BingoBoingo: "I would encourage you to finish before the majority of your committee members retire. (seriously.)" << Roflmao, I know a between one and two hand full of countable fingers of these people.
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mircea_popescu: anyway, very merkley??? looking shit, except minus either the talent or the interest
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mircea_popescu: lol so people bought >1k btc worth of ethereum at 2k each btc , instead of buying 1k btc worth of ethereum at 5k each btc ?
bitstein: Well I'm amazed by any purchase of Ethereum, so...
mircea_popescu: o wait, they're all sent off the same software which simply substracts the same mining fee from the txn ?
BingoBoingo: Wait, there's a wallet thing that does that?
mike_c: isn't ethereum a wallet or something?
mike_c: also, it's possible they didn't know about the better offer yet.
BingoBoingo: Then it will pretend to be a something before becoming a nothing again
mike_c: da fuck am i thinking of? mycelium, etherwhoizt. what the fuck is that node-less wallet thingy?
mike_c: jurov is a big fan. unless i dreamt all this.
mircea_popescu: mike_c right, because nobody with any btc reads the logs, or reddit, or twitter.
BingoBoingo: Ah. Electrum wallet (split into online and offline components like armory) plus one's own electrum server actually doesn't seem like a bad wallet solution atm
mike_c: well, are you proposing that there is no longer significant # of btc in the hands of idiots?
mike_c: i didn't think we were there yet.
mike_c: BingoBoingo: yeah, it didn't seem completely retarded. i had attached some of that feeling to this ethereum thingy. didn't realize it was just a complete nothing.
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Yeah, a big problem in this space is still sound/look a like names.
mircea_popescu: mike_c in this case, the only significant amount of btc is in the hands of the idiots trying to fraudulently prop an ipo scam visible from the moon, in some sort of misplaced delusion of legal immunity.
benkay: mircea_popescu: d'you recall what gmaxwell's all butthurt about?
BingoBoingo: Well, it was just last week the link dropped here of an aspiring HYIP scammer who lost a whole BTC to malware he though would let him cheat a pasted together gambling site.
benkay: just wondering what fine print he failed to read.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo a whole btc. not a succession of 5.997 2.997 etc etc.
benkay: having failed to read my fair share of fine print in the past.
mircea_popescu: benkay o, i don't imagine his recent derpage has any substance to it, merely him trying his best at crafting effectual calumny.
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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, this whole ether huffing thing smells just like the mastercoin "sell coin now" and then "release anything eventually"
mircea_popescu: obviously the fact that time has meanwhile proven my points doesn't in any sense help.
BingoBoingo: ;;rate gmaxwell -1 Likely UnSavoryGarnish, Plant
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mircea_popescu: but anyway, this isn't in any sense a dispute pitting flaming social justice warriors and other braindamaged kids trying to make the world "liberal" a la copumpkin against cold hard reality.
mircea_popescu: this is a dispute where a consumate gofer (ie, gmaxwell) is trying to veer their naivity into some sort of political relevance for himself, gets called out and then stomped out.
benkay: BingoBoingo: is this ether coin a btc fork or...
mircea_popescu: much like the life of andreas derpopowhatever, except two years earlier
benkay: BingoBoingo: still no software then i gather
mircea_popescu: which shouldn't be surprising : anyone can be a very ambitious failed painter or w/e mediocrity.
BingoBoingo: benkay: Not that they've released. Apparently the presale ether goes in their genesis block
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mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> What was Hearn's nick? << i don't recall he ever managing to figure out the gpg arcana. i imagine he'll first have to implement a google code version, that doesn't work.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ah, I though I'd give him the "UnsavoryGarnish, Vegetable" ninjashogun and gmaxwell earned
BingoBoingo: But if he didn't submit himself to civilization
BingoBoingo: I guess that people will have to read other places that he is suspected of being the lead USG plant
mircea_popescu: not the sort of thing that really needs to be read by too many people anyway.
mircea_popescu: it's going to do great things in novel ways just as soon as someone does it.
mircea_popescu: copumpkin lol, lol, but how about you go count female heads in otc and here ? just for lulz.
copumpkin: busy eating some hand grasp bread I just made
benkay: <mircea_popescu> benkay well so far it's really an urbit fork. // vaporware fork XD
benkay: at least urbit had code in the wild, has ether achieved that yet?
benkay: nubbins`: hit the lawyer turn off the gym, facebook up?
copumpkin: mine isnt as beautiful as that one
nubbins`: benkay i know all the verbs you just used
nubbins`: i'm trying to see if i can make a business case for buying one of these cd duplication machines
BingoBoingo: Fuck it, Imma walk over to the county fair and grab some chikin livers to go with this vodka
nubbins`: but they're fuckin cheap. like under 3btc
copumpkin: hell, I can't even remember the last time I handled physical media
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copumpkin: that's cause nobody else wants them either
nubbins`: reason i'm wondering is we got a job producing cd jackets etc for a band, and we're printing on the discs
dub: complete wiht engrish++
nubbins`: started humming about actually duplicating them too
dub: this is my new favorite blog
benkay: <bitstein> Somewhat related, I'm working on an article about how merchants are just scammers trying to swindle you out of your bitcoins. // i'm starting to like you
copumpkin: so much good chinese food never leaves china
copumpkin: it's a pity people only eat general tsao and such
mircea_popescu: nubbins` lawyer is a noun. get it ? A NOUN. you don't want it to sue you.,
midnightmagic: you just have to know a chinese person. I got some great stuff smuggled out. :-D
dub: i want chinee food now
copumpkin: in fact, anything with szechuan peppercorns
dub: theres a place up the road that does that bread and og dumplings
mircea_popescu: i never got into chinese. sushi i like, indian lamb i like, but chinese... hm. what's it even for.
dub: but im too hungover to drive
copumpkin: that's cause it's an amazing ingredient
midnightmagic: there are some weird salts that are hand-mined and prepared in china too. They highlight one in a show called "Taste of China".
dub: im gonna have to man up and put some pants on
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic it's not "salt scraped off forced labouring prisoners sweat" or something is it
dub: mircea_popescu: just the balls
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: lol no, but its extraction is hugely labour-intensive.. same as lots of things in our world that have disappeared because nobody's willing or able to go to the effort anymore
dub: hey now, no need for racis
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic but i mean... salt is salt, right ? it forms deposits, acertain way. why labour intensive ?
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: pure salt is. The impurities give it the weird extra flavours. I mean some I'm not cool with. There's this weird black salt that has a lot of sulphur in it.
mircea_popescu: they even market all these miracle-curing sulphurous mineral waters.
BingoBoingo: I'm back, mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo grab a chick'n while at it. << How does that saying go... "Don't shit where you eat"
dub: Put to wok,add a spoon oil,cook until two side become yellow.OK!
dub: if yan can cook then so can you
midnightmagic: my mistake the show is called "A Bite Of China" but damned if I can find the episode now :)
mircea_popescu: honestly, i'd be kinda loath to take bites out of china.
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> they even market all these miracle-curing sulphurous mineral waters. < been to such place, saturnia in italy.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla there's one in romania and i think somewhere in serbia ? or maybe it was albania
midnightmagic: There's a spot near me where the hotsprngs have naturally-occurring lithium in them.
midnightmagic: it's horrible literally being unable to move faster than a walk after sitting in those waters too long
dub: is that good for you?
midnightmagic: i didn't know until afterwards that the water was contaminated. they sell it as a health spa.
midnightmagic: "what the fuck is wrong with me" *sluggish zombie-movement*
kakobrekla: Mataruška Banja? Havent been but need to check it out sometime.
dub: they give lithium in cases of extreme psychosis
BingoBoingo: dub: Not just then, low dose lithium can work well for a person when their brain is just running a little hot.
BingoBoingo: dub> they give lithium in cases of extreme psychosis << Also they don't really give lithium much for psychosis anymore which is a shame considering how well it works...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo stop opposing research and job creating funding in research and SCIENCE and global warming.
mircea_popescu: we're trying to build a great future here and you gotta throw simple element wrenches into the windows
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo stop opposing research and job creating funding in research and SCIENCE and global warming. << I'm fighting marketing. Just because pharma doesn't want to compete with Tesla's 1337 battery factory doesn't mean that there are better uses for those salts than motor carriages and iBortions.
mircea_popescu: psychoactive lithium is not complex enough. progress is complexity, to oppose complexification is to be antisocial and terrorist.
BingoBoingo finds it interesting that in a few years on patent Atypical Antipsychotics will dry up, and the next pivot isn't apparent on the horizon yet.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo seeing how well the current stuff works, they can just patent borax glass and give that to people.
BingoBoingo: Come on, there's nothing more complex than the cascade of mystery meat that happens when lithium displaces sodium in the gap and raises action potential
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, The Last Psychiatrist had all of those wonderfully illustrative Seroquel articles about complexity in the right places, but... Tis off pattent nao
BingoBoingo: TLP's rum fountain analogy in those articles is probably the best popular science writing this century so far.
