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mircea_popescu: Mar 04 11:22:27 <assbot>[MPEX] [S.MPOE] [PAID] 4,050.17291466 BTC
to 500`000`000 shares, 810 satoshi per share
nubbins`: i guess i'm not
the only person who noticed
topace/lightbox on
that gox list
pLambert: is
there a list somewhere of api commands?
ThickAsThieves: another huge pet peeve i have is when
the wife watches
the non-hd
tv channels
nubbins`: then ya fix it and
they say "but it's all red now"
pLambert: how do I get
the div payments?
nubbins`: "why is everything
tinted blue?" "what do you mean?"
pLambert: so I have
to read
through
the contracts and find
the shares outstanding?
mircea_popescu: pLambert no,
the way
this is done is
that dividends and contracts list
the share count.
ThickAsThieves: yeah i used
to calibrate all my shit with expensive stuff
pLambert: is
there an api call
that returns
the number of shares of mpex stocks?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` but you're controlling
the print process, what's
the client
to do
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: not a big deal if you can't also calibrate
the client's monitor
mircea_popescu: nubbins` an electron cannon you can actually calibrate
to work.
nubbins`: pantone or nothin' baby, don't
trust
the screen
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you know designers/print process ppl etc mostly use crts
to
this day
nubbins`: if CBS has a problem w/ shortages, maybe
they should stop banning queers from donating blood
nubbins`: anyway
these "paid donation clinics" weren't even operated by canadian blood services, nor were
they collecting for
transfusions
mircea_popescu: and a good crt is way better
than
the best lcd/lft we you'll ever find.
ThickAsThieves: mp i wonder if part of your reason for needing super large
text isnt your crt ;)
nubbins`: on
the other other hand,
they
test all
the blood anyway
nubbins`: on
the other hand, great way
to get junkies
to lie about
their past
nubbins`: on one hand, great way
to get people
to give blood
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or live in a country where
they fix shit.
ozbot: Blood donor payments
to be outlawed in Ontario - Health - CBC News
mircea_popescu: most people just leave
the stuff outside on set dates for
the dump workers
to collect it (they get
the respective cents
themselkves, sort of like a
tip)
mircea_popescu: yeah,
they mostly reuse
them. as long as you give it up clean/sorted (ie, not covered in rotten meatjuices or w/e common garbage)
they usually give you a few cents/kg
ThickAsThieves: makes sense, isnt
there like 8lbs of lead in
the big ones
nubbins`: given
that
the alternative is illegal dumping, of which
there's already
too much
nubbins`: but
they mostly
turn a blind eye
nubbins`: you have
to pay $50
to leave a crt at
the dump here
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this was if memory serves a 1992 seagate.
ThickAsThieves: i got rid of my last crt a couple years ago, a huge
trinitron
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic ayup.
the magic
that you know and love as my endless spam is hatched on electron excitated phosphorus coatings.
mircea_popescu: i may be
the only buyer left for spun drives and crt monitors in a 100 mile radius
nubbins`: quite infrequently after i pass
the 400-page mark
nubbins`: it's not often i give up on a book partway
through
nubbins`: pascale agreed
to do a 3-hour screenprinting class down at
the
textiles school
today
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so was it
teh putin
that sold all
those bonds earlier ?
nubbins`: they might get a vote or
two every federal election
nubbins`: canada has a communist party, can't say i know much about
their operations
ThickAsThieves: i dont understand why
they are dragging it out over so many installments
mircea_popescu: in
the sense
that "this is just
the old pcr stuff rehashed"
mircea_popescu: in romanian parlance of
the
time,
the opposition (ie, what
the us bipartisanly does) was called.... communism.
nubbins`: funny how it means
the opposite some places now
mircea_popescu: this socialist re-defining of liberal is a purely us
thing.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` in
the east liberal means you know, right of conservative.
mircea_popescu: then i quit it in 2008, at
the
time it was in power. it looks like it will make... about 3% next electoral cycle.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, for self-c0k stroking purposes : i was one in
the "secret circle" of romanian national liberal party, which went from making 3% in an alliance
to making its own government by
the
time i left romania.
nubbins`: ThickAsThieves: saw
toffoo's name
there. half of -otc is on
the list
nubbins`: chetty: well,
to be fair,
that's fine for maintenance -- i've gone as long as
two months without feeding mine and successfully revived it -- but i bake every 3 or 4 days
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you gotta appreciate, romanian politics 1990-2005 much more interesting
than anything anyone's seen i nthe us.
Duffer1: being american i suppose i forgot
there's non american politics out
there..
mircea_popescu: BitChrista if you
think
that'd wear someone down,
try being mp for a week :D
Duffer1: wow i did not see
that coming MP
BitChrista: mircea_popescu were you really? I feel like
that would weather someone down fast
mircea_popescu: the situation is roughly similar with "there's more
to be made financing silicon valley cca 1960
than financing banking or energy sector stocks".
ThickAsThieves: i guess any motivation
to have people with a clue going into politics is helpful
mircea_popescu: there's more
to be made serving bitcoin interest
than serving ws interest
today, for
the young aspiring politician
ThickAsThieves: most likely way itll end up in politics and wall st is via greed
though
mircea_popescu: there's about a billion or so worth of bitcoins represented here, and likely more reachable because
the logs make popular morning newspapers for many people
BitChrista: mircea_popescu
thank you for introducing me
to
this chat room. I completely agree, once Bitcoin is in politics it'll be untouchable.
ThickAsThieves: an important
thing
to keep in mind looking at
the list
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves
toffoo is old
time, prolly pre-2013 most of it
mircea_popescu: BitChrista
that's nice. anyway, fyi,
this is
the place where bitcoin finance is hatched, so, probably worth your
time
to lurk.