mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: or say, go and fix RuBisCO, world's most inefficient enzyme << it's not its fault! hard fucking shit!
mircea_popescu: im kinda waiting for the twinks to get bored of being irrelevant, get upset and threaten to sue everyone else for using their invention.
mircea_popescu: destroy land/wealth equivalency << this is gone , actually, which is why i rent.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as you accept bitcoin as a desktop garden under a lcd backed monitor, one can, does.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which : the diesel sub is making a major comeback
mircea_popescu: apparently much easier to make it silent, whereas the nuke ones can not
mircea_popescu: more importantly (and somewhat secretly) : they're one man subs.
mircea_popescu: think about that solipsist heaven. a one man diesel attack sub.
mircea_popescu: so what if ben_vulpes has it his way and by say 2050 most people that are people actually live in one ?
mircea_popescu: the sub having replaced the car that replaced the knight's horse
mircea_popescu: making orlof a sort of low tech early pioneer in the right direction.
mircea_popescu: leaving the landspace to be inhabited by the proles, toiling in the mines and sub factories under the carcinogenic sun
mircea_popescu: it's not that familiar to me, i'm a sf noob/ignoramus :D
mircea_popescu: well, lettuce see. the submarine is submerged. it does not care about "weather" in either fluid sense. with the new fleshlights and tumblr pr0nz... i defy you to find a bunch of 20somethings whose current life would be differen if they were subbed.
mircea_popescu: tell you what : a current car spends 90% of time in the garage. fu that.
mircea_popescu: let there be electric recharge stations on the ocean floor.
mircea_popescu: in any case : international waters are international waters
mircea_popescu: and im not sure who can afford to piss off a nation of submarineers, but it wouldn't be the us.
mircea_popescu: what with its super vulnerable carriers and errything.
mircea_popescu: so composed out of thermal electro plant, battery recharge stations and a fleet of subs...
kuzetsa: oosp, I spelled rp0nz wrong
nubbins`: mp the floating one w/ the rainbow hair is probably the most represented in cosplay etc
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: the size of the folds of ones labia is not directly proportional to sexual activity, but only differs with natural variation from person to person... your logic is invalid for calling that slutty... or is this just your headcanon for that particular pony? in which case, I agree, she's awful
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: I've seen quite a lot, but even if that wasn't the case, the sex ed programs here don't promote fallacious negative images about people's sexuality because of genital shape
mircea_popescu: i couldn't begin to give less of a shit about what sex "ed" programs say there, wherever that is.
mircea_popescu: i've yet to see a psa "ed" effort that was accurate in details.
nubbins`: how about the marijuana supports terr.. oh, wait
kuzetsa: colleges have sex ed and related programs too, not just primary schools
mircea_popescu: yeah, made by the same people, with the same political aggenda, and with the same utter ignorance and disrespect for observable reality.
mircea_popescu: something being asserted by a state sponsored "ed" program of any kind is more a predictor of the something being wrong than right.
nubbins`: once in sixth grade, our teacher made us draw cocks for homework
nubbins`: these were put on the classroom bulletin board for the next few weeks
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at lulzranch : carnivores having well developed teeth is in no way a predictor of their preference in eating meat over say photosynthesis.
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nubbins`: fwiw she used to grind her vulva on the corners of desks when helping students
mircea_popescu: see, a teacher like that'd have never survived in mp's school.
mircea_popescu: people'd have been sticking cunt drawings on her back for the rest of her life.
nubbins`: not sure if this was autoerotic or candida
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kuzetsa: asciilifeform: women's clothing tends not to have many pockets :(
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform teacher rubbing vulva on corners is no indication of an absence of hands, pockets or brain.
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa indeed, and ironically i suspect it's exactly for this reason.
mircea_popescu: no, srsly. controlling masturbation in little girls was much more a priority in victorian england that in teh case of boys
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: a historical annoyance, for all forms of state, is that folks can, in general, grow food without asking it permission first. <<< this brings to mind the ridiculous "permit to assemble" device.
mircea_popescu: "yes you may gather together to overthrow the state, just as long as you get an approval form stamped by said state"
mircea_popescu: decimation i tell you, if the tesla experiment works out we're going to see subs.
decimation: note that if you want go at any reasonable speed you must be on the surface, as ascii said
mircea_popescu: there's nothing to do submerged anyway. the only real reason to move is abvout the same as getting new ips, ie, avoid the enemy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i imagine some sort of copulatory connection will be standard.
mircea_popescu: it's not currently able to handle massed targets well. this is, and has been, long known documented weakness
mircea_popescu: handwaved as "well if there's too many subs to track then that says all we wanted to know anyway rite ?"
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mircea_popescu: a war is won by a) making fat targets that b) the enemy tries to take out but c) fails.
decimation: said Lt. Col. Tom Crosson, a Pentagon spokesman. ?We respect the freedom of all nations, as reflected in international law, to operate military vessels beyond the territorial seas of other nations.?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im sure it's in the sub ed in colleges everywhere.
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decimation: Due to resource constraints caused by sequestration, Air Force Space Command officials have directed the 21st Space Wing to prepare to discontinue operations at the Air Force Space Surveillance System by Oct. 1
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: eventual goal, for the state, is an endgame where you can't grow your own potato in secret any more than you can produce your own 14nm cpu. << eventual endgame, for the utopian socialist/nazist state, as for any utopian/figment of imagination, is human relevancy.
decimation: the "space fence", transmitter blasted nearly 1 megawatt skyward to 'ping' off satellites
decimation: re: gov't control: witness the usg attempting to "control" "guns"
decimation: "if we can't bring everyone up to your level then we will tear you down"
mircea_popescu: of course it will continue. it will continue not to work lol.
mircea_popescu: obviously a car without an engine will continue to be a car without an engine for as long as hills and people willing to push can be found.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the folks pushing the 'urban' ('totalitarian', etc, pick favourite term) << these seriously aren't equivalent.
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mircea_popescu: the hayseeds imagine the urban despisement of their simpletonism is the same as the utopian hatred of their self sufficiency.
mircea_popescu: this is untrue, it only looks similar because they're too far away.
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mircea_popescu: (as to the other point, the orbital spybots are a crapshot. earth based antenna is obv the right approach to the problem)
decimation: it seems to me that the self sufficiency is more threatening to the omni-state
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: why did the rulers of ussr, china, etc. push so aggressively for mechanized agriculture? to free the plow-pullers from their toil so they can watch opera? << for efficiency.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is impossible to have rural nonsimpletonism also for fundamental reasons.
decimation: most of the actual farmers I have met in the us are people - they can machine, weld, assemble own parts from scrap
mircea_popescu: you absolutely muyst see this film. the italian renaissance is important particularly because they peddle such exceptionaly clear, deep reaching intuitions.
decimation: but they are a minority even in rural areas
decimation: I would go with yes, many of them load their own ammo
decimation: certainly peasants in pakistan can perform that feat
mircea_popescu: meh i can't find where i said it. anyway, in that film, which is predicated on the notion that an urbanite goes in the rural other world (he's a fraudulent film talent scout, cinecita was a big deal in post war italy).
mircea_popescu: he is incredibly popular with the worms, for the obvious reason : a shot at their idea of a better life.
mircea_popescu: one of the worms in question is a shepherd. he says, 1950ish : "con le stelle se puo parlare".
mircea_popescu: fuckwit discovering the ancient sources of greek philosophy by hand on his own, two milenina late.
mircea_popescu: this is the reason you broadly cabn't have intelligent rural people : too contemplative, by the nature of what rural means.
mircea_popescu: it's because they don't get the incentive or the opportunity to use a large swath of the brain.
mircea_popescu: think, the rural noob in town has been the lol of the town's margins anywhere anytime, pick a society. coincidence ?
mircea_popescu: to put it in the terms of the anonimity as urban/rural dispute article : the rural guy can run software without ever needing a garbage collector, because no program ever covers memory.
mircea_popescu: now this may be just fine and dandy "for some applications", but it's not a computer.
decimation: places like silicon valley were started by rural folk from the midwest, founded fairchild & invented modern transistors and IC's
mircea_popescu: decimation mind, i'm not arguing the people themselves are broken.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform probably related problem, tho those are usually hunters.
decimation: well, there's no doubt that they had to come to the city to meet the son of IBM founder to get money to start the operation
mircea_popescu: people who have to come to b-a to start a successful operation don't need just the money, or even the money at all.
decimation: most of them worked in big east coast corporations for several years first, true
mircea_popescu: and again, the idea that there's something wrong with the people involved is patent nonsense. kids come from the vilage to town and do better than kids born in town all the time.
