assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.61 BTC [+]
    
    asciilifeform: at the risk of repeating, anyone concerned with boobytrapped hardware should actually take the time to think about /what it could actually do/ in their scenario
    
    asciilifeform: e.g. what, exactly, does the enemy get if he can execute an arbitrary instruction instead of the next coming one, at a given time
    
    BitcoinKike: I have a leak to the powerline.
    
    asciilifeform: or what does he get if it broadcasts every 16th word fetched from ram
    
    asciilifeform: or, or, or...
    
    dignork: asciilifeform: is there any way to grep/search in log.bitcoin-assets.com ? I mean like a month range. I can hack together some crawler, but maybe there is on already.
    
    asciilifeform: dignork: no idea
    
    BitcoinKike: dignork: Try nao and ask kako's forgiveness later?
    
    asciilifeform: continuing: for instance, a chip that enthusiastically pisses bits to the power rail is perfectly usable if it never gets to share its power rail with anything
    
    asciilifeform: (runs off battery)
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 10 @ 0.106 = 1.06 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    asciilifeform: a chip that is suspected of broadcasting more than its 'fair share' is pefectly usable inside a miniature faraday cage
    
    asciilifeform: and likewise for one which is thought to receive (so long as the cage is in place, and likewise supply and ground rails are filtered)
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [KCIM] 92 @ 0.00316001 = 0.2907 BTC [-]
    
    BingoBoingo: OMG Luke-Jr called me a kike <Luke-Jr> BitcoinKike: lack of transparency including proof of reserves
    
    BingoBoingo: Fucking Guinea
    
    asciilifeform: this is an actual subject and i cannot hope to make it fit into these sound bites
    
    asciilifeform: but i really wish people had some actual picture in their head of what it means to distrust a hardware vendor
    
    asciilifeform: beyond simple 'ritual unclean' voodoo.
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: We know, that is why I file down aluminum cans during downtime.
    
    dignork: BitcoinKike: afraid to ask, nao? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nao_(robot) ?
    
    Apocalyptic: I think he meant now
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 5 @ 0.63749393 = 3.1875 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    BingoBoingo: dignork: Accept the definition that scares you the moast?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 13 @ 0.10500001 = 1.365 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    Luke-Jr: BingoBoingo: please do not slander me; there is a person by that name present
    
    BingoBoingo: Everything is everything, unless it is nothing.
    
    BingoBoingo: I feel like a pussy nao having only faced misdemeanot charges https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120969.0
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 3 @ 0.63929666 = 1.9179 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15000 @ 0.000865 = 12.975 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 20 @ 0.0059898 = 0.1198 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 20 @ 0.0059898 = 0.1198 BTC [-]
    
    BingoBoingo: Remember, disorderlynes is a moral imperative
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8800 @ 0.00086244 = 7.5895 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 103 @ 0.00499483 = 0.5145 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 11 @ 0.10217367 = 1.1239 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    benkay: pankkake: plz refresh assass feed. pushed to public too soon :(
    
    BingoBoingo: benkay: Nevar too soon
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 8 @ 0.1001 = 0.8008 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    benkay: no no there is a thing as too soon
    
    benkay: too often, maybe not
    
    KRS-One: .bait
    
    
    
    benkay: bawww
    
    KRS-One: that bait was gay
    
    KRS-One: .bait
    
    ozbot: http://31.media.tumblr.com/2ec1a84839ed639af3015e8b06bff00a/tumblr_mlf7w7QqoV1ruxnfbo1_1280.jpg
    
    KRS-One: rawr
    
    benkay: one of those girls has done this before...
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 55 @ 0.00490042 = 0.2695 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 6 @ 0.05863587 = 0.3518 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 4 @ 0.105 = 0.42 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 4 @ 0.16230094 = 0.6492 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14351 @ 0.00086116 = 12.3585 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    KRS-One: if you zoom in real close on the pubes of the girls in that pic you can get a good crotch shot
    
    KRS-One: which one would you take? right or left?
    
    benkay: right
    
    benkay: TRICK QUESTION BOTH
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 8 @ 0.64139124 = 5.1311 BTC [+] {6} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34149 @ 0.00085914 = 29.3388 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    BingoBoingo: Remember ##mtgoc-statement is a total lolz factory ripe for pikinz
    
    KRS-One: i would take the girl on the right, but i like blondes...the girl on the left has a fat pussy
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 5 @ 0.646 = 3.23 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 4 @ 0.10874999 = 0.435 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 26 @ 0.00499493 = 0.1299 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1 @ 0.1001 BTC [-]
    
    BingoBoingo: @BryceWeiner is so getting death by exile
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HIF] 314 @ 0.00056898 = 0.1787 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    BingoBoingo: ##mtgox-statement is still a lulzmine
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.1001 = 0.3003 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 23 @ 0.00599 = 0.1378 BTC [+]
    
    BingoBoingo: I'm going to sleep soon and hope I keep logging that channel, but backup is necessary, because that is a lulz goldmine
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 4 @ 0.1001 = 0.4004 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 4 @ 0.05863591 = 0.2345 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.64 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 19 @ 0.09613161 = 1.8265 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 25 @ 0.0936797 = 2.342 BTC [-] {8} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 5 @ 0.64552 = 3.2276 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 40 @ 0.00488998 = 0.1956 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 100 @ 0.005999 = 0.5999 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 250 @ 0.00599947 = 1.4999 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 81 @ 0.006 = 0.486 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4899 @ 0.00086464 = 4.2359 BTC [+]
    
    hax0r42: how the hell did AM1 go up so much in 1 day?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 51 @ 0.00489997 = 0.2499 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4500 @ 0.00085893 = 3.8652 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 70 @ 0.00489998 = 0.343 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.64699 = 1.294 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11450 @ 0.000865 = 9.9043 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    bloctoc_: looks like all those puts are going to expire
    
    BingoBoingo: bloctoc_: Looks like MPOE is in the money
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
    
    gribble: MtGox BTCUSD last: 135.0, vol: 0.00000000 | Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 578.47, vol: 16020.91139690 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 558.1, vol: 14394.81461 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 577.0, vol: 11047.20318012 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 590.06, vol: 0 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 566.081244, vol: 6372.01300000 | Volume-weighted last average: 570.350348155
    
    bloctoc_: I've been looking at the price,  seems good but one would have to sell bitbet to do such a thing
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 19 @ 0.006 = 0.114 BTC [-]
    
    BingoBoingo: Nah
    
    BingoBoingo: The puts were sold to MPOE at what price?
    
    bloctoc_: I don't know but it's in the bitcoin-assets archives a couple of days after the transaction
    
    BingoBoingo: bloctoc_: It was repeated several times over those days
    
    BingoBoingo: Fuck it, Imma sleep
    
    bloctoc_: night
    
    BingoBoingo: ##mtgox-statement pissing me off beyond my vodka budget for a Thursday
    
    bloctoc_: is there a way to verify mpex has possession of coins?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 62 @ 0.00489998 = 0.3038 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 4000 @ 0.004614 = 18.456 BTC [-] {35} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 42 @ 0.0048998 = 0.2058 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 39 @ 0.00489981 = 0.1911 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta love it when the thesaurus is longer than the poem
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: the guy doesnt know they squated it themselves < clearly there's no relation between jesse and the gang.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.636 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: benkay: dat mpoe < what be you mathing thar ?
    
    mircea_popescu: ninjashogun: anyone interested in startups here? << ahahaha epic.
    
    mircea_popescu: isn;t this the guy who didn't have the time to either a) get with the program or b) read the indicated article detailing the unsuccessful attempts of the last nitwit who thought he's too good to do what he's told on the grounds of well... he's special ?
    
    mircea_popescu: diametric: the latest trend is that Mark is under a gag order << you happen to be familiar with the trials and tribulations of the public opinion during any of the large eastern european ponzi collapses ?
    
    mircea_popescu: like the russki MMM, or romania's caritas (or later fni), or albania's rebellion of 1997 ?
    
    mircea_popescu: the20year2 what of me ?
    
    mircea_popescu: gee whiz, look at all the people i want to talk to, and i have barely just woken up.
    
    Apocalyptic: <mircea_popescu> like the russki MMM, or romania's caritas (or later fni), or albania's rebellion of 1997 ? // we had this BMG Invest in Slovakia
    
    mircea_popescu: a so you did, yea.
    
    mircea_popescu: generally the objects of the abject populace's fixations end up quite... jesus-ied.
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo midnightmagic is an old time miner with a very naive set of strongly held notions.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 10 @ 0.021399 = 0.214 BTC [+]
    
    MagicalFag: just got a $a: ban on ##mtgox-chat, such fun
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8574 @ 0.00086337 = 7.4025 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: lmao who the fuck bothers banning people on deadman's chat
    
    KRS-One: .bait
    
    ozbot: http://25.media.tumblr.com/7b62966269d851196c7a3d0d16edf507/tumblr_n0y1ksjL6n1r1rxrbo1_500.png
    
    KRS-One: .bait
    
    ozbot: http://25.media.tumblr.com/a8861d68fe4bd21af374b91ba093a890/tumblr_n0y1nhj33q1r1rxrbo1_1280.png
    
    KRS-One: .bait
    
    ozbot: http://25.media.tumblr.com/7fd4a56fa8f3fa63ec7831a41ea1243b/tumblr_mzh2539PQd1sltft3o1_1280.jpg
    
    KRS-One: fap fap..nite.
    
    mircea_popescu: you seriously jack off to that stuff ?!
    
    KRS-One: Sure..Lets talk about your love life now.
    
    mircea_popescu: but... it's a woman in a bra o.O
    
    KRS-One: =)
    
    KRS-One: haha
    
    KRS-One: I go to the strip club once a week. You would be suprised what you can get there being a regular.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 72 @ 0.00489899 = 0.3527 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: i used to own a few. why'd i be surprised ?!
    
    KRS-One: I get out quite often when I'm not working as much too.. I like the bachelor's life.
    
    mircea_popescu: uh.
    
    mircea_popescu: you know that's possibly the least efficient way to buy sex, do you
    
    KRS-One: Not trying to suprise you, I don't know much about you.
    
    mircea_popescu: few do.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 1 @ 0.10501 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: decimation: So apparently MP thinks the whole thing was an insider scam run mostly be Vessenes.  << if by "thing" you mean "Bitcoin Foundation", then yes.
    
    KRS-One: Its getting late here. Have a great day-
    
    mircea_popescu: laters.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 45 @ 0.00472009 = 0.2124 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    mircea_popescu: o look at that, Luke-Jr needs to learn to listen to mp.
    
    Luke-Jr: why?
    
    mircea_popescu: because you'd still have 70% of your savings, that's why.
    
    Luke-Jr: I didn't know you had access to MtGox's code
    
    mircea_popescu: there's a lot of things you didn't know. but the fact that i said mtgox is going down, you knew.
    
    mircea_popescu: next time, listen. it's not like it's coming out of my pocket if you don't, you know ?
    
    Luke-Jr: oh, so I'm supposed to just believe everything you say but can't/won't provide evidence for?
    
    mircea_popescu: nope.
    
    mircea_popescu: you're supposed to listen to it. there's a fucking difference.
    
    Luke-Jr: if I knew it, then I must have listened to you say it.
    
    mircea_popescu: notrly.
    
    Luke-Jr: and thought you were full of crap since you couldn't substantiate it
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah well, see, that's a broken implication there.
    
    mircea_popescu: or two. however you count.
    
    Luke-Jr: mircea_popescu: did *you* steal the bitcoins?
    
    Apocalyptic: heh
    
    mircea_popescu: if we had the luxury of discarding anything of reality that doesn't conveniently fit with our theoreitcal system, we wouldn't for instance be stuckl with quantum mechanics.
    
    Luke-Jr: because right now, it sounds like you're implicitly confessing
    
    mircea_popescu: newtonian physics'd have been just fine,
    
    mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr no, it just sounds like you still have issues listening.
    
    mircea_popescu: i get that you're very emotionally invested in this "master of all i survey" nonsense, but that's not how reality works.
    
    Luke-Jr: the only way to know MtGox was going down like this, is if you had evidence, or you were behind it
    
    Luke-Jr: and you clearly did not have evidence
    
    mircea_popescu: lmao
    
    mircea_popescu: because why.
    
    Apocalyptic: having evidence is different from diclosing it
    
    mircea_popescu: because i live in Luke-Jr world, where if Luke-Jr asks i am forced to comply ?
    
    Luke-Jr: Apocalyptic: yes, but mircea_popescu is generally clueless too
    
    mircea_popescu: i guess 30% of your savings is too much for you huh.
    
    mircea_popescu: aite, carry on.
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it is foolish to consider diddled cpus without having a picture of the actual possibilities in mind. <<< now how does this follow ?!
    
    Luke-Jr: mircea_popescu: just because you're right for once in your life, does not mean you will be right ever again
    
    mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr apparently your one-bit counter is well smashed.
    
    mircea_popescu: add some overflow control there.
    
    Apocalyptic: reading some article about this BMG ponzi
    
    Apocalyptic: "Naivety multiplied by greed made the existence of such investment schemes possible in Slovakia" // like it's any different in any other ponzi
    
    mircea_popescu: well... it just *feels* different each time.
    
    mircea_popescu: people have this amazing facility, guy goes out with girl, its their first time, it feels like the first time. kids have been fucking for a while now, it's anything but novel in any sense.
    
    assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    Apocalyptic: maybe, it certainly fundamentally isn't though
    
    mircea_popescu: nevertheless...
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 8 @ 0.04506296 = 0.3605 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    mircea_popescu: and then she gets pregnant/catches the clap/gets dumped and her mom is like lolz and she's like "o mom, just because you were right ONCE IN YOUR LYFF!!!
    
    mircea_popescu: doesn't mean you'll ever be right ever again ever eleventy!"
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.10487564 = 0.3146 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1 @ 0.10487564 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo : perhaps a good alternative is to buy a chinese and a usg and use them in paralel.
    
    mircea_popescu: they can only do that which they agree on.
    
    chetty: lol great recipe for any government
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin how much did you have on gox ? if its not sikrit.
    
    mircea_popescu: so far this is starting to feel like pirate all over again. in may "but mp! how can you irresponsibly let the pr chick say mean things about this important biznis for bitcoin, we know shit. we're twelve after all!"
    
    mircea_popescu: then in oct "well... we're out of the game nao. was nice being part of it all blablabla"
    
    mircea_popescu: dignork i use local logs for that purpose. log website only does daybased, and i suppose global search may be a little cpu intensive as a publicly exposed service.
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;later tell greenspan_fan i actually shot the last psych guy an email. figured he'd prolly like to know :p
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22850 @ 0.00086085 = 19.6704 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: benkay re the assass feed : trilema has a 15 minute rss delay built in for that very reason. maybe you should implement something like it.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.60000001 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: i mostly use it when i manage to typo in one of my booklet length titles.
    
    mircea_popescu: bloctoc_ not really.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16050 @ 0.00085872 = 13.7825 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: "When using only an HD wallet design, you can regenerate the wallet (and all of the addresses) at any time using a seed which can be presented as a mnemonic string of words, without reducing the amount of entrophy like brain wallets do."
    
    mircea_popescu: now how the hell does this work, entropy cheese ?
    
    Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, btw I always wondered why the polimedia servers were in the US
    
    mircea_popescu: where are you /
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9550 @ 0.00086337 = 8.2452 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15581 @ 0.00086626 = 13.4972 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    Apocalyptic: Switzerland
    
    mircea_popescu: prolly routes you faster that way.
    
    mircea_popescu: "There shouldn't be "insiders" in #Bitcoin - that's kinda the point of Bitcoin."
    
    mircea_popescu: dude how is it that everyone takes it for granted they personally know what "the point of Bitcoin" is
    
    mircea_popescu: for crying out loud already.
    
    mircea_popescu: "i shouldn't still be a virgin, kinda the point of bitcoin!!1"
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 217 @ 0.0055 = 1.1935 BTC
    
    chetty: <mircea_popescu> "i shouldn't still be a virgin, kinda the point of bitcoin!! <<<< it isn't?????
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: i guess it has resolved a lot of financial and mental hymens
    
    benkay`: http://ultra-coin.com/index.php/homes/item/8-bitcoin-2-0-aka-ultra-coin-bitcoin-s-derivative-layer-that-allows-the-virtual-to-control-real-things-featured
    
    ozbot: Reggie Middleton's UltraCoin - Bitcoin 2.0, aka Ultra Coin: Bitcoin's Derivative Layer That Allows T
    
    
    
    ozbot: Bitblu - crypto investment management
    
    benkay`: "Crypto-currency investment is hard..."
    
    mircea_popescu: who's running it ?
    
    mircea_popescu: i don't mean the newest scamcoin, i get it, Reggie Middleton is a random noob who figures that he's special and doesn't need to first spend his six months reading here.
    
    mircea_popescu: i mean the blu thing
    
    
    
    ozbot: Bitblu is recruiting our co-founder CTO
    
    mircea_popescu: lol nm
    
    benkay`: bitcointalk *has* a search bar, mircea_popescu
    
    mircea_popescu: "Great job on the Bitblu website. It looks awesome, even in beta!!  Can't wait to try it out "
    
    mircea_popescu: lol all this crap.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [DEALCO] 71 @ 0.00575 = 0.4083 BTC [+]
    
    benkay`: wow dealco is still around?
    
    mircea_popescu: why wouldn't it be ?
    
    mircea_popescu: scams don't go away anymore, they just age and reemerge, goat style.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 6 @ 0.02199998 = 0.132 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5004 @ 0.00086541 = 4.3305 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.10487562 = 0.3146 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16277 @ 0.00085984 = 13.9956 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: what is everyone's favourite bitcoin charting service these days ?
    
    
    
    kakobrekla: rtbtc
    
    mircea_popescu: aha
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.6 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoincharts seems to have finally croaked
    
    benkay`: hey everyone did you know that real companies are built on professionally curated data feeds?
    
    benkay`: kinda hard to believe, but true.
    
    benkay`: WTF BITCOIN
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 200 @ 0.00487998 = 0.976 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    mircea_popescu: derp.
    
    mircea_popescu: it's only 2014, what's the rush.
    
    anddam: hello
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;later tell duffer1 hey, you have a compatriot here : anddam
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    anddam: will keep that in mind
    
    anddam: actually there are a few on btctalk but the tone of threads is childish more often than not
    
    benkay`: anddam you troll for money?
    
    mircea_popescu: where was that link to that post of duffy's
    
    anddam: benkay`: troll as in fishing?
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: there you go
    
    mircea_popescu: "Load failed, retry after 5 seconds. Probably Reason BitcoinWisdom is temporary down Domain is not bitcoinwisdom.com Network issue"
    
    mircea_popescu: i am guess javascript issue ?
    
    mircea_popescu: http://blockchain.info/charts/market-price << this is lulzy in its looks lol
    
    ozbot: Bitcoin Market Price (USD)
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14000 @ 0.00086718 = 12.1405 BTC [+]
    
    davout: does anyone know about some spreadhseet software that uses decimals instead of floats?
    
    davout: ie. that can count
    
    FabianB: btcoincharts is probably the only one that works without js
    
    mircea_popescu: https://bitcoinity.org/markets?theme=light seems fine.
    
    ozbot: bitcoinity.org/markets
    
    mircea_popescu: davout wasn't open office settable to use fixed point ?
    
    benkay`: if you look sideways at the TATINVESTMENTS logo you can see a WTF
    
    davout: i'm mildly satisfied with my accounting delta being -0,000000000000206057393370429
    
    davout: mircea_popescu: thanks! i'll have a look
    
    anddam: davout: I don't but is rounding error with floats that important?
    
    davout: anddam: accounting is right or it isn't, it can't be sort-of right
    
    benkay`: i will come harp at you over rounding errors of less than a satoshi anddam
    
    benkay`: ask mircea_popescu
    
    anddam: davout: when you use floating point arithmetic it can
    
    davout: anddam: "does anyone know about some spreadhseet software that uses decimals instead of floats?" <<< hence the question :D
    
    mircea_popescu: i suppose the concept here is that math will have to suit the task, not the othjer way around
    
    davout: anddam: what's to tell me it doesn't compound in weird ways ?
    
    anddam: well, math would be exact, but when you're using a computer you're using an approximation
    
    davout: anddam: except when you're using decimals
    
    anddam: math is ideal, at least the one that was taught to me
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12300 @ 0.00086811 = 10.6778 BTC [+]
    
    davout: anyway i'll look into OO
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 40 @ 0.09837502 = 3.935 BTC [-] {8} 
    
    benkay`: anddam: bitcoin is also ideal, and calls for ideal accounting.
    
