assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4000 @ 0.00082116 = 3.2846 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 85772 @ 0.00082269 = 70.5638 BTC [+] {5} 
    
    kakobrekla: not bad
    
    Mats_cd03: lol
    
    
    
    assbot: BitcoinStats
    
    punkman: he's persistent, selling them reports
    
    asciilifeform: '...I probably have the best feedback of anyone you could ask. (I know, because I had asked around in all btc-related channels...' << what does he smoke ?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13100 @ 0.00082045 = 10.7479 BTC [-]
    
    punkman: !up Phraust
    
    Phraust: danke
    
    punkman: hi
    
    punkman: !up chax
    
    punkman: ;;gettrust assbot Phraust
    
    gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user assbot to user Phraust: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=assbot&dest=Phraust | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=Phraust | Rated since: Thu Apr 28 16:58:11 2011
    
    Phraust: guess I should auth. XD
    
    punkman: I see you are oldschool
    
    punkman: assbot doesn't trust you yet though
    
    
    
    assbot: shinh/sedlisp  GitHub
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26945 @ 0.00081742 = 22.0254 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12500 @ 0.00081866 = 10.2333 BTC [+]
    
    
    
    assbot: Facebook tinkered with users feeds for a massive psychology experiment · Newswire  · The A.V. Club
    
    punkman: now if they can figure out how to put users in ad-clicking moods
    
    punkman: maybe you'll go to the doctor and he'll prescribe 3 hours of facebook a day, "please turn the dial to prozac mode"
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 43700 @ 0.00081738 = 35.7195 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3900 @ 0.00081738 = 3.1878 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27400 @ 0.00081613 = 22.362 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14000 @ 0.0008184 = 11.4576 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4221 @ 0.00081866 = 3.4556 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16100 @ 0.00082047 = 13.2096 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22462 @ 0.00081798 = 18.3735 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17400 @ 0.00081955 = 14.2602 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7600 @ 0.00081863 = 6.2216 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37400 @ 0.00081853 = 30.613 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    benkay: ;;rate ninjashogun -9 inquire within
    
    gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of -9 for user ninjashogun has been recorded.
    
    punkman: wottease
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 48772 @ 0.00082216 = 40.0984 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 25 @ 0.03 = 0.75 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 43115 @ 0.0008231 = 35.488 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25613 @ 0.00082265 = 21.0705 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;rate ninjashogun -1 has the flavor of an UnSavory Garnish
    
    gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of -1 for user ninjashogun has been recorded.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2031 @ 0.02151696 = 43.7009 BTC [-] {41} 
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;ticker
    
    gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 596.0, Best ask: 597.73, Bid-ask spread: 1.73000, Last trade: 594.64, 24 hour volume: 6881.10575204, 24 hour low: 575.0, 24 hour high: 600.0, 24 hour vwap: 588.52709013
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
    
    gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 594.64, vol: 6881.07310903 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 595.0, vol: 5320.23678 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 600.16, vol: 8061.37427984 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 604.0, vol: 37.06848627 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 608.727696, vol: 5142.33540000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 590.91605, vol: 21.86115249 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 599.1472, vol: 145.62163831 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message)
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;more
    
    gribble: 599.317143044
    
    BingoBoingo: %t
    
    atcbot: [X-BT] Bid: 199 Ask: 238 Last Price: 199 24h-Vol: 4k High: 199 Low: 199 VWAP: 198
    
    BingoBoingo: %d
    
    atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 511511.43 Est. Next Diff: 358102.38 in 1581 blocks (#38304) Est. % Change: -29.99
    
    BingoBoingo: %ob
    
    atcbot: 45k@277 48k@275 60k@238 | 965k@199 750k@175 216k@160
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39200 @ 0.00081907 = 32.1075 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 89 @ 0.01760084 = 1.5665 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1477 @ 0.00082087 = 1.2124 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19001 @ 0.0008215 = 15.6093 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12572 @ 0.00082285 = 10.3449 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38800 @ 0.00082121 = 31.8629 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39750 @ 0.00082362 = 32.7389 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27250 @ 0.00082388 = 22.4507 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18400 @ 0.00082397 = 15.161 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37154 @ 0.00082456 = 30.6357 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11600 @ 0.00081892 = 9.4995 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 25 @ 0.02222982 = 0.5557 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 39 @ 0.02301053 = 0.8974 BTC [-] {8} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24901 @ 0.00082306 = 20.495 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27300 @ 0.0008251 = 22.5252 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    kakobrekla: !up Conwke
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 115 @ 0.02207304 = 2.5384 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    thestringpuller: ;;bc,stats
    
    gribble: Current Blocks: 308310 | Current Difficulty: 1.346258011452534E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 308447 | Next Difficulty In: 137 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 16 hours, 56 minutes, and 54 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 16784456577.7 | Estimated Percent Change: 24.67489
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11808 @ 0.00082511 = 9.7429 BTC [+]
    
    kakobrekla: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Zwanzig-Jahre-alte-Luecke-in-Lempel-Ziv-Kompression-gefaehrdet-Linux-Nutzer-2240442.html
    
    assbot: Zwanzig Jahre alte Lcke in Lempel-Ziv-Kompression gefhrdet Linux-Nutzer | heise online
    
    kakobrekla: bugs on mars
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 620 @ 0.00200081 = 1.2405 BTC [-] {6} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 57189 @ 0.0008243 = 47.1409 BTC [-] {4} 
    
    kakobrekla: also
    
    
    
    assbot: Hacking Teams Tradecraft and Android Implant
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 50 @ 0.021501 = 1.0751 BTC [-]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21450 @ 0.00082758 = 17.7516 BTC [+]
    
    
    
    assbot: [C] LZ4 memory corruption PoC - Pastebin.com
    
    asciilifeform nominates Yann Collet for 'flondor list'
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 30 @ 0.021501 = 0.645 BTC [-]
    
    asciilifeform: (what list? the one containing this fellow: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22i30k/the_author_of_the_openssl_heartbleed_bug_also)
    
    assbot: The author of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug also wrote the spec : programming
    
    kakobrekla: flondor?
    
