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asciilifeform: one of the inescapable problems is that the electric grid isn't really designed as a two-way machine
mod6: yeah, i have to believe thats part of the deal. they're seen as "sticking it to the man"... but really its probably a good thing over all. and creates independant households.
mod6: the heat knocks out the power lots in the summer. I guess thats a function of cooling... but getting it back on line is hard as it gets overloaded on the draw. you'd think that having more people on solar would reduce the over all load.
mircea_popescu: mod6 the adsites for such weirdos are already awash in women that identify as "slaves" and will "do anything" but are looking for a monogamous, husbandy relationship.
Diablo-D3: asciilifeform: I can get pay as you go plans effectively cheaper than "real" phones
mircea_popescu: anyway, i have trouble seeing this bloomberg article as anything other than "we're nice, give us free shit"
asciilifeform: in the u.s., every service that lets you 'eat' even a little before mailing a bill, is thought of as 'credit'
mircea_popescu: arizona would probably end up in the future as a whole state's worth of solar farms + datacenters here and there.
mod6: we're being nicked and dimed here for everything in the us. and im sure people see this as just another brick in the wall.
jurov: maybe if you register as VIP to the conference
kakobrekla: Bunnyh no they are sent as 1
Bunnyh: do all the payouts come as a single transaction too for each output address? so if i bet 1 BTC + 0.01 BTC and win, i won't get 1.something and a dust transaction back?
kakobrekla: its active as long as bets are accepted
kakobrekla: yeah you can use the same one as many times as you want
Bunnyh: can i send multiple transactions to a bitbet betting address so that they'll all be counted as valid bets (with different weights)?
mircea_popescu: "I seem to remember you and ciuciu had several arguments on this forum. I'm trying to track him down and looking for info about him as he scammed the members of ASIC.COOP. Can you confirm his name is Nicolae Serbanescu?"
mircea_popescu: "I am an executive assistant by profession, but I have worked as a stripper and escort in the US." ☟︎
asciilifeform: i remember, as a kid, finding out about consoles and that other boys had... countably small! collections of games
nubbins`: anyone who doesn't use a macbook as their primary laptop is a fucking idiot
mircea_popescu: holy wars work not because anyone tries, but because everyone involved makes the effort to interpret what's said so as to offend him
nubbins`: if some christian guy said "seriously guys, it's really wine now, try it, it's really good", and it turns out he's right, actual holy wars would be pretty impotent affairs as well
nubbins`: windows users just accept viruses as a fact of life now, like the occasional cold or stomach bug
nubbins`: but those under 18 are occasionally tried as adults
Perlboy: mircea_popescu, no but as a kid i went through a variety of legal related things.
Perlboy: as would a 14
Perlboy: 16 is the same as 14
BingoBoingo: Funny how a few months ago he advertised himself as a decade older...
mircea_popescu: ok so this happens to be the fucking tits. obama just gave the 1 year obamacare delay that the house wanted a month ago. except by now it's too fucking late, and as a result of his inept dickery 5mn unfortunate fucks are left without coverage as they were already cancelled.
mircea_popescu: so basically france is folding up as a going concern.
Namworld: yes, all data is still on the mag stripe even with the darn chip as far as I know.
ThickAsThieves: USG better spend the silk road coins before they get tagged as drug money
Kleeck_: j as in gif got it
kakobrekla: the basic idea is known as long as bitcoin exists
Kleeck_: as far as the "g" phoentic
nubbins`: i'll prolly just keep it as-is
firedrops: toast some more, sell them and 2x as 'Worn Look'
firedrops: sell it as a defekt item, 75% off!
firedrops: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-11-14/ibm-offers-jeopardy-winner-watson-as-cloud-application-tool
ThickAsThieves: as long as you missed the point, we're good
mircea_popescu: confucius says, as bitcoin transitions from 1k to 1mn usd per it will be impossibel to discern whether usg idiocy or bitcoin coolness is pushing the change
mircea_popescu: and it's nowhere nearly as important a thing.
asciilifeform: do anything vaguely mathematical, and these folks will be there, as surely as termites.
mircea_popescu: An interesting peculiarity in Bitcoin specification and source code is that hashing with full SHA-256 is applied twice. This may seem as excessive: one “secure” hash function should be sufficient. It also makes our job of optimizing bitcoin mining substantially more difficult.
firedrops: 22:29 < kakobrekla> you are all good as long as your btc balance is not negative.
kakobrekla: you are all good as long as your btc balance is not negative.
ThickAsThieves: The report also highlights the extensive scientific literature on the human ability to identify deceptive behavior. Summarizing 400 studies over the past 60 years, the report concludes that humans perform only "the same as or slightly better than chance." Given that the TSA has spent almost a billion dollars on the program, that's a pretty poor record.
mircea_popescu: 3 times as defended!
