indiancandy1: chatroulete now has a verification method so not many people use it
indiancandy1: you have to register with ur cell phone number and they send u a code on sms and
indiancandy1: they was a overflow of pedofiles lurking for lil girls
mircea_popescu: now that's a disruptive service someone should do. decentralize sms identification.
BingoBoingo: I thought most cellphones did a mix of the two
indiancandy1: well then f you get in trouble ad u call the cops and they need 2 find u how wil they find u
BingoBoingo: I thought if you got into trouble you called the Bondsman because the cops were there
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indiancandy1: i mean like if a girls being raped or something then it comes handy
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> I thought if you got into trouble you called the Bondsman because the cops were there << not everyone is from chicago.
BingoBoingo: You still call the Bondsman, because they actually "solve the problem"
ThickAsThieves: "Founded by Brock Pierce, a former Disney child actor who is now a prolific bitcoin investor" ouch
assbot: Political Protest Or Just Blowing Smoke? Anti-Environmentalists Are Now 'Rolling Coal'
punkman: "the first dollar-backed digital currency"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves notice that's sorta started to go away ?
ThickAsThieves: "Realcoin will use a Bitcoin 2.0 software protocol known as Mastercoin" the pain!
punkman: it's not even dollars, "To ensure realcoins retain their value at one dollar, the firm will maintain a real-time record of its dollar-based reserves, all held in conservative investments"
ThickAsThieves: "Asked about such a reaction, Realcoin founder Mr. Pierce said, “I’m not selling any of my bitcoins. "
indiancandy1: it gets me angry that i dont understand what ur talking about but i think
indiancandy1: im addicted to this place i have no reason to be here so why am i here
indiancandy1: GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 well, you've found the real world and now are trying to convince yourself you don't have to change to adapt to it.
Duffer1: it's worth your time to hang around
decimation: re: "anti-environmentalists" << a true anti-environmentalist would construct a chumpatron to bleed environmentalist chumps
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decimation: "imma make you environmental technology, email me monies"
decimation: I suspect it's quite simple to recruit a staff of chumps to maintain the public propaganda machine too
indiancandy1: okay well wil someone atleast teach me so i understand
assbot: The tragic, explosive crash of a stolen Tesla – Quartz
BingoBoingo: indiancandy1: Right now is the time for lingering reading and asking questions, understanding come later.
colinistheman: Hi guys. I was invited to this chat. I posted the bitcointalk forum thread on Sonny Vleisides (BFL CEO)
BingoBoingo: Hey colinistheman that was me sent the message. Love your BFL thread.
colinistheman: I'm glad you found it helpful. I did too. A lot of good information in that court transcript.
colinistheman: I realized a lot of people wouldn't read through to find the best parts
assbot: Butterfly Labs and BF Labs, Inc. Bitcoin Miners | Wood Law Firm
BingoBoingo: Well, mircea_popescu and kakobrekla 's BitBet was especially injurious to BFL last year
assbot: Preemptive strike, to have on hand for when Butterfly Labs gets hauled off to jail in corpore pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
BingoBoingo: ;;google BitBet BFL to deliver by February
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colinistheman: A BFL court case in Italy that went to the supreme court? very nice
colinistheman: mircea_popescu: to answer your question, I run www.knives4bitcoin.com
colinistheman: Actually I do not believe they are mining with our hardware. I have been following fairly closely on what is going on
colinistheman: It's very bad management and underfunded development
colinistheman: that's the out-ethics behind the scenes which is making everything late
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mircea_popescu: bfl has been a foundation backed sore eye for bitcoin since 2012
colinistheman: Perhaps in the past they mined with the hardware though
mircea_popescu: so practically, get in the wot so i can gift someone a knife.
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> wow. /// simple GS strat, spend $120k on a Tesla, short TSLA, crash it. Works every time!
colinistheman: I don't sell the BTC either. It's kept in BTC form
ThickAsThieves: but really there were 2 crashes and the other had most of a family die i think
colinistheman: mircea_popescu: You had stated that my summary was useful. I'm very glad. May I ask how it assisted you?
mircea_popescu: colinistheman me personally it did not, i have people whose job it is to do these things. your summary however was quite close to mine, which is the mark of achievement.
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colinistheman: Most excellent. Yeah, I'm fairly literate and have a few brain cells to knock together
BingoBoingo: Hmmm... None of your product page links seem to be working for me...
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colinistheman: Oh wow, they're temporarily down. I re-upped the site recently.
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cazalla: indiancandy1: i would bet sexysaffron would do 100 times better than you on mfc
colinistheman: I just have it round to the nearest 2 decimal places for sake of neatness
mircea_popescu: for that matter, bitpay says "If it seems like there should be something here, please let us know by contacting our support team."
kakobrekla: because they are all sized for keychains
colinistheman: You can sort by price and see items which are more than 5 bit cents. Back to reading the article
kakobrekla: i have a few of those swiss army knifes i got as gifts and they satisfy all my cutting needs
indiancandy1: unless she goes further then me i dont use toys
cazalla: indiancandy1: looks don't have much to do with mfc imo
colinistheman: By the way, this may interest you, mircea_popescu. I posted the following information on BFL's forum and it got deleted. It was a detailed recording of a series of events in the Monarch production timeline. This post got deleted from their forums but I kept a backup because I knew it would. Then I was banned from the forums after providing a lawyer link to every member on BFL forums.
assbot: BFL Late Monarch and How to Handle it. Josh, as COO, I request your reply to this.
mircea_popescu: or maybe join an existing one. possibly mike_c may want a hard hitting research editor for btcalpha
colinistheman: It's a good idea but I don't have the time. I managed to scrap together these few things.
colinistheman: I think there would be a good market for a promoted domain and blog for BFL fraud info though.
mike_c: if you do want a blog platform I'd be happy to post things for you on btcalpha with appropriate attribution.
