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asciilifeform: in russian sf writer viktor pelevin's epic 'SNUFF', the descendants of the americans (living in a mostly broken-down antigrav ship over what remains of russia) continue to decay,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'six fucking months to break down the male blocks on killing, and even then it only works sorta 50-50' << i've yet to see this confirmed for homo sapiens vs. homo americanus circa 1940s
MisterE: the start of this down trend
BingoBoingo: lawyering and s/sing are going down because the replacement level for each sucks more.
mircea_popescu: it takes six fucking months to break down the male blocks on killing, and even then it only works sorta 50-50.
benkay: nope, shooting down shitty ideas makes the world a better place.
ThickAsThieves: if btc had gone down it wouldve given more
ThickAsThieves: i got caught with pants down trying to trade that shit
Neil: mp: I don't understand your point. Deeply held beliefs that are not handed down to you must have been formed by life experiences, I suspect.
Neil: OK, so what led you down your path?
ThickAsThieves: even if that's what it boiled down to
mircea_popescu: tbh what i perceive is the matter here is that you live in an environment where poor black dudes stare you down as a daily routine, and i just said "da fuck is this, you stare THEM down mothefucker! they're poor, not you" which created a little disonance
ThickAsThieves: it seems the shitheads would rather tear down and be in denial about those above them while observing
mircea_popescu: help bring down the us banking system.
Diablo-D3: they're turned down for insane reasons
Diablo-D3: there are people who have applied to 1000 different jobs and were turned down
benkay: Americans are turned down from jobs because the communist government imposes artificial wage constraints.
Diablo-D3: ThickAsThieves: I consider it a problem. Americans are turned down for jobs because of companies acting illegally.
cazalla: NZ is down under as well
cazalla: down under
Chris_Sabian_: So if a property is 30k and needs work, why cant a renter just put the 5-6k down with bank loand instead of going through you?
the20year2: The quality level of people that have substantial downpayment is much higher than your $0 down types
the20year2: With the scenario of #4, we'd still be eligible for financing on it, which means the new rent-to-owner has paid us anywhere from $5k-$8k in a non-refundable down payment, plus monthly payments of $500-$600 per month. We still are eligible for financing it from a bank (A cashout) and could also get another $60k from the property
Chris_Sabian_: september to december was ~ 1000%, december to now was down ~50%, september to now ~550%.
Chris_Sabian_: but if bitcoin price > NAV property then share price should go down
the20year2: Of which, much would flow back to investors/shareholders because they're paying a down payment on the repaired value, not what we have in it
the20year2: Yes, with a substantial down payment
the20year2: It comes down to waiting for BTC price increase, or increase NAV of properties by 30%, 40%, 50% in a few months
benkay: gotta keep risk down on insuring those line operators, and can't sow dissent in the ranks by testing the operators and not the engineers.
Duffer1: When it comes to markets and finance America is the 'short bus' that is slowing down global growth.
nubbins`: i'm trying to track down a brass 2011 series-2
mircea_popescu: (this is useful for the fractional reserve business not exactly because it improves cash flow, which it does not, but much moire because it allwos it to "see into the future", as it were, ie to know ahead of time what financial resources it will need down the road)
mike_c: wait, wasn't that how mpex got down? somebody impersonated you to a proxy server admin?
dexX7: havelock down, forums extremely slow
mircea_popescu: o look, moiety is actually kinda cute irl, if somewhat upside down
artifexd: Then I'll sit down and shut up.
nubbins`: guess things are happening down there 8)
mircea_popescu: still this is something i want to try now, get a pheasant, plum and gut it, boil down the carcass until everythin comes off
mircea_popescu: "The victorious punter jumped up and down waving his receipt in the air when the bills were added up shortly before closing time at the club, at the Embassy venue in Old Burlington Street. The nightclub has not revealed the identity of the big spenders."
mircea_popescu: unless they manage to invent some further pathology down the way
mircea_popescu: that aside, i very much doubt vessy is stepping down to the bitter end.
mircea_popescu: anyway. yeah the foundation is going down.
MisterE: lots of hoards down there
mircea_popescu: it's what happens when places go to shit. everything goes down.
mircea_popescu: fucking is also down in the us.
B007: thats accually a good point, but it is still true that smoking in the us is down
mircea_popescu: so there you have it : smoking is down and the industry makes a degree of magnitude more than social media.
B007: smoking is way down in the us
mircea_popescu: a) stuckj to play currency ; b) closed down when it became clear.
