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mircea_popescu: i blame the peers.
jcpham: i bame the parents
mircea_popescu: after all, it's not polite to call an idiot an idiot.
mircea_popescu: tho the entire social media culture surely helps explode overconfidence issues.
smickles: i think that there is more factors involved in ugly idiot women
mircea_popescu: are they acting this way?
mircea_popescu: It really is quite amazing how very unattractive women in America act like they are hot shit. There is no humility and no gentle nature, just loud and brash behavior that makes you wonder if they’re self-deluded or “faking it until they make it,” even though we all know the only thing they’re making is the end of a pint of Haagen Daaz. They even have the audacity to repeatedly say “I’m hot” without a hint of irony. Why
smickles: mircea_popescu: i've seen several that ask people trivia and also ask them to rate their confidence level in their own answer as greater or less than 90% confidence. most people, on most questions rated > 90% confidence on the answer gave the incorrect answer
mircea_popescu: One study found that 93% of us think we're above-average drivers. Another discovered that 25% of high school seniors rated themselves among the top 1% in their ability to get along well with others.
rdponticelli: smickles, me too
smickles: personally, i think the odds are much worse than 1 in 10
mircea_popescu: he has had some issues and has been busy but just as soon as he gets back he's going to take care of things.
smickles: rdponticelli: it makes sense to buy it at that price if you think there is a ~1 in 10 chance of him paying back the full amount owed
mircea_popescu: haha i guess. not REALLY that big a deal neh
rdponticelli: Well, if you manage to get listed, you'll be the firs listed, at least
mircea_popescu: there's stuff there listed that's dead for 1 year
mircea_popescu: well the wiki is kinda so-so up to date neh ?
rdponticelli: Congratulations, then!
rdponticelli: Search on the first page, on the wiki
jcpham: i onloy want to read your words midnightmagic
mircea_popescu: it just so happens to (maybe) be the first time someone dumped paypal for bitcoin
jcpham: other than you
jcpham: or pay someone to transcribe it
jcpham: i think you nshould take the time to mirror it in readable engrish
mircea_popescu: actually idea might be so to speak in english google of translate like style from now forever
mircea_popescu: except the other half all the time.
rdponticelli: The sentence ends there
rdponticelli: Google translate fails hard
jcpham: google translate fails hard on romanian
markac: mircea_popescu: "mais pourquoi ne parlez-vous pas le francais !" (en to fr, translate.google.com)
mircea_popescu: you're not talking to me, are you.
jcpham: why don't you quit with all the romanistan words
rdponticelli: I put have the ignore chip in my head
rdponticelli: Ok, people I can't intermediate all of you that have each other on ignore....
rdponticelli: I'm talking with myself from your pow?
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/adio-paypal-trecem-pe-bitcoini/ that;d be the announcement
mircea_popescu: cause if not, remember, remember the 7th of september.
mircea_popescu: but has anyone else done this before ? is what i'm curious.
rdponticelli: You would be one of the pioneers, maybe...
mircea_popescu: am i the first business in the world to have done this ?
mircea_popescu: sooo... if i ran a service that took euro via pp/etc and then i started accepting bitcoins and now i actually am dumping pp and only accepting bitcoins
kakobrekla: with 100btc you can trade up to 0.1 lot, 1:1 - 1:1000
kakobrekla: but you will be able to trade any pair with btc
OneFixt: who is the 'we'?
kakobrekla: on the internets? :)
kakobrekla: also if anyone is interested, we will begin opening bitcoin accounts for metatrader4 on monday or tuesday
mircea_popescu: not a trickling stream of lukewarm cream, but a solid frozen chunk."
mircea_popescu: Where you get it in bits as hard as tin in the land where spunk is spunk-
mircea_popescu: back to the land of the all-night stand-where the nights are six months long.
mircea_popescu: "I’m going back to the frozen north, where the pricks are hard and strong:
copumpkin: AND I AM HERE TO PLUNDER YOUR BOOTY
copumpkin: I AM THE ASSPIRATE
rdponticelli: Well, maybe the lendee would be reeses in the end
jcpham: now we has no gold chains to pawn for bitcoins
jcpham: he was pulling some B&E action to repay lender A
jcpham: who wants to gift me some money
rg: [13:25] <reeses> ;;rate Coolio- -10 "<Coolio-> if someone loans you money, that's a gift"
rdponticelli: Maybe he bet 100k somewhere else that pirate wouldn't pay xD
DiabloD3: anyone see google's doodle today?
DiabloD3: [12:44:51] <usagi> There's a lot of good he could have done with 60,000 btc
DiabloD3: [12:44:43] <usagi> If I had 60,000 BTC... the last thing I would do is make this kind of bet
rdponticelli: Let's hope everybody lean the lesson
DeaDTerra1: which is now causing the mass default we are seeing
DeaDTerra1: People placing deposits with pirate, or people that placed money with people that had money with pirate
rdponticelli: Let's not do it in bitcoinland too
rdponticelli: That's how the financial nightmare has being built
DeaDTerra1: Bett on a bett on a pirate ponzi, the derivate of the derivative of a scam :P
DeaDTerra1: I doubt Matt will pay ^^ anyone want to bet xD
mircea_popescu: Hash, could you check this - Withdrawal 2012-09-03 08:41:40 1...... 20 btc Pending?
rdponticelli: If he made a ponzi of himself and ran with 50kBTC, at least the guy is a con artist
Doffx: I dont know any of the behind the scenes stuff going on
mircea_popescu: he prolly had 10-20k tops.
mircea_popescu: ponzis collapse with something between 10 and .3%ish of what they owe left in cash
mircea_popescu: anyway the people that keep going "he owed 500k so he ran off with 500k" really make me chuckle.
mircea_popescu: rdponticelli there seems to be some timing fit.
rdponticelli: If pirate lost that amount of money in other ponzi, he's even dumbest than I would have expected...
mircea_popescu: i don't think you can find anyone who thinks so.
DeaDTerra1: Who thinks matt will pay out? ^^
mircea_popescu: http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2012/08/22/zeekrewards-handed-over-to-receiver-whats-next-for-investors/ this thing
mircea_popescu: is this theory that pirate just fronted for zeekrewards anything more than just forum nuttery ?
rg: mpex.php is more than a few lines
rg: i wonder wtf is running server side there that takes so much juice
rg: the btccharts.com vps sucks up tons of juice
rg: and apparently there was an extra block in there
rg: i asked which IPs were assigned to our VLAN
rg: i was about to order more
mircea_popescu: http://www.mememaker.net/static/images/memes/657000.jpg lol. teh truths.
mod6: nothin like a few more ip's to use
rg: im going to get rude emails
rg: and i know when i disable the vps
rg: i wish people would pay their bills
rdponticelli: This one is good too: http://i.imgur.com/5UXtT.jpg
rdponticelli: I like this: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9z5een4es1qdkipyo1_r1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: ahaah thats good
rdponticelli: Or just look to take some lulz
rdponticelli: You can make something for this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=103708.0
mircea_popescu: it's just my favourite joke for now. i think it may last me a decade.
Diablo-D3: usagi: dont have the btc.
mircea_popescu: so tell him
mircea_popescu: why tungsten ?