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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: More toxic yes, but mostly from combustion byproducts. The bicarbonates that make the crack a rock generally don't stay very benign when they burn.
mircea_popescu: that's not the whole story there. crack is significantly more toxic.
BingoBoingo: Well, the speed at which you can reach a decent serum concentration generally makes a difference on end effect.
mircea_popescu: also for that reason crack cocaine != cocaine
BingoBoingo: Around here allegedly the contaminant is usually gypsum that was in the way of copper that needed stole.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no, seriouslys, it's usually sugar cut. at least the upscale stuff.
VanCleef: even actual women are starting to look like ladyboys now
mircea_popescu: you know, people who specify CRACKwhore make me thing ladyboys are a lot more popular than i imagine.
VanCleef: its funny when they really look like a crackwhore
VanCleef: i met a crackwhore the other night at a nightclub
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Not to your metabolism.
BingoBoingo: VanCleef Apocalyptic: You never know. Even the fat need exercise sometimes. Look how skinny the coke made DPR when he couldn't sell it.
ozbot: Find out just how human your girlfriend really is* pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
VanCleef: why would they do that when they can smell their computer chair all day
VanCleef: yeh right some fat virgin nerd is going to leave their grandmothers basement to do a hit
VanCleef: my dad died as a terrorist show some respect
mircea_popescu: if "terrorists" happen to bomb that plane...
mircea_popescu: "October 24, 2013 will bring with it something that has not been heard of since 1921. The entire House and Senate, all of Capitol Hill will close for the funeral of a Representative. However unlike the 1921 Congress Closing, all members are being flown to Florida for the funeral by the United States Air Force."
mircea_popescu: or w/e, 0.01 in 1mn tries
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you toss a coin you'll get something like 1% over the machine in 1000 tries
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But they have a dream team of engineers whose owners won't be named...
mircea_popescu: sooo, in the latest installment of "libertards are owned by technology", it'd seem the uncompromised obamacare will in fact be delayed after all. because websites are hard.
TomServo: it does that well, I think.
asciilifeform: the point of the exercise was to illustrate a fact.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this warrants a write-up
asciilifeform: you can cheat by tossing a coin, say. but it's gotta be a perfectly fair coin!
mircea_popescu: you don't, so the computer will eventually win.
mircea_popescu: it's not too hard to beat to shit provided you have infinite memory.
TomServo: what's the high score? :)
asciilifeform: everybody try it on your cat. or wife. or other pets.
gribble: There are currently 73141057 bitcoins demanded at or over 0.0 USD, worth 14581346.7977 USD in total. | Data vintage: 10.6065 seconds
gribble: A market order to buy 20000 bitcoins right now would take 5406287.9873 USD and would take the last price up to 493.3530 USD, resulting in an average price of 270.3144 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0068 seconds
KRS1: i am teh win
asciilifeform: for the crypto/information-theory buffs: http://www.loper-os.org/bad-at-entropy/manmach.html
BingoBoingo: I'll just throw out it feels more like January 2013 than silk Road July (and to most people that should mean nothing, don't you cultivate your own personalized WOT's).
KRS1: oh i missed that ok
KRS1: sorry to hear that
nubbins`: yeah. two beers will make you the drunkest guy in an empty bar.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` of course one has to appreciate it was on very narrow base
gribble: chaang-noi was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 weeks, 5 days, 9 hours, 56 minutes, and 14 seconds ago: <chaang-noi> TOM FORD
nubbins`: i think they were talking about difficulty
KRS1: year or two before supply runs out?
KRS1: one would think when the btc would be 100% mined to figure that maybe?
phungus: maybe that's too high
phungus: then the reset
phungus: it, fels the same
mircea_popescu: anyway, curious if we're in for a rehash of july 2010. (vertical degree of magnitude wall, i think there were two consecutive 400% increases there)
KRS1: wouldnt want to..im working for my retirement so i can say FU and earn a few percent in the south caribbean somewhere.
KRS1: like you have a reason to..haha keep doing what you do
KRS1: A while back i met Aaron the author of BAMT. He lives not far from me.
BingoBoingo: KRS1: That isn't too long of a drive. I just might have to retape my passenger side mirror on before I try returning to the Interstate Highways.
