assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3420 @ 0.00087895 = 3.006 BTC [-]
ozbot: Behind the NSA's mysterious coded tweet - CNN.com
moiety: mircea_popescu, figuring out what to do next with my time really, which is hampered by trying to sort out house things recently. i have a deadline now.
moiety: i thought that re nsa and tweeter, like trying to play like cicada and getting it terribly wrong
moiety: not particularly, but it'll all work out :]
moiety: once one thing gets sorted, all the rest will be easier i think
moiety: i work better to deadlines anyways, wee bit of pressure did no one any harm
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 83 @ 0.041 = 3.403 BTC [-] {2}
BingoBoingo: Oh, anyone want to guess what my blood pressure was today?
BingoBoingo: Thanks, Probably all of this damn tramadol keeping it that low.
BingoBoingo: I'm not sure I like this new doctor though, too young.
moiety: thats really good BB :] everything go alright then?
BingoBoingo: Eh, could have gone better, just more of the same for another week and see from there
moiety: hope things keep improving
moiety: i don't take well on tramadol at all
BingoBoingo: Eh, NSAIDs weren't doing anything and this does something. They seem to scarcely prescribe much else anymore.
moiety: this is true. it mimics how the body takes to other things. this doesn't translate well in me. tramadol is one of things people either do really well or really badly on.
moiety: tim, the bike crash guy, he loves it
BingoBoingo: I'd rather just go back to drinking, but these antibiotics...
moiety: theres only one antibiotic you cant drink on, its a myth
moiety: it begins with M and i cant remember what it is
BingoBoingo: Just because there is one building in town that will kill you for sure if you jump from it doesn't mean jumping from the other ones is an idea worth endorsing.
assbot: Voicing NormDePloome for 30 minutes.
moiety: BingoBoingo: what i mean is i think the biggest issue is drowsiness. theres only one that will make a person sick -- that i know of
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [ALC] 2 @ 0.1333333 = 0.2667 BTC [-]
☟︎☟︎ kakobrekla: here a question, you know whats the thing with winklevoss twins and redundancy?
ozbot: #bitcoin-assets log
ozbot: BitBet Propositions
ozbot: #bitcoin-assets log
ozbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1007.73 B (95%) on Yes, 47.56 B (5%) on No
kakobrekla: <title>BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1007.73 B (95%) on Yes, 47.56 B (5%) on No; closing in 9 months 1 week; weight: 84`057 (100`000 to 1)</title>
ozbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1007.73 B (95%) on Yes, 47.56 B (5%) on No
ozbot: BitBet - 1BTC >= $10,000 USD :: 75 B (17%) on Yes, 373.87 B (83%) on No | closing in 6 months 1 week
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the newest Trilema header may be the best yet
nubbins`: when we work out our deal to publish trilema excerpts in dead-tree format, that should be on the cover.
gribble: Nick 'thestringpuller', with hostmask 'thestringpuller!~leflor@99-39-97-12.lightspeed.tukrga.sbcglobal.net', is not identified.
nubbins`: "oh yeah, i just gobbled a pint of ice cream"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2530 @ 0.00087895 = 2.2237 BTC [-]
gribble: Nick 'thestringpuller', with hostmask 'thestringpuller!~leflor@99-39-97-12.lightspeed.tukrga.sbcglobal.net', is identified as user 'thestringpuller', with GPG key id 0FF2943DA179E169, key fingerprint 6ACE36E786F39A4ADC4506DE0FF2943DA179E169, and bitcoin address None
nubbins`: (pirate years for all ye landlubbers)
ozbot: Japanese Man Arrested for Having Guns Made with a 3D Printer
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 16 @ 0.06474168 = 1.0359 BTC [-]
PLambert: did you see the article about the guy who accidently got shipped a drone by US gov? he should have sold it on silkroad :)
ozbot: UPS accidentally delivers a $350K US government DRONE to college student who ordered a weightlifting
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27822 @ 0.00087895 = 24.4541 BTC [-] {2}
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 444.55, Best ask: 446.0, Bid-ask spread: 1.45000, Last trade: 446.0, 24 hour volume: 6767.10378919, 24 hour low: 437.61, 24 hour high: 450.08, 24 hour vwap: 443.839985864
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 25 @ 0.041 = 1.025 BTC [-]
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 446.99, vol: 6766.18252863 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 432.733, vol: 4547.59339 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 443.01, vol: 3414.96020012 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 439.98, vol: 19.02559558 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 441.29475, vol: 2365.35030000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 441.809, vol: 5.98963694 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 442.752, vol: 30.20807873 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message)
ozbot: The Navy's new, secure e-readers are called NeRD.
moiety: is it just the uk that keeps bumping up passport prices every five minutes?
moiety: i'll be more to renew than i was in the first place
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17495 @ 0.0008799 = 15.3939 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: Current MPIF account balance on Just-Dice: 163.99003536 BTC; +0.01152900 BTC (+0.0070%) since last check 10h 41m 29s ago.
TheNewDeal: or was there a btc/atc combo investment?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6750 @ 0.00087895 = 5.9329 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 6 @ 0.041 = 0.246 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.07897949 = 0.158 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24500 @ 0.00087723 = 21.4921 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 3 @ 0.041 = 0.123 BTC [-]
decimation: "indles, iPads, and other tablets/e-readers are currently forbidden on Navy vessels. They take up space, and, more importantly, can be a security threat because of connectivity points like wi-fi, expandable storage, and USB ports."
decimation: as long as none of the objects in the area have the evil ports, the security gods shall be pleased and grant us the anti-snowden
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HIF] 500 @ 0.0002311 = 0.1156 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6150 @ 0.00087646 = 5.3902 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 5 @ 0.0315 = 0.1575 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 10 @ 0.041 = 0.41 BTC [-]
ozbot: Robots and restaurants | Lion of the Blogosphere
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 4 @ 0.0788 = 0.3152 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 40 @ 0.03075268 = 1.2301 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12200 @ 0.00088041 = 10.741 BTC [+]
ozbot: Tech firms agree to settle hiring suit - Taipei Times
decimation: "Sorry we fixed your wages for years. Have a free macbook"
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 16 @ 0.07897498 = 1.2636 BTC [+] {2}
decimation: The ceos all agreed that the lawsuit sucked, and the lawyers agreed to have a payday! The beta engineers, who already accepted years of being screwed, have accepted being screwed again.
assbot: Need a nickname, decimation.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19900 @ 0.00087634 = 17.4392 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [FN] [F.MPIF] 1000 @ 0.00021725 = 0.2173 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 5 @ 0.041 = 0.205 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4750 @ 0.00087671 = 4.1644 BTC [+]
artifexd: mircea_popescu or kakobrekla Can you straighten me out on some terminology?
artifexd: A proposition is an unapproved bet, right?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12974 @ 0.00088054 = 11.4241 BTC [+] {2}
artifexd: What is it called after it is approved?
artifexd: What do people place on that bet?
artifexd: There's my confusion. Bet refers to the thing being placed and the thing upon which it is placed.
artifexd: Do you have different names for them in your database?
artifexd: I imagine that there is a database with a table of bets and a table of, uh, bets. Both tables can't be called bets.
artifexd: It would fit with the twitter names: BitBets and BitBetsBets
kakobrekla: hehe did you take that from twitter TheNewDeal ?
artifexd: I guess I'll just go with "New bet created" vs "New bet placed"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18550 @ 0.00088119 = 16.3461 BTC [+]
TheNewDeal: you came here searching for knowledge?
tim-tams: looking for a sponsor actually haha
tim-tams: I run YouMeAndBTC.com and host the weekly podcast there
tim-tams: we're headed to a Bitcoin conference and are gonna interview some people
tim-tams: looking for a sponsor who would be mentioned every time we talk about the conference in our show
tim-tams: some banner space included too
tim-tams: our budget for the whole trip is $1400 and I got one sponsor for half that. So $700 more for an equal spot
tim-tams: I can provide a more detailed budget if you so desire
tim-tams: is that something you'd be interested in? you have a product/service?
TheNewDeal: can I pay like 5$ for you to include a small middle finger dedicated to the Chief of Operations of Butterfly Labs?
TheNewDeal: fack I'm gonna buy a ticket and go smoke some dope with him
tim-tams: mircea_popescu hey there, would you be interested in a deal like the one described above?
TheNewDeal: i massage very gentle, you give bitcoin
tim-tams: mircea_popescu haha to get your name out there, advertising and such
tim-tams: we're hoping to interview some people, and we'll definitely talk about the presentations a ton on the show
tim-tams: you'll be mentioned every time
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32400 @ 0.00087877 = 28.4721 BTC [-]
gribble: Nick 'tim-tams', with hostmask 'tim-tams!~pi@pool-108-17-65-93.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net', is identified as user 'tim-tams', with GPG key id 3C45E4F1E6017AD9, key fingerprint 0EB2043388023608246A68E83C45E4F1E6017AD9, and bitcoin address 188tePebVzHGniSWuh2azFpmQkrSVrn39H
tim-tams: I was expecting the sponsorship to be a form of advertising but if you'd rather just sponsor us because you think it's a good use of your money (which it would be ;) ) then we're ok with that haha
ozbot: Awstats and stuff pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: in order for you to advertise me you have to have more media exposure than me, not vice-versa.
tim-tams: yeah that makes sense, understandable, you're right, we're not very big, somewhat new
mircea_popescu: enthusiasm is good, don't get me wrong, but you're not there yet.
tim-tams: yeah no problem, you're right, we definitely need to grow
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12400 @ 0.00087877 = 10.8967 BTC [-]
benkay: oh it's assbot and i'm late to the party again
benkay: <kakobrekla> its lispy! // gtfo
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 4 @ 0.041 = 0.164 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34988 @ 0.00087934 = 30.7663 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27345 @ 0.00088189 = 24.1153 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: tim-tams: Do you have any experience with Charity fundraising?