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nubbins`: nice middle-of-the-line cd duplicator is maybe $1500
nubbins`: realistically could charge about 50 cents for the duplication of one cd
nubbins`: which means 3k cds duplicated before i can stop worrying about breaking the thing
nubbins`: just happened to be making some cd cases for a band and they wanted discs printed, idly wondering if we'd want to duplicate em too
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ok, how many do you figure you'll make and on what basis do you so figure ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla's idea goes a long way towards that. "3k, cause they're prepaid"
nubbins`: it's hard to say because a lot of bands are doing vinyl or download cards these days instead of cds. ballpark guess, might get 1000 cds duped over the next year
mike_c: and exponential decrease every year after
kakobrekla: at this point - might be more $ to be in the floppy biz.
nubbins`: you can also get dupe towers, with one master drive and say 5 burners
nubbins`: this is a silkscreen printing studio, not a cd dupe centre
nubbins`: just looking for a fresh perspective, glad to see we're all in agreement 8)
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: How many Cd's do they need duped?
nubbins`: i'd say at this point, more stuff is being released on cassette here than cd
mircea_popescu: nubbins` this is like, groupthink. no fresh perspectives allowed here.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` but srsly, if you can get a vynil press you can sell to all the hippies
nubbins`: almost every vinyl pressing house in canada outsources to this one factory in czech
mike_c: really? shipping is worth it?
nubbins`: they do direct-to-metal digital masters with this crazy machine
nubbins`: supposed to be a one-of-a-kind setup
nubbins`: name an a-list band, their vinyl is pressed there
mircea_popescu: the last existing top hat factory was destroyed in a family dispute coupla decades ago
BingoBoingo: Nubbins 2k cd minimum order I could set up cd production with artisinal hand labeling ~ 8.7 BTC and handle the remaining on a print on demand basis. 6 week turn around for the first batch.
nubbins`: BingoBoingo i don't think many bands here would be into a 2k minimum ;(
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo there exist no indie bands which can afford a 10 btc expenditure on life saving surgery
nubbins`: mircea_popescu you forget, this is canada
mircea_popescu: nubbins` anyway, the only way to do this is, make the whole studio, force-sign the bands, work them like slaves.
nubbins`: maybe i'll just stick to printing
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well I figured I'd throw a quote out there just in case some "band" has parents with more coin than sense
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo those kids go for mbas, new cars and bumps off teenage asscracks.
nubbins`: one of our regular customers was awarded a $10k grant last year to record an album
mircea_popescu: nubbins` wow socialist utopia. was the album actually made ?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: yeah, i've got a copy somewhere
nubbins`: it was their third album, first one paid for by someone else
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: The 2k minimum is to avoid the situation where they buy exactly the number of cd's they have friends to pester and need pod cd's twice a month for a decade.
nubbins`: that's the thing about grants, you get blacklisted if you don't produce (a) your work and (b) your receipts
nubbins`: and nobody wants to get blacklisted, 'cause ain't nobody but the government giving out free money
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I've had classmates with "farm money" talk their parents into covering their Film School, Mary Jane prescription, and subsequent X-mas DUI's. Weirder things happen in fiat land.
mike_c: not so free for the people they took it from
nubbins`: mike_c, our benevolent overlords see it fit that we should be entertained with fresh music
nubbins`: and so we gladly oblige, purse in hand
mircea_popescu: mike_c stop opposing progress and an end to oppression.
mike_c: hey, it's better than how our gov't spends its money..
nubbins`: i mean, really, it's not the band that gets the $10k
mircea_popescu: im not sure if shitty contemporary bands should be given 10k in grants to derp quietly in a corner at their craft or just be medicated worth 10k for possesion.
mircea_popescu: canada hasn't had a good musician since cohen visited and the us...
nubbins`: it's everyone they hire to do shit for them that they used to have to do themselves
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mike_c: wait, was that a meta-insult?
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: What happens if by next March 15th, the Ethereum network isn't sufficiently functional for you to be able to deliver Ethers to the people who take you up on your offer?
mike_c: "i'm too drunk to list irish problems"
mircea_popescu: justusranvier amusingly, in that case the contract'd be void.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, it'd be an explicit clause limiting such cases, obv.
mircea_popescu: in any case, one generally buys a future if they expect the thing to work well, not to fail.
mircea_popescu: if you buy a future and the thing fails there's many ways to put it, but they all boil down to "you're screwed".
justusranvier: They might have value as collector's items 30 years from now.
mircea_popescu: the aliens might land five minutes later and declare that anyone can have super hot alien blowjobs for a eth each
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But then the aliens burn in hell for coming from the wrong earth
justusranvier: "Vintage Ether units. Mint condition - never used."
mircea_popescu: i happen to be party to the first and oldest actually executed short, incidentally. you ever saw it ?
BingoBoingo: I wonder if ethereum ethers will suffer from the problem classical ether does where explosive peroxide crystals form.
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decimation: asciilifeform were you tired of breathing laser-combustion byproducts?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Therapeutic envelope is indeed very narrow. 0.4 to 1.2, toxic depending on the patient starts at 0.8 to 1.4
decimation: asciilifeform if you aren't making stencils with laser cutter, what are you making? custom circuit-board etchings?
BingoBoingo: But, on the plus side interactions with other drugs are minimal
BingoBoingo: Seriously though, calling these things competing in the tractor pull "tractors" is an insult to the idea of useful machinery.
decimation: lithium & warfarin are famous for narrow theraputic index
BingoBoingo: decimation: Warfarin is a bit different. Warfarin has an antidote.
mircea_popescu: btw, since i've been reading my old romanian bitcoin articles, landed on some gems. anyone remembers vladimir's asic ?
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decimation: asciilifeform don't you need to refigerate solder paste?
decimation: I guess if you do a batch at a time you use it up
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decimation: too much variance in the dispensed amount?
decimation: yeah, plus when it runs out it will spatter I suspect
decimation: yeah you almost want to push it out with water or something, except that would dilute the flux
decimation: generally in that application you don't care about drool or spillage
decimation: x turns of screw gives repeatable amount?
decimation: plus no drool because it acts as a valve
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decimation: you would need a tiny auger screw though?
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decimation: "This is ?type 3? solder, which allows solder balls of up to 45 ?m in size, where 99% of those particles are below 38 ?m. "
decimation: that's a pretty small gap to close off
BingoBoingo: County fair week has to be the worst week, why does a sled need 8 gallons of engine displacement to pull another sled full of weights?
dub: my wood pellet burner ingests its food with an auger
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dub: its a bit buggy with the pellets, thinks its jammed and refuses to start around half the time
dub: smart way to isolate fuel store from the hot bit
dub: yeah, dust caked around the sensor oslt
dub: theres an appendage on the front of it that runs through middle of the screw which you pull out and wiggle to get it going again
dub: it would be a problem if I used the automation bits but its not annoying enough to start pulling it apart
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22327 @ 0.00081115 = 18.1105 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1300 @ 0.00080893 = 1.0516 BTC [-]
shesek: I actually have no idea what this channel is for - I saw it mentioned on Reddit and joined in
shesek: the website doesn't really say much, either
BingoBoingo: shesek: Well, this channel is kind of like the pipefitter's lounge, but for serious bitcoiners instead of pipefitters.
BingoBoingo: Not necessarily serious in general mind you. Just serious in Bitcoin.
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BingoBoingo: Azelphur: It looks like you've worked quite a bit on Electrum. Familiar at all with documentation for the server component?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32400 @ 0.00080277 = 26.0097 BTC [-] {4}
Rassah: I think "our monkey brains" are largely influenced by societal norms, and bitcoin will "hack" some of those norms just as other technologies and science discoveries have...
BingoBoingo: Rassah: Actual brain hacking is much harder than it first sppears
BingoBoingo: At least with the prepaid model if the carrier pisses you of, the shredder is a viable solution to device difficulties
nubbins`: so in the wedding planning world, a "save the date" card is a thing
dub: was wondering wtf you are on about until I noticed you said you pay to recieve traffic (wtf?)
nubbins`: it's like an invitation, but subtly different
nubbins`: it's sort of like a pre-announcement
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Not for the privacy part, for the billing tyranny
BingoBoingo: They do indeed charge both ways, but it is still at least half the price of actual service.
BingoBoingo: Often cheaper than [Insert President] Phone plans
dub: it'd be cheaper for me to buy a burner with sim included than just sim
dub: still only $20-30 with some credit included
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm starting to get curious. Do you really get that many SMS spammers?
kakobrekla: ascii your service provder is selling out to spammers ? tried switching to another ?
dub: now that I think about it, I once bought an LTE modem with sim and $50 credit for $50
BingoBoingo: Last SMS spam I got was 3 phone numbers ago
dub: nothing, no contract
dub: right, it wouldnt cost
dub: dubistani specific one
dub: theres a sim in mrs dubs ipad that hasnt had credit on it since.. whenever ipad2 dropped 3+ years? still registers on the network fine
dub: its standard product
dub: no, its a burner sim
dub: im banned from usa in fact :)
dub: not that I would want to go back
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If you want pure cell phone and SMS service Carlos Slim's Tracphone is the cheapest option
BingoBoingo: Next cheapest and my current option is AT&T go phone
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Their sims are very device locked
kuzetsa: I guess assbot shares the same database as gribble, neat
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But device cost is low and every similar device must be treated as a turd anyways
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: For asciilifeform> we're talking about a gadget that powers up and sends a single 'sms' every blue moon. << You can pay $ int every year.