    
    
    ozbot: This is the story of your loss.
    
    benkay`: what a twizt!
    
    mircea_popescu: http://dc-charts.com/chart_btc.php << best so far imo
    
    mircea_popescu: course, it seems mtgox bound
    
    mircea_popescu: no nm, it isn't
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.6 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.6 = 1.2 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 1291 @ 0.00459637 = 5.9339 BTC [-] {25} 
    
    mircea_popescu: so i'm hammering out the mpoe announcement for this month.
    
    mircea_popescu: word of warning to the news people following : it's gonna be pretty massive.
    
    Apocalyptic: massive sounds good
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 400 @ 0.00450006 = 1.8 BTC [-] {9} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 250 @ 0.00450006 = 1.125 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 25 @ 0.0390015 = 0.975 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    HeySteve2: mircea_popescu, please private me regarding the news if I don't respond here
    
    mircea_popescu: you know it will be soon after midnight gmt.
    
    HeySteve2: ok I will look for it then
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 4 @ 0.095 = 0.38 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.6 = 2.4 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 238 @ 0.00469412 = 1.1172 BTC [+] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 232 @ 0.0047 = 1.0904 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 33 @ 0.09084863 = 2.998 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    davout: mircea_popescu: delicious EXERCISE?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 65 @ 0.00440003 = 0.286 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12500 @ 0.00086828 = 10.8535 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26450 @ 0.00086706 = 22.9337 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 200 @ 0.00420003 = 0.84 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 155 @ 0.00418413 = 0.6485 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.6359998 = 1.272 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 53 @ 0.00411001 = 0.2178 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 474 @ 0.00410377 = 1.9452 BTC [-] {8} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 388 @ 0.00413057 = 1.6027 BTC [+] {7} 
    
    MisterE: shit, btc-e is down
    
    MisterE: says maintenance...
    
    wao-ender: and ddos was yday on their twitter
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 30 @ 0.00414999 = 0.1245 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 59 @ 0.00415 = 0.2449 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7690 @ 0.00086438 = 6.6471 BTC [-]
    
    
    
    ozbot: Twitter / WSJ: Breaking: Mt. Gox has filed ...
    
    kakobrekla: dont tell me you are john kenney :D
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 10 @ 0.08999997 = 0.9 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 5 @ 0.08999998 = 0.45 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 90 @ 0.0055 = 0.495 BTC
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.09497999 = 0.19 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3900 @ 0.00086813 = 3.3857 BTC [+]
    
    Apocalyptic: <anarchystar> bitcoins just got ignored
    
    Apocalyptic: <anarchystar> total insanity
    
    Apocalyptic: <anarchystar> bye bye btc claims
    
    Apocalyptic: hum that could set a precedent about btc liabilities during liquidations
    
    dexX7: what's the context? was there any statement about a potential fiat bailout?
    
    jurov: Apocalyptic: there isn't any other way
    
    Apocalyptic: jurov, isn't there ?
    
    jurov: where would they get bitcoins to resolve liabilities otherwise?
    
    Apocalyptic: they wouldn't need to get them, just price them in the liability sheets
    
    jurov: that has potential to create a mess
    
    mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic pretty much already established precedent.
    
    Apocalyptic: mircea, wasn't aware, what case are you referring to ?
    
    jurov: if i had usd-only position at time of bankruptcy, why should i share my claim with people who had btc-only positions?
    
    jurov: and even if, what is the fair btc price here?
    
    wbaw: kakobrekla, I'm John Kenney
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 25 @ 0.00468997 = 0.1172 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    kakobrekla: o look, now you are on two of my screens :)
    
    wbaw: so is the bet closed or what?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 9 @ 0.63599999 = 5.724 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    kakobrekla: mods close the bets when it needs to be, you can leave them a message on bitbet comments
    
    wbaw: their lawyer just made an announcement
    
    wbaw: that seems to satisfy the bet?
    
    jurov: yes, put the link into bitbet comment
    
    jurov: and let them do their job
    
    Apocalyptic: <jurov> and even if, what is the fair btc price here? // hard to find a definitive answer here, but you can still can pick a reasonable one
    
    jurov: that's anything betwen 100 and 500
    
    Apocalyptic: <jurov> if i had usd-only position at time of bankruptcy // that's kinda irrelevant
    
    
    
    jurov: Apocalyptic: why irrelevant? bankruptcy law applies only to fiat, it says nothing about BTC. Attempts to shoehorn BTC in there can be disastrous.
    
    jurov: Listing BTC that are left on the papers and trying to pay them out would be Karpeles goodwill attempt, nothing more.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 29 @ 0.09064826 = 2.6288 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    jurov: ianal, though.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.052 = 0.104 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 20 @ 0.00605 = 0.121 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7600 @ 0.00086813 = 6.5978 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 10 @ 0.09 = 0.9 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 297 @ 0.00430679 = 1.2791 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.09 = 0.18 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23710 @ 0.00086841 = 20.59 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 26 @ 0.00606001 = 0.1576 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 26 @ 0.00608813 = 0.1583 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 4 @ 0.0529 = 0.2116 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 1054 @ 0.00018498 = 0.195 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic for instance the bitcoinica executors, couldn't care less about the btc.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 6175 @ 0.00018631 = 1.1505 BTC [+] {7} 
    
    mircea_popescu: anyway, jurov pretty much has it i think.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 1557 @ 0.00018902 = 0.2943 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 5807 @ 0.00019199 = 1.1149 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    wbaw: TOKYO—A lawyer for Mt. Gox announced at a news conference at the Tokyo District Court that the embattled bitcoin exchange was filing for bankruptcy protection and that Mt. Gox had outstanding debt of about ¥6.5 billion ($63.6 million).
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15500 @ 0.00086393 = 13.3909 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    wbaw: ... Yes prevails if there is an official announcement of the end of operations
    
    wbaw: bet is still open, what a joke
    
    mircea_popescu: ikr?
    
    wbaw: glad i didn't put more on it
    
    jurov: wbaw why such haste?
    
    wbaw: jurov, could you bet on a football match after the result is known?
    
    mircea_popescu: o hey, us attorney general just jumped out of a window.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 986 @ 0.00444372 = 4.3815 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    wbaw: bookmakers should be fast
    
    mircea_popescu: this is now the revolving window of finance and government.
    
    wbaw: and trustworthy
    
    mircea_popescu: wbaw you know they'll refund bets that are late anyway
    
    wbaw: and not let people bet after the outcome is known
    
    wbaw: 1% fee
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 284 @ 0.00428984 = 1.2183 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    mircea_popescu: uh what happened to this thing
    
    mircea_popescu: !t h neobee
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK:NEOBEE] 1D: 0.00404101 / 0.00509159 / 0.00599998 (47908 shares, 243.92785559 BTC), 7D: 0.00278000 / 0.0046028 / 0.00600000 (417443 shares, 1921.40502491 BTC), 30D: 0.00261000 / 0.00422003 / 0.00600000 (543824 shares, 2294.95111460 BTC)
    
    wbaw: it's an hour since the announcement
    
    wbaw: that's not haste
    
    wbaw: that's expecting normal service
    
    mircea_popescu: hey did they close it yet ?
    
    wbaw: mt.gox closed days ago
    
    wbaw: the bet hasn't
    
    mircea_popescu: outrageous.
    
    dexX7: it's pending?
    
    dexX7: *closed
    
    dexX7: whatever
    
    wbaw: at least its a warning not to use the site again & stick with reputable bookmakers
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah srsly.
    
    mircea_popescu: there are very many reputable bookmakers in btc outside of bitbet.
    
    wbaw: i'll ask william hill next time
    
    wbaw: he seems ok
    
    wbaw: and he has a shop around the corner from me
    
    wbaw: so stop messing about
    
    mircea_popescu: makes sense.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 105 @ 0.004222 = 0.4433 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 50 @ 0.00609998 = 0.305 BTC [+]
    
    wbaw: how official does it need to be if their company lawyer announcing it outside a court isn't enough?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 98 @ 0.00609999 = 0.5978 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    Duffer1: they're only claiming 64m in liabilities?
    
    mircea_popescu: Duffer1 not really in their interest to include everything.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.635 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 4 @ 0.053 = 0.212 BTC [+]
    
    Duffer1: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: wbaw hey, how does irl betting work ? i've never done it
    
    Duffer1: i know, i'm just shocked at the gall
    
    mircea_popescu: so you go to the shop around the corner and what happens ?
    
    wbaw: mircea_popescu, i walk into a shop, place a bet, get fixed odds & a betting receipt
    
    mircea_popescu: Duffer1 that's basically why people need lawyers for. average joe can't possibly summon all the needed gall for even trivial legal proceedings
    
    mircea_popescu: wbaw ok. and once you win ?
    
    wbaw: then when it wins i claim my payout in cash
    
    mircea_popescu: how ?
    
    Duffer1: ya apparently
    
    wbaw: i go to the shop
    
    wbaw: and they pay out
    
    mircea_popescu: so what if you get caught in traffic ?
    
    wbaw: when the result is known
    
    wbaw: then i get my payout a few minutes later
    
    mircea_popescu: and what if there's a queue ?
    
    wbaw: but, it's walking distance anyway
    
    wbaw: then i go to a shop with more staff
    
    mircea_popescu: but that may be farther away.
    
    wbaw: there are 5 or 6 within a short walk, but i think william hill is the only one that takes random bets like this
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 500 @ 0.00609999 = 3.05 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    mircea_popescu: and to take this full seinfeld, what if you accidentally get triple-action moisturizer with uva on your ticket and now it's illegible ?
    
    wbaw: mircea_popescu, they keep a record of all the bets
    
    mircea_popescu: aha
    
    mircea_popescu: so you need what, your id ?
    
    wbaw: you've never visited a real bookmaker?
    
    mircea_popescu: nope.
    
    wbaw: you need the details of the bet
    
    wbaw: time, amount, etc
    
    mircea_popescu: generally all those i've seen are dingy affairs in the poor parts of town,
    
    mircea_popescu: where the cash checking and pond shops are
    
    wbaw: they're huge companies here in the uk
    
    mircea_popescu: huge companies they are everywhere, but still, much in the way mcdonalds is a huge company :
    
    mircea_popescu: a huge company made out of a lot of small, smelly, dingy little outifits.
    
    wbaw: when i pay for a burger at mcdonalds they usually give me one
    
    wbaw: without much fuss
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah but once you'll graduate to restaurants you'll maybe notice you order and then wait
    
    wbaw: same when i pay for a bet at a bookmaker
    
    wbaw: except this one
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10087 @ 0.00086358 = 8.7109 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: anyway, don't sweat it, i'm sure you'll have it by tomorrow, whatever it is.
    
    wbaw: you really shouldn't still be accepting bets, it's just to take fees for nothing or skew the odds
    
    mircea_popescu: what do you mean for nothing ?
    
    mircea_popescu: someone betting after the event is known seems something.
    
    wbaw: you take a 1% fee from returned bets, says on your site
    
    mircea_popescu: surely.
    
    mircea_popescu: meanwhile : A talking parrot has helped Indian police crack an intriguing murder mystery and led the cops to arrest the killer.
    
    mircea_popescu: go preet go!
    
    wbaw: so, what is an official announcement?
    
    wbaw: for the context of that bet?
    
    mircea_popescu: dood, i'm sure it's good enough, a mod needs to get to it.
    
    mircea_popescu: stop sweatin' it, srsly.
    
    wbaw: because it seems pretty official
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah.
    
    chetty: Seriously whats the rush? Not like you can get interest on BTC
    
    wbaw: should have faster service instead of acting like you're not trying to compete with huge companies with customer support teams
    
    mircea_popescu: i actually am not competing with huge companies for the favours of you.
    
    chetty: hmm what huge company with lots of support team takes btc bets? I might want to check that out
    
    mircea_popescu: if you're curious as to how that goes, see http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoin-prices-bitcoin-inflexibility/
    
    cazalla: didn't you know bitbet was a scam wbaw?
    
    cazalla: talk to snackman lol
    
    wbaw: i didn't realise before, cazalla
    
    mircea_popescu: bah i can't believe i gave out the wrong link
    
    
    
    ozbot: Strategic superiority, a saga pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
    
    cazalla: wrong links, slow payouts, what's happening mircea_popescu
    
    mircea_popescu: Up until recently it was practically impossible to become embroiled into any sort of dealing with the subgroup, their ownership being strictly assumed and their lives strictly subsumed by the corporations competent at dealing with the human cattle : fastfood providers, supermarkets, the government. Both as employers and providers these specialised bureaucracies have the necessary tools, including cattle prods (or whate
    
    mircea_popescu: ver theyre called now, non-lethal something or the other) to correctly handle them. They have the chemicals, theyve done the research, know the behavioural patterns, have the walls all built to obstruct vision, living arrangements all thought through and everything.
    
    mircea_popescu: Bitcoin suddenly opened the gate. It is a poisonous offering. You are grossly unequipped to interact straight with the refuse of Western society. Accepting investors with fortunes under a million dollars or whatever the limit was placed for US citizens may make sense. Accepting investors with fortunes under any arbitrary value and simultaneously wits under any arbitrary threshold is not a sound business plan but a stra
    
    mircea_popescu: tegic mistake.
    
    mircea_popescu: cazalla yeah srsly.
    
    wbaw: i'm not saying it's a scam, just you should act a bit faster to protect your customers
    
    wbaw: like your competitors do
    
    mircea_popescu: but you're in no way at risk. if people bet after the fact hey just get charged a small fine
    
    mircea_popescu: it doesn't impact your bet in any way.
    
    mircea_popescu: and while it'd be ideal to move faster, it's also ideal not to make mistakes, and not to cost an infinity.
    
    wbaw: how do people know it's after the fact if the bet is still open?
    
    mircea_popescu: these are the three ends of the triangle : how much it costs, how secure it is, how fast it goes.
    
    cazalla: ask snackman, he knows the answer to that one wbaw
    
    mircea_popescu: every business will make a choice as you can't have all three.
    
    wbaw: you could close betting while you reach a decision
    
    mircea_popescu: wbaw ideally people bet on things they know.
    
    cazalla: wbaw, why not use it to your advantage and bet on some props where the outcome is already known?
    
    mircea_popescu: ouch
    
    wbaw: cazalla, because i'd be paying 1% for nothing
    
    Apocalyptic: <ATH5> "There was a weakness in the system, and the bitcoins disappeared" << Karpeles live
    
    mircea_popescu: the lyf and tymes.
    
    wbaw: and that's what it's about, taking those 1%s & fuck repeat custom
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4300 @ 0.00086863 = 3.7351 BTC [+]
    
    cazalla: that feel when gox coins are gone http://img.pandawhale.com/87000-Antonio-Banderas-OH-YEAH-gif-c-5cCi.gif
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: there was a weakness in the system
    
    mircea_popescu: her clothes are now gone
    
    Apocalyptic: "<maz0> Teikoku Data Bank, Japans largest and most respected credit-rating agency, in July of last year reviewed the company and gave it a D4, the worst possible rating a company can receive on their scale. One of the reasons for the low rating was the lack of qualified accounting staff at the company." mircea is there any truth to that N
    
    wbaw: how can you run any business without looking at your competition?
    
    wbaw: and how they do business
    
    mircea_popescu: wbaw how can they ?
    
    wbaw: what do you mean?
    
    mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic yeah afaik
    
    mircea_popescu: wbaw how can your williams whoever do business without looking at bitbet.
    
    wbaw: mircea_popescu, they were here first
    
    mircea_popescu: in bitcoin ? i dun think so.
    
    wbaw: and they're the big name, not the new competitor
    
    wbaw: so it's all different because of the currency?
    
    mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic http://www.tdb.co.jp/tosan/syosai/3889.html if you can read that.
    
    mircea_popescu: wbaw in a word, yes. especially because bitcoin isn't a currency in this sense.
    
    MisterE: almost got back in to ride is back to 570 but we're going under 550
    
    wbaw: mircea_popescu, this is why you'll never be big like they are
    
    wbaw: it's no different, it's a betting site
    
    MisterE: lol Apocalyptic that's almost as bad as letting the 2 companies with the worst customer satisfaction numbers in the US merge :D
    
    mircea_popescu: wbaw what's the mkt cap of this williams thing ?
    
    Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, you just linked me an article from today
    
    mircea_popescu: 3.24bn mkt cap ?
    
    mircea_popescu: well guess what... i'm not that far off. now what do we do.
    
    
    
    ozbot: William Hill plans cost cuts to offset new tax regime
    
    wbaw: Revenue rose 18 percent to 1.49 billion pounds of which net retail revenue accounted for 907 million pounds, up 10 percent, and online revenue rose 12 percent to 446 million pounds.
    
    mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic yeah it's some japanese corp research firm
    
    Apocalyptic: I thought you were referencing the credit-rating claim
    
    mircea_popescu: wbaw yeh yeh, WMH.L, 3.24bn mkt cap
    
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    mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic afaik that's a paid service.
    
    wbaw: they're not even the biggest
    
    wbaw: afaik
    
    Duffer1: following for the lawls
    
    mircea_popescu: wbaw thjat's besides the point. i being already comparably big, your argument fails
    
    mircea_popescu: and anyway, i'd love to keep chattin' but got some stuff to do right nao
    
    cazalla: wbaw: you should be more given the outcome is known, that will fix your problems
    
    cazalla: bet*
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10771 @ 0.00086393 = 9.3054 BTC [-]
    
    wbaw: cazalla, according to mircea_popescu here that'd mean i just get taxed 1%
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 879 @ 0.00086863 = 0.7635 BTC [+]
    
    wbaw: and i can't put bets on even those his website says that i can
    
    wbaw: *even though
    
    wbaw: so i'd be getting taxed for their mistake if i bet now, or the betting is corrupt
    
    Mats_cd03: cool story
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 19 @ 0.0061 = 0.1159 BTC [+]
    
    cazalla: so what are you worried about then
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 32 @ 0.00448999 = 0.1437 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 36 @ 0.00457998 = 0.1649 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    mircea_popescu: so a hdd in a raid array failed and has been hotswapped.
    
    mircea_popescu: everything seems fine.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4600 @ 0.00086863 = 3.9957 BTC [+]
    
    Duffer1: hurray for striping
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.635 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.635 = 1.27 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.63599 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.63599 BTC [+]
    
    jurov: i'd be pretty asstight if company owner was personally involved in raid hdd replacements :D
    
    wbaw: i'm not worried about anything cazalla, just explaining why it's my first & will be my only bet on the site
    
    wbaw: other gamblers will just go elsewhere quietly
    
    wbaw: it has finally been closed, but speed is important
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 85 @ 0.00437102 = 0.3715 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.635 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 20 @ 0.1141981 = 2.284 BTC [+] {7} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 3 @ 0.114899 = 0.3447 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> uh what happened to this thing  /// there's a frenzy over AM solving more blocks than usual (sell Neo! Buy AM!) and the Neo bid book didnt fill much behind the rally
    
    ThickAsThieves: wbaw, how could you possibly expect the diversity of bets at BitBet and immediate resolution on all of them?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1400 @ 0.00086843 = 1.2158 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 2 @ 0.117 = 0.234 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 1 @ 0.11999 BTC [+]
    
    wbaw: not immediate resolution, but closing should be fast
    
    wbaw: responses from customer support shouldn't be so rude & arrogant either
    
    ThickAsThieves: well i just woke up and everything was the way it should be!
    
