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ascii_on_tour: kickstarter scam
<< actual scam. quite like if i were to ship a repainted 'raspberry' as cardano
ascii_on_tour: 5210 x 2880
<< that's one of the mac-with-lcd combo boxes, so extra $1k for comp that i haven't any use for. but i'm told that one can plug in an external cable.
gribble: smickles was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 18 weeks, 2 days, 14 hours, 20 minutes, and 54 seconds ago:
<smickles> easily a few more bil in things like BPOs and BPCs
mircea_popescu: bounce: it's better than to not use it,
<<< this is perhaps the longest endless discussion i don't feel like having. is it better to have loved a whore or to not have gotten the pox at all ?! etc.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: so, web developers of #b-a: for what reasons would you use HTTPS?
<< it's not actually useful.
gribble: pankkake was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 4 days, 4 hours, 47 minutes, and 31 seconds ago:
<pankkake> here is 0.000195.
pete_dushenski: "I give up. Do it yourself: config.tar"
<< from blogs.b-a
mircea_popescu: assbot: Dogecoin Leaders Present Evidence
<<< lol doge leaders sounds so funny.
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2014 12:13:49; ThickAsThieves: ;;later tell TheNewDeal
<TheNewDeal> any response on that foia yet? /// since youve been singling me out, I wanna clear up that, while I did email them an inquiry long ago, I did not personally submit a FOIA request. I simply know of a couple netizens that did. You can expect news to spread fast once(if) it happens.
mircea_popescu: 191.235.134.39 "POST /wp-comments-post.php
<< stuff like this
nubbins`:
<+Adlai> right, but we're still trusting an IRC bot. what if somebody derps freenode after you've authenticated with gribble?
<< then you're fucked
nubbins`:
<+thickasthieves> this whole gamergate thing has been so disinteresting i have yet to read anything about whatever the hell is going on
<< i've avoided the whole thing until i stumbled across an article the other day about that sarkeesian woman
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu> kakobrekla yes. which is why men are more pleasant company than boys.
< next time you wannat a real fuck, flit through 3 .baits. its all the same, isnt it?
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: dayum. so has redundant domains like mpx been considered? .co .us .biz, etc
<< the domains aren't the problem.
mircea_popescu: idual, institutional, and societal). "
<< ironically, they got there by actually FOLLOWING the education system
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> the notion that anyone's getting signal out of the market ticking up or down is absurd.
<< you know the interestin thing about humans is, the talented musician/painter/we can transform the brownian motion of the atmosphere into signal.
pete_dushenski: "This is so stupid on so many levels."
<< lol and gpg signed
gribble: pankkake was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 4 days, 0 hours, 47 minutes, and 52 seconds ago:
<pankkake> here is 0.000195.
artifexd: Like ;;rate
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BingoBoingo:
<r3wt> i still don't get it about Qntra.net
<< Cunt, raw is basically just a coindesk/Cryptocoinnews killer, No big deal
BingoBoingo:
<cazalla> BingoBoingo, and i sat here 14 days ago thinking this thing would take 6 months to get tracition
<< Notice how I helped your sanity by not offering this time frame two weeks ago
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: clean. then, 'silicone' or 'teflon'
<< As the online machine sounds like a bee sanctuary now a Mosin solution sounds more tempting than tender love.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> i still can't fathom how one can own laptop and shy away from cleaning fan
<< Fan is clean, bearings worn
BingoBoingo:
<kakobrekla> i thought you can get to the bearing, on some of these small fans you can .
<< Hard which is why I lean towards flooding it
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> not the molded laptop gizmos, usually
<< Pry and Pry again
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> these things generally aren't built in a way where you can get to the bearing
<asciilifeform> so, can't lubricate
<< This is why you flood the thing
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: i rejected three entirely different designs (different as in the diff b/w dataflow and von neumann) that did not even bother describing. perhaps archaeologists (or the vultures) can get something from my notes.
<< Now you are touching my view of qntra realized. Not as "news" but as cabinet of microfiche
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform wonders what is his craft, that married, because it isn't programming - he actually loathes it with a passion difficult to describe
<< You love creating. You're an artist. Of course you despise programming. You'll prolly shit on the first loper machine you create
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform in the mines
<< As far as I can tell I am not allowed near the mines anymore
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> point is - even a wildly optimistic figure for yield gives you... the salary of a very skinny engineer.
