assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5318 @ 0.00079547 = 4.2303 BTC [-]
    
    bitcoinpete: hola amigos
    
    bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: ya, ver's a derp
    
    bitcoinpete: dogecoin jebus
    
    
    
    assbot: Here's a video of me begging /nntaleb to join /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash-assets : http://t.co/lD0pcqv9fu NSFW"
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9100 @ 0.00079544 = 7.2385 BTC [-]
    
    []bot: Bet placed: 3.01233529 BTC for No on "World Cup top scorer to net > 7" http://bitbet.us/bet/905/ Odds: 14(Y):86(N) by coin, 36(Y):64(N) by weight. Total bet: 20.20780078 BTC. Current weight: 9,565.
    
    benkay: <mircea_popescu> http://bitcoinpete.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/photo-23-1024x1024.jpg << check it out benkay, he's like 2 ahead of you. plus he has a jewfro. // psh you missed my 'fro
    
    benkay: !s 30 minutes of fame
    
    assbot: 2 results for '30 minutes of fame' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=30+minutes+of+fame
    
    benkay: surely there've been more.
    
    benkay: plus bitcoinpete how many o' dem you takin' home, eh?
    
    bitcoinpete: benkay: well, all
    
    bitcoinpete: eh
    
    bitcoinpete: it ain't cheatin'...
    
    bitcoinpete: ;D
    
    
    
    assbot: Preschool tuition in Manhattan: up to $40,000Preschool admissions coaching: up to $35,000http://t.co/6d0WCz8go3
    
    bitcoinpete: dat inflation
    
    bitcoinpete: "Preschool admissions coaching: up to $35,000"
    
    benkay: <mircea_popescu> enky whay is your strat so broken! // what strat my only strat is to acquire bitcoins
    
    benkay: bitcoinpete: i don't even believe you.
    
    benkay: butts or gtfo
    
    benkay: grrr transaction fees
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15945 @ 0.00079544 = 12.6833 BTC [-]
    
    benkay: how about you fix this retarded change address shitshow
    
    benkay: what the fuck are these expiring backups, goatfuckers?
    
    bitcoinpete: expiring backups nao?
    
    bitcoinpete: mercy
    
    mircea_popescu: benkay ENKY not you mate.
    
    mircea_popescu: what is this, fursecution cmplex ?
    
    benkay: do you know it took me two days of explaining how badly you've fucked up this thing to my partner for him to grok what you'd done?
    
    benkay: i got mah tails in a twizt
    
    
    
    assbot: Here's a video of me begging /nntaleb to join /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash-assets : http://t.co/lD0pcqv9fu NSFW"
    
    mircea_popescu: ahem
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;later tell sexysaffron hey, when's the last time you got 2k retweets ?
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    benkay: bitcoinpete: w/ some versions of bitcoinqt, you get a new addr for change from each previous txn
    
    bitcoinpete: benkay: what versions that be?
    
    benkay: your wallet backup from this POS 'software' only records 100 addrs
    
    benkay: uh, halps team?
    
    benkay: bitcoinpete asks gud question about bitcoin versions
    
    benkay: best answer really is to just compile 0.6 from source, make run and send to an addr under 0.6 control.
    
    mircea_popescu: pre .7.x iirc
    
    benkay: just avoid whole derpage.
    
    benkay: okay so mp ams bless 0.6 it sounds like
    
    benkay: o hej big nooz
    
    bitcoinpete: ur gay?
    
    benkay: get stufft
    
    benkay: we ams rent office
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation yeah blame stan.
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    benkay: oh scuse me
    
    benkay: 'office'
    
    benkay: more like desk and 2 cans
    
    bitcoinpete: lol how much you payin? that's the question on everyone's cost conscious mind
    
    benkay: 600 when alls said and done
    
    benkay: list is 575 but i gotta strongarm some bitches into hiring other bitches to clean the kitchen
    
    mircea_popescu: preschool admission ?! what the fuck is that ?
    
    mircea_popescu: <benkay> what the fuck are these expiring backups, goatfuckers? << this has always been a thing with bitcoin.
    
    bitcoinpete: benkay: gotta have dat clean kitchen
    
    bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: preschool is pre-daycare
    
    mircea_popescu: so this is now performance-based somehow ?!
    
    bitcoinpete: hey, if you can spend $75k on a nanny, why not a daycare
    
    bitcoinpete: it's privilege based, kinda like everything else
    
    mircea_popescu: but i mean what, kid can fail daycare entrance exam ?
    
    mircea_popescu: how ? no oral sex skillz ?
    
    bitcoinpete: when there's limited spots, it's a highest bidder sort of affair
    
    bitcoinpete: lmao
    
    bitcoinpete: it's all on the parents
    
    mircea_popescu: "sorry ma'am, your kid doesn't know how to dance and masturbate for the webcam
    
    mircea_popescu: and her customer service is crap
    
    bitcoinpete: they who pump tires hardest win
    
    mircea_popescu: just take her home"
    
    bitcoinpete: "your boy has exceedingly low self-confidence for someone whose dad is cfo of goldman sachs"
    
    benkay: dude mircea_popescu you srsly don't grok us preskewl scam?
    
    benkay: bitcoinpete: i see your bs and raise you a butt https://unsee.cc/zesipura/
    
    assbot: Unsee — Free online private photo sharing
    
    benkay: wat
    
    benkay: shitty free online services
    
    bitcoinpete: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: i don't, no.
    
    
    
    assbot: Unsee — Free online private photo sharing
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete how does self confidence inherit lol
    
    benkay: well look you see to get into good kawlidge one must have not just good grades but good grades from 'good' hs
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete but anyway, the ACTUAL questions of import is, omgwtfbbq, who are the hot bods you take pics with.
    
    benkay: to do 'good' hs, one must do 'good' ms, or excel in some way to jump to reel fancy hs.
    
    bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: wait… you only get inherited shit from your parents nao?
    
    benkay: good 'ms', ibid, etc to preskewl.
    
    bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: haha i'll pass along your kind regards
    
    bitcoinpete: at least one of them knows who you are
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete what, confidence is not something you can gift people lol. they gotta do shit.
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete are they like the Hawt sisters ?
    
    bitcoinpete: ;;google the hawt sisters
    
    gribble: GR8 MOHAN SISTERS !!!~~ | Facebook: <https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.225589897556106.51052.108669662581464&type=3>; Instagram photos for tag #babysisters | Iconosquare - Statigram: <http://iconosquare.com/tag/babysisters>; sister News and Photos | Perez Hilton: <http://perezhilton.com/tag/sister/>
    
    bitcoinpete: well that was surprisingly useless
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: don
    
    mircea_popescu: 't overthing it, the hawt sisters are just these blondy sisters that are hawt.
    
    bitcoinpete: the blondies were classmates
    
    bitcoinpete: the brunette's the sister
    
    bitcoinpete: MINDFUCK!
    
    mircea_popescu: brainpretzel
    
    mircea_popescu: well, bring the lot when you come to the conference
    
    mircea_popescu: i'll get you a quadruple room somehow.
    
    bitcoinpete: shweet
    
    mircea_popescu: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JuWLk4L6KaY/UxxCIipX_FI/AAAAAAAAw4Q/0W3A1v_lNEw/s1600/t1.jpg << ftl.
    
    bitcoinpete: i'll pass along the invite and get some calendars cleared
    
    mircea_popescu: bp is going to be the pimpiest pimp in BA.
    
    benkay: <sexysaffron> https://www.dropbox.com/s/g58mpit4p5zms4l/203.mp4 // oh god you did this to me
    
    assbot: Dropbox - 203.mp4
    
    bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: funny cuz i don't even think much of having those 3 hanging off my arm
    
    bitcoinpete: must be a sign
    
    mircea_popescu: ikr?
    
    mircea_popescu: sweet innocence, slaughtered in b-a
    
    mircea_popescu: benkay hm ?
    
    benkay: have you even watched it?!
    
    bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: so nao that i'm feelin all pimpin', you gonna rate bp or what?
    
    bitcoinpete: how long do i have to blog and irc to get some love around here
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;rated bitcoinpete
    
    gribble: You have not yet rated user bitcoinpete
    
    mircea_popescu: o wow.
    
    bitcoinpete: ikr
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;rate bitcoinpete 2 Pimp.
    
    gribble: Error: For identification purposes, you must be authenticated to use the rating system.
    
    mircea_popescu: holy sheit.
    
    benkay: scammer
    
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    bitcoinpete: !b 3
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;rate bitcoinpete 2 Pimp.
    
    gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of 2 for user bitcoinpete has been recorded.
    
    bitcoinpete: muchas gracias
    
    mircea_popescu: benkay whatched what ?
    
    benkay: the thing ms saffron did for taleb
    
    mircea_popescu: anyway, that was all for tonight, see you all tomorro!
    
    bitcoinpete: cheers!
    
    
    
    assbot: "Ireland central bank official warns virtual currencies can challenge sovereignty of states" http://t.co/rGapNyLjVS http://t.co/E6KSVWC6Sk
    
    []bot: Bet placed: 8 BTC for No on "World Cup top scorer to net > 7" http://bitbet.us/bet/905/ Odds: 10(Y):90(N) by coin, 31(Y):69(N) by weight. Total bet: 28.20780078 BTC. Current weight: 9,444.
    
    kyuupichan: Anyone else getting satoshi spam?  I've gotten 3 so far...
    
    kyuupichan: It actually confirmed.
    
    bitcoinpete: kyuupichan: weird. none on my end
    
    kyuupichan: Each one a different txn.  Here's one.
    
    kyuupichan: https://blockchain.info/tx/574d77eb277974ca1000b154023940c3e366d5bf4dd06b7fe3b0d92eea54e0c7
    
    assbot: Bitcoin Transaction 574d77eb277974ca1000b154023940c3e366d5bf4dd06b7fe3b0d92eea54e0c7
    
    bitcoinpete: huh
    
    kyuupichan: That block had at least 3 of them.  974KB block!  Largest I've seen I think.  Wonder why stupid miner decided to include that.
    
    bitcoinpete: maybe the miner sent it
    
    kyuupichan: A spam block if ever there was one.  Wonder if it's some agency trying to link addresses.
    
    kyuupichan: Only economic way to spend that shit is to include it with sthg else
    
    kyuupichan: ~700K of that block is satoshi spam
    
    bitcoinpete: ;;rate mircea_popescu 2 mpex rabbi
    
    gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating for user mircea_popescu has changed from 1 to 2.
    
    
    
    assbot: Autopsy of America: Photos of dead shopping malls - Jun. 30, 2014
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40950 @ 0.00079176 = 32.4226 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    BingoBoingo: %p
    
    BingoBoingo: %d
    
    atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.02 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 3906.32 GH/s
    
    atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 785138.67 Est. Next Diff: 444324.95 in 1590 blocks (#40320) Est. % Change: -43.41
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7661 @ 0.00079108 = 6.0605 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40100 @ 0.00079016 = 31.6854 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49722 @ 0.00078787 = 39.1745 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 41050 @ 0.00078678 = 32.2973 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45850 @ 0.00078909 = 36.1798 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31350 @ 0.00078971 = 24.7574 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 56000 @ 0.00079299 = 44.4074 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    davout: ola
    
    
    
    assbot: French Officials Seize $272,800 From Illegal Bitcoin Exchange
    
    davout: fluffypony: someone hasn't been reading teh lawgs :3
    
    fluffypony: must've missed that
    
    davout: hehe, i was wondering yesterday whether it was dotcoin or not
    
    davout: not that much info
    
    fluffypony: yeah not enough info
    
    fluffypony: besides bitcoinbourse, who else could it be?
    
    pankkake: http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/fr/actualites-bitcoin/premiere-arrestation-en-france-liee-au-bitcoin/2014/07/07 says it's bestxchanger.com
    
    assbot: Arrestation franaise lie au bitcoin - CryptoCoinsNews
    
    fluffypony: pity
    
    davout: i don't really know, some stuff matches with bitcoinbourse, some other stuff not, first of all they said the website was put offline, and bitcoinbourse seems to be up
    
    fluffypony: bestxchanger.com is down for maintenance, but that could also be coincidental
    
    pankkake: it was down yesterday too
    
    fluffypony: hah hah, great article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/07/kickstarter_wtf/
    
    assbot: Wannabe Startup CEOs Hate This Guy: One Easy Way To Raise $45,000+ You Won't Believe  The Register
    
    fluffypony: 'Tech investors are stunned by the amount of cash that has flooded into Brown's project. "This is no flavor of the month type scheme – I'm long on potatoes and you should be as well," one financial industry source didn't tell us.'
    
    davout: pankkake might be them then
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27700 @ 0.00078971 = 21.875 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26094 @ 0.0007936 = 20.7082 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    punkman: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/startkicking/goat https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/668802520/big-awesome-burrito  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5500212/i-want-to-make-ice-cream https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aboundlessworld/fried-rice
    
    assbot: Goat by Cameron Little — Kickstarter
    
    assbot: Big Awesome Burrito by Kurtis Walsh — Kickstarter
    
    assbot: I Want To Make Ice Cream. by J — Kickstarter
    
    assbot: Fried Rice by Bud Hennekes — Kickstarter
    
    punkman: fluffypony, I think kickstarter just gave up trying to moderate anything
    
    fluffypony: lol
    
    fluffypony: that's hilarious
    
    punkman: dozens of "I want to find the perfect recipe for X" projects
    
    punkman: "pay me to eat steak"
    
    fluffypony: frikkin lame
    
    pankkake: it's the altpotatoasalad
    
    punkman: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/870812803/coleslaw https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1082782361/coleslaw-0
    
    assbot: Coleslaw by Danny Willford — Kickstarter
    
    assbot: Coleslaw by Gary Howard — Kickstarter
    
    pankkake: so many hipster faces :/
    
    
    
    punkman: fluffypony: you should kickstart that
    
    fluffypony: lol
    
    fluffypony: kickstarted is the new bitcointalk securities sub-forum.
    
    fluffypony: *starter
    
    punkman: nah
    
    ThickAsThieves: ;;later tell mike_c - Is seeds.therealaltcoin.org behaving as desired now?
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    pankkake: I like that everbody has their drink
    
    pankkake: seeds.therealaltcoin.org has address 54.197.241.190
    
    pankkake: Host seeds.therealaltcoin.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
    
    pankkake: Host seeds.therealaltcoin.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
    
    pankkake: but perhaps mike_c only needs to start his server
    
    ThickAsThieves: possibly
    
    ThickAsThieves: shouldnt/couldnt i just host the nodes at the same domain?
    
    pankkake: you need to run software, I don't think your hosting provides that
    
    ThickAsThieves: word
    
    ThickAsThieves: i have another server i totall control, but it has clients on it
    
    ThickAsThieves: til end of the year
    
    ThickAsThieves: not sure if that matters
    
    fluffypony: the software won't interfere with that
    
    fluffypony: all it does is check that the peers its connected to are legit and active, and then it updates the A record
    
    fluffypony: need sushi, bbl
    
    ThickAsThieves: just in case more f.derp listings are in order http://www.coindesk.com/one-law-firm-helping-bitcoin-startups-find-success/
    
    assbot: How One Law Firm is Helping Bitcoin Startups Find Success
    
    ThickAsThieves: lists all the bitcoin biz that got funding
    
    ThickAsThieves: *notable* funding
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33792 @ 0.00079311 = 26.8008 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    
    
    assbot: kGoal Smart Kegel Trainer by Minna Life — Kickstarter
    
    
    
    assbot: Kegelcizer - The Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki
    
    pankkake: lol, I didn't remember that one
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10171 @ 0.0007953 = 8.089 BTC [+]
    
    benkay: <fluffypony> the software won't interfere with that // running cryptocurrency stuff on client boxes?
    