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves arb, as in rhubarb.
mike_c: plus those blinking eyes are annoying as hell
mike_c: kakobrekla ah, yeah. ok, not as impressive.
mircea_popescu: lurkwingduck it's a living. not as good as stripping, but what's a boy to do.
ThickAsThieves: One business is already committed: Guo’s Bitcoin mining equipment maker, Avalon. A big question is whether they can get others to sign on as they’ll need a network effect to make the database useful.
mircea_popescu: think about it. the "numismatic" value of bullion coins exists for as long as overcapitalised clueless americans stil exist.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: coin collectors disagree, and as long as they continue to do so...
asciilifeform: anyone hazard a guess as to the demise of http://issilentcircleopensourceyet.com ?
kakobrekla: benkay SR as a wallet!
mircea_popescu: benkay hear back as to what ?
mircea_popescu: torture as a mechanism to have fun has its merits.
mircea_popescu: firedrops torture as a mechanism to extract information is laughable.
BingoBoingo: We all came into the experiment as college juniors pondering the ethics as torture, and decided empiricisms trupmed idealism.
BingoBoingo: Maybe this counts as self soxing, but this is what I actually look like http://imgur.com/FaA1YKl
Diablo-D3: btw, I might as well tell you breaking bad and the waling dead are ahead in the queue
BingoBoingo: Karl Urban strikes me as more the dom than that fag playing the new kirk. Karl Urban seems to know how to choke a bitch David Freese style.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: DMSO doesn't need anything as crass as bullets
asciilifeform: had it in my lab, does exactly as described
lurkwingduck: Well as a brewer, I won't be giving up beer haha
mircea_popescu: (this is the country where pyramid schemes are still legal, provided they advertise as such)
mircea_popescu: this is the boletus. morels work just as well - perhaps better.
ThickAsThieves: simple as that
BingoBoingo: I submit http://lifehacker.com/how-hard-is-it-to-switch-to-linux-1462916866 as anb example of how Gawker Media still sucks
mod6: Namworld: http://www.geek.com/news/4-1-million-worth-of-bitcoins-goes-missing-as-chinese-exchange-gbl-disappears-1576967/
BingoBoingo: Hadn't Kumala been inactive on the forum as well?
mircea_popescu: dubs think about the possibility as they rm -rf *internet
dub: I thought about that possiblity as I typed
nubbins`: i was chagringed to learn that the rest of the world takes "1+1=2" as an axiom
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Mostly python scripts for modeling various things. Not usually useful things, but more as a self improvement thing.
BingoBoingo: Well, I mean I've been using the SE/30 for non-crypto maths as well.
dub: they are trying to excalate their complete lack of understanding as my problem
mircea_popescu: kinda funny how naive as to how irc works the general population finds itself.
thestringpuller: if inflation goes out of control it won't be seen in bitcoin accurately because people will stop using fiat as a unit of account
mircea_popescu: as bitcoin settles closer to something like 1mn us whatevers, then fiat inflation will be more visible.
nubbins`: oil isn't useful as a measure of anything aside from OPEC's influence
nubbins`: alcohol is generally subject to varying levels of taxation from country to country, so it doesn't make as good a barometer
mircea_popescu: and tjere's no such thing as "a pizza"
benkay: as opposed to hemistry
Vexual: the navy and the doe are on the patent, but it mainly mentions flat panel tvs as an application, no actual mention of fel
Vexual: the patenet from stanford where pando labvs is, they would have modeled many electron configs on a system such as that
ozbot: Diamondoid monolayers as electron emitters Patent
BingoBoingo: benkay: Your second link looks promising, aspies as ASICs
jurov: Vexual maybe if you'll upload yourself into a blockchain and get used as a currency
mircea_popescu: not actually as simple as the blockchain, which is why probably not asic-able.
jurov: Vexual: you're gonna put up "WANTED: chinese looking, indetifies himself as TF. 10BTC reward" posters over sydney?
jurov: mircea_popescu:btw you know the same thing as dragontales happened before with fidor bank?
mircea_popescu: maybe this magazine should come as a collection of presentation sheets attachjed to a slinky.
mircea_popescu: yeah, i'm mostly writing these as they happen because in like two centuries they will be worth at least 1 btc each.
jurov: as in, watched pot never boils?
gribble: Nick 'davout', with hostmask 'davout!~chef@unaffiliated/davout', is identified as user davout, with GPG key id 13288EAB01713428, key fingerprint 291237F37A2C023CADBED52513288EAB01713428, and bitcoin address None
dub: I miss it at times, walked out of a bar drunk as fuck last year, theres a big group of kids going at it down teh street and I start wading in before gf drags me back
benkay: his personal site actually uses "revigorate" as a word
truffles: dont like last as much