mircea_popescu: mike_c he held the thing by the fucking blade, too. a 12 inch knife sharp enough to slice beef on touch
Namworld: Well I'd sure like to know romania prices
Namworld: So... do we get to know the total cost?
BingoBoingo: Namworld: What, and let the people who death ray'd his new MOBO death ray the Pineapples!!!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4952 @ 0.00085612 = 4.2395 BTC [-]
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http://gribble.sourceforge.net/ BingoBoingo: Namworld: Did you miss the motherboard convo?
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 5 @ 0.025001 = 0.125 BTC [-]
Mats_cd03: i always laugh when i read comments about bitcoin on hn
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PROV] 400 @ 0.002 = 0.8 BTC
assbot: Loper OS » Tenser, Said the Censor [*]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wait, you're NOT ONLY A WIKIPEDIA SPAMMER ARE YOU!!1
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9385 @ 0.00085551 = 8.029 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: "Another common criticism of this practice has been that while in theory, it's a smart and effective way to discourage trolling, in actuality, the trolls and spammers are the first to become wise to this, and instead many innocent users get hurt, being unaware of what's going on."
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, hellbanning is exactly the opposite of this chan's +m
mircea_popescu: it has disadvantages in place of all the advantages, and no redeeming advantages whatsoever
mircea_popescu: o that's what that recode shit coming out of nowhere is
mircea_popescu: i peripherally noticed there's yet another one of these web platform shits.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PROV] 60 @ 0.002 = 0.12 BTC
assbot: » Leaving Hacker News ASPENSMONSTER
assbot: This comment defending Bitcoin got me hellbanned from "Hacker" News. : Bitcoin
benkay: <mircea_popescu> Mats_cd03: benkay is a queen << ahahaha they got yo numba nao vulpes. // y'all ain't even seen me in my heels yet
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mircea_popescu: assbot> » Leaving Hacker News ASPENSMONSTER << all these important things i've missed out on while doing other things.
benkay: distracts from fartup derpus
mircea_popescu: well, inasmuch as zombie is allowed to continue to exist, zombie is well advised to not be too critical of the decay process.
mircea_popescu: "Reddit seems to be one of the only places you can have true freedom of speech on the internet, and it thrives thanks to it. "
mircea_popescu: speech that conforms to one's priors is freedom of speech
mircea_popescu: speech that brings forth the cognitive dissonance one's priors suffer at the hands of reality is trolling
mike_c: mircea_popescu: walt mossberg??
mike_c: i remember 15 years ago coworkers sweating his reviews.
mike_c: this could be like oprah leaving cable. he's not bigger than the journal.
mircea_popescu: dj fired him last year turns out, he started this recode thing january
mike_c: crazy. well, he'll find a paycheck somewhere.
mircea_popescu: "It was autodeaded, presumably because of my use of the term circlejerk, which HN is quite sensitive to."
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mircea_popescu: "I was recently met with a torrent of downvotes nearly 100, might have actually crossed that for poking fun at HNs incessant were-not-reddit-were-much-more-sophisticated circlejerking"
mircea_popescu: o wait, because basically both hn and reddit are owned by the same dead media conglomerate is it
dub: the past caught up and is nutpunching me
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 14920 @ 0.0000669 = 0.9981 BTC [+] {3}
mircea_popescu: Shame on me for continually pointing out this communitys obsession over being the glorious master race of online discussion whilst poo-pooing the cesspools of filthy casuals like Reddit or, god forbid, Slashdot.
Namworld: Pretty much no one knows about hacker news.
mike_c: fb95e6a6f3843ea7fe22e08d08b20ead70ee3181b363916439a7c93da9b89c0d
mike_c: a prediction for later. i want proof that i called it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you wanna talk about nonsense items and the rotten paradigms they create and perpetuate ? teh banhammer. worse than risc.
mircea_popescu: pure and simple, at some point in whatever, 1995, some derp with a blog/forum/platform came up with the idea of BANNING
mircea_popescu: and it's been sticking ever since, irrespective of how stupid it is.
mike_c: i am predicting your announcement.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4850 @ 0.00085582 = 4.1507 BTC [+] {2}
mike_c: hm, ok, i'll make a small wager. i'm not super-confident, but i think i've got it.
mircea_popescu: can be a bet for charity. whole bet goes to b-a donation address
mircea_popescu: so if you predicted it i send kako a btc, if not you do ?
thestringpuller: how do we know you didn't change the date of the announcement
dub: his nick isn't inaba or Luke-Jr?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I wonder why silver is the white metal everyone seems to horde and not gallium.
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mircea_popescu: "But in the absence of some system of law, the tiny minority of users out to do harm intentionally or not eventually drive out all the civil community members, leaving behind a lawless, chaotic badland."
mircea_popescu: this is such an amusing thing, because of all the utterly meaningless forums out there pretending to be communities and deluding themselves as to their own relevancy, not a single one would admit it's a failure
mircea_popescu: yet each and every one will pass this bit of "oh, leaving behind the broken spot"
mircea_popescu: nobody can point to such a broken spot on the interwebs, but nevertheless the apparent abundance of such is why every lemming wears plaid.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PROV] 100 @ 0.002 = 0.2 BTC
dub: the fibers can easily be made fuzz. Being crushed and shortened in unit length, staple tends to become fly or dusts with ease and dispersed into atmosphere.Their Carbon Fiber users are advised to be careful not to dispose naked skins to the fibers and to take deliberate dusts cleaning measures naked skins.
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12704 @ 0.00085529 = 10.8656 BTC [-] {2}
BingoBoingo: Is there a link to when this announcement was announced?
mircea_popescu: "That said, every community is different. I've personally talked to people in charge of large online communities ones you probably participate in every day and part of the reason those communities haven't broken down into utter chaos by now is because they secretly hellban and slowban their most problematic users. "
mircea_popescu: "i have talked to some people i won't name about some things i won't name but take my word on it that it's relevant, and they said my stupidity is entirely correct"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo apparently make your pages load slowly because whoever cares about your site sucking
mircea_popescu: anyway, gotta remember that Jeff Atwood is pretty fucking stupid.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8000 @ 0.00085788 = 6.863 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: What the fuck. Someone provokes annoyance in good faith and the response is now to lie and cover yourself in shit so they don't want to be seen around you?
mircea_popescu: this dovetails neatly with "women don't have to do anything in particular to not get fucked"
BingoBoingo: I have to wonder who the original autist was to come up with the idea of a slowban.
BingoBoingo: This has to be some clinically defective reasoning.
dub: ircd ignores msgs, client cant tell
mircea_popescu: dub actually the material i've seen included a lot of derping about how fucking horrible and psychologically blabla that is.
mircea_popescu: so i guess the kids in charge have some deep seated issues with this sort of passive-agressive nonsense.
dub: safest way to deal with some kinds of damage
mircea_popescu: it's utterly dependent on you living in a boring environment. or in other words, if shunning works, your life sucks.
mircea_popescu: "enjoyment of the first look you take at a comment page is prioritized over active participation. That's great if you're trying to attach ads to pictures of cats, but if you're trying to have a real conversation, it just gets in the way. I can read, I don't need an algorithm to tell me which comments are notable and which ones are junk. If I see a troll post on any other site, I don't seize up and have an aneurism, I j
mircea_popescu: I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I can easily follow 50+ page PHPbb threads that drag on for months or even years, or 4chan threads with hundreds of posts and more on the way every time you refresh, but a small conversation (in reality; I considered it huge by my HN standards) I had on here the other day with about 10 comments or so made my head spin. I wrote half the posts and it was still hard to follow! O
mircea_popescu: h, and of course, no one but the people I responded to will ever read the things I wrote hours after the thread dropped off the front page."
mircea_popescu: wow look at that : they actually understand what's wrong with the ~others~
mircea_popescu: The Reddit discussion model is completely oriented towards providing the fast food of news commentary, where your << missing 1st line
dub: life is not always a forum
mircea_popescu: anyway, fun to see people on these very successful sites are lively debating solved problems in fain, years ago. makes my asshole swell.
thestringpuller: refreshing trilema hoping to see an announcement #assetslife
thestringpuller: but I guess with pankkake 's bot that's not necessary anymore
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 10 @ 0.025001 = 0.25 BTC [-]
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 8 @ 0.025001 = 0.2 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.23799979 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 16 @ 0.025 = 0.4 BTC [-] {3}
mircea_popescu: just how many of these social media sites did you get banned from ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11300 @ 0.00085527 = 9.6646 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: well i guess with all teh encouragement ima make more travel log posts
TheNewDeal: loved the mango and ginger breakfast picture as well
mike_c: best part of winning a bitbet: gloating in the comments.
