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00:00 BingoBoingo Rassah: Actual brain hacking is much harder than it first sppears
00:04 asciilifeform interesting how business model where strangers can reach in and take money from your pocket can carry on.
00:05 asciilifeform (how? captive audience. who wants to pay a fat monthly fee for a remote sensor? so you're stuck with these.)
00:06 BingoBoingo At least with the prepaid model if the carrier pisses you of, the shredder is a viable solution to device difficulties
00:06 nubbins` so in the wedding planning world, a "save the date" card is a thing
00:06 dub was wondering wtf you are on about until I noticed you said you pay to recieve traffic (wtf?)
00:06 kakobrekla you pay for incoming sms ?
00:06 nubbins` it's like an invitation, but subtly different
00:06 dub never seen that one
00:06 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: but where do you flee? they're all identical.
00:06 nubbins` it's sort of like a pre-announcement
00:06 nubbins` to use a btc analogy
00:06 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Not for the privacy part, for the billing tyranny
00:06 asciilifeform kakobrekla: in usa, afaik all prepaid 'sim' vendors charge for both directions
00:07 dub thats fucked
00:07 kakobrekla retarded is what it is.
00:07 BingoBoingo They do indeed charge both ways, but it is still at least half the price of actual service.
00:08 BingoBoingo Often cheaper than [Insert President] Phone plans
00:08 dub it'd be cheaper for me to buy a burner with sim included than just sim
00:08 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: less than 1/10 the price of the cheapest 'actual' service. but, given that spammers exist, the cost is non-deterministic
00:08 asciilifeform which is annoying in the extreme.
00:08 dub still only $20-30 with some credit included
00:10 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: I'm starting to get curious. Do you really get that many SMS spammers?
00:10 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: enough to be annoyed
00:10 kakobrekla ascii your service provder is selling out to spammers ? tried switching to another ?
00:10 asciilifeform my new hypothesis is that all cellular carriers that market to 'almost never uses account' folks make their dough on spam.
00:11 asciilifeform kakobrekla: tried a number of carriers for this application. noticed this pattern.
00:11 dub now that I think about it, I once bought an LTE modem with sim and $50 credit for $50
00:11 BingoBoingo Last SMS spam I got was 3 phone numbers ago
00:11 asciilifeform dub: what's it cost per year?
00:11 dub nothing, no contract
00:12 asciilifeform dub: no, per year of actually being reachable
00:13 dub uh its 3Gb for $50
00:13 asciilifeform dub: we're talking about an unattended telemetry gizmo
00:14 dub right, it wouldnt cost
00:14 asciilifeform dub: vendor?
00:14 dub dubistani specific one
00:15 asciilifeform dub: every carrier i know of save the ones described above deduct $positive_integer per $time_period
00:16 dub theres a sim in mrs dubs ipad that hasnt had credit on it since.. whenever ipad2 dropped 3+ years? still registers on the network fine
00:16 asciilifeform dub: is this a formal arrangement, or a fortuitous accident? (e.g. 'comcast' once gave me ~2 years of service gratis. by virtue of sheer ineptness.)
00:17 dub its standard product
00:17 asciilifeform device-locked?
00:18 dub no, its a burner sim
00:18 kakobrekla from the ghetto streets.
00:18 asciilifeform if anyone knows of equivalent in usa, speak up.
00:18 kakobrekla isnt dub in usa?
00:19 dub lolno
00:19 kakobrekla a ok
00:19 dub im banned from usa in fact :)
00:19 dub not that I would want to go back
00:19 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: If you want pure cell phone and SMS service Carlos Slim's Tracphone is the cheapest option
00:20 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: they sell non-devicelocked sim ?
00:20 BingoBoingo Next cheapest and my current option is AT&T go phone
00:20 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Their sims are very device locked
00:20 kuzetsa huh
00:20 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: and both carriers you mentioned charge $posint / mo.
00:20 kakobrekla dub yurop?
00:20 kuzetsa I guess assbot shares the same database as gribble, neat
00:21 asciilifeform we're talking about a gadget that powers up and sends a single 'sms' every blue moon.
00:21 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: But device cost is low and every similar device must be treated as a turd anyways
00:21 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: For asciilifeform> we're talking about a gadget that powers up and sends a single 'sms' every blue moon. << You can pay $ int every year.
00:21 BingoBoingo Less than ideal, but...
00:21 dub kakobrekla: neg
00:22 BingoBoingo For the cost of keeping a phone alive on the network I dunno of anything cheaper than Tracfone in the US
00:24 dub satphones have prepay options iirc
00:26 dub cost probably negates benefit, and you'd need sky
00:26 cazalla re: salt, what is it with chinks and magic salt, had missus bff coming around with himalayan salt trying to scam me under the guise of it being great for baby
00:28 dub idk, I recall a theory that abnormally high iodine levels in the japanese contributes to their well above average longevity
00:29 dub (most western table salt has iodine removed)
00:29 cazalla they add it to salt, bread etc etc here
00:30 cazalla actually, bread is folic acid, yet these women don't have babies
00:31 dub along with all manner of soy poisons and cow extracts
00:32 dub ;;google cows in the bread
00:32 gribble Grain Overload/ Acidosis - LEA-White Farms Registered Highland ...: <http://www.leawhitefarms.com/grainoverloadacidosis.htm>; Processed Bread - Feeds Marketing: <http://www.feedsmarketing.co.uk/processed-bread>; List of cattle breeds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cattle_breeds>
00:35 BingoBoingo cazalla: Every living thing of note uses folate
00:35 BingoBoingo About as close as Bio gets to having a level 0 standard
00:36 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> the device receives sms spam. << yup
00:37 cazalla i won't pretend to know much about it other than what i said, law states they must add it to bread here, marketed to help the fetus yet women aren't falling pregnant, sounds more like a marketing pitch - here's a donut with folate, any excuse to buy it
00:38 dub like fluoride, its all about reptillian seeding
00:38 mircea_popescu <dub> not that I would want to go back << omg #bitcoin-extradition
00:38 nubbins` <+dub> (most western table salt has iodine removed)
00:39 nubbins` wat
00:39 nubbins` you can buy non-iodized salt?
00:39 mircea_popescu <dub> idk, I recall a theory that abnormally high iodine levels in the japanese contributes to their well above average longevity << fukushima makes sense nao.
00:39 dub funnily some time in teh 90's as I recall they started not taking it out and advertising as iodized
00:40 trasyhhh151 command for change nick is /msg NickServ nick name?
00:40 trasyhhh151 struggling here
00:40 dub no /nick newnick
00:42 nubbins` incidentally, if anyone's interested, this is what a "save the date" looks like: http://imgur.com/KxD5W0m
00:42 assbot imgur: the simple image sharer
00:42 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6586 @ 0.000802 = 5.282 BTC [-]
00:44 dub I have a similarly gatsby themed one on my fridge
00:45 nubbins` deco is the new deco
00:46 nubbins` is yours a real invite or a pre-invite?
00:47 dub this is an invite but i've had pre-invites before
00:47 BingoBoingo http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/desc_item.php?whichitem=888987269
00:47 nubbins` strange thing, hey
00:49 dub not uncommon here but I don't really get it
00:49 dub if you know when, why not skip straight to the invite proper
00:50 nubbins` I KNOW RIGHT
00:50 nubbins` these people
00:51 nubbins` i struggle to understand living a life so bereft of meaning that blowing your wad on a $50k one-off party is the culmination of your aspirations
00:51 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5089 @ 0.00080051 = 4.0738 BTC [-]
00:51 nubbins` i mean, y'know, wedding invitations for sale
00:52 nubbins` but
00:52 nubbins` srsly
00:52 dub been to a couple of weddings involving several thousand dollars worth of international travel and accom for the guests, one of those had a save-the-date (STD?)
00:52 nubbins` heh
00:52 dub since such things are frequently cheapest booked earliest
00:53 asciilifeform life so bereft of meaning that blowing your wad on a $50k one-off party is the culmination << next: seppuku parties. save the date!
00:53 nubbins` oddly enough, this job came to us via a trendy downtown ad agency
00:53 nubbins` asciilifeform please join steve and kristy as they ritually disembowel themselves! transportation to and from event provided
00:54 asciilifeform nubbins`: does kristy get an 'apple corer' ?
00:54 dub asciilifeform: expense of travel may be offset by reduced attendees, one couple claimed to have saved considerably
00:54 nubbins` it was the only thing on the gift registry that i felt comfortable buying
00:54 dub he is one of 14 kids
00:55 dub sorry, his mother is
00:55 dub upshot, 90% of his family couldnt make it
01:00 asciilifeform only thing on the gift registry that i felt comfortable buying << lol, i suggested it as the actual instrument of sepukku
01:04 benkay <mircea_popescu> mike_c stop opposing progress and an end to oppression. // hey have you guys heard about this ICBC auto insurance monopoly in BC?
01:04 benkay nubbins`: is there an auto insurance monopoly in your corner of the great untamed communist north?
01:04 TheNewDeal tell us more benkay
01:04 benkay icbc
01:05 benkay it's a monopoly
01:05 benkay service sucks
01:05 benkay what else do you want?
01:05 TheNewDeal how did they become a monopoly
01:05 nubbins` benkay, nope
01:05 TheNewDeal it's just like the game - no one cares about the ending, it's how you get there
01:06 benkay pediwiki: "By law, any vehicle registered and driven or parked on public streets in British Columbia must purchase ICBC's basic insurance package from an independent broker. "
01:06 BingoBoingo ;;later tell danielpbarron Checking out my KoL inventory... What sorts of uncommon things might you be interested in pricing...
01:06 gribble The operation succeeded.
01:07 danielpbarron BingoBoingo, there are so many items.. if you could get a screenshot or something..
01:08 BingoBoingo danielpbarron: Well, time trappings, the whole outfit.
01:09 danielpbarron BingoBoingo, you might be better off selling it in the mall; I'm not really interested in buying stuff for BTC, if that's what you meant
01:10 danielpbarron with the time trappings, the key is to use a wand to transform them into whatever item is selling for the most
01:10 BingoBoingo danielpbarron: Well, meat or BTC. I'd rather keep the trio together. TIme limited content and all that.
01:11 dub KoL?
01:13 danielpbarron 20:43:11 <+mircea_popescu> why do all the supposed payments end in .9997 ? << if it's anything like the counterparty burn for xcp, the software puts a limit on 1 BTC per burn, and their reason was to make it harder for whales to burn a huge amount too easily (to make it "more fair" for the little guys)
01:14 danielpbarron BingoBoingo, if you're getting back into playing, the time set is a nice thing to have; it's one of the most efficient ways to get extra adventures per day
01:14 danielpbarron you can get more efficient by ditching the hat and pants for other stuff, but the sword is the best hand held item for that purpose (i think)
01:15 BingoBoingo danielpbarron: It was indeed a nice pull from storage, but... Everything in this world is negotiable... And the set together has an added bonus
01:15 danielpbarron right, what i mean is, you can exceed that bonus with other gear, but we're talking about a difference of a few adventures per day
01:15 benkay asciilifeform: regarding pumps, would a peristaltic work?
01:16 benkay ;;gettrust assbot Rassah
01:16 gribble Currently authenticated from hostmask Rassah!~quassel@2601:a:f80:551:beae:c5ff:fe45:db9e. Trust relationship from user assbot to user Rassah: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 2 via 2 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=assbot&dest=Rassah | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=Rassah | Rated since: Fri Jun 3 23:49:22 2011
01:17 asciilifeform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7KIcwAn0FU
01:17 assbot Tetris music on Stepper Motors! - YouTube
01:19 benkay ;;gettrust kuzetsa
01:19 gribble Currently authenticated from hostmask kuzetsa!znc@wikipedia/kuzetsa. Trust relationship from user benkay to user kuzetsa: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 1 via 1 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=benkay&dest=kuzetsa | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=kuzetsa | Rated since: Sun Jul 15 14:54:23 2012
01:19 benkay ;;gettrust assbot kuzetsa
01:19 gribble Currently authenticated from hostmask kuzetsa!znc@wikipedia/kuzetsa. Trust relationship from user assbot to user kuzetsa: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 1 via 1 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=assbot&dest=kuzetsa | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=kuzetsa | Rated since: Sun Jul 15 14:54:23 2012
01:20 benkay kuzetsa: uses gribbles db, actually. if you've got a +1 from someone in assbot's wot, you can self-up as you've discovered.
01:20 benkay light coupling, wot wot
01:22 benkay <dub> if you know when, why not skip straight to the invite proper // this is what happens when you let the wimmins manage projects without oversight
01:23 benkay <nubbins`> i struggle to understand living a life so bereft of meaning that blowing your wad on a $50k one-off party is the culmination of your aspirations // that's why they demand consummation immediately afterwards, to keep the void filled
01:23 asciilifeform benkay: i considered peristaltic. turns out, others have tried - they end up 'burping'
01:24 asciilifeform benkay: which is a shame, because old medical pumps are a dime a dozen on 'ebay.'
01:24 benkay 'burping'?
01:24 benkay asciilifeform: 'burping'?
01:24 asciilifeform benkay: smallest 'quantum' of pumpage ends up being rather large.
01:25 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 39 @ 0.0131 = 0.5109 BTC [+]
01:25 benkay ah, makes sense.
01:27 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20591 @ 0.00080065 = 16.4862 BTC [+]
01:29 asciilifeform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3aNpJTwwmc << more for aficionados
01:29 assbot Canon in D major - in stepper motor - YouTube
01:35 dub prefer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aArSn4IhHI
01:35 assbot We are the champions - YouTube
01:36 asciilifeform lol
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01:56 nubbins` https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9idfQVkqKyw
01:56 assbot Rachmaninov Prelude in g minor - Op. 23 No. 5 - Gilels - YouTube
01:57 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 35 @ 0.16 = 5.6 BTC [-]
01:58 BingoBoingo danielpbarron: Ah, I see the time set declined in value as well due to competitive alternatives existing nao
01:59 danielpbarron BingoBoingo, yeah; the petrified time item is worth a lot more now since it's impossible to reverse the conversion
02:00 BingoBoingo danielpbarron: Well, it was always worth more than any part, but... Back in the say the set used to be a 100+ million meat sort of deal
02:00 BingoBoingo Fuck, BTC would have been a better investment
02:00 danielpbarron my hemp backpack lost a lot of value when they implemented the back inventory slot and released an official mr. store style backback :<
02:01 danielpbarron went from nearly 100 million meat down to 30 something million now
02:01 nubbins` i uh
02:01 nubbins` oh, you're talking about a game
02:01 BingoBoingo danielpbarron: On the plus side ignoring the thing for 6+ years means there's new content nao at least
02:02 BingoBoingo nubbins`: Didn't you get the memo that BTC is money for games?
02:03 nubbins` i thought btc was the game
02:03 BingoBoingo nubbins`: BTC is the game that binds all other games
02:03 nubbins` you're saying these things are MONEY?!
02:03 BingoBoingo nubbins`: Nah, I'm saying games are connected by games nao.
02:04 BingoBoingo Games all the way down.
02:04 nubbins` right, right
02:04 danielpbarron i sent Jick a message for him to answer on his podcast, telling him he should accept BTC for Mr. A's; he shot it down and mostly focused on the "tone" i used
02:05 danielpbarron then I started trying to buy/sell meat for BTC in the game's official chat; got a message from Multi Czar telling me i'd get my account disabled if i continued..
02:05 danielpbarron even though their terms of use don't explicitly forbid buying/selling meat
02:05 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 15 @ 0.16 = 2.4 BTC [-]
02:07 BingoBoingo danielpbarron: Well, think more like mircea_popescu and what he did with Eve. You can trade shares of 1BTC corp for S.MPOE shares. Maybe start a 1BTMeat clan?