BingoBoingo: tim-tams: If you do manage to get the funds for this thing I'll sponsor some efforts of yours to raise awareness for a very important charity
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12750 @ 0.00087753 = 11.1885 BTC [-] {2}
tim-tams: BingoBoingo no experience but yes, we'd love to do some charity work
BingoBoingo: tim-tams: The Charity is my left nut. It learned to kick itself. I want other people to know the fear I have. That their testicals too can learn to kick themselves.
tim-tams: we've been supporting that cause for years
BingoBoingo: I wish I had a third nut, so I could just tell this left one to STFU.
ozbot: Bitcoin Charts / Markets
fluffypony: Naphex: and you didn't have any 300 000 EUR transactions in your order book!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10700 @ 0.00087668 = 9.3805 BTC [-] {2}
Naphex: hehe, yes, saw the price on bitcoinaverage yesterday :)0
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 20 @ 0.0789999 = 1.58 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 48 @ 0.041 = 1.968 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 3 @ 0.06474168 = 0.1942 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 16 @ 0.079 = 1.264 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.079 = 0.158 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22112 @ 0.00087632 = 19.3772 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 3 @ 0.041 = 0.123 BTC [-]
Naphex: people should just buying pre-orders
pankkake: BingoBoingo: the URL is funny enough
pankkake: artifexd: maybe use bet and wager
assbot: Voicing paxtoncamaro91 for 30 minutes.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 10 @ 0.0789999 = 0.79 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 1817 @ 0.00012755 = 0.2318 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 3531 @ 0.00012738 = 0.4498 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 2273 @ 0.00012644 = 0.2874 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 13 @ 0.07899999 = 1.027 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 13 @ 0.041 = 0.533 BTC [-]
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: you and Samuel L Jackson have similar goals
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10505 @ 0.00088111 = 9.2561 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 15 @ 0.0310001 = 0.465 BTC [-]
assbot: Insufficient rights, Naphex, !up yourself on PM first.
assbot: Insufficient rights, Naphex, !up yourself on PM first.
assbot: Need a nickname, Naphex.
pankkake: eh, you have the same success rate as me yesterday
assbot: Voicing twizt for 30 minutes.
twizt: ty so much trouble
gribble: User 'twizt', with keyid None, fingerprint None, and bitcoin address 1AimBm6kNoYu1jTrqFWPBewhw9phMA8Prp, registered on Fri Jan 31 11:04:43 2014, last authed on Tue Apr 29 02:06:58 2014.
http://b-otc.com/vg?nick=twizt . Currently not authenticated.
twizt: y u checking me out bro
fluffypony: twizt: pankkake is the #bitcoin-assets police detective
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4800 @ 0.00088149 = 4.2312 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: You know, I've had it up to here with this Indian malarkey.
assbot: How can I be of assistance, my poor man?
assbot: [MPEX:F.MPIF] 1D: 0.00021725 / 0.00021725 / 0.00021725 (1000 shares, 0.22 BTC), 7D: 0.0002155 / 0.00021722 / 0.00021725 (37494 shares, 8.14 BTC), 30D: 0.000215 / 0.00021509 / 0.00021725 (1053350 shares, 226.57 BTC)
assbot: Current MPIF account balance on Just-Dice: 164.00874758 BTC; +0.01871222 BTC (+0.0114%) since last check 6h 40m 18s ago.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 37 @ 0.0425 = 1.5725 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 7 @ 0.031635 = 0.2214 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19799 @ 0.00088208 = 17.4643 BTC [+]
jurov: ;;later tell mircea_popescu dividends?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6600 @ 0.00088208 = 5.8217 BTC [+]
ozbot: BitCologne Introduction - YouTube
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 5 @ 0.041 = 0.205 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19500 @ 0.00088241 = 17.207 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SF1] 437 @ 0.00089017 = 0.389 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14251 @ 0.00088255 = 12.5772 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4049 @ 0.00088378 = 3.5784 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22471 @ 0.00088381 = 19.8601 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 3 @ 0.041 = 0.123 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HIF] 693 @ 0.00022828 = 0.1582 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 5 @ 0.0310001 = 0.155 BTC [+]
fluffypony: Naphex: I couldn't make it through that video
fluffypony: Naphex: they lost me at "made for peer to peer interaction"
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 444.8, Best ask: 446.96, Bid-ask spread: 2.16000, Last trade: 444.8, 24 hour volume: 6086.20975405, 24 hour low: 437.61, 24 hour high: 449.96, 24 hour vwap: 443.295460436
mircea_popescu: "One-third of World Bank Policy Reports Have Never Ever Been Read Online, By Anyone"
mircea_popescu: time to start seriously discussing the irrelevance of the world bank. perhaps it's time it just goes away, as it has little chance of being folded into mpex.
mircea_popescu: "All females regardless of race are to be inspected by a UK Border Force doctor for FGM. Passports will be stamped to mark childs FGM status."
mircea_popescu: lmao perhaps it could just move to the uk and stay there.
ozbot: Blue Ridge encounters Chinese ships near disputed isle - News - Stripes
mircea_popescu: some online news outlets to label the encounter a confrontation, which 7th Fleet officials disputed Friday.
mircea_popescu: USS Blue Ridge, the Japan-based 7th Fleet’s flagship, transited without incident near the two ships, Navy officials said.
mircea_popescu: All parties acted professionally, said 7th Fleet spokesman Cmdr. William Marks, who is embarked aboard Blue Ridge.
mircea_popescu: “There wasn’t any communication [with the Chinese] due to both Blue Ridge and its helicopter being a safe distance away,” Marks said.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't a confrontation : we stayed the fuck away from them, so there was no need for them to beat our living daylights out.
Naphex: damn eMag always messes up my shit
Naphex: ordered a whole pc, had to split the order so they can deliver stuff they had on inventory
Naphex: everything arrived, except the pc parts
Naphex: what am i going to do with a cooler and a PSU the whole weekend ;(
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is fascinating, i never met an emag customer before.
Naphex: yeah, i get suckered in into ordering stuff
Naphex: every year or so, then i order it and regret it while i wait for stuff for weeks
Naphex: there are no local stores that carry anything high end over here
Naphex: so its either emag or its cousins
Naphex: anyway emag is a big PoS
Naphex: all of my orders were above 3k$usd since ever
Naphex: never ever did they deliver on time or 'right'
Naphex: not to mention they wanted me to wire the money this last time
Naphex: and they still didn't register the payment sent 3 days ago!:(
Naphex: orders were maid and paid on monday, now its friday and all i have is a cooler+PSU.
Naphex: which were suposed to get here last
Naphex: EMAG sunt mai mult decat impostori. Sunt m*****i numai prin faptul pe care l-au facut. Numai incompetenti.
Naphex: whats that swear word?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] [PAID] 99.77743063 BTC to 500`000`000 shares, 19 satoshi per share
mircea_popescu: muisti = cocksuckers in romanian. a very economic language, needs fewer letters for the concept. also reflective of the fact that romanian women are on average better trained & moar experienced with it so it doesn't take as long.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 7 @ 0.041 = 0.287 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 30 @ 0.079 = 2.37 BTC [+]
Naphex: hehe aye, was a good day yesterday
Naphex: although there was a 120 wall at 1340
Naphex: doesn't look like gribble parses google calc
ozbot: Bitcoin Charts / Markets / btcxchangeRON
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long the local fucktards realise there's a 10% arb hole available.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9150 @ 0.00088369 = 8.0858 BTC [-] {2}
Naphex: but there is no patience,
Naphex: most people come in and exit
Naphex: yesterday was straight wall for most the day/night. 120 @ 1342 , 1344
mircea_popescu: Naphex no but i mean the derps that pretend like they're bankers and bvb traders and whatnot
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: you mean the crowd that self-identify as "ibankers" ? :-P
fluffypony: "robot servant in channel responds as follows"
mircea_popescu: Naphex back then, like 90% of the entire market cap was this one austrian conglomerate.
ozbot: Bursa de Valori Bucuresti
Naphex: transformarea Bursei de Valori Bucuresti intr-unul dintre cele mai active instrumente de finantare a economiei din Romania
pankkake: Naphex: so why do you order from this emag thing if it sucks?
mircea_popescu: pankkake because he's assburgers and can't drive 50 miles to fucking vienna to buy the stuff off the shelf
pankkake: eww buying pc parts of the shelf?!
Naphex: and i was hoping to get it 2nd day
pankkake: so more practical to order online
pankkake: though once I tried to save a few euros and ordered from multiple retailers, wasn't worth it
mircea_popescu: unless you have an actual provisioning contract with penalties for delays and misdelivery,
pankkake: anyway, the choice isn't that great in retail
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27250 @ 0.0008842 = 24.0945 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: Voicing chetty for 30 minutes.
chetty: doods, always buy off the self, security. random stuffs is safer
chetty: god I bet that feels nice to wear
davout: mircea_popescu: when i'm done with her sure
davout: unless some soupeur comes along ofc
davout: "Dans son autobiographie One two two3, l'ex-prostituée Fabienne Jamet évoque ainsi cette pratique : « À l'époque où je dirigeais le 122, j'avais un soupeur qui me prenait trente à quarante foutres à chaque visite »4."
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 100 @ 0.00447929 = 0.4479 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: pratiquées généralement par des hommes du Marais de la rue Sainte-Anastase
davout: "On a également désigné par ce mot des individus fréquentant les maisons de prostitution, et qui prenaient plaisir à consommer généralement à même le sexe féminin la semence abandonnée par les clients précédents (ces individus étaient souvent impuissants). D'autres appellations existent pour qualifier cet acte, comme « faire dînette »."
fluffypony: "The term soupeur means and first of all individuals who take pleasure in eating food soaked in the urine of others"
fluffypony: right that's enough fr.wikipedia.org for the day
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 7 @ 0.079 = 0.553 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: frenchies are fucking perverse. why not eat cum like normal people.
assbot: Voicing lolo for 30 minutes.
ozbot: BitcoinBourse: the biggest scam in Bitcoin securities today
ozbot: BitcoinWallet Aims to Make Digital Currency More Social, Transparent|PaymentsSource
mircea_popescu: Duminica, 26 August, Anul 4 (ie, 2012) : ron/usd = 3.58199 ; Today 9 May 2014 : ron/usd = 3.21055
mircea_popescu: think about that! in the past couple of years, the dollar has lost ground AGAINST THE ROMANIAN LEU
pankkake: duel listing, I like it. FIGHT!
pankkake: oh it's CryptoVest which does… something. I haven't figured out yet
fluffypony: Naphex: with that smile I wouldn't trust him further than I could throw him
mircea_popescu: "Not to go all off-topic, but another alternative is that you could just conclude that with very few exceptions, the entire Bitcoin securities universe is currently populated with junk -- and not even bother."
mircea_popescu: "If, instead of treating their BTC like play money and throwing it into this kind of junk, folks just took a portion of their available dollars and invested that capital into random selections from the S&P 500, they would likely do much, much better."