TheNewDeal: I love mango and I love ginger, but I haven't had the combination. Sounds like an indian dish to me
assbot: BitBet - Simona Halep to win Roland Garros :: 1.03 B (14%) on Yes, 6.22 B (86%) on No | closed 2 weeks 1 day ago
TheNewDeal: can't believe 7 btc was laid down on that bet
mircea_popescu: mike_c btw, the coffee shop i happenedto stop for my pasteleria today (which dubs itself as a "local de encuentro" and during the night time doubles as a whorehouse) just happened to run the match on a large screen
mircea_popescu: that little shit gave sharapova a good run for her tits.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 10 @ 0.0251 = 0.251 BTC [+]
mike_c: hah, yeah, i'm glad i didn't watch it. too much of a sweat.
TheNewDeal: I'm very sad I didn't get to see the sexy Sharapova in action :(
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.2227057 BTC [-]
TheNewDeal: updating TheNewDeal's prediction to 6.3%
gribble: Current Blocks: 305040 | Current Difficulty: 1.1756551916903952E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 306431 | Next Difficulty In: 1391 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 1 day, 23 hours, 22 minutes, and 50 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 12115562214.2 | Estimated Percent Change: 3.0537
TheNewDeal: gribble was guessing like 0% when I was guessing around 5
TheNewDeal: I play around with my model a little bit and try to make it look realist. Gribble and bitcoinwisdom are pretty much looking at something like the last 500 or 1000 blocks and predicting off that
TheNewDeal: will bitbet start reporting the results of their bets in the manner I was talking about yesterday?
TheNewDeal: Like Gain:X, Total Resolved: Y, Pending: Z
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5939 @ 0.00085513 = 5.0786 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: i think your talking about bitbet is incidental to what it'll actually do.
TheNewDeal: but if they're bets are going to be a large portion of the gains/losses, it seems like investors would want to know what their history has been on the bets
TheNewDeal: the way its reported now is just obscure
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: TheNewDeal Were you trying to trade Bastille Day bet Exposure yesterday?
TheNewDeal: I have bets on Yes , and I would still like to trade exposure
TheNewDeal: bitcoinpete picked up a mere .1 BTC when I am looking for more
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: How do these arrangements work? Suppose I wanted to trade some of my no for your yes, how do we price these?
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Supposed you did, because we were both looking to hedge. How would this trade work?
TheNewDeal: you would give a amount, say 1 BTC, and we would tack on a timeweight to it
TheNewDeal: so you would send me 1 btc, and receive X timeweight
TheNewDeal: timeweight would be agreed upon beforehand
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Sure. That's about half of the question's answer. What of instead of BTC for positions the trade was positions for positions?
TheNewDeal: thats possible. I have 5.6 total BTC in for a timeweight of ~197,000. Care to share what you're trying to trade?
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> but if they're bets are going to be a large portion of the gains/losses, it seems like investors would want to know what their history has been on the bets << you know investors can readily revbiew this as they're all published
mircea_popescu: so far the house is ahead, mike_c did the math recently.
mike_c: well, house bets are ahead. the house isn't because it gives away half the bets.
TheNewDeal: MP, but recently they have upped the amounts they bet, by a large amoutn
TheNewDeal: hmmm I'm going to have to do some research. thought I read something that said they were upping the amount of BTC bet
TheNewDeal: perhaps it was around the time MPIF came about?
pgrewr: homosexuals should be put to death
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin network difficulty > 14Bn on Bastille day :: 112.84 B (85%) on Yes, 19.55 B (15%) on No | closing in 3 days 20 hours | weight: 2`243 (100`000 to 1)
BingoBoingo: How do we go about pricing No at a weight TheNewDeal versus yes at a weight?
TheNewDeal: well it wouldn't really make too much sense for me financially, unless you had much more timeweight
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: It could though which is why the pricing of these things and how to do it is so important.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: I'm curious, are you running Bitbet.py?
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BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Do you have a more interesting tool for calculating Bitbet outcomes then?
mike_c: i do :) i should clean up some of my scripts and publish them sometime..
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BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: It's a simple tool. You past in the lines from bitbet and get the whole thing laid out.
mike_c: old skool. it should grab the json.
mike_c: blech. i feel another bitbet blog post coming on.
BingoBoingo: Well, it is a relic of BitBet's earlier days
TheNewDeal: but it's easy enough for me to quickly find the payout of one or two bets
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Yeah, but I usually like to survey the whole field at once. Creates a real appreciation of time weight
BingoBoingo: Helps you identify interesting bettors as well
TheNewDeal: the maximum i stand to make on my yes prop is 1.25 btc with 5.6 bet (assuming no more NO bets come)
TheNewDeal: if I purchased your whole position, I would make 3.78% on yes, or lose 28.8 percent
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Assume we are hedgine and trading smaller amounts. Who would we price deciBitcoin portions of each position.
TheNewDeal: let's say I were to send you a fraction of a BTC (let's say a half) on the no bet. Would you consider giving me a larger timeweight than what you have bet at?
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: I'd actually be more interested in swapping a fraction of the no for a fraction of the Yes. If we are trading Bitcoin against the position... I'd maybe be interested in offering a bit of extra timeweight.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That explains the problem historically, but not why it persists.
TheNewDeal: My position will currently pay out 1.22 per 1 invested, but I have like 4X more invested, so it doesn't make much sense to buy a small fraction
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021706 BTC (Total: 434.13 BTC). Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00021725 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: I'm thinking rather than adjusting time weight which could create a bit of a pickle if a lot of large late betting acticity swoops in we consider the matter of pricing a 0.5 stake in terms of the premium or discount applied to 0.5 BTC to purchase it.
[]bot: Bet placed: 10 BTC for No on "1BTC >= $10,000 USD"
http://bitbet.us/bet/635/ Odds: 16(Y):84(N) by coin, 19(Y):81(N) by weight. Total bet: 474.9239018 BTC. Current weight: 45,777.
[]bot: Bet placed: 3 BTC for No on "BTC worth over $5000 before 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/716/ Odds: 42(Y):58(N) by coin, 43(Y):57(N) by weight. Total bet: 13.25076814 BTC. Current weight: 54,957.
TheNewDeal: first off, I don't think there will be any late bettors here
TheNewDeal: secondly, if there are, it will only help my position
TheNewDeal: the yes pays less than half a percent at 1 btc
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TheNewDeal: we could definitely swap, but I don't see how it would help you out
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: So for 0.5 BTC of my no stake you would pay 0.? BTC
BingoBoingo: Ah, so what works again? You want to pay ? for a stake with the timeweight adjusted upwards? Wouldn't it be easier to adjust the price paid or the portion of the stake purchased?
