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mircea_popescu: punkman: wtf was this thing "Coin Publishing LLC is collectively owned by individuals owning or working at BitPay, Butterfly Labs, Google, Casascius, 20 Mission, and Virtual Processing Solutions."
<< this thing was the cartel.
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> okay. it's a similar thing for women. a girl "thinks she migh have been raped". a woman is slightly bemused at your apparent expectation that taking her clothes off puts HER at a disadvantage.
<< huh.
punkman: mircea_popescu: punkman actual term of law, "rogue/hostile shareholder" dontchaknow.
< it is?
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> punkman: fake boyfriends that is
<< the trouble with an actual boyfriend is that he just might make you a woman
<< just what distinguishes women from girls?
mircea_popescu: davout: so TIL that coindesk belongs to shakil kan, investor in bitpay and kraken, and that bitcoinmagazine now belongs to bitpay (through some entity of which galippi has a stake in)
<< lawl.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Bitcoin (and Blockchain) | Andreessen Horowitz ...
<< lmao horowitz ALSO wishes to be first best biggest ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: fake boyfriends that is
<< the trouble with an actual boyfriend is that he just might make you a woman
gribble: peterl was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 14 hours, 54 minutes, and 5 seconds ago:
<PeterL> oh, that was me restarting it again, be back up in a sec
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> no wallet at all.
<< precisely this.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: perhaps we have your new pc here.
<< very interesting
mircea_popescu:
<mod6> In later versions, they have a cap of 750 blocks max for the orphan map iirc.
<< yes, and it's idiotic.
decimation: re: midwestern blandness
< yes, it's a weird phenomenon. try going to an indian restaurant in say, chicago, and have them give you an average level of spice
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes:dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/winklevoss-twins-aim
<< yeah yeah, they've been aiming at the toilet for three years now.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: jurov, ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu - if one of you presently has a 0.5.3.x in a vm, try running under hard constraint of 128 or 256m. see when croaks.
<< it doesn't croak if it has the blockchain prebuilt, that part's for sure.
gribble: namworld was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 weeks, 5 days, 5 hours, 42 minutes, and 15 seconds ago:
<Namworld> That's 888poker
mats: jurov:it's more about acquiring useful muscle memory bits
<< kung fu is not a system of fighting, its a system of thought. you must outthink your opponent, whatever form he takes... because some of them will be more than just men.
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu> did jack.
< no leak in newer version, so they actually fixed it
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> not require carpentry
<< replacing the soldered-in flash i can see, with the user's choice : 64, 128, we. but other than that, ideally nothing
mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`> straight-up, there's an opportunity to make money selling plug-n-play nodes
<< there is. i'd advertise it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: imho, no to x86, no to fans, and ought to keep cost minimal.
<< yes.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic: ehh.. the testimoney of a friend. what's that worth
<< sworn testimony is sworn testimony. unless the witness gets impeached, it's worth as much as an employee's testimony
mircea_popescu: davout: the one with the mcdonalds flag is totally amsterdam
<< shit you're right
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2015 20:46:00; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... if anyone could be arsed to publish a guide on 'how to turn commercially available router into btc full node'
<< the gadget i mentioned earlier, plus process, only need a larger - 64G+ - usb drive, to make this go. but i did not publish instructions, because did not think anyone wanted this.
ben_vulpes:
<jurov> don't copy that stuff here then. can cause murderous rage for mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes and others
<< my murderous rage reservoir is depleted
mircea_popescu: lobbes: I'm glad I discovered this place, man. Otherwise I would have been led off the cliff a long time ago
<< yer welcome.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: if a tree falls in the woods, and nobody important was there to write about it, did it make a sound?
<< yes. after the beep, hear the sound it made.
mircea_popescu: *: danielpbarron seriously doubts it will be on freenode in 20 years, or if there will even be a freenode
<< as far as freenode is concenred, i am agreed. however, b-a is 4ever!
mircea_popescu: assbot: Bitcoin Forum Bitcointalk is Down due to Disk Failure - Data Lost
<< bs. he got served, panicked and deleted the data.
mircea_popescu: jurov: don't copy that stuff here then. can cause murderous rage for mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes and others
<< j knows.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i think i just blown my retard-o-meter
<< who's "kristo atlas" again ? not the actual atlas ?!
mircea_popescu: davout: thestringpuller: you're australian amirite?
<< no, he
davout: danielpbarron: "voorhees pretending MPEx doesn't exist"
<<< how is he doing that?
davout: mircea_popescu: lol tis barcelona
<<< the one with the mcdonalds flag is totally amsterdam
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Sounds like enough for almost everything but respectable BTC node
<< actually, if anyone could be arsed to publish a guide on "how to turn commercially available router into btc full node" i'd love him long time.
☟︎ STRML: gpg: key 29D9246A: public key "Operation Atlas
<admin@safeorscam.com>" imported
fluffypony: gpg: key 29D9246A: public key "Operation Atlas
<admin@safeorscam.com>" imported
punkman: mircea_popescu: driving adoption in africa and central asia, god help you.
< imagining asian version of tips from husband now, scary
mircea_popescu: decimation: punkman: that's 2-3 billion signups
<<< and yet, in spite of that claim (probably unsubstantiated, as all of these, but certainly more defensible in VC terms than anyone else's), g+ isn't worht anything.
thestringpuller: lobbes: re: ignorance
<< The first step is admitting to knowing nothing.
BingoBoingo: I took the red pill... two, in fact :-)
<< Quote from page
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> cisco is not permitted in my home even unpowered.
<< Technetium even if it is a perfect catalyst not invited to the lab.
gribble: cedivad was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 30 weeks, 1 day, 7 hours, 50 minutes, and 14 seconds ago:
<cedivad> Barber claimed that they were payments to suppliers, but he has still to prove that.
decimation: ben_vulpes: re: osx
<< it's been going downhill ever since 10.6