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mircea_popescu: when it's a case of "got five hours to get as many men on the boat as you can, and whoever's left gets to meet herr drakula"... trauma starts looking like cake.
asciilifeform: baldaev got quite a lot of shit for these, many folks insisted that he simply drew his fantasies (during his employment as a prison guard)
asciilifeform: 'convicts, during escapes from far nothern camps of gulag lured with them (due to the impossibility of gathering adequate provisions while imprisoned) other inmates, who would be killed en route. such victims of cannibalism were known in convict argot as 'bullocks.' how many 'bullocks' were eaten up, is unknown.'
mircea_popescu: what drakula'd do to the so called "programmers' doing this is left as an exercise to the current voievodes.
mircea_popescu: mike_c> (which they had) << this is arguyable. the thing run in the red for most of its lifetime, and in a dubious field. they always had trouble finding investors, and the investors they did find were mostly of the imbecile sort. if you want i can dig up the trilema discussion re investors and why they suck, but you'll end up with more shit to translate as a result.
kakobrekla: as long as its over mininum
mike_c: well, i guess i'm saying an exchange defined as "hft enabled" is not necessary. just a place to buy/sell.
copumpkin: no, as opposed to buy your own coins and sit on them
mike_c: as opposed to gox's "we keep your bitcoin" fee :)
asciilifeform: probably naturally-occurring crash, given as the canary coin that lives on that box is still present.
moiety: as in everything new york gets NYXX treatment. this is a very bad play on that?
kakobrekla: as someone famous said
mircea_popescu: paul graham is dead, or at any rate old enough he might as well be.
mircea_popescu: you know he has a point. 28 is young as fuck, and i don't even comprehend wtf this notion is that twennysomethings should have like careers and moneyz and womenz and whatnot.
BingoBoingo: BE aware. As much anger as I have, there are moar people I'd like to kill than subscribe to.
BingoBoingo: Jere_Jones: BTC is a thing though. I feel like a poor as hoobajew
Jere_Jones: Shit man. On my 28th birthday, I was still in the Navy and had not yet met my wife-to-be. 28 is young as fuck.
BingoBoingo: Jere_Jones: To do something as idiotic as take BIP 70 seriously you must have some dark master. I merely would like an introduction.
gribble: Nick 'BingoBoingo', with hostmask 'BingoBoingo!~BingoBoin@unaffiliated/bingoboingo', is identified as user 'BingoBoingo', with GPG key id 309BB8D7F3251143, key fingerprint ADD7A9A28F85E5EF1F51904F309BB8D7F3251143, and bitcoin address None
BingoBoingo: moiety: I mean flash as in styling term.
Jere_Jones: Attempt #1 and correcting myself: BIP70 is evil because it, without encryption, would be vulnerable to MITM attacks. BIP70 specifies usage of a central authority for verification of the public keys encrypting/signing the request. That puts control/power in the exact hands that Bitcoin, as a philosophy, is trying to remove it from. A payment request protected by a WoT key would be less
moiety: :D happy birthday *hugs* as in sunday or monday
BingoBoingo: Nao I have a lawyer acting as a paralegal and two appelate court barred lawyers as a safety net.
Bugpowdurr: I respect the position of not wanting to participate in epiphenomena, but this attitude is exactly the same as what Joe Phil Morgan types use to talk themselves out of making bitcoin investments. Or Tren Griffin into thinking that alt-coins are where its really at.
Bugpowdurr: It has at its core, the same driver of price as any other one of these.
mike_c: hah. might as well swing big
KRS-One: Started out as bitbet wheher gox will go out of business.
mircea_popescu: that aside "publications" are about as relevant as mice.
Bugpowder: BingoBoingo: I think there is an 80% chance that resolves as yes.
asciilifeform: as if it needs much of an explanation beyond simple translation in the anglo world.
mircea_popescu: srsly, if the ny mayor had any sense he'd have passed an ordinance saying that kids are allowed to camp indefinitely oly for as long as they're naked, also get three meals a day courtesy of the city.
mircea_popescu: were they confused as to the whereabouts of wall street ?
asciilifeform: i still don't get how that was supposed to work. 'eat shit! it tastes just as good as food! trust us'
mircea_popescu: and yes, i thought it's a good match, it's about as misguided as the people that came up with it.
benkay: except that fixing the world is impossible except randomly from time to time as in the satoshi case.
benkay: people who can build web applications while derpy as fuck are significantly less derpy than people who burn their hours trying to fix the world.
mircea_popescu: as the sine qua non for contribution is abjuration.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't go as far as to say it's bad for science, but it definitely is inconvenient for anyone not an idiot with a nature subscription.
Bugpowder: Vexual: Not if its total bullshit. It is negative for science, as that Nature slot is not used for something real.
Bugpowder: Although, do they count pool payouts as "being spent"
cads: just as bad as ever, but the war on fundamentalism doesn't hold much interest for Manfred. In San Diego, researchers are
pankkake: poor girl ending up as a meme
mod6: and as much as i lothe btctawk, read through this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=443108.0;all
Chris_Sabian_: you create a .txt file with the info in it and then remain it as .conf
asciilifeform: to blame for my demise, but i alone.' drakula laughed, and spoke thus, 'had you not answered as you did, you would have sat down upon this stake.' and the lord ordered the envoy honoured, and gifted, and sent off in peace, with the words: 'you may walk as an envoy from great lords, to great lords, because you know how to speak to great lords; while others ought not even try, but let them first learn how to spea
asciilifeform: ng the noble has dealt with you unjustly, and for him you have prepared a death more stately than for others.' drakula answered, 'you speak the truth. here you are - an envoy of a great lord, a kingly emissary, it is for you that i have crafted this stake.' answered the envoy, 'lord, if i have wrought an injustice worthy of death - do with me as you will. you are an impartial judge - it is not you who shall be
mircea_popescu: re state lemming? Great for the white collar slave, horrible for BTC. You will lose money. Do you think form is above content and as such it's okay to invade foreign countries and slaughter civilians just as long as nobody says shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker or tits on TV? Great for being an American, horrible for the free world. You will lose money.