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decimation: obviously if Mr. Noyce had stayed in Iowa he would have been an advanced farmer, not the founder of modern semiconductor business
mircea_popescu: shockley is perhaps the best example of totally nutso master running his harem straight into a wall.
decimation: fortunately they had the sense to follow noyce into the middle of nowhere and start a new business
mircea_popescu: at least hughes was not a boring stolid "social improvement" type.
mircea_popescu: from experience girls will forget flamboyant failure much easier than boring drudgery.
mircea_popescu: wasn't he the guy who overengineered a diode while neglecting transistors to the point nobody could afford it ?
decimation: yeah he basically said "forget about the transistor, really complicated diodes are the future"
decimation: that was pretty much when noyce et. al. bailed
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decimation: no, but apparently after he got his Nobel prize he became an insufferable ass
mircea_popescu: decimation this is a particular sort of methodological error strategists of the "too clean" variety make. the error is to imagine that what's in question is whether the new thing is promising (positive) rather than broken (negative). fact is any new thing that isn't broken will probably outperform any current thing simply because business is about growth.
mircea_popescu: and by too clean i mean the sort that doesn't bareback random whores because "who knows what may happen"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was this where i was disagreeing with locklin's similar idiocy ?
decimation: the problem is that with something like computing, it's "somewhat broken"
mircea_popescu: where is the locklin one. basically his thesis was that "printed guns will never work because the barrel isn't sexy"
decimation: the broken-ness becomes a negative externality that is distributed randomly
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah i see what you mean. i took it literally :D
mircea_popescu: which it is. and yet... the discussion isn't whether it looks promising (in the terms of today)
mircea_popescu: somewhat vaguely related : the nbc producers that decided to greenlight seinfeld, the largest grossing production in the history of nbc and the thing that even made sitcoms a thing
mircea_popescu: are on the record stating something like "well these two idiots came in, one a complete nobody , the other a dork, but we figured... whatever, it's just a script, we've not spent that much money on it"
decimation: I wish 'maker' derps would build machining devices rather than plastic molders
mircea_popescu: decimation consumer society loves plastic. it'd shove it in its collective vagina if it could.
mircea_popescu: you know one of you two needs to get a real name thing going. it's so fucking difficult for me to keep diametric and decimation apart in my head.
decimation: heh perhaps I should pick an orthogonal basis
decimation: you mean dealing with broken bits, shavings, heat etc?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually one should be able to anneal in jungle conditions. put gun on rock, put lens on gun around 7am. by early morning next...
decimation: what about plasma cutter? wouldn't that heat while cutting?
decimation: yeah that makes sense, too little mass in contact
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc plasma cutting is 2d for a very similar reason : too damned expensive.
mircea_popescu: there is some 3d ablative tech sort-of similar, but mostly limited to medicinal use
decimation: well water-jet cutting is up there too
decimation: waterjet is pretty cool, but it has its own "sequelae", not fit for pauper-tech
TheNewDeal: they cut out granite, marble, and man-made stone for the most part. I've heard some people cut steel with em
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decimation: asciilifeform: why do all of these machines continue to use "g-code"?
TheNewDeal: pauperizable? a monkey could run this machine
decimation: asciilifeform: something turing-complete?
TheNewDeal: we draw all the programs out with software called alphacam , our company adds on a toolbar that automatically generates the g-code, then you literally just upload it to the machine and hit go
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mircea_popescu: but for that matter, so am i, the kids with the apps haven't yet discovered bitcoin pays better.
decimation: asciilifeform: that's an interesting point
Bitcoin1011: Is he involved in other mobile apps in the space for my reference?
decimation: for conductive metals you could measure resistance of liquid
TheNewDeal: believing they can accomplish everything with one shitty machine?
decimation: to me the obvious use for plastic turd is to make molds for metal pouring
decimation: I think titanium falls in that category sometimes too
decimation: but the process of melting and pouring most metals in jungle conditions is not very reliable
decimation: re: laser sintering: it seems to me that it is likely that you are going to leave "air bubbles" in the resulting metal, since you are melting piecemeal
decimation: you are making "metal stew" instead of smooth puree
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TheNewDeal: what the hell do you all mean jungle conditions?
TheNewDeal: I could get you a waterjet... but it may just be a super-soaker with a paint job
decimation: even if you had a free high-quality waterjet, one would have program, get water+abrasive, monitor cut closely, maintain jet machine
decimation: none of which are going to be cheap or simple
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decimation: it's obvious that there's a segment of silicon valley circus that sees bitcoin as a way to exit from usg
TheNewDeal: I just don't get why they think it's all about some party
TheNewDeal: It's not libertarian - anybody can use it
decimation: TheNewDeal: libertarians are going to claim whatever success they think they are aligned with, for facebook likes.
assbot: ('chemistry and life') 1990, vol. 1, pp. 83 - Imgur
decimation: my uncle was a research chemist (retired) at a large chemical firm in rural us. he was always complaining about the low quality of "chemists" who graduate from us schools
decimation: this is because of the relative high status of a doctor compared to a chemist actually working in a big chemical corporation
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decimation: it is interesting how the us status hierarchy (bureaucrats on top, producers of things on bottom) has all kinds of distorting effects -- all of which is funded by the distortion of bezzle money
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decimation: managing stuff is always going to be lower status than managing humans, for obvious reasons
decimation: nevertheless, as mircea_popescu points out, business is about growth, and growth is about knowing how to manage stuff
decimation: lol. apparently some monkeys recognize the usefulness of the code monkey
TheNewDeal: Quote from Tech Visionary George Glider "satoshi's worth a million bucks!"
decimation: this is roughly the deal most "managers of stuff" find themselves in: we will pretend you are a normal human as long as you give us stuff
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TheNewDeal: surprised by everyone's knowledge or machining/etc in here.
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decimation: TheNewDeal: you mean the Shakespeare play?
TheNewDeal: it's just a trilema article written like shakespeare, no?
decimation: no I'm pretty sure it's a direct quote from the merchant of venice
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decimation: asciilifeform: to be clear, you want to restrict the contact area of the "working liquid" to keep from ruining the whole sample, right?
decimation: so I was going to ask about photo-etching
TheNewDeal: I've worked in manufacturing envirorments for a few years now, was quite familiar with that acronym but didn't think you were using it for some reason
decimation: well, and silicon die too, more or less
decimation: it is odd that the process you are proposing is very similar to existing precision volume manufacturing yet has no "buy-in" from industry
decimation: heh. when I was young I taught myself programming with "user RPN" on HP calculator
decimation: which in retrospect is basically lisp I guess
decimation: asciilifeform: have you studied Greek, since Cyril gave you the same typography?
decimation: heh yeah it's pretty easy to memorize another alphabet, it's much harder to remember grammar & vocabulary
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decimation: unfortunately the encoding jokes don't translate on google
kakobrekla: satisfying log. keep up the good work.
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decimation: this lurkomore is a hilarious combination of wikipedia, pravda, and 4chan
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell Bitcoin1011: Is he involved in other mobile apps in the space for my reference? << no, he's the resident talent scout.
mircea_popescu: decimation: to me the obvious use for plastic turd is to make molds for metal pouring << metal pouring is a very iffy proposition tho.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Tech Visionary George Gilder: "Bitcoin is the Libertarian Solution to the Money Enigma." - Reason.com << what is this, "i've caught up to 2011 let me tell you what i have now discovered" ?
decimation: yeah professionals are constantly monitoring temperature, chemical tests, adding various trace elements
mircea_popescu: it's starting to amze me, the natural cargo-cult-ish inclination of most english space dwellers. it's a sort of, 1. learn french ; 2. read some fragments of rousseau at local library, by themselves ; 3. start blog to impart your discovery that you call "the social deal" to the world.
decimation: mircea_popescu: indeed, these folks are slow on the uptake, but it is amusing to see reflections on the edge of 'real media'
mircea_popescu: instead of the more normal 1. learn french ; 2. read some fragments of rousseau at local library ; 3. proceed to read the 200 years' worth of discussion on rousseau
mircea_popescu: the rough equivalent would be, peasant goes to plow field, finds roman coin trove, mounts them in his nose, goes about town like he's invented african tribalism.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: I just don't get why they think it's all about some party << because if it's about something in their system then that validates the system in question.
mircea_popescu: "look how right we are, and how relevant to the future and general affairs as a going concern : even this bitcoin thing is about something we discuss."
mircea_popescu: for this same reason a newtonian physics professor would rather entertain phlogiston than string theory.
decimation: you have to understand, the "Libertarian party" in the US is a perennial loser, they are desperate to attach to anything that smells of success.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the actual loser in the us, ie, the actual us, is desperate to attach the current representation of their eventual doom to something that's a perennial loser.
mircea_popescu: which is why i was talking about "in ron paul terms" yest.
mircea_popescu: makes one feel better about onesefl if can at least claim bitcoin is like you know, "that thing that's bee going on forever at the outskirts".
mircea_popescu: "the geese are not roused by the germans, but by the crows outside the gate".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
http://imgur.com/AR8UVBW << quoted for the battery. now that EXACT battery, so exact that a vague outline thereof is the most that's needed and the most a person of taste and discrimination would ever draw, for fear of being you know, boringingly fastidious, is a 4.5 volt 3 cell mangan oxide battery that was the most important element of my childhood.
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mircea_popescu: just strong enough to rig it to girl's bits productively, all sorts of surprising uses.
decimation: one rarely encounters such batteries in the us
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: with little-to-none attention to principles << the reason would be that chemistry is not a science. physics is the science. if the kids wanted the principles they'd go for physics. if they didn't that means they don't wish to understand the thing, but merely you know... be engineers :D
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decimation: most "Libertarians" are pretty much leftists with a slight preference for more "personal freedom" (the kind without personal responsibility)
mircea_popescu: the problem with letting people self identify instead of having third parties identify them is that people will mis-selfidentify.
mircea_popescu: part of why the wot is so fucking useful. "you're not a ceo until mp says you're a ceo" has, along with its excellent oppressive potential, some incredible value in practice.
mircea_popescu: " you will need to swap the electrolyte a few times, and clean the cavity (at least with a nail) from the products of electrolysis." from the imgur in question. this is not strictly true : in some cases the electrolyte products are protective, in some cases however they are not. depends a lot what we're drilling. (this is roughly why rust is a problem for iron but not aluminum say.)