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: he's not wrong, assuming he's referring to the "stock" on BitcoinBourse and CryptoStocks
pankkake: well he's right that most are junk
fluffypony: you could bury the money as cash in the ground and dig it up over 5 years
ozbot: Hayman Global Outlook Pitfalls and Opportunities for 2014 by Kyle Bass - YouTube
mircea_popescu: he got trampled to shit by mpoe-pr for being a fucktard, rather than admit he;'s a fucktard he prefers to claim "it was impossible anyway":
fluffypony: and whatever hasn't decomposed would still be more than investing in BitcoinBourse stocks
Apocalyptic: I like how the first question he's asked is "what do you think about bitcoin", despite it not being mentionned at all
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic re buffett : i chuckled at the recent sacking of that wsj reporter over calling buffet a hypocrite for no good reason.
fluffypony: anyway I was writing a blog post about the fucktards that are Coinbase before getting distracted by this, I'ma finish it
mircea_popescu: somehow they think the strategy involved is not transparent as glass, i have no idea why.
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu re Kyle Bass, he is saying in that presentation that Argentina is the best country to invest in for the following years
Naphex: well BB might just get 0dayd with all those PHP scripts they run
fluffypony: pankkake: his reply is what triggered the blog post I'm writing
fluffypony: or more specifically zumzero's backing
fluffypony: "Hmmmn, tricky. Go with the new poster whose first post started with a personal insult or take the advice and recommendation from an established and respected shareholder? What will Ken do? Tricky."
pankkake: I'm not sure what he even meant by that
pankkake: and who the RESPECTED shareholder is
fluffypony: pankkake: apparently my advice is worthless because I implied Ken hired an incompetent "project manager"
fluffypony: and Jasun7211's advice is golden because he's the *respektud sharezholder*
fluffypony: so he would never look out for himself
pankkake: also, lol at not using BitPay because they are "in bed with BFL"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony yes man, that's how it works. take dr foreskin : he does something stupid. he's publicly told just how stupid he is. he moves on to claiming that THE WORLD IS BROKEN
mircea_popescu: anyway, basically fluffypony is sorta moving into a mpoe-pr 2.0 role here ?
fluffypony: I actually don't know how mpoe-pr/hanbot lasted as long as she did without quitting, I wouldn't have lasted more than a month
pankkake: I lasted in the forums because there wasn't much else I could do of my days
pankkake: insulting people on the internet was the bonus
pankkake: so what's your excuse, fluffypony?
fluffypony: I think there are some guys that want to do things in a way that is successful
fluffypony: so I don't mind offering constructive criticism where I can
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fluffypony: except not pretty enough to be jailbait
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bounce: how the fsck is a novelty headphone brand worth 3.2bn dollahs?
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fluffypony: it's one of those "if you're cool you own a pair" products
fluffypony: they'll lose ground in a few years, but right now they're a hot commodity
fluffypony: if it happens it seems to be a marketing exercise for Apple - they could certainly compete from a branding and quality perspective, but they're losing their "cool and hip" image
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bounce: apple do know how to be cool and hip and things, or at least jobs managed to hit the nail on the head an ungodly long tim
bounce: but apple always made its own. it's to be seen if they can manage someone else's thing
fluffypony: bounce: yeah, I get the feeling that they're worried about losing ground in that space without Jobs
bounce: they're pretty headless right now. the rest runs pretty well -- cook is (I'm told) very good at the whole supply chain thing
fluffypony: pankkake: who is that? that's the nerd equivalent of someone taking a picture of themselves standing next to a Nissan 350Z (when they're probably 3 mths behind on payments) and putting it on Facebook to impress everyone with his lavish riches
pankkake: fluffypony: it's unknown, but it's a /g/ meme. these last days it's even better than usual obviously
fluffypony: bounce: yeah he seems to be good at managing the company and keeping it profitable and smooth, but he doesn't seem to have the requisite insight and vision
pankkake: s/insight and vision/delusionist skills/
bounce could do the vision thing, blackberry style. -- that basically was a company with one customer, the boss. making something that blind-sides the hipsters, repeatedly, well, few can do that.
bounce: the thing is, apple is sitting on an ungodly pile of money, without much in the way of ideas
Naphex: get money spend money no money?
fluffypony: pankkake: nah, Jobs had insight and vision into what people (generally) wanted before they even knew they want it
Naphex: meh. jobs just hyped people
Naphex: Look a computer in a phone
Naphex: sorry i meant a severly limited computer which you can use too buy more apple shit
pankkake: how many bought an iThing and don't even use it?
bounce: dunno. any market research into it?
bounce: though probably not exlusively to nor blamable on apple
pankkake: jobs sold the ipad to the press, as the thing that would save them
pankkake: it didn't work at all, but they hyped the ipad before that, hoping it would
bounce: so? plenty large companies do that, and worse. "vaporware"
fluffypony: Naphex: I'm talking more about stuff like the iPad - it wasn't even a particularly novel idea, it was just so well executed that every major exec on the planet seems to have switched 80% of their tasks to their iPad instead of their laptop
Naphex: i never bought an ipad
bounce: fairly brilliant marketing move, though I'm not too impressed by the damage
fluffypony: bounce: well think about how something like WhatsApp was valued - it's valuation was based on userbase and potential monetisation right?
fluffypony: something like Beats has both a loyal user base and real revenue streams
pankkake: I wonder why there's no clothing line yet
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu re vertcoin, I have no idea how big the VTC market is, nor what hashrate the network has
fluffypony: Apocalyptic: I can give you a bit of info on that
Apocalyptic: "Volume 24h: 95.130000 BTC" according to poloniex, but hard to say what the real thing is
BigBitz: buying Beats was smart/smooth.
BigBitz: their target market for iPhone is the beat wearing morons.
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BigBitz: They're good headphones, but, at that price they're not good...
BigBitz: Dre becomes 1st hip hop billionaire..
BigBitz: Although isn't it Carlye Group and HTC which own most of Beats now-a-days?
BigBitz: was the Apple buy a cash buy?
fluffypony: bought a pair of buds for the wife a few years ago
fluffypony: and she's abused them, yet they're still going
BigBitz: yeah they are good -- just for that kind of coin they are expensive and not THAT good.
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bounce: custom fit earbuds, say
fluffypony: we get these reward points from our bank for swiping and shit, and if you use a bunch of the bank's products you get 40% off at certain stores when spending the points
fluffypony: so I basically got them for "free" with the points
fluffypony: I don't think I would've paid cash for them
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bounce: you paid for the kickbacks, sure enough
BigBitz: I wouldn't be upset to get a free pair.
fluffypony: bounce: for sure, still nice to get something instead of just getting fisted by the bank :-P
bounce: so you got some lube for getting reamed
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bounce: found a book (pdf, really) by some guy who made a sport out of gaming airmiles and getting lifetime platinum diamond whatever status
bounce: kinda interesting. though I probably wouldn't go through the trouble even if I had access to (or need for) those things
fluffypony: yeah some of those reward systems can be gamed nicely if you're a big enough spender
BigBitz: btw they do charge Merchants; if they're volume is significant.
fluffypony: BigBitz: ah ok - I'll add that in as a sidebar
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BigBitz: This, too, is antithetical to Bitcoin, but also flies in the face of all logic. Why layer the fees on to ordinary users that could be sending Bitcoin to their mom or their sick cousin? Why not let the merchants carry the cost, since they can write the fees off as a cost-of-doing-business?
BigBitz: Welcome to VISA/AMEX :) ie; end user does not carry th eburden of Merchant Services Charges
BigBitz: however, some refuse to accecpt AMEX based on their larger tx fee.
mike_c: it's no berkshire vs bitcoin, but there are some basketball bets totalling a few bitcoin going now. not too shabby.
BigBitz: did the Berkshire bet "get made" ?
mike_c: well, there was no immaculate conception. how do you mean?
BigBitz: like confirmed to be have taken place.
ozbot: The Official NeoCities Blog
BigBitz: "internal IP range" .. not sure if serious ..
mike_c: 04:50:57 mircea_popescu:your blog got 0 comments the past month. << just because your blog doesn't get comments doesn't mean it sucks.
ThickAsThieves: Well, mostly, you are projecting all your own desires onto a business
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: the article was triggered by a Bitpay vs. Coinbase discussion on the AMC thread
mike_c: Apocalyptic: i was like an hour before that in catching up. so close :)
fluffypony: I can preface it with that if it'll help
ThickAsThieves: right now you just sound like a bitter customer who didnt get his way
fluffypony: yes but then I sound like a Bitpay shill :-P
ThickAsThieves: i'm not even sure there are any real offenses of coinbase mentioned in your post
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Apocalyptic: oh yeah the ""high risk transaction" trick
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: k I'll adjust it to preface it better
ThickAsThieves: "Purposely breaking the Bitcoin model is not only irresponsible, but it gives us insight into what Coinbase is trying to achieve."
bounce: "complain to the ceo of bitcoin"
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ThickAsThieves: because they form a bitcoin/fiat money-changing service they are the devil?
mike_c: coinbase is only a scam if you treat it like a daytrading exchange.
mike_c: kinda like if you treat bitbet as a last-second bitcoin faucet.
ThickAsThieves: yeah you dont trade FX at the airport moneychanger now do you?