    ThickAsThieves: i decided it a bad idea, aside from security, it's a managed services box, so i'll just end up closing the account in December anyway
    
    benkay: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/immigrants-from-latin-america-and-africa-squeezed-as-banks-curtail-international-money-transfers/
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18700 @ 0.0007953 = 14.8721 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;ticker
    
    gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 618.78, Best ask: 621.88, Bid-ask spread: 3.10000, Last trade: 621.88, 24 hour volume: 4570.83662792, 24 hour low: 612.9, 24 hour high: 630.0, 24 hour vwap: 620.10935941
    
    ThickAsThieves: something funny about a supposed ISIS blog being hosted at wordpress.com and using google fonts
    
    mircea_popescu: lol why ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: well first it's funny for conspiracy theorist reasons
    
    mircea_popescu: obviously
    
    ThickAsThieves: in English, using english stuff etc
    
    ThickAsThieves: then it's funy that google is helping ISIS CSS look nice
    
    mircea_popescu: wait. you mean it's funny proceeding on the theory that it is ACTUALLY what it says ?
    
    mircea_popescu: dude come on, it's the internet. all of it is fake.
    
    ThickAsThieves: it's funny either way is what i'm saying
    
    mircea_popescu: what, google seditiously halping the enemy is funny ?
    
    mircea_popescu: that is unfunny, son!
    
    ThickAsThieves: it's like my opinion man
    
    mircea_popescu: flag burning belljeans wearing potheads!
    
    mircea_popescu: get off my lawn!
    
    ThickAsThieves: we call em bellbottoms
    
    mircea_popescu: actually the internet's fucking cursed to be funny. for instance : http://imgur.com/a/Nx8EU
    
    assbot: Boston Truth Revealed - Imgur
    
    mircea_popescu: fucking hysterical if you ask me.
    
    pankkake: perhaps we should start our own terrorist group
    
    mircea_popescu: aren't you a late pankkake
    
    pankkake: and I can't take out of my mind that ISIS is the spy agency of Archer
    
    pankkake: no, but about something worth fighting for, not that God or independence crap
    
    pankkake: for now my project is terrorists for Firefly season 2
    
    mircea_popescu: da fuck's worth fighting for.
    
    mircea_popescu: women and booze.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27900 @ 0.0007953 = 22.1889 BTC [+]
    
    chetty: ISIS is fighting for womens, sexual jihad (no booze tho allah doesn't like that)
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c the "Only send Bitcoin" type warnings should prolly have a red triangle rather than the current gray thing
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    mircea_popescu: chetty remember that dude in egypt that was trying to steal you ?
    
    mircea_popescu: he came up with booze alright.
    
    pankkake: I'm all for enslaving the womyns, but why put bed sheets on them?
    
    mircea_popescu: pankkake maybe they dislike tans. and wtf is this enlsaving the womnys thing
    
    pankkake: hm, true, I like white skin
    
    chetty: haha I had blessedly forgotten that
    
    pankkake: I am pretty much a djihadist already
    
    pankkake: bitcoin, beard
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: https://twitter.com/bitcoinpete/status/486368695011119104 << o look at that, someone's been reading trilema
    
    assbot: "Ireland central bank official warns virtual currencies can challenge sovereignty of states" http://t.co/rGapNyLjVS http://t.co/E6KSVWC6Sk
    
    mircea_popescu: two fucking years late. like the last n times.
    
    ThickAsThieves: yay NFLX pump failed
    
    mircea_popescu: no plural. THE virtual currency. no past tense. IS challenging sovereignity of states. not some either, all of them. and has been, for a fucking while.
    
    mircea_popescu: now what.
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves were you short ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: am
    
    ThickAsThieves: yeah
    
    mircea_popescu: o not covering huh ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: nope, still some time before earnings
    
    mircea_popescu: wow look at that, someone's mining 25kb txn for 0.0001 btc in fees.
    
    mircea_popescu: kyuupichan definitely new one.
    
    davout: "wow look at that, someone's mining 25kb txn for 0.0001 btc in fees." <<< such storage DOS
    
    mircea_popescu: srsly.
    
    mircea_popescu: this may become a fucking issue, incidentally. the guy gets paid 6 cents for everyone else to have to permanently store 1mb
    
    mircea_popescu: i think people don't quite correctly evaluate the cost of running a node yet.
    
    mircea_popescu: best sex changer wtf is this
    
    mike_c: ThickAsThieves: it looks like it is working to me
    
    davout: interestingly enough i don't see this discussed anywhere
    
    pankkake: this will make the "low fees" crowd head spin
    
    mircea_popescu: davout who'd know enough about it ? "teh french community" ?
    
    davout: no, i mean to me it's the only thing that to date remains unsolved, yet there isn't really much discussion about it
    
    mircea_popescu: "For what it's worth, the median annual wage in Ohio is $46,093."
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony look at  that shit. they make 4k a year now. houses are supposedly selling for 8 month's median wage in ohio.
    
    davout: i read a couple things about migrations to a model where only a rolling window of blocks need to be kept which is quite interesting
    
    fluffypony: what did I miss?
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony just processing the potato sald link
    
    mircea_popescu: want more mayo ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: mike_c awesome, thx - now to find someone to update the wallet...
    
    mircea_popescu: davout for all its disadvantages something like that doesn't seem avoidable.
    
    fluffypony: ah yes
    
    mircea_popescu: !up mois
    
    
    
    assbot: Ultimate blockchain compression w/ trust-free lite nodes
    
    
    
    assbot: Really Really ultimate blockchain compression: CoinWitness
    
    fluffypony: hah hah
    
    davout: lol
    
    fluffypony: someone just gave the best definition of mongodb
    
    fluffypony: [16:33:14]  @todor: Mongo is eventually. maybe. consistent
    
    fluffypony: [16:33:20]  @todor: with some data loss
    
    fluffypony: [16:33:26]  @todor: (but you'll never know)
    
    fluffypony: [16:34:00]  @todor: it's a troll database basically
    
    mircea_popescu: he has a point.
    
    pankkake: not the first time I see that definition
    
    davout: "it works really well with php where you're never really sure about what is equal to something else"
    
    fluffypony: I'm calling it a "troll database" from now on
    
    fluffypony: "works really well with floats for financial values"
    
    mircea_popescu: lol wut
    
    davout: i'm calling the =:D= the trollquality operator, coming in php 8
    
    mircea_popescu: what is this meme where manboobs think "floats" somehow are "financial values"
    
    pankkake: I thought we settled on 8==B
    
    mircea_popescu: pankkake that's a different one
    
    davout: pankkake: no that's the peñor size comparator
    
    mircea_popescu: =:D= != 8==D
    
    davout: "=:D= != 8==D" <<< maybe
    
    mircea_popescu: in all cases unless mouth full.
    
    davout: you are on a big endian system? god help you
    
    fluffypony: hah hah
    
    mircea_popescu: someone should make cocksucker (abbreviated C*). the logo is a woman with a penis in mouth.
    
    mircea_popescu: the language consists of moans
    
    mircea_popescu: ahh can be for and oh can be if
    
    mircea_popescu: ahh baby your cock is so big oh stack pop it.
    
    pankkake: gags for stack overflows?
    
    mircea_popescu: definitely.
    
    davout: ICantSeeAnymoreException raised
    
    chetty: but you cant do that, its homophobic
    
    mircea_popescu: and overloaded functions come without saying. they're called nigger functions
    
    mircea_popescu: chetty why is it homophobig ? faggots moan too ?
    
    chetty: well anything fun is phobic something
    
    davout: i fucking love ruby : "CAUTION: Use of this library is discouraged, because this implementation was meant to be experimental but somehow got into the 1.9 series without being noticed. Please use OpenSSL::HMAC in the “openssl” library instead."
    
    pankkake: you're not using ruby 2.0? isn't 1.9 so last year?
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony: frikkin lame pankkake: it's the altpotatoasalad << it is. and it IS fucking lame omfg.
    
    davout: you are absolutely right, i
    
    davout: i wtf'd reading this :D
    
    mircea_popescu: davout is a fail hipster, still on 1.9
    
    mircea_popescu: !up jamesdean-afk
    
    davout: mircea_popescu: hipsters do node, real hipsters do go
    
    fluffypony: don't forget about redis
    
    pankkake: redis works well for its intended purpose
    
    rithm: real men do it in assembly
    
    davout: rithm: real men do it in the vagina
    
    rithm: 64K of ram ought to be enough
    
    pankkake: real men do it in every hole
    
    fluffypony: all of the holes!
    
    mircea_popescu: <pankkake> redis works well for its intended purpose << o no we detect a puckering butthole?
    
    rithm: for the glory!
    
    mircea_popescu: rithm real men don't code dawg. real men just tell unreal men how to get realer.
    
    rithm: that's real talk
    
    ThickAsThieves: heh, one of the exchanges finally added Altcoin to it's voting area https://hitbtc.com/vote
    
    assbot: Coin voting / hitbtc
    
    mircea_popescu: as real as angelina's boobs.
    
    mircea_popescu: http://www.infobae.com/2014/07/08/1579111-el-gobierno-pidio-ayuda-eeuu-identificar-los-usuarios-twitter-que-apoyan-campagnoli
    
    assbot: El Gobierno pidi ayuda a EEUU para identificar a los usuarios de Twitter que apoyan a Campagnoli | Jos Mara Campagnoli - Infobae
    
    mircea_popescu: check out this epic shit.
    
    mircea_popescu: mthreat ^
    
    fluffypony: oh wow, the twitterers are even mentioned there
    
    fluffypony: famouze
    
    mircea_popescu: total trollage, the argentines are gonna end up with a trolface on their fglag
    
    mthreat: angelinas boobs?
    
    mthreat: oh infobae article
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;later tell princessnel http://globalgoodgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/angie-castillo-e1325006373644.jpg
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    mircea_popescu: a j boobs used to be epic.
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: just in case more f.derp listings are in order http://www.coindesk.com/one-law-firm-helping-bitcoin-startups-find-success/ << i don't get it, you want me to list a law firm ?!
    
    assbot: How One Law Firm is Helping Bitcoin Startups Find Success
    
    mircea_popescu: o shit i forgot coinbase didn't i. herp.
    
    ThickAsThieves: nah, the article is mostly about startups and the money they got
    
    mircea_popescu: Coinbase has managed to secure $25m in series B funding led by Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. This brings the total amount raised by the company to $31.9m.
    
    mircea_popescu: The firm, which describes itself as an international digital wallet that allows you to securely buy, use, and accept bitcoin currency, is going from strength to strength, with an estimated 600,000 people now using its wallet service, up from 200,000 in August.
    
    ThickAsThieves: do better!
    
    mircea_popescu: coolness.
    
    mthreat: xapo news on techcrunch.. 20m funding
    
    mircea_popescu: yup
    
    fluffypony: and yet they still don't have their card partner sorted?
    
    ThickAsThieves: I'd buy some F.VAURUM probly
    
    ThickAsThieves: the rest, meh
    
    ThickAsThieves: i'd short kraken too
    
    ThickAsThieves: fuckin useless
    
    mircea_popescu: too low rly.
    
    ThickAsThieves: i had someone re-explain our copper conversation, and now i get it
    
    ThickAsThieves: the issue was i was really asking in the interest of gold, so i wasnt quite seeing how thered be lack of speculative demand
    
    ThickAsThieves: but copper is not gold
    
    davout: ThickAsThieves: why would you short kraken?
    
    penguirker: New blog post: http://bitcoinpete.com/2014/07/08/attracting-taleb-and-tlp-with-camgirls/
    
    ThickAsThieves: I think they dont 'get it'
    
    ThickAsThieves: one thing that drives me crazy is how they price in the orderbook
    
    ThickAsThieves: https://www.kraken.com/ look at, say, the NMC pricing
    
    assbot: Kraken | Buy and Sell Bitcoins
    
    davout: bitcoinpete: such amaze
    
    davout: ThickAsThieves: they price it the same way they price USD relative to BTC, how would you do it ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: like every other exchange
    
    ThickAsThieves: how many btc one nmc is worth
    
    ThickAsThieves: .0028BTC
    
    ThickAsThieves: that should be how it's priced on NMC/BTC market
    
    davout: hm, that's the opposite of what all exchanges do when it comes to quote fiat vs btc
    
    mircea_popescu: davout since when is "all other" an argument ?
    
    davout: mircea_popescu: when did i start arguing?
    
    mircea_popescu: well he said they don't get it and you seemed to disagree
    
    ThickAsThieves: he seems concerned to me
    
    ThickAsThieves: interested
    
    mircea_popescu: aok nm
    
    davout: mircea_popescu: i'm in the process of collecting facts that comes before building a considered opinion :-)
    
    ThickAsThieves: maybe he knows/likes kraken people/things
    
    mircea_popescu: anyway, i won't add kraken anyway, not because they're smart or anything, but whatever, it seems like it'd be more like publicity for them than anything
    
    ThickAsThieves: the software and branding are decent
    
    ThickAsThieves: name is maybe a lil weird for it
    
    ThickAsThieves: but acceptible
    
    
    
    assbot: Further derps : D.BSTP, D.CBSE, D.CIFI, D.OKCO, D.XAPO pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
    
    ThickAsThieves: layout of trading tools is not as intuitive as other sites
    
    ThickAsThieves: pricing just kills it for me
    
    ThickAsThieves: such a stupid little thing
    
    ThickAsThieves: would make me punch a wall to have to accomodate it
    
    ThickAsThieves: accommodate*
    
    davout: ThickAsThieves: can you even trade there ?
    
    davout: i thought they didn't accept muricans
    
    ThickAsThieves: dunno, i havent used it for usd
    
    davout: ah
    
    davout: you do alts
    
    ThickAsThieves: i deppsited some NMC and BTC and was gonna trade without withdrawing
    
    ThickAsThieves: but then they wont let me USD
    
    ThickAsThieves: and the NMC is all fukt priced
    
    ThickAsThieves: so i never traded
    
    ThickAsThieves: without withdrawing USD*
    
    mircea_popescu: mike_c https://www.venturescanner.com/scans/88 << check out the lulz.
    
    mircea_popescu: generally that site is pretty funny
    
    penguirker: New blog post: http://bitcoinpete.com/2014/07/08/attracting-taleb-and-tlp-to-bitcoin-assets-with-camgirls/
    
    bitcoinpete: ^urlprovements
    
    mike_c: i think i'm getting paywalled.  can't see it
    
    mircea_popescu: mike_c ok, better one then : https://www.venturescanner.com/scans/bitcoin
    
    assbot: Venture Scanner : Real-time coverage on emerging technology markets. : 3D Printing : Bitcoin : Digital Health : Connected Transportation : Future of TV
    
    chetty: when does this game start? https://btc.waroflife.com/gow/17/
    
    assbot: Game 17 - Death 5000 Life 5000 Year 0 - War of Life
    
    mircea_popescu: scroll down to where you're absent.
    
    mike_c: chetty:  (starts 310,523)
    
    ThickAsThieves: mp, in ur post, maybe add AKA for CIPI and OKCO? since it isnt whole or obvious names?
    
