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gribble: the20year was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 2 days, 3 hours, 14 minutes, and 55 seconds ago:
<the20year> nubbins`: i sent you my address
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu pigeons i grew up with a one lb bottle of liquid ether in my chemistry lab. tru story.
<< do I dare ask what you did with said ether?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: no shortage of possible experiments to choose from (e.g. Lamportian 67% theoretical maximum threshold
<< that's not the good part. the good part is a better chaining methodology.
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> benkay: or is that not actually a text file?
<< hasn't been a texrfile for all of two years. // cult of complexity
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> Pierre_Rochard:mircea_popescu: permission to republish?
<< well, no. an article is one thing, but wholesale copying of trilema serves little purpose. put up an adnotated article list if you want, that seems to serve your purpose better, or if not do commentary on the individual articles // think talmud
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if any of them took the trouble to write something interesting (e.g. system analogous to the original btc but of proper, rather than 'power ranger' quality) and resisted the temptation of premine shenanigans, etc. - but no.
<<< quite.
mircea_popescu: pigeons: hey mircea_popescu I havent followed, but i saw you are selling eth foward contract or similar. I wanted to suggest putting something similar on mpex, i think that would do well
<< i asked, people lol'd. which is why it's in otc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: Sexy Saffron better not tell reddit she's an mp employee
<< that's okay, the only thing that's keeping derppit from a collective headexploy is all the shit their collective dumbass doesn't know.
mircea_popescu: and it's an audience that hates mp, soooo, fat chance
<< you know how many of these there've been, over the years ? and how painfully and mean-ly they've been humiliated ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i think the best part about the offer is it's potential to disrupt the live offering
<< no, the best part is pulling the rug from under the scammer's feet quite unexplectedly.
BingoBoingo: benkay>
<mircea_popescu>
<pankkake> well, he has the private key, but I have it too. not smart :p
<< omg BingoBoingo WHAT HAVE YOU DUN NAO // yeah, i'm also curious as to what's going on here
<< OMG Opsec fail
mircea_popescu: benkay: or is that not actually a text file?
<< hasn't been a texrfile for all of two years.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: and in multiple bitcoin clients
<< i never bothered to get a client myself so there's that.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`:"i live in a place with stylish young people, independent women, and those who care about our natural environment. it's a real drag."
<< i can see it.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: mthreat: do yourself a favor and stop drinking charbucks
<< talking to ex-us-mil guy, "i'll tell you what starbucks is. back in the force, they'd make these largish tanks of coffee at the crack of down, keep them on reheat, throw them out at night. starbucks is pretty much like a drink out of that tank right before it getting thrown out. which is why they put all the cream and crap into it : gotta try and mas
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard:mircea_popescu: permission to republish?
<< well, no. an article is one thing, but wholesale copying of trilema serves little purpose. put up an adnotated article list if you want, that seems to serve your purpose better, or if not do commentary on the individual articles
benkay:
<thestringpuller> just cattle. let them die off; we can scavenge the refuse for useful stuff afterwards. // biodiesel
bitcoinpete: benkay:
<mircea_popescu> mike_c stop opposing progress and an end to oppression. // hey have you guys heard about this ICBC auto insurance monopoly in BC?
<< i think only bc is socialist enough to do this
benkay:
<benkay> actual programmers being few and far between. // not to imply anything about myself, ofc just a derpy webapp guy
bitcoinpete: Nassim N. Taleb @nntaleb · 38m Up to 19thC, people in the Levant changed religion to stay in the land. Today they change land to keep religion. (Druzes⇒Maronites⇔Shiites)
<< sounds downright civilized
benkay:
<princessnell> Pierre_Rochard also probably WoT lit // woterotica
benkay:
<pankkake> unfortunately there's no easy way to remove an address from bitcoin-qt // delete from wallet.dat? or is that not actually a text file?
benkay:
<mircea_popescu>
<pankkake> well, he has the private key, but I have it too. not smart :p
<< omg BingoBoingo WHAT HAVE YOU DUN NAO // yeah, i'm also curious as to what's going on here
benkay:
<chetty>
<mircea_popescu> benkay: this is what happens when you let the wimmins manage projects without oversight
<< word, seriously. and you should see what happens when you let them manage kids w/o oversight.// yeah you get adults // team effort, anyone?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: Sexy Saffron appears to be parlaying it up
<< the sign of a smart girl. you only need give a little push.
mircea_popescu:
<pankkake> well, he has the private key, but I have it too. not smart :p
<< omg BingoBoingo WHAT HAVE YOU DUN NAO
mircea_popescu: pankkake: mainstream media prepping the general public for inflation
<< precisely.
mircea_popescu: davout: was the new mpex key advertised anywhere ?
<< in faq and linked here.
chetty:
<Pierre_Rochard> chetty: please let us know if you have any other candidates for republication// trilema is a gold mine
mircea_popescu: "A verbose and condescending essay written by a child who has never encountered true malice or been hungry in his whole life."
<< o, "you've never been hungry thus what you have to say is unimportant". because yeah, that's true value : to find out from the frequently hungry how they dun it!
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: "- We reserve the right to use up to 5000 BTC from the pre-sale while the pre-sale is running in order to speed up development."