    ThickAsThieves: wbaw that's one issue you won't win me over on
    
    ThickAsThieves: customers are rude and arrogant
    
    wbaw: i think they're in romania though, so no excuse, was the middle of a working day
    
    ThickAsThieves: customer service people arent your bitch
    
    wbaw: customers are right
    
    ThickAsThieves: no
    
    wbaw: never heard that?
    
    Duffer1: haahahaa
    
    ThickAsThieves: they arent
    
    ThickAsThieves: not usually
    
    Duffer1: ah that's cute
    
    wbaw: this is why you lack many customers
    
    ThickAsThieves: i do just fine
    
    wbaw: including me now
    
    ThickAsThieves: have all my lufe
    
    ThickAsThieves: life*
    
    Duffer1: TaT i hear AM added 600th recently, might have something to do with it :P
    
    ThickAsThieves: if you want civil interactions with people, try being a human being
    
    wbaw: other bookmakers don't call me a bitch for giving them money
    
    wbaw: no other bookmaker that has lasted has done that
    
    wbaw: to any customer
    
    ThickAsThieves: so
    
    ThickAsThieves: even if you are right
    
    wbaw: every business has to serve it's customers or it fails
    
    ThickAsThieves: let bitbet run its own business
    
    ThickAsThieves: when did you become ceo
    
    wbaw: i will
    
    ThickAsThieves: and when did they ask for your opinion
    
    ThickAsThieves: and when did your opinion matter?
    
    wbaw: when i became a customer & paid them money
    
    ThickAsThieves: no that's when you entered a contract
    
    ThickAsThieves: their only obligation is to fill it
    
    ThickAsThieves: on their terms
    
    ThickAsThieves: which you accepted
    
    wbaw: then again when i remembered never to use it again & recommend against it
    
    ThickAsThieves: dont enter into arrangements with people then complain when they execute them
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 4 @ 0.0538 = 0.2152 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    wbaw: i was complaining about them not executing them
    
    ThickAsThieves: no, you were complaining about HOW they execute them
    
    ThickAsThieves: which you dont get to
    
    wbaw: or being too slow to execute them because they were too busy abusing customers
    
    ThickAsThieves: unless it breaks their contract
    
    ThickAsThieves: does bitbet say it will solve all bets in under X amount of time?
    
    wbaw: every bookmaker closes bets when the event is over
    
    wbaw: every other
    
    wbaw: so i will just use those instead
    
    wbaw: now please stop arguing with former customers
    
    ThickAsThieves: ok
    
    ThickAsThieves: cya
    
    Duffer1: afaik MP is an owner and not actively involved, but as an owner I'm sure he's more annoyed with delayed bet closing than you
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 1645 @ 0.00434981 = 7.1554 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    wbaw: i hope he is, he should be
    
    wbaw: doesn't matter to me i can just go elsewhere
    
    Duffer1: bitbet has a competitor?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 5000 @ 0.00019 = 0.95 BTC [-]
    
    cazalla: william hill apparently
    
    wbaw: search 'gambling' on google
    
    wbaw: there are quite a few
    
    wbaw: betfair?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 1087 @ 0.00018899 = 0.2054 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    Duffer1: ah i'm not a gambler, i haven't kept up with the offerings in the space
    
    ThickAsThieves: the best part about these bitbet naysaying interlopers is that it's always for like $50 bets
    
    wbaw: they have lots of big competitors but they think they're different because it's magical internet money so customer service doesn't count
    
    ThickAsThieves: and they demand to be customer that is always right and able to take all business away
    
    ThickAsThieves: wbaw do you even lose anything here?
    
    wbaw: ThickAsThieves, why risk a big bet on your first go with some shady site?
    
    ThickAsThieves: why act like some stange site killed your cat?
    
    wbaw: they know not to come back after that
    
    Duffer1: I am certain that those involved with Bitbet regard Bitcoin as substantially more valuable than fiat
    
    wbaw: i'm used to better service, rather than being insulted by staff
    
    ThickAsThieves: youre used to be being manipulated is what you are
    
    ThickAsThieves: salesmanship is all you know
    
    ThickAsThieves: not service
    
    wbaw: we will see who's still here in 10 years
    
    ThickAsThieves: surely you wont be
    
    ThickAsThieves: i doubt 10 days
    
    Duffer1: perhaps you haven't been around long wbaw but if i was a gambler Bitbet would be the only site I'd trust to do what they say, no more no less
    
    wbaw: wtf are you talking about?
    
    Duffer1: everyone else will just tell you what you want to hear right up until they run with your $$
    
    wbaw: you think bitbet are more reliable than betfair?
    
    wbaw: william hills have been around ~50 years
    
    wbaw: and they always pay out
    
    Duffer1: and they accept bitcoin?
    
    wbaw: does that even matter?
    
    jurov: one day the miscalculate the rates on popular bet and go out of business
    
    ThickAsThieves: ;;google betfair scam
    
    gribble: Betfair Trader Scam - Please circulate - Bet Angel - Betfair sports ...: <http://www.betangel.com/blog_wp/2013/07/24/betfair-trader-scam/>; Gambler who called himself the Betfair king conned friends out of ...: <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313618/Gambler-called-Betfair-king-conned-friends-600-000-bogus-betting-scam.html>; Betfair Casino - The Tale of Betfair's (1 more message)
    
    jurov: and unlike fiat nobody, is loaning btcs
    
    ThickAsThieves: plenty to read!
    
    Duffer1: i see, so when i said earlier "only site" i was refering to only bitcoin betting site
    
    wbaw: yes, they catch scammers on betfair
    
    jurov: nothing like that can happen on bitbet
    
    wbaw: that's what they do
    
    wbaw: it's betting exchange
    
    ThickAsThieves: so betfair hosts scammers
    
    ThickAsThieves: bitbet does not
    
    wbaw: betfair allows anybody to bet
    
    wbaw: bitbet is just in denial
    
    ThickAsThieves: again, what did you lose here anyway?
    
    Duffer1: denial about what? i'm just curious, i'm not trying to poke you
    
    wbaw: i lost an interesting looking betting site i wanted to give my custom
    
    ThickAsThieves: so youre just trolling?
    
    wbaw: saying they don't host scammers, denying that bet fixing could be a problem...
    
    wbaw: no, i got trolled by bitbet
    
    ThickAsThieves: specifically why are you unhappy
    
    wbaw: the customer service response i got to my email yesterday
    
    ThickAsThieves: which caused you what harm?
    
    Duffer1: i was under the impression that bets are moderated by the exchange
    
    Duffer1: I don't see how fixing could occur without collusion by employees
    
    wbaw: because you just said you have no experience gambling
    
    ThickAsThieves: dont lose me
    
    ThickAsThieves: which caused you what harm?
    
    ThickAsThieves crickets
    
    wbaw: it cost money from my bet, people were betting after mtgox closed
    
    ThickAsThieves: do you know what happens when people bbet after the fact on bitbet?
    
    Duffer1: that does not mean those late bets will be honored
    
    wbaw: they get a 1% tax
    
    ThickAsThieves: no
    
    ThickAsThieves: a 100% tax
    
    ThickAsThieves: they keep it
    
    wbaw: according to ts&cs
    
    wbaw: that's breaking their own terms then
    
    Duffer1: unless they changed it very recently, it's 100%
    
    ThickAsThieves: if your bet confirms after the event took place they lose all money
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25295 @ 0.0008685 = 21.9687 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    jurov: ThickAsThieves: no
    
    jurov: it's first closed, then they return bets minus 1%
    
    jurov: then after it's resolved, they eat new bets
    
    Duffer1: i see
    
    ThickAsThieves: ah
    
    ThickAsThieves: so still
    
    ThickAsThieves: wbaw loses nothing
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 35 @ 0.00450488 = 0.1577 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.63 = 1.26 BTC [-]
    
    ThickAsThieves: right?
    
    jurov: adn even if someone bets while it's still open, but the result happened
    
    wbaw: What if I bet after the bet has been satisfied, but before it is actually closed?
    
    wbaw: Your bet will be refunded, minus BitBet's 1% fee.
    
    jurov: they return -1% too
    
    
    
    ozbot: FAQ BitBet
    
    ThickAsThieves: so wbaw
    
    Duffer1: if the bets are returned then the payout would be according to resolved weight
    
    ThickAsThieves: you are crying over a reality you constructed
    
    ThickAsThieves: not one that exists
    
    wbaw: so they screwed somebody
    
    wbaw: either those that bet while the bet was still open, but in fact closed
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16867 @ 0.0008694 = 14.6642 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    wbaw: or the people who bet before
    
    ThickAsThieves: well wtf
    
    ThickAsThieves: you get what you want so you move to another cause?
    
    jurov: wbaw after the result happens, bet is closed implicitly without them having to announce
    
    jurov: it's best defense from scammers
    
    jurov: good idea, don't you think?
    
    wbaw: so why the 1% fee & leaving bets open so late?
    
    ThickAsThieves: bitcoin does not have a way to reject a payment
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 3983 @ 0.00016694 = 0.6649 BTC [-] {16} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: this is th best solution
    
    wbaw: surely the bet still being open is there mistake, so no fee
    
    wbaw: their
    
    Duffer1: not necessarily
    
    ThickAsThieves: why make a bet after the event occurs?
    
    ThickAsThieves: who's scamming who at that point?
    
    wbaw: because they're advertising that you can, ThickAsThieves
    
    ThickAsThieves: but they cant stop payments to bitcoin addresses
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.63 BTC [-]
    
    ThickAsThieves: nature of the beats
    
    wbaw: they can close the bet on their site
    
    wbaw: faster
    
    ThickAsThieves: hey that's the name for my next album!
    
    Duffer1: humans are perfect
    
    jurov: wbaw btc payments can be even hours late, and returning them is overhead for bitbet
    
    ThickAsThieves: how fast is fast enough?
    
    wbaw: they can not be so rude to customers too
    
    ThickAsThieves: no matter how fast they are, they can't be instant
    
    Duffer1: that's also a feature, not a but :P
    
    Duffer1: bug*
    
    ThickAsThieves: if they can't be instant, why pretend
    
    ThickAsThieves: also, what if the evidence of the bet resolution is debunked? then you complain they closed it too fast?
    
    ThickAsThieves: this is why customers are usually wrong
    
    ThickAsThieves: they dont know wtf they are talking about
    
    ThickAsThieves: and act like insufferable children
    
    ThickAsThieves: you'd be rude too
    
    deadweasel: also, they're not your fucking mommy.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 4 @ 0.09349999 = 0.374 BTC [+]
    
    deadweasel: handle your business by doing due diligence before you place money somewhere.  that's all there is to it.
    
    ThickAsThieves: he didnt lose anything anyway
    
    ThickAsThieves: thats the ass end of it
    
    ThickAsThieves: where he's an ass, and that's the end of it
    
    deadweasel: indeed.  bitbet is an unending font of entertainment
    
    deadweasel: for this, I do love it.  also, winning.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18750 @ 0.00086954 = 16.3039 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 48 @ 0.00450655 = 0.2163 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: the timing of bitbets is really quite spooky
    
    ThickAsThieves: with these diff bets and gox bets
    
    ThickAsThieves: "I love the sense of entitlement in your generation," she wrote, then continued. "You're welcome for your humility lesson for the year. Don't ever reach out to senior practitioners again and assume their carefully curated list of connections is available to you, just because you want to build your network."
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 239 @ 0.00450499 = 1.0767 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: then she gets put through the social media wringer
    
    libbe: wheres that from thick
    
    ThickAsThieves: and it turns into ""The note I sent to Diana was rude, unwelcoming, unprofessional and wrong ...," she said in her e-mail. "Diana and her generation are the future of this city. I wish her all the best in landing a job in this great town.""
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19300 @ 0.00086605 = 16.7148 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/27/tech/web/linked-in-cleveland-job-bank/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
    
    ozbot: Nasty LinkedIn rejection goes viral - CNN.com
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4000 @ 0.00086351 = 3.454 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.09349999 = 0.187 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: i guess that's what the media does, it breaks you if you give it weight
    
    ThickAsThieves: some gems from CNN's home page today: She blew off salute to take THIS selfie - World's best prison food? - Men: Your sperm clock is ticking - 'President finally said something' - Kutcher and Kunis engaged?  etc
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.606 = 1.212 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: Mark in a suit: http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/28/investing/mt-gox-bankruptcy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
    
    ThickAsThieves: apparently he's 10 feet tall
    
    ThickAsThieves: "Mt.Gox learned Monday that 1.75 million bitcoins held by the company and its customers had disappeared"
    
    ThickAsThieves: dafuck?
    
    libbe: lol... wtf
    
    libbe: 1.75 now
    
    libbe: haha
    
    ThickAsThieves: Neo presentation docs: http://www.imhbusiness.com/el/neoevent2014#παρουσιασεισ
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 760 @ 0.00459938 = 3.4955 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    Duffer1: 1.75m bitcoins gone, only claims 65m in liabilities in bankruptcy app
    
    Duffer1: pure evil
    
    Duffer1: lol they're trying to claim $37 per bitcoin
    
    BingoBoingo: Wow
    
    ThickAsThieves: is the filing public somewhere?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9200 @ 0.00086346 = 7.9438 BTC [-]
    
    
    
    Duffer1: ^ where i saw the 65m figure, dunno what their source is
    
    ThickAsThieves: article has big mistake
    
    ThickAsThieves: they filed for Bankruptcy PROTECTION
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20565 @ 0.00086367 = 17.7614 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: where did this extra million bitcoins come into play?
    
    ThickAsThieves: wtf CNN
    
    bitcoinpete: howdy
    
    ThickAsThieves: hey Pete
    
    bitcoinpete: catching up on the day's logs… twitter is just jammed with gox brain damage. can't take it
    
    
    
    ThickAsThieves: thx kako
    
    kakobrekla: at least its not a fukken nikki minaj
    
    ThickAsThieves: mark has like a perpetual mona lisa smile
    
    bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu to Luke-Jr: you're supposed to listen to it. there's a fucking difference. << priceless
    
    ThickAsThieves: Jon Stewart having a laugh over Mt Gox starting as a card exchange
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.61 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9650 @ 0.00086367 = 8.3344 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 6 @ 0.09349999 = 0.561 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 55 @ 0.0046109 = 0.2536 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 5 @ 0.0935 = 0.4675 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 28 @ 0.63160684 = 17.685 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 68 @ 0.00485999 = 0.3305 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 3 @ 0.63633266 = 1.909 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    bitcoinpete: Looks like my little blog post took a notch out of NeoBee, eh ThickAsThieves
    
    bitcoinpete: I wonder what I could've done to something like CFIG or 7C
    
    ThickAsThieves: you be trollin
    
    bitcoinpete: Truly. I know no one reads my blog
    
    ThickAsThieves: you could actually do plenty damage to CFIG if you tried
    
    ThickAsThieves: imo
    
    bitcoinpete: No doubt
    
    BingoBoingo: bitcoinpete: Correction, only people who matter read your blog
    
    bitcoinpete: BingoBoingo: but I didn't even post it on reddit!
    
    BingoBoingo: bitcoinpete: You posted to this chan though
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://www.bitcoinsecurity.org/2014/01/20/mapping-bitcoin-addresses-to-ips-hard-but-possible/
    
    ozbot: Mapping Bitcoin Addresses to IPs: Hard, but possible | Bitcoin Security
    
    bitcoinpete: So I did, so I did.
    
    BingoBoingo: bitcoinpete: Reddit has a poor ratio of eyes to eyes that matter
    
    bitcoinpete: ThickAsThieves: Time to start sending coins to MPEx from SBUx
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 2 @ 0.11705 = 0.2341 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: I thought SEC arrested MPEx and closed the Bitcoin?
    
    bitcoinpete: BingoBoingo: Much higher here, it seems
    
    bitcoinpete: ThickAsThieves: Did you read that in the almanac?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5850 @ 0.00086367 = 5.0525 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: The Forumers Almanac
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
    
    gribble: MtGox BTCUSD last: 135.0, vol: 0.00000000 | Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 558.69, vol: 18248.76543402 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 541.96, vol: 12559.69095 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 557.0, vol: 12295.19418405 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 582.1, vol: 65.15586648 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 554.88, vol: 7185.97300000 | Volume-weighted last average: 553.591064627
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12442 @ 0.00086762 = 10.7949 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: hmm so does option bot problem fix itself now that gox volume is 0?
    
    BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: I'm guessing that is going to be in the MPEx announcement
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15163 @ 0.00086963 = 13.1862 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/28/gullible_hipsters_drive_beard_transpant_craze/
    
    ThickAsThieves: "A lot of them tend to be in their 20s and 30s, they tend to be hip New Yorkers definitely with an eye for aesthetic detail – they may work in the visual arts or performing arts."
    
    jurov: is pic of mr. gay-debauchery in there somewhere, too?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.61000001 BTC [-]
    
    bitcoinpete: too bad the register can't spell "transpLant"
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 6 @ 0.0935 = 0.561 BTC [+]
    
    bitcoinpete: And converting to Orthodox Judaism would be far more cost-effective.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 62459 @ 0.00086446 = 53.9933 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 37 @ 0.006 = 0.222 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.61 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13100 @ 0.00086425 = 11.3217 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6999 @ 0.00086656 = 6.0651 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 10 @ 0.0543 = 0.543 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 3 @ 0.60066666 = 1.802 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    BingoBoingo: The Crimea 2 Electric Boogaloo bet has been accepted http://bitbet.us/bet/769/crimea-2-electric-boogaloo/
    
    jurov: BingoBoingo: I don't get the boogaloo reference
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 26 @ 0.55879266 = 14.5286 BTC [-] {14} 
    
    TomServo: ;;ud electric boogaloo
    
    gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=electric%20boogaloo | Electric Boogaloo can be appended to the name of a movie to indicate a sequel. This construction is somewhat dismissive of the original work and/or...
    
    ozbot: Urban Dictionary: electric boogaloo
    
    ThickAsThieves: ;;ud Electric Boogaloo
    
    gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=electric%20boogaloo | Electric Boogaloo can be appended to the name of a movie to indicate a sequel. This construction is somewhat dismissive of the original work and/or...
    
    ozbot: Urban Dictionary: electric boogaloo
    
    TomServo shrugs
    
    ThickAsThieves: bah
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.55 = 1.1 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 3 @ 0.16230094 = 0.4869 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.09499898 = 0.19 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.536575 = 2.1463 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16833 @ 0.00086734 = 14.5999 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 100 @ 0.0048 = 0.48 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    
    
    ozbot: Turneja - Kukavica (Arkan - Mine Field Scene) + Eng Subtitles - YouTube
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 57 @ 0.00485598 = 0.2768 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 10 @ 0.0544 = 0.544 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 8 @ 0.05201753 = 0.4161 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 200 @ 0.00564526 = 1.1291 BTC [-] {10} 
    
    chetty: A man who was traveling through Manchester, New Hampshire was stopped and harassed by the TSA after he opted out of going through a body scanner. The official reason for further interrogation, according to the screeners, was We saw Bitcoin in your bag and need to check.
    
