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ryguy_`: yeah i'd love to get quality info
mircea_popescu: how they don't do anything useful and so on
mircea_popescu: let people vent and rage about how much their employer suck
mircea_popescu: TSA, Terrible Spy Agency blog.
ryguy_`: but it definitely falls in line with the saving of face thats being attempted
mircea_popescu: like, a "terrible company" clone for usg, especially the intel stuff...
ryguy_`: germany resending their request for the gold from the fed
ryguy_`: so i wanted to make a blog called painful squid and highlight all the retarded shit they've been doing
mircea_popescu: amusingly, i think this was discussed.
ryguy_`: i love how some of the garbage intel agencies have the squid over the globe imagery
mircea_popescu: neither. " the powers that cant maintain their quo"
ryguy_`: or a third
ryguy_`: are you talking about me or the link i pasted
mircea_popescu: the irony of the situation is that with enemies like these, btc really doesn't need any friends.
ryguy_`: anyway, yeah i'd rather be in a south american city screwing with btc but i got commitments like whats his face from the shining
ryguy_`: plus the powers that cant maintain their quo are making things real obvious right now
ryguy_`: needless to say i was unaware of btc, just getting my head back on my shoulders concering 2008 crash and what it really meant, etc
ryguy_`: yeah i stumbled into it like 4 years ago still trying to shepard it to passive income land
mircea_popescu: i deal with pdfs exactly like i deal with the tim swansons of the world. "who asked you anything and what gives you the impression you have something to answer with."
ryguy_`: you got some command line tools to deal with pdfs ?
mircea_popescu: also, can it quote stuff like the wot, bitcoin assets and so on ?
mircea_popescu: so you love saas so much, platonically, that you;ll abandon your hyperion-freedom to become a mere mortal for its sake ?
ryguy_`: what do you guys think of this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8200912
mircea_popescu: ryguy_` now that's a transition.
ryguy_`: sneak a look at bitcoin stuffs when im taking a break
diana_coman: ahahaha, true
ryguy_`: man of leisure turned wageslave to build a saas for businesses
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: was this the first popular block explorer http://blockexplorer.com/ ? << popular no, but the first yes.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pls to send 1500 atc to 1FUneWXoi6eqC2p1F2rDrEsrApawPa9wCx ty.
mircea_popescu: not sure what the policy is there, "blogs by assets ppl" ? or "blogs about btc" ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake mebbe add that to the list ?
cazalla: oh, tits
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BingoBoingo: Oh I don't regret my lack of "mining," I regret thinking food as so valuable and not buying in grotesque quantity.
mircea_popescu: im possibly one of the very few people not regretting not having started mining "earlier"
BingoBoingo: I remember reading about Bitcoin those days, thinking one of these day's I'll grab a couple graphics cards. I wasn't thinking enough back then.
mircea_popescu: i ... remember these days.
BingoBoingo: Back in the days when terrahash was a network "goal" and Petahashes were crazy
BingoBoingo: lol I was thinking about that when I first rented a rig for ATC, that ~2 or 3 years ago there were times where all of Bitcoin's nethash was less than the rented rig's
mircea_popescu: here's a funny blast from the past :
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 1.31 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 1466.02 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.82 TH/s
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you never got around to getting that larger rig involved did you
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 468.39, Best ask: 474.85, Bid-ask spread: 6.46000, Last trade: 474.87, 24 hour volume: 15994.19071420, 24 hour low: 466.0, 24 hour high: 493.98, 24 hour vwap: 482.673562406
mircea_popescu: make a guess : is the third the best or the worst of the group of 3 ?
mircea_popescu: there were 3 gs-14 under 24 in 1998. fifteen years later, two left, the third was promoted.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, check out the lone GS-15 under age 24 in 2013.
mircea_popescu: her than towards the target.
assbot: Replacing The General Schedule: Some Facts : FedSmith.com
mircea_popescu: http://www.fedsmith.com/2014/02/17/replacing-the-general-schedule-some-facts/ << stuff like this, incidentally, is subtly indicative of the usg failure. inasmuch as grand national-socialist schemes such as the gs are collapsing and being replaced, it's quite clear that in its quest to arrive at that "nobody can grow as much as a potato without asking for permission", the national-socialist government is moving away rat
mircea_popescu: we're supposed to not know what astroturf means or something.
mircea_popescu: now try check out that acct. 100 followers, pixelated user pic...
mircea_popescu: speaking of spammer : "You can see closing trades for all Julian's long and short positions and track his long term performance via twitter: @JulianClose_MIC ."
asciilifeform goes off to bed to dream of this dream
asciilifeform hopes to live to see a spammer physically starve to death
mircea_popescu: ter this decade.
