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Namworld: wc2 is
the shit,
thestringpuller
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pankkake: league of legends (aka LoL. lol) is a bigger
thing apparently
Namworld: What
the heck are you
talking about, pankkake?
pankkake: plus scarlett has many fans so it would be probably more lucrative
to bet on
the other one
pankkake: and I realize I probably bet on
the wrong horse :(
pankkake: oh,
there are many, but I don't have an account on
those places
ozbot: BitBet - "Scarlett"
to win StarCraft 2 showmatch against Naniwa
pankkake: no one really
talking about
the sc2 match on bitcointalk. not sure where I could promote
the bet…
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BingoBoingo: Around here
though
thistles are more of a lawn pest
than an agricultural pest.
BingoBoingo: I've seen corn in oat and wheat fields, but not invading land covered by
thistles.
BingoBoingo: Soil and latitude and probably other
things make a difference. It would not have been a long walk
this fall
to fields where corn
tainted soybean fields. I'll grant it
though
that
the soil in
the fields and around
them may not be soild for any natural definition of
the
term, but may merely be a nitrogen soaked fascimile
mircea_popescu: the corn did manage
to ocasionally pick up a spot, but usualyl driven out within a couple of years
mircea_popescu: both linen and corn had been long used here, and so
they exist as wild species.
mircea_popescu: i have had
the occasion
to see
this in nature, as romania had for over a decade a lot of ignored agricultural land.
BingoBoingo: It is like your chemistry versus food rant. Some places
the emphasis is so engrained
that minute advances in
the chemistry become deafening and people forget
that maize is a weed.
BingoBoingo: Well,
turning corn into ethanol isn't really green in any other sense
than letting Coca Cola know
there might be more money in
turning corn into fuel instead of soft drinks and letting
the poor get Poorabetes
mircea_popescu: matybe, i'ven ot really been following
the entire "green
technologies" stuff.
BingoBoingo: Well,
they don't do paradigmatic change as well as
they used
to. Many campuses in
the Middle West are making great strides in
turning corn into ethanol in ways
that would make Jack Daniels himself
turn white in shock.
Try
to suppose
through
these institutions
though
that
there might be a better fuel
than ethanol and you are stuck.
mircea_popescu: or else you can have sensitivity
training and one huge diaper party for mentally stunted "adults" in name only.
mircea_popescu: you can either have
teachers fucking students and people being called fucktards left and right a la mit 1950s
mircea_popescu: universities' capacity
to create went out with
the admittance of
the special interest groups.
mircea_popescu: i doubt
they do.
they may inadvertently acquire "rights"
to unrelated people's great ideas
through
the latter's negligence/cluelessness
BingoBoingo: I imagine universities still come up with unique and useful
things,
though anyone who cares would be loath
to find
their release instead of simply reinventing
them.
BingoBoingo: At
the
time Z39.50 was standardized SQL implementations were a
thing.
mircea_popescu: kinda dead in
the water, at least
the anglo-saxon model.
BingoBoingo: Available for
the
taking by any rando university
that wants
to incorporate a Stanford, Harvard, or Berkley-ness
to
their name by embeding
themselves in an area inextricably will be
the
task of killing Z39.50
BingoBoingo: Mind you
these are
the same people who view backwards compatibility with
the MARC standards as dogma while wanting
to recreate in modern data retrieval
the same limitations imposed by magnetic
tape.
BingoBoingo: In my perhaps ill advised venture into library science as a vocation, most of my classmates and professors embraced
taking
the offered APIs and broken datastreams as a gift
to embrace.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: For
the past several decades now,
Thompson/Reuters have made a lot of money on
this model of information
that is at least in principle readily available, but intimidating
to encounter in its free form.
mircea_popescu: "bhagenbeekdd@metaltrade.ru 7:00 am
The first-rate method
to gratify your girlfriend" << dude, metal
trade ? poor girlfriends.
mircea_popescu: thompson financial is doing decent money simply by having collected and assembled all
this data.
mircea_popescu: b0n1 but since you're
talking about
this, let me point out
to you
that
this is a business model.
