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asciilifeform: in usa, even the professionally sad can register a corp.
mircea_popescu: oouf, you want THE OTHER HALF ?!
Naphex: davout: from the little i understand, its mostly sorted and all authorities consulted
fluffypony: thank goodness, I'd like to sleep tonight
davout: mircea_popescu: send half a bitcoin, that'll do just fine
Naphex: davout: i'm not the best to ask about financial stuff. but therese lawyers, and accountants and other people
mircea_popescu: fluffypony today the 24th :D
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: due today what time?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller can i pay you to send davout a cookie ?
kakobrekla: he puts jokes in that box
mircea_popescu: http://mpex.co/ << everyone pls to notice the upcoming section.
Naphex: same day delivery in romania though, so primary market
Naphex: kakobrekla: so RON/BTC is the only pair atm, with EUR,others to come soon while we still work some stuff out.
kakobrekla: anyway i dun think its opening of corps that makes you a biz man
kakobrekla: hey i never claimed to be one
Naphex: switched back to pc
kakobrekla: perhaps ill try
Naphex: kakobrekla: ron is the only fiat atm
dexX7: in the case one of you uses bitcoinjs: https://gist.github.com/dcousens/7a54e59a98e445c5ec2f
davout: open outside romania too ?
mircea_popescu: Naphex well if you like gpg add a gpg sig to gribble wot so i can get your pubkey.
mircea_popescu: i like people one doesn't have to argue with.
mircea_popescu: so there.
Naphex: ill add it to tasks, i like the idea
mircea_popescu: this substantially improves your security and helps a lot of things
mircea_popescu: on the page where one can submit documents to be verified, add a link to a textfile constructed as gpg -export-pubkey -a | gpg --clearsign -a
asciilifeform: what can compare to slipping a 'drowned' video board (all-snow display) into a chum's box at night.
mircea_popescu: Naphex, if you love me do the following thing :
bounce: used a dual ppro for a while, though it wasn't mine and I had to give it back eventually.
kakobrekla: it was not the first or the last or the best but yea.
fluffypony: kakobrekla: is that mirc?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: if i'd used that, some bugger'd have step in it.
kakobrekla: the cooling is not hooked up on the pic
kakobrekla: hm i dont seem to have many pic from that era, but i was using this when i was 15 http://imgur.com/veyY8j9
asciilifeform: in some ways, that beast was an experience
asciilifeform: 'freebsd' until it went to the scrapyard.
asciilifeform: this machine never once touched winblows
asciilifeform: very basic 'nvidia' thingie
asciilifeform: bounce: 2x40W << there was a gpu; also a massive scsi hdd
gribble: Error: User doesn't exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
davout: mircea_popescu: "vwap 0 srsly ?" <<< where are the puts when you need them?
asciilifeform: but rumours spread, and other kids came demanding to see it
asciilifeform: (i worked in a lab in those days)
asciilifeform: anyone who wants to build such a junker today, why, who knows. but use a 25mL test tube for fill port (drill bottom)
kakobrekla: we ripped the interior air heating radiators from cars
bounce: that's what, 2x40W tdp?
asciilifeform: he has it bolted to a co2 laser, i think
asciilifeform: actually, i gave the radiator to diametric
fluffypony: I remember trying to watercool a peltier cooler on my Pentium
asciilifeform: sent to scrapyard long ago.
kakobrekla: anyway, with todays tech you can get silence with air. i dont hear my box even if its on full load.
bounce: what's in there though, a pI? how much heat does it produce?
bounce: that's a clear case of not fscking around with the cooling
asciilifeform: many stories, this thing spawned
asciilifeform: still had a small case fan in there, for the rectifiers, etc
asciilifeform: brought this to dormitory on a wheelbarrow
kakobrekla: asciilifeform but back in the day people were doing it mostly to show off and oc.
ozbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
kakobrekla: wasnt there a 'yah' thing ?
benkay: basically guaranteed that nobody in that cafe will ever give pandora another damn dime.
benkay: subjected everyone within earshot to endless "your pandora plus account is being used elsewhere"
benkay: one of my normal haunts recently tried to play pandora plus in two separate locations in their joint
Mats_cd03: dat sax, though.
bounce: soundcloud keeps on finding ways to suck more
benkay: although you gotta cut it out with this gay house/trance/whatever shit
benkay: Mats_cd03: i have joins/parts turned off
benkay: ew wtf is this plinky plonk guitar
kakobrekla: asciilifeform i have build many but now i have a fan solution that is quieter than any pump.
Mats_cd03: im still butthurt you said that
benkay: yup starts with a piano designed for tingles
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: actually, the only time i ever built a water-cooled machine, it was to get rid of the damnable fan hiss
mircea_popescu: benkay: the only thing that makes sense to actually pursue is the rack building thing, and that will live and die by whether or not you can land your asic partner. everything else is just like "woahaoaowwywowao i want to do all these different bitcoin things!" << undersigned.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: it's purposely light on numbers <<< that's stupid.
fluffypony: kakobrekla: well, it's also a cheaper proposition - our market isn't only people-with-$$$, the BOINC/Folding@Home crowd need better cooling than 20cm fans in an ATX case but they can't afford / don't want to spend money on water cooling or mineral oil immersion
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 485.18, Best ask: 487.0, Bid-ask spread: 1.82000, Last trade: 487.0, 24 hour volume: 6238.13274079, 24 hour low: 484.61, 24 hour high: 495.2, 24 hour vwap: 0
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kakobrekla: actually its even worse, the goal of water cooling was to spend money and look good, the goal of rigs is to make money looking like an idiot
asciilifeform: why does everybody love pre-orders so much ? so they can bitch when conveyor delay?
moiety: will iget kicked for life if i say i thought the cardanos were cute?
mircea_popescu: benkay that's a good question.
Mats_cd03: ive heard of gerbils, but this bees thing is new to me
fluffypony: as long as that wave is 5+ years and not 6 months
benkay: hey mircea_popescu and asciilifeform now that you've demo'd the cardano for the elite when do you start taking our btc for them?
fluffypony: kakobrekla: that's fine, I'm not aiming to create a massive company that will be around forever, quite happy riding a wave, making money, and letting it wind down as we transition to the next thing
asciilifeform: can't help but think of cleopatra's alleged diddlomat. glass, filled with bees.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you gotta put the boards somewhere no ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: isnt the "Bee" brand kinda taboo now? << very.
kakobrekla: re openrigs . the whole things is a fad just like diy water cooling was a fad 10 or 15 years ago
asciilifeform: i must still be in me dream. perhaps i should go back & finish sinking the nazi sub.
fluffypony: makes more sense than Google translate: "Balauru means sin, priests prayers recommend to protect animals from Greyhound"
benkay: har if only i'd had the pleasure of breaking you in, moiety
Naphex: was on the news
Naphex: fluffypony: its the same in romania
mircea_popescu: "dragon means sin, teh priests recomend prayer to protect domestic animals"
Mats_cd03: it has 'animal' in it, so he must be talking about animals
Mats_cd03: i can translate that
fluffypony: Naphex: translate plx, Google translate results are confusing
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: https://openrigs.com/download/proposal.pdf << ditch the pdf srsly.
Naphex: just heard on tv.
moiety: i do know how that sounded though lol