<< funny they didn't reserve it before the fucking thing started.
chetty:
<mircea_popescu> benkay: this is what happens when you let the wimmins manage projects without oversight
<< word, seriously. and you should see what happens when you let them manage kids w/o oversight.// yeah you get adults
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: i sent Jick a message for him to answer on his podcast, telling him he should accept BTC for Mr. A's; he shot it down and mostly focused on the "tone" i used
<< incredible the gall of these fuckwits.
mircea_popescu: benkay: this is what happens when you let the wimmins manage projects without oversight
<< word, seriously. and you should see what happens when you let them manage kids w/o oversight.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron:
<< if it's anything like the counterparty burn for xcp
<< supposedly this is not a burn, they intend to spend it.
mircea_popescu: benkay: hey have you guys heard about this ICBC auto insurance monopoly in BC?
<< kinda why i was so lulzed out at the entire "icbc is in pink sheets" nyse debacle.
mircea_popescu: dub: this is an invite but i've had pre-invites before
<< wtf is this invite to invite, ask to ask, meta bullshit anyway ?
danielpbarron: my hemp backpack lost a lot of value when they implemented the back inventory slot and released an official mr. store style backback :
< benkay:
<nubbins`> i struggle to understand living a life so bereft of meaning that blowing your wad on a $50k one-off party is the culmination of your aspirations // that's why they demand consummation immediately afterwards, to keep the void filled
benkay:
<dub> if you know when, why not skip straight to the invite proper // this is what happens when you let the wimmins manage projects without oversight
danielpbarron: 20:43:11
<+mircea_popescu> why do all the supposed payments end in .9997 ?
<< if it's anything like the counterparty burn for xcp, the software puts a limit on 1 BTC per burn, and their reason was to make it harder for whales to burn a huge amount too easily (to make it "more fair" for the little guys)
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> mike_c stop opposing progress and an end to oppression. // hey have you guys heard about this ICBC auto insurance monopoly in BC?
mircea_popescu:
<dub> idk, I recall a theory that abnormally high iodine levels in the japanese contributes to their well above average longevity
<< fukushima makes sense nao.
nubbins`:
<+dub> (most western table salt has iodine removed)
mircea_popescu:
<dub> not that I would want to go back
<< omg #bitcoin-extradition
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: For asciilifeform> we're talking about a gadget that powers up and sends a single 'sms' every blue moon.
<< You can pay $ int every year.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo stop opposing research and job creating funding in research and SCIENCE and global warming.
<< I'm fighting marketing. Just because pharma doesn't want to compete with Tesla's 1337 battery factory doesn't mean that there are better uses for those salts than motor carriages and iBortions.
BingoBoingo: dub> they give lithium in cases of extreme psychosis
<< Also they don't really give lithium much for psychosis anymore which is a shame considering how well it works...
kakobrekla:
<mircea_popescu> they even market all these miracle-curing sulphurous mineral waters.
< been to such place, saturnia in italy.
BingoBoingo: I'm back, mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo grab a chick'n while at it.
<< How does that saying go... "Don't shit where you eat"
benkay:
<bitstein> Somewhat related, I'm working on an article about how merchants are just scammers trying to swindle you out of your bitcoins. // i'm starting to like you
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> benkay well so far it's really an urbit fork. // vaporware fork XD
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> What was Hearn's nick?
<< i don't recall he ever managing to figure out the gpg arcana. i imagine he'll first have to implement a google code version, that doesn't work.
BingoBoingo: "I would encourage you to finish before the majority of your committee members retire. (seriously.)"
<< Roflmao, I know a between one and two hand full of countable fingers of these people.
bitstein:
<+mircea_popescu> this is why they keep insisting on the bitcoin merchant dead meme,
<< you mean the idea that merchants matter?
BingoBoingo:
<FoOdies> true but I doubt people who've been to an interrecial intersex interspecies orgy are interested in reading any porn
<< if only you knew what a hassel these things are to set up...
BingoBoingo: "People interested in acquiring ether to build and distribute decentralized applications, or to pay for their usage, are able to do so in the Genesis Sale using bitcoin, thereby locking-in their supply at a known price. This sale will help us fund the continued development of the software platform, scheduled for release in the winter of 2014/2015."
<< Preorder on a BFL window. Thing could waterialize winter 2014 or winter 2015
mircea_popescu: A Black Hat spokeswoman told Reuters that the talk had been canceled at the request of lawyers for Carnegie-Mellon University, where the speakers work as researchers.
<<< this is why scientists of today are in no sense the scientists of 1914, and even less the scientists of 1814.
mircea_popescu:
<thickasthieves> 12 inches is a foot? 3' a yard? wtf is going on here?
BingoBoingo: Bitcore, BitPay’s open-source javascript bitcoin library, now uses Fedor Indutny‘s highly optimized cryptography in the browser, which leads to significant speed improvements and an improved user experience for applications built with Bitcore.
<< Shit's prolly being optimized out
jurov:
<gmaxwell> danielpbarron: owner of mpex is unsafe to do business with, he does things like put surprising terms in the fine print of his contracts and then gloats about how you deserved to get ripped off and what a moron you are when you get caught out.
thickasthieves:
<+mike_c> and seattle just drizzles at you every day of the year. /// so i will fly there and settle this once and for all!
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> bitbet. giving the bitcoin population the sort of graphs it wants to see. since 2012. // i want a shirt that has a bunch of zig-zaggy up-and-to-the-right arrows patterned across it
mircea_popescu: princessnell> this is true. but they are still fun.
<< wait, wut ? you dare speak of like your sexual experience ? as a woman among men ? on the interwebs ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: I'd rephrase that, WoT is an avenue where you do due dilligence. You trust MP enough, you can stop your search after getting the "go-ahead" from MP
<< for that matter mp can even say something like "o, forget it, if he's gypping you for 1.3 BTC I"M paying for it."