pete_dushenski: contravex, for those who care, is a riff off convex, as in convex payoffs, à la taleb.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15882 @ 0.00082436 = 13.0925 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7450 @ 0.00082343 = 6.1346 BTC [-] {2}
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes i was expecting a lot more obvious drunkedness tbh. but sober ? maybe you should write a book. << book? what book. "hey. tits? they're worth 0.1 btc now, which i'll hold for you indefinitely. let's tits. tits everyone? great." << precisely. why book when you can blog?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [ALC] 8 @ 0.08000474 = 0.64 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: July Combined Trading Statement | Bingo Blog
BingoBoingo patiently waits for ATC markets to go all to hell like last month
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski i already have one web thing that i gotta stare at all day on my plate, the blog'd be too much right at this point
atcbot: [X-BT] Bid: 205 Ask: 248 Last Price: 205 24h-Vol: 8k High: 206 Low: 205 VWAP: 205
atcbot: 8k@260 17k@250 49k@248 | 62k@205 23k@203 100k@202
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 501657.65 in 515 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -27.00
atcbot: 0 minutes and 0 seconds ago (right now!)
gribble: Current Blocks: 313408 | Current Difficulty: 1.8736441558310238E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 314495 | Next Difficulty In: 1087 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 0 days, 1 hour, 24 minutes, and 9 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 19707575923.1 | Estimated Percent Change: 5.18313
gribble: Error: "baseball,NLRookieoftheYear" is not a valid command.
nam-shub: thanks BingoBoingo - I can voice up my other nick if I have something truly beautiful to impart to the community
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 584.97, Best ask: 587.15, Bid-ask spread: 2.18000, Last trade: 586.97, 24 hour volume: 9033.75227728, 24 hour low: 556.14, 24 hour high: 590.0, 24 hour vwap: 576.693349374
assbot: Argentine Debt Feud Finds Much Fault, Few Fixes - WSJ
decimation: unlike the us, Argentina doesn't have the ability to pretend to be solvent forever
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12352 @ 0.00082262 = 10.161 BTC [-]
decimation: "A U.S. District Court has ruled that Argentina can't pay holders of restructured bonds until it compensates the holdouts, who have sued for full payment on bonds the country defaulted on in 2001. Some investors accepted discounted bonds in restructurings in 2005 and 2010. The bonds fall under New York jurisdiction because they were issued in New York."
decimation: This is why New York thinks it can throw its "weight" around with bitcoin regulation
BingoBoingo: Well, it seems... New York isn't as important as it used to be if Newer New York can flip it the bird
The20YearIRCloud: so argentina is in default because they can't restructur ethe bonds from 2001?
BingoBoingo: the20year: Well, because the people who didn't want the to resturcture... Were the ones who claimed jurisdiction
The20YearIRCloud: I don't understand why they issued debt through new york, unless they had to be approved in a US state in order to sell it here
BingoBoingo: the20year: Well, that's why New York Imagines they can regulate Bitcoin, because New York is where people used to have to trade if the wanted access to capital
The20YearIRCloud: lots of VC and capital in NY , i'm sure they feel like they're still gateway to the US
BingoBoingo: Well, this is why the trend in US States not named New York seems to be Not really regulating Bitcoin-Bitcoin interaction
BingoBoingo: They dunno how Big Bitcoin might get, but if it takes off this seems to be the chance for them to leave New York's shadow
BingoBoingo: It's murkey aside from the NY Bitlicense thing. Some have taken the Federal line at Bitcoin isn't... Money as they regulate it like Texas.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12247 @ 0.00082286 = 10.0776 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: peterl: I dunno if your are interested, but the first MPIF PC statement's already hit.
peterl: oh, linked on the blogs?
assbot: July Combined Trading Statement | Bingo Blog
BingoBoingo: Pushed it out as soon as the month rolled over GMT because it has some new
BingoBoingo: The20YearIRCloud: No, I was hired to do work for Mircea. Mircea is the issuer
The20YearIRCloud: k, i haven't been paying attention to most of the mpex listings (obviously)
jwSchool: think in cali it's been recognized as currency
jwSchool: not sure if that's good or bad in terms or regulation, tbh
jwSchool: think they just repealed a law that outlawed it
jwSchool: The bill repeals the provision of the old legislation, which banned the use of "anything but the lawful money of the United States."
The20YearIRCloud: It's gonna be interesting to see how tomorrow's RS conference call goes
peterl: am I calculating right, BingoBoingo you are up abou 0.33% this month?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> unlike the us, Argentina doesn't have the ability to pretend to be solvent forever << it does have the ability to pretend. it doesn't have the hordes of idiots to pretend they believe the pretense.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: I find the wording I used more accurate than your suggested correction.
mircea_popescu: also, this is well disputed in the logs. they dont "fall under ny jurisdiction because they were issued in ny". they specifically say they do, because of a previous default.
assbot: Page not found pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
peterl: does the ' mess up the link?
assbot: Understanding Argentinas Coming Default, For Real This Time pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
assbot: Page not found pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
assbot: Understanding Argentinas Coming Default, For Real This Time pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
nam-shub: whats the RON asset trade or what did they trade?
BingoBoingo: nam-shub: It was attempting to MM BTC/RON currency pair. Profitable safe enough opportunities were too rare and ATC was too promising to keep resource allocation as it was.
assbot: This is how you ERASE the BS TRUST on this forum
assbot: Sollog - Encyclopedia Dramatica
nam-shub: does anyone want a link to MP's piece on Argentinian Default?