    ThickAsThieves: buncha bitcoin buttons
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 200 @ 0.00556 = 1.112 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 99 @ 0.00485548 = 0.4807 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    wao-ender: chetty: url?
    
    
    
    ozbot: » TSA Detains Libertarian Blogger After ‘Seeing Bitcoin’ In His Bag Alex Jones' Infowars: Ther
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 2000 @ 0.00019129 = 0.3826 BTC [+] {10} 
    
    asciilifeform: 2017: 'A man who was traveling through the California Demilitarized Zone airport was stopped and harassed by the ISA after he opted out of going through the MRI scanner. The official reason for further interrogation, according to the screeners, was "We saw 'brainwallet.py' in your CPU cache, and we needed to check." '
    
    benkay`: poor davi
    
    TomServo: ISA?
    
    benkay`: ugh asciilifeform you gotta put this shit into some fiction
    
    benkay`: publish it somewhere and everything
    
    asciilifeform: chetty: if this story is true, it probably means that a picture of 'casascius coin' is included in the 'evil objects' db.
    
    benkay`: 1/3 of the things you write in -assets gives me the willies
    
    asciilifeform: benkay`: seriously? like what
    
    benkay`: good morning assettes!
    
    chetty: yup very likely it is
    
    benkay`: "MRI scanner"
    
    chetty: I figure its true, to strange to be fiction
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [DEALCO] 37 @ 0.00597001 = 0.2209 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [DEALCO] 57 @ 0.00598666 = 0.3412 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    asciilifeform: chetty, benkay`: http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v15/n2/full/nrn3665.html
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [DEALCO] 75 @ 0.006 = 0.45 BTC [+]
    
    asciilifeform: benkay`: fiction like this ends up being 'a less funny joke' soon after it is written. see, for example, http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
    
    asciilifeform: benkay`: or the story in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=752
    
    chetty: asciilifeform: ouchy, I guess next stop is full up mind reading
    
    jurov: researchers already did read passwords from brain. one has to control self to not think about them
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 98 @ 0.00485598 = 0.4759 BTC [+]
    
    benkay: gotta get out of the states
    
    BingoBoingo: Oh brain steganography is going to be a thing soon
    
    wao-ender: use mechanics!
    
    chetty: multiplication tables making a come back
    
    wao-ender: in my honest, I dont remember some password, only just mechanics of keypresses
    
    chetty: true, without keyboard passwords are a mystery
    
    wao-ender: well, rather find function how to re:create password instead of remember exact value of pw
    
    ThickAsThieves: lolz: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/02/28/fortress-investment-group-bought-20-million-of-bitcoin-in-2013/?mod=WSJBlog
    
    ThickAsThieves: fortress bought at the top
    
    benkay: well, the 2013 top
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 26 @ 0.05182695 = 1.3475 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: indeed
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 9 @ 0.1169999 = 1.053 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 3 @ 0.1169999 = 0.351 BTC [-]
    
    benkay: if they have the smarts to hang on for a year or two, they may make it back
    
    benkay: ah it's unrealized
    
    benkay: at least their smart enough to actually go long
    
    ThickAsThieves: can anyone point me to a working LTC chart?
    
    ThickAsThieves: got it
    
    ThickAsThieves: forgot bitwiz had it
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.095 = 0.19 BTC [+]
    
    drifton: Hello all
    
    Duffer1: hello
    
    benkay: man, the derp is just as strong on hacker news as bitcointalk.org
    
    
    
    TomServo: yep, it's everywhere it seems
    
    Duffer1: letstalkbitcoin.com/the-ghost-in-the-machine-at-mtgox/
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 82 @ 0.00464018 = 0.3805 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: i'm currently battling the derp at theverge
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SFI] 258 @ 0.0008796 = 0.2269 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://www.moneyfactory.gov/ is down! I guess USD is done for.
    
    
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-says-recent-graphics-card-shortage-price-hikes-due-chinese-new-year-litecoin-miners/
    
    ozbot: Chinese New Year, Litecoin to Blame for AMD GPU Shortage, Price Hikes | Digital Trends
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SFI] 228 @ 0.0008798 = 0.2006 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 1000 @ 0.00018999 = 0.19 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 7 @ 0.1169999 = 0.819 BTC [-]
    
    Jere_Jones_: My wife told me that she couldn't get a birthday cake with a bitcoin on it because it would have been copyright infringement and we needed to get written permission from Bitcoin.
    
    Jere_Jones_: She said that several bakeries told her that same story.
    
    anddam: Jere_Jones_: also the cake would be malleable
    
    Jere_Jones_: She laughed. I laughed. I had balloons on my cake instead.
    
    asciilifeform: chetty: re: mind reading: 'The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds witho
    
    asciilifeform: ut giving warning beforehand. In so far as scientific research still continues, this is its subject matter.' (mr. o's '1984')
    
    ThickAsThieves: while i cant imagine anyone getting sued over a cake,
    
    ThickAsThieves: it's not 100% absurd to be worried about the bitcoin logo
    
    ThickAsThieves: if the creator hasnt given up rights to it
    
    ThickAsThieves: and properly
    
    ThickAsThieves: in the US, you can't even give shit away easily
    
    Jere_Jones: The B with two vertical lines?
    
    ThickAsThieves: well a specific depiction of it
    
    TomServo: I could swear I've seen one or two Mickey Mouse cakes... but I could be imagining that.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 495 @ 0.00517539 = 2.5618 BTC [-] {25} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: the cake place likely got sensitive because of doing too many mickey mouse cakes once
    
    Jere_Jones: If you don't know what a bitcoin is, yeah, I understand the confusion. My wife and I do, though. Hence the hilarity.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 1 @ 0.1169999 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 32 @ 0.02175686 = 0.6962 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    Asa9: my wife has some cake pans of popular kids mascots from the late 90s but no disney ones.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SMG] 4672 @ 0.00009682 = 0.4523 BTC [-] {9} 
    
    benkay: that feel when a project manager cancels the meeting you scheduled to plan out the next 2 months of work
    
    benkay: *raaaaage*
    
    benkay: maybe i just need bacon.
    
    ThickAsThieves: planning to plan is the most popular form of planning
    
    chetty: asciilifeform: Its a toss up, '84 or Brave New World - but its pretty much upon us
    
    Asa9: oh what the hell - why not both?!?
    
    drifton: Anyone have an opinion on the viability of profiting off of exchanging btc for ltc and vis-a-vi? Ive only been going straight btc investment as of late and ltc has me curious. Sorry for the vague question, or if it's considered off topic.
    
    benkay: don't do it drifton
    
    drifton: Yeah?
    
    benkay: you're talking about becoming a professional trader by trading your own book. just don't.
    
    chetty: off topic? is that possible here?
    
    ThickAsThieves: drifton, listen to benkay
    
    ThickAsThieves: LTC simply does not function in reaction to BTC in any reliable way
    
    drifton: Thanks guys
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 170 @ 0.00465002 = 0.7905 BTC [+] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 100 @ 0.00464201 = 0.4642 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    nubbins`: !t m s.mg
    
    assbot: [MPEX:S.MG] 1D: 0.000149 / 0.00014955 / 0.000154 (180 shares, 0.03 BTC), 7D: 0.000138 / 0.00013973 / 0.000154 (1200 shares, 0.17 BTC), 30D: 0.00010001 / 0.00011631 / 0.000154 (5050 shares, 0.59 BTC)
    
    nubbins`: !t h smg
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK:SMG] 1D: 0.00009501 / 9.705E-5 / 0.00010280 (4859 shares, 0.47159003 BTC), 7D: 0.00009501 / 9.954E-5 / 0.00013000 (7926 shares, 0.78898943 BTC), 30D: 0.00009501 / 0.0001088 / 0.00013850 (16446 shares, 1.78939064 BTC)
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 100 @ 0.0046 = 0.46 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 1960 @ 0.00018999 = 0.3724 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 73 @ 0.0046 = 0.3358 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 8 @ 0.095 = 0.76 BTC [+]
    
    anddam: benkay: the bacon concept is interesting
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 225 @ 0.0044291 = 0.9965 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.58998899 = 1.18 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 30 @ 0.00440002 = 0.132 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 1 @ 0.117 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] [PAID] 7.50000000 BTC to 40`000 shares, 18750 satoshi per share
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 34 @ 0.05100001 = 1.734 BTC [-] {9} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 27 @ 0.10577669 = 2.856 BTC [-] {11} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [DEALCO] [PAID] 5.00000000 BTC to 50`000 shares, 10000 satoshi per share
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [DEALCO] 72 @ 0.00597 = 0.4298 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] [PAID] 69.10503292 BTC to 3`122 shares, 2213486 satoshi per share
    
    benkay: get yer dealco divs and get out day apparently
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 7 @ 0.05385713 = 0.377 BTC [+] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 2.05736678 BTC to 3`122 shares, 65899 satoshi per share
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 7 @ 0.09550288 = 0.6685 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 7 @ 0.09550006 = 0.6685 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 10 @ 0.09199994 = 0.92 BTC [-]
    
    benkay: bacon ipo anddam
    
    benkay: ;;later tell anddam bacon ipo
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 23 @ 0.08043478 = 1.85 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: bacon futures?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 2 @ 0.13311598 = 0.2662 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.055 = 0.11 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 34 @ 0.13311598 = 4.5259 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: heh WSJ used wordpress
    
    ThickAsThieves: uses
    
    ThickAsThieves: (at least for the moneybeat area)
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6800 @ 0.00086308 = 5.8689 BTC [-]
    
    Diablo-D3: ThickAsThieves: yeah they used to for the not real journalist shit
    
    Diablo-D3: they still have it for some legacy areas
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.0555 = 0.111 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/02/28/cyprus-one-year-after-bank-bail-in-the-canary-that-lived/
    
    ozbot: Cyprus One Year After Bank Bail-In -- the Canary That Lived - MoneyBeat - WSJ
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 3 @ 0.05416667 = 0.1625 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 3 @ 0.08181 = 0.2454 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 3 @ 0.13311598 = 0.3993 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: this guy needs MPOE-PR to step in and inform the subsequent commenters who the real niggers.txt are https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=289730.msg5429845#msg5429845
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 6 @ 0.13311598 = 0.7987 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 5 @ 0.0559994 = 0.28 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 3 @ 0.08130283 = 0.2439 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 5 @ 0.13311598 = 0.6656 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 12 @ 0.05595783 = 0.6715 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 10 @ 0.0800171 = 0.8002 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 30 @ 0.13311598 = 3.9935 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.0575 = 0.115 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.055 = 0.11 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 28 @ 0.05398213 = 1.5115 BTC [-] {9} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [DEALCO] 25 @ 0.006 = 0.15 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 12 @ 0.13311598 = 1.5974 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.054 = 0.108 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 388 @ 0.00454236 = 1.7624 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 165 @ 0.00453334 = 0.748 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 6 @ 0.054 = 0.324 BTC [+]
    
    TomServo: BingoBoingo: was not kidding about ##mtgox-statement
    
    
    
    ozbot: A Discussion on How to Salvage MtGox Customer Account Holdings - Imgur
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [7C] 125 @ 0.00360365 = 0.4505 BTC [-] {11} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 45 @ 0.07801111 = 3.5105 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13110 @ 0.00086445 = 11.3329 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 5 @ 0.13311598 = 0.6656 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11650 @ 0.00086759 = 10.1074 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 13 @ 0.13311598 = 1.7305 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [DEALCO] 55 @ 0.00600001 = 0.33 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [DEALCO] 45 @ 0.00600001 = 0.27 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 3 @ 0.081 = 0.243 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 2 @ 0.13311598 = 0.2662 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.053 = 0.106 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 143 @ 0.00478783 = 0.6847 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 377 @ 0.0048762 = 1.8383 BTC [+] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 77 @ 0.13311598 = 10.2499 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 4 @ 0.0815 = 0.326 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13221 @ 0.00086807 = 11.4768 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.0525 = 0.105 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 2 @ 0.13311598 = 0.2662 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 2 @ 0.08225 = 0.1645 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 25 @ 0.0055 = 0.1375 BTC
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 26 @ 0.00474995 = 0.1235 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.0515 = 0.103 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 4 @ 0.08275 = 0.331 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 2 @ 0.13311598 = 0.2662 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 2 @ 0.085 = 0.17 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 4 @ 0.0835 = 0.334 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 3 @ 0.13311598 = 0.3993 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.051 = 0.102 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 2 @ 0.13311598 = 0.2662 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 54 @ 0.00474997 = 0.2565 BTC [+]
    
    thestringpuller: ;;diff
    
    gribble: 3.81572379881463E9
    
    thestringpuller: ;;estimate
    
    gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 4890464455.62 based on data since last change | 4092738869.01 based on data for last three days
    
    thestringpuller: ;;bc,stats
    
    gribble: Current Blocks: 288335 | Current Difficulty: 3.81572379881463E9 | Next Difficulty At Block: 290303 | Next Difficulty In: 1968 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 3 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes, and 39 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 4890464455.62 | Estimated Percent Change: 28.1661
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12647 @ 0.00086819 = 10.98 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 6 @ 0.09999999 = 0.6 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.051 = 0.102 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 300 @ 0.00483117 = 1.4494 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    
    
    ozbot: evoorhees on centralization - The Bitcoin Phenomenon on Vimeo
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 90 @ 0.00488999 = 0.4401 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 2 @ 0.13311598 = 0.2662 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30500 @ 0.0008694 = 26.5167 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 22 @ 0.13311598 = 2.9286 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 14 @ 0.09999999 = 1.4 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 17 @ 0.1 = 1.7 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 8 @ 0.0823125 = 0.6585 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 16 @ 0.08120312 = 1.2992 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    the20year2: joy, bankruptcy
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11723 @ 0.00087012 = 10.2004 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    Duffer1: it's about time
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 2 @ 0.0805 = 0.161 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.051375 = 0.1028 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 22 @ 0.00488995 = 0.1076 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.052 = 0.104 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 85 @ 0.00548999 = 0.4666 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 8 @ 0.05325 = 0.426 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 4 @ 0.05475 = 0.219 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 8 @ 0.05625 = 0.45 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 7 @ 0.05828571 = 0.408 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 4 @ 0.09999997 = 0.4 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 7 @ 0.05942857 = 0.416 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CFIG] 5 @ 0.11900092 = 0.595 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 10 @ 0.0835 = 0.835 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 4 @ 0.08575 = 0.343 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 6 @ 0.08683332 = 0.521 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 3 @ 0.08733333 = 0.262 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 11 @ 0.1 = 1.1 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 2 @ 0.088 = 0.176 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10637 @ 0.00087026 = 9.257 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 39 @ 0.1 = 3.9 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 24 @ 0.1 = 2.4 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 78 @ 0.0046416 = 0.362 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 3 @ 0.08999999 = 0.27 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 66 @ 0.0055 = 0.363 BTC
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 3 @ 0.05025756 = 0.1508 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 32 @ 0.00488993 = 0.1565 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 3 @ 0.13311598 = 0.3993 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 30 @ 0.13311598 = 3.9935 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 5 @ 0.082 = 0.41 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18700 @ 0.00086638 = 16.2013 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SMG] 2070 @ 0.000095 = 0.1967 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 810 @ 0.000191 = 0.1547 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 5 @ 0.08395 = 0.4198 BTC [+]
    
    nubbins`: freenode still shitting?
    
    nubbins`: couldn't connect via chat.freenode.net
    
    ThickAsThieves: ya a little
    
    BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Pretty much Freenode seems constantly under some level of DDoS now
    
    nubbins`: nod
    
    nubbins`: poor admins must be sick of it by now
    
    BingoBoingo: Probably
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 7 @ 0.02139899 = 0.1498 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 45 @ 0.0047101 = 0.212 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36100 @ 0.00086506 = 31.2287 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 2 @ 0.0827 = 0.1654 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 25 @ 0.00483971 = 0.121 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 50 @ 0.11585504 = 5.7928 BTC [+] {16} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 21 @ 0.1175 = 2.4675 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 4 @ 0.0827 = 0.3308 BTC [-]
    
    kakobrekla: at some point we will make #freenode on irc.bitcoin-assets.com
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 2 @ 0.0827 = 0.1654 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 642 @ 0.00019618 = 0.1259 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 5 @ 0.0834 = 0.417 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23850 @ 0.00087019 = 20.754 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    Bugpowder: blast from the past! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50206.0
    
    omen1855: nice read Bugpowder
    
    omen1855: before my days, but history repeats itself very quickly
    
    Bugpowder: probably been repeating itself for 2 years without people knowing about it.
    
    Bugpowder: :-P
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 3 @ 0.13311598 = 0.3993 BTC [-]
    
    Guest4752: soo what's new
    
    Duffer1: scammers scamming
    
    Duffer1: air is still breathable
    
    Bugpowder: Rain rain rain
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you tihnking of making an irc network ?
    
    kakobrekla: well, it was more of a joke and id rather not, but if it comes to it, i would.
    
    kakobrekla: like the 15th standard you know.
    
    mircea_popescu: it's a bitch to run them tho, because ddos.
    
    asciilifeform: did anyone ever step up with decent hosting for whatever?
    
    mircea_popescu: i'd much rather add servers to freenode's pool than split the effort.
    
    mircea_popescu: then again, that'd require them extracting head from bunghole, which may prove more difficult.
    
    asciilifeform: phuctor is still languishing on a godforsaken EC2
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not rly any serious btc hoster as of yet
    
    asciilifeform: phuck.
    
    mircea_popescu: it's only been 5 years of btc so...
    
    kakobrekla: well it depends on the size i guess, we have a small alter irc network in slovenia with like 200 people and 3 or so servers, works just fine for years
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla and then agency X wants to send 100gbit floods because why not.
    
    jurov: asciilifeform: what about SDF?
    
    
    
    ozbot: SDF Public Access UNIX System - Free Shell Account and Shell Access
    
    asciilifeform: jurov: i thought that was a 'free shell for people learning unix' thing
    
    jurov: no, iirc they offer full paid package
    
    asciilifeform: jurov: for btc?
    
    kakobrekla: im not saying it cant happen but small fishes dont stand out
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yeah but once we move assets there it becomes huge fish
    
    jurov: they don't even take linux seriously. don't ask them about btc
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, kakobrekla: at least when irc.assets.whatever gets ddosed, we'll know that it's for us and not for some lamer on #l33td00dz or whatnot.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 500 @ 0.00482998 = 2.415 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    kakobrekla: heh
    
    mircea_popescu: this is true.
    
    mircea_popescu: then again...
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla keeps being rude and arrogant to customer support ppls
    
    kakobrekla: :(
    
    kakobrekla: they are rude.
    
    mircea_popescu: that guy was lulzy.
    
    jurov: he's actually lucky kako did not start with slander
    
    kakobrekla: lol
    
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    kakobrekla: !b 5
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla if you ever get a pet salamander
    
    mircea_popescu: you gotta name it slander
    
    kakobrekla: bah more
    
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    kakobrekla: !b 10
    
    mircea_popescu: slander the slender salamander
    
    Diablo-D3: wtf happened now?
    
    kakobrekla: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: btw what does this do
    
    Jere_Jones: I'd just like to reiterate that I appreciate the advice -assets gave me about trying to buy goxbtc.  Thanks folks.
    
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    mircea_popescu: !b 65536
    
    kakobrekla: endoftheworld.swf
    
    mircea_popescu: ahahaha
    
    asciilifeform: !b -1
    
    mircea_popescu: !b $maxint
    
    jurov: !b NaN
    
    mircea_popescu: !b usagi
    
    jurov: usagi is not positive nor integer
    
    mircea_popescu: you dare slander usagi's integrity ?
    
    asciilifeform: any of you folks own a USB fault injector?
    
    mircea_popescu: what are you, like my sockpuppet ?
    
    asciilifeform: or care to recommend one
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is this some new sexual slang ?
    
    asciilifeform: i wanna see what cardano's usb controller does with malformed frames
    
    asciilifeform: (to trip 'fail deadly' mechanism)
    
    Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: deposit flush plz
    
    jurov: mircea_popescu: it is already known what happens to mpoe in a hour and half?
    
    jurov: is coinbr likely to survive it? :DDD
    
    mircea_popescu: jurov i can't imagine why coinbr'd suffer.
    
    asciilifeform: do we have some apocalypse scheduled?
    
    mircea_popescu: Bugpowder aite.
    
