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nubbins`: ;;google if these thoughts interest you even for a moment, you are lost
CheckDavid: mircea_popescu: truth is I am a bit lost. Most of what I ever did was online marketing. And then time that was most productive for me was when I was in the online brokerage business. Mostly Forex
mircea_popescu: nubbins` not everyone's from twodogland, perfectly able to hammock in the frozen winds.
nubbins`: i tried smoking in the shower once, fucking rotten.
assbot: Coinbase offchain payments are broken and there is no alternative : Bitcoin
BingoBoingo: lol http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2d5e1o/coinbase_offchain_payments_are_broken_and_there/
CheckDavid: mircea_popescu: I'm not sure. I don't provide any skilled labor to the market
mircea_popescu: " The movie, due out next summer and also starring Charlize Theron, features minimal dialogue." why the hell is that slut not doing straight up porn by now anyway ? sexandsubmission eagerly awaits, and it can definitely provide storyboard "scripts"
BingoBoingo: Oh, that theory of lead generation works
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Fuck these libertards without a flame resistant tent how could I drink and smoke cigarettes inside it? <<< who the fuck smokes inside a tent you maniac. how are the other people supposed to fart if you go about with an open flame all night ?
mircea_popescu: webpage to me : "The destination user you are trying to push this domain requires valid Authorization Code." me to webpage : "The destination reader you are trying to push your nonsense to requires valid English."
mircea_popescu: cuz i was kinda looking for some of these.
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid: Well. No. I don't have the skills to provide those services. So I would just do.marketing for the company as an independent contractor. << can you actually do anything useful ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: ben_vulpes: classic gamblers fallacy << more like sunk costs fallacy << he's right you know. better get your fellaties right if you expect to feed yourself sucking the squirty snail.
nubbins`: they didn't tell me that "utopia haze" was a potent strain
nubbins`: i asked one of the five-ohs what the deal was, he said there's a "crime scene" upstairs and they're not sure what happened, waiting for investigators
mircea_popescu: maybe they suck it through a donut or something.
mircea_popescu: maybe the hookers you live next door too actually give THAT good blowjobs ?
nubbins`: anyway, yeah, there's been a rotating set of squad cars parked outside for the past 12 hours
nubbins`: chetty the UN is essentially a large, creaking parallel discussion
assbot: Ron the Brawler
Apocalyptic: they gonna draft a resolution, and publish it
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you don't understand. they're important!
mircea_popescu: showing idiots everywhere that the un is like a sort of old world reddit, and thus therefore its support not only toothless but actually harmful to one's cause is a valuable contribution to human intellectual heritage.
mircea_popescu: then, as now, the arabs figured their overrepresentation in the media and un counts for something.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> indiancandy1:wher is mp BingoBoingo: Where isn't MP? ndiancandy1: india << you know y'all gonna have to start giving the girl some credit. she's both persistent and occasionally clever. << Definitely persistent, seems to be developing clever
mircea_popescu: yea. "the six day beatings".
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mircea_popescu: compared to the bitchslapping the jooz had to deliver the sandniggers last time they got uppity, this one was much shorter, cheaper and about just as effectual.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know this is a recurring thing in my dungeons. "why are you crying ?" "my butt hurts" "the beatings will continue until your attitude improves."
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> either teh mi6 paid her a visit or else she inexplicably wants more from life than 12/7 lcd screen. << "curiously, the human wanted fulfilling work. we will analyze the data further until this makes sense" :D
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1:wher is mp BingoBoingo: Where isn't MP? ndiancandy1: india << you know y'all gonna have to start giving the girl some credit. she's both persistent and occasionally clever.
mircea_popescu: either teh mi6 paid her a visit or else she inexplicably wants more from life than 12/7 lcd screen.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: just...derping. << i have nfi, tried to give her an online job so she can cover her expenses and live more or less comfortably in exchange of spending 12 hours a day in front of the screen. didn't take it.
nubbins`: srsly tho, what's the url
nubbins`: where's those chan stats that list the biggest loudmouths?
