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assbot: Part 2: Bitcoin Difficulty and Hash
Target | Bitcoin News
assbot: Ancient Roman coins depict sundry sexual acts, but what were
they for?
mircea_popescu: Farm laborer monthly pay, with meals = 400 asses ;
Teacher's monthly pay, per boy = 800 asses ; Barber's service price, per client = 32 asses ; 1 kg of pork = 380 asses (1 lb = 170 asses) ; 1 kg of grapes = 32 asses (1 lb = 15 asses)
benkay: these saudi phone users - is
this
the upper crust or
the imported slaves?
benkay: another factor in breaking
the USG's power monopoly will be
the cheaply made en-masse autonomous
thingers capable of bringing down any bird or boat
they field
peter82: some random dude from germany who discovered
trilema.com and klicked on "#bitcoin-assets on freenode"
mircea_popescu: hey, earlier i was
trying
to write an article and you kept zinging me
benkay: oh man i was
trying
to write code and
then mircea_popescu dropped a blogbomb with a szabo link
mircea_popescu: a lz4 bug which depends on 16mb blocks on 32 bit seems dead in
the water
assbot: RealTime Data Compression: Debunking
the LZ4 "20 years old bug" myth
BingoBoingo: My milking of line BTC books by betting against Serena when
the odds are around 10
to one her favor continues
to abuse
them.
mircea_popescu: *: asciilifeform nominates Yann Collet for 'flondor list' << and now
thanks
to search, we can even use
this.
fluffypony: will put
them all up in a blog post when I get a chance
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla o i
thought
the part circled in red is what you meant. well
they had a few PTS iirc
mircea_popescu: basically, facebook scientists just scientifically proved facebook is dead :
the herd has replaced
the
trend setters.
mircea_popescu: "Facebook
then analyzed
the future postings of
those users over
the course of a week
to see if people responded with increased positivity or negativity of
their own,
thus answering
the question of whether emotional states can be
transmitted across a social network. Result:
They can!"
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Well, what -otc is largely concerned with and what he got his here feedback for don't overlap perfectly... Other
than
the general disdain people share for spamzors
mircea_popescu: literacy has barriers
to entry. always has. always will.
mircea_popescu: "without elaborate gymnastics" ? you go write
the irc protocol for
they who can't read or write
mircea_popescu: not really. how do you know what subset of gibberish is meaningful
to whom ?
BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell HeySteve I like how he describes surface
tumors on
the skillets.
nubbins`: but
that's
the same web page
that got me into cast iron :/
mircea_popescu: FabianB prolly. i hear nothing but good
things of
that procject
FabianB: "rewrite
the
tcp/ip stack so
that all
traffic is encrypted" <-- as cjdns has done
mircea_popescu: guy
that has no ex writing guides about how
to
talk
to
the ex he never had.
mircea_popescu: "I could really do with a female collaborator
to make
this instructable more useful and make sure it is one sided..."
assbot: How
to
talk
to an ex...
mircea_popescu: in fact i wager a guess
that 2/3 of
the wot has a better feedback
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if
thorstein veblen was right - we'll be deluged with 'customers.' at least for a while. << you're
too soon. we'll scam
them later.
BingoBoingo: benkay: You may apportion your
thanks for
that discovery
to... Pretty much
the entire south...
assbot: Loper OS » Practical Blockchain
Telegraphy.
BingoBoingo: Well some carbs only cook well
there (the canonical example is cornbread)
benkay: i've finally broken
the girl of cooking carbs on my cast iron
assbot: How
To: Cast Iron Skillet Non-Stick and Lasts a Lifetime
BingoBoingo: Indeed,
these were located a bit rusty, but
that was corrected
[]bot: Bet placed: 3 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin incremental difficulty
to increase by 3B or more"
http://bitbet.us/bet/783/ Odds: 95(Y):5(N) by coin, 91(Y):9(N) by weight.
Total bet: 17.73721769 BTC. Current weight: 44,349.
BingoBoingo: benkay: Well, I'm
turning a bunch of oil into a uniform layer of polymer over
the cast iron so I can fry shit without it sticking
to
the pans
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benkay: what are you growing
today, BingoBoingo ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell princessnell know any feminist publication
that may wish
to come after me ?
HeySteve: mircea_popescu, no I mean some feminist publication might come after you at
this rate. not so much for
this but
that fiverr
thing...
mircea_popescu: HeySteve so i don't get it, jezebel chick petrified of slut shaming ? da fuck does she care, i'm not about
to do it.
Duffer1: MP will we have
to wait and see what
the article is about?
BingoBoingo: At least
the day's chemistry is going well.
HeySteve: which might work well for publicity actually. worked for
tucker max anyway
HeySteve: ha it's more likely
to appear on jezebel
BingoBoingo: Is
this another interview for a cryptocoinnews article?
HeySteve: well it's not her profession and she's worried about it impacting
that
BingoBoingo is growing high molecular weight polymers
today!
mircea_popescu: now why would a girl
that has no idea about btc nor any experience camwhoring
BingoBoingo: Heysteve is
trying his hand at
the pimping business
HeySteve: nah, was
thinking of accepting it for her
then paying her out in local fiats, she has no idea about BTC
HeySteve: also, do you want
the woman
to accept directly bitcoin as in
that previous experiment with
the call-girls (I
think
they were)?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you can change anything you want about
the hdd
fluffypony: [20:08:37] +asciilifeform: let's assume fluffypony was drinking heavily
that day. <- probably...although I have a feeling I was
thinking about serial numbers at
the
time.
too hard
to
try recall.
mircea_popescu: for
this reason, as
the library grows, it'll become
trivial for one
to just keep getting 10 bitcents
HeySteve: mircea_popescu, I had a question about your "bits for
tits" offer. I mentioned it
to a woman who is interested but a little reluctant
to show her face, is it ok if she doesn't?
mircea_popescu: shit, english lacks a word for one who merely likes
to hear himself speak ?
benkay: i'm just going
to put like 5 business cards in
this here jar...
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BingoBoingo: benkay: Just add "for robots"
to your proposal and suddenly
the LISP, AI, and expert systems are marketable again.
assbot: The polity
that is China dissident “markets” in everything
benkay: if people buy
that shit i have a Lisp Machine
to sell
them.
benkay: but
think of all
the suckers who haven't read
their history!
benkay: who can i sell
this AI snake oil
to...