assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9021 @ 0.00091043 = 8.213 BTC [-]
mike_c: cool, what's the screen from?
mike_c: you should make the text run vertically with lines in columns instead of rows. then do your best matrix impression.
kakobrekla: it has a built in matrix thingy, if you misaddress the pointer to the screen line it will automatrix.
kakobrekla: the purpose of this gadget is not irc. what is it? not tellin. do what i want.
lobbes: <mircea_popescu> there should be a new constitutional amendment. "no one may run for elected office, be it presidential, as member of congress or senate or any other, who can not recite the entirety of all laws, regulations etc" << Does that include all migratory bird treaties?
mike_c: lobbes: or.. there shouldn't be migratory bird treaties. it's like flat tax. simple, yet insufficient.
lobbes: yeah, it is pretty ridiculous
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9700 @ 0.0009142 = 8.8677 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7768 @ 0.00091019 = 7.0704 BTC [-]
kakobrekla: at this point, i would be surprised if you didnt!
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 253 @ 0.00407389 = 1.0307 BTC [+] {5}
kakobrekla: lol no, but numpad get in the way and im not much into numerical data entry.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24317 @ 0.00091545 = 22.261 BTC [+] {3}
kakobrekla: the only thing i miss is that far right enter for some reason but i have a programmable hw ps2 to usb converter and remaped keys / macros
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7500 @ 0.00091599 = 6.8699 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4789 @ 0.00091019 = 4.3589 BTC [-]
decimation: asciilifeform: I have found the extra function keys on my unicomp "model m like" keyboard to be extremely useful for emacs
kakobrekla: fyi you can remap any key to act as a layer switch so have n of different full layouts
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decimation: kakbrekla: do you mean something beyond the usual ctrl-meta combinations?
assbot: tmk/tmk_keyboard GitHub
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12500 @ 0.00090935 = 11.3669 BTC [-]
kakobrekla: you can do most if not all of those tricks in os instead but ps2 is becoming a rarity anyway.
assbot: Happy Buckling Keyboard
decimation: huh do they have a unicomp controller gizmo? I assume it's a clone of the model m with usb gadget
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5600 @ 0.00090834 = 5.0867 BTC [-]
kakobrekla: well you need to do that if you take it apart and put it together ... or what
assbot: Nut Bolt Mod for IBM Model M - Imgur
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14500 @ 0.00090834 = 13.1709 BTC [-]
assbot: Unicomp, Inc.: Spacesaver M / Mac OS X
decimation: so this layer hack is a function of the firmware on the keyboard?
kakobrekla: my setup takes in ps2 signal, but you can hook it up directly to the keyboard matrix
decimation: ah I see, so it's hardware "matrix switch"?
assbot: Teensy USB Development Board
kakobrekla: decimation scroll down that github page it should be clear
decimation: asciilifeform it seems that the meta-nsa doesn't exist in reality
decimation: Hayden emphasized that the personnel problems are far less significant than the technological ones: "The issue is not people but external changes. For the N.S.A., technology is a two-edged sword. If technology in the outside world races away from us -- at breakneck speed -- our mission is more difficult. It can be our enemy."
decimation: at any rate it's not clear to me that clowns like Hayden or Alexander would even recognize skills if they saw them
decimation: if such people exist, they are probably pretty sad these days, given the point made a few weeks ago about how they would have to live as paupers
decimation: well, it depends where they are on the pay scale I guess
assbot: Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA - Annual Rates by Grade and Step
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11919 @ 0.00090834 = 10.8265 BTC [-]
decimation: I wonder how many young technical folks joining the civil service are offered more than $60k?
peterl: who sells just one share of s.mg and s.nsa?
decimation: " Salary is commensurate with education and experience. Salary range: $52,146 to $116,90"
decimation: Come live in Maryland, pay $500k for house with schools, get paid $80k per year - for your country
decimation: this goes back to Mircea's point - USG "wants" things, but it can't really afford them - it's running on the "fumes" of past memories
peterl: kakobrekla: You think he has enough money to afford that much?
kakobrekla: peterl i imagine faucets still paying out
decimation: asciilifeform:
http://www.nsa.gov/careers/FAQs/index.shtml Below are entry-level salaries (including locality pay) for several different skill fields. (Entry-level is defined as having a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.) Language Analysis & Intelligence Analysis $42,209 Computer Science $55,293 * Mathematics $51,894 * Computer/Electrical Engineering $56,375*
assbot: Frequently Asked Questions about the National Security Agency (NSA)
mike_c: peterl: it looked like fabian was testing mpex tools.
decimation: ah the model M terminal keyboard to usb hack is cool
decimation: I still don't understand why serial terminals went out of style, seems like the perfect solution to point of sale units, etc
decimation: that's pretty much the equivalent of breaking windows, replacing them with more expensive (yet worse) windows (heh), and counting the whole project as a net positive GDP
gribble: Current Blocks: 314484 | Current Difficulty: 1.8736441558310238E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 314495 | Next Difficulty In: 11 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 hour, 39 minutes, and 37 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 19724887807.2 | Estimated Percent Change: 5.27553
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 415114.30 in 66 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -39.59
assbot: IBM Model M F1 122 Key Vintage Terminal Keyboard Cleaned Bolt Mod USB Converted | eBay
decimation: probably worth the price if you are in a hurry
decimation: so this means the controller must poll?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10850 @ 0.00090945 = 9.8675 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: decimation: it will be interesting to see what happens to the bitcoin price when the COIN ETF turns on << "Paper" BTC sell
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35231 @ 0.00090819 = 31.9964 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34781 @ 0.00090319 = 31.4139 BTC [-] {2}
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 592.9, Best ask: 592.99, Bid-ask spread: 0.09000, Last trade: 592.99, 24 hour volume: 5334.71653921, 24 hour low: 579.0, 24 hour high: 595.0, 24 hour vwap: 0
mircea_popescu: all these noobs going join/part are kinda lulzy by now
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you're doing it wrong. kbd should be in front of monitor not behind
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what's the deal with lordosis?