BingoBoingo: No, Jesus died to save, but if you save Jesus... it would really mess with the Xtians
kakobrekla: you can rape them with evidence, they dont budge.
colinistheman: True, but it increases awareness like my bitcointalk thread post did. it got over 2000 views in 5 hours
colinistheman: And I bet I got a lot more people to join the class action lawsuit
colinistheman: so I am pleased with that increased awareness and action
cazalla: indiancandy1: if you are more attractive than sexysaffron, you'd make more money on mfc if you copied her enthusiasm
colinistheman: because I'm pretty badass. The wottiness is inherent really
mircea_popescu: this is without a doubt the weirdest reaction to a wot mention.
mircea_popescu: colinistheman there';s a whole world of scams i didn't buy into. but anyway.
mircea_popescu: until you register with gribble you won't be getting any.
colinistheman: That's good. In bitcoin scams are ripe for the picking
indiancandy1: but im saying u no sex toys stretch out ur pussy and im not into having a lose pussy for money
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colinistheman: to be a bitcoin billionaire, one would require over 1.6 million btc
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mircea_popescu: paging fluffypony. hey f, lay off teh womenz and irc more!
colinistheman: From what I gather, sonny vleisides, carried on the scam of his father. Your article seems to touch upon this. "I came to know my real father only as an adult. So when I got the opportunity to know him better, I was eager and curious. His name was James Ray Houston:
colinistheman: I used to blame BFL_Josh for the poor show at BFL. Well, I still do. But Sonny is the kingpin behind the scenes. That's the real meat and potatoes crime boss
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colinistheman: Thank you for also spreading the word on BFL. I will continue to do what I can and I'm glad it helped in any way.
colinistheman: It was good to talk to you all but I will be on my way now. Good day to you gentlemen. And don't forget your arsenal of knives :P
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indiancandy1: mircdea u have al that money shouldnt u be living in a exotic island
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 i watched the last 5 minutes of germany-brazil by accident
BingoBoingo: indiancandy1: He can hear it and surmise how it is going
TheNewDeal: don't you have a decent bet on argentina ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: And you know that because people are doing their jobs atm
TheNewDeal: haha you want to bet but aren't interested in watching the game?
cazalla: indiancandy1: do you like Germans? my oma met the fuhrer
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal i didn't actually watch the tennis chick either
mircea_popescu: happened on a rerun, also in some cafe, also last 15 minutes or so.
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BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Difficulty isn't as lucrative as betting against Serena Williams
BingoBoingo: Serena Williams loses with great predictability
TheNewDeal: I was freaking out today. Just bet against the top scorer last night, then some mexican dude whips out his phone today at work and was telling me germany had 9 goals
BingoBoingo: Anytime the Decimal odds on Serena Williams opponent pays under 10, Serena doesn't win. You can turn 0.1 BTC into 1 BTC that way with decent regularity.
TheNewDeal: not sure if he didn't know the english word for siete
mircea_popescu: i don't even think this happened before, in a wc match
TheNewDeal: he showed me a brief clip of a brazilian person in tears
BingoBoingo: I hope for an Argentina Germany final where the only players to survive the jerkoff pregame festivities are Messi and Klose
TheNewDeal: if you can make it that far, it doesn't really matter
cazalla: it'll go to a shootout where messi misses and germany wins
assbot: EEVblog #470 - Agilent N9344C 20GHz Spectrum Analyser Teardown - YouTube
decimation: the us still makes very high quality stuff, you just have to pay golden toliet prices to get it
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mircea_popescu: how do i know it's the actual thing if he doesn';t sample anything with it first ?
decimation: heh well it's actually a fair guess for agilent
decimation: they are famous for making $20k test equipment that runs windows xp
mircea_popescu: the smart comment was re "some processors or something but we don't care about that"
mircea_popescu: what interests him are the fully machined aluminum blocks.
decimation: heh yeah for him the computer is the uninteresting part, he cares about the rf parts hehe
decimation: I think his past experience was as a pcb designer
decimation: so that's what he focuses on, the board construction
decimation: there are some interesting design choices (some he points out, some he doesn't). as ascii would say, figuring out the details is an excercise for the alert reader
mircea_popescu: why don't they have insulant between the two modules is beyond me.
decimation: 3e8 m/s / 20 GHz = 15 mm wavelength at 20 Ghz - that's why you see all the esoteric shielding
mircea_popescu: air is dielectric, ok, but wouldn't some paste fare better ?
decimation: the system is complex, it needs to separate the RF portion from the computer portion, and also conduct heat. I suspect compromises were made between the competing priorities
decimation: yeah, I can reasonably guaruntee that for 20 GHz equipment, it's not like it never happened (for this guy)
decimation: he does point out "well it will probably have to be recalibrated"
mircea_popescu: tightly packed handled mass produced electronics like these...
mircea_popescu: something tells me that if it were, you';d bitch about machined silver
decimation: if you want quality that's what you pay
decimation: you can probably buy a "spectrum analyzer" for $1k new
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indiancandy1: a romanian one and all there food is garlicy when u sweat does it smell like garlic?
decimation: oh I doubt it's 20 ghz instantaneous bandwidth
decimation: it probably has a ~100 mhz swept receiver
decimation: yeah this is one of those portable deals. You can give agilent at least 2-3x that for a high quality lab grade spectrum analyzer
decimation: asciilifeform - but to your point about bio stuff - that's probably why agilent is keeping the agilent name for the bio side of the new company
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decimation: I know, but they are going to spinoff again
decimation: "keysight technologies" will be the name of the new test&measurement division
decimation: "agilent" is going to go to the bio-bezzle company
decimation: in a proper technology company you would keep your high-end engineers busy building esoteric stuff, while their knowledge & expertise trickles down to other areas
decimation: pretty much anything miniaturized & high spec RF
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decimation: I wish I had access to a high spec metal mill
BingoBoingo: Fuck cnc. If you can't mill it with a Bastard File it isn't worth it.
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decimation: ascii did you use your laser cutter to make solder masks?
decimation: like the plastic that you put over the board so you can apply the solder paste?
decimation: yeah I guess a proper solder template is made of metal
decimation: on the youtubes people just use a squeegie
decimation: actually the best solution is probably a wave-soldering machine
decimation: I think you typically glue the components down first
decimation: yeah I guess if they aren't tight you are going to get alot of cold joints
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decimation: heh yeah the a/d converter next to the 'bodge wires' is only 40 MHz 12-bit
decimation: heh yeah, most of what you pay for is in the tracking oscillator
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decimation: what's interesting is how modular and easy to take apart this agilent device is
decimation: it would be fairly straightforward to disassemble & repair, unlike macbook air for example
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i see nothing in there that couldn't be milled on an ordinary desktop cnc machine. << this.
mircea_popescu: unless you're making rifles or something, you don't need it.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> heh yeah the a/d converter next to the 'bodge wires' is only 40 MHz 12-bit << wtf. so 20ghz is a scam ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but go make the die for shells with file. << women, diamond dust, fingers.
mircea_popescu: look at some of the examples of ancient gemcutting, you'll be impressed.
decimation: it's not really an oscilloscope, doesn't need to have 20 ghz of bandwidth
decimation: it makes an image of the spectrum, sampled over a period of time
decimation: typically you sweep from low to high frequencies of interest
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amorpous metal will process similarly, just takes longer
decimation: yeah that's why all the shielding (preventing logic spurious signals)
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mike_c: looks like its breakeven so far!