BingoBoingo: For the cost of keeping a phone alive on the network I dunno of anything cheaper than Tracfone in the US
dub: satphones have prepay options iirc
dub: cost probably negates benefit, and you'd need sky
cazalla: re: salt, what is it with chinks and magic salt, had missus bff coming around with himalayan salt trying to scam me under the guise of it being great for baby
dub: idk, I recall a theory that abnormally high iodine levels in the japanese contributes to their well above average longevity
dub: (most western table salt has iodine removed)
cazalla: they add it to salt, bread etc etc here
cazalla: actually, bread is folic acid, yet these women don't have babies
dub: along with all manner of soy poisons and cow extracts
dub: ;;google cows in the bread
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Every living thing of note uses folate
BingoBoingo: About as close as Bio gets to having a level 0 standard
cazalla: i won't pretend to know much about it other than what i said, law states they must add it to bread here, marketed to help the fetus yet women aren't falling pregnant, sounds more like a marketing pitch - here's a donut with folate, any excuse to buy it
dub: like fluoride, its all about reptillian seeding
mircea_popescu: <dub> not that I would want to go back << omg #bitcoin-extradition
nubbins`: <+dub> (most western table salt has iodine removed)
mircea_popescu: <dub> idk, I recall a theory that abnormally high iodine levels in the japanese contributes to their well above average longevity << fukushima makes sense nao.
dub: funnily some time in teh 90's as I recall they started not taking it out and advertising as iodized
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dub: I have a similarly gatsby themed one on my fridge
nubbins`: is yours a real invite or a pre-invite?
dub: this is an invite but i've had pre-invites before
dub: not uncommon here but I don't really get it
dub: if you know when, why not skip straight to the invite proper
nubbins`: i struggle to understand living a life so bereft of meaning that blowing your wad on a $50k one-off party is the culmination of your aspirations
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5089 @ 0.00080051 = 4.0738 BTC [-]
nubbins`: i mean, y'know, wedding invitations for sale
dub: been to a couple of weddings involving several thousand dollars worth of international travel and accom for the guests, one of those had a save-the-date (STD?)
dub: since such things are frequently cheapest booked earliest
nubbins`: oddly enough, this job came to us via a trendy downtown ad agency
nubbins`: asciilifeform please join steve and kristy as they ritually disembowel themselves! transportation to and from event provided
dub: asciilifeform: expense of travel may be offset by reduced attendees, one couple claimed to have saved considerably
nubbins`: it was the only thing on the gift registry that i felt comfortable buying
dub: he is one of 14 kids
dub: sorry, his mother is
dub: upshot, 90% of his family couldnt make it
benkay: <mircea_popescu> mike_c stop opposing progress and an end to oppression. // hey have you guys heard about this ICBC auto insurance monopoly in BC?
benkay: nubbins`: is there an auto insurance monopoly in your corner of the great untamed communist north?
benkay: what else do you want?
TheNewDeal: it's just like the game - no one cares about the ending, it's how you get there
benkay: pediwiki: "By law, any vehicle registered and driven or parked on public streets in British Columbia must purchase ICBC's basic insurance package from an independent broker. "
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell danielpbarron Checking out my KoL inventory... What sorts of uncommon things might you be interested in pricing...
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, there are so many items.. if you could get a screenshot or something..
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Well, time trappings, the whole outfit.
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, you might be better off selling it in the mall; I'm not really interested in buying stuff for BTC, if that's what you meant
danielpbarron: with the time trappings, the key is to use a wand to transform them into whatever item is selling for the most
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Well, meat or BTC. I'd rather keep the trio together. TIme limited content and all that.
danielpbarron: 20:43:11 <+mircea_popescu> why do all the supposed payments end in .9997 ? << if it's anything like the counterparty burn for xcp, the software puts a limit on 1 BTC per burn, and their reason was to make it harder for whales to burn a huge amount too easily (to make it "more fair" for the little guys)
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, if you're getting back into playing, the time set is a nice thing to have; it's one of the most efficient ways to get extra adventures per day
danielpbarron: you can get more efficient by ditching the hat and pants for other stuff, but the sword is the best hand held item for that purpose (i think)
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: It was indeed a nice pull from storage, but... Everything in this world is negotiable... And the set together has an added bonus
danielpbarron: right, what i mean is, you can exceed that bonus with other gear, but we're talking about a difference of a few adventures per day
benkay: asciilifeform: regarding pumps, would a peristaltic work?
benkay: ;;gettrust assbot Rassah
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benkay: ;;gettrust assbot kuzetsa
benkay: kuzetsa: uses gribbles db, actually. if you've got a +1 from someone in assbot's wot, you can self-up as you've discovered.
benkay: light coupling, wot wot
benkay: <dub> if you know when, why not skip straight to the invite proper // this is what happens when you let the wimmins manage projects without oversight
benkay: <nubbins`> i struggle to understand living a life so bereft of meaning that blowing your wad on a $50k one-off party is the culmination of your aspirations // that's why they demand consummation immediately afterwards, to keep the void filled
benkay: asciilifeform: 'burping'?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 39 @ 0.0131 = 0.5109 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20591 @ 0.00080065 = 16.4862 BTC [+]
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BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Ah, I see the time set declined in value as well due to competitive alternatives existing nao
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, yeah; the petrified time item is worth a lot more now since it's impossible to reverse the conversion
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Well, it was always worth more than any part, but... Back in the say the set used to be a 100+ million meat sort of deal
BingoBoingo: Fuck, BTC would have been a better investment
danielpbarron: my hemp backpack lost a lot of value when they implemented the back inventory slot and released an official mr. store style backback :<
danielpbarron: went from nearly 100 million meat down to 30 something million now
nubbins`: oh, you're talking about a game
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: On the plus side ignoring the thing for 6+ years means there's new content nao at least
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Didn't you get the memo that BTC is money for games?
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: BTC is the game that binds all other games
nubbins`: you're saying these things are MONEY?!
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Nah, I'm saying games are connected by games nao.
danielpbarron: i sent Jick a message for him to answer on his podcast, telling him he should accept BTC for Mr. A's; he shot it down and mostly focused on the "tone" i used
danielpbarron: then I started trying to buy/sell meat for BTC in the game's official chat; got a message from Multi Czar telling me i'd get my account disabled if i continued..
danielpbarron: even though their terms of use don't explicitly forbid buying/selling meat
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 15 @ 0.16 = 2.4 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Well, think more like mircea_popescu and what he did with Eve. You can trade shares of 1BTC corp for S.MPOE shares. Maybe start a 1BTMeat clan?
danielpbarron: i've got the counterparty thing; i think that is far enough removed from the act of buying/selling meat
danielpbarron: most users of KoL are pretty hostile to BTC anyway; there is a very strong socialist bent in there
BingoBoingo: Eh, most times you encounter a mass of people they will be opposed to you. That's what the whole girding your loins stuff in the old books is about.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 212 @ 0.00274866 = 0.5827 BTC [-]
Naphex: hey all o/ back from vacation
Naphex: been on vacation in ibz for 1 week
Naphex: tried to be disconnected
Naphex: pretty fun and amaizingly nothing happend while i was gone :P
Naphex: got to sunbake, drink and party some for 1 week
fluffypony: Etherium presale already over 3000 BTC
fluffypony: "- We reserve the right to use up to 5000 BTC from the pre-sale while the pre-sale is running in order to speed up development."
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 16 @ 0.15730001 = 2.5168 BTC [+]
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moiety: hi naphex, wb, hope you had a great holiday :]
Naphex: hey moiety, thanks - I did :D
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 390 @ 0.15450349 = 60.2564 BTC [-] {19}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 192 @ 0.00272396 = 0.523 BTC [+]
assbot: Im crying with joy over here, my toes are curling in untold glee, I have little doubt that I shall live to see this, all of it. : Buttcoin
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 358 @ 0.00144581 = 0.5176 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 273 @ 0.00256402 = 0.7 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 26 @ 0.02890175 = 0.7514 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19323 @ 0.00080673 = 15.5884 BTC [+]
BigBitz: Guest73329 has something to say - apparently :)
Guest73329: Hey all. Theymos automatically bans anyone who posts his dox on bitcointalk.org -- to demonstrate simply paste
http://pastie.org/9414192 in a reply, and your account will automatically be banned.
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BigBitz: Banning people who post his own private information is not that much of a shock, Guest73329.
dub: considering all the other shit theymos will go up against the wall for..
