assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35874 @ 0.0004832 = 17.3343 BTC [-]
mod6: <+ben_vulpes> decimation: disk storage is the *bane* of bitcoin testing. << for sure.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7257 @ 0.00048679 = 3.5326 BTC [+] {2}
cazalla: mircea_popescu, is this news that Netopia mobilPay enabled 6,000 merchants in .ro to accept bitcoin same beat up story as the trillions of .ar merchants taking it?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4305 @ 0.00048985 = 2.1088 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49490 @ 0.00049173 = 24.3357 BTC [+] {3}
mircea_popescu: cazalla from what i hear from Naphex yes, exactly same.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes incidentally, a server or two to be used as a [l2-accessible?] bitcoin testing environment may be a great foundation expenditure
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11465 @ 0.00049515 = 5.6769 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13200 @ 0.00049566 = 6.5427 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3150 @ 0.00049552 = 1.5609 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15924 @ 0.00049203 = 7.8351 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3576 @ 0.0004832 = 1.7279 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20600 @ 0.00049624 = 10.2225 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 51150 @ 0.00048296 = 24.7034 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7100 @ 0.00048785 = 3.4637 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4000 @ 0.00048276 = 1.931 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3100 @ 0.00048785 = 1.5123 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11200 @ 0.00048276 = 5.4069 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34700 @ 0.00049525 = 17.1852 BTC [+] {2}
ben_vulpes: --nocheckpoints Disable built-in checkpoints. Don't do this unless you know what you're doing.
ben_vulpes wonders in what special ways btcd misbehaves without checkpoints
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22124 @ 0.00048974 = 10.835 BTC [-]
gernika: Pierre_Rochard: I was JUST searching for something like this.
ben_vulpes: either trust the source from which you got the code or trust the network.
mircea_popescu: the proper operation of bitcoin is trustless. there's nothing it needs to trust in a no=chekcpoint scenario.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, it needs to trust the correctness of whoever made the checkpoints.
ben_vulpes: if i'm reading this correctly, checkpoints speed up the blockchain download process as signatures aren't checked, but they're assumed valid if the signature on the checkpoint blocks passes.
Pierre_Rochard: gernika: glad I could help! let me know if you have any feedback/advice
ben_vulpes: would it be possible to replace the checkpoints with randomized sampling of specific blocks' signatures?
ben_vulpes: just spot checking my own bitcoin technical knowledge :P
gernika: Pierre_Rochard: I will probably mod it to work with my 16 sided die to save me some rolls.
ben_vulpes: obviously not a thing to work on any time soon, but a nifty idea.
mircea_popescu: anyway, they don't speed up the download per se, because blocks are still downloaded
ben_vulpes: sure, but processing is cpu bound, so if you skip ESDA there's a speedup to be had.
mircea_popescu: but they help with the indexing, which was an issue esp on bdb, and they may also help with tx related stuff
ben_vulpes: i can't help but think that the serial download is entirely unnecessary.
ben_vulpes: download the blockchain torrent style, verify and stitch the segments together as appropriate.
ben_vulpes: not like it's usable 'till you have the whole thing anyways.
ben_vulpes: totally out of scope for the forseeable future but neat nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: still, as a general rule a 1 mb block takes < 1s to download and multipes s to process. makes little diff.
assbot: I'm happy they killed that nigger Eric Garner. /hashtag/Holocaust2?src=hash /hashtag/KillEmAll?src=hash
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: he was selling black market cigarettes to avoid taxes. Got caught by new york police for nth time. Cop choked him. Respiratory problems. Cardiac attack. Outrage
undata: can't have people just selling things... on the street!
Pierre_Rochard: the cop in question was just cleared by a grand jury of any wrong doing
Pierre_Rochard: ^ well let’s not blame obesity! or too high of cigarette taxes! it was surely just the fascist police brutality!
mircea_popescu: that the free and happy people of jonestown i mean new york are more than happy to pay 18 bucks for
undata: mircea_popescu: back when I used to smoke I would only sell them to bums, never give them away
undata: that's how you get free packs of cigs
mircea_popescu: one day they had one of those convict crews doing some roadwork in front o' my house as i went shopping
mircea_popescu: so i bought half a dozen cartons of romania's cheapest and threw em over when coming back.
undata: mircea_popescu: nice of ya
mircea_popescu: hopefully those folks got to live like kings for a while lol.
