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00:00 BingoBoingo .d
00:00 ozbot 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1845 blocks | Estimated Change: 10.5056% in 11d 11h 7m 10s
00:02 benkay` chetty: why'd they do that?
00:03 MisterE War with Russia will be good for the economy
00:04 MisterE benkay`: Chinese hate things they can not control
00:04 BingoBoingo MisterE: Prolly for the BTC ecomony and the remibi. Shit for the others though
00:17 BingoBoingo cablepair is back https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66851.msg778189#msg778189
00:19 VanCleef that's why china likes america
00:19 benkay` http://thenitai.com/2014/03/12/why-you-might-not-want-to-incorporate-in-the-usa/
00:19 ozbot Why you might not want to incorporate in the USA | The Nitai (there can only be one)
00:21 benkay` yuuuuuup.
00:21 benkay` all forces are arrayed against starting a company here.
00:22 benkay` we picked up a contractor from an associate's shop that had folded, and immediately (despite not hiring the man), got a fat packet of mail from the state about this gentleman's employment status asking us all sorts of inane questions.
00:22 benkay` i don't even wat
00:23 Mats_cd03 http://imgur.com/a/EOghf
00:23 ozbot imgur: the simple image sharer
00:24 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.07799118 = 0.234 BTC [+]
00:37 BingoBoingo http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/03/13/an-overview-of-betable-sports-part-2-basketball/
00:37 ozbot An Overview of Betable Sports Part 2: Basketball | Bingo Blog
00:49 benkay davout i need more cello :(
00:50 chetty http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/12/the-jailbird-crimes-on-twitter-have-soared-by-390-per-cent-4548653/
00:50 ozbot The jailbird: Crimes on Twitter have soared by 390 per cent | Metro News
01:01 BingoBoingo Let's get ready for some transaction spam https://twitter.com/supertyler/status/444225344644857857
01:01 MisterE http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/13/xapo-raises-20-million-to-bury-your-bitcoin-underground/
01:01 ozbot Xapo Raises $20 Million To Bury Your Bitcoin Underground | TechCrunch
01:03 lnovy transaction reversibility, oh boy...
01:04 benkay "It is not clear exactly what part social media played in the crimes.
01:04 benkay
01:04 benkay But Kent police, which investigated 3,528 crimes involving Facebook and 191 related to Twitter last year, gave one example where two women posted pictures online of themselves with stolen hubcaps."
01:04 benkay so - poor people are flocking to social media and bringing their poor habits with them i gather.
01:04 benkay among them, theft.
01:06 BingoBoingo Seems like it
01:07 chetty people are people
01:08 MisterE seems like it
01:10 BingoBoingo Is anyone else here developing a visceral dislike of medium.com blogs?
01:11 mircea_popescu yes.
01:11 mircea_popescu fucking js cruft everywhere
01:11 BingoBoingo Great story, shit layout http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2014/3/12/5496096/james-scott-jailhouse-boxer-profile
01:13 mircea_popescu asciilifeform not a bad read that. glosses over some stuff, but at least it glosses over different stuff from the usg propaganda machine
01:14 BingoBoingo HTML for content, CSS for layout and formating, JS for optional dohickeys
01:15 MisterE what is not a bad read mircea_popescu ?
01:15 mircea_popescu http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/10/ukraine-the-sovereignty-argument-and-the-real-problem-of-fascism
01:15 ozbot Ukraine: The Sovereignty Argument, and the Real Problem of Fascism » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts,
01:15 MisterE ty
01:16 mircea_popescu dexx jesus the butthurt with that woman is phenomenal. what happened to "i've been a stupid cunt and all it took you folks was five minutes to make it obvious. you're awesome thank you so much for taking the time!"
01:16 mircea_popescu i guess they don't teach that in self-affirmative-shiteater classes for womenz in tech and other important things huh.
01:19 BingoBoingo I find amazing that in spite of a decade and a half of shitfits related to "extremist groups" whose membership never exceeds the hundreds, actual instability still comes from nation-states whose membership numbers in the millions to the hundreds of millions
01:19 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
01:20 mircea_popescu not rly in spite.
01:20 mircea_popescu if your wife suddenly throws a jealousy fit out of the blue, you know she's just been cheating.
01:20 mircea_popescu even braindead bitcointalk scammers know enough of the world to be screaming thief while stealing.
01:21 BingoBoingo Or she cut out the implanon in her shoulder that was there to ward off the scammzor babies
01:22 mircea_popescu Azelphur: yea, that's why I think an alarm would be better, that at least gets the attention of people around you << so they can join in ?
01:23 Azelphur mircea_popescu: hehe, I still think people aren't all assholes ;)
01:23 mircea_popescu repressive society tho. completely different environment.
01:23 Azelphur yea, guess so
01:24 BingoBoingo Actual anti-rape device http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/product/74629
01:24 mircea_popescu this notion that a woman is a person is very novel and very strange, and rather limited geographically. notwithstanding what western progressives would like to pretend.
01:24 mircea_popescu in most of the world, woman chiefly still means head of cattle.
01:25 lnovy I'll just leave it here... http://youtu.be/D1XPS-j-O24
01:25 mircea_popescu the only way that's changing is once it becomes more productive economically to work than to procreate, which is probably an euphemism for never
01:26 Azelphur lnovy: haha
01:26 BingoBoingo Depends a great deal on the woman
01:26 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo less than you'd think. humans are programmable, and women eminently so.
01:27 BingoBoingo Anti-gang rape device, suitable for buses http://www.gunblast.com/KelTec-PMR30-2.htm
01:27 mircea_popescu a gun ?
01:28 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Well, for some circumstances.
01:28 BingoBoingo I assume the women who would use it would be untrainable
01:28 mircea_popescu think full metal jacket. you see a bunch of women in there with gunnery sargeant gomer pyle ?
01:28 BingoBoingo Might be more valuable operating the missiles, or as officers commanding the mine grunts
01:29 mircea_popescu it takes six fucking months to break down the male blocks on killing, and even then it only works sorta 50-50.
01:29 mircea_popescu and that's old 1970s data. by now... i'd be surprised if one kid out of ten ever becomes a useful soldier.
01:29 BingoBoingo You see mor women killing with less hesitation in 2009 than you really had before since Joan of arc
01:30 BingoBoingo And more the killing happens less in useful soldier applications
01:30 mircea_popescu maybe.
01:30 mircea_popescu this on tv or irl ?
01:30 BingoBoingo IRL, I've got lots of antidotes, but nothing I can feed a stats machine
01:31 BingoBoingo Male acquaitance killed a lot of goats and no people on a deployment, because everyone else was shooting
01:31 mircea_popescu http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1635092
01:31 ozbot Men, women, and murder: gender-specific differences... [J Trauma. 1992] - PubMed - NCBI
01:31 BingoBoingo Female acquaintance killed a lot of people because they were unfuckable
01:31 lnovy Are those really comparable? It's bit different to kill and to kill as a soldier, no?
01:32 mircea_popescu A total of 215,273 homicides were studied, 77% of which involved male victims and 23% female victims. Although women comprise more than half the U.S. population, they committed only 14.7% of the homicides noted during the study interval.
01:32 mircea_popescu lnovy yes, in the sense that it's much easier as a solider.
01:32 mircea_popescu basically murder works exactly like siegel indicated : "we don't kill mooks, we just off each other"
01:33 lnovy I don't share that view... homicides are not always coldblooded killing...
01:33 lnovy uncontrolable soldier is mostly useless
01:33 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1853 @ 0.00079961 = 1.4817 BTC [+]
01:34 mircea_popescu lnovy it's about a degree of magnitude easier for me to get some dood to shoot at "the enemy" than it'd be to get some woman to shoot at her would-be attacker.
01:34 mircea_popescu and as far as guns are concerned, they're for killing not for displaying.
01:34 BingoBoingo Most male vetrans I've seen drunk enough to spill the dark secrets spill that they didn't kill people. A majority of the women who admit to being in firefights admit to shooting to kill people because they really don't want to carry goat boy to term if the base is over run
01:35 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo those women also admit to having serious trouble ever dating.
01:35 lnovy interesting
01:35 mircea_popescu by the time yo uget her where she can defend herself at gunpoint, you also got her to where she's slipping herself roofies
01:35 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Sometimes, but the blowjobs are above par
01:36 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo anyway, let's talk something interesting like business
01:37 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: SO you get the ATC fund's status.
01:37 mircea_popescu the way i'm thinking, if you pick a sport you like and you actually know enough about to make a line, you can then make that line, and promote it like any bookie
01:37 mircea_popescu this should be vig-profitable, whatever it's supposed to make, 8% or what was it.
01:37 BingoBoingo Eh, but getting people, especially in BTC to bite on a line... is a challenge
01:37 mircea_popescu i never heard of a promoter that had it easy.
01:38 BingoBoingo They never do.
01:38 mircea_popescu that's why the promoter makes dough. if it were easy it'd be every kid and his app situation
01:38 BingoBoingo Right
01:38 mircea_popescu i dunno, i never actually run gambling. but i'm vaguely aware it's a living, so
01:39 BingoBoingo Apparently it is less of a living than it used to be.
01:39 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves yeah, totally, community is everything. except they have no idea what that word means.
01:39 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo unlike what ?
01:39 mircea_popescu fucking lawyering is less of a living than it used to be
01:39 BingoBoingo The replacement level poker player is skilling up.
01:39 mircea_popescu singer-songwriter is MUCH less of a living than it used to be
01:39 mircea_popescu even cocksucking, if you believe the casino cocksuckers, is much less than it used to be
01:40 BingoBoingo lawyering and s/sing are going down because the replacement level for each sucks more.
01:40 mircea_popescu mebbe. but for whatever reason... nothing makes what it used to make.
01:40 BingoBoingo Has it ever?
01:40 mircea_popescu kinda the point, bank clerks cca 1950 could maintain a nice beachfront house in california, a housewife and her children
01:40 mircea_popescu bank vps can't afford the same today, with the wife working.
01:41 BingoBoingo 1950 was around the time fiat reached its maximum leverage though.
01:42 mircea_popescu ( http://trilema.com/2012/the-wrong-man/ point in case. guy in that movie is a fine example)
01:43 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves punkman benkay it's wences' new thing. he previously made the same exact thing (lemon) which apparently got sold.
01:45 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2566 @ 0.0008004 = 2.0538 BTC [+]
01:45 BingoBoingo Is Joe the new John Doe?
01:45 BingoBoingo http://trilema.com/2014/me-at-its-finest/
01:45 ozbot Me at its finest pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
01:45 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you can probably laser/gamma/magnetic resonance for the ink inside huh.
01:45 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo pretty much.
01:45 BingoBoingo Works well
01:46 mircea_popescu dub more like found a good angle to humiliated people with it.
01:47 mircea_popescu ;;later tell decimation as far as i recall the theory behind carbon dating and especialyl the "constant decay" part has been under fire for decades.
01:47 gribble The operation succeeded.
01:47 BingoBoingo Oh, the miners are digging into the ATC bid wall nao
01:48 joecool literally lol'd @ that post
01:49 joecool got worried when i saw the link and thought it was about me
01:49 mircea_popescu lol
01:49 mircea_popescu no see \cause you're joeCOOL
01:49 mircea_popescu these are just plain joe.
01:50 mircea_popescu sooo... turkey going up in flames too huh.
01:51 mircea_popescu curious if they finally turn muslim, ataturk's memory and the military can only go so far.
01:51 mircea_popescu snotty eu refused to let them in when they had a chance, and much to their detriment, as a eu member turkey would have definitely taken the eu out of any crisis
01:51 mircea_popescu and now...
01:51 BingoBoingo They've been sliding more muslin for two decades now
01:52 mircea_popescu yup
01:52 mircea_popescu it's gone, basically.
01:52 BingoBoingo Eu needed them more
01:52 mircea_popescu much like the crimeea. you can posutre all you want, but in the realpolitik world crimeea was gone the moment obama got raped over syria.
01:52 mircea_popescu in a sense, kerry's idiocy sealed its fate, had he kept his stupid mouth shut...
01:52 joecool putin keepin the pimp hand strong
01:53 BingoBoingo At least the Black Sea doesn't seem like ti will be a shooting war anytime soon
01:53 mircea_popescu and obviously, the little secret nobody wants to share in the english language propaganda machine is that currently russian jets are about two classes over anything nato can fly.
01:53 mircea_popescu not even counting the pilots, just the machines.
01:53 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Crimea was sealed in the NATO Libya intervention when the French Raphaels outperformed the new US aircraft
01:53 mircea_popescu right.
01:54 mircea_popescu and the raphs suck.
01:54 BingoBoingo I dunno that the raphs suck
01:54 mircea_popescu turns out it's not enough to be really firmly convinced you're cool. gotta also do homework.
01:54 BingoBoingo Russia wins on fast planes
01:55 mircea_popescu and on radar
01:55 BingoBoingo US wins on ONGWTFBBQ planes, but they don'e have many of them... Most aren't approved for flight because pilots need oxygen
01:55 mircea_popescu and on countermissile and on a ton of other shit
01:56 BingoBoingo The US pretty much only seems to have the solid win on strategic bombers... and if those are needed the war's been lost
01:57 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo the latest su can actually outfly sidewinders
01:57 mircea_popescu well the problem is... strategic bombers are useless in this context. the russians can airplane-intercept tomahawks as it is.
01:57 mircea_popescu what's a bomber to do ?
01:58 BingoBoingo Well, according to the Hollywood liason office SU just sells knock off plans to china.
01:58 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Well, there's the B-2... ANd that's about it.
01:59 mircea_popescu su = sukhoi
01:59 BingoBoingo B-2 can fly from western Missouri to western Missouri
01:59 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: US only really advertised the MIGs as potention OPFOR... Prolly for morale reasons
01:59 mircea_popescu not if it gets a fuelbomb dropped on its head
02:00 chetty but the US planes were all designed and built according to standards - and union rules and all, they must be the best
02:00 mircea_popescu chetty no doubt about it, they're the best union builds :D
02:00 chetty :D
02:00 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo yeah. the migs, here's a funny story about the migs :
02:00 joecool china getting any good at knockoffs?
02:01 mircea_popescu the nato exercise in 2012 consisted of a romanian team flying migs (old migs, mind you) as "the enemy"
02:01 mircea_popescu the romanian team downed half the us planes, and a bunch of french and dutch
02:01 mircea_popescu it was a carnage.
02:01 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19450 @ 0.0008004 = 15.5678 BTC [+]
02:01 BingoBoingo AH
02:01 mircea_popescu lesson learned ? zero.
02:01 mircea_popescu and these are people who can barely afford the fuel to fly the damned rust buckets.
02:02 chetty they musta cheated
02:02 mircea_popescu (they did have the jewish elecwarfare upgrades tho, which apparently are damned good)
02:02 BingoBoingo Well, the US killed their most capable carriet based aircraft because Iran needed spare parts...
02:04 BingoBoingo Well on the news the USN is talking about getting more EWAR variant F/A 18's but the pentagon wants more money for vaporware F-35's because they can take off and land like a helicopter
02:05 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 48384 @ 0.00080062 = 38.7372 BTC [+] {2}
02:06 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2816 @ 0.00080198 = 2.2584 BTC [+]
02:07 joecool BingoBoingo: and congress is old and keeps earmarking more tanks
02:07 mircea_popescu and to top it all off, we don't even know what the chinese are flying.
