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pankkake: twice as many bugs for the price of one
mircea_popescu: well i kinda think of both as the same thing.
mircea_popescu: "I feel as if I have been scammed.. Transferred from my BitBook to Just-Dice address they gave him and it's been 20-30 minutes, no BTC's and the address changed now "
pankkake: thought that could mean "we have the funds as a number printer on weexchange"
ozbot: Residents shocked that DeKalb County, Georgia, juror form lists ‘slave’ as occupation | The Ra
mircea_popescu: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/27/residents-shocked-that-dekalb-county-juror-form-lists-slave-as-occupation/
dexX7: Final note : The process herein described is protected as patent pending, which means you may not claim you have invented it. That aside, the process is offered freely for use by any party for any purpose. << wtf
ThickAsThieves: "On April 16, 2013, Google announced that production was complete for the initial Glass Explorer Edition units and the corporation would begin shipping.[43] On the same day, Google also released a web-based setup page for Glass,[44] as well as the MyGlass companion app.[45] Developers were also given first access to the Mirror API for Glass.[46]"
ThickAsThieves: as most things are, no?
mircea_popescu: ok so something like "Contrary to previous announcements, MtGox will fail to list LTC as a currency by X date. If at least Y volume of LTC is traded on MtGox by X date, this bet resolves as yes"
ThickAsThieves: can the Gox lists litecoin bet be done in a way so as not get "Bad bet."?
pankkake: 5. mining is profitable as long as you always buy new asics
truffles: can i post as anony?
truffles: predator as u ar
dub: dat crazy as bitch
truffles: balls as in penus?
Bugpowder: If fiat was as easy to move as bitcoin, then this would work. But if fiat were as easy to move as bitcoin, this spread would not exist. In fact, if fiat were as easy to move as bitcoin, bitcoin would not exist.
dimitriyremerov: mircea_popescu: hello, but for new I prefer just to read, because I'm new and I want more knowledge before I consider myself as ready for talking.
pankkake: I've seen it happen but not as much
kakobrekla: as far as i can see its about 3x3 antenna
mike_c: they will stop seeing you as a resource.
mircea_popescu: (recall, i'm the guy that ran bitcoin's premier stock exchange as a subdir for years)
BingoBoingo: I too once had a stateless corporation, until I opened the box and its state was revealed to as dead. Or maybe it was a cat...
kakobrekla: as long as quota allowed
kakobrekla: i knew he was up to no good as soon as i saw HUGO shirt
mircea_popescu: still, you know. contrary to what the forum would have itself think, bitbet is designed to prevent as much of this as possible
mike_c: yeah, but that just drives more traffic as far as i can tell.
BingoBoingo: pankkake: Well the butthurt from the ActiveMining fans that their being delivered pays as no delivery at all should lead to some entertaining butthurt, and what is Bitcoin without Butt?
mike_c: well, as long as all possibilites are reasonable, it doesn't have to suck. horse races are parimutuel and have 8-12 outcomes
BingoBoingo: pankkake: Well you chose the same yes side I did. I'm not sure activeminer is even as much of a thing so I placed it as no with them both not delivering hoping it might get action at least as a BFL delivery bet.
BingoBoingo: pankkake: Well, draws do suck. The solution is the bet has to fail as No, and bettors have to price accordingly for that.
pankkake: I see that as a "Cripple Fight"
nubbins`: as a final gesture of anguish
ThickAsThieves: as the article suggest
ThickAsThieves: i did, as an example that it's also possible
mircea_popescu: that's about as unlikely as your favourite gf spontaneously cloning
nubbins`: the bohemian rhapsody one, you could hear a few piano parts where they happened to be around the same freqs as his voice
nubbins`: well, few things feel as good as taking a shit
nubbins`: no point for me to lie, most people here probably already think i ate too many paint chips as a child
mircea_popescu: deadweasel so far he's way above the noob curve, as the others have wisely pointed out.
pankkake: oh also there was a bounty of $5000 for anyone who could prove it would work faster on the gpu (as the objective of the pow was that it shouldn't)
nubbins`: and even casually mentioning you own some btc is generally construed as meaning you've got a bunch of money
jcpham: as long as you keep the water out
ThickAsThieves: give it your real estate agent as commission when you buy your summer home
jcpham: bitcoin buyers....not as difficult
nubbins`: for these coins, destruction is precisely defined as such
mircea_popescu: except it's unlikely "destruction" is defined as "having peeled a sticker off"
mircea_popescu: if one guy that just got started woprking with anacs (or with the mail, or etc) figures he might as well, you're sol.
mircea_popescu: as far as they're concerned this is no big deal
mircea_popescu: i think depending on the issue etc it may go as high as a mil or two
jcpham: HEY GUYS IF YOU WANT TO SERVE AS ROTA FOR THE NEXT YEAR GO SIGN UP IN mircea_popescu's BLOG
deadweasel: as china relaxes capital controls, you think many chinese will cash out for other ventures?
mircea_popescu: as they say, more people want to buy 4 digit btc than they wanted to buy 3 digit btc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves here's the thing : rappers sell puff. in matters of puff, god forbid your puff is perceivced as less "quality" than the other's puff.
