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ben_vulpes: aye Bingoboingo i'll not shit on the coffee at bill's house
punkman: oh man this shoulder/neck strain makes me want to murder puppies
punkman: white: is punkman around? << next time tell him there's a log and he can type things for me to read later
punkman: I don't know anyone from the philippines tho
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25970 @ 0.00048661 = 12.6373 BTC [+] {2}
punkman: fun fact, "philipinesa" is a generic term for maid/cleaner in greek
punkman: and "ukranesa" is another for slutty maids
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 60150 @ 0.00047843 = 28.7776 BTC [-] {4}
punkman: Bingoboingo: are capsicum/mint gels a scam?
punkman: aforementioned shouldner/neck strain
Bingoboingo: Could work well. Would work better if you can find such a linament with an NSAID drug like salicyclate or naproxen in it. Or use two linaments.
punkman: tried yesterday for first time, was an ok distraction for a while
punkman: waiting for pharmacy to open to get some topical nsaid gel
punkman: if I can still move in an hour
Bingoboingo: Not going to magically repair the strain, but can cover the pain.
Bingoboingo: Just don't touch your dick until yours hands are clean.
punkman: that'd be an even better distraction though
Bingoboingo: Yeah, and you can use a lot more NSAID topically than you can orally.
Bingoboingo: The good old tylenol/benadryl combo can be layered on top of everything else as well.
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19966 @ 0.0004777 = 9.5378 BTC [-] {2}
punkman: "€2000 fine, 30 day driver's license suspension, 60 days car registration license suspension and 5 SESO penalty points" << they really don't like radar detectors around here
punkman: "many early "stealth" radar detectors were equipped with a radar-detector-detector-detector circuit, which shuts down the main radar receiver when the detector-detector's signal is detected, thus preventing detection"
Bingoboingo: Police don't really like radar detectors anywhere.
Bingoboingo: I am fortunate that Saturn plastic sedan really doesn't make such things necessary. Sure it does fine at freeway speeds, but nothing really beyond that. Also clean gray family sedan usually doesn't get much attention anyways.
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Bingoboingo: ben_vulpes: I switched to oglafbot and forgot to capitalize it
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 71000 @ 0.00047735 = 33.8919 BTC [-] {5}
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: you gotta see the swole life in action
BingoBoingo: I can't from instagram though. Instagram is broken.
punkman: I get empty page even with js enabled
BingoBoingo: My rad suit is fine. Instragram working would mean my rad suit is not fine.
assbot: Dementia Patient’s Family Keeps Ripping Her Away From Idyllic World Of 1950s - The Onion - America's Finest News Source ... (
http://bit.ly/1SWzMs0 )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36500 @ 0.00048074 = 17.547 BTC [+]
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jurov: asciilifeform: thanks, custom allocators are surely an option
jurov: but atm i explore the idea that problem is not the frag, but mixing persistent objects (CBlockIndex) and the mempool
jurov: which can be fixed nicely, but has to wait day or two for definitive result
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 101832 @ 0.00048632 = 49.5229 BTC [+] {5}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23811 @ 0.00048802 = 11.6202 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16411 @ 0.00048519 = 7.9625 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 99053 @ 0.00047668 = 47.2166 BTC [-] {5}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34750 @ 0.00048418 = 16.8253 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 50950 @ 0.00048802 = 24.8646 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 43750 @ 0.00047542 = 20.7996 BTC [-] {4}
mircea_popescu: <punkman> and "ukranesa" is another for slutty maids << why one'd get any other kind of maid is beyond me.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own <<< that shithole's going so fast down the drain...
mircea_popescu: <assbot> BitFury to Launch Energy Efficient Immersion Cooling Data Center <<< i thought they've been launching and prelaunching thios for over a year by now.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> ;;isup trilema.com << yeah not reachable atm.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25416 @ 0.00047542 = 12.0833 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: "Worse for the donors, they might even discover they prefer an absentee central government that doesn't centrally plan famine."