02:07 joecool mircea_popescu: i would guess it doesn't really matter what, but there will be a lot of whatever what is
02:07 mircea_popescu tho if we're to apply the old yurpean wisdom, considering how fucking scared the russians must be to spend so much on their sus... the chinese must be pretty bad.
02:07 BingoBoingo Honestly I think China is selling designs to SU now
02:08 joecool zerg rushers, etc
02:08 mircea_popescu joecool maybe. the thing with them is that they're really good at keeping secrets.
02:08 joecool mircea_popescu: wall builders are usually good at that
02:08 mircea_popescu no chinese gouzenko's let alone wikileaks
02:09 mircea_popescu and so we literally don't know wtf their jets actually are.
02:09 BingoBoingo Who wanted to trade Rare Earths yesterday... MisterE?
02:09 mircea_popescu but you know, when in 500ad the sarmatians started pushing west, you knew something was scaring them at the other end.
02:10 BingoBoingo http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2014#557705
02:10 ozbot #bitcoin-assets log
02:11 mircea_popescu wow all caught up with log. iiincredible.
02:11 BingoBoingo Indeed
02:11 BingoBoingo I plan on falling behind in about 20 hours again
02:11 mircea_popescu http://24.media.tumblr.com/5e3a7342a73f477fbc5952bf184ea4ab/tumblr_mu3o7p4YE01s8tt3vo1_500.jpg
02:12 mircea_popescu here's a nice outfit to celebrate.
02:12 BingoBoingo First I need to come up with a fundraising plan for blog
02:12 Dimsler mircea_popescu, how was your vacation?
02:15 BingoBoingo Would there be more interest in this oil painting http://imgur.com/F6IjZAJ or years, plural of an advertising placement on the blog?
02:15 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31878 @ 0.00080198 = 25.5655 BTC [+]
02:15 BingoBoingo My fundraising target for the blog is 2-8 BTC, which should be enough to keep it hosted... forever
02:17 BingoBoingo I'm amenable to parting with both the painting of Kim Jung Il's heart attack on a train and a portion of my sidebar together.
02:18 BingoBoingo If one of the other bloggers want to be the Patron I would be amenable to Slashdot coaching.
02:19 joecool BingoBoingo: which blog?
02:20 BingoBoingo joecool: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/
02:21 joecool BingoBoingo: what kind of traffic
02:21 BingoBoingo joecool: I am skeptical that I can find sponsors atm in the 2-8 BTC range, but... the blog made slasdot twice in 2014
02:21 BingoBoingo joecool: Traffic is erratic
02:21 B007 http://bitcoinaware.com/article/12248/xapo-raises-20-million-for-ultra-secure-bitcoin-storage/
02:21 ozbot Bitcoin Aware | Aritcles | Xapo Raises $20 Million for Ultra-Secure Bitcoin Storage
02:22 joecool BingoBoingo: site is abit rough on the eyes, my co is doing design for youmeandbtc in return for advertising
02:22 joecool http://www.youmeandbtc.com/ < old
02:22 ozbot You, Me, and BTC
02:22 joecool http://207.12.89.216/ < new
02:22 ozbot You, Me, and BTC -
02:22 joecool (not done yet, but getting there)
02:22 BingoBoingo joecool: The design aesthetic on my site is ENTIRELY intentional
02:23 BingoBoingo I might get a softer linen background
02:23 BingoBoingo I prefer minimal styling though.
02:23 BingoBoingo As a moral cause
02:24 BingoBoingo And my best viewership in one day was 34,205 viewers with javascript enabled
02:25 B007 Support BingoBlog by sending coins to: 17sTosfHxNzGD4VUP3pjoHCEVofzSEcL95
02:25 joecool BingoBoingo: ah, you might want to look at moving it to something like dropplets
02:25 joecool if you're really serious about minimalism
02:25 BingoBoingo joecool: WTFis droplets?
02:25 joecool http://dropplets.com/ <
02:25 ozbot Welcome to an Easier Way to Blog
02:26 joecool doesn't even use a db
02:26 B007 BingoBoingo: what do you do irl?
02:27 BingoBoingo B007: I am a trained librarian who does freelance work because I was fed a lie... Well a lot of lies
02:27 benkay droplets, eh? i imagine i'll go flat flat text with bare links next.
02:28 joecool might want to look at bootstrap too
02:28 joecool it's a little more "traditional" looking
02:28 joecool http://getbootstrap.com/examples/blog/ < etc
02:28 ozbot Blog Template for Bootstrap
02:28 B007 librarian? like restock shelves? or do research ?
02:29 BingoBoingo B007: My experience in grad school was in Health Sciences librarianship, but... school is a lie
02:29 BingoBoingo joecool: Bootstrap is not happening
02:29 BingoBoingo Dropplet is probably not happening
02:30 B007 how is school a lie
02:30 B007 or I guess for you was
02:30 benkay no bingo you see what you really want is something really fancy someone spent a shitload of money on designing
02:31 benkay someone who really matters in the ux world like twitter
02:31 benkay that's how you drive pageviews!
02:31 B007 my website has only my own pageviews
02:31 benkay ugh yes everything must now be flat text files gpg signed
02:31 mircea_popescu Dimsler very long
02:32 BingoBoingo benkay: You understand. I want something ever so slightly more friendly for machine readers than human readers, and I only want rounded surfaced on my dick in sum bitch's mouth
02:32 joecool benkay: well if you want lots of pageviews and don't really care who its from, use buzzfeed as example (or newsweek lol)
02:32 benkay yeah you can get real far with the sv crowd chasing those lcd pageviews
02:33 benkay anyways you guys i get to experience America this weekend!
02:33 benkay some family is flying babydoll and i out for her sister's birthday. this includes a Hajj to Disneyland, apparently.
02:33 BingoBoingo B007: It was a lie in the sense that the program admitted 3x more students than the market would bear and the students who got hired all sucked a meaner dick than I would
02:34 mircea_popescu benkay you're not living in the US ?!
02:34 benkay california is a different country man
02:34 mircea_popescu bejeez all these foreigner terrorists getting uppity...
02:34 mircea_popescu oic
02:34 mircea_popescu so your gf is from topeka
02:34 joecool benkay: i'd like to think florida is too
02:35 mircea_popescu the shame
02:35 benkay topeka?
02:35 BingoBoingo Oh, benkay I would have pegged you as being from the Republic of Oregon
02:35 benkay as in the styx?
02:35 benkay sticks?
02:35 mircea_popescu topeka, kansas.
02:35 mircea_popescu in which you're not anymore, babydoll!
02:35 benkay right right
02:35 benkay sticks, in the vernacular
02:35 BingoBoingo joecool: How much to kill http://www.youmeandbtc.com/ with fire?
02:36 mircea_popescu http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Topeka_1869.jpg
02:36 benkay BingoBoingo my location's pretty trivially deductable
02:36 joecool BingoBoingo: lol
02:36 benkay no points
02:37 joecool BingoBoingo: in other news, pm
02:37 BingoBoingo ?
02:40 B007 if you donate I will luv you forever http://www.binaryspawn.com/donate/
02:44 B007 so what are some good books to learn about finance?
02:44 B007 or websites?
02:45 BingoBoingo B007: I'd suggest Kritik der Urteilskraft
02:49 B007 ask for finance book, get philosophical book
02:49 B007 It does lool interesting though
02:49 benkay The Rational Investor
02:49 chetty same thing B007
02:50 benkay wait hang on wrong title
02:50 BingoBoingo B007: You wanted a book on subjective decision making, I offered te same
02:50 B007 yes, thanks
02:51 MisterE great Belarus is getting involved
02:51 BingoBoingo MisterE: Link plox?
02:52 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12800 @ 0.00080383 = 10.289 BTC [+]
02:52 MisterE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26564851
02:52 ozbot BBC News - Ukraine crisis: Russia tells UN it does not want war
02:52 MisterE In a sign the tension may be spreading, Belarus - a Russian ally - confirmed Moscow had deployed, at its request, extra fighter jets and military transport aircraft after Nato boosted its forces in the neighbouring Baltic countries.
02:56 BingoBoingo I wonder if kakobrekla might want to help keep my blog alive for bit4x advertising and an oil painting?
02:58 kakobrekla hm, perhaps i get you some adaptive css instead?
02:58 mircea_popescu ;;later tell dimsler whoa that was quick.
02:58 gribble The operation succeeded.
02:59 mircea_popescu "China's Li Keqiang warns investors to prepare for wave of bankruptcies"
03:05 B007 "serious challenges"
03:05 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49650 @ 0.00079969 = 39.7046 BTC [-]
03:05 B007 " Beijing is copying the Japanese tactic of ramping up public infrastructure spending to replace the steep slowdown in private sector investment."
03:05 BingoBoingo kakobrekla: That might work
03:06 MisterE China is in a world of hurt
03:06 MisterE they just dont want the world to know it
03:06 benkay but jets?
03:07 benkay my money's on drone swarms.
03:07 BingoBoingo My hope is I do this one fundraiser. Someone gets a year or decade of advertising, and the balance keeps the site alive for literally, rather than merely figuratively... forever.
03:07 benkay wow there's an idea forever hosting
03:07 benkay o wait blockchain
03:07 benkay stick it in the blockchain, BingoBoingo
03:08 BingoBoingo benkay: Site can't be hosted in the blockchain, but a contract can.
03:09 benkay i heard tell of...
03:09 * benkay hushes voice and looks around
03:09 benkay js embedded in the blockchain that executes in browsers
03:09 benkay oh no!
03:09 BingoBoingo benkay: basically the thought is if BTC keeps going up 30x a year, only a few BTC now can host a site for eternity
03:10 benkay put up a paywall.
03:11 BingoBoingo benkay: Too young. Need at least three years... Or a catastrophic nuclear attack on New York, DC, and LA
03:12 benkay you're missing the point.
03:12 benkay donations suck.
03:12 benkay sell credits
03:12 benkay this should be a wp plugin
03:12 benkay someone call phpbrekla
03:12 BingoBoingo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H25lz7gchaw
03:12 ozbot Eiffel 65 - I'm Blue - YouTube
03:13 BingoBoingo benkay: The thing is there is yet to be solid infrastructure for credits or advertising in BTC
03:13 BingoBoingo Aged an critical elders can sell credits
03:14 benkay you have the price dial to turn as well
03:14 benkay furthermore the blog credit market needs some price discovery
03:14 cads hwy guys have you hear about that new cryptocurrency based on protein folding?
03:14 BingoBoingo benkay: It what way can I really turn the dial though
03:14 * cads wishes he wasn't just pulling your legs
03:14 benkay well one of two directions, right?
03:15 benkay either cheaper or more expensive
03:15 kakobrekla meh even the non btc advertising platforms are scams
03:15 mircea_popescu cads noobs gotta think they're smart, you know ?
03:15 kakobrekla how can you expect anything more from btc ones
03:15 BingoBoingo In an immature market though... The dial might not even be attached to the cam
03:16 cads mircea_popescu: I got it. What do you call a cryptocurrency based on protein folding?
03:16 benkay or sell access to specific pieces
03:16 cads An amino-asset.
03:16 BingoBoingo kakobrekla: Well, I've seen little actual promise from ads in either space
03:16 benkay cads brilliant
03:16 Duffer1 ...............
03:17 BingoBoingo And somehow this shit is more betable than Basketball http://kotaku.com/league-of-legends-pro-attempted-suicide-after-tournamen-1542880793
03:17 mircea_popescu hahaha
03:17 assbot Last 8 lines bashed and pending review. (http://dpaste.com/1726375/plain/)
03:17 mircea_popescu !b 8
03:19 BingoBoingo I swear I tried to do the basketball post as honestly as I could without calling it nigger golf
03:19 benkay bahahaha
03:19 MisterE most pro sports are dominated by blacks
03:19 benkay wow that kotaku article's full of lulz as well. dude crumpled some modern tin fake building and didn't die.
03:20 MisterE heh, I'll read
03:21 cads "The Skynet hypothesis is a boogeyman intended to scare the young and the paranoid. The real threat from AI is that it will become so good at the pointless tasks that we have given it that those pointless tasks will become a black hole of resources." I am reading an article about a concept the author calls malignant computing - computing that increases itself and hurts the market in an effort to perpetuate itself. http://radar.oreilly.
03:21 cads com/2014/03/malignant-computation.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+oreilly/radar/atom+(O'Reilly+Radar)
03:21 BingoBoingo MisterE: Explain Hockey?
03:21 MisterE I cant it sounds dumb
03:22 MisterE but I've been to a hockey game and it's very cool
03:22 MisterE its one of those that does poorly transferring to TV
03:22 MisterE unlike basketball that seems built for tv
03:22 MisterE and ftr I think hockey is still dominated by white barbarians
03:24 cads Arguments like that have been raised originally against high frequency trading, and as we're familier with, against the hashchain algorithm.
03:24 cads the author seems to hint that if a proof of work system is going to be malignant and self expandingit may as well be proof of some universally useful work
03:25 BingoBoingo Well I'll post this again in case anyone can't scroll up http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/03/13/an-overview-of-betable-sports-part-2-basketball/
03:25 benkay what, securing the monetary base isn't universally useful?
03:25 cads but only gives as an example Primecoin, a c-currency where the proof of work involves finding primes.
03:26 mircea_popescu http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2014/03/13/truck-driver-who-wore-vampire-fangs-accused-of-keeping-sex-slaves-in-semitrailer-for-months/
03:26 ozbot Truck Driver Who Wore Vampire Fangs Accused Of Keeping Sex Slaves In Semitrailer For Months « CBS L
03:26 mircea_popescu utah vampyre
03:27 mircea_popescu cads you realise that's a whole lot of ignorant nonsense do you ?
03:29 MisterE http://coingen.io/
03:29 MisterE everyone can have a crypto coin
03:30 cads can we make a computing system that grows such that it harms the market? sure, high speed trading has caused serious disasters - but we can also argue those are just growing pains and we're better off for the high speed bots.
03:31 mircea_popescu that's besides the point. there's a certain troop of losers that have had a purely ideological problem with bitcoin mining since 2009
03:31 mircea_popescu the idea is that bitcoin uses energy, and they don't like using energy. period.
03:31 cads right
03:32 mircea_popescu now, that this is hogwashed into something pompous sounding like "malignant computing" is exactly typical of the mannerisms of the particular ideological group in question.
03:32 mircea_popescu the gargle holds no futher merit past its function as a retard magnet.
03:33 chetty I want a time machine, send those folks back to walk streets a foot deep in horse shit
03:33 mircea_popescu perhaps amusing an exercise would be restructuring the argument, except directed at them.
03:33 mircea_popescu malignant pseudopolitics is this process which expands to occupy all fora available.
03:33 MisterE http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/scientist-devised-crypto-attack-could-one-day-steal-secret-bitcoin-keys/
03:33 ozbot Scientist-devised crypto attack could one day steal secret Bitcoin keys | Ars Technica
03:33 mircea_popescu sort-of what the socialists are doing in the us, or the communists did in the soviet union.
03:34 mircea_popescu it's malignant alright, it's pointless alright, with or without all the huffpo crap the world would be exactly in the same position.
03:34 mircea_popescu nao what ? purely ideological construct, works just as well in any random direction.
03:35 cads mircea_popescu: lets leave aside the author's obvious retardation and focus on prime coin and the idea of doing externally useful work as a side effect of the cryptocurrency.
03:35 mircea_popescu the entire thing shows striking similarities to the peta-and-animal-saving debacle, for that matter.
03:36 mircea_popescu well, there are two major problems involved here.
