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01:20 benkay ;;later tell mircea_popescu benkay eh what, you can tell. // this is to imply that actually discerning females on internet is hard?
01:20 gribble The operation succeeded.
01:20 benkay ;;later
01:20 gribble Error: "later" is not a valid command.
01:20 benkay ;;help later
01:20 gribble Error: There is no command "later".
01:20 benkay wat
01:20 benkay ;;help later tell
01:20 gribble (later tell <nick> <text>) -- Tells <nick> <text> the next time <nick> is in seen. <nick> can contain wildcard characters, and the first matching nick will be given the note.
01:20 benkay so what - spaces don't denote function call from args?
01:28 benkay ;;gettrust Rassah
01:28 gribble Currently authenticated from hostmask Rassah!~quassel@2601:a:f80:551:cca8:730f:58b3:a3d. Trust relationship from user benkay to user Rassah: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 1 via 1 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=benkay&dest=Rassah | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=Rassah | Rated since: Fri Jun 3 23:49:22 2011
01:29 benkay danielpbarron: adopter
01:31 benkay assbot's an interesting focal point for the WoT
01:31 benkay really highlights the -assets group vs everyone else
01:37 dub hardly surprising now its full of spurious 'is on irc' entries
01:40 benkay will probably approach classic 90:9:1 ratios
01:41 benkay but excellent point. way to dilute the wot, mircea_popescu.
01:47 FabianB $mpexstatus
01:47 empyex FabianB: Proxies: http://mpex.coinbr.com/ http://mpex.co/ MPEx-Status: Error reaching trade engine (change: $proxies <newlist>)
01:47 assbot 401 Authorization Required
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02:26 Vexual whoa, ba has sluts now? this is becoming more like a university, next thing you know, i'll have some resources and a consideration
02:27 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 130 @ 0.02890175 = 3.7572 BTC [-]
02:28 danielpbarron nothing wrong with a +1 saw on irc, unless it isn't true
02:29 danielpbarron and even them, the WoT abides
02:37 Vexual ;;rate +1 danielpbarron avoids the past
02:37 gribble Error: 'danielpbarron' is not a valid integer.
02:37 Vexual penis
02:42 Vexual but if you're asking i'll say if it can't be done with erlang and perl it's not worth doing
02:43 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN6uBUypKRk also spss and matlab and whisky
02:43 assbot Bashy ft. Dot Rotten, Black The Ripper & Lady Leshurr - Heart Of Stone [Music Video]: SBTV - YouTube
02:45 Vexual datafox can eat a bag of dicks
03:00 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-69_ncALA0
03:00 assbot Peace - Money - YouTube
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03:20 Vexual sup kars
03:20 Vexual KRS1
03:24 Vexual !up KRS-1
03:24 KRS-1 thanks
03:24 Vexual sup puto?
03:25 KRS-1 nm man..enjoying our summer time months here.
03:25 KRS-1 Chilling at the pool, steak on the BBQ.
03:26 KRS-1 lots of work lately thanks to open source cloud software
03:26 Vexual yeah man, novel 2.0
03:28 KRS-1 Listening to anything good?
03:29 Vexual i was gonna ask you the same thing
03:29 KRS-1 uh well maybe I shouldnt ask..trading youtube links pisses kakobrekla off a bit.
03:29 Vexual shit man, im paid up on jukebox creds til 2016
03:30 KRS-1 haha
03:30 Vexual :)
03:30 KRS-1 ah well nice bumping into ya..its late i gotta get some rest.. i see you've been gone a while u gona be around?
03:31 Vexual prlly not this essay is breaking my brain
03:32 KRS-1 alright slut..i'll be back on in about 10-12 hrs maybe I'll see you then..
03:32 KRS-1 peace
03:32 Vexual ciao
03:36 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYIeYKAb_Jk
03:36 assbot Wax - Rosana (Official Video) - YouTube
03:42 pankkake nubbins`> i think that a car is too expensive, i would rather purchase a sandwich <= it's much worse, it's like "I can't purchase a lamborghini, so I will buy a tricycle"
03:43 pankkake in the end, the lambo and the dacia will be allowed on the highway, the tricycle won't
03:43 kakobrekla next time, get a trambo instead.
03:43 Vexual buy it from me
03:46 Vexual i do excellent sandwiches
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04:14 Vexual punkman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ5KlZNh1WA
04:14 assbot Official Video: Snoop Lion "La La La" (prod. Major Lazer) - YouTube
04:14 Vexual assbot has changed
04:18 pankkake http://youtu.be/yOCxtDHk89M
04:18 assbot ordo rosarius equilibrio ~ Do Murder & Lust Make Me Man? - YouTube
04:18 punkman assbot's getting lazy, fucking off for hours every other day
04:18 punkman kako needs to crack the whip
04:28 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZma7l6fCdo
04:28 assbot Massive attack_Protection - 07 - Eurochild - YouTube
04:33 Vexual ;;google paris time
04:33 Vexual ;;google paris time
04:33 gribble Current local time in France – Paris - Time and Date: <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/france/paris>; Paris Time - Local Time in Paris - Time Zone in Paris - World Time: <http://localtimes.info/Europe/France/Paris/>; Paris - World Time Clock & Map: <http://24timezones.com/world_directory/current_paris_time.php>
04:34 Vexual 10;30
04:34 pankkake yes
04:34 punkman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8cXyRpfnQA
04:34 assbot VERBS - FEELINGS GETTING IN THE WAY - YouTube
04:34 punkman this one's dedicated to havelock bagholders
04:39 Vexual ive still got a few rents incase bc goes back to 100
04:40 Vexual ;ike 10
04:44 Vexual realy funding a maythai match with nooone in it is fail
04:47 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clUKjs0DIF8
04:47 assbot 2pac Ft. Bill Withers & B.I.G - Lovely Day Remix - YouTube
04:47 kakobrekla ...
04:48 Vexual yes
04:48 Vexual ill pay another 2 later
04:52 Vexual ;;google brooklyn zoo
04:52 gribble Prospect Park Zoo: <http://www.prospectparkzoo.com/>; Brooklyn Zoo NY - Home - BROOKLYNZOO NY: <http://brooklynzoony.com/>; Brooklyn Zoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Zoo>
04:53 Vexual ;google brooklyn zoo odb
04:53 Vexual ;;google brooklyn zooo odb
04:53 gribble Ol' Dirty Bastard - Brooklyn Zoo (HD) Best Quality! - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JszWAP8wVvU>; ODB- Brooklyn Zoo Video - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcsEop0NPGM>; Brooklyn Zoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Zoo>
04:57 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1202 @ 0.00260521 = 3.1315 BTC [-] {10}
05:04 adrrr This is good shit !
05:04 adrrr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6v_AiUK5mk
05:04 assbot Ol' Dirty Bastard - Fantasy (feat. M.Carey) - YouTube
05:09 Vexual likea blooberg interviewm you don't knmow wwhats coming thru
05:19 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umyv4ETrV5E
05:19 assbot Astronomy Class - Four Barang In a Tuk-Tuk - YouTube
05:28 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFHjt4bY6VY
05:33 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIrzbhEGvs my mouse is rubnning outta betteries
05:38 Vexual ;google las hueallas
05:39 Vexual ;;google las hueallas
05:39 gribble No matches found.
05:39 Vexual indeed
05:41 adrrr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgVcPxSeYsc
05:43 adrrr french bomb : http://noisey.vice.com/fr/blog/time-bomb-explose-revolution-rap-francais?utm_source=vicefb
05:56 Vexual aa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4b3MBkOx5k
05:56 xmj so
05:56 xmj i have a problem that wants solving.
05:57 xmj Does any US bank provide accounts that can be opened through the Internet?
05:58 punkman maybe if you incorporate there
05:59 Vexual looke suisse
06:01 Vexual or view t o '15
06:02 Vexual not yor dassys bank
06:02 Vexual deus : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4b3MBkOx5k
06:04 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRBdapYgFaY
06:09 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ5KlZNh1WA
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06:29 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 42 @ 0.18373118 = 7.7167 BTC [+] {7}
06:31 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inn4juu0Cfs
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06:55 dub hey steve, get better intertubes
07:02 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 55 @ 0.01547271 = 0.851 BTC [-] {6}
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07:42 BingoBoingo Death comes resurgent https://btc.waroflife.com/gow/17/
07:42 assbot Game 17 - Death 5949 Life 4051 Year 479 - War of Life
07:49 dub +1 for linking GoW to account, it sucks having to actually use bitcoin
07:55 BingoBoingo ;;bc,stats
07:55 gribble Current Blocks: 311004 | Current Difficulty: 1.733631697850783E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 312479 | Next Difficulty In: 1475 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 1 day, 18 hours, 42 minutes, and 51 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 18402301785.4 | Estimated Percent Change: 6.14885
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08:12 pankkake davout: https://www.contrepoints.org/2014/07/16/172479-bitcoin-ladministration-leve-le-rideau-sur-sa-doctrine-fiscale
08:12 assbot Bitcoin : ladministration lve le rideau sur sa doctrine fiscale | Contrepoints
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08:38 benkay ;;later tell vexual what's this essay?
08:38 gribble The operation succeeded.
08:40 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 363 @ 0.00278712 = 1.0117 BTC [+] {3}
08:41 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 546 @ 0.00280716 = 1.5327 BTC [+] {4}
08:42 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 207 @ 0.00282899 = 0.5856 BTC [+] {2}
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09:00 mod6 %d
09:00 atcbot [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 785138.67 Est. Next Diff: 517817.43 in 601 blocks (#40320) Est. % Change: -34.05
09:07 nubbins` pankkake will your sandwich be allowed on the highway? ;(
09:08 pankkake indeed
09:08 nubbins` hmm
09:08 nubbins` france sounds nice
09:10 pankkake http://www.coindesk.com/ing-future-bitcoin-protocol-include-central-bank-functions/ now that's comedy gold
09:10 assbot ING: Future Bitcoin Protocol Should Include Central Bank Functions
09:11 nubbins` heh
09:11 nubbins` "a new thing in the future that won't be bitcoin should give us a slice of the pie"
09:11 nubbins` or, put another way
09:11 nubbins` "bank ceo wishes he could create an altcoin that people would use"
09:13 davout pankkake: france is retarded, let's short it
09:14 davout pankkake: being filmed by Arte as we speak :D
09:15 pankkake BITCOIN = DRUGS
09:15 pankkake by the way, Bernankoin's supply is regulated by demand already
09:15 pankkake that way, it ensures a constant price of $0
09:16 pankkake so where is my nobel prize :(
09:16 davout we're not mentioning bernankoin on tv
09:21 princessnell mornin' y'all
09:21 davout hello
09:25 ThickAsThieves mornin
09:25 ThickAsThieves cheap coins today
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09:56 benkay man fuck ubuntu
09:56 benkay morning nell
09:58 benkay ;;ticker
09:58 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 615.0, Best ask: 615.53, Bid-ask spread: 0.53000, Last trade: 615.0, 24 hour volume: 4321.69857992, 24 hour low: 611.13, 24 hour high: 626.25, 24 hour vwap: 620.015222762
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10:17 kyuupichan pankkake: It already does of course. ING's mindless sellout doesn't realize it yet.
10:30 nubbins` man, occasionally we get a customer who has the brilliant idea of saving a few bucks off their order by providing their own shirts
10:30 nubbins` except that's fucking retarded because why would a retail store sell shirts for cheaper than a silkscreening business can get them in bulk
10:30 nubbins` (answer: they wouldn't)
10:31 nubbins` so now i've got a job where some guy paid literally double the cost for his blanks, and they're fucking wal-mart brand
10:31 * nubbins` shakes head
10:34 benkay http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-producer-prices-rose-0-4-in-june-1405513938
10:34 assbot U.S. Producer Prices Tick Higher in June - WSJ
10:34 mike_c random fact that surprised me: warren owns 2% of walmart.
10:34 benkay aaaand: http://online.wsj.com/articles/when-one-pay-raise-a-year-isnt-enough-1405454289
10:34 assbot When One Pay Raise a Year Isn't Enough - WSJ
10:34 benkay why is that surprising, mike_c ?
10:36 mike_c i don't know. I guess I didn't feel like it fit the rest of his portfolio.
10:36 mike_c B/H does outright own a lot of retailers, but walmart feels different.
10:37 benkay strikes me as a coca-cola play: the machine will be around forever, selling crap to the lcd. closest thing to a perpetual annuity one can hope for by my read.
10:38 benkay or a perpetuity
10:38 mike_c KO has growth though (internationally). is wal-mart growing outside US?
10:38 mike_c 26 countries, i guess it is.
10:39 mike_c they opened in buenos aires in 2007. they really are everywhere.
10:40 benkay the man seems to know something about retail
10:44 nubbins` jesus
10:45 nubbins` i guess this is why people hide join/parts
10:45 fluffypony can't we have assbot ban people that do that for an hour?
10:50 mircea_popescu benkay yeah
10:51 mircea_popescu !up Adohgg
10:51 nubbins` !up miaoux
10:52 nubbins` but seriously though, the guy bought WAL-MART BRAND t-shirts
10:52 nubbins` as an additional "fuck you", he specifically purchased shirts that are not 100% cotton
10:52 nubbins` i tell ya, these people
10:53 miaoux thanks nubbins` ;)
10:55 mircea_popescu nubbins` you should prolly start ba's own cfh.
10:56 nubbins` cfh
10:56 nubbins` ;;ud cfh
10:56 gribble http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=CFH | The CFH is a hardcore street gang that originated in the Wayzata/Plymouth area in Minnesota. The gang is identified by the color green. The main ri...
10:56 mircea_popescu like a blog where lulzy stuff is detailed. "The Shirts Story". "How BFL Delivered and BitBet ripped off its users"
10:56 * nubbins` raises eyebrow
10:56 mircea_popescu ;;google clients from hell
10:56 gribble Clients From Hell: <http://clientsfromhell.net/>; Clients From Hell: <http://clientsfromhell.net/page/2>; Top Client Stories - Clients From Hell: <http://clientsfromhell.net/clientstories>
10:56 nubbins` ah ah.
10:56 nubbins` an online outlet for my sharp witticisms
10:57 mircea_popescu ahgahahah oh help me rwanda. hardcore street gang from... plymouth, mn ?!
10:57 nubbins` that's sort of what facebook is for, but i can't make fun of specific people
10:57 nubbins` inorite?
10:57 nubbins` OH SHIT SON HE'S WEARING CFH GREEN
10:57 mircea_popescu what, they have streets in minnesota ?
10:57 mircea_popescu i bet the van buren boys could kick cfh's ass.
10:58 nubbins` i wonder if somewhere there's a girl named R'Wanda
10:58 mircea_popescu lol
10:58 nubbins` imagine
10:58 nubbins` or a drag queen called RuWanda
10:59 mircea_popescu http://nypost.com/2007/03/09/help-me-rwanda/
10:59 assbot HELP ME, RWANDA | New York Post
11:00 nubbins` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_Hands_with_the_Devil_(book)
11:00 assbot Shake Hands with the Devil (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
11:01 nubbins` not just belgians on the ground!
11:01 mircea_popescu actually, my next door neighbour is a drag queen. incredibly, doesn't like to go out much, orders in pretty much every day.
11:01 mircea_popescu isn't this something else ? a drag queen shut in ?
11:02 nubbins` not too unusual
11:02 mircea_popescu really ?
11:02 nubbins` what better way for a shut-in to get out once a week/month than to put on a new face
11:03 nubbins` i can't think of anyone into drag that's not at least a semi-recluse
11:03 mircea_popescu so fucxking weird, because in my heteronormative cisscum patriarchical view of the world,
11:03 mircea_popescu which just so happens to exactly mesh with sanity,
11:03 * nubbins` chuckles
11:04 mircea_popescu it'd seem if you go to all the trouble to dress up like a circus freak, except permanently, you'd better be very very much INTO circus.,
11:04 mircea_popescu then again i guess sexual deviancy is born out of psychological issues, not a disregard for social norms in the quest for personal enjoyment. nttawwt
11:06 nubbins` i'm into printing shirts, doesn't mean i do it outside ;D
11:06 mircea_popescu no, but it does mean you like to print.