02:08 danielpbarron i've got the counterparty thing; i think that is far enough removed from the act of buying/selling meat
02:08 danielpbarron and I don't promote it in-game
02:09 danielpbarron most users of KoL are pretty hostile to BTC anyway; there is a very strong socialist bent in there
02:15 BingoBoingo Eh, most times you encounter a mass of people they will be opposed to you. That's what the whole girding your loins stuff in the old books is about.
02:21 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 212 @ 0.00274866 = 0.5827 BTC [-]
02:27 BingoBoingo !up Duffer1
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02:54 moiety !up drawingthesun
02:56 moiety ;;later tell asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-07-2014#765262 << one of my favourite pieces of music, I collect canons. that's brilliant!
02:56 assbot #bitcoin-assets log
02:56 gribble The operation succeeded.
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03:25 Naphex hey all o/ back from vacation
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04:21 fluffypony omg Naphex
04:21 fluffypony HI!
04:21 fluffypony I thought you died
04:24 Naphex lol no
04:24 Naphex been on vacation in ibz for 1 week
04:24 Naphex tried to be disconnected
04:27 fluffypony awesome
04:27 fluffypony how was it?
04:28 Naphex pretty fun and amaizingly nothing happend while i was gone :P
04:28 Naphex got to sunbake, drink and party some for 1 week
04:32 fluffypony awesome
04:32 fluffypony Etherium presale already over 3000 BTC
04:32 fluffypony trainwreck coming
04:33 fluffypony "- We reserve the right to use up to 5000 BTC from the pre-sale while the pre-sale is running in order to speed up development."
04:36 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 16 @ 0.15730001 = 2.5168 BTC [+]
04:37 pankkake http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=3447
04:37 assbot Apple Responds, Contributes Little | Jonathan Zdziarski's Domain
04:38 moiety hi naphex, wb, hope you had a great holiday :]
04:39 Naphex hey moiety, thanks - I did :D
04:39 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 390 @ 0.15450349 = 60.2564 BTC [-] {19}
04:49 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 192 @ 0.00272396 = 0.523 BTC [+]
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05:06 pankkake http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2bge40/im_crying_with_joy_over_here_my_toes_are_curling/
05:06 assbot Im crying with joy over here, my toes are curling in untold glee, I have little doubt that I shall live to see this, all of it. : Buttcoin
05:10 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 358 @ 0.00144581 = 0.5176 BTC [-] {2}
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05:31 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 273 @ 0.00256402 = 0.7 BTC [-]
05:32 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 26 @ 0.02890175 = 0.7514 BTC [-]
05:37 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19323 @ 0.00080673 = 15.5884 BTC [+]
05:45 BigBitz !up Guest73329
05:46 BigBitz Guest73329 has something to say - apparently :)
05:46 Guest73329 Hey all. Theymos automatically bans anyone who posts his dox on bitcointalk.org -- to demonstrate simply paste http://pastie.org/9414192 in a reply, and your account will automatically be banned.
05:46 assbot Private Paste - Pastie
05:47 BigBitz Banning people who post his own private information is not that much of a shock, Guest73329.
05:48 pankkake it's ok for others, though
05:49 pankkake even if inaccurate
05:50 dub considering all the other shit theymos will go up against the wall for..
05:54 Guest73329 pankkake: He's absolutely OK with all dox except his own.
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06:13 davout ohai
06:13 davout was the new mpex key advertised anywhere ?
06:14 dub new domain? only here that I noticed
06:14 dub (i think its an artifact of mp having fucked up DNS for the old one somehow)
06:15 davout dub: i found http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-07-2014#763531 i'm after something that's signed tho
06:15 assbot #bitcoin-assets log
06:16 dub try teh faq
06:17 dub its where the new key is, I assume that is signed
06:18 davout not signed :-)
06:18 dub the mpex key should be signed by mp
06:33 jurov dub it is
06:33 jurov not in the faq, but on the keyserver
06:34 jurov !up anthor
06:35 jurov http://pgp.surfnet.nl:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&search=0x02DD2D91 here is the signature
06:35 assbot Search results for '0x02dd2d91'
06:36 jurov !up Guest82296
06:37 jurov !up saulimus
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07:40 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17002 @ 0.00081189 = 13.8038 BTC [+]
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07:58 davout jurov: oic ty :)
08:07 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31705 @ 0.00080519 = 25.5285 BTC [-]
08:17 ThickAsThieves mircea_popescu:thickasthieves feel like running whatever that is ? /// what is what?
08:18 ThickAsThieves mircea_popescu:canada hasn't had a good musician since cohen visited and the us... //// Propagandhi, Neil Young, Greg MacPherson, The Weakerthans
08:21 fluffypony Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber
08:21 fluffypony :-P
08:24 ThickAsThieves mircea_popescu:BingoBoingo i saw some on tat's link too /// ah, it seems my post was simply moved from /r/bitcoin, a mod even posted he was mad at all the non-bitcoin-related posts yesterdya
08:27 ThickAsThieves nubbins`:incidentally, if anyone's interested, this is what a "save the date" looks like: http://imgur.com/KxD5W0m /// not bad
08:27 assbot imgur: the simple image sharer
08:28 dub http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25938-zoologger-moose-dribble-turns-off-grasss-toxic-defences.html
08:28 assbot Zoologger: Moose dribble turns off grass's toxic defences - life - 23 July 2014 - New Scientist
08:29 ThickAsThieves "- We reserve the right to use up to 5000 BTC from the pre-sale while the pre-sale is running in order to speed up development." lol so were they gonna just sit on their thumbs otherwise?
08:30 fluffypony apparently
08:30 fluffypony for 45 days
08:30 fluffypony now instead they're goign to party
08:33 punkman I liked this part: "EthSuisse will be liquidated shortly after creation of genesis block, and EthSuisse anticipates (but does not guarantee) that after it is dissolved the Ethereum Platform will continue to be developed by persons and entities who support Ethereum, including both volunteers and developers who are paid by nonprofit entities interested in supporting the Ethereum Platform."
08:34 ThickAsThieves ethsuisse?
08:35 pankkake so basically "kthxbye"
08:36 thestringpuller so long and thanks for all the fish
08:42 ThickAsThieves why did etherium wait so long to sell this anyway, their hype is like 6mos old already
08:42 punkman http://dpaste.com/32KTGWC.txt
08:42 punkman 4k btc already
08:42 punkman "WARNING: DO NOT PURCHASE ETH IF YOU ARE NOT AN EXPERT IN DEALING WITH CRYPTOGRAPHIC TOKENS AND BLOCKCHAIN-BASED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS"
08:42 ThickAsThieves ok so EthSuisse is basically the team
08:43 ThickAsThieves and the team says they will liquidate without hesitation and leave the work to the community at will
08:43 ThickAsThieves pretty awesome
08:43 ThickAsThieves punkman i quote dthat same line yesterday, a great one
08:44 punkman this ToS of theirs is full of gems
08:44 punkman (and typos)
08:45 punkman "It is possible that the Ethereum Platform will not be used by a large number of external businesses, individuals, and other organizations and that there will be limited public interest in the creation and development of distributed applications. Such a lack of interest could impact the development of the Ethereum Platform and potential uses of ETH. "
08:45 dub http://thenostalgiamachine.com/ too cool
08:45 assbot The Nostalgia Machine
08:45 ThickAsThieves "Cryptography is an art, not a science."
08:45 pankkake what the lol
08:46 ThickAsThieves lol they also warn of victimofsuccessery "If the Ethereum Platform is rapidly adopted, the demand for ETH could rise dramatically and at a pace that exceeds the rate with which ETH miners can create new ETH tokens. Under such a scenario, the entire Ethereum Platform could become destabilized, due to the increased cost of running distributed applications. In turn, this could dampen
08:46 ThickAsThieves interest in the Ethereum Project and ETH."
08:48 punkman "ETH, the Ethereum Platform’s cryptofuel"
08:51 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.15 = 0.6 BTC [+]
08:52 kakobrekla dub no playall :(
08:56 ThickAsThieves the solar system we got is officially making more than we are using :)
08:56 ThickAsThieves lol, bad choice of words
08:56 ThickAsThieves solar system
08:57 jurov someone has hyperactive imagination there
08:59 pankkake in case you guys are out of lols, http://time.com/money/3006715/millennials-higher-inflation-baby-boomers/
08:59 assbot What Millennials Want That Their Boomer Parents Hate - 1
09:00 jurov i'm not out of lulz, just got another phish "from bitcointalk". they even went into trouble of photoshopping theymos' account: http://s8.postimg.org/j399erbpx/ads.jpg
09:00 ThickAsThieves so many meaningless numbers and words in that article
09:02 ThickAsThieves "I realize that the costs of these things will rise—prices always rise. It would just be nice if our salaries rose enough to pay for them." wish harder.
09:03 ThickAsThieves pankkake i cant even suss what that article ia actually about
09:03 ThickAsThieves is
09:05 pankkake mainstream media prepping the general public for inflation
09:05 ThickAsThieves TLDR = Inflation and Babies Happen and Here are Some Words Saying So
09:05 pankkake wow, those shop skillz
09:11 ThickAsThieves wow i'm scrolling through these Money articles on time.com and it
09:11 ThickAsThieves s like 1984 in here
09:11 ThickAsThieves all propaganda to the max
09:11 ThickAsThieves "These 3 Companies Can Raise Prices Without Losing Your Business"
09:12 ThickAsThieves "Free Jamocha Shakes at Arby’s on Wednesday" (dafuck?)
09:12 ThickAsThieves "How to Convert a Summer Internship Into a Full-Time Job" (work for free plz!)
09:13 pankkake we're having it all here. deflation would be catastrophic, there's not enough inflation, lowering prices is bad (currently used to forbid competitors and favor existing cartels)
09:13 ThickAsThieves "Save 15% of pay for 30 years and you will be fine, a new study shows. Save for longer, and it gets much easier."
09:14 ThickAsThieves pretty ugly
09:14 cazalla whyareyousobutthurt = pankkake, right? :P
09:14 pankkake cazalla: yes, it's the account I have at work
09:14 pankkake good job
09:14 pankkake I mean, from you
09:15 cazalla only cause i saw that time link here and then 2 seconds later on reddit heh
09:16 cazalla this is some top keks
09:17 ThickAsThieves Sexy Saffron appears to be parlaying it up
09:18 cazalla pankkake, i eagerly await the day coblee turns from saint to pariah
09:19 chetty ThickAsThieves, you dose with bicarbonate to read things like time.com?
09:21 ThickAsThieves i dont "read" time.com
09:21 ThickAsThieves i skim it for glitches in the matrix
09:30 mircea_popescu hey moiety!
~ 26 minutes ~
09:56 mircea_popescu dub: this is an invite but i've had pre-invites before << wtf is this invite to invite, ask to ask, meta bullshit anyway ?
09:57 mircea_popescu do they send out "mr schmukersson will impulsively fuck mrs schmukersson thursday, august 15th around 7:12 pm, your presence is kindly solicited" spam too ?
09:58 mircea_popescu bah im fucking late to the party
09:58 mircea_popescu yo peoples! YOU SHOULD HAVE SAVED MY DATE!
09:59 pankkake uh, I got some altcoins to 1MPGRCrbib3aFGtTCLF5nADZcLEAgdTu7E
09:59 pankkake someone made a mistake?
09:59 Pierre_Rochard ;;rate princessnell 1 Rays fan
09:59 gribble Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user princessnell has been recorded.
09:59 mircea_popescu benkay: hey have you guys heard about this ICBC auto insurance monopoly in BC? << kinda why i was so lulzed out at the entire "icbc is in pink sheets" nyse debacle.
09:59 mircea_popescu that thing's probably worth more than the whole us atm.
09:59 mircea_popescu ;;rated princessnell
09:59 gribble You rated user princessnell on Thu Jun 12 00:45:23 2014, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: She's smart..
10:00 mircea_popescu aok
10:01 mircea_popescu danielpbarron: << if it's anything like the counterparty burn for xcp << supposedly this is not a burn, they intend to spend it.
10:02 mircea_popescu benkay: this is what happens when you let the wimmins manage projects without oversight << word, seriously. and you should see what happens when you let them manage kids w/o oversight.
10:04 chetty http://nakamotoinstitute.org/gpg-contracts/
10:04 assbot GPG Contracts | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
10:04 mircea_popescu danielpbarron: i sent Jick a message for him to answer on his podcast, telling him he should accept BTC for Mr. A's; he shot it down and mostly focused on the "tone" i used << incredible the gall of these fuckwits.
10:04 mircea_popescu here's nobody doing nothing, and he has like... opinions on bitcoin and issues with tone and whatnot ?
10:04 mircea_popescu we need a bigger jail.
10:05 mircea_popescu chetty yeah, the guys asked for permission to republish
10:06 chetty <mircea_popescu> benkay: this is what happens when you let the wimmins manage projects without oversight << word, seriously. and you should see what happens when you let them manage kids w/o oversight.// yeah you get adults
10:06 mircea_popescu Naphex so how was vacation ? new gf ?
10:06 mircea_popescu chetty not you. women.
10:07 mircea_popescu fluffypony: "- We reserve the right to use up to 5000 BTC from the pre-sale while the pre-sale is running in order to speed up development." << funny they didn't reserve it before the fucking thing started.
10:08 mircea_popescu translation : "that asshole mp is putting pressure on our liquidity providers (what, you didn't think we OWNED the btc we're presenting as having been invested by third parties ?!) and so we won't be able to keep the charade up without recirculating some capital. sorry!"
10:08 ThickAsThieves http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2bhknd/btc_is_like_a_drug/
10:08 assbot BTC is like a drug : Bitcoin
10:08 pankkake hence http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2bge40/im_crying_with_joy_over_here_my_toes_are_curling/
10:08 assbot Im crying with joy over here, my toes are curling in untold glee, I have little doubt that I shall live to see this, all of it. : Buttcoin
10:09 pankkake http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2bhf59/bitcoin_taps_into_efficiencies_in_the_camwhore/ eh
10:09 assbot Bitcoin taps into efficiencies in the camwhore market : Buttcoin
10:09 mircea_popescu pankkake hehehe "btc did it
10:11 mircea_popescu "Dear lord this is absolutely fucking grade-A insane. I had to read that first paragraph 4 times just because I just couldn't believe somebody would ever intentionally write something so convoluted. And it doesn't improve as the paper continues. In all seriousness, this reads almost exactly like the deranged manifestos that are left behind by school shooters, that is the vibe I get from whatever the fuck you want to ca
10:11 mircea_popescu ll this"
10:11 mircea_popescu i suppose the word he's looking for is "terrorism"
10:12 mircea_popescu asciilifeform there you go. it was not stalin's fault. the people wanted, nay, the people needed it. all of it.
10:13 mike_c sometimes this channel is a sausage fest. save the date's are very reasonable. you don't have all the details figured out, but you know the day and don't want people to book something else.
10:13 mircea_popescu "A verbose and condescending essay written by a child who has never encountered true malice or been hungry in his whole life." << o, "you've never been hungry thus what you have to say is unimportant". because yeah, that's true value : to find out from the frequently hungry how they dun it!
10:13 pankkake > I work in the adult comic industry and we sometimes publish furry comics (anthropomorphic people) and we frequently get taking down by banks and payment processors for distributing "bestiality."
10:13 mircea_popescu mike_c how do you know the date if you don';t have other things (presumably, the girl ?) figured out ?
10:14 pankkake oh god, furries coming to bitcoin
10:14 mircea_popescu afaik it goes like this : pick a girl, pick a date, party.
10:14 mike_c hahaha.
10:14 mircea_popescu pankkake no that's quite old.
10:14 Pierre_Rochard chetty: please let us know if you have any other candidates for republication
10:14 mike_c no. 1) pick a girl. 2) she picks the date
10:14 mike_c 3) she starts planning for 6 months
10:14 mircea_popescu mike_c you're not picking a girl then.
