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benkay:
<BingoBoingo> Fuck... If Farc catches me... I might get an actual IT job. // worse things could happen
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> signal from the genuine gps sat is... below thermal noise.
<< exactly, and directionality is w-expensive.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> a tale was once told to me by one fellow 'in the know': russia sold gps jammers (serious ones, not the chinese pocket gizmos off ebay) to iraq, shortly prior to '03 american invasion. but iraq didn't pay the full invoice. so, the vendor neglected to remind the buyer that they must be arranged in a ring pattern and operated in unison
<< i heard the same story passed off as successful intel mission, stole
mircea_popescu:
<benkay>
<mircea_popescu> benkay 300 dollar shirt, no underwear works better. // by the time i feel okay about buying 300 dollar shirts, i hopefully can delegate the harrasment of neighbors.
<< and peeing ?
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> benkay 300 dollar shirt, no underwear works better. // by the time i feel okay about buying 300 dollar shirts, i hopefully can delegate the harrasment of neighbors.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> that's when i realized that talking about anything worthwhile under a 'tight' alias is arduous to the degree that it's probably not worth it
<< mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: anyone who buys a berth on mp's 'we piss on patents' atomic battleship should give 'cyranose' a thought.
<< this is a good point actually.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: don't they make anyone use actual ir spectrometer in school now?
<< no. because it'd be racist.
mircea_popescu: Namworld: Those coins would shatter easily and be kinda troublesome.
<< yeah the shatter factor is a problem. also, god help you if you're trying to carry say a 20 lb bag of them in the street.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: hashfast ceo one month ago: "I joined this company a month ago because the team is amazing and we are not scammers" | today: "we're bankrupt. I'm outta here"
<< fucking exactly.
mircea_popescu:
<punkman> how many talks about docker could one endure in two days though
<< also agreed.
mircea_popescu:
<benkay> conferences for actual tools aren't that bad of an idea compared to bitcoin conferences
<< agreed
mircea_popescu:
<mike_c> if it just works they don't need you anymore.
<< i need him more when it works.
benkay:
<BingoBoingo> fluffypony: Done right XFCE looks much better than OSx // care to share shots of your setup?
benkay:
<BingoBoingo> asciilifeform: That explains the problem historically, but not why it persists. // see also smbx
mircea_popescu: '...what I find among the modern novices is that they do not feel the same way about the experts -- they want an expert-free world where their ignorance is not painful, where their inexperience is not used against them, where they get all the jokes, where nobody uses literary references that elude them, where every one of their ideas is accepted by their peers as just as novel as they think it is...'
<<< quite exactly.
davout: thestringpuller: "France sounds annoying."
<<< wait until you hear french people
ThickAsThieves:
<+thestringpuller> The cost of liquidity is too high for most vendors... //// Circle can eat their lunch if they play their cards right - things will start getting interesting when you can buy for zero fees
davout: fluffypony: if it's $30 for
< $10,000/day, $300 for
< $100k, $3000 for
< $1mn that's still a percentage
davout: "1% which is pretty much what most niggas pay for CC processing"
<<< it really depends
davout: "there's laughter in every slaughter"
<<< thank you, if that was the joke, i get it too nao
jurov: punkman there's
<name>.dot-bit.org or such
kakobrekla:
<chetty> reading and writing are rapidly becoming lost arts
< even though more words gets written and read than ever before each day
mircea_popescu:
<TheNewDeal> but if they're bets are going to be a large portion of the gains/losses, it seems like investors would want to know what their history has been on the bets
<< you know investors can readily revbiew this as they're all published
mircea_popescu: The Reddit discussion model is completely oriented towards providing the fast food of news commentary, where your
<< missing 1st line
mircea_popescu: assbot> » Leaving Hacker News ASPENSMONSTER
<< all these important things i've missed out on while doing other things.
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> Mats_cd03: benkay is a queen
<< ahahaha they got yo numba nao vulpes. // y'all ain't even seen me in my heels yet
mircea_popescu: mike_c: tapes are $20 / TB. can't beat that with a stick.
<< quite true.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: benkay is a queen
<< ahahaha they got yo numba nao vulpes.
mircea_popescu: benkay " let me know when it's realistic."
<< let me explain realistic. if there's 4k txn a second, which weigh a conservative 512 bytes each, at 512 seconds per block you get...
mircea_popescu:
<benkay> asciilifeform, dub: almost needless to point out by now, but the buenos aires public wall paintings are better than anything the NYC scene has cranked out since...forever.
<< this is true.
mircea_popescu: btw, "coinbr requires btc addr to sign up i b'leev"
<< so what if it does ? once you're in you can trade with anyone else in.
mircea_popescu: jurov: lol they will find lung and liver fossilies, bones long gone?
<< this is likely lol
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> benkay: i'm highlighting that in a worst case scenario it's not a problem and also as Mats_cd03 and i have and keep pointing out - not a problem to begin with even.
<< what happens to you once gb blocks ? // let me know when it's realistic.