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: not in and of itself, no - the problem is that they're building a userbase that is intwined in that ecosystem and will struggle to manage their own wallet
fluffypony: they're making their users treat Bitcoin payments like PayPal payments
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: ok well let's contrast the approaches
princessnell: would you expect those most of those users to use Bitcoin in any other way?
fluffypony: a Coinbase user buys something on a site that uses Bitpay
fluffypony: they're presented with a QR code + Bitcoin URI + address
fluffypony: they can still do "wun klick" payments and whatever
fluffypony: and have the money sucked out their bank account
ThickAsThieves: also, yknow your Coinbase thinks America is Important section mostly serves as data showing how US is important
fluffypony: but they're aware of what's happening and where Bitcoin plays a role in the payment process
fluffypony: vs. a Coinbase customer paying on a Coinbase merchant site
fluffypony: where it's all magical unicorns denominated in USD and money coming out their bank account
ThickAsThieves: maybe a better argument, would be how merchant use of bitcoin is the problem
fluffypony: mike_c: I'm speaking to a specific point ThickAsThieves raised
bounce: UnicornCoin, only valid in combination with RainbowCoin
ThickAsThieves: yeah my point wa a customer can make as many sacrfices as they like to protect their own convenieneces
ThickAsThieves: with the convenience be speed, false sense of security, or ignorance as bliss
mike_c: yes, i think i'm following, but who cares if a user <-> coinbase <-> coinbase merchant transaction doesn't scream bitcoin?
mike_c: "Since Coinbase has had their merchant tools rolled out since December 5th, 2012 it’s safe to say that they’re not a new startup."
princessnell: yr absolutely right about the cultural problems that the convenience creates
mike_c: uh.. 1.5 years is pretty dang new :)
princessnell: but i wonder if many (most?) coinbase users would have it any other way
ThickAsThieves: princessnell, but what's the flipside? a common cure for stupid?
fluffypony: mike_c: well, isn't part of the entire point of Bitcoin that "he who holds the keys holds the coins"? in other words, users should be encouraged to use Bitcoin in that fashion, anything else (webwallets) deviates from that core principle
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bounce: what, no "take the world by storm"?
mike_c: it's cash in your pocket vs. your bank account. cash in your pocket is a convience and subject to mugging.
bounce: no cash in pocket means chip&pin which in turn exposes the entire checking account
fluffypony: mike_c: I can't agree with that analogy
princessnell: i think shaming coinbase et al is appropriate. but i think this is a structural problem with demand.
fluffypony: I don't have a better one, but that's not apt enough
mike_c: fluffypony: why? that is exactly how i use it. i purchase, move coins to storage, and use CB for random day-to-day purchase/bets.
mike_c: and basically fully expect someday my balance on CB won't be there.
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: I'm going to pull the article for the moment, I'll revisit it when I have time, but weekend is almost here
princessnell: right. but it does prime people in a problematic way.
mike_c: wha?? why would you pull an article that is generating debate?
ThickAsThieves: princessnell i dont think "priming" people should be a concern of coinbase necessarily
princessnell: ThickAsThieves no, of course not. they are a profit seeking business.
Apocalyptic: fluffypony, don't pull it just because TAT is being a coinbase shill
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fluffypony: ok I'll leave it up and then publish an updated one when I get a chance
Apocalyptic: for me it's beyond doubt coinbase is scaming with their high risk tx bullshit
mike_c: fluffypony: leave it as is, and tell TaT to comment on it if he doesn't like it
mike_c: then respond to the comment
mike_c: then you have a post and a lively comment section!
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mike_c: if your blog posts don't make people mad you end up with no comments.
fluffypony: and then you can comment on that new article
Apocalyptic: <ThickAsThieves> i was like no fluffy, no! // i like dem fluffy
ThickAsThieves: next article: "TAT is the worst merchanty payment processor article critic ever"
Naphex: and vetting it through bitcoin sig
ThickAsThieves: whats wrong is it doesnt inject a new point of failure for the NSA to fuck with
ThickAsThieves: "y keeping the chain code hidden behind the server, we get unlinkability. "
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Naphex: what i proposed and had a working example
ThickAsThieves: "If the chain code ever leaks then all your payments become linkable."
Naphex: is BIp32 hd pub keys, ecdsa signed with root address, then assigned
Naphex: everything in that article is then solved
ThickAsThieves: "First problem: stealth address usage bloats the block chain." fucking hell already
fluffypony: Naphex: so push it as a BIP and get comments on it
Naphex: i am shit at writing docs, better at writing and talking through code
fluffypony: Naphex: BIPs don't need much in way of documentation
fluffypony: and once it's up other people will contribute to it
Naphex: meh i'll reset up my example with bip32
bounce: what's medium.com on about this time? don't have a tablet so I'm too square to access their hipsteriffic site.
fluffypony: I'll rap - I mean, I did say on the AMC thread that I was "dropping the mic"
thestringpuller: Fine ThickAsThieves i'll get some producers myself and make my own bitcoin mix tape :P
ThickAsThieves: i've heard, with my own ears, "bitcoin" rapped in this studio in lyrics, it was embarassing
fluffypony: ok so what we do is get some samples and rhyming couples recorded
fluffypony: and then we hook it up to a "listen to bitcoin" style service
fluffypony: "[16:40:06] buZz: i noticed orgcoin even has quadminingpools"
ThickAsThieves: hi gais, i'm trying to quantum mine, which pool should i use/
fluffypony: one that supports 4 coins at the same time!
thestringpuller: I honestly think Curren$y would hang out in #bitcoin-assets if he was in bitcoin
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thestringpuller: "Hold on lemme find my lighter...*lighter sound* The engine in the back of my car, I'm clearly in a different tax bracket now dawg"
thestringpuller: Wale made a line just for me "Money got me pulling strings, I got that Geppetto dough"
ThickAsThieves ponders a "Buy TAT a joint" bitcoin tip button for Amsterdam liveblog.
fluffypony: thestringpuller: yes, it's a stuffed animal :)
gribble: Nick 'thestringpuller', with hostmask 'thestringpuller!~leflor@99-39-97-12.lightspeed.tukrga.sbcglobal.net', is identified as user 'thestringpuller', with GPG key id 0FF2943DA179E169, key fingerprint 6ACE36E786F39A4ADC4506DE0FF2943DA179E169, and bitcoin address None
gribble: Nick 'fluffypony', with hostmask 'fluffypony!~fluffypon@geartri.be', is identified as user 'fluffypony', with GPG key id 7455C5E3C0CDCEB9, key fingerprint BDA6BD7042B721C467A9759D7455C5E3C0CDCEB9, and bitcoin address 1FAvFCgXBmJ4uV3p1NFzWkkyndH7FJ6Vzx
thestringpuller: i don't want to turn into a cranky old man this soon like MP
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pankkake: there's no age to be a curmudgeon
ThickAsThieves: <+thestringpuller> ThickAsThieves wtf, am I going to become old like you? /// you will never be as old as me, sorry
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jborkl: MP : You kids get off my lawn!!
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ThickAsThieves: "This is a holiday when all-conquering patriotic force triumphs, when we all feel especially strongly what it means to be true to the Motherland and how important it is to be able to stand up for its interests" "Hurrah!" ~ Guess who said that and when.
mike_c: stalin? either that, or putin said it yesterday?
mike_c: US doesn't have a word for motherland though.
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davout: that's like saying the french don't have a word for entrepreneur
davout: i mean you're saying english doesn't have a word for X, where X is a word, that doesn't sound like you just made it up
mike_c: davout: well, what i mean is the US doesn't have a word that they use like russia uses motherland
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jurov: isn't it homeland?
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ThickAsThieves: "am, who came out in February, is projected to be selected Saturday -- the third day of the NFL draft. Although his marketability is likely to be tied heavily to making a team and playing well, he has received dozens of endorsement deal offers, which is unprecedented for an expected late-round pick."
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ThickAsThieves: to you developers, what you do you do when you are 3yrs deep with an uncompleted large project, and the last 20% seems to be when most of the time was spent on? When you also know you can't use this team long-term, even after it's completed?
mike_c: well, first off, the last 20% is always where the time is spent
ThickAsThieves: sure, but this was on schedule to be completed 2 yrs ago
mike_c: so you're 1.8 yrs late in firing them?
artifexd: ThickAsThieves: The 80/20 problem is not new
mike_c: two years late on a one year project is bad management.
pankkake: is the 20% the actual, vital stuff?
pankkake: sounds like it should have been the first thing to do
artifexd: Are the slacking, losing focus, or incompetent?
ThickAsThieves: i think they use foreigners so the tasks arent clearly communicated
pankkake: there is a chance the thing is worthless; it might have appeared to work, but there's not much inside
ThickAsThieves: i think another issue is the provider vastly underestimated the work
artifexd: Sounds like it is time to find new developers and revisit your requirements. The may need some breaking down/clarification.
ThickAsThieves: i dunno i used the software some and it mostly works, it's just cleanup
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artifexd: Do you have the source code for what they have done so far? What does the contract say about non-completion?
Naphex: <+ThickAsThieves> to you developers, what you do you do when you are 3yrs deep with an uncompleted large project, and the last 20% seems to be when most of the time was spent on? When you also know you can't use this team
Naphex: long-term, even after it's completed? <<
Naphex: <<< Bring in the heavy artillery
Naphex: bring in the experts, and a project manager that has a history as a drill sargent
Naphex: <+ThickAsThieves> but even cleanup is taking months << why is the cleanup taking so long?
ThickAsThieves: it's for a family business, but i havent been the manager of it
Naphex: ah well, when i used to pick up dieing projects
Naphex: i went in, identified root problems, identified what the customer, client needs to realease
ThickAsThieves: this is actually the 3rd or 4th team we had on it, the previous one were all worse
Naphex: are you using freelancers? or outsourcing companies?
Naphex: if every team wants to start over it might just be too shitty
pankkake: they probably want to start over for good reasons
ThickAsThieves: probably, but at some point someone has to fucking finish something
Naphex: the starting over thing, there is where the problems lie
pankkake: I've only refused one project, and my colleague refused it too, because there wasn't much to be saved, and fixing it would cost more than doing it again
Naphex: it might just be too shitty of a code+architecture to work productively in
Naphex: i've had clients picked up who used very very shitty platforms, which ended up beeing very succesful
Naphex: then all the problems started, while working in their code base was just a waste of time
Naphex: and any new feature they wanted to add might take more then 1 month
Naphex: i wanted to start over, refused when they denied. after 1 year
Naphex: the code, the platform was just too shitty to waste any good programmers time on it
bounce: sometimes you do need to start over. though not as often (and often not when) dev teams want to start over
pankkake: bounce: lol, yeah. we wanted to start over on our own code for a project, but it was still manageable, albeit painful
bounce: amazingly, still so many project managers that haven't read _The Mythical Man-Month_
ThickAsThieves: the idea was to make this software, polish it and add features for 6mos in use for grade school education, then further develop it by making it more robust for other types of training (i have/had clients in areas like haxardous material transportation certs, etc), then once it seems ready, make it a DIY SaaS monthly fee website thing
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ThickAsThieves: the idea is for any person or company to be able to use it to build training
ozbot: Moodle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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benkay: it's kinda hard to move the custom designd thigner into a multitenant deploy generally, ThickAsThieves
pankkake: perhaps building around Moodle, with people who actually know Moodle, would get better results
benkay: unless it was designed to do that from the get-go, but from the sounds of it it's kind of a mess in the first place.
