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davout: fluffypony: if your friend has less than 50 posts i can ban him, that'll solve his problem, in some way
danielpbarron: fluffypony, I get that all the time; it also won't let me update my trust ratings when that happens
fluffypony: but I figured you'd know more than I, I've exhausted my help for the guy
davout: fluffypony: you seem to be mistaken about my role on btctalk, i'm merely a glorified janitor for the french section
fluffypony: any idea what could cause that?
fluffypony: they live alone, no Opera off-road mode, no VPN, no proxy, no TOR
fluffypony: davout: someone else on IRC says that they can post on btctalk no problem, but when they try PM it has that "last post from your IP was less than 360 seconds ago" message
assbot: What it's like to own a Tesla Model S - A cartoonist's review of his magical space car - The Oatmeal
fluffypony: needs moar ascii art, thestringpuller
chetty: danielpbarron, I don't tweet much, but I do retweet
danielpbarron: it doesn't matter if a user doesn't talk about bitcoin; it's a good indicator that they make interesting content if they chat in here though
thestringpuller: i just like to rant and rave like a fouled mouth american who is going senile
thestringpuller: most if not all my tweets are non-bitcion related
fluffypony: mod6: it makes the medicine go down, right?
danielpbarron: chetty, nm; I think i figured out who you are. (adding you to my bitcoin-assets twitter list)
danielpbarron: i retweeted that one; interesting how that pops up right after shipping equipment was discussed in here
mircea_popescu: davout well ip is part of their hostmask
danielpbarron: chetty, what's your twitter handle?
davout: mircea_popescu: "(look at nick AND ip, too.)" <<< what about folks on webchat?
mike_c: i think a couple hundred btc worth went this period, and next period should be better.
mike_c: so nobody in their right mind would sell it.
mike_c: well, really it has had more to with the fact that IDIFF can't go up by more than 2.9x per period and difficulty was going up much faster.
mike_c: benkay: because it kept blowing through the 2.9x cap
mike_c: not financially. i prefer to bet on diff with IDIFF.
thestringpuller: and was mad at the other side
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin network difficulty > 14Bn on Bastille day :: 30.09 B (76%) on Yes, 9.38 B (24%) on No | closing in 1 month 1 day| weight: 18`082 (100`000 to 1)
mike_c: something like that. it's in the logs.
TheNewDeal: mike_c those were some big bets
assbot: BitBet - BTC network difficulty to top 1B before 2014 :: 619.37 B (89%) on Yes, 74.04 B (11%) on No | closed 4 months 3 weeks ago
assbot: WARNING: Do not provide your blockchain credentials to any unauthorized apps. There is no official iOS Blockchain app. Such apps are fake
davout: andreas gets mad when reminded that cloudflare == derpage : https://twitter.com/aantonop/status/466289061989474304
thestringpuller: i thought prediction markets were just toys
thestringpuller: mike_c: aren't you not supposed to hedge with a prediction market?
mike_c: also, i think X.IDIFF.SEP is going to be fun. put in some early bids/asks and get a good price.
mike_c: but you got to get in quick while spurs bet still has reasonable weight.
assbot: BitBet - Spurs to win 2014 NBA Finals :: 0.64 B (48%) on Yes, 0.68 B (52%) on No | closing in 3 weeks 1 day| weight: 79`853 (100`000 to 1`000)
assbot: BitBet - An Eastern Conference team will win the NBA Finals :: 0.97 B (48%) on Yes, 1.06 B (52%) on No | closing in 2 weeks 3 days | weight: 92`589 (100`000 to 90`000)
mike_c: well, there is some interesting hedging to be done between: http://bitbet.us/bet/796/an-eastern-conference-team-will-win-the-nba/ and http://bitbet.us/bet/842/spurs-to-win-2014-nba-finals/
mircea_popescu: i think he's trying to get hired.
thestringpuller: mike_c: what's teh action?