    ThickAsThieves: cant remember what CIPI was...
    
    mircea_popescu: mike_c https://btc.waroflife.com/gow/17/ << one screen says 2.41 the other 2.0
    
    assbot: Game 17 - Death 5000 Life 5000 Year 0 - War of Life
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ty
    
    chetty: mike_c, maybe I am dense but how does that relate to actual time? like hwere is it now?
    
    mike_c: just saw that.. it's caching based on game year.  will fix now.
    
    mircea_popescu: chetty its by blocks
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;block
    
    gribble: Error: "block" is not a valid command.
    
    mircea_popescu: meh
    
    ThickAsThieves: %block
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.75195818 BTC to 11`718 shares, 14951 satoshi per share
    
    bitcoinpete: "The ecology of the water body is not likely to be affected much and it will also reduce evaporation, thus helping preserve water levels during extreme summer. Solar panels installed on land, face reduction of yield as the ground heats up. When such panels are installed on a floating platform, the heating problem is solved to a great extent."
    
    ThickAsThieves: %help
    
    atcbot: [ %t | %ticker ] [ %ob | %book ] [ %d | %diff ] [ %tx <id> ] [ %bal <address> ] [ %m | %mined ] [ %b <height> | %block <height> ] [ %lb ] [ %tslb ] [ %p | %pool ] [ %cm ] [ %ptp ] [ %h | %help ]
    
    bitcoinpete: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-06-20/news/50739119_1_power-plant-solar-power-nhpc
    
    assbot: Kolkata firm to help NHPC set up floating 50-mw solar power plant in Kerala - Economic Times
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;blocks
    
    gribble: 309795
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;calc (310523 - 309795)  / 360
    
    gribble: 2.02222222222
    
    mircea_popescu: in 2 hours and a little
    
    mircea_popescu: uh no.
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;calc (310523 - 309795)  / 6 / 24
    
    gribble: 5.05555555556
    
    mircea_popescu: in 5 days ?
    
    chetty: thanks, the page could use a little more info it doesnt show current block
    
    mircea_popescu: a that's a good point. mike_c ^
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete interesting concept
    
    mircea_popescu: plus you don't have to bribe reid to kick out cowboys
    
    mike_c: chetty:  see the current game:  https://btc.waroflife.com/gow/16/
    
    assbot: Game 16 - Death 5658 Life 4342 Year 272 - War of Life
    
    mike_c: ^ Year 272 out of 1000
    
    bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: i can foresee problems in depriving aquatic environments with sunlight
    
    mircea_popescu: obviously.
    
    bitcoinpete: hard to imagine much could survive underneath those panels
    
    mircea_popescu: yes, it sucks to try and live in any place where technology.
    
    mike_c: are you suggesting I show the current BTC block for games that haven't started yet?  i can do that.
    
    bitcoinpete: lol without too
    
    ThickAsThieves: there are probly things that will thrive under the panels too
    
    bitcoinpete: or on top of
    
    bitcoinpete: they'll be landing areas for birds
    
    ThickAsThieves: theyll have a cleaner surely
    
    bitcoinpete: growth substrates for mosses
    
    mircea_popescu: mike_c yeah current block on all chains shuld be displayed somewhere
    
    mircea_popescu: !up PoUpA
    
    ThickAsThieves: WoL could generally use a lil more handholding
    
    bitcoinpete: ThickAsThieves: what a fucking project that'll be
    
    mircea_popescu: like if btc is loaded, display btc current block
    
    ThickAsThieves: like (?) icons with pop-up explanations
    
    mike_c: ThickAsThieves: agreed.
    
    mircea_popescu: btw anyone hating mike's css ? cause  DUN SEE NO MOTHERFUCKING ROUNDED CORNERS
    
    mircea_popescu: the whole logo's a rhomboid!
    
    mircea_popescu: or does it only grate if the square corners are in the corners.
    
    PoUpA: Hi, thanks for the voice lol didn't expected that
    
    chetty: looks fine to me, but them I like mpex too
    
    mircea_popescu: yw. who're you ?
    
    PoUpA: nobody lol
    
    
    
    ThickAsThieves: i like the WoL logo, like a nerdy yinyang
    
    ThickAsThieves: also contains pacman
    
    ThickAsThieves: and stealth bomber
    
    ThickAsThieves: cant lose
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete sadly the odds of tlp actually seeing that video are nil, because a) he hasn't approved the comment on his blog still. a bunch of fucktards made > 50 comments since then with their fucktardery. if i were him i wouldn't ever read the comments on that blog, i'd rather read coindesk.
    
    mircea_popescu: and b) i bet you nobody's bothered to send him an email to point it out, he prolly doesn't read his twitter (or his email for that matter)
    
    mircea_popescu: or in otherwords : being dumb and deaf keeps one from interacting with the coolness in this world. and the world can't cure it for him.
    
    bitcoinpete: we can always wait until he does a book signing and have someone show up with a logged-in laptop
    
    bitcoinpete: sorta like suggestion 3 for taleb
    
    bitcoinpete: tlp will publish eventually
    
    bitcoinpete: and his publisher will surely have him do a public appearance or two
    
    mircea_popescu: what am i, an abused sicilian wife ?
    
    mircea_popescu: life selects. he was smart enough, but he couldn't hear. there's no difference between the deaf and the dumb.
    
    bitcoinpete: the video is your one and only olive branch then?
    
    mircea_popescu: im not including tlp in the next set for lack of a means to get in touch.
    
    bitcoinpete: fair enough, taleb is more public
    
    bitcoinpete: "If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again."
    
    bitcoinpete: unless it's a terrible idea
    
    bitcoinpete: which this isn't
    
    ThickAsThieves: well i didnt see the shorter video, but there may also be a communication gap
    
    mircea_popescu: how could it be, girls get paid to have fun
    
    mircea_popescu: whether these derps get something out of it or not is really secondary, and entirely up to them
    
    ThickAsThieves: well if TLP watches the vid, does he get any clue of why he might wanna visit #b-a, or what it is?
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves he gets a clue an entity exists that is powerful enough and informed enough
    
    ThickAsThieves: or is it just we're wild n crazy guys that hire camwhores, cmon by!
    
    mircea_popescu: like suppose i send cia's shadow ops director a buquet of n roses on the day he forgot to send his wife the n number as he should have.
    
    mircea_popescu: if guy has any sense he dismantles the entire thing that same day. they've failed.
    
    ThickAsThieves: fair enough
    
    ThickAsThieves: i'd have researched
    
    mircea_popescu: not like bitcoin-assets isn't first hit on google.
    
    mircea_popescu: wiki and even a phone number.
    
    bitcoinpete: so if you send taleb the dead sea scrolls to his house with a hand-written card asking him to hit dat webchat
    
    bitcoinpete: then we have something
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete i'd burn them and send him a youtube of that.
    
    bitcoinpete: not sure the guy watches that much youtube
    
    ThickAsThieves: just send him a large box marked ANTFRAGILE - HANDLE WITHOUT CARE
    
    bitcoinpete: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: speaking of which, years ago i used to say that one of my goals once i'm rich is to make pilaf
    
    mircea_popescu: out of those chinese rice things with emperors painted on them
    
    ThickAsThieves: kickstarter ahoy!
    
    ThickAsThieves: Make a Pilaf With Mircea
    
    mircea_popescu: "eat priceless treasures of tang antiquity"
    
    bitcoinpete: ;;google rice pilaf with mircea
    
    gribble: Breaking Out of Amber: <http://timschneider101.blogspot.com/>; Easy Overnight Cinnamon Sticky Buns - Jamie Cooks It Up: <http://jamiecooksitup.net/2012/12/easy-overnight-cinnamon-sticky-buns/>; venue - ASRO: <http://www.asro.ro/romana/centru_media/pressroom/CEN%20CENELEC%20GA%2017%20march/Venue/Bucharest%20Travel%20informations.htm>
    
    mircea_popescu: then shit in a bag and put it in a permanent display at the tate.
    
    bitcoinpete: mm sticky buns
    
    bitcoinpete: ya that's an idea
    
    ThickAsThieves: thatd be a dun kickstarter theme, funding destruction of historical objects
    
    ThickAsThieves: fun*
    
    ThickAsThieves: Buy Nazi Memorobilia and Burn It
    
    bitcoinpete: people rarely need to be paid to do that
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49400 @ 0.0007896 = 39.0062 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: memorabilia*
    
    chetty: ThickAsThieves, just give to ISIS, or the Taliban they got that down
    
    mircea_popescu: burning nazi shit won't piss people off.
    
    ThickAsThieves: well thats where you start
    
    ThickAsThieves: you leave the ironic ones for next round
    
    mircea_popescu: lol metascam
    
    mircea_popescu: first, establish trust
    
    mircea_popescu: then, burn the consitution.
    
    ThickAsThieves: maybe you hate Warhol art, start buying it up and shitting on it, then sell that art
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete re 3, i could have strippers crash all his public events. the thing is... that's hostile not friendly.
    
    chetty: <mircea_popescu> then, burn the consitution.//obama beat you to it
    
    bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: myeah. taleb isn't the most sexually inclined type
    
    bitcoinpete: he's 50+
    
    bitcoinpete: got a kid, divorced
    
    bitcoinpete: now he just reads and does math
    
    ThickAsThieves: lol
    
    ThickAsThieves: i doubt that
    
    chetty: <bitcoinpete> he's 50+// whats that supposed to mean?
    
    ThickAsThieves: he seems to care about his health, i bet he's steady pimpin
    
    mircea_popescu: chetty people stop fucking at 49. haven't you heard ?
    
    bitcoinpete: lol he probably gets off my role playing as chess pieces
    
    bitcoinpete: *by role playing
    
    chetty: <mircea_popescu> chetty people stop fucking at 49. haven't you heard ?//do tell
    
    
    
    bitcoinpete: ok so 50+ people fuck and i'm sure taleb isn't immune to babes
    
    bitcoinpete: but you gotta treat the guy more like a foreign dignitary/president/royal that a blogger
    
    mircea_popescu: why ?
    
    bitcoinpete: cuz that's how he sees himself
    
    bitcoinpete: "While it may seem foreign now, at the time, the concept of the person as an individual flew in the face of tradition. Questioning this perspective sowed the seeds of a new worldview where tradition and social hierarchy were displaced in favor of individual pursuits."
    
    
    
    ThickAsThieves: ninja turtle mask drawn on business woman
    
    bitcoinpete: lol
    
    bitcoinpete: "For sixteenth- and seventeenth-century nobles, everything rested on traditional order and familial continuity."
    
    ThickAsThieves: mp xapo is at $40m now http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/08/bitcoin-startup-xapo-valued-north-of-100-million/
    
    assbot: Bitcoin Startup Xapo Valued North of $100 Million   - Digits - WSJ
    
    ThickAsThieves: wences knows how to get dat funding
    
    bitcoinpete: "Nobles explored alternatives to patriarchal ideology not because it was weakening in the seventeenth century but because its hold over them was so very strong. … Seventeenth-century aristocratic culture … placed contradictory demands on its participants, between, for instance, ideals of inheritance and of individual ambition. By the early eighteenth century, the weight of these contradictions had for many nobles become
    
    bitcoinpete: intolerable. The more egalitarian ideologies of the eighteenth century, it may be suggested, offered resolution of contradictions that had become burdensome beyond endurance. From this vantage point, Louis XIV’s rise to power seems less a turning point than does his death."
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete so then they should snap up the VERY CHEAP mpex shares.
    
    
    
    assbot: French Nobility And The Origins of Modern Culture
    
    bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: they ?
    
    mircea_popescu: sorry i mean ThickAsThieves so then they should snap up the VERY CHEAP mpex shares.
    
    bitcoinpete: https://getpocket.com << 11+ million userz
    
    assbot: Pocket
    
    bitcoinpete: basically cross-device bookmarking
    
    bitcoinpete: premium subs for… $45/yr
    
    bitcoinpete: hey Pierre_Rochard
    
    mircea_popescu: 11 million free users, premium subs for 3.x a month, 580 paid users.
    
    mircea_popescu: average paid user lifetime, 2.5 months
    
    mircea_popescu: actual userbase revenue, ~0.
    
    bitcoinpete: sounds right
    
    bitcoinpete: sounds vc-funded
    
    ThickAsThieves: maybe feedly will buy them and yahoo can buy it all
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 76130 @ 0.00079099 = 60.2181 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    bitcoinpete: ;;ident Pierre_Rochard
    
    gribble: Nick 'Pierre_Rochard', with hostmask 'Pierre_Rochard!~Pierre@198.255.186.129', is identified as user 'Pierre_Rochard', with GPG key id E416CE33F64FCA5E, key fingerprint 3861EADB8E3A62CFD751E70BE416CE33F64FCA5E, and bitcoin address None
    
    bitcoinpete: ;;gettrust Pierre_Rochard
    
    gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask Pierre_Rochard!~Pierre@198.255.186.129. Trust relationship from user bitcoinpete to user Pierre_Rochard: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 2 via 2 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=bitcoinpete&dest=Pierre_Rochard | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=Pierre_Rochard | Rated since: Sun Jun  1 10:18:50 2014
    
    Pierre_Rochard: re: taleb, if the point hasn’t already been made, isn’t the noble’s retinue paid? If you want a scholar in your court, you may have to bribe him
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19500 @ 0.0007935 = 15.4733 BTC [+]
    
    bitcoinpete: Pierre_Rochard: he'd be pricey
    
    ThickAsThieves: also could attempt contact via mgmt
    
    bitcoinpete: he has what he likes to call "fuck you money"
    
    ThickAsThieves: he might have a filter
    
    bitcoinpete: bbl
    
    asciilifeform: RIP xapo ?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25600 @ 0.00079514 = 20.3556 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard guy's rich.
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what, already ?!
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/07/329570640/more-than-50-people-were-shot-in-chicago-over-the-holiday-weekend
    
    assbot: More Than 50 People Were Shot In Chicago Over The Holiday Weekend : The Two-Way : NPR
    
    ThickAsThieves: The Purge: Chicago
    
    mircea_popescu: luckily there was no armed suspect on the loose, like in the case of the boston marathon bomber.
    
    mircea_popescu: otherwise chicago could have gotten pretty ugly.
    
    mircea_popescu: or wait. this wasn't a case of "secret agent ran off from secret service, MUST be found. also send a message to any other agents looking to defect : we will declare martial law to find you, and we don't care if it's boston"
    
    ThickAsThieves: shoulda stayed in corporate espionage
    
    mircea_popescu: pays better.
    
    mircea_popescu: "Nearly all, the Chicago Sun-Times notes, were black or Hispanic men age 35 or younger."
    
    mircea_popescu: alternative explanation. chechens are still white.
    
    mircea_popescu: as much as the russians would beg to differ.
    