assbot: Logged on 24-10-2014 04:33:56; decimation: "There's been a mackerel economy in federal prisons since about 2004, former inmates and some prison consultants say. That's when federal prisons prohibited smoking and, by default, the cigarette pack, which was the earlier gold standard."
decimation: tossing those cigs would be even more subversive today I guess
cazalla: us prisons are smoke free zone now?
decimation: they trade tins of fish from the 'store' instead
gribble: Current Blocks: 333228 | Current Difficulty: 4.000747027127126E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 334655 | Next Difficulty In: 1427 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 3 days, 4 hours, 37 minutes, and 42 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 38795114854.6 | Estimated Percent Change: -3.03032
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell jyap you have to be fucking insane to send over copies of whatever residence card to derpy websites.
mircea_popescu: no but i mean... the kid's clearly trying, which is good.
mircea_popescu: i hope he comes here to tell us how "gpg is not user friendly and too hard".
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13604 @ 0.00049631 = 6.7518 BTC [+]
gribble: punkbot was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 weeks, 2 days, 5 hours, 4 minutes, and 48 seconds ago: <punkbot> punkman: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
ben_vulpes: pretty crucial bit of infrastructure for la serenissima.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3400 @ 0.00050891 = 1.7303 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 73500 @ 0.00049619 = 36.47 BTC [-] {4}
punkman: the doom that came to punkbot
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9755 @ 0.00049119 = 4.7916 BTC [-] {2}
punkman: re: electrum xintox: i mean its obvious you are incredibly ignorant or incredibly stupid. not sure i want you developing wallet software if your damn twitter account is getting hacked.
Naphex: cazalla: as far as I know, Netopia atm only added the option. Merchants have to opt-in
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2425 @ 0.00050048 = 1.2137 BTC [-]
ben_vulpes: is the blockchain cpu-bound on ssds *and* spinny-drives?
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8158 @ 0.00049974 = 4.0769 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16050 @ 0.00049857 = 8.002 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13000 @ 0.00050963 = 6.6252 BTC [+] {3}
rdymac: cazalla you know that twit is fake, right?
rdymac: and the following racist ones, yes
cazalla: fluffypony, why ya gotta ruin the fun i was about to have :(
fluffypony: maybe Reddit should campaign to have the hacker murdered
fluffypony: tomorrow on qntra: PONIES RUIN EVERYTHING
rdymac: maybe Roger Ver can handle the reward
cazalla: rdymac, why did you feel the need to point out the obvious anyway
rdymac: cuz someone sent me here asking me and @ElectrumWallet to proof ourselves with GPG, and saw your comment
rdymac: can't connect his twitter with his nick here, so dunno who he is
cazalla: rdymac, i believe that would be danielpbarron
rdymac: beside that, if I've never trade at #bitcoin-otc I'm not trustable... what a bullshit
fluffypony: rdymac: lots of people have trust relationships in the WoT without having traded
fluffypony: it's a web of trust, not a web of trades
rdymac: beside that, if I've never trade at #bitcoin-otc I'm not trustable... what a bull*
fluffypony: also verifying you are who you say you are through GPG isn't related to the WoT
fluffypony: I haven't seen the tweet, but in the Electrum source in pubkeys/ there are a bunch of GPG keys
rdymac: that's what he pointed out
fluffypony: Animazing, ThomasV, and wozz (mr_burdell)
rdymac: the three that generates the binaries
fluffypony: yeah so obviously whoever is controlling the Twitter account at the moment can't sign a message as any of those three
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21399 @ 0.00050189 = 10.7399 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: you know, reading on this people's temple thing... the general pro-state argument is that o noes, donation powered police department and government generally "wouldn't work" because "people won't pay, gotta tax!"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, completely insane and otherwise entirely pointless derps like the jones dude got TENS OF MILLIONS of 1970s dollars in donations
mircea_popescu: to... essentially... build an experimental prison camp. or to leave to the communist party of ussr.
mircea_popescu: i mean... the fucking commie party of the at-the-time enemy of the us could have lived off fucking us citizen ~donations~
mircea_popescu: and you're telling me the local school or w/e couldn't, IF IT WERE ANY USEFUL.