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021718 B (Total: 474.94 B). Delta: -0.34 B. Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00021999 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: "The point the op was making is that adoni has mega millions in assets yet all their people posting here get negative ratings from broke losers mad they have no mega million dollar assets to dicuss deals on." << check it out, teh tortilla got moar competition.
BingoBoingo: The20YearIRCloud: Isn't MegaMillions a lottery game?
peterl: if I had a million dollars ...
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BingoBoingo: ;;later tell jborkl you have a pluging behaving badly...
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell jborkl not in a spammy way, but in a different sort of way you need to know about
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4617 @ 0.00082286 = 3.7991 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5750 @ 0.00082245 = 4.7291 BTC [-] {3}
decimation: so the Fed "prints" dollars, loans them to New York Banks, the banks loan the printed dollars to Argentina, Argentina wants a better deal, Argentina decides not to pay, and now the Supreme court 'upholds' that the US court finds that Argentina must repay the printed dollars loaned to the banks loaned to Argentina?
decimation: I can see why default is the most attractive option here
assbot: REPORTING OF INFORMATION CONCERNING FEDERAL CRIMES MEMORANDUM OF UNDER - Pastebin.com
assbot: Bar Exam Tech Disaster Inspires Lawsuit Threats, Operatic Profanity
mircea_popescu: decimation> I can see why default is the most attractive option here << it is quite as the local elite presents it, a matter of "fuck you or else we might as well go home."
mircea_popescu: im impressed with their not being quite ready to go home yet. various other twerps with delusions of historical importance (france, say) don't have it.
mircea_popescu: they wish they had it, they like to pretend like they have it, but they don't actually.
BingoBoingo: Still software that fails at transmitting plaintext
mircea_popescu: then various twerps derp about "upholding contracts" in mises.org, and when i call them too smart by half they nervously BUT ANONYMOUSLY address it
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because yeah, that's the right thing to do when mp says you';re stupid, come out with an "there have been some implications that we're stupid from some people that don't understand us"
mircea_popescu: Sergio Antonio (@SergiConte) July 30, 2014 fuck you @examsoft i've been crying for two hours. i'm not even fucking kidding right now this is the worst night of my life. <<< supposedly adult us male.
mircea_popescu: they may cry, but it wouldn't be over the internets not uploading, srsly.
assbot: angry german kid - YouTube
assbot: Angry Kid fart - YouTube
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14426 @ 0.00082544 = 11.9078 BTC [+] {2}
decimation: any wannabe lawyer who finds the bar exam to be too difficult to pass doesn't deserve to be a lawyer
assbot: Blame Rich, Overeducated Elites as Our Society Frays - Bloomberg View
decimation: "Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. recently estimated that twice as many law graduates pass the bar exam as there are job openings for them. In other words, every year U.S. law schools churn out about 25,000 ?surplus? lawyers, many of whom are in debt. A large number of them go to law school with an ambition to enter politics someday. "
cazalla: i wonder if stephanie accepts lazycoin in lazytown ben_vulpes
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18600 @ 0.00082889 = 15.4174 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: decimation re bloomberg, damn anti-intellectualism is (still) going strong in that country.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6900 @ 0.00082847 = 5.7164 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 5 @ 0.29986799 = 1.4993 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7174 @ 0.00082847 = 5.9434 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: A savvy young hooker named Gail got busted and lodged in the jail. But the jailer got hot to be lodged in her twat, and so Gail made the bail with her tail.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 88 @ 0.00680035 = 0.5984 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9100 @ 0.00082721 = 7.5276 BTC [-]
TheNewDeal: lots of name changing going on right meow
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6046 @ 0.0008218 = 4.9686 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29732 @ 0.00082202 = 24.4403 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 400 @ 0.00399995 = 1.6 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12718 @ 0.00082294 = 10.4662 BTC [+]
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $450 before September"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1010/ Odds: 34(Y):66(N) by coin, 34(Y):66(N) by weight. Total bet: 3.04679693 BTC. Current weight: 96,071.
assbot: Main page - OK0EPB - 7 039,4 kHz
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14650 @ 0.00082211 = 12.0439 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX:F.MPIF] 1D: 0 / 0 / 0 (0 shares, 0 BTC), 7D: 0.00019 / 0.00020681 / 0.00021999 (91619 shares, 18.95 BTC), 30D: 0.00019 / 0.00020681 / 0.00021999 (91620 shares, 18.95 BTC)
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 250 @ 0.0026944 = 0.6736 BTC [-] {6}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 225 @ 0.00269084 = 0.6054 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021715 B (Total: 474.87 B). Delta: -0.41 B. Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00021999 BTC [+]
jurov: ^ MPIF marketmaker incured not-quite-a-loss
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17388 @ 0.0008211 = 14.2773 BTC [-]
peeta: so are you getting a Trezor Mircea?
peeta: do you actively distrust it?
mircea_popescu: i've not put out a scam tag on it if that's what you';re asking.
peeta: ok, yeah, that's what I was asking.. "actively" being my clumsy way of asking if you had more than vague, general misgivings or just no reason to trust it
peeta: ok, changing topic... I recently learned about volatility drag for the first time... I'm assuming you're familiar with it?
peeta: so, I know you were supportive of Just-Dice at the beginning... I'm guessing you followed the nakowa saga?
