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    BingoBoingo: !up scoopbot_revived
    
    BingoBoingo: Oh shit scoopbot_revived
    
    liquidassets: These Usian Disney chicks keep using 'love' like it's this thing one gives to another to substitute for what one lacks, or a tool for filling a void or getting what one wants. Maybe the word they're actually looking for is cock! Do you cock me? Well sure I do baby.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15450 @ 0.00047557 = 7.3476 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    ben_vulpes: http://thetab.com/us/uconn/2015/12/07/exclusive-interview-artist-pissed-off-greek-life-1908 << victoria valentine actually went so far as to file a Fair Use doctrine appeal. doesn't appear that vimeo gives a shit, though.
    
    assbot: We spoke to the 'Cuse artist whose cult video pissed off Greek life ... ( http://bit.ly/1NhEddb )
    
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    BingoBoingo: !up btcdrak
    
    BingoBoingo: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/12/04/shkrelis-chagas-maneuver << Also important to note Chagas is an emerging illness in the United States
    
    assbot: Shkreli’s Chagas Maneuver  |  In the Pipeline ... ( http://bit.ly/1NaOM44 )
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15500 @ 0.00047509 = 7.3639 BTC [+]
    
    adlai: huh, so tradeblock.com (dynamic web2.0++ horrorshow, be warned) flags bitfinex as "operating unreliably", butt has no problem giving okcasino over 50% weighing in their price index
    
    
    
    assbot: Australian police raid Sydney home of reported bitcoin creator| Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/1lO2G2y )
    
    punkman: where's cazalla with the scoop
    
    BingoBoingo: punkman: I just saw it. Writing up a note.
    
    punkman: raid supposedly not related to bitcoin, but obvious what would happen to the real satoshi
    
    punkman: maybe he's already in coke machine but doesn't remember teh keys
    
    punkman: adlai, did you try any of the chinese exchanges yet?
    
    adlai: mno
    
    adlai: it's reassuring that we've not had another gox-scale gox since gox... yet
    
    punkman: wait for it when price shoots up again
    
    
    
    assbot: jwz: Cons conflict resolved at last ... ( http://bit.ly/1OSPuDz )
    
    deedbot-: [Qntra] Craig Steven Wright Raided By Australian Police - http://qntra.net/2015/12/craig-steven-wright-raided-by-australian-police/
    
    BingoBoingo: My first draft had the phrase "theft boners"
    
    adlai: (from comments) "Please add a "+1" button to each topic post. It doesn't have to and probably shouldn't do anything except maybe flash once if you push it." << reminds of the crosswalk impatience vents
    
    adlai: ransomware!
    
    adlai: who knew it'd reach meatspace
    
    BingoBoingo: I though ransomware started in meatspace
    
    adlai tends to forget the years Before Coin
    
    
    
    assbot:  ... ( http://bit.ly/1OSQd7P )
    
    adlai: reasonable people do themselves a disservice by stooping to the language of simpletons
    
    punkman: "anthropomorphic global warming"
    
    adlai: just phrase it as pinpointing the nature and inception of the anthropocene era, their eyes will glaze over and they'll back out of your territory instead of pretending to understand the issues
    
    
    
    assbot:  ... ( http://bit.ly/1IE6QEI )
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23200 @ 0.00047829 = 11.0963 BTC [+]
    
    punkman: -morhpic, -genic , who cares, the first few letters look right
    
    
    
    assbot: HAES: "My bloodwork is perfect" edition. | fatpeoplehate ... ( http://bit.ly/1IE7rX1 )
    
    
    
    assbot: Should we rename the blockchain Craigs List? : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1IE7wde )
    
    BingoBoingo: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2953749/Now-doctors-boy-12-gastric-band-Youngest-British-patient-extreme-weight-loss-surgery-experts-declare-child-obesity-parents-fault-new-TV-expos.html
    
    assbot: Now doctors give boy, 12, gastric band: Youngest ever British patient of extreme weight-loss surgery as experts declare child obesity IS parents' fault in new TV exposé  | Daily Mail Online ... ( http://bit.ly/1OSQRCh )
    
    BingoBoingo: https://imgur.com/Tv3cNqc << lol Wright really looks like a plant nao
    
    assbot: Blockchain Scale Tests by (alleged) Satoshi! 340 GB blocks, 568k transactions! - Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1OSQW95 )
    
    
    
    assbot: dudetalking comments on Dr. Craig Steven Wright (alleged Satoshi, by Wired) on YouTube, from Bitcoin Investor Conference at Las Vegas ... ( http://bit.ly/1IE86I3 )
    
    adlai: moderator: "Oh so it can then be taxed as a currency and a commodity, and [Dr CSW] said, 'neither'" << clearly has not signed the pledge of allegiance yet
    
    adlai: aha so at 20:37 cowboy hat cites jgarzik for an idea of softforking turing-complete opcodes... i'd like to see miners lemming their way along with that soft fork
    
    adlai wonders whether we'll first see a fork fail soft or hard
    
    adlai: https://twitter.com/BitcoinBelle/status/674365484029059072 (panel moderator, seems to have been the bait that fished out the good doctor)
    
    adlai: assbot choking on twitter? https://archive.is/oWetS
    
    assbot: DI$RUPTIV3 on Twitter: "You know that moment when you discover that someone you thought worthy proves himself to not be? #WeighedAndMeasuredAndFailed" ... ( http://bit.ly/1IEadeR )
    
    adlai: "as a recovering government bureaucrat, i'll refrain from commenting things i know nothing about" ed moy wins the panel
    
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    mircea_popescu: <assbot> Australian police raid Sydney home of reported bitcoin creator << ahahaha WHAT\
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18485 @ 0.00049075 = 9.0715 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: punkman> "anthropomorphic global warming" << he means anthropogenic, but whatever. redditards.
    
    mircea_popescu: <adlai> just phrase it as pinpointing the nature and inception of the anthropocene era, their eyes will glaze over and they'll back out of your territory instead of pretending to understand the issues <<< this is an exceptionally retarded approach to keeping idiots in check. it has a lengthy history of being deployed by "white" people ever before white people were invented, and it always failed. nevertheless, it's stil
    
    mircea_popescu: l with us like the belief god may change your coke to pepsi : because it's easy, and because it caters to the specific lacks and infirmities of the "white" mind.
    
    mircea_popescu: <assbot> Should we rename the blockchain Craigs List? : Bitcoin ...  << pretty much the core of why redditards are so lulzy. THEY are going to RENAME things ? like what, their imaginary gf ? isis ?
    
    fluffypony: mircea_popescu: pretty sure that was a joke
    
    mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> https://imgur.com/Tv3cNqc << lol Wright really looks like a plant nao <<< ahahaa now i remember that muppet. intel turned him up sometime this autumn, total lulzfest.
    