assbot: EEVblog #470 - Agilent N9344C 20GHz Spectrum Analyser Teardown - YouTube
decimation: hehe yeah those "pcb waveguide" filters are awesome
decimation: agilent still has a few "greybeards" who know RF
mike_c: nah, i seeded with MPIF funds :D
decimation: plus vast sums invested in engineering simulation software
decimation: I think agilent makes "genesis" which does exactly this
decimation: the max "resolution bandwidth" for the device is only 3 MHz, that's the width of its filter as it tracks over 20 GHz
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decimation: the sd slot is probably to store pretty pictures of the spectrum you capture
mircea_popescu: so "attention to detail" agilent is full of random wires lol
mircea_popescu: decimation since not populated nor intended to open i imagined it's factory diagnosis ?
decimation: yeah I just saw what you were talking about, the one in the middle of the board is to load new firmware
decimation: that way they don't have to slow down assembly line with firmware burner
decimation: yeah this video is unusally good for this guy, usually he just rambles at the camera for an hour rather than showing the goods
decimation: computers could be built this way, if people were willing to pay for it
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decimation: heh thru-hole parts with hand-drawn pcbs
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assbot: EEVblog #470 - Agilent N9344C 20GHz Spectrum Analyser Teardown - Page 3
decimation: " It's not unusual for the first couple of units to have components changed by designers who are not expert solderers just to prove that the mod works as intended. Once everyone is happy then some of these units become demo models, "
decimation: this was probably a demo unit, if the agilent sales guys gave it to him
decimation: I can't find any comments about the gaskets, youtube sucks
mircea_popescu: this is why if i managed him i'd only take final customer items.
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BingoBoingo: Futbol would be a lot more interesting if the World Cup's championship game was just Klose and Messi taking shots from the goal line for 90 minutes
decimation: I think the mu-metal is used to line the outer plastic chassis
mircea_popescu: diametric not bad. i like your guy better than the agilent guy
dignork: mircea_popescu: but x-ray!
mircea_popescu: What was not noticed much outside of Afghanistan, was that this shift in weaponry brought to an end a long Afghan tradition of precision, long range shooting.
mircea_popescu: this is bs. unless chinese made, a proper ak probably outshoots a worn-to-shit ww2 surplus bolt action
mircea_popescu: decimation "the half dozen or so men moved several hundred meters away and drew lots to see who would fire in what order."
decimation: afghanistan is the ideal long-distance shooting country
mircea_popescu: in that sense they need sniper rifles not frigging enfields.
decimation: well sure, but they have $100 to spend on pashtoon ak or enfield :)
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mircea_popescu: cazalla the disadvantage of running a neobee is that you get the "no news" people on your case
cazalla: mircea_popescu: there is a new exchange here in au, cointree.com.au, i emailed and invited them here, they were happy to meet for coffee or do a google hangout but no show here :\
dignork: the guy made a long film out of it, but he managed to turn it on, and then was brave/stupid enough to disassemble particle emitter
decimation: most good engineers would have alot of trouble figuring out circuitry from an xray (in a short timeframe)
decimation: now imagine what kind of chance the average airport mouthbreather has to figure things out
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decimation: Yeah I bet you need a good vaccuum too
assbot: Baggage X-ray machine part 6 - inside the black box. - YouTube
decimation: I was reading about the history of computers the other day ascii - early soviet machines were balance ternary!
decimation: I find that amusing, perhaps when the 'end of moore' comes, ternary computers will reappear
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decimation: and the american machines were already "new jersey" style
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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: There are still WWI era Springfields that are in nice shape, but with the Enfields... "British Industry" producers of fine cars that have a commonality with puppies in their leaving of puddles
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decimation: it's actually quite elegant, rids you of the need to come up with some silly signed integer representation
assbot: Wierd military computer boards - YouTube
BingoBoingo still dreams of "spider shotgun" shooting sub 0.1 grams of salt
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BingoBoingo: Plastic ratshot still messes drywall. Also... I want it for the challenge. Not smashing spiders with a weapon capable of felling a snake
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 20 @ 0.03660002 = 0.732 BTC [-] {2}
decimation: wonder how many backyard warriors are planning on killing the neighbor's kids while "defending" their home with an ak?
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nubbins`: i saw a video earlier of a 3d-printed composting shredder
BingoBoingo: Blackbag operation against the groundhog stealling all of the soon to be tomatoes last week was satisfying
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decimation: ascii those military boards you linked are apparently from a VAX!
decimation: yeah, the amount of extra work you have to go through to meet mil-spec for avionics, etc, why bother changing software?
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decimation: "The Defense Department has leveraged the buying power of more than two million information technology users to award a three-year, $617 million joint enterprise license agreement for Microsoft products, defense officials announced."
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decimation: the DoD was very clever in its spending of $0.6 billion for crapware
decimation: if only they would have seen the value they would have also purchased whatsapp for $20bn
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8324 @ 0.00078138 = 6.5042 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: decimation: And you suppose Facebook isn't a front how?
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mircea_popescu: <decimation> "The Defense Department has leveraged the buying power << lmao
mircea_popescu: any strippers in washington dc wanna do a home delivery ?
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BingoBoingo: Looks like I could do it round trip of a bit over 24 hours on I-70
benkay: <mike_c> can anybody recommend an irc bouncer. // emacs + mosh on remote boxx
mike_c: thx. i don't know anything about emacs yet.
benkay: it's okay for editing text
BingoBoingo: Life seems to be in a precarious position, once again thanks to life bombs launching damaging spaceships
benkay: mostly it's just a lispy wrapper around *nix runtime
benkay: whoa asciilifeform getting all religious
[]bot: Bet placed: 5 BTC for No on "World Cup top scorer to net > 7"
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benkay: more like semi sanitizing wrapper
benkay: poo stench still oozes through
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mike_c: BingoBoingo: you got a position?
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Just a little bit on death, less a bit on life
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kyuupichan: TheNewDeal: I believe it's kako, but I could be wrong
TheNewDeal: it's an address I see lots while scowering bitbet for my latest fortune
assbot: BitBet - Argentina beats Netherlands :: 50.07 B (60%) on Yes, 32.96 B (40%) on No | closing in 19 hours 35 minutes | weight: 28`366 (100`000 to 10`000)
kyuupichan: haha, that's a possibility, but I think he normally uses 1K4fs (or sthg similar)
TheNewDeal: which is basically 50 1K4fs vs 32.335 16tAo
kyuupichan: Right. Notice they were placed at the same time - making it highly likely they knew each other were going to bet. There was no public discussion. Hence my suspicion it's kako.
