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    BingoBoingo: I watched the State of the Union so You don't have to http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/01/29/the-worst-state-of-the-union/
    
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    KRS1: .bait
    
    ozbot: http://24.media.tumblr.com/1415504e8984ededadefffe0151c5c27/tumblr_mmbbbmHd571qfaf1fo1_500.jpg
    
    KRS1: Vaginacam.
    
    KRS1: .bait
    
    
    
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    lolstate: ;;seen ThickAsThieves
    
    gribble: ThickAsThieves was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 9 hours, 2 minutes, and 18 seconds ago: <ThickAsThieves> :)
    
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    ozbot: Personal responsibility and inept Bitcoin jesusing
    
    mircea_popescu: dude mpoe-pr brings out the best in people.
    
    mircea_popescu: anyone ever knew the noobs can be that cool ?!
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Prollu because this time she isn't shitting of their favored scams?
    
    mircea_popescu: now that may be.
    
    mircea_popescu: shittingb on them > shitting on their fav scam of the time.
    
    mircea_popescu: at least themselves, they know that sucks.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9250 @ 0.0008842 = 8.1789 BTC [-]
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: "Furthermore, notice that a winning bet of .011 returns less than the bet itself (despite its weight), if you even happen to get it.  Something is clearly seriously wrong with that guy!!  It would be nice if someone were to hack him (and all companies industrializing/profiting off the bitcoin with expensive rigs) and donate the bitcoins to charity (bitcoin100 or etc)."
    
    mircea_popescu: check out the revolutionary minded scum.
    
    mircea_popescu: this is the reason i do not wish to live in a world without opression, and this is why bullshit like "social justice" is outright immoral.
    
    mircea_popescu: some people should be oppressed, and currently are not oppressed nearly enough.
    
    mircea_popescu: punkman obviously, twitter and dns are shady services open to hackers and drug dealing.
    
    punkman: I like that it still takes a few phone calls to steal whatever
    
    punkman: nice domain you got there, shame you are not using it
    
    punkman: I'll just take it
    
    BingoBoingo: punkman: Amazing how GPG could have prevented that disaster.
    
    jurov: or at least 2FA. not the backdoored google kind
    
    punkman: BingoBoingo: well not if they just change your key when you call them
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo amazing how if you don't offer people any way to change their account they'll be unhappy.
    
    assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    mircea_popescu: this is the reason why, however.
    
    BingoBoingo: punkman: No one gets to change keys though unless they can sign the change with a still older key of theirs.
    
    punkman: BingoBoingo: of course they do, "hey guys dog ate my key, can I change to this new one?" "ok"
    
    BingoBoingo: punkman: And you revoke it by shear number of keys you exclusively control, or your identity is essentially dead. Not lost. Dead.
    
    mircea_popescu: punkman people totally misunderstanding what customer service is.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23665 @ 0.00088479 = 20.9386 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    punkman: mircea_popescu: what customer service?
    
    punkman: they got too many users to give a fuck
    
    mircea_popescu: well yes, customer service : hire a bunch of veggies to go "yes sir, sure sir, can do sir" to anyone walking in
    
    mircea_popescu: regardless of anything
    
    punkman: and they call it "live" support.
    
    punkman: even if all they do is write an internal support ticket on your behalf
    
    mircea_popescu: the test cheating mentality : they aren't trying to deliver, they just try to hack into your measures and make it seem like they do.
    
    punkman: said message being "mr manager, dear customer says problem"
    
    mircea_popescu: like, you imagine that talking to someone is more likely to resolve anything ? fine, they'll train dogs to talk to you.
    
    mircea_popescu: hacking is a much larger part of corporate culture than corporations willingly admit, even to themselves.
    
    mircea_popescu: the same people who indignantly protest to the judge that random guy "hacked into their computers" just spent the entire day trying to hack their customers.
    
    nubbins`: "can we disable the user's back button?"
    
    mircea_popescu: yexactly.
    
    nubbins`: fun fact, i once refused to make a code change on moral grounds
    
    mircea_popescu: the amusing part, of course, being that cheating ACTUALLY IS being clever, but only IN SOME CONDITIONS.
    
    nubbins`: ^
    
    mircea_popescu: by completely abandoning a critical review of those conditions, and instead going with formalisms, like
    
    mircea_popescu: "cheating X way good, cheating Y way bad"
    
    mircea_popescu: the results are appaling.
    
    mircea_popescu: this situation exactly mirrors the situation in speech, where people imagine "being nice" or "polite" consists of never using word X, such as nigger or fucktard, rather than, you know, actually being nice/polite/whatever
    
    mircea_popescu: the results being again appaling.
    
    nubbins`: being "professional"
    
    mircea_popescu: myeah.
    
    nubbins`: "where did this $9t go?" "we currently don't have that information until we finish our review" etc
    
    mircea_popescu: "professional" is "guy in a suit". pure cargo cultism.
    
    nubbins`: i was ruminating on this the other day
    
    nubbins`: HOW CAN HE KNOW BUSINESS
    
    nubbins`: HE WEARS NOT THE UNIFORM
    
    nubbins`: strange creatures, humans
    
    mircea_popescu: the obnoxious part is that i wear suits. always have. i was a highscooler with a three piece suit.
    
    mircea_popescu: i happen to like them. but wtf is with all these weasels!
    
    nubbins`: flapping your face = doing business
    
    punkman: I like this: "being friendly: looking out for your interests. being polite: obeying social decorum."
    
    mircea_popescu: lol where's that from ?
    
    punkman: being polite is useless mostly
    
    nubbins`: ^ this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature
    
    punkman: mircea_popescu: not sure I got it from here, but google says: http://sebastianmarshall.com/friendliness-and-politeness
    
    nubbins`: being friendly: having a lel. being polite: inviting others to have a lel.
    
    mircea_popescu: btw, if anyone wants to see me with a fro... http://trilema.com/2011/fototeca-de-haur/ i just dug it up
    
    nubbins`: sebastian marshall had a lel writing that, and we had a lel reading it
    
    nubbins`: we are friendly and he is polite!
    
    punkman: that's a good fro
    
    mircea_popescu: im not friendly! who is this guy
    
    nubbins`: you're downright amicable. don't kid yourself
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    
    
    nubbins`: "where are his arms? why is a laptop hanging from his belt?"
    
    nubbins`: <- no coffee yet
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: laptop utility belt, now that's an idea.
    
    mircea_popescu: and speaking of ideas, i can't believe nobody invented the spots solarium yet.
    
    mircea_popescu: you could have the light concentrate in particular places, make the girls look like leopards naturally.
    
    mircea_popescu: i bet you there's good money in that.
    
    nubbins`: mottled skin looks diseased
    
    mircea_popescu: not if the spots are large enough
    
    mircea_popescu: if they're say 2x2 to 3x5 or so they look... you know, like a leopard
    
    
    
    nubbins`: yep, majestic hunter
    
    nubbins`: you'd need to keep tanning the same spots too, so you'd end up with your skin prematurely aged in certain areas
    
    punkman: you could take a vinyl body suit and cut some holes, wouldn't be very comfortable to tan in
    
    nubbins`: wrinkle spots by age 30
    
    mircea_popescu: you just get one burn-in session
    
    mircea_popescu: then come back next year for a new configuration
    
    nubbins`: http://radiantskinclinic.com/resources/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/Skin_Lightening_Category.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: i guess this is why, gotta keep changing the machines
    
    nubbins`: look at my beautiful leopard spots ;(
    
    KRS1: ;[
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` pick a younger one.
    
    nubbins`: time for brekkies
    
    KRS1: .bait
    
    ozbot: http://24.media.tumblr.com/c0436fd40234a5f84fd9db3b5ad611a7/tumblr_mexoihHqBQ1qzaab4o1_1280.jpg
    
    KRS1: you are hawt nubbins
    
    punkman: .bait
    
    
    
    punkman: http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/first-ever-porsche-rediscovered-electric-power-1898-200915772.html
    
    ozbot: First-Ever Porsche Rediscovered: Electric Power from 1898 - Yahoo Finance Canada
    
    mircea_popescu: so it looks like argentina will be getting a currency reform
    
    mircea_popescu: that's the fifth or so peso they ruined, those people.
    
    Duffer1: andreas antonopolous talked about that a bit recently in an interview with joe rogan
    
    
    
    ozbot: Joe Rogan Experience #446 - Andreas Antonopoulos - YouTube
    
    Duffer1: it's a good interview if you need to brush up on some good sounding talking points
    
    mircea_popescu: uh lol
    
    mircea_popescu: from cnn right after the O speech last night: I think Ive said before that I think a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex. The worst there ever was is still excellent, and I thought he gave a very competent performance tonight
    
    mircea_popescu: dude, poor brejnev. he never had such fluffers.
    
    BingoBoingo: The wonders or beauracracy: Fill out the form or devise your own identical form http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/01/little_sisters_contraception_mandate_case_it_s_about_more_than_just_a_form.html
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that entire dispute is pretty much a testament to how fundamentally unworkable the system has become
    
    mircea_popescu: can you explain to me what it's about ?
    
    mircea_popescu: i mean... i don't get it, i consider myself educated and so forth but i can't come to a conclusion
    
    truffles: an intellectual but not a genius  :D
    
    mircea_popescu: are they saying "we don't have to sign something we don't want to sign because jesus" ? is it mopre like "we don't want to say anything definite about abortion in writing because we can't grok the consequences" ?
    
    mircea_popescu: it half reads like "forms make baby jesus cry" tbh.
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Basically some group had a religious objection to a form (they were nuns) . They pretested the need to complete the form in court. The court said well, you don't need to do that form, but you can fill out this identical form we imagineered or produce your own identical form. (the form relating to some Obamacar Birth Control thing)
    
    mircea_popescu: no i know the generalities.
    
    mircea_popescu: but WHY did they protestg, what's being objected to exactly ?
    
    BingoBoingo: Well, that they have to fill out a form to not cover birth control for their employees.
    
    BingoBoingo: Basically there being a form at all seems to actually make Baby Jesus cry was their argument.
    
    BingoBoingo: Not that they had to cover the birth control, but that there was a form.
    
    mircea_popescu: and how's a court supposed to rule on that ?
    
    mircea_popescu: they need the fucking rota.
    
    kakobrekla: they checked for tears
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: "sorry, no tears were found. case dismissed"
    
    kakobrekla: yea
    
    mircea_popescu: btw, i hear you should be hacked.
    
    mircea_popescu: and the monyz distributed to charity
    
    kakobrekla: hm?
    
    mircea_popescu: on robinhoodtalk.org
    
    Duffer1: sherif mcpopescu
    
    kakobrekla: first time i hear it
    
    Duffer1: of nottingham
    
    
    
    ozbot: Ripped OFF by bitbet.us
    
    Duffer1: scrooge mcpopescu - L. Ron Popescu - now Sherif Popescu
    
    kakobrekla: aha, derps herping about derp
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla nono. derps HERPING about derp.
    
    kakobrekla: :p
    
    mircea_popescu: isn't it sheriff ?
    
    mircea_popescu: who stole my other f
    
    Duffer1: how dare you spellcheck me
    
    mircea_popescu: you buncha commies. you redistributed it did you
    
    Duffer1: ha
    
    kakobrekla: lmao
    
    assbot: Last 18 lines bashed and pending review. (http://dpaste.com/1575146/plain/)
    
    mircea_popescu: !b 18
    
    truffles: sad display circle jerk
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 20 @ 0.43 = 8.6 BTC [+]
    
    BingoBoingo: I am sad to announce that I don't want to bet on this superbowl. When the most interesting player is the fucking underdog's cornerback... I'm out.
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know, i burned a lot of cycles on the subject of why the fuck sports bets are faring so poorly on bitbet.
    
    truffles: betting on sports is like watching money leave pocket
    
    kakobrekla: >Furthermore, notice that a winning bet of .011 returns less than the bet itself (despite its weight), if you even happen to get it.
    
    mircea_popescu: the obvious explanation, and perhaps the likely one, is that bitbet just isn't particularly central in the betting space.
    
    kakobrekla: LMAO
    
    BingoBoingo: truffles: I'm net up on the past year
    
    kakobrekla: "Hi, im a brick, i have opinions."
    
    truffles: sample size 1 year
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Prolly bitbet isn lagging on sports because it is too good at finance
    
    mircea_popescu: however, it may also be that SPORTS BETTING isn't central. or in other words : the focus on advertising, scandal and bullshit, as wel las changing social mores and expectations have pretty much killed that model.
    
    truffles: lemme know in 3 or more
    
    mircea_popescu: nobody cares anymore about sports, and the bets continue sort-of by inertia, like investment in yahoo continues.
    
    Duffer1: MP or there's not enough sports book being made to attract a betting crowd
    
    mircea_popescu: so in that theory, they will exist in old venues (like days ago someone mentioned old style phone service that's still continued . to the death of the captive customer)
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 50 @ 0.00437075 = 0.2185 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    mircea_popescu: but in new venues it ain't happening.
    
    mircea_popescu: Duffer1 nowhere ?
    
    BingoBoingo: Well, of course it is inertia. It also pulls the sports bettors to more dangerous venues that offer lines on as many competitions as possible, as opposed to safe ole bitbet that only tries to offer profitable competitions
    
    BingoBoingo: Basically Bitbet is too responsible to attract sports bettors.
    
    mircea_popescu: so perhaps a correct model could be, "sports betting consists of people who lived in the 70s, had fun with bets in the 70s, continuing to do what they did then, where they did it then"
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 10 @ 0.43099999 = 4.31 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: if that's the case, a start-up hoping to get that market on a new model would be kinda doomed. the paying customer is too old to move and the young customer does not exist.
    
    BingoBoingo: Prolly and nao where it interesects with bitcoin includes you kids who wish they were in the 70's so they could sync iPods on their PDP-11
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but there are plenty of insane bets on bitbet
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 20 @ 0.43624848 = 8.725 BTC [+] {6} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: [07:25] <mircea_popescu> you buncha commies. you redistributed it did you  <<< There is no escape from decentralization, chaos is nature after all!
    
    mircea_popescu: perhaps not the right kind of insane.
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Right, but I imagine most sports bettors never had the money to make a dent in the 2B difficulty bet.
    
    Duffer1: bets not being created  doesn't necessarily mean lack of interest in betting with bitcoin, if there was a specific section dedicated to live odds sports book it just might attract more people
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 10 @ 0.44649998 = 4.465 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15600 @ 0.00088522 = 13.8094 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: Duffer1 there's at least half a dozen diff sites that tried - and failed - to live on that model.
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: As far as football this year goes though, the NFL has had one on its most boring years in history.
    
    Duffer1: i wouldn't know, just a thought ^.^
    
    mircea_popescu: the problem is this : other than the intrinsic unfairness to the bettors of the line model, it also requires VERY highly skilled people working for the hgouse, and non stop.
    
    mircea_popescu: you can't afford to pay for these without volume.
    
    kakobrekla: bah fuck you, now i replied.
    
    BingoBoingo: Last year Ray Lewis was in the Superbowl for stabbin bitches. This year Richard Sherman is in for yelling.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 16 @ 0.4596874 = 7.355 BTC [+] {6} 
    
    mircea_popescu: if you don't pay for them, then you'll get raped.
    
    herbijudlestoids: you dont think HFT bots can handle the job mircea_popescu?
    
    mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids on whose software ?
    
    BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: They those bots have openings too.
    
    ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> nobody cares anymore about sports, and the bets continue sort-of by inertia, like investment in yahoo continues. <<< maybe it's like the forum sports betting is just a buncha scammers and noobs alt-betting
    
    mircea_popescu: hft bots aren't a magic amulet, like "bitcoin makes me anon so i can buy drugz"
    
    herbijudlestoids: i guess ot make a good bot would require similar investment to having good people
    
    BingoBoingo: HTF bots get owned by Slow penetrating bots
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.5 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: it's a war race.
    
    herbijudlestoids: good bot+infrastructure
    
    herbijudlestoids: arms race?
    
    herbijudlestoids: yea
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i have no idea what's going on, tbh.
    
    ThickAsThieves: it's really way simpler an explanation
    
    ThickAsThieves: you have no exposure to the sports betting audience
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 11 @ 0.51416231 = 5.6558 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    herbijudlestoids: moral of the story: just like all other businesses, an appropriate level of investment is required to have a successful outcome
    
    BingoBoingo: I mean the people who claim to bitcoin sportsbet seem to overlap with the BTC poker people
    
    ThickAsThieves: they dont even own bitcoins
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is factual. the question of interest however, is if such an audience even exists, and other such things.
    
    truffles: betting site but doesnt know market hmmm
    
    mircea_popescu: truffles nobody knows the market. some people admit to it.
    
    herbijudlestoids: ThickAsThieves: if you offered them a betting model that has a lower house commission, etc they might be very interested
    
    ThickAsThieves: it's like trying to sell truffles at a Patriots game
    
    mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids what's the house comission on line betting normally ? 2-5% ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: theyll be like eww mushrooms!
    
    herbijudlestoids: yea about that
    
    truffles: haha
    
    mircea_popescu: bitbet does 1%
    
    herbijudlestoids: but is there good game coverage and high liquidity?
    
    mircea_popescu: the difference to your risk of ruin between 1 and 4% is HUGE
    
    herbijudlestoids: yep
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 58 @ 0.00438319 = 0.2542 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    mircea_popescu: it has more liquidity than vegas and no coverage at all
    
    mircea_popescu: in spite of coverage being self-serve.
    
    herbijudlestoids: so then i would posit its simply a matter of marketing
    
    mircea_popescu: bitbet actually PAYS 100 dollars for every bet made, yet people don't make sports bets.
    
    herbijudlestoids: did anyone allocate $500,000 or $1,000,000 to marketing?
    
    mircea_popescu: it would seem so, but i have suspicions that it's simply a question of there not being a market.
    
    herbijudlestoids: hmm
    
    ThickAsThieves: yeah
    
    mircea_popescu: which is a question that has to be resolved bfore i throw money at marketing people.
    
    chetty: The federal agency charged with helping consumers make better financial decisions is facing questions about how it has managed its own money.
    
    mircea_popescu: i have no doubt they can spend it.
    