TheNewDeal: currently on the search for a % base graph of bitcoin days destroyed
TheNewDeal: lordosis shows party girl vs mommy status
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you mean the lordosis ~behaviour~ it's this female mammal response to being hawt.
mircea_popescu: step 1. set down bottle without looking. part 2. set it down on usb stick. step 3. bottle overturns and falls over, exactly cork down. part 4. nothing further happens.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: in that picture you said you could tell who was wifed, as they weren't displaying lordosis
ben_vulpes: is that a function of having borne young or not feeling hawt?
mircea_popescu: dude. lordosis just like that is usually a pathologic curvature of the spine. teh lordosis ~behaviour~ is different.
mircea_popescu: and the idea was only boring women get married anyway.
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mircea_popescu: decimation: Hayden emphasized that the personnel problems are far less significant than the technological ones << well, i disagree. now, from a bureaucrat pov, sure, they generally can fill any jobs they want filled, according to their selection process. this however does not mean they are gaining any sort of valuable human capital.
mircea_popescu: decimation: at any rate it's not clear to me that clowns like Hayden or Alexander would even recognize skills if they saw them << precisely. suppose they DO recognise them, like, "this chick looks like she could suck a golfball through a gardenhose." now what ? the last guy that recognised that skill lost his job.
mircea_popescu: it's the easiest skill to recognise, too. so... not much hope. they're hiring people, sure, but people only google/microsoft/apple/amazon would hire if they didn't.
TheNewDeal: MP, whered you get the idea for the brk-a bet?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:they aren't rich, in the customary sense - but not paupers. << compare what'd happen to the us bureaucrat pauper vs the russian bureaucrat once someone in a hostile nation put the kaibosh on them. they're paupers.
assbot: An era ends today. A new era starts today. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, gotta show the kids what it means to be the boss and what a boss does.
mircea_popescu: otherwise they may end up bamboozled by the nonsense fetishism of pseudo-power the ycombinator swamp is pusing, "in order to interact with power acceptably you must give it away in exchange for the trappings of it". tlp discusses the matter extensively and well.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ;;google senior executive service pay << these folk get options. whole different story, as bubbles happen 3-5 times in a lifetime.
TheNewDeal: just curious. I was trying to make a bet on MMM on a BTC basis in the past, and it kept on getting rejected. The brk-a bet surfaced not too long after
mircea_popescu: well, the brk bet had the major advantage of 1k zeroconf. that has ~0% chances of being rejected.
TheNewDeal: no doubt. I think it's a great bet, and a somewhat ballsy one as well
mircea_popescu: it already paid lulz in spades. buffett held his yearly meet, supposedly "couldn't find any short". just the embarassment of that...
mircea_popescu: yes. i mean they claimed to want to invite someone who's short their thing, but to not be able to find one.
mircea_popescu: as far as i'm concerned, when the luminaries of the previous generation are careful to avoid playing you, more recognition is not really needed. it'll come, of course, but it's moot.
TheNewDeal: I am curious to see how confident investors are after his death.
TheNewDeal: I don't know how much he actually does for the company, but he is quite the figure head
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4400 @ 0.00088024 = 3.8731 BTC [-]
TheNewDeal: bet also presents a decent hedging opportunity. Speaking of which, I'm loving all these active price bets lately
mircea_popescu: but yeah, kinda surpriosed not more people are trying to arbitrage it, short brk bet on no sorta thing
assbot: [MPEX] [FT] [X.EUR] 281 @ 0.00229033 = 0.6436 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10600 @ 0.00087258 = 9.2493 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18429 @ 0.0008654 = 15.9485 BTC [-]
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 410974.74 in 61 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -40.19
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.03 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 3737.96 GH/s
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021697 B (Total: 474.46 B). Delta: -0.06 B. Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00021999 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1111 @ 0.00194866 = 2.165 BTC [+] {4}
steven-__: thanks, mircea_popescu any thoughts on the no agenda show? searched on trilema but couldn't find anything.
steven-__: its a news / comedy show but it also has a strong fan base that sends in tips they broke that bo birddog? story pretty much the house it happened
steven-__: no it has nothing to do with bitcoin
mircea_popescu: ah cool. well it's the first time i see this thing, seems it appeared sometime last week. what's it, like some sort of internet radio show basically ?
steven-__: they have been doing 2 shows a week for almost 600 eps
steven-__: in the same way b-a is sort of a internet chat room
assbot: Richard Quest, CNN Reporter, Arrested On Drug Charges [Printable]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 700 @ 0.00195 = 1.365 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2700 @ 0.00087233 = 2.3553 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10198 @ 0.00087233 = 8.896 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28800 @ 0.00086946 = 25.0404 BTC [-] {3}
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 410190.41 in 60 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -40.31
gribble: Current Blocks: 314514 | Current Difficulty: 1.9729645940577133E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 316511 | Next Difficulty In: 1997 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 5 days, 11 hours, 33 minutes, and 0 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 23740552664.0 | Estimated Percent Change: 20.32934
assbot: Fund Coin Fire on Bitcoin Starter! - Coin Fire
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4801 @ 0.0008724 = 4.1884 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: * ChanServ removes voice from adrrr * assbot gives voice to adrrr << Can't Chanserv and assbot learn to get along?
xmj: BingoBoingo: not invented here
xmj: assbot: is a case of NIH
mircea_popescu: "Mike (Executive Editor) - Mike has been following Bitcoin for the last several months and got fed up of sites that are full of advertisements and didn’t provide the latest news"
mircea_popescu: last several months by now. looking forward to convergence towards "two weeks"
mircea_popescu: Sponsors : earn bitcoin for clicking ads, win bitcoins today etc. so much win.
mircea_popescu: "The fund which received regulator approval from the Isle of Jersey back in back in July and was set to launch this month has joined The Bitcoin Foundation as a Silver Member."