    
    
    assbot: Forgotten vials of smallpox found in storage room - Yahoo News
    
    rithm: immunizations cause autism
    
    fluffypony: rithm: penises cause babies
    
    rithm: not by themselves
    
    rithm: but science has proven that vaccines alone cause autism
    
    chetty: science also claims to prove global warming
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5326 @ 0.00079099 = 4.2128 BTC [-]
    
    benkay: <mircea_popescu> or wait. this wasn't a case of "secret agent ran off from secret service, MUST be found. also send a message to any other agents looking to defect : we will declare martial law to find you, and we don't care if it's boston" // waaaaat
    
    bitstein: ;;later tell bitcoinpete 120 hours a week and they still can't get their servers to stay up. https://twitter.com/niccary/status/486569107631128576
    
    assbot: Heard from an /blockchain employee "I just wouldn't know what I would do with myself if I wasn't working 120 hours a week." Love this team
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    mike_c: nobody works 120 hours a week.  that is retarded.
    
    mike_c: "i wouldn't know what to do with myself if I couldn't bench press 500 pounds"
    
    mike_c: i'll tell you what to do.  stfu, crawl in a corner, and die.
    
    bitstein: Even if they did, I don't find it admirable in the least.
    
    benkay: sleep more, work out, get better work done during the 30.
    
    mike_c: if my engineers were working 120 hours a week I would be saying "we're fucked. what happened? how did we plan so poorly?"
    
    mike_c: not acting like a tough guy on twitter.
    
    benkay: americans can't manage - story at eleven
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32650 @ 0.00079154 = 25.8438 BTC [+]
    
    chetty: http://www.thewire.com/technology/2014/07/new-law-brings-russia-one-step-closer-to-a-closed-internet/374050/
    
    assbot: New Law Brings Russia One Step Closer to a 'Closed Internet' - The Wire
    
    
    
    assbot: The Greatest PorcFest Ever Stolen - Daily Anarchist
    
    
    
    rithm: lol
    
    benkay: oh, poor davi.
    
    benkay: his pins are really great.
    
    benkay: integer btc. :(
    
    chetty: actually events like this are a good thing, makes people more aware/more careful about security
    
    benkay: yup.
    
    benkay: still, i take no joy in his misfortune.
    
    punkman: chetty, but this is the conclusion everyone seems to arrive at: "Two factor authentication is your friend. Don’t put it off."
    
    punkman: no amount of snake oil will heal that gaping head wound
    
    benkay: blockchain will even help attackers get around 2fa
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23322 @ 0.00079099 = 18.4475 BTC [-]
    
    chetty: !up indiancandy1
    
    benkay: look who's back
    
    indiancandy1: whpo
    
    indiancandy1: who?
    
    FabianB: $traded
    
    empyex: FabianB: Traded in last 24 hours: S.MG S.MPOE S.NSA X.EUR
    
    fluffypony: back again
    
    indiancandy1: TITS FOR BITCOIN?
    
    punkman: indiancandy1: you want to see my tits?
    
    indiancandy1: i want 2 show u myne
    
    indiancandy1: ine xchange
    
    indiancandy1: for moneys
    
    fluffypony: mircea_popescu has instructionz
    
    fluffypony: so Klye is "Giving up gambling as well as smoking cigarettes and drinking.. Trying to make a lifestyle change in order speed up my repayment and regain some honour."
    
    mthreat: and brazil plays ze germans
    
    
    
    assbot: Mt. Gox CEO to Auction Bitcoins.com, Share Proceeds with Creditors
    
    ThickAsThieves: “We are hoping, with the sale of Bitcoins.com, to provide some relief to the people impacted by the Mt. Gox bankruptcy and will be putting at least half of the sale amount toward that purpose.”
    
    ThickAsThieves: lol
    
    ThickAsThieves: half
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23200 @ 0.00079091 = 18.3491 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: yay! http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2a5lig/bitcoins_longest_running_scam_mpexco_lists_fake/
    
    assbot: Bitcoin's longest running scam Mpex.co lists fake shares of Bitpay. : Bitcoin
    
    ThickAsThieves: weird that link is bold in my mirc
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7950 @ 0.00079006 = 6.281 BTC [-]
    
    
    
    assbot: The Tale of CoinJelly - Coin Fire
    
    ThickAsThieves: small bitblog factchecks while bigger names run with false info
    
    ThickAsThieves: this is good too https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=682150.msg7737614#msg7737614
    
    assbot: Sonny Vleisides (Butterfly Labs CEO) 2014 Court Transcript  [The TL/DR version]
    
    pankkake: longest-running scam. I guess that's pretty good by Bitcoin standards
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.75195818 BTC to 11`718 shares, 14951 satoshi per share
    
    cazalla: sweet brazilian tears
    
    benkay: wasn't there a bitcoin version of this somewhere? http://imgur.com/rrpt70w
    
    assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
    
    pankkake: still time to bet on http://bitbet.us/bet/992/brazil-beats-germany/?ref=1Eck6cgGzEb9N42CFhcsCBQhZQStoJbHRK :p
    
    assbot: BitBet - Brazil beats Germany :: 0.33 B (41%) on Yes, 0.47 B (59%) on No | closing in 3 hours 31 minutes | weight: 14`537 (100`000 to 10`000)
    
    kyuupichan: So much for Brazil
    
    pankkake: it's a bet your tx is confirmed within 15min basically
    
    kyuupichan: 5-0
    
    kyuupichan: Brazil put up the local school team
    
    mthreat: this means argentina will play ze germans
    
    mthreat: if they win tomorrow
    
    pankkake: so, riots?
    
    thestringpuller: ThickAsThieves: these comments on the reddit post are gold
    
    chetty: streets in ba should be nice and quiet while they play
    
    thestringpuller: top comment: "He's offering a derivative with bitpay as the underlying. These are not bitpay shares."
    
    []bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "Brazil beats Germany" http://bitbet.us/bet/992/ Odds: 17(Y):83(N) by coin, 41(Y):59(N) by weight. Total bet: 1.91972244 BTC. Current weight: 14,423.
    
    kyuupichan: haha
    
    pankkake: hey, it's valid!
    
    pankkake: ;;bc,stats
    
    gribble: Current Blocks: 309821 | Current Difficulty: 1.6818461371161112E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 310463 | Next Difficulty In: 642 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 3 days, 23 hours, 6 minutes, and 40 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 16867978245.7 | Estimated Percent Change: 0.29442
    
    artifexd: It would appear that my assessment of the Germany-Brazil game was a little off...
    
    
    
    assbot: #bitcoin-assets log
    
    kyuupichan: Damn another block makes it
    
    []bot: Bet placed: 1.33 BTC for No on "Brazil beats Germany" http://bitbet.us/bet/992/ Odds: 8(Y):92(N) by coin, 28(Y):72(N) by weight. Total bet: 4.11918977 BTC. Current weight: 14,271.
    
    ThickAsThieves: newegg sells plants? weird
    
    ThickAsThieves: dang they sell all kindsa shit
    
    kyuupichan: Half time
    
    kyuupichan: What happens to bets during half time?
    
    cazalla: refunded i would guess
    
    ThickAsThieves: they are donated to Ross Ulbricht
    
    kyuupichan: Had Muller gotten more than 1 of the goals, the "scorer > 7" bet would suddenly get very interesting
    
    cazalla: there is still time
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19850 @ 0.00079006 = 15.6827 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14600 @ 0.00079144 = 11.555 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: WasWoWieviel +v failed; L1: 0, L2: 0
    
    kyuupichan: No blocks during half time so I guess it didn't matter
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23535 @ 0.00078886 = 18.5658 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10985 @ 0.00078818 = 8.6582 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 49 @ 0.0135 = 0.6615 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 47750 @ 0.00078584 = 37.5239 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    pankkake: ;;tslb
    
    gribble: Time since last block: 33 minutes and 11 seconds
    
    FabianB: !t m s.mpoe
    
    assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.00078551 / 0.00079161 / 0.00079785 (1205540 shares, 954.32 BTC), 7D: 0.00078551 / 0.00080677 / 0.00083016 (5577760 shares, 4,499.97 BTC), 30D: 0.00077312 / 0.00082135 / 0.00087778 (26095912 shares, 21,433.95 BTC)
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 41 @ 0.01705 = 0.6991 BTC [-]
    
    []bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "Brazil beats Germany" http://bitbet.us/bet/992/ Odds: 3(Y):97(N) by coin, 15(Y):85(N) by weight. Total bet: 11.11868977 BTC. Current weight: 13,489.
    
    []bot: Bet placed: 4.9995 BTC for No on "Brazil beats Germany" http://bitbet.us/bet/992/ Odds: 3(Y):97(N) by coin, 15(Y):85(N) by weight. Total bet: 11.11868977 BTC. Current weight: 13,489.
    
    FabianB: guess they're late
    
    pankkake: hahaha
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 44600 @ 0.00078551 = 35.0337 BTC [-]
    
    thestringpuller: lol MPOE
    
    thestringpuller: money is flowing out of it
    
    thestringpuller: !ticker m D.BPAY
    
    assbot: [MPEX:D.BPAY] 1D: 0 / 0 / 0 (0 shares, 0 BTC), 7D:  /  /  ( shares,  BTC), 30D: 0.23999999 / 0.24483091 / 0.25 (207 shares, 50.68 BTC)
    
    punkman: these germans just can't stop
    
    benkay: !t m s.mpoe
    
    assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.00078551 / 0.00079139 / 0.00079785 (1250140 shares, 989.35 BTC), 7D: 0.00078551 / 0.0008065 / 0.00083016 (5587301 shares, 4,506.20 BTC), 30D: 0.00077312 / 0.00082127 / 0.00087778 (26130099 shares, 21,460.13 BTC)
    
    kakobrekla: <assbot> WasWoWieviel +v failed; L1: 0, L2: 0 < and nobody dared to voice him eh ?
    
    jurov: kakobrekla he did not wait
    
    kakobrekla: ah
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
    
    gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 625.55, vol: 2671.31663899 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 618.998, vol: 2419.98972 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 625.1, vol: 2985.84647666 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 622.394812, vol: 4765.42400000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 617.03703, vol: 1.43869931 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 623.448174, vol: 37.2054963 | Volume-weighted last average: 623.04048175
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;more
    
    gribble: Error: You haven't asked me a command; perhaps you want to see someone else's more.  To do so, call this command with that person's nick.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25729 @ 0.0007853 = 20.205 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: whoa brazil got massacred
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 121 @ 0.01634889 = 1.9782 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    thestringpuller: ls
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;calc 120/7
    
    gribble: 17.1428571429
    
    mircea_popescu: orly. 17 hours and 10 minutes a day ?
    
    mircea_popescu: mike_c: i'll tell you what to do. stfu, crawl in a corner, and die. << i take it you're not working 120 hours a week on wol ?
    
    mircea_popescu: FOR SHAEM
    
    mircea_popescu: !up Ginux
    
    mircea_popescu: !up hello
    
    mircea_popescu: !up ll
    
    mircea_popescu: !up los_pantalones
    
    mircea_popescu: !up Menno
    
    mircea_popescu: !up Quanttek
    
    mircea_popescu: !up rodgort
    
    mircea_popescu: !up toddf
    
    mircea_popescu: punkman: no amount of snake oil will heal that gaping head wound < < sadly, this is true.
    
    mircea_popescu: lol "Hint: The "D" in the ticker symbol stands for "derivative"."
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah, because the DERPs header on the page is not indicative.
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;unrate HoreaV
    
    gribble: Successfully removed your rating for HoreaV.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 54400 @ 0.00078386 = 42.642 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    mircea_popescu: "To give you some idea, at PorcFest last year our booth took in about 3 Bitcoin all week. At the time Bitcoin was about $100. This year I took in 3 Bitcoin the first day, when Bitcoin was about $600. By the end of the week we had earned over 8 Bitcoin for our various commercial and non-profit partners, which is a windfall I could hardly believe."
    
    mircea_popescu: heh. mkay.
    