TheNewDeal: if I were to purchase .33 BTC at 30K timeweight
TheNewDeal: for me I would be winning 10% on my investment of 5.9 BTC on YES, or returning 27% of that investment on no
TheNewDeal: you on the other hand, would bring in 1.06 BTC for an investment of (1-.33 = .67 btc)
TheNewDeal: I've got to go get some food before the bar closes
BingoBoingo: And lets say at 16`367 you spent .33 to purchase 0.5, 0.6 or whatever on No (In case miners betting late on No make covering the offer at a higher weight a challenge, Spz. No becomes obvious and a member of the math challenged drops 1000 BTC on No)
TheNewDeal: i dont think bets are going to be made
BingoBoingo: Well it keeps people from betting when the outcome might be obvious.
TheNewDeal: even if they are made, they are not going to be large ones
smickles: mircea_popescu: over 4bill in assets which are easily valued
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 700 @ 0.00085527 = 0.5987 BTC [+]
smickles: easily a few more bil in things like BPOs and BPCs
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 672 @ 0.00085513 = 0.5746 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 4 @ 0.072075 = 0.2883 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3200 @ 0.00085326 = 2.7304 BTC [-]
assbot: dpaste: 1Y574AF: Bastille day Output
BingoBoingo missed some lines on initial entry and tacked them on at the end.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: I think something about the math you presented for your example is wrong.
BingoBoingo: As an example of fresh bet of .33 BTC on No returns the line [ 52] No 30000 0.33000000 1.93420100 1.60420100 covering 32.8% of your 5.9 BTC stake.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12327 @ 0.00085485 = 10.5377 BTC [+] {3}
TheNewDeal: i've been pondering over some calculations
BingoBoingo: Selling a .33 stake at 30,000 weight for.33 BTC isn't going to be feasible.
TheNewDeal: one I was thinking of was buying .25 stake at 50k weight
TheNewDeal: ;;calc ((16.3-.25*50)/(678)*112.8)/(1-.25)
TheNewDeal: which would be drastically reduced from the 370%+ you have now
BingoBoingo: Looks like [ 53] No 50000 0.25000000 2.24095491 1.99095491 when added through BitBet.py
TheNewDeal: if I send .25 btc to you representing 50k timeweight you would win .63 btc on No
TheNewDeal: then I think we're both stuck to the waiting game
BingoBoingo: I might be amenable to .33 BTC at 25000 weight... the line looks like No 25000 0.33000000 1.65041127 1.32041127
TheNewDeal: the thing is I have to take in my whole stake
TheNewDeal: ;;calc (197/2937)*(19.5)-.33/(5.6+.33)
TheNewDeal: ;;calc ((197/2937)*(19.5)-.33)/(5.6+.33)
TheNewDeal: ;;calc (((16.3-.33*25)/678)*112.8)/(1-.33)
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: The Bitbet.py numbers are a bit off for these new bets because it figures the new sum into the No pile.
TheNewDeal: I'm using the current no and yes totals
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 20 @ 0.0189761 = 0.3795 BTC [-]
TheNewDeal: my return would be 16.5% on yes, -77% no
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: I think you might be trying to complicate this thing more than it needs to be complicated.
TheNewDeal: you bet later than i did, and on the less probable outcome (in my opinion)
TheNewDeal: so I really only have incentive to offer you less return to reduce your loss
TheNewDeal: and i'm trying to figure out exactly how much would reduce your return and also mitigate my losses in case of some rare event
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.072 = 0.216 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: Ah, there's the problem. We're looking at different things. You have a large stake in a probable bet, and I'm willing to offer a hedge so you can avoid a total loss. I'd be willing to unload part of my position, but... I am not an insurance company.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7782 @ 0.00085435 = 6.6486 BTC [-] {2}
TheNewDeal: how do you think the outcome will look?
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Maybe we wait a week. At the moment I think it looks like a bit like your side is more likely, but it is close to a coin flip.
TheNewDeal: the network has to average around 6% over 3 diff changes
BingoBoingo: And I only thing we are getting two changes
BingoBoingo: I think it is going to be hard to add enough hashpower these next 34 days to keep up with dying equiptment and raise the difficulty all that much.
BingoBoingo: I just don't think we are getting that third change.
TheNewDeal: the last time there was a 6% change was ?
TheNewDeal: if we have 3 changes that take 13 days
TheNewDeal: this year it has typically taken 12.66 days per change
BingoBoingo: Sigh, I guess I'm going to have to explain how this longshots thing works...
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 5 @ 0.072 = 0.36 BTC [-]
assbot: BitBet - ATC to reach block 50000 on time :: 2.25 B (24%) on Yes, 7.05 B (76%) on No | closing in 1 month 2 weeks | weight: 51`392 (100`000 to 1)
BingoBoingo: punkman: Well considering ATC alternates between difficulty periods that take 4 days and those that take... much longer... No seems like a safe bet, but too safe.
punkman: that's why I went with Yes :P
punkman: I'm wondering if it will make sense for the Yes side to rent some extra hashing power at certain points
punkman: you'd also make ATC to offset the costs
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14691 @ 0.00085515 = 12.563 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: Indeed. The most profitable move in ATC might be to bet large on yes, wait for people to match it and then add 1TH/s a week to ATC's baseline hashpower until the bet resolves.
punkman: BingoBoingo: is there a log of ATC diff changes somewhere?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 12 @ 0.07133337 = 0.856 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 96 @ 0.07060759 = 6.7783 BTC [-] {9}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6626 @ 0.00085204 = 5.6456 BTC [-]
gribble: Current Blocks: 305073 | Current Difficulty: 1.1756551916903952E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 306431 | Next Difficulty In: 1358 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 1 day, 7 hours, 57 minutes, and 3 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 12239240125.7 | Estimated Percent Change: 4.1057
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punkman: that trash can definitely needs more work
fluffypony: they should just pay for Apple people to work for them
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Done right XFCE looks much better than OSx
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fluffypony: if I didn't know any better I would say that's OS X Guhurkagurkle
BingoBoingo: It's what makes sense on a widescree portable
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 20 @ 0.0241695 = 0.4834 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: Why have panels taking up scarce space at the top or bottom when they can go on the side (one of the things Unity got right)
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 21 @ 0.0718 = 1.5078 BTC [+]
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 657.26, vol: 6171.06625581 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 647.99, vol: 4195.29581 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 664.5, vol: 6387.94177976 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 655.0, vol: 21.77758049 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 660.501105, vol: 4167.50820000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 657.71523, vol: 4.62546371 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 665.967224, vol: 66.67940545 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message)
pankkake: tradition. because computers weren't in the broken 16:9 ratio
BingoBoingo: pankkake: Amazing how persistent these things can be.
assbot: NSF Researcher Suspended For Mining Bitcoin - Slashdot
pankkake: $150,000 worth of NSF-supported computer use at the two universities to generate bitcoins worth about $8,000 to $10,000
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.2227051 BTC [-]
jurov: BingoBoingo asciilifeform according to pediwikia gallium is incredibly sticky and messy once it melts, and rather poisonous...so, no chains nor cutlery
jurov: so it'd be best stored in glass containers..and how do you ascertain it wasn't amalgamated with mercury or such?
jurov: oh btw it also soaks readily into other metals and weakens them
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davout: do i read this one correctly or is euronext valued somewhere around a fifth of whatsapp
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 7 @ 0.0711 = 0.4977 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SF1] 1351 @ 0.000353 = 0.4769 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.0712 = 0.2136 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PROV] 89 @ 0.002 = 0.178 BTC
assbot: How I discovered CCS Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2014-0224) - OpenSSL #ccsinjection Vulnerability
assbot: How I discovered CCS Injection Vulnerability (CVE-2014-0224) - OpenSSL #ccsinjection Vulnerability
jurov: apparently nobody has deeper knowledge of the tls protocol
joesmoe: you're doing that toa ssbot in PM right?