assbot: Whatever happened to Bitcoin? (Hint: nothing good) - NASDAQ.com
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/whatever-happened-to-bitcoin-hint-nothing-good-cm381082 (linked earlier) << pure gold. these folks are in 'tilt mode.' <<< let the permanent record reflect why "Julian Close has been a business writer since the first day of the twenty-first century, having written for PRA International and the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping." won't be able to support his fambly la
asciilifeform: in historic overviews of seppuku, the thing that always caught my eye was the slow progression from honest full-out gut deposition to the late-meiji (and 20th c. - see herr mishima) token slice followed by 'kaishaku' beheading stroke.
mircea_popescu: well no. seppuku aims to open the large liver vein. apendectomy, oppositely, to not open it.
asciilifeform: auto-appendektomy - like seppuku but double the work.
asciilifeform: 'twas this or fellete his makarov, i imagine.
mircea_popescu: Antibiotics were administered directly into the peritoneal cavity << holy shit fucking soviets.
mircea_popescu: as the period sort-of matches.
mircea_popescu: now im starting to suspect it may just be a case of romanians stealing a good story.
asciilifeform: no idea if a fellow from Ro ever pulled a rogozov - but hard to say why not
asciilifeform tried to dig out the paper re: psychoactives spotted in bartholin's gland secretions, fails to turn up - perhaps too sleepy
mircea_popescu: Duffer1: it was quite painful, and i refused pain meds until the ct scan results came back and the dr said "your appendix is all messed up, we're transfering you to a different hospital, ambulance is en route, take pain meds now" << there is this legendary romanian surgeon who supposedly sutured his own appendix. this may be apocryphal, in any sense i wouldn't try to undergo surgery w/o painkillers, tis nonsense.
mircea_popescu: have her breastfeed the dog, watch it meow.
asciilifeform: we're aaalmost there.
mircea_popescu: now that's a woman for a lifetime.
mircea_popescu: but so they're infertile and past the age of 16 or so, their breast tissue secretes copious lsd.
mircea_popescu: not necessarily so they're slut,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not that kind, the useful kind. merely the current kind, ie, the resistant thing.
asciilifeform: point of the 'roundup' thread being, if genetical engineering were presently 'a thing', there's be cocainatious mildew growing in your neighbour's bathtub, and colombia would be exporting llama stockings
assbot: No argument pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: be moar vigilant with teh monies << the problem with that article, as with all "studies" of its ilk, is that it makes the (generally reasonable, now not) herbi mistake, as detailed here : http://trilema.com/2014/no-argument/
mircea_popescu: flown from where, the faulklands ?
mircea_popescu: what, from the 27 cubic meter satellitarian tanks ?
mircea_popescu: so people all over the intel community can laugh at you for yet another week, for yet another reason.
mircea_popescu: so you have to evacuate the whole shebang like crazed rabbits, and do a shit job of cleanup in the process
mircea_popescu: because if you give iraquis a ton of m16s they're not going to raid your embassy with them
asciilifeform: so they'll spray 'agent orange' - or napalm
mircea_popescu: if that goes away, the current usg-friendly columbia govt goes away.
mircea_popescu: the whole of the production control stragety in columbia is to helispray
mircea_popescu: Vexual: roundup resistant ganja? i think someones trolling << think more, roundup resistant coke.
asciilifeform: 'keyhole' is more famous as 'hubble telescope' (that one got turned upside-down.)
mircea_popescu: you're not about to tell me someone put a 27 cubic meter thing in low earth orbit ?
mircea_popescu: wait. i see here leo 20 tons.
asciilifeform: 4 - 20 tons.
mircea_popescu: maybe general whatshisname speaks the truth
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 3b - 3 tons (pediwikia) - aha.
mircea_popescu: well if the satellite was nothing but a pressurized xenon container, it may have somehow squeezed in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was this put in orbit with the use of the russian's rockets or arianne ?
asciilifeform: afaik the world record holder was the american 'keyhole' series of machine - size of a bus.
mircea_popescu: well definitely no satelite the size of the washington monument was ever put in space.
RagnarDanneskjol: isnt the thrust energy needed to calculate this?
asciilifeform: now, what was the volume of the machine.
gribble: Chemical Elements.com - Xenon (Xe): <http://www.chemicalelements.com/elements/xe.html>; Xenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon>; #54 - Xenon - Xe: <http://www.hobart.k12.in.us/ksms/PeriodicTable/xenon.htm>
asciilifeform: student exercise: assume xenon, etc. fuel for ion engine, stored at 300 atm. say, 1g/sec expenditure. calculate size of tank that holds 14 yrs. worth of thrust.
asciilifeform: who, precisely, he expects to fool ?