benkay: a trilema is me
assbot: In which we read Adam Gurri pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
thestringpuller: ::rate Mats_cd03 -1 listens to radiohead
gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask Mats_cd03!sid23029@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-hzvjztfvgzwtqoxz. Trust relationship from user assbot to user Mats_cd03: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=assbot&dest=Mats_cd03 | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=Mats_cd03 | Rated since: never
chetty: don{t get anything for crypto that gets shipped - buy local off the shelf, random. (imho)
mircea_popescu: benkay is that umlaut thing the venue nell works at ?
danielpbarron: yeh, hrm; I hopefully won't need it for long: I'm really eager to get my hands on a cardano
mircea_popescu: who's to know at this point. i'd have trouble trusting either
danielpbarron: or should I stick to getting stuff only directly from manufacturers
danielpbarron: is it safe to buy equipment on ebay that I intend to use for crypto?
kdomanski: I think you just solved the mystery of my procrastination in the face of the necessity to write my thesis -.-'
mircea_popescu: if they could do anything even remotely useful at all, they;d be there doing it. like, probably dating and getting drunk with their friends, as higher marginal utility activities than "solving hunger in this one block"
mircea_popescu: and so prefer to focus on "problems" that are safely distant and conveniently untouchable by them.
mircea_popescu: such derp. somebody claims a passion for solving "world hunger" specifically because they have internalised being a failure at anything whatsoever,
mircea_popescu: "That means that if someone is really passionate about solving global hunger, it might be most helpful for them to start this effort in their neighborhood instead of focusing overseas. "
assbot: The Morality of Futility | The mlaut
kdomanski: pankkake: I love the blog
mircea_popescu: darkwallet being the thing taaki's currently hanging on to or am i confusing them
mircea_popescu: mike_c we took it to mean jigawatts*twoweek, obivously.
danielpbarron: I plugged this channel in there, and I guess he's interested
mircea_popescu: <kdomanski> danielpbarron: isn't that what everyone calls themselves? ;] << good point.
mike_c: although that is power, not energy.
TheNewDeal: one point twenty one
chetty: lmao, Antarctica is melting, how much energy would that actually take?
pankkake: or remove https if you don't want the cert warning. oops
kdomanski: danielpbarron: isn't that what everyone calls themselves? ;]
danielpbarron: kdomanski, welcome to the Bitcoin community that's actually worth listening to
mike_c: artifexd: that's what he's referring to.
joecool: danielpbarron: yes that works fine with people who use gpg, unfortunately they are still in the distant minority
pankkake: artifexd: reverse ass to mouth?
artifexd: benkay: You have said "ratm" a couple times. What does that mean? The best google returns is a reference to the Rage Against The Machine band.
mike_c: !up Mats_cd03 cmon, get the gribble.
joecool: i always used this one http://sebsauvage.net/paste/
pankkake: if you trust the javascript. though I plan to have a thing to do it in CLI
mircea_popescu: hey pastebin afficionados : is this cool ? http://0bin.net/
mircea_popescu: pankkake you sign your own dns record in the comments field
pankkake: though even dnssec would be better than the current situation
pankkake: but how do you securely transmit the DNS record? back to square one
benkay: something in the dns record?
assbot: Down The Road by C2C on SoundCloud - Hear the worlds sounds
mircea_popescu: much rather would watch adsense traffic reports all day long
mircea_popescu: benkay Naphex was working at it, but he's too lazy to specify
pankkake: http://web.monkeysphere.info/ for something that would be better. or namecoin
pankkake: yeah. some linux distros (used to) ship it
mike_c: i thought the browsers don't like cacert?
pankkake: try CACert. though even Debian removed them :/
benkay: herr mircea_popescu how do we fix this certificate authority crap
mike_c: but you need the underbody wash with your ssl cert. that's extra.
fluffypony: but without the shitty "enhances" interface
fluffypony: part of the same group
benkay: once again, reaping the benefits of -assests.
benkay: yeah that's a far better deal
fluffypony: (or $99/year if you only take it for 1 year)
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benkay: i'm clearly in the wrong biz
mike_c: indeed. it requires many annoying things.
thestringpuller: you gonna build a bridge and not know how to count?
mike_c: because theoretical science isn't as fun as engineering.
thestringpuller: why the fuck do people hate math
Mats_cd03: same friend said, well they can just keep upping the debt limit and its all good