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asciilifeform: decimation: md200 << aye. i even have the rfid billing gizmo just for it.
DreadKnight: php, because recursive acronyms >_<
decimation: most of the land for md200 was donated by local DC land baron to build Konterra
decimation: ie townhomes in swamps
asciilifeform: decimation: the remainder - confiscated from a few hundred unfortunates.
asciilifeform: the whole dc region is a gigantic swamp.
asciilifeform: point of fact: i've seen bitterns here.
decimation: after spending $3 billion to build road, the gov't managers said that the 4-foot trail next to the road would be "too expensive" to complete
decimation: ie trail to nowhere
decimation: go into debt building roads they can't afford while failing to provision for a future when no one can afford cars
asciilifeform: decimation: an asphalt road is far from any kind of permanent edifice. gets reclaimed by the jungle after just a few years of neglect. so don't expect to hear any talk of 'future' anything.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is an unfair observation. who in the us has the authority to actually take these facts in hand and make a decision ?
decimation: I've been seeking such a person for years
mircea_popescu: the way a country of "laws not men" works is by definition that unless it stumbles into sense, it will thread stupidity.
decimation: as far as I can tell, doesn't exist
decimation: if an alient landed in nebraska and said "take me to your leader", would the alien be disappointed with whomever appears?
decimation: Re: asphalt roads - in germany they build only with concrete for highways afaik
asciilifeform: i hear they even eat real - non-recycled - food, there.
decimation: "it's okay for you"
mircea_popescu: this is not true
mircea_popescu: autobahn is asphalt mostly.
mircea_popescu: ZTV Asphalt-tr 07/ZTV Beton-StB 07 being the relevant standards, if anyone's curious.
asciilifeform: swamp land of dc << example. moved to new place recently. even the garden shed has... air conditioner.
decimation: I suspect that they are more substantially graded than us highways
decimation: well, with 95% humidity at 95 degrees F what do you suspect
asciilifeform: in summer, tropical hell, like the venus of old sf stories
decimation: at least in new york they get sea breezes
decimation: washington dc is one of the least habitable zones on the east coast
decimation: soon dc will once again have strange tropical mosquito-bourne illness: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/concerned-mosquito-born-chikungunya-virus/
assbot: How concerned should we be about the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus? | PBS NewsHour
asciilifeform: decimation: you need a non-drug-addicted human to run the machines << when it comes to it - one can run the machines in person. if one is truly serious.
decimation: that comes down to a trade-off between development and production
decimation: but extremely valuable information is to be gained by doing both
asciilifeform: given the nature of the product, there are also other considerations.
decimation: true, in the case of security hardware
asciilifeform: regardless of where the production gizmos end up baking, the 'breath of life' will have to be breathed into them right here.
asciilifeform: (everybody gets a unique firmware. as described in the prospectus.)
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 12 @ 0.1599002 = 1.9188 BTC [+] {6}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 15 @ 0.16 = 2.4 BTC [+]
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 637338.21 in 1183 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -7.25
BingoBoingo: ;;bc,stats
gribble: Current Blocks: 312366 | Current Difficulty: 1.733631697850783E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 312479 | Next Difficulty In: 113 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 18 hours, 12 minutes, and 4 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 18728951524.4 | Estimated Percent Change: 8.03305
BingoBoingo: !up DollyDear
DollyDear: !ticker mpex
assbot: Good morning, may you serve the Lord, and may His holy dominion guide you through your dismal life.
DollyDear: !ticker h sdice
assbot: Quest for vision is a great blessing.
kakobrekla: you need some help
DollyDear: maybe
BingoBoingo: !Up DollyDear
BingoBoingo: !t m s.mpoe
assbot: You know, I've had it up to here with this Indian malarkey.
cazalla: me too
assbot: GM Gets Prostate Exam In Stadium, Sings "Take Me Out To The Ballgame"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28600 @ 0.00081818 = 23.3999 BTC [-] {2}
BingoBoingo: !up CHRIX
mircea_popescu: !last s.wol
assbot: It's so strange that you don't remember any of your poetry.
assbot: One Man's Five-Year Quest To Find A Shiny Pokmon
mircea_popescu: !last m s.wol
assbot: Last trade for S.WOL on MPEX was at 0.00008888 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c isn't that "long life and prosperity" in chinese ?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: !up lordbunson
mircea_popescu: "O'Connell went through this process whenever he could, be it while he was watching TV or surfing the internet. He estimates that he's reset the game maybe over 100,000 times, with over five hundred hours dedicated to this single consuming task."
mircea_popescu: am i to be impressed that somebody did something for 500 hours ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm moe dumfounded that he didn't just fck the rng to favor him
cazalla: i'll ask my brother, he held WR for fastest complete on pokemon red for gameboy
BingoBoingo: Or hexeditor on the ROM
BingoBoingo: 500 hours is more than enough time to make a perfect cheat on such a sumb platform
mircea_popescu: i've definitely spent more than 500 hours whipping slaves over the past decade
mircea_popescu: doesn't seem like a big deal.
BingoBoingo: whipping slaves is it's own reward
BingoBoingo: Dude thoug adopted the Doger-aspie mentality of I want X, but only via route Y.
BingoBoingo: Case study in why etherium prolly won
BingoBoingo: 't ship
BingoBoingo: It isn't amazing that he accomplished something. It is amazing he took such a fail path to do so for so long.
assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
BingoBoingo: Anyone can imagine they've done anything if they smash their head into a cinder block until they have the cognitive funtion of an oyster
mircea_popescu: i don't think oysters imagine
BingoBoingo: Pretty sure oysters are or at least should count as vegan
BingoBoingo: Being as far as they are from anything else that might vaguely be considered an animal
mircea_popescu: hm, now that'd be a character : a gaudy hipster that identifies as vegan and chains oysters
BingoBoingo: Well, if I settled next to the sea I figured I'd call myself vegetarian and eat hundreds of oysters a day for the trollz
fluffypony: oysters are delicious
mircea_popescu: fresh they're pretty good yeah
mircea_popescu: but it's by far the most sensitive to pollution/freshness food there is
fluffypony: we have the Knysna Oyster Festival every year around the corner from us
fluffypony: so this is oyster country
mircea_popescu: well that helps
BingoBoingo: They ship here pretty well from clean waters. Helps that oysters are rather robust for shellfish.
BingoBoingo: Indeed rather large as well. Getting enough that size for a strand would be one of (expensive, a pain in the ass)
mircea_popescu: lol that day when romanian newspapers actually buy google adwords exposure on your name.
BingoBoingo: Is that today?
assbot: Mircea Popescu: Rate Professor: Drexel (DU): Koofers
mircea_popescu: it's today
BingoBoingo: ;;google mircea popescu adwords
gribble: Mai 2010 pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2010/05>; MPOE-PR, almost two years in the swamp. An anthology. pe Trilema ...: <http://trilema.com/2013/mpoe-pr-almost-two-years-in-the-swamp-an-anthology/>; 150+ Negative Keywords for Software Selling AdWords Campaigns ...: <http://blog.avangate.com/150-negative-keywords-software-selling-adwords/>
assbot: Random weird shit pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: also the various eth threads all over are pretty lulzy
assbot: Ripple Forum • View topic - Ethereum seems to start selling their native currency
mircea_popescu: "Somehow I managed to partially recover from my Ripple loss, I don't think I will invest in anything else but bitcoin in the future."
mircea_popescu: derp : "omfg they got 5k btc this is so important". older generation derp : "ripple claimed the same thing, a year later they have nothing to show for it"
BingoBoingo: At least Ripple had the courtesy to give away their fail tokens at the start. Basically the Ether terms are then can funnel up to 5kilo BTC back into "development" with the net effect they can Burn 5000 btc in this sale and relaim them later as "expenses"
BingoBoingo: Anything Eth gets beyond the initial 5 kilo BTC might be outside interest
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mircea_popescu: this is maybe an interesting concept
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it'd logically be the 5k it originaly got. anything it gets past 5k past the 5k would be outside interest.
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 635045.23 in 1166 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -7.59
BingoBoingo: Altcoin as usual is the perfect contrast because dev costs are already sunk and minimal. Instead what ATC has are long term commitments to buy it.
mircea_popescu: seems so.
BingoBoingo: This is a moral failing of Doge and Ether
BingoBoingo: That they pray for mysterious outside benefactors to bless them with value
mircea_popescu: that's a way to look at it yeah.
BingoBoingo: It's related to a sort of spamvestment scheme traditionally oriented towards targeting doctors.
mircea_popescu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFbYM2EDz40 sorta braindamaged explanation that's nevertheless fundamentally correct.
assbot: Edgar the Exploiter - YouTube
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30747 @ 0.00081628 = 25.0982 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: My favorite thing about buttcoiners : Buttcoin
BingoBoingo: Right now a big piece of spam when I listen to the radio is "Own your own oil well" commercials targeting accredited investors.
assbot: PureApeshit comments on I honestly don't care about many laws put around Bitcoin. The funny thing is I'm your average American next door neighbor.
mircea_popescu: i ran a town, it was a pleasure to live in. for everyone except the buttcoiners, of course (the dumbass kids that go for postdocs in the us didn't exist) and the feminists (the dumbass womenz also didn't exist).
mircea_popescu: so basically anarchy works for everyone but reddit.
fluffypony: the amount of ignoreance is too damn high: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=708883.0
assbot: NAMECOIN 2.O + IPO
BingoBoingo: "I can see this working for a limited amount of time, in small communities. But who is going to build a $3 Billion bridge and regulate the quality of the engineering? Donations? What will keep greedy companies from paying desperate workers $2/hour, which is what is happening right now in countries with less regulation." Ferries are still a thing
mircea_popescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2bmbmi/the_tyranny_of_structurelessness_and_why/ << meanwhile social sciences redditard is stumbling on the concept of bitcoin-as-acutally-is deductively.
assbot: "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" and Why Decentralization Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Bean essay. : Buttcoin
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo he failks to comprehend that the bridge in question does not in fact cost 3bn
mircea_popescu: it only costs 3bn if a particular type of sucker (us govt) is buying it.
mircea_popescu: mobsters don't pay retail, let alone golden toilet prices.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony wtf bs is this, imagetext ?
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: ikr
BingoBoingo: There's probably a few places in the world where a bridge might cost 3 billion honestly, but...
BingoBoingo: Generally those aren't places that need bridges
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo 3bn is at current prices 85 tons of gold
mircea_popescu: is this bridge MADE out of gold ?
xmj: BingoBoingo: long bridges are expensive
mircea_popescu: if someone made a sterling silver lifesized replica of the golden gate, it'd still not be 3bn.
xmj: especially the ones across belts, and stuff
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, connecting Hawaiian or Aleutian island with Bridges, i.e. places that don't need bridges
mircea_popescu: yeah well.
mircea_popescu: actually i am wrong : gg is like 1mn tons.
mircea_popescu: that'd be 200ish mn for the steel alone.
BingoBoingo: Golden toilet prices of $695 mil deliver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Musial_Veterans_Memorial_Bridge and the road surface isn't even smooth but the most charitable definition
assbot: Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mircea_popescu: turns out it cost like 20mn to build back a century ago.
BingoBoingo: Inflation, too many dollars, etc
BingoBoingo: Now it takes longer to name a bridge than build it
mircea_popescu: anyway, the monthly delving in the trials and tribulations of the reality-is-people folk has been most rewarding.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony that idiocy aside, an actual namecoin that actually worked well'd be a pretty good thing.
fluffypony: I agree
fluffypony: they definitely won't be the ones to do it, though :-P
mircea_popescu: problem is, someone needs to put first tier resolver servers online.
mircea_popescu: which isn't THAT expensive to do, but it does require a puppet-master sysadmin type to start it all
mircea_popescu: we've been waiting for that guy since 2012.
mircea_popescu: ironically, for all the bitching, wailing and thrashing of insignificant subhumans on reddits and forums, there is A TON of free space right at the top, and for years i've just been waiting for people to come and claim their spot.
mircea_popescu: just... the ability of being actually useful is a lot rarer than the ability to down a special interest studies read list and then derp around in circles.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many of these fucktarded kids realise that a) domestic animals could "learn" the bullshit they've "learned" and b) that automatically means it ain't fucking worth bothering with.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, that's all for me. tomorro.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> which isn't THAT expensive to do, but it does require a puppet-master sysadmin type to start it all << OMG Bob Beck has a path to redemtion if he takes it
BingoBoingo: *p omitted because history is immutable
assbot: MINECRAFT (Honest Game Trailers) - YouTube
BingoBoingo: !up CheapBoy
CheapBoy: Thanks!
CheapBoy: I've got the hold of my GPS keys, trying to understand how to speak to gribble :)
xmj: GPG
xmj: CheapBoy: hi
xmj: :)
fluffypony: ;;8ball should CheapBoy turn left in 500 meters?
gribble: NO!
fluffypony: see, gribble understands GPS
CheapBoy: Xmj Hi. I still don't understand what is what in the instructions about gribble
CheapBoy: Does gribble know where I am???
CheapBoy: Omg... I'm outta here
fluffypony: !down CheapBoy
assbot: Using bitcoin-otc - bitcoin-otc wiki
xmj: well, that's that.