BingoBoingo: Yeah, So the solution requesting money kickstarter style with... Ads as compensation... but no adult ads please (paraphrasing their crowdfunding page)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in my inbox, "Hemant.Gupta.d1:58 am 70 million Email list @ 199$ limited period offer."
assbot: Dribbble - Hemant Gupta
mircea_popescu: "Here we are just a few short months later and we’ve heard from various people in the industry that we are quickly creating one of the most reliable cryptocurrency news sites and we’ve gathered up a team of kick ass volunteers to help us grow this madness out."
mircea_popescu: 0 backers pledged 0.00090000 Ƀ 38 days to go << how the fuck does that work.
BingoBoingo: "Here we are just a few short months later and we’ve heard from various people in the industry that we are quickly creating one of the most reliable cryptocurrency news sites and we’ve gathered up a team of kick ass volunteers to help us grow this madness out." << Is this in reference to the pats on the back for making a phone call and finding out "insured wallet" wasn't insured?
gribble: coinfire was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 weeks, 6 days, 14 hours, 45 minutes, and 32 seconds ago: <CoinFire> Thanks for the invite! :)
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell coinfire how about i give you a bitcoin in exchange for not being retarded anymore.
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea how all these murican types mange to get through college. seems to me the most, the BY FAR MOST difficult thing for them is sitting the fuck down, keeping quiet and paying attention.
mircea_popescu: o no, gotta express oneself. here we are after just a few short month on the campus, with something to say on all topics and we always wanted to try the swamp out!
BingoBoingo: Hangovers? Easy way to sit the fuck down and keep quiet.
BingoBoingo: Then the self expressing sort pass because the professors hangovers mercifully keep them from paying attention to self expression
BingoBoingo: Will collapse eventually because the snake can't grow faster than it can eat itself
gribble: DreadKnight was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 days, 22 hours, 56 minutes, and 49 seconds ago: <DreadKnight> that's not how you play frogger
assbot: Vat of eggnog flavoring explodes at lab; 2 hurt
DreadKnight: a bit caught up with silly freelancing atm; and the heat doesn't help xD
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so, accident at the distillery in edinburgh. one dead. work safety inspection follows. inspector interviews eyewitness workers
mircea_popescu: "so how did it happen ?" "well, billy mcglurgh was balancing above the main vat when he fell in"
assbot: [SCAM IPO] AcoinL.L.C; Smack_That_Ace; www.Localpunter.com [SCAM IPO]
BingoBoingo: I just love the people calling scams now are people advertising and soliciting IPO help
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, sounds good, compared to 32 degrees here (I'm more of a winter / cold person)
mircea_popescu: lol "a professional" ==== "someone who gave <tips> on a forum populated by retards"
assbot: Smack That Ace is using a ring of accounts to create scams!
DreadKnight: I got so many PM offers on bitcointalk to sell my account
assbot: Stiinta si pseudostiinta pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight it's an absolute cesspool. i doubt 4chan could make a worse one if they tried.
BingoBoingo: "Through there passes the hand of job and speaks:" << This needs used more.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, I agree regarding the forum; will check some of alternatives as well
DreadKnight: regarding freelancing, mainly graphics (2d / 3d) and various computer stuff (helping people with crowd funding for example)
DreadKnight: Internet is full of that so I didn't bothered with it, but I could do
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14800 @ 0.00087206 = 12.9065 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: London Film and Comic Con 2014 - YouTube
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, are you looking to get your older blog posts translated or only write in romanian and get constant conversion?
assbot: MPEx securities discussion thread
mircea_popescu: i don't think mine are even translatable in the first place. maybe by someone that's mentally ill and quite drunk.
DreadKnight: that chick has less views on the video than her number of subscribers, that's really bad
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, yeah, would be wanting to translate your blog posts for sure lol
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i don't think mine are even translatable in the first place. maybe by someone that's mentally ill and quite drunk. << Even then it always took me so many iterations to even come close
mircea_popescu: i knew i should have put "who gets lucky" in there too
mircea_popescu: " I would rather trust my funds with Cryptostocks than MPEx" well that's a winning proposition for sure. i would say he should, and that'll be punishment enough.
DreadKnight: my badly rushed grammar got stucked in that bash xD
mircea_popescu: never rush grammar for one never knows when the amber's droplet's about to drop.
DreadKnight: so I found this awesome commenting system / forum a while ago, but the devs stick with a manifest to not allow editing posts for too long; and even the devs make no sense in posts at times xD
mircea_popescu: monthold acct, tryin to fight the good fight among the nuts, it's one of you gais isn;'t it
DreadKnight: they don't seem to be accepting bitcoins yet
mircea_popescu: "WoT is a gimmick just like GPG. 99.9% of bitcoin businesses don't take it seriously." o the win in that. lmao.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight do they seem to be making 10 bux a day yet ?
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, they seem to be making more, nice SaaS business plan compared to disqus, but I don't like not being able to edit posts, so will keep my distance
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 120 @ 0.00431082 = 0.5173 BTC [+] {3}
mircea_popescu: lmao that guy is going to be so much fun in a decade or so. i r hope someone's saving jjmothy's derpage, just in case he goes all goat later on
BingoBoingo: Maybe if .lk guy show up again we can see if he'll put a bow on that package
DreadKnight: regarding listing something on MPEx etc, only the IPO brings in money overall, so would rather buy part of the stocks myself for cheap and sell them later? or advertise the IPO to a lot of people?
