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;;later tell benkay not sure if this relevant at all to what you guys are encountering wrt the 4096 bit entropy problem - https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/602f88552b64

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2014-05-10

fluffypony

;;later tell BingoBoingo http://i.imgur.com/RXH4FOQ.jpg

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2014-05-10

fluffypony

;;later tell ThickAsThieves dat rap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0FSla2-yV0 (original without the beat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM7ITjpyed4&feature=youtu.be&t=1m46s )

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2014-05-10

fluffypony

dat forward thinking

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2014-05-10

fluffypony

"Tell me what the bitcoin price will be in 3 months and I will tell you."

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2014-05-10

fluffypony

"Ken what is your 3 month plan for this company? How are you going to make us money with a static data centre and single figure miner sales?"

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

lol

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I leave you with this: http://i.imgur.com/SmyTVno.jpg

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

k I'm out, night

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

;;later tell BingoBoingo http://i.imgur.com/I0JQld6.jpg

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

punkman: agreed, it was way too long in the teeth. that's the problem with fan-driven show "resurrections", often the fans are too embroiled in the show to realise that it's time to die.

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

yeah he bombed

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

season 5 will be the end

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

so Joel McHale's White House Correspondant's dinner speech was so bad they cancelled Community

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

lol

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

no clue

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

lol

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

tell him a joke?

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I don't think there's an implied problem in that graph, it's more a statement of fact :-P

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

davout, pankkake: http://i.imgur.com/hiKVziV.jpg

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

title is all you need

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2013/05/05/tokyo-sexwale-accused-of-trying-to-blackmail-wife-over-hardcore-porn

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mircea_popescu: o yes, was just generally commenting on it being the bottom of the barrel

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I couldn't turn away for like 5 minutes

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

then it was like watching a car accident

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

support button is on the left, chat is on the right, I clicked the wrong one

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mircea_popescu: twas accidental

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

the chat box / troll box on btc-e or cryptsy is WAY worse than the forums

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

actually I have found a place worse than the forums

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

whoot whoot, buy neo&bee!

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

pankkake: core dumped

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

seashells?

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

davout: "MPEx is a scam, and this is one of his shells" <- we forgot to ask him how we're shells

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

both it is!

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

OR we spend the money lobbying to have Kim Jong-un voted on to the Bitcoin Foundation

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

hah hah

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

see how long before someone notices

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I say we pick one of these every week, setup a bullshit site, and list it on BitcoinBourse or CryptoStocks

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

"Whitenoise is like a social network for the music industry."

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

turn off active and exited so you're only looking at Dead

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

http://yclist.com

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

Serial Entrepreductor

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

lol

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

asciilifeform: yeah, I'm waiting for one of the CEOs to start calling himself "the Conductor"

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mircea_popescu: that's what she said

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

lol

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mircea_popescu: they should call a spade a spade and just say "was still a senior developer, but we lost a bunch of managers and needed a lead developer that needed a sense of self-importance"

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mircea_popescu: I dispute that "Director of Engineering" means what they think it means

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

lol

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

bitcoinpete: senior dev to director of engineering in 2 years? seems legit.

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

colloquialism, bitches: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2013/01/orders-of-magnitude.html

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

so I'd imagine selling proxied access will be worthwhile

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

it'll cost $450 per view

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

well when BTC is at 1mil

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

yesh

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mike_c: you could run a proxy using your cookie

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I mean, when BTC is at 1mil a pack of Trilema creds will be worth $10k. if you're long on BTC you'll have a net worth an order of magnitude higher than that, so it'll be irrelevant.

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

danielpbarron: I think the cost is too low to have a measurable impact on one's personal wealth

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

:-P

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

when btc reaches 1 mil I'm selling stock in my remaining trilema credits

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

danielpbarron: so take $5, buy Bitcoin in -OTC, buy credits

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

s/or/and ?

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I know, it's kinda like the occupy wall street of the Internet :-P

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

but who knows, maybe it'll become "a thing", to quote ThickAsThieves :-P

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

nothing important

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mircea_popescu: their effort isn't the big deal - they published the nginx rules, and there's been a bit of uptake from other sites implementing them

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

ah ok

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

punkman: "lost"

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-05-2014#667307

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mircea_popescu: I linked to that hours ago, yo

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

but no mail yet, so I'll login and approve it later

#trilema

2014-05-09

fluffypony

normally it sends an email and I can reply to the mail to approve

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I'm just too lazy to login to my moderation thing

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

it's "pending approval"

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mircea_popescu: I haven't

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

benkay:Magento's a really good example of this. <- this is so freakin' true. Even worse are when they pay for a ton of dev work on Magento Community Edition and then move to Magento Enterprise, and basically have to re-engineer and re-do all the work

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

hah hah

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mircea_popescu: tks

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

bounce:amazingly, still so many project managers that haven't read _The Mythical Man-Month_ <- they should have that as required reading in school, yo

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

Out for supper, will catch up in a bit

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mircea_popescu: Read it, the more opinions the better

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

MURKA world polices!

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

:-P

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

ThickAsThieves: Obama?

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

lol

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I miss my 20s

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

wow

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

fixed

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

;;ident

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2014-05-09

*

fluffypony kicks gribble

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

not authed?

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

thestringpuller: yes, it's a stuffed animal :)

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

thestringpuller: http://fluffypony.co.za/images/main.jpg

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

good idea

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

lol

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

one that supports 4 coins at the same time!

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mergedmining lulz

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

"[16:40:06] buZz: i noticed orgcoin even has quadminingpools"

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

and then we hook it up to a "listen to bitcoin" style service

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

ok so what we do is get some samples and rhyming couples recorded

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

so restekp.