    Bugpowder: tx tx
    
    asciilifeform: damn i should actually read the logs, shouldn't i
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just the regularly scheduled mpoe statement
    
    asciilifeform: aha
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 92 @ 0.00482963 = 0.4443 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    jurov: asciilifeform mpoe bot has no info about market rates, so i'm curious how it will autoexercise
    
    bones`: what would it take to be a serious BTC host?
    
    jurov: or if mpoe strts spewing garbage instead
    
    kakobrekla: i think most serial was cloudify or something like that
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 90 @ 0.00482985 = 0.4347 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: bones` like a decade of experience in the field, actual connections, actual rented floor in multiple dcs, working relationships with the dc management, the tier 1 bw providers and parts suppliers.
    
    mircea_popescu: also puppet.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 80 @ 0.00482999 = 0.3864 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sounds costly.
    
    bones`: It is
    
    kakobrekla: incloudibly is what i ment
    
    diametric: man I wish I had a laser cutter with a powered Z axis
    
    
    
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    bones`: That's what I do by trade, and obviously I'm new here trying to expand my mind a bit
    
    kakobrekla: i think that best you can get now :\
    
    asciilifeform: diametric: wonder if something like a powered 'whoopie cushion' would work
    
    bones`: A few others and I have a hosting company but we're only in Philly right now
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well, it's not as costly as diametric's 3d printer farm
    
    diametric: asciilifeform: that doesn't speak precision to me
    
    mircea_popescu: Bones_ so how many cages you run ?
    
    bones`: Two, we're still small and boostrapped
    
    mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhltqAaIUAAYOA_.png:large << check out this thing.
    
    mircea_popescu: all the cultures the us "invaded" have actually successfuly invaded the us.
    
    bones`: Also bootstrapped
    
    asciilifeform: diametric: hydraulic piston?
    
    diametric: asciilifeform: well my Z is just leadscrews right now manually driven.. really crappy quality at that. I'd be better off just buying a new better laser
    
    mircea_popescu: bones`  aha.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 36 @ 0.00483 = 0.1739 BTC [+]
    
    asciilifeform: diametric: my unit has z-axis with screws and belt. all one would have to do there is add a stepper with roller to turn the belt.
    
    diametric: asciilifeform: i'd be skeptical those screws are very accurate
    
    diametric: err accurate is not the word I meant
    
    diametric: I mean, smooth
    
    mircea_popescu: what are they made of ?
    
    asciilifeform: diametric: you don't need much accuracy if you fix a photocell to the platform, to measure power (since whole point of z-axis is to focus the beam ideally)
    
    diametric: something cheap I'm sure, the leadscrews in mine are really, really crappy.
    
    diametric: asciilifeform: yeah
    
    asciilifeform: so have the beam return to the measuring cell periodically
    
    asciilifeform: (whenever z is to move)
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is such a soviet.
    
    asciilifeform: eh why
    
    mircea_popescu: "eh, you don't need working parts, just add feedback"
    
    diametric: haha
    
    mircea_popescu: "it'll sort itself out"
    
    asciilifeform: so long as it converges, why the hell not.
    
    mircea_popescu: i didn;t say "asciilifeform should be less of a soviet" now did i.
    
    Diablo-D3: holy fucking fuck people
    
    Diablo-D3: everyone shut the fuck up
    
    asciilifeform: (helps if you remember some from differential equations)
    
    Diablo-D3: you all have work to do
    
    Diablo-D3: go do it
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 29 @ 0.0048378 = 0.1403 BTC [+]
    
    kakobrekla: did you relaunch DMC 5 yet?
    
    mircea_popescu: i don't have work to do.
    
    asciilifeform: diametric: incidentally, you can get a real-time picture of the beam focus using an ordinary usb camera - taking care that it never sits in the sweet spot (smoked ccd)
    
    mircea_popescu: here, productivity aide : https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bhl-Y9UCYAAht1A.png:large
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13150 @ 0.00086619 = 11.3904 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 4 @ 0.08025255 = 0.321 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: flushed yet?  Gotta run shortly.
    
    mircea_popescu: prolly be a little.
    
    Bugpowder: ok
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 7 @ 0.09028588 = 0.632 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    Bugpowder: Will check back in an hour
    
    Bugpowder: l8r
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 3 @ 0.079 = 0.237 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10107 @ 0.00086422 = 8.7347 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10293 @ 0.00086174 = 8.8699 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: the whole of twitter is made up of experts on the ukraine now.
    
    mircea_popescu: it's a sickening display.
    
    Diablo-D3: can we ban people talking about the ukraine?
    
    Diablo-D3: [05:36:38] <kakobrekla> did you relaunch DMC 5 yet?
    
    Diablo-D3: a) 5? what happened to the other 3? b) Im no longer interested in DMC.
    
    mircea_popescu: meanwhile rbs just announced it kinda... misplaced the 100bn the taxpayer provided
    
    mircea_popescu: so i guess another 2-3-500bn is in order.
    
    asciilifeform: usg ought to send me a new passport if the damn thing splits
    
    asciilifeform: (u.s. passports have 'birthplace' field)
    
    mircea_popescu: i'd say it's about 70% settled the crimeea splits off.
    
    kakobrekla: well,... he did mention ukraine.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 36 @ 0.00550025 = 0.198 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: lol a little much
    
    mircea_popescu: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/when-private-patrols-pull-the-trigger/Content?oid=3848954
    
    ozbot: When Private Patrols Pull The Trigger |
    
    mircea_popescu: brandished a lethal prybar and advanced toward the security guard in a threatening manner
    
    mircea_popescu: "Much of the debate has focused on the ethics and effectiveness of bringing more guns and officers to wealthier parts of Oakland."
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah dude, it's totally unethical for rich people to have better shit than poor people.
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phun phact. security detail at the us army lab where i used to work was 100% rentacop
    
    asciilifeform: just like the ones at shopping malls
    
    mircea_popescu: afaik it's pretty much rent a cop everywhere.
    
    mircea_popescu: right, banks, upscale retailers, the works.
    
    asciilifeform: one would imagine that an army base would be guarded by grunts
    
    mircea_popescu: i don't think i know a manhattan hotel that doesn't
    
    asciilifeform: but no.
    
    mircea_popescu: grunts are about as fucking useless as you'd imagine.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.11729364 = 0.3519 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.59 = 1.18 BTC [+]
    
    asciilifeform: blue rentacops, with very 'western' chromed six-shooters.
    
    mircea_popescu: fucking idiots too.
    
    mircea_popescu: cluj airport, about 15 years ago. previously unsecured at all, because well... originally was secured by army, then those went out, a whole story.
    
    mircea_popescu: airport had no security for like a year
    
    mircea_popescu: eventually the head decided they must hire somebody
    
    asciilifeform: haha - and no one stole it.
    
    mircea_popescu: so they hired this ridiculous company, full of basically idiots
    
    mircea_popescu: they lined up about 40% chicks, and it really looked like phi kappa gamma or some shit
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 150 @ 0.00471514 = 0.7073 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 6 @ 0.079 = 0.474 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: one day i went behind one of these "security agents" and took her gun right out of her holster.
    
    mircea_popescu: just like that.
    
    mircea_popescu: gave it to the boss next we met.
    
    mircea_popescu: not like she could have fired it anyway, the gun was a .45 and the chick was like 90 lbs
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 3 @ 0.59999997 = 1.8 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    asciilifeform: as i understand, this is routinely done to u.s. cops
    
    asciilifeform: in soviet army, losing your weapon was (theoretically) a capital offense.
    
    mircea_popescu: well romanian army was heavily influenced, so same.
    
    asciilifeform: .45 ACP?
    
    asciilifeform: i thought it only existed on this side of the atlantic
    
    mircea_popescu: iirc it was a ruger
    
    mircea_popescu: very respectable gun, definitely would have sold for more than its "owner", on the open market.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.11739982 = 0.2348 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    asciilifeform: phun phact: it is said that modern russia still has a huge stockpile of unused 45acp, shipped during 'lend-lease', along with a multitude of 'tommy gun', never used
    
    asciilifeform: (from same)
    
    mircea_popescu: wouldn't you think they'd have been reclaimed during the 90s ?
    
    asciilifeform: sitting in some 'indiana jones' style warehouse
    
    asciilifeform: in the '90s, russian market was full of 'reclaimed' military/police hardware of that period, so not much use for 45
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 32.43982214 BTC to 80`674 shares, 40211 satoshi per share
    
    asciilifeform: (reclaimed in the sense of that guard)
    
    mircea_popescu: lemme see if i can find this footage again
    
    mircea_popescu: seems to have disappeared. anyway.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 3 @ 0.08133333 = 0.244 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1 @ 0.11739999 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6477 @ 0.00086689 = 5.6148 BTC [+]
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what was it ?
    
    mircea_popescu: troop of gendarmes, losing weapons on march
    
    mircea_popescu: it was a rare sight
    
    mircea_popescu: passerbys were like... hey dude... don't you like... need that ?
    
    asciilifeform: 1) arrange to 'lose' hardware 2) finder 'finds' 3) profit!1!
    
    asciilifeform: is the traditional formula.
    
    mircea_popescu: nah, these were just dazed kids.
    
    mircea_popescu: was in the fucking central square, broad daylight, 1k people around
    
    asciilifeform: anybody picked it up?
    
    mircea_popescu: well nobody wanted it apparently.
    
    asciilifeform: well, no one is likely to 'want' it before sun down.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1 @ 0.116 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.11599999 = 0.232 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 2 @ 0.13311598 = 0.2662 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1 @ 0.11599999 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: http://news.yahoo.com/russia-sent-several-hundred-troops-ukraine-us-official-225850494.html
    
    ozbot: Russia sent 'several hundred' troops into Ukraine: US official - Yahoo News
    
    nubbins`: nod
    
    nubbins`: go-time
    
    asciilifeform: from 'recommended' tab in that piece: 'Substitute teacher, 72, arrested for furiously masturbating in high school hallway.'
    
    nubbins`: reports of armed soldiers @ the airports
    
    nubbins`: asciilifeform: is there any other way?!
    
    mircea_popescu: from the oldies but goldies dept : http://trilema.com/2013/the-state-banking-and-bitcoin/
    
    mircea_popescu: "Rome days away from bankruptcy. Eternal city warns it will go bust for the first time since it was destroyed by Nero."
    
    mircea_popescu: let that be a warning to anyone thinking about passing legislation disrespectful of bitcoin :
    
    mircea_popescu: bankruptcy is not only a possibility, but quite a reality.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 5 @ 0.0525 = 0.2625 BTC [-]
    
    BingoBoingo: Rome ==== the Detroit of Europe
    
    nubbins`: i've always kind of felt that organized groups of humans are inherently unstable after you surpass a certain size
    
    mircea_popescu: pretty much. gypstaly and all that.
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` rome worked ok for along time.
    
    mircea_popescu: "Rome won't even have money to canonize two Popes, John-Paul II and John XXIII"
    
    mircea_popescu: imagine poor wojtyla sitting in heaven,
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.59999997 = 1.2 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: "hey, you a saint yet ?" "naw, they can't fucking afford the fumigation bill"
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 15 @ 0.081 = 1.215 BTC [-]
    
    moiety: mew :)
    
    
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 31 @ 0.00483897 = 0.15 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    moiety would reply to mircea but is too busy searching the house for bulldog clips
    
    moiety: thats crazy!
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 39 @ 0.004839 = 0.1887 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: works on womenz too.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 64 @ 0.00484 = 0.3098 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: if they're cats.
    
    mircea_popescu: and of course, http://i.imgur.com/UaNm6fv.gif
    
    moiety: relevant: http://i.imgur.com/Fhek8DO.png
    
    moiety: awwww!!!!
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 110 @ 0.00484 = 0.5324 BTC [+]
    
    moiety: this one is fighting back http://i.imgur.com/k1N13cY.gif
    
    BingoBoingo: And it's March!
    
    moiety: Happy March everyone, have some bear biscuits i made yesterday https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1/p526x296/1939461_10200749700904440_715359882_n.jpg
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 1190 @ 0.00484 = 5.7596 BTC [+]
    
    moiety: its not march for you yet bingo!
    
    jurov: nice
    
    BingoBoingo: moiety: How are you to know I'm not traveling?
    
    moiety: because if you were travelling to my timezone, you shouldve told me
    
    moiety: girl logic. simples
    
    BingoBoingo: moiety: What about the african, ocean, or antarctic parts of the timezone?
    
    jurov: and what about moon timezone?
    
    BingoBoingo: I guess Maybe the Moon is UTC as well, but there's no people there to ask.
    
    kakobrekla: doges know about the moon timezone.
    
    moiety: BingoBoingo: http://i.imgur.com/iWRYZI0.gif
    
    moiety: mircea actually posted that hif ages ago, i saved it because it's my whole being in a gif sadly
    
    moiety: but yeah, hadn't thought about the other bits of the timezone
    
    nubbins`: bulldog clips, handy things
    
    nubbins`: we have a clothesline full of 'em
    
    moiety: as my cats are going to find out nubbins` !
    
    BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Do doges do time well enough to have that concept?
    
    nubbins`: you're going to clip your cats? :(
    
    moiety: no im kidding
    
    moiety: i couldnt find any clips
    
    nubbins`: D;
    
    nubbins`: GOOD
    
    moiety: im kidding!
    
    kakobrekla: well, the did manage to get fake astronauts suits, so gotta give them some credit.
    
    moiety: btw, what was the name of r3wt's exchange?
    
    BingoBoingo: moiety: Openex.pw
    
    moiety: thanks
    
    moiety: no ne has been daft enough to trade with him have they?
    
    moiety: no one*
    
    BingoBoingo: moiety: Well it was the only place to trade ATC on a website before Apocalyptic did his thing
    
    jurov: $avg
    
    mpexbot: jurov: An error has occurred and has been logged. Please contact this bot's administrator for more information.
    
    jurov: ;;ticker --market btcavg
    
    gribble: BitcoinAverage BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 539.89, Best ask: 544.21, Bid-ask spread: 4.32000, Last trade: 540.75, 24 hour volume: 53682.53, 24 hour low: None, 24 hour high: None, 24 hour vwap: 567.22
    
    jurov: *crosses fingers and uses this as input*
    
    mircea_popescu: jurov don't do that.
    
    mircea_popescu: wait for ann
    
    jurov: ah mkay
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
    
    gribble: MtGox BTCUSD last: 135.0, vol: 0.00000000 | Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 541.15, vol: 24838.25261283 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 531.2, vol: 12183.12848 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 542.25444, vol: 15293.33238379 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 568.5, vol: 81.45490132 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 551.660382, vol: 7295.14400000 | Volume-weighted last average: 540.723991296
    
    BingoBoingo: Volume is still deficient in Zeros
    
    moiety: we'll be seeing  gox staplers and sellotape dispensers on ebay soon
    
    nubbins` raises eyebrow
    
    nubbins`: quick question, mpex signup fees are *not* distributed as mpoe dividends, correct?
    
    jurov: they are
    
    nubbins`: :o
    
    nubbins`: SOMEBODY GIVE ME A FUCKING COMPUTER
    
    jurov: ;;slap nubbins`
    
    gribble slaps nubbins` with a battered trout
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;lasers nubbins`
    
    gribble: ┌━ ┄ ┄ ┄ ┄ ┄ ┄ *pew!* *pew!* *pew!*
    
    moiety: lol! i love gribble
    
    kakobrekla: nubbins`  how else would it have been a ponzi
    
    nubbins`: good point
    
    nubbins` signs up twice so as to get best value for money
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 66495 @ 0.00086856 = 57.7549 BTC [+] {8} 
    
    moiety: why does gox even still have a value for btcusd?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9700 @ 0.00087135 = 8.4521 BTC [+]
    
    nubbins`: nostalgia
    
    kakobrekla: cause servers are paid until the end of the month
    
    
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.11 = 0.22 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 5 @ 0.10808001 = 0.5404 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 10 @ 0.08264585 = 0.8265 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 3 @ 0.08366666 = 0.251 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    nubbins`: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/10664372/RBS-has-lost-all-the-46bn-pumped-in-by-the-taxpayer.html
    
    moiety: youre kidding
    
    nubbins`: often, yes, but right now i'm just pasting links :D
    
    moiety: lol sorry, just derping aloud
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [DEALCO] 48 @ 0.00666667 = 0.32 BTC [+]
    
    moiety: i wonder how they plan to buy natwest now then
    
    moiety: santander were meant to but backed out. RBS picked up the tab but not for all branches. only some across scotland. now we have these stupid card readers and about 30 redirects to get to online banking
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` was more like 100bn, and also is in log :D
    
    nubbins`: i actually read it today, don't often click links tho ;(
    
    nubbins`: but yah, #46bn is like 85-90bn cad
    
    nubbins`: amazing
    
    assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    nubbins`: staggering, even
    
    assbot:  STAGGERING COMPANY!
    
    nubbins`: roommates are spitting about how gross it is
    
    kakobrekla: like the shit on the toilet from back in the day?
    
    mircea_popescu: lmao
    
    nubbins`: hahah
    
    nubbins`: the shitter bought me a bag of potato chips and two cookies as an apology yesterday ;(
    
    kakobrekla: did he say "i smeared it with that, you can now try it out yourself"
    
    nubbins`: no details on the incident were released
    
    moiety: aside from google image search, is there anything that i can search for a picture being wrongly used?
    
    nubbins`: tineye
    
    nubbins`: (canadian!)
    
    moiety: oh thanks very much :D thats fab
    
    nubbins`: so i dropped my rpm challenge CDs off today at the record store, and they gave me a coupon for 15% off my next purchase!
    
    mircea_popescu: so i guess you need blanks then
    
    nubbins`: i had to buy a spindle of cd-rs. felt really weird.
    
    HeySteve: hmm, any news announcement yet?
    
    nubbins`: not sure what i'm going to do with the other 48 of them
    
    HeySteve: obamacare is using the doge meme. o tempora o mores! http://blogs.marketwatch.com/health-exchange/2014/02/26/hhs-borrows-doge-meme-to-sell-obamacare-and-elicits-a-few-groans/?mod=MW_home_latest_news&link=sfmw
    
    nubbins`: o discordia!
    
    moiety: no joy with tineye but i will keep checking, thank you nubbins`
    
    asciilifeform: funfun - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-cuba-russia-ship-20140227,0,7642471.story
    
    moiety: asciilifeform! did you see the molten metal 3D printer robot? and the one that can print a house in 24 hours? 3D printers aren't as good as lasers but they are still cool.
    
    asciilifeform: moiety: sintering machine? old news
    
    asciilifeform: i think diametric has one
    
    nubbins`: so after a quick google search led me to the wikipedia page about discordia, the story behind EFNet's name is suddenly funnier
    
    asciilifeform: (or maybe not - you need inert gas)
    
    Mats_cd03: .bait
    
    ozbot: http://31.media.tumblr.com/cee51a34672b1b88c22de04ca3df30a6/tumblr_mes6ctZd4x1rrqd70o1_1280.jpg
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 278 @ 0.00484 = 1.3455 BTC [+]
    
    HeySteve: discordia is a dark tower thing isn't it? what's that to do with EFNet?
    
    nubbins`: among other things, it is indeed mentioned in the dark tower
    
    asciilifeform: moiety: sintering printer typically uses the same setup as laser cutter, with a bucket full of powdered Al or whichever metal where the bed would normally go
    
    nubbins`: discordia is the latin name of the greek goddess eris
    
    asciilifeform: you fuze a layer, then spread more powder, and so on, until the piece is complete
    
    nubbins`: who was the goddess of strife, chaos, and discord
    
    moiety: asciilifeform: i was just looking it up. the laarman prototype from earlier in feb?
    