    ThickAsThieves: dont go marketing truffles to football fans
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13500 @ 0.00088532 = 11.9518 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 90 @ 0.00438354 = 0.3945 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: it makes no sense
    
    mircea_popescu: ahahaha chetty that's gold
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves obviously more research is needed here. for one thing, how do we even know they're truffles.
    
    herbijudlestoids: the other option is ramp the entry costs and target high net worth betters
    
    mircea_popescu: just cause we think we're pretty cool ?
    
    herbijudlestoids: offer the 1% rate as a high net worth perk
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 5 @ 0.51677618 = 2.5839 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids i would love to target high net work bettors, strictly to hear why they think it sucks.
    
    ThickAsThieves: well what is the most popular form of sports betting, its that intrade shares shit right?
    
    mircea_popescu: i don't have a book. anyone has/knows someone with a large old style book ?
    
    herbijudlestoids: many moons ago i used to work as an ops guy for a large cable tv company
    
    BingoBoingo: You know for someone who uses shady forum advertised sports books quite a bit... I prolly ought to look harder at who runs them.
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves intrade is ded. not sure if popular tbh, but definitely dead.
    
    herbijudlestoids: and one of the security guards happened to be extremely well off, but he worked as a guard to keep the tax offic eoff his back
    
    mircea_popescu: ha.
    
    herbijudlestoids: he owned a couple of horses and was relatively well known with the sydney horse racing community
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14088 @ 0.00088811 = 12.5117 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    herbijudlestoids: owners, hedge fungs etc
    
    mircea_popescu: so get him on assets.
    
    herbijudlestoids: s/fungs/funds
    
    mircea_popescu: funguses
    
    herbijudlestoids: one of my friends has my old job, ill ask him if the dude still works there
    
    herbijudlestoids: he *always* used to hassle me about making him an algo to arb the different online markets
    
    ThickAsThieves: just buy a biz that already has sports penetration
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yes, but i can't do that while random fuckwits keep smoking pot and getting arrested.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 100 @ 0.00438754 = 0.4388 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: aww cmon
    
    mircea_popescu: because i'd have to have a bank do it for me, and i'd have to impose they interface btc, which they don;'t wish to do etc.
    
    ThickAsThieves: is that really you talking?
    
    mircea_popescu: well, what ?
    
    mircea_popescu: you want me to do an acquisition over irc ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: i'll need a bank, what.
    
    truffles: fuckwits hmm
    
    herbijudlestoids: fund some geeks in seattle to make the business
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 49 @ 0.00439999 = 0.2156 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: a start-up is not what we're discussing here.
    
    BingoBoingo: I hear Seattle sports teams are cheap
    
    mircea_popescu: i should leverage-buyout the horseshoe.
    
    ThickAsThieves: ok new plan
    
    mircea_popescu: then i'd have their book, go through the past 20 years, talk to everyone.
    
    ThickAsThieves: hire the manager
    
    mircea_popescu: the manager is probably under a contract.
    
    ThickAsThieves: that runs the successful sports biz
    
    BingoBoingo: The Mariners might be 10K BTC this year and 1 K BTC next year
    
    ThickAsThieves: lawyers
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 197 @ 0.00445469 = 0.8776 BTC [+] {7} 
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves and anyway, who ?
    
    mircea_popescu: kinda why i'm talking about it. who knows someone ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: you know the imaginary hotshot pro i made up in my head
    
    mircea_popescu: a ok.
    
    mircea_popescu: we making a movie here or what.
    
    herbijudlestoids: hmm lemme ask someone something
    
    mircea_popescu: ask everyone everything.
    
    ThickAsThieves: #1 google return I get is http://www.bovada.lv/
    
    ThickAsThieves: fwiw
    
    truffles: oh look who doest know everything
    
    herbijudlestoids: damn nvm
    
    BingoBoingo: truffles: The things are these are things no one knows
    
    herbijudlestoids: i thought i knew someone in online sports advertising but it was music and the business has been sold to VICE anyway
    
    ThickAsThieves: sports bettings seems like such a chore, gawd
    
    mircea_popescu: it is a fucking chore.
    
    mircea_popescu: buncha old farts who think themselves cutting edge because they sorta-can read the email their granddaughter sends
    
    BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Betting is a chore. I could not imagin the pain of running a venture.
    
    mircea_popescu: except they miss about half the pics, like say the drunken shots of her getting shagged in front of the courthouse.
    
    ThickAsThieves: nah sports is a whole other level of pain
    
    herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: what about if instead of a bank
    
    herbijudlestoids: you contacted one of the hedge funds that deals in bitcoins
    
    herbijudlestoids: and asked them to do the accq?
    
    mircea_popescu: the ones that failed to get listed on mpex and imagine they're into bitcoin ?
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah, this sounds promising. and i'll have to do what, explain to them what they're doing wrong ?
    
    herbijudlestoids: yeah, what do you care, you just need a funnel right?
    
    BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: In BTC businesses with funnels die.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 24 @ 0.00468746 = 0.1125 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/428158030015107072 << people always know better.
    
    ozbot: Twitter / Namecheap: @Mircea_Popescu LOL, they're ...
    
    herbijudlestoids: i saw on linkedin there was at least one HF looking to hire BTC trader, so someone must be looking to build their book
    
    herbijudlestoids: just a suggestion
    
    ThickAsThieves: maybe you are barking up the wrongs tree
    
    mircea_popescu: maybe so.
    
    ThickAsThieves: why try to be something youre not
    
    ThickAsThieves: exploit something you can destroy at instead
    
    mircea_popescu: because i don't wish to destroy, i wish to exist. bitcoin is essential to this, and so here i am doing things i don't particularly wish to do on their own,
    
    mircea_popescu: so that this thing may ruin the faces and lives of people i don't like.
    
    herbijudlestoids: truly a nobler cause could not be undertaken
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 25 @ 0.00479789 = 0.1199 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: maybe bitbet can get into some kind of futures offerings
    
    mircea_popescu: i guess. anyway.
    
    mircea_popescu: somewhere there's an old greaseball who knows all the angles of line betting.
    
    Duffer1: TaT like MPEx? hehe
    
    mircea_popescu: there, de niro's character in casino. that guy.
    
    mircea_popescu: i want that guy!
    
    Duffer1: you'll need a joe peschi though too
    
    ThickAsThieves: but mpex is not bitbet
    
    mircea_popescu: no, that's the beauty of it. i won't need a joe pesci.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 20 @ 0.51728865 = 10.3458 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    mircea_popescu: the entire rest of bloodsuckers is going away. i just need the one guy.
    
    mircea_popescu: that's exactly the engine of this entire thing.
    
    mircea_popescu: firing all those people.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.526675 = 2.1067 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 387 @ 0.00484029 = 1.8732 BTC [+] {13} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: lol, the forum whined so hard they got Friedcat to finally comment
    
    ThickAsThieves: poor form
    
    herbijudlestoids: link
    
    
    
    ozbot: ASICMINER: Entering the Future of ASIC Mining by Inventing It
    
    ThickAsThieves: i've begun to hate that title
    
    mircea_popescu: in fairness the fallout is a lot less than i imagined this summer.
    
    ThickAsThieves: "inventing" starting to feel kike "making it up"
    
    ThickAsThieves: like*
    
    BingoBoingo: As far as cover every even sports betting people go https://bitbook.biz/ has been reliable, but I have no idea if they are running fractional reserve off of some dude who deposited a few hundred BTC last spring and then went into a coma. I just don't trust line sites much after http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/01/05/a-descent-into-scam-bitcoinsports-eu/
    
    mircea_popescu: am shares shed a degree of magnitude, nobody's particularly fazed.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 330 @ 0.00499945 = 1.6498 BTC [+] {10} 
    
    mircea_popescu: maybe people are better at pricing the future than given credit for.
    
    ThickAsThieves: "mass delivery date is still March"
    
    BingoBoingo: Oh, Halep plays in 2 hours
    
    ThickAsThieves: March is a date?
    
    mircea_popescu: anyway, anyone here with a salesman's slick and within distance of vegas ?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 126 @ 0.00499995 = 0.63 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: salesman in vegas? that's another breed
    
    mircea_popescu: 1-200 miles, whatever one drives comfortably.
    
    herbijudlestoids: what are you after? someone who can lay bets off into the casinos?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7213 @ 0.00089423 = 6.4501 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    herbijudlestoids: or bookies or whatever
    
    mircea_popescu: no, someone who can go to each bookie, take their main line man out to lunch, hussle him to talk to me.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5637 @ 0.00089478 = 5.0439 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: people are more a resource than cash, yet people steal cash way more often than people.
    
    mircea_popescu: start stealing people.
    
    truffles: make them an offer they cant refuse?
    
    ThickAsThieves: sounds kinda fun, if I were 24 and single
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves indeed. bitcoin is first and foremost fun.
    
    mircea_popescu: truffles no, make them an effort they certainly can't refuse, but won't.
    
    mircea_popescu: certainly can*
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 80 @ 0.00499999 = 0.4 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: Specification
    
    ThickAsThieves: Process node: 40nm
    
    ThickAsThieves: Package type: QFN64 8mmx8mm (with another option of QFN64 7mmx7mm possible)
    
    ThickAsThieves: I/O: Standard SPI protocol with clk, in, out and cs.
    
    ThickAsThieves: Rated Hashrate: 12.8GHash/s per chip, with a wide range of overclock/downclock options
    
    ThickAsThieves: Rated Voltage: 0.72V, recommended voltage range is 0.55V-1V
    
    ThickAsThieves: Power Consumption: 0.2J/GHash low voltage, 0.35J/GHash rated voltage
    
    ThickAsThieves: Price range
    
    ThickAsThieves: 0.49$/G-0.99$/G, depending on order size and delivery speed of choice.
    
    truffles: if they knew who u were would they want to work for u :D
    
    mircea_popescu: 4watt chips ?
    
    truffles: i certainly wouldnt
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SFI] 1495 @ 0.00082053 = 1.2267 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: lol. do you even work ?
    
    truffles: irrelevant
    
    BingoBoingo: I'm about 10x the recommended distance.
    
    jcpham: does it mine the litecoins though
    
    mircea_popescu: hahaha. seriously, do you have any employment truffles ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: truffles is on disability
    
    truffles: :(
    
    mircea_popescu: so he wouldn't work for me because whatever, nor for anyone else for entirely different reasons.
    
    ThickAsThieves: (guessing)
    
    BingoBoingo: I lack the salesman slick though
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10870 @ 0.00088529 = 9.6231 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: that settls that i guess.
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so practice.
    
    mircea_popescu: get a friend, make pitches each day, send me one a week, i'll tell you when you're good for vegas.
    
    ThickAsThieves: if youre american, youve been in training for sales your whole life
    
    BingoBoingo: I guess I'll start practicing this weekend.
    
    mircea_popescu: even if you never get good enough for vegas, it'll help your love life.
    
    mircea_popescu: also ThickAsThieves has a point.
    
    kakobrekla: BingoBoingo, that comment from happy wheels  is a spam, you do know that rite?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 24 @ 0.00499999 = 0.12 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Was it? I just thought they had bad taste in links
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 30 @ 0.56376336 = 16.9129 BTC [+] {7} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 30 @ 0.005 = 0.15 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: the gem crowd is engorged right now
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I guess I'll practice this salesmanship thing. Shame I couldn't be practicing it at this new work circus. I mean seriously public speaking and reading shit verbatim?
    
    ThickAsThieves: they love them some friedcat posts
    
    kakobrekla: ;;google "You really make it seem so easy with your presentation but I find this matter to be actually something which I think I would never understand."
    
    gribble: Anchor Audio BLOG: <http://www.anchoraudio.com/index.php?id=448>; The Logic of Stupid Poor People | tressiemc: <http://tressiemc.com/2013/10/29/the-logic-of-stupid-poor-people/>; Adding MLS on Your Website - Beyond Creative: <http://gobeyondcreative.com/web-design/adding-mls-website/>
    
    kakobrekla: meh, well, you get the point.
    
    kakobrekla: here http://www.google.com/search?&q="You+really+make+it+seem+so+easy+with+your+presentation+but+I+find+this+matter+to+be+actually+something+which+I+think+I+would+never+understand."
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/29/5356498/eve-online-battle-sees-200000-dollars-worth-of-spaceships-destroyed
    
    ozbot: Spaceships worth more than $200,000 destroyed in biggest virtual space battle ever | The Verge
    
    ThickAsThieves: did you supply the guns mp?
    
    BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: If I still was active on Eve the best I could have supplied for that would have been a gnat like thing full of viscious, still more gnat like things.
    
    herbijudlestoids: im a professional spruiker but i already got a job i like and also much further away from vegas :P
    
    kakobrekla: is this how eulora is going to go down? "a village ripped in Eulora, 2000 BTC btc carriages destroyed and horses burned"
    
    Duffer1: that would be amazing
    
    assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    herbijudlestoids: ThickAsThieves: i read about that on slashdot, some interesting comments, some people put the value at half or less, a lot of people mentioned how reading about EVE battles is better than the battles :P
    
    herbijudlestoids: i gotta admit the description of the battle was quite interesting for someone who has never played the game
    
    Duffer1: i "watched" a live stream of the battle on twitch.tv
    
    BingoBoingo: I'm starting to get kind of interesting in this idea of poaching talent from places that aren't East St Louis.
    
    herbijudlestoids: actually thats an idea i had while reading aboutthe battle, game servers people can rent in BTC
    
    Duffer1: it looked like a space themed desktop background rather than a game
    
    herbijudlestoids: lol
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.60490001 = 2.4196 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    herbijudlestoids: does anyone know who runs freebitco.in?
    
    herbijudlestoids: seems unlike other bitcoin faucets in that it really just is a faucet
    
    herbijudlestoids: all the others you need to click an ad or watch a video or whatever
    
    herbijudlestoids: also i like the simple website
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 624 @ 0.00502002 = 3.1325 BTC [+] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 41 @ 0.6315351 = 25.8929 BTC [+] {12} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HIF] 900 @ 0.00046001 = 0.414 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 80 @ 0.00519874 = 0.4159 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 217 @ 0.00545822 = 1.1844 BTC [+] {12} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 33 @ 0.00568028 = 0.1874 BTC [+] {8} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 62 @ 0.04484043 = 2.7801 BTC [-] {11} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 155 @ 0.00589 = 0.913 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.6498 = 2.5992 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    
    
    ozbot: fortune (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    
    herbijudlestoids: interesting errata
    
    jimmyjazz: yo
    
    kakobrekla: hi
    
    jimmyjazz: was up
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.63980002 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11350 @ 0.00088948 = 10.0956 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 4 @ 0.04899998 = 0.196 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 7 @ 0.63980002 = 4.4786 BTC [-]
    
    kakobrekla: >As you saw I sent an email to all FIMB holders regarding repayment. I plan on repaying 50% now and the rest as my personal mining income comes in.
    
    kakobrekla: haha
    
    mircea_popescu: what's fimb even
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 6 @ 0.6575 = 3.945 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    kakobrekla: garrets second or third scam
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i mostly supply the fuel the stations run on
    
    mircea_popescu: for one of the species (the one everyone plays)
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 10 @ 0.66710002 = 6.671 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 230 @ 0.00588852 = 1.3544 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids it's insanely boring, really.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 15 @ 0.04899999 = 0.735 BTC [+]
    
    herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: what is, sorry?
    
    mircea_popescu: eve
    
    herbijudlestoids: ah right
    
    mircea_popescu: i mean if you're into trading then ok, you got a penny stock market.
    
    herbijudlestoids: im too busy thinking of ideas and then not implementing them because theyre not perfect
    
    mircea_popescu: otherwise it's more like... yea, what Duffer1
    
    mircea_popescu: said
    
    herbijudlestoids: nah, i trade on the regular markets :)
    
    herbijudlestoids: i have a whole farm of algos, waiting for vols to die down on bitcoin before i try them out there
    
    herbijudlestoids: penny stocks not my bag
    
    herbijudlestoids: send me the EOD data for MPOE and i will backtest it against one of the simpler ones
    
    herbijudlestoids: you sould send a couple of BTC to the guy who writes quantmod for R to add feed support for MPEX :D
    
    kakobrekla: lol, the ideas.
    
    mircea_popescu: there's pympex, why should i support the proprietary pastures of the obsolete world ?
    
    mircea_popescu: let them move over.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 10 @ 0.67389999 = 6.739 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 492 @ 0.00588943 = 2.8976 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 59 @ 0.049 = 2.891 BTC [+]
    
    herbijudlestoids: hmm ok so this is for trading? im talking about data feed for quantitative analysis...timeseries of the price of the contracts/assets
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 8 @ 0.67475 = 5.398 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    herbijudlestoids: quantmod has a function getSymbols() so i can pull say, 2000 bars of EOD data for an ETF and run various analysis against it
    
    herbijudlestoids: supports yahoo finance, mysql backend, etc...im just suggesting fund the dev to add support so that it can pull the price feed off mpex with getSymbols too
    
    mircea_popescu: afaik there's some people offering the full history, including kako
    
    mircea_popescu: otherwise you can just query mpex and form your own history.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 100 @ 0.00289899 = 0.2899 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17000 @ 0.00088529 = 15.0499 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 71 @ 0.00596764 = 0.4237 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    herbijudlestoids: kakobrekla: can haz data pls?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 100 @ 0.00613504 = 0.6135 BTC [+] {7} 
    
    
    
    ozbot: MPEX Socket | #bitcoin-assets
    
    herbijudlestoids: anyone doing analysis on this timeseries already?
    
    mircea_popescu: what was mike's blog
    
    herbijudlestoids: so but i need a MPex login for this?
    