nubbins`: can't make the waters too clear, people will start drinking em
nubbins`: there was a conversation the other day about parallel discussions that really struck a chord
mircea_popescu: chetty: <assbot> Bitcoin Suspected to Be NSA or CIA Project// just from the title thats silly, they dont get along <<< congratulations, you've just run into the "cover your bases" online phenomenon. it goes like this : twerp with nothing to say has to spin out 5k words to get his half cent a word to pay for his ramen. and twerp has taken logic 101 (or else, mysql inject 101) and thus knows what OR does!
mircea_popescu: i thought the point of vacations was to recharge your batteries, not to dip blunts in a speed-lsd solution all day long.
nubbins`: you lost me at the part where someone has a bunch of btc and they're selling them off in order to keep the price down
nubbins`: i thought all the countries were shitty XD
mircea_popescu: "Some noob investers think they have a god given right to pull out whenever the impulse hits them, and are throwing fits because reality won't cooperate with their whims." o.O
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: imagine mailing a photograph of a nude woman to someone in saudi arabia, and then having your government extradite you there at the king's request to serve a 5-year jail term <<< kinda why you don't want to live in a shitty country i guess.
mircea_popescu: what are the odds for the result of the 66th round to put you the highest/lowest you've ever been in the previous 65 ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: nah man, just seasonal variations in weather. loony lefty. << you ever had the curiosity to simulate the probability of a "warmest/coldest" on record event ?
assbot: EtotheIPi.com
BigBitz: ;;gpg info etotheipi
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mircea_popescu: ;;rate etotheipi -10 usg plant. helps nsa in every way he can, lies about it every chance he gets.
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mircea_popescu: ;;rated etotheipi
mircea_popescu: and the whole thing run by etotheipi, who you will recall as the at-the-time important miner who worked with gavin to kill the at-the-time long chain.
mircea_popescu: so you want to know what the nsa is doing, when it's not sending retarded romanian speakers to make a laughingstock out of themselves in this chan ?
BingoBoingo: Played with, but... haven't kept anything with it since then
mircea_popescu: BigBitz he'll probably just invest your cash with neobee and save the whales.
BigBitz throws coins out the window
BigBitz: Just use bc.i - you have Anton protecting you then \o/
Apocalyptic: who uses armory these days anyway ?
mircea_popescu: there was like.... one. ONE motherfucking service out there i didn't particularly despise.
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mircea_popescu: BigBitz yeah. that credit goes like this : they did it deliberately not accidentally, at the urging of a large, well organised party, and had pr in place for catastrophe.
mircea_popescu: "nd in the end, we don't care about your IP, we only use it the ID for collecting statistics about what operatings systems are being use to run Armory and what versions people are using, especially after announcing new versions. This helps us remove duplicates."
mircea_popescu: BigBitz jeeez. never fucking trust these people.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yeah - you can stop it with a command-line switch every time it starts, but no permanent way like a tickbox in the GUI
BigBitz: They track IPs as well, mircea_popescu.
ben_vulpes: the food processor is a pretty fantastic invention.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck is it phoning home at all.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: anything fun happen these past few weeks? << lol.
fluffypony: Apocalyptic: I don't think so...you saw the conversation in here earlier, right?
fluffypony: the dude has infinite hitpoints
fluffypony: here I found the log
assbot: Bitcoin exchange LegitXchange.ru disappears | The Coinion
assbot: dogethereum
BingoBoingo: If it was that amazing the investment would scare him more than I can
peterl: aww, you scared him away before he revealed the most amazing investment evar :(
punkman: is it ethereum?
assbot: The REAL Mander: Scammer(subjective) Alert: BEWARE OF KIM SHANNON
ben_vulpes: then it doesn't count.
moarrr: im not prepared to disclose them in public right now :)
BingoBoingo: moarrr: Well, there aren't too many solid competitors to Bitcoin when it comes to scarcity except for maybe Uranium
moarrr: im not sure of the value of bitcoins anyway
hdbuck: bingoboingo : yea, very interesting article, i think public exchange are vastly manipulated to prevent such thing to happen to. i had a conversation not so long ago about Mining farms such as Bitfury et al and how they deal with hedge funds to keep the price low as for now whilst boosting off exchanges volumes. kinda felel like the institutional money is desperate not to see this scenario happening before they all have sound pos
gribble: thestringpuller was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 hours, 57 minutes, and 30 seconds ago: <thestringpuller> people is so dumb you gotta have a big magical "sync" button cause git pull and git push are too hard of concepts to understand
BingoBoingo: ;;seen thestringpuller
moarrr: so is there anyone cool in here?