11:07 nubbins` find out when your neighbour DOES leave the house, and then see what debauchery they get into
11:07 mircea_popescu im not about to stalk random people, srsly.
11:08 asciilifeform mpex still building ?
11:08 nubbins` http://goo.gl/chyk1Z
11:08 assbot Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs - Google Books
11:08 nubbins` probably best not to stalk
11:08 mircea_popescu asciilifeform still.
11:09 mircea_popescu nubbins` i used to, when i was younger and less experienced, i'd see a pretty thing in the street, send the guard to tail her find out where she lives. this resulted in lulziness on more than one occasion.
11:09 mircea_popescu but by now i just can't summon teh interest on the basis of looks for crying out loud.
11:10 mike_c i think your neighbor is just a cross-dresser. introverted drag queen is oxymoron.
11:11 mircea_popescu mike_c fucking clown wigs and everything ?
11:11 nubbins` implication is that introverts don't perform in public :0
11:11 mike_c lol. ok, first time for everything i guess.
11:11 mircea_popescu i thought the campyness was the distinguishing factor.
11:11 mircea_popescu nubbins` well yeah.
11:11 nubbins` you guise
11:12 nubbins` http://i.imgur.com/uXXFbnB.jpg
11:12 nubbins` bbl, back to twerk
11:12 mircea_popescu omfg nubbins is a crossdancer.
11:12 mircea_popescu he TWERKS
11:15 benkay ;;ud crossdancer
11:15 gribble http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Smashing%20Narwhal | Apr 10, 2009 ... ... brute bulldog bumbercar butterfly cowboy cradle cross dancer deck chair deep impact stick making a delight doggystyle postion appearing to ...
11:16 benkay oh man it's too early for me to reconcile the inflation nooz with the steel production glut nooz http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/07/16/pain-spreads-from-chinas-excess-production/
11:16 assbot Pain Spreads From Chinas Excess Production - China Real Time Report - WSJ
11:17 benkay demand goes down because prices will be lower tomorrow, which exacerbates the supply problem as nobody can unload goods at a profit?
11:18 mircea_popescu yes.
11:19 mircea_popescu welcome to the free market.
11:19 mircea_popescu people, in general, alone as well as in groups, have one thing on their mind : how to fuck other people in the ass.
11:19 mircea_popescu if they can gang together on theproducers, they will.
11:20 mircea_popescu the feminist is not interested in any positive goal as much as she's interested in "fucking up" the dudebro.
11:20 mircea_popescu etc.
11:20 mircea_popescu it's what makes life fun.
11:23 asciilifeform wtf is a 'dudebro'
11:23 pankkake ;;ud dudebro
11:23 gribble http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dudebro | Dude bro's are incredibly insecure in their manhood, which makes them: insanely jealous of their girl friends, overly macho, and laughably homophobic.
11:23 mircea_popescu asciilifeform given the comutative body made out of popkids and 30yo unemployed postdocs,
11:24 mircea_popescu a dudebro is the comutative equivalent of the feminist, in any nonsexual operation.
11:24 asciilifeform aha, them.
11:24 asciilifeform lol
11:24 mircea_popescu shit i'm good at this, i should make my own shanonizer.
11:25 pankkake ;;ud shanonizer
11:25 gribble Google found nothing.
11:25 asciilifeform pankkake: e.g. 'dissociated press'
11:25 mircea_popescu ;;google shanonnizer
11:25 gribble No matches found.
11:25 mircea_popescu fucking grammar azi.
11:27 benkay %t
11:27 atcbot [X-BT] Bid: 210 Ask: 242 Last Price: 210 24h-Vol: 26k High: 210 Low: 210 VWAP: 210
11:28 benkay mod6: atcbot left #pdxtech-btc
11:29 benkay http://www.geektime.com/2014/06/23/ibm-is-building-a-cloud-system-in-egypt-and-will-train-100-companies-in-the-region/ // hm no mobile boom over there yet? still getting on the cludwagen?
11:29 assbot IBM is building a cloud system in Egypt and will train 100 companies in the region | GeekTime
11:31 benkay the Fed said that while it didn’t generally view asset prices as excessive, valuations for social media and biotechnology firms “appear to be stretched,”
11:32 mod6 ok benkay, i'll restart it.
11:33 mike_c who put the fed in charge of valuing biotech firms?
11:33 benkay and apropos only of the babefeeds: http://imgur.com/TrwuNH2
11:33 assbot I love 90's Rock - Imgur
11:33 benkay they're in charge of valuing the whole economy, mike_c
11:33 mircea_popescu mike_c it's the central bank, kinda its job to broadly value all sectors.
11:34 mircea_popescu how did you think central bank systems work ?
11:34 mike_c i didn't realize they were handing out stock picks.
11:34 mircea_popescu sector tho.
11:35 mircea_popescu this is pretty much the #1 job of the central banker : to evaluate which sectors are overheating and which are underheating, and to try and bring equal heat somehow.
11:35 mike_c this is retarded on its face.
11:35 mircea_popescu i am not supporting rhe central bank system.
11:35 mircea_popescu you just happen to live in one.
11:36 benkay mike_c: <dub> http://thegeekiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/10514163_10153083113518569_5085828363159786149_o.jpg
11:36 mircea_popescu it does work exceedingly well in small countries with exceptionally gifted cbs, as romania will attest (and before that, azn minor players)
11:37 mircea_popescu when people were bitching that greenspan was "asleep on the job", da fuck do you think they meant ? housing overheated without him realising it.
11:38 mike_c and the central bank will do what about "overheated biotech"
11:38 mike_c not like fannie mae is funding them.
11:39 mircea_popescu taper.
11:39 mircea_popescu obviously what's funding them.
11:39 asciilifeform Gosplan!
11:39 mike_c that won't cool biotech, it cools everything. they have no sector-by-sector levers.
11:39 mircea_popescu but anyway, this was the fundamental argument of the euroskeptics as to wtf is wrong with the euro : replacing twenty cbs with just one merely further exacerbates the centralisation problem
11:39 mircea_popescu mike_c no ?!
11:40 mike_c right, no. *afaik.
11:40 mircea_popescu what, you're telling me because the us as a whole is in freefall because pretty much any field you look at consists of people given tasks they can't do with tools that can't do them ?!
11:40 mircea_popescu how the fuck was the army supposed to win vietnam ? start there.
11:41 mircea_popescu of fucking course. they have no tools and the job alloted is in principle not doable anyway.
11:41 mike_c well then stop sticking up for the fed!
11:41 mircea_popescu omfg im just explaining how this is supposed to work.
11:41 mike_c (that last was a troll ;) )
11:41 mircea_popescu lolk
11:43 mike_c benkay: nice pic. is that the last fed meeting?
11:44 mike_c !up ThickAsThieves
11:44 mircea_popescu anyway, for that matter, the big part in there is "didn’t generally view asset prices as excessive".
11:44 mircea_popescu translated in normal speak that's "omfg we're losing it across the board here."
11:45 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 700 @ 0.0026309 = 1.8416 BTC [-] {13}
11:46 mircea_popescu you just picked the other part because you mismanaged your book and are now overexposed to the pits. just like any other young, bright, ambitious GS fundboy.
11:46 mike_c hah. nah, i don't do biotech. i prefer revenue-generating activities as opposed to funding R&D.
11:46 mircea_popescu (that last was a troll ;) )
11:47 mike_c nice. ok, we're even.
11:47 mircea_popescu my magical clipboard, look what things i found.
11:48 mike_c !down ThickAsThieves
11:48 ThickAsThieves :P
11:48 mike_c assbot seems to have this figure out these days
11:48 ThickAsThieves http://igaming.org/poker/news/former-ceo-of-satoshi-poker-states-new-owners-doesnt-wish-to-pay-players/
11:48 assbot Former CEO of Satoshi Poker States new Owners Doesn't Wish to Pay Players
11:48 ThickAsThieves in case any of you remember the SatPok lulz
11:48 mike_c what did that sell for? single-digit btc right?
11:49 mircea_popescu which was satoshi poker again ?
11:49 danielpbarron how have i never heard of satoshi poker
11:49 mircea_popescu this is starting to sound like a psychopath act, "i am now Maria and Maria doesn't want to pay you"
11:50 mike_c " he sold Satoshi Poker for a plane ticket home from Thailand" yeah, that's what i thought.
11:51 ThickAsThieves lol
11:51 ThickAsThieves this was owned by a few assholes
11:51 ThickAsThieves one being the bitcoinpride tshirt guy
11:51 mircea_popescu of that "professional" douche
11:51 mircea_popescu s/of/oh
11:51 ThickAsThieves they repeatedly tried unloading shares
11:51 ThickAsThieves they got ukyo in
11:52 ThickAsThieves angled for me a few times
11:52 ThickAsThieves coincidentally one of the pitches was from an airport
11:52 ThickAsThieves something like i'm travelling and i need money
11:53 mircea_popescu you know, being a bum must suck ever so.
11:53 mircea_popescu not so much for the people who've not had a shower in a week plus and are being pushed outof the tenderloin
11:53 mircea_popescu as for the kids that keep going to airports pretending like they belong there.
11:54 mircea_popescu i'm gonna start asking "aren't you supposed to be cutting some sugar cane or something ? what are you doing here boy ?"
11:56 ThickAsThieves the life a man leads is punishment enough
11:57 mircea_popescu the unexamined life is not worth living.
11:57 mircea_popescu runaway slave must at some point be confronted with the reality that no matter how he's pretending, there's a plantation somewhere missing his dumb ass,
11:57 mircea_popescu and a supervisor with the lash ready.
11:57 mircea_popescu you don't just up and walk away.
12:00 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.79167912 BTC to 12`353 shares, 14504 satoshi per share
12:01 mircea_popescu http://www.senado.gov.ar/parlamentario/comisiones/verExp/1918.14/S/PL << meanwhile the argentines want isps to block pronsites.
12:01 mircea_popescu this is a country where prostitution is legal but abortion illegal.
12:01 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 22.75826252 BTC to 1`149`988 shares, 1979 satoshi per share
12:03 danielpbarron in all trimesters?
12:04 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 180 @ 0.0028013 = 0.5042 BTC [+] {2}
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12:25 pankkake the .exchange TLD seems to be available now
12:26 artifexd All these new TLD's annoy me. A lot.
12:26 * danielpbarron too
12:26 ThickAsThieves i dont have an issue with em
12:26 pankkake they're the silver to .com
12:26 pankkake or something
12:27 ThickAsThieves just means we'll see www. and http:// more in ads
12:27 pankkake more tlds is a small chance for less dns censorship
12:28 ThickAsThieves it'd be cool to see namecoin get better play
12:29 artifexd pankkake: How so?
12:30 pankkake http://www.opennicproject.org/ the "biggest" ICANN alternative, added namecoin .bit support
12:30 assbot | OpenNIC Project
12:30 ThickAsThieves someone should do an article on easy steps to set up a .bit domain to point your current .* one, drop a bunch of trendy words like decentralizedautocoinification and post it to reddit
12:30 pankkake artifexd: more entities to annoy, more chances that one puts up a fight and doesn't censor as easily; also, most TLDs currently depend of governments
12:32 pankkake some devs updated the namecoin GUI to help with registering domains - haven't tried it but it's admirable volunteer work :)
12:32 pankkake otherwise you'd have to write the JSON config yourself
12:32 * danielpbarron has some Namecoin names registered
12:32 ThickAsThieves yeah you can everything in the wallet
12:32 danielpbarron I used to have some pretty choice names but I let them expire
12:45 ThickAsThieves http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/07/16/tradeblock-raises-2-8-million-from-andreessen-horowitz-others/
12:45 assbot TradeBlock Raises $2.8 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, Others - MoneyBeat - WSJ
12:46 ThickAsThieves “The kind of thing TradeBlock is providing is a prerequisite for smart contracts,” he said.
12:47 ThickAsThieves this is the former genesisblock blog
12:50 mike_c i liked their mining calculator tool. never read the articles.
12:50 ThickAsThieves yeah they made a switch some 6+ mos ago to the data stuff
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13:08 ThickAsThieves Time Warner rejects $80 billion takeover by a 'determined' Rupert Murdoch
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13:27 kakobrekla i never head for tradeblock before
13:29 mircea_popescu danielpbarron:in all trimesters? << yea.
13:30 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves: it'd be cool to see namecoin get better play << yea
13:31 ThickAsThieves i just realized the client also allows for easy NS entry and stuff
13:32 mircea_popescu i don't recall what the major drawback was
13:32 ThickAsThieves probly that it doesnt 'just work'
13:32 danielpbarron nice; what's the punishment?
13:33 mircea_popescu jail ? i dunno.
13:33 ThickAsThieves need to get chrome or opera or tor to support .bit
13:33 danielpbarron no death penalty? :/
13:34 asciilifeform birth penalty.
13:34 mircea_popescu decimation: and rolling dice would take days << dice is iirc just about 6/8 of a byte per dice per throw.
13:34 FabianB $mpexstatus
13:34 empyex FabianB: Proxies: http://mpex.coinbr.com/ http://mpex.co/ MPEx-Status: Error reaching trade engine (change: $proxies <newlist>)
13:34 assbot 401 Authorization Required
13:34 mircea_popescu ;;calc 24 * 3600 / 3 * 6/8
13:34 gribble 21600
13:34 mircea_popescu FabianB nop, not yet.
13:35 mircea_popescu danielpbarron asciilifeform has it i guess.
13:35 ThickAsThieves "The North American Bitcoin Conference Welcomes Bitcoin Novices"
13:35 ThickAsThieves to speak
13:35 ThickAsThieves hehe
13:35 FabianB ic, trying to break the record ;)
13:36 ThickAsThieves U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew called for a crackdown on tax inversions, saying the Obama administration needs to step efforts to limit companies reincorporating overseas for tax purposes.
13:36 ThickAsThieves “We should have some economic patriotism here,” Mr. Lew said
13:37 mircea_popescu benkay: ;;later tell mircea_popescu benkay eh what, you can tell. // this is to imply that actually discerning females on internet is hard? << yea.
13:37 mircea_popescu FabianB not trying, but looks like it'll succeed ;/
13:37 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves ahahaha seriously ? economic patriotism ?
13:37 mircea_popescu us, still copying the french, centuries later.
13:38 mircea_popescu dub: hardly surprising now its full of spurious 'is on irc' entries << spurious on what grounds ?
13:39 ThickAsThieves maybe if US closes eyes tight enough the rest of the world economy will go away
13:39 mircea_popescu what's fucking spurious are all the idiots rating on the basis of a 20 bux moneypack
13:39 mircea_popescu fortunately, they're well isolated from the wot that actually matters.
13:40 asciilifeform dice is iirc just about 6/8 of a byte per dice per throw << not quite. log2(6) is ~2.6 - bits, that is.
13:40 asciilifeform that's for a traditional die, of course.
13:41 mircea_popescu ah rught.
13:41 mircea_popescu but even so, 10 bits a throw, a 4k rsa key needs what, 7-800 ?
13:42 * asciilifeform does not recommend dice for key gen
13:42 mircea_popescu benkay: assbot's an interesting focal point for the WoT << didja graph it ?
13:42 mircea_popescu asciilifeform and why is that ?
13:42 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: too much like work.
13:43 mircea_popescu this is like the silent/loud computer system
13:43 mircea_popescu some people like to work.
13:43 asciilifeform plus, actual physical dice aren't entirely 'fair.'
13:43 mircea_popescu this is why some prefer blowjobs while others don't.
13:43 asciilifeform like the 'eudaemons' and their roulette wheels.
13:44 asciilifeform ;;google eudaemons roulette
13:44 gribble Eudaemons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaemons>; layout: <http://physics.ucsc.edu/people/eudaemons/layout.html>; The Eudaemons' shoe computer: <http://www.wearcam.org/historical/node3.html>
13:44 mike_c need zocchi dice
13:47 mircea_popescu entropy and bias are not exactly orthogonal concerns, but they're still at an angle here
13:48 asciilifeform incidentally, here's a question. is mechanical wear on dice a positive feedback loop - or not ?