BingoBoingo: !up CheapBoy
assbot: BBC News - Flight MH17 crash: Man charged over Twitter post
xmj: how long does the IRS need in order to process form SS-4 and issue an Employer ID number?
xmj: rephrase, how long does it take them to process a fax'ed SS-4 form and issue an EIN ?
csshih: lol sorry xmj ;p I'm only familiar with the online app which takes literal moments
xmj: there we go ;)
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 877 @ 0.004 = 3.508 BTC [-]
xmj: thx
csshih: "To expedite the issuance of an EIN for a foreign entity, please call (267) 941-1099. This is not a toll-free call.
assbot: Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TIN)
xmj: boo
xmj: i dont wanna pay taxes; just get a bank account and receive money :p
csshih: boo
csshih: :c irs
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 21 @ 0.162 = 3.402 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10450 @ 0.00081487 = 8.5154 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31100 @ 0.00081476 = 25.339 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 9 @ 0.162 = 1.458 BTC [+]
FabianB: $depth s.mpoe
empyex: FabianB: [S.MPOE] Bids: 50000 @ 0.00081273 34235 @ 0.00081251 44486 @ 0.00081060 23200 @ 0.00079720
empyex: FabianB: [S.MPOE] Asks: 7453 @ 0.00081536 10971 @ 0.00082002 66000 @ 0.00082043 40300 @ 0.00082138
FabianB: $depth s.bbet
empyex: FabianB: [S.BBET] Bids: 1000 @ 0.00048222 1000 @ 0.00048000 2000 @ 0.00047000 190 @ 0.00046010
empyex: FabianB: [S.BBET] Asks: 10000 @ 0.00050900 10000 @ 0.00050999 10000 @ 0.00052210 10000 @ 0.00052229
FabianB: $depth f.mpif
empyex: FabianB: [F.MPIF] Bids: 191 @ 0.00021513 100 @ 0.00021512 1000 @ 0.00021512 2000 @ 0.00021511
empyex: FabianB: [F.MPIF] Asks: 2000 @ 0.00022500 10000 @ 0.00023150 10000 @ 0.00023500 10000 @ 0.00023850
FabianB: $depth s.mg
empyex: FabianB: [S.MG] Bids: 99 @ 0.00009100 671844 @ 0.00009000 20000 @ 0.00003000 3000000 @ 0.00000050
empyex: FabianB: [S.MG] Asks: 79053 @ 0.00010950 3000 @ 0.00011000 100000 @ 0.00012000 18 @ 0.00012399
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 9 @ 0.16499888 = 1.485 BTC [+] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7453 @ 0.00081536 = 6.0769 BTC [+]
assbot: Austria Offers 'Contradictory' Guidance on Bitcoin's Financial Status
ThickAsThieves: "Cost of mining doesn't matter to the price, miners will readjust themselves according to the current price by either taking a temporary loss and not selling or reduce mining nodes/more efficient hardware." fukn traders...
pigeons: my stocks went down too, but the price doesn't matter, i'll just take a temporary loss and not sell. how long is temporary?
xmj: yyyyeah
xmj: that's what people said after the Dotcom bubble
xmj: then the firms went bust.
pigeons: i could just spend the money i dont have because im taking a temporary loss on more efficient hardware that doesnt exist
xmj: cover losses
xmj: limit downsides
mike_c: asciilifeform: google was unhelpful. what was this chocolate password scheme? http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-07-2014#768266
assbot: #bitcoin-assets log
ThickAsThieves: "Mitchell Tace Chapman, of Pegwood Road, Sunderland, has been charged with making a malicious communication."
ThickAsThieves: "slander" is out. "malicious communication" is in!.
chetty: <ThickAsThieves> "slander" is out. "malicious communication" is in!.//whatever happened to 'stick and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me'?
assbot: BBC NEWS | Technology | Passwords revealed by sweet deal
assbot: Woman 4 times more likely than men to give passwords for chocolate | Technology | theguardian.com
mike_c: asciilifeform: lol. good stuff.
asciilifeform: ok here's a little mindfuck
asciilifeform: 'Sector repair completed:port=0, LBA=0x0.'
asciilifeform: what are the chances.
xmj: what.
asciilifeform: boot record.
mthreat: anyone competing in ICFP?
xmj: asciilifeform: wow
assbot: Infosecurity - European Central Bank Hacked; 20K Email Addresses Lifted
artifexd: I come back from Ecuador and realize that they just banned bitcoin entirely because they're going to make their own cryptocurrency. I guess my wife was right all along when she said Correa was a dumb ass.
artifexd: Also, []bot is back up. There just has been no action for the last 18ish hours.
artifexd: Wow. Much logs. Many catching up to do.
assbot: 'Nuanced View' Needed to Understand Millennial Homebuying Behavior - US News
chetty: nuanced view - hmm time to ban some more words
asciilifeform: chetty: the 'lies per kByte' in this turd must be some sort of record.
mike_c: this is not rocket science. they just took out a "mortgage" to pay for college. why would they want another one?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 200 @ 0.00297729 = 0.5955 BTC [+]
asciilifeform: 'And the investment in higher education, even if it means finances are strapped now, leads to higher wages that boost future spending power.' << eat recycled food. it's good for the environment - and ok for you!
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 3337 @ 0.0029773 = 9.9353 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.81517560 BTC to 12`515 shares, 14504 satoshi per share
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 24.25324692 BTC to 1`149`988 shares, 2109 satoshi per share
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [SCRYPT] [PAID] 4.61234584 BTC to 29`438 shares, 15668 satoshi per share
kakobrekla: lots of text for 1btc.
mike_c: 1btc in 5 years though. that could be hefty.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27800 @ 0.00081648 = 22.6981 BTC [+] {2}
ThickAsThieves: schiff took the shitty side, he gets one worthless bitcoin at the end if he wins
mircea_popescu: ;;ticker
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 601.06, Best ask: 602.26, Bid-ask spread: 1.20000, Last trade: 602.27, 24 hour volume: 5598.26669767, 24 hour low: 592.97, 24 hour high: 609.65, 24 hour vwap: 600.887144777
DreadKnight: DreadKnight:or even investors, as long as the strings aren't forever <-> mircea_popescu:DreadKnight why not ?
DreadKnight: forgot to answer that last time, well I misinterpreted
DreadKnight: the answer: I'm trying to make an evergreen type of game, with high replay value, that will also get new content and features over the years; so it's not like an oldschool published game, where you got a finished product with 40 hours of gameplay and then it gets stacked on the shelf
DreadKnight: evergreen games are the hardest to make and I don't want strings attached over the years; you could check out this article about such games http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DanielCook/20130726/196754/A_single_game_as_a_lifelong_hobby.php mircea_popescu
assbot: Gamasutra: Daniel Cook's Blog - A single game as a lifelong hobby
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight that's exactly how i go too. eulora is supposed to be playable forever.
mircea_popescu: this doesn't answer the "why" tho.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, is that one of your projects or a game you funded?
mircea_popescu: that's the flagship game of s.mg, it's a proper mmorpg.
assbot: It’s called Eulora pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: playable atm, more or less, if you have linux
mircea_popescu: or know how to compile for your platform
DreadKnight: I usually hate compiling, most keen on browser based stuff
fluffypony: browser based games?
fluffypony: like Farmville?
DreadKnight: more or less
mircea_popescu: fluffypony guy's working on yet another homm for the web.
mircea_popescu: what was the link again ?
fluffypony: DreadKnight: do you use a ChromeBook?
DreadKnight: fluffypony, on a desktop atm, but would definitely recommend a ChromeBook to my parents and other people within a year or so
DreadKnight: fluffypony, so yeah, what's the link to your project? I'm making www.AncientBeast.com
fluffypony: I don't have a project, I'm semi-retired
DreadKnight: got an old screenie?
asciilifeform: 'chromebook' can be turned into a perfectly normal machine (diassemble, remove eeprom write protect jumper, write in an ordinary linux, e.g. 'gentoo')
mircea_popescu: fluffypony read that as "semi retarded" :D
mircea_popescu: sorry fluffl
fluffypony: hah hah
fluffypony: only when it's the morning and I haven't had coffee ;)
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight dude's not a game dev, he's like a corporate ladder climber.
DreadKnight: seen quite a few people wanting to make a homm clone, but nobody was quite up for walking the walk
fluffypony: "I reached the top and I had to stop, and that's what's bothering me"
fluffypony: *sings*
jurov: DreadKnight so if you had in exchange for investment to pay out % of profit as dividends, is that unacceptable string to you?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony recall that trilema url with your pic ?
fluffypony: fuck you, fuck me?
fluffypony: other way round - fuck me, fuck you
assbot: Fuck me ?! Fuck you!!! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
DreadKnight: jurov, was more keen on giving a fixed percentage back from the investment with time, besides the investment itself ofc; I'm not really into stock market, but I guess that would be fine, I could always buy the dividends myself at some point :D
asciilifeform: 'fuck you fuck me' << that was the original teledildonics product, if i recall.
assbot: FuckU-FuckMe. Changing the feel of communication.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ikr ?
assbot: FuckU-FuckMe. Changing the feel of communication.
fluffypony: that is a fantastic tagline
jurov: DreadKnight why would you submit to giving fixed % back even if the game profits is less than anticipated?
DreadKnight: wait, why am I seeing a picture of fluffypony's wife? xD
mircea_popescu: cause it's his better half ?
fluffypony: indeed
DreadKnight: she ain't bad :3
mircea_popescu: she takes all the decisions and etc
mircea_popescu: ol' fluff just works all day.
DreadKnight: oh :))
DreadKnight: so she probably decided to axe the homm clone or had something to do with it
fluffypony: what's homm?
DreadKnight: Heroes of Might and Magic
fluffypony: ah ok
assbot: Heroes III pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: (you can look at teh pictures)
fluffypony: holy cow 2010 blog post
asciilifeform fondly remembers m&m and homm
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you ever tried playing mm6/7 with a girl ?
DreadKnight: jurov, yeah, that's assuming less risks in the short term anyway; though in the long run, those percentages could be way more than that fixed profit cut I mentioned
fluffypony stares at the Settlers of Catan box
mircea_popescu: it works splendidly, have her asdw while you handle teh mouse.
mircea_popescu: best couple activity involving a screen ever.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight you won't get a bond as nobody. not even major players in the industry get bonds.
mircea_popescu: (and when they do get close to bonds, disasters a la daikatana happen. it's very important to have good supervision, key to success.)
mircea_popescu: fluffypony trilema started in 2008. and since then, i've written > 1 article a day, each day, every day.
DreadKnight: funny they sold daikatana for whatever in humblebundle recently
mircea_popescu: thing cost 10 mn dollars, and this is pre 2000 money.
DreadKnight: dunno why they don't let that game project get buried already
mircea_popescu: thing cost 10 mn dollars, and this is pre 2000 money. <
DreadKnight: yeah, they're still trying to cover loses
mircea_popescu: people get incredibly attached to huge piles of dough
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, still having issues with zoso and other bloggers nowadays?
mircea_popescu: im sure they're still butthurt.
mircea_popescu: but today, it's mostly reddit that's butthurt.
mircea_popescu: well and sa, ofcourse.
DreadKnight: how come?
DreadKnight: I'm not too keen about reddit myself, ugly looking
DreadKnight: feels 80's
benkay: "cyranodeb" // read as cyra-node-b, because i have bitcoins on the mind
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight well there's a lot you don't understand (yet) :p
DreadKnight: there always will be
DreadKnight: tell me something new :D
mircea_popescu: ahh what a way to wake up. i think ima fire up h2 now
mircea_popescu: ( asciilifeform ever tried playing h2/h3 with a girl ? ever found one to consistently beat you ? )
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, you could have posted a screenie with that eulora blog post :D
DreadKnight: found some in the comments
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight which one you mean ?
mircea_popescu: o o uyeah.
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mike_c: wow, 5 months blows by quick. chetty, when's v0.0.5?
DreadKnight: mmorpgs are beasts to make and they require massive amount of players, the main issue that breaks or makes mmo's is that they keep being rpg's and have a lot of competition, also, there's the peer pressure; a lot of players stick to a certain mmorpg because their friends keep playing them, getting them to switch would mean also making friends to switch at the same time
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DreadKnight: there are a few extra creditz episodes on youtube why new mmorpg's don't make it as in they can't compete with WoW etc
mike_c: WoW gold can't compete with bitcoin
mircea_popescu: mike_c buildings being worked on. but a new package not so far off.
mike_c: cool
benkay: hoooooly logs
mircea_popescu: ima keep going "there's a lot you don't know yet" at this poor guy or what.
mircea_popescu: benkay we wish you a merry fu! we wish you a merry fu! and a happy neeeeew looooog!
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benkay: s.mg pump incoming hue hue hue
DreadKnight: even if WoW requires pumping money into, there are quite a few players who use WoW to make money, yeah, might not be in an official way like bitcoins, but still
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2310 @ 0.00081671 = 1.8866 BTC [+]
mike_c: for everyone who is dying to know what moiety sounds like:
assbot: War of Life - Cellular automata to the death!
mircea_popescu: ahahah scottie.
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: pankkake: natalie portman is a jew? I always knew something was off with her << only on the mother's side. << still counts, of course, and a +ev strategy for it to be so. my father isn't one of the "chosen people," though he's still… frugal
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: pigeons: wow really they are already trying to damage control the 1% of the press they get that isn't positive? and from a bitcoinpete (no offense lol) blog post? << the 1% happens to be what matters in this field. << pimps matter in every field
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 255 @ 0.0029 = 0.7395 BTC [-]
bitcoinpete: 575 hits on dat ethereum blog so far
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete there've been a few people inquiring here, but none actually put fat on the line.
bitcoinpete: kakobrekla: Luke-Jr banana << lmao
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: tawk iz cheep
chetty: <mike_c> wow, 5 months blows by quick. chetty, when's v0.0.5?//been a little distracted lately, hopefully soon
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: and so is being stoopid
mircea_popescu: basically the advent of the internet talkhole has resulted in a lot of people trying to save on talk psychiatry.
mircea_popescu: to the degree the profession all but disappeared.
bitcoinpete: which is truly unfortunate for the immense population of north americans who need it
bitcoinpete: not that they could afford it
mircea_popescu: well, need is relative. they could use it, sure. a good beating's cheaper.