mircea_popescu: im tellin' ya, bb is getting markedly better at qntra.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23450 @ 0.00047506 = 11.1402 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 51400 @ 0.00047656 = 24.4952 BTC [+] {5}
jurov found himself studying c++ rebinding allocators... an unexpectedly nasty corner of c++
mircea_popescu: oh but allow me to ftfy : * jurov found himself studying c++ <insert topic> ... an unexpectedly nasty corner of c++ << said everyone ever.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 95137 @ 0.00047449 = 45.1416 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 89986 @ 0.00048041 = 43.2302 BTC [+] {2}
jurov: i don't see any mention of rebinding stuff even there
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39400 @ 0.0004767 = 18.782 BTC [-] {2}
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30100 @ 0.00048391 = 14.5657 BTC [-]
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 89550 @ 0.00048225 = 43.1855 BTC [+] {5}
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 06:25:07; punkman: "many early "stealth" radar detectors were equipped with a radar-detector-detector-detector circuit, which shuts down the main radar receiver when the detector-detector's signal is detected, thus preventing detection"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 62559 @ 0.00049104 = 30.719 BTC [+]
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 12:46:39; mircea_popescu: <assbot> UK citizens may soon need licenses to photograph some stuff they already own <<< that shithole's going so fast down the drain...
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24291 @ 0.00049104 = 11.9279 BTC [+]
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2800 @ 0.00049038 = 1.3731 BTC [-]
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ascii_field: 'The Coast Guard said the fire occurred as the ship was loading a cargo of liquid ethylene.'
ascii_field: used for transporting fruit, american-style
ben_vulpes: is ethylene that much more flammable than, say, propane or 'natural' gas?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34218 @ 0.00049289 = 16.8657 BTC [+] {3}
ben_vulpes: more carbons and hydrogens in the propane, ergo more flammable right?
ben_vulpes labors under an american ME education - "just enough to be useful"
ascii_field: (flash point; how likely it is to end up near a spark; how reacts)
trinque: I've been discussing the problem of rejecting bad nodes (or having an affinity for nodes serving up good blocks/txns?) with ben_vulpes. ascii_field or mod6, perhaps you want to say something on the subj.
ben_vulpes: okay so a lighter gas would be more likely to float up and mix with ambient o2 and ignite?
trinque: looks like the existing node scoring mechanism is a turd
ascii_field: trinque: i will say that we can't even begin to consider 'bad nodes' because nodes today HAVE NO IDENTITY
ben_vulpes: the question i bounced into #b-a is when it's acceptable for another node to relay a bastard block
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: 'bastard block' is a subjective thing - it simply means that ~you~ in particular cannot find the antecedent for it
trinque: ascii_field: we discussed this as well; even assuming a trusted gossipd net, there'd still be connections out to the unwashed nether world
ascii_field: trinque: a connection of the civilized world to the heathen world is necessarily a fortified outpost run by enthusiasts
ascii_field: cannot be considered a reliable thing in any sense
trinque: blocks/txns would not be originating inside wotnet for some time, correct?
trinque: would it be reasonable to disconnect after some number of bastard blocks?
ascii_field: the ~reasonable~ thing would be to NUKE the whole sync-from-one-at-a-time idiocy
ascii_field: when your node is young, MOST of the blocks you get from ANYBODY are 'bastard'
ascii_field: because of the sheer extent of the retardation of the sync mechanism as originally written
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ergo we can conclude that radar detector makers ~deliberately~ sell sabotaged product. << "planned obselecence" at least VASCAR is nekkid eye detectable
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39200 @ 0.00048631 = 19.0634 BTC [-]
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 19:10:11; ascii_field: the ~reasonable~ thing would be to NUKE the whole sync-from-one-at-a-time idiocy
ben_vulpes: still, steady state behavior deserves at least a little look.
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 52628 @ 0.00048884 = 25.7267 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20500 @ 0.00048884 = 10.0212 BTC [-]
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ascii_field: 'My OpenBSD 5.7 CD arrived with a green label affixed to the shipping
ascii_field: packaging that claimed it had been inspected by some U.S.A. customs
ascii_field: department. It had actually been opened and resealed and the green label
ascii_field: placed on it to inform me of said tampering.'