peeta: what I was wondering is if nakowa's big win can be explained by volatility drag or not
mircea_popescu: events aren't really to be explained is the thing. what are you goint to explain ?
peeta: ok, so it all hinges on the max profit %... if it was anything above 2% a blowup was likely because the volatility drag would be over the expected earnings
peeta: soon after nakowa the max profit % went from 1% to 0.5%
peeta: who am I? honestly just someone wanting to learn... but I have no one to bounce ideas with
peeta: sorry if I'm just blurting this out without much preamble
peeta: I was a Just-Dice investor
peeta: btw, were you, a JD investor?
peeta: ok, thanks for hearing my ramblings... I'll go sleep and mull this over and hopefully come back with fresher thoughts... goodbye :)
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the record, "volatility drag" is an artefact of the poor public school system in the us. the only reason it exists is that people do arithmetic rather than geometric %s. in other words, they don't compound.
mircea_popescu: it's also mildly useful for crooked hedge fund mangers to explain to their half smart moneyed audience why exactly it is that i can make any % i want and they can only make a % that's two digits no matter what happens.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.1 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $450 before September"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1010/ Odds: 21(Y):79(N) by coin, 22(Y):78(N) by weight. Total bet: 4.84679693 BTC. Current weight: 95,793.
neuroBed: i forgot i was in this channel
Vexual: i feel a limerick coming
fluffypony: there once was a neuro named Mode, who swallowed a rather large toad, with Myriads of coins, all girding his loins, he would ribbited, cackled, and crowed!
mircea_popescu: " In June, U.S. Marshals auctioned off Bitcoins seized from Silk Road, the online market for illegal goods and services. Draper bought the lot for $20 million, beating out 44 other bidders."
Vexual: is that an approximation?
Vexual: what was the number for the bet?
Vexual: no the price at whatever exchange at whatever time
Vexual: or i could tell you the asnnswer
cazalla: i didn't bet because i thought what happened might happened
cazalla: i think punkman mentioned that was his reasoning for not better either
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1962 @ 0.00268007 = 5.2583 BTC [-] {4}
Vexual: 666 is prolly about right
Vexual: cost more than pay both
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021715 B (Total: 474.87 B). Delta: -0.41 B. Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00021999 BTC [+]
neuroCreep: fluffypony, you aren't allowed to limerick anymore
cazalla: mircea_popescu, which article is that from? i found it on google but the actually article has the quote regarding $20 million price removed
Vexual: adnoidally challenged from harlem
Vexual: getting polwed much harder than farming
Vexual: the creams got so loud
Vexual: she woke the whole croud
Vexual: now grows pork and is everyones darlin
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 71126 @ 0.00081932 = 58.275 BTC [-] {6}
assbot: Six Californias: A Tim Draper Idea Just as Madcap as the Others - Businessweek
cazalla: it's still in google if you search the quote though
mircea_popescu: i guess either the guy accidentally let it slip and threatened them to sue, or else it was dumbass copy and the editor fixed it.
neuroCreep: Who thought ring signatures werent enough.
BingoBoingo: Thankfully the bet is closed so there isn't a bunch of late betting before the FOIA requests go through
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The dickstabbers would bet and then wonder how they can lose money on the winning side.
neuroCreep: and developed an anonymous cream puff* would have been better
atcbot: [X-BT] Bid: 203 Ask: 248 Last Price: 205 24h-Vol: 20k High: 206 Low: 205 VWAP: 205
atcbot: 8k@260 17k@250 44k@248 | 23k@203 100k@202 45k@201
gribble: Current Blocks: 313458 | Current Difficulty: 1.8736441558310238E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 314495 | Next Difficulty In: 1037 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 6 days, 20 hours, 49 minutes, and 16 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 19740753578.5 | Estimated Percent Change: 5.36021
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16800 @ 0.00081712 = 13.7276 BTC [-]
BigBitz: That dude paid $666 each then for the SR bitcoins? :o
BigBitz: Interesting... wonder has this fuelled the uptrend that emerged from the $555 low yesterday.
BingoBoingo: Hard to say. I guess we'll find out the price paid for certain if the FOIA act requests go through.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.2851001 = 0.5702 BTC [-]
BigBitz: well they can't refuse FOIA as it's .gov, right?
BingoBoingo: Well, FOIA has been refused before for other things, but...
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28850 @ 0.00081712 = 23.5739 BTC [-]
punkman: "I would advise that you contact your bank to ensure your IBAN number is correct. Please mention that you are trying to add your bank account to your PayPal account. In some cases you might receive a slightly modified version of your IBAN from your bank."
punkman: yes my bank is gonna give me a different IBAN just for Paypal
punkman: another day another reply, no actionable information whatsoever
punkman: at least they admit their shit is broken: "We are aware of a number of customers who are currently unable to add their bank accounts to PayPal."
BigBitz: punkman you need money out of PayPal ?
punkman: not yet, but there's a small amount coming soon, and I don't like to leave a balance with them
punkman: also found 700eur in my bank account today, no idea who sent it. what is happening ?!
punkman: who's setting me up for money laundering?
