mircea_popescu: ;;ud mpex
    
    gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mpex.net | ... mpec · mpeepee · mpeg · mpenzi · Mpex.net · MPF · mpfag · MPFF · mpffffffffhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh · MPFH · MPFM · mpfree ... Mpex.net isn't defined.
    
    mircea_popescu: lolk
    
    Vexual: unbeliezable
    
    mircea_popescu: ahahah
    
    Vexual: can we get mcafee in here? i know he watches
    
    copumpkin: mpex.ws works!
    
    copumpkin: weird
    
    copumpkin: oh, and the statement came out too!
    
    copumpkin: it's christmas
    
    mircea_popescu: how's lyf copumpkin ?
    
    copumpkin: going pretty well! you?
    
    mircea_popescu: well actually... i think there's a fire in the building.
    
    copumpkin: that sounds somewhat problematic
    
    mircea_popescu: myeah.
    
    copumpkin: what are you doing about it?
    
    nubbins`: Vexual that would be rad
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin same thing i'm doing about global warming. waiting it the shit out.
    
    Vexual: lol
    
    copumpkin: sounds like a plan
    
    copumpkin: perhaps not the best plan
    
    copumpkin: but definitely a plan
    
    mircea_popescu: it's pretty good. they do integral poured concrete building here, everything's built like a fucking dam.
    
    mircea_popescu: i think the net effect of half the entire thing burning to a crisp would be slightly warmer walls.
    
    Vexual: you qou keep the requisite amount of climbing rope on hand?
    
    mircea_popescu: im a floor above some shit that's a coupla floors above ground. i could just basically walk out the window if needed.
    
    nubbins`: not sure if i mentioned this earlier, but i sold the rights to use one of my prints for a cassette cover today
    
    nubbins`: to this kid named johnny cowabunga :0
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` lotta dough ?
    
    mircea_popescu: ahahaha
    
    nubbins`: sliding scale, i let the kid away with $50 ;D
    
    nubbins`: and a free cassette
    
    mircea_popescu: i'd have asked for the wife.
    
    mircea_popescu: imagine, having banged cheri cowabunga
    
    nubbins`: i can add it to my collection of tapes that i can't play
    
    Vexual: my car plays tapes
    
    mircea_popescu: s/car/cat
    
    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: what do you drive?
    
    mircea_popescu: i don't drive.
    
    copumpkin: what are you driven in?
    
    mircea_popescu: ideally a mercedes.
    
    copumpkin: how do you get around?
    
    nubbins`: he pays people to chauffeur him :0
    
    mircea_popescu: something like that.
    
    nubbins`: heh
    
    mircea_popescu: also, i walk.
    
    nubbins`: anything less than an hour is automatic walk for me
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` i'm about 200 yards from the natl theatre, right behind the courthouse, half mile from the presidency and about a mile from the congress.
    
    mircea_popescu: o and half a mile from the city congress
    
    mircea_popescu: my lawyer's half a mile that way, the best sushi in town is a quarter mile this way, on it goes. longest walk i ever have to take is to get to the jooz quarter.
    
    mthreat: here's his limo: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Buenos_Aires_-_Colectivo_108_-_120209_111802.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: mthreat i've yet to try teh mass transit here
    
    Vexual: popescuist!
    
    mircea_popescu: but the cab service is really really good.
    
    mthreat: ya taxis are good and cheap
    
    mircea_popescu: this place is what new york wishes it were.
    
    Vexual: did you get any pirhana yet?
    
    mircea_popescu: even the matzah ball's better.
    
    copumpkin: mircea_popescu: reminds me of being in boston
    
    mircea_popescu: how ?
    
    copumpkin: :(
    
    copumpkin: I used to walk everywhere
    
    copumpkin: not even public transport
    
    mircea_popescu: a yes.
    
    Vexual: hows the spanish progressing mircea?
    
    mircea_popescu: try getting dumplings without fucking margerine in new york, it's nigh on impossible. fucktards.
    
    TheNewDeal: walking is kind of like public transport
    
    mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal why, do you normally carry people ?
    
    TheNewDeal: for a small fee
    
    mircea_popescu: http://blog.nationalcarbrokers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Mercedes-BIOME012.jpg << new from mercedes! a vacuum cleanner!
    
    copumpkin: lol
    
    Vexual: id want a few glasses of pino gris before i drove that, so that i might imagine where the road is
    
    TheNewDeal: quiz question: what is the financial incentive in copying someone else's odds on bitbet, but at a fraction of their bet?  re: http://bitbet.us/bet/1000/republicans-win-majority-of-the-u-s-senate/
    
    assbot: BitBet - Republicans win majority of the U.S. Senate :: 0.77 B (64%) on Yes, 0.43 B (36%) on No | closing in 3 months 1 week| weight: 99`870 (100`000 to 1)
    
    TheNewDeal: you're banking on them getting the odds correct?
    
    mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal this was discussed earlier, re financial products. what the fuck is the buzzword, i forget
    
    mircea_popescu: someone or the other had introduced this option to "copy" other trader's strategy
    
    TheNewDeal: !s lawgs
    
    assbot: 6 results for 'lawgs' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=lawgs
    
    TheNewDeal: so what you're telling me is, it's in the lawgs https://imgflip.com/i/9iu9z ?
    
    assbot: Image tagged in lawgs - Imgflip
    
    mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal mkay lemme see here
    
    TheNewDeal: love reading that every time
    
    mircea_popescu: a ok found it.
    
    
    
    assbot: #bitcoin-assets log
    
    mircea_popescu: !up gabriel_laddel
    
    gabriel_laddel: First pass at a 20 post care package: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=aakdQD9P
    
    gabriel_laddel: Regarding sexbots, I'm surprised that no one has brought the custom maid 3d integration with oculus rift.
    
    gabriel_laddel: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=73799908&postcount=309 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVJ5zNLsOwY http://vimeo.com/79173606
    
    assbot: NeoGAF - View Single Post -  Penis-Powered Game Gets Oculus Rift Support (Post #309 hands-on review)
    
    assbot: Zozzerie con L'OCULUS RIFT - YouTube
    
    assbot: VR TENGA DEMO (2): Oculus RiftNovint FalconTENGA on Vimeo
    
    mircea_popescu: "The Last Psychaiarist" << that's not spelled thusly.
    
    gabriel_laddel: ty
    
    mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel well i suspect we're really very noobish masturbators.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7600 @ 0.00080758 = 6.1376 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony mebbe you should hire THIS guy to do those summaries.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9350 @ 0.00081098 = 7.5827 BTC [+]
    
    TheNewDeal: after reading, still not sure on what the consensus was? Really doesn't matter, because you don't know what future bets will be?
    
    mircea_popescu: really does not matter, because while it saves on the direct question (what to bet) it creates the meta question (whom to copy).
    
    mircea_popescu: these being equally hard... nothing has changed.
    
    copumpkin: so much for that MPOE selloff I was expecting
    
    asciilifeform: Vexual: wtf are you building << cardanos.
    
    asciilifeform: srsly
    
    asciilifeform: what'd ya think? tanks? rockets?
    
    Vexual: no ots cemeras is fine
    
    TheNewDeal: chimeras!?!
    
    asciilifeform: chimeras, we build later.
    
    mircea_popescu recommends fucking chimeras. it's fucking weird in a good way.
    
    mircea_popescu: "While from innate cowardice the upper classes turn away from a man whom the Jew attacks with lies and slander, the broad masses from stupidity or simplicity believe everything. The state authorities either cloak themselves in silence or, what usually happens, in order to put an end to the Jewish press campaign, they persecute the unjustly attacked, which, in the eyes of such an official ass, passes as the preservation
    
    mircea_popescu: of state authority and the safeguarding of law and order."
    
    mircea_popescu: let's play "guess the author"
    
    asciilifeform: herr schicklegruber
    
    TheNewDeal: adolph
    
    TheNewDeal: -ph +f
    
    mircea_popescu: ahjahaha adolph herr schicklegruber
    
    mircea_popescu: that's it, best name ever.
    
    Vexual: the red nosed fcist
    
    asciilifeform: ;;google alois schicklgruber
    
    gribble: Alois Hitler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hitler>; Ancestry of Adolf Hitler - 20th Century History - About.com: <http://history1900s.about.com/od/hitleradolf/a/hitlerancestry.htm>; Alois Hitler, father to Adolf - History in an HourHistory in an Hour: <http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/01/03/alois-hitler-hitlers-father/>
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a srsly ? i had no idea.
    
    asciilifeform: btw 'table talk' is the 'fun hitler.'
    
    asciilifeform: mk is a snore.
    
    mircea_popescu: i find it very amusing, this tendency of the simpleton to personalise. first, the gods are guys (and some gals), because why the fuck not. then, Nature, has a will. finally, the pernicious working of the democratic/populist press become "jewish".
    
    mircea_popescu: i'd rather blame von bismarck tbh.
    
    mircea_popescu: it's not the jew's fault that old otto wanted functionaries and officers and so started schooling the peasantry, whether the peasantry wanted any schooling or not.
    
    Vexual: shalom
    
    Vexual: salaam
    
    asciilifeform: 'Nowadays humanity depends basically on the whale for its  nourishment with fats. I gather that the number of whales in  the seas of the world tends rather to fall than to increase. The  East will supply us with the vegetable fats that will replace whale-oil.'
    
    asciilifeform: true genius!
    
    asciilifeform: amazing! observation.
    
    assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    mircea_popescu: well... wrong in all particular points tho. it was chiefly tallow all through history, not whale fat.
    
    
    
    assbot: Full text of "Hitlers Table Talk"
    
    mircea_popescu: and it was the west (specifically, the french, that made margerine. and linoleum)
    
    asciilifeform: wrong in all particular points << carefully picked for this
    
    asciilifeform: 'The water-cooled engine will have to disappear completely.'
    
    asciilifeform: 'Instead of obtaining petrol from coal by a complicated process, it's preferable to compel certain categories of users to  employ vehicles equipped with gas-generators.' << incidentally this was what 'gasenwagen' originally meant.
    
    asciilifeform: they're still on the roads, i'm told, in pissholes like finland.
    
    mircea_popescu: all over europe. most cabs burn gpl.
    
    asciilifeform: no, no. not liquified gasses. coal gas.
    
    mircea_popescu: the difference is nigligible.
    
    mircea_popescu: whale gas.
    
    
    
    asciilifeform: that one. CO.
    
    asciilifeform: ^ yes, it's a stove.
    
    Vexual: thats a mobile sauna
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    asciilifeform: the 'other sauna.'
    
    Vexual: rba boss says real economy needs "animal spirits"
    
    Vexual: no dollar policy?
    
    TheNewDeal: animal spirits sounds tasty
    
    Vexual: growth expected
    
    Vexual: aka wait and see
    
    Vexual: meahwhile...
    
    TheNewDeal: what does the line indicate on the bitbet.us histograph?
    
    TheNewDeal: I'm quite fairly sure I understand the greenish vs red colors. But there's also a, perhaps, darker green line as well.
    
    mircea_popescu: total volume
    
    TheNewDeal: ahhhh
    
    mircea_popescu: it being monotonous is kind of a giveaway
    
    TheNewDeal: what do you mean?
    
    mircea_popescu: notice how it always goes up ?
    
    TheNewDeal: well I never really noticed it before
    
    mircea_popescu: bitbet. giving the bitcoin population the sort of graphs it wants to see. since 2012.
    