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: you're not being accused. you've just been convicted. that's all. << Luke-Jr, of being a banana
bitcoinpete: "The median grade at Harvard College is an A-, and the most frequently awarded mark is an A, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris said on Tuesday afternoon"
bitcoinpete: more beatings needed. everywhere.
assbot: A useful list of things pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
assbot: #bitcoin-assets log
bitcoinpete: if canadian institutions were so favourable, i'd be in medicine
asciilifeform: the official legend has always been (don't laugh...) 'we only admit the best, of course they'll have nothing but perfect marks'
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no twenty year old ever fell in love resulting in neglect of his work.
mircea_popescu: this is amish country, only better.
asciilifeform: bitcoinpete: this (as discussed in the log) is not a thing in every u.s. uni, but only at the 'ivy' ones (most expensive, direct ladder to the lizardocracy)
chetty: <asciilifeform> bitcoinpete: this (as discussed in the log) is not a thing in every u.s. uni, but only at the 'ivy' ones (most expensive, direct ladder to the lizardocracy)//trickle down will get there
mircea_popescu: you know incidentally... this is exactly how the "Stefan Gheorghiu" School of Political Science worked in the 80s romania.
bitcoinpete: asciilifeform i had the good fortune of going to a larger canadian uni, saving me from such poisonous offerings
mircea_popescu: they couldn't give a bad mark to someone they had admitted.
bitcoinpete: lest they make the admissions board look bad
asciilifeform: i've been told this is SOP in japan, as well.
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bitcoinpete: hard to get in, but if you're in…. gravy
asciilifeform: can't flunk a brahmin, bad form.
bitcoinpete: the gods would be angry
mircea_popescu: it gives a bad impression of social mobility to the workers.
mircea_popescu: actually i should probably write on the us fiction of "social mobility"
asciilifeform: the original u.s. chumpatron.
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: YES!
bitcoinpete: "North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is reportedly furious about a Chinese viral video that photoshops him into all manner of ridiculous scenarios: dancing, brawling, riding a pig, frolicking with Osama Bin Laden, and generally being made a laughingstock by Obama and Putin."
mircea_popescu: he should invade.
assbot: - YouTube
bitcoinpete: kju should raise interest rates
bitcoinpete: which i guess russia did today - 0.5% up to 8%
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 756 @ 0.00297173 = 2.2466 BTC [+] {3}
mircea_popescu: 8% is just about nuts.
mircea_popescu: they are killing the domestic market.
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, new mercantilism, they don't want consumption, all that. but omfg, 8%.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 700 @ 0.00297749 = 2.0842 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 1669 @ 0.0029775 = 4.9694 BTC [+]
bitcoinpete: definitely, but i seriously no idea it was 7.5% before!
bitcoinpete: 8 is fucked
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assbot: MPEx securities discussion thread
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is the benefit of aging. you start to realise your time is worth more than money. << a lesson few, even more aged, grok. intentionally i often suspect, as they're too unimaginative to find better uses for their time
chetty: better than what?
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete or it's just too painful to admit they're currently wasting their time.
asciilifeform: to paraphrase paul erdos, 'they have no theorems to prove'
mircea_popescu: how many people with tween kids in tow are willing to consider whether the little schmucks are even worth raisingin the first place ?
mircea_popescu: it starts there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aptly put.
fluffypony: this is why we're not having kids
asciilifeform: a fellow 'with theorems to prove' could easily put 1000 years to good use.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla ow shit, guy posting on the forum just annulled half a million btc worth of paper.
mike_c: fluffypony: because your kids wouldn't be worth raising?
mircea_popescu: the fuck am i going to do now.
mircea_popescu: mike_c because if he were to discover they aren't, he wouldn't have an out.
mircea_popescu: or at least so i imagine.
mike_c: doesn't say much of your analysis of their gene pool :)
fluffypony: if they ended up being useless shits, what then?
bitcoinpete: fluffypony: cross that bridge when you get to it, neh?
mircea_popescu: people wanna solve the fertility problem, the solution is simple : give parents the unchallengeable right to kill the kids up until age 16.
mircea_popescu: problem solved. much better kids, and more of them.
mike_c: what kill? out is easy: boarding school.
fluffypony: well it's other concerns, mike_c - my neice has down syndrome, and I don't envy the ongoing struggle my aunt and uncle have
mircea_popescu: mike_c only if it's a self-supporting economic activity.
chetty: not kids would survive, all teens should die
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: islam does exactly that, honour killings, still have population explosions
kakobrekla: mp: nothing, its over!
mircea_popescu: which doesn't work today, as there's not much useful work kids can do.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla can i send you my cv ? maybe there's a job opening somewhere, bit4x ?
mike_c: kids aren't supposed to be a profitable economic activity.
fluffypony: either way, we've realised we're too selfish as a couple to consider children, and I doubt that will change in future
mike_c: they are an expense
mircea_popescu: mike_c lol wut ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you ever seen maria's shining moment ?
rithm: pirate wants a jury trial
chetty: if more people really understood babies grow into teens there would not be a population problem
rithm: isn't that neat
mike_c: you pay $500,000 to have a cute little thing that loves you for 10 years, hates you for 8, and then hopefully respects you after that.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: no?
mircea_popescu: rithm of course he does ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony decent film. has the cannonical moment of the down kid parent thing.
mircea_popescu: well, at least to my mind cannonical.
rithm: babies grow into teens?
rithm: i hate teenagers!
fluffypony: rithm: isn't a jury supposed to be made up of your peers? so then his jury is going to be made up of Karpeles and the "dev teams" behind MaidSafe and Ethereum?
mircea_popescu: mike_c now why would i do that ? i'
mircea_popescu: d rather pay indiancandy's plane ticket for 500 or w/e it was
mircea_popescu: and im not doing that, either.
mike_c: why do some people get dogs? i have no fking idea.
rithm: fluffypony: subpoenas for errybody
mircea_popescu: this is not dogs. the dog, you can kill.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i don't think they take peers that seriously.
mike_c: it is a gamble. more upside with a good kid than a good dog.
rithm: i call to the stand vbuterin
fluffypony: mike_c: because dogs are adorable and love you, and if your situation changes you can rehome them, and if they have an untreatable aggression problem you can (legally and even morally to most) put them down
rithm: to speak about ethereum
fluffypony: rithm: trial by blockchain!
mike_c: fluffypony: yes. and on the other hand they will never have an intelligent conversation with you.
fluffypony: PoJ - Proof of Judiciary
mircea_popescu: mike_c why would i take a gamble on another's terms ?
mike_c: that doesn't make sense. why would anyone bet on bitbet on your terms?
mircea_popescu: i want the right to kill any children or i won't have any. that's that.
mircea_popescu: mike_c that'd be their problem.
fluffypony: mike_c: true that...I guess we want it to be a bit more of a "sure thing" when embarking on a 20 year project that will consume nearly all our time and money ;)
mike_c: and i don't want a dog. different strokes.
mircea_popescu: mike_c but anyway, presumably because my terms are great.
mike_c: heh, "sure thing".
mircea_popescu: compared to their terms, that suck.
fluffypony: !s ecuador
mircea_popescu: which is why women are my slaves, rather than me theirs : because i am great, and they aren't as great.
fluffypony: oh werd, artifexd already mentioned it
mike_c: until you meet the right woman :D
fluffypony: they've banned Bitcoin and all digital currencies
mircea_popescu: fluffypony pretty much the only thing one can be sure of here, is that news's been scoopt.
mircea_popescu: mike_c thing is, i've met plenty of right women
mircea_popescu: for that position
mike_c: not the position of making you their slave.
mike_c: she is still out there.
mircea_popescu: perhaps.
fluffypony: "The law gives the government permission to make payments in ‘electronic money’, but decentralized digital currencies like bitcoin will now be prohibited. The proposed electronic money is to be backed by the assets of the Banco Central del Ecuador, the nation’s central bank. The National Assembly will oversee the new currency while the central bank will develop and integrate it into the broader financial system."
mircea_popescu: hey, more power to her, i've no problem with it.
mike_c: fluffypony: how old is your wife? mid-20's?
fluffypony: mike_c: 27
mike_c: k, check back in 3 years plz
mircea_popescu: if anyone from ecuador is here : i will trade with you in violation of ecuador's alleged "laws".
fluffypony: hah hah
mircea_popescu: mike_c ask me.
mike_c: you don't have a wife.
mircea_popescu: a slave's more than a wife.
mike_c: different, not more.
mircea_popescu: no, more.
mike_c: hell no. you only think that cuz you haven't met wife yet.
mircea_popescu: you're discussing the relation not the person.
mircea_popescu: slave'll do what you tell her to, and that includes go kill yourself.
mike_c: that is backwards. the person is the important part.
mircea_popescu: which makes it more.
mike_c: that is the benefit of slave, like benefit of dog. it will do what you tell it or else. child and wife have different pros & cons.
mircea_popescu: it's not really "or else".
mike_c: right, same with dog.
mircea_popescu: we disagree.
mircea_popescu: as far as i can see, wife's closer to dog than to slave.
mircea_popescu: at least as commonly practiced wife and dog goes.
mike_c: well, i am not concerned with commonly. commonly wife & husband can't stand each other.
mike_c: commonly people hold fiat instead of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: yes well, everyone thinks their thing's special, for as long as it lasts.
mircea_popescu: some turn out right.
mircea_popescu: but the relation with the wife is constructed to protect the possible failures.
mike_c: you can apply those last two lines to BTC as well
mircea_popescu: the relation with the slave's constructed to expose them
mike_c: it is same as dog. you are limiting the downside, but also limiting upside.
mircea_popescu: you really like this similarity, but no. the limited upside's with the wife.
mircea_popescu: which is why i said a wife's closer to a dog earlier.
mircea_popescu: take it this way : there's a lot less you can be spectacularly wrongabout with the wife. A LOT LESS.
mike_c: which is "better": 1) woman that does whatever you say. 2) woman that is your intellectual equal and participates favorably in your life
mircea_popescu: applying "no pain no gain" in reverse, obviously there's also a lot more upside with the slave.
mircea_popescu: mike_c that she's a slave does not preclude her being your intellectual equal.
mircea_popescu: it just precludes her being your will equal.
mike_c: no, it precludes the 2nd part
mircea_popescu: how the hell does it preclude participating favorably in your life ?
mike_c: because she doesn't help make decisions.
mircea_popescu: of course she does.
kakobrekla: !s coindesk
mircea_popescu: she HELPS. she doesn't presume to actually make them.
mike_c: and why shouldn't she presume?
mike_c: because she is not qualified?
mircea_popescu: you want me to answer a negative ? she shouldn't presume becauise it;'s not her place.
mircea_popescu: let me go at it a different angle. you ever were good friends with a good doctor ? i mean, practicing seriously, a good one.
mike_c: yup
mircea_popescu: did it even happen that you were privy to a case where they fucked up ? for w/e reason, they made the wrong call, resulting in a lot of trouble for a patient ?
mike_c: yup
mircea_popescu: did this harrowing emotional experience constitute an opportunity for them to grow, as a person ?
mike_c: hm. she cried over it.
mircea_popescu: well yeah, but!
mike_c: yes
mircea_popescu: there's more to life than that first layer.
mircea_popescu: and now, consider that you WILL punish your slave for no fault of her own.
mircea_popescu: yes, her well welted flesh is going to participate favourably in your life.
mircea_popescu: you get to discover just how stupid you are, in short order, and a wife's no substitute.
mike_c: obviously slave, like dog, will participate favorably at some level.
mircea_popescu: at a level higher than anyone else can access.
mircea_popescu: meaning is, after all, the ash of sacrifice.
mircea_popescu: the fact that a wife is relatively safe, in her person and property makes the relationship much alike to that with a dog. which dog, in it's bestial stupidity, is also relatively safe.
mircea_popescu: a slave's not safe.
mike_c: try this. axiom (for this case): woman is right, you are wrong. who has a better chance of changing your mind/behavior? slave eventually is told to stfu and will do so.
mircea_popescu: and so ?
mike_c: and so you continue to be wrong, and no longer receive any input as to why.
mircea_popescu: don't you see the backflow here ? if you KNOW that your order will be unquestioned if it's an order,
mircea_popescu: aren't you in a much better position to correctly evaluate it ?
mircea_popescu: what'd you rather do, linux or windoze ? rm -rf has no "are you SURE ???" triplicate dialogue.
mircea_popescu: who' the better coder, the linux guy or the windows guy ?
mircea_popescu: which is closer to walking a dog ?
mike_c: (rm -r does)
mircea_popescu: (just forcing a point)
mike_c: poor analogy. i'm not looking for pointless barrier. this is why wife needs to be of certain quality.
mircea_popescu: windows is of certain quality.
mike_c: so i marry linux!
mircea_popescu: linux won't marry you.
mircea_popescu: it has a master already.
mike_c: ah, that can change :)
mircea_popescu: the pool you can select wives from is already the pool of the women too [insert here] to have a master.
benkay: 9362/10362
mike_c: bullshit. the pool i select from is whoever I want. since I am making better offer, I get woman.
mircea_popescu: mike_c recall ballas' champagne glasses pyramid. wives are the 2nd or 3rd rung from the bottom.
mircea_popescu: you are actually making a much worse offer.
mircea_popescu: that is of course not obvious to most midrange women, which is why they get married.
mike_c: you are self-selecting. worse offer to slavegirl perhaps who doesn't want to live her own life.
mircea_popescu: you presume there's a way to live your own life outside of slavery. there actually isn't.
mike_c: who is your master?
mircea_popescu: you do get to live a role, i guess. be a good mom/wife/consumer/we
mircea_popescu: mike_c nobody. why, you entertaining symmetry hopes ?