    assbot: Blockchain Scale Tests by (alleged) Satoshi! 340 GB blocks, 568k transactions! - Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1OSQW95 )
    
    adlai: it doesn't keep them in check, the purpose is deflection
    
    mircea_popescu: basically keiser in his youth.
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony no, the "joke" is only there to make the idiocy pass.
    
    mircea_popescu: kinda how adolescents the world over do their dating. "hey, wanna go out with me ? no ? oh, i was only joking. ha-ha."
    
    mircea_popescu: funniest shit ever.
    
    mircea_popescu: "Who filed the claim? Gamma Phi Beta and Kappa Delta, two large national organizations of sisterly love, whose houses and members were featured in the video. This was highly suspect."
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah dude. totally fucking suspect, that you film on my premises without paying me and then don't get to benefit from the product. so suspect it almost makes me wonder why the fuck would i even bother owning shit.
    
    adlai: heh, ed moy's closing words boil down to "usg has no future in bitcoin beyond hoping to tax it"
    
    mircea_popescu: hey, that's exactly what the republic of china's government hopes in china are. har har. they'll tax the mainland off taiwan!"
    
    adlai can't believe he watched the entire panel, but it has the perfect blend of pseudoscience, technobabble, and hopium
    
    mircea_popescu: !up dbclk
    
    punkman: film on my premises without paying me << looked like he just used segments from sororities' own videos
    
    mircea_popescu just realised that what he should be doing with this time these days is interview isis derps.
    
    mircea_popescu realised immediatelyt thereafter with some sadness that he can't actually be arsed to go into the anthill and impose sense upon it.
    
    mircea_popescu sees the wisdom of asciilifeform now, to his chagrin.
    
    mircea_popescu: punkman right ?
    
    mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://logs.minigame.bz/2015-12-09.log.html#t11:06:47
    
    assbot: #Eulora log for Wednesday, 2015-12-09 ... ( http://bit.ly/1TAuIcX )
    
    mircea_popescu: that sciencemag bit is hysterical tho. idiots who buy into the whole "ip is needed for to creativity with!" hook line and sinker are displeased when it turns out "ip only exists for people to arb the process, and make money out of the money intended to support creativity". but it never occurs to them what the problem is. because hey, why should scientists be any better at thinking than random five year old, "dog bit me
    
    mircea_popescu: , dog's bad"
    
    mircea_popescu: it's not like their own unsufferable personalities ever bite them. it's just these damned dogs everywhere all the time!
    
    mircea_popescu: anyway, so the point of the "is random derp X ?" (no) article was so that reuters could run a piece saying "Australian police raided the Sydney home and office on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine as the probable creator of bitcoin and holder of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency, Reuters witnesses said."
    
    mircea_popescu: which is great, i guess, if you're at that level of stupid, but otherwise would seem kinda damaging.
    
    mircea_popescu: i guess reuters, wired & all correctly judge that there's absolutely no brand value left in their shit and so why worry.
    
    mircea_popescu: in other news, would any of the brighter minds present explain the jwz piece to me ? i have the feeling he thinks he's being clever, but i lack the resources to comprehend the intricate minutia of his idiocy.
    
    mircea_popescu: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/most-positive-bignum/ << in his defense this is actually pretty lulzy. ESPECIALLY the microcode loop part.
    
    assbot: jwz: MOST-POSITIVE-BIGNUM ... ( http://bit.ly/1TAwvih )
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9100 @ 0.00048224 = 4.3884 BTC [-]
    
    
    
    assbot: Beatles 3000 - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1TAxqiz )
    
    mircea_popescu: http://dreamsongs.com/ <<< how to be retarded. today, richard "i don't have a name and i was born without a face, here's some salmon background" gabriel.
    
    assbot: Dreamsongs ... ( http://bit.ly/1TAxnDA )
    
    mircea_popescu: "i don't have a name and i was born without a face, here's some salmon background" evaluates to p-bignum.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18850 @ 0.00048196 = 9.0849 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/splc2009/images/rgabriel.jpg << protip : almost no one outside of young women looks good smiling. STOP DOING IT. you're supposed to have a personality. have a fucking personality.
    
    assbot:  ... ( http://bit.ly/1TAxLSp )
    
    mircea_popescu: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2011/12/22/astrophysics/ << "Doing the math we can conclude it will take 1.7 x 10^17 years for our sun to generate the same amount of energy as the dietary value of one cubic light year of cheese."
    
    assbot: Astrophysics – blarg? ... ( http://bit.ly/1Qvn3xl )
    
    adlai: "College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to a student's lecture notes without passing through the brains of either" - Samuel L Clemens
    
    mircea_popescu: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLIMATE_COUNTDOWN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-12-08-15-02-36 << in more random lulz, Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace who helped draft the pope's June encyclical on global warming, said  "If it gets to a stalemate or whatever, [...]". valley girls prevail.
    
    assbot: News from The Associated Press ... ( http://bit.ly/1QvnFmm )
    
    mircea_popescu: or whatever.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6113 @ 0.00048302 = 2.9527 BTC [+]
    
    adlai: http://roland.iwasno.net/lisp/datoura/datoura.html "set of data graphing lisp routines that generate postscript output.  Generating postscript eliminates the need for X graphics libraries, but you must have a postscript viewer installed"
    
    assbot: datoura_homepage ... ( http://bit.ly/1TAzoiZ )
    
    adlai: great for printing afictionados and headless arsonists
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24500 @ 0.00047426 = 11.6194 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    mircea_popescu: https://angel.co/syndicates << in other news, every proprietary scamsystem/kickstarter out there will be sooner or later building a bug-ridden, half-baked, ad-hoc implementation of the common wot.
    
    assbot: Syndicates - AngelList ... ( http://bit.ly/1TAAonn )
    
    mircea_popescu: and pretend like they have no clue about it, too. "i just got this idea".
    
    mircea_popescu: all romanian literature, +- 2 or 3 people in the entire history, consists of translations and imports passed off as original.
    
    mircea_popescu: the crayfish, frog and pike story counts in romanian as "wholly original content by al donici", notwithstanding it's a plain as day translation of previous generation ru material.
    
    mircea_popescu: all "rock" throuyghout the 60s-90s is simply us music set to [bad] localised lyrics. and contemporary "rap" is just about the same.
    
    mircea_popescu: there's something very appealing to idiocy about this process of "invention" through kidnapping a princess and dragging her through the mud of one's orcish abode.
    
    adlai: leaving your mark on the world, like a pissing mutt, rather than breathing life into a new one
    
    mircea_popescu: what mark ? chagas is hardly a mark.
    