    TheNewDeal: not so mach
    
    TheNewDeal: I want to see a game of life style graph
    
    TheNewDeal: war of life *
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4650 @ 0.00081098 = 3.7711 BTC [+]
    
    
    
    assbot: The Most Expensive Bitcoin Painting Ever Sold - American Hard Assets
    
    jurov: BLOCKCHAIN JESUS
    
    fluffypony: holy shit, Bitcoin Judas is Mark Karpeles - LOL!
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13670 @ 0.00080961 = 11.0674 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    fluffypony: what just happened
    
    xmj: what?
    
    fluffypony: netsplit?
    
    pankkake: yes
    
    fluffypony: kk
    
    xmj: What's the best way of trust brokering you've found so far? instilling trust between two parties that do not yet now each other directly.)
    
    fluffypony: depends
    
    fluffypony: if it's transactional, then a series of progressively larger escrowed deals establish historicity
    
    fluffypony: from which trust can be derived
    
    xmj: that works well in an iterative context
    
    xmj: how do you instill trust -right from the start- ?
    
    cazalla: anyone want to buy 10k atc?
    
    xmj: fluffypony: suppose i know you and cazalla but you don't know each other
    
    xmj: fluffypony: suppose ive had a good history of business deals with each of you
    
    fluffypony: well that's what the WoT is for
    
    xmj: fluffypony: how do i leverage that into getting you two to trust each other?
    
    fluffypony: cazalla wants to sell 10k ATC
    
    fluffypony: I've never dealt with cazalla
    
    fluffypony: you trust cazalla , I trust you, I talk to you about your trust relationship with cazalla
    
    xmj: WoT works well if you have any formal (eg software) framework for WoT'ing
    
    xmj: how do you do that in more loose (ie social) networks?
    
    cazalla: ;;sell 10000 ATC at 0.00000220 BTC 0.00000220 or better send PM
    
    gribble: Order id 21124 created.
    
    xmj: hmhm
    
    fluffypony: tough one
    
    xmj: i'll figure something out
    
    xmj: it's my longterm (>5 years) plan, i have time.
    
    fluffypony: a WoT Facebook plugin :-P
    
    xmj: WoT as a Service.
    
    xmj: Cloud WoT
    
    xmj: Cloud of Trust.
    
    xmj: bingo.
    
    pankkake: that's what linkedin is supposed to be, too
    
    fluffypony: CoT
    
    fluffypony: I'm down with that
    
    xmj: did you just buy the .com domain?
    
    xmj: no, my order went through.
    
    xmj: cloudoftrust.{com,org}
    
    fluffypony: lol
    
    xmj: there was a lot of drinking involved yesterday.
    
    xmj coughs
    
    fluffypony: I wore my DM Baar t-shirt yesterday
    
    xmj: awesome
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3000 @ 0.00278558 = 8.3567 BTC [-] {22} 
    
    xmj: i've resolved to running game on -everyone-
    
    xmj: it does seem like in non-formal contexts iterative interaction history is the common way
    
    xmj: there has to be a better deal.
    
    chetty: xmj: it does seem like in non-formal contexts iterative interaction history is the common way xmj: there has to be a better deal// seriously trust is pretty much a function that can not be delegated
    
    xmj: i bet it can
    
    chetty: perhaps I should have said, shouldn't be. people do manage all sorts of stupids
    
    xmj: delegation isn't the part that interests me
    
    pankkake: a good example would be those btc lending sites
    
    xmj: proxying and facilitating.
    
    pankkake: which use social for verification or something
    
    chetty: thing is blind trust gets folks in trouble all the time, how many people thought Gox was ok because everybody is using it?
    
    chetty: (btw this is a discussion worth having imo, just in case there is a solution)
    
    xmj: Science to the rescue.
    
    xmj: Lucky for me there's a whole subfield of Game theory.
    
    
    
    assbot: The Human Face of Game Theory: Trust and Reciprocity in Sequential Games by Catherine C. Eckel, Rick K. Wilson :: SSRN
    
    
    
    assbot: How to identify trust and reciprocity
    
    
    
    assbot: Trust in Large Organizations
    
    punkman: xmj: WoT works well if you have any formal (eg software) framework for WoT'ing <- no that's exactly when WoT can fail catastrophically
    
    punkman: trust is fuzzy
    
    xmj: sure
    
    punkman: and you can't magically make it appear out of thin air
    
    xmj: you should.
    
    xmj: Oh look: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2586897?uid=3737920&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104515428523
    
    assbot: JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie
    
    punkman: because you like the idea?
    
    cazalla: well if it isn't the merchant meme teasing redditor Pierre_Rochard
    
    Pierre_Rochard: Morning cazalla. We get complaints about that one every time it shows up
    
    xmj: punkman: mostly because i work that way
    
    xmj: A tells me they trust B, which makes me trust B through A's proxying (conditional on my estimation of A)
    
    punkman: that doesn't create trust where there is none
    
    xmj: we're not talking about that situation anyway?
    
    punkman: sounded like that to me
    
    xmj: A <trust> B <trust> C. how  does B leverage his bonds between B<>A and B<>C to make A <trust> C appear/
    
    punkman: if you have an indirect connection you talk to that guy first of course
    
    xmj: ?
    
    xmj: sure, that's from the perspective of A. think of it from B's perspective!
    
    pankkake: "You seem to be unaware that CoinLenders and Inputs are independent. They've always quite clearly stated that there are no warranties of any kind for coins stored there, as such I do not owe you your claimed amount"
    
    fluffypony: lol
    
    fluffypony: if this was twitter I'd hashtag that with #delusional
    
    punkman: xmj, I suppose that's when B acts as escrow
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9800 @ 0.00081126 = 7.9503 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    punkman: he could escrow a fidelity bond
    
    xmj: interesting
    
    xmj: i did not know escrow was the term i was looking for
    
    chetty: I trust MP, if MP says he trusts B, should I trust B or should I do my own homework?
    
    punkman: chetty, the answer is both, but if the trust connections are good enough, you could skip the due dilligence
    
    chetty: exactly, and the crux is the 'good enough', a judgment call
    
    punkman: I'd rephrase that, WoT is an avenue where you do due dilligence. You trust MP enough, you can stop your search after getting the "go-ahead" from MP
    
    punkman: or you can keep going, look in other WoTs, public records, etc
    
    fluffypony: chetty: yeah, it depends on the type of transaction as well
    
    fluffypony: like if the person wants to trade 0.1 BTC I'd risk it based on the mutual connection
    
    punkman: if the due diligence doesn't get you anywhere, then you still have other tools. The fidelity bond is a good one, insurance another... any other good examples?
    
    fluffypony: just in case nobody's seen this: https://twitter.com/embee/status/416121742738739200
    
    chetty: fluffypony, a lot of trust is built like that, in small steps
    
    punkman: this is quite common: if C trusts the B->A connection, but A doesn't trust B->C, then C will often "send first" as to eliminate risk for A at his expense.
    
    xmj: so
    
    xmj: it seems to turn out that the way to skip the homework is solved
    
    
    
    xmj: within the trust game you just need to deposit enough money with the trust escrow to make the other party likely of investing. you'll obtain efficient outcomes.
    
    fluffypony: oh man
    
    fluffypony: this is awesome
    
    
    
    assbot: "Weird Al" Yankovic - Mission Statement - YouTube
    
    chetty: of course thats one way con games work too, suck people in for a while with small 'investments'
    
    xmj: aaaand
    
    xmj: i've just found my calling.
    
    xmj: tadatadaaaaaaa
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14200 @ 0.00081221 = 11.5334 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13950 @ 0.0008136 = 11.3497 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7410 @ 0.0008127 = 6.0221 BTC [-]
    
    thickasthieves: <+mircea_popescu> someone or the other had introduced this option to "copy" other trader's strategy  /// PAMM
    
    thickasthieves: <+jurov> BLOCKCHAIN JESUS  /// that's one sorry painting...
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 10 @ 0.1634 = 1.634 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6950 @ 0.00081406 = 5.6577 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 100 @ 0.16148499 = 16.1485 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.16 = 0.64 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: http://www.merchantwarrior.com/ << derpforum has created... AN OLD STYLE PAYMENT GATEWAY!!11
    
    assbot: Merchant Warrior - Online Payment Gateway to Accept Credit Card & Check Payments
    
    mircea_popescu: be excited!!11
    
    fluffypony: hah hah
    
    mircea_popescu: jurov http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Bitcoin-Supper.jpg << that shit's unmitigatedly ugly
    
    mircea_popescu: not just because all the humanoid figurines seem to be really the same alien,
    
    mircea_popescu: but mostly because the fundamental problem the "painter" has with his craft manifests not only in the "people" giving the wrong vibe, but the whole scene having the wrong atmosphere. that room looks to me like an apartment building in the poor section of petrograd having an amphetamine fueled dream about itself.
    
    
    
    assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
    
    nubbins`: final version
    
    nubbins`: mp that reminds me of something you'd see painted on a wall in belfast
    
    mircea_popescu: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Giampietrino-Last-Supper-ca-1520.jpg << compare to the sweet, sweet sweetness of giampetrino's original, or with the raphael they were both trying to copy : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Sanzio_01.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: (and yes the raphael is unsurpassed, mostly because the christian church stands with learned antiquity roughly in the position american contemporaneity stands with the learned europe of last century. a cheap, affordable copy that misses all the details which made it worth the while)
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` imo the o's touching is bad, but what do i know.
    
    
    
    nubbins`: largest version i can find online
    
    chetty: mircea_popescu,  a cheap, affordable copy that misses all the details which made it worth the while//I thought that was modern china
    
    mircea_popescu: chetty that's an even cheaper copy of the cheap copy.
    
    nubbins`: this is set in an old newfoundland stagehouse, there's cod drying in the rafters and all kinds of old newfy stuff everywhere
    
    mircea_popescu: this progress thing's really working, no wonder the earth is warming.
    
    mircea_popescu: the thing's not global in any sense tho. it's just the cheeks that are getting hot.
    
    nubbins`: mircea_popescu honestly i was worried it'd look like "NOO" instead of "ZOO" if i separated the Os
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` soo ?
    
    nubbins`: album's called ZOO ;(
    
    nubbins`: anyway, you can't really make it out, but pascale's dad is second from the right in that painting
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` coulda made a very flat Z
    
    mircea_popescu: to match
    
    nubbins`: which i believe makes him thaddeus?
    
    mircea_popescu: nice beard
    
    nubbins`: indeed so
    
    nubbins`: he did the stations of the cross in a rural newfoundland kind of style too
    
    nubbins`: really strange stuff
    
    
    
    nubbins`: guy with the hammer is wearing rubber boots
    
    mircea_popescu: cazalla: anyone want to buy 10k atc? << yes.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 750 @ 0.0027597 = 2.0698 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    mircea_popescu: chetty: perhaps I should have said, shouldn't be. people do manage all sorts of stupids << dun worry about it. the fuckwit has found the perfect palliative to learning how things that work work, and the submission and ego wound implicit in such learning : he's going to CREATE something that's BETTER.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1166 @ 0.00273862 = 3.1932 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    mircea_popescu: because being 15 is so very fresh, original and unpredictable.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 360 @ 0.00270232 = 0.9728 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    thickasthieves: "A pine tree planted in 2004 in a Los Angeles park in memory of former Beatle George Harrison has died after being infested by beetles."
    
    mircea_popescu: well... it did outlive the beatles' popularity...
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 194 @ 0.00270006 = 0.5238 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard: Morning cazalla. We get complaints about that one every time it shows up << what's this all aboot ?
    
    cazalla: mircea_popescu, price and address?
    
    chetty: A U.S. appeals court has struck down subsidies for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act in states that use federal marketplaces to buy coverage.
    
    mircea_popescu: cazalla BingoBoingo's my atc broker we'll need him to be here for both. do you mind ?
    
    mircea_popescu: chetty wait, what trachery is this ? first govt cuts a deal with states then federal courts get it off the hook for its part of the deal ?
    
    cazalla: sure np, 1:30am here though, i'll be back in the morning
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony: if this was twitter I'd hashtag that with #delusional << is the tradefortress character pulling a goat ?
    
    fluffypony: he's pulling a TradeFortress
    
    mircea_popescu: this business where one scams a buvncha people, lays low for half a year-ish etc was patented by goat. he did it like 3-4 times to date.
    
    mircea_popescu: course many twerps tried since, kenna, klye, you name it.
    
    pankkake: TF isn't claiming he's a Trusted Member yet, otherwise it's textbook goat
    
    mircea_popescu: punkman: I'd rephrase that, WoT is an avenue where you do due dilligence. You trust MP enough, you can stop your search after getting the "go-ahead" from MP << for that matter mp can even say something like "o, forget it, if he's gypping you for 1.3 BTC I"M paying for it."
    
    mircea_popescu: the breadth & width of deals and representations available is endless.
    
    Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: redditors and buttcoiners get offended by the last image on this article http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/im-hoarding-bitcoins-and-no-you-cant-have-any/
    
    assbot: I'm Hoarding Bitcoins, and No You Can't Have Any | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
    
    pankkake: eh, that's was on my mind. there are some people (they're not in the wot though) I would gladly cover for
    
    mircea_popescu: pankkake it's actually an economically positive activity : you know and can evaluate the risk, so you're risking say 1% of 1.3 btc, or 1 bitcent.
    
    mircea_popescu: the op however i GAINING a lot more from this than the cost to you.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 800 @ 0.00258108 = 2.0649 BTC [-] {22} 
    
    pankkake: they want to get offended, no matter what you do, they'll be offended
    
    mircea_popescu: so it's one of those rare cases of money being made out of thin air.
    
    mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard lol okay.
    
    Pierre_Rochard: Ot
    
    Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: it’s a glorious portrait of our dear leader bitstein, but dats racist
    
    mircea_popescu: i love how buttcoiner is by now ambiguous. does it denote bitcoiners identified by one of that small group of vitriolic naysayers born out of me trolling SA, or does it denote one of that very group ?
    
    mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard omfg is your institute run by jooz ?!
    
    Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: yes, it’s a deep cover psyop run by the rothschilds and queen of england
    
    mircea_popescu: omfg the queen is jewish ?!
    
    BingoBoingo: Is this the pankkake approved TF drama? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=702654.0
    
    assbot: What should I do? TradeFortress
    
    mircea_popescu: worst circumcision job ever -> queen of england.
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what we paying on atc ?
    
    pankkake: yes, she's one of us
    
    pankkake: I mean, of them
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: He was asking 220, so I passed on it
    
    mircea_popescu: well yes but what ~are~ we paying on it
    
    BingoBoingo: Right now our highest bid is 210
    
    pankkake: BingoBoingo: yes that's my source
    
    mircea_popescu: cazalla see, take 200, be happy.
    
    cazalla: well you can counter offer, don't be timid
    
    bitstein: I really don't appreciate how the Reddit community is judging me by the size of my nose, the length of my beard, and the wringing of my hands.
    
    cazalla: BingoBoingo, i'll do 210
    
    thickasthieves: bitstein have you considered plastic surgery and behavioral therapy?
    
    pankkake: it's just bad faith, the article is praising hoarding which is the jew stereotype; the image is a popular meme; it's an obvious joke and anyone claiming to be offended is lying
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1300 @ 0.00081432 = 1.0586 BTC [+]
    
    pankkake: that's why there is no reason to cater to that
    
    thickasthieves: it's like the black lady nigger story
    
    mircea_popescu: bitstein do you have a good cackle ?
    
    thickasthieves: ;;google trilema nigger
    
    gribble: The nigger homeowners and other niggers pe Trilema - Un blog de ...: <http://trilema.com/2012/the-nigger-homeowners-and-other-niggers/>; The nigger, a practical exercise. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/2014/the-nigger-a-practical-exercise/>; Fried chicken pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2013/fried-chicken/>
    
    mircea_popescu: pankkake they don't have to be lying. they could just be stupid. or you know, trained into superficial stupidity by a website dedicated to doing exactly that
    
    BingoBoingo: cazalla: 1MPGRCrbib3aFGtTCLF5nADZcLEAgdTu7E post or pm address
    
    thickasthieves: ;;google trilema rhonda nigger
    
    gribble: The nigger, a practical exercise. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/2014/the-nigger-a-practical-exercise/>; Fried chicken pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2013/fried-chicken/>
    
    cazalla: this is bitstein i imagine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F0Xx-oQKsU
    
    assbot: Le happy merchant has a blast - YouTube
    
    pankkake: they're lying, either to the world or to themselves
    
    pankkake: !search nigger
    
    assbot: 196 results for 'nigger' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=nigger
    
    mircea_popescu: well actually, since i got all the internet jews collected here, prepare to BURN!!!
    
    thickasthieves: there it is, the chicken one
    
    mircea_popescu: alternatively, read this http://trilema.com/2014/shut-up-and-sit-down/ an' tell me what yu think
    
    assbot: Shut up and sit down. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
    
    bitstein: mircea_popsecu Only when I can get interest rates just high enough
    
    mircea_popescu: who else's a joo, benkay, bitcoinpete ?
    
    princessnell: all of my faves
    
    pankkake: davout?
    
    cazalla: i'm 3% according to 23andme.com but it's cancelled out by 3% african i figure
    
    benkay: we p great
    
    benkay: morning, princessnell
    
    mircea_popescu: nah, jews can't have big cocks
    
    mircea_popescu: and a horse in my wot told me it's seen davout's.
    
    bitstein: thickasthieves - thinking of nose jobs got me listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yDarQW7UZc
    
    assbot: Frank Zappa- Jewish Princess - YouTube
    
    davout: pankkake: you rubbed the lamp?
    
    thickasthieves: my ancient ancestors were jews i think, then they changed their names food and went to the azores or sumth
    
    princessnell: this is true. but they are still fun.
    
    princessnell: hiya benkay
    
    thickasthieves: to food*
    
    pankkake: davout: we're looking for jews
    
    fluffypony: are we going to throw the Jew down the well?
    
    pankkake: 23andme tells you how jew you are? that's awesome
    
    davout: pankkake: i'm only jew during business hours sorry
    
    mircea_popescu: thickasthieves given that by now your ancestry has covered half the world, i
    
    benkay: no one expects the bitcoin inquisition
    
    mircea_popescu: d be very worried if you ever have daughters.
    
    princessnell: i'm 0.1% of the tribe
    
    thickasthieves: hehe
    
    princessnell: and 3.1% neanderthal master race
    
    pankkake: I know I have a jewish antisemite ancestor, but I don't know how much jew is left
    
    cazalla: 3.4% here
    
    mircea_popescu: pankkake you used the jew up ?
    
    davout: cazalla: hah you did the 23andme thing
    
    davout: i got 25% ashkenazi
    
    thickasthieves: need some rejewvenation
    
    cazalla: i'm 3% ashkenazi
    
    fluffypony: my favourite jews are orange jews
    
    fluffypony: although mango juice isn't bad
    
    fluffypony: or a pineapple / banana jews blend
    
    bitstein: princessnell is actually a conglomeration of 14000 people
    
    mircea_popescu: god i love frank zappa
    
    fluffypony: bitstein: has she passed the Turing test?
    
    mircea_popescu: princessnell> this is true. but they are still fun. << wait, wut ? you dare speak of like your sexual experience ? as a woman among men ? on the interwebs ?
    
    mircea_popescu: THE HERESIES THIS MORNING
    
    princessnell: i don't pass turing tests, i conduct them
    
    mircea_popescu: A horny little Jewish Princess  With a garlic aroma that could level Tacoma Lonely inside Well, she can swallow my pride
    
    bitstein: la la la
    
    benkay: me, i like the shiksas
    
    princessnell: you don't say
    
    mircea_popescu: and he even mentions romanian thighs. which, yes... romanian chicks have the best thighs.
    
    mircea_popescu: just thick enough.
    
    benkay: "how do they go, after the show..."
    
    benkay: "all the way, that's the way they gooooo"
    
    benkay: "all the way, and none of their mothers ever see-em to know"
    
    mircea_popescu: dat trolling
    
    benkay: ("with leather?")
    
    benkay: joe's garage man.
    
    benkay: princessnell: it's a setup for another zappa reference.
    
    benkay: fond of japs too
    
    princessnell: heh
    
    mircea_popescu: i think maybe zappa could be a bitcoin saint.
    
    mircea_popescu: sits to the right of the father and advises on policy matters.
    
    thickasthieves: me: "Learn how Bitcoin (mining difficulty) works before speaking about it."
    
    benkay: satoshi is ancient aliens and the first saint is zappa?
    
    thickasthieves: pando: @Bitcoin_Assets "If you're going to make a statement like that, you really should back it up by pointing out what I said wrong. Mining difficulty? Anyone with a PC can mine bitcoin.  The amount that can be created per CPU cycle is arbitrarily set by an algorithm (sounds like fiat), and not the state, but it still has no intrinsic value, just like dollars.   The value it fetches
    
    thickasthieves: on the open market is irrelevant, as all currencies (evne a fiat currency) are subject to the market's whims."
    
    thickasthieves: you'd think the tech news rag would have a lcue
    
    mircea_popescu: i r nao decode fluffypony's hermetic speech. orange jews are what, manhattanites, because they overtan. and banana jews are jews pretending to be azn to get into stanford. pineapple jews however i dunno!
    
    thickasthieves: pineapple jooz are the ones with big dix
    
    mircea_popescu: thickasthieves grats, talking to pando nao.
    
    fluffypony: I was just quoting my wife, ze Germans can't say "juice" :-P
    
    thickasthieves: so giz tatstes better
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony btw, ever put her in tall campaign boots and with a cute little uniform ?
    
    mircea_popescu: schnell! schnell!
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8100 @ 0.00081616 = 6.6109 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    fluffypony: hah hah
    
    mircea_popescu: soo... i just found a wallet i had forgotten all about. like 20 btcv and change in there.
    
    mircea_popescu: THIS IS THE LIFE OF JEW!
    
    princessnell: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: think : most people will live their entire lives without ever having such a fat wallet
    
    mircea_popescu: as this thing i forgot about.
    
    mircea_popescu: it is good to be the joo.
    
    thickasthieves: !s mircea_popescu couch cushions
    
    assbot: 2 results for 'mircea_popescu couch cushions' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=mircea_popescu+couch+cushions
    
    mircea_popescu: ono DONT TAKE IT
    
    mircea_popescu: ALL MINE
    
    mircea_popescu: punkman: this is quite common: if C trusts the B->A connection, but A doesn't trust B->C, then C will often "send first" as to eliminate risk for A at his expense. << https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=359006.msg4858300#msg4858300 that concept illustrated.
    
    assbot: (NEW WORKS) portraits, commissions, and original paintings by Maureen Gubia
    
    fluffypony: donate it to Andreas Antonopoulus
    
    fluffypony: he's going to need it
    
    mircea_popescu: o look at that! i've comisioned paintings that cost like 20% of the "most expensive bitcoin painting ever made". har har.
    
    mircea_popescu: at least mine don't look like shit.
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony what for ?
    
    fluffypony: the coming revolution where he's left behind
    
    thickasthieves: "Do you think that smart contracts won't work or that they won't be used? Could you recommend any research that supports your views?"
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4 <<< ahahaah definitely.
    
    assbot: "Weird Al" Yankovic - Mission Statement - YouTube
    
    mircea_popescu: especially the "hands draw as we sing" expansion of stephen fry's "text appears" trick
    
    mircea_popescu: that thing was cool, but SO FUCKING OVERPLAYED omg
    
    mircea_popescu: thickasthieves "would you mind talking to us in our terms so as to validate our self-perceived importance ty"
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.81053432 BTC to 12`483 shares, 14504 satoshi per share
    
    thickasthieves: First you ignore them, then you laugh at them, then they call you mean, then you win
    
    mircea_popescu: well dunno about win, but you definitely score
    
    mircea_popescu: with their wife.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 16.24933044 BTC to 1`149`988 shares, 1413 satoshi per share
    
    mircea_popescu: so today is the sad day i have to sign paperwork for all the llcs and whatnot.
    
    mircea_popescu: and the people here actually do signing, like fucking romanians.
    
    mircea_popescu: my hand will fall off ;/
    
    los_pantalones: mircea_popescu get a stamp
    
    mircea_popescu: los_pantalones i might have to.
    
    mircea_popescu: i mean everyone gets as a kid this urge to write their name on things,
    
    mircea_popescu: but i tell you by the time you're a decade or so in business that itch's well scratched.
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc :D
    
    assbot: "Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes - YouTube
    
    fluffypony: yeah that's my favourite of his new songs so far
    
    fluffypony: although the music video for Tacky is amazing
    
    assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    mircea_popescu: guy's like the madonna of b music
    
    fluffypony: this is his last album under contract
    
    fluffypony: so hopefully the stuff he releases after this will be indie and not with a record company
    
    thickasthieves: NFLX down 5% today :) glad I hung in there
    
    thickasthieves: short covered
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony why ?
    
    mircea_popescu: he is the exact central case that benefits from a rec corp.
    
    mircea_popescu: thickasthieves wd.
    
    thickasthieves: ty sir
    
    benkay: <mircea_popescu> bitbet. giving the bitcoin population the sort of graphs it wants to see. since 2012. // i want a shirt that has a bunch of zig-zaggy up-and-to-the-right arrows patterned across it
    
    benkay: http://businessintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tumblr_mba5v5Cusu1qz61voo1_500.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: benkay so why you tellin me about it ? nubsy's the local master of bad drawings and well printed shirts.
    
    benkay: nubbins` prints across the whole bolt and then makes shirts? nooz to me...
    
    nubbins`: we don't sew, but i suppose an all-over print isn't out of the question
    
    mircea_popescu: well, if anyone does he'd know aboot it.
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins`> we don't sew << i thought you were married
    
    nubbins`: i thought it was tuesday
    
    mircea_popescu: if it were tuesday it'd have been belgium.
    
    mircea_popescu: it ain't belgium now is it ?
    
    chetty: you sure?
    
    nubbins`: i'm not even sure this is the right bus
    
    mircea_popescu: this is progressing nicely. !jewlaugh
    
    thickasthieves: I'm gonna visit Seattle and Portland, in case anyone has any recommendations/warnings for things
    
    mircea_popescu: thickasthieves walk with your back against the wall in seattle. nuff said.
    
    thickasthieves: lol
    
    benkay: thickasthieves: beers?
    