    
    
    kakobrekla: "We also collected some doge, but nobody was willing to steal those."
    
    mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i closed at the "i borrowed a clothesline"
    
    mircea_popescu: i guess i just don't get bum culture.
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla doge is like fiat, you don't have to have it stolen from you for it to be stolen from you.
    
    kakobrekla: :)
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: mall bitblog factchecks while bigger names run with false info << who is this mike ?
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves still got a tardstalk acct btw ?
    
    mircea_popescu: "Q. The Monarch BPU was said to begin shipping at the end of 2013. Has that happened?
    
    mircea_popescu: A. No."
    
    mircea_popescu: ahjahaha
    
    mircea_popescu: o bfl is shipping. find out it's not from Bitbet in 2013, from the courts in 2014. le win.
    
    mircea_popescu: !up indiancandy1
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 you've still not figured out this wot thing ?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 52 @ 0.01431345 = 0.7443 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    mircea_popescu: artifexd: It would appear that my assessment of the Germany-Brazil game was a little off... << it happens :p
    
    punkman: "Now, there is a stench coming from Butterfly Labs. It's a strong smell. It's not enough to send you to prison today"
    
    mircea_popescu: punkman "Prison Today" sounds like a great replacement for Time mag.
    
    mircea_popescu: if i were buffett, ie, in any way emotionally invested in the continuation of that republic, i'd definitely make it.
    
    punkman: I can picture that
    
    mircea_popescu: https://www.startjoin.com/comments/project/trollc << yet another thing max keiser promises then fails to follow through
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'большая зона'
    
    mircea_popescu: quite
    
    mircea_popescu: here's a business idea : take failed projects, trim down the text, make kickstarter projects out of them
    
    mircea_popescu: one could start with say urbit
    
    mircea_popescu: just hire indians to select and summarize, could pump out 50-100 science-y or tech-y sounding projects a week
    
    asciilifeform: urbit already found its chumpatronium golden vein
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform done in the manner of the cryptostocks listing of that casino game tho
    
    mircea_popescu: w/o any involvement from the owner.
    
    mircea_popescu: just, google for projects with verbiage, trim it down, "kickstart" it
    
    mircea_popescu: 10-20 hours's worth of unskilled labour per project.
    
    mircea_popescu: no WAY you don't get 1mn in 100.
    
    mircea_popescu: that's 50x your investment.
    
    mircea_popescu: intel: man, probation officer asked vleisades if he'd let fbi agents tour his facility to "learn more about bitcoin".... pukeatronic <<< methinks that's a point.
    
    mircea_popescu: waiting for bfl product delivery ? watch out for bonus goodies on the board from now on...
    
    punkman: hah
    
    asciilifeform wants one now
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not now. later/.
    
    mircea_popescu: in 5 years you'll prolly be able to buy them for the cost of disposal.
    
    mircea_popescu: buy a containerful, diagnose the full spectrum.
    
    asciilifeform: at that point it will be worth about as much as those cars parked at Pripyat.
    
    asciilifeform: archaeologists will find them.
    
    mircea_popescu: you think ?
    
    mircea_popescu: hey, maybe.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32450 @ 0.00078156 = 25.3616 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: of course on the other hand, if  you're a honest bitcoin miner you got nothing to worry about.
    
    indiancandy1: who wants to see my big tits
    
    mircea_popescu: did you ever see saffron's vids ?
    
    asciilifeform: a miner's a perfect place to hide some strange. esp. in the extant ones, where performance is 'variable' to put it mildly. but really, it is perfect on account of the fact that a miner board is forgotten very soon after it is sold
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 ^
    
    asciilifeform: no one seriously cares what was in the fpga miners from 2 yrs. ago
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform definitely.
    
    mircea_popescu: custom hardware by definition, who the hell is going to even know.
    
    mircea_popescu: kinda trivial to find strange on high standardised stuff.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 88 @ 0.0144 = 1.2672 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 do you read stuff here ?
    
    indiancandy1: i sent u a message
    
    indiancandy1: mp
    
    indiancandy1: what is this saffron vids
    
    indiancandy1: i do read it
    
    mircea_popescu: !s dropbox
    
    assbot: 38 results for 'dropbox' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=dropbox
    
    indiancandy1: lol
    
    indiancandy1: i duno what it is
    
    mircea_popescu: hm klets see
    
    indiancandy1: dropbox is safron?
    
    mircea_popescu: !s from:sexysaffron dropbox.com*
    
    assbot: 0 results for 'from:sexysaffron dropbox.com*' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Asexysaffron+dropbox.com%2A
    
    mircea_popescu: !s from:sexysaffron dropbox.com
    
    assbot: 0 results for 'from:sexysaffron dropbox.com' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Asexysaffron+dropbox.com
    
    mircea_popescu: ah come on.
    
    mircea_popescu: !s from:sexysaffron dropb*
    
    assbot: 0 results for 'from:sexysaffron dropb*' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Asexysaffron+dropb%2A
    
    indiancandy1: i really want to get into bitcoin
    
    indiancandy1: i read stuff
    
    punkman: !s from:sexy_saffron dropbox*
    
    assbot: 1 results for 'from:sexy_saffron dropbox*' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Asexy_saffron+dropbox%2A
    
    indiancandy1: i dont understand none of it
    
    mircea_popescu: should be two tho.
    
    mircea_popescu: !s 203
    
    assbot: 62 results for '203' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=203
    
    mircea_popescu: herp.
    
    mircea_popescu: THIS FAILS.
    
    indiancandy1: safron is dropbox
    
    indiancandy1: and dropbx begs
    
    indiancandy1: ahaha
    
    indiancandy1: okay?
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/g58mpit4p5zms4l/203.mp4 and https://www.dropbox.com/s/iqd51lvo64cof15/202.mp4
    
    assbot: Dropbox - 203.mp4
    
    assbot: Dropbox - 202.mp4
    
    mircea_popescu: !up indiancandy1
    
    mircea_popescu: or i guess https://twitter.com/SexyMissSaffron/status/486305081029955586 if you don't have the connection for heavy duty vids.
    
    assbot: Here's a video of me begging /nntaleb to join /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash-assets : http://t.co/lD0pcqv9fu NSFW"
    
    indiancandy1: is she ur slave girl
    
    indiancandy1: shes ugly
    
    indiancandy1: no offence
    
    indiancandy1: lol
    
    indiancandy1: i wouldnt eat her out
    
    indiancandy1: i got more folowers
    
    indiancandy1: on twitter
    
    indiancandy1: BOOM
    
    indiancandy1: by 9800
    
    indiancandy1: not that it makes me any richer
    
    indiancandy1: :(
    
    mircea_popescu: ok, so ready to make a beg video ?
    
    indiancandy1: ahaha if the indian media get hold of it though
    
    indiancandy1: it wil be on times of india
    
    mircea_popescu: you'll be famous
    
    indiancandy1: website
    
    mircea_popescu: pubicity is publicity.
    
    indiancandy1: my agents wont be happy
    
    indiancandy1: how much u offering for it
    
    mircea_popescu: fire them, hire better ones.
    
    indiancandy1: i can get u
    
    mircea_popescu: same i did her, provided your vid doesn't suck.
    
    indiancandy1: lots of ppl as i got a big following
    
    indiancandy1: she got 168 twitter followrs
    
    indiancandy1: i have
    
    ThickAsThieves: <+indiancandy1> no offence  /// lol
    
    mircea_popescu: it really makes little diff, if you notice that tweet got like 2.2k retrweets.
    
    indiancandy1: how much did  give her
    
    asciilifeform: time for gedankenexperiment. what payload would be 'useful' in a miner core (vs. the controller, which is normally a standard micro and relatively simple to audit) ?
    
    indiancandy1: did u give her
    
    indiancandy1: listen i can get u a better deal
    
    asciilifeform: i say: patterned outages.
    
    indiancandy1: il give u publicity
    
    indiancandy1: in india
    
    indiancandy1: on all top digital platforms
    
    indiancandy1: in india not many ppl no about btc
    
    ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves: mall bitblog factchecks while bigger names run with false info << who is this mike ? //// dunno, that blog was also fairly on top of all the SR auction updates. guy's not afraid to pick up a phone or something
    
    indiancandy1: so it wil be good especially if it goes on times of india / yahooo
    
    indiancandy1: etc
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves got his phone number ?
    
    indiancandy1: why dont we introduce
    
    indiancandy1: bitcoin 2 india il do u a pr campain
    
    ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves still got a tardstalk acct btw ? /// it exists, sometimes i check on my watchlist or click in thru reddit, otherwise i dont go there
    
    asciilifeform: if you can arrange for, say, the entire crop of 'bfl' units to spin their wheels fruitlessly during known time intervals, your own miners (presumably exempt) can be scheduled to run then and precisely then
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 what difference does it make ? i want the guy to join here, i don't care about a bunch of indians that have no bitcoin.
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a gps ?
    
    indiancandy1: they can buy
    
    indiancandy1: it
    
    ThickAsThieves: "Coin Fire was started because I got sick and tired of reading reviews on sites that were full of advertisements, dishonest statements and news that was just posted to create link bait."
    
    
    
    assbot: CoinFire.cf (CoinFireBlog) auf Twitter
    
    ThickAsThieves: i dont have his ph# and his website only has contact forms
    
    indiancandy1: tell me how much moneys u gave safron
    
    mircea_popescu: anyone with a btctalk acct : pls to pm https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=112431 and invite him to come here. his summary of vleisides was useful.
    
    assbot: View the profile of colinistheman
    
    mircea_popescu: !up qwe213zxc
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves how do you know he's not affraid to pick up the phone then ?
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 .1
    
    asciilifeform: gps < difficult - but not impossible - to fit. and what'd be the point? throttle the core unless standing in warehouse XX?
    
    ThickAsThieves: i meant check his facts, dig for info
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just know where to confiscate it from.
    
    mircea_popescu: or not let it be exported, mysteriously.
    
    mircea_popescu: making the miners stop is useless economically.
    
    indiancandy1: i duno btc
    
    indiancandy1: what is that in dollars
    
    mircea_popescu: !up lil_data_
    
    ThickAsThieves: breaking@coinfire.cf is email
    
    asciilifeform: if you can stop all miners but yours - for a given interval - you can plunder blocks at far below the expected energy cost
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 i have no idea, whatever whoever is normally buying them from you pays for a bitcoin, divided by 10
    
    ThickAsThieves: https://twitter.com/CoinFireBlog/status/486609467560034306 coinjelly asks for private chat with him , hehe
    
    assbot: The tale of /CoinJelly, false statements and journalistic failures: http://t.co/uLpRJfFBaV
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so ?
    
    mircea_popescu: diff is stil the same, how do you think this helps you ? longer blocks ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: would need to hold it for a month
    
    indiancandy1: .1 bitcoin
    
    indiancandy1: is
    
    indiancandy1: 1 bitcoin
    
    indiancandy1: ?
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;calc 1 / .1
    
    gribble: 10
    
    asciilifeform: point wouldn't be to drop the diff, but to ensure that next block goes to one of yours
    
    asciilifeform: alternatively
    
    mircea_popescu: "ensure"
    
    asciilifeform: throttle far below full capacity unless magic signal is present
    
    indiancandy1: ur offering me 65 dollars
    
    indiancandy1: for that vid
    
    indiancandy1: ?
    
    mircea_popescu: people would notice and fix it
    
    indiancandy1: haha
    
    indiancandy1: thats funn
    
    indiancandy1: funny
    
    indiancandy1: 2 less money
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 welcome to the world of hard work.
    
    asciilifeform: so, e.g., everybody gets x hash/sec, you get 2x
    
    indiancandy1: do u work hard?
    
    mircea_popescu: you're not me.
    
    mike_c: if you're not working 120 hours/week you're lazy.
    
    ThickAsThieves: amen!
    
    indiancandy1: i work on a tv show
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;calc 120 * .1 * 52
    
    gribble: 624
    
    asciilifeform: people would notice, fix << i know a fellow with a 'jupiter' miner. most of the time, only a subset of the cores run. fix is nowhere to be seen.
    
    mircea_popescu: that's almost enough to invest in bitcoin start-ups
    
    indiancandy1: gribble says 624 is that the conversion
    
    indiancandy1: ?
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i never heard of a jupiter run 100%
    
    asciilifeform: precisely.
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;ticker
    
    gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 623.16, Best ask: 625.0, Bid-ask spread: 1.84000, Last trade: 624.97, 24 hour volume: 2675.59845636, 24 hour low: 616.89, 24 hour high: 626.22, 24 hour vwap: 621.952540785
    
    mircea_popescu: there
    
    asciilifeform: can be accident, or 'accident'
    
    indiancandy1: mp
    
    mircea_popescu: eh get out
    
    indiancandy1: one second
    
    mircea_popescu: jupiters are made with an axe
    
    indiancandy1: is it 624 dollars
    
    ThickAsThieves: i heard jupiters have anthrax in them
    
    mircea_popescu: derpiters
    
    asciilifeform: intel's been doing precisely this in cpus since '486 dx' - why not other people?
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 no woman. the chick did two vids for like 60 bux each. it's what she does.
    
    mike_c: can anybody recommend an irc bouncer.
    
    indiancandy1: hmm
    
    indiancandy1: shes better of doin mfc she can earn more money
    
    BingoBoingo: lol, indiancandy1 you forget the time value of money
    
    ThickAsThieves: and the value of relationships
    
    kakobrekla: mike_c  znc
    
    mike_c: thx
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 what's mfc ?
    
    BingoBoingo: myfreecams
    
    BingoBoingo: I know it because... porn
    
    mircea_popescu: so i take it the free part is scam ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: adz
    
    ThickAsThieves: i assume
    
    mircea_popescu: aok.
    
    mircea_popescu: is chatroulette still a thing ?
    
    BingoBoingo: chatroulette was basically just dicks
    
    indiancandy1: no
    
    ThickAsThieves: the site everyone visits once
    
    indiancandy1: chatroulete now has a verification method so not many people use it
    
    indiancandy1: you have to register with ur cell phone number and they send u a code on sms and
    
    mircea_popescu: lol know your masturbator us congress legislation ?
    
    indiancandy1: thats how you enter its to keep the pedos out
    
    mircea_popescu: uh
    
    mircea_popescu: pedos can't get cellphones ?
    
    indiancandy1: they was a overflow of pedofiles lurking for lil girls
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: use cell, leave gps ping.
    
    indiancandy1: there was a big ring of pedofiles on there
    
    mircea_popescu: now that's a disruptive service someone should do. decentralize sms identification.
    
    mircea_popescu: like tor, but for sms.
    
    asciilifeform: (technically not simply gps, but tower triangulation on top)
    
    BingoBoingo: I thought most cellphones did a mix of the two
    
    indiancandy1: well then f you get in trouble ad u call the cops and they need 2 find u how wil they find u
    
    asciilifeform: aye
    
    indiancandy1: its good and bad
    
    asciilifeform: all current cell chipsets use gps+tower
    
    BingoBoingo: I thought if you got into trouble you called the Bondsman because the cops were there
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/07/08/dollar-backed-digital-currency-aims-to-fix-bitcoins-volatility-dilemma/
    
    assbot: Dollar-Backed Digital Currency Aims to Fix Bitcoins Volatility Dilemma - MoneyBeat - WSJ
    
    ThickAsThieves: brought to you by Brock Pierce
    
    indiancandy1: i mean like if a girls being raped or something then it comes handy
    
    mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> I thought if you got into trouble you called the Bondsman because the cops were there << not everyone is from chicago.
    
    indiancandy1: lol
    
    BingoBoingo: You still call the Bondsman, because they actually "solve the problem"
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that guy really gets things.
    
    mircea_popescu: up his ass.
    
    ThickAsThieves: Realcoin
    
    ThickAsThieves: lel
    
    asciilifeform: pierce << ideal example of the animal described on one of mircea_popescu's essays - he could be packed into prison for life, any time, based on what's in his file. so he does as instructed.
    
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    BingoBoingo: !b 1
    
    ThickAsThieves: "Founded by Brock Pierce, a former Disney child actor who is now a prolific bitcoin investor" ouch
    
    indiancandy1: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/06/rolling-coal-photos-video_n_5561477.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
    
    assbot: Political Protest Or Just Blowing Smoke? Anti-Environmentalists Are Now 'Rolling Coal'
    
    punkman: "the first dollar-backed digital currency"
    
    ThickAsThieves: and biggest!
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves notice that's sorta started to go away ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: "Realcoin will use a Bitcoin 2.0 software protocol known as Mastercoin" the pain!
    
    punkman: it's not even dollars, "To ensure realcoins retain their value at one dollar, the firm will maintain a real-time record of its dollar-based reserves, all held in conservative investments"
    
    indiancandy1: so do you think i should invest in btc
    
    ThickAsThieves: "Asked about such a reaction, Realcoin founder Mr. Pierce said, “I’m not selling any of my bitcoins. "
    
    ThickAsThieves: these people
    
    ThickAsThieves: no one told them the onion was a joke?
    
    indiancandy1: it gets me angry that i dont understand what ur talking about but i think
    
    indiancandy1: im addicted to this place i have no reason to be here so why am i here
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoin 2.0 protocol mastercoin ?!
    
    indiancandy1: GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
    
    mircea_popescu: someone got indigestion.
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 well, you've found the real world and now are trying to convince yourself you don't have to change to adapt to it.
    
