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mircea_popescu: BayAreaCoins there's fmpif which is roughly similar.
assbot: * Now talking on #bittrex * Topic for #bittrex is: richie doesn't know how to s - Pastebin.com
mircea_popescu: http://pastebin.com/mEhgyHdV << i do something like this maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe once a year. this is what i get.
BayAreaCoins: What are you guys investing in BTC wise as of late? Losing JD has me a bit lost on the BTC investment side. Although, I'm balls deep in a alt I think has a good chance.
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu No inventor and no employees that is always a plus. It'll be interesting needless to say. Our ebay lister is stacked with 24,000 items, but getting ebay to up our limits is a bit of a pain in the ass.
mircea_popescu: i guess an automated online auction scalper isn't the absolute worst first project someone may try.
BayAreaCoins: Can't live life in fear of failure or you'll never take the chance you need to succeed. If I had a nickle for every time I fucked up... I'd have far more nickles than I do now ;)
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu I never go into anything expecting to fail, but if I do that is why I have the LLC up :P
BayAreaCoins: mike_c not yet, still working on the code. Drop shipping Amazon from Ebay to start out with. Domain is locked down and I submitted articles of organization last night.
mircea_popescu: BayAreaCoins well then you won't be too surprised we just expect you to fail and learn from the experience ?
mircea_popescu: BayAreaCoins is this your first attempt ?
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BayAreaCoins: mike_c No need for warehouses or partnerships to start out with. Basically what the company is going to do is relist items with a very small price bump and automate everything. We have been testing with 200 items for the past little bit and are seeing a good chunk of volume moving. I guess my main concern is that the shippers do their job because refunds are going to be a total and complete pain in the ass.
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu ah very nice. I think if I was going to live in South America I'd be looking at Belize (ambergris caye.) Any reason why you chose Argentina over the other countries?
mike_c: automated drop shipping of what? you got warehouses or connections to suppliers?
BayAreaCoins: mike_c A automated drop shipping company and then a alt that I think is semi interesting (Huntercoin)
mike_c: what are the nerdos working on?
BayAreaCoins: How is Romania for coins? Pretty wide usage over there?
BayAreaCoins: I think once all of it comes together... well it will come together :P Just kind of selling a gun or two while I wait. I need a new bag because I'm sorta bored with everything atm.. Life :D
BayAreaCoins: Going pretty good man. I'm kind of in that limbo stage of waiting on nerdos to finish up code... Feel like that has been the story of my life for 4-6 months :)
mircea_popescu: so how's the bay area for coins ?
BayAreaCoins: Another day of the life eh ;)
BayAreaCoins: Thanks man. How are you doing today?
mircea_popescu: * Topic for #bittrex is: richie doesn't know how to send emails OR use topics...
mircea_popescu: Given the recent security breaches and reliability issues experienced by other markets, we felt the community deserved better. If virtual currencies are to truly take off, trustworthy infrastructure is a prerequisite."
mircea_popescu: "Built and operated in the United States, Bittrex is the next generation crypto trading platform created by security professionals. We are crypto-coin enthusiasts bringing more than 50 years of combined security and development experience to the trading community from companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, Qualys, and BlackBerry.
mircea_popescu: and since we're on the lulz,
mircea_popescu: or w/e the pixel fountain is called.
mircea_popescu: mike_c the best part is where wikipedia and darkcoin are about the same size.
mircea_popescu: looking at this data, bitcoin is just about the largest one thing on freenode.
assbot: Bitcointa.lk: the Bitcointalk community with a proper forum | Bitcointa.lk
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointa.lk/index.php?topic=47057 << if anyone's curious how the entire bitcoin-by-country irc nonsense got started.
mircea_popescu: benkay all these broken wots everyone's implemented.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell hanbot remember the guy that sent a complaint to spanish police (where he was at the time being an romanian temp worker) that mtgox won't send him proof of its id ? he's dead. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: im toying with the general idea of distributed effort to destroy social media. this'd be an experiment in that sense.
mircea_popescu: basically, there are some competent redditards. they're the people who came to reddit to hide among the redditards.
mircea_popescu: actually that site is pretty good thestringpuller
mircea_popescu: then there's the table. i thought this was supposed to be mid air tho
benkay: certainly, but if one's tapping on the table?
mircea_popescu: if there isn't a face there to stop your fist, your arm has to do it. and it's not really equipped or designed for such.
mircea_popescu: same mechanics apply to finger movement too.
mircea_popescu: try punching as hard as you can in the air, see what happens.
benkay: they keypress is required to prevent bruising?
asciilifeform: (not only for pleasure, but to absorb impact.)
asciilifeform: why does this crud appear again and again? no one heard of 'gorilla arm syndrome' and the like?
asciilifeform: benkay: terrible idea. just like touch screen keyboards (or that israeli firm that made a 'laser' keyboard drawn on table.)