    asciilifeform: !s from:mircea_popescu flondor
    
    assbot: 0 results for 'from:mircea_popescu+flondor' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Amircea_popescu%2Bflondor
    
    asciilifeform: !s flondor
    
    assbot: 7 results for 'flondor' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=flondor
    
    asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2014/georg-ritter-von-flondor-and-what-his-unhappy-life-can-teach-us
    
    assbot: Georg Ritter von Flondor, and what his unhappy life can teach us pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
    
    kakobrekla: ah.
    
    kakobrekla: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/amazon-escalates-its-battle-against-hachette/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
    
    asciilifeform: 'The Authors Guild accused the retailer of acting illegally.' << these are the folks who wanted public libraries banned.
    
    asciilifeform: (as well as the sale of used books.)
    
    kakobrekla: O_o
    
    asciilifeform: i couldn't imagine a better endorsement for amazon than their hatred.
    
    thestringpuller: https://coinvalidation.com/home/ << if they aren't whiltelisting or blacklisting, what the actual fuck do these guys do?
    
    assbot: CoinValidation - Helping Bitcoin businesses achieve regulatory compliance
    
    thestringpuller: Who da fuq is alex waters?
    
    thestringpuller: http://coinapex.com/ really tired of da bootstrap scroll sites
    
    assbot: CoinApex - NYC-Based Software, Technology & Cryptography Incubator
    
    asciilifeform: if they aren't whiltelisting or blacklisting, what the actual fuck do these guys do << they 'do what they must - because they can' (tm)
    
    thestringpuller: sounds like a motto for dogecoiners...
    
    thestringpuller: (because they love video games)
    
    kakobrekla: pretty fuckin sad ascii
    
    asciilifeform: 'author's guild' tried to have ocr readers used by the blind - banned.
    
    asciilifeform: they also mostly succeeded in crippling google's 'book search.'
    
    kakobrekla: on what grounds are they getting such ideas
    
    asciilifeform: u.s. copyright law.
    
    asciilifeform: they're a kind of 'riaa' for books
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 41 @ 0.021501 = 0.8815 BTC [-]
    
    asciilifeform: even the very name of the org is a bold lie - they represent mega-publishers
    
    kakobrekla: amazing
    
    assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
    
    asciilifeform: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/4593784/Kindle-2-violates-copyright-claims-Authors-Guild.html
    
    assbot: Kindle 2 ‘violates copyright’, claims Authors Guild - Telegraph
    
    asciilifeform: 'They dont have the right to read a book out loud, said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. Thats an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.' << these folks have crossed 'parody horizon' long ago,.
    
    kakobrekla: lmao
    
    kakobrekla: yes, it does sound like a start of monthy python sketch.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5550 @ 0.00082773 = 4.5939 BTC [+]
    
    asciilifeform: https://web.archive.org/web/20021013175439/http://www.authorsguild.org/pramazon040902.html
    
    
    
    assbot: Online Sales of Used Books Draw Protest - New York Times
    
    asciilifeform: '"We asked could we at least talk about when something could become available as a used book? Could we maybe wait three months after the book was published?" said Patricia Schroeder, president of the Association of American Publishers. "The biggest problem is that it is legal, I think. I wring my hands, pound my desk and say, `Aargh.' "'
    
    kakobrekla: gold
    
    
    
    assbot: The Authors Alliance vs. The Authors Guild
    
    asciilifeform: phun phact:
    
    asciilifeform: you can get virtually any book ever published - for free, searchable, in any format you like - on the net. in five seconds.... if you speak russian or chinese.
    
    asciilifeform: idiot anglo empire wants to shoot itself in the head? sure, why not.
    
    kakobrekla: hm
    
    asciilifeform: 'if you see a man drowning, and you can either photograph or save him - what shutter and aperture settings would you use?'
    
    kakobrekla: should prolly go with russian since i can somewhat parse cyrillic
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 29 @ 0.02114413 = 0.6132 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.80830714 BTC to 9`682 shares, 18677 satoshi per share
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [KCIM] [PAID] 18.50566440 BTC to 72`316 shares, 25590 satoshi per share
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17214 @ 0.00082412 = 14.1864 BTC [-]
    
    asciilifeform: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/another-fair-use-victory-book-scanning-hathitrust
    
    assbot: Another Fair Use Victory for Book Scanning in HathiTrust | Electronic Frontier Foundation
    
    asciilifeform: ^ they sued, alleging that... making backups was 'excessive copying'
    
    kakobrekla: ot, i actually took like a half year russian class when i was in elementary. cant recall shit though.
    
    asciilifeform: kakobrekla: betcha you can learn russian sooner than this crap disappears (it will probably take a full-bore u.s. collapse)
    
    kakobrekla: hah, they dont store it in the internet archive? :)
    
    kakobrekla: >and trying to measure an investment over time in a currency as volatile as Bitcoin is just plain dumb.
    
    kakobrekla: guess the author
    
    kakobrekla: no assbot , its not FabianB .
    
    FabianB: huh?
    
    FabianB: ;;ident FabianB
    
    gribble: Nick 'FabianB', with hostmask 'FabianB!~fabian@unaffiliated/fabianb', is identified as user 'fabianb', with GPG key id 797C1106D52E79DF, key fingerprint 9B854E5F36B927C9C365F208797C1106D52E79DF, and bitcoin address 18Wnjc1fcWDboZDHNsn48URtwGaqRjPnAt
    
    kakobrekla: <kakobrekla> >and trying to measure an investment over time in a currency as volatile as Bitcoin is just plain dumb.
    
    kakobrekla: <kakobrekla> guess the author
    
    kakobrekla: * assbot gives voice to FabianB
    
    kakobrekla: <kakobrekla> no assbot , its not FabianB .
    
    FabianB: lol
    
    kakobrekla: blah, should be dpaste but i fail.
    
