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mircea_popescu: also: I'm not endorsing ethereum, I just think it's highly interesting, mainly from a technical perspective and for the implications it might have (which I can'
t yet fully imagine). Unsure who's really behind it, either, and what the larger plan is there..."
mircea_popescu: "sentiment of bitcoiners seems quite negative against ethereum. people fear what they don'
t understand, I guess. Or maybe it's envy these guys are being swamped with coins. btw: not saying ETH is a good investment, I have strong doubts. Ethereum being successful does not necessaril imply ETH will be valuable.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, no, i wouldn'
t say the defeat of the british was any sort of decolonisation.
nubbins`: nuance isn'
t a prerequisite for buying a case of beer
nubbins`: ;;google sometimes i don'
t understand the world i live in or what goes on in it
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> analogies: sometimes they don'
t stretch ;( << and sometimes, they stretch the wife.
nubbins`: analogies: sometimes they don'
t stretch ;(
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know i can'
t see that and not think chirac
nubbins`: if i mail you a
t-shirt, you haven'
t seized my clothing
BingoBoingo: <nubbins`> it's a bit saucy to say anyone "siezed control" after being voted into power in an internationally-monitored election << Shhh don'
t let Obama read the lawgs his election wasn'
t internationally monitored
nubbins`: idiots don'
t think they're frauds
mircea_popescu: yeah dude, that's the problem with usians, that they don'
t internalize their accomplishments
BingoBoingo: Yezedis are no more devil worshippers than the Haitians. If they worshipped the right devil as I do ISIS wouldn'
t be such a threat to them.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Right, Which is why you don'
t laze about in the Vault, but become the Van Graffs
BingoBoingo: <ascii_at_beach> well it can still burn, if sufficiently apocalyptic war where the blockchain is nuked and 'damnatio memoriae' << Who here isn'
t a big enough "Fallout" fan they don'
t plan to have a scale valut replica at BTC pricepoint X
mircea_popescu: the library that can burn and doesn'
t burn is a better design than the library which can not burn
mircea_popescu: one of those things people don'
t realise they can even dream of, like getting home to a party of naked disney princesses ready to suvck you off
mircea_popescu: this is a fucking thing that archeologists and historians don'
t even know they miss it'd be so great if they had.
ascii_at_beach: benefit is not only that you aren'
t creating yet another db that can be corrupted or lost, but also specifically the expense
ascii_at_beach: BingoBoingo: It can tolerate forms of data Bitcoin won'
t << you can stuff arbitrary octets in the blockchain. it will simply cost you.
BingoBoingo: Namecoin has some serious hashpower behind it because of merged mining, and It can tolerate forms of data Bitcoin won'
t mircea_popescu: Jason " and append it to a string which is hashed every 512 seconds." << no, old things already included in the block you don'
t keep around anymore
nubbins`: but this doesn'
t explain why mpex is still saying to email my public key!
nubbins`: haven'
t tried since the downtime
nubbins`: weird, mpex.ws isn'
t recognizing my public key
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol that's okay, "an organisation who" doesn'
t want to work with people what such a poor mastery of grammers.
mircea_popescu: this isn'
t exactly a supybot module, but more like a long term sort of project, which will both require maintenance and afford the maintainer a position in teh bitcoin hierarchy.
Jason: i don'
t see how that's any worse than naked wanker
Jason: i don'
t see the difference hehe
thestringpuller: ah. we had a few cats come out of Ga Tech, I don'
t think any have really gone on to do anything note worthy.
thestringpuller: I'm fixing github's broken code and I don'
t work for github? Is this a thing now?
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Well it was my only game on the year, and those definitely aren'
t my usual sort of seats
mircea_popescu: <+fluffypony> I feel like I'm in the wrong profession. << just as long as that profession isn'
t "taking at face value anything random people say online".
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mircea_popescu: so from the joys of development hell : netbind now fails for unclear reasons on eulora-dev. no code changes, just, one day works, next day doesn'
t. herpyderp!
danielpbarron: didn'
t get inspired on the other two; not much talk of Bitcoin on them
mircea_popescu: we didn'
t actually get far enough to fix a rate, but anyway, whatever the internets normally pay.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes: just...derping. << i have nfi, tried to give her an online job so she can cover her expenses and live more or less comfortably in exchange of spending 12 hours a day in front of the screen. didn'
t take it. << mo? what was the rate?
CheckDavid: mircea_popescu: I'm not sure. I don'
t provide any skilled labor to the market
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Lead Generation Step 1: Start WordPress blog. Step 2: Call people idiots. Step 3 Watch leads come to you. << don'
t knock it 'till you've tried it.