ThickAsThieves: i dont think moodle licence would allow for the master plan though
pankkake: benkay: depends on how dirty you want it to be :D
benkay: then there is the 'shoehorn existing software into my problemspace' thing going on as well it sounds
benkay: pankkake: url-encode everything and throw away the method.
pankkake: GPLv3 should be ok, it's not AGPL
bounce spent a few weeks refactoring a fantastically bad code base. was sort-of fun, if you like a lot of mindless drudgery. lots of condensing copy/pasted code, but also coming up with interfaces to safely re-do (in less code) what's already there giving the same result with less spaghetti. and then slowly "factor up".
bounce: that sort of thing goes best when the code is a particular kind of stupid: lots of repetition, lots of hooks to revamp.
ThickAsThieves: there's more need than you might initially realize for a customizable education software
ThickAsThieves: orgs get really particular about grading systems and features they need
benkay: sounds like you'd want to preserve your ability to deliver features fast and on budget at all costs.
ThickAsThieves: well we have yet to encounter a team that can assist, finding one is not easy when you have no reliable connections into better breeds of programminig teams
benkay: man this story is so familiar. non technical stakeholder dictates that a particular already-built thinger be used despite knowing nothing about its architecture or code quality or the ability of development teams to work against the existing codebase. thinger is either a mess or takes 6 months for an individual to come up to speed on the nuances/idiocies of, but project already has thinger built in.
ThickAsThieves: nor quite the ability to confidently discern between them
benkay: yeah that's the really rough part of the problem
benkay: not being able to qualify tech teams
benkay: Magento's a really good example of this. you start a business selling shit online, you're all "hey magento! it's awesome and does everything i need!" then you want to hire someone to do work on your magento install and lolololololol either you hire kids who are learning php on the fly and they do god knows what to your install or you hire actual magento devs at 400+/hr
benkay: i worked at a shop once that charged an ungodly amount of money to migrate another large ecom hustler from magento community to magento pro
ThickAsThieves: the idea of an open source cart always scared me anyway
benkay: ebay staff didn't think it was even POSSIBLE. but we did it.
benkay: cost...too much. probably more than writing a cms/ecom platform ourselves woulda.
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benkay: but client didn't care to pay for a new stack - would rather throw 4x as much at the old stack.
ThickAsThieves: but now Moodle is way out of date and missing features they really want
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benkay: blackwhite! welcome back
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 55806 @ 0.00088608 = 49.4486 BTC [-]
assbot: Voicing Sahtor for 30 minutes.
assbot: Voicing non2_ for 30 minutes.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 6 @ 0.079 = 0.474 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: apple do know how to be cool and hip and things, or at least jobs managed to hit the nail on the head an ungodly long tim << that's it. apple is now reduced to the position of rich old guy trying to buy the company of the hip young things in the hopes it'll attract the teenage pussy it's after.
mircea_popescu: Naphex: sorry i meant a severly limited computer which you can use too buy more apple shit << exactly. in point of fact nobody actually wants an apple anything.
ozbot: Loper OS » Non-Apple’s Mistake
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 36 @ 0.041 = 1.476 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: and re "executive"'s move to apple : the point of sad fact is that actual executive power moved from the us to china in this interval. the ever swelling headcount of ever more powerless and pointless us based pseudo-executives have chosen to temporarily drown the realisation of their loss
mircea_popescu: in changing a functional workstation for a severely crippled, difficult to use one.
assbot: Voicing SatoshiJack for 30 minutes.
mircea_popescu: bounce: kinda interesting. though I probably wouldn't go through the trouble even if I had access to (or need for) those things << exactly. it's sort-of like putting your time into being the best earthworm kinetotherapist. why bother.
mircea_popescu: 04:50:57 mircea_popescu:your blog got 0 comments the past month. << just because your blog doesn't get comments doesn't mean it sucks. << no, but it also doesn't mean you can "get my name out there"
mike_c: oh yes, no argument there.
benkay: y'all apple haters miss the part where they make the best laptop chassis in the world.
mike_c: benkay: have you ever picked up an apple server? it weighs 200 lbs for no good reason.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: so it's in that context << you have to include your context in your blogposts. that's why mine end up ungodly long soimetimes, you want a reader falling on it ten years later to still get a whole meal.
benkay: mike_c: who buys apple servers?!
mircea_popescu: benkay i didn't fuck a woman last night, tho she was giving me the fuck me eyes. she had the best ears in the world.
mike_c: mm, desktops might have been a better word choice. and designers do.
benkay: y'all are in the fortunate position of having offices.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 4 @ 0.079 = 0.316 BTC [+]
ThickAsThieves: other than hacking apart html and css to make websites look different sometimes
mircea_popescu: fluffypony so should i bother to read this thing or just wait for 2038 ?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 18 @ 0.079 = 1.422 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 34 @ 0.041 = 1.394 BTC [-]
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: Read it, the more opinions the better
fluffypony: Out for supper, will catch up in a bit
ThickAsThieves: deviladvocate.biz new-user count is up 50% in 5 days. Almost ready to IPVO!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11450 @ 0.00088304 = 10.1108 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 4 @ 0.034125 = 0.1365 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 200 @ 0.041 = 8.2 BTC [-]
mike_c: mircea_popescu: did you miss paying out a small dividend on s.bbet last month?
jurov: no ozbot? "In Toronto with the world’s feminist pornographers"
mike_c: hm. btcalpha accountants think that no div was paid last month, and 0.250730601 BTC should've been paid to shares on mpex.
mike_c: of course, that's 9 digits after the decimal, so they can't really be trusted.
ozbot: BitBet, March 2014 Statement pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
jurov: mike_c mpex dividends are really paid to 18 digits of accuracy
mike_c: ;;calc (1.19395524 - 0.35818657) * 0.3
jurov: just rouded to satoshi at the last possible moment
mircea_popescu: mike_c "Because MPEx shareholders were paid 3.68215306 BTC instead of the 1.10464591 BTC they were actually due for February, 30% of profits going forward will be allocated to covering that credit, in lieu of MPEx dividends. This sum comes to 0.99104946 BTC this current period, leaving the credit to be covered in following months at 1.22827111 BTC."
mike_c: 30% goes to mistake, 70% should go to divs, yes?
mircea_popescu: the 30% that normally goes to mpex shareholders goes towards the credit
jurov: and the rest goes where?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves:there's no "point" of bitcoin << he has a point
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: for me it's beyond doubt coinbase is scaming with their high risk tx bullshit << he also has a point.
mike_c: jurov: 18 digits. you know way too much about mpex.
mircea_popescu: Naphex: whats wrong with DNS << that you didn't document your thing.
jurov: mike_c: i don't know nearly as much as i wish
jurov: but anyway, the correct formula to compute your divs is
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: you cant sound cool rapping bitcoin << i could pull it off.
assbot: Voicing martin_____ for 30 minutes.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 67 @ 0.041 = 2.747 BTC [-]
jurov: for MPOE: round_to_satoshi(99.77743063/500000000*<number of your shares>)
jurov: where the 500000000 is a "float" sometimes obscure even for MP himself
jurov: and _no_ other rounding is done, so the dividend is not a whole number of satoshi
jurov: despite being published as such
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: well, nation << he's right davout_ mike_c. the us uses "nation" like "our great nation" "defending the nation" etc.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4044 @ 0.00088324 = 3.5718 BTC [+]
Naphex: mircea_popescu: yeah i'll get some time to document it and make some examples.
Naphex: mircea_popescu: but guess what, emag is delivering my shizz woop:D
pankkake: the French might use Patrie, which is like the motherland but with a penis
ozbot: S.MPOE Analysis - Btc Alpha
Naphex: mircea_popescu: probably, because before ranting about it here they couldn't find my paiments :))
mircea_popescu: what happens when the fatherland and the motherland get in bed ?
jurov: the div was exactly 19.955486126 satoshi per share
mike_c: why not a 7 at the end?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: just in the loop somewhat << prolly time to start grepping clients from hell for recognisable specifics.
mike_c: given profit was 199.55486127
jurov: mircea_popescu: really, you tolerate almost 5% reporting error?
jurov: you publish dividend as 19 satoshi
mircea_popescu: May 09 14:23:57 <assbot>[MPEX] [S.MPOE] [PAID] 99.77743063 BTC to 500`000`000 shares, 19 satoshi per share
jurov: but it was exactly 19.955486126 satoshi per share
jurov: you report truncated value that is 5% off from reality
mircea_popescu: calculating the % off from reality left as an exercise to the commenter.
jurov: i know that's lost cause, hopefully at least mike_c starts reporting things right.
pankkake: "Now that a highly controversial figure has been elected" who?
pankkake: eh, first comment "Can we request the Bitcoin Foundation remove itself?"
mircea_popescu: pankkake: they probably want to start over for good reasons << like getting paid.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves seriously, my call is that you've been identified as pork, and you are being farmed.
mike_c: jurov: my only hesitation is that i would have to maintain "how many shares are held on mpex" for each symbol so i could do my own calculations. for example, what's that number for f.mpif?
jurov: mike_c i envy you the luxury to hesitate about it
mircea_popescu: mike_c you can just pick up assbot's announcements i guess
mike_c: assbot announces divs?
jurov: yes, grep for [PAID]
ozbot: Young children could face bullying charges in city - Yahoo News
mircea_popescu: how the fuck can someone purport to raise children in the us.
mircea_popescu: if my kids didn't bully the loser kids i'd slit their throat with my own fucking hand
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 88.10217657 BTC to 80`673 shares, 109209 satoshi per share
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SF1] 302 @ 0.00089843 = 0.2713 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, actually, in the city where black people burn down the downtown if the wrong team wins whatever game
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SF1] 325 @ 0.00089871 = 0.2921 BTC [+] {4}
fluffypony: bounce:amazingly, still so many project managers that haven't read _The Mythical Man-Month_ <- they should have that as required reading in school, yo
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 5 @ 0.041 = 0.205 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 11 @ 0.041 = 0.451 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: i've tried this experiment, if you clench your fists and make for any twentysomething, they'll put their hands over their head and stop sobbing
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 102 @ 0.07254763 = 7.3999 BTC [-] {10}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 11 @ 0.041 = 0.451 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: considering how chickenshitty they grow up, there must be something unnatural happening to them in school.
mike_c: <+mircea_popescu> asciilifeform no, actually, in the city where black people burn down the downtown if the wrong team wins whatever game << well, you know, maybe they had a big bet on the game :D
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 20 @ 0.041 = 0.82 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: mike_c im sure they did. five car wheels and a baggie o crystalz.
mike_c: i know right? like tearing down goal posts
mircea_popescu: princessnell maybe go in #freenode and ask for a cloak ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26115 @ 0.00088688 = 23.1609 BTC [+]
Naphex: real men use real hosts:D
mike_c: asciilifeform: NYPD doesn't put up with that crap either
fluffypony: benkay:Magento's a really good example of this. <- this is so freakin' true. Even worse are when they pay for a ton of dev work on Magento Community Edition and then move to Magento Enterprise, and basically have to re-engineer and re-do all the work
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 10 @ 0.0770001 = 0.77 BTC [+]
fluffypony: I'm just too lazy to login to my moderation thing
fluffypony: normally it sends an email and I can reply to the mail to approve
fluffypony: but no mail yet, so I'll login and approve it later
pankkake: I was able to see it with the link
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2300 @ 0.00088713 = 2.0404 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 4 @ 0.041 = 0.164 BTC [-]
ozbot: The Official NeoCities Blog
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I linked to that hours ago, yo
ozbot: #bitcoin-assets log
punkman: so that guy was selling mining contracts without having anything: "Your bought contract NOT started, because our mining rig seller from China not delivered our bought mining rig and we lost our paid 4500 USD."
