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danielpbarron: 11:27
<+thestringpuller> danielpbarron didn't realize you were based in CT.
<< where you at?
Vexual: mircea_popescu: move on to perl ?
< bring me a straw
gribble: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX] [--market
<market>|all]) -- Return pretty-printed ticker. Default market is Bitstamp. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure (1 more message)
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "changing"
<< scam! i saw no nudity.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> next they'll smash something notable on purpose.
<< Locally "preservation Engineers" have done exactly this with "Monks Mound" Thing is just a pile of dirt long lived with stable shape. Engineers come in and in their interventions invent "slumping" A scourge the caused and insist only they can solve for the grant dollars.
decimation: re: ntp amplification
<< the thing is, ntp tends to run on actual servers people might care about, so they might respond to notices
BingoBoingo: * mircea_popescu shudders, thinks of bunnies
<< This is how Qntra's taking over reddit.
assbot: Logged on 08-12-2014 16:32:51; asciilifeform: ddos
<< there will come the day when folks will remember the 'route to anybody who asks first-come-first-serve' internet - with disgust.
assbot: Logged on 08-12-2014 17:09:27; asciilifeform: where every packet knows who paid for it
<< those who imagine a wot-routing based net as a rent-seekers' paradise are mistaken. it is today's net that is a rent-seeker's paradise, where folks who cannot abide ddos must buy bandwidth in vast excess of their normal needs
mircea_popescu: "apparently mr i forgot my isis flag guy fell asleep"
<< ahahaha epic
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> the way this guy cuts down on all the dumb idlers that imagine whatever, b-a is just another channel, can autopilot in is so fucking great srlsy.
<< too strong of a noob filter imho. more spport for the casuals!
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> woman - also
<< nose rings can be useful :D
ben_vulpes:
<thestringpuller> I had a coworker who bought a car, and is still underwater on the loan. It's like "really"?
<< when are car loans not ever underwater?
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> ben_vulpes: A.S. 300 Anno Satoshi
<< can it be 300 ass ?
ben_vulpes:
<thestringpuller> instead he says, "You people don't know how this works" in reference to criticism of his poor decision making process.
<< thestringpuller clearly doesn't understand how the world works
ben_vulpes:
<BingoBoingo> It would be interesting if a large portion of humanity couldn't make it to the year 300 because even the corn became diabetic.
<< counting from what now?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: irl idiots get forced out of ownership once their company reaches success
<< this is usually the case, but sometimes idiots can be too dumb to realize they need to step aside in meatspace too.
cazalla: 7. Hold meetings at a non-mainstream coffee shop.
<<< good advice
mircea_popescu:
<cazalla> speaking of our PM, whoever is in the chocolate shop says they have devices planted around the city, demanding to speak to PM on live radio ha
<< pretty cool.
ben_vulpes: "get out in front of this"
<< what, get in front of the train?
kakobrekla: what.cd
< you dont know what impossible means until you try to seed there
mircea_popescu: cazalla: dwolla is a name that seemed to jump the shark for web 2.0 names
<<< just about when "cutesy" died.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> heavily used and many years old already when we bought it.
<< Same for me and the wagon full of Macs
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> the machine of roughly the same period as nes but with 'adult' i/o was 'commodore 64.'
<< Immature criticism, but not everyone likes semen
cazalla:
<BingoBoingo> badon: How does collecting the shinies go?
<<< thought BingoBoingo made a pokemon reference for a moment
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> ^ no citations.
<< ok that's something else.
ben_vulpes:
<mats> a clever manager and the same budget could fund a brigade of farmer warriors indefinitely
<< you're starting to sound like undata
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> or the hell where you're responsible for (and are the only available set of hands) for a missing magic ingredient in six different angry kitchens
<< lol asciilifeform is the guy who shows up to work to push the right button
gribble: shazow was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 14 weeks, 1 day, 6 hours, 2 minutes, and 42 seconds ago:
<shazow> was invited here by a fellow named gabriel at some coffeeshop, so don't mind my idling otherwise
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> i never learned why
<< because ro did 90% of the first 1bn in internet commerce fraud.
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> it's sad that the male homosexual is the guy who is willing to call out feminists for their bullshit.
<< he's just the guy willing to position himself for it.
mircea_popescu: decimation> I thought this weird 'locks' parameter fixed that? I assumed the issue was that berkleydb itself was failing at that height
<< yeah the only thing that happened is a block complex enough afaik.
mircea_popescu:
<TomServo> I've little experience with this and wanted a working node anyway - figured it was a decent place to get feet wet.
<< it's not bad.
decimation: lol
http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/12/7382287/project-goliath << "The new emails suggest Hollywood hasn’t given up on the idea. "We have been exploring theories under the All Writs Acts, which, unlike DMCA 512(j), would allow us to obtain court orders requiring site blocking without first having to sue and prove the target ISPs are liable for copyright infringement," one email reads."
TomServo: ben_vulpes | i never confirmed his unwedging
<< My 0.7.3 unwedged after appling the fix kako pointed out, if it's of any help.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> in other news, i've a 0.5.3 with fully synced blockchain.
<< wd.
BingoBoingo: " Thunderclap messages have reached over 3.5 billion people in 238 countries and territories. It's the world's first crowdspeaking platform, and over 3 million people have donated their social reach for ideas and causes that matter. "
<< This has to be one of the lulziest things I've ever heard of