DreadKnight: unless you go away with mars one project, then you'll care about survival
mike_c: <+mircea_popescu> you presume there's a way to live your own life outside of slavery. there actually isn't.
benkay: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform traffic should resemble people exchanging gpg messages maybe ? // run it over cjdns?
mircea_popescu: mike_c if you must, i can expand it to include teh masters too.
mircea_popescu: benkay not a bad idea baking that in there i dont think yes.
mircea_popescu: so that your nodes act as cjdns nodes too, help both projhects.
benkay: neatly excises mitm.
mircea_popescu: !up wserd
benkay: <decimation> statelessness has a quality all its own // see, mircea_popescu? state sucks. cause of much woe.
mircea_popescu: benkay if you recall, mpex eschewed https and http "logins" because state ?
benkay: not because a webui woulda cost more?
benkay: i keed, i keed.
mircea_popescu: not more than urmom!
mircea_popescu: !up the20year
mircea_popescu: pm assbot !up
benkay: and really sir - "because state"? not because the chosen architecture made it unnecessary?
benkay: !t h rent
assbot: [HAVELOCK:RENT] 1D: 0.00400000 / 0.00402181 / 0.00439038 (1577 shares, 6.34238759 BTC), 7D: 0.00400000 / 0.00425515 / 0.00538009 (2574 shares, 10.95275244 BTC), 30D: 0.00200000 / 0.00403815 / 0.00540000 (9748 shares, 39.36386385 BTC)
assbot: [MPEX] [FN] [F.MPIF] 59120 @ 0.00021465 = 12.6901 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: benkay these two aren't different.
assbot: [MPEX] [FN] [F.MPIF] 27206 @ 0.00019 = 5.1691 BTC [-]
benkay: hey why did the order numbers fall over? not busting balls, state conversation made me curious.
mircea_popescu: because order numbers are assholes.
jurov: <mircea_popescu> benkay if you recall, mpex eschewed https and http "logins" because state ? << and later almost forced everyone to maintain counter huh
mircea_popescu: jurov ;/
benkay: mircea_popescu: WORST TECHNICAL REPORT
mircea_popescu: jurov it's one of the sins burdening me in confession.
benkay: yeah, shove state into the clients. fuck 'em.
the20year: is the topic still on wives?
assbot: #bitcoin-assets log
mircea_popescu: the20year nope we just moved on.
the20year: by the time i read it all, you are on to something else
the20year: so i can only assume it 's a tarp
benkay: read faster, american
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benkay: 9570/10410
ThickAsThieves: <+mike_c> for everyone who is dying to know what moiety sounds like: /// dat accent
the20year: Between chatting i'm also dealing with rental applications
the20year: I'm loving the facebook page thing, it's to the point we're getting half a dozen to a dozen rental applications before our properties in rehab are done
mike_c: ThickAsThieves: vote in progress. too thick for muricans?
mircea_popescu: whoa look at fmpif go
mircea_popescu: did someone fatfinger or did someone hire a forum muppet for investment advice ?
kakobrekla: its prolly jimmothy ackman
mircea_popescu: how'd he have twenny btc worth of stocks.
benkay: <DreadKnight> I still hope that someday php will be usable system wide, like python, not just in a specific directory // ahahahahaha
mike_c: !mpif
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021699 B (Total: 474.50 B). Delta: -0.78 B. Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00019 BTC [-]
benkay: and this guy's making a muhmorperger?
mircea_popescu: benkay don't hate ppls just because they're different
benkay: =====================!
mircea_popescu: that's why you're still single
jurov: huh someone sold deeply into my mm's .19 order?
fluffypony: no, it's an evergreen
benkay: foreveralone
benkay: .butts
mike_c: had to be a fatfinger. reminder #240 to always have an order on the books.
mircea_popescu: jurov o was your MM stuff hit ?
mircea_popescu: !up wyrdmantis
kakobrekla: a few trades today unaccounted for in that upper nav i think
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yeah perhaps as much as fiddy bitcents profited.
kakobrekla: mike_c make the thing run hourly ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla how would he know what jurov made ?
kakobrekla: hm ? i mean my thing.
mike_c: !mpif
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021707 B (Total: 474.69 B). Delta: -0.59 B. Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00019 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: o wait, YOU LOST MOAR MONYZ ?!?!?!
mike_c: oh, sweet, he made money
mircea_popescu: great time to sell into the dirt : when unreported gains.
mike_c: kakobrekla: yes.. moving from cron.daily to cron.hourly is on the short list. i'll just do it now.
jurov: ;;calc 0.00021707*1.01
gribble: 0.0002192407
kakobrekla: cool ty
jurov: ;;calc 0.00021707/1.01
gribble: 0.000214920792079
jurov: mhm
wyrdmantis: hi everyone
benkay: salud
wyrdmantis: how register my nick?
wyrdmantis: i have to write the commands right here?
kakobrekla: to wot or nickserv ?
wyrdmantis: nickserv
DreadKnight: benkay, not making a mmorpg
wyrdmantis: one thing at a time
benkay: 10008/10462
ThickAsThieves: <+mike_c> ThickAsThieves: vote in progress. too thick for muricans? //// Other than when she says "cunt" instead of "current" the accent is great ;)
kakobrekla: yeah /msg nickserv commands
mike_c: i heard that too :)
mircea_popescu: !up yamaka
ThickAsThieves: lol "MPEX has no value and has been/continues to burden the community." ~hayek
DreadKnight: benkay, was actually giving arguments why people shouldn't make mmorpg games, no matter how much money they got into their accounts
benkay: defo skimmed that logsection
mike_c: any other muricans want to give a listen and voice an opinion it would be appreciated. this isn't a love-fest, please say if you think the accent might not work for average US speaker. https://btc.waroflife.com/videos/
assbot: Video Tutorials - War of Life
kakobrekla: i like it
mike_c: yeah, but you are multi-lingual
ThickAsThieves: no he's murican now
ThickAsThieves: graduated from somalian
mircea_popescu: mike_c how many non multilingual ppl ar you gonna find in assets ?
mike_c: he can't be murican if he speaks more than 1 language
ThickAsThieves: look, i'm an american and i like it, what more is there to need to know really?
mircea_popescu: !up wyrdmantis
mike_c: hell, you're from florida. practically a redneck
kakobrekla: perhaps is a bit fast
mircea_popescu: mike_c he's not even white.
ThickAsThieves: i'm from MA technically
ThickAsThieves: but sure
ThickAsThieves: i'm not even racist either
mircea_popescu: "MP prolly on NSA payroll."
mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/635/1btc-10-000-usd/#c3572 << bitbet trollbox beats btctrolltalk now
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ThickAsThieves: well there is S.NSA after all...
ThickAsThieves: this is good: "What baffles me is how people can send so many coins to a supposedly anonymous person. Do you give out unsecured loans to random strangers who you meet for the first time?"
ThickAsThieves: "Are you new to this subforum?"
mircea_popescu: "unsecured loan" ? where do they get off lmao
mike_c: omg that SR auction bet is the gift that just keeps giving. daily lulz in the comments.
ThickAsThieves: mike_c on more mature note, i can add that the audio has some sibilance issues
mircea_popescu: !up _biO_
jurov: mircea_popescu: looks like the F.MPIF perpetrator wants to withdraw
mike_c: yeah, it wasn't done with pro equipment i'm sure. but it was meant to have casual tone.
ThickAsThieves: i could smooth out some if you send me the raw
mircea_popescu: personally, i kinda like it how they keep making these forum threads about how mpex is bad, get laughed into the ground, close it and reopen it as if it were new.
mike_c: sure, thanks!
mircea_popescu: since the 2012 days of glbse we're at what, 4 of these ? 5 ?
mike_c: ;;google sibilance
gribble: Sibilant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibilant>; Sibilance - Merriam-Webster Online: <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sibilance>; sibilance - definition of sibilance by The Free Dictionary: <http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sibilance>
mircea_popescu: jurov on it.
jurov: actually the thread wasn't about "mpex is bad" till jimmothy came around
kakobrekla: someone offer him a short?
mircea_popescu: well yeah but he's what, 90% of the text.
kakobrekla: for the 0.02 he has.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you need money for that. his budget was in the decimals last he was offered a short.
mircea_popescu: and "it woudln't be fair anyway", for some variation of "mp has all the btc and can do whatever he wants"
fluffypony: jimmothy irritates the living daylights out of me
fluffypony: he's impossible to talk to
kakobrekla: yeah but this one is not cause of the money.
benkay: <mike_c> you pay $500,000 to have a cute little thing that loves you for 10 years, hates you for 8, and then hopefully respects you after that. // ideally. sculpting them into not-biodiesel is generally frowned upon in these parts.
mircea_popescu: somehow suddenly he's aware of that when it's his skin. but otherwise, happy to run the mouth,
benkay: "but mocking their idiocy is abuse!"
mircea_popescu: best argument against letting the common folk out of the dungeon i ever saw.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony he's providing the valuable service of keeping the idiots out.
kakobrekla: anyway, someone should offer a short on the thing, just to keep things healthy.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you looking to get banned moar ?
benkay: ah, the wives and slaves thread begins.
benkay: 10286/10535
benkay: busy day
mircea_popescu: benkay what's the count ? no way we have 10k lines in the log today
benkay: lines since i last rebooted emacs on the aws micro
benkay: <mircea_popescu> it's not really "or else". // whose wives don't do as told?
benkay: <mike_c> which is "better": 1) woman that does whatever you say. 2) woman that is your intellectual equal and participates favorably in your life // false dichotomy
mircea_popescu: benkay his.
benkay: looky here i say "we're moving to argentina", we move to argentina.
mike_c: i didn't present it as 2 of 2 choices
mike_c: it's 2 of a million
assbot: Taken - The New Yorker
mircea_popescu: "United States v. One Pearl Necklace"
benkay: granted there's some yelling and "what about whelping near the g-p's", but at the end of the week the conversation is about which neighborhood in which to site up
ThickAsThieves: you cant debate people's love lives
ThickAsThieves: it's dumb
benkay: ThickAsThieves: this is -assets
benkay: debate all the things while testing in production
mircea_popescu: benkay and if you say "you eat your dogfood with your hands shackled behind your back and if you run into a hair there fu you eat it anyway and if it makes you vomit fu you'll lick it all up the floor and swallow it" ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves sure you can't debate it. why would something not be up for debate ?
benkay: that kinda stuff doesn't do much for me, mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: benkay it does lots for her.
ThickAsThieves: cuz it implies one can win
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves no itdoesn't. discussion and action are divorced topics,
mircea_popescu: not like one has to do anything on the strength of what ba said.
benkay: "get up at 7, make me coffee and bfast, sweep the apartment and then work out" is about the right load for lady v right now.
mircea_popescu: benkay you appreciate the point then.
benkay: right.
benkay: you don't go straight for the butthole w/no lube etc.
benkay: patience, etc.
mircea_popescu: not like it's a goal.
mircea_popescu: but still, wives are not slaves (and probably shouldn't generally be)
benkay: ("TOUCHDOWN")
mircea_popescu: the20year will miss the topic again be all butthurt
benkay: <mike_c> poor analogy. i'm not looking for pointless barrier. this is why wife needs to be of certain quality. // those with whom one spends ones time in general...
benkay: <mircea_popescu> you presume there's a way to live your own life outside of slavery. there actually isn't. // everything is a fractal representation of something else
benkay: marriage, slavery, democracy, bitcoin...
mircea_popescu: benkay what do you mean by fractal
benkay: aight logged up!
benkay: representing at a smaller or larger scale something else smaller or larger than itself
rithm: fractal geometry usually
benkay: the leaf and the river delta
benkay: monarchy and god
mircea_popescu: you're not making sense.
asciilifeform: '...officers scoring personal bonuses of up to twenty-six thousand dollars a year, straight from the forfeiture fund. In Titus County, forfeiture pays the assistant district attorney’s entire salary. Farther south, in Johnson County, I came upon a sheriff’s office that had confiscated an out-of-state driver’s cash, in the absence of contraband...'
rithm: usually implies infinite zoom and levels where the original image is represented
rithm: chaos theory
benkay tags rithm in
rithm: butterflies in africa
rithm: i have a seirpinski triangle tattooed on my back!
kakobrekla: trampstamp?
assbot: Sierpinski triangle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
rithm: that's probably one of the easier concepts to explain fractal geometry
rithm: because only 3 sides, not complex equations
kakobrekla: is it pointing towards the asshole?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the highway robbery the us govt is conducting as a matter of course is well documented already, yes.
mircea_popescu: just one more symptom of decay
rithm: it's pointing to infinity and it's a repeating math funtion
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, but it is odd to see it mentioned in the u.s. 'pravda'.
rithm: the more difficult the function, the more intricate the design
rithm: but usually fractal geometry is zooming in and seeing a portion of the orignal image
rithm: fwiw
rithm: geometries of repeating functions at scale
rithm: you can add dimensions and then you get to talking about chaos
mike_c: i'm with ThickAsThieves. debating love is like debating religion. nobody is going to change their mind.
benkay: who said anything about love?!
mike_c: TaT did.
rithm: i understood benkay's statement
jurov: love peace happiness and slavery
benkay: ultimate responsibility for ones own actions drives lots of people insane, jurov
benkay: easier to pray, be told what to do by a "master"
benkay: see also the 12-steppers "higher power"
mike_c: asciilifeform: forfeiture quote source?
assbot: #bitcoin-assets log
benkay: "this conscious operator can't make good decisions, so let's create an alternative decisionmaker inaccessible to the operator to whom good decisionmaking is delegated"
mike_c: ah, sry
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> i'm with ThickAsThieves. debating love is like debating religion. nobody is going to change their mind. << the point oif the discussion is not to change mind.