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.07921715 = 0.1584 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: i wanted to make a ocmment, but then i couldn't understand what comment i want to make.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 3 @ 0.041 = 0.123 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: so some random nobody throttled... the access "of fcc" to his random site nobody but you reads ?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 8 @ 0.041 = 0.328 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: " Designed as a 21st century reincarnation of GeoCities, Neocities lets you make your own site for free. And it just might spark a renaissance of creativity online. "
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: their effort isn't the big deal - they published the nginx rules, and there's been a bit of uptake from other sites implementing them
mircea_popescu: so basically, every failed marketing fucktard in the world has by now flocked to doge coins, as a great example of the "unlimted possibility" and "all that cvould be achieved" for marketing fucktards, in their own opinion.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 6 @ 0.041 = 0.246 BTC [-] {2}
fluffypony: but who knows, maybe it'll become "a thing", to quote ThickAsThieves :-P
mircea_popescu: i mean, fcc employees aren't supposed to derp on random etsy boutique blogs on their fcc connections anwyay
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 8 @ 0.041 = 0.328 BTC [-]
fluffypony: I know, it's kinda like the occupy wall street of the Internet :-P
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 125 @ 0.041 = 5.125 BTC [-]
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, do you plan on keeping the price of trilema credits the same forever, or is buying trilema credits an act of shorting BTC?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron wait, aren't those two clauses unrelated ?
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, if the price in BTC is going to change as the price of BTC changes, then wouldn't buying credits be like buying into FIAT (shorting BTC)?
mircea_popescu: well imo they're much too cheap atm, so ima not change them a while.
danielpbarron: right, they are cheap at the moment if you think of it in terms of the current FIAT price of BTC, but they are expensive if you are really long on BTC
pankkake: what, you people don't have ~10 IPv4s on hand?
fluffypony: danielpbarron: so take $5, buy Bitcoin in -OTC, buy credits
mircea_popescu: well, let's say i won't change the price until btc reaches 1mn each
danielpbarron: fluffypony, that's not the point; I guess what I mean is: is buying trilema credits like an investment denominated in BTC?
fluffypony: when btc reaches 1 mil I'm selling stock in my remaining trilema credits
mircea_popescu: people ocasionalyl just want to make a donation, and so i think there are some people with 5 or 10 btc's worht
fluffypony: danielpbarron: I think the cost is too low to have a measurable impact on one's personal wealth
mike_c: it's like selling private keys though, doesn't work. you can't enforce that you won't use the cookie after selling.
danielpbarron: fluffypony, someone could buy way more credits than they need with the plan of selling them in the future
mike_c: except you can't sell them :)
fluffypony: I mean, when BTC is at 1mil a pack of Trilema creds will be worth $10k. if you're long on BTC you'll have a net worth an order of magnitude higher than that, so it'll be irrelevant.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [ALC] 2 @ 0.1333333 = 0.2667 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12650 @ 0.00088713 = 11.2222 BTC [+]
fluffypony: mike_c: you could run a proxy using your cookie
mike_c: ok, proxy would work. if the buyer accepts your counterparty risk.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 9 @ 0.03449992 = 0.3105 BTC [+] {5}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 5 @ 0.0311 = 0.1555 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 5 @ 0.06474168 = 0.3237 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 7 @ 0.041 = 0.287 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: Voicing wolverineks for 30 minutes.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: how does one get gpg certified on your blog?
pankkake: oh that's what the icon means?
fluffypony: so I'd imagine selling proxied access will be worthwhile
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 8 @ 0.041 = 0.328 BTC [-] {2}
pankkake: if I was selling content, I wouldn't want to be the one thinking of the price
Apocalyptic: <asciilifeform> i thought it meant 'employed as cryptographer' // wait, hanbot is a cryptographer N
pankkake: it's actually why I like to sell on auctions: I'm not setting the price
danielpbarron: if Bitcoin is worth 1000000 USD, a trilema page view probably really is worth 450 USD per view
mircea_popescu: apparently they have large penises AND large orders of magnitude in south africa
bounce: can't order magnitudes here.
thestringpuller: i guess I'm misunderstanding the little key symbol on your blog
ozbot: Criptograme pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: i had a guess the word contest whatever you call it in english
ozbot: Criptograma starii lucrurilor celor moi de mijloc. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20841 @ 0.00088745 = 18.4953 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: for instance that is "curva nasoala", which means nasty whore
ozbot: Cryptogram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ozbot: Cryptogram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
bounce: huh, different thing that I know by that name
ozbot: Criptograma locosexuala pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: this one is sex in baie (fucking in the bathroom). sec (dry) sin (tit) baie (mine)
bounce: probably "crossword" then, though that'd depend on the type of clue given
ozbot: Cryptic crossword - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : as far as romanian linguists are concerned, nasol comes as gypsy influence
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 4 @ 0.041 = 0.164 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13107 @ 0.0008865 = 11.6194 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: Voicing peterL for 30 minutes.
pankkake: one day, I'll up on the first time
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 4 @ 0.041 = 0.164 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: NASÓL, -OÁLĂ, nasoli, -oale, adj., s. m. și f. (Arg.) 1. Adj., s. m. și f. (Om) urât sau ridicol. 2. Adj. (Despre obiecte) De proastă calitate; urât, uzat; caraghios. – Din țig. nasvalo „bolnav'”, nasul „rău, meschin”.
peterL: has anybody had experience with escrow.ms on bitcointalk forum for doing escrow? are they reputable?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 14 @ 0.0725 = 1.015 BTC [-] {3}
hanbot: asciilifeform: i actually thought it was 'cryptographer / radioman / funker.' << s'not as cool as all that, but who can resist the allure of shiny golden insignia
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 25 @ 0.041 = 1.025 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 3 @ 0.041 = 0.123 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 20 @ 0.041 = 0.82 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: Imagine that every car maker save for Toyota insisted on using the infamous East German Trabant as a standard of quality – yet blindly imitated random elements of Toyota’s visual design. How long would it take for the whiners to appear on the scene and start making noises about monopolistic tyranny?
ozbot: Loper OS » Non-Apple’s Mistake
mircea_popescu: I should also note that no one else makes a laptop whose metallic chassis enables it to pass the “Creak Test” – hold a device by two opposite corners and flex gently. Do you hear a noise of any kind? If so, you are holding a mechanically-unsound piece of garbage.
TheNewDeal: if you grabbed a computer case by two opposite corners and flex gently, does it make a noise?
pankkake: if you hold a macbook with only one hand too much, they'll eventually bend
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.074 = 0.148 BTC [+]
pankkake: so there's various degrees of holding it wrong
TheNewDeal: making a noise isn't necessarily indicative of mechanical integrity
mircea_popescu: you gotta learn to ignore the reactions to the major hits and focus on discussing the others.
mircea_popescu: "@SunSentinel · 1h Man drives Tesla from New York to Miami at no cost" who the fuck came up with this idiocy. the tesla is a luxury product. the people who buy luxury products are being sold on "no cost" housewife routines ?
hanbot: the grass must be made greener
benkay: 80k is a luxury product now?
mircea_popescu: if nipple piercings ensured the women carrying them will be used as fucktoys, giving away free cool nipple piercings would not be giving away any product either
mircea_popescu: benkay you seen the derpage ensuing from 30 btc mpex reg fee ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, more like, the more expensive housing is the product.
mircea_popescu: this is why the market is collapsing all the damned time
bounce: 5k what? dollars? that's a wooden shed, materials only, or what?
mircea_popescu: so the product is "getting photovoltaics to be common so they may be deemed standard so they may become mandatory so the developers can sell and the finance economy can work etc"
mircea_popescu: like the nipple pierced girls' fucking, being the product.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 598 @ 0.00088636 = 0.53 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: "@kristathomas Don't Be Right And Don't Ask Why: Essential Ingredients For Building A Team" << lol. just as long as your "team"'s not supposed to be apple.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12191 @ 0.00088412 = 10.7783 BTC [-] {2}
bounce: so where does the cost come from, labour?
mircea_popescu: labour is a dollar an hour, you don't need much more than a few hundred man-hours anyway. renting the machinery and getting some concrete/sand/brick isn't the end of the world.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 11 @ 0.041 = 0.451 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17700 @ 0.0008827 = 15.6238 BTC [-] {3}
mircea_popescu: not really. most prices are just depressing to all hell.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 8 @ 0.041 = 0.328 BTC [-]
ozbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
nubbins`: ^ i got a $50 parking ticket today
nubbins`: for parking too close to the stop sign.
nubbins`: "but maybe they put the permit parking sign in the wrong location"
ozbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
ozbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wasn't that ohio guy quoting in the 20k range ?
nubbins`: have fun buying $50 watermelons
nubbins`: not sure about the usa, but if a canadian takes a job "up north", they get a government subsidy called the "northern allowance" to offset the increased price of goods
benkay: "i'm doing an internship this summer, and apparently i need to take an ethics course before i'm eligible for credits from the internship"
benkay: welcome to the us, where you can't even work without the permission of the bureaucracy
nubbins`: home of the $50 watermelon and the $28 head of cabbage
benkay: at least you don't have to take a class to do an internship, nubbins`
nubbins`: rent/mortgage is 30% higher than south of 60, as well
nubbins`: benkay: internships are for suckers :D
nubbins`: uni courses are generally assigned a number of credits
nubbins`: when i went, three credits per course was the norm
nubbins`: some courses with less hours (say, labs) would be 2 credits
nubbins`: and you need X credits to get Y degree
nubbins`: my entire bachelor's degree was a comical undershoot
nubbins`: interesting, never heard of it
nubbins`: Compliments brand is owned by Sobeys
Namworld: Wait, wrong one... Compliments is from IGA
mircea_popescu: you wanted a degree, you had to pass all of a dozen or so courses.