BingoBoingo: hdbuck: You know following the Bitcoin price
BingoBoingo: hdbuck: I'm always interested in seeing things people put together. Usually for price though...
BingoBoingo: hdbuck: What brings you around these parts today?
BingoBoingo: peterl: Making sandwiches, and freezing a bunch for chili in the winter.
pete_dushenski: i'll go to the mountains for a hike
peterl: venture into the woods and drink a beer!
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: So I take it you've never felt to impulse to venture into the woods and punch a bear?
BingoBoingo: peterl: Maybe, 5 or so of them.
BingoBoingo: Don't you have those long empty oil roads up there you can use?
pete_dushenski: and risk getting pulled over right in the middle?
peterl: and why would they trust it?
BingoBoingo: But what gets people to the landing page?
CheckDavid: Its just that. A landing page. Its a page optimized to convey a certain piece of information and get a specific kind of action from the visitor in the most efficient way possible. Regardless of the existence of a bigger website.
BingoBoingo: <punkman> CheckDavid: a landing page exists in the context of a larger website << Pretty much this is anyone is ever going to find them
punkman: CheckDavid: a landing page exists in the context of a larger website
ben_vulpes: Miller describes "Mad Max: Fury Road" as an extended chase taking place over three days. The movie, due out next summer and also starring Charlize Theron, features minimal dialogue. The screenplay consisted of storyboards — sketches of each planned shot — rather than a conventional script.
BingoBoingo: Fuck these libertards without a flame resistant tent how could I drink and smoke cigarettes inside it? http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/tent-camping-america-one-big-toxic-experience?page=0%2C0
CheckDavid: ben_vulpes: I know. But I want to be sort of independent from them you know? And be able to repurposed the page for.another company or services easily.
ben_vulpes: CheckDavid: if you're working this hustle for a web design and seo firm they should make that for you.
CheckDavid: Well. No. I don't have the skills to provide those services. So I would just do.marketing for the company as an independent contractor.
assbot: FERGUSON, Mo.: St. Louis-area crowd after shooting: 'Kill the police' | National | News Democrat
BingoBoingo: Just just straight up murdered a bitch on the track last night
ben_vulpes: i prefer running around the block until i pass out from exhaustion.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Just take the pills.
punkman: you'd probably make less money in the wood shop, no? but I guess it works if you are optimizing for not-going-insane
ben_vulpes: "i've spent all this time and sacrificed all this brain to understand these demon devices i better get something out of it!"
ben_vulpes: holding a moderately accurate model of the modern compute infrastructure in my head.
kakobrekla: you go do it then
BingoBoingo: Other definition of cool
BingoBoingo: Maybe he's in the cool part?
ben_vulpes: if you're advanced enough to do without the "sync" button, you're advanced enough to cygwin and fuck you
pankkake: let's crap the history with more useless commits
pankkake: ugh. another reason I can't stand github
xmj: ah, fox wanted to buy TW and withdrew the bid.
chetty: good grief yesterday cnn had hong kong in brazil, today its ulan bator in the ukraine
chetty: <assbot> Bitcoin Suspected to Be NSA or CIA Project// just from the title thats silly, they dont get along
nubbins`: got about three paragraphs in before the audio ads started playing
kakobrekla: nah it was the evil doing of MoSW
fluffypony: all the best
kakobrekla: moiety hope all is well there.
