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pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290740 << whatevereth goeth upeth, musteth cometh downeth ?
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 10:45:22; mircea_popescu: holy shit what happened to mpoe!
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290756 << myup. and waaay too many kids in north america, be they full size or as yet to sexually mature, are in the happy happy happy cargocamp. it's pretty sad.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 11:25:07; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2015#1290441 << this is generally the heuristic for a good place inhabited by smart people. when you're among derps happy to be there you're on a sinking cargo cultship.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290779 << how could la ancien regime americane not want a third bush ? he knows how to play the part. he's seen it done. imo it'll be a close contest between trump and jeb. no one else has a chance. but it's jeb's to lose. trump has to stay out in front of the spotlight being outrageous day in and day out FOR ANOTHER YEAR, which is nigh on impossible. i give trump a
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 11:34:28; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2015#1290575 << yeah it apparently favours jebbush! whodda thunkit.
pete_dushenski: 25% chance.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290810 << mp in i) paradise with osama, ii) playboy mansion 'grotto', or iii) volcano island with his own head carved in the side à la dr. evil.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 13:26:49; mircea_popescu: all i see r nekkid womenz.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290898 << and here i was using goat feta all this time. i need to get out more.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:11:55; mircea_popescu: psa : brie is THE omlette cheese.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290912 << cute *and* quick on the uptake. bravo.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:28:45; AgentScully: http://i.imgur.com/KhqfZ0y.jpg
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pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290944 << one of the saddest casualties of disfunctional technology i've heard of in ages. like a mother typing her dying words to her son (in irc, naturally) and having her keyboard fritz out. or something.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:37:15; AgentScully: ah, yeah, I had an orgasm right as the server went down... nik was rather sad about it
cazalla: dunno, looks a bit androgynous but nice tits anyway
pete_dushenski: cazalla like the ancient greek army general ? ya think ?
cazalla: pete_dushenski, yeah, but that can be a sexy look too.. think winona ryder with short hair
pete_dushenski: "For what has she these Grecian arms bestow'd, But their destruction, and the Trojans' good? Then change we shields, and their devices bear: Let fraud supply the want of force in war. They find us arms.' This said, himself he dress'd In dead Androgeos' spoils, his upper vest, His painted buckler, and his plumy crest."
pete_dushenski: ~virgil's aeneid
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290967 << lol! orcs are rich, smart, funny, and handsome, just ask them !
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 17:00:35; mircea_popescu: if you ask them.
cazalla: could've just linked the song pete
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-02-2015#1012177 << o hey another pr client
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2015 00:20:13; adlai: ben_vulpes: context is http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-11-2014#913052, the thing is usable, i'm trying to get people to use it. maybe not the most tactful, but i don't have my own pr lady (yet)
pete_dushenski: cazalla i dun do woulda/coulda/shoulda
cazalla: certainly do edgy!
pete_dushenski: ;P
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1291019 << don't forget mike_c, davout, etc etc.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 19:22:19; ascii_field: iirc only ben_vulpes, mod6, and pete_dushenski had children
pete_dushenski: and cazalla !
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pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1291042 << i certainly found them sexy when i was younger. strangely, less so now.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 19:44:52; AgentScully: piercings are old... those were a pain in the ass
pete_dushenski: nips in particular, that is.
pete_dushenski: i dunno wtf is with this nasal septum piercing fad sweeping the four corners of the fucking globe but it's abhorrent.
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pete_dushenski: unless you want to end up in the bull-fighting ring chasing after the red cape being waved by the man yelling 'toro!', why bother ?
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pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1291119 << ew. diesel.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 21:07:40; mircea_popescu: an' a little something for pete, too http://40.media.tumblr.com/a06dc1b6a39dbc7a671858169c3d9551/tumblr_njbmd4Lqy61u72nmco1_1280.jpg
pete_dushenski: http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a26891/the-end-of-diesel/ << speaking of which, the only automotive journalist with half a head, jack baruth, quoting chaucer and calling for the end of diesel in usa
assbot: Why Diesel Needs to Die ... ( http://bit.ly/1L6CN3l )
pete_dushenski: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/business/automakers-ask-europe-for-leniency-in-emissions-testing.html << meanwhile, in europistan, automakers are continuing their push for diesel acceptance.
assbot: Log In - The New York Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1L6CTrz )
pete_dushenski: first, it was C02 MATTERS GUISE, which was a convenient trojan horse for black-smoke belching diesels.
pete_dushenski: but since vw sorta blew the lid off things, the only thing left to do is rewrite the regs to be more accomodating.
pete_dushenski: what else, destroy one of the only manufacturing industries extant on the contient ?
pete_dushenski: spend the next decade retooling and reorganising ? uhuh. i think not.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1291125 << in 2023 obama's daughters are on xotika. 'bout it.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 21:12:50; ben_vulpes: 2023: #bitcoin-assets has migrated to xotika, queue to perform is longer than a human lifespan
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1291135 << heh. and the average magazine page is an advertisement for big pharma.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 21:17:06; mircea_popescu: for that matter, the average painting is a fuzzy gray.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-10-2015#1291179 << ok this wins so much harder than that diesel merc chick. why ? because it was taken not in goatfuckistan, not in eastern yurup where the chicks are hungry, not anything like that, but THREE MINUTES FROM WHERE I GREW UP.
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 01:45:13; mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the "took bitch shopping, now she gotta earn it" line, http://40.media.tumblr.com/9b5daf5e77e71674d4eab1a34b11d1a5/tumblr_nii067lpb81u4e2kko1_1280.jpg
pete_dushenski: this was taken at the south west corner of the west edmonton mall parking lot, right next to the movie theatre and the gun range (!)
pete_dushenski: and for what it's worth, the car looks to be a nissan altima coupe. ~$35k off the dealer lot.
pete_dushenski: actually, you can also see the fantasyland hotel in the background (curtain wall facade) and the waterpark (dome roof at right)
pete_dushenski: it's just a shame i don't recognise the girl...
