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(trilema) nubbins`: any home owners in here wanna share their annual insurance premium, as a percentage of the value of their home?
(trilema) nubbins`: it's almost impossible to get insurance
(trilema) nubbins`: so even though the fire station is so close to my house that i can hear the calls come in
(trilema) nubbins`: all those stone pillars you see are chimneys from houses that burned down
(trilema) nubbins`: ^ st. john's, 1892
(trilema) nubbins`: gernika: because it's a tinderbox?
(trilema) nubbins`: underwriter dropped my whole neighbourhood and we had to find a new one :0
(trilema) nubbins`: went to renew my insurance
(trilema) nubbins`: interesting tidbit, i live in downtown st. john's, which happens to mostly consist of wooden row houses
(trilema) nubbins`: houses will cost more, in general, until they don't.
(trilema) nubbins`: i bet you have to pay capital gains tax when you sell it too
(trilema) nubbins`: all payments or just the interest portion?
(trilema) nubbins`: but that describes almost every pensioner in north america :D
(trilema) nubbins`: just american? :P
(trilema) nubbins`: actually, just one, alberta
(trilema) nubbins`: some provinces have no provincial sales tax
(trilema) nubbins`: now it's a "harmonized"
(trilema) nubbins`: 12% provincial tax, 7% federal
(trilema) nubbins`: which worked out, in practice, to ~20%
(trilema) nubbins`: used to be 12+7
(trilema) nubbins`: 14% Jan 1 2016
(trilema) nubbins`: sales tax here is 13%
(trilema) nubbins`: wage suppression cartels!
(trilema) nubbins`: oh shit it's friday
(trilema) nubbins`: aphid milk, nectar of the gods
(trilema) nubbins`: i think it would be -connect=a -connect=b etc
(trilema) nubbins`: or something.
(trilema) nubbins`: now he can finally plug a foreign usb HID device into point-of-sale terminals
(trilema) nubbins`: at paying money last year for a rusty scratched-up piece of shit.
(trilema) nubbins`: he's so happy he needs to SHARE his happiness
(trilema) nubbins`: but he's happy anyway.
(trilema) nubbins`: guy orders device maybe a year+ ago. it finally shows up, scratched to shit, the usb cable is RUSTY and non-operational
(trilema) nubbins`: my actual sides.
(trilema) nubbins`: "My Trezor finally arrived (but with scratches and rusted/not working cable)... I am happy anyway! I want to share my happiness :-)"
(trilema) nubbins`: install kazaa
(trilema) nubbins`: my old fencing instructor fell victim to a knife attack in california a couple days ago o.O
(trilema) nubbins`: for those of you who are interested in such things: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1128004.0
(trilema) nubbins`: i've passed up on coins because the addresses had extra funds sent to em
(trilema) nubbins`: sending spam/dust to a casascius coin's address is like spraying indelible graffiti on it
(trilema) nubbins`: no, you misunderstand
(trilema) nubbins`: nobody's spammed all of the casascius coins yet
(trilema) nubbins`: reason i'm wondering this is that it came up the other day
(trilema) nubbins`: <+punkman> depends on fee/age/etc << gimme some numbers here! oldest coins i have handy access to haven't moved since sept 2014
(trilema) nubbins`: say, i'm sure someone here would know: what's the smallest amount of btc i can send to each of ~6,000 addresses in a single tx and expect to get it relayed?
(trilema) nubbins`: and almost 27btc in the pot! will be interesting to see how it's sliced up
(trilema) nubbins`: going on two years now :0
(trilema) nubbins`: oh look, courts circus finally getting resolved
(trilema) nubbins`: <+mats> because every technical person i have ever met with this attitude has turned out to know a lot less than they believe they did <<< those who think they know X have those who know X outnumbered hundreds of millions to one
(trilema) nubbins`: i don't have w/e paperwork is required to purchase guns or ammo
(trilema) nubbins`: ascii_field not mine
(trilema) nubbins`: heheheheh.
(trilema) nubbins`: ^ guy disagreeing with hearn's opinion that satoshi's code was diarrhoea splatter
(trilema) nubbins`: "And the defect rate is particularly notable; at inception the software was unusually free of defect. Unlike many other initial Bitcoin packages which in their first releases were full of crashes and deadlocks Bitcoin was nearly free of them. Most of the serious bugs fixed subsequently were added by other people."
(trilema) nubbins`: can you purchase forks specifically made for poking eyes out?
(trilema) nubbins`: "Home cooking is still the best way to control the calories, fat, sugar and other nutrients that families consume, a new U.S. study suggests."
(trilema) nubbins`: canadian regulators apparently DGAF and allow stair mode
(trilema) nubbins`: america: don't get sick
(trilema) nubbins`: "The ReWalk 6.0 has a steep list price: US $77,000. Woo said there’s no chance his insurance provider will reimburse him: “They won’t even pay for my wheelchair,” he said."
(trilema) nubbins`: imagine, midtown manhattan and people didn't clear space for a guy wearing something weird
(trilema) nubbins`: "He got a few curious looks as he strode forward in his sleek black gear, but the fast-walking New Yorkers didn’t slow down or clear space for him."