BingoBoingo: What are some of the problematic usernames?
moiety: I really didn't know what to say yesterday but I've had time to think now. I will leave the phone line on for the remainder of the term when I can and update the blog but I won't be able to be on IRC. Since I won't be on IRC anymore, if there is anything I should really know, please leave a message on skype or the blog. The reasons being, this isn't working out for me and I need to focus on working to keep a roof over my head and
nubbins`: imagine mailing a photograph of a nude woman to someone in saudi arabia, and then having your government extradite you there at the king's request to serve a 5-year jail term
nubbins`: nah man, just seasonal variations in weather. loony lefty.
nubbins`: oh, and this july was the hottest on record since before my parents (age 65!) were born
nubbins`: lel @ comment: "ram it in there"
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atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.08 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 6892.18 GH/s
nubbins`: anything fun happen these past few weeks?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> deposits are currently disabled because 1 query per minute to blockchain.info's api triggers their cloudflare DDOS "protection". << you really don't need no api call for keeping track of one address.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i'd have ever shown them sed.
mircea_popescu: <kdomanski> the first day I watched them change tens of thousands of lines by hand, the second day I showed them sed <<< ahahah
mircea_popescu: hi there.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> sounds like the homeland surveillance system is gearing up to talk americans into putting themselves under rigorous surveillance << "themselves" is forcing a point. not like they're participating in any sense.
ben_vulpes: but also you know - one thing at a time. i have all my ducks in a row for this cutover, i'm a cautious guy and don't feel like deploying more code right before cutting over to the new server.
ben_vulpes: that is the plan, yeah.
kakobrekla: use blockr for the while ?
ben_vulpes: deposits are currently disabled because 1 query per minute to blockchain.info's api triggers their cloudflare DDOS "protection".
kdomanski: then NOT use any RT features
kdomanski: they would instead use an expensive commercial RTOS with a certificate irrelevant to the application
kdomanski: for example, they would never ever use Linux, because it's not reliable, not certified or for any other reason not professional enough
kdomanski: the shit academia does is a source of laughs for each and every day
kdomanski: the first day I watched them change tens of thousands of lines by hand, the second day I showed them sed
ben_vulpes: labview! that's the one i was trying to remember.
ben_vulpes: what do you want? those people are suspectible to the pitch. the academia pitch, the "easy to use software" pitch...
kdomanski: in a public institution full of industrial engineers, the only acceptable (or even known) technologies are the ones with serious PR
ben_vulpes: i figured you're more the matlab kind of person
ben_vulpes: SJ is more of the "full-stack polyglot development and UX shop"
ben_vulpes: that'd be the one.
ben_vulpes wonders if the butts tld is available yet
kdomanski: ben_vulpes: you're not Ben Vulpes the belgian DJ, are you?
ben_vulpes: anything interestin? or remote controls and the like
kdomanski: huh, the interest in bitcoin is purely ideological - every opportunity to empower the individual is interesting to me
kdomanski: ben_vulpes: generally that's what they do all the time, but this article seems to focus on airport employees
ben_vulpes: http://online.wsj.com/articles/counterterrorism-official-says-homegrown-lone-wolf-is-greatest-airport-terror-threat-1407533128 << sounds like the homeland surveillance system is gearing up to talk americans into putting themselves under rigorous surveillance
mircea_popescu: generally, the restartable failure is preferable.
ascii_at_beach: mircea_popescu: on the contrary - very good for vendors of rope, soap.
ascii_at_beach: 'they are desperate to avoid a scenario where the US collapses on its own, with no external enemy to blame...'
mircea_popescu: like litecoin or w/e other bitcoin wannabes
ascii_at_beach: not like the next mega-empire that gets tired of living will study 'prior art.'
mircea_popescu: at least the whole college system in the us is providing value...less data on "what happens if you try do have pig latin academia"
mircea_popescu: (mine was backwards. one person hacked some code together even to prove to me my romanian can in fact not be translated to english)
mircea_popescu: my tribulations doing that are about half of what led to the article.
kdomanski: mircea_popescu: long term they won't, but short term? quarterly bottom line & shit
ascii_at_beach: finfisher << pathetic joke, like 'carnivore' and offer Official turdware
mircea_popescu: kdomanski nobody stops to think that well, organisations populated by the mouthbreathing won't survive anyway.
kdomanski: "Beginners should either become intermediates or, in a manner of speaking, die trying."