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cazalla: pete_dushenski, few more of same girl, same area http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=135567&page=202
assbot: Girls with Cars - Page 202 - Yellow Bullet Forums ... ( http://bit.ly/1L6EDkD )
pete_dushenski: west edmonton mall, for a number of years, held the record at the world's largest indoor shopping mall. still holds several worlds records iirc.
pete_dushenski: just checked, wem still boasts 'world's largest indoor amusement park' including 'world's largest indoor triple roller coaster', and also 'world's largest parking lot'
pete_dushenski: cazalla aha. clearly altima coupe now. what do i win ?
cazalla: not sure, but that sure is uncanny, wonder what the odds are of someone posting a pic of a chick naked in a car park you know of
pete_dushenski: ikr! 99% of them are in rural bulgaria or some shit.
pete_dushenski: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3q54cQxJ2UQ/UwzYNpOYE2I/AAAAAAAAAPE/mOxvdmZICi8/w1280-h852-no/por.jpg << nice ride.
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1L6Fi5G )
pete_dushenski: ^from same forum
mircea_popescu: !up deface
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> and cazalla ! << and mike and peter and so on.
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mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> this was taken at the south west corner of the west edmonton mall parking lot, right next to the movie theatre and the gun range (!) << so cool huh.
pete_dushenski: crazy small world, this internet
pete_dushenski: ima send this pic around and see if anyone knows her. there aren't ~that~ many degrees of separation between her and i
mircea_popescu: she's not THAT hot and the pic is ~5 yo by now.
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mircea_popescu: What other reason is there to love fuel oil? Certainly not the characteristics of the chemical itself. It's slippery, it stinks to high heaven, it doesn't evaporate. <<
mircea_popescu: derps shouldn't get a vote srsly. whosever can't appreciate the scent of diesel is neither a man nor allowed to discuss cars.
mircea_popescu: you don't have to love it, or even like it. just like you don't have to love beer - god knows i don't. but if you're not capable to APPRECIATE it you're really not in this movie.
punkman: pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290898 << and here i was using goat feta all this time. i need to get out more. < I agree, crumbled feta is teh best omelette cheese.
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:11:55; mircea_popescu: psa : brie is THE omlette cheese.
mircea_popescu: it's certainly not bad.
punkman: I'd say the same about brie :P
mircea_popescu: also in the same vein, pine bark aged smoked sheep cheese (romanian thing, dunno if they do it anywhere else)
punkman: how do you cut brie for the omlett?
mircea_popescu: neverthless...
mircea_popescu: punkman i actually used thin metal wire.
punkman: like what shape I mean
mircea_popescu: thin long slices
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu baruth is a bit of a troll. he's baiting here. and hooking 'em too by the looks of the comments.
mircea_popescu: aha.
mircea_popescu: it'snot even true that "everyone in europe = diesel". and it;s not true that "because regulation", either.
punkman: queso de cabra is also fun in omelette, even has a rind similar to brie
pete_dushenski: sorta playing the idiot as a means of catalysing 'debate'
punkman: generally all the professional drivers have diesel around here.
mircea_popescu: what happens is that throughout the 90s, diesel fuel was 50% the price of gasoline, and gpl conversion was not a mass market thing like it is now. you could get it, like you could get nox.
mircea_popescu: because of this, some of the smartest automotive engineers went into diesel. it looked like the future.
pete_dushenski: punkman professional as in truck/lorry drivers ?
punkman: pete_dushenski: also taxis
pete_dushenski: aha right.
mircea_popescu: because of this, the diesels available were WAY better. it's not that "built to higher specs". it's that built by better people. substantially better.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu also more expensive. bigger design budget
mircea_popescu: for this reason.
pete_dushenski: giving better people just a bit more money to play with and voila.
mircea_popescu: yup
mircea_popescu: regulation played catchup to all this.
pete_dushenski: not ~too~ much money, obviously. this, we know
mircea_popescu: anyway. by now upwards of 2/3 of taxis actually run on compressed gas. way cheaper defo cleanner.
mircea_popescu: much worse power curve of course, but fuck that, they're taxis.
pete_dushenski: 2/3 across europe ?
mircea_popescu: pretty much.
pete_dushenski: compressed gas adoption was growing quite steadily in n.a. the last ~5 years.
punkman: at least where there is gas pipe
pete_dushenski: but now that gas/diesel prices have tanked, cng has been massacred.
mircea_popescu: punkman it's really gpl not natural gas. they truck it.
mircea_popescu: ;;google linde
gribble: The Linde Group | Gases Engineering Healthcare |: <http://www.linde.com/en/index.html>; Home | Linde US Industrial Gases: <http://www.lindeus.com/en/index.html>; The Linde Group: Home: <http://www.the-linde-group.com/en/index.html>
punkman: I want a gas kitchen/stove but I'd have to refill tanks which kinda sucks
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the cheese, as apparently it's unknown other than "that south transylvanian cheese" : sheepmilk cheese is cut up thinly, salt is added and ths is mixed (often, by hand). the result is placed in a tube made out of pine bark. it may or may not be smoked. it can also be placed in a sheep's stomach. inthis arrangement it keeps indefinitely, it is geenraly consumed after about a year.
mircea_popescu: gets stronger the longer it waits, of course, but the salt doesn't get it runny.
pete_dushenski: punkman i have a propane bbq but only because 45 year-old condos don't have natural gas lines here. most houses do though.
mircea_popescu: (salt content is a function of intended maturation period, the longer you wanna keep it around the saltier. still, within some bounds)
mircea_popescu: punkman iirc they bury a 20-50 cubic metre tank for you if you ask.
punkman: maybe when they start drilling for oil/gas south of the island
mircea_popescu: course greece (esp stuff like crete) is a bit of an outlier. no gas lines, which is unheard of in yurp, and no real need to heat.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, heating off the damned tank with ferried gas etc is still cheaper than using electricity.