<< these are mostly kids trying to escape from the mines and not knowing how to ask
mircea_popescu: jurov: kakobrekla: what about S.BASH? one share per bashed word
<<< or S.BISH. one share per something.
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> given the fate of usd, the small coins continue to circulate largely through inertia of neglect.
<< prices in my area recently went to integer dollars for things sold by the unit
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: i'm going to write an amazing article and pad the fuck out of it
<<< /me settles down for this
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: what next? pay people by lines of code?
<< i've actually done that. "you get paid 1000 - code count"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and in people i know to be clever!
<< wait, do you mean me ?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> i own two halves of a broken corkscrew (owned. used to show people.)
<< I imagine my current corkscrew will outlive me
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> 100 percent machined parts, nothing stamped, nothing made of shitmetal (e.g. 'zamac')
<< no, because metals can be purified, but organics not so well.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: infinite shares with no plausible picture of how they are to be worth something
<<< this is similar to the problem of marriage neh ? "woman can bring infinite children with no idea how they;d amount to anything"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mike_c: wsj, like nyt et al is an organ of the crown.
<< so is qntra.
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> yeah, but also like slaves they're worth w/e they bring in.
<< also this one
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> but idea is, if you own them, better keep them busy. like slaves.
<< oh god i know this one
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> over a ludicrously expensive plasma tv, the owner of the firm gravely proclaimed that the robot (nominally a sapperbot) shall be fitted with a rifle.
<< Wait employees hadn't machines so armed already?
mircea_popescu: jurov: FTFY: build enough audience and capital to buy ukraine
<<< here's a simple calculation : someone somewhere judges it worth his time to try to attack qntra for like what, a day ?
BingoBoingo:
<ben_vulpes> kick everyone's ass on quality without worrying about making money
<< gawker was never great, but this is how they killed huffpo
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i wasn't intending to (with what, ha.) just ringing the bell to possibly wake up folks who think they can achieve a new result by doing the same thing as was done for 100 years.
<<< you know, the clerk maxwell guy, arguably a novel result, WAS in fact achieved by doing the exact same thing men have been doing to women for a hundred years.
ThickAsThieves:
<+mircea_popescu> yeah, but then i noticed there's actually two, and they're pretty close. /// of course, second bidder has something to work with
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: once q transforms into the kind of thing which is presently lucrative, it will cease to be distinguishable from the despised competition.
<< the idea is to transform things around it.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: ethics schmethics. newspapers have been funded by ads from forever
<<< yeah but i find the entire goldline glenn beck thing pretty objectionable.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i think it can be nothing more
<<< yeah, but then i noticed there's actually two, and they're pretty close.
mircea_popescu: devthedev: Bitcointalk: "Due to a recently-discovered flaw in the TLS and SSL protocols, you may want to change your password, especially if you accessed the forum using Tor."
<<< what, tor isn't safe ? incredibru.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: By this time next month Amtrack business will be booming. US air travel is on its way out.
<<< can only go where there's track.
mircea_popescu: Freen0deAdmin: why do some names have a color next to them? ThickAsThieves: because racism
<< ok i lolled. because colonialism.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but the fact of ddos still being a thing at all, reveals catastrophically broken design at large.
<< not really, it just reflects a major problem of the world at large (the quare-linear problem, specifically)
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> is everybody here but me on lsd?
<< Maybe?
BingoBoingo:
<mike_c> or selling direct ala bitbet
<< From an ethics standpoint a Van-ads sort of arrangement is probably cleaner
mike_c: ThickAsThieves:being that you had to make up numbers AND timelines
<< hm, how else do you make investment decisions?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> or pedal?
<< Pedal, as in the pedal tones on a brass instrument
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: as if trains will not fall under same bureaucracy if the fuhrer wishes it.
<< No, being under the same bureaucracy is why the trains will run.
BingoBoingo: Oh * JerryFish (~HDMIVGA@c-24-34-9-201.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) has joined #bitcoin-assets
<< has interest in this channe
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> the point of a gambit such as drilled coin is to avoid being noticed.
<< Nah, you drill some coins to force a search for more of the same
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: hollow coins in real life fool no one if examined individually - given the way they are made, the ruse is quite obvious when seen from the edge.
<< Takes visual inspection though.
jurov:
<ThickAsThieves> like when mpex is down, we can still trade
<< this was actually my intention with the receipts. but it isn't worth it