    thickasthieves: i like some IPA, witbier, belgian, stout
    
    mircea_popescu: Transcript for 21-07-2014, 666 lines << o.O
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 299 @ 0.00250534 = 0.7491 BTC [-] {11} 
    
    thickasthieves: local newspaper: "the specs are 10.625” w x 10’ t."
    
    thickasthieves: 10feet, width by tall
    
    thickasthieves: lol
    
    nubbins`: hahahah
    
    nubbins`: width by tallth
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: you know upon reflection, the ' " convention has to be the most stupid thing ever invented. on top of the inch/feet thing in the first place, obviously.
    
    mircea_popescu: imagine all the bills of goods that had either a small smidgeon added or removed by accident
    
    mircea_popescu: resulting in various disproportionate items delivered to unsuspecting merchants.
    
    mircea_popescu: I SAID MY PENIS STATUE SHOULD BE 12 inches not 12 feet!!1
    
    nubbins`: hardly a statue
    
    mircea_popescu: hard hard hard.
    
    pankkake: I never know which it which. maybe " is feet because it's bigger?
    
    pankkake: no, it's not. of course it's not
    
    FabianB: use the metric system, [√] fixed
    
    thickasthieves: itd be funny if this was a major reason why US is bad at math, fukt measurements
    
    thickasthieves: 12 inches is a foot? 3' a yard? wtf is going on here?
    
    chetty: math is easier with metric but if you grew up using feet and inches its hard to visualize amounts
    
    
    
    benkay: sheeeit, sinfest.
    
    benkay: that's still going?
    
    thickasthieves: never heard of it til now, but looks like yes
    
    benkay: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/undocumented-ios-functions-allow-monitoring-of-personal-data-expert-says/
    
    assbot: Undocumented iOS functions allow monitoring of personal data, expert says | Ars Technica
    
    benkay: the hit counter is back http://www.addthis.com/
    
    assbot: AddThis - Get likes, get shares, get followers
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1611 @ 0.00081596 = 1.3145 BTC [-]
    
    
    
    benkay: expert system, i lol'd
    
    cgcardona_: hello #bitcoin-assets o/
    
    jurov: hi cgcardona_
    
    mthreat: hola
    
    cgcardona_: o/
    
    cgcardona_: ;;ticker
    
    gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 621.43, Best ask: 623.88, Bid-ask spread: 2.45000, Last trade: 624.4, 24 hour volume: 3366.37636030, 24 hour low: 617.18, 24 hour high: 624.99, 24 hour vwap: 622.530252055
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 529 @ 0.00250792 = 1.3267 BTC [-] {9} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7100 @ 0.00081596 = 5.7933 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 45 @ 0.01379995 = 0.621 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 54 @ 0.0139999 = 0.756 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 66 @ 0.01437877 = 0.949 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 336 @ 0.00263689 = 0.886 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 506 @ 0.00263864 = 1.3352 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    BingoBoingo: http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2014/07/20/well-find-a-new-earth-within-20-years/
    
    assbot: Well find a new earth within 20 years | Around the World with Ken Ham
    
    BingoBoingo: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/07/22/165231/exodus-intelligence-details-zero-day-vulnerabilities-in-tails-os
    
    assbot: Exodus Intelligence Details Zero-Day Vulnerabilities In Tails OS - Slashdot
    
    BingoBoingo: !up Mats_cd03
    
    BingoBoingo: Hey Mats_cd03
    
    Mats_cd03: sup
    
    Mats_cd03: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/26/wheels-of-fortune p gud article about driving in .cn
    
    assbot: Wheels of Fortune - The New Yorker
    
    Mats_cd03: http://weis2007.econinfosec.org/papers/29.pdf re: market for 0days. notably, all of the problems enscribed are basically resolvable through GPG and the WoT.
    
    nubbins`: yup.
    
    nubbins`: SR did this right, at least
    
    nubbins`: i guess the current system works well enough for the vendors, otherwise you'd see this
    
    Mats_cd03: hue hue hue
    
    asciilifeform: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/21/cybercrime-conference-talk-idUSL2N0PW14320140721
    
    assbot: Talk on cracking Internet anonymity service Tor withdrawn from conference| Reuters
    
    Mats_cd03: thx DoD
    
    Mats_cd03: today, i learned Windows will never use the first mb of physical memory for anything, because buggy firmware corrupts it so often
    
    Mats_cd03: and, there is an ACPI table exclusively for telling Windows not to apply fixes for buggy hardware because its in a VM, and VMM emulation of the hardware doesn't include said bugs.
    
    thickasthieves: local redneck on facebook: "I am offering free bungee jumping to all Muslims - no strings attached."
    
    
    
    chetty: thickasthieves, uhoh now I have a coffeed keyboard
    
    thickasthieves: hehe
    
    thickasthieves: http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/22/5927107/faa-temporarily-halts-all-us-flights-to-israel
    
    assbot: FAA temporarily halts all US flights to Israel | The Verge
    
    thickasthieves: that's one way to get people outta your airspace for a while
    
    BingoBoingo: !up Mats_cd03
    
    Mats_cd03: aw ur da best
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;laser Mats_cd03
    
    gribble: Error: "laser" is not a valid command.
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;lasers
    
    gribble: ┌━ ┄ ┄ ┄ ┄ ┄ ┄ *pew!* *pew!* *pew!*
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;laser kittens
    
    gribble: Error: "laser" is not a valid command.
    
    BingoBoingo: %t
    
    atcbot: [X-BT] Bid: 210 Ask: 237 Last Price: 210 24h-Vol: 59k High: 211 Low: 210 VWAP: 210
    
    Mats_cd03: http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/iOS_Backdoors_Attack_Points_Surveillance_Mechanisms.pdf re: iOS vuln posted by benkay
    
    assbot: 404 Not Found
    
    Mats_cd03: ...wat
    
    benkay: ah neat, Mats_cd03
    
    benkay: hue
    
    
    
    assbot: iOS_Backdoors_Attack_Points_Surveillance_Mechanisms.pdf (PDFy mirror) : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
    
    Mats_cd03: hue hue hue hue hue hue hue
    
    Mats_cd03: man, The Rootkit Arsenal is really good
    
    asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: nice little book, at least concerning the basics.
    
    Mats_cd03: i'm basic.
    
    thickasthieves: Florida Power and Light powers the state using mostly natural gas. Out of all the energy FPL provides, only 0.06 percent comes from solar energy.
    
    thickasthieves: “We’re not doing as bad as people think we are,” says Martinez. “But I think we’ll have an opportunity to advance as the price continues to come down.”
    
    thickasthieves: “I think in the state of Florida our challenge is the amount of rainfall and the amount of cloud coverage we have,” says Martinez. “Obviously Florida has good potential. It’s not great potential.”
    
    thickasthieves: lol
    
    thickasthieves: sunshine state aint sunny enough
    
    thickasthieves: suuure
    
    thickasthieves: http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wlrn/files/styles/placed_wide/public/201407/SOLARINFOGRAPHICREALFINAL.png
    
    Mats_cd03: i don't know anything about physics or solar panels. is there some kind of limited power generation even under cloud cover? UV is what made me consider this
    
    thickasthieves: the thing is FL clouds are quite temporary
    
    
    
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    BingoBoingo: thickasthieves: I think clouds are temporary except up in Benkay land
    
    thickasthieves: yeah i only learned recently that I get more rain than seattle
    
    thickasthieves: which is disappointing cuz i like rain and I am unsatisfied
    
    mike_c: that is a common and misleading yardstick
    
    mike_c: because it generally means inches of rain, not days of rain
    
    mike_c: and seattle just drizzles at you every day of the year.
    
    
    
    assbot: Ed Sheeran - Don't [Official Audio] - YouTube
    
    thickasthieves: Mats_cd03, got Vexualvirus?
    
    
    
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    benkay: thickasthieves, BingoBoingo: best solar is soy oil
    
    
    
    BingoBoingo: Hey @Medium @marklotto @davidkushner, I have some corrections for your article. https://medium.com/matter/the-martyrdom-of-weev-9e72da8a133d 
    
    assbot: How We All Got Trolled  Matter  Medium
    
    thickasthieves: "The federal judge that presided over my case is not an African-American. She is a nigger."
    
    thickasthieves: "Dude, they called you elfin, when you are very clearly a satyr." lol
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7100 @ 0.00081327 = 5.7742 BTC [-]
    
    
    
    assbot: Debunking Kipochi, Mpesa & Bitcoin in East Africa - CoinBrief
    
    BingoBoingo: !up princessnell
    
    BingoBoingo: !up Guest60346
    
    fluffypony: hah hah
    
    fluffypony: fucking idiots
    
    thickasthieves: <+mike_c> and seattle just drizzles at you every day of the year.  /// so i will fly there and settle this once and for all!
    
    mike_c: now is actually the time to go.  it actually only rains nine months a year.  summers are beautiful.
    
    thickasthieves: well shit itll be a month before i go, but i want teh rainz
    
    thickasthieves: my wife wants to look at trees n stuff though, so i guess good weather is for the best
    
    mike_c: well, the only rainforest in america is right there, so you could both have your wish
    
    
    
    thickasthieves: good log?
    
    
    
    assbot: The Joel on Software Discussion Group (CLOSED) - Why I Hate Frameworks
    
    
    
    jurov: <gmaxwell> danielpbarron: owner of mpex is unsafe to do business with, he does things like put surprising terms in the fine print of his contracts and then gloats about how you deserved to get ripped off and what a moron you are when you get caught out.
    
    jurov: last sentence before kick
    
    mike_c: hm.  "suprising" to whom?
    
    BingoBoingo: Mircea generally writes on the interwebs so you can always zoom his text to any size you like
    
    
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;rate danielpbarron Religious thinker, Meat dealer
    
    gribble: Error: 'Religious' is not a valid integer.
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;rate danielpbarron 3 Religious thinker, Meat dealer
    
    gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating for user danielpbarron has changed from 2 to 3.
    
    
    
    BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Well, you rate people well and did indeed deliver ~20 million meat
    
    
    
    BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Well, that's why the most important part of reading a WoT is asking a rater about their ratings
    
    BingoBoingo: Bitcore, BitPays open-source javascript bitcoin library, now uses Fedor Indutnys highly optimized cryptography in the browser, which leads to significant speed improvements and an improved user experience for applications built with Bitcore. << Shit's prolly being optimized out
    
    BingoBoingo: http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/07/22/bitcore-3000-is-three-times-faster-for-bitcoin-on-the-web.html
    
    assbot: Bitcore 3000 is Three Times Faster for Bitcoin on the Web | The BitPay Blog
    
    jurov: lose yer coins 3x faster!!!
    
    mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> 12 inches is a foot? 3' a yard? wtf is going on here?
    
    mircea_popescu: ^ my fav exercise is, "calculate the pound weight of a cubic mile of water"
    
    mircea_popescu: (a cubic km of water weighs 1trn kgs, of course)
    
    mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo>  http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2014/07/20/well-find-a-new-earth-within-20-years/ << ya but will it be legal.
    
    assbot: Well find a new earth within 20 years | Around the World with Ken Ham
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: A Black Hat spokeswoman told Reuters that the talk had been canceled at the request of lawyers for Carnegie-Mellon University, where the speakers work as researchers. <<< this is why scientists of today are in no sense the scientists of 1914, and even less the scientists of 1814.
    
    mircea_popescu: the notion that the current crop has any sort of moral or ethical weight is quite perilous.
    
    mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> http://i.imgur.com/OJChRcu.gif << whoa that shit's cool!
    
    thickasthieves: must be some kinda camera mount
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;rated gmaxwell
    
    gribble: You rated user gmaxwell on Sun Apr  8 12:54:19 2012, with a rating of -10, and supplied these additional notes: hypocritical idiot..
    
    mircea_popescu: wow, i was right two years ago.
    
    mircea_popescu: anyway, what specific gloating is this in reference to ?
    
    mircea_popescu: tell wikipedia boi i said citation needed.
    
    mircea_popescu: i gloat over fat fucks being predictably stupid, not over the deck being stacked against them.
    
    thickasthieves: "Another benefit to Tacocoin is its active community.  Tacocoin was started on reddit, with the sole intent of having fun.  The coin has no premine, and steady growth, because our community values trust and fun, not getting rich quick."
    
    mircea_popescu: ><
    
    mircea_popescu: if it were about eating cunt i could see the angle.
    