    FabianB: yeah well, that quote wasn't me indeed
    
    asciilifeform: benkay: '-9 inquire within' << mr. spam came to you? do tell.
    
    kakobrekla: he also wanted to dock me.
    
    FabianB: $traded
    
    FabianB: hmpf
    
    FabianB: $traded
    
    empyex: FabianB: Traded in last 24 hours: S.MPOE X.EUR
    
    thestringpuller: ;;bc,stats
    
    gribble: Current Blocks: 308325 | Current Difficulty: 1.346258011452534E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 308447 | Next Difficulty In: 122 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 15 hours, 5 minutes, and 34 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 16780864348.8 | Estimated Percent Change: 24.6482
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 38 @ 0.02337971 = 0.8884 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    BingoBoingo: %t
    
    atcbot: [X-BT] Bid: 199 Ask: 238 Last Price: 199 24h-Vol: 4k High: 199 Low: 199 VWAP: 198
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3704 @ 0.00082241 = 3.0462 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    benkay: !s sybil
    
    assbot: 15 results for 'sybil' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=sybil
    
    
    
    assbot: #bitcoin-assets log
    
    asciilifeform: 'they need to not only create profiles but have a fresh VM/install/whatever for them' << what was he smoking?
    
    asciilifeform: that quote betrays a staggering lack of comprehension regarding... virtually every aspect of computing.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 89057 @ 0.00082009 = 73.0348 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    asciilifeform: if protocol has a field 'hash of disk serial number' or whatever, i can stuff anything i like there.
    
    asciilifeform: let's assume fluffypony was drinking heavily that day.
    
    
    
    benkay: ;;gettrust lobbes
    
    gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask lobbes!lobbes@2a00:dcc0:eda:3748:247:48:123:1. Trust relationship from user benkay to user lobbes: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=benkay&dest=lobbes | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=lobbes | Rated since: Sat May 31 10:27:00 2014
    
    benkay: lobbes: who are ye?
    
    benkay: The choice of Forth was dictated by strong implementation issues. such as
    
    benkay: compactness of code. efficiency and portability to other microprocessor-based systems.
    
    lobbes: I am a newbie trying to sponge up as much info as possible
    
    benkay: ah, so lisp:forth :: python:c, then.
    
    benkay: jus' trollin'
    
    lobbes: lol
    
    benkay: well, welcome lobbes may your studies be fruitful
    
    benkay: i want to write some expert systems.
    
    benkay: who can i sell this AI snake oil to...
    
    asciilifeform: that ship sailed. ai winter.
    
    benkay: but think of all the suckers who haven't read their history!
    
    benkay: dude have you ever heard an SAP pitch?
    
    benkay: if people buy that shit i have a Lisp Machine to sell them.
    
    benkay: apropos of nothing: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/06/the-polity-tht-is-china-dissident-markets-in-everything.html
    
    assbot: The polity that is China dissident “markets” in everything
    
    []bot: Bet created: "Twitter stock to close at over $45 in 2014 " http://bitbet.us/bet/971/
    
    BingoBoingo: benkay: Just add "for robots" to your proposal and suddenly the LISP, AI, and expert systems are marketable again.
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;ticker
    
    gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 594.0, Best ask: 595.98, Bid-ask spread: 1.98000, Last trade: 595.98, 24 hour volume: 6140.40746732, 24 hour low: 575.0, 24 hour high: 604.21, 24 hour vwap: 592.02387377
    
    []bot: Bet created: "Silver price over $23/oz in 2014" http://bitbet.us/bet/972/
    
    mircea_popescu: so i am working on an epic post of grandeur.
    
    mircea_popescu: anyone care to guess the topic ?
    
    benkay: tits!
    
    Duffer1: s.mnky?
    
    mircea_popescu: ok so that's two...
    
    benkay: steak
    
    benkay: la serenissima
    
    benkay: i'm just going to put like 5 business cards in this here jar...
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: shit, english lacks a word for one who merely likes to hear himself speak ?
    
    benkay: a popescu?
    
    Duffer1: ;;ud malerik
    
    mircea_popescu: fu zingerboy!
    
    gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=malerik | Mar 30, 2008 ... Someone who loves to hear himself talk. He will talk about himself to anyone who will listen, for hours. A Malerik also falls in love and tries to ...
    
    mircea_popescu: a ty. was gonna fall back on pig latin
    
    mircea_popescu: garrulous
    
    mircea_popescu: wtf is malerik come from ?
    
    Duffer1: no idea
    
    
    
    assbot: Karolina Malerik
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 16 @ 0.03847462 = 0.6156 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    HeySteve: hello
    
    HeySteve: mircea_popescu, I had a question about your "bits for tits" offer. I mentioned it to a woman who is interested but a little reluctant to show her face, is it ok if she doesn't?
    
    mircea_popescu: no.
    
    mircea_popescu: the reason is, we can't really identify tits.
    
    mircea_popescu: for this reason, as the library grows, it'll become trivial for one to just keep getting 10 bitcents
    
    mircea_popescu: you see what i mean ?
    
    HeySteve: yes, I'll let her know
    
    fluffypony: [20:08:37]  +asciilifeform: let's assume fluffypony was drinking heavily that day. <- probably...although I have a feeling I was thinking about serial numbers at the time. too hard to try recall.
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony you can change anything you want about the hdd
    
    fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I know
    
    HeySteve: also, do you want the woman to accept directly bitcoin as in that previous experiment with the call-girls (I think they were)?
    
    mircea_popescu: HeySteve what, you want me to pay via bitpay nao ?
    
    HeySteve: nah, was thinking of accepting it for her then paying her out in local fiats, she has no idea about BTC
    
    assbot: Last 3 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/33JK61K.txt )
    
    BingoBoingo: !b 3
    
    BingoBoingo: Heysteve is trying his hand at the pimping business
    
    mircea_popescu: now why would a girl that has no idea about btc nor any experience camwhoring
    
    HeySteve: heh you could say so
    
    mircea_popescu: want to participate in a btc giveaway for camwhores ?
    