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: it's just a trilema article written like shakespeare, no? << it's the merchant of venice ye lout! :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but for desktop machining - perfect. so long as you aren't in a hurry. << well no, see, electricity is still sold by the watt. whether you're in a hurry or not, you still need same wattage, so still are beholden to the same (rather high) cost. so i suppose "so long as you're making something small enough for your fun doing it to be worth the 0.001 cent to 1/4 dollar price transition"
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and we always wondered what an 'EGGOG' was. << ahaha that's so cute.
mircea_popescu: in this spirit : my old z80 clone had an english "codeword" instruction set printed out right on the kbd, as was fashionable at the time.
mircea_popescu: the word merge was there, which in romanian means "it works" (technically, "it goes") and is often a colloquialism "-merge ? -merge, merge" roughly works to "how goes it ? " "okay I guess".
mircea_popescu: so yeah, i used to include 10. Merge Merge instructions in basic programs.
decimation: I always wondered about non-English-speaking folk who had to learn "Englishisms" to program computers when I was younger
decimation: I guess the default situation is that if you can program a computer, you can learn english too
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: satisfying log. keep up the good work. << i guess we're all labrats in kako's little lab experiment.
mircea_popescu: decimation it's a curse hiding a blessing : in learning english as the pronounceable pigdin of computer symbols, one learns to disrespect the social conventions the language carries otherwise.
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only correct way to learn english, if you ask me.
mircea_popescu: then one readily progresses, about the age of 16 or so, to realise that necessarily the same is true of their own naitve language
mircea_popescu: at which point sudden immunity to say salesmen develops.
mircea_popescu: "just because you say goto 10 don't expect me to care, nitwit"
mircea_popescu: suddenly the coder kid discovers he can be a much better lawyer than most judges specifically because he can read a cleaner version of the text than people who learned it on the "linguistics" path.
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mircea_popescu: maybe not as clean ultimately but certainly cleaner per unit effort.
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decimation: it is indoors, (b) there is not quite as much fire, and (c) there is less saluting, more screaming, and about the same amount of chanting."
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mircea_popescu: planeta moldova being pretty much the only claim to cultural fame/intellectual achievement of the imaginary country of "moldavia".
mircea_popescu: the interesting thing with those people however is that they speak and old, and for this reason arguably more powerful version of romanian (still with the very romanian "all other languages are just romanian badly pronounced") and they're all fluent in russian. especially the huy-russian part of russian.
mircea_popescu: the result being a scary fucking combo of psychotic expressivity (they also drink a lot, ukrainian style).
mircea_popescu: decimation and less tits. the few (like,4 or so) actual participants at the things i ever talk too, all 4 mostly went there for the braless wonders in attendance. it was apparently THE place to meet chicks.
decimation: yeah American high school is weird that way, pretty much a mechanism for ascii's monkeys to identify the "useful" monkeys and begin the beatings
decimation: Mr. Yarvin goes on: "If you are an American raising kids abroad and you want to reintroduce them to your country, I highly recommend this sort of shock-and-awe approach. Having to deal with an American high school was not pleasant, but it gave me a certain respect for America: it exists. Once you go to college, you are no longer in the real America. You are in a fortified outpost of future America, which has been planted in the real
decimation: America to enlighten and assimilate it."
decimation: That seems pretty much true in my experience
mircea_popescu: you know it's bizarre, because it didn't work that way in romania of yore. we had a pretty sweet tacit agreement where the slower girls could copy for exams. generally there was a boy-genius in charge for any subject (chemistry was HARD and a chick did it, but otherwise was boys) and the guy in charge usually prepared a "for the class" version of the test (something that gave good marks but was a) comprehensible for th
mircea_popescu: e common man - or woman - so they'd not be embarassed if teacher asked followups and b) was credibly something they could come up with while still correct above a C lvl)
mircea_popescu: this resulted in a very docile and obedient population. they, for instance, always took notes. we never did.
decimation: generally in the us none of the kids in "regular class" give a shit about grades, learning, etc, which creates a different social dynamic
mircea_popescu: at the time in question, you literally could not go on a date if you sucked in school.
decimation: because no one was going to beat them if they failed basic pre-algebra
ben_vulpes: i learned at an early age the correlation between grades and what one learned
mircea_popescu: i mean you could be cool other ways, but an inability to ace something meant you, in so many words, sucked.
mircea_popescu: this attitude was principally what distinguished the privileged hs from the prole "vocational" w/e.
mircea_popescu: so i guess in a sense the observed difference readily reduces to "well, the us is a true popular democracy : they have no privileged highschool, everyone goes to the prole vocational crapolade"
decimation: yeah, if you had brains generally better schools made provision for you to escape to the 'nerd class'
decimation: but the context is set by prole thinking
mircea_popescu: it is when everyone else is taught to get out of your way because you are better than them.
ben_vulpes: i am indeed coming in on the tail of this one - to what specifically do you refer?
ben_vulpes: that's why i sniped the best public school girls throughout hs
mircea_popescu: ah but outside of personal experience, i'm discussiong a system.
mircea_popescu: obviously some kids will do fine in any conceivable arrangement.
mircea_popescu: this is, in so many words, the whole hope of humanity.
mircea_popescu: well not done with the logs and pinging ascii, but with this skein
ben_vulpes: i attended a particular hs (OES, for the lurkers), and rode the bus home instead of driving as I got more reading time out of the experience.
ben_vulpes: OES being in deep southwest and my home being in the near SE (bezzlar-ployees having to live near the mega fabs and my father not being one, we lived in the cool part of town:
http://bash.bitcoin-assets.com/?quote=218), i had much time to use for reading.
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ben_vulpes: at some point during sophomore year i realized that my bus passed a local public hs, so i stopped in at the starbucks outside of campus, timing my arrival to be some days thirty minutes before class got out and some days thirty minutes after class got out (i had no rationale at the time, but it was a good call)
ben_vulpes: this made me many "friends" outside of school, and for a kid going to a school whose entire HS complement numberd 190, this mattered.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2450 @ 0.00070436 = 1.7257 BTC [+]
decimation: mircea_popescu: "traditional" US high school has massive facility mostly serving school athletics
ben_vulpes: this implies to me that mpoe holders are dumping to move their coins to usd like typical momentum traders
ben_vulpes: winklevoss etf comes online, btc legs down to 380 briefly, mpoe trades at what - six again?
decimation: ben_vulpes: that's when you hit the buy button right?
ben_vulpes: whither the mpex smarts? or is everything wackily correlated and when btc rockets to 800 come march o'clock does doge briefly cross 50 satoshi again?
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> so what if ben_vulpes has it his way and by say 2050 most people that are people actually live in one ? << uh pardon?
ben_vulpes: just because it makes sense to mine high-density rare earths from the seafloor doesn't mean any significant number of meatwads are going to be living subsurface.
decimation: the thing that sucks about submarines is that when you are on the surface they are unstable
ben_vulpes: decimation: aren't they most stable subsurface though?
decimation: so you get a terrible ride unless you can be underwater for a long time
decimation: right underwater the ride is great, but you need energy source that doesn't depend on breathing air
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> well, lettuce see. the submarine is submerged. it does not care about "weather" in either fluid sense. with the new fleshlights and tumblr pr0nz... i defy you to find a bunch of 20somethings whose current life would be differen if they were subbed. < ah
mircea_popescu: decimation let's put it this way : long before 2050 it will be feasible to build a submersible that never surfaces, can host one redditard and weighs under 1k tons.
mircea_popescu: that's a cost of about 100k in scrap metal. ie, affordable.
decimation: yeah such a thing is probably near the realm of possibility, I agree
mircea_popescu: you don't need "air", you need oxygen. oxygen is in water, and not expensive to get out.
mircea_popescu: burning the resulting hydrogen in your own atmosphere a) purifies the air and b) makes water.
decimation: you need an energy source to break the water bonds
mircea_popescu: energy is not actually expensive, both nuclear and geothermal generators can conveniently live submerged.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, global warming would be a boon for humanity, if it weren't a wholly concocted piece of nonsense.
decimation: as ascii's quote of Mr. Yarvin points out, one would then make themselves a slave to Neptune, who isn't a forgiving master
decimation: good point. or worse, those who worship statues of themselves
mircea_popescu: living makes one live, this much is agreed. merely pleading to ignorance isn't much contribution (and his tendency to plead to nonsense is why i dislike curtis)
mircea_popescu: specifically : just because you're used to zephyr's inconveniences to the point you don't notice them anymore
mircea_popescu: whereas the neptune inconveniences appear uncommon and thus remarkable,
mircea_popescu: doesn't say anything useful. to fish water is as unremarkable as air to you.
decimation: nor do hurricanes, earthquakes, etc make much difference to the fish
mircea_popescu: no living thing underwater was ever pierced by a tootphick turned into a pike by "unseasonable" winds.
mircea_popescu: no thing can kill you by fallling on your head under water.
mircea_popescu: i nearly got done in in romania by a 5 sq inch, 100 gram piece of tile that fell a foot in front of me, from ten or so floors up.
decimation: one thing I would certainly grant: it would be far easier for humanity to escape to the ocean floor than to the harshness of space
mircea_popescu: now grant one more thing : there's going to be no space until long after the ocean floor is alma mater.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: curtis yarvin a footnote of meaninglessness in a larger discussion, as every fucking time.
decimation: yeah, he has a tendency to "drive-by" interesting points without actually making a point
mircea_popescu: that much doesn't even annoy me, my problem is that he without exception ends up pleading to ignorance, to numbers, to baculum, to some fallacy.
ben_vulpes: <nubbins`> how about the marijuana supports terr.. oh, wait` << from a conversation with a client earlier today: "pot makes you stupid! if my son keeps smoking, i'm going to cut him off."
mircea_popescu: it's like reading curtis bouvard, guy read alot but never had any sort of help to become a systematic thinker.
ben_vulpes: kid's probably just retarded to begin with.