mircea_popescu: WillTablet as the girl explains. didja read it ?
mircea_popescu: so you are, you'll be forever remembered as the goldstain of some views you didn't even hold.
mircea_popescu: and there's no such thing as "views".
asciilifeform: us: 'go with peace. and had you not spoken to me of the ducat, you would sit on this same stake as the thief.'
asciilifeform: 'came once from the hungarian lands a merchant to the city of drakula. and, as is custom at his court, left his cart on the city street in front of the house, and his wares - on the cart, and himself went to sleep in the house. and someone did steal from the cart 160 gold ducats. the merchant came to drakula, spoke to him of the missing gold. drakula answered, 'go, this same night you will have your gold again.
asciilifeform: re martyrs!' drakula called in the other monk and asked him same. he did answer: 'you, lord, are called by god to put to death evildoers and reward the virtuous. as for those upon the stakes, they wrought evil and were justly punished.' drakula spoke again to the first monk, 'why did you leave your cloister in the monastery and walk about the courts of great lords, if you know nothing of the world? you said you
WillTablet: Might get the pdf as parents would probably be like wtf investing
ThickAsThieves: i imagine btcjam will be end up as proportionally unpopular as Prosper.com
WillTablet: benkay: if that's the case, why does anyone invest? I want to do it as an experiment, and expect to lose it all
benkay: as in rap sheet, arrest history
mircea_popescu: as a result got a pretty bad wrap in the english language press of the time
benkay: all as like transient guests that occasionally show up and say nonsensical things
nubbins`: send as many as you want
benkay: if the tools are free, why develop competence when everyone else you know hacking on them is just as incompetent as yourself?
benkay: and i think into anime shit as well.
nubbins`: <mircea_popescu> i cant believe after all you nuts picking on poor nubsy i came in and picked him off as new.
ThickAsThieves: or like how they use almost famous actors as cameo villians
mircea_popescu: you don't realise this on the first pass, watching it or w/e, but just try as a cw exercise to improve on them.
ThickAsThieves: saying she's dead wouldnt be as funny either
mircea_popescu: i cant believe after all you nuts picking on poor nubsy i came in and picked him off as new.
Mats_cd03: i have no expertise in that sort of thing, i meant to buy it as a gift for a colleague
asciilifeform: it could just as easily be merged into Duke Nukem XXX.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ok, let's try as an abstract : there's an awful chasm \between the people who want to cum and the people who are willing to operate under the inconvenience of actually getting all that girlslime all over their cock.
nubbins`: might as well do a simulation of a pile of rotten mush to see what shape the banana was
mircea_popescu: might as well try to determine where on your body is the place where your mom got laid.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell cads actualy, it is not, not that i don't appreciate your culture on the topic. the difference is subtly this : that what you propose is geared towards the present and the future, a matter of action, whereas what i was discussing was strictly as to the past and a matter of representation.
mircea_popescu: o wait pmb/rubecoin as in miner bonds and altchain scams ?
nubbins`: yeah, it was essentially offering the same returns as that
benkay: that's always struck me as an indicator of inefficiency
nubbins`: as long as you don't store the aeropress with the plunger compressed, it should last forever
KRS-One: teh best i ever found as a sysadmin
asciilifeform: the 'good cop bad cop' algorithm is as old as mankind.
asciilifeform: the clever ones will be very suspicious of anything presented as a pill against usg.
asciilifeform: one problem with this scheme is, as far as i can see, in order to want a cardano in the first place one needs a modicum of brains.
benkay: "but the supreme court dismissed their fear as 'speculative'"
cads: chetty: as if the second and third movies were not progressively worse scams, I am just hoping we don't see neo dodging... bad insurance quotes or something...
cads: Righteous Lecturing is actually Romania's official national past time, as I'm sure MP would acknowledge from his experiences with family, teachers, politicians, etc. :D
mircea_popescu: that's the difference, i speak of things i know, you speak of things you dream and imagine. unflattering as that may sound.
cads: the part that really gets me is not that you can't imagine yourself as an average black person, weighted down with the average viral meme load and nonsense beliefs about finance and law and white people and everyone being out to get you
mircea_popescu: well you may be inclined to review my record as the most slandered guy in the history of btc :)
mircea_popescu: but yes, it is up to whoever to live his life, as his life is, rather than derp about how it should be.
cads: I'm not talking about in my adolescence, I'm talking about as a kid
cads: keep in mind I and my brothers grew up here with a crappy accent as the cabbage eating weird kids that got picked on for our religion and culture
mircea_popescu: i would say that your average "sensitive" idiot is about twice as noxious as your average "racist".
cads: one can take the latter group as chumps
mircea_popescu: your weaksauce sjwing not as much.
cads: as examples of troll sentiments
cads: as I am.
cads: blah the article blatantly ignores the self reporting bias in requiring trolls to identify as trolls
mircea_popescu: a great friend, inasmuch as you don't give a shit what he thinks on retarded topics
mircea_popescu: apparently children can die as well as adults.
cazalla: why are you not up in arms about the countless nigras being shot up by other nigras, why are you so focused on zimmerman? because he is portrayed as white and it's in the media? i think that's the only reason
cads: A man kicks a topless Femen activist, as she raises her fist to protest against Islamists in front of the Great Mosque of Paris