joesmoe: i'm trying that but getting no reply.
joesmoe: ahhhh maybe i'm not getting these notices because of BNC
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4500 @ 0.00085684 = 3.8558 BTC [+]
nkuttler: joesmoe: you should sort it out, my !up is only for 30 minutes
joesmoe: anybody have any information on how to use assbot? Do I have to be auth'd with gribble with GPG or can i be bc authd?
joesmoe: i've never setup GPG with gribble
joesmoe: [11:36] gribble: I don't recognize you.
davout: ;;google trilema assets +m
assbot: first_steps_in_bitcoin-assets [bitcoin assets wiki]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.0712 = 0.1424 BTC [+]
joesmoe: okay great, so i do need to setup gpg with gribble.
joesmoe: how do i get this key its asking me to put it in?
joesmoe: it can't be my entire pub key as that is too long
jurov: it's in the wiki above
joesmoe: says i'm already registered anyhow
gribble: Nick 'joesmoe', with hostmask 'joesmoe!~joesmoe@c-73-181-72-237.hsd1.co.comcast.net', is identified as user 'joesmoe', with GPG key id None, key fingerprint None, and bitcoin address 1AqzP6zLMc4T4KavveXXrcyQoA63tbhyF3
gribble: Nick 'joesmoe', with hostmask 'joesmoe!~joesmoe@c-73-181-72-237.hsd1.co.comcast.net', is identified as user 'joesmoe', with GPG key id None, key fingerprint None, and bitcoin address 1AqzP6zLMc4T4KavveXXrcyQoA63tbhyF3
jurov: you're regged with bitcoin address
jurov: to add gpg key to registration, use ;;gpg eregister
jurov: and the fingerprint can be got with
joesmoe: oh its the fingerprint okay i have that
jurov: gpg -k --fingerprint
joesmoe: yup i didn't realize the "long key" was the same as fingerprint
jurov: ^^ whoever can edit the wiki, pls add the tidbit
joesmoe: joesmoe: ;;gpg eregister joesmoe 5A307B3E601C5363
joesmoe: [11:51] gribble: Error: Username already registered. Try a different username.
joesmoe: and since i don't have any trust with assbot, does that mean that he won't voice me?
gribble: Error: "getinfo" is not a valid command.
joesmoe: why does it say not authenticated
pankkake: you would have to auth with the bitcoin address first, to add the gpg key
gribble: Nick 'joesmoe', with hostmask 'joesmoe!~joesmoe@c-73-181-72-237.hsd1.co.comcast.net', is identified as user 'joesmoe', with GPG key id None, key fingerprint None, and bitcoin address 1AqzP6zLMc4T4KavveXXrcyQoA63tbhyF3
pankkake: you made a typo in your previous command
joesmoe: i have no idea how to do this
joesmoe: i need add the pgp key but am not sure how
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 219 @ 0.07061468 = 15.4646 BTC [-] {5}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 17 @ 0.02414707 = 0.4105 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 7 @ 0.0698 = 0.4886 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6300 @ 0.0008585 = 5.4086 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 5 @ 0.024173 = 0.1209 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 11 @ 0.024173 = 0.2659 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6752 @ 0.00085684 = 5.7854 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 4 @ 0.0691875 = 0.2768 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8732 @ 0.00085356 = 7.4533 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: Map of coins: the history of cryptocurrencies from bitcoin to dogecoin and more
punkman: "I am going to be Bitcoin Entrepreneur soon,as i creates ideas for bitcoin and its projects.I have also given ideas to CEX.io and Coinbase and they are reviewing and forwarding to their teams.Now i am looking for any platform that accepts my ideas and buy.Is there any platform which cares user ideas and thoughts."
assbot: Where i can sell my business plans and ideas about bitcoin and its dev?
punkman: "I have many ideas about Bitcoin business but no one is caring me.Only CEX cares my ideas and innovation.I want to deal with persons in this forum"
assbot: Where i can sell my business plans and ideas about bitcoin and its dev?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10379 @ 0.0008585 = 8.9104 BTC [+]
fluffypony: black and white posters printed on the office laserjet and stuck up on lamp posts is real legit
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1115 @ 0.00085321 = 0.9513 BTC [-]
assbot: Lab Rat Data Processing, LLC (LabRatMining) Official Announcement
pankkake: "It's like fat camp for your wallet." :D
fluffypony: "Mhm, I met Garr a couple months back in real life.. Can anyone give me a summary of what happened?"
fluffypony: "Well to sum things up, he changed millions of dollars into few cents and advised us to go out running and apply a holistic approach to the situation."
pankkake: it seems the newcomers barely know how to write
chetty: reading and writing are rapidly becoming lost arts
chetty: case in point, people as here right off about how to get voice, and its in the chan topic, you can't miss it
kakobrekla: <chetty> reading and writing are rapidly becoming lost arts < even though more words gets written and read than ever before each day
chetty: write yes, not so sure about read
[]bot: Bet placed: 15.25523358 BTC for No on "1BTC >= $10,000 USD"
http://bitbet.us/bet/635/ Odds: 15(Y):85(N) by coin, 19(Y):81(N) by weight. Total bet: 490.17913538 BTC. Current weight: 45,685.
assbot: BitBet - Simona Halep to win Roland Garros :: 1.03 B (14%) on Yes, 6.22 B (86%) on No | closed 2 weeks 1 day ago
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7935 @ 0.00085227 = 6.7628 BTC [-]
kakobrekla: oh wow, someone took a dump in propositions
jurov: Upcoming availability: bitcoin.dating bitcoin.partners bitcoin.productions
jurov: i like it.. but... 147,44 eur?
jurov: One or more of the domain names in your order contain a registered trademark. DAFUQ
jurov: bitcoin is registered trademark nao
jurov: buttcoin.partners?
jurov: btc.democrat Available
jurov: btc.fail Available (anyone? - but still in sunrise)
jurov: kakobrekla: you should apply for .milk
assbot: Program Statistics | ICANN New gTLDs
punkman: i guess google is gonna love it
danielpbarron: Namecoin is more than .bit; .bit is just the d/ namespace
danielpbarron: if you register the name d/kakobrekla it will corespond to kakobrekla.bit
danielpbarron: you could instead register id/kakobrekla and it won't give you a .bit, but something else
danielpbarron: nobody; i think you could make up your own as long as you write the interface for it
danielpbarron: there could be a g/ for gribble usernames, or if g/ is already used, gribble/
danielpbarron: i might be using the wrong slash; it's been a while
punkman: is .bit reserved by ICANN or something? no applications for it
danielpbarron: you have to hack your settings to get .bit domains to resolve
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 5 @ 0.024 = 0.12 BTC [-]
punkman: wouldn't be nice to have to change everything if .bit gets sold
punkman: I guess .onions are in the same boat though
kakobrekla: namecoin should prolly be a browser extension at this point
punkman: do they have something more low level? so you don't need a plugin for every app
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6657 @ 0.00085715 = 5.706 BTC [+]
danielpbarron: there is a radio host who got obsessed with Namecoin for a time, and caused a couple applications to get written: FreeSpeechMe, and MeowBit
jurov: punkman there's <name>.dot-bit.org or such
danielpbarron: freespeechme is a firefox plugin; meowbit is a windows-only system-wide thing
danielpbarron: but he got tired of Namecoin and is shilling for bitshares now
danielpbarron: actually lately he hasn't really mentioned crypto-stuff at all, which is good; I was giving him a hard time for this stuff on twitter
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23534 @ 0.00085203 = 20.0517 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [ActiveMining] Official Shareholder Discussion Thread [Moderated]
pankkake: danielpbarron: i've seen a few of those cases; overly enthusiastic towards things they don't fully understand
assbot: [MPEX] [FT] [X.EUR] 601 @ 0.00206714 = 1.2424 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: Retailers Use Big Data to Turn You Into a Big Spender - Bloomberg
jurov: so they just send you stuff and expect you to eventually pay later?