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mircea_popescu: now i can say mp stands for musi puxi and nobody will fucking know just how great it is.
decimation: asciilifeform: I think they make a version with TCXO, doubt cheap chinese version has
mircea_popescu: <ICEbErg> PHGMYUBYUIREYAE YRN B lYaY, ONDLNYAYNBEE X oHREPE NAHRYUER?
decimation: asciilifeform: generally only in the big cities though
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decimation: asciilifeform: the datasheet artfully declines to provide any spec for timing accuracy - long or short term
decimation: yeah, but if you are going to build a module purporting to provide timing it would be nice to provide typical allan variance at various intervals, etc
mircea_popescu: decimation: mircea_popescu: minor nitpick - I don't think USG employees get dental actually << generally no, but afaik nsa folk do.
mircea_popescu: As the protests in Ferguson, Missouri over police fatally shooting 19-year-old Mike Brown have raged through the past several nights, more than a few people have noticed how relatively quiet Facebook news feeds have been on the matter. While #Ferguson is a trending hashtag, Zeynep Tufekci pointed out at Medium that news about the violence was, as best, slow to percolate through her own feed, despite people posting libe
mircea_popescu: now let's wonder why exactly is the usg dept of facebook able to spend 20bn on some random purchase of a valueless firm
cazalla: anyone know kyrio (left me -10) because of something to do with danielpbarron
mircea_popescu: ;;rate kyrio -3 does not understand how the wot works or what it's for.
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RagnarDanneskjol: speaking of - mp - Thanks for the referral; what more could a guy ask? think I'm gonna be a dork like pete & throw that up on my website.
RagnarDanneskjol: I actually have a history with those guys and would be derelict in my b-a duties if I didn't raise a cautionary flag… THey hired one of my best devs to adapt a python arb model… Payment commitments to said dev got a little squirrely. Also, I volunteered my own time to fix their website, redid all the html, css, wrote most of their content and they kind of blew it off without even a
RagnarDanneskjol: They reestablished contact today once they put Ragnar & me together, want to retain me again, sent a job order. So, I am withholding final judgement pending a come-to-jesus conversation we're scheduled to have tomorrow so I can get to the bottom of what transpired.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah i realised as i was typing that the connection is actually not as close as i'd have liked.
mircea_popescu: then i wondered how to fix, and then i realised that well... no way really, best wait to be taken to task for my business insider treatment of science.
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mircea_popescu: i mean, i kept mpex online for a few days more than the consensus'd have expectd or called reasonable on occasion.
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mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: because? << specify what are you trying to accomplish. impossible to explain what's wrong with any given methodology to resolve an undefined problem.
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mircea_popescu: *: asciilifeform is still waiting for the first leak from the u.s. dept. of wherever-the-stoolie-reports-from-btc-exchanges go. << there was recently a dump of everyone-on-coinbase, for instance.
mircea_popescu: t find a briefcase, or paper for forms, or a currier or gas for the plane.
mircea_popescu: master in charge of saying "this key is ok to be used in production" refused to say so.
mircea_popescu: bureaucrats looked at cost to fix problem vs try and get rid of him, miscalculated. tried the latter.
mircea_popescu: cue successive list of idiotic, bureaucratic "attempts" to "in good faith" "make progress towards fixing going forward"
mircea_popescu: once one actually promotes cold callers and phone marketeers to govt positions, there are bound to be problems.
mircea_popescu: well definitely no satelite the size of the washington monument was ever put in space.
mircea_popescu: that's a german uboat. so like... a satellite about halfway between a bycicle and a nazi uboat.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was this put in orbit with the use of the russian's rockets or arianne ?
mircea_popescu: well if the satellite was nothing but a pressurized xenon container, it may have somehow squeezed in.
mircea_popescu: you're not about to tell me someone put a 27 cubic meter thing in low earth orbit ?
mircea_popescu: Vexual: roundup resistant ganja? i think someones trolling << think more, roundup resistant coke.
mircea_popescu: the whole of the production control stragety in columbia is to helispray
mircea_popescu: if that goes away, the current usg-friendly columbia govt goes away.
mircea_popescu: because if you give iraquis a ton of m16s they're not going to raid your embassy with them
mircea_popescu: so you have to evacuate the whole shebang like crazed rabbits, and do a shit job of cleanup in the process
mircea_popescu: so people all over the intel community can laugh at you for yet another week, for yet another reason.
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: be moar vigilant with teh monies << the problem with that article, as with all "studies" of its ilk, is that it makes the (generally reasonable, now not) herbi mistake, as detailed here :
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not that kind, the useful kind. merely the current kind, ie, the resistant thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imagine if you could genetically engineer human females
mircea_popescu: but so they're infertile and past the age of 16 or so, their breast tissue secretes copious lsd.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1: my stomach isn't a basketball anymore << poor duff.
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mircea_popescu: Duffer1: it was quite painful, and i refused pain meds until the ct scan results came back and the dr said "your appendix is all messed up, we're transfering you to a different hospital, ambulance is en route, take pain meds now" << there is this legendary romanian surgeon who supposedly sutured his own appendix. this may be apocryphal, in any sense i wouldn't try to undergo surgery w/o painkillers, tis nonsense.
mircea_popescu: now im starting to suspect it may just be a case of romanians stealing a good story.
mircea_popescu: Antibiotics were administered directly into the peritoneal cavity << holy shit fucking soviets.
mircea_popescu: actually peritonitis resolves naturally in about 5ish percent of cases.
mircea_popescu: well no. seppuku aims to open the large liver vein. apendectomy, oppositely, to not open it.
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mircea_popescu: now try check out that acct. 100 followers, pixelated user pic...
mircea_popescu: we're supposed to not know what astroturf means or something.
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mircea_popescu: but anyway, check out the lone GS-15 under age 24 in 2013.
mircea_popescu: there were 3 gs-14 under 24 in 1998. fifteen years later, two left, the third was promoted.
mircea_popescu: make a guess : is the third the best or the worst of the group of 3 ?
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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you never got around to getting that larger rig involved did you
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mircea_popescu: bitcoin difficulty august 2012 was... about hte same as atc difficulty august 2014.
BingoBoingo: lol I was thinking about that when I first rented a rig for ATC, that ~2 or 3 years ago there were times where all of Bitcoin's nethash was less than the rented rig's
BingoBoingo: Back in the days when terrahash was a network "goal" and Petahashes were crazy
BingoBoingo: I remember reading about Bitcoin those days, thinking one of these day's I'll grab a couple graphics cards. I wasn't thinking enough back then.
mircea_popescu: im possibly one of the very few people not regretting not having started mining "earlier"
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BingoBoingo: Oh I don't regret my lack of "mining," I regret thinking food as so valuable and not buying in grotesque quantity.
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mircea_popescu: not sure what the policy is there, "blogs by assets ppl" ? or "blogs about btc" ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pls to send 1500 atc to 1FUneWXoi6eqC2p1F2rDrEsrApawPa9wCx ty.
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ryguy_`: man of leisure turned wageslave to build a saas for businesses
ryguy_`: sneak a look at bitcoin stuffs when im taking a break
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mircea_popescu: so you love saas so much, platonically, that you;ll abandon your hyperion-freedom to become a mere mortal for its sake ?
ryguy_`: its like an identity, reputation, proposal (legislation, etc) system
mircea_popescu: also, can it quote stuff like the wot, bitcoin assets and so on ?
ryguy_`: you got some command line tools to deal with pdfs ?
mircea_popescu: i deal with pdfs exactly like i deal with the tim swansons of the world. "who asked you anything and what gives you the impression you have something to answer with."
ryguy_`: yeah i stumbled into it like 4 years ago still trying to shepard it to passive income land
ryguy_`: needless to say i was unaware of btc, just getting my head back on my shoulders concering 2008 crash and what it really meant, etc
ryguy_`: plus the powers that cant maintain their quo are making things real obvious right now
ryguy_`: anyway, yeah i'd rather be in a south american city screwing with btc but i got commitments like whats his face from the shining
mircea_popescu: the irony of the situation is that with enemies like these, btc really doesn't need any friends.
ryguy_`: are you talking about me or the link i pasted
ryguy_`: i love how some of the garbage intel agencies have the squid over the globe imagery
ryguy_`: so i wanted to make a blog called painful squid and highlight all the retarded shit they've been doing
mircea_popescu: not a bad idea. especially if you can get some wistleblown material.
ryguy_`: germany resending their request for the gold from the fed
mircea_popescu: like, a "terrible company" clone for usg, especially the intel stuff...
ryguy_`: its kind of a hyped up, superficial situation
ryguy_`: but it definitely falls in line with the saving of face thats being attempted
mircea_popescu: let people vent and rage about how much their employer suck
ryguy_`: yeah i'd love to get quality info
ryguy_`: put it up on a tor service or whatnot
ryguy_`: string together some openbsd boxes or grsec boxes and give it a go from afar in a 3rd world country
ryguy_`: i dont trust the circlejerk psyops and stuff going on now though
ryguy_`: spys spying on spys spying on spys
mircea_popescu: anyone can send you w/e the shit they feel like. afaik that's how cryptome work
ryguy_`: cryptome says wikileaks was a intel agency job and assange is in the embassy collecting leaks on behalf of god knows who
ryguy_`: rather let this thing fall to pieces and get in afterwards on the infowar stuff
ryguy_`: well just in general, you got these other news papers with their leak drop boxes. im sure plenty of them are run by handled individuals. feel sorry for the unsavvy leaker at the moment
ryguy_`: and snowden too, what a mindfuck. is it just a cia hit on the nsa for the budget ? who knows, who cares
ryguy_`: btc is more productive than leaks because idont have what it takes to not get doxxed
ryguy_`: i do want a seat on your exchange, though
ryguy_`: but im writing 'all work and no play makes ryguy_` a dull boy' over and over so when im done with that i need to get my gpg keys in wot and all that
ryguy_`: i thought it was infinite seats
ryguy_`: cant wait until the slaves (sheep) ((our friends and family)) want a transparent ledger equities market
ryguy_`: instead of the sigma 6 circus we got now
mircea_popescu: nobody ever wanted that except for bona fide merchants
mircea_popescu: in fact, a good quality nyse is less likely than no tax.
ryguy_`: you are preaching to the choir
ryguy_`: im over the system and how it works and stuck on trying to help decently smart people understand whats going on
ryguy_`: i always give them an out with
ryguy_`: "the FED might have been the best option we had at the time"
mircea_popescu: well in the sense stalin was the best option at the time, and hitler too.