ThickAsThieves: "The exchange is closing down. Its been a fun beta period but we need to go back to the drawing board for the good of our business/future. <3"
benkay: en.bitcoin.it down for anyone else?
moiety: pet lasers?! beats the purple one hands down!
ozbot: Tracking down Bitcoin's creator - YouTube
benkay: i'm sure crazy demand to participate in the rent ipo's brought havelock down or something
mircea_popescu: cads: once you buy that this could be possible the rest of the article does down like a glass of water :) <<< there's a guy who's legally named that that's been trying to convince the world of his relevancy for i dunno, like a year ?
asciilifeform: hunting-down of spies, saboteurs, thoughtcriminals, and
cads: once you buy that this could be possible the rest of the article does down like a glass of water :)
mike_c: what are you going to do with them? you can't sell them until ipo is off. tough to short if it gaps down.
mircea_popescu: if a service like blockchain.info goes down (ie, stops listening to the chain) it may end up with the impression a meanwhile discarded block is still valid
kakobrekla: and were down for a bit
mircea_popescu: but generally speaking, the dice model is the engine that can power a lot of cool applications down the road.
mircea_popescu: this is actually a bit of a problem, people can sit down at their computer drunk as fuck and think hye, gamble my whole wallet on dice!
joecool: man i wish the US would hire me to troll on IRC, just a few mil, i'd be down
BingoBoingo: Put 1 Twenty dollar Bitcoins down, recieve 5.86932711 hundred dollar Bitcoins
CheckDavid: Mats_cd03: I won't put the book down but I won't understand much of what's next either
Mats_cd03: i promise you once the average person sees the word cryptography theyre going to put the book down
r3wt: but yeah, i can shut the exchange down at anytime
asciilifeform: 'It’s not clear how you would build a secure way to initialise the Trezor, as you’d need to use an untrusted computer to present trusted keys into the device. A virus (MITM) could intercept and rewrite the keys as they were being loaded into the device. Unless you had key fingerprints written down on paper, it’d be impossible to notice a mismatch. Pre-agreed root certs installed at the factory solve this
mircea_popescu: logofat = youthful scribe used to take down dictation of his lord and sometimes a little cock.
mircea_popescu: moiety yes, write down what you do. you're the only one doing most of it.
benkay`: would go faster if i could afford to go heads down on it for a month
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no, because the hip thing to do is to come here each week and not wot, and then ask mp to tone it down a bit
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, I'd ask you to tone it down a bit.
moiety: asciilifeform: there was a couple here built an amazing house and they had to tear it down becauseit didn't qualify
nubbins`: 18btc pissed down the drain
mircea_popescu: it'll prove invaluable down the road
ozbot: Breaking down spending in Obama's budget proposal - The Washington Post
asciilifeform: tldr: if you find gold, shut up, melt it down
ozbot: Bitcoin bank Flexcoin shuts down after $600,000 theft - Business - CBC News
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bitcoin-bank-flexcoin-shuts-down-after-600-000-theft-1.2559018
ThickAsThieves: KateCraig: "However, the bigger reason for the delay is that I've been trying to track down an accounting error. My spreadsheet says we should have much more in the h/w reinvestment fund than we actually have in the bank. I believe I've traced the issue to how depreciation was being calculated."
Multivac: I break down daily.
MisterE: Russia has been in control down there forever already
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'll say now that i was never able to track down an authoritative proof of this.
nubbins`: "In one case, Kelly suspects the person used in the scheme had poor English skills and, through miscommunication, wrote down what he believed was the fake name he was supposed to use, which was apparently flashing across his computer screen. This fake identity went on to have an effective credit rating, a driver’s licence, bank accounts, a telephone and an apartment (with renter’s insurance). And
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: SPorts betting at its essence boild down to finding players and ownership groups with such animosity towards one another that throwing the game isn't and option.
asciilifeform: soldered-down ssd is SOP on virtually all ARM boxes
ThickAsThieves: i dont recall which or how many articles covered the topic, but i recall them mostly boiling down to mpoe being the only sure thing in bitcoin to invest in.
mike_c: ok.. i give up. mpex turns off 70% of its revenue, the share price goes down basically 0%.
nubbins`: big ol' whitespace breaks going down the page
benkay: thumbs up or down on revocation certs safely stored offline?
benkay: anyways when there's capital to be flushed down the drain of styling around here you can bet i'll do it. appearances ain't a priority on anything but http://survantjames.com until we're booked for a year solid.
benkay: kakobrekla: it's spring. everything in bitcoin is upside down and filled with le 'tard.
benkay: maybe the mods are trying to cut down on zero-interest bets, TestingUnoDosTre.
TestingUnoDosTre: also. i did lay down .5 btc. how much is needed is unclear from mods message
TestingUnoDosTre: I I proposed a bet that the share price of mmm divided by the bitstamp daily high would be above or equal to .2 on may 3rd. I opened with a .5 btc wager, and it was rejected, citing that i needed to put down more btc due to the peculiarity of the bet. why isnt .5 btc substantial enough when many bets start with less than .1 btc
mircea_popescu: (scroll down)
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell TestingUnoDosTres also to help you understand the economics of the situation, bitbet puts 0.1 btc of its own on any accepted bet. btc charges 1% of pool. if the pool isn't 10btc, bitbet is making a loss on this score. this doesn't strictly mean you must plunk down 10 btc or else, but definitely 0.x btc aren't in the zone in most cases.
kakobrekla: "hes going down or thousands will end up syruped up!"
benkay: the more you throw down the bigger the attraction on the other side, right?