jurov: dare they try in eastern eu
gribble: Error: The command "get" is available in the Dunno, Herald, and Topic plugins. Please specify the plugin whose command you wish to call by using its name as a command before "get".
fluffypony: drawingthesun: you need to get in the WoT
fluffypony: because you don't have to read months and months worth of threads
fluffypony: you just have to be here and read the conversation
fluffypony: pretty much every security ever has been covered at length
drawingthesun: I shudder to think what people have said about ActiveMining here
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 10 @ 0.0257 = 0.257 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 10 @ 0.02577 = 0.2577 BTC [+]
fluffypony: ;;google ken slaughter site:log.bitcoin-assets.com
pankkake: the logs are public but I don't remember that much
pankkake: actually there might have been a year ago, when I wasn't very active
jurov: 21:33:19 pankkake:so… investors are going to make a KILLING
jurov: from one of above links
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 10 @ 0.02578 = 0.2578 BTC [+]
pankkake: jurov: I didn't even understand my joke at first
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 13 @ 0.02579999 = 0.3354 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 40 @ 0.0259999 = 1.04 BTC [+] {2}
jurov: there's laughter in every slaughter
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 21 @ 0.02659999 = 0.5586 BTC [+] {2}
fluffypony: now you too can own a piece of an Australian hair salon
assbot: [ANN] Klippt -Bitcoin IPO - Limited shares, dividends paid quarterly.
drawingthesun: what do you lot think about NEMstake on Nxt asset exchange? Anyone following NEM development?
pankkake: is it a vietnamese restaurant?
fluffypony: needs moar context in the bash, ah well
pankkake: oh klippt is like a word play on "clip"?
fluffypony: pankkake: it's apparently Swedish for haircut or something
pankkake: French hair salons love word plays in their names. it's ridiculous
davout: "there's laughter in every slaughter" <<< thank you, if that was the joke, i get it too nao
davout: but if it wasn't, such shame
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 10 @ 0.0268 = 0.268 BTC [+]
davout: bitcoin banned china again?
thestringpuller: Coinbase wants 1% which is pretty much what most niggas pay for CC processing
fluffypony: now is the time to move away from liquidity and go towards solidity
fluffypony: thestringpuller: Bitpay is 1% on starter, else $30/month no fees
davout: "1% which is pretty much what most niggas pay for CC processing" <<< it really depends
pankkake: I don't know many who have only 1% for CC
davout: pankkake: it's usually lower in france
thestringpuller: I guess I'm just bitter since back in the day I could buy BTC pretty much at market price with 0.5% in fees.
pankkake: really? perhaps I've only seen higher rates but maybe banks like to fuck small businesses
davout: the fees can explode depending on your business and your fraud profile
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 5 @ 0.217161 = 1.0858 BTC [-] {3}
davout: gambling & porn is usually > 6% i hear
davout: fluffypony: it's not really flat -> Up to $100,000 daily
thestringpuller: i'd rather just have a continuous supplier like a miner I can just pay
xmj: thestringpuller: have you looked into coinvoice?
davout: thestringpuller: what is it you're doing ?
fluffypony: davout: apparently even their Enterprise packages for > $100k daily are flat fee and not %
thestringpuller: my business runs in fiat and I want to migrate the operating revenue into btc
davout: well, why don't they give a price then ?
los_pantalones: thestringpuller what rate do you think is market rate?
davout: thestringpuller: that i got, wasn't the question tho :)
los_pantalones: i could sell you btc every day, settle net 7 or net 15
thestringpuller: lol davout i've been developing a cookie company but we want to migrate our profits into btc
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 647.37, Best ask: 650.21, Bid-ask spread: 2.84000, Last trade: 650.21, 24 hour volume: 7067.58768279, 24 hour low: 641.01, 24 hour high: 657.41, 24 hour vwap: 649.718914435
davout: fluffypony: if it's $30 for < $10,000/day, $300 for < $100k, $3000 for < $1mn that's still a percentage
davout: it just has a 0,3% floor
davout: thestringpuller: oic, weren't you supposed to send me a cookie for some reason i forgot?
los_pantalones: company i work for provides btc liquidity to businesses, we settle net 7 or net 15
thestringpuller: yea davout we are in R&D got held up. the chef is going to bonnaroo this week. Took me a lot to train him.
thestringpuller: My lawyer was supposed to have me import/export papers on perhishables by now too...
pankkake: just sell your cookies on the darknets
thestringpuller: I don't sell outside the US just sending you and MP cookies.
pankkake: if you write "electronics" they still it and claim it's lost, otherwise usually not
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7022 @ 0.00085125 = 5.9775 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.2357051 BTC [+]
pankkake: shipping food *to* the US is the hard thing actually
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 10 @ 0.0269 = 0.269 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 59 @ 0.02699994 = 1.593 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 16 @ 0.0274875 = 0.4398 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 20 @ 0.02779 = 0.5558 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 80 @ 0.02799 = 2.2392 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 5 @ 0.23797814 = 1.1899 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 5 @ 0.02418799 = 0.1209 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 6 @ 0.028 = 0.168 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 5 @ 0.024188 = 0.1209 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 30 @ 0.02931666 = 0.8795 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 5 @ 0.02999798 = 0.15 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 10 @ 0.029998 = 0.3 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 5 @ 0.02999999 = 0.15 BTC [+]
assbot: Map of coins: the history of cryptocurrencies from bitcoin to dogecoin and more
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 6 @ 0.02437042 = 0.1462 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: "The biggest reason why the bug hasnt been found for over 16 years is that code reviews were insufficient, especially from experts who had experiences with TLS/SSL implementation. "
pankkake: mapofcoins is missing Bernankoin :( how do I submit?
mircea_popescu: "allows man-in-the-middle attackers to trigger use of a zero-length master key"
mircea_popescu: you know, when i said the power rangers are too stupid to be on the internet and they said i'm just being evil, because they're about as smart as everyone else derping about "open source software" we were BOTH right
ThickAsThieves: <+thestringpuller> The cost of liquidity is too high for most vendors... //// Circle can eat their lunch if they play their cards right - things will start getting interesting when you can buy for zero fees
mircea_popescu: it's unavoidable. commodified market, players are of no particular valu
mike_c: zero fees = fees built into exchange rate.
gribble: Current Blocks: 305122 | Current Difficulty: 1.1756551916903952E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 306431 | Next Difficulty In: 1309 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 0 days, 13 hours, 35 minutes, and 43 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 12339676924.2 | Estimated Percent Change: 4.96
mike_c: circle does as much as it can to hide the exchange rate when you buy (from watching video)
jurov: um a dude from @dc-data.com.cn wrote to me that some company named VOLKAN Tech Ltd. wants to register zillion coinbr.TLD domains
jurov: whether we authorized it
mike_c: and i'm sure they just a few points off for their own pockets.
jurov: and he replied "okay, you should register them yourself"
jurov: so, not legit you say
mircea_popescu: mike_c trying to be paypal. except they won't be able to
mircea_popescu: paypal has this thing where govts prosecute its competition
mike_c: jurov: no. dime a dozen scam. i throw those out on a weekly basis
mircea_popescu: jurov one of the more common finds when i review my spamtraps
mike_c: i like better the scam where they just send you a bill
mike_c: in the hopes that a clueless worker bee will pay it.
jurov: ok, i got such for first time
mircea_popescu: in the hopes a clueless buyer will just think a ok it's what itis
assbot: GoDaddy Files For $100 Million IPO - Slashdot
mike_c: anybody in here have an account and try it out?
pankkake: GoDaddy hasn't made a profit since 2009. The company lost $279 million in 2012. It bled another $200 million last year. This year doesn't look much better, with another $51 million lost in the first quarter
pankkake: so, they're the twitter of domains
mike_c: that might be raising $100m, not the valuation
mike_c: "The company said it would raise $100 million, but that is just a placeholder until closer to the offering date."
xmj: godaddy throws money away on superbowls
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 11 @ 0.02854545 = 0.314 BTC [-] {2}
jurov: you can't easily measure the volume while it's inside the bottle
mircea_popescu: pankkake more of this fudingyou learned on btc forum i see.