    Duffer1: it's worth your time to hang around
    
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    BingoBoingo: !b 5
    
    Duffer1: !up indiancandy1
    
    decimation: re: "anti-environmentalists" << a true anti-environmentalist would construct a chumpatron to bleed environmentalist chumps
    
    
    
    assbot: Solar Roadways | Indiegogo
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: this is SOP already
    
    asciilifeform: solar farms, windmills, etc.
    
    asciilifeform: and anything else with -EV
    
    decimation: "imma make you environmental technology, email me monies"
    
    indiancandy1: duffer its worth my time
    
    indiancandy1: ?
    
    decimation: I suspect it's quite simple to recruit a staff of chumps to maintain the public propaganda machine too
    
    indiancandy1: okay well wil someone atleast teach me so i understand
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 what part don't you understand ?
    
    decimation: In case no one has seen: http://qz.com/231178/the-tragic-explosive-crash-of-a-stolen-tesla/  << some dumbfuck stole a tesla model S, rammed a pole at ~100 mph, cut the car in half; it caught fire
    
    assbot: The tragic, explosive crash of a stolen Tesla   –  Quartz
    
    mircea_popescu: wow.
    
    BingoBoingo: indiancandy1: Right now is the time for lingering reading and asking questions, understanding come later.
    
    asciilifeform: countdown to the 'remote disable switch' advocates pushing their shit...
    
    
    
    colinistheman: Hi guys. I was invited to this chat. I posted the bitcointalk forum thread on Sonny Vleisides (BFL CEO)
    
    mircea_popescu: hey there!
    
    mircea_popescu: you did a nice job.
    
    indiancandy1: omg
    
    indiancandy1: i nearly had a heart attack
    
    colinistheman: Thank you mircea_popescu
    
    colinistheman: I got your message in that chat log
    
    BingoBoingo: Hey colinistheman that was me sent the message. Love your BFL thread.
    
    indiancandy1: my name is sofia vasiliadis
    
    mircea_popescu: colinistheman what do you do for a living ?
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 no wai ?
    
    indiancandy1: and i just scan read what colin said
    
    indiancandy1: and i thought he said my name
    
    indiancandy1: ahahh
    
    mircea_popescu: that's some scammer guy named vleisides
    
    indiancandy1: my heart sunk
    
    colinistheman: I'm glad you found it helpful. I did too. A lot of good information in that court transcript.
    
    colinistheman: I realized a lot of people wouldn't read through to find the best parts
    
    colinistheman: mircea_popescu: By the way if you, or others want to join the class action lawsuit, it is here: http://www.woodlaw.com/cases/butterfly-labs-and-bf-labs-inc-bitcoin-miners
    
    assbot: Butterfly Labs and BF Labs, Inc. Bitcoin Miners | Wood Law Firm
    
    colinistheman: There are about 50 people already in on it
    
    BingoBoingo: Well, mircea_popescu and kakobrekla 's BitBet was especially injurious to BFL last year
    
    colinistheman: I am spreading the word
    
    mircea_popescu: colinistheman http://trilema.com/2013/preemptive-strike-to-have-on-hand-for-when-butterfly-labs-gets-hauled-off-to-jail-in-corpore/ wink
    
    assbot: Preemptive strike, to have on hand for when Butterfly Labs gets hauled off to jail in corpore pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;google BitBet BFL to deliver by February
    
    gribble: BitBet - BFL will deliver ASIC devices before March 1st :: 791.29 B ...: <http://bitbet.us/bet/7/bfl-will-deliver-asic-devices-before-march-1st/>; Vote: Do you think Butterfly Labs will deliver their ASICs this ...: <https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=141538.0>; BitBet, November 2013 Statement pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/bitbet- (1 more message)
    
    
    
    assbot: BitBet - BFL will deliver ASIC devices before March 1st :: 791.29 B (47%) on Yes, 898.53 B (53%) on No | closed 1 year 4 months ago
    
    colinistheman: A BFL court case in Italy that went to the supreme court? very nice
    
    colinistheman: I haven't heard of that one
    
    mircea_popescu: only tangentially related to bfl, via the sonny bo\y.
    
    colinistheman: mircea_popescu: to answer your question, I run www.knives4bitcoin.com
    
    mircea_popescu: colinistheman get in the wot will you ?
    
    colinistheman: i see
    
    colinistheman: Oh, you wrote that :)
    
    mircea_popescu: hm, who's into knives ?
    
    colinistheman: a lot of people apparently
    
    asciilifeform: re: bfl - the sad part is that the entire mining industry, afaik, is based on exactly this kind of chumpatron. and if outright take-money-and-run merits two years of parole, what does, e.g. six month deliberate 'we mine with your hardware' merit? harsh words?
    
    colinistheman: Did you join in the woods law firm court case?
    
    colinistheman: Actually I do not believe they are mining with our hardware. I have been following fairly closely on what is going on
    
    colinistheman: It's very bad management and underfunded development
    
    colinistheman: that's the out-ethics behind the scenes which is making everything late
    
    colinistheman: the court case statements back that up
    
    mircea_popescu: colinistheman things change over time
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14702 @ 0.00078407 = 11.5274 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: bfl has been a foundation backed sore eye for bitcoin since 2012
    
    colinistheman: Perhaps in the past they mined with the hardware though
    
    colinistheman: I would believe it
    
    colinistheman: yes, BFL is the ASIC equivalent of MT GOX
    
    colinistheman: it needs to be eliminated
    
    asciilifeform: 'limited' scam always metastatizes into full blown scam.
    
    mircea_popescu: so practically, get in the wot so i can gift someone a knife.
    
    ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> wow. /// simple GS strat, spend $120k on a Tesla, short TSLA, crash it. Works every time!
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves konspiraci ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: i was counting on it!
    
    BingoBoingo: Knives are cool.
    
    colinistheman: I don't sell the BTC either. It's kept in BTC form
    
    ThickAsThieves: but really there were 2 crashes and the other had most of a family die i think
    
    colinistheman: unlike most bitpay merchants
    
    colinistheman: I'm reading your article. Very interesting
    
    ThickAsThieves: a plastic surgeon rear-ended a toyota
    
    colinistheman: mircea_popescu: You had stated that my summary was useful. I'm very glad. May I ask how it assisted you?
    
    mircea_popescu: colinistheman me personally it did not, i have people whose job it is to do these things. your summary however was quite close to mine, which is the mark of achievement.
    
    BingoBoingo: colinistheman: I found a broken link http://www.knives4bitcoin.com/products/colt_knives_pocket_knife_titanium_420hc_high_carbon_ct341_camping_fishing_hunter.php
    
    assbot: KnivesAndKnifeMaking.com - Colt Knives Pocket Knife Titanium 420HC High Carbon CT341 Camping Fishing Hunter
    
    colinistheman: Most excellent. Yeah, I'm fairly literate and have a few brain cells to knock together
    
    colinistheman: Thank you I will have to fix that ASAP
    
    BingoBoingo: Hmmm... None of your product page links seem to be working for me...
    
    ThickAsThieves: mp's plot to hide the andreas murder weapon
    
    mircea_popescu: http://www.knives4bitcoin.com/products/ << this is kinda lulzy
    
    assbot: Index of /products
    
    mircea_popescu: they all seem broken ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: doesnt work for me much
    
    ThickAsThieves: ;;estimate
    
    gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 16871343199.9 based on data since last change | 17660844532.9 based on data for last three days
    
    colinistheman: Oh wow, they're temporarily down. I re-upped the site recently.
    
    mircea_popescu: !up site
    
    colinistheman: try now
    
    colinistheman: I think I just fixed up
    
    colinistheman: *it
    
    colinistheman: One missing file can cause a lot of probs :)
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo would you like one ?
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Sure
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony how about i gift you a knife ?
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pick something
    
    kakobrekla: you kill babies with this ? http://www.knives4bitcoin.com/products/5-14in_knife_making_blade_mini_hunter_blank_custom_game_hunting_blanks_knives.php
    
    assbot: Knives4Bitcoin.com - 5-1/4in Knife Making Blade Mini Hunter Blank Custom Game Hunting Blanks Knives
    
    BingoBoingo: I'm really liking this. http://www.knives4bitcoin.com/products/colt_knives_pocket_knife_titanium_420hc_high_carbon_ct341_camping_fishing_hunter.php
    
    assbot: Knives4Bitcoin.com - Colt Knives Pocket Knife Titanium 420HC High Carbon CT341 Camping Fishing Hunter
    
    cazalla: indiancandy1: i would bet sexysaffron would do 100 times better than you on mfc
    
    mircea_popescu: colinistheman how come everything's 5 bitcents ?!
    
    colinistheman: I just have it round to the nearest 2 decimal places for sake of neatness
    
    mircea_popescu: for that matter, bitpay says "If it seems like there should be something here, please let us know by contacting our support team."
    
    colinistheman: otherwise it looks like a huge big number
    
    kakobrekla: because they are all sized for keychains
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla do you like knives ?
    
    kakobrekla: nah not really.
    
    colinistheman: You can sort by price and see items which are more than 5 bit cents. Back to reading the article
    
    colinistheman: beep me if needed
    
    asciilifeform: !up indiancandy1
    
    kakobrekla: i have a few of those swiss army knifes i got as gifts and they satisfy all my cutting needs
    
    mircea_popescu: cazalla who're you gonna bet against lol.
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla lmao
    
    indiancandy1: please dont bet me
    
    indiancandy1: coz
    
    indiancandy1: i do pretty well on mfc
    
    indiancandy1: im better looking
    
    asciilifeform: mfc << microshit foundation class?!
    
    punkman: cam contest?
    
    BingoBoingo: !up indiancandy1
    
    dub: i cut stuff
    
    indiancandy1: it just craches on me
    
    indiancandy1: :(
    
    indiancandy1: crashed
    
    mircea_popescu: dub ya but you're a global warming alarmist
    
    indiancandy1: unless she goes further then me i dont use toys
    
    cazalla: indiancandy1: looks don't have much to do with mfc imo
    
    indiancandy1: and hardly show pussy either
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 im sure she does anything.
    
    colinistheman: By the way, this may interest you, mircea_popescu. I posted the following information on BFL's forum and it got deleted. It was a detailed recording of a series of events in the Monarch production timeline. This post got deleted from their forums but I kept a backup because I knew it would. Then I was banned from the forums after providing a lawyer link to every member on BFL forums.
    
    colinistheman: http://knives4bitcoin.com/BFL_Late_Monarch_and_How_to_Handle_it._Josh,_as_COO,_I_request_your_reply_to_this.htm
    
    assbot: BFL Late Monarch and How to Handle it.  Josh, as COO, I request your reply to this.
    
    indiancandy1: im anti sex toys
    
    mircea_popescu: colinistheman maybe time to make a blog ?
    
    mircea_popescu: or maybe join an existing one. possibly mike_c may want a hard hitting research editor for btcalpha
    
    colinistheman: It's a good idea but I don't have the time. I managed to scrap together these few things.
    
    colinistheman: I think there would be a good market for a promoted domain and blog for BFL fraud info though.
    
    mircea_popescu: use it or lose it.
    
    kakobrekla: who are you trying to save?
    
    colinistheman: jesus
    
    kakobrekla: jesus has been saved already.
    
    colinistheman: oh, then bfl customers
    
    mike_c: if you do want a blog platform I'd be happy to post things for you on btcalpha with appropriate attribution.
    
    kakobrekla: right.
    
    BingoBoingo: No, Jesus died to save, but if you save Jesus... it would really mess with the Xtians
    
    kakobrekla: you can rape them with evidence, they dont budge.
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla fudster.
    
    kakobrekla: i meant saved as in ctrl-s
    
    colinistheman: True, but it increases awareness like my bitcointalk thread post did. it got over 2000 views in 5 hours
    
    colinistheman: And I bet I got a lot more people to join the class action lawsuit
    
    asciilifeform: kakobrekla: can't help but remember orlov's point about the deer hunt
    
    colinistheman: so I am pleased with that increased awareness and action
    
    asciilifeform: '
we need a word that describes the artifacts generated in response to irrational actors who demand to be fooled. As the old saying goes, A fool and his money are soon parted  at the fools own insistence, no less! If the deer comes out of the forest and walks up to the hunter, it is not proper hunting, and this is not proper con artistry or grift or embezzlement or any other term we use to describe
    
    asciilifeform: proper works of evil. If the victim, at the sight of the economic predator, goes into doggie submission, we must stop discussing the phenomenon in terms of conflict and consider whether what we are observing might be some strange instance of symbiosis.'
    
    kakobrekla: well, colinistheman , deer cant read.
    
    cazalla: indiancandy1: if you are more attractive than sexysaffron, you'd make more money on mfc if you copied her enthusiasm
    
    colinistheman: deer bought asics?
    
    BingoBoingo: !up colinistheman
    
    colinistheman: thx
    
    colinistheman: why it demotes my talking ability lol
    
    kakobrekla: you are not worthy yet.
    
    mircea_popescu: because you're not in the wot
    
    mircea_popescu: the wotrty.
    
    colinistheman: Oh, i'm learning fast though
    
    colinistheman: my wottiness is increasing
    
    kakobrekla: so, hows the deer?
    
    mircea_popescu: lol how do you figure ?
    
    colinistheman: because I'm pretty badass. The wottiness is inherent really
    
    mircea_popescu: o.O
    
    mircea_popescu: this is without a doubt the weirdest reaction to a wot mention.
    
    kakobrekla: !drown colinistheman
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    colinistheman: Are you a writer or journalist?
    
    mircea_popescu: kako ? he's just a cookie monster.
    
    indiancandy1: enthusiasm for?
    
    colinistheman: you
    
    indiancandy1: what using sex toys
    
    mircea_popescu: O.o
    
    mircea_popescu: colinistheman im bitcoin's only actual billionaire.
    