nubbins`: i had to pass that many in my first year ;(
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18126 @ 0.0008845 = 16.0324 BTC [+]
benkay: i hear tell of a mythical time where one could attempt the US bar without having a law degree.
ozbot: Kenny Green sentence recommendation shocks victim's family - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News
princessnell: egalitarians require we take their religion classes ("multicultural" courses) to graduate with any degree in most us universities
nubbins`: ^ this murder happened about 50 metres from my house
nubbins`: good to know i'll be passing the guy in the street in a couple years
nubbins`: asciilifeform, benkay: gotta pay the piper!
benkay: didn't several us presidents do that asciilifeform ?
nubbins`: FWIW this is loosely the plot of the tv show "suits"
Namworld: Oh, Sobeys bought the group that held the IGA franchise in 1998. Explain why they use same brand now.
nubbins`: genius finds himself taking bar exams for crappy students, ends up working sans degree at a prestigious law firm
nubbins`: Namworld: nod, all a big mess. reminiscent of loblaws/superstore/dominion all selling President's Choice
bounce: there's the pay people to do homework racket. I'd be interested in selling such services (getting paid to learn? cool) except that it'd enable idiots to get diplomas.
Namworld: Eh, when it comes to food brands, it's all convoluted with sub-companies and multiple trademarks.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` whio the fuck can even pay attention to 12 things in a year
Namworld: Like most of the stuff in stores is like what, ultimately owned by 2-3 large conglomerates?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: not me, as it turns out :D
bounce: the "name brand" stuff, yes. like, unilever, kraft, nestle?
bounce: the own brand stuff is made to spec by smaller shops, though they make (supposedly to different spec) for various chains
Namworld: Of course now with home brands, there's less of this "name brand", but still.
nubbins`: ah, the wonders of outsourcing
nubbins`: vertically integrated supply chains don't really allow for this
nubbins`: not to the same degree, anyway
assbot: Voicing locksley for 30 minutes.
ozbot: How do you take apart a 150-tonne whale? - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News
nubbins`: bunch of whales got trapped in the ice here recently
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 4 @ 0.041 = 0.164 BTC [-]
nubbins`: washed up on the shores of some small communities
bounce: don't need a how-to for that. blow it up before it blows itself up.
nubbins`: the royal ontario museum graciously took possession of the carcasses
bounce: sold the meat to japan, or what?
nubbins`: nah, analyzing all of the tissue and bringing the skeleton to a museum
nubbins`: turns out blue whale carcasses are incredibly hard to come by
nubbins`: i spent some time in trout river two years ago, strange Deliverance-esque place
nubbins`: very tiny, very rural community, surrounded by -- but not part of -- a national park and UNESCO world heritage site
Namworld: There's a shortage of huge, hanging whale skeletons?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10212 @ 0.0008845 = 9.0325 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: princessnell no, a restaurant that accepts btc is not a bitcoin entrepreneur
mircea_popescu: but, they're for some reason really desperate to push this everyman btc angle, so...
Namworld: I can see why they would be in demand.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.07697 = 0.1539 BTC [+]
benkay: bitcoinpete: what are the target capitals?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what about a restaurant that only accepts BTC?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 10 @ 0.041 = 0.41 BTC [-]
ozbot: The Rothschilds of Bitcoin | When Bitcoin Met Pete
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: figuring out where to put the capitals of finance for the 21st and 22nd centuries
bitcoinpete: ceo is "Eduardo deCastro is a serial entrepreneur with a long track record of success"
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete "A long track record of success, omitted here for reasons that were in turn omitted"
nubbins`: i've imagined it to be like having a secret, but i suspect that's more due to my not being demure by nature than to an actual understanding of the condition
benkay: hey -assets nginx or apache?
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: it's so uncouth to name names
bitcoinpete: hashfast vp of engineering: Amy most recently came from Engine Yard, where in less than two years she went from Senior Developer to Director of Engineering. She oversaw the development of the flagship product, EY Cloud, growing revenue by over 60% in one year.
☟︎ princessnell: it's about putting an idea in someone's head without outright saying it
mircea_popescu: princessnell my only familiarity with the term is in the context "he proposed but she demured", ie, how to end up a spinster.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.075 = 0.15 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14350 @ 0.00088242 = 12.6627 BTC [-] {2}
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: what's this definition in context stuff? i could've sworn we had dictionaries for a reason ;)
benkay: demure is something else entirely.
fluffypony: bitcoinpete: senior dev to director of engineering in 2 years? seems legit.
benkay: fluffypony: engineyard. seems legit.
benkay: derpy rails hosting operation dot butts
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mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete yeah, and the dictionaries end up looking like lists of contexts
gribble: wn: demur n 1: (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings [syn: {demur}, {demurral}, {demurrer}] v 1: take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday" [syn: {demur}, {except}] 2: enter a demurrer
gribble: wn: demure adj 1: affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way [syn: {coy}, {demure}, {overmodest}]
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I dispute that "Director of Engineering" means what they think it means
mircea_popescu: nubbins` they're not really distinct. same root, abranch was broken off to rub clits with is all.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5012 @ 0.0008845 = 4.4331 BTC [+]
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: they should call a spade a spade and just say "was still a senior developer, but we lost a bunch of managers and needed a lead developer that needed a sense of self-importance"
mircea_popescu: edm life added you to list edmnewsdaily/awesome-people-108
ozbot: SEC.gov | Remarks to the Council of Institutional Investors
bitcoinpete: "The federal securities laws are built upon the premise that an informed investor is the key to robust and efficient nature of our markets." << the root problems
fluffypony: asciilifeform: yeah, I'm waiting for one of the CEOs to start calling himself "the Conductor"
bitcoinpete: "Questions about whether a market is trustworthy go to the heart of a market’s survival. Is the market fair? Is it efficient? How does it facilitate capital formation? Are investors protected? Do you trust it?"
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 69 @ 0.07508565 = 5.1809 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 245 @ 0.041 = 10.045 BTC [-]
davout: bitcointalk is so fucking priceless sometimes
davout: "Personally, I like cryptostocks except for the amount of scams on it"
mircea_popescu: funny how terminally braindamaged entities which by the very definition of the term can not possibly have a personal relation to anything
jborkl: Hashfast update blog We are not scammers- we are just really fucking stupid
mircea_popescu: "write a 500 word essay as to why you're not a scammer"
jborkl: kako you need to add amazing team now
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 12 @ 0.041 = 0.492 BTC [-]
davout: i should make a bot that echoes assbot, the chan would explode the instant someone says amazing
bitcoinpete: so who can hook me up with a coinbr referral code?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 3 @ 0.041 = 0.123 BTC [-]
jborkl: mircea-popescu : Did I really see the Bitcoin awards list or was someone goofing?
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: that'd be awesome if jurov would
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 5 @ 0.07260599 = 0.363 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 9 @ 0.041 = 0.369 BTC [-]
benkay: mircea_popescu: i don't know how you have the fucks to give about people who communicate in gifs.
mircea_popescu: jborkl how would you distinguish between those two cases ?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 4 @ 0.07696999 = 0.3079 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: benkay nono, really angry mediocre middle aged woman. she KNOWS.
mircea_popescu: feminism is like fucking math, forget social sciences. you can be wrong in feminism nao.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the turmoil of the unworthy amuses me. i'm not the sort that calls the cops if you break in.
mircea_popescu: i'm the sort that shoots you in both shoulders and both knees, then pulls a chair close and watches you bleed.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 9 @ 0.07696999 = 0.6927 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: on like the internet or something. i didn't go into that much detail.
mircea_popescu: i just realised that her name is gina and she goes by VGsomething
mircea_popescu: like a vassar for poor midwestern would be carrie bradshaws ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform stirlitz rose from sofa and tore at the curtain, wherein a romanian spy was hiding ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: yea pretty much that. also most guys are told not to date anyone from there because they may run off with your penis in the middle of the night
mircea_popescu: "Hysteresis defeatism interprets a weak recovery due to inadequate stimulus as a reason not to try more stimulus"
mircea_popescu: ahaha i would say i have my twitter tuned to perfection.
mircea_popescu: "hysteresis" you see. it's like, all scientific and crap.
mircea_popescu: no wait. i mean like catastrophic racist white man made computer driven opression.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SF1] 200 @ 0.00085021 = 0.17 BTC [-]
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i imagine they make great lays actually. << oh most definitely but i was told never to put your dick in crazy no matter how good the lay is
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well if you listen to everything you're told...