punkman: I use maybe 500L of heating oil in the winter, yeah
mircea_popescu: now think "nordic system".
pete_dushenski: actually, can someone with a twitter account (danielpbarron, shinohai, whoever gets to it first) please to send @jackbaruth this : http://www.contravex.com/2015/10/01/in-which-volkswagen-takes-aim-at-the-insanity-of-statal-overbearing/ i think he'd enjoy it.
assbot: In which Volkswagen takes aim at the insanity of statal overbearing. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1PcJNBH )
mircea_popescu: in other news, construction stamp. http://41.media.tumblr.com/57cb873df2b619a3803fbe2fb269b477/tumblr_nisuqsK5Jv1u72nmco1_1280.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1PcJQh5 )
pete_dushenski: dusty bottom girl > soggy bottom boys
mircea_popescu: you've clearly never had sand go up there.
pete_dushenski: my aesthetic sensibilities care not for the practical considerations of tumblr hos
mircea_popescu: lolk
pete_dushenski: and while i've had my fun on the beach in puerto vallarta, god invented beach chairs for a reason !
punkman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zuyq-W71gQ nordic system
assbot: Elektronik Meditation - Oslo - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1PcKawf )
pete_dushenski: "After the release of iOS 9.0.2 on Wednesday, which fixed a number of bugs including a lock screen exploit, Apple stopped signing iOS 8.4.1 and iOS 9.0 firmware for compatible devices, prohibiting users who updated from downgrading." << no going backwards !
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mircea_popescu: "If I sell you a few kilograms of depleted uranium and you use it to create a dirty bomb that renders most of the East Coast inhabitable, how is that my fault?"
mircea_popescu: dude buttcoin's utterly running out of steam.
pete_dushenski: https://uofa.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2015/september/remembering-louis-desrochers << i'll be singing at louis desrocher's funeral on tuesday, (which, ftr, is very different from 'dancing on his grave'). it's a choir thing actually, and he was apparently a huge fan of the one i'm in, personally requesting our presence when the day came. i'd actually never heard of him previously, but he seems to
assbot: Remembering Louis Desrochers - University of Alberta ... ( http://bit.ly/1PcL1gs )
pete_dushenski: have been quite the political heavyweight. i'm expecting it to be quite a splashy affair.
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mircea_popescu: "The lack of transparency and regulatory oversight raises a number of risks for users and also poses risks for the payments system, the integrity of the financial system and the erosion of the tax base.
mircea_popescu: mwahahah. o yeah it does. and fuck you.
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pete_dushenski: and now, your moment of zen : "I investigate self-reported theft data in the NLSY 1997 Cohort for the years 1997–2011. Several striking patterns emerge. First, individuals appear to be active thieves for extremely short periods – in most cases in only one year, and fewer than 5% of thieves for more than three years out of the 15 years of data. Second, self-reported earnings from theft are generally very low and
pete_dushenski: there is little evidence of “successful” criminals or consistent earnings from theft." << because only loser criminals waste their time on derpy 'scientific studies'. self-selecting much ?
pete_dushenski: well, tomorrow's another day, gnite y'all !
mircea_popescu: mno. it actually is a shitty earner.
mircea_popescu: the car theft thing was very briefly +ev, right after fall of su when a lot of otherwise powerful and important people didn't have their power and importance correctly credentialled by the western pencildicks
mircea_popescu: (echos of this problem are seen in patent nonsense like "embagro russia" that so miserably backfired last year)
mircea_popescu: things normalized by 1995 or so, which is why this is a derp field now.
mircea_popescu: it is conceivable, if the same pencildicks keep on with the tail up, "regulate" blablabla that we WILL have a market in stolen daughters traded around to prove a point for a few years.
mircea_popescu: tho honestly, i do not currently believe the old fucks actulaly have it in them.
mircea_popescu: anyway, /me bbl
punkman: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/the-delinquent-borrowers-leading-a-student-loans-revolt
assbot: The Delinquent Borrowers Leading a Student Loans Revolt - Bloomberg Business ... ( http://bit.ly/1PcM4wT )
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Naphex: i didn't know psychadelic shows were a thing (https://xotika.tv/#/channel280/Fluxable)
Naphex: they look awesome
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trinque: dude, I leave for a weekend and a chick with great tits from TX shows up called AgentScully WITH THINKPADS
trinque: (all of #b-a replies "LEAVE MORE OFTEN!")
trinque is in Denver about to snooze; the pass through from Wyoming tried to kill me with fog and slippery roads, but I bested them
trinque: and I'll tell you what; this country is gorgeous. It'd be quite a nice place under new management.
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trinque: b
trinque: damn you tmux.
trinque zzzzz
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assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 16:26:56; mike_c: yeah.. my available gaming time is down to nil right now. Busy working on a sekrit project.
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assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:26:16; pete_dushenski: actually, can someone with a twitter account (danielpbarron, shinohai, whoever gets to it first) please to send @jackbaruth this : http://www.contravex.com/2015/10/01/in-which-volkswagen-takes-aim-at-the-insanity-of-statal-overbearing/ i think he'd enjoy it.
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mats: it falls
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punkman: -50% today huh
punkman: !d m s.mpoe
mircea_popescu: o.O
mats: discount sunday
punkman: !t m s.mpoe
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punkman: what happened to empyex
mircea_popescu: he just sorta...faded.
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mircea_popescu: !up tylersmith
mircea_popescu: <trinque> and I'll tell you what; this country is gorgeous. It'd be quite a nice place under new management. << word. nothing wrong wih the states mostly on the grounds the mob stuck to the coasts.
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1RoMeAw )
mircea_popescu: aaaand... who asked them anything ?
mircea_popescu: all this timswansonism i swear. "we are so and so" because words and things so we don't have to wot or anything. we could put the nonsense in a pdf if you prefer, that makes it more legit!