03:36 mircea_popescu one would seem to be thermodynamic, which is to say that the total utility of work available is limited, and if you do outside useful work you won't do the work you set out to do in the first place.
03:36 mircea_popescu this could be understood on a macro level as "if there are outside constraints on your pow process, you'll need that many more iterations"
03:36 cads the author does provide me with say 30 bits of novel information (I had not known of prime coin - the paper is interesting)
03:37 mircea_popescu im not debating whether it's interesting, it's definitely interesting. i'm just saying it;'s stupid. stupid things are usually interesting, at least as amusements
03:37 cads first example of a scientific computing cryptocurrency (and I certainly hope we'll see more useful ones as well)
03:38 Duffer1 scientific utility of a cunningham chain discovery mechanism is debatable
03:38 mircea_popescu no but you're math-literate, how would this work ? you compute two things with the same stone ? what's the idea here ?
03:38 cads mircea_popescu> this could be understood on a macro level as "if there are outside constraints on your pow process, you'll need that many more iterations"
03:39 cads this would be neat to model, and may well be true in a very theormodynamic sense
03:39 cads hmm
03:39 mircea_popescu ok, let me offer what i believe is a homomorphism
03:39 mircea_popescu "you can make any sha key you want, as long as every other byte is FA"
03:39 mircea_popescu now. does this mean your key will simply have to be twice as long for equal security ?
03:42 assbot [HAVELOCK] [CFIG] 2 @ 0.10099644 = 0.202 BTC [+]
03:42 BingoBoingo lol
03:42 mircea_popescu im probably restating well known and anciently established mathematical fact, but here, mp's lemma : any computation of two results can be reduced to two computations of the respective results, and the sum of the energy consumed by the latter will be at most equal to the energy consumed by the former process.
03:42 BingoBoingo Sounds reasonable
03:44 mircea_popescu and actually this could probably be expanded into interesting results for ppl trying to understand various higher level maths. "define a comutative algebra in which a ring can exist for which any addition also calculates a multiplication and vice-versa"
03:44 BingoBoingo Shame Erdos and his bog bag of meth are out of the picture
03:44 mircea_popescu something like the 2+2 = 4 2*2 = 4 sorta thing.
03:45 cads let me offer a counter "you can solve a partial hash collision problem (something like an O(2^k) expected running time), or you can solve a np-complete problem requiring brute searching a binary tree of height k (assume similar expected chance of success)."
03:45 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo no we want like emmy noether for this shit
03:46 cads Now suppose both solutions are verifiably by a third party in polynomial time. But suppose additionally that the answer for the second problem also has a value of $100 to the third party. The question is should the second process take more energy to compute?
03:46 BingoBoingo Like he didn't have a big bag of meth either
03:49 cads I feel the value supposition must be completely independent and coincidental to the energy requirements. You could even suppose it is pure coincidence the output of the second algorithm is structured such that it's useful to the third party.
03:50 mircea_popescu anyway, it's clearly interesting. or as the romanian expression goes, "un prostovan arunca o piatra in apa si zece filosofi se chinuie s-o scoata"
03:51 mircea_popescu cads but if it's purely coincidental then you don't have a pow that does protein folding, you just have a pow that occasionally folds a protein
03:52 mircea_popescu i imagine after enough btc blocks, we'll actually get shakespeare's merchant of venice in the hashes, so why not
03:52 cads mircea_popescu: it's without question that anyone can look at the outputs of the two algorithms and verify that ~2^k energy was expended. Perhaps the problem happens when we require the second algorithm to also guarantee a useful output relative to the third party.
03:52 mircea_popescu aha.
03:52 mircea_popescu exactly.
03:53 BingoBoingo The rejected hashes might already contain that play.
03:53 cads i don't see it because regardless of the supposed usefullness, the algorithm still uses 2^k energy.
03:54 mircea_popescu cads no but the key is your "or". turn it to "and" and see.
03:54 mircea_popescu cause really to work as advertised or is no good
03:54 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo emmy noether was a woman
03:55 mircea_popescu possibly the smartest woman that ever lived.
03:56 assbot [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 32 @ 0.0063672 = 0.2038 BTC [-] {2}
03:56 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Once they hit the crystal... It's just safest to assign them the pronoun that inspires the least sexual interest.
03:57 assbot [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 45 @ 0.00637406 = 0.2868 BTC [+] {4}
03:57 mircea_popescu a bit ironic because the poor woman suffered plenty through being a woman. ended up teaching under hilbert's name because the sort of boneheads roaming about end of 19th century couldn't have a woman colleague
03:59 BingoBoingo Indeed. Most of the really big breaks in computational theory cam from the women before the dorks realized they could make their own fantasy worlds.
03:59 cads well lets see a better example. Problem 1 makes us solve the travelling salesman problem on random graphs. Problem 2 makes us solve travelling salesman on maps that appear indistinguishable from the first ones, but in fact encode valuable information in their solutions. For your hypothesis to be true, it should be impossible for the second problem to cost less energy than the first?
03:59 BingoBoingo Also ironic, how pissed would the whales be if they knew we used the same word for our losers and their dicks.
04:00 BingoBoingo cads: Define indistinguishable
04:00 mircea_popescu cads not at all. my lemma is more general, in your proposed terms it would be :
04:00 cads BingoBoingo: right, I'm to tired to do that rigorously or even tell if why I said even makes sense.
04:01 BingoBoingo For most naive attempts at implementations the second set would likely be simpler and cheaper than the first
04:01 cads BingoBoingo: right
04:02 mircea_popescu should an algorithm exist to resolve the problem of ts on randomly distributed graphs, an application of that algorithm on a selected set of graphs with a useful application will cost more than the normal by an ammount at least equal to the cost of computing the useful application.
04:03 BingoBoingo I mean for the first set you could probably encode information much as RSA does. I don't have enough vodka on hand to speculate if that would be a good idea. Most of Elliptic curve cryptography works on spaces that can be played with in graph theory world though.
04:03 mircea_popescu ie, if on average your useless-pow block costs 1, the useful-pow will cost 1+ε, where ε >= the useful
04:03 cads mircea_popescu: I don't feel it mathematically yet but I feel why we'd like this to hold, economically
04:04 BingoBoingo In a world with Auroa coin and Mazacoin... THere is a good chance random graphs might mine better in tard efforts at implementation
04:04 mircea_popescu to me it's quite straightforwardly obvious but im much too wasted to be able to show it.
04:05 cads mircea_popescu: I think we should be able to test the hypothesis directly against the primecoin if we try hard enough
04:05 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Your lemma is sensical so long as it is restricted to hard POW's
04:05 mircea_popescu cads but would we be able to trust the results
04:05 cads mircea_popescu: I feel the same here, for the opposite side
04:05 mircea_popescu this is not unlike proving a given set of numbers is "random"
04:05 BingoBoingo cads: Primecoin isn't even that cool at finding useful primes
04:05 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo i suppose it degenerates into some sort of banal equality otherwise
04:06 Duffer1 not even primes, just cunningham prime chains
04:06 Duffer1 Riecoin is the one for large primes
04:07 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Well, most minds have their head splints set to promote that nowadays.
04:07 Duffer1 afaik the outcome of either cannot be guaranteed to yield a useful result beyond PoW
04:07 BingoBoingo Interesting: Penrose's book doesn't have an index entry for "random"
04:07 mircea_popescu random is a scam.
04:07 BingoBoingo FOr srs
04:08 mircea_popescu i suppose actually my lemma may end up the equivalent of quantum indeterminacy, but for maths.
04:08 mircea_popescu ie, if you don't look it costs 1, if you look worth ε it costs 1+ε and fuck you.
04:08 cads "Hypothesis: if an algorithm's output provides proof of 1 unit of work, and that output is also usable to provide the equivalent of epsilon units of useful work for another problem, then the energy expenditure of the algorithm must be greater or equal to 1 + epsilon units of work."
04:09 BingoBoingo If random existed it would have an index entry on page 1095 between "quantum reality" and "relatavistic quantum angular momentum"
04:09 Duffer1 not necessarily a scam, but certainly not reliable. Prime coin has produced measurable results beyond PoW utility
04:09 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9900 @ 0.00080391 = 7.9587 BTC [+] {2}
04:09 mircea_popescu cads something like that
04:10 cads mircea_popescu: to formalize this completely we'll have to assume something like a polynomial time algorithm that converts the output of algorithm A into a solution for problem B.
04:10 mircea_popescu well wait, that's hiding the ε ?
04:10 cads probably
04:10 cads if it works out
04:10 cads that's the only place for the e to come from, isn't it?
04:10 mircea_popescu and importantly, this is looking forward in time.
04:11 mircea_popescu you can in principle sift through the history and find convenient cases for any particular problem
04:11 mircea_popescu byt the idea here is that we promise some sort of result in the future.
04:11 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 50 @ 0.07346034 = 3.673 BTC [-] {9}
04:11 mircea_popescu "turn this wheel and an egg will fall out every revolution and also a feather every ten revolutions" is okay, whereas
04:11 mircea_popescu "turn this wheel and an egg will fall out every revolution, then look if any eggs have feathers attached" is not okay
04:12 Duffer1 that's pretty much how primecoin works lol
04:12 mircea_popescu o is it ?
04:12 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 99 @ 0.0037 = 0.3663 BTC [-] {3}
04:12 mircea_popescu (i've not looked much into it at all)
04:12 cads suppose we have algorithm A, and we have that a solution of A reduces polynomially solutions B, C, D, E, F, G...
04:13 MisterE major LTC manipulation now
04:13 MisterE Whale is swinging it around like a cat by its tail
04:13 assbot [HAVELOCK] [HIF] 1000 @ 0.00043822 = 0.4382 BTC [-] {14}
04:13 MisterE not that I have ever done that to a cat
04:13 MisterE ...
04:14 cads mircea_popescu: we'll have an epsilon for each target problem, and maybe the cost of solving al the target problems starting from A must be greater than or equal to solving B, C, D... seperately.
04:14 assbot [HAVELOCK] [DEALCO] 100 @ 0.00463317 = 0.4633 BTC [-] {5}
04:14 mircea_popescu anyway, im wiped. we'll have to continue this tomorro
04:14 mircea_popescu cheers all.
04:14 cads mircea_popescu: I concur
04:14 MisterE laterz
04:14 MisterE interesting
04:14 Duffer1 MP read the Primecoin whitepapaer you'd like it
04:15 MisterE do continue
04:15 Duffer1 later man
04:15 Duffer1 cads read the Reicoin whitepaper you'd like it ^.^
04:15 assbot [HAVELOCK] [COG] 10 @ 0.0382 = 0.382 BTC [+] {2}
04:16 cads Duffer1: I do feel like we're arguing more from philosophical/economical principle that computation shouldn't give us two things for free - but this seems false.
04:17 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.07889999 = 0.1578 BTC [+]
04:17 cads for a really weaksauce example, say I take the square of a number x. In the result I've also computed the square of the number -x, and this for 'free'.
04:17 Duffer1 primecoin has already proven that hashing can produce utility beyond PoW
04:18 MisterE NMC does useful stuff too
04:18 cads MP's conjecture is that it must trade off utility between Pow and the secondary function
04:18 Duffer1 ya, i must disagree with that position
04:19 cads same here but I have to say it's intriguing
04:19 Duffer1 mistere it does, but it's still a hashcash based PoW
04:19 BingoBoingo NMC was thought to do useful shit, but miners won't commit transactions with useful data
04:19 cads Duffer1: I've not heard of reicoin yet (I'd merely heard of primecoin half an hour ago)
04:20 VanCleef is it possible to have a alt coin that doesn't require any miners to verify it? once its sent its instantly confirmed?
04:20 Duffer1 riecoin's pow attempts to find prime sextuplets to generate absurdly long prime numbers
04:20 Duffer1 500+ digit
04:21 cads I want to see a cryptocurrency backed in automated service provider contracts
04:21 cads whatever that means :)
04:21 cads VanCleef: sounds like you want to set up a kind of test network?
04:23 VanCleef i think so?
04:23 Duffer1 cads http://riecoin.org/#questions
04:24 VanCleef its just awkward when doing a face trade with someone and they ask if they can sleep over while waiting for it to confirm
04:25 VanCleef i sat with a guy for 8 hours at starbucks once and i ran out of things to talk about about an hour
04:26 Mats_cd03 pay a higher tx fee then scrub
04:26 cads VanCleef: a test network holds no market value so it'll confirm quick but mean zip
04:29 VanCleef ok, not a test network
04:30 kakobrekla meh, blockchain buys rtbtc, everything goes to shit.
04:31 Apocalyptic heh
04:31 Mats_cd03 whatever the tx fee in the ref client is, double it, problem solved
04:32 VanCleef i'll remember that for next time mats
04:33 Mats_cd03 the confirmation delay is something altcoins have experimented with
04:33 moiety mew
04:33 moiety bb got a sec?
04:33 Mats_cd03 they mostly suck
04:36 BingoBoingo moiety: Sure
04:37 BingoBoingo So blockchain.info started looking really sickly really fast.
04:37 BingoBoingo Smallpox?
04:40 MisterE last week they were the big news on Bloomberg
04:40 MisterE the start of this down trend
04:40 MisterE when their news was poop
04:48 BingoBoingo Like Blockchain.info when from being useful, cultured manure to straight up salmonella liquishits
05:00 MisterE users leavig btce in droves
05:00 MisterE looks like Stamp is the new king
05:06 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.59041 = 1.1808 BTC [-]
05:07 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.5904 BTC [-]
05:12 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 44500 @ 0.00079969 = 35.5862 BTC [-]
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05:38 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 5 @ 0.07889999 = 0.3945 BTC [+]
05:51 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21439 @ 0.00079984 = 17.1478 BTC [+]
05:54 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8550 @ 0.00080045 = 6.8438 BTC [+] {2}
06:07 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6900 @ 0.00080388 = 5.5468 BTC [+]
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06:26 BingoBoingo So... Mark Shuttleworth just can't demand a display server work
06:26 BingoBoingo http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/03/13/2241232/ubuntus-mir-gets-delayed-again
06:26 ozbot Ubuntu's Mir Gets Delayed Again - Slashdot
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06:45 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26300 @ 0.00080394 = 21.1436 BTC [+]
06:49 davout ;;later tell mircea_popescu deposits pl0x
06:49 gribble The operation succeeded.
06:56 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22900 @ 0.00080388 = 18.4089 BTC [-]
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07:20 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 3 @ 0.04527334 = 0.1358 BTC [-] {2}
07:21 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 19 @ 0.04497705 = 0.8546 BTC [-] {4}
07:27 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 70 @ 0.005743 = 0.402 BTC [-] {3}
07:31 nubbins` hi
07:41 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30900 @ 0.00080219 = 24.7877 BTC [-] {2}
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08:19 dub ;tslb
08:19 nubbins` ;;tslc
08:19 gribble Error: "tslc" is not a valid command.
08:19 dub :;tslb
08:20 nubbins` (time since last coffee)
08:20 dub lel
08:20 dub ;;tslb
08:20 gribble Time since last block: 29 minutes and 2 seconds
08:20 nubbins` :o
08:20 dub every time
08:20 dub I tell you
08:20 nubbins` so there's this escrow guy on the forums, saltyspitoon
08:20 nubbins` great fella
08:20 nubbins` was gonna leave him some wot ratings
08:21 nubbins` http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=saltyspitoon
08:21 ozbot Rating Details for User 'saltyspitoon'
08:21 nubbins` almost too perfect to ruin
08:21 dub heh
08:23 dub fuck you bitcoin, fuck you in the goat ass
08:26 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30250 @ 0.00080312 = 24.2944 BTC [+] {2}
08:29 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28200 @ 0.0008034 = 22.6559 BTC [+] {2}
08:40 Neil Damn these blocks getting scarce
08:43 Neil <mircea_popescu> Neil since you mentioned jtd, you ever read the original mpoe prospectus ? << I have, probably twice. What's the connection?