    
    
    ozbot: MX3D printing - YouTube
    
    asciilifeform: moiety: the basic concept goes back to the '80s
    
    asciilifeform: none of this is really new.
    
    nubbins`: the lel being that EFNet (eris-free network) got its name after its predecessor network delinked a server called irc.eris.<tld>
    
    moiety: jesus 80s?
    
    nubbins`: because eris sucked so bad
    
    nubbins`: and with a name like that, how could it not!
    
    nubbins`: sorry, eris.berkeley.edu
    
    nubbins`: either way
    
    nubbins`: bit of a chuckle
    
    
    
    asciilifeform: moiety: the machine pictured in the video is just a tig welder attached to xyz arm, it seems
    
    ozbot: MPOE, February 2014 Statement pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
    
    mircea_popescu: and there it is.
    
    nubbins`: wow.
    
    nubbins`: such div
    
    moiety: it just looks so cool asciilifeform ... it's all exciting to me still lol
    
    mod6: O_O
    
    Duffer1: PR, 2.875 :(
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 67520 @ 0.0008656 = 58.4453 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    nubbins`: :O just finished reading
    
    nubbins` marks calendar
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 183179 @ 0.00084112 = 154.0755 BTC [-] {18} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 15 @ 0.11 = 1.65 BTC [+]
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if mpex acct costs 30, how did 'from new accts' add up to 70?
    
    Bugpowder: nice month!
    
    asciilifeform: can i buy 1/3 of an acct?
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it can generate either 30 btc or 20 btc
    
    mircea_popescu: depending on whether people use referrals or not
    
    asciilifeform: ahaha
    
    mircea_popescu: referral = each gets 5 rebate, the referrer and the referred.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29761 @ 0.00087236 = 25.9623 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    nubbins`: 1/3 of account has SELL disabled, do not buy
    
    asciilifeform: 'instead of office chair, package contained bobcat. A++, would trade again'
    
    nubbins`: heh
    
    Bugpowder: well that's kinda annoying... Someone sold to 75000?
    
    nubbins`: those things are expensive!
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 500 @ 0.00488995 = 2.445 BTC [+]
    
    asciilifeform: nubbins`: http://xkcd.com/325
    
    nubbins`: lel @ alt ;(
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 696 @ 0.0048934 = 3.4058 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    nubbins`: wait, it's friday, isn't it?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 1256 @ 0.00499775 = 6.2772 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/slum-landlords-pocketing-social-assistance-money-for-rent-1.2554226
    
    ozbot: Slum landlords pocketing social assistance money for rent - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News
    
    nubbins`: a slum landlord owns maybe half of the houses on my street
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 76 @ 0.005 = 0.38 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    asciilifeform: nubbins`: wait - what are they supposed to pocket as rent ?
    
    nubbins`: oh, you!
    
    Duffer1: I mostly specify this as a parting fuck you broadside to the MtGox troop of idiots, who thought that perhaps if they re-do the original MtGox “hack” I may have trouble. It’s cute, I guess, in the sense of a bunch of ducks trying to work together to provoke waves that’ll sink a neighbouring battleship.
    
    nubbins`: i once called this slumlord to inform him that i was getting the city to clean up the apartment's worth of possessions his workers dumped on the sidewalk, on his dime
    
    nubbins`: halfway through the conversation he interrupts me with "what are you telling me for?", followed by a toilet flushing
    
    nubbins`: had a good lel at that after i calmed down
    
    asciilifeform: 'If they're taking in taxpayer dollars to provide accommodations for their tenants, there should be some oversight  especially by government  as to what people are living in.'
    
    asciilifeform: imagine if this actually happened
    
    nubbins`: lel
    
    nubbins`: well the next logical step would be oversight as to what the tenants spend their remaining money on
    
    BingoBoingo: Wow, Bitcoin finally outgrew fiat exchanges
    
    asciilifeform: (see the 'last psychiatrist' piece mp linked to the other day)
    
    mircea_popescu: so basically the canadian government actually wants to run everything or what
    
    nubbins`: and good luck with that
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo not without some trepidation.
    
    nubbins`: mircea_popescu, the cbc wants that, but the government doesn't
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: This is so much more thrilling than last spring.
    
    nubbins`: (incidentally, this is a provincial, not a federal, thing)
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: it IS always the spring, isn't it.
    
    nubbins` thinks
    
    nubbins`: actually, no, it's not
    
    nubbins`: anyway, there's no solution
    
    copumpkin: omg lord master mircea_popescu has decreed that the price be $500
    
    copumpkin: and it will be so
    
    Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: so dividend gets paid March 3?
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin ;/
    
    mircea_popescu: what the fuck am i to do
    
    nubbins`: so a house gets bedbugs. the landlord fumigates at great expense. the dirtbags infest the place again. repeat ad infinitum.
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Indeed. SHit happend in spring. Then calms during the summer when schoolkids have too much time, a bit of drama happens in the fall, there is a bit of winter buildup, then SPRING
    
    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: I don't know! just commenting
    
    mircea_popescu: at least mine's platonially solid.
    
    copumpkin debates selling his MPOE shares
    
    asciilifeform: nubbins`: 'zyklon-b' ?
    
    mircea_popescu: platonically*
    
    nubbins`: alternately: a house gets bedbugs. the tenants fumigate at great expense. the bedbugs come back from the house next door. repeat ad infinitum.
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` is it expensive to fumigate ?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 50 @ 0.0051 = 0.255 BTC [+]
    
    nubbins`: well the problem is most of downtown is row houses, attached on both sides. generally fumigation doesn't do shit
    
    BingoBoingo: Prolly expensive in Canada, but in canada everything is expensive.
    
    nubbins`: BingoBoingo, everything but the drugs
    
    mircea_popescu: (i've never fumigated anything. oddly enough, bedbugs etc do not exist in romania)
    
    nubbins`: they didn't exist here either until the past couple years
    
    nubbins`: this is a very recent thing
    
    mircea_popescu: welfare helps all bugs and cockroaches across the board
    
    mircea_popescu: not just the bipedal ones.
    
    nubbins`: nod
    
    Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: would you mind flushing another deposit before my laptop battery dies?
    
    asciilifeform: story goes that they were re-introduced from somewhere in mexico.
    
    mircea_popescu: nope.
    
    nubbins`: the other problem is that welfare tenants generally won't tell the landlord if the house is infested.
    
    nubbins`: the only clues are a succession of stained mattresses and couches left on the sidewalk over a period of several weeks
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` or anyone else anything else, for that matter.
    
    nubbins`: nod
    
    mircea_popescu: i vividly recall this discussion between a veterinarian and a inner city md
    
    mircea_popescu: vet : "well, it's easier to be an md, at least your patients can tell you wtf is wrong"
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 44 @ 0.0055 = 0.242 BTC
    
    asciilifeform: 20th c. wants to come back! measles, polio...
    
    mircea_popescu: md : "its much easier to be a vet. animals don't lie"
    
    nubbins`: animals don't just want a prescription for ritalin
    
    mircea_popescu: right.
    
    nubbins`: people don't hide in cat carriers
    
    nubbins`: i'd say it's about even
    
    BingoBoingo: Dogs and crackheads both bite though
    
    nubbins`: there ya go
    
    nubbins`: common ground
    
    mircea_popescu: you mean bitches
    
    BingoBoingo: Nah, bitches behave
    
    BingoBoingo: Ratchets on the other hand
    
    mircea_popescu: is behave short for beaver shave ?
    
    BingoBoingo: Ofc
    
    BingoBoingo: ourse
    
    nubbins`: heh
    
    nubbins`: so loquacious ;p
    
    mircea_popescu: o who wanted to be pinged when this is published
    
    nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/vince-li-s-new-freedoms-outrage-manitoba-mp-shelly-glover-1.2555600
    
    ozbot: Vince Li's new freedoms outrage Manitoba MP Shelly Glover - Manitoba - CBC News
    
    nubbins`: ^ this guy cut a man's head off on a greyhound bus
    
    Bugpowder: whoops..  Finally read to the bottom.
    
    asciilifeform: related: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/02/18/norways_mass_murderer_brievik_threatens_hunger_strike_for_better_video_games.html
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: jhahaha
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: HeySteve2 wanted the ping
    
    mircea_popescu: a ty.
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i guess a guy's gotta have goals in life.
    
    nubbins`: y'know, i feel like i'd enjoy nordic prison
    
    mircea_popescu: did he want gta4 or what ?
    
    nubbins`: burn down a church? here's a synthesizer!
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17800 @ 0.0007963 = 14.1741 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: $vwap s.mpex
    
    mpexbot: mircea_popescu: An error has occurred and has been logged. Please contact this bot's administrator for more information.
    
    mircea_popescu: $vwap s.mpoe
    
    HeySteve: <nubbins`> ^ this guy cut a man's head off on a greyhound bus < I would be cranky too if I had to use public transport
    
    mpexbot: mircea_popescu: S.MPOE 1 day: average: 0.00086156 high: 0.00087256 low: 0.00075 volume: 1438116 btc: 1239.0294164 7 day: average: 0.00087156 high: 0.0008982 low: 0.00075 volume: 7049383 btc: 6143.97817607 30 day: average: 0.0008793 high: 0.00096 low: 0.00075 volume: 28915312 btc: 25425.2607003
    
    nubbins`: had to? he coulda flown!
    
    mircea_popescu: tbh, in some places public transport is a delight.
    
    nubbins`: they tried to market the bus here as "your own 40 foot limo", to much derision
    
    mircea_popescu: generally, large uni centers etc.
    
    asciilifeform: 'greyhound', for people on the other side of the ocean, is a 'tourist' bus, kitted out like an airplane
    
    nubbins`: generally people don't have to wait in the cold for an hour to get a limo, though
    
    asciilifeform: rather than an ordinary city bus
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 60 @ 0.0055 = 0.33 BTC
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i spent months going through the eastern us on greyhounds
    
    mircea_popescu: it was very informative.
    
    asciilifeform: most people here take the 'chinese' bus instead, these days
    
    
    
    ozbot: jonathan richman - you're crazy for taking the bus - YouTube
    
    asciilifeform: exactly like 'greyhound' but costs 1/3.
    
    nubbins`: ^ relevant song, also very informative
    
    moiety: nubbins`: bed bugs a) have nothing to do with the hygiene of a place and b) can hop to the house next door
    
    nubbins`: moiety: that's where my fears come from, yep
    
    moiety: can't** sorry
    
    nubbins`: oh yes they can!
    
    mircea_popescu: of course they can
    
    moiety: not a building they cannot
    
    mircea_popescu: and of course they have to do with the hygiene. what are oyu talking about ?
    
    nubbins`: if you live in a city that looks like this, they most definitely can hop to the house next door: http://imgur.com/1SntHHD
    
    
    
    moiety: they like fuckin blood not dirt
    
    mircea_popescu: moiety this may be true, but they do have migration patterns.
    
    mircea_popescu: they're not like blood seeking missiles their entire lives.
    
    moiety: no i can't see them migrating like geese their way door-to-door down a street though
    
    mircea_popescu: (and if they didn't migrate, you'd have difficulty explaining how the fuck they even exist in the americas in the first place)
    
    nubbins`: who said door to door?
    
    nubbins`: i share two walls with neighbours
    
    moiety: sorry i thought thats what you meant when you said fromthe house next door
    
    BingoBoingo: Honestly I am more concerned about ticks when I go outside than bedbugs invading my space. This stuff used generously at points of egress keeps all kinds of small undesirables out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth
    
    moiety: oh christ i didn't realise we were being literal as to entry points. i honestly don't think bedbugs use doors
    
    nubbins`: you don't see ticks here
    
    nubbins`: moiety, they're not tall enough to reach the handle, for starters
    
    BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Because you live in an icy wasteland
    
    moiety: lololol
    
    nubbins`: BingoBoingo: shush, it's only icy for like 7 months.
    
    moiety: maybe they could work together
    
    mircea_popescu: lmao bedbug tower
    
    moiety: yes! like the sheep from wallace and gromit
    
    mircea_popescu: spray with tit silicone, put on display
    
    nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/swiss-arms-classic-green-rifle-ban-to-be-reviewed-by-government-1.2555746
    
    ozbot: Swiss Arms Classic Green rifle ban to be reviewed by government - Politics - CBC News
    
    nubbins`: cbc is actually interesting today
    
    BingoBoingo: I mean I don't trust bedbugs because they fuck by cesarean. Ticks though carry all kinds of nasty diseases and fumigating "The Great Outdoors" is difficult.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 2 @ 0.13311598 = 0.2662 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know real men don't get lyme
    
    mircea_popescu: (tm)
    
    nubbins`: there are actually relatively few things that can kill you here
    
    nubbins`: aside from, y'know, the elements.
    
    moiety: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/entertainment_shaun_the_sheep/img/1.jpg
    
    moiety: like this ^
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38550 @ 0.0008 = 30.84 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.10800003 = 0.216 BTC [-]
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: There's quite a few other nastier diseases than lyme. Lyme just gets the press because pseudo-medicine makes better news.
    
    moiety: my house is to be assessed for something called Legionnaires apparently.
    
    mircea_popescu: moiety take moar cold showers.
    
    nubbins`: eeee, yipes
    
    nubbins`: there were a few big legionnaires outbreaks in canada the past couple years
    
    nubbins`: something like 2 dozen people in an old folks home died in 2012 i think
    
    moiety: is it very bad? they have to assess rented flats every two years by law my letter says
    
    bitcoinpete: howdy
    
    moiety: hi pete :)
    
    mircea_popescu: moiety it's not that bad. wear something loose.
    
    bitcoinpete: It's incredibly late here in bruxelles but I thought I'd leave my latest von blooog post for your casual readying enjoyment.
    
    
    
    ozbot: Patience En Ville | When Bitcoin Met Pete
    
    bitcoinpete: I'm off to bed, then I'll be in the logs as usual.
    
    bitcoinpete: Cheers and bon soir
    
    moiety: my bathroom is very clean, i will say that
    
    nubbins`: charlie's in the trees, pete's in the logs
    
    mircea_popescu: an' teh poofs are in the pudding
    
    nubbins`: there's a dick surgery song where it's discussed that the details are also in the pudding
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39800 @ 0.00079865 = 31.7863 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1 @ 0.109 BTC [+]
    
    nubbins`: well. "song" is being generous
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38009 @ 0.00077761 = 29.5562 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    moiety: BingoBoingo: i decided what to do with my btc domain. im making a scottish item shop. not giving up on my stamping plan though
    
    BingoBoingo: moiety: Solid decision
    
    moiety: you mean it?
    
    BingoBoingo: moiety: Yeah, much better than a decision where you have to stamp every product and in the process look like Rosie the Riveter. Being Bitcoin's source for Scottish shit sounds like something worth trying.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 114260 @ 0.00075144 = 85.8595 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    moiety: lol actually... i hadnt thought of that.. "sorry your order is delayed.. i'm not very fit and i got tired making it"
    
    nubbins`: canned haggis
    
    MisterE: fuck that
    
    moiety: ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
    
    MisterE: Shagging sheeps
    
    MisterE: or is that a scouser thing?
    
    nubbins`: somebody give me the elevator pitch on buttercoin.com
    
    BingoBoingo: moiety: I though we touched on that problem when you presented the plan. Stamping metal with a hammer is tiring work
    
    BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Herpitty Derp derp
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` i can;t believe it's not margerine.
    
    nubbins`: ty, that works
    
    moiety: i thought it be ok because they were small things BingoBoingo btw there is people opening a dog cafe and a cat cafe in london. edinburgh seems to have none.....
    
    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: I can't find your key on my keyserver
    
    copumpkin: I'm on a different computer and found I didn't have it in my list
    
    copumpkin: keys.gnupg.net
    
    copumpkin: which should I be searching for?
    
    copumpkin: oh you have the key in the page
    
    BingoBoingo: I'm rather surprised http://bitbet.us/bet/769/crimea-2-electric-boogaloo/ isn't getting more action yet as it focuses on the most important precedent this recent crimea lulz covers.
    
    moiety: omg i have it all planned out, we could totally do a bar. bingoboingo barman, asciilifeform doing the laser lights, nubbins` sorting pest control, bugpowder green flourescent protein glowsticks, benkay on music and mircea dancing girls!
    
    moiety: or not
    
    nubbins`: as much as i'd like to move overseas to wield a can of raid
    
    BingoBoingo: moiety: Honestly if you want to open a bar the best place to position your business in relation to me is one such that I am a customer.
    
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    moiety: BingoBoingo: you're right, you can prop up the bar
    
    moiety: or remove riff raff
    
    BingoBoingo: I could do both.
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin it's on my blog
    
    copumpkin: yeah got it :)
    
    moiety: ok, not paying you twice so will pay in alcohol
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo maybe people dunno wtf boogaloo is supposed to be
    
    mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> as much as i'd like to move overseas to wield a can of raid << lmao
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I though the Internet was strong enough people know electric boogaloo's are sequels.
    
    mircea_popescu: your customer service sucs
    
    mircea_popescu: and is arrgorant
    
    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: I keep getting unrecognized signature even though I'm using the same key I used to sign up :(
    
    copumpkin: says to email you my key but I did that long long ago :P
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin did you ever re-email it as per teh verification last year /
    
    
    
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    copumpkin: oh, no
    
    copumpkin: I wasn't paying attention
    
    copumpkin: that was a thing?
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Really the point of Ukraine as of now isn't the end political outcome, as far as that bet is concerned. It's determining how overtly "Black Ops" can happen in a white people country before commandos have to have affiliations, because Geneva protocols and conventions and such.
    
    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: I guess you have no way to contact me or even any knowledge of me having an account :P
    
    
    
    ozbot: Beirut - Nantes - YouTube
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin mpex may be the only entity in bitcoin which has gone two years without sending a single greatly informative and muchly important email blast.
    
    copumpkin: :)
    
    mircea_popescu: but anyway, lemme dig it for you.
    
    copumpkin: only because you don't have my email!
    
    copumpkin: :P
    
    copumpkin: should I just email you the key again?
    
    nubbins`: just email mine instead
    
    copumpkin: (goes to show how active a user I am)
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah.
    
    copumpkin: nubbins`: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: well technically you could extract some sort of email from gpg keys, but i never bothered to.
    
