-time password. If verified, you'll be authenticated for the duration of the bot's or your IRC session on channel (whichever is shorter).
BlueMeanie4: ok got the passwd
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah but you didn't pick them in the street.
asciilifeform talked two chaps who were previously innocent of pgp and (mostly) of irc through the whole shebang. it took - minutes.
BlueMeanie4: i did that laready!
mircea_popescu: so as i was saying earlier : ident with gribble, let's walk you through this self upping thing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought russians had martini as the vermouth, like romanians.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: "After a whirlwind of bidding activity, a 9.0-graded copy of Action Comics #1 sold on eBay yesterday for a whopping $3.2-million, the most ever paid for a comic book" << clearly no inflation propping up nasdaq. it;'s all just legit money, which is why all art and collectible prices are up 10x
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: (from one russian commenter) - 'does the nail polish change to warning colour after the fifth martini?'
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4: also Mircea - you dont like Preston Bryne? << if i can be arsed to try and teach someone to read it can scarcely be argued i don't like them.
mircea_popescu: also, lol : "While it is occasionally used recreationally for its hallucinogenic properties, the experiences are often mentally and physically extremely unpleasant, and frequently physically dangerous, so repeated use is rare."
mircea_popescu: nubbins` this is why you take your own bottle and your own whores to the strip joint :D
nubbins`: Flerb, how would you earn someone's trust in your day-to-day life?
nubbins`: tourists helping the thieves move their belongings into the van, etc
nubbins`: scopolamine is popular in some touristy areas of south america as well, or so i'm told
mircea_popescu: all the greek sluts moved south and went to work.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is older than dirt. was the premiere reason women ended up forbidden from public places in teh islamic states.
asciilifeform: perhaps the nail polish - in a transparent variety - will catch on there.
asciilifeform: phun phact: knockout drops are alive and well in russia. but they are typically used by women - on men. chemically-assisted pick-pockets.
mircea_popescu: o and also : IF you want any sort of shot at a decent lay, you're to have full nudes on the internet before you're 18 and aging starts.
mircea_popescu: and to stop bitching about it!
mircea_popescu: women are actually expected to walk on four inch heels after the age of 16 so as to deform their calf musculature and get fucking implants once they're 35+
mircea_popescu: what sort of alternative reality is this!
mircea_popescu: Women are already expected to work hard to prevent themselves from becoming the victims of sexual assault. They’re told to avoid wearing revealing clothing, travel in groups, make sure they don’t get too drunk, and always keep a close eye on their drink. Now, remembering to put on anti-rape nail polish and discreetly slip a finger into each drink might be added to that ever-growing checklist — something that actu
mircea_popescu: dude gtfo, what "epidemic". us colleges used to be this fuckathon, these days they're like fucking nunneries.
assbot: 4 results for 'have to dip' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=have+to+dip
asciilifeform: !s have to dip
asciilifeform: 'I don’t want to fucking test my drink when I’m at the bar. That’s not the world I want to live in.'
mircea_popescu: "it’s not necessarily the best way to approach the sexual assault epidemic on college campuses."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform soviet bureaucrats opposed typewriters neh ?
assbot: Why Rape Prevention Activists Don't Like The New Nail Polish That Can Detect Roofies | ThinkProgress
asciilifeform: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/08/25/3475190/date-rape-nail-polish << mega-lol - liberasts oppose the 'anti-rape nail polish' product
mircea_popescu: dsherm sure, and the total amount is upper bound. but see, journos do a lot of sloppy thinking. the total amlunt being upper bound != non inflationary.
mircea_popescu: Flerb yes, you're supposed to do something to earn trust. o.O
dsherm: M_P yeah i know but at least the rate of increase will... decrease
mircea_popescu: at first i thought this must be a scammer play.
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user deego: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 17 via 20 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=mircea_popescu&dest=deego | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=deego | Rated since: Tue Jun 19 02:22:41 2012
mircea_popescu: dsherm that's okay, but sitll, bitcoin will continue to inflate well into the 22nd century.
dsherm: M_P i was talking about the article from contravex
thestringpuller: for the pro?
dsherm: m_p but at least the inflation will end
thestringpuller: better than ruining a mac no?
thestringpuller: dsherm: is that a new one?
mircea_popescu: dsherm still. bitcoin is inflaitonary. just, not as much as the various other shitcoins
dsherm: its all relative to fiat ;)
nubbins`: battery did not survive the coffee :(
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