TheNewDeal: assuming 16tAo is kako, and 1K4fs is mp, how much does each make in the winning/losing scenario
TheNewDeal: how much would one recover from the losing side, considering they owned a large portion of bitbet shares?
mike_c: 1% * (percentage they don't own) - expenses.
mike_c: er, * percentage they do own i mean
TheNewDeal: true, looks like it would 1% or less of original bet
kyuupichan: Between them they own most of bitbet meaning they almost bet for free
TheNewDeal: not that I have a say in the matter :D
decimation: asciilifeform: I've been using org-mode recently, it is definitely a useful tool
mthreat: mircea_popescu: it's a mannequin at a restaurant (Filo) in retiro
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11600 @ 0.00078155 = 9.066 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18850 @ 0.00078043 = 14.7111 BTC [-] {2}
TheNewDeal: if you would like to purchase some timeweight from me, give me a holler
kyuupichan: Why do you reuse the address? Just curious.
TheNewDeal: don't feel the need to change it up often
kyuupichan: I guess it's useful for stats. Not very private though which is why I wondered why people do it. Maybe they just don't care.
kyuupichan: I wonder what it'd take to get BTC to 10k by 29 Nov. World financial crisis perhaps?
TheNewDeal: I don't think financial crises necessarily means boom for bitcoin
TheNewDeal: I think you would probably just need a bitstamp like company to go Mt Gox, have a bunch of fishy shit go down, and the other exchanges follow the lead
Duffer1: wall street level speculation imo
kyuupichan: 10k is quite a tall order in 5 mths though.
Duffer1: they'll price it at whatever the hell they want
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9249 @ 0.00078446 = 7.2555 BTC [+]
kyuupichan: Lloyd Blankfein turns believer and publicly puts $100m in BTC.
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to win vs S&P 500 :: 0.73 B (63%) on Yes, 0.43 B (37%) on No | closing in 6 months 5 days | weight: 97`197 (100`000 to 1)
TheNewDeal: S&P 500 is sitting at a fragile 1900 at the moment
kyuupichan: Yeah I think equities are looking a bit toppy
kyuupichan: Still I don't think BTC goes to over $2k this year now. I'd be happy with 1500
TheNewDeal: ahhh gotcha, I guess there is a grey area with indicies of equities
TheNewDeal: I would love to see it go towards $1500 this year, but I think next year is going to be a big one pricewise
TheNewDeal: for some reason I think this year is going to be meh
kyuupichan: Well the first 6 months have been pretty "meh". :)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31000 @ 0.0007849 = 24.3319 BTC [+] {2}
kyuupichan: I wonder if we'll ever be down year-on-year
TheNewDeal: I think the mt cox fiasco really messed with the price, wouldn't be surprised if we were sub 1200 by years end
Duffer1: the derp money ran face first into the bitcointalk securities scam wall
TheNewDeal: seems like that is going to happen a dozen times over
Duffer1: if bitcoin wants a capital draw then it will probably be porn and gambling leading the way
TheNewDeal: I also heard the black market of employment is increasing at a faster rate than that of typical tax-payer employment
TheNewDeal: wouldn't be too far-fetched to see people being paid in bitcoin, avoiding government taxation
TheNewDeal: wonder if the first underground economy was above ground or below
Duffer1: that would be hard to make auditproof without trustworthy mixing services
nubbins`: TheNewDeal, that's already happening all the time ;(
nubbins`: but anyway. great for unregistered businesses
TheNewDeal: great for the bitcoin economy. simply amazing
nubbins`: registered ones w/ employees probably aren't just going to start paying salaries with bitcoin and stop deducting income tax
nubbins`: however, businesses that are directly involved in btc
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7100 @ 0.00078043 = 5.5411 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40233 @ 0.00077679 = 31.2526 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10200 @ 0.000775 = 7.905 BTC [-] {2}
fluffypony: mircea_popescu:paging fluffypony. hey f, lay off teh womenz and irc more! <- he says at 1am :-P
fluffypony: actually that knives4bitcoin site is kinda cool, I'm just not in the market for anything atm
fluffypony: pity they don't have Fallkniven or Benchmade
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27150 @ 0.0007522 = 20.4222 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3650 @ 0.00075652 = 2.7613 BTC [+] {2}
kyuupichan: Is the leverage on bitfinex mostly long or short or pretty balanced?
cazalla: wow, sexysaffron already removed from youtube, i bet you andreas did this
cazalla: someone should, you know, kill him
pankkake: the video was public, with nudity. duh
cazalla: yeah but they usually last longer
cazalla: ISIS videos have been on there for weeks
ThickAsThieves: <+kyuupichan> Is the leverage on bitfinex mostly long or short or pretty balanced? //// there's a meter on the site
davout: ;;later tell mircea_popescu "it's gonna be 25-0 for germany" <<< implying netherlands won't buttraep argentina :D
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 59 @ 0.01609989 = 0.9499 BTC [-] {10}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 50 @ 0.01448 = 0.724 BTC [-]
davout: mpex.co down for everyone ?
davout: isup.me is down for me :D
davout: fluffypony: so is mpex down for you smartass?
assbot: MPEx, the Bitcoin securities exchange.
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davout: e-mail interface would be neat-o
pankkake: I was thinking of e-mail interface, it seemed ideal. except you'd probably want to set an expiration for the order
davout: pankkake: that for one, also linking orders to responses would be another issue
davout: that's actually the kind of interface i was thinking about when trying to figure out how to handle DDoS without cloudflare
davout: pankkake: interesting thanks!
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 50 @ 0.20278397 = 10.1392 BTC [+] {9}
FabianB: "12:49 <+davout> e-mail interface would be neat-o" <-- looks like the irc interface is down as well, so it's probably not the frontend server, it's the trade engine itself
kakobrekla: <pankkake> I was thinking of e-mail interface, it seemed ideal. except you'd probably want to set an expiration for the order < yeah i was thinking same yesterday
pankkake: the issue is that mails can sometimes be stuck for days
kakobrekla: yeah true that. only im not using email. but still, same thing applies
assbot: Some dude in r/soccer made the best bet of his life - Imgur
kakobrekla: but i was thinking in a sense - you submit your order via whatever protocol and there is some delay to response or it may never come
kakobrekla: basically regardless of which protocol you pick these things can happen
kakobrekla: so i guess giving it an expiration date fixes this in most if not all cases
pankkake: the other advantage is that you can wait for the return… and give up waiting after expiration
kakobrekla: mpex model is to requery stat and hope to see if its in
davout: pankkake: because answer got lost on the way
kakobrekla: yeah but i can see how time sync can also be problematic
pankkake: hm, right, you cannot be sure of that too
davout: mircea_popescu: they're the guys who give the balls to robben
assbot: BitBet - Argentina beats Netherlands :: 50.07 B (60%) on Yes, 32.96 B (40%) on No | closing in 11 hours 28 minutes | weight: 20`762 (100`000 to 10`000)
mircea_popescu: kyuupichan: Right. Notice they were placed at the same time - making it highly likely they knew each other were going to bet. There was no public discussion. Hence my suspicion it's kako. << kako only has 31.35 btc.
mircea_popescu: kyuupichan: I wonder what it'd take to get BTC to 10k by 29 Nov. World financial crisis perhaps? << lol. no, actually, any one of about a million or so people could do it today.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1: they'll price it at whatever the hell they want << haven't managed it so far, no. if only it were that easy.
mircea_popescu: so it seems we're having further problems with teh disks.