10:14 mike_c 4) party
10:14 mike_c hm, that is a point
10:15 mike_c who would want to marry a girl?
10:15 mircea_popescu ask around :D
10:15 mike_c full-grown woman is enough to manage.
10:16 mircea_popescu why'd you marry a full grown woman ?
10:16 ThickAsThieves my brother got surprise-eloped last week
10:16 mircea_popescu they ran out of friendship cards in your town ?
10:17 mike_c mircea_popescu: tax benefits.
10:18 mircea_popescu trying to fix a problem with the town through marriage is not unlike trying to fix poor reception by holding the antenna in certain ways or a malfunctioning computer by running the tap nearby.
10:18 chetty <Pierre_Rochard> chetty: please let us know if you have any other candidates for republication// trilema is a gold mine
10:19 mircea_popescu davout: was the new mpex key advertised anywhere ? << in faq and linked here.
10:19 mircea_popescu Pierre_Rochard the SA reddit subsection thinks you suck nao.
10:19 davout mircea_popescu: yea, saw the link here but i was missing the signature bit
10:19 mircea_popescu it's signed itself (there's a link to the pgp sks infrastructure with my signature on it)
10:20 mircea_popescu a nm jurov said so. sorry, im parsing the logs rather than compiling them.
10:20 mircea_popescu asciilifeform how about this btw ? when confronted with the logs, i naturally settled on parsing rather than compiling. is this because im stupid or is this beause parsing is better ?
10:21 benkay low investment upfront for middling-to-poor performance.
10:21 benkay ;)
10:22 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: you might have been thinking of 'interpret'
10:22 Pierre_Rochard chetty: it is, I’ve been reading through as much as I can to see which articles are especially crypto/econ/bitcoin centered like GPG Contracts (and obvs to learn & think)
10:22 mircea_popescu i go through it one ;line at a time and comment. sometimes this results in redundancy
10:22 asciilifeform i suspect that most of us do this.
10:23 ThickAsThieves cuz we wish we were there
10:24 ThickAsThieves so we pretend
10:24 ThickAsThieves and no one minds
10:24 benkay wait ethsuisse? waht is this?
10:24 ThickAsThieves its the dev team
10:24 asciilifeform ;;later tell moiety shame that modern pc includes no addressable stepper motor. but if you own, e.g. a scanner, you can still play this beautiful music...
10:24 gribble The operation succeeded.
10:25 kakobrekla or a floppy
10:26 asciilifeform ;;later tell moiety a true maestro will play, say, j.s. bach, correctly! that is, gigantic lift motors for the low octaves, little floppy drive head drivers for the highest.
10:26 gribble The operation succeeded.
10:26 mircea_popescu <ThickAsThieves> so we pretend << srsly.
10:27 asciilifeform ;;later tell moiety further example, if you liked - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2UmkfixRH8
10:27 assbot CNC machine playing tetris and still alive - YouTube
10:27 gribble The operation succeeded.
10:27 mthreat asciilifeform: the first IBM PC had some kind of relay, you could access it with the BASIC instruction "MOTOR ON" or "MOTOR OFF". If you turned it on and off in a loop, it was a buzzer.
10:27 asciilifeform mthreat: the floppy.
10:27 kakobrekla is this thing on?
10:28 cazalla pankkake, that address is what BingoBoingo gave me to send ATC
10:28 mthreat asciilifeform: I don't remember, maybe, but it sounded like a relay...
10:28 benkay hi kakobrekla
10:28 pankkake well, he has the private key, but I have it too. not smart :p
10:28 kakobrekla a ok works . hi benkay .
10:29 mircea_popescu pankkake: mainstream media prepping the general public for inflation << precisely.
10:29 mthreat asciilifeform: cassette drive motor possibly
10:30 mircea_popescu nothing lulzier than watching teh propaganda machine trying to spin utter failure into being chic, hip, and what these blasted youngsters want.
10:30 mircea_popescu <pankkake> well, he has the private key, but I have it too. not smart :p << omg BingoBoingo WHAT HAVE YOU DUN NAO
10:31 pankkake unfortunately there's no easy way to remove an address from bitcoin-qt
10:31 pankkake and armory has a "swipe" feature, too
10:31 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves: Sexy Saffron appears to be parlaying it up << the sign of a smart girl. you only need give a little push.
10:32 nubbins` where i come from, you're not cool unless your money is worth less today than it was yesterday
10:33 mthreat nubbins`: that's a lot of places
10:34 mthreat starbucks raised their prices in Buenos Aires again yesterday. Since December 2013, the coffee I get has gone from 30 to 44 pesos
10:34 mircea_popescu mthreat why do you drink starbucks tho ?
10:35 fluffypony Pheeva put a TV ad out, it's actually kinda decent:
10:35 * fluffypony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW3fM95L7RU&feature=youtu.be
10:35 assbot Pheeva - Plus - Gyft - Troll TV Ad - YouTube
10:35 mthreat mircea_popescu: because i don't know good vs. bad coffee probably, and it's the 2nd closest after Cafe Martinez (probably worse)
10:35 princessnell Pierre_Rochard maybe http://trilema.com/2014/a-complete-theory-of-economics/ and http://trilema.com/2012/the-politics-of-bitcoin/ for posterity http://trilema.com/2014/interacting-with-fiat-institution-a-guide/
10:35 assbot A complete theory of economics pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
10:35 assbot The politics of Bitcoin pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
10:35 assbot Interacting with fiat institution, a guide pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
10:36 mircea_popescu mthreat i've never paid more than about 25 or so for coffee myself, and never had a bad cup yet.
10:36 princessnell Pierre_Rochard rota case study (i <3 law and econ) http://trilema.com/2012/the-mpex-rota/ and http://trilema.com/2013/case-i-wences-vs-mpex-breach-of-fiduciary-duty/ and http://trilema.com/2013/rota-post-mortem/
10:36 assbot The MPEx Rota pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
10:36 assbot Case I - Wences vs MPEx, Breach of fiduciary duty pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
10:36 assbot ROTA, post mortem. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
10:36 mircea_popescu had some pretty good, not much of a coffee drinker myself, but i mean... they prolly import their shit.
10:36 cazalla i wouldn't use pheeva on account the dev is fat albert
10:37 pankkake http://trilema.com/2013/the-future-of-bitcoin-regulation/
10:37 assbot The future of Bitcoin regulation pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
10:37 pankkake http://trilema.com/2012/the-problem-of-too-much-money/
10:37 assbot The problem of too much money pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
10:37 mthreat mircea_popescu: I get the "venti" (20oz) size
10:37 princessnell Pierre_Rochard also probably WoT lit http://trilema.com/2014/advanced-wot-course-how-the-wot-is-attacked-and-how-it-defends-itself/
10:37 assbot Advanced WoT course : how the WoT is attacked, and how it defends itself. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
10:38 Pierre_Rochard princessnell: thanks! mircea_popescu: permission to republish? In general longer/older/timeless articles go to the literature section, shorter/newer/“current events” go to the Memory Pool.
10:38 nubbins` mthreat: do yourself a favor and stop drinking charbucks
10:38 nubbins` you may be surprised to learn that coffee has a taste
10:39 cazalla hipster baristas up in here
10:39 nubbins` crikey mate, you have hipsters down under?
10:40 cazalla i live in the capital of hipsters, feminists, greenies in australia :\
10:40 nubbins` knowing what i know about you, this must drive you to the brink of suicide each day
10:41 mircea_popescu aite, gotta do some meetings nao. bbl all.
10:42 cazalla nubbins`, i'll out and see them do it first
10:42 cazalla hold out*
10:43 nubbins` that's my boy
10:43 kakobrekla !up equex
10:43 kakobrekla GOOD MORNING EQUEX
10:43 nubbins` "i live in a place with stylish young people, independent women, and those who care about our natural environment. it's a real drag."
10:44 cazalla they are none of those things though
10:44 nubbins` to you, sure
10:44 cazalla if they cared about their environment, they'd at least grow veg and raise their own meat at bare minimum
10:45 nubbins` just like you're not a reasonable adult worthy of dignity and respect... to them
10:45 nubbins` :D
10:45 nubbins` is that the bare minimum tho?
10:45 cazalla if they were independent, they wouldn't need handouts while undertaking women's studies
10:45 nubbins` raising your own meat?
10:45 cazalla i think so
10:45 * nubbins` raises his own eyebrow
10:46 cazalla although if you asked any of them, they'd tell you i'm running rabbit auschwitz here
10:46 nubbins` you know raising meat animals in the first place isn't particularly great for the environment
10:47 nubbins` hm, china received $34m in foreign aid from canada in 2012
10:48 nubbins` http://cidpnsi.ca/blog/portfolio/canadas-foreign-aid/
10:48 assbot Canada's Foreign Aid spending around the world | CIDP | Canadian International Development Platform
10:49 rithm SFW noob video: http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=95714897
10:49 assbot 401 Authorization Required
10:50 pankkake $56M to Russia
10:50 ThickAsThieves NSFW you meant
10:50 cazalla depends where you work eh
10:50 ThickAsThieves well they didnt invent NSFW for sex workers
10:51 assbot Last 3 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/2XHYV25.txt )
10:51 mthreat !b 3
10:52 nubbins` $65m to gaza & west bank
10:54 cazalla china and russia given aid, shows how little i know
10:55 mike_c "So more economic growth (spurred on by more borrowing and spending) would help alleviate low wage growth" .. and i'm done.
10:56 penguirker New blog post: http://fr.anco.is/2014/07/23/x-eur-july-23rd-2014-statement/
11:04 rithm seemed safe to me
11:07 chetty http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118747/ivy-league-schools-are-overrated-send-your-kids-elsewhere
11:07 assbot Ivy League Schools Are Overrated. Send Your Kids Elsewhere. | New Republic
11:09 ThickAsThieves "Before he started college, he spent most of his time reading and writing short stories. Three years later, he’s painfully insecure, worrying about things my public-educated friends don’t give a second thought to, like the stigma of eating lunch alone and whether he’s “networking” enough. "
11:11 pankkake “Return on investment”: that’s the phrase you often hear today when people talk about college.
11:11 pankkake college graduates are bagholders
11:13 benkay <chetty> <mircea_popescu> benkay: this is what happens when you let the wimmins manage projects without oversight << word, seriously. and you should see what happens when you let them manage kids w/o oversight.// yeah you get adults // team effort, anyone?
11:14 penguirker New blog post: http://bitcoinpete.com/2014/07/23/a-guide-to-buying-5000-ether-bitcoin-2-5x-more-than-ethereums-genesis-sale/
11:14 nubbins` the stigma of eating lunch alone
11:14 nubbins` i tell ya, worlds you didn't know existed
11:15 benkay <mircea_popescu> <pankkake> well, he has the private key, but I have it too. not smart :p << omg BingoBoingo WHAT HAVE YOU DUN NAO // yeah, i'm also curious as to what's going on here
11:15 benkay morning, bitcoinpete
11:15 bitcoinpete howdy benkay
11:15 benkay how was pottery?
11:15 pankkake I gave the private key to MP at a time I wasn't sure I could even transfer the coins in a timely manner
11:16 pankkake so the private key is now known to multiple people
11:16 pankkake and in multiple bitcoin clients
11:16 bitcoinpete benkay: my hands are still stained from the autumn leaves glaze
11:16 pankkake (well, altcoin)
11:17 benkay gotcha.
11:17 benkay this rescanning the blockchain thing is a total bitch, isn't it?
11:17 bitcoinpete benkay: but for it being my first time on the wheel in a close to 15 years, quite well :D
11:18 benkay what, after all, is the point of a "database" if one's not going to actually organize data in a useful fashion within?
11:19 benkay <pankkake> unfortunately there's no easy way to remove an address from bitcoin-qt // delete from wallet.dat? or is that not actually a text file?
11:19 ThickAsThieves bitcoinpete, unless i need more coffee, mp isnt allowing people to short ETH, he's allowing them to long it
11:19 pankkake it's a Berkeley DB file
11:19 pankkake there are tools to edit it, though
11:19 ThickAsThieves they get more ETH for their money now
11:20 benkay what an unmitigated goddamned disaster.
11:20 ThickAsThieves but MP doesnt buy it til later
11:20 bitcoinpete ThickAsThieves: they get more later
11:20 ThickAsThieves some would have to lend ETH to short it
11:20 bitcoinpete mp is selling eth
11:20 ThickAsThieves who's lending?
11:20 ThickAsThieves ETH
11:20 bitcoinpete not me ;)
11:20 ThickAsThieves hehe
11:20 benkay <princessnell> Pierre_Rochard also probably WoT lit // woterotica
11:20 ThickAsThieves so no way to short it
11:21 benkay 'cept the classic popescuian naked short
11:21 bitcoinpete ThickAsThieves: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-07-2014#764462
11:21 assbot #bitcoin-assets log
11:22 bitcoinpete benkay: lol
11:22 bitcoinpete pretty sure he has his ways
11:22 ThickAsThieves ^o^
11:22 benkay 70% odds it's a naked short.
11:23 ThickAsThieves i still dont see how I get to short ETH by entering MP's future offer
11:23 benkay mp's going short, and offering to sell the thing to anyone at a future date below what it's selling for now.
11:23 ThickAsThieves right
11:23 benkay if mp's going short, how can you go short by taking the other side of his trade?
11:24 ThickAsThieves this is my point
11:24 benkay who's claiming that he's offering a vehicle for others to short?
11:24 pankkake I think that's incorrect too. it allows you to get a better price if you're long, or MAYBE short it as long as you think it's won't go as low as 2.5x less
11:24 ThickAsThieves bitcoinpete says "Effectively, MP is allowing you to “short” ETH."
11:25 bitcoinpete lol to the correction car!
11:25 benkay oh, bitcoinpete does derivatives now?
11:25 ThickAsThieves just making sure we stay on-message!
11:25 pankkake wait, why the fuck are they callimg themselves ETH Suisse? I just remembered: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_polytechnique_f%C3%A9d%C3%A9rale_de_Zurich
11:25 assbot cole polytechnique fdrale de Zurich Wikipdia
11:25 ThickAsThieves solidarity!
11:25 ThickAsThieves for the motherland!
11:25 benkay pankkake: "credit suisse" perhaps?
11:26 ThickAsThieves or, i think bitcoinpete is cool so i dont want to see him have errors in his shit
11:26 benkay -assets proofreading is best proofreading.
11:27 benkay i am deploy from car
11:27 bitcoinpete s/short/long
11:27 benkay devops borat would approve
11:27 bitcoinpete if that vernacular works...
11:27 benkay it's almost like you use a real text editor too, bitcoinpete!
11:27 bitcoinpete "to short" sounds so much better than "to long"
11:28 benkay ;)
11:28 bitcoinpete ;;rate ThickAsThieves 1 drinks coffee, knows derivativespeak
11:28 gribble Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user ThickAsThieves has been recorded.
11:29 benkay to go long
11:29 benkay to take a long position
11:29 benkay (in)
11:29 ThickAsThieves i'd say you could almost short it if you bought real ETH, sold off-market for slight discount, then repurchased from MP, but you'd still be betting only on the availble spread, if price dropped below MP's offer, your short would be fukt ... even then they tell you cant do anyhting with the ETH til genblock is made... soooo
11:29 bitcoinpete to golong
11:29 ThickAsThieves he's basiclaly selling ETH at a discount
11:29 ThickAsThieves cheapcoinz!
11:29 bitcoinpete right!
11:29 benkay ;;ticker
11:29 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 621.01, Best ask: 622.87, Bid-ask spread: 1.86000, Last trade: 622.87, 24 hour volume: 2729.87411553, 24 hour low: 618.0, 24 hour high: 624.99, 24 hour vwap: 621.168150006
11:30 benkay ThickAsThieves: scammor
11:30 bitcoinpete the smart kids will be all over mp's offer
11:30 ThickAsThieves haha
11:30 ThickAsThieves soon
11:30 benkay what's smart about buying ether?