    
    
    ozbot: When Does BitBet Money Come In? - Btc Alpha
    
    nubbins`: "Of further note, if vegas paid out the way this Matic "Tic, hence bloodsucker" guy pays out, they'd be entirely shutdown in less than 24 hours."
    
    nubbins`: Matic Pitiscu
    
    kakobrekla: tic, sounds like tits but means dick.
    
    mircea_popescu: course matic is not read like mah tick but like mytits
    
    kakobrekla: yea
    
    kakobrekla: mahtitis
    
    mircea_popescu: cause he's such a boob :D
    
    kakobrekla: eh mahtits
    
    herbijudlestoids: i guess no response means im a retard
    
    mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids you don't need a mpex acct to read the feed im sure.
    
    mircea_popescu: and a few people are doing more or less something with the data, but there's always room for more
    
    mircea_popescu: an' merrier.
    
    mircea_popescu: global warming hits florida : schools closed down because of the carbon footprint everywhere.
    
    mircea_popescu: personally, i blame dub.
    
    herbijudlestoids: ah it says contact kakobrekla for username
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 2500 @ 0.00008142 = 0.2036 BTC [-] {13} 
    
    herbijudlestoids: can haz?
    
    kakobrekla: yes, this reading thing, very powerful stuff
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 232 @ 0.00615889 = 1.4289 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    kakobrekla: its 1 btc per year iirc
    
    nubbins`: why, that's only pennies per hour!
    
    kakobrekla: indeed
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;calc 1*infinity / 365*24*3600
    
    gribble: Error: 'infinity' is not a defined function.
    
    mircea_popescu: shit.
    
    kakobrekla: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;calc 1*(all the monyz in the world) / 365*24*3600
    
    gribble: Error: invalid syntax (<string>, line 1)
    
    mircea_popescu: gribble is not so smart.
    
    herbijudlestoids: i dont want a subscription to the feed, i can append to it manually as necessary but i just wanted a one off dump of the existing EOD data
    
    kakobrekla: i want icecream and b lowjob
    
    herbijudlestoids: if its too hard, nw, just a thought that popped in my head then my plan was always to use the algos on BTCUSD in the future :)
    
    truffles: some ppl want free help but they dont want to give free help
    
    herbijudlestoids: for now they are hard at work on regular markets
    
    mircea_popescu: no rush, rly.
    
    herbijudlestoids: truffles: i happen to think free data is useful and democratising, allowing people like me to do today what was only in the purview of hedge funds and instos just 10y ago
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.66675 = 2.667 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 1600 @ 0.00615889 = 9.8542 BTC [+]
    
    AleksG: Hello, Mr. Mircea Popescu. I wrote to you about cryptography. I wrote to you about cryptography. Here you can download a video presentation of the world's absolute cryptographic protection http://rmxcrypt.com/
    
    mircea_popescu: finance and democracy don't mix.
    
    herbijudlestoids: but whatevs, i go where the data and liquidity is, plenty of it around
    
    mircea_popescu: hello AleksG. got a transcript ?
    
    truffles: greed and democracy wont mix
    
    mircea_popescu: "greed" is a meaningless symbol only defined in your own system. it's about as important as flogiston, generally.
    
    truffles: lol
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.049 = 0.147 BTC [+]
    
    AleksG: Other information I can send you by email
    
    mircea_popescu: as presented your statement readily reduces to "that which people do which isn't reducible to our own idiocy and our own idiocy don't mix", which further reduces to nonA is disjunct from A. which it is. whoop.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 100 @ 0.00285 = 0.285 BTC [-]
    
    truffles: guess u want pat on the back for missing the point
    
    mircea_popescu: no, i mostly use you as a cockpuppet to illustrate the concepts involved for the general readership.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 20 @ 0.0061 = 0.122 BTC [-]
    
    truffles: sure take 1 or 2 examples to make a point that is unsupported then call it fact right
    
    mircea_popescu: i took an example ?! which /
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.625 BTC [-]
    
    herbijudlestoids: shit guys
    
    herbijudlestoids: dont worry about it
    
    truffles: this is an ongoing argument
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.655 BTC [+]
    
    herbijudlestoids: asking for free data, bad idea, continue with the discussion about vegas or eve or whatever
    
    mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids i think we long forgot about that lol
    
    truffles: this is about arguing with a wall
    
    mircea_popescu: but srsly, the data is free, query mpex, get the jsons, store them, in a week or w/e you have your sample.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24900 @ 0.00088758 = 22.1007 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: if you can't wait a week or w/e it takes pay someone who already did it, if you don't like paying wait, whatevs.
    
    herbijudlestoids: ok, i will add it to my TODO, 1am here, almost bed
    
    herbijudlestoids: nah i can wait setup a VM in the dc to wait for me
    
    mircea_popescu: exactly.
    
    kakobrekla: you can also grep logs or chan
    
    herbijudlestoids: this is trueee
    
    kakobrekla: the data on the socket is from late 2012, thats the point.
    
    truffles: herbijudlestoids do ulive in america?
    
    herbijudlestoids: no aus
    
    truffles: ok
    
    truffles: u said that yesterday !
    
    truffles: or days ago ..
    
    herbijudlestoids: it was true yesterday?
    
    truffles: nah my unscientific poll that i will randomly keep
    
    herbijudlestoids: vexual is from aus, he lives near a friend of mine and asked me if that friend accepted bitcoin for his jewellery so i convinced him to get a bitpay acct and he did
    
    herbijudlestoids: if anyone sees vexual tell him so pls :P
    
    mircea_popescu: vexual buying joolry now ?
    
    
    
    ozbot: Larridinya Carvings Jade and Bone
    
    nubbins`: herbijudlestoids, try ;;later tell vexual hey bru i have something to tell you
    
    truffles: u can do the command
    
    truffles: slow pony
    
    mircea_popescu: is she hawt ?
    
    herbijudlestoids: its a he
    
    mircea_popescu: is he hawt ?
    
    herbijudlestoids: ;;later vexual yo my mates store is accepting BTC now
    
    gribble: Error: The "Later" plugin is loaded, but there is no command named "vexual" in it.  Try "list Later" to see the commands in the "Later" plugin.
    
    herbijudlestoids: ;;later tell vexual yo my mates store is accepting BTC now
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    truffles: forget the tell
    
    herbijudlestoids: i am a spammy cunt, sorry
    
    mircea_popescu: actually these aren't awful. http://www.larridinya.com/wp-content/uploads/lilly-flower-carving2-e1374372458397-700x525.jpg
    
    herbijudlestoids: yes, i know
    
    herbijudlestoids: he is hawt i guess, very smart guy, chemist and biologist who lives in the paradiseyiest bit of aus
    
    truffles: sounds hot
    
    herbijudlestoids: equatorial
    
    nubbins`: i liked australia more when i knew less about it
    
    herbijudlestoids: nubbins`: irukandji
    
    mircea_popescu: the best thing about postmodernism is just how nicely varied people are these days.
    
    truffles: jewelry i might actually wear :D
    
    BingoBoingo: The best thing Australia probably produced was this dud http://www.27bslash6.com
    
    herbijudlestoids: i told him to get a bitpay account and bitcoin cunts would support him just for accepting bitcoin
    
    BingoBoingo: *dude
    
    herbijudlestoids: dont let me down, bitcoin cunts
    
    mircea_popescu: he's not australian, he's a brit neh ?
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Pretty sure he talks about being an Aussie
    
    mircea_popescu: hm
    
    herbijudlestoids: hes aus
    
    truffles: the one on bottom right reminds me of body part hmm
    
    
    
    ozbot: David Thorne (writer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    
    
    
    ozbot: "I cant help it if some of the light goes across the road. Put something up in your window."
    
    truffles: i dont like the shapes though...
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 17 @ 0.00615888 = 0.1047 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: i like some of them, but he's only actually selling two
    
    herbijudlestoids: BingoBoingo: the other night you and vexual convinced me to get a WoT account which i dutifully did. i think you were a little drunk. why did i do that?
    
    AleksG: Mircea Popescu, I gotta go, I'm waiting for a letter from you on agclear.energy@gmail.com
    
    AleksG: Keep in mind that this system will make electronic currency Bitcoin  absolutely secure
    
    ThickAsThieves: keep that in mind mircea
    
    BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: I was indeed very drunk. A little drunk is what I am nao that I am contemplating bedtime.
    
    herbijudlestoids: secure BTC!
    
    BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: As to why you got the WoT account. Read moar?
    
    herbijudlestoids: BingoBoingo: i stayed on for ages trying to rate you 10, but it kept telling me i needed rating first :(
    
    truffles: ofc mp likes the lilly flower
    
    herbijudlestoids: i was just on there, hoping waiting that you would rate me
    
    mircea_popescu: so weird.
    
    truffles: that looks like a body part
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 7 @ 0.63000001 = 4.41 BTC [-]
    
    BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Why was I rating you?
    
    Duffer1: why do i get the feeling that guy took a fat shit in your inbox ..
    
    herbijudlestoids: no, you werent!
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;gettrust herbijudlestoids
    
    gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user herbijudlestoids: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=mircea_popescu&dest=herbijudlestoids | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=herbijudlestoids | Rated since: never
    
    mircea_popescu: they did that so in case i go this it may one day not show zeroes
    
    herbijudlestoids: ThickAsThieves: he mentioned to me that he is putting a bunch up soon
    
    BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: I mean what would my reason for rating you have been. DId you sharpie in the pooper or something?
    
    herbijudlestoids: HAHA
    
    herbijudlestoids: no i told you, they dont have sharpies here
    
    BingoBoingo: Some other brand of laundry marker?
    
    mircea_popescu: Duffer1 nah, something off twitter.
    
    herbijudlestoids: you said sharpie
    
    mircea_popescu: bluntie
    
    Duffer1: ah
    
    mircea_popescu: http://www.27bslash6.com/brochure.html this shit should be mandatory reading for forum ceoppets.
    
    ozbot: "Dropshadows lift the type off the page as if they are 3D. You probably don't even know how to do th
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 3 @ 0.634 = 1.902 BTC [+]
    
    herbijudlestoids: mueslicoin
    
    herbijudlestoids: hmm, nope
    
    herbijudlestoids: BingoBoingo: where u at? if youre considering bed either must be close by to me or strange sleep patterns
    
    BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: The later.
    
    truffles: ayahuasca vine looks nice
    
    
    
    ozbot: Larridinya Carvings Jade and Bone
    
    mircea_popescu: he only sleeps when he runs out of hootch
    
    BingoBoingo: !b1
    
    herbijudlestoids: ethanolcoin
    
    herbijudlestoids: hmmm...nope
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.6345 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 7 @ 0.02800039 = 0.196 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 85 @ 0.02800005 = 2.38 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 105 @ 0.00615888 = 0.6467 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    jurov: in re: user support, one has to talk to aws user support to reveal their VAT reg. number
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3806 @ 0.00089143 = 3.3928 BTC [+]
    
    jurov: instead of them writing it on invoices (as obliged by law, by the way)
    
    herbijudlestoids: a serious alcoholic should own a still ;)
    
    ThickAsThieves: "it just needs to be more branded. If you add more brand without changing the design"
    
    ThickAsThieves: it hurts, mommy
    
    mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids he does.
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it gets way better. "They're not hidden, they're on a shelf. Obviously you're going to say my design isn't very good so you can justify charging to redesign it. Everyone who has seen the current brochure has said it is amazing. Ive got a degree in fine arts and I've done an advanced course in Adobe. I probably know more indesign than you do. Art is subjective. I branded it to appeal to our customers, the
    
    assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    mircea_popescu: y don't want modern looking things."
    
    mircea_popescu: truly.
    
    ThickAsThieves: this is why i quit the biz
    
    ThickAsThieves: it's like that, well, every day
    
    herbijudlestoids: and also because the economic profit of designing websites went down significantly?
    
    mircea_popescu: everyone copes in his own way. apparently there's a huge premium the internet puts on coping by insulting and publicly humiliating the stupid
    
    ThickAsThieves: you can make plenty designing websites
    
    ThickAsThieves: if you are a masochist
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 163 @ 0.00615889 = 1.0039 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: but i did more overall branding work
    
    herbijudlestoids: needs moar brand yo
    
    ThickAsThieves: the need to educate your customers is such a burden
    
    mircea_popescu: for some odd reason in romania "brand" denotes the thick of one's arm
    
    herbijudlestoids: thats essentially the technology premium toh
    
    ThickAsThieves: particularly in that you are teaching them something they REALLY dont want to believe
    
    herbijudlestoids: s/toh/tho
    
    mircea_popescu: so that whole discussion is extra funny to me
    
    BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: No need to own a still. Time spent operating a hypothical or alleged still could be better spent on other ventures.
    
    herbijudlestoids: i work in large scale IaaS and its the same, you gotta educate everyone
    
    ThickAsThieves: it gets extra fucked up too,
    
    ThickAsThieves: in that they are soo persistent
    
    ThickAsThieves: you start to wonder if they are right
    
    ThickAsThieves: and whether the whole thing is a joke
    
    ThickAsThieves: (it kinda is)
    
    herbijudlestoids: justuwait, the next gen kiddies will know all our secrets by the time theyre 12 and work for minimum wage to do the same thing
    
    mircea_popescu: this is starting to sound a little too much like popular bitcoin finance.
    
    mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids what rattles me is this : how can you sit there and propose democracy as anything but a horror, with this experience ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: i also began to feel guilty manipulating customers to not shoot themselves
    
    herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: i think there is a lot to be said for systems with high friction
    
    BingoBoingo: Didn't even have to read Plato
    
    mircea_popescu: why would you want more democracy at all, or any democracy whatsoever in anything you care about at all ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: you dont
    
    mircea_popescu: well i don't.
    
    ThickAsThieves: thats the big joke in entering the graphic design field
    
    ThickAsThieves: kids get into it to express their talent
    
    mircea_popescu: god forbid they start making democracy steak.
    
    herbijudlestoids: complex systems "complicate away" friction and make the system less robust
    
    herbijudlestoids: depart from equilibrium
    
    ThickAsThieves: but that job is all about doing what everyone else ssays
    
    herbijudlestoids: simple systems are robust and do not depart from equilibrium
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is a good point actualy.
    
    herbijudlestoids: easiest way to ensure robustness is friction
    
    mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids so make them simple rather than open.
    
    ThickAsThieves: then,
    
    ThickAsThieves: even if you make it, to be, say, a Creative Director
    
    ThickAsThieves: you learn that all your designers hate you
    
    ThickAsThieves: for trying to finaly get your way
    
    lippoper: .bait to save the day
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: this is why you make your designers work nude and spank them occasionally.
    
    mircea_popescu: then they still hate you but a) you're having fun and b) they also love you.
    
    ThickAsThieves: well
    
    ThickAsThieves: even when you do get one
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.6345 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: properly obedient
    
    mircea_popescu: that was the lousiest bait ever.
    
    mircea_popescu: ozbot you're fired.
    
    ThickAsThieves: they leave after a year or two
    
    mircea_popescu: why would they leave ?!
    
    ThickAsThieves: grass is greener
    
    ThickAsThieves: careers
    
    ThickAsThieves: etc
    
    mircea_popescu: how could grass be greener ?
    
    herbijudlestoids: because as it turns out, not *all* jobs are about doing what everyone else says and if youve got talent you can command those jobs
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.6345 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: if you don't have the greenest grass wtf are you doing
    
    ThickAsThieves: i had one girl that left to go work with all girls
    
    lippoper: agreed.
    
    ThickAsThieves: i offered to pat more
    
    ThickAsThieves: pay*
    
    lippoper: ozbot give us better
    
    lippoper: .bait
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you should have hired the whole stable.
    
