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pankkake: wonder what is the avoidance here
pankkake: isn't "gone" the hollywood word to avoid saying dead?
KRS|Gotchawallet: ow my bitcoins..make the selling stop.
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kakobrekla: sub 0.1 per minute traffic is on -assets-trades
mike_c: ah, thanks
kakobrekla: mike_c, not new, assbot is merging trades and echoing out each minute if sum from a symbol in that minute is over 0.1 btc
mike_c: are those curly braces new? what do they mean?
mike_c: love btc bizness. same email: "would you like invest?" "would you like to be our customer support rep?"
jurov: not sure about the other things
jurov: Although... while i can imagine shareholders dealing with the virgins
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ThickAsThieves: If so please forward the necessary information"
ThickAsThieves: Is the fund still open
ThickAsThieves: of people asking how to open accounts and buy AM shares
ThickAsThieves: i figured out the source of these strange emails
asciilifeform: one of you folks is in slovakia? mebbe say hello to him for me.
BingoBoingo: Lol, and he'd rather have the Urbit than the BTC?
pankkake: if only it was that easy
TomServo: My credit union has that feature in their mobile app, it's handy.
deadweasel: I'm a Mainah now though :) Getting CLOSE!
deadweasel: sorry, dont' know the rest of canadian song
deadweasel: would love my Fed Credit union to do that. but they are small an dnice and easy, not technically savvy tho.
nubbins`: and they'll cash it
nubbins`: i can now take a photograph of the front and back of a cheque
nubbins`: so my bank released an update to their mobile banking app
asciilifeform: not my problem any more! now some other fellow will have to horsewhip peasants, hang thieves, test virginity, in that dukedom.
pankkake: these hipsters seem to take themselves very seriously
asciilifeform: the 'dukedom' / KYC thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/urbit-dev/PvXo1t7uNrY/ik5e-9b-cNwJ
asciilifeform: (same applies to 'dumb' phone)
asciilifeform: and if you carry it on the street, or in a car, treat it as a public announcement, brass band playing, of your goings.
nubbins`: man, this sourdough is actually the best batch yet
asciilifeform: don't load it with secrets, assume that all input devices (camera, microphone) are logged.
asciilifeform: if you buy one, treat it the way you'd treat an ms-winblows box kept around for games.
nubbins`: or never have to not waste a moment, if you like
nubbins`: the appeal is that you never have to waste a moment -- you can browse upworthy while you're taking a shit.
asciilifeform: turned out, the seller was in a van, sending me mail...
asciilifeform: i once tried to buy some ups batteries on 'craigslist', then stood about in a parking lot for an hour
asciilifeform: if you're trying to putter about in the u.s. business world, you pretty much have to be able to receive email in the car, train...
pigeons: i really can't use anything without a physical keyboard, waste of time
BingoBoingo: I don't much understand the appeal of a browser in the pocket.
asciilifeform: want a browser in yer pocket? take your pick, aipnohe or pwndroid
BingoBoingo: Not yet. That there isn't a great emailing cellphone means though that the cell phone in its lesser forms should be an emailing too at all.
asciilifeform: not everyone has the luxury of eschewing cell phone.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it isn't like there is an S.NSA phone he could buy instead.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Just seems like an interesting choice for someone who would take to shepherding such a project unless they were already full scheier throwing things out in the wild on orders to waste the time of more capable people like yourself.
nubbins`: it's nice -- and surprising -- to be able to pour boiling water into a container, wait 5 minutes, and have a delicious meal that's mot full of sodium benzoate and shit
nubbins`: was on a really big homemade camping food kick the last few summers
nubbins`: i have a ton of them, having broken my first one and purchasing a good one the second time around
ThickAsThieves: hey thats a dehumidifier rack
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why is that part interesting?
ozbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
asciilifeform: waiting for mr. m to write an alpha version of his thing.
asciilifeform: and then puttered around on a mailing list for a while
asciilifeform: i did it with pencil, but wrote a compiler of the language to test: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=103
BingoBoingo: Favorite part of the second link of that link to that thread asciilifeform "Sent from my iPhone" by Curtis
TomServo: asciilifeform: what's the 2010 puzzle you're referring to in that link?
pankkake: there was nothing left in the brain to damage?
nubbins`: "Injuries: compression fracture of the T12 vertebra, 5 stitches to the eye, 6 stitches to the chin, severely sprained back, wrist and hand, multiple bruised areas"
ozbot: BASE Jumper survives terrifying cliff strike - YouTube
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asciilifeform: and also https://groups.google.com/d/msg/urbit-dev/4B12WpF1rL0/hYF3YPuqvR8J (rest of thread)
mircea_popescu: satoshi did the same thing.
mircea_popescu: no, that part is standard fare for computer shit.
nubbins`: (sry if the convo has moved on)
nubbins`: they blew it when they required the user to cum in the user's own mouth while reading the documentation
mircea_popescu: we know of different things.
asciilifeform: as far as i'm concerned, they blew it when they went with 'userspace process on top of unix' when designing 'ab initio computer'.
mircea_popescu: haha. i'm pretty certain they blew their one chance to be part of the taking over tghe world crew.
asciilifeform: but i don't think he had caught the pgp train yet, back then.
mircea_popescu: i don't take unsigned things to be literal.
asciilifeform: that one day they will Take Over the World (TM)
asciilifeform: if you read his original proposals, he regards the dukedoms as an almost literal thing
mircea_popescu: is he moreover using unfortunate terminology to denote "i'd rather know who the fuck the dukes are" ?
pigeons: hope the buyer isnt a terrorist
ThickAsThieves: good song to smoke anything to
asciilifeform: and he put me on the urbit-dukes mailing list back in '10.
mircea_popescu: but doesn';t this seem a little... strange, so to speak ?
asciilifeform: there wasn't any KYC nonsense when Mr. M (Curtis Yarvin) spoke to me re: the original award.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's non-mpoe-pr-style pr. you know, like bfl used to do it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "The only caveat is that we need KYC on the buyer"
ThickAsThieves: can that even be true?
mircea_popescu: lol that's so cute.
mircea_popescu: BitPay processed 6,296 bitcoin transactions in a single day, making it the most popular day in the history of bitcoin commerce. On November 29, more than 6% of all transactions on the bitcoin network were spent on goods and services through BitPay’s platform.
ThickAsThieves: like The Weakerthans with balls
pankkake: for example, in France, any transaction over 5000 EUR gets you tracfin, automatically
nubbins`: haven't listened to him, nope
mircea_popescu: what in bitpay's structure gives you the delusion of tax immunity ?
mircea_popescu: that's the most ridiculous thing i ever heard.
pankkake: or having $5000+ transactions alerting the tax man
pankkake: I don't think so. it's a good way to "cash out" your btc without going through the hassle of an exchange
ThickAsThieves: you listen to Greg MacPherson at all?
ThickAsThieves: 5 tx each!
pankkake: note to bitbet mods whoever they are: remove the "" around Scarlett in the title of the starcraft bet, I messed up (but already sent the wager)
ThickAsThieves: but they have 10000+ merchants
mircea_popescu: nm i take it all back, they can have 6%
mircea_popescu: holy shit for all the hassle that's all !?
mircea_popescu: wait, just 50k transactions !?
mircea_popescu: ((ftr = for the record))
ThickAsThieves: like it's a place for their nerd friends to wax about their latest idea