mircea_popescu: what they're actually saying is, "you'd never pay for us to do things you don't want done but we do, so gotta force you to pay". which proper restatement of the argument is of course too plain for their taste.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: is the blockchain cpu-bound on ssds *and* spinny-drives? << not really. afaik the bitcoind was always IO bound, either on memory or more usually disk. but i guess some people somewhere run shitty enough systems that it's the cpu.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo mike_c "here's how november went for mpex stocks" piece for qntra ? can has ?
mircea_popescu: rdymac: beside that, if I've never trade at #bitcoin-otc I'm not trustable... what a bullshit << heh.
mircea_popescu: wow you're the guy that sent some blogger a copy of his greencard ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17998 @ 0.00050875 = 9.1565 BTC [+] {4}
punkman: "A new Forex/bitcoin platform is looking for responsible people to work 8 hours a day 7 days a week, typing on their chat. You will be required to post every 1-4minutes while focusing on the topic of Forex trading and cyrptocurrency."
punkman: can I hire someone to keep putting OG on doc's door every 1-4 hours?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i can imagine the "responsible people" working 8 hours a day "typing in chat". they're like, on the street, in bars, imagining they may talk to women and so forth.
mircea_popescu: actually speaking of which. Anduck need a job ? exactly tailored for your intelligence level, skills and abilities, everything.
assbot: No, our Twitter account hasn't been hacked. This is Thomas V. I'm just voicing my opinions. After all, this is twitter...
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user rdymac has been recorded.
Anduck: haha, what mircea_popescu ?
Anduck: you trying to attack me again because of ....?
punkman: I'm familiar with orthodox water sprinklers
Anduck: punkman: what's up with deedS?
mircea_popescu: romanian expression goes, "ii bun ca apa sfintita. nici tocmeste, nici nu strica."
mircea_popescu: which'd be, "it's good like holy water. it doesn't fix anything, it doesn't break anything"
punkman: mircea_popescu: well the racks are closed at least
gribble: Error: "oauth" is not a valid command.
gribble: (eauth <nick>) -- Initiate authentication for user <nick>. You must have registered a GPG key with the bot for this to work. You will be given a link to a page which contains a one time password encrypted with your key. Decrypt, and use the 'everify' command with it. Your passphrase will expire in 10 minutes.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6497 @ 0.0005021 = 3.2621 BTC [-]
gribble: (everify <otp>) -- Verify the latest encrypt-authentication request by providing your decrypted one-time password. If verified, you'll be authenticated for the duration of the bot's or your IRC session on channel (whichever is shorter).
gribble: (everify <otp>) -- Verify the latest encrypt-authentication request by providing your decrypted one-time password. If verified, you'll be authenticated for the duration of the bot's or your IRC session on channel (whichever is shorter).
rdymac: it's been more than 3 years since I started using this gribble thing
gribble: Nick 'rdymac', with hostmask 'rdymac!uid31665@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-bfzytzxcmxfkubcc', is identified as user 'rdymac', with GPG key id 6930CFE70FA4130C, key fingerprint 637E773CF6DDEE8F009F84616930CFE70FA4130C, and bitcoin address 15Am4YY6uaLi5dpWFRaNvekfby9G9VZsNB
gribble: Error: 'electrum' is not a valid integer.
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user rdymac has been recorded.
rdymac: I manage translations, made the complete Spanish translation of Electrum, also help with design and webpage, bug hunter and social media
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating for user rdymac has changed from 1 to 1.
Anduck: rdymac: why doesnt electrum gui / somewhere allow more reserve receiving addrs?
Anduck: we could move to #electrum tho
mircea_popescu: rdymac prolly a good idea to have your pgp key added to the page anyway.
rdymac: yep, too many changes and busy devs right now
rdymac: we were supposed to launch a new website for 2.0
Anduck: how much are bitbet.us fees?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30200 @ 0.00049673 = 15.0012 BTC [-]
assbot: Westerners Now Regret Joining ISIS. Should We Take Them Back? - Wah! ISIS proves to be a drag for first-world recruits. | Guff News ... (
http://bit.ly/1CUYs0g )
danielpbarron: Anduck,
http://bitbet.us/faq/#140 Every bettor on the winning side will receive as follows : 99% of his original bet sum (1% goes to BitBet.us) plus 99% of his bet times the total bet by the losing side multiplied by his bet's total weight and divided by the winning side total weight.