    
    
    assbot: i made this little comic, hope you like it - Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1OQhtFF )
    
    mircea_popescu: then we wonder why cuckolding is the primary lifestyle of white pplz.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17211 @ 0.00047826 = 8.2313 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11039 @ 0.00047422 = 5.2349 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: http://25iq.com/2015/03/28/a-dozen-things-ive-learned-from-startup-l-jackson-about-venture-capital-investing-and-startups/ << quarterly review of the whole "start-up" gargle as amusing this quarter as the last, and the many before that.
    
    assbot: A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Startup L. Jackson About Venture Capital Investing and Startups | 25iq ... ( http://bit.ly/1TABnDY )
    
    mircea_popescu: "here's the things we want you to think : a) that you need us ; b) that you shouldn't look out for yourself".
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah, totally. what you want when doing a start-up is to "raise" a lot of money so you can pay the people who you "rose" it from rent so their real-estate sidelines do really well (in exactly the opposite fashion of what's preached here), while "not optimizing for your size of the pie".
    
    mircea_popescu: sounds like exactly what they told the indians, too.
    
    punkman: it does say 25 iq
    
    mircea_popescu: which happens to be exactly what's happening, too. indians "had" land, the nature of which they failed to understand, but it was the funciar good for good reason back then.
    
    mircea_popescu: these indians have time, the nature of which they also fail to understand, and well... it's the funciar good today.
    
    mircea_popescu: oh right, and i forgot, "c) there's a shortage of you suckers [and really, alot of money you can give right back to us is "chasing" this deal. totally.]"
    
    mircea_popescu: punkman so it does huh. except it's a weird thing, i've seen this lots in us-born slavegirls. woman could be well above 100 iq, think herself stupid, and indeed exhibit ~30-50 iq in selected fields.
    
    mircea_popescu: so well selected for the convenience&perpetuation of the stupidity she comes from, one can hardly believe it's not deliberately trained.
    
    mircea_popescu: but whatever, fight "patriarchy", not the incredibly unhealthy system that makes you be dumb in the few spots it handles you by so your smarts in the rest of the spectrum can be best sucked dry.
    
    mircea_popescu: average ustard is, i would guess, a 110 to 115 iq college graduate whose 110 to 115 iq is composed of 150+ iq in beating himself up, 25 iq in establishing relationships and so on and so forth.
    
    mircea_popescu: ethical idiocy, where ethical does not mean what esltards think it means, but merely "how to correctly live".
    
    mircea_popescu: this is actually indicative of the very fucking problem : ethics means, how to live. such as for instance, how to drive a fucking airplane i nthe tax office if you live in the us. that's ethics. meanwhile the carefully-debilitated ustards actually think ethics means the exact opposite of what ethics means. to them ethics is "the ways to inconvenience your life".
    
    mircea_popescu: iq 25 alright.
    
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    Naphex: o/ morning
    
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    deedbot-: [Trilema] Etica Mircea - http://trilema.com/2015/etica-mircea/
    
    mircea_popescu: rfc btw ^
    
    nubbins`: !seen mitch_callahan
    
    nubbins` shrugs
    
    jurov: ;;ticker --market bitcoincentral --currency eur
    
    gribble: Bitcoin-Central BTCEUR ticker | Best bid: 384.0, Best ask: 386.0, Bid-ask spread: 2.00000, Last trade: 386.0, 24 hour volume: 166.94604927, 24 hour low: 361.0, 24 hour high: 387.0, 24 hour vwap: 378.32201248
    
    jurov: !t m x.eur
    
    assbot: [MPEX:X.EUR] 1D: 0.00260363 / 0.00269875 / 0.00276803 (513 shares, 1.38 BTC), 7D: 0.00260363 / 0.00278366 / 0.00282306 (1652 shares, 4.60 BTC), 30D: 0.00260363 / 0.00308798 / 0.00343696 (6435 shares, 19.87 BTC)
    
    jurov: ;;calc 1/0.00260363
    
    gribble: 384.079151031
    
    jurov: mkay
    
    Naphex: ben_vulpes: i did write xotika and still do. I work with a graphic designer and frontend developer
    
    Naphex: CoraCrisT handless the bussiness side, and press and recruiting and a bunch of other stuff
    
    Naphex: ben_vulpes: xotika has a full rest-full API while the angular js is static html that just connects to the backends
    
    Naphex: the api is meant to be exported for all the other clients which we will be developing
    
    Naphex: like Android APPs for phones/tables and smarttv
    
    deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00000000 BTC on 'Yes' - Bitcoin to top $1,000 before Jul 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1234/bitcoin-to-top-1-000-before-jul-2016/#b13
    
    
    
    assbot: PINE A64 is a $15, 'high-performance' take on the Raspberry Pi ... ( http://bit.ly/1M2ZcPb )
    
    Naphex: ben_vulpes:and think what you will, constraining the operating environment to just chrome is a pretty sensible cost-reducing move.
    
    Naphex: <<< spot on
    
    Naphex: i only cover chrome for the most part, firefox got really left behind..
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11561 @ 0.00048596 = 5.6182 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    punkman: ".gnupg/random_seed. A file used to preserve the state of the internal random pool." any clue what this thing is?
    
    mircea_popescu: i discovered yest so did everyone, Naphex
    
    mircea_popescu: apparently chrome is taking over.
    
    mircea_popescu: punkman seed for the internal prng iirc
    
    mircea_popescu: and in random eulora stuff, http://dianacoman.com/Eulora/map1.script << check out the awks!
    
    assbot:  ... ( http://bit.ly/1M311LQ )
    
    punkman: but why would I want to preserve this
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 60205 @ 0.00049078 = 29.5474 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: my guess is that it's more of a configuration thing than a preservation thing.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21700 @ 0.00049084 = 10.6512 BTC [+]
    
    asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-12-2015#1339629 << mno. preservation.
    
    assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 14:48:29; mircea_popescu: my guess is that it's more of a configuration thing than a preservation thing.
    
    asciilifeform: gotta understand how, in a prng, the seed is the only genuine bit of entropy;
    
    mircea_popescu: aha.
    
    asciilifeform: and how, where the state consists of solely how long the thing has been churning, naturally it stows a turd
    
    asciilifeform: sorta how leporidae (e.g., rabbit) stores his half-digested food in edible turdlets
    
    asciilifeform: the design of gpg rng subsystem assumes extreme entropy-starvation. this is plain as daylight from 10 minutes of reading the src.
    
    asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-12-2015#1339615 << kickstarturd
    
    assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 14:30:13; shinohai: http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/09/pine-a64-64-bit-4k-maker-board/   <<< nifty
    
    asciilifeform: ' Oh, and it starts from just $15 and is available to "pre-order" via Kickstarter right now.'
    
    asciilifeform: 'PINE A64 includes a quad-core ARM Cortex A53 1.2GHz processor, dual-core Mali 400 MP2 graphics..' << aaaaaand dingdingdingding we get to the requires-closed-driver-turd-just-to-run item 10 seconds in.
    
    asciilifeform: just like the samsung arm 'chromebook' gathering dust in my bookcase
    
    asciilifeform: will happily run 'linux'
    
    asciilifeform: but not, of course, linux.
    