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, still trying to figure out the whole listing business, most articles are about buying stock, not listing
DreadKnight: if I were to list Ancient Beast to get funding for it
mircea_popescu: problem there would be that your putative investors would have relatively little reason to believe you won't simply walk after the listing.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19600 @ 0.00086897 = 17.0318 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: Safest option would be prolly one where Ancient Beast comes into the S.MG fold
mircea_popescu: maybe, but i was kinda planning on eulora having an in-game card game, in the style of arcomage in mm6/7
mircea_popescu: (obviously. for the record, any "like" i do re eulora must be prepended with "Except better". and appended too, for safety)
DreadKnight: by Jason Jute, who does a lot of Wizards of the Coast cards
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, feel free to link me to that blog you said it needs translated
DreadKnight: ;;later tell mircea_popescu feel free to link me to that blog you said it needs translated; taking a look at solforge atm, I'm not too much into card games, but it has a very nice website at least :) seems the game was crowd funded
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11449 @ 0.00086897 = 9.9488 BTC [-]
chetty: <DreadKnight> mircea_popescu, are you designing Eulora?// and redesigning too!
DreadKnight: chetty, are you trying out the prototype from time to time or what?
chetty: I am actively coding the game DreadKnight
DreadKnight: ;;later tell mircea_popescu seems solforge is not browser based and there are no linux / mac versions, pff
DreadKnight: chetty, oh; I don't know much about it though, seems a bit underground atm
chetty: well its early alpha but there is a server running and we have channel here #eulora
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13100 @ 0.00086638 = 11.3496 BTC [-]
gribble: Current Blocks: 314529 | Current Difficulty: 1.9729645940577133E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 316511 | Next Difficulty In: 1982 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 6 days, 5 hours, 7 minutes, and 12 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 23707652761.2 | Estimated Percent Change: 20.16259
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 408602.59 in 56 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -40.54
DreadKnight: <mircea_popescu> maybe, but i was kinda planning on eulora having an in-game card game, in the style of arcomage in mm6/7 <-- well, I'm not making a MMORPG, so no direct competition xD plus I already have the combat system for my project in place
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11681 @ 0.00086662 = 10.123 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4900 @ 0.00086756 = 4.251 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6101 @ 0.00086881 = 5.3006 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15221 @ 0.00087098 = 13.2572 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6450 @ 0.00086756 = 5.5958 BTC [-]
assbot: Installing Eulora - Eulorum
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35355 @ 0.00086587 = 30.6128 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15429 @ 0.00087098 = 13.4384 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: DreadKnight: Wait, 1337 haxxors use Hushmail nao?
BigBitz: Heh Hushmail got dem privkeysm yo.
BigBitz: DreadKnight you should get oneTab.
DreadKnight: BingoBoingo, that email address extends the joke :D
DreadKnight: BigBitz, looking into it, I'm actually using something similar that saves memory from idle tabs
assbot: Chrome Web Store - TabMemFree
DreadKnight: hushmail was only used to go along with "hush QQ" part (as in "stop crying from so much buthurt" type of thing)
DreadKnight: seems OneTab is more popular and better rated
DreadKnight: TabMemFree kinda pawned some of my tabs at times, had to do manual work to recover each idle one, not cool
DreadKnight: had a feeling something good will come out of that screenie :D
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16636 @ 0.00087158 = 14.4996 BTC [+] {2}
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 407061.53 in 51 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -40.76
assbot: Charting culture - YouTube
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26300 @ 0.00087047 = 22.8934 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22750 @ 0.0008721 = 19.8403 BTC [+] {2}
thickasthieves: <+mircea_popescu>
https://dribbble.com/hemant_gupta99 prolly not this guy, but... dribble ?! /// you might have some respect for dribbble.com, I forget the whole story by now, but it was started by an elitist graphic designer as an invite-only community meant to prioritize quality. Sorta like a WoTty deviant art. I havent followed it for years tho...
assbot: Dribbble - Hemant Gupta
thickasthieves: wait maybe it's still kinda there "All players (members who can post shots) are drafted (invited) by members. Having members take responsibility for those they draft sharpens the focus on sharing interesting work."
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22002 @ 0.00087451 = 19.241 BTC [+] {2}
mike_c: ether bought at inflated prices.
chetty: omg, its on sale, must have somes, somes what?, doesn't matter its on sale!
thickasthieves: like those tv shows with women getting $3000 of hand soap for $3
mike_c: I mean.. i actually feel that pull. 1,000 BTC of ether sold yesterday, and I can get it for 40% of the cost they paid.
thickasthieves: the more people buy now, the harder it will fall later
chetty: 3000$ of soap, whats that 3 lifetime supply?
mike_c: but the background video on their homepage is so freaking cool
mike_c: scam aside, the design actually isn't bad.
gribble: Current Blocks: 314554 | Current Difficulty: 1.9729645940577133E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 316511 | Next Difficulty In: 1957 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 5 days, 5 hours, 33 minutes, and 0 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 22448156450.1 | Estimated Percent Change: 13.77881
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 22448156450.1 based on data since last change | 19915841778.6 based on data for last three days
chetty: must protect the innocent ya know
chetty wonders how many people got killed by dropping them water and food
mike_c: "the pesh merga now complain of being short on ammunition and outgunned by militants who have seized caches of advanced U.S. military equipment from the Iraqi army."
chetty: must equally equip the sides, or its not FAIR
pankkake: Bitcoin is an open protocol for online decentralized transactions. In the Bitcoin P2P network, there are transaction processors (nodes called "minors") and nodes that perform transactions using a wallet. Everyone can be an auditor ("minor") and everyone can send and receive bitcoins, without necessarily being a "minor".