Guest73329: pankkake: He's absolutely OK with all dox except his own.
davout: was the new mpex key advertised anywhere ?
dub: new domain? only here that I noticed
dub: (i think its an artifact of mp having fucked up DNS for the old one somehow)
dub: its where the new key is, I assume that is signed
dub: the mpex key should be signed by mp
jurov: not in the faq, but on the keyserver
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ThickAsThieves: mircea_popescu:thickasthieves feel like running whatever that is ? /// what is what?
ThickAsThieves: mircea_popescu:canada hasn't had a good musician since cohen visited and the us... //// Propagandhi, Neil Young, Greg MacPherson, The Weakerthans
fluffypony: Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber
ThickAsThieves: mircea_popescu:BingoBoingo i saw some on tat's link too /// ah, it seems my post was simply moved from /r/bitcoin, a mod even posted he was mad at all the non-bitcoin-related posts yesterdya
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ThickAsThieves: "- We reserve the right to use up to 5000 BTC from the pre-sale while the pre-sale is running in order to speed up development." lol so were they gonna just sit on their thumbs otherwise?
punkman: I liked this part: "EthSuisse will be liquidated shortly after creation of genesis block, and EthSuisse anticipates (but does not guarantee) that after it is dissolved the Ethereum Platform will continue to be developed by persons and entities who support Ethereum, including both volunteers and developers who are paid by nonprofit entities interested in supporting the Ethereum Platform."
ThickAsThieves: why did etherium wait so long to sell this anyway, their hype is like 6mos old already
punkman: "WARNING: DO NOT PURCHASE ETH IF YOU ARE NOT AN EXPERT IN DEALING WITH CRYPTOGRAPHIC TOKENS AND BLOCKCHAIN-BASED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS"
ThickAsThieves: and the team says they will liquidate without hesitation and leave the work to the community at will
ThickAsThieves: punkman i quote dthat same line yesterday, a great one
punkman: this ToS of theirs is full of gems
punkman: "It is possible that the Ethereum Platform will not be used by a large number of external businesses, individuals, and other organizations and that there will be limited public interest in the creation and development of distributed applications. Such a lack of interest could impact the development of the Ethereum Platform and potential uses of ETH. "
ThickAsThieves: lol they also warn of victimofsuccessery "If the Ethereum Platform is rapidly adopted, the demand for ETH could rise dramatically and at a pace that exceeds the rate with which ETH miners can create new ETH tokens. Under such a scenario, the entire Ethereum Platform could become destabilized, due to the increased cost of running distributed applications. In turn, this could dampen
punkman: "ETH, the Ethereum Platform’s cryptofuel"
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.15 = 0.6 BTC [+]
ThickAsThieves: the solar system we got is officially making more than we are using :)
jurov: someone has hyperactive imagination there
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ThickAsThieves: "I realize that the costs of these things will rise—prices always rise. It would just be nice if our salaries rose enough to pay for them." wish harder.
ThickAsThieves: pankkake i cant even suss what that article ia actually about
pankkake: mainstream media prepping the general public for inflation
ThickAsThieves: TLDR = Inflation and Babies Happen and Here are Some Words Saying So
ThickAsThieves: wow i'm scrolling through these Money articles on time.com and it
ThickAsThieves: "These 3 Companies Can Raise Prices Without Losing Your Business"
ThickAsThieves: "Free Jamocha Shakes at Arby’s on Wednesday" (dafuck?)
ThickAsThieves: "How to Convert a Summer Internship Into a Full-Time Job" (work for free plz!)
pankkake: we're having it all here. deflation would be catastrophic, there's not enough inflation, lowering prices is bad (currently used to forbid competitors and favor existing cartels)
ThickAsThieves: "Save 15% of pay for 30 years and you will be fine, a new study shows. Save for longer, and it gets much easier."
cazalla: whyareyousobutthurt = pankkake, right? :P
pankkake: cazalla: yes, it's the account I have at work
cazalla: only cause i saw that time link here and then 2 seconds later on reddit heh
cazalla: pankkake, i eagerly await the day coblee turns from saint to pariah
chetty: ThickAsThieves, you dose with bicarbonate to read things like time.com?
mircea_popescu: dub: this is an invite but i've had pre-invites before << wtf is this invite to invite, ask to ask, meta bullshit anyway ?
mircea_popescu: do they send out "mr schmukersson will impulsively fuck mrs schmukersson thursday, august 15th around 7:12 pm, your presence is kindly solicited" spam too ?
pankkake: uh, I got some altcoins to 1MPGRCrbib3aFGtTCLF5nADZcLEAgdTu7E
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mircea_popescu: benkay: hey have you guys heard about this ICBC auto insurance monopoly in BC? << kinda why i was so lulzed out at the entire "icbc is in pink sheets" nyse debacle.
mircea_popescu: that thing's probably worth more than the whole us atm.
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mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: << if it's anything like the counterparty burn for xcp << supposedly this is not a burn, they intend to spend it.
mircea_popescu: benkay: this is what happens when you let the wimmins manage projects without oversight << word, seriously. and you should see what happens when you let them manage kids w/o oversight.
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mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: i sent Jick a message for him to answer on his podcast, telling him he should accept BTC for Mr. A's; he shot it down and mostly focused on the "tone" i used << incredible the gall of these fuckwits.
mircea_popescu: here's nobody doing nothing, and he has like... opinions on bitcoin and issues with tone and whatnot ?
mircea_popescu: chetty yeah, the guys asked for permission to republish
chetty: <mircea_popescu> benkay: this is what happens when you let the wimmins manage projects without oversight << word, seriously. and you should see what happens when you let them manage kids w/o oversight.// yeah you get adults
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: "- We reserve the right to use up to 5000 BTC from the pre-sale while the pre-sale is running in order to speed up development." << funny they didn't reserve it before the fucking thing started.
mircea_popescu: translation : "that asshole mp is putting pressure on our liquidity providers (what, you didn't think we OWNED the btc we're presenting as having been invested by third parties ?!) and so we won't be able to keep the charade up without recirculating some capital. sorry!"
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mircea_popescu: "Dear lord this is absolutely fucking grade-A insane. I had to read that first paragraph 4 times just because I just couldn't believe somebody would ever intentionally write something so convoluted. And it doesn't improve as the paper continues. In all seriousness, this reads almost exactly like the deranged manifestos that are left behind by school shooters, that is the vibe I get from whatever the fuck you want to ca
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there you go. it was not stalin's fault. the people wanted, nay, the people needed it. all of it.
mike_c: sometimes this channel is a sausage fest. save the date's are very reasonable. you don't have all the details figured out, but you know the day and don't want people to book something else.
mircea_popescu: "A verbose and condescending essay written by a child who has never encountered true malice or been hungry in his whole life." << o, "you've never been hungry thus what you have to say is unimportant". because yeah, that's true value : to find out from the frequently hungry how they dun it!
pankkake: > I work in the adult comic industry and we sometimes publish furry comics (anthropomorphic people) and we frequently get taking down by banks and payment processors for distributing "bestiality."
mircea_popescu: mike_c how do you know the date if you don';t have other things (presumably, the girl ?) figured out ?
pankkake: oh god, furries coming to bitcoin
mircea_popescu: afaik it goes like this : pick a girl, pick a date, party.
Pierre_Rochard: chetty: please let us know if you have any other candidates for republication
mike_c: no. 1) pick a girl. 2) she picks the date
mike_c: 3) she starts planning for 6 months
mike_c: who would want to marry a girl?
mike_c: full-grown woman is enough to manage.
mike_c: mircea_popescu: tax benefits.
mircea_popescu: trying to fix a problem with the town through marriage is not unlike trying to fix poor reception by holding the antenna in certain ways or a malfunctioning computer by running the tap nearby.
chetty: <Pierre_Rochard> chetty: please let us know if you have any other candidates for republication// trilema is a gold mine
mircea_popescu: davout: was the new mpex key advertised anywhere ? << in faq and linked here.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard the SA reddit subsection thinks you suck nao.
davout: mircea_popescu: yea, saw the link here but i was missing the signature bit
mircea_popescu: it's signed itself (there's a link to the pgp sks infrastructure with my signature on it)
mircea_popescu: a nm jurov said so. sorry, im parsing the logs rather than compiling them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how about this btw ? when confronted with the logs, i naturally settled on parsing rather than compiling. is this because im stupid or is this beause parsing is better ?
benkay: low investment upfront for middling-to-poor performance.
Pierre_Rochard: chetty: it is, I’ve been reading through as much as I can to see which articles are especially crypto/econ/bitcoin centered like GPG Contracts (and obvs to learn & think)
mircea_popescu: i go through it one ;line at a time and comment. sometimes this results in redundancy
benkay: wait ethsuisse? waht is this?
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mthreat: asciilifeform: the first IBM PC had some kind of relay, you could access it with the BASIC instruction "MOTOR ON" or "MOTOR OFF". If you turned it on and off in a loop, it was a buzzer.
cazalla: pankkake, that address is what BingoBoingo gave me to send ATC
mthreat: asciilifeform: I don't remember, maybe, but it sounded like a relay...
pankkake: well, he has the private key, but I have it too. not smart :p
mircea_popescu: pankkake: mainstream media prepping the general public for inflation << precisely.
mthreat: asciilifeform: cassette drive motor possibly
mircea_popescu: nothing lulzier than watching teh propaganda machine trying to spin utter failure into being chic, hip, and what these blasted youngsters want.