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29880 @ 0.00050332 = 15.0392 BTC [+] {4}
mircea_popescu: trinque> dude, I leave for a weekend and a chick with great tits from TX shows up called AgentScully WITH THINKPADS << prolly shortlived
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8891 @ 0.00052 = 4.6233 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-10-2015#1291320 << recently, burial of fuel tanks was banned in (most of) usa. ostensibly for enviro-whiner reasons.
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:23:34; mircea_popescu: punkman iirc they bury a 20-50 cubic metre tank for you if you ask.
mircea_popescu: well, orclands.
ascii_field: there (and afaik in most of the world) it is still sop.
mircea_popescu: prolly more a "you know what could help real estate values ? if other people couldn't build sane houses anymore"
mircea_popescu: "everybody would be forced to buy ours."
mircea_popescu: the one line on which entrenched rent seeking interest and stupid but unaware youthful enthusiasm meet, is this particular type of idiocy.
ascii_field: my current understanding is that usg has been specifically squeezing diesel heat users - they get untaxed fuel that is theoretically usable in trucks, and folks often 'cheat'. it has a colouring agent, and in parts of usa where this type of heater is common, policemen will often dip a wooden stick into a truck's tank to test for cheat
ascii_field: this is a disgraceful and perhaps little-known thing, but very many american streets do not have piped gas.
ascii_field: even near cities.
mircea_popescu: the historical "sexual modesty" of north america being the original, and to this day best example. in its many plurious expressions, from "rright to life" to that derp linked yesterday or w/e
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well, it is also known that many streets do not have fiber,also.
ascii_field: most.
mircea_popescu: how is it not as disgraceful, you know ? the us is in the business of being congo while pretending to be europe.
mircea_popescu: china, meanwhile, has been in the business of being europe while pretending to be congo.
mircea_popescu: apparently this latter approach works better.
ascii_field: french escalators have 'stop' buttons.
ascii_field: as do german, russian even, etc
ascii_field: but in china...
mircea_popescu: doh ?
mircea_popescu: in china people have stop buttons.
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ascii_field: all people have stop buttons.
mircea_popescu: ;;google HAMMER TIME!
gribble: MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo>; U Can't Touch This - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Can't_Touch_This>; Hammertime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammertime>
ascii_field has colleagues who entertain him with choice security camera footage from the middle kingdom - involving items such as escalator-as-woodchipper, phalanxes of motorbikes flattened by trucks going the wrong way, etc
ascii_field: i can't really blame the cn folks for having an active 'mortido'
ascii_field: the place packed with meat.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-10-2015#1291172 << iirc the traditional term is 'lusers'
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 01:41:52; mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 it's just standard confirmation time. the problem with technology is that it works a certain way, which people actually understand. users, however, which are eminently NOT people, but fucking animals, don't care about all that. instead they "try" things, and then "come to expect" on the basis of you know, two attempts last Sunday. and then get all aggitated if their unfounded, poorly resea
mircea_popescu: mmyeah,
mircea_popescu: and then, because this is the lulzy part, it's like a fucking prion this thing. then! people who should fucking know better try and cater to it! and then they get used to THAT and get all agressed when you don't.
ascii_field: don't feed beasts with bottomless stomachs
ascii_field: i thought the ancients knew this.
mircea_popescu: it's just... the sleep of reason. "habits" and habituation take over.
mircea_popescu: "what do you mean my snatch stinks, I'VE ALWAYS WASHED IT LIKE THAT"
ascii_field: picture an animal trainer, perhaps in a circus, who were to somehow forget that his 'patients' are animals.
ascii_field: try to reason with the walrus, the lion, yes.
mircea_popescu: (you'd be surprised what % of "first world" teenagers discover on the porn set that yes you're supposed to wash in between the clitoral hoodand the clitoris, what the fuck. it's still part of you, no matter what your dumb mom might have said christ told her.)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i thought all modern gurlz had dildonic pressure-shower things now
mircea_popescu: and i thought all modern gurlz live in usg quarters with low pressure showers.
ascii_field: even these typically have a 'tight beam' setting
mircea_popescu: anyway, the above is decade+ out of date, maybe it mended meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: you know, low volume high pressure jet is more for cutting metal. contrary to what men (perhaps excusably) believe, cunt's not made of steel.
ascii_field: next he'll tell us to stop adding abrasive to the jet mixer !
ascii_field: l0l
mircea_popescu: but anyway. i maintain the general : you'd be surprised what % of the general population washes correctly, and the only reason you don't know about this is that you don't end up watching hundreds of them shower etc.
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ascii_field: for all i know, 9 of 10 don't even wash at all.
mircea_popescu: and this is universal. ask people if they have a foot of air behind their fridge, and if they say yes ask them why, and see.
ascii_field: how'd i know, looking through glass.
mircea_popescu: ask first time home buyers looking for a detached house if they know what a radon area is or not.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: recall the 'freezer air conditioner' kickstarter ?!
mircea_popescu: myea,
mircea_popescu: "i've always just went into my basement, what do you mean it's a radiocooker now".
ascii_field: eh, the folks i know who have cellars, have geigers in there
ascii_field: logging to usb stick
punkman: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/8843044/free-ac oh good they didn't get any money
assbot: Free AC (Canceled) by Robert Purdon — Kickstarter ... ( http://bit.ly/1VynDcQ )
ascii_field: with a sort of gas sampler, even
mircea_popescu: the magic is that a) you don't need it everywhere and b) people move a lot.
ascii_field: punkman: the 'laser shaver' folks ~did~ - 2.3M last i saw
ascii_field: and countless similar gags
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-10-2015#1291258 << i thought 'largest parking lot' was at ft meade (nsa central)
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 05:47:46; pete_dushenski: just checked, wem still boasts 'world's largest indoor amusement park' including 'world's largest indoor triple roller coaster', and also 'world's largest parking lot'
ascii_field: perhaps it was a case of 'soviet elephants are the biggest elephants'
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-10-2015#1291275 << 'Do not disparage the diesel cycle. Napalm may smell like victory, but diesel evokes big trucks, heavy equipment, iron ships; hot oil, spanners the height of a man, 1" drive socket sets, and no stinking Kettering ignition systems.' (uncle al schwartz)
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:10:56; mircea_popescu: derps shouldn't get a vote srsly. whosever can't appreciate the scent of diesel is neither a man nor allowed to discuss cars.