pankkake: mineur can mean miner and minor, in French
pankkake: and of course Bitcoin is used mostly by 15 year olds
davout: lol where the fuck is that?
assbot: Paymium | The European exchange
davout: lol, i'll leave it like that, for the lulz
davout: i'll add a mention about assymetric crypto
decimation: maybe that is where the COIN fund will buy BTC
assbot: Netagio Securely Buy, Sell and Store Your Bitcoins and Gold
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 407121.03 in 50 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -40.76
assbot: The Lie Behind 1.2 Billion Stolen Passwords
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17937 @ 0.00087293 = 15.6577 BTC [-]
decimation: apparently the Netagio exchange pays a 0.1% rebate per trade if they are out-of-the-money, to encourage liquidity. In-the-money trades are charged 0.5% fee
gribble: User 'decimation', with keyid 106FEE1B40AA2A95, fingerprint 22B34B42FE4414F836EBACD6106FEE1B40AA2A95, and bitcoin address None, registered on Fri Apr 25 00:22:58 2014, last authed on Thu Aug 7 14:40:39 2014.
http://b-otc.com/vg?nick=decimation . Currently authenticated from hostmask decimation!~decimatio@unaffiliated/decimation .
BigBitz: are you affiliated with them decimation? :)
decimation: nope, just curious, I don't even have an account there. That is why I am soliciting information from those who may have.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 291 @ 0.00235 = 0.6839 BTC [-] {3}
mike_c: wasn't there a guy in here doing the first-best-greatest UK btc exchange?
assbot: Custom Porn and Bitcoin Story | Banks Worst Fear
chetty: <mike_c> wasn't there a guy in here doing the first-best-greatest UK btc exchange?// at least 3 times
decimation: mike_c yeah I vaguely remember that guy
mike_c: BingoBoingo: that girl's a worker. good for her.
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Yeah bespoke porn is an under rated niche
decimation: the netagio exchange is affiliated with goldmoney (is a spinoff) which has a good rep for gold trading, as far as I know
BigBitz: That's CoinFloor isn't it?
mike_c: two letters. math is hard.
BigBitz: Oh netagio you mean, no... Nefario (if I recall) is involved with CoinFloor.
decimation: yeah the choice of name is unfortunate for them
assbot: Yahoo To Add PGP Encryption For Email - Slashdot
BingoBoingo: decimation: Unfortunate enough to illustrate they don't know the space they have chosen to operate in
mike_c: two letters different is better than kraken
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9500 @ 0.00087023 = 8.2672 BTC [-] {2}
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: and just as i was setting up a new @yahoo email account ;)
BingoBoingo: Well, PGP as a browser plugin seems horrid.
BingoBoingo: Pretty soon there are going to be all these new public keys and no idea if the person you are mailing to is just letting Yahoo of a JS plugin do the decryption
pankkake: I have not seen any mention of PGP in the actual sources
pankkake: they're actually mentionning inventing something new, together with google…
pete_dushenski: they don't use it by name, just "end-to-end encryption" or some such
pete_dushenski: not sure where derpy blogger got the idea that pgp is anywhere involved
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24897 @ 0.00086986 = 21.6569 BTC [-] {2}
BingoBoingo: Yahoo has an odd history of who it partners with, bouncing back and forth between Google and Microsoft.
chetty: <pete_dushenski> and that yahoo is working with google is… the end// dun dun dun
BigBitz: Google: The Internet Police.
chetty: yahoo: police cadet corps.
assbot: Democracy vs. Aristocracy | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
BigBitz: yeah but they give up the keys if the .gov ask.
pete_dushenski: thickasthieves: here, condoms are pgp, ripped condoms are hushmail, and bareback is gmail
mike_c: inb4 women who want a baby!
pete_dushenski: ok, a really cheap condom that is highly likely to break
pete_dushenski: so pgp is trojan, hushmail is some flavoured thing from a bathroom vending machine
pete_dushenski: hushmail looks intact and you probably can't see clearly enough to care if it isn't so, y'know, good enough
BigBitz: Hushmail is the condom with the pin through it.
pete_dushenski: AndreasMAntonopoulos @aantonop "I’ve been asked to appear as a witness to present information and Q&A at a Canadian Senate hearing on Bitcoin. Should I say yes or not?"
pete_dushenski: obviously, derpopolous should take this opportunity to tell the federalis how the blockchain is going to decentralize smart contracts and replace bureaucrats with dacs
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17616 @ 0.00087074 = 15.339 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: Squeegee men are back terrorizing NYC streets | New York Post
BigBitz: How is he such 'important' to people pete_dushenski?
pete_dushenski: he was at the right place at the right time to lead a bunch of redditards to their doom
BigBitz: Ah yes - he was the NeoBee moron.
pete_dushenski: he was an inspirational speaker compared to anyone else at the time
BigBitz: Yet he's got some sort of accolade.
pete_dushenski: he also finagled his way into a cto positions at blockchain.info
pete_dushenski: where he famously went on a weeklong radio silence vacation right then bc.info was getting haxxored the hardest
BigBitz: Yeah I saw that as well...