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> well, he has the private key, but I have it too. not smart :p << omg BingoBoingo WHAT HAVE YOU DUN NAO
pankkake: unfortunately there's no easy way to remove an address from bitcoin-qt
pankkake: and armory has a "swipe" feature, too
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: Sexy Saffron appears to be parlaying it up << the sign of a smart girl. you only need give a little push.
nubbins`: where i come from, you're not cool unless your money is worth less today than it was yesterday
mthreat: nubbins`: that's a lot of places
mthreat: starbucks raised their prices in Buenos Aires again yesterday. Since December 2013, the coffee I get has gone from 30 to 44 pesos
fluffypony: Pheeva put a TV ad out, it's actually kinda decent:
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mthreat: mircea_popescu: because i don't know good vs. bad coffee probably, and it's the 2nd closest after Cafe Martinez (probably worse)
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mircea_popescu: mthreat i've never paid more than about 25 or so for coffee myself, and never had a bad cup yet.
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mircea_popescu: had some pretty good, not much of a coffee drinker myself, but i mean... they prolly import their shit.
cazalla: i wouldn't use pheeva on account the dev is fat albert
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mthreat: mircea_popescu: I get the "venti" (20oz) size
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Pierre_Rochard: princessnell: thanks! mircea_popescu: permission to republish? In general longer/older/timeless articles go to the literature section, shorter/newer/“current events” go to the Memory Pool.
nubbins`: mthreat: do yourself a favor and stop drinking charbucks
nubbins`: you may be surprised to learn that coffee has a taste
cazalla: hipster baristas up in here
nubbins`: crikey mate, you have hipsters down under?
cazalla: i live in the capital of hipsters, feminists, greenies in australia :\
nubbins`: knowing what i know about you, this must drive you to the brink of suicide each day
cazalla: nubbins`, i'll out and see them do it first
nubbins`: "i live in a place with stylish young people, independent women, and those who care about our natural environment. it's a real drag."
cazalla: they are none of those things though
cazalla: if they cared about their environment, they'd at least grow veg and raise their own meat at bare minimum
nubbins`: just like you're not a reasonable adult worthy of dignity and respect... to them
cazalla: if they were independent, they wouldn't need handouts while undertaking women's studies
cazalla: although if you asked any of them, they'd tell you i'm running rabbit auschwitz here
nubbins`: you know raising meat animals in the first place isn't particularly great for the environment
nubbins`: hm, china received $34m in foreign aid from canada in 2012
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cazalla: china and russia given aid, shows how little i know
mike_c: "So more economic growth (spurred on by more borrowing and spending) would help alleviate low wage growth" .. and i'm done.
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ThickAsThieves: "Before he started college, he spent most of his time reading and writing short stories. Three years later, he’s painfully insecure, worrying about things my public-educated friends don’t give a second thought to, like the stigma of eating lunch alone and whether he’s “networking” enough. "
pankkake: “Return on investment”: that’s the phrase you often hear today when people talk about college.
pankkake: college graduates are bagholders
benkay: <chetty> <mircea_popescu> benkay: this is what happens when you let the wimmins manage projects without oversight << word, seriously. and you should see what happens when you let them manage kids w/o oversight.// yeah you get adults // team effort, anyone?
nubbins`: the stigma of eating lunch alone
nubbins`: i tell ya, worlds you didn't know existed
benkay: <mircea_popescu> <pankkake> well, he has the private key, but I have it too. not smart :p << omg BingoBoingo WHAT HAVE YOU DUN NAO // yeah, i'm also curious as to what's going on here
pankkake: I gave the private key to MP at a time I wasn't sure I could even transfer the coins in a timely manner
pankkake: so the private key is now known to multiple people
pankkake: and in multiple bitcoin clients
bitcoinpete: benkay: my hands are still stained from the autumn leaves glaze
benkay: this rescanning the blockchain thing is a total bitch, isn't it?
bitcoinpete: benkay: but for it being my first time on the wheel in a close to 15 years, quite well :D
benkay: what, after all, is the point of a "database" if one's not going to actually organize data in a useful fashion within?
benkay: <pankkake> unfortunately there's no easy way to remove an address from bitcoin-qt // delete from wallet.dat? or is that not actually a text file?
ThickAsThieves: bitcoinpete, unless i need more coffee, mp isnt allowing people to short ETH, he's allowing them to long it
pankkake: there are tools to edit it, though
benkay: what an unmitigated goddamned disaster.
benkay: <princessnell> Pierre_Rochard also probably WoT lit // woterotica
benkay: 'cept the classic popescuian naked short
benkay: 70% odds it's a naked short.
ThickAsThieves: i still dont see how I get to short ETH by entering MP's future offer
benkay: mp's going short, and offering to sell the thing to anyone at a future date below what it's selling for now.
benkay: if mp's going short, how can you go short by taking the other side of his trade?
benkay: who's claiming that he's offering a vehicle for others to short?
pankkake: I think that's incorrect too. it allows you to get a better price if you're long, or MAYBE short it as long as you think it's won't go as low as 2.5x less
ThickAsThieves: bitcoinpete says "Effectively, MP is allowing you to “short” ETH."
benkay: oh, bitcoinpete does derivatives now?
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benkay: pankkake: "credit suisse" perhaps?
ThickAsThieves: or, i think bitcoinpete is cool so i dont want to see him have errors in his shit
benkay: -assets proofreading is best proofreading.
benkay: devops borat would approve
benkay: it's almost like you use a real text editor too, bitcoinpete!
bitcoinpete: "to short" sounds so much better than "to long"
bitcoinpete: ;;rate ThickAsThieves 1 drinks coffee, knows derivativespeak
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benkay: to take a long position
ThickAsThieves: i'd say you could almost short it if you bought real ETH, sold off-market for slight discount, then repurchased from MP, but you'd still be betting only on the availble spread, if price dropped below MP's offer, your short would be fukt ... even then they tell you cant do anyhting with the ETH til genblock is made... soooo
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benkay: ThickAsThieves: scammor
bitcoinpete: the smart kids will be all over mp's offer
benkay: what's smart about buying ether?
benkay: wine with shit in it is still just shitty wine
bitcoinpete: benkay: beats me, ask the *kids* buying the shit
ThickAsThieves: you could argue that the noob hypewagen is strong enough to carry ETH value above MP's offer
mike_c: but shitty wine at half price!
benkay: i guess a hedge against ether going somewhere isn't such a bad idea, but it totally fails the good investments criteria.
benkay: starting with not actually existing.
benkay: it's just the whole "i missed btc, maybe this will make me rich" self delusion alllllllll over again.
ThickAsThieves: i think the best part about the offer is it's potential to disrupt the live offering
pankkake: if you look at similar coins, like nxt and ripple, they're still valued quite high
benkay: vb & co. imagine they're actually doing something, but they're just draining the wallets of latecomers
ThickAsThieves: i'd love for people to be buying from MP instead of the actual people
benkay: "quite high" sure, but are they going to go from .01 US per to 10k per?
bitcoinpete: ThickAsThieves: they still need the patience tho
bitcoinpete: 8 months is 8 years for "i wanna rich nao" ppl
pankkake: benkay: not my point, my point is about taking MP's offer
bitcoinpete: ThickAsThieves: maybe if they were camgirls
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benkay: pankkake: yeah, i know what you're saying. this discussion hearkens back to a thing a wise old man harps on about how if you can have the patience to see past the next 6 months to two years you can make trades the rest of the market won't consider because they want 17%/annum *now*
ThickAsThieves: Sexy Saffron better not tell reddit she's an mp employee
bitcoinpete: asciilifeform: also how herschel tricked one of the channukah goblins. eggs in the jar iirc
pigeons: hey mircea_popescu I havent followed, but i saw you are selling eth foward contract or similar. I wanted to suggest putting something similar on mpex, i think that would do well
benkay: asciilifeform: even if they could reimplement the thing from scratch, it still wouldn't touch btc proper.
benkay: and they can't "let go of banana" and write a real wallet, adding value to the ecosystem.
pigeons: oh dont tell me mpex is still down from weeks ago?
benkay: .co works as well for me iirc
pigeons: go isnt working at the moment from my location at least
bitcoinpete: Nassim N. Taleb @nntaleb · 38m Up to 19thC, people in the Levant changed religion to stay in the land. Today they change land to keep religion. (Druzes⇒Maronites⇔Shiites) << sounds downright civilized
bitcoinpete: asciilifeform: but that'll never get teh community on board. teh views!
benkay: actual programmers being few and far between.