(trilema) nubbins`: hey, steve
(trilema) nubbins`: jesus. who cares?
(trilema) nubbins`: e.g. "Oh, he's already after leaving"
(trilema) nubbins`: as well as several bizarre grammatical structures
(trilema) nubbins`: the irish, in turn, blessed nf english with such words as "scrob", "streel", and "sleveen"
(trilema) nubbins`: "talamh an éisc"
(trilema) nubbins`: nf is notable for being one of very few places in the world which has its own name in the irish language
(trilema) nubbins`: hahah. yes. :/
(trilema) nubbins`: .ro, around 240
(trilema) nubbins`: newfoundland is 400ish
(trilema) nubbins`: labrador ("the big land" is around 300km^2
(trilema) nubbins`: ;;google the island of newfoundland
(trilema) nubbins`: heh, tell me about it.
(trilema) nubbins`: sort of like how i imagine florida, complete w/ meth heads
(trilema) nubbins`: hawaii, to me, seems to be a nice place to visit but a really shitty run-down place to live
(trilema) nubbins`: used to be free / ad-supported
(trilema) nubbins`: does the site even make money these days?
(trilema) nubbins`: turns out if you wait long enough they'll suck your cock instead of the other way around
(trilema) nubbins`: with ASP.NET technology, no less.
(trilema) nubbins`: content versioning system
(trilema) nubbins`: comma veparated salues
(trilema) nubbins`: hornets' cybernest sounds better
(trilema) nubbins`: <@asciilifeform> http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/major-computer-hacking-forum-dismantled << from horse's mouth <<< “Through this operation, we have dismantled a cyber hornets’ nest" :0
(trilema) nubbins`: <+gernika> I once applied for a job in Shenzhen - was required to send my picture. I was deemed acceptable. <<< did same for teaching job in sk
(trilema) nubbins`: ascii_field it's an upside of not having put money you thought you didn't need but actually sorta do need into bitcoin.
(trilema) nubbins`: and thusly putting himself in the same bin as people making secret knock unlock devices w/ arduinos using prewritten libraries
(trilema) nubbins`: it is like alf calling himself a 'maker' because he's creating a pick & place from scratch
(trilema) nubbins`: the word's tainted
(trilema) nubbins`: arcane declarations in courts
(trilema) nubbins`: gibberish documents etc
(trilema) nubbins`: the o.o is because being a 'freeman' implies you're a kook, simply by virtue of all the assorted kookiness 'freemen' get into
(trilema) nubbins`: do you consider yourself a 'freeman'?
(trilema) nubbins`: i know what you said
(trilema) nubbins`: a freeman o.o
(trilema) nubbins`: !up ascii_field
(trilema) nubbins`: and then i found myself installing llvm
(trilema) nubbins`: where's your call graph script
(trilema) nubbins`: it was pluto's fault
(trilema) nubbins`: but you do find beautiful flowers in the strangest of places, huh?
(trilema) nubbins`: harry belafonte should write a song about bitcoin
(trilema) nubbins`: should make for an interesting future
(trilema) nubbins`: danielpbarron, it seems likely that kludges and bugs will be baked into Bitcoin for eternity
(trilema) nubbins` generally lives life as if 1btc == $0.00
(trilema) nubbins`: for me, too, this is a game 8)
(trilema) nubbins`: i envy your workshop(s), which i imagine is/are full of wonder and strange
(trilema) nubbins`: and putting the money in something safe, like penny stocks or mediterranean economies
(trilema) nubbins`: ascii_field, posts like that make me feel like liquidating
(trilema) nubbins`: hm, wonder if there are any plantations accepting btc
(trilema) nubbins`: all the rubes buying coffees?
(trilema) nubbins`: "loltasticly a Mike Hearn Bitcoin XT node was used to relay the double-spends"
(trilema) nubbins`: it outgrew its permits
(trilema) nubbins`: For Farak, crack cocaine was used for the same goddamn reason everyone else uses it, Pourinski didn't but should have said
(trilema) nubbins`: implying that regular cocaine users don't just use it to cope
(trilema) nubbins`: implying that most cocaine users do it for the fun.
(trilema) nubbins`: WELL IF SHE DIDN'T HAVE FUN
(trilema) nubbins`: "yeah, we have rent here for you... and there's a gallon a minute pouring through the first floor ceiling"
(trilema) nubbins`: trial by fire
(trilema) nubbins`: anyway, i'm pretty much a home repair expert by now
(trilema) nubbins`: water damage is specifically excluded from most insurance contracts
(trilema) nubbins`: meantime, you've got a hole in the side of your house or a flooded basement or w/e
(trilema) nubbins`: even if it does cover it, takes weeks/months to settle claim
(trilema) nubbins`: there's a lotta shit insurance doesn't cover
(trilema) nubbins`: but i think at this point, everything that could go wrong already has
(trilema) nubbins`: my biggest worry was some sort of major catastrophe happening and not being able to cover repairs
(trilema) nubbins`: not by you, anyway!