KRS1: cool next month i get to start throwing my asic miners away..useless.
mircea_popescu: there certainly exists the sufficient cause and backing for it.
BingoBoingo: This just looks like the same process that started last winter where the new $100 normal was discovered. Maybe we are in for Bitcoin's trek from being the internet's crisp hundred dollar bill to being the crisp 500 euro note.
pgp: i wish charts like that were plotted against log10...
mircea_popescu: there ain't no bringing this down babeh.
dub: we may need an angry blog post to bring it down
Diablo-D3: before or after toking on a bong?
dub: we should ask mircea_popescu if its ok to be this high
dub: of course they wont last more than a few minutes on the timescale of apple's history
dub: when there are no resourcing limits, no regulations, no need to control quality
kakobrekla: dunno how to slander that.
mircea_popescu: here, i'll trade you : "the writer here has something interesting to say and a few useful ways to explain it, but jesus if trilema hasn't completely fucking spoiled me for elegance and conciseness."
kakobrekla: no, its that kiddo.
dub: has to be luke
mircea_popescu: who did you slander this time
kakobrekla: >>"Kakobrekla is the slanderous soul"
jurov: <phungus> [18:45:17] a Broker doesn't seem like it would help for listing << why not? it can help you, infact i'm already doing stuff to help namworld with this passthroughs ;)
dub: big ones longer than us obviously but harder to ug around
dub: some of those little guys last 20 years
dub: best size vs. longevity I could think of in 8 seconds
mircea_popescu: why a turtle specifically ?
dub: it'll be a box with a camera and a turtle in it
mircea_popescu: mod6 i'll tell you later, in the shape of a future nsa product :D
mircea_popescu: if the gear costs 100k per terahash and it has to be amortised in 6 months however, the cost of electricity would have to be under -7 dollars/kwh or so.
mod6: was looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_isotopes_by_half-life in the 10^-3 range...
mod6: so could a hardware device that measures the decay of a certain isotope be contrived to obtain a reliable source of random numbers? and if so, what would be the best isotope to use?
mircea_popescu: so yeah, if they pay less than 1.75 dollars / kwh and the gear was free they're making a profit.
mircea_popescu: nah that's broken
gribble: The average time to generate a block at 1000000.0 Mhps, given difficulty of 267731249.482, is 1 week, 6 days, 7 hours, 25 minutes, and 14 seconds
mod6: pgp: ah. thx.
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 380572529.595 based on data since last change | 433506794.872 based on data for last three days
pgp: mod6: Regarding miner profits, Blockchain.info has not updated it's assumption of Watts/GH in a long time. Latest hardware is at around 10 Watts per GH not 650 Watts. Miners are still making plenty...
gribble: MtGox BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 222.01112, Best ask: 223.79500, Bid-ask spread: 1.78388, Last trade: 222.01110, 24 hour volume: 37508.43892433, 24 hour low: 199.60135, 24 hour high: 224.30000, 24 hour vwap: 212.23333
ozbot: Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust on Bloomberg
dexX7: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579346/000119312513393903/0001193125-13-393903-index.htm < "is this good news?"
mircea_popescu: ah the sweet day when im tyrant and everyone who ever worked for microsoft is permanently in jail.
pankkake: so running windows is now a crime in the US? at least government intervention does something positive!
mircea_popescu: "Altima Yachts, Inc was founded out of a desire by our founder, Frank Sciortino, to produce the finest cruising yacht possible at a reasonable investment level."
mircea_popescu: consider : Subject: This Company Announced News Today From: frank@altimayachts.com
mircea_popescu: that run poorly secured, windows computers on the network
mircea_popescu: most of spam floating about today is traceable to clueless "businesses"
mod6: <dude> Your Honor, I swear I never sent those emails. <Judge> Sorry son, this spam has your key sig.
mircea_popescu: mod6 how'd that work ?
mod6: (if that should happen)
mod6: only a matter of time until a party collects keys and then spams people to generate rev.
nubbins`: and on that note, i'm out
mircea_popescu: (half of which going to the party that reports the spam, of course)
mircea_popescu: ten bux an email or something reasonable like that.
mircea_popescu: part of a larger obama responsibility reform package, that also includes a rule that if your computer is hacked and sends spam, you're fined