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assbot: ESPN.com: Page 2 : Fear & Loathing
<br>on Super Sunday
kakobrekla:
<mircea_popescu> no, i'm with you, that ui died.
< well every ui so far died. gui however did not.
kakobrekla: ok then, no ui,
<mircea_popescu> in a "better design" sense
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: people fucking the same woman also share a relationship
<< 'milk brothers' where i come from
<< Around these parts the term Eskimo Brother is used
kakobrekla:
<mircea_popescu> kakobrekla yeah i know. ftr, i dun really believe that's why. cum hoc etc.
< you know, just ask the chumpatrons.
kakobrekla: > there was never anything of any value or utility come from listening "to people" and "their needs"
< does not out by itself, you need to extract the value out
kakobrekla:
<mircea_popescu>
<kakobrekla> 350k registration, 40k phones
<< i gotta partner with these poeple somehow.
< just learn their sekrits
mircea_popescu:
<ThickAsThieves> or at least, deliver via husks rather than actual creators
<< dude, nobody wants to spend 3 minutes watching a "creator" that's not female, not properly jugged and not properly skinned.
mircea_popescu:
<kakobrekla> 350k registration, 40k phones
<< i gotta partner with these poeple somehow.
mircea_popescu:
<thestringpuller> when did he become an expert on the subject....
<< you mean in his own head or irl ?
gribble: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX] [--market
<market>|all]) -- Return pretty-printed ticker. Default market is Bitstamp. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure (1 more message)
gribble: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX] [--market
<market>|all]) -- Return pretty-printed ticker. Default market is Bitstamp. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure (1 more message)
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: not just one man. the man with something to say. there was never anything of any value or utility come from listening "to people" and "their needs"
<< the apple watch is past the inflection point. a point that was, in my estimation, the iphone 5's 4" screen
mircea_popescu:
<ThickAsThieves> atkins diet is very shit-restaurant friendly
<< mystery solved. i had nfi why people still reference that idiocy after all these years.
mircea_popescu:
<punkman> pete_dushenski: in all fairness, Excel is the only viable GUI for big spreadsheets
<< wtf are you talking about ?!
mircea_popescu:
<punkman> pete_dushenski: tabular data can be easily exfiltrated. Problem is when you have multiple sheets, VB scripts and other custom derpage.
<< vb scripts being untranslatable because of just how retarded vb is
gribble: arij was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 22 weeks, 5 days, 22 hours, 48 minutes, and 50 seconds ago:
<arij> pLambert, yes, pm me
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: "TGI Friday's
<< they actually had one of these abominations in riga
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i stopped the car, got out and spent the next hour screaming at people on the phone.
<< nao there's a man who doesn't take shit from people who are used to giving it all day.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the original 'salami slicer' thief, if i recall, stole the rounding error at a large bank.
<< as seen in canonical movie "office space" (1999(
pete_dushenski: ThickAsThieves: sometimes i feel like unconvertible Excel files are the only reason MS still exists
<< xls has no problem being turned into google docs. though that may be about as big a difference as bush and obama.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i can't fucking believe scientificamerican seriously is advocating making tanks run windows.
<< i read this as "building tanks with windows for looking out of." funnily, they may just replace seeing windows with mircoderp windows
pete_dushenski: notsakamoto: rumor has it ethereum selling 1/2 their holdings to pay for dev. 15,000 btc hitting market soon
<< that's some diamond encrusted dev work right there
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: now the reports and the contract are fucking diverged and jurov has legitimate complaint #873
<< c'est possible!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: no, that's not retirement, that's being alive.
<< la vita bella, to be sure
mike_c:
<+mircea_popescu> mike_c btw, make yourself a banner
<< hm? a banner for what?
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: ha - derps are setting up shop in BA
<< it's a big town
mircea_popescu: decimation: when I was a boy scout in my youth I went hiking up in Philmont in northern new mexico - they told horror stories
<< re retarded human shamans : here they tell horror stories about muggings. i have, in months, observed exactly one attempt, and it was a clearly us bum trying to pass himself as belgian and doing the talking business. clueless enough to not even fucking spot me, the idiot. but otherwise : ever
mircea_popescu: decimation: TheNewDeal: i've heard that black bears aren't so aggressive as long as you don't corner a cub
<< bears generally aren't aggressive at all. felides&canides are aggressive if very hungry or during mating season, but otherwise you can get out and people have for ages. animal aggressivity is a cost/benefit consideration, they';re not the convenient antichrist retarded human shamans preach.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "go to san jose"
<< har dee har har
decimation: asciilifeform: re: apple phone clones
<< still no qwerty-keyboard phone released recently as far as I know
decimation: the forbes 'article' (forbes
< daily mail) is an example of a blind man feeling the bloated government elephant and declaring it to be a large plum
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> the fuck do people know what their needs are, you might as well be the veterinarian that offers pet-managed pet care.