ThickAsThieves: instead of love, generally debating matters of taste and emotion is meh
mircea_popescu: but why ?
mike_c: meh, you philosophers. why discuss if nobody learns anything and grows/changes?
mircea_popescu: how the hell is taste to emerge, if not from the public discussion of individual preference ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c learning != changing mind.
ThickAsThieves: because each person has different value systems
benkay: oh i'm learning piles!
ThickAsThieves: and different biology
mircea_popescu: you can learn plenty without changing your mind.
benkay: more or less why i'm here...
ThickAsThieves: note my point of contention was the idea of a winner
ThickAsThieves: if you just want discourse, i agree it's healthy
ThickAsThieves: but no one is better or right
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i definitely don't propose there's a winner. the dispute of which is more complex a tool does not map on the discussion of which is a better tool.
mike_c: well, perhaps love is different. with religion, nobody will accept any learning because they are too invested in their current system.
mircea_popescu: mike_c this is false on its face. i'm a religious scholar.
kakobrekla: both is scam.
mike_c: a religious scholar is entirely different from a religiuos person
ThickAsThieves: it's all scams
mike_c: go teach danielpbarron *anything*
mircea_popescu: mike_c your contention was "discussing religion"
benkay: lovecoin a scam?
mircea_popescu: lol what did he do
mircea_popescu: benkay coin a lovescam.
mike_c: to expand: discussing differing religious viewpoints.
mike_c: this is different from discussing religious matters that you do not personally hold.
ThickAsThieves: not the same as love
mircea_popescu: mike_c we're not discussing religious viewpoints, nor are we doing the equivalent for fuckpreferences.
ThickAsThieves: you can be wrong
mike_c: holy pedantics.
mircea_popescu: we are discussing something much broader than that, specifically the limits of agency, human knowledge and so on.
mike_c: who is "we"? we are having a discussion about whether you can discuss things
mircea_popescu: you and me, earlier, re slaves.
mircea_popescu: an' wives.
ThickAsThieves: we're meta silly now, debating whether we can debate
mike_c: were those not viewpoints that we personally hold? not simply ideas?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i blame you
mircea_popescu: mike_c whether we hold them or not is irrelevant in that context.
mircea_popescu: the discussion was proceeding on the strength of what can be
mike_c: not to my point though. which is that discussing personally held viewpoints about religion is an exercise in head-to-wall banging.
mircea_popescu: not if the people in question are scholars rather than believers.
mike_c: yes, agreed.
mike_c high five
ThickAsThieves: no matter much trilema you read, the wife ain't gonna listen!
kakobrekla: doesnt even have to be belivers.
mircea_popescu: i have no particular reason to suspect you'd go nuts just because specific points you happen to be personally invested in turn out to be wrong or unsustainable.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, how's one to discuss investments ?
mike_c: more to the point, i am willing to accept that is possible
mike_c: religious believers are not
mircea_popescu: it'd be all "o, you can't talk good accountingpractices with people who own x stock"
mircea_popescu: well... depends now dunnit.
mike_c: religious believers will never "turn out to be wrong", so discussing is pointless
mircea_popescu: people have often done 180 degree about faces talking here. and those who can't gather on forum not here. so all's well, even if we are invested
mike_c: ^ not about religion.
mircea_popescu: money and sex.
mircea_popescu: religion is an afterthought.
mike_c: more to the point, let's discuss whether debating discussion is a good idea ;)
mircea_popescu: luckily, anything's ontopic in #bitcoin-assets
mircea_popescu: mostly because everything's the same thing anyway.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> no matter much trilema you read, the wife ain't gonna listen! << this sounds like a cry for halp
mircea_popescu: !up the20year
mircea_popescu: ;;ident the20year
gribble: Nick 'the20year', with hostmask 'the20year!~the20year@50.41.153.63', is identified as user 'the20year', with GPG key id 359D91C634AE8E53, key fingerprint DF515FC27907A1FC3236C7E8359D91C634AE8E53, and bitcoin address None
mircea_popescu: ;;gettrust assbot the20year
gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask the20year!~the20year@50.41.153.63. Trust relationship from user assbot to user the20year: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 1 via 1 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=assbot&dest=the20year | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=the20year | Rated since: Tue Apr 29 11:21:55 2014
mircea_popescu: the20year if you pm assbot !up what does itsay ?
the20year: (3:25:22 PM) Cannot send to channel
the20year: !up the20year
mircea_popescu: you gotta pm it.
the20year: pm gribble?
mike_c: hey the20year. so your brother is HASH?
mike_c: is he in the wot yet?
the20year: ;;gettrust assbot mrstickball
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user assbot to user mrstickball: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 2 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=assbot&dest=mrstickball | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=mrstickball | Rated since: Fri Jul 5 18:09:54 2013
mike_c: ;;gettrust the20year mrstickball
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user the20year to user mrstickball: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=the20year&dest=mrstickball | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=mrstickball | Rated since: Fri Jul 5 18:09:54 2013
mike_c: well that better not be him, you don't even trust that guy!
the20year: yeah, i need to issue him trust
mircea_popescu: the20year you and mrstickball_ are brothers ?
the20year: twins actually
mircea_popescu: uh. what ?!
the20year: i'm pretty sure we're a chubbier version of the winklevoss twins, younger and not connected to FB
mircea_popescu: did you ever pull a switch on a girl ?
mike_c: !up mrstickball_
the20year: nah , everyone assumes we have though
the20year: all the girls we know/have known could tell the difference
mircea_popescu: because if they had a twin they'd do it all the time.
mrstickball_: mircea_popescu: yes?
the20year: usually it's family that gets confused
mircea_popescu: mrstickball_ hai.
mike_c: mrstickball_: you have any experience running a mining farm?
benkay: <the20year> i'm pretty sure we're a chubbier version of the winklevoss twins, younger and not connected to FB // shorter too, indubitably
mrstickball_: mike_c: yes
the20year: he does, i don't
mike_c: how big?
mrstickball_: mike_c: primarily GPUs
mircea_popescu: twins are what, 4 ppm. so actually b-a has a statistically expected number of twins.
mrstickball_: 25+ GPU rigs
the20year: i'd say about 20x50ft of gpus?
mrstickball_: working on more ASIC deployment in the near future
the20year: don't forget the slaves he has in the shop working for him too
mircea_popescu: mrstickball_ can you code ?
mrstickball_: not as well as I should
mike_c: this seems.. incredibly ambitious. you are going to manufacture & sell your own miners, and run a profitable mining farm.
mircea_popescu: mike_c chineze dood did it...
the20year: he's been extremely profitable on his own sales side, and has done decently running the farm
mrstickball_: mike_c: Manufacture is down the road significantly
mrstickball_: Step 1 is more hardware sales and initial deployment of a larger ASIC-based facility
the20year: Step 2 is hire slaves
mircea_popescu: mrstickball_ hardware sales, as in gpus ?
mike_c: wives work harder
mrstickball_: we've already grossed ~$1m USD in the past 12mo on hardware. Unfortunately, capital is a huge bottleneck
the20year: Well, i should say - more slaves
mrstickball_: mircea_popescu: ASICs, and a lot of accessories
mircea_popescu: so what, you resell ?
mrstickball_: generally, yes
assbot: Bitcoin Mining Hardware | Asic Mining Hardware
mrstickball_: we do have some custom-fabricated equipment
mircea_popescu: so what's the biz model like, buy a bulk and sell by item ?
mrstickball_: mircea_popescu: yes, generally
mircea_popescu: fluffypony makes racks and whatnot, if you need it
mrstickball_: I've done a fair bit of business with Riccardo
mrstickball_: very good guy
fluffypony: ;;rated mrstickball_
gribble: You have not yet rated user mrstickball_
fluffypony: ;;rated mrstickball
mircea_popescu: ah, you know each other
gribble: You rated user mrstickball on Thu Apr 17 18:13:39 2014, with a rating of 4, and supplied these additional notes: runs buy-a-hash, which carries openrigs products, and have had several large financial interactions (purchases/sales).
mircea_popescu: dash threw me :p
fluffypony: das WoT!
mrstickball_: Yes. fluffypony bought a few dozen risers off of me ages ago
mircea_popescu: now all we really need is for someone to implement the wol pow.
fluffypony: Proof of WoT!
mrstickball_: hardware sales in the US is extremely lucrative
mrstickball_: no one does a good job of it. That's why we're working on capital to get a larger building and control a larger portion of the market
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15350 @ 0.00082185 = 12.6154 BTC [+]
kakobrekla: i read that, i think herbalife.
the20year: or walmart
mrstickball_: lol
the20year: They're just a dirty reseller too
mrstickball_: kakobrekla: when we announced that we had S3's in stock, we made $5,000 in 8 minutes
mike_c: mrstickball_: why such low profit margins?
mike_c: $40k on $1m?
mrstickball_: mike_c: bit higher than that after expenses, ect
mrstickball_: probably closer to $75-100k after all overhead. One issue that we had was some of our merchant processors have screwed us over
the20year: mircea_popescu: how are those bitcoin flyers coming along?
mike_c: interesting. lots of fiat sales?
mrstickball_: + we reinvest in inventory very frequently, so profits don't always show up on the books very quickly. I have $25,000 worth of risers behind my desk
mrstickball_: mike_c: yes. That is our primary angle
mrstickball_: we're willing to engage in fiat sales for crypto hardware. Most companies can't navigate that well
mike_c: heh, including you so far :) if you're having processing problems
mircea_popescu: the20year iirc nubbins said august ?
mrstickball_: most customers are willing to pay a 10-15% premium if your company is willing to do with fiat
the20year: Alright, cool
mrstickball_: mike_c: that was last year. We've had those fixed for months. But CC processors are essentially criminals that can hold your money for up to 6 months
mike_c: well good luck with IPO
the20year: How much $$ was lost last year in processing fraud and that whole gambit? $25k?
kakobrekla: on a side note, my intel tells me altchains are suffering - noone is hashing. i would expect non asic stuff will take time to sell.
mrstickball_: mike_c: thanks. It will be interesting
mrstickball_: kakobrekla: that is correct. Back in January, during the last big GPU rush, we were trying to beat the Chinese on sales
mrstickball_: there was a period of time we were pushing $5,000/day in riser sales with a 100-300% profit margin
the20year: On a good note, I had a very positive call today from a bank to wants to lend to rentalstarter
mrstickball_: Unfortunately, when Chinese New Years hit, our factory (and every other) went down. Seemingly when they came back up, some factories re-evaluated their position to move to direct-sales and hurt us a bit
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla altchains are kinda doomed
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu its not news to me
mrstickball_: the vast majority of alts have no purpose and no reason to exist
kakobrekla: i told fluffy this will happen months ago
mircea_popescu: a little attrition is a great thing anyway.
mrstickball_: I wonder which ones survive... I am kind of sad to see Curecoin being so terrible when they were getting a lot of attention for curing cancer
kakobrekla: ;;s shrani
gribble: Error: "s" is not a valid command.
kakobrekla: !s shrani
assbot: #bitcoin-assets log
mircea_popescu: a small amount of fail.
mrstickball_: wow
the20year: maybe those itty bitty transactions will grow to big people one day
mrstickball_: I had no idea those coins were so dire
mrstickball_: I knew quark was dying, but that bad? Wow
mrstickball_: I had a friend cash out of it back in the glory days. We CPU mined a few hundred thousand
mrstickball_: but I sold them, thinking they would never go anywhere
kakobrekla: 'bolje prvi na vasi kakor zadnji v mestu' they say.
mrstickball_: very true
mrstickball_: I had a friend that made about $3,000 off of it on a single PC
ThickAsThieves: where can i find the date of each diff change?
mrstickball_: sure
mrstickball_: https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty
assbot: Bitcoin Difficulty and Hashrate Chart - BitcoinWisdom
kakobrekla: in your local blockchain file tat
mrstickball_: look at the bottom, below the charts. Its not comprehensive, but goes back a few months
mircea_popescu: fluffypony lol why not market it as a soup stirrer
mrstickball_: So what fun things are you up to, ThickAsThieves ?
mrstickball_: Also, is anyone going to Cryptolina in North Carolina?