mircea_popescu: srsly, tepid cold ? lol who the fuck writes the bezzleweb!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7137 @ 0.00049752 = 3.5508 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27200 @ 0.00050584 = 13.7588 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21083 @ 0.00050948 = 10.7414 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30100 @ 0.00051482 = 15.4961 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8300 @ 0.00051551 = 4.2787 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19200 @ 0.00051551 = 9.8978 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24200 @ 0.00049483 = 11.9749 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2014 13:44:33; Anduck: so it's about 2%
Anduck: why the fuck all mircea-popescu followers here have to talk like he does
☟︎ Anduck: like, when someone asks "what?" you be a smart fucking ass and say "which part?"
kakobrekla: i was just genuinely interested where you brain farted that you came up with 2%
Anduck: i didnt calculate anything.
Anduck: as said, everyone tries to be as cunty as mp
Anduck: but you're pretty close
kakobrekla: also not sure on this one but whichparteism might come from kako
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20397 @ 0.00051551 = 10.5149 BTC [+]
punkman: kakobrekla: I'll tell you how that works. You scan faq quickly, read 99% twice, so 1+1= 2%
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6900 @ 0.00051551 = 3.557 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49300 @ 0.00050684 = 24.9872 BTC [-] {4}
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo mike_c "here's how november went for mpex stocks" piece for qntra ? can has ? << NSA statement?
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1709 @ 0.00123979 = 2.1188 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15091 @ 0.00051889 = 7.8306 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16500 @ 0.00051539 = 8.5039 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2118 @ 0.00051539 = 1.0916 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14611 @ 0.000521 = 7.6123 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25535 @ 0.000521 = 13.3037 BTC [+]
hanbot: Anduck: why so hostile? << stop interpreting gracious attempts to refine your idiocy into something usable as "hostile". people who don't make things as easy as possible for you aren't your enemies, they're your teachers. refusing to engage in the lesson ensures you'll stay comfortably stupid.
mike_c: Monthly roundup though, sounds like a good idea.
mike_c: BingoBoingo: I'll write that up once the snsa statement hits the wire.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4750 @ 0.000521 = 2.4748 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1844 @ 0.00123366 = 2.2749 BTC [-] {5}
jurov: wtf,.. above was posted almost day ago and i can't find any discussion about it?
jurov: the perils of ingesting information via phone on crowded bus...
hanbot: “FBI agents just stormed the building, came in here without a search warrant or anything,” Fappy The Anti-Masturbation Dolphin, a mascot for the group, told CNN. << lol
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 13 @ 0.098 = 1.274 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10500 @ 0.000521 = 5.4705 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16300 @ 0.000521 = 8.4923 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18350 @ 0.00051644 = 9.4767 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: dunno what asciilifeform is doing but i guess he got sick ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i suspek the guy's trying to be fringe & controversial rather than anything unsavory.
ben_vulpes: landlording company left a pound of ground french roast on my stoop yesterday.
ben_vulpes: the best part was the awful awful awful christmas card signed by the office staff with nothing but signatures inside.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you're being hit on, by a bunch of bored chicks stuck in a beancounter job in rural america and the social skills of a box of liverjournals.
ben_vulpes: i've *been* in the leasing company's office.
ben_vulpes: but why rural america? i don't live in the boonies and the company office is fifteen blocks north
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2014 15:32:41; Anduck: why the fuck all mircea-popescu followers here have to talk like he does
ben_vulpes: get stuffed with ennui you seasoned metropolitan
mircea_popescu: ;;google population size of where ben_vulpes works/lives, how many time smaller than buenos aires it is.
mircea_popescu: (yeah, trilema actually does get these types of searches. in romanian.)
ben_vulpes is still reeling from the "rural america jab"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes : today in b-a, "best jabs are the completely impredictable, entirely baseless shit nobody expects".
ben_vulpes: <punkman> mircea_popescu: well the racks are closed at least << these aren't the racks you're looking for
ben_vulpes: i suspect its the 19yo queer girl who "doesn't put substances in her body" that ordered this miserable filth delivered to my door.
ben_vulpes: either that or the whole team just really hates their customers.
mod6: return the favor: leave them a 2lb. of tripe and an xmas card on their doorstep
hanbot: ben_vulpes maybe they saved the good coffee to fuel the tractor?
ben_vulpes: Y'ALL ARE BEING MEAN I'M GOING TO MUCK OUT THE STABLES AND THEN CALL REDDIT POLICE
mircea_popescu: mike_c: BingoBoingo: I'll write that up once the snsa statement hits the wire. <<< it's skipping this period.
mircea_popescu: (the "AKA Satoshi Nakamoto, founder of the Bitcoin" part is lulziest. have you founded the bitcoin, sir ?)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3850 @ 0.00052083 = 2.0052 BTC [+]
Anduck: hanbot: what the fuck?