    ThickAsThieves: she said "my boyfriend told me not to accepts"
    
    ThickAsThieves: accept*
    
    lippoper: ok you're truly fired
    
    mircea_popescu: hahahaha
    
    lippoper: that's not even sexy
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 105 @ 0.00615821 = 0.6466 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    lippoper: .bait me
    
    ozbot: http://31.media.tumblr.com/8ff0f1e4337870000147b8513470b626/tumblr_mvabis3yck1racc9so1_400.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: http://31.media.tumblr.com/0311a40c4d0829aa39b18a441eba33c5/tumblr_mj4kfn3AuB1ru15g3o1_500.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: that's a good safety measure anywya.
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you should have paid her to dump her bf.
    
    davout: let's test it
    
    davout: .bait
    
    ozbot: http://24.media.tumblr.com/495804dd3b9f8cc816518e0564b0aa6b/tumblr_mu3jh5GjSD1r600xqo1_500.png
    
    ThickAsThieves: well remember, she probably harbored hate for me by then
    
    davout: yay, assets became SFW again
    
    herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: maybe democracy isnt what i mean. i want more information to be freely available so those who are interested in it can use it to make informed decisions. to "level the playing field"
    
    ThickAsThieves: all my programmers seemed to have insecurity issues
    
    ThickAsThieves: or drinking problems
    
    herbijudlestoids: for example, i have capital
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.6345 = 2.538 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: good help is hard to find i guess
    
    herbijudlestoids: but if i cant efficiently allocate it then i wont allocate it to anything but cash and gold since im risk averse
    
    mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids there's a subtle point involved here : back when information cost money you had a bunch of ignoramuses clearly labeled as such and lots of educated people.
    
    mircea_popescu: in the wake of wikipedia you have strictly ignoramuses with delusions of education
    
    herbijudlestoids: really?
    
    mircea_popescu: and a few old people left over. once they die that's it.
    
    asciilifeform: anybody catch this:
    
    asciilifeform: http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2014/01/27/predator-drone-sends-north-dakota-man-to-jail/
    
    ozbot: Predator Drone Sends North Dakota Man to Jail - Forbes
    
    herbijudlestoids: so economists used to be better at predicting the economy and now they suck?
    
    herbijudlestoids: or economists have always sucked at predicting the economy and now we know it
    
    ThickAsThieves: predicting, lol
    
    herbijudlestoids: excuse my colloquialism
    
    mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids if you take the whole predictive discourse of economy in 1913 and compare to 2013
    
    herbijudlestoids: forecast
    
    mircea_popescu: you will find a marked decline in the average quality.
    
    davout: wouldn't "forecasting" be a better match?
    
    mircea_popescu: this is BECAUSE a democratic view to specialist fields is harmful for everyone involved :
    
    mircea_popescu: the idiots, the professionals, society at large.
    
    herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: as someone who actually sits on SSRN in his free time reading research old and new i kind of disagree
    
    mircea_popescu: well perhaps my view is wrong.
    
    mircea_popescu: maybe someone takes the time to settle this.
    
    herbijudlestoids: i dunno about your view but i am just saying predictive discourse was worse in 1913 than now
    
    mircea_popescu: tho it's a huge task, you can't even read all the deluge of today
    
    BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Maybe subscribe to some more interesting stuff than SSRN
    
    mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids worse, in what measure ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: is it really a prediction if it was the plan all along?
    
    herbijudlestoids: in resolution, accuracy, understanding, etc
    
    mircea_popescu: i strictly mean, average quality went down, in the sense the understanding displayed dwindled. not in the sense better predictions were done
    
    herbijudlestoids: BingoBoingo: plenty of interesting stuff from hedge funds and instos goes up there as working papers daily ;)
    
    mircea_popescu: (the reason you'll never have better predictions is modelled in http://trilema.com/2012/anonimity-or-the-urban-versus-rural-dispute/
    
    mircea_popescu: the part dealing with why technology can't help the police)
    
    ThickAsThieves: "OK guys, everyone processed these stellar news? Let's be optimistic that the driest patch is over, esp. communications-wise. Keep in mind though, the dividends won't rise until April and there still may be weeks of silence where friedcat fixes the last problems"
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 98 @ 0.00580002 = 0.5684 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda not the first, not the last neh ?
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: IANAL, but this tidbit seems to signal the final, complete death of the 19th century u.s. law known as 'posse comitatus act'
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6500 @ 0.00088935 = 5.7808 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: that it may be.
    
    mircea_popescu: the notion that the imperial household is in any way limited wasn't doing too well over there anyway.
    
    herbijudlestoids: any chance of having assbot broadcasting in another chan with mode +q set so the logger i setup only stores the orders?
    
    mircea_popescu: was it #bitcoin-assets-trades ?
    
    nubbins`: yes
    
    nubbins`: had to check
    
    herbijudlestoids: sweet
    
    herbijudlestoids: thx
    
    herbijudlestoids: i /whois'd assbot before asking but it didnt show up
    
    nubbins`: probably +s
    
    mircea_popescu: prolly.
    
    herbijudlestoids: ok i will setup a logger before bed i think
    
    mircea_popescu: so 9bn on march is 8:1
    
    mircea_popescu: steep.
    
    mircea_popescu: what good are 3Gh/W chips at 3 dollars each in that context ?
    
    nubbins`: a guy really does lsd in that wall street movie and writes an exam and passes it?
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` crack.
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://cryptome.org/2014/01/polynominal-time-pkc-attack.pdf
    
    nubbins`: oh well jeez sure
    
    nubbins`: it
    
    nubbins`: 's wall street
    
    mircea_popescu: these people and their pdfs ;/
    
    ThickAsThieves: "If I was inclined to have a boyfriend, I would select one my height and weight to save having to readjust the driver's seat position. I am not interested in doubling my wardrobe as I wear the same outfit everyday to facilitate speedy identification should I ever be in a boating accident."
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` dude you ever seen a series 7 ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: I like this David Thorne guy
    
    asciilifeform: RIP McEliece.
    
    nubbins`: not being american nor a stock broker, can't say that i have
    
    asciilifeform: (or perhaps not. seems to rely on bit-errors.)
    
    nubbins`: six hours! oh my
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is it basically http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=3559 ?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.63499 = 1.27 BTC [+]
    
    nubbins`: you'd crash and burn pretty close to the start
    
    nubbins`: unless you actually did take lsd
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's like the SAT, except to even show on the scale in s7 you need about 98% on the sat.
    
    nubbins`: in which case the crash and burn would be more like a smouldering fire
    
    mircea_popescu: besides, it costs plenty to even take.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 80 @ 0.002825 = 0.226 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: enough so that most people rely on their comp to pay for it.
    
    mircea_popescu: sort-of like the rhel exams except ^2
    
    nubbins`: heh
    
    nubbins`: actuarial exams are a paid-for thing usually, as well
    
    nubbins`: looked into this some years ago when deciding whether to do statistics or not
    
    mircea_popescu: so are drugs. now, would you take a 20 dollar hit the day of a 20k exam ?
    
    nubbins`: depends, am i a fuck-up?
    
    mircea_popescu: right=o.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 36 @ 0.00615889 = 0.2217 BTC [+]
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope, this one's new.
    
    mircea_popescu: you're not getting a pass. which is you know... wtf, this guy PASSED ?!
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.63499 BTC [+]
    
    
    
    ozbot: Personal responsibility and inept Bitcoin jesusing
    
    nubbins`: if you can pay to remove bans, posts like that should entitle you to a get-out-of-jail-free card
    
    nubbins`: "OP made me feel quite ashamed of how a lot of the listed qualities that i find so disgusting in of the mindsets of some the crypto following,  so succinctly described my own actions which i never looked closely, instead just looking at others in contempt."
    
    mircea_popescu: how is she ever getting banned
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 7 @ 0.63499 = 4.4449 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: o you mean the noob. mayhap.
    
    nubbins`: not OP, but that reply
    
    nubbins`: heh
    
    ThickAsThieves: "I don't want the next big job creating discovery, the research and technology, to be in Germany, or China, or Japan," the president said
    
    ThickAsThieves: uhhh
    
    mircea_popescu: lol a little late for that.
    
    nubbins`: HEH
    
    herbijudlestoids: k loggin
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.635 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 21 @ 0.00615889 = 0.1293 BTC [+]
    
    herbijudlestoids: i maek u pretty graf
    
    herbijudlestoids: even setup logrotate on the fucker
    
    mircea_popescu: so i was going to go, speaking of imperatOr, here's http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-01-2014#465492 and then highlight asciilifeform
    
    mircea_popescu: except assbot STOLE the gist of my message.
    
    
    
    ozbot: Personal responsibility and inept Bitcoin jesusing
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.63749999 = 2.55 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you gotta fix this censorsheep!
    
    nubbins`: "seemed to be" ;(
    
    mircea_popescu: !t h am1
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK:AM1] 1D: 0.40600000 / 0.54752483 / 0.67500000 (304 shares, 166.44754973 BTC), 7D: 0.34000000 / 0.47735293 / 0.70890000 (1936 shares, 924.15527485 BTC), 30D: 0.28090000 / 0.47903449 / 0.74500000 (5435 shares, 2603.55244873 BTC)
    
    nubbins`: <zantafio> i have hundred btc on just dice.. very nvervous right now
    
    nubbins`: i'd be nervous with 100btc on a DICE SITE even if it wasn't down
    
    mircea_popescu: apparently teh ppl liked teh forum post.
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` i guess it depends whose.
    
    nubbins`: that's like almost half a house!
    
    nubbins`: "sez here you lost an incredible amount of money to some website. do you know who runs it?" "some guy named doug, i think"
    
    herbijudlestoids: in aus the house price to avg salary ratio is double the US, so 100BTC is like, 20% at best for the value of a house here :P
    
    nubbins`: herbijudlestoids: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-01-2014#465989
    
    mircea_popescu: this would imply aussies avgt salary is 2.5x us
    
    herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: GDP/capits is 70k PP USD in AUS and about 49k PPUSD in AUS
    
    herbijudlestoids: s/capits/capita
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 94 @ 0.00615889 = 0.5789 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: wait wut ?
    
    herbijudlestoids: wut wut
    
    mircea_popescu: which is it, 70k or 49k ?
    
    mircea_popescu: schroedingaustralia ?
    
    herbijudlestoids: err sorry lol 49k in US
    
    mircea_popescu: gdp/capita is a poor measure of salaries, anyway.
    
    herbijudlestoids: but in both cases very close to the avg salary
    
    nubbins`: well, what's in an average
    
    mircea_popescu: ro gdp/capita is like 8k. average salary is like 500, minimum wage is a whopping 150 dollars.
    
    nubbins`: know the average income of the city bill gates lives?
    
    herbijudlestoids: some form of aggregate understanding?
    
    nubbins`: s/understanding/data
    
    mircea_popescu: like 2/3 of the population makes that minimum wage.
    
    herbijudlestoids: just checked to confirm US avg salary is $52k USD and AUS avg salary is $73k AUD, evens out to be about 50/70 on a PP basis
    
    mircea_popescu: point remains, there is a LOT of variance in both housing prices and salaries in the us.
    
    mircea_popescu: the "half a house" comment probably references older discussions re the housing market in central ohio
    
    nubbins`: nah just going on my own house
    
    nubbins`: only one person who regulars this chan cares about central ohio ;p
    
    ThickAsThieves: it's like $2800 for 1000sqft in San Francisco and $800/mo for a 1700sqft house in north Florida
    
    nubbins`: so many people from around here own houses in florida now
    
    nubbins`: imagine, the descendants of fishmongers from what is historically canada's poorest province, scooping up florida real estate like monopoly properties
    
    nubbins`: not sure if it says more about here or there
    
    mircea_popescu: The True Love Tester bra cant be masterfully unhooked by some skeevy player who hit on the wearer at a club. No, this bra only comes undone when sensors embedded inside it that are connected wirelessly to a smartphone app detect a particular heart rate
    
    mircea_popescu: basically... it's the rape bra.
    
    nubbins`: facelamp
    
    nubbins`: guess it's not for the gym either
    
    nubbins`: actually the reverse would be great for the gym
    
    herbijudlestoids: ok its not double
    
    mircea_popescu: get on the stairmaster, tits go out
    
    nubbins`: keep your heart rate up OR ELSE
    
    herbijudlestoids: the house price to income in aus is about 4 atm and about 3 in the US
    
    mircea_popescu: dude that's a gread idea
    
    nubbins`: it's like the pay toilets in korea, you stop feeding coins and the door pops open
    
    mircea_popescu: perhaps make some cockrings with electricity too.
    
    mircea_popescu: sorta like the dog collars.
    
    nubbins`: "sorta like"... they make shock collars for small dogs too :P
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 95 @ 0.00287999 = 0.2736 BTC [+]
    
    herbijudlestoids: ah shiet 2am
    
    mircea_popescu: yes but what dog is that small
    
    herbijudlestoids: bredtime
    
    mircea_popescu: did he say it's time to get bred ?!
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 100 @ 0.00287999 = 0.288 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30550 @ 0.00089478 = 27.3355 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: anyone present like hip hop?
    
    nubbins`: some, not all
    
    nubbins`: not most, even
    
    ThickAsThieves: i wanna share a song i just finished, but have no one to share with
    
    mircea_popescu: o.o
    
    nubbins`: put it on soundcloud and let the world hear
    
    ThickAsThieves: i cant yet
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 45 @ 0.028 = 1.26 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 95 @ 0.00287999 = 0.2736 BTC [+]
    
    ThickAsThieves: https://db.tt/Rm6UjcFC is the mp3, if anyone is interested
    
    ThickAsThieves: i did the music/mix/production
    
    nubbins`: mircea_popescu: regarding s.mg forums/wikis/etc, the deal is one cannot simultaneously use game assets and accept payment?
    
    ThickAsThieves: a local does the raps
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` yea
    
    nubbins`: does that extend to likenesses of assets or just the originals?
    
    nubbins`: say, a rendition of creature x
    
    mircea_popescu: uh
    
    mircea_popescu: what are you trying to do, let's start at that end
    
    nubbins`: haha.
    
    nubbins`: make a forum
    
    nubbins`: specifically, one with some sort of in-game beastie incorporated into the logo
    
    mircea_popescu: so enjoy.
    
    nubbins`: lovely
    
    nubbins`: not a lot to discuss yet, but figured it'd be nice to have something in place for when there is
    
    mircea_popescu: just don't start with any thermos bs.
    
    nubbins`: well i was thinking about banning everyone by default
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    nubbins`: (srsly)
    
    nubbins`: hence the original question ;D
    
    mircea_popescu: well then if you ban everyone what do i care ? i'll never know.
    
    nubbins`: you'd probably get an honorary membership
    
    nubbins`: i mean, uh, un-baning
    
    nubbins`: *banning
    
    mircea_popescu: so what exactly aren;t you saying ?
    
    nubbins`: it's a pay forum
    
    mircea_popescu: well no, you can't do that.
    
    nubbins`: aha
    
    mircea_popescu: why do you want to make a pay forum anyway
    
    nubbins`: (a) to cover costs and (b) to get paid
    
    nubbins`: justifiable if the content is there
    
    nubbins`: for instance, gigposters.com forums costs $20/year for "premium" membership
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 162 @ 0.00615889 = 0.9977 BTC [+]
    
    nubbins`: not required, but you're mercilessly browbeaten if you leech too much good advice without buying one.
    
    nubbins`: and the real nice stuff, like plans for equipment, is hidden inside the premium members subforum
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.63 = 1.26 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: but listen, if what you want is to get paid, you should do something else than a forum
    
    mircea_popescu: forums are god awful for this purpose. do something that pays.
    
    azi`: so weird.. if you want to withdraw funds from mtgox and send them to another BTC you are faced with "invalid BTC address" error multiple times and it only works after a random amount of "submit clicks..
    
    azi`: i am wondering if they use this to stall funds on the site...
    
    nubbins`: tbf, if i wanted to get paid well, i'd not have retired from IT
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.63 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8455 @ 0.00089467 = 7.5644 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: azi` indeed.
    
    azi`: am I just paranoid?
    
    nubbins`: but that aside, i can't see myself running a free-for-all forum
    
    nubbins`: not worth the effort
    
    KRS1: they've done other things like disabled onclick actions when you try to submit a form
    
    nubbins`: even with advertising
    
    azi`: KRS1: hm? what does thatmean
    
    KRS1: they disabled submit buttons in the past
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` well that's kinda it, as a general principle. if you want to get paid do something that pays
    
    mircea_popescu: rather than try to finagle a fundamentally unpaying model into paying you
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 6 @ 0.62916666 = 3.775 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    azi`: KRS1: so they are a bit shady..
    
    mircea_popescu: azi` they are beyond shady.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SFI] 700 @ 0.00086552 = 0.6059 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 94 @ 0.00614 = 0.5772 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    nubbins`: so shady they don't wear sunblock on hot days
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 200 @ 0.006157 = 1.2314 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 151 @ 0.006157 = 0.9297 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SFI] 240 @ 0.00086666 = 0.208 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15699 @ 0.00089511 = 14.0523 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 140 @ 0.00615699 = 0.862 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.62999998 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 13 @ 0.028 = 0.364 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 3 @ 0.63 = 1.89 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.61 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 23 @ 0.00615195 = 0.1415 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    jurov: nubbins try to approach some existing forums with your congenial idea
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [7C] 30 @ 0.00550122 = 0.165 BTC [+]
    
    jurov: such as http://bitcoinforum.com/ (the one i'm trying to use for coinbr support)
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 58 @ 0.00287999 = 0.167 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 3 @ 0.63 = 1.89 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 1610 @ 0.00009101 = 0.1465 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 23 @ 0.00606959 = 0.1396 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12650 @ 0.00089267 = 11.2923 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 8 @ 0.6349999 = 5.08 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.635 = 2.54 BTC [+]
    
    the20year: Take a look at these charts and tell me if they make sense to you all (Pre-collapse RS price charts) - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9427554/BF%20chart%20%28Medium%29.jpg
    
    
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 25 @ 0.0060001 = 0.15 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: your first problem is thinking a bitcoin stock chart is going to make sense
    
    lippoper: .bait
    
    ozbot: http://24.media.tumblr.com/c1ea084cf12c63c8658c1eeb356a691c/tumblr_mxddl5mzxA1soc88vo1_500.jpg
    
    lippoper: .bait
    
    ozbot: http://31.media.tumblr.com/12a740d250c034c204bf1e5a412a8a8f/tumblr_mor7stoMnX1qc4rfao1_1280.jpg
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31923 @ 0.00088774 = 28.3393 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 5 @ 0.62 = 3.1 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 1609 @ 0.00610504 = 9.823 BTC [+] {14} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 30 @ 0.63256631 = 18.977 BTC [+] {7} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 900 @ 0.00634031 = 5.7063 BTC [+] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 49 @ 0.0062003 = 0.3038 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 17 @ 0.6604054 = 11.2269 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 6 @ 0.66777777 = 4.0067 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 43 @ 0.0063499 = 0.273 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CFIG] 3 @ 0.09016667 = 0.2705 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 1100 @ 0.00638866 = 7.0275 BTC [+] {7} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 206 @ 0.00636114 = 1.3104 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    b0n1: hey there! I just read an interesting article about the sefnit botnet (http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2014/01/09/tackling-the-sefnit-botnet-tor-hazard.aspx) And I was wondering in what way this correlates with the litecoin mining difficulty
    
    b0n1: what do you think? The drop at january is much later than the cleaning update, right? Did they clean directly when the cleaner was included in the microsoft update, or did they install the cleaner and trigger them simultaneously at a given time in the middle of january?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11614 @ 0.00088298 = 10.2549 BTC [-]
    
    TomServo: b0n1: You're wondering about the drop in LTC hashrate? Around the 19th?
    
    b0n1: yeah
    
    b0n1: TomServo its sefnit, isnt it?
    
    punkman: doge
    
    TomServo: I thought it was doge
    
    b0n1: why so fast and abrupt?
    