    TheNewDeal: satoshi?
    
    kakobrekla: satoshi lost the keys.
    
    colinistheman: 2nd billiionare i suppose then
    
    mircea_popescu: well satoshi is virtual :D
    
    colinistheman: have you bought bfl hardware?
    
    mircea_popescu: nope.
    
    cazalla: indiancandy1: to please
    
    colinistheman: good job
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 the world belongs to the eager&willing
    
    mircea_popescu: colinistheman there';s a whole world of scams i didn't buy into. but anyway.
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;gettrust kakobrekla
    
    gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user kakobrekla: Level 1: 5, Level 2: 50 via 29 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=mircea_popescu&dest=kakobrekla | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=kakobrekla | Rated since: Fri May 13 18:50:53 2011
    
    mircea_popescu: that's the wot. bitcoin's web of trust
    
    mircea_popescu: until you register with gribble you won't be getting any.
    
    colinistheman: That's good. In bitcoin scams are ripe for the picking
    
    indiancandy1: but im saying u no sex toys stretch out ur pussy and im not into having a lose pussy for money
    
    indiancandy1: i would everrrr trade that
    
    indiancandy1: its all about tight
    
    colinistheman: Is this your site: http://mpex.co/
    
    assbot: MPEx, the Bitcoin securities exchange.
    
    mircea_popescu: yes.
    
    colinistheman: cool
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 they come in sizes no ?
    
    indiancandy1: i dont like the idea of rapeing myself
    
    indiancandy1: id rather wank to be fair
    
    indiancandy1: but not in public
    
    indiancandy1: im 2 shy
    
    colinistheman: to be a bitcoin billionaire, one would require over 1.6 million btc
    
    colinistheman: That is more than satoshi owns, no?
    
    mircea_popescu: colinistheman well at some point btc was 1.2k
    
    colinistheman: ah, i see
    
    colinistheman: well then it would be about 800,000 btc+
    
    mircea_popescu: something like tha
    
    colinistheman: that's kind of like the emperor of bitcoin status
    
    mircea_popescu: mostly paper anyway.
    
    kakobrekla: dun worry its all virtual!
    
    kakobrekla runs
    
    colinistheman: yeah, paper wallets.
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla your running is too slo :D
    
    asciilifeform: colinistheman: interesting site. what does one sharpen a titanium knife with ?
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cuntanium. obviously.
    
    mircea_popescu: DOH
    
    colinistheman: a regular sharpening stone
    
    colinistheman: fine grit
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo picked anything yet ?
    
    asciilifeform looks for unobtainium blade
    
    colinistheman: lol
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think I'm going with http://www.knives4bitcoin.com/products/boker_trapper_pocket_knife.php
    
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    mircea_popescu: cool.
    
    asciilifeform remembers the japanese folktale of 'the wooden wakizashi'
    
    colinistheman: I've got 6 of those behind me lol
    
    colinistheman: (the boker trapper)
    
    mircea_popescu: paging fluffypony. hey f, lay off teh womenz and irc more!
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't recall that one ?
    
    asciilifeform: goes something like this. one samurai had the misfortune of breaking his wakizashi (short sword - 'sidearm.') but he was a cheapskate.
    
    asciilifeform: replaced the blade with a wooden one.
    
    asciilifeform: 'no one will notice.'
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    asciilifeform: a year passes; two
    
    asciilifeform: then comes the time when he is ordered to perform seppuku.
    
    TheNewDeal: lol
    
    asciilifeform: and all he's got - is a wooden knife.
    
    BingoBoingo: Seppuku by splinter?
    
    BingoBoingo: !up ericmuyser
    
    colinistheman: From what I gather, sonny vleisides, carried on the scam of his father. Your article seems to touch upon this. "I came to know my real father only as an adult. So when I got the opportunity to know him better, I was eager and curious. His name was James Ray Houston:
    
    asciilifeform: he seppukued.
    
    asciilifeform: but it was more of a bitch than usual.
    
    asciilifeform: lesson - don't be an arse.
    
    colinistheman: Yeah he is dead now
    
    penguirker: New blog post: http://trilema.com/2014/riverwalk-a-proper-one/
    
    colinistheman: I used to blame BFL_Josh for the poor show at BFL. Well, I still do. But Sonny is the kingpin behind the scenes. That's the real meat and potatoes crime boss
    
    mircea_popescu: well yes.
    
    mircea_popescu: josh is just some derp
    
    mircea_popescu: an offensive derp, but nonetheless.
    
    colinistheman: josh is sonny's goon
    
    colinistheman: every crime boss has their henchmen
    
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    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'la rumana' << is that a shitter?
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah
    
    asciilifeform: lol!
    
    mircea_popescu: :p
    
    colinistheman: Thank you for also spreading the word on BFL. I will continue to do what I can and I'm glad it helped in any way.
    
    colinistheman: It was good to talk to you all but I will be on my way now. Good day to you gentlemen. And don't forget your arsenal of knives :P
    
    
    
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    colinistheman: nice to meet you mircea.
    
    indiancandy1: mircdea u have al that money shouldnt u be living in a exotic island
    
    indiancandy1: with a bag of bitches
    
    mircea_popescu: lol the dude just left ?!
    
    mircea_popescu: what silliness is this!
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 who's to say i'm not ?
    
    indiancandy1: oh mircea
    
    indiancandy1: btw
    
    indiancandy1: are you watching the argentina game?
    
    BingoBoingo: Islands suck.
    
    mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 i watched the last 5 minutes of germany-brazil by accident
    
    mircea_popescu: sat down in a cafe
    
    BingoBoingo: indiancandy1: He can hear it and surmise how it is going
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no actually they're not screaming atm
    
    mircea_popescu: isn't argentina tomorrow ?
    
    BingoBoingo: Yeah
    
    TheNewDeal: yes it is
    
    TheNewDeal: don't you have a decent bet on argentina ?
    
    indiancandy1: im so happy germany won
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: And you know that because people are doing their jobs atm
    
    mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal sure. gotta support the team
    
    indiancandy1: do u speak spanish mircea
    
    mircea_popescu: yep
    
    TheNewDeal: haha you want to bet but aren't interested in watching the game?
    
    cazalla: indiancandy1: do you like Germans? my oma met the fuhrer
    
    mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal the fuck do i care.
    
    TheNewDeal: enough to bet?
    
    kakobrekla: enough to win, dude.
    
    mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal i didn't actually watch the tennis chick either
    
    mircea_popescu: happened on a rerun, also in some cafe, also last 15 minutes or so.
    
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    BingoBoingo: I rarely watch events I bet on
    
    BingoBoingo: !up indiancandy1
    
    TheNewDeal: even if it's difficulty :D?
    
    indiancandy1: i like germans
    
    BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Difficulty isn't as lucrative as betting against Serena Williams
    
    indiancandy1: i prefer greeks though
    
    mircea_popescu: hard to not watch difficulty.
    
    indiancandy1: serena williams is a champ
    
    BingoBoingo: Serena Williams loses with great predictability
    
    mircea_popescu: that'd have been a sad typo
    
    TheNewDeal: I was freaking out today. Just bet against the top scorer last night, then some mexican dude whips out his phone today at work and was telling me germany had 9 goals
    
    mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal lmao i can see tha
    
    cazalla: lol
    
    BingoBoingo: Anytime the Decimal odds on Serena Williams opponent pays under 10, Serena doesn't win. You can turn 0.1 BTC into 1 BTC that way with decent regularity.
    
    TheNewDeal: not sure if he didn't know the english word for siete
    
    mircea_popescu: "omfg someone got 4 ?"
    
    mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal no they had more but annulled.
    
    TheNewDeal: whaaaaat
    
    mircea_popescu: yup
    
    mircea_popescu: they raped that team
    
    mircea_popescu: i don't even think this happened before, in a wc match
    
    TheNewDeal: ridiculous
    
    TheNewDeal: he showed me a brief clip of a brazilian person in tears
    
    TheNewDeal: it was hilarious
    
    mircea_popescu: if messi fals into an elevator hatch
    
    mircea_popescu: it's gonna be 25-0 for germany
    
    TheNewDeal: ahhaha
    
    mircea_popescu: the problem of mono teams.
    
    BingoBoingo: I hope for an Argentina Germany final where the only players to survive the jerkoff pregame festivities are Messi and Klose
    
    TheNewDeal: if you can make it that far, it doesn't really matter
    
    cazalla: it'll go to a shootout where messi misses and germany wins
    
    TheNewDeal: ill bet you on that
    
    TheNewDeal: ;)
    
    cazalla: what odds
    
    cazalla: on just a shootout
    
    decimation: asciilifeform: you can watch the loud australian guy teardown an $18k 20ghz spectrum analyzer made by agilent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QBFIfKlvHU
    
    assbot: EEVblog #470 - Agilent N9344C 20GHz Spectrum Analyser Teardown - YouTube
    
    decimation: the us still makes very high quality stuff, you just have to pay golden toliet prices to get it
    
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    mircea_popescu: decimation lmao guy wants to play with spring
    
    mircea_popescu: wtf, not turned on ?
    
    mircea_popescu: how do i know it's the actual thing if he doesn';t sample anything with it first ?
    
    decimation: heh that's a good point
    
    mircea_popescu: embeded windows ?!
    
    mircea_popescu: this guy isn't very smart is he.
    
    decimation: heh well it's actually a fair guess for agilent
    
    decimation: they are famous for  making $20k test equipment that runs windows xp
    
    mircea_popescu: the smart comment was re "some processors or something but we don't care about that"
    
    mircea_popescu: what interests him are the fully machined aluminum blocks.
    
    mircea_popescu: i mean...
    
    decimation: heh yeah for him the computer is the uninteresting part, he cares about the rf parts hehe
    
    decimation: yeah
    
    decimation: I think his past experience was as a pcb designer
    
    decimation: so that's what he focuses on, the board construction
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah i see it.
    
    decimation: there are some interesting design choices (some he points out, some he doesn't).  as ascii would say, figuring out the details is an excercise for the alert reader
    
    mircea_popescu: yea im watching it
    
    mircea_popescu: why don't they have insulant between the two modules is beyond me.
    
    decimation: 3e8 m/s / 20 GHz = 15 mm wavelength at 20 Ghz - that's why you see all the esoteric shielding
    
    mircea_popescu: air is dielectric, ok, but wouldn't some paste fare better ?
    
    indiancandy1: mircea im in love with you
    
    indiancandy1: becuase your so bizare
    
    indiancandy1: i think your related to vladmire
    
    mircea_popescu: how am i bizarre!
    
    TheNewDeal: but he only impales women
    
    mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal what's an asshole in the dark.
    
    TheNewDeal: lol
    
    decimation: the system is complex, it needs to separate the RF portion from the computer portion, and also conduct heat.  I suspect compromises were made between the competing priorities
    
    
    
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    indiancandy1: do you not think you are?
    
    mircea_popescu: decimation hence the paste comment
    
    mircea_popescu: air odesn't conduct.
    
    indiancandy1: mircea do you eat alot of garlic
    
    mircea_popescu: i do actually.
    
    indiancandy1: i knew it
    
    mircea_popescu: smells that bad eh ?
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: i 'tore down' a $300k robot. big whoop.
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: if you can reassemble the thing later, it's like it never happened.
    
    mircea_popescu: i tore down a trabant engine
    
    decimation: yeah, I can reasonably guaruntee that for 20 GHz equipment, it's not like it never happened (for this guy)
    
    mircea_popescu: exactly
    
    decimation: he does point out "well it will probably have to be recalibrated"
    
    mircea_popescu: tightly packed handled mass produced electronics like these...
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: shield design, note, is quite like mine. (and everyone else's!) i'd love to have the machined aluminum cavity, though. but cost.
    
    decimation: heh yeah that's what I was thinking.
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform our pricepoint is not 30k
    
    asciilifeform: haha yeah
    
    mircea_popescu: something tells me that if it were, you';d bitch about machined silver
    
    decimation: if you want quality that's what you pay
    
    decimation: you can probably buy a "spectrum analyzer" for $1k new
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: my chicom dirtscope has one built in. but, have to understand limits of the instrument.
    
    asciilifeform: (whether 200 or 200k)
    
    indiancandy1: romanians love garlic
    
    indiancandy1: there is a restaurant in harlesden
    
    mircea_popescu: !up indiancandy1
    
    decimation: these guys will make you machined aluminium: http://www.ponoko.com/make-and-sell/materials/ponoko-united-states?kind=Metal&mode=materials
    
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    indiancandy1: a romanian one and all there food is garlicy when u sweat does it smell like garlic?
    
    decimation: from 40 mil sheets
    
    mircea_popescu: i mostly eat it with italian food.
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: i bet the thing still uses staggered (out of phase) multiple ADC, though
    
    indiancandy1: do you cook?
    
    asciilifeform: afaik nobody makes a 20GHz adc.
    
    decimation: oh I doubt it's 20 ghz instantaneous bandwidth
    
    decimation: it probably has a ~100 mhz swept receiver
    
    mircea_popescu: yes i cook.
    
    asciilifeform: and i should add that 18k usd is cheap for a laboratory instrument.
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this looks like a field instrument.
    
    asciilifeform: a miserable little spectrophotometer (every bio lab on the planet) runs about 50k.
    
    decimation: yeah this is one of those portable deals.  You can give agilent at least 2-3x that for a high quality lab grade spectrum analyzer
    
    mircea_popescu: brb
    
    decimation: asciilifeform - but to your point about bio stuff - that's probably why agilent is keeping the agilent name for the bio side of the new company
    
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    asciilifeform: agilent is just the old hp instrument division, spun off
    
    decimation: I know, but they are going to spinoff again
    
    decimation: "keysight technologies" will be the name of the new test&measurement division
    
    decimation: "agilent" is going to go to the bio-bezzle company
    
    decimation: in a proper technology company you would keep your high-end engineers busy building esoteric stuff, while their knowledge & expertise trickles down to other areas
    
    asciilifeform: also note that the machined cavity is SOP in military electronics
    
    decimation: pretty much anything miniaturized & high spec RF
    
    
    
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    decimation: I wish I had access to a high spec metal mill
    
    asciilifeform: i see nothing in there that couldn't be milled on an ordinary desktop cnc machine.
    
    BingoBoingo: Fuck cnc. If you can't mill it with a Bastard File it isn't worth it.
    
    
    
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    decimation: I guess it depends which bit you used
    
    asciilifeform: gotta love the 'bodge wire' (patch.) ~25 min. in film.
    
    indiancandy1: when are you going 2 cook for me mircia
    
    indiancandy1: im coming over to ur house
    
    decimation: ascii did you use your laser cutter to make solder masks?
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: nope. pcb made at actual factory.
    
    decimation: like the plastic that you put over the board so you can apply the solder paste?
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: at present time, i apply the paste with a pump. tried plastic templates (laser cut), wasn't satisfied.
    
    asciilifeform: my tube (40 watt) won't cut steel.
    
    decimation: yeah I guess a proper solder template is made of metal
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: not only this - but you need a fairly costly 'printing press' to apply the paste evenly through the gasket.
    
    decimation: on the youtubes people just use a squeegie
    
    decimation: it looks half-ass though
    
    decimation: actually the best solution is probably a wave-soldering machine
    
    asciilifeform: for smt?!
    
    decimation: I think you typically glue the components down first
    
    asciilifeform: good recipe for failure
    
    asciilifeform: tension on the pads
    
    decimation: yeah I guess if they aren't tight you are going to get alot of cold joints
    
    asciilifeform: you get parts that fall off x years later.
    