BingoBoingo waits for pete_dushenski to take Junkers Ju 88 out of cosmoline
thestringpuller: "So seek peace. But prepare for war. Because war… war never changes." - ulysses s. grant
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ascii_field: 'I think it's unlikely that it will be possible to keep any electronic equipment manufactured after the mid-1990s operating for more than 25-50 years, in part due to the floating gate problem (even in places you don't expect it, because *many* chips now contain flash memory even if you don't know about it)... ...50 years from now we'll probably still have a working PDP-1, but sadly not too many working HP-35 calculators.'
ascii_field: found the thread while looking for anything like actual longevity data on EPROMs
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Unless we move to PDP-11 and don't solve this Bitcoin thing in 20 years we will be out of machines.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: the decay in question is charge dissipation, rather than whole-chip fail
ascii_field: the question is simply 'how long do the bits stay flipped'
ascii_field: answer is, apparently, 'nobody actually ever knew'
ascii_field: some 1980s devices still work. others - not
ascii_field: typically in a piece of konsoomer crud, something else (e.g. electrolytic cap) blew and no one found out how long eprom could last
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 98450 @ 0.00048616 = 47.8625 BTC [+] {2}
ascii_field: but it would stand to reason that, if designing for ultra-long life, you might want to use multiple roms and a voting circuit...
BingoBoingo: Still, bits unflipping on EEPROM seems... like a problem... Unless they can be reflipped...
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 71851 @ 0.00048884 = 35.1236 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42450 @ 0.00049098 = 20.8421 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: "BUS1 isn't being developed by just some unknown individuals, but systemd developer David Herrmann and Kay Sievers seem to be the lead (and only) developers working on it thus far."
ascii_field: if at first the shit won't stick, throw, throw again !
BingoBoingo: At least this means KDBUS is now dead before merged
jurov: pity. almost proposed adding dbus to reference client.
BingoBoingo played with adding low-s signing to his bastard client seems to work. Prior to 0.9 Bitcoin used whatever S-came arrived at first. Then in run up to 0.9 even-S was tested. Then low-S settled upon. Malleating nodes making duplicate transactions appear in my history got to be a hassel.
jurov: are pre-BIP-16 txs malleated too?
jurov: (reference clients accepts only them, i did not look into this)
BingoBoingo: Ones from address beginning wit 1 malleated, so...
jurov: no, BIP-16 is widely applied to 1xxxxx addresses, too
jurov: actually if you pay something with any recent wallet, reference client will reject the tx as malformed :)
BingoBoingo: I started bastard wallet with 0.7-ish branch, so it can see some limited multisig, but... should be normal tx sent out
BingoBoingo: This is something prolly ought to look into moar
jurov: yep, part of it will either need to be backported or deprecated
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 22:33:23; jurov: actually if you pay something with any recent wallet, reference client will reject the tx as malformed :)
jurov: don't know. electrum produces P2SH transactions, that's how i found out.
ascii_field: would seem to be an argument in favour of throwing out electrum
jurov: that's easy for you to say, you don't touch actual bitcoins
jurov: electrum should be easy to fix, that's not an issue. i'm just glad i won't have to decide this.
BingoBoingo: * ascii_field tries to recall what electrum is for << "lite" wallet that polls server. Might be useful "on the run" if have own server somewhere.
jurov: if i have to go back to manage bloated wallet.dat, or write transactions by hand (since wallet.dat is scheduled for excision from therealbitcoin), i'll prolly increase withdraw fee to 0.2 again :D
ascii_field: if it can't rebootstrap bitcoin on alpha centauri, IT'S NOT A REFERENCE
jurov: yes we went thought this. with completely different memories, apparently.
ascii_field: now splitting it into another proggy? sure
jurov: it will prolly end up easier to remove it completely that trying it to make standing on its own
ascii_field: which afaik was the whole motherfuking point of trb
jurov: whatever. i know my own hand is not steady enough for this surgery.
ascii_field: the separation is a mighty gnarly job, aha
ascii_field: esp. if you want sane behaviour (wallet-over-rs232)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 77900 @ 0.00048877 = 38.0752 BTC [-] {3}
jurov: i broke something, must redo whole database
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 19:03:27; ben_vulpes: more carbons and hydrogens in the propane, ergo more flammable right?
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 19:04:45; trinque: looks like the existing node scoring mechanism is a turd
mircea_popescu: assbot:BUS1: A New Linux Kernel IPC Bus Being Made By Systemd Developers - Phoronix <<< ahahaha mkay.