    HeySteve: oh she has experience
    
    mircea_popescu: this is almost like forum ceos
    
    assbot: Last 5 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/3FCW3RB.txt )
    
    BingoBoingo: !b 5
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 40 @ 0.02346995 = 0.9388 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: HeySteve so then why's she shy ?!
    
    BingoBoingo is growing high molecular weight polymers today!
    
    HeySteve: well it's not her profession and she's worried about it impacting that
    
    HeySteve: but pretty sure she'll get over it
    
    mircea_popescu: this your gf we're talking here ?
    
    HeySteve: nope
    
    BingoBoingo: Is this another interview for a cryptocoinnews article?
    
    HeySteve: ha it's more likely to appear on jezebel
    
    HeySteve: which might work well for publicity actually. worked for tucker max anyway
    
    BingoBoingo: At least the day's chemistry is going well.
    
    Duffer1: MP will we have to wait and see what the article is about?
    
    mircea_popescu: Duffer1 hour or so
    
    mircea_popescu: HeySteve so i don't get it, jezebel chick petrified of slut shaming ? da fuck does she care, i'm not about to do it.
    
    Duffer1: cool
    
    HeySteve: mircea_popescu, no I mean some feminist publication might come after you at this rate. not so much for this but that fiverr thing...
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: !s feminist was born
    
    assbot: 1 results for 'feminist+was+born' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=feminist%2Bwas%2Bborn
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;later tell princessnell know any feminist publication that may wish to come after me ?
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    BingoBoingo: Andreas again?
    
    benkay: what are you growing today, BingoBoingo ?
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29600 @ 0.00082067 = 24.2918 BTC [+]
    
    BingoBoingo: benkay: I'm reseasoning the cast iron
    
    benkay: do go on - what's being grown?
    
    thestringpuller: ;;ticker
    
    gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 596.58, Best ask: 598.38, Bid-ask spread: 1.80000, Last trade: 598.38, 24 hour volume: 6167.89007536, 24 hour low: 575.0, 24 hour high: 604.21, 24 hour vwap: 592.428694795
    
    BingoBoingo: benkay: Well, I'm turning a bunch of oil into a uniform layer of polymer over the cast iron so I can fry shit without it sticking to the pans
    
    []bot: Bet placed: 3 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin incremental difficulty to increase by 3B or more" http://bitbet.us/bet/783/ Odds: 95(Y):5(N) by coin, 91(Y):9(N) by weight. Total bet: 17.73721769 BTC. Current weight: 44,349.
    
    HeySteve2: BingoBoingo, cast iron frying pans are great
    
    BingoBoingo: Indeed, these were located a bit rusty, but that was corrected
    
    HeySteve2: cool, I was convinced to get one by this - http://www.richsoil.com/cast-iron.jsp
    
    assbot: How To: Cast Iron Skillet Non-Stick and Lasts a Lifetime
    
    benkay: i've finally broken the girl of cooking carbs on my cast iron
    
    BingoBoingo: Well some carbs only cook well there (the canonical example is cornbread)
    
    mircea_popescu: !up Smilence
    
    mircea_popescu: and now for the logs!
    
    mircea_popescu: pankkake: http://camgirladventures.blogspot.com/2013/12/happy-new-year-and-late-marry-christmas.html I had no idea those things existed << dude if it's teaching pankkake new porns, any expense is well worth it.
    
    assbot: Cam Girl Adventures: Happy new year and a late Marry Christmas!
    
    benkay: BingoBoingo: really?!
    
    benkay: fascinating.
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1490 << alternatively, why not rewrite the tcp/ip stack so that all traffic is encrypted properly and adios.
    
    assbot: Loper OS » Practical Blockchain Telegraphy.
    
    mircea_popescu: benkay it's a fact.
    
    BingoBoingo: benkay: You may apportion your thanks for that discovery to... Pretty much the entire south...
    
    benkay: we all know how i cook, mi
    
    benkay: mircea_popescu:
    
    benkay: i have a cook
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if thorstein veblen was right - we'll be deluged with 'customers.' at least for a while. << you're too soon. we'll scam them later.
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;gettrust ninjashogun
    
    gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user ninjashogun: Level 1: 0, Level 2: -3 via 3 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=mircea_popescu&dest=ninjashogun | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=ninjashogun | Rated since: Thu Jun 26 19:05:58 2014
    
    mircea_popescu: lmao -3 is not in any sense "the best feedback of anyone you could ask"
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 24 @ 0.023395 = 0.5615 BTC [-]
    
    mircea_popescu: in fact i wager a guess that 2/3 of the wot has a better feedback
    
    
    
    assbot: How to talk to an ex...
    
    mircea_popescu: "I could really do with a female collaborator to make this instructable more useful and make sure it is one sided..."
    
    mircea_popescu: guy that has no ex writing guides about how to talk to the ex he never had.
    
    mircea_popescu: oh interfuckwits.
    
    FabianB: "rewrite the tcp/ip stack so that all traffic is encrypted" <-- as cjdns has done
    
    nubbins`: !s richsoil
    
    assbot: 0 results for 'richsoil' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=richsoil
    
    mircea_popescu: FabianB prolly. i hear nothing but good things of that procject
    
    nubbins` shrugs
    
    nubbins`: heysteve is gone now
    
    nubbins`: but that's the same web page that got me into cast iron :/
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;later tell HeySteve I like how he describes surface tumors on the skillets.
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    mircea_popescu: !up Ginux
    
    BingoBoingo: Wow, all of ninjashogun's WoT ratings are from regulars here.
    
    asciilifeform: 'rewrite the tcp/ip stack so that all traffic is encrypted' << doesn't solve the problem described in the 'enforcement' article.
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how not ?!
    
    asciilifeform: channel still lives on a distinct physical box that belongs to someone
    
    mircea_popescu: not practically, no.
    