BigBitz: punkman I think I sent it by accident, please send it to my Nigerian Uncle. He is a Prince. Totally legit.
punkman: ahaha just figured it out, it's from the government's "social solidarity fund", no idea why I qualify for that shit
punkman: DreadKnight, BigBitz: no begging without titties
punkman: oh now it makes sense, accountant says he applied for the moneyz
punkman: that's more than I pay him, guess I should buy him a bottle of booze
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 498109.31 in 478 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -27.51
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.02 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 2553.69 GH/s
punkman: wonder if we can make #50000 in the next 3 weeks
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24809 @ 0.00081712 = 20.2719 BTC [-]
assbot: BitBet - ATC to reach block 50000 on time :: 2.5 B (26%) on Yes, 7.05 B (74%) on No | closed 5 days 10 hours ago
punkman: was a bit too expensive to rent a TH or two last I checked
punkman: these are not too expensive, maybe if I had cheaper power
BingoBoingo: DOn't they have a S3 or ZE or something nao
xmj: anyone know about Miles&More and how they compute the number of status relevant flights?
punkman: gov subsidized a bunch of PV installations around here and most of them remain unconnected and can't sell back to the grid
atcbot: [X-BT] Bid: 203 Ask: 248 Last Price: 203 24h-Vol: 23k High: 205 Low: 203 VWAP: 204
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1079 @ 0.0025921 = 2.7969 BTC [-] {25}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1171 @ 0.00252393 = 2.9555 BTC [-] {10}
assbot: Ninki | Bitcoin PGP Wallet Network
punkman: "Your hot private key is encrypted by a password only you know using AES 256 encryption and stored in our database. "
punkman: your cold key is the real thing, and then there's their key
punkman: so I suppose it's 2 of 3 and they can take your moneyz
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 22 @ 0.27851406 = 6.1273 BTC [-] {13}
BigBitz: They only keep one key, punkman.
punkman: nope, they want your encrypted hot key in their database
punkman: "When I first heard of Ninkip2p, I was ecstatic. Finally, we have a PGP wallet we can use to keep our Bitcoin transactions even more secure? They also packaged it into a very clean and attractive interface"
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.265 = 0.53 BTC [-]
BigBitz: ah just re-read it, sorry, punkman.
assbot: Solar storm: A massive 2012 CME just missed the Earth.
BingoBoingo: punkman: Sun farts are indeed a contingency to plan for
punkman: BingoBoingo, problem is I can't fix those giant transformers that will blow out
punkman: and from what I've read they don't keep too many spares
BingoBoingo: punkman: Not for that, for Data backup and having computing machine that will work after such an event
BingoBoingo: punkman: Depends on how big the event is where the laptop is, and whether it is plugged in.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 450 @ 0.00270003 = 1.215 BTC [-] {4}
chetty: <BingoBoingo> punkman: Not for that, for Data backup and having computing machine that will work after such an event/watch solar weather and have a nice big metal trash can to pop laptops and flash drives and stuff into
punkman: unplugged flash memory in danger?
BingoBoingo: Even with plastic casing some supplementary protection may be called for
punkman: I thought unplugged laptop on shelf would be safe
BingoBoingo: punkman: It could be, but depends on the size of the event.
chetty: a little extra caution is usually a good thing
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4000 @ 0.00081681 = 3.2672 BTC [-]
punkman: BingoBoingo: gut says if laptop is damaged on shelf, I have much bigger problems
diana_coman: now I'm curious whether it will voice me down in ~30 min or not, lol
BingoBoingo: diana_coman: Well, there is only one way to find out
diana_coman: well,kind of 2, since whoever implemented it should know
BingoBoingo: Well I dunno that even kakobrekla can always anticipate assbot's actual workings
diana_coman: ahaha, is the code already that arcane then? I did not realise it had enough history for that really
BingoBoingo: If you wait long enough everything has hisotry
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6550 @ 0.00081821 = 5.3593 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: UN Condemns Israel's Latest War Crime: Not Sharing Iron Dome with Hamas
thickasthieves: it's lame that if i auth as thickasthieves while using a diff nick, assbot won't let me !up, regardless of nick or being auth'd with gribble already
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2439 @ 0.00082072 = 2.0017 BTC [+] {2}
thickasthieves: "Upgrading encryption software might mask communications for al-Qaida temporarily, but probably not for long, Schneier said.
thickasthieves: "It is relatively easy to find vulnerabilities in software," he added. "This is why cyber criminals do so well stealing our credit cards. And it is also going to be why intelligence agencies are going to be able to break whatever software these al-Qaida operatives are using."
assbot: Big Data Firm Says It Can Link Snowden Data To Changed Terrorist Behavior : The Two-Way : NPR
thickasthieves: Big Data Firm Says It Can Link Snowden Data to Improved Security Behavior Worldwide
chetty: <thickasthieves> Big Data Firm Says It Can Link Snowden Data to Improved Security Behavior Worldwide// you think?
thickasthieves: well i'm just contrasting, two ways to write a bullshit article
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15050 @ 0.00082224 = 12.3747 BTC [+]
chetty: article and BS seem to be evolving into synonyms
thickasthieves: every article i read first goes through a what-are-they-trying-to-make-me-feel/think filter
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4650 @ 0.00082224 = 3.8234 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9100 @ 0.00082201 = 7.4803 BTC [-]
assbot: Why the head of Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange should be in jail | Ars Technica
BingoBoingo: novusordo: Well... "The 2010 decision shows that Karpeles lost by default, and he was found liable of “fraudulent access to an automated data processing system” and “fraudulent changes to data contained in an automated data processing system.” The document also states that Karpeles admitted to French authorities that he had “pirated” a server."
novusordo: seems like a great fellow to hold the reins to a currency exchange
kakobrekla: <BingoBoingo> Well I dunno that even kakobrekla can always anticipate assbot's actual workings < - also the other way around.
xmj: fluffypony: ever heard of Kasoro (pty) Ltd. ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12028 @ 0.00082201 = 9.8871 BTC [-]
xmj: fluffypony: ok thanks
xmj: (you never know. this world is so damn small)
BingoBoingo: assbot and kakobrekla Confounding each other
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21200 @ 0.00082453 = 17.48 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13400 @ 0.00082244 = 11.0207 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 6 @ 0.29979109 = 1.7987 BTC [+] {3}
BigBitz: danielpbarron timtams from -otc runs LetsTalkBitcoin I think!