    
    
    assbot: Britain just decriminalised online game piracy | VG247
    
    mircea_popescu: but this entire "doge got killed for beign stupid so we're going to do it once again because we really are that dumb" thing...
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well in that article space isn't important, because aliens go to hell
    
    mircea_popescu: "Starting in 2015, persistent file-sharers will be sent four warning letters explaining their actions are illegal, but if the notes are ignored no further action will be taken." doh.
    
    thickasthieves: alrighty
    
    thickasthieves: do they even go after people in US anymore?
    
    thickasthieves: there was that 5 strikes thing or whatever but i never heard of anyone losing their web access
    
    mircea_popescu: bout the same yeah.
    
    thickasthieves: "I am a fan of making volume obsolete as an indicator" ~bitcoin trader
    
    mircea_popescu: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431 << as usual, joel gets it exactly right. this is why i hate - not frameworks - but java. and all the other hipster languages ran by children with delusions of skills and importance they don't actually have.
    
    assbot: The Joel on Software Discussion Group (CLOSED) - Why I Hate Frameworks
    
    mircea_popescu: wikipedia being a fine example.
    
    asciilifeform: camera mount with beer glass << if you stayed awake in 'intro to differential equations,' -- you can build this.
    
    mircea_popescu: the visual effect tho.
    
    asciilifeform: carnegie mellon << 'Silicon Valley, unlike their Victorian forebears, do not realize that, if they want all this science, they will actually have to pay for it - themselves. Instead, they look at their tax forms and think: I gave at the office. But they didn't. They gave to scientocracy. Now, they need to figure out how to patronize science - or there will be no science. Just scientific Bondo, sanded to perfecti
    
    asciilifeform: on and painted with meticulous care.' (mr mold)
    
    BingoBoingo: Lol ethereum is selling their own altcoin nao, https://www.ethereum.org/
    
    assbot: ethereum
    
    BingoBoingo: "People interested in acquiring ether to build and distribute decentralized applications, or to pay for their usage, are able to do so in the Genesis Sale using bitcoin, thereby locking-in their supply at a known price. This sale will help us fund the continued development of the software platform, scheduled for release in the winter of 2014/2015." << Preorder on a BFL window. Thing could waterialize winter 2014 or winter 2015
    
    thickasthieves: like anyone will give a shit by then
    
    Pierre_Rochard: BingoBoingo: my favorite part “This document is not a solicitation for investment and does not pertain in any way to an offering of securities in any jurisdiction.”
    
    thickasthieves: because we say so!
    
    Pierre_Rochard: wonder if they’ll respond like mircea_popescu did when the SEC comes knocking…
    
    BingoBoingo: Pierre_Rochard: Even though by simply the way things are they seems to like BFL be actually selling equity rather than product.
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hardly an argument pro carnegie melon, that.
    
    mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard too many people want to appear mp without putting in the work to actually be mp, nor fronting the risk etc.
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not an argument 'pro', merely statement of fact. accept funding from bureaucrats - then eat shit when they command. elementary.
    
    thickasthieves: who actually wants these smart contracts anyway? i dont get who ethereum is providing for
    
    mircea_popescu: how about not accept funding for bureaucrats because there's no funds in bureaucrat hands ?
    
    mircea_popescu: then we can do science. and actual art.
    
    mircea_popescu: and all the social media feminists can spend their time writing things on tits.
    
    BingoBoingo: If ethereum manages to ship this winter I doubt it's market cap will survive at a size greater than ATC's through April next year
    
    mircea_popescu: if anyone wants to enter an etereum short lemme know.
    
    thickasthieves: you're betting on ethereum?!
    
    mircea_popescu: you can buy ethereum coins for half what they charge, deliverable jan 15th 2015.
    
    thickasthieves: heh
    
    mircea_popescu: i guess i can make a 3 month future too, if enough demand.
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well atm during their pre-sale they price their coins off of a timer, with 1 BTC buying less coins as the timer increments. Haven't seen the details.
    
    thickasthieves: itd at least be a fun way to piss them off and fuck up their ipo a bit
    
    mircea_popescu: thickasthieves sure.
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo fuck them, whatever they ask for is too much.
    
    thickasthieves: lol why does their home page give away desktop backgrounds? wtf
    
    thickasthieves: "Turing complete contracts on a blockchain."
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Of course. K sale ends in roughly 41-42 days, in just under two weeks their offering goes from 2000 per BTC to 1970 per BTC (fucking hippies)
    
    mircea_popescu: you don't understand traffix, thickasthieves
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo where is this advertised ?
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Their home page.
    
    mircea_popescu: how did this work again lessee
    
    thickasthieves: "Ethereum Genesis Sale" they call it
    
    thickasthieves: awesome
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;sell 5000 "ethereum coins deliverable March 15th, 2014" for 1 BTC.
    
    gribble: Error: 'for' is not a valid price input.
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;sell 5000 "ethereum coins deliverable March 15th, 2014" 1 BTC.
    
    gribble: Order id 21133 created.
    
    thickasthieves: "WARNING: DO NOT PURCHASE ETH IF YOU ARE NOT AN EXPERT IN DEALING WITH
    
    thickasthieves: CRYPTOGRAPHIC TOKENS AND BLOCKCHAIN-BASED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS"
    
    BingoBoingo: Whole site is a js turd
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;view 21133
    
    thickasthieves: wow
    
    gribble: #21133 Tue Jul 22 18:53:45 2014 mircea_popescu SELL 5000.0 ethereum coins deliverable March 15th, 2014 @ 1 BTC. (None)
    
    thickasthieves: my soul hurts now
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;sell 5000 "ethereum coins deliverable March 15th, 2014" 1 BTC "Up to 1k BTC's worth accepted. Get in touch."
    
    gribble: Order id 21134 created.
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;view 21134
    
    gribble: #21134 Tue Jul 22 18:54:18 2014 mircea_popescu SELL 5000.0 ethereum coins deliverable March 15th, 2014 @ 1 BTC (Up to 1k BTC's worth accepted. Get in touch.)
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo or whoever has a reddit acct : put that loglink in ?
    
    mircea_popescu: aw shit bad date.
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;sell 5000 "ethereum coins deliverable March 15th, 2015" 1 BTC "Up to 1k BTC's worth accepted. Get in touch."
    
    gribble: Order id 21135 created.
    
    mircea_popescu: that one.
    
    BingoBoingo: K, In the better purchases department http://t.co/rFyjQ2GNsu
    
    assbot: Sexy Saffron's Clips
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;remove 21134
    
    gribble: Order 21134 removed.
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;remove 21133
    
    gribble: Order 21133 removed.
    
    mircea_popescu: !up DoctorBTC
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;view 21131
    
    gribble: #21131 Tue Jul 22 18:01:45 2014 DoctorBTC SELL 1.0 OTC Handholding @ 0.1 BTC (I'll gently guide you through registering and authing with gribble)
    
    mircea_popescu: ^ nice idea that.
    
    DoctorBTC: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;gettrust assbot DoctorBTC
    
    gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask DoctorBTC!~DoctorBTC@unaffiliated/doctorbtc. Trust relationship from user assbot to user DoctorBTC: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 2 via 2 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=assbot&dest=DoctorBTC | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=DoctorBTC | Rated since: Tue Apr 30 19:24:50 2013
    
    DoctorBTC: logs get all filled up watching people explain...
    
    mircea_popescu: it's needed here like weekly or so.
    
    BingoBoingo: http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/2bfwaw/mircea_popescu_offers_a_short_of_etherium_coins/
    
    assbot: Mircea Popescu offers a short of Etherium coins up to 1 KiloBTC's worth at 5000 per BTC deliverable in 2015 : CryptoCurrency
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so now, elementary economic theory : if one actually WANTS ethereum coins, they'll buy from me.
    
    mircea_popescu: watch how nobody does, and then watch the ethereum people lie about how they sold however many.
    
    mircea_popescu: because yes, totally, this happens.
    
    thickasthieves: reddit deleted my link to your ethereum thing
    
    thickasthieves: mine said "Eccentric European Eviscerates Ethereum's Ether "
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You forget the mp eats babies crowd and "momentum traders" who want to flip the thing right away
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yes, i am forgetting the idiots.
    
    mircea_popescu: supposedly there's "investors" involved in these crummy shits.
    
    thickasthieves: i guess mods got me on speed dial or sumth
    
    thickasthieves: :(
    
    mircea_popescu: thickasthieves maybe too many e's.
    
    mircea_popescu: stop dropping the Es man
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I like to think of them as Patrons of the Derps
    
    thickasthieves: art is ded
    
    BingoBoingo: http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/2behuy/doge_just_got_dumped/ << "Cryptsy data from http://doge.yottabyte.nu/ shows that we are down to 138MIL TOTAL Buy order.
    
    assbot: Doge just got dumped. : dogecoin
    
    assbot: doge.yottabyte.nu - dogecoin value charts btc/doge
    
    BingoBoingo: If you simply look at the chart of buy vs sell orders, it can be intuitive to say that some whale decided to cash out.
    
    BingoBoingo: Now, what do we do about this?
    
    BingoBoingo: Once more, as a reminder, we need to create a reason for people to want to buy in into Dogecoin, and for whales to hold their stash.
    
    BingoBoingo: Posting memes and jokes won't do. We have the community, and we have the social media reach. What we don't have is a service or good which is unique to Doge which offers such an incentive to use the currency that Fiat will not dare pee on our post."
    
    BingoBoingo: ^ Last victim
    
    thickasthieves: lol
    
    thickasthieves: "What we don't have is a service or good which is unique to Doge which offers such an incentive to use the currency that Fiat will not dare pee on our post." full circle
    
    mircea_popescu: lmao
    
    BingoBoingo: http://altcoinherald.com/altcoins-currently-community-takeovers/ << Tales from the Bagholder's social club
    
    assbot: Altcoins That Are Currently In Community Takeover
    
    mircea_popescu: "we have the community, it just so happens to be a community of worthless retards. o noes!"
    
    mircea_popescu: must suck, you know, to be one of these fucktards, earnestly believing that everyone's equal and groups are great,
    
    mircea_popescu: finding yourself confronted with the sad reality that people aren't equal and groups suck.
    
    thickasthieves: they wont notice
    
    thickasthieves: just need a better group
    
    mircea_popescu: course they won't notice. anything to avoid that ego wound. but still...
    
    mircea_popescu: !up Adohgg
    
    mircea_popescu: how much you gettin' paid ?
    
    BingoBoingo: %d
    
    atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 665597.03 in 1508 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -3.14
    
    BingoBoingo: OMG ATC network is running nearly even!!!
    
    mircea_popescu: well mike_c wanted stabilisation so i guess mike_c gets stabilisation.
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;8ball how much does a petahash of mining hardware sell for anyways
    
    gribble: The outlook is good.
    
    mike_c: ;;calc 687*7
    
    gribble: 4809
    
    mike_c: 5 th/s, not bad
    
    mike_c: and yes, when mike_c wants something.. it happens :D
    
    mike_c wants all the coinz
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;sell 1000000 "Doge coins deliverable 3 or 6 months" 3 BTC "Or less, negotiable by volume and interval. Looking to carry a few billion."
    
    gribble: Order id 21136 created.
    
    mircea_popescu: meh not enough zeros.
    
    mircea_popescu: jesus the dog coin is worthless.
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;buy 1000000 "Altcoins "Altcoin the sha-256 coin mentioned http://therealaltcoin.org/" 175 "satoshis per Altcoin, other quantities and price points may be entertained"
    
    assbot: Page not found | The Real Altcoin (ATC) – Never Mine Another Altcoin Again
    
    gribble: Error: 'Altcoin' is not a valid price input.
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;buy 1000000 "Altcoins, the sha-256 coin mentioned http://therealaltcoin.org/" 175 satoshis "per Altcoin, other quantities and price points may be entertained"
    
    assbot: Page not found | The Real Altcoin (ATC) – Never Mine Another Altcoin Again
    
    gribble: Order id 21137 created.
    
    mircea_popescu: thickasthieves BingoBoingo's reddit seems to stick, maybe you're shadowbanned ?
    
    mircea_popescu: one too many trilema links i nthere.
    
    mircea_popescu: !up FoOdies
    
    cazalla: ;;getrust BingoBoingo
    
    gribble: Error: "getrust" is not a valid command.
    
    cazalla: ;;gettrust BingoBoingo
    
    gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask BingoBoingo!~BingoBoin@unaffiliated/bingoboingo. Trust relationship from user cazalla to user BingoBoingo: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 5 via 3 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=cazalla&dest=BingoBoingo | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=BingoBoingo | Rated since: Wed Mar 20 03:45:45 2013
    
    FoOdies: multumesc
    
    mircea_popescu: yw
    
    BingoBoingo: !up DoctorBTC
    
    thickasthieves: selling 1000000 ATC for 100btc
    
    mircea_popescu: https://medium.com/matter/the-martyrdom-of-weev-9e72da8a133d << this is kinda weird bullshit. as far as mah sources tell me, weev is fundamentally a guy of strange habits and little computing capcity who just had the guts to publish material some other guy actually produced. he is in any sense a front, not a hacker.
    
    assbot: How We All Got Trolled  Matter  Medium
    
    mircea_popescu: thickasthieves sellout! we're building this great community with memes and whatnot and all you wanna do is sell out for btc ?!?!?!
    
    cazalla: ;;rate BingoBoingo 1 small ATC trade for BTC
    
    gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user BingoBoingo has been recorded.
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;rate cazalla 1 Bunny slayer
    
    gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user cazalla has been recorded.
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think the applicable term to describe weev is "fall guy" or "meat shield"
    
    mircea_popescu: "shield of thorns"
    
    BingoBoingo: Crown of Thrones
    
    thickasthieves: i'm selling out for the community
    
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    mircea_popescu: !b 1
    
    mircea_popescu: ahah epic retort.
    
    mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eT8Ip5mpZ0 << check out the awkwardness lmao.
    
    assbot: Frank Zappa Interview (MTV, 1984) - YouTube
    
    mircea_popescu: worst interviewer ever.
    
    mircea_popescu: bitstein re your hoarders article, you familiar with the power/fetish of power exchange and all that jazz ?
    
    bitstein: I don't think so.
    
    mircea_popescu: ah well then.
    
    Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: any reading suggestions on that subject?
    
    
    
    assbot: The battlefield of the future pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
    
    FoOdies: I can't believe I took 10 minutes of my precious life to read about some mentally retarded homophobic racist conspiracy nutjob hacker
    
    BigBitz: Cancelled until 2015.
    
    FoOdies: thanks obama ( mircea_popescu )
    
    mircea_popescu: a fine excerpt is in there. ballas does a great job of doing the psychiatric basics of it
    
    mircea_popescu: but otherwise you want saussure and levi strauss
    
    Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: thanks
    
    mircea_popescu: FoOdies arguably the life of one who's never heard of weev isn't that precious.
    
    mircea_popescu: BigBitz what is ?
    
    FoOdies: arguably
    
    BigBitz: mircea_popescu: BattleField Hardline. I was just making a funny.
    
    mircea_popescu: but anyway. culture is much like ash in the ashtray :  the leftovers of all your nights wasted reading stupid shit.
    
    mircea_popescu: o lol.
    
    FoOdies: why would I need to read about other retards' mishaps when I have a first have experience with fbi+mi5+sri
    
    FoOdies: hand*
    
    FoOdies: first hand*
    
    mircea_popescu: people who have sex read porn, why not.
    
    BigBitz: wait. what.
    
    BigBitz: 'read' porn.
    
    FoOdies: true but I doubt people who've been to an interrecial intersex interspecies orgy are interested in reading any porn
    
    FoOdies: watch
    
    FoOdies: read
    
    FoOdies: you know what he meant
    
    bitstein: mircea_popescu: Oh yes! I need to re-read it, but that was a great TLP article.
    
    BigBitz: with mircea_popescu you never /really/ know what he meant.
    
    mircea_popescu: BigBitz im in touch with my feminine side, you chauvinist pigglet.
    
    BigBitz: mircea_popescu please.
    
    mircea_popescu: bitstein basically the idea is that a whole generation of mutton has been raised to abhor actual power, and to readily insist it must be traded in for power tokens.
    
    FoOdies: the cells of the central arrest near casa poporului are very enlightening you know
    
    mircea_popescu: this is why they keep insisting on the bitcoin merchant dead meme,
    
    mircea_popescu: and this is why a lot of other things.
    
    BingoBoingo: <FoOdies> true but I doubt people who've been to an interrecial intersex interspecies orgy are interested in reading any porn << if only you knew what a hassel these things are to set up...
    
    BingoBoingo: shit
    
    FoOdies: god damn it don't I know it
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;google literotica.com interrecial intersex interspecies orgy
    
    gribble: Smashwords – About Nick Foxx, author of 'Tush (The Whole Tale ...: <https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/NIckFoxx>
    
    FoOdies: and the mess you have to clean up afterwards
    
    bitstein: <+mircea_popescu> this is why they keep insisting on the bitcoin merchant dead meme, << you mean the idea that merchants matter?
    
    BingoBoingo: FoOdies: Mess is why you go to the Goat's house
    
    mircea_popescu: bitstein well the idea that in order for bitcoin to have value, it must be traded out of your hand.
    
    mircea_popescu: ie, they're firm in the notion that nothing in their hand can be of value. a sort of reverse-midas mentality.
    
    mircea_popescu: shitheads convinced everything in their hands turns to shit
    
    FoOdies: not when you're the host
    
    mircea_popescu: !up cowloon
    
    mircea_popescu: bitstein it's not just money, either. consider my earlier quoted piece about how "you can't police other people's oppression".
    
    bitstein: Pierre_Rochard has referred to Bitcoin as an example of Coase theorem. Bitcoin can be allocated however... it will fall out of the hands of the stupid.
    
    mircea_popescu: and it's really universal. i was out one night here, and a bum (there's tons of bums in buenos aires, they have matresses in the street and whatnot) started howling. like 3 am.
    
    FoOdies: mircea_popescu the day bitcoin is no longer paired against fiat is the day bitcoin has reached it's purpose
    
    mircea_popescu: a passerby was like "shut up!" all aggro.
    
    mircea_popescu: find the us guy that wil tell a bum what to do, how to speak and so on.
    
    FoOdies: until then it's just an unregulated trading asset
    
    FoOdies: imho
    
    mircea_popescu: "o, could never do that". well ? why not ? whoi's to tell the bums how to behave ? who's to tell children what to do, when and how ?
    
    BingoBoingo: Marketing opportunity >> http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/170-foot-ketchup-bottle-sale-illinois-24665481
    
    assbot: 170-Foot Ketchup Bottle for Sale in Illinois - ABC News
    
    FoOdies: I like this place, it's all kinds of weird
    
    FoOdies: can I have perma voice ?
    
    mircea_popescu: nah, you should too shilly.
    
    FoOdies: I'll consider a shpaga when I meet you
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 429 @ 0.00273 = 1.1712 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    FoOdies: notice the usage of when
    
    FoOdies: the firm usage
    
    mircea_popescu: permanence is illusory anyway.
    
    BingoBoingo: Pretty sure that catsup bottle can be dressed up as an MPEx dildo
    
    bitstein: Somewhat related, I'm working on an article about how merchants are just scammers trying to swindle you out of your bitcoins.
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it being ill, they'll prolly shoot someone with it.
    
    mircea_popescu: bitstein perhaps going a little too far.
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Other side of the state. A few hundred miles from Chiraq
    
    bitstein: Yes, that's the hyperbolic summary.
    
    bitstein: I'll pass on a draft later on. I have school in the way right now.
    
    BingoBoingo: !up FoOdies
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;view 21114
    
    gribble: #21114 Sun Jul 20 00:20:35 2014 BTCminers SELL 1.0 Spin Wheel – wheel Script for any crypto coin + Installing @ 0.1 BTC (Escrow Accepted)
    
    mircea_popescu: thickasthieves feel like running whatever that is ?
    
    BingoBoingo: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/07/17/brenda_ann_kenneally_documents_life_below_the_poverty_line_in_troy_york.html
    
    assbot: Brenda Ann Kenneally documents life below the poverty line in Troy, York in her documentary project, Upstate Girls.
    
    BingoBoingo: ^ lulzy photos
    
    mircea_popescu: http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/behold/2014/06/Troy/lawrence_2007.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg <<< i bet this filename was created on a windows.win.windows.xp.windows system
    
    BingoBoingo: OMG spot the DOgecoiner
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/behold/2014/06/Troy/Robert%20Stocklas_2013.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg << check out the punctured oil heater with a jimmy rigged power connection.
    
    mircea_popescu: this guy could be a 2012 bitcoin miner.
    
    BingoBoingo: "I would encourage you to finish before the majority of your committee members retire. (seriously.)" << Roflmao, I know a between one and two hand full of countable fingers of these people.
    
    BingoBoingo: http://www.horseradishfestival.net/ << Event that happens in the shadow of the Catsup Bottle/Dildo water tower
    
    assbot: International Horseradish Festival, Collinsville, IL. First weekend in June
    
    BingoBoingo: Actual contest that happened http://www.collinsvillerec.com/pdffiles/14_IHF_BloodyMaryContestApp.pdf
    
    mircea_popescu: wait. that boy actually is... a girl http://www.upstategirls.org/images/Jodie/jodie_2500px-003.jpg ?!
    
    mircea_popescu: anyway, very merkley??? looking shit, except minus either the talent or the interest
    
    mircea_popescu: ( the real deal http://www.threequestionmarks.com/blog/blog.html )
    
    assbot: merkley???: I May Not Be God, But at Least I'm Real.
    
    BingoBoingo: roflcopter
    
    bitstein: Ethereum has raised nearly $800k in about 2 hours: https://blockchain.info/address/36PrZ1KHYMpqSyAQXSG8VwbUiq2EogxLo2
    
    assbot: Bitcoin Address 36PrZ1KHYMpqSyAQXSG8VwbUiq2EogxLo2
    
    mircea_popescu: lol so people bought >1k btc worth of ethereum at 2k each btc , instead of buying 1k btc worth of ethereum at 5k each btc ?
    
    mircea_popescu: does this sound credible to you in any sense ?
    
    bitstein: Well I'm amazed by any purchase of Ethereum, so...
    
    mircea_popescu: why do all the supposed payments end in .9997 ?
    
    mircea_popescu: o wait, they're all sent off the same software which simply substracts the same mining fee from the txn ?
    
    mircea_popescu: funny how that'd be the case.
    
    BingoBoingo: Wait, there's a wallet thing that does that?
    
    mike_c: isn't ethereum a wallet or something?
    
    BingoBoingo: mike_c: Well, so far it is a nothing
    
    mike_c: also, it's possible they didn't know about the better offer yet.
    
    BingoBoingo: Then it will pretend to be a something before becoming a nothing again
    
    mike_c: da fuck am i thinking of?  mycelium, etherwhoizt.  what the fuck is that node-less wallet thingy?
    
    mike_c: jurov is a big fan.  unless i dreamt all this.
    
    BingoBoingo: mike_c: Electrum?
    
    mike_c: yes
    
    mike_c: these names.
    
    mircea_popescu: mike_c right, because nobody with any btc reads the logs, or reddit, or twitter.
    
    BingoBoingo: Ah. Electrum wallet (split into online and offline components like armory) plus one's own electrum server actually doesn't seem like a bad wallet solution atm
    
    mike_c: well, are you proposing that there is no longer significant # of btc in the hands of idiots?
    
    mike_c: i didn't think we were there yet.
    
    mike_c: BingoBoingo: yeah, it didn't seem completely retarded.  i had attached some of that feeling to this ethereum thingy.  didn't realize it was just a complete nothing.
    
    BingoBoingo: mike_c: Yeah, a big problem in this space is still sound/look a like names.
    
    BingoBoingo: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--kn6VXOVa--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/zo17x0u9io1fppluzmmk.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: mike_c in this case, the only significant amount of btc is in the hands of the idiots trying to fraudulently prop an ipo scam visible from the moon, in some sort of misplaced delusion of legal immunity.
    
    benkay: mircea_popescu: d'you recall what gmaxwell's all butthurt about?
    
    BingoBoingo: Well, it was just last week the link dropped here of an aspiring HYIP scammer who lost a whole BTC to malware he though would let him cheat a pasted together gambling site.
    
    BingoBoingo: benkay: Porn. gmaxwell hates pr0ns
    
    mircea_popescu: getting publicly humiliated ? the usaul thing.
    
    benkay: just wondering what fine print he failed to read.
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo a whole btc. not a succession of 5.997 2.997 etc etc.
    
    benkay: having failed to read my fair share of fine print in the past.
    
    mircea_popescu: benkay o, i don't imagine his recent derpage has any substance to it, merely him trying his best at crafting effectual calumny.
    
    mircea_popescu: otherwise, the dispute is preserved here : http://trilema.com/2013/the-froth-of-our-days/
    
    assbot: The froth of our days pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, this whole ether huffing thing smells just like the mastercoin "sell coin now" and then "release anything eventually"
    
    mircea_popescu: obviously the fact that time has meanwhile proven my points doesn't in any sense help.
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;rate gmaxwell -1 Likely UnSavoryGarnish, Plant
    
    gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of -1 for user gmaxwell has been recorded.
    