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 22:50:10; jurov: if i have to go back to manage bloated wallet.dat, or write transactions by hand (since wallet.dat is scheduled for excision from therealbitcoin), i'll prolly increase withdraw fee to 0.2 again :D
mircea_popescu: i'd link to trilema but apparently it's a lean monday or something.
jurov: asciilifeform: lxr fixed
mircea_popescu: "This is C++ FQA Lite. C++ is a general-purpose programming language, not necessarily suitable for your special purpose."
jurov: which version is the -TEST2? asciilifeform_add_verifyall_option?
mircea_popescu: But wait, there's more! C++ supports a wide variety of explicit and implicit type conversions, so now we have a nice set of rules describing the cartesian product of all those types, specifically, how conversion should be handled for each pair of types. For example, if your function accepts const std::vector<const char*>& (which is supposed to mean "a reference to an immutable vector of pointers to immutable built-in s
mircea_popescu: trings"), and I have a std::vector<char*> object ("a mutable vector of mutable built-in strings"), then I can't pass it to your function because the types aren't convertible. You have to admit that it doesn't make any sense, because your function guarantees that it won't change anything, and I guarantee that I don't even mind having anything changed, and still the C++ type system gets in the way and the only sane worka
mircea_popescu: round is to copy the vector. And this is an extremely simple example - no virtual inheritance, no user-defined conversion operators, etc.
mircea_popescu: At the bottom line, throw/catch are about as useful as longjmp/setjmp (BTW, the former typically runs faster, but it's mere existence makes the rest of the code run slower, which is almost never acknowledged by C++ aficionados).
jurov: the're like, imminent heat death of universe preppers
jurov: with their elaborate entropy management
jurov: and the contrived examples...to roll 2 fair dice: static std::discrete_distribution<> /* follows 12 rows with histogram ennumerated as floats*/
mircea_popescu: "The economic tyranny of the late Roman Empire had left a devastated polity, a culture in Western Europe that had lost its knowledge of civilized commercial practice and accustomed to seeing government not as a source of any productive assistance to commerce, but only a destroyer of commerce from which commerce must hide. "
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 92266 @ 0.00049062 = 45.2675 BTC [+] {2}
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 50039 @ 0.0004859 = 24.314 BTC [-]
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 80400 @ 0.00048587 = 39.0639 BTC [-]
mod6: <+jurov> which version is the -TEST2? asciilifeform_add_verifyall_option? << yeah.
BingoBoingo: In other news disorderly conduct misdemeanor has been dismissed
BingoBoingo: Well, dismissed with leave, but that part should hopefully be resolved on Friday at court date.
BingoBoingo: NExt conference is in 16 months? hopefully should have life put back together sufficiently by then.
BingoBoingo: Case ended with the compromise where I take a drug risk education course and they quit. Avoided the possibility of stupid/hostile judge at hearing/trial.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 44150 @ 0.00048588 = 21.4516 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: Not an ideal or maximally lulzworthy resolution, but at $150 to retain lawyer, $200 for hearing prep, and $120 for class hosted by private party St Clair County recieved 0 dollars.
BingoBoingo: Because their default reflex is assume drugs/alcohol are involved in evil.
BingoBoingo: Rest of the class was all in there for DUI
BingoBoingo: Case only took 2.5 years of state's time though.
mircea_popescu: i suppose next time you send the clerk over to do derpclass.
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 23:23:34; jurov: asciilifeform: lxr fixed
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 23:44:24; mircea_popescu: gentoo's a fallen thing.
mircea_popescu: French housewives were using recipes to make, along with food, glue, ink, and so on, marble grains for an hour-glass:
mircea_popescu: "Take the grease which comes from the sawdust of marble when those great tombs of black marble be sawn, then boil it well in wine like a piece of meat and skim it, and then set it out to dry in the sun; and boil, skim and dry nine times; and thus it will be good."
mircea_popescu: Such a recipe presumably creates grains of a size in a precise ratio to a standard hour-glass neck size, thus producing an accurate time.
mircea_popescu: "The origin of the sandglass is quite obscure, but its accuracy relies on a precise ratio between the neck width and the grain diameter."
BingoBoingo: perhaps he went adlai, knows what color 42 is
mircea_popescu: first off! the construction of that last phrase is wrong.
mircea_popescu: second off : grain diameter ? what the holy shit ? he imagines they ground marble down to molecular size ?