BingoBoingo: Well, the Fed was the best weapon for defeating the soviet union while turning into a worse soviet union
ryguy_`: im over the geopolitics too
ryguy_`: zebig brezenski ruined it for me
ryguy_`: as a kid i thought being a 'statesman' was a respectable thing
ryguy_`: this asshole is running things with the kagans
ryguy_`: its fun watching putin deflect like bruce lee with a hand behind his back
mircea_popescu: well stateman is a respectable thing. not very many ones good at it left in teh west.
ryguy_`: what kins of things do you guys see blockchain based equities/securities exchanges competing with eachother on in the future
ryguy_`: network effect, standard nyse/nasdaq type shit thats going on now
ryguy_`: i think any good statesman would be sitting this current round (or incarnation) out
ryguy_`: i dont know much about the technicalities by way of how your service connects with btc but
ryguy_`: do you think high frequency trading or polling type strategies would or will be prominent ?
ryguy_`: i just wanna invest and execute trades for clients and ease everyoneeeee into a btc based stock market like warren benjamin graham
ryguy_`: its hard to discern what is or is not related to the fraud, or a byproduct of the fraud going on now a days. Im open to the argument that hft creates liquidity but how much liquidity does a market need, ya know
BingoBoingo: ;;google site:trilema.com high speed trading mpex
ryguy_`: ok so yah im _quite_ familiar with bitcoin and things that take place on the blockchain
ryguy_`: and how that would definitely not allow any hft stuff to go down
ryguy_`: anyway. bigtime respectable thing you guys got going on here. especially the trash talking which is just brilliant. and settling with the SEC, wth. i cant even really find any reading on that SEC issue though
mircea_popescu: ryguy_`> do you think high frequency trading or polling type strategies would or will be prominent ? < in a word, no.
mircea_popescu: ryguy_` short version : guy retired his mpex issue. sec desperately wanted to purchase some relevance, so they tied some blown glbse/twitter offering he had with the mpex offering, and pretended like they scored some sort of victory.
mircea_popescu: this is so transparently ridiculous half the bureaucracy is laughing at them, leaving aside wall street and the people not actually involved in the us nuthouse.
mircea_popescu: but hey, working for the govt means you gotta eat the shit you gotta eat.
ryguy_`: i worked at a firm and we had to keep all the records incase the SEC guys showed up
ryguy_`: so this dude just gave back some kind of equity shares in mpex or a listed company like a retired couple gives back a condo timeshare
ryguy_`: he conducted some other transaction and SEC claimed those shares were apart of that other transaction ?
mircea_popescu: mkay, it's like so. guy made a "feedzebirds" thing, which he listed on glbse, which simply imploded.
mircea_popescu: guy listed sd on mpex. about a year later, he claimed someone bought it and so it was delisted. mpex shareholders received a negotiated, fair compensation and it was the end of the matter.
mircea_popescu: the sec got a 20k settlement for the former, and is pretending it got a settlement for the pair.
mircea_popescu: this is fine, inasmuch as it has no ill effect and increases the general supply of lulz,
ryguy_`: i cant wait for title insurance companies to go busto
ryguy_`: and the govt to eat shit - gonna be great
ryguy_`: wish i had your skillset, man. or wish i put the effort in like you did, my dad and his grandfather we're both follower backoffice managers for wallstreet comapnies and growing up i thought financial markets were the most boring shit in the world until 2008 & bitcoin
ryguy_`: yeah ive been coming around to that more and more at the ripe age of 30
ryguy_`: 18-26 was all deprogramming myself from what i'd been taught, if i knew i was deprogramming it or not
ryguy_`: thank god for the internet - i dont think i'd ever have come around to realize 'fiat = war machine' among all the other things without it or a patient individual to walk me though it
ryguy_`: without the internet, that is. i've been awake for far too long to make sense.
mircea_popescu: well, no game without a good pvp component is ultimately woth playing
ryguy_`: yeah shit is definitely a dualistic world
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ryguy_`: doesnt take long to realize that information really is $$$$ in this day in age from a number of angles
ryguy_`: and not in some faux big data bullshit kind of way
jurov: i like how * has own entry in stats.bitcoin-assets.com
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punkman: mircea_popescu: heh noobs, should have gone to deeper water
mircea_popescu: i suspek a noob is you. they're too deep as it is, seawater is corrosive and in any case a girl goop solvent.
punkman: mircea_popescu: definitely not somethin to do for 40 minutes
mircea_popescu: actually thinking about this... i suspek the sun may be not telling the truth as it is
punkman: but a quickie while trying to keep afloat, that's pretty fun
mircea_popescu: yeah i don't get this entire do it at the beach thing.
mircea_popescu: i get the do it in public thing, and do it in public to girls you just met thing,
punkman: what's wrong with the beach?
mircea_popescu: but gimme a fucking ottoman for her to faceplant on, a cushion, something.
mircea_popescu: ever saw snails fuck on the hot asphalt under the sun ?
cazalla: i did it at the beach with my first gf and it was nothing like the movies
mircea_popescu: i do not credit the theory this has to be because of me. it must be something else.
punkman: well last time I found some nice flat rocks under shade, worked out pretty good, with the nice sea breeze and all
punkman: there's even more options!
punkman: next time I'm bringing a foam mattress
mircea_popescu: my point being that in the former case her ventral hip bone will rub her skin raw
cazalla: rocks sound even worse tbh
cazalla: slip, gash your hands open on oyster shells or something
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.167089 BTC for No on "Gold will close above USD 2000 in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/759/ Odds: 25(Y):75(N) by coin, 33(Y):67(N) by weight. Total bet: 10.115571 BTC. Current weight: 35,706.
cazalla: because that guy looks like he has some a cup titties
assbot: A complete theory of economics pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: re-read by me i mean. i think it's like the 6th or so time
punkman: cazalla: lol, I see it now
punkman: no that's just another dude
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "BitPay closed before the end of the year"
http://bitbet.us/bet/757/ Odds: 39(Y):61(N) by coin, 48(Y):52(N) by weight. Total bet: 4.75346298 BTC. Current weight: 36,457.
punkman: btw first time I saw so many cameras at a nudist beach. always thought it a bit of a faux pas
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12740 @ 0.00070201 = 8.9436 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: today, nude people generally expect to be filmed and get depressed if apparently nobody cares.
RagnarDanneskjol: does anyone know the appx current size of ATC's blockchain (in GBs)? I know i could just look @ the blockcount & calculate, can't too late for maths
punkman: RagnarDanneskjol: there's like 3 transactions total, shouldn't be too big
pankkake: I have 49M, though my data is a few days late
RagnarDanneskjol: pankkake I'm working on another blockexplorer for it, will send you email detailing shortly
RagnarDanneskjol: cause you are the only other one on the git, figured you're the guy
pankkake: for updating the web page you should contact ThickAsThieves
nubbins`: ben_vulpes:<nubbins`> how about the marijuana supports terr.. oh, wait` << from a conversation with a client earlier today: "pot makes you stupid! if my son keeps smoking, i'm going to cut him off." <<< ahh my sides
nubbins`: "it's the recreational drug use that's making him stupid, not hanging off daddy's golden teat"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33922 @ 0.00069703 = 23.6447 BTC [-] {3}
RagnarDanneskjol: ha - pankkake - I don't really care about the webpage, thought you were developing for it - or is it just Thieves?
pankkake: I changed a few values to make it like the coingen settings
mircea_popescu: nobody is really developing for atc. pankkake helped with a bunch of stuff as i think the first guy with a clue to get involved.
pankkake: however, as true altcoin developer, I had no idea what I was doing
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 1878190.93 Est. Next Diff: 198881.78 in 1878 blocks (#46368) Est. % Change: -89.41
punkman: looks like it'll be months before diff change
RagnarDanneskjol: maybe I'm missing something, how are there no txs - thought it was being used for WoL
mircea_popescu: 1880 at 10:02 1878 at 13:54 a dozen or so a day, like five m0onths :D
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol there are a few, just not so many, so it's a common joke.
Apocalyptic: <RagnarDanneskjol> maybe I'm missing something, how are there no txs // there are plenty
punkman: RagnarDanneskjol: WoL board moves on each block, not much betting to be done right now
mircea_popescu: it actually found 12 blocks in the past ~16 hours, so like 100 days at the current rate.