BigBitz: that made me laugh, a lot.
assbot: The Five Biggest Threats Facing CoinDesk and Anyone Who Reads It | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14689 @ 0.00086994 = 12.7785 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: Can I make anonymous btc donations to myself in order to clean my cash so I can spend it? : Bitcoin
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 15.70883608 BTC to 1`149`988 shares, 1366 satoshi per share
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 200 @ 0.01475 = 2.95 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.62830088 BTC to 12`777 shares, 12744 satoshi per share
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] [PAID] 3.39773396 BTC to 29`438 shares, 11542 satoshi per share
moiety: ;; later tell mircea_popescu i didn't talk to them, it was a message left. unsure what to do with the phone line?
moiety: its an ongoing thing BingoBoingo not going so well
assbot: Please stop vote brigading. : Buttcoin
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10600 @ 0.00087322 = 9.2561 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell moiety unsure what to do with the phone line? << iirc it was prepaid for a year, did a btc's worth of call answering run out already ?
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight yeah solforge is one of these tablet/steam only types of things. a lot of people are (stupidly) going that way these days.
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 404777.01 in 45 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -41.10
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 69 @ 0.01491943 = 1.0294 BTC [+] {3}
BingoBoingo: Finally under 50 blocks until we find out what diff does next
moiety: It's been three months. It's been extremely quiet for the past two. I did say at the time, should we not do a month or three to see how it went is what i mean mircea_popescu.
assbot: How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi | Threat Level | WIRED
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33497 @ 0.00086805 = 29.0771 BTC [-] {3}
mircea_popescu: moiety kinda good to have in the background sort of thing imo. that's kinda the idea, i never expected any significant sort of volume.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, really find that way stupid as well; wasn't very excited about steam coming to linux in the first place, but maybe someday SteamOS consoles will be popular, like OUYA was somewhat expected, but until then, steam is an extra layer, just to get more ads and see a ton of "your friend is not playing dota2"
DreadKnight: got a medium range tablet and it's still crappy thing compared to a pc
mircea_popescu: maybe i'm not quite as radical as pankkake about it, but i defo don't like em.
DreadKnight: the web was supposed to be "the thing" imo, not packaged apps for more linux based distros each having their own store
pankkake: Steam seems popular with Windows users, it seems to be one of the less intrusive "stores"
pankkake: and IIRC not all games from Steam come with DRM
mircea_popescu: well for windows users rape in an alley is an improvement.
chetty: DreadKnight, to answer your earlier question, no I am not running gentoo
DreadKnight: chetty, oh, no +1 for being nerdy stat then xD
BingoBoingo: This thing with steam is you can sandbox it somewhere, as opposed to iOS
ben_vulpes: to the dylan song, and re centos: "everything must run as root!"
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, when my wordpress got hacked, I didn't get such a nice page left in place T_T
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4200 @ 0.00086612 = 3.6377 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: that didn't look like a wp hack, incidentally. they lost root.
assbot: Untitled Prezi by Donovan Rosales on Prezi
mircea_popescu: basically computer hacking and viral/bacterial infection are by now so very similar...
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 590.06, Best ask: 591.41, Bid-ask spread: 1.35000, Last trade: 590.04, 24 hour volume: 4967.44468410, 24 hour low: 583.93, 24 hour high: 595.0, 24 hour vwap: 0
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28200 @ 0.00087061 = 24.5512 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: verification link no worky on bet doge drop
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 404777.01 in 45 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -41.10
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 41 @ 0.01492 = 0.6117 BTC [+]
assbot: BitBet - Dogecoin to keep sinking :: 0.08 B (80%) on Yes, 0.02 B (20%) on No | closing in 3 months 1 week| weight: 99`993 (100`000 to 1)
gribble: dotcoin was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 12 weeks, 5 days, 18 hours, 18 minutes, and 5 seconds ago: <dotcoin> if you see only 80k tomorrow on sale means 20k are sold you need a calculator for that
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell dotcoin No come lately here around, why?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11984 @ 0.00087233 = 10.454 BTC [+]
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu seems people have trouble following instructions !
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19100 @ 0.00087233 = 16.6615 BTC [+]
assbot: Am about to go homeless, could use some help
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu:DreadKnight do you get your gribble pms ? <-- oh actually no, got confused; I looked through the log
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 41 @ 0.0149351 = 0.6123 BTC [+]
fluffypony: every time I try and have a rational discussion with Jimmothy I want to stab him in the face.
chetty: fluffypony, the world is full of em
pankkake: the thread lacks a funny factor
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: But if you stab Jimmothy in the face suddenly everyone will buy MPEx seats!
fluffypony: "A seat would mean there are a limited amount and you can sell your own seat. On mpex you can buy a "seat" and sell unlimited seats to other naive investonomers."
DreadKnight was thinking about stabbing people in the face and smiling
pankkake: I read his last posts, just sad hardcore bagholding
fluffypony: by definition, unless MPEX drops it's 30 BTC fee it will become progressively more expensive
fluffypony: until it is so cost-prohibitive that basically nobody can afford one
fluffypony: so there you go, there's a limited amount
mike_c: who cares semantics? call it a membership.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 40 @ 0.0149499 = 0.598 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: Coinpal.com Stocks - 18740 (worth 0.001 each) for 5BTC
chetty: folks enjoy arguing over anything but the substance of what is
assbot: [ActiveMining] Official Shareholder Discussion Thread [Moderated]
pankkake: there's really nothing left to salvage
kakobrekla: >There are numerous reports saying bitbet scammed users.
kakobrekla: fuck you i report your report to reporter of the reporting reportuity
assbot: Bitcoin Forum - The Unofficial Bitcoin Forum
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: no, not apart from the occasional frustrating interaction on Bitcointalk
fluffypony: every time it makes me want to stab him a little more
mircea_popescu: he's been on this bash mpex for nonsensical reason for much too long by now.
mircea_popescu: there's no possibility of any sort of rational process involved, he's some guy who figures he's going to "do damage" to mpex by being stupid online.
mircea_popescu: not bothering to consider that if THAT'S how things worked it'd have been lights out a long time ago.
mircea_popescu: to some degree he's educated tho, he displays about the same low level sophisms in general use by th population of online libtards
BigBitz: fluffypony plz2bai new hat.
mike_c: it doesn't seem he's just on a bash mpex kick. he bashes everything.
mircea_popescu: mike_c ah ok. well i only see the occasional snippets people post @me once they're going all rage-y.
mircea_popescu: BigBitz how can you be poor, you been mining for long enough
BigBitz: you must be mistaking me, mircea_popescu.