08:45 Neil http://bitbet.us/bet/596/btc-difficulty-to-increase-by-less-than-10/ << Time for the difficulty bulls to get worried?
08:45 ozbot BitBet - BTC difficulty to increase by less than 10%
08:47 Apocalyptic .d
08:47 ozbot 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1800 blocks | Estimated Change: 4.0162% in 11d 23h 55m 0s
08:47 Neil The last 2 weeks are the first time in a long time at least 50% of the time I open blockchain.info it shows a block over 1hr old.
08:47 Apocalyptic too soon to tell imo
08:48 Neil It's like a mini-inflation shock. History shows they take about 2 months to feed into the price. June 2016 with the halving is gonna be epic.
08:50 Neil Nov 12 led to a 100x price in 1yr
08:52 assbot [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 2224 @ 0.00015467 = 0.344 BTC [-] {5}
08:57 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.5904 BTC [-]
09:05 Neil Mr Derek Dick was one heck of a lyricist.
09:11 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 2949 @ 0.00345037 = 10.1751 BTC [-] {30}
09:24 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 44689 @ 0.00080149 = 35.8178 BTC [-] {2}
09:24 Neil Derek William Dick. What a guy.
09:30 Neil Respect
09:32 Neil "Singing psychedelic praises to the depths of a China bowl"
09:32 Neil "You've got venom in your stomach, you've got poison in your head"
09:32 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26700 @ 0.00080396 = 21.4657 BTC [+] {3}
09:34 Neil He knows, you know, he knows, you know, he knows, you know, but he's got problems!"
09:34 Neil Underrated as fck.
09:37 blackwhite so one bitcoin could potentially be subdivided into "infinite" sub sets right?
09:41 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34050 @ 0.00080004 = 27.2414 BTC [-] {2}
09:41 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 4 @ 0.07202505 = 0.2881 BTC [-] {3}
09:42 Neil blackwhite: One bitcoin is one bitcoin. To what extent one agrees to subdivide it is but a mere footnote. The default assumption amongst market participants, owing to history, is 100m "satoshis" are a bitcoin.
09:44 Neil Which probably to Mr Satoshi 5 years ago seemed like a pipe-dream, but now is starting to feel like a low-ball
09:45 blackwhite Yeah the reason why I ask is. If for some reason suddenly 10million bit coins go lost that basically would mean the end of the currency, but couldn't that somehow be countered by splitting each bitcoin so we deal in satoshis instead? Asking because I can't wrap my head around that problem
09:45 blackwhite i.e. it's not impossible to imagine large sums of bitcoin dissapear
09:45 blackwhite then what
09:46 Neil "Yeah the reason why I ask is. If for some reason suddenly 10million bit coins go lost that basically would mean the end of the currency" uhh please explain that big underspecified jump in logic.
09:46 Neil It *would* mean everyone else's suddenly got worth a lot more, but the end? You don't understand.
09:47 Neil But re splitting, absolutely, you get it.
09:49 Neil blackwhite: First thing to understand is most the shit you read in the media isn't a "problem", it's just the guy writing the article's "problem"
09:49 Neil decide for yourself
09:51 Neil blackwhite: If there are 100kg of gold in the world, and then 20kg disappear, then what?
09:51 Neil Nothing, just it's cool if you own some of that 20kg that is left. That is all.
09:54 blackwhite yeah but consider this argument for instance: "If Bitcoin matured into a complete currency, with large numbers of workers using it as their medium of account, then its inflexibility could bring economic havoc. Money-supply “shocks”, like the disappearance of Mt Gox, could set off a systemic collapse. Given a loss of faith in exchanges, users might withdraw their coins in a panic, leading to a dangerous decline in transaction volume. Such
09:54 blackwhite hoarding could threaten Bitcoin’s status as a medium of exchange, leading to its complete demise as a currency.
09:54 blackwhite Reputable exchanges with large institutional holdings could help stem such panics by advertising a willingness to sell their Bitcoins to meet liquidity demand. Yet because Bitcoin reserves are finite, users may not find the promise credible. By contrast, central banks with the inexhaustible resources of the printing press face no such inconvenient constraints."
09:54 blackwhite http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21599053-chronic-deflation-may-keep-bitcoin-displacing-its-fiat-rivals-money
09:55 Neil blackwhite: I don't know where to start. Maybe start thinking for yourself and stop drinking the logical fallacies?
09:55 blackwhite Neil oh I am
09:55 blackwhite i am just saying thats an argument being put out there
09:55 Neil It's Keynesian claptrap and the opposite of reality.
09:56 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 48 @ 0.0031105 = 0.1493 BTC [-]
09:56 Neil Arguments don't matter though. Ownership transfer does.
09:56 blackwhite yeah sure
09:57 Neil Just act in your own self interest and ignore the noise
09:58 blackwhite well to be honest I am not so much interested in bitcoin as a currency but more as a technology. I don't mine but purely trade my services for bitcoin. So its all good
09:58 blackwhite and yeah agree on that
09:58 Neil Good for you. That's all we need - volountary interaction.
09:59 Neil Of course, as a speculator I believe you'd benefit by holding, but I don't begrudge you deciding what to do with your own money. Hopefully vice versa.
10:01 Neil My belief is that bitcoin will succeed for one simple reason, whose power almost eveyrone underestimates (apart from Satoshi): people will come to realise holding bitcoin is in their own best interest. And everything else will follow, in the future as it already has, from $0.01 to $500. Nothing has changed.
10:02 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.075 = 0.225 BTC [-]
10:02 Neil And boy do I look forward to the day I can travel the world and spend bitcoin. I think it's only 2 years away.
10:03 nubbins` http://mark-karpeles.com/m.php?page=trades&user_id=188
10:03 blackwhite yeah that is why I am also trying to get bit coins by doing what I do best. Interface design, product design, branding etc.
10:03 Neil blackwhite: Good for you. Keep true to that and you will succeed.
10:04 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26400 @ 0.00079805 = 21.0685 BTC [-] {3}
10:05 Neil blackwhite: The world is your oyster. Whether your customer is an Iranian or a Korean. Who gives a fuck apart from those who benefit by dividing us.
10:05 blackwhite I think John Smart said it best.
10:05 blackwhite from his tweet
10:05 blackwhite FedGovt dollars are *debt instruments*. #Bitcoin is first chance for little investor to say enough. Tea Party & Occupy both see it's value.
10:06 Neil Yeah it'll take time, but it'll happen. I'm 100% sure.
10:10 blackwhite so what are some of the models people use to make money with bit coins besides mining?
10:10 blackwhite I saw this
10:10 blackwhite http://www.mpex.co/
10:10 nubbins` sell things you make for btc
10:10 blackwhite apparently its fairly successful
10:11 blackwhite yeah thats what I am doing
10:11 Neil blackwhite: There's nothing wrong with just sitting on your coins. Just make sure they're safe.
10:11 nubbins` mining/buying is for suckers
10:11 blackwhite Neil not saying there is just interested in some of the models out there
10:11 dexx http://bitcoindev.us.to/en/developer-guide
10:11 ozbot Developer Guide - Bitcoin
10:11 blackwhite trying to learn as much as possible about this field
10:12 Neil Sure. I think some of MP's businesses are interesting. Just they're trading at an insane premium IMO, because of lack of credible alternatives. Make your own decision.
10:13 Neil And if he's run over by a bus tomorrow, what are you left holding?
10:13 Neil Something of very unclear value IMO.
10:14 Neil And he's clearly playing in an unclear tax / regulatory state. (Not that I blame him at all). But take it into account.
10:16 assbot [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 20 @ 0.0060231 = 0.1205 BTC [-] {2}
10:17 thestringpuller lack of credible alternatives is an understatement
10:19 blackwhite In other words there is room for competition?
10:20 Neil blackwhite: Absolutely
10:20 Neil But I'm not claiming it'd be easy; I'm quite sure it'd be very tough
10:24 assbot [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 58 @ 0.00600179 = 0.3481 BTC [-] {2}
10:24 nubbins` Neil: problem with most things on mpex is low volume
10:24 nubbins` so it's pretty easy to swing prices
10:25 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 7 @ 0.075 = 0.525 BTC [-]
10:25 nubbins` ignoring mpoe, you're looking at ~1btc/24h across all assets
10:33 thestringpuller speaking of popescus
10:33 mircea_popescu you were ?
10:33 nubbins` read the log D;
10:33 * nubbins` cackles
10:34 mircea_popescu in a minute lol
10:34 mircea_popescu i gotta article i gotta write first
10:37 nubbins` measles outbreak in nyc
10:37 chetty http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-14/it-begins-past-week-foreigners-sell-record-amount-over-100-billion-treasurys-held-fe
10:37 nubbins` but, y'know, don't bother vaccinating your kids
10:37 ozbot Foreigners Sell A Record Amount, Over $100 Billion, Of Treasurys Held By The Fed In Past Week | Zero
10:37 Diablo-D3 $100 billion is about 1% of treasury bonds.
10:38 Diablo-D3 so zerohedge fails to be relevant yet again
10:38 mircea_popescu somewhere in the middle. it's not what they make it out to be, but it is a blip
10:39 mircea_popescu pretty much all depends on whether tomorrow is 1.x trillion or not.
10:39 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11650 @ 0.00079906 = 9.309 BTC [+]
10:40 VanCleef question is mpex a registered business?
10:41 nubbins` Diablo-D3: they fail at html too
10:41 nubbins` brutal layout
10:41 Diablo-D3 VanCleef: not in any nation that metters
10:42 mircea_popescu VanCleef mpex is a bitcoin business.
10:42 VanCleef okey, but is it incoporated?
10:43 mircea_popescu as a bitcoin business.
10:43 VanCleef ohokey cool,like in the country you live or is it offshored?
10:43 mircea_popescu it does not live in any country. it. is. a. bitcoin. business.
10:43 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 16 @ 0.04517499 = 0.7228 BTC [-] {6}
10:43 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 'six fucking months to break down the male blocks on killing, and even then it only works sorta 50-50' << i've yet to see this confirmed for homo sapiens vs. homo americanus circa 1940s
10:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform but we were discussing homo americanus neh ?
10:44 VanCleef hehe ok so i guess its not incoporated ina traditional sense,like google or facebook is
10:44 mircea_popescu not any more than google or facebook are incorporated in a proper sense, such as mpex is.
10:44 assbot [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 695 @ 0.00015014 = 0.1043 BTC [-] {3}
10:45 VanCleef gotcha
10:45 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 6 @ 0.04481 = 0.2689 BTC [-]
10:49 asciilifeform emmy noether was a titan. i suspect that we still haven't fully digested her output.
10:50 mircea_popescu im not the only one catching up on logs huh
10:50 asciilifeform what 'physicist' living today is fit even to be beheaded by noether.
10:50 mircea_popescu asciilifeform beheaded may be going a little far, but la petite mort however...
10:51 asciilifeform ;;google kaishakunin
10:51 gribble Kaishakunin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaishakunin>; The fine art of seppuku: <http://www.win.net/ratsnest/archive-articles21/fog0000000384.html>; Kaishakunin.com - IT-Sicherheitsberatung Magdeburg - Stefan ...: <http://www.kaishakunin.com/>
10:52 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15398 @ 0.00079777 = 12.2841 BTC [-] {2}
10:57 nubbins` hmm
10:57 nubbins` that's a euphemism
10:57 nubbins` and reminds me of a website i came across years ago
10:58 nubbins` http://www.beautifulagony.com/public/main.php
10:58 asciilifeform haha
10:58 asciilifeform old news
10:58 asciilifeform it had cultural impact though:
10:59 asciilifeform in russian sf writer viktor pelevin's epic 'SNUFF', the descendants of the americans (living in a mostly broken-down antigrav ship over what remains of russia) continue to decay,
11:00 asciilifeform feminists raised 'age of consent' to 46
11:00 asciilifeform so most porn that anyone would be willing to see is classified as 'child' and forbidden
11:00 asciilifeform so the officially permitted porn consists of watching the censor's faces as they view the forbidden
11:00 mircea_popescu i've seen some pretty hot 50yos...
11:00 nubbins` ^
11:00 asciilifeform and it becomes known as 'derivative porn' or 'Derp' for short.
11:00 mircea_popescu hahaha
11:00 asciilifeform viewing Derp becomes a mark of a 'cultured' man
11:01 asciilifeform and everybody pretends to like it.
11:02 Diablo-D3 I would like to classify feminists as girls who are afraid to grow up and become women
11:03 nubbins` i would like to sit back and have a lel as you folks define feminism
11:08 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 4 @ 0.04629946 = 0.1852 BTC [+] {3}
11:08 assbot [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 100 @ 0.01587764 = 1.5878 BTC [-] {13}
11:09 mircea_popescu nubbins` the mistaken notion that while socialism (ie, the salvation of the members of the group through recourse to the group) doesn't work, subsets of this (such as, the salvation of women by recourse to the group) do somehow magically work.
11:09 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5971 @ 0.0007977 = 4.7631 BTC [-]
11:09 mircea_popescu because for people that were too fucking lazy and high on their own farts to pay attention in school,
11:09 mircea_popescu proving something like x^2 > 2x is not sufficient, we then have to go individually and show that 4^2 > 8, 5^2 > 10 etc etc
11:10 mircea_popescu "thinking", in america.
11:13 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.6 BTC [+]
11:14 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 19 @ 0.00591538 = 0.1124 BTC [+] {3}
11:16 artifexd nubbins` Revisit your mark-karpeles link and lol
11:20 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 3 @ 0.072 = 0.216 BTC [-]
11:20 ThickAsThieves <MisterE> http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/scientist-devised-crypto-attack-could-one-day-steal-secret-bitcoin-keys/ >>>> is it just me or is this whole article moot in regards to Bitcoin, being that no one uses Intel to mine and even malware was made it would have to somehow run on the ASIC system of the chosen device?
11:21 assbot [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 22 @ 0.00599369 = 0.1319 BTC [-] {2}
11:23 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.075 = 0.225 BTC [-]
11:24 ThickAsThieves blackwhite those quotes are ridiculous
11:25 TomServo http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-14/buffett-s-board-opposes-shareholder-s-dividend-proposal.html
11:25 TomServo Shareholder David Witt, who has a stake valued at about $8,650 based on yesterday’s closing price, proposed the measure, stating that Berkshire has “more money than it needs” and that the board should consider the investors who aren’t billionaires.
11:25 blackwhite well that might be but thats hardly an argument :)
11:25 ThickAsThieves indeed
11:25 blackwhite it doesn't really matter cause even if it has a point it's not really the point.
11:25 ThickAsThieves right
11:25 ThickAsThieves the decimal doesnt matter
11:26 ThickAsThieves and no economic shockwaves will happen due to it or bitcoin's eventual shift from inflationary to static supply
11:26 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39500 @ 0.00079759 = 31.5048 BTC [-] {3}
11:27 ThickAsThieves what was the source link again?
11:30 ThickAsThieves http://bitcoindev.us.to/en/developer-guide
11:30 ozbot Developer Guide - Bitcoin
11:38 bounce skipped the standard issue FUDwords artcle for the abstract of the paper. it reads like the ecdsa equivalent of the cache hit/miss sidechannel gpg key snatch. ie, don't run bitcoin transactions on shared or even virtual anything boxes. no running wallets on ec2, say.