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 5 @ 0.2998 = 1.499 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: Who has time to listen to podcasts when reading is so much faster
novusordo: reading isn't faster while driving
BingoBoingo: novusordo: Driving is for listening to baseball games or hot stove
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 5 @ 0.2999 = 1.4995 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: Though with the non-waiver trade deadline having passed yesterday hot stove slows down for a bit
novusordo: bought a mattress from overstock, paying with bitcoin literally helps me sleep better at night.
assbot: Sergej Kotliar — Why Bitcoin is "religious"
ziggamon: curious about your feedback, been lurking around here and your blogs
kakobrekla: even though we have Luke-Jr over here, imo fiat is more religious than btc.
thickasthieves: follow-up thought on "cats don't love". Do babies love?
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: danielpbarron is an honest holy man. spreads the words of God's hate
BingoBoingo: ziggamon: So BTC is religious in the Cantor's going mad contemplating infinities and set theory way?
ziggamon: BingoBoingo: perhaps something like that
ziggamon: any religion starts with a cool magic trick. distributed consensus among among liars and thieves is a pretty neat trick
BingoBoingo: ziggamon: There's a long history of people surrounded by math feeling a touch of religion through the purity of the numbers
BingoBoingo: Pythagoras and his cult are usually the first ones people remember
ziggamon: I mean religious in quotes. as in something that is within the realm of belief. you must trust the invisible hand that powers the consensus mechanism.
BingoBoingo: ziggamon: Open source though means you can stare into the beast's heart
ziggamon: BingoBoingo: in a way. but also not, since the ecosystem is so much larger than the algorithm itself
ziggamon: it’s like the ouija board. you know what it looks like and you know that it’s your collective hands under the table moving it. but it appears unpredictable and magic
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ben_vulpes: <thickasthieves> follow-up thought on "cats don't love". Do babies love? what is love?
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ben_vulpes: are you familiar with the provenance of the face dancer name, bats_cd03 ?
bats_cd03: i even read some of the stuff in the universe written by the dude's son after he passed. wasn't good.
bats_cd03: though supposedly he had daddy's notes. hum.
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bats_cd03: asciilifeform: have any docs you think would be useful to someone doing firmware research on usb stack?
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ben_vulpes: bats_cd03: kinda why i don't give much truck to people complaining about how hard group "x" has it - there's always another group bitching about something.
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bats_cd03: dudes need to get over it or kill themselves.
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bats_cd03: The Egg vaguely reminds me of God's Debris
bats_cd03: which is also worth a read if you haven't. its written by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert.
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bats_cd03 adds killing a shark with a wasp knife to bucket list
ben_vulpes: oh hey look another lethal object to ban
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ben_vulpes: office assistant in this shop looks and smells so good
mircea_popescu: punkman: yes my bank is gonna give me a different IBAN just for Paypal << that's lulzy. srsly, tell the bank some script indian said iban is ambiguous. maybe you need a new ipban
mircea_popescu: (implying a man may look good but could never smell good)
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mircea_popescu: punkman: ahaha just figured it out, it's from the government's "social solidarity fund", no idea why I qualify for that shit << because you're poor!
mircea_popescu: His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, in his capacity as the Ruler of Dubai, has issued Law No. 7 of 2012 regarding social benefits for UAE nationals in Dubai.
mircea_popescu: The law stipulates the establishment of a ‘Social Solidarity Fund’ as part of the organisational structure of the Community Development Authority (CDA) with aims to enhance cooperation among society members and provide social welfare for eligible Emirati families.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what do you have in mind? i don't know her well enough to pimp her tits out (yet).
ben_vulpes: plus i don't know if it's that good of an idea to start diddling the help
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: punkman: Depends on how big the event is where the laptop is, and whether it is plugged in. << not really. plug your laptop into 110kv, the transformer wil blow, maybe the power entry will blow, the hdd won't blow.
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ben_vulpes: might just be that time of the month who knows
ben_vulpes: also i'm starting to suspect that hormonal birth control makes teh wimminz ultrasad due to not knowing that they're going through the usual hormonal flux. just 'cause there's no bleeding doesn't mean that there are no hormones flopping around.
chetty: screwin with de hormones causes all sorts of problems ...like higher chance of breast cancer ..
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mircea_popescu: but hey, it's the way nature usually hits one over the head. they want to live in a world where men don't kill their kids, no matter what. turns out that can be built, but the cost is they can also never be happy.
