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mircea_popescu: so in
this sense
this isn't a discussion about mining,
mircea_popescu: if
the shaman heals you he's still no doctor, even should
the mage light up a fire he's still no matchstick
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform same reason a girl wearing a funny hat doesn't function as
the emperess of china.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, if I get a parrot
that extracts correct nonces out of a bag, i don't have a miner.
jurov: pity it can do n-th sqare roots better
than modulo 32 arithmetic
jurov: mh, human brain falls into
that definition,
too :)
dexX7: or let's say
the idea of
trying something unconventional :)
ozbot: BitBet - BTC network difficulty
to
top 1B before 2014
ozbot: BitBet - BTC network difficulty
to
top 500MN before Xmas 2013
ozbot: Activist Post: IRS
to Jail Woman Who Owes $0 in
Taxes, Seeks Jury Nullification
mircea_popescu: so i'm reading old logs : Jun 21 14:49:17 <mircea_popescu>well it was 1/4 bn earlier
thisd year
nubbins`: why didn't himmelsbaugh consult an appropriate authority before assuming
that he enjoyed
the
thing?
nubbins`: not sure of
the exact numbers, but
the price of a shirt was roughly 2x
today's price when
that was happening
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mircea_popescu: the price of cotton figures what, 18 cents in
the cost fo a
tshirt ?
nubbins`: ^ for a while
there,
t-shirts REALLY weren't free
mircea_popescu: i guess nobody
today remembers machlup as
the initiator of
the "information economy" concept
nubbins`: and i mean, i get shirts wholesale, but
they're still not free, ya know!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` so
then no, you wou;dn't be in
the same position. knowledge is money.
nubbins`: which is really
the best i could ask for, given how many
times i've lost my shirt on poor investments
nubbins`: it
turns out
that if i had just done nothing with my btc, i'd be in exactly
the same financial situation as i am
today
kleeck: And now we get
to
tell our friends all about
the premium drugs we've abused.
nubbins`: anyway, i did some math
the other day
bitesak: I bought me first at39cents and have made many 'wrong' decisions along
the way on selling
them :)
kleeck: I
too looked into
the eyes of insane profit % and said, "Nay! I will not
take you!"
kleeck: I won't say what I did with
those...
nubbins`: better done if i hadn't won and lost several fortunes in
that period of
time
kleeck: Of course now. Average bought is 60$. It is
time.
bitesak: now? it's not even an all
time high
kleeck: Yes. I dare say I'm gonig
to
take some profits now.
nubbins`: it's quite a price for
two, really
gribble: MtGox BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 232.90000, Best ask: 234.00000, Bid-ask spread: 1.10000, Last
trade: 232.00001, 24 hour volume: 19281.05367985, 24 hour low: 214.89993, 24 hour high: 234.95000, 24 hour vwap: 223.42446
nubbins`: just a matter of how close you can get your horseshoe
to
the stake
ThickAsThieves: looking at
the situation I
think many would say it's overpriced
nubbins`: but i don't
think it would be a bad idea, short-term
nubbins`: i was surprised at
the amount of support ~200
nubbins`: any guesses as
to when we'll see a BTC-USD all-time high?
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 515523510.95 based on data since last change | 563524717.975 based on data for last
three days
topace: "hi, i'd like
to buy exactly 2.00000000 bitcoins, how do i do it? can i give you my creditcard number?"
kleeck: Do you do support,
then?
topace: 3-5 per week
the past few weeks
kleeck: You can use a NAS, but you don't SHARE
the backup partition.
topace: "a guy
that knows a guy
that knows how
to use computers"
topace: they have "a guy
that knows a littlbe bit about computers"
topace: most of
these companies dont have sysadmins
kleeck: So,
this wasn't a system admin,
then?
topace: and as a clueless IT person,
thats probabyl what i would do
too
topace: i
tried
to explain
to him how a moutned network drive != backup
topace: one guy i
talked
to said it infected
their backup system from
the desktop it was clicked on
kleeck: First off, your users shouldn't be able
to get a zipped exe, or an exe, at all.
kleeck: It makes me sad
that
this virus is actually doing damage
to any medium sized businesses.
kleeck: Drugs and Viruses,
the backbone of BTC>
topace: it
took me half an hour
to explain
to him, i only buy and sell bitcoins,. i have nothing
to do with cryptolocker
topace: i had one guy ask me how i hadnt been arrested yet becuase he knew my address and phone number he was going
to report me
to
the police
topace: bringing a lot of new people
to bitcoin
kleeck: My IronPort has been stripping zipped .exe files for a month now., all from DHL, UPS, and FedEx.
Thanks for
the headsup...
kleeck: Heh. Just got a notification email from
the my State's Healthcare Association regarind CryptoLocker.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [XBOND] [PAID] 0.69348300 BTC
to 1`386`966 shares, 50 satoshi per share
mircea_popescu: so mike_c, it may please you
to find
that not only are you in
the mpex faq now, but process of arguing about it ended a coupla hours ago with my complete capitulation
Luke-Jr: especially when
the main guy behind it is going around demanding proof GPUs can't simulate ASICs..
Luke-Jr: I'm skeptical it'll get
that far.
Luke-Jr: then I'll add support
to BFGMiner
Luke-Jr: only if
they get something working
benkay: Luke-Jr: weren't you involved with
that operation?
benkay: how are
those quantum bitcoins coming, eh?
mircea_popescu: pankkake fast moving consumer goods. like sodas,
tampons, whatever.
nubbins`: now, both allowed you
to pay with a cc without having a paypal account
benkay: (the best we get are advertising/strategy bros who have accidentally fallen into
tech)
nubbins`: cutting paypal outta
the loop!
nubbins`: i got an email about it
the other day
benkay: (as an aside: do you know how hard it is
to find business-oriented mentors in america?)
benkay: i also want
to work with
tools
that i enjoy
benkay: i would love
to build a
thing under someone with a decade's domain experience