13:48 asciilifeform and does this vary between the extant polyhedra
13:49 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you know the story of the largest crystall ball in the world ?
13:49 penguirker New blog post: http://trilema.com/2014/why-progress-is-a-self-limiting-disease/
13:49 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-07-2014#754108 << that one ?
13:49 assbot #bitcoin-assets log
13:49 mircea_popescu yes that one.
13:49 mircea_popescu thing was made for cixi, whom i've referenced before. the process was, tumble the thing in water + garnet dust
13:49 mircea_popescu for like a decade.
13:50 mircea_popescu now, is this proof that the process is broadly non-positive-feedback ?
13:50 asciilifeform aha, standard lens grind
13:50 mircea_popescu yea. always yields a sphere.
13:53 asciilifeform always yields a sphere << but is the progression from whatever-hedron to sphere monotonic ?
13:54 mircea_popescu assbot: ING: Future Bitcoin Protocol Should Include Central Bank Functions << yeah, it totally should. I'm fucking sick of having to bitchslap people like ing from the shadows.
13:54 mircea_popescu gimme a protocol-based steel club ty.
13:55 mircea_popescu asciilifeform it can't possibly be monotonic
13:55 mircea_popescu if nothing else then because of quantum determinism.
13:55 asciilifeform right
13:57 asciilifeform http://physics.ucsc.edu/people/eudaemons/layout.html << for anyone unfamiliar with it
13:58 mircea_popescu mike_c: i don't know. I guess I didn't feel like it fit the rest of his portfolio. << iirc he ended up with it as part of some other acquisition
14:00 asciilifeform (note that Shannon and Thorp, who used an analogue circuit, achieved the same result in months that the 'eudaemons' took years.)
14:01 mircea_popescu fluffypony: can't we have assbot ban people that do that for an hour? << this actually is a good idea. kakobrekla could assbot put a ban on anyone it sees part/joining 12 times within an hour, with a ban message that "please get in touch once connection is fixed, ty"
14:01 fluffypony yeah, I don't want to hide joins/parts because sometimes interesting people join who don't have assbot !up access
14:01 mircea_popescu exactly.
14:02 punkman and nobody in all these years has made a client with smart join/part hiding
14:02 ThickAsThieves ^
14:03 ThickAsThieves if i ognore someone, it should ignore joins
14:03 mircea_popescu yeah problerm is irc clients sorta went into freeze mode cca 2001
14:03 mircea_popescu which is a GREAT thing. nobody's making new "fully featured" irc clients, which then don't work,
14:03 mircea_popescu leading to demands to "bring irc protocol up to date"
14:04 mircea_popescu like it's happened to the web.
14:04 ThickAsThieves yet mirc still wants an update every month
14:04 mircea_popescu "As companies try to retain top employees and hit growth targets, some are ditching the annual salary review and doling out raises and bonuses several times a year."
14:04 mircea_popescu fucking add taking over the nation.
14:05 ThickAsThieves cuz paying them hald their raise sooner will make the job fun again
14:05 ThickAsThieves half*
14:05 asciilifeform http://www.edwardothorp.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wearable_computer4.jpg
14:05 ThickAsThieves then the joy of double the performance reviews
14:06 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves ist's just another sympthom of inflation heating up i guess.
14:07 asciilifeform ('cheat-trons' were outlawed in usa - because they worked. but probably wouldn't work today - casinos monitor their own machines electronically and run bias stats)
14:08 ThickAsThieves As an interim measure in advance of issuing tactile-enhanced Federal Reserve notes, the BEP is providing currency readers, free of charge, to eligible blind and visually impaired individuals.
14:10 mircea_popescu blind people gotta use a credit card whether they want to or not.
14:10 ThickAsThieves does anyone work on accessibility in bitcoin?
14:11 punkman ThickAsThieves: yeah right
14:11 danielpbarron 13:40:25 <+asciilifeform> dice is iirc just about 6/8 of a byte per dice per throw << not quite. log2(6) is ~2.6 - bits, that is. << assuming it isn't biased
14:11 asciilifeform ThickAsThieves: braille terminal.
14:11 ThickAsThieves http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-needs-accessible-visually-impaired/
14:11 assbot Bitcoin 'Needs to be More Accessible for the Visually Impaired'
14:11 ThickAsThieves "Most people want to make [bitcoin] accessible, they just haven’t considered it. That’s one of the problems around accessibility."
14:11 ThickAsThieves heh
14:12 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves is't on a computer. what else ?
14:13 ThickAsThieves i'm mostly ignorant to the topic
14:13 ThickAsThieves i guess OS handles most needs
14:13 mike_c one rule is you don't need the mouse to do anything
14:14 mike_c (gov't rule)
14:16 mircea_popescu mike_c another rule is that you can't send people mail as single-image pdfs.
14:17 mircea_popescu anyway, bitcoin as made by saotshi is eminently blind-friendly. you can get everything as json from bitcoind and put it through your favorite reader.
14:18 mircea_popescu the thing is that there's this large group of professional rent seekers who are trying to find a niche for themselves in bitcoin, not the normal way (buy some), nor the professional way (join bitcoin-assets) but the fiat way (politicing and derping around).
14:19 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: not the normal way (buy some)... << this is because their actual goal is quite independent of bitcoin. rather, it is: to own people.
14:20 ThickAsThieves ;;google how much money is printed
14:20 gribble U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Annual Production Figures: <http://www.moneyfactory.gov/uscurrency/annualproductionfigures.html>; Facts About U.S. Money | FactMonster.com: <http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0774850.html>; The Fed Is Not Printing Money, It's Doing Something Much Worse ...: <http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2014/03/09/the-fed-is-not-printing-money- (1 more message)
14:20 mircea_popescu bitcoin is uniquely unsuited for their methodology.
14:20 asciilifeform steal a coin from man, you have: a coin. steal the man...
14:20 mircea_popescu course, the only way people learn this is through trying.
14:20 asciilifeform you get coin until he's dead. and then from his children, etc.
14:20 ThickAsThieves the auto answer in google is different than the truth
14:20 ThickAsThieves google says "The Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces 38 million notes a day with a face value of approximately $541 million. That doesn't mean there is $541 million more money circulating today than there was yesterday, though, because 95% of the notes printed each year are used to replace notes already in circulation."
14:21 ThickAsThieves http://www.moneyfactory.gov/uscurrency/annualproductionfigures.html says 26 million notes a day with a face value of $1.3 billion. Over 90 percent of notes are used to replace notes already in, or taken out of circulation.
14:21 assbot U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Annual Production Figures
14:22 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves well google, like wikipedia, is only intended as a good enough first approximation.
14:22 mircea_popescu much like you know, cliffnotes.
14:23 asciilifeform https://www.thc.org/papers/ffp.html << in case anyone has not read this.
14:23 assbot Fuzzy Fingerprints - Attacking Vulnerabilities in the Human Brain
14:26 mircea_popescu asciilifeform http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mircea_popescu.jpg (solution)
14:26 ThickAsThieves so my rapper friend finally decides to buy bitcoin
14:26 asciilifeform lol
14:26 ThickAsThieves coinbase tells him his tx was too high risk
14:26 ThickAsThieves http://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/977656-why-was-my-order-%22high-risk%22-and-cancelled-
14:26 assbot Coinbase | Why was my order "High Risk" a...
14:26 ThickAsThieves "Unfortunately, sometimes it flags legitimate transactions too. "
14:26 ThickAsThieves such scammers
14:27 ThickAsThieves The algorithm is always improving but is not perfect.
14:27 ThickAsThieves fukn christ
14:27 ThickAsThieves lol
14:28 ThickAsThieves maybe i should make a coinbase is racist reddit
14:28 mike_c but this has some truth, no? they do have to prevent fraud, and no matter what they will accidentally flag legitimate txs.
14:29 mike_c easy to scammer tag them, but how do you tell the difference between honest mistake and scam?
14:29 ThickAsThieves so have a clearing process
14:29 ThickAsThieves dnt let someone make an order they cant have
14:29 danielpbarron it's no accident; the transaction *was* high risk (for coinbase)
14:29 mike_c they do have a clearing process.
14:30 mike_c you can appeal a cancelled tx
14:30 danielpbarron "whoops we're gonna lose money on this deal.. so we're canceling it"
14:30 ThickAsThieves mike_c right, that's where it gets scammy
14:30 ThickAsThieves maybe dudes dont wanna be assed to fight for it
14:31 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: flashlight article << a decade or so ago, i had a flashlight that... crashed! when destroyed, it revealed a microcontroller, with eeprom...
14:31 ThickAsThieves why cant they allow a deposit to clear, then when they are happy, allow trading with that amount
14:31 mike_c you mean, be an exchange. they aren't an exchange.
14:32 ThickAsThieves meh
14:32 ThickAsThieves anyway he's better off
14:32 ThickAsThieves cheaper now
14:32 mike_c because that solves all scam problems :) (see gox, bitstamp, every other exchange)
14:33 mike_c so it's an anti-scam. if the price had gone up he could have complained and gotten the better price.
14:33 mike_c i'm not a big fanboy of coinbase, but i don't see how they could do it better.
14:33 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 414 @ 0.00265304 = 1.0984 BTC [-] {11}
14:34 ThickAsThieves maybe it's a new checking account for him or something
14:34 ThickAsThieves i guess i can try being reasonable
14:36 mircea_popescu asciilifeform lol the fuck was it doing.
14:36 danielpbarron mike_c, I agree; my objection is going through traditional financial institutions to aquire Bitcoin; these channels can be frozen by governments
14:37 mircea_popescu danielpbarron yah well you gotta get in somehow.
14:37 danielpbarron i like face-to-face and cash-in-the-mail
14:37 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it was a chicom die-on-pcb turd. no debug outputs; what was inside (other than clearly, a micro with state) only satan knows. so, i never learned.
14:37 mircea_popescu the cash in mail doesn't scale so well.
14:37 mircea_popescu asciilifeform prolly some sort of smart battery balancing
14:37 mike_c i don't know any way that scales well these days. jborkl's post was unsettling.
14:38 danielpbarron idk, I know how to ship a pallet; could be a pallet of linen
14:38 mike_c i guess there never has been a scalable way.
14:39 mircea_popescu mike_c the main challenge to economy, since forever, is scalbility.
14:39 mircea_popescu which jborkl post you mean ?
14:42 mircea_popescu http://girls.twistys.com/preview/dailyupdates/2014/07/08/ryanryans-31773/images/full/16.jpg << from the biology class department.
14:45 mike_c sorry, thought it was on bccoinnews. it was justusranvier. http://bitcoinism.liberty.me/2014/07/08/re-enhanced-due-diligence/
14:45 assbot Coinbase Considered Harmful
14:47 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: very much related to flashlight article: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/02/industrys-parting-gifts.html
14:47 assbot ClubOrlov: Industry's Parting Gifts
14:47 mircea_popescu at which juncture i wonder if justusranvier ever read http://trilema.com/2012/the-politics-of-bitcoin/
14:47 assbot The politics of Bitcoin pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
14:51 mircea_popescu asciilifeform indeed.
14:51 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 'why do half of them have to be “tactical” ?' << 'tactical', in american marketingspeak, originally meant 'can bolt to a rifle.' then it turned into 'can, if really needed, be used as a brass knuckle.' now it means something like 'looks vaguely like anodized metal.'
14:52 mircea_popescu "This, then, should be the new main thrust of industrial activity: to manufacture and distribute products with the understanding that this process will run out of resources and stop. These products must be designed to outlive the process by which they are made, by as long as possible." << i can't fucking imagine why this would have to appear as new.
14:52 mircea_popescu far as i can discern this is it, the permanent mode of industry since forever, and how things sould work, and how things that work do work.
14:52 mircea_popescu asciilifeform so if anodized metal is tactical, what's strategical ?
14:53 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 'strategic' - clearly, a gadget that wouldn't look out of place in intercontinental rocket's 'physics package.'
14:53 pankkake I thought tactical was it can be used to hit things
14:53 pankkake you know, there are tactical PENS
14:54 mircea_popescu so i guess my tit tickling cock shall henceforth be tactical too
14:54 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 500 @ 0.00261071 = 1.3054 BTC [-] {13}
14:54 mircea_popescu i definitely can hit things with it
14:54 mircea_popescu asciilifeform so what, copper wire ?
14:55 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 988 @ 0.00260005 = 2.5688 BTC [-] {7}
14:55 asciilifeform as i understand, the term originally applied to brands of optical rifle sight designed to withstand the field (water, whacking over enemy's head, etc.) vs ones that only need to survive a leisurely duck hunt
14:55 mircea_popescu tactical and strategic are properties of abstracts for crying out loud. you can't have a plapable tactical anything anymore than you can have a concrete idea.
14:56 asciilifeform http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Autonetics_D-17.JPG << 'strategic' computer.
14:56 mircea_popescu "a flashlight concerning itself with implementation details, as opposed to broad theoretical considerations"
14:56 mircea_popescu wtf is that.
14:57 asciilifeform lol!
14:58 mircea_popescu asciilifeform are those paralel ports gold or gilded ?
14:58 asciilifeform 'engineering gold'. like our pcb. you don't want pure gold in anything mechanical.
14:59 mircea_popescu but if it's not solid (merely painted on) you get some interesting phenomena
14:59 mircea_popescu of much less interest to someone gilding a pcb than to someone trying to make a parallel connection.
14:59 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: this is a concern if and only if the plug must cycle many times.
15:00 mircea_popescu but my uneducated guess looking at the arrangement is that it would ?
15:00 assbot [HAVELOCK] [SF1] 2000 @ 0.00029025 = 0.5805 BTC [+] {4}
15:00 mircea_popescu it's the debug port for all that memory no ?
15:00 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: in such cases, one uses, e.g. Ir instead if Au
15:00 asciilifeform *of
15:01 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: russian rockets are kept plugged in permanently. no idea re: america.
15:02 mircea_popescu then why bother gilding it, just make it solid.
15:02 asciilifeform Au is SOP for mil-spec connectors.
15:02 asciilifeform if anything, keeps it from corroding on the shelf.
15:02 mircea_popescu (hello people reading the logs, and welcome to mp's personal engineer training hour, where he bothers people who should be doing usefulk things with the task of educating him for free. and now a massage from our sposor.)
15:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform when you said cycle i thought you meant, electrically. as in, hifreq.
15:03 asciilifeform aha no. mechanical cycle.
15:03 mircea_popescu because what i had in mind was that two diff metals make a circuit element.
15:04 mircea_popescu "Suppose you have a company that sets out to make a widget. Let's call it Company A. Its founders are all engineers, of an uncompromising sort, and the widget they design and manufacture is of tremendous longevity, durability and overall quality." << hey check out orlov.
15:06 mircea_popescu excellent. guy really should stick with what he understands well (apparently, engineering and production problems) and forget stuff he doesn't get (like, politics)
15:06 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: herr orlov was engineer of some description before 'bugged out'
15:09 mircea_popescu They work to boost revenue by offering an extended warranty or a service plan (made necessary by frequent breakdowns), charging for premium customer service (made necessary by their normal customer service, which consists of a robotic phone maze backed by a few trainees in India who just read aloud from Company B's public web site in a listless, stuttering monotone) and offering numerous enhancements and upgrades (made
15:09 mircea_popescu necessary by annoyances or missing functions within the base product). They also build a profit center out of selling spare parts. They see to it that their product does not contain any commodity parts, and that no parts are interchangeable between model years, so that every replacement part has to be purchased through a dealer. Company B does quite well, becoming profitable, doubling in size several times, and gains
15:09 mircea_popescu a commanding market share.
15:09 mircea_popescu But then the troubles begin. First, given the short replacement cycle of its widget, it becomes harder and harder for Company B to contain costs while continuing to increase production. Costs of key inputs, such as certain metals, plastics, energy to run the plants, and shipping and distribution costs, all start going up, making their widgets more expensive to produce. At the same time, it becomes increasingly difficul
15:09 mircea_popescu t to pass these higher costs on to the consumers. Concerted efforts at cost containment, championed by senior management, burn up more money than they find in savings. Second, turnover among the engineering staff starts to creep up, and after a while employee retention becomes a major problem. An effort is made to boost recruitment, but paradoxically this only increases the turnover rate, until the average tenure of an
15:09 mircea_popescu engineer is shorter than the time it takes to learn the product.
