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artifexd: <ThickAsThieves> lemme know if you need help of any of
the kinds i might be able
to provide << I missed
that. My response:
Thanks! I will.
Mats_cd03: men on
the extreme ends of perceived sexual norms (e.g. black vs asians in
the media) seem
to have fewer problems with dressing fashionably
VanCleef: do you
think its because every black person is secretly gay? (no homo)
MisterE: heh
true gay people and many black people have style
ThickAsThieves: i'd wear
the same
thing every day if people stopped fixating on
that being weird
ThickAsThieves: just
the ones on
tv are mostly just gay-with-clothes-on
MisterE: back in
the 60s people had style
MisterE: oh I'm pretty sure
the SEC's network blocks
the applet
MisterE: too bad
that SEC layer didnt come
to IRC :)
ThickAsThieves: so basically
the budgets represent each of
the USG's corporations, not actual categories
MisterE: no budget has ever included
the 10 years war(s)
MisterE: the pieces of
the pie
they argue over
that include social services are definitely
the small ones.
ThickAsThieves: look we cut Defense spending by .1%! Ignore
that Homeland Security part.
MisterE: the leaked "black budget" gave us a bit more insight and you can extrapolate how
they compartmentalize from
there
mircea_popescu: in many ways
the usg is much like a bitcointalk investor : can't get anything done because surrounded by
thieves
mircea_popescu: it's meanwhile disappeared, but
the problem's only gotten worse.
mircea_popescu: there was a rash of reporting
their haliburtonesque mismanagement of resources in 2002-2003
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves because otherwise all
their unjustifiable expenses stand out as a sore
thumb
nubbins`: it's worked into
the Offense budget
ThickAsThieves: why isn't Homeland Security part of
the Defense budget?
artifexd: I may have
to just reset
the genesis block and remove
the checkpoints and start mining it myself.
artifexd: There's a
testnet checkpoint at block 546 (or somewhere
thereabouts).
ThickAsThieves: lemme know if you need help of any of
the kinds i might be able
to provide
pankkake: artifexd: I don't
think
there ever was a altcoin
testnet. if it's configured in
the code, you can start it yourself I guess!
mircea_popescu: all
the fun of gambling with none of
the bitcoin downside!!11
pankkake: yeah, very
tired and irlbusy
these last few weeks
artifexd: I don't want bitcoin
testnet. I want altcoin
testnet.
mircea_popescu: or, alternatively, use
the ATC newtork, it's a direct copy of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, i can't believe
they'd have stopped
the
testnet
artifexd: I guess I get
to
test code in production, as it were.
artifexd: ThickAsThieves Do you know anyone running
the altcoin
testnet
that I can connect
to?
ThickAsThieves: <Neil> Someone's added some fsck-off hashpower
to
the network in
the last 2 days. /// probly ASICMINER stuff
MisterE: I dont go on bitcointalk forum much such a
time sink
MisterE: haha and BCF hate at
the end love it
ozbot: Here’s a
thought : being Bitcoin is more of a something
to be
than being Jewish ever was or could
ozbot: Interacting with fiat institutions [such as
the SEC], a guide
ozbot: Bill Cosby speaking
the
truf. Bippity Bop - Imgur
Neil: Well BTC > $10k bet suddenly became lopsided
this week.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
turns out
this was obviously not a serious piece, so i guess
teaches me
to protest before finishing an article.
mircea_popescu: i suppose properly bezzle should be
traced back
to gailbrath, cca 1929
mircea_popescu: and i don't
think orlov even uses
the latter, just, a current russian expression ascii explained in english at some point
mircea_popescu: and no, i don't mention him, other people keep mentioning him, like herbi and ascii. i
thnk he's mostly clueless and generally vain.
mircea_popescu: some strange ideas in
there, and most of it oldman nonsense.
there's no absolute limit
to physical development.
Duffer1: you've mentioned orlov a few
times
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell asciilifeform "Social networking and mobile computing are hot" dude
this orlov guy...
Neil: Someone's added some fsck-off hashpower
to
the network in
the last 2 days.
mircea_popescu: that's
the official, definitive, correct figure. 377k.
MisterE: And I mean
the "milking
the n00bs" coment
tongue in cheek
MisterE: not calling
the whole LTC on Huobi
thing a scam just very heavily manipulated but all markets are manipulated so...
The writing was on
the wall for me luckily I guess.
Neil: I'm sure
they're spending more not less.
mircea_popescu: and you don't ADD inflation, because you're not in 2009 dollars
today.
mircea_popescu: i recall recently seeing
the us budget, and it was 100ish
Neil: But I'll still log on
to bitcoin-assets from said sunny island, I promise!
Neil: If it gets
to $76k I'm long retired on a sunny island
Neil: They spend more
than
that no?
mircea_popescu: fun fact : any point btc is over 1240 usd,
the bitcoin network is spending more for its own security
than
the united states government spends on defense.
Neil: Miners must do, unless
they're spending savings and not selling what
they mine
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is much more
than
the us, why shouldn't it spend much more ?
Neil: mircea_popescu: And prices are down 50%. I'd have expected
that
to be a damper.
mircea_popescu: but anyway,
the us spends what, 100bn on defense a year ?
mircea_popescu: that's why
the
throwing money isn't stopping, i'd guess.
Neil: At some stage people are gonna stop
throwing money at mining. Amazes me how long it's
taking
though.
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 4939815404.41 based on data since last change | 5576146819.12 based on data for last
three days
Neil: Geez
the last 60 blocks have been in half-time
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell heysteve2 "I believe every caller on
talk radio, just like I believe every story on zh." <<
there you go. it's like playboy forum by now.
chetty: Russia has amassed enough forces on Ukraine’s border
to reach
the dispute region of
Transnistria, NATO’s
top military commander
told a conference in Brussels on Sunday, Reuters reported.
mircea_popescu: so in general expect pump and dumps
to be punctured randomly and outside of
the originator's control going forward, so as
to hurt
the originator and his friends.
mircea_popescu: this isn't supposed
to be a "milking noobs for years"
thing, and it's not supposed
to be either accessible
to or productive for
the sort of car salesman
that
thinks himself a financier now.
mircea_popescu: MisterE: LTC on Huobi dump destroyed a lot of n00bs who could have been milked for years instead of in one big dump but nobody
thinks long-term << no, you don't understand. destroying scams IS
thinking long
term.
mircea_popescu: MisterE except
the only exchange owner we know is me, and so i guess you can use
trilema for
that purpose.
chetty: ugh, and I just finished my
tax return