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 66 @ 0.01621653 = 1.0703 BTC [+] {4}
kakobrekla: hm, internets say theres liek 7mio millionaire households in usa alone
davout: germany scoring 7 goals against brazil isn't that bad
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well yes but someone can't put all their net worth into btc.
davout: they won 6 million to zero against israel back in the day
ThickAsThieves: Zack Danger is like, fuck, i gotta mail so many bites of potato salad...
kakobrekla: all i can say it isnt me. which is also what i would say if i wanted to you think it isnt me. so whatever.
ThickAsThieves: just a random note, isnt the bitbet website kinda small, by today's resolution/monitor standards?
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: I'll bet he gets into trouble with some countries for trying to import food to them
ThickAsThieves: i just realized ive had it zoomed way in, cuz the WoL ad is all blurry
pankkake: I have a narrow browser, because it's easier to read
pankkake: those 1920 screens are stupid :/
fluffypony: PRAISE ALLAH WITH MY RIGHT-ALIGNED SITE
ThickAsThieves: how is bitbet sposed to be the furst biggest if so small?
davout: kakobrekla: no actually the terrorists do right align
ThickAsThieves: to be fair i have more than half my websites zoomed in
pankkake: funny how many hipsters' websites have big fonts, yet those guys are young with big glasses
pankkake: ThickAsThieves: I use NoSquint, configurable zoom per website
pankkake: no, never felt the need to zoom it
pankkake: though it definitively is easier on the eyes with 110% text-only zoom
kyuupichan: Public Note: bitcoin is harmful ponzi scheme, it will collapse soon, satoshi nakamoto is devil.
kyuupichan: Why TF does bitstamp put all their coins in one huge address? Doesn't seem the smartest plan.
kyuupichan: It's ironic the two largest BTC addresses are coins held in custody for others
pankkake: why would more addresses be more secure?
pankkake: what's the other largest address?
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> why would more addresses be more secure? << one address can't be in two wallets.
ThickAsThieves: more gears, more can break. less gears, when it breaks, it's worse.
pankkake: right; but the point shouldn't be more addresses, but more holders or locations
kakobrekla: question, do make withdrawals from that addy or they move the whole thing?
kyuupichan: That cosmic ray that does a bitflip between you pressing enter on the password and the software signing the txn
ThickAsThieves: i'd guess it's cold storage and only tapped into when hot wallet is abnormally low
assbot: Pantera Capital Launches Pantera Bitindex, States Venture Capital Will Drive Bitcoin Growth – Digital Currency Magnates
ThickAsThieves: The research report also announced the launch of the Pantera BitIndex. Measuring seven data points, according to Pantera Capital
mircea_popescu: under the very flimsy - VERY flimsy - excuse that they aren't really this stupid, they're just trying to cater to the stupid.
mircea_popescu: this sticks until you actually get to know them financial minds, and find out that yes, they are actualy that
pankkake: so pantera is going to invest in companies, not coins?
ThickAsThieves: USD falls today due to decreased github developer interest!
nubbins`: landed a job making t-shirts for my favourite sushi restaurant :D
pankkake: anything's better than fiat. I have not had much success yet though
pankkake: say, I could be paid in hard drives
pankkake: I don't need that much ssds. or I would be very very well paid if I moved everything to ssds
fluffypony: they've now secured ALL OF THE FUNDINGZ
mircea_popescu: seeing how you then don't need a warehouse anymore, just a lot.
mircea_popescu: asic miners are also the eminent tool for this. an isp can't do it because customers wil want upgrades etc
fluffypony: it seems nice from a visual perspective, all these shipping-container-modules
fluffypony: but it doesn't seem to be a very clever use of space
mircea_popescu: but i was trying to sell a sysadmin friend on the concept of ironman isp, doing something quite similar.
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fluffypony: mircea_popescu: if you want to expand I think grabbing an existing warehouse and expanding within the warehouse is eminently more manageable, both from expansion and security perspectives
pankkake: perhaps having your mining farm mobile can be an advantage
fluffypony: pankkake: not when "mobile" needs 3-phase power
mircea_popescu: fluffypony who's going to steal from a steel container ?
mircea_popescu: you need machinery for that, not really the same as backing in some pickup trucks.
mircea_popescu: also you have to steal the whole thing. if people had to steal the WHOLE old lady, they a) couldn't use bikes and b)wouldn't be bothered.
pankkake: perhaps you want to quickly change the state you operate in. because power costs, laws…
mircea_popescu: pankkake course i see thsi was announced 2006. my idea was cca 2002 :p
mircea_popescu: pankkake plus you get unexpected bonuses. such as parking one in every trailer park in the us.
mircea_popescu: least ddos-able miner farm ever (which currently is the major problem)
pankkake: do ddos the farm, you'd have to know what ips they have. pretty easy to hide from the public
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: seems like that is going to happen a dozen times over << im hoping about 5 (of which 3 already happened. 2 moar reserved for WCs)
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: wouldn't be too far-fetched to see people being paid in bitcoin, avoiding government taxation << inasmuch as you've seen this like... yesterday ? yeah.
Mats_cd03: are miners generally vulnerable to ddos?