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benkay: <benkay> actual programmers being few and far between. // not to imply anything about myself, ofc just a derpy webapp guy
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bitcoinpete: "SEC To Complete Rules Aimed at Reducing Money-Fund Risks: Plan Would Allow Money Funds to Temporarily Block Investors from Withdrawing Money in Times of Stress"
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benkay: hohoho yes link please, bitcoinpete
assbot: SEC To Complete Rules Aimed at Reducing Money-Fund Risks - WSJ
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 23.66675304 BTC to 1`149`988 shares, 2058 satoshi per share
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bitcoinpete: trixisowned: myeah. almost passed mastercoin exodus thing of 4740.6200979 BTC
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benkay: "The vote ends more than five years of struggle over how to address structural vulnerabilities in the funds that encourage investors to bolt at the first sign of trouble." LTCM anyone?
ThickAsThieves: "Financial Stability Oversight Council, have said such redemption restrictions could spur, rather than curb, investor stampedes." indeed
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 9 @ 0.1411 = 1.2699 BTC [-]
ThickAsThieves: "Under the plan, fund boards would have the discretion to impose redemption fees of up to 2%, or to temporarily halt redemptions altogether, if their weekly pool of cash or cash like assets drops below the agency's required ratio of 30%"
gribble: Current Blocks: 312136 | Current Difficulty: 1.733631697850783E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 312479 | Next Difficulty In: 343 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 2 days, 7 hours, 37 minutes, and 17 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 18789848431.7 | Estimated Percent Change: 8.38432
mike_c: is mpex.co going to get fixed ever? or is it just dead.
mike_c: ok. so .co isn't coming back
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 49 @ 0.01425 = 0.6983 BTC [-]
bitcoinpete: benkay: <mircea_popescu> mike_c stop opposing progress and an end to oppression. // hey have you guys heard about this ICBC auto insurance monopoly in BC? << i think only bc is socialist enough to do this
bitcoinpete: with their own little movie industry and everything
lobbes: the problem I have with weird al nowadays is that I don't even know the songs he is parodying anymore
bitcoinpete: lobbes: sounds more like your problem than his ;)
nubbins`: how's it compare to rates in the rest of canada?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 407 @ 0.00277422 = 1.1291 BTC [+] {7}
danielpbarron: weird al was the first artist I ever bought a cd for; I heard his parodies before the originals
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 341 @ 0.00284852 = 0.9713 BTC [+] {6}
empyex: pankkake: Proxies: mpex.ws mpex.bz mpex.coinbr.com MPEx-Status: 1060 milliseconds Current MPEx GPG-Key-ID: 02DD2D91
empyex: benkay: 561 milliseconds
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 527 @ 0.00285959 = 1.507 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 250 @ 0.0028841 = 0.721 BTC [+] {6}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 50 @ 0.140384 = 7.0192 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 6 @ 0.1403 = 0.8418 BTC [-]
benkay: can't say yet need moar read
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.13374999 = 0.535 BTC [-] {2}
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bitcoinpete: "The app tells you how well you slept, or didn't, by giving you a unique Sleep Score each night. You can begin to correlate interruptions in your sleep to external conditions and disturbances. You can play back key sound disturbances via the app to say “Ah, the garbage truck broke my sleep cycle at 3am. I didn’t even realize that.”
bitcoinpete: $99 and it's yours. delivery estimated in november 2014
assbot: Battle of the Zzzs: How Zeo's Sleep Monitors Stack Up - Forbes
xmj: It's really really sad Zeo went bust.
danielpbarron: bitcoinpete, i already have a free app that does that sort of thing.. ended up deleting it because too many apps
danielpbarron: it figures it out based on your movements as you sleep
bitcoinpete: but it only worked on my old spring mattress
bitcoinpete: and by vibrations i mean tossing and turning
bitcoinpete: "But for those who missed out on getting in on Bitcoin early, Ethereum's launch represents something of another chance."
assbot: Ethereum Launches Ether - Business Insider
benkay: I WAS JUST SAYING THIS
pankkake: and I said it before you all, about all altcoins :)
benkay: cept i guess "there will never be another {silicon,internet,bitcoin}" doesn't push views
mike_c: we are all above average drivers.
bitcoinpete: pretty sure the irish have below average everything
bitcoinpete: well i know that this is hirarious: "Big Trend Capital Investment (HASH): We are engaged as a distributor of mining products and a novel mining service. We primarily service retail customers through storefronts such as Amazon, EBay, and our own eStore at BuyAHash.com."
pankkake: but indeed, there will never be another internet. especially with ipv6
benkay: i mean the kind of sociocultural upheaval that accompanied silicon and then the internet, and will eventually fall out of bitcoin, pankkake
benkay: centralization of markets resulting in companies like ebay
benkay: danielpbarron: the little reading i've done suggests that it's not a namecoin killer, as that'd require...studying existing solutions and then doing it better. i've yet to find much support fot eh notion that the folks involved have done any research at all yet.
benkay: "As of yet, no work has been done on adding support for blockchain domains to ONS and the ONS command line tools."
pankkake: they just do the same, but less, and worse
pankkake: and they're really misleading users
benkay: keybase wanted your 'encrypted' private keys.
benkay: man the derp brigade is out in force today
benkay: "play good with others" lost art of grammar
pankkake: because no one can fake a facebook account
benkay: quite the deep learners
pankkake: and confusing trust (what businesses want) and identity verification (what the tax man wants)
benkay: countdown to sub termination: 10...
thestringpuller: benkay: i like how many companies are appearing that can just be subverted with the WoT.
benkay: i don't. it's a phenomenal waste of human capital.
thestringpuller: just cattle. let them die off; we can scavenge the refuse for useful stuff afterwards.
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 9407 @ 0.00005999 = 0.5643 BTC [+] {2}
benkay: <thestringpuller> just cattle. let them die off; we can scavenge the refuse for useful stuff afterwards. // biodiesel
assbot: [RFC] thereum: a turing-complete coin distributed as per bitcoin's blockchain
fluffypony: which, from what I understand, is a fork that lets you just pick up the æthereum equivalent of your BTC balance
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard:mircea_popescu: permission to republish? << well, no. an article is one thing, but wholesale copying of trilema serves little purpose. put up an adnotated article list if you want, that seems to serve your purpose better, or if not do commentary on the individual articles
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: mthreat: do yourself a favor and stop drinking charbucks << talking to ex-us-mil guy, "i'll tell you what starbucks is. back in the force, they'd make these largish tanks of coffee at the crack of down, keep them on reheat, throw them out at night. starbucks is pretty much like a drink out of that tank right before it getting thrown out. which is why they put all the cream and crap into it : gotta try and mas
mircea_popescu: nubbins`:"i live in a place with stylish young people, independent women, and those who care about our natural environment. it's a real drag." << i can see it.
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: understood, we’ll go the annotated article list route
mircea_popescu: chetty for the record, the peso was trading 12.2 - 12.7 yesterday
mircea_popescu: also it never touched 12.x in march, talking out of ass these ppls.
chetty: yeah well people talk street price kinda need a street :P
mthreat: chetty, mircea_popescu I got 12.2 pesos per USD 2 hours ago
chetty: mthreat, seriously stay out of chatbucks, will rot your gut
mthreat: ya, i usually get under the top "blue rate", but my cueva hasn't given me fake money
mircea_popescu: pankkake: and in multiple bitcoin clients << i never bothered to get a client myself so there's that.
mthreat: mircea_popescu maybe the cost of production is > than the value heh
chetty: I am thinking fake bills are a myth
mircea_popescu: mthreat they're printing like crazy for sure, tho. usually i get ~40% new bills, but the last few buys i got 80-100% new bills.
mircea_popescu: chetty just, cheaper for the govt to print em than for the independent crooks
mircea_popescu: benkay: or is that not actually a text file? << hasn't been a texrfile for all of two years.
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mircea_popescu: it does allow you to go into a technical short, by buying the future and selling your spot, if you hold any.
mircea_popescu: (basically it ensures that no institutionals will be holding eth today for the purpose of satysfying a mid or long term goal, is all)
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BingoBoingo: benkay> <mircea_popescu> <pankkake> well, he has the private key, but I have it too. not smart :p << omg BingoBoingo WHAT HAVE YOU DUN NAO // yeah, i'm also curious as to what's going on here << OMG Opsec fail
mircea_popescu: course no institutionals would have bought any anyway, but as a point of principle.
rithm: what is ether scam
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i think the best part about the offer is it's potential to disrupt the live offering << no, the best part is pulling the rug from under the scammer's feet quite unexplectedly.
mircea_popescu: now it's quite clear they';re recycling some borrowed btc as "investments".