15:09 mircea_popescu the rest of that article hereby incorporated, it should be a matter of record this thing.
15:10 mircea_popescu "yes america, it won't work. herp."
15:10 asciilifeform inidentally, orlov swore off writing any further books re: collapse, declaring 'i've said what there is to be said.' making him, afaik, unique in that 'field.'
15:11 mircea_popescu and right next to that,
15:11 mircea_popescu 'But that means that the project will have taken two and a half to three years,' said the Minister indignantly. 'And it was scheduled to take a YEAR!'
15:11 mircea_popescu Bobynin exploded.
15:11 mircea_popescu 'What d'you mean - scheduled? What d'you think science is - a magic wand that you just have to wave to get what you want? Supposing the problem's been put in the wrong terms or new factors crop up? You and your schedule!
15:12 asciilifeform 'my particular narrow focus in this post is in repurposing existing industrial capacity to mass-produce items that will outlive it and that will make post-industrial life better. The way it stands, we'll have lots of very well-built weapons, not so much ammo, lots of well-built but useless industrial equipment, and lots and lots of post-consumer trash. I am trying to find ways to change that balance.'
15:12 mircea_popescu pretty much the bitcoin-bitcoin-assets-wot trifecta is the way, i would wager.
15:13 mircea_popescu all we need is a few ideologically aware writers, and let's hope that they have the sense to give in to the groan-y siren song of a few cam whores
15:13 mircea_popescu because the fate of the free world pretty much rests on it.
15:14 asciilifeform when do we get a gurl reduced not only to camwh0ring, but to selling off her father's pick'n'placer. for coin.
15:14 mircea_popescu orlov specifically isn't here because when i pointed out to him he fucked up, his reaction wasn't the sane and natural "ow fuck me, i fucked up", but the much more common, and much more human "oh it's not really and i didn't really" and so on.
15:14 mircea_popescu lew rockwell similarly, too big for his breeches, by degrees of magnitude.
15:14 mircea_popescu strange how this works, but anyway.
15:15 asciilifeform orlov, if i recall, answers 'bitcoin' with 'the net dies in $nibble years and where's your shortwave, huh. count me out.'
15:16 mircea_popescu that wasn't the disagreement.
15:16 mircea_popescu he had some bad data re romanian inflation, i pointed it out, herbi (who apparently knows him) conveyed it.
15:18 mircea_popescu somehow as people start to smarten up and realise how shitty us management is failing them, the idea doesn't form that they need better management,
15:18 * asciilifeform wasn't awake for that one
15:18 mircea_popescu the idea forms that either a) they don't need management at all, which yields all the bizarre "decentralise" things trend, among others
15:18 mircea_popescu or else that b) they're going to be their own management, which... myeah.
15:19 mircea_popescu asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2014/orlov-is-wrong-and-other-stories/ (link in 1st note)
15:19 assbot Orlov is wrong, and other stories. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
15:19 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the ancient 'war' between 'engineer' and 'management' comes from the 'iconography' (believed by more or less all technical folks) of 'manager' as a kind of yacht-dwelling parasitic goblin on all that is good and bright.
15:20 mircea_popescu yeah well.
15:21 mircea_popescu plenty of similarly socially awkward men believe women to be gold digging sluts etc etc.
15:21 mircea_popescu the solution is to get a better wife, not to make womanhood die in a fire.
15:21 asciilifeform it's more like the popular image of 'whore' - based on the specimens one can readily observe with naked eye in american city.
15:21 assbot [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 104 @ 0.008 = 0.832 BTC [-] {2}
15:22 mircea_popescu that's fair, in the sense it's fair to represent "engineer" on the basis of kids found loitering around the campus.
15:22 asciilifeform just like, to a fellow without a telescope, a planet is merely a wandering star
15:22 asciilifeform this is precisely how american 'manager' sees american 'engineer'
15:22 mircea_popescu right.
15:29 mircea_popescu speaking of which, here you go nubbins, the dangers of trying to drive a sammich : http://www.bristol-storage.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/warehouse-destruction.gif
15:42 mircea_popescu "Company C is not really a company but a consortium organized by a group of activists who correctly perceive the great need for this widget and decide to tackle the issue head-on through tireless community organizing. A group of retired community college professors..."
15:42 mircea_popescu ahahha o god.
15:47 mircea_popescu "In fact, I know of at least one company just like that. It was run by an engineer who had produced a huge success for his investors, only to see the company fall into the hands of Company B type management. So he created a new company. For years now he has sucked in more and more capital from investors who imagine he might reproduce his initial success. But it's clear (to me) that he has no intention of doing so, exce
15:47 mircea_popescu pt perhaps by mistake. He wants to do interesting engineering and produce new, cool products at the expense of his investors.
15:47 mircea_popescu I'm down with that."
15:47 mircea_popescu this is going to be a major bitcoin problem, going forward.
15:48 mircea_popescu i mean, all the noobs a la neobee's "ceo", alongside andreas antonopoulos were doing exactly this : implement their idea of fun at the expense of investors.
15:48 mircea_popescu of course their idea of fun was more like mba than like engineer's, but that's squarely besides the point.
15:48 mircea_popescu after the failure, the actual ceo disappeared, but antonopoulos reinvented himself as... more "professional".
15:49 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 194 @ 0.00269999 = 0.5238 BTC [+] {2}
15:49 mircea_popescu this because the market (well, the overcapitalised clueless section of it, anyway) erroneously identifies "professional" with "successful" and ultimately "good".
15:54 bitcoinpete found more f.derps!
15:54 bitcoinpete http://gigaom.com/2014/07/16/elliptic-takes-2m-investment-to-help-firms-store-and-handle-bitcoin/
15:54 assbot Elliptic takes $2M investment to help firms store and handle bitcoin — Tech News and Analysis
15:54 bitcoinpete http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/07/16/tradeblock-raises-2-8-million-from-andreessen-horowitz-others/
15:54 assbot TradeBlock Raises $2.8 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, Others - MoneyBeat - WSJ
15:54 bitcoinpete elliptic and tradeblock
15:54 bitcoinpete relentless, those veecees
15:54 mircea_popescu good for 'em :D
15:55 bitcoinpete "The firm, which did not disclose its valuation, is something like a Bloomberg for bitcoin, aggregating data and selling products for analyzing pricing trends and other research tools to its institutional client base. Some market data is free on TradeBlock’s website."
15:55 bitcoinpete i bet you tb runs wp
15:56 mircea_popescu herp.
15:56 bitcoinpete mircea_popescu: lol you're going to end up with more listings than the nasdaq ;)
15:56 mircea_popescu obviously my servers can't handle it.
15:56 bitcoinpete "Elliptic offers a secure, insured bitcoin service called Elliptic Vault for retailers, hedge funds, bitcoin exchanges and other companies that are trying to dabble in this new world of so-called cryptocurrencies."
15:56 bitcoinpete f.derp broke mpex
15:56 bitcoinpete just like they planned
15:57 mircea_popescu well not just yet.
15:57 bitcoinpete yet...
15:59 bitcoinpete https://twitter.com/Jason_Pollock/status/488888685782237184 << kinda got a kick out of this imagining mccartney selling buffett btc for bitbet
16:00 mircea_popescu lol
16:00 mircea_popescu buffett looks so lost...
16:01 danielpbarron apparently yoko ono has more twitter followers than mccartney
16:02 mike_c buffett is the king of omaha, he can't be lost.
16:02 mircea_popescu nobody can be lost quite like the king.
16:02 bitcoinpete ^can see that
16:03 mircea_popescu !up gabridome
16:03 mircea_popescu !up gabriel_laddel
16:04 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: nobody can be lost quite like the king >> http://oglaf.com/legacy
16:04 assbot Legacy
16:04 gabriel_laddel camgirl script:
16:04 gabriel_laddel Mr./Ms. VIP,
16:04 gabriel_laddel You are hereby invited to join #bitcoin-assets. The interests of current members include: bitcoin, auditable cryptographic equipment, increasing economic inequality worldwide, non-Von Neumann architectures, etcetera. In short, we're repurposing Earth's resources for the pursuit of our collective aesthetic and would appreciate your input.
16:04 gabriel_laddel We hope to see you in-channel.
16:04 gabriel_laddel The girl in question should start unbottoning her shirt at the second incidence of "bitcoin" taking it off ~2 sec after finished speaking. She should then proceed to give her show. Presumably she has some skill at this, and requires no futher direction. The video itself should be free of advertising, logos, watermarks etc. and be shot with a high quality camera.
16:04 mircea_popescu it's a start.
16:05 mircea_popescu but honestly, it lacks a hook. so there's a group somewhere interested in things. why do i gas ?
16:05 mircea_popescu asciilifeform lol yup.
16:05 gabriel_laddel gas?
16:05 mircea_popescu give a shit
16:05 mircea_popescu ;;ud gas
16:05 gribble http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gas | gas. shit-flavored air. some of the most noxious is fried chicken related! that fuckin chicken gave me gas from hell! where's the air freshener? by da trick biatch ...
16:06 mircea_popescu ha. i invented one!
16:07 gabriel_laddel imo, if you really want them here, you may have to personalize the invitations.
16:07 gabriel_laddel In the case of Nick Sabazo, one could sponsor a robotics contest for a highschool in his neighboorhood. Rules for this contest: http://web.archive.org/web/20060307220916/http://www.lucifer.com/~sean/N-FX/macro.html
16:08 mircea_popescu problem here is this : i don't want these people on any random terms. they have to come on our terms to be useful. that's a big part of it, smart people are great, educable smart people are actually useful.
16:08 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: Okay, so what are these terms exactly?
16:09 mircea_popescu otherwise you end up in corners like http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-07-2014#758259
16:09 assbot #bitcoin-assets log
16:09 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel well, the problem is i have nfi.
16:09 gabriel_laddel ;;ud nfi
16:09 gribble http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nfi | Apple touch icon Download the Free App! 1. nfi. No Fucking Idea. The manager has NFI of the work that goes on around here... by KGB July 10, 2002. 2114 678.
16:09 mike_c if they are not interested in bitcoin it is a non-starter (orlov).
16:09 mircea_popescu but whore-out-of-the-blue seems reasonable as an approach, at least because people who manage to react well to women generally react well to new things.
16:10 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel no fucking idea.
16:10 mike_c so the message should be "this is the smart bitcoin place"
16:10 mircea_popescu mike_c you know, i was originally not interested in bitcoin.
16:10 mike_c so you weren't ready for b-a
16:10 mircea_popescu yes i was.
16:10 mircea_popescu the way i became part of bitcoin in the first place was an hour or so on the ba of the time
16:11 mike_c but why were you there
16:11 mircea_popescu bitcoin-otc, before fuckwit maxwell ruined it.
16:11 mircea_popescu lucky thing too, that.
16:11 mircea_popescu mike_c i went there because commenters on my blog kept pestering me.
16:11 mike_c because you were knew of, and were interested in learning more about bitcoin. orlov knows and is not interested.
16:11 mircea_popescu i thought i knew, and i thought i wasn't interested.
16:12 mircea_popescu what seduced me, actually, was gribble iding.
16:12 mike_c well then why does orlov end up in that corner?
16:12 mircea_popescu the idea immediately popped that people who are doing this as a matter of course can't be as stupid as i had thought.
16:12 asciilifeform orlov, as i understand, has a very specific reason (i.e. falsifiable hypothesis) that leads to his disinterest.
16:12 mircea_popescu possibly because he's older, and has less experience with whores
16:12 mircea_popescu or the world generally.
16:12 pankkake I had the same experience, I thought bitcoin was only acnee-ridden basement-living 13 year old gamers
16:12 mircea_popescu asciilifeform to wit ?
16:13 asciilifeform he is fairly certain that we have already been thrown from the skyscraper, and it is far too late to assemble this particular parachute.
16:13 mircea_popescu ;;google noob mp or how it all begun
16:13 gribble Call of Duty: Ghosts has been one of the worst MP experiences I ...: <http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/call-of-duty-ghosts-has-been-one-of-the-worst-mp-experiences-i-ever-had-with-the-franchise.453507823/>; "At civilization's end", an MP Megacampaign - Page 2 - Paradox ...: <http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?753005-quot-At-civilization-s-end-quot-an-MP- (1 more message)
16:13 mircea_popescu jesus.
16:13 asciilifeform (i admit that i actually store the parachute metaphor from him)
16:13 asciilifeform *stole
16:13 pankkake is this the "i'm a famous romanian blogger, sell me bitcoins?"
16:13 mike_c ok, so there needs to be a hook. mp's was gribble. what would hook szabo?
16:13 mircea_popescu mike_c http://trilema.com/2013/noob-mp-or-how-it-all-began/ if you didn't see it.
16:13 assbot Noob MP, or how it all began pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
16:14 mircea_popescu pankkake pretty much.
16:14 mircea_popescu i tend to bait a lot.
16:14 mircea_popescu mike_c good q.
16:14 mircea_popescu but see, im not so worried of that part. once he's here he'll be ok. getting him here tho.
16:14 mike_c naked women are only good for getting someone to listen to the message, they aren't going to attract them on their own.
16:14 mircea_popescu in other words : we don't have a conversion problem before our eyes.
16:14 mircea_popescu jus' need the clicks.
16:15 rithm naked clicks?
16:15 mike_c right, we need ad copy. ad copy for mp: "we auth with pgp"
16:15 rithm my eyes perked up
16:15 mircea_popescu mike_c nope. ad copy for mp was, "just fucking check it out already omfg you're so wrong"
16:16 mike_c that is the other method: repetition.
16:16 mike_c that's easy. tweet @ szabo every day til he clicks.
16:16 mircea_popescu that sounds more like "get szabo to stop using twitter".
16:16 mike_c you didn't stop using your blog.
16:16 mircea_popescu not that it'd be so hard to repurpose a botnet for utterly destroying twitter.
16:16 asciilifeform http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2011/04/financial-totalitarianism.html << orlov is also convinced that totalitarian monster is still strong, will succeed in crushing anything it likes with remaining tentacles.
16:16 assbot ClubOrlov: Financial Totalitarianism
16:16 mircea_popescu but... whai.
16:17 mircea_popescu mike_c these weren't random people.
16:17 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: Who do you have in mind for this list other than NS and Taleb?
16:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform an opinion perforce held by any and all govt agents, along an unspecified number of delulded simplefolks.
16:17 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: would Theil be on it?
16:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform and kinda why i have to be so uncharacteristically dismissive of teh various pretender governments.
16:17 asciilifeform like it or not, an apparent total lack of (publicly) expressed interest in bitcoin, is, like it or not, a rational strategic move for some people.
16:18 pankkake one thing to know is that the 140 char limit is 140 unicode chars, not 140 bytes
16:18 mike_c you are talking in circles :) "trusted recommendation" is not a video from camgirl.
16:18 mike_c if we are going in cold, we need ad copy.
16:18 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel afaik that guy's involved with some leeches "advisaing" him re bitcoin. sooner or later he'll find his way here on his own.
16:18 asciilifeform privately - another matter. i'd be rather surprised if mr. o didn't hold some.
16:18 pankkake I thought of repurposing twitter as a file hoster, but I'm not sure how much overhead this would be :p
16:18 mircea_popescu mike_c no argument.
16:19 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: everyone that matters will be here eventually, the question is when.
16:19 mircea_popescu this is not as certain as it may seem.
16:19 mircea_popescu for instance, newton died convinced there's a god.
16:19 mike_c so back to ad copy. "#bitcoin-assets - the richest IRC channel on freenode"
16:19 asciilifeform just like - for example - orlov will delete any comments inquiring about what kind of arms, if any, are to be found aboard his ship
16:19 mircea_popescu mike_c trying to get the sluts or the engineers ?
16:20 mike_c szabo invented bitcoin, right? we have all the bitcoin. that's got to be interesting.
16:20 mircea_popescu only works if he actually did.