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-09-2015#1288768 < this video? https://d2pq0u4uni88oo.cloudfront.net/assets/004/572/003/a2bda3e013ca8c957d1210f3b8f692ea_h264_high.mp4
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 18:52:13; ascii_field: addendum now has film of the sc4mz0r burning his skin with what is - bet your arse - a hot nichrome wire
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1OfzZb2 )
ascii_field: aha
punkman: hmm, the little flashes of light seem out of place
punkman: oh these exist at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subwavelength-diameter_optical_fibre
assbot: Subwavelength-diameter optical fibre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1OfAFwR )
punkman: but yeah doubtful skarp will work at all
mircea_popescu: im not sure what is going on there, mentally. conflating the sharpness of a blade with the sharpness of a laser is not unlike confusing "strict discipline" in a bdsm setting with the strict discipline of the woodchipper cutters.
mircea_popescu: what would make the laser follow your face and how would it do it ?
mircea_popescu: or is the plan ultimately to obtain sphere shaped heads ?
kakobrekla: just live it how the lazor authors have huge beards.
kakobrekla: love*
mircea_popescu: maybe they swore they'll not shave until their master plan's complete.
kakobrekla: !up ascii_field
mircea_popescu: sorta like how derps looking for the perfect soulmate are unfucked. this works.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: 'kickstarter' has turned into a kind of barometer of public illiteracy
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ascii_field: also it is a (solely psychiatrically!) interesting cargo cult. for instance, the most successful scams had video posted of a '3d printer' going, going...
ascii_field: it is a cargo cult in a very literal sense
ascii_field: strong preoccupation with packages, shapes
mircea_popescu: aha
ascii_field: esp. ones lifted from 'consumer' life
ascii_field: such as the razor handles
mircea_popescu: names, titles, brands, yes.
ascii_field: in a hypothetically sane future, '3d printer' will have vaguely unsavory connotations, just like the term 'patent medicine' does today
mircea_popescu: or like buttcoin folk hope bitcoin does tomorrow :D
ascii_field: quite seriously, it is an astonishing enabler of 'zero in a fancy bottle'
ascii_field: there ~are~ constructive uses for '3d printer', we even have one here, in a closet, at $rupturefarms
ascii_field: but they mostly reduce to 'need plastic bracket to hold pcb, in a hurry, don't care how ugly, no one will see it'
ascii_field: sorta like people once used hot glue.
ascii_field: (a '3d printer' is not so different from a hot glue gun on programmable wheels.)
mircea_popescu: i was just thinking, it's really a hotglue gun
ascii_field: ... or how people use perl.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: there are several other types, such as liquid-resin (fused by laser) and sintered powder - but they are uncommon, at least in 'jungle' settings
mircea_popescu: but basically, the "3d printer" redditard thinks about is this "plastic hanger injection device", glorified.
mircea_popescu: (my curiosity on the topic so far was assuaged by breakingapart some 3d printed matter and reading a little on the chemistry of the "ink")
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the most common filler is ordinary 'abs' plastic
mircea_popescu: aha
ascii_field: the kind of which your keyboard is made.
ascii_field: but it comes out in thin 'strand' and it never loses this appearance
ascii_field: unless somehow buffed
kakobrekla: https://bou.si/pic/amazing-washing-machine-tech.jpg < 3d printer saves the day
assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1OfCUQQ )
ascii_field: a skilled craftsman can do surprising things with this horrid material - diametric once gave me a bolt and nut that screwed without much friction, on first try
ascii_field: but this is not easy.
kakobrekla: they use acetone vapour to smooth the surfaces
mircea_popescu: whynot laser!
mircea_popescu: nm.
ascii_field: kakobrekla: so long as you don't actually care about the shape - this almost works.
ascii_field: but try screwing in the 'smoothed' bolt.
mircea_popescu: what WOULD be pretty cool is if they managed to get it to where you canmake lego pieces out of it.
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1OfDjCR )
ascii_field: ain't happening. at least not with 'glue gun' method.
mircea_popescu: neighbourhood kids pitch together buy a printer, make all the legos they';ll ever need, on the cheap.
ascii_field: you need the precision of a $1M injection molder.
mircea_popescu: if sold with a time machine to take us back to 1992, this'd actulalywork.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla aha. artwork is massively helped by the thing.
ascii_field: apparently (and this is not widely known, i think) - the tolerances for a 'correctly feeling' lego brick are astonishingly low.
mircea_popescu: you can just come and finish it after.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it's known :)
mircea_popescu: i can't be the only one who went fuck this, im making my own.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-10-2015#1291337 << they could attach spikes, or an arse dildatron that must be inserted to enable function, and folks will still buy it. because MONOPOLY.
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:32:54; pete_dushenski: "After the release of iOS 9.0.2 on Wednesday, which fixed a number of bugs including a lock screen exploit, Apple stopped signing iOS 8.4.1 and iOS 9.0 firmware for compatible devices, prohibiting users who updated from downgrading." << no going backwards !
mircea_popescu: not so. see the sit on pineapple comment.
ascii_field: i'm seeing folks sitting on some pretty thick and sharp pineapples.
ascii_field: (e.g., 'gps' tracker, forced updates, etc)
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-10-2015#1291351 << 'consistent earnings' ?!! in a tournament market ? l0l!