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ben_vulpes: pardon my ignorance, but what does bc have to do with infanticide?
assbot: Johnny Cash "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" - YouTube
mircea_popescu: A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down [...] But the stranger drew his gun and fired before he even saw.
mircea_popescu: so now here we go : they had no bc there, and as an indirect but quite certain consequence, that cowpoke'd have given any woman as many kids as she could carry.
mircea_popescu: but the woman in question wasn't happy with the idiocy control. so as a result... the guy wouldn't impregnate her anymore. and here we are.
mircea_popescu: technical solutions for problems that should never be solved.
mircea_popescu: let her cry her heart out and make a better one next time, i say.
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chetty: only someone that didnt spend nine months waddling would see it that way
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mircea_popescu: im not saying the female pov is illegitimate, merely unfortunate.
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chetty: hey mircea_popescu for once we agree
mircea_popescu: now someone wanted to see what white meant, days ago. well this is it. the ideology of early feudal lords.
ben_vulpes: on an entirely different topic, does anyone have a good hack for measuring the OD of a tube?
ben_vulpes: damned thing has a wide ring around its bottom though
mircea_popescu: cut strip of lined paper, put it around tube, divide by pee.
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ben_vulpes: i've always been the kind of learner who did best by wandering around the junkyard asking "what is this" of someone who knows than the kind of guy who comes up with the universal joint from first principles
ben_vulpes: (don't actually need the other human these days, but it's still a fun thing to do)
ben_vulpes: now i have to find a ruler somewhere in this shitshow
mircea_popescu: ok, no cali is one thing. no ruler ?! what do you mean by "shop" ?
ben_vulpes: dast i get a 1.25 ID pipe and trust it to fit?
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kuzetsa: 1.233 OD will fit in 1/38 ID
kuzetsa: but why are you nesting pipes inside each other?
kuzetsa: making a heat exchanger or something?
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The20YearIRCloud: RentalStarter conference call is going to be starting in a little over an hour
thickasthieves: Most impressively, the NASA team specifically built two Cannae Drives, including one that was designed to fail, and instead it worked. As the scientists write in their paper abstract: "thrust was observed on both test articles, even though one of the test articles was designed with the expectation that it would not produce thrust." That suggests the drive is "producing a force that is
thickasthieves: not attributable to any classical electromagnetic phenomenon," the scientists write.
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The20YearIRCloud: Which either disproves the test or disproves newton's law of motion
mircea_popescu: magnetism is by far the least understood macrophenomenon.
mircea_popescu: if magnetism was a chick, the only thing we'd know about her would be that it interacts with the cock (ie, electric field)
The20YearIRCloud: I hope that this test proves conservation of motion in space wrong and they can produce drives with the thrust possibilities as they believe are possible
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ben_vulpes: <kuzetsa> but why are you nesting pipes inside each other? << standing desk on the cheap
ben_vulpes: <The20YearIRCloud> I hope that this test proves conservation of motion in space wrong << i think you mean conservation of momentum
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chetty: An English blogger writing for the Nomen Global Language Center in Utah was fired for posting about “homophones” last week after his employer said the word was too close to “homosexual” and “homophobe.”
chetty: we are already living idiocracy
mircea_popescu: punkman: I thought unplugged laptop on shelf would be safe < you know you can actually calculate the induced current as a function of speed, field and the conductors in question.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: "Upgrading encryption software might mask communications for al-Qaida temporarily, but probably not for long, Schneier said. << schneier is such an unmitigated twerp.
mircea_popescu: no, they're not "our" credit cards they're stealing, they're ~the bank's~. and no, it's not because "vulnerabilities in software". it's because instead of waiting on every word here, the banks in question pay off twerps to pretend.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: well i'm just contrasting, two ways to write a bullshit article << word.
mircea_popescu: ziggamon: curious about your feedback, been lurking around here and your blogs << i had nfi one could write on tumblr.
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mircea_popescu: anyway, it's a scratch on the surface, the intuitions i suspect largely correct, but one could really go into a lot more detailed analysis on the topic. probably with the tools of the psychiatrist or antropologist.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: follow-up thought on "cats don't love". Do babies love? << no. this is well studied, first they consume, then they deject, then they love.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: schneier's a winblowz user. assumes pwnage.
ben_vulpes: which isn't really that bad an opsec notion.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the ethical expectation of mastery is that it may never say fundamentally wrong things. it may adapt fundamentally correct things to any audience, but it never say teh booboo.
mircea_popescu: schneier regularly says the booboo, which is what makes him such a fucking shitface.
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mircea_popescu: ziggamon: I mean religious in quotes. as in something that is within the realm of belief. you must trust the invisible hand that powers the consensus mechanism. << never trust a "mechanism". if you have to trust, pick someone to trust and trust them.
Namworld: What... Japanese trustee for MtGox's bankruptcy will look into if it is possible to do distribution in bitcoins?
Namworld: I'm surprised they'd make they effort to attempt it, would have imagined a straight liquidation of assets for distribution in fiat.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: a few friends of mine hack on a software-as-performance-art piece called OlegDB
ben_vulpes: that markov chain is a reference to "horse ebooks", and is either a markov chain or one of the hackers in question
ben_vulpes: OlegDB is a database that meets the bottom line head-on. It operates under a startling new enterprise-ready paradigm which we call MAYO: Marginally available Yolk and Oil database.
assbot: chikinpickle comments on What is life like for an unattractive man?
mircea_popescu: fucking whiners. what happened to being thankful for the scrap he got!
mircea_popescu: everyone figures himself the fucking president or something now.