16:20 mircea_popescu topic which prolly bristles him anwyay
16:20 asciilifeform not so much because the inspectors don't already know - but because he recoils at the idea of being the center of 'that kind' of conversation.
16:20 asciilifeform from a gut feeling that it can only lead to the wagen.
16:21 mircea_popescu goin further on asciilifeform's very soviet public/private approach, i wonder how many peeps are creaming their pants reading this convo over tor.
16:21 mircea_popescu "said my name! said my name!!1"
16:21 asciilifeform lol!
16:21 mike_c is szabo in wot?
16:21 mircea_popescu re "that kind of conversation" : what point is a boat, if one floats it on a prison lake ?
16:22 mircea_popescu mike_c not as such, afaik.
16:23 mircea_popescu <gabriel_laddel> mircea_popescu: Who do you have in mind for this list << to answer the q, actually it's pretty open. anyone anyone cares for.
16:24 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: orlov's boat routinely floats about in the open ocean. but, as i understand, he still relies on an intact usa for supply line, and has a day job of some form there. but - unlike me - he also has russian passport. and occasionally makes use of it. so he's something rather like a free man.
16:24 mircea_popescu just as long as he doesn't allow people to talk of guns in his presence ?
16:25 mircea_popescu seems your avg ceo is better of, he just needs to prevent nigger and faggot discussions. guns still ok.
16:25 gabriel_laddel So what we've got so far: There needs to be a list of people that we want here, and reasons why. We don't want them here on any terms and since they're VIP, we should have reasons for each of them. Why NS? Why Taleb specifically?
16:25 asciilifeform the way i understand it, it isn't the gun per se - but the 'crowd'
16:25 gabriel_laddel What roles do you have in mind for them?
16:25 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel well those two cause i love the shit they wrote and often quote it.
16:25 asciilifeform traditionally, usg prioritizes self-styled 'armed rebel' circles for stoolie insertion and gasenwagen quota filling.
16:26 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel principally, they could tell me (and others) just how stupid we are. or at least attempt to.
16:26 mircea_popescu you know, like in any intellectual field.
16:26 gabriel_laddel So, peers.
16:26 gabriel_laddel That seems to me to be "just any terms"
16:26 mircea_popescu superficially.
16:27 mircea_popescu generally people want to barge in bringing all the mud of their previous context.
16:27 mircea_popescu their bones scatter the logfile.
16:27 mircea_popescu where's fluffypony's excellent write-up on this subject
16:27 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: orlov did recently have a harsh 'brush with reality.' he attended a 'collapse conference' run by his usual circle of people, and was heckled off the stage by 'feminist' types
16:28 * fluffypony scrolls up
16:28 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel http://blog.spagni.net/posts/2014-04-22/ there, something like that.
16:28 assbot What I enjoy about #bitcoin-assets
16:28 mircea_popescu asciilifeform lol what'd he do ?
16:28 fluffypony I should retroactively fix those old URLs
16:28 mircea_popescu fluffypony readin' my mind, didja
16:29 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: described, briefly, here - http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2013/06/communities-that-abide-preamble.html
16:29 assbot ClubOrlov: Communities that Abide (Preamble)
16:29 mircea_popescu described by anyone other than the victim ?
16:29 mircea_popescu kinda curious what specifically went into the heckling
16:30 mircea_popescu !up JAS2
16:30 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: there's a link to the opponent
16:30 mircea_popescu aite.
16:32 mike_c ok - compile a list of 20 blog posts from blogs.b-a that are appropriate to target. tweet one a day @ target.
16:33 mircea_popescu mike_c think it's mature enough already ?
16:33 asciilifeform http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/05/death-by-political-correctness.html << continued, to some extent, here
16:33 assbot ClubOrlov: Death by Political Correctness
16:33 mike_c if we can't come up with at least a dozen posts they might find interesting, then we've got other problems.
16:34 asciilifeform !up gabriel_laddel
16:34 asciilifeform !up gabridome
16:34 mircea_popescu mike_c such as that b-a blogs thing is only half a year old ?
16:36 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: You don't have to tell houseguests to flush the toilet. I see no reason you would have to tell SB, Taleb, etc. that they should use their brains. (Which is all I got from fluffypony's post)
16:37 mike_c mircea_popescu: we can certainly backfill with trilema.
16:37 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel you bring a very good objection actually.
16:38 mircea_popescu mike_c that's a point.
16:38 mircea_popescu okay, who wants to make a 20 link care package for these ppls ?
16:38 gabriel_laddel On it.
16:38 mircea_popescu !s gabriel_laddel
16:38 assbot 11 results for 'gabriel_laddel' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=gabriel_laddel
16:39 mircea_popescu shit that search is a great thing.
16:43 mircea_popescu http://www.sexgangsters.com/ lmao get a load of this.
16:43 assbot Sex Gangsters
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17:06 BingoBoingo !up SuchWow
17:06 BingoBoingo !up gfest
17:06 BingoBoingo !up andreas_
17:06 BingoBoingo ~up gabridome
17:06 BingoBoingo !up gabridome
17:06 BingoBoingo !up gabriel_laddel
17:06 BingoBoingo %t
17:06 atcbot [X-BT] Bid: 210 Ask: 242 Last Price: 210 24h-Vol: 35k High: 210 Low: 210 VWAP: 210
17:07 gfest no one here ?
17:08 kakobrekla no one here what
17:08 rithm knock knock
17:08 BingoBoingo ;;bc,stats
17:08 gribble Current Blocks: 311052 | Current Difficulty: 1.733631697850783E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 312479 | Next Difficulty In: 1427 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 1 day, 19 hours, 24 minutes, and 26 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 18078433137.9 | Estimated Percent Change: 4.2807
17:10 gfest !jd
17:10 assbot Just-Dice stat: 19098 BTC profit, 0.0k BTC invested, 1269.21 mio bets, 5.32 mio BTC wagered
17:17 mike_c !satoshidice
17:19 davout !s mpex coming back
17:19 assbot 1 results for 'mpex coming back' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=mpex+coming+back
17:19 mircea_popescu whoa ?
17:19 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel so who are you ?
17:19 mircea_popescu davout working on it1
17:20 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: No one terribly interesting.
17:20 davout :)
17:23 danielpbarron cool, huh?
17:23 damier very groovy
17:25 mircea_popescu ;;ticker
17:25 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 614.79, Best ask: 616.8, Bid-ask spread: 2.01000, Last trade: 616.8, 24 hour volume: 5281.88574680, 24 hour low: 610.01, 24 hour high: 625.0, 24 hour vwap: 617.737429346
17:26 fluffypony mircea_popescu: I may have missed this in the logs, but what's the timeline on mpex not being kaput?
17:27 mircea_popescu i missed it in the logs too ;/
17:27 mircea_popescu it was supposed to be monday. since then, an ever endless list of various issues, which i am taking care of one at a time, at the rate of about six to ten a day.
17:28 fluffypony aight
17:28 mircea_popescu eventually it's gonna run out of issues, because i'm not running out of days.
17:28 fluffypony all the best :)
17:30 gfest !e
17:31 mike_c !mpif
17:31 assbot BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021704 BTC (Total: 474.63 BTC). Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00023849 BTC [+]
17:34 mircea_popescu ouch who lost wha
17:44 mircea_popescu http://srphsph.harvard.edu/wp-content/exchange-bitcoin-for-real-money/ccbill-bitcoin.php << harvard edu isn't what it used to be
17:44 assbot Ccbill Bitcoin | Exchange Bitcoin For Real Money
17:45 mike_c !mpif
17:45 assbot BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021704 B (Total: 474.63 B). Delta: -0.65 B. Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00023849 BTC [+]
17:45 BingoBoingo lol
17:45 mike_c ^ now w/ delta
17:49 mircea_popescu http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-want-bitcoin-to-die-in-a.html
17:49 assbot Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire - Charlie's Diary
17:49 mircea_popescu "let me tell you what i read on trilema six months ago, in my own words".
17:51 mircea_popescu sadly the words in question are pretty fucking retarded.
~ 20 minutes ~
18:12 mircea_popescu hmm, anyone willing to do a $5 cc payment for me ?
18:13 kakobrekla i can prolly
18:14 fluffypony I can too
18:19 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2000 @ 0.00254563 = 5.0913 BTC [-] {18}
18:23 danielpbarron mircea_popescu, for BTC? me me!
18:23 danielpbarron heh probably too late
18:24 mircea_popescu thanks fluffypony danielpbarron, i'll hit you up if this fails or next time.
18:24 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: re: charlie stross << imagine if cockroaches could write, and one penned an essay on the harm of DDT.
18:25 asciilifeform would it read any differently ?
18:25 benkay lolfarm: http://m.entrepreneur.com/video/234738
18:25 assbot How to Design a Knockout Bitcoin Mobile App | Entrepreneur.com
18:26 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i love the inanity of "carbon footprint", "gini index" and all the rest of the idiocy.
18:26 mircea_popescu just like the guy i linked the other day, going nuts over someone having mocked him for wearing a gown, these idiots are so trapped in self-referrentiality that they imagine their shit is somehow universal.
18:27 mircea_popescu i deeply care that someone fixated on how things should be pink and round dislikes my computer for being so unpink and nonround.
18:27 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: don't forget: 'stable governance!'
18:27 mircea_popescu asciilifeform even funnier, because well... stable is ambiguous.
18:27 asciilifeform lol
18:28 asciilifeform https://libcom.org/files/images/library/Animal%20Farm.jpg
18:28 asciilifeform ^ stable governance
18:28 mircea_popescu right ?
18:33 asciilifeform these folks will indeed 'upgrade' any computer they're left alone with to 'pink and round.'
18:36 asciilifeform 'progressive' algo: 1) infiltrate everything 2) ??? 3) profit 4) begin to get euchred out of the driver's seat 5) wreck it all from spite 6) blame wreckage on вредители.
18:36 asciilifeform we're well into (5) but perhaps it remains possible to throw a wrench in (6)
18:39 mircea_popescu !up iluvfedoras
18:39 mircea_popescu this idea that the progressive's in the driver seat is weird.
18:39 mircea_popescu moiety where've you been!
18:39 BingoBoingo !up moiety
18:42 moiety :]
18:42 moiety short version: life fucking ducks
18:42 moiety sucks also
18:42 mircea_popescu wha happened ?
18:42 moiety i have been reading logs
18:43 moiety i dunno, i have this condition where the rug cannot seem to be able to stay underneath me for any length of time.
18:44 kakobrekla is that some metaphor or literal?
18:44 moiety metaphor...i never get as far as having a real rug :P
18:45 BingoBoingo ;;later tell nubbins` Do you print rugs?
18:45 gribble The operation succeeded.
18:45 mircea_popescu ok well, i need a bunch of secretarial stuff done. you game ?
18:46 moiety lol BB
18:46 moiety sure what you needing done mircea_popescu?
18:46 kakobrekla there is this thing that you can put under the rug to make it non slippery
18:47 kakobrekla saw it in IKEA.
18:48 bitstein <+moiety> short version: life fucking ducks << Yikes. http://www.cracked.com/funny-2938-duck-rape/
18:48 assbot Duck Rape | Cracked.com
18:48 moiety i need it! lol i dont even care about the damn rug. i'm just trying to secure a spo for the rug to stay at.. if that makes sense
18:48 moiety spot*
18:48 kakobrekla oh you on the move again?
18:49 moiety not if i can help it. i love the sex weeks flat
18:49 mircea_popescu lol what the hell happened ther.e
18:49 moiety bitstein: well... um.. thanks... i havent ever been frightened of ducks before...
18:50 mthreat https://www.bitfuture.com/
18:50 assbot Bitfuture Contract Platform
18:51 moiety life happened mircea_popescu ... just keeps happening.
18:52 kakobrekla dat bastard.
18:53 mircea_popescu mthreat backed by ?
18:53 kakobrekla Created by Jake Boggan and Tim Parilla
18:53 kakobrekla https://www.bitfuture.com/about
18:53 assbot Bitfuture Contract Platform | About Us
18:53 kakobrekla fail link to linkedin
18:53 kakobrekla for both
18:54 mircea_popescu heh.
18:54 BingoBoingo ;;8ball
18:54 gribble Maybe...
18:55 BingoBoingo %ob
18:55 atcbot 722@279 30k@278 43k@242 | 215k@210 200k@202 45k@201
18:56 BingoBoingo ;;google manul taking a poop
18:56 gribble Nigger Owner's Manual: <http://tightrope.cc/nigger-owners-manual.htm>; Taking that shit to the next level - Imgur: <http://imgur.com/TDPeD09>; constipation - Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine: <http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/health_resources/constipation.cfm>
18:56 penguirker New blog post: http://www.bcoinnews.com/make-stratum-server-windows-15-minutes/
18:56 dub wat
19:01 mircea_popescu "Gail insinuates that Albert Bates is an environmentalist hypocrite because he flies a lot. Albert does travel a lot but goes to great personal effort to physically mitigate carbon from his travel footprint, and this is obvious from even a cursory glance at his website. Overall, he is very much carbon-negative, while Gail goes on aimless drives through the countryside in her gigantic, gas-
19:01 mircea_popescu guzzling Toyota Landcruiser to look at dead leaves."
19:01 mircea_popescu asciilifeform what the fuck is going on in this guy's head, engaging in a debate on these terms ?
19:02 mircea_popescu what happened to "who the fuck even cares" already.
19:02 mircea_popescu "Her blog's comments section is a sort of Land of the Lost: people who inhabit the comments sections of unmoderated blogs, and who are perpetually miffed that no half-decent blog will post their comments."
19:02 mircea_popescu fuck him. the pretense that liars & scammers, which is without exception anyone who fucking "moderates" are somehow ethically superior to actual people is morally offensive.
19:04 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: orlov is an incorrigible believer in an impending pollutionocalypse.
19:05 mircea_popescu even if he were.
19:05 mircea_popescu it's still not germane to the discussion.
19:06 asciilifeform actually it is. he started censoring comments when noticed that 99 out of 100 are 'wake up, climatocalypse is a sham'
19:07 mircea_popescu soo ?
19:07 mircea_popescu of course he started censoring once he didn't like what he was hearing.
19:07 asciilifeform right
19:07 asciilifeform he's one of the folks who only like conversation on their own terms.
19:09 mircea_popescu that can't be a matter of content.
19:10 mircea_popescu This is why every successful community I've looked at knows how to exclude (shun, expel) people. Every successful community jealously safeguards its separateness from the surrounding society. This is critical to their survival and for achieving much better outcomes for their members than the surrounding society.
19:10 mircea_popescu see, on some level he understands this. expel PEOPLE.
19:10 mircea_popescu you can't fucking expel ideas.
19:10 asciilifeform i'm not even 100% convinced that orlov actually believes in anthropogenic climatocalypse. what is more or less certain is that he wants industrial civilization off the gameboard, asap. and is willing to support just about any ideology which promises to help the process along.
19:11 mircea_popescu kinda naive approach. there's nothing worse than winning with the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
19:11 mircea_popescu that's how all the "worse than before" stories work.
19:11 asciilifeform his 'collapse' writings are excellent in many ways, but one gets an inescapable feeling that the 'doctor' is not really interested in curing the 'patient.' instead, he would like to see the patient - and his children, and his children's children - croak asap.
19:12 mircea_popescu you mean what, teh us ?
19:12 BingoBoingo !Up moiety
19:12 asciilifeform even with an incurable patient - the approach is rather irritating.
19:12 asciilifeform orlov's 'patient' is all of technological civilization, roughly steam age and up
19:13 mircea_popescu also kinda naive.
19:14 penguirker New blog post: http://trilema.com/2014/epoch-the-self-appointed-worldwide-leader-in-payment-processing-aka-a-bunch-of-dangerous-amateurs/
19:17 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i suspect that orlov's personal wank fantasies have clouded his mind. e.g., he proclaimed, gleefully, that the uninhabitable wastelands of russia will become arable land due to warmocalypse, and the era of anglo-yoke will give way to a russian mega-hegemony
19:17 moiety thank you BB
19:17 mircea_popescu dubious how arable uninhabited land can be.