11:38 asciilifeform ThickAsThieves: isn't everyone tired of cache timing attach being 'reinvented' every month and pushed as a great discovery?
11:38 asciilifeform *attack
11:39 Apocalyptic I for one am
11:39 asciilifeform this almost calls for a memecat graphic or the like.
11:39 asciilifeform 'old attack is old.'
11:39 Apocalyptic and that applies to all these timing side channels attacks
11:40 ThickAsThieves ah i somehow assumed they were talking about mining for some reason
11:40 ThickAsThieves probably from reading all that primecoin pw log
11:40 ThickAsThieves pow*
11:41 asciilifeform yes, letting enemy run code on the box where you crypto is dumb. news at 11.
11:41 assbot [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 2206 @ 0.00014942 = 0.3296 BTC [-] {5}
11:43 mircea_popescu it's not even fucking hard to reimplement gpg without caching
11:43 mircea_popescu or for that matter, with fake cache hits for the lulz.
11:43 assbot [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 2202 @ 0.000149 = 0.3281 BTC [-]
11:45 asciilifeform still foolish to rely on x86 'rings' for isolation of something genuinely important
11:49 thestringpuller asciilifeform man no one talks about the rings anymore
11:49 thestringpuller lets isolate execution!
11:50 asciilifeform x86 reminds me of certain old soviet apartments, with toilet in the kitchen behind a curtain.
11:50 thestringpuller hahahahaha wow...
11:52 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2014/you-cannot-fix-a-machine-by-just-power-cycling-it-with-no-understanding-of-what-is-going-wrong/
11:52 ozbot “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.â€
11:52 mircea_popescu in which i'm incredibly fucking mean.
11:52 asciilifeform lol tom knight
11:53 mircea_popescu ;)
11:53 asciilifeform those rats
11:53 asciilifeform fellow i know from india (former physicist) confirmed the famous rat temple
11:54 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 51200 @ 0.00080078 = 40.9999 BTC [+] {3}
11:54 asciilifeform said to me, 'i went there before any serious maths exam.'
11:54 mircea_popescu yup
11:54 asciilifeform yer supposed to let them nibble on your toes for a bit
11:55 mircea_popescu i prefer less fertile mammals nibbling on my toes.
11:55 Diablo-D3 [11:52:16] <mircea_popescu> http://trilema.com/2014/you-cannot-fix-a-machine-by-just-power-cycling-it-with-no-understanding-of-what-is-going-wrong/
11:56 Diablo-D3 unless it runs windows
11:56 assbot [HAVELOCK] [SFI] 1150 @ 0.00085455 = 0.9827 BTC [-] {5}
11:56 mircea_popescu arguably that you can never fix
11:56 Diablo-D3 and its the step on the list before reinstalling windows
11:56 mircea_popescu even if you do know what's going wrong
11:56 Diablo-D3 mircea_popescu: yeah
11:56 Diablo-D3 windows is just fubar
11:59 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 2.23928170 BTC to 3`785 shares, 59162 satoshi per share
11:59 VanCleef sfi what a fail
12:01 pLambert SFI is an "idea" company?
12:02 ThickAsThieves it's an idea that funds ideas
12:02 ThickAsThieves llegedly
12:03 ThickAsThieves a
12:03 thestringpuller that's an amazing idea
12:03 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
12:03 VanCleef what you working on atm ThickAsThieves ?
12:03 mircea_popescu an amazing amazing
12:03 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
12:04 mircea_popescu a pair of twins.
12:04 ThickAsThieves VanCleef, I am at a fork in the road
12:04 ThickAsThieves having trouble choosing
12:04 VanCleef hmmmm?
12:05 ThickAsThieves to be even less descriptive, I'm not sure what I want to do next
12:05 asciilifeform http://www.arkinspace.com/2011/06/holy-rats-of-karni-mata.html
12:05 ozbot The Holy Rats of Karni Mata ~ The Ark In Space
12:06 VanCleef yeh i think i'm the same atm, bitfunder really cursed me, cant seem to make any winning moves since then
12:06 mircea_popescu http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/01/24/article-2545066-1AEB2EEB00000578-272_634x822.jpg
12:07 mircea_popescu 'que es ser exitosa hoy"
12:07 mircea_popescu i'll probably dedicate my retirement to loling my ass off over fringe repackaging of anglosaxon bs.
12:08 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8723 @ 0.00080337 = 7.0078 BTC [+] {2}
12:08 VanCleef what's the craziest thing you'vedone in thelast 2 months mircea?
12:09 mircea_popescu the shit i do ain't crazy, it has its own internal logic.
12:09 VanCleef i mean the most fun
12:09 ThickAsThieves he means, tell us a story
12:09 VanCleef ya
12:10 ThickAsThieves cuz yknow, trilema isnt big enough
12:10 mircea_popescu ya totally.
12:10 nubbins` TIL you can freeze old cheddar with impunity
12:10 VanCleef outside of btc world :)
12:10 nubbins` idly wondering why the fuck nobody told me this before
12:11 mircea_popescu nubbins` most hard cheeses freeze just fine, tho the purists don't want to admit it.
12:12 ThickAsThieves since i dont think it was linked yet http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/03/14/buffett-stay-away-from-bitcoin/?mod=WSJBlog
12:12 ThickAsThieves “Stay away from it,” he said, according to a transcript. “It’s a mirage basically.”
12:13 VanCleef oh yeah i was reading that before, uncle buff makes some good points
12:13 nubbins` read that earlier
12:13 ThickAsThieves “I hope bitcoin becomes a better way of doing it,” he said, but “the idea that it has intrinsic value is a joke.”
12:13 ThickAsThieves i think buffet ran out of good points
12:13 mircea_popescu it doesn't have intrinsic value
12:13 mircea_popescu it has a lot of economic goodwill, of the actual varietyt
12:13 mircea_popescu as opposed to the accounting variety.
12:13 mircea_popescu uncle buff should know all about it, or at least did, cca early 80s
12:13 pLambert mircea_popescu: you seem to hate on NEOBEE much, you think they will fail?
12:14 mircea_popescu pLambert i have a very low oppinion of their ceo is all.
12:14 assbot [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 2221 @ 0.000149 = 0.3309 BTC [-] {3}
12:15 nubbins` cheese sandwiches are divine
12:15 mircea_popescu this has little to do with failure or success, you know, even a blind dog gets a duck once.
12:15 nubbins` old cheddar, red onion, orange bell pepper, mixed greens, mayo on sourdough
12:16 nubbins` i'd masturbate if my hands were free
12:16 VanCleef i dont know if you guys use cryptostocks but there's like 1 guy on there running about 5 scams atm, its shitty
12:16 mircea_popescu that sounds epic
12:16 ThickAsThieves it took a long time to sort them, but it turns out there are some pretty good vegan cheeses being made
12:16 nubbins` wow, really?
12:16 ThickAsThieves many many horrible ones
12:16 mircea_popescu VanCleef im just sitting back and enjoying deprived's predicament re cryptoscammocks,. atm
12:16 Apocalyptic VanCleef, a well known fact cryptostocks is full of scams
12:16 ThickAsThieves yeahm you just have to know each cheese's place
12:16 VanCleef i'm sure there's a couple of good gems in there
12:16 nubbins` what are they made from? soy?
12:17 VanCleef cannabit seems alright
12:17 ThickAsThieves they are not nearly as flexible
12:17 VanCleef tho share price is doing badly
12:18 ThickAsThieves if i recall, i dont like any soy cheeses
12:18 nubbins` http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/portugal-cove-farmer-hopes-to-grow-medical-marijuana-1.2568583
12:18 nubbins` right on
12:18 ozbot Portugal Cove farmer hopes to grow medical marijuana - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News
12:18 nubbins` that's like a 20 minute drive
12:19 nubbins` http://imgur.com/0HT0F4g
12:19 ozbot Whoever makes the MtGox story TV special, please get Randy from Trailer Park
12:19 nubbins` leel
12:20 mircea_popescu cads i doubt the square of x and -x can count as different problems in this context.
12:20 VanCleef i was watching this report on colorado w33d vendors who had 2 problems, 1. they couldn't get business bank accounts cause banks were scared 2. they were dealing with massif loads of cash and had to hire like ex mercenary types of p33ps to move the fiat for them.
12:21 ThickAsThieves http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/03/14/did-russia-just-dump-its-treasury-holdings/?mod=WSJBlog
12:21 ozbot Did Russia Just Dump Its Treasury Holdings? - MoneyBeat - WSJ
12:21 ThickAsThieves vancleef didnt obama tell banks to ease up on weed growers?
12:22 ThickAsThieves dunno if that actually matters
12:22 ThickAsThieves but i think he may have
12:22 VanCleef i dont know i tune out whenever oh bummer talks
12:22 mircea_popescu MisterE: looks like Stamp is the new king <<< markets centralize.
12:23 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6944 @ 0.00079968 = 5.553 BTC [-]
12:23 mircea_popescu Neil i was curious what your estimated jtd would be, at the time of the 2nd tranche ipo of mpoe. ie, two years ago to the day.
12:24 VanCleef in the future people will be saying "man i just got stamped"
12:24 pLambert doesn't have the same ring as I just got Goxxed, but it makes more sense linguistically
12:24 ThickAsThieves why not keep saying goxed
12:25 ThickAsThieves dont let that nigga live it down
12:26 mircea_popescu blackwhite none of those pieces of crud are arguments. they're just flaming ignorance being stubbornly presented by people who are too haughty to read trilema. all that shit's been debunked there cca 2012.
12:27 mircea_popescu that aside, neil has it :D
12:28 mircea_popescu nubbins` ahaha poor spitoon what a wot.
12:28 nubbins` i know hey?
12:28 nubbins` it's almost too good to leave ratings on
12:28 VanCleef hehe tat
12:29 mircea_popescu indeed lol
12:30 mircea_popescu Neil the thing is, unless bitcoin gets to make the rules we're wasting our time here.
12:31 mircea_popescu bitcoin isn't "a currency" nor much of a "medium of exchange" at all. it's a substitute for government is what it is. in all its forms, from actual electoral validation processes to deciding where you eat today, and how much.
12:31 nubbins` ^ it's true, bitcoin chose the cheese sandwich for me
12:31 mircea_popescu aristotle's politics just became second rate in the field of revolutionary. nakamoto's paper easily takes the top spot
12:32 mircea_popescu nubbins` funny but true, ye know ?
12:32 nubbins` bit of a convoluted process, but yeah
12:33 nubbins` hmm, sourdough starter for btc, shipped worldwide
12:33 * nubbins` thinks about this
12:33 mircea_popescu Nubbins' Dough ?
12:33 mircea_popescu (accept no substitutes)
12:33 chetty customs just might object nubbins'
12:33 nubbins` the starter itself is just a wild yeast colony that lives in a home of flour and water
12:34 nubbins` chetty, maybe -- i know lots of places in san francisco ship dried starter worldwide
12:35 nubbins` it's the sort of thing that you could make yourself from scratch, but why do that when you can purchase an established starter that's already developed its own taste and characteristics?
12:35 mircea_popescu nubbins` thought : whether you do this or not, do the following : make a website follow the generations.
12:35 chetty cause catching the yeast yourself is more fun!
12:35 nubbins` sourdough pedigree
12:35 mircea_popescu then if you actually sell it down the road, you have a history. if you scrap the thing, whatever. a website.
12:36 nubbins` chetty: it really is :)
12:36 nubbins` i made mine from scratch about a year and a half ago
12:37 ThickAsThieves Dat Dough Dough
12:38 nubbins` there are places in san fran that have been using the same starter for >150 years
12:38 mircea_popescu i heard that too yeah
12:38 nubbins` pretty much a different species at that point
12:38 mircea_popescu well, a subspecies
12:38 nubbins` er yeah, that's what i meant ;(
12:39 mircea_popescu tho... i don't suppose they actually are isolated you know ?
12:39 nubbins` "it's not even yeast anymore!"
12:39 nubbins` well, as much as possible
12:39 chetty it does improve with age, mostly
12:39 mircea_popescu new bugs fall in and contribute genetic material prolly all the time
12:39 nubbins` the big no-no is feeding your starter with anything but plain white flour
12:39 nubbins` that said, yeast is in the air all around us
12:39 mircea_popescu BitChrista you type in the lower bar thing to talk
12:40 nubbins` you can train your starter, too
12:40 nubbins` get it used to different feeding schedules
12:40 mircea_popescu that does something ?
12:40 nubbins` some people feed 2x daily, others 1x
12:40 nubbins` the starter adapts pretty easily
12:41 nubbins` anyway bbl gotta install some venting
12:41 chetty good grief, once a week is plenty
12:41 BitChrista Thanks Mircea_Popescu
12:41 mircea_popescu !t h neobee
12:41 assbot [HAVELOCK:NEOBEE] 1D: 0.00311050 / 0.00349835 / 0.00379999 (4434 shares, 15.51167558 BTC), 7D: 0.00299999 / 0.00354983 / 0.00436789 (98844 shares, 350.87894318 BTC), 30D: 0.00275000 / 0.00435665 / 0.00600000 (650572 shares, 2834.31458311 BTC)
12:43 mircea_popescu ;;tslb
12:43 gribble Time since last block: 12 minutes and 55 seconds
12:43 BitChrista mircea_popescu, what wuestions do you have about CoinVox?
12:43 mircea_popescu floor just fell out of mining again, ridiculous.
12:43 mircea_popescu BitChrista well, what is it, what does it do ?
12:44 BitChrista We are a payment processing platform that allows politicians/ people running for office to accept donations in Bitcoin.
12:44 mircea_popescu ah that!
12:44 mircea_popescu so do you have some particular angle for that market that puts you in a better position than say bitpay ?
12:44 BitChrista Soon they will be able to accept all cryptocurrencies. We will likely branch out to non-profits and social impact as well
12:45 ThickAsThieves how does it differ from them accepting it directly or via coinbase/bitpay?
12:45 ThickAsThieves do you handle AML or such?
12:46 mircea_popescu bitbet is in crazy mode again, doing 50 btc a day and shit.
12:46 BitChrista There are many regulations for politicians already with just accepting cash donations, It's a little trickier with Bitcoin. I also work for a web marketing company that works with candidates so we know all the regulations and compliance. So we just have the upperhand in the fact that we know how to stay in legal boundaries.
12:46 mircea_popescu this is a us only thing is it ?
12:47 BitChrista ThickAsThieves, I'm sure we will encounter AML at some point but haven't yet.
12:47 BitChrista We want everything to be done legally, no laundering.
12:47 ThickAsThieves i thought you worked with politicians?! ;)
12:48 BitChrista Haha right
12:48 mircea_popescu lol
12:48 ThickAsThieves mp all the best bets are diff ones
12:48 ThickAsThieves maybe a market to target
12:48 BitChrista Even though we are non-partisan, I'm excited because we know which party has all the Bitcoin
12:49 BitChrista muahaha
12:49 ThickAsThieves wait you alreadt have huh
12:49 ThickAsThieves you said something about advertising cex.io
12:49 ThickAsThieves but the reverse might be good
12:50 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 804 @ 0.00594365 = 4.7787 BTC [+] {5}
12:50 mircea_popescu yeah the diff bets are a major part of bitbet, mostly because it's one of the few places where btc holders are well connected to the economy.
12:50 mircea_popescu BitChrista so are you keeping a list of "Best For Bitcoin" politicos somewhere ?