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    decimation: heh yeah the a/d converter next to the 'bodge wires' is only 40 MHz 12-bit
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: same as on my chinese scope!
    
    decimation: heh yeah, most of what you pay for is in the tracking oscillator
    
    asciilifeform: student project idea
    
    asciilifeform: take the agilent scope, and fly it to north korea
    
    asciilifeform: see if it boots up after.
    
    decimation: heh you mean the gps?
    
    decimation: would be amusing
    
    decimation: you don't have to go to north korea: can simulate gps signal: http://www.labsat.co.uk/index.php/en/
    
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    asciilifeform: doesn't have to be gps proper.
    
    asciilifeform: there are other ways to figure out that you're 'far from kansas.'
    
    decimation: what's interesting is how modular and easy to take apart this agilent device is
    
    decimation: it would be fairly straightforward to disassemble & repair, unlike macbook air for example
    
    mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i see nothing in there that couldn't be milled on an ordinary desktop cnc machine. << this.
    
    mircea_popescu: unless you're making rifles or something, you don't need it.
    
    asciilifeform: pashtuns make perfectly normal kalash with hand file
    
    asciilifeform: like BingoBoingo.
    
    decimation: or titanium knives
    
    asciilifeform: but go make the die for shells with file.
    
    mircea_popescu: <decimation> heh yeah the a/d converter next to the 'bodge wires' is only 40 MHz 12-bit << wtf. so 20ghz is a scam ?
    
    asciilifeform: same 'scam' as my 100mhz scope
    
    asciilifeform: take N independent adc, and stagger the sampling phases
    
    mircea_popescu: but they claim to be differen
    
    mircea_popescu: which'd be the scam.
    
    mircea_popescu: what, they use 500 of the things ?!
    
    asciilifeform: lower noise, cleaner stagger.
    
    mircea_popescu: nowai.
    
    mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but go make the die for shells with file. << women, diamond dust, fingers.
    
    mircea_popescu: look at some of the examples of ancient gemcutting, you'll be impressed.
    
    asciilifeform: gem cutters cheat
    
    decimation: it's not really an oscilloscope, doesn't need to have 20 ghz of bandwidth
    
    asciilifeform: because crystals cleave on symmetry plane.
    
    mircea_popescu: !up felipelalli
    
    decimation: it makes an image of the spectrum, sampled over a period of time
    
    decimation: typically you sweep from low to high frequencies of interest
    
    mircea_popescu: decimation i thought the claim was 20ghz of bw
    
    mircea_popescu: maybe im confused.
    
    decimation: nah, not instantaneous
    
    asciilifeform: 20ghz is easy. 20ghz where you aren't simply picking up harmonics from your own logic - hard.
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amorpous metal will process similarly, just takes longer
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: women, wire, electrolyte. electrolytic deposition - with pencil!
    
    decimation: yeah that's why all the shielding (preventing logic spurious signals)
    
    asciilifeform: note (e.g. at 47 minutes) the pcb-as-passive-component trick
    
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    asciilifeform: http://youtu.be/1QBFIfKlvHU?t=49m56s << artist!
    
    assbot: EEVblog #470 - Agilent N9344C 20GHz Spectrum Analyser Teardown - YouTube
    
    mircea_popescu: mike_c losing all our monyz
    
    decimation: hehe yeah those "pcb waveguide" filters are awesome
    
    decimation: agilent still has a few "greybeards" who know RF
    
    mike_c: nah, i seeded with MPIF funds :D
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: not necessarily. usually these patterns are crapped out by software.
    
    decimation: plus vast sums invested in engineering simulation software
    
    decimation: yeah hehe
    
    decimation: I think agilent makes "genesis" which does exactly this
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: He's up like 0.001
    
    mircea_popescu: aok
    
    BingoBoingo: For now
    
    decimation: the max "resolution bandwidth" for the device is only 3 MHz, that's the width of its filter as it tracks over 20 GHz
    
    mircea_popescu: micro sd slot ?
    
    decimation: re: pashtun kalashnikovs : http://www.isegoria.net/2011/02/obsolete-weapons/
    
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    decimation: the sd slot is probably to store pretty pictures of the spectrum you capture
    
    mircea_popescu: so "attention to detail" agilent is full of random wires lol
    
    asciilifeform: doubt the bodges are in the analogue nets
    
    mircea_popescu: decimation since not populated nor intended to open i imagined it's factory diagnosis ?
    
    asciilifeform: likely contents of sd: fpga bitstreams
    
    asciilifeform: (firmware)
    
    decimation: yeah I just saw what you were talking about, the one in the middle of the board is to load new firmware
    
    decimation: yeah
    
    decimation: that way they don't have to slow down assembly line with firmware burner
    
    decimation: plus it is simple to field upgrade
    
    mircea_popescu: makes sense
    
    mircea_popescu has learned a lot this past half hour
    
    decimation: yeah this video is unusally good for this guy, usually he just rambles at the camera for an hour rather than showing the goods
    
    asciilifeform: serious lab instruments usually look quite like this on inside.
    
    asciilifeform: it is only a surprise to folks who were never left alone with them
    
    asciilifeform: (and screwdriver)
    
    decimation: computers could be built this way, if people were willing to pay for it
    
    asciilifeform: were, in fact.
    
    asciilifeform: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Minuteman_guidance_computer_(1).jpg
    
    asciilifeform: ^ first 'computer' my university got.
    
    mircea_popescu: ceramic composite gasket ?
    
    decimation: heh yeah that's the autonetics deal
    
    asciilifeform: notice exactly same style of machined cavity, gasket, board.
    
    asciilifeform: plus shock mounts
    
    
    
    asciilifeform: ^ moar
    
    decimation: probably could withstand 50 g shock
    
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    asciilifeform: for anyone overcome with urges, there's an emulator somewhere, if i recall.
    
    mircea_popescu: yup
    
    decimation: heh thru-hole parts with hand-drawn pcbs
    
    mircea_popescu: someone leave him the comment he asks for ?
    
    mircea_popescu: ahaha solder reinforced dead trace ?
    
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    decimation: on the guy's forum someone talks about the bodge wires: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-470-agilent-n9344c-20ghz-spectrum-analyser-teardown/msg233302/#msg233302
    
    assbot: EEVblog #470 - Agilent N9344C 20GHz Spectrum Analyser Teardown - Page 3
    
    decimation: " It's not unusual for the first couple of units to have components changed by designers who are not expert solderers just to prove that the mod works as intended. Once everyone is happy then some of these units become demo models, "
    
    decimation: this was probably a demo unit, if the agilent sales guys gave it to him
    
    decimation: I can't find any comments about the gaskets, youtube sucks
    
    asciilifeform: the gaskets are usually 'mu metal'
    
    asciilifeform: ;;google mu metal
    
    gribble: Mu-metal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu-metal>; MuShield Magnetic Shielding / MuMetal Home Page, the leader in ...: <http://www.mumetal.com/>; MuMETAL® Sheet and Foil On Magnetic Shield Corporation: <http://custommagneticshielding.magneticshield.com/category/mumetal-sheet-and-foil>
    
    mircea_popescu: this is why if i managed him i'd only take final customer items.
    
    asciilifeform: the dissector fellow ought to have known this.
    
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    decimation: I suspect the gaskets are something like this http://www.chomerics.com/products/emi/gaskets/wovenwires/index.html
    
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    BingoBoingo: Futbol would be a lot more interesting if the World Cup's championship game was just Klose and Messi taking shots from the goal line for 90 minutes
    
    decimation: I think the mu-metal is used to line the outer plastic chassis
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: looked solid in the film.
    
    decimation: yeah, it did
    
    mircea_popescu: diametric not bad. i like your guy better than the agilent guy
    
    mircea_popescu: uh i mean dignork :p
    
    dignork: mircea_popescu: but x-ray!
    
    BingoBoingo: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-34T4FnOKEys/U7moV_bQg9I/AAAAAAAAEMM/OX7469hRnH8/s1600/conc.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: What was not noticed much outside of Afghanistan, was that this shift in weaponry brought to an end a long Afghan tradition of precision, long range shooting.
    
    asciilifeform: old debate about bolt action vs. auto rifle is old...
    
    mircea_popescu: this is bs. unless chinese made, a proper ak probably outshoots a worn-to-shit ww2 surplus bolt action
    
    asciilifeform: around here, most bolt action enthusiasts own 'mosin' - in virginal conditionl.
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah well.
    
    decimation: not if you are 600 yards away
    
    mircea_popescu: try shooting a ww1 rifle once
    
    asciilifeform: russia produced millions of them, and they can be had in original crate (!) for about 100 usd.
    
    mircea_popescu: a daisy's got better accuracy
    
    mircea_popescu: decimation "the half dozen or so men moved several hundred meters away and drew lots to see who would fire in what order."
    
    mircea_popescu: 2-3 even 400.
    
    decimation: afghanistan is the ideal long-distance shooting country
    
    mircea_popescu: in that sense they need sniper rifles not frigging enfields.
    
    decimation: well sure, but they have $100 to spend on pashtoon ak or enfield :)
    
    asciilifeform: russia still fields mosins for sniper use
    
    asciilifeform: naturally, 'massaged' mosins, not the usual surplus market
    
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    decimation: this guy on the UK side was having a field day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Harrison_%28sniper%29
    
    mircea_popescu: cazalla the disadvantage of running a neobee is that you get the "no news" people on your case
    
    mircea_popescu: and gotta keep pumping them "news"
    
    asciilifeform: lol re: baggage machine. used to push my knapsack through this exact type of box every morning.
    
    asciilifeform: also mega-lol re: 3rd comment on film.
    
    asciilifeform: 1nn0c3nt l1v3s!
    
    cazalla: mircea_popescu: there is a new exchange here in au, cointree.com.au, i emailed and invited them here, they were happy to meet for coffee or do a google hangout but no show here :\
    
    dignork: the guy made a long film out of it, but he managed to turn it on, and then was brave/stupid enough to disassemble particle emitter
    
    mircea_popescu: dignork o wow he did that ?
    
    mircea_popescu: what do trhese things use, high voltage diode ?
    
    asciilifeform: xray tube hasn't really changed since it was discovered.
    
    decimation: most good engineers would have alot of trouble figuring out circuitry from an xray (in a short timeframe)
    
    mircea_popescu: tungsten/rhenium ?
    
    decimation: now imagine what kind of chance the average airport mouthbreather has to figure things out
    
    asciilifeform: aye, whack a tungsten target with electron. bremsstrahlung!
    
    decimation: nah, use scotch tape
    
    asciilifeform tried to build the famous scotch tape xray
    
    asciilifeform: hard to get detector that is sensitive enough
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    
    
    assbot: Sticky tape generates X-rays : Nature News
    
    asciilifeform: that one.
    
    asciilifeform: love how they eventually admitted that it was a '50s russian discovery
    
    asciilifeform: but, 'remastered!'
    
    decimation: Yeah I bet you need a good vaccuum too
    
    
    
    assbot: Baggage X-ray machine part 6 - inside the black box. - YouTube
    
    decimation: I was reading about the history of computers the other day ascii - early soviet machines were balance ternary!
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: yes.
    
    decimation: I find that amusing, perhaps when the 'end of moore' comes, ternary computers will reappear
    
    mircea_popescu: what killed it ?
    
    
    
    assbot: Online Emulation of Soviet Ternary Computer Setun / rinary
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i might have mentioned this once, long ago. what killed? the decision to copy american machines to run warez.
    
    mircea_popescu: aha.
    
    asciilifeform: all native russian work on computing was nixed
    
    decimation: and the american machines were already "new jersey" style
    
    asciilifeform: ternary cpu was not only space-efficient (closer to 'e', more compact arithmetic representation) but considerably simplified arithm. circuits.
    
    asciilifeform: no need for 'complements'
    
    
    
    assbot: Ternary computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: There are still WWI era Springfields that are in nice shape, but with the Enfields... "British Industry" producers of fine cars that have a commonality with puppies in their leaving of puddles
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;bc,stats
    
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    decimation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary "Donald Knuth has pointed out that truncation and rounding are the same operation in balanced ternary ? they produce exactly the same result (a property shared with other balanced numeral systems). "
    
    assbot: Balanced ternary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    
    asciilifeform: yes.
    
    decimation: it's actually quite elegant, rids you of the need to come up with some silly signed integer representation
    
    
    
    assbot: Wierd military computer boards - YouTube
    
    asciilifeform: ^ re: mil-style board construction
    
    BingoBoingo still dreams of "spider shotgun" shooting sub 0.1 grams of salt
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'ratshot'
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Ratshot fucks up drywall
    
    asciilifeform: exists, saw in catalogue not long ago.
    
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    asciilifeform: incl. plastic variant
    
    BingoBoingo: Plastic ratshot still messes drywall. Also... I want it for the challenge. Not smashing spiders with a weapon capable of felling a snake
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 100mW diode laser.
    
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    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Now we're talking
    
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    decimation: wonder how many backyard warriors are planning on killing the neighbor's kids while "defending" their home with an ak?
    
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    nubbins`: i saw a video earlier of a 3d-printed composting shredder
    
    BingoBoingo: Blackbag operation against the groundhog stealling all of the soon to be tomatoes last week was satisfying
    
    BingoBoingo: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_spot/2014/07/08/brazil_blown_out_by_germany_at_world_cup_how_will_it_effect_president_dilma.html
    
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    decimation: ascii those military boards you linked are apparently from a VAX!
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: 'minuteman' and many other american products still run on vax (in their 'modernized' variants!)
    
    BingoBoingo: Vaxocentrism 4 Lyfe!!!
    
    decimation: yeah, the amount of extra work you have to go through to meet mil-spec for avionics, etc, why bother changing software?
    
    asciilifeform: vax forever because... alternative is: winblows.
    
    asciilifeform: (why? ask them - not me)
    
    
    
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    BingoBoingo: Spac isn't bad either before Sparc III
    
    decimation: "The Defense Department has leveraged the buying power of more than two million information technology users to award a three-year, $617 million joint enterprise license agreement for Microsoft products, defense officials announced."
    
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    decimation: the DoD was very clever in its spending of $0.6 billion for crapware
    
    decimation: if only they would have seen the value they would have also purchased whatsapp for $20bn
    
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    BingoBoingo: decimation: And you suppose Facebook isn't a front how?
    
    decimation: http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-users-dumb-fucks tells you all you need to know about facebook
    
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    nubbins`: horse heads
    
    
    
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    BingoBoingo: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/07/08/smallpox_discovered_old_laboratory_produces_surprising_find.html
    
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    BingoBoingo: halo
    
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    mircea_popescu: <decimation> "The Defense Department has leveraged the buying power << lmao
    
    mircea_popescu: looks like i owe stan a beer nao
    
    mircea_popescu: any strippers in washington dc wanna do a home delivery ?
    
    TheNewDeal: mememe
    
    asciilifeform: i'll pick up mein bier in person soon enough.
    
    mircea_popescu: bring the strippers.
    
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    benkay: <mike_c> can anybody recommend an irc bouncer. // emacs +  mosh on remote boxx
    
    mike_c: thx. i don't know anything about emacs yet.