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mircea_popescu: cazalla: ISIS videos have been on there for weeks << yeah but who ever cared about that :p
Mats_cd03: jihadis have a flair for the dramatic. ends up with p good war porn
assbot: Un rapport pour encadrer le Bitcoin remis par TRACFIN Michel Sapin
pankkake: the state is "somewhat worried"
Mats_cd03: do miners necessarily have to be vulnerable to ddos? i cant say i understand how mining works in depth
danielpbarron: a miner doing 51% can take a ddos; any others would not be able to make the longest chain without up-to-date blockchain data
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron this being the most dangerous part of someone getting 51% : he now has a serious incentive to ddos the world.
nubbins`: but apparently pornhub and similar sites have been flooded with uploads of the germany-brazil game
davout: pankkake: thanks! so apparently it's due on friday
mircea_popescu: all he needs is to constantly kick the 2-3 closest competitors off the block. a la mtgox-tradehill
nubbins`: "young brazilians get fucked by entire german football team" etc
nubbins`: they had to ask people to stop, claiming their public humiliation category was full
☟︎ kakobrekla: there is a log? oh my god mircea, i think i love you.
ThickAsThieves: "@BTCFoundation hires Thorsen French as outside lobbyists. Part of the appeal was they weren't invovled in past financial services battles"
ThickAsThieves: Altcoin currently has more votes than GroinCoin at hitbtc.com/vote
chetty: ThickAsThieves, experience? whats this are you racist or smthn
mircea_popescu: "part of the appeal was that having no experience and looking for exposure, they didn't actually want to be paid"
pankkake: I suppose you can pay for votes?
rithm: omg where 2 buy realcomins!!!!!
ThickAsThieves: but it does say theyll list if there are 2 market makers
assbot: Conditions for Market Makers / hitbtc
mircea_popescu: so as a mpex update : all 8 drives + the raid controller are going to be cut up. replacements are going in. mpex won't be back today, but i expect it to be back tomorrow.
☟︎ ThickAsThieves: dont forget to tweet that all our bitcoins are safe too
mircea_popescu: but yes, bitcoin has nothing to do with this, this is the trade engine.
pankkake: so you don't want to ask for your twitter account back?
pankkake: they have not invented the unban-for-pay yet
pankkake: well, for now redditards think they accomplished something
mircea_popescu: which i guess is good for reddit, in some perspective.
pankkake: 0 is 0 - I'm not arguing that you should twit, twitter is an useless website for useless people etc.
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> they made twitter an iota less relevant. < just like a drop of shit can ruin a bottle of wine, a drop of wine doesnt fix the bottle of shit, ya know.
mircea_popescu: pankkake you know, that account is old. i had a two year or so gap in there, some time they "upgraded" their website.
pankkake: what am I arguing for is, show them they accomplished nothing
pankkake: twit "Hail ISIS, behead Roger Ver and Andreas Whatshispoulos"
mircea_popescu: pankkake why should it be upon me to educate other people's children ?
mircea_popescu: let them think whatever they wish, they'll stil get killed if they step on the line.
mike_c: isn't that what you're doing here?
mircea_popescu: i mean, i don't in any sense mind if it happens, but it's not a goal.
chetty: best goals = ones you don't have
mircea_popescu: so should i buy some APCs just in case argentina loses and then it's argentina-brazil for 3rd place ?
indiancandy1: did you see the game got put on pornhub young brazilians get fucked by entire german soccer team
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mircea_popescu: all this fucking insistence on how it's scientific and standardised and everything makes me suspicious already.
ThickAsThieves: we looked at energy and decided we need to be smart about energy
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nah it's this supposedly major deposit in dakota, upgraded from 3bn barrels to 7bn,
los_pantalones: they put a pipe in a 3 ft wide layer of rock 10k feet below ground
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones they still holding on to that gulf moratorium ? or did that go away
nubbins`: "unproductive" is dynamic anyway
nubbins`: there was a time when western canada's tar sands were unproductive
nubbins`: they tried fracking inside a UNESCO world heritage site here last year
nubbins`: everybody freaked the fuck out, now there's a fracking moratorium
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mircea_popescu: fucking dangerous these things, because people are tards and don't properly balance them
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 33 @ 0.0153515 = 0.5066 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 50 @ 0.01401 = 0.7005 BTC [-]
assbot: Epic Forklift Fail Compilation Part 2 - YouTube
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 40 @ 0.01638889 = 0.6556 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 40 @ 0.01401 = 0.5604 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 38 @ 0.0160001 = 0.608 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.75509789 BTC to 11`739 shares, 14951 satoshi per share
benkay: <mircea_popescu> TheNewDeal what's an asshole in the dark. // huh i coulda sworn you were talking about the differences just recently
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [ROCK] 1000 @ 0.00085105 = 0.8511 BTC [-]
jurov: wow is this second longest mpex downtime ever?
chetty: <jurov> yeah mpex seems to eat disk drives
Mats_cd03: with the added cost you get faster io. i bet mpex isn't io bound
mircea_popescu: jurov: wow is this second longest mpex downtime ever? yea.
Mats_cd03: wear leveling TRIM silent and catastrophic failure modes etc
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 the only problem with ssds is that they're more difficult to properly decomission
assbot: "Will It Blend" Series Tests Patriot Flash Drive for Durability - YouTube
Mats_cd03: mircea_popescu: owing to what is basically two layers of raid?
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 well yes, for one thing they're in a 1+0 raid. for the other thing it';s not like i'm letting them reach the end of wear levelling
mircea_popescu: higher end drives have good diags on the drive anyway.
kakobrekla: the problem of that video is that its not full enough
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kakobrekla: tell me what you gonna get out of that phone
mircea_popescu: so what, im going to ask for oceanview in my provision spec ?
kakobrekla: anyway blending and proper disposal of dust = win
mircea_popescu: currently i wanna find out what the holy shit is happening tho, because this ain't normal.
pankkake: Mats_cd03: modern ssds give detailed SMART data, and have far less returns than hard drives. moreover, scrubs and rebuilds of RAIDs are much faster
pankkake: hard drives used to have that premium 5 year warranty, it's gone down to 3 years, while premium ssds now offer 10 years
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nope as in nothing shows up on measurements.
mircea_popescu: pankkake Mats_cd03 i was on the ssds suck technologically bandwagon for many years. the past few however it's pretty much groundless.
assbot: Fixing a Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drive
pankkake: the only issue with a SSD is a security one. if you use full disk encryption, you have to consider that the "change key" operation might leave a copy of the old key in the spare area
pankkake: I don't mean private key, I mean the metadata block. i.e. what luks does
chetty: convenient tends to = risky
Mats_cd03: so encrypt swap with a random key?