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones by hiring uglychicks to weart its tshirt ?
jurov: if it's full one needs to solve the thermal expansion problem and still., also measuring the wall thickness accurately
jurov: too many things that can go bad.. i'm keeping my bricks, thanks
jurov: if you can design "datskovskiy's container" that solves all of above properly, maybe that will be the thing you'll be remembered for
jurov: not for some computer science masturbation
mircea_popescu: but maybe the reason that ive not found it is that your buying doesn't compare with 8 millenia of trying to defraud the currency
jurov: there are other amalgams not suitable as solder, but for faking gallium in closed container something can be certainly though of
jurov: just to remind, the whole discussion started about ease of handling/verification vs. gold/silver bricks
mircea_popescu: more's the point, you've not had the benefit of manyyear's worth of having thought about what the people trying to fake it might have thought about
mircea_popescu: i think this problem is often misrepresented by all the young cocks starting new things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the definityion of a fake is not being useful.
jurov: now that's something
mircea_popescu: prolly best so far, because you can measure resistance etc
jurov: also one needs to verify there is no cavity or tungsten bar placed in the middle
davout: thestringpuller: "France sounds annoying." <<< wait until you hear french people
assbot: One or Two Ounces of Contaminated Gallium Liquid Metal Read | eBay
assbot: New York Man Faces Criminal Charges For $17 Million Ponzi Scheme - Ponzitracker - Ponzitracker
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.23799989 BTC [+]
mike_c: mircea_popescu: lol. i'm in!
mike_c: honestly i would rather see a btc investment that bought commodities rather than real estate. with the REITS I feel like people are expecting a BTC return. no one would think that with a commodity fund (similar to x.eur).
assbot: [HAVELOCK:RENT] 1D: 0.00429980 / 0.00441359 / 0.00449890 (14 shares, 0.06179020 BTC), 7D: 0.00351101 / 0.0038605 / 0.00469990 (1234 shares, 4.76386086 BTC), 30D: 0.00280000 / 0.00524007 / 0.00710000 (6290 shares, 32.96001124 BTC)
mike_c: not back to ipo price yet, but still.
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021639 BTC (Total: 432.79 BTC). Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00021725 BTC [+]
assbot: Current MPIF account balance on Just-Dice: 170.56965722 BTC; +0.09045396 BTC (+0.0531%) since last check 22h 25m 29s ago.
mike_c: eurusd is a tough market.
mircea_popescu: mike_c mind making the columns on your splendid tracker red and green ?
mircea_popescu: it encourages the mice to organise and clean up your kitchen
mircea_popescu: i ordinarily punish people for things they perceive are "well outside their control"
mircea_popescu: the only way to establish which of the three is to be abundant with the last two
jurov: btw, how it went with the robin?
mike_c: you didn't see last pic?
mike_c: bird gets 2014 darwin award
assbot: Confirmed: blockchain.info Shared Coin is broken : Bitcoin
ThickAsThieves: "There used to be something called Shared Send, which was an actual taintless bitcoin mixer and not just a CoinJoin plausible-deniability transaction obfuscator.
ThickAsThieves: For a while, Shared Send was the only option. Then SharedCoin was introduced and for a while they were both available in the blockchain.info wallet.
mircea_popescu: noobs and poor people are not allowed to have good tools.
assbot: Re: becoming a better programmer - Naggum cll archive
chetty: asciilifeform, a lot of that problem might actually be there are so few real experts
chetty: nah the travel is better, earn your audience with an expert
mircea_popescu: '...what I find among the modern novices is that they do not feel the same way about the experts -- they want an expert-free world where their ignorance is not painful, where their inexperience is not used against them, where they get all the jokes, where nobody uses literary references that elude them, where every one of their ideas is accepted by their peers as just as novel as they think it is...' <<< quite exactly.
mircea_popescu: people derping about how "we" should live in a world without rape conveniently tend to not mention that rape is in fact the only cure to the particular mental disease that constitutes their powerbase.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2400 @ 0.00085204 = 2.0449 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, not anyone could read anymore than anyone could magic.,
chetty: people can't be bothered to read mostly, much less evaluate the content in any reasonable manner
mircea_popescu: reading is not just techne is the problem. which is why there exists such a thing as the educated idiot.
chetty: save screen time and line the bird cage :)
fluffypony: it's the /r/BitcoinSerious version of #bitcoin-dev
mircea_popescu: course in my mind it's more like bitcoin-dev's johhny come lately attempt at making a bitcoin-assets without the ass in it
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.87465820 BTC to 8`765 shares, 21388 satoshi per share
assbot: BMF has lost access to it's wallet [UnModerated]
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well left todd a tell, curious what'll come of that.
fluffypony: I like Peter Todd, I feel like his efforts are wasted / stymied by many others around him
mircea_popescu: now if only he liked himself, he could be done with all that.
jborkl: wait Usagi lost access to his wallet ? he is still around?
jborkl: maybe he can sell his skateboard this time
jborkl: he already sold his guitar
mircea_popescu: princessnell "Visions receive more attention than game plans. We know we want to decentralize, at least. Growing pains notwithstanding, the old ways simply will not do. Power corrupts, we are reminded from birth. The worst get on top, fewer learn later. Men are not angels but too many of them still run the world. No, our doomed synthetic seraphocracy must go." your prose needs better ligature.
fluffypony: jborkl: to quote usagi - "You guys have no idea how badly you've screwed up trying to troll people to get ahead, and all the junk lies that you are telling."
jborkl: I still do not know if he is the biggest idiot on the planet or just a scammer playing idiot
jborkl: he is too good at playing idiot to tell
chetty: jborkl> he is too good at playing idiot to tell// obama?
davout: jborkl: dotcoin is the same
davout: NOT SURE IF STUPID OR STUPID
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 8 @ 0.06920012 = 0.5536 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: Valued Investing | Socially Conscious Online Financial Advisor
benkay: <BingoBoingo> asciilifeform: That explains the problem historically, but not why it persists. // see also smbx
benkay: <BingoBoingo> fluffypony: Done right XFCE looks much better than OSx // care to share shots of your setup?
benkay: i have to admin, i tend to eschew the window mgr in favor of...emacs. app-tab over to...browsers.
benkay: i've been concerned about a wm stomping on my emacs bindings, and losing a week to fixing it.
benkay: granted this pernicious notion was planted in my head by the notorious lee, so i don't know if it carries any water.
benkay: have you tried xmonad?
benkay: do forgive my ignorance.
benkay: sure but what does rp do that's so different?
benkay: what's the difference between drawing on the screen and giving things a place to live?
benkay: displays are *way* out of my weelhouse.
benkay: ah that's what you mean by draw things.
benkay: i understand now, thank you.
