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mircea_popescu: nobody in the us has 100k staff. nobody.
fiat500: mircea_popescu: its not 55 total though
mircea_popescu: people whose "business decisions" are oriented by the need to save fiddy bucks are not in business.
mircea_popescu: on the grounds that "you get free storage" ?
mircea_popescu: now, is it a sound business decision to give your commentaries away to that piece of shit i can't recall the name of
fiat500: mircea_popescu: when they are in YC they have very little funding to get extravagant with services
mircea_popescu: let's go some other way. you run a blog. which is what most of these "busionesses" are anyway, but let's not delve.
fiat500: mircea_popescu: dunno man, cutting costs sounds like sound business to me, especially when they're still getting the same package they would otherwise have paid for
mircea_popescu: fiat500 but do you see why this is a strategically inept move ?
fiat500: if you register a domain via them, you get free gapps
fiat500: ThickAsThieves: its the other way round
ThickAsThieves: i never saw any fre domain offers though
mircea_popescu: that's not business. that's freakshow.
mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of liking or not liking. it's a matter of imagining that using some free thing is a sound business decision.
mircea_popescu: because they're intellectually lazy scum.
fiat500: so they use google as a registrar
fiat500: which in turn uses godaddy
fiat500: a lot of those in fact just use google apps to register a domain,
ThickAsThieves: they are banning people that can play satoshidice
fiat500: could be their EU nodes
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mircea_popescu: bernanke lost moar than 50bn
ThickAsThieves: if anyone wants a cool rap song to listen to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Ie4CcTGKY
jurov: i don't get the outrage. it's just russian version of bailout
ThickAsThieves: I lose billions here and there, but $30bn, now that's just irresponsible
ThickAsThieves: "Putin, who has staked his reputation on a successful Games, faces criticism over allegations of corruption and costs overruns that have pushed up the price tag for the event to $50bn - five times more than initially planned."
ThickAsThieves: Putin opponents claim Russian business people and officials have siphoned billions intended to fund 2014 Winter Games.
ThickAsThieves: Up to $30bn 'stolen' from Sochi Olympic funds
jcpham: also noticed the classification
jcpham: i read that too
ThickAsThieves: creating chilling effects on the larger market, and that it wouldn't set the tone for future action. "I would be hesitant ever to paint a broad brush because of one criminal action against an entire industry. I don't think that's fair to an industry in any situation, let alone this one."
ThickAsThieves: She also denied that the guidelines were a new regulatory framework, instead referring to them as technical explanations of "something that already exists." Because of this, she said it wasn't necessary to ask for public comment. But the conversation over virtual currencies, she said, will be ongoing. For now, Shasky Calvery said that she wasn't worried about the Liberty Reserve case
ThickAsThieves: "DIGITAL CURRENCIES ARE JUST A FINANCIAL SERVICE AND THOSE WHO DEAL IN THEM ARE A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION."
mircea_popescu: lol she's in top shape
topace_: switching trade engines
topace_: warning: might need to shutdown havelock for ~30 seconds in the next hour or so
kakobrekla: or whatever he had there
kakobrekla: anyone got a link to voorhees interview from the last conference
Namworld: Not that they can't still just send bets to the SD addresses...
Namworld: They never. SD did ban US traffic from their website however.
thestringpuller: Namworld: when did the US ban Satoshi Dice?
Namworld: used to be like half transactions
FabianB: but transaction count is still high, isn't it?
Namworld: since there's a 2 million shares sell order at 0.0035, SD volume is down, they stopped serving the US (yes I know they can't really block US traffic) and will probably have 0 profit/a loss this month...
thestringpuller: when did that happen?
Chaang-Noi: <assbot> [MPEX] [S.DICE] 6150 @ 0.00179 = 11.0085 BTC [-] cut this price in half and fair value
FabianB: i created brain wallets manually via library and sha256sum commandline though in the past
Scrat: log on irc on vpn, tell mp that you have a gox db dump
Scrat: lol thats a great get rich quick scheme
FabianB: ic, i guess i didn't follow that
mircea_popescu: FabianB iirc there was some kid supposedly having a mtgox leak
mircea_popescu: Scrat tgat was failing earlier.
Scrat: use this
FabianB: mircea_popescu: don't think so, never generated brainwallets for me via brainwallet.org (well, none that i actually used)
mircea_popescu: when brainwallet failed to make usable privkeys
ThickAsThieves: i was gonna say i remember goinf through this before
mircea_popescu: iirc FabianB was there.
mircea_popescu: d34th because a coupla months ago when i was giving some alms to a random "haxxor" kiddo it proven dysfunctional
d34th: mircea_popescu: why not try brainwallet
mircea_popescu: da fuck, that site broken or what.
asciilifeform: anybody try this yet? I bet it simply eats the value of the private key.
mircea_popescu: which one is this one ?
d34th: i remember there used to be a page showing the versions with the % of people using
d34th: Diablo-D3: the question is, what version is the majority of the network running
deadweasel: lol, wtf Diablo-D3? What's that for? Proof of concept to show how the network handles it?
deadweasel: don't say that Chaang-Noi -- they are my last out besides localbitcoins
thestringpuller: I think when OIX is 0, either the price is very stable or the prie is very volatile...
thestringpuller: And that's how the human race dies.
asciilifeform: reasonable. so, the alpha folks can feel very noble and courageous as they crawl to the graveyard with everybody else.
mircea_popescu: a beta is defined by thestringpuller's excellent observation above.
thestringpuller: Girls will never sleep with beta males even if they are the last remnants on earth.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 96% male... the "clever poor" fellows will break out the baccilae long before then.
Chaang-Noi: id let him just try to do his thing
Chaang-Noi: he wants to operate outside your system
mircea_popescu: what's to talk really ?
mircea_popescu: so if the spreads are too wide go inside the market.
Chaang-Noi: loool theymos sure is awesome at "helping" us
deadweasel: Chaang-Noi: all links have that message now
santacruz: spreads are too big... however we must talk about possible cooperation
mircea_popescu: santacruz better yet, get soem btc together trade on mpex/coinbr.
Chaang-Noi: did he get hacked, or theymos "helping"
deadweasel: first time for me too, Chaang-Noi
Chaang-Noi: anyone has seen that warning before or is it just me?
mircea_popescu: the future of the world is being 96% male, with 0.001% getting the 4% females in shackles and walled orchards.
thestringpuller: how do we fix this?
jcpham: i've been spending more time building portfolios for others
mircea_popescu: what the fuck already
mircea_popescu: meanwhile s.mpoe is tigther than google
fiat500: i suppose it would be difficult to profit off the spread
mircea_popescu: fiat500 too much chasing the lottery ticket going on.
mircea_popescu: people need to get with the program i guess. what sort of nonsense wide open markets are these.
Chaang-Noi: fuck min investment into that is 50k usd if i even sell it
Chaang-Noi: saying i was the smartest guy in the room... no wonder they get scammed so fucking much...
ThickAsThieves: you mentioned you were selling those AM shares
Chaang-Noi: some guy just messaged me asking to send me money, for my "new project" and i have no idea what he is on about...
Chaang-Noi: i would ask for that two, and then pray.....
deadweasel: ah tks!
deadweasel: I would love a link to that. or a name.
mircea_popescu: or who was the guy they kicked out cause he dared say women are absent in sciences because dumb in the head.
mircea_popescu: jcpham lol tell summers that