19:17 BingoBoingo Pollutionocalypse is possible, more likely than specific carbonacalypse
19:17 mircea_popescu but sure, as the ice moves around we may get to various mineral riches in siberia, canda etc
19:18 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo not nearly as sexy. it was possible based on pre-ww2 england style industrialisation.
19:18 BingoBoingo yw moiety
19:18 mircea_popescu modern industry... hardly.
19:18 asciilifeform people generally end up believing in the things they wish to see happen.
19:18 mircea_popescu one needs to come up with very exotic avenues to realise it, now that simple coal soot isn't gonna cut it
19:20 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: For sure. I imagine at somepoint biotech polution may fit the bill, but we are talking about the difference between getting a straight flush and a royal flush in a game of Blackjack.
19:20 asciilifeform what's wrong with good old fashioned fallout ?
19:20 mircea_popescu asciilifeform that it ain't gonna happen.
19:20 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo as a lower bound.
19:22 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: More possible, but I dunno I'd count that a pollutionacolypse.
19:24 BingoBoingo fallout prolly ought to get its own category for its inconvenience
19:26 mircea_popescu what inconvenience exactly ? suppose the current level of radiation in japan becomes worldwide.
19:26 mircea_popescu first off, that'd take very much fissile material.
19:26 mircea_popescu second off, it's fucking difficulkt to achieve uniformity. most likely you'll have to get peaks and lows, needing even more fissiles.
19:26 mircea_popescu and the result ? not even 1% culling of the herd ?
19:27 mircea_popescu some of the weak and shitty die, life expectancy a little shorter ?
19:27 mircea_popescu sounds hardly threatening.
19:27 BingoBoingo I worry about radiation producing more stupid
19:28 mircea_popescu radiation produces more random.
19:28 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: except in extreme cases (fissiles concentrating up the foodchain, zapping anything more interesting than a slime mold) what you get is precisely 'more stupid' - that is, a population heavy on the young.
19:28 mircea_popescu basically nuclear weapons, as well as tomahawks, aircraft carriers and so on are further elements in a class of weapons inaugurated by the byzantines, with their greek fire :
19:29 mircea_popescu the weapons which the eventual loser uses.
19:29 mircea_popescu asciilifeform a population heavy on the young is not more stupid, it's more strippers.
19:29 BingoBoingo The eventual loser doesn't always allow the winners victory unscathed
19:29 mircea_popescu and better strippers, at that.
19:29 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo the winner wins specifically because doesn't care about scathing.
19:29 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: mostly because they tend to get discovered close to an empire's peak complexity (i.e. collapse prelude)
19:30 mircea_popescu that's what makes greek fire et all the weaponry of the losers.
19:30 mircea_popescu asciilifeform debatable which is the chain of causality. imo it's just because they promote a wrong approach to fighting.
19:30 mircea_popescu think of the young russki kids and their street culture. who is going to be respected who doesn't know to take a punch ?
19:30 asciilifeform greek fire << interestingly, i recall that opponents captured siphons, couldn't figure out how to work them, threw them out
19:30 mircea_popescu no matter how many he may throw.
19:31 mircea_popescu "didn't care enough to use them"
19:31 mircea_popescu germania and gaul are still fucking germanic, notwithstanding all the genocides cesar & co drove there.
19:32 asciilifeform zulus, amerinds, etc eagerly picked up rifles, however. so this tells us something.
19:32 mircea_popescu and the latin influence comes from the veterans that settled there, much like a us army guy retiring to vietnam
19:32 mircea_popescu indeed.
19:32 mircea_popescu it does.
19:35 moiety BingoBoingo: i worry about stupid producing more stupid
19:39 BingoBoingo !up Duffer1
19:39 BingoBoingo Duffer1: Get your stuff back yet?
19:39 mircea_popescu asciilifeform to put this in a better perspective : i do not have dedicated tools to discipline my slaves. i use whatever i feel like using at the time, or nothing at all. i've used vacuum cleanning tubes, wire hangers, braided electric cord, belts, chunks of wook, rolled up newspaper, whatever. cooking spatulas.
19:39 mircea_popescu some other dood somewhere has this truely ellaborate and complex punishment station, cost him 18`000 dollars
19:40 mircea_popescu plus assorted tools and weaponry.
19:40 Duffer1 bingoboingo they never got anything, just control of my email, new comp parts get here thursday and friday
19:40 mircea_popescu the only problem is... well... in his 38 years of 'being a dom" so far, he's had a slave for a total of 3 years, if you add it all up.
19:40 mircea_popescu hue hue.
19:40 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Reading about "vacuum cleanning tubes" was life changing
19:40 Duffer1 bingoboingo http://pcpartpicker.com/p/CBkgFT
19:40 assbot Intel Core i5-4670K, Sapphire Radeon R9 290, Rosewill THOR V2 - System Build - PCPartPicker
19:41 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo o was it ?
19:41 mircea_popescu but anyway : the eventual winner doesn't quite have the same needs from his equipment as the eventual loser does.
19:41 asciilifeform Duffer1: wintel, yuck
19:42 mircea_popescu if teh muricans really just wanted "something that shoots and a bus ticker there", i'd have been really worried about the afghanistani.
19:42 mircea_popescu as the situation is reversed however... no amount of derpage can possibly help.
19:42 Duffer1 i'll be doing everything sensitive from my offline comp from now on
19:43 Duffer1 new habits all that
19:43 Duffer1 ubuntu
19:43 BingoBoingo Duffer1: I might suggest playing around with something like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sun-Ultra-10-Workstation-333MHz-512MB-RAM-40GB-HD-/380441777151?pt=US_Thin_Clients&hash=item589418d3ff
19:43 assbot Sun Ultra 10 Workstation 333MHz 512MB RAM 40GB HD | eBay
19:43 mircea_popescu Duffer1 wisdom comes to they who get burned :)
19:43 asciilifeform 'something that shoots and a bus ticker there' >> magical formula! described what i suspect every adult male alive really wants
19:43 BingoBoingo Duffer1: You've been burned once, skip nigbuntu
19:44 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Yeah, swing the thing as hard as you like and on a forgiving surface it has a maximum impact force.
19:44 asciilifeform ;;google something that shoots and a bus ticket there
19:44 gribble Las Vegas, NV - Hotel Deals, Things to Do - Downtown Bus Stop ...: <http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=am/am2Station/Station_Page&code=LVS>; Almost Bought a Guy a Bus Ticket | The Billfold: <http://thebillfold.com/2013/07/almost-bought-a-guy-a-bus-ticket/>; MTS - How To Ride - San Diego Metropolitan Transit System: <http://www.sdmts.com/how_to_ride.asp>
19:45 assbot [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 80 @ 0.00739622 = 0.5917 BTC [-] {7}
19:45 mircea_popescu asciilifeform lmao las vegas.
19:46 BingoBoingo Duffer if you really want a *nix for not very *nix'y people Scientific Linux is pretty good.
19:46 Duffer1 nix?
19:46 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: incidentally, good student project: msdos port of bitcoind.
19:46 mircea_popescu its how they call unix inspired oses like linux when they're being cool.
19:46 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: you'd have to diddle the NIC directly, i suspect, but what does that matter.
19:47 Duffer1 ah hehe
19:47 mircea_popescu asciilifeform looked into it. won't work : no good msdos db.
19:47 mircea_popescu takes too long.
19:47 asciilifeform no port of bdb ?
19:47 asciilifeform too posixy?
19:47 mircea_popescu want some novell ?
19:47 asciilifeform lol
19:48 * asciilifeform gags
19:48 mircea_popescu no no, here. it even ha snetware.
19:48 * asciilifeform diddled netware as a bad schoolboy
19:48 mircea_popescu cp/m seems a better option
19:48 BingoBoingo Duffer1: *nix basically refers to everything after AT&T Unix 7
19:48 asciilifeform hell, bare metal.
19:50 Duffer1 thanks man, i'm reading about it now (scientific linux)
19:52 BingoBoingo Duffer1: It is a RHEL clone so pushes a person to look towards general Unixy admining habits instead of very OS X type solutions like apt-get
19:54 BingoBoingo Duffer1: As you ease yourself into unixy environments consider this advice if you decide to run a full desktop environment http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/06/24/choosing-a-linux-desktop-environment-for-newbs-and-n00bs/
19:54 assbot Choosing A Linux Desktop Environment for Newbs and n00bs | Bingo Blog
19:55 Duffer1 perfect
19:55 BingoBoingo Death is seriously stomping some colons nao https://btc.waroflife.com/gow/17/
19:55 assbot Game 17 - Death 6075 Life 3925 Year 543 - War of Life
20:01 mike_c i notice death sniped the last paid bomb :)
20:03 BingoBoingo mike_c: If ther is anything to learn from the Atc games, bomb sniping is going to be "a thing"
20:03 mike_c recommended strategy: which ever way the house is leaning on the pre-game bets, go the other way.
20:03 mike_c BingoBoingo: yeah, i kind of like that.
20:04 mircea_popescu mike_c does that actually do anything ?
20:04 mike_c hm?
20:04 mike_c oh, my strategy? no, just the house has been on the losing side the last couple games.
20:06 mircea_popescu lol k
20:09 mike_c btw, jurov, that mid-line on the history chart what you had in mind?
20:10 BingoBoingo !up Duffer1
20:11 moiety i know youve been missing it
20:11 moiety dont try to deny it
20:11 moiety MOTD http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e0Jc_Qx_Jj8/TZBDB3xjnlI/AAAAAAAAGxY/UF_j7vw69eE/s1600/Pallas%2527s%2BCat%2B4.jpg
20:11 BingoBoingo mike_c: I think giant orange arrows on both sides of the histogram would prolly be least obstructing
20:11 moiety youre welcome
20:11 BingoBoingo So fuzzy
20:12 moiety IKR!
20:12 mike_c BingoBoingo: blinking arrows would be better :)
20:12 moiety my ambition in lfe is to have a picture like mircea's pyramids, but with me on a giant manul instead
20:12 BingoBoingo mike_c: Blinking should alway be opt in
20:13 BingoBoingo moiety: Maybe some day you buy Monsanto?
20:14 BingoBoingo Or breed Manul with various big cats until large enough?
20:14 moiety BB: 2 is more appealing
20:16 moiety WAIT
20:16 moiety perhaps not
20:16 moiety imagine having free reigh over mosanto
20:16 moiety reign*
20:18 BingoBoingo !up gabridome
20:18 BingoBoingo !up gabriel_laddel
20:19 BingoBoingo moiety: My concern is that it seems any cat of ridable size is probably going to be person eating. Now if you could get a horse with Manul hair...
20:19 moiety what did yous think of that hand held checmical scanner?
20:20 BingoBoingo looks like scam
20:20 moiety BB, horses are bigger and they dont eat us....
20:21 BingoBoingo Well, they don't yet...
20:21 moiety http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6CcxJQq1x8
20:21 assbot Cravendale - Cats with Thumbs #CatsWithThumbs - YouTube
20:21 moiety they are way ahead of you BB
20:22 moiety HOLY SHIT did you just say a manul sized beast with manul fluff
20:22 moiety kk... so... dying of happiness IS REAL!
20:23 BingoBoingo lol
20:24 moiety aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand now you can calculate why im support staff rather than a forerunner....
20:24 BingoBoingo I'm just wondering what happens if manul fluff could scale up to arbitrarily large beasts, like rhinocerous, elephant, or Tillikum
20:25 moiety can tillikum really have the fluff and still retain it'[s social standing?
20:25 BingoBoingo I'm more wondering if Tillikum can have fluff and still surface to breathe seeing that Tillikum is Sea World's resident maneater
20:26 princessnell i am sorry to be the bearer of bad kitsch, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEthXBHsEac
20:26 assbot Bitcoin Girl Music Video (Official) - YouTube
20:26 moiety i feel like i have an attachment to this thing that i thought you had made up enitrely!
20:27 mircea_popescu princessnell no you're not
20:27 moiety ohgod nell im frightened to click!
20:27 BingoBoingo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuN4qF32q28
20:27 assbot Whale Kills Trainer at Sea World - YouTube
20:27 BingoBoingo That was Tillikum's 4th confirmed kill of the revolution
20:28 princessnell i am expecting big things from this bitcoin girl.
20:28 BingoBoingo http://catastrophemap.org/images/tilikum-killer-whale.gif
20:29 BingoBoingo !up go1111111
20:29 mircea_popescu princessnell the sense to not put her legs forth among them ?
20:30 BingoBoingo !up aegis
20:32 princessnell i am happy to see that she is diversifying with doge
20:32 moiety princessnell: what did you just do to me?! what did you just do yto me senses!
20:33 * moiety just watched the bitcoingirl vid
20:33 mircea_popescu we should have a groan-off. this vs the taleb vid.
20:34 asciilifeform does anybody still use otc?
20:34 moiety i went to otc once to tell then i was really me asciilifeform
20:35 princessnell moiety, would you say this vid about sums your experience as a btc grrl?
20:35 moiety mircea_popescu: lets make it fun... no money. all groans.
20:35 moiety princessnell: now at all personally. what about you ?
20:35 moiety not*
20:36 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: I still use it occasionally
20:37 asciilifeform ;;buy 1 "CNC x,y,z stage, any manufacturer, with motors and controller." at 2 BTC
20:37 gribble Order id 21092 created.
20:39 * asciilifeform doubts that anything will come of this, but tries anyway
20:40 BingoBoingo You would prolly get a bunch of pm spam if you still accepted pm's off your whitelist
20:40 mike_c princessnell: that video is hilarious
20:41 princessnell moiety no, i think this is pretty specific to american narcissists with girl-who-accepts-bitcoin-the-internet-syndrome.
20:41 moiety princessnell: so your reason for asking me being.....?
20:41 princessnell i was kidding ;)
20:42 * BingoBoingo remembers last order getting offers to buy the half bitcoin I put up for sale. Reminded parties I wanted to sell half a bitcoin for $5000 then they asked if I could do market minus X%. Said Fuck you $6000 nao.
20:42 moiety noted ;]
20:42 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i do yes.
20:42 moiety princessnell: also...i'm not american hun
20:43 mike_c we can't all be perfect
20:43 asciilifeform anybody here buy physical objects -otc ?
20:43 mike_c pankkake has sold a few i believe
20:43 moiety mike_c: the day you offer me a manul instead of a unicorn as national animal.. i'm in!
20:43 princessnell didn't think you were, but noted!
20:44 mike_c moiety: lol, i'll start a petition
20:44 * asciilifeform shopping for object that is gathering dust in many a garage, but would cost 10x the offered price if bought new from reputable vendor. see logs, 'golden toilet.'
20:44 moiety win!
20:46 mike_c ;;view pankkake
20:46 gribble Error: No orders found matching these criteria.
20:46 mike_c well, he either sold or gave up
20:46 moiety princessnell: i'm insignificant where im from.but if we can ever work together, we should :D
20:47 mircea_popescu asciilifeform in fairness, im not so sure it works for non-bitcoin stuff.
20:47 princessnell moiety always open to creating value with good people
20:48 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: aye, suspected as much. but worth a shot.
20:48 mircea_popescu indeed.
20:48 * mircea_popescu is now curious what the galz be up to.
20:48 mike_c ;;view 20297
20:48 gribble Error: No orders found matching these criteria.
20:49 moiety same, princessnell :]
20:49 mike_c !up gabriel_laddel you should get in the wot
20:49 moiety mircea_popescu: prolly working on something to make you smile, no?
20:50 mircea_popescu now thats a thought.
20:51 moiety asciilifeform: please keep the typewriter til i can buy it XD
20:51 kakobrekla ascii if youd only be in yurop.
20:52 asciilifeform moiety: what made you think i still own a typewriter?
20:52 mircea_popescu "Once cesareans are no longer available, we should expect a lot of those deaths will be in childbirth. "
20:52 moiety well.. ok not typewriter... im just unsure what they called those things
20:52 asciilifeform kakobrekla: why? you have an example of the item i posted ad for ?
20:52 mircea_popescu somebody should tell orlov how caesarean section got to be called that.
20:53 kakobrekla asciilifeform sort of.
20:53 moiety "Once cesareans are no longer available....." << now thats intesreting
20:53 asciilifeform kakobrekla: care to take a photo ?