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.06 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 1459.91 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.07 TH/s
assbot: _-=* CoinMiner Pool *=-_
RagnarDanneskjol: is ATC the only coin they have active? all other coin pages are non-existent
BingoBoingo: Well it seems to be reporting 60 GH/s in other hash on the pool
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
RagnarDanneskjol: google coinminer pool - first hit after the forum links straight to ATC pool - all the other coin tabs on top of that page lead me to dead links -I'm almost certain thats the only coin being mined there - unless I'm missing something
pankkake: I've had issues with that pool
pankkake: I was mining but it was rejecting my submissions, or maybe just not registering them. I forgot
RagnarDanneskjol: slow/inconsistent shares are to be expected unless you have 100% uptime
BingoBoingo: It was picked because it seemed to suck least for the purpose here, and getting paid in the coinbase tx makes it easy to verify payments
RagnarDanneskjol: I know more than a few highly competent pool hosts if this one proves unreliable
BingoBoingo: Well, it's worked so far which is a timeline which stretches back to... this past weekend
BingoBoingo: It's just since ATC stalled out it was the only pool that was responsive to our rented hash
BingoBoingo: And the p2pool type paying with the coinbase tx is very desirable, if it were replaced or needed to be replaced, that is a thing I'd like to see
BingoBoingo: For now though it seems the simplest explanation is prolly the rig's down
BingoBoingo: Byt X-Rob explained there's some stuff this pool does that isn't optimal... so a replacement wouldn't be horrible down the line
BingoBoingo: X-rob would have to explain what the not-quite optimal stuff is
RagnarDanneskjol: I'd almost bet $ its the pool, but are they not one in the same provider?
mircea_popescu: <RagnarDanneskjol> I know more than a few highly competent pool hosts if this one proves unreliable << so hook something up
☟︎ assbot: Ice Bucket Challenge Gone Wrong - Imgur
nubbins`: amazing how few people understand physics and gravity
nubbins`: "maybe if i push this heavy object off a rail, it'll upend itself for some reason"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that first fucktard... jesus god she's bleeding from the tits
mircea_popescu: god forbid the internet sees anon nipple or something, someone may care
mircea_popescu: she'll be turned down for employment and dental insurance.
nubbins`: where the guy drops a 50lb weight on his daughter's heads
RagnarDanneskjol: I already suggested a few a while back when this discussion first took place. I will gather my list and get it all ready later today
mircea_popescu: cnat even find someone to dump water on her head, figures someone gives a shit about her tits.
cazalla: fire challenge is better imo
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
BingoBoingo: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Repellendus, nobis, dignissimos, voluptatibus veritatis aliquid magni labore tempora fugit rerum eaque deserunt odio voluptatum recusandae assumenda beatae veniam maxime eveniet iste!Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Suscipit repellendus velit rem libero dicta sint rerum id quasi! Fugit, dolorum eligendi alias veniam praesentium at rerum aut sapiente
chetty: <mircea_popescu> cnat even find someone to dump water on her head, figures someone gives a shit about her tits.//problem is of course that they do, at least next time she wants a job or smthn
mircea_popescu: if my job were to screen all applicants for possible interwebs exposure...
chetty: well yeah its their problem but still not gonna get that job ...
mircea_popescu: i can't tell these people apart. unless she starts writing her gpg fingerprint on her boobs nobody can tell her from eve.
mircea_popescu: could you say if this animated gif is this irl girl or not ?
chetty: I am sure there are people that can, the data collection monster knows all (well almost)
RagnarDanneskjol: BoingoBoingo - they just switched to a new template for their page and clearly are off their game. I and several others have hired them in the past (going back over a year ago) and they deliver pools as described... I think they have p2pool also, but dont see listed
nubbins`: mircea_popescu that's actually not water, but a super-slippery fluid with almost zero friction coefficient
nubbins`: the other two girls have gecko feet
mircea_popescu: or they're you know, the sort of brainstem limited derps that'd be on facebook.
RagnarDanneskjol: BoingoBoingo - Im gonna call them right now to figure out their status (phone #s on the page)
RagnarDanneskjol: Ok - I spoke to Mark with his charming british acent -they are a little backlogged, but can deliver pools in 36-48 hours, also offer cloud mining contracts. These guys are fukin pro.. Imma follow up with email to you guys w/ details. Worth giving them a call just to hear what they're up to.
RagnarDanneskjol: they came highly recommended from the LA bitcoin regulars - heard of them a year ago and used them myself for a small test pool a ways back
RagnarDanneskjol: once pools are setup, the backend control panel stuff is super simple to manage yourself
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.06 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 1356.06 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.68 TH/s
assbot: Bitcoin Expands as Stock Price Falls (Update)
HeySteve: mircea_popescu the slogan points to woodwallets.io
HeySteve: novusordo from that link "Coinbase is an international digital wallet" - not truly int'l as nations sanctioned by USG are excluded
punkman: "As Bitcoin expands across the world and their stock price falls to historic lows on Wall Street, crypto-currency remains one that is open to everyone."
nubbins`: are you sure that's not an egg being fertilized? ;D
mircea_popescu: HeySteve universal is much better than "international"
mircea_popescu: as afaik no nation has yet been recognised by the blockchain, and so...
mircea_popescu: nubbins` well as sure as you can ever be when eggs fertilisation comes into play.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33710 @ 0.00069723 = 23.5036 BTC [+] {2}
aspho: Oh, thanks nubbins.
aspho: Been reading the logs for the last long time, before coming here. Learning the variety speak.
aspho: Pretty good, still a lot of archives to cover.
assbot: usagi +v failed; L1: 0, L2: -5
aspho: Thanks nubbins but gotta run, back later tonight.
usagi: thanks. I wanted to ask aspho a question heh, but thanks
usagi: So, anyone into Django Reinhardt"?
usagi: Some of his work with Beryl Davis is my favorite
nubbins`: if only he'd worked with bernard purdy ;(
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6990 @ 0.00069748 = 4.8754 BTC [+]
usagi: What genre would you call that? sounds a little funky
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11900 @ 0.00069553 = 8.2768 BTC [-] {2}
nubbins`: usagi, i think they call it "math rock"
nubbins`: i bought the rights to their first album yesterday :0
nubbins`: these are really early recordings, from before they even had a bass player
usagi: the rights? so your into music then
usagi: Most of the music I like is so old the copyright has expired
mircea_popescu: copyright covers performance you ninny. unless you're listening to an amphora capture of original greek choruses, it's covered alright.
usagi: I would imagine thats why he bought the rights
usagi: So for example he could then play the music in a venue that didn't purchase cover song licensing
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 210 @ 0.00275952 = 0.5795 BTC [-] {5}
nubbins`: actually, i bought the rights so i could re-release the album
usagi: You must really like these guys hehe
nubbins`: amazing album from a band that's on the top-five list of every music lover in the city
nubbins`: and they broke up two weeks after they released it, so there were only ~25 copies ever bought
usagi: I plan to get into music a lot more once I retire
nubbins`: why wait? and also, i thought we were all retired?
usagi: My job is exhausting.
mircea_popescu: this is the internet house of old people AND GIT OFF MA LAWNS
nubbins`: your job is exhausting, so you can't listen to music to unwind? :/
usagi: I mean playing music. I am split between the piano and the guitar
usagi: I really, really like both instruments. I'll probably end up with piano
mircea_popescu: nubbins` reminds me of the woman that claimed she can'tr fuck because migraine
☟︎ nubbins`: dude, you ever masturbate with a headache? once you cum it's SO MUCH WORSE
nubbins`: fun fact, magic mushrooms are an effective treatment for cluster migraines
mircea_popescu: people ridicule the every sperm is sacred doods, and i can see it
mircea_popescu: more like nude practicality. i cant keep up with the girls anyway, why make it worse.
chetty: you havent lived till you have had Coital cephalalgia
nubbins`: i thought we all had spastic colons?
chetty: is a rare type of severe headache that occurs at the base of the skull before orgasm during sexual activity
nubbins`: hmm, i have a jar of almond butter that's been recalled due to salmonella risk
mod6: oh cool, mpex.co is back
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14400 @ 0.00069671 = 10.0326 BTC [+]
gribble: Current Blocks: 316642 | Current Difficulty: 2.38446700388033E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 318527 | Next Difficulty In: 1885 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 5 days, 0 hours, 9 minutes, and 10 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 26952826341.6 | Estimated Percent Change: 13.03501
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 499.92, Best ask: 501.98, Bid-ask spread: 2.06000, Last trade: 501.99, 24 hour volume: 15603.05805411, 24 hour low: 466.0, 24 hour high: 502.95, 24 hour vwap: 484.781556984
BingoBoingo: I'm a bit behind, is 500 rising or crashing?
assbot: Deckbound -- digital collectible trading card games built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: and by too clean i mean the sort that doesn't bareback random whores because "who knows what may happen" << this point has me reflecting. am i scanning the world of business ideas for puuurfect? when non-broken will suffice? well fuck.
pete_dushenski: decimation: heh perhaps I should pick an orthogonal basis << there's always the ol' first_last!