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mircea_popescu: first, you allow all the failures in the pool. then, they figure they should count for something, they're there after all, no ? and next, since being a failure is easier, how about make it mandatory! and then have a vote about how things should be, with a million fucking failures everywhere.
ben_vulpes: this is life under the monogamous regime. one for one and all shall have one
mircea_popescu: i guess that may be, the brits ended up with a shitton of spinsters once they tried to be both sane and puritanically monogamous.
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Namworld: I remember high-school too. I remember also how people I never saw recognized me.
mircea_popescu: i remember running into teachers in town and them going "you know i've not seen you this year"
mircea_popescu: well this was like.. geography. who the fuck cares, buy a reference book.
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Namworld: Haha, filling of claims moved from novmeber 2014 to may 2015, and investigation of claims moved from February to September 2015.
Namworld: Well it's nice to see court proceedings. It sure ain't a fast process tho.
Namworld: [16:21] <+Namworld> What... Japanese trustee for MtGox's bankruptcy will look into if it is possible to do distribution in bitcoins?
Namworld: [16:22] <+Namworld> I'm surprised they'd make they effort to attempt it, would have imagined a straight liquidation of assets for distribution in fiat.
Namworld: I check it out every month or two, what's happening there.
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Namworld: Then MtGox's failure, even if they lose 90% of their BTC, will be a blessing because of the 10% they will not have been able to sell?
Namworld: Not so for those who had large amounts and expected to keep them that long, but eh
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski that ycombinator dude is beyond fucking stupid.
mircea_popescu: how did he got off the set of "dude, where's my car" anyway ?
mircea_popescu: on one hand, you have the fed fuckwits pumping money so as to protect "the economy". at the other end, the economy is this fuckwit. meanwhile argentina has to beat them over the head with a club,
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pete_dushenski: how altman found himself as president of anything more than the local car wash is a fucking mystery
pete_dushenski: i think i complimented him too much in drawing the comparison between the two
ben_vulpes: man you want to hear about branding gone wrong?
pete_dushenski: Airbnb iOS version 4.0.0: The Airbnb you know and love has a brand new look. Install the update and check it out! Featuring: 1) A new symbol designed to capture the spirit of our community and express what it means to belong anywhere. 2) Richer colours and more vibrant photography. 3) Booking trips, managing your listings, and other features continue to work the same way as before
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assbot: Confessions of a Reformed InCel | M3
mircea_popescu: this guy is so excited some article got 10k views.. wtf ?!
pete_dushenski: sorta says : i wish to feel young, swaggery, and european
pete_dushenski: "I as a man, biologically driven365 days a year to ejaculate and produce sperm as often as possible, and having the drive and desire to want it every waning moment, who is villified for this natural urge and made to feel ashamed of my sexuality, control it and subdue it to conform to the feminine imperative…"
mircea_popescu: it SEEMS like you'd do it 365 days a year, every waking moment, after a month in the can.
mircea_popescu: but after a month in the harem, it's like... mmm... wanna lick my asshole bebbeh ?
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pete_dushenski: m3 drivers do not under any circumstances take the girl home
pete_dushenski: they have a high maintenance gf to go with the high maintenance car
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pete_dushenski: and i'd somehow imagined that mircea_popescu was an only child...
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Namworld: My steam account has 3393.73 USD in games in it. Definitly didn't spend that much on them tho. Thanks Humble Bundles.
pete_dushenski: the M division drops in bigger engines, turbocharged these days, into the regular cars, adds larger brakes, etc
Namworld: I'm starting to have too many games.
assbot: MPOE-PR, almost two years in the swamp. An anthology. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is with these social media people, srsly. they'll take the faintest hint of nothing as clear proof of their importance.
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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: humans find patterns in the most benign shit. see chemtrails
mircea_popescu: yes but for most nuts those patterns aren't talking directly to them saying "omfg you're so important and we're paying attention to you!11"
pete_dushenski: and the m3 blogger looks to have toronto's skyline for a background
pete_dushenski: see construction bubble, mayor tom ford, ethereum fucktards, hipster deluge, etc
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pete_dushenski: suffice to say that nubbins` and i are 6,000km away from each other, and could be 7-8000 apart and still considered "in the same country"
thickasthieves: <+mircea_popescu> what the fuck is with these social media people, srsly. they'll take the faintest hint of nothing as clear proof of their importance. //// If it's measurable, it has value!
mircea_popescu: well canada's only one country on the grounds of there not being enough people in it to pay for two parliaments, amirite ?
pete_dushenski: brings to mind douglas adams' : "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
mircea_popescu: fucking social media english, it's practically chinese by now.
mircea_popescu: everyone got his own little ideographics and i need a dictionary to wade through the sad produce of idiots who can't be bothered to learn a language well.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: there are less populous countries than canada, but none on anywhere near this much land
assbot: Homeopaths vs. Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever – Respectful Insolence
mircea_popescu: "I can only imagine what a productive member of civilization i would be IF i was brought up with masculine values and was sexually sated. Instead i spent my life living out the following tale trying to figure out what my problem was and living as a manic bipolar depressive. Instead here i sit, a MGTOW, never finding enough reason or desire to become productive beyond my own means."
mircea_popescu: jesus this is like... the perfect excuse, isn't it ? "i can only imagine how productive i'd be if". har har.
pete_dushenski: … if i wasn't addicted to ice cream and ate a tub every single night
mircea_popescu: justusranvier what, they're going to africa to treat ebola through hidration ?