    mircea_popescu: heh
    
    asciilifeform wondered for some time why anyone would market a gpu chipset named for african pisshole
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24750 @ 0.00048451 = 11.9916 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: in other news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/107461376f815e227c81d6da9b7fce16/tumblr_ni02qz5D4W1td0y0yo1_1280.jpg
    
    assbot:  ... ( http://bit.ly/1REDYy5 )
    
    shinohai: not so nifty then
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28400 @ 0.00049086 = 13.9404 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    deedbot-: [Trilema] Eulora as seen by Mircescu - http://trilema.com/2015/eulora-as-seen-by-mircescu/
    
    mircea_popescu: and in other weird news, http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2015/12/08/thousands-coffee-cans-wash-up-indialantic/76969680/
    
    assbot: Coffee spill: Thousands of coffee cans wash up in Indialantic ... ( http://bit.ly/1lurGwk )
    
    asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-12-2015#1339455 << brings to mind the 16th-17th. c. idiots who pushed themselves as 'great alchemists', ended up taken captive by some lord who wanted phr33333 g0ld, and eventually guzzled lead on the public scaffold for charlatanry
    
    assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 08:19:42; punkman: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-bitcoin-exclusive-idUSKBN0TS0AB20151209
    
    asciilifeform bbl.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14311 @ 0.00048902 = 6.9984 BTC [-] {2} 
    
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    nubbins`: ^ LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
    
    nubbins`: says he hasn't even listened to it yet
    
    nubbins` weeps with laughter
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23050 @ 0.00048968 = 11.2871 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17071 @ 0.00049069 = 8.3766 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6450 @ 0.00048902 = 3.1542 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    thestringpuller: nubbins`: as they say CREAM
    
    ben_vulpes: https://gcaptain.com/watch-tug-smashes-passenger-vessel-in-argentina << god bless the argentines
    
    assbot: WATCH: Tug Smashes Passenger Vessel in Argentina - gCaptain ... ( http://bit.ly/1lPqyD4 )
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26750 @ 0.0004859 = 12.9978 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    deedbot-: [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] In which Sam Biddle, Andy Cush, Andy Greenberg and Gwern Branwen fail to learn anything from the charred corpse of Leah McGrath Goodman, or how to tell if you’ve actually found Satoshi Nakamoto. - http://www.contravex.com/2015/12/09/in-which-sam-biddle-andy-cush-andy-greenberg-and-gwern-branwen-fail-to-learn-anything-from-the-charred-
    
    adlai: ;;later tell pete_dushenski PGP signatures don't prove identities to people who don't trust the keys. repeated attempts to establish trust lines to satoshi's purported PGP key have failed
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    BingoBoingo: Satoshi's speshul because as alf says "has to move coins" to inspire faith in identity correspondence
    
    adlai: the best and trust-minimalest "proof-of-satoshi" is the (unspendable!) genesis coinbase
    
    adlai: he could ECDSA sign a message saying "any further coinbases were mined by impostors, frauds, and early adopters, or all three simultaneously"
    
    adlai: but this is just my opinion, and i'm amoral for reasons of mental retardation
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18650 @ 0.00049163 = 9.1689 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    jurov: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35025814 some are picking up coffee cans, some the real stuff
    
    assbot: Austria boy finds euro banknotes in Danube in Vienna - BBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1Nc1a3K )
    
    jurov: "i'm amoral for reasons of mental retardation" orly?
    
    adlai at least can still put two and two together
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31100 @ 0.00049183 = 15.2959 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-12-2015#1339477 << anthro..pogenic?
    
    assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 09:16:37; punkman: "anthropomorphic global warming"
    
    ben_vulpes reads next line
    
    
    
    assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 09:44:52; adlai: moderator: "Oh so it can then be taxed as a currency and a commodity, and [Dr CSW] said, 'neither'" << clearly has not signed the pledge of allegiance yet
    
    adlai subscribes to the pledge of "gimme eat"
    
    adlai: and if that's lost on you... well there are some classics that were written after marie lost her head
    
    adlai has paid more "tax" than he'll "owe" in the next ~year, barring persistent s.mpoe trader idiocy
    
    ben_vulpes: sooo bot thinger's not making any money because dumb opponents?
    
    adlai: so far i must say, the humans have been surprisingly efficient
    
    ben_vulpes is struggling to parse
    
    adlai: no, if opponents are too dumb, bot makes more money than i've paid tax to cover, and i pay some more tax.
    
    ben_vulpes: > barring
    
    ben_vulpes: aha
    
    adlai: but "the whole ['opponents' thing] is a false dichotomy"
    
    ben_vulpes: oh yes?
    
    ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-12-2015#1339611 << mircea_popescu hasn't made you make the "programmers spigot" plain-old-html view yet huh?
    
    assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 14:24:59; Naphex: ben_vulpes: xotika has a full rest-full API while the angular js is static html that just connects to the backends
    
    adlai: positive-sum wonderlands do not involve carcass-treading; they are instead eaten in a feast, with portions rationed by participation; but "everybody has a share"
    
    jurov: ben_vulpes: mp is fine with api that can be accessed by curl (but dunno if xotika is the case)
    
    
    
    assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 02:25:48; mircea_popescu: seriously, let the dumbass tech kids get away with this stupid shit ?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30100 @ 0.00048739 = 14.6704 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    adlai: ben_vulpes: see, that guy just got a better price. i wouldn't call him an opponent.
    
    ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-12-2015#1339611 << implies it does, jurov
    
    assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 14:24:59; Naphex: ben_vulpes: xotika has a full rest-full API while the angular js is static html that just connects to the backends
    
    ben_vulpes: i see adlai
    
    adlai: pls reread cited sections of 'congolese trading window'
    
    ben_vulpes: ah that
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 44946 @ 0.00048661 = 21.8712 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    kakobrekla: spreading works, no also eating. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-12-03/how-dow-chemical-is-turning-sewage-into-a-refreshing-drink
    
    assbot: How Dow Chemical Is Turning Sewage Into a Refreshing Drink - Bloomberg Business ... ( http://bit.ly/1lPKOEs )
    
    ben_vulpes: asked a potential hire "what do you know or believe that few people agree with you on"
    
    ben_vulpes: "cork is the sustainable bottle-stopper"
    
    adlai: lol plastics
    
    adlai: sorry, 'plastics'
    
    ben_vulpes: then followed a long explanation of the horseshit dow is putting into screw-top wine bottles and synthetic corks
    
    ben_vulpes: adlai: out of curiosity what's the difference between 'plastic' and plastic?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23000 @ 0.00048644 = 11.1881 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    adlai: ;;search one word ben plastics
    
    gribble: (search <word>) -- Searches for <word> in the current configuration variables.
    
    adlai: ;;google one word ben plastics
    
    gribble: The Graduate (1967) - Quotes - IMDb: <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/quotes>; The Graduate - Wikiquote: <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Graduate>; The Graduate "One Word: Plastics" - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxihhBzCjk>
    
    adlai: ben_vulpes: tell your hopeful i'm stealing his cannswer
    
    adlai unearthed the "report" he wrote on the cork industry in 5th grade last night while throwing out old schoolwork
    
    jurov: !up Casper-
    
    nubbins`: yfw vexual is satoshi
    
    mircea_popescu: amusingly, there's actually a trilema about that derp.
    