11:30 ThickAsThieves nothing
11:30 benkay wine with shit in it is still just shitty wine
11:30 pankkake price is tempting regardless
11:30 bitcoinpete benkay: beats me, ask the *kids* buying the shit
11:31 ThickAsThieves you could argue that the noob hypewagen is strong enough to carry ETH value above MP's offer
11:31 mike_c but shitty wine at half price!
11:31 bitcoinpete ThickAsThieves: entirely possible
11:32 benkay i guess a hedge against ether going somewhere isn't such a bad idea, but it totally fails the good investments criteria.
11:32 benkay starting with not actually existing.
11:32 benkay it's just the whole "i missed btc, maybe this will make me rich" self delusion alllllllll over again.
11:32 ThickAsThieves i think the best part about the offer is it's potential to disrupt the live offering
11:33 pankkake if you look at similar coins, like nxt and ripple, they're still valued quite high
11:33 benkay vb & co. imagine they're actually doing something, but they're just draining the wallets of latecomers
11:33 ThickAsThieves i'd love for people to be buying from MP instead of the actual people
11:33 princessnell i love that it reveals the exhuberance
11:33 pankkake !up stormlight
11:34 benkay "quite high" sure, but are they going to go from .01 US per to 10k per?
11:34 bitcoinpete ThickAsThieves: they still need the patience tho
11:34 bitcoinpete 8 months is 8 years for "i wanna rich nao" ppl
11:34 pankkake benkay: not my point, my point is about taking MP's offer
11:34 ThickAsThieves and it's an audience that hates mp, soooo, fat chance
11:34 asciilifeform is everyone familiar with the proverbial 'money trap' ?
11:34 ThickAsThieves maybe he can buy their love
11:34 bitcoinpete asciilifeform: do tell
11:35 asciilifeform container with, say, banana, and a hole big enough for the beast's hand, but not if it holds the bait
11:35 ThickAsThieves isnt that a Tom hanks movie?
11:35 bitcoinpete ThickAsThieves: maybe if they were camgirls
11:35 Pierre_Rochard ;;rate bitcoinpete 2 Amoraim of b-a
11:35 gribble Rating entry successful. Your rating of 2 for user bitcoinpete has been recorded.
11:35 bitcoinpete hand in a cookie jar thing
11:35 benkay pankkake: yeah, i know what you're saying. this discussion hearkens back to a thing a wise old man harps on about how if you can have the patience to see past the next 6 months to two years you can make trades the rest of the market won't consider because they want 17%/annum *now*
11:35 ThickAsThieves Sexy Saffron better not tell reddit she's an mp employee
11:35 asciilifeform monkey reaches in, grasps banana, refuses to let go, sits there. until hunter shows up.
11:35 bitcoinpete Pierre_Rochard: why ty
11:35 asciilifeform this is quite analogous to the altchain folks
11:36 bitcoinpete asciilifeform: also how herschel tricked one of the channukah goblins. eggs in the jar iirc
11:36 benkay bitcoinpete: yup.
11:36 pigeons hey mircea_popescu I havent followed, but i saw you are selling eth foward contract or similar. I wanted to suggest putting something similar on mpex, i think that would do well
11:37 asciilifeform if any of them took the trouble to write something interesting (e.g. system analogous to the original btc but of proper, rather than 'power ranger' quality) and resisted the temptation of premine shenanigans, etc. - but no.
11:37 asciilifeform can't let go of banana.
11:37 benkay asciilifeform: even if they could reimplement the thing from scratch, it still wouldn't touch btc proper.
11:38 benkay and they can't "let go of banana" and write a real wallet, adding value to the ecosystem.
11:38 pigeons oh dont tell me mpex is still down from weeks ago?
11:38 kakobrekla power ranger has infinite hitpoints.
11:38 benkay mpex.ws, pigeons
11:38 pigeons thanks
11:38 benkay .co works as well for me iirc
11:39 pigeons go isnt working at the moment from my location at least
11:39 pigeons co
11:41 ThickAsThieves mpex.wallstreet
11:41 bitcoinpete Nassim N. Taleb @nntaleb · 38m Up to 19thC, people in the Levant changed religion to stay in the land. Today they change land to keep religion. (Druzes⇒Maronites⇔Shiites) << sounds downright civilized
11:43 asciilifeform benkay: point is not that a hypothetical altchain created by thinking people would displace traditional btc, but that it is theoretically possible to build something that's at least worth thinking about.
11:44 bitcoinpete asciilifeform: but that'll never get teh community on board. teh views!
11:45 asciilifeform no shortage of possible experiments to choose from (e.g. Lamportian 67% theoretical maximum threshold (see 'byzantine generals') instead of 51; programmable work functions; a hundred other things)
11:46 asciilifeform !s turingcoin
11:46 assbot 2 results for 'turingcoin' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=turingcoin
11:46 asciilifeform !s slavecoin
11:46 assbot 22 results for 'slavecoin' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=slavecoin
11:46 pankkake !s coincoin
11:46 assbot 1 results for 'coincoin' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=coincoin
11:47 asciilifeform but no. somehow altchain folks can only think of duplicating spam stock business model.
11:47 benkay actual programmers being few and far between.
11:47 chetty http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/22/Islamic-State-Says-Mannequins-in-Maul-Must-Wear-Veils
11:47 assbot Islamic State Says Mannequins Must Wear Veils
11:50 benkay maul?
11:51 bitcoinpete http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.ca/2014/07/what-textbooks-dont-tell-you-one-of.html
11:51 assbot BPS Research Digest: What the textbooks don't tell you - one of psychology's most famous experiments was seriously flawed
11:51 benkay <benkay> actual programmers being few and far between. // not to imply anything about myself, ofc just a derpy webapp guy
11:56 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 57 @ 0.0142 = 0.8094 BTC [+]
11:57 chetty http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.ca/2014/04/a-self-fulfilling-fallacy.html#at_pco=smlwn-1.0&at_si=53cfda39a97adc45&at_ab=per-3&at_pos=0&at_tot=1
11:57 assbot BPS Research Digest: A self-fulfilling fallacy?
11:59 bitcoinpete ;;nethash
11:59 gribble 129685563.491
11:59 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.81503056 BTC to 12`514 shares, 14504 satoshi per share
12:01 bitcoinpete "SEC To Complete Rules Aimed at Reducing Money-Fund Risks: Plan Would Allow Money Funds to Temporarily Block Investors from Withdrawing Money in Times of Stress"
12:01 assbot trixisowned +v failed; L1: 0, L2: 0
12:01 benkay hohoho yes link please, bitcoinpete
12:01 bitcoinpete http://online.wsj.com/articles/sec-to-vote-on-final-money-market-mutual-fund-rules-1406124323
12:01 assbot SEC To Complete Rules Aimed at Reducing Money-Fund Risks - WSJ
12:01 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 23.66675304 BTC to 1`149`988 shares, 2058 satoshi per share
12:02 kakobrekla !up trixisowned
12:02 trixisowned neh
12:03 trixisowned just wanted to lol @ https://blockchain.info/charts/balance?address=36PrZ1KHYMpqSyAQXSG8VwbUiq2EogxLo2 together
12:03 assbot Bitcoin Balance of bitcoin address: 36PrZ1KHYMpqSyAQXSG8VwbUiq2EogxLo2
12:05 bitcoinpete trixisowned: myeah. almost passed mastercoin exodus thing of 4740.6200979 BTC
12:05 benkay so. sad.
12:06 danielpbarron https://blockchain.info/address/1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr
12:06 assbot Bitcoin Address 1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr
12:06 danielpbarron 2`130.83749757 BTC burned
12:08 benkay "The vote ends more than five years of struggle over how to address structural vulnerabilities in the funds that encourage investors to bolt at the first sign of trouble." LTCM anyone?
12:12 ThickAsThieves SEC Seeks To Install Ponzi Throttle
12:14 ThickAsThieves "Financial Stability Oversight Council, have said such redemption restrictions could spur, rather than curb, investor stampedes." indeed
12:15 benkay ThickAsThieves: http://s1168.photobucket.com/user/alc0nzy/media/IPD_VOLVO_C30_NOS_TANKS.jpg.html
12:15 assbot IPD_VOLVO_C30_NOS_TANKS.jpg Photo by alc0nzy | Photobucket
12:16 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 9 @ 0.1411 = 1.2699 BTC [-]
12:16 ThickAsThieves "Under the plan, fund boards would have the discretion to impose redemption fees of up to 2%, or to temporarily halt redemptions altogether, if their weekly pool of cash or cash like assets drops below the agency's required ratio of 30%"
12:17 ThickAsThieves your investments, now 70% off!
12:19 ThickAsThieves ;;bcstats
12:19 gribble Current Blocks: 312136 | Current Difficulty: 1.733631697850783E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 312479 | Next Difficulty In: 343 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 2 days, 7 hours, 37 minutes, and 17 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 18789848431.7 | Estimated Percent Change: 8.38432
12:21 mike_c is mpex.co going to get fixed ever? or is it just dead.
12:22 ThickAsThieves it's mpex.ws now
12:22 ThickAsThieves and some other one
12:22 mike_c ok. so .co isn't coming back
12:22 ThickAsThieves that i dont know
12:25 assbot [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 49 @ 0.01425 = 0.6983 BTC [-]
12:32 bitcoinpete benkay: <mircea_popescu> mike_c stop opposing progress and an end to oppression. // hey have you guys heard about this ICBC auto insurance monopoly in BC? << i think only bc is socialist enough to do this
12:32 bitcoinpete bc wants to be like california and shit
12:33 bitcoinpete with their own little movie industry and everything
12:34 bitcoinpete time to catch up on weird al...
12:36 lobbes the problem I have with weird al nowadays is that I don't even know the songs he is parodying anymore
12:37 bitcoinpete lobbes: sounds more like your problem than his ;)
12:38 bitcoinpete http://vevo.ly/yRwiKB << nice little stab at dogederps
12:39 nubbins` how's it compare to rates in the rest of canada?
12:41 bitcoinpete nubbins`: not too sure
12:46 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 407 @ 0.00277422 = 1.1291 BTC [+] {7}
12:47 danielpbarron bitcoinpete, hahah same here
12:47 danielpbarron weird al was the first artist I ever bought a cd for; I heard his parodies before the originals
12:48 danielpbarron so i guess.. not same here.... heh
12:48 danielpbarron oh, lobbes said that; whoops
12:54 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 341 @ 0.00284852 = 0.9713 BTC [+] {6}
12:54 pankkake $proxies
12:54 empyex pankkake: Proxies: mpex.ws mpex.bz mpex.coinbr.com MPEx-Status: 1060 milliseconds Current MPEx GPG-Key-ID: 02DD2D91
12:55 benkay $mpexlag
12:55 empyex benkay: 561 milliseconds
12:56 pankkake !search goxlag
12:56 assbot 138 results for 'goxlag' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=goxlag
13:03 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 527 @ 0.00285959 = 1.507 BTC [-] {4}
13:04 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 250 @ 0.0028841 = 0.721 BTC [+] {6}
13:12 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 50 @ 0.140384 = 7.0192 BTC [-] {2}
13:19 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 6 @ 0.1403 = 0.8418 BTC [-]
13:21 benkay http://opennamesystem.org/
13:21 assbot Open Name System
13:22 danielpbarron neato; is this a Namecoin killer?
13:23 benkay can't say yet need moar read
13:24 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.13374999 = 0.535 BTC [-] {2}
13:26 bitcoinpete https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hello/sense-know-more-sleep-better
13:26 assbot Sense: Know More. Sleep Better. by Hello — Kickstarter
13:27 bitcoinpete "The app tells you how well you slept, or didn't, by giving you a unique Sleep Score each night. You can begin to correlate interruptions in your sleep to external conditions and disturbances. You can play back key sound disturbances via the app to say “Ah, the garbage truck broke my sleep cycle at 3am. I didn’t even realize that.”
13:28 bitcoinpete $99 and it's yours. delivery estimated in november 2014
13:28 asciilifeform bitcoinpete: already done, ages ago, by various vendors ('zeo' - now defunct - had a fairly good machine.)
13:29 bitcoinpete nao with apps!
13:30 xmj eo was nice
13:30 xmj zeo* was nice
13:30 bitcoinpete http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicetruong/2012/02/24/battle-of-the-zzzs-how-zeos-sleep-monitors-stack-up/
13:30 assbot Battle of the Zzzs: How Zeo's Sleep Monitors Stack Up - Forbes
13:30 xmj It's really really sad Zeo went bust.
13:33 asciilifeform the funny part is that wearing the electrodes utterly destroyed my sleep quality. and, on the other hand, the variants without electrodes ('actigraph' gadgets) are junk - they can only distinguish 'REM' from other phases of sleep, but nothing more.
13:37 danielpbarron bitcoinpete, i already have a free app that does that sort of thing.. ended up deleting it because too many apps
13:38 bitcoinpete ya i once used one too
13:38 danielpbarron it figures it out based on your movements as you sleep
13:38 bitcoinpete but it only worked on my old spring mattress
13:38 bitcoinpete foam soaks up all the vibrations
13:38 danielpbarron i used it with success on a sofa
13:39 bitcoinpete and by vibrations i mean tossing and turning
13:39 bitcoinpete danielpbarron: ya i could see that
13:43 asciilifeform reminds me of a legend (forgot where i heard it, perhaps even here.)
13:43 asciilifeform one fellow, (said to have lived in romania) built piezos into his bed legs
13:43 asciilifeform and logged pressure
13:44 asciilifeform one day he went on a long journey, and when came back, discovered that max(weight) > him + wife.
13:46 asciilifeform whether he stayed awake in school math and had the sense to look at the actual waveform (perhaps wife was fond of jumping on the bed?) before divorcing, i do not know.
13:47 bitcoinpete lol
13:48 bitcoinpete sorta like othello with the handkerchief
13:48 bitcoinpete she had to be cheatin!
13:54 bitcoinpete "But for those who missed out on getting in on Bitcoin early, Ethereum's launch represents something of another chance."
13:54 bitcoinpete http://www.businessinsider.com/ethereum-launches-ether-2014-7 << says it all
13:54 assbot Ethereum Launches Ether - Business Insider
13:54 benkay I WAS JUST SAYING THIS
13:55 pankkake and I said it before you all, about all altcoins :)
13:56 benkay cept i guess "there will never be another {silicon,internet,bitcoin}" doesn't push views
13:57 bitcoinpete and it's only fair if everyone gets rich!
13:57 mike_c we are all above average drivers.
13:58 bitcoinpete with above average cocks
13:58 mike_c except the irish
13:58 bitcoinpete pretty sure the irish have below average everything
13:59 bitcoinpete but what do i know
13:59 bitcoinpete well i know that this is hirarious: "Big Trend Capital Investment (HASH): We are engaged as a distributor of mining products and a novel mining service. We primarily service retail customers through storefronts such as Amazon, EBay, and our own eStore at BuyAHash.com."
13:59 bitcoinpete https://www.havelockinvestments.com/fund.php?symbol=HASH
13:59 assbot Havelock Investments
13:59 pankkake never another silicon?
13:59 bitcoinpete dat ipo
14:00 bitcoinpete and i'm off. later!
14:01 pankkake but indeed, there will never be another internet. especially with ipv6
14:04 benkay i mean the kind of sociocultural upheaval that accompanied silicon and then the internet, and will eventually fall out of bitcoin, pankkake
14:04 benkay centralization of markets resulting in companies like ebay
14:07 benkay danielpbarron: the little reading i've done suggests that it's not a namecoin killer, as that'd require...studying existing solutions and then doing it better. i've yet to find much support fot eh notion that the folks involved have done any research at all yet.
14:07 benkay "As of yet, no work has been done on adding support for blockchain domains to ONS and the ONS command line tools."
