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BingoBoingo: Maybe Obama can hire
TradeFortress? I hear he needs an income...
nubbins`: new polymer $5 and $10s released here
today
nubbins`: pays
to have friends in inky places
mircea_popescu: lucky for him he's friends with
the fiat printer guy or else he'd starve.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, obama's signature project would not actually qualify
to being listed on mpex on
technical grounds.
benkay: they don't even have
the volume
to justify
that
gribble: MtGox lag is 0.408284 seconds. During
this
time, light
travels 0.000818196564625 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin
to
the other side of
the Earth, along
the surface (0.0001339 AU).
mircea_popescu: does not
taste like cider. I'm not going
to
take another sip,
that's horrible." Markle replied: "Well, I need
to inform you of something, ma'am. I want you
to understand
that you just drank
that man's urine."
mircea_popescu: to
the front desk in a simple drinking glass. Markle
then called
the front desk alleging
to be an employee of Martinelli's Cider. He
told
the clerk
that a representative from
the company would like
to come downstairs with a sample of
their new drink.
The guest from
the previous call
then arrived and handed
the clerk his urine. Markle
then coaxed
the woman
to
try it. He asked how it
tasted. "Horrible," she said. "That
mircea_popescu: On July 20, Markle
tricked a desk clerk at
the Homewood Suites in Lexington, Kentucky into drinking another person’s urine.
The prank started with a call
to a guest.
The guest was
told it was
the front desk calling and
that a prior guest had
tested positive for Hepatitis C.
The guest was
then
told
there was a doctor on site and a simple urine
test could determine if
the guest was infected.
The urine was
to be brought
mircea_popescu: In February 2009, "Dex" called a KFC restaurant in Manchester, New Hampshire. Posing as a manager from
the corporate office, he persuaded employees
to douse
the building with fire suppression chemicals and
to
then proceed outside, remove all of
their clothing and urinate on each other (he claimed
the chemicals were caustic and
this would render
them inert).
BingoBoingo: Ah, So like a Kardashian without a sex
tape.
mircea_popescu: a well known hollywood celeb
that has nevertheless never done any movies.
ozbot: Judge Orders CoinLab
to Give Bitcoin
to Bitvestment - MoneyBeat - WSJ
Namworld: other
than
that popcorn flavor,
these are delicious...
Namworld: It almost works... it's
too salty
tho
Namworld: Who had
the idea
to make buttered popcorn flavored jelly beans...
tastes like mixed salt and sugar...
nubbins`: saw
the good,
the bad and
the ugly for
the first
time a couple days ago
nubbins`: no, but it's based on a
true story!
assbot: !bash <lines> (desc: bashes last <lines> lines
to bash) {short: !b}
assbot: !mp <signcrypted dpaste.com url> (desc: returns
the response from MPEX order)
assbot: !ticker <exchange> <ticker> (desc: returns current
ticker values, supported: MPEX, HAVELOCK, BTCTCO) {short: !t}
gribble: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX] [--market <market>|all]) -- Return pretty-printed
ticker. Default market is Mtgox. If one of
the result options is given, returns only
that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns
ticker for
that
three-letter currency code. It is up
to you
to make sure
the code (1 more message)
gribble: Error:
This is not one of
the supported markets. Please choose one of ['btcde', 'mtgox', 'btcavg', 'bitstamp', 'coinbase', 'cbx', 'bitfinex', 'all', 'btce', 'btcn'].
benkay: i hope other idiots do
too
benkay: coinabuls charts appear
to be completely fscked
benkay: gotta love
the clarity of units
nubbins`: oh n/m,
the
ticker doesn't change
to btc
benkay: is anyone
tracking
troy gold denominated in btc?
mircea_popescu: at
that point fixed assets prices become again stable in btc.
mircea_popescu: benkay at some point
the btc will
trade more or less for (total world assets)/(total btc in circulation)
benkay: why is a plateau
the steady-state?
mircea_popescu: once btc reaches its pleateau
things get back
to normal
benkay: will it ever make sense again
to actually buy land, given
the returns acruing
to btc?
mircea_popescu: in fact, if
they had
the sense
to install cameras it'd prolly be a buck less.
nubbins`: yep, R2 knew
the soldering iron intimately
the20year1: my brother's failure rate on
them has been quite low overall, around 0.25%
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i
thought most chips in
the field are flatpacks/quads
mircea_popescu: something like
this : if your distribution craps out your car is not "totally wrecked", nevertheless it;'s weird
to say yo uhave a problem with
the "showerheads"
kleeck: So
they should've just said, "Hey, we completely fucked up our chips."
mircea_popescu: (to make a chip you
take etched silicone/metal wafers and encase
them in some plastic)
mircea_popescu: TAT_Investments
the leading hypothesis is
that
they mean
their chip packager fucked up.
nubbins`: couldn't find
the DVD
they backed up
the schematics
to?
mircea_popescu: i still haven't figured out what word
they misreplaced with "substrates"
kleeck: So,
the last news update by HashFast was a delay due
to substrates, but promising
that shipping would not be delayed...
nubbins`: perhaps
they vanished in a puff of logic
kleeck: I'm
trying
to find some posts from
that user.
kleeck: I swear
there was a CoinTerra user on BTCTalk...
mircea_popescu: it's like
this : find
two walls 8 inches apart.
take a mouthful of milk and go bang your head in between
the walls
pankkake: that's why I need lots of
them!
nubbins`: "a lot of care must have been put into
this"
nubbins`: "sweet,
there's a usb stick with some awesome graphics inside
the box!"
bubbalicious: well, if packaging matters
than somebody needs
to css nosuchlabs.com
nubbins`: oh and if you were wondering,
the
trick
to a good stew is
to add some finely chopped potato right at
the start
nubbins`: it's my job
to
try
to show him
mircea_popescu: you know,
this dispute between investors and subcontractors is
the halmark of a functioning economy.
nubbins`: besides, nice packaging makes people feel like
they've bought something valuable
nubbins`: bubbalicious: i could say
the same
to you
bubbalicious: nubbins`: stop
trying
to cut into
the profit margins :)
nubbins`: silkscreened certificate of some sort would be a nice
thing
to find inside
the box, cough cough
mircea_popescu: (look honey, i got you
the .35 btc cardano. yet another field in which btc is moar of an advantage)
nubbins`: you guys have a delivery date in mind for
those?
firedrops: but it exists, excellent. moar reading,
thanks.
ozbot: S.NSA - Cardano pricing, other statements pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: make no mistake about it, government
there will ever be. whether it's
the washington mob or
the five families mob, it's gonna be something.