    asciilifeform: unless by 'encrypted' you also mean link saturation and some variant of 'onion route' (a la the claimed mechanics of tor) - same problem.
    
    mircea_popescu: not really. how do you know what subset of gibberish is meaningful to whom ?
    
    asciilifeform: if you want a 'closed' channel, then we can do that right now - gpg mailing list.
    
    mircea_popescu: for instance.
    
    nubbins`: BingoBoingo he was complaining in -otc earlier about not getting a fair shake
    
    asciilifeform: but if you want something public (open to new participants without elaborate gymnastics) - rather different problem.
    
    mircea_popescu: wait.
    
    mircea_popescu: "without elaborate gymnastics" ? you go write the irc protocol for they who can't read or write
    
    mircea_popescu: and i'll do something else til you're done.
    
    asciilifeform: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: literacy has barriers to entry. always has. always will.
    
    mircea_popescu: experience shows them being low is counterproductive
    
    BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Well, what -otc is largely concerned with and what he got his here feedback for don't overlap perfectly... Other than the general disdain people share for spamzors
    
    nubbins`: nod :D
    
    mircea_popescu: feedback is feedback neh ?
    
    mircea_popescu: he never specified what kind
    
    penguirker: New blog post: http://trilema.com/2014/the-death-of-taxes/
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 66153 @ 0.00082022 = 54.26 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    mircea_popescu: "Facebook then analyzed the future postings of those users over the course of a week to see if people responded with increased positivity or negativity of their own, thus answering the question of whether emotional states can be transmitted across a social network. Result: They can!"
    
    mircea_popescu: except, it only works on the herd.
    
    kakobrekla: lol wtf is this http://i.imgur.com/wPT0H0M.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: basically, facebook scientists just scientifically proved facebook is dead : the herd has replaced the trend setters.
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla it went as high as 60 iirc
    
    kakobrekla: i mean for the 'private offerings'
    
    mircea_popescu: fluffypony frat party ?
    
    fluffypony: I'm guessing so
    
    fluffypony: looks awesome
    
    kakobrekla: looks odd to me.
    
    fluffypony: btw
    
    mircea_popescu: kakobrekla o i thought the part circled in red is what you meant. well they had a few PTS iirc
    
    fluffypony: I've been tweeting pics and shit
    
    fluffypony: will put them all up in a blog post when I get a chance
    
    mircea_popescu: *: asciilifeform nominates Yann Collet for 'flondor list' << and now thanks to search, we can even use this.
    
    mircea_popescu: !s flondor list
    
    assbot: 0 results for 'flondor+list' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=flondor%2Blist
    
    mircea_popescu: !s 'flondor list'
    
    assbot: 0 results for ''flondor+list'' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=%27flondor%2Blist%27
    
    kakobrekla: lel.
    
    mircea_popescu: o how great technology works
    
    
    
    assbot: Whilst most hotels fly the flag of whatever country they're in, Malla Castle flies a Bitcoin flag. http://t.co/ZsCQFwTt5C
    
    mircea_popescu: bitcoin has a flag ?
    
    fluffypony: :-P
    
    asciilifeform: Yann Collet << not because he wrote the turd. (though it alone might suffice!) - because of what he said afterward.
    
    fluffypony: aight bbl
    
    asciilifeform: turn on the kitchen light, you can tell who is a cockroach - by the desperate scurrying.
    
    mircea_popescu: heh
    
    BingoBoingo: Oh, Serena Lost to Cornet again
    
    
    
    BingoBoingo: My milking of line BTC books by betting against Serena when the odds are around 10 to one her favor continues to abuse them.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16680 @ 0.00082125 = 13.6985 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://fastcompression.blogspot.fr/2014/06/debunking-lz4-20-years-old-bug-myth.html << actually this seems persuasive
    
    assbot: RealTime Data Compression: Debunking the LZ4 "20 years old bug" myth
    
    mthreat: mircea_popescu: it looks like !s is double-url-encoding
    
    mircea_popescu: a lz4 bug which depends on 16mb blocks on 32 bit seems dead in the water
    
    mircea_popescu: mthreat don't you just love fencing errors ?
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;tslb
    
    gribble: Time since last block: 7 minutes and 51 seconds
    
    benkay: oh man i was trying to write code and then mircea_popescu dropped a blogbomb with a szabo link
    
    mircea_popescu: hey, earlier i was trying to write an article and you kept zinging me
    
    mircea_popescu: it's only fair
    
    mircea_popescu: !up peter82
    
    peter82: thx, i feel honored :)
    
    mircea_popescu: lol so who're you ?
    
    peter82: some random dude from germany who discovered trilema.com and klicked on "#bitcoin-assets on freenode"
    
    peter82: i like your blog
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 60 @ 0.02345995 = 1.4076 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: cheers.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 85 @ 0.02170717 = 1.8451 BTC [-] {8} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] 49 @ 0.0106143 = 0.5201 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8445 @ 0.00082163 = 6.9387 BTC [+]
    
    mircea_popescu: "Phone use in Saudia Arabia has a penetration rate of 170%, with an estimated average of 30% of individual income spent on mobile phone and Internet costs in 2014."
    
    mircea_popescu: omg ?
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 100 @ 0.02150003 = 2.15 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    benkay: sauce?
    
    mircea_popescu: http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudis-spend-30-of-income-on-phone-internet-1.1345356
    
    benkay: another factor in breaking the USG's power monopoly will be the cheaply made en-masse autonomous thingers capable of bringing down any bird or boat they field
    
    benkay: these saudi phone users - is this the upper crust or the imported slaves?
    
    mircea_popescu: no idea
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 122 @ 0.02105257 = 2.5684 BTC [-] {8} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 63050 @ 0.00082177 = 51.8126 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 62 @ 0.02025167 = 1.2556 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 34 @ 0.0200094 = 0.6803 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 41 @ 0.021 = 0.861 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: Farm laborer monthly pay, with meals = 400 asses ; Teacher's monthly pay, per boy = 800 asses ; Barber's service price, per client = 32 asses ;  1 kg of pork = 380 asses (1 lb = 170 asses) ; 1 kg of grapes = 32 asses (1 lb = 15 asses)
    
    mircea_popescu: how much for an assbot i wonder.
    