    
    
    assbot: The nigger, a practical exercise. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1OiHJUu )
    
    mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes https://gcaptain.com/watch-tug-smashes-passenger-vessel-in-argentina << god bless the argentines << they're talented folk. just, not at anything that correlates with survival.
    
    assbot: WATCH: Tug Smashes Passenger Vessel in Argentina - gCaptain ... ( http://bit.ly/1lPqyD4 )
    
    mircea_popescu: or with interesting.
    
    mircea_popescu: ok, ok
    
    mircea_popescu: !rated adlai
    
    assbot: You rated user adlai on 08-Nov-2015, with a rating of -1, and supplied these additional notes: As best as I can tell, the individual is either mentally retarded, or else expends significant mental power to emulate mental retardation..
    
    mircea_popescu: !unrate adlai
    
    assbot: Request successful, get your OTP: http://w.b-a.link/otp/253aae5928c59d57
    
    mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.unrate.adlai:7bf7b818136ae3748bea3f2745f74fd0cd5edd11bef55901d7fe407672638a2d
    
    assbot: Successfully unrated adlai
    
    mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> << mircea_popescu hasn't made you make the "programmers spigot" plain-old-html view yet huh? << this is hate speech.
    
    mircea_popescu: <adlai> ben_vulpes: tell your hopeful i'm stealing his cannswer << yeah, it's a very good can.
    
    mircea_popescu: just add string.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25909 @ 0.00049183 = 12.7428 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    BingoBoingo: !up ascii_field
    
    ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-12-2015#1339543 << r. gabriel was the 'worse is better' guy.
    
    assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 11:38:17; mircea_popescu: http://dreamsongs.com/ <<< how to be retarded. today, richard "i don't have a name and i was born without a face, here's some salmon background" gabriel.
    
    ascii_field: i once tried to read his other shit, and barfed
    
    ascii_field: 'poet'
    
    mircea_popescu: you don't really like ANY of the classics lispers do you.
    
    ascii_field: weinreb was ok before he went barmy and then died
    
    ascii_field: david moon was ok because he said nothing at all
    
    ascii_field: minsky wrote an entertaining b00k re: brain-as-multiorgan-system
    
    mircea_popescu: also not clearly from this planetg.
    
    mircea_popescu: minsky's probably the more advanced work on theoretical neurology to date.
    
    ascii_field: john mccarthy was spiffy all around
    
    ascii_field: mircea_popescu: aha
    
    mircea_popescu: now, granted that clinical neurology is still the vastly more important thing, but anyway.
    
    BingoBoingo: Not rly.
    
    
    
    assbot:  ... ( http://bit.ly/1OiKyoP )
    
    assbot:  ... ( http://bit.ly/1OiKwNu )
    
    BingoBoingo: theoretical neurology much more practical
    
    mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, it occurs to me looking through tucker max's sad history past decade (random guy on the internet, thinks "he invented a literary genus" because wrote some bland, unoriginal "debauchery stories" ; burned out of that [the tucker max makes a movie in hollywood shit was pretty lulzy] then moved on to... being an investor! burned out of that, now writing advice books on how to be the perfect mate for some woman
    
    mircea_popescu: ) that he's very much a son of his country and a man of his age. there is still a very strong vein of "guide literature" from wild west in us fiction writing to this date.
    
    mircea_popescu: it all really proceeds on the same great page of "i ain't got much lernin but i seen them buttes, here's how you too can get there!"
    
    ascii_field: recognizably aha
    
    mircea_popescu: very bizzare thing for civilised folk.
    
    mircea_popescu: i mean... this is what the village idiot would be in ro
    
    mircea_popescu: and ru for that matter.
    
    mircea_popescu: but these are places that've been continuously inhabited for a while, where the space of possibilities has been a little more explored.
    
    ascii_field: earlier link features a chinese fella on trial for supposedly pinching a priceless!11111 filesystem driver from ibm
    
    mircea_popescu: fancy that. those exist ?
    
    ascii_field: cloud!11111
    
    mircea_popescu: oic.
    
    ascii_field: and somehow a sting/entrapment op was in the mix, even
    
    ascii_field: classic usg, recommended reading for aficionados strictly.
    
    mircea_popescu: by now i suppose the prosecuting attorney will suspect the case may not seem like a "real" case w/o one.
    
    mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that the premier indicator of not-real-case is exactly "sting!!11"
    
    mircea_popescu: anywya, it bears pointing out, to round the "us www guide fiction" thread, that the donner party was the unfortunate result of that typically american literary genus, the wild west guide fiction.
    
    mircea_popescu: not EXACTLY a tall tale, like the canadians got. crazier.
    
    mircea_popescu: in the pathological sense of crazier.
    
    BingoBoingo: related http://www.slate.com/blogs/schooled/2015/12/09/rafe_esquith_famous_teacher_accused_of_sexual_misconduct_and_inappropriate.html
    
    assbot: Rafe Esquith, famous teacher, accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior in school by L.A. schools ... ( http://bit.ly/1QwIdel )
    
    BingoBoingo: "perhaps the most decorated elementary-school teacher in the country, the only K-12 educator ever to receive the National Medal of the Artshas been accused of sexual misconduct in shocking documents released Tuesday by Los Angeles Unified School District."
    
    mircea_popescu: this is like being accused of "wrecking" in the other-us.
    
    mircea_popescu: you're guaranteed to get it, the higher accomplished you are. it correlates with your visibility because  the point, from the niggers'  perspective, is exactly to try and make it a thing by sticking it to people.
    
    mircea_popescu: in this sense, if there's ANYONE that appears above, then that's someone above lenin. which they can't have. and so...
    
    ascii_field: 'c.
    
    ascii_field: UC-2
    
    ascii_field: asked.
    
    ascii_field: “Oh
    
    ascii_field: you
    
    ascii_field: do
    
    ascii_field: have
    
    mircea_popescu: ...
    
    ascii_field: all
    
    ascii_field: the
    
    ascii_field: code’?”
    
    ascii_field: XU
    
    ascii_field: replied.
    
    ascii_field: “Yeah
    
    ascii_field: I
    
    ascii_field: have
    
    ascii_field: all
    
    ascii_field: the
    
    ascii_field: [Proprietary
    
    ascii_field: Softwarej
    
    mircea_popescu: dem buffers.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26850 @ 0.00049211 = 13.2132 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
    
    ascii_field: ty for cutting the wire in time.
    
    ascii_field: http://dpaste.com/2016J0Z.txt << the intended turdlet.
    
    assbot:  ... ( http://bit.ly/1QwISfN )
    
    mircea_popescu: https://arenavc.com/2015/07/airbnb-my-1-billion-lesson/ << maybe interesting. since i'm going through all this idiocy, might as well.
    