14:11 pankkake ugh, it's onename.io
14:11 pankkake they just do the same, but less, and worse
14:11 thestringpuller naemcoin is kinda cool tho
14:11 pankkake and they're really misleading users
14:12 thestringpuller OneName.io = facebook with gpg
14:12 thestringpuller didn't this already go down with keybase.io ?
14:20 benkay keybase wanted your 'encrypted' private keys.
14:20 asciilifeform self-service gasenwagen. wave of the future. amazing! technology.
14:20 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
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14:38 benkay man the derp brigade is out in force today
14:38 benkay https://www.provetrust.com/
14:38 assbot ProveTrust
14:39 benkay "play good with others" lost art of grammar
14:40 pankkake because no one can fake a facebook account
14:40 benkay quite the deep learners
14:41 pankkake and confusing trust (what businesses want) and identity verification (what the tax man wants)
14:42 pankkake http://www.reddit.com/r/greatapes omg, sometimes reddit delivers
14:42 assbot reddit.com: over 18?
14:43 benkay countdown to sub termination: 10...
14:44 pankkake https://i.imgur.com/bVojk6K.jpg
14:45 asciilifeform benkay: sham-wots are as inevitable as shamchains.
14:45 asciilifeform they taste great together. like der fuhrer's walther and cyanide capsule.
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15:29 thestringpuller benkay: i like how many companies are appearing that can just be subverted with the WoT.
15:30 benkay i don't. it's a phenomenal waste of human capital.
15:32 thestringpuller just cattle. let them die off; we can scavenge the refuse for useful stuff afterwards.
15:36 midnightmagic mircea_popescu: I found that labour-intensive salt cooking reference I mentioned the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRHNa9qdtlw#t=1096
15:36 assbot A bite of China English subtitles EP1 The Gift of the Nature - YouTube
15:42 assbot [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 9407 @ 0.00005999 = 0.5643 BTC [+] {2}
15:48 benkay <thestringpuller> just cattle. let them die off; we can scavenge the refuse for useful stuff afterwards. // biodiesel
15:58 fluffypony mircea_popescu could be the largest æthereum holder with ease, yo - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=563925.msg7991275#msg7991275
15:58 assbot [RFC] thereum: a turing-complete coin distributed as per bitcoin's blockchain
16:00 thestringpuller so Ethereum tx script's are turing complete?
16:00 thestringpuller that sounds slightly dangerous on some levels...
16:00 fluffypony yes - this is æthereum tho
16:01 thestringpuller ~_~ @_@ <.<;; I don't know and have no opinion.
16:01 fluffypony which, from what I understand, is a fork that lets you just pick up the æthereum equivalent of your BTC balance
16:01 thestringpuller except that Taaki is not a "bitcoin legend" >:(
16:01 fluffypony needs moar hero worships
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16:39 mircea_popescu Pierre_Rochard:mircea_popescu: permission to republish? << well, no. an article is one thing, but wholesale copying of trilema serves little purpose. put up an adnotated article list if you want, that seems to serve your purpose better, or if not do commentary on the individual articles
16:41 mircea_popescu nubbins`: mthreat: do yourself a favor and stop drinking charbucks << talking to ex-us-mil guy, "i'll tell you what starbucks is. back in the force, they'd make these largish tanks of coffee at the crack of down, keep them on reheat, throw them out at night. starbucks is pretty much like a drink out of that tank right before it getting thrown out. which is why they put all the cream and crap into it : gotta try and mas
16:41 mircea_popescu k the badly burnt coffee"
16:42 mircea_popescu nubbins`:"i live in a place with stylish young people, independent women, and those who care about our natural environment. it's a real drag." << i can see it.
16:45 chetty http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-23/argentina-debt-mediation-goes-surreal-neither-side-turns-meeting-black-market-peso-t
16:45 Pierre_Rochard mircea_popescu: understood, we’ll go the annotated article list route
16:47 mircea_popescu chetty for the record, the peso was trading 12.2 - 12.7 yesterday
16:47 mircea_popescu so their graphs are the usual crap.
16:48 mircea_popescu also it never touched 12.x in march, talking out of ass these ppls.
16:48 chetty yeah well people talk street price kinda need a street :P
16:50 mthreat chetty, mircea_popescu I got 12.2 pesos per USD 2 hours ago
16:50 mircea_popescu mthreat exactly.
16:50 mthreat to pay for bad coffee
16:51 mircea_popescu mthreat actually i see it's 12.3x atm.
16:51 chetty mthreat, seriously stay out of chatbucks, will rot your gut
16:51 mthreat ya, i usually get under the top "blue rate", but my cueva hasn't given me fake money
16:51 mircea_popescu pankkake: and in multiple bitcoin clients << i never bothered to get a client myself so there's that.
16:52 mircea_popescu mthreat i've not yet had a fake bill either.
16:52 mircea_popescu in about... i dunno, a bagful or so.
16:52 mthreat mircea_popescu maybe the cost of production is > than the value heh
16:52 mircea_popescu money here's a real joke, largest bill ~$8
16:52 chetty I am thinking fake bills are a myth
16:52 mircea_popescu mthreat they're printing like crazy for sure, tho. usually i get ~40% new bills, but the last few buys i got 80-100% new bills.
16:53 mthreat sounds like the US :)
16:53 mircea_popescu chetty just, cheaper for the govt to print em than for the independent crooks
16:53 mircea_popescu so they drive them out of biz.
16:54 mircea_popescu benkay: or is that not actually a text file? << hasn't been a texrfile for all of two years.
16:55 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves:
16:55 mircea_popescu so no way to short it << im shorting it.
16:55 BingoBoingo https://twitter.com/congressedits/status/492027099499462657
16:55 BingoBoingo http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=618163698&oldid=617800185
16:55 assbot Reptilians: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
16:56 mircea_popescu it does allow you to go into a technical short, by buying the future and selling your spot, if you hold any.
16:56 mircea_popescu but this is a point of finesse
16:57 mircea_popescu (basically it ensures that no institutionals will be holding eth today for the purpose of satysfying a mid or long term goal, is all)
16:57 BingoBoingo %t
16:57 atcbot [X-BT] Bid: 210 Ask: 239 Last Price: 239 24h-Vol: 114k High: 239 Low: 210 VWAP: 222
16:57 chetty http://uncoverobamacare.com/undercover-federal-agents-find-it-incredibly-easy-to-defraud-obamacare/
16:57 assbot Uncover Obamacare | 11 of 12 Undercover Federal Agents Find It Incredibly Easy to Defraud ObamaCare
16:57 BingoBoingo %ob
16:57 atcbot 18k@242 47k@240 2k@239 | 140k@210 200k@202 45k@201
16:58 BingoBoingo http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/blog/morning-edition/2014/07/5-reasons-the-bitcoin-bowl-is-good-for-tampa-bays.html
16:58 assbot 5 reasons the Bitcoin Bowl is good for Tampa Bay's tech scene - Tampa Bay Business Journal
16:58 BingoBoingo ^ Note BitPay isn't in Tampa Bay
17:01 BingoBoingo benkay> <mircea_popescu> <pankkake> well, he has the private key, but I have it too. not smart :p << omg BingoBoingo WHAT HAVE YOU DUN NAO // yeah, i'm also curious as to what's going on here << OMG Opsec fail
17:01 mircea_popescu course no institutionals would have bought any anyway, but as a point of principle.
17:02 rithm what is ether scam
17:03 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves: i think the best part about the offer is it's potential to disrupt the live offering << no, the best part is pulling the rug from under the scammer's feet quite unexplectedly.
17:03 mircea_popescu now it's quite clear they';re recycling some borrowed btc as "investments".
17:03 ThickAsThieves you say the same thing as me
17:03 ThickAsThieves just meaner
17:03 ThickAsThieves ;)
17:03 mircea_popescu now that may be :D
17:04 rithm https://balances.io/
17:04 assbot Balances All your digital currency balances in one place.
17:04 mircea_popescu ironically enough, doge i've been selling. eth, none.
17:04 rithm looks neat if wasn't a three letter honeypot
17:04 mircea_popescu ;;refresh
17:04 gribble Order refresh successful, 2 orders refreshed.
17:05 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves:
17:05 mircea_popescu and it's an audience that hates mp, soooo, fat chance << you know how many of these there've been, over the years ? and how painfully and mean-ly they've been humiliated ?
17:06 mircea_popescu startin' all the way to the good ol' boys of glbse and so on.
17:06 mircea_popescu zee bitcoin bankerz cartel,
17:06 mircea_popescu good times.
17:06 pankkake rithm: you can do watch-only with most clients now
17:07 rithm i know so i'm not sure what it accomplishes other than intel gathering and noob convenience
17:07 mircea_popescu http://bitbet.us/bet/1000/republicans-win-majority-of-the-u-s-senate/
17:07 assbot BitBet - Republicans win majority of the U.S. Senate :: 1.07 B (71%) on Yes, 0.43 B (29%) on No | closing in 3 months 1 week| weight: 98`238 (100`000 to 1)
17:07 mircea_popescu srsly ? rep majority ? i tell you i dun see it.
17:08 pankkake I think you can do it already with blockchain.info too
17:08 ThickAsThieves https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339417.msg7988372#msg7988372
17:08 assbot [HAVELOCK] (HIF) Havelock Investments Fund
17:08 mircea_popescu a) how the fuck are conservatives going to make electoral gains in populist times and b) who the fuck do the republicans even represent anymore, they've lost the teaparty.
17:09 pankkake by not being conservatives, but some random nutjob thing
17:09 ThickAsThieves they represent sameness
17:09 ThickAsThieves democrat is change
17:09 ThickAsThieves change is bad
17:09 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves i liked https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339417.msg7918899#msg7918899 better.
17:09 assbot [HAVELOCK] (HIF) Havelock Investments Fund
17:10 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves the way the us is going, anything's better than sameness.
17:10 ThickAsThieves i'm speaking for the masses of course
17:10 ThickAsThieves not myself
17:10 ThickAsThieves change is dope
17:10 mircea_popescu after 8 years of "we can do it" and "change nao" i doubt you can find any broad group that's of the oppinion things can continue as they are.
17:10 mircea_popescu this is the major advantage for the fucktarded socialists : once la revolucion starts it fucks up things so badly people want a revolution.
17:10 mircea_popescu and so... permanence!
17:12 mircea_popescu http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/2bfwaw/mircea_popescu_offers_a_short_of_etherium_coins/cj5e00i lol
17:12 assbot Bitcoin_Error_Log comments on Mircea Popescu offers a short of Etherium coins up to 1 KiloBTC's worth at 5000 per BTC deliverable in 2015
17:12 mircea_popescu "i can't imagine xyz" is now an argument.
17:13 rithm mp have you sullied yourself in this ether scamcoin
17:13 mircea_popescu how ?
17:14 rithm obv i'm skimming
17:14 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves: Sexy Saffron better not tell reddit she's an mp employee << that's okay, the only thing that's keeping derppit from a collective headexploy is all the shit their collective dumbass doesn't know.
17:14 mircea_popescu o sorry. "can't imagine".
17:15 ThickAsThieves lol
17:15 mircea_popescu pigeons: hey mircea_popescu I havent followed, but i saw you are selling eth foward contract or similar. I wanted to suggest putting something similar on mpex, i think that would do well << i asked, people lol'd. which is why it's in otc.
17:15 ThickAsThieves true philosophers
17:15 rithm so you are selling 5000 ether, deliverable in 2015, for 1 BTC now?
17:15 rithm it's genius
17:16 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves i was chuckling at the buttcoin treatment earlier, "let's look at things from the position that popularity matters and then get all aggitated when nothing makes sense".
17:16 mircea_popescu rithm ty.
17:16 pigeons is there a built-in mechanism for these suckers, i mean people to trade their ether before/if the production network ever comes out?
17:17 mircea_popescu pigeons afaik, no.
17:17 ThickAsThieves from what i read, the ETH is in total lockdown til it's released
17:17 pigeons that's why i was thinking an mpex listing would be nice, people could trade it
17:17 mircea_popescu a scam doesn't work very well in the open.
17:17 rithm but it doesn't exist yet to be traded
17:17 pigeons its aptly named i guess
17:17 rithm there's not a working implementation is there?
17:17 rithm like an ethereumd
17:17 BingoBoingo http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/sorry-this-gif-is-not-available-in-your-browser
17:17 assbot sorry this gif is not available in your browser
17:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: if any of them took the trouble to write something interesting (e.g. system analogous to the original btc but of proper, rather than 'power ranger' quality) and resisted the temptation of premine shenanigans, etc. - but no. <<< quite.
17:17 pigeons i had some esther or something the other day, it wasnt ether but it worked in the same manner
17:17 ThickAsThieves no, "winter 2014/15"
17:18 rithm pigeons, yeah perfect name
17:18 rithm calling it ether almost seems like expert troll
17:18 pigeons rithm: there is a testnet that executes contracts, but themining alogirthm will change when they decide to make one up
17:18 mircea_popescu pigeons i grew up with a one lb bottle of liquid ether in my chemistry lab. tru story.
17:18 pigeons lost of other stuff will change when they get around to making it up as well
17:18 ThickAsThieves ethereum ‏@ethereumproject 2m
17:18 ThickAsThieves The only location to purchase ether is http://j.mp/1nkJeYG - Any other website, emails, skype, twitter, etc are scams.
17:18 assbot ethereum
17:18 ThickAsThieves heh
17:19 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves lulz
17:19 rithm nice pretty site, dancing logo, buy now
17:19 ThickAsThieves you are scams
17:19 mircea_popescu scammors calling things scamz nao.
17:19 mircea_popescu this is like so 2012 all over again.
17:19 mircea_popescu hey SEC ? where the fuck is your dumb ass baby ?
17:20 rithm but ethereum has no plans to "integrate" or use the bitcoin blockchain for any type of verification, right?
17:20 rithm it's a totally new alt-chain implementation
17:20 mircea_popescu we will definitely have a showdown over all this crap one of these days. and as to why james gibson & his merry scammer friends are stil on the street.
17:20 rithm do i understand that correctly?
17:20 benkay <mircea_popescu> Pierre_Rochard:mircea_popescu: permission to republish? << well, no. an article is one thing, but wholesale copying of trilema serves little purpose. put up an adnotated article list if you want, that seems to serve your purpose better, or if not do commentary on the individual articles // think talmud
17:20 mircea_popescu and to the rest of em. lube up.
17:20 mircea_popescu here i am, by my lonesome, trying to keep some semblance of discipline,
17:20 pigeons rithm: correct
17:20 mircea_popescu while the usg is busy drinking chateau lafitte out of the taxpayer's moneyz.
17:21 mircea_popescu for shame.
17:21 benkay <mircea_popescu> benkay: or is that not actually a text file? << hasn't been a texrfile for all of two years. // cult of complexity
17:21 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves: mpex.wallstreet << bingo.
17:21 rithm ...and the reason being the turingincompletedness of bitcoin
17:22 rithm i don't seeing having the value bitcoin has
17:22 rithm chisel that in stone in your logs
17:22 rithm * idon't see it
17:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: no shortage of possible experiments to choose from (e.g. Lamportian 67% theoretical maximum threshold << that's not the good part. the good part is a better chaining methodology.
17:24 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8100 @ 0.00079777 = 6.4619 BTC [-]
17:24 benkay what are the flaws of the current chaining methodology, mircea_popescu ?
17:24 ThickAsThieves ohnoes coindesk commenter has burned me: "I wish i could see your stupid face in about 10 years when almost every interaction you have with an electronic device relies on a decentralized blockchain.. "we don't need smart contracts" haha are you for real!? "
17:24 thestringpuller mircea_popescu pigeons i grew up with a one lb bottle of liquid ether in my chemistry lab. tru story. << do I dare ask what you did with said ether?