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: 'homo redditicus' << lulz. let's make this term canonical
assbot: Urban Dictionary: redditard
pankkake: "One must always be aware that their fodder for arguments consists of internet memes and attempts at being witty" same goes for twitter, not that you could do anything else there
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the students are asked to simply memorize the book of, e.g, organic reactions. << myeah. tis perfect med skool prep
pete_dushenski: well 'prep' in the sense that if you can't memorize the bible in latin, med school will rape you
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10200 @ 0.00069534 = 7.0925 BTC [-]
pete_dushenski: right. a concept which stretches across much of university
nubbins`: <- CS degree, wrote exactly two working programs as part of my CS curriculum
pete_dushenski: mistaking them for learning institutions is how you end up 29 yo and single
nubbins`: is that the app that lets you anonymously tell women you want to cum on their tits?
nubbins`: hey, this printer stopped mid-page with an out-of-ink warning. i fixed the problem, and it's picking up where it left off.
nubbins`: have never seen this in action before :0
nubbins`: is grindr that app that lets you anonymously tell men you want to cum on their tits?
pete_dushenski: sorta "hi please to hook up with me based on glamour shots from when i was 5 years younger"
pankkake: tinder isn't anonymous, it requires facebook
mike_c: ;;later tell RagnarDanneskjol are you working on an ATC block explorer?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 117 @ 0.00600099 = 0.7021 BTC [+]
pete_dushenski: decimation: 'pep rally' << been to a few of these myself. because morale! at least our school had the bestest cheerleaders in the city
assbot: Video Oddities Ep 77 - Chad VanGaalen's Molten Light - YouTube
assbot: Who Are We? Not Nationals | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
assbot: An Interesting Paper on Calorie Restriction
pete_dushenski: pankkake: we're trying to tease apart the research on calorie restriction and that on fasting, but still interesting
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: at the time in question, you literally could not go on a date if you sucked in school. << sounds like some kind of miracle land compared to the anti-intellectual "i are sportsstar" culture here
nubbins`: asciilifeform, i'm a huge chad vangaalen fan
nubbins`: why's the audio so shit on this version?
assbot: Chad VanGaalen - Molten Light (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - YouTube
assbot: usagi +v failed; L1: 0, L2: -5
usagi: For me, one of the most interesting features of a water fast is that your body will cut down on it's extraneous muscle mass as well as body fat. I will have to try it one of these days
usagi: When I read that it gave me a number of ideas
usagi: I mean it sounds obvious, but actually, the way in which the body goes about reducing it's muscle mass is something which is fascinating to me
assbot: Shave My Pussy - Chad VanGaalen - YouTube
usagi: Well nubbins when I say that I mean certain things about opposing muscle tension
usagi: It's some random sports medicine stuff I am studying
usagi: Yea it has to do with your body overcompensating for keeping it's balance (for example) by adding extra muscle mass to groups of muscles in reciprocal inhibition, mass you don't need and which interferes with your motion
usagi: My theory is if you perform certain kinds of exercises your body will cut out the extraneous muscle mass inhibiting your motion and you will be able to move/respond quicker using less energy. Useful for sports
usagi: I also imagine the restriction would also allow you to increase or reduce the ratio of fast twitch fibres, because theoretically the body wouldn't toss out muscle mass which is being frequently used
nubbins`: sure, i'm back and forth here for the next hour or so
nubbins`: how many did ya want, 6 or 12?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 46 @ 0.0127 = 0.5842 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 13.25936164 BTC to 1`149`988 shares, 1153 satoshi per share
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] [PAID] 28.45581781 BTC to 14`329 shares, 198589 satoshi per share
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.51099305 BTC to 14`329 shares, 10545 satoshi per share
thestringpuller: nubbins`: desogner is walking to class. so in about 30 minutes he will be here
nubbins`: not really much to go over. graphics in vector format, preferably .AI with spot colors
nubbins`: 300dpi+ psd files grudgingly accepted
assbot: Mya Aaten-White, Ferguson Shooting Victim, Says Police Have Not Interviewed Her | Riverfront Times
TomServo: hey hey hey, shit in StL is too serious - we need to focus on beheaded journalists now.
BingoBoingo: "We want to find out who and what agency took possession of the bullet," he said. "We want to identify who was responsible for firing the weapon that ended up with a bullet being lodged in the front of Mya's head."
BingoBoingo: When we spoke with him several hours later, the story just got weirder.
BingoBoingo: "I've talked to both the St. Louis County Police Department and Ferguson...they have no record...no file number, no report," he said. "They don't have anything."
nubbins`: yeah, don't you dummies realize a white guy was killed the other day?
nubbins`: BingoBoingo: the hospital would have taken note of who took the bullet, no?
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Might be time to break out the aluminum foil
assbot: noPhone. A technology-free alternative to constant hand-to-phone contact.
pete_dushenski: "With a thin, light and completely wireless design, the noPhone acts as a surrogate to any smart mobile device, enabling you to always have a rectangle of smooth, cold plastic to clutch without forgoing any potential engagement with your direct environment. Never again experience the unsettling feeling of flesh on flesh when closing your hand. "
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 555 @ 0.00119996 = 0.666 BTC [+]
nubbins`: Q: for those of us with metal-and-glass phones, is there an alternative to the classic noPhone? plastic is yucky.
nubbins`: i'm outta time, maybe we can reconnect tomorrow
nubbins`: unless he has specific questions for me, there's not a lot to discuss anyway
thestringpuller: okay can we email you gpg encrypted AI file and then go from there?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 10 @ 0.29841998 = 2.9842 BTC [+] {2}
thestringpuller: kay we'll talk to you tomorrow then and get everything paid for
nubbins`: gotta admit you've piqued my curiosity as to why you'd gpg encrypt graphics
nubbins`: i'm not printing hatespeech on a shirt for you ;p
nubbins`: pm'd you email address for graphics
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: The pool died, it switched to my backup pool, and then didn't switch back automatically when the pool got better.
X-Rob: Have fixed it, hopefully it won't do it again. Sorry.
mike_c: my computer is retarded. 3056 / 10000 = 0.3056, but 3056 * 0.0001 = 0.30560000000004
gribble: (eregister <nick> <keyid>) -- Register your GPG identity, associating GPG key <keyid> with <nick>. <keyid> is a 16 digit key id, with or without the '0x' prefix. We look on servers listed in 'plugins.GPG.keyservers' config. 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 (1 more message)
petepolack: (eregister petepolack D4ECFBB385737831)
fluffypony: petepolack: /msg gribble ;;eregister petepolack D4ECFBB385737831
BingoBoingo: X-Rob: Well, we're looking into maybe getting a new p2pool set up for this coin given how shit this one seems to be, so news on that might be incoming.
X-Rob: BingoBoingo: how about I set up a pool?
X-Rob: BingoBoingo: I'll do it this weekend.
BingoBoingo: X-Rob: Can you do the p2pool type thing that gets people paid in the coinbase?
punkman: mike_c: my computer is retarded. 3056 / 10000 = 0.3056, but 3056 * 0.0001 = 0.30560000000004 << javascript?
jurov: use Decimal for such
jurov: for example ghci says the same.. it's standard floating point stuff
jurov: whereas >>> Decimal(3056)*Decimal('0.0001')
punkman: I did my bitbet app without decimals, didn't notice a problem
jurov: that's cause buttcoins were designed to round cleanly after simple computation with doubles
jurov: if you did bitcoinica-liek stuff, that'd be a problem
mike_c: jurov: yeah, I use decimal's pretty liberally. this calculation wasn't coin related.
punkman: oh I see now, it worked because I didn't use my (satoshi / 100000000.0) results in further calculations
mike_c: i also use a curiously large number of extraneous apostrophes.
mike_c: anyhoo. i get floating point stupidness. just mildly surprised the division & multiplication are different.
mike_c: i thought it had more to do with the result than the inputs.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> well fuck. << there is no such thing as a perfect wife, horse or business idea.
mircea_popescu: wives horses and business ideas are what you make of them.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 65 @ 0.0107 = 0.6955 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (other than a library) << "there isn't where t og oin the usa for aspirin other than pharmacy". o woe ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: is that the app that lets you anonymously tell women you want to cum on their tits? <<< you know, this is very popular with a large section of the female population, but the woman that wants dribbling by random people she doesn't know is quite rare.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21453 @ 0.00069092 = 14.8223 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: decimation: 'pep rally' << been to a few of these myself. because morale! at least our school had the bestest cheerleaders in the city << because they were... immoral ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i see your Shave My Pussy and i raise you a Narcotic.
assbot: Liquido - Narcotic (HD) - YouTube
assbot: Mya Aaten-White, Ferguson Shooting Victim, Says Police Have Not Interviewed Her | Riverfront Times
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That's what I'm thinking, well the police stealing their bullet back. I dunno if pale America is ready to take Obama out back yet.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, wasn't that the end of the Romanian revolution?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: BingoBoingo: the hospital would have taken note of who took the bullet, no? << well if they didn't, either the police comissioner hangs or they got themselves a police state.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yes. difference being that they never shot gorbachev.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: that's a premium upgrade << cut glass. 10 bux in any mirror shop.
BingoBoingo: That sounds like a cam girl screen name, except pete
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, a food chain here is called mustachios.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3215 @ 0.00119007 = 3.8261 BTC [+] {3}
gribble: (eregister <nick> <keyid>) -- Register your GPG identity, associating GPG key <keyid> with <nick>. <keyid> is a 16 digit key id, with or without the '0x' prefix. We look on servers listed in 'plugins.GPG.keyservers' config. 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 (1 more message)
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 563 @ 0.00119996 = 0.6756 BTC [+] {2}
mike_c: eregister something_other_than_petenineteen
mike_c: what's the record for most trolling before the guy even opens his mouth?
assbot: Umlala - My Pdf Files (Official Video) - YouTube
assbot: McCulloch: Grand jury to get evidence in Ferguson case through mid-October : News
mircea_popescu: dignork ok, i didn't want to do this but you asked for it. prepare to be glassed.
assbot: Hot Girl tania and me Pwning Noobs on The Tell-Lie-Vision (ATHENE #22) - YouTube
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33963 @ 0.00068791 = 23.3635 BTC [-] {2}
mike_c: fiat -> btc -> mpoe = two profits?
