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asciilifeform: eventually people's brains will grow and they will stop thinking of market value as a scalar. ☟︎
the20year1: bitcoin isn't nearly as fun, and everyone loves doges
BingoBoingo: It isn't a classic scam so much as scamming by proxy.
altkoin: goat makes a "trade" as long as hes gaining, any time hed have to take a loss hell just reneg any agreement like all the other scumbags do
BingoBoingo: the20year: I know a couple people buying neighborhoods in North StL and converting it to farmland. As long as you avoid the old radioactive Mallinkrodt sites it sounds lucrative
BingoBoingo: the20year: Well, maybe if you picked a locale other than the bubbling shitpit otherwise refered to as Ohio to work out of.
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
asciilifeform: betcha the idiot x86 os will still treat it as a separate disk abstraction.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, provided he uses fruit or whatever that fish is as the engine
Ademan: it's reasonably common in the midwest as far as I know
nubbins`: whenever i see "u", i pronounce it in my head as "ooo"
mircea_popescu: jurov you ever been in bed with a girl ? her damned thing might as well be made of lava.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I've always read it as I love cunts
nubbins`: not as rich as thermos, but still rich
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Nah, you treat the odometer as irrelevant
Apocalyptic: <mircea_popescu> you can get something that'll run for as low as 2-300 euros. // in Romania maybe
mircea_popescu: you can get something that'll run for as low as 2-300 euros.
asciilifeform: to me this seems as much of a certainty as every sufficiently large freighter docked in u.s. port containing some cocaine
Apocalyptic: <BingoBoingo> As BTC matures bullshit like, "we get new stuff sometime in this 3 month window" is going to be tolerated less and less // I sometimes wonder why it's even tolerated now
BingoBoingo: As BTC matures bullshit like, "we get new stuff sometime in this 3 month window" is going to be tolerated less and less
BingoBoingo: Your average 'Murican back country gas station has their inventory timed to a roughly 15 minute degree of precision as to when it gets replenished.
benkay: not as many as bitcoin i bet
BingoBoingo: Ademan: txids are for transaction in which there is a dispute as to whether there was payment or not. If neither side disputes that payment was made publishing a txid merely strips both sides of privacy.
BingoBoingo: truffles: Maybe your idea of a great game of chess is slamming the pieces into each other as fast as possible, but anything less than a half hour per person removes the chance for the occasional good move in the middle game.
BingoBoingo: Srs competition is supposed to be intense. The loser is supposed to be humiliated. A large part of why baseball is the better sport than handegg is that actual premeditated violence on the field is sanction to enforce proper levels of humiliation, as opposed to all of the violence in handegg which happens to just merely be incidental to gameplay and futher humiliation is discouraged because "Distraction from the game"
BingoBoingo: Handling coyotes is easy. You growl and chase them away from whatever dumpster they were raiding and then piss on the dumpster to remind them it is a human dumpster. Then as you walk away flip the coyotes double middle fingers.
mircea_popescu: i don't think the screams in the sanitarium qualify as gossip
mircea_popescu: benkay or because the internet is free as in beer, everyone's drunk as in, blind.
benkay: couldn't quite figure how a carpenter had learned so much about IC design as to have useful opinions on the topic...
pankkake: oh, I meant PP as Payment protocol, but I understood your PP as Paypal :)
benkay: thickasthieves would smell as sweet
KRS1: yeah they leave him alone as long as he makes payments for them to 'protect' his land.
KRS1: As far as Circuses go, figuratively, the US is putting on the best show on earth, the earth has ever seen.
BingoBoingo: I am working on strategies where such shit might not be necessary, but... So long as getting plastered on IRC is so close to getting drunk at the bar and getting my dick sucked... these sorts of advisories might be necessary from time to time.
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
KRS1: except AM would have an increasingly hard time paying back their investors as time goes on with difficulty increases to consider and what not..the investment model wont work out imo
the20year1: they, single handedly, have moved bitcoin equipment from the realm of 'normal electronics' to high-risk merchant services, in the same class as porn, diet pills and 'get paid to surf online' businiesses
the20year1: But, as far as processing goes, BFL has screwed the entire industry over
carpet: mircea_popescu: you are using openBSD as your main OS?
mircea_popescu: seems almost as if stupid arguments are a very small set that just keeps getting repeated whenever someone's half competent.
Azelphur: VanCleef: what do you define as "more" out of curiosity?