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 06:47:27; pete_dushenski: there is little evidence of “successful” criminals or consistent earnings from theft." << because only loser criminals waste their time on derpy 'scientific studies'. self-selecting much ?
punkman: how tournament?
ascii_field: what next? 'there is little evidence of being a wolf having consistent earnings from hunting'
ascii_field: punkman: in same sense as hollywood stardom
ascii_field: or academia
ascii_field: nobody says 'i'ma grow up to be a small-time cutpurse'
ascii_field: 'The piecemeal approach of requiring individual borrowers to apply for loan forgiveness seemed unacceptably burdensome. “The right thing to do would be to issue a classwide discharge and understand that this happened to a group of people,” says Ann Larson, 41, one of the organization’s leaders.' << win !
mircea_popescu: "this happened".
ascii_field: where is ~my~ PHREE!!!11!!11 $30K ?
mircea_popescu: you weren't in the right group.
ascii_field: obviously.
mircea_popescu: you could never understand HOW IT FELT. because it never "happened" to you.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22850 @ 0.00042698 = 9.7565 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 22:07:46; ag3nt_zer0: this is just standard confirmation time? a general warning about services like bitpay?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8602 @ 0.00042556 = 3.6607 BTC [-]
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.25807000 BTC on 'No' - The ETH scam won't see 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1199/the-eth-scam-wont-see-2016/#b37
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12600 @ 0.00042684 = 5.3782 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/788c4ba150a742bccf3f7a9b4da0e63a/tumblr_njfgsrtlV91tahqnlo1_1280.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1OdfYQG )
deedbot-: [Trilema] Apropos de nothing - http://trilema.com/2015/apropos-de-nothing/
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6700 @ 0.00042715 = 2.8619 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15850 @ 0.00042715 = 6.7703 BTC [+]
punkman: http://www.msf.org/article/afghanistan-msf-demands-explanations-after-deadly-airstrikes-hit-hospital-kunduz
assbot: Afghanistan: MSF demands explanations after deadly airstrikes hit hospital in Kunduz | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International ... ( http://bit.ly/1j8aI5D )
punkman: "The bombing took place despite the fact that MSF had provided the GPS coordinates of the trauma hospital to Coalition and Afghan military and civilian officials as recently as Tuesday 29 September, to avoid that the hospital be hit. "
punkman: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQWmljxUEAA9r1z.jpg:large Jeb Bush Sends Mailer To 86,000 Iowans With His Head Photoshopped Onto A Black Body.
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1j8bbF5 )
punkman: ah such scam http://petapixel.com/2015/08/23/nope-jeb-bushs-head-wasnt-photoshopped-onto-a-black-mans-body/
assbot: Nope, Jeb Bush's Head Wasn't Photoshopped Onto a Black Man's Body ... ( http://bit.ly/1j8bj7E )
mircea_popescu: are we betting wherer agent scully lost her freenode nick pw ?
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news : http://33.media.tumblr.com/ebb056f9b9afc1252f6b361281505ec4/tumblr_nj788gFgyZ1shsytco1_400.gif << pick out the incompetent, untrained women among their competent, well trained peers. what gave it away ?
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1j8cVOx )
mircea_popescu: http://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2015/08/jebbushmailer.jpg << for the record, "jeb" is gypsy for pocket. that pic is so very lulzy.
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1j8cZhp )
ben_vulpes: tilted pelvises and resulting "swayback" indicates well trained?
mircea_popescu: aha.
ben_vulpes: "ease of access"
mircea_popescu: more like "in control of own body".
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3341 @ 0.00042391 = 1.4163 BTC [-]
mod6: ascii_field: iirc only ben_vulpes, mod6, and pete_dushenski had children << I don't have any offspring of my own.
mircea_popescu: !up yang
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8773 @ 0.00042715 = 3.7474 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16600 @ 0.00042391 = 7.0369 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9200 @ 0.00042715 = 3.9298 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: check out bizarro tx rewriting. i issued fca843c0b40a1755eee073a719c856baa7fbf5ac28db84804a44a91f52638632 which worked as expected, but apparently there's a 5269a0e862876040db21706a7849ffd1b7d63e72d6dd61b1d2431a51698bb007 restatement of it
punkman: didn't the first best new very strict DERP encoding solve that one?
punkman: https://blockchain.info/tx/fca843c0b40a1755eee073a719c856baa7fbf5ac28db84804a44a91f52638632 161 conf on the original hash?
assbot: Bitcoin Transaction fca843c0b40a1755eee073a719c856baa7fbf5ac28db84804a44a91f52638632 ... ( http://bit.ly/1MT9btM )
punkman: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: ~this~ is one of the things proving bitcoin was designed by a tard
ascii_field: tx signature does not in fact cover whole tx.
ascii_field: this is well-known..
ascii_field: the whole 'malleability' thing had no plausible excuse for even hinting at existing, EVER
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27000 @ 0.00043105 = 11.6384 BTC [+] {3}
ascii_field: it ought to have been 'flip ONE FUCKING BIT and sig won't verify.'
punkman: openssl has many holes like that
ascii_field: not about openssl, even !
ascii_field: (one CAN use openssl to sign a string of bits in the customary way)
ascii_field: but bitcoin DOES NOT SIGN WHOLE TX
ascii_field: but mircea_popescu will prolly say 'nobody asked us anything'
punkman: even if it did, couldn't you still diddle the signature?
ascii_field: not if it were an rsa sig
ascii_field: whole thing is retarded on six different levels
ascii_field: and i'm supposed to respect it because the gods smiled and pissed some money on it.
ascii_field: aha.
ascii_field: btw 'malleability' of the ecdsa sig proper is all the proof anyone needs that ecc is retarded
ascii_field: (as if there were any shortage of symptoms of this)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15250 @ 0.00043741 = 6.6705 BTC [+] {2}
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.11000000 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin block reward halving on or before 20 July 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1182/bitcoin-block-reward-halving-on-or-before-20/#b5
ascii_field: ;;later tell thestringpuller http://wiki.apache.org/stdcxx/C%2B%2B0xCompilerSupport
assbot: C++0xCompilerSupport - Stdcxx Wiki ... ( http://bit.ly/1VxoP5I )
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4977 @ 0.00044185 = 2.1991 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17008 @ 0.00043688 = 7.4305 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1hjrJrI )
mats: abstract puzzle game
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13300 @ 0.00042391 = 5.638 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10704 @ 0.00043604 = 4.6674 BTC [+]
mats: meanwhile, IS continues to advance on Iraqi positions
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11414 @ 0.00042151 = 4.8111 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7700 @ 0.00042104 = 3.242 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14639 @ 0.00042104 = 6.1636 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8280 @ 0.00041642 = 3.448 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8700 @ 0.0004184 = 3.6401 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: punkman aye.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field hey, no point arguing it to me, i know.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> didn't the first best new very strict DERP encoding solve that one? << mno.