    TomServo: check this out: http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/hashrate-ltc-doge.html
    
    TomServo: switch to 3months
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 50 @ 0.00287912 = 0.144 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 99 @ 0.00638997 = 0.6326 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 3 @ 0.669 = 2.007 BTC [+]
    
    b0n1: well doge was much longer more profitable than ltc, right? why do people switch so rapidly?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 7 @ 0.66999999 = 4.69 BTC [+]
    
    TomServo: Because the price shot up around the same time
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.67 = 2.68 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SFI] 210 @ 0.00083012 = 0.1743 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 39 @ 0.00287912 = 0.1123 BTC [-]
    
    
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.66 = 1.32 BTC [-]
    
    pankkake: why do people switch so rapidly => because it's often automated
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2450 @ 0.00088526 = 2.1689 BTC [+]
    
    mod6: ;;bc,stats
    
    gribble: Current Blocks: 283068 | Current Difficulty: 2.193847870174279E9 | Next Difficulty At Block: 284255 | Next Difficulty In: 1187 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 0 days, 8 hours, 56 minutes, and 38 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 2455257168.03 | Estimated Percent Change: 11.91556
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty estimates 18.44%
    
    ozbot: Bitcoin Difficulty and Hashrate Chart - BitcoinWisdom
    
    mod6: hmm, yeah
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.66 = 1.32 BTC [-]
    
    mod6: so what happened to LTC difficulty? fell off a table ~1/20/14
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.66 = 1.32 BTC [-]
    
    mod6: i like btcwisdom for its fibonacci fans&retracement tools
    
    ThickAsThieves: maybe it was Shrem Mine
    
    TomServo: mod6: http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/hashrate-ltc-doge.html seems it went to doge
    
    mod6: nice chart, thx TomServo
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 3 @ 0.66 = 1.98 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.66902 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 22 @ 0.0063 = 0.1386 BTC [-]
    
    mod6: much trollcoin
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45853 @ 0.00088859 = 40.7445 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.63002023 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CFIG] 3 @ 0.08213333 = 0.2464 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    mircea_popescu: b0n1 fwiw, it's more likely doge than whatever botnet.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CFIG] 4 @ 0.08105001 = 0.3242 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 73 @ 0.0063 = 0.4599 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 90 @ 0.0063 = 0.567 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: http://25.media.tumblr.com/28888a6464f3ab2b5df77fa3ec90bb61/tumblr_mj0qmbQ77O1ru15g3o1_1280.jpg
    
    TomServo: zoinks scoob
    
    TomServo: check out the funbags on that hosehound'
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: don't tell me you're a fan of the cartoon dorkage of the 80s
    
    TomServo: well, in the 80s!
    
    mircea_popescu: i hated that hanna barbera shit. scooby doo, the jetsons, roadrunner, the works.
    
    mircea_popescu: i was an emo preteen!
    
    TomServo: haha
    
    TomServo: I preferred, M.A.S.K, COPS and transformers
    
    ThickAsThieves: i can tell from the fro pics
    
    ThickAsThieves: you arent smiling til puberty
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 21 @ 0.00609911 = 0.1281 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    mircea_popescu: http://25.media.tumblr.com/1504bd7f076ab4a2d5469a58bd5d0a18/tumblr_mj0qnpcCxr1ru15g3o1_1280.jpg << dating in 2020.
    
    TomServo: That fro though; That's impressive.
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves tho this may be more a function of photographic technology. sometime around my puberty they figured out how to take your picture without blinding you with twelve billion watts.
    
    ThickAsThieves: hehe
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4647 @ 0.0008869 = 4.1214 BTC [-]
    
    ThickAsThieves: your peers seemed to manage
    
    mircea_popescu: eh girls, whadda they know.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [KCIM] 71 @ 0.00323947 = 0.23 BTC [+] {8} 
    
    TomServo: Road Runner was a Loony Toon btw
    
    mircea_popescu: i guess it was.
    
    mod6: i kinda liked the Road Runner.
    
    mod6: Wile E. Coyote running off cliff without realizing that there is no ground beneath his feet reminds me of U.S. econ.
    
    mircea_popescu: but why ? the coyote tries shit, the roadrunner does not. yet it always comes ahead.
    
    mod6: hhaha, i dunno. guess he's just too fast.
    
    mircea_popescu: i get it, the socialist mind wants this to be the case. yet... shiut doesn't work that way.
    
    mircea_popescu: irl the coyote eventually fucks up the roadrunner. badly.
    
    mod6: I supposed after enough chance encounters, sooner or later the otherside wins one.
    
    mod6: *suppose
    
    mircea_popescu: kinda what got me, you know ? it never fucking won. gets boring to watch it if you know the result aforehand
    
    mod6: true enough. the main attraction is to find out what devious scheme the coyote will attempt and ultimately fail with.
    
    mircea_popescu: suppose no matter what you did, the computer just blinked the screen once. that's it.
    
    nubbins`: well, wimpy kids watching cartoons don't want the mean guy to win, y'know?
    
    mircea_popescu: wouldn't make anyone too interested in programming would it
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` how is the coyote the bad guy ?
    
    mircea_popescu: fucking roadrunner is the bad guy
    
    nubbins`: on account of him wanting to have lunch
    
    nubbins`: obv
    
    nubbins`: veg agenda
    
    mircea_popescu: what is this, guilttrippin for preteens ?
    
    nubbins`: mel blanc? vegan
    
    mircea_popescu: haha srsly ?!
    
    nubbins`: no idea ;(
    
    TomServo: lol
    
    nubbins`: doubt it
    
    mircea_popescu: this never occured to me. seems too simple to work :D
    
    nubbins`: recall the sheep skits
    
    nubbins`: same thing
    
    mircea_popescu: you mean with the titty chick whatever her name was ?
    
    nubbins`: nah sheepdog vs wolf
    
    mircea_popescu: i dun think i ever saw that
    
    TomServo: I'm with mod6, the draw was seeing what nonsense was Macgyver'd up by the coyote.  (Much like MacGyver incidentally)
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: but mcgyver GETS IT
    
    mircea_popescu: kinda why i never got into that, either : he always succeeds
    
    mircea_popescu: wtf is up with that
    
    TomServo: More of a Knight Rider guy?
    
    mod6: yah, McGyver always seems to figure it out, always works out for him. never ends up with his balls in a vice.
    
    mircea_popescu: i never watched that one either.
    
    ThickAsThieves: CNN Announces Partnership with Twitter to Revolutionize News Gathering
    
    mircea_popescu: of the newer stuff i watched dexter and cow&chicken, which both imo are brilliant.
    
    mircea_popescu: esp the latter
    
    ThickAsThieves: gather all the news!
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves " CNN Announces Partnership with Twitter to stop paying reporters altogether"
    
    TomServo: You finished Dexter?
    
    mod6: CNN, such irrelevance.
    
    nubbins`: meat grinder announces partnership with iphone to revolutionize music
    
    mircea_popescu: TomServo they only did like 20-30 episodes iirc.
    
    nubbins`: there's like 8 seasons of dexter
    
    mircea_popescu: the renaisance was coming to an end
    
    ThickAsThieves: hide your news, hide your blogs, CNN is coming for you
    
    mod6: "Tonight on CNN, we're gonna read the top trending tweets!"
    
    mircea_popescu: nubbins` dexter, boy genius. and his sister dee dee
    
    mod6: *snooze*
    
    mircea_popescu: mod6 ayup.
    
    nubbins`: oh, HAHA. that show ruled
    
    TomServo: Oh, Dexter cartoon.
    
    nubbins`: laborrahtories etc
    
    mircea_popescu: old media is becoming a sort of "internet aids for old and disabled people"
    
    ThickAsThieves: AOL
    
    mod6: exactly mp
    
    mircea_popescu: not that there's anything wrong with it, nice public service
    
    mircea_popescu: but there's not going to be any money in it.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35376 @ 0.00089607 = 31.6994 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    mircea_popescu: i never heard of a multi billion dollar "reading books for the blind" venture.
    
    ThickAsThieves: CNN Announces Terminal AOL Affliction
    
    TomServo: But I hear glasses and hearing aids are really expensive.
    
    mircea_popescu: pretty much. "CNN Gives Up"
    
    mircea_popescu: TomServo good ones. with emphasis on good.
    
    ThickAsThieves: Currently on their gravestone: 10 winter health myths busted, Motley Crue signs 'death pact', Ancient blueprint for Noah's Ark found?
    
    mircea_popescu: da fuck.
    
    mircea_popescu: is cnn like a sort of tv daily mail ?!
    
    nubbins`: haha
    
    TomServo: Or worse.
    
    mircea_popescu: wtf is going on over there
    
    ThickAsThieves: She was killed for photobomb, cops say
    
    nubbins`: motley crue, noah's ark
    
    ThickAsThieves: Surprising celebrity friendships
    
    mircea_popescu: dude this is like the depths of stalin's winter, proletcultism it was called.
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;google proletcultism
    
    ThickAsThieves: Super rich, stop your ranting!
    
    gribble: Poezia română după proletcultism by Constantin Abăluţă ...: <http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17371377-poezia-rom-n-dup-proletcultism>; Sebastian Reichmann (Contributor of Poezia română după ...: <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3339608.Sebastian_Reichmann>; Proletkult - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletkult>
    
    mircea_popescu: apparently this concept doth not exist in english
    
    mircea_popescu: o nm, proletkult
    
    mod6: OOoo. I want to spend 20 minutes of my life on "Suprising celebrity friendships"
    
    ThickAsThieves: lol, i skipped the main headline:
    
    ThickAsThieves: IT DIDN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN
    
    ThickAsThieves: Snow turns Atlanta into 'zombie movie'
    
    FabianB: ;;premium mtgox btce
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah, that. it sucked.
    
    gribble: Premium of MtGox over BTC-E is currently 17.8118295455 %.
    
    ThickAsThieves: all their journalists are Twitterers and SEO Specialists now
    
    ThickAsThieves: I blame Google
    
    ThickAsThieves: I had this idea to make the anti-google search engine
    
    ThickAsThieves: but i know nothing of running search engines
    
    FabianB: duckduckgo?
    
    ThickAsThieves: thats just anonymous
    
    ThickAsThieves: not anti enough
    
    mod6: how about a simple page that when you hit SUBMIT on the form just returns, "GO FUCK YOURSELF"?
    
    mod6: fuuuuckyougle.com
    
    ThickAsThieves: sorta like a simpler lmgtfy
    
    ThickAsThieves: hehe
    
    pankkake: duckduckgo has some anti-google features like "no bubble" http://dontbubble.us/
    
    ThickAsThieves: lol: POLITICIAN EXPLODES, THEN APOLOGIZES
    
    ThickAsThieves: Witnesses complain of bloody mess but appreciate posthumous apology
    
    mod6: must have been a mess.
    
    mircea_popescu: it's not really possible to make a google without ai.
    
    ThickAsThieves: thats actually the anti part
    
    ThickAsThieves: all search weight factors would be transparent and customizable
    
    ThickAsThieves: then the engine averages all template weights for a default one
    
    ThickAsThieves: or curates it some
    
    ThickAsThieves: but if yoy make an account
    
    ThickAsThieves: you can de-weight twitter mentions, or such
    
    ThickAsThieves: save custom search templates
    
    ThickAsThieves: like weight blogs and twitter only, if you are a journalist
    
    ThickAsThieves: all SEO methods are posted
    
    ThickAsThieves: no mystery
    
    ThickAsThieves: it is law instead
    
    ThickAsThieves: lotsa algo work
    
    ThickAsThieves: but methodical
    
    ThickAsThieves: this would cause search results to be more organic with time and trends
    
    ThickAsThieves: rather than the reverse
    
    ThickAsThieves: IPO coming soon
    
    ThickAsThieves: codename: Search Party
    
    mod6: bluehorseshoe <3's anacott steel
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 240 @ 0.00276753 = 0.6642 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    
    
    ozbot: Democracy and finance don’t mix - the math involved pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
    
    mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> all search weight factors would be transparent and customizable << now this is a great idea.
    
    mircea_popescu: really great idea.
    
    mircea_popescu: especially if you allow people to add factors.
    
    mircea_popescu: basically self-fighting antispam engine
    
    gecko_x2: mp hi, i need ur help
    
    mircea_popescu: shoot
    
    ThickAsThieves: thats the first time i told the idea and the listeners eyes didnt cross
    
    gecko_x2: a guy want to buy litecoin for btc of me for alittle higher rate than btc-e
    
    gecko_x2: this is his proposal for escrow:
    
    gecko_x2: I create and give you a btc wallet and password on blockchain with 5.7 BTC 2. You can login , check BTC, change password and attach and verify to your email this wallet 3. You send me the ltc  4. i release you the transfer keys so you can send BTC to your personal wallet that way block chain role is as escrow
    
    mircea_popescu: it's weak.
    
    gecko_x2: what do you think?
    
    gecko_x2: why?
    
    ThickAsThieves: lol
    
    ThickAsThieves: cuz he can change pass again
    
    mircea_popescu: because he yeah
    
    ThickAsThieves: with other factors
    
    mircea_popescu: use someone as an escrow.
    
    ThickAsThieves: yeah
    
    ThickAsThieves: i'll so crypto escrow for ya for .2 btc if no one else will
    
    ThickAsThieves: do*
    
    mircea_popescu: that;s a little rich innit ?
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;gettrust gecko_x2
    
    gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user gecko_x2: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=mircea_popescu&dest=gecko_x2 | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=gecko_x2 | Rated since: never
    
    punkman: ThickAsThieves: http://www.searchenginecaffe.com/2010/11/blekko-launches-brings-transparency-to.html
    
    ThickAsThieves: call me Steve Jobs
    
    punkman: two years later: "Blekko Betrays Trust Blocks SEO Data And Shreds Transparency Policy"
    
    mircea_popescu: punkman srsly ?!
    
    mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves clearly there's money in it.
    
    punkman: well if anyone wants to experiment, this is very handy: http://commoncrawl.org/
    
    ThickAsThieves: maybe we can fund this blekko guy
    
    punkman: you can have a personal search engine, it's gonna cost though
    
    mircea_popescu: back in the days i still had time, i used to run romania's digg/reddit/sm aggregator thing
    
    mircea_popescu: it did some pretty wicked search things, but then again it was kind of small
    
    mircea_popescu: not THAT much romanian internet out there.
    
    ThickAsThieves: the real answer is to patent the search idea after fully documenting it, then sell it to Yahoo
    
    mircea_popescu: do you want to do something or just make money ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: in this case, money
    
    ThickAsThieves: i have no desire to be CEO of TAToogle
    
    mircea_popescu: so then it's not for you.
    
    gecko_x2: well
    
    gecko_x2: he is offering me 5.7 btc for 200 ltc
    
    gecko_x2: current value on btc-e 5.3 btc
    
    mircea_popescu: this is not a consideration gecko_x2
    
    gecko_x2: i'd love to take 0.4 btc
    
    gecko_x2: how to make this work?
    
    mircea_popescu: use some person as an escrow.
    
    mircea_popescu: someone with a wot rating
    
    ThickAsThieves: you dont even need to find a person
    
    mircea_popescu: then he can rate you both and you can rate each other etc.
    