12:50 mircea_popescu like an issues-group or how you call them ?
12:50 chetty BitChrista I doubt many bitcoiners are either party really
12:50 mircea_popescu score all reps etc
12:51 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 150 @ 0.00599996 = 0.9 BTC [+] {3}
12:51 ThickAsThieves i think she is implying Libertarians
12:51 ThickAsThieves cuz Erik has all the coins
12:51 mircea_popescu aren't the winklejesusii democrat ?
12:51 mircea_popescu and also branson, and a number of other people who have little to nothing to do with bitcoin ?
12:52 ThickAsThieves winkles wont hold those coins for long
12:52 mircea_popescu the mtgoxbtc they had you mean ?
12:52 ThickAsThieves heh
12:52 mircea_popescu they'll prolly hold it undisturbed to judgement day
12:52 ThickAsThieves possibly
12:52 ThickAsThieves plus isnt their whole ETF to sell the coins?
12:53 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.6074969 = 1.215 BTC [+] {2}
12:53 ThickAsThieves oh yeah nubbins, i wanted to note that toffoo also had a top 5000 account on that gox trader list
12:53 BitChrista mircea_popescu, I've been doing some research. I have a solid list, mostly of those running for congress. People are starting to come to us though which is nice
12:53 mircea_popescu In insurance, as elsewhere, the reaction of weak managements to weak operations is often weak accounting. (“It’s difficult for an empty sack to stand upright.”)
12:53 ThickAsThieves something like 2500+
12:53 mircea_popescu gotta love buffy, the bezzle slayer
12:54 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 7 @ 0.60891383 = 4.2624 BTC [+] {6}
12:54 mircea_popescu BitChrista that's nice. anyway, fyi, this is the place where bitcoin finance is hatched, so, probably worth your time to lurk.
12:54 mircea_popescu gotta meet politics with finance or else what good is it.
12:55 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 22 @ 0.61485448 = 13.5268 BTC [+] {6}
12:55 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves toffoo is old time, prolly pre-2013 most of it
12:55 ThickAsThieves yeah
12:55 ThickAsThieves an important thing to keep in mind looking at the list
12:55 ThickAsThieves which is now gone anyway
12:56 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.6149999 BTC [+]
12:56 BitChrista mircea_popescu thank you for introducing me to this chat room. I completely agree, once Bitcoin is in politics it'll be untouchable.
12:56 Duffer1 hehe
12:57 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 5 @ 0.6184 = 3.092 BTC [+]
12:57 mircea_popescu there's about a billion or so worth of bitcoins represented here, and likely more reachable because the logs make popular morning newspapers for many people
12:57 mircea_popescu so yeah.
12:57 ThickAsThieves most likely way itll end up in politics and wall st is via greed though
12:58 mircea_popescu ofcourse.
12:58 ThickAsThieves good luck have worthy representatives in that case
12:58 ThickAsThieves having*
12:58 mircea_popescu there's more to be made serving bitcoin interest than serving ws interest today, for the young aspiring politician
12:58 mircea_popescu he just needs enough of a clue to figure that out.
12:59 ThickAsThieves i guess any motivation to have people with a clue going into politics is helpful
12:59 chetty they will, politicians smell money
12:59 mircea_popescu the situation is roughly similar with "there's more to be made financing silicon valley cca 1960 than financing banking or energy sector stocks".
13:00 ThickAsThieves currently i
13:00 ThickAsThieves 'm not sure why anything worth anything would choose a life in politics
13:01 mircea_popescu it's a challenge.
13:01 Duffer1 the whore olympics
13:01 mircea_popescu don't knock it till you rode it duffy.
13:02 * mircea_popescu was a politician for most of his lyf.
13:02 ThickAsThieves why stop?
13:03 BitChrista mircea_popescu were you really? I feel like that would weather someone down fast
13:03 Duffer1 wow i did not see that coming MP
13:03 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves i got bored.
13:03 mircea_popescu BitChrista if you think that'd wear someone down, try being mp for a week :D
13:03 BitChrista mircea_popescu Haha!
13:03 ThickAsThieves i can understand that for sure
13:03 nubbins` chetty: once a week?! your poor starter :(
13:03 Duffer1 being american i suppose i forgot there's non american politics out there..
13:04 BitChrista Still, please show me a *happy* politician
13:04 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves you gotta appreciate, romanian politics 1990-2005 much more interesting than anything anyone's seen i nthe us.
13:04 mircea_popescu with perhaps the exception of chicago.
13:04 nubbins` chetty: well, to be fair, that's fine for maintenance -- i've gone as long as two months without feeding mine and successfully revived it -- but i bake every 3 or 4 days
13:04 nubbins` ThickAsThieves: saw toffoo's name there. half of -otc is on the list
13:05 nubbins` lightbox is on there ;D
13:05 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 11 @ 0.61929699 = 6.8123 BTC [+] {2}
13:05 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 100 @ 0.0034 = 0.34 BTC [-]
13:05 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 59 @ 0.00609999 = 0.3599 BTC [+] {3}
13:05 mircea_popescu but anyway, for self-c0k stroking purposes : i was one in the "secret circle" of romanian national liberal party, which went from making 3% in an alliance to making its own government by the time i left romania.
13:05 mircea_popescu then i quit it in 2008, at the time it was in power. it looks like it will make... about 3% next electoral cycle.
13:05 mircea_popescu so... yeah. it was all me.
13:05 nubbins` liberal party!
13:05 Apocalyptic .d
13:05 ozbot 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1782 blocks | Estimated Change: 0.6603% in 12d 6h 49m 59s
13:05 nubbins` ain't no party like a liberal party
13:06 mircea_popescu nubbins` in the east liberal means you know, right of conservative.
13:06 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 56 @ 0.00613366 = 0.3435 BTC [+] {2}
13:06 mircea_popescu this socialist re-defining of liberal is a purely us thing.
13:06 ThickAsThieves like re-defining democrat
13:06 mircea_popescu or everything else.
13:06 ThickAsThieves ideas!
13:07 mircea_popescu but yeah, liberal canonically means, no government, no regulation, free market etc.
13:07 nubbins` funny how it means the opposite some places now
13:07 ThickAsThieves i watched Atlas Shrugged Part 2 last night
13:07 mircea_popescu in romanian parlance of the time, the opposition (ie, what the us bipartisanly does) was called.... communism.
13:07 nubbins` ThickAsThieves: and you still have your eyes?
13:07 mircea_popescu in the sense that "this is just the old pcr stuff rehashed"
13:07 ThickAsThieves hehe
13:07 ThickAsThieves it was tough
13:08 nubbins` ayn rand is a pretty big lel
13:08 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 6 @ 0.04629947 = 0.2778 BTC [+]
13:08 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 42 @ 0.00613418 = 0.2576 BTC [+] {3}
13:08 ThickAsThieves i dont understand why they are dragging it out over so many installments
13:08 nubbins` shoulda called it "readers shrugged"
13:08 Duffer1 ask ayn rand
13:08 asciilifeform does Ro still have a classical communist party?
13:08 Duffer1 it's all about dat paper
13:08 nubbins` Duffer1: we can't because she died on welfare D;
13:08 mircea_popescu asciilifeform it was made illegal in 1990 iirc.
13:08 Duffer1 hehe
13:09 nubbins` canada has a communist party, can't say i know much about their operations
13:09 mircea_popescu it might, as a private joke of some bored people somewhere
13:09 asciilifeform nubbins`: i think that one is of the same variety as cpusa
13:09 mircea_popescu cpusa still a thing ?
13:09 nubbins` they might get a vote or two every federal election
13:09 asciilifeform might be just some guy now. it was 100% moscow funded, afaik
13:10 mircea_popescu asciilifeform so was it teh putin that sold all those bonds earlier ?
13:10 asciilifeform ask him, not me
13:10 nubbins` about 30% of it was me exiting my position
13:10 asciilifeform but it does smell like 'warning shot'
13:10 nubbins` LEL I KID
13:10 mircea_popescu it does yeah.
13:12 nubbins` pascale agreed to do a 3-hour screenprinting class down at the textiles school today
13:13 nubbins` poor woman
13:13 asciilifeform rand is a kind of niche cult figure here in usa.
13:13 nubbins` asciilifeform: for reasons i still don't quite understand
13:13 nubbins` but hey, people were into limp bizkit
13:13 nubbins` no accounting for taste
13:13 asciilifeform http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.html
13:14 mircea_popescu fuck this hard drive is going
13:14 nubbins` it's not often i give up on a book partway through
13:14 nubbins` quite infrequently after i pass the 400-page mark
13:14 nubbins` but man oh man
13:14 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: they don't sell 'raid5' boards where you live?
13:14 nubbins` atlas shrugged... what a fuckin beat-off
13:14 mircea_popescu asciilifeform it's just an ancient system doing various net stuff
13:14 mircea_popescu but the drive just clicked
13:16 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: swap it for 'ssd' - but specifically, one several times larger than necessary
13:16 mircea_popescu im never using ssd, fuck that shit.
13:16 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 'write levelling' will give you a good 5+ years of life.
13:16 mircea_popescu i may be the only buyer left for spun drives and crt monitors in a 100 mile radius
13:17 asciilifeform i refuse to run spun drives other than in a r5 harness of 4+
13:17 Apocalyptic crt monitors, really ?
13:17 nubbins` dem rays
13:17 mircea_popescu Apocalyptic ayup. the magic that you know and love as my endless spam is hatched on electron excitated phosphorus coatings.
13:17 ThickAsThieves i got rid of my last crt a couple years ago, a huge trinitron
13:18 asciilifeform (spun drives from golden age is another matter. i have a 1985 seagate that still runs.)
13:18 nubbins` ThickAsThieves: did ya pop it?
13:18 mod6 holy shit asciilifeform
13:18 nubbins` very satisfying
13:18 mircea_popescu asciilifeform this was if memory serves a 1992 seagate.
13:18 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 40 @ 0.04629967 = 1.852 BTC [+] {2}
13:18 ThickAsThieves no i gave to some disposal place
13:18 nubbins` shame
13:18 ThickAsThieves it was a 24"er
13:18 ThickAsThieves massive
13:18 nubbins` you have to pay $50 to leave a crt at the dump here
13:18 nubbins` but they mostly turn a blind eye
13:19 nubbins` given that the alternative is illegal dumping, of which there's already too much
13:19 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 45 @ 0.00334 = 0.1503 BTC [-]
13:20 ThickAsThieves we have a nonprofit that handles it
13:20 mircea_popescu i think you actually get paid here
13:21 ThickAsThieves makes sense, isnt there like 8lbs of lead in the big ones
13:21 asciilifeform http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/prodpics/PRODPIC-22982-1.jpg
13:21 asciilifeform one of these.
13:21 asciilifeform (pictured is 'maxtor', of same shape)
13:21 mircea_popescu yeah, they mostly reuse them. as long as you give it up clean/sorted (ie, not covered in rotten meatjuices or w/e common garbage) they usually give you a few cents/kg
13:22 mircea_popescu most people just leave the stuff outside on set dates for the dump workers to collect it (they get the respective cents themselkves, sort of like a tip)
13:22 asciilifeform if you love crts, learn to fix them. it isn't optional
13:22 asciilifeform afaik trinitron tube is no longer made.
13:22 nubbins` http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/blood-donor-payments-to-be-outlawed-in-ontario-1.2572496
13:22 ozbot Blood donor payments to be outlawed in Ontario - Health - CBC News
13:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform or live in a country where they fix shit.
13:22 nubbins` ^ not sure if i'm for or against
13:23 nubbins` on one hand, great way to get people to give blood
13:23 nubbins` on the other hand, great way to get junkies to lie about their past
13:23 mircea_popescu im against. Blutgeld !
13:23 nubbins` on the other other hand, they test all the blood anyway
13:23 ThickAsThieves mp i wonder if part of your reason for needing super large text isnt your crt ;)
13:24 mircea_popescu i don't need it! i like it! there's a difference!
13:24 mircea_popescu and a good crt is way better than the best lcd/lft we you'll ever find.
13:24 ThickAsThieves great for low-rez porn i guess
13:24 nubbins` anyway these "paid donation clinics" weren't even operated by canadian blood services, nor were they collecting for transfusions
13:25 nubbins` if CBS has a problem w/ shortages, maybe they should stop banning queers from donating blood
13:25 nubbins` JUST A THOUGHT
13:25 ThickAsThieves lol
13:25 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves you know designers/print process ppl etc mostly use crts to this day
13:25 nubbins` pantone or nothin' baby, don't trust the screen
13:25 asciilifeform there exists lcd that is acceptable substitute for a trinitron. $2K+.
13:26 mircea_popescu lolk.
13:26 ThickAsThieves not in my experience, but i could see some doing it
13:26 ThickAsThieves i had one for very long
13:26 mircea_popescu uh. what, srsly ?
13:26 nubbins` srsly
13:26 mircea_popescu nubbins` an electron cannon you can actually calibrate to work.
13:26 asciilifeform two vendors i know of - 'eizo' and 'barco'
13:26 ThickAsThieves but once i saw the large Apple monitors
13:26 mircea_popescu these led things, not yet.
13:26 ThickAsThieves i couldng go back
13:26 asciilifeform notice apple not in the list.
13:27 ThickAsThieves now i use the cheapo versions
13:27 nubbins` mircea_popescu: not a big deal if you can't also calibrate the client's monitor
13:27 asciilifeform apple does not make optics
13:27 asciilifeform they use, afaik, 'sharp' matrices.
13:27 mircea_popescu nubbins` but you're controlling the print process, what's the client to do
13:27 nubbins` mircea_popescu: provide pantone colors ;)
13:27 mircea_popescu lolk
13:27 asciilifeform serious lcds (mentioned above) come with a kind of hockey puck with calibration sensors
13:27 pLambert is there an api call that returns the number of shares of mpex stocks?
13:27 asciilifeform it plugs into jack in the back
13:28 ThickAsThieves yeah i used to calibrate all my shit with expensive stuff
13:28 mircea_popescu pLambert no, the way this is done is that dividends and contracts list the share count.
13:28 ThickAsThieves drove me crazy when i'd hunch over an employee whose monitor was outta whack
13:28 pLambert so I have to read through the contracts and find the shares outstanding?
13:28 nubbins` ThickAsThieves: amusing how often people don't realize
13:28 ThickAsThieves amazing really
13:28 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
13:28 mircea_popescu pLambert either that or parse the div payments
13:28 nubbins` "why is everything tinted blue?" "what do you mean?"
13:29 pLambert how do I get the div payments?
13:29 nubbins` then ya fix it and they say "but it's all red now"
13:29 nubbins` facepalm
13:29 asciilifeform the proper 'eizo' can be had used/surplus for $1k or so.
13:29 ThickAsThieves another huge pet peeve i have is when the wife watches the non-hd tv channels
13:29 assbot [HAVELOCK] [HIF] 1000 @ 0.00041694 = 0.4169 BTC [-] {5}
13:29 pLambert is there a list somewhere of api commands?
13:29 nubbins` ^ hif took a dive
13:29 ThickAsThieves she doesnt care at all
13:30 nubbins` i guess i'm not the only person who noticed topace/lightbox on that gox list
13:30 nubbins` ;p
13:30 ThickAsThieves lol
13:30 asciilifeform i find it strange that people would skimp on a device that they stare at for 12+ hrs/day.