ThickAsThieves: me, i read tea leaves mostly
mrstickball_: Very interesting. I can't stand tea
mircea_popescu: !s netflix
ThickAsThieves: i go back and forth
mircea_popescu: basically hes' been mostly doing netflix these days. getting fat on teh couch
ThickAsThieves: coffee mode lately
mrstickball_: FWIW, if anyone is going to that conference, I'll gladly take them out for dinner as a member of #bitcoin-assets
ThickAsThieves: not a fan of NC
mrstickball_: its been a long time since I've been there
mrstickball_: hi bitcoinpete
bitcoinpete: howdy mrstickball_
bitcoinpete: who are you again?
mrstickball_: my name is Ben
bitcoinpete: and what do you do, Ben?
mircea_popescu: do we mostly have bens here ?
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mrstickball_: run a business
mrstickball_: I think you were talking about it yesterday
mrstickball_: HASH
bitcoinpete: ey no way
mrstickball_: yeah
bitcoinpete: the new havelock thingy
mrstickball_: Correct
bitcoinpete: so if i understand correctly, you're buying and selling mining equipment on ebay, mining on your own, and you need to ipo because… ?
mircea_popescu: ;;google mo money mo money have a look an' here we go
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bitcoinpete: notorious would've loved bitcoin ipos: mo of other people's money and no problems!
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ThickAsThieves: ;;google OPP
gribble: O.P.P. (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.P.P._(song)>; Urban Dictionary: OPP: <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=OPP>; O.P.P. - Naughty By Nature (HQ Audio) - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xGuGSDsDrM>
bitcoinpete: mrstickball_: are you a regular reader of the logs then?
ThickAsThieves: ;;bcstats
gribble: Current Blocks: 312469 | Current Difficulty: 1.733631697850783E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 312479 | Next Difficulty In: 10 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 hour, 28 minutes, and 20 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 18755529721.5 | Estimated Percent Change: 8.18636
bitcoinpete: cuz we mention all kinds of people and they rarely show up
bitcoinpete: personally, having anthony or vitalik here would be shweeeet
bitcoinpete: watching them try to explain wtf a "smart contract" even is…
bitcoinpete: maybe we should make them a sexy video?
ThickAsThieves: !up mrstickball_
mrstickball_: thank you!
mike_c: they don't deserve a video
mrstickball_: Re: Your question about capital
mrstickball_: or the IPO, rather
atcbot: 30k@278 18k@242 42k@239 | 60k@210 45k@201 400k@199
mrstickball_: I/we have enough capital to continue ad-nauseum at about $100k of inventory. The problem is that we cannot grow beyond that, because of overhead (paying 2 employees, a building, ect)
mrstickball_: Given the track record of how we've sold products, the belief is that more capital can be assigned to leverage better deals with manufacturers, and simply do more business, since the overhead and other costs are static at this point
mrstickball_: additionally, it turns out that our HQ is a few miles away from one of the largest PC retailers in the US - Micro Center
mrstickball_: they want crypto products, and want us to supply them. But we can't swing $250,000 of inventory on a net-30 payment model
mrstickball_: especially when our margins to them are about 10% after packaging and logistics costs
mircea_popescu: mrstickball_ yeah but i mean... so then why commit suicide with havelock lol
mrstickball_: because I couldn't commit suicide with you, Mr Popescu :-)
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BingoBoingo: If a candidate for the legislature can pistol whip a motherfucker for not paying their pain pill debt...
bitcoinpete: @slushcz: I'm so overworked that I even cannot celebrate that we've shipped all #bitcoin #trezor preorders few moments ago.
mrstickball_: bitcoinpete: congrats!
mrstickball_: who are you using to get the trezor's shipped out with?
BingoBoingo: bitcoinpete =/= Slush
mrstickball_: my apologies
mircea_popescu: poor slush.
mrstickball_: I figured you were famous, and assumed it was you, bitcoinpete
bitcoinpete: mrstickball_: not at all. i haven't produced anything more tangible than a blog. slush sold $200 dongles for 2btc each
mrstickball_: Crazy
bitcoinpete: mrstickball_: famous? me? only in the 1% ;)
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete they sold for 2 btc long ago tho neh ?
bitcoinpete: last summer iirc
rithm: there's a 1%?
mrstickball_: I can't imagine fab costs on that
mrstickball_: $10? $20?
bitcoinpete: 12 months ago *is* a pretty long time…
mrstickball_: maybe $25 with the fancy LCD screen
bitcoinpete: maybe he broke the bank on all dat entropeez
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete in fairness a year ago btc was what, less than $100
mrstickball_: about $75
mrstickball_: Its about at the bottom of the post-April crash
bitcoinpete: $90 a year ago today
mrstickball_: ah
bitcoinpete: at last...
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bitcoinpete: mrstickball_: contact says you're in hk… https://www.havelockinvestments.com/fund.php?symbol=HASH
assbot: Havelock Investments
mrstickball_: company is in HK. I am the POC for the US side of things
mircea_popescu: chetty im pretty sure ovaries are higher in the girl
mircea_popescu: that'd be her hip.
mircea_popescu: mrstickball_ person of color ?
chetty: looks about right to me
mrstickball_: not that I am aware of, mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: chetty the acetabulum is exactly directly under where the ovary's painted.
mircea_popescu: mrstickball_ well then what, piece of cake ? are you in film ?
mrstickball_: I am not sure what you're getting at?
mircea_popescu: ;;ud poc
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poc | poc. people of color, as in everybody except caucasians. Why is economic and political power in the hands of white folks if poc together make a majority?
mrstickball_: ah, sorry
mrstickball_: point of contact
mrstickball_: My mind is not fully with me. Not enough sleep last night
mircea_popescu: what's a point of contact do ?
mrstickball_: answer questions/deal with whatever needs to be done
assbot: George Bernard Shaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mircea_popescu: according to wikipedia, shaw was "an ardent socialist".
chetty: wasnt he a founder of the Fabians?
mrstickball_: Thomas Sowell has a lot of great Shaw quotes in his books
mircea_popescu: ahh looking forward to some bitcoin history rewriting of our own. didja know obama was an ardent elitist ?
mircea_popescu: heard it here first.
mircea_popescu: chetty guy was an ardent NATIONAL socialist. that's a nazi.
mrstickball_: but he was on the side of the good-guy nazis
mrstickball_: not the bad-guy nazis
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 78 @ 0.014889 = 1.1613 BTC [+]
chetty: eh if it ends in 'ist' its a bad idea
mircea_popescu: right right.
mircea_popescu: i had no idea libertards had progressed past being embarassed by the fact that nobody in the classical period agreed with their nonsense into outright claiming they did.
mircea_popescu: to hear stalin tell it, lenin was not only a major stalinist but he didn't think much of trotski either.
chetty: eh Obama has been claiming Regan would have agreed with him lately
mircea_popescu: im sure everyone's in agreement with obama : change is now imperatively necessary.
benkay: only change i want is bear market now
BingoBoingo: benkay> only change i want is beer market now << FTFY
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 42 @ 0.01495592 = 0.6281 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: there is a beer market.
chetty: Pres Obama supports letting Central Americans apply for US refugee status in their home countries, rather than taking a dangerous journey.
benkay: mircea_popescu: is there a microbrew market in bsas?
mircea_popescu: i have no idea. not much of a beer guy myself.
benkay: yeah, i can tell.
mircea_popescu: what gave it away ben ?
benkay: ew don't call me that
benkay: uh the constant harping on cognac and champagne?
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mircea_popescu: you know every time someone misses a tab you'll be ben instead of benkay
benkay: guess i'm due for a nick change then
mircea_popescu: chetty i dunno, i thought obstructionist is someone who opposes a process for emotional rather than rational reasons.
mircea_popescu: The fluffy pony community is divided into two communities: abuse and hugbox. Abusers are people who often write stories or draw pictures of fluffy ponies being tortured and often killed by being attacked by humans, being attacked by animals, burning to death with fire or acid, getting cut in half, drowning, etc. These abusers often attack fluffy ponies because of their low intelligence, bratty and childlike personality
mircea_popescu: , physical weakness, destruction of harvest, and overpopulation. Fluffy Ponies can often die from their own stupidity such as falling off a cliff when attempting to fly, getting run over by a car because they thought it was a friend, eating bad foods, etc. Some abusers often abuse fluffy ponies as if they were clearing out a vermin infestation, while others abuse them for bad deeds such as defecating at the wrong place
mircea_popescu: (bad poopies) or a mare killing their own baby because of being born a runt (bad babbeh). Abusers consist of the majority of the site Fluffybooru with Ginger_Fig, Mwike, and deathproofpony being the most notable examples.
mircea_popescu: holy shit sherlock!
chetty: its just the newspeak definiton of obstructionist, anybody that doesn't agree with libtards
benkay: lol i just checked my bitbet referral addr
benkay: maybe i should resume blogging
pankkake: "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" for a almost text only static blog, lol
pankkake: lol, with that reactor on top, right
pankkake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun this always cracks me up by the way
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mircea_popescu: benkay why did you stop anyway
benkay: !s benkay blog
assbot: #bitcoin-assets log
mircea_popescu: if that' sthe case you'r doing something wrong.
benkay: yeah?
benkay: what's the right way to do it?
mircea_popescu: i think so yeah.
mircea_popescu: well now that i dunno.
mike_c: 1) make blog 2) slap on btcalpha bitbet referral image 3) retire
mike_c: just ask TaT
benkay: mike_c: that's where this conversation started.
benkay: <benkay> lol i just checked my bitbet referral addr
benkay: <benkay> maybe i should resume blogging
assbot: #bitcoin-assets log
mike_c: your referral addy got some hits or dried up? i was confused.
benkay: got some coins dumped into it
mike_c: nice
benkay: yeah
mircea_popescu: pigeons: my stocks went down too, but the price doesn't matter, i'll just take a temporary loss and not sell. how long is temporary? << you don't understand what loss means in this context.
mircea_popescu: anyone ever is thrilled to take a taxable-income-loss.
moiety: ThickAsThieves: omg does it really sound like i say cunt?! D;
assbot: BBC NEWS | Technology | Passwords revealed by sweet deal
assbot: Women love chocolate more than password security The Register
mircea_popescu: funny how this never comes up in discussions about "women in tech"
mircea_popescu: artifexd: I come back from Ecuador and realize that they just banned bitcoin entirely because they're going to make their own cryptocurrency. I guess my wife was right all along when she said Correa was a dumb ass. <<< let the kids have their fun.
chetty: well I bet males give up passwords pretty easy too, just different incentives
mike_c: ah. this is a good point. chocolate is just wrong bait.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: lots of text for 1btc. << funny how little money the vocal periphery actually controls.
mircea_popescu: peter schif and amgi metals are worth 1 disposable btc ? lulzk.
mircea_popescu: mike_c this is factually true. no govt drone ever kept a secret when tits were nude on the table.
mike_c: oldest spy trick in the book
mircea_popescu: anyway, gold btc price bets don't seem to garner much interest these days http://bitbet.us/bet/977/btc-price-to-rise-above-1oz-of-gold/
assbot: BitBet - BTC price to rise above 1oz of gold before November :: 0.19 B (37%) on Yes, 0.32 B (63%) on No | closing in 2 months 1 week| weight: 74`918 (100`000 to 1)
mircea_popescu: i guess schiff / macaskill can claim moar bet volume than bitbet on that one lol.
assbot: BitBet - BTC price to rise above 1oz of gold :: 1.04 B (80%) on Yes, 0.26 B (20%) on No | closing in 9 months 1 week| weight: 92`472 (100`000 to 1)
mike_c: nobody on bitbet would be dumb enough to bet on gold against btc in 5 years
mircea_popescu: it's a hedge i guess.
mike_c: it's 80% yes on a 9 month bet
mircea_popescu: "Rather, the decline is cyclical and as the economy improves, Furman said, millennial headship rates will improve, which could translate into eventual ownership." <<< ahahaha no fucking way.
mircea_popescu: what headship ? millenials want to live in herds, as slaves, with a master.
mircea_popescu: this is what subreddits are all about.
mircea_popescu: five to ten young men in a living unit, three to six young women.
benkay: i don't know anyone my age who seriously thinks they'll be buying a house anywhere anytime soon
mircea_popescu: benkay that's not even it. HEADSHIP.
mircea_popescu: you know what that is ?
benkay: nfc
mircea_popescu: ok, lemme clue you in.
benkay: leadership summat?
benkay: please
mircea_popescu: headship is the internalised delusion that it is worth your while to regard the world so that if a water pipe breaks you pay for it to be fixed.
mircea_popescu: rather than shrug and call the landlord.
mircea_popescu: basically, it's like being a parent, except for no benefit and much more upfront expenditure of skill and resources.
mike_c: kakobrekla: updating hourly now.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36100 @ 0.00082266 = 29.698 BTC [+] {2}
benkay: wth
benkay: who does that
mircea_popescu: benkay your parents, and other idiots thatr age.
mircea_popescu: this is why headship is so impoirtant in discussions of "economy" on the govt side :
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021707 B (Total: 474.69 B). Delta: -0.59 B. Last trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00019 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: the headship count is a rough proxy for how much money the govt could steal in ap inh
benkay: hang on headship applies if you own as well?
mircea_popescu: in a pinch*
mike_c: what did jurov mean before? "jurov:mircea_popescu: looks like the F.MPIF perpetrator wants to withdraw"
mircea_popescu: benkay well yes. you "own" it so here's what the govt wants from you now.
mircea_popescu: a) that you go fight in iraq ; b) that you pay for X Y Z
mircea_popescu: c) that you so and so.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i took it to mean that he wants deposits flushed.
mircea_popescu: if he didn't, tough for him.
mike_c: ah ah. i thought somebody was trying to back out of a trade (which is obviously silly)
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how that'd work lol.
benkay is so confused
mike_c: yes, hence my confusion when you said you were on it :)
jurov: mike_c certain dude who sold mpif did it on coinbr
jurov: and wanted to withdraw
mike_c: i get it now. i was like "there's a mpex undo button??"
jurov: since it was quite a sum, i proceeded to withdraw directly from mpex
jurov: and then asked mircea to flush
mircea_popescu: share with the group benkay .