BingoBoingo: lol, but whose bank are you going to break on the way there?
mircea_popescu: but yea srsly, in the space of six months i went from >1bn to like what, 200mn ?
assbot: Russian Roulette in Wedding gone Wrong - Roulette Russa a Matrimonio - YouTube
mircea_popescu: dignork srsly. he's such a total dork you could not believe.
mircea_popescu: the chick however, she comes from money, ran for the danish pirate party iirc, got a seat.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.29879999 = 0.5976 BTC [+]
dignork: Sad story happened to my friend recently. He lost ~1btc to Chrome toolbar, which replaced deposit btc address on coinbase withdrawal form. Can somebody suggest coinbase to implement gpg-signed orders?
empyex: thestringpuller: [S.MPOE] Bids: 33287 @ 0.00068725 12200 @ 0.00068618 350 @ 0.00063000 25000 @ 0.00060000
empyex: thestringpuller: [S.MPOE] Asks: 26998 @ 0.00068872 10271 @ 0.00069092 23339 @ 0.00069415 40110 @ 0.00069671
assbot: BLACKCOIN - The Music Video - YouTube
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33487 @ 0.00068724 = 23.0136 BTC [-] {2}
punkman: dignork, that sucks. maybe if he makes a fuss coinbase will refund that withdrawal
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12200 @ 0.00068618 = 8.3714 BTC [-]
assbot: UPDATE 3-U.S. fines Berkshire over stock deal, Buffett admits mistake| Reuters
TomServo: gave Berkshire a reputation as a lender of last resort when financial markets come under strain << Hadn't heard that line before.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1500 @ 0.00119997 = 1.8 BTC [+]
dignork: punkman: afaik, no, coinbase received order to send to address X, instead of Y, they had now way of detecting it, because it's just
http request altered on the client side
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 521.98, Best ask: 522.99, Bid-ask spread: 1.01000, Last trade: 521.96, 24 hour volume: 17498.21146377, 24 hour low: 466.0, 24 hour high: 527.01, 24 hour vwap: 494.872496909
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1919 @ 0.00065107 = 1.2494 BTC [-]
assbot: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 519.49, Best ask: 519.99, Bid-ask spread: 0.50000, Last trade: 519.49, 24 hour volume: 17774.39850899, 24 hour low: 466.0, 24 hour high: 527.01, 24 hour vwap: 495.727614364
pankkake: ;;ticker --market bcent --currency eur
gribble: Bitcoin-Central BTCEUR ticker | Best bid: 395.0, Best ask: 400.0, Bid-ask spread: 5.00000, Last trade: 400.0, 24 hour volume: 101.36987742, 24 hour low: 360.0, 24 hour high: 400.0, 24 hour vwap: 373.07105659
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 521.0, vol: 17792.87498487 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 510.7, vol: 8252.58738 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 516.02, vol: 28283.81807457 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 546.99, vol: 36.78969469 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 512.568453, vol: 37552.61050000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 530.0, vol: 28.98932003 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 530.52, vol: 101.36987742 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message)
peterl: on the topic of Chem in college: At MSU we had three levels of O-chem (which I helped teach), one for nurses, one for premed+scientists, and one for chemists
assbot: Plummer v. State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
peterl: yeah, I guess they need the money to pay the football coaches now
assbot: Mya Aaten-White, Ferguson Shooting Victim, Says Police Have Not Interviewed Her | Riverfront Times
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> copyright covers performance you ninny. unless you're listening to an amphora capture of original greek choruses, it's covered alright. << oh, bitcoin recognizes copyright but not patents?
thestringpuller: when can sovereign entities use force if the police are militarized?
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Well...prolly when people start getting naked
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1000 @ 0.0012 = 1.2 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 385 @ 0.00375195 = 1.4445 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK:RENT] 1D: 0.00375001 / 0.00432963 / 0.00478000 (959 shares, 4.15211592 BTC), 7D: 0.00360047 / 0.00431174 / 0.00478000 (3125 shares, 13.47419209 BTC), 30D: 0.00305500 / 0.00407779 / 0.00498614 (12095 shares, 49.32086116 BTC)
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 58 @ 0.01159351 = 0.6724 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: While you're busy pumping his book, Andreas Antonopoulos, the "security officer" at blockchain.info still has not fixed a critical vulnerability in blockchain.info that was reported to them and acknowledged a month ago. : Bitcoin
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1000 @ 0.00064563 = 0.6456 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: We analyzed this bug and found that it if exploited, an attacker can cause a wallet to show incorrect balances. However, an attacker must spend bitcoin to do so.
BingoBoingo: My gosh, are you guys totally unaware that hundreds or thousands of services use your API to may check balances and provide services on top of it? What the hell are you guys doing. This guy is reporting a vulnerability for free and you act ignorant. Do you want somebody to exploit such vulns without reporting and blockchain ending up like emptygox?
assbot: reddit nixes new subreddit advertising high-end counterfeit US dollars | Ars Technica
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 42 @ 0.012599 = 0.5292 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16031 @ 0.00063902 = 10.2441 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.00063902 / 0.00069727 / 0.00070723 (632210 shares, 440.82 BTC), 7D: 0.00063902 / 0.00071569 / 0.0007468 (3821663 shares, 2,735.13 BTC), 30D: 0.00063902 / 0.00079496 / 0.00094217 (16714154 shares, 13,287.20 BTC)
pete_dushenski: so btc and mpoe getting cracked on is the "tough goin"
assbot: Bitcoin Address 3M1S3tZVkEJw7zVBtn1Mq8McVyfnNMAuoX
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: well we don't know the full story. there could be large withdrawals going out of MPEx
Namworld: what's the next diff command...
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 26649333965.9 based on data since last change | 26457879467.4 based on data for last three days
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: well we don't know the full story. there could be large withdrawals going out of MPEx << as opposed to…?
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: what do you mean? Who knows where the capital is being deployed, why, and how.
thestringpuller: If money is staying in MPEx then it will be deployed somewhere else besides MPOE
thestringpuller: if it is moving out then it's going someplace, God knows what
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 60 @ 0.0217227 = 1.3034 BTC [-]
pete_dushenski: well there's not a lot of evidence to support the theory that the derps, wol, bbet, or nsa are picking up the slack
pete_dushenski: but you're correct in saying that it may be just staying on balance at mpex but off-market
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 60 @ 0.011592 = 0.6955 BTC [-] {3}
pete_dushenski: maybe the coins are being dumped onto bitstamp for seekrit skvirels to depress price lol
thestringpuller: or maybe the other assets on mpex will pick up slack at some point
thestringpuller: I think the private equity buy was for higher price than this
novusordo: or maybe some sweet new exciting mining bond got released on havelock
thestringpuller: there isn't much overlap between mpex investors and play exchanges
assbot: Bigger boobs tutorial- Dominika Myslivcov - YouTube
pete_dushenski: or maybe mp dumped his own stock to buy bigger boobs to go with his raw salmon?
assbot: Where Helium is Found? : Inter-American Corporation Helium Exploration and Production
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42513 @ 0.00064175 = 27.2827 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.00063902 / 0.00069354 / 0.00070723 (656568 shares, 455.36 BTC), 7D: 0.00063902 / 0.00071487 / 0.0007468 (3864176 shares, 2,762.41 BTC), 30D: 0.00063902 / 0.00079457 / 0.00094217 (16756667 shares, 13,314.48 BTC)
ben_vulpes: i remember buying some mpoe last time it was this low
BingoBoingo: (soviet atomic dirigible would've probably flown with H2 from sea water. because cheap and angry.) << H2 Airship is probably near the Platonic form of of cheap and angry
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 113 @ 0.0217227 = 2.4547 BTC [-]
jurov: maybe silica aerogel filled with h2 could be used someday...it can be expected to not be explosive thanks to its thermal insulative properties
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.29879999 = 1.1952 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5200 @ 0.00064361 = 3.3468 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: in the moment they FEEL they're just like you. then later, they're no longer around to eat dirt, and if they are they won't eat the dirt anyway.
mircea_popescu: an infinite supply of such examples is how the idea that normal people aren't entitled and shouldn't be entitled to an opinion came about.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or mircea_popescu finally bought atomic dirigible. << i've not actually sold any bitcoin, still.
mircea_popescu: i mean sure bits here and there in normal course of business, but that's about all.
assbot: Bigger boobs tutorial- Dominika Myslivcov - YouTube
assbot: Russia Set to Top Helium Supply as U.S. Sells Reserve - Bloomberg
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> H2 Airship is probably near the Platonic form of of cheap and angry << or in any case, a good rendition of a very large matchstick.
mircea_popescu: "The U.S. government had a world monopoly on helium and in the mid-1930s refused to sell any to the Zeppelin Co. in Germany, which is why the Hindenburg was filled with highly-flammable hydrogen when it exploded."
mircea_popescu: good to know the us govt is in some way related to every modern atrocity.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27150 @ 0.00064114 = 17.407 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mostly remarkable for "Russia, already the largest producer of crude oil and natural gas, is weighing up plans to become the biggest supplier of helium, the inert gas vital for medical scanners, welding tools and rocket fuel, as the U.S. sells reserves from storage."
assbot: Last trade for S.MPOE on MPEX was at 0.00064114 BTC [-]