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> benkay: you don't need a blockchain to accept/send btc.
<< not to mention the coinbr thing. he really doesn't need the blockchain at all. // coinbr requires btc addr to sign up i b'leev
chetty:
<mircea_popescu> dub: so one half of our sepcies should require additional training to protect its ass from the other half?
<< yes.// I doubt it works out to halves
mircea_popescu: dub: so one half of our sepcies should require additional training to protect its ass from the other half?
<< yes.
mircea_popescu: princessnell: feminists have again come full circle: attacking a beauty queen for insuffiently supporting patriarchy
<< they're spinnin' so fast they could be weaving wool.
mircea_popescu: smickles: I have taken over the bitcoin corp in eve
<< how much shit was in the hangars in the end ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Ms Boring forgot to make the distinction between the two Erik ventures
<< yeah not particularly inspiring.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: storing bits that never need to flip again ought to be technologically simpler - on basic physical level - than the normal kind.
<< this is a good point, and i imagine within the decade we will have special blockchain ssds being made.
mircea_popescu: benkay: i'm highlighting that in a worst case scenario it's not a problem and also as Mats_cd03 and i have and keep pointing out - not a problem to begin with even.
<< what happens to you once gb blocks ?
mircea_popescu: diametric> mircea_popescu: thats probably a good idea to start doing. perhaps keep it on a usb stick on my keys or something, gets updated when i plug it in.
<< or on a 4 redundant raid array, under concrete.
mircea_popescu: benkay: you don't need a blockchain to accept/send btc.
<< not to mention the coinbr thing. he really doesn't need the blockchain at all.
mircea_popescu: diametric: I have to admit, its annoying getting a fresh copy of the blockchain in a new client, even though I have the space, and I have 75Mbit internet, it still takes over 2 days.
<< i keep a master copy like the holy fucking scriptures. which is what it is anyway
benkay:
<hdbuck> benkay : well, some argue that the more the blochain size increase, the less people would actually download it to use bitcoins // you're conflating "fewer people using btc" with "bad for btc". this has yet to be established.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: y'know, i think bitcoin has actually soured my opinion of the concept of an "idea"
<< actual business experience in the company of actual business people has soured you on infantile bullcrap. neither bitcoin nor ideas particularly involved.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: idk, i'm not in the 'everything should be free' camp.
<< but the camp is "nothing should be amazon"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: l.o.l.
<< don't do something merely stupid. do something spectacularly stupid instead!!! and don't even mention the actually sane alternative, that's gonna hurt your feelings so it doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: as well as litecoin.foundation. fuckers
<< dude who the fuck cares.
mircea_popescu: jurov: he typed "viki"
<< i typed viki and nothing happened
Apocalyptic:
<dignork> also it's funny to call a "leak" something that is published on their site in specs :) // gotta attract the audience
gribble: thickasthieves was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 days, 15 hours, 8 minutes, and 10 seconds ago:
<ThickAsThieves> raccoons are like idiot cats
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<bitcoinpete> have a couple of the lealana physical coins (2x10, 2x25) but i'm having a hard time figuring out what they're worth. could you point me in the right direction?
gribble: Sent 3 weeks, 3 days, 17 hours, and 9 minutes ago:
<jurov> chan clamors for -assets tshirt i recommend the disck surgery motive and Sent 2 weeks, 1 day, 23 hours, and 30 minutes ago:
<bitcoinpete> i have a couple of the lealana physical coins (2x10, 2x25) but i'm having a hard time figuring out what they're worth. could you point me in the right direction?
mircea_popescu:
<daybyter> any java coder here interested in trading code?
<< whoa just like the old days!
mircea_popescu: punkman: it only ever outputs "lol" though
<< must be only simulating the left brain
mircea_popescu: jurov: punkman can post-traumatic depression be cured by demagogy?
<< yes if full specter. probably not if randomly limited.
gribble: thickasthieves was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes, and 15 seconds ago:
<ThickAsThieves> raccoons are like idiot cats
mircea_popescu: Namworld Because let's face it 1. The brain is mechanical
<< you know what else lets-face-it-is-mechanical ? the fucking atom.
mircea_popescu: Namworld: fluffypony, the real world doesn't care about reality.
<< more like the reverse. reality doesn't care for whatever set you happen to have mislabeled as "the real world". probably a selection of terminally unemployable couch surfing webexperts.
mircea_popescu: this is how england worked, back when it was still a respectable country, up until the socialist revolution of the 80s.
<< lol if only margie t. heard you
<< "During her premiership Thatcher had the second-lowest average approval rating, at 40 percent, of any post-war Prime Minister. "
mircea_popescu: Namworld: What kind of checks can they run at all anyway? Dox people? Seems limited to that.
<< if they don't know why are they pretending to be in business ? "oh, doctors should diagnose people not feed them random pills" "what diagnose can they do anyway"
gribble: littlep1 was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 18 hours, 9 minutes, and 26 seconds ago:
<Littlep1> he sent me an email about the corporate failures list threatening to sue me