    ThickAsThieves: just tell him you will
    
    ThickAsThieves: and he'll go away
    
    mircea_popescu: lol or that
    
    pankkake: haha, true
    
    gecko_x2: ;;gettrust mircea_popescu
    
    gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user gecko_x2 to user mircea_popescu: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=gecko_x2&dest=mircea_popescu | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=mircea_popescu | Rated since: Fri Jul 22 11:04:26 2011
    
    mircea_popescu: cynical bastards, the lot of ye.
    
    gecko_x2: so mp will u be my escrow?
    
    gecko_x2: or TaT?
    
    pankkake: why would someone want to pay more than on btc-e? makes no sense
    
    gecko_x2: <gecko_x2> may i ask why you would want to do this instead of just buying the ltc on an exchange?
    
    punkman: free ltc of course
    
    mircea_popescu: i don't actually have a ltc wallet o.o
    
    gecko_x2: i don't use any exch
    
    gecko_x2: 5 mounts
    
    gecko_x2: i lose much money,also someone hack my account
    
    gecko_x2: and that is rison ''WHY
    
    ThickAsThieves: he's wasting your time
    
    mircea_popescu: http://31.media.tumblr.com/fafc587c5a3b9709dd750ca3bd8f5be1/tumblr_miind4dYZI1s1m2veo1_400.gif << "check this shit out, are these the flappiest, looses tits ever or what ? what do you people think ?"
    
    ThickAsThieves: and now ours
    
    pankkake: can't spell = scammer. no exceptions
    
    mircea_popescu: i wonder what that says of all the dorks hating on mpoe-pr
    
    mircea_popescu: they rarely manage to speal.
    
    gecko_x2: c'monm peeps help me make some dough :)
    
    gecko_x2: ThickAsThieves?
    
    pankkake: I can do the escrow but I doubt it will come to that
    
    ThickAsThieves: i already offered to do it for .2btc
    
    ThickAsThieves: maybe pankkake will for less
    
    gecko_x2: .1
    
    ThickAsThieves: or some forumite
    
    gecko_x2: :D
    
    punkman: google found the video for the gif: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xq7twm_audrey-bastien-nude-scene_redband
    
    
    
    ozbot: My Wallet - Be Your Own Bank - Blockchain.info
    
    pankkake: I have no litecoins now so might not be able to pay the tx fee actually :/
    
    mircea_popescu: punkman is it good ?
    
    KRS1: oh wow mircea_popescu..very nice, I would fap to those boobies. Plus she looks older than that girl. Hmmm.
    
    KRS1: She looks a bit jealous.
    
    gecko_x2: i'm logged in
    
    gecko_x2: should be ok you think?
    
    gecko_x2: he gave me the pass
    
    gecko_x2: 5.83 btc
    
    gecko_x2: oh what the hell.. i'm game
    
    ThickAsThieves: send the btc to another wallet then
    
    punkman: gecko_x2, why aren't you doing this in small increments?
    
    mircea_popescu: this is so cute.
    
    mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/281/btc-usd-at-mtgox-will-be-above-150-on/ << imagine if mtgox goes bye bye
    
    ozbot: BitBet - BTC/USD at MtGox will be above $150 on Mar 1st 2014
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 12 @ 0.6300158 = 7.5602 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: then youll get snackman's ghosts
    
    gecko_x2: hmm email verification code incorrect
    
    mircea_popescu: is that like, a good thing ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: lol
    
    ThickAsThieves: how to lose $5000 with an audience
    
    mircea_popescu: something tells me this is going to become a pretty epic example of "ask mp, ignore what he says"
    
    ThickAsThieves: start counting your bash lines!
    
    lippoper: what are you saying about dogecoin?
    
    lippoper: that the ema lines have crossed once again? Maybe it's a good time to buy in and ride the wave?
    
    mircea_popescu: i have no idea
    
    
    
    ozbot: Hi this is not office. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
    
    lippoper: doge lol
    
    
    
    
    
    ozbot: Vault of Satoshi
    
    lippoper: dogecoin -> usd
    
    ThickAsThieves: ick
    
    lippoper: as well as primecoin, feathercoin, quarkcoin,
    
    lippoper: litecoin, namecoin, peercoin
    
    lippoper: wow
    
    ThickAsThieves: dogecoin is like a feedback loop of you slapping yourself in a mirror
    
    ThickAsThieves: cant watch, not funny, embarassing, etc
    
    ThickAsThieves: get off my lawn
    
    mircea_popescu: dude you didn't see the artful clipart of the challenger with a D on it while sepparating from its boosters
    
    mircea_popescu: how can you be so ignorant
    
    lippoper: lolz
    
    ThickAsThieves: i saw it
    
    ThickAsThieves: and cringed
    
    ThickAsThieves: when i see some things so hideous, i physically react
    
    ThickAsThieves: like some of these reality shows
    
    mircea_popescu: it is mildly concerning that the current crop of kids are so visually driven and cognitively impaired
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 41 @ 0.049 = 2.009 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: it's almost as if living in a world of doges.
    
    ThickAsThieves: there's this new celebrity gameshow
    
    ThickAsThieves: and they all sit on couches
    
    ThickAsThieves: and pretend to be on drugs
    
    mircea_popescu: srsly, what's with the drugs over there ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: but mostly just display their new forms of surgical primping
    
    ThickAsThieves: it's so painful to watch
    
    ThickAsThieves: they all pretend to be funny
    
    mod6: this is a game show?
    
    ThickAsThieves: like it's a total charicature of reality
    
    mircea_popescu: more like a lame show
    
    mod6: srsly
    
    mod6: it would be funnier if they were ACTUALLY on drugs.
    
    
    
    ozbot: Hollywood Game Night | Everyday People Play With Celebrities | NBC
    
    mircea_popescu: anyway, ima be off to do some shit. if anyone seeks my advice just link them to the above.
    
    mircea_popescu: do them about the same good.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26200 @ 0.00089633 = 23.4838 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    lippoper: (つ◕_◕)つ    [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅]
    
    ThickAsThieves: it's a trap!
    
    lippoper: http://i.imgur.com/Z9gvzc3.gif <-- We're not crashing... We're just practicing for the Olympics!
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10150 @ 0.00089637 = 9.0982 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17650 @ 0.00089473 = 15.792 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15900 @ 0.00089637 = 14.2523 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.668 = 1.336 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.668 = 1.336 BTC [+]
    
    gecko_x2: omg
    
    gecko_x2: i just got conned :(
    
    pankkake: how much? :/
    
    assbot: Last 50 lines bashed and pending review. (http://dpaste.com/1575635/plain/)
    
    ThickAsThieves: !b 50
    
    Animazing: Let me guess 200LTC
    
    gecko_x2: yes?
    
    gecko_x2: did i loose it?
    
    ThickAsThieves: did you?
    
    gecko_x2: hold
    
    Animazing: If you sent it; you lost it
    
    Animazing: it's as simple as that
    
    gecko_x2: how
    
    gecko_x2: i have the second pass to blockchain
    
    gecko_x2: wtf
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6300 @ 0.00089307 = 5.6263 BTC [-]
    
    kakobrekla: start using normal chars mircea_popescu
    
    ThickAsThieves: this panelist!
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23285 @ 0.00088913 = 20.7034 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 7 @ 0.66957442 = 4.687 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 30 @ 0.66993293 = 20.098 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 10 @ 0.677 = 6.77 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6115 @ 0.00088913 = 5.437 BTC [-]
    
    the20year: new shorts on difficulty on havelock?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 3 @ 0.68 = 2.04 BTC [+]
    
    gecko_x2: fucking shit
    
    gecko_x2: [17:43:31] * Maximilian was kicked by iwilcox (scammer)
    
    gecko_x2: :(
    
    kakobrekla: dafuq u doin
    
    gecko_x2: :(
    
    gecko_x2: :8
    
    gecko_x2: :(
    
    gecko_x2: motherf..
    
    kakobrekla: what happend ?
    
    gecko_x2: i got scammed it seems!
    
    kakobrekla: yea, we got that....
    
    kakobrekla: detals?
    
    kakobrekla: details?
    
    gecko_x2: well we used blockchain.info as escrow
    
    gecko_x2: i have second password
    
    gecko_x2: Volvo39 is 4faf593e@gateway/web/freenode/ip.79.175.89.62 * 79.175.89.62 - http://webchat.freenode.net
    
    gecko_x2: Volvo39 on #bitcoin #litecoin
    
    gecko_x2: Volvo39 using herbert.freenode.net DE
    
    gecko_x2: Volvo39 End of /WHOIS list.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.69 = 1.38 BTC [+]
    
    Animazing: still not details
    
    Animazing: no*
    
    Animazing: A whois is not details on a scam
    
    gecko_x2: hold on
    
    gecko_x2: i have all logs
    
    gecko_x2: :(
    
    gecko_x2: this can't be happening..
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.690122 = 1.3802 BTC [+]
    
    gecko_x2: my gawd
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 137 @ 0.00629758 = 0.8628 BTC [+] {6} 
    
    gecko_x2: MOTHERFUCK
    
    Animazing: Just learn from the experience and move on
    
    Animazing: When something sounds to good to be true it usually is
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 100 @ 0.00629999 = 0.63 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: dude, yknow blockchain.info even has an escrow multi-sig feature thing
    
    punkman: gecko_x2: I see you ignored my suggestion
    
    ThickAsThieves: we told you
    
    ThickAsThieves: like 4 of us
    
    
    
    ozbot: OTC Volvo39
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.69 = 1.38 BTC [-]
    
    gecko_x2: FUCK
    
    pankkake: I think it's the same annoying guy
    
    punkman: gecko_x2, just don't waste too much time trying to get it back
    
    gecko_x2: :(
    
    gecko_x2: how is it possible
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 3 @ 0.690122 = 2.0704 BTC [+]
    
    gecko_x2: jesus fuck 5.6 btc
    
    gecko_x2: is there anything i can do?
    
    punkman: because trading passwords over IM is not an acceptable substitute for the actual blockchain
    
    gecko_x2: but i made a second pass to blockchain
    
    gecko_x2: omg
    
    ThickAsThieves: why didnt you send the coins to another wallet?
    
    ThickAsThieves: that was your second chance
    
    gecko_x2: i neede the private key
    
    ThickAsThieves: lol
    
    gecko_x2: :(
    
    gecko_x2: funny?
    
    ThickAsThieves: almost perfectly
    
    ThickAsThieves: you trollin?
    
    gecko_x2: NO
    
    gecko_x2: god damnit
    
    deadweasel: are you sure?
    
    pankkake: take it as a learning experience, albeit expensive
    
    deadweasel: could be a decent troll.  or you might have lyme disease.  is your brain swollen?
    
    gecko_x2: what
    
    gecko_x2: i can't login to the blockchain account anymore
    
    gecko_x2: i made a second pass
    
    gecko_x2: how is this possible?
    
    deadweasel: did you use multi-sig?
    
    gecko_x2: i was logged in
    
    deadweasel: so no.
    
    gecko_x2: reated a second password
    
    gecko_x2: created*
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.690122 BTC [+]
    
    gecko_x2: so how can he access the btc?
    
    deadweasel: depends on how stupidly you set up the transaction.
    
    pankkake: what is this second password thing?
    
    deadweasel: the eagle flies at midnight
    
    ThickAsThieves: until the bitcoins are in your own private wallet, you dont have them
    
    pankkake: blochchain.info derives the private key from the password IIRC
    
    ThickAsThieves: that's a constant
    
    gecko_x2: hold he's back
    
    pankkake: he's there every other day
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4224 @ 0.00089638 = 3.7863 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8501 @ 0.00089727 = 7.6277 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 20000 @ 0.00007321 = 1.4642 BTC [-] {31} 
    
    gecko_x2: pankkake so he's a scammer?
    
    gecko_x2: you sure?
    
    pankkake: yes… serial scammer
    
    gecko_x2: omg :(
    
    gecko_x2: why the hell did i do this?
    
    gecko_x2: my last btc
    
    ThickAsThieves: you are lucky
    
    ThickAsThieves: assuming youve learned your lesson
    
    gecko_x2: what?
    
    ThickAsThieves: most of us have surely fooled away more than 5btc
    
    TomServo: gecko_x2: Why would you ask for advice and not follow it?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 220 @ 0.0063 = 1.386 BTC [+]
    
    deadweasel: impulsivity + greed = fail
    
    gecko_x2: do you think i need this shit right now?
    
    deadweasel: yes
    
    TomServo: Yes.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 2000 @ 0.00271438 = 5.4288 BTC [-] {18} 
    
    TomServo: Well, actually you needed it earlier.  AND GOT IT.
    
    deadweasel: you know you like it, TomServo
    
    deadweasel: keep boggling, i'm not there yet
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 7179 @ 0.00007 = 0.5025 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35035 @ 0.00089572 = 31.3816 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 1075 @ 0.00270213 = 2.9048 BTC [-] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 60 @ 0.0027 = 0.162 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HIF] 420 @ 0.00045007 = 0.189 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    lippoper: so from last time I said might be good time to invest in doges, they have gone from 170 to 180 satoshis
    
    Korbman: Soooo...I've been catching up in this channel since I hadn't looked in a number of hours
    
    Korbman: did I literally just read a scam unfold
    
    Korbman: *unfolded because someone can't trade properly?
    
    deadweasel: they tried, seems to have ignored the advice
    
    deadweasel: learning is painful
    
    deadweasel: and expensive
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10500 @ 0.00089768 = 9.4256 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HIF] 279 @ 0.00043001 = 0.12 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 30 @ 0.03182103 = 0.9546 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 100 @ 0.00639999 = 0.64 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: preach on sister!
    
    Korbman: whelp, that's unfortunate
    
    the20year: Anyone have a basic premise? I'm confused about the scam
    
    jurov: !t m s.mpoe
    
    assbot: [MPEX:S.MPOE] 1D: 0.00088298 / 0.00088988 / 0.00089795 (1141890 shares, 1,016.15 BTC), 7D: 0.00087792 / 0.0009462 / 0.00101414 (6193303 shares, 5,860.16 BTC), 30D: 0.00082205 / 0.00089781 / 0.00101414 (28987275 shares, 26,025.11 BTC)
    
    jurov: !t m s.bbet
    
    assbot: [MPEX:S.BBET] 1D: 0 / 0 / 0 (0 shares, 0 BTC), 7D: 0.00072 / 0.00072064 / 0.00075 (511 shares, 0.37 BTC), 30D: 0.00045 / 0.00063054 / 0.0009 (18832 shares, 11.87 BTC)
    
    Korbman: geck0_x2 - be thankful that's all you lost. Most of us have lost waaayyyyy more
    
    Korbman: it's a very painful learning experience, but you'll be better off in the end
    
    azi`: what kind of scam happened?
    
    KRS1: Can you please describe the scam, sir.
    
    jurov: did it involve sauna?
    
    KRS1: Gecko_x2, Volvo39 stole 200 ltc from you?
    
    gecko_x2: YES
    
    
    
    ozbot: [20:33:00] <Maximilian> hey  [20:33:11] <gecko_x2> hi  [20:33:24] <Maximilian> 2 - Pastebin.com
    
    KRS1: sorry to hear that
    
    twizt: gecko_x2:
    
    twizt: you are so retarded
    
    twizt: hes gave you instructions
    
    twizt: and u followed them like a noob
    
    azi`: was this guy verifed on otc?
    
    twizt: lol
    
    twizt: prolly didnt question anything
    
    pankkake: he isn't registered, and he gets upset if you ask him to register
    
    
    
    ozbot: [21:43:05] <Volvo39> hi  -  Volvo39 is 4faf593e@gateway/web/freenode/ip.79.175.8 - Pastebin.com
    
    pankkake: also gets upset if you ask why he changes his nick all the time
    
    Apocalyptic: it's the serbian dude right
    
    Bunnyh: you asked "<gecko_x2> may i ask why you would want to do this instead of just buying the ltc on an exchange?" and then just accepted the bullshit answer
    
    azi`: its easy to be smart now
    
    TomServo: azi`: eh?
    