kdomanski: atwood actually said a few reasonable words about how companies should focus on intermediate users, instead of the noobs
mircea_popescu: THIS IS NOT WHAT THE SHAREHOLDERS EXPECTED!
mircea_popescu: fuck the stupid users. nobody cares about rakim.
mircea_popescu: all these fucktards proceeding on the socialistoid "o, all user are equal and equal to one, we must serve them"
kdomanski: ben_vulpes: the diarrhea of "technology" buzzwords is sufficient testament to the insanity that consumer-grade web services have become
mircea_popescu: kdomanski atwood's comments are idiotic. the spolski & lippert quotes are interesting.
ben_vulpes: <BingoBoingo> Basically they can't escape their consumer programming to have the newest, the shiniest, the most prestigious embadgened << for macos users, the programming is in the machine, in the user, and in people writing software for the thing. the people writing the software write for the latest platform, 'cause "80% uptake rate in 24 hours! why not!?", which makes a vicious spiral where unless you're running the latest and
mircea_popescu: Dialog boxes usually say "If you want to tech the tech, you need to tech the tech with the teching tech tech. Tech the tech? Yes / No"
mircea_popescu: at! Still, experience shows that the more words you put on that dialog box, the fewer people will actually read it."
mircea_popescu: "This may sound a little harsh, but you'll see, when you do usability tests, that there are quite a few users who simply do not read words that you put on the screen. If you pop up an error box of any sort, they simply will not read it. This may be disconcerting to you as a programmer, because you imagine yourself as conducting a dialog with the user. Hey, user! You can't open that file, we don't support that file form
mircea_popescu: that kinda comes with the black box territory
kdomanski: the problem with windows and update dialogs is that derps taught themselves to click right through anything that pops up
kdomanski: people who update their systems via repository like Linux distros are probably immune too
BingoBoingo: Basically they can't escape their consumer programming to have the newest, the shiniest, the most prestigious embadgened
mircea_popescu: Method of infection: The surveillance suite is installed after the target accepts installation of a fake update to commonly used software. <<< so... wait. people who never update anything are immune ?
chetty: <BingoBoingo> It's this compulsion to use the Newest without regard for anything else// +++++
BingoBoingo: It's this compulsion to use the Newest without regard for anything else with an element of "Let's have someone else's computer do my heavy lifting, What's the worst that could happen?"
ben_vulpes: "property of poorly managed systems that increase in resources lowers productivity" << related also to amounts of free energy in the system?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Prolly the same retarded thing that sends people running to Tumbler and Disqusting for their blogging tools and becoming unable to leave when they outgrow them. Even Google's blogger let you export shit.
mircea_popescu: there's this retarded hipster mindset using google docs, dropbox, gmail and whatnot.
dignork: there was some torrent for finfisher, so dropbox is for someone who really wants to leave IP footprints
mircea_popescu: by the way, for all of you still using dropbox : dropbox beleeted the finfisher dump.
BingoBoingo: ^ O hai there
BingoBoingo: ^ Where's the volume???
mircea_popescu: it's very convenient you linked it here, then i can put it on trilema plausibly deniably.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the scammers involved didn't "have delays before". they scammed before. the difference is marked.
mircea_popescu: AntonOsika did you read the part where it says "<mircea_popescu> but that aside, you can have a longer contract, what do i care." ?
AntonOsika: I dont want to risk losing all the eths for a delay. But I understand that you simply dont want to have a contract for longer than a year
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AntonOsika: If it get's delayed months I guess you would have mostly won anyways, Maybe you could then "sell" your contract for less than 3 BTC so that you still would have profited?
AntonOsika: +mircea_popescu Nice contract. It's the release date that worries me since I'm not interested in betting on if things go as scheduled or not.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: SEO is a scam. Anyone who promises traffic from google without supposing the solution is cat pictures is a fraud.
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mircea_popescu: AntonOsika there's a sample contract in hte logs
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mircea_popescu: dignork http://trilema.com/2014/the-finfisherfinspy-story-for-posterity/ thanks :)
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AntonOsika: And you said something about: just 1 satoshi after 25th of july if they still haven't finished a market for it