20:53 moiety interesting*
20:54 kakobrekla i thought i pasted em before?
20:54 moiety hello bloctoc
20:54 asciilifeform kakobrekla: i must've slept through it
20:54 moiety GASP!
20:54 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: someone should tell orlov who invented surgical forceps, and what they were originally for
20:54 moiety you do not sleep... laser just shines slightly less birght green
20:55 mircea_popescu and so on.
20:55 kakobrekla give me a moment.
20:56 moiety phgod someeone please tell me im not still the only one on earth
20:57 BingoBoingo lol
20:57 nam-shub !ticker mpex s.mpoe
20:57 assbot Um, shouldn't you be with your own tribe or somethin'?
20:57 moiety oh werll fuck
20:58 moiety butbut we are
21:01 BingoBoingo moiety: What if they know?
21:02 kakobrekla asciilifeform i cant find more recent photos but basically x and y are functional, z is not finished yet but i have the materials. http://imgur.com/a/BuNYE
21:05 asciilifeform kakobrekla: what was it meant to become ?
21:05 kakobrekla yeah the legs are also missing there.
21:06 kakobrekla a general purpuse thing
21:06 kakobrekla the Z axis should have something like 25cm of travel
21:07 kakobrekla you could put anything on it really.
21:08 kakobrekla spindle, laser, pencil, dildo
21:08 asciilifeform i was looking for something with ball screws & steel slides, i admit
21:08 asciilifeform (need 0.1mm repeatability)
21:09 kakobrekla hm i dont have that measured but the step is way smaller
21:09 kakobrekla 0.025 iirc?
21:09 kakobrekla i forgot.
21:10 kakobrekla the ball screw is 4mm iirc
21:11 asciilifeform kakobrekla: tried it with motors yet ?
21:11 kakobrekla yea
21:11 kakobrekla 12nm steppers i got.
21:11 BingoBoingo http://trending.ly/entertainment/11-animals-being-jerks/mocking-a-baby/y_YBmebvj81ei_Fc7Kf4QA/mocking-a-baby.gif
21:11 asciilifeform if you go between (x, y) and (x', y') 10,000 times, what's the cumulative error ?
21:12 kakobrekla i dont know and i cant test it now. due to lack of space its not in operational mode.
21:12 mike_c wtf is that monstrosity. looks like a loom
21:13 asciilifeform kakobrekla: let me guess - space is occupied by whatever you machined that thing with ?
21:13 kakobrekla i thing me and my friend started to work some years ago.
21:13 kakobrekla lol no asciilifeform
21:13 kakobrekla i had some connections to people with the big machines to machine it for me
21:14 kakobrekla but i mean if there was a real need i would prolly invest the time to assemble it again
21:16 mircea_popescu mike_c kakobrekla was making a fucking machine then got carried away
21:16 mircea_popescu (the boat part is not visible in the pics)
21:16 kakobrekla actually that is the truth
21:16 mike_c for a donkey?
21:16 kakobrekla it started as a desktop version
21:16 kakobrekla but then due to the small difference in prices and procedures to get a bigger one
21:16 kakobrekla i opted for that.
21:16 kakobrekla now i have nowhere to put it.
21:16 kakobrekla :D
21:27 moiety which one of you did this? http://imgur.com/gallery/IYXwQPn be honest now
21:27 assbot Nobody ever accepts my invitation :( - Imgur
21:27 kakobrekla twas tradefortress
21:27 moiety is h really free hugs now?
21:27 moiety he*
21:27 kakobrekla mhm
21:30 BingoBoingo http://terminallance.com/2014/07/15/terminal-lance-the-metal-donkey/
21:30 assbot Terminal Lance - Terminal Lance “The Metal Donkey”
21:31 moiety do scammers have day jobs too?
21:32 moiety ive been trying to track how much this stuff would take. they need a dayfund or an undocumented skill
21:33 benkay http://www.esquire.com/features/american-dog-0814
21:33 assbot The State of The American Dog - Esquire
21:34 moiety kakobrekla: why did my hug fund not work?! is it because it wasnt free?!
21:34 artifexd GSD's are the best dogs
21:34 moiety artifexd: so true
21:34 kakobrekla you have a hug fund? thats new to me. did it ipo?
21:35 artifexd http://i.imgur.com/97MFpmP.png <- mine
21:35 moiety mama-mo just acquired a new pooch - cocker spaniel tho
21:35 moiety artifexd: beautiful!
21:36 mircea_popescu artifexd aahahah that's a good dog.
21:36 artifexd Other types of dogs have their place. But that place is not in my house.
21:36 moiety kakobrekla: i think i failed by not having an ipo
21:36 artifexd She's 7 months old in that 2 month old picture.
21:36 mircea_popescu what's she begging for ?
21:36 artifexd Nothing. She's just chilling.
21:36 benkay she's a beaut
21:37 moiety saw a gentleman out other day with 5 GSDs. all differing colourings. must have been a breeder
21:37 artifexd Thanks.
21:37 artifexd Can you believe that the AKC considers a white GSD a defect?
21:37 moiety WUT
21:37 artifexd Yup
21:38 moiety how does that even
21:38 moiety why?
21:38 BingoBoingo Almost got a dog last week...
21:38 moiety BB... i disappoint at the @almost@
21:38 artifexd https://www.akc.org/breeds/german_shepherd_dog/breed_standard.cfm
21:38 artifexd I have no idea. They have some crazy ideas.
21:39 moiety artifexd: the one i grew up with was incredibly nervous. perfect show lines aside from the fear so we got her as a pet. most wonderful creature
21:39 artifexd Look at the bottom of that link. Under disqualifications, "White dogs"
21:39 cazalla i don't know how anyone can have animals in their house tbh
21:40 cazalla then again, i eat my pets
21:40 BingoBoingo moiety: I was going for a walk at about 2 in the morning and some stranger yells "Is this your dog". The dog in question is a brown bull mastiff puppy about 24 inches tall at the withers. Dude has it leashed to his belt says it ran in front of his truck....
21:40 moiety @disqualifications: Any dog that attempts to bite the judge.<< lololololololol
21:40 artifexd Different strokes for different folks. My wife feels the same way. She deals with it though.
21:41 moiety cazalla: what pets do you eat?!
21:41 cazalla rabbits, manuls, anything
21:41 artifexd Manuls!?!?!
21:41 artifexd lol
21:42 moiety BingoBoingo: omg that man needs eaten imo
21:42 moiety and not in thwe way he would like
21:42 cazalla moiety: seriously though, rabbits
21:42 moiety cazalla: GASP manuls would leave you bald bfore you had a mouthful!
21:43 moiety rabbits really?
21:43 artifexd When I was growing up, I had a pet rabbit named Ghost. One day I come home from school and we have soup for lunch. It was different. After dinner I asked what it was. My dad replied "Ghost soup". Sure enough. I had just eaten my pet.
21:43 moiety theres nmillions round here but people just dont eat them anymore
21:43 BingoBoingo moiety: Lol, I considered saying yes that's my dog, but... way too friendly for a bull mastiff. Such a dog allow some stranger to leash it with a belt without a fight.
21:43 BingoBoingo rabbits are delicious
21:43 cazalla artifexd: i can't wait to pull a similar joke on my son
21:43 benkay artifexd: mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xHE9CK8HKQ
21:43 assbot galileo - YouTube
21:44 moiety BB this makes me so sad though, cus they are just more open to fighing breeding?
21:44 moiety ITS POOCH!
21:45 artifexd benkay: Did he give it back to you? My dog likes to run around with the ball (a green soccer ball) for a while before she brings it back.
21:45 benkay 80 pounds of high-efficiency dog engine.
21:45 benkay oh yeah.
21:45 benkay lol i can't give g a soccer ball - he'd rather destroy it than anything else.
21:45 artifexd Oh, the ball has a 100 punctures in it, but it is still her favorite.
21:46 artifexd Is your dog 80 lbs in the video?
21:46 BingoBoingo moiety: Well, it is a guard dog breed and I have nothing for such a dog to guard, especially while not being so friendly
21:46 benkay this group of hipsters plays dodgeball in the tennis courts you can see behind me in that video every monday, and frequently leave deflated dogeballs behind. rubber sacks the miniature dragon in question would rather rip to shreds than chase.
21:46 benkay artifexd: you bet.
21:46 benkay maybe 75.
21:46 benkay he oscillates, as do we all.
21:46 artifexd Dense
21:47 benkay yeah. there's not much by way of hair on the animal.
21:47 artifexd Beautiful. Not a GSD. ;) But still beautiful.
21:47 benkay that volume is all muscle and bone.
21:47 benkay thanks! i'm enamored.
21:48 moiety BingoBoingo: yes you do. you.
21:48 artifexd I'm going to Ecuador for a week so I just dropped her off with our trainer to kennel her. I'm feeling a little... I don't know. But she's on my mind. Hence the discussion.
21:49 moiety :]
21:50 moiety she will have missed you just as much artifexd :]
21:50 artifexd It'll be the first time she's ever been away from me for more than an hour since she was 8 weeks old.
21:51 BingoBoingo moiety: Maybe? I dunno... Loud dog that grows to that size as an adult, as opposed to one that's still a growing puppy at that size seems more practical to feed
21:52 moiety i think that wiull be the biggest thing for her artifexd ... but she will manage and so will you :] and the cuddles after twill prove it :D
21:52 moiety BB you thinking on epxanding ghr boinge family name??
21:53 moiety expanding the boingo family na,e* (sorry elvis on keyboard)
21:53 moiety naMe
21:53 BingoBoingo moiety: Maybe eventually
21:55 BingoBoingo http://deadspin.com/derek-jeter-and-adam-wainwright-saved-the-all-star-game-1605850842
21:55 assbot Derek Jeter And Adam Wainwright Saved The All-Star Game
21:56 benkay grammae question
21:56 benkay grammar*
21:56 BingoBoingo !up Rawted
21:57 benkay "cost control on which <our client>, the least technical stakeholder relied in extremis"
21:57 Rawted Hello Bingo
21:57 benkay this is a correct use of "in extremis, correct?"
21:57 Rawted ;;eauth rawted
21:57 gribble Request successful for user rawted, hostmask Rawted!~Rawted@66.55.134.215. Get your encrypted OTP from http://bitcoin-otc.com/otps/2AC353E7BF1AD95E
21:57 benkay "in extremis", correct?
21:57 BingoBoingo Hello Rawted, what brings you around these parts?
21:57 moiety BB but you have to. so like to conferences we can send you and the dog.. like..: yes this is dog... bingoboino's dog so Fuuuuuuuuuuuu - kinda thing
21:58 Rawted someone's nick squatting on my nick. its been long enough that i havent logged into otc that the enfore wore off
21:58 Rawted so i am trying to remember how to do it again
21:58 moiety it does not wear pff
21:58 BingoBoingo moiety: This is why I hang out with my brother's dog occasionally. So I don't have to do the heavy lifting.
21:58 moiety you set it to on, it stays on
21:58 Rawted michail told me after 10 weeks it falls off and i need to log back in. said someone was squatting on my nick today
21:58 BingoBoingo moiety: Well, this is the freenode thing about the nicks
21:59 moiety Rawted: what was your usual nick?
21:59 Rawted that's me. you'll see michail's positive rating changed today because of it - http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=Rawted
21:59 assbot Rating Details for User 'Rawted'
21:59 moiety BingoBoingo: whyyyyyyyyyyyyy is nothing siiiiimple?
21:59 BingoBoingo moiety: Because Freenode is always the weakest link
22:00 moiety and having strokes every third day
22:01 Rawted verify message, right?
22:02 Rawted in the new core distro
22:02 mircea_popescu o look, Rawted
22:02 moiety BingoBoingo: btw, you mentioned lucite g-blocks. i wondered about keyrings also?
22:02 mircea_popescu ;;rated Rawted
22:02 Rawted MP
22:02 gribble You have not yet rated user Rawted
22:02 Rawted long time
22:02 mircea_popescu you go ;;eauth rawted then ;;everify
22:03 BingoBoingo moiety: Wouldn't hurt... In what context did I mention those?
22:03 Rawted yeah core is telling my it doesnt match when i try to verify
22:03 Rawted positive i have original addy
22:03 Rawted *telling me
22:03 BingoBoingo -1 to Bitcoin signature's for shit other than tx signing
22:04 moiety BingoBoingo: it was a random birthing of creativity on your part i think.
22:04 Rawted ;;eauth rawted
22:04 gribble Request successful for user rawted, hostmask Rawted!~Rawted@66.55.134.215. Get your encrypted OTP from http://bitcoin-otc.com/otps/2AC353E7BF1AD95E
22:04 BingoBoingo Huh, well... Imma trying to remember what sort of lucite blocks I'd invented the idea of then...
22:04 moiety BingoBoingo: HOW about the paperweitghts lit up though? as per transaction or confirmation?
22:05 BingoBoingo Oh, those ones
22:05 moiety wtf what ones
22:05 Rawted ;;everify ICSqGoHFAe/sqnnDOELuqmT4T1wsDY63WKblTySQoGJ4mPVWGwFAxhF+kAVQtkv/E41SyAvvzvfC1mV2OwWdf94=
22:05 gribble Error: Incorrect one-time password. Try again.
22:05 Rawted the fuck
22:05 moiety i was thinking lucite cube avec neopixel stick
22:06 BingoBoingo Rawted: ;;eauth is decrypt with GPG
22:06 moiety Rawted: did you decrypt the thing given to you?
22:06 Rawted whats the one for btc addy lo. been a while...
22:07 BingoBoingo moiety: Blockchain as a collection of lucite bocks with the data engraved. Machine spits a new one out each time a new one is confirmed
22:07 benkay bcauth, bcverify Rawted ?
22:07 Rawted duh. thanks bud
22:07 Rawted ;;bcauth
22:07 gribble (bcauth <nick>) -- Initiate authentication for user <nick>. You must have registered with the bot with a bitcoin address for this to work. You will be given a random passphrase to sign with your address, and submit to the bot with the 'bcverify' command. Your passphrase will expire within 10 minutes.
22:07 Rawted ;;bcauth rawted
22:07 gribble Request successful for user rawted, hostmask Rawted!~Rawted@66.55.134.215. Your challenge string is: freenode:#bitcoin-otc:4b0e85c80194640f05fece026b398166bbbbacfa29240283791183b5
22:07 moiety http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/Bitcoin_address_authentication
22:07 assbot Bitcoin address authentication - bitcoin-otc wiki
22:07 moiety also... gribble works in pm..cus.. other folk like to talk too sometimes n all that :]
22:08 Rawted ;;bcverify H3nydUdT1oCchrdkEc67WtC9QaQXieVlZTsdtZmgJyl6cG9OuUXB4NtGvIJXNjrsH9JhNIWcrKFJEz0I0U2YHeQ=
22:08 gribble You are now authenticated for user 'Rawted' with address 16JCobZmcPkLCVzi9G7rnf7mJgbbJd1DLT
22:08 Rawted ;;voiceme
22:08 benkay it's !up, i think that you want.
22:08 Rawted so much has changed
22:08 Rawted thanks
22:08 BingoBoingo Rawted: You need to pm assbot !up
22:09 Rawted Thanks for the help everyone, hopefully that reenforces the nick
22:09 Rawted have a great night
22:10 benkay ciao
22:11 benkay <mircea_popescu> not that it'd be so hard to repurpose a botnet for utterly destroying twitter. // now there's a notion
22:12 BingoBoingo ;;ticker
22:12 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 613.9, Best ask: 616.89, Bid-ask spread: 2.99000, Last trade: 614.18, 24 hour volume: 5390.40583525, 24 hour low: 610.01, 24 hour high: 625.0, 24 hour vwap: 616.720660682
22:13 mircea_popescu benkay all it needs is a bunch of ips making accoutns and generating text.
22:14 mircea_popescu by the time every human is surrounded by 100s of bots, it's dead.
22:14 assbot [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 11500 @ 0.00006689 = 0.7692 BTC [+] {2}
22:14 benkay I FUCKING LOVE IT
22:14 benkay i will bring ruination on all social everythings
22:14 benkay why is griefing the platform not a thing?
