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bitcoinpete: so do the winter olympics then
bitcoinpete: pankkake: given the byzantine legal framework, finding shortcuts is likely the only thing making business there possible
pankkake: if corruption is cheap in the way that the bad laws actually don't stop business, is it better?
xmj: it means i can finally buy lawmakers without people watching! that's good, right??
xmj: i like that law
ThickAsThieves: Free trips paid for by private groups must still be reported separately to the House's Office of the Clerk and disclosed there. But they will now be absent from the chief document that reporters, watchdogs, and members of the public have used for decades to scrutinize lawmakers' finances.
pankkake: the translation changed the title though, it's a question
ThickAsThieves: thanks to moiety i cant think of the word manual the same anymore
ThickAsThieves: to the core!
ThickAsThieves: and on huobi now too i think
ThickAsThieves: lol ny ltc swan song chart was too optimistic
bitcoinpete: http://elbitcoin.org/esta-muriendo-litecoin/ << look ma, i'm translated!
cazalla: thestringpuller: i think it was lag + otp page was cached
kakobrekla: <davout> that actually happens < nowai
jurov: i'm trying to figure out something around here, would need to set up slovak translation and support, is that intersting for you?
pankkake: if you build it, they will come?
davout: it's not really the plan to go after merchants one by one
pankkake: I would have thought they would be under your radar already
davout: pankkake: you know the people?
ThickAsThieves: ah i spelled it incorrectly when i tried it in browser
pankkake: probably the retailers I've gave the most money to
pankkake: the newegg of France (well arguably we have two toe-to-toe, ldlc.com and materiel.net)
thestringpuller: cazalla: Only if there is a ton of lag and gribble gets more auth request
jurov: and the merchant solution was announced yest
ThickAsThieves: when did that happen
ThickAsThieves: well shit i didnt even see the new name
cazalla: anyone had an issue with gribble before saying gpg pass incorrect, tried it 10-20 times, worked finally but not sure what i did wrong
ThickAsThieves: newegg.com finally on the bandwagon i see
assbot: No-IP's Formal Statement on Microsoft Takedown | No-IP Blog - Managed DNS Services
kakobrekla: >PAYPAL: You can use the donate button to raise money for a sick cat, but not poor people.
jurov: lol "questioned whether ProtonMail is legal and if we have government approval to encrypt emails"
assbot: The Pirate Bay Now Blocked in Argentina | TorrentFreak
[]bot: Bet placed: 5.01 BTC for Yes on "FIFA World Cup 2014 total goals over 158" http://bitbet.us/bet/898/ Odds: 92(Y):8(N) by coin, 87(Y):13(N) by weight. Total bet: 14.65307467 BTC. Current weight: 27,987.
assbot: 'Vampire' Squirrel Has World's Fluffiest Tail - Slashdot
pankkake: extra: what is there to see?
pankkake: re. the rolex, some years ago some apparently famous French guy whose name I forgot said if by 50 you had no Rolex, your life was a failure
assbot: The Wisdom of Crowds: Chapter Three, Part V
decimation: I agree with your point, I'm just trying to build up a case that the other side makes
TheNewDeal: you have to know something about hexagonal close packed in my opinion
TheNewDeal: I don't think so
decimation: enough to be able to pull the signal out of the noise
decimation: alright, a significant number have the skills, perhaps a majority
TheNewDeal: decimation, why would you say all humans have the skills
TheNewDeal: ;;later tell bitcoinpete I'm waiting on bitbet to resolve before sending funds. If it happens before around 8PM GMT on July 1st, I'll be able to make the payment then. Otherwise I will be camping in until Sunday, July 6 (at the latest) without an internet connection.
decimation: the same is not true for other questions of fact
decimation: nearly all humans have the skills, equipment and experience to make an educated guess about such things
decimation: like guessing the number of marbles in an urn or the weight of a stone, etc
decimation: asciilifeform: wrt "crowdsourcing wisdom": usually I find that the proofs offered by the proponents are simple parlor tricks
BingoBoingo: And the chance to experience the future
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Asks are thin, I merely offer liquidity.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: To contribute the a better price signal than 2cans and string
decimation: asciilifeform: more Carlyle: "Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on. Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows."
TheNewDeal: just in case price jumps up really quickly, or whats the point?
assbot: How and WHY to Solder Correctly - YouTube
decimation: for folks who are interested, here's a pretty good series of "how to solder" videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_NU2ruzyc4&list=PLA8CAE64E6ADF634E
jonvaage: BingoBoingo: Alright, thanks. I'll get digging.