DreadKnight: I am poor too, trying to not be jelly on simple games that made lots of money
BigBitz: I mined for about a month...
BigBitz: but I didn't get into Bitcoin for some time. April 2013.
BigBitz: So I didn't amass much. Such a shame, really, I first 'found' Bitcoin in Summer 2009... Sigh... what could have been mircea_popescu :)
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, so if you still need freelancer or whatever, lol *cough*
BigBitz: I could have been half as rich as you mircea_popescu ;)
DreadKnight: people who don't have the rich mentality get back to being poor in no time
BigBitz: twice would have made me as rich \o/
BigBitz: DreadKnight it's a state of mind :)
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight what, him ? but he don't speakz romanians.
DreadKnight: I used to think I need to know a lot of nerdy stuff and work hard to earn, then I started seeing people playing games and making way more with less work xD
mircea_popescu: <DreadKnight> I am poor too, trying to not be jelly on simple games that made lots of money << you are probably making the mistake of mentally restricting the universe to some sort of schoolyard definition of "merit"
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, meant me regarding translation :P
DreadKnight: but yeah, I'm still figuring out things regarding mentality
mircea_popescu: uh. im still trying to pin down exactly what it was you do. originally figured some coder guy, then you wanted to do 3d models, now you want to translate
BigBitz: He's a 3D modelling coder.
DreadKnight: true, I spend a lot of time on computer usually, told you before, jack of all trades atm, hopefully will specialize and stick with one thing, but sounds boring
mircea_popescu: "Hi, my name is Sean Martin. I have been active on these forums for three years now. I am an aspiring guitarist that has an important message to share with the world and a unique style and huge potential to make it big." << dank is incredibly fixated on his guitar stuff.
BigBitz: 3D Coding. While rock climbing.
mircea_popescu: "My struggle is that due to my honesty and adamancy to share what I learned through my journeys, many have come to judge me rather than seek to understand me."
assbot: Guitar guy at the party - YouTube
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14548 @ 0.00087607 = 12.7451 BTC [+]
chetty: <mircea_popescu> dem hippies need daily beatings.// are they worth the effort?
DreadKnight: that image goes to my "cute or funny" collection
chetty: wes all got needs, pppfftt
mircea_popescu: can only imagine what tom green'd have done with that one
mike_c: likely more fingers in the ass.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19347 @ 0.00087207 = 16.8719 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: Mike Birbiglia: What I Should Have Said, Was Nothing - YouTube
mircea_popescu: "i'm one of the like 50k us people that can tell a story. i got my own website and seminars."
DreadKnight: "This video is not available in your country." sigh right
DreadKnight: I can see any vid, but hate when there are internet restrictions full of bs
DreadKnight: it's like youtube is saying "ew, you are in THAT country, ew, gtfo" xD
kakobrekla: put on 3d coding glasses, maybe those can translate.
mircea_popescu: "I am currently living in a hotel room day to day and only have a couple days left before I will be homeless. This is bad because once I am without a place to live, it will only become harder to find one."
mircea_popescu: "I plan on recording a music video with a girl which will help me gain validity and virality."
DreadKnight: I don't get people living in hotels; know a dude around here that does that and works at a supermarket, the math is not right
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight banks won't lend to peons. owners won't rent to deadbeats. sink low enough, it's either a cheap motel or the park.
DreadKnight: yeah, you're probably right, the guy is pretty deadbeat mircea_popescu
DreadKnight: know a 40 year old something that was supposed to be making a MMO, spend about 10 years with 4 pc's in his face while having no real skill, trying to make others to work on his MMORPG for a share of the profits xD finally gave up and now making a trading card game using Unity3d
DreadKnight: made like a few crowd funding campaigns, all failed; raised 300 bucks tops which he spend on a crappy engine license and a mocap animation pack (while not having proper characters)
mircea_popescu: "the traditional route : years of rejection and failure untill she's finally spit out the bottom of the porn industry"
DreadKnight: now he talks money making strategies regarding his TCG while I haven't even seen a single screenie
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29500 @ 0.00087332 = 25.7629 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.00086525 / 0.00088746 / 0.00091599 (1003453 shares, 890.53 BTC), 7D: 0.00081991 / 0.00087484 / 0.00094217 (3673682 shares, 3,213.90 BTC), 30D: 0.00074501 / 0.00082959 / 0.00094217 (9715212 shares, 8,059.67 BTC)
jborkl: the site is just refusing gribble
jborkl: I have spent more time trying eep people out than getting people in
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 81 @ 0.01474 = 1.1939 BTC [-]
assbot: Doug Stanhope - No Refunds - YouTube
jborkl: well, this will spawn a whole new wave of hacking attempts
jborkl: but w/e, I have it all replicated anyway so its all good
mike_c: he's a comic. they do anything for money.
jborkl: hopefully he does not make fun up people patting each other on the back and jerking each other off in the sauna
jborkl: otherwise he will only hear crickets
mircea_popescu: "There's a kind of Olympic torch of extreme American comedy, which passed from Lenny Bruce, through Richard Pryor and Sam Kinison... to the late Bill Hicks. Stanhope is the latest, and equally brilliant, bearer."