assbot: [MPEX:F.MPIF] 1D: 0.00021703 / 0.00021703 / 0.00021703 (1000 shares, 0.22 BTC), 7D: 0.00021548 / 0.0002161 / 0.00021725 (15601 shares, 3.37 BTC), 30D: 0.00021536 / 0.00021709 / 0.00021726 (125310 shares, 27.20 BTC)
assbot: FBI — Former Mingo Judge Sentenced to More Than Four Years in Federal Prison
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021641 BTC (Total: 432.83 BTC). Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00021703 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.238 BTC [+]
chetty: asciilifeform, every little bit helps
TomServo: The sentence comes after Thornsbury admitted his role in a conspiracy to coerce a local drug defendant, George White, into firing his defense counsel.
chetty: sigh, prolly true - charge should read, fails to play ball
benkay: ;;google trilema assets +m
mircea_popescu: TomServo the best part is where they discuss how "a stiff sentence was appropriate" and then the sentence is... 4 years.
chetty: 4 years in fed country club at that
TomServo: right. And the guy with 15 years gets no reprieve?
pankkake: I'm not sure sentences work at all
pankkake: the general thinking is "I'll get away with it"
chetty: depends what they are supposed to do
pankkake: sure, but the prison sentence isn't useful in that way. will this teach other bureaucrats?
chetty: bing0! asciilifeform you got it, they are indeed a whole different species
TomServo: Oh yeah, that rings a bell. What was the bounty on that?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the unfortunat experience of mr white, the fuckwit who listened to the usg, withdrew his charges against usg agents and is now serving 15 years should be very illuminating to every other us citizen
mircea_popescu: if you do what your government tells you to do you will end up with a life in prison sentence
mircea_popescu: this is what your government exists for : to put you in prison, for life.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.238 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: never, ever, under any circumstances do what any agency tells you. not the sec, not the irs, not the judge, no one.
mircea_popescu: you'll probablystill go to jail, but note that STILL in there.
chetty: do not go quietly into that long night
mircea_popescu: learned helplessness. is what makes domestic animals domestic
pankkake: some animals and even plants cannot be domesticated
mircea_popescu: re bio challenge : no. but this wasn't a magistrate was he
assbot: Michael Thornsbury - Judgepedia
Mats_cd03: exceedingly few animals are capable of domestication and tasty too
mircea_popescu: "[Judge Thornsbury] engaged in criminal conspiracies to violate the constitutional rights of victim R.W. . .Judge Thornsbury conspired to plant illegal drugs on R.W.'s pickup truck; to have R.W. arrested for thefts he did not commit; to commandeer a state grand jury and use it to oppress R.W. and his family; and, after an incident in which R.W. was the victim of an assault, to arrange for R.W., rather than the perpetra
mircea_popescu: U.S. Magistrate Judge Dwane Tinsley set the arraignment for August 21, 2013 and released Thornsbury on a $10,000 unsecured bond.
TomServo: In the same article about the Mingo judge, they mention he tried to frame the husband of some woman he was fucking and was charged for that as well.
TomServo: No mention of sentencing in that case however.
mircea_popescu: hey, thenewdeal guy was pretty much spot on in theend ?
gribble: Error: "bc,diff" is not a valid command.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 7 @ 0.0692002 = 0.4844 BTC [+]
mike_c: ooh, is that the super-sekrit bitbet mod page?
fluffypony: that backend will never succeed without proper CSS
mircea_popescu: it's actually a jool of functional functionality, kakobrekla just made it like this and it has needed very little fixing
mircea_popescu: serves the mods quite comfortable. i think the man is talented.
mike_c: kako doesn't understand job security
mike_c: if it just works they don't need you anymore.
benkay remembers to go down to the server room and unplug some client hardware
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kakobrekla: i think thats the rendering from lynx.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SF1] 1046 @ 0.0003565 = 0.3729 BTC [+] {4}
benkay: why so hostile, Mats_cd03
Mats_cd03: i found pubes in my cereal this morning
benkay: containers for the derpy
Mats_cd03: and how is that different from a vps
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 13 @ 0.02987692 = 0.3884 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: If You Ever Want To Be In Love by James Bay on SoundCloud - Hear the worlds sounds
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 21 @ 0.0299 = 0.6279 BTC [+]
benkay: a vps you rent from a virtualization provider, docker you install on some server you own to do your own virtualization?
benkay: what does sshd have to do with docker?
benkay: i use it to nail down environments for a single process
FabianB: it's a tool to manage lxc containers for you, so kinda like a chroot with cgroups and snapshottable
benkay: i mean granted i don't know shit about shinola
benkay: yeah, what FabianB said
FabianB: no, many run it inside a vps
fluffypony: I like to think of it as Bitcoin Testnet but for test environments
benkay: can be run inside a vps as well
benkay: conferences for actual tools aren't that bad of an idea compared to bitcoin conferences
punkman: i guess now that their vc money came in they can splurge a bit
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 3 @ 0.23799999 = 0.714 BTC [-] {2}
punkman: how many talks about docker could one endure in two days though
mircea_popescu: mircea@inigo-montoya:/media/ce570767-bda1-4312-b09f-99a812e19f3e$ gpg 95bad940ebdc9bfcda86ea087d376ca179c59ebe
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> if it just works they don't need you anymore. << i need him more when it works.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> conferences for actual tools aren't that bad of an idea compared to bitcoin conferences << agreed
mircea_popescu: <punkman> how many talks about docker could one endure in two days though << also agreed.
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assbot: Current MPIF account balance on Just-Dice: 170.62354623 BTC; +0.05388901 BTC (+0.0316%) since last check 3h 59m 57s ago.
BingoBoingo: I like the gallium torroid idea. I was thinking I might be useful for creating small bronze scultpures that could be remoulded almost like clay.
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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, I think retaliation from the Gallium upbidding cartel could take the form of upbidding Indium. iPhones can have problems too.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, and so many aesthetic uses, Like a liquid metal fountain out in the garden.
BingoBoingo: It might take what, 1, 2 kilograms to fill a small fountain? The gallium might need changed out every couple seasons due to impurities?
BingoBoingo: benkay: My setup looks like that unsee.cc pic I linked to fluffypony
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.238 = 0.476 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.239 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Of course, in that way it is like silver, but with a more predictable extraction rate.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 6 @ 0.23996553 = 1.4398 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 30 @ 0.02999999 = 0.9 BTC [+]
mike_c: hashfast ceo one month ago: "I joined this company a month ago because the team is amazing and we are not scammers"
mike_c: today: "we're bankrupt. I'm outta here"
Namworld: Those coins would shatter easily and be kinda troublesome.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 9 @ 0.024 = 0.216 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 13 @ 0.02390713 = 0.3108 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 15 @ 0.02380399 = 0.3571 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: Its official: Malicious hackers have crappy password hygiene, too | Ars Technica
assbot: SCiO: Your Sixth Sense. A Pocket Molecular Sensor For All ! by Consumer Physics, Inc. — Kickstarter
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 10 @ 0.07000001 = 0.7 BTC [-]
atcbot: 2k@270 2k@269 20k@265 | 3k@144 50k@143 175k@142
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That's diginork's link. If such a kickstarter succeeded I wouldn't trust it to identify interesting things...
dignork: it would probably differentiate metal from stone, usability close to zero, but amusing
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That is one concern. The other is identifying tylenol through the tablet's way?
BingoBoingo: Even then, I'd expect it to report a lot of cornstarch, stearate and lipid esters
assbot: Bacteria classification using Cyranose 320 electronic nose
BingoBoingo: Even supposing the thing identifies tylenol it isn't identifying any interesting high molecular weight compounds
mike_c: you guys need to start taking the right decisions.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14988 @ 0.00085128 = 12.759 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CFIG] 106 @ 0.0505008 = 5.3531 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6150 @ 0.00085154 = 5.237 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.0707999 = 0.2124 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9500 @ 0.0008508 = 8.0826 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 44 @ 0.00227926 = 0.1003 BTC [+]
benkay: that designer is fired.