mircea_popescu: also, this particular attack is ongoing, i see about 32% of txn rebroadcast malleated.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9450 @ 0.00041608 = 3.932 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and i'm supposed to respect it because the gods smiled and pissed some money on it. << you're supposed to respect it because you're not old enough yet.
mircea_popescu: this is a thing.
mircea_popescu: once you're old enough to stand on your own you're more than free to make your own. but so far, not there yet. working at it, yes.
mircea_popescu: how goes AgentScully ?
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
mircea_popescu: in more "usa is about freedom" news, http://www.activistpost.com/2015/10/camping-on-your-own-land-is-now-illegal.html
assbot: "Camping" on Your Own Land is Now Illegal — Gov't Waging War on Off-Grid Living ... ( http://bit.ly/1jIcSsW )
ascii_field: what specifically does 'old enough' mean here?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: re: 'camping': the thing in question is part of a campaign by just about every half-respectable usa jurisdiction to squeeze out 'trailer trash'
mircea_popescu: enough power to push the changes through.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: ah then i don't expect to do this even if i were to live for a thousand years.
mircea_popescu: not every male is destined to reach adulthood.
ascii_field: as it is, i can only suggest things to other people.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i'm not old enough either, if it makes you feel better. and the idea, while it has certain merits, is also not old enough.
ascii_field: even without all of this, it is quite certain that ~computing~ 'is not old enough'
ascii_field: for... adulthood
ascii_field: in this sense.
mircea_popescu: "Jay Syrmopoulos is an investigative journalist, free thinker, researcher, and ardent opponent of authoritarianism." << that should prolly write for qntra.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field perhaps so.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the 'war on trailers' is a consequence of the 1960-70s upheaval and the prohibition of filtering people on any variable other than 'how much can he afford to pay for house'
mircea_popescu: aha.
ascii_field: as it is, folks in usa have ~no way~ to express 'i do not want to live in zimbabwe' other than by 'this town bans trailers'
mircea_popescu: or moreover, it's a consequence of the bizzaro uncivilised yet hypocritical nature of the us.
ascii_field: it doesn't really work, of course
mircea_popescu: folks wishing to express "i do not want to live in zimbabwe" while IN ZIMBABWE have other issues than what laws to pass.
ascii_field: think of it as life in orbit
ascii_field: 'i do not want to breathe vacuum' while surrounded by it
mircea_popescu: hardly.
ascii_field: 'i do not want to drink sea water' while at sea
ascii_field: what's wrong with that
mircea_popescu: that the examples are spurious. these are africans, born and bred, who think themselves above the africa that THEY ARE.
ascii_field: now this, yes
mircea_popescu: seawater not wanting to "breathe" sea water is the height of lol.
ascii_field: except that not everyone ~is~ the sea.
mircea_popescu: then not everyone has bizarre tastes.
ascii_field: i, for instance, spend perhaps most of my conscious time, just on keeping the sea out.
mircea_popescu: bizarre tastes.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4800 @ 0.00041601 = 1.9968 BTC [-]
ascii_field: bizarre how..?
mircea_popescu: this needs explaining ? "oh i spend most of my time fishing bailing the water out" "so why do you go there ?" "huge fish in that lake!"
ascii_field: --'why do you go there?' --'i am a fisherman.'
mircea_popescu: "apparently not."
ascii_field: ever see the (quite terrible..) film 'waterworld' ?
mircea_popescu: i think not
ascii_field: (re: involuntary 'fishermen' and their leaky boats)
ben_vulpes: programming is still in "right or left handed screws" regime, if that isn't an egregious compliment.
mircea_popescu: hm ?
ben_vulpes: 'computing', i suppose.
mircea_popescu: !up better
ben_vulpes: programming being the lathework, i suppose.
ben_vulpes supposes much, knows little
better: i won a bet at bitbet.us
better: but i didn' get any coin.
mircea_popescu: well done!
mircea_popescu: which bet is this ?
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin $250 or above on September 30th :: 0.12 B (60%) on Yes, 0.08 B (40%) on No | closed 2 weeks 4 days ago ... ( http://bit.ly/1KZW0EN )
mircea_popescu: specifically which bet did you make ?
better: i betted on no.
mircea_popescu: yes but which of the half dozen or so single bitcent bets is yours. right click on the date to get the url.
better: out address is 1EMUE
better: they are mine
better: b2 and b3
mircea_popescu: aha
better: yes ?
mircea_popescu: better tx is 802cb1fd782aa383c97126c3a0792d81c71d8c3897b74d9e62e1660c01684fe5 for some reason has trouble broadcasting
mircea_popescu: but it should appear momentarily.
mircea_popescu: i'd give it a few hours an' complain again.
better: Ok. Thanks. This is not available now. I will check later again.
mircea_popescu: kk
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11197 @ 0.00042131 = 4.7174 BTC [+]
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 3.91000000 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to drop under $190 before Jan 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1210/bitcoin-to-drop-under-190-before-jan-2016/#b7
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16234 @ 0.00041601 = 6.7535 BTC [-]
ben_vulpes: !up Duffer1
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9650 @ 0.00042086 = 4.0613 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: http://cointelegraph.com/news/115374/the-ongoing-bitcoin-malleability-attack << the quality of the writing reads exactly like the shit fiverr delivers.