BingoBoingo: It's good to see someone faund the timekeeping lulz
mircea_popescu: the russkis didn't have standard barrel size on theior fucking tanks by 1940
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 00:05:18; jurov: and the contrived examples...to roll 2 fair dice: static std::discrete_distribution<> /* follows 12 rows with histogram ennumerated as floats*/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is to me an almost guarantee by now that pedanticism in that context guarantees ineptitude of an epic scale
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would he think that the topic of origin and the topic of the origin of accuracy are related ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairness, if one uses a few casts and whatnot, the linker prolly has it.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 01:59:55; BingoBoingo: In other news disorderly conduct misdemeanor has been dismissed
BingoBoingo: Might take a while to get to docks, so not next boat. Some boat though.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 02:05:46; BingoBoingo: NExt conference is in 16 months? hopefully should have life put back together sufficiently by then.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i got some flats in romania, too. not so strictly related
mircea_popescu: "To improve the productivity of the time rate contract required two breakthroughs: the first, creating the conditions under which sacrifice is a better estimate of value than piece rate or other measurement alternative"
mircea_popescu: this may be the most confused, anti-thought essay i've ever read.
mircea_popescu: "The undesirability of servitude, from the point of view of the laborer at least, is obvious. Serfs and slaves faced brutal work conditions, floggings, starvation, very short life spans, and the inability to escape no matter how bad conditions got. "
mircea_popescu: it's not fucking obvious. my slavegirls by a fat margin prefer slavery (which is not servitude just like whales are not fish), and work a lot better than any fucking employees anyone ever had.
mircea_popescu: there are two kinds of fools in this world, the sort that thinks women are equal to men ; and the sort that thinks women are unequal to men in all things.
mircea_popescu: Thus second main drawback to piece rates is that they motivate the worker to put out more quantity at the expense of quality. This can be devastating. The tendency of communist countries to pay piece rates, rather than hourly rates, is one reason that, while the Soviet blocs quantity (and thus the most straightforward measurements of economic growth) was able to keep up with the West, quality did not (thus the
mircea_popescu: contrast, for example, between the notoriously ugly and unreliable Trabant of East Germany and the BMWs, Mercedes, Audi and Volkswagens of West Germany).
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 65537 @ 0.00048888 = 32.0397 BTC [+] {3}
mircea_popescu: for that matter, a) the trabant was not notoriously ugly. in fact, beats the beetle.
mircea_popescu: b) does anyone have any fucking idea how cheap it was ?
mircea_popescu: i wish to see the car the us manufactures out of ~300 bucks.
mircea_popescu: had a god damned two-time engine worth what, 7 hp ? weed whacker level.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 02:45:53; mircea_popescu: i wish to see the car the us manufactures out of ~300 bucks.
mircea_popescu: "Time-rate employment provides a major productivity improvement over servitude or (usually) piece rates." << amusingly, according to the soviets themselves, and the "golden age" romanians too, the main driver of sovieteconomy fail was the timewage.
mircea_popescu: and the introduction of piece rate a magnificent americanism.
mircea_popescu: "Laborers were, even before the advent of the clock, commonly paid by the day. But how long is a day? It couldnt be just daylight hours; this makes for a longer workday than employer and employer might otherwise agree to, and in northern latitudes it varies quite substantially within a year. With the rather heterogeneous measures of time, employer could cheat the employee out of hours, or vice versa, unl
mircea_popescu: ess they had a securely independent standard of time."
mircea_popescu: except not, especially if they work for a whole year, which everyone prefers to do anyway seeing how winter's not summer.
mircea_popescu: how is this possible! szabo was an intelligent, well read, erudite fellow!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10552 @ 0.00048586 = 5.1268 BTC [-] {2}
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mircea_popescu: and vodka was ~50 cents the bottle, at black market rate.
nubbins`: thought the details seemed familiar, did some minor snooping
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell bingoboingo many congratulations
ben_vulpes: grand shame considering the wine and steak cost/quality curve in bsas
ben_vulpes would still attend, miserable multiday train rides notwithstanding
ben_vulpes has fond memories of los cubanos en la grande manzana
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 72050 @ 0.00048748 = 35.1229 BTC [+] {3}
ben_vulpes off to duct tape more open sores together
ben_vulpes: ;;8ball should i fry an egg for this hamncheese?
gribble: The answer is a resounding no.
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ben_vulpes: first rule of ddos is dont talk about its impact on trilemma
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28348 @ 0.00048052 = 13.6218 BTC [-]
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 03:32:39; ben_vulpes: grand shame considering the wine and steak cost/quality curve in bsas
trinque: asciilifeform │ lulzy climatocalypse here in mordor << I'm in the woods in PA visiting; it's t-shirt weather.
ben_vulpes: lemme put it this way: it's hard to run a global short on the shartupconomy without finding takers on the long side.
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