13:30 nubbins` asciilifeform: monitors and chairs
13:30 mircea_popescu Mar 04 11:22:27 <assbot>[MPEX] [S.MPOE] [PAID] 4,050.17291466 BTC to 500`000`000 shares, 810 satoshi per share
13:30 mircea_popescu pLambert ^ like that
13:30 pLambert nubbins`: HIF is still 4x my bid
13:30 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9611 @ 0.00080389 = 7.7262 BTC [+]
13:30 asciilifeform nubbins`: don't forget - also, keyboards.
13:30 nubbins` pLambert: fifty cents say no divs this quarter
13:31 pLambert just this quarter? how bout this year?
13:31 mircea_popescu divs are overrated anyway
13:31 mircea_popescu a sad sympthom of a cash starved community of shoelace investors.
13:32 ThickAsThieves HIF was always insultingly overpriced
13:32 pLambert says the guy who has the best track record of paying divs in bitcoins?
13:32 nubbins` heh
13:32 nubbins` pLambert: fair enough
13:32 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: you have what, SGI crt?
13:32 mircea_popescu pLambert well yeah, but still. what's the average dividend across nyse index, 1950 to 1970 ?
13:32 nubbins` unforseen expenses mumble mumble growth mumble
13:32 pLambert I have no idea?
13:33 nubbins` say, what type of cooking oil does everyone use?
13:33 nubbins` a bit OT, i know
13:33 ThickAsThieves we actually had some cooking oil discussion once
13:33 mircea_popescu asciilifeform currently a 21 inch dell thing. i used to have a splendid 24 inch sony but hey.
13:34 ThickAsThieves mostly about burning points
13:34 nubbins` yeah
13:34 nubbins` that's why i was asking
13:34 nubbins` i use evoo (a waste for frying, really) and it smokes too quickly
13:35 mircea_popescu nubbins` corn or olive
13:35 ThickAsThieves Sony always flirting with being known for quality, then always fucking it up by being weird
13:35 mircea_popescu tho i mostly use butter. it's better for you :D
13:35 nubbins` i may switch to canola for frying
13:35 ThickAsThieves i use mostly olive
13:35 nubbins` patriotic too ;p
13:35 ThickAsThieves but i dont deep fry
13:35 ThickAsThieves other than that 1 week
13:36 nubbins` deep frying in the home is fuckin gross
13:36 mircea_popescu pLambert http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/goog/dividend-history :p
13:36 ThickAsThieves goog keeps saying theyre gonna split
13:36 ThickAsThieves but never happens
13:36 nubbins` i know some cast iron aficionados who only ever use bacon grease
13:36 nubbins` but i don't really eat bacon
13:37 mircea_popescu ;;later tell bitcoinpete yul killed in that king of siam role :D
13:37 gribble The operation succeeded.
13:38 nubbins` it's funny, the guy who runs javaranch.com (a friendly place for greenhorns!) turned me onto cast iron
13:39 mircea_popescu i have a pot too. they're good for many things.
13:39 nubbins` anyone who spent any amount of time writing java is likely familiar with the site; few realize the guy who runs it is a real simple-living guy
13:39 nubbins` nod
13:39 mircea_popescu like shrimp.
13:39 nubbins` teflon and other non-stick coatings are the biggest con
13:39 mircea_popescu you can never get the shrimp properly cooked other than in a cast iron pot.
13:40 nubbins` http://www.richsoil.com/cast-iron.jsp
13:41 mircea_popescu ;;later tell bitcoinpete bt otherwise your article suffers from a very strangely naive approach. ever heard of a dicelist ?
13:41 gribble The operation succeeded.
13:41 nubbins` i was in awe the first time i saw someone cook an omelette on cast iron
13:41 nubbins` it SLID off the fucking pan onto the plate.
13:41 mircea_popescu yup
13:41 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31800 @ 0.0007988 = 25.4018 BTC [-] {3}
13:42 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2013/octopus-omlette/ << example.
13:42 ozbot Octopus omlette pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
13:42 nubbins` canned octopus
13:42 nubbins` :o
13:42 tim-tams bingoboingo
13:43 nubbins` shamefully, it's impossible to buy a proper cast iron pan (i.e. one with a machined bottom) these days
13:43 nubbins` you gotta do all the legwork yourself
13:43 nubbins` or buy one on ebay from a rube who never bothered to learn how to use it
13:45 mircea_popescu ;;later tell bitcoinpete ah i see it's in the footnote. but yeah, the select from a page process is very dubious (natural languages don't have equally distributed words, it's actually how zipf curves were discovered in the first palce)
13:45 gribble The operation succeeded.
13:47 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25489 @ 0.00080389 = 20.4904 BTC [+]
13:48 mircea_popescu "Lenin seems to have believed that the party, as organized consciousness, consciousness as a decision-making machinery, had superior reasoning power. Indeed, in time this collective body took on an aura of infallibility, which was later elevated to a dogma, and a member’s loyalty was tested, in part, by his acceptance of it. It became part of the communist confession of faith to proclaim that the party was never wron
13:48 mircea_popescu g.... The party itself never makes mistakes."
13:48 mircea_popescu amusingly, this is narrowly mirrored by the all too fashionable ideea these days that there's some sort of wisdo min the crowds.
13:48 mircea_popescu people firmly believe that codebases magically improve just by adding to them the *possibility* that someone might have read them
13:49 mircea_popescu open source infallibility, the notion that wikipedia is in any sense an encyclopedia, everyone's obsession with crowd-sourcing and usg...
13:49 mircea_popescu it's really quite bolshevik, comrades.
13:50 mircea_popescu (quote via rockwell's restatement of rothbard's rand commentary)
13:56 assbot [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 200 @ 0.00567945 = 1.1359 BTC [-] {8}
13:56 mircea_popescu "In a development eerily reminiscent of the organized hatred directed against the arch-heretic Emanuel Goldstein in Orwell’s 1984, Rand cultists were required to sign a loyalty oath to Rand; essential to the loyalty oath was a declaration that the signer would henceforth never read any future works of the apostate and arch-heretic Branden."
13:56 mircea_popescu ahahaha this shit actually hapepned, too.
13:59 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 40.50883562 BTC to 80`674 shares, 50213 satoshi per share
14:05 nubbins` amazing
14:05 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
14:05 nubbins` ...company
14:12 ThickAsThieves so what's up with this NJ banning Tesla thing
14:12 nubbins` mircea_popescu: TIL saltyspitoon was 16 when pirate left that feedback :o
14:12 ThickAsThieves is there an angle that isnt ridiculous?
14:12 mircea_popescu yes. they're fucking dangerous.
14:13 asciilifeform the electromobile firm? or some other tesla
14:13 ThickAsThieves Tesla dealerships are dangerous?
14:13 nubbins` BUT DANGEROUS TO WHOM
14:13 mircea_popescu the one ton ion battery on wheels.
14:13 ThickAsThieves to middlemen?
14:14 nubbins` the future is dangerous to middlemen too
14:14 * nubbins` calmly sharpens knives
14:14 mircea_popescu lol
14:14 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 3 @ 0.04629968 = 0.1389 BTC [+]
14:14 asciilifeform if i recall, there were fuses between the smaller cells of which the battery was built.
14:14 mircea_popescu nj wants to extract taxes out of the deal. if nj people get hurt, nj wants to profit at least.
14:14 mircea_popescu seems legit.
14:15 ThickAsThieves i thougt NJ already has a tax system for retail?
14:15 mircea_popescu i think they were exploiting a loophole
14:15 ThickAsThieves ahhh
14:15 ThickAsThieves maybe these articles should lead with that
14:17 mircea_popescu then they could charge for them
14:17 ThickAsThieves these articles only speak of cutting out middle men and new franchise license requirements
14:17 ThickAsThieves i see nothing of tax loopholes
14:19 ThickAsThieves the concept of disallowing direct sales anywhere is what is boggling me
14:19 mircea_popescu but the middle man makes some money, of which it pays some money.
14:19 ThickAsThieves but isnt this about whats in the interest of the consumer?
14:19 mircea_popescu "if nj people get hurt, nj wants to profit at least."
14:20 ThickAsThieves if it's about more opportunities to tax, why dont we have 3 layers of middle man
14:20 ThickAsThieves the more the better!
14:20 mircea_popescu also, afaik nj is an important lobby stronghold for importers in that market.
14:20 mircea_popescu chris christie wants to protect his career, he can't piss off the larger players
14:21 ThickAsThieves so people buy their Tesla in a surrounding state
14:21 ThickAsThieves even worse
14:22 mircea_popescu notrly, let enough do that then slap a surcharge on them
14:23 ThickAsThieves one more reason not to live in NJ i guess
14:24 mircea_popescu but why, they'll make an electric carbit license.
14:24 mircea_popescu best place to be.
14:25 ThickAsThieves meh i need to think about somthing else
14:25 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.075 = 0.15 BTC [-]
14:27 ThickAsThieves http://www.techworm.net/2014/03/mt-gox-leak-archive-tricks-people-to.html
14:27 ozbot Mt. Gox leak Archive tricks people to install Bitcoin stealer Malware. | TechWorm
14:27 ThickAsThieves people are really still this dumb?
14:27 Apocalyptic yes
14:27 ThickAsThieves hacker is distributing an .exe
14:27 asciilifeform 'let's all boot up winblows and run this 700M exe of unknown provenance'
14:27 ThickAsThieves open it up!
14:27 Apocalyptic but it says tibannebackoffice !
14:27 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves someone was saying a few days ago about all the bitching that thing caused in ##mtgox
14:28 mircea_popescu Apocalyptic was it just a renamed backoriffice for maximal lulz ?
14:28 ThickAsThieves i imagine many were saved merely cuz they downloaded it to their phones
14:28 Apocalyptic haha, don't think so
14:28 ThickAsThieves i cant open this file wtf!
14:28 asciilifeform the real lul is that this trick almost never yields any detectable coin
14:28 asciilifeform because lusers typically haven't any.
14:29 asciilifeform reminiscent of mp's piece re: spam being largely a cargocult
14:29 ThickAsThieves http://issuu.com/playbig/docs/ybitcoin_spring_2014_complete
14:29 ozbot ISSUU - yBitcoin Spring 2014 by PlayBig Digital
14:30 ThickAsThieves see the latest in whose advertising and what Erik has to say
14:30 mircea_popescu it yields the illusion of being "part of the community"
14:31 mircea_popescu in this case, the cool community of haxxorz.
14:31 mircea_popescu im sure while it fails to produce much coin if at all, it produces tons of definitely very valuable "views"
14:31 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 53 @ 0.04629971 = 2.4539 BTC [+] {2}
14:31 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 50 @ 0.0033399 = 0.167 BTC [-]
14:31 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12511 @ 0.00080402 = 10.0591 BTC [+]
14:31 mircea_popescu which you know, is what the economy of the bankrupt world degenerated into, the economy of views. of which unit of account is one "mom look at me! mom look! mo-om!"
14:32 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3239 @ 0.0008029 = 2.6006 BTC [-]
14:32 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 25 @ 0.04722996 = 1.1807 BTC [+] {10}
14:34 mircea_popescu "Driven by their conception of rational duty, every Randian lived in – and indeed was himself – a community of spies and informers, ready to ferret out and denounce any deviations from Randian doctrine. Thus, one time a Randian, walking with a girl friend, told her that he had attended a party at which several Randians had made an impromptu tape imitating the voices of the top Randian leaders. Stricken by this dire
14:34 mircea_popescu information and after spending a sleepless night, the girl rushed to inform the top leadership of this terrible transgression. Promptly, the leading participants were called on the carpet by their Objectivist Psychotherapist and bitterly denounced in their "therapy" sessions: "After all," said the therapist, "you wouldn’t mock God." When the owner of the tape refused the therapist’s demand to relinquish it so that
14:34 mircea_popescu it could be inspected in detail, his doom as a member of the movement was effectively sealed."
14:34 mircea_popescu ahaha this shit's too good. did this one actually happen ?
14:35 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13461 @ 0.0008029 = 10.8078 BTC [-]
14:35 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 15 @ 0.04892665 = 0.7339 BTC [+] {10}
14:36 ThickAsThieves if they were lucky
14:37 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39739 @ 0.00080204 = 31.8723 BTC [-]
14:40 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 17 @ 0.0502941 = 0.855 BTC [+] {7}
14:43 TomServo nubbins`: peanut oil has a high burn point, great for frying fish
14:45 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.6189 BTC [-]
14:47 HeySteve the first Diesel engine ran on peanut oil
14:47 HeySteve it's good stuff
14:51 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 29 @ 0.05308063 = 1.5393 BTC [+] {20}
14:53 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.11950724 BTC [-]
14:53 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30000 @ 0.0008043 = 24.129 BTC [+]
14:54 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 43 @ 0.06144302 = 2.642 BTC [+] {3}
14:55 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 8 @ 0.06669939 = 0.5336 BTC [+] {3}
15:00 nubbins` TomServo: so greasy tho!
15:00 nubbins` fish is the one thing that i dislike frying in cast iron
15:01 nubbins` we usually buy skin-on salmon and it gums the fuck out of the pan
15:01 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 10 @ 0.075 = 0.75 BTC [-]
15:03 nubbins` https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=426987.0
15:03 ozbot New MicroSoul coins for the masses 0.01
15:04 nubbins` hologram misspellings now an intentional feature, it seems
15:07 mircea_popescu https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/444550285651107840
15:07 ozbot Twitter / Mircea_Popescu: KRAMER: Will you look at this? ...
15:08 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 47 @ 0.0033399 = 0.157 BTC [-]
15:08 mircea_popescu nubbins` supposedly this is how art evolves. mistakes end up baked in by their success.
15:19 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 88 @ 0.0033399 = 0.2939 BTC [-]
15:21 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12874 @ 0.00080105 = 10.3127 BTC [-] {2}
15:36 mircea_popescu so basically in rothbard's reading, this rand character is the quintessential balabusta, a staid, obnoxious, overarching yet profoundly ignorant and puritanical fat old woman.
15:41 nubbins` i didn't realize she was fat
15:42 mircea_popescu me either. but from reading this i can't imagine the woman under 200ish lbs
15:47 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 682 @ 0.00334001 = 2.2779 BTC [+]
15:48 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 71 @ 0.0034 = 0.2414 BTC [+]
16:02 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13950 @ 0.0008043 = 11.22 BTC [+]
16:11 asciilifeform http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=9466412
16:11 ozbot Pinkberry co-founder Young Lee sentenced to 7 years in 2011 beating of transient | abc7.com
16:24 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.075 = 0.225 BTC [-]
16:25 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25550 @ 0.00079762 = 20.3792 BTC [-] {3}
16:29 nubbins` interesting how they capitalize Good Samaritans
16:30 mircea_popescu asciilifeform guy shoulda started a police department instead of a frozen yogurt brand.
16:30 nubbins` http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/03/14/1458235/weak-apple-prng-threatens-ios-exploit-mitigations
16:30 ozbot Weak Apple PRNG Threatens iOS Exploit Mitigations - Slashdot
16:31 asciilifeform lol!
16:31 nubbins` apparently it's worse than the old one.
16:32 asciilifeform why a gizmo where the manufacturer controls the whole stack, silicon up, needs any prng at all, remains a mystery.
16:33 mircea_popescu "needs".
16:33 mircea_popescu apple aren't engineers, they're like yahoo. a media buying company.
16:33 asciilifeform they stamp out their own 'arm' clone now
16:35 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 100 @ 0.0034 = 0.34 BTC [+]
16:38 nubbins` ^
16:39 nubbins` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A6
16:39 ozbot Apple A6 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
16:39 nubbins` designed by apple, stamped by samsung
16:39 asciilifeform many famous semiconductor firms are 'fabless'
16:39 asciilifeform e.g. the late Sun
16:40 nubbins` ^
16:40 nubbins` and why not, really
16:40 asciilifeform sparc was built at toshiba, if i recall.