17:24 ThickAsThieves mah stupid face!
17:25 mircea_popescu benkay you read the http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoin-prices-bitcoin-inflexibility/#comment-92015 ?
17:25 assbot Bitcoin prices, Bitcoin inflexibility pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
17:25 ThickAsThieves "I think smart contracts are pretty revolutionary, and once they're commonplace we'll all wonder how we got along without them." this is people responding to me asking wtf will actually use it
17:25 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves does the guy have a name ?
17:26 ThickAsThieves http://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-launches-ether-coin-millions-already-sold/
17:26 assbot Ethereum Launches Own 'Ether' Coin, With Millions Already Sold
17:26 ThickAsThieves the commenter?
17:26 mircea_popescu thestringpuller it's a major feedstock for a number of organic chemistry reactions.
17:26 mircea_popescu i also burned some
17:26 mircea_popescu i didn't actually huff it
17:26 ThickAsThieves no, he posted as Some R Dumb
17:26 mircea_popescu but i did put out a cat a number of times.
17:26 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves well clearly if "he thinks" and "he can't see" your dumb face he wins the internets.
17:27 ThickAsThieves "Instead of making a "You guys just don't understand how big this is going to be" comment, why don't you tell us what your plans involve so we get a better idea of what ethereum is? " ~smarter commenter
17:27 ThickAsThieves response:
17:27 ThickAsThieves I sincerely apologize. My comment was directed at the user who said that no one would want or need this. I cant get into specifics on what we are working on but here are a few questions that spring into mind.
17:27 ThickAsThieves Who is going to be the facebook of ethereum?
17:27 ThickAsThieves Who is going to be the google of ethereum? (well... lets not kid ourselves... probably google on that one)
17:27 mircea_popescu lmao
17:27 ThickAsThieves there's more...
17:27 mircea_popescu so wait, is ths ninjashoguncoin ?
17:27 ThickAsThieves lol
17:27 mike_c ;;seen the20year
17:27 gribble the20year was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 2 days, 3 hours, 14 minutes, and 55 seconds ago: <the20year> nubbins`: i sent you my address
17:28 ThickAsThieves fukn hilarious people
17:28 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves if that's how you call terminal retards.
17:28 ThickAsThieves this is the first timei'm upvoting things i disagree with
17:28 ThickAsThieves just too awesome
17:29 mircea_popescu o which reminds me : funny notice in local quikmart : "esta terminantemente prohibido la venta a menores de 18 anos"
17:30 mircea_popescu bitcoinpete: "SEC To Complete Rules Aimed at Reducing Money-Fund Risks: Plan Would Allow Money Funds to Temporarily Block Investors from Withdrawing Money in Times of Stress" << epic.
17:30 mircea_popescu sec to announce partnership with bitcoin scammers next, to fight terrorism and other stresses.
17:31 ThickAsThieves Draper will be on Colbert tonight, prepare for derpy bitcoin jokez
17:32 mircea_popescu mike_c: is mpex.co going to get fixed ever? or is it just dead. << nah will come bax
17:32 ThickAsThieves we got yo bitcoinz bitchez! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtPmdawCQAI7LKA.jpg
17:32 mircea_popescu ThickAsThieves which one is draper again ?
17:32 mike_c too late, i changed all my links. it's dead to me :)
17:32 ThickAsThieves the SR auction weiner
17:32 mircea_popescu the guy that didn't manage to buy some bitcoins and also had a sextape ?
17:33 mircea_popescu is he going with nicole richie ?
17:33 ThickAsThieves only time will tell!
17:33 mircea_popescu mike_c worx.
17:33 benkay <mircea_popescu> benkay you read the http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoin-prices-bitcoin-inflexibility/#comment-92015 ? // read it yes, but the context?
17:33 assbot Bitcoin prices, Bitcoin inflexibility pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
17:33 mircea_popescu lobbes: the problem I have with weird al nowadays is that I don't even know the songs he is parodying anymore << this is because you've stopped fucking teenagers.
17:34 mircea_popescu benkay you were asking how to improve the blockchain.
17:34 pigeons don't forget the child porn and drug trafficicking to go with the terrorism. oh and file-sharing
17:34 benkay ah.
17:34 ThickAsThieves “I give bitcoin 12 to 18 months before its fate will be decided by lawmakers. We don’t have a lot of time to tackle these issues, and if we don’t, bitcoin will be narrowed down to a hobbyist niche and not a true industry.” ~ Perianne Boring
17:34 mircea_popescu benkay: can't say yet need moar read << pls let the group know.
17:35 benkay keep reading, boss
17:35 mircea_popescu ;;rated bitcoingirl
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17:35 ThickAsThieves “There’s nobody else in DC that cares about bitcoin, bitcoin has a terrible reputation, people are scared to touch it, nobody wants to be involved with it, and a lot of it is a lack of understanding.”
17:35 mircea_popescu ;;rate bitcoingirl -1 Absolutely unbearably clueless, self promoting dumb broad.
17:35 gribble Rating entry successful. Your rating of -1 for user bitcoingirl has been recorded.
17:36 mircea_popescu they are going to be A LOT more scared, i'm getting a "get in touch" program out for politicians.
17:36 mircea_popescu this scared is nothing.
17:36 BingoBoingo ;;gettrust assbot bitcoingirl
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17:37 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: chaining methodology << sure. and ten other things.
17:37 mircea_popescu yeah.
17:37 ThickAsThieves Amagi Metals, Inc ‏@AmagiMetals 5h
17:37 ThickAsThieves Amagi no longer accepting Dogecoin: https://www.amagimetals.com/info/amagi-metals-no-longer-accepting-dogecoin/ … #dogecoin #muchsad #crypto
17:37 mircea_popescu anyway, i was originally thinking bitcoin-the-prototype needs to run about five years before actual iteration is worth contemplating
17:37 mircea_popescu that'd be up in about six months. so by all means.
17:38 benkay hm.
17:38 benkay cross-chain wallet for alphacoinz was on my personal roadmap
17:39 thestringpuller #shibelyfe
17:39 * asciilifeform whispers 'btc in silico'
17:40 mircea_popescu bitcoinpete: $99 and it's yours. delivery estimated in november 2014 << expensive, but it's not actually a bad idea.
17:41 asciilifeform mircea_popescu, bitcoinpete: just an old idea. as in, hardware you can actually buy.
17:41 mircea_popescu most good ideas are old
17:42 mircea_popescu they get older as fucktards chase the mba train of spam.
17:43 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: before divorcing, i do not know. << why divorce the woman just because she's getting exercise ?
17:43 mircea_popescu benkay: I WAS JUST SAYING THIS << basically doge opened the way for "mainstream" media shilling.
17:44 mircea_popescu now all these unemployable fuckwits with business insider blogs and whatnot expect a coupla hundred to tout the next scam.
17:44 mircea_popescu i guess in a sense this is just the unavoidable effect of their irrelevant impotence. "if you can't do something useful anyway, might as well make a buck doing something pointless"
17:45 mircea_popescu bitcoinpete: pretty sure the irish have below average everything <<< irish chicks have above average to epic freckles.
17:46 mircea_popescu benkay: keybase wanted your 'encrypted' private keys. << oh such lulz.
17:47 mircea_popescu Secure connection: fatal error (552) https://www.provetrust.com/ << i guess it's been proven.
17:47 assbot ProveTrust
17:48 mircea_popescu http://i.imgur.com/8jD4GV5.jpg
17:49 mircea_popescu goes well with http://whiteslavebcn.tumblr.com/
17:49 assbot white slave bcn
17:49 mircea_popescu http://inferiorcracker.tumblr.com/ etc.
17:49 assbot white slave for Black
17:54 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 801 @ 0.00297861 = 2.3859 BTC [+] {8}
17:55 mircea_popescu benkay: i don't. it's a phenomenal waste of human capital. << there is no such thing as "waste" of human capital any more han there's waste of carbon. it's an element, whatever it gets used for is just fine.
17:56 mircea_popescu fluffypony: mircea_popescu could be the largest æthereum holder <<< could is such a majik word.
17:56 mircea_popescu midnightmagic a bit more marketing in that than i'd be looking for.
17:57 fluffypony coulda-would-shoulda
17:57 fluffypony it's sorta like first-biggest-best
17:58 mircea_popescu anyway, the part where there's 500 ether aethereum ethereum etc is certainly helpful.
17:59 mircea_popescu one of the reason girls trying to break into porn have to work so hard is that there's so damned many of them
18:00 mircea_popescu thestringpuller: except that Taaki is not a "bitcoin legend" >:( <<< i beg to differ. taaki is a bitcoin legend : http://trilema.com/2012/amir-taaki-has-done-and-continues-to-do-huge-disservice-to-anyone-serious-involved-in-bitcoin/
18:00 assbot Amir Taaki has done, and continues to do, huge disservice to anyone serious involved in Bitcoin. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
18:00 mircea_popescu he's legendary stupid.
18:05 mircea_popescu http://33.media.tumblr.com/b51c7167d6ec495a7a109df4056504c3/tumblr_n81s5bghWL1rl2t88o1_500.jpg << o look what i found
18:09 * dub looks for the unsee button
18:10 pigeons yeah like i shouldnt already know better than to click one of mircea_popescu's links
18:13 benkay http://localbitcoins.smshost.biz/
18:13 assbot Check if your bitcoin private key was leaked
18:17 fluffypony lol
18:17 kakobrekla if balance is greater than 0, it was not.
18:18 kakobrekla now mp sez but smart hacker will wait for mo monies.
18:18 kakobrekla and kako sez http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-07-2014#765707
18:18 assbot #bitcoin-assets log
18:27 assbot [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 279 @ 0.00432511 = 1.2067 BTC [-] {7}
18:31 mircea_popescu i r not say anything.
18:31 dub mike_c: no. 1) pick a girl. 2) she picks the date mike_c: 3) she starts planning for 6 months
18:31 dub truth
18:32 mircea_popescu you're all a buncha pussies.
18:33 mike_c yeah, a REAL man picks his own wedding date :p
18:33 mircea_popescu a real man weds chuck morris.
18:34 mike_c chuck norris will now destroy b-a because you got his name wrong.
18:36 dub she just finalised our venue, twas all I could do to drag it back to 300km away from 10000km
18:37 mike_c your friends and family thank you for your efforts.
18:37 mircea_popescu lol r/SA has now established that i am not smart, all my good points are repackaged from someone else.
18:37 mircea_popescu my sides. i imagine libertards are smart in entirely novel, innovative ways, right ? because such a thing can ever be :D
18:37 dub wait, something awful has a reddit?
18:38 mircea_popescu i am thankful for the internet for this, by the way. before every idiot had a voice, the world was less amusing, and the reasons why the poor must be whipped daily less obvious.
18:38 mircea_popescu dub http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2bge40/im_crying_with_joy_over_here_my_toes_are_curling/
18:38 assbot Im crying with joy over here, my toes are curling in untold glee, I have little doubt that I shall live to see this, all of it. : Buttcoin
18:38 mircea_popescu after they sold buttcoins.org to bfl they moved to reddit.
18:40 mircea_popescu anyway, the person i'm repackaging is christos ballas, which kind-of informs as to the depth of intelligence the core of us libertards has at its disposal : they can dig as deep as about the past coupla months, and that's that.
18:40 mike_c lol, sometimes they get one right: "Christ almighty. Can you summarize that in like a few thousand words?"
18:40 mircea_popescu i guess it works fine for most blogs, which really aren't much deeper than that, and definitely for most perianne borings, which... yeah.
18:40 mircea_popescu mike_c i suspek that's unintentional.
18:40 mike_c blind squirrel etc.
18:41 mircea_popescu anyway, i guess my knowing who they are and who they fucked and all the dirt makes this an unequal contest and therefore me racist or somesuch.
18:42 mircea_popescu "Yeah, certainly not every Bitcoiner is a redpiller.
18:42 mircea_popescu As far as my observations go, I think there are many idealists, but they are a bit complicit in that these fuckers aren't shouted down or ejected because they are "of the community"."
18:42 mircea_popescu i mean check out that beauty. "what, mp can eject each and every reddit communitard if he so chooses ?!?! not possibru!!!
18:42 mircea_popescu because reality is by consensus and power is by headcount!!! LIBERTARDIA!!!!"
18:43 mircea_popescu i thot they still teach in those social pseudosciences just how informative one's apparent assumptions are. i guess nobody does psychology seriously since the pills huh.
18:50 BingoBoingo OMG we better not tell /r/Buttcoin who started linking TLP up in here...
18:53 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo i got a lulz out of their scummy apology/explanation as to how they sold the domain to bfl.
18:53 mircea_popescu typical "whoddunit/not me" infantilism. it was a mistake but we're not really stupid, we did it for the cash but we're not really desperate,
18:54 mircea_popescu it's like the talking points of the lost generations. they did it "ironically".
18:55 BingoBoingo It really is some magic, thinking they can talk something to death, but then actually damaging everything by selling out to the worst actor in the space they derped against for so long.
18:56 mircea_popescu #freenode is terminally fucking braindamaged. a year ago they stopped taking donations because "it was too much effort". since then i've been trying to get them a server up. pretty much zero interest.
18:56 mircea_popescu there's just no way this shit can survive on the mid term.
18:56 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo i suspect the reasoning here is that "bfl is bad for bitcoin" and so therefore selling to them is "bad for bitcoin" and so it's a smart move.
18:56 mircea_popescu too stupid to evaluate the compound errors in there.
18:58 hanbot mircea_popescu aww, nobody's hated on me like that (reddit) in a while
18:58 BingoBoingo All the while they forget that in the past year BFL has went from being bad for Bitcoin to merely being bad for a certain kind of people who want into Bitcoin and probably ought to begin buying pre-order lube
18:58 hanbot mp gets all the bitches
19:00 mircea_popescu basically, bfl is essentially bad for... them.
19:00 mircea_popescu it makes all its money out of exploiting the erroneous mindset that derps matter and groups work.
19:01 mircea_popescu as the old saying goes, a man deserves the life he choses.
19:02 BingoBoingo I guess if there is one thing to learn from a year and a half of Havelol's history it is that Bitcoin also seems to be killing the veil of corporate protection as a formal construct https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339417.msg7987373#msg7987373
19:02 assbot [HAVELOCK] (HIF) Havelock Investments Fund
19:08 benkay <dub> she just finalised our venue, twas all I could do to drag it back to 300km away from 10000km // sucker - i had mine in the backyard of the house in which i grew up.
19:08 benkay which just so happens to be six blocks from my current residence.
19:10 benkay lolk so what did bitcoingirl do to piss you off, mircea_popescu ?
19:14 dub we're in a backyard too, for the portion that isn't on the beach
19:15 BingoBoingo benkay: Have you seen what Ms Boring has been writing lately?
19:17 benkay no i tuned out a long time ago
19:17 benkay link me to great lulz plox
19:17 dub albeit a $1000/night backyard
19:18 benkay yeah, but it's not the backyard of your childhood and also you're paying for it.
19:18 mike_c you also pay for it if you don't give her the wedding she wants.
19:19 benkay boring and company llc doesn't even register on google, wtf
19:19 dub there are far too many backyards of my childhood and few of them meet the >10000km away requisite
19:19 benkay sheeeeeit you give them the wedding?
19:19 dub <*
19:19 benkay what happened to the dowry?
19:21 BingoBoingo benkay: Basically Ms. Boring forked the foundation taking a stronger stand in favor of "Let's all just surrender to the State more and faster now, k thx"
19:22 benkay yes but links please, BingoBoingo
19:22 BingoBoingo http://www.coindesk.com/perianne-boring-regulators-will-decide-bitcoins-fate-within-18-months/
19:22 assbot Perianne Boring: Regulators Will Decide Bitcoin's Fate Within 18 Months
19:23 BingoBoingo ^ I dunno what could mistate things worse
19:23 mircea_popescu benkay just being her usual dumb self.