BingoBoingo: !up fats_cd03
jurov: we have this variety speak with mircea
fats_cd03: hi qts
mircea_popescu: and no one understands it when they read their morning logs.
mircea_popescu: !up ntio
mike_c: benkay: somebody dumped mpif to way below nav earlier today. http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-07-2014#769094
assbot: #bitcoin-assets log
mircea_popescu: mike_c well, "Way below" in sanity land. in bitcoin... shit on havelock';s been trading 50-60% nav, so...
mircea_popescu: 10% no big deal.
benkay: mike_c: yeah, i saw that.
mike_c: yes. just selling 1 btc for 0.9 btc always strikes me as nuts. i guess if you need the liquidity.
benkay: mircea_popescu: i'm still confused about 'headship'. how is it a measure for pinchable assets? and how is fixing a pipe in a house you're paying the mortgage on a foolish thing?
mircea_popescu: benkay why would you be paying the upkeep of something you don't own ?
mircea_popescu: basically the us has been degrading ownership over the past decades
mircea_popescu: the attractiveness of ownership is slowly following
mircea_popescu: and they're trying to come to terms with this.
nubbins`: but without ownership, there cannot be pride!
mircea_popescu: why not ? reddit gold and karma.
nubbins`: flim-flammery!
mircea_popescu: l'enfer c'est l'autres, no ?
nubbins`: oui, c'est trop vrai
benkay: the thesis is that because there's no alloidal title in the us, one doesn't actually own the place?
benkay: mircea_popescu:
nubbins`: protip: read this line and its two predecessors in reverse order
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nubbins`: !b 3
mircea_popescu: benkay as compared to the rights and privileges ownership conferred upon your grandfather, ownership confers nothing much to you today.
mircea_popescu: consequently, every able bodied male in your grandfather's age group tried desperately to own.
mircea_popescu: comparatively, your peers don't give a shit.
benkay: ah
nubbins`: giving up 'nothing much' in favor of 'nothing' :o
mircea_popescu: they measure how much of a shit your peers give under "headship"
chetty: we live in a disposable world, whats the point in owning trash
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mircea_popescu: and the difference between real value and actual headship is how much actual value (not printed dollars) "they have" stashed away in that particular accumulator.
mircea_popescu: benkay consider the reverse of this situation : during the azn crisis in the 2000s, people were queing up to donate their privately held gold to prop the centra lbank.
mircea_popescu: that's headship.
mircea_popescu: there's a very fine equilibrium between how popular a government is and how much support it can muster.
mircea_popescu: as things stand right now, if someone could somehow be bothered to invade, the us would simply collapse and that's that.
chetty: would anyone give the FED a dime?
mircea_popescu: would any of the people who target practice use their arms on the invaders or on the feds ?
chetty: enie meanie miny moe
mircea_popescu: no wonder gun ownership is perceioved as such a problem.
mircea_popescu: sure in an idealised, us-centric world as the naive represent thngs to be, a well armed citizenry is the guarantee and bla bla.
mircea_popescu: but in the real world of real politik, an armed opressed populace is fucking dangerous, it'll side with the enemy.
fluffypony: benkay / anyone else - if you come across someone really, really junior who has the barest smattering of C / C++ and is keen on a testing role that can grow into a dev role, please let me know
mircea_popescu: someone was actually doing hr for a living, lemme see here.
benkay: fluffypony: how many hours/wk, at what rate?
fluffypony: benkay: rate is negotiable, but I'm expecting junior junior;) I'd expect a weekly commitment of 15 - 40 hours
benkay: this is for a coin thing?
fluffypony: it's for two unrelated projects
benkay: ;;ticker
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 599.02, Best ask: 600.78, Bid-ask spread: 1.76000, Last trade: 600.78, 24 hour volume: 5045.56318982, 24 hour low: 592.97, 24 hour high: 609.65, 24 hour vwap: 600.697679446
benkay: ;;calc 1*[ticker]
gribble: Error: invalid syntax (<string>, line 1)
benkay: ;;calc 1*[;;ticker]
gribble: Error: ";;ticker" is not a valid command.
benkay: dafuq does this thing want
benkay: fluffypony: by junior junior i imagine you want sub 0.1 B/hr
fluffypony: benkay: yes
mike_c: ;;calc 1 * [ticker --last]
gribble: 599.02
fluffypony: mike_c has the magic touch
mike_c: although it probably wanted you to multiply by 1 in your head
benkay: ;;calc 1 * [ticker]
gribble: Error: invalid syntax (<string>, line 1)
mircea_popescu: benkay 0.01 should be enough for anyone.
benkay: well it was for the syntax, not the calculation, mike_c
benkay: six bucks/hr, mircea_popescu ?
mircea_popescu: benkay fiverrr
mike_c: i think it was thestringpuller that was always using calc for stuff like x / 100 :)
benkay: ;;bc24hrprc
gribble: Error: "bc24hrprc" is not a valid command.
benkay: bah
benkay: anyways
benkay: i got mouths to feed
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jurov: !up Lycerion
mike_c: ;;bc,24hprc
gribble: 602.03
mircea_popescu: surprising literally no one.
benkay: thanks, mike_c
mircea_popescu: !up mus1cb0x
mus1cb0x: hiya
mike_c: fluffypony: i might know a student interested in that deal. you want 15 hrs or 40 hrs? cuz he wouldn't have 40.
fluffypony: mike_c: it's up to what they can commit - I'm happy with a part time role as long as they stay commited and active
mike_c: ok, i will enquire. what's the range on pay
mike_c: or the low end, or whatever
fluffypony: mike_c: tough to say - I'd be expecting the BTC equivalent of anything from $10 to $15 hourly
mircea_popescu: ;;seen RagnarDanneskjol
gribble: RagnarDanneskjol was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 weeks, 0 days, 19 hours, 5 minutes, and 34 seconds ago: <RagnarDanneskjol> Sachs is the Bono of economics - LOL
mircea_popescu: that long huh.
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Wait, what are you hiring?
assbot: #bitcoin-assets log
gribble: The operation succeeded.
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: tester
mircea_popescu: !up Mantrid
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Like for your dildoes, your wife... what's being tested?
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: software tester, obviously, why would a dildo tester need to know a smattering of C / C++ :-P
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: to make sure the dildo doesn't smash its stack on exceptions
fluffypony: hah hah
fluffypony: depends on if we're using it as a back massager
mircea_popescu: . Among the top cities that may see a surge are Austin and Dallas in Texas, as well as Denver and Des Moines, Iowa.
mircea_popescu: des moines ? srsly ?
mircea_popescu: "i wanna move to des moines" said nobody ever.
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mircea_popescu: this nuanced view is so nuanced it's about to collapse into a nuancelingularity.
BingoBoingo: Well Des Moines is prolly the only place to move if you want to be a gay married pig farmer...
bitcoinpete: sounds like the last refuge of the sane american
mike_c: it's all about percentages. des moines goes from 10 to 11 and population increased 10%!
mircea_popescu: 10 to 11 whats ?
BingoBoingo: ;;google spinal tap
gribble: Spinal Tap Fan Site and This is Spinal Tap: <http://www.spinaltap.com/>; Spinal Tap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_Tap>; Spinal Tap (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_Tap_(band)>
benkay: turn it up to eleven!
bitcoinpete: ;;bc,stats
gribble: Current Blocks: 312481 | Current Difficulty: 1.8736441558310238E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 314495 | Next Difficulty In: 2014 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 5 days, 6 hours, 43 minutes, and 54 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 24871389581.8 | Estimated Percent Change: 32.7434
decimation: lol from asciilifeform's millenial housing link: "At the same time, there?s good reason to believe that millennials, those ages 18 to 34, aren't that different from other generations and will pick up their purchasing before too long ", then the article proceeds to list reasons why they won't purchase
decimation: most of the "wealth" in the major metro areas is actually held in the housing stock
decimation: I wonder what percentage of households in say DC would be able to purchase their own home (assuming they didn't have their "house wealth)
mircea_popescu: !up bitspill
mircea_popescu: who spilled da bits ?
decimation: note that the areas that have increasing millennial home-buying are all low-cost areas that have escaped bezzle inflation: "Among the top cities that may see a surge are Austin and Dallas in Texas, as well as Denver and Des Moines, Iowa. "
decimation: note those cities largely lack gov't jobs, and lack the primary patrons of bezzle money (big finance, welfare, defense contractors)
assbot: The myth of the US social mobility. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
decimation: so we have a situation where people living in Bethesda have kids who have to move to Kansas because the people in Bethesda don't want to admit that they are poor
decimation: it's apparently easier to have your kids leave you than to admit that you suck
mircea_popescu: i need a card.
mircea_popescu: us folk can't admit they suck andmore than classical japanese can admit emperor is a dumbass.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 99 @ 0.01152426 = 1.1409 BTC [-] {8}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 268 @ 0.00294999 = 0.7906 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: but that aside, kids moving away is a good thing anyway.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 250 @ 0.00297716 = 0.7443 BTC [+] {3}
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: how so?
bitcoinpete: not that i disagree...
mircea_popescu: individuation happens with hardship. the point of fambly sticking together is to control hardship through approaching it a certain way, much like a ship approaches waves a certain way.
mircea_popescu: the bow is not the kids.
mircea_popescu: if the average lifespan (esp for males) is in the low 40s, then sticking together family is perfect : by the time father croaks, kids are just old enough to pick up the pieces.
mircea_popescu: with 50+ age expectancy, this model is disastrous, basically if humans were a functional species sexual maturity'd skip a generation altogethere.
mircea_popescu: lookl at the british crown : the fact that charles actually reached sexual maturity is to the detriment of everyone.
mircea_popescu: might as well skipped him went straight from lizzie to the kids.
benkay: "the myth of US Social mobility is worse than mythical : it’s going the other way." // this is pretty well known among the 40-50 yo socialist set, and my generation seems to just accept it
benkay: "i'll die poor, what of it. let's have another pabst and talk about the latest pictures on instagram."
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 421 @ 0.0029775 = 1.2535 BTC [+]
decimation: there's some truth to that mircea. I suspect that the nuclear family was probably a reaction to this very problem
mircea_popescu: decimation obv.
mircea_popescu: benkay "imposing your will on the environment is evil anwyay"
mircea_popescu: this would be why columbia's wearing the stripes and seeing the stars.
decimation: The trouble is that in the case of the DC area, for instance, the parents also are taking up the economic opportunties
benkay: <mircea_popescu> this would be why columbia's wearing the stripes and seeing the stars. // pardon me?
assbot: Just how much do you know about washing diapers ? pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
decimation: only so many gov't and indirect gov't jobs, and they are handed out in a FILO queue
benkay: i still don't understand. strips = stockings and stars = negroes?
benkay: just getting fucked hard?
mircea_popescu: well "seeing stars" is this you know, being hit
benkay: right i'm with you
benkay: columbia standing in for america. getting blapped over the head and wearing welts?
mircea_popescu: i guess this isn't my best joke.
benkay: or i'm retarded, take your pick.
benkay: maybe i'm just trying to get you to explain it and ruin teh lulz
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 14 @ 0.16199839 = 2.268 BTC [+] {2}
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: opressed populace... it'll side with the enemy << who will invade usa? martians? and should they invade, for what purpose other than rounding up inhabitants for biodiesel? one might suppose folks would support usg over biodiesel harvesters?
asciilifeform: tor prize << ad gone because prize claimed in five seconds. because contest was trivial.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, will spend time learning more about shares / dividends and mpex s.mg and after that I'll probably drop a nice presentation / documentation link you way and see if we can figure something out that works for both of us
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight not a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the arabs. because they're naive.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so, can you picture an american faction siding with arabs ?
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, have you bothered with HoMM4 and the rest of the sequels?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform happened once before you know ? how did they conquer ur ?
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight i tried them, for half a day.
mircea_popescu: pure crap.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 100 @ 0.01181222 = 1.1812 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight http://trilema.com/2010/eroii/ mostly for comments.
assbot: Eroii pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, good; will check that out
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, oh lols, seems it's one of your per fee articles, controversial approach for making money out of blogging :)
moiety: every friday freenode has a stroke it seems
thestringpuller: i don't think I've seen you in sex week moiety
moiety: lots going on thestringpuller how are things with you?
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, read the homm related comments, seen people defeating pretty much any neutral army without having many units of their own by exploiting the berserk spell in homm3, really OP, hypnotize can't compare overall; lame example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8DKlEbAv1U
assbot: How to defeat the 3500 Naga Queens in HOMM3's Dragon Slayer campaign. - YouTube
thestringpuller: I'm very glad it is Friday.
thestringpuller: Will probably play video games while I intoxicate myself at the pub up the street.
moiety: youplay video games at the pub?!
moiety: i wanna go to that pub!
moiety: !up stormlight
thestringpuller: well there is an arcade pub, with old 90's arcade games scattered about.
thestringpuller: but the one I'm going to is a skateboard ride away. So I can get drunk as shit and skate home.
moiety: sounds dangerous thestringpuller lol
mircea_popescu: yeah hypnotize is weak
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight mass slow + berserk + blind on a hero with infinte mp and archers against a slow infantry -> carnage.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, totally; still reading comments actually, I got a bit of nostalgia now :D nice to see lots of comments on your blog made by krossfire as well
DreadKnight: ok, finally done
mircea_popescu: you know vlad ?