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rithm: looks neat if wasn't a three letter honeypot
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mircea_popescu: and it's an audience that hates mp, soooo, fat chance << you know how many of these there've been, over the years ? and how painfully and mean-ly they've been humiliated ?
mircea_popescu: startin' all the way to the good ol' boys of glbse and so on.
pankkake: rithm: you can do watch-only with most clients now
rithm: i know so i'm not sure what it accomplishes other than intel gathering and noob convenience
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pankkake: I think you can do it already with blockchain.info too
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mircea_popescu: a) how the fuck are conservatives going to make electoral gains in populist times and b) who the fuck do the republicans even represent anymore, they've lost the teaparty.
pankkake: by not being conservatives, but some random nutjob thing
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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the way the us is going, anything's better than sameness.
mircea_popescu: after 8 years of "we can do it" and "change nao" i doubt you can find any broad group that's of the oppinion things can continue as they are.
mircea_popescu: this is the major advantage for the fucktarded socialists : once la revolucion starts it fucks up things so badly people want a revolution.
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rithm: mp have you sullied yourself in this ether scamcoin
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: Sexy Saffron better not tell reddit she's an mp employee << that's okay, the only thing that's keeping derppit from a collective headexploy is all the shit their collective dumbass doesn't know.
mircea_popescu: pigeons: hey mircea_popescu I havent followed, but i saw you are selling eth foward contract or similar. I wanted to suggest putting something similar on mpex, i think that would do well << i asked, people lol'd. which is why it's in otc.
rithm: so you are selling 5000 ether, deliverable in 2015, for 1 BTC now?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i was chuckling at the buttcoin treatment earlier, "let's look at things from the position that popularity matters and then get all aggitated when nothing makes sense".
pigeons: is there a built-in mechanism for these suckers, i mean people to trade their ether before/if the production network ever comes out?
ThickAsThieves: from what i read, the ETH is in total lockdown til it's released
pigeons: that's why i was thinking an mpex listing would be nice, people could trade it
rithm: but it doesn't exist yet to be traded
rithm: there's not a working implementation is there?
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if any of them took the trouble to write something interesting (e.g. system analogous to the original btc but of proper, rather than 'power ranger' quality) and resisted the temptation of premine shenanigans, etc. - but no. <<< quite.
pigeons: i had some esther or something the other day, it wasnt ether but it worked in the same manner
rithm: pigeons, yeah perfect name
rithm: calling it ether almost seems like expert troll
pigeons: rithm: there is a testnet that executes contracts, but themining alogirthm will change when they decide to make one up
mircea_popescu: pigeons i grew up with a one lb bottle of liquid ether in my chemistry lab. tru story.
pigeons: lost of other stuff will change when they get around to making it up as well
rithm: nice pretty site, dancing logo, buy now
rithm: but ethereum has no plans to "integrate" or use the bitcoin blockchain for any type of verification, right?
rithm: it's a totally new alt-chain implementation
mircea_popescu: we will definitely have a showdown over all this crap one of these days. and as to why james gibson & his merry scammer friends are stil on the street.
rithm: do i understand that correctly?
benkay: <mircea_popescu> Pierre_Rochard:mircea_popescu: permission to republish? << well, no. an article is one thing, but wholesale copying of trilema serves little purpose. put up an adnotated article list if you want, that seems to serve your purpose better, or if not do commentary on the individual articles // think talmud
mircea_popescu: here i am, by my lonesome, trying to keep some semblance of discipline,
mircea_popescu: while the usg is busy drinking chateau lafitte out of the taxpayer's moneyz.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> benkay: or is that not actually a text file? << hasn't been a texrfile for all of two years. // cult of complexity
rithm: ...and the reason being the turingincompletedness of bitcoin
rithm: i don't seeing having the value bitcoin has
rithm: chisel that in stone in your logs
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: no shortage of possible experiments to choose from (e.g. Lamportian 67% theoretical maximum threshold << that's not the good part. the good part is a better chaining methodology.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8100 @ 0.00079777 = 6.4619 BTC [-]
benkay: what are the flaws of the current chaining methodology, mircea_popescu ?
ThickAsThieves: ohnoes coindesk commenter has burned me: "I wish i could see your stupid face in about 10 years when almost every interaction you have with an electronic device relies on a decentralized blockchain.. "we don't need smart contracts" haha are you for real!? "
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu pigeons i grew up with a one lb bottle of liquid ether in my chemistry lab. tru story. << do I dare ask what you did with said ether?
assbot: Bitcoin prices, Bitcoin inflexibility pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
ThickAsThieves: "I think smart contracts are pretty revolutionary, and once they're commonplace we'll all wonder how we got along without them." this is people responding to me asking wtf will actually use it
assbot: Ethereum Launches Own 'Ether' Coin, With Millions Already Sold
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it's a major feedstock for a number of organic chemistry reactions.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well clearly if "he thinks" and "he can't see" your dumb face he wins the internets.
ThickAsThieves: "Instead of making a "You guys just don't understand how big this is going to be" comment, why don't you tell us what your plans involve so we get a better idea of what ethereum is? " ~smarter commenter
ThickAsThieves: I sincerely apologize. My comment was directed at the user who said that no one would want or need this. I cant get into specifics on what we are working on but here are a few questions that spring into mind.
ThickAsThieves: Who is going to be the google of ethereum? (well... lets not kid ourselves... probably google on that one)
gribble: the20year was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 2 days, 3 hours, 14 minutes, and 55 seconds ago: <the20year> nubbins`: i sent you my address
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves if that's how you call terminal retards.
ThickAsThieves: this is the first timei'm upvoting things i disagree with
mircea_popescu: o which reminds me : funny notice in local quikmart : "esta terminantemente prohibido la venta a menores de 18 anos"
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: "SEC To Complete Rules Aimed at Reducing Money-Fund Risks: Plan Would Allow Money Funds to Temporarily Block Investors from Withdrawing Money in Times of Stress" << epic.
mircea_popescu: sec to announce partnership with bitcoin scammers next, to fight terrorism and other stresses.
ThickAsThieves: Draper will be on Colbert tonight, prepare for derpy bitcoin jokez
mircea_popescu: mike_c: is mpex.co going to get fixed ever? or is it just dead. << nah will come bax
☟︎ mike_c: too late, i changed all my links. it's dead to me :)
mircea_popescu: the guy that didn't manage to buy some bitcoins and also had a sextape ?
assbot: Bitcoin prices, Bitcoin inflexibility pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: lobbes: the problem I have with weird al nowadays is that I don't even know the songs he is parodying anymore << this is because you've stopped fucking teenagers.
pigeons: don't forget the child porn and drug trafficicking to go with the terrorism. oh and file-sharing
ThickAsThieves: “I give bitcoin 12 to 18 months before its fate will be decided by lawmakers. We don’t have a lot of time to tackle these issues, and if we don’t, bitcoin will be narrowed down to a hobbyist niche and not a true industry.” ~ Perianne Boring
mircea_popescu: benkay: can't say yet need moar read << pls let the group know.
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ThickAsThieves: “There’s nobody else in DC that cares about bitcoin, bitcoin has a terrible reputation, people are scared to touch it, nobody wants to be involved with it, and a lot of it is a lack of understanding.”
mircea_popescu: ;;rate bitcoingirl -1 Absolutely unbearably clueless, self promoting dumb broad.
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mircea_popescu: they are going to be A LOT more scared, i'm getting a "get in touch" program out for politicians.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i was originally thinking bitcoin-the-prototype needs to run about five years before actual iteration is worth contemplating
benkay: cross-chain wallet for alphacoinz was on my personal roadmap
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: $99 and it's yours. delivery estimated in november 2014 << expensive, but it's not actually a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: they get older as fucktards chase the mba train of spam.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: before divorcing, i do not know. << why divorce the woman just because she's getting exercise ?
mircea_popescu: benkay: I WAS JUST SAYING THIS << basically doge opened the way for "mainstream" media shilling.
mircea_popescu: now all these unemployable fuckwits with business insider blogs and whatnot expect a coupla hundred to tout the next scam.
mircea_popescu: i guess in a sense this is just the unavoidable effect of their irrelevant impotence. "if you can't do something useful anyway, might as well make a buck doing something pointless"
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: pretty sure the irish have below average everything <<< irish chicks have above average to epic freckles.
mircea_popescu: benkay: keybase wanted your 'encrypted' private keys. << oh such lulz.
