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mike_c: now the ipo is underpriced!
tg2: not even 1 server on there
tg2: fucking ebay - i searched for lipo batteries ONCE, literally 1 session in the last year
mike_c: not like the other day when you posted that md4 challenge and i almost fried my graphics card trying to crack it.
tg2: and i'm sure HFT will be the first place it shows up lol
tg2: I just want to read some shit about through-earth data transmission
tg2: "Flash Boys" is the name of the book
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 497.12, Best ask: 497.6, Bid-ask spread: 0.48000, Last trade: 497.12, 24 hour volume: 42616.48906348, 24 hour low: 466.1, 24 hour high: 532.0, 24 hour vwap: 501.447744429
mircea_popescu: he was the third man at id, but apparently got erased.
mircea_popescu: nono, worked with those two, ended up making a game company which burned through 10mn of 1990s dollars to make some katana game
mike_c: don't know, don't think it was lewis
mircea_popescu: mike_c who was the guy with the katana ?
mike_c: michael lewis' new book is about hft traders. should be interesting. (lewis=liar's poker, moneyball, the big short)
BingoBoingo: tg2: Post to tumbler?
tg2: possible to populate bait?
mike_c: mircea_popescu: carmack and abrash were the talent & brains behind id software (doom,quake)
BingoBoingo: Everyone is free to guess at the identity of the generous soul
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Thanks
joecool: hdr, throwin up rainbows now, thx
moiety: not so keen on that one iono why
mircea_popescu: nice feet tho.
moiety: i need to read all ze log before responding
mircea_popescu: noob moiety sending later tits to present people.
assbot: Last trade for RENT on HAVELOCK was at 0.007215 BTC [-]
kakobrekla: what is this nao
moiety: ;; later tell mircea_popescu a turtle surfing seal pup?! lolol
assbot: It says some pelt-wearin' trapper, some stinkin' bean-suckin' possum skinner, he's gonna collect that reward money.
kakobrekla: lets take this to private
kakobrekla: its the same ip
topace: if the IP changed, then i need to modify firewall
topace: but i figured it was the same IP
topace: you had me change the hostname
topace: did the IP change ?
kakobrekla: something wrong wit the api?
kakobrekla: but he is their sys admin
kakobrekla: ping topace
kakobrekla: or they changed ips
mike_c: assbot is trying to catch up to mp's line count
assbot: It says some pelt-wearin' trapper, some stinkin' bean-suckin' possum skinner, he's gonna collect that reward money.
assbot: !bash <lines> (desc: bashes last <lines> lines to bash) {short: !b}
assbot: !mp <signcrypted dpaste.com url> (desc: returns the response from MPEX order)
assbot: !ticker <exchange> <ticker> (desc: returns current ticker values, supported: MPEX, HAVELOCK, BTCTCO) {short: !t}
kakobrekla: how cum the ticker aint working, this aint right.
the20year2: i haven't had to buy a single share to increase price
benkay: plan to let your stockholders sell at the same price as your round 2 ipo?
benkay: the manip is in, eh, the20year2 ?
BingoBoingo: firearms and booze are like cars and booze, best kept well apart from each other in time and space
benkay: 'sides, risky for the charger.
benkay: where's the fun in that, tg2 ?
gribble: vexual was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 weeks, 1 day, 19 hours, 31 minutes, and 14 seconds ago: <Vexual> lasers in the eye is never good tat
tg2: burnt the nightstand
tg2: like expanded and then blew out
mike_c: so if it doesn't crumble it causes the car to fly!
benkay: going to puncture it on a drunken weekend soon
mike_c: re: not brissant: " provides another layer of deflection and finally causes the Model S to ramp up and over the object if it is essentially incompressible and immovable"
mike_c: mircea_popescu: three shields, aluminum bar, then titanium shield, then aluminum deflector shield.
mircea_popescu: the item in the video doesn't match that jpg
benkay: <tg2> plastic pin that holds that cover on
tg2: you can see, that is exactly what it is
benkay: makes me think metal.
benkay: plus shine, plus no tumble and maintaining the same speed as car...
benkay: those would cut right through plastic over time.
benkay: it's holding in super vibrate-y al plates, though.
mircea_popescu: anyway, pretty impressive armor they got on the thing
benkay: should tumble and slow much more imho
tg2: plastic pin that holds that cover on
benkay: helluva lever arm across the width of the body
benkay: you can see the threads strip and then it wobble out
tg2: i'd like to see a tesla drive over that
mircea_popescu: what's that item flyiong out after the puncture /
tg2: check that shit out
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mircea_popescu: wow pretty good going with the hitch
mike_c: actually less brissant than i thought
tg2: that concrete was likely cast for that express test
benkay: i figured those were ductile.
mircea_popescu: mike_c well see, there's a reason why karate guys break one foot of brick but never try half inch of cast iron pot.
benkay: what, a tow hitch is brissant?
mircea_popescu: it's actually a decent way to make a buck.
mircea_popescu: tg2 they settle.
mike_c: they ran over an alternator and a tow hitch. but they were brissant.
tg2: I'm surprised they haven't been sued into the ground yet. People are overly complacent
benkay: mike_c: show me the same thing with a piece of steel a la what kicked off a recent Tesla fire.
punkman: I just use it for small purchases here and there
tg2: depending on how they feel
tg2: at which point they may or may not give it back
tg2: that special feeling when paypal sends you an email that your account is now "restricted" and they're going to hang on to your $200k while they evaluate the situation for the next 6 months
mircea_popescu: punkman there's a bug of stupid going around, they fucked up namecheap earilier.
tg2: they're doing the world a service.
punkman: so they redesigned Paypal to be responsive or whatever, now I can't even get to my account page
mircea_popescu: but you know, what happens if the obstacle isn't brissant
mircea_popescu: thats a map of the major wine producing zones
mike_c: tl;dr: watch a tesla run over a concrete block: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*jX6zAXW-xmUgkNDhi891zQ.gif
tg2: you need hills of the right orientation, arid seasons, mild temperature variances and the right amount of daylight (and, you know, some fugesi) to grow good wine
mike_c: no more tesla fires: https://medium.com/p/544f35965a0d
tg2: craiova is about the same latitude as the two regions in italy and france that produce the "top" wines
tg2: its a combination of soil and sun and temperature
tg2: geographically they should be able to grow the same caliber of wine as itali
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, do you know how roman legionnaires chose where to settle down ? ie, they wanted to be able to grow wine)
tg2: I keep them at 14C