    BingoBoingo: What was Hearn's nick?
    
    mircea_popescu: but anyway, this isn't in any sense a dispute pitting flaming social justice warriors and other braindamaged kids trying to make the world "liberal" a la copumpkin against cold hard reality.
    
    copumpkin: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: this is a dispute where a consumate gofer (ie, gmaxwell) is trying to veer their naivity into some sort of political relevance for himself, gets called out and then stomped out.
    
    benkay: BingoBoingo: is this ether coin a btc fork or...
    
    mircea_popescu: much like the life of andreas derpopowhatever, except two years earlier
    
    BingoBoingo: benkay: Pre-sold instead of pre-mined
    
    benkay: BingoBoingo: still no software then i gather
    
    mircea_popescu: which shouldn't be surprising : anyone can be a very ambitious failed painter or w/e mediocrity.
    
    BingoBoingo: benkay: Not that they've released. Apparently the presale ether goes in their genesis block
    
    
    
    assbot: The Producers -- Hitler...there was a painter - YouTube
    
    mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> What was Hearn's nick? << i don't recall he ever managing to figure out the gpg arcana. i imagine he'll first have to implement a google code version, that doesn't work.
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ah, I though I'd give him the "UnsavoryGarnish, Vegetable" ninjashogun and gmaxwell earned
    
    BingoBoingo: But if he didn't submit himself to civilization
    
    BingoBoingo: ...
    
    BingoBoingo: I guess that people will have to read other places that he is suspected of being the lead USG plant
    
    mircea_popescu: not the sort of thing that really needs to be read by too many people anyway.
    
    mircea_popescu: benkay well so far it's really an urbit fork.
    
    mircea_popescu: it's going to do great things in novel ways just as soon as someone does it.
    
    mircea_popescu: copumpkin lol, lol, but how about you go count female heads in otc and here ? just for lulz.
    
    copumpkin: busy eating some hand grasp bread I just made
    
    mircea_popescu: i never had that thing. what the hell is it
    
    benkay: <mircea_popescu> benkay well so far it's really an urbit fork. // vaporware fork XD
    
    nubbins`: what's hand grasp bread
    
    benkay: at least urbit had code in the wild, has ether achieved that yet?
    
    copumpkin: fluffy chinese bread: http://www.beifangmeishi.com/file/upload/201306/25/16-43-04-45-36.jpg
    
    copumpkin: dlicious
    
    copumpkin: om nom nom
    
    nubbins`: oh yum
    
    nubbins`: is that wheat-based?
    
    benkay: nubbins`: hit the lawyer turn off the gym, facebook up?
    
    copumpkin: mine isnt as beautiful as that one
    
    copumpkin: yeah wheat
    
    nubbins`: benkay i know all the verbs you just used
    
    mircea_popescu: look slike an exploded strudel.
    
    mircea_popescu: benkay well it's a spoonlet then , not quite a fork
    
    nubbins`: i'm trying to see if i can make a business case for buying one of these cd duplication machines
    
    benkay: the spoon is a lie
    
    nubbins`: with the little robot arms
    
    BingoBoingo: Fuck it, Imma walk over to the county fair and grab some chikin livers to go with this vodka
    
    BingoBoingo: (reconstituted vodka)
    
    copumpkin: nubbins`: wtf is a cd
    
    nubbins`: i know right
    
    nubbins`: that's in the "cons" list
    
    nubbins`: but they're fuckin cheap. like under 3btc
    
    copumpkin: hell, I can't even remember the last time I handled physical media
    
    
    
    assbot: Chopped green onion hand grasp bread | Chinesefood
    
    copumpkin: that's cause nobody else wants them either
    
    nubbins`: reason i'm wondering is we got a job producing cd jackets etc for a band, and we're printing on the discs
    
    copumpkin: dub: yup
    
    dub: complete wiht engrish++
    
    nubbins`: started humming about actually duplicating them too
    
    dub: this is my new favorite blog
    
    benkay: <bitstein> Somewhat related, I'm working on an article about how merchants are just scammers trying to swindle you out of your bitcoins. // i'm starting to like you
    
    copumpkin: delicious
    
    copumpkin: so much good chinese food never leaves china
    
    copumpkin: it's a pity people only eat general tsao and such
    
    dub: duck you
    
    dub: um
    
    dub: fuck you
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` lawyer is a noun. get it ? A NOUN. you don't want it to sue you.,
    
    copumpkin: :(
    
    mircea_popescu: how much do they cost ?
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo grab a chick'n while at it.
    
    mircea_popescu: !up Ginux
    
    mircea_popescu: !up gilgameshugga
    
    mircea_popescu: ok, how many cds did you burn last year ?
    
    midnightmagic: you just have to know a chinese person. I got some great stuff smuggled out. :-D
    
    dub: i want chinee food now
    
    copumpkin: chinese lamb sticks are the best
    
    copumpkin: ma po doufu
    
    copumpkin: mm
    
    copumpkin: in fact, anything with szechuan peppercorns
    
    dub: theres a place up the road that does that bread and og dumplings
    
    mircea_popescu: i never got into chinese. sushi i like, indian lamb i like, but chinese... hm. what's it even for.
    
    copumpkin: amazing ingredient
    
    assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    midnightmagic: tingly numby-ness.
    
    copumpkin: >_>
    
    dub: but im too hungover to drive
    
    copumpkin: mmm
    
    midnightmagic: nom nom nom
    
    copumpkin: yup
    
    dub: yeah numbing heat
    
    dub: good shit
    
    mircea_popescu: ironically, the sechuan pepper i actually like
    
    mircea_popescu: usually put it on... pfeffersteak
    
    copumpkin: that's cause it's an amazing ingredient
    
    assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    copumpkin: <_<
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah, proly the best pepper.
    
    mircea_popescu: either that or green
    
    midnightmagic: there are some weird salts that are hand-mined and prepared in china too. They highlight one in a show called "Taste of China".
    
    dub: goddamit
    
    copumpkin: yup
    
    midnightmagic: *amazing* weird flavours.
    
    assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    midnightmagic: lol
    
    copumpkin: lol
    
    dub: im gonna have to man up and put some pants on
    
    copumpkin: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    copumpkin: hmm
    
    mircea_popescu: midnightmagic it's not "salt scraped off forced labouring prisoners sweat" or something is it
    
    copumpkin: aMazing pepper
    
    dub: mircea_popescu: just the balls
    
    mircea_popescu: chinese men have balls ?!
    
    midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: lol no, but its extraction is hugely labour-intensive..  same as lots of things in our world that have disappeared because nobody's willing or able to go to the effort anymore
    
    dub: hey now, no need for racis
    
    mircea_popescu: dub is racis the enemy of ratrans ?
    
    mircea_popescu: midnightmagic but i mean... salt is salt, right ? it forms deposits, acertain way. why labour intensive ?
    
    midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: pure salt is. The impurities give it the weird extra flavours. I mean some I'm not cool with. There's this weird black salt that has a lot of sulphur in it.
    
    mircea_popescu: sulphur is supposedly good for you, somehow.
    
    mircea_popescu: they even market all these miracle-curing sulphurous mineral waters.
    
    BingoBoingo: I'm back, mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo grab a chick'n while at it. << How does that saying go... "Don't shit where you eat"
    
    dub: Put to wok,add a spoon oil,cook until two side become yellow.OK!
    
    mircea_popescu: dub is that wok or work ?
    
    dub: if yan can cook then so can you
    
    midnightmagic: my mistake the show is called "A Bite Of China" but damned if I can find the episode now :)
    
    mircea_popescu: honestly, i'd be kinda loath to take bites out of china.
    
    kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> they even market all these miracle-curing sulphurous mineral waters. < been to such place, saturnia in italy.
    
    mircea_popescu: kinda big.
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla there's one in romania and i think somewhere in serbia ? or maybe it was albania
    
    midnightmagic: There's a spot near me where the hotsprngs have naturally-occurring lithium in them.
    
    midnightmagic: it's horrible literally being unable to move faster than a walk after sitting in those waters too long
    
    mircea_popescu: wow
    
    dub: is that good for you?
    
    midnightmagic: i didn't know until afterwards that the water was contaminated. they sell it as a health spa.
    
    midnightmagic: "what the fuck is wrong with me" *sluggish zombie-movement*
    
    mircea_popescu: "experience being old for a day!"
    
    kakobrekla: Mataruška Banja? Havent been but need to check it out sometime.
    
    midnightmagic: yah
    
    dub: they give lithium in cases of extreme psychosis
    
    BingoBoingo: dub: Not just then, low dose lithium can work well for a person when their brain is just running a little hot.
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla ya sound about right
    
    BingoBoingo: dub> they give lithium in cases of extreme psychosis << Also they don't really give lithium much for psychosis anymore which is a shame considering how well it works...
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo stop opposing research and job creating funding in research and SCIENCE and global warming.
    
    mircea_popescu: we're trying to build a great future here and you gotta throw simple element wrenches into the windows
    
    BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo stop opposing research and job creating funding in research and SCIENCE and global warming. << I'm fighting marketing. Just because pharma doesn't want to compete with Tesla's 1337 battery factory doesn't mean that there are better uses for those salts than motor carriages and iBortions.
    
    mircea_popescu: psychoactive lithium is not complex enough. progress is complexity, to oppose complexification is to be antisocial and terrorist.
    
    BingoBoingo finds it interesting that in a few years on patent Atypical Antipsychotics will dry up, and the next pivot isn't apparent on the horizon yet.
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo seeing how well the current stuff works, they can just patent borax glass and give that to people.
    
    BingoBoingo: Come on, there's nothing more complex than the cascade of mystery meat that happens when lithium displaces sodium in the gap and raises action potential
    
    mircea_popescu: but that's complexity in the wrong place.
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, The Last Psychiatrist had all of those wonderfully illustrative Seroquel articles about complexity in the right places, but... Tis off pattent nao
    
    BingoBoingo: TLP's rum fountain analogy in those articles is probably the best popular science writing this century so far.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22600 @ 0.00081519 = 18.4233 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    nubbins`: nice middle-of-the-line cd duplicator is maybe $1500
    
    nubbins`: realistically could charge about 50 cents for the duplication of one cd
    
    nubbins`: which means 3k cds duplicated before i can stop worrying about breaking the thing
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` you never answered as to how many you made
    
    nubbins`: for customers? zero
    
    BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Look used on Ebay already.
    
    nubbins`: just happened to be making some cd cases for a band and they wanted discs printed, idly wondering if we'd want to duplicate em too
    
    nubbins`: probably not
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` ok, how many do you figure you'll make and on what basis do you so figure ?
    
    kakobrekla: tell em if he orders 3k.
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla's idea goes a long way towards that. "3k, cause they're prepaid"
    
    nubbins`: it's hard to say because a lot of bands are doing vinyl or download cards these days instead of cds. ballpark guess, might get 1000 cds duped over the next year
    
    mike_c: and exponential decrease every year after
    
    mike_c: it's like a miner!
    
    nubbins`: well, there's that too
    
    kakobrekla: at this point - might be more $ to be in the floppy biz.
    
    nubbins`: you can also get dupe towers, with one master drive and say 5 burners
    
    nubbins`: they're only around $700
    
    mircea_popescu: horrible business purchase, moving on.
    
    nubbins`: not quite as hands-off tho
    
    nubbins`: lel, agreed
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` , hey, it's what you originally asked.
    
    nubbins`: this is a silkscreen printing studio, not a cd dupe centre
    
    nubbins`: just looking for a fresh perspective, glad to see we're all in agreement 8)
    
    BingoBoingo: nubbins`: How many Cd's do they need duped?
    
    nubbins`: this particular job, only 200
    
    nubbins`: i'd say at this point, more stuff is being released on cassette here than cd
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` this is like, groupthink. no fresh perspectives allowed here.
    
    nubbins`: heh
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` but srsly, if you can get a vynil press you can sell to all the hippies
    
    nubbins`: mp, that's its own craft
    
    kakobrekla: that shit costs serial monies.
    
    nubbins`: almost every vinyl pressing house in canada outsources to this one factory in czech
    
    mike_c: really? shipping is worth it?
    
    nubbins` nods
    
    mircea_popescu: mike_c easy to fuck up
    
    nubbins`: they do direct-to-metal digital masters with this crazy machine
    
    nubbins`: supposed to be a one-of-a-kind setup
    
    mircea_popescu: it probably is.
    
    nubbins`: name an a-list band, their vinyl is pressed there
    
    mike_c: interesting.
    
    mircea_popescu: the last existing top hat factory was destroyed in a family dispute coupla decades ago
    
    nubbins`: jeez
    
    mircea_popescu: most of the good old shit is one of a kind setups
    
    BingoBoingo: Nubbins 2k cd minimum order I could set up cd production with artisinal hand labeling ~ 8.7 BTC and handle the remaining on a print on demand basis. 6 week turn around for the first batch.
    