    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: office@polimedia? that's where the old one went
    
    mircea_popescu: yea
    
    nubbins`: 'cause, y'know, it'd work or something
    
    BingoBoingo: OMG copumpkin is selling his S.MPOE, sell first!!!
    
    copumpkin: BingoBoingo: nah, trying to remember how much I have
    
    copumpkin: and I can't even run a STAT: P
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: eleven bentlees
    
    copumpkin: that'd be amusing
    
    copumpkin: I don't think I can even afford one bentley though
    
    nubbins`: bentleys are vulgar
    
    mircea_popescu: o look, greene sueing mtgox
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin anyone with s.mpoe stock should afford a bentley!
    
    copumpkin: lol
    
    copumpkin: I don't think I bought enough of it back then
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin bentleys are divisible, so you should at least get a few bentloshis.
    
    copumpkin: lol I hope so
    
    moiety: LOL
    
    copumpkin: but what keyserver can I find your keys on?
    
    copumpkin: I want to encrypt my email to office but I can't find the key for it
    
    mircea_popescu: i has no idea ?
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Still looking at the legal history of Illinois governors, being a n00b and being pissed about Gox because he was too good for warnings makes his Derping rather inconsequential in the history of embarassing things about Illinois
    
    copumpkin: oh well
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin http://trilema.com/pgp/
    
    mircea_popescu: it's impossible to keep track of keyservers and i kind-of gave up.
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the law firm is the key there.
    
    mircea_popescu: they wanted to do the suit. it's clearly a zerocost thing.
    
    copumpkin: okay, emailed and encrypted :D
    
    nubbins`: best thing that ever happened to illinois was a sufjan stevens album
    
    mircea_popescu: talking about how it's a "natural extension of their practice" and whatnot
    
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    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: where would you say you fall on the political spectrum?
    
    mircea_popescu: asshole.
    
    copumpkin: lol
    
    nubbins`: lel
    
    copumpkin: so you want to be a politician
    
    mircea_popescu: maybe vajina some days.
    
    mircea_popescu: where do you fall ?
    
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    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Eh, if it isn't Cueto and Cueto it isn't an Illinois enough case
    
    mircea_popescu: "So, we dont have to worry about Japanese laws and how they apply."
    
    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: I'm firmly in the "don't be an asshole" camp :)
    
    copumpkin: I'm sure that's a huge surprise to you
    
    mircea_popescu: hallo we are 12 and don't need to worry about our asshole.
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin lol
    
    BingoBoingo: Lol, derpy n00bs http://www.edelson.com/jay-edelson/
    
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    mircea_popescu: obviously, as you'd imagine, my view is that the world is split among the assholes that admit it and the assholes that don't.
    
    copumpkin: I actually don't entirely disagree
    
    mircea_popescu: also asshole kinda looks like fasole,
    
    mircea_popescu: which is romanian for beans
    
    copumpkin: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: which are empirically related
    
    BingoBoingo: What is it with people trying to do anything in Illinois and not realizing you have to buy whatever jurisdiction you want to operate in, either outright or as a time-share
    
    nubbins`: i made refried beans for the first time last week
    
    nubbins`: i think i mentioned it at the time
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo maybe they has ? tbh the dumbledore lawyer guy sort-of evokes jackie chiles for me.
    
    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: do you have some sort of defense against replay attacks on mpex btw? what if I send a "sell X" command and someone sniffs it and sends it again?
    
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    nubbins`: it's too bad they're called that in english, because it's kind of a rotten name for a food
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin try it ?
    
    copumpkin: all I get for now is "unrecognized signature" :)
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` if that's your ocmplaint what about tossed salad ?
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin clearly secure then :D
    
    nubbins`: we call it garden salad here
    
    mircea_popescu: but srsly, yes.
    
    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: lol
    
    nubbins`: as you can imagine, tossed salad brings jelly-covered anus to mind
    
    mircea_popescu: ahahahaha omfg no fucking way
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i finally clicked your link. DO THESE ATTORNEYS EVEN LEAFT!
    
    mircea_popescu: s/ATTORNEYS/ATTORNYES
    
    nubbins`: ATTRNOYES
    
    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: will I get some sort of confirmation when the key is accepted?
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: See, like the Groupons of the Illinois legal game
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin yeah
    
    copumpkin: cool
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: what's your opinion on the whole gox thing, think they'll get back up after a while? :P
    
    copumpkin watches MPOE crash to 0.000000001
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo does that page look as broken to you as it does to me or is it just a case of "our designer made it look good in chrome"
    
    mircea_popescu: Azelphur you can freely trade mtgox debt for bitcoinica debt on a 1:1 parity
    
    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: keybase.io, does that look like something you'd use?
    
    mircea_popescu: or any other parity your favourite rng suggests.
    
    Azelphur: fun
    
    Azelphur: so no, then xD
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: They used some javascript in the layout it seems. Works ok in the factory firefox install, not in the useful firefox install though
    
    Azelphur: I was a plonker and bought gox debt
    
    Azelphur: \o/
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin "Keybase will be a public directory of publicly auditable public keys. All paired, for convenience, with unique usernames."
    
    mircea_popescu: explain ?
    
    mircea_popescu: in like, nonretard english.
    
    mircea_popescu: "I graduated cum laude with a degree in philosophy from Brandeis University and received my J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School"
    
    copumpkin: as far as I can tell, their goals are: 1) provide a standard mechanism to link online accounts in a crpytographically secure way that doesn't require trust of their servers 2) make gpg more user-friendly
    
    mircea_popescu: dude brandeis is where the mass governor's escorts go to school.
    
    copumpkin: so they have a website that lets you link online profiles and a command-line tool that talks to the site and calls gpg
    
    copumpkin: ultimately, they're mostly a fancier keyserver
    
    mircea_popescu: i guess.
    
    BingoBoingo: I know. People who care go to SIU.
    
    copumpkin: Azelphur: pl0nk
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin so why do i want to use them ?
    
    Azelphur: yup
    
    Azelphur: I'm 97 BTC deep in gox, bought at ~0.14 (so 15 BTC)
    
    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: I dunno, they're pretty, and seem to provide some nice identity linkage stuff that seems handy. Otherwise, not much point :)
    
    copumpkin: I like the service
    
    copumpkin: mostly because I want more people to use gpg
    
    mircea_popescu: so basically what, they scrape social media sites for snippets signed by x sig ? a la gribble except spammier ?
    
    copumpkin: yeah, basically
    
    mircea_popescu: i cant see any harm in it
    
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    mircea_popescu: i wouldn't personally use it because i don't actually use any social media sites.
    
    copumpkin: ah, fair enough :)
    
    mircea_popescu: except i guess twitter but i don't really gas if x is y or not there
    
    kakobrekla: goes to twitter to tell the world, "i dun use social meddia situes"
    
    nubbins`: so how do you know who's going to trivia night on tuesday?!
    
    nubbins`: talk to people?
    
    nubbins`: DO YOU EVEN INTERNET
    
    mircea_popescu: hardly.
    
    mircea_popescu: i mostly pay people to internet for me.
    
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    mircea_popescu: which reminds me of the joke with the jooz.
    
    nubbins`: ah, that's fair
    
    copumpkin: I bet you're paying someone to type these messages right now, while someone else is giving you a rusty trombone
    
    mircea_popescu: nah, that was earlier
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well Twitter's upside is that you can school someone in front of their internet friends and make their internet friends wonder why they associated in the first place.
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i mostly use it because it's full of derps of the "holier than thou" school of assholery.
    
    mircea_popescu: i like those.
    
    gesell1: BingoBoingo mircea_popescu I may go knock on Jay's door on monday
    
    mircea_popescu: but anyway, one day when i'm rich i'll splurge and get myself a smartphone
    
    copumpkin: lol
    
    BingoBoingo: gesell1: Who the hell is Jay?
    
    MisterE: fuck smartphones
    
    mircea_popescu: and then the whole universe of social media sites will lay open before me
    
    copumpkin: sounds awesome
    
    MisterE: I'm in front of a computer enough
    
    MisterE: I dont need one with me
    
    BingoBoingo: Eh, I used to have smartphones.
    
    copumpkin: I have a smartphone but I hate using it
    
    mircea_popescu: gesell1 aite.
    
    gesell1: BingoBoingo: the lawyer you linked too
    
    copumpkin: iphone4, so slow it's too unpleasant to use
    
    nubbins`: copumpkin: there's an easy solution there ;p
    
    copumpkin: I made the mistake of installing ios7
    
    mircea_popescu: gesell1 is he actually smart irl ?
    
    copumpkin: and now it's unusably slow
    
    MisterE: I look around me and everyone's face is buried in their phones I think its sad
    
    copumpkin: so I just don't do anything on it
    
    gesell1: mircea_popescu: i have no idea. does he need to be?
    
    nubbins`: copumpkin, generally it's less of a good idea to update ios after new hardware comes out.
    
    BingoBoingo: gesell1: Ah, that one. I just prefer the lower parts of the state.
    
    copumpkin: except, err, make phone calls
    
    mircea_popescu: MisterE ikr? at least they could have the decency to get the salmon colored models.
    
    copumpkin: nubbins`: yeah yeah, but they don't let us downgrade, so oh well :)
    
    nubbins`: :D
    
    nubbins`: aren't you glad you bought in?
    
    mircea_popescu: gesell1 yes, it usually helps if the lawyer putting together a cas is smart.
    
    MisterE: my GF's iP 4 runs iOS 7 fine
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It is why I only use lawyers with Drive throughs.
    
    copumpkin: MisterE: I hear it gets better with the latest 7.* update where you can disable effects
    
    copumpkin: but mine is painfully slow
    
    gesell1: well so i will find out monday
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin can it boil an egg at least ?
    
    MisterE: I dunno it's the GFs and I dont go there
    
    copumpkin: nope :(
    
    mircea_popescu: gesell1 be sure to report bacl :D
    
    MisterE: last thing I want is to support her phone
    
    gesell1: is there a problem if I pursue mtgox from 3 different lawyers at once?
    
    kakobrekla: but you are supporting here
    
    kakobrekla: her*
    
    MisterE: lol you're suing Gox?
    
    kakobrekla: and so apple.
    
    MisterE: talk abotu throwing good money after bad
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i blame ever for the apple.
    
    mircea_popescu: MisterE i'd be much surprised if the lawyer charges anything.
    
    gesell1: MisterE: no im just in the initial stages of contacting each and every collective that is gathering to sue
    
    MisterE: pro bono?
    
    kakobrekla: i would not even consider iphone using female fyi.
    
    mircea_popescu: he's in it for positioning, which is strategically sound
    
    mircea_popescu: MisterE no, just 99.9x% of any eventual proceeds.
    
    mircea_popescu: gesell1 how much did you manage to donate via gox ?
    
    MisterE: oh, I doubt there will be anything of value left for creditors
    
    MisterE: but if there is you can be sure lawyers will get theirs
    
    MisterE: donate lol
    
    gesell1: mircea_popescu: over 100btc
    
    kakobrekla: you gonna lose more coins suing than gain
    
    MisterE: ouch
    
    BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Around here most lawyers handling those sorts of complaints work on contingency, so they only get paid if they win
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the way the legal profession works in the us is that sometimes lawyers take cases for free, when they figure the bread is buttered on the other side.
    
    kakobrekla: yeah but paid from where
    
    kakobrekla: with what
    
    kakobrekla: from who
    
    nubbins`: from the booty
    
    BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Asbestos companies usually
    
    nubbins`: sort of like a mortgage advisor
    
    nubbins`: they work for "free"
    
    nubbins`: where free = a portion of your mortgage
    
    kakobrekla: the only way out of here is bernankecoin the way i see it.
    
    gesell1: pitty, i could find no bernankecoin
    
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    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the lawyer wants bitcoin fame. that's free to him, as he has no cases anyway.
    
    mircea_popescu: a noob lawyer with a shitty jd and no connection is basically equally qualified as a plumber.
    
    kakobrekla: so they are not really getting paid as you said but whoreing out
    
    mircea_popescu: and if he actually manages to get some dough from tibanne, all the better.
    
    nubbins`: gesell1, it's called bernankoin i think
    
    nubbins`: ;;google bernankoin
    
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    mircea_popescu: not like his "clients" will see any of it.
    
    mircea_popescu: judging by the school he went to, he's being supported by either generous parents or generous husband.
    
    mircea_popescu: so it all makes sense.
    
    BingoBoingo: I dunno of any person in Illinois who while certified as a plummer and holding a JD would pratice law over practicing plumbing
    
    gesell1: mircea_popescu: at the moment there appears to be only a few places to go. or only a few lawyers persuing the issue
    
    BingoBoingo: Plumbing just pays better than law
    
    mircea_popescu: gesell1 i wasn't saying you sohu;dn't, by any means
    
    mircea_popescu: just explaining how the thing works.
    
    mircea_popescu: anyway : their top claim to fame is that they settled an amazon cas for ~150k
    
    mircea_popescu: which went to charity.
    
    mircea_popescu: bush league does not begin to describe.
    
    KRS-One: I have a friend who is a roofer who makes as much as an attorney and then some.
    
    nubbins`: skilled trades, man
    
    KRS-One: he does the easy shit and runs a crew
    
    mircea_popescu: (they also represented the Blagojevich dood. also for free, also to no particular effect)
    
    BingoBoingo: I really don't understand the point of retaining an unconnected lawyer
    
    nubbins`: that said, his body will be wrecked by the time he's 45
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know blag ?
    
    nubbins`: and he'll be taking orders from a guy ten years his junior
    
    moiety: is it just me or does that lawyer dude look a wee bit like simon cowel?
    
    gesell1: i assumed/hoped that the class action litigation that gets the most attention from the community will wind up with the most resources to devote to getting possible results
    
    KRS-One: nubbins` you aint kiddin..except he's the business owner
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm the other end of the state.
    
    BingoBoingo: The feudalism end
    
    KRS-One: he is real dumb and needs me to get a roofing license (take exams and shit) said I can make $100K/yr without doing a thing just holding the license.
    
    mircea_popescu: gesell1 i think you grossly misrepresent the substance of the sort of clueless idiots that still; had btc on gox.
    
    mircea_popescu: it's hardly a community and it definitely has no resources.
    
    nubbins`: KRS-One, might as well.
    
    KRS-One: i have to speak to an attorney to see what kind of liability it opens me up to..supposedly i can do it with no risk or liability.
    
    gesell1: mircea_popescu: there were $40m worth of BTC waiting on Gox on one reddit comment thread alone. that could create resources
    
    mircea_popescu: money you don't have does not create resources, no.
    
    KRS-One: nubbins`: he has been using his dad's general contractor's license but his dad is real old now and wont be doing it much longer
    
    BingoBoingo: KRS-One: In the US the only thing you can acquire with a license is risk and liability
    
    KRS-One: so bam this might be nice coin
    
    KRS-One: BingoBoingo: i know I am skeptical
    
    mircea_popescu: Since weve been sitting here on the phone, Ive seen three emails come in.
    
    mircea_popescu: ahahah how epic is that.
    
    KRS-One: it nice to know a roofer..i got a new roof put on my house for real cheap, just labor and materials.
    
    moiety: this is why its good to know a mechanic too
    
    KRS-One: took forever to get him to do it tho
    
    KRS-One: moiety: yep. marine and diesel mechanics make most i think
    
    KRS-One: i was stupid. i went to college.
    
    nubbins`: i had my roof redone last summer
    
    nubbins`: wait, no, summer before
    
    nubbins`: fucking mansard roofs
    
    nubbins`: $$$$
    
    BingoBoingo: Well, the boring olf gasoline car mechanic that fixed the mess I made trying to fix that saturn made decent money for his time.
    
    nubbins`: "know what'd be a good idea? if none of this shit was right angles"
    
    moiety: i think my roof might fall off. i saw slates outside on the ground
    
    mircea_popescu: moiety maybe your roof buries some pets
    
    BingoBoingo: moiety: You and your fancy european roofs. Here shingles are made out of asphalt and cat litter
    
    moiety: lolololol
    
    mircea_popescu: my shingles are made of detcord and baby tears.
    
    BingoBoingo: lol
    
    moiety: I'm scared to see your homes....
    
    BingoBoingo: detsord would never work with the weather here.
    
    nubbins`: my home is quaint, but only because of the lack of detcord and kitty litter
    
    moiety: did you guys see the £150 house that gets rented out for milk?
    
    BingoBoingo: No, but I've considered buying a block of $200 houses in detroit and starting a farm
    
    mircea_popescu: moiety breast milk ?
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo well detcord would make your house move somewhere else then
    
    KRS-One: mircea_popescu: depending on the roof, the shingles arent what keeps the water out. main protection for a roof comes from the tar paper that covers the wood.  shingles only keep the sun from runing the tar paper.
    
    KRS-One: if it werent for the sun and other things you dont even need shingles.
    
    mircea_popescu: KRS-One that may be generallky true, but i come from transylvania, which invented wood shingle roofing.
    
    mircea_popescu: allow me to show you :
    
    moiety: mircea_popescu: it doesn't specify.......
    
    moiety: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513154/Farmer-builds-house-just-150-using-materials-skips--current-tenant-pays-rent-MILK.html
    
    BingoBoingo: KRS-One: Most of the world operates on the assumption shingles move the water
    
    KRS-One: thats what i have, wood shingle..cedar.  Its one of the best you can get.
    
    KRS-One: BingoBoingo yep
    
    nubbins`: BingoBoingo: you'd need to truck in soil
    
    
    
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    mircea_popescu: 230 year old, that thing. all wood. no metal.
    
    KRS-One: the BEST ROOF:  flat deck (gravel)
    
    KRS-One: wow nice
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Or to many other places. The most recent local tornado didn't come within a mile, but other weird wind anamolies still had things impacting the roof in interestng ways
    
    KRS-One: thats really neat to have history behind your home.
    
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    nubbins`: the top of my roof is tar pitch
    
    nubbins`: sides are shingled
    
    KRS-One: i dont know what tar pitch is
    
    KRS-One: hnn
    
    BingoBoingo: Maybe I should get the next roof done in pitchblend!!!
    
    nubbins`: they use a flamethrower to melt coal tar all over it
    
    moiety: mircea_popescu: that's so cute. it just needs broadband and its perfect!
    
    KRS-One: ah yes flatdek?
    
    KRS-One: flat deck
    
    nubbins`: sandwiched with layers of tar paper
    
    nubbins`: prolly the same thing you're thinking of
    
    KRS-One: thats the best type of roof to have..many commercial buildings have that
    
    nubbins`: self-healing
    
    KRS-One: yea
    
    nubbins`: as long as you have any amount of summer
    
    KRS-One: i've heard horror stories where roofers fell off and into the hot kettle of tar
    
    nubbins`: popular for the row houses here, most of which have flat roofs
    
    KRS-One: a popular one here in Florida are concrete shingle..i did some roofing when i was younger..talk about hard work.
    
    nubbins`: looks nice tho
    
    KRS-One: gets so hot on the roof tops you can get burned by just picking up your hammer on the metal side
    
    KRS-One: you have to be a tough bastard to work in roofing year round..i think doing concrete work was actually easier.
    
    KRS-One: i did both for a while..they both sucked.
    
    KRS-One: those jobs were my main motivator for going to college.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 455 @ 0.0055 = 2.5025 BTC
    
    nubbins`: re: russian cargo planes landing in crimea
    
    nubbins`: "Astakhov said the people in the planes refused to identify themselves and waved off customs officials, saying they didn't require their services."
    
    mircea_popescu: they sound exactly like bitcoin people.
    
    mircea_popescu: also, this shit's pretty epic:
    
    
    
    ozbot: The Last Psychiatrist: You Are The 98%
    
    mircea_popescu: this chick should be in my harem already.
    
    mircea_popescu: "We need a third party!"  Come on, do you think the media will allow you to have a third party?  John Anderson, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader--  they let them through to "show" third party candidates aren't any more serious than Howard Stern when he ran for governor.  Poor Ron Paul pulls in more people than porn but he can't get a break, sorry buddy, 100 years too late for your kind.  There's a difference between what you ne
    
    mircea_popescu: ed and what you want, and the media will always, relentlessly give you what you want.  Do you know why you have such poor candidates every single election?  Because you want them, you want someone you can easily judge for some sexual indiscretion or because they called latinos chicanos.  "Well, that matters to us!"  Then you got what you asked for.
    
    mircea_popescu: ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  logtest  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
    
    nubbins`: yeah, read that
    
    nubbins`: depressing more than anything
    
    mircea_popescu: i dun live there, so to me it's mostly funny
    
    nubbins`: it's funny to you because you're rich ;D
    
    mircea_popescu: and an asshole.
    
    nubbins`: you don't think the people shouting over each other at general assemblies were assholes?!
    
    mircea_popescu: no. assholes are never idiots,
    
    mircea_popescu: and idiots aren't really assholes, they're just idiots.
    