    assbot: Airbnb, My $1 Billion Lesson - by Paige Craig ... ( http://bit.ly/1QwIVbF )
    
    ascii_field: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/12/gender_critical_trans_women_the_apostates_of_the_trans_rights_movement.html << from earlier fishwrap
    
    assbot: Gender critical trans women: The apostates of the trans rights movement. ... ( http://bit.ly/1OiMJbH )
    
    mircea_popescu: yaya im sure.
    
    mircea_popescu: the funny skit in that paige craig piece being that if paul graham and his merry band of spammers & conmen hadn't "invested", the thing would be worth tgoday what it it;'s been worth throughout : four digits in someone's shitty excel.
    
    mircea_popescu: derp wants to think  that hey, this is how i got bumped out of a great deal
    
    mircea_popescu: what happened in fact however's a lot closer to http://trilema.com/2014/you-cannot-fix-a-machine-by-just-power-cycling-it-with-no-understanding-of-what-is-going-wrong/#selection-195.0-201.188
    
    assbot: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1QwJDpi )
    
    mircea_popescu: "Airbnb has of course gone on to execute exceptionally well and become what it is today."
    
    mircea_popescu: they executed... nothing.
    
    mircea_popescu: or if you will, they executed what groupon executed : a maddof in the background, in this case named graham, scammed some old ladies and wrote the details in a notebook bearing this title
    
    mircea_popescu: i suppose this matters to some, what the title is.
    
    mircea_popescu: yet the guy's own conclusion, in his own terms ?
    
    mircea_popescu: "Losing a deal like Airbnb can be painful. Great lessons came from the rejection at the very end, however. After getting the cold shoulder, I realized I needed to go out and build some valuable knowledge, needed a more robust network, and needed to craft my own brand as an investor.
    
    mircea_popescu: When I found Airbnb I was a nobody in the investing world, but I spent the next year afterward traveling around the US meeting founders and investors. I attended and hosted several dozen events and I talked to just about everybody in tech I could. I read voraciously and learned as much as possible from one-on-one conversations. I put in a full year of hard work before I did my next deal."
    
    mircea_popescu: 30 iq part of brain engaged.
    
    mircea_popescu: i'm sure "building his brand as an investor" is going to do exactly what "building her brand as an relationship expert" did for tlp's fave gori lottlieb. or whatever it was.
    
    mircea_popescu: it's not like yc will be displaced by b-a, it's like his derpy www-persona has a chance and all that.
    
    mircea_popescu: wuuut evars.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17100 @ 0.00048644 = 8.3181 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: heh. check this shit out "Not all investors are created equal. The winners are persistently the same relatively small groups of investors time after time.  Success not only has positive signaling effects in attracting the factors that drive success, but also talent enhancing effects for the venture capitalists themselves." << now why exactly would this be ? successful sicentists aren't "always the same small group time
    
    mircea_popescu:  after time". senators however are.
    
    
    
    assbot: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie ... ( http://bit.ly/1QwKwht )
    
    mircea_popescu: poor assbot
    
    shinohai: Here's some ass to cheer you up, assbot https://i.imgur.com/pk2nE7W.webm
    
    assbot:  ... ( http://bit.ly/1QwKNBa )
    
    mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2010/vladimir-oane-iz-meleonare/#selection-81.0-85.15 << if gabriel radio feels like translating ancient pieces on "venture capital" a la roumaine.
    
    assbot: Vladimir Oane iz Meleonare!!! on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1QwKOoD )
    
    mircea_popescu: of course that shit exists. it's about as lulzy an affair as "romanian press" or whatever, "romanian secret services caught romanian isis agent"
    
    ascii_field: 'soviet elephants are world's biggest elephants!111'
    
    mircea_popescu: im sure there's also a paris, kentucky vc scene.
    
    mircea_popescu: guys at the local bar, you know, watching shark tank on tv...
    
    ascii_field: mircea_popescu: mega-s33kr1t: not all usian software firms are in sv..
    
    mircea_popescu: "La 27 de ani, Vladimir Oane a riscat şi a reuşit. În doi ani, a pus pe picioare o afacere prin care monitorizează diverse reţele şi oferă statistici marilor branduri. Contractele au început să curgă." <<< for the lulz. romanian "airbnb could buy all of russia" thing.
    
    mircea_popescu: ascii_field do not take the name of the dwwweb in vane!
    
    mircea_popescu: if it isn't in scamicon valley THEN ITS NOT REALLY TECHNOLOGY
    
    ascii_field: aaaha.
    
    mircea_popescu: if it were it'd spend its capital on aeron chairs.
    
    ascii_field has never even been there as a tourist. oughta go some day.
    
    mircea_popescu: like "real" technologies.
    
    ascii_field: before it drowns.
    
    mircea_popescu: from what i hear from the locals it used to be great
    
    mircea_popescu: back before all the midwestern carrie-bradshaw-wannabes showed up
    
    ascii_field: phun phakt: at the u.s. army derpery where i once worked, aerons were MANDATORY
    
    mircea_popescu: i guess just like new york in the 50s
    
    BingoBoingo hasn't been to Paris, Kentucky either
    
    ascii_field: and i had a forbidden cloth-backed chair that had to be hidden during inspections
    
    ascii_field: fire code, you see.
    
    mircea_popescu: heh
    
    mircea_popescu: i thought aerons are thread or some shit
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;google paris, kentucky
    
    gribble: City of Paris - Home: <http://www.paris.ky.gov/>; Paris, Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Kentucky>; Paris-Bourbon County Tourism: <http://www.pariskytourism.com/>
    
    ascii_field: rubberized mesh
    
    mircea_popescu: now you have, BingoBoingo
    
    ascii_field turned down a few sv gigs recently
    
    BingoBoingo: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: oh i see, it wouldn't be "real" top quality if it weren't shit.
    
    ascii_field: it was actually ok, didn't fall apart like every chair i've ever owned at home
    
    ascii_field: (in 3+ yrs of arse time)
    
    ascii_field: and had reasonably good pneumatics, that didn't leak air
    
    ascii_field: iirc they're about 800 usd.
    
    ascii_field: sold by herman miller furniture co.
    
