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EskimoBob: "Diablo-D3 | there are bfl posts everywhere that need to be dealt with" - why?
mircea_popescu: the plot thickens
dub: where is th elatest from bfl
Namjies: Seems it's going to be partial info so far.
jcpham: sexy. also learned everytime i edit i spam twitter
Namjies: Is that your impression of people mass buying ASICs?
Namjies: By the way, I still lack 72 BTC funding for my loan. Anyone interested to lend me till the 10th of January?
Ukto: prolly would not have picked BF anywho tho
Ukto: man.. I stop posting.. and the fourms go silent :P
PsychoticBoy: omg I hate those drama queens
PsychoticBoy: for the shit stirrers to stir the f*cking shit
Ukto: (the ones that have been sprayed with teh white shit)
Ukto: and get a flocked tree
Ukto: then ima piss teh wife off
Ukto: when the youngest is 3
Ukto: not doign a tree this year
PsychoticBoy: thought so too
PsychoticBoy: I just decorated my christmas tree
Ukto: there are so many wells ready to pump, theres not enough demand
Ukto: they basically shut the wells down
mircea_popescu: that's a pretty good q right there. how the f ?!
Ukto: my family ownes mineral rights to alot of natural gas wells around texas etc
mircea_popescu: "For what it's worth, I think bASIC should also have a scammer tag. I don't get how they had a working prototype and suddenly have no design."
thestringpuller: usually gas skyrockets every winter but this winter it didn't
thestringpuller: and I'd have to get people to give you money to put in that account to put into MPBOR
thestringpuller: i would have to create some account with a third party like you smickles
thestringpuller: i'm just going to buy futures in energy
smickles: only one or two people actually seem to talk to the organizer of such things
thestringpuller: and I hate talking to people
mircea_popescu: that may be something to do, since it takes a little skill to use
thestringpuller: get a bunch of people together to put money into MPBOR
thestringpuller: what's the minimum put down for a bond?
mircea_popescu: there's no cotton but there's cocoa, wheat and corn
mircea_popescu: well there's a future
gribble: BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 13.70000, Best ask: 13.70001, Bid-ask spread: 0.00001, Last trade: 13.70000, 24 hour volume: 38587.41290478, 24 hour low: 13.30000, 24 hour high: 13.79989, 24 hour vwap: 13.61205
mircea_popescu: tun means cannon in romanian which makes this sorta funny
dub: anyway gotta tun
mircea_popescu: and the last murder in this (300k pop) town was about 3 years ago
mircea_popescu: i rly dun think it was guttin phobia.
midnightmagic: dub: What a horrible way to live, in constant fear.
dub: someone not tryign to kill and steal from you?
mircea_popescu: dub : earlier today was someone at the gate. guess who ?
dub: in eastern europe in particular that would be assumed false afaik
mircea_popescu: dub you ever been to pittsburgh ?
dub: midnightmagic: one is 'that person walkign the other way down the street probably doesnt want to kill me and take my shit'
mircea_popescu: you just don't get to vote is all.
mircea_popescu: canada is part of the us :D
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=130492.0 << a fine example. people do not comprehend statistics. they're told so. they carry on.
dub: midnightmagic: there are a couple of primary assumptions that are qutie different in say america to many other places
mircea_popescu: and the one pr two who say otherwise are "evil" because "different"
mircea_popescu: fine. deliberately inflating unwarranted presumptions of innocent ignoramuses apt to believe something is true because 50 different screen names all "Agree"
midnightmagic: You Europeans have a really dim view of the people you call "suckers" I'm learning.
mircea_popescu: deliberately inflating unwarranted presumptions of the suckers
mircea_popescu: whether you remember this or not.
midnightmagic: Therefore, any fraud, against anyone, no matter how obtuse they were with their money management, is wrong.
midnightmagic: Legitimizing preying on ignorance means that you legitmize preying on anyone. It presupposes that the only person who shouldn't be blamed for losing their own money is basically God.
mircea_popescu: it was a joke through and through. so, they paid, they played the investors. the beer's drunk, the smoke's smoked, bye.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic honestly, i don't think any glbse user has any recourse for anything whatsoever. the contracts weren't even signed ffs (when they existed)
dub: oh, I was thinking 10's
dub: im not asking how much I have to pay a de
mircea_popescu: which is why you may need a decent lawyer and some time.
mircea_popescu: the trick to making one acceptable is drafting it VERY narrowly
midnightmagic: Well, here's the thing. If the price is competitive, then ROI is possible.
mircea_popescu: well what can i tell you.
dub: it sorta comes with teh whole design engineer PD
mircea_popescu: in the case old employer wants to fuck over a start-up, he can
mircea_popescu: problem with being a dev is that previous ndas tend to fuck you over when you start new projects
mircea_popescu: if they do you can probably expect a significant paycheck increase.
mircea_popescu: most devs that are any good won't sign a nda period.
dub: hence the question
dub: job is under nda, take or leave mr dev
dub: shouldnt be any cost to making the dev sign?
mircea_popescu: cost as for the nda drafting or as to the dev signing ?
dub: anyone with an idea of costs to putting a dev or two under nda?
mircea_popescu: including psychoticboy, ciuciu and the rest of the follower crowd
mircea_popescu: then hk did something, then giga did his in april, then a bunch of smaller guys
mircea_popescu: this is the first coming in the open
midnightmagic: Yeah, definitely should talk to you more..
midnightmagic: Did that person post a concept somewhere?
midnightmagic: I meant that as a querulous-but-interested question-mark.
mircea_popescu: this is back early this year.
mircea_popescu: who is possibly the brain behind half btc scams to date.
midnightmagic: Also, usagi would be crushed like an insect, were I a warlike individual. I am not, and so what would happen is, the crowd would yell "Fight" and I'd offer usagi some coffee and sit down for a game of cribbage.
mircea_popescu: not only is this correct, but let's not forget the scam was actually initiated, proof-of-concepted and prototyped by that asshole meni rosenfeld
midnightmagic: If he provided the insurance, he has no business commenting in there and vouching for Douchebag McDoucherson.
mircea_popescu: a midnightmagic - usagi pit fight, i could watch that.
mircea_popescu: iirc there were a bunch in economy too
dub: 13:53] <Diablo-D3> bfl can have one thread and thats it
dub: [13:53] <Diablo-D3> I cleaned out all the bfl crap from the custom hardware forum
mircea_popescu: eh i dont thin khe gets to delete topicx
dub: funnily I see more retardation in the engineering and security space than residential internet users
mircea_popescu: so basically btctalk nuked all bfl threads ?
mircea_popescu: i never did, but it amuses me to torment people with it
dub: i once worked internet helpdesk dude, you cant teach me about pebkac
dub: think im growing another knee where I got hit at close range on the knee
mircea_popescu: t did not sound good and i couldnt shut down my computer at that point like the power button wouldnt even work and i had to take the battery out." this just for dub.
mircea_popescu: "when i use my picture viewer i can click through some pictures then my mouse turns into that little loading circle thing and wont go away and it gets like a grey tint over the picture. If i try using the task manager i try to end the program but it dosent go away and the x wont work either? and when i was using itunes i was playing a song and then i tried switching to another one and it started making a loud noise tha
mircea_popescu: cause they prolly suck and gnaa
mircea_popescu: they took it down
dub: and should take ~7 seconds to fix