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mircea_popescu: benkay: i don't. it's a phenomenal waste of human capital. << there is no such thing as "waste" of human capital any more han there's waste of carbon. it's an element, whatever it gets used for is just fine.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: mircea_popescu could be the largest æthereum holder <<< could is such a majik word.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic a bit more marketing in that than i'd be looking for.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the part where there's 500 ether aethereum ethereum etc is certainly helpful.
mircea_popescu: one of the reason girls trying to break into porn have to work so hard is that there's so damned many of them
assbot: Amir Taaki has done, and continues to do, huge disservice to anyone serious involved in Bitcoin. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
dub looks for the unsee button
pigeons: yeah like i shouldnt already know better than to click one of mircea_popescu's links
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kakobrekla: if balance is greater than 0, it was not.
kakobrekla: now mp sez but smart hacker will wait for mo monies.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 279 @ 0.00432511 = 1.2067 BTC [-] {7}
dub: mike_c: no. 1) pick a girl. 2) she picks the date mike_c: 3) she starts planning for 6 months
mike_c: yeah, a REAL man picks his own wedding date :p
mike_c: chuck norris will now destroy b-a because you got his name wrong.
dub: she just finalised our venue, twas all I could do to drag it back to 300km away from 10000km
mike_c: your friends and family thank you for your efforts.
mircea_popescu: lol r/SA has now established that i am not smart, all my good points are repackaged from someone else.
mircea_popescu: my sides. i imagine libertards are smart in entirely novel, innovative ways, right ? because such a thing can ever be :D
dub: wait, something awful has a reddit?
mircea_popescu: i am thankful for the internet for this, by the way. before every idiot had a voice, the world was less amusing, and the reasons why the poor must be whipped daily less obvious.
assbot: Im crying with joy over here, my toes are curling in untold glee, I have little doubt that I shall live to see this, all of it. : Buttcoin
mircea_popescu: after they sold buttcoins.org to bfl they moved to reddit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the person i'm repackaging is christos ballas, which kind-of informs as to the depth of intelligence the core of us libertards has at its disposal : they can dig as deep as about the past coupla months, and that's that.
mike_c: lol, sometimes they get one right: "Christ almighty. Can you summarize that in like a few thousand words?"
mircea_popescu: i guess it works fine for most blogs, which really aren't much deeper than that, and definitely for most perianne borings, which... yeah.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess my knowing who they are and who they fucked and all the dirt makes this an unequal contest and therefore me racist or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: As far as my observations go, I think there are many idealists, but they are a bit complicit in that these fuckers aren't shouted down or ejected because they are "of the community"."
mircea_popescu: i mean check out that beauty. "what, mp can eject each and every reddit communitard if he so chooses ?!?! not possibru!!!
mircea_popescu: because reality is by consensus and power is by headcount!!! LIBERTARDIA!!!!"
mircea_popescu: i thot they still teach in those social pseudosciences just how informative one's apparent assumptions are. i guess nobody does psychology seriously since the pills huh.
BingoBoingo: OMG we better not tell /r/Buttcoin who started linking TLP up in here...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i got a lulz out of their scummy apology/explanation as to how they sold the domain to bfl.
mircea_popescu: typical "whoddunit/not me" infantilism. it was a mistake but we're not really stupid, we did it for the cash but we're not really desperate,
mircea_popescu: it's like the talking points of the lost generations. they did it "ironically".
BingoBoingo: It really is some magic, thinking they can talk something to death, but then actually damaging everything by selling out to the worst actor in the space they derped against for so long.
mircea_popescu: #freenode is terminally fucking braindamaged. a year ago they stopped taking donations because "it was too much effort". since then i've been trying to get them a server up. pretty much zero interest.
mircea_popescu: there's just no way this shit can survive on the mid term.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i suspect the reasoning here is that "bfl is bad for bitcoin" and so therefore selling to them is "bad for bitcoin" and so it's a smart move.
hanbot: mircea_popescu aww, nobody's hated on me like that (reddit) in a while
BingoBoingo: All the while they forget that in the past year BFL has went from being bad for Bitcoin to merely being bad for a certain kind of people who want into Bitcoin and probably ought to begin buying pre-order lube
hanbot: mp gets all the bitches
mircea_popescu: it makes all its money out of exploiting the erroneous mindset that derps matter and groups work.
mircea_popescu: as the old saying goes, a man deserves the life he choses.
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benkay: <dub> she just finalised our venue, twas all I could do to drag it back to 300km away from 10000km // sucker - i had mine in the backyard of the house in which i grew up.
benkay: which just so happens to be six blocks from my current residence.
benkay: lolk so what did bitcoingirl do to piss you off, mircea_popescu ?
dub: we're in a backyard too, for the portion that isn't on the beach
BingoBoingo: benkay: Have you seen what Ms Boring has been writing lately?
benkay: no i tuned out a long time ago
benkay: link me to great lulz plox
dub: albeit a $1000/night backyard
benkay: yeah, but it's not the backyard of your childhood and also you're paying for it.
mike_c: you also pay for it if you don't give her the wedding she wants.
benkay: boring and company llc doesn't even register on google, wtf
dub: there are far too many backyards of my childhood and few of them meet the >10000km away requisite
benkay: sheeeeeit you give them the wedding?
benkay: what happened to the dowry?
BingoBoingo: benkay: Basically Ms. Boring forked the foundation taking a stronger stand in favor of "Let's all just surrender to the State more and faster now, k thx"
benkay: yes but links please, BingoBoingo
assbot: Perianne Boring: Regulators Will Decide Bitcoin's Fate Within 18 Months
benkay: gotta love how her face is the lede
benkay: intern for the white house?
benkay: the joke there is that nobody saw how dumb of an idea claiming to be a pretty young intern at the white house is
dub: whats the op called where they send in fuckable chicks to get ammunition on targets ala assange?
benkay: wow you guys actually read coindesk
mircea_popescu: turns out... these people are digging an extension to the metro. WITH DYNAMITE.
benkay: gotta love los portenos
benkay is amazed at the amount of dick going into that butt
mircea_popescu: who the fuck blasts metro tunnels ?! is it like what, 1860 ?
benkay: can't import boring machines
benkay: wait there's a topic pun in there
dub: welcome to teh 3rd world
assbot: Tit Stop Factory - YouTube
mike_c: <+mircea_popescu> who the fuck blasts metro tunnels ?! << broke countries?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 264 @ 0.00283392 = 0.7482 BTC [-]
CheapBoy: How is Mircea Popescu shorting going?
CheapBoy: I am interested in betting against you.
mircea_popescu: benkay ironically, for this deal he doesn't actually need one. he's the long party.
benkay: just out of curiousity, how do you plan to verify his identity for delivery come next march?
benkay: sign a thing with the addr from which he pays you?
CheapBoy: My worry is, how is delivery guaranteed?
mircea_popescu: CheapBoy ok, that'll be 3 btc, with the caveat that if eth is not released or not trading come march 15th you get 1 satoshi back.
CheapBoy: What guarantee do the people buying presale ehereum get as of now?
CheapBoy: That guarantee should be tradable before it is released I hope...
assbot: Deci piata financiara, bine ? pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: CheapBoy i have no problem with your assigning your delivery, but to do that you will need to register a gpg signature in the wot.
mircea_popescu: BigBitz the eth scamcoin. you gotta read teh logs more.
CheapBoy: Sounds good and serious, what is gpg signature?
benkay: ;;google gpg ultimate guide
dub: PGP: Sounds good and serious.
mircea_popescu: jesus i was looking to say bigtitsbingo for a long time.
BigBitz: So wait you're giving him, like, what 9 months ?
benkay: CheapBoy: the alexcabal link is the one.
BigBitz: mircea_popescu one day... just one day... I hope to be 5% as rich as you.
CheapBoy: And how can you guarantee delivery?
dub: I'm not, its a great quote
BigBitz: delivery is provable by a wallet? a trading 'site' ?
CheapBoy: Who here "vouches" for mircea?
mircea_popescu: jesus i was waiting to answer "it is" to two diff people in one line forever.
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mircea_popescu: CheapBoy if you lok in the gribble response above you see the list of all the 88 people.
BigBitz: in fairness some of those 88 people are not the most trusted :P
assbot: What the WoT is for, how it works and how to use it. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
BigBitz: mircea_popescu you should look at my WoT.
dub: in counter-fairness check out tux' ratings
BigBitz: aside from my scammer ratings. my WoT is in good shape.
CheapBoy: I am hesitating, it says "scheduled for release winter 2014/2015" on the site. Pretty big risk it's delayed imo.
mike_c: indeed. mircea_popescu: what would you charge for 1 year?
mike_c: forget it. my momentary insanity passed.
CheapBoy: Delaying crowdfunding things is pretty standard at kickstarter
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why anyone'd do business with people who announce xmas and then fail to deliver in march, but then again...
benkay: <mircea_popescu> i have nfi why anyone'd do business with people who announce xmas and then fail to deliver in march, but then again... // what, you calling asciilifeform a scammer?
benkay: mhm. a solid distinction for sure.
mircea_popescu: CheapBoy best do some reading, lot of ground to cover before jumping into things.
CheapBoy: Would you buy ethereum for me even though it's not officially released, but tradable?
mike_c: what would be trading if it wasn't released?
BingoBoingo: CheapBoy: You are a brave soul going long on Ether.
CheapBoy: hehe, coming here I'm getting more scared.
benkay: you should never be scared to make a trade.
benkay: if its a good trade, you'll know.
benkay: if you're scared, listen to that.
pigeons: who are these people buying it? i see everyone ssaying the obvious about who knows what a good price is and if the platform will ever materialize, but someone is paying
BingoBoingo: pigeons: Prolly Vitalik, Aspergzors is an adequate substitute for intelligence, Buterin paying himself
benkay: the hype cycle was just reeeeeally long.
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: so far the authentic chinese food I've tasted pretty much lives up to its visual appeal; Yunnan province (where a lot of that episode was filmed) is delicious and very un-weird.
midnightmagic: but ehh.. propaganda piece for tourism. i'm okay with that