    BingoBoingo: !up ascii_field
    
    nubbins`: for those who are interested in matters of pedigree, i just sold a casascius coin and the buyer paid an additional 1btc to have the pgp chain of custody extended
    
    nubbins`: i expect this to be the minimum going forward
    
    ascii_field: nubbins`: do you remember the thread where i described how to trivially rape such a coin ?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12950 @ 0.00049214 = 6.3732 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    nubbins`: i recall a discussion in which it was posited that a device to read private key would be easy enough to make
    
    ascii_field: aha.
    
    nubbins`: the holo stickers for the 1btc silvers were too large for the space on the coin & tended to lift at the edges, making for very easy solvent insertion -- most stickers were then burned around the rim with a laser to make a fried-on messy ring that allowed the sticker to lay flatter and ostensibly would reveal tampering more easily (they still flaked, saw it with mine own)
    
    ascii_field: and you don't even need to remove the sticker.
    
    nubbins`: nope
    
    ascii_field: or physically alter the thing, or the coin, in any way.
    
    nubbins`: today, for the first time outside of casascius' blog, i see a photo of an un-lasered sticker in an auction on the gooftalk forum
    
    
    
    assbot:  ... ( http://bit.ly/1QwMxu4 )
    
    nubbins`: shadows, even!
    
    nubbins`: anyway, i figure counterfeits are a much more common issue going forward
    
    nubbins`: i've only seen poor quality ones in the wild so far
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17215 @ 0.00048582 = 8.3634 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> (they still flaked, saw it with mine own) << there's a reason thermosensors are made out of two different materials stuck to each other. that reason is that this problem of geometric affixing is INCREDIBLY hard.
    
    ascii_field: aha!
    
    ascii_field: check out glass-to-metal bonds sometime
    
    ascii_field: can spend a lifetime on just that.
    
    ascii_field: (was a mega-issue in vacuum valve manufacture)
    
    ascii_field: all of this will have to be re-discovered.
    
    ascii_field: j. strong's 'methods of experimental physics' covers the basics; the whole b00k is somewhere w4r3z3d in the logz.
    
    mircea_popescu: yup
    
    mircea_popescu: and temperature envelopes are always a thing
    
    mircea_popescu: you won't ever have a "for all temperatures" bond.
    
    mircea_popescu: (which is why the way to get chewing gum out of stuff is to deepfreeze the stuff)
    
    ascii_field: aha
    
    ascii_field: nor will you, other than at some considerable expense and choice of constrained envelope - have a linear one.
    
    
    
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    asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
    
    ascii_field: 'Twitter is a natural monopoly. Outrageous Chuck Johnson is still banned after all this time. They're showing why they need to be regulated.'
    
    ascii_field: mega-l0l
    
    BingoBoingo: lol
    
    ascii_field: it's a public utility now!1111
    
    BingoBoingo: for srs
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what other is the purpose of facebook ?
    
    BingoBoingo: I have no idea
    
    mircea_popescu: sounds a lot like the story of the man upset that he went to the brothel, and they touched him in a sexually suggestive manner.
    
    mircea_popescu: in other news, trilema used to have a fb and a twitter where some webapp (that no doubt is a great success) dumped the rss
    
    mircea_popescu: i see the facebook feed's dead, but can't be arsed to look into it
    
    mircea_popescu: about me "i found my first security holes in 1987" sooo... she's 30 ?
    
    mircea_popescu: otherwise, who's chuck johnson and what's gotnews.com
    
    BingoBoingo: He's the derp who is somewhat aligned with weev
    
    mircea_popescu: https://arenavc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/airbnb_2nd_budget.png << best lulz. srsly, this is why they need excel ?
    
    assbot:  ... ( http://bit.ly/1Y3b36I )
    
    
    
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    BingoBoingo: Johnson has occasonal moments of lucidity, but otherwise seems to largely have been caught up in the otherside of USG propaganda machine
    
    ascii_field: incidentally, how do folks actually pronounce 'airbnb' ?
    
    ascii_field: i always say 'airbnob'
    
    ascii_field: (as in door knob)
    
    mircea_popescu: http://gawker.com/what-is-chuck-johnson-and-why-the-web-s-worst-journal-1666834902 << gawker has a story on some twitter brigading or w/e.
    
    assbot: What Is Chuck Johnson, and Why? The Web’s Worst Journalist, Explained ... ( http://bit.ly/1Y3b5vx )
    
    mircea_popescu: still unsure why anyone'd give a shit. twitter ? wut ?
    
    mircea_popescu: ascii_field iirc they were something like averypoorlynamedbedandbreakfast.com originally
    
    mircea_popescu: could perhaps just read it out.
    
    mircea_popescu: "Its not just Johnsons attitude toward people of color whove been victimized by cops. Johnson in general likes to retaliate against certain individuals by publishing their personal information (a.k.a. doxxing). A recent example: After the New York Times published a copy of former Ferguson cop Darren Wilsons marriage certificate, and named the street on which he used to live, Johnson published the home addre
    
    mircea_popescu: ssesdown to the house and apartment numbersof the pair of reporters who authored the Times story. The headline read: Why Cant We Publish Addresses Of New York Times Reporters?"
    
    mircea_popescu: awwww.
    
    mircea_popescu: doubleplusbad.
    
    mircea_popescu: how to get the leahs all bothered up - take their online anonimity away.
    
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    ascii_field: i still don't get why they care
    
    ascii_field: what happens when the address is posted? dump trucks full of shit show up ?
    
    ascii_field: anyone with fiddybux can find out, e.g., where i live
    
    mircea_popescu: it's a mental issue.
    
    ascii_field: so far not even broken window.
    
    mircea_popescu: they don't want to be what they are. that's not their real self.
    
    mircea_popescu: you can readily verify this by, for instance, asking "rape" victim if she got wet during the events.
    
    ascii_field: and 'real self' is... what? napoleon ?
    
    mircea_popescu: the physical world BETRAYS THE SACRED DREAMS OF SOCIALISM
    
    mircea_popescu: "Far more noteworthy than any of Johnsons journalism stunts, however, is his intellectual pedigree.
    
    mircea_popescu: What do you mean?
    
    mircea_popescu: Johnsons isnt really a marginal or peripheral figure in mainstream conservatism"
    
    mircea_popescu: this bit is golden. 26 yo derp is a figure, of any kind ?
    
    mircea_popescu: what is this shit!
    
    ascii_field: if he were 46 - different
    
    ascii_field: ?
    
    BingoBoingo: !up ascii_field
    
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    BingoBoingo: Also in Australia http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/death-of-obese-daughter-spurs-heartbroken-parents-to-help-another-teenager/news-story/eb71cfcc0fbb1dd3e78ebb1798fd0ba2
    
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    BingoBoingo: 254 kilograms
    
    mircea_popescu: some help.
    
    mircea_popescu: http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/01/sorry-chuck-todd-but-reporters-are-not-the-referees-of-politics/ << somewhat lulzy.
    
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    BingoBoingo: !up BashCo
    
    BashCo: Thanks BingoBoingo. Hi folks.
    
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    nubbins`: there's a guy selling one of Carl Mark Force IV's business cards
    
    nubbins`: lewell
    
    asciilifeform: h0ly relic ?
    