justusranvier: No, they inventing fake remedies from massively dilluted rattlesnake venom and selling them.
justusranvier: "If you're bleeding through your nose, use a 30 C dillution, if it gets worse and you start bleeding from your eyeballs, then increase the dilution to 50C!"
justusranvier: a 30C solution is duluted to 1x10^-300 of its original value
mircea_popescu: you can't really dilute anything past 10^-20ish or so.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, i suppose it's a good proof they don't grok objective reality.
xanthyos: homeopathy doesn't require any molecules of the original solution to remain. the theory is that it changes the resonance of surrounding water molecules in the same way that ice-nine worked in kurt vonnegut's "cat's cradle"
xanthyos: 6.02 X 10^23 hydrogens weighs 1 gram
xanthyos: so 10^60 is 37 orders of magnitude less concentrated than that
justusranvier: There are people who sell higher than 30C dilutions
The20YearIRCloud: i have a theory that everyone on the internet is a computer designed to interact with me. The reality is there was a global war 40 years ago that went nuclear, all countries do not exist, the US is the only one left
xanthyos: i tried to make homeopathic OJ by diluting it. it's just too sweet
The20YearIRCloud: I have never been outside of the United States, therefore it can't be prove that other countries do exist.
The20YearIRCloud: The sentient computer systems set up to emulate foreigner behavior makes said maps
xanthyos: why would a computer run that emulation when it seems so inefficient
assbot: Traditional Masculinity and Sexual Preferences
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ColinT: You a regular in here? :D
ColinT: I set it to join at some point - never really chatted in here though
ColinT: Nothing, client just automatically joins it
assbot: boy on a bike - YouTube
ColinT: Last couple months been going hard on a social location app for a client
ColinT: Not Bitcoin unfortunately, but not terrible!
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ColinT: What's new with you, holding luncheons, putting up posters? :D Hustle?
pete_dushenski: ColinT we have a few other app developers in here, such as ben_vulpes
ColinT: Oh cool, greetings ben_vulpes!
pete_dushenski: bitcoin-related stuff is blogging, hanging out here, and meet-ups
ColinT: Oh okay, yeah I didn't know if you were BTC full-time or not
pete_dushenski: need more skillz and knowledge for that. so here i am, sponging it up
ColinT: I can't imagine a better plan!
assbot: IRC Yeshiva | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
ColinT: I just call it research I guess heh
pete_dushenski: chetty: An English blogger writing for the Nomen Global Language Center in Utah was fired for posting about ?homophones? last week after his employer said the word was too close to ?homosexual? and ?homophobe.? << holy sweet mother of retardistan
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chetty: sadly this sort of outrage is showing up daily
ColinT: Gosh, all my research seems social ;D
ColinT: I'm not sure humans are the greatest at coming to intelligent conclusions in groups
ColinT: Too much subconscious "monkey psychology"
ColinT: I would so most of my research is solitary, not social
chetty: ColinT, this group, if you can call it that never seems to reach conclusions, just send all away with more homework
ColinT: I'm not someone who thinks rationally in groups - because groups of people don't think rationally
pete_dushenski: well, the people here aren't just "humans," we're full fledged people
ColinT: What is this some kind of cult?
chetty: nah, cults have leaders and ideas, a real lack of both around here
ColinT: Logical thinking is over-rated? ;D
ColinT: Nothing works without logic... Not even people
ColinT: Not even irrational people
ColinT: Emotion is still a type of logic
chetty: well the odd thought flow here tends to but unusal ideas next to each opther, produces some very interesting results
mircea_popescu: <ColinT> I'm not someone who thinks rationally in groups - because groups of people don't think rationally << depends on the group.
mircea_popescu: but no, emotion ain't no type o' logic i ever heard of.
ColinT: Human emotions are neural network based..
ColinT: So they are computed yes
chetty: I think there are some hormones in taht mix ..
ColinT: If we didn't feel pain when we put our hands on a hot stove - that would be a problem
ColinT: It's a type of reasoning that we do subconsciously in order to guide our actions in the world - it's implications go beyond hot stoves though
mircea_popescu: logic is a very narrowly, absolutely defined subclass of "computed"
mircea_popescu: ColinT a glass full of water is a glass-sized computator for water molecule position within a glass inside a gravitational field.
mircea_popescu: the major point of difference being that out of the glass, of water or of emotion, one can extract usable entropy. not so from logic, at all.
ColinT: But using it as a "computator", or its use as a "computator" has it following logical rules...
ColinT: As long as you don't change the shape of the glass, the gravitational field, etc
ColinT: I don't know what that means
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ColinT: Like I said, groups of people, monkeys ;D
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski buttventures!
mircea_popescu: that ain't maslow's pyramid for crying out loud. this is like the #1 libertard falsification topic or what ?!
ben_vulpes: hey what's the story with the GPG-login video?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18301 @ 0.00082768 = 15.1474 BTC [-]
ben_vulpes: hey linux users: how do you typically pipe stuff into your clipboard?
ben_vulpes: better question: what are the major CLI clipboard interfaces on linux? xclip...
assbot: What's like OSX's pbcopy for Linux - Super User
mthreat: I googled "pbcopy for linux"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20600 @ 0.00082199 = 16.933 BTC [-] {2}
kakobrekla: not a great month, suffering lack of volatility since december, this is being addressed.