DreadKnight: got the privilege to meet him back in the day I started getting into game development
mircea_popescu: smart guy.
DreadKnight: I wonder why he hasn't sticked with making games, he had quite a few decent prototypes done in pretty much no time
mircea_popescu: not much money into it ?
DreadKnight: back then it sure was the case for indie game devs
DreadKnight: now things are changing, more potential
DreadKnight: will try to catch up with him soon, it's been too long
mircea_popescu: i think he's still semi-active on his blog.
DreadKnight: has that issue for years afaik
DreadKnight: last time I talked to him about 2-3 years ago, I recall his latest game with the zeppelin that he wanted me to try
DreadKnight: he seems to be more into tweeting that blogging nowadays xD
DreadKnight: 4 blog posts this month, not bad
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 372 @ 0.00294989 = 1.0974 BTC [-]
mike_c: ;;tslb
gribble: Time since last block: 18 minutes and 20 seconds
mike_c: lazy miners
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13627 @ 0.0008217 = 11.1973 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: mike_c http://oglaf.com/ << check out the ad.
assbot: Enlist!
mike_c: hah! nice.
mircea_popescu: we're doing ~ 1.5mn impressions/hour atm. curious if it does anything.
mike_c: holy shit. that must be in a lot of places?
mircea_popescu: http://mspfanventures.com/ dunno if you like stuff like msp adventures ?
assbot: MS Paint Fan Adventures
mircea_popescu: but yes, 100s of places. the web is a big hole.
mike_c: hopefully a big hole full of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: a hole is by definition empty.
mike_c: damnit
mircea_popescu: anyway, oglaf for instance has close to 1% ctr atm
mircea_popescu: so counterintuitively the ads are actually good.
mircea_popescu: click through
mircea_popescu: this is unheard of, ctr was last 1% in 1998.
asciilifeform failed spam school
asciilifeform: 'Canceling Kickstarter cancels the pledges, so nothing to return except an apology to those who pledged for Kickstarter's siphoning and selling their profile. (A fair number said this is why they would not participate in this or any other crowd-funding scam, that we should be ashamed of aiding and abetting the hustle.)'
mircea_popescu: well sure.
mircea_popescu: this is not spam tho, this is advertising.
mircea_popescu: $mpexlag
mircea_popescu: or what was it
mircea_popescu: $proxies
mircea_popescu: !proxies
decimation: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/25/bose_sues_beats_apple/ remember the dumbass beats acquisition? yeah it was still dumb
assbot: Bose decides today IS F*** With Dre Day: Beats sued in patent spat The Register
asciilifeform: in my simple orkish minds, anything i have to switch off a filter to see is spam. but hey, who has never spammed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you see the wol banner in the oglaf site ? (ab ove) ?
asciilifeform: well yes i do now.
asciilifeform: bose patent << are they also suing sony? or any of the 100 or so other manufacturers of antiphase audio gizmos ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform o you had to turn off a filter ?
decimation: no, they are suing someone who has $3 bn
asciilifeform: 'adblock' plugin
decimation: lawsuits are only useful if there's blood to suck from the other party
mike_c: well, they are suing apple now right?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah i c.
asciilifeform ashamed to admit, owns some bose hardware. mainly because nobody else comes close in plain old noise zapping. (tried many vendors.)
decimation: ascii what about those isolating in-ear buds?
asciilifeform: decimation: that's what i have. bose's. with antiphase.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform ashamed to admit, owns some bose hardware. mainly because nobody else comes close in plain old noise zapping. (tried many vendors.) << I feel that
asciilifeform: if, say, monsanto - sold a set with an extra -5dB attenuation, made of reprocessed kittens and personally signed by obama, at 20x the cost - i'd buy it...
BingoBoingo: ^ Concur to many's butthurt
BingoBoingo: Bose filters are great even if the fundamentals suck
csshih: =]
asciilifeform: most of the time i don't even connect the input to anything
decimation: yeah isolation from noise is nice
BingoBoingo: Ah usuausll I commect input to somgs of my people
decimation: do you find them more comfortable than head-clamp style headphones?
asciilifeform: then somebody asks 'why not shooting plugs?' and answer, 'try wearing those for 14 hrs'
asciilifeform: decimation: had those previously. also, unsurprisingly, bose.
asciilifeform: decimation: gave them to pet, who doesn't give flying fuck about noise
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: <asciilifeform> then somebody asks 'why not shooting plugs?' and answer, 'try wearing those for 14 hrs' << actually had a weird dream last night
BingoBoingo: Nagant bent its firing pin
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: my understanding is that this is virtually unheard of
BingoBoingo: Went aroung too long begging for an SKS in the middle of zombies
BingoBoingo: Trraded beloved watch for working rifle in this dream
decimation: turns out that the beats by dre headphones suck at delivering bass too
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: but if it's an actual concern, i vaguely recall that a number of u.s. vendors offer titanium firing pins for just about anything short of a nambu
mircea_popescu: ello csshih
csshih: yo mircea_popescu
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: my understanding is that this is virtually unheard of << Turned out all of the other patent people held .308 winchester rifles I was the long 7.62x54R party to this fight against the undead
BingoBoingo: Short story, this morning's bitcoin burning went to a pound of firing pins
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: phun phact. russia produced 308 winchester since early 1970s. why? brezhnev received a costly hunting rifle as a gift from usa. needed to feed it...
BingoBoingo: Would still like a Yugo SKS evwentually
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: phun phact. russia produced 308 winchester since early 1970s. why? brezhnev received a costly hunting rifle as a gift from usa. needed to feed it... << Similar with stalin and his 1911
asciilifeform: afaik russia never mass-produced .45
asciilifeform: as evidenced by the fact of lend-lease 'chicago typewriters' remaining mostly unused, languishing in warehouses to this day
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But Russia has crates of them intended for Thompson
BingoBoingo: Unless submerged bullets don't aged to poorly
asciilifeform: incidentally,
decimation: I wouldn't mind one of these: http://www.czub.cz/en/catalog/364-centerfire-rifles-cz/KL/CZ_527_CARBINE.aspx strikes me as well made and practical
BingoBoingo: Officer model 1911 and clones are still popular concealed carry pieces
decimation: I would get the 7.62x39 with a suppressor (after all the ATF paperwork)
assbot: The Illustrated Guide to Law | Keeping the Laughter in Manslaughter
mike_c: lol, never saw that one
BingoBoingo: decimation> I would get the 7.62x39 with a suppressor (after all the ATF paperwork) << for delicate shit in missouri suppressors are a thing and most .22 lr semi autos have tons of accesories available
BingoBoingo: !up AndrewJackson
assbot: The crime of being American pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
decimation: my office mate got a suppressor recently, took 9 months for ATF to approve paperwork
decimation: because you know someone wanting to keep from going deaf while shooting game needs to be regulated
mike_c: ah, i do remember that post
mircea_popescu: synergy : because of wol author of that cartoon can now get a little money.
mircea_popescu: i like it when my shit makes circles :D
BingoBoingo: <decimation> my office mate got a suppressor recently, took 9 months for ATF to approve paperwork << Missouri to missouri lacks the hurdles
decimation: he had a practical use for it too: was out hunting, saw deer, didn't have time to apply hearing protection before getting off a shot (with 30-06), his ears rang for several hours
BingoBoingo: <decimation> my office mate got a suppressor recently, took 9 months for ATF to approve paperwork << Walther P-22 or whatever no wait with a probably missouri residence
BingoBoingo: <decimation> he had a practical use for it too: was out hunting, saw deer, didn't have time to apply hearing protection before getting off a shot (with 30-06), his ears rang for several hours << This is why supressors are UK legal
decimation: afaik they are legal and common throughout northern europe (where guns are legal)
decimation: what purpose does it serve to require people who shoot guns to deafen themselves?
BingoBoingo: <decimation> what purpose does it serve to require people who shoot guns to deafen themselves? << Puritan baggage
BingoBoingo: decimation: Mazing though that the two most killing calibers here are .22 lr and police 9mm and .38
decimation: killing humans?
BingoBoingo: decimation: What else do people keep stats for?
BingoBoingo: Groundhogs readily fall to a tack hammer
decimation: .22 lr pistols have always been popular
BingoBoingo: Also .22 lr hollow points have just enough space for a bit of pleasantly colored phosphorous
decimation: um, why would you want phosphorous in your round?
BingoBoingo: <decimation> .22 lr pistols have always been popular << Problem is they don't cycle well on subsonic loads
BingoBoingo: <decimation> um, why would you want phosphorous in your round? << fire
decimation: so you can burn someone from the inside after your hollow point smashes their organs?
BingoBoingo: <decimation> um, why would you want phosphorous in your round?
BingoBoingo: decimation: WIth .22 lr not usually persons, groundhogs and other vermin
decimation: ah that makes more sense
BingoBoingo: Anyways normal .22 lr blunt lead cheap shit tens to ricohet in the skull after it penetrates
BingoBoingo: For small mamammals though that extra burn sves a shot or two
BingoBoingo: Big mammals you have to get them to accept they are dying...
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, seems you forgot to translate "Un blog de" into english
mircea_popescu: !up seakazoo
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight eh, what's it gonna hurt.
DreadKnight: oh well
seakazoo: thanks assbot
mike_c: ;;later tell fluffypony i gave that guy your handle, he may come ask you about the job
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: !up btc111_
thestringpuller: moiety: The nice thing about that pub is it is downhill.
thestringpuller: I get nice and drunk, then step on my board - and voila - gravity takes me home.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8256 @ 0.0008217 = 6.784 BTC [-]
DreadKnight: I managed to bump into a parked car in a similar scenario
thestringpuller: DreadKnight: I live in the suburbs so there is either 1) speeding cars or 2) no cars
btc111_: is MPEX still selling 5000:1 ether for march expiry?
DreadKnight: thestringpuller, I see; you said the pub has arcades?
mircea_popescu: btc111_ yes.
assbot: RooK314 +v failed; L1: 0, L2: 0
mircea_popescu: ;;refresh
gribble: Order refresh successful, 2 orders refreshed.
mircea_popescu: !up RooK314
RooK314: Well I finally get here and seakazoo leaves for the night
btc111_: wahts the default risk on those contracts?
btc111_: trying to model the default risk into my structured product
mircea_popescu: btc111_ the default risk is 0.
mircea_popescu: RooK314 who's he ?
RooK314: She's a friend of mine. We are going to get her into some investments, not sure what yet
mircea_popescu: ah, cool.
assbot: I’ll pay for your tits pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
RooK314: That's a possibility. You have to talk to her lol
Duffer1: bitcoin, keep them
RooK314: I highly doubt anyone would want to see my tits
mircea_popescu: ;;google they really are buttcoins nao
gribble: They really are Buttcoins nao pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2013/they-really-are-buttcoins-nao/>; Perfect money corrupts absolutely pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/perfect-money-corrupts-absolutely>; Bitcoin pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/category/bitcoin/>
mircea_popescu: weirder things have happened.
btc111_: MP: 0 sounds like a bit of a stretch. im seriously interested in buying those contracts... do you have enough BTC to cover if ehter hits 200:1 ?
Duffer1: hehe
mircea_popescu: 0 is not a bit of a stretch. the central bank is nominally 0 risk in any economic system.
btc111_: MP: who's the central bank here?
btc111_: MP: you have unlimited BTC to cover if ehter rises?
mircea_popescu: i have more btc than what eth can ever be worth, ever.
btc111_: hah. interesting statement. care to elaborate? im not trolling... don't you think the hype will push it higher when it launches?
Duffer1: the question is whether or not it will still exist this time next year
mircea_popescu: btc111_ you overvalue hype. this isn't fucking feminism, or some other internet thing where what people say matter.
mircea_popescu: people can hype all they want, i deflated the dogecoin hype just fine, what's so special about eth ?
btc111_: MP: turing complete contracts
Duffer1: lmao
mircea_popescu: ;;google why i nixed colored coins
gribble: Why I nixed p2p, colored coins and all that jazz pe Trilema - Un blog ...: <http://trilema.com/2013/why-i-nixed-p2p-colored-coins-and-all-that-jazz/>; OP_CHECKCOLORVERIFY: soft-fork for native color coin support ...: <https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=253385.0>; Mixed Associations Aged With Precise Mystique - mactaggart jewelry: <http://www.mactaggartjewelry.com/2014/06 (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: have a stab at that first link there
mircea_popescu: very little changed since 2012 on the score.
btc111_: MP: if ethereum hasn't launched by march, do the contracts expire worthless?
mircea_popescu: basically, yes.
DreadKnight: if dealing with bitcoins, do I have to bother with taxes?
Duffer1: depends on jurisdiction and how legal you want to be
btc111_: MP: ah, nevermind then -- i could see them being at least 6-8 months delayed
DreadKnight: good reply
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight that's something to ask your tax attorney not the internets.
mircea_popescu: the internets have no idea.
btc111_: brb
DreadKnight: so no :D
mircea_popescu: btc111_ the notion that they have the discipline to maintain work on that thing after 9 months' delay six months from now is beyond ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: the average lifespan for a blog is about 13 months, and that's an upper bound for dumbass internet kids and their projects.
Duffer1: 9 months delay + 5k? free btc..
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