    
    
    nubbins`: asciilifeform +1, it's even gilded.
    
    nubbins`: this is almost as impressive as my genesis-block copy of the times
    
    
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's card is neat
    
    nubbins`: my card is neat
    
    nubbins`: hand-printed on test print paper
    
    nubbins`: each one yooneek!
    
    asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/a/G0SsJ << l0ls from the st00ge
    
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    nubbins`: fuckin wanker
    
    nubbins`: we should try to get martin shkreli in here
    
    asciilifeform: meanwhile, the power rangerz declare that signature checking is to be done away with. ( https://news.bitcoin.com/segregated-witness-concept-turning-point-bitcoin )
    
    assbot: The Segregated Witness Concept: A 'Turning Point' for Bitcoin? - Bitcoin News ... ( http://bit.ly/1HVFVnN )
    
    asciilifeform: because...
    
    asciilifeform: because shuddup terror15t
    
    asciilifeform: or something.
    
    thestringpuller: it's gonna be ugly
    
    asciilifeform: imbeciles are free to spawn altcoinz, and even to trade in their genuine coin for them, no prob.
    
    BingoBoingo: Another one of these http://hackaday.com/2015/12/09/echo-of-the-bunnymen-how-amd-won-then-lost/
    
    assbot: Echo of the Bunnymen: How AMD Won, Then Lost | Hackaday ... ( http://bit.ly/1OU425T )
    
    thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i wonder why everyone wants to spam the blockchain so badly
    
    thestringpuller: this whole notion of 7 billion people transacting daily seems...fucktarded
    
    asciilifeform: 'From 2003 until 2006, Intel paid $1 Billion to Dell in exchange not to ship any computers using CPUs made by AMD. Intel held OEMs ransom, encouraging them to only ship Intel CPUs by way of volume discounts and threatening OEMs with low-priority during CPU shortages. Intel engaged in false advertising, and misrepresenting benchmark results. '
    
    thestringpuller: I've sent 3 transactions this year alone.
    
    asciilifeform: ^ intel & microshit, one is nothing without the other
    
    asciilifeform: 'Intel does much more than just silicon. Hidden inside their design centers are the keepers of x86, and this includes the people who write the compilers for x86 processors.' << while there is in fact an intel compiler, the article is here revealed as catastrophically braindamaged
    
    asciilifeform: 'Permanently disabling AMD CPUs through compiler optimizations ensured AMD would not quickly retake this market share.' << wtf
    
    asciilifeform: NOBODY USES INTEL'S COMPILER
    
    asciilifeform: except for a few fortranistas
    
    BingoBoingo: Prolly Red Hat built their GCC with Intel compiler
    
    thestringpuller: i didn't know anyone still used fortran
    
    BingoBoingo: Fortran is great for WWW backends
    
    nubbins`: o.O
    
    thestringpuller: i thought you had to be 50 or older to use it
    
    asciilifeform: thestringpuller: it remains ubiquitous in the number-cruncher community
    
    thestringpuller: yea if you have gray hair
    
    nubbins`: you see some bizarre shit in industry
    
    nubbins`: i worked at a company that does ~$1bn in annual revenue, all back-end is accessed via RPG IV
    
    nubbins`: ("what's that?" exactly)
    
    thestringpuller: IBM RPG....i haven't heard that in a loooong time.
    
    nubbins`: still exists
    
    nubbins`: the company literally had to get a local college to offer a course in it, and they sent an employee over to teach it
    
    asciilifeform: the closest thing i know of to a 'puzzle' esolang that is actually used in industry is...
    
    asciilifeform: mumps.
    
    asciilifeform: as seen here, http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS
    
    assbot: A Case of the MUMPS - The Daily WTF ... ( http://bit.ly/1OU4yRn )
    
    thestringpuller: this is the only esolang I've used: http://esolangs.org/wiki/chef
    
    asciilifeform: 'The primary design goal MUMPS was to create code that, once written, can never be maintained by anyone ever again. The syntax is somewhat reminiscent of FORTRAN and SNOBOL (no, not the toilet cleaner), only much, much worse. Ironically, being inflicted with mumps (the disease) is much more pleasant that actually working with MUMPS (the language). A more apt name for the language certainly would have been EXPLOSIVE-DIARRHEA; I
    
    asciilifeform: m sure they could have even worked SNOBOL (the language, or, heck, even the toilet cleaner) in there as well.'
    
    asciilifeform: ^ not an entirely unfair description
    
    asciilifeform: but, interestingly,
    
    asciilifeform: around the time this article was written, i sat down and learned the language
    
    asciilifeform: (for a potential gig that never went through)
    
    asciilifeform: and found it to be quite a pleasant thing, in its own way
    
    nubbins`: "OPERATORS: No precedence, executed left to right, parenthesize as desired. 2+3*10 yields 50."
    
    asciilifeform: in the msdos-and-fuck-you way.
    
    nubbins`: poor bryan
    
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    mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> imbeciles are free to spawn altcoinz, and even to trade in their genuine coin for them, no prob. <<< kinda how socialism works.
    
    mircea_popescu: revolutionize the things, end up trading your vaginal virginity for a pair of jeans
    
    mircea_popescu: and teh anal, for some tp.
    
    mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> NOBODY USES INTEL'S COMPILER << mediatards, whats they know.
    
    asciilifeform: it was ridiculous the first time the thing popped up
    
    asciilifeform: in, when... 2006 ?
    
    mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> the company literally had to get a local college to offer a course in it, and they sent an employee over to teach it << this is how it should work, actually. all the OTHER courses should be discontinued, pretty much.
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform something like that
    
    mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "OPERATORS: No precedence, executed left to right, parenthesize as desired. 2+3*10 yields 50." <<< imo this is the symptom of a badly written assembler or w/e the thing is.
    
    asciilifeform: hey strict ll(1) parser
    
    asciilifeform: simplicity!
    
    mircea_popescu: except by the time you're done with paranthesizing it's no longer simple.
    
    asciilifeform: what parenthesizing.
    
    mircea_popescu: in fact the reason precedence even exists is because it's a schelling point for lazy.
    
    asciilifeform: eat one by one.
    
    mircea_popescu: well suppose i don't want 2+3*10 to yield 50
    
    asciilifeform: rpn solves this.
    
    mircea_popescu: i guess.
    
    mircea_popescu: note that if they were sane they'd have said THAT.
    
    mircea_popescu: the fact that they don't makes me... a little wary.
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all --currency eur
    
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    BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
    
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    BingoBoingo: ;;more
    
    gribble: 422.887495447
    
    
    
    
    
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    BingoBoingo: Welcome nolanbugg
    
    BingoBoingo: Quite an introduction
    
    nolanbugg: daniel insisted i join, it has been a long time since i have used irc
    
    nolanbugg: but it is good company to be in
    
    BingoBoingo: The only better time to join than now is the past.
    
    nolanbugg: yea, i take a long time to do anything but i feel like i have a feel for some of the personalities here, but i have plenty of catching up to do with the logs
    
    BingoBoingo: nolanbugg: !up yourself now
    
    mod6: ;;bc,stats
    
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    mod6: Hey, took one guy a whole day to figure out the recipes go in the mind slot :D << lol!
    
    mod6: could have been longer even.  can't remember. *blush*
    
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