19:23 mircea_popescu hanbot wait, what did they say ?
19:23 benkay gotta love how her face is the lede
19:23 mircea_popescu http://33.media.tumblr.com/7d805745fa357a95aa9f05ec5f921eec/tumblr_mpv5gu5An11rfcxy6o1_500.gif
19:23 mircea_popescu gif related.
19:24 benkay intern for the white house?
19:24 benkay hue hue hue hue hue
19:24 benkay man
19:24 benkay the joke there is that nobody saw how dumb of an idea claiming to be a pretty young intern at the white house is
19:24 mircea_popescu forgeddaboutit.
19:24 dub whats the op called where they send in fuckable chicks to get ammunition on targets ala assange?
19:25 benkay wow you guys actually read coindesk
19:25 mircea_popescu so my... conventional munitions alarm went off.
19:26 mircea_popescu turns out... these people are digging an extension to the metro. WITH DYNAMITE.
19:26 mircea_popescu so argentina. much surprising. all the fucking time.
19:26 benkay gotta love los portenos
19:26 mircea_popescu nuts.
19:27 * benkay is amazed at the amount of dick going into that butt
19:27 mircea_popescu who the fuck blasts metro tunnels ?! is it like what, 1860 ?
19:27 benkay can't import boring machines
19:27 benkay wait there's a topic pun in there
19:27 benkay topical*
19:27 benkay boring
19:27 benkay drilling
19:27 benkay perianne
19:27 dub welcome to teh 3rd world
19:27 benkay nah
19:27 dub benkay: stopit
19:28 mircea_popescu dub girl clearly has no stop tit.
19:29 benkay tit stop
19:29 benkay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb2GFyKv4fA
19:29 assbot Tit Stop Factory - YouTube
19:30 mircea_popescu people can't fucking enunciate
19:30 mircea_popescu "listentomesluralltheconsonantsintoaporrigeofmushty"
19:32 mike_c <+mircea_popescu> who the fuck blasts metro tunnels ?! << broke countries?
19:33 mircea_popescu i guess.
19:33 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 264 @ 0.00283392 = 0.7482 BTC [-]
19:33 mircea_popescu !up CheapBoy
19:33 CheapBoy How is Mircea Popescu shorting going?
19:34 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-07-2014#765965
19:34 assbot #bitcoin-assets log
19:36 CheapBoy I don't understand your link.
19:37 CheapBoy I am interested in betting against you.
19:37 mircea_popescu so how many you wanna buy ?
19:37 CheapBoy 15000?
19:38 mircea_popescu for delivery march 15th ?
19:38 benkay ;;gettrust CheapBoy
19:38 gribble WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user benkay to user CheapBoy: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=benkay&dest=CheapBoy | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=CheapBoy | Rated since: never
19:39 mircea_popescu benkay ironically, for this deal he doesn't actually need one. he's the long party.
19:39 mircea_popescu !up nycbtcpros
19:39 CheapBoy Delivery march 15th
19:39 CheapBoy Yes
19:39 benkay just out of curiousity, how do you plan to verify his identity for delivery come next march?
19:39 mircea_popescu benkay same address.
19:39 BigBitz delivery of what ?
19:40 benkay sign a thing with the addr from which he pays you?
19:40 CheapBoy My worry is, how is delivery guaranteed?
19:40 mircea_popescu CheapBoy ok, that'll be 3 btc, with the caveat that if eth is not released or not trading come march 15th you get 1 satoshi back.
19:40 dub lol
19:40 mircea_popescu ;;gettrust mircea_popescu
19:40 gribble Currently authenticated from hostmask mircea_popescu!~Mircea@pdpc/supporter/silver/mircea-popescu. Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user mircea_popescu: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 154 via 88 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=mircea_popescu&dest=mircea_popescu | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=mircea_popescu | Rated since: Fri Jul 22 11:04:26 2011
19:40 mircea_popescu thusly.
19:40 CheapBoy 1 satoshi ouch.
19:41 CheapBoy What guarantee do the people buying presale ehereum get as of now?
19:41 assbot Last 1 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/2XRBN6Z.txt )
19:41 benkay !b 1
19:41 mircea_popescu nothing afaik.
19:41 CheapBoy That guarantee should be tradable before it is released I hope...
19:41 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2012/deci-piata-financiara-bine/ << here's a model contract, from back in 2012.
19:41 assbot Deci piata financiara, bine ? pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
19:41 mircea_popescu happens to be the first future deal in btc, too.
19:42 mircea_popescu CheapBoy i have no problem with your assigning your delivery, but to do that you will need to register a gpg signature in the wot.
19:43 BigBitz delivery of what ? <--
19:43 benkay BigBitz: ether.
19:43 mircea_popescu BigBitz the eth scamcoin. you gotta read teh logs more.
19:43 CheapBoy Sounds good and serious, what is gpg signature?
19:43 benkay ;;google gpg
19:43 gribble The GNU Privacy Guard: <https://www.gnupg.org/>; GNU Privacy Guard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard>; GPGTools - It's worth protecting what you love: <https://gpgtools.org/>
19:43 BigBitz Ohhh. Ethereum. lol.
19:43 BigBitz the pre-premine coin.
19:44 mircea_popescu BigBitz bingo.
19:44 benkay ;;google gpg ultimate guide
19:44 gribble Creating the perfect GPG keypair - Alex Cabal: <https://alexcabal.com/creating-the-perfect-gpg-keypair/>; Creating a new GPG key | Ana's blog - ekaia dot org: <http://ekaia.org/blog/2009/05/10/creating-new-gpgkey/>; Generating More Secure GPG Keys: A Step-by-Step Guide: <http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/11/24/secure-gpg-keys-guide/>
19:44 dub PGP: Sounds good and serious.
19:44 mircea_popescu jesus i was looking to say bigtitsbingo for a long time.
19:44 BigBitz So wait you're giving him, like, what 9 months ?
19:44 benkay CheapBoy: the alexcabal link is the one.
19:44 mircea_popescu BigBitz yeah.
19:44 BigBitz mircea_popescu one day... just one day... I hope to be 5% as rich as you.
19:44 CheapBoy And how can you guarantee delivery?
19:44 mircea_popescu dub dun hate on teh noobs.
19:44 mircea_popescu CheapBoy by saying so.
19:44 dub I'm not, its a great quote
19:44 CheapBoy Sounds foolproof.
19:45 mircea_popescu it is.
19:45 BigBitz delivery is provable by a wallet? a trading 'site' ?
19:45 CheapBoy Who here "vouches" for mircea?
19:45 mircea_popescu jesus i was waiting to answer "it is" to two diff people in one line forever.
19:45 mike_c CheapBoy: that is what the web of trust is for: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=mircea_popescu
19:45 assbot Rating Details for User 'mircea_popescu'
19:45 BigBitz ;;gettrust mircea_popescu
19:45 gribble Currently authenticated from hostmask mircea_popescu!~Mircea@pdpc/supporter/silver/mircea-popescu. Trust relationship from user BigBitz to user mircea_popescu: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 14 via 11 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=BigBitz&dest=mircea_popescu | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=mircea_popescu | Rated since: Fri Jul 22 11:04:26 2011
19:45 mircea_popescu CheapBoy if you lok in the gribble response above you see the list of all the 88 people.
19:45 mircea_popescu pick some you know from there, ask 'em.
19:45 BigBitz in fairness some of those 88 people are not the most trusted :P
19:45 mircea_popescu BigBitz obv.
19:46 BigBitz rg :(
19:46 mircea_popescu BigBitz http://trilema.com/2014/what-the-wot-is-for-how-it-works-and-how-to-use-it/ << mandatory reading i say.
19:46 assbot What the WoT is for, how it works and how to use it. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
19:46 BigBitz mircea_popescu you should look at my WoT.
19:46 dub in counter-fairness check out tux' ratings
19:46 mircea_popescu lol cunterfairness
19:46 mircea_popescu BigBitz i know. but it's been upgraded.
19:47 BigBitz aside from my scammer ratings. my WoT is in good shape.
19:47 CheapBoy Mircea Thanks for explaining.
19:48 CheapBoy I am hesitating, it says "scheduled for release winter 2014/2015" on the site. Pretty big risk it's delayed imo.
19:48 mike_c indeed. mircea_popescu: what would you charge for 1 year?
19:49 mircea_popescu mike_c im not gonna bother with > 9 months.
19:49 mike_c forget it. my momentary insanity passed.
19:49 mircea_popescu CheapBoy delayed past march ?
19:49 CheapBoy Yes delayed past march.
19:49 mircea_popescu well fine, have it your way. july 25th.
19:49 mircea_popescu same price.
19:49 CheapBoy Delaying crowdfunding things is pretty standard at kickstarter
19:50 benkay kinda the whole point
19:50 benkay ;;gettrust bitb
19:50 gribble WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user benkay to user bitb: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=benkay&dest=bitb | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=bitb | Rated since: never
19:50 benkay ;;gettrust BigBitz
19:50 mircea_popescu i have nfi why anyone'd do business with people who announce xmas and then fail to deliver in march, but then again...
19:50 gribble Currently authenticated from hostmask BigBitz!~BigBitz@unaffiliated/bigbitz. Trust relationship from user benkay to user BigBitz: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 1 via 1 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=benkay&dest=BigBitz | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=BigBitz | Rated since: Fri Apr 26 11:13:53 2013
19:51 benkay <mircea_popescu> i have nfi why anyone'd do business with people who announce xmas and then fail to deliver in march, but then again... // what, you calling asciilifeform a scammer?
19:51 mircea_popescu benkay you will note nsa didn't sell cardanos.
19:53 mircea_popescu mkay, im off to get mthreat drunk. back in a while.
19:53 benkay mhm. a solid distinction for sure.
19:53 benkay dammit argentina
19:53 mircea_popescu CheapBoy best do some reading, lot of ground to cover before jumping into things.
19:53 CheapBoy Mircea, thanks.
19:54 CheapBoy Would you buy ethereum for me even though it's not officially released, but tradable?
19:54 mike_c what would be trading if it wasn't released?
19:55 BingoBoingo CheapBoy: You are a brave soul going long on Ether.
19:56 CheapBoy hehe, coming here I'm getting more scared.
19:57 BingoBoingo CheapBoy: Nah, we don't bite much.
19:57 benkay you should never be scared to make a trade.
19:57 benkay if its a good trade, you'll know.
19:57 benkay if you're scared, listen to that.
19:57 pigeons who are these people buying it? i see everyone ssaying the obvious about who knows what a good price is and if the platform will ever materialize, but someone is paying
19:58 benkay same as it ever was
19:58 BingoBoingo pigeons: Prolly Vitalik, Aspergzors is an adequate substitute for intelligence, Buterin paying himself
19:58 benkay the hype cycle was just reeeeeally long.
19:58 midnightmagic mircea_popescu: so far the authentic chinese food I've tasted pretty much lives up to its visual appeal; Yunnan province (where a lot of that episode was filmed) is delicious and very un-weird.
19:59 midnightmagic but ehh.. propaganda piece for tourism. i'm okay with that
20:00 BingoBoingo CheapBoy: If you actually want the Ether, mircea_popescu's short if the cheapest offer going
20:00 BingoBoingo I just dunno why anyone would want ether that can't soak a rag
20:01 pigeons yeah it should be able to soak a rag, but dont do it that way you hobo
20:02 pigeons pressurize for nice clear gas
20:03 BingoBoingo pigeons: Wait, you're inhaling it? I was just going to use it as a solvent to clean some stuff...
20:03 pigeons oops
20:03 mike_c harder to apply to others as gas
20:04 BingoBoingo !up CheapBoy
20:05 benkay who is this nycbtcpros?
20:05 pigeons ;;seen nycbtcpros
20:05 gribble I have not seen nycbtcpros.
20:06 pigeons ;;gpg info nyvbtcpros
20:06 gribble No such user registered.
20:06 pigeons ;;gpg info nycbtcpros
20:06 gribble User 'nycbtcpros', with keyid None, fingerprint None, and bitcoin address 1HoUw9FVHXxB1Wm9mbetDE1UhgiQfdgFkk, registered on Sat Jun 14 08:04:58 2014, last authed on Sat Jun 14 08:12:00 2014. http://b-otc.com/vg?nick=nycbtcpros . Currently not authenticated.
20:06 pigeons hope he has a bitlicense
20:07 benkay ;;later tell nycbtcpros where's your bitlicense?
20:07 gribble The operation succeeded.
20:09 CheapBoy Thanks for not biting guys.
20:09 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23978 @ 0.00079579 = 19.0815 BTC [-] {2}
20:09 CheapBoy I'm trying to understand if people will be able to "sell" their ethereum pledge before it is released atm.
20:10 BingoBoingo CheapBoy: Well I doubt the ethereum people are going to make or allow a market for that since, etherium is supposed to be a market
20:11 pigeons CheapBoy: i asked that too, was told "no". but try #etherum. actually, i heard they were emailing (!) encrypted wallets (perhaps generated with not-so-random keys via mouse movements!)
20:11 pigeons so i suppose you could sell the wallet
20:11 pigeons probably they won't email you the wallet for another few bfl-months, but i hae no actual clue about that
20:18 mike_c um, selling private keys is not so practical. ask bingo and pankkake :)
20:20 pigeons well sell it before it's cracked from its not-so-randomness
20:20 mike_c and pinky-swear to delete your copy
20:20 BingoBoingo mike_c: Situation has been remedied. Key in question was not sold so much as held by each of us in trust of a higher powah.
20:20 pigeons or maybe you have a really random mouse movement
20:22 CheapBoy Thanks pidgeons and bingoboingo.
20:22 BingoBoingo CheapBoy: Well, have you started looking at setting up GPG yet, since that would be necessary to do the trade?
20:29 BingoBoingo CheapBoy: If you set up GPG and register in the WoT I'll lend you a rating so you can self voice.
20:33 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12896 @ 0.0007949 = 10.251 BTC [-]
20:39 BingoBoingo !up CheapBoy
20:41 copumpkin damn! mpoe below .8
20:41 copumpkin all is lost
20:42 pigeons CheapBoy: ether not usable or transferrable unless ethereum actually comes out one day
20:42 mike_c it was under 76 before the break.
20:46 dub http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2bjmgb/hi_we_are_the_ethereum_project_team_ask_us/
20:46 assbot Hi, we are the Ethereum Project Team. Ask us anything! : IAmA
20:46 CheapBoy +BingoBoingo Thanks, but the links seem to be down
20:46 CheapBoy https://alexcabal.com/creating-the-perfect-gpg-keypair/%3E
20:46 assbot Alex Cabal
20:47 mike_c CheapBoy: you got something odd stuck on the end or that URL. https://alexcabal.com/creating-the-perfect-gpg-keypair/
20:47 assbot Creating the perfect GPG keypair - Alex Cabal
20:47 BingoBoingo CheapBoy: Here's a basic link for setting up a workspace for drafting GPG text http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/pgpgpg-guide/
20:47 assbot PGP/GPG Guide | Bingo Blog
20:49 BingoBoingo The BFL auto shop http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/my-e30-m3-nightmare-1601125946/1609714036/+pgeorge
20:49 assbot This Shop Trashed My E30 BMW M3
20:49 CheapBoy Cool. The gribble bot wrote that link actually.
20:54 BingoBoingo Gribble sometimes fucks links
20:57 pigeons https://help.riseup.net/security/message-security/openpgp/gpg-best-practices
20:57 assbot OpenPGP Best Practices - help.riseup.net
20:58 pigeons http://ekaia.org/blog/2009/05/10/creating-new-gpgkey/
20:58 assbot Creating a new GPG key | Ana's blog
20:59 CheapBoy Alrighty I'm getting the GPG running.
20:59 CheapBoy But I have to get some sleep, 3am in sweden.