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid: Well. No. I don'
t have the skills to provide those services. So I would just do.marketing for the company as an independent contractor. << can you actually do anything useful ?
nubbins`: they didn'
t tell me that "utopia haze" was a potent strain
nubbins`: wait, shit, this is a joke, isn'
t it?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> indiancandy1:wher is mp BingoBoingo: Where isn'
t MP? ndiancandy1: india << you know y'all gonna have to start giving the girl some credit. she's both persistent and occasionally clever. << Definitely persistent, seems to be developing clever
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1:wher is mp BingoBoingo: Where isn'
t MP? ndiancandy1: india << you know y'all gonna have to start giving the girl some credit. she's both persistent and occasionally clever.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: just...derping. << i have nfi, tried to give her an online job so she can cover her expenses and live more or less comfortably in exchange of spending 12 hours a day in front of the screen. didn'
t take it.
nubbins`: can'
t make the waters too clear, people will start drinking em
nubbins`: this is why you don'
t see politicians resigning in shame from scandal anymore
peterl: the coed doesn'
t like the taste?
mircea_popescu: "Some noob investers think they have a god given right to pull out whenever the impulse hits them, and are throwing fits because reality won'
t cooperate with their whims." o.O
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: imagine mailing a photograph of a nude woman to someone in saudi arabia, and then having your government extradite you there at the king's request to serve a 5-year jail term <<< kinda why you don'
t want to live in a shitty country i guess.
gribble: Error: User doesn'
t exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
BingoBoingo: Played with, but... haven'
t kept anything with it since then
mircea_popescu: there was like.... one. ONE motherfucking service out there i didn'
t particularly despise.
mircea_popescu: BigBitz what else you don'
t know about you can'
t stop ?
BigBitz: I think it's --skip-anounce-out or --skip-announce can'
t remember now.
mircea_popescu: "nd in the end, we don'
t care about your IP, we only use it the ID for collecting statistics about what operatings systems are being use to run Armory and what versions people are using, especially after announcing new versions. This helps us remove duplicates."
assbot: Armory Bitcoin client silently de-anonymises you by sending 32 bits of your username back to bitcoinarmory.com every 30 minutes. Option can'
t be sensibly disabled. : Bitcoin
mircea_popescu: Armory Bitcoin client silently de-anonymises you by sending 32 bits of your username back to bitcoinarmory.com every 30 minutes. Option can'
t be sensibly disabled. : Bitcoin <<< o wow ?!
Apocalyptic: fluffypony, that's what a good troll does: you can'
t really tell
fluffypony: Apocalyptic: I don'
t think so...you saw the conversation in here earlier, right?
fluffypony: nah shame, the guys an idiot and he knows it, don'
t need to embarrass him further
chetty: moarrr, pics or it doesn'
t exist
BingoBoingo: moarrr: Well, there aren'
t too many solid competitors to Bitcoin when it comes to scarcity except for maybe Uranium
assbot: I'm Hoarding Bitcoins, and No You Can'
t Have Any | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> and who wants to drive an hour or two to find those long empty oil roads? << Who doesn'
t BingoBoingo: Don'
t you have those long empty oil roads up there you can use?
CheckDavid: Well. No. I don'
t have the skills to provide those services. So I would just do.marketing for the company as an independent contractor.
pankkake: ugh. another reason I can'
t stand github
xmj: (use a proper browser and proper dns-based ad filtering solution and you won'
t have to deal with this shit.)
moiety: I really didn'
t know what to say yesterday but I've had time to think now. I will leave the phone line on for the remainder of the term when I can and update the blog but I won'
t be able to be on IRC. Since I won'
t be on IRC anymore, if there is anything I should really know, please leave a message on skype or the blog. The reasons being, this isn'
t working out for me and I need to focus on working to keep a roof over my head and
☟︎ BingoBoingo: If God didn'
t approve of sodomy he wouldn'
t have given that Ram a buttplug
assbot: Armory Bitcoin client silently de-anonymises you by sending 32 bits of your username back to bitcoinarmory.com every 30 minutes. Option can'
t be sensibly disabled. : Bitcoin
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> deposits are currently disabled because 1 query per minute to blockchain.info's api triggers their cloudflare DDOS "protection". << you really don'
t need no api call for keeping track of one address.
ben_vulpes: but also you know - one thing at a time. i have all my ducks in a row for this cutover, i'm a cautious guy and don'
t feel like deploying more code right before cutting over to the new server.
kdomanski: matlab (or something) wouldn'
t import it correctly