Anduck: hanbot: please carefully review the original "discussion" and think
Anduck: what you said does have a point but it's not related
Anduck: i mean the 2nd sentence of yours, it's got a point
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14150 @ 0.0005212 = 7.375 BTC [+] {4}
adlai: mircea_popescu: this is lame/overstretched joke, explaining trilema's popularity in india by analogy to the parody article. tl;dr: this is dog
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17657 @ 0.00052155 = 9.209 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: so today i made the discovery that after sleeping in a half foot long ankle hobble, girl is much more respectful, obedient an' restrained generally.
mircea_popescu: clearly the pressure spot for good behaviour is on the ankle.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40855 @ 0.00051469 = 21.0277 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16122 @ 0.00052155 = 8.4084 BTC [+]
adlai: it must obstruct the flow of bad qi up the shaoyin meridian
mircea_popescu: it's not exactly that evil lizard WANTS people to not contribute.
mircea_popescu: it's that people, by and large, prefer to just pass things along
adlai: "He wrapped himself in quotations, as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors." Rudyard Kipling
mthreat: Porn company opening office in puerto madero in 2015
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12350 @ 0.00052155 = 6.4411 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: for the bystander : puerto madero is this overdeveloped zone that cost a lot of money, financed years ago on the theory that whatever, b-a is going to be seattle.
mircea_popescu: ba failed to be seattle, and the costs of credit rose fantastically.
mircea_popescu: as a result, all those developers are today bankrupt, but...
mircea_popescu: they're not actually closed out, because argentina is still very far away from a working market economy. these people'd be humiliated by the market, they're politically and socialy connected, can't have that.
mircea_popescu: so instead of the judge selling them by courthouse auction, they keep having lifelines extended
adlai for a moment was wondering what #b-a had to do with seattle
mircea_popescu: which makes most of the income arrive not from renters, but from the state
mircea_popescu: which makes the people involved more interested in supporting an image than providing a service
mircea_popescu: which makes them completely uninteresting to actual renters.
mircea_popescu: the only thing a foreign porn company "rending in puerto madero" does is send the local whores (perfectly happy to swallow for 200 pesos, otherwise) the message that they should overcharge. which they will.
mircea_popescu: porn is a marginal business everywhere, and so... they'd be better off filming in ohio.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yeah, the places everyone tries to sell tourists on. as the only people clueless enough to not realise that... wait a minute!
mircea_popescu: and unrelatedly : ever heard of a 37 year old general ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell asciilifeform here's a decent putin joke : "All Vovocika jokes are political jokes."
PeterL: I could write up a summary of MPEX reports for qntra if nobody has started yet?
mircea_popescu: if two of you do that's not a loss, that's a gain. go for it.
thestringpuller: lots of neat sim games. SimAnt was an Ant simulator, but a lot of people are squeamish so it never took off.
thestringpuller: that's by the dude who made Black and White, all his games are simulation based I thought.
thestringpuller: Overlord is directly inpsired from it if I recall correctly (Overlord was inspired by Pikmin as well but heavily inspired by Dungeon Keeper)
fluffypony: remember the copy protection on old games
mircea_popescu: i remember hearing about such a thing in the mid 90s, and being both incredulous
fluffypony: Leisure Suit Larry required you to put in a word from the manual at a particular point
fluffypony: so you had to copy the game AND photocopy the manual
fluffypony: and then Space Quest 3 or 4, the one where he travels through time, you needed the game manual to complete parts of the game
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i had the one with the "ken sent me" password.
mircea_popescu: but i didn't realise at the time it's what it was, i thought it genuinely actually used it to keep you out if underage
mircea_popescu: i tihnk it was 4. "land of the lounge lizards" or something like that.
assbot: BitBet - BitPay to process $12M or more during 2014 Bitcoin Black Friday :: 0.04 B (19%) on Yes, 0.17 B (81%) on No | closed 1 week 3 days ago ... (
http://bit.ly/1vCGPxo )
Pierre_Rochard: how will it be resolved of no public announcement is made?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21250 @ 0.00052174 = 11.087 BTC [+] {2}
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cazalla: any indians or someone familiar with indian bitcoin scene in here by chance?
cazalla: adlai, any idea if BTCXIndia is just some rinky dink exchange or something bigger?