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benkay: too clever. not usable.
mike_c: don't be stuck in the 90's. usability should never trump slick design.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9877 @ 0.00085171 = 8.4123 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 100 @ 0.028 = 2.8 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 15 @ 0.02999999 = 0.45 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10550 @ 0.0008508 = 8.9759 BTC [-]
jurov: technetium coins for sale! buy while still fresh!
jurov: ...technetium alloy cut with gold and palladium would be perfect for
jurov: high-value coinage. “Hard, bright, untarnishable and rare, it would be the
jurov: numismatist’s answer to diamond, for such a coin might last nearly forever.”
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 50 @ 0.028 = 1.4 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 50 @ 0.028 = 1.4 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 13 @ 0.02383737 = 0.3099 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 20 @ 0.0707999 = 1.416 BTC [+]
benkay: get back to your pomodoros ;)
mike_c: everybody's behind schedule.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SF1] 301 @ 0.00047635 = 0.1434 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 7 @ 0.0238 = 0.1666 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [ALC] 14 @ 0.08888 = 1.2443 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [ALC] 12 @ 0.08 = 0.96 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [ALC] 5 @ 0.08 = 0.4 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [ALC] 3 @ 0.08 = 0.24 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [ALC] 32 @ 0.08 = 2.56 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [ALC] 2 @ 0.08 = 0.16 BTC [-]
mike_c: pop quiz (no cheating). name a company with mkt cap > $200b and p/e > 20.
mike_c: challenging, right? these companies shouldn't exist.
mike_c: far as i can tell china companies have crappy pe's.
mike_c: google is the one that got me looking.
mike_c: $380b at a fking 30 p/e
mike_c: others are proctor/gamble, novartis, and royal dutch.
mike_c: hm, the petrochina ADR i see has $225b cap and pe 11
mircea_popescu: Diluted EPS Excluding Extraordinary Items 5.33 trading 560ish
mike_c: ;;calc 560 / (5.34 * 4)
mike_c: unless my math is borked, that is a hefty pe for a company that big.
cazalla: i don't think there are any australian ones, i think BHP Billiton has cap of like 50-60b
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4397 @ 0.00085204 = 3.7464 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: and icbc is actually listed... on the fucking pink sheets. idcby
mike_c: where yo ugetting that number? i see PTR mrq is 2.92 eps
mike_c: ;;calc 120 / (2.92 *4)
assbot: Financial Statements for PetroChina Company Limited (ADR) - Google Finance
mike_c: that number is wrong i believe
BingoBoingo: OMG It's another LABCOIN!!! Amazing Petro!!!
mircea_popescu: i still can't quite believe icbc is listed as a pink wtf bbq
mircea_popescu: thing has like half a million emplouyees all over theworld.
mike_c: yeah, google's out to fucking lunch. that number is wrong
mircea_popescu: mike_c maybe their own numbers are wrong too then ? :D
mike_c: look at the summary at the top. 22b shares * $123 = $225b mkt cap??
mike_c: that's some fuzzy math
BingoBoingo: I'm telling you they hired Armandi to be their shadow CEO
mike_c: 22b * $123 = $2.5 T. that is pretty far off
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CFIG] 8 @ 0.08697123 = 0.6958 BTC [+] {5}
mike_c: see? they added a zero.
mike_c: right, but what is $123 in yuan
mthreat: mike_c: AMZN is close, $150B cap, 520 PE
mike_c: your definite is in some other currency.
mircea_popescu: and iut's been trading at about 12.83 usd/share on otc
mike_c: ok, so icbc is on the list then.
mircea_popescu: it's owned by the chinese govt, and a tool of its foreign policy.
mircea_popescu: a rather close approximation of mpex, for that matter.
mike_c: look, idk wtf goes on in china. i'm just saying, dump GOOG, PG, novartis and royal dutch.
mike_c: well nobody actually sells oil companies
mircea_popescu: and the chinese/russian/etc royal entreprises no, either.
mircea_popescu: not unless you're a sovereign yourself, ready able and willing to go to war with the sovereigns backing them
mike_c: :) plus, i actually hold some PG and i ain't selling that either.
mike_c: everybody needs toothpaste
mircea_popescu: im actually mildly short on us crapola, from google to the rest of the "Tech" sector.
mike_c: aapl is under $100 now! totally a good reason for the stock to shoot up 20%!
mike_c: mthreat: amzn doesn't count, they aren't trying to make money.
mircea_popescu: hm, come to think of it, perhaps it could be argued im not even THAT mildly short. i'm like 600k in against brk publicly
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.0708 = 0.2124 BTC [+]
assbot: BMF has lost access to it's wallet [UnModerated]
fluffypony: "And yes, as I mentioned quite a number of times, not only do we have off-site backups I am mirroring daily backups to a Synology DS-4 I keep in my office."
fluffypony: if he had/has off-site backups why even bother posting in the first place?
dub: one does not understand a usagi
mircea_popescu: anyway, he doesn't have an office, he worked as a sort of that-fat--and-gay-guy-in-high-fidelity
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CFIG] 12 @ 0.1 = 1.2 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.2399 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.07086666 = 0.2126 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 60 @ 0.0020904 = 0.1254 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: You have to realize arguing with Usagi is worthless. He has too many aspersation to experience any sort of self examination.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: hashfast ceo one month ago: "I joined this company a month ago because the team is amazing and we are not scammers" | today: "we're bankrupt. I'm outta here" << fucking exactly.
mircea_popescu: and on top of it, they get all butthurt when they're treated to a heapful of stfu and go read the logs for a year on the FIRST announcement.
mike_c: well, they know better
mircea_popescu: ya right. and who even told eduardo decastro he can be a ceo anyway.
BingoBoingo: Maybe we should start selling canned STFU.
assbot: Eduardo deCastro, CEO, receiving the wafers! | HashFast
mircea_popescu: Namworld: Those coins would shatter easily and be kinda troublesome. << yeah the shatter factor is a problem. also, god help you if you're trying to carry say a 20 lb bag of them in the street.
mircea_popescu: well... on the optimistic side... you'll prolly have no trouble catching the bus.
mircea_popescu: "Based on a statistical analysis of the recovered passwords, Hýa constructed two character sets that stood the best chance of quickly cracking the remaining undeciphered passcodes. The shorter of the two contained just 28 characters: acdehiklmnorstu01234579!-.@_"
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [ALC] 2 @ 0.08 = 0.16 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.24 = 0.96 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: curious what sort of magic kickstarter can turn out of 2.5mn
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: don't they make anyone use actual ir spectrometer in school now? << no. because it'd be racist.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: anyone who buys a berth on mp's 'we piss on patents' atomic battleship should give 'cyranose' a thought. << this is a good point actually.
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mircea_popescu: "Coinalytics receives seed funding as one of 500 Startups first Bitcoin ventures"
mike_c: except me of course, i'm just naturally quiet.
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assbot: Lunea intunericoasa ca sa nu zicem de-a dreptu’ neagra ca-i urit si ne citesc inclusiv copii de tita. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: this is an article about the black monday, which you're prolly mostly too young to remember.
mircea_popescu: about 4% of the monetary mass in circulation sold out, bitcoin dropped from 5.3 to 4.5, and people were in agreeemnt that it's prolly the end
BingoBoingo: mircea_inglesa: I have a feeling the Argentines are going to start refering to Bitcoin as Money Inglesa before too long...