(trilema) nubbins`: in fact, due to accelerated payments, the house could lose 40% of its value over the next 5 years and we could still sell it for a profit
(trilema) nubbins`: it would be fairly difficult to lose money on this
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform refinancing anything isn't in the books
(trilema) nubbins`: "we don't just talk about the issues, we fabricate them"
(trilema) nubbins`: then was mildly annoyed at myself
(trilema) nubbins`: i read this with wide-eyed amazement until they said 4 tbsp of sugar per 8oz water
(trilema) nubbins`: decided we probably would not be in a position to repurchase a second home in the future, should we so desire
(trilema) nubbins`: thought about selling the second home
(trilema) nubbins`: mine from ~4 years ago is around 3.6%
(trilema) nubbins`: hey, 's life
(trilema) nubbins`: i think we renewed at smth like 2.5%?
(trilema) nubbins`: they wouldn't because then there would be no labs left
(trilema) nubbins`: somewhat related, the interest rates on mortgages are INSANE right now
(trilema) nubbins`: i am two mortgages, hear me roar
(trilema) nubbins`: somewhat related, we've decided to keep the second house for another 5
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform landlords have the right to inspect property here with 24h notice
(trilema) nubbins`: just extra apartments, additions, etc that'd impact prop tax
(trilema) nubbins`: council clarified they're specifically not "inspecting" or looking for code violations
(trilema) nubbins`: apparently sop here too
(trilema) nubbins`: “If you refuse them entry into the home, that’s fine. The assessor won’t go any further with that. The assessment work is then done from outside the home.”
(trilema) nubbins`: council decided they'd better clear the air today:
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform this was a city assessor demanding entry under threat of fines
(trilema) nubbins`: .005% active ingredient
(trilema) nubbins`: asciilifeform iirc, a kg of brown substance that's 5% hashish and 95% chocolate is considered a kg of hash
(trilema) nubbins`: this kicked up a bit of a stink here yesterday:
(trilema) nubbins`: of course, past performance is not an indicator of &c &c
(trilema) nubbins`: cut the breaker at the box, let the iron cool
(trilema) nubbins`: like having to let the stove cool down before switching pots
(trilema) nubbins`: so little time tho
(trilema) nubbins`: i gotta get on that
(trilema) nubbins`: only so much you can learn from a manual
(trilema) nubbins`: tradecraft sorta died out
(trilema) nubbins`: "The substances purchased have been various Schedule I and II drugs, including ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, LSD, and others. As of April 2013, at least 56 samples of these purchases have been laboratory-tested, and, of these, 54 have shown high purity levels of the drug the item was advertised to be on Silk Road. "
(trilema) nubbins`: you're not even allowed to take photographs inside one
(trilema) nubbins`: starbucks would 100% kick you out
(trilema) nubbins`: gryft or smth
(trilema) nubbins`: hm. cryptoubliette?
(trilema) nubbins`: cryptooubliette
(trilema) nubbins`: "but i work in a cubicle"
(trilema) nubbins`: "you want me to just say it?"
(trilema) nubbins`: they asked me for my password over the phone
(trilema) nubbins`: called helpdesk one day with an issue
(trilema) nubbins`: i used to work for big insurance co
(trilema) nubbins`: and yet here we are
(trilema) nubbins`: <+ascii_field> nubbins`: as i understand, buyer can contact you and ask to pay in cocaine <<< i suggested to buyer we take tx off-site; he agreed. mildly surprised message filters or smth didn't get in the way
(trilema) nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> o look who's back. when did you get out nubbins` ? <<< just coming up for air 8)
(trilema) nubbins`: <+ascii_field> who exactly expected to be able to use btc there <<< once listed a casascius coin on ebay. a buyer messaged me through the site asking to pay in btc :o
(trilema) nubbins`: why not smash your dick with a hammer?
(trilema) nubbins`: it's not like the etc etc
(trilema) nubbins`: why not use windows for casual web browsing?
(trilema) nubbins`: !up ascii_field
(trilema) nubbins`: fromphuctor, i can only imagine your key was gleaned from some other publicly-accessible key server
(trilema) nubbins`: means nobody else's key is suspiciously similar to yours :D
(trilema) nubbins`: trying to find clues as to broken implementations, flaws in rsa, etc
(trilema) nubbins`: phuctor is smashing numbers together, right now, churning through huge data sets of pgp keys
(trilema) nubbins`: it's to find keys that were generated insecurely
(trilema) nubbins`: curious minds wish to know
(trilema) nubbins`: yeah, is your key phucked?
(trilema) nubbins`: actually cared, not "signed this change.org petition" cared
(trilema) nubbins`: perhaps a dozen cared to begin with
(trilema) nubbins`: wow, typos in THREE of the listed addresses?
(trilema) nubbins`: "400.00101 BTC in 14QPeQ2UZaMw9khqQeisVNT54j6A3U5KfE;"
(trilema) nubbins`: later learned his lesson:
(trilema) nubbins`: sent 50btc, took tx fee out of it
(trilema) nubbins`: "49.999 BTC in 1YCMDxDoYwRApGjyoPVi5onrN8JRLt383;"
(trilema) nubbins`: couple minor lels:
(trilema) nubbins`: order of forfeiture listing btc addresses, wonder if that's a first?
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