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I'll rap - I mean, I did say on the AMC thread that I was "dropping the mic"

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

(the documentatio, I mean)

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

and once it's up other people will contribute to it

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

Naphex: BIPs don't need much in way of documentation

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

Naphex: so push it as a BIP and get comments on it

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

dat low-res header pic

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

evar

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

ha hhah

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

and then you can comment on that new article

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

*when* I get a chance

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

ok ok, I'll make my points clearer

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

such love <3

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

awwwww

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

:-P

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

ThickAsThieves is too lazy to comment

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

ok I'll leave it up and then publish an updated one when I get a chance

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2014-05-09

*

fluffypony nods

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I want to make my arguments clearer

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

no no

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

lol

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

ThickAsThieves: I'm going to pull the article for the moment, I'll revisit it when I have time, but weekend is almost here

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I don't have a better one, but that's not apt enough

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mike_c: I can't agree with that analogy

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mike_c: well, isn't part of the entire point of Bitcoin that "he who holds the keys holds the coins"? in other words, users should be encouraged to use Bitcoin in that fashion, anything else (webwallets) deviates from that core principle

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mike_c: I'm speaking to a specific point ThickAsThieves raised

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

where it's all magical unicorns denominated in USD and money coming out their bank account

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

vs. a Coinbase customer paying on a Coinbase merchant site

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

but they're aware of what's happening and where Bitcoin plays a role in the payment process

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

and pay their 1%

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

and have the money sucked out their bank account

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

they can still do "wun klick" payments and whatever

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

presumably + BIP 70 in the future

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

they're presented with a QR code + Bitcoin URI + address

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

a Coinbase user buys something on a site that uses Bitpay

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

ThickAsThieves: ok well let's contrast the approaches

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

they're making their users treat Bitcoin payments like PayPal payments

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

ThickAsThieves: not in and of itself, no - the problem is that they're building a userbase that is intwined in that ecosystem and will struggle to manage their own wallet

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

ThickAsThieves: k I'll adjust it to preface it better

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

bounce: http://coinbasefraud.com

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

yes but then I sound like a Bitpay shill :-P

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I can preface it with that if it'll help

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

so it's in that context

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

ThickAsThieves: the article was triggered by a Bitpay vs. Coinbase discussion on the AMC thread

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

mike_c: http://blog.spagni.net/posts/2014-05-09/

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

oh lordie

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

they've published the nginx rules

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

BigBitz: https://gist.github.com/kyledrake/e6046644115f185f7af0

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

BigBitz: ah ok - I'll add that in as a sidebar

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

ok Coinbase rant done

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

http://blog.spagni.net/posts/2014-05-09/

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

yeah some of those reward systems can be gamed nicely if you're a big enough spender

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

bounce: exactly!

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

bounce: for sure, still nice to get something instead of just getting fisted by the bank :-P

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I don't think I would've paid cash for them

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

so I basically got them for "free" with the points

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

we get these reward points from our bank for swiping and shit, and if you use a bunch of the bank's products you get 40% off at certain stores when spending the points

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

and she's abused them, yet they're still going

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

bought a pair of buds for the wife a few years ago

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

they are good though

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

yeah I think so

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

http://www.coingecko.com

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

Apocalyptic: I can give you a bit of info on that

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

something like Beats has both a loyal user base and real revenue streams

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

bounce: well think about how something like WhatsApp was valued - it's valuation was based on userbase and potential monetisation right?

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

Naphex: I'm talking more about stuff like the iPad - it wasn't even a particularly novel idea, it was just so well executed that every major exec on the planet seems to have switched 80% of their tasks to their iPad instead of their laptop

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

the dude was smart that way

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

pankkake: nah, Jobs had insight and vision into what people (generally) wanted before they even knew they want it

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

time will tell

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

bounce: yeah he seems to be good at managing the company and keeping it profitable and smooth, but he doesn't seem to have the requisite insight and vision

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

pankkake: who is that? that's the nerd equivalent of someone taking a picture of themselves standing next to a Nissan 350Z (when they're probably 3 mths behind on payments) and putting it on Facebook to impress everyone with his lavish riches

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

bounce: yeah, I get the feeling that they're worried about losing ground in that space without Jobs

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

dat patent: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/09/amazon_granted_patent_for_taking_photos_against_a_white_background

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

if it happens it seems to be a marketing exercise for Apple - they could certainly compete from a branding and quality perspective, but they're losing their "cool and hip" image

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

they'll lose ground in a few years, but right now they're a hot commodity

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

it's one of those "if you're cool you own a pair" products

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

bounce: they've got a wide market

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

except not pretty enough to be jailbait

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

yeah looks like jailbait

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

so I don't mind offering constructive criticism where I can

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

and need a bit of testing-with-fire

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I think there are some guys that want to do things in a way that is successful

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

seriously tho

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

pankkake: trolling is fun :)

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

oh well yes, exactly

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

I actually don't know how mpoe-pr/hanbot lasted as long as she did without quitting, I wouldn't have lasted more than a month

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

lol

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

so he would never look out for himself

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

and Jasun7211's advice is golden because he's the *respektud sharezholder*

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

pankkake: apparently my advice is worthless because I implied Ken hired an incompetent "project manager"

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

"Hmmmn, tricky. Go with the new poster whose first post started with a personal insult or take the advice and recommendation from an established and respected shareholder? What will Ken do? Tricky."

#trilema

2014-05-09

fluffypony

or more specifically zumzero's backing

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

pankkake: his reply is what triggered the blog post I'm writing

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2014-05-09

fluffypony

anyway I was writing a blog post about the fucktards that are Coinbase before getting distracted by this, I'ma finish it