20:59 CheapBoy Hope someone can voice me next time
21:01 BingoBoingo CheapBoy: I'll look for you and keep throwing voice at you
21:10 BingoBoingo !up CheapBoy
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21:29 BingoBoingo What really fuels Reddit, Professional Wrestling as Trailer Park Shakespeare http://grantland.com/features/wwe-paul-heyman-promo-star-summerslam-brock-lesnar-john-cena/
21:29 assbot The Mouth of the WWE «
21:42 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: conventional munitions alarm << you mean, ears ringing? or smelled the unmistakeable smell of trotyl? or actual electric alarm?
21:45 BingoBoingo I was going to ask, but figured if I had to...
21:46 * asciilifeform is actually quite familiar with the construction of such alarms, and their shortcomings.
21:48 asciilifeform BingoBoingo and other us-ians probably know that one shouldn't take an old set of shooting earmuffs to the airport, and why...
21:48 BingoBoingo lol
21:50 * BingoBoingo has never actually been to an aitport
21:50 BingoBoingo *airport
21:50 asciilifeform seriously?
21:51 asciilifeform not once?
21:51 BingoBoingo Havent'd had occasion to yet. Imagine my first airport experience will prolly happen in Mexico
21:52 pigeons as a kid you didnt go run around them back when it was possible?
21:52 pigeons or a teenager bring a girl to sit on the car and "watch the planes"
21:52 * asciilifeform not exactly a pith-helmeted hero of world travel; went to an airport for the first time in ~22 yrs. to visit mircea_popescu and other phriends back in april.
21:53 BingoBoingo Well, I've been to field's where ultralights operated
21:53 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: you mean small airplanes in general? or specifically 'ultralights' ?
21:53 pigeons anyway, you're not missing anything now, everyone's in a hurry and scared
21:53 BingoBoingo pigeons: As a teen there were closer places to take girls to "watch the nothing"
21:54 asciilifeform because, if i recall, 'ultralights' (IANAL - but if i recall, defined as ~100kg and below) are actually unregulated, and can be flown anywhere in usa, by anyone
21:54 pigeons yes that's still the case
21:54 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Specifically ultralight. Driven past airports for slightly bigger planes.
21:55 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: A thing that has it's big national get together locally is "powered parachutes"
21:55 asciilifeform paraglider?
21:55 pigeons i want a jetpack
21:55 danielpbarron does anyone know who the owner of the #bitcoin- group is?
21:56 asciilifeform jetpack << as in, the one flying machine that is guaranteed to kill you if the engine cuts out?
21:56 pigeons oh dont ruin my fun with reality
21:57 pigeons itll be powered by ETH so it wont cut off
21:57 asciilifeform lol
21:57 * asciilifeform old enough to remember when technical magazines had ads in the back for 'build your own helicopter from tractor!'
21:57 pigeons ETH is not a security and this is not an attempt to solicit investments from unqualified investors. its a fuel.
21:57 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: We get those too, but like seriously a powered parachute http://icons.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/n/nlwi/9.jpg
21:58 BingoBoingo pigeons: Only a fuel if you like engine knock
21:59 * BingoBoingo remembers at boyscout camp one of the older scouts spaying ether into the campfire to discourage us young'uns from spraying pug spray into the fire
21:59 BingoBoingo *bug spray
21:59 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: ether << standard equipment in boyscout kit?
21:59 pigeons yeah i remember the scout leaders telling us emphatically not to smoke the local funky weed
21:59 asciilifeform can one even buy ether in usa outside of a terrorist catalogue?
22:00 pigeons so of course it had the opposite effect
22:00 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Well I was ~6th grade at the time and age ranged up to High School degenerates in the group
22:00 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Available in "engine starting fluid"
22:01 pigeons or if you have a buddy who works in a chemistry lab
22:02 pigeons they make real good friends
22:02 BingoBoingo The sprayer's family had ~8 or 9 muscle cars in various states on non-function in their yard at the time.
22:03 BingoBoingo pigeons: If you have a friend in the chemistry lab there are more interesting things to consider than ether
22:03 BingoBoingo Though some amount of ether may be useful as a solvent... TO acieve other things...
22:05 pigeons yes of course. by might as well get the ether there too
22:06 BingoBoingo And of course the net result of the spritz of ether into the campfire was panic for ~1.5 miles in any direction
22:10 decimation idiots in the midwest smoke jimson weed
22:10 asciilifeform decimation: the 'zombie cucumber' ?
22:10 decimation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_stramonium
22:10 assbot Datura stramonium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
22:11 decimation indeed, I always called it jimson weed. nasty stuff, grows up 6 ft tall in a few months
22:12 BingoBoingo decimation: In large parts of the forested midwest cannabis, albeit of poor quality has nativized itself
22:13 decimation I thought it was always native
22:14 BingoBoingo http://gawker.com/boozy-bear-breaks-into-florida-porch-in-search-of-beer-1609695569
22:14 assbot Boozy Bear Breaks Into Florida Porch in Search of Beer and Pia Colada
22:15 BingoBoingo decimation: Well, these are hard problems to pin down in the way that some people advance certain species of carp as invasive, when here they are all invasive.
22:15 decimation it's racis to call carp invasive
22:17 BingoBoingo Carp are like retarded midget whales, fucking filter feeders who readily inbreed (see goldfish)
22:19 decimation http://youngcons.com/liberals-passed-a-bill-to-change-this-fishs-name-because-it-is-hurtful-and-offensive/
22:19 assbot Liberals passed a bill to change this fish’s name because it is “hurtful” and “offensive” | Young Conservatives
22:20 BingoBoingo People keep forgetting Potassium Chloride was the lethal component of lethal injection cocktails http://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-execution-takes-two-hours-to-finish/
22:20 assbot Joseph Rudolph Wood execution in Arizona delayed for appeal - CBS News
22:20 BingoBoingo decimation: In the Americas European carp are invasive too
22:21 BingoBoingo Fucking water pigeons is what they all are really
22:21 decimation lol in the the stereotypical black person likes carp, apparently in the uk the stereotypical eastern european likes carp: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306769/No-Eastern-Europeans-sign-placed-carp-fishing-lake-angry-landowner-claims-stolen-fish.html
22:21 assbot 'No Eastern Europeans' sign placed at carp fishing lake by angry landowner who claims they have stolen his fish | Mail Online
22:23 BingoBoingo Wait, carp are black people food now? I thought it was Wasps that first plagued this continent with them.
22:23 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 31 @ 0.13350322 = 4.1386 BTC [-] {2}
22:24 decimation https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080503083114AAEoxhp
22:24 assbot Do blacks really like fried chicken and carp or is that just a stereotype?
22:24 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 7 @ 0.13286904 = 0.9301 BTC [-] {4}
22:28 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 9 @ 0.12699999 = 1.143 BTC [-]
22:28 decimation everyone knows that eastern europeans are going to cheat and steal the carp from your lake because they were raised as communists: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21607830-more-people-are-exposed-socialism-worse-they-behave-lying-commies
22:28 assbot Economics and ethics: Lying commies | The Economist
22:29 BingoBoingo Chicken is old hand but carp is a new one for me. I might have suspected catfish as a stereotype, because like fried chicken everyone loves fried catfish. Carp though have so many pin bones in their filets. Honestly I find Gar a better use of my fishing time than carp.
22:30 * asciilifeform eastern europeans are going to cheat and steal the carp from your lake << actually did this. conformed to stereotype.
22:31 decimation yeah actually that's a neat experiment
22:31 decimation it would be fun to try on your friends
22:41 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 11 @ 0.13500001 = 1.485 BTC [+]
22:48 BingoBoingo Perks of living near a Hillbilly gathering point http://i.imgur.com/zHwVb6H.jpg
22:51 decimation do folks here have a method of scraping complex webpages like banks for .pdf statements?
22:52 decimation web 2.0 is so poorly designed that this barely exists, instead of being a first class featue
22:56 penguirker New blog post: http://www.bcoinnews.com/spoondoolies-halts-sales-sp30-investigating-technical-issues/
22:56 decimation I've tried beautiful soup, it sucked ass. I tried splinter, it sucked ass. refuse to touch phantomjs.
~ 25 minutes ~
23:22 Rassah Hah! Bitcoin Pete's article: "Vitalik Buterin, he of "autism is the same as intelligence" fame"
23:24 Rassah I wonder if Bitcoin Pete has met an inteligent person in his life
23:24 Rassah iRL
23:25 BingoBoingo Well, pete's a jew and there are a lot of smart members of the tribe
23:27 Rassah My tribe consists of Tsiolkovsky and Tozoni, so I've been surrounded by extremely intimidating levels of inteligence...
23:28 Rassah There aren't a lot of smart people in bitcoinland... I have a feeling Bitcoin Pete isn't one either, but is regurgitating things other smart people are saying in his blogs. A beneficial service I guess
23:29 TheNewDeal lol
23:29 TheNewDeal he bought a nice bitcoin bet from me
23:29 BingoBoingo Well, if pete isn't smart then he's been incredibly lucky.
23:30 Rassah That statement of his tells me he either has never met Vitalik in person, or doesn't know what an inteligent person is like
23:30 Rassah TheNewDeal: Bitcoin bet?
23:31 TheNewDeal he sent me .1 btc, I sold him a position in the bastille day bet
23:33 Rassah p.s. I'm not saying their etherium deal is a good one. I don't think investing in ether can in any way give a better return than investing in bitcoin... I don't think vitalik is much of a finance guy, either, so I'm not sure if this "ipo" ca be blamed on him
23:34 BingoBoingo Well, if he isn't much of a finance guy... Shouldn't he be outsourcing the expertise?
23:34 Rassah I thought he was? Etherium is run by a large group of people, including finance guys
23:35 Rassah I think...
23:35 BingoBoingo I dunno much other than the picked the worst name for their tokens...
23:35 BingoBoingo Ether is just going to feed the flames about Rapey cryptocoiners
23:36 Rassah rapey?
23:36 BingoBoingo Prolly worse than Doge'y style did...
23:37 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30900 @ 0.00079478 = 24.5587 BTC [+] {2}
23:37 Rassah Eh, Etherium at least has an application. Doge was just a self-aware joke
23:39 Rassah Also, as is most important in any crptocurrency (even moreso than its "features") Etherium has a team of good developers with a specific goals, who want to work to develop it no matter the price. Doge (and arguably most others, possibly incluing Litecoin) does not.
23:39 BingoBoingo Pascal had an application... Busses have an application... Pretty sure Doge had an application even if it wasn't a pretty one.
23:39 decimation hammers & tulips have an application - neither are good canidates for money
23:40 BingoBoingo decimation: I <3 tack hammers
23:40 Rassah My rule #1 for investing is invest in the team, not the idea. Awesome idea with morons behind it will go nowhere. For Altcoins, an awesome idea with a single developer behind it will crash and busn as soon as that developer gets bored and goes to do something else
23:40 Rassah *busn = burn
23:41 Rassah decimation: why do you think Etherium is a candidate for money???
23:41 BingoBoingo Nah, you just need to pick altcoins with better jokes like Altcoin...
23:41 decimation umm, people are trading money for it, with the expectation of spending on stuff in the future?
23:41 BingoBoingo My current beef with Etherium is that despite all of their protests they are selling equity in a something.
23:42 Rassah decimation: Airline companies are spending money on jet fluel futures, with expectation of using it in the future. Doesn't mean jet fuel is money
23:42 BingoBoingo Jet fuel actually makes great money.
23:43 Rassah BingoBoingo: Protests? When I alked to them, they wanted to sell equity in it, but couldn't due to regulatory crap
23:43 BingoBoingo Rassah: But what do the do? They de facto sell equity.
23:43 Rassah I'm starting to suspect the things they talk about in private do not match the spin they put out in public...
23:43 BingoBoingo Much like BFL sold equity in the company.
23:44 Rassah BingoBoingo: but they wanted to sell equity... (Etherium)
23:44 Rassah and now they are... so....
23:44 BingoBoingo This "pre-order" "pre-sale" crap constitutes a sale of equity. Period.
23:44 Rassah yes. Like they hoped and planned to do
23:44 Rassah at least in private...
23:45 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 30 @ 0.13006666 = 3.902 BTC [+] {2}
23:45 BingoBoingo If you don't have anything to deliver and you sell "whatevers" the "whatevers" you bought constitute equity in the concern
23:45 BingoBoingo Among the other things Sonny V could go back to jail for equities fraud is a leading candidate.
23:46 Rassah In summary, they had an idea they thought was awesome, they wanted to spend a year working on this awesome idea of theirs, without having to worry about jobs or income, so they marketed their idea to bitcoiners who like dumping money into altcoins... Sounds like they weren't dumb at all about this :)
23:47 Rassah Though not sure about the ethics of this...
23:47 decimation the label "money" isn't relevant - jet fuel is eminently salable, whereas the salability of ethereum is extremely dubious - and that's the property I was interested in specifying with the word "money"
23:47 BingoBoingo Well, their biggest concern should be locating themselves in friendly jurisdictions that don't extradite.
23:47 TheNewDeal so true
23:47 Rassah decimation: What do you think about Namecoin?
23:48 decimation it's not bitcoin
23:48 BingoBoingo Namecoin is jet fuel sort of great, splendid utility, but externalities neuter it as a value.
23:48 BingoBoingo The merged mining that saved namecoin now cripples it.
23:49 TheNewDeal why so?
23:49 assbot [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 533 @ 0.00293008 = 1.5617 BTC [+] {6}
23:49 Rassah decimation: K... Point is, regardless of what ether is ultimately worth, if they do come up with a system that's as usable as they hope it will be, you could think of ether is jet fuel needed to run it. It won't be money, and, privately, the ether guys don't seem to want etherium to be money either. Just coins you plunk into the system to keep it rnning
23:50 Rassah BingoBoingo: I'm interested too. How so?
23:50 BingoBoingo TheNewDeal: Because what do the Big BTC pools that merge namecoin do? Almost uniformly they dump it. Now... there's enough NMC out there that a sufficiently well monetized party could stabilize the market, but doing so would be expensive and bloody
23:50 TheNewDeal seems relatively stable as of late?
23:51 BingoBoingo Rassah: Being a plus that can be mined on top of BTC with little opportunity cost is a handicap.
23:51 Rassah Why do you need to stabilize Namecoin? It's not money :/
23:51 TheNewDeal seems like a good distribution model
23:52 Rassah If the demand for .bit domain names, addresses, and identities goes up, demand for namecoin will go up. Right now, it just says that no one realy uses .bit
23:52 BingoBoingo ^ Rassah Without stability .bit just lacks appeal.
23:53 Rassah BingoBoingo: My .bit domains are perfectly stable and functional
23:53 BingoBoingo Then there's the tendency of NMC miners to reject tx's because it's just their free bonus coin with purchase of BTC mining
23:53 Rassah I don't keep NMC as mone, stre of value, or a transaction mechanism. I keep it as "a cost to register and renew a domain name"
23:53 TheNewDeal don't btc miners do that too?
23:53 Rassah *stre = store
23:54 BingoBoingo TheNewDeal: Few BTC miners find mining empty blocks an economically optimal choice.
23:54 BingoBoingo Anymore
23:54 Rassah Look at NMC as a fluctuating cost at a domain registry, not as an alt coin.
23:54 TheNewDeal well I didn't say empty. You said reject tx's
23:54 BingoBoingo TheNewDeal: Rejected tx's happen on a scale.
23:57 Rassah Any of you guys ever go to conferences?
23:57 TheNewDeal timiosara!?!
23:58 TheNewDeal somebody just went to that bitcoin hippy festival called porcine or something
23:59 BingoBoingo So, last friday I'm at the bar and my friends point out a dude with a Bitcoin T-shirt. Suggest I start a conversation. I point out that in the best case they are a stranger, and in the worst case they are some petty scammer I blogged about.
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