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pankkake: it just means I cannot change my key securely, and have to rewrite the data. so what?
chetty: <asciilifeform> if insist on convenient, just go to enemy & surrender.<<+1
Mats_cd03: does LUKS even default to including metadata? iirc it was plain format
assbot: Researchers crack the world’s toughest encryption by listening to the tiny sounds made by your computer’s CPU | ExtremeTech
mircea_popescu: Girls Around Me is a simple app that takes your location, and then queries Foursquare and Facebook’s location APIs to find any girls (or boys) that are geographically close. You’re then shown a map, powered by Google, with faces (pulled from Facebook profiles) pinned to it.
mircea_popescu: colinistheman wb. so, mind getting in the wot so i can get bb his knife ?
mircea_popescu: "send me three at 48th and 9th." " with girls or without ?" "umm bob... your gf coming ? uhh... ok, two with one without please"
colinistheman: I added 15 new knives today. They are at the bottom of the page when it's set to "unsorted"
assbot: first_steps_in_bitcoin-assets [bitcoin assets wiki]
colinistheman: this series of instructions is a little overwhelming
jurov: colinistheman you can start with btc addy
jurov: but gpg is basic education around here
jurov: yes btc addy has privkey and can sign things
mircea_popescu: btc is like, yu know, the car. it doesn't exist out of a vacuum. if yu want to be a decen mechanic, and even to be a good driver
gribble: Time since last block: 8 minutes and 22 seconds ago
mircea_popescu: you'll have to know about things a little under the hood, like encryption
chetty: well at least learn to change a tire before you get behind the wheel
colinistheman: ;;eregister colinistheman 1CLoPNdpVwRcTovEu1JCsuD9aQ2riXWLAS
gribble: Error: '1CLoPNdpVwRcTovEu1JCsuD9aQ2riXWLAS' is not a valid GPG key id. Please use the long form 16 digit key id.
gribble: (bcregister <nick> <bitcoinaddress>) -- Register your identity, associating bitcoin address key <bitcoinaddress> with <nick>. <bitcoinaddress> should be a standard-type bitcoin address, starting with 1. You will be given a random passphrase to sign with your address key, and submit to the bot with the 'bcverify' command. Your passphrase will expire in 10 minutes.
colinistheman: ;;bcregister colinistheman 1CLoPNdpVwRcTovEu1JCsuD9aQ2riXWLAS
gribble: Request successful for user colinistheman, hostmask colinistheman!~colinisth@unaffiliated/colinistheman. Your challenge string is: freenode:#bitcoin-otc:9177b607b37f4d96238bb085f90659242452a37931b87d554336aa9a
colinistheman: it's in the instructions, but the instructions do not show the command ;;bcregister
jurov: cuz all underground levels got claimed?
mircea_popescu: i can probably identify employees by the age old "distance to gate" metric
mircea_popescu: i can probably use the satellite pics to uncover the entire lift of employees.
mircea_popescu: anyway, in sum, if i were co there i'd fire myself over this pic.
colinistheman: ;;everify [freenode:#bitcoin-otc:9177b607b37f4d96238bb085f90659242452a37931b87d554336aa9a]
gribble: Error: "freenode:#bitcoin-otc:9177b607b37f4d96238bb085f90659242452a37931b87d554336aa9a" is not a valid command.
colinistheman: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:9177b607b37f4d96238bb085f90659242452a37931b87d554336aa9a
gribble: Error: No outstanding encryption-based request found.
colinistheman: ;;bcverify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:9177b607b37f4d96238bb085f90659242452a37931b87d554336aa9a
gribble: Error: Authentication failed. Please try again.
colinistheman: I am honestly confused as to what I am doing right now
jurov: this doesn't look like btc signature
colinistheman: ok I will have to give this more attention and try again later
jurov: didn't you just publish your privkey?
colinistheman: ok I will have to give this more attention and try again later
assbot: Bitcoin address authentication - bitcoin-otc wiki
mircea_popescu: colinistheman this is pretty much the only thing you could be doing that's worth your time.
rithm: shhhh mircea_popescu don't lie to the guy
mircea_popescu: you know what the vietnamese fisherman working for two rice patties a day said ?
fluffypony: colinistheman: pity you sell shitty knives
rithm: colinistheman but sderiously registering an identity is super important
rithm: no one will take you seriously
fluffypony: just the normal crap that Americans buy because they read it was good on /r/survival
assbot: Knives4Bitcoin.com - German Damascus VG-10 Knife, Speed Assisted A/O Large Folding Knives Pocket G-10
rithm: until you give gribble a handjob
fluffypony: colinistheman: anything with Damascus steel is fun, but that doesn't mean it has a movement that will withstand abuse
rithm: oh so spam is the game
colinistheman: any steel can be abused. obviously you have to know how to take care of your knife.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yes - the original method is no longer known, but the modern equivalent is still pretty awesome in terms of how it keeps its edge
colinistheman: it's also made with high carbon steel so it holds the edge better for that reason as well
colinistheman: 1095hc is a good steel. you have to keep it oiled tho
rithm: what about leaving fresh blood on the blade?
rithm: is that a lubricant or oxidizing agent?
rithm: i wasn't sure thanks!
colinistheman: but its ok to use them as long as you clean them up
rithm: stop joshing around
assbot: Speculative Attack | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
mircea_popescu: Second, they misunderstand how strong currencies like bitcoin overtake weak currencies like the dollar: it is through speculative attacks and currency crises caused by investors, not through the careful evaluation of tech journalists and 'mainstream consumers'.
colinistheman: if I feel adventurous in setting up all this stuff later I'll be back. g'day!
rithm: ya''l scared him away
mircea_popescu: i like how people keep pretending like they got an option and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: anyway, all our friend needs to do now is look up to see who's doing the speculative attacks against the dollar and he'll be like i dunno... five steps ahead of the crowd ?
assbot: Texas lawyer sues Tor for providing tools used by revenge porn site | The Verge
mircea_popescu: ima fall over myself laughing if the us navy ends up paying this guy
assbot: So many places I wish I could be now. Buddy's bachelor party. NRA annual meeting. AmRen conference. But alas, low on funds :(
mircea_popescu: don't worry assbot. you're here with us and that's ass that matters.
assbot: Dispatches from the Revenge Pornography War
benkay: <mircea_popescu> i wonder why this is a common mistake // it turns out that making interfaces that normal humans find intuitive is actually hard.
mircea_popescu: in this case the problem seems to be that ;;bc stuff is never mentioned explicitly.
mircea_popescu: was about to bitch about it, but then i realised there's wisdom in moiety's terseness.
benkay: interface is education
mircea_popescu: let the lazy have extra chances to self humiliation, it's a good selection exercise.
benkay: and seriously - use gpg.
benkay: it's not like your .gnupg dir will expire, unlike your wallet backups.
benkay: 160 hours a week in the paddy
chetty: something very wrong when you are too busy to stretch your mind
mircea_popescu: "If a node gets hacked there are only a few ways it can impact the system, but it can’t force good nodes to accept forged transfers. Generally, individual bad nodes will quickly be automatically identified and expelled from the consensus pool."