Apocalyptic: oh most definitely but i was told never to put your dick in crazy no matter how good the lay is // they prolly wanted to keep them for themselves
jborkl: 'my vagina is my village.' - seen printed on a tshirt, at the university i live near. <1. That is a really big vagina 2. Does that mean they live in vagina village or that they are lesbo? I dont get it
jborkl: that pussy got pounded
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 14 @ 0.03320007 = 0.4648 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 155 @ 0.03300204 = 5.1153 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 54 @ 0.0065379 = 0.353 BTC [+]
jborkl: I can't believe you said that I am so offended
mircea_popescu: i wonder what % of the various derps i ask for a quote from, receive a horribly mangled piece of nonsense that I never reply to realise that they fucked up.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 10 @ 0.03172482 = 0.3172 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 24 @ 0.041 = 0.984 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: mike_c: There is no greater endorsement that would be competitors being forced to advertise on your platform.
mike_c: yes, but generally you make them pay for the privelege
mircea_popescu: eh fuck em, you tell me someone's going to bother select that gnarl and paste it in browswe window ?
mircea_popescu: let the kids have their free speech, they'll use it for a good purpose whether they want to or not.
bitcoinpete: sorry pankkake and artifexd, looks like peterL scooped it
artifexd: The penalty for reading the logs in batches instead of realtime...
pankkake: what are the numbers in the fairly thing? I don't get it
mircea_popescu: wasn't the new paul graham derping about how they "frown" on corps that went through other "accelerators" because they should have been already accelerated ?
benkay: that's not an acceleration nearly as much as it is a prolonging of imminent demise
mircea_popescu: isn;t that thing proposing that it's worth ~1bn, ie more than mpex these days ?
pankkake: isn't quora just a forum where ycombinators derp at each other?
mike_c: quora just closed an $80m funding round..
mircea_popescu: pankkake i dunno why dood. ask mike_c, he understands the whys of marketcaps.
mike_c: maybe you saw the total. they've raised 140 total
mike_c: YC companies are supposed to hand over 6% of their company to join
bitcoinpete: mike_c: ayup, i know a guy who's going to san fran for 3 months this summer to go through the yc meat processor. it's 6%
mike_c: well, obviously no fucking way quora is doing that.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11057 @ 0.00088522 = 9.7879 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12518 @ 0.00088423 = 11.0688 BTC [-] {2}
benkay: they bumped to 140k i b'leev.
benkay: yc companies barely out-revenue a single-truck garbage hauling operation.
fluffypony: turn off active and exited so you're only looking at Dead
fluffypony: "Whitenoise is like a social network for the music industry."
fluffypony: I say we pick one of these every week, setup a bullshit site, and list it on BitcoinBourse or CryptoStocks
mircea_popescu: and spend the proceeds on lobbying for having vessenes appointed submarine captain in the vietnamese fleet ?
mircea_popescu: (which, btw, is and has been for a while engaged in a standoff with th echinese fleet over some shoals
mircea_popescu: apparently those people exist to stick in superpowers' beaks)
bounce: so garbage hauling is a sound investment, you say? fan of the fun lovin' criminals perchance?
fluffypony: OR we spend the money lobbying to have Kim Jong-un voted on to the Bitcoin Foundation
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30700 @ 0.0008877 = 27.2524 BTC [+] {3}
bounce: bit late, two guys got voted in today. getting someone booted would help. who'd you want booted?
fluffypony: davout: "MPEx is a scam, and this is one of his shells" <- we forgot to ask him how we're shells
jborkl: No Mpex has the double cheery truck seal
jborkl: so no scam, what award do they have?
davout: fluffypony: if the guy was able to write properly he probably wouldn't be that retarded :D
fluffypony: actually I have found a place worse than the forums
fluffypony: the chat box / troll box on btc-e or cryptsy is WAY worse than the forums
fluffypony: support button is on the left, chat is on the right, I clicked the wrong one
fluffypony: then it was like watching a car accident
fluffypony: I couldn't turn away for like 5 minutes
jborkl: Havelock to Sponsor Int. Kickboxing Event
jborkl: jean claude van damme to headline
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 101 @ 0.0063799 = 0.6444 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: fluffypony no but i mean "o hey guise, i discovered trollbox on btce"
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: o yes, was just generally commenting on it being the bottom of the barrel
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2654 @ 0.00088401 = 2.3462 BTC [-]
ozbot: Tokyo Sexwale accused of trying to blackmail wife over hardcore porn - Times LIVE
benkay: "A group of 13-year-old girls from Nelson Mandela Bay's elite Collegiate High School have landed in hot water after being caught sipping vodka and watching a pornographic video - allegedly of one of them having sex with her boyfriend - on a cellphone.
benkay: i'll just squeeze this beer.
fluffypony: I don't think there's an implied problem in that graph, it's more a statement of fact :-P
davout: fluffypony: lol, already old in france-land tho
davout: do you know how i can easily make a horse laugh ?
davout: i tell him my dick is larger than his
davout: now do you know how i make him cry ?
fluffypony: so Joel McHale's White House Correspondant's dinner speech was so bad they cancelled Community
benkay: blamed for shit he didn't even write
punkman: was gonna get canceled anyway
punkman: first couple of seasons were full of tvtrope orgasms
mircea_popescu: guy;s a talentless hack. you probably have coworkers more talented
fluffypony: punkman: agreed, it was way too long in the teeth. that's the problem with fan-driven show "resurrections", often the fans are too embroiled in the show to realise that it's time to die.
bounce: let's write a series then
benkay: okay on a different note
benkay: how does a distributed team communicate over GPG?
benkay: email threads + encryption -> nightmare
davout: benkay: it's just a problem with the tool
davout: shouldn't be painful if your mail client is GPG-aware
joecool: need to have a key for the team to work that way, or encrypt each message with each member's key
davout: joecool: that's dead easy with GPG
joecool: davout: which way and how?
pankkake: the only issue is when people leave or join, otherwise yes it's easy
davout: CLI -> cat message.txt | gpg -a -e -r member1 ... -r memberN -s -u my_key
davout: punkman: shared key is retarded
joecool: shared key is bad for security
pankkake: I use multiple destination a lot, actually
benkay: so then you get an email with n giant gpg blobs?
davout: pankkake: yeah, that's dead easy, also multiple recipients is kinda mandatory if you want to be able to decrypt what you encrypt to someone else
davout: benkay: no, because GPG uses a proxy key
pankkake: yes, I usually want to know WTF I wrote
davout: it encrypts the message symetrically IIRC, and only repeats the symmetric key for each recipient
joecool: maybe someone in here with a better understanding of the inner workings of gnupg can answer this
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 3 @ 0.041 = 0.123 BTC [-]
benkay: <davout> it encrypts the message symetrically IIRC, and only repeats the symmetric key for each recipient // joecool that's the deal right there
mircea_popescu: benkay> email threads + encryption -> nightmare << why ? we don't have a problem here do we ?
benkay: i'm just derpy and didn't know about the multiple recipient procedure mircea_popescu
joecool: benkay: that works, just wasn't sure of how to do it, my query is about something different
davout: also, for OSX-fags : pbpaste | gpg -a -e -r recipient1 ... -r recipientN -s -u my_key | pbcopy == encrypt+sign clipboard contents
joecool: i use openpgp smartcards, i don't keep my keys on any other form of storage other than my master key which is kept encrypted on an offline archive disk (this is so i can mint new openpgp smartcards if necessary)
joecool: but i also have key expiry set, i can't change my key expiry unless i load up gnupg with my offline copy and change it there
davout: fluffypony: nice cameltoe + spelling mistake, should read bitchcoin
joecool: if i try with smartcard it just errors
pankkake: fluffypony: that's better than the golden crackwhore
mircea_popescu: davout> it encrypts the message symetrically IIRC, and only repeats the symmetric key for each recipient << this is correct
mircea_popescu: the only part is the original block cypher encryption at the front that swells
pankkake: fun command of the day: gpg --list-packets
davout: joecool: wai, pinentry is cool
joecool: davout: it sucks ass, there's two ways for me to use it
joecool: 1. with ncurses, which it fucks up horribly
davout: pankkake: moar GPG pro-tip, make gpg-agent forget all passphrases : killall -HUP gpg-agent
joecool: 2. with X, which means won't work over screen or in console
joecool: but going back to problem one, it'll just corrupt the term anyway or not show up proper
davout: joecool: wat? when i use it on servers it works fine, and with OSX everything also goes better than expectation, did you try a Ctrl+L to unfuck the term (untested)
joecool: this is a gnupg 2.xx issue, gnupg 1.xx didn't have the problem because it didn't use pinentry
pankkake: yeah, it's annoying, I'm using 2. because of thunderbird, but then I can't use it over ssh without changing the pinentry
davout: joecool: i use 1 with pinentry
davout: joecool: have you tried to use === instead ?
davout: or in french : "ton câble est bien branché? t'as essayé de siffler comme un con?"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15265 @ 0.0008831 = 13.4805 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6450 @ 0.0008881 = 5.7282 BTC [+]
ozbot: Fein Coin | Indiegogo
davout: what has the internet done
davout: "You can give Fein Coins for events such as raking a yard or selling a pencil or more."
davout: i need to delete the internet icon from my computer
Namworld: "My name is Ben Fein. I founded Fein Coin with the picture of letting people pay for them the buy gift cards using a mobile app. I came across a idea to make the idea of electronic currency. Enjoy. :)"
Namworld: >>I came across a idea to make the idea of electronic currency.<<
davout: he had me at "Fein Coin is a e-currency that in the beginning 1 Fein Coin=$20"
Namworld: That has got to be trolling...
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25900 @ 0.00088811 = 23.002 BTC [+] {2}
Namworld: Wait it's a video... so it's actually a kid...
benkay: couldn't say. is the kid really driving the thing?
Namworld: Maybe he vaguely understands Bitcoin and thinks he's mocking it by being "Look, I'm a kid, I can create money out of thin air too and scam you. See how stupid it is?"
Namworld: or someone else paid a kid to do a short video, for the same reason mentioned above.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5400 @ 0.00088814 = 4.796 BTC [+]
jurov: mircea_popescu: coinbr referral code is fully optional, and i scoop the fees by default, so i don't need one myself :D
jurov: it's up to the users to lurk here or publish reflinks if they want referrals
mod6: <+davout> pankkake: moar GPG pro-tip, make gpg-agent forget all passphrases : killall -HUP gpg-agent << actually, you can avoid having to kill gpg-agent by not starting it up at all. just comment out `use-agent` in gpg.conf
pankkake: killall -HUP isn't a real kill, just a signal
mod6: yep: halt-user-process
pankkake: and well, GPG agent is damn useful when you batch sign a lot of things
pankkake: it's often used to tell daemons to reload their config
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 10 @ 0.041 = 0.41 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26721 @ 0.00088662 = 23.6914 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 7 @ 0.041 = 0.287 BTC [-]
jurov: "director of engineering" ..maybe it was the official title for ultimate phone hotline sink for unruly customers?
benkay: derprectum of engineering
artifexd: jurov: Can you answer a question about deposits into coinbr?
davout: pankkake: "killall -HUP isn't a real kill, just a signal" <<< the HUP signal, so?
davout: mod6: nah, it's actually HANGUP
bounce: "SIGHUP [...] terminal line hangup"
davout: mod6: also i like my gpg-agent running, otherwise i woukdn't, you know, run it :D
artifexd: The amount I deposited doesn't match the amount I was credited. I originally thought the missing amount was the monthly fee because it was on 1 May.
artifexd: But the management fee came out 3 days later.
artifexd: So, is there a policy about rounding deposits?
jurov: no that must have been a mistake
artifexd: The bitcoin tx id is 955cb8cf9b4e936a9d79b49331aa29c8fb135d639649438211c3de5fcd88145b
artifexd: It isn't enough for me to be upset about. But I was curious.
jurov: thanks for report, looking...