<< Time to go long on bacon as dogs move over to a diet of pork and more pork
kakobrekla:
<mircea_popescu> nonsense. there is absolutely no reason to cater to idiocy.
< broad statement. totally depends what ones goal is
kakobrekla:
<mircea_popescu> but i mean, bitbet works just fine without expiring addresses
< cause bb has to do with fiat as much as well.. with fiat.
ben_vulpes:
<ThickAsThieves> we're waiting to take off and they are milking me?
<< lol you should hear lady v on the topic
kdomanski:
<ThickAsThieves> b-a doesnt have a proper nonprofit to give to
<< how about Electronic Frontier Foundation?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: X-Rob: I've rented hash and pointed it there for 48 hours. Hopefully this drives the pool diff up or...
<< i don't get it, the pool diff can't be arbitrarily set ?
ben_vulpes: "shit he's in"
<< what shit is this? bed with the USG?
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2014 18:04:31; asciilifeform: diametric: FST-01
<< useful for many purposes, but not crypto. on account of being reflashable via usb.
mircea_popescu: PeterL: not usually explosives, but I have had a few things go up in flames (note: dumping pyrophoric powder into a container of flammable liquid is a bad idea)
<< one of my favourite "experiments" as a 12 yo with a chemistry lab was setting on fire a mix of potassium chloride and sulfur powder, with various metals mixed in for coloration.
mircea_popescu: PeterL: where did you get 100M shares from?
<< the confusion is mostly because originally F.DERP was going to have 10x as much money, but then i cut back because nobody was buying the derps, much to i guess no one's surprise.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: this is an easy way to create a fraudulent scenario.
<<< i can actually confirm this. clueless intern paid .2 btc coinbase invoice, had to be slapped across head. the bitcents are and have been in limbo since friday.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: if you can recommend a shop and they give you a cutback on the order "finders fee" or something i would consider
<<< what you're contemplating is actually fraud, and a hanging offense you know.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: even worse than bitter is a sour espresso
<< i think coffee tastes sour at a certain point of sweetening it.
kdomanski: [01:42]
<kdomanski> mircea_popescu: 40 celsius for me
kdomanski: [01:41]
<mircea_popescu> not mining or anything.
kdomanski: [01:41]
<mircea_popescu> hm, what's a normal temperature for a normal desktop videocard to normally run at ?
kdomanski:
<kdomanski> mircea_popescu: what did you do before bitcoin?
mircea_popescu:
<mircea_popescu> kdomanski i was retired before bitcoin
mircea_popescu:
<kdomanski> mircea_popescu: what did you do before bitcoin?
mircea_popescu:
<mircea_popescu> hm, what's a normal temperature for a normal desktop videocard to normally run at ?
gribble: Namworld was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 days, 8 hours, 37 minutes, and 15 seconds ago:
<Namworld> Eh, not really. Day is the same lenght, regardless of sleeping hours
gribble: poutine was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 15 weeks, 4 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes, and 10 seconds ago:
<poutine> No, but I am developing some cluster based transactional services for it
kakobrekla: you have to keep adding power to be relevant.
< this depends on the her Moore
kakobrekla: >or by how much work i ask for.
< noone in the right mind does this
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: 's quite vast. gargantua & pantagruel around the world in 80 days can even be done straight in french. for canadians.
<< would definitely enjoy this!
pete_dushenski: jurov: “The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.”
<< this is dr. strangelove's mineshaft proposal, neh?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: heh look at that, xapo traded. iiiincredible
<< yw ;)
jdanks: ben_vulpes: jdanks: do you wash your eggs?
<< I rinse them with water and scrub them with a brush if there is shit or yolk from borked eggs. no bleachin or anything unnatural
chalbersma: X-Rob can you try using a higher manual difficulty. Add +
<diff> after your address in the username field.
jdanks: mircea_popescu: jdanks so what is this valley ?
<< seems like a hippie commune for BTC only everything. I can't imagine how we would pay for our power or electricity but it seems like the guy behind it all wants to teach children the importance of engineering, electronics, and crypto, through having a whole town run/get paid in BTC or other.
ben_vulpes:
<chetty> hmm humans live longer, we have all these modern things to reduce work and yet we dont have time. I admit that one confounds me.
<< girl gets a food processor, but prep time saved in mincing garlic does not make meals faster, but grander meals.