rithm: dude it's cooler than bitcoin it's hyper
mircea_popescu: "Bobynin's voice rang like metal on metal. 'I can see the difference between you and me: you need me, but I don't need you.'"
rithm: What if there are two ledgers with the same name in different pools?
rithm: This is an open question up for discussion
assbot: I can no longer have even the smallest association with the Bitcoin Foundation, because of the complete lack of transparency
fluffypony: it took him this long to realise that?
mircea_popescu: can he stil have association with neobee ? anyone asked him yet ?
rithm: can i ask for a refund for my bitcoin foundation donation
rithm: i'd like to take that back
mircea_popescu: rithm lots of dumb things you can't take back. way the world goes.
rithm: superman did it that one time
benkay: that entropic gradient...
mircea_popescu: also known in romanian as "copilu' minune minca gem si caca prune"
nubbins`: drinking wine and pissing grape juice
assbot: Hamas: We attempted to hit the nuclear reactor in Dimona | JPost | Israel News
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 16 @ 0.0372999 = 0.5968 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: i wonder what these people think hitting a nuclear plant will do.
mircea_popescu: i mean unless they've got actual bunker busters they're no treaching the core. so...
assbot: ANTITANK ROCKETS ARE FIRED AT FRENCH NUCLEAR REACTOR - NYTimes.com
nubbins`: more of a make-work project than an attack
fluffypony: ;;later tell darlidada everything seems to be working 100%, need your email address to create the user account for you - let me know
Mats_cd03: iron dome paying dividends; thanks uncle sam
nubbins`: so i printed some nice big 18x24" posters today
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
Mats_cd03: im sure hamas'd have better luck pointing rockets at power stations
nubbins`: almost looks like we know what we're doing
mircea_popescu: woa dude you look old. i always saw you as this peter pan sorta 22 yo
nubbins`: in fact, that french rocket attack article was published 10 days before i was born ;o
nubbins`: alf, i bet you've got quite the collection of books in your study
assbot: Q&A: What You Need to Know About Attacks on the U.S. Power Grid - Corporate Intelligence - WSJ
nubbins`: "We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them." -John Waters
Mats_cd03: tl;dr cooling room filled with bullets, station subsequently fails to cool, suspects utilize AKs and cover of darkness to circumvent shit security
nubbins`: right, isn't this the reason a solar flare or w/e could fuck us all royally?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i much prefer clueless-ignorant women to misguided-ignorant women.
mircea_popescu: someone with no books i'd fuck. someone with a shitton of "social studies" and assorted crap published the past century i definitely wouldn't
mircea_popescu: but i'd count it as a major personal failure if i somehow ended up going home with them in the first place.
assbot: GMO Mosquito Trial Has Reverse Effect, Causes Dengue Emergency
nubbins`: friend of mine had dengue, no fun
benkay: we were noodling on the homegrown EMP this morning.
gribble: Time since last block: 8 minutes and 41 seconds
benkay: funny how gribble's not returning the website's #1 result for that.
assbot: Fed Sets October End for Bond Buying - WSJ
mike_c: sort of end. they are still going to buy bonds with interest on their existing bonds.
mircea_popescu: what im curious is, what tiny nation will suddenly be buying 50x its gdp worth of us bonds this autumn
mircea_popescu: it should have been sa if they weren't such annoying shitheads forcing the best country in thr world to rely on their 2nd pedo choice.
mircea_popescu: hk would have also been great, except... problems. maybe it can be arranged for japan ?
HyperChetty: <mircea_popescu> what im curious is, what tiny nation will suddenly be buying 50x its gdp worth of us bonds this autumn//the caliphate
mircea_popescu: with the saudis money, if they get that far ? perhaps.
indiancandy1: im on mfc and this guy just shot his load in his own mouth
mod6: mircea_popescu: it's tied nil-nil, @ 75 min
mod6: didn't see, just caught score.
mircea_popescu: Stalin had looked on with approval and malicious delight as Hitler had overrun Poland, France and Belgium, as his bombers had darkened the sky over England. Molotov had come back from Berlin thoroughly frightened; agents reported that Hitler was transferring his forces eastward; Hess flew to England, and Churchill had warned Stalin of an attack. Every jackdaw in the woods of Byelorussia and on the poplars of Galicia h
mircea_popescu: ad shrieked war. Every peasant woman in every market-place in Russia had prophesied war day in and day out. Only Stalin had remained unperturbed.
mircea_popescu: o wow, so i'm not the only guy to have noticed stalin's boyish infatuation with hitler ?!
mod6: how about sharpies?
indiancandy1: i have a pic on my phone i wish i culd show u its a girl taing a selfie
indiancandy1: with a burka but the reflection of the mirror shes got a g string on
mod6: mircea_popescu: on the near miss, it sounds like someone kicked it into the side of the net around the 75 mark.
mod6: 30 minutes of extra time now, if still scoreless, i guess they go to penalty kicks
Mats_cd03: i wish it was unarmed single combat
mod6: to break the tie? i agree, penalty kicks are a shitty way to end a game.
benkay: "U.S. stocks rebounded after a two-day slide, as the Federal Reserve's meeting minutes soothed concerns over a potential increase in interest rates.
benkay: how does slowing down bond purchases imply a not increase in rates?
gribble: Current Blocks: 309995 | Current Difficulty: 1.6818461371161112E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 310463 | Next Difficulty In: 468 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 2 days, 19 hours, 39 minutes, and 45 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 17093222021.8 | Estimated Percent Change: 1.63368
ThickAsThieves: benkay i'm pretty sure i just read an article that said the opposite of what you just pasted
ThickAsThieves: assuming the opposite is probly at least slightly closer to reality
mod6: extra time is over, penalty kick time
mod6: Argentina wins by pk's
mircea_popescu: methinks im gonna go out in a bit and check out teh nuttery.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> how does slowing down bond purchases imply a not increase in rates? << iwannabelieve.jpg
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 155 @ 0.03452288 = 5.351 BTC [-] {13}
assbot: Why isn't there a switch or case statement in Python?
assbot: PEP 3103 -- A Switch/Case Statement
mike_c: the real answer is worse: "A quick poll during my keynote presentation at PyCon 2007 shows this proposal has no popular support. I therefore reject it."
mike_c: that's a herp and a derp.
cazalla: indiancandy1: can you put the keyboard on your head?
mike_c: i don't mind no macros, and i'm surprised you like them. macros are the death of readability.
mike_c: there are better ones?
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: When did you stop having a Twitter account?