    mircea_popescu: (sauce http://io9.com/ancient-roman-coins-depict-sundry-sexual-acts-but-what-1277370698 )
    
    assbot: Ancient Roman coins depict sundry sexual acts, but what were they for?
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;later tell jborkl http://www.bcoinnews.com/part-2-bitcoin-difficulty-hash-target/ << this is a nice explanation, i bet useful for many people.
    
    assbot: Part 2: Bitcoin Difficulty and Hash Target | Bitcoin News
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17000 @ 0.00082168 = 13.9686 BTC [-]
    
    bitstein: Tangentially related, when I was at Pompeii, I was told these were the signs to point travelers in the direction of the brothels: https://i.imgur.com/JiWHKeX.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: lol makes sense
    
    bitstein: Unfortunately we didn't have time to visit the brothels, which is the most popular part of Pompeii. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum
    
    assbot: Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 11 @ 0.19310031 = 2.1241 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 42 @ 0.0223998 = 0.9408 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 1549 @ 0.001614 = 2.5001 BTC [+]
    
    benkay: bitstein: are they still operational?
    
    bitstein: Prostitution in Pompeii has moved to underground operations ever since Vesuvius erupted.
    
    benkay: hahaha
    
    benkay: i mean i have no idea man - ancient disaster prostitution tourism?
    
    benkay: not infeasible.
    
    bitstein: Well, it's all just ruins now. The brothels are just full of fat American tourists.
    
    bitstein: Naples is close by. You can get all the illicit goods and services you need there.
    
    
    
    assbot: Gomorrah (2008) - Official Trailer - YouTube
    
    
    
    mircea_popescu: lol good one
    
    mircea_popescu: <benkay> i mean i have no idea man - ancient disaster prostitution tourism? << a certain party tends to take girls for nude shots in various cemeteries.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26255 @ 0.00082168 = 21.5732 BTC [-]
    
    
    
    assbot: Who's on Stage? - YouTube
    
    BingoBoingo: !t h AM1
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK:AM1] 1D: 0.19310030 / 0.19453341 / 0.20199999 (25 shares, 4.86333524 BTC), 7D: 0.18500000 / 0.19842068 / 0.23100000 (852 shares, 169.05442337 BTC), 30D: 0.11000000 / 0.22668297 / 0.45390844 (5514 shares, 1249.92991536 BTC)
    
    hanbot: http://www.writerscafe.org/mirceapopescu44 sounds like a fun confusion target :D
    
    assbot: Mircea Popescu | WritersCafe.org | The Online Writing Community
    
    
    
    assbot: Abbot and Costello - Who's on First - YouTube
    
    hanbot: "about me : Aspiring writer. Atheist jerk deemed arrogant by the second rate minds of society. I write poetry, fantasy pieces, critical essays and I've recently tried my hand at play writing. I play the guitar and watch pro wrestling. Student of Letters and Arts."
    
    mircea_popescu: o boy.
    
    mircea_popescu: "Im drunk tonight The smell of death Keeps haunting my world  The scent Of scotch In dreary passion past us whirled."
    
    mircea_popescu: maybe i should hire this guy to post on the forum.
    
    mircea_popescu: benkay precisely.
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 43 @ 0.022299 = 0.9589 BTC [-]
    
    benkay: original's better.
    
    mircea_popescu: that's like a law of thermodynamics.
    
    BingoBoingo: Right, but the forum so it earned the shittier
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that didn't parse
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, the forum is shittier than IRC, ergo the forum gets the second rate Mircea... seeing as they chased hanbot off.
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    mircea_popescu: ic
    
    BingoBoingo: Addressed to benkay's "original's better." but... The fingers-brain connection is only so robust operating at speed
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo he was talking of the little girl.
    
    BingoBoingo: Ah
    
    
    
    assbot: Full Abbott and Costello EpisodeThe Dentist's Office - YouTube
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30700 @ 0.00082125 = 25.2124 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    []bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin incremental difficulty to increase by 3B or more" http://bitbet.us/bet/783/ Odds: 95(Y):5(N) by coin, 92(Y):8(N) by weight. Total bet: 19.73721769 BTC. Current weight: 44,268.
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;bc,stats
    
    gribble: Current Blocks: 308369 | Current Difficulty: 1.346258011452534E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 308447 | Next Difficulty In: 78 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 9 hours, 51 minutes, and 9 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 16802072525.8 | Estimated Percent Change: 24.80574
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 37 @ 0.02 = 0.74 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    benkay: i was?
    
    benkay: which little girl
    
    dignork: https://twitter.com/rabite/status/482979706460180480 << somebody should tell him about bitbet
    
    assbot: To those saying LZ4 bug aint exploitable: put money on it. Ive got 1 BTC on product exploits within 1wk. Takers? http://t.co/pdTal9bYNR
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21998 @ 0.00082144 = 18.07 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5100 @ 0.00082305 = 4.1976 BTC [+]
    
    
    
    assbot: The Sinking Ship of E-Mail Security - Adam Caudill
    
    benkay: We need to be discussing how to eliminate email, not new ways to glue partial solutions on to it. STARTTLS isn’t the answer, PGP isn’t the answer, S/MIME isn’t the answer - an entirely new protocol is.
    
    benkay: (quote)
    
    benkay: really? pgp isn't the answer? nooz to me.
    
    
    
    assbot: The IPO is dying. Marc Andreessen explains why. - Vox
    
    benkay: the sarbox claims are interesting
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22150 @ 0.00082142 = 18.1945 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    
    
    assbot: toxoplasm, I was shooting heroin and reading The...
    
    benkay: http://38.media.tumblr.com/50a7e4712b4f1db039bf4b52abb110d1/tumblr_n7w2nwNV9F1qzvg5fo2_1280.jpg
    
    benkay: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Tintinnabulum_Pompeii_MAN_Napoli_Inv27839.jpg/640px-Tintinnabulum_Pompeii_MAN_Napoli_Inv27839.jpg
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 20 @ 0.03847462 = 0.7695 BTC [-]
    
    BingoBoingo: lol 'Subway Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!® I yelled.
    