    KRS-One: not at all
    
    mircea_popescu: like you know, a rock falling down a cliff isn't a car.
    
    mircea_popescu: even if it does move.
    
    kakobrekla: dam kids breaking the logs again
    
    nubbins`: what next, my lips and anus aren't a hot dog?
    
    mircea_popescu: i wonder if hot chick lips and anus hot-dogs are a delicacy in china.
    
    mircea_popescu: i suppose throw in the vulva too.
    
    decimation: mircea - these guys appear to be curating btc exchange data http://www.netagio.com/market-data
    
    mircea_popescu: "guaranteed 13 to 19yo"
    
    nubbins`: well, ya need a bit of salt
    
    mircea_popescu: decimation you know who runs it /
    
    BingoBoingo: Eh, seriously Russia being in Crimea is not interesting at all. The only interesting point is how long they can go without commiting regular forces to the endeavor.
    
    nubbins`: anecdote: a friend was approached by a young (~13yo) girl asking for a cigarette. friend says "you're too young to smoke"
    
    nubbins`: girl says "lick my salty piss-flaps"
    
    mircea_popescu: decimation pounds and euro ? i already got a euro future and what are these pounds
    
    decimation: yeah http://www.goldmoney.com/company/press-releases/goldmoney-group-launches-new-bitcoin-focused-company-in-the-uk
    
    decimation: it's the goldmoney guy
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24500 @ 0.00078944 = 19.3413 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    decimation: he's seen the future and he wants in on bitcoin
    
    mircea_popescu: decimation do you knw him ?
    
    decimation: no I'm just an interested bystander
    
    mircea_popescu: well unless he somehow finds his way here...
    
    BingoBoingo: Eh, when people too young ask me for cigarettes I usually tell them I have cancer and ask them if they really want a cigarette.
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` the obvious response was to offer the whole pack for a bj
    
    BingoBoingo: Anymore a bj is cheaper than a pack of smokes
    
    decimation: I suspect this guy is involved somehow, he is associated with goldmoney http://jamesturkblog.blogspot.com/
    
    mircea_popescu: i kind-of wonder how long reddit will take to digest teh latest mpoe release.
    
    mircea_popescu: my money's kind-of on "never" tbh.
    
    mircea_popescu: o, james turk, goldbug guy. makes sense.
    
    decimation: yeah he's a hardcore goldbug and tries to cash in on that audience
    
    decimation: but he also appears to be interested in bitcoin
    
    mircea_popescu: well... maybe one day he gets here.
    
    mircea_popescu: im still looking for someone to run a delivered gold future.
    
    decimation: yeah it seems that this netagio is a spinoff of some kind.  I'm surprised that he or his staff hasn't contacted you
    
    decimation: I think they are building a good foundation before going big, unlike some out there...
    
    mircea_popescu: on a lark i'd venture a guess that <1% of irl businesses have a truely global internet listening program going.
    
    mircea_popescu: it'd be certainly within what they can afford, financially
    
    mircea_popescu: sadly, it's not within what they can afford intellectually.
    
    decimation: Oh no, they spend $$$ on facebook monitors
    
    mircea_popescu: and so it goes, lots of deaf and blind
    
    decimation: but that's not listening to anything...
    
    mircea_popescu: decimation i suppose it's like with everything else, blow the website budget on css.
    
    mircea_popescu: incidentally i suppose you've stumbled on a perfectly valid business model, the translators among WoTs will be tomorrow's lawyers.
    
    mircea_popescu: definitely as obscenely well paid.
    
    decimation: well, each big corp has a WoT that generally consists of the CEO's drinking buddies
    
    decimation: it's surprising that the internet hasn't linked those WoTs...
    
    BingoBoingo: Bonus, it pisses off the liberal arts majors because they can only translate wrong languages
    
    mircea_popescu: it is.
    
    mircea_popescu: huge market there.
    
    mircea_popescu: in point of fact, most of the power women have in western society comes strictly from that bridging role.
    
    mircea_popescu: it's not the unshaven idiots blathering on tv about "Rights" and other stuff that do anything.
    
    mircea_popescu: it's the sluts that fuck different ceos.
    
    mircea_popescu: that's 99% of female power.
    
    decimation: it shows up as a virtue as well
    
    mircea_popescu: well it is a virtue.
    
    decimation: most effective female 'leaders' I have seen are school-marm types who know how to connect the right people and step away
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.10100053 = 0.202 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: but about 1bn dollars spent on "women in tech"-esque programs dedicated to highschooler girls would return about the same net value for the cause as about 600k spent on "fuck as many powerful people as you possibly can take, as well as you possibly can, starting today." programs for the same.
    
    mircea_popescu: and one of the best indications that this is actually the correct approach would be that the impotent-by-design feminist movement will readily recognise it as the ultimate evil.
    
    moiety: you make it sound like you cant do anything as a girl without opening your legs :(
    
    decimation: well, you can call them "finishing schools", like they used to have
    
    mircea_popescu: moiety you can do plenty of things that ultimately won't matter.
    
    asciilifeform: re: keybase.io - this was the idiocy that wants your private keys
    
    asciilifeform: 'use gpg online!1!1'
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not in copumpkin's retelling. i was giving him space to see if he mentiones it.
    
    asciilifeform: hah
    
    decimation: maybe you can host your key in a vps with a web login
    
    mircea_popescu: i'm like... you know, a slut. i give people space :)
    
    decimation: I think this has been linked before: http://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valleys-most-celebrated-ceos-conspired-to-drive-down-100000-tech-engineers-wages/
    
    moiety: not much point in trying anything if it ultimately doesn't matter
    
    decimation: it's an example of a real-life WoT between silicon valley CEOs
    
    mircea_popescu: moiety maybe you enjoy it ?
    
    decimation: "Bill Campbell (Chairman of Intuit Board of Directors, Co-Lead Director of Apple, and advisor to Google) was also involved in the Google-Intel agreement, as reflected in an email exchange from 2006 in which Bill Campbell agreed with Jonathan Rosenberg (Google Advisor to the Office of CEO and former Senior Vice President of Product Management) that Google should call [Intel CEO] Paul Otellini before making an offer to an Intel employee,
    
    decimation: regardless of whether the Intel employee first approached Google."
    
    asciilifeform: 'wage theft' ?
    
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    decimation: shockingly thousands of beta engineers are willing to accept what they are given
    
    mircea_popescu: the irony here being that an industry;s stability can be best measured by the wot divergence (well really, by wot graph isolation)
    
    mircea_popescu: once gaps get bridged "industry best practices" develop,
    
    mircea_popescu: and the thing is going down in flames faster than people can ditch it.
    
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    decimation: of course the leftists are having a fit because this particular WoT ignores thier votes
    
    mircea_popescu: of course.
    
    mircea_popescu: wots aren't votes.
    
    mircea_popescu: in fact, wots are not only different from votes, but really much better
    
    mircea_popescu: w is v v2.
    
    nubbins`: <moiety> not much point in trying anything if it ultimately doesn't matter <<< "No, Donny, these men are nihilists. There's nothing to be afraid of."
    
    mircea_popescu: talk about bitcoin-mediated disruption of the electroal system
    
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    asciilifeform: http://pando.com/2014/02/24/knightscopes-new-robotic-law-enforcer-is-like-staring-at-the-demise-of-humanity/
    
    ozbot: Knightscope’s new robotic law enforcer is like staring at the demise of humanity | PandoDaily
    
    
    
    ozbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
    
    decimation: Oh, I was hoping someone was going to make a real RoboCop
    
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    decimation: not some lameass webcam
    
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    mircea_popescu: "work in pairs to protect each other"
    
    mircea_popescu: now how does this work ?
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In a twist confounding most authors of robot oppressor scifi the boards with critical operational components in the bots are varied from unit to unit.
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if the builder had half a brain, it's a countermeasure re: gps 'meaconing'
    
    asciilifeform: link 2 bots via spread-spectrum whatever, if one thinks he suddenly 'flew' somewhere, and the other says 'no'
    
    mircea_popescu: i can't begin to imagine how they figure this thing has a fucking chance.
    
    asciilifeform: surveillance camera on wheels, with megaphone for shouting orders, what's not to like
    
    decimation: yeah they are going to end up in a chop shop in the ghetto within 10 minutes of operation
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Remember the Russia-Georgia conflict... GPS can go dark
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: gps can and does go dark at your nearest truck stop
    
    asciilifeform: ;;google gps jammer
    
    gribble: GPS jammer - Cell Phone Jammers: <http://www.skybuying.com/category-179-b0.html>; Wholesales GPS Jammer - GPS Jamming - GPS Signal Jammer: <http://www.jammerfromchina.com/categories/GPS_Jammers/>; GPS Jammer Signal Jammer Blocker - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfPc8tH8vBY>
    
    asciilifeform: ;google meaconing
    
    asciilifeform: ;;google meaconing
    
    gribble: Meaconing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaconing>; CHAPTER 4 (FM 24-33): <https://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm24-33/fm243_5.htm>; meaconing - definition of meaconing by the Free Online Dictionary ...: <http://www.thefreedictionary.com/meaconing>
    
    
    
    ozbot: Electronic Weapons: Making The World Unsafe For GPS Jammers
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more's the point... they can't make supermarket carts with working wheels
    
    nubbins`: Crime has a $1 trillion impact on the American economy, according to Santana Li. “If we can show that we can literally cut that in half, we’re going to have every mayor in the country calling us,” he says.
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: All reasons why civ security bots will bow down to people with compasses, maps, and lasers
    
    mircea_popescu: andthey're going to somehow make a 100kg self moving robot
    
    nubbins`: soooo, it's equipped with a sword?
    
    mircea_popescu: what the fuck happens if it steps in gum
    
    nubbins`: it starts shooting, obv
    
    mircea_popescu: orly ?
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it steps in gum << $100/hr public servant with wheelbarrow sent to fetch it, clearly.
    
    decimation: it's not fair to have a WoT of robots that ignore the votes of the disenfranchised
    
    mircea_popescu: this sounds all so distinctly soviet.
    
    BingoBoingo: Well, if pepper spray counteracts rapists, spraypaint counteracts robots.
    
    mircea_popescu: speaking of pipe dreamz :
    
    
    
    ozbot: RObotzi.S03.Ep13.Sugstanta - YouTube
    
    moiety: <mircea_popescu> "work in pairs to protect each other"
    
    moiety: 03:38 <mircea_popescu> now how does this work ? << i think like this http://imgur.com/gallery/snoMroC
    
    asciilifeform: incidentally,
    
    mircea_popescu: whoa she's good.
    
    asciilifeform: when deploying gps jammers across an area
    
    asciilifeform: don't be dumb like the iraqi army
    
    asciilifeform: remember school physics
    
    asciilifeform: think 'constructive interference'
    
    asciilifeform: a fat, loud mast is a target
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well simple solution is allowing a slug of metal to meet a satellite
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: people who can afford to plug a satellite tend not to get 'democratized' in the first place
    
    asciilifeform: this advice is for the rest of us.
    
    mircea_popescu: gaddafi definitely coud have afforded to plug a satelite.
    
    mircea_popescu: he chose to plug ukrainian nurses instead.
    
    mircea_popescu: old age does that. back when he was still sane everyone put up with him. including rice.
    
    mircea_popescu: (who, if anyone forgot, he propositioned quite openly for a spot in his harem)
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well consider that the payload necessary to neutralize a GPS satellite can probably be measured in a single digit number of grams.  Even many "tactical" missiles if stripped for the locker room could prolly do the job.
    
    asciilifeform: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Ylayo7VkTE/UeViOxR4CPI/AAAAAAAACmQ/ZQsXIO6l_cY/s1600/Picture65.png
    
    nubbins`: when rice visited bolivia, they gave her a guitar with a coca leaf lacquered onto it
    
    decimation: hey did you guys behind the iron curtain watch Krtek the mole when you were little?
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: i had the book!
    
    asciilifeform: still got it
    
    asciilifeform: translated at 'крот в городе'
    
    asciilifeform: (mole in the city)
    
    mircea_popescu: i have no idea what that is.
    
    decimation: sad news, even communist propaganda cartoons can be ruined by apple http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-15/apple-helps-czech-mole-enter-21-billion-u-s-toy-market.html
    
    asciilifeform: i think in the animated version he gets to fuck
    
    asciilifeform: (post-soviet kid's tv is an odd place)
    
    decimation: the videos are widely available in the us but no one knows about it
    
    decimation: lol that's messe dup
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If only hypercard was still a thing
    
    
    
    ozbot: Melvins - 'Nude With Boots' (Full Album HD) - YouTube
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it can still be a thing at your house. grab the emulator + tarball from my site & have fun.
    
    nubbins`: ^ named after a picture mp linked once
    
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    mircea_popescu: i have left my mark on popular culture
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Why. The SE/30 is dead, but I still have a flock of MacClassics
    
    mircea_popescu: pustular cupure
    
    mircea_popescu: whatever
    
    nubbins`: the second one, in this case
    
    nubbins`: unpopular unculture, even
    
    decimation: ascii did you even find a passable lisp machine emulator
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: which lisp machine
    
    BingoBoingo: And once I care enough to fix the SE/30 it will be a thing again
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: there's 1 major emulator for each major species
    
    decimation: the symbolics machine
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: the only one that even begins to work is the one by symbolics shortly before it croaked
    
    BingoBoingo: One of my regrets though is not picking up an Apple IIGS, because that looks like that could have lead to incredible fun
    
    asciilifeform: ;;google snap4 symbolics
    
    gribble: CLiki: VLM_on_Linux: <http://www.cliki.net/VLM_on_Linux>; public ynniv / opengenera Octocat-spinner-32 - GitHub: <https://github.com/ynniv/opengenera/blob/master/notes/org.advogato.org-johnw.txt>; public ynniv / opengenera Octocat-spinner-32 - GitHub: <https://github.com/ynniv/opengenera/blob/master/notes/patrick-collison.txt>
    
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    asciilifeform: ;;google symbolics lisp pirate bay
    
    gribble: Copyleft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft>; Programmer Mega Book Pack- Part 1 (download torrent) - TPB: <http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6405192/Programmer_Mega_Book_Pack-_Part_1>; COMMON LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation: <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf>
    
    asciilifeform: ;;google symbolics open genera pirate bay
    
    gribble: Belize General Information- Facts (and Maps) - Ambergris Caye: <http://ambergriscaye.com/pages/town/factsbze.html>; comments - Reddit: <http://www.reddit.com/comments/1a35lu>; The Soul Travelers-Illuminati & Occult documentary ... - The Pirate Bay: <http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6076927/The_Soul_Travelers-Illuminati___Occult_documentary>
    
    decimation: okay I might to some dumpster-diving to find the thing
    
    asciilifeform: fuck this
    
    asciilifeform: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3769989/Symbolics_Open_Genera_2.0_for_Alpha_-_complete_package_with_Lisp
    
    ozbot: Symbolics Open Genera 2.0 for Alpha - complete package with Lisp (download torrent) - TPB
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;google opengenera HP alpha
    
    gribble: Symbolics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics>; Symbolics - Internet Archive: <https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_symbolics>; Symbolics | The (λ) Lambda meme - all things Lisp: <http://www.ymeme.com/symbolics>
    
    asciilifeform: there we go
    
    decimation: heh thanks
    
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    asciilifeform: first comment in that piratebay link is dave schmidt
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;google WOps.txt
    
    gribble: Urban Dictionary: wop: <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wop>; Molly Wop (MidgeCassidy) on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/MidgeCassidy>; BRUNO MARS lyrics: <http://www.azlyrics.com/b/brunomars.html>
    
    asciilifeform: the last man of symbolics corp.
    
    decimation: ah so you have to run tru64
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: not for snap4
    
    BingoBoingo: decimation: Wy is that a prolem
    
    asciilifeform: that's the unofficial linux port
    
    asciilifeform: (x86-64)
    
    asciilifeform: the pb link is the original dec alpha disk
    
    asciilifeform: you'll need it for the sources.
    
    decimation: ahh I see
    
    asciilifeform: thing came with ~99% of its source.
    
    BingoBoingo: DEC Alpha, least depreciating hardware investment ever
    
    asciilifeform: when i was at schmidt's house i offered him $BIG for schematics
    
    asciilifeform: he wouldn't budge
    
    asciilifeform: he doesn't own the company
    
    asciilifeform: probate court did (at the time)
    
    asciilifeform: the idiot who snapped it up at bankruptcy auction died a while ago
    
    BingoBoingo: Well, racialslur.txt
    
    decimation: well, what about the idiot's probate?
    
    asciilifeform: then an mit prof with nsa connections paid the idiot's debts
    
    asciilifeform: and now owns it
    
    asciilifeform: and that's all that was heard of it since
    
    decimation: he probably thinks it's his ticket to get rich
    
    decimation: like everyone else in academia
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: nope
    
    asciilifeform: here's the real dirt
    
    asciilifeform: http://www.usaspending.gov/search?form_fields={"recipient_name":"symbolics+","recip_state":null,"recip_congdist":null,"recip_country":null,"recipient_duns":["966978090","873185821"],"spending_cat":null,"dept":null,"extent_competed":null,"psc_code":null,"naics_code":null,"fyear":null}&sort_by=date&per_page=25
    
    ozbot: USASpending.gov
    
    asciilifeform: it brings in, ~50k / yr in eternal pentagon contract
    
    mircea_popescu: so it's worth like 600k
    
    decimation: sounds shady as hell to me
    
    asciilifeform: and is, in general, 'too much fun' of a technology to be turned loose
    
    mircea_popescu: ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  logtest  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
    
    mircea_popescu: yay!
    
    mircea_popescu: logs no longer suck! all hail kakobrekla, fixer of sucks.
    
    asciilifeform: the $5k circa 2010 - that's my old employer.
    
    asciilifeform: whom i talked into buying an actual copy of OG
    
    asciilifeform: came with dec alpha. for 'free'.
    
    asciilifeform: incidentally, the original mit lisp machine sources / schematics are bsd-licensed now.
    
    
    
    ozbot: Retrocomputing - MIT CADR Lisp Machines
    
    decimation: interesting
    
    
    
    nubbins`: bed; nite
    
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    decimation: so reading your blog, it seems that MIT eventually went to Scheme to teach young EE's how to code microcontrollers
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah, ima go with nubbins`
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: you misread
    
    asciilifeform: they ditched it
    
    asciilifeform: a few years ago
    
    asciilifeform: it was an epic surrender to derp
    
    decimation: yeah I saw that, but presumably before that someone decided scheme was the way to go
    
    asciilifeform: sussman
    
    asciilifeform: the original author of scheme
    
    
    
    ozbot: Why Did M.I.T. Switch from Scheme to Python? | Lambda the Ultimate
    
    nubbins`: sorry man, king-size bed, only room for two ;)
    
    decimation: more evidence of the surrender of original thinking to academic bureaucracy
    
    decimation: I blame fiat
    
    BingoBoingo: Let us all cook pasta noodles in a pressure cooker for 7 minutes, there must be NO better way to make glue!!!
    
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    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 1300 @ 0.000195 = 0.2535 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    decimation: you also inspired me to look more closely into Forth
    
    decimation: that is a beautiful language for microcontrollers
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.59 = 2.36 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 6 @ 0.10112727 = 0.6068 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 2 @ 0.0844998 = 0.169 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.13311598 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1346 @ 0.00078733 = 1.0597 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 5 @ 0.60599999 = 3.03 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    mike_c: R.I.P. mpoe-bot... at least you went out with a bang.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9850 @ 0.0007898 = 7.7795 BTC [+]