b0n1: mikaeldice,
thanks for
the advice! Do you also know of such a
torrent file for stamp and btcchina?
mikaeldice: Also,
there might be a BigTable database somewhere, if you search on
that
mikaeldice: b0n1,
there's a
torrent out
there somewhere with all of
the Gox history up
to a certain date. After
that it's a matter of querying
the API, which will lie sometimes,
to get
to
the current date, and
then monitoring
the API for future updates
BingoBoingo: b0n1: If I have one, which I am hesistant
to say whether I myself do or not it isn't for sale or open source. I
think if something exists and is useful
that
there is probably an open source implementation or an alternative...
b0n1: also i couldnt get informations about a sierrachart api on
their homepage
b0n1: BingoBoingo, do you eventually have a source
to
that?
b0n1: or do i really have
to switch
to windows
b0n1: humm does
that run smooth with wine kakobrekla ?
b0n1: hey
there! is
there a good source for historical data of
the bitcoin exchanges like gox stamp and btcchina? By good source I mean relatively dense data with small
time intervals. On bitcoincharts for example I can only find historical data with
time intervals
that are bigger
than a day for example
pankkake: thankfully
tradefortress solved
the issue for us already! oh wait
BingoBoingo: Thank you Apocalyptic, but I wasn't
the first
to say
that.
BingoBoingo: Well, all is manageable if people stop
thinking of BTC as a consumer Point of Sale solution...
pankkake: I don't
think any smartphone application is a full node already?
Duffer1: that could potentially solve
the blockchain bloat
Duffer1: checkpointing is an option i've heard
talked about
Apocalyptic: it's clear smartphones/any portable device won't be able
to hold a full node
Apocalyptic: it's manageable given
the current harddrives and
the projected ones
KRS|Gotyawallet: i was just curious..and how exactly did
the French decide
the death of bitcoin?
Apocalyptic: it won't, blockchain storage requirement will increase linearly, and less so
than common storage space
KRS|Gotyawallet: Apocalyptic: so
the blockchain isnt going
to be an issue in
the future like
that article said? I dont know a lot about it but I'm interested in it and wondered about future growth.
pankkake: OTC
trading certainly won't die,
though it's impractical
pankkake: yeah, I
think - with a bit of hope -
that when it happens it won't matter
Apocalyptic: he implies
that when it will be made illegal, it will die
pankkake: but it's not really negative.
the point is
that it will be made illegal one day
Apocalyptic: i did because i
thought
these guys were sensible
to start with
pankkake: I
think I probably ignore anything starting by reflets.info, reading it now
pankkake: the bitcoin article? it looks like it has spread amongst
the French
pankkake: small
transactions, instant confirmations
pankkake: but in any case,
there is an use for an offchain payment service
pankkake: I'm sure it can be changed in
the future, when it makes sense (i.e. much faster connections and cheaper storage)
Apocalyptic: and by design so,
the blocksize is bounded, so
the blockchain space increase is bounded
too, and far from
these figures
Apocalyptic: <KRS|Gotyawallet>
to handle
the number of
transactions
that visa handles in 3 months
the bitcoin system will require 14
Terabytes of storage space.
That's 14
terabytes of hard drive space you would have
to add every 85 days!
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Talk:Scalability#Disk_space //
that couldn't even be possible
BingoBoingo: It may be
that in Bitcoin no higher
title
than Baron is possible.
BingoBoingo: Baron seems
too low. In Bitcoin Baron may be
the highest nobel
title
though because generally
the
title of a Baron is derived
through accomplishment. Higher feudal
titles
though were generally derived by
the whims of kings long dead.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [KCIM] [PAID] 7.70020900 BTC
to 86`900 shares, 8861 satoshi per share
KRS|Gotyawallet: but
thats just a mininode where
there reports of his manhood from wild soirees in Monaco?
Apocalyptic: guys, does someone have a GPG contract
template for a bond ?
mircea_popescu: notrly a new point by any means.
that's why
the more sensible people have been saying all along
that bitcoin isn't nor does it aim
to be a visa competitor.