VanCleef: yeh but at least i dont dress up as a girl pretending to be PR
Azelphur: VanCleef: I'm not as rich as MP but I have a fairly decent amount, I spend most of my days coding/on IRC/gaming
VanCleef: if dressing up as a girl and being on bitcointalk makes you happy fair enough
VanCleef: i dont think he's as rich as he claims to be
VanCleef: too much effort dressing up as a girl and being on bitcointalk
foucist: mircea_popescu: http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/25008/thumbs/s-ASS-SLAP-large.jpg wasn't nearly as LARGE as i was expecting :(
mircea_popescu: copumpkin tell me you can't get paid as much as you want, mr ipad.
carpet: good as new for few hours
Apocalyptic: not the same exposure as bitcointroll indeed
nubbins`: it's worth considering whether you, as a shareholder, want the company you've invested in to blow all its cash on dividends or not
Namworld: Why is MPOE even that high? APY is like under 0.5%. As much as I trust MPEx... That's an incredibly high valuation/revenue ratio.
sapp: I created it for myself at first, but maybe others want such a thing as well
nubbins`: this includes emulatables such as gc, n64, and earlier systems
Vexual: as you like twista
Vexual: 9 prolly not as much of a thin in the eastern block or europe where its not new
simlay: I've become less and less happy with google's querying as of late.
truffles: so as wine noob, is there a certain way ure supposed to drink it to extract the flavors?
Vexual: theyre the same lot as you nubs
nubbins`: lots of the shit we print starts out as ink drawings
Vexual: yay for behaving as expected
Vexual: not quite as well as you good sir
Duffer1: well see i was thinking of btc as just something that should be invested, not as the investment itself, so i put it in btc denominated securities
mircea_popescu: "The University of Cumbria in northwest England has become the first public university in the world to experiment with accepting bitcoin as tuition payment. It follows a similar move made by a private university in Cyprus at the end of last year."
mircea_popescu: and as these things are run, usually they got no actual cash.
the20year2: or he was as of 5pm when I left
the20year2: But if there's demand, and he has the contacts to sell, he might as well do it
the20year2: Yeah, and they're extraordinarily hard to get as of last year, the prices quadroupled
the20year2: it gives me hope for our 2nd round of funding via HL, seeing as how successful SFI has been, and to a lesser extent MS, but i'm curious if the bigger money will follow us
mircea_popescu: dentist = scam. not a scam AS SUCH, in the sense that it does fix your money but a) you have to make appointments and they charge if you cancel them without notice and b) it costs money.
mircea_popescu: not a scam AS SUCH.
mircea_popescu: "I suppose you're right. It's not a scam as such, because it's all out in the open and delivers exactly what it promises."
dub: alarm reads 'The air filter is failed, Maybe it is not cleaned as scheduled. '
mircea_popescu: so it ends up desplayed as gazilionty-whateveritwas
mircea_popescu: did they cover in the end as promised or how did that end up ?
pankkake: but that shorthand can be useful, as I'm often to lazy to say the full sentence
mircea_popescu: jobs as organised by people who don't customarily use weaponry would necessarily degenerate in the equivalent of the female chimp flea picking fest.
mircea_popescu: tech as an intellectual pursuit has nothing to do with tech as a job.
pankkake: funnily I'm still at a slight loss as an investor
mircea_popescu: as per usual, i did none of the work,
asciilifeform: as if it escapes anyone's attention that ssl-mitm is readily detectable.
asciilifeform: whole field, 'dildonics,' as i understand.
asciilifeform: (xach has the whole thing, at least as far as usenet goes.)
asciilifeform: much the same psychiatric aspects as the case of an ordinary spammer. who doesn't see the channel as a place with people, but as a receptacle
mircea_popescu: deego perhaps unbeknownst to you, you're in a pit where assholes and jerks are properly revered as the kings of all creation. which they are.
deego: author of such gems as " do the world a huge favor and commit suicide tonight."
asciilifeform: mes sheer need as the motivation to enter the field...."
asciilifeform: "something important happens when a previously privileged position in society suddenly sees incredibly demand that needs to be filled, using enormous quantities of manpower. that happened to programming computers about a decade ago, or maybe two. first, the people will no longer be super dedicated people, and they won't be as skilled or even as smart -- what was once dedication is replaced by greed and someti ☟︎
mircea_popescu: alystair a block is about ten minutes, but a wallet should show tx in the pool as unconfirmed
lippoper: as in 0.5
alystair: how in the world do you get 19btc as value lol
lippoper: as far as I'm concerned it's a better coin
pankkake: dogecoin is as good as litecoin as far as I'm concerned
VitalyChernikov: As we agreed put once at hour: Any body donate for Macbook pro I need only 2 BTC / I need it to develop my Android and web project / my e-mail vdchernikov@gmail.com / facebook.com/VitalyChernikov / bitcoin address 1v5dgomiYSkK21BurZ55VEuQRpmhpgvkz
VitalyChernikov: No, it is as example
VitalyChernikov: Yes, sure. but before it I was learned in institute, than on cathedra and current at 2012 I start work as programmer. Life is awesome
kakobrekla: i go as well. later
mircea_popescu: it's good as is!
knotwork: ah yes there ya go but also just tacking it on the end doesnt seem as ncie as putting it in front I dont know why
knotwork: though hmm somehow it doesn't "sound" quite as good