    nubbins`: BingoBoingo i don't think many bands here would be into a 2k minimum ;(
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo there exist no indie bands which can afford a 10 btc expenditure on life saving surgery
    
    mircea_popescu: let alone cds
    
    nubbins`: mircea_popescu you forget, this is canada
    
    nubbins`: sweet sweet grant money
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` anyway, the only way to do this is, make the whole studio, force-sign the bands, work them like slaves.
    
    mircea_popescu: not VERY profitable, but a lot of fun.
    
    nubbins`: heh
    
    nubbins`: maybe i'll just stick to printing
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well I figured I'd throw a quote out there just in case some "band" has parents with more coin than sense
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo those kids go for mbas, new cars and bumps off teenage asscracks.
    
    nubbins`: one of our regular customers was awarded a $10k grant last year to record an album
    
    mircea_popescu: not shitty "music"
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` wow socialist utopia. was the album actually made ?
    
    nubbins`: mircea_popescu: yeah, i've got a copy somewhere
    
    mircea_popescu: or did it work pretty much like kickstarter
    
    nubbins`: it was their third album, first one paid for by someone else
    
    BingoBoingo: nubbins`: The 2k minimum is to avoid the situation where they buy exactly the number of cd's they have friends to pester and need pod cd's twice a month for a decade.
    
    nubbins`: that's the thing about grants, you get blacklisted if you don't produce (a) your work and (b) your receipts
    
    nubbins`: and nobody wants to get blacklisted, 'cause ain't nobody but the government giving out free money
    
    mike_c: "free"
    
    nubbins`: hey, free enough
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I've had classmates with "farm money" talk their parents into covering their Film School, Mary Jane prescription, and subsequent X-mas DUI's. Weirder things happen in fiat land.
    
    mike_c: not so free for the people they took it from
    
    nubbins`: mike_c, our benevolent overlords see it fit that we should be entertained with fresh music
    
    nubbins`: and so we gladly oblige, purse in hand
    
    mircea_popescu: mike_c stop opposing progress and an end to oppression.
    
    mike_c: hey, it's better than how our gov't spends its money..
    
    nubbins`: i mean, really, it's not the band that gets the $10k
    
    mircea_popescu: im not sure if shitty contemporary bands should be given 10k in grants to derp quietly in a corner at their craft or just be medicated worth 10k for possesion.
    
    mircea_popescu: so far neither strat seems  to work any
    
    mircea_popescu: canada hasn't had a good musician since cohen visited and the us...
    
    nubbins`: it's everyone they hire to do shit for them that they used to have to do themselves
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 419 @ 0.0014122 = 0.5917 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    nubbins`: wat
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` too lazy to list the us problemz.
    
    mike_c: wait, was that a meta-insult?
    
    justusranvier: mircea_popescu: What happens if by next March 15th, the Ethereum network isn't sufficiently functional for you to be able to deliver Ethers to the people who take you up on your offer?
    
    mike_c: "i'm too drunk to list irish problems"
    
    mircea_popescu: justusranvier amusingly, in that case the contract'd be void.
    
    mircea_popescu: but anyway, it'd be an explicit clause limiting such cases, obv.
    
    mircea_popescu: in any case, one generally buys a future if they expect the thing to work well, not to fail.
    
    mircea_popescu: if you buy a future and the thing fails there's many ways to put it, but they all boil down to "you're screwed".
    
    justusranvier: They might have value as collector's items 30 years from now.
    
    dub haz chinese food
    
    mircea_popescu: all sorts of mights, obviously.
    
    mircea_popescu: the aliens might land five minutes later and declare that anyone can have super hot alien blowjobs for a eth each
    
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    BingoBoingo: !b 7
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But then the aliens burn in hell for coming from the wrong earth
    
    justusranvier: "Vintage Ether units. Mint condition - never used."
    
    mircea_popescu: i happen to be party to the first and oldest actually executed short, incidentally. you ever saw it ?
    
    BingoBoingo: I wonder if ethereum ethers will suffer from the problem classical ether does where explosive peroxide crystals form.
    
    BingoBoingo: Also, fuck tractor pulls
    
    mircea_popescu: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3586/3471532818_a05495e39d_o.jpg decent tits on those legs.
    
    mthreat: anti-gravity
    
    mircea_popescu: they do wonderful things with plastics now
    
    mthreat: did someone already post this here?  http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2bg93d/heres_why_i_love_bitcoin_very_nsfw_version/
    
    assbot: Here's Why I Love Bitcoin! [Very NSFW Version] ;) : Bitcoin
    
    mthreat: appears to be from sexy saffron
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 700 @ 0.00274866 = 1.9241 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: five holes, asciilifeform
    
    mircea_popescu: or was it six.
    
    asciilifeform: damn what'd i miss.
    
    asciilifeform got back from buying a new, somewhat more gastight exhaust stack for laser - which now has its own 'outhouse.'
    
    asciilifeform now back to actual work
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 150 @ 0.00697642 = 1.0465 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    decimation: asciilifeform were you tired of breathing laser-combustion byproducts?
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: aye
    
    asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lithium pharma << as i recall, the therapeutic envelope is so narrow as to be practically absent - e.g. slow poison
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Therapeutic envelope is indeed very narrow. 0.4 to 1.2, toxic depending on the patient starts at 0.8 to 1.4
    
    decimation: asciilifeform if you aren't making stencils with laser cutter, what are you making? custom circuit-board etchings?
    
    BingoBoingo: But, on the plus side interactions with other drugs are minimal
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: mechanicals for paste laydown apparatus.
    
    decimation: neato, robots building robots
    
    decimation: I wouldn't mind building something like this one day: http://www.vtwilson.net/telescope.html (complete with russian military satellite observatory)
    
    BingoBoingo: Seriously though, calling these things competing in the tractor pull "tractors" is an insult to the idea of useful machinery.
    
    asciilifeform: ;;buy 1 "Auger valve for high-viscosity fluid dispenser, any manufacturer." at 1 BTC
    
    gribble: Order id 21143 created.
    
    decimation: lithium & warfarin are famous for narrow theraputic index
    
    BingoBoingo: decimation: Warfarin is a bit different. Warfarin has an antidote.
    
    mircea_popescu: btw, since i've been reading my old romanian bitcoin articles, landed on some gems. anyone remembers vladimir's asic ?
    
    mircea_popescu: https://bitcointa.lk/threads/ann-a-public-company-will-build-a-huge-bitcoin-mining-operation-asic.49333/page-15
    
    assbot: [ANN] A public company will build a huge Bitcoin Mining Operation (ASIC). | Page 15 | Bitcointa.lk
    
    decimation: asciilifeform don't you need to refigerate solder paste?
    
    decimation: refridgerate
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: yes. or, alternatively, use it up quickly.
    
    asciilifeform: it doesn't keep.
    
    decimation: I guess if you do a batch at a time you use it up
    
    asciilifeform: even refrigerated, the balls settle.
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: OMG comments http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/2bfwaw/mircea_popescu_offers_a_short_of_etherium_coins/
    
    assbot: Mircea Popescu offers a short of Etherium coins up to 1 KiloBTC's worth at 5000 per BTC deliverable in 2015 : CryptoCurrency
    
    mircea_popescu: "If this ASIC mambo jumbo goes forward then I think BTC is as "good" as PayPal or the Bank of England." (forum communitard, 2012).
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i saw some on tat's link too
    
    decimation: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Hot-sale-Auto-Glue-Dispenser-Solder-Paste-Liquid-Controller-Dropper-YDL-983A-Dispensing-system/757892187.html
    
    assbot: 220V Auto Glue Dispenser Solder Paste Liquid Controller Dropper YDL   983A Dispensing system-in Other Machinery from Industry & Business on Aliexpress.com
    
    decimation: why not air dispenser?
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: i own almost exactly that one
    
    asciilifeform: they're crap, fundamentally
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah
    
    decimation: too much variance in the dispensed amount?
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: two reasons: air is a terrible working fluid (compressible!) making for very poor repeatability;
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: likewise, major problem with 'drool' (actual term of art!)
    
    decimation: yeah, plus when it runs out it will spatter I suspect
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: that is, apparatus continues to shit after pressure is relieved
    
    decimation: yeah you almost want to push it out with water or something, except that would dilute the flux
    
    asciilifeform: air-fart syringe apparatus works for what it was built for - chinese slave gurlz dispensing glue.
    
    decimation: generally in that application you don't care about drool or spillage
    
    asciilifeform: state of the art, it turns out, is 'auger valve' - think: small archimedes screw.
    
    decimation: x turns of screw gives repeatable amount?
    
    asciilifeform: turned with a stepper motor.
    
    asciilifeform: correct.
    
    decimation: plus no drool because it acts as a valve
    
    decimation: interesting.
    
    asciilifeform: aye.
    
    BingoBoingo: http://www.theonion.com/articles/mans-anxiety-not-about-to-let-depression-muscle-in,36504/
    
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    decimation: you would need a tiny auger screw though?
    
    asciilifeform: yes. and the cavity it turns in can have no more than a very small gap between the auger and walls.
    
    
    
    assbot: Basics: Up Close and Personal with Solder Paste | Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
    
    asciilifeform: these normally cost their weight in diamonds new.
    
    decimation: "This is ?type 3? solder, which allows solder balls of up to 45 ?m in size, where 99% of those particles are below 38 ?m. "
    
    decimation: that's a pretty small gap to close off
    
    decimation: 45 micrometer ball size
    
    BingoBoingo: County fair week has to be the worst week, why does a sled need 8 gallons of engine displacement to pull another sled full of weights?
    
    asciilifeform: decimation: i use only Sn/Bi alloy, 138C. as described on mircea_popescu's site.
    
    asciilifeform: 25-45 micron ball variance.
    
    asciilifeform: it is reasonably inexpensive and reflows beautifully on an electric hob.
    
    kakobrekla: its basically a tiny meat grinder.
    
    asciilifeform: kakobrekla has it.
    
    asciilifeform now wonders if said paste conducts well enough to be propelled in 'MHD' pump.
    
    dub: my wood pellet burner ingests its food with an auger
    
    asciilifeform: dub: cutting edge ancient greek tech.
    
    asciilifeform: http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Fluids/Archimedes_Screw/Archimedes_Screw.html
    
    assbot: Archimede's Screw
    
    asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes'_screw#mediaviewer/File:Archimedes-screw_one-screw-threads_with-ball_3D-view_animated_small.gif
    
    assbot: Archimedes' screw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    
    dub: its a bit buggy with the pellets, thinks its jammed and refuses to start around half the time
    
    asciilifeform: (for victims of american school)
    
    dub: smart way to isolate fuel store from the hot bit
    
    mircea_popescu: dub how large are the pellets ?
    
    dub: 5 by 10mm cylinders
    
    mircea_popescu: prolly needs a tune-upo, the screw
    
    dub: yeah, dust caked around the sensor oslt
    
    dub: theres an appendage on the front of it that runs through middle of the screw which you pull out and wiggle to get it going again
    
    dub: it would be a problem if I used the automation bits but its not annoying enough to start pulling it apart
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22327 @ 0.00081115 = 18.1105 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1300 @ 0.00080893 = 1.0516 BTC [-]
    
    BingoBoingo: !up shesek
    
    shesek: hey BingoBoingo
    
    BingoBoingo: hello shesek
    
    shesek: I actually have no idea what this channel is for - I saw it mentioned on Reddit and joined in
    
    shesek: the website doesn't really say much, either
    
    BingoBoingo: shesek: Well, this channel is kind of like the pipefitter's lounge, but for serious bitcoiners instead of pipefitters.
    
    BingoBoingo: Not necessarily serious in general mind you. Just serious in Bitcoin.
    
    Pierre_Rochard: shesek: a good introduction is here http://theumlaut.com/2014/06/10/bitcoin-is-great-but-it-wont-fix-our-monkey-brains/
    
    assbot: Bitcoin Is Great, But It Won’t Fix Our Monkey Brains | The mlaut
    
    BingoBoingo: Azelphur: It looks like you've worked quite a bit on Electrum. Familiar at all with documentation for the server component?
    
    asciilifeform discovered an interesting, (though probably not new) scam.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32400 @ 0.00080277 = 26.0097 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    Rassah: I think "our monkey brains" are largely influenced by societal norms, and bitcoin will "hack" some of those norms just as other technologies and science discoveries have...
    
    asciilifeform: one can buy 'sim cards' intended for industrial applications - alarms, sensors, etc. where you feed it once a quarter, and the balance is spent when making/receiving calls or sms
    
    asciilifeform: i have one such. and now i know how the vendor scams
    
    asciilifeform: the device receives sms spam.
    
    asciilifeform: despite the number never seeing the light of day anywhere
    
    asciilifeform: could be 'wardialer,' of course.
    
    asciilifeform: or - their actual business model.