    Bunnyh: i just don't understand why anyone would have to do btc/ltc trades outside of an exchange, and looks like gecko_x2 didn't either, but still accepted
    
    gecko_x2: :(
    
    azi`: yeah, too bad
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CFIG] 6 @ 0.07501835 = 0.4501 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3 @ 0.0489999 = 0.147 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 36 @ 0.00639998 = 0.2304 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 318 @ 0.00639999 = 2.0352 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 73 @ 0.00649588 = 0.4742 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 200 @ 0.00639998 = 1.28 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 100 @ 0.00639998 = 0.64 BTC [-]
    
    kakobrekla: ah well, part of learning process, mistakes that is.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 9 @ 0.62223306 = 5.6001 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    kakobrekla: with bitcoin, the sooner you go through it, the better.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 8 @ 0.6001 = 4.8008 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 58455 @ 0.00089508 = 52.3219 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 4 @ 0.02999905 = 0.12 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 39 @ 0.60342698 = 23.5337 BTC [+] {8} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 10 @ 0.6 = 6 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 33 @ 0.54818464 = 18.0901 BTC [-] {11} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 7 @ 0.501 = 3.507 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 14 @ 0.49785714 = 6.97 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 116 @ 0.00639998 = 0.7424 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22427 @ 0.00089682 = 20.113 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 25 @ 0.0060001 = 0.15 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12790 @ 0.00089423 = 11.4372 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 16 @ 0.54899 = 8.7838 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 28 @ 0.0057 = 0.1596 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.54799999 = 1.096 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4488 @ 0.00089423 = 4.0133 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.545 BTC [-]
    
    herbijudlestoids: hmmm forgot to put a datestamp on my logger
    
    herbijudlestoids: otherwise some interesting datapoints coming through already
    
    kakobrekla: OMG ITS GOING TO CRASH
    
    kakobrekla: anyway, i thought you went to the liquid markets?
    
    herbijudlestoids: i do, like i said last night, just an idea that came to me then
    
    herbijudlestoids: http://imgur.com/CkJ5kA8 <-- here is a distribution of the overnight tick returns
    
    ozbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
    
    herbijudlestoids: quite an interesting looking formation
    
    kakobrekla: whats the x axis
    
    herbijudlestoids: i log normalise the return between ticks
    
    herbijudlestoids: x axis is the value of those returns
    
    kakobrekla: return between ticks?
    
    kakobrekla: you mean price difference?
    
    herbijudlestoids: its the % return if you had invested in the asset at the tick
    
    herbijudlestoids: (log normalised)
    
    kakobrekla: hm
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 4 @ 0.0489999 = 0.196 BTC [+]
    
    herbijudlestoids: its a pretty normal way to break the timeseries down in quantitative analysis, but usually at a lower resloution than per tick
    
    herbijudlestoids: once i build up some data and refine my timestamping etc i will start to record 10 sec data from the ticks and then build all the lower resolutions from that high res feed
    
    herbijudlestoids: so you can see, the distribution of daily returns or, the 10-tick volatility, etc
    
    herbijudlestoids: also would like to figure out if there is a diurnal pattern in the assets
    
    herbijudlestoids: i cant show you some of the other stuff iv grabbed because i didnt timestamp properly and R wont plot it nicely
    
    ThickAsThieves: http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/29/5358664/us-government-blocks-students-in-iran-cuba-and-sudan-from-taking-free-online-classes-coursera
    
    ozbot: US government blocks students in Iran, Cuba, and Sudan from taking free online classes | The Verge
    
    herbijudlestoids: :/
    
    herbijudlestoids: i need to write a script that will take the irc log output and automagic it into appropriately named, quantmod compatible mysql tables
    
    herbijudlestoids: but after that i can think of all kinds of interesting things to look at
    
    herbijudlestoids: futures curve, vols, trend, fundamentals, benchmark indices, etc
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] [PAID] 11.82985793 BTC to 19`249 shares, 61457 satoshi per share
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] [PAID] 1.87767096 BTC to 321`519 shares, 584 satoshi per share
    
    herbijudlestoids: if i had say a year worth of EOD data could scatterplot daily returns against short term vols to see the relationship etc
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.24310363 BTC
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.54699993 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19322 @ 0.00089744 = 17.3403 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.54699994 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 26 @ 0.0056931 = 0.148 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 422 @ 0.00552412 = 2.3312 BTC [-] {15} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 78 @ 0.0054 = 0.4212 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.52 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 2 @ 0.5448441 = 1.0897 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 28 @ 0.005338 = 0.1495 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.54484284 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 4 @ 0.54484311 = 2.1794 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    mircea_popescu: wait, so the guy got scammed ?!
    
    Apocalyptic: by the almighty serbian scammer
    
    asciilifeform: it takes two to 'scamgo.'
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 5 @ 0.545 = 2.725 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: iiiincredible.
    
    mircea_popescu: so some dude just made more in half an hour than his room mate makes in a year.
    
    mircea_popescu: thank you bitcoin community, you are really helping to make the world a better place.
    
    KRS1: does a great job by helping the scum float to the top.
    
    mircea_popescu: http://25.media.tumblr.com/b3b451526b36c461256b93216a70a44b/tumblr_mhpfg9rNk21rln4dzo1_1280.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: "thanks for the gf, cya"
    
    KRS1: Wonder where they just came home from.
    
    herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: i made a quick graph from the data i logged last night, distribution of tick returns
    
    herbijudlestoids: dunno if you saw it or not http://i.imgur.com/CkJ5kA8.png
    
    mircea_popescu: i hadn't
    
    herbijudlestoids: interesting skew formation
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 67 @ 0.5469104 = 36.643 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    herbijudlestoids: not exactly a large sample size
    
    herbijudlestoids: thats for MPOE
    
    mircea_popescu: yeah kinda... not much there yet
    
    herbijudlestoids: i refined some stuff this morning on examining the data and will write some scriptage tonight probly, all thanks to access to free data ;)
    
    mircea_popescu: :)
    
    mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=431273.msg4827362#msg4827362 who is this guy anyway, is he here ?
    
    ozbot: Ripped OFF by bitbet.us
    
    mircea_popescu: kayser soze anyone ?
    
    Apocalyptic: again some "bitbet scammed me" thread ?
    
    kakobrekla: not scam as such.
    
    mircea_popescu: "bitbet scammed me by sending my winnings to the address i paid from as i told it to"
    
    mike_c: i figured that was one of your sock puppets.  those scam threads are good for business :)
    
    mircea_popescu: i never had sock puppets
    
    mircea_popescu: i guess by now this is improbable, perhaps i'm the last one, but anyway, mpoe-pr is actually my only forum thing
    
    mike_c: yeah. i was kidding.  except about the good for business part.
    
    mircea_popescu: i guess the original one was, but i doubt further roflcopter does anything really.
    
    mircea_popescu: who knows.
    
    mircea_popescu: sucks this can't really be a/b'd
    
    herbijudlestoids: lunchtiem
    
    herbijudlestoids: banh mih for $3.50 :)
    
    mircea_popescu: i just did the math. the bitbet scammed me dude actually bet... about a dollar,
    
    mircea_popescu: and lost about 0.7 cents to the low weight.
    
    mircea_popescu: i wonder if the shills/socks are actually paid less than this to start threads/make posts.
    
    mircea_popescu: he
    
    mircea_popescu: s got like > 100 words in there.
    
    mircea_popescu: the entire fucking forum is worth like fiddy bitcoin at these rates. all 500k threads of it.
    
    herbijudlestoids: doesnt it say the bet was 0.011BTC? i.e. 0.011 * ~1000 ~= 11USD? or was this when the price was lower, he says it was when th eprice was higher lol
    
    mircea_popescu: a wait you're right, i had a degree of magnitude off.
    
    herbijudlestoids: bro u scamd me out of 11USD
    
    mircea_popescu: he lost 7 cents to the low weight. i guess tis legitimate.
    
    herbijudlestoids: most people are shit at betting and will lose their money anyway regardless of scams
    
    mircea_popescu: some people make out alright
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15828 @ 0.00089436 = 14.1559 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 6 @ 0.028 = 0.168 BTC [-]
    
    
    
    kakobrekla: there is a lesson somewhere in there
    
    kakobrekla: and yes, i am reading the fidonet email gateway faq
    
    mircea_popescu: i regularly throw out bits of software or hardware whose function i don't understand.
    
    mircea_popescu: not doing so is immoral in my view, so there.
    
    Duffer1: I'm gonna make Hodor coin
    
    Duffer1: brb
    
    
    
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    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm curious about the hardware
    
    mircea_popescu: of all the various items around me right now, none carry labels, for instance.
    
    asciilifeform: why would they be labeled?
    
    pankkake: brands?
    
    mircea_popescu: i have no idea.
    
    mircea_popescu: but somehow it became fashionable of late.
    
    asciilifeform: 'intel inside' and 'designed for winblows' stickers look great on toilet tanks
    
    asciilifeform: assuming you meant those
    
    mircea_popescu: i mean everything, really.
    
    asciilifeform: what's your answer to silkscreened print? 'dremel' ? or belt sander
    
    mircea_popescu: i don't recall buying silkscreened shit any time recently.
    
    asciilifeform: e.g. logo on mice, keyboards
    
    Duffer1: "In your progress report of November 30th 2013 you stated "We have this last week shipped our first products to customers." - What product was shipped?"
    
    Duffer1: Kslaughter: We shipped some accessories products to India.
    
    kakobrekla: eh who cares for that shit
    
    pankkake: lol
    
    kakobrekla: as long as its not hugo boss
    
    kakobrekla: im talking labels
    
    mircea_popescu: my kbd came w/o a logo. so did the mouse.
    
    kakobrekla: my brain ignores it
    
    kakobrekla: just like i do not see assbot quotes any more
    
    kakobrekla: they are there, i just dont see them
    
    BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I find sugar cubes work well removing silkscreen from hard plastics.
    
    pankkake: keyboard has no logo but I want to replace the win keys by penguins or something. the mouse has a discreet logo… but I've seen the new version, the brand is illuminated :/ https://secure-b.vimeocdn.com/ts/132/730/132730099_640.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: i don't have a win key either.
    
    kakobrekla: for example, i still have stickers on my lappy, yes they are ugly and yes couldnt care less
    
    asciilifeform: i know of no decent keyboard with a winblows key
    
    mircea_popescu: a laptop is another good example, all sorts of shit to excise in there.
    
    pankkake: hm, you made me realize, I have environmentalist propaganda on my monitor
    
    kakobrekla: you people are such girls.
    
    pankkake: asciilifeform: http://webwit.nl/kbc60/1.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: nou
    
    asciilifeform: a laptop remains 'satanic' regardless of what one might do to it
    
    kakobrekla: girls i say.
    
    
    
    ozbot: [ActiveMining] The Official Active Mining Discussion Thread [Self-Moderated]
    
    
    
    Duffer1: ^ ken's pretty much coming clean
    
    asciilifeform: pankkake: 'happy hacking kbd' ?
    
    asciilifeform: has no arrows or f keys either
    
    asciilifeform: why anyone voluntarily uses those is beyond me
    
    mircea_popescu: lmao the slaughter lol is still a thing ?!
    
    pankkake: cheap chinese clone :)
    
    herbijudlestoids: "Importantly, McNab and Klingberg found that the jump in activity levels in these areas was largest for high capacity individuals and smallest for low capacity individuals. That is, when told that they needed to filter, the high-capacity individuals ramped up activity in these brain regions to keep out irrelevant items. By contrast, the low-capacity individuals showed little additional activity in these areas when
    
    Duffer1: it's lulzier than ever MP
    
    pankkake: the fact that it's still a thing, and that the shareholder let it happen is sad :(
    
    mircea_popescu: pankkake you need to re-read the log earlier.
    
    Duffer1: poor gecko :(
    
    mircea_popescu: " In September with bitcoins @ 140, with competition with 400 GH/s and 500 GH/s chips our machines would not ROI, so a decision was made that we would have to refund all of our pre-orders, so we did not commit a lot of our funds to building boards, we was also trying to get enough pre-orders to make our minimum lot with eASIC."
    
    mircea_popescu: the september decision retrospectively made in january.
    
    mircea_popescu: how did that go, "can't spell = scammer" ?
    
    pankkake: asciilifeform: I don't like to move my hands, I'd rather use Fn+something. and vim hotkeys make arrow keys redundant
    
    kakobrekla: hey i cant spell and im not .. a... nvm.
    
    Duffer1: i like this bit: Ken mentioned additional hashrate came online in November, what machines were those?
    
    Duffer1: CEX.IO
    
    pankkake: kslaugther makes spelling error and weird Capitalizations
    
    pankkake: errors
    
    pankkake: in his sockpuppets also
    
    mircea_popescu: well since scammers never die / "investors" are fucktarded, is inaba still a thing too ?
    
    pankkake: Duffer1: wow at the cex.io stuff. that's… wow
    
    kakobrekla: wait im not following all this
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 8 @ 0.0489999 = 0.392 BTC [+]
    
    kakobrekla: its too complicated
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla speal bettur.
    
    Duffer1: oh i'm sure inaba is still making the rounds at bitcoin conferences
    
    kakobrekla: i cunt.
    
    mircea_popescu: http://24.media.tumblr.com/a2c3801273c7e205aaa3fce2415bcc76/tumblr_miripmvKLR1ru15g3o1_500.jpg speaking of.
    
    kakobrekla: pankkake why is cex shocking
    
    kakobrekla: where is the wow
    
    pankkake: the guy isn't supposed to trade company funds on that kind of stuff
    
    pankkake: he's supposed to make miners
    
    kakobrekla: a, that little part.
    
    pankkake: it made billions of posts speculating on sample chips and the guy said nothing for months
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SFI] 300 @ 0.00086 = 0.258 BTC [+]
    
    Duffer1: looks like he did what labcoin did, spent ipo money on retail gear to fake progress on their own proprietary stuff, then lied about it, a lot
    
    asciilifeform: pankkake: no pg-up/down keys either. do you also wear a barrel instead of clothing?
    
    mircea_popescu: d'oh.
    
    kakobrekla: so fury got the money on the end.
    
    kakobrekla: well done
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's french. they evolved past clothing, they just wear their hair.
    
    Duffer1: lol
    
    pankkake: page up/down is a bit frustrating, though for vim and firefox I use other keys
    
    pankkake: well I am hairy, pretty much a caveman
    
    asciilifeform: pankkake: you can carry the happyhacking thing to its logical conclusion:
    
    
    
    ozbot: MwEmu
    
    asciilifeform: 6 keys.
    
    pankkake: I've been wanting to try similar things
    
    pankkake: there's also a sort of glove where each finger can move in a direction
    
    asciilifeform: you can try it right there
    
    mircea_popescu: should be on left hand
    
    mircea_popescu: so he can still jack off
    
    pankkake: I am left handed
    
    mircea_popescu: a nm then
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doug engelbart's original chorder was left-hand.
    
    asciilifeform: or rather, symmetrical, but intended for left hand.
    
    asciilifeform: right hand held his (original!) mouse
    
    asciilifeform: and a kbd in the middle, for times when it couldn't be avoided.
    
    
    
    asciilifeform: full turd here:
    
    
    
    ozbot: Loper OS » Engelbart’s Violin
    
    Duffer1: the forums are on fire tonight https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=439399.0
    
    kakobrekla: look, no branding.
    
    kakobrekla: great for girls.
    
    asciilifeform: kakobrekla: if i recall, he machined those
    
    asciilifeform: perhaps true masters ought to make their own i/o devices.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SFI] 508 @ 0.00083145 = 0.4224 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19100 @ 0.00089432 = 17.0815 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    asciilifeform: i would have built my own keyboard long ago, if i had any way to produce the key caps.
    
    asciilifeform: other components (buckling springs, controller, chassis) can be sourced or laser cut
    
    asciilifeform: but key caps, afaik, must be injection-molded to be of any usable quality.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1100 @ 0.00089423 = 0.9837 BTC [-]
    
    asciilifeform: likewise the shafts in which they move
    
    kakobrekla: cant you scavage them?
    
    asciilifeform: (tolerance ~0.1mm, like a rifle chamber)
    
    asciilifeform: if you scavenge, you're stuck with the original key labels
    
    asciilifeform: and yes, who doesn't own a fat sack full of 'model M' key caps
    
    kakobrekla: you dont need a fat sack for yourself do you
    
    mircea_popescu: so hire a secretary, make her type random strings for half a year
    
    asciilifeform: sure ya do. when one's in the wash.
    
    mircea_popescu: cheap chinese caps, the paint wears off
    
    asciilifeform: injection-molded. 1982, still going strong.
    
    asciilifeform: the black is the inner plastic.
    
    mircea_popescu: o those
    
    mircea_popescu: weird fucking plastic, the white shit too. bachelite or something
    
    asciilifeform: re: secretary: why would you do that to your springs.
    
    asciilifeform: if i ever do make a keyboard, i'll probably machine the mechanicals from aluminum.
    
    kakobrekla: well so you need 2
    
    kakobrekla: still not a fat sack
    
    asciilifeform: if doing something, might as well do it right
    
    pankkake: http://web.archive.org/web/20070114050531/http://tim.griffins.ca/gallery/keyboard/DataHand.html found it!
    
    ozbot: Alternative Keyboard Gallery: DataHand Keyboard
    
    mircea_popescu: well then machine them from rhenium
    
    kakobrekla: good for startrek remake
    
    mircea_popescu: glow in the dark!
    
    asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can machine pyrophorics in your kitchen, i'll pass.
    
    mircea_popescu: :D
    
    asciilifeform: no room in 'garconierre' for argon tanks.
    
    
    
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    mircea_popescu: split ?
    
    mircea_popescu: also, check it out : usagi teh hero. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=228327.msg4830292#msg4830292
    
    pankkake: yeah… :|
    
    pankkake: but still, Deprived disappeared
    
    kakobrekla: he took with off wit the monies?
    
    kakobrekla: im so out of the loop.
    
    Apocalyptic: i'm too
    
    mircea_popescu: a while back.
    
    kakobrekla: how much?
    
    Apocalyptic: I considered him as one of the more legit guys out there
    
    Duffer1: he hasn't been since late november
    
    kakobrekla: i mean
    
    kakobrekla: how much did he get away with
    
    mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic so did i, until i offered him i don't remember what and he got all shady and shy.
    
    mircea_popescu: at which point i stopped.
    
    Apocalyptic: hum
    
    ThickAsThieves: i voice-chatted with him once
    
    ThickAsThieves: cheerful brit
    
    ThickAsThieves: he had plans for more products
    
    kakobrekla: somali using britafy app
    
    mircea_popescu: part of the problem is that all the irresponsible gecko shit going around puts a lot of stress on otherwise honest people, i wager.
    
