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cazalla: mircea_popescu: when a bet i created is added
to
the site, why does it show duplicate bets coming from my address?
nubbins`: lel, first comment on
that reddit post
nubbins`: it's unusual for canadians
to carry any amount of cash
nubbins`: sk
too, at least until mobile phone payments started around 2007
mircea_popescu: i have never used a plastic card
to pay for any purchase during my entire stay here.
mircea_popescu: more
than
the value per se, romania is still
to
this day a cash economy.
nubbins`: i often wondered why south korea hasn't revalued
their currency
nubbins`: do you know how long it
takes
to count out nine hundred dollars in 10 cent bills?!
nubbins`: not unusual
to find yourself in
the lineup at canadian
tire, stuck behind some asshole buying a snowblower with canadian
tire money
mircea_popescu: The coupon rate earned was initially 5% of
the eligible purchase price but was subsequently lowered
to 3%,
then
to 1.4%, and now is 0.4%.
nubbins`: because CT isn't as brave as
they'd like
to be
nubbins`: not unheard-of
to find private businesses
that accept it
ozbot: Canadian
Tire money - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
nubbins`: i do accept canadian
tire money, but it's harder
to find in yurop
nubbins`: ah,
they're all
the same. does a horse prefer one gopher hole over another?
mircea_popescu: what altscamcoin of your choice would you
take instead ?
nubbins`: i'll
take
that bet once i get around
to generating an actual address
that starts with 1AltcoinSucksCocks
nubbins`: fairly eye-catching as far as headlines go
though, hey?
ozbot: Bitcoin's Warren Buffet makes 8k BTC profit in February, halts options
trading because of
the lack o
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell copumpkin your pubkey is unusable for some sort of reason.
ThickAsThieves: Options include skipping a G8 summit planned for
this summer in Sochi, Russia, as well as
trade limitations "and putting some commerce deals on hold," Al Jazeera's Jordan reports.
ThickAsThieves: something about "warns Russia" bothers me...
this isn't a 3rd world country he's warning
cazalla: KRS-One does someone else kick in
the pad
the bet when
they are approved?
cazalla: first
time creating a bet, why does
the bet list me as having bet
twice for a larger amount?
ozbot: No, it’s not
the revenue. pe
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decimation: you also inspired me
to look more closely into Forth
BingoBoingo: Let us all cook pasta noodles in a pressure cooker for 7 minutes,
there must be NO better way
to make glue!!!
decimation: more evidence of
the surrender of original
thinking
to academic bureaucracy
nubbins`: sorry man, king-size bed, only room for
two ;)
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to Python? | Lambda
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decimation: yeah I saw
that, but presumably before
that someone decided scheme was
the way
to go
decimation: so reading your blog, it seems
that MIT eventually went
to Scheme
to
teach young EE's how
to code microcontrollers
decimation: he probably
thinks it's his
ticket
to get rich
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decimation: okay I might
to some dumpster-diving
to find
the
thing
BingoBoingo: One of my regrets
though is not picking up an Apple IIGS, because
that looks like
that could have lead
to incredible fun
BingoBoingo: And once I care enough
to fix
the SE/30 it will be a
thing again
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Why.
The SE/30 is dead, but I still have a flock of MacClassics
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If only hypercard was still a
thing
decimation: the videos are widely available in
the us but no one knows about it
decimation: hey did you guys behind
the iron curtain watch Krtek
the mole when you were little?
nubbins`: when rice visited bolivia,
they gave her a guitar with a coca leaf lacquered onto it
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well consider
that
the payload necessary
to neutralize a GPS satellite can probably be measured in a single digit number of grams. Even many "tactical" missiles if stripped for
the locker room could prolly do
the job.
mircea_popescu: old age does
that. back when he was still sane everyone put up with him. including rice.
mircea_popescu: gaddafi definitely coud have afforded
to plug a satelite.