16:42 BingoBoingo tim-tams: Hello
16:44 nubbins` http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/george-street-girls-topless-for-kirill-sparks-outrage-1.2572990
16:44 ozbot George Street girls topless for Kirill sparks outrage - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News
16:44 nubbins` byline: "CBC has learned underage girls were among those photographed"
16:44 nubbins` ah, my sides.
16:44 nubbins` so much for your brand new nightclub, guys
16:45 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20300 @ 0.0008046 = 16.3334 BTC [+] {2}
16:46 nubbins` from the club: "Due to the recent uproar caused by photos taken from our opening weekend, females [sic] patrons are advise [sic] of the following rule changes: 1) females are restricted from wearing clothes that expose more then 25 percent of there [sic] body. 2) exposure of breasts is strictly prohibited 3) the dance craze known as Twerking is banned until further notice. Other forms of dancing
16:46 nubbins` will be acceptable if deemed non sexual by nature."
16:46 nubbins` ahahah.
16:46 nubbins` TWERKING BANNED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
16:48 mircea_popescu but i like twerking
16:49 asciilifeform incidentally
16:49 asciilifeform turns out that the instrument i proposed for raping casascius coins is available commercially:
16:49 asciilifeform http://blog.brukerafmprobes.com/2011/06/scanning-capacitance-microscopy-scm
16:49 ozbot Scanning Capacitance Microscopy – SCM » Bruker Blog
16:49 nubbins` aha!
16:56 assbot [HAVELOCK] [CFIG] 1 @ 0.10099999 BTC [+]
16:58 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.60702 BTC [-]
17:04 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10488 @ 0.00080222 = 8.4137 BTC [-]
17:06 Apocalyptic asciilifeform, do you have something to recommend for hardware RNGs ?
17:06 asciilifeform Apocalyptic: unsurprisingly, i recomment... mine.
17:06 asciilifeform *recommend
17:06 tim-tams BingoBoingo, you still here?
17:06 mircea_popescu http://bitbet.us/bet/745/fico-will-be-elected-president-of-slovakia/
17:06 Apocalyptic the Cardano ?
17:06 ozbot BitBet - Fico will be elected President of Slovakia
17:06 mircea_popescu jurov so how's that look, is the guy winning or what ?
17:07 asciilifeform Apocalyptic: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/rng/baked.png
17:10 nubbins` http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/canadian-lawsuit-to-seek-500-million-from-mt-gox-bitcoin-exchange/article17500209/?cmpid=rss1
17:10 ozbot Canadian lawsuit to seek $500-million from Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange - The Globe and Mail
17:10 dignork mircea_popescu, http://trilema.com/2014/me-at-its-finest/, can you explain in few words why it made sence to me, I'm not from India
17:10 nubbins` dat discovery
17:10 dignork s/sence/sense
17:10 mircea_popescu dignork where you from ?
17:10 mircea_popescu http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma6m66tFK71re5la5o1_1280.jpg << ipo worthy ?
17:10 dignork mircea_popescu, complicated question, but not from India :)
17:11 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 3 @ 0.11950724 = 0.3585 BTC [-]
17:11 dignork mircea_popescu, let's say from USSR
17:11 mircea_popescu well why do i speak english, im not from scotland, you know ?
17:11 BingoBoingo tim-tams: Not for too long, going out drinking soon
17:11 BingoBoingo tim-tams: Per the blog url http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/
17:11 dignork mircea_popescu, just a popular language
17:12 mircea_popescu apparently wir sind alle aus Indien
17:12 asciilifeform lol
17:12 nubbins` don't panic, we're sorta germanic
17:12 tim-tams BingoBoingo why did you want to burn youmeandbtc.com with fire? haha
17:13 BingoBoingo tim-tams: Looks too modern, also too much empty space
17:13 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 25 @ 0.006099 = 0.1525 BTC [+]
17:13 mircea_popescu (read that in a kennedy accent)
17:14 dignork mircea_popescu, historically we might be, but it was too long ago
17:14 mircea_popescu dignork anyway, the honest answer is that i've greatly overstated what's likely happenstance to make an otherwise valid and much more general point.
17:14 tim-tams BingoBoingo is that sarcasm?
17:15 mircea_popescu which is kinda how this entire expression trick goes.
17:15 tim-tams To me I always thought the design was badish and it was way too busy
17:15 tim-tams at least on the top
17:15 BingoBoingo tim-tams: Maybe that's the part that makes me a bit queasy
17:15 BingoBoingo tim-tams: Something about it just doesn't look right
17:16 tim-tams BingoBoingo well, tonight that site should be gone
17:18 BingoBoingo tim-tams: Unstyled html lists and tables are the new marble columns and granite steps
17:19 tim-tams BingoBoingo: does that mean good or bad?
17:21 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 44 @ 0.00339999 = 0.1496 BTC [+]
17:21 dignork BingoBoingo, regarding html lists etc: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1403_02-08_mickens.pdf
17:22 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19400 @ 0.00079714 = 15.4645 BTC [-]
17:22 dub I refuse to open a goddamn pdf on such a topic
17:23 nubbins` dub: in summary it says blah blah mumble blah
17:24 dignork dub: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reN5vaSADKQ
17:24 dub flash, thats better
17:24 * dub moves lawn people along
17:25 assbot Last 6 lines bashed and pending review. (http://dpaste.com/1728785/plain/)
17:25 mircea_popescu !b 6
17:26 dignork dub, youtube can serve html5 video, if you believe it's better than flash
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17:38 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.075 = 0.15 BTC [+]
17:47 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32350 @ 0.00080281 = 25.9709 BTC [+] {3}
17:50 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 49 @ 0.11950724 = 5.8559 BTC [-]
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17:56 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 12000 @ 0.00333023 = 39.9628 BTC [-] {9}
17:57 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.61 BTC [+]
17:58 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.6188999 BTC [+]
18:05 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14750 @ 0.00079827 = 11.7745 BTC [-]
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18:29 thestringpuller anyone have a mirror for BTCMSG?
18:29 thestringpuller or is that dead?
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18:49 ThickAsThieves can you have both a gpg and bitcoin registration in the same WoT listing?
18:49 ThickAsThieves I see the hint of instructions on how to change it, but not clear on whether it just replaces it
18:52 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.60602 BTC [-]
18:56 ThickAsThieves lol WSJ has been making many typos lately "Weibo, Twitter’s China, Files for IPO in the U.S."
18:59 ThickAsThieves " 4
18:59 ThickAsThieves inShare
18:59 ThickAsThieves Today, the US government gave up a major portion of its control over the day-to-day functions of the internet, as the US Department of Commerce announced it was giving up its oversight role over ICANN"
18:59 ThickAsThieves bled dry and left for the rats
19:00 ThickAsThieves http://reason.com/blog/2014/03/12/watch-rep-jared-polis-subject-cash-to-th
19:00 ozbot Watch Rep. Jared Polis Subject Cash to the Bitcoin-Regulation Test - Hit & Run : Reason.com
19:00 ThickAsThieves hosted by Kennedy from MTV, lol
19:06 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 14 @ 0.04525202 = 0.6335 BTC [-] {7}
19:06 dub dealing with support people at a chinese supplier named Judith, Englebert and Romeo
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19:40 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24085 @ 0.00079933 = 19.2519 BTC [+] {2}
19:41 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9965 @ 0.00079708 = 7.9429 BTC [-]
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20:01 cads hmm, I need a near effect sensor that can give me a reading of 3d printing surface quality.
20:01 cads sonar?
20:02 cads maybe a good camera
20:03 cads though I want something more stupid - surface quality is either flat and smooth and the printer can speed up, or the surface quality is blobby, choppy, with sparp peaks of plastic, and the head needs to slow down to 'heal' the print's next few layers.
20:04 cads so something that convolves an energy impulse with the surface and then measures the scattering should be ideal.
20:06 cads maybe an CCD system with special lighting.
20:08 cads I just don't want to have to write a feature detector that needs to know about the global geometry at play... maybe I can train a feature detector that just detects the silhouette fingerprint of localized choppiness and other print failures.
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20:46 moiety fucks sake, it's busy in here tonight!
20:46 moiety http://i.imgur.com/wdHNYsd.jpg new business on fb
20:49 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 34 @ 0.045002 = 1.5301 BTC [-] {2}
20:50 lnovy hehe.. when you switch a drug amphetamine test strip with pregnacy strip and the girl is clean, he will test pregnant :) And she can even show this before soon-to-be husband:) There a great bussiness in Poland with these...
20:50 lnovy s/he/she/
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21:49 bitcoinpete ;;later tell mircea_popescu: I should check out the film, I've only seen the mainstage production :) I'm not sure how very strange my naiveté is. I'm less naive than I was 2 months ago, prior to the commencement of my IRC yeshiva, but hardly deserving of expectation. Either way, and as always, thx for reading and the feedback.You're like having a younger Taleb as a personal tutor...
21:49 gribble The operation succeeded.
21:55 midnightmagic ooOOooo film recommendation? I love those, which one, bitcoinpete?
21:57 assbot [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 1100 @ 0.00368156 = 4.0497 BTC [+] {6}
21:58 bitcoinpete http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_I_(1956_film)
21:58 ozbot The King and I (1956 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
22:04 bitcoinpete http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgVPnWmUqd4
22:04 ozbot Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr perform "Shall We Dance" - YouTube
22:07 bitcoinpete What a scene. Brynner, such a pleasure to behold, has the most unbelievable poise and strength of movement. Not a single muscle fibre out of sorts.
22:19 TomServo https://blog.ageispolis.net/foxacid-at-hope9/
22:19 ozbot Suspected NSA FOXACID server advertised at HOPE 9 | Wireless Fantasy
22:22 MisterE morning
22:22 MisterE http://www.ibtimes.com/gazprom-chairman-sold-his-entire-company-stake-february-day-shares-fell-13-percent-report-1561525
22:22 ozbot Gazprom Chairman Sold His Entire Company Stake In February, A Day Before Shares Fell 13 Percent: Rep
22:28 chetty bitcoinpete: cool just about my favorite movie/actor
22:29 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19850 @ 0.00080365 = 15.9525 BTC [+] {2}
22:31 moiety I haven't seen the film but ive seen a stage production of the king and i
22:31 moiety lnovy:that's crazy about the test strips!
22:37 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4798 @ 0.00080371 = 3.8562 BTC [+]
22:39 lnovy moiety: the drug test shows 2 lines when clean, 3 lines when under drugs... pregnancy show 1 for clean, 2 for pregnancy :)
22:39 moiety mental!
22:40 bitcoinpete chetty: I can see why.
22:40 MisterE it's funny how you call the opposite or pregnant "clean" :p
22:40 lnovy this is actually not very known in Poland and pregnant girls are buying tests by tens and selling those already pissed :)
22:40 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 10 @ 0.05149999 = 0.515 BTC [-] {3}
22:40 MisterE wow
22:40 lnovy =)
22:40 MisterE pre-pissed tests
22:41 lnovy yes :)
22:41 MisterE do the Japs know about this?
22:41 bitcoinpete Well, I'm out for tonight. Date night and all. Cheers fellas.
22:41 MisterE they will be all over that
22:41 lnovy http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/04/showbiz/craigslist-pregnancy-kit-sale-trend/
22:41 ozbot Women selling positive pregnancy tests on Craigslist - CNN.com
22:41 MisterE fucking pete with the blog and dates and life....
22:41 MisterE have fun man
22:41 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 8 @ 0.05025 = 0.402 BTC [-] {2}
22:42 moiety why sell a positive one? not like you can back it up 9 months later
22:42 Duffer1 they're popular near military bases
22:42 lnovy false positive my darling, but we are already married :)
22:42 lnovy make me another :)
22:42 moiety OMG
22:42 moiety thats fucked up
22:42 lnovy life is a bitch
22:42 Duffer1 get your claws in a man, he gets deployed, get knocked up
22:43 moiety D>I>V>O>R>C>E> you lying cunt!
22:43 lnovy or they are used to get money for "abortion"
22:43 joecool hm i remember some months back a guy pissed on one for the hell of it and it came back positive, turns out had testicular cancer
22:43 moiety wtf
22:43 Duffer1 ya well divorce in america = 1/2
22:43 DiabloD3 yeah I dont know why more men dont use prenups
22:43 Duffer1 so she wins no matter what unless the guy is actively aware of the scam and dumps her lyin ass before marriage
22:43 moiety joecool: i thought they tested for oestrogen levels
22:44 joecool moiety: apparently having cancer can cause them to flag positive
22:44 moiety prenup? just dont bag a lying bitch
22:44 DiabloD3 all bitches are lying
22:44 Duffer1 their target is 18 year old hillbillies who don't know any better, and have nothin better to do than join the army
22:44 moiety fuuuuuuuuuuuu
22:44 moiety wow
22:45 moiety christ the more i hear, thelss i like people
22:45 moiety the less*
22:54 Duffer1 oh here's the fun part, in the US if you've cared for the child, then find out later it's not yours, family court will still likely find you liable for child support
23:01 moiety did you see the sperm donor that is getting done for child support?
23:01 Duffer1 i haven't but i'm not surprised
23:02 moiety couple lesbians ordered him on craiglist (<<< lol) but they didn't follow proper procedure and home inseminated. therefore states says he's the daddy
23:02 moiety state*
23:02 moiety must pay support. kid is like 4 now i think too
23:02 Duffer1 ouch
23:03 moiety most expensive wank he has ever had i'll bet
23:04 Duffer1 hehe
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23:29 mircea_popescu asciilifeform https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=507529.0 :p
23:29 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 20 @ 0.0059 = 0.118 BTC [-]
23:29 mircea_popescu andspeaking of which, copumpkin check this guy out https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=ul25uaqbfplpcom0n928ij4sa3&topic=507529.msg5681654#msg5681654
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23:42 moiety is it later tell or tell later for gribbling to someone that isn't here btw?
23:43 Duffer1 ;;later tell moiety test
23:43 gribble The operation succeeded.
23:43 moiety ty Duffer1!
23:43 Duffer1 ^.^
23:43 mircea_popescu yeah it is
23:43 moiety ;;later tell benkay http://getpopcornti.me/ shut down already
23:44 gribble The operation succeeded.
23:44 moiety ty!
23:48 mircea_popescu what was that ?
23:50 copumpkin mircea_popescu: weird
23:51 mircea_popescu wild ? you did not know that ?
23:53 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves you can have both
23:54 mircea_popescu cads sonar was made for that application.
23:56 mircea_popescu ;;later tell bitcoinpete you've seen the mainstage production of tom green's freddie got fingered ?! that existed ?!
23:56 gribble The operation succeeded.
23:57 moiety it was a link that benkay posted a few days ago, saying bout time. streaming movies from torrents mircea_popescu just heard just now it went down already
23:58 mircea_popescu http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/10695204/Paranoia-leads-Vladimir-Putin-to-the-point-of-no-return.html
23:58 ozbot Paranoia leads Vladimir Putin to the point of no return - Telegraph
23:58 moiety baha i need to read this
23:59 mircea_popescu this is perhaps the best i've read on the topic, for any value of best equal "entertaining due to the propaganda dial being turned to such 11, the insanity of the whole process becomes obvious even to the casual observer resulting in an unintentional self-parody quality"
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