    ThickAsThieves: odd he took off
    
    pankkake: unless he got hit by a bus
    
    ThickAsThieves: technically,
    
    Duffer1: ya i don't think anyone saw that one coming
    
    kakobrekla: that bus or?
    
    ThickAsThieves: he said he wouldnt post til he had something to post
    
    ThickAsThieves: and nothing has changed yet
    
    ThickAsThieves: ciphertrade is not open yet, which is where he intended to do biz
    
    mircea_popescu: what, THAT still a thing ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: yep
    
    kakobrekla: but whoresandstuff.com is open
    
    Duffer1: he's also on CT board and probably an investor in it
    
    kakobrekla: he can list there
    
    mircea_popescu: dude, are these muppets investing in bcst or w/e still ?
    
    ThickAsThieves: they are in "open beta"
    
    Duffer1: ciphertrade, for better or worse (much worse), is the next batter to step up to the plate
    
    kakobrekla: link?
    
    ThickAsThieves: batter, like the kind you put on chicken
    
    mircea_popescu: lol pancakes!
    
    
    
    Duffer1: and the discussion thread https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=7176.0
    
    kakobrekla: and the ops are in merrica rite?
    
    Duffer1: london mainly
    
    Duffer1: or there abouts
    
    kakobrekla: at least that.
    
    Apocalyptic: hum, they seem to be doing LTC/BTC and XPM/BTC too
    
    Dimsler_: lol
    
    Duffer1: i believe they plan assets + currency exchange
    
    Dimsler_: all these exchanges popping
    
    kakobrekla: pooping?
    
    Apocalyptic: ^
    
    Dimsler_: oh yeah those look totally legit
    
    Dimsler_: let me send 100btc
    
    kakobrekla: SEE I CAN SPELL AFTER ALL
    
    Apocalyptic: you can turn off caps lock too
    
    mircea_popescu: * kakobrekla casts a slanderous spell upon the happy investoland
    
    Dimsler_: these guys are retards
    
    Dimsler_: not using any exchanges based in an OECD country
    
    Apocalyptic: that's kinda extremist
    
    Duffer1: i'm just the messenger, please don't shoot
    
    
    
    kakobrekla: it only works if you belive it mp
    
    Diablo-D3: everyone upvote this
    
    Dimsler_: yeah talk to some mtgox guys
    
    Dimsler_: then
    
    ThickAsThieves: the deprived mining copycat thing on Havelock appears to be almost open for trading
    
    Dimsler_: if you think its extremist
    
    mircea_popescu: so basically this leaves... romania ?
    
    kakobrekla: slovenia
    
    mircea_popescu: japan is in the oecd
    
    mircea_popescu: slovenia doesn't exist.
    
    Dimsler_: lol slovenia is a spit on the map
    
    Dimsler_: bunch of clowns who can't get along
    
    kakobrekla: yeah and kayman islands are twice the size of merrica
    
    mircea_popescu: see ? kant spell cayman
    
    Diablo-D3: its a tool to detect if your vps company is lying to you
    
    kakobrekla: we
    
    Dimsler_: well the carribean is all false as well
    
    Dimsler_: if you want real security you need something like hongkong
    
    mircea_popescu: also cant spell vhatewer
    
    Dimsler_: where if the US authorities call they hang up the phone
    
    mircea_popescu: and chinese ?
    
    Dimsler_: actually best plac eis probably russia
    
    Dimsler_: no extradition treaty
    
    Dimsler_: low income tax on high gains
    
    kakobrekla: no russia, slovenia.
    
    Dimsler_: man i'm not going anywhere near yugoslavia
    
    Dimsler_: those people are fucked in the head
    
    kakobrekla: ....
    
    mircea_popescu: was slovenia in the old yugoslavia ?!
    
    Dimsler_: croatia is nice for a coast line vacation
    
    kakobrekla: was it not!?
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: things, my company is making them https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=439618.new :)
    
    asciilifeform: detecting VM is very, very easy.
    
    Dimsler_: mircea_popescu, you might be confused with slovakia
    
    mircea_popescu: they're different ?!
    
    Dimsler_: lol quit trolling
    
    kakobrekla: fuck all of you.
    
    Dimsler_: slovakia has nice driving roads
    
    mircea_popescu: Azelphur what exactly are you doing there ?
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla aww you know we love you
    
    Apocalyptic: slovakia ftw
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: title is technical director, basically I do web dev / anything tech I can do, while being a big-ass cash cow.
    
    Dimsler_: bitex is a cash cow?
    
    Dimsler_: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: so basicallyh you're being the sucker in this deal.
    
    Azelphur: no, I am xD
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: hopefully not ;)
    
    mircea_popescu: who told that aldur derp that december 2012 qualifies as "long term" ?
    
    Dimsler_: listen guys
    
    Dimsler_: we nee da new MLM
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: I've known him way longer
    
    Dimsler_: now that everyone forgot about pirate
    
    Azelphur: we've been friends (irl) for years
    
    asciilifeform: https://github.com/kaniini/slabbed-or-not sucks, easily defeated.
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: stupidest first post in history of stupid first posts.
    
    mircea_popescu: but anyway, gl etc.
    
    Dimsler_: lol the bitcoin foundation is dangerous
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: haha, he's finance not technology :)
    
    Dimsler_: i'm worried about the doing something stupid like blacklisting address'
    
    Azelphur: so he thinks in terms of the financial industry :)
    
    Dimsler_: dangerous group of people
    
    mircea_popescu: Azelphur he's clueless. https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-ash3%2Ft1%2F264557_227871904003610_1955021226_n.jpg&t=536&c=G_exZJuL6gxbpQ << srsly ?!
    
    asciilifeform: Dimsler_: the sooner the phoundation 'shoots itself' in the head, rather than in the foot as usual, the better.
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: perhaps, but our FPGA engineer isn't (I picked the engineer myself)
    
    Dimsler_: well in the end i don't really give a shit what happens in america
    
    Dimsler_: since its a small and insignificant place
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, no, its current zombie/laughingstock state is useful. much like the power rangers.
    
    mircea_popescu: they absorb shocks
    
    Dimsler_: lol
    
    Dimsler_: well they dragged shrem away
    
    Dimsler_: for loundering
    
    Dimsler_: er laundering
    
    Dimsler_: which the charges themselves are hilarious
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: can't get much more skilled than this, no? http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/glendon-klassen/87/5b4/30 ;)
    
    mircea_popescu: Azelphur alright, just bear it foremost in your mind that a bunch of people ended up swindled to lend their credence to idiotic nonprojects by random wanna-be "experts" to date.
    
    mircea_popescu: so don't become another.
    
    Dimsler_: oh you guys
    
    Dimsler_: i love this new idiot
    
    Dimsler_: vitalik
    
    Dimsler_: or whatever
    
    Dimsler_: the bitcoin magazine clown
    
    mircea_popescu: he's by no means new.
    
    Dimsler_: well in 2012 he was buying btc off my exchange
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: yea, I realise that, and it's something I worry about, but I am heavily involved, and I have sunk a lot of time and money into it
    
    ThickAsThieves: he's not an idiot, he's a "hacker"
    
    Dimsler_: lol hes new to me
    
    mircea_popescu: Azelphur these are not considerations.
    
    Dimsler_: vitalik is a moron
    
    Azelphur: so hopefully all will go well :)
    
    Dimsler_: that has no idea about economics or cryptography
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: oh, you know we already have functional hardware right? :P
    
    Dimsler_: Azelphur, take your fucking scam else where
    
    mircea_popescu: that's fine, but the amount of time/effort sunk into anything has no bearing. you drop a hand of cards when you know they can't win, not when you're comfortable with how much you threw into the pot.
    
    kakobrekla: that dude has "webdev" on his linkedin. -10 internet points.
    
    mircea_popescu: Dimsler_ what's with you anyway
    
    Apocalyptic: Dimsler_, http://ethereum.org/
    
    Apocalyptic: his new project
    
    Dimsler_: lol sorry
    
    Dimsler_: i'm hating today
    
    kakobrekla: Dimsler_ serbia is hating back
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [DEALCO] 25 @ 0.004072 = 0.1018 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    ThickAsThieves: there'll never be a bitcoin 2.0 because all the cries of wolf
    
    Dimsler_: i saw the ethereum project, its got more holes then the block of swiss cheese in my fridge
    
    Azelphur: Dimsler_: haha, with my otc rep, it'd have to be one hell of a long con
    
    mircea_popescu: o so i get it now, slovenia is not slovakia because it is in fact the other name for serbia ?
    
    Apocalyptic: ^
    
    Dimsler_: i could use a vacation in croatia
    
    kakobrekla: is this how is going to end? country trolling?
    
    mircea_popescu: Azelphur that's not the point, the point is that you wouldn't be the first guy used for his rep.
    
    Dimsler_: the french riveria got expensive lately
    
    Dimsler_: cause the euro got raped
    
    Dimsler_: er
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15833 @ 0.00089401 = 14.1549 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    Dimsler_: usd to euro rape
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: yea, I agree, it's a risk.
    
    mircea_popescu: anyway.
    
    asciilifeform: altera cyclone V GX
    
    Dimsler_: Azelphur, list on mpex so we can pump and dump it?
    
    asciilifeform: max ALUs - 113,560
    
    Azelphur: Dimsler_: haha :)
    
    asciilifeform: max clock: 550MHz
    
    
    
    asciilifeform: tell us again about 10GH/sec SHA256.
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: I reckon we'll do fine though, at the end of the day we have the thing and it's hashing right now, so we've already won really
    
    Azelphur: even if 0 preorders and nobody buys, we'll just mine on it and laugh.
    
    Dimsler_: why don't you just mine on it now
    
    mircea_popescu: so if you already have the thing and it hashes why is your "finance industry" pal posting stuff david thorpe designed ?
    
    Azelphur: Dimsler_: we are
    
    mircea_popescu: thorne*
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: posting pictures of an altera dev kit is hardly amazing/interesting
    
    assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    kakobrekla: ^^
    
    kakobrekla: assbot has it
    
    asciilifeform: speaking of which,
    
    asciilifeform: http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=167&No=830
    
    mircea_popescu: according to who, the finance industry ? cmon.
    
    Azelphur: but you do have a point, I could get our FPGA guy to post some stuff
    
    Azelphur: yea, I'll bug him about it :P
    
    asciilifeform: $180.
    
    mircea_popescu: anything is better than a 640px wide picture of six green lines
    
    asciilifeform: for anyone who has these same fit-ten-pounds-of-shit-in-a-five-pound-bag skillz.
    
    mircea_popescu: Azelphur so your product you've won with is a fpga ?!
    
    asciilifeform: 'those who refuse to do arithmetic are doomed to talk nonsense.'
    
    kakobrekla: 100 btc aint gonna make asics
    
    kakobrekla: not yet at least.
    
    Dimsler_: lol
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: seems so, ain't many decent FPGAs out there for altcoins
    
    Azelphur: seemed like a good niche
    
    mircea_popescu: aha.
    
    Dimsler_: alt coins suck
    
    Dimsler_: theres no prize for second place ok
    
    Dimsler_: charles lee knows this first hand
    
    Azelphur: mircea_popescu: and hopefully won't get me thrown in jail, haha
    
    mircea_popescu: Dimsler_ actually miners may make a buck out of all the retarded kids who think a bigger number of coins is better.
    
    Dimsler_: mmm 81 million litecoins
    
    Dimsler_: must have cryptocurrncy with billions of coins
    
    mircea_popescu: then they can get scammed out of fiddy billion coins at a time instead of .5
    
    Duffer1: azelphur so your target is sha256 altcoin miners?
    
    Azelphur: Duffer1: hell no, the sha256 is mostly for shits and giggles
    
    Azelphur: the main targets are scrypt and prime
    
    Duffer1: BitEx M2 coin?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 8 @ 0.59993737 = 4.7995 BTC [+] {4} 
    
    kakobrekla: <Duffer1> azelphur so your target is sha256 altcoin miners?
    
    kakobrekla: all sha alts can be mined on asic afaik
    
    Dimsler_: alt currencies = modern day boiler room
    
    Dimsler_: like i get satoshi premining himself the 1mil in coins
    
    Dimsler_: because he deserved something for the smart scheme
    
    Duffer1: ya kako lol that's what i was trying to point out :P
    
    Dimsler_: but charles lee is just a fag that offers nothing
    
    Dimsler_: same applies to the rest of the crypto alt clowns premining themselves coins
    
    mircea_popescu: Dimsler_ he didn't even premine it.
    
    Dimsler_: yeah i know
    
    Dimsler_: lol
    
    Azelphur: Duffer1: our number theory guy really wanted to try his hand at a new alt :)
    
    Azelphur: and baring in mind he's pretty much perfectly qualified (number theory / fpga) it'll be interesting to see what he comes up with
    
    Duffer1: tell him to be honest with himself and just name it Hodor Coin
    
    Azelphur: :P
    
    Dimsler_: lol new alt
    
    Azelphur: I can probably drag him in here, if ya'll are interested.
    
    Dimsler_: no
    
    Duffer1: that would be fascinating
    
    Dimsler_: no it would not quit trolling the guy
    
    Azelphur: lol
    
    Duffer1: what's the six month plan for bitex?
    
    Dimsler_: its the i'll take all your money and in six months i'll be gone plan
    
    asciilifeform: recipe for those disinclined to be chumped: 1) read published (3 yrs +) verilog src for sha256. 2) build. 3) see minimum gate count for unrolled hasher 4) laugh
    
    Apocalyptic: seriously Dimsler_ wtf
    
    asciilifeform: and this is the ideal figure - does not include memory controller, scrypt crap...
    
    Azelphur: Duffer1: get the FPGAs out, work on new cores, we're also thinking of doing some bitcoin commerce
    
    Azelphur: Dimsler_: would be hard considering there's no way to give us your money yet ;)
    
    kakobrekla: its like all in one shaman stop
    
    Duffer1: bitcoin commerce?
    
    Dimsler_: kakobrekla, lol
    
    Azelphur: Duffer1: yea, ie setting up a reasonably well stocked computer store
    
    Azelphur: there doesn't seem to be anyone doing that in UK
    
    Dimsler_: now a computer store?
    
    Dimsler_: honestly great buisness plan
    
    Apocalyptic: "this will be our temporary home while we setup our IRC server", Azelphur why would you setup your own IRC server for 1 channel ?
    
    Azelphur: that's one of my things I'd like to work on in the future, he asked for the 6 month plan, which goes beyond the FPGA ;)
    
    Azelphur: Apocalyptic: that'd be Oliver not listening to me again when I told him no IRC server
    
    Azelphur: he fails at listening sometimes :(
    
    Apocalyptic: sounds like a waste of time to setup and manage it
    
    Azelphur: yup
    
    Azelphur: and an annoyance to the users
    
    Azelphur: it won't happen, it'll stay on freenode :P
    
    Duffer1: freenode4life
    
    Azelphur: ^
    
    Apocalyptic: *4lyfe
    
    Dimsler_: lol
    
    Dimsler_: goo efnet
    
    Dimsler_: Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
    
    Dimsler_: - Mark Twain
    
    Duffer1: dimsler_ what's your exchange?
    
    Dimsler_: i run a locablbitcoins one
    
    Duffer1: ah
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7612 @ 0.00089445 = 6.8086 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3261 @ 0.00089601 = 2.9219 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.6 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 3 @ 0.6 = 1.8 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.6 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.601 BTC [+]
    
    Apocalyptic: <Ken`> Vitalik Buterin?
    
    Apocalyptic: <jcorgan> yes
    
    Apocalyptic: <Ken`> yep.. he seems smart
    
    Apocalyptic: derp
    
    Dimsler_: LOL
    
    Dimsler_: let me eat there lunches for them
    
    kakobrekla: ;;later tell mircea_popescu you got a point, I remove the logo from bitbet completely, agreed?
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    ThickAsThieves: remove the "got milk" at least
    
    Diablo-D3: >vitalik buterin
    
    Diablo-D3: why does he sound like a russian dietary supplement
    
    ThickAsThieves: a man with a dreams
    
    kakobrekla: but milk is not a scammer
    
    Dimsler_: lol hes like amir taaki
    
    Dimsler_: sold all his btc for a pizza
    
    Dimsler_: aren't thye both now squating in some slum in spain?
    
    Dimsler_: pretending that dark wallet is going to come out of alpha?
    
    kakobrekla: amir sold btc for pizza?
    
    Dimsler_: no it was a joke
    
    
    
    Dimsler_: but he got out early
    
    ozbot: Key 3D printing patent expired yesterday - Boing Boing
    
    Dimsler_: at like $5
    
    Dimsler_: so did vitalik
    
    kakobrekla: really?
    
    Dimsler_: i believe vitalik admitted to buying tshirts
    
    Dimsler_: yes
    
    Dimsler_: both of those clowns are broke
    
    Dimsler_: both junkies too
    
    Dimsler_: watch there hilarious youtube vids man, amir taaki has the shakes
    
    kakobrekla: i know his vids.
    
    kakobrekla: too much.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9200 @ 0.00089667 = 8.2494 BTC [+]
    
    diametric: herbijudlestoids: I wouldn't really call that a key patent.
    
    diametric: that article is poorly written too.
    
    diametric: The SLS process has nothing to do with the cost of nylon (or any) powders..
    
    diametric: Thats like saying the patent on Ford engines has increased the cost of gasoline.