BingoBoingo: jonvaage: The returned links are only the most recent chapter in Usagi history
gribble: BMF has lost access to it's wallet | Bitcointa.lk: <https://bitcointa.lk/threads/bmf-has-lost-access-to-its-wallet.321036/>; BMF has lost access to it's wallet [UnModerated] - Bitcoin Forum: <https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=631605.0;all>; Lost and Found Chapter 1: Prologue, a sailor moon fanfic | FanFiction: <https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8328628/1/Lost-and-Found>
BingoBoingo: jonvaage: So you have some history to be reading
jonvaage: What's the phrase? Sometimes a person's sole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
asciilifeform: breeding - as in actual breeding of organisms who feel they live in vain if they aren't milked. as we did to, e.g. cows.
BingoBoingo: Chumps see no cost to their reproduction
BingoBoingo: Of course they breed chumps.
TheNewDeal: are you telling me that those Middle Eastern King scams educating anyone?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well thanks to Cex.io Bitcoin seems largely stuck in a phase like that nao. I think persistent steady states are mythical beings though.
jonvaage: BingoBoingo: Exactly, they just serve as highly effective educators by reducing information asymmetry.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this is far from a physical inevitability. you will find systems that reach a steady state of appalling scammitude.
BingoBoingo: jonvaage: The nice thing is that over time the scammers become less relevant of necessity
asciilifeform: good way reducing to zero, nine of those votes, can wisdom ever issue from your ten.'
asciilifeform: 'If of ten men, nine are recognizable as fools, which is a common calculation,' says our Intermittent Friend, 'how in the name of wonder will you ever get a ballotbox to grind you out a wisdom from the votes of these ten men? Never by any conceivable ballotbox, nor by all the machinery in Bromwicham or out of it, it will you attain such a result. Not by any method under Heaven, except by suppressing, and in some
TheNewDeal: at least, that's what they taught it in an engineering statistics class
TheNewDeal: crowd has wisdom is true though
BingoBoingo: The social problem means little compared to the scarcity virtue
asciilifeform: it's out of a bizarre lsd trip idea that 'crowd has wisdom' and voting can sum intelligence
jonvaage: Haha, I've said more than once that scammers are pro-social in an anti-fragile system.
jonvaage: I don't think it's out of love for democracy.
BingoBoingo: Without Pirate impoverishing idiots I dunno if hitting $20 a second time would have been possible.
asciilifeform: i just don't get it. people keep asking to bake 'democracy' in
BingoBoingo: Honestly I dunno of many people who improved the Bitcoin "ecosystem" moar than Pirateat40
asciilifeform: and what does one need to smoke to see the pluses of the concept of letting competitors vote on whether you can spend your coin ?
BingoBoingo: jonvaage: F.MPIF thedrinkingrecord.com
jonvaage: BingoBoingo: any public things I might have heard of?
assbot: Voting Pools: How to Stop the Bitcoin Thieves
assbot: Open Transactions
BingoBoingo: jonvaage: I just do misc work. Sometimes private contracts turn into public things.
jonvaage: TheNewDeal: OT = Open Transactions
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: This chinese one http://www.decadecounter.com/accutron/tianjin214.jpg looks most like Bulovas I've seen
assbot: Bitcoin in the Beltway - ZHOU TONGED - YouTube
bloctoc_: yep, I'm pretty sure this is the biggest threat to bitcoin right now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZcvniWtTBI
TheNewDeal: what is the OT jonvaage?
jonvaage: I'm planning on helping overhaul the OT wiki starting later this week
asciilifeform: ^ don't have such a thing myself, can't comment
assbot: The Accutron Revolution - Accuracy Through Electronics 1960-1977
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If you know of any leads they would be appreciated
jonvaage: Structural engineering grad student, but I've been doing a lot of technical diagrams for Open Transactions lately.
jonvaage: bitcoinpete helped the process along thanks to his blog.
BingoBoingo: If quarts drove 37.5k beats per minute there would be no problem
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: your complaint is with the geating on electro-mechanical clocks.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: quartz resonator in electronic clock (or for that matter every other piece of digital widgetry) is a tuning fork
jonvaage: I'm from Austin, and a few of my friends recommended this channel and so I got set up with the WoT last night.