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mircea_popescu:
<ThickAsThieves> romania, rode hard and put away whet
<< ok this was pretty good.
mircea_popescu: "Clearly Mircea has been reading BtcAlpha and picked up some good ideas on where to invest his coin. Let's look at the risks and rewards of the fund."
<< mwahaha
ThickAsThieves:
<+mircea_popescu> pankkake, how do i see backwards pages of the blogs assimilation ?
<<< use a feed reader
mircea_popescu: xmj: i'm living in a country whose minimum wage is 300EUR/month, and make a few orders of magnitude. so that's going to be feasible
<< out of gaming fidelity rewards ?
mircea_popescu: that article is amusing. The idea that the "normals" can "wake up" and do something about their situation is silly.
<< they can, i have experimentally verified this.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu:anyone with a reddit presence want to start a subreddit ?
<- I've found /r/BitcoinSerious to be really good, just not enough subscribers to keep the discussion flowing at pace
joecool: However it means we can never prove a legal claim to money owed to us by HashKing, AmazingRando, Ian Bakewell, BitcoinRS, etc.
<< ie. i'm going to sue bitvps for potential losses on money people owe me but might never pay
mircea_popescu: decimation: My point is that $450 million is really cheap for a leading silicon fab firm
<< definitely a good buy yes
mircea_popescu: assbot: Illinois Governors In Prison: 4 Of State's Last 7 Governors Were Convicted, Imprisoned
<< isn't it time for a whore governor ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c: talk about a battle of retard nations. twitter vs bitcointalk. which is worse? bitcointalk banning mpoe-pr or twitter banning mircea?
<< actually, me on twitter was prolly against their business model. mpoe-pr on btctalk is also against their business model.
mircea_popescu: \cgcardona: the header on trilema changed again? i thought it was once a quarter
<< i made an exception
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: tried to blind a flir drone? gasenwagen.
<< im still boggled by what's involved into weaponizing this. seems more like a bureaucrat striving to limit imagined risks than anything sane
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> mod6, what\s up
<< haha, nothin. just saw like 69,000 lines go by in like 2 seconds. BLOOOP.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: I guess you could do file level encryption with gpg, but
there are probably better solutions
<< i still don't get why anyone thinks container encryption is a thing or makes sense
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: i spent a moment imagining what /r/bitcoin would be like with b-a mods
<< actually cool.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: we should all threaten Theymos
<< mass solutions, kinda meh
mircea_popescu: assbot: Israeli (IDF) female soldiers girls dancing with guns and underwear
<< i dun get what the big scandxal is. if they had any sense they'd allow victoria's secret make an optional uniform for women in the service.
mircea_popescu:
<xmj> You wouldn't think a city like this would be allowed in a EU, EURO, OECD, "Western Hemisphere" country.
<< for srs.
mircea_popescu: pankkake> when you don't see the score, you actually have to use your brain
<< so by this theory showing the aspirants on tv is harmful for elections ?
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> where did the 'mpoe-pr is a sham' fixation come from?
<< perhaps from the "women can't exist" notion of your average basement dweller ?
mircea_popescu:
<fluffypony> some of my comments on Reddit re: the MP death threat got downvoted
<< how to know you got too much free time
mircea_popescu:
<punkman> pankkake: probably a good idea for a franchise, small showroom with keyboards, mice and chairs
<<< this IS a good idea. san diego or thereaboutds.
pankkake: mircea_popescu> pankkake: I like to watch things cleaning
<< you know why that is right ?
<< no
gribble: bitcoinpete was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 18 hours, 53 minutes, and 4 seconds ago:
<bitcoinpete> off to go bury some foundations at the meet-up, will report back!
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: Anyone dealing with carpal tunnel that has recommendations on treatment?
<< remove the stressors. you're young enough and will be fine. just, don't do any of the things that cause it. any. at all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i don't know much else about the fellow, except that he famously burned his u.s. passport in public.
<< what is the actual drawback of this ? i mean other than having to pay 100 bucks or w/e for a new one
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: afaik, no. but, interestingly, i first heard of him when he came to buy my urbit 'dukedom'
<< so invite the guy over and rate him ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake: I like to watch things cleaning
<< you know why that is right ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c: the sky is blue. water is blue. you die if submerged in water. therefore, the sky is deadly.
<< now let's debate about how water is really green and parachutes.
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: a lot of the hospital data systems are ancient and require
< IE 8 to work
mircea_popescu:
<ThickAsThieves> dont judge a man by his beard
<< a boy you can not judge by his beard. but a man, yo ushould.
gribble: thickasthieves was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 days, 0 hours, 54 minutes, and 11 seconds ago:
<ThickAsThieves> that's kinda the question, it's not about the specifics
benkay:
<Mats_cd03> its an impossible problem: there are just too many guns in north america
<< au contraire, there aren't nearly enough and people are too afraid to use them. until people get it into their heads that self-defense with an equalizer is now a requirement for personal safety, the sprees will continue
Vexual: thestringpuller: the added advantage of a botnet is you dont pay for electricity...you are stealing it
<< the world is a closed system, look past 6.75bc blocks
mircea_popescu: dub: hodl ltc tbh, launching on gox any day now
<< bwahaha ah the oldies but goldies.
jurov: no, just
<script> would suffice
mike_c: currently it escapes html and translates newlines to
<br>
mircea_popescu: jurov: with difference between having a seat and not merely 1600 votes
<< gotta love these lolcountries
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I was like "must be a different Copumpkin thumbs upping this"
<< why ? the guy was pretty into all this nonsensical gargle. actually i suspect its lack of currency here is prolly why he made himself scarce.
mircea_popescu: there are projects out there, where someon tried it change gender-specific pronouns, because equality etc
<< i asked some chick recently if she wants to be miss or misses and she wanted to be some nonsense neither thing.
benkay:
<assbot> #22667 replaced occurrences of master/slave terminology with leader/follower by fcurella Pull Request #2692 django/django GitHub // next think you know we'll elect to inaugurate the president branch
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: something along the lines of: the five biggest threats facing coindesk
<< pretty much lol. coinlolz.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: NRTS == Never Read Trilema Sober
<< i sometimes write it sober...
benkay:
<mircea_popescu> so apparently the food problem has gotten so bad in the us, the current generation of kids may be the first in human history not to outlive their parents. // it started with the previous generation. they are...not healthy.
davout: moiety: "one glass and i'm floored"
<<< can i buy you a drink?
Apocalyptic:
<davout> if it touches anything javascript-y it can't be anything else than a shitty float // I heard JS had some Decimal object
davout: "afaik bitstamp works with floats"
<<< what makes you say that ?
Apocalyptic:
<davout> [17:34:45] it's more that he didn't check for the presence of negative balances // that's still not enough, you have to make sure total = current + in orders for each account
mircea_popescu:
<punkman> what a whiny little twerp
<< pretty much the consensus among humans.
mircea_popescu:
<Naphex> and what kind of a hacker uses an iphone for hacking
<< a hipcker
mircea_popescu:
<kakobrekla> i now realize it should be !hi instead !up
<< lolz
mircea_popescu:
<los_pantalones> just hopped over the BsAs for a weekend
<< one does not just HOP in ba
mircea_popescu: Naphex: well i only investi in Naphex :]
<< and here i thought you were investing in womenz
gribble: KRS1 was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 10 weeks, 4 days, 3 hours, 43 minutes, and 32 seconds ago:
<KRS1> alum melts easily