PeterL: cazalla: I have an article for qntra, how to submit?
cazalla: PeterL, email to cazalla@fastmail.com.au, ty btw, weekend has been quite slow
PeterL: do I need to gpg sign it or anything like that?
cazalla: it wouldn't hurt, thestringpuller has a habit of clearsigning his submissions
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17800 @ 0.00051718 = 9.2058 BTC [+]
thestringpuller: i just like to make sure there is non-repudiation for my submissions, ie.e the editors know it came from me
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cazalla: thestringpuller, any good? i miss the sopranos
adlai is referring to "you know how real live beings' genetics work, right ? You get two strands of DNA. Two, not one. Two"
adlai: so you get two strands of DNA, but you also get three reading frames per strand
zaht: crypto stocks leave a lot to be desired
adlai: whether the helix is "cauterized" at one end by linking the two strands is irrelevant for this specific point
thestringpuller: cazalla: yea lilyhammer is almost like norway's take on the sorpranos.
mircea_popescu: i guess that's a summary, but really plenty of room left for tons of indepth analysis.
adlai: so you're scared to short it? :P
thestringpuller: MTGox would be the historical textbook example of the characteristics of DERP.
mircea_popescu: no, it just doesn't meet the "entirely vc-fraud and shitvapour" profile of f.derp
zaht: mtgox succeeded on many fronts
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5150 @ 0.00051084 = 2.6308 BTC [-]
zaht: you have to hand it to mr. karples, he *is* getting off scott free with his crimes
zaht: well erstwhile, he is
mircea_popescu: i don't see how being a famous internet fraudster / idiot is "scott free".
zaht: well the loot is all that matters
mircea_popescu: he didn't walk off with any money, but with a ton of liabilities.
zaht: my point is that until the liabilities are in fact reconciled, he is getting away with it, he just might be able to for the rest of his life
mircea_popescu: what exactly makes you think you're in a position to have an opinion, either about that general point or about the particular we were discussing ?
zaht: its nothing more than a counterpoint to the idea that his comeuppance is due
jurov: i don't see how being a famous << i stopped reading there, that may be what he's for anyway
mircea_popescu: jurov sure, plenty of asocial fat trading card game nerds are in it for being famous.
jurov: you've seen their butts?
jurov: musta have missed something
jurov: still.. maybe either of them has cool ass tattoo
mircea_popescu: apparently guy doesn't know how to write out "I'd like to exchange you for my wife. You game ?" in less than eight paragraphs.
jurov: that will be revelaed in time and all will be well
jurov: actually i don't need imgur for it. around here the flats are so densely packed that there's hot inside (at least since they're wrapped in eurofoam) and most people run around naked
jurov: and there are plenty windows to see into each other, too
mircea_popescu: europe is going to be pretty much naked in public as the norm in a decade or two.
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mircea_popescu: (and fwiw, the notion that a young woman won't readily bare herself on request strikes me more like a quaint anachronism of the islamic world & western colonies than anything. of course she would.)
jurov: if that's gonna happen, i fully expect putin to set on to properly and for once get rid of such moral depravity
mircea_popescu: yeah, right. because he's dumb enough to repeat charles' mistakes, and send country boys under arms in whoretown.
mircea_popescu: tell you what, the us can't make a missile shield, and europe doesn't need any shield atop its cuntshield.
jurov: worked once in berlin
mircea_popescu: berlin is the story of a 50 year enclave THAT REDUCED THE PINCER
jurov: i mean invading the whorehouse
jurov: not whatever happened after
mircea_popescu: lol mk. what could happen ? a lot of fucking, and then... the end.
jurov: i once read somewhere abou soviet culturai influence on east germany and they wrote "even some people had slavic facial features"
jurov: that sis not dawn on me immediately :D
cazalla: jurov, have you not seen putin's thumbs up for titties?
adlai: it's kinda the opposite of obama's
adlai: frown vs smile, brows furrowed vs up, dearth of melanin vs its complete absence
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