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4200 @ 0.00087332 = 3.6679 BTC [+]
xanthyos: not a fan of kinison. i think he's hacky
mircea_popescu: ""Ask anyone whose opinion matters, and they'll tell you Doug Stanhope is one of the top ten stand-ups in the world today. " dude there must be something to this seeing how i just randomly saw ten minutes of his act half hour ago and im already doing bookings.
jborkl: most of the conference would leave, unless they don't know
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30132 @ 0.00087464 = 26.3547 BTC [+]
xanthyos: bill hicks isn't dead. he's alex jones now.
chetty: what happened to Carlin in that list of comics?
assbot: Bitcoin Asset Protection Law
jborkl: Maybe they like getting laughed at while jerking off other dudes in the sauna, I never thought of it that way. MP you are always insightful
mircea_popescu: jborkl you're probably confusing the bitcoin conference with whatever random derpage nobodies meeting in a parking lot.
assbot: The conference, third edition pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 45408 @ 0.00004703 = 2.1355 BTC [-] {14}
jborkl: Now that sounds like a good time
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12350 @ 0.00087573 = 10.8153 BTC [+]
assbot: SuicideGirls Accepts Bitcoin - Coin Fire
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13255 @ 0.00087386 = 11.583 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: If CNN says Hong Kong’s in Brazil, it must be so! | Cable network in yet another ridiculous on-air flub | Media Equalizer
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, ofc, sg is pretty hot even on fb
DreadKnight: anyway, too many girls become sg nowadays...
DreadKnight: used to like 9 out of 10 models, now it's more like 1 out of 10
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7100 @ 0.00087573 = 6.2177 BTC [+]
DreadKnight: or all them scanks wanna be models and make money just because
decimation: lol from your 'bitcoin lawyer' link: "Practically, there is no public record of Bitcoin purchases. Bitcoin wallets are similarly anonymous as Bitcoin balances and transactions are identified only by a digital code with no link to person or place."
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7600 @ 0.00087573 = 6.6555 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: he is on to blood. any creditor can hide any assets in the chain.
decimation: I wonder how many drug lord clients he has
decimation: 'the street' will have its own uses for bitcoin, once the drug lords figure out how easy it is to move across borders...
DreadKnight: decimation, bitcoin was mentioned like 3 times in a futuristic tv-show called "Almost Human", key words being "black market" and "untraceable"
decimation: yeah, but the drug-lords listen to their drug-lord lawyers, not american tv
decimation: this particular lawyer has 'discovered' a new market for his clients
mircea_popescu: it's going to lead to a splendid conundrum down the road, because from the pov of bankruptcy/anti-asset protection legal practice, the preferred avenue would be to declar bitcoin wiorthless
mircea_popescu: and then unwind any asset-protective trade as "without consideration"
mircea_popescu: and just steal the buyer's thing to give it to the creditor.
mircea_popescu: however, this is exactly contrary to how the whole rest of the bureaucracy would like to treat it.
mircea_popescu: but that is a pike to drive in the hydra's eye later on, let's not anticipate.
decimation: quite so, bitcoin will enable a whole cottage industry of tax-avoidance
decimation: in the us it's quite important for elderly to have no net worth on paper, so they qualify for free healthcare
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3959 @ 0.00087589 = 3.4676 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: what i'm talking about here is, every single college kid getting mailed those ccs ?
decimation: which isn't quite tax avoidance, but it's measurable asset avoidance
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8091 @ 0.00087784 = 7.1026 BTC [+]
decimation: if your scenario happens (college kids leverage usd debt for bitcoin) that will be the way that the baby boomers lose their lock on elite wealth and power in the us
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is the perfect tool for intergenerational warfare.
mircea_popescu: take the coinfire dood. he thinks he's too old to be arsed to learn gpg ? he thinks he's too mature to submit ?
decimation: re: dynamic equilibrium of bitcoin: I'm pretty convinced that 99% of people born in the west (especially academic specialists) have no idea about 'money', 'currency' 'non-money commodities', whatever words you want to use to label it
decimation: yeah it's pretty much the same way that people think that ssl websites are the best practice in 'secure' data transfer
mircea_popescu: battery chickens have no idea 'bout pine needles. big whoop.
decimation: I also find it amusing that the most important thing that the bureaucrats & academics start derping about are definitions
mircea_popescu: it's the dubious blessing of being raised in a system, that with the safety this entails for as long as the system survives comes intermingled the complete cluelessness and inability to survive.
decimation: hell, no one younger than 50 in the US has tried to buy a house in the context of greater than 10% mortgage rates
decimation: if this whole winklevoss etf thing isn't a scam, bitcoin is probably going to trade 2-10x in dollars by next spring
decimation: it will be highly amusing to watch the anti-bitcoin derps on wallstreet to lose their shirts shorting bitcoin
mircea_popescu: they got worthless money in infinite supply. as long as they follow the crowd they get to keep the shirts.
mircea_popescu: so recently some new guy was in here with his old idea rehashed and i pointed out to him it'll never work, and it only seems to work for now, because it's not working yet.
jborkl: money in infinite supply is the us right now
jborkl: pricing is out of control
jborkl: a house for $400,000 6 years ago is easily $600,000
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29100 @ 0.00087562 = 25.4805 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: was some new guy sorta angling for his project w/e it was.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3600 @ 0.00087784 = 3.1602 BTC [+]
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 402578.85 in 33 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -41.42
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.09 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 4379.72 GH/s
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 480 @ 0.00197998 = 0.9504 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: Who is Charlie Crist? The answer is complicated | Tampa Bay Times
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11900 @ 0.0008764 = 10.4292 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36495 @ 0.00087859 = 32.0641 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: What Is Bitco.in - The online Bitcoin school - Tilt
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BingoBoingo: Any Aussies? Canberra over Paramata in rugby seems like an incredibly likely outcome, right?