ThickAsThieves: when black rappers dont say it, they are not taken as seriously
truffles: i think mp uses it implying that its just as bad as any word like "stupid"?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` iirc queer means "funny", as in, different. at least at the root.
ThickAsThieves: well i see it as
nubbins`: ThickAsThieves: i know plenty of people who refer to themselves as "queer" with no hint of irony
mircea_popescu: as far as i can tell slavery is a positive word today.
mircea_popescu: be they white or not, as long as they're illiterate, aggressive, noisy etc, that's that.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nigger | 1. nigger. A fully grown niglet. Theres one of them niggers. mark as favorite buy nigger ... 2. nigger. A word that everyone else is afraid to define except in utter ...
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hoodrat%20Shit | The act of engaging in undesirable or unlawful activities such as stealing, smoking marijuana, and drinking forties on the street.
Venat: mininum is correct as its miniature number
markedathome: but that was only as a user, not a developer
mircea_popescu: for another instance, there are the people who aren't clean, and would like to represent everything as "shades of grey"
markedathome: about as good as david cameron's "well you will have an embarassing conversation with your wife"
markedathome: not to mention the wallet is a glorified single stream. FFS who uses json as a database storage mechanism on disk when wallets get above 10-20MB
pankkake: by the way this works great as a first defense http://web-profile.com.ua/wordpress/plugins/anti-spam/
pankkake: "Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you've already said that!"
mircea_popescu: i'm sure mods will close it as soon as they get to it.
BingoBoingo: RealSolid doesn't strike me as particularly competent pankkake
pankkake: I did use it for short period of times… but always treated it as something I could lose
pankkake: some scammers try to paint themselves as incompetent (labcoin)
BingoBoingo: If the NeoBee guy didn't refer to Ukyo as Jon I'd think he was refering to Oliver/Usagi
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hark | 1. hark. an exclamation of joy. or anything. hark! i made an a!! mark as ... Hark. A person in a state of drunkardness that results in inconceivably retarded actions.
mircea_popescu: as the wanker culture spreads, it'll prolly be rare for people to fuck anyway
pankkake: as long as the bet is still open
mike_c: distributed as dividends
cazalla: i can't steal you SUV as effectively as i can steal your bitcoins
mike_c: no way, as soon as he fixes this: "I don't have the resources or expertise to build such a thing right now" you are in trouble.
davout: as a matter of fact i have two reports made by pankakke that i should handle diligently
mircea_popescu: that's meaningless. "as quickly as feasible". if there's no internet that quckly slows down
asciilifeform: still ambling about as zombie, though.
mircea_popescu: preferably starting with my comments as to what bitcoin court
asciilifeform: he wrote it off, as a waste of time
mircea_popescu: so is he here speaking as livestock or as not livestock ? i get confused.
mircea_popescu: " The children, who are already in the habit of roaming the streets in gangs and harassing and mugging strangers, now come to serve as the community's early warning system in case of an organized incursion."
mircea_popescu: Unaccustomed to operating outside the law and having few connections with the criminal underworld, they are slow to penetrate the black market, which now offers the only way to obtain many necessary items, such as food, cooking fuel and medicines, including the items that had been previously looted from their own stockpiles. Worse yet, they once again become estranged from one another: their acquaintances and friendshi
asciilifeform: it's been phrased as 'invisible tentacle, rapes well.'
asciilifeform: he is referring, i think, to the american belief that 'market' can provide for ad infinitum continuation of 'business as usual.'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Just as one would expect, the invisible hand of the market fails to make itself visible, but it is plain to see that fuel is no longer delivered to either of these communities, although in the second one some fuel is likely to still be available on the black market, at prices that very few people can afford."
mircea_popescu: anyway, all the "survivalist" crap understood as "o hey i store dried beans and ammo rounds" is nonsense
asciilifeform: "when hunger seizes people, food becomes an obsession, and folks search memories as well as cupboards for relief...'
asciilifeform: "There's a shift in people's thinking as essential items become scarce. They believe that... hoarders created the shortage... if someone can establish such a link between the crisis and you, you have a problem.' ☟︎
thestringpuller: it shouldn't come as a surprise with QE-Infinity
nubbins`: floor. vast communities of bulky orderlies. rowhouses of nurses. all rooms are hospitals now. the firmament, a massive inferno of blue-black gods. judges pouring time as the piss of Dionysus. insects dripping honey and pulling wax upon my ears. says, 'All the angels can dance on the tip of a pin. all thoughts can jig upon the point of a pen' ☟︎
nubbins`: but it was too late for all that, the buggers held full control, so all rooms are now hospital. the candy cart of medication wheels behind me, manacled by psychotic chains. lines of division have been dissolved. this letter is also spoken live in the minds of all others. medication is food. Rx is smoked. food is smoked. all useless as light dripped from bulbs into splashing puddles of light upon th
turbo_ac100: Apocalyptic, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=228327.msg3655452#msg3655452 this reads differently. "But we are NOT committed (in the sense of having promised to go there) to it - and, at present, I am not committed to being involved either as part of the operational team for it OR as an investor in it."
Apocalyptic: TAT, as far as I know he's jut an "advisor"