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ThickAsThieves: then i look forward to it!
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: There's always at least a third angle
BingoBoingo: Imma still working on the MP emails post.
ThickAsThieves: Apparently Rhode Island has more in total
ThickAsThieves: "We've collected and analyzed data from numerous sources to create as complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities as we could. "
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: You'd think that without a delimiter, some Portugese cities might be on the list...
ozbot: Top 101 cities with the most residents born in Portugal (population 500+)
ThickAsThieves: afaik there is only one major place the Portuguese reside on the East Coast
BingoBoingo: Oh, a Jewish New York retiree then?
ThickAsThieves: the notion that i'm actually from here
LordPutin: i'm 1/3 gay, chinese and muslim, i win in the future
ThickAsThieves: that's the biggest reason i hate living in florida
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: How do they know that? Maybe they will find it an exotic creation of the mythical "Florida Man"
ThickAsThieves: maybe I can rally the Portuguese instead?
ThickAsThieves: BingoBoingo, I have a feeling that nationality of the creator plays a part in their interest in LTC
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Convert them to ATC.
ThickAsThieves: apparently the Chinese love it
ThickAsThieves: LTC seems to be showing signs of life again
LordPutin: i tried calling them but some guy called Dave from fbi picked up
BingoBoingo: Why did Dr. Banner become the Hulk, yet Dr. Slotin the closest thing the Hulk has to an opposite?
ThickAsThieves: call them and ask
LordPutin: yeah true apple is truely lost without jobs
ThickAsThieves: it does have access to his influence
ThickAsThieves: whereas with MPEx, while it is no claim to MP's personal wealth
LordPutin: ahh ok, thanks
ThickAsThieves: and how I no longer wanted to
ThickAsThieves: mostly related to representing them via a passthrough
ThickAsThieves: how long will Friedcat persist? how much of an advantage does he really have? will he achieve dominance in the market?
ThickAsThieves: the hardest part of both is valuing the intangibles
ThickAsThieves: I think AM is at least more obviously overpriced
dexX7: friedcat leaked (?!) the specs of the chip earlier
ThickAsThieves: I consider it to be grossly overvalued
dexX7: yep, the ownership was changed
ThickAsThieves: I suspect AM's gen3 chips will hit the scene in a week or 3
ozbot: BitBet - BTC difficulty to increase by less than 10%
ThickAsThieves: that thered be one less than 10
ThickAsThieves: itll be more like 17-22% by the time it changes
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 4687115861.98 based on data since last change | 4794469217.54 based on data for last three days
ughlol: Mats_cd03: yeah, look at his twitter background, for example!
Mats_cd03: i hope you have a tie on
mircea_popescu: o wow look at that, bcinfo still down
blackwhite: Kids make coins by exercising. The energy they create gets used to mining.
LordPutin: i hope they get bent over
LordPutin: what do you mean they haven't? Are they facing legalaction? ☟︎
dexX7: you're from the us, right?
Duffer1: i know several labcoin victims are also actm bagholders, i hope for their sake i'm wrong
dexX7: but i didn't follow. i think auto said "it's legit".. but i have my doubts
dexX7: i didn't know that. did avalon already publish the spec?
LordPutin: still dont know if its this is good news or meh
dexX7: jurov: i don't think so, but i'm surprised, too. http://www.coindesk.com/bitstamp-got-10m-fortress-linked-hedge-fund-last-year-bloomberg/ this is a more detailed article, but still doesn't mention ripple's role. guess they also received a slice of the cake.
jurov: so it's the same company as made XRP?
LordPutin: is this asicminer news good or meh?
ozbot: I met a certain Senator Al Franken this weekend and my friend saw an opportun
gribble: VanCleef was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 days, 13 hours, 10 minutes, and 54 seconds ago: <VanCleef> hehe tat
mircea_popescu: im off to bed.
benkay: there's more in the queue for today?
mircea_popescu: that and of course, http://trilema.com/2014/the-letter-third/ too.
mircea_popescu: this being written as a sort of pulp fiction-esque prequel of today's lineup.
cazalla: stumping up 8k for the design might be a cover for that
mircea_popescu: read through the lines here.
benkay: his name's on the investors list is it not?
cazalla: i thought pando was backed by that techcrunch guy
mircea_popescu: and that second part is really the big part.
mircea_popescu: i will have then owned a sheep worth 10 dollars + 10 mnore dolars in unrealised gains.
mircea_popescu: if i own a sheep worth 10 dollars today, and the fed prints another 20 trillion dollars
mircea_popescu: "thereby halving the value of cash savings, and piling a ton of taxeable "capital gains" on your non cash savings"
mircea_popescu: that's only half the story.
mircea_popescu: For one, nobody knows how many dollars exist in the world, and furthermore one can never trust the government to not simply double the number of dollars in circulation, thereby halving the value of your savings (provided you were stupid enough to actually keep them in cash).
benkay: what is the borrowing rate these days?
benkay: baaaasically zero compared to the btc rate
benkay: pretty close, tho
benkay: a ty
benkay: trying to figure out the knobs on the "how to get coffee made for me and a whole bunch of other shit done too for not a terrific amount of money"
benkay: the ones whose labor wasn't, weren't. granted those are "controllers" and what have you, not "office managers" or "directors of employee happiness".
benkay: i always figured the ops people were interchangeable by virtue of their labor being by and large totally fungible
ozbot: The Myth of the Non-Technical Startup Employee, by Zoelle Egner | Model View Culture
benkay: but yeah panopticon is the thing lurking in that post
benkay: can't say as much stuck, and i missed out on the apparently crucial canings...
chetty: its where we live, the perfect prison
mircea_popescu: also, you ever heard the word panopticon before ?
chetty: and somehow they all look the same ..
benkay: implying it could be had for less and that honey was ripped off?
mircea_popescu: if you average it all out... it costs more today than it did in 2002.
chetty: well given the million for the Ocare site, sounds cheap :P
mircea_popescu: and this is a start-up, by some journo chick which supposedly knows what time it is.
benkay: i'm thinking more along the lines of 2fa implementations
mircea_popescu: I’ve paid a WordPress designer named Sara Cannon $8,000 to build this site.
benkay: what sorts of things are you talking about now?
mircea_popescu: take the pando chick (who apparently is actually the tard that did that horror interview with zuckerberg) :
benkay: ;;later tell bitcoinpete let me know when you find the joke about mircea_popescu's cock
mircea_popescu: but most of the shit we do today costs 5mn, and would have cost 500 to make 15 years ago.
benkay: we do shit for 50-100k that woulda run in the millions a decade ago.
mircea_popescu: just think. now the govt is buying.
mircea_popescu: what did the obamacare webjournal cost again ?
benkay: ;;later tell bitcoinpete nice to see someone reading closely.
mircea_popescu: benkay ironically, i would say the average paid per webpage today far exceeds the height of the dot com bubble.
gribble: Clifford Cocks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Cocks>; Q&A: The encryption pioneer who was written out of history ... - PC Pro: <http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/361669/q-a-the-encryption-pioneer-who-was-written-out-of-history>; Wired 7.04: The Open Secret: <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.04/crypto_pr.html>
benkay: (i give it a 1/10 - fukken blasted from a weekend with family; barely capable of satisfying the one i have)
benkay: anyways, flight was great - *my* pet redhead is making steaks, and then we're off to the wine bar to seduce the flight attendant
benkay: ah so then i guess not really a product of the usg then, mircea_popescu