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BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: So I've heard. I'm just thinking of a local venture that has run into the localization issue hard as it expanded
benkay:
mircea_popescu has a standing offer on the table for people to promote the cardano
Jezzz:
mircea_popescu: i'm almost done, they better hurry :)
ThickAsThieves: <+
mircea_popescu> upon consideration, i think jezz has a very valid point. it's not ozbot that should change.// hey that was my point!
benkay:
mircea_popescu wants it, Jezzz
benkay: 677 is the unique id, Jezzz
mircea_popescu Jezzz:
mircea_popescu: how do you imagine the bitbet interaction working?
Jezzz:
mircea_popescu: not hard
ThickAsThieves: <+
mircea_popescu> it'd seem people suspect june/july will have major deployments of moar hash /// afaik ASICminer has yet to release the hounds
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Control code is UP! or DOWN!
ozbot: Twitter / _mculp: @
mircea_popescu @beautyon_ ...
ozbot: Twitter /
Mircea_Popescu: Nobody hires anymore. It's ...
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: for real, audiophile stuff is way over my head anyway
kakobrekla:
mircea_popescu the speakers color the sound specifically depending on brand model, and guitar players want that .
benkay:
mircea_popescu: if they can't figure out where the money is i don't want to meet them.
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: unfortunately not, was off-the-cuff, but mostly just reiterated stuff I've mentioned in here before and did lots of marketing-droid-speak about The importance Of Adoption (tm)
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I dunno about physical size, but the Y contains much less encoding and information.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Y chromosome is actually much small, contains less checksums.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I didn't hear anything like that. Could also be dumb UK stuff?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I don't think twitter really bans.
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: unfortunately the grandparents I have that are still alive are very peasant, so I'm not going to get much more out of them
JorgePasada:
mircea_popescu: The scary part is when they fit data to their ideas/ideals instead of the other way around
JorgePasada:
mircea_popescu: Is that the Intellectual consistency through ignorance approach?
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: yes but you're a rational human being
TomServo:
mircea_popescu: I seem to recall you mentioning Piketty, but don't recall the context. Was it regarding his book?
ozbot: Twitter /
Mircea_Popescu: @pro2rat @jonmatonis @bitcoinpete ...
fluffypony: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu my nonna phoned me back to say that they were discussing the piece of poetry, and she suggests this alternative: "This is a beautiful story for whoever listens to it, beautiful the people that tell the story, beautiful the land that cannot be forgotten, beautiful Michela she will be"
thestringpuller: originally
mircea_popescu said when dealing with the press: "don't, they are too stupid to live" or something thereof
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: you run it on some server before, totally transparent. it will cache most in RAM and deliver, it. it will merge outgoing connections and route them through HTTP 1.1 connections
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: yeah i know, was just asking why not, for just html you'd get a lots of plus
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: why not run a varnish cache for fronting mpex?
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: have you ever checked out romanian section of bitcointalk?
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: ykr, not bad at all :D
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: yeah...part of it was also to prove to myself I wasn't an alcoholic:)
decimation:
mircea_popescu: i'm not even reactionary, myself, i've not gotten so far. some visiting french politics professor called me "white" << Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like today if Marx had perished while affixed to the wall of some landgrave's dungeon.
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @
Mircea_Popescu @acav Being privileged is being the good guy. If the other guy weren't a lazy fuckwit, he'd be privileged too.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Usually when they find that microbe they don't find it in the throat, but in the cerebrospinal fluid
BingoBoingo: I mean
mircea_popescu offers insight into his Shit Hits the Fan contingency plan publicly.
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: I'm keen, give me details
assbot: Really,
mircea_popescu?
wywialm:
mircea_popescu, is the rating of 10 appropriate to reflect the fact that I operate numerisTrade account? Or should I set the rating to 1 not to prop up "total trust" (I'm aware that total trust should not be taken into account heavily, but still..)
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: regarding DNS2address resolve for bitcoin, i am setting up an updated example that includes support for BIP32 xpub keys for address derivation
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: it's not ready for prime timez yet
benkay:
mircea_popescu: for them to be terms of art, there'd need to be a field and for that field to have experts.
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: you missed the whole PayBee proposal! it backs up onto Bitpay, so no need for any of tha t:)
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: accept arbitrary altcoins, cash out to fiat / BTC in whatever ratio they'd like
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: backend stuff, the VertPay guys have a dev team so some of the code's been discarded in favour of what they have, and some can be re-used
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: it made sense to do that than try do PayBee
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: an altcoin, selling point is that it uses scrypt-n so it's asic-resistant
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: I found someone doing something similar to PayBee but Vertcoin-specific, so I struck a deal with them and we've been sorting things out over the past couple of weeks
nahkunt:
mircea_popescu: nope, link it?
nahkunt:
mircea_popescu: isn't that correct? i read about you on the bitcoinwiki, it linked to a bitcointalk thread discussing it.
nahkunt:
mircea_popescu: the romanian suspected pornstar/cryptostocks businessman/woman
nahkunt:
mircea_popescu: hah, i just read about you a few minutes ago and now i see you on here...
ThickAsThieves: <+
mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves you srsly want it ? /// well, i'm down for a test drive in Amsterdam next week
benkay:
mircea_popescu: he ain't no worse than tib.
ThickAsThieves: <+
mircea_popescu> anyway, the deal would be : you go to whatever bitcoin conferences you feel like, i'll cover your entrance fee. you talk to people, explain stuff to them. //// mah job!
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: sure, happy to talk about it
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: no, got a warehouse with decent availability and average Internet tho
GAit:
mircea_popescu: you are saying we tried to get attention in the wrong way by mentioning our comptetitors reusing addresses?
GAit:
mircea_popescu: i was trying to find if there was something bad we could improvwe
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete called GAit scum on the Twitorz
GAit: thanks
mircea_popescu bitcoinpete:
mircea_popescu: wait, are you saying that reusing is good for privacy?
danielpbarron:
mircea_popescu: the default setting for new users is to block "adult content"
ozbot: Twitter /
Mircea_Popescu: Attention #Bitcoin : contrary ...
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: a sadbox is where Jimmothy goes
Apocalyptic:
mircea_popescu, jurov i'm refering to this incident when one of his fellow hunter was killed during a hunt
danielpbarron:
mircea_popescu: do you know which GPG key he uses to place orders on MPEx?
danielpbarron: ok,
mircea_popescu what did you mean when you rated jurov?
danielpbarron: for example: a user is in the WoT, and has a rating of 3 or more given by
mircea_popescu, describing him as an operator of a specific pass-through; is it safe to trust this user on that information alone?
benkay: but
mircea_popescu wouldja revoke the keys?
danielpbarron:
mircea_popescu: but would his access be void? (value of 30 BTC)
benkay:
mircea_popescu: your comment was along the lines of 'romania gave a bunch of money to basically anyone who showed up claiming to be a businessman and a bunch of guys blew it in advertising'