assbot: The Ongoing Bitcoin Malleability Attack ... ( http://bit.ly/1MTjRZD )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21700 @ 0.00041927 = 9.0982 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12500 @ 0.00042086 = 5.2608 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3600 @ 0.00041927 = 1.5094 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8051 @ 0.00041647 = 3.353 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6949 @ 0.000416 = 2.8908 BTC [-]
btcdrak: mircea_popescu: LOL, what has litecoin's spam handling got to do with tx malleability? maybe they paid for a fiverr extra for that gem.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea.
btcdrak: there's a real reason why a nasty and sustained crash in the bitcoin price would be good for Bitcoin, it would flush out all these idiot companies and their VCs.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski your first pr thing could be to get @sandbaydev to take btc payment ffs. what is this, 1995 ?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: btcdrak kinda what we've been doing. VC circus got bled to death, i very much wish to see if they're still going to keep the tail up and we dun has to do what told bs next year, after the massacre.
mircea_popescu: but if so, sure, more massacre.
btcdrak: "smart money" has been trying to prop up the price for the last 9 months...
mircea_popescu: smartness in money only exists retrospectively.
mircea_popescu: in other news, from the first, biggest and still better reddit, http://digg.com/video/denmark-travel-do-it-for-mom
assbot: Denmark Is Really Desperate For Their Young People To Start Boning - Digg ... ( http://bit.ly/1OgoBeZ )
mircea_popescu: omfg seth godin still exists. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/icn.seths.head.png now a visibly old man, trying to stick to the orange background in a green shirt. practically speaking a parody of itself (not that it didn't start off as a parody - but by now it's not even intentional anymore).
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1iXbwtu )
mircea_popescu: this is like timecube.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24200 @ 0.0004188 = 10.135 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: Concerned with Prosecution/Investigation/etc. rather than DQ after Interview ... ( http://bit.ly/1iXijn1 )
BingoBoingo: !up gabrielradio
gabrielradio: thanks, i'm gonna be lurking in the #b-a irc yeshiva for a while
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1ORwI1C )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24820 @ 0.000416 = 10.3251 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22480 @ 0.00041577 = 9.3465 BTC [-]
PeterL: wow, that MPOE, did somebody drop some bad news about MP today?
mats: it was due for a few weeks
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.16627786 BTC on 'No' - Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) to drop below 13,900 before December 31st - http://bitbet.us/bet/1211/dow-jones-industrial-average-dji-to-drop-below/#b5
PeterL: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1291019 << Don't forget me, I got 3 (four around new years)
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 19:22:19; ascii_field: iirc only ben_vulpes, mod6, and pete_dushenski had children
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6800 @ 0.00041574 = 2.827 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: <PeterL> wow, that MPOE, did somebody drop some bad news about MP today? << i dunno dude, i woke up and it was like...
mircea_popescu: ahaha punkman where's that from
punkman: mircea_popescu: some imaginative young writer I presume
mircea_popescu: pretty great, i lollered.
punkman: also, oh gawd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_interlock_device
assbot: Ignition interlock device - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1Z246Gd )
mircea_popescu: hint : you can always blow your lighter into the damned thing. it doesn't measure oxygen output
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-10-2015#1291770 << saw this up close once, recently - the new ones are trickier, they require the victim to make sounds into the orifice while blowing, even.
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 03:25:16; mircea_popescu: hint : you can always blow your lighter into the damned thing. it doesn't measure oxygen output
punkman: pet racoon it is then
mircea_popescu: well, or pet arab
mircea_popescu: allahu snackbar!
punkman: they might upgrade to buttplug alcohol sensor on driver's seat, that might be tricky
mircea_popescu: pet arab woman. doesn't drink, is used to diddling.
ascii_field: the interlock thing is actually a rather harsh punishment, as i understand - for instance, it sometimes demands a blow... while the car is moving
ascii_field: at random.
punkman: and sucker gotta pay $100/month for it
mircea_popescu: while its true that security contraptions never deliver any security, it is nevertheless the case that they do require a rent. because everything that exists des.
ascii_field: aha how else !
ascii_field: in this case, quite literally
mircea_popescu: the one "innovation" that cooled me off the "civilised" world were the fcucking speed bumps.
punkman: http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/10/muslims-say-they-will-make-it-legal-to-rape-white-christian-women-when-they-take-over-europe-2/
assbot: Muslims Say They Will Make It Legal to Rape White Christian Women When They Take Over Europe - Freedom Outpost ... ( http://bit.ly/1Z26jSf )
mircea_popescu: let's shake everyone that passes through a street because hey, we can't just shoot whosoever speeds and kills a kid or whatever.
mircea_popescu: fuck that shit.
mircea_popescu: punkman that's pretty stupid. the only reason they even have the half a shot they have currently is the rape.
ascii_field: my theory was that the bumps are from nostalgia for crappy orcish roads...
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6600 @ 0.00041563 = 2.7432 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: my theory is that the bumps are from aged female nostalgia for their earlier time in a car. which a male owned, like he owned their teenaged ass.
mircea_popescu: "can't we even get a LITTLE bumping ????"
mircea_popescu: "i remember 30 years ago used to get 150 bumps to the yard. y u no make road like used to!"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8750 @ 0.00041563 = 3.6368 BTC [-]
ascii_field: ;;isup trilema.com
gribble: trilema.com is up
ascii_field: hm
ascii_field: ;;isup qntra.net
gribble: qntra.net is up
trinque has arrived in Amarillo
ascii_field: ^ neither loads here
trinque: as soon as I hit the TX border, industry!
trinque: things happening everywhere!
trinque: turns out when you let people keep more of their own goddamn money the thing just sorts itself
trinque: who knew...
trinque: Amarillo's a pretty boring town and even the gas station was spotless, workers there were goddamn on point and asking me what I needed, sir
ascii_field: why not alaska then ?!
trinque: fuck alaska
trinque: nobody there
ascii_field: but keep even moar of own money...
trinque: obviously not the only factor
mircea_popescu: no you don't, everything costs forever.
ascii_field: betcha the filling station in anchorage is sterile