22:15 benkay griefing users is boring. grief the platform.
22:15 moiety yeah
22:16 benkay lol yeah moiety you know all about that huh
22:16 moiety ofc i know everything about everything tho
22:16 moiety no wait im usually the platform being griefed!
22:18 moiety can i just say tht ^ made sense in my head before aloudness?!
22:19 assbot Last 2 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/140WS46.txt )
22:19 BingoBoingo !b 2
22:19 benkay been drinkin, moiety ?
22:19 moiety i was just about to ask you not to do that too
22:20 benkay reaction time
22:21 BingoBoingo I've been drinking
22:21 benkay i've had...a beer.
22:21 moiety benkay, obv no. sort of.
22:21 benkay we also split 2 bottles of prosecco to celebrate the new digs.
22:21 BingoBoingo beer's not drinking, that's taking a hydration break
22:21 moiety new digs? work or home?
22:21 benkay lady v made a chocolate cake with raspberry compote and a chocolate ganache to boot
22:21 benkay work
22:22 benkay 352 ft^2
22:22 moiety lady v sounds cool, can you bring here here too?
22:22 benkay in a sweaty sweaty warehouse
22:22 benkay nah, she'd not get along with mircea_popescu
22:22 BingoBoingo I watched Dr Strangelove again and fired up Fallout 3 this week so on a nuclear apocalypse kick. Drinking grain alcohol and distilled water
22:23 BingoBoingo I keep forgetting distilled water gives me heartburn
22:24 moiety distilled water?!
22:24 benkay yeah whaty?
22:24 moiety !up paxtoncamaro91
22:24 paxtoncamaro91 thanks
22:25 BingoBoingo What has no one talking nao ever seen Dr Strangelove? POE, Purity of Essence.
22:25 moiety benkay: i cant see someone with you being rude, and neither is he, so problem being?
22:25 BingoBoingo It's all the wise general ever drank.
22:25 moiety yw paxtoncamaro91 :] what do you do?
22:26 BingoBoingo !up VanCleef
22:26 paxtoncamaro91 irl? auto tech lol
22:26 BingoBoingo !up Ukyo
22:26 BingoBoingo !up reeses
22:26 moiety BB i have heard of one strangelove film...something to do with a bomb. how many are there?
22:26 BingoBoingo moiety: Just one. Kubrick made it.
22:27 moiety ah well that makes sense
22:27 BingoBoingo It's all the plot left room for...
22:27 moiety he took cwo ogff the shelves himself
22:27 BingoBoingo !up Dimsler
22:28 BingoBoingo !up davidlatapie
22:29 asciilifeform twitter... botnet << no 'captcha' ?
22:29 decimation mircea: the chance of a random integer from 1 to x being prime is about 1/ln(x)
22:30 davidlatapie Hi BingoBoingo I'll probably go to bed soon
22:30 decimation so a number from 0 to 2^4096 has about 1 in 2900 chance of being prime
22:30 BingoBoingo davidlatapie: Cool
22:30 decimation so start rolling
22:30 decimation asciilifeform: I actually have a set of casino quality dice
22:30 decimation but I'm sure they 'wear' over time
22:31 decimation they have very sharp edges and balanced numeral indicators
22:31 BingoBoingo I have a few sets of dice for different uses
22:32 decimation thinking about this last night, there's a limit to the number of dice you can roll simultaneously
22:32 decimation in the limit you are not going to move a m^3 of dice at all
22:32 asciilifeform with bare hands, sure.
22:32 * benkay imagines an m3 of dice
22:33 benkay that's the biggest damn boggle box ever!
22:33 decimation one would require mechanical assistance
22:33 asciilifeform decimation: such as: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-07-2014#757610
22:33 assbot #bitcoin-assets log
22:33 benkay put a nice HD camera in there and you might capture...*some* entropy.
22:33 decimation and if you are going to go through that trouble, might as well build a high bandwidth source of random values
22:34 assbot [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 26350 @ 0.00006699 = 1.7652 BTC [+] {3}
22:34 BingoBoingo ;;google site:trilema.com Bitcoin drama timeline
22:34 gribble The Bitcoin Drama Timeline pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2012/the-bitcoin-drama-timeline/>; Runcible Doom pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/runcible-doom>; Why S.MPOE is worth more than MtGox pe Trilema - Un blog de ...: <http://trilema.com/2012/why-smpoe-is-worth-more-than-mtgox/>
22:36 benkay yeah but where's the fun in that, decimation. it's not like the thing'd be useful anyways
22:36 benkay it's like a fuel-cooled methane regen engine
22:36 benkay fucker's never going to fly, but it's a grand thing to build nevertheless
22:36 decimation oh, I mean an electrical device
22:37 mircea_popescu <benkay> i will bring ruination on all social everythings <<hence my comment re partially implemented wots and their fundamental unsustainability.
22:37 decimation not a chumpatron on nitrous
22:37 mircea_popescu <benkay> nah, she'd not get along with mircea_popescu << wait wut
22:37 benkay http://rocketmoonlighting.blogspot.com/2013/11/testing-new-chambers.html
22:37 assbot Rocket Moonlighting: Testing the New Chambers
22:38 benkay now you get to prove me wrong
22:38 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo you know f3 fucking sucks. i sometimes fire up 1 or 2... but 3mmeh
22:38 benkay mircea_popescu: ^^
22:38 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: But catching slaves. I spared megaton the bomb, because it deserves worse...
22:39 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> twitter... botnet << no 'captcha' ? << trivial to bypass.
22:40 mircea_popescu <decimation> mircea: the chance of a random integer from 1 to x being prime is about 1/ln(x) << you just use the entropy to seed, much like pgp does. you don't actually roll the prime itself.
22:41 decimation mircea of course that's how things are done today, but you are back in deterministic world at that point...
22:41 mircea_popescu <benkay> this is a correct use of "in extremis, correct?" << sure.
22:43 mircea_popescu i must have missed a thread here.
22:43 BingoBoingo ;;google mesmotron
22:43 gribble Mesmetron - The Fallout wiki - Fallout: New Vegas and more: <http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Mesmetron>; How to Use Slave Collars in Fallout 3 | eHow: <http://www.ehow.com/how_8141436_use-slave-collars-fallout-3.html>; Fallout 3 strange man and location - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5hLH2t6eJQ>
22:44 mircea_popescu the idea was that you can replace the platform's rng, in extremis, by rolling dice.
22:44 BingoBoingo ^ would make brewing biodeisel easier
22:44 mircea_popescu someone said this isn't feasible. that someone is wrong : takes you about the same time to wait for gnupg to cook up a new keypair whether the source is dev/random or your dice.
22:46 BingoBoingo Death's advance accelerates. Is this approaching extinction level again? https://btc.waroflife.com/gow/17/
22:46 assbot Game 17 - Death 6077 Life 3923 Year 560 - War of Life
22:47 decimation I was echoing ascii's distinction between prng and rng
22:50 benkay <BingoBoingo> ;;google manul taking a poop
22:50 benkay <gribble> Nigger Owner's Manual:
22:50 benkay ^^ awesome
22:50 BingoBoingo ;;google manul taking a poop
22:50 gribble Nigger Owner's Manual: <http://tightrope.cc/nigger-owners-manual.htm>; Taking that shit to the next level - Imgur: <http://imgur.com/TDPeD09>; constipation - Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine: <http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/health_resources/constipation.cfm>
22:50 benkay wtf is this anyways
22:51 BingoBoingo I want to see if such a fuzzy animal gets dingleberries!
22:51 moiety too many manuals and not enough manuls, i say
22:51 benkay god fuck web stack technologies
22:52 benkay this is what i get for waiting to do my deploy scripts
22:52 moiety allow the curious beast some dignity ffs men!
22:52 BingoBoingo benkay: Throw a latteral, and I say your blawg went 404
22:52 benkay yeah. sudo service nginx stop.
22:52 benkay it'll be back sometime.
22:53 benkay probably just a photo of my mug and a gpg key.
22:53 benkay lateral you say? football season?
22:53 BingoBoingo benkay: But all of the things you put effort into mocking!
22:53 BingoBoingo benkay: I can't wait MIZ!!!
22:54 benkay yeah fuck mockery, mircea_popescu beats me hands down any day.
22:54 benkay motherfucker can do latin and shit - what do i have
22:54 BingoBoingo Shame Mizzou dumped DGB over his punching people in the face problem
22:54 BingoBoingo benkay: Clojure?
22:54 benkay no, *nix.
22:54 benkay clojure's great, boot time aside.
22:55 benkay it's like lisp, but for cube-bound retards.
22:56 BingoBoingo !up jonvaage
22:57 BingoBoingo benkay: You're a Mac person right? What was your favorite piece of iron they released?
22:57 benkay what precisely do you mean by iron, BingoBoingo ?
22:57 BingoBoingo benkay: Hardware
22:58 benkay the macbook pro's are good, but i have to run aroud to client shops constantly. if you're stationary, well, why not a real nix?
22:59 BingoBoingo benkay: That's what I wonder. You have dealt with more recent hardware from their ecosystem, any particular generations stand out?
22:59 benkay the most recent models have gorgeous screens and chassis' the rest of the industry can't match
22:59 decimation ;;calc 2900*4096
22:59 gribble 11878400
23:00 benkay unlike the rest of the combudder world apful appears to take the notion of 'kaizen' seriously. this in my humble opinion is the only way to stay profitable as a manufacturing shop.
23:00 benkay i use manufacturing loosely. obviously.
23:01 BingoBoingo ;;ud kaizen
23:01 gribble http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kaizen | Kaizen is an approach to total quality management which can be described as continuously improving by making small improvements, mainly in process,...
23:01 benkay it's also not a strategy suited to any but the market leaders in quality.
23:02 decimation apple doesn't "improve", they just go an buy 5 years supply of a part
23:02 BingoBoingo If apple really does kaizen why no 9" B&W machines with over 9000 dpi monitors?
23:02 decimation the rest of the industry accepts the scraps
23:05 decimation but they are also the only game in town for the completely integrated unix laptop market
23:05 BingoBoingo decimation: Nah, you can still find Tadpoles on Ebay
23:06 decimation lol yeah what's the cpu speed?
23:07 benkay <decimation> apple doesn't "improve", they just go an buy 5 years supply of a part // neglecting the chassis and the irreplaceable battery...
23:07 benkay <BingoBoingo> If apple really does kaizen why no 9" B&W machines with over 9000 dpi monitors? // troll better
23:08 decimation heh that's how they force you to buy more, like the flashlight
23:08 benkay no, that'd be the OS 'upgrades' that slow machines to a crawl over time.
23:08 decimation heh that too
23:08 decimation if you want apple stuff, you have to think of it as a subscription plan
23:11 benkay if you want nice things, you must pay for them.
23:11 benkay the niceness on offer is dubious though.
23:13 decimation as nice as mircea's flashlight...
23:13 benkay must have missed that one.
23:15 BingoBoingo From lulz farm: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=667460.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=672453.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=697256.0
23:15 assbot Phinnaeus Gage aka ~Bruno Kucinskas where are you?
23:15 assbot Where is Goat? (The scammer)
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23:15 dub my god I need a physio or some shit
23:15 dub fist sized knot floating around my lower back
23:15 benkay <BingoBoingo> The eventual loser doesn't always allow the winners victory unscathed // been studying GoL?
23:16 BingoBoingo benkay: Not studying, playing
23:16 benkay good god man you think i don't know?
23:18 benkay have you seen the above happen in GoL?
23:19 benkay <mircea_popescu> some other dood somewhere has this truely ellaborate and complex punishment station, cost him 18`000 dollars // lol sounds a lot like MPEx.
23:21 benkay <mike_c> oh, my strategy? no, just the house has been on the losing side the last couple games. // am curious as to how you're deciding how to lay odds.
23:35 BingoBoingo ;;bc,stats
23:36 gribble Current Blocks: 311093 | Current Difficulty: 1.733631697850783E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 312479 | Next Difficulty In: 1386 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 2 days, 11 hours, 50 minutes, and 8 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 18093767874.3 | Estimated Percent Change: 4.36916
23:37 BingoBoingo %d
23:37 atcbot [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 785138.67 Est. Next Diff: 508361.66 in 562 blocks (#40320) Est. % Change: -35.25
23:40 BingoBoingo !up RedStallion
23:42 asciilifeform mac battery << idk about the more recent machines, but the one on my (circa '09?) unit is replaceable. just need to pop 8 torx screws.
23:42 * asciilifeform doesn't use that machine often, battery has probably rotted and ripe for replacement
23:43 BingoBoingo Mac has been infatuated with torx for some time it seems
23:43 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: do you know why 'torx' exists?
23:43 BingoBoingo Because phillips isn't hip?
23:43 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: originally, 'phillips' screws caught on because a (motorized, factory) driver would slip automatically when the screw tightened
23:44 asciilifeform when strain gauges and computers became a thing, this was no longer necessary
23:44 asciilifeform so screws were cut to maximize grip
23:44 asciilifeform torx is one such
23:45 asciilifeform nothing to do with 'hip'...
23:45 BingoBoingo Ah, I thought torx was such because someone in Cupertino thought in 1999 it would be a swell idea to push Bingo to buy a $20 screwdriver from radioshack
23:46 asciilifeform pediwikia has good illustration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torx
23:46 assbot Torx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
23:48 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: buy a $20 screwdriver from radioshack << you're thinking of the infamous 'pentalobe'
23:48 mircea_popescu benkay what , no more blog ?
23:49 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: No, this was me with an information deficit and RadioShack with an people buying shit deficit
23:50 BingoBoingo !up twizt
23:50 decimation whenever I use a motorized phillips screw driver I find that it strips before it slips
23:50 decimation but that's probably because the screw is cheap
23:51 benkay no more blog.
23:51 benkay mircea_popescu:
23:51 BingoBoingo decimation: Not too cheap though. I've had screws weld. Fucking ChiBama and Chicoms
23:51 benkay it's a distraction! the kid only has so much attention to go around, and the blog is a dilution of said.
23:51 decimation yeah the world is awash in cheap chicom screws
23:52 BingoBoingo It is a plague
23:52 mircea_popescu lol goat's repute preceeds him
23:53 BingoBoingo Chicom nails and rivets... fine. Screws I might need to use several times... fuck that.
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23:54 benkay i'm down with destructive fasteners, but not fasteners that self-destruct.
23:54 mircea_popescu "There can't be 1 person that has a stake in this that can be happy with how it is proceeding. Bet Yes or No it doesn't matter. Anyone with a legitimate bet wants a statement from BitBet about what is happening with this bet. I'm not at the point where I assume the admins of BitBet place a lot of their own bets on their site, and a lot of the comments are also from the admins. No one in th
23:54 mircea_popescu eir right mind would ever think the running of this site is tolerable, yet apparently somehow many commenters do."
23:54 asciilifeform http://terminallance.com/2014/04/22/terminal-lance-317-the-social-network-iv/
23:54 assbot Terminal Lance - Terminal Lance #317 “The Social Network IV”
23:54 BingoBoingo Aggro because they imagined a good resolution source and Draper likes the cox
23:55 mircea_popescu "i am now at a point where i'm so butthurt with the internets i'm going to think the whole of it is just this guy in 8th grade that doesn't like me"
23:55 asciilifeform http://terminallance.com/2014/04/11/terminal-lance-316-dress-blue-alpha-male/
23:55 assbot Terminal Lance - Terminal Lance #316 “Dress Blue Alpha Male”
23:56 mircea_popescu <benkay> <mike_c> oh, my strategy? no, just the house has been on the losing side the last couple games. // am curious as to how you're deciding how to lay odds. << it's a rand.
23:56 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: ~85 percent of my cousins took that career path. Was my motivation for going to college
23:57 mircea_popescu benkay makes sense.
23:58 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Few make it past this phase unscathed http://terminallance.com/2013/11/29/terminal-lance-revenge-of-the-dependapotamus-1/
23:58 assbot Terminal Lance - Terminal Lance “Revenge of the Dependapotamus” #1
23:58 decimation usg has been sending rednecks overseas for two generations at least
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