assbot: Is there a site for betting on sports games with BTC? : Bitcoin
assbot: AirType keyless bluetooth keyboard fits in the palm of your hand
artifexd: I know mpex went down due to hard drive issues. Isn't it back up? I haven't seen any mpex trades in a few days.
mircea_popescu: i bought a blockchain dildo the other day
asciilifeform: needs better infrastructure than that >> blockchain telegraph!
mircea_popescu: bitcoin needs better infrastructure than that.
mircea_popescu: i can only tweet @whatever for as long as he doesn't kill anyone.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu:so how do i leave a comment or anything to this tom guy ? <- you can just Tweet @TomOnBTC
asciilifeform would buy the above gadget but for the 3-phase mains - and the fact that it would fall through the floor.
asciilifeform: 'All of the mechanical stuff on this unit is from the 80's (When the mechanical stuff was great because the computers sucked)' << re: earlier discussion of power supplies.
asciilifeform: 'The "extra" pinchers are attached to a LCR meter for the machine to "measure" each component before it put it down! You wont find that on the $5K Chinese machines!' << had no idea this existed. anywhere.
Apocalyptic: pankkake, davout http://caccomo.blogspot.fr/ a decent blog I stumbled upon today
mircea_popescu: aha. i always thought it was cocaine
mircea_popescu: killed by the novie.
mircea_popescu: "It is their firm determination to mercilessly destroy anyone who dares hurt or attack the supreme leadership of the country even a bit." shit sounds like john cleese was the copywriter in charge.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can you name a film where the us president (named) is killed ?
asciilifeform: from the loltron: http://cryptome.org/2014/07/dprk-film-complaint.pdf
assbot: Test de cultura vizuala 2 pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2009/test-de-cultura-vizuala-2/ (early "visual culture test", too)
mircea_popescu: in fact the monograph is a result of me getting sick of referencing it blind)
assbot: Soft consensus, aka fecal matter. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/soft-consensus-aka-fecal-matter/ (referenced there, and plenty of other places,
assbot: Salo, o le 120 giornate di Sodoma pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: oddly you're the 2nd person to ask me this today. has it just been re-released or something ?
mircea_popescu: " When he stumbled on a road crew without a foreman one day, Cole leaped into the breach and directed the men to London’s busy Piccadilly Circus, where he had them excavate a huge trench in the street. A nearby policeman obligingly redirected the heavy downtown traffic all day, and it was several hours before the city noticed the unauthorized hole.”
mircea_popescu: zee romanians have this yoke thing. at the rate the eu is going... by 2114...
mircea_popescu: if you had wandered into bookshelv in vienna cca 1814, you'd have seen the same book
asciilifeform saw that it was shelved - unsurprisingly - next to a volume of pushkin, in russian.
asciilifeform randomly wandered into an old book store last night, saw a textbook on romanian language. every chapter opened with some example of torments from the 'russian yoke.'
asciilifeform: (answer: they will - if you pay. but who will pay.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now why would they make those for export.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or, who knows, maybe the chinese start making actually good parts.
mircea_popescu: 10mn a year people had been paying just for those, in the hopes htey'll sell them on to suckers. something tells me 2013 had not colected 10mn worth of chump money.
mircea_popescu: punkman the success of "domainers" and domains being "real estate"
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asciilifeform: at some point the japanese parts will no longer get shipped in (won't pass the geiger at the container crane!) and then we'll really be phucked.
asciilifeform: or, alternatively, purchasing a unit where there never were chinese caps (difficult now - the chicoms have taken to mimicking the japanese markings)
asciilifeform: one can still achieve the 10+ life - by removing all chinese electrolytic caps and replacing with normal ones
mircea_popescu: then the replacements 2 if you're lucky.
mircea_popescu: amusing how shitty psus became, incidentally. the originals usualy last > a decade. the replacements, maybe even 5 years.
mircea_popescu: i still have board/cpu assemblies from the 90s
asciilifeform: that machine served me through all of uni & a bit longer. RIP 'humanoid', 2001-2007. (named after line from soviet film, approximately 'humanoid rockets through the sky, screaming out that school's a lie')
asciilifeform: you get a 'sarcophagus' similar to the one pictured in the $20k oscilloscope film.
mircea_popescu: (no cpu involved, this wasn't a computer)
mircea_popescu: the one similar thing i saw was purpose made copper tray filled with thermosilicone, on which pcb rested.
asciilifeform: if i were to attempt it again, i'd probably just machine a copper plinth in which the mobo can live, upside-down, with fins on bottom side.
asciilifeform: that box would have probably lasted forever if it never had to be moved.
mircea_popescu: you basically had no cold source on the pcb. all the things you cooled were meanwhile heating towards it.
mircea_popescu: <artifexd> Ah. Yeah. Blocks for motherboards are available. They cover the north bridge/south bridge and the power caps. <<<
mircea_popescu: a, no, see, that's the key element here.
mircea_popescu: were you cooling just the proc ? or bridges too ?
asciilifeform: considering that it was designed to dissipate 100kw - reasonable.