    BingoBoingo: Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.'
    
    thestringpuller: %diff
    
    atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 511511.43 Est. Next Diff: 341705.61 in 1536 blocks (#38304) Est. % Change: -33.20
    
    thestringpuller: people still pool hopping?
    
    thestringpuller: Love it
    
    BingoBoingo: Looks like atc diff will be dropping twice in a row
    
    thestringpuller: the ATC market depth is growing too...
    
    BingoBoingo: I'll decline to comment
    
    thestringpuller: it still looks like lots of pool hopping from big entities tho
    
    thestringpuller: like you'll see 2 terahashes hit a coin for a few days then drop and so on but I guess this has already been discussed to death
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32116 @ 0.0008202 = 26.3415 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    thestringpuller: !mpif
    
    assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021746 BTC (Total: 434.93 BTC). Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00023849 BTC [+]
    
    thestringpuller: !ticker m f.mpif
    
    assbot: [MPEX:F.MPIF] 1D: 0 / 0 / 0 (0 shares, 0 BTC), 7D: 0.0002151 / 0.0002159 / 0.00023849 (5054 shares, 1.09 BTC), 30D: 0.0002151 / 0.00021604 / 0.00023849 (22205 shares, 4.80 BTC)
    
    thestringpuller: ;;diff
    
    gribble: 1.346258011452534E10
    
    thestringpuller: ;;estimate
    
    gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 16806622431.4 based on data since last change | 17627747376.5 based on data for last three days
    
    BingoBoingo: %t
    
    atcbot: [X-BT] Bid: 199 Ask: 238 Last Price: 199 24h-Vol: 4k High: 199 Low: 199 VWAP: 198
    
    BingoBoingo: I'm just surprised when the poolhoppers came to ATC this time that they didn't stay long...
    
    BingoBoingo: %0b
    
    BingoBoingo: %ob
    
    atcbot: 45k@277 48k@275 60k@238 | 965k@199 750k@175 216k@160
    
    BingoBoingo: http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/06/28/2030254/secret-of-the-banjos-unique-sound-discovered-by-nobel-prize-winning-physicist
    
    assbot: Secret of the Banjo's Unique Sound Discovered By Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist - Slashdot
    
    
    
    assbot: Elio Motors promises $6,800 car - Jun. 26, 2014
    
    mircea_popescu: <dignork> https://twitter.com/rabite/status/482979706460180480 << somebody should tell him about bitbet << that;s okay, he doesn't need to read
    
    assbot: To those saying LZ4 bug aint exploitable: put money on it. Ive got 1 BTC on product exploits within 1wk. Takers? http://t.co/pdTal9bYNR
    
    mircea_popescu: he just writes.
    
    mircea_popescu: !up tjader
    
    mircea_popescu: <benkay> really? pgp isn't the answer? nooz to me. << well so let "we" eliminate email lol.
    
    mircea_popescu: <assbot> The IPO is dying. Marc Andreessen explains why. - Vox summary :  "that asshole mp killed it"
    
    Duffer1: "we deserved it"
    
    thestringpuller: !search
    
    assbot: Need a search term.
    
    thestringpuller: !search The IPO is dying
    
    assbot: 0 results for 'The+IPO+is+dying' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=The%2BIPO%2Bis%2Bdying
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know, dacia has been making a 5k euro car for years now
    
    mircea_popescu: heck, davout prolly bought one
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah, that's been mentioned here before. I just wonder what kind of shitfits will happen here the resistance Tesla see to selling a $60,000 vehicle
    
    thestringpuller: i was actually going to purchase a tesla
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19600 @ 0.00082018 = 16.0755 BTC [-]
    
    kakobrekla: i will!
    
    kakobrekla: !up nick1234abcd_
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10300 @ 0.00082157 = 8.4622 BTC [+]
    
    kakobrekla: !up elgrecoFL
    
    mircea_popescu: !up pigeons
    
    mircea_popescu: pankkake you know, i imagine the fact that the btc for tits article you put into reddit went exactly nowhere is pretty indicative of reddit's success at its chosen task i reckon.
    
    thestringpuller: need to put that around campuses
    
    mircea_popescu: there's probably 100 chicks looking for ways to make money with their tits on girlsbitcoin thing, there's maybe 100 bux each could make. a total of one met hers. 99% failure
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 28 @ 0.02079684 = 0.5823 BTC [-] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18197 @ 0.00082157 = 14.9501 BTC [+]
    
    kakobrekla: !up tris
    
    benkay: https://libertyvps.net/ << anyone tried 'em?
    
    assbot: Offshore and Anonymous Bitcoin VPS Hosting by LibertyVPS
    
    BingoBoingo: benkay: They way they are branded, one has to assume honeypot
    
    BingoBoingo: Anonymous and Coinbase payments really don't go together
    
    benkay: a) anonymity's a red herring b) if they're using CB to recv btc, who cares?
    
    BingoBoingo: It's like the people in the commercials on talk radio extoling the virtues of gold and silver because they want to make fiat. Their site screams exactly that kind of hypocrisy.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16400 @ 0.00082217 = 13.4836 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    mircea_popescu: i care. i wouldn't buy shit with coinbase.
    
    BingoBoingo: And this is from the guy shorting BitPay, whose main selling point is not being CoinBase
    
    mircea_popescu: is that toxoplasm thing earlier supposed to be directly funny or just some sort of ultra-ellaborate meta-joke at the idiocy of us collegiate libertards struggling mightily with strawmen ?
    
    BingoBoingo: It's another example of the broken US sense of humor where obscure Reference ===== Joke, because CBS killed culture or some shit
    
    mircea_popescu: sucks to like cocktails in that country, i guess
    
    mircea_popescu: "I wanted to coldcock the guy." that line was obviously meant to be "i wanted to coldcock the cocksucker"
    
    BingoBoingo: Eh, everything is broken here. I'm just wondering if the person who buys Iowa is going to do it for the soil or the uranium.
    
    mircea_popescu: being clueless is one thing, but being impotent... why even bother.
    
    mircea_popescu: "You might say that's a good idea, shareholders should be treated equally. The problem is the shareholder base itself has changed dramatically. You've had a dramatic rise in hedge funds. Very short-term trading and dramatic rise in short-selling [investors betting that a stock's price will fall]. If you're a public company, you become the shuttlecock between warring longs and shorts. They bat your stock around like it'
    
    mircea_popescu: s a chew toy."
    
    mircea_popescu: eh dude just come out and say it already.
    
    mircea_popescu: all this "look ma i got no balls" bullshit.
    
    mircea_popescu: how do you expect to compete with me ? you're fucking old. what is this, begging for a burial ?
    
    mircea_popescu: http://robertmcgrath.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/popescu-gives-high-class-narrative-of-why-dogecoin-is-a-scam/ << at least this scmuck with nothing to say understands who he should be saying it at (had he something to say). so far, andreesseen 0, anon schmuck with a blog 1.
    
    assbot: Popescu Gives High Class Narrative of “Why Dogecoin is a scam” | Robert McGrath's Blog
    
    BingoBoingo: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--pApSjYmy--/sws8q2wvwco1nulxklx1.gif
    
    mircea_popescu: yum
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9813 @ 0.00082372 = 8.0832 BTC [+]
    
    benkay: wow holy crap
    
    benkay: and isn't it 'cold cock'?
    
    mircea_popescu: usually.
    
    mircea_popescu: spelling is racist nowadays, so whatevs.
    
    BingoBoingo: benkay: Lisp (sort of, hiding somewhere) courtesy of MP's linked schmuck with a blog https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/11057/Semantic%20Infrastructure%20for%20a%20Ubiquitous%20Computing%20Environment.pdf?sequence=2
    
    mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo guy's in the team of "let's see if we can actually have a measurable impact on teh hated Bitcoin by lending our most valuable social-sciences-and-pointless-studies wisdom to dogecoin"
    
    BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Oh, I'm reading such things http://robertmcgrath.wordpress.com/the-next-big-thing/bitcoin-vs-dogecoin-a-shallow-semantic-look/ << Guy studies CS, ends up attemtping semiotics
    
    assbot: Bitcoin vs. Dogecoin: a Shallow Semantic Look | Robert McGrath's Blog
    
    mircea_popescu: i suppose the results should be informative, for normally socialised individuals. we're dealing with idiots coming out of urbana however, so he's prolly still in denial about just how utterly he got humiliated over the past six months
    
    mircea_popescu: but anyway, to make the point plain : the real world, practical value of a libertard, such as a liberal with a phd from urbana & his firends, is just about epsilon.
    
    BingoBoingo: Urbana has to have one of the highest per captia populations of aspies in the world
    
    mircea_popescu: one of my esl slavergirls can influence the future more than the entire troop of 'em.
    
    BingoBoingo: slavegirl > Urbana Aspie > Andresseeeeeeeeen
    
    mircea_popescu: funny how that works huh.
    
    BingoBoingo: Not really.
    
    BingoBoingo: It's just learning at work
    
    mircea_popescu: lol
    
    
    
    BingoBoingo: Slavegirl is made to develop skills and competence. Urbana Apsie fumbles until he gets paper then pretends to be french. Andreeseeeessnsnesnsnensnes made netscape, got money, and spend the time after that accindentlying himself.
    
    mircea_popescu: it's a theory.
    
    mircea_popescu: so basically the progression is an approximation of "how many lashes"
    
    BingoBoingo: Right. Urbana's dissertation is '05 so likely that is the last time he felt anything close to a lash. Anndruserrren Has well...
    
    BingoBoingo: ;;gettrust ninjashogun
    
    gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user BingoBoingo to user ninjashogun: Level 1: -1, Level 2: -3 via 2 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=BingoBoingo&dest=ninjashogun | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=ninjashogun | Rated since: Thu Jun 26 19:05:58 2014
    
    BingoBoingo: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--XATGvcMa--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/19e7fo4pjz710gif.gif
    
    mircea_popescu: "They spoke about the other students in Nerzhin's class, who had graduated on the day the war started. The most gifted had been killed or got shell-shocked - they were the ones who always rushed into action, without a thought for their own skins. Those of no promise were now either completing their post-graduate work or teaching in universities and institutes."
    
    mircea_popescu: history repeating itself as it were.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12300 @ 0.00082003 = 10.0864 BTC [-] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23700 @ 0.00082392 = 19.5269 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    thestringpuller: ;;bc,stats
    
    gribble: Current Blocks: 308395 | Current Difficulty: 1.346258011452534E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 308447 | Next Difficulty In: 52 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 6 hours, 49 minutes, and 10 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 16798041980.9 | Estimated Percent Change: 24.7758
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2700 @ 0.00082394 = 2.2246 BTC [+]
    
    kakobrekla: high quality china pcb http://shrani.si/f/2M/Fg/1V99sDWB/img9247.jpg
    
    mircea_popescu: smartphone ?
    
    kakobrekla: does it really look like a phone?
    
    mircea_popescu: you know, fixed phone.
    
    mircea_popescu: ;;later tell asciilifeform get a load of this : google knows of a sergey and an andrey prokofyev. no alexander.
    
    gribble: The operation succeeded.
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18358 @ 0.00082405 = 15.1279 BTC [+] {3} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13450 @ 0.00082586 = 11.1078 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13700 @ 0.0008264 = 11.3217 BTC [+]
    
    assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19710 @ 0.00082659 = 16